04/01/2018 Breakfast

Hello - this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt

and Naga Munchetty.

Children as young as 10 stressed

out by social media.

Parents and teachers are warned it's

time to take action.

The Children's Commissioner

for England says too

many pupils are ill-equipped

for the "emotional demands"

of their online lives.

Good morning it's

Thursday 4th January.

Also this morning:

Jeremy Hunt apologises as A and E

departments struggle to cope.

We'll look at what solutions might

help ease the strain on the NHS

right across the UK.

Donald Trump turns on the man

who helped him to the White House,

Steve Bannon, after he accuses

the President's son of treason.

The leader of Windsor council calls

for police to tackle what he calls

"aggressive begging"

in the town before Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle get

married there in May.

Raising wages COULD be

putting jobs at risk -

as employers look to replace staff

with automated systems and robotics.

I've come to this state of the art

paint factory in Ashington

near Newcastle to find out

if new tech is good or bad

for jobs.

In sport, England falter

after a promising start

on the opening day

of the Fifth Test.

Alastair Cook is one of three

wickets to fall in Sydney,

England currently 155/3.

And Matt has the weather.

Not only do we have more rain in the

forecast but a severe spell of

gales. All the details of the next

15 minutes.

First, our main story.

Children as young as 11

are becomming increasingly dependent

on social media likes and comments

in order to feel popular and fit in.

A new study by the

Children's Commissioner

for England found that children

become increasingly anxious

about their online image as they get

older and are unprepared for how

social media use changes

as they get older.

Elaine Dunkley reports.

Pounds and children, the right

challenges of growing up in a

digital age. -- in the hands of

children. Reported today called Life

in Likes, many children in secondary

school are struggling to handle

social media as the world expands.

I

feel pressured because my friends do

it so I had to do it to begin.

You

see people getting bullied on social

media, they don't their parents. If

you don't tell them, they will never

find out.

The rice -- the report

shows that as children move schools,

the way they use social media

changes. Instead of playing games,

getting the likes and comments

becomes important and worryingly

they also adapt their offline

behaviour to fit an on line image.

It is a huge pressure on children at

a time when there is immense

pressure in our life anyway from

moving to a new school and knowing

that is something we need to do more

about.

Secondary school can be a

difficult time, when young people

feel pressured to fit in. Today's

report feels a generation could grow

up feeling insecure and unable to

cope if left to their own devices.

And we'll be talking

to the Children's Commissioner

for England Anne Longfield in around

an hour here on Breakfast.

NHS England will today reveal how

hospitals performed over

the notoriously busy period

between Christmas and New Year's

Eve.

The latest statistics

will cover the start of an intense

period of pressure

across the service.

There are reports of overcrowding

in hospitals and warnings

about patient safety

being compromised.

Our Health Editor Hugh Pym reports.

The weekly figures from NHS England

covering the last seven days in

December will include the proportion

of hospital beds occupied, the

number of accident and emergency

units which had to divert ambulances

and serious flu cases. NHS leaders

safely was on the increase in our

concern is a major outbreak will

develop, putting more pressure on a

system under strain. The figure is

no longer include hospitals of the

highest of alert, indicating they

are struggling to cope. The BBC

found 20 have been at that level

this week as opposed to a handful of

the same time last year.

I want to

apologise for the fact that we have

had to postpone a number of

operations. We are trying to do it

differently. Last year, we cancel a

lot of operations at the very last

minute. People got a call to say the

operation was not going ahead. That

is very undesirable. We've got to do

it in a much more planned way.

When

you have ambulances backed up,

hospitals say in our overcrowded,

people waiting for hours and hours

on trolleys, it is a crisis and it

is because seven years of

underfunding and cuts. The

government is burying their head in

the sand.

Tens of thousands of non-

urgent operations will be cancelled

this month to allow senior doctors

to deal with emergencies, creating a

backlog, adding to a lengthening

waiting lists for operations like me

and hip replacements.

And we'll be looking at the issues

facing hospitals across the UK

this winter a little

later in the programme.

President Trump has accused his

former chief strategist

of 'losing his mind',

after he lost his job at the White

House.

Steve Bannon has been quoted

in a new book saying

that the President's son

Donald Jr was "treasonous"

for meeting with Russians.

Bannon, was one of the

President's closest advisors

until last year and helped shape

Mr Trump's "America First" campaign

message before he left

his post last year.

Our North America correspondent

Peter Bowes reports.

They were once as thick as thieves.

But his job as chief strategist

was short-lived and he returned

to his previous position as the head

of rightwing outlet Breitbart News.

He promised to be the

president's wingman outside

but this reveals a different story.

The most damaging claim is that

Steve Bannon watched a meeting

between Donald Trump Junior

and a bunch of Russian lawyers

during the campaign

and considered it

treasonous.

Also a meeting between

Paul Manaforte and Jared Kushner.

"The three senior guys

in the campaign thought

it was a good idea to meet

with a foreign government

inside Trump Tower in the conference

room on the 25th floor with no

lawyers" Bannon is quoted as saying.

He then said that after the meeting

they should have called the FBI

immediately.

The President has hit back

in a scathing statement.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has condemned

the contents of the book

as completely untrue.

I think it is a ridiculous

accusation and I am sure

we have addressed previously.

The book also says the Steve Bannon

believes the Russians were taken

after the meeting

to meet Donald Trump.

The President has always

denied that happened.

With the ongoing investigation

into possible Russian

interference in the presidential

election, this explosive row

between Donald Trump

and his once trusted

ally has left Washington stunned.

The council leader in Windsor has

called for action to tackle

aggressive begging ahead

of the wedding of Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle in

the town later this year.

Councillor Simon Dudley has

written an open letter

to the Thames Valley Police

and Crime Commissioner,

asking him to address an "epidemic

of rough sleeping and vagrancy".

Our correspondent Jon Donnison

is in Windsor this morning.

Take it through this story.

, it is

the police and crime commission of

Thames Valley Police, also copied

into the Prime Minister and the Home

Secretary. Simon Dudley said there

was a problem with oppressive

banking and intimidation in Windsor.

He said many of the people begging

in the town were not actually

homeless and those that were were

doing so, and I quote, because of a

voluntary choice, because they had

chosen not to use the council

services. The council leader urged

something be done before the wedding

of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

here at Windsor Castle. I should say

that homeless charities here have

reacted pretty angrily, one homeless

charity worker calling these

comments is sickening and disputing

the idea that anyone really would

choose to be homeless. On a night

like that, that rings pretty true.

UK farmers are to receive the same

level of subsidies they currently do

from the EU for five

years after Brexit.

The Environment Secretary,

Michael Gove, is set to announce

that the payments -

worth £3 billion a year -

will then be replaced by a system

to encourage environmental

improvements, such as rewards

for opening up the countryside

to the public.

Australian recovery teams have

started to raise the wreckage

of a seaplane that crashed

into a river near Sydney,

killing six people.

Richard Cousins, chairman

of the Compass catering

group, died alongside four members

of his family and a Canadian pilot

when the plane crashed

into the Hawkesbury River

on New Year's Eve.

Investigators have revealed that

a plane with the same serial number

was also involved in

a fatal crash in 1996.

A group on a snowmobile tour

in western Canada might have been

hoping to spot some wildlife

amongst the snowdrifts,

but they certainly weren't

expecting to see this.

Here you can see the head

of a moose peeping out

from beneath the powder.

It became trapped in deep snow,

but the group came to its rescue.

You'll be pleased to hear

that they managed to dig it free

and after around 15 minutes

the uninjured moose was back

on the loose.

That is a very nice thought. Good

morning. You would then had to get

away very quickly because ministers

can charge. That was a gratefulness

for being rescued. -- moose. Is it

moose or just moose? The plural?

Moose. It was raining earlier on in

Sydney. We had to wait seven hours

before the fifth test could get

under way.

All it does is Ranger in the test at

the moment. The Ashes are gone. If

they could just get one win.

England's cricketers are now

faltering.

After a promising start,

England's cricketers have faltered

on the opening day of

the Fifth Test in Sydney.

They won the toss, chose

to bat and were 88/1.

Until they lost, both

James Vince and then Alastair

Cook.

Cook was out for 39

after he was given out,

l.b.w under the review system.

England's hopes now rest on captain

Joe Root he and Dawid Malan

are at the crease.

Root is 43 not out.

England are 161 for 3.

There was plenty of drama

at the Emirates as Arsenal

and Chelsea played out

a thrilling 2-2 draw.

Hector Bellerin's injury time

equaliser gave the Gunners a point.

A win would have moved Chelsea

above Manchester United but the draw

leaves them third in

the Premier League table.

West Brom have defended

their midfielder

Jake Livermore after he confronted

a West Ham fan on Tuesday night

in response to taunts

about the death of his infant

son in 2014.

They say "all right-minded

football supporters could

understand this reaction".

West Ham are currently

investigating.

With doubts, over several of the big

names from the men's game,

taking part in this year's

Australian Open, the World number

22, Kei Nishikori, has

withdrawn from the tournament

with a wrist problem.

Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic

and Rafa Nadal are all struggling

with injury ahead of

the event in Melbourne.

Also, in the last hour, the British

number one Johanna Konta has

withdrawn with a hip injury.

Injury plagued tennis. We were

talking about moose earlier. To you

know what a moose sounds like?

Talking of animal noises, see if you

can guess what this is. Close your

eyes. (CROWING). It is an owl. It is

a baby something. It is the sound of

the first polar bear cub born in the

UK in 25 years.

I would never have

guessed that.

The reason the sound

is so significant, born at Highland

wildlife Park in Scotland, hasn't

left its mother's side and the

reason the sound is so significant

is that is the only evidence they

have that the cub exists because

they haven't seen it.

You can't go

in, they have bad immune systems.

There is a great risk of infection.

You've got to wait until they come

out. How do you know that? I was

very interested in this story.

I

listened on the radio. They may be

assumptions made from the sound. We

are going to catch up with some of

the team who can tell us more.

Arctic weather, perhaps Klose Matt

has the latest with what is in

store.

Yes, cold air is on the way

for the end of the week into the

weekend. More storms to come today

across the south once again. At the

moment we have big temperature

contrasts across the UK. 13 in the

south-west, -1 in Aberdeenshire. In

between, rain to start in Northern

south-west, -1 in Aberdeenshire. In

between, rain to start in Northern

Ireland. Stretching into northern

England and across southern areas.

It is turning light and patchy.

Skies will brighten. 70- 75mph. The

area of rain and hill snow will push

north through the day. Increasing

snow into Scotland after a dry

start. Parts of the north will be

dry throughout. Sunny spells in

Orkney & Shetland. Cloudy elsewhere.

From central southern Scotland,

moving southwards, we will see rain

here in the afternoon, snow over

high ground and it will be bright in

the south-west of Northern Ireland.

To the north-east it will be wet.

Wind strengthening around Liverpool

Bay. 60 mph here. Widespread gales

around the southern half of the

country into the afternoon. That

could bring some rough seas around

the west. And while the wind eases

down in the evening, it will

strengthen into the night in the

south-west. Severe gales possible.

More rain in the south. The area of

rain sits across southern Scotland.

Clear skies in between. Touch of

frost here and there. Temperatures

above freezing into Friday. Tomorrow

it is a cool day across the country.

It is quite breezy and around the

English Channel. Sunshine and

showers in the southern half of the

country. Cloudy with outbreaks of

rain and hill snow. Rainfall is

hotting up. Showers to the north and

east. And it is set to get colder

still. Into the weekend, we develop

some Arctic wind across the country

to begin with. Strong winds at that.

We have some rain across the south

to contend with. It will be raw

feeling. Showers will turn wintry

into eastern Scotland and north-east

England. Sunshine to the north-west

of the country. The wind will have a

big impact. Single figures on the

thermometer, it will feel closer to

freezing. And to take us through

Saturday night into Sunday, we

continue with strong together force

winds across southern areas of the

country but high pressure building

in. So while we will still be

feeling the effects of the cold

weather, especially at night in

Scotland, Northern Ireland and

England, temperatures not rising

much at least on Sunday most will

have some sunshine. Certainly over

the next 36 hours more strong winds

to come, particularly in the south.

Thank you, Matt. We will have a look

at

Thank you, Matt. We will have a look

at the papers. First, the lead story

on the front of the Daily Mail,

children aged ten addicted to social

media. Concerns from the Children's

Commissioner, and Longfield, about

the impact on social media among

youngsters, and concerns about how

they are handling it and the impact

it is having.

The Times is looking

at the leaks from Steve Bannon's

book and one of the stories out of

this is that Tony Blair warned

Donald Trump that the UK might have

spied on him and we have to make

clear that Tony Blair has denied it,

but according to the times he warned

Donald Trump that British

intelligence may have spied on him

during the election.

We will speak

with the BBC later on this morning.

We may get some information on that.

The front of the Daily Mirror, they

have gone with the lucky lotto

winners, £24 million winner, and he

comes from Gloucester, celebrating

with his five daughters. And this

story concentrating on a man who has

admitted to stealing from a victim

of the Manchester Arena bomb. What

have you got for us, Michael?

People

moaning about how difficult to be a

football manager. One manager is

taking part in the Dakar rally,

Andre Vilas Boas, in the Dakar Rally

across South America. 70 people have

been killed, others have been

kidnapped. Extreme conditions. And

they want Jock related names. We

have this wonderful story in the

pictures. You know you can't force a

cat to do anything, they are so

independent. This little guy loves

to be on, at the pony. He is a

Siamese cat riding a long and it is

gorgeous, isn't it, so we won some

War Horse related...

Can we have a

quick animal picture? It was really

windy yesterday and this is an

cocka-poodle in Norfolk.

And a

little sunshine, by the look of it.

Thank you.

Donald Trump has accused his former

chief strategist of 'losing his

mind', after he was sacked

from his job at the White House.

The comments came after Steve Bannon

was quoted in a new book disparaging

Trump's children.

Bannon, who was one

of the President's closest advisors

until August last year,

claims Trump's son, Donald Jr,

was "treasonous" in a meeting

with Russians and called

Ivanka Trump "dumb as a brick."

The comments were first

reported by Guardian

journalist David Smith,

who joins us now from Washington.

Good to see you, good morning. What

do you make of this book?

It is

certainly extraordinary even by the

standards of the Trump

administration which, as we know,

seems to break the rules and push

the envelope every day. Very

striking that there would be

comments about the Russia

investigation which has cast a dark

cloud over the White House for more

than a year. For Steve Bannon to

turn on the Drum family and describe

the behaviour of Donald Trump's sun

as treasonous and unpatriotic, it

took a lot of people by surprise.

The other bad news is Steve Bannon

predicts the Russia investigation

will get worse and worse. There is a

memorable line where he predicts

Donald Trump Jr will be broken open

like an eight on national TV and

that the investigator will focus on

money laundering as the main way of

getting to the President. Along with

that it is very readable and juicy.

In terms palace intrigue and gossip

and stories of factional infighting

in a very dysfunctional White House.

How does it all tied back to when

Steve Bannon left the White House,

he said he planned to help the

Donald Trump administration by being

his wing man outside. This seems far

from it.

Bannon has described

himself previously as Thomas

Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII,

and he is sort of seeming to revel

in the injury. I think that there

was some writing in the wall early

on around a year ago when Bannon

made the cover Of those magazines

and people refer to him as President

Bannon, you could be sure that

Donald Trump didn't like that. Not a

great surprise when he was ousted.

And since then, it has been a

strange relationship. We hear that

they speak on the phone, at least

until early December. That seems to

have turned sour. They still have a

lot of ideological overlap. They

back the same candidates. In a

special election in Alabama

recently. It does raise questions

over the future of whether they will

still be on the same site or

scrapping over that populist,

nationalist wing of the Republican

Party.

What insights has it offered

in terms of the relationships in the

White House. It has referred to

Melania Trump and the day of the

inauguration, their relationship,

other personal relationships in the

White House. Has it been a

revelation in that sense?

Yes. It

has confirmed a lot of the rumours

and reporting of just how bad things

are in terms of a cutthroat,

poisonous atmosphere. But it has

also furnished new details, some of

which are disputed, some of which

seem to be widely accepted and not

denied, everything from Donald Trump

and his wife having separate

bedrooms, the first time since the

Kennedys, through to the minimal

expectations anyone had about him

winning this election and apparently

Melania burst into tears, not all

joy, when they did win. Strange

tales of a veteran official trying

to read the US Constitution to

Donald Trump and him getting bored

by about the fourth Amendment and

not being able to concentrate. And

then bizarrely the book claims

Donald Trump has fears of being

poisoned. And that explains why he

regularly eat at McDonald's because

they won't know he is coming. Also a

lot of very dysfunctional

relationships, most particularly

between Steve Bannon on the one hand

and then Donald Trump's daughter is

-- and son-in-law. And there are

lurid tales of shouting matches and

tears.

The food strategy is

interesting. Shall we talk about

Tony Blair, the mention of Tony

Blair in the book. Allegations of

course of him allegedly telling

Donald Trump that he may have been

spied upon. But also looking for a

job as a Middle East perhaps envoy.

Yes. It is claimed claimed Tony

Blair visited last February and it

is possible that Donald Trump was

put under surveillance by British

intelligence during the election.

And according to the book, this

stuck in Donald Trump's mind and

festered and it could tell us a lot

about why Trump has all sorts of

paranoia about the deep state and

accused Barack Obama of tapping his

phones without evidence and so on.

However, we have seen strong denials

from Tony Blair's came about that.

And I don't know whether he was

touting for a Middle East job, which

seems to be hard to believe, maybe

some spin from the Trump White

House, but very difficult to pin

down. Overall, this book is being

well received, but there are people

questioning some of the claims as

you might expect.

It is certainly

gathering attention. Thank you very

much for your time. David Smith,

Washington correspondent for the

Guardian. Thank you.

Ben is in Ashington,

near Newcastle this morning,

discovering how the rise of robots

and automation could put some

minimum wage workers

at risk of unemployment.

Yes, it is a really interesting

study out from a think tank this

morning that suggests more of us

could be replaced by robots if the

minimum wage rises too much and that

is because it would be cheaper for

employers to use robots instead of

humans if the wage goes too high. It

is interesting. We have spent so

much time on production lines in

factories like this. You might

expect to see more people around

this. This is the Dulux paint

factory. There are 150 staff on the

site. Most of the process is

automated. They are filling up the

paint tins here. The entire process

from start to finish is automatic.

They are using robots to do it. Then

it goes straight onto the trucks to

be sold up and down the country. And

they have said they can do that

because they don't need low skilled

jobs. Most of the staff who are here

are employed in the office is doing

high-tech engineering staff to keep

the machines running. We will be

here over the morning to find out

how it all works and crucially what

it could mean for low skilled jobs.

We will talk about that

Plenty more on our website

at the usual address.

Bye for now.

Hello - 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.

Are children's social lives

now indistinguishable

from their social media profiles?

We'll talk to the Children's

Commissioner about the increasing

anxiety and pressure faced by young

people living their lives online.

We'll be at the Highland Wildlife

Park where a polar bear cub

was born over the Christmas holiday

- it's the first to be born

in the UK for 25 years.

And telling the story

of Britain through the history

of a single townhouse: we talk

to the historian David Olushoga

about his new show looking

at the way we lived.

Here's a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

Concerns are being raised that

children as young as 11 are becoming

increasingly dependent on social

media likes and comments in order

to feel popular and fit in.

The Children's Commissioner

for England is warning that younger

pupils are becoming anxious

about their online image

and are unprepared for how social

media use changes as they get older

and move into secondary school.

It's a huge pressure on children at

a time when there is immense

pressures on our life anyway from

moving to a new school and knowing

that is something that I believe we

need to do more about.

He council leader in Windsor

has called for action

to tackle "aggressive begging".

The letter, written

by Councillor Simon Dudley,

comes ahead of the wedding

of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,

which is taking place in in May.

Windsor Homeless Project described

the comments as "abhorrent"

The latest NHS statistics cover a

start of intense pressure on the

reports of overcrowding in hospital

on warnings about patient safety

being compromised.

Donald Trump has accused one of his

greatest supporters of losing his

mind. Steve Bannon was his Chief

Strategist until August last year.

He's been quoted as saying that

Donald Trump -- and Donald Trump

Junior is treasonous the meeting

with Russians.

The chairman of the compass catering

group died after a seaplane crashed

north of Sydney. It's now emerged

that a plane with the same serial

number also involved in the fatal

crash in 1996.

Yesterday we brought

you news of Storm Eleanor,

which caused disruption

across the UK - and its making

itself known across

Northern Europe too.

Winds of more than 90 miles an hour

hit the French coast.

In Brittany, sea defences

were breached and waves flooded

into the streets.

And high winds in Paris

brought down scaffolding.

In Switzerland, 25 people were stuck

inside a cable car due to strong

winds - later being

rescued by helicopter -

and a train was blown off the tracks

near Lucerne injuring eight people.

Those are the main stories on what

the moment to salvage a little bit

of pride. Australia won the first

three tests and the fourth test was

drawn. A bit of rain there. This is

England's last chance to restore

that pride. Is it half, half?

Not

quite like that. 3.5, half, that is

better than 3-0.

Joe Root, a lot of pressure.

England are relying on captain,

Joe Root to steady the ship,

on the opening day of

the fifth Test in Sydney.

He won the toss, chose to bat

and they were going well

at 88/1.

But then they lost James Vince

and Alastair Cook,

in quick succession

and England were 95/3.

Root and Dawid Malan have

steadied things though,

and captain Root has recently

reached his half century and is 51

not out and Malan 24 not out.

England 171/3.

One of the most dramatic games

of the Premier League season,

saw Arsenal and Chelsea draw

2-2 at the Emirates.

Arsenal had gone in front,

through Jack Wilshere,

but the England midfielder's

goal, was cancelled out

by a controversial penalty.

Eden Hazard converted it

for Chelsea, to leave

Arsene Wenger unhappy.

Marcos Alonso, then thought he'd

won it for the Blues,

before Hector Bellerin,

got Arsenal's equaliser

in stoppage time.

Chelsea stay third behind

Manchester United, Arsenal are five

points off the top four.

It would be nice of some stage but

there were some thrilling moments.

Yes, I think it was a great football

game. When you come here, you see

football in this what you want

people to talk about. It was a

controversy. And frustration. The

social network driving everybody

crazy what is important to me is how

good the football game is.

At the end of the game,

I think that we decided to win

But less for me because also for the

players. It was a disappointment.

When we are so close to winning the

game. It is a pity.

West Brom midfielder,

Jake Livermore, confronted

a West Ham fan on Tuesday night,

in response to taunts

about the death, of his

infant son in 2014.

West Brom say "all right-minded

football supporters

could understand this reaction",

after Livermore was seen in a heated

exchange, near his team's dugout.

They also also say the player,

has the total support of everyone

at the club.

West Ham are investigating

the incident.

We know Andy Murray is struggling

with a hip injury ahead of next

month's Australian Open -

Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal

and Stan Warinka are also

struggling with fitness.

And the world number 22

Kei Nishikori, has offically

withdrawn from the tournament

with a wrist injury.

Nishikori hasn't played

competitively since last August.

He's reached the quarter-finals

of the tournament in Melbourne three

times, but says he is not ready

for best of five set matches.

We mentioned Andy Murray's hip

injury - well it seems the British

players are cursed with such things

because Britain's number one

Johanna Konta has retired

from her quarter final

at the Brisbane International

against Elina Svitolina.

Konta took the decision just two

games after treatment for a hip

problem.

One player who isn't injured, Carl

Edman, has won his first round

match. Before I go, but always in

those names, I always watch out of

the corner of my eye. You always say

it with such gusto. Those difficult

names you get through quickly.

Stelios Dimitrou had a chocolate bar

thrown at him. He deals with it

pretty beautifully. Besides played

out a 1-1 draw. By picking up the

bar, taking his time. Slowdown, Mr

hair. A chocolate bar at the side of

the road. It was probably earlier

than that. Slow down, Mr hair. That

is probably the way you deal with

nasty football fans. I would not

mind people growing chocolate bars

of many. -- throwing chocolate bars

at me.

Australian authorities have begun

recovering the wreckage

of a seaplane that crashed

near Sydney, killing six people.

British businessman

Richard Cousins, his two sons,

his fiance and her daughter died

alongside a Canadian pilot

when their plane plunged

into the Hawkesbury River

on New Year's Eve.

Our correspondent Phil Mercer

is live in Sydney for us -

what's the latest there?

Where we are, this is West Head, a

short distance to the south Sydney

and Esh sort -- short distance to

the north is Jerusalem Bay where the

aircraft came down on New Year's Eve

and we understand from investigators

that the salvage operation is almost

over and the main body of the

aircraft was fairly intact at the

bottom of the Hawkesbury River but

because of logistics, they had to

bring it up piece by piece. One of

the main pieces to come up first was

a damaged wing, an engine and

propeller and tail. That has been

lifted up an inflatable bags, pulled

up out of the water on a crane and

placed into a barge. That barge will

be making its way from Jerusalem Bay

to Pittwater, the bank of water you

can see behind me. Eventually, that

evidence will become a crucial part

of the investigation. As the Times

bought safety bureau tries to work

out how and why a routine

sightseeing trip could have ended in

such tragedy.

Have we heard any more

from the relative since the

accident?

We've heard from the New

Wales police. They say through the

British Consulate here in Sydney,

they have been liaising with family

members of Richard cousins, the

Chief Executive of the Compass

group. He died alongside his family.

Relatives are on their way to

Australia to hear for themselves

about the investigation. In a crash

teams do say within a month or so,

they will be releasing their initial

findings into the New Year's Eve

tragedy but a full account of this

disaster could take up to 12 months.

For the moment, thank you. Third

World conditions with staff

stretched to breaking point is just

one of the ways the NHS has been

described by medical staff.

But officials have defended

their contingency plans for the busy

winter period and say the service

is not in a state of crisis.

We'll discuss this in more detail

in a moment, but first lets take

a look at the issues

facing hospitals.

A surge in patients since Christmas

and winter illnesses mean hospitals

are struggling to cope. About 20 in

England were on the highest alert

level, meaning no available beds and

severe delays were ambulances

handing of the patients.

My granny

trip down the stairs and broke her

leg and that was on New Year's Eve

night. The next day, she rang an

ambulance and it took ten hours to

come.

We need to keep the doctors

and nurses, at night, they are

putting too much pressure on them.

Other problems reported in parts of

the UK. The Welsh government said

the health service was facing

significant pressure. In Scotland, a

20% jump in attendance as compared

to the previous year, prompting an

increase in patients waiting more

than four hours. In Northern

Ireland, the Antrim area hospital

has been forced to bring in St

John's ambulance volunteer to help

with the surge in demand. On social

media, doctors have been raising

their concerns, saying crowded

emergency departments are

compromising patient safety. The

Prime Minister has denied the health

service in England is in crisis.

Those who have had their operations,

it's disappointing, it's frustrating

but we will ensure those operations

are put back as soon as possible.

Adam Roberts joins us now.

Joining us now in the studio

is Adam Roberts who is the Head

of Economics at the Health

Foundation an independent charity

working to improve

health service delivery.

Good morning. Among the emotional

arguments right now, because we

heard yesterday about hospital

wards, the desperate situations

people

wards, the desperate situations

people are in and it is quite hard

to have a levelheaded discussion

about how we are more generally. The

argument coming from the NHS and

from Theresa May is the contingency

plan has been put in place this year

and that they are working. Can you

give us a snapshot about whether

there is truth in that?

Where we are

at the moment is the NHS is

currently seven years into its most

austere decade we've ever had. There

is more going into the NHS part

every year we ask the NHS to do more

and more because the population is

growing, the population is ageing

and the money that is going in

broadly covers that extra demand.

But also we ask the NHS to do more

and more every year. We are not just

trying to keep Care the same. We are

trying to do more. Whenever a new

drug or procedure comes onto the

market, of course we ask the NHS to

deliver that. And in the same way as

the price of shopping over Christmas

goes up, the cost of delivering that

goes.

Why is there a crisis now if

you accept there is a crisis?

Because we are seven years into this

period of austerity where pressures

are rising year on year faster than

the money is going in. We have been

able to make some savings in the

NHS. We have had a real focus on

improving efficiency with which care

is delivered. But seven years in a

lot of the simple wins have

disappeared and it is more and more

difficult.

This is similar to the

crisis question, why are we taken by

surprise every year?

Yes.

It

happens, and you mention the

population growth, we are getting

older and living longer, that isn't

surprising.

Know, and beyond the

money there is a serious issue

around the workforce planning we

have had. We have not been training

enough staff, which means hospitals

across the UK have a shortage of

nurses, a shortage of consultants, a

drop in the number of GPs, so while

we are focusing on hospitals in the

winter, obviously the NHS is much

bigger than that, and the focus is

trying to make sure that people

don't go to hospital if they don't

need to, give them care earlier, flu

vaccinations is an obvious example,

but we have issues around staffing

in out of hospital services as well.

So are we at the point where it is

not a conversation about money, it

is not a conversation about how much

money the government can plough into

the NHS, are we at the point where

we need to save the NHS needs to

stop doing things, all we need to

personally think about finding the

NHS or it needs to be funded

differently in some parts?

You can't

escape the money issue, it was made

clear in the budget at the end of

last year when three extra £2

billion was announced, and

additional money coming out of that.

Even looking at the government's

independent forecast the additional

funding was only half of what the

NHS would need to keep pace with the

rising demand I was talking about.

You can't escape the money. But of

course it is more than that. We are

asking more of our dedicated staff

and they are rising to the challenge

but we can't continue to keep asking

them to do more and more. If there

isn't going to be more funding into

the NHS I think we need to be honest

and say we can't continue to improve

the services we are offering with a

budget that we have got.

We will

leave it for now. Thank you for

that. You are going to join us later

on and we will talk about that. If

you have stories you would like to

share, yesterday we heard a lot

about the immediate crisis people

are in. Loved ones waiting in

corridors, on trolleys, so it you

have stories you like to share with

us on a wider theme, let us know

this morning. Good morning. Time to

have an update on the weather. It

has been very windy over the last 24

hours. What is the

has been very windy over the last 24

hours. What is the position? It is

windy today. Certainly across windy

and Wales with severe gales later.

At the moment it isn't desperately

strong. Big contrast in temperature

with south and north. 14 in Exeter,

-1 in Huntly. Northern Ireland has a

wet start. Sleet and snow over the

hills. Word across southern Scotland

and were across England and Wales.

It is brightening up from the

south-west. And the winds

strengthen. We might see severe

gales around the western coast late

morning onwards and then developing

widely inland in the afternoon. In

contrast, northern Scotland, the

wind is light, showers around, the

best of the sunny weather towards

Orkney & Shetland. Cloud elsewhere.

Central southern Scotland is wet in

the afternoon with sleet and snow.

Maybe bright in the south-west of

Northern Ireland later. Antrim on

the wet side. Around Liverpool Bay

we could see wind by mid afternoon

50 or 60 mph quite easily.

Widespread gales across the Midlands

and Wales and southern England.

Afternoon sunshine here and

temperatures up into double figures.

Feeling reasonably mild compared to

the north. In the south we will see

another spell of rain and strong

winds, 60- 70 mph possible. Further

travel disruption today and tonight,

potentially further damage. Winds

light of further north but still

cloud around, outbreaks of rain and

hill snow, and a touch of frost into

tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning's

commute will be a cool one so cater

for the chance of rain anywhere.

Sunny spells developing for England

and Wales and wind in the English

Channel. And still cloud and rain,

sleet and hill snow. In Scotland and

we have it for at least 24 hours as

it sets in through today.

Temperatures in single figures. They

will drop even into the weekend. The

weekend is going to be one which

starts very windy across the

country. Gales in places, rain in

the south, wintry showers across

eastern Scotland and north-east

England, but bright weather to the

north-west. With the strong wind,

temperatures may maybe too-8d on the

thermometer, this is what it will

feel like, closer to freezing, if

not below, with a windchill of -32

-5 across Scotland through Saturday

-- -3 two -5. On Sunday there will

be a lot of sunshine around after a

very frosty start.

be a lot of sunshine around after a

very frosty start. Goodbye for now.

Thank you very much. We will spend a

bit of time this morning in a

factory and Ben is looking at

automation, robots. Whether it is

good for the workforce or if it

could take away people's jobs.

One

of the links is that we talk about

low wages, and if people want higher

wages, maybe companies will have to

say, I am better off automating so I

don't have to pay at all and that is

the issue many businesses are

grappling with. Ben is in the

north-east. He is mixing things up.

Morning.

Yes, I see what you did,

good morning. We are at Dulux paint

factory outside Newcastle. How many

times have we been on production

lines like this fall of staff,

whether they are loading machines,

putting labels on, putting them in

crates, but there are not many

people here. They make 33,000

possible colours, so much so they

can do here part just 150 workers.

And most of them are upstairs in the

office or doing the high-tech things

that keeps these machines running.

Jeff is the site manager. Let me

interrupt you. Not many people are

here. It is a really big side. How

can you run all of these machines

without many staff?

Yes, you are

right, it is a big site with a lot

of production going on. We are able

to do this because of the high level

of automation. We use the automation

to allow us to get all of the

technology that scientists have

developed for customers and we use

the automation to allow us to get

that into these cans of paint for

our customers.

People would say you

are just replacing low skilled jobs

with robots. That is essentially

what this report says today. We

don't need people any more because

we have robots. Is there a danger

that you use these -- lose of these

staff and don't have to replace them

with high skilled ones upstairs

because you need fewer of those?

Certainly not, I don't see that at

all, you've got to understand what

business you're in and for Dulux,

the business has been the number one

product in what we do, and so what

we've seen here it in Ashington is

the most events manufacturing

facility in the world to keep

ourselves in the number one

position. The impact of that is for

our employees, it means that when

teams used to work in traditional

processes, which were quite

labour-intensive, we've got a

facility where the work environment

is much better, we still need the

equivalent number of employees in

reality, but the investment in that

training and skills is at a

different level, so the combined

impact, the teams we have at this

site, and what they are able to do

to ensure that we keep products

number one is at a different level

now.

For now, thank you very much.

Really interesting, the point about

training. Well and good to get rid

of the skilled jobs filling tins of

paint, but the issue is if the

people are available with the right

skills for the high-tech jobs that

have become available. With me now

is Mark, who works in recruitment.

It is an interesting picture,

because we have seen a lot of firms

set up here with a lot of automatic

processes. I am thinking about the

car plan. What change have you seen

in demand for jobs and which are

available?

Technology and investment

in technology is good news for the

north-east in UK with record levels

of employment at the moment. One of

the things that is stubborn is

productivity. And plans like Nissan

has the most successful plant in

history and it is the most

efficient, increasing production by

20%, and the impact is huge

employment in the supply chain.

Without that investment in

technology that would never have

happened. And companies like Hitachi

have moved to the region on the back

of our supply chain in Nissan, so

the whole of the north-east has

benefited from investment in

technology.

It is a simple question.

Should we be scared of robots? It is

one thing to say yes. Lots of

high-tech jobs have been made

available. But not everyone has

those skills. People that are on

relatively low skilled jobs could

see their jobs disappear. Should we

be scared about?

I don't think so at

all. As consumer demand changes and

becomes customised, they want to see

unique products available quickly,

technology allows us to meet the

demand, so I see higher demand for

skills in IT and marketing, in

e-commerce and digital, where there

is higher pay. People have the

opportunity to get better jobs, high

skilled jobs, and retrain. The

challenge is not the availability of

the good jobs, it is around

education, around training and the

willingness of organisations to

invest in up skilling the workforce.

For now, thank you very much. It is

interesting, the debate about

whether technology is good or bad

news, but as you have heard, they

are making it work. 100 million of

these roll off the production line

every year. They are clearly doing

something right. We will be here all

morning to assess what impact it

could have on jobs later. Join me

after 7am. I will see you then.

Fascinating.

33,000 colours of paint

in the factory.

in half an hour.

Plenty more on our website

at the usual address.

Now, though, it's back

to Charlie and Naga.

Hello - this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt

and Naga Munchetty.

Children as young as 11 stressed

out by social media.

Parents and teachers are warned it's

time to take action.

The Children's Commissioner

for England says too

many pupils are ill-equipped

for the "emotional demands"

of their online lives.

Good morning - it's

Thursday 4th January.

Also this morning:

A clearer picture of our service in

England is with winter.

The leader of Windsor council

calls for police to tackle

what he calls "aggressive begging"

in the town before Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle get

married there in May.

Donald Trump turns on the man

who helped him to the White House,

Steve Bannon, after he accuses

the President's son of treason.

Could the minimum wage be a threat

to our jobs? In your report says

employers could replace more of us

with robots if wages rise too

quickly. I am at this factory near

Newcastle. In sport, Andy Murray has

pulled out of the Australian Open

tennis and is flying home while in

the rashes, Joe routers made a

half-century. -- Joe Root.

And Matt has the weather.

While skies brightened across parts

of Wales in the afternoon, severe

gales will be back. The latest

details on the next 15 minutes.

First, our main story.

Children as young as 11

are becomming increasingly dependent

on social media likes and comments

in order to feel popular and fit in.

And Longfield says too many people

are becoming dependent on likes to

fit in. She is urging teachers,

parents and Internet companies to

take action.

With social media in the hands

of children, there are challenges

of growing up in a digital age.

In a report released today

called Life in Likes,

there are warnings many

children in secondary

school are struggling to handle

social media as the world expands.

I feel like I'm pressured by other

people because my friends do it

so I have to do it to fit in.

You see people, if they're

getting bullied on social

media, they don't

tell their parents.

If you don't tell them,

they will never find out.

The report shows that as children

move schools from primary

to secondary,

the way they use

social media changes.

Instead of scoring points playing

games, getting likes and comments

becomes important and worryingly,

they also adapt their offline

behaviour to fit an online image.

It's a huge pressure on children

at a time when there is immense

pressures in their life anyway

from moving to a new school

and knowing that is something that

I believe we need to do more about.

Secondary school can

be a difficult time,

when young people feel

pressured to fit in.

Today's report warns

a generation could grow

up feeling insecure

and unable to cope if left

to their own devices.

Elaine Dunkley, BBC News.

The latest figures showing how

hospitals in England are coping

with the demands of winter will be

published this morning.

Yesterday the Health Secretary

Jeremy Hunt apologised

to patients after hospitals

were told to delay tens of thousands

of non-urgent operations

and out-patient appointments

so the health service can cope

with the winter pressures.

The weekly figures from NHS England

covering the last seven days

in December will

include the proportion

of hospital beds occupied,

the number of A&E

units which had to divert

ambulances to other hospitals,

and serious flu cases.

NHS leaders say flu

is on the increase and there

are concerns a major outbreak

will develop, putting more

pressure on a system already

under great strain.

The figures no longer include

hospitals at the highest state

of alert, indicating

they are struggling to cope.

BBC research has found 20 in England

have been at that level

this week compared to a handful

at this time last year.

I want to apologise

for the fact that we have

had regrattably to postpone

a number of operations.

We are trying to do it differently.

Last year, we cancelled

a lot of operations

at the very last minute.

So people got a call the day before

to say their operation

was not going ahead.

That is obviously very undesirable.

So we want to do it

in a much more planned way.

When you have ambulances backed

up outside hospitals,

hospitals saying

they are overcrowded,

people waiting for hours

and hours on trolleys,

it is a crisis and it is because of

seven years of underfunding and cuts

to our NHS.

And the government is simplay

burying their head in the sand.

Tens of thousands of non-urgent

operations will be cancelled

this month to allow senior doctors

to deal with emergency cases.

creating a backlog,

adding to a lengthening

waiting lists for operations

like knee and hip replacements.

Hugh Pym, BBC News.

Those figures will be out at 9:30

a.m..

And we'll be looking at the issues

facing hospitals across the UK

this winter a little

later in the programme.

A council leader in Windsor has

called for action to tackle

aggressive begging ahead

of the wedding of Prince Harry

and Meghan Markle in

the town later this year.

Councillor Simon Dudley has

written an open letter

to the Thames Valley Police

and Crime Commissioner,

asking him to address an "epidemic

of rough sleeping and vagrancy".

Our correspondent Jon Donnison

is in Windsor this morning.

Good morning, John. It's

understandable to see why there

might be this backlash. These

comments, what you make of them?

Well, they've certainly proved

pretty controversial. This started

with a series of tweets that Simon

doubly sent when he was apparently

on holiday in the United States over

Christmas, saying: -- doubly. --

Dudley.

He has now written a letter to the

Police and Crime Commissioner of

Thames Valley Police that he talks

about a problem of aggressive

begging and intimidation and what

perhaps his most controversial, he

says that many of the people begging

in Windsor are not homeless in his

opinion. He says those who I have

done so out of voluntary choice

because they have chosen not to use

the council's services. Simon doubly

has said this is a problem, it's

creating a hostile atmosphere of the

7 million tourists who visit Windsor

every year and he is even talked

about tourists being frogmarched to

cash points by people begging. That

is something incidentally police say

they have not seen. Homeless groups

have acknowledged there is a big

problem in Windsor but they have

said that Simon Dudley's comments

were sickening and the idea that

anyone would choose to be homeless

or choose to be begging is

ridiculous.

President Trump has accused his

former chief strategist

of 'losing his mind',

after he lost his job at the White

House.

Steve Bannon has been quoted

in a new book saying

that the President's son

Donald Jr was "treasonous"

for meeting with Russians.

Bannon, was one of the

President's closest advisors

until last year and helped shape

Mr Trump's "America First" campaign

message before he left

his post last year.

Our North America correspondent

Peter Bowes reports.

They were once as thick as thieves.

Steve Bannon helped

to shape the America

First campaign that

elected Donald Trump.

In the White House,

he was a key player.

He had the ear of the President.

But his job as chief strategist

was short-lived and he returned

But his job as chief

strategist was short-lived.

He promised to be the

president's wingman outside

but this book reveals

a different story.

The most damaging claim is that

Steve Bannon viewed a meeting

between Donald Trump,

Jr and a group of Russians

during the campaign

and considered it

treasonous.

Also a meeting between

Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner.

"The three senior guys

in the campaign thought

it was a good idea to meet

with a foreign government

inside Trump Tower in the conference

room on the 25th floor with no

lawyers," Bannon

is quoted as saying.

He adds that after the meeting

they should have called the FBI

immediately.

The President has hit back

in a scathing statement.

White House press secretary

Sarah Sanders has condemned

the contents of the book

as completely untrue.

I think it is a ridiculous

accusation and I am sure

we have addressed many

times here before.

The book also says the Steve Bannon

believes the Russians were taken

after the meeting

to meet Donald Trump.

The President has always

denied that happened.

With the ongoing investigation

into possible Russian

collusion in the presidential

election, this explosive row

between Donald Trump

and his once trusted

ally has left Washington stunned.

Australian recovery teams have

started to raise the wreckage

of a seaplane that crashed

into a river near Sydney,

killing six people.

Richard Cousins, chairman

of the Compass catering

group, died alongside four members

of his family and a Canadian pilot

when the plane crashed

into the Hawkesbury River

on New Year's Eve.

Investigators have revealed that

a plane with the same serial number

was also involved in

a fatal crash in 1996.

Jewellery thought to be valued up to

£1 million have been stolen in

Italy. They were stolen from the

Doge Palace in Venice. They belonged

to the Royal Family of Qatar. The

thieves disappeared into the crowd.

A group on a snowmobile tour

in western Canada might have been

hoping to spot some wildlife

amongst the snowdrifts,

but they certainly weren't

expecting to see this.

Here you can see the head

of a moose peeping out

from beneath the powder.

It became trapped in deep snow,

but the group came to its rescue.

You'll be pleased to hear

that they managed to dig it free

and after around 15 minutes

the uninjured moose was back

on the loose.

The likes of Facebook, Twitter,

Instagram and Snapchat may seem

to be an inescapable part of modern

life for many adults

but for children it appears

the influence of social media can

be more sinister.

New research into how young people

behave online has found

many

are dealing with anxiety and social

pressure in the constant pursuit

of 'likes' and comments.

The report is the work

of the Children's Commissioner

for England Anne Longfield who joins

us from our Westminster studio.

Also here, Grace Barrett from the

Self Esteem Team. Tel is a little

bit more about the survey and what

this is telling is that we didn't

already know.

This survey is the

first survey of its kind which is

looked at the group of children who

are preteens. Often we will focus on

the impact of social media on

children in our 14, 15. We know that

more and more younger children, what

we found is there is a world --a

real change in the way children use

social media. From it being fun and

family oriented when they are nine

and ten into a much more serious

role as they start secondary school

where it has a real impact on their

social lives, a real impact on their

self-identity. And they find

themselves as you say chasing

lights, chasing validation, being

very anxious about their appearance

on line and offline and feeling that

they can't disconnect because that

will be seen as socially damaging.

All of which is a time of huge

pressure as we all know. Your work

involves talking to children.

We are

quite well versed on the impact for

teenagers but surprising is,

children as young as 11, ten years

old are feeling these pressures.

I

think it is a really difficult

situation. Children of that they

shouldn't be on social media but

because all of their peers are, they

don't want to be left out and

parents face a really difficult

decision. What we try to due at Self

Esteem Team is help young people

understand where they can get that

affirmation from. Not just on line.

Creating positive habits in their

day-to-day life will be habits they

can carry across. They are going to

have positive interactions.

Is

can carry across. They are going to

have positive interactions.

it the

problem though that social media is

becoming more of everyday life?

problem though that social media is

becoming more of everyday life?

Absolutely.

You don't split it

between, now I am on social media

and now I am not.

Absolutely, lots

of research would suggest if you

grew up with the Internet from the

day that you were born then you do

not see the disparity and while that

is terrifying for us if we have

grown up with our social media it

means it is easier to tackle because

if we teach positive coping

strategies then they naturally carry

across into the Internet usage.

I am

curious, and Longfield, Children's

Commissioner, you deal first hand,

you go to classrooms and talk to

young children, and part of the

problem feels to me is officialdom

can't do a lot about it. A lot of it

is out of their reach. If you are

out to come up with something to try

to help, what might that be? Was

going to ask Grace first.

I would

say that is about first self-esteem.

If you have people who understand

mental health and where confidence

come from, they are well rounded,

all of the policy falls short media

is less relevant. We want parents

well educated on social media and

the Internet and young people in

control of themselves online. If we

are honest most adults haven't got

it right. I think that is education

across the board.

What do you think?

They are all great points and I

would like government to introduce

digital literacy into the first year

of secondary school. Schools are but

looking at safety online and they

now needed move into the emotional

well-being and how to handle this

community children find themselves

in.

And there is the issue that

Grace brought up, the legal age, I

think it is 13, 13, 14, and Grace

has said Karen struggle in terms of

how much to allow children to be

involved, or to be ostracised from

the peer group if they are not

involved in this, how can you tackle

that? How much influence and

protection do you want from social

media companies?

Parents have a role

in ensuring children are not on

sites that are not designed for

them, this is crucial. These sites

were not designed for children. They

are not appropriate for children.

Social media companies have to do

much more. It is easy for children

to get onto these websites. They

need to build safety into the

designed to make sure that children

go through many different hoops to

get online, but also that they build

safety in so that children who go on

at the right time with confidence on

the right apps and they would be

more proactive about this. So

changing the whole make-up I think

of how they work on platforms for

children and adults.

Thank you very

much for your time, and Grace, thank

you as well and we will speak with

you later on as well.

And if you

have any thoughts, let us know,

because we will talk about that

later on as well.

The time now is

7:18am so let's talk to matter about

the weather. Talking about social

media and apps, I often look at a

weather app and I am finding at the

moment that it is changing every

hour, so I can't judge what is going

to happen in the next day, is it

fair?

That happens sometimes because

of the way the weather apps works

and with the weather because

of the way the weather apps works

and with the weather because it can

be showery and showers can change

position but certainly was some of

the apps will tell you today for the

south of the country is the winds

this urges strength and yet again.

Not too much at the moment though at

the present time with a big contrast

north and south as far as

temperatures are concerned. With the

contrast you need something in

between and that is a weather front.

It is bringing rangy Northern

Ireland and south-west Scotland,

northern England, the rain we have

had for southern areas is turning

light and patchy. The skies will

brighten. Strong winds are back with

severe gales around Wales and

south-west England from mid-morning

onwards with gales developing inland

as well. Winds are light further

north once again, so northern