07/12/2017 Breakfast

Hello.

This is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

Missed targets on Accident

and Emergency waiting times.

More than three million people

in the UK were not seen for more

than four hours in the last year.

The number of people waiting has

more than doubled since 2013.

Doctors say they can't meet demand.

Good morning.

It's Thursday the

seventh of December.

Also this morning.

Pressure on the Prime Minister.

Ireland and the EU call

for Theresa May to have more clarity

on Brexit by the end of the week.

Widespread condemnation

of President Trump's decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

The UN Security Council will hold

an emergency meeting.

It took 10,000 people

and £3 billion to build.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft

Carrier will be commissioned today.

Good morning. We are at Hull Marina.

Is it worth being a City of Culture?

I'll be chatting to businesses

all morning about how things have

changed for them this year.

Good morning.

In sport, Liverpool net seven goals,

making England the first country

to have five teams through to

the Champion's League knockout

stages in the same season.

And Carol has the weather.

Good morning. Storm Caroline will

make its presence felt in the north

of Scotland today. 90 miles per hour

gusts. Blizzards as well. A mild and

a wet start to the day away from

that. It will be noticeably windy. I

will have more details in 15

minutes. Thank you, Carol.

Good morning.

First, our main story:

The number of patients experiencing

long waits in accident and emergency

departments in the UK has more

than doubled in the last four years.

Research by the BBC found that more

than three million people waited

longer than the four-hour

target in the last year.

Doctors say it shows

the NHS can no longer cope.

The Department of Health said more

money had been made available to NHS

England.

Here's our health

correspondent, Dominic Hughes.

Right across the UK,

Accident and Emergency departments

have been working at full capacity.

Now, BBC analysis shows how

an already busy system

is struggling to cope.

The waiting time target to treat

or deal with 95% of patients

within four hours has been

missed across the country.

In the past year, more than 3

million patients waited longer

than four hours, an increase

of 120% on four years ago.

But visits to A&E are up by only 7%,

to nearly 27 million.

To ensure the target is met,

the NHS would need to build

an additional 20 A&E departments.

There is no more

capacity in the system.

Our staff are working really hard,

our nurses, our doctors.

And we have reached a point

where we unfortunately cannot

meet that demand.

Scotland has come closest

to hitting the target,

while England has seen the biggest

increase in those facing

a long wait.

But performance is

even worse in Wales.

And Northern Ireland manages to see

three quarters of patients

within four hours.

A busier NHS means

longer waiting times.

And as we head into what could be

a very hard winter, there's little

sign of respite for

staff or patients.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

And you can find out how your local

hospital service is performing

by using the BBC NHS Tracker,

which you can find on the BBC

News website.

The Irish Prime Minister has said

Theresa May wants to put forward

a new plan for the future

of the Irish border after Brexit.

Negotiations with the EU stalled

earlier this week when a proposal

on the issue was rejected

by Northern Ireland's Democratic

Unionist Party.

Our political correspondent,

Iain Watson, is in Westminster this

morning.

Ian, the pressure on the Prime

Minister is really growing now?

Deadlines keep coming thick and

fast.

Definitely. People talk about

hard and soft borders between

Northern Ireland and Ireland. This

was supposed to be sorted out before

the crucial summit next week which

will decide whether Theresa May can

get trade talks with the EU under

way. The latest deadline, if you

like, is effectively tomorrow night.

The chief negotiator of the EU says

unless a deal is struck, EU

ambassadors will not have time to go

back to their leaders and prepare

for the crucial summit next week.

Certainly, as we heard, the Irish

Prime Minister seems to be upbeat.

He thinks he will get new word from

Theresa May which will solve the

problem of the Northern Ireland

border either today or tomorrow.

However, the problem is that the

DUP, the party propping up Theresa

May at Westminster, seemed to be

more downbeat. They were talking

about radical surgery, talking about

what would have to be agreed on this

issue, more or less hinting there

may not be a deal this week. If

there is no deal, it will be hugely

difficult for Theresa May to hold

the party together because the thing

that is currently keeping them

together is the prize of the crucial

trade talks. If that is moving

further into the distance, political

problems here at are about to grow.

For the moment, thank you, Iain.

No British citizen who has fought

for the Islamic State group should

never be allowed back

into the country,says the Defence

Secretary.

Gavin Williamson, who was promoted

to his post last month,

told the Daily Mail that British

fighters should be "hunted down"

and killed because "a dead terrorist

couldn't cause any harm to Britain."

Widespread condemnation

of President Trump's decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

The UN Security Council will hold

an emergency meeting.

Donald Trump said the decision was

long overdue and reflected the

reality in the city. He says this

does not mean an end to the strong

commitment to peace of the US in the

Middle East. Tom Bateman is in

Jerusalem. We can talk to him. Good

morning. The reaction

internationally has been quite

interesting to this.

Absolutely.

Jerusalem itself last night was

relatively calm, although there were

protests elsewhere Niger The West

Bank town of Hebron and also in

Gaza. It continued into the

evenings. -- near the. Further

afield, I think Donald Trump has

galvanised the condemnation of the

opposition of Muslim countries and

the Arab world, starting with

president Mahmoud Abbas. He said

Donald Trump's actions were

reprehensible and disqualified the

US from its historic role as a

broker of peace. That is in direct

contrast to what you just said about

Donald Trump's second half of his

speech, commitment to the peace

process remaining absolute. The list

of countries that are either

criticised, condemned, expressing

concern about what Donald Trump as

that continues to grow overnight.

Most notably, perhaps, a key

strategic ally of the US in the

region, Saudi Arabia, who said that

they condemned the Israeli

recognition of tourism as the

capital of Israel. They expressed

deep regret over it. -- Jerusalem.

Later today we expect more

protesting. There is concern among

critics of Donald Trump that for

calm to prevail will be hard, and

the opposite might happen.

A fast-moving wildfire

in Southern California has jumped

the US state's main costal highway

and reached the Pacific Ocean

according to firefighters

tackling the blaze.

The homes of more than

150,000 people have been

evacuated in an area north

of Los Angeles and hundreds

of buildings have been damaged.

Strong winds are expected to further

hinder efforts to contain the fire

which is still endangering

some 12,000 properties.

The departing Vice Chancellor

of Bath Spa University received

£808,000 last year

in pay and benefits.

Professor Christina Slade wasn't

the highest paid Vice Chancellor

in the UK.

From next year, universities

in England will have to justify pay

of more than £150,000.

The Labour peer, Lord Adonis,

is calling for an independent

inquiry into senior university pay.

The Royal Navy's new aircraft

carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will be

commissioned into

service later today.

The Queen will be guest of honour

at the ceremony which marks

the carrier's official

handover to the Navy.

The ship is the most expensive

in British naval history,

costing around £3 billion to build.

It won't be operational until 2021,

but its captain says today marks

an important milestone.

It is symbolic. It formally

recognises her as a warship legally.

But for us it is more than that. It

says here we are. We have arrived.

This says a lot about the country.

The flag has been flying in the

service of the country for many

years. For us, it is a magnificent

day, a very proud day, and, yeah, it

is a major day for us.

The UK's next City of Culture

will be named later today as Hull's

year-long celebration

in the spotlight nears an end.

Coventry, Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent,

Sunderland, and Swansea

are in the running

for the 2021 title.

Our entertainment and arts

correspondent, Colin Paterson,

has been taking a look

at the contenders.

We have moved on. Coventry has

grown.

Coventry's UK City of

Culture's bid draws on the history

of invention and reinvention, from

bicycle to the jet engine to music.

The average age is 33, seven years

younger than the national average,

so there is a big focus on youth.

Paisley is best known for the

Paisley pattern, created in the 19th

century by the town's weavers. It

now has some of the worst pockets of

Scotland's depravation, and believes

that being the City of Culture would

turbocharge regeneration. They

enlisted the help of a local boy as

well.

It has always been my home. I

love my town and you want to see it

grow.

Stoke-on-Trent is six towns in

one city.

Something special is

happening.

Its bid aims to both

celebrate its title as the world's

capital of ceramics, while also

changing perceptions of the place by

highlighting that it is one of the

UK's fastest growing economies. Also

in the running is Sunderland.

This

honour and title is because we

believe in ourselves.

They say they

would use the national glass centre

as a starting point from which to

deliver a celebration of art and

culture to make the whole country

proud.

Swansea is culture.

And the

final city in contention is that

Swansea, who argue they are the

ideal choice as they are a creative

city rich with heritage and culture.

And Reece Hands is backing their

bid. -- Rhy Fans. The result will be

announced live on The One Show this

evening. Colin Paterson, BBC News.

The art of Neapolitan pizza

making could be included

on a cultural heritage list.

A decision will be made by UNESCO

in the next few hours

after a petition was signed by more

than two million people.

In anticipation of the news,

the Italian Minister of Culture lit

up the oven at the Neapolitan Museum

of Capodimonte, where the first ever

Margherita pizza was baked in 1899.

Do you know, I think it is never too

early in the day for pizza. If

someone brought me a lovely, big,

thin, Chris Vui, juicy, oh, cheesy

pizza...

Extra garlic!

Definitely!

No pineapple.

I am sorry, I love it.

You will be chucked out unless the

sport news is exceptional.

It is

unless you are a Liverpool fan.

No,

but I am interested.

Liverpool were

the only team last night not booked

in the last 16 and they did it in

style. They have done it before.

They are through to the knockout

stages, making it five English

teams, record-breaking! No other

team has ever had five teams in the

knockout stages of the Champions

League.

Liverpool scored seven goals at home

to make it a record five English

teams through to the knockout stages

of the Champions League

in the same season.

Sadio Mane scored twice

with Philippe Coutinho helping

himself to a hat-trick.

Jurgen Klopp's side are joined

in the last 16 by Tottenham who beat

Apoel Nicosia and Manchester City,

who lost at Shakhtar Donetsk.

Ben Stokes has been named

in England's squad for the one-day

international series

in Australia next month.

But Stokes, who is playing

in New Zealand, is unlikely

to feature unless his

circumstances change.

The all-rounder is waiting to hear

if police will take any action over

an incident in Bristol in August.

There's been another upset at the UK

Snooker Championship as three time

winner, John Higgins,

was knocked out in a deciding frame

by Mark King.

13 of the top 16 seeeds are now out

of the tournament in York.

Serena Williams has entered next

year's Australian Open,

just four months after giving

birth to her first child.

She's the defending champion and won

in Melbourne in January

for a seventh time, while also

in the early weeks of pregnancy.

That is extraordinary, isn't it?

If

she won in January, that would be a

lovely way to bookend the baby.

We

did know she was planning to play in

January, it's been confirmed?

She

has formally entered but it's never

100%. Certainly seems fit.

Good luck

to her.

Absolutely.

The papers in a moment but first

carol with the weather. A storm

almost your namesake, which is

wreaking a bit of havoc?

It

It will be through the day, Storm

Caroline will be showing her hand in

the north of Scotland. The forecast

for everyone today is windy

generally with strongest winds where

we have the storm. Wet, rain

clearing, and turning colder so for

many maximum temperatures likely at

the moment. Look at the isobars,

across-the-board, quite tightly

packed, so windy, but the big

squeeze is across the north of

Scotland, still pretty tightly

packed in Northern Ireland and also

the rest of Scotland. The Met Office

has warnings. An and the be prepared

warning for the far north, 80 mph

gusts, maybe 90, maybe even more

possible. -- amber. In Northern

Ireland, 70 mph gusts so bear that

in mind if you're travelling. A wet

start in Scotland and Northern

Ireland, showers falling as snow in

lower levels in Scotland. Cooler

behind the rain in northern England

where it has been wet overnight and

the rain in western England, Wales

and the south-east but look at the

temperatures, still on the mild

side, 11 and 12, but that will

change. Then the dregs of earlier

rain continuing to push from the

south-east so a bit of a lull them

back into the heavier rain as it

moves south. Behind that in northern

England it will brighten up but feel

colder. The wind arrows are on,

indicating it will be windy, Storm

Caroline moving from the west to the

east, snow falling at low levels so

blizzard conditions in the north of

Scotland and some atrocious

travelling conditions if you're

heading out. Further snow showers

coming in across Northern Ireland

and also northern England.

Meanwhile, the rain clears the

south-east and the temp starts to

fall but the sun will come out, but

even so we could see some showers

through the day. Through the evening

and overnight, still windy, not as

windy as Caroline pulls away, but

then we'll see a lot of showers, not

unusual to see snow showers at this

time of year in Northern Scotland

but we will see some in Northern

Ireland, parts of north-west

England, Wales and the north-west

Midlands and they will accumulate

because they will keep piling in.

Tomorrow morning at low levels some

could have between 2-5 centimetres

of lying snow and at higher ground

it could be ten centimetres. A cold

night, highs and a widespread frost.

Tomorrow we start with that scenario

and we continue with it. Snow

showers coming in with the wind

piling into Scotland, snow showers

in Northern Ireland, north-west

England, Wales, the Midlands, and

even flurries in London. In between,

sunshine, but not feeling warm,

despite the temperatures there, this

is how it will feel if you're

exposed to the wind so feeling more

like -5 in Newcastle, -6 in

Aberdeen, freezing towards London.

On Saturday things settle down a

touch. Still blustery, not as windy

as today, and we will still see

showers. Sunday's forecast has rain

and snow, we will get to that later,

but still quite a bit of uncertainty

about the forecast for Sunday.

Because I been listening to you all

week I have swapped a game of golf

for a nice lunch and a bowl of soup

because it is too horrible to be out

there.

I like the sound of that! I

would swap golf for that any time of

the week!

I know you would but I

will convince you to play one-day!

What type of soup?

I don't think it

will be bland, not potato and leak.

Just checking, we like to know these

things.

I like good old-fashioned

tomato.

And pineapple on your pizza,

which we have outlawed already!

Let's take a look at today's papers.

The front page of the Daily Mail,

the interview with the new Defence

Secretary, Britons who have fought

for Islamic State shouldn't be

allowed home, Gavin Williamson, an

interview with the Daily Mail, the

estimated 270 UK jihadists in Syria

and Iraq will be hunted down and

killed.

The Guardian is looking at a couple

of stories we're covering this

morning, anger as Trump declares

Jerusalem Israel's capitol and we

have been speaking to Tom Bateman in

Israel. Looking at the international

reaction. And Theresa May given 48

hours to seal Brexit deal over

Ireland. The UK Chief Brexit

negotiator Michel Barnier has told

the UK they have 48 hours to secure

a deal or trade negotiations will

suffer on the 14th of 15th of

December. On the front page of the

Daily Telegraph, Theresa May will

fall without deal, a warning from

the EU, and the big picture is the

much talked about musical, Hamilton,

which has gone to previews in the

West.

Worth talking about the EU Brexit

issue, we will have Chris Grayling,

the memo of the Cabinet, we will get

an insight into what it's like

sitting around the Cabinet table

over the next 24 to 48 hours.

On the front page of the Sun, Simon

Cowell has upset his neighbours over

parking issues. We all understand

when people get upset in front of

his house. Car parking is a bit of

an issue. One of his neighbours had

a rant over it and was waving a golf

club at him. What have you got?

Liverpool's scoreline dominating a

lot of the back pages. Magnificent

seven there. The full English is

probably my favourite with five

English teams in the Champions

League knockout stages for the first

time.

Steve Smith, the Australian captain,

has revealed he took a sleeping pill

on the fourth evening of the match

because he was so nervous. Make of

that what you will, insert joke

here.

What time of day did he do

that?

Before he went to bed

presumably, not before the match on

the fifth day.

If he took a sleeping

pill and they won in the fashion

that they did, that really would be

worrying, wouldn't it?

That's why I

said insert joke here. And the Daily

Telegraph talking about how the RFU

world spend what it takes for Eddie

Jones to win the World Cup in Japan.

-- would spend.

What this one, reaction to Christmas

presents?

I think if I bought you a

Christmas present you wouldn't

like...

In the unlikely event.

I

have already bought your present. I

think you would be polite whether

you like it or not, but you would be

one of these people who would say

something tactful if you didn't like

it.

What phrase is that?

The phrase

is it's just what I've always

wanted, or this will go really

nicely with my... Insert word. This

is about how you know if someone

really likes your Christmas present

when they've given you something

really awful. We have to practise

those phrases. Are you good at

buying presents?

I am great at

buying presents but I'd tell people

not to buy me stuff because I'm

afraid of having to save things like

that.

You need to practise these

phrases! -- to say.

You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News.

The main stories this morning:

The number of patients having

to wait more than four hours in A&E

has more than doubled

in the last four years.

The Irish Prime Minister says

Theresa May wants to put forward

a new plan for the future

of the Irish border after Brexit.

The Royal Navy's new aircraft

carrier will be commissioned

into service by the Queen

at a ceremony in Portsmouth later

today.

The event marks the official

handover of HMS Queen Elizabeth

to the Royal Navy.

It's one of two new British aircraft

carriers and cost around

£3 billion to build.

Up to 40 aircraft will be able to be

transported on board,

including the F-35 B fighter jet,

which the ship has

been built around.

It's due to come into active service

by 2021 and will be joined

by sister ship HMS

Prince of Wales in 2023.

Our defence correspondent

Jonathan Beale has this report.

This is a big day for the Royal

Navy. A moment to forget about

recent cuts and fears of even more.

The crew of HMS Queen Elizabeth has

been rehearsing for the arrival of

the monarch here in the carrier's

giant aircraft hangar. Today the

Queen will be welcome on board to

officially commission a ship that

bears her name into service. It's

been a long wait. Work began on

this, the first of the Royal Navy's

two new aircraft carriers in 1998.

Slowly changing shape, she was built

with the help of 10,000 people right

across the UK. For the past few

months, HMS Queen Elizabeth and her

700 crew have been at sea testing

her systems. This is the largest and

most expensive warship ever built

for the Royal Navy, at a cost of

more than £3 billion. And today, now

at her new home at Portsmouth, she

officially becomes a Royal Navy

warship where they'll raise the

white sign for the very first time.

Hoisting the white sign is symbolic,

it formally and legally recognises

her as a warship but for us it's

much more, here we are, we've

arrived and everyone synonymous with

British warships says a lot about

the country, a lot of pride and it's

been flying for many hundreds of

years, the service to the country

and the sovereign at the time so for

us, a magnificent day.

Next year HMS

Queen Elizabeth will begin flight

trials from this massive deck, first

with helicopters and then jets, the

new F-35Bs which is cost £100

million each, which will take off

from that ski ramp. But she won't be

operational until 2021. Russia's

already dismissed her as a large

convenient target, but the Royal

Navy believes HMS Queen Elizabeth

and her sister ship HMS Prince of

Wales will be a potent show of

British military power for the next

50 years. Jonathan Beale, BBC News,

Portsmouth.

You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News.

Still to come this morning:

There'll be a new UK city of culture

crowned this evening,

but how much is it worth

to the local economy?

How much do cities benefit from it?

Steph is in the Hull,

which is the current title holder,

to find out.

It is very windy, how are you doing?

Good morning. Good morning,

everyone. It is very windy here this

morning. Carol was talking about it

in the weather and we're feeling the

full force of Storm Caroline. If we

lose you that's because our signal

has been blown off back because

we're working on a satellite. This

is Hull Marina and as you were

saying, it was this city which was

crowned the City of Culture last

year. We looking at the difference

it can make to an area. Around here

there's been a lot of development,

we've heard people talk about the

inward investment in the area and

the general boost in confidence

which can be so important but some

research has been done on this to

look at what difference it can make

to an area in terms of the money it

can create. There's an estimate that

around £60 million is boosted into

the economy because of it becoming

City of Culture, and there's lots of

ways you can look at this. For

example, if you look at the number

of new businesses that have been

created over the last few years,

there is around 89 of those, there's

more people using the trains in the

area, and hotels and things like

that as well. You can't exactly tell

what's come... INAUDIBLE... Using

the trains in the area. Certainly

here they think it's made a big

difference. Will be talking to

council leaders, business owners and

in the cafe we're in this morning we

will be having a look around,

because this is one of the

businesses that was pleased that

this area got the City of Culture

because it's made a difference for

them. Lots of May through the

morning if the

in around half an hour.

For now, though, it's back

to Charlie and Naga and BBC

Breakfast.

Bye bye.

Hello. Welcome back.

This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt

and Naga Munchetty.

We'll bring you all the latest news

and sport in a moment.

But also on Breakfast this morning.

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obesity rates in

the past five years.

But how have they done it?

We'll have some tips

from Dutch parents later.

Books about hobbies are now three

times more popular with children

than the classics.

We're finding out what's making it

onto children's Christmas lists,

and asking if if it really matters

what they're reading about.

#A beautiful sound, we're happy

tonight...

He's the Pointless host,

who's a man of many talents,

and now he's gifting us an album

of Christmas classics.

Alexander Armstrong

will be here later.

Good morning.

Here's a summary of this morning's

main stories from BBC News.

The number of patients experiencing

long waits in accident and emergency

departments in the UK has more

than doubled in the last four years.

Research by the BBC found that more

than three million people waited

longer than the four-hour

target in the last year.

Doctors say it shows

the NHS can no longer cope.

The Department of Health said more

money had been made available to NHS

England.

There is no more capacity in the

system. Staff are working really

hard, the nurses and doctors, and we

have reached a point where

unfortunately we cannot meet that

demand.

And you can find out how your local

hospital service is performing

by using the BBC NHS Tracker

which you can find on the BBC News

website.

The Irish Prime Minister has said

Theresa May wants to put forward

a new plan for the post-Brexit

future of the Irish

border by Friday.

Negotiations with the EU

stalled earlier this week

when a proposal on the issue

was rejected by Northern Ireland's

Democratic Unionist Party.

Downing Street said work was ongoing

with all parties but it wouldn't

provide a running commentary.

No British citizen who has fought

for the Islamic State group should

never be allowed back

into the country,says the Defence

Secretary.

Gavin Williamson, who was promoted

to his post last month,

told the Daily Mail that British

fighters should be "hunted down"

and killed because "a dead terrorist

couldn't cause any harm to Britain."

The UN Security Council is expected

to hold an emergency meeting

after President Trump made

an historic decision to recognise

the disputed city of Jerusalem

as Israel's capital,

overturning decades of US policy.

Mr Trump said the decision was long

overdue and reflected

the reality of Israel's

presence in the city.

He said this doesn't mean an end

to the United States' "strong

commitment" to peace

in the Middle East.

The fate of Jerusalem is one

of the thorniest issues

between Israel and the Palestinians.

A fast-moving wildfire

in Southern California has jumped

the US state's main costal highway

and reached the Pacific Ocean

according to firefighters

tackling the blaze.

The homes of more than

150,000 people have been

evacuated in an area north

of Los Angeles and hundreds

of buildings have been damaged.

Strong winds are expected to further

hinder efforts to contain the fire

which is still endangering

some 12,000 properties.

The departing Vice Chancellor

of Bath Spa University received

£808,000 last year

in pay and benefits.

Professor Christina Slade wasn't

the highest paid Vice Chancellor

in the UK.

From next year, universities

in England will have to justify pay

of more than £150,000.

The Labour peer, Lord Adonis,

is calling for an independent

inquiry into senior university pay.

A feathered dinosaur resembling a

mutant swine... Well, we all know

what that looks like, don't we --

swan.

There we go. The description

is pretty accurate. A graceful neck,

claws, a reptilian tail, and a beak

lined with teeth. This is

fascinating. It is thought to have

lived 75 million years ago and was a

theropod like to run as. --T Rex.

What was its name?

Theropod. No,

that was the type of dinosaur.

Apparently, you cannot pronounce the

name, so that is why we weren't

given it.

Was it a meat eater?

Well,

it has sharp teeth.

This is one of

those conversations which is not

really working. We do not know

enough.

Here's the name.

Liverpool scored seven goals at home

to make it a record five English

teams through to the knockout stages

of the Champions League

in the same season.

Sadio Mane scored twice

with Philippe Coutinho helping

himself to a hat-trick.

Jurgen Klopp's side are joined

in the last 16 by Tottenham who beat

Apoel Nicosia and Manchester City,

who lost at Shakhtar Donetsk.

This year is special. Not often can

you go against Bayern Munich and

Real Madrid in the top 16. So, that

is quite interesting.

Spurs finished the group stages

on a high with a 3-0 win at Wembley

over Apoel Nicosia.

Fernando Llorente scored his first

for the club in a much changed side.

Son heung-Min scored a well worked

second before half-time.

Tottenham were already sure

of finishing above Real Madrid

in the group.

Manchester City lost for the first

time this season at Shakhtar

Donetsk.

Bernard scored a terrific first

for the home side in freezing

temperatures in Ukraine.

Ismailly added a second

for Shakhtar before half-time.

And there was no way back

for a changed City side

despite Sergio Aguero's

late penalty.

Ben Stokes has been named

in England's squad for the one day

internationals in

Australia next month.

Stokes is currently in New Zealand

while he waits to find out

if he will be charged for

an altercation in Bristol in August.

The BBC understands Stokes is highly

unlikely to be involved

in the series unless his

circumstances change.

Meanwhile, England's Ashes hopes

with or without Stokes are hanging

by a thread after defeat

in the second test yesterday.

Test match special's

Geoffrey Boycott says England's

batting isn't good enough.

We do not make enough runs. We made

302, 190, 150 in two innings, 460!

You need to make 460 in one innings.

Then you give the bowlers something

to bowl at! We do not make enough

runs.

Russia's President, Vladimir Putin,

says he won't stop Russian athletes

competing independently

at February's winter Olympics

in South Korea.

The IOC banned Russia from the games

this week but athletes are proven

to be clean can compete as neutrals.

Former British athlete,

Kelly Sotherton, is set to be

awarded a bronze medal from the 2008

Summer Olympics after Russian rivals

were banned for doping.

She says the IOC's decision

doesn't go far enough.

I personally think it should be a

blanket ban. No Russians. For the

sake of the many clean athletes at

the Olympics, you sacrifice a few to

save the many. Even if some are

potentially clean, they are still

Russian.

The three time champion,

John Higgins, is out of the UK

Championship at the quarter-final

stage, after being beaten by world

number 21, Mark King.

King won four of the last

five frames in York

to squeeze through 6-5.

While Higgins is the 13th player

among the top-16 seeds to go out.

Britain's number one, Johanna Konta,

has a new coach and it's

the American, Michael Joyce.

He spent six years as part

of Maria Sharapova's team,

and also worked with

Victoria Azarenka earlier this year.

Joyce will join the Wimbledon

semi-finalist from New Year's Eve

at the Brisbane Open.

Serena Williams has entered next

year's Australian Open,

just four months after giving

birth to her first child.

She's the defending champion and won

in Melbourne in January

for a seventh time, while also

in the early weeks of pregnancy.

Can she make more history by

retaining the title?

It would be

extraordinary!

Some have done it!

Many women do it!

Thank you. We will

see you later roll in. -- later on.

Jerusalem has long been synonymous

with the Palestinian-Israeli

conflict as well as being

of important religious significance

to the Muslim, Jewish

and Christian faiths.

It's now the focus of

the international community

after the United States became

the first country to recognise

Jerusalem as Israel's capital,

decision dubbed a "Kiss of Death"

for the Middle East peace process.

Joining us now to discuss

the issue is Lauren Banko,

a specialist on the region

from the University of Manchester.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank

you for joining us. A kiss of death.

What do you make of that phrase

regarding what Donald Trump has

done?

It is inflammatory language.

It depends on how things play out on

the ground whether or not what

Donald Trump is saying and what the

rest of the Middle East is saying

whether it will really inflamed the

region.

-- inflame. Who will object?

What will be the consequences?

First

and foremost, it is quite a radical

break with the past 50 years and the

status quo and with the

international community's

recognition of East Jerusalem and

the holy city as occupied. The

Israeli perspective since 1967 is

Jerusalem has been unified and it is

the undivided capital of the State

of Israel. The United Nations and

even the United States and the rest

of the international committee have

long recognised it as annexed and

illegitimately annexed. The new

recognition of Jerusalem by the US,

not only to remove the embassy from

Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but to

endorse...

Which has not been done

yet?

And will probably take some

time. But the process of doing so

inherent in that, the recognition of

Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,

certainly will spell trouble for

the... Any attempt in the future of

the peace process based on the

2-state solution.

Pursuing that

thought, because many commentators

are saying that although Donald

Trump used the phrase 2-state

solution, officially, they still

support that, many people are saying

that from the point of view of the

Palestinians, the notion of that

solution with Jerusalem removed from

any discussions can never happen.

Right. Yeah, I think to not

recognise Jerusalem as a future

Palestinian capital would mean that

the Palestinians will likely refuse

to go to the negotiating table

because this has been such a

sticking point since the Oslo

Accords and certainly up until the

early 2000 as well. Umm, the

recognition as a Palestinian

capital, there is no recognition.

And to recognise it as the undivided

capital of Israel and under full

Israeli sovereignty certainly is

problematic for the Palestinians

living in East Jerusalem but also

the 200,000 Israeli settlers in the

east of the city.

Talk us through

the diplomacy. Many supporting

Donald Trump say this can only be

resolved by the two nations, if you

like, involved, not by outside

forces, ironically given what Donald

Trump has done. If that is the case,

what discussion can there be if

Israel are now saying this is a done

deal, which is Jerusalem is ours?

Certainly, the United States'

recognition of Jerusalem under

Israeli sovereignty, I mean, it is a

major endorsement. I don't think the

peace process will be restarted

without the US there as the sort of

middle man, but we will see, there

will have to be a radically new

platform to think about a solution

to the conflict if the Israelis and

the US stand firm in their

recognition of Jerusalem as the

capital.

What about the countries in the

Middle East? How do they react and

what does it do to those relations?

I think it will be a tricky issue,

especially because in recent years

there has been an almost warming of

relations between Israel and some of

the other Middle Eastern countries,

like Turkey and even Saudi Arabia. I

think probably the only thing that

can really possibly change the

relations between Israel and the

wider Middle East are the extent to

which the populations in the wider

region put pressure on governments

to actually perhaps withdraw,

measures of support, withdrawal

diplomacy from Israel.

That all

seems very long-term.

Yeah. In the

short term... The big statements of

opposition from the wider Middle

East and the Palestinian side

against what Donald Trump has done

has been there. In recent days, the

last couple of days, there's been

calls for a general strike on the

Palestinian side, even going further

than a general strike, the beginning

of a third uprising. I certainly

think if that does occur the

population of the wider Middle East

will be in support of the

Palestinians, which will put the

leadership in quite a precarious

position as to who to them support,

the Palestinians, or to continue

negotiations with the Israelis.

We

will keep a close eye on that.

Thanks for talking to us.

Here's Carol with a look

at this morning's weather.

We have seen some windy conditions,

we saw Stephanie and Hull earlier,

it's going to get windy, isn't it?

-- Steph in Hull.

Storm Caroline showing her hand in

the Outer Hebrides with 70 mph

gusts, that will strengthen but for

everyone today, very windy, rain

clearing and then turning much

colder behind the rain. Already cold

in Scotland and Northern Ireland as

the rain has cleared. Storm Caroline

coming in from the west will be

drifting east through the day. You

can see the isobars via. Windy

wherever you are today, but look at

the squeeze in the north and west of

Scotland. -- isobars here. Storm

Caroline moving from west to east.

The wind is still strong in western

Scotland and Northern Ireland. The

Met Office has an ambo a weather

warning out for the north of

Scotland, 80 mph plus gusts -- and

ambo weather warnings. We could get

maybe 90 mph as it crosses the

Northern Isles. 70 mph in western

Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Showers in Scotland and Northern

Ireland, wintry, coming down to

lower levels. Quieter in northern

England but we've had heavy rain

pushing south. Watch out for service

water and spray this morning. Lots

of rain moving across the Midlands

to the south. -- surface water.

Behind it a bit of a gap but the one

thing you will notice is the

temperatures, 11 and 12, those

temperatures are at their height

now, they are going down during the

day as they will do in the north of

England. Through the day this rain

will rattle south with the wind is

attached. Snow progressively goes

down to lower levels in the north of

Scotland. Ashwin is attached.

Blizzard conditions, some atrocious

conditions -- winds attached. It

will feel better. As well as that,

as temperatures struck and the

showers continue, the showers will

be wintry across Northern Ireland --

temperatures drop. For the south we

should see a return to dry

conditions but note how the

temperatures have gone down, 11 and

12 this morning, by mid-afternoon,

close to seven or eight but only

three or four in the north, feeling

much colder than temperatures are

suggesting in the wind. As we go

through the evening and overnight,

Storm Caroline goes to Scandinavia

and we see most snow showers coming

in across the north of Scotland.

Still a windy night. Further snow

showers coming in across Northern

Ireland, northern England, Wales,

heading to the Midlands. We will

keep on piling in. By the end of the

night we will see the snow

accumulate. At lower levels we could

have between 2-5 centimetres, on

higher ground, we could have up to

ten centimetres. As well as that,

the ground is wet and the

temperatures are low, there is

likely to be ice and there will be a

widespread frost, something to

consider if you're travelling early.

For the rest of tomorrow that

scenario continues. We have these

strong north-westerly winds coming

in, bringing more snow across

Scotland and also Northern Ireland,

again northern England, Wales and

the Midlands and some of them will

blow to the London area as well.

Temperatures regardless of what it

says on your thermometer, when you

add on the strength of the wind,

will feel colder against your skin.

-6 in Aberdeen, -5 in Newcastle,

freezing as we push down towards

Plymouth. Then into the weekend, a

ridge of high pressure building in

on Saturday so things settle down a

bit more. A lot of dry weather

around. Not as windy, but blustery,

and still a few showers knocking

around, some of which will be wintry

but many will stay dry and the

temperatures, 2-5, maybe eight

towards the Channel Islands. Sunday

is giving us such a headache. At the

moment it looks like it will start

on a cold and frosty and dry note

but we do have a weather system

coming in from the west that will

bring in rain and on its leading

edge it will also bring in some

snow. The snow could be significant.

Where we think at the moment it will

fall is from the Midlands

Northwoods, as you can see in the

charts. That could change so keep in

touch with the forecast but look at

the mild air following in, so all to

play for, Charlie and Naga.

Thanks

very much, Carol.

From the Snowman to Scrooge,

some of the most popular Christmas

characters originated

in a good old fashioned book.

But are these classics

still on children's Christmas lists?

Research suggests books on hobbies

are three times more

popular, but does it really matter

what young people are reading?

Breakfast's Tim Muffett

has been finding out.

Twas the night before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas when

all through the house not a creature

was stirring, not even a mouse.

The

stockings were hung... Gadgets and

books. Not always a great mix. At

the Discover Children Story Centre

in east London, we're looking at the

impact of devices and gaming on

reading and story telling.

When you

play gadgets it's like a waste of

time, you can do something else.

I

always liked reading more because

you can just sit down and relax and

read a book, and it's quite nice to

just sit down and read a book.

Parents tend to put kids in front of

their devices very young.

My sun

loves the mist Men books on the

tablet, is that a bad thing? I can

see the sleigh.

Today's storyteller

is Lee is patient, author of the

hugely popular Tom Gates Jordans

books. She's reading a Christmas

classic. It was the night before

Christmas was first published in

1823.

There are some things that just

don't and you can't replace having a

physical book. It's the rhyming as

well. And laying this finger the

side of this nose and giving a nod.

Up the chimney he rose. Book Trust

is a charity that once kids to read.

Gadgets for many Armore appealing

indeed. In its survey they said a

quarter of all parents say the same,

they would give their children a

book rather than a game.

Parents

give their kids a gadget because

that's what they kid once, they

don't make the effort to give their

child a good book.

The charity found

a fifth of parents said books bought

as Christmas presents wouldn't be

read but even authors can see why.

When I was younger if the digital

devices were around I would be using

them. My dad moaned about me

watching TV all the time.

Last

Christmas children's printed book

exceeded £100 million.

The biggest seller was the Midnight

Gang by David Walliams but four of

the top 20 were books about Pokemon

or Minecraft. Does it matter if a

child wants to read a book about

gaming?

No, the most important thing

is we encourage children to get

reading and to like reading.

For these children the message has

already got through.

If you've got a

gadget you will be too tempted to,

like, play a game.

It is peace and

quiet and not bright and shining at

you.

This Christmas big sales are

expected for Philip Pullman and

David Walliams but some Christmas

stories remain timeless.

Merry

Christmas to all and to all a good

night.

Tim Muffet, BBC News.

A therapeutic way to finish a book.

Brought back some memories. We were

told to look at the books we enjoyed

reading when we were young, what

about you?

You brought in some of

the original is.

This took me back,

Enid Blyton, big favourite in the

office. Carol is a big fan of Enid

Blyton and Roald Dahl, how can you

not read him? The jungle book, Roger

Kipling.

On Enid Blyton... Tracy has

got in touch, saying, I love the

Famous Five, I used to get lost in

them, in my mind I was on the

adventure with them, I've lost count

on Hamon the times I read them, 40

years on I'm still an avid reader.

-- lost count on how many times.

You

associated yourself with the

characters, I was George in Famous

Five. Elizabeth said the secret

garden, Tom's midnight garden,

Heidi, Black beauty, Mary Poppins,

secret seven.

You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News.

Still to come this morning:

The journalist Jane Merrick made

headlines when she claimed

she was sexually harassed

by the former Defence

Secretary Michael Fallon,

and she's just been named

in Time Magazine's Person

of The Year piece.

We're talking to her later.

Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are.

in around half an hour.

There's plenty more on our website

too at the usual address.

Bye bye.

Hello.

This is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

Missed targets on Accident

and Emergency waiting times.

More than three million people

in the UK were not seen for more

than four hours in the last year.

The number of people waiting has

more than doubled since 2013.

Doctors say they can't meet demand.

Good morning.

It's Thursday the

seventh of December.

Also this morning.

Pressure on the Prime Minister.

Ireland and the EU call

for Theresa May to have more clarity

on Brexit by the end of the week.

Widespread condemnation

of President Trump's decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

The UN Security Council will hold

an emergency meeting.

It took 10,000 people

and £3 billion to build.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft

Carrier will be commissioned today.

Good morning. We are at Hull Marina.

Is it worth being a City of Culture?

The businesses here in Hull think

so, with an estimated £60 million

boost to the economy.

I'll be chatting to businesses

all morning about how things have

changed for them this year.

Good morning.

In sport, Liverpool net seven goals,

making England the first country

to have five teams through to

the Champion's League knockout

stages in the same season.

And Carol has the weather.

Good morning.

Storm Caroline will make

its presence felt in the north

of Scotland today.

90 miles per hour gusts. The Met

Office has an amber warning. For the

rest of us, a wet and mild start to

the day. Cooling down considerably.

Very windy. Details on all of that

in 15 minutes. Thank you, Carol.

Good morning.

First, our main story:

The number

of patients experiencing long waits

in accident and emergency

departments in the UK has more

than doubled in the last four years.

Research by the BBC found that more

than three million people waited

longer than the four-hour

target in the last year.

Doctors say it shows

the NHS can no longer cope.

The Department of Health said more

money had been made available to NHS

England.

Here's our health

correspondent, Dominic Hughes.

Right across the UK,

Accident and Emergency departments

have been working at full capacity.

Now, BBC analysis shows how

an already busy system

is struggling to cope.

The waiting time target to treat

or deal with 95% of patients

within four hours has been

missed across the country.

In the past year, more than 3

million patients waited longer

than four hours, an increase

of 120% on four years ago.

But visits to A&E are up by only 7%,

to nearly 27 million.

To ensure the target is met,

the NHS would need to build

an additional 20 A&E departments.

There is no more

capacity in the system.

Our staff are working really hard,

our nurses, our doctors.

And we have reached a point

where we unfortunately cannot

meet that demand.

Scotland has come closest

to hitting the target,

while England has seen the biggest

increase in those facing

a long wait.

But performance is

even worse in Wales.

And Northern Ireland manages to see

just three quarters of patients

within four hours.

A busier NHS means

longer waiting times.

And as we head into what could be

a very hard winter, there's little

sign of respite for

staff or patients.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

The Irish Prime Minister has said

Theresa May wants to put forward

a new plan for the future

of the Irish border after Brexit.

Negotiations with the EU stalled

earlier this week when a proposal

on the issue was rejected

by Northern Ireland's Democratic

Unionist Party.

Our political correspondent,

Iain Watson, is in Westminster this

morning.

Ian, the pressure on the Prime

Minister is really growing now?

Good morning. The Prime Minister

needs an acceptable solution.

Huge

pressure on the Prime Minister. The

chief negotiator, Michel Barnier,

said they have just entered tomorrow

evening to get this problem sorted

out if EU ambassadors are going to

recommend that Britain has made

sufficient progress in its

discussions to let trade talks

begin, which is what she wants. So,

she does not have long. Positive

words from the Irish Prime Minister

is expecting to see new proposals

either today or tomorrow. He is

saying he will compromise a little

bit and respect the integrity of the

UK. But the DUP's views are crucial.

They are propping up the Prime

Minister at. They sound more down on

the issue. They feel a lot more

needs to be done. In effect,

although the EU is saying they will

sort this out by tomorrow night,

there needs to be more flexibility

in the face of the hard deadline of

next week's summit. Theresa May's

leadership on this issue could be

called into question.

Thank you.

No British citizen who has fought

for the Islamic State group should

never be allowed back

into the country,says the Defence

Secretary.

Gavin Williamson, who was promoted

to his post last month,

told the Daily Mail that British

fighters should be "hunted down"

and killed because "a dead terrorist

couldn't cause any harm to Britain."

Widespread condemnation

of President Trump's decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

The UN Security Council will hold

an emergency meeting.

Donald Trump said the decision was

long overdue and reflects the

reality of Israel's presence in the

city. Tom Bateman is in Jerusalem.

We can speak to him now. Donald

Trump said some time ago he was

going to do this and made the

announcement yesterday. Talk us

through some of the reaction.

On the

ground in Jerusalem overnight things

were relatively calm. There were

small protests in the Gaza Strip and

Hebron near the West Bank. They

burned pictures of American flags

and Donald Trump. More broadly, I

think Donald Trump's declaration

that he would recognise Jerusalem as

the capital of Israel has galvanised

condemnation from leaders across the

Arab and Muslim world, and as the

night wore on, other countries added

to the long list of those either

criticising, condemning, or

expressing concern over that action.

Now, there will be, as you said, a

meeting of the UN Security Council

tomorrow. In the meantime, there are

more demonstrations planned here. In

Bethlehem last night in the occupied

West Bank, the Christmas tree's

lights were turned off in the main

square to be a visual sign of their

displeasure. As for the Israelis,

Benjamin Netanyahu hailed this as an

historic decision, he said, by

Donald Trump. He has called on other

countries now to move their

embassies from Tel Aviv to

Jerusalem. But he was keen to stress

that he says those key and very

sensitive holy sites in the old city

of Jerusalem will not have their

status quo, the arrangements around

how they are listed, changed by

Israel.

For the moment, thank you.

A fast-moving wildfire

in Southern California has jumped

the US state's main costal highway

and reached the Pacific Ocean

according to firefighters

tackling the blaze.

The homes of more than 150,000

people have been evacuated

in an area north of Los Angeles

and hundreds of buildings

have been damaged.

Strong winds are expected to further

hinder efforts to contain the fire

which is still endangering

some 12,000 properties.

The departing Vice Chancellor

of Bath Spa University received

£808,000 last year

in pay and benefits.

Professor Christina Slade wasn't

the highest paid Vice Chancellor

in the UK.

From next year, universities

in England will have to justify pay

of more than £150,000.

The Labour peer, Lord Adonis,

is calling for an independent

inquiry into senior university pay.

The Royal Navy's new aircraft

carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will be

commissioned into

service later today.

The Queen will be guest of honour

at the ceremony which marks

the carrier's official

handover to the Navy.

The ship is the most expensive

in British naval history,

costing around £3 billion to build.

It won't be operational until 2021,

but its captain says today marks

an important milestone.

Swapping the Blue Ensign

and War Ensign is symbolic.

It formally recognises her

as a warship legally.

But for us, it is

much more than that.

It is saying "Here we are."

"We've arrived."

The War Ensign says

a lot about the country.

The flag has been flying

in the service of the country

for many years.

For us, it is a magnificent day,

a very proud day, and,

yeah, it is a major day for us.

The UK's next City of Culture

will be named later today as Hull's

year-long celebration

in the spotlight nears an end.

Coventry, Paisley, Stoke-on-Trent,

Sunderland, and Swansea

are in the running

for the 2021 title.

Our entertainment and arts

correspondent, Colin Paterson,

has been taking a look

at the contenders.

The ghost town's gone.

We've moved on.

Coventry has grown.

Coventry's UK City of Culture's bid

draws on their history of invention

and reinvention, from the bicycle

to the jet engine to two-tone music.

The average age there is 33, seven

years younger than the national

average, so there is

a big focus on youth.

Paisley in Renfrewshire is best

known for the Paisley pattern,

created in the 19th century

by the town's weavers.

It now has some of Scotland's worst

pockets of depravation,

and believes that being the City

of Culture would turbocharge

regeneration.

They've enlisted the help

of local boy, Paolo Nutini.

It has always been my home.

I love my town and you

want to see it grow.

Stoke-on-Trent is six

towns in one city.

Something special

is happening again.

We're a city on the up.

Its bid aims to both

celebrate its title as the world's

capital of ceramics,

while also changing perceptions

of the place by highlighting that

it's one of the UK's

fastest growing economies.

Also in the running is Sunderland.

Why give us this honour, this title?

Because in spite of a few

hard decades, we still

believe in ourselves.

They say they would use

the National Glass Centre

as a starting point

from which to deliver a celebration

of art and culture to make

the whole country proud.

Swansea is culture.

And the final city in contention

is that Swansea, who argue

that they are the ideal choice

as they are a creative city rich

with heritage and culture.

And the actor, Rhys Fans,

is backing their bid.

I feel good about

this, I feel lucky.

The result will be announced live

on The One Show this evening.

Colin Paterson, BBC News.

The art of Neapolitan pizza

making could be included

on a cultural heritage list.

A decision will be made by UNESCO

in the next few hours

after a petition was signed by more

than two million people.

In anticipation of the news,

the Italian Minister of Culture lit

up the oven at the Neapolitan Museum

of Capodimonte, where the first ever

Margherita pizza was baked in 1899.

I just want pizza. That is all I

want is now.

It is funny, it does

not have that effect on it. If I see

a curry, I want one in the morning,

though. The weather and sport later

on.

Winter is a busy time of year

for accident and emergency

departments, as they try to deal

with the extra pressures

the season brings.

But BBC analysis of NHS figures

shows the number of patients

waiting more than four hours to be

seen has more than doubled

in the past four

years across the UK.

We can talk now to the president

of the Royal College

of Emergency Medicine,

Dr Taj Hassan.

Good morning.

Why are we seeing this significant

increase in the amount of patients

waiting to be seen? More than

doubling.

It has been clear those

attending emergency departments as

well as the complexity of the care

in terms of elderly patients has

steadily increased. However, we have

not had the resources to meet that

increased demand. That has affected

the overall system performance and

the ability of the staff to be able

to cope with this extreme challenge,

which is just this winter, it has

been getting worse over the last

five years.

What is the answer?

There are three things. The first is

leadership. The second is we have to

have the tools to be able to cope.

Thirdly, what were we do in the

immediate term? In terms of

leadership, there is absolutely no

doubt I think we have some of the

finest leadership in the world

running the NHS. Simon Stevens has

done an incredible job for us. Jim

Matthews just retired. And

colleagues as well at health

education England, they are people I

have worked within the nine months.

Indeed, we secured a workforce

strategy for emergency medicine

which was the most comprehensive

thing going. But it will take 6-9

months to kick in. Simon Stevens and

others have been clear about the

resources we need in order for the

NHS to function as we the public and

the people who worked in the NHS

want it to. So, that goes onto the

tools. And the tools are that there

is no doubt we can improve

processes, but the bottomline is

that we need more for bad, we need

more money for staff, and we need

more money for social care and

community care. -- beds.

Sorry,

please continue.

And I suppose the

last thing, as I said, is what are

we going to do in the meantime? In

the meantime, at the moment, it is

just allowing the staff to work to

their very best to deliver safe

care, to try to deliver performance

in the 9-5 hour standard, which we

all aspire to. But many of the staff

working in departments with tighter

performance is at 60- 70- 80%, there

are a small number of systems doing

really well, and they managed to

connect the sector and community

really well We have to find ways to

support them.

Talking about the tools in the

immediate term, the Department of

Health has given us a statement, it

says, the government is supporting

the NHS with an extra 435 and pounds

to cope with winter, including

making sure people get directed to

the right service if they go to A&E

-- 435 and pounds. Money is being

given to the NHS to allow these

tools to be in place. Is it simple

enough to say that's just not

enough?

-- £475 million. You should

look to independent observers -- 435