10/01/2018 Breakfast

Hello this is Breakfast,

with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

Huge mudslides and flooding

hit California -

13 people have died.

Police say parts of the State

resemble a world war

one battlefield and the death toll

is expected to go higher.

Trees were just coming down.

We ran through the house. Then the

boulders just busted through our

house.

Good morning - it's

Wednesday 10 January.

Also this morning -

a new army recruitment campaign

is criticised as too

politcally correct.

I was really worried about whether I

would be accepted but most days, I

was more than confident about how I

was.

The efforts are meant to

reassure people worried about their

sexuality or gender or religion.

The five pence charge on plastic

bags could be extended to small

shops and businesses in England

which are currently exempt.

The boom in posh burgers

could be over - Byron -

one of the best known High street

brands is in trouble.

I'm looking at why

and what it means.

In sport, it's not out

of sight for Bristol City.

Manchester City needed

added time to beat them -

with the second leg of the league

cup semi-finals yet to come.

And he was once predicted to be

the next Lewis Hamilton

until he lost both legs

in a racing accident ---

but now Billy Monger's

back behind the wheel.

And Carol has the weather for us.

Good morning. Some fog around this

morning across Northern Ireland.

Extra care of your travelling

further on. Rain pushing eastwards.

But behind that, some sunshine.

Good morning, first our main story.

At least 12 people have died

in mudslides and floods in southern

California.

Witnesses have described

watching huge boulders

bouncing down hillsides.

Our North America Correspondent,

James Cook reports from Los Angeles.

The rains came suddenly,

just before dawn.

Torrential and terrifying.

They coursed over the slick,

scorched earth, gathering speed

until mud was roaring down

to the sea like an express train.

The deluge smashed into the very

homes which had just survived

California's biggest

recorded wildfire.

The result: utter devastation.

We had a very difficult time

assessing the area and responding

to many of those areas

to assist those people.

The only words I can really think

of to describe what it looked like,

was it looked like a

World War I battlefield.

The communities hardest hit

were Montecito and Carpentaria,

on the Pacific coast

north of Los Angeles.

These are some of the most exclusive

neighbourhoods in the United States.

Home to stars like Oprah Winfrey

and the actor Rob Lowe.

But no amount of money

could stop this torrent.

The mud roared down here

with terrifying speed,

sweeping everything in its path.

The firefighters won't let us go

up there any further,

they say the situation

could change in the blink

of an eye and as you can see,

this is how dangerous it is.

Rescue workers are still scouring

scores of damaged and demolished

homes, searching for survivors.

Police say the number of dead

here is certain to rise.

James Cook, BBC News

in southern California.

The Army is launching

a new recruitment campaign

which emphasises the "emotional

and physical support"

given to soldiers.

A series of radio,

television and online adverts

addresses concerns potential

recruits might have about issues

such as their sexuality or religion.

There's been criticism

from some former officers,

who've accused the army of bowing

to political correctness

and going soft.

Andy Moore reports.

The new ads pose

a series of questions.

Growing up, I had my

heart set on the army.

Another reassures

would-be recruits that

religious faith will be respected.

The army embraces that you come

from a different faith.

Even on exercise, there is always

a quiet moment to go into a cabin

and just sort of find a little

corner and do your prayers there.

Recruiting for the army

is a constant battle.

Every year, for seven years now,

more soldiers have left the army

than signed up.

There is a lot of internal debate

about how best it should be done.

I love the idea of the army...

The army says its belonging

campaign has already

sparked a significant surge

in interest, but others say

that this new series of ads panders

to to political correctness

and the so-called

"snowflake generation."

and the so-called

"snowflake generation".

Last month, the new Defence

Secretary, Gavin Williamson,

halted plans to ditch

the army's Be the Best

slogan which has been

used for decades.

An internal report

stated it was datist,

elitist and noninclusive.

This new campaign does include

the slogan, but it is not

given the prominence it once had.

Andy Moore, BBC News.

Thousands of tourists have been left

stranded after heavy snow

in the Alps cut off towns

and villages across Switzerland,

France and Italy.

Visitors are being

airlifted out of Zermatt,

one of Switzerland's most

popular ski resorts,

where around 13,000

people are stuck.

A British skier, John Bromell,

from Lincolnshire is still missing

in France after bad weather

hampered rescue efforts.

Mr Bromell's friends say he's a very

experienced skier and hope he's

managed to take shelter.

New measures to clamp down

on plastic waste are to be announced

by the government.

It's part of a 25-year

plan on the environment.

We're joined from Westminster

by our political correspondent

Ben Wright.

Ben, what can we expect?

Quite radical, some of these plans?

The Prime Minister will be making a

speech about this tomorrow, said the

government's agenda for the next 25

is an environmental policy and

trying to cut down on the use of

plastic. Of course, we have had

plastic bag charges for quite

awhile. In England, they are

introduced in 2015. 5p charge placed

on single use bags. They employ more

than 250 people. Since that charge

has been introduced, a huge

reduction in the number of plastic

bags used and a lot of money raised

for good causes. Tomorrow, the Prime

Minister will say the government is

going to consult on extending that

plastic bag charge to pretty much

all shops including the small corner

convenience stores. With the aim of

reducing further plastic bag use.

That will be a consultation that

begins tomorrow. Some exemptions. If

you go to a pet shop, you will get a

free plastic bag for your goldfish.

That does make sense, after all.

Thank you very much indeed. I don't

know, you could put it in a jar or

something. It's quite an image,

isn't it? Walking out of a pet shop

with a plastic bag.

Passengers on Thameslink,

Southern and Great Northern services

have suffered the worst disruption

of any rail franchise according

to a highly critical report.

The government's spending watchdog,

the National Audit Office,

says the country's largest rail

operator has failed to provide

value for money.

It says industrial action has been

a major factor for delays

but the Department for Transport has

also made decisions which "have

negatively impacted on passengers".

The government has admitted

the disruption has been unacceptable

and has called on the RMT union

to end what it calls

needless strike action.

A 16-year-old boy will appear

in court today with the murder

of a shop assistant in north London.

Vijay Patel was attacked in a row

over the sale of cigarette

papers outside his shop

in Mill Hill on Saturday night.

He later died in hospital.

Donald Trump's former chief

strategist, Steve Bannon,

has stepped down from the right wing

Breitbart News organisation

where he built his reputation.

The move comes amid a row over

remarks he reportedly made

about the President's son.

He described a meeting

Donald Trump Jr held in New York

with a Russian lawyer

during the 2016 presidential

election campaign as "treasonous".

The search for Malaysia Airlines

flight MH370 will resume today,

nearly a year after efforts

to locate the plane

were officially suspended.

The search for the aircraft,

which went missing with 239 people

on board in March 2014,

was the largest in aviation history.

It will now be resumed

by a an American company

using unmanned submarines.

Our South-East Asia correspondent

Jonathan Head joins us from Bangkok.

What exactly will they be searching

for now considering there has been a

huge process undertaken?

To new

developments. This company has much

greater search capabilities than the

previous company. It reckons it can

search a much wider area and a much

shorter time. Time is constrained

because you have certain months of

the year that you can search. The

other is that there has been

continual analysis of other dater

including models of the drift

patterns of the bits of the brief in

the aircraft that have watched up in

East Africa, reversing nose and also

looking at some satellite images

that may possibly be plane debris

from a French satellite. All of this

new analysis was beginning to be

available at the time they suspended

the search which suggests there is a

more promising area they haven't

looked at to the north. A new zone

to look at now where there is some

evidence that the plane might be.

You have a much more effective

search capability with this company.

The company must be confident. They

have taken this on. The Malaysia

government is saving, go ahead and

search. If you don't find it, don't

get paid.

We will indeed. We have

some more pictures. They are taken

in the Sahara. This is on the edge

of the Sahara. Snow is very rare in

this part of the world. Even though

the desert can be cold at night,

there is rarely enough water in a

port of any precipitation. But there

is snow on the sand dunes, only the

third time in 40 years. It didn't

last long, and melted shortly after.

We only saw still put it yesterday.

-- still footage. Sorry for passing

on my cough. Hopefully, no one else

will get it. Bristol did well,

didn't they? Even on the BBC

website, it said they were

excellent, which I think is a

ringing endorsement.

Just in injury time winner which

means Bristol City lost the first

leg.

Manchester City had to come

from behind in the first leg

of their League Cup semifinal

against Bristol City.

The championship side have had

a great cup run and their positive

approach paid off -

they took the lead thanks

to a Bobby Reid penalty.

Sub Sergio Aguero's late winner

means Manchester City take a 2-1

lead into the second leg.

After a controversial 12 months

the FA say they're to introduce

new policies to address issues

including racial discrimination,

as suffered by the Chelsea Ladies

striker Eni Aluko.

The governing body's bringing

in the so-called 'Rooney Rule',

aimed at getting more people

from black and minority ethnic

groups into top jobs.

As have really

England will be without Joe Marler

for their opening two

Six Nations matches.

The Harlequins prop's been

given a six-week ban

for a dangerous tackle.

He'll miss the games

against Wales and Italy.

And after his two-goal FA Cup

heroics for Nottingham Forest,

Erik Leehigh's reward is

a brand new dog.

His wife Kathryn had promised

if he ever scored a hat-trick

they'd get one.

But after pressure from players

and fans, she finally relented

to let 'Gunner' the puppy,

join the Leehigh family.

do know what they called it? It is a

French bulldog. He is called Gunner

because they beat Arsenal. It is a

great name for a dog. I think he is

either a Boston Terrier or a French

bulldog. I can't really talk about

this. I have a labrador called Ruby.

Waffle is not keen. Not terribly.

They can be in the same room now,

they have reached a truce. There is

a bit of talk involved as well.

Anyway, it's good that they are

making friends. This is lovely. Is a

dog walking weather? Is it? Anyway,

Carol has the weather now. You are

quite right. It's also quite nice as

well put humans. This morning, once

again, rain moving across the

country. Brightest guys coming in.

In Scotland you can see this arc of

rain. As the weather front which is

rain. As the weather front which is

drifting steadily towards the east.

It then extends across parts of the

Pennines and into parts of the

Midlands. The whole lot is pushing

in the direction of the North Sea.

Moving away from that, it is a

cloudy start to the day to some.

It's brightening up quite nicely.

Many of us seeing a bit more

sunshine. The odd spot of drizzle

here and there. In local rule areas,

you might see a bit of ice around.

-- local country areas. Maybe

they're in mind if you are

travelling. There goes the rain

heading towards East Anglia.

Eventually getting into the North to

Northern Ireland in the far

north-east. Behind it, a lot of

bright sky. A fair bit of sunshine.

We are looking at Nine's and tens.

In the north to, this band of rain,

we have some relatively mild air. As

we head on through the evening and

overnight, eventually we see this

rain pushed away into the North Sea.

Behind it, with all the moisture

around, a bit more fog once again

across Northern Ireland who parts of

Wales. Excuse me. More widespread.

As we head towards the end of the

week, also foster first thing in the

morning. Remember the fog first

thing in the morning. Much of all of

the day, but others, it will into

cloud. Towards the West, something

brighter coming in. If you are stuck

in an area with fog, temperatures

will be much more above freezing,

looking at one or two degrees but if

you are out of it, we're looking at

five, six, seven. Down a touch on

today. For Friday again, fairly

quiet but a lot of dry weather

around. Write with as well. Then we

have a weather front coming in from

the west. Some rain and

strengthening winds. The course of

Friday to Saturday, that weather

front makes its way from the rest.

Taking its rain with it. Again, you

can see the isobars and we're

looking at Gaels in land. On

Saturday, right in the east. You

will notice the wind. Temperatures

wise, 6- eight degrees. Thank you

very much that. Sorry for passing on

the BBC Breakfast cough this

morning. It's a nightmare, isn't it?

How did you do that, Dan? Carol,

relax, I've got powers. There is

going to it next? Who knows? Thank

you very much. Hopefully not me.

I think I recently gave it to you a

couple of days ago.

You were blowing

that those for England, weren't you?

Let's look at the front pages of the

papers. Here is the front page of

the Times. Top hospital cuts cancer

care due to lack of staff. And

Meghan Markle is on the front page

of virtually every newspaper. She

and her husband to be, they visited

a radio station in London yesterday.

Lots of talk about what she was

wearing. Apparently her top sold out

in Marks & Spencer immediately.

They

call her the Queen of the airwaves.

There she is, the front page of the

Daily Telegraph as well. Their main

story is about Brexit. Angela

Merkel, the German Chancellor,

against a British plan for a

so-called managed a divergence from

the EU. -- managed divergences of a

talking about plastic bags as well.

The administer is talking about art.

-- the environment minister talking

about that. This is a picture from a

beach in Cornwall. As a result of

the storm you can see, look, all the

rubbish that has washed up.

Plastics, so much of it.

So many

people now, I think, on the back of

cap blue Planet too, and increased

coverage as well, they are really

thinking about single use plastics.

-- back of Blue Planet II.

Meghan-mania. The crowd shouting out

"We'd love you". And the massacre of

the middle-aged men.

Let's go

through some other ones quickly.

Talking about Lady Lucan, who

apparently took her life of the

mistaken fears she had Parkinson's

disease. That is according to an

inquest. And Meghan Markle on the

front page of the papers, talking

about cuts to cancer care.

I did

that one.

Did you! Do you know what,

I don't think I've ever done that.

You can't put it down there! We have

a filing system.

Is this because you

are annoyed about my comment about

blowing your nose?

Put it over

there!

We ironed on the morning, and

then we bring them to you...

There

is a system.

I didn't know the

system. Sorry.

How long have you

been here?

I have a bit of nice

news, actually. You know how I was

talking yesterday about the tough

time retailers had over Christmas?

Oxfam has done particularly well

online. That is the story in the

Times this morning. Vintage and

designer clothes for the party

season, they were the online shop's

top search terms. They managed to do

well. They saw their sales at the

online shop jumped 33% in the

Christmas trading period. Shoppers

looking to gifts which also helped

to fight oddity as well. That is

quite nice. -- fight poverty. Good

to see people recycling their

fashion stuff to help charity, that

is quite a nice thing. Good to see

their sales have gone up. This isn't

business-related at all, but I

wanted to point this out to our

bosses. Did you know that sleeping

in is better than going to the gym

for your health?

No way!

Yes way.

What counts as a sleep in?

Well, for

us, it would be about 16. An extra

90 minutes in bed. -- be about 6am.

If we could ask to put the programme

90 minutes later...

Would anybody

mind if we started at 7:30am?

So

instead of getting up early and

going for a run, you should sleep

in?

Sally told me this. She was told

by a doctor that actually, sometimes

we think it is all about exercise,

but sleep is just as important.

Rest.

Especially if you have a

stressful job. You don't want to go

and exercise and keep the adrenaline

pumping.

We had some bodybuilders in

last year. The world's Strong this

man, and Mr universe. They both said

sleep is crucial for the building of

muscles. As much time as they spend

in the gym, they spend more time

recovering to make sure they build

up their muscles.

Look at my

muscles. I am looking ahead to the

Winter Olympics. Lots of the papers

are. They begin at the beginning of

next month.

You are going, aren't

you?

I am.

Lovely.

The UK has a

target of about 4- ten medals, and

they have a nice profile of some of

the athletes coming up in the

papers. Joel Fearon was a pizza

delivery guy while he was trying to

make ends meet to get his athletics,

and now his bobsleigh career, off

the ground. They are seeing here is

the world's fast as pizza delivery

guy. Hopefully he will win a medal

in Pyeongchang in a few weeks.

I

have some quickfire ones, tell me a

favourite. Girls school bans calling

girls girls. They say they will not

use the word girls any more, but

they will keep it in their title.

Right.

Customers scoff at $2 -- at

£2.50 stake in Marks & Spencer. You

get a bit of lemon and herb dressing

with it, but it is ten times more

expensive than actually buying a

cauliflower and cutting it in half

yourself. And ready for ticker-off.

This is a curry which is being flown

into a number of expats in France,

on a special, scheduled flight

coming in from Portsmouth, because

they say that French curry doesn't

taste right.

It doesn't taste right.

I used to live in France, and Indian

restaurants don't taste anything

like Indian restaurants here.

They

fired from the UK because they say

it isn't right. And they have a big

Indian meal in the hangar where it

arrives.

How rich are they?

I

thought the same thing, but because

they get a discounted flight in the

number of people involved, it is

only 40 euros each, with a drink.

Still quite pricey for a curry.

OK,

Steph doesn't like it.

So, this time last year Billy Monger

was being tipped by many as the next

Lewis Hamilton. He was 17, star of

F1 racing, but after an horrific

accidents he had both his legs

amputated. His recovery and

determination have astounded

doctors. This week he will drive in

front of crowds for the first time

since his accident, but anybody

expecting him to take things slowly

might be in for a shock.

Billy Whizz, and nickname he was

determined to keep. It is nine

months since Billy Monger had both

lower legs amputated after a car

crash. This is a final practice

before driving with a stunt team at

earning's NEC.

The aim is to put on

a good show. We have got a great

team, a great bunch of lights doing

a show, I am just hoping everything

goes smoothly and we have a good

time and do ourselves proud.

Dunnington Park, last April. When

Billy's Formula 1 car hit a

stationary vehicle.

That is

horrendous!

All I wanted to do was

to get through it and be alive. It

was a slight moment, when I thought

I wouldn't drive again. It hasn't

changed a dream. The dream stays the

same, I want to be an F1 driver.

You've got your prosthetics and you

are still able to control the car

and the pedals. Many people would

find that really extraordinary.

When

you control the pedal normally you

do it through Europe -- through your

ankle, that is how you control your

input to the pedals. It is I don't

have ankles, the way I control it is

through my leg like this. -- because

I don't. Rather than going like

that, it is just a push motion

instead, to control the car.

Terry

Grant has been control -- been

training Billy ahead of the auto

international event. He is one of

the world's top stunt drivers.

Drive

out, drive out! Billy is a very

special light, for sure. Regardless

of his injuries.

The moment you are

rehearsing on an airfield there is

going to be concrete pillars were

the cones are. -- cones.

The level

of control he has now, for

prosthetic legs, it is phenomenal.

Although Billy can use the

accelerator, his car as it is so

that this lever controls the break.

He has been backed by Mission

motorsport, a charity which

typically helps wounded servicemen

and servicewomen driving and, often

in specially adapted cars.

The

freedom of mobility is a phenomenal

thing. If that is taken away from

you as an adult, it has a dramatic

effect on your life, on your

personal freedoms, and also, I

think, on your sense of self and

your independence. And to be able to

give that back to somebody is an

extraordinary thing to be able to

do.

What the family think about you

getting behind the wheel?

My mum was

very nervous! But if I don't do it

what else am by going to do with my

life? I need to make my life into

something positive.

Billy Monger,

back in the driving seat.

I loved that.

Inspirational,

determined, a fabulous young man.

in half an hour.

Plenty more on our website

at the usual address.

Now though, it's back to Breakfast.

Bye for now.

Hello - this is Breakfast

with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

We'll bring you all the latest news

and sport in a moment,

but also on Breakfast this morning:

We'll speak to the British polar

explorer Ben Saunders

in his first TV interview

since being forced to abandon his

expedition to cross

Antarctica unassisted.

Also this morning, it

might be cold and dark

at this

time of year but going for a walk

in the park or the countryside

could improve your mental health.

And, from the majestic

hunter to a cat so small,

it can sit in the palm of your hand

- meet TV's new prime-time stars.

Good morning.

Here's a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

At least 13 people have died in

floods in Southern California. Among

those saved was a 14-year-old girl

who'd been tapped for hours in the

ruins of her house. Police say they

expect the number of dead to rise.

Extraordinaire pictures.

Benjamin Hyatt and his family

were force to evacuate their home.

He's joins us from

a hotel in Pismo.

Good morning. Thank you so much for

joining us. Tell us what happened to

you and your family.

Last

joining us. Tell us what happened to

you and your family.

Last night, we

were an involuntary evacuation zone.

Previously, we had been in a

mandatory evacuation zone to the

fires that happened a few weeks ago.

Nobody was really taking things too

seriously. We stayed at the house. I

stayed up last night. Around 2:30

a.m., the power ran out. When the

power ran out, really, really hard

rain started. Crazy rain. It lasted

five minutes. It was just normal

rate. I went outside the house to

see what was happening. It seemed

kind of quiet. There was a bit of a

River going down our street. I

thought the storm cell was headed

straight to the mountains. I figured

I should stay up. It headed straight

for the burn zone and literally

three minutes later, there was a

rattling and a crash. By three feet

of mud. It is just going to keep

coming.

The pictures, you described

the scene. He may have had a lucky

escape by the looks.

Our

neighbourhood, there is a creek that

goes along that one neighbour who

live there in the 1990s, she had

sandbags and said it could be a

river coming down the street but

nobody had seen anything like this.

Something happened. Something

releasing these big boulders. Our

yard is gone. There is no yard.

There are trees that I don't know

where they came from. They would

have taken alcohol wing where we

sleep. The cars that were on the

street ended up on the freeway which

is the main artery to Los Angeles.

It's kind of goes down on our

neighbourhood. I don't know how much

goes down five of all we got. You

will. All of it all. Almost like a

leader.

-- almost like a wave. It

sounds absolutely terrifying.

Your

neighbour is OK? The neighbour is

OK. Everyone on our street, we got

hit really hard and everyone we

know, the firefighters came by. We

had another friend who was on the

roof with her two boys. From three

o'clock in the morning and tools

seven o'clock when we were rescued.

One of the boys bedrooms is gone.

Somehow sees -- somehow he survived

that and got up onto roof. Everyone

in our neighbourhood was fine.

Firefighters evacuated us then.

Benjamin, you are clearly shaken as

well. Thank you very much are

telling us your story. Best of luck

forgetting everything back. As you

can imagine, lots of pictures and

coverage. American talk show host

Ellen to generous who has a home in

Montecito tweeted this picture.

That is the main road to Los Angeles

from that area. Also one of the

rescue units has been saying areas

that have been like roadways have

been unrecognisable due to the large

amount of mud and to breathe. Also,

Oprah Winfrey owns a home in one of

those areas. She has taken a video

and put on Instagram. Wading through

the mud on her back garden.

Helicopters rescuing my neighbours,

looking for missing persons. So far

we have 13 people have lost their

lives.

The Army is launching

a new recruitment campaign

which emphasises the "emotional

and physical support"

given to soldiers.

A series of radio,

television and online adverts

addresses concerns potential

recruits might have about issues

such as their sexuality or religion.

There's been criticism

from some former officers,

who've accused the army of bowing

to political correctness

and going soft.

But the Ministry of Defence says its

campaign has sparked significant

interest from people wanting to join

up.

New measures to clamp down

on plastic waste are to be announced

by the government.

It's part of a 25-year

plan on the environment.

Retailers have fewer than 250 staff

are exempt from the 5p levy. All

retailers in Scotland and Wales are

already required to charge for

plastic bags.

Passengers on Thameslink,

Southern and Great Northern services

have suffered the worst disruption

of any rail franchise according

to a highly critical report.

The government's spending watchdog,

the National Audit Office,

says the country's largest rail

operator has failed to provide

value for money.

It says industrial action has been

a major factor for delays

but the Department for Transport has

also made decisions which "have

negatively impacted on passengers".

The government has admitted

the disruption has been unacceptable

and has called on the RMT union

to end what it calls

needless strike action.

Cat was telling is that Bristol City

wanted to finish that Thai but they

are still in it. Sergio was

celebrating that injury time and

celebrating might. Imagine what

Bristol City can achieve when they

get the second leg at Ashton Gate in

front of their home fans.

Bristol City were less

than two minutes away

from going into the second leg

of their League Cup Semi-Final

with Manchester City on level terms.

The championship side have had

a great cup run and their positive

approach paid off at the Etihad,

they took the lead thanks

to a Bobby Reid penalty

just before half time.

Manchester City had named a strong

side and Kevin De Bruyne,

captain on the night,

drew them level in the second half.

But Sergio Aguero is a pretty good

sub to bring on when you need

a goal and his injury time winner

means Manchester City take a 2-1

lead into the second

leg at Ashton Gate.

The Football Association

is to implement a number of changes

to make the national governing body

truly representative

of the players it represents.

It's been a difficult

12 months for the FA.

The Chelsea Ladies striker Eni Aluko

said she felt victimised

for reporting racial discrimination

by former England manager Mark

Sampson.

The FA has pledged to interview

at least one candidate from black

and minority ethnic

groups for future roles

in the England set-up.

I think the message it sends out is

the FA is for all. What it will say

is the opportunities to have a

career beyond playing in the FA and

the wider football workforce is

something that is both desirable and

something the FA is serious about

promoting.

The former Newcastle striker

Peter Beardsley will take a "period

of leave" whilst the club

investigates allegations of racism

and bullying made against him.

Beardsley is now the

club's Under-23s coach,

but multiple complaints have

been lodged against him,

including one from 22-year

old winger Yasin Ben El-Mhanni.

Beardsley has released a statement

and says he categorically

denies the allegations.

Britain's defending Dakar Rally

champion Sam Sunderland has crashed

out of this year's race.

Sunderland started day four

with the overall lead but hit

a hole, injuring his back

in a fall.

He carried on for another five

kilometers but eventually had

to be airlifted away.

Sunderland later regained feeling

in his legs but went to Peru's

capital Lima for tests.

Finally, the good news keeps coming

for Nottingham Forest's Erik

Lehigh.

The defender scored twice

in his side's incredible 4-2 win

over Arsenal in Sunday's FA Cup

third round and afterwards Lichaj

revealed his wife Kathryn had

promised the family could get a dog

if he ever scored a hat-trick.

Well Forest's players and fans put

the pressure on her to let Erik

have his way after

his weekend heroics.

And last night the American

revealed it's paid off.

And the name they chose

for the new puppy

Gunner.

More than half of people with

hearing loss haven't told her

employer because they are stock

Action on Hearing Loss server are

joined by Barbara Murray, AGP, and

Jennifer Standley, born with hearing

loss. Genet, let's start with you.

What we are concerned about? We are

worried about telling other people

about your hearing difficulties?

Will offer my early career, I kept

my hearing loss hidden. Mainly

because I hadn't expected my hearing

loss and I didn't want to be

disabled or view it for my

disability. I want them to see me

rather than my disability. I was

worried that I would be judged and

that people would just not really

see me and my potential.

I was

reading this morning about quite a

few people growing their how long

did you do that?

I had my hair very

long and a shaved completely the

charity. That was very empowering

for me. I have glitter and I'm

decorated. So now, I find it

actually much easy to be open and I

find I can be the kind of

professional that I want to be put

across the image that I want now.

That I am open. That and make the

most of the support and the

technology that is available.

The

figures are quite shocking. People

with hearing loss don't disclose

their condition. Life would be a lot

easier maybe if they would do that,

would it?

The statistics are

frightening because there are 10

million adults and 45,000 children

with hearing loss and it takes about

ten years before somebody owns up to

feeling that they are having a

problem with their hearing. The

group that has affected the most are

the elderly. They would benefit

probably most but they feel

stigmatised. They feel judged. It's

of ageing. And also, get confused.

He was in dementia. They get

diagnosed in me. They've got twice

the incidence of risk of dementia

our death. I think if we could

encourage people to have an early

diagnosis and get the treatment

sooner, as we were saying about

having a device, people are socially

isolated if they are deaf. It

affects so many aspects of their

life. That would enhance them in

their education, in their health, in

so many ways.

Jennifer, how did you

find telling other people about it?

Did that put you off sometimes? I'm

sure people watching this would

think, if I told my colleagues or

people I work with, it might affect

that relationship.

With previous

employers, I have had a less than

good experience. Managers not being

understanding. People not knowing

how to support me. On the surface, I

appeared to be doing quite well,

that I was OK. I found a telling

colleagues in being open and

upfront, it really worked very well

for me. Were I work now, my

colleagues are really good. People

will adapt quite happily. If they

are doing something that is not

helpful, maybe because they don't

realise. I've actually found now, I

can progress in my career. Being

open about the hearing loss means

that right at the beginning, I have

hearing loss. We can put that to the

side in what I can do, my actual

skills. What I can do in my job.

It's taken me till I was in my 30s

to get there. I understand the

people, there is a journey towards

accepting your hearing loss are

fully can actually move on and start

making a positive contribution.

I

have never seen hearing AIDS like

that but they are absolutely

fantastic. Thank you for joining us.

Good morning. This morning we have a

band of rain moving from the west

towards the east of the United

Kingdom. As that clears most of the

east but not all, it will brighten

up behind us, and we will see lots

of lovely sunshine. But we also have

fog across Northern Ireland. That

will be slow to lift. There will be

fog patches across South Wales in

south-west England. The rain will

clear off into the North Sea but

will tend to linger across parts of

East Anglia up towards Yorkshire and

certainly across north-east

Scotland. Temperature wise, we are

looking at a range of 6- 10 Celsius.

As we head through the evening and

the overnight period you can see we

still have some of that rain around

but with damp surfaces we will see

further fog forming. Across Northern

Ireland, Wales, parts of Wales and

into the Midlands and central and

southern England, and into southern

counties. That will be slow to clear

and there will also be frustrated

first thing. Some of that fog will

not lift at all during the day. Some

of it will lift into low cloud.

Where it does lift we will see

sunshine, especially in the north

and the west. If you are stuck in an

area that hangs onto the fog,

temperatures will barely be above

freezing. If not we are looking at

6- eight Celsius. Thank you, Carol.

We are having one of those days

today. I was ignoring Dan.

At least

you won't coughing. -- were not.

The boom in posh

burgers could be over.

Byron - one of the best known

High Street brands -

is in trouble.

Steph is looking at why

and what it means.

They are in trouble, basically. It

is an interesting story because it

is not just Byron facing this.

There's been a real explosion

in trendy fast food joints over

the last decade, from upmarket

burgers and posh pizzas,

to Indian and Mexican street food.

It's fair to say we're

spoilt for choice.

And that's part of the problem

for businesses like Byron.

The burger company with more than 70

restaurants around the country.

Is struggling and is

looking for a rescue plan.

With me now is Matt Dunham who runs

his own insolvency business.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Can you

explain what is happening with

Byron, what stage it is that?

At the

moment they are proposing what is

called a voluntary arrangement with

creditors. They are saying to their

creditors, all certain creditors, we

cannot pay you in full and what we

need is a formal arrangement to say

that we can pay you, but over a

period, or whatever the specific

details might be.

So they are

looking like things like rent

production? A bit more time to pay

their debts?

Basically, yes. It

might be that they say to some of

the shareholders, actually, we

cannot pay you in full is able you

take debt instead?

How likely are

they to get that? These arrangements

with their creditors.

Well, they

have the get 75% of the creditors

caught up in it to agree to it. I

don't know the details and I don't

know the outcome of that. But it

happens on a regular basis. It has

happened across retail in the past

and certainly across restaurants.

There have been issues across all of

them with a whole range of different

issues like costs going up. And the

fashion within the sector, people go

to different restaurants at

different times because it is

fashionable at the moment.

So it

isn't unique to Byron, the problems

they are having right now?

I doubt

it. They will be issues across the

sector. Winds such as rising costs,

food costs going up as the Stirling

devalues, but also things like

living wage costs going up, if our

paying their staff living wage. --

sterling. And also, the result of

competition in the market, with new

entrants arriving all the time and

new burger chains coming in, new

places to go and eat.

That is what

is quite interesting about this.

Anybody can see themselves how many

trendy restaurants there are now,

doing lots of things that were

classed as cheap food in a much

posher way now. That seems to be the

problem, that there are so many and

we are so spoilt for choice.

It is

across a whole range of sectors. I

remember looking at the number of

coffee shops in the centre of

Manchester and thinking, I cannot

leave two or three coffee shops is

all they used to be. There are now

dozens of them and they are all

busy. It is down to fashions and

trends. These will have been

affected by things like new entrants

to the market, like the delivery

people coming in. Who would have

thought a few years ago to have

casual dining in your own home

delivered piping hot?

Who do you

think will survive? What is the key

to making sure you get through this?

That is the million dollar question.

The main thing is for each

organisation, management, the

quality of management. If businesses

are starting to struggle and finding

things tough, take advice early on.

What we do with our trade body is

work with companies and

organisations to try to keep them

going. The earlier you take the

advice the more chance you have of

being successful.

Thank you. We will

have the Sainsbury's results just

after seven o'clock as well, the

latest retailer to tell us what has

happened over Christmas.

It is

results season, isn't it?

From Sir Paul McCartney

to Ed Sheeran, some of the world's

biggest artists have cut their teeth

gigging in small clubs

around the country.

But, according to campaign group UK

Music, this tradition

could be under threat.

They say more than a third

of grassroot venues have closed

in the past decade and are calling

for legislation so developers

will be forced to take into account

noise from existing clubs and pubs

before they build

residential housing.

In a minute we'll speak

to music writer John Robb,

but first we asked these music

lovers whether small spaces

were still an essential

part of the scene.

Small venues, I prefer. I will be

completely honest. I prefer them is

bigger venues, you are more into it

and it is more personal. In the

people who have come to see this

particular band are dedicated to

seeing them.

It is quite a small

thing, you all connected together.

In something like the arena it is so

big and you don't have the space to

connect.

I feel like there is a

sense of community at gigs and the

bigger it gets, the more vast and

anonymous it is.

Young kids going to

these gigs are not going to be able

to afford £50 for the larger venues,

they need these venues.

These are

the venues that help them break out

into play in, like, the bigger

places I could poll arena.

I think

it is important for artists to do

live music, just because they get to

meet people in person rather than

listening to them online or

whatever. It is good to see somebody

in person rather than hearing them

live.

Music writer and patron

of the Music Venue Trust John Robb

joins us now.

Are you concerned about venues

having to be closed down?

I think it

is a really important cultural part

of our fabric, especially in the UK,

which is world famous. It is one of

the things, you go to any country in

the world, I travel lots, it is what

people talk about. Even on that

level, financial business levels,

even apart from that, it is the

feelgood factor in this country.

And

also, many times, you would have

done this, so many times during your

career. You go to a small venue, you

hear a band, and you think, they are

quite good. A few years down the

line you see them playing to a much

bigger audience because that is so

ingrained in how the music industry

works, isn't it?

It is where people

learn how to be bands. People do not

just talk about guitar bands, all

styles of music, all types of social

interaction. Loads of basic things.

The ban is headlining Glastonbury in

ten years time, it is one of the

world's must famous festivals,

tonight they are probably going to

play their local gig in some little

town in the UK. It is an important

patchwork of venues that create

these bans. They create the space

for these bans to exist in. It is

not just the ones to become

world-famous, it is the ones in the

middle level as well. There are more

bands than ever to play somewhere.

It is this question about what towns

and city centres are for. Now not

just for flats. It is about four why

people are living there for

different reasons. Nobody is against

flats being there, but we need to

find a way to coexist and make it

work. This legislation will make

that happen.

We have lots of big

names backing it, Sir Paul

McCartney, Brian Eno, Nick Mason,

all calling for a change in the law

to protect the venues. Have you seen

venues having to be closed down?

Yeah, there has been a raft of them

across the UK. At the moment there

are about three venues in Bristol

with a lot of problems with the

developers and it is an ongoing

fight. Hopefully these venues will

come through in the end.

What

happens sometimes is, there is a

venue, and perhaps buildings,

rounded, and then perhaps that is

where the issue starts.

Yes, it

becomes isolated. That was the issue

prolonged time. It was just a venue

on its own fighting developers. The

great thing about the trust is that

it joins all these venues together

across the country. They all know

what the problem side how to fight

them. And how they have a right to

be there as well. I think a lot of

people felt bad about it, guilty

about being a venue. But they are

part and parcel of the fabric of the

British way of life.

I suppose you

could make the argument, couldn't

you, that much more music is now

about what you do online, posting

clips and things like that, and in

some ways the industry has moved on.

Has that argument being made to you?

It is part and parcel but it is not

the whole thing. If you think the

only way of making music is sitting

around in your posh city centre

flat, making music and putting it

online...

With respect, you don't

have to be posh.

Well, we always

called posh flats. Because who else

can afford them? Certainly not

anybody that I know in the music

industry. So if you think they are

sitting on the couch and that is the

only way you can make music, or be

creative, it is not... You know, you

have to interact with other people.

As human beings. In a flashy kind of

way, not just in a digital kind of

way. Nobody is against the internet,

that is part and parcel of it. It

has been an important part of this

campaign and it is important and how

these venues run and get their

information out. But it is not the

only way of creating and it is not

the only media that is left. TV is

not the only media, you still need

room for people to plug in and play

with other people.

Thank you to

coming in and talking to this, I

know you aren't feeling well either.

We will be talking about this more

later. Let us know, if you have a

favourite venue that you

particularly love, let us know and

we'll talk about those later on as

with another date in half an hour.

Until then, there is more on the

website. word with the

Hello - this is Breakfast,

with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

Huge mudslides and flooding

hit California -

13 people have died.

Police say parts of the State

resemble a world war

one battlefield and the death toll

is expected to go higher.

Trees were just coming down.

We ran through the house.

Then the boulders just

busted through our house.

Then the boulders just

busted through our house.

Good morning - it's

Wednesday 10 January.

Also this morning -

a new army recruitment campaign

is criticised as too

politcally correct.

I was really worried

about whether I would be accepted

but in days, I was more

than confident about how I was.

The efforts are meant to reassure

people worried about their sexuality

or gender or religion.

The five pence charge on plastic

bags could be extended to small

shops and businesses in England

which are currently exempt.

Sainsbury's, the latest retailer

with Christmas results out.

It has

lost a bit of market share to its

rivals. I will be speaking to the

boss.

In sport, it's not out

of sight for Bristol City.

Manchester City needed

added time to beat them -

with the second leg of the league

cup semi-finals yet to come.

And he was once predicted to be

the next Lewis Hamilton

until he lost both legs

in a racing accident -

but now Billy Monger's

back behind the wheel.

And Carol has the weather for us.

Good morning.

A band of rain moving from the West

to the east of the UK. Some

sunshine. When the fog lifts from

Northern Ireland, parts of south

Wales and south-west England. More

details later on.

Good morning, first our main story.

At least 12 people have died

in mudslides and floods in southern

California.

-- 13.

Witnesses have described

watching huge boulders

bouncing down hillsides.

Our North America Correspondent,

James Cook reports from Los Angeles.

The rains came suddenly,

just before dawn.

Torrential and terrifying.

They coursed over the slick,

scorched earth, gathering speed

until mud was roaring down

to the sea like an express train.

The deluge smashed into the very

homes which had just survived

California's biggest

recorded wildfire.

The result: utter devastation.

We had a very difficult time

assessing the area and responding

to many of those areas

to assist those people.

The only words I can really think

of to describe what it looked like,

was it looked like a

World War I battlefield.

The communities hardest hit

were Montecito and Carpentaria,

on the Pacific coast

north of Los Angeles.

These are some of the most exclusive

neighbourhoods in the United States.

Home to stars like Oprah Winfrey

and the actor Rob Lowe.

But no amount of money

could stop this torrent.

The mud roared down here

with terrifying speed,

sweeping everything in its path.

The firefighters won't let us go

up there any further,

they say the situation

could change in the blink

of an eye and as you can see,

this is how dangerous it is.

Rescue workers are still scouring

scores of damaged and demolished

homes, searching for survivors.

Police say the number of dead

here is certain to rise.

James Cook, BBC News

in southern California.

The American talk-show host Ellen

DeGeneres sent this. That is 101

freeway in her neighbourhood.

Oprah

Winfrey also lives a few miles away

in Santa Barbara. This is a video

that she has posted. Mud soaked

backyard. This is a video.

Helicopters making rescues in the

area. See how deep the mud is. 13

lives lost. And the model Gigi

Hadid. This is the same picture we

saw from Ellen. Please keep their

families and Santa Barbara in your

fulsome predators.

The Army is launching

a new recruitment campaign

which emphasises the "emotional

and physical support"

given to soldiers.

A series of radio,

television and online adverts

addresses concerns potential

recruits might have about issues

such as their sexuality or religion.

There's been criticism

from some former officers,

who've accused the army of bowing

to political correctness

and going soft.

Andy Moore reports.

The new ads pose

a series of questions.

Growing up, I had my

heart set on the army.

Another reassures

would-be recruits that

religious faith will be respected.

The army embraces that you come

from a different faith.

Even on exercise, there is always

a quiet moment to go into a cabin

and just sort of find a little

corner and do your prayers there.

Recruiting for the army

is a constant battle.

Every year, for seven years now,

more soldiers have left the army

than signed up.

There is a lot of internal debate

about how best it should be done.

I love the idea of the army...

The army says its belonging

campaign has already

sparked a significant surge

in interest, but others say

that this new series of ads panders

to to political correctness

and the so-called

"snowflake generation".

Last month, the new Defence

Secretary, Gavin Williamson,

halted plans to ditch

the army's Be the Best

slogan which has been

used for decades.

An internal report

stated it was datist,

elitist and noninclusive.

This new campaign does include

the slogan, but it is not

given the prominence it once had.

Andy Moore, BBC News.

New measures to clamp down

on plastic waste are to be announced

by the government.

It's part of a 25-year

plan on the environment.

We're joined from Westminster

by our political correspondent

Ben Wright.

Ben, what can we expect?

The Prime Minister will be making

a speech about this tomorrow,

along with Michael Gove.

They are going to be tackling

disposable pig waste. They will be

extending the 5p charge which has

existed. This is about extending it

in England. The moment, if you shop

on a bigger store, one that employs

more than 250 people, you will be

charged 5p for a use back. The use

of these bags is absolutely

plummeted since while raising cash

to charities at the same time. A

small government intervention which

has made a massive difference in the

government are going to be

consulting on extending that tall

shops. Corner stores convenience

shops in the much smaller shops on

high streets. It's highly likely

this will be extended because as I

said, it is made a massive

difference. There are currently some

exemptions. If you go to a pet shop

and buy goldfish, a plastic bag is

free. A match she might feel to

still get your goldfish after this

has been extended.

Thousands of tourists have been left

stranded after heavy snow

in the Alps cut off towns

and villages across Switzerland,

France and Italy.

Visitors are being

airlifted out of Zermatt,

one of Switzerland's most

popular ski resorts,

where around 13,000

people are stuck.

A British skier, John Bromell,

from Lincolnshire is still missing

in France after bad weather

hampered rescue efforts.

Mr Bromell's friends say he's a very

experienced skier and hope he's

managed to take shelter.

Passengers on Thameslink,

Southern and Great Northern services

have suffered the worst disruption

of any rail franchise according

to a highly critical report.

The government's spending watchdog,

the National Audit Office,

says the country's largest rail

operator has failed to provide

value for money.

It says industrial action has been

a major factor for delays

but the Department for Transport has

also made decisions which "have

negatively impacted on passengers".

The government has admitted

the disruption has been unacceptable

and has called on the RMT union

to end what it calls

needless strike action.

A 16-year-old boy will appear

in court today with the murder

of a shop assistant in north London.

Vijay Patel was attacked in a row

over the sale of cigarette

papers outside his shop

in Mill Hill on Saturday night.

He later died in hospital.

The search for Malaysia Airlines

flight MH370 will resume today,

nearly a year after efforts

to locate the plane

were officially suspended.

The search for the aircraft,

which went missing with 239 people

on board in March 2014,

was the largest in aviation history.

It will now be resumed

by a an American company

using unmanned submarines.

We saw sneak preview of this. Snow

in the Sahara desert. It is very

rare. These are the first pictures

we've got. Rarely enough water for

any kind of presentation. The first

time in 40 years they have seen

snowball. It didn't last very long.

It's all melted, soon after these

pictures were taken. It is 7:10

a.m..

The British Army's slogan of "be

the best" has traditionally seemed

to emphasise the physical toughness

of its recruits but now

a new advertising campaign is trying

to highlight "the emotional

and physical support"

given to soldiers.

It's sparked criticism

from some former officers,

who've accused the army of bowing

to political correctness

and going soft.

In a moment, we'll speak

to Colonel Richard Kemp,

the former commander of UK

troops in Afghanistan.

But first, let's take a look

at one of the adverts.

Growing up, I really had my heart

set on joining the army. My brother

was in Afghanistan. Hearing his

experiences, that's when I knew I

wanted to join as a medic. I was

really worried about whether I would

be accepted but within days, I was

more than confident about being who

I was. I'm not afraid to talk about

having a boyfriend. I thought I'd

have to hide it. But once you've

done it, you think why they make

such a big thing of it for so long?

Colonel Richard Kemp, what you think

the advertisements?

The problem with

them, I don't subscribe to the view

that the British Army is going soft.

It's still the finest on in the

world. I would still encourage an

urge everybody who's interested to

join the army which is what it is

trying to do, unfortunately, I think

it is on the wrong lines, that is my

view, which is what it clearly is

doing is appealing, try to appeal to

a series of minorities who may or

may not be interested in joining the

forces. By doing that, it's almost

neglecting the main group of people

who are interested in joining in the

main group aren't worried so much

about whether they are going to be

listened to all those emotional

issues, what they are more worried

about is how they are going to face

combat and not only that, they will

be attracted by images of combat

because that is why people join the

Armed Forces. In a way, by doing

this, they are missing out on the

vast majority of people who want to

join. It will not in my opinion

solve the recruiting crisis the army

faces.

They have said they are

seeing an increase because of this

kind of thing.

I don't know about

that. We hear all sorts of things

like that. We will see when the

figures come out. I think what the

army needs to do in order to deal

with this recruiting problem is not

specifically appeal to minorities.

The more people from all parts of

society join the better but it's

even more important than that to

fill the army up with people who

want to fight and want to be

soldiers. This, I don't think we

will do that. What they should be

addressing problems like the really

horrific recruiting organisations

which exist which has been

contracted out and is almost

impenetrable. I get involved myself

by people saying they want to join

and they can't get through the

system, how do they do it? It's not

because of their shortcomings or

concerns, it's because of the

horrific bureaucracy that needs to

be addressed. They should be looking

and I know they are, they should be

looking at retention. Retaining

soldiers is important as well. If

you are selling soldiers out to

legal enquiries and witch-hunts

which we are very much seeing as

doing in the last few years, that

deters not only people but deters

people who wanted to stay in.

Similarly -- similarly undermining

conditions and services, their pay

and allowances. Those are issues

that do need to be addressed.

I want

to go back to what you said about

people being attracted to those

images. Could be both the case,

couldn't it? People being targeted

are also attracted by those images?

Will it increase recruits?

I think

it will marginally increase, in my

opinion, but this also reflects, I

think, the fact that the army, like

the rest of government, is being

forced down a path of political

correctness. What is most important

is the army recruits and is full of

soldiers. It is of secondary

importance that they reflect the

composition of society. People

always say, particularly people

serving, and civil servants, the

army must reflect the composition of

society. But is not essential to

combat effectiveness. Ideally it

would do but it's more important we

recruit a full army, and I think,

you got limited in our time and

Budget to put adverts out

accommodation is the one area, I

believe, that attracts most people

which is military combat. You always

find when there is a war going on,

those are the major motivators of

people who want to join the army.

Rarely has real recruiting problems

when there is high-profile combat

going on. Now there isn't and we do

need to show people, all those

people and there is no shortage of

people who are wanting to join the

army, not the number of recruits, it

is the inability and long-term

inability, it was happening when I

was serving, long-term inability to

recruit the right number of people

that are required.

A very interesting debate. Let us

know what you think. Let's look at

the papers. Meghan Markle is

everywhere, after visiting a radio

station in Brixton yesterday with

her husband to be, Prince Harry. The

main story on The Daily Express his

pension crisis the millions. Many

retirees struggling to live on just

£7,000 a year.

The front page of the

mail, they are talking about

Meghan-mania as well. And this is

how they are writing about the

reshuffle, this is the language they

used. "Massacre Of the middle-aged

men". Theresa May promoted a string

of female and ethnic minority MPs

yesterday to make her government

look more like the country it

serves.

A quick look at the

Telegraph, you haven't done that

one, have you? The front page again.

Meghan Markle. And fears about

Angela Merkel and Brexit deal.

Angela Merkel, the German

Chancellor, is supposedly against a

plan for managed either urgent from

the EU.

The front page of the Mirror

again. Meghan-mania. Lady Lucan, the

final tragedy. She killed herself

after wrongly self diagnosing

Parkinson's disease. This is a

result of an inquest yesterday. You

know the Meghan Markle thing, it has

been everywhere, they were saying

that the top she was sold out

instantly and it was a Marks &

Spencer top, but the other Marks &

Spencer thing to mention, how much

would you spend on one slice of

cauliflower which is marketed as

cauliflower steak? What would be a

decent price?

35p.

Well, you can get

a cauliflower to about 65p.

So one

slice but you are probably of a

pain.

Well, there is a £2 50 -- to

found -- £2.50 slice of cauliflower

steak.

You mentioned plastic. We are

talking about that, the Prime

Minister is talking about it. And we

talked about Storm Elena over the