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Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
A call for the victims of serial sex
attacker John Worboys | 0:00:10 | 0:00:13 | |
to have the chance to give
evidence against him, | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
following the announcement
he is to be released from jail. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
This programme has been told some
of the women whose stories weren't | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
heard in court now want their cases
to be reviewed by the police. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:28 | |
Good morning, it is
Saturday 6 January. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
Also this morning: Online casino
operators are accused | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
by the industry's watchdog
of failing to prevent money | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
laundering and protect
problem gamblers. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:54 | |
In sport, England's all is continue
to toil in the Ashes Test. It was a | 0:00:54 | 0:01:01 | |
dream start for Liverpool defender
Virgil van Dyck as he scores a | 0:01:01 | 0:01:05 | |
winner over rivals Everton. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
And what does it take
to cut it as a ninja? | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
I have been having a go at the sport
that started in Japan ten years ago, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
and is now taking a firm
hold here in the UK. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
Temperatures in parts of the US
are predicted to fall to minus 29, | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
as a record-breaking freeze
follows heavy snow caused | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
by the so-called bomb cyclone. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:24 | |
Not quite so cold here. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
Stav has the details. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Thank you, good morning to you.
Well, it is turning much colder for | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
all of us this weekend. Not on the
plus side we should see some | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
sunshine, particularly tomorrow, but
a return to overnight frost as well. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
I will have all the details for you
very shortly. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
Good morning. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
First, our main story: A lawyer
who represented victims | 0:01:46 | 0:01:48 | |
of the serial sex offender
John Worboys says some | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
of her clients whose cases
weren't taken to trial | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
want to give evidence. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:54 | |
The former black cab driver
is being freed from jail | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
after ten years. | 0:01:57 | 0:01:58 | |
He was convicted of 19 offences,
although police believe he carried | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
out more than 100 attacks. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:02 | |
Lawyers say that a number of women
were told that their testimony | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
wasn't required to put Worboys
behind bars for a longer | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
period of time. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:09 | |
Tom Burridge reports. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
The decision to release rapist John
Worboys has raised profound | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
questions about the way sexual
crimes against women are | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
investigated, and whether the
procedures for releasing criminals | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
need changing. John Worboys picked
up young women in his black cab, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
duped and drugged them, and then
carried out his attacks. He was | 0:02:28 | 0:02:33 | |
convicted of 19 offences in 2009,
and given an indefinite sentence. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:40 | |
But, in total, more than 100 women
said Worboys tried to drug and | 0:02:40 | 0:02:45 | |
assault them. Some allegations were
investigated, but no further action | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
was taken, on the advice of the
Crown Prosecution Service. What we | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
can't know is why the parole board
has decided he now no longer poses a | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
risk to the public. I am not allowed
by law to explain the reasons for | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
our decision, and I have said
before, I would like to get that | 0:03:02 | 0:03:06 | |
changed. And so this pushes the idea
that the parole board processes need | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
to be much more open and
transparent, and we get support for | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
that, then I think some goodwill
have come out of all of this. We | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
need to understand whether has
admitted guilt in relation to the | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
offences that he was convicted for,
and the police need to look again at | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
the possibility of prosecuting him
for those many further offences for | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
which he was also suspected.
Worboys's victims are said to be | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
horrified release, and lawyers
representing his other alleged | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
victims say their evidence should
now be considered. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
And we will speak to lawyer
Kim Harrison, who represented 11 | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
of Worboys's victims,
just after 7:00am. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
Five online gambling companies
could have their licenses revoked | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
over concern they are not doing
enough to help problem gamblers | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
or prevent money launderers
from using their sites. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
The Gambling Commission has written
to all 195 online casino operators, | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
to tell them about the safeguards
they should all have in place. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
Our business correspondent
Jonty Bloom reports. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:08 | |
One third of all gambling in the UK
is now online, and it is worth | 0:04:08 | 0:04:14 | |
billions of pounds. The Gambling
Commission has been reviewing the | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
safeguards that all companies should
have in place. They are designed to | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
prevent problem gambling getting out
of control, and to prevent money | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
being laundered by criminals or
terrorists. Sarah Harrison, chief | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
executive of the Gambling
Commission, said... | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
But the commission found many signs
that customers' gambling was | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
becoming compulsive were not being
followed up, and some staff had | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
little idea of how to stop money
laundering, or in some cases, even | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
what it was. As a result, the
Gambling Commission is warning all | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
online casino operators to review
their procedures, and has begun an | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
investigation into 17 online
companies. It is considering whether | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
it should review the licences of
five of them. Losing its licence | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
would mean a company would be unable
to continue to operate in the UK. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
President Trump has taken to Twitter
overnight to show his continued | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
frustration over the release
of a controversial book | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
documenting his first
year in the White House. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
Calling the author of the book,
Michael Wolff, a total loser, | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
the President accuses him
of making up stories. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former chief
strategist Steve Bannon | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
'Sloppy Steve', claiming
he cried when he was fired. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
The book, called Fire and Fury,
has now gone on sale early, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:42 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
of the United Nations Security
Council for calling an emergency | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
China and France said the unrest did
not threaten international security. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce, | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
and repeated claims
that the protests were | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
directed from abroad. | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
EasyJet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among the major employers | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
who have been revealed to pay women,
on average, at least 15% | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
less than men. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
publish their figures by April. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:13 | |
More than 500 have done so. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:14 | |
Another 8,000 must do by April,
or risk being fined, | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
under a new law intended to tackle
workplace discrimination. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:24 | |
A plane has been evacuated after two
jets collided on the tarmac | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
at Toronto airport, the second
incident there in five months. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
168 passengers and six crew on board
one of the aircraft had to escape | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
by emergency slides. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
The tail of the other plane,
which was empty, caught fire. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
Last year two planes,
which were also on the ground, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
clipped their wings. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:52 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
that the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
The national weather service
predicts wind chills as low | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
as minus 40 degrees Celsius. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
Let's find out more
from meteorologist Cheryl Nelson, | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
who is in Virginia. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
Had to have you with us. Thank you
very much for joining us. We are | 0:07:08 | 0:07:13 | |
hearing all sorts of new weather
turns, a bomb cyclone and these | 0:07:13 | 0:07:18 | |
amazing temperatures as well. Yes,
so the bomb cyclone, the actual name | 0:07:18 | 0:07:29 | |
for that is bombogenesis, and that
is a neurological term and that | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
means you have a one millimetre fall
in 24 hours, and we had double that. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
So this storm intensified at a rapid
rate, and we had snow. 12 to 18 | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
inches across parts of the
north-eastern part of the country. I | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
am in Norfolk Tom Virginia, where we
had ten inches of snow. And now we | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
are dealing with part two. At two is
that it cold weather you talked | 0:07:51 | 0:07:56 | |
about, a good 20 Fahrenheit below
normal as we head into the day | 0:07:56 | 0:08:01 | |
tomorrow and Sunday, as well, for
much of the eastern parts of the | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
United States. You know, Cheryl,
often when we get poor weather and | 0:08:05 | 0:08:10 | |
we have had some snow, nothing
compared with what you guys are | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
going through, we always complain it
takes us a little bit by surprise, | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
and we struggle to deal with it. How
are people dealing with it in the | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
United States, where they have been
hit hardest? Well, the good news | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
about this storm is it was very well
forecast so people knew what was | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
coming. Nonetheless, a lot of people
think they are prepared and they go | 0:08:29 | 0:08:35 | |
out on the icy roads because the
secondary roads are a mess, the | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
primary roads are OK but there have
been numerous reports of people | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
getting stuck in the snow, car
accidents, and also there is nowhere | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
to put the snow. Cities like
Norfolk, Virginia, we are not | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
accustomed to getting close to a
foot of snow. In an interesting | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
fact, yesterday the city of Norfolk
had 91 truckloads of snow which they | 0:08:55 | 0:09:00 | |
actually took to the parking lot of
our local baseball stadium because | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
they had nowhere else to put it. So
they dumped it in the stadium? They | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
dumped the snow in the stadium? In
the parking lot of the stadium, not | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
in the stadium. Oh my goodness, that
is one way to deal with it. So you | 0:09:13 | 0:09:18 | |
have had a of snow, you are saying.
What about... Where are the worst | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
hit parts of the country, and in
terms of the forecast going | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
forwards, what is expected to happen
next? The worst hit parts of the | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
country will actually be the
north-east, so places like | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
Massachusetts, the Boston area, they
had not only 12 to 18 inches of | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
snow, but also they had tidal
flooding as well. So you had that | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
water flooding in from the Atlantic
Ocean, and a lot of people's homes | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
were flooded and you had icy water
flowing down streets. People lost | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
their vehicles. So I feel especially
bad for residents of eastern | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
Massachusetts. Heading into the
weekend, that is the bitter cold. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
The good news is, going into the
second half of January, we might | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
have somewhat of a January saw,
which we need across the eastern | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
part of the United States to get rid
of all at snow -- thaw. So everyone | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
can get back to a somewhat normal
life. Well, we wish you all well. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:17 | |
You have obviously been some
fatalities as well, so we are very | 0:10:17 | 0:10:21 | |
mindful of the weather hurting
people as well. Thank you so much | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
for telling us what it is like that.
Good luck. Thank you so much. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:30 | |
Plans to improve reading standards
amongst children from disadvantaged | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
backgrounds have been announced
by the Department of Education. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
There will be a network of 35
literacy-teaching centres | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
across England, to work
with primary schools that | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
are in challenging areas. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:41 | |
Labour says the funding will do
nothing to change Government cuts | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
to school budgets. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:44 | |
There will also be schemes
to improve the vocabulary | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
of pre-school children
in the north of England. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
Church, cheese. Can you hear that?
Closing the inequality gap in | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
classrooms is key to giving every
child the best start. Research has | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
shown that five -year-olds who
struggle with language are six times | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
less likely to reach the expected
standard in English at the age of 11 | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
than those with good language
skills. Today, the government has | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
launched literacy hubs backed by a
£6 million of investments to improve | 0:11:07 | 0:11:13 | |
standards in reading and writing.
The idea, similar to one launched in | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
2014 for maths, will enable high
performing schools to share | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
knowledge and resources with those
in deprived areas. This is about | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
investing around the country,
winning together teachers and | 0:11:24 | 0:11:29 | |
literary specialists, so we can make
sure we do even better on reading | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
and writing standards, but also that
we don't see any children falling | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
behind. The plans also include a £5
million investment to include | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
vocabulary for children before they
go to school in the north of | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
England. Labour says the funding
will do nothing to change government | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
cuts to school budgets. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
A bar owner has been left shaken
but not stirred after being reunited | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
with what is thought to be the most
expensive vodka bottle in the world. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Made of gold and silver,
with a diamond-encrusted replica | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
of the Russian imperial eagle
on its cap, this extravagant bottle | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
was on loan to a bar in Copenhagen
when it was stolen last week. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
The bottle, which is worth nearly £1
million, was found empty | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
on a construction site in the city. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
But it is not believed the theft
will affect its value, | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
and the bar owner says he simply
intends to fill it up again. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:30 | |
So maybe someone drank it, but it is
the bottle and not the vodka which | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
was valuable. Dry January. Let's
have a look at the Saturday morning | 0:12:34 | 0:12:44 | |
papers. The Daily Mail front page,
the NHS saying don't get ill. We | 0:12:44 | 0:12:50 | |
were talking about coping with the
winter NHS crisis, telling the | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
public not to get ill. Following an
exceptionally busy week for the NHS, | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
people have been urged to stay well
this week. This advice has included | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
stocking up on medicines, wrapping
up warm, and trying to nip any early | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
symptoms of cold in the bud. The
Daily Mirror's front story is that | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
one of those convicted in killing
James Bulger in the 1990s is to face | 0:13:12 | 0:13:20 | |
another trial, this time over
allegations of possessing child | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
abuse images. He is now 35 and has a
new identity, and for that reason it | 0:13:23 | 0:13:28 | |
has been decided that the trial will
be held in secret, in private. We | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
will find out later what happened,
but the Mirror are asking questions | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
about whether that should happen.
The date and place of the trial and | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
the details as it happens will not
be publicised. The Financial Times | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
this weekend, their top story is
Fire and Fury, the book about being | 0:13:44 | 0:13:53 | |
inside the White House, and Donald
Trump has been tweeting as recently | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
as an hour ago deriding it. And
productivity jumping at the fastest | 0:13:57 | 0:14:02 | |
rate for six years during the third
quarter last year year, raising | 0:14:02 | 0:14:08 | |
hopes for a turnaround in the UK
economy. And when Ben was here | 0:14:08 | 0:14:15 | |
yesterday he said that car sales
have dropped to the lowest in six | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
years, partly because we feel we
don't have enough extra money in our | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
pockets to spend on luxury goods.
Also reflecting on the future of | 0:14:22 | 0:14:27 | |
diesel cars. And the Daily Telegraph
has Lily Jones in the Darkest Our, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:34 | |
talking about her own family
connections to the Second World War | 0:14:34 | 0:14:40 | |
-- Darkest Hour. And we expect some
kind of reshuffle of the Cabinet in | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
the next week or two on the
speculation is that Jeremy Hunt | 0:14:45 | 0:14:54 | |
might be promoted to become Deputy
Prime Minister, but Theresa May is | 0:14:54 | 0:14:58 | |
torn over whether it is the right
time to do that, and it might look | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
like she was promoting him at a time
when the NHS is struggling. That | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
might affect that reshuffle. You
pointed that picture out of Lily | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
Jones, I have made a list of
pictures I want to see. Darkest Hour | 0:15:10 | 0:15:21 | |
looks excellent, and as I said, Gary
Oldman plays Winston Churchill. And | 0:15:21 | 0:15:27 | |
gearing up towards the Oscars in
March and April, all these films | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
competing for it. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:42 | |
We talked about some amazing
temperatures in America. What about | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
here.
Look at it. Canadian | 0:15:45 | 0:15:50 | |
here.
Look at it. Canadian Arctic air. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:51 | |
It's been across this part of the
world for weeks. An extremely cold | 0:15:51 | 0:15:56 | |
spell. These are daytime
temperatures. -11 degrees in New | 0:15:56 | 0:16:01 | |
York. The average is around three
degrees. Minus seven Celsius. At | 0:16:01 | 0:16:09 | |
night, even colder. It looks like
Toronto, Quebec, genuine -- | 0:16:09 | 0:16:19 | |
generally -23, -25 degrees. After
that moves out, then there is ice. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:25 | |
Those temperatures will be coming up
a little less cold. Back home, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
things are set to turn colder was
well this weekend. Not as cold as | 0:16:30 | 0:16:35 | |
that. If you don't mind the cold and
enjoy the sunshine, it will be | 0:16:35 | 0:16:43 | |
pleasant. We start with a lot of
cloud around, particularly for | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
England and Wales. The wearers you
are heading out. Some rain in some | 0:16:47 | 0:16:54 | |
hill snow affecting parts of North
Wales, central and northern England. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
You can see the blobs of white
indicating snow. A bit of cloud to | 0:16:59 | 0:17:06 | |
start from Northern Ireland. The
generally speaking, a cold start for | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
Scotland. A sunny day to much of
Scotland. Then into northern England | 0:17:11 | 0:17:18 | |
is as cold northerly push pushes the
band southward. By the end of the | 0:17:18 | 0:17:23 | |
afternoon, most of the cloud with
showery rain will be across southern | 0:17:23 | 0:17:27 | |
England. As you can imagine,
tonight, with those clearing skies, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:33 | |
even across the South, a really cold
one. You can see the blue cover -- | 0:17:33 | 0:17:40 | |
blue-collar extending southwards. A
bit more to freeze across the | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
south-east. You can see temperatures
across freezing. Very cold further | 0:17:44 | 0:17:50 | |
north. It means Sunday, a very cold
start but plenty of crisp winter | 0:17:50 | 0:18:01 | |
sunshine. A bit more of a breeze
across the south-east. Further | 0:18:01 | 0:18:06 | |
north, that will be lighter. You can
see this area of pressure. Gradually | 0:18:06 | 0:18:15 | |
through Monday, we will start to see
the cloud increasing. Thank you very | 0:18:15 | 0:18:22 | |
much, Stav. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:22 | |
the cloud increasing. Thank you very
much, Stav. Keep those big blue | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
patches away. Let's find out some
more because Jane and Jason are here | 0:18:26 | 0:18:35 | |
with The Film Review. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
Hello and a very warm welcome
to The Film Review on BBC News. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
To take us through this
week's cinema releases I'm | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
joined by Jason Solomons. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:55 | |
What have you been
watching this week? | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
This week, we find out
what happened when | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
Christopher Plummer replaced
Kevin Spacey in Ridley Scott's | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
All The Money In The World,
a kidnap drama set mainly | 0:19:01 | 0:19:07 | |
in 1970s Italy but also
on a huge estate in England. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
And saddle up for the return
of the Wild West. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:18 | |
But is it the Western revived
or revised in Hostiles? | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike,
take to the wide open spaces for the | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
violence of the Wild West. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:25 | |
And Ben Stiller checks
in for a midlife crisis | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
in Brad's Status, a comedy
about middle age and loss | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
and reflecting on your existence
while you take your son to | 0:19:31 | 0:19:38 | |
colleges. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
But let's start with
All The Money In The World. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
I'm reeling from the fact
that Christopher Plummer | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
is 88, because he looks astonishing. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
That is what you can
do with all the money | 0:19:48 | 0:19:56 | |
in the world, a lot of CGI! | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
John Paul Getty, who Kevin
Spacey was playing, and | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
the film has been 'deSpaceyed'
and replaced very | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
famously by Christopher
Plummer, the very | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
feat of that is what
marks this film out | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
as a footnote in film history. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
Extraordinary from Ridley Scott
to reshape his film | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
around a new performance
in Christopher Plummer. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
We watch the film now,
especially in this climate, | 0:20:13 | 0:20:19 | |
trying to see the join,
to see if there was a ready | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
break glow of CGI inserts
from Christopher Plummer. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:29 | |
Can we spot the ghost
of Kevin Spacey - you can't at all. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
The film is seamlessly done,
and the reshoots are beautifully | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
done and I think Christopher Plummer
is fabulous in the role | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
of John Paul Getty. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:40 | |
I think they would have
been a different... | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
Ridley Scott talked about how
Christopher Plummer has a | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
twinkle in his eye,
whereas Kevin Spacey | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
has a more cold look,
more evil look, and I think that | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
gives the film a lot more heart. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
We kind of pity John Paul Getty
for being the richest man, but he | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
is not just the richest
man but the richest man | 0:20:55 | 0:20:58 | |
there has ever been in the world. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
And his grandson is kidnapped. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:01 | |
Yes, that's the essence. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
It was a huge media
case back in the 1970s, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:12 | |
it gripped the world,
as John Paul Getty refused to pay | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
the ransom, $17 million,
which back in 1973 was | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
quite a lot of money! | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
The point was that it became
this kind of case and he | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
refused to budge and I
think we are supposed | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
to see John Paul Getty
as a curmudgeonly Scrooge type, but | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
Christopher Plummer
gives it a real edge. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
There is a fabulous speech about him
not trusting people, only | 0:21:29 | 0:21:35 | |
objects, of which he
amasses a huge amount. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
They don't give him grief. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:38 | |
But the rest of the film is going
on, Michelle Williams, Golden Globe | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
nominated, and we will
find out the results | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
from LA on Monday morning. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:45 | |
The film has been
nominated for, I guess, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
the feat of Scott
getting it together. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
Christopher Plummer is nominated
for that performance | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
and Michelle Williams
is nominated for the performance | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
of Gayle, the mum,
and here she is wandering | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
My son, Paul, must be very
frightened right now. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
I know I'm frightened for him. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
So, to the people who
took him, I don't care | 0:22:11 | 0:22:15 | |
why you did this, but I ask as
a mother that you think of your own | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
children or the child that you once
were and set my boy free. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
Thank you. | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
Her son's disappeared. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:33 | |
A mother should cry for her son. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
Enough. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:36 | |
Let the lady through. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:37 | |
Let's go! | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
Miss Getty, I'm Corvo.
I'm the lead investigator. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
Would you please follow us. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:41 | |
Tell us more. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:42 | |
You said you had the money. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
I'm a big fan of Michelle Williams,
and she has spoken quite nicely | 0:22:44 | 0:22:50 | |
about how she felt Ridley Scott
was trying to really show this | 0:22:50 | 0:22:55 | |
horrendous story of the kidnap of
a child through the mother's eyes. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
Does that work, does
it come through? | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
It is there. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:00 | |
She reminded me of Katherine
Hepburn with that accent. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
The problem is I didn't know
who I should be watching. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
Obviously the story
between Kevin Spacey | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
and Christopher Plummer
deflected a lot, | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
and I was watching Plummer
and it's quite a hammy role, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
as John Paul Getty. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:17 | |
She's doing something else. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:18 | |
And then you've got
the son, played by Charlie | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
Plummer, no relation,
kidnapped and held | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
hostage in Calabria
by the Italian Mafia. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:36 | |
The 'Ndrangheta. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
So you never quite know
what the centre of the story is. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
For me, it became about
Plummer, and it kind of | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
eclipses Michelle Williams,
who is very good in the role, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
and the film looks good
in a classic Ridley Scott | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
smooth way. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:50 | |
It just didn't get to
the heart of the matter. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
Your heart went out to what it must
be like to being the richest | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
man in the world. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
It's something I've
been contemplating! | 0:24:00 | 0:24:01 | |
That's curious! | 0:24:01 | 0:24:09 | |
And rather enjoying. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:10 | |
Curious!
Curious! | 0:24:10 | 0:24:10 | |
Is the next film going
to be quite brutal? | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
I have heard lots about it
but not seen it, Hostiles. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:15 | |
There is always room for one or two
Westerns per year now. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
It used to be what Hollywood
and America was made on. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
But now Hostiles, I think we can
tell there is irony in the title. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
It's what American armies
called, what American | 0:24:26 | 0:24:27 | |
cowboys and soldiers
used to call the Native | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
Americans, the Injuns
they were known as. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
We're not allowed to
call them that now. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:34 | |
When you have a film that
revises that, what do you | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
do about the brutality
of the old West? | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
The way of the gun. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:40 | |
This film opens with Rosamund Pike
and her entire family wiped out | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
by Comanche Indians,
so you are already | 0:24:44 | 0:24:45 | |
thinking, I don't see
where the balance is with a new look | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
at the West, where we expect white
America to be slightly kind | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
of apologetic for the way
Native Americans were treated. | 0:24:52 | 0:25:02 | |
This film doesn't do that,
which is rather brave of it. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
Christian Bale is the Army man
who has to escort a posse | 0:25:05 | 0:25:08 | |
of Cheyenne Indians back
to their natural homeland, | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
and they come under attack
from Comanche Indians. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
It is about warring factions. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:13 | |
Nobody comes out of it
particularly well. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
It is fairly brutal
and bleak landscape. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
But I think that is
what it was like. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
So that realism that is coming
into the Western, that revisionism | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
of what the hero is,
Pat Garritt, and going back | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
to Billy The Kid or Dances
with Wolves with Kevin Costner. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:32 | |
But it doesn't quite
tell it from the | 0:25:32 | 0:25:34 | |
point of view of the Indian. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:35 | |
Quite a tough watch? | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
It is. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:37 | |
And you don't get
the payoff that you | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
usually get with the hero emerging. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:41 | |
A bit more uplift in our third
choice today, I say | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
with some hope? | 0:25:44 | 0:25:45 | |
It's a comedy, but a maudlin
one, about Ben Stiller | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
experiencing a midlife crisis. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
I thought this was
very funny, directed | 0:25:49 | 0:25:50 | |
by Mike Whyte, who people might know
as the director of School Of Rock | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
for Jack Black. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:55 | |
This is about Ben Stiller
who has to take his son, | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
Troy, on a tour of colleges. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
Americans do this, flying off to see
which colleges they want to get | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
into, one of which is Harvard. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:05 | |
Ben Stiller was never
able to get into it, | 0:26:05 | 0:26:07 | |
as Brad but his son Troy harbours
great ambitions of getting into it. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
But it sparks in Brad,
a reminiscence about all of his | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
college chums and how much better
than him they have all done at life. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:27 | |
A-ha. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:28 | |
I couldn't help but wonder,
when was the last time | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
Craig Fisher flew in economy? | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
Probably not in decades. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:36 | |
Mr Fisher, can i offer
you a warm towel? | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
Yes, thank you. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
I know Jason Hadfield
has his own private plane. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
Never has to fly commercial at all. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:56 | |
Nick Pascale probably
flies private, too. | 0:26:56 | 0:26:59 | |
Must be nice to always
have the seas part for you. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:06 | |
Nothing out of reach. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:14 | |
Everything an option. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
It must be like a drug,
always feeling | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
important and special. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
Better than, all the adventures,
the exotic destinations. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:32 | |
Oh, great. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:33 | |
So does everyone leave the cinema
feeling completely inadequate? | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
A first world problem. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
They are. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:39 | |
He envies everyone, his son's
youth, his son's friends, | 0:27:39 | 0:27:44 | |
They are all perky and bright. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
But then he confesses to them
and they say, to pull yourself | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
together, mate. | 0:27:49 | 0:27:50 | |
You are all right. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:51 | |
You live in Sacramento,
that's about the only | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
thing you have done well. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:54 | |
It's about assessing those things,
and I thought it was | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
painfully smart and painfully funny,
well done and very well | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
performed by Ben Stiller,
Who I think we think | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
of as a cometic performer,
doing his Blue Steel lot. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:15 | |
We do, yes. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:19 | |
But he does this well
and he gets that midlife | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
crisis very well,
but perhaps it's a bit | 0:28:22 | 0:28:24 | |
close to home for me,
not that my son is at college yet. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
Let's talk about something lovely. | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
Why not. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:29 | |
The best out. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:30 | |
You ask me this, I still have
to say Paddington 2. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 | |
It is not just the best out,
it is one of the best | 0:28:33 | 0:28:37 | |
films of last year
and stretching into this year. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
It is doing great box office. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
And I think he is just
adorable in all his | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
little outfits, lost
in the big city of London. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
I mean, I've seen it twice. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
If I was the richest
man in the world, | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
I'd go and see
Paddington 2 every day. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
In your own private jet. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
Surely you would have one
of those, Jason Solomons? | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
To stay in? | 0:28:56 | 0:28:57 | |
I would get the DVD
of Limehouse Gollum, | 0:28:57 | 0:28:59 | |
it is out now. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:00 | |
This is a sort of East End set
Victorian melodrama style. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:03 | |
Starring the great Bill Nighy -
and a wonderful performance | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
from Olivia Cooke,
a young British actor. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:08 | |
Danny Mays. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:08 | |
About murders going on. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:09 | |
A Jack the Ripper-style
thriller set in the East End | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
with the London fog and people out
and about like Oliver | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
creatures going out
and going oom pah-pah, | 0:29:15 | 0:29:17 | |
but a grisly murder at the bottom | 0:29:17 | 0:29:19 | |
of it, and it captures that Gothic
horror of London very, very well. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
Interesting and well done. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:23 | |
And as you have hinted,
award season is nearly upon us, | 0:29:23 | 0:29:27 | |
so we'll be talking plenty
in the coming weeks. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
Thank you
for now, Jason Solomons. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
A taster of what is
on offer this week. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
Quick reminder before we go, all our | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
film news and reviews
from across the BBC are online. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
Sure you know the address
but there it is, | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
BBC.co.uk/Mark Kermode. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:41 | |
All previous programmes
are on the iPlayer. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:43 | |
That is it for this week. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:44 | |
Enjoy your cinemagoing. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:45 | |
Goodbye. | 0:29:45 | 0:30:29 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
Good morning. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
Here is a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News: | 0:30:35 | 0:30:38 | |
A lawyer who represented victims
of the serial sex offender | 0:30:38 | 0:30:41 | |
John Worboys says some
of her clients whose cases weren't | 0:30:41 | 0:30:44 | |
taken to trial want
to give evidence. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
The former black cab driver
is being freed from jail, | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
ten years after being convicted
of 19 offences, although police | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
believe he attacked many more. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:52 | |
Lawyers say that a number of women
were told that their testimony | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
wasn't required to put Worboys
behind bars for a longer | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
period of time. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:03 | |
Five online gambling companies
could have their licenses revoked | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
over concern they are not doing
enough to help problem gamblers | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
or prevent money launderers
from using their sites. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:11 | |
The Gambling Commission has written
to all 195 online casino operators, | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
to tell them about the safeguards
they should all have in place. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:25 | |
It comes after some companies were
not following up with gamblers who | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
were addicted, and failed to prevent
money laundering by criminals or | 0:31:28 | 0:31:33 | |
terrorists. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
President Trump has taken to Twitter
overnight to show his continued | 0:31:35 | 0:31:38 | |
frustration over the release
of a controversial book | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
documenting his first
year in the White House. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
Calling the author of the book,
Michael Wolff, a total loser, | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
the President accuses him
of making up stories. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former chief
strategist Steve Bannon | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
'Sloppy Steve', claiming
he cried when he was fired. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:53 | |
The book, called Fire and Fury,
has now gone on sale early, | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:01 | |
EasyJet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among the major employers | 0:32:01 | 0:32:04 | |
who have been revealed to pay women,
on average, at least 15% | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
less than men. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:13 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
publish their figures by April. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:16 | |
More than 500 have done so. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:18 | |
Another 8,000 must do by April,
or risk being fined, | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
under a new law intended to tackle
workplace discrimination. | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
The search for the missing MH370
Malaysian Airlines plane that | 0:32:23 | 0:32:26 | |
disappeared almost four years
ago is to be resumed. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
The jet was carrying more than 200
passengers when it vanished in 2014. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
Now, a private US exploration
company called Ocean Infinity has | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
been given permission
to continue the search, | 0:32:35 | 0:32:36 | |
which ended last year. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:58 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members | 0:32:58 | 0:33:00 | |
of the United Nations Security
Council for calling an emergency | 0:33:00 | 0:33:03 | |
meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:05 | |
China and France said the unrest did
not threaten international security. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:08 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce, | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
and repeated claims
that the protests were | 0:33:10 | 0:33:12 | |
directed from abroad. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:13 | |
Plans to improve reading standards
amongst children from disadvantaged | 0:33:13 | 0:33:15 | |
backgrounds have been announced
by the Department for Education. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
There will be a network of 35
literacy-teaching centres | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
across England, to work
with primary schools that | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
are in challenging areas. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:24 | |
Labour says the funding will do
nothing to change Government cuts | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
to school budgets. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:27 | |
There will also be schemes
to improve the vocabulary | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
of pre-school children
in the north of England. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
If you are sitting at home and
thinking you don't want to go | 0:33:32 | 0:33:37 | |
outside, it is freezing, you ain't
seen nothing yet. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 0:33:40 | 0:33:42 | |
that the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 0:33:42 | 0:33:44 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
The national weather service
predicts wind chills as low | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
as minus 40 degrees Celsius. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
Thousands of flights have been
cancelled and up to 19 people have | 0:33:50 | 0:33:54 | |
lost their lives. | 0:33:54 | 0:34:00 | |
Those are this morning's main news
headlines. Mike is here with the | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
sport. To win cricket matches you
have to take perhaps more than two | 0:34:04 | 0:34:10 | |
wickets in a day. That is all
England managed on the final day of | 0:34:10 | 0:34:17 | |
-- the third day of the final Ashes
Test. Australia very much on top | 0:34:17 | 0:34:23 | |
once again but I can cheer you up
with some FA Cup excitement shortly. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:27 | |
It has been another morale-sapping
day for England's bowlers | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
in the Sydney sunshine. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:30 | |
Despite taking the wickets
of Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
early, it is advantage Australia. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:34 | |
The Marsh brothers, Mitchell
and Shaun, are the ones punishing | 0:34:34 | 0:34:37 | |
England's bowlers now. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:40 | |
Mitchell has made 50,
while Shaun closes in on a century. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:45 | |
Australia now 454-4, a lead of 108. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:50 | |
Onto the FA Cup third round,
one of the highlights of any | 0:34:50 | 0:34:53 | |
sporting year, because all the top
teams enter the competition. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
And, in the Merseyside derby,
the world's most expensive defender | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
scored the winner for Liverpool,
while Manchester United left it late | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
to beat Derby County
at Old Trafford. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:03 | |
Drew Savage rounds up both matches. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:14 | |
The pressure lifted off the
shoulders of the man with a £75 | 0:35:14 | 0:35:19 | |
million pricetag on his back. A
debut to remember for Virgil van | 0:35:19 | 0:35:23 | |
Dijk on a night that provided plenty
of talking points. For example, was | 0:35:23 | 0:35:28 | |
this a penalty? The Liverpool boss,
Klopp, didn't think so, but the | 0:35:28 | 0:35:34 | |
referee's was the opinion that
counted. James Milner the calmest | 0:35:34 | 0:35:38 | |
man at Anfield. Mason Holgate was
not. There was bound to be a | 0:35:38 | 0:35:44 | |
reaction from Firmino, the referee
madly decided to step in. Liverpool | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
had had most of the play but Everton
countered with some quality, Gylfi | 0:35:47 | 0:35:52 | |
Sigurdsson with a worthy second-half
equaliser. Until the big moment | 0:35:52 | 0:35:56 | |
arrived for a certain Dutch
defender. A decent looking corner | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
kick, but didn't get it, van Dijk
did. The man brought to strengthen | 0:35:59 | 0:36:07 | |
their defence delighted fans and
manager alike with a winning goal. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:10 | |
Yes, in front of the goal, makes it
even better. Really good. It was a | 0:36:10 | 0:36:15 | |
Merseyside Derby, so that extra push
for both teams, and you saw that | 0:36:15 | 0:36:19 | |
tonight. It was a proper, proper cup
fight, and I like that. Championship | 0:36:19 | 0:36:26 | |
side Derby had put on a proper
flight away to Manchester United, | 0:36:26 | 0:36:30 | |
who were six minutes away from a
replay when this happened. Lingard, | 0:36:30 | 0:36:34 | |
good hands. He has done it again!
Lingard, magnificent strike. Derby | 0:36:34 | 0:36:40 | |
will be free to concentrate on their
push to join Manchester United in | 0:36:40 | 0:36:44 | |
the Premier League. Lukaku wrapped
things up at the end, the site | 0:36:44 | 0:36:50 | |
please to avoid another defeat. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:54 | |
As you saw, a rather unsavoury
incident in the first half of that | 0:36:54 | 0:36:58 | |
match. Let's have another look.
Holgate does push Firmino into the | 0:36:58 | 0:37:06 | |
stands, and afterwards it appears
Firmino says something unwelcome in | 0:37:06 | 0:37:10 | |
Portuguese as the players come
together. The referee has included | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
it in his report, but they were not
looked at the time. It is something | 0:37:13 | 0:37:19 | |
we may hear more about in the coming
hours and days. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:23 | |
On FA Cup third-round weekend,
we were looking forward to seeing | 0:37:23 | 0:37:26 | |
the return of Jamie Vardy
to his old club, Fleetwood Town. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
But he is injured, so it seems
unlikely he will be risked | 0:37:29 | 0:37:32 | |
by Leicester in the first
Cup tie of the day. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
Elsewhere, there are nine
Premier League teams hoping to avoid | 0:37:35 | 0:37:37 | |
an upset against lower-league teams,
while there is an intriguing contest | 0:37:37 | 0:37:40 | |
at the Etihad. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:41 | |
The runaway Premier League leaders,
Manchester City, take on Burnley, | 0:37:41 | 0:37:44 | |
this season's surprise package,
who are seventh in the table. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:50 | |
Of course we are going to rotate in
some players, but the focus is going | 0:37:50 | 0:37:56 | |
to Burnley, and what they have done
so far is difficult. They do not | 0:37:56 | 0:38:00 | |
concede goals. They have received
one goal, the other games all 1-0, | 0:38:00 | 0:38:07 | |
1-0. And they show a strong
physicality. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
The feud between Manchester United
manager Jose Mourinho | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
and Chelsea's Antonio Conte
appears to be escalating. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
In Mourinho's latest jibe,
he said he would never be | 0:38:16 | 0:38:19 | |
suspended for match-fixing. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:19 | |
Conte was given a four-match ban
a few years ago for failing | 0:38:19 | 0:38:23 | |
to report match fixing
at his previous club, | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
Siena, although he was later
cleared of any wrongdoing. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:27 | |
Mourinho was responding
after Conte said he was getting | 0:38:27 | 0:38:30 | |
old and losing his memory when it
came to his own touch-line antics. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:39 | |
Bath ended their three-match losing
run in rugby union's Premiership | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
last night with a comfortable 46-25
victory at struggling Worcester. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:45 | |
They pulled away after the break
with a flurry of tries, | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
lock James Phillips going over
for only the second time in his 63 | 0:38:48 | 0:38:51 | |
League games to secure
the bonus point for Bath. | 0:38:51 | 0:39:00 | |
In the Pro14, Scarlets have opened
up a seven-point lead at the top | 0:39:00 | 0:39:04 | |
of conference B with a dominant,
47-13 bonus-point win over Dragons. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:07 | |
The victory means Scarlets
are unbeaten in five Welsh | 0:39:07 | 0:39:09 | |
derbies this season. | 0:39:09 | 0:39:11 | |
Elsewhere, Edinburgh
beat Southern Kings. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:19 | |
It is the sport that fuses
gymnastics and free-running, | 0:39:19 | 0:39:22 | |
and now, you can go on and become
a professional ninja. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
Ten years after it started
as a TV contest in Japan, | 0:39:25 | 0:39:27 | |
athletes in the UK are getting ready
for the fifth championship here. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:31 | |
So I went along to one of the dozens
of places where you can start | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
on a ninja course -
indeed, Europe's largest | 0:39:35 | 0:39:37 | |
one, in Manchester. | 0:39:37 | 0:40:02 | |
How long does it take to become a
Ninja? To become a professional, 50 | 0:40:02 | 0:40:09 | |
years. But for someone like you,
gymnastic, athletic... I went to | 0:40:09 | 0:40:15 | |
have a look at Europe's biggest one. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:22 | |
Running up the wall, hanging upside
down, the increasingly common ninja. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:29 | |
It is one of the new sporting crazes
to be hitting the UK, and it started | 0:40:29 | 0:40:34 | |
in Japan. Straightaway you can see
how challenging ninja course gives, | 0:40:34 | 0:40:39 | |
with just the simple person swings,
if you like, testing even the best | 0:40:39 | 0:40:44 | |
of them. A ninja is officially
defined as a person skilled in the | 0:40:44 | 0:40:51 | |
Japanese art of Ninja two, the
combination of free-running, | 0:40:51 | 0:40:56 | |
obstacle racing and gymnastics.
You're using your body like as a | 0:40:56 | 0:41:02 | |
monkey. You are climbing, you're
twisting your body, from the core | 0:41:02 | 0:41:05 | |
areas. I think if you go to a normal
gym you are not getting anywhere | 0:41:05 | 0:41:12 | |
near to Ninja Warrior. This does
bring out the inner slot in you. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:17 | |
While Johnny trains on the
professional course in Manchester, | 0:41:17 | 0:41:20 | |
there are beginner slopes to get you
started as you raise your mates for | 0:41:20 | 0:41:24 | |
fun, building up to the intermediate
and advanced courses, where the | 0:41:24 | 0:41:28 | |
falls get bigger. A lot of these
obstacles it is about the technique | 0:41:28 | 0:41:31 | |
in the preparation. I know it is a
race, but it is in the planning as | 0:41:31 | 0:41:36 | |
well. Look at that for a role,
though, eh? -- roll. This is the | 0:41:36 | 0:41:49 | |
best place, in the end, isn't it? It
is completely different to your | 0:41:49 | 0:41:54 | |
normal gym. So you have all the
Ninja obstacles, it is challenging, | 0:41:54 | 0:41:57 | |
it is fun. And I think the gym can
be a little bit boring, so this | 0:41:57 | 0:42:02 | |
keeps you motivated, and having fun.
It is mentally and physically | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
challenging. So it doesn't matter
how fit you are, you need to have a | 0:42:05 | 0:42:08 | |
certain technique to get accustomed
to the apparatus. Ninja courses | 0:42:08 | 0:42:14 | |
around the world have become famous
for their various challenges, like | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
the spider wall. The trouble is, the
longer you stay on this, the more | 0:42:17 | 0:42:21 | |
sweaty you get. I think I am ready
to jump. Just the fact that you | 0:42:21 | 0:42:27 | |
think you can't do it and you just
do it. And you have your friends | 0:42:27 | 0:42:31 | |
like her who are motivated, and once
you do it, even better. And the | 0:42:31 | 0:42:37 | |
infamous climb at the end, when you
eventually get there. That set. -- | 0:42:37 | 0:42:43 | |
that is it. Ninja Warrior. A bit of
cheating, maybe. But you do feel | 0:42:43 | 0:42:51 | |
like you're one with the universe. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:55 | |
There you are, the defending
champion, Johnny. It does bring out | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
the inner child. I like the fact you
could do the beginner courses, the | 0:42:59 | 0:43:03 | |
children's courses, a bit like
skiing, the beginner up to the black | 0:43:03 | 0:43:07 | |
run, which is the professional Ninja
course. Is that the one you are | 0:43:07 | 0:43:11 | |
doing? I did a couple of things, but
I could never complete it. I did the | 0:43:11 | 0:43:16 | |
slot bar. There was that one with a
guy... I think that is called the | 0:43:16 | 0:43:22 | |
Sammon bar. And Johnny is one of the
few who can do it -- salmon. It is | 0:43:22 | 0:43:34 | |
like a soft play for adults, isn't
it? | 0:43:34 | 0:43:42 | |
Let's bring you up-to-date with the
main stories. Alleged victims of the | 0:43:42 | 0:43:46 | |
serial sex offender John Worboys,
whose cases were not taken to trial, | 0:43:46 | 0:43:50 | |
say they want their day in court. In
freezing temperatures recorded | 0:43:50 | 0:43:54 | |
across the east coast of America in
the aftermath of what is known as a | 0:43:54 | 0:43:59 | |
bomb cyclone. Yesterday we were
talking about this. You heard about | 0:43:59 | 0:44:06 | |
this last -- latte levy. A lot of
people are taking disposable coffee | 0:44:06 | 0:44:16 | |
cups, and the idea is that if you
don't use one of those throwaway | 0:44:16 | 0:44:22 | |
cups, then you would get a discount
if you took your own plastic cup. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:26 | |
The inside of those is lined with
plastic so it makes it difficult to | 0:44:26 | 0:44:29 | |
recycle when they are not plastic
cups. Lots of you have got in touch | 0:44:29 | 0:44:33 | |
with pictures to the racks as
Facebook and Twitter pages, | 0:44:33 | 0:44:37 | |
including Rachel, who collected 29
coffee cups in less than a mile, | 0:44:37 | 0:44:42 | |
walking around near her home in
Falkirk on her afternoon walk with | 0:44:42 | 0:44:46 | |
her dog. That is incredible, isn't
it? One of our viewers got 50p off | 0:44:46 | 0:44:51 | |
their coffee at Gordon Street in
Glasgow. That is because they used | 0:44:51 | 0:44:56 | |
their reusable cup. So giving people
discounts rather than charging | 0:44:56 | 0:45:01 | |
people extra. Another viewer said
they have been using this awesome to | 0:45:01 | 0:45:05 | |
Raonic cup, and not a paper cup, as
it says proudly. And it still hasn't | 0:45:05 | 0:45:11 | |
smashed, well done. I have one at
home. The ceramic ones? It is | 0:45:11 | 0:45:17 | |
actually a plastic one, which makes
me wrangle with how environ mentally | 0:45:17 | 0:45:20 | |
friendly it is, but I reuse it. | 0:45:20 | 0:45:33 | |
Stav has a weather for us. What
about the state of the weather in | 0:45:33 | 0:45:37 | |
the UK? Not as cold here as it is in
the north-eastern United States. We | 0:45:37 | 0:45:44 | |
have Arctic winds down from the
north thanks to an area of high | 0:45:44 | 0:45:48 | |
pressure. Central northern area is
starting a sunny and cold with the | 0:45:48 | 0:45:53 | |
risk of ice but also some ice across
the south-west of England. Watch out | 0:45:53 | 0:45:57 | |
if you are heading out first thing.
For England and Wales, | 0:45:57 | 0:46:01 | |
if you are heading out first thing.
For England and Wales, a rather | 0:46:01 | 0:46:02 | |
cloudy start. Outbreaks of rain
across Central northern part. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:08 | |
Temperatures low enough to produce
that. A few wintry showers across | 0:46:08 | 0:46:13 | |
north-east England but generally
speaking, we're going to start off | 0:46:13 | 0:46:17 | |
on a dry note. Cold and frosty the
parts of Scotland. That | 0:46:17 | 0:46:22 | |
north-easterly wind will be brisk.
It will push the cloud across | 0:46:22 | 0:46:26 | |
England and Wales. It will be
located across southern counties of | 0:46:26 | 0:46:31 | |
England the skies brightening up
nicely. A few wintry showers. It | 0:46:31 | 0:46:38 | |
really feel quite cold. As we head
into the overnight period, it will | 0:46:38 | 0:46:45 | |
clear away. Brisk winds here. A cold
night but not quite as cold as it is | 0:46:45 | 0:46:54 | |
going to be further north. -10
degrees into central Scotland. | 0:46:54 | 0:47:03 | |
Tomorrow morning, a cold and frosty
start. Loads of sunshine around. It | 0:47:03 | 0:47:09 | |
will stay dry and sunny or date.
Still quite brisk across the | 0:47:09 | 0:47:14 | |
south-east. Temperatures barely
above freezing in the north. There | 0:47:14 | 0:47:19 | |
is our area of high pressure. It
will allow more of an easterly wind | 0:47:19 | 0:47:24 | |
to build as we go through Monday.
This weather front will let out in | 0:47:24 | 0:47:32 | |
the middle part of the week. For
Monday, another cold start. The best | 0:47:32 | 0:47:36 | |
of the sunshine. The cloud will
continue to encroach in from the | 0:47:36 | 0:47:41 | |
south-east. Clad in rain pushing in | 0:47:41 | 0:47:46 | |
continue to encroach in from the
south-east. Clad in rain pushing in | 0:47:46 | 0:47:46 | |
from the west. It is becoming more
mild. You know you are used to | 0:47:46 | 0:47:54 | |
winter when you look at six degrees
and think that is brilliant. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:58 | |
Now it's time for Click. | 0:47:58 | 0:47:59 | |
Spencer Kelly and the team
are getting ready for their live | 0:47:59 | 0:48:01 | |
Welcome. | 0:48:12 | 0:48:13 | |
Hello, welcome. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:13 | |
Welcome, how are you? | 0:48:13 | 0:48:14 | |
Hello...? | 0:48:14 | 0:48:24 | |
Welcome, welcome... | 0:48:24 | 0:48:25 | |
Second script - "How are you? | 0:48:25 | 0:48:27 | |
How are you?" | 0:48:27 | 0:48:38 | |
Hello, everybody! | 0:48:38 | 0:48:39 | |
I am literally being built
from the skin out, currently, | 0:48:39 | 0:48:41 | |
by these two lovely ladies
who are going to try to make | 0:48:41 | 0:48:45 | |
me look different... | 0:48:45 | 0:48:45 | |
the | 0:48:45 | 0:48:46 | |
the | 0:48:46 | 0:48:46 | |
All right, then. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:47 | |
We are all good to go,
Brendan, you happy? | 0:48:47 | 0:48:49 | |
So what we're going to do
is go to silence, please, | 0:48:49 | 0:48:52 | |
and go to black. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:53 | |
Lose the house lights. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:56 | |
ANNOUNCER: This is BBC Click Live. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:24 | |
Please welcome your
host, Spencer Kelly! | 0:49:24 | 0:49:28 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Erm...right! | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
There. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:31 | |
Hello! | 0:49:31 | 0:49:32 | |
Welcome. | 0:49:32 | 0:49:32 | |
My own floor! | 0:49:32 | 0:49:33 | |
Welcome to Click Live! | 0:49:33 | 0:49:34 | |
And have we got a show for you...! | 0:49:34 | 0:49:36 | |
Have we got a show for them? | 0:49:36 | 0:49:38 | |
We have, we're ready to go. | 0:49:38 | 0:49:40 | |
LAUGHTER We have some really amazing
things for you tonight. | 0:49:40 | 0:49:42 | |
We've got some things that noise,
we've got some things that fly, | 0:49:42 | 0:49:46 | |
we have some things
for you to taste. | 0:49:46 | 0:49:48 | |
Some of it won't work, OK? | 0:49:48 | 0:49:49 | |
LAUGHTER Bear with us,
because hopefully the stuff that | 0:49:49 | 0:49:54 | |
does work - fingers crossed,
and a lot of it has in rehearsals - | 0:49:54 | 0:49:58 | |
it is a world-first,
and you won't see this anywhere | 0:49:58 | 0:50:01 | |
else, and no-one has
seen this before you. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:03 | |
Before any of that, I have
to introduce you to the other half | 0:50:03 | 0:50:07 | |
of the show. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:07 | |
Please welcome to the
stage Kate Russell. | 0:50:07 | 0:50:09 | |
APPLAUSE Brilliant, isn't it? | 0:50:09 | 0:50:12 | |
When they said I'd have my name
in lights, I was expecting more | 0:50:13 | 0:50:17 | |
Broadway than boardwalk -
but it's a start! | 0:50:17 | 0:50:19 | |
It's going to be a really,
really crammed show. | 0:50:19 | 0:50:25 | |
And I don't want you getting too
comfortable, because there's a lot | 0:50:25 | 0:50:29 | |
of audience participation. | 0:50:29 | 0:50:29 | |
So I hope you're ready to take part. | 0:50:29 | 0:50:33 | |
Do you want to see some tech? | 0:50:33 | 0:50:42 | |
CROWD: Yes! | 0:50:42 | 0:50:43 | |
Good stuff. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:46 | |
I don't believe you. | 0:50:46 | 0:50:47 | |
Do you want to see some tech? | 0:50:47 | 0:50:51 | |
CROWD: Yes! | 0:50:51 | 0:50:56 | |
Computers are a wonderful thing,
but we're going to put them to one | 0:51:03 | 0:51:06 | |
side just for the moment. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:08 | |
I'd like to introduce
you to the power of your own mind. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:12 | |
Breathe slowly and gently,
and I'll discover more about you, | 0:51:12 | 0:51:16 | |
with just a candle. | 0:51:16 | 0:51:20 | |
Now, I sometimes get some powers
and signals through, | 0:51:20 | 0:51:24 | |
and sometimes I get things wrong. | 0:51:24 | 0:51:27 | |
But most of the time, it's right. | 0:51:27 | 0:51:32 | |
So stay with me. | 0:51:32 | 0:51:43 | |
I might just get pieces
of information that come... | 0:51:43 | 0:51:49 | |
I'm starting with a "G". | 0:51:49 | 0:51:51 | |
Let me just put this
down for a moment. | 0:51:51 | 0:51:54 | |
There's a "G" - so I'm
going to start to pull something out | 0:51:54 | 0:51:57 | |
of the audience. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:58 | |
Hopefully it's one of you. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:00 | |
I'm getting a "G". | 0:52:00 | 0:52:01 | |
Let's start with "G" - Gareth? | 0:52:01 | 0:52:02 | |
I think this is him. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:04 | |
Because those are two
different sites. | 0:52:04 | 0:52:05 | |
We have Joe, and he's
going to identify some people | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
in the audience, and he's
going to pretend to read their mind | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
by telling them things about them,
by reading information from them. | 0:52:11 | 0:52:14 | |
It's actually us researching these
people online and feeding that | 0:52:14 | 0:52:17 | |
to him through a hidden earpiece. | 0:52:17 | 0:52:19 | |
Les? | 0:52:19 | 0:52:19 | |
Les...? | 0:52:19 | 0:52:19 | |
It could have been a man,
but I won't make wild assertions. | 0:52:19 | 0:52:22 | |
Is there a Les? | 0:52:22 | 0:52:23 | |
Leslie? | 0:52:23 | 0:52:24 | |
Welcome to the show. | 0:52:24 | 0:52:25 | |
Glad you've got
a microphone with you now. | 0:52:25 | 0:52:27 | |
So we're researching
some of the people in | 0:52:27 | 0:52:29 | |
the audience right now. | 0:52:29 | 0:52:30 | |
The gentleman who's just sat
down in front of us - | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
I've just found the address details
of somebody who sat down | 0:52:33 | 0:52:36 | |
at the front with her
partner as well. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:38 | |
So we're researching as much
as we can about the people that | 0:52:38 | 0:52:42 | |
are in front of us. | 0:52:42 | 0:52:43 | |
Do you have children
called Jack and Sasha? | 0:52:43 | 0:52:45 | |
Um...we have cats
called Jack and Sasha. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:47 | |
Oh, it's close! | 0:52:47 | 0:52:48 | |
It's close, isn't it? | 0:52:48 | 0:52:49 | |
I've set up a free Wi-Fi network. | 0:52:49 | 0:52:54 | |
Most people quite happily
click "free Wi-Fi". | 0:52:54 | 0:52:56 | |
It says please type
in their name, click "connect", | 0:52:56 | 0:53:01 | |
and that is how we start. | 0:53:01 | 0:53:03 | |
We then have their name. | 0:53:03 | 0:53:04 | |
It's the first thing to work from. | 0:53:04 | 0:53:06 | |
Fortunately, as well,
because it's quite a big event, | 0:53:06 | 0:53:08 | |
people will like the Facebook page. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:10 | |
People will say, "I'm at BBC Click." | 0:53:10 | 0:53:12 | |
We can see that publicly and openly. | 0:53:12 | 0:53:14 | |
Is this legal? | 0:53:14 | 0:53:15 | |
Completely legal, yes. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:15 | |
That's a question
we get asked a lot. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:18 | |
We're just looking at
information people have | 0:53:18 | 0:53:19 | |
made available themselves. | 0:53:19 | 0:53:20 | |
But congratulations on your
four-year anniversary. | 0:53:20 | 0:53:22 | |
A round of applause please. | 0:53:22 | 0:53:24 | |
APPLAUSE There's two main lessons -
be careful what you're | 0:53:24 | 0:53:27 | |
signing up for. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:28 | |
The biggest thing that's helping us
the most right now - | 0:53:28 | 0:53:34 | |
people's social media profiles
are open and public. | 0:53:34 | 0:53:36 | |
We're not saying not to use it, just
check that your profile is private. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:40 | |
I'm a complete stranger
to everybody in this audience, | 0:53:40 | 0:53:43 | |
but so far I've been able to go
onto all of their profiles and look | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
at where they were born,
their pictures, their statuses. | 0:53:47 | 0:53:50 | |
As a total stranger,
you probably don't want me | 0:53:50 | 0:53:53 | |
reading that information. | 0:53:53 | 0:53:53 | |
So just - we're not
saying don't use it - | 0:53:53 | 0:53:56 | |
just make it private
so only your friends can see. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:59 | |
That would protect you from all
of the things we've found out | 0:53:59 | 0:54:02 | |
so far, actually. | 0:54:02 | 0:54:08 | |
We listen to radio, to TV, to music,
to podcasts, using speakers. | 0:54:08 | 0:54:13 | |
Big speakers in your house and small
speakers that you wear in your ears | 0:54:13 | 0:54:17 | |
or that are built
into your smartphones. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:21 | |
So I'm just choosing the perfect bit
of coffee for the levitation. | 0:54:21 | 0:54:25 | |
It has to be both kind of small,
but also regular, and I don't think | 0:54:25 | 0:54:29 | |
they normally make coffee beans
with levitation in mind. | 0:54:29 | 0:54:37 | |
One of the things that
Steve has been working | 0:54:37 | 0:54:39 | |
on is ultrasounds, OK? | 0:54:39 | 0:54:41 | |
And we've got a few
ultrasound demos here. | 0:54:41 | 0:54:43 | |
So I'll tell you what -
rather than explain more about it, | 0:54:43 | 0:54:47 | |
shall we, uh...just give it a whirl? | 0:54:47 | 0:54:49 | |
So I'll tell you what -
who's getting something there? | 0:54:49 | 0:54:51 | |
Raise your hand if you can hear
this, then drop your hand as soon | 0:54:51 | 0:54:55 | |
as you can't hear it again. | 0:54:55 | 0:54:57 | |
So this is unusual for a speaker,
because usually when you switch | 0:54:57 | 0:55:00 | |
a speaker on, everyone can hear it. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:02 | |
Right now, we're getting
a really narrow beam. | 0:55:02 | 0:55:04 | |
Really focused beam of sound. | 0:55:04 | 0:55:05 | |
Imagine this is a lot
like a flashlight. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:08 | |
Imagine I'm pointing
a torch around the room. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:10 | |
You'd only see certain parts of it. | 0:55:10 | 0:55:12 | |
This is the same idea,
except with sound. | 0:55:12 | 0:55:17 | |
So we're focusing the sound
and we can focus all that energy, | 0:55:17 | 0:55:20 | |
all that sound energy,
in a specific place. | 0:55:20 | 0:55:22 | |
Wow! | 0:55:22 | 0:55:22 | |
This is the weirdest and slowest
and most continuous Mexican wave | 0:55:22 | 0:55:25 | |
I've ever seen... | 0:55:25 | 0:55:26 | |
I have no idea what you're hearing,
because he's never pointed it | 0:55:26 | 0:55:29 | |
in my direction. | 0:55:29 | 0:55:30 | |
BEEPING Whoa! | 0:55:30 | 0:55:31 | |
Seriously? | 0:55:31 | 0:55:31 | |
Sorry, it's quite
unpleasant, isn't it? | 0:55:31 | 0:55:33 | |
It can make normal sounds as well. | 0:55:33 | 0:55:35 | |
So ultrasound is really
high-frequency sound, | 0:55:35 | 0:55:36 | |
and then you're tying
other stuff into that, | 0:55:36 | 0:55:43 | |
which you're then
sending around the room? | 0:55:43 | 0:55:44 | |
So ultrasound is out
of the range of human hearing, | 0:55:44 | 0:55:47 | |
is pretty much the definition. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:48 | |
We can hear up to 20,000
hertz, and anything | 0:55:48 | 0:55:51 | |
above that is ultrasound. | 0:55:51 | 0:55:53 | |
We can't hear ultrasound,
but this is an ultrasound wave | 0:55:53 | 0:55:55 | |
that's been combined or modulated
with an audible signal. | 0:55:55 | 0:55:58 | |
I tell you what - this is not
just the only ultrasound | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
weirdness we've got. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:02 | |
It gets even weirder. | 0:56:02 | 0:56:03 | |
Pop that down, for goodness's sake. | 0:56:03 | 0:56:06 | |
This looks like it's landed
from another planet. | 0:56:06 | 0:56:08 | |
This is incredible. | 0:56:08 | 0:56:11 | |
Stephen, for the second time
tonight, what on earth is going on? | 0:56:11 | 0:56:14 | |
So, if we can in here,
you can see there's quite a regular | 0:56:14 | 0:56:18 | |
pattern on some of these. | 0:56:18 | 0:56:20 | |
I can't get too close because it
disrupts the sound field. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:23 | |
But maybe you can see
there's a few balls - | 0:56:23 | 0:56:26 | |
a bit of a gap. | 0:56:26 | 0:56:27 | |
So how are you using ultrasound
to actually make stuff levitate? | 0:56:27 | 0:56:31 | |
Well, these speakers are producing
a big ultrasound signal, | 0:56:31 | 0:56:33 | |
that's making a standing wave. | 0:56:33 | 0:56:34 | |
And in between the gaps
of the standing wave, | 0:56:34 | 0:56:37 | |
the balls can get trapped
and they get kept in the same place. | 0:56:37 | 0:56:40 | |
Oh, wow! | 0:56:40 | 0:56:43 | |
Well, that's fantastic. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:45 | |
In fact, that's so amazing, Steve,
I think we deserve a drink. | 0:56:45 | 0:56:48 | |
Would you mix us one? | 0:56:48 | 0:56:50 | |
Yes, of course, Spencer. | 0:56:50 | 0:56:51 | |
Fantastic, right. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:53 | |
This is the weirdest drink... | 0:56:53 | 0:56:55 | |
We rehearsed that, could you tell? | 0:56:55 | 0:56:57 | |
What is this, Steve? | 0:56:57 | 0:56:58 | |
We've got a lovely, lovely
delight for you today. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:01 | |
It's a single grain of coffee
with a, uh...drop of milk, | 0:57:01 | 0:57:04 | |
all levitating in
the middle of the air. | 0:57:04 | 0:57:06 | |
It's a latte. | 0:57:06 | 0:57:07 | |
LAUGHTER You have to
have it in, though. | 0:57:07 | 0:57:11 | |
You can't have it
to go, unfortunately. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:12 | |
Right, so I'm going to try this. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:21 | |
My tongue's not long enough... | 0:57:21 | 0:57:22 | |
Really slowly... | 0:57:22 | 0:57:28 | |
LAUGHTER Oh! | 0:57:28 | 0:57:28 | |
You got it! | 0:57:28 | 0:57:29 | |
APPLAUSE That's really...coffee-y. | 0:57:29 | 0:57:32 | |
That's like really, really strong. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:34 | |
Is that supposed to be that strong? | 0:57:34 | 0:57:36 | |
Yes, yeah. | 0:57:36 | 0:57:36 | |
That's what we've found. | 0:57:36 | 0:57:37 | |
Sugar tastes sweeter,
and coffee's bitter. | 0:57:37 | 0:57:39 | |
Fantastic. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:41 | |
Sri, Steve, thank you very much. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:43 | |
A round of applause for Sri,
Steve and the ultrasound latte! | 0:57:43 | 0:57:46 | |
APPLAUSE There were so many amazing
demos and displays in the show | 0:57:46 | 0:57:50 | |
that we just can't fit
it into this program. | 0:57:50 | 0:57:52 | |
Here's a look at some
of the other highlights | 0:57:52 | 0:58:02 | |
from our evening of delight. | 0:58:02 | 0:58:04 | |
We transformed our tech-loving
audience into musicians, | 0:58:04 | 0:58:14 | |
as Kate and I conducted the biggest
ever micro:bit processor orchestra. | 0:58:14 | 0:58:17 | |
Let's have some more micro:bits
over here in the air. | 0:58:17 | 0:58:20 | |
OK, let's have a few at the back... | 0:58:20 | 0:58:22 | |
Hold those up. | 0:58:22 | 0:58:23 | |
I can see them all in the sky. | 0:58:23 | 0:58:25 | |
We are still waiting
on the Guinness Book of Records | 0:58:25 | 0:58:28 | |
to get back to us, though. | 0:58:28 | 0:58:29 | |
We explored the potential of AR,
with our lucky audience members left | 0:58:29 | 0:58:33 | |
cowering as a full-scale aircraft
suddenly appeared over their heads. | 0:58:33 | 0:58:35 | |
Hello, world! | 0:58:35 | 0:58:47 | |
300,000 people joined us
on Facebook Live during the evening | 0:58:47 | 0:58:50 | |
as we asked them whether
robots should feel pain. | 0:58:50 | 0:58:52 | |
Edward Nemil, thank you for this
question on Facebook: "Sacrificing | 0:58:52 | 0:58:55 | |
a robot for the greater
good might be necessary. | 0:58:55 | 0:58:58 | |
Why would you want it to feel pain?" | 0:58:58 | 0:59:00 | |
If we're going to keep having
a servant class of robots, | 0:59:00 | 0:59:03 | |
then we shouldn't go
down that route. | 0:59:03 | 0:59:05 | |
But the aims of increasing
intelligence may make that | 0:59:05 | 0:59:07 | |
impossible. | 0:59:07 | 0:59:07 | |
We watched drones that study
the landscape and drones that dive, | 0:59:07 | 0:59:11 | |
as we looked at how
they could help in the future. | 0:59:11 | 0:59:17 | |
It's been absolutely amazing. | 0:59:17 | 0:59:18 | |
Have you had a good time? | 0:59:18 | 0:59:20 | |
CROWD: Yes! | 0:59:20 | 0:59:21 | |
Thank you very much for watching,
and we will see you soon. | 0:59:21 | 0:59:27 | |
Bye. | 0:59:27 | 0:59:30 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Cut it. | 0:59:32 | 0:59:33 | |
Well done, well done, well done. | 0:59:33 | 0:59:39 | |
Hello. | 0:59:50 | 0:59:51 | |
This is Breakfast, with Jon Kay
and Naga Munchetty. | 0:59:51 | 0:59:55 | |
A call for the victims of serial sex
attacker John Worboys | 0:59:55 | 0:59:58 | |
to have the chance to give
evidence against him, | 0:59:58 | 1:00:01 | |
following the announcement
he is to be released from jail. | 1:00:01 | 1:00:05 | |
This programme has been told some
of the women whose stories weren't | 1:00:05 | 1:00:08 | |
heard in court now want their cases
to be reviewed by the police. | 1:00:08 | 1:00:10 | |
Good morning, it is
Saturday 6th January. | 1:00:25 | 1:00:31 | |
Also this morning: Online casino
operators are accused | 1:00:31 | 1:00:33 | |
by the industry's watchdog
of failing to prevent money | 1:00:33 | 1:00:35 | |
laundering and protect
problem gamblers. | 1:00:35 | 1:00:37 | |
In sport, England's all is continue
to toil in the Ashes Test. | 1:00:37 | 1:00:48 | |
England are being smashed around
Sydney. England need 133 in the | 1:00:48 | 1:00:53 | |
final test. | 1:00:53 | 1:00:55 | |
And what does it take,
to cut it as a ninja? | 1:00:55 | 1:00:59 | |
I've been having a go at the sport
that started in Japan ten years ago | 1:00:59 | 1:01:03 | |
and is now taking a firm
hold here in the UK. | 1:01:03 | 1:01:06 | |
Temperatures in parts of the US
are predicted to fall to minus 29, | 1:01:06 | 1:01:09 | |
as a record-breaking freeze
follows heavy snow caused | 1:01:09 | 1:01:11 | |
by the so-called bomb cyclone. | 1:01:11 | 1:01:13 | |
Not quite so cold here. | 1:01:13 | 1:01:14 | |
Stav has the details. | 1:01:14 | 1:01:17 | |
Thank you, good morning to you. | 1:01:18 | 1:01:20 | |
Well, it is turning much colder
for all of us this weekend. | 1:01:20 | 1:01:23 | |
But on the plus side
we should see some sunshine, | 1:01:23 | 1:01:26 | |
particularly tomorrow,
but a return to overnight | 1:01:26 | 1:01:28 | |
frost, as well. | 1:01:28 | 1:01:29 | |
I will have all the details
for you very shortly. | 1:01:29 | 1:01:31 | |
Look forward to it. | 1:01:31 | 1:01:32 | |
First, our main story: A lawyer
who represented victims | 1:01:32 | 1:01:35 | |
of the serial sex offender
John Worboys says some | 1:01:35 | 1:01:37 | |
of her clients whose cases
weren't taken to trial | 1:01:37 | 1:01:40 | |
want to give evidence. | 1:01:40 | 1:01:42 | |
The former black cab driver
is being freed from jail | 1:01:42 | 1:01:45 | |
after ten years. | 1:01:45 | 1:01:46 | |
He was convicted of 19 offences,
although police believe he carried | 1:01:46 | 1:01:49 | |
out more than 100 attacks. | 1:01:49 | 1:01:51 | |
Lawyers say that a number of women
were told that their testimony | 1:01:51 | 1:01:55 | |
wasn't required to put Worboys
behind bars for a longer | 1:01:55 | 1:01:57 | |
period of time. | 1:01:57 | 1:01:58 | |
Tom Burridge reports. | 1:01:58 | 1:02:00 | |
The decision to release rapist
John Worboys has raised profound | 1:02:00 | 1:02:05 | |
questions about the way sexual
crimes against women | 1:02:05 | 1:02:09 | |
are investigated, and whether
the procedures for releasing | 1:02:09 | 1:02:12 | |
criminals need changing. | 1:02:12 | 1:02:15 | |
Worboys picked up young
women in his black cab, | 1:02:15 | 1:02:18 | |
duped and drugged them,
and then carried out his attacks. | 1:02:18 | 1:02:23 | |
He was convicted of 19
offences in 2009, and given | 1:02:23 | 1:02:26 | |
an indefinite sentence. | 1:02:26 | 1:02:28 | |
But, in total, more than 100 women
said Worboys tried to drug | 1:02:28 | 1:02:32 | |
and assault them. | 1:02:32 | 1:02:35 | |
Some allegations were investigated,
but no further action was taken, | 1:02:35 | 1:02:38 | |
on the advice of the Crown
Prosecution Service. | 1:02:38 | 1:02:40 | |
What we can't know is why
the Parole Board has decided he now | 1:02:40 | 1:02:44 | |
no longer poses
a risk to the public. | 1:02:44 | 1:02:46 | |
I am not allowed by law to explain
the reasons for our decision. | 1:02:46 | 1:02:50 | |
And I've said before,
I would like to get that changed. | 1:02:50 | 1:02:54 | |
And so this pushes the idea
that the Parole Board processes need | 1:02:54 | 1:02:57 | |
to be much more open
and transparent. | 1:02:57 | 1:03:03 | |
And, if we get support for that,
then I think some good will have | 1:03:03 | 1:03:07 | |
come out of all of this. | 1:03:07 | 1:03:09 | |
We need to understand whether he has
admitted guilt in relation | 1:03:09 | 1:03:12 | |
to the offences that
he was convicted for, | 1:03:12 | 1:03:14 | |
and the police need to look
again at the possibility | 1:03:14 | 1:03:16 | |
of prosecuting him for those
many further offences | 1:03:16 | 1:03:19 | |
for which he was also suspected. | 1:03:19 | 1:03:20 | |
Worboys's victims are said to be
horrified at the prospect | 1:03:20 | 1:03:23 | |
of his release, and lawyers
representing his other alleged | 1:03:23 | 1:03:26 | |
victims say their evidence
should now be considered. | 1:03:26 | 1:03:31 | |
And we will speak to lawyer
Kim Harrison, who represented 11 | 1:03:31 | 1:03:34 | |
of Worboys's victims,
in a few minutes. | 1:03:34 | 1:03:36 | |
Five online gambling companies
could have their licenses revoked | 1:03:36 | 1:03:39 | |
over concern they are not doing
enough to help problem gamblers | 1:03:39 | 1:03:41 | |
or prevent money launderers
from using their sites. | 1:03:41 | 1:03:45 | |
The Gambling Commission has written
to all 195 online casino operators, | 1:03:45 | 1:03:48 | |
to tell them about the safeguards
they should all have in place. | 1:03:48 | 1:03:55 | |
Our business correspondent
Jonty Bloom reports. | 1:03:55 | 1:03:58 | |
One third of all gambling
in the UK is now online, | 1:03:58 | 1:04:01 | |
and it is worth billions of pounds. | 1:04:01 | 1:04:03 | |
The Gambling Commission has been
reviewing the safeguards that | 1:04:03 | 1:04:06 | |
all companies should have in place. | 1:04:06 | 1:04:07 | |
They are designed to prevent problem
gambling getting out of control, | 1:04:07 | 1:04:10 | |
and to prevent money being laundered
by criminals or terrorists. | 1:04:10 | 1:04:15 | |
Sarah Harrison, chief executive
of the Gambling Commission, said... | 1:04:15 | 1:04:18 | |
But the commission found many signs
that customers' gambling | 1:04:26 | 1:04:31 | |
was becoming compulsive
were not being followed up, | 1:04:31 | 1:04:34 | |
and some staff had little idea
of how to stop money laundering, | 1:04:34 | 1:04:37 | |
or, in some cases, even what it was. | 1:04:37 | 1:04:41 | |
As a result, the Gambling Commission
is warning all online casino | 1:04:41 | 1:04:45 | |
operators to review their
procedures, and has begun | 1:04:45 | 1:04:47 | |
an investigation into
17 online companies. | 1:04:47 | 1:04:51 | |
It's considering whether it should
review the licences of five of them. | 1:04:51 | 1:04:54 | |
Losing its licence would mean
a company would be unable | 1:04:54 | 1:04:57 | |
to continue to operate in the UK. | 1:04:57 | 1:05:04 | |
President Trump has taken to Twitter
overnight to show his continued | 1:05:04 | 1:05:07 | |
frustration over the release
of a controversial book | 1:05:07 | 1:05:09 | |
documenting his first
year in the White House. | 1:05:09 | 1:05:16 | |
Calling the author of the book
Michael Wolff "a total loser", | 1:05:16 | 1:05:19 | |
the President accuses him
of making up stories. | 1:05:19 | 1:05:22 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former chief
strategist Steve Bannon | 1:05:22 | 1:05:24 | |
'Sloppy Steve', claiming
he cried when he was fired. | 1:05:24 | 1:05:27 | |
The book, called Fire and Fury,
has now gone on sale early, | 1:05:27 | 1:05:30 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 1:05:30 | 1:05:33 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members | 1:05:33 | 1:05:36 | |
of the United Nations Security
Council for calling an emergency | 1:05:36 | 1:05:38 | |
meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 1:05:38 | 1:05:43 | |
China and France said the unrest did
not threaten international security. | 1:05:43 | 1:05:49 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce and repeated | 1:05:49 | 1:05:52 | |
claims that the protests were
directed from abroad. | 1:05:52 | 1:05:54 | |
EasyJet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among the major employers | 1:05:54 | 1:05:57 | |
who have been revealed to pay women,
on average, at least 15% | 1:05:57 | 1:06:00 | |
less than men. | 1:06:00 | 1:06:04 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 1:06:04 | 1:06:05 | |
publish their figures by April. | 1:06:05 | 1:06:12 | |
More than 500 have done so. | 1:06:12 | 1:06:13 | |
Another 8,000 must do by April,
or risk being fined, | 1:06:13 | 1:06:16 | |
under a new law intended to tackle
workplace discrimination. | 1:06:16 | 1:06:22 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 1:06:22 | 1:06:24 | |
that the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 1:06:24 | 1:06:29 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 1:06:29 | 1:06:31 | |
The National Weather Service
predicts wind chills as low | 1:06:31 | 1:06:35 | |
as minus 40 degrees Celsius. | 1:06:35 | 1:06:36 | |
Russell Trott has the latest. | 1:06:36 | 1:06:39 | |
The public coming to the aid of
public transport on the streets of | 1:06:39 | 1:06:44 | |
Eastern Boston, as snow and ice left
many stranded. Elsewhere in the city | 1:06:44 | 1:06:50 | |
the emergency services are working
flat out and in deep water, as high | 1:06:50 | 1:06:55 | |
tides flooded roads close to the
harbour. Plummeting temperatures | 1:06:55 | 1:06:58 | |
meant much of Massachusetts was
under huge quantities of snow. And | 1:06:58 | 1:07:03 | |
after a three foot storm surge
brought this inland, the flood water | 1:07:03 | 1:07:08 | |
froze, trapping cars in ice. For the
homeless of Chicago, life on the | 1:07:08 | 1:07:14 | |
street is now all about survival.
Those who do find shelter are happy | 1:07:14 | 1:07:19 | |
to be anywhere but outside. We see
an average of seven to 800 people | 1:07:19 | 1:07:25 | |
every single day. Sometimes there
are people who come in when it's | 1:07:25 | 1:07:32 | |
extremely cold who won't come in
when it's not so cold. A sudden drop | 1:07:32 | 1:07:37 | |
in temperatures can hit hard
anywhere. In Florida, where in some | 1:07:37 | 1:07:42 | |
parts of snow fell for the first
time in 30 years, cold seas saw | 1:07:42 | 1:07:46 | |
hundreds of total is rescued after
their muscles started seizing up. As | 1:07:46 | 1:07:52 | |
thousands of snowploughs are
deployed throughout the eastern | 1:07:52 | 1:07:56 | |
seaboard, forecasters warned that
the weekend could bring | 1:07:56 | 1:07:58 | |
record-breaking low temperatures. | 1:07:58 | 1:08:03 | |
Plans to improve reading standards
amongst children from disadvantaged | 1:08:03 | 1:08:05 | |
backgrounds have been announced
by the Department of Education. | 1:08:05 | 1:08:08 | |
There will be a network of 35
literacy-teaching centres | 1:08:08 | 1:08:10 | |
across England, to work
with primary schools that | 1:08:10 | 1:08:12 | |
are in challenging areas. | 1:08:12 | 1:08:16 | |
Labour says the funding will do
nothing to change Government cuts | 1:08:16 | 1:08:19 | |
to school budgets. | 1:08:19 | 1:08:22 | |
There will also be schemes
to improve the vocabulary | 1:08:22 | 1:08:25 | |
of pre-school children
in the north of England. | 1:08:25 | 1:08:29 | |
This is about investing around the
country, bringing together teachers | 1:08:29 | 1:08:34 | |
and literacy specialists so that we
can make sure that we do even better | 1:08:34 | 1:08:37 | |
on reading and writing standards,
but also that we don't see any | 1:08:37 | 1:08:42 | |
children falling behind. | 1:08:42 | 1:08:42 | |
A bar owner has been left shaken
but not stirred after being reunited | 1:08:42 | 1:08:46 | |
with what is thought to be the most
expensive vodka bottle in the world. | 1:08:46 | 1:08:55 | |
Forget the drink,
it's about the bottle. | 1:08:55 | 1:08:57 | |
Made of gold and silver,
with a diamond-encrusted replica | 1:08:57 | 1:09:02 | |
of the Russian imperial
eagle on its cap. | 1:09:02 | 1:09:07 | |
It's extravagant and
expensive and was on loan | 1:09:07 | 1:09:09 | |
to a bar in Copenhagen. | 1:09:09 | 1:09:11 | |
It was stolen last week. | 1:09:11 | 1:09:12 | |
The bottle, which is worth nearly £1
million, was found empty | 1:09:12 | 1:09:16 | |
on a construction site
nearby, but it was empty. | 1:09:16 | 1:09:20 | |
I would have thought that would
devalue it, but it's the bottle. | 1:09:20 | 1:09:26 | |
They are just going to fill it up
again. | 1:09:26 | 1:09:28 | |
Does it taste any different? Who
knows? | 1:09:28 | 1:09:32 | |
We will have the latest weather in
about five or six minutes and of | 1:09:32 | 1:09:39 | |
course Mike will have the sport at
half past. Going back to our main | 1:09:39 | 1:09:42 | |
story. | 1:09:42 | 1:09:47 | |
Victims of the serial sex
offender John Worboys, | 1:09:47 | 1:09:49 | |
whose cases weren't taken to trial,
say they want their day in court. | 1:09:49 | 1:09:52 | |
The former black cab driver
was convicted of 19 offences, | 1:09:52 | 1:09:55 | |
although police believe he carried
out more than 100 attacks. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
He's due to be released later this
month after serving ten | 1:09:58 | 1:10:01 | |
years in jail. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:01 | |
Lawyer Kim Harrison represented 11
women and joins us now. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:07 | |
Good morning. Can we just start with
the apology. The head of the Parole | 1:10:07 | 1:10:15 | |
Board has said he is sorry that some
of the women heard this news on the | 1:10:15 | 1:10:20 | |
television or radio rather than
receiving any letters of | 1:10:20 | 1:10:23 | |
notification. Does that go far
enough? At the moment all of the | 1:10:23 | 1:10:29 | |
clients I've managed to speak to
yesterday are just feeling so | 1:10:29 | 1:10:32 | |
shocked and upset. I don't think
they have even mentally protest | 1:10:32 | 1:10:38 | |
everything that's happened. They
found out through friends text on | 1:10:38 | 1:10:41 | |
them, through looking at news
websites, through the news. They are | 1:10:41 | 1:10:47 | |
all absolutely devastated. How many
clients are you representing? We | 1:10:47 | 1:10:51 | |
represented 11 clients in successful
civil cases against John Worboys. | 1:10:51 | 1:10:58 | |
Those civil claims concluded in 2013
and one of the major reasons that | 1:10:58 | 1:11:03 | |
we've got is as late as 2013 within
the context of those civil | 1:11:03 | 1:11:09 | |
proceedings John Worboys was still
maintaining his innocence, even in | 1:11:09 | 1:11:13 | |
respect of clients for which there
had been a criminal conviction. So | 1:11:13 | 1:11:16 | |
of the 11, three of those Worboys
was criminally convicted of drugging | 1:11:16 | 1:11:22 | |
and sexually assaulting. And he was
still saying he was innocent, even | 1:11:22 | 1:11:26 | |
for those crimes of which he was
convicted. So what's changed? Just | 1:11:26 | 1:11:33 | |
to be clear, he was convicted of one
break, is that correct? Yes. How | 1:11:33 | 1:11:38 | |
many sexual assaults? One break and
in relation to our clients there | 1:11:38 | 1:11:43 | |
were two sexual assaults. That's of
the convictions. One was drugging. | 1:11:43 | 1:11:50 | |
Other people you have spoken to, who
have made accusations against John | 1:11:50 | 1:11:55 | |
Worboys, and the police have said he
could have committed more than 100 | 1:11:55 | 1:12:01 | |
assaults, their evidence wasn't used
in court. Why would that be? That's | 1:12:01 | 1:12:05 | |
correct. Of the eight of the clients
that we represented in the civil | 1:12:05 | 1:12:11 | |
claims, they were told by the police
and the CPS and they came to them | 1:12:11 | 1:12:17 | |
and gave full statements and
evidence were told, thank you very | 1:12:17 | 1:12:20 | |
much, you've been very brave, thank
you for coming forward. We don't | 1:12:20 | 1:12:26 | |
need your evidence, we've got enough
and this man will have an | 1:12:26 | 1:12:30 | |
indeterminate sentence and will be
locked up for a very long period of | 1:12:30 | 1:12:33 | |
time, therefore you don't need to
worry. It would be in the public | 1:12:33 | 1:12:37 | |
interest to take your case forward.
So these women were then left with | 1:12:37 | 1:12:40 | |
the clear impression that he was
going to be in prison for a very | 1:12:40 | 1:12:44 | |
long time and they left feeling
betrayed and devastated and want | 1:12:44 | 1:12:47 | |
answers as to why he could be
released the Wyrley why event their | 1:12:47 | 1:12:53 | |
cases were taken forward at the
time. -- released so overly and why | 1:12:53 | 1:12:59 | |
their cases. Maybe then he wouldn't
be released now. What do they want | 1:12:59 | 1:13:05 | |
from here? For themselves? As a
matter of urgency they want some | 1:13:05 | 1:13:11 | |
sort of communication and
reassurance from the Parole Board | 1:13:11 | 1:13:15 | |
and the people you made this
decision that they will be safe. A | 1:13:15 | 1:13:19 | |
lot of them are quite scared and are
feeling really worried. There want | 1:13:19 | 1:13:22 | |
to understand what measures will be
in place to protect them. They are | 1:13:22 | 1:13:26 | |
feeling absolutely terrified. The
Parole Board has made clear that he | 1:13:26 | 1:13:30 | |
will be monitored and he will have
to be... Call in and account for his | 1:13:30 | 1:13:36 | |
whereabouts, understandably. No one
is saying that's enough for the | 1:13:36 | 1:13:40 | |
victims who -- victims. Once they
are given a guarantee of their | 1:13:40 | 1:13:47 | |
safety, what does giving evidence
now do? What a number of the women | 1:13:47 | 1:13:53 | |
want is for the Crown Prosecution
Service to reopen these files. All | 1:13:53 | 1:13:57 | |
the evidence is there, they gave it
at the time, there are a number of | 1:13:57 | 1:14:02 | |
files. They need to get them out and
look again at the statements and the | 1:14:02 | 1:14:06 | |
evidence given. They then need to
look again at any subsequent | 1:14:06 | 1:14:09 | |
evidence that's given. We aren't
able to know the decision that the | 1:14:09 | 1:14:12 | |
Parole Board creatures and the
reasons behind that decision the art | 1:14:12 | 1:14:17 | |
allowed to know by law. -- reached.
But something must have changed | 1:14:17 | 1:14:21 | |
since 2013 when he said he was
evidence and hadn't -- innocent and | 1:14:21 | 1:14:25 | |
haven't committed any crimes do now.
If he hasn't admitted his guilt than | 1:14:25 | 1:14:29 | |
he is clearly still a danger to
women. If he has admitted the guilt | 1:14:29 | 1:14:33 | |
than he has a modus operandi, which
means luring women to his cab, | 1:14:33 | 1:14:39 | |
drugging and sexually assaulting
them or raping them and that needs | 1:14:39 | 1:14:42 | |
to be investigated. What would be
the conclusion now of women read | 1:14:42 | 1:14:46 | |
meeting evidence now or having this
evidence heard? What would that | 1:14:46 | 1:14:50 | |
happen next? What's the intention
now? To put him back in prison? I | 1:14:50 | 1:14:55 | |
think women just want justice and
they want their voices to be heard. | 1:14:55 | 1:14:59 | |
They came forward and gave their
statements to the police. The CPS | 1:14:59 | 1:15:03 | |
said not to worry, we won't
prosecute in relation to your case | 1:15:03 | 1:15:06 | |
because he will be in prison for a
long time and will be on an | 1:15:06 | 1:15:12 | |
indeterminate sentence, this man
will be locked away. They now want | 1:15:12 | 1:15:15 | |
their case to be given a proper
scrutiny that it deserves and for | 1:15:15 | 1:15:19 | |
there to be a decision to be made as
to whether or not a persecution will | 1:15:19 | 1:15:23 | |
be brought in on their cases. So
another prosecution? The Crown | 1:15:23 | 1:15:29 | |
Prosecution Service I think have to
get the files out and look again at | 1:15:29 | 1:15:33 | |
the evidence. How likely do you
think it would be that this will | 1:15:33 | 1:15:37 | |
happen? I hope they will take
alleged victims voices seriously in | 1:15:37 | 1:15:40 | |
cases such as this. This is a very
unusual case. This is a very, very | 1:15:40 | 1:15:46 | |
surprising decision from the Parole
Board. 58 MPs I think have already | 1:15:46 | 1:15:52 | |
written, asking as to why this has
happened and what the reasons are. | 1:15:52 | 1:15:56 | |
This is a case that has incredible
public interest. | 1:15:56 | 1:16:00 | |
This is a case that has incredible
public Who could pose a serious risk | 1:16:00 | 1:16:01 | |
to women and members -- public
interest. This is a man who could | 1:16:01 | 1:16:06 | |
pose a serious risk to women and
members and needs to be | 1:16:06 | 1:16:09 | |
incarcerated. He was imprisoned for
ten years. What period would have | 1:16:09 | 1:16:12 | |
satisfied your clients? | 1:16:12 | 1:16:22 | |
a period where he is no longer a
threat to women. What has changed | 1:16:22 | 1:16:28 | |
since 2013? He kept saying he was
innocent. If he has admitted his | 1:16:28 | 1:16:33 | |
guilt, we need to know that. If he
hasn't admitted his guilt, how can | 1:16:33 | 1:16:40 | |
he pose a risk to women? He has
potentially admitted to a modus | 1:16:40 | 1:16:48 | |
operandi where he has attacked a
large number of women. This is | 1:16:48 | 1:16:52 | |
something that needs to be properly
investigated. Vast majority of | 1:16:52 | 1:16:59 | |
members of the public are looking
this case fresh in the light of the | 1:16:59 | 1:17:04 | |
last 48 hours. Thank you to talking
to us this morning. We don't really | 1:17:04 | 1:17:10 | |
know what the reason for the parole
board's decision is. We will speak | 1:17:10 | 1:17:15 | |
to someone who was on the parole
board. And the arguments being put | 1:17:15 | 1:17:20 | |
forward, whether you should get a
clearer idea. Whether people are | 1:17:20 | 1:17:24 | |
released or indeed not released. | 1:17:24 | 1:17:29 | |
Time to found out what is happening
in the weather with Stav. -- find | 1:17:29 | 1:17:35 | |
out. In the States, very torrid.
These are the temperatures expected | 1:17:35 | 1:17:41 | |
across the North East United States
and south-east Canada. -11 into a -- | 1:17:41 | 1:17:49 | |
-11 in New York and adroit. These
are daytime values. At night, -25 in | 1:17:49 | 1:17:54 | |
some of these south-east Canadian
cities. After that storm has moved | 1:17:54 | 1:18:00 | |
through, the wind is easing. It's
going to feel burdened chillingly | 1:18:00 | 1:18:06 | |
cold. A lot of ice around as well.
Those temperatures slowly rising. | 1:18:06 | 1:18:13 | |
Meanwhile, for us this weekend,
things are set to turn much colder. | 1:18:13 | 1:18:17 | |
We've got | 1:18:17 | 1:18:18 | |
things are set to turn much colder.
We've got our own Arctic air. Thanks | 1:18:18 | 1:18:20 | |
to an area of high pressure. It is
already arrived across parts of | 1:18:20 | 1:18:24 | |
Scotland. A lot of cloud around to
start this morning. Some frost and | 1:18:24 | 1:18:29 | |
ice to watch out for. A band of rain
across Northern Ireland towards | 1:18:29 | 1:18:37 | |
central northern England with some
snow on the hill. For north-east | 1:18:37 | 1:18:43 | |
Scotland and eastern England and
eastern Scotland. Northern Ireland | 1:18:43 | 1:18:50 | |
in Scotland, a dry start. Some
north-east winds. Eventually, the | 1:18:50 | 1:19:04 | |
Midlands, the cloud hanging on to
the far south. But a bright sunny | 1:19:04 | 1:19:10 | |
cold one this evening and overnight,
we eventually lose the cloud. It | 1:19:10 | 1:19:15 | |
might hang on a little bit. These
are the town and city values. Out in | 1:19:15 | 1:19:27 | |
the countryside, a hard frost, may
be down to -5, with northern | 1:19:27 | 1:19:32 | |
England, minus ten. It means the
Sunday, very cold, frosty start, a | 1:19:32 | 1:19:38 | |
winter sunshine. The wind will be
much lighter in central and northern | 1:19:38 | 1:19:42 | |
areas. It is quite raw here, five or
six degrees. This area of high | 1:19:42 | 1:19:53 | |
pressure ebbs away. For Monday, a
bright, cold start but increasing | 1:19:53 | 1:20:02 | |
cloud. | 1:20:02 | 1:20:07 | |
bright, cold start but increasing
cloud. | 1:20:07 | 1:20:07 | |
Thank you very much, Stav. We will
speak to you later. Those | 1:20:07 | 1:20:12 | |
temperatures that Stav was showing
us... We will take those yellow | 1:20:12 | 1:20:17 | |
numbers, not the blue ones. | 1:20:17 | 1:20:19 | |
Let's get more on the extremely
cold weather in the US. | 1:20:19 | 1:20:23 | |
Overnight, temperatures dropped
as low as -29 degrees celsius, | 1:20:23 | 1:20:25 | |
in some parts of the east coast. | 1:20:25 | 1:20:27 | |
The severe cold, dubbed
a "bomb cyclone", | 1:20:27 | 1:20:29 | |
has already claimed up to 19 lives. | 1:20:29 | 1:20:29 | |
Let's speak to Josiah Hakan. | 1:20:38 | 1:20:42 | |
He works with a relief agency in New
York. I know you are very busy and | 1:20:42 | 1:20:47 | |
probably very cold. What sort of
challenges is this weather | 1:20:47 | 1:20:50 | |
presenting?
The challenges are pretty crazy. We | 1:20:50 | 1:20:56 | |
have lots of people out there in the
were struggling. Last year, there | 1:20:56 | 1:21:01 | |
was a point in time counted the
number of individuals on the | 1:21:01 | 1:21:04 | |
sidewalks the subways and the number
was 3900 plus. You can imagine if | 1:21:04 | 1:21:10 | |
somebody doesn't have a place to
stay, this bomb cyclone is extra | 1:21:10 | 1:21:13 | |
detrimental. We are trying to get
people connected. That must be a | 1:21:13 | 1:21:21 | |
challenge. Getting around New York
city with all this snow and ice. It | 1:21:21 | 1:21:28 | |
must be tough. Let alone tough the
people who are living on the | 1:21:28 | 1:21:34 | |
streets. That is an understatement.
The storm hit really hard. Our | 1:21:34 | 1:21:41 | |
entire team was driving into
Manhattan to go into a private | 1:21:41 | 1:21:47 | |
shelter to serve the guests. The
drive-in was quite perilous. We made | 1:21:47 | 1:21:57 | |
it and we were able to serve tough
individuals and connect them to | 1:21:57 | 1:22:01 | |
long-term services as well and just
a free lunch so they can have | 1:22:01 | 1:22:06 | |
something warm to eat in the middle
of it all. Which is fantastic and | 1:22:06 | 1:22:10 | |
well done. We are looking at
pictures of some of the people who | 1:22:10 | 1:22:13 | |
are out on the streets living
through this and having to deal with | 1:22:13 | 1:22:17 | |
it. A bowl of soup is fantastic but
it is keeping that, sustaining that | 1:22:17 | 1:22:21 | |
help in the face of adverse weather
conditions. | 1:22:21 | 1:22:25 | |
When you think about homelessness,
you are talking about an incredibly | 1:22:25 | 1:22:29 | |
complex issue. The cost of living in
New York city is outrageous and you | 1:22:29 | 1:22:36 | |
are talking about mental health
struggles, drug and alcohol edition | 1:22:36 | 1:22:41 | |
-- addiction, trauma. Every person
is unique and circumstances on the | 1:22:41 | 1:22:51 | |
long-term. It's a monstrosity of a
challenge, especially in this | 1:22:51 | 1:22:56 | |
weather. We wish you -- we wish you
well. Well done to how you have done | 1:22:56 | 1:23:02 | |
so far. Imagine standing outside in
that cold. He might have said no. | 1:23:02 | 1:23:17 | |
Until now, cancer patients have had
to go abroad to receive proton | 1:23:17 | 1:23:23 | |
therapy but the first NHS run proton
beam centre will be up and running | 1:23:23 | 1:23:29 | |
at the Christie Hospital in
Manchester. Dominic Hughes has been | 1:23:29 | 1:23:32 | |
to see it. | 1:23:32 | 1:23:36 | |
You missed a whole, mum. Six years
ago, Lucas was fighting for is | 1:23:36 | 1:23:41 | |
light. Diagnosed with cancer, he was
sent to the United States to receive | 1:23:41 | 1:23:45 | |
a potentially life-saving treatment
called proton beam therapy. Not | 1:23:45 | 1:23:50 | |
being at home, being around
strangers, it was awful. Mum Jodie | 1:23:50 | 1:23:54 | |
says travelling all the way to the
United States was a challenge for | 1:23:54 | 1:23:59 | |
the family and with an immune system
damaged by chemotherapy, Lucas fell | 1:23:59 | 1:24:03 | |
seriously ill and almost died. Just
being there on your own, it's a lot | 1:24:03 | 1:24:09 | |
to be going through, just dealing
with the cancer. You need your | 1:24:09 | 1:24:14 | |
family and your friends around you,
you need people to talk to. | 1:24:14 | 1:24:17 | |
Throughout that time, the support
network of friends and family. It's | 1:24:17 | 1:24:23 | |
a long period of time. The treatment
alone is six weeks. We found it | 1:24:23 | 1:24:29 | |
really, really difficult. Up till
now, the NHS is sent patients who | 1:24:29 | 1:24:35 | |
need proton beam therapy abroad and
after years of campaigning and | 1:24:35 | 1:24:40 | |
fundraising, it will soon be
available in the UK. It's inside a | 1:24:40 | 1:24:46 | |
specially built centre at Christie
Hospital in Manchester that medicine | 1:24:46 | 1:24:49 | |
and physics meat, offering a new way
to treat life-threatening cancers. | 1:24:49 | 1:24:55 | |
Young patients will benefits because
their tissues are growing and very | 1:24:55 | 1:24:58 | |
sensitive. But they are also tumours
which are next to quite critical | 1:24:58 | 1:25:04 | |
structures in the body is the base
of the skull or around the spine and | 1:25:04 | 1:25:09 | |
this technology enables us to give a
treatment dose to those patients | 1:25:09 | 1:25:14 | |
while avoiding those critical
structures. With standard | 1:25:14 | 1:25:20 | |
radiotherapy, beam travels through
the tumour that can damage sensitive | 1:25:20 | 1:25:24 | |
tissues in front, behind and around
it. But proton beam is much smaller | 1:25:24 | 1:25:29 | |
and stops at the tumour, causing
less damage to otherwise of the | 1:25:29 | 1:25:33 | |
tissue. We are now below what they
call the treatment gantry where | 1:25:33 | 1:25:40 | |
patients will be seen and this
really is the guts of this huge 200 | 1:25:40 | 1:25:44 | |
ton machine and it is one of three
that are being built here in | 1:25:44 | 1:25:48 | |
Manchester. But down here, you
really get a sense of the scale of | 1:25:48 | 1:25:52 | |
this project. The protons, which
come from the heart of an atom, are | 1:25:52 | 1:25:58 | |
generated in a particle accelerator
known as a cyclotron which is | 1:25:58 | 1:26:01 | |
carefully lowered into place last
summer then travelling at a speed of | 1:26:01 | 1:26:06 | |
100,000 miles per second, they are
directed with pinpoint accuracy at | 1:26:06 | 1:26:11 | |
the tumour. Put it on. Six years on
and Lucas is cancer free and full of | 1:26:11 | 1:26:16 | |
beans. Where are you putting it?
With the Manchester Centre coming on | 1:26:16 | 1:26:20 | |
stream later this year and a second
one in London to follow, the hope is | 1:26:20 | 1:26:24 | |
those needing the life-saving
treatment proton therapy will soon | 1:26:24 | 1:26:28 | |
be able to access it closer to home.
Dominic Hughes, BBC News, | 1:26:28 | 1:26:31 | |
Manchester. | 1:26:31 | 1:26:36 | |
Doctor David Jenkinson is from the
brain tumour charity. Remarkable | 1:26:36 | 1:26:42 | |
what is going on in terms of
technology. Who will benefit from | 1:26:42 | 1:26:47 | |
this therapy straightaway? A lot of
it will be children. They are still | 1:26:47 | 1:26:51 | |
growing and still developing. They
will also be applicable for proton | 1:26:51 | 1:26:59 | |
beam therapy. We have been seeing
how it works there. What will a | 1:26:59 | 1:27:07 | |
cancer patient benefit from in terms
of traditional treatments now? So in | 1:27:07 | 1:27:16 | |
comparison to the sorts of
treatments you currently get, this | 1:27:16 | 1:27:20 | |
will actually just probably be as
effective but will have fewer | 1:27:20 | 1:27:25 | |
side-effects more around the quality
of life than the length of life you | 1:27:25 | 1:27:29 | |
can get through the treatment. In
terms of organs as to which might be | 1:27:29 | 1:27:35 | |
more beneficial to have rotund beam
therapy, which areas of the baht -- | 1:27:35 | 1:27:41 | |
the body would be better to target?
Obviously in the brain. Critical | 1:27:41 | 1:27:46 | |
organ. Try to bear the brain in the
eyes and other organs like that. | 1:27:46 | 1:27:59 | |
Around the heart and the body in the
pelvis, bladders like -- places like | 1:27:59 | 1:28:03 | |
that. I understand from my notes
it's been less successful with lung | 1:28:03 | 1:28:11 | |
cancer and prostate cancer. Why
would that be. Because you are able | 1:28:11 | 1:28:19 | |
to precise -- precisely targeted
through breeding. It's more | 1:28:19 | 1:28:22 | |
difficult to target the tumour as
well as you might be too. The | 1:28:22 | 1:28:27 | |
benefits of proton beams become a
negative. With prostate, similar | 1:28:27 | 1:28:33 | |
sort of effects and movements. It's
not necessarily required. It is | 1:28:33 | 1:28:41 | |
difficult because I am thinking of
the case of Asher King whose parents | 1:28:41 | 1:28:47 | |
took him out of hospital to have
this proton therapy abroad and they | 1:28:47 | 1:28:52 | |
were absolutely convinced that this
would help. But there is the danger | 1:28:52 | 1:28:55 | |
when there is new technology, when
people think it is a queue were all. | 1:28:55 | 1:29:01 | |
And proton beams are only applicable
for tumours that have a very well | 1:29:01 | 1:29:06 | |
defined margin. If the tumour has
spread at all, using the precise | 1:29:06 | 1:29:10 | |
targeting can be a negative so you
would be better with a conventional | 1:29:10 | 1:29:16 | |
therapy. Before and after the tumour
which will help mop up some of those | 1:29:16 | 1:29:23 | |
cancer cells. Thank you very much
your time, Doctor David Jenkinson. | 1:29:23 | 1:29:34 | |
Nearly 730 a.m.. Headlines coming
right up. | 1:29:34 | 1:29:37 | |
Hello. | 1:30:06 | 1:30:08 | |
This is Breakfast, with Jon Kay
and Naga Munchetty. | 1:30:08 | 1:30:12 | |
Good morning. | 1:30:12 | 1:30:12 | |
Here is a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News: | 1:30:12 | 1:30:17 | |
A lawyer who represented victims
of the serial sex offender | 1:30:17 | 1:30:20 | |
John Worboys says some
of her clients whose cases weren't | 1:30:20 | 1:30:23 | |
taken to trial want
to give evidence. | 1:30:23 | 1:30:29 | |
The former black cab driver
is being freed from jail, | 1:30:29 | 1:30:32 | |
ten years after being convicted
of 19 offences, although police | 1:30:32 | 1:30:36 | |
believe he attacked many more. | 1:30:36 | 1:30:41 | |
A solicitor said many women said
their testimony wasn't required as | 1:30:41 | 1:30:49 | |
John Worboys would grow behind bars
for a long time. Women want justice | 1:30:49 | 1:30:53 | |
and they want their voices to be
heard. They came forward and gave | 1:30:53 | 1:30:57 | |
their statements to the police and
the CPS said, don't worry, we won't | 1:30:57 | 1:31:00 | |
prosecute in relation to your case
because he will be in prison for a | 1:31:00 | 1:31:05 | |
long time, there will be an
indeterminate sentence. This man is | 1:31:05 | 1:31:07 | |
going to be locked away. They now
want their case to be given that | 1:31:07 | 1:31:11 | |
proper scrutiny that it deserves and
for there to be a decision to be | 1:31:11 | 1:31:15 | |
made as to whether or not a
prosecution will be brought in in | 1:31:15 | 1:31:19 | |
their cases. | 1:31:19 | 1:31:23 | |
Five online companies could lose
their licences over concerns about | 1:31:23 | 1:31:28 | |
their approach to problem gamblers
and money laundering. | 1:31:28 | 1:31:32 | |
The Gambling Commission has written
to all 195 online casino operators, | 1:31:32 | 1:31:35 | |
warning them to review
their procedures. | 1:31:35 | 1:31:37 | |
It comes after the commission found
some companies did not follow up | 1:31:37 | 1:31:40 | |
with gamblers who were becoming
addicted, and failed to prevent | 1:31:40 | 1:31:43 | |
money being laundered
by criminals or terrorists. | 1:31:43 | 1:31:44 | |
President Trump has taken to Twitter
overnight to show his continued | 1:31:44 | 1:31:47 | |
frustration over the release
of a controversial book | 1:31:47 | 1:31:50 | |
documenting his first
year in the White House. | 1:31:50 | 1:31:53 | |
Calling the author of the book,
Michael Wolff, a total loser, | 1:31:53 | 1:31:58 | |
and then accused him
of making up stories. | 1:31:58 | 1:32:00 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former chief
strategist Steve Bannon | 1:32:00 | 1:32:03 | |
'Sloppy Steve', claiming
he cried when he was fired. | 1:32:03 | 1:32:05 | |
The book, called Fire and Fury,
has now gone on sale early, | 1:32:05 | 1:32:09 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 1:32:09 | 1:32:16 | |
EasyJet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among the major employers | 1:32:16 | 1:32:19 | |
who have been revealed to pay women,
on average, at least 15% | 1:32:19 | 1:32:22 | |
less than men. | 1:32:22 | 1:32:23 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 1:32:23 | 1:32:25 | |
publish their figures by April. | 1:32:25 | 1:32:26 | |
More than 500 have done so. | 1:32:26 | 1:32:28 | |
Another 8,000 must do by April,
or risk being fined, | 1:32:28 | 1:32:31 | |
under a new law intended to tackle
workplace discrimination. | 1:32:31 | 1:32:36 | |
The search for the missing MH370
Malaysian Airlines plane that | 1:32:36 | 1:32:39 | |
disappeared almost four years
ago is to be resumed. | 1:32:39 | 1:32:43 | |
The jet was carrying more than 200
passengers when it vanished in 2014. | 1:32:43 | 1:32:49 | |
Now, a private US exploration
company called Ocean Infinity has | 1:32:49 | 1:32:52 | |
been given permission
to continue the search, | 1:32:52 | 1:32:58 | |
which ended last year. | 1:32:58 | 1:32:59 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members | 1:32:59 | 1:33:02 | |
of the United Nations Security
Council for calling an emergency | 1:33:02 | 1:33:04 | |
meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 1:33:04 | 1:33:08 | |
China and France said the unrest did
not threaten international security. | 1:33:08 | 1:33:11 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce, | 1:33:11 | 1:33:13 | |
and repeated claims
that the protests were | 1:33:13 | 1:33:18 | |
directed from abroad. | 1:33:18 | 1:33:19 | |
Plans to improve reading standards
amongst children from disadvantaged | 1:33:19 | 1:33:22 | |
backgrounds have been announced
by the Department for Education. | 1:33:22 | 1:33:24 | |
There will be a network of 35
literacy-teaching centres | 1:33:24 | 1:33:27 | |
across England, to work
with primary schools that | 1:33:27 | 1:33:29 | |
are in challenging areas. | 1:33:29 | 1:33:31 | |
Labour says the funding will do
nothing to change Government cuts | 1:33:31 | 1:33:34 | |
to school budgets. | 1:33:34 | 1:33:35 | |
There will also be schemes
to improve the vocabulary | 1:33:35 | 1:33:40 | |
of pre-school children
in the north of England. | 1:33:40 | 1:33:48 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 1:33:48 | 1:33:50 | |
that the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 1:33:50 | 1:33:52 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 1:33:52 | 1:33:54 | |
The National Weather Service
predicts wind chills as low | 1:33:54 | 1:33:58 | |
as minus 40 Celsius in some places. | 1:33:58 | 1:34:00 | |
Thousands of flights have been
cancelled and up to 19 people have | 1:34:00 | 1:34:03 | |
lost their lives. | 1:34:03 | 1:34:04 | |
Mike is here with the sport. | 1:34:04 | 1:34:07 | |
We were talking about that really
cold weather. Glorious sunshine down | 1:34:07 | 1:34:12 | |
under, as you would imagine, but not
glorious for the English team. | 1:34:12 | 1:34:17 | |
In terms of the fifth and final
Ashes test, do you want the good or | 1:34:17 | 1:34:22 | |
bad news?
Bad. | 1:34:22 | 1:34:25 | |
I will give you good first. England
finally found a way... They found a | 1:34:25 | 1:34:31 | |
way to get the captain Steve Smith
out, but the bad news is the Marsh | 1:34:31 | 1:34:35 | |
brothers. When one scores a century,
the next one does. The third day is | 1:34:35 | 1:34:44 | |
now finished and the Australians are
on top. | 1:34:44 | 1:34:47 | |
When is the match going to be over?
In two days, depending on what | 1:34:47 | 1:34:52 | |
happens. | 1:34:52 | 1:34:52 | |
It has been another morale-sapping
day for England's bowlers | 1:34:52 | 1:34:54 | |
in the Sydney sunshine. | 1:34:54 | 1:34:58 | |
Australia finishing the third day
with a lead of 133 runs with two | 1:34:58 | 1:35:01 | |
days to go. England took two
wickets. Steve Smith out at just shy | 1:35:01 | 1:35:06 | |
of another century. The wing Ali
without one. Usman Khawaja made 171. | 1:35:06 | 1:35:14 | |
Mason Crane got his first test
wicket. From then on Australia | 1:35:14 | 1:35:17 | |
flourished. | 1:35:17 | 1:35:20 | |
The Marsh brothers, Mitchell
and Shaun, are the ones punishing | 1:35:20 | 1:35:23 | |
England's bowlers now. | 1:35:23 | 1:35:27 | |
Australia now have a lead of 133. It
was a pretty tough day. Look, we are | 1:35:27 | 1:35:35 | |
150 overs into the innings. There
will be a futile bodies out there. | 1:35:35 | 1:35:39 | |
That's part and parcel of test
cricket. It's not the first time | 1:35:39 | 1:35:44 | |
they will feel 150 overs and not the
last. The way the guys the world out | 1:35:44 | 1:35:49 | |
there and worked hard was really
impressive and that's really good | 1:35:49 | 1:35:52 | |
for us to see as side going forward. | 1:35:52 | 1:35:54 | |
Onto the FA Cup third round,
one of the highlights of any | 1:35:54 | 1:35:57 | |
sporting year, because all the top
teams enter the competition. | 1:35:57 | 1:36:00 | |
And, in the Merseyside derby,
the world's most expensive defender | 1:36:00 | 1:36:03 | |
scored the winner for Liverpool,
while Manchester United left it late | 1:36:03 | 1:36:06 | |
to beat Derby County
at Old Trafford. | 1:36:06 | 1:36:08 | |
Drew Savage rounds up both matches. | 1:36:08 | 1:36:10 | |
The pressure lifted off
the shoulders of the man with a £75 | 1:36:10 | 1:36:13 | |
million pricetag on his back. | 1:36:13 | 1:36:15 | |
A debut to remember for Virgil van
Dijk, on a night that provided | 1:36:15 | 1:36:19 | |
plenty of talking points. | 1:36:19 | 1:36:21 | |
For example, was this a penalty? | 1:36:21 | 1:36:22 | |
The Liverpool boss, Jurgen Klopp,
didn't think so, but Bobby Madley's | 1:36:22 | 1:36:25 | |
was the opinion that counted. | 1:36:25 | 1:36:28 | |
James Milner the calmest
man at Anfield. | 1:36:28 | 1:36:30 | |
Mason Holgate was not. | 1:36:30 | 1:36:35 | |
There was bound to be
a reaction from Firmino. | 1:36:35 | 1:36:38 | |
The referee, Madley,
decided to step in. | 1:36:38 | 1:36:40 | |
Liverpool had had most of the play,
but Everton countered with some | 1:36:40 | 1:36:43 | |
quality, Gylfi Sigurdsson
with a worthy second-half equaliser. | 1:36:43 | 1:36:45 | |
Until the big moment arrived
for a certain Dutch defender. | 1:36:45 | 1:36:51 | |
A decent-looking corner
kick, but didn't get it. | 1:36:51 | 1:36:53 | |
Van Dijk did. | 1:36:53 | 1:36:58 | |
The man brought to strengthen
their defence delighted fans | 1:36:58 | 1:37:01 | |
and manager alike
with a winning goal. | 1:37:01 | 1:37:03 | |
Yes, in front of the goal,
makes it even better. | 1:37:03 | 1:37:06 | |
Really good. | 1:37:06 | 1:37:06 | |
It was a Merseyside Derby,
so that extra push for both teams, | 1:37:06 | 1:37:11 | |
and you saw that tonight. | 1:37:11 | 1:37:12 | |
It was a proper, proper Cup
fight, and I like that. | 1:37:12 | 1:37:19 | |
Championship side Derby had put
on a proper fight away | 1:37:19 | 1:37:21 | |
to Manchester United,
who were six minutes away | 1:37:21 | 1:37:23 | |
from a replay when this happened. | 1:37:23 | 1:37:25 | |
Lingard, good hands. | 1:37:25 | 1:37:26 | |
He's done it again! | 1:37:26 | 1:37:27 | |
Lingard, magnificent strike. | 1:37:27 | 1:37:32 | |
Derby will be free to concentrate
on their push to join | 1:37:32 | 1:37:35 | |
Manchester United in
the Premier League. | 1:37:35 | 1:37:37 | |
Romelu Lukaku wrapped
things up at the end, | 1:37:37 | 1:37:39 | |
the side pleased to
avoid another defeat. | 1:37:39 | 1:37:51 | |
In the Liverpool game there was the
incident in the first half involving | 1:37:51 | 1:37:56 | |
Roberto Firmino. He is pushed into
the crowd. Afterwards it appears he | 1:37:56 | 1:38:03 | |
says something as the players come
together. Neither was booked at the | 1:38:03 | 1:38:07 | |
time but the referee has included it
in his report. I'm sure we will hear | 1:38:07 | 1:38:11 | |
more about this in the hours and
days to come. As for the rest of the | 1:38:11 | 1:38:17 | |
tyres, we were looking forward to
seeing the return of Jamie Vardy. | 1:38:17 | 1:38:22 | |
But he is injured and so it seems
unlikely that he will be risked by | 1:38:22 | 1:38:28 | |
Leicester in the first cup tie of
the day. | 1:38:28 | 1:38:31 | |
Elsewhere, there are nine
Premier League teams hoping to avoid | 1:38:31 | 1:38:33 | |
an upset against lower-league teams,
while there is an intriguing contest | 1:38:33 | 1:38:36 | |
at the Etihad. | 1:38:36 | 1:38:37 | |
The runaway Premier League leaders,
Manchester City, take on Burnley, | 1:38:37 | 1:38:40 | |
this season's surprise package,
who are seventh in the table. | 1:38:40 | 1:38:43 | |
Of course we are going
to rotate in some players. | 1:38:43 | 1:38:45 | |
But the focus is going to Burnley,
and what they've done | 1:38:45 | 1:38:48 | |
so far is difficult. | 1:38:48 | 1:39:01 | |
They do not concede goals. | 1:39:01 | 1:39:02 | |
They have received one goal,
the other games all 1-0, 1-0... | 1:39:02 | 1:39:05 | |
And they show a strong physicality. | 1:39:05 | 1:39:07 | |
The feud between Manchester United
manager Jose Mourinho | 1:39:07 | 1:39:09 | |
and Chelsea's Antonio Conte
appears to be escalating. | 1:39:09 | 1:39:11 | |
In Mourinho's latest jibe,
he said he would never be | 1:39:11 | 1:39:14 | |
suspended for match-fixing. | 1:39:14 | 1:39:15 | |
Conte was given a four-match ban
a few years ago for failing | 1:39:15 | 1:39:18 | |
to report match fixing
at his previous club, | 1:39:18 | 1:39:20 | |
Siena, although he was later
cleared of any wrongdoing. | 1:39:20 | 1:39:23 | |
Mourinho was responding
after Conte said he was getting | 1:39:23 | 1:39:25 | |
old and losing his memory when it
came to his own touch-line antics. | 1:39:25 | 1:39:30 | |
Bath ended their three-match losing
run in rugby union's Premiership | 1:39:30 | 1:39:33 | |
last night with a comfortable 46-25
victory at struggling Worcester. | 1:39:33 | 1:39:41 | |
They pulled away after the break
with a flurry of tries, | 1:39:41 | 1:39:44 | |
lock James Phillips going over
for only the second time in his 63 | 1:39:44 | 1:39:48 | |
League games to secure
the bonus point for Bath. | 1:39:48 | 1:39:50 | |
In the Pro14, Scarlets have opened
up a seven-point lead at the top | 1:39:50 | 1:39:54 | |
of conference B with a dominant,
47-13 bonus-point win over Dragons. | 1:39:54 | 1:39:56 | |
The victory means Scarlets
are unbeaten in five Welsh | 1:39:56 | 1:39:59 | |
derbies this season. | 1:39:59 | 1:40:02 | |
Elsewhere, Edinburgh
beat Southern Kings. | 1:40:02 | 1:40:11 | |
England may be losing in the
cricket, but one British flying high | 1:40:11 | 1:40:15 | |
down under after beating the Aussies
in their own backyard, or rather in | 1:40:15 | 1:40:20 | |
the skies above. Look at this! Above
the Australian desert. The new world | 1:40:20 | 1:40:25 | |
record has been set for distance
travelled by a hand glider, going | 1:40:25 | 1:40:30 | |
over 300 kilometres. That's 241
miles, so like going from London to | 1:40:30 | 1:40:35 | |
Middlesbrough in one flight. It took
Olly 5.5 hours, going at an average | 1:40:35 | 1:40:42 | |
speed of 55 mph. He has become a
world record holder. | 1:40:42 | 1:40:47 | |
That's quite fast! You have to
wiggle in and out of thermals. | 1:40:47 | 1:40:51 | |
Quite incredible.
Have you done it? I have had a go at | 1:40:51 | 1:40:57 | |
hand gliding over garbage.
Incredible to see -- over | 1:40:57 | 1:41:01 | |
Derbyshire. Incredible.
So let's move on from the Ashes and | 1:41:01 | 1:41:06 | |
do the hand gliding.
Maybe we can do well in this sport, | 1:41:06 | 1:41:12 | |
which fuses gymnastics and free
running. | 1:41:12 | 1:41:15 | |
Now you can go on and become
a professional ninja. | 1:41:15 | 1:41:18 | |
Ten years after it started
as a TV contest in Japan, | 1:41:18 | 1:41:21 | |
athletes in the UK are getting ready
for the fifth championship here. | 1:41:21 | 1:41:24 | |
So I went along to one of the dozens
of places where you can start | 1:41:24 | 1:41:28 | |
on a ninja course,
Europe's largest | 1:41:28 | 1:41:30 | |
one, in Manchester. | 1:41:30 | 1:41:31 | |
Running up the wall,
hanging upside down - | 1:41:31 | 1:41:33 | |
the increasingly common ninja. | 1:41:33 | 1:41:40 | |
It is one of the new sporting crazes
to be hitting the UK, | 1:41:40 | 1:41:44 | |
and it started in Japan. | 1:41:44 | 1:41:47 | |
Straight away, you can see how
challenging a ninja course is, | 1:41:47 | 1:41:50 | |
with just the simple curtain-swings,
if you like, testing even | 1:41:50 | 1:41:53 | |
the best of them. | 1:41:53 | 1:41:58 | |
A ninja is officially defined
as a person skilled in the Japanese | 1:41:58 | 1:42:02 | |
art of ninjitsu, the combination
of free-running, obstacle-racing, | 1:42:02 | 1:42:04 | |
and gymnastics. | 1:42:04 | 1:42:07 | |
You're using your body
like as a monkey. | 1:42:07 | 1:42:10 | |
You are climbing, you're
twisting your body, | 1:42:10 | 1:42:12 | |
from the core areas. | 1:42:12 | 1:42:18 | |
I think, if you go to a normal gym,
you are not getting anywhere | 1:42:18 | 1:42:21 | |
near to Ninja Warrior. | 1:42:21 | 1:42:22 | |
This does bring out
the inner sloth in you. | 1:42:22 | 1:42:25 | |
While Johnny trains
on the professional course | 1:42:25 | 1:42:27 | |
in Manchester, there are beginner
slopes to get you started, | 1:42:27 | 1:42:32 | |
as you race your mates for fun,
building up to the intermediate | 1:42:32 | 1:42:36 | |
and advanced courses,
where the falls get bigger. | 1:42:36 | 1:42:38 | |
A lot of these obstacles,
it's about the technique | 1:42:38 | 1:42:40 | |
and the preparation. | 1:42:40 | 1:42:42 | |
I know it's a race, but it's
in the planning, as well. | 1:42:42 | 1:42:45 | |
Look at that for a roll, though, eh? | 1:42:45 | 1:42:47 | |
This is the best place,
in the end, isn't it? | 1:42:47 | 1:43:00 | |
It's completely different
to your normal gym. | 1:43:00 | 1:43:02 | |
So you have all the ninja obstacles,
it's challenging, it's fun. | 1:43:02 | 1:43:08 | |
And I think the gym can be
a little bit boring, | 1:43:08 | 1:43:11 | |
so this keeps you motivated,
and having fun. | 1:43:11 | 1:43:13 | |
It's mentally and
physically challenging. | 1:43:13 | 1:43:14 | |
So it doesn't matter how fit
you are, you need to have a certain | 1:43:14 | 1:43:18 | |
technique to get accustomed
to the apparatus. | 1:43:18 | 1:43:20 | |
Ninja courses around the world have
become famous for their various | 1:43:20 | 1:43:23 | |
challenges, like the spider wall. | 1:43:23 | 1:43:25 | |
The trouble is, the longer you stay
on this, the more sweaty you get. | 1:43:25 | 1:43:28 | |
I think I'm ready to jump. | 1:43:28 | 1:43:30 | |
Just the fact that you
think you can't do it, | 1:43:30 | 1:43:37 | |
and you just do it... | 1:43:37 | 1:43:38 | |
And you have your friends
like her, who are motivated. | 1:43:38 | 1:43:41 | |
And, once you do it, even better. | 1:43:41 | 1:43:47 | |
And the infamous climb at the end,
when you eventually get there. | 1:43:47 | 1:43:50 | |
That's it. | 1:43:50 | 1:43:53 | |
Ninja Warrior. | 1:43:53 | 1:43:56 | |
A bit of cheating, maybe,
but you do feel like you're | 1:43:56 | 1:43:59 | |
one of them. | 1:43:59 | 1:44:07 | |
The UK champion there.
So are you now a fully qualified | 1:44:07 | 1:44:12 | |
ninja?
I'm on the nursery slopes. | 1:44:12 | 1:44:16 | |
We're still scared. Because of my
ninja skills? | 1:44:16 | 1:44:21 | |
Thanks very much. Let's have a look
at the weather forecast. | 1:44:21 | 1:44:35 | |
this weekend. It turns colder as the
weekend goes on. Thanks to an area | 1:44:35 | 1:44:41 | |
of high pressure which is already
arrived across the northern half of | 1:44:41 | 1:44:45 | |
the UK. Some wintry showers. Across
the south, some clears quails dashed | 1:44:45 | 1:44:50 | |
clear spells overnight. The limit of
sunshine here. But north, a band of | 1:44:50 | 1:44:58 | |
cloud and some patchy rain. Further
north, some wintry showers. The odd | 1:44:58 | 1:45:09 | |
one across the of Scotland. Most of
Northern Ireland, starting off dry. | 1:45:09 | 1:45:16 | |
That northerly winds will continue
to push the cloud southwards and the | 1:45:16 | 1:45:21 | |
come to -- and become confined to
Southern counties. Further north, | 1:45:21 | 1:45:25 | |
the skies brightened up. The much of
Wales, bright and sunny but much | 1:45:25 | 1:45:31 | |
colder across the South. It looks
like the rain and the cloud will | 1:45:31 | 1:45:37 | |
clear away the most southern areas.
Under clear skies, light winds, | 1:45:37 | 1:45:45 | |
Arctic air, very cold. Widespread
frost. -10 degrees, very cold. A | 1:45:45 | 1:45:58 | |
frosty start to Sunday morning. Dry
and bright throughout the day with | 1:45:58 | 1:46:03 | |
loads of crisp winter sunshine. The
breeze is still quite a feature. | 1:46:03 | 1:46:07 | |
Feeling raw here. The wind lighter.
As you can see, this area of high | 1:46:07 | 1:46:14 | |
pressure moves away Eastwood 's what
it's going to do is allow winds to | 1:46:14 | 1:46:20 | |
come in from the east and that will
bring a bit more cloud around. We | 1:46:20 | 1:46:24 | |
start off cold and frosty with some
sunshine. The best of it, northern | 1:46:24 | 1:46:28 | |
and western areas. Again, another
cold one install. This weather | 1:46:28 | 1:46:35 | |
front. To push on Tuesday. By
Wednesday, it will move through. | 1:46:35 | 1:46:40 | |
Back to you too. | 1:46:40 | 1:46:46 | |
Now it's time for Newswatch
with Samira Ahmed. | 1:46:46 | 1:46:48 | |
This week Martin Bashir discusses
coverage of religion on BBC News. | 1:46:48 | 1:46:55 | |
A Happy New Year, and welcome
to the first Newswatch of 2018 | 1:46:55 | 1:46:59 | |
with me, Samira Ahmed. | 1:46:59 | 1:47:01 | |
This week, after the BBC announces
it's increasing its religious | 1:47:01 | 1:47:06 | |
affairs coverage, we'll be asking
why, and what the impact will be. | 1:47:06 | 1:47:10 | |
The BBC's religion editor
Martin Bashir tells us how he'll be | 1:47:10 | 1:47:13 | |
tackling the competing
demands of religious groups | 1:47:13 | 1:47:15 | |
and the non-believing majority. | 1:47:15 | 1:47:16 | |
First, the New Year brought with it
some distressing news, | 1:47:16 | 1:47:19 | |
including the deaths of six people,
including British businessman | 1:47:19 | 1:47:24 | |
Richard Cousins, in a seaplane
accident in Australia. | 1:47:24 | 1:47:26 | |
The crash was reported
extensively on BBC News - | 1:47:26 | 1:47:32 | |
too much so for several viewers,
including Alan Winn. | 1:47:32 | 1:47:34 | |
He wrote to us on Tuesday. | 1:47:34 | 1:47:36 | |
You've been sending us your comments
on BBC News output over | 1:47:36 | 1:47:38 | |
the Christmas and New Year period
and one concern that's been voiced | 1:47:38 | 1:47:42 | |
was the contrast some perceived
in the coverage of two fires that | 1:47:42 | 1:47:43 | |
You've been sending us your comments
on BBC News output over | 1:48:05 | 1:48:08 | |
the Christmas and New Year period
and one concern that's been voiced | 1:48:08 | 1:48:11 | |
was the contrast some perceived
in the coverage of two fires that | 1:48:11 | 1:48:14 | |
took place on December 29th -
one in an apartment building | 1:48:14 | 1:48:17 | |
in the Bronx, New York,
which killed 12 people, | 1:48:17 | 1:48:20 | |
and one in a restaurant in Mumbai,
in India, where at least | 1:48:20 | 1:48:37 | |
15 people died. | 1:48:37 | 1:48:38 | |
Imtiyaz Ansari rang that day
identifying a discrepancy | 1:48:38 | 1:48:40 | |
in the news reporting
of the two incidents. | 1:48:40 | 1:48:43 | |
It obviously showed a great deal
of the fire that took place | 1:48:43 | 1:48:46 | |
in the Bronx where 12
people had died. | 1:48:46 | 1:48:48 | |
But the same incidence of fire has
taken place in Mumbai where 15 | 1:48:48 | 1:48:55 | |
people have died. | 1:48:55 | 1:49:01 | |
Not a single mention
of this incident. | 1:49:01 | 1:49:05 | |
And even your website,
this incident is hidden well | 1:49:05 | 1:49:07 | |
inside the Asia region
while the New York fire is right | 1:49:07 | 1:49:10 | |
on the front page. | 1:49:10 | 1:49:11 | |
Why so biased? | 1:49:11 | 1:49:12 | |
Just before Christmas,
the BBC published its plans | 1:49:12 | 1:49:14 | |
to increase the ambition of its
coverage of religion and ethics. | 1:49:14 | 1:49:17 | |
The review covered all areas
of programming, from Songs of Praise | 1:49:17 | 1:49:20 | |
to Thought for the Day, but in news,
it proposed increasing investment | 1:49:20 | 1:49:24 | |
and output, and a new post
of religion editor. | 1:49:24 | 1:49:26 | |
The scope and nature of reporting
on religion is a subject that's | 1:49:26 | 1:49:29 | |
bound to divide audiences,
with some feeling it's | 1:49:29 | 1:49:31 | |
given insufficient attention. | 1:49:31 | 1:49:32 | |
For instance, David Parry wrote
to us recently to ask about the BBC | 1:49:32 | 1:49:36 | |
News website. | 1:49:36 | 1:49:39 | |
And when Sarah Mullally
was appointed the first female | 1:49:53 | 1:49:55 | |
Bishop of London last month,
the news was mentioned only briefly | 1:49:55 | 1:49:58 | |
on that night's evening bulletins,
to the disgruntlement | 1:49:58 | 1:50:00 | |
of Gareth Jones,
as he explains here. | 1:50:00 | 1:50:02 | |
This was an important story
for the established church | 1:50:05 | 1:50:07 | |
and for women's equality. | 1:50:07 | 1:50:14 | |
Even if you had run this story
earlier, surely it warranted | 1:50:14 | 1:50:17 | |
a regular slot throughout the day,
particularly at a time when the role | 1:50:17 | 1:50:21 | |
of women in society
is at the forefront of our thinking. | 1:50:21 | 1:50:24 | |
Others, though, regret the proposal
for more religious coverage | 1:50:24 | 1:50:26 | |
with some suspicious
that the BBC is proselytising. | 1:50:26 | 1:50:30 | |
Sue Nelson tweeted this
week: | 1:50:30 | 1:50:32 | |
A tough task, then, | 1:50:32 | 1:50:33 | |
A tough task, then, | 1:50:44 | 1:50:46 | |
to satisfy conflicting demands,
and the main person responsible | 1:50:46 | 1:50:48 | |
is Martin Bashir, who's just become
the BBC's first religion editor. | 1:50:48 | 1:50:51 | |
He became a household name
when his interview with Diana, | 1:50:51 | 1:50:54 | |
Princess of Wales,
for Panorama back in 1995 | 1:50:54 | 1:50:56 | |
made international headlines. | 1:50:56 | 1:51:02 | |
After other high-profile programmes
on the likes of Louise Woodward | 1:51:02 | 1:51:09 | |
and on Michael Jackson
for ITV, he went to work | 1:51:09 | 1:51:12 | |
in the United States,
but returned a year or so ago | 1:51:12 | 1:51:16 | |
to the BBC, where he'd worked
at the start of his career. | 1:51:16 | 1:51:20 | |
In December, he followed
Pope Francis on his tour of Asia, | 1:51:20 | 1:51:23 | |
and reported on the Archbishop
of Canterbury's Christmas Day | 1:51:23 | 1:51:25 | |
message, and from Bethlehem
on the preparations | 1:51:25 | 1:51:27 | |
for Christmas there. | 1:51:27 | 1:51:28 | |
It is in this place,
where borders and walls fortify | 1:51:28 | 1:51:31 | |
a sense of identity and religious
separation, that the Christian | 1:51:31 | 1:51:47 | |
church is seeking to spread
its message of peace | 1:51:47 | 1:51:49 | |
and goodwill at Christmas. | 1:51:49 | 1:51:53 | |
Happy Christmas! | 1:51:53 | 1:51:53 | |
At Canterbury Cathedral,
Archbishop Justin Welby said that | 1:51:53 | 1:51:56 | |
although Christ was born
without any political leverage, | 1:51:56 | 1:51:58 | |
he provides more freedom
to individuals than the world's | 1:51:58 | 1:52:00 | |
most powerful leaders. | 1:52:00 | 1:52:01 | |
Pope Francis praised
the United Nations, but he did not | 1:52:01 | 1:52:04 | |
refer to the UN's accusation that
Myanmar had been involved | 1:52:04 | 1:52:06 | |
in ethnic cleansing. | 1:52:06 | 1:52:07 | |
And while he said the future of this
nation must include all races | 1:52:07 | 1:52:11 | |
and religions, he did not use
the word 'Rohingya'. | 1:52:11 | 1:52:13 | |
Well, Martin Bashir is with me now. | 1:52:13 | 1:52:15 | |
Welcome to Newswatch. | 1:52:15 | 1:52:16 | |
The status of religion in news
coverage has clearly gone up, | 1:52:16 | 1:52:19 | |
as you are now an editor and not
just a correspondent - | 1:52:19 | 1:52:22 | |
an admission, perhaps,
that the BBC hasn't been doing | 1:52:22 | 1:52:25 | |
enough on religion? | 1:52:25 | 1:52:27 | |
We have seen a decline
in religious affiliation, | 1:52:27 | 1:52:30 | |
a decline in attendance at church
and places of worship, | 1:52:30 | 1:52:33 | |
so I think that the BBC
is responding in part in the way | 1:52:33 | 1:52:37 | |
that religious groups have responded
- they are demanding more coverage, | 1:52:37 | 1:52:40 | |
and the BBC is responding to that. | 1:52:40 | 1:52:42 | |
But I don't think it is
a BBC singular failing. | 1:52:42 | 1:52:44 | |
I think you have seen
a cultural change. | 1:52:44 | 1:52:47 | |
Some listeners and viewers might be
really worried about the fact that | 1:52:47 | 1:52:50 | |
religious groups are demanding more
coverage and the BBC is giving it. | 1:52:50 | 1:52:54 | |
I think what you have to keep
in mind is that we are a diverse | 1:52:54 | 1:53:00 | |
country with different religious
commitments and all of those people | 1:53:00 | 1:53:03 | |
pay the licence fee. | 1:53:03 | 1:53:05 | |
They all expect to have
some kind of return. | 1:53:05 | 1:53:09 | |
Some of them will say
they have a desire for worship | 1:53:09 | 1:53:15 | |
programmes, documentaries,
observational programmes | 1:53:15 | 1:53:19 | |
like Muslims Like Us,
so I think that the BBC's output | 1:53:19 | 1:53:22 | |
is responding to that. | 1:53:22 | 1:53:25 | |
Now, of course, there are plenty
of other people who have no | 1:53:25 | 1:53:29 | |
religious interest whatsoever,
but I think it would be wrong to say | 1:53:29 | 1:53:33 | |
that we shouldn't provide material
that, for many people, | 1:53:33 | 1:53:35 | |
is very important and very
central in their lives. | 1:53:35 | 1:53:38 | |
To emphasise, the majority
don't believe in God, | 1:53:38 | 1:53:40 | |
and humanists, like Sue
in the comments, are worried | 1:53:40 | 1:53:42 | |
that the BBC is being seen to bow
to pressure from organised religious | 1:53:42 | 1:53:46 | |
groups at a time when a great number
of people say they don't | 1:53:46 | 1:53:49 | |
believe in God. | 1:53:49 | 1:53:50 | |
If you are saying that the only
thing we are doing in our religious | 1:53:50 | 1:53:54 | |
coverage relates to Christianity
or Islam or Sikhism, | 1:53:54 | 1:53:56 | |
then I would say yes,
that would be wrong and unfair, | 1:53:56 | 1:54:00 | |
but that isn't what we are doing. | 1:54:00 | 1:54:02 | |
What we are doing is reflecting
the broad expression of interest | 1:54:02 | 1:54:21 | |
among the British population. | 1:54:21 | 1:54:22 | |
People do have a desire to express
themselves beyond the purely | 1:54:22 | 1:54:25 | |
physical and material world. | 1:54:25 | 1:54:26 | |
Spiritually in the broadest sense? | 1:54:26 | 1:54:28 | |
OK, will we hear more
from religious leaders expressing | 1:54:28 | 1:54:30 | |
what they believe? | 1:54:30 | 1:54:31 | |
Even though this stuff
is usually contested? | 1:54:31 | 1:54:33 | |
I don't think we are allowing people
to simply proselytise. | 1:54:33 | 1:54:36 | |
Are we going to have people | 1:54:36 | 1:54:37 | |
on effectively like American TV
evangelists, preventing their view | 1:54:37 | 1:54:40 | |
and trying to persuade viewers? | 1:54:40 | 1:54:41 | |
No,
that isn't what the BBC does. | 1:54:41 | 1:54:43 | |
Britain is nominally a Christian
country We have an established | 1:54:43 | 1:54:46 | |
religion in the Church of England. | 1:54:46 | 1:54:47 | |
Should that dominate
religious coverage? | 1:54:47 | 1:54:49 | |
Some would think so. | 1:54:49 | 1:54:50 | |
Christianity has the largest
stakeholding in Britain | 1:54:50 | 1:54:52 | |
and globally, and we have
an established church, | 1:54:52 | 1:54:56 | |
bishops in the House of Lords,
the monarch is the supreme governor | 1:54:56 | 1:54:59 | |
of the Church of England,
but remember, we are trying | 1:54:59 | 1:55:09 | |
to reflect the whole gamut
of Britain's religious | 1:55:09 | 1:55:11 | |
and faith expressions. | 1:55:11 | 1:55:16 | |
And so, in the last year,
I've done stories on anti-Semitism | 1:55:16 | 1:55:19 | |
and the rise of it, I've covered
the issue of Sharia councils and how | 1:55:19 | 1:55:23 | |
they impact on Muslim marriages. | 1:55:23 | 1:55:25 | |
I've tried to step beyond simply
issues within the life of the Church | 1:55:25 | 1:55:28 | |
of England but, having said that,
I am very aware that there are many | 1:55:28 | 1:55:32 | |
Christian people who have been
critical of the BBC and have said | 1:55:32 | 1:55:35 | |
in the past that the BBC hasn't
fairly or reasonably covered | 1:55:35 | 1:55:38 | |
the church, and I am seeking
to address that criticism as much | 1:55:38 | 1:55:41 | |
as I can also. | 1:55:41 | 1:55:43 | |
Does being a Christian yourself mean
that some people might say you can't | 1:55:43 | 1:55:46 | |
report fairly on religion and be
impartial, because you believe | 1:55:46 | 1:55:49 | |
everyone else is wrong? | 1:55:49 | 1:55:50 | |
What would you say if someone said
Samira, you can't cover a racial | 1:55:50 | 1:55:53 | |
discrimination story
because of your own ethnicity? | 1:55:53 | 1:55:57 | |
What would you say? | 1:55:57 | 1:55:58 | |
You give me your answer. | 1:55:58 | 1:56:12 | |
My answer would be the same
as yours, and that is that we have | 1:56:12 | 1:56:16 | |
professional training and we have
professional standards | 1:56:16 | 1:56:18 | |
and I would expect to be
held to those standards | 1:56:18 | 1:56:20 | |
as much as anybody. | 1:56:20 | 1:56:22 | |
Our professional training means
that we cover the stories as fairly | 1:56:22 | 1:56:24 | |
and as impartially
as we possibly can. | 1:56:24 | 1:56:26 | |
You are famous partly because,
for a time, you made very | 1:56:26 | 1:56:29 | |
controversial programmes,
such as the interview with Diana, | 1:56:29 | 1:56:32 | |
Princess of Wales,
about the state of her marriage. | 1:56:32 | 1:56:34 | |
Some viewers might be surprised
you are the religion editor. | 1:56:34 | 1:56:39 | |
Yeah, they probably will be! | 1:56:39 | 1:56:43 | |
I did a first degree in English
literature and history, | 1:56:43 | 1:56:50 | |
and then went to Kings College
in London and studied | 1:56:50 | 1:56:53 | |
theology and history. | 1:56:53 | 1:56:54 | |
I am actually doing some academic
work at the moment in the whole | 1:56:54 | 1:57:05 | |
area of religion. | 1:57:05 | 1:57:09 | |
So it's something that's
been with me life-long. | 1:57:09 | 1:57:11 | |
I haven't expressed it
through my professional life | 1:57:11 | 1:57:13 | |
previously, but it's very
much a part of who I am. | 1:57:13 | 1:57:16 | |
I don't think that this
portfolio is restrictive. | 1:57:16 | 1:57:18 | |
In fact, I think it's an opportunity
to explore all kinds of issues | 1:57:18 | 1:57:22 | |
affecting humans -
expression, ethics, decisions, | 1:57:22 | 1:57:23 | |
everything from how you parent your
children to how you die, | 1:57:23 | 1:57:26 | |
and I don't think there's another
portfolio that I would be more | 1:57:26 | 1:57:30 | |
interested in than this one. | 1:57:30 | 1:57:31 | |
Martin Bashir, thank
you for coming in to Newswatch. | 1:57:31 | 1:57:33 | |
Thank you! | 1:57:33 | 1:57:34 | |
Finally, we have seen reports
about weather conditions | 1:57:34 | 1:57:36 | |
across the UK. | 1:57:36 | 1:57:37 | |
On Wednesday, Chris Page rounded up
some of the effects of Storm Eleanor | 1:57:37 | 1:57:40 | |
around the country. | 1:57:40 | 1:57:41 | |
In Clevedon and Somerset,
the promenade was out of bounds | 1:57:41 | 1:57:44 | |
and emergency services
were on stand-by as the winds | 1:57:44 | 1:57:46 | |
whipped up waves. | 1:57:46 | 1:57:47 | |
And Wales also suffered. | 1:57:47 | 1:57:53 | |
Anglesey was pounded by fierce gusts
and ferocious tides. | 1:57:53 | 1:57:55 | |
Several eagle-eyed viewers spotted
a spelling mistake there, | 1:57:55 | 1:57:58 | |
and they were not impressed. | 1:57:58 | 1:58:03 | |
Sue Barnard e-mailed: Thank
you for all your comments this week. | 1:58:03 | 1:58:08 | |
If you want to share your opinions
on BBC News or current affairs | 1:58:08 | 1:58:11 | |
or even appear on the programme,
you can call us on this number. | 1:58:11 | 1:58:15 | |
You can find us on Twitter and do
have a look at our website. | 1:58:15 | 1:58:15 | |
Thank | 1:58:29 | 1:58:29 | |
you for all your comments this week. | 1:58:29 | 1:58:31 | |
If you want to share your opinions
on BBC News or current affairs | 1:58:31 | 1:58:43 | |
or even appear on the programme,
you can call us on this number. | 1:58:43 | 1:58:46 | |
You can find us on Twitter and do
have a look at our website. | 1:58:46 | 1:58:50 | |
That's all from us. | 1:58:50 | 1:58:51 | |
We'll be back to hear your thoughts
about BBC News coverage | 1:58:51 | 1:58:54 | |
again next week. | 1:58:54 | 1:58:55 | |
Goodbye. | 1:58:55 | 1:58:57 | |
Hello this is Breakfast,
with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty | 2:00:02 | 2:00:04 | |
A call for the victims of serial sex
attacker John Worboys | 2:00:04 | 2:00:07 | |
to have the chance to give
evidence against him - | 2:00:07 | 2:00:09 | |
following the announcement he's
to be released from jail. | 2:00:09 | 2:00:11 | |
This programme's been told some
of the women whose stories | 2:00:11 | 2:00:14 | |
weren't heard in court -
now want their cases to be | 2:00:14 | 2:00:16 | |
reviewed by the police. | 2:00:16 | 2:00:23 | |
Then now want their case to be given
the proper scrutiny that it deserves | 2:00:23 | 2:00:28 | |
and for a decision to be made as to
whether or not a prosecution will be | 2:00:28 | 2:00:32 | |
brought in there cases. | 2:00:32 | 2:00:43 | |
Good morning - it's
Saturday 6th January. | 2:00:47 | 2:00:52 | |
Also this morning... | 2:00:52 | 2:00:53 | |
Online casino operators are accused | 2:00:53 | 2:00:56 | |
by the industry's watchdog
of failing to prevent | 2:00:56 | 2:00:57 | |
money laundering and
protect problem gamblers. | 2:00:57 | 2:00:59 | |
In sport, another morale-sapping day
for England's bowlers. | 2:00:59 | 2:01:01 | |
This time it's the Marsh brothers
who are chief tormenters - | 2:01:01 | 2:01:03 | |
smashing England around Sydney,
as Australia build a lead of 133 | 2:01:03 | 2:01:06 | |
in the final Ashes Test. | 2:01:06 | 2:01:08 | |
And what does it take
to cut it as a Ninja? | 2:01:08 | 2:01:11 | |
I've been having a go at the sport
that started in Japan 10 years ago, | 2:01:11 | 2:01:15 | |
and is now taking a firm hold
here in the UK. | 2:01:15 | 2:01:18 | |
Temperatures in parts of the US
are predicted to fall to minus 29 - | 2:01:18 | 2:01:22 | |
as a record-breaking freeze follows
heavy snow caused by | 2:01:22 | 2:01:25 | |
the so-called bomb cyclone. | 2:01:25 | 2:01:31 | |
Not quite so cold here -
Stav has the details. | 2:01:31 | 2:01:41 | |
It is turning much colder for all of
us this weekend, but on the plus | 2:01:43 | 2:01:47 | |
side, we should have some sunshine
this weekend. I will have the | 2:01:47 | 2:01:50 | |
details for you very shortly. | 2:01:50 | 2:01:55 | |
First, our main story. | 2:01:55 | 2:01:58 | |
A lawyer who represented victims
of the serial sex offender | 2:01:58 | 2:02:00 | |
John Worboys has told BBC Breakfast
that some of her clients, | 2:02:00 | 2:02:03 | |
whose cases weren't taken
to trial, want prosecutors | 2:02:03 | 2:02:05 | |
to re-examine their evidence. | 2:02:05 | 2:02:06 | |
The former black cab
driver is being freed | 2:02:06 | 2:02:08 | |
from jail after ten years. | 2:02:08 | 2:02:09 | |
He was convicted of 19 offences,
although police believe he carried | 2:02:09 | 2:02:11 | |
out more than 100 attacks. | 2:02:11 | 2:02:13 | |
Lawyers say that a number of women
were told that their testimony | 2:02:13 | 2:02:16 | |
wasn't required to put Worboys
behind bars for a longer | 2:02:16 | 2:02:18 | |
period of time. | 2:02:18 | 2:02:19 | |
Tom Burridge reports. | 2:02:19 | 2:02:20 | |
The decision to release rapist
John Worboys has raised profound | 2:02:20 | 2:02:22 | |
questions about the way sexual
crimes against women | 2:02:22 | 2:02:25 | |
are investigated, and whether
the procedures for releasing | 2:02:25 | 2:02:27 | |
criminals need changing. | 2:02:27 | 2:02:32 | |
Worboys picked up young
women in his black cab, | 2:02:32 | 2:02:34 | |
duped and drugged them,
and then carried out his attacks. | 2:02:34 | 2:02:39 | |
He was convicted of 19
offences in 2009, and given | 2:02:39 | 2:02:44 | |
an indefinite sentence. | 2:02:44 | 2:02:47 | |
But, in total, more than 100
women said Worboys tried | 2:02:47 | 2:02:50 | |
to drug and assault them. | 2:02:50 | 2:02:55 | |
Some allegations were investigated,
but no further action | 2:02:55 | 2:03:02 | |
was taken. | 2:03:02 | 2:03:11 | |
I think women just want justice and
they want their voices to be heard. | 2:03:11 | 2:03:14 | |
The CPS said, don't worry, we won't
Rosicky in your case because he's | 2:03:14 | 2:03:20 | |
going to be in prison for a very
long time, he will be on an | 2:03:20 | 2:03:25 | |
indeterminate sentence, is going to
be locked away. They now want their | 2:03:25 | 2:03:28 | |
case to be given the proper scrutiny
that it deserves and a decision to | 2:03:28 | 2:03:33 | |
be made as to whether or not a
prosecution is going to be brought | 2:03:33 | 2:03:36 | |
in there cases. | 2:03:36 | 2:03:44 | |
Under law, what we can't know is why
the Parole Board has decided he now | 2:03:44 | 2:03:48 | |
Under law, we can't know is why
the Parole Board has decided he now | 2:03:48 | 2:03:51 | |
no longer poses a risk
to the public. | 2:03:51 | 2:03:55 | |
Five online gambling companies
could have their licenses revoked | 2:03:55 | 2:03:57 | |
over concern they're not doing
enough to help problem gamblers, | 2:03:57 | 2:03:59 | |
or prevent money launderers
from using their sites. | 2:03:59 | 2:04:02 | |
The Gambling Commission has written
to all 195 online casino operators, | 2:04:02 | 2:04:05 | |
to tell them about the safeguards
they should all have in place. | 2:04:05 | 2:04:08 | |
Our business correspondent
Jonty Bloom reports. | 2:04:08 | 2:04:12 | |
One third of all gambling
in the UK is now online, | 2:04:12 | 2:04:14 | |
and it's worth billions of pounds. | 2:04:14 | 2:04:17 | |
The Gambling Commission has been
reviewing the safeguards that | 2:04:17 | 2:04:21 | |
all companies should have in place. | 2:04:21 | 2:04:25 | |
They're designed to prevent problem
gambling getting out of control, | 2:04:25 | 2:04:27 | |
and to prevent money being laundered
by criminals or terrorists. | 2:04:27 | 2:04:30 | |
Sarah Harrison, chief executive
of the Gambling Commission, | 2:04:30 | 2:04:34 | |
said... | 2:04:34 | 2:04:41 | |
But the commission found many signs
that customers' gambling | 2:04:41 | 2:04:44 | |
was becoming compulsive
were not being followed up, | 2:04:44 | 2:04:48 | |
and some staff had little idea
of how to stop money laundering, or, | 2:04:48 | 2:04:54 | |
and some staff had little idea
of how to spot money laundering, or, | 2:04:54 | 2:04:57 | |
in some cases, even what it was. | 2:04:57 | 2:04:58 | |
As a result, the Gambling Commission
is warning all online | 2:04:58 | 2:05:01 | |
casino operators to review
their procedures, and has | 2:05:01 | 2:05:03 | |
begun an investigation
into 17 online companies. | 2:05:03 | 2:05:04 | |
It's considering whether it should
review the licences of five of them. | 2:05:04 | 2:05:07 | |
Losing its licence would mean
a company would be unable | 2:05:07 | 2:05:10 | |
to continue to operate in the UK. | 2:05:10 | 2:05:16 | |
President Trump has taken to Twitter
overnight to show his continued | 2:05:16 | 2:05:20 | |
frustration over the release
of a controversial book | 2:05:20 | 2:05:23 | |
documenting his first
year in the White House. | 2:05:23 | 2:05:26 | |
Calling the author of the book
Michael Wolff "a total loser", | 2:05:26 | 2:05:29 | |
the President accuses him
of making up stories. | 2:05:29 | 2:05:32 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon | 2:05:32 | 2:05:35 | |
"Sloppy Steve", claiming he cried
when he was fired. | 2:05:35 | 2:05:39 | |
The book, called Fire And Fury,
has now gone on sale early, | 2:05:39 | 2:05:42 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 2:05:42 | 2:05:45 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members | 2:05:45 | 2:05:48 | |
of the United Nations
Security Council for calling | 2:05:48 | 2:05:50 | |
an emergency meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 2:05:50 | 2:05:52 | |
China and France said
the unrest did not threaten | 2:05:52 | 2:05:54 | |
international security. | 2:05:54 | 2:05:58 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce and repeated | 2:05:58 | 2:06:04 | |
claims that the protests
were being directed from abroad. | 2:06:04 | 2:06:06 | |
Easyjet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among the major employers who've | 2:06:06 | 2:06:12 | |
been revealed to pay
women on average at least | 2:06:12 | 2:06:14 | |
15% less than men. | 2:06:14 | 2:06:15 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 2:06:15 | 2:06:18 | |
publish their figures by April -
more than 500 have done so. | 2:06:18 | 2:06:24 | |
Another 8,000 must publish by April,
or risk being fined | 2:06:24 | 2:06:26 | |
under a new law intended
to tackle workplace discrimination. | 2:06:26 | 2:06:31 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 2:06:31 | 2:06:35 | |
that the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 2:06:35 | 2:06:37 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 2:06:37 | 2:06:40 | |
The National Weather Service
predicts wind chills as low | 2:06:40 | 2:06:43 | |
as minus-40 degrees Celsius. | 2:06:43 | 2:06:44 | |
Russell Trott has the latest. | 2:06:44 | 2:06:53 | |
The public coming to the aid
of public transport on the streets | 2:06:53 | 2:06:56 | |
of Eastern Boston, as snow and ice
left many stranded. | 2:06:56 | 2:06:58 | |
Elsewhere in the city,
the emergency services are working | 2:06:58 | 2:07:02 | |
flat out, and in deep water,
as high tides flooded roads | 2:07:02 | 2:07:05 | |
close to the harbour. | 2:07:05 | 2:07:07 | |
Plummeting temperatures meant much
of Massachusetts was under | 2:07:07 | 2:07:11 | |
huge quantities of snow. | 2:07:11 | 2:07:18 | |
And after a three foot storm surge
brought seas inland, | 2:07:18 | 2:07:21 | |
the flood water froze,
trapping cars in ice. | 2:07:21 | 2:07:27 | |
For the homeless of Chicago,
life on the streets is now | 2:07:27 | 2:07:30 | |
all about survival. | 2:07:30 | 2:07:31 | |
Those who do find shelter are happy
to be anywhere but outside. | 2:07:31 | 2:07:34 | |
We see an average of 700-800
people every single day. | 2:07:34 | 2:07:38 | |
Sometimes there are people who come
in when it's extremely cold | 2:07:38 | 2:07:42 | |
who won't come in when it's
not so cold. | 2:07:42 | 2:07:46 | |
A sudden drop in temperatures
can hit hard anywhere. | 2:07:46 | 2:07:51 | |
In Florida, where in some parts snow
fell for the first time in 30 years, | 2:07:51 | 2:07:56 | |
cold seas saw hundreds of turtles
rescued after their muscles | 2:07:56 | 2:07:59 | |
started seizing up. | 2:07:59 | 2:08:03 | |
As thousands of snowploughs
are deployed throughout | 2:08:03 | 2:08:05 | |
the eastern seaboard,
forecasters warned that | 2:08:05 | 2:08:07 | |
the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures. | 2:08:07 | 2:08:13 | |
Plans to improve reading standards
amongst children from disadvantaged | 2:08:13 | 2:08:17 | |
backgrounds have been announced
by the Department for Education. | 2:08:17 | 2:08:19 | |
There'll be a network of 35 literacy
teaching centres across England, | 2:08:19 | 2:08:23 | |
to work with primary schools that
are in challenging areas. | 2:08:23 | 2:08:27 | |
Labour says the funding will do
nothing to change government | 2:08:27 | 2:08:29 | |
cuts to school budgets. | 2:08:29 | 2:08:34 | |
There will also be schemes to
improve the vocabulary of pre-school | 2:08:34 | 2:08:36 | |
children in the north of England. | 2:08:36 | 2:08:40 | |
This is about investing around the
country, bringing together teachers | 2:08:40 | 2:08:44 | |
and literacy specialists, so we can
make sure that we do even better on | 2:08:44 | 2:08:48 | |
reading and writing and standards,
but also that we don't see any | 2:08:48 | 2:08:52 | |
children falling behind. | 2:08:52 | 2:08:54 | |
A bar owner has been left shaken
but not stirred after being reunited | 2:08:54 | 2:08:58 | |
with what's thought to be the most
expensive vodka bottle in the world. | 2:08:58 | 2:09:04 | |
Made of gold and silver
with a diamond encrusted replica | 2:09:04 | 2:09:10 | |
of the Russian Imperial Eagle
on its cap - this extravagant bottle | 2:09:10 | 2:09:14 | |
was on loan to a bar in Copenhagen
when it was stolen last week. | 2:09:14 | 2:09:22 | |
It has been found, though. | 2:09:22 | 2:09:28 | |
The bottle, which is worth
nearly a million pounds, | 2:09:28 | 2:09:30 | |
was found empty on a construction
site in the city. | 2:09:30 | 2:09:33 | |
But it's not believed the theft
will affect its value - | 2:09:33 | 2:09:39 | |
and the bar owner says he simply
intends to fill it up again | 2:09:39 | 2:09:43 | |
and put it on display. | 2:09:43 | 2:09:46 | |
The spotlight has been
on the British legal system over | 2:09:46 | 2:09:52 | |
the last couple days,
since it was announced that serial | 2:09:52 | 2:09:55 | |
sex offender, John Worboys,
will be released after serving ten | 2:09:55 | 2:09:57 | |
years in jail. | 2:09:57 | 2:09:58 | |
The chairman of the Parole Board has
apologised that some victims weren't | 2:09:58 | 2:10:01 | |
told before the news
was made public. | 2:10:01 | 2:10:02 | |
And questions have also been asked
as to why no further | 2:10:02 | 2:10:05 | |
prosecutions were brought,
even though police believe | 2:10:05 | 2:10:07 | |
Worboys had attacked more women. | 2:10:07 | 2:10:09 | |
So, does the system need
to be more transparent? | 2:10:09 | 2:10:13 | |
Let's discuss this with
barrister John Cooper, who's | 2:10:13 | 2:10:14 | |
in our London newsroom. | 2:10:14 | 2:10:20 | |
Thanks for talking to us this
morning. Let's get a view from you | 2:10:20 | 2:10:24 | |
of what you think has happened in
this case and whether you think | 2:10:24 | 2:10:28 | |
everything has been done properly?
Well, on the face of it everything | 2:10:28 | 2:10:31 | |
does seem to have been done
properly. That said I can understand | 2:10:31 | 2:10:36 | |
the frustration of the public, and
indeed my frustration as well to a | 2:10:36 | 2:10:41 | |
degree with the law which says we
can't see the evidence. But in terms | 2:10:41 | 2:10:45 | |
of the process, it has gone as one
would expect, except that it seems | 2:10:45 | 2:10:50 | |
the victims, or some of them, were
not informed of the decision, and | 2:10:50 | 2:10:54 | |
that's where it has fallen down, the
lack of information to victims, that | 2:10:54 | 2:10:59 | |
this man is going to be released to.
As far as the process is concerned, | 2:10:59 | 2:11:03 | |
it should do. Looking at how the
parole board has come to this | 2:11:03 | 2:11:09 | |
decision, then, what do you think us
being able to see this would change? | 2:11:09 | 2:11:17 | |
What the Parole Board have to
consider is whether an individual is | 2:11:17 | 2:11:20 | |
dangerous to society. Perhaps I
should just explain the imprisonment | 2:11:20 | 2:11:26 | |
for public retention system. It has
been abolished, actually. But there | 2:11:26 | 2:11:30 | |
are still cases such as Worboys,
about 3000 prisoners who are still | 2:11:30 | 2:11:36 | |
serving from before it was
abolished. The judge will give a | 2:11:36 | 2:11:39 | |
normal sentence for the punitive
element of the sentence, in his case | 2:11:39 | 2:11:44 | |
eight years, and then add to that
the IPPR it was considered that the | 2:11:44 | 2:11:49 | |
individual was dangerous. And they
could only be released after they | 2:11:49 | 2:11:53 | |
had served their initial sentence if
the Parole Board, after hearing | 2:11:53 | 2:11:56 | |
evidence and seeing documents and
having an assessment of the | 2:11:56 | 2:12:02 | |
individual, were convinced that the
person was unsafe to be released. In | 2:12:02 | 2:12:06 | |
this case clearly the Parole Board
have considered evidence, which we | 2:12:06 | 2:12:10 | |
have not seen, and had reports on
him and have come to the conclusion | 2:12:10 | 2:12:14 | |
that he is no longer dangerous, and
they are applied should, if that is | 2:12:14 | 2:12:19 | |
their conclusion, effectively to
release him. So, they're taking the | 2:12:19 | 2:12:23 | |
evidence which was available at the
time, is that correct? Obviously, | 2:12:23 | 2:12:27 | |
they're aware of the charges and the
convictions, but they will have | 2:12:27 | 2:12:30 | |
taken evidence since he has been in
custody to see for instance whether | 2:12:30 | 2:12:35 | |
he has been rehabilitated. This
procedure takes place for all | 2:12:35 | 2:12:39 | |
prisoners who are on IPPs. In this
case we spoke to Kim Harrison, who's | 2:12:39 | 2:12:47 | |
representing some of the women who
were assaulted by John Worboys. What | 2:12:47 | 2:12:51 | |
they are upset about is that at the
time the prosecution, there was | 2:12:51 | 2:12:54 | |
evidence. There was a lot of
evidence, to prove that he had | 2:12:54 | 2:12:58 | |
attacked, they say, more than the
women who he was charged for | 2:12:58 | 2:13:05 | |
attacking. The CPS at the time told
these women that they had enough to | 2:13:05 | 2:13:09 | |
put him away for a long time. And
this evidence, the extra evidence, | 2:13:09 | 2:13:15 | |
wasn't used. Is that normal, that
this extra evidence, which could | 2:13:15 | 2:13:20 | |
have contributed to a longer
sentence, wasn't used? That's not | 2:13:20 | 2:13:24 | |
normal, certainly not in cases such
as this. If there was evidence, and | 2:13:24 | 2:13:29 | |
I have to say IF there was evidence,
if it was cogent, clear and strong, | 2:13:29 | 2:13:34 | |
in serious cases such as this, it
should have been presented to the | 2:13:34 | 2:13:39 | |
court for consideration. But also
during the course of this debate | 2:13:39 | 2:13:41 | |
which we've been having over the
last 24 hours, we need to look at | 2:13:41 | 2:13:45 | |
the role of the police. Is it a case
of the CPS having evidence and | 2:13:45 | 2:13:50 | |
dismissing it because it wasn't
sufficient, or is it the CPS for | 2:13:50 | 2:13:53 | |
instance wrongly dismissing it?
There may be an issue here about | 2:13:53 | 2:13:59 | |
whether or not the police thoroughly
investigated these other charges. | 2:13:59 | 2:14:02 | |
The Crown Prosecution Service will
only bring a prosecution if they | 2:14:02 | 2:14:06 | |
think that there is a reasonable
prospect of success, or it is in the | 2:14:06 | 2:14:11 | |
public interest to do so. It might
be that they considered there was | 2:14:11 | 2:14:13 | |
not a reasonable prospect of success
because the police had not | 2:14:13 | 2:14:16 | |
thoroughly investigated. Let me at
three points to you. I would love | 2:14:16 | 2:14:23 | |
your opinion on this. The victims
are angry about not being able to | 2:14:23 | 2:14:26 | |
testify. They were never told, Kim
Harrison says, that there was a | 2:14:26 | 2:14:31 | |
problem with the reliability of
their evidence. That's the first | 2:14:31 | 2:14:35 | |
point, they were simply told it
wasn't needed. The CPS released a | 2:14:35 | 2:14:40 | |
statement yesterday saying that 83
complaints were made during the | 2:14:40 | 2:14:43 | |
initial investigation that many
didn't pass the evidential test. And | 2:14:43 | 2:14:46 | |
then on top of that, as you've
mentioned about the Metropolitan | 2:14:46 | 2:14:52 | |
Police, they have said vocally that
there is a suspicion that he | 2:14:52 | 2:14:55 | |
assaulted more women. So, when you
put all of that together, doesn't it | 2:14:55 | 2:14:59 | |
seem very unusual that more evidence
wasn't used and that it is already | 2:14:59 | 2:15:05 | |
changing what could be a further
prosecution in this sense? Let's | 2:15:05 | 2:15:08 | |
deal with the matter two first.
Firstly, the police have suspicion | 2:15:08 | 2:15:14 | |
that other offences have been
committed... Well, that is not | 2:15:14 | 2:15:18 | |
evidence. The police have a lot of
suspicions, it means nothing unless | 2:15:18 | 2:15:23 | |
it coalesces into evidence. On the
second point, evidence that was | 2:15:23 | 2:15:27 | |
obtained by the CPS not passing the
threshold, that is the reasonable | 2:15:27 | 2:15:32 | |
prospect of success threshold, 50-50
chance, well, then they cannot bring | 2:15:32 | 2:15:38 | |
a charge anyway if it does not pass
the threshold. Maybe the police | 2:15:38 | 2:15:42 | |
could have taken more evidence to
make it past the threshold. And your | 2:15:42 | 2:15:47 | |
earlier point, if there is other
evidence out there, let's have it, | 2:15:47 | 2:15:50 | |
it is important to. I hear with your
report that the complainants are | 2:15:50 | 2:15:55 | |
saying that they now wish to further
make a complaint is but well, that's | 2:15:55 | 2:15:59 | |
good if there is evidence that he
can be prosecuted. There is no sell | 2:15:59 | 2:16:04 | |
by date on prosecution, so let's see
what happens. You're a barrister | 2:16:04 | 2:16:09 | |
with three decades of experience...
You make me feel old! I apologise | 2:16:09 | 2:16:15 | |
but that is a good thing in terms of
what you're bringing to this | 2:16:15 | 2:16:18 | |
interview. There is a feeling now
that victims of sexual assault are | 2:16:18 | 2:16:21 | |
being let down by the legal system -
is that fair? Well, that is a | 2:16:21 | 2:16:26 | |
generalisation. No, it's not, as far
as the general situation is | 2:16:26 | 2:16:31 | |
concerned. There have been massive
developments in the criminal justice | 2:16:31 | 2:16:34 | |
system over the last decade or so to
make it easier and more acceptable | 2:16:34 | 2:16:41 | |
for complainants to give evidence.
So, that is unfair. Sometimes things | 2:16:41 | 2:16:44 | |
go wrong, as in any job. But
generally, I should say, and it is | 2:16:44 | 2:16:50 | |
important I get this message out to
people who complain about these | 2:16:50 | 2:16:55 | |
serious offences or any offences,
that the criminal justice system is | 2:16:55 | 2:17:00 | |
well-designed and well-equipped to
deal with these complaints and | 2:17:00 | 2:17:03 | |
indeed to make it as easy as
possible for people who are victims | 2:17:03 | 2:17:06 | |
of such crimes to give evidence. And
I would encourage them to come | 2:17:06 | 2:17:10 | |
forward and not necessarily be
affected by scare stories to the | 2:17:10 | 2:17:13 | |
contrary. John Cooper QC, thank you
for your time. | 2:17:13 | 2:17:20 | |
You're watching
Breakfast from BBC News. | 2:17:20 | 2:17:21 | |
Here's Stav with a look
at this morning's weather. | 2:17:21 | 2:17:23 | |
Here's Stav with a look
at this morning's weather. | 2:17:23 | 2:17:29 | |
It is a bit frosty? Yes, it is. Ice
warnings remain in force for parts | 2:17:29 | 2:17:36 | |
of the south-west of England and for
Scotland for the next few hours. Be | 2:17:36 | 2:17:40 | |
careful out on the roads in the next
hour or so. This weekend is turning | 2:17:40 | 2:17:44 | |
much colder across-the-board. We've
got the cold air syncing southwards. | 2:17:44 | 2:17:48 | |
A lot of cloud across England and
Wales but we do have those holes in | 2:17:48 | 2:17:51 | |
the cloud ridges where we have seen
the eyes. Further north, we've got a | 2:17:51 | 2:17:59 | |
band of cloud and some rain, which
is falling as snow over the higher | 2:17:59 | 2:18:02 | |
ground. Some wintry showers
affecting the north-east of England | 2:18:02 | 2:18:09 | |
towards eastern Scotland. Elsewhere,
much of the north-west of England in | 2:18:09 | 2:18:13 | |
towards Northern Ireland and
Scotland, cold frosty start with | 2:18:13 | 2:18:18 | |
plenty of sunshine around. But the
north-west wind will be keen and | 2:18:18 | 2:18:21 | |
cold. Clearer, drier, brighter air
coming south. For most of us in the | 2:18:21 | 2:18:37 | |
south, bright and sunny and cold
this afternoon, but wind will be | 2:18:37 | 2:18:39 | |
bitter. Overnight the cloud is a way
for most areas. There could be a bit | 2:18:39 | 2:18:46 | |
of rain hanging around across
south-east, but most places will be | 2:18:46 | 2:18:50 | |
dry cold tonight. Towns and cities,
temperatures, down to -10 over the | 2:18:50 | 2:19:01 | |
higher ground of Scotland, so a very
cold nights to come. Lots of | 2:19:01 | 2:19:07 | |
sunshine tomorrow. The winds
generally lighter. Still quite | 2:19:07 | 2:19:13 | |
breezy across central and southern
England, however. And a really cold | 2:19:13 | 2:19:17 | |
day. The area of high pressure moves
away is to it, allowing an easterly | 2:19:17 | 2:19:26 | |
wind to pick up, which will bring
more cloud in on Monday. Starting | 2:19:26 | 2:19:29 | |
the new working week, cold and
frosty, but more cloud moving in | 2:19:29 | 2:19:36 | |
until eventually, this weather
system behind me will win out on | 2:19:36 | 2:19:40 | |
Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing
outbreaks of rain and turning things | 2:19:40 | 2:19:45 | |
a little bit milder. Have you ever
experienced the temperatures that | 2:19:45 | 2:19:53 | |
we're seeing in the states right
now, because I cannot imagine it? | 2:19:53 | 2:19:58 | |
Not with heavy snow and strong winds
as well as Emma obviously it's the | 2:19:58 | 2:20:02 | |
chill factor. That I remember -21 in
Cheshire back at home, it was | 2:20:02 | 2:20:09 | |
Christmas Eve 2010, it killed the
victory and themm in our garden! | 2:20:09 | 2:20:17 | |
That's quite sad! And I remember in
the early 80s it was even colder | 2:20:17 | 2:20:32 | |
than that, we had -26 on the
Shropshire-Cheshire border, of the | 2:20:32 | 2:20:36 | |
record lowest in the UK. I remember
just about as a kid these massive | 2:20:36 | 2:20:41 | |
icicles hanging from the gutters
upstairs and WC, you ask a | 2:20:41 | 2:20:46 | |
meteorologist a question! Thank you
so much! | 2:20:46 | 2:21:01 | |
Until now a lot of cancer patient is
have had to go abroad if they wanted | 2:21:03 | 2:21:09 | |
proton beam therapy. However, by the
end of this year the | 2:21:09 | 2:21:12 | |
proton beam therapy. However, by the
end of this year the first NHS run | 2:21:12 | 2:21:14 | |
proton beam centre will be up and
running at the Christie Hospital in | 2:21:14 | 2:21:17 | |
Manchester. It is a multi-million
pound project and it is nearing | 2:21:17 | 2:21:20 | |
completion. Our health correspondent
Duncan Hughes has been taking a | 2:21:20 | 2:21:25 | |
look. | 2:21:25 | 2:21:31 | |
You missed a hole, mum. | 2:21:31 | 2:21:32 | |
Six years ago, Lucas
was fighting for his life. | 2:21:32 | 2:21:34 | |
Diagnosed with cancer,
he was sent to the United States | 2:21:34 | 2:21:36 | |
to receive a potentially life-saving
treatment called | 2:21:36 | 2:21:38 | |
proton beam therapy. | 2:21:38 | 2:21:39 | |
Not being at home, being around
strangers, it was awful. | 2:21:39 | 2:21:41 | |
Mum Jodie says travelling
all the way to the United States | 2:21:41 | 2:21:45 | |
was a challenge for the family
and with an immune system | 2:21:45 | 2:21:47 | |
damaged by chemotherapy,
Lucas fell seriously ill | 2:21:47 | 2:21:51 | |
and almost died. | 2:21:51 | 2:21:52 | |
Just being there on your own,
it's a lot to be going through, | 2:21:52 | 2:21:55 | |
just dealing with the cancer. | 2:21:55 | 2:21:58 | |
You need your family
and your friends around you, | 2:21:58 | 2:22:00 | |
you need people to talk to. | 2:22:00 | 2:22:10 | |
Throughout that time,
you're away from your support | 2:22:13 | 2:22:15 | |
network of friends and family. | 2:22:15 | 2:22:16 | |
It's a long period of time. | 2:22:16 | 2:22:17 | |
The treatment alone is six weeks. | 2:22:17 | 2:22:19 | |
We found it really,
really difficult. | 2:22:19 | 2:22:22 | |
Up till now, the NHS has sent
patients who needed proton beam | 2:22:22 | 2:22:27 | |
therapy abroad, but after years
of campaigning and fundraising, | 2:22:27 | 2:22:29 | |
it will soon be available in the UK. | 2:22:29 | 2:22:36 | |
It's inside a specially-built centre
at Christie Hospital in Manchester | 2:22:36 | 2:22:38 | |
that medicine and physics meat,
offering a new way to treat | 2:22:38 | 2:22:41 | |
life-threatening cancers. | 2:22:41 | 2:22:43 | |
Young patients will benefit most
because their tissues | 2:22:43 | 2:22:48 | |
are growing and very
sensitive to radiation. | 2:22:48 | 2:22:52 | |
But there are also tumours
which are next to quite critical | 2:22:52 | 2:23:01 | |
structures in the body, say,
the base of the skull | 2:23:01 | 2:23:05 | |
or around the spine, | 2:23:05 | 2:23:06 | |
and this technology enables us
to give a treatment dose to those | 2:23:06 | 2:23:09 | |
patients while avoiding those
critical structures. | 2:23:09 | 2:23:10 | |
With standard radiotherapy, a beam
travels through the tumour that | 2:23:10 | 2:23:13 | |
can damage sensitive tissues
in front, behind and around it. | 2:23:13 | 2:23:16 | |
But a proton beam is much smaller,
and stops at the tumour, | 2:23:16 | 2:23:21 | |
causing less damage
to otherwise healthy tissue. | 2:23:21 | 2:23:26 | |
We're now below what they call
the treatment gantry, where patients | 2:23:26 | 2:23:31 | |
will be seen, and this really
is the guts of this huge, 200 ton | 2:23:31 | 2:23:36 | |
machine - and it's one of three that
are being built here in Manchester. | 2:23:36 | 2:23:39 | |
But down here, you really get a
sense of the scale of this project. | 2:23:39 | 2:23:42 | |
The protons, which come
from the heart of an atom, | 2:23:42 | 2:23:45 | |
are generated in a particle
accelerator known as a cyclotron, | 2:23:45 | 2:23:50 | |
which was carefully lowered
into place last summer. | 2:23:50 | 2:23:54 | |
Then, travelling at a speed | 2:23:54 | 2:23:55 | |
of 100,000 miles per second, | 2:23:55 | 2:23:57 | |
they're directed with pinpoint
accuracy at the tumour. | 2:23:57 | 2:23:59 | |
Put it on. | 2:23:59 | 2:24:02 | |
Six years on, and Lucas is cancer
free and full of beans. | 2:24:02 | 2:24:05 | |
Where are you putting it? | 2:24:05 | 2:24:07 | |
With the Manchester Centre coming
on stream later this year, | 2:24:07 | 2:24:12 | |
and a second one in London
to follow, the hope | 2:24:12 | 2:24:15 | |
is that those needing | 2:24:15 | 2:24:16 | |
the life-saving treatment proton
therapy will soon be able to access | 2:24:16 | 2:24:18 | |
it closer to home. | 2:24:18 | 2:24:19 | |
Dominic Hughes, BBC
News, Manchester. | 2:24:19 | 2:24:23 | |
You're watching Breakfast
from BBC News, it's time now | 2:24:23 | 2:24:25 | |
for a look at the newspapers. | 2:24:25 | 2:24:31 | |
Investment manager Justin
Urqhart-Stewart is here to tell us | 2:24:31 | 2:24:33 | |
what's caught his eye. | 2:24:33 | 2:24:40 | |
First, let's look
at the front pages. | 2:24:40 | 2:24:49 | |
The stock exchange, booming,
apparently. All the stock markets | 2:24:49 | 2:24:55 | |
went up last year, it was fantastic,
the only one which didn't was our | 2:24:55 | 2:24:59 | |
own FTSE-100. The Nasdaq up 30%,
it's quite astonishing. Solutions to | 2:24:59 | 2:25:06 | |
be careful, because now is the time
when everybody says, let's pile in. | 2:25:06 | 2:25:09 | |
No. When things get overexcited it
is a dangerous time for private | 2:25:09 | 2:25:15 | |
investors. They interest at the top
of the market and sell at the bottom | 2:25:15 | 2:25:19 | |
of the market. You need to be brave
at the time when others are fearful. | 2:25:19 | 2:25:26 | |
So you're saying, you need to take
risks. Be careful. It is a long-term | 2:25:26 | 2:25:31 | |
investment. And since Donald Trump
the stock markets have gone up, he | 2:25:31 | 2:25:36 | |
will say. Yes, that's true, but
compare it with President Obama, and | 2:25:36 | 2:25:43 | |
during this year it has gone up by
20%, but in Obama's first year it | 2:25:43 | 2:25:49 | |
went up by 44%. So, actually, some
of the things he comes out with, | 2:25:49 | 2:25:53 | |
he's a rather strange fantasist.
Talking about some of the things he | 2:25:53 | 2:25:58 | |
comes up with, this bombshell book,
as they are calling it in the Daily | 2:25:58 | 2:26:03 | |
Mail, it's extraordinary, isn't it?
I know there is a saying you can't | 2:26:03 | 2:26:08 | |
make it up, but you can! It's quite
astonishing! It's the most fantastic | 2:26:08 | 2:26:11 | |
novel. What's worrying is that
actually this is the leader of the | 2:26:11 | 2:26:15 | |
strongest country in the world. You
say it's true, some people will take | 2:26:15 | 2:26:19 | |
a look at this book and go, this is
written by somebody who doesn't like | 2:26:19 | 2:26:25 | |
Trump, and those who believe it will
believe it and basically you've got | 2:26:25 | 2:26:29 | |
to take everything with a pinch of
salt. The die-hard Trump supporters | 2:26:29 | 2:26:33 | |
will say it's fake news. But with
all of these elements you're getting | 2:26:33 | 2:26:37 | |
the first comments about the 25th
amendment. The 25th amendment was | 2:26:37 | 2:26:41 | |
last wrought up when Ronald Reagan
was in power. The 25th amendment, | 2:26:41 | 2:26:49 | |
the Cabinet, his Cabinet, actually
says that the president is not fit | 2:26:49 | 2:26:52 | |
for office any longer and they can
effectively out him. For the first | 2:26:52 | 2:26:57 | |
time we're beginning to hear people
talking about this as a potential | 2:26:57 | 2:27:01 | |
way of being able to manage this
individual. The story goes from | 2:27:01 | 2:27:04 | |
stranger to stranger. Wasn't there
something in there about how many | 2:27:04 | 2:27:09 | |
times he repeats a story, and the
fragility of his... His mental | 2:27:09 | 2:27:17 | |
health. His mental health. And
coming up shortly he has to do his | 2:27:17 | 2:27:22 | |
annual health check up, which has to
be published. This includes not just | 2:27:22 | 2:27:27 | |
physical but also mental well-being.
Who does it? I don't know the name | 2:27:27 | 2:27:32 | |
of the doctor. Because that is
interesting, isn't it? The person | 2:27:32 | 2:27:36 | |
who does it. I have to assume it is
an independent one. Apparently I'm | 2:27:36 | 2:27:41 | |
just hearing it is the same doctor
who would have done President | 2:27:41 | 2:27:45 | |
Obama's so there is some continuity.
There has been a statement overnight | 2:27:45 | 2:27:51 | |
from someone saying, I have never
questioned his mental health. Lots | 2:27:51 | 2:27:55 | |
of weather stories around, from
America and the freezing conditions? | 2:27:55 | 2:28:04 | |
And we are not left out of. This is
the Daily Mirror and this is the | 2:28:04 | 2:28:09 | |
beach down at Chesil Beach down in
Dorset. And storm Talanoa took what | 2:28:09 | 2:28:18 | |
was a perfectly good Pebble Beach
and removed the pebbles! And then | 2:28:18 | 2:28:23 | |
further down in the article, rain,
floods and now the drought. This | 2:28:23 | 2:28:30 | |
reservoir down in Kent is half full,
in the middle of winter. This is not | 2:28:30 | 2:28:35 | |
encouraging. Shall we have a quick
look at the golf course? Who else is | 2:28:35 | 2:28:44 | |
going to talk about the good golfing
story?! I have only played with my | 2:28:44 | 2:28:49 | |
business partner Tom up in New
England on a course which is not | 2:28:49 | 2:28:53 | |
quite as eccentric as this. This one
has got a 400 metre drop from where | 2:28:53 | 2:28:57 | |
you're teeing off to where you're
supposed to be reaching the | 2:28:57 | 2:29:02 | |
delicate. This is down in South
Africa. 400 metres, dubbed the | 2:29:02 | 2:29:06 | |
extreme 19th teak. I have to say
it's probably the only one I would | 2:29:06 | 2:29:12 | |
get close to, it just requires
gravity, I would think! And it is | 2:29:12 | 2:29:18 | |
shaped in the shape of the
continent. That's very clever. So | 2:29:18 | 2:29:24 | |
you can just tee off and hit Africa!
What you don't want to do is get | 2:29:24 | 2:29:29 | |
down there and find your ball and
not have to climb back up on the two | 2:29:29 | 2:29:34 | |
bigger! Is that the voice of
experience?! I'm afraid so! | 2:29:34 | 2:29:43 | |
Coming up in the next half hour... | 2:29:43 | 2:29:45 | |
We'll be hearing about
the adventures of Bertie the Bear, | 2:29:45 | 2:29:48 | |
as he travels the world to raise
awareness of the work | 2:29:48 | 2:29:50 | |
of the Royal Air Forces Association. | 2:29:50 | 2:29:52 | |
Stay with us, headlines coming up. | 2:29:52 | 2:29:55 | |
Hello. | 2:30:24 | 2:30:25 | |
This is Breakfast with Jon Kay
and Naga Munchetty. | 2:30:25 | 2:30:28 | |
Good morning. | 2:30:28 | 2:30:29 | |
Here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 2:30:29 | 2:30:32 | |
A lawyer who represented
victims of the serial sex | 2:30:32 | 2:30:38 | |
attacker John Worboys,
has told BBC Breakfast that | 2:30:38 | 2:30:41 | |
some of her clients,
whose cases weren't taken to trial, | 2:30:41 | 2:30:44 | |
want prosecutors to
reexamine their evidence. | 2:30:44 | 2:30:49 | |
The former black-cab driver
is being freed from jail ten years | 2:30:49 | 2:30:51 | |
after being convicted of 19
offences, although police believe | 2:30:51 | 2:30:53 | |
he attacked many more. | 2:30:53 | 2:30:56 | |
Solicitor Kim Harrison says that
a number of women were told | 2:30:56 | 2:30:59 | |
that their testimony wasn't required
to put Worboys behind bars | 2:30:59 | 2:31:01 | |
for a longer period of time. | 2:31:01 | 2:31:11 | |
Earlier, barrister John Cooper told
us it could be possible to launch a | 2:31:11 | 2:31:15 | |
new investigation. If there is
evidence out there, let's have it. I | 2:31:15 | 2:31:20 | |
hear from your reports that
complainants are saying that they | 2:31:20 | 2:31:23 | |
wish to make further complaint, that
is good. If there is further | 2:31:23 | 2:31:27 | |
evidence, he can be prosecuted.
There is no sell by date in | 2:31:27 | 2:31:31 | |
prosecution, so let's see what
happens. | 2:31:31 | 2:31:34 | |
Five online gambling companies
could lose their license over | 2:31:34 | 2:31:36 | |
concerns about their approach
to problem gamblers | 2:31:36 | 2:31:38 | |
and money laundering. | 2:31:38 | 2:31:38 | |
The Gambling Commission
has written to all 195 | 2:31:38 | 2:31:40 | |
online casino operators,
warning them to review | 2:31:40 | 2:31:42 | |
their procedures. | 2:31:42 | 2:31:44 | |
It comes after the commission found
some companies did not follow up | 2:31:44 | 2:31:47 | |
with gamblers who were becoming
addicted, and failed to prevent | 2:31:47 | 2:31:50 | |
money being laundered
by criminals or terrorists. | 2:31:50 | 2:31:52 | |
President Trump has taken
to Twitter overnight, | 2:31:53 | 2:31:57 | |
to show his continued frustration
over the release of a controversial | 2:31:57 | 2:31:59 | |
book documenting his first
year in the White House. | 2:31:59 | 2:32:03 | |
He called the author of the book,
Michael Wolff, "a total loser" - | 2:32:03 | 2:32:06 | |
and accused him of making up
stories. | 2:32:06 | 2:32:10 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, | 2:32:10 | 2:32:12 | |
"Sloppy Steve", claiming he cried
when he was fired. | 2:32:12 | 2:32:14 | |
The book, called "Fire and Fury",
went on sale yesterday, | 2:32:14 | 2:32:17 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 2:32:17 | 2:32:20 | |
EasyJet, Ladbrokes and Virgin
Money are among some | 2:32:24 | 2:32:26 | |
major employers who have revealed
that they pay women, on average, | 2:32:26 | 2:32:28 | |
at least 15% less than men. | 2:32:28 | 2:32:30 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 2:32:30 | 2:32:34 | |
publish their figures by April -
more than 500 have done so. | 2:32:34 | 2:32:44 | |
Another 8,000 must do the same
by April, or risk being fined | 2:32:46 | 2:32:49 | |
under a new law intended
to tackle workplace discrimination. | 2:32:49 | 2:32:51 | |
The search for the missing MH370
Malaysian Airlines plane that | 2:32:51 | 2:32:54 | |
disappeared almost four years ago
is to be resumed. | 2:32:54 | 2:32:56 | |
The jet was carrying more than 200
passengers when it vanished in 2014. | 2:32:56 | 2:32:59 | |
Now a private US exploration company
called Ocean Infinity has been given | 2:32:59 | 2:33:02 | |
permission to continue the search,
which ended last year. | 2:33:02 | 2:33:05 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members | 2:33:08 | 2:33:11 | |
of the United Nations
Security Council for calling | 2:33:11 | 2:33:14 | |
an emergency meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 2:33:14 | 2:33:17 | |
China and France said
the unrest did not threaten | 2:33:17 | 2:33:19 | |
international security. | 2:33:19 | 2:33:25 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce, and repeated | 2:33:25 | 2:33:27 | |
claims that the protests
were directed from abroad. | 2:33:27 | 2:33:32 | |
Those are the main
stories this morning. | 2:33:32 | 2:33:40 | |
What do we need to talk about now?
We need to talk about the sport. But | 2:33:40 | 2:33:45 | |
can we put a really positive spin on
it? On the cricket? I am struggling! | 2:33:45 | 2:33:53 | |
They did get the captain Steve Smith
out before he got his century. | 2:33:53 | 2:33:57 | |
Brilliant! But then along came the
Marsh rollers. -- brothers. I don't | 2:33:57 | 2:34:08 | |
see any way England can win this
final test. Australia are 133 ahead, | 2:34:08 | 2:34:14 | |
two more days to go, they have six
wickets and their first innings in | 2:34:14 | 2:34:19 | |
hand, so they could bat on and on,
and make England have a final day at | 2:34:19 | 2:34:23 | |
the crease! Joy for all England
fans. Two wickets all day in the | 2:34:23 | 2:34:28 | |
Sydney sunshine is all England got
as Australia tortured once again. | 2:34:28 | 2:34:32 | |
Patrick Gearey joins us from the
ground. Maybe you could put a bit of | 2:34:32 | 2:34:37 | |
gloss on this, but how do Morra lies
tour the England camp now? -- | 2:34:37 | 2:34:46 | |
demoralised the England camp? It was
hard watching, brutal heat, they | 2:34:46 | 2:34:54 | |
have only taken two wickets all day,
they are 133 runs behind. It was the | 2:34:54 | 2:35:01 | |
pink day, when a lot of the crowd
wear pink in honour of Jane McGrath, | 2:35:01 | 2:35:07 | |
wife of the bowler Glenn McGrath and
her battle with cancer. Moeen Ali | 2:35:07 | 2:35:19 | |
got him, caught and bowled. England
thought they had Khawaja, as well, | 2:35:19 | 2:35:29 | |
but it was a no ball, the lbw didn't
stand. Khawaja moved onto 171, and | 2:35:29 | 2:35:39 | |
it gave licence to the Marsh
brothers, who then tucked into the | 2:35:39 | 2:35:43 | |
bowling and started moving the game
away from England, Shaun Marsh just | 2:35:43 | 2:35:48 | |
short of his century. Australia in
this strong position in the test, | 2:35:48 | 2:35:53 | |
133 runs ahead, six first-innings
wickets still in hand. So what will | 2:35:53 | 2:35:57 | |
England say to each other overnight?
Is it about saving grace, any crumbs | 2:35:57 | 2:36:01 | |
of comfort? To go 3-0 down instead
of 4-0 is something, but we are a | 2:36:01 | 2:36:09 | |
long way off 3-1. What struck me in
Jonny Bairstow's press conference | 2:36:09 | 2:36:18 | |
was how determined years. England
have not given up, they are not like | 2:36:18 | 2:36:21 | |
the last touring party where it all
fell apart. Perhaps Mason Crane | 2:36:21 | 2:36:25 | |
might rip through the Australian
lower order, perhaps England's | 2:36:25 | 2:36:29 | |
batsmen have some heroics left in
them, but the evidence does not | 2:36:29 | 2:36:32 | |
point to that. England have only
taken two wickets today, two | 2:36:32 | 2:36:36 | |
yesterday, and this pitch is going
to spend more, which will help the | 2:36:36 | 2:36:40 | |
Australian spinner who has been far
more dangerous than any England | 2:36:40 | 2:36:43 | |
spinner in this match. And it will
be about 40 Celsius here on day | 2:36:43 | 2:36:49 | |
four. I would like to be able to
give you good news, but I'm afraid | 2:36:49 | 2:36:52 | |
it looks really tough. Thank you for
trying, Patrick. You will need a hat | 2:36:52 | 2:36:57 | |
and lots of sun cream ahead of day
four. But I have some good news | 2:36:57 | 2:37:02 | |
coming up in a moment of one sport
in which a British guy has beaten | 2:37:02 | 2:37:06 | |
the Australians in their own
backyard, that is to come in a few | 2:37:06 | 2:37:10 | |
moments. But first, the FA Cup. | 2:37:10 | 2:37:13 | |
On to the FA Cup third round,
one of the highlights | 2:37:13 | 2:37:16 | |
of any sporting year,
because all the top teams | 2:37:16 | 2:37:18 | |
enter the competition. | 2:37:18 | 2:37:19 | |
And in the Merseyside derby,
the world's most expensive defender | 2:37:19 | 2:37:22 | |
scored the winner for Liverpool,
while Manchester United | 2:37:22 | 2:37:23 | |
left it late to beat
Derby County at Old Trafford. | 2:37:23 | 2:37:26 | |
Drew Savage rounds up both matches. | 2:37:26 | 2:37:28 | |
The pressure lifted off the
shoulders of the man with a £75 | 2:37:28 | 2:37:33 | |
million price tag on his back. A
debut to remember for Virgil van | 2:37:33 | 2:37:37 | |
Dyck on a night that provided plenty
of talking points. Was this a | 2:37:37 | 2:37:40 | |
penalty? Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp
didn't think so, but Bobby madly's | 2:37:40 | 2:37:45 | |
opinion was the one that counted.
James Milner, the calmest man at | 2:37:45 | 2:37:51 | |
Anfield. Mason Holgate wasn't. There
was bound to be reaction from | 2:37:51 | 2:37:56 | |
Roberto Firmino. The referee decided
to step in. Liverpool have had most | 2:37:56 | 2:38:02 | |
of the play, but Everton countered
with some quality. Gylfi Sigurdsson | 2:38:02 | 2:38:06 | |
with a worthy second-half equaliser.
And then the big moment arrived for | 2:38:06 | 2:38:10 | |
a certain Dutch defender.
COMMENTATOR: And van Dijk gets it! | 2:38:10 | 2:38:21 | |
Fans and manager alike delighted
with the winning goal. Here in front | 2:38:21 | 2:38:24 | |
of the Kop, that makes it even
better! It was a proper cup fight, | 2:38:24 | 2:38:38 | |
and I like that. Championship side
Derby put up a proper fight away to | 2:38:38 | 2:38:42 | |
Manchester United, and were six
minutes away from a replay when this | 2:38:42 | 2:38:44 | |
happened.
COMMENTATOR: Lindgard, good hit, he | 2:38:44 | 2:38:49 | |
has done it again! Jesse Lingard,
magnificent strike. | 2:38:49 | 2:38:53 | |
Derby will be free to join their
push to join United in the Premier | 2:38:53 | 2:38:59 | |
League. Drew Savage, BBC News. | 2:38:59 | 2:39:06 | |
As you saw in that report,
there was an incident in the first | 2:39:06 | 2:39:09 | |
half, involving Roberto Firmino
and Mason Holgate. | 2:39:09 | 2:39:11 | |
Let's have another look. | 2:39:11 | 2:39:13 | |
Holgate pushed Firmino
into the stands, and, afterwards, | 2:39:13 | 2:39:15 | |
it appeared Firmino said something
unwelcome to Holgate as the players | 2:39:15 | 2:39:18 | |
came together there. | 2:39:18 | 2:39:25 | |
The referee has included it
in his report, and I'm sure we'll be | 2:39:25 | 2:39:28 | |
hearing more about it. | 2:39:28 | 2:39:30 | |
You'll have noticed there's no
Dan Walker on the sofa today. | 2:39:32 | 2:39:38 | |
He is pretty hard to miss! And we do
miss him. | 2:39:38 | 2:39:42 | |
That's because Football Focus is out
on the road with the FA Cup, | 2:39:42 | 2:39:45 | |
and they're at Fleetwood Town
for the early kick-off | 2:39:45 | 2:39:47 | |
against Leicester. | 2:39:47 | 2:39:48 | |
We were looking forward
to seeing the return | 2:39:48 | 2:39:50 | |
of Jamie Vardy to his old club,
but he's injured, so it seems | 2:39:50 | 2:39:53 | |
unlikely he'll be playing. | 2:39:53 | 2:39:55 | |
There are nine Premier League
teams hoping to avoid | 2:39:55 | 2:39:57 | |
an upset against lower league teams. | 2:39:57 | 2:40:02 | |
One of them is Newcastle United who
take on high-flying Luton Town. And | 2:40:02 | 2:40:06 | |
in the Luton side will be the two
Sons of the former England | 2:40:06 | 2:40:10 | |
midfielder Rob Lee who made his name
in Newcastle. What were your first | 2:40:10 | 2:40:17 | |
memories of your dad and what he did
for a living? We didn't pay much | 2:40:17 | 2:40:22 | |
attention to it! It is only since I
have got into professional football, | 2:40:22 | 2:40:27 | |
I realised I'd was top end, and I
don't like to tell him, but he was | 2:40:27 | 2:40:31 | |
half decent! | 2:40:31 | 2:40:33 | |
So great memory of Rob Lee in his
Newcastle days, and today, the young | 2:40:40 | 2:40:49 | |
Lees playing for Luton Town. | 2:40:49 | 2:40:54 | |
The feud between Manchester United
manager Jose Mourinho | 2:40:54 | 2:40:55 | |
and Chelsea's Antonio Conte appears
to be escalating. | 2:40:55 | 2:40:57 | |
In Mourinho's latest jibe,
he said he would never be | 2:40:57 | 2:41:00 | |
suspended for match-fixing. | 2:41:00 | 2:41:01 | |
Conte was given a short ban a few
years ago for failing to report | 2:41:01 | 2:41:04 | |
match-fixing at his previous club
Siena, although he was later | 2:41:04 | 2:41:06 | |
cleared of any wrongdoing. | 2:41:06 | 2:41:08 | |
Mourinho was responding
after Conte said he was getting | 2:41:08 | 2:41:10 | |
old and losing his memory
when it came to his | 2:41:10 | 2:41:12 | |
own touchline antics. | 2:41:12 | 2:41:13 | |
In rugby union's Premiership, Bath's
three-match losing run is over. | 2:41:15 | 2:41:17 | |
They beat Worcester
by 46 points to 25 - | 2:41:17 | 2:41:19 | |
and it was a memorable match
for lock James Phillips, | 2:41:19 | 2:41:22 | |
who scored only his second
try in 63 league games. | 2:41:22 | 2:41:26 | |
That earned Bath the bonus point. | 2:41:26 | 2:41:31 | |
In the Pro 14, Scarlets made it 17
home league wins in a row | 2:41:31 | 2:41:36 | |
with victory over Dragons -
they looked very comfortable, | 2:41:36 | 2:41:38 | |
running in seven tries,
each by a different player, | 2:41:38 | 2:41:43 | |
to win 47-13 and open
up a seven-point lead | 2:41:43 | 2:41:45 | |
at the top of Conference B. | 2:41:45 | 2:41:49 | |
Elsewhere, Edinburgh
beat Southern Kings. | 2:41:49 | 2:41:57 | |
Now, IT is this earlier. | 2:41:57 | 2:42:00 | |
England may be losing
in the cricket again, | 2:42:00 | 2:42:03 | |
but one Brit is flying high down
under, after beating the Aussies | 2:42:03 | 2:42:05 | |
in their own back yard. | 2:42:05 | 2:42:06 | |
Or rather in the skies above. | 2:42:06 | 2:42:08 | |
Ollie Chitty has set
a new world record for distance | 2:42:08 | 2:42:10 | |
travelled by hang glider. | 2:42:10 | 2:42:11 | |
He went 388 kilometres, 241 miles. | 2:42:11 | 2:42:21 | |
That's like going from London
to Midddlesbrough in one flight. | 2:42:21 | 2:42:23 | |
It was at the international
classic competition, | 2:42:23 | 2:42:25 | |
and took Ollie five and a half hours
going at an average speed | 2:42:25 | 2:42:28 | |
of 55 miles per hour. | 2:42:28 | 2:42:37 | |
We don't need the Ashes! Hang
gliding is where it is that. 55 mph | 2:42:37 | 2:42:43 | |
must be really noisy. You could see
the way he was wiggling his body as | 2:42:43 | 2:42:47 | |
he tried to jump from thermal
thermal, because you are going under | 2:42:47 | 2:42:52 | |
your own steam, using only the air.
I went up with a former champion, | 2:42:52 | 2:42:58 | |
she could see things in the sky,
changes in the environment and | 2:42:58 | 2:43:02 | |
atmosphere, thermals rising, it was
incredible to watch. I didn't | 2:43:02 | 2:43:06 | |
realise that, that you could do it
visibly. It is very clever, very | 2:43:06 | 2:43:10 | |
technical. A bit like sailing but in
the air. Mike, for now, thank you | 2:43:10 | 2:43:15 | |
very much indeed. The time is nearly
a quarter to nine. | 2:43:15 | 2:43:19 | |
From next Saturday, it will be
illegal to add a surcharge | 2:43:19 | 2:43:22 | |
onto payments by debit
and credit cards. | 2:43:22 | 2:43:24 | |
The worst offenders are airlines,
food delivery apps and small | 2:43:24 | 2:43:27 | |
businesses which typically add a fee
for card payments. | 2:43:27 | 2:43:29 | |
But how easy will it be
to enforce, and will companies | 2:43:29 | 2:43:31 | |
find a way around it? | 2:43:31 | 2:43:34 | |
Moneybox presenter Paul Lewis has
been checking the small print - | 2:43:34 | 2:43:36 | |
and we can speak to him now. | 2:43:36 | 2:43:44 | |
How do they justify the charges?
Sometimes you have to spend more | 2:43:44 | 2:43:49 | |
than five quid or whatever. At the
moment there is a charge that the | 2:43:49 | 2:43:52 | |
firm bears by the credit card
provider, so they will pay an extra | 2:43:52 | 2:43:56 | |
charge on every payment, but it is
not very much, it is now about | 2:43:56 | 2:44:03 | |
0.03%, but they add 2% or even up to
5%. But from next Saturday, they can | 2:44:03 | 2:44:11 | |
not apply any surcharge at all, it
should be that straightforward. | 2:44:11 | 2:44:14 | |
However you paid, Apple paid,
PayPal, credit card, debit card, it | 2:44:14 | 2:44:22 | |
should cost you the same, so it
should be simple. Will it work? This | 2:44:22 | 2:44:28 | |
is the big question. They think the
big companies will make every effort | 2:44:28 | 2:44:31 | |
to comply, there is evidence they
are already. But I think some of the | 2:44:31 | 2:44:36 | |
smaller ones may not, and the
problem is, which we identify just | 2:44:36 | 2:44:40 | |
yesterday, we had a comment from the
trading standards Institute, because | 2:44:40 | 2:44:45 | |
trading standards officers are the
ones that are supposed in force this | 2:44:45 | 2:44:48 | |
rule, so if somebody isn't doing it,
they should say, you must do it, or | 2:44:48 | 2:44:51 | |
they can take them to court, but
they told us this: With no extra | 2:44:51 | 2:44:57 | |
funding, budget cuts of over 56% and
250 or more pieces of legislation to | 2:44:57 | 2:45:02 | |
enforce, it is unlikely to be a
priority for any local trading | 2:45:02 | 2:45:07 | |
standards. So it could be that even
if someone is disobeying the law, it | 2:45:07 | 2:45:12 | |
will be quite hard to make them
change their ways, because Trading | 2:45:12 | 2:45:15 | |
Standards are, as they say, very
busy and don't have that many | 2:45:15 | 2:45:18 | |
resources. And shops are busy as
well. If you are standing at the | 2:45:18 | 2:45:23 | |
till and you're being charged the
extra you challenge it, it is hard | 2:45:23 | 2:45:27 | |
to know how you can appeal against
that, you can't refuse to pay. To be | 2:45:27 | 2:45:33 | |
fair, it doesn't generally apply in
face-to-face credit card | 2:45:33 | 2:45:36 | |
transactions any more. It is almost
exclusively online. But it is not | 2:45:36 | 2:45:40 | |
just shops and retailers. Buying
airline tickets, tickets for | 2:45:40 | 2:45:44 | |
concerts and even local government,
if you try to pay council tax by | 2:45:44 | 2:45:47 | |
credit card, you will find there is
a surcharge, and HMRC, Revenue and | 2:45:47 | 2:45:53 | |
Customs, they make a surcharge, so
all of those should go. But they are | 2:45:53 | 2:45:58 | |
finding different ways around it,
the revenue people will simply not | 2:45:58 | 2:46:02 | |
accept credit cards from next
Saturday, so if you are trying to | 2:46:02 | 2:46:05 | |
get your self-assessment money paid,
do it by next Friday, by the 12th, | 2:46:05 | 2:46:10 | |
or you won't be of able to pay by
credit card. And Money Box is an at | 2:46:10 | 2:46:24 | |
12:30pm with more advice. | 2:46:24 | 2:46:30 | |
You may be feeling down about the
cricket, but it is better here than | 2:46:30 | 2:46:34 | |
in a lot of places, trust me. And
Stav is here to tell you why. | 2:46:34 | 2:46:42 | |
It is an incredible cold wave across
the north-east United States. These | 2:46:46 | 2:46:50 | |
are Saturday afternoon's values,
nearly -20 Celsius in a few of the | 2:46:50 | 2:46:56 | |
Southeast Canadian cities. Overnight
close to -25, almost -30 Celsius, | 2:46:56 | 2:47:06 | |
and it will be bone chillingly cold
with the wind-chill factor. We have | 2:47:06 | 2:47:10 | |
our own fair share of ice this
morning. This photograph from | 2:47:10 | 2:47:13 | |
Topsham in Devon. Across parts of
Scotland, were turning colder | 2:47:13 | 2:47:22 | |
through the course of the weekend.
There will be some early sunshine | 2:47:22 | 2:47:26 | |
across the south-west as the skies
were clear overnight, hence the | 2:47:26 | 2:47:30 | |
frost and ice. Further north the
band of cloud and rain, with the | 2:47:30 | 2:47:34 | |
snow the hills. Skies continue to
brighten up all the while across | 2:47:34 | 2:47:40 | |
northern England and through the
morning, we will continue to see | 2:47:40 | 2:47:42 | |
wintry showers north-east and
towards north-east Scotland and | 2:47:42 | 2:47:47 | |
Northern Ireland. Outbreaks of
showers continuing across the | 2:47:47 | 2:47:52 | |
north-east, being driven in on that
north-easterly wind, which will be | 2:47:52 | 2:47:55 | |
pushing that cloud further
southwards. So by the latter part of | 2:47:55 | 2:48:00 | |
the afternoon, lying across South
Wales into with East Anglia and the | 2:48:00 | 2:48:03 | |
Southeast. Some spots of rain,
plenty of sunshine elsewhere. The | 2:48:03 | 2:48:08 | |
cloud continues to move southwards,
eventually clearing the south coast | 2:48:08 | 2:48:12 | |
overnight, we could see a hang back
across the south-east, more of a | 2:48:12 | 2:48:16 | |
breeze, but the rest of the country,
clear skies, light winds and a | 2:48:16 | 2:48:21 | |
recipe for a really cold night to
come. Could reach -10 Celsius in | 2:48:21 | 2:48:28 | |
Scotland. It means Sunday starts off
very cold and frosty, but at least | 2:48:28 | 2:48:32 | |
bright, lots of crisp sunshine. The
wins brighter for most of us, | 2:48:32 | 2:48:37 | |
although the central and south areas
of England will feel quite raw, a | 2:48:37 | 2:48:42 | |
further north even though the winter
light, around freezing, so a really | 2:48:42 | 2:48:46 | |
cold day. High pressure still with
us into Monday, but its lips | 2:48:46 | 2:48:50 | |
eastwards into the near continent
and then allows some easterly and | 2:48:50 | 2:48:55 | |
south-easterly winds to come off the
near continent, and that will feed | 2:48:55 | 2:48:59 | |
us in creasing amounts of cloud.
Starting cold and frosty, with some | 2:48:59 | 2:49:03 | |
sunshine, but increasing cloud. Then
it is set to turn down and milder | 2:49:03 | 2:49:09 | |
from the Atlantic. Back to you.
Enjoy the dry Sunday tomorrow. Thank | 2:49:09 | 2:49:17 | |
you, Stav. | 2:49:17 | 2:49:21 | |
If you're someone who checks their
social media timeline regularly, | 2:49:21 | 2:49:24 | |
there's every chance you'll have
seen a tweet this week | 2:49:24 | 2:49:26 | |
from our next guest -
army veteran Rob Long. | 2:49:26 | 2:49:28 | |
Rob lost his sight during a tour
of Afghanistan in 2010. | 2:49:28 | 2:49:31 | |
This week he brought worldwide
attention to a little-known feature, | 2:49:31 | 2:49:33 | |
that can describe pictures
to visually impaired Twitter users. | 2:49:33 | 2:49:36 | |
This is his tweet, explaining how
to adjust your settings to include | 2:49:36 | 2:49:39 | |
audio descriptions of images. | 2:49:39 | 2:49:44 | |
It's been shared over a hundred
thousand times, since he posted | 2:49:44 | 2:49:46 | |
it earlier this week. | 2:49:46 | 2:49:51 | |
It is simple. A lot of people don't
realise that this can be done on | 2:49:51 | 2:49:55 | |
their phones and devices. But this
is how the feature works for people | 2:49:55 | 2:49:58 | |
like Rob. | 2:49:58 | 2:50:00 | |
This is a post he uploaded
on New Year's Eve, with a picture. | 2:50:00 | 2:50:09 | |
COMPUTER: | 2:50:10 | 2:50:13 | |
COMPUTER: Reads the caption. | 2:50:13 | 2:50:17 | |
Large German Shepherd dog laying on
the bed looking at the camera with a | 2:50:26 | 2:50:32 | |
ferret between his front paws, also
looking at the camera. | 2:50:32 | 2:50:36 | |
Rob joins us now from
our London newsroom. | 2:50:38 | 2:50:42 | |
That was quite funny, that
description of that picture, but so | 2:50:42 | 2:50:46 | |
important that these things are
accurate! Good morning. It is | 2:50:46 | 2:50:51 | |
fantastic. The response this tweet
has had, and the support I have had | 2:50:51 | 2:50:56 | |
across the world with this is
fantastic. It has been a brilliant | 2:50:56 | 2:51:03 | |
response from everyone. I suppose
many people would think that if your | 2:51:03 | 2:51:10 | |
site is in pairs, why on earth would
you be using Twitter in terms of | 2:51:10 | 2:51:17 | |
seeing the pictures, it seems quite
a thing. -- if you're eyesight is | 2:51:17 | 2:51:24 | |
impaired. Twitter is perfect for
blind and disabled people, because | 2:51:24 | 2:51:29 | |
primarily it is a conversational
platform that is text-based, and a | 2:51:29 | 2:51:33 | |
lot of screen readers focus on
reading at text. Before this it was | 2:51:33 | 2:51:39 | |
primarily about reading out the text
and being able to communicate online | 2:51:39 | 2:51:41 | |
with other people. But with this new
added feature and the attention it | 2:51:41 | 2:51:47 | |
is getting, it is a missing piece of
the puzzle, when now we can | 2:51:47 | 2:51:50 | |
contribute fully to people's posts
online and in social media, and | 2:51:50 | 2:51:54 | |
especially in this day and age,
social media is using pictures and | 2:51:54 | 2:52:00 | |
art to convey your message is, a
really useful tool, and now with | 2:52:00 | 2:52:05 | |
being brought into the fold, blind
people are able to contribute to | 2:52:05 | 2:52:10 | |
these posts. And what do you think
the reaction has been in terms of, | 2:52:10 | 2:52:14 | |
have you seen an overwhelming
reaction in response to your tweet, | 2:52:14 | 2:52:17 | |
but in terms of other people who are
visually impaired, what have they | 2:52:17 | 2:52:21 | |
said to you? It has been amazing.
People have really got on board with | 2:52:21 | 2:52:28 | |
this, and other visually impaired
people, some of them didn't know | 2:52:28 | 2:52:32 | |
about this. I only found out about
it last month, but they have been | 2:52:32 | 2:52:36 | |
saying, thank you for bringing
attention to this. The gratitude | 2:52:36 | 2:52:41 | |
should go to all those people who
read two to date and supported it, | 2:52:41 | 2:52:45 | |
the people who are allowing us to be
involved, they were accidentally | 2:52:45 | 2:52:51 | |
excluding us before, just because
they didn't know this existed, and | 2:52:51 | 2:52:55 | |
I'm really grateful to all the
sighted people out there who have | 2:52:55 | 2:52:59 | |
taken the effort to make the simple
changes to bring us into this. It is | 2:52:59 | 2:53:04 | |
interesting the language you are
using, being brought back into the | 2:53:04 | 2:53:07 | |
fold, accepting us, allowing us to
use these systems and these | 2:53:07 | 2:53:13 | |
facilities. You lost your site in
Afghanistan in 2010, and I wonder if | 2:53:13 | 2:53:19 | |
he were, tell us what happened and
then also have excluded you felt | 2:53:19 | 2:53:24 | |
from those whose site was fine after
the accident. Obviously it's changed | 2:53:24 | 2:53:33 | |
my world completely. I didn't know
about assistive technology or any of | 2:53:33 | 2:53:38 | |
this stuff. I was on patrol in
Afghanistan in 2010 when I was hit | 2:53:38 | 2:53:43 | |
by an IED which resulted in me
losing my left eye on the | 2:53:43 | 2:53:46 | |
battlefield straightaway, and when I
got back to the UK, my right I had | 2:53:46 | 2:53:50 | |
to be removed, so the eyes you see,
I have two prosthetic eyes, and it | 2:53:50 | 2:53:57 | |
is basically pitch black for me, so
the visual world no longer exists | 2:53:57 | 2:54:01 | |
for me, the portraits I see are in
my mind. During my rehabilitation | 2:54:01 | 2:54:07 | |
process, blind veterans UK came up
to me and handed me an iPhone, and | 2:54:07 | 2:54:12 | |
this was 2010 when smartphones were
still quite new, and I said, how am | 2:54:12 | 2:54:18 | |
I going to use a touch-screen phone?
They trained me to use it, and it is | 2:54:18 | 2:54:22 | |
so intuitive, the swipes and
everything, I can just do myself, | 2:54:22 | 2:54:26 | |
the voice is clear and concise, and
it is not something you have to | 2:54:26 | 2:54:31 | |
download or get an extra apps to get
on it, or apple products come with | 2:54:31 | 2:54:35 | |
it automatically on, which is
fantastic. It stops the lag or any | 2:54:35 | 2:54:40 | |
extra memory getting taken up, and
it also, I have the same kit as | 2:54:40 | 2:54:43 | |
everyone else. I don't have a
specialist blind phone or disabled | 2:54:43 | 2:54:48 | |
phone that makes me stand out or
anything like that, it is discreet | 2:54:48 | 2:54:51 | |
and subtle. And I understand other
smartphones offer this and can use | 2:54:51 | 2:54:59 | |
apps to download this. I suppose
there is also an onus on the social | 2:54:59 | 2:55:03 | |
media sites to make sure that these
facilities are able to be accessed | 2:55:03 | 2:55:07 | |
as well. You have spoken about
Twitter, but there are other social | 2:55:07 | 2:55:11 | |
media sites that people want to use,
and apps, of course. That was one of | 2:55:11 | 2:55:17 | |
the great thing is that it brought
up, because everyone was able to | 2:55:17 | 2:55:20 | |
contribute, so a lot of visually
impaired and people with other | 2:55:20 | 2:55:24 | |
disabilities were commenting on the
thread, and flagging this with | 2:55:24 | 2:55:28 | |
social media networks and tagging
them in it. And the response from | 2:55:28 | 2:55:34 | |
other social media platforms was
fantastic. They were on board, and a | 2:55:34 | 2:55:38 | |
lot of focus and attention has been
brought to this now, which is great. | 2:55:38 | 2:55:42 | |
People are contributing who are
cited and who are blind or have | 2:55:42 | 2:55:48 | |
other disabilities, and because
there is so much attention on it, | 2:55:48 | 2:55:51 | |
the companies want these people, and
want to bring this audience in, and | 2:55:51 | 2:55:57 | |
want to include disabled people, and
it is really helpful. You have | 2:55:57 | 2:56:03 | |
helped us by being an Breakfast with
us now, letting us know about this | 2:56:03 | 2:56:06 | |
facility. We wish you all the best,
thank you for talking to us. Thank | 2:56:06 | 2:56:10 | |
you. I have enabled my phone, it is
so simple and it makes such a | 2:56:10 | 2:56:16 | |
difference. It is 8:56am. | 2:56:16 | 2:56:18 | |
When 95-year-old Marjorie Thomas
lost her RAF veteran | 2:56:18 | 2:56:20 | |
husband Colin in 2014,
she was at a loss and feeling | 2:56:20 | 2:56:22 | |
alone in the world. | 2:56:22 | 2:56:23 | |
Shortly after, the Royal Air Forces
Association befriending service | 2:56:23 | 2:56:26 | |
introduced her to Sean,
a former Air Vice Marshall, | 2:56:26 | 2:56:28 | |
and they've exchanged e-mails
every single day since. | 2:56:28 | 2:56:33 | |
Now they're sending a teddy bear -
Bertie - around the world to raise | 2:56:33 | 2:56:36 | |
awareness of the service. | 2:56:36 | 2:56:38 | |
Here's how our reporter JJ Chalmers
got on when he went to meet | 2:56:38 | 2:56:41 | |
the three of them on one
of their regular lunches. | 2:56:41 | 2:56:46 | |
It's a friendship that might at
first seem unlikely. Welcome! I get | 2:56:46 | 2:56:51 | |
my arm underneath yours. Tell me
when. But 95-year-old Marjorie | 2:56:51 | 2:56:56 | |
Thomas, a great-grandmother from
Solihull, and Shawn Belle, a company | 2:56:56 | 2:56:59 | |
director and former RAF commander,
have been firm friends for three | 2:56:59 | 2:57:02 | |
years. It is our favourite
restaurant, isn't it? Let's take you | 2:57:02 | 2:57:06 | |
in. The pair have a military
connection the brought them together | 2:57:06 | 2:57:10 | |
in the most poignant of
circumstances. Your late husband | 2:57:10 | 2:57:14 | |
served in the RAF. I met him before
he went into the air force, and he | 2:57:14 | 2:57:21 | |
was 16. And we met at Ada is
Academy, learning how to dance. -- | 2:57:21 | 2:57:30 | |
at a dance Academy, and he was a
beautiful dancer. Everything we did, | 2:57:30 | 2:57:34 | |
we did together. And when I lost
him, that was a big hole. How did | 2:57:34 | 2:57:41 | |
you first meet him? I first met him
at Colin's funeral. He read the 23rd | 2:57:41 | 2:57:49 | |
Psalm, and he saluted the casket,
which was a lovely gesture. I wrote | 2:57:49 | 2:57:54 | |
a letter and thanked him for his
kindness | 2:57:54 | 2:58:00 | |
a letter and thanked him for his
kindness, and five weeks later I had | 2:58:00 | 2:58:02 | |
a letter from him asking if I would
like to go down to London to the | 2:58:02 | 2:58:07 | |
club and have an afternoon tea, and
of course I was delighted. Now Sean | 2:58:07 | 2:58:14 | |
and Marjorie e-mail every day and
meet every few months for what | 2:58:14 | 2:58:18 | |
Marjorie jokingly calls hot date. Am
I allowed a bit more? You won't slap | 2:58:18 | 2:58:25 | |
me? That's because you haven't had
any lunch. I haven't. But I had one | 2:58:25 | 2:58:31 | |
of your takes. The Well air force's
Association says this sense of | 2:58:31 | 2:58:36 | |
connection is of valuable benefit of
its befriending service. We think | 2:58:36 | 2:58:41 | |
there are about 170,000 just within
the family with experience in | 2:58:41 | 2:58:47 | |
loneliness and isolation. This is
about empowering people to remain | 2:58:47 | 2:58:50 | |
part of the community and empowering
both the beneficiary and the | 2:58:50 | 2:58:59 | |
befriend to stay connected within
the RAF family. Today there is | 2:58:59 | 2:59:02 | |
another guest at the table, Bertie
the bear, Marjorie's there who is | 2:59:02 | 2:59:07 | |
embarking on an adventure around the
world to raise awareness of the | 2:59:07 | 2:59:10 | |
royal air force's Association
befriending service. Marjorie up | 2:59:10 | 2:59:16 | |
until about a year ago could travel
and has travelled really widely in | 2:59:16 | 2:59:20 | |
her life, but she was no longer able
to travel as much. I can't change | 2:59:20 | 2:59:23 | |
that, but what I can do is give
something else that can travel the | 2:59:23 | 2:59:27 | |
world, and Bertie the bear came up.
One of them is heading off to Bali | 2:59:27 | 2:59:31 | |
via Dubai, one of them is off to
Malaysia. This Bertie has been | 2:59:31 | 2:59:35 | |
flying in one of the blades are
Patrick aeroplanes. What it is | 2:59:35 | 2:59:40 | |
trying to highlight is the little
things can make a huge difference to | 2:59:40 | 2:59:43 | |
people.
Followers will be able to track | 2:59:43 | 2:59:46 | |
Bertie's adventures on social media.
The Marjorie, who love to travel, it | 2:59:46 | 2:59:50 | |
is an important opportunity to still
see the wider world. I can imagine a | 2:59:50 | 2:59:55 | |
lot of old ladies will be quite glad
of Bertie, because he is gorgeous, | 2:59:55 | 3:00:01 | |
and with all these adventures, they
can follow it all and wonder what | 3:00:01 | 3:00:07 | |
Bertie is going to do next, you
know? JJ Chalmers, BBC News, | 3:00:07 | 3:00:13 | |
Solihull. | 3:00:13 | 3:00:14 | |
And Sean will be with us on the sofa
in around an hour's time. | 3:00:14 | 3:00:16 | |
Headlines are coming up. We will see
you soon. | 3:00:19 | 3:00:22 | |
Hello this is Breakfast,
with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty. | 3:00:52 | 3:00:54 | |
A call for the victims of serial sex
attacker John Worboys | 3:00:54 | 3:00:57 | |
to have the chance to give evidence
against him - following | 3:00:57 | 3:01:02 | |
the announcement that he's
to be released from jail. | 3:01:02 | 3:01:04 | |
This programme has been told some
of the women whose stories | 3:01:04 | 3:01:06 | |
weren't heard in court now
want their cases to be | 3:01:06 | 3:01:09 | |
reviewed by the police. | 3:01:09 | 3:01:19 | |
Then now want their case to be given
the proper scrutiny that it deserves | 3:01:19 | 3:01:22 | |
and for a decision to be made
as to whether or not a prosecution | 3:01:22 | 3:01:28 | |
is going to be brought
in their cases. | 3:01:28 | 3:01:35 | |
Good morning - it's
Saturday 6th January. | 3:01:35 | 3:01:36 | |
Also this morning... | 3:01:36 | 3:01:38 | |
Online casino operators are accused
by the industry's watchdog | 3:01:38 | 3:01:44 | |
of failing to prevent money
laundering and protect | 3:01:44 | 3:01:46 | |
problem gamblers. | 3:01:46 | 3:01:47 | |
In sport, another morale-sapping day
for England's bowlers. | 3:01:47 | 3:01:52 | |
This time, it's the Marsh brothers
who are chief tormenters - | 3:01:52 | 3:01:54 | |
smashing England around Sydney,
as Australia build a lead of 133 | 3:01:54 | 3:01:57 | |
in the final Ashes Test. | 3:01:57 | 3:01:59 | |
And what does it take
to cut it as a Ninja? | 3:01:59 | 3:02:02 | |
I've been having a go at the sport
that started in Japan 10 years ago, | 3:02:02 | 3:02:05 | |
and is now taking a firm hold
here in the UK. | 3:02:05 | 3:02:12 | |
Temperatures in parts of the US
are predicted to fall to minus 29 - | 3:02:12 | 3:02:15 | |
as a record-breaking freeze follows
heavy snow caused by | 3:02:15 | 3:02:17 | |
the so-called bomb cyclone. | 3:02:17 | 3:02:21 | |
Not quite so cold here -
Stav has the details. | 3:02:21 | 3:02:29 | |
It turning much colder for all of us
this weekend. But on the plus side, | 3:02:29 | 3:02:33 | |
we should see some sunshine,
particularly tomorrow. I will have | 3:02:33 | 3:02:37 | |
the details for you very shortly. | 3:02:37 | 3:02:44 | |
First, our main story. | 3:02:44 | 3:02:45 | |
A lawyer who represented victims
of the serial sex offender | 3:02:45 | 3:02:48 | |
John Worboys has told BBC Breakfast
that some of her clients, | 3:02:48 | 3:02:51 | |
whose cases weren't taken
to trial, want prosecutors | 3:02:51 | 3:02:52 | |
to re-examine their evidence. | 3:02:52 | 3:02:54 | |
The former black cab
driver is being freed | 3:02:54 | 3:02:55 | |
from jail after ten years. | 3:02:55 | 3:02:58 | |
He was originally convicted of 19
offences, although police | 3:02:58 | 3:03:01 | |
believe he carried
out more than 100 attacks. | 3:03:01 | 3:03:03 | |
Lawyers say that a number of women
were told that their testimony | 3:03:03 | 3:03:06 | |
wasn't required to put Worboys
behind bars for a longer | 3:03:06 | 3:03:08 | |
period of time. | 3:03:08 | 3:03:09 | |
Tom Burridge reports. | 3:03:09 | 3:03:10 | |
The decision to release rapist
John Worboys has raised profound | 3:03:10 | 3:03:13 | |
questions about the way sexual
crimes against women | 3:03:13 | 3:03:16 | |
are investigated, and whether
the procedures for releasing | 3:03:16 | 3:03:19 | |
criminals need changing. | 3:03:19 | 3:03:21 | |
Worboys picked up young
women in his black cab, | 3:03:21 | 3:03:25 | |
duped and drugged them,
and then carried out his attacks. | 3:03:25 | 3:03:30 | |
He was convicted of 19
offences in 2009, and given | 3:03:30 | 3:03:34 | |
an indefinite sentence. | 3:03:34 | 3:03:39 | |
But, in total, more than 100
women said Worboys tried | 3:03:39 | 3:03:41 | |
to drug and assault them. | 3:03:41 | 3:03:51 | |
Some allegations were investigated,
but not pursued at the time. | 3:03:51 | 3:03:54 | |
Now there are calls that the
evidence should be considered again. | 3:03:54 | 3:04:01 | |
I think women just want
justice and they want | 3:04:01 | 3:04:03 | |
their voices to be heard. | 3:04:03 | 3:04:10 | |
The CPS said, don't worry,
we won't prosecute in your case | 3:04:10 | 3:04:13 | |
because he's going to be in prison
for a very long time, he will be | 3:04:13 | 3:04:16 | |
on an indeterminate sentence,
this man is going to be locked away. | 3:04:16 | 3:04:19 | |
They now want their case to be given
the proper scrutiny that it deserves | 3:04:19 | 3:04:22 | |
and a decision to be made
as to whether or not | 3:04:22 | 3:04:25 | |
a prosecution is going to be
brought in there cases. | 3:04:25 | 3:04:27 | |
a prosecution is going to be
brought in their cases. | 3:04:27 | 3:04:30 | |
Under law, we can't know why
the Parole Board has | 3:04:30 | 3:04:40 | |
decided Worboys no longer poses
a risk to the public. | 3:04:42 | 3:04:45 | |
he now Under law,
we can't know is why | 3:04:45 | 3:04:47 | |
Five online gambling companies
could have their licenses revoked | 3:04:47 | 3:04:50 | |
over concern they're not doing
enough to help problem gamblers, | 3:04:50 | 3:04:53 | |
or prevent money launderers
from using their sites. | 3:04:53 | 3:04:56 | |
The Gambling Commission has written
to all 195 online casino operators, | 3:04:56 | 3:04:58 | |
to tell them about the safeguards
they should all have in place. | 3:04:58 | 3:05:01 | |
Our business correspondent
Jonty Bloom reports. | 3:05:01 | 3:05:02 | |
One third of all gambling
in the UK is now online, | 3:05:02 | 3:05:05 | |
and it's worth billions of pounds. | 3:05:05 | 3:05:08 | |
The Gambling Commission has been
reviewing the safeguards that | 3:05:08 | 3:05:10 | |
all companies should have in place. | 3:05:10 | 3:05:12 | |
They're designed to prevent problem
gambling getting out of control, | 3:05:12 | 3:05:16 | |
and to prevent money being laundered
by criminals or terrorists. | 3:05:16 | 3:05:19 | |
Sarah Harrison, chief executive
of the Gambling Commission, said... | 3:05:19 | 3:05:22 | |
But the commission found many signs
of customers' gambling | 3:05:32 | 3:05:35 | |
becoming compulsive were not
being followed up, and some staff | 3:05:35 | 3:05:37 | |
had little idea of how
to stop money laundering, | 3:05:37 | 3:05:46 | |
or, in some cases, even what it was. | 3:05:46 | 3:05:48 | |
As a result, the Gambling Commission
is warning all online | 3:05:48 | 3:05:50 | |
casino operators to review
their procedures, and has | 3:05:50 | 3:05:52 | |
begun an investigation
into 17 online companies. | 3:05:52 | 3:05:54 | |
It's considering whether it should
review the licences of five of them. | 3:05:54 | 3:05:57 | |
Losing its licence would mean
a company would be unable | 3:05:57 | 3:06:00 | |
to continue to operate in the UK. | 3:06:00 | 3:06:06 | |
Jonty Bloom, BBC News. | 3:06:06 | 3:06:10 | |
President Trump has taken to Twitter
overnight to show his continued | 3:06:10 | 3:06:12 | |
frustration over the release
of a controversial book | 3:06:12 | 3:06:14 | |
documenting his first
year in the White House. | 3:06:14 | 3:06:17 | |
Calling the author of the book
Michael Wolff "a total loser", | 3:06:17 | 3:06:20 | |
the President accuses him
of making up stories. | 3:06:20 | 3:06:23 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon | 3:06:23 | 3:06:27 | |
"Sloppy Steve", claiming he cried
when he was fired. | 3:06:27 | 3:06:31 | |
The book, called Fire And Fury,
has now gone on sale early, | 3:06:31 | 3:06:34 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 3:06:34 | 3:06:42 | |
The author of the book has spoken to
BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and he | 3:06:42 | 3:06:48 | |
said his research was reliable and
he stands by his description of what | 3:06:48 | 3:06:51 | |
happened on election night. Everyone
went into election night expecting | 3:06:51 | 3:06:56 | |
not to win. It would have been a
victory for them to have kept their | 3:06:56 | 3:07:02 | |
loss to under six points. And by all
reports, the person who was most | 3:07:02 | 3:07:10 | |
shocked may have been Trump's wife
who certainly did not want to be the | 3:07:10 | 3:07:14 | |
First Lady. Second to her, it was
Trump itself, who appeared to be | 3:07:14 | 3:07:20 | |
white as a ghost. You talk to
everyone who is as close to the | 3:07:20 | 3:07:25 | |
action as possible, who will talk to
you after you grant them the veil of | 3:07:25 | 3:07:33 | |
anonymity, and the more people you
talk to, the better, the more in | 3:07:33 | 3:07:38 | |
depth it gets, the more you, the
author, understand. | 3:07:38 | 3:07:44 | |
The United States has been
criticised by other members of | 3:07:44 | 3:07:47 | |
the United Nations Security Council
for calling an emergency | 3:07:47 | 3:07:49 | |
meeting to discuss
anti-government protests in Iran. | 3:07:49 | 3:07:51 | |
China and France said
the unrest did not threaten | 3:07:51 | 3:07:53 | |
international security. | 3:07:53 | 3:07:56 | |
The Iranian ambassador called
the meeting a farce and repeated | 3:07:56 | 3:08:00 | |
claims that the protests
were being directed from abroad. | 3:08:00 | 3:08:02 | |
Easyjet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among the major employers who've | 3:08:02 | 3:08:07 | |
been revealed to pay women
on average at least | 3:08:07 | 3:08:10 | |
15% less than men. | 3:08:10 | 3:08:12 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 3:08:12 | 3:08:15 | |
publish their figures by April -
more than 500 have done so. | 3:08:15 | 3:08:19 | |
Another 8,000 must publish by April,
or risk being fined | 3:08:19 | 3:08:22 | |
under a new law intended
to tackle workplace discrimination. | 3:08:22 | 3:08:30 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 3:08:30 | 3:08:36 | |
that this weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 3:08:36 | 3:08:38 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 3:08:38 | 3:08:41 | |
The National Weather Service
predicts wind chills as low | 3:08:41 | 3:08:45 | |
as -40 degrees Celsius. | 3:08:45 | 3:08:46 | |
Russell Trott has the latest. | 3:08:46 | 3:08:50 | |
The public coming to the aid
of public transport on the streets | 3:08:50 | 3:08:54 | |
of eastern Boston, as snow
and ice left many stranded. | 3:08:54 | 3:08:59 | |
Elsewhere in the city,
the emergency services | 3:08:59 | 3:09:03 | |
were working flat out,
and in deep water, as high tides | 3:09:03 | 3:09:06 | |
flooded roads close to the harbour. | 3:09:06 | 3:09:07 | |
Plummeting temperatures meant much
of Massachusetts was under | 3:09:07 | 3:09:12 | |
huge quantities of snow. | 3:09:12 | 3:09:19 | |
And after a 3ft storm surge
brought seas inland, | 3:09:19 | 3:09:21 | |
the flood water froze,
trapping cars in ice. | 3:09:21 | 3:09:24 | |
For the homeless of Chicago,
life on the streets is now | 3:09:24 | 3:09:27 | |
all about survival. | 3:09:27 | 3:09:28 | |
Those who do find shelter are happy
to be anywhere but outside. | 3:09:28 | 3:09:31 | |
We see an average of 700-800
people every single day. | 3:09:31 | 3:09:39 | |
Sometimes there are people who come
in when it's extremely cold | 3:09:39 | 3:09:41 | |
who won't come in when it's
not so cold. | 3:09:41 | 3:09:47 | |
A sudden drop in temperatures
can hit hard anywhere. | 3:09:47 | 3:09:51 | |
In Florida, where in some parts snow
fell for the first time in 30 years, | 3:09:51 | 3:09:54 | |
cold seas saw hundreds of turtles
rescued after their muscles | 3:09:54 | 3:09:59 | |
started seizing up. | 3:09:59 | 3:10:05 | |
As thousands of snow ploughs
are deployed throughout | 3:10:05 | 3:10:08 | |
the eastern seaboard,
forecasters warn that | 3:10:08 | 3:10:10 | |
the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures. | 3:10:10 | 3:10:12 | |
Plans to improve reading standards
amongst children from disadvantaged | 3:10:12 | 3:10:14 | |
backgrounds have been announced
by the Department for Education. | 3:10:14 | 3:10:20 | |
There will be a network
of 35 literacy teaching | 3:10:20 | 3:10:22 | |
centres across England, | 3:10:22 | 3:10:23 | |
to work with primary schools that
are in challenging areas. | 3:10:23 | 3:10:25 | |
Labour says the funding will do
nothing to change government | 3:10:25 | 3:10:28 | |
cuts to school budgets. | 3:10:28 | 3:10:30 | |
There will also be schemes
to improve the vocabulary | 3:10:30 | 3:10:32 | |
of pre-school children
in the north of England. | 3:10:32 | 3:10:35 | |
This is about investing around
the country, bringing together | 3:10:35 | 3:10:41 | |
teachers and literacy specialists,
so that we can make sure that we do | 3:10:41 | 3:10:44 | |
even better on reading
and writing and standards, | 3:10:44 | 3:10:46 | |
but also that we don't see any
children falling behind. | 3:10:46 | 3:10:55 | |
A bar owner has been left
shaken but not stirred, | 3:10:55 | 3:10:58 | |
after being reunited | 3:10:58 | 3:11:02 | |
with what's thought to be the most
expensive vodka bottle in the world. | 3:11:02 | 3:11:07 | |
Made of gold and silver
with a diamond encrusted replica | 3:11:07 | 3:11:09 | |
of the Russian Imperial Eagle
on its cap - this extravagant bottle | 3:11:09 | 3:11:12 | |
was on loan to a bar in Copenhagen
when it was stolen last week. | 3:11:12 | 3:11:16 | |
It has been found, though. | 3:11:16 | 3:11:19 | |
The bottle, which is worth
nearly a million pounds, | 3:11:19 | 3:11:24 | |
was found empty on a construction
site in the city. | 3:11:24 | 3:11:26 | |
But it's not believed the theft
will affect its value - | 3:11:26 | 3:11:29 | |
and the bar owner says he simply
intends to fill it up again | 3:11:29 | 3:11:32 | |
and put it on display. | 3:11:32 | 3:11:34 | |
At the bottle which is worth £1
million, not the contents! | 3:11:34 | 3:11:47 | |
The battle over that book about the
president of the United States has | 3:11:51 | 3:11:55 | |
been continuing this morning. The
Times newspaper continues to | 3:11:55 | 3:12:00 | |
serialise the book. We can talk to
the paper's diplomatic correspondent | 3:12:00 | 3:12:04 | |
now. She is in our London newsroom.
Thank you very much for talking to | 3:12:04 | 3:12:09 | |
us. There is no end to the interest
in this book - what have you enjoyed | 3:12:09 | 3:12:18 | |
the most, I suppose, about this
book? It is difficult to say whether | 3:12:18 | 3:12:22 | |
it is enjoyable to read a portrait
of the leader of the free world as | 3:12:22 | 3:12:27 | |
someone who is incapable of doing
his job! There's lots of | 3:12:27 | 3:12:33 | |
extraordinary and salacious detail
in the book. But I think the most | 3:12:33 | 3:12:37 | |
worrying thing is really the
portrait that it paints of a man who | 3:12:37 | 3:12:40 | |
is incapable of carrying out the
duties of his office, which is | 3:12:40 | 3:12:45 | |
something that should worry us all.
So, highlights from the book for | 3:12:45 | 3:12:51 | |
you? As a serialisation, we're
getting snippets of it as pass what | 3:12:51 | 3:12:56 | |
do you think is most pertinent as
opposed to his presidency? Because | 3:12:56 | 3:12:59 | |
the personal stuff, we will hear
that and people might not be | 3:12:59 | 3:13:05 | |
surprised to, but what do you think
is pertinent to his presidency? | 3:13:05 | 3:13:09 | |
Again, I think it is the fact that,
possibly the fact that nothing in | 3:13:09 | 3:13:13 | |
this book is so surprising or
entirely implausible that we haven't | 3:13:13 | 3:13:20 | |
heard snippets of it before. We've
heard reporting over the course of | 3:13:20 | 3:13:23 | |
the year about Donald Trump's sense
of isolation, his childlike | 3:13:23 | 3:13:30 | |
personality, his impulsive
behaviour. It is all in the book and | 3:13:30 | 3:13:36 | |
it is all backed up by stuff that
we've heard during the course of the | 3:13:36 | 3:13:40 | |
year. I think one of the most
extraordinary portraits of him is in | 3:13:40 | 3:13:45 | |
his bedroom alone at half past six
in the evening, with three | 3:13:45 | 3:13:50 | |
television screens, having had
briefly more put into that room, | 3:13:50 | 3:13:53 | |
having asked for a lock to be put on
the door, which was refused him by | 3:13:53 | 3:13:57 | |
the Secret Service, who said that
they needed to have access at all | 3:13:57 | 3:14:02 | |
times, eating cheeseburgers and
hitting on the phone to not just | 3:14:02 | 3:14:07 | |
friends at some casual acquaintances
who appear to have been the source | 3:14:07 | 3:14:09 | |
of subsequent peaks, to complain
about the rigours of his if, | 3:14:09 | 3:14:13 | |
governing the country. -- the
rigours of his new life. We are | 3:14:13 | 3:14:25 | |
fascinated by this man and his rise
to the presidency - do you think we | 3:14:25 | 3:14:31 | |
are more obsessed about him that the
Americans are, because they get this | 3:14:31 | 3:14:34 | |
all the time, don't they? No! I
think they share our obsession. It's | 3:14:34 | 3:14:41 | |
such an extraordinary presidency. It
is happening at warp speed, and the | 3:14:41 | 3:14:44 | |
news just comes at us at such a fast
pace that it becomes like a soap | 3:14:44 | 3:14:50 | |
opera. It is no accident that this
president was a reality television | 3:14:50 | 3:14:56 | |
star, and he's conducting the
presidency as if it were a reality | 3:14:56 | 3:15:00 | |
television show. And he communicates
directly with his audience through | 3:15:00 | 3:15:04 | |
tweeting. So, no, I think everyone's
gripped by this extraordinary and | 3:15:04 | 3:15:10 | |
unlikely presidency. And the
politics of it, as revealed in the | 3:15:10 | 3:15:15 | |
books, with the power struggles
within the west wing, are grouping | 3:15:15 | 3:15:19 | |
on a soap opera level. And there
have been allegations, or this book | 3:15:19 | 3:15:25 | |
has cast doubt over his mental
health. He is due his first official | 3:15:25 | 3:15:30 | |
medical at as President, and it is
by the same doctor, we understand, | 3:15:30 | 3:15:35 | |
who would have done the medical for
President Obama has well. This is an | 3:15:35 | 3:15:40 | |
opportunity, from your experience as
a diplomatic correspondent, for him | 3:15:40 | 3:15:43 | |
to draw a line under these
accusations are, because this is a | 3:15:43 | 3:15:47 | |
physical and mental examination?
Well, it is a medical examination. | 3:15:47 | 3:15:51 | |
We aren't clear as to what we might
learn about his cognitive abilities | 3:15:51 | 3:15:55 | |
from it. Now, a normal medical
examination of someone of this age | 3:15:55 | 3:16:02 | |
would usually take in some cognitive
tests. Some people have raised | 3:16:02 | 3:16:08 | |
questions about, is you possibly
showing signs of dementia? Michael | 3:16:08 | 3:16:15 | |
Wolff has talked about him being
unable to recognise old friends, | 3:16:15 | 3:16:19 | |
repeating stories... It is not clear
at this stage whether we will learn | 3:16:19 | 3:16:23 | |
anything from that examination which
will tell us more about his | 3:16:23 | 3:16:26 | |
cognitive abilities. However, it is
the first independent medical exam | 3:16:26 | 3:16:31 | |
that he has submitted himself to. We
have never had a full read-out of | 3:16:31 | 3:16:37 | |
his physical or cognitive health.
It's going to be a twisting. Thank | 3:16:37 | 3:16:42 | |
you so much for your time. The
diplomatic correspondent of The | 3:16:42 | 3:16:48 | |
Times newspaper there, which is
serialising the book. Incredibly | 3:16:48 | 3:16:57 | |
cold weather in the United States,
with more to follow. Look at the | 3:16:57 | 3:17:00 | |
map. Stav, it makes us appreciate
what we've got here? Absolutely, | 3:17:00 | 3:17:07 | |
although it is going to be turning
colder here public will be nowhere | 3:17:07 | 3:17:11 | |
near like what they have got over in
America. | 3:17:11 | 3:17:14 | |
near like what they have got over in
America. With the wind factor in New | 3:17:14 | 3:17:19 | |
York it is going to be feeling more
like -26. Notice behind me, | 3:17:19 | 3:17:24 | |
southerly winds coming up, which
will slowly push this slightly less | 3:17:24 | 3:17:30 | |
cold air into the direction of the
great lakes and the north-east as we | 3:17:30 | 3:17:34 | |
head through Sunday and Monday. So,
these values still about 15 degrees | 3:17:34 | 3:17:38 | |
below where they should be, but a
bit better as we head into the | 3:17:38 | 3:17:41 | |
second part of the weekend. So, this
weekend, it is turning colder. | 3:17:41 | 3:17:46 | |
Plenty of sunshine around, though,
quite frosty start this morning and | 3:17:46 | 3:17:51 | |
also icy in places. If you're
heading out on the roads, do take | 3:17:51 | 3:18:02 | |
extra care. There will be some
sunshine across the south-west of | 3:18:02 | 3:18:05 | |
England, with cloud increasing,
however, with this band of rain and | 3:18:05 | 3:18:11 | |
some hill snow moving southwards.
They will be pushed by the | 3:18:11 | 3:18:16 | |
north-easterly wind. For the north
of England, lots of sunshine. Wintry | 3:18:16 | 3:18:23 | |
showers in the north-east of England
and the eastern side Scotland. Does | 3:18:23 | 3:18:30 | |
brisk winds making it feel even
colder. It will be pushing that | 3:18:30 | 3:18:36 | |
cloud further southwards all the
while, with sunshine coming in | 3:18:36 | 3:18:41 | |
across central and northern parts of
England and Wales by the end of the | 3:18:41 | 3:18:45 | |
afternoon. The winds continuing to
push the cloud away from southern | 3:18:45 | 3:18:51 | |
areas this evening. And then at most
places will be under clear skies. | 3:18:51 | 3:18:56 | |
The recipe for an extremely cold
night across parts of Scotland and | 3:18:56 | 3:19:00 | |
the north of England. As you can
imagine we start off Sunday on a | 3:19:00 | 3:19:08 | |
really cold, frosty note. Watch out
for any ice around, particularly | 3:19:08 | 3:19:13 | |
where we have had those wintry
showers. But a lovely, bright, sunny | 3:19:13 | 3:19:18 | |
day. Crisp sunshine up and down the
UK. Lighter winds further north. | 3:19:18 | 3:19:26 | |
Temperatures not really getting
above freezing in Glasgow and | 3:19:26 | 3:19:28 | |
Aberdeen. This weather front will be
a feature in our weather from | 3:19:28 | 3:19:34 | |
Tuesday onwards, bringing milder
air. And also some rain on Tuesday | 3:19:34 | 3:19:38 | |
and Wednesday. But high pressure is
still dominating on Monday. Back to | 3:19:38 | 3:19:45 | |
you two. Let's go back to our main
story. The fact that the victims of | 3:19:45 | 3:19:57 | |
the serial sex offender John
Worboys, whose cases were not taken | 3:19:57 | 3:20:03 | |
to the original trial say they want
their day in court. The former lack | 3:20:03 | 3:20:08 | |
driver who was convicted of 19th
offences is due to be released later | 3:20:08 | 3:20:11 | |
this month. The chairman of the
Parole Board has been summoned | 3:20:11 | 3:20:15 | |
before MPs to explain how the
decision to release him was reached. | 3:20:15 | 3:20:19 | |
We can speak to form a parole board
member Andrew Sanders, who joins us | 3:20:19 | 3:20:22 | |
now from Birmingham. Thank you for
joining us. | 3:20:22 | 3:20:26 | |
now from Birmingham. Thank you for
joining us. This case shines a | 3:20:26 | 3:20:27 | |
spotlight on the way in which the
Parole Board operates, in a way | 3:20:27 | 3:20:31 | |
which many of us may not have
understood. As a former member, how | 3:20:31 | 3:20:37 | |
does a a Parole Board work, somebody
comes to you and says I think I | 3:20:37 | 3:20:40 | |
should be released - what happens?
The Parole Board itself is very | 3:20:40 | 3:20:46 | |
large, over 100 people. And it is
drawn from a wide variety of groups. | 3:20:46 | 3:20:51 | |
There are former judges, senior
lawyers, psychiatrists and | 3:20:51 | 3:20:54 | |
psychologists who work with
criminals, senior probation | 3:20:54 | 3:20:57 | |
officers. I was there as an academic
criminologist and many people from a | 3:20:57 | 3:21:02 | |
range of different backgrounds. The
actual decisions to release someone | 3:21:02 | 3:21:06 | |
or not are taken by a panel of
three, and that would normally be | 3:21:06 | 3:21:11 | |
chaired by a retired judge or a
senior lawyer. And what happens is | 3:21:11 | 3:21:15 | |
that people can't just come along
and say, I would like to be released | 3:21:15 | 3:21:19 | |
to. They're only considered for
parole when they are eligible, and | 3:21:19 | 3:21:23 | |
that eligibility depends on the
sentence given to them by the | 3:21:23 | 3:21:26 | |
original judge. In this particular
case the judge said that Worboys had | 3:21:26 | 3:21:30 | |
to serve a minimum of eight years,
and as he was coming up to that, the | 3:21:30 | 3:21:35 | |
process of assessment began. But as
I understand it he was only released | 3:21:35 | 3:21:39 | |
after the second assessment for
eligibility. So, John Worboys would | 3:21:39 | 3:21:44 | |
appear before this panel of three
and what kind of things would they | 3:21:44 | 3:21:48 | |
be asking him, what would they be
looking at in terms of reference is | 3:21:48 | 3:21:54 | |
to work out weather to let him go or
not? Well, probably about a year | 3:21:54 | 3:21:58 | |
before the decision is taken, a
process of assessment begins in | 3:21:58 | 3:22:03 | |
earnest. And a large number of
assessments are made and reports are | 3:22:03 | 3:22:10 | |
written, in particular, if somebody
is a serious sex offender such as in | 3:22:10 | 3:22:14 | |
this case, they would almost
certainly have done a sex offender | 3:22:14 | 3:22:17 | |
treatment programme, which is a very
long, intensive programme with a lot | 3:22:17 | 3:22:20 | |
of monitoring and a lot of results
being collated. That report and many | 3:22:20 | 3:22:25 | |
other reports will be put in a
dossier and for a long-term offender | 3:22:25 | 3:22:29 | |
like Worboys it would be a very big
dossier with a large number of | 3:22:29 | 3:22:33 | |
reports from a wide range of people
who had got to know that prisoner | 3:22:33 | 3:22:36 | |
quite well and had treated him in a
number of ways and a ballpark of the | 3:22:36 | 3:22:40 | |
problem is that we don't know, it is
not published, the reasons behind | 3:22:40 | 3:22:48 | |
the decision to let him go, or
anybody go, or remain in custody - | 3:22:48 | 3:22:52 | |
that is a problem when you get a
controversial case like this, the | 3:22:52 | 3:22:54 | |
public and more importantly the
victims don't know why he's being | 3:22:54 | 3:22:57 | |
released? That's right. That's true.
The Parole Board has a legal duty to | 3:22:57 | 3:23:03 | |
only release someone if they
consider it safe to release someone. | 3:23:03 | 3:23:06 | |
Of course, the public don't know the
kind of evidence and information on | 3:23:06 | 3:23:12 | |
which that decision that somebody is
safe is made of. It would be very | 3:23:12 | 3:23:16 | |
difficult to release that kind of
information, though, because for | 3:23:16 | 3:23:20 | |
example, the sex offender treatment
programme reports contain details | 3:23:20 | 3:23:23 | |
about what the offender said and
what he said he did, and that | 3:23:23 | 3:23:28 | |
relates to a large number of victims
and those victims would probably not | 3:23:28 | 3:23:32 | |
want those details to be released
into the public. Maybe they wouldn't | 3:23:32 | 3:23:36 | |
want all the details but maybe they
should be given a say about weather | 3:23:36 | 3:23:39 | |
information about them can be
released to, but do you not think | 3:23:39 | 3:23:43 | |
that this case has now put such a
spotlight on the way in which parole | 3:23:43 | 3:23:47 | |
boards work that it is clearly going
to have to be a more open and | 3:23:47 | 3:23:51 | |
transparent process in the future? I
agree entirely. I think the process | 3:23:51 | 3:23:55 | |
could be more open and I think it
should be. One thing in particular, | 3:23:55 | 3:24:00 | |
you rightly identified that people
feel frustrated and left out of the | 3:24:00 | 3:24:04 | |
process, and something needs to
change there. It is not that victims | 3:24:04 | 3:24:08 | |
should necessarily make the
decisions, because these decisions | 3:24:08 | 3:24:10 | |
are made by people who have to
assess risk and you need a lot of | 3:24:10 | 3:24:14 | |
expertise to do that. But I see no
reason why they should not be | 3:24:14 | 3:24:19 | |
present in parole hearings, if they
want to be, so they can see the | 3:24:19 | 3:24:22 | |
evidence and understand the process.
I think this might help victims to | 3:24:22 | 3:24:35 | |
feel that their interests are being
taken into account, which after all | 3:24:35 | 3:24:39 | |
is one of the most important things
we should do in this process. I was | 3:24:39 | 3:24:43 | |
going to ask you what you think of
this decision civilise oppose | 3:24:43 | 3:24:47 | |
because you don't know either what
information was looked at, you | 3:24:47 | 3:24:52 | |
probably could not say that, either?
I could not possibly comment. All I | 3:24:52 | 3:24:56 | |
could say is that the Parole Board
is very risk averse. In other words, | 3:24:56 | 3:24:59 | |
if there is any doubt about weather
somebody should be released or not, | 3:24:59 | 3:25:03 | |
they usually decide to keep someone
in. So I think we can be fairly | 3:25:03 | 3:25:08 | |
confident that the information the
Parole Board used was very robust. | 3:25:08 | 3:25:11 | |
We must remember that when somebody
is released on parole, they are not | 3:25:11 | 3:25:15 | |
released to do as they want, they're
released on licence, their sentence | 3:25:15 | 3:25:19 | |
continues in the community. We do
not have to wait for someone to | 3:25:19 | 3:25:23 | |
commit a crime in order to bring
them back to jail. If somebody, | 3:25:23 | 3:25:27 | |
conditions they will be brought back
to jail and often they will spend | 3:25:27 | 3:25:31 | |
several more years in prison. So,
this person is not released | 3:25:31 | 3:25:34 | |
unconditionally. They are monitored
very closely, and I hope that might | 3:25:34 | 3:25:38 | |
give some reassurance. Thank you for
joining us this morning. You're | 3:25:38 | 3:25:42 | |
watching backpack. It is time to
look at the papers. Investment | 3:25:42 | 3:25:54 | |
manager Justin Urqhart-Stewart has
joined us. And we were just talking | 3:25:54 | 3:25:57 | |
with a former Parole Board member
about this John Worboys case, and | 3:25:57 | 3:26:02 | |
you have taken a look at this as
well, I think? In terms of... Sorry, | 3:26:02 | 3:26:08 | |
I was looking at the front page of
the Guardian shall that is on all of | 3:26:08 | 3:26:11 | |
the front pages at the moment.
You're taking a look at what is | 3:26:11 | 3:26:14 | |
going on with the economy? Yes.
There is something in the Guardian | 3:26:14 | 3:26:19 | |
about productivity. They always go
on in Britain about, we're not as | 3:26:19 | 3:26:24 | |
productive as everybody else. We
have a lot of people who are | 3:26:24 | 3:26:27 | |
employed but at very low levels of
wages, compared to somewhere like | 3:26:27 | 3:26:33 | |
France, they're hade higher but you
have a higher level of unemployment. | 3:26:33 | 3:26:36 | |
And so in many ways their
productivity looks better. But what | 3:26:36 | 3:26:40 | |
you now find, as our output
increases, our productivity has | 3:26:40 | 3:26:45 | |
started to go up, and that is an
encouraging sign. But we have still | 3:26:45 | 3:26:52 | |
got a shortage of investment money
coming in - we need to have more of | 3:26:52 | 3:26:55 | |
that to try and make ourselves more
efficient, more companies investing | 3:26:55 | 3:27:00 | |
in new kit. So, it's working? It is
working but it is only a start, | 3:27:00 | 3:27:04 | |
there's a lot more which needs to be
done to encourage manufacturing. Our | 3:27:04 | 3:27:09 | |
manufacturing base is growing. It is
now at 11%, having been at 7%. A lot | 3:27:09 | 3:27:15 | |
of business parks in Britain are
busy, but they need to get to the | 3:27:15 | 3:27:19 | |
next stage, of having more
investment coming through. It is not | 3:27:19 | 3:27:22 | |
just China, it is the rest of
Europe, isn't it? Yes, somewhere | 3:27:22 | 3:27:25 | |
like France or Germany, we say our
productivity is behind theirs. But | 3:27:25 | 3:27:31 | |
we have got many more people
employed | 3:27:31 | 3:27:35 | |
we have got many more people
employed, certainly compared with | 3:27:35 | 3:27:36 | |
France. France has got 40%
unemployment, particularly angina | 3:27:36 | 3:27:43 | |
climate is very bad in front of. So,
it is an improving figure, not | 3:27:43 | 3:27:47 | |
perfect but better. Figures from the
Daily Mail about savings accounts | 3:27:47 | 3:27:52 | |
just some people thought when
interest rates went up by a little | 3:27:52 | 3:27:57 | |
bit, potentially savers would be in
for a bonus of some sort? We talk | 3:27:57 | 3:28:03 | |
about people with difficulty getting
a mortgage, but and many more people | 3:28:03 | 3:28:07 | |
save in this country and many of
those are older. And they have been | 3:28:07 | 3:28:10 | |
decimated by the interest rates.
HSBC, 0.05%, do me a favour! On | 3:28:10 | 3:28:20 | |
£1000, you would be earning 15 page
in a year! We know that rates are | 3:28:20 | 3:28:25 | |
shocking - why? How does the system
work so that they think this is a | 3:28:25 | 3:28:30 | |
justifiable rate? First of all,
individuals should shop around, you | 3:28:30 | 3:28:34 | |
could get 1.3% now if you shopped
around. Secondly, these banks are in | 3:28:34 | 3:28:38 | |
a position where they don't need the
money. They don't need to deposits | 3:28:38 | 3:28:42 | |
because it is actually costing them
money, because the margins are so | 3:28:42 | 3:28:45 | |
small that it is costing them to
have that deposit money. As far as | 3:28:45 | 3:28:49 | |
they are concerned, they're saying,
thank you very much, we don't want | 3:28:49 | 3:28:53 | |
it, which is a real shame for those
people who have got cash. There are | 3:28:53 | 3:29:00 | |
people like Coventry building
society who will give you better | 3:29:00 | 3:29:02 | |
returns. Or the money markets. If
you lock in for longer, you will get | 3:29:02 | 3:29:07 | |
a better rate? But still it is 3%,
still below the rate of inflation. | 3:29:07 | 3:29:13 | |
People have to think longer term or
take a bit more risk for investment, | 3:29:13 | 3:29:19 | |
assuming you've got the time to do
so. Talking about a dry January, | 3:29:19 | 3:29:23 | |
here we are... I have to put this up
on the wall at home! There are a | 3:29:23 | 3:29:31 | |
couple of examples here of two gin
and tonics which don't include | 3:29:31 | 3:29:35 | |
alcohol. They say it's about the
flavour and things like that. Some | 3:29:35 | 3:29:38 | |
low alcohol sparkly wine, which I
find depressing, friendly! What do | 3:29:38 | 3:29:49 | |
you find depressing?! Zero alcohol
beer, it tastes awful! It is getting | 3:29:49 | 3:29:52 | |
better, though, I think. Nanny state
wine, which is a lovely title! That | 3:29:52 | 3:29:59 | |
apparently has got a better flavour.
But alcohol free gin and tonic, | 3:29:59 | 3:30:03 | |
maybe I need that! Or maybe I will
just open a bottle of wine! As long | 3:30:03 | 3:30:07 | |
as you stay well! Exactly! You know
what we need to go with our drinks. | 3:30:07 | 3:30:20 | |
Did you know that it is Veg-anuary?
Being vegan! They've got four on the | 3:30:20 | 3:30:30 | |
menu. | 3:30:30 | 3:30:39 | |
I was just going to laugh at your
Vigo in January line! We have some | 3:30:39 | 3:30:46 | |
guests doing that in their
restaurant, as well. Alcoholic free | 3:30:46 | 3:30:49 | |
gin, I'm not sure about that. Our
special guest today is Warwick | 3:30:49 | 3:30:54 | |
Davis, fresh from Star Wars. Indeed,
from that galaxy, far, far away. You | 3:30:54 | 3:31:05 | |
are here to face food heaven and
food hell. What is your food heaven? | 3:31:05 | 3:31:12 | |
Comfort food, stew, casserole,
cheese, particularly blue cheese. | 3:31:12 | 3:31:19 | |
You are saying all the right things!
And what about health? Oily fish, | 3:31:19 | 3:31:24 | |
fishy fish, anything that smells,
like egg. Fish pie is a nightmare, | 3:31:24 | 3:31:33 | |
because you don't know what's in it!
Well, you kind of do! We have three | 3:31:33 | 3:31:42 | |
chefs here today. It is a first for
Saturday Kitchen, our first married | 3:31:42 | 3:31:46 | |
couple cooking on the show. What
could go wrong with that(!) What can | 3:31:46 | 3:31:52 | |
we expect from you? Duck hearts on
crumpets. And Anna is back, what are | 3:31:52 | 3:32:05 | |
you doing? I am going a vegan dish,
chocolate and tofu mousse which I'm | 3:32:05 | 3:32:11 | |
hoping to be able to convert you to
a vegan dish. Add Olly Smith, you | 3:32:11 | 3:32:19 | |
are in charge of all of the wind.
Yes, we even have a vegan friendly | 3:32:19 | 3:32:25 | |
wine. And you are in charge of
whether Warwick Davis here faces his | 3:32:25 | 3:32:30 | |
food heaven all hell. Warwick looks
terrified! I am a little concerned, | 3:32:30 | 3:32:38 | |
because last time I was on here, I
got my hell. Have a good morning, we | 3:32:38 | 3:32:47 | |
will see you at ten o'clock on.
Headlines coming up. | 3:32:47 | 3:32:56 | |
Hello. | 3:33:24 | 3:33:25 | |
This is Breakfast with Jon Kay
and Naga Munchetty. | 3:33:25 | 3:33:34 | |
Coming up before ten we'll get
the weather from Stav. | 3:33:34 | 3:33:36 | |
But first a summary of this
morning's main news. | 3:33:36 | 3:33:38 | |
A lawyer who represented
victims of the serial sex | 3:33:38 | 3:33:40 | |
offender John Worboys,
has told BBC Breakfast that | 3:33:40 | 3:33:42 | |
some of her clients,
whose cases weren't taken to trial, | 3:33:42 | 3:33:45 | |
want prosecutors to
re-examine their evidence. | 3:33:45 | 3:33:47 | |
The former black-cab driver
is being freed from jail ten years | 3:33:47 | 3:33:50 | |
after being convicted of 19
offences, although police believe | 3:33:50 | 3:33:52 | |
he attacked many more. | 3:33:52 | 3:33:56 | |
Solicitor Kim Harrison told us that
a number of women were told | 3:33:56 | 3:33:59 | |
that their testimony wasn't required
to put Worboys behind bars | 3:33:59 | 3:34:01 | |
for a longer period of time. | 3:34:01 | 3:34:11 | |
I think women just want justice and
they want their voices to be heard. | 3:34:13 | 3:34:17 | |
They came forward, went to the
police, and police said, we were | 3:34:17 | 3:34:21 | |
persecuted relation to your case, he
will be in prison for a very long | 3:34:21 | 3:34:26 | |
time, an indeterminate sentence,
this man is going to be locked away. | 3:34:26 | 3:34:29 | |
They now want their case to be given
the proper scrutiny that it | 3:34:29 | 3:34:34 | |
deserves, and there is a decision to
be made as to whether a or not a | 3:34:34 | 3:34:40 | |
prosecution will be brought in their
cases. | 3:34:40 | 3:34:43 | |
Five online gambling companies
could lose their license over | 3:34:43 | 3:34:45 | |
concerns about their approach
to problem gamblers | 3:34:45 | 3:34:47 | |
and money laundering. | 3:34:47 | 3:34:48 | |
The Gambling Commission
has written to all 195 | 3:34:48 | 3:34:50 | |
online casino operators,
warning them to review | 3:34:50 | 3:34:52 | |
their procedures. | 3:34:52 | 3:34:53 | |
It comes after the commission found
some companies did not follow up | 3:34:53 | 3:34:56 | |
with gamblers who were becoming
addicted, and failed to prevent | 3:34:56 | 3:34:58 | |
money being laundered
by criminals or terrorists. | 3:34:58 | 3:35:08 | |
President Trump has taken
to Twitter overnight, | 3:35:10 | 3:35:11 | |
to show his continued frustration
over the release of a controversial | 3:35:11 | 3:35:14 | |
book, documenting his first
year in the White House. | 3:35:14 | 3:35:16 | |
He called the author of the book,
Michael Wolff, "a total loser" - | 3:35:16 | 3:35:19 | |
and accused him of making up
stories. | 3:35:19 | 3:35:21 | |
Mr Trump also calls his former
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, | 3:35:21 | 3:35:23 | |
"Sloppy Steve", claiming he cried
when he was fired. | 3:35:23 | 3:35:25 | |
The book, called "Fire and Fury",
went on sale yesterday, | 3:35:25 | 3:35:28 | |
despite attempts by the White House
to block its publication. | 3:35:28 | 3:35:38 | |
EasyJet, Ladbrokes and Virgin Money
are among some major employers | 3:35:39 | 3:35:42 | |
who have revealed that they pay
women, on average, | 3:35:42 | 3:35:44 | |
at least 15% less than men. | 3:35:44 | 3:35:45 | |
Organisations with more
than 250 workers must | 3:35:45 | 3:35:47 | |
publish their figures by April -
more than 500 have done so. | 3:35:47 | 3:35:50 | |
Another 8,000 must do publish
by April, or risk being fined | 3:35:50 | 3:35:52 | |
under a new law intended
to tackle workplace discrimination. | 3:35:52 | 3:35:57 | |
North Korea is likely to participate
at the winter Olympics next month | 3:36:02 | 3:36:05 | |
according to a state official there. | 3:36:05 | 3:36:14 | |
The country's representative at
the International Olympic Committee | 3:36:14 | 3:36:16 | |
said the country expects to compete
across the border in | 3:36:16 | 3:36:18 | |
Pyeongchang, in South Korea. | 3:36:18 | 3:36:20 | |
It comes after the two
countries agreed they'd hold | 3:36:20 | 3:36:22 | |
official talks next week -
the first meeting in | 3:36:22 | 3:36:24 | |
more than two years. | 3:36:24 | 3:36:25 | |
The search for the missing MH370
Malaysian Airlines plane that | 3:36:25 | 3:36:27 | |
disappeared almost four years ago
is to be resumed. | 3:36:27 | 3:36:29 | |
The jet was carrying more than 200
passengers when it vanished in 2014. | 3:36:29 | 3:36:33 | |
Now a private US exploration company
called Ocean Infinity has been given | 3:36:33 | 3:36:36 | |
permission to continue the search,
which ended last year. | 3:36:36 | 3:36:44 | |
Be grateful you are not in the
United States this morning. | 3:36:44 | 3:36:49 | |
Weather forecasters
in the United States have warned | 3:36:49 | 3:36:51 | |
that the weekend could bring
record-breaking low temperatures | 3:36:51 | 3:36:53 | |
in some parts of the north-east. | 3:36:53 | 3:36:55 | |
The National Weather Service
predicts wind chills as low | 3:36:55 | 3:36:57 | |
as minus-40 degrees Celsius
in some places. | 3:36:57 | 3:37:00 | |
Thousands of flights have been
cancelled and up to 19 people | 3:37:00 | 3:37:03 | |
have lost their lives. | 3:37:03 | 3:37:06 | |
Those are the main
stories this morning. | 3:37:06 | 3:37:12 | |
-40 over in the States, and plus 40
Celsius in Australia. | 3:37:12 | 3:37:20 | |
That's right, the forecast for
tomorrow for the fourth day of the | 3:37:20 | 3:37:24 | |
fifth and final Ashes Test in
Sydney, where England are really | 3:37:24 | 3:37:27 | |
struggling. As if it wasn't bad
enough facing Australia again, the | 3:37:27 | 3:37:33 | |
temperatures will really be sapping
them. It looks like the best England | 3:37:33 | 3:37:37 | |
can hope for is a draw in this final
test, and even that might be beyond | 3:37:37 | 3:37:42 | |
them. | 3:37:42 | 3:37:45 | |
Going into the fourth day tomorrow,
Australia have a lead of 133 runs | 3:37:45 | 3:37:49 | |
and still have six more
players to bat. | 3:37:49 | 3:37:51 | |
Our reporter Patrick Gearey watched
the day unfold in Sydney. | 3:37:51 | 3:37:54 | |
A brutal Dave England, wonderful for
Australia. Australia 133 runs ahead, | 3:37:54 | 3:38:01 | |
only two wickets taken. This was the
pink day of the Test match, the | 3:38:01 | 3:38:05 | |
tenth such day in honour of Jane
McGrath, the late wife of the | 3:38:05 | 3:38:09 | |
Australian fast bowler Glenn
McGrath, and her breast Cancer | 3:38:09 | 3:38:12 | |
foundation. The crowd were soon on
their feet to claim 104 Khawaja in | 3:38:12 | 3:38:21 | |
the Siddiqui grew up in. Steve Smith
was out, caught and bowled by mowing | 3:38:21 | 3:38:27 | |
alley, Mason Crane appealing for an
lbw against Khawaja. The review | 3:38:27 | 3:38:30 | |
showed it would have hit the stumps,
but it was given as a no ball, | 3:38:30 | 3:38:37 | |
somewhat controversially. Khawaja
went on to make 150 before Mason | 3:38:37 | 3:38:40 | |
Crane eventually got his first Test
wicket when he had him stumped. The | 3:38:40 | 3:38:45 | |
Marsh brothers Sean and Mitchell
then started to take the game away | 3:38:45 | 3:38:49 | |
from England as the increasingly
attacked towards the end of the day. | 3:38:49 | 3:38:52 | |
England will go back into the field
on day four, when the temperatures | 3:38:52 | 3:38:56 | |
will be even hotter. They will be
drained, Australia very much have | 3:38:56 | 3:38:59 | |
the advantage. | 3:38:59 | 3:39:02 | |
It was a pretty tough day, yeah. We
are 150 overs into the innings, | 3:39:02 | 3:39:08 | |
there will be a few tired bodies out
there, that is part and parcel of | 3:39:08 | 3:39:12 | |
Test cricket. It is not the first
time we will have fielded 150 overs, | 3:39:12 | 3:39:16 | |
and it won't be the last time, I'm
sure. I saw the way the guys toiled | 3:39:16 | 3:39:20 | |
out the, and really worked hard, it
was really impressive and that was | 3:39:20 | 3:39:25 | |
really good for us to see as a side
going forward. Now to the football. | 3:39:25 | 3:39:31 | |
On to the FA Cup third round,
one of the highlights | 3:39:31 | 3:39:34 | |
of any sporting year,
because all the top teams | 3:39:34 | 3:39:36 | |
enter the competition. | 3:39:36 | 3:39:38 | |
The Merseyside Derby was eventful to
say the least, Holgate pushing | 3:39:38 | 3:39:43 | |
Firmino into the stands, and the
referee had to intervene as the | 3:39:43 | 3:39:47 | |
players clashed. But they weren't
booked. Everton equalised after the | 3:39:47 | 3:39:51 | |
break, but what a debut it was for
the world's most expensive defender, | 3:39:51 | 3:39:56 | |
Virgil van Dijk, who scored the
winner. | 3:39:56 | 3:40:02 | |
Manchester United | 3:40:02 | 3:40:03 | |
left it late to beat
Derby County at Old Trafford. | 3:40:03 | 3:40:10 | |
Jesse Lingard scored, but for Romelu
Lukaku added a second. | 3:40:10 | 3:40:22 | |
And there are nine Premier League
teams hoping to avoid an upset | 3:40:29 | 3:40:32 | |
against lower league teams. | 3:40:32 | 3:40:33 | |
One of them is Newcastle United, who
take on Luton Town of League Two - | 3:40:33 | 3:40:37 | |
and in the Luton side will be
the two sons of the former | 3:40:37 | 3:40:40 | |
England midfielder Rob Lee,
who made his name at Newcastle. | 3:40:40 | 3:40:42 | |
What were your first
memories of your dad | 3:40:42 | 3:40:44 | |
and what he did for a living? | 3:40:44 | 3:40:46 | |
We didn't pay much attention to it! | 3:40:46 | 3:40:47 | |
It is only since I have got
into professional football, | 3:40:47 | 3:40:50 | |
I realised I'd was top end,
and I don't like to tell him, | 3:40:50 | 3:40:53 | |
but he was half decent! | 3:40:53 | 3:40:54 | |
COMMENTATOR: Here is Rob Lee!
De overthink about being brothers | 3:40:54 | 3:40:56 | |
when you are out on the pitch? It is
a strange feeling, and it is nice as | 3:40:56 | 3:41:00 | |
a midfielder trying to set him up.
Luton might just fancy their chances | 3:41:00 | 3:41:08 | |
of an upset there. Plenty of FA Cup
action on the BBC this weekend, | 3:41:08 | 3:41:12 | |
starting at lunchtime with Fleetwood
Town of League 1, against Leicester | 3:41:12 | 3:41:15 | |
City in the Premier League. | 3:41:15 | 3:41:23 | |
Now, England may be
losing in the cricket, | 3:41:23 | 3:41:33 | |
but one Brit has beaten the Aussies
in their own back yard. | 3:41:33 | 3:41:43 | |
I'm delighted to say that we can now
talk to Ollie. How long did it take? | 3:41:43 | 3:41:51 | |
Around six and a half hours, we saw
many eagles and other hang glider | 3:41:51 | 3:41:54 | |
pilots along the way. It was just
short of 400 kilometres. That's like | 3:41:54 | 3:41:59 | |
going from London to nearly new
pretty much. And going and 55 mph, | 3:41:59 | 3:42:05 | |
as well. How do you stay up there
for so long, capturing thermal after | 3:42:05 | 3:42:10 | |
thermal? Indeed, it takes a little
while to learn all the techniques | 3:42:10 | 3:42:13 | |
and stuff, searching for the warm
rising pockets of air we use to get | 3:42:13 | 3:42:21 | |
ourselves hire and then fly to the
next one. But ultimately we try to | 3:42:21 | 3:42:24 | |
be as efficient as possible, flying
those rising columns of air. We have | 3:42:24 | 3:42:31 | |
clouds to show us where they are,
and we find the next one and keep | 3:42:31 | 3:42:35 | |
going. Over a flight of that sort of
time, we do that 40 or 50 times to | 3:42:35 | 3:42:41 | |
get to our goal point. Ollie, you
are flying the flag as well as | 3:42:41 | 3:42:45 | |
yourself, because the Ashes not
going particularly well for England, | 3:42:45 | 3:42:49 | |
so you are our great hope down under
at the moment! I have just come back | 3:42:49 | 3:42:54 | |
to Sydney, maybe I should pop over
to the stadium. Do you play cricket? | 3:42:54 | 3:42:59 | |
I have done a small amount! I'm not
sure if I could be much help. It is | 3:42:59 | 3:43:04 | |
Naga here, Ollie. Good to talk to
you. We are seeing pictures of you | 3:43:04 | 3:43:11 | |
up in the sky on that journey. Can
you tell us what it sounded like and | 3:43:11 | 3:43:14 | |
what the temperature was like? I'm
assuming you have a protective suit | 3:43:14 | 3:43:18 | |
on to keep you warm? Yes, we were
wearing a full thermal layer. When | 3:43:18 | 3:43:23 | |
we take off it is over 40 degrees on
the ground, and when we get up to | 3:43:23 | 3:43:27 | |
the cloud base, it is almost -1, so
the temperature varies dramatically, | 3:43:27 | 3:43:36 | |
it is a battle to keep cool on the
ground and warm in the air. Is a | 3:43:36 | 3:43:40 | |
noisy? When we are gliding, we go
even faster than 55 mph, that is | 3:43:40 | 3:43:46 | |
just the average. When we are up to
70 miles an hour, there is a lot of | 3:43:46 | 3:43:50 | |
wind noise, it is like sticking your
head out of the car on the motorway, | 3:43:50 | 3:43:53 | |
in effect. And what happened when
you realise you had set a new world | 3:43:53 | 3:43:57 | |
record? What went through your mind?
I was ecstatic. There is some video | 3:43:57 | 3:44:03 | |
footage showing me being a little
bit over the top, an incredible | 3:44:03 | 3:44:06 | |
moment. My dad is the world record
holder, so it is brilliant follow in | 3:44:06 | 3:44:10 | |
his footsteps. So it runs in the
family. Enter the celebrations, | 3:44:10 | 3:44:15 | |
fantastic and keep flying the flag
over Australia for Great Britain. | 3:44:15 | 3:44:20 | |
Ollie Chitty there. | 3:44:20 | 3:44:23 | |
It's the sport that fuses gymnastics
and free running and now you can go | 3:44:23 | 3:44:27 | |
on and become a professional ninja. | 3:44:27 | 3:44:28 | |
Ten years after it started
as a TV contest in Japan, | 3:44:28 | 3:44:31 | |
athletes in the UK are competing
for the fourth competition | 3:44:31 | 3:44:33 | |
here and I went along to one
of the dozens of places | 3:44:33 | 3:44:36 | |
where you can start
on a ninja course. | 3:44:36 | 3:44:38 | |
Indeed Europe's newest
and largest one in Manchester. | 3:44:38 | 3:44:41 | |
Running up the wall,
hanging upside down - | 3:44:41 | 3:44:45 | |
the increasingly common ninja. | 3:44:45 | 3:44:50 | |
It's one of the new sporting crazes
to be hitting the UK, | 3:44:54 | 3:44:57 | |
and it started in Japan. | 3:44:57 | 3:45:00 | |
Straightaway, you can see how
challenging a ninja course is, | 3:45:00 | 3:45:02 | |
with just the simple curtain-swings,
if you like, testing | 3:45:02 | 3:45:04 | |
even the best of them. | 3:45:04 | 3:45:07 | |
A ninja is officially
defined as a person skilled | 3:45:10 | 3:45:13 | |
in the Japanese art of ninjitsu,
the combination of free-running, | 3:45:13 | 3:45:15 | |
obstacle-racing, and gymnastics. | 3:45:15 | 3:45:25 | |
And those of the top of the sport
are now turning professional. | 3:45:28 | 3:45:31 | |
You're using your body
like as a monkey. | 3:45:31 | 3:45:33 | |
You are climbing, you're
twisting your body, | 3:45:33 | 3:45:35 | |
from the core areas. | 3:45:35 | 3:45:36 | |
I think, if you go to a normal gym,
you are not getting anywhere | 3:45:36 | 3:45:39 | |
near to Ninja Warrior. | 3:45:39 | 3:45:40 | |
This does bring out
the inner sloth in you. | 3:45:40 | 3:45:42 | |
While Johnny trains
on the professional course | 3:45:42 | 3:45:44 | |
in Manchester, there are beginner
slopes to get you started, | 3:45:44 | 3:45:47 | |
as you race your mates for fun,
building up to the intermediate | 3:45:47 | 3:45:49 | |
and advanced courses,
where the falls get bigger. | 3:45:49 | 3:45:51 | |
A lot of these obstacles,
it's about the technique | 3:45:51 | 3:45:53 | |
and the preparation. | 3:45:53 | 3:45:56 | |
I know it's a race, but it's
in the planning, as well. | 3:45:56 | 3:45:59 | |
Look at that for a roll, though, eh? | 3:45:59 | 3:46:02 | |
This is the best place,
in the end, isn't it? | 3:46:11 | 3:46:14 | |
It's completely different
to your normal gym. | 3:46:14 | 3:46:16 | |
So you have all the ninja obstacles,
it's challenging, it's fun. | 3:46:16 | 3:46:19 | |
And I think the gym can be
a little bit boring, | 3:46:19 | 3:46:21 | |
so this keeps you motivated,
and having fun. | 3:46:21 | 3:46:24 | |
It's mentally and
physically challenging. | 3:46:24 | 3:46:26 | |
So it doesn't matter how fit
you are, you need to have a certain | 3:46:26 | 3:46:29 | |
technique to get accustomed
to the apparatus. | 3:46:29 | 3:46:32 | |
Ninja courses around
the world have become famous | 3:46:34 | 3:46:36 | |
for their various challenges,
like the spider wall. | 3:46:36 | 3:46:42 | |
The trouble is, the longer you stay
on this, the more sweaty you get. | 3:46:42 | 3:46:45 | |
I think I'm ready to jump. | 3:46:45 | 3:46:50 | |
Just the fact that you
think you can't do it, | 3:46:50 | 3:46:53 | |
and you just do it... | 3:46:53 | 3:46:54 | |
And you have your friends
like her, who are motivated. | 3:46:54 | 3:46:56 | |
And, once you do it, even better. | 3:46:56 | 3:46:58 | |
And the infamous climb at the end,
when you eventually get there. | 3:46:59 | 3:47:04 | |
That's it. | 3:47:04 | 3:47:06 | |
Ninja Warrior. | 3:47:06 | 3:47:08 | |
A bit of cheating, maybe, but you do
feel like you're one of them. | 3:47:08 | 3:47:11 | |
You've conquered the universe. | 3:47:18 | 3:47:22 | |
I now want to exit the studio in a
different way! | 3:47:22 | 3:47:26 | |
Do it! Skip to my loo | 3:47:26 | 3:47:39 | |
different way!
Do it! Skip to my loo, that's what | 3:47:39 | 3:47:41 | |
that looks like! | 3:47:41 | 3:47:48 | |
Across the north-east of Canada and
the United States, these are the | 3:47:52 | 3:47:59 | |
temperatures, and overnight, they
have been much lower than this. But | 3:47:59 | 3:48:02 | |
southerly winds will be bringing
some wilder air as we head through | 3:48:02 | 3:48:06 | |
the second part of the weekend, and
eventually into next week. I should | 3:48:06 | 3:48:11 | |
say less cold rather than mild,
because it will still be below | 3:48:11 | 3:48:14 | |
average. Ice is going to be a major
problem for the next few days, and | 3:48:14 | 3:48:20 | |
arctic winds will be bringing us a
pretty cold weekend. On the +, lots | 3:48:20 | 3:48:25 | |
of sunshine. As we head through the
rest of the morning, this band of | 3:48:25 | 3:48:30 | |
cloud has been plaguing northern
parts of Wales in northern England | 3:48:30 | 3:48:32 | |
with some rain and also some hill
snow. The sky will brighten up | 3:48:32 | 3:48:42 | |
nicely, pushed on by that fairly
brisk north-east wind. A few wintry | 3:48:42 | 3:48:46 | |
showers continue to feed into the
north-east of England and in towards | 3:48:46 | 3:48:49 | |
eastern Scotland, but for the bulk
of Northern Ireland are the | 3:48:49 | 3:48:53 | |
north-west it should be dry and
bright, lots of sunshine, but it | 3:48:53 | 3:48:56 | |
will be called, and it turns colder
this evening and overnight, | 3:48:56 | 3:48:59 | |
eventually we lose that cloud from
central and southern areas as the | 3:48:59 | 3:49:04 | |
afternoon wears on. Becoming
confined to the south, and to the | 3:49:04 | 3:49:08 | |
north it will be a really cold one,
temperatures this afternoon around | 3:49:08 | 3:49:12 | |
three degrees at best in Scotland.
Overnight, very cold, frosty, clear | 3:49:12 | 3:49:17 | |
skies, the winds still quite a
feature across the south-east, but | 3:49:17 | 3:49:21 | |
elsewhere they will fall quite
light. Very cold, -5, may be down to | 3:49:21 | 3:49:30 | |
-10 Celsius, maybe around freezing
to 1 degrees in the south-east. So | 3:49:30 | 3:49:35 | |
for Sunday morning, it starts off
cold and frosty, but sunshine pretty | 3:49:35 | 3:49:40 | |
much across-the-board, it is going
to be a glorious crisp winter sunny | 3:49:40 | 3:49:44 | |
day, and the wind light of the most,
stronger across the south-east | 3:49:44 | 3:49:50 | |
making it feel quite raw. This
weather front will move through | 3:49:50 | 3:49:55 | |
during Tuesday and Wednesday and
bring slightly milder air, but | 3:49:55 | 3:49:58 | |
high-pressure holds on as we head on
into Monday, pushing off towards the | 3:49:58 | 3:50:04 | |
near continent, allowing
south-easterly winds to move to our | 3:50:04 | 3:50:07 | |
sure. Cold and frosty for many north
and western areas, and the cloud | 3:50:07 | 3:50:11 | |
will move westwards and turn into
quite a great, cold day throughout. | 3:50:11 | 3:50:17 | |
Into Tuesday, the weather front
moves in very slowly, and by | 3:50:17 | 3:50:21 | |
Wednesday it will introduce slightly
less cold air. Back to you. | 3:50:21 | 3:50:26 | |
At least | 3:50:26 | 3:50:26 | |
less cold air. Back to you.
At least it is getting milder. Thank | 3:50:26 | 3:50:29 | |
you very much and enjoy the rest of
your weekend, Stav. A lovely story | 3:50:29 | 3:50:35 | |
for you now. | 3:50:35 | 3:50:37 | |
Marjorie Thomas' life was spent
travelling the world, | 3:50:37 | 3:50:39 | |
following her husband Colin
as he went from base | 3:50:39 | 3:50:41 | |
to base with the RAF. | 3:50:41 | 3:50:42 | |
Following his death,
the Royal Air Forces Association | 3:50:42 | 3:50:48 | |
Was determined that she wouldn't
lose touch with the life she had | 3:50:48 | 3:50:52 | |
known. It's befriending service
introduced her to a volunteer, and | 3:50:52 | 3:50:55 | |
they have come up with an idea of
sending a teddy bear, Bertie, around | 3:50:55 | 3:50:59 | |
the world to raise awareness of the
service. Our reporter JJ Chalmers | 3:50:59 | 3:51:03 | |
went to meet them at one of their
regular get-togethers. | 3:51:03 | 3:51:07 | |
It's a friendship that might
at first seem unlikely. | 3:51:07 | 3:51:09 | |
Welcome! | 3:51:09 | 3:51:10 | |
I'll get my arm underneath yours. | 3:51:10 | 3:51:12 | |
Tell me when. | 3:51:12 | 3:51:13 | |
But 95-year-old Marjorie Thomas,
a great-grandmother from Solihull, | 3:51:13 | 3:51:15 | |
and Sean Bell, a company director
and former RAF commander, have been | 3:51:15 | 3:51:18 | |
firm friends for three years. | 3:51:18 | 3:51:25 | |
It's our favourite
restaurant, isn't it? | 3:51:25 | 3:51:27 | |
Let's take you in. | 3:51:27 | 3:51:28 | |
The pair have a military
connection the brought them | 3:51:28 | 3:51:30 | |
together in the most
poignant of circumstances. | 3:51:30 | 3:51:32 | |
Your late husband served in the RAF. | 3:51:32 | 3:51:35 | |
I met him before he went
into the Air Force, and he was 16. | 3:51:35 | 3:51:40 | |
And we met at a dance academy,
learning how to dance. | 3:51:40 | 3:51:47 | |
And he was a beautiful dancer. | 3:51:47 | 3:51:49 | |
Everything we did, we did together. | 3:51:49 | 3:51:52 | |
And when I lost him,
that was a big hole. | 3:51:52 | 3:51:57 | |
How did you first meet him? | 3:51:57 | 3:51:59 | |
I first met him at Colin's funeral. | 3:51:59 | 3:52:03 | |
He read the 23rd Psalm,
and he saluted the casket, | 3:52:03 | 3:52:05 | |
which was a lovely gesture. | 3:52:05 | 3:52:15 | |
I wrote a letter and thanked him
for his kindness, and five weeks | 3:52:20 | 3:52:24 | |
later I had a letter from him asking
if I would like to go down | 3:52:24 | 3:52:27 | |
to London to the club
and have an afternoon tea, | 3:52:27 | 3:52:30 | |
and of course I was delighted. | 3:52:30 | 3:52:31 | |
Now Sean and Marjorie e-mail every
day and meet every few months | 3:52:31 | 3:52:34 | |
for what Marjorie jokingly calls
a hot date. | 3:52:34 | 3:52:39 | |
Am I allowed a bit more? | 3:52:39 | 3:52:40 | |
You won't slap me? | 3:52:40 | 3:52:43 | |
That's because you
haven't had any lunch. | 3:52:43 | 3:52:47 | |
No, I haven't. | 3:52:47 | 3:52:48 | |
But I had one of your cakes. | 3:52:48 | 3:52:56 | |
The Royal Air Forces Association
says this sense of connection | 3:52:56 | 3:52:58 | |
is a valuable benefit
of its befriending service. | 3:52:58 | 3:53:07 | |
We think there are about 170,000
just within the RAF family | 3:53:07 | 3:53:12 | |
that are experiencing
loneliness and isolation. | 3:53:12 | 3:53:14 | |
This is about empowering people
to remain part of the community | 3:53:14 | 3:53:16 | |
and empowering both the beneficiary
and the befriender to stay connected | 3:53:16 | 3:53:19 | |
within the RAF family. | 3:53:19 | 3:53:23 | |
Today there's another
guest at the table - | 3:53:23 | 3:53:27 | |
Bertie the bear. | 3:53:27 | 3:53:29 | |
Marjorie's bear is
embarking on an adventure | 3:53:29 | 3:53:31 | |
around the world to raise awareness
of the Royal Air Forces | 3:53:31 | 3:53:33 | |
Association's befriending service. | 3:53:33 | 3:53:35 | |
Marjorie up until about a year ago
could travel, and has travelled | 3:53:35 | 3:53:38 | |
really widely in her life,
but she was no longer | 3:53:38 | 3:53:40 | |
able to travel as much. | 3:53:40 | 3:53:41 | |
I can't change that,
but what I can do is give something | 3:53:41 | 3:53:44 | |
else that can travel the world,
and Bertie the bear came up. | 3:53:44 | 3:53:48 | |
One of them is heading
off to Bali via Dubai, | 3:53:48 | 3:53:50 | |
one of them is off to Malaysia. | 3:53:50 | 3:53:56 | |
This Bertie has been flying in one
of the Blades aerobatic aeroplanes. | 3:53:56 | 3:53:58 | |
What it is trying to highlight
is that little things can make | 3:53:58 | 3:54:01 | |
a huge difference to people. | 3:54:01 | 3:54:06 | |
Followers will be able to track
Bertie's adventures on social media. | 3:54:06 | 3:54:09 | |
For Marjorie, who loved to travel,
it's an important opportunity | 3:54:09 | 3:54:11 | |
to still see the wider world. | 3:54:11 | 3:54:13 | |
I can imagine a lot of old ladies
will be quite glad of Bertie, | 3:54:13 | 3:54:23 | |
because he is gorgeous,
and with all these adventures, | 3:54:23 | 3:54:25 | |
they can follow it all and wonder
what Bertie is going to do | 3:54:25 | 3:54:28 | |
next, you know? | 3:54:28 | 3:54:34 | |
JJ Chalmers, BBC News, Solihull. | 3:54:34 | 3:54:37 | |
Lovely. | 3:54:37 | 3:54:39 | |
And Sean Bell, who you saw in that
report, is here now. | 3:54:39 | 3:54:43 | |
And so is Bertie! After Bali and
divide, flying helicopters, now it | 3:54:43 | 3:54:48 | |
is Salford on BBC Breakfast. Talk is
through where he has been and where | 3:54:48 | 3:54:53 | |
he's going. It is early days so far,
but he's been up flying with Ben | 3:54:53 | 3:54:59 | |
Murphy, a member of the Blades and
the newest member of the Red Bull | 3:54:59 | 3:55:04 | |
Air Race pilots. He has been at a
Bali, Malaysia, Indonesia, and when | 3:55:04 | 3:55:11 | |
we went to the fire Brigade
yesterday, he has been around | 3:55:11 | 3:55:14 | |
London. He is doing also have
adventures, and basically, Marjorie | 3:55:14 | 3:55:18 | |
can't travel, she used to travel
very widely and she is not able to | 3:55:18 | 3:55:25 | |
do that now. So if the bear can
travel on her behalf around the | 3:55:25 | 3:55:31 | |
world, he can report back from those
experiences. There is a bigger | 3:55:31 | 3:55:36 | |
project I suppose to this, because
Marjorie, when she lost her husband, | 3:55:36 | 3:55:40 | |
that is who she used to travel with,
and had her experiences with, and | 3:55:40 | 3:55:44 | |
when he passed away that was the
issue of loneliness, and something | 3:55:44 | 3:55:47 | |
we have spoken a lot about on
breakfast. This is highlighting the | 3:55:47 | 3:55:51 | |
work that has been done to help
people like Marjorie stay in | 3:55:51 | 3:55:55 | |
contact. That is right, Marjorie is
lucky to have a supportive family | 3:55:55 | 3:56:00 | |
and grandchildren, but even she has
found that since the demise of her | 3:56:00 | 3:56:04 | |
husband, are days when she gets very
lonely. But this highlights that in | 3:56:04 | 3:56:08 | |
this country, one in three of our
over 75 think loneliness is a huge | 3:56:08 | 3:56:14 | |
issue. Half of the over 75s live
alone, and because of the | 3:56:14 | 3:56:19 | |
ex-military, because of the bobble,
70 years since the Second World War, | 3:56:19 | 3:56:23 | |
half of military veterans are over
75, so there is a big issue of | 3:56:23 | 3:56:27 | |
loneliness for the Armed Forces. And
that is why the royal air forces | 3:56:27 | 3:56:35 | |
association set up as voluntary
service. They don't have to be | 3:56:35 | 3:56:38 | |
ex-military, the long as they are
over 18 and do a bit of training, | 3:56:38 | 3:56:41 | |
they can add some magic to
somebody's life, and I think | 3:56:41 | 3:56:44 | |
Marjorie is a great example where
for a relatively small investment of | 3:56:44 | 3:56:48 | |
time you can make huge difference to
people's lives. I suppose a lot of | 3:56:48 | 3:56:54 | |
military families, if they have
moved around the world for decades, | 3:56:54 | 3:56:56 | |
they might get a point in later life
where they don't have that routes | 3:56:56 | 3:57:00 | |
back home, they haven't been in one
community where they have friends, | 3:57:00 | 3:57:04 | |
neighbours, family next door, so it
can be especially lonely. And one | 3:57:04 | 3:57:08 | |
thing we tend to forget the older
generation is they have all been our | 3:57:08 | 3:57:12 | |
age and younger before, they have
masses of experience and so many | 3:57:12 | 3:57:14 | |
stories to tell. When we were
filming that peace with Marjorie, we | 3:57:14 | 3:57:20 | |
asked her, what you get out of this | 3:57:20 | 3:57:24 | |
filming that peace with Marjorie, we
asked her, what you get out of this, | 3:57:24 | 3:57:25 | |
and she came with lots of things,
and we said, what you think Sean | 3:57:25 | 3:57:28 | |
gets from it, and she said, I'm not
sure? What do you get from it? I | 3:57:28 | 3:57:35 | |
spent 30 years in the military, we
studied history and leadership is a | 3:57:35 | 3:57:39 | |
lot, I have books about Churchill in
my library, and this was a lady who | 3:57:39 | 3:57:42 | |
has listened to his speeches. She
sat by the radio waiting for him to | 3:57:42 | 3:57:46 | |
come on. She was a teenager through
the Second World War. She listened | 3:57:46 | 3:57:49 | |
to the Blitz and listen to Churchill
talk about the Battle of Britain. | 3:57:49 | 3:57:56 | |
She is living history, and hearing
her talk about it adds a completely | 3:57:56 | 3:58:00 | |
different perspective to the history
that is written by some historians. | 3:58:00 | 3:58:03 | |
Plus the fact that having served in
the military for so long myself, I | 3:58:03 | 3:58:06 | |
am a huge fan of the commitment to
our men and women and our service | 3:58:06 | 3:58:11 | |
and their families, and therefore
anything we can do to help is | 3:58:11 | 3:58:14 | |
marvellous. And she is a magnificent
person. At the age of 95, twinkle in | 3:58:14 | 3:58:19 | |
her eye, if I can be that magical,
that special, I would love that. And | 3:58:19 | 3:58:24 | |
you see the way she was giving
Bertie a hug at the end of that | 3:58:24 | 3:58:27 | |
film, she feels like she is
travelling through him. Very | 3:58:27 | 3:58:32 | |
definitely. At first, certainly to
my friends, people saying, how could | 3:58:32 | 3:58:36 | |
a 95 Urabe on the computer, but when
I first met her, she didn't have a | 3:58:36 | 3:58:39 | |
computer, it was found letters for
about a year. The biggest nightmare | 3:58:39 | 3:58:43 | |
was the one of her family then
bought her a computer at the age of | 3:58:43 | 3:58:47 | |
92, and she learned how to e-mail,
and everyday then... | 3:58:47 | 3:58:53 | |
And Bertie has his BBC pass now as
well! | 3:58:53 | 3:58:57 | |
He can cause as much chaos as he
likes you. | 3:58:57 | 3:59:00 | |
That's all from us for today. | 3:59:00 | 3:59:01 | |
Roger and Rachel will be
here from six tomorrow morning. | 3:59:01 | 3:59:03 | |
Have a good day, bye-bye. | 3:59:03 | 3:59:06 |