03/12/2017 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Chris Mason and Katherine

Downes.

A new drive to help

children and young people

with mental health problems.

Ministers want faster access

to treatment and specialist

support in schools and colleges.

Good morning, it's Sunday

the 3rd of December.

Also this morning:

The Government's

entire Social Mobility Commission

resigns in protest at what it says

is a lack of progress

towards a fairer Britain.

Bolstering the blue belt.

More stretches of the British

coastline get special status to help

protect vulnerable

wildlife and habitats.

In sport, we'll have the latest

from the Ashes overnight.

An early wicket for England

but Australia enjoy the better

of the opening session

on day two in Adelaide.

At eight weeks old, baby Charlie

was the youngest person

on the transplant waiting list,

now he's got a new heart.

It's 50 years ago today

since the first ever heart

transplant, we'll find out

what's changed since then

and what challenges lie ahead.

And Darren has the weather.

Hello, good morning. A lot of this

damp and drizzly weather will clear

away this morning, allowing skies to

Brighton, a bit more sunshine around

as well but tonight could turn a bit

colder. Join me later for all the

details Ash to brighten up. -- to

brighten up.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

Children will be able to get access

to mental health support at schools

or colleges in England

under plans announced

by the government this morning.

£300 million of funding will be made

available in a joint

initiative between the departments

of Health and Education.

Campaigners say the measures

are welcome, but long overdue.

Edward Curwen reports.

I didn't have any therapy,

I didn't have any therapy, it was

just to talk about things...

CNR,

not her real name, has had a leading

disorder and depression for the last

five years but for nearly half of

that time she was waiting for the

right kind of help.

I just felt I've

never been properly treated for the

mental side, they just sort of put

me in hospital and my physical side

is bad and then to treat anything

else and they wonder why it keeps

happening.

She says once support was

offered in a hospital, that service

was still hundreds of miles away

from home. Just over a month ago, a

review by the Care Quality

Commission found that young people

were facing long waiting times and

unequal access to mental health

services that could be put in their

lives at risk. Now the government's

allocated £300 million from the

departments of Health and Education.

The measures include the piloting

of? Four-week waiting time for

young people to get treatment. For

all primary and secondary schools to

get mental health awareness training

and you joined up mental health

support teams through schools and

the NHS.

The promise we want to make

two parents up and down the country

is that if your child has a mental

health issue, we want to make sure

that you get the help much much

earlier than happens at the moment

and if possible we want to work

within the school system to prevent

that condition deteriorating.

Labour, though, says it questions

whether the plans will enable every

school in England to provide

support, while the charity Young

Minds says there's still a long way

to go with chronic underfunding for

so long. Edward Curwen, BBC News.

And in just over an hour we'll be

speaking to the Royal College

of Psychiatrists about this,

that's at 7:10am.

All four board members

of the government's

Social Mobility Commission have

stood down in protest

at what they say is a lack

of progress towards a fairer

Britain.

Ex-Labour minister

Alan Milburn, who chairs

the commission, said he had little

hope the current government

could make the necessary progress,

but Downing Street insists

it is working to provide

opportunities for all.

Here's our political

correspondent, Alex Forsyth.

When Theresa May became Prime

Minister she stood in Downing Street

and made a promise.

The government I

lead will be driven not by the

interests of the privileged few but

by yours. When it comes to

opportunity, we weren't in trench

the advantages of the fortunate few.

We will do everything we can to help

everybody, whatever your background,

to go as far as your talents will

take you.

But the government's

senior adviser in improving social

mobility has now left his job with

immediate effect, saying he had

little hope the government could

make progress in bringing about a

fairer Britain. In his resignation

letter, Alan Milburn said the

government was:

A sentiment he shared on BBC

Breakfast last week.

There's a lot

of talk around from government about

healing division, promoting social

justice, but right now it's heads

seem to be consumed by Brexit, for

understandable reasons, and it

doesn't seem to have the headspace

to inject the necessary energy or

focus into addressing these issues.

His departure, along with three

senior members of his team, has been

described as a loss by some

campaigners. Downing Street said it

had already told Mr Milburn had

planned to appoint a new chair as

his term of office had ended. A

spokesman said the government was

committed to fighting injustice and

had made good progress. Alex

Forsyth, BBC News.

Let's speak to our political

correspondent, Jonathan Blake.

We heard in that report Theresa May

making those promises when she was

elected, where does this leave her

now?

In a precarious position and

it's undoubtedly bad news for the

Prime Minister, as you say and as we

heard in that report, tackling

social inequality was to be Theresa

May's main mission and she made that

very clear when she took office but

you only have to look at some of the

things Alan Milburn has said in his

resignation letter and in an

interview he gave with the Sunday

Times this morning, in his eyes she

has failed. He says there's been

indecision, dysfunctionality and a

lack of leadership. He's clear

there, saying getting anything done

in this area has been like pushing

water up the hill and Theresa May

has been talking the talk but not

walking the walk. Downing Street has

said the government is committed to

tackling social mobility, and it

points to things like doubling free

childcare in England and increasing

the living wage but this adds to a

period of difficult time for the

government and it shows the Prime

Minister Theresa May that even when

you're in power there's so much you

can control.

Thanks very much, we

will speak to you later.

Leading Brexit supporters,

including former cabinet ministers,

are urging the Prime Minister not

to settle Britain's Brexit divorce

bill unless the EU agrees

to a series of demands.

A letter organised by

the Leave Means Leave campaign

group says the conditions include

the UK and the EU agreeing a free

trade deal before

the end of next March.

Donald Trump is facing accusations

of obstructing justice

after suggesting that he knew his

former National Security Adviser,

Michael Flynn, had lied to the FBI

before he fired him.

The President's comments

in a tweet yesterday

contracticed his previous account

and prompted claims he knew

about the deception when he asked

former FBI director James Comey

to drop his investigation into

Mr Flynn's contacts with Russia.

Today marks the 50th

anniversary of the first ever

human heart transplant.

The procedure, completed by surgeon

Christiaan Barnard, raised a number

of ethical questions at the time.

Since then, transplants have

developed and today there are around

250 patients in the UK

waiting for a new heart,

and almost 200 receiving

one each year.

New measures to protect parts

of Britain's coastline and around

150,000 rare birds will

be announced today.

The UK's so-called blue belt,

which protects marine areas,

will be extended to several

parts of the country.

The hope is that it will give animal

and bird life greater protection,

as Tom Burridge reports.

Parts of Britain's coastline are

rich. Diverse habitats and important

breeding grounds for a wide variety

of birds. So the government wants to

protect them. We know about

Greenbelt, now more coastline will

be classified as blue belt to

protect certain species. Like these

Manx shearwaters, rescued a few

years ago in Pembrokeshire. These

birds are also found in the Irish

Sea off Anglesea, an area which will

now have the new protected status.

So too will 24 miles of Cornish

coastline. It means that in total

650 square miles of sea and

coastline around the UK will now be

classified as blue belt. Lundy off

the coast of Devon, already a Marine

conservation zone. Important work to

protect the life in and above our

waters. Tom Burridge, BBC News.

That's got to be good news after the

Blue Planet and all the stuff we saw

in the sea there!

If you look to the sky this

afternoon or overnight you could be

in for a treat because the moon

will appear far bigger

and brighter than usual.

The full moon in December,

which you may not know

is traditionally called

a Cold Moon, will be closer

to earth than usual in its orbit.

That means it qualifies

as a super moon.

It'll be brightest at midnight

when it's at its highest point

above the horizon.

Nasa has called this weekend

the first in a super moon trilogy

because over the next couple

of months the phenomenon

will happen twice more.

You know what, I was doing a bit of

research about this earlier... That

is good, isn't it?

It will be Father

Christmas doing that with his

reindeer and his sleigh in a few

weeks.

Fantastic. I was doing

research about the idea of a cold

moon, there has to be a scientific

explanation, it's just because it is

December and it is cold.

Is that it?

I guess you have the harvest Moon

and the harvest time. I thought it

would be different because it's not

winter everywhere in the world but

how you look at them depends on

where you are in the world so winter

is the explanation.

We rarely see it

in Salford because it is a bit

cloudy and miserable here! Hopefully

people in other parts of the country

will enjoy it. Let's look at the

papers, the Sunday Times, one of the

stories we've been talking about

this morning.

May betrays families that voted for

Brexit. This is the resignation of

the board of the social mode and the

commission. Theresa May is claiming

to build a country that works for

everyone but that was undermined

after the public body responsible

for boosting social mobility

resigned en masse -- social mode

that commission.

Looking at the

Sunday Telegraph, another front-page

dominated by politics, Tories at war

over European judges and looking

into the text of that, this is the

whole row about the role of the

European Court of Justice after

Brexit and the extent to which that

should have some role, we have the

big meeting tomorrow between the

Prime Minister and the president of

the European Commission, led your

talk about that tomorrow.

Definitely

for you!

On the front of the Sunday Mirror,

British racing dogs sold for meat in

China. These greyhounds that are bet

on hundreds of thousands of pounds

by the betting mad far east, once

they come to the end of their racing

days, they suffer awful abuse and

they are sold on for meat, shocking

if it is true.

A look at the Mail on

Sunday, a politics lead, as is

traditional on a Sunday morning,

Corbyn peer in expenses scandal is

the claim from the Mail on Sunday. A

senior aide to Jeremy Corbyn was

plunged into a major expenses

scandal last night is the claim from

the Mail on Sunday. Regular fodder

for tabloids in particular to take a

good look at the expenses associated

with members of the House of Lords.

You can't help notice that Meghan

Markle is still all over the front

of every paper and here she is on

the front of the Sun, more pictures

from her past and Jamie and Louise

Redknapp to divorce, which is very

sad news. Meghan Markle on every

paper.

You have definitely run out

of fingers and toes if you try to

count the number of pictures of

Meghan Markle in the Sunday papers,

unquestionable!

But it was happy

news, thought the first time in

weeks we weren't talking about

Brexit or Theresa May. Talking about

something happier.

But we knew it

was coming, there was a lot of

speculation about how imminent it

was but to get the news and to see

them in Nottingham a few days later

and the smiles and all the rest of

it, it was nice.

Royalist or not, it

was nice to get a break from it.

You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News.

The main stories this morning:

The government plans to boost

specialist mental health support

in schools and colleges in England.

The board of the Social

Mobility Commission resigns,

saying ministers are too focused

on Brexit and failing to do enough

to tackle inequality.

We might struggle to see the super

moon because it's a bit gloomy here.

Let's have a chat with Darren and

see how it will look for the rest of

the week. You think we are going to

see the super moon in the UK?

I loved your explanation of the

super moon, Chris. I think we will

see it because the weather is

improving today and the cloud should

be breaking. A better chance of

seeing sunshine and

be breaking. A better chance of

seeing sunshine and temperatures

reasonable for the time of year. It

means there will be clearer skies

for the first part of the night and

we could see the super moon. At the

moment a fair bit of cloud spilling

down across the UK, thick enough to

give rain and drizzle on the weak

weather front. As that continued use

-- continues to run southwards, the

damp weather heads across southern

parts of England. Tending to move

away from most areas and allowing

cloud to break from the north. Skies

will brighten and sunshine will come

through. For the far south-west we

had on the cloud. Devon and

Cornwall, perhaps a few drizzly

showers. A good part of Wales and

the Midlands brightening up. A

struggle to get much sunshine in the

south-east, but at least it's milder

than yesterday. Yesterday

temperatures 9- ten. Further north

although we have the sunshine

temperatures will be lower than

yesterday and we've still got the

damp and drizzly weather in Northern

Ireland and a few blustery showers

towards the Northern Isles. The damp

weather continues to run away into

Scotland and western parts of Wales,

the far south-west of England.

Clearer skies further east and

perhaps the cloud breaking. Patchy

fog overnight. Chilly for the

eastern side of England.

Temperatures won't be far from

freezing in the countryside. A

chance of seeing that super moon and

a chance of seeing some sunshine

tomorrow. The mist and fog tending

to lift and the cloud breaking in

some areas to give us sunshine. It's

a mild westerly wind across the UK.

Temperatures 9- 10 degrees, so

pretty good for this time of year.

Look at Tuesday and you will notice

more arrows on the chart. The wind

is picking up on Tuesday, a sign of

things to come. It's a mild west or

south-westerly wind, 8- 10 degrees.

Many places will be dry, but rain is

arriving in the north-west and that

will turn heavy and it will work its

way south eastwards across all areas

around the middle part of the week.

This rain could be heavy enough to

give localised flooding, accompanied

by lively winds. Even towards the

end of the week the wind remains

strong, but change direction

totally. Much colder eye the end of

the week. There will be sunshine

around, but it's a return to wintry

showers. Not a great deal happening

in the next 24 hours. All the

excitement comes later in the week.

Excitement

excitement comes later in the week.

Excitement indeed! I really like it

when it snows.

That image of the rain told its own

story. We've got the headlines

coming up at half past. Now it's

time for The Film Review.

Hello and welcome to

the Film Review on BBC News.

To take us through this

week's cinema releases,

as ever, Mark Kermode.

Hello, Mark.

What have you been watching?

Very interesting, we have

The Disaster Artist,

which is the story of the making

of the best worst movie ever.

Happy End, the new film

by Michael Haneke.

And Wonder, a very touching drama

starring Jacob Tremblay.

The Disaster Artist.

Yes.

Even watching the trailer as many

times as I have now,

even the trailer, you're

sitting there like this.

Have you seen The Room?

This is part of my question,

you need to explain all this.

Basically it's the dramatised

retelling of the making of The Room

which Tommy Wiseau made in 2003.

It's a film that was so bad that it

spawned a whole cult following,

people go along to join

in the screenings, much in sort

of Rocky Horror Show style.

Tommy Wiseau basically wrote,

directed and starred in it

and financed it.

Now we have James Franco who plays

Tommy in the film directing

and producing this film based

on a book by Greg Sesestro,

who was a co-star in The Room,

who is now played by

James Franco's brother, Dave.

We're keeping up.

You're keeping up so far?

We're keeping up.

So essentially Greg is a model

and one actor and we first meet him

in a theatre studies thing,

he's doing a terrible version

of waiting for Godot,

and then suddenly Tommy comes up

and takes one word from

a Streetcar Named Desire,

"Stella!"

And does this writhing piece.

Greg is completely entranced.

He said, "This is amazing.

You've got so much talent,

you're so uninhibited,

how do you do it?"

And Tommy says, "Well,

I just believe in myself."

And together they go to Los Angeles

and they decide they'll make it

and become stars, but Hollywood

rejects them and so Tommy,

who appears to have A, no fixed age,

B, no fixed accent and C,

untold wealth, no one knows

where he comes from,

writes his own movie.

Here's a clip.

The Room.

The Room.

Nobody writes it yet.

So today you will be the first one.

I can't believe it,

man, you did this.

And of course you play Mark.

You want me to play Mark?

It's a big role.

Second lead.

Yeah, it's a huge role.

Are you sure?

If you don't want to do it, fine I'm

having Johnny Depp available.

No, no, I want it, I want

the role, I'll take it.

It's like you say, Hollywood rejects

us, then we do it on our own.

And you have the money to make this?

I have, it's no problem.

You're really going

to make this thing?

No, Greg, we are going to make it.

Mark has just laughed about 20

times during that clip.

I've seen that film

twice and both times...

But here's the key to it,

firstly the fact that Tommy's such

a strange character,

he says he's from New Orleans

and his accent sounds

like he's from outer space.

But what I like about it,

there's a film made by Tim Burton

caled Ed Wood about Edward D

Wood Jr, who made Plan 9

from Outer Space, which was

previously thought of as the worst

film ever made.

And the reason that film worked

was you didn't just think Ed

was a terrible filmmaker,

you thought he was a visionary,

you believed in the film

even though it was terrible.

Now, in the case of this,

Tommy appears to actually believe

that the film he's making

is a Tennessee Williams level drama

and he really thinks that he's

making some incredible piece of art,

and the reason The Disaster Artist

works is, yes, the filmmaking

is terrible, yes, the endless takes

of the same lines and the awful

script and the bad acting

and the awful direction that's

in The Room, yes, all those things

are there, but it only works

because you also believe that

beyond it there is something

of pathos, there is something

of tragedy, there is something

of the dream about Tommy that

makes him acceptable.

We see him behaving

appallingly on set.

The film doesn't shy away

from the fact that on set he did

behave, you know,

really, really badly.

Do you need to have seen

The Room to get the joke?

I don't think so because I think...

I mean, for a start,

you see The Room, it makes no sense

anyway and when you see

the individual scenes that they're

recreating, I mean, it makes sense

because you understand

that basically Tommy...

At one point Seth Rogen,

who is playing the script

supervisor, says it's not to do

with whether he's made a movie,

has he even seen a movie?

He genuinely has no

idea how to do this.

I thought it was really funny.

I thought it was dark

when it needed to be dark.

I thought it had a strange sort

of dreaming charm about it that

in the end it's a story

of triumph over adversity,

by making something that's

so catastrophically terrible that it

ends up getting celebrated.

And it made me laugh twice

all the way through.

OK.

Well, I'm intrigued.

You done that for me,

I'm definitely intrigued.

Happy End, is that an ironic title?

It's a Michael Haneke film.

It's the closest he'll

get to making a farce.

This is a Michael Haneke film

about a bourgeois family who behind

the facade, there are foul lurking

secrets and the cast includes

Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis

Trintignant and Toby Jones,

our very own Toby Jones.

As with all Haneke's work,

it's engrossing, it's creepy,

it's unsettling but there's also

a very strange sense of deja vu.

There's a thing early on with video

phone footage that reminds me

of Benny's Video, a very

early film of Haneke's.

There's some other stuff which has

got surveillance type footage,

which makes you think

of Cache, of Hidden.

There's also a strange kind of left

turn referral back to Amour

and the weird thing about all those

films I've just cited,

when we first saw them

they were startling,

they were original,

they were surprisingly, this isn't.

It's well-made...

Haneke knows how to get brilliant

performances out of actors,

he knows how to make something feel

creepy and strange without quite

telling you what it is.

But it did feel like we were

retreading old ground.

I think he's a great filmmaker

but this is that weird thing,

but to me this felt like...

And I never thought I'd use it,

and of incidental Haneke film.

It just felt like, "OK, there we go,

that's the new Haneke film."

That's it, that's it.

And we'll move on.

And it lacked that element...

I remember when I saw Amour,

just thinking, "I can't believe

he just made that movie because it's

just so breathtaking

and this isn't."

Wonder, what did you make of this?

I've read such divided

things about this.

Have you?

I haven't read other reviews

so I'll tell you up front,

I liked it.

It's adapted from R J Palacio's

novel by Stephen Stephen Chbosky,

who's best known for Perks

of Being a Wallflower.

Story is Jacob Tremblay

is a young kid, Augie,

who is really interested in science,

really interested in space,

and has spent most of his childhood

being homeschooled because he's had

a series of facial operations

as a result of a rare genetic

condition.

Now, as he becomes a fifth grader,

he's going to school for the first

time so it's a thing

about going to school,

which is difficult enough,

also made more difficult by the fact

Augie understands that he is

different to the people

with whom he's going to have

to interact, and it's about,

at the beginning, that journey.

Here's a clip.

Now, I gotta stop here because past

this point is a no dads zone

and you don't want to walk

up with your parents

because it's not cool.

But you're cool.

I know I am but technically

most dads aren't, so...

Neither are these helmets.

Hey, two rules - First,

only raise your hand once in class

no matter how many answers you know,

except for science.

Crush them all.

Check.

Second, you're going to feel

like you're all alone,

Augie, but you're not.

Check.

Shall we lose this?

Come on.

Costumes are for Halloween,

prepare for blast-off.

I love you.

I love you too.

Have fun.

Bye.

So Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts

and of course, Jacob Tremblay.

You can see from that,

lots of laughs in that clip and it's

also something that tugs

at the heart strings.

It's also more complicated

than it looks like.

At the beginning you think you're

going to see from his point of view

but actually what happens

is the narrative fractures

and you see the story

from lots of different characters'

point of view.

From the point of view

of his sister, who feels that she's

been neglected because all her

parents' attention have gone

to her brother.

You see the sister's friend,

who is no longer a friend,

and you find out her back story.

Even boys in the film are given

context for their bullying.

So I thought for a start it's a much

more complex narrative than people

have perhaps given it

credit for, it has perhaps

a kaleidoscopic structure.

The other thing is the film made me

laugh and the film made me cry,

and those are difficult

things to do.

People take them very much

for granted and think it's very

easy to do.

It's not easy and it works

because the performances are good,

the script is well honed,

and it felt like to me a film

that was made with heart, with care,

by people who were telling this

story and they really cared

about the way the story was...

Yes, there is sentimentality in it

but I think it is sentimentality

that it earns.

I mean, I cried a lot,

I laughed a lot, I was really

engaged with the story and I went

in slightly suspicious because I'd

seen the trailer,

which was a little bit...

You didn't know quite which way

it was going to go but I thought

it was a pretty

terrific piece of work.

And Jacob Tremblay, he's a really,

really talented young actor

and I thought that the director

handled it with exactly the right

degree of schmaltz and seriousness.

I laughed, I cried, it worked.

OK.

Best out this week?

Battle of the Sexes,

this came out last week and this

is the fictionalised

or the dramatised story

of the tennis match

between Billie Jean King and Bobby

Riggs.

It became called the

Battle of the Sexes.

There was a documentary about this

almost exactly the same

name in 2013.

Again, going in to see the drama,

the documentary was so great,

will they be able to

capture that spirit?

And they do, they really, really do.

Emma Stone is great

as Billie Jean King.

Steve Carell absolutely

inhabits this clown,

you know, male chauvinist soon

roll of Bobby Riggs.

The texture of the film is great,

feels like a film that was made

in the 1970s.

It's got an important LGBT story

at the centre of it,

it's got political relevance,

it's very, very personal.

Again, it's funny.

It is a comedic drama

and it's all true.

The weird thing is you're looking

at it and you think,

they must be making this stuff up

and then you see the documentary

and it's absolutely true.

Yes, fantastic.

Quick thought about DVDs for anyone

who wants to stay in?

My Feral Heart came out last week,

we weren't on last week,

but this is a really,

really great indie pic.

One of my favourites of the year,

directed by Jane Gull.

Steven Brandon is a young man trying

to find his place in the world.

It's a film that did brilliantly

with the ourscreen programme

in which people put on screenings

in their own cinemas.

It really found its audience.

It was a film with a very,

very low-budget.

Again made with an enormous amount

of heart and it is terrific.

It's called My Feral Heart

and I defy anyone not to be won

over by it.

Excellent.

I am looking forward to that one.

Thank you very much, Mark.

Thank you.

A really interesting week.

Thank you.

Just a reminder, of course you can

find all film news and reviews

from across the BBC online.

And all our previous programmes

are on the iPlayer

as well of course.

And that is it for this week.

Enjoy your cinemas going.

Bye-bye.

Hello, this is Breakfast

with Chris Mason and Katherine

Downes.

Good morning, here's

a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

Children in England will be able

to get support for mental health

problems at school or college

under plans announced

by the government this morning.

£300 million of funding will be made

available in a joint initiative

between the departments

of Health and Education.

Campaigners say the measures

are welcome but long overdue.

All four board members

of the government's

Social Mobility Commission have

resigned in protest at a lack

of progress towards

a fairer Britain.

The Commission's chair,

the former Labour cabinet minister,

Alan Milburn, said the current focus

on Brexit meant ministers

were unlikely to have the energy

needed to tackle one of the biggest

challenges facing the UK.

Downing Street insists it is working

to provide opportunities for all.

Donald Trump is facing accusations

of obstructing justice

after suggesting that he knew his

former National Security Adviser,

Michael Flynn, had lied to the FBI

before he fired him.

The President's comments

in a tweet yesterday

contradicted his previous account

and prompted claims he knew

about the deception when he asked

former FBI director James Comey

to drop his investigation into

Mr Flynn's contacts with Russia.

Rail passengers across England

are facing disruption this morning

after electric wires near

London Euston station were damaged.

Network Rail says there will be

no services in and out

of Euston until at least midday

while repair work is carried out,

delays are likely on services

between London Euston,

Watford Junction,

Birmingham and Manchester.

The centre of Buenos Aires became

a huge ballroom last night

as Argentinians celebrated

National Tango Day.

The dance originated

in the Argentine capital around 200

years ago when outdoor sessions

known as milonga became popular.

Look at that!

Not a fizzy drink

insight. Maybe I'm betraying my

ignorance about dancing, but it is

more slow and sedate than I

imagined.

You've been watching too

much Strictly. I don't think there's

too much room on a dancefloor like

that to be dancing like that.

You

would be tripping your feet over the

next person!

Here's Holly with the sport.

From marathon dancing sessions to

Marathon cricket sessions, how is it

going? I'm a bit worried about the

second test.

Everyone is worried

after yesterday, doesn't feel... We

aren't as confident as we were

coming into this, we thought this

would be the second day and we will

come out... We did come out fighting

today, though, I will give you that.

I'm worried if they lose this one,

they are 2-0 down and then the

momentum...

The dreaded whitewash.

The urn is in touching distance for

Australia.

Throw in the rugby league

as well and every time Australia get

an inch it is doom.

We shouldn't

really play Australia, England

should avoid Australia at all costs

but a much better start than we had

this time yesterday!

England's Stuart Broad took a wicket

in the first over of the day

in Adelaide but Australia

are building a strong position

in the second Test.

Broad trapped Peter Handscomb leg

before wicket to reduce

the Aussies to 209-5.

But they recovered.

Tim Paine made 57 before

Craig Overton had him

caught by Moeen Ali.

And then not long after the first

interval, Broad struck again,

Mitchell Starc caught

by James Anderson.

Shaun Marsh has also passed 50.

Australia are 323-7.

Ben Stokes is back in action,

don't get too excited,

though,

he's not in Adelaide

but in New Zealand where his

much-anticipated return to cricket

with the bat was disappointingly

brief for Canterbury.

with the bat was disappointingly

brief for Canterbury.

He was dismissed for just two runs,

with his team stranded

He was dismissed for just two runs,

with his team stranded

on 8-3.

The all-rounder, who's suspended

pending a police investigation

for an alleged assault,

didn't take any wickets either.

Manchester United and Arsenal

fans may have only just

caught their breath

after yesterday's spectacular match

at the Emirates.

That 3-1 win for United ending

Arsenal's long winning run at home

and moves them within just five

points of Manchester City,

who have a tricky match at home

to West Ham this afternoon.

Meanwhile, there were victories

for Chelsea and Liverpool,

and a couple of new managers on show

at West Brom and Everton,

as Tim Hague reports.

Arsenal versus Man United has been

one of the Premier League's Premier

fixtures over recent years and this

match showed why. Sensational from

start to finish, too early United

goals including this one from Jesse

Lingard, then numerous Arsenal

chances and saves by David De Gea.

COMMENTATOR: Brilliant save,

fantastic! Unbelievable, David De

Gea. While Alexander lacquers at the

these and you just after half-time,

United broke away and sealed an

impressive victory in a match with

41 shots on goal.

Amazing character

by the players, amazing attitude

from every one of them. They showed

also amazing character in the

difficult moments of the game and

the game gave us difficult moments,

Arsenal gave us difficult moments.

There was also one self-inflicted

difficult moment for Mourinho's men,

the late sending-off of Paul Pogba.

He has trodden right on the back of

his knee, Paul Pogba, and Paul Pogba

will miss the Manchester derby next

weekend.

With city not playing until

today it was a chance for the likes

of Chelsea and Liverpool to close

the gap, with Edin has it getting

two for the Blues in their win over

Newcastle -- Edin Hazard.

No lack of

confidence there, too for him and

three for Chelsea.

All were in free

scoring form, they hit five at

Brighton and back in the top four --

Liverpool. Long way ahead of their

local rivals Everton. They have a

new manager in charge. And they are

starting to find their feet this

season. Victory over Huddersfield

getting Sam Allardyce off to a solid

start. And there was another new man

in charge yesterday, Alan Pardew

back in the dugout at West Brom and

facing old side Crystal Palace in

his first match. No goals but to

struggling sides in need of a few

more points. Tim Hague, BBC News.

No major shocks in the FA Cup

second round yesterday.

The best performance came

from famous giant-killers Hereford.

They took the lead at Fleetwood

through Calvin Dinsley but were held

to a 1-1 draw.

Look out for them to see if they get

any of the Premier League giants

in the third round draw

on Monday night.

In the Scottish Premiership,

Celtic have extended their unbeaten

domestic run to 67 games.

They thumped Motherwell 5-1 thanks

to a stunning hattrick by Odsonne

Edwar.

Meanwhile, Hamilton salvaged a point

against Hearts at Tynecastle.

Hearts playing for over an hour

with ten men in the match,

managing to score after the break

through Jamie Walker,

but Hamilton cancelled that out

in the 69th minute to keep it level.

A frustrating game, though,

with the two sides having to be

separated by the end of the match.

To rugby union and Wales

finished their Autumn series

on a high, but only just!

They raced into an 18-point lead

after half an hour in Cardiff

They raced into an 18-point lead

after half an hour in Cardiff

They raced into an 18-point lead

after half an hour in Cardiff

and

with two tries from New Zealand born

Hadleigh Parkes on his debut.

The Springboks rallied

to take a second half lead

but Leigh Halfpenny

won it with a penalty.

24-22 to Wales and head coach

Warren Gatland was happy

with his side's progress

during the series.

we've played Australia, South Africa

and New Zealand so we're pretty

happy with the way that we've done

it and we've scored three tries

today, two against the All Blacks.

I

can't remember how many against

Australia. But, you know, I think

that's a positive way to go.

The future of Wayne Bennett could be

in doubt after yesterday's agonising

6-0 defeat to the Aussies in the

Rugby League World Cup final.

The hosts scored the only try

of the game in the first half

through Boyd Cordner

and despite a valiant effort England

couldn't find a reply.

England players clearly devastated

by the result as Australia

were crowned champions

for the 11th time.

In his post match press conference

Bennett refused to talk

about his future.

It will be an all-British final

at the Wheelchair Tennis

Masters later after Gordon

Reid and Alfie Hewett

won their semi-finals yesterday.

Both won in straight sets

and whoever comes out on top today

will be the first British

winner of this event.

And Tiger Wood's long-awaited return

to competitive golf hasn't had

the best start,

fading from contention

in at the Hero World

Challenge in the Bahamas.

The former world number one

started his third round seven under

par but five bogey's yesterday meant

he dropped three shots overall

to move back to four under.

Charley Hoffman of the United States

is the club house leader on 14

under, with England's Justin

Rose in second place.

Nice to see Tiger Woods back. He

hasn't played for however many

months.

He said he spent pretty much

all of the last two years in bed and

we expect him to come back winning

as soon as he comes back.

The world

number one just after he comes back.

Seven under par until a rough couple

of holes by the sound of it.

He is

Tiger Woods, though! He has still

got it!

We will speak to you in the

next hour or so.

50 years ago today the first ever

heart transplant was carried out

a landmark surgery that's

revolutionised treatment

for heart failure.

The need for transplants

is increasing.

In the UK the waiting list has

trebled by 162% in ten years.

There were 198 procedures last year,

a rise of 2%.

The surgery comes

with a lot of risks,

but half of people who have

a transplant will survive

for at least ten years.

Currently there are around 23

million people signed on the UK

donor register yet three people

in need of a donor die everyday.

Scott Rutherford had a heart

transplant almost ten years ago.

He joins us now along

with Federica Marelli-Berg

from the British Heart Foundation,

who is in our London newsroom.

Scott, how are you now and how were

you before your transplant?

How I am

now is completely different. Nine

years ago my life prior transplant,

my health was that bad that I

couldn't brush my own teeth and tie

my shoelaces and walk up and down

the stairs and walk to the bathroom

from the bedroom. I was blue lipped,

severe pain, chest pain, couldn't

breathe, I thought every time I went

to bed it wasn't going to be it.

Being 14 or 15 with those thoughts

isn't particularly great.

Fortunately for me I got my call and

my heart transplant was a complete

success. I have gone on to go to

Newcastle College and studied

musical theatre and I've been on the

West End stage and I've travelled to

Egypt and Canada, America, I have

spoken in parliaments in regard to

organ donation and now my life is

incredible compared to what it was.

Tell us about the day you woke up

after the transplant.

I remember

waking up in intensive care and just

instantaneously feeling alive. Even

though I was Canyon aged and had all

these troops in my chest, I felt the

urge to get up from the bed and run

around the hospital and I looked at

my fingertips and I thought, oh my

God, they are pink! I touched my

face and they were warm. I looked in

the mirror and I saw a completely

different boy, went from being this

blue boy to this pink boy, pardon

me, and it was just this most

incredible feeling and you can't

even put it into words the sheer

feeling of waking up like that.

It

proves what an incredible operation

it was that anyone walking past you

in the street or seeing you on the

sofa this morning would have no idea

the scale of the procedure that you

went through, clearly it has made a

massive difference to everything in

your life.

Absolutely. I have got

nine extra years, in September this

year I celebrated nine years, the

way I see it is it is nine extra

birthdays and Christmas is, I'm now

the uncle to two beautiful nephews.

My mum has got their son back and my

dad has got their son back and my

sister has their brother back, it is

this ripple effect, it is a drop in

the water, one person can save a

person's life but they are also

saving other people's lives. It's a

ripple effect and compare the two

before the transplant, my life is

incredible.

Thanks for sharing your

story. -- compare the two. You do

your research in the cardiovascular

immunology side of it. -- compare it

to. Scott has a lot of drugs to make

sure that his body doesn't reject

the heart. -- compare it to. That

was the problem 50 years ago, bodies

were saying we're not going to have

this foreign body inside, we are

going to kill it and push it out.

How has the technology and drugs and

immunology side of things improved

since those early days of the

procedure?

It has clearly made giant

steps from the initial transplants

that were rejected very quickly.

However, as you mentioned, the

therapy these patients take is

incredibly toxic because it kills

off all the immune cells which are

so important to fight infection. My

research with the British Heart

Foundation at Queen Aries at the

university of London is mostly aimed

at finding an alternative way to

suppress the immune system that

rejects the transplant -- Queen Mary

two's. Either by blocking his memory

of the transplant, so the access to

the immune cells that kill the

transplant are blocked, or by

expanding the Guardian of the immune

system, which are a subset of cells

which go to the transplant and

protect against the toxic response.

Is that why... For a lot of people

we assume somebody like Scott gets a

new heart and that is it, they are

fixed, they get to go and live a

normal life and run around and do

whatever but the reality is most

people live for around ten years

after they've had their heart

transplant. Is that because of those

immunosuppressive drugs, that they

actually prevent people from living

longer lives, that's the problem?

The immunosuppressive drugs have a

queue or for the problem, one is the

infections, because they suppress

the immune system indiscriminately.

-- to your. And also cancer -- cure

for. If we could get rid of that

that would be great. The second

problem we have is the new response

against the transplant is acute and

can become chronic. The acute

response is very easily controlled

by the drugs we have available,

however the long-term response,

which is called chronic rejection,

sometimes can take over and reduce

the survival of the transplant.

Federico, thanks for joining us from

London and Scott, thanks for coming

in. The effect of those drugs is

completely over wiped by the fact

that you have a healthy heart and

you live a healthy life?

Absolutely.

It is a small price to pay, I do

suffer some pretty horrendous side

effects but I'm alive, I can't be

any more thankful and I can't be any

more grateful. Obviously my family

and my donor family made that

selflessly brave decision at such an

awfully tragic time and my donor

John went on to save many more

people, bar just me. As I said

before, one person can save nine

people per slice, it takes two

minutes to sign on the Organ Donor

Register. -- nine people's lives.

Even though you are signed up your

family can block your decision so

have the conversation. If you do

sign up, be someone's hero but have

a conversation with your loved ones

and allow them to know your wishes.

We will be talking to you later but

thanks for your time so far. And

Federico, thanks for your time.

Here's Darren with a look

at this morning's weather.

A bit quiet for the next 24 hours,

but it will kick off later in the

week?

but it will kick off later in the

week?

We will fluctuate wildly on the

weather over the week ahead. At the

moment things are pretty quiet. An

improving day. Drier, brighter and

perhaps sunnier weather a rising

from the north. At the moment

there's a fair bit of cloud spilling

down around an area of high pressure

that sitting to the west. That's

rotating around the cloud and with

it a couple of weak weather front.

This one is bringing damp and

drizzly weather, which is working

southwards. Damp weather moving

across southern England. The cloud

breaking up behind it and sunshine

coming through. That will improve

the day. Some areas will hang onto

cloud, such as the far south-west of

England, the hats even western parts

of Wales. But we could have the

sunshine coming out in other parts

of Wales and into the west Midlands.

East Anglia and the south-east, a

struggle to break the cloud this

afternoon, but he won't be as cold

as yesterday. Temperatures further

north not as high, but we will have

sunshine. In Northern Ireland the

cloud comes in from the west.

Further damp and drizzly whether a

rising. Showers into the Northern

Isles of Scotland and gusty winds.

Western areas being more cloud

overnight. Further east, the cloud

breaks up and it will be colder than

it was last night. Maybe a pinch of

frost in the countryside. Mist and

fog patches. A chance to see the

super moon. A mix of the day on

Sunday. Nothing moving very fast. A

few showers coming into western

areas. An improving start in the

south-east of England. 10 degrees

here. Further north, 7-8 degrees.

Eastern Scotland pretty good for

this time of year. Into Tuesday we

start to see the wind picking up and

this is a sign of things to come.

Still a mild wind. Decent

temperatures, 8- 10 degrees. Notice

the rain we've got in the

north-west. It's turning heavier and

steady. Into Wednesday and early

Thursday that rain will sweep

south-eastwards across the UK. It

will be heavy rain and accompanied

by gale force winds and there could

be localised flooding as well. Then

we get this wild fluctuation, the

wind direction changing midweek.

Instead of the windy south-westerly

we have the wind coming from the

north again and very quickly by the

end of the week it will be turning

much colder. It will feel cold and

really strong winds as well. Quickly

those showers will turn wintry, with

snow on the way.

What a stunning picture. Is that the

Yorkshire Dales?

It is. Well spotted!

It's a beautiful part of the

country.

It's a beautiful part of the

country.

Thanks. Personalised weather.

Brilliant. Now it's time for the

latest technology news. He is Click.

-- here's.

Over the past few years,

some of the most fascinating

technologies we've featured

on the show have been the ones that

help people with disabilities.

As the world's first

bionic games proved,

the possibilities now emerging

offer so much potential,

whether it be in mobility,

sight or hearing, we've seen how

life-changing technology

is tantalisingly close.

This weekend sees the international

day of people with disabilities

and that's a great chance for us

to devote a whole programme

to the latest tech

developments in the area.

Now, in the UK, around 5%

of all rail journeys are made

by those with a disability

or a long-term illness.

A quarter have reported problems

with using public transport.

The rail company London Midland

is hoping to improve accessibility

for its disabled passengers

with a new app, Passenger Assist,

and we asked Emily Yates

to try it out for us.

I'm Emily Yates and I'm

just planning my train

journey to Birmingham.

It requires a fair bit

of advanced booking.

I'm confident travelling by myself,

but I'm not a huge fan of the train,

which is actually why I'm

making this journey.

I've heard about an app

in development called

Passenger Assist that

could be a game-changer

for disabled travellers.

Thank you!

I think anybody watching this who's

disabled will probably agree with me

that you can have some pretty

horrific travel journeys

if you're disabled.

I've been left on the train before,

I've booked assistance and somebody

has said, "Yeah, we're going to come

and meet you," and I've been left

on the train unable to get off

and I've had to go four or five

stops down the line to be able

to come back again so I'm really

excited to see what this

app has to offer.

Thank you!

I've got this new app

which is currently in development

and I'm just about to

fill in my own profile.

What's brilliant about this app

is it asks things like,

"Do you need room for a guide dog,

do you have a hearing impairment,

do you need a ramp, do you need

help buying a ticket?"

So, Roxanne, I've added my profile

details and now I've just

planned a journey.

This is obviously in development

but this is how it would work.

I've put in my journey

and now it should come up

on your phone any minute.

Here you are.

You've got my picture

and everything so you know exactly

what I'll look like.

I know what you look like,

know what to expect,

I press "I'm Here To Help."

Brilliant.

I can send you a message saying I'm

here, my name is Roxanne.

OK.

Back on the train for me

and now I have this.

Passenger Assist is being developed

by start-up Transreport under

the guidance of

London Midland's lab.

We've brought the staff

phone on the train too,

so we can see how

the app works for them.

So right now the phone is tracking

both the staff member

and the passenger.

We're obviously in the same place

so you can see the two dots

are quite close together.

They're using the technology such

as Bluetooth beacons,

Wi-Fi, 4G, GPS, we can

use multiple tools.

You know exactly what

carriage I'm in even.

Yes, down to the carriage,

we can pinpoint less than one metre

to your location and find out

which carriage, which train

and the direction of travel

you're going in as well.

And it's not just about the app.

Transreport is also making trackable

wristbands and these key fobs,

they'll be available for those

unable to use phones as easily.

Let's face it, in a world

where we can now track our pizza

delivery by the minute,

having to book train assistance 24

hours in advance seems

a little old school,

and this way staff will have

information at their fingertips too.

Transreport hope to roll out the app

across the London Midland service

early next year and the plan

is for the entire UK rail network

to be able to access

it by June, 2018.

If there's one thing disabled

travellers need that the current

system doesn't provide it's

the reassurance that someone

will be there to help and not leave

them stranded when getting

on or off the train.

AccessNow really began

with my own reality.

Someone using a wheelchair to get

around, I'm consistently frustrated

when I show up at places and I don't

know if they're accessible or not

until I get there.

Countless times I show up

and there are steps or other

barriers that prevent me from doing

the things that I want.

And so I was really motivated to try

and solve this problem and the way

that we've gone about doing

that is by creating a mobile app

that can simply allow people,

who've experienced accessibility

needs, to share information

about what is accessible

on their own communities

and around the world.

It starts by selecting a place,

then rating that place as accessible

or partially accessible.

Patio access only or not accessible.

You can go one step further

and add a description.

So you can say things like,

"I showed up at this place,

the customer service was fantastic."

So this cafe looks like

it's not accessible.

There's two steps

here at the entrance.

But when I look at my app,

I can see there's an alternative

entrance through the building here,

that will let me into the cafe.

So let's check it out.

I think for me the main magic,

the most exciting part

about AccessNow, is that

the information is all crowd sourced

from people who have

experienced accessibility needs

in their own life, or are just

motivated to get involved

and share information.

We started in Toronto,

with a couple hundred pins,

and now we've reached over 20,000

pins throughout the world.

But we really want to make

this a global movement.

There are many times where people

who have mobility needs,

they're isolated in many ways

and it's simply because,

you know, from the way I see it,

it's not people who are disabled

but it's our environments

that are disabling.

So if we can remove the barriers

that restrict people from engaging

with their communities,

with their workplaces,

with their lifestyles,

I think we can come to a much more

inclusive world for everyone.

I've come to Dorset Orthopaedic,

a private company that fits amputees

with prosthetic legs,

from running blades

to hyperrealistic looking limbs.

One sport that's always been very

hard for me is snowboarding,

because my normal feet are designed

specifically for walking.

But here, they've got some feet that

could make that easier.

The requirements of a foot are quite

different with skiing

compared to walking.

With normal walking,

you need a foot that has a fairly

small range of movement that

gives you energy back,

so as you roll over the foot you get

some push off at the end

to help your walking.

With skiing you need more movement

in the foot to compensate

for the uneven surface and you also

need some shock absorption,

so when you go over a bump

or you land on the ski you need some

of that shock taken out

and that's what this does.

While I'm left to my own devices,

Kevin agrees to fit my legs

with some of these feet

so I can give them a go.

This requires a lot of honing

and alignment to make sure I'm not

pushed too far

forwards or backwards.

Ta-da!

My legs!

So I'm quite intrigued as to how

these are going to feel.

I actually have no idea.

Oh, wow.

If you push your weight forwards,

you should be able to feel

the movement in the ankle.

Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah, there!

That sensation I've not

felt in the ten years

since being an amputee.

These feet work by putting air

into an adjustable cylinder,

which controls the amount

of resistance in the foot.

More air and more resistance.

As well as giving this movement,

shock absorption in the foot means

that going over rocks

or bumps is easier.

But they're not cheap.

With the price of £2,500 each,

it means only some people can get

access to them.

It's clear that they're

not for walking.

They're very, very rigid,

very square and very hard.

But if I let my mind go and imagine

myself snowboarding,

which I've done badly in the past,

I can feel that and they move

and that's weird, because I have not

felt my feet move in that way

for ten years.

There's only one thing left to do

and it's try the feet out

on some proper snow.

I've come to an indoor slope,

but I've got to admit I'm

feeling very nervous.

This is Emma Gillespie,

a prosthetist who's agreed to come

with me to fit the feet

and help me try them out.

So you've boarded on these before.

Yeah.

And how was that?

Hard.

But you did it.

Yeah.

So, one leg.

This is what you don't see

about being an amputee.

When I've snowboarded previously

on my normal walking feet,

it's been really difficult.

But these offer much more

and the way they're set up offers

a natural bend in my knees,

a stance that's almost impossible

on my usual legs.

OK, here we go.

Oh, she's going!

Try and think about

your posture a bit.

And a turn!

Woohoo!

OK, so it's been a while since

I boarded and expecting

an instant result is probably

asking a bit too much,

but the best thing

for it is to keep throwing

myself down this slope

and see what happens.

Despite the technology of these

feet, there's only so much they can

do when it comes to

hitting the slopes.

The real work is definitely

still coming from the person.

And if you're not very good,

they're not going to stop

you from falling.

LAUGHS

I mean, I'm soaking wet.

That last fall has drenched me.

But it's amazing when you merge

technology and disability.

It's about giving people

independence and the feeling

that they can try things

that they perhaps thought weren't

there for them.

So it's fun, but now I want these

feet and they're expensive.

That's it for the shortcut of this

special version of Click for

this International Day

of People with Disabilities.

The full version is iPlayer

and you can keep an eye on the BBC's

disability stories throughout

the year on our website.

Thanks for watching

and we'll see you soon.

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Chris Mason and Katherine

Downes.

A new drive to help

children and young people

with mental health problems.

Ministers want faster access

to treatment and specialist

support in schools and colleges.