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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
North Korea receives unanimous condemnation at the United Nations | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
for firing a ballistic missile over Japan. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
As diplomats describe the latest action as outrageous, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Pyongyang releases pictures of the test, and says it will carry | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Good morning, it is Wednesday 30 August. | :00:22. | :00:43. | |
Also this morning: A night-time curfew is declared in the flood-hit | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
city of Houston, in a move to prevent looting. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
A call for a ban on credit card firms extending spending limits | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
I have been finding out how easy it is to travel between cities | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
in the north of England, and how close the idea of a northern | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
In sport: West Indies have won a Test match in England | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Shai Hope's historic century helped them to a famous victory, | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
on a thrilling final day at Headingley. | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
That looks nice. Low -- love cardamom... | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
The Great British Bake off returned to our screens last night. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
We will be asking if the new recipe tickled the taste buds of one | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Good morning. Across the north of the country today, we are looking at | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
a breezy day, with sunshine and showers. Warmer than yesterday. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Further south, though, it is the opposite. We have some persistent | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
rain particularly in the south-east and it will feel colder than it was | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
yesterday. I will have more details in 15 minutes. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
First, our main story: There has been unanimous condemnation | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
of North Korea's firing of a ballistic missile over Japan | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council overnight. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Pyongyang has described the launch as the first step of operations | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
The UN Security Council has described the launch as outrageous, | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
but stopped short of threatening further action against North Korea. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
Here, we have North Korea's not so diplomatic response to the slap on | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
the wrist for its latest provocation. Proudly releasing | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
stills of its missile launch over Japan. Just as diplomats were | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
meeting in New York, in an emergency gathering of the UN Security | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Council, working on the first step in to North Korea's destabilising | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
activity. The world is united against North Korea. There is no | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
doubt about that. It is time for the North Korean regime to recognise the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
danger they are putting themselves in. The United States will not allow | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
their lawlessness to continue, and the rest of the world is with us. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
The meeting result was unanimous at inconsequential. All members, | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
including Russia and China, signed on to a statement of condemnation, | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
but no sign of new sanctions. TRANSLATION: The ink on the last | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
round of North Korea sanctions has barely dried, and China, for one, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
has said all sides are to blame for the escalation in the region. After | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
President Trump repeated all options were on the table, and South Korea | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
responded with its own show of force, in a test bombing near its | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
border with the North. Beijing has called on Washington and Seoul to | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
freeze their joint military exercises, as a means of getting | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Pyongyang to the table for talks. But the US has made clear its | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
commitment to its allies in Japan and South Korea. Thank you, | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
everybody... Showing no sign of the Trump administration will be | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
changing its tune any time soon. We can talk now to our correspondent | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Yogita Limaye, who joins us now from the South Korean | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
capital, Seoul. Good morning to you. Round | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
condemnation of reactions from North Korea. I wonder what sort of | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
difference that will make on the international stage. Well, we have | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
also had the President here speaking to the Japanese Prime Minister this | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
morning. They both, of course, discussed the threat from North | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Korea, and they said they are going to push for tougher sanctions | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
against the country. But clearly, from the message we have got from | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Pyongyang this morning, along statement describing that missile | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
launch, releasing photos of how Kim Jong-un monitored that launch, and | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
also saying that he ordered his military to conduct more such drills | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
of rockets that were targeted at the Pacific, and saying this is only a | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
pressie you'd to contain Guam, once again making reference to the threat | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
that North Korea made two weeks ago, of sending four rockets in the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
waters around Guam and creating a ring of fire around the US Pacific | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
territory. It is a strong message. The take away from it certainly is | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
that the US is North Korea's main enemy, but also defending its | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
actions, saying that it is justified in conducting these missile test, | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
because the US and South Korean forces are currently conducting | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
military drills of their own in this country. So this is a defensive | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
mechanism by Pyongyang. After 7:00am, we will be talking | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
to a former ambassador to North Korea, who also has | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
experience of working with the UN Theresa May begins a visit to Japan | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
today, her first as Prime Minister. During the three-day visit, | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
she will be looking to discuss a post-Brexit trade deal | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
and the threat posed by North Korea. Chris Mason joins us | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
from Westminster. What will the PM be hoping | :06:02. | :06:02. | |
to achieve over the next few days, I expect, presumably, the talks are | :06:03. | :06:14. | |
going to start with what has been going on in the last couple of days | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
with regards to North Korea. Yes, good morning to you. Downing Street | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
a acutely aware of the context in which the Prime Minister is flying | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
into Japan this morning, Theresa May saying she is outraged by the | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
missile launch from Pyongyang, so security will be an essential part | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
of the discussions that she will have with the Japanese prime | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
minister, Shinzo Abe, over the next couple of days. She will become the | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
first European leader to attend the Japanese National Security Council | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
meeting, that meeting due to take place tomorrow. Mrs May just landed | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
in Kyoto in just the last couple of minutes. She will be heading to an | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
ancient tea ceremony in the coming hours, and then getting on a bullet | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
train, one of the superfast trains which Japan has, to Tokyo a little | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
later. Trade and other massive part of the discussions, especially | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
obviously in the context of Brexit. A lot of jitters and nervousness | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
from the Japanese government around the Brexit process. There are | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
160,000 people employed by Japanese companies here in the UK. The Prime | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Minister saying that she hopes the UK can strike a free-trade deal with | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Japan that is loosely based on the one that the EU is currently | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
negotiating with Tokyo. The UK has been part of that negotiation, given | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
that we are still currently part of the EU. So lots of discussions on | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
trade and security to come. The Prime Minister even meeting the | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Emperor of Japan at the end of the visit on Friday. Thank you very | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
much. A night-time curfew has | :07:45. | :07:45. | |
been imposed in Houston, Texas, in a bid to deter looting | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
in the wake of tropical storm Harvey, which is now | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
heading for Louisiana. More than 30,000 people have been | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
forced from their homes, and over 3,000 have been rescued | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
from the floodwaters. Large swathes of Texas remain | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
underwater, with almost 52 inches of rainfall since the hurricane | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
made landfall on Friday. But, five days after it first | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
hit the coast of Texas, Harvey continues | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
to cause devastation. These are some of the residents | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
of 20 nursing homes. Another 20 hospitals have also been | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
evacuated across the region. 3,400 people have been rescued, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
with the authorities reporting that | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Harvey has claimed lives. It was the scariest | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
thing we've ever seen. 51 inches of rain has fallen so far, | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
a record for the USA, and has swamped parts | :08:40. | :08:53. | |
of Houston and southern Texas. 30,000 people have been forced out | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
of their homes by the floodwater. The Red Cross has warned people | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
could be in shelters for months. President Trump visited | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Corpus Christi, 220 miles He was greeted by state | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
and federal teams co-ordinating We won't say congratulations, | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
we don't want to do that. We'll congratulate each other | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
when it's all finished. He is determined not to repeat | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
the mistakes of George Bush, In Houston, the mayor has introduced | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
a night-time curfew, To the west of this vast city, | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
two huge reservoirs are overflowing. Harvey's path is | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
slow-moving and erratic. This force of nature | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
may not be spent yet. Kezia Dugdale has resigned | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
as Leader of Scottish Labour, after less than two | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
years in the post. The Lothians MSP insists | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
she is leaving the party in a much She has also rejected | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
the idea her departure has anything to do with her previous | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
criticism of Jeremy Corbyn. Most political leaders quit at a | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
moment of crisis, something terrible has happened. I have decided that I | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
think the Labour Party is very much on its uppers. It has made | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
tremendous progress from the state that I found it in two, two .5 years | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
ago, when it was literally on its knees. I have taken the party | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
forward, it is in a much better state than I found it. Now it is | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
time to pass that baton onto next person. We have had five national | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
elections in the next four years. Now it is time for the next person | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
to have one. One in five people struggling | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
with debt have had their credit card That is according to research | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
from the charity Citizens' Advice, which has called for the practice | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
of extending credit without consent UK Finance, the body | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
which represents some of the country's biggest lenders, | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
says it is working with regulators Our economics correspondent | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
Andy Verity has more. Borrowing on credit cards | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
has been growing by 9%, far faster than wages, | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
and Citizens' Advice says irresponsible practices are keeping | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
people in debts that they cannot Tracy Banham ran into trouble | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
when her small business She had a husband used credit | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
cards to plug the holes. Well it got to point | :11:22. | :11:34. | |
where I was just paying off interest, basically - | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
I were actually not - at one point, on one credit card, | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
I were paying ?700 a month, and just ?60 of that | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
were coming off the debt. That was just one | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
of the credit cards. Consumers have borrowed about ?200 | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
billion on unsecured loans, with about a third of | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
that on credit cards. Yet one in five borrowers have been | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
given higher credit limits, On 2.2 million credit card accounts, | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
borrowers spent more on charges and fees than on repayments, | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
pushing them further into debt. Citizens' Advice says, | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
if that goes on for two years, lenders should have to contact | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
borrowers and offer for help, such as suspending | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
interest payments. We think the most important thing | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
is that credit card companies should stop raising credit limits | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
without consulting the customer. We think this is a second thing | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
the regulator can do to give better guidance for affordability checks | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
for people who are extending The body that represents most credit | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
card lenders says it is taking steps to prevent borrowers | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
being offered more credit, and that it is working | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
with regulators to help New research suggests | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
the distinctive rings of Saturn may be considerably younger | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
than previously thought. Data gathered by the probe Cassini, | :12:38. | :12:38. | |
which is orbiting the planet, suggests they may be only | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
100 million years old. It indicates they could be | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
the crushed remains Sadly, Cassini is transmitting | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
its final burst of data before it plunges into Saturn's | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
atmosphere and burns up. It is a sad ending, isn't it? Yes, | :12:51. | :13:03. | |
very sad ending, but I was just admiring Saturn. Exactly what you | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
need at 6:12 a.m., which is when we say good morning to Sally Nugent. I | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
think any cricket fan watching England yesterday, even the most | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
determined England fan, might look at what the West Indies did and have | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
a little bit of a quiet smile. It was pretty impressive, wasn't it? It | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
was very impressive, and cricket needs a really strong West Indies | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
side. And oh my goodness, that might be what they have coming through. | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
It was a historic day at Headingley, where the West Indies | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
won their first Test match in this country for 17 years, | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
after they beat England by five wickets to win the second Test | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
West Indies were chasing over 300 runs to win on the final day, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
but a century from Shai Hope and 95 from Kraigg Brathwaite set | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
the platform for the stunning victory. | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has turned down a move to Chelsea from Arsenal | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
after the two clubs agreed a ?40 million fee. | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
It is believed the England international wants to move | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
to Liverpool, with a bid expected to come before | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
Meanwhile, Arsenal have rejected a ?50 million bid | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
from Manchester City for Alexis Sanchez. | :14:06. | :14:18. | |
In the past hour, Roger Federer progressed in the US Open. | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
There has been another big upset at the US Open, | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
after world number 45 Naomi Osaka, from Japan, beat defending champion | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
and sixth seed Angelique Kerber, 6-3, 6-1, in just over an hour. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
It is the first time in 13 years that the champion has been knocked | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
And, resplendent in red, Chris Froome maintained his | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
36-second lead in his quest to add the Vuelta a Espana to his Tour de | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
That man has endless energy. How is he not exhausted? He does, doesn't | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
he? Are you going to hang around for the papers? I am going to stay. Are | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
you wearing mulberry today? I think it is aubergine. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Good morning. Hope you're well. I am more purple I think but anyway! This | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
morning we have split fortunes in the weather, it will hold true | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
through the day as well. In the north and west we are looking at a | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
breezy day with sunshine and showers and warmer than yesterday. In the | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
south and east we've got rain, persistent rain later and it will be | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
much cooler than yesterday. This is what we had yesterday, Maidstone in | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
Kent, 29.3. Today, 20, but in the rain it could be as low as 13. You | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
will notice that for sure. Two weather fronts will eventually | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
collide in the south, producing that persistent rain. Breezy in the north | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
and here we are looking at sunshine and showers, especially in Scotland | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
and Northern Ireland to start the day. As you can also see we've got | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
clear skies so a chilly start for some but there will be sunshine | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
around. Both of our weather fronts meet in the south-east, producing | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
persistent rain. Behind them we have something drier and brighter but | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
look at those temperatures, 13 in London in the rain, 13 in Ipswich | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
and also 12 in Norwich am so a cool feel to things a with temperatures | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
way below where they should be. Moving into northern England, | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
brighter spells, sunshine and showers and the same in Scotland. If | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
you dodge the showers it will feel pleasant and the same if you dodge | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
the breeze in the sun. A few showers in Northern Ireland interspersed | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
with sunshine and the same in Wales, fewer showers in Wales but some | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
around and looking at some sunny spells. Sunny spells in the | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
south-west as well with fewer showers. As we go through the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
evening and overnight, then surely we see the tail end of the rain | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
pushing into the near continent. Some clear skies. Also some showers | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
coming in, especially in the west. Tempts you can see here are | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
indicative of towns and cities, nine to 11 or 12. In the countryside the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
temperatures will be a bit lower and we could see some patchy mist and | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
fog forming but it shouldn't be too problematic. That will lift tomorrow | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
allowing sunshine through. We start the day with showers in the north | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
and west but through the day further showers will develop. Tomorrow you | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
could get a shower almost everywhere and if you do you could see Thunder. | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
Temperature is recovering in the south-east, highs of 20, 14 to about | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
17 or 18 for the rest of the UK. Into Friday, fewer showers around, | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
more in the Channel Islands, and for most we are looking at a dry day | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
with sunshine and again, feeling quite pleasant with highs up to 21. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Saturday's looking not too bad at all if you like it or dry with some | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
sunshine. Temperatures again 14 to about 21 and 21 Celsius in old muggy | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
is 70 Fahrenheit. Nice if you can find it! Lovely | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
purple dress, by the way, Carol! Thanks very much, Dan, you're not | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
looking too bad yourself! What is mine, blue? Yours is very nice, | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
quite clearly green. I managed to get myself in a hole while trying to | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
be nice. Amazing the holes you can dig | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
yourself, Dan. I'm aware of this issue! | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :18:31. | :18:31. | |
Unanimous condemnation of North Korea's missile | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
launch over Japan. | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
The UN Security Council labels it outrageous, | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
but a defiant Pyongyang warns there's more to come. | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
A night-time curfew is declared in the flood-hit city of Houston | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
in an effort to stop looting, as 30,000 people have been forced | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Steph has joined us along with Sally to have a look at the papers. Good | :18:53. | :19:06. | |
morning, Steph. Let's start with the Guardian. They are accused of | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
unlawfully throwing out 16 sixth formers to improve results, | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
according to the grammar schools. This is the Trumps before they went | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
to Texas, quite a few were mentioning Melania's heels, | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
inappropriate for flood hit Texas but they did change when they | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
arrived. She changed, she travelled in her massive heels. It's often the | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
other way round, isn't it? She should have just gone in her | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
trainers. This is what she was wearing when she arrived. This is | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
their visit to Texas, we will talk more about that later. A lot of the | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
papers have been following this story about this Christian child who | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
is fostered in a Muslim foster home and the time is picking up on that | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
story. The judge has ruled the child must leave and will be returned and | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
reunited with her family -- Times. The judge urging councils to seek | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
culturally matched placements for vulnerable children. GPs told 2/ | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
hospital referrals. They will need approval from a medical panel -- to | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
slash. And Victoria Beckham in pink pyjamas as well. We are talking | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
about what everyone is wearing this morning. It seems to be a theme. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Front page of the Daily Telegraph. Exam boards must introduce stricter | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
guards to counter the temptation of cheating, say Headmasters. The front | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
page of the Mirror, an interview with Paul Burrell at the anniversary | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
of protest Diana's death. A brilliant piece about Shai Hope | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
leading the West Indies to victory. He got his first test century on | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Saturday and he got his second yesterday. An amazing performance | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
from he and Braithwaite, 24 and 23, great hope for the future. Just | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
quickly, in the Mirror, we talked about Wenger yesterday not getting | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
angry enough at Anfield. Look, finally it's happened, apparently at | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
training yesterday he got really cross, although I'm not entirely | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
sure I can imagine a cross Wenger, I imagine he goes quiet rather than | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
louder. Is he wearing a suit at training? That is a picture from | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
pitch side. What is your accession with clothes this morning! have you | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
got anything else? A lot of people saying he looks like a school | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
teacher a lot of the time. I asked him a rogue question once, he does | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
get angry but it's a meaningful stare rather than shouting. He got | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
cross with you? It's all right, we shook hands and moved on. Moving on! | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
Steph? Lots of the papers are talking about what's happening with | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
the currency markets at the moment because the pound fell again | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
yesterday to an eight year low against the euro. The Times picks up | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
on that this morning. Fell to a fresh 80 low against a resurging | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
hero. Cache eight year low. It's a lot to do with North Korea and the | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
missile fired over Japan and the Recep Tayyip Erdogan passions of | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Hurricane Harvey, that often spurs on investors to put their money | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
elsewhere -- repercussions. It puts pressure on companies here buying | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
things abroad. The Telegraph talk about more price rises on the way | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
because businesses that were protected against the fall in the | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
pound are losing that defence and are starting to face the full force | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
of the weak currency. This is very interesting, we always go on about | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
M and how big it is and it's the bellwether of the retail world, you | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
know a source, the online retailer, it's about 17 now, it has nearly | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
taken over M in terms of its market value. -- ASOS. If you look | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
at share price and number of shareholders. It is worth ?4.93 | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
billion compared to ?5.05 billion at M A double update, talking about | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
clothes and Sir Chris Hoy, who is saying in an article you shouldn't | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
be wearing Lycra if you are eight stone. He has said as a 14 plus | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
stone mammal myself this was a tongue in cheek article that wasn't | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
meant to offend, I'm really sorry. Whatever your age, build, if you are | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
on a bike then you have my respect. A good update. Tiger pictures | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
yesterday, we concede the picture yesterday but now we can see it. If | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
you are watching this, and if you were watching on Monday, here it is. | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
Isn't that gorgeous? Sumatran tigers have webbed feet, very good | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
swimmers! Narrow stripes as well! Right that down! More on that later. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Losing a loved one can be an incredibly difficult time | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
for families who have to take care of funerals and other formalities. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
But now many are facing the added distress of delays | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
Figures seen by BBC Breakfast show most councils in England and Wales | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
are failing to register bereavements within the five-day target. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Last year, Graham Morgan's mother died. She was 86 and living in a | :24:39. | :24:54. | |
care home. The family had to wait nearly three weeks for the funeral. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
It was a terrible situation to be honest with you, it was the worst | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
you could ever have and the time of your life when everybody faces it | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
that someone new to you passes away, it was terrible. He faced delays in | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
getting a doctors certificate and waited a fortnight for an | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
appointment to register her death with the local council. It has a "On | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
your well-being because you're grieving, you're panicking, you want | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
to get everything right -- has an impact on. You don't want to let | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
them down and anything to go wrong. By law all deaths except those | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
investigated by a coroner must be registered within five days but most | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
councils in England and Wales are failing to meet their rigid Thracian | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
targets. In 2011, 20 3% of all deaths in England and Wales were | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
registered after the five day limit -- registration targets -- 23%. By | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
2016 that figure had risen to more than 187,000, meaning 36% of all | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
deaths took longer than five days to be registered. At the national | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
association of funeral directors, which represents 4000 funeral homes, | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
they conducted their own survey in 2015. They found families were | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
waiting longer to see a registrar. There are cutbacks and staff sorted | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
it at some registrars and that's happened throughout the UK, but what | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
we're all so seeing is certain registrars will not make the | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
appointment for the family unless the family already have a medical | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
certificate for cause of death in their possession -- shortages. Poppy | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
once a funeral home in south London and is aware of growing delays. She | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
says the whole process of dealing with death is confusing for Brive | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
families and more sensitivity is needed. Grieving people should not | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
be disregarded by local authorities. I think recognition that death and | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
grief are incredibly difficult experiences that we're all going to | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
have to go through so I don't see why people need to wait five or six | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
days to register a death, it doesn't take that long. The Home Office says | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
local authorities are expected to ensure there is adequate provisions | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
to register a death. The Local Government Association told us | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
various factors have contributed to delays but councils are working to | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
reduce them. For Graham Morgan, improvements to the system, although | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
too late for his family, would still be welcome. It causes chaos at a | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
time in people's lives when you don't need that fails to be honest | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
with you, your grieving and as it is. Emily Unia, BBC News. | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
Are better transport links needed to see the idea of the Northern | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
Steph's taken a trip across the region to find out what's | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
needed to ensure the project remains on track. | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:49. | :31:12. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :31:13. | :31:22. | |
We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
But also on Breakfast this morning: As waters continue to rise in Texas, | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
after 7:00am, we assess President Trump's response | :31:35. | :31:36. | |
From body image to exam results, teenagers can face many worries. | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
But, as new research finds, the fear of crime tops the list. | :31:43. | :31:57. | |
We will ask what parents can do to help. | :31:58. | :32:07. | |
# This ain't no technological breakdown. This is the road to hell. | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
He has driven home for Christmas and along the Road to hell. | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
But now, after suffering a stroke, Chris Rea is focussing on The Road | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
He will be here to tell us more about his journey before 9:00am. | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
All that still to come, but now, a summary of this morning's main | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
There has been unanimous condemnation of North Korea's firing | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
of a missile over Japan, at a United Nations Security Council | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
Pyongyang has described the launch as the first step of military | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
The Security Council has demanded the country abandons its nuclear | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
weapons programme, but has stopped short of threatening | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
North Korea is expected to be high on the agenda as Theresa May begins | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
a visit to Japan today, her first as Prime Minister. | :32:49. | :32:50. | |
She will be hoping to discuss a post-Brexit trade deal. | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
Mrs May has described Japan as a like-minded nation | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
A night-time curfew has been imposed in Houston, | :32:56. | :33:07. | |
Texas, in a bid to deter looting in the wake of tropical storm | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
Harvey, which is now heading for Louisiana. | :33:12. | :33:13. | |
Around 20 people are reported to have died as a result | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
More than 30,000 have been forced from their homes, | :33:17. | :33:19. | |
and 3,000 have been rescued from the floodwaters. | :33:20. | :33:21. | |
Large swathes of Texas remain underwater, with almost 52 inches | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
of rainfall since the hurricane made landfall on Friday. | :33:25. | :33:33. | |
Epic and historic, these are words used to describe this monster known | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
as Harvey. At the job they have done is very special and I said let's fly | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
over and see these great people, the nerve centre, really. And we | :33:45. | :33:47. | |
appreciate it very much, and millions of people appreciated, that | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
I can tell you. But the world is watching, and the world is very | :33:52. | :33:53. | |
impressed with what you are doing. A Christian girl, who is reported | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
to have been fostered by a Muslim family who didn't speak English, | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
should live with a family member The London Borough of Tower Hamlets | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
council, insists the five-year-old was placed with an English speaking | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
family of mixed race and that there were inaccuracies | :34:10. | :34:11. | |
in the way the case was reported. The authority says cultural | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
background and proximity to a child's family are always | :34:16. | :34:17. | |
considered when choosing Kezia Dugdale has resigned | :34:18. | :34:19. | |
as Leader of Scottish Labour, after less than two | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
years in the post. The Lothians MSP insists | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
she is leaving the party in a much She has also rejected | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
the idea her departure has anything to do with her previous | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
criticism of Jeremy Corbyn. Most political leaders quit | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
at a moment of crisis, I've decided that I think | :34:36. | :34:37. | |
the Labour Party is very much It's made tremendous progress | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
from the state that I found it | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
in two, 2.5 years ago, It's in a much better | :34:46. | :34:46. | |
state than I found it. Now it's time to pass that baton | :34:47. | :34:52. | |
onto the next person. We've had five national | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
elections in 2.5 years. Now it's time to move on and let | :34:56. | :35:07. | |
the next person have four years One in five people struggling | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
with debt have had their credit card limit raised, without requesting it, | :35:12. | :35:20. | |
according to the charity It has called for the practice | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
of extending credit without consent UK Finance, the body | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
which represents some of the country's biggest lenders, | :35:27. | :35:28. | |
says it is working with regulators New research suggests | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
the distinctive rings of Saturn may be considerably younger | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
than previously thought. Data gathered by the probe Cassini, | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
which is orbiting the planet, suggests they may be only | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
100 million years old. It indicates they could be | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
the crushed remains Sadly, Cassini is transmitting | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
its final burst of data before it plunges into Saturn's | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
atmosphere and burns up. Burns up is how they wrote it. I do | :35:50. | :36:00. | |
think it is a dramatic end, isn't it? It is. I have done my work on | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
that is it. Good morning, Sally. Lots of important numbers in the | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
cricket, but today, of all days, I am going to give you all of them, | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
because I think you need to know them all. You ready? | :36:17. | :36:18. | |
It was a historic day at Headingley, where the West Indies | :36:19. | :36:20. | |
won their first Test match in this country for 17 years, | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
after they beat England by five wickets to win the second Test | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
West Indies were chasing over 300 runs to win on the final day. | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
But two crucial dropped balls from Alistair Cook, | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
and a century to Shai Hope and 95 from Kraigg Brathwaite, | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
set the platform for the stunning victory. | :36:38. | :36:46. | |
We are test cricketers for a reason. We know that we came here to play | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
cricket, and we just need to go out and execute. The | :36:54. | :38:00. | |
Well, this summer's transfer window has seen all kinds | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane believes the fees | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
demanded by what he describes as average players are mind-boggling. | :38:07. | :38:21. | |
Billion. Giggsy? 2 billion. The market value of players as mine | :38:22. | :38:37. | |
bubbling, the figures for players, especially for the average players. | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
The time to be a professional footballer is now. 2 billion, did he | :38:43. | :38:52. | |
say, four Ryan Giggs? 3.75 for himself. | :38:53. | :38:53. | |
In the past hour, Roger Federer has survived a scare to reach the second | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
Federer, looking to win a record 20th Grand Slam title, | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
beat American teenager Francis Tiafoe in five sets. | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
Federer's great rival Rafa Nadal is also through to the second round, | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
after a straight-sets win over Serbia's Dusan Lajovic. | :39:08. | :39:09. | |
The Spaniard needed a tie-break to take the first set, | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
but comfortably took the next two sets. | :39:13. | :39:22. | |
After second seed Simona Halep and Britain's world number seven, | :39:23. | :39:25. | |
Johanna Konta, were knocked out of the US Open, there has been | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
another major shock at Flushing Meadows. | :39:29. | :39:29. | |
World number 45 Naomi Osaka, from Japan, beat defending champion | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
and sixth seed Angelique Kerber in straight sets. | :39:33. | :39:34. | |
It was the first time in 13 years that the champion was knocked out | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
She played good, especially also at the end of the match, | :39:39. | :39:52. | |
and I'm always trying to go for it | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
And today, I mean, she just went for it. | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
I think she took her chances, and yeah, she played a very good | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
But for me, for sure, it wasn't the best day and not | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
Britain's Chris Froome has maintained his 36-second lead | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
after stage ten of the Vuelta a Espana. | :40:15. | :40:16. | |
After 102 miles in the saddle, Italy's Matteo Trentin held off | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
Spain's Jose Joaquin Rojas to claim victory. | :40:20. | :40:21. | |
Froome crossed the line 4.5 minutes later alongside his main rival, | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
Esteban Chaves, although the Colombian is now joint-second | :40:25. | :40:26. | |
with Ireland's Nicolas Roche, who made up time on the final | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
Two of England's women's sports teams have met the Prime Minister | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
The rugby union team narrowly lost the World Cup final | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
But the cricketers, led by Heather Knight, | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
went one better and lifted the World Cup after a dramatic final | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
The Prime Minister described the players of both teams | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
Not the Best Picture of the Prime Minister to finish on. Sorry, I was | :40:47. | :41:05. | |
talking to you during. I normally know what you are saying. The | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
pictures this morning, I think the Prime Minister arrived in Japan a | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
few minutes ago. So it must have been just before she left. I was | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
mouthing the EU, Japan. I thought you said, did she play? -- mouthing | :41:20. | :41:30. | |
to you. Just wanted to make it clear. | :41:31. | :41:31. | |
A night-time curfew has been imposed in Houston, | :41:32. | :41:33. | |
Texas, in an attempt to deter looters as the rescue effort | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
continues in the wake of tropical storm Harvey. | :41:37. | :41:38. | |
The storm, which is now heading for Louisiana, | :41:39. | :41:40. | |
has battered the region, leaving at least 15 dead | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
CBS news correspondent Meg Oliver is in Houston for us this morning. | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
Thank you once again for giving us are not dead on the situation there. | :41:53. | :42:00. | |
We hear 30,000 people in Houston are seeking emergency accommodation. We | :42:01. | :42:03. | |
have mentioned the curfew as well. What more can you tell us about | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
efforts on the ground that? The big news tonight is that another major | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
shelter opened up. The energy Centre is near the NFL stadium, and it can | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
accommodate 10,000 people. Right now, people are lined up around the | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
block to get in. They are expecting it to be half full by tomorrow | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
morning. Now, that shelter, that additional shelter, will have help | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
ease conditions at the convention centre. This one is for 5000 people. | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
They have roughly 10,000 inside there, but they won't turn anyone | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
away. And in terms of the presidential visit, there are lots | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
of pictures on the front pages of our papers here, and it is that | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
really careful balance between being visible and being there at the scene | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
of what is going on, but also not disrupting the effort to try and | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
make people say. Do you think that the trumps got it right? -- Trumps. | :42:59. | :43:07. | |
It is not for me to say, but I can tell you that the White House... He | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
made a point of doing his two stop tour, going to Boston and Corpus | :43:13. | :43:19. | |
Christi, where there is a lot of damage, but here in Houston, this is | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
where the first responders are continuing to do rescue efforts, so | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
the White House wanted to keep them further away so as not to interfere. | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
Whenever the president comes to town, you have to shut down roads | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
and different things. You can't get around because the flooding is so | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
bad. He is expected to come back to the region to tour, but the White | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
House said he is trying to lay a foundation, basically, in terms of | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
recovery. He wants to look back on this in five years and say that is | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
how you rebuild. And what has the response been to the curfew that? | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
Well, at first the map imposed a 10pm to 5pm curfew -- mayor. Then he | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
moved to midnight. I was just talking to some police officers over | :44:05. | :44:07. | |
here and they said this is just to cut down on any possible losers. If | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
people are out and about, still trying to help other people, we are | :44:13. | :44:18. | |
not going to interfere with that -- looters. And just a couple of | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
minutes ago there were people walking by, and the volunteers who | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
have turned out to help these shelters like the one behind me, | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
they are non-stop. A few minutes ago two mothers walked by with little | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
kids. It is after midnight here in the United States, and they are out | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
here bringing supplies, still, to the shelter. So the state of Texas | :44:39. | :44:46. | |
is really hitting -- giving of themselves, and you see that. Thank | :44:47. | :44:48. | |
you for your time. Carol has an update on the weather | :44:49. | :44:56. | |
and you're going to start with America? That's right. | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
Record-breaking rainfall in Houston from Harvey. Record-breaking four | :45:01. | :45:12. | |
mainland USA. Around Houston we have 51.88 inches of rainfall from this | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
storm, one and one third metres. Currently we still have an onshore | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
and offshore element to Tropical Storm Harvey, that means at the | :45:25. | :45:28. | |
moment it is picking up energy and moisture from the warm Gulf of | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
Mexico but today that storm will move inland and it will start to | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
move north-east. It does mean it's not going to be raining any more in | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
Houston from this particular storm but there will still be issues with | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
the rain that's already fallen and is causing such catastrophic | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
flooding. The whole system moves north-east, bringing torrential rain | :45:50. | :45:52. | |
into Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. But the one salient thing | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
is that the storm is actually moving. It's been more or less | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
stationary since Thursday in parts of Texas. For ourselves, we've got | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
mixed fortunes in the weather. For the north and west today, sunshine | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
and showers. A different story for the south and east because here we | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
have a couple of weather fronts that are going to merge and produce | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
persistent rain, and you will notice a huge drop in the temperatures. | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
Yesterday in Kent we had 29.3. Today we will see 15 but then the rain | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
even lower than that. Away from the rain in the south-east and there is | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
a mixture of bright spells, sunshine and showers. Into the afternoon and | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
the rain will continue to push into the south-east, drying up and | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
brightening up behind it in the West Midlands but feeling cold in this | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
rain, at times London only 13, way below where we should be. Moving | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
into northern England, bright spells, sunshine and showers and the | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
same in Scotland, bright spells, sunshine and showers but they are | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
showers so by no means will we all catch one. Northern Ireland also | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
seeing that cocktail of sunshine, bright spells and showers and | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
although we will have that too in Wales the showers will be further | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
and fewer between, in fact the same in south-west England but more | :47:12. | :47:14. | |
sunshine than dull weather with those showers. Through this evening | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
and overnight the rain eventually clears away and behind we will have | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
a clearance in the sky, temperatures could drop, patchy mist and fog | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
forming and still a plethora of showers coming in across the north | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
and west. These temperatures are indicative of what you can expect in | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
towns and cities. In the countryside they will be that the lower. Chilly | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
start to the day tomorrow but drier and brighter for many but we will | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
already start with the showers in the west that that bit lower. | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
Tomorrow you could catch a shower almost anywhere -- that bit lower. | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
Temperatures will be recovering in the south-east, looking at highs of | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
19 or 20. Elsewhere, 14 to about 18. Then on Friday, fewer showers | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
around, a nippy start once again. A fair bit of sunshine around and the | :48:04. | :48:09. | |
temperature range by then, 13 to 21. If you like your weather that bit | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
drier, Saturday and not looking too shabby at all. | :48:14. | :48:16. | |
To hear it because it felt pretty nippy out there this morning! -- | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
glad to hear. The Northern Powerhouse was an idea, | :48:21. | :48:22. | |
which aimed to bring the cities as an economic force to rival | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
London. But in the last few weeks, | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
big questions have been asked It was about three years ago when | :48:29. | :48:43. | |
George Osborne, the then Chancellor, announced the idea of the Northern | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
Powerhouse to try to bring the north up to the same standard in terms of | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
the south-east for things like transport, connectivity and the jobs | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
and prosperity so it was bridging that gap between the perception the | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
North is more hard done by compared to the south. One of the big | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
criticisms was investment. I've been on one journey | :49:07. | :49:09. | |
across the Pennines to find out It was three years ago in Manchester | :49:10. | :49:22. | |
that the idea of creating a Northern Powerhouse was first announced. | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
Improving transport was a big part of it. The government says it is | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
investing more than ever in transport up here, but there is a | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
criticism that the North is still losing out to the south-east. If the | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
government had spent as much per head on the north as they did in | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
London in the past ten years they would have spent ?59 billion more on | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
the North and to get things moving and getting the economy functioning | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
better than it is at the moment so the government is responding to | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
London rather than using transport spending to transform the Northern | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
economy, which would be to the national benefit. You can see from | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
the departure board that there are loads of friends coming in and out | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
of here and regular ones to and from London. That journey at the moment | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
takes just over two hours but with HS two it should half that time, | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
making it much faster to get to London. But what about getting of | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
the North? I'm about 35 miles from Barnsley, I'm going to get the train | :50:21. | :50:24. | |
there to see what people think. When you talk to passengers about their | :50:25. | :50:29. | |
experiences, the same things come up, overcrowding, frequency of | :50:30. | :50:32. | |
trains and speed. There could be more services and they could be | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
faster. Your husband does Manchester to Huddersfield regularly, what are | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
his thoughts on it? Three to four times a month the train is delayed. | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
Does he moan about it regularly? Definitely. Generally it's OK, it | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
could be faster. It's made worse when you see all the investment put | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
into Euston given the weekend that's just gone on full. Think there's | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
something missing. The trains are extremely full with commuters, | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
there's not enough carriages to take all the passengers and it's mostly | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
standing room only, as you can see today as well. I've arrived here | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
after nearly two hours of travelling. For places like this, | :51:16. | :51:19. | |
being better connected could make a big difference. How do you get | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
around the area? I travel on the train to work and back. What's that | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
like for you? Good, but the trains aren't as often as I'd like. When I | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
use buses they tend not to turn up, they tend to breakdown and the | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
service is intermittent. The north of England is badly served by | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
travel. Businesses argue they need better connectivity too. I've come | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
to meet Clive, who runs a furniture shop in Barnsley. He wants the roads | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
to be improved. A lot of businesses try to just-in-time deliveries, we | :51:53. | :52:00. | |
may go to Manchester by 3pm, that could take anywhere between 45 | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
minutes and three hours. Because of this variation we have to put a | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
three hour delivery slot, if you do it in three quarters of an hour | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
that's an awful lot of lost time. For many commuters and businesses | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
here speeding up the process of getting between northern towns and | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
cities can't come soon enough. For many of us it's the journey, not | :52:21. | :52:22. | |
just the destination. It's interesting. It's a beautiful | :52:23. | :52:25. | |
journey across the Pennines. It can be a nightmare if you are | :52:26. | :52:37. | |
doing it all the time. The other important thing about this is it's | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
not just the North and the south, I get a lot of people that say in | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
other parts of especially the south-west they say we are really | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
underinvested, we keep hearing about the Northern Powerhouse, what about | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
us? People in the Midlands say that too. It's about the disparity | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
between a lot of the country and London when it comes to how much is | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
being invested. The department of transport are saying they are | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
committed to the whole Northern Powerhouse project. It was the old | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
regime, George Osborne and David Cameron who announced it, there was | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
concern about whether the Northern Powerhouse thing would slide away so | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
this meeting is important for that. The government saying they are still | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
committed to it and they are pretty millions into it already and they | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
are waiting for plans to be submitted so they can get cracking | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
with faster routes are across the Pennines. See you later. Did you | :53:30. | :53:35. | |
watch the bake of? Did you watch last night? I am, but I didn't. -- | :53:36. | :53:44. | |
Bake Off. There are loads of spoilers here but we are going to | :53:45. | :53:46. | |
talk about it! The Great British Bake Off was back | :53:47. | :53:47. | |
on television last night for the first time since | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
its move to Channel 4. Nervous viewers tuned in to see | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
if the proof was in the pudding, hoping the recipe for the hit show | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
hadn't changed too much. Our reporter, Lara Rostron, | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
watched alongside a panel of fans, including the Buzzfeed | :54:00. | :54:02. | |
TV Editor Scott Bryan, to see if the new presenting team | :54:03. | :54:04. | |
had risen to the occasion. Well, in just a few minutes time The | :54:05. | :54:13. | |
Great British Bake Off returns to our screens but on Channel 4 this | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
time and breakfast has been invited to watch it with none other than the | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
Bake Off Giroud. Thanks for bringing one of these along. I had to, didn't | :54:26. | :54:34. | |
I? -- guru. Bake Off! Hello, bakers, welcome to the fabulous Bake Off | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
tent. What did you think? It feels very familiar but I was expecting to | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
see Mel and Sue still. But if you squint Nole fielding is a bit like | :54:46. | :54:52. | |
Mel and Sue. Cake break. At least the adverts are cake related. Does | :54:53. | :54:59. | |
anyone want a tea? Yes! Bakers, you have 30 minutes left to make your | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
fruity cakes. That is nice, that looks good. Love cardamom, love a | :55:06. | :55:12. | |
pair. I still miss Mel and Sue but I'm OK. I haven't missed it, I feel | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
like I'm cheating by saying it but I haven't missed them. It's good that | :55:18. | :55:20. | |
they are trying to be themselves, they're not trying to be Mel and Sue | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
just like Mary isn't trying to be proved and proved isn't trying to be | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
Mary. They are just getting on with it. That looks amazing. It is a | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
chocolate butter sponge with peanut butter frosting. It is perfect. OK, | :55:35. | :55:40. | |
guys, right, judgement time, Finnish, what do you make of it? I | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
would give Channel 4 star baker this week. You would? I think the adverts | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
were a bit grating. You still enjoyed it. | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
One thing is for certain it is still making me hungry. Did you enjoy it? | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
Some people complained about the ad breaks. There are going to be them. | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
It gives you the chance to make a tea and get a biscuit or a slice of | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
cake. Overwhelmingly quite a few positive comments. Barbra says she | :56:10. | :56:17. | |
loves it, but the adverts mean you can go to the kitchen for crisps, | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
biscuits, perfect. Michelle said she enjoys it, didn't think it would be | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
good, I'll eat my words but I would rather eat the cake. One of the good | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
things, the contestants are fabulous, they have brought together | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
a really good bunch of contestants. Pretty much the same programme, same | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
music, same flow, just adverts. You're a tough judge when it comes | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
to your egg club, you said there were too many Hollywood handshakes. | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
You have to set the bar high. On the first challenge he was growing | :56:50. | :56:52. | |
handshakes around like there was no tomorrow. Coming up to 7am. | :56:53. | :00:14. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
North Korea receives unanimous condemnation at the United Nations | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
for firing a ballistic missile over Japan. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
As diplomats describe the latest action as outrageous, | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
the regime releases pictures of the test and says it will carry | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Good morning, it's Wednesday 30th August. | :00:40. | :00:55. | |
Also this morning: A night-time curfew is declared in the flood-hit | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
city of Houston in a move to prevent looting. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
There are calls for a ban on credit card firms extending spending limits | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
I've been finding out how easy it is to travel between cities | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
and towns in the north of England and how close the idea | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
of a Northern powerhouse is to becoming a reality. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
In sport, West Indies have won a test match in england | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Shay Hope's historic century helped them to a famous victory | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
on a thrilling final day at Headingley. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
We're asking if children are more frightened of crime than they need | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
to be, as new figures suggest it's one of their biggest worries. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Good morning. Across Scotland, northern England and Northern | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
Ireland it will be a day of sunshine, bright spells and showers. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
A little bit warmer than yesterday. For the rest of England and Wales, | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
cloud around and some of us will see persistent rain and for some of us | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
it will be 10 degrees colder than yesterday, especially in the | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
north-east. More details on 15 minutes. | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
There has been unanimous condemnation of North Korea's firing | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
of a ballistic missile over Japan at a meeting | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
of the United Nations Security Council overnight. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
The regime has described the launch as "the first step" of operations | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
The UN Security Council has described the launch | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
but stopped short of threatening further action against North Korea. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Here we have North Korea's not-so-diplomatic response | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
to the slap on the wrist for its latest provocation, | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
proudly releasing stills of its missile launch over Japan, | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
just as diplomats were meeting in New York in an emergency | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
gathering of the UN Security Council, working | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
on the first step in a response to North Korea's destabilising | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
The world is united against North Korea, | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
It is time for the North Korean regime to recognise the danger | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
The United States will not allow their lawlessness to continue, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
and the rest of the world is with us. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
The meeting result was unanimous, but inconsequential. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
All members, including Russia and China, signed on to a statement | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
of condemnation, but no sign of new sanctions. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
The ink on the last round of North Korea sanctions | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
And China, for one, has said all sides are to blame | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
for the escalation in the region, after President Trump repeated | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
all options were on the table, and South Korea responded | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
with its own show of force, in a test-bombing near its border | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Beijing has called on Washington and Seoul to freeze their joint | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
military exercises, as a means of getting Pyongyang | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
But the US has made clear its commitment to its allies | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
..showing no sign the Trump administration will be | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
In a few moments' time, we'll be talking to a former | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
ambassador to North Korea, who also has experience of working | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
North Korea is expected to be high on the agenda as Theresa May begins | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
a visit to Japan today, her first as Prime Minister. | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
During the three day visit, she'll also be discussing | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Chris Mason joins us from Westminster. | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
That post Brexit trade deal will be essential if she is going to make | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
real progress on this trip? Absolutely, that is crucial for this | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
three-day series of talks that the Prime Minister has. She has arrived | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
in Japan, Osaka, in the last half-hour and she will be heading to | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Kyoto. She will be meeting the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a whole | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
series of talks with him and then we'll get a bullet train to Tokyo | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
later today. Essential other conversations about security, given | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
the situation in North Korea, but also trade. There's a huge amount of | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
trade between the two countries. Japan are hugely significant | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
employer in the UK. There are many firms working here in the UK. They | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
are about to nail down a trade deal. The UK has been part of that. Fairly | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
soon we will be outside of the EU. Theresa May is hopeful that she can | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
secure a similar deal for the UK, in terms of trading with Japan, and in | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
the longer term managing to mould that you into something specific for | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Britain, as opposed to being part of that EU deal. It will take some time | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
and there is a keen awareness that there are jitters on the Japanese | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
side about what they see as the potential danger of Brexit from | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
their perspective. Lots of the meetings for the Prime Minister. She | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
will even get to meet the Emperor at the end of the trip, on Friday. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
Excellent. Thank you for your time. A night-time curfew has | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
been imposed in Houston, Texas, in a bid to deter | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
looting in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
which is now heading for Louisiana. Around 20 people are reported | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
to have died and 30,000 have been forced from their homes, | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
with over 3,000 having been Large swathes of Texas remain | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
underwater, with almost 52 inches of rainfall since the Hurricane | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
made landfall on Friday. But, five days after it first | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
hit the coast of Texas, Harvey continues | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
to cause devastation. These are some of the residents | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
of 20 nursing homes. Another 20 hospitals have also been | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
evacuated across the region. 3,400 people have been rescued, | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
with the authorities reporting that It was the scariest | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
thing we've ever seen. 51 inches of rain has fallen so far, | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
a record for the USA, and has swamped parts | :07:17. | :07:29. | |
of Houston and southern Texas. 30,000 people have been forced out | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
of their homes by the floodwater. The Red Cross has warned people | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
could be in shelters for months. President Trump visited | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Corpus Christi, 220 miles He was greeted by state | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
and federal teams co-ordinating We won't say congratulations, | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
we don't want to do that. We'll congratulate each other | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
when it's all finished. He is determined not to repeat | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
the mistakes of George Bush, In Houston, the mayor has introduced | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
a night-time curfew, To the west of this vast city, | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
two huge reservoirs are overflowing. Harvey's path is | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
slow-moving and erratic. This force of nature | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
may not be spent yet. Kezia Dugdale has resigned | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
as Leader of Scottish Labour, after less than two | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
years in the post. The Lothians MSP insists | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
she is leaving the party in a much She's also rejected the idea her | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
departure has anything to do with her previous criticism | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn. A judge has ruled that a girl with a | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
Christian background who was reportedly placed with Muslim foster | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
parents should live with a member of her family. The London Borough of | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Tower Hamlets insists the five-year-old was placed with an | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
English-speaking family of mixed race and there were inaccuracies in | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
the way the case has been reported. One in five people struggling | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
with debt have had their credit card That's according to research | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
from the charity Citizens' Advice, which has called for the practice | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
of extending credit without consent UK Finance, the body | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
which represents some of the country's biggest lenders, | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
says it is working with regulators Our economics correspondent, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
Andy Verity, has more. Borrowing on credit cards | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
has been growing by 9%, far faster than wages, | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
and Citizens' Advice says irresponsible practices are keeping | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
people in debts that they cannot Tracy Banham ran into trouble | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
when her small business She and her partner used credit | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
cards to plug the holes. Well, it got to point | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
where I was just paying I were actually not - | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
at one point, on one credit card, I were paying ?700 a month, | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
and probably ?60 of that were coming That was just one | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
of the credit cards. Consumers have borrowed about ?200 | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
billion on unsecured loans, with about a third of | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
that on credit cards. Yet one in five borrowers have been | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
given higher credit limits, On 2.2 million credit card accounts, | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
borrowers spent more on charges and fees than on repayments, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
pushing them further into debt. Citizens' Advice says, | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
if that goes on for two years, lenders should have to contact | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
borrowers and offer for help, such as suspending | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
interest payments. We think the most important thing | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
is that credit card companies should stop raising credit limits | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
without consulting the customer. We think this is a second thing | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
the regulator can do to give better guidance for affordability checks | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
for people who are extending The body that represents most credit | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
card lenders says it is taking steps to prevent borrowers | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
being offered more credit, and that it is working | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
with regulators to help people Driver celebrating the opening of | :10:50. | :11:03. | |
the new crossing this morning saw a convoy of vehicles across the | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
bridge, with a police escort, many honking as you can see the mark the | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
occasion. The new Queensferry crossing which links the Lothians | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
and Fife is the longest three power, cable state bridging the world. | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
New research suggests the distinctive rings of Saturn may | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
be considerably younger than previously thought. | :11:32. | :11:32. | |
Data gathered by the probe, Cassini, which is orbiting | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
the planet, suggests they may be only 100 million years old. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
It indicates they could be the crushed remains | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
Sadly, Cassini is transmitting its final burst of data, | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
before it plunges into Saturn's atmosphere and burns up. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
There's been widespread condemnation to the firing of a missile over | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Last night the regime confirmed it was responsible, | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
and released these pictures, supposedly of the latest rocket | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
The state-run news agency said leader Kim Jong-un had ordered more | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Last night, a meeting of the UN Security Council drafted a statement | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
calling on North Korea to halt any more launches | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
and abandon its nuclear weapons programme. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
But it stopped short of imposing new sanctions. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
We can talk now to John Everard, a former ambassador to North Korea, | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
who also has experience of working with the UN Security Council. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
A very good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. As former | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
ambassador, can you explain to us what you think it is that North | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Korea want to achieve? There's no point getting about this. The North | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Koreans have said clearly what they want to achieve. They are heading | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
for the capability to deliver a nuclear warhead directly to a city | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
on the continental United States and they believe that when they reach | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the stage that firstly the US will no longer be prepared to risk the | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
destruction of one of its cities in supporting South Korean allies and | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
secondly North Korea will be able to dictate terms over things like | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
economic advantage and so on. So the UN has now had this statement. We no | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
sanctions were imposed. What can be done to stop North Korea in those | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
ambitions? Frankly, very little. The last United Nations Security Council | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
resolution was probably about as far as the market will bear. About as | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
far as the US will be able to persuade China and Russia to go. | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
There are question marks even now over whether that resolution could | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
we implemented. So further sanctions probably unlikely. All options are | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
on the table, says Donald Trump, but it's not clear what he by that. His | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
advisers will be telling him clearly that to start a war on the Korean | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
peninsular would we are very bad idea and what else does he do? | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
That's my question to you. Exactly. All options being discussed, but how | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
do you stop what North Korea seem to want? There's a growing consensus | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
that this be stopped. That sooner rather than later North Korea is | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
going to achieve its ambition. It is going to have a missile on which it | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
can mount a nuclear device and that can deliver this to the US. As I | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
say, the sanctions are unlikely to take effect. Military options are | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
deeply unattractive. Both sides have said that they aren't interested in | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
dialogue. The north Koreans now have seven times used the same form of | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
words, originally used by Kim Jong-un himself, saying they won't | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
talk about their nuclear deterrent. Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe agreed | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
yesterday that now is not the time to talk to North Korea. So no | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
dialogue. What you are painting is a kind of terrifying scenario in some | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
ways. How dangerous is it? It is dangerous. I'm not saying | :15:07. | :15:16. | |
we're heading towards nuclear war but we may be heading to the | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
leverage threat of the use of nuclear weapons by North Korea, | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
which makes an unstable world even less stable. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
We know the Prime Minister, Theresa May, is going to Japan today. Japan | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
obviously as well very concerned about this. What can she do? | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
Probably very little. I know she will offer words of sympathy, | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
condolence and understanding to the Japanese but everybody knows the UK | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
is not really a major player in this very difficult conundrum. It has the | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
one card that the UK has an embassy in Pyongyang, which of course | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
neither Japan or the United States do, which gives some kind of access | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
but it would be wrong to think the UK is going to be able to help solve | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
the problems in any major way. Tell us what this latest missile launch | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
tells you about North Korea's actual capabilities. The Hwasong-12, the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
missile that was launched, is new, it was first paraded in April this | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
year, an intermediate range missile which appears to really have quite a | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
range. Almost certainly capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
technology probably stolen from a Ukrainian missile factory. Its | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
intermediate missile capability is demonstrated. The next step will be | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
to show it has got an intercontinental ballistic missile | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and that it's reliable and | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
can threaten America. Thanks very much. | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Unanimous condemnation of North Korea's missile | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
The UN Security Council calls it outrageous, | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
the regime warns there's more to come. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
A night-time curfew is declared in the flood-hit city of Houston | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
in an effort to stop looting as 30,000 people have been forced | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :17:17. | :17:28. | |
She's been updating us on Houston over the last few days but also on | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
the weather here. Good morning. Good morning. Our weather very | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
different from Houston, we have mixed fortunes today. Breezy in the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
north and west, sunshine and showers with temperatures higher than | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
yesterday. In the south and east, rain at times in the afternoon, some | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
will be persistent and much cooler. You can see what I mean, yesterday | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
in Kent in the today and we had 29.3. Today it's likely to be 15 or | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
maybe even a bit more in the rainfall. The reason for the rain is | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
we have two weather fronts, they will collide and produce persistent | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
rain. The isobars quite well spaced in the north, breezy rather than | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
windy, and a bright start to the day with sunshine and showers. The most | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
prolific showers will be in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a few in | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
northern England. You can see this whole band of rain pushing into the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
south-east, joining forces with the other one and behind it we will see | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
things brightening up and drying up as well. Pretty wet across East | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
Anglia, Essex and Kent, Cambridgeshire as well this | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
afternoon, pegging back those temperatures with showers following | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
on behind but again, bright spells or sunshine. Breezy, sunshine and | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
showers sums it up nicely for Scotland. In between the showers we | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
will see decent sunshine. In Northern Ireland, a similar story, | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
bright spells, sunshine and showers but if anything, fewer showers this | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
afternoon in Wales, more drier weather, looking at sunshine, | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
lengthy spells and the same in the south-west with a few showers | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
knocking around. Through the evening and overnight we eventually lose the | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
rain, it goes to the near continent. Behind it there will still be a | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
plethora of showers, especially in the west but inland there will be a | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
lot of dry weather and clear skies. Although we can see temperatures in | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
double figures in towns and cities, in rural areas they will be lower | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
than this and we could see patchy mist and fog forming as well in | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
parts of southern England but that shouldn't last too long tomorrow and | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
for many tomorrow, a fine, dry and sunny start. However, we still have | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
the showers in the west from the overnight period and if anything | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
they will widely developed tomorrow, almost anywhere tomorrow could catch | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
a shower and it could also prove thundery. The other thing about | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
tomorrow is temperatures recover in the south-east, why of about 19 or | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
20. For the rest of the UK, we've got around 14 to 18, so roughly | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
where we should be at this stage in August. On Friday it's going to be a | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
nippy start but under the clear skies we will see sunshine. A few | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
showers around as well but not as many as we are looking and through | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Thursday. Highs of up to 21. On Saturday, a lot of dry weather | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
around. Again we can't completely ruled out a shower but you'll be | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
unlucky depending on your point of view if you catch one and highs of | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
21 in old muggy, 70 Fahrenheit. Definitely felt nippy this morning! | :20:31. | :20:31. | |
See you later! Let's get the latest | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
from the business world now. Steph's talking currencies, | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
food prices and skills today. Lots going on in the currency | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
markets at the moment! Not great news if you are changing | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
your muggy to Euros at the moment. The pound is worth almost the same | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
as the euro after falls The drop overnight was | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
because investors worried about hurricane harvey | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
and North Korea were buying more euros as a safe haven | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
in the market uncertainty. When they are worried about things | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
like that they invest in areas they think are safer. At the moment they | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
think Euros are safer so they buy fewer Euros and more dollars and | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
pounds, meaning the pound fell to an 11 month low against the euro, but | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
things like that can change on a daily basis depending on what | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
happens. The BRC is separately warning that | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
food prices could rise after Brexit unless plans to tackle red tape | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
and improve ports are put in place. A lot of food we import comes from | :21:39. | :21:53. | |
European countries. We often talk about the skills gap. Soft skills | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
like teamwork, communication and confidence are considered by young | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
people, teachers and workers to be as important to achieving success in | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
life as good grades, that's according to research from the | :22:09. | :22:09. | |
Prince's Trust. They found 91% of teachers think | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
schools should be doing more to help students develop soft skills, | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
and nearly half of young people don't feel prepared to enter | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the work force without them. Lots of people say that, loads of | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
businesses say that to me, it's great kids have these good exam | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
results but we need them to have a phone conversation and be able to | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
deal with people and sometimes... They don't learn a lot about that at | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
school and it puts pressure on them. Social interaction goes a long way. | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
A bit of communication! Got round to it at the third time of trying! | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Losing a loved one can be an incredibly difficult time | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
for families who have to take care of funerals and other formalities. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
But now many are facing the added distress of delays | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
Figures seen by BBC local radio show most councils in England | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
and Wales are failing to register bereavements | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
Last year, Graham Morgan's mother died. | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
She was 86 and living in a care home. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
The family had to wait nearly three weeks for the funeral. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
It was a terrible situation to be honest with you. | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
It was the worst you could ever have at a time of your life, | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
and everybody faces it, when someone near to you passes | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
He faced delays in getting a doctor's certificate and waited | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
a fortnight for an appointment to register her death | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
It has a a big impact on your well-being because you're | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
bereaved, you're panicking, you want to get everything right. | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
In my case, my parents, you didn't want to let them down | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
By law all deaths except those investigated by a coroner must be | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
registered within five days but most councils in England and Wales | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
are failing to meet their registration targets. | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
In 2011, 23% of all deaths in England and Wales were registered | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
By 2016, that figure had risen to more than 187,000, | :23:59. | :24:14. | |
meaning 36% of all deaths took longer than five days | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
The National Association of Funeral Directors, | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
which represents 4,000 funeral homes, conducted its own | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
They found families were waiting longer to see a registrar. | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
At some registrars there are cutbacks and staff shortages, | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
and that's happening throughout the UK. | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
But what we're all so seeing is certain registrars will not make | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
the appointment for the family unless the family already | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
have the medical certificate for cause of death in their possession. | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
Poppy Mardall runs a funeral home in south London and is aware | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
She says the whole process of dealing with death is confusing | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
for bereaved families and more sensitivity is needed. | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
Grieving people should not be disregarded by local authorities. | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
I think recognition that death and grief are incredibly difficult | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
experiences that we're all going to have to go through, | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
so I don't see why people need to wait five or six days to register | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
The Home Office said local authorities are expected to ensure | :25:12. | :25:24. | |
there are adequate provisions to register a death. | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
The Local Government Association told us various factors have | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
contributed to delays, but councils are working | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
For Graham Morgan, improvements to the system, although too late | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
for his family, would still be welcome. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
It causes chaos at a time in people's lives when you don't | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
need that fails to be honest with you, you're bereaved enough | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
Are better transport links needed to see the idea of the Northern | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
Steph's taken a trip across the region to find out what's | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
needed to ensure the project remains on track. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :26:07. | :29:29. | |
I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :29:33. | :29:44. | |
There has been unanimous condemnation of North Korea's firing | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
of a missile over Japan, at a United Nations Security Council | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
The regime described the launch as the first step of military | :29:51. | :29:59. | |
operations in the Pacific. The Security Council has demanded | :30:00. | :30:00. | |
the country abandons its nuclear weapons programme, but has stopped | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
short of threatening It is dangerous. I'm not saying that | :30:04. | :30:15. | |
we are heading towards nuclear war, but we may well be heading towards | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
the leveraged threat of the use of nuclear weapons by North Korea. | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
Which makes an unstable world even less stable. | :30:26. | :30:26. | |
North Korea is expected to be high on the agenda as Theresa May begins | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
a visit to Japan today, her first as Prime Minister. | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
He/she is stepping off the plane in Osaka. -- here she is. | :30:36. | :30:43. | |
She will be hoping to discuss a post-Brexit trade deal. | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
Mrs May has described Japan as a like-minded nation | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
A night-time curfew has been imposed in Houston, | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
Texas, in a bid to deter looting in the wake of tropical storm | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
Harvey, which is now heading for Louisiana. | :30:56. | :30:57. | |
Around 20 people are reported to have died as a result | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
More than 30,000 have been forced from their homes, | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
and 3,000 have been rescued from the floodwaters. | :31:05. | :31:06. | |
Large swathes of Texas remain underwater, with almost 52 inches | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
of rainfall since the hurricane made landfall on Friday. | :31:10. | :31:11. | |
Earlier I spoke to CBS news correspondent Meg Oliver and asked | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
how people have reacted to the curfew. | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
At first the Mary imposed a ten p.m.-5 a.m. Curfew and there was a | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
lot of backlash on that. Then he moved it to midnight. I was just | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
speaking to police officers and they said this is just a cut down for any | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
possible looters. If people are still out on about, we're not going | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
to interfere with people trying to help. Until a few minutes ago there | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
were people over there walking by. The volunteers that have turned out | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
to help these shelters, like the one behind me, they are non-stop. A few | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
minutes ago, two mothers walked by with little kids. It is after | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
midnight here in the US and they are out here bringing supplies to the | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
shelter. The state of Texas is really giving themselves and you see | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
that wherever you look. Kezia Dugdale has resigned | :32:08. | :32:08. | |
as Leader of Scottish Labour, after less than two | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
years in the post. The Lothians MSP insists | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
she is leaving the party in a much She has also rejected | :32:14. | :32:16. | |
the idea her departure has anything to do with her previous | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
criticism of Jeremy Corbyn. A judge has ruled that a girl | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
with a Christian background, who was reported to have been placed | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
with Muslim foster parents, who spoke little English, | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
should live with a member The London Borough of Tower Hamlets, | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
insists the five year old was placed with an English speaking | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
family of mixed race and that there were inaccuracies | :32:40. | :32:41. | |
in the way the case was reported. One in five people struggling | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
with debt have had their credit card limit raised, without requesting it, | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
according to the charity, It has called for the practice | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
of extending credit without consent UK Finance, the body | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
which represents some of the country's biggest lenders, | :32:54. | :33:04. | |
says it is working with regulators More than 40,000 people are expected | :33:05. | :33:06. | |
in the small Spanish town of Bunol later for the annual | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
tomato-throwing festival. What apparently started as an angry | :33:13. | :33:19. | |
row between two rival farmers more than 70 years ago is now | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
the world's biggest food fight. Usually it takes less than an hour | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
to turn around 110 tons of tomatoes That's where I'm going to be next | :33:32. | :33:49. | |
year, at this time. Are you definitely going to go? | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
I've watched those pictures over many years. | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
We can have a Louise Minchin report from there. | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
Does it happen in lots of places or is it just that? | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
That's where I'm going to go. What is it, August 30? | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
When you are not there next year... Are you going to throw tomatoes at | :34:14. | :34:15. | |
me? All of our viewers are going to say, | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
you promised us, now you have let us down. | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
There will be tomatoes thrown in the studio! | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
Good morning! Great news for cricket fans this morning. The West Indies, | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
a fantastic performance from them yesterday. Some cricket fans will be | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
disappointed that England went on and won yesterday, but it was really | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
and to watch. So exciting. History was made. | :34:44. | :34:50. | |
The West Indies won their first Test match in this | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
after they beat England by five wickets to win the second Test | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
West Indies were chasing over 300 runs to win on the final day. | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
But two crucial dropped balls from Alistair Cook, | :35:03. | :35:04. | |
and a century to Shai Hope and 95 from Kraigg Brathwaite, | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
set the platform for the stunning victory. | :35:08. | :35:13. | |
We know that we came here to play cricket, | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
and we just need to go out and execute. | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
We heard a lot of things in the media. | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
We looked at ourselves in the mirror, and decided | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
We looked at the conditions, it was spinning. | :35:27. | :35:37. | |
It was the fifth day, and we took the positive option. | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
We're a positive side, that wants to go on and try and win | :35:41. | :35:46. | |
Unfortunately we weren't able to do that today, | :35:47. | :35:48. | |
but if we'd taken all of our chances, it might have | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
They played fantastically well today. | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has turned down a move to Chelsea from Arsenal, | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
despite the two clubs agreeing a ?40 million fee. | :35:59. | :36:00. | |
It is believed the England international would prefer a move | :36:01. | :36:03. | |
to Liverpool, with a bid expected to come before | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
Oxlade-Chamberlain is out of contract next summer. | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
Meanwhile, Arsenal have rejected a ?50 million bid | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
from Manchester City for forward Alexis Sanchez. | :36:12. | :36:12. | |
The Chile international scored 24 League goals last season, | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
Arsenal would like City's Raheem Sterling as part of any deal. | :36:16. | :36:25. | |
Lots of chopping and changing still to come. | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
Well, this summer's transfer window has seen all kinds | :36:28. | :36:30. | |
Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane believes the fees | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
demanded by what he describes as average players are mind-boggling. | :36:34. | :36:48. | |
The market value of players is mind-boggling, the figures | :36:49. | :36:59. | |
for players, especially for the average players. | :37:00. | :37:01. | |
The time to be a professional footballer is now. | :37:02. | :37:16. | |
Roger Federer has survived a scare to reach the second | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
Federer, looking to win a record 20th Grand Slam title, | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
beat American teenager Francis Tiafoe in five sets. | :37:24. | :37:31. | |
Federer's great rival Rafa Nadal is also through to the second round, | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
after a straight-sets win over Serbia's Dusan Lajovic. | :37:36. | :37:37. | |
The Spaniard needed a tie-break to take the first set, | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
but comfortably took the next two sets. | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
After second seed Simona Halep and Britain's world number seven, | :37:44. | :37:45. | |
Johanna Konta, were knocked out of the US Open, there has been | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
another major shock at Flushing Meadows. | :37:50. | :37:50. | |
World number 45 Naomi Osaka, from Japan, beat defending champion | :37:51. | :37:53. | |
and sixth seed Angelique Kerber in straight sets. | :37:54. | :37:55. | |
It was the first time in 13 years that the champion was knocked out | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
She played good, especially also at the end of the match, | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
and I'm always trying to go for it when I have the chance. | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
And today, I mean, she just went for it. | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
I think she took her chances, and yeah, she played | :38:11. | :38:12. | |
But for me, for sure, it wasn't the best day and not | :38:13. | :38:17. | |
Chris Froome has maintained his 36-second lead | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
after stage ten of the Vuelta a Espana. | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
After 102 miles in the saddle, Italy's Matteo Trentin held off | :38:29. | :38:31. | |
Spain's Jose Joaquin Rojas to claim victory. | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
Froome crossed the line 4.5 minutes later alongside his main rival, | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
Esteban Chaves, although the Colombian is now joint-second | :38:42. | :38:43. | |
with Ireland's Nicolas Roche, who made up time on the final | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
Two of England's women's sports teams have met the Prime Minister | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
Theresa May welcomed the rugby union team, | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
who narrowly lost the World Cup final to New Zealand | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
at the weekend and also Heather Knight's World Cup-winning | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
The Prime Minister said both England teams had contributed | :38:58. | :39:07. | |
to a "breakthrough moment" for female sport. | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
We've said that so many times over the years. Is this the moment? That | :39:13. | :39:20. | |
was the moment. With the rugby players, even in defeat, that was | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
the moment. You watch the final against New Zealand and you think, I | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
don't care who is playing, that was a brilliant final. | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
And live on TV. Exactly. Thank you very much. | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
As parents, it can be easy to worry about your child's safety every time | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
they leave the house and, according to a new report, | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
this may be one issue you can both agree on. | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
The Children's Society surveyed 3,000 10-17 year olds | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
And the fear of being a victim of crime came out on top. | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
That's ahead of issues such as their family struggling to pay | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
the bills or having a parent who is seriously ill. | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
Yet, only 17% of teenagers surveyed had actually experienced crime | :40:02. | :40:03. | |
or been the victim of antisocial behaviour themselves, | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
suggesting the fear is greater than the reality. | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
So why is crime such an important issue for young people and how can | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
We're joined by psychologist Geoff Beattie and Ella Brookbanks, | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
who's mum to a 15-year-old son and daughter aged nine. | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
Good morning and thank you both very much for joining us. With regards to | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
your son, for example, is he fearful about things happening to him? I | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
wouldn't say he is specifically. He is quite immature young boy. He is | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
educated on things, we talk to him openly about things that happen | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
around the town. We are involved in things that happen. So him | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
specifically, he is not, but I know there are a lot of parents out there | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
who are not so clued on. Where does that fear come from? What might | :40:57. | :41:04. | |
actually be happening in society? There's often a discrepancy between | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
level of crime and fear of crime. Over the last 20 years, violent | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
crime has gone down in the UK and yet there is no hint of crime going | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
down, so there is a discrepancy. If you ask people to estimate the | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
probability of things happening, they are very bad at knowing how | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
common things are or how where they are. What they do is they based | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
their estimates on images they have on their heads. One aspect of this | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
is social media. The way we consume it these days is very image -based. | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
We can see all kinds of horrible things that can happen and they are | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
estimates of it happening to us. So I think social media is a big player | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
in this. Social media is all about sharing images rather than words and | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
I think if people understand more about the probability of things | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
happening de would be less fearful because it looks as if people are | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
becoming more fearful. Wasn't it always similar? When I was growing | :41:58. | :42:05. | |
up, fear of something happening to us was greater than something | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
actually happening. It looks as if the probability of crime now is | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
actually decreasing. Citing its about understanding what you can do | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
to prevent yourself becoming a victim of crime. It's about self | :42:20. | :42:26. | |
efficacy, about response -- knowing what responses are appropriate. It's | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
about having conversations you know what the likelihood of something | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
happening is. I saw some statistics last week which was people under 14 | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
are spending more time on social media than having conversations with | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
the family. So there's this concept about what's going on on the street. | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
You say your 15-year-old is quite savvy. How is it different with your | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
nine-year-old daughter? She hears conversations that we have at home. | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
One of the most important thing is his communication with your | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
children. I don't pick you should be scared of having any kind of | :43:04. | :43:05. | |
conversation with your children. Obviously it needs to be | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
age-appropriate. What we sit at the table practically every night, apart | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
from Friday night in the night. -- pizza night. We told about things | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
they've done that are really good, things we are not so happy about and | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
we have those conversations. We are quite avid readers and I remember | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
reading a book by a criminal psychologist. When I was younger, my | :43:28. | :43:35. | |
auntie and uncle said I should read it before I stop going out and it | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
kind of gave you hints and tips about how you should hold yourself | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
while in certain situations and that really helped me. I've always been a | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
fan of showing my children the world. Did it show you or tell you | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
or instruct you on what might be danger signs? It did. You are | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
psychologist? So I was asked to read the book by my auntie and uncle. I | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
lived in London when I was younger. It did help me in those kinds of | :44:04. | :44:09. | |
situations. If I was out at night, I wouldn't go into certain places and | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
I would act as a way and I think it's important to have those sorts | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
of conversations. Coming at some tips from you about dealing with the | :44:17. | :44:19. | |
anxiety that some people will display? How do you approach that? | :44:20. | :44:25. | |
First of all, you have to talk about what's out there, not conceptualise | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
it. Get a more realistic appraisal of what the threats are. Reading is | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
great because you want people to take precautions, but you don't want | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
to terrify them. He wanted to go and explore. Human beings have to take a | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
level of risk. So it's about a realistic appraisal and I think the | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
problem is that kids ruminate on stuff a lot, so the opposite of that | :44:52. | :44:57. | |
of course is getting kids to be more active, spending less time thinking | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
about what can go wrong and more time doing stuff with the family. | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
Thank you very much. I'm in, Friday night pizza night by | :45:03. | :45:12. | |
the way! Curry night at ours! Sunday. That's a great weekend, | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
what's Saturday night? I don't have one, maybe we should start one! What | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
a buildup, Friday, Saturday Sunday. Carol is looking at the weather and | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
a bit cold this morning? For some, you're right, and it will get colder | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
by Saturday morning, parts of the Highlands will see frost. What we | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
have at the moment for the north and west of the country is sunshine and | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
showers, breezy conditions and feeling warmer than yesterday. For | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
the south and east, the opposite is true with rain at times, more | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
persistent through the day and much cooler. Yesterday, Frittenden in | :45:49. | :45:56. | |
Kent hit 29.3, today in the rain it will be barely 15, maybe 13. Quite a | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
drop. The rain has been caused by these two weather fronts that will | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
collide and produce more persistent rain. As you can see from the | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
isobars in the north, quite breezy. The rain falling in parts of the | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
south-west, the Midlands, turning more patchy towards Lincolnshire and | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
Yorkshire and another line of light rain and drizzle in parts of the | :46:19. | :46:21. | |
south-east. Through the morning, these two are going to join forces | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
and we will see heavy rain, but behind we are looking at the mixture | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
of bright spells, sunshine and showers with prolific showers in | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Even so, many will miss | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
them all together. By 4pm, brightening up in the West Midlands | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
but we will still have the rain in the south-eastern quarter. Under it | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
it will feel considerably colder than yesterday. Northern England | :46:45. | :46:50. | |
seeing showers, sunshine and bright spells, the same in Scotland, fairly | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
hit and miss showers but more showers in Scotland, as in Northern | :46:56. | :46:58. | |
Ireland compared to what we're expecting in northern England. In | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
between them all will be bright and sunny skies. Fewer showers this | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
afternoon in Wales but we can't completely ruled them out, here too | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
there will be sunshine and also quite a bit of sunshine in | :47:11. | :47:13. | |
south-west England with a few showers dotted here and there. | :47:14. | :47:16. | |
Through the evening and overnight we lose the rain from the south-east, | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
skies will clear, a chilly night, particularly in the countryside, and | :47:23. | :47:25. | |
still a peppering of showers in the north and west. Week also see patchy | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
mist and fog forming in parts of England, especially in the | :47:30. | :47:32. | |
south-east where we've seen the rain that we could also. Temperatures | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
around nine to 11, in the countryside they will be lower -- we | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
could also. Tomorrow a chilly start, overnight showers left over in the | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
west but through the day further showers will develop. If you catch a | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
shower almost anywhere tomorrow you could hear the odd rumble of | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
thunder. Temperatures recovering them south-east, highs of up to 20, | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
but generally, 14 to 18 -- recovering in the. Lot of sunshine | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
around. Fewer showers, temperatures up to 21. Of quick look at Saturday | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
shows a lot of dry weather and again a chilly start in the countryside -- | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
a quick look. Sunshine coming through, a few showers but many will | :48:17. | :48:18. | |
miss them altogether. Thanks for that, Carol. Looking at | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
your map it is handy to guide us into Steph. | :48:26. | :48:26. | |
We are talking about the Northern Powerhouse, you have been on a trip? | :48:27. | :48:34. | |
I have. It's interesting, we heard about the Northern Powerhouse | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
several years ago when it was first announced, the idea of creating... | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
Reducing the gap between the perceived view the north is worse | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
off than the south. Interestingly whenever I talk about this I get | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
messages from people in the south-west saying we have got | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
rubbish things, we need more help, I've had a few of those this morning | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
and the greater thing is, the difference between areas outside of | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
London compare it to London and its investment and one of the big things | :49:01. | :49:03. | |
is transport. We wanted to look at the needs in | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
terms of transport in the North. I went on a train journey yesterday | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
around some of it to talk to businesses and people how they feel | :49:13. | :49:13. | |
about it and this is the result. It was three years ago in Manchester | :49:14. | :49:26. | |
that the idea of creating a Northern Powerhouse | :49:27. | :49:29. | |
was first announced. Improving transport | :49:30. | :49:31. | |
was a big part of it. The government says it is investing | :49:32. | :49:33. | |
more than ever in transport up here, but there is a criticism | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
that the North is still losing out If the government had spent as much | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
per head on the north as they did in London in the past ten years | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
they would have spent ?59 billion more on the North, enough to get | :49:46. | :49:48. | |
things moving and getting the economy functioning | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
better than it is. is responding to London rather | :49:52. | :49:53. | |
than using transport spending to transform the Northern | :49:54. | :49:56. | |
economy, which would be You can see from the departure board | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
that there are loads of trains coming in and out of here | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
and regular ones to and from London. That journey at the moment takes | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
just over two hours but with HS2, it should halve that time, | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
making it much faster But what about getting | :50:11. | :50:13. | |
around the rest of North? I'm about 35 miles from Barnsley, | :50:14. | :50:21. | |
I'm going to get the train When you talk to passengers | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
about their experiences, the same things come up - | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
overcrowding, frequency There could be more services | :50:29. | :50:30. | |
and they could be faster. Your husband does Manchester | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
to Huddersfield regularly, About three to four times a month | :50:35. | :50:35. | |
the train is delayed. Generally it's OK, | :50:36. | :50:40. | |
it could be faster. It's only made worse when you see | :50:41. | :50:48. | |
all the investment put into Euston The trains are extremely | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
full with commuters, there's not enough carriages to take | :50:55. | :51:01. | |
all the passengers and it's mostly standing room only, | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
as you can see today as well. I've arrived here after nearly two | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
hours of travelling. For places like this, | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
being better connected could make I travel on the train | :51:14. | :51:15. | |
to work and back. Good, but the trains aren't | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
as often as I'd like. When I use buses they tend not | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
to turn up, they tend to breakdown The north of England | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
is badly served by travel. Businesses argue they need | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
better connectivity too. I've come to meet Clive, | :51:37. | :51:38. | |
who runs a furniture A lot of businesses try | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
to just-in-time deliveries, we may want to get | :51:41. | :51:56. | |
to Manchester by 3pm. That could take anywhere between 45 | :51:57. | :51:58. | |
minutes and three hours. Because of this variation we have | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
to put a three-hour delivery slot, meaning if you do it in three | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
quarters of an hour that's an awful For many commuters and businesses | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
here speeding up the process of getting between northern towns | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
and cities can't come soon enough. For many of us it's the journey, | :52:15. | :52:17. | |
not just the destination. We were saying when we were watching | :52:18. | :52:27. | |
that, it is such a pretty journey around the north, but the problem is | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
it can take a lot longer when you compare it to how quickly we can get | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
to London from here. There's lots of complaints about that. The argument | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
is there should be more investment in transport in the North. The | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
government have been talking about this, there were concerns the | :52:45. | :52:47. | |
Northern Powerhouse may lose focus because of Brexit because the | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
government has changed since Northern Powerhouse was first | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
announced. Department for Transport has said they are still committed to | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
the whole project, including developing a better train network | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
from east to west, which is really important for lots of businesses. | :53:03. | :53:10. | |
They say their putting millions into it already and they are waiting for | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
plans to be submitted so they can get cracking with making the trains | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
better across the Pennines and around the North. Excellent if that | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
happens! Flying cars may be? By the time we get to these things being | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
done we could be in drones. Just being dropped off? I like bad! -- I | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
like that. The Great British Bake Off was back | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
on television last night for the first time since | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
its move to Channel 4. I would say 60 to 70% of people | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
enjoy it. Our reporter, Lara Rostron, | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
watched alongside a panel of fans. Well, in just a few minutes time | :53:43. | :53:45. | |
The Great British Bake Off returns to our screens but on Channel 4 this | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
time and Breakfast has been invited to watch it with none other | :53:51. | :54:00. | |
than the Bake Off guru, Thanks for bringing | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
one of these along. Hello, bakers, welcome | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
to the fabulous Bake Off tent. It feels very familiar | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
but I was expecting to see Mel But if you squint Noel Fielding | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
is a bit like Mel and Sue. At least the adverts | :54:17. | :54:23. | |
are cake-related. Does anyone want a tea? | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
Yes! Bakers, you have 30 minutes left | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
to make your fruity cakes. I haven't missed it, | :54:33. | :54:38. | |
I feel like I'm cheating by saying It's good that they are trying to be | :54:39. | :54:56. | |
themselves, they're not trying to be Mel and Sue just like Mary isn't | :54:57. | :55:04. | |
trying to be Prue and Prue isn't It is a chocolate butter sponge | :55:05. | :55:07. | |
with peanut butter frosting. OK, guys, right, judgement time, | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
finished, what do you make of it? I would give Channel 4 | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
Star Baker this week. I think the adverts | :55:22. | :55:23. | |
were a bit grating. Tell us what you think. So many of | :55:24. | :55:34. | |
you I know watched it last night, including new. I enjoyed it very | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
much. Elaine said my belief was too many Hollywood handshakes, very | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
early on the handshakes -- including you. Didn't like the adverts but my | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
five-year-old grandson and I enjoyed it, making imaginary cakes and | :55:49. | :55:53. | |
commenting on the tastes. People complained about the adverts, but | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
they said they using the adverts to have a piece of cake. Didn't want to | :55:58. | :56:04. | |
enjoy it much but I did, seemed rushed because of the adverts, but | :56:05. | :56:11. | |
we will watch the rest of the series and someone whispered quietly that | :56:12. | :56:12. | |
they preferred Prue to Mary Berry. Time now to get the news, | :56:13. | :56:19. | |
travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :56:20. | :59:42. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. North Korea receives unanimous | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
condemnation at the United Nations for firing a ballistic missile over | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
Japan. As diplomats describe the latest | :59:51. | :59:52. | |
action as outrageous - the regime releases pictures | :59:53. | :59:55. | |
of the test and says it will carry Good morning - it's | :59:56. | :59:58. | |
Wednesday 30th August. A night-time curfew is declared | :59:59. | :00:19. | |
in the flood-hit city of Houston Theresa May arrives in Japan | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
for a three day visit to discuss North Korea will also be high on the | :00:26. | :00:44. | |
agenda. Not great news if you're changing your money to your rows | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
with the pound falling to an 11 month low. I will be looking at why. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
And in sport, the West Indies win a Test match in England for the first | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
time in 17 years. Shai Hope's historic century helped them to a | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
thrilling victory on the final day at Headingley. And how a sea | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
creature that lived 100 million years ago is providing lessons for | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
the submarine designers of the future. It's all about the four | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
flippers. You might need some flippers as well | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
because in the south and east heavy and persistent rain is coming our | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
way. It is light at the moment, and it will feel cooler than yesterday. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
In the north and west, a breezy day with bright spells and a little | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
warmer than yesterday. More details in 15 minutes. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
There has been unanimous condemnation of North Korea's firing | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
of a ballistic missile over Japan at a meeting of the United Nations | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
The regime has described the launch as "the first step" | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
The UN Security Council has described the launch as "outrageous" | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
but stopped short of threatening further action against North Korea. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Here we have North Korea's not-so-diplomatic response | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
to the slap on the wrist for its latest provocation, | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
proudly releasing stills of its missile launch over Japan, | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
Just as diplomats were meeting in New York in an emergency | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
gathering of the UN Security Council, working | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
on the first step in a response to North Korea's destabilising | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
The world is united against North Korea, | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
It is time for the North Korean regime to recognise the danger | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
The United States will not allow their lawlessness to continue, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
and the rest of the world is with us. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
The meeting result was unanimous, but inconsequential. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
All members, including Russia and China, signed | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
on to a statement of condemnation, but no sign of new sanctions. | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
The ink on the last round of North Korea | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
And China, for one, has said all sides are to blame | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
for the escalation in the region, after President Trump repeated | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
all options were on the table, and South Korea responded | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
with its own show of force, in a test-bombing near its | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Beijing has called on Washington and Seoul to freeze their joint | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
military exercises, as a means of getting Pyongyang | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
But the US has made clear its commitment to its allies | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
..Showing no sign the Trump administration will be | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
We can talk now to our correspondent, Yogida Limaye, | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
who joins us now from the South Korean capital, Seoul. | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
It seems nothing is bringing down this rhetoric and the intensity of | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
this conversation, is it? And actions as well, with the latest | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
missile test North Korea conducted yesterday. We have seen not just | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
strong words now, we have also seen actions. The statement they have put | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
out today, along with photographs they released of the missile test, | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
they say this is just a pro you'd to contain Guam, making reference to | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
the threat they made three weeks ago that they would fire missiles to the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
waters around Guam. Also the North Korean leader Kim John and has | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
ordered his military to conduct more such missile drills targeted at the | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Pacific. North Korea also today justified their actions saying this | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
was to counter the US and South Korean drills being conducted here | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
in South Korea. -- North Korean leader Kim Jong on. We always see | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
some sort of retaliation from North Korea. I don't think anyone would | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
imagine it would be a rocket that flew over Japan. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Theresa May begins a visit to Japan today, her first as Prime Minister. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
A post-Brexit bi-lateral trade deal, defence cooperation and the threat | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
posed by North Korea will be among the issues Mrs May will discuss | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
with the Japanese Prime during the three day trip. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Chris, what is the PM hoping to achieve from the visit? | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
North Korea is high on the agenda, but the trade deal with regard to | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
what will happen post-Brexit is essential for the Prime Minister to | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
say this trip has been a success. Absolutely. Clearly the context is | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
what has happened in North Korea. The Prime Minister on the plane | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
overnight said she was outraged by the actions of Pyongyang. She has | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
arrived in Osaka overnight and is heading to the ancient capital of | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Kyoto. Lots of focus on security and also on trade. Trade between Japan | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
and the UK absolutely essential. Japan and Japanese companies | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
employing around 160,000 people in the UK. And Tokyo has publicly had a | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
case of the wobbles over Brexit and they are nervous over what they see | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
as the potential implications of Brexit. Lots of reassuring noises no | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
doubt from Theresa May. She is also keen to try to secure in the long | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
term a trade deal between the UK and Japan. There is one, or soon will | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
be, between the EU and Japan, which the UK has been part of negotiating. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
It seems the government here is keen to do a cut and paste job in the | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
short term to make sure the UK has deal in the short-term. Lots of | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
people to meet over the next three days, a decent length of trip. She | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
will go on a bullet train to go to Tokyo later, and she will meet the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Emperor on Friday before flying back to the UK. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
A night-time curfew has been imposed in Houston, Texas, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
in a bid to deter looting in the wake of tropical storm | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Harvey, which is now heading for Louisiana. | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Around 20 people are reported to have died and 30,000 have been | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
forced from their homes - with over 3,000 having been rescued | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Large swathes of Texas remain underwater, with 52 inches, | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
just over 1.3 metres, of rainfall since the Hurricane | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
But, five days after it first hit the coast of Texas, Harvey continues | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
These are some of the residents of 20 nursing homes. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Another 20 hospitals have also been evacuated across the region. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
3,400 people have been rescued, with the authorities reporting that | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
It was the scariest thing we've ever seen. | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
51 inches of rain has fallen so far, a record for the USA, | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
and has swamped parts of Houston and southern Texas. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
30,000 people have been forced out of their homes by the floodwater. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
The Red Cross has warned people could be in shelters for months. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
President Trump visited Corpus Christi, 220 miles | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
He was greeted by state and federal teams co-ordinating | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
We won't say congratulations, we don't want to do that. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
We'll congratulate each other when it's all finished. | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
He is determined not to repeat the mistakes of George Bush, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
In Houston, the mayor has introduced a night-time curfew, | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
To the west of this vast city, two huge reservoirs are overflowing. | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Harvey's path is slow-moving and erratic. | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
This force of nature may not be spent yet. | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
More on that throughout the programme for you this morning. | :08:47. | :08:58. | |
Kezia Dugdale has resigned as leader of Scottish Labour, | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
after less than two years in the post. | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
The Lothians MSP insists she is leaving the party in a much | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
She's also rejected the idea her departure has anything to do | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
with her previous criticism of Jeremy Corbyn. | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Most political leaders quit at a moment of crisis, | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
I've decided that I think the Labour Party is very | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
It's made tremendous progress from the state | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
that I found it in two, 2.5 years ago, when it was | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
It's in a much better state than I found it. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Now it's time to pass that baton onto the next person. | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
We've had five national elections in 2.5 years. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Now it's time to move on and let the next person have | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
A judge has ruled that a girl with a Christian background, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
who was reported to have been placed with Muslim foster parents | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
who spoke little English, should live with a member | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
The London borough of Tower Hamlets, insists the five-year-old was placed | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
with an English speaking family of mixed race and that there | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
were inaccuracies in the way the case was reported. | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
South West trains passengers heading into the country but my busiest | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
train station at London Waterloo have been told to expect more | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
signalling problems. The station was due to open yesterday after a month | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
of engineering works. Disruption is expected to last until around 11am | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
this morning and the advice is to check for service updates before you | :10:27. | :10:27. | |
travel. One in five people struggling | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
with debt have had their credit card That's according to research | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
from the charity, Citizens' Advice, which has called for the practice | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
of extending credit UK Finance, which represents some | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
of the country's biggest lenders, says it is working with regulators | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
to help people manage their debt. New research suggests | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
the distinctive rings of Saturn may be considerably younger | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
than previously thought. Data gathered by the probe, Cassini | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
- which is orbiting the planet - suggests they may be only | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
100 million years old. It indicates they could be | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the crushed remains Sadly, Cassini is transmitting | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
its final burst of data, before it plunges into Saturn's | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
atmosphere and burns up. A dramatic way to bow out. Thanks | :11:10. | :11:25. | |
for being with us on Breakfast this morning. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
In the wake of tropical storm Harvey, President Trump is facing | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
arguably his biggest challenge since taking office in January. | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
Yesterday he flew to Texas to assess the damage | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
During the visit Mr Trump said "Texas can handle anything" - | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
but how has he handled the federal response? | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
One that he says should stand as an example of how to react | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
We're joined now by Scott Lucas - a professor of American studies | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
at the University of Birmingham, and in Washington we have | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Anneke Green - a Republican commentator and former advisor | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
Good morning to both of you. Going to Washington first, how do you | :11:57. | :12:09. | |
assess the last 24 hours for President Trump? Has he done the | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
right thing and said the right things? He has. He's actually done a | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
good job even before the last 24 hours, starting on Friday when he | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
released the disaster assistance funds, which every president needs | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
to do so that federal funds are available to those impacted by | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
disasters. He has made very clear that the storm is a top priority. He | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
was tweeting about it yesterday and talking about a meeting with Cabinet | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
officials. On the trip he took to Texas, when he was sure to avoid | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
areas that would pull away resources, he took several Cabinet | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
officials with him that would be relevant. Scott Lucas, has he done a | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
good job? Let's be clear, we have seen great acts of compassion, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
sacrifice and heroism in Texas. And then we have seen Donald Trump. He | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
went there for a photo opportunity. He didn't say a single word about | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the victims in his appearances yesterday. Not a word to the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
families or those who had lost everything. Instead he had staged | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
rally where he waved a Texas and said, what a crowd and what a | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
support! I understand politicians have to create an image, but the way | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
the created the image. If he hadn't gone, you would criticise in the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
same way? I do think he should have gone, especially after what happened | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
with Katrina in 2005. I think it was the tone that was struck. His | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
initial tweets coming he said it's a big hurricane, it's big and huge, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
but he was also tweeting about Mexico should pay us for the wall | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
and what a great victory he had in Missouri last year. It all comes | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
back to Trump rather than those suffering. A president leads not by | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
saying, it's me, but about saying, it's all of us. Lets put those | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
criticisms across to Washington. What about those criticisms he | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
hasn't engaged? I don't agree comparatively with how other | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
presidents have engaged to disasters, he has done a lot more. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Everybody is vulnerable to the charge that is for a photo Op. The | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
challenge is how to translate compassion to action without getting | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
in the way. I asked a senior administration official yesterday on | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
a very close group call about that question, were they worried about | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
avoiding the mistakes that were made with hurricane Katrina by the Bush | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
administration during which President Bush, in his attempts Bush | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
was depicted as being out of touch. They said they were not worried | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
about optics, they were worried about the people who needed help. We | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
are looking at some of the pictures right now as we talk to you. This | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
human scale of this is quite something. How able is Texas to cope | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
with it? It's not something... In some ways it's so severe it is not | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
something they can prepare for. I know the mayor of Houston was | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
reluctant to issue an evacuation order. In previous hurricanes like | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Rita, when people evacuated there was a higher death toll in that | :15:25. | :15:34. | |
process. There were supplies from the Red Cross and other charitable | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
organisations, as well as provisions from the central government set up. | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
We saw in some of the conversations between Trump and the head of the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
emergency management agency that they are very conscious of not | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
repeating something like the Superdome, with how to get at her | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
On the issue of how Texas is reaction, there are lots of comments | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
about how this is a very Texan response. They are dealing with a | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
terrible situation as best they can. I think it's a very human response. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
It shown the best that can still come out of America. A lot was | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
learned from Katrina. For example by an tasking anybody if they are an | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
immigrant. Which in the wake of the current policy is significant. They | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
aren't tasking anyone regarding colour. It simply, let's not get | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
into the division of New Orleans. At local state and federal level it's | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
important. One thing I'll say, Trump is a figurehead president, it's the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
agency is doing the hard work. Whether it can benefit his | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
reputation, that remains to be seen. Thank you very much for your time. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Carroll has been giving us an update on the weather in the UK but also | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
concentrating on what will happen over the next few hours and days | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
with Tropical Storm Harvey. Good morning. Now Harvey has produced a | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
record-breaking amounts of rainfall near Houston. You can see the rain | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
illustrated by the bright echoes. 51.88 inches of rainfall, roughly | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
1.3 metres. Part of the problem is that we have got half of the storm | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
inland, half offshore. So it's still picking up its energy from the gulf | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
of Mexico and its moisture. It's been fairly stationary so it's been | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
depositing all of that in Texas, particularly in Houston. Although it | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
is moving away, there will be further issues with flooding around | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
this particular area. Talking of it moving, it's drifting | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
north-eastwards. It'll make landfall through the course of today. Pushing | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
up through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The critical thing is | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
it is moving but it's still going to produce torrential rain and the risk | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
of flash flooding. Back at home weather is completely different. In | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
the north and west we are looking at a breezy day with sunshine and | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
showers. In the south and east will have rain at times, feeling much | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
cooler than yesterday. Yesterday in parts of Kent we hit 29.3. Today | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
will be lucky to see 15! It's these weather fronts producing the rain. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
In the north of the isobars are well spaced so it's breezy with sunshine | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
and showers, particularly showery in Scotland and Northern Ireland, also | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
northern England and Wales. As the rain pushes to the south-east it | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
will start to brighten up nicely behind it. At 4pm we'll see some | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
sunshine in the West Midlands but as we move towards the south-eastern | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
quarter of the country, we're looking at a lot of rain. 13 degrees | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
for some of us, a huge drop. Across northern England and Scotland we are | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
back into the mixture of sunshine and showers. In between feeling | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
quite pleasant, breezy across Scotland too. For Northern Ireland | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
quite a few showers. In between bright with sunny skies. Few wish I | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
was in Wales and more sunshine this afternoon. It's the same for South | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
West England. Fewer showers and more sunshine. Feeling pleasant enough, | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
not as warm as it has done. Through the course of the evening we lose | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
that rain as it pushes off. Behind the skies it is clear with some | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
showers coming in from the west, and some mist and fog patches coming. | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Temperatures 9-12 in towns and cities. In the countryside they will | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
be lower than that. A cooler start to the day tomorrow but a lot of dry | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
weather with some sunshine. Showers are already in the West, if anything | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
developing further elsewhere as we go through the day. Tomorrow you | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
could catch a shower or almost anywhere. There's a risk it could be | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
thundery. Temperatures in the south-east around 19-20. Generally | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
14-18, roughly where they should be. On Friday another chilly start to | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
the day, dry weather with fewer showers and a temperature range from | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
14 in the north to 21 in the south. Thank you. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Not great news if you're changing money to euros at the moment. | :20:19. | :20:29. | |
We're very nearly at a one pound for one euro level. | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
It's because yesterday investors who buy and sell currency got | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
spooked by what's happening in North Korea and the US | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
with Hurricane Harvey, and what that might mean | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
And when they're worried about that, they will buy more euros | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
This meant the pound fell to an 11-month low against the euro. | :20:46. | :21:00. | |
Of course, we see markets move up and down all the time so that might | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
change in the future. The weakness of the pound is putting | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
pressure on the supermarkets. The latest research | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
from the British Retail Consortium shows that food prices rose by 1.3% | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
over the past year. More than three quarters | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
of the food we import comes Another story before I go. We talk a | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
lot about the skills gap. Soft skills such as teamwork, | :21:19. | :21:32. | |
communication and confidence are considered by young people, | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
teachers and workers to be as important to achieving success | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
in life as good grades. That's according to research | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
from The Prince's Trust. They found 91% of teachers think | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
schools should be doing more to help students develop soft skills, | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
and nearly half of young people don't feel prepared to enter | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
the workforce without them. Lots of businesses always talk to me | :21:48. | :21:59. | |
about that. Thank you. I'm very excited about | :22:00. | :22:14. | |
our next story largely because of the jumper we are about to bring you | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
an BBC Breakfast! Millions of years ago, | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
while dinosaurs dominated the land, giant reptiles called plesiosaurs | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
prowled the seas. They may be gone, but their | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
certainly not forgotten. Scientists are now studying | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
their unique four-flippered swimming technique in the hope that it | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
could lead to the development Palaeontologist Professor Bill | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Sellers, from the University We are a bit disappointed because | :22:30. | :22:42. | |
normally you have a jumper that matches our story but not quite | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
today! Near enough! Tell us a bit about this fabulous dinosaur the | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
plesiosaur. This is the age of reptiles. We have dinosaurs on the | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
land, plesiosaurs in the sea along with it the sores and pterosaur is | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
flying in the air. These aren't quite dinosaurs but they are all | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
living at the same time. These are big meat eating animals. They have | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
four paddles and there has been a huge argument about how they swam | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
for years. What is now thought about how they used those. The more | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
interesting side is how that can be applied to modern engineering. The | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
argument is that they moved the four flippers together or weather there | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
was some sort of weird movement weather front ones go up and the | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
back ones going down and how they might interfere with each other. No | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
one really knows, we can't just go and watch a plesiosaur swimming. So | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
they've made a model of this animal and put it in a flume and you can | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
actually see the mechanics of the movement of the flippers. It's | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
understanding the mechanics which is how you can lead into building a | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
robot which can do this sort of things. This is a graphic of it in | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
the flume. How exciting is it and what has it told you about how they | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
swim. Unlike everything we have today, things like sea turtles that | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
have from Linz and pull themselves through the water, the back limbs | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
are actually really important. It's the coordination of the front and | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
back limbs that makes this animal swim efficiently. We can see what | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
they might have been doing here on the picture. How could that help us? | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
If you wanted to build a submarine that had some of the properties of | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
one of these animals, and there are some advantages. We already know | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
that things like dolphins swim unbelievably efficiently and they go | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
slightly faster and quieter than you would predict. Particularly if you | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
were trying to build something like a stealth underwater vehicle that | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
wouldn't disturb anything. Maybe flapping movement of artificial | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
flippers is exactly what you want to do. At the moment we don't know how | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
to build things like that. Understanding how these animals | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
actually did this will give us a huge leg up when we come to build | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
things like this ourselves. Can I have more detail on the jumper? Last | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
time which dinosaur did you have on the jumper? I had BT wrecks on the | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
back. Your mum has knitted these. I have about 40 actually! She's been | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
making them for years. This is an orca. Actually very like a modern | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
plesiosaur, similar body size and predatory habits. In the dinosaur | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
world they were pretty successful, where they? Yes, they were around | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
100 million years. They'll both extinct at the same time. We lose | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
the dinosaurs and the pterosaurs at the end of the crustaceans period. | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Not something you'd want to swim with? Maybe I would. It's | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
interesting how this dinosaur engineering story comes together. | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
Borrowing from animals and creating mechanisms like that is really | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
fashionable at the moment. Particularly things like reducing | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
emissions and improving energy efficiency, that's where animals are | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
really good. You don't drink islands of petrol to walk to work because we | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
are much more efficient than that -- gallons of petrol. Please come back | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
and bring another jumper! Thank you to Pam for knitting them! | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :26:57. | :30:20. | |
Now, though, it's back to Dan and Louise. | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :30:24. | :30:35. | |
It is 8:30am, Wednesday morning. These are the headlines today. | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
There has been unanimous condemnation of North Korea's firing | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
of a missile over Japan at a United Nations Security Council | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
The regime has described the launch as "the first step" of military | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
The Security Council has demanded the country | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
abandons its nuclear weapons programme, but has stopped | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
short of threatening new sanctions on Pyongyang. | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
It is dangerous. I'm not saying that we are heading towards nuclear war, | :30:58. | :31:06. | |
but we may well be heading towards the leveraged threat of the use of | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
nuclear weapons by North Korea, which makes an unstable world even | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
less stable. Understandably, North Korea is | :31:16. | :31:26. | |
expected to be high on the agenda is Theresa May visits Japan. | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
Here she is stepping off the plane in Osaka. | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
Mrs May is hoping to discuss a post-Brexit trade deal. | :31:35. | :31:36. | |
She has described Japan as a "like-minded nation" | :31:37. | :31:38. | |
A night-time curfew has been imposed in Houston, | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
Texas in a bid to deter looting in the wake of Tropical Storm | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
Harvey, which is now heading for Louisiana. | :31:48. | :31:48. | |
Around 20 people are reported to have died and more | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
than 30,000 have been forced from their homes. | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
Large swathes of Texas remain underwater, with almost 52 inches | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
of rainfall since the Hurricane made landfall on Friday. | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
That is about one metre 30 centimetres. | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
Earlier CBS News Correspondent Meg Oliver a told us how people have | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
At first the mayor imposed a 10pm to 5am curfew, there was a lot of | :32:08. | :32:18. | |
backlash on that. Then he moved it to midnight. And I was talking to | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
some police officers and they said, this is just to cut down any | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
possible looters. If people are out and about still trying to help other | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
people, we are not going to interfere with that. And I can tell | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
you, until a few minutes ago, there are people over there walking by. | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
The volunteers that have turned out to help these shelters like the one | :32:39. | :32:44. | |
behind me, they are nonstop. A few minutes ago, two mothers walked by | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
with little kids. It is after midnight here in the United States | :32:52. | :32:53. | |
and they are out here bringing supplies still to the shelter. So | :32:54. | :32:57. | |
the state of Texas is really giving of themselves, and you see that | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
everywhere you look. Kezia Dugdale has resigned | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
as Leader of Scottish Labour, after less than two years | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
in the post. The Lothians MSP insists | :33:09. | :33:10. | |
she is leaving the party in a much She's also rejected the idea her | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
departure has anything to do with her previous criticism | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn. A judge has ruled that a girl | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
with a Christian background, who was reported to have been placed | :33:21. | :33:22. | |
with Muslim foster parents, who spoke little English, | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
should live with a member The London Borough of Tower Hamlets | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
insists the five year-old was placed with an English speaking | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
family of mixed race and that there were inaccuracies | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
in the way the case was reported. Southwest Trains passengers | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
heading into the country's busiest railway station, | :33:39. | :33:40. | |
London Waterloo, have been told to expect further | :33:41. | :33:41. | |
delays this morning, The station had been | :33:42. | :33:43. | |
due to fully reopen yesterday, following a month | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
of engineering works. The disruption is expected to last | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
until 11 o'clock this morning - and the advice is to check | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
for service updates One in five people | :33:54. | :33:55. | |
struggling with debt have raised, without requesting it, | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
according to the charity, It has called for the practice | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
of extending credit UK Finance - which represents some | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
of the country's biggest lenders - says it is working with regulators | :34:07. | :34:15. | |
to help people manage their debt. More than 40,000 people are expected | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
in the small Spanish town of Bunol later, | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
for the annual tomato It is called la Tomatina. About a | :34:25. | :34:39. | |
narrow go, you said you would be there next year. It is my | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
resolution! What apparently started as an angry | :34:43. | :34:43. | |
row between two rival farmers more than 70 years | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
ago, is now the world's And Lady Minchin will be taking part | :34:47. | :35:00. | |
next year. I hope to be fully involved! | :35:01. | :35:06. | |
A year from now, you will be covered in tomatoes. | :35:07. | :35:14. | |
And coming up here on Breakfast this morning: | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
He's driven Home For Christmas and along the Road To Hell. | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
But now, after suffering a stroke, Chris Rea is focusing | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
He'll be here to tell us more about his journey | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
That says the wrong time. That's now! I'm glad you're paying | :35:31. | :35:39. | |
attention. Are better transport links | :35:40. | :35:40. | |
needed to see the idea of the Northern Powerhouse | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
become a reality? Steph's taken a trip | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
across the region to find out what's needed to ensure plans | :35:45. | :35:46. | |
remain on track. And not content with scaling | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
Everest and visiting the North and South Poles, | :35:50. | :35:50. | |
former banker Vanessa O'Brien has now become the first British woman | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
to climb K2 and survive. She'll be here after nine to explain | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
why she considers her latest That is an extraordinary story. | :35:57. | :36:08. | |
Sally is here as well. Where do you want to start? Chris Rea can't have | :36:09. | :36:19. | |
your slot! Yes, I'm here! If you are feeling a | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
bit cynical, keep watching, because I am going to show you something at | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
the end of this bulletin to lift your spirits. I had a little lip | :36:29. | :36:34. | |
tremble when I saw these pictures a moment ago, because they are | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
gorgeous. But let's start in the West Indies. | :36:39. | :36:39. | |
It was a historic day at Headingley, where the West Indies | :36:40. | :36:41. | |
won their first Test match in this country for 17 years, | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
beating England by five wickets to win the second Test | :36:45. | :36:46. | |
West Indies were chasing over 300 runs to win on the final day, | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
but two crucial dropped catches from Alistair Cook and a century | :36:52. | :36:53. | |
to Shai Hope set the platform for the surprise victory | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
following their heavy defeat at the Oval last week. | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
Hope became the first man to score centuries in both | :36:59. | :37:00. | |
innings of a first-class match at Headingley. | :37:01. | :37:02. | |
We know that we came here to play cricket, | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
and we just need to go out and execute. | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
We heard a lot of things in the media. | :37:09. | :37:19. | |
We looked at ourselves in the mirror, and decided | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
We looked at the conditions, it was spinning. | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
It was the fifth day, and we took the positive option. | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
We're a positive side that wants to go on and try | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
Unfortunately we weren't able to do that today, but if we'd | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
taken all of our chances, it might have been | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
They played fantastically well today. | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has turned down a move to Chelsea from Arsenal | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
despite the two clubs agreeing a ?40 million fee. | :37:48. | :37:49. | |
It's believed the England international would prefer | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
a move to Liverpool, with a bid expected to come before | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
Meanwhile Arsenal have rejected a ?50 million bid | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
from Manchester City for Alexis Sanchez. | :38:01. | :38:01. | |
The Chile international scored 24 league goals last season, | :38:02. | :38:03. | |
but is also out of contract at the end of the season. | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
Arsenal would like City's Raheem Sterling as part of any deal. | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
Roger Federer has survived a scare to reach the second round of the US | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
Federer, looking to win a record 20th grand slam title, | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
beat American teenager Francis Tiafoe in five sets. | :38:20. | :38:26. | |
Rafa Nadal is also through to the second | :38:27. | :38:28. | |
round after a straight-sets win over Serbia's Dusan Lajovic. | :38:29. | :38:30. | |
The Spaniard needed a tie break to take the first set, | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
but comfortably took the next two sets. | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
World number 45 Naomi Osaka from Japan beat defending champion | :38:40. | :38:41. | |
Angelique Kerber in straight sets - the first time in 13 years | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
that the champion has been knocked out in the opening round. | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
Two of England's women's sports teams have met | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
with the Prime Minister at Downing Street. | :38:51. | :38:52. | |
Theresa May welcomed the rugby union team, | :38:53. | :38:53. | |
who narrowly lost the World Cup final to New Zealand at the weekend, | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
and also Heather Knight's World Cup-winning cricketers. | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
The Prime Minister said both England teams had contributed | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
to a "breakthrough moment" for female sport. | :39:03. | :39:12. | |
Wales have been training ahead of their World Cup qualifier | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
They're trying to qualify for next year's World Cup in Russia. | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
Their star man is Gareth Bale, he gets a lot of association. | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
And the Football Association of Wales has just tweeted this: | :39:28. | :39:34. | |
# There's only one Gareth Bale axe back | :39:35. | :39:43. | |
are you actually Gareth Bale? Really? Thank you ever so much. You | :39:44. | :39:49. | |
my favourite player. A big smile on my face. That's lovely. Thank you. | :39:50. | :39:58. | |
Would you like my top? Can you sign it, please? | :39:59. | :40:07. | |
It doesn't take much, does it? 15 seconds of his time, and it has made | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
that allowed's year! He asked if he was actually Gareth Bale! Like you | :40:15. | :40:24. | |
said, a small moment for him. Look at you, you big softy! | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
Sally is a softy. Thank you, Sally. Thank you for sharing that with us. | :40:31. | :40:38. | |
She is genuinely gone! Thank you very much. | :40:39. | :40:41. | |
He's best known for hits such as Driving Home For Christmas | :40:42. | :40:43. | |
and Road To Hell, but Chris Rea's journey has been plagued by illness, | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
including pancreatic cancer, diabetes and a stroke. | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
But it was music that helped him on his road to recovery, | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
and now he's recorded a new album with a somewhat familiar theme. | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
We'll speak to him in a moment, but first let's hear some | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
# I'm happy # I'm happy on the road | :41:00. | :41:22. | |
# Son, don't matter what you do # Don't matter what you say | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
# Get me the road ahead any day # Give me the road ahead | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
# Ahead # You got everything to lose | :41:32. | :41:47. | |
# You got nothing to gain # The only thing for sure | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
# This is the last train A very good morning to you. How are | :41:55. | :42:04. | |
you, first of all? You have had a tough time. I just keep having the | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
worst luck in the world. It all started from the very first illness, | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
and I am now getting effects from 15 years ago, because I didn't die! You | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
go to Harley Street and pay a fortune, and they say, you are lucky | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
to be alive, and you say, thank you very much! And you have had a stroke | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
as well, haven't you? Exactly this time last year, and I stopped | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
smoking this time last year. Actually today. Congratulations. So, | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
no cigarettes for a year? I was on a lot of cigarettes. I sang my first | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
song without a cigarette in my hand, that was very strange. Was it? I | :42:54. | :43:00. | |
always had the ashtray there. And how has the stroke affected your | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
hands? Playing music is a huge... I am fine when I'm sitting down, but I | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
have a little bit of balance that is a bit dodgy, just in case anyone | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
thinks I'm drunk on stage. It is just to balance issue because of the | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
stroke? Yes. And these two fingers. Thankfully that one is a bottleneck | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
that I play, so I have got this want to take Kerevi at. And has playing | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
helped you get back? It is a kind of therapy, because I have to make | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
myself do it. You can buy lots of things after strokes from making | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
your fingers do the right thing. But you doing this... I'm having the | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
practice. The things I have never thought about ever before, and I'm | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
sat watching the telly going like this. Watching us, which is nice! | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
Thank you very much. In terms of the new album on the | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
roads being a theme once again, you see romance in being in a car | :44:01. | :44:05. | |
together? It's just I am always on the road. I'm driving back. I will | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
probably get another idea. What happened with all these songs was as | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
you are coming to London, as we all know, you can be here for hours. And | :44:17. | :44:22. | |
you look to the left and you see couples in cars, and you think, are | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
they married? Are they workmates? Are they having an affair? And so | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
most of the songs are different people's love stories inside cars. | :44:34. | :44:40. | |
Are they having a row? There is definitely one about that! | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
One of the things I didn't know about you, you love roads, driving | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
cars, and you race cars, used to race Ferraris, now you race in | :44:49. | :44:56. | |
different? After the pancreas operation, I get sick very easily, | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
so I joined the HR DC, and this is a genuine Morris 1957 police car. And | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
it is just incredible. It is the hardest thing I have ever driven. PC | :45:11. | :45:22. | |
Rea. How often are you involved in this? Every two weeks. Are you | :45:23. | :45:30. | |
worried about winning? I don't have to worry, because I am no good! I | :45:31. | :45:37. | |
know you have spoken in the past about how writing music is an escape | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
for you. Is that along the same sort of lines, is that other great love? | :45:43. | :45:48. | |
My brain completely empties when I'm motor racing, because I'm obsessed. | :45:49. | :45:55. | |
Everyone else is going for pole position. I am going for a | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
reasonable position! And it's not easy, you know. Especially as you | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
get older. And then I sing, the nice thing about that series is you are | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
not going to hit anything. Has not inspired any of the songs on the new | :46:15. | :46:22. | |
album? That hasn't inspired me at all. You talked about finding going | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
on to a nerve-racking experience still. Yes, I'm not very good at | :46:29. | :46:36. | |
being a star. I get jealous when I see people like Freddie Mercury and | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
stuff like that, they have all the actions, they have the crowd like | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
this. And I can't do that. I never could. I never meant to be a singer. | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
I was always going to be a slide guitarist that did film music. But | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
the doctors tell me I should be thankful. Well, we are very | :46:59. | :47:03. | |
thankful. It is instantly recognisable as well. Lovely to see | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
you. Thank you very much indeed. Hope it all goes well. Enjoy racing | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
the cars. And be a good boy. OK. He is a regular watcher. Every time | :47:15. | :47:23. | |
they come -- cut back, I am their drinking my first copy, and he said | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
something or done something, and I was in bits. -- my first copy. | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
Chris's new album is called Road Songs for Lovers. | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
Many truths spoken in jest, that is all I'm saying. What a gorgeous | :47:44. | :47:50. | |
picture from the weather watchers this morning, blue skies, nice and | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
sunny in Edinburgh, or just outside Edinburgh. Northerly and western | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
parts of the UK will have a breezy day with sunshine and showers, | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
feeling warmer than yesterday and in the south and east there will be | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
rain at times that will turn persistent through the day and much | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
cooler. That wouldn't be difficult because yesterday in Kent we hit 29 | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
and today in the rain we we will be lucky to even hit 15. It could hang | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
around 13 Celsius. All of the rain is courtesy of the weather fronts | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
moving towards the south-east. Behind them, brighter conditions, | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
breezy but you can see that by looking at the isobars. We are | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
looking at sunshine and showers and it will be most prolific across | :48:34. | :48:36. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland but there will be dry weather in between | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
and showers will be few and far between across northern England, | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
Wales and into the South West. Through the course of the afternoon | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
it will brighten up for parts of the Midlands, heading to Dorset. As we | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
go further east we have persistent rain and you can see the temperature | :48:53. | :48:58. | |
values, 12 and 13. As we move north there will still be showers, but in | :48:59. | :49:07. | |
northern England we get back into sunny skies as well and fewer | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
showers. Bright spells of sunshine and showers and breezy conditions | :49:11. | :49:11. | |
across Scotland. Showers across Northern Ireland, but in between | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
some sunshine. For Wales, more dry weather than wet weather but there | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
will be some showers in the forecast. As there will be across | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
South West England. Once again, a lot of dry weather and a fair amount | :49:23. | :49:25. | |
of sunshine. This evening and overnight, the rain nips off to the | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
continent leaving behind it a lot of dry weather and under clear skies it | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
will be chilly and we could see patchy mist and fog, and there will | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
still be showers in the north and the West. Ten and 11 of the | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
temperatures we can expect in towns and cities but in the countryside | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
they will be lower so it will be a chilly start to the day tomorrow but | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
many of us, dry with sunshine. However, we start with showers in | :49:54. | :49:56. | |
the West, and through the day we see further showers develop almost | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
anywhere. Tomorrow, some of those will be thundery but the | :50:02. | :50:03. | |
temperatures in the south-east recovering after the low | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
temperatures today and generally 14 or 18 is where we should be at this | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
stage in August. For Friday, we start on another Cellino. A lot of | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
dry weather, a bit of sunshine, fewer showers and temperatures are | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
between 14 and 21. A quick look at Saturday, a chilly start with a fair | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
bit of sunshine and parts of the Highlands could start with a touch | :50:29. | :50:31. | |
of frost on Saturday but you can see what is waiting for the weekend. | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
You are done for the day, now Carol. I am done on breakfast for the day. | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
That is what I meant. Excellent work as ever. Stop cackling. He is still | :50:44. | :50:51. | |
here. When we think of robots, | :50:52. | :50:53. | |
many of us imagine machines that can be programmed or controlled | :50:54. | :50:55. | |
by humans - devoid of emotion. But what if we lived | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
in a world where robots made their own decisions | :50:59. | :51:00. | |
and could control their feelings? Double amputee, James Young, | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
has been to meet designers hoping to find tech solutions to mental | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
health, loneliness and even romance. We'll speak to James in a minute, | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
but let's first see one You have not drunk anything for two | :51:14. | :51:31. | |
hours. Well, it will be three hours soon. Maybe you should have | :51:32. | :51:41. | |
something to drink. He is very insistent, isn't he? I don't want | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
anything. Do you think it is good that it reminds people what they | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
need to do? Yes, it is good. It doesn't seem like you want a drink | :51:56. | :52:01. | |
though. No, I don't. Do you think people could get annoyed with it? I | :52:02. | :52:03. | |
suppose they could if it keeps on. We will talk about the robot in a | :52:04. | :52:12. | |
minute. Avid viewers will remember you because you came on the | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
programme to talk about your robotic arm. That's right. This led into | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
this documentary. What did you want to find out? We were trying to find | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
out if technology can fulfil some purpose that we, in our current | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
society, are lacking in terms of how we care for each other. I want to | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
talk to you about that specific case there, because I suppose many people | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
watching will think, OK, that can work but it cannot replace human | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
interaction. What did you find from speaking to the people you had time | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
with? It is kind of in its infancy as a technology, so there are | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
limitations in what it can do. But the more interesting question is is | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
that if there are unaddressed needs in the community and robots can | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
build something that is not completely addressed at all, it is | :53:05. | :53:08. | |
better than nothing, potentially. Just take us through what you were | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
doing, because that was a carer robot. What was the purpose? It was | :53:13. | :53:20. | |
a resurgent robot and it helps you -- research robot. Some of the | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
functions, for example, it might be able to sense if you are in your own | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
home if you can -- have left the oven on, or you need to hydrate | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
yourself, like in the clip. Maybe it will bring you your medication and | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
judge how you are doing. If it notices you falling on the floor, it | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
could lurk -- alert the emergency services, so those kind functions. | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
Let's have another quick look at the programme. This is the chat bot. | :53:53. | :53:58. | |
Hi, guys, I'm James. Nice to meet you. I heard you guys had been | :53:59. | :54:05. | |
making some interesting technology. We make psychological artificial | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
intelligence. It is a chat bot that makes you feel better. Tech | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
entrepreneur Michael was suffering from depression and with his friend, | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
Eugene, had an idea. They have created these therapist robots who | :54:21. | :54:22. | |
are on call in your back pocket 24 seven. They will check on you to | :54:23. | :54:30. | |
make sure you are OK and listen to your problems before offering | :54:31. | :54:34. | |
psychological advice. One of the benefits of people using these | :54:35. | :54:42. | |
robots over normal people? If it's not a robot they can say more, so | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
they can release a lot of stress or worry. If people indicate that they | :54:47. | :54:54. | |
need more help they really want to talk to a person, a psychologist | :54:55. | :54:57. | |
right away, because they feel their situation that urgent then a | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
psychologist can simply take over the compensation and start helping | :55:03. | :55:11. | |
them. It really matters, mental health and if technology can reduce | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
the burden on the cost, that will be incredible. So that's a really | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
interesting concept. Could you see that working, people talking to what | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
is essentially a machine, could that make a difference? I think it has | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
the potential to have a Basta impact. If we think about some of | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
the things reported over the last few years, then the NHS have noticed | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
that one in four people are diagnosed with a mental health | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
condition in their lifetimes -- huge impact. Less than a quarter of | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
people in that one in four don't have correct access to mental health | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
services. The burden on the health service is that they are trying to | :55:52. | :55:54. | |
match mental health with physical health and bring them up to the same | :55:55. | :55:57. | |
level because they know they cannot do everything, so if there is | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
something that can alleviate the burden of needing humans to speak to | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
and there are just not enough humans, it sounds like it could be | :56:06. | :56:10. | |
amazingly effective. Of the things that you looked into, is that what | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
had the biggest impact? They evoke some very strong feelings. There is | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
a virtual reality therapy we looked at, and there was a direct response | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
that we could see from the patient that was important. May I add a of | :56:29. | :56:35. | |
scepticism. We are humans and are we, by letting this happen, letting | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
machines, what I see as machines, take over our emotional life and | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
take over the world? Well, yes, it's an interesting question. The same | :56:48. | :56:51. | |
you can counter argue that there is a kind of lack of humanity that | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
exists, this whole gap, we are trying to fill it with something. | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
The people behind the technology are working on trying to improve life. | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
It's not just the robots existing that try to help us, it is people | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
trying to make that happen. So it has a human vibe to it. It's another | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
tool that we have in the repertoire to help each other. It's very | :57:14. | :57:16. | |
interesting and thank you very much indeed. | :57:17. | :57:18. | |
Can Robots Love Us is on the iPlayer on BBC 3 from Monday 4th September. | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
As are we. We got there in the end. James, thank you. If there are any | :57:25. | :57:33. | |
interviews you want to watch again, as Louise says, we honour I play | :57:34. | :57:36. | |
every day, so you can go back and watch from the beginning -- we are | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
on either player every day. The Great British Bake Off was back | :57:40. | :57:47. | |
on television for the first time since his move to Channel 4 and | :57:48. | :57:50. | |
nervous viewers tuned in to see if the proof was in the pudding. You | :57:51. | :57:53. | |
watched it, didn't you? And I enjoyed it. Had it changed a lot? We | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
saw the reporter watch it alongside a panel of experts. | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
Including the Buzzfeed TV Editor Scott Bryan - | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
And he is not paying attention on his laptop, while he is watching the | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
programme and talking to Lara. Have a look. In a few minutes time the | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
Great British Bake Off returns to screens, but on Channel 4 and | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
Breakfast has been invited to watch it than -- with none other than | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
Scott Brian, the Bake Off guru. Thanks for coming along. And | :58:31. | :58:38. | |
bringing those. Well, I had to. Hello, bakers, welcome to the | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
fabulous Bake Off tent. What did you think? It feels very familiar but I | :58:43. | :58:48. | |
was expecting to see Mel and Sue. If you squint, Knoll Fehily is a bit | :58:49. | :58:58. | |
like -- Knoll fielding. The adverts are cake related. Does anybody want | :58:59. | :59:06. | |
a tea? Bakers, you have 30 minutes left to make your fruity cakes. That | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
looks nice. I love cardamom I love the golden pair. I still miss Mel | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
and Sue but I am OK. I haven't missed it. I feel like I am cheating | :59:19. | :59:22. | |
by saying it, but I haven't missed them. It's good, in a way that they | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
are trying to be themselves and not trying to be Mel and Sue and in the | :59:26. | :59:31. | |
same way that she is not trying to be Mary. They are all just getting | :59:32. | :59:35. | |
on with it. That is amazing. It is really good. It is a chocolate and | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
hazelnut sponge with peanut butter frosting. It is perfect. OK, guys. | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
Judgment time. It is finished. What did you make of it? I would give | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
Channel 4 star baker this week. I think the advert was a bit grating. | :59:53. | :59:58. | |
But you enjoyed it. I know lots of you would have watched it last night | :59:59. | :00:02. | |
and thank you for your comments if you haven't. I have to catch up with | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
it. Elizabeth says, loving Paul, Mary is a tough act to follow. Noel | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Fielding looks like a little boy lost. Barry says, I was concerned it | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
wouldn't be any good but I enjoyed it. Janet says, it was strange to | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
have the same setting and music and format. I did miss Mary Berry and | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
Milan soon. The major moans were about the adverts, and it is on | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Channel 4 -- Mel and Sue. And it was 15 minutes longer because of the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
adverts to fit it all in, and there was some whispering tones from Noel | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Fielding, but other than that, it went down largely well. I know you | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
are a harsh judge on the egg club, and you think Paul Hollywood went | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
early on the handshakes. You cannot give two handshakes out in the first | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
programme of a new series. You cannot give to Hollywood handshakes. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
They have to mean something. So when is good to do that? When | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
someone goes over and above and there is something magical, then you | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
throw the handshake in. You are starting to creep me out! Let's talk | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
about the Northern Powerhouse instead. So much talk about it, what | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
difference it would make, and you have taken a wonderful train | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
journey. Yes, I have, and living in the | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
North, I travel around a lot. One of the big complaints I get from people | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
in northern towns and cities is that they feel there is a lack of | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
investment compared to what they see in the south-east particularly, and | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
I know people in the south-west thinks that as well. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
So I wanted to take a train journey and talk to people along it, so | :01:54. | :01:54. | |
let's have a look. It was three years ago in Manchester | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
that the idea of creating a Northern Powerhouse | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
was first announced. Improving transport | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
was a big part of it. The Government says it is investing | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
more than ever in transport up here, but there is a criticism | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
that the North is still losing If the Government had spent as much | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
per head on the north as they did in London in the past ten years | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
they would have spent ?59 billion more on the North and to get things | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
moving and getting the economy functioning better than it is at | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
the moment so the government is responding to London rather | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
than using transport spending to transform | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
the Northern economy, which would be to | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
the national benefit. You can see from the departure board | :02:36. | :02:36. | |
that there are loads of trains coming in and out | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
of here and regular ones That journey at the moment takes | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
just over two hours, but with HS2 it should halve that time, | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
making it much faster I'm about 35 miles from Barnsley, | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
I'm going to get the train When you talk to passengers | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
about their experiences, the same things come up - | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
overcrowding, frequency There could be more services | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
and they could be faster. Your husband does Manchester | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
to Huddersfield regularly, Three to four times a month | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
the train is delayed. Generally it's OK, | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
it could be faster. It's made worse when you see | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
all the investment put into Euston given the weekend that's | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
just gone on. The trains are extremely | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
full with commuters, there's not enough carriages to take | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
all the passengers and it's mostly standing room only, | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
as you can see today as well. I've arrived here after nearly two | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
hours of travelling. For places like this, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
being better connected I travel on the train | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
to work and back. Good, but the trains aren't | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
as often as I'd like. When I use buses they tend not | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
to turn up, they tend to breakdown The north of England | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
is badly served by travel. Businesses argue they need | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
better connectivity too. I've come to meet Clive, who runs | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
a furniture shop in Barnsley. A lot of businesses try | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
to just-in-time deliveries, we may need to go to Manchester | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
by 3pm, that could take anywhere Because of this variation we have | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
to put a three-hour delivery slot, if you do it in three quarters | :04:34. | :04:44. | |
of an hour that's an awful For many commuters and businesses | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
here, speeding up the process of getting between northern towns | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
and cities can't come soon enough. For many of them, it's the journey, | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
not just the destination. And since talking about this, we | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
have had lots of comments from people explaining what difference it | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
would make to them if they could get around faster, jerk visiting | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
relatives but also business point of view. But the Government have said | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
they are committed to this. They say they are still committed, because | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
there was some concern that we never link changed with Brexit and the | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
election and everything else, it might fade away, but they have said | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
they are still going to be investing millions of pounds in improving the | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
trains and the connectivity in the North as well, and saying they are | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
looking at plans now that have been submitted to get faster route across | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
the Pennines, because that should make a big difference. And it takes | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
a lot of time as well. Like anything, there is a lot of | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
bureaucracy that goes on before you actually see shovels in the sand. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
We have had lots of comments today, this was my favourite comment was | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
about Louise's story earlier on, the tomato Festival. I said I was going | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
to go there. Our Breakfast viewers are saying, it is a great idea, but | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
others are saying, she has made it up and it is never going to happen, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
and Kirsty got in contact to say, I don't believe it is going to happen, | :06:15. | :06:27. | |
it is just pulp fiction. Very good! But isn't it dangerous? It's not | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
like you to be the voice of reason! Not like me to be the sensible one. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
I cross roads and everything! She is old enough to take care of herself. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
I will come with you with the first aid kit. I will look forward to it. | :06:45. | :06:54. | |
In a moment we will make the first British woman to | :06:55. | :08:30. | |
The big stories being discussed on BBC Radio London right now. | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
It has earned a reputation as the world's most | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
dangerous mountain - thanks to incredibly steep peaks, | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
minus 40 degree temperatures and notoriously fierce winds. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
But every year, climbers from across the globe travel | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
to Pakistan in the hope of conquering K2 - the second | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
Having already scaled Everest and visited both | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
North and South Poles, former banker, Vanessa O'Brien, | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
And this summer she made history by becoming the first British woman | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
to reach the summit - and survive the descent. | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
We have heard of K2, so what is it that makes it so dangerous? Good | :09:14. | :09:26. | |
morning, thank you for having me on the show this morning. First I'd say | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
it is the location. K2 is in Pakistan, about a 100 kilometres | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
trek to get to it, so it is not easy to get to. It is shaped like a | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
triangle, like how a child would draw a mountain, so literally like a | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
triangle. And there are a lot of objective hazards. When you are | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
actually climbing K2, there's a lot of avalanche risk. The weather is | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
very, very tricky. It is unpredictable. The winds at the | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
summit are about 100 kilometres on average, very hard to get a summit | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
window of consecutive wins that are climbable, around 40 kilometres or | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
less. So you have avalanches, crevasse is, unpredictable weather, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
high winds, deep snow. It is everything that it could throw at | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
you that would make it an climbable. And you haven't mentioned lack of | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
oxygen as well for is. Yes, you are at 8600 metres, so just 200 metres | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
lower than Everest, but so much harder to climb. One thing is the | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
journey up K2, but you are a former banker. When did you leave banking? | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
2010. Many people leave banking and go on to do different things. What | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
made you think my Everest, the polls, and now K2? That was the time | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
of the great recession. I was watching people in Canary Wharf | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
clean out their desks and things, so it was time to do something a little | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
bit different. I was looking for a challenge and something goal | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
oriented, and at the time, someone had mentioned Everest, and I | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
thought, Everest had happened then in 1953, but it was also happening | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
now, in 2010. The question is, could I? Would I? I didn't know if I would | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
like it, or be any good at it, I didn't think I could do it, but I | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
knew it would take two or three years to learn, and I could learn | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
that skill. So I went to New Zealand to train. It took two to three years | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
to properly learn something like that, and like any good stories, I | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
failed first, trying to get to camp to an Everest, and that is | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
important, because I think if you want success, real success, you need | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
a good dose of failure and a good piece of humble pie, which I did | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
have. And that really taught me about high altitude, about how poxy, | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
the things I needed to learn about how the body adapts physiologically, | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
the red blood cells, the acclimatisation, things that you | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
needed to know to go to high altitude, because it is a | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
different... High-altitude mountaineering is very different | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
than regular mountaineering. We can all go hiking and have a good time, | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
but if you want to go to 8000 metres, as high as planes fly, you | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
have got to prepare. It is extraordinary. These are your | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
pictures when you made it. How did it feel? When you are at the top, as | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
a mountain near you are trained to know that that is only halfway. So | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
you are excited to be there, but it has taken 16 hours in this case the | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
K2, and for 16 hours you are battling 50km walk wins, three feet | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
of snow. It is precipitating while you are climbing, so the snow is | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
coming at you. You are exhausted, dehydrated. You don't have to have | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
fun to have fun, that is another way to say it. So this is really hard, | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
and the whole time you're looking at that accumulated precipitation | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
versus how much progress you are making towards the summit, and | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
wondering if you should turn around because of the avalanche risk. You | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
didn't, you made it. Massive congratulations. A pleasure to meet | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
the first British woman to get to the top, as well as smack | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Long, sunny days when our countryside | :13:51. | :14:03. | |
It's the season that brings out the child in us all. | :14:04. | :14:08. |