27/01/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast with

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

Every active rape case in England

and Wales is to be reviewed because

of recent failures to disclose

evidence. The director of public

prosecutions said cases yet to come

to trial would be examined as a

matter of urgency and admits some

will have to be stopped.

Good morning. It's Saturday the 27th

of January. Also on the programme

this morning, Paris on high alert as

record rainfall causes the River

Seine to burst its banks.

The implied US gymnastics board

resigns over its handling of the

Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal.

Relief for 1000 workers at aerospace

firm Bombardier, the US authorities

stop plans to impose massive tariffs

of a plane parts made in Belfast.

In sport, no FA Cup final for Yeovil

Town, beaten 4-0 by Manchester

United, Alexis Sanchez the new

signing instrumental but tonight

Newport County have the chance for

an upset when they take on

Tottenham.

And Susan has the

weather.

Good morning, we will be up against

the cloud this weekend, some pretty

grey prospects for most of today. A

windy story. More details coming up.

Thank you.

Our main story: All current rape and

sexual assault cases in England and

Wales are being reviewed as a matter

of urgency. The announcement from

the Director of Public Prosecutions

follows the recent collapse of

several high profile trials after

vital evidence had not been shared

with defence lawyers. It's believed

a number of cases could be stopped

as a result. Adina Campbell has

more.

In a move seemed to help rebuild

trust in the justice system, every

rape and sexual assault case in

England and Wales is now under

review. The Crown Prosecution

Service has taken action after

public concerns that evidence

particularly digital records are not

being disclosed early enough to

defence lawyers. 22-year-old Liam

Allen was wrongly accused of rape

and sexual assault, but his trial

collapsed last month after the

Metropolitan Police failed to

disclose phone records which were

vital evidence. Last week, a rape

charge against Oxford University

student Oliver Mears was dropped

shortly before his trial when a

diary which supported his case was

uncovered. And Danny Kay, who had a

rape conviction overturned after

spending two years in prison, said

earlier this month he felt let down

by the justice system.

Devastating. For a system that you

trust to let you down and I had

complete faith in it. I trusted the

truth would come out in trial and it

didn't.

Earlier this week the BBC revealed

at the number of collapsed

prosecutions increased by 70% over

the last two years. A national

disclosure plan has now been

published by the CPS, the national

police chiefs council and the

College of policing to help make

improvements. Adina Campbell, BBC

News.

The Prime Minister has welcomed a

landmark ruling by trade authorities

in the US overturning a decision to

impose huge tariffs on planes partly

built in the UK. The aerospace firm

Bombardier won a surprise victory in

its dispute with Boeing about

selling its passenger jets to US

airlines. The wings for the planes

are manufactured in Belfast. Our

Ireland correspondent Chris Bates

reports.

Workers, politicians and business

leaders had feared one of

Bombardier's biggest projects would

be grounded. The firm in Belfast has

4000 employees and a quarter of them

work in the C series jet. But the

programme was after threat after

Boeing claimed it was unfairly

subsidised because of financial help

from the Canadian and British

governments. The authorities in

Washington initially proposed to

impose tariffs of just under 300% on

imports of the C series. But last

night, the US international trade

commission decided not to go ahead

with the tariffs, the four

commissioners all voting in

Bombardier's favour. Workers and

their representatives were surprised

but very pleased.

The workforce has

stayed squarely behind this, put

their shoulder to the wheel, we've

seen politicians nationally given up

the ghost saying this is something

that can't be overturned, we've

demonstrated tonight the power of

trade Unions globally, we work with

our colleagues in Canada the US and

this is a victory for workers to

like.

The prime ministers spoke to Donald

Trump at the world economics of it

in Damascus week about the dispute.

Theresa May Tweeted she welcomed the

decision is good news for British

industry.

People have been prepared here for

bad news from across the Atlantic

but there are delighted with this

unexpected result. After months of

worry, Bombardier's bigotry in this

trade dispute has brought a great

sense of relief. Chris Page, BBC

News, Belfast.

Residence in Paris are bracing for

further disruption as flooding in

the city is respected to peak. Some

of the wettest January read the in

more than a century saw the River

Seine rise more than five metres

above its normal level yesterday.

Days of heavy rain in the French

capital have left the city

on high alert.

Roads, usually filled with Paris

traffic, are now devoid of cars

and submerged in water.

Forecasters say the River Seine's

water levels could rise further over

the weekend, to six metres,

just shy of the 6.2 metre peak

in June 2016, which led to two

deaths and injured dozens more.

Authorities insist

that they are prepared.

The city usually bustling

with tourists admiring all Paris has

to offer, the rising river levels

themselves now the attraction.

This statue of a Crimean soldier

Zouave has been used to alert locals

to rising water levels

for more than 150 years.

By midday Friday, the water

was up to his thighs.

In the southern suburb

of Villeneuve-le-Roi,

river police have been helping

families flee their homes.

TRANSLATION:

In the four

years I've lived here,

twice it has flooded.

It's a big deal.

I have two children.

It's traumatising.

Experts say the river could stay

high throughout next week,

especially if more rain falls.

And with increasingly unpredictable

weather comes a sense of uncertainty

for people in Paris

as to when the waters will return.

Stefan Levy, BBC News.

The entire US gymnastics board is to

resign because of its handling of

the sex abuse scandal involving the

former team doctor, Larry Nasa. The

country's Olympic Committee

threatened to strip the organisation

of its powers if the directors

failed to step down. Larry Nassar

has been given a prison sentence of

up to 175 years. Peter Bowes

reports.

As Larry Nassar begins

to what amounts to a life sentence,

the fallout from the abuse scandal

has been swift and decisive.

The entire board of USA Gymnastics

has gone and there have been

other resignations too.

Mark Hollis was the athletic

director at Michigan State

University when Nassar worked there.

He and another official

have decided to quit.

It's been an absolute honour

to guide the athletic department

for the last decade.

That being said, today I'm

announcing my retirement.

I'm not running away from anything,

I'm running towards something.

Comfort, compassion

and understanding for the survivors

in our community.

Togetherness, time

and love for my family.

There's been reports that

Michigan State university and USA

Gymnastics knew all the abuse claims

but failed to take action.

They've both denied

there was a cover-up.

With several investigations

into abuse in US sports now under

way, the recriminations

are only just beginning.

Peter Bowes, BBC News.

Officials in Cape Town are urging

people to limit flushing their

toilets to conserve their water as

the city continues to battle a

severe drought.

Water supplies in the South African

city are due to run out in early

April after three years of

exceptionally low rainfall.

Residents have been advised to limit

showering to twice a week and save

water as if their lives depended on

it.

New research shows companies are

abusing a loophole in the law to put

up telephone boxes on the high

street and then using them as little

more than advertising billboards.

The Local Government Association

says there's been a tenfold increase

in applications to install the

boxes, which don't require formal

planning permission. Keith Doyle has

more.

Phone boxes used to be an integral

part of our high streets, but mobile

phones have made them almost

redundant. While BT is scrapping

half its remaining 40,000 phone

kiosks, councils have seen a huge

surge in applications for new ones

from other companies. The Local

Government Association says because

planning permission is not required

it believes many applicants are more

interested in the prime advertising

space than providing a phone

service. Is anyone actually using

these phones?

Nobody is using them.

This is just here as an

advertisement?

It's an advertising

board in the high-street.

What we want to do is them to go

with the normal planning system, if

you want a hoarding, you have to

have planning permission, we want

the same from these boxes, they're

like Trojans getting round the

planning system by being put on

phone boxes that people actually

don't use.

This is prime advertising

space right in the heart of London

right off Oxford Street. Two years

ago Westminster council got

applications for just 13 new phone

kiosks, last year there was 180. In

Liverpool for the same period the

figure went from ten to 97 and in

Newcastle, where two years ago there

was an application for just one new

phone kiosk, last year it was 95 and

the Local Government Association is

questioning whether it's the phones

they want all the advertising space.

New technology means there's a

demand for a generation of phone and

communication points on our streets,

but councils say the law also needs

to be brought up to date to control

what they say is the scourge of

unregulated high-street advertising.

Keith Doyle, BBC News.

Let's get up to date with the

newspapers this morning.

Some of the front pages, the front

page of the Guardian, I'm not used

to the new shape of the Guardian as

yet.

And the colour change as well.

A surge in support for a second EU

referendum, looking at Guardian ICM

poll, lot of debate on this, many

polls saying different things, this

one suggesting Britain's favour

another on Brexit. We will hear more

about that over the coming weeks.

The Daily Express is looking at

Brexit and saying the boom is here,

defying the Brexit doom mongers once

again, exceeding expectations with

the economy after figures yesterday

showed growth in the fourth quarter

was 0.5%. This picture is of Paul

Yunker, the singer, and his wife,

Stacey, who has died at 52 from

brain cancer. The front page of the

Daily Mail, we've heard about the

stresses of on the NHS, that's been

due to the flu, but here three in

four health trusts deny speaking

about hip and knee surgery if

patients aren't in enough pain.

Campaigners say these kinds of

operations and the patients are easy

targets for cost-cutting. The Daily

Telegraph looking again at another

Brexit story on the front page

saying British officials are in

discussions with Brussels about

extending the Brexit transition

period to almost three years. You

all know the official target, the

one that's been spoken about, was

around two years and this is Gavin

Williamson, the Defence Secretary,

pictured with his wife, Joanne, as

there are questions about the

circumstances of an old job

following a relationship he had with

a colleague. He said his marriage

came under pressure after an affair

in 2004. On the front page of the

Times, it's been all over the news

in the past few days, Donald Trump's

visit to Switzerland and the World

Economic Forum, he waves as he

leaves after his keynote address

yesterday.

It is our lead story this morning,

the front page of the Times, every

rape and serious assault case in

England and Wales to be reviewed by

the CPS after the collapse of a

number of trials. This is about the

failure to disclose evidence in rape

trials. Another story we have been

talking about this morning is the

flooding Parisians have seen in

their city.

Five metres above normal levels, the

River Seine has been at, obviously

there's been a lot of rain and

Susan, how has that been affecting

things?

Good

Good morning. What you see here at

the moment is a clearer in trouble

across Paris but what we've had is

one weather front after the other

putting in relentless rain. I'll

emphasise we're getting news out of

Paris, that's a prominent story, but

half of France basically is on high

flood alert and there's big problems

further south as well. You can see a

weather system here. A lot of snow

across the Alps, lots of that has

been melting to top up the rivers

and more rain adding to the misery.

A lot of France struggling at the

moment.

Heading closer home to the UK and

let's see what's in store. Looking

at the satellite picture there's a

real stream of cloud backing out

into the Atlantic, and you can just

make out a little bit in East Anglia

and the south-east of England. A

little bit of clear sky. But the

cloud is piling in from the west and

the story really for today, it will

be grey and for some rather wet one

as well. The rain already in the two

Northern Ireland and it will clear

eastwards in the next couple of

hours. So an improving story here

through the morning, but the

Scotland and northern England parked

up under the weather front it's a

wet start to the day. A very windy

start as well and the northern and

western Scotland it will generally

be windy throughout the day.

Northern Ireland looks a lot drier

by nine a.m.. Rain in the north-west

of England could be heavy on western

hills. Drizzle at this point,

pushing into the Midlands, but the

Wales and the south-west of wet

spell. Chilly a further east, with

patchy frost in East Anglia and the

south-east, but a chance of early

sunshine. It is shortly. -- short

lived. The weather front will move

eastward through the morning.

Keeping the gales going into the

afternoon, we should see sunshine

the northern and western Scotland.

Sunshine for Northern Ireland and

northern England. Further south in

dries up for Wales and the

south-west. A low cloud. Rain for

the second half of the day. That

front is off into the continent,

again with the chance of more rain

in Paris. It keeps topping things

up. We are left with a lot of mild

air in the British Isles. These are

the overnight lows. 10 degrees. Mild

for this time of year. A lot of low

cloud, with the mist and murk in the

west. You can see how this front

snakes its way all the way back into

the Atlantic and across the UK. We

have a feed of grey and dank weather

to finish off the weekend. In terms

of rainfall, Scotland and Northern

Ireland seeing the wettest weather

on Sunday. Further south, a few

glimmers of brightness to higher

ground, but a lot of cloud around

and drizzly outbreaks of rain.

Temperatures amazing for the time of

year. Some in the north-west could

see up to 15 degrees. Here is the

front, kinky bus company and sitting

across the central belt of the

British Isles. -- keen to keep us

company. Slowly coming south and

bringing heavy rain. Drier and

brighter to the north, but chilly

conditions coming later on the day

on Monday. That's the way things

conditions coming later on the day

on Monday. That's the way things are

shaping up now.

Thanks very much. Those temperatures

are extraordinary.

Time now for the film of you.

-- The Film Review.

Welcome to The Film Review on BBC

News. To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

What have you been watching? An

interesting week. We have

Downsizing. Early Man, always a

treat. And we not quite sequel.

It

looks intriguing, your first choice.

That's what I would say.

Intriguing

is exactly the word. This is

something a bit different. It takes

riffs from the Incredible Shrinking

Man and combine that with the eco-

themes of An Inconvient Truth and

also Spanglish. Process is

discovered to shrink people down to

about five inches. You become tiny.

Then you will use less resources and

you can produce less stuff to

dispose. Everyone have to agree this

is a good idea, but the real reason

people are doing it is because the

lifestyle you get offered if you to

become small is more extravagant

than you can get on the big world.

Here's a clip.

So the decision to...

That's the thing, downsizing takes

the pressure off, especially money

pressure.

It must feel good to know

you are making a difference?

You

mean all that clap about saving the

planet? Downsizing is about saving

yourself.

I'm still living in the

same house I grew up in! Audrey is

dying for us to move.

We are really

strapped. There are a lot of small

community is propping up, I don't

mess around. Liege Land is where you

want to be. It has all of the great

restaurants. -- leisure. Maybe back

up a little. I think it might be too

much garlic in the source you had.

Right.

It's a really interesting set

up and that looks like the beginning

of a great movie. Then what happens

is Matt Damon's character decides he

will downsize and when he does he

discovers he is isolated and alone

and discontent, just like it was in

the bigger world, although he is

much smaller. Unfortunately what

happens to the film is it loses its

direction. For a start, once you get

into the small community there's

very little of that interacting with

a one and most of the movies where

they deal with miniaturisation it is

the small versus large. Here, there

are large sections where you can

forget you are in a small world,

which is kind of the point but makes

it interesting. More troublesome is

the number of threads it is dealing

with. The eco- crisis, the personal

crises, generally the middle-aged

malaise. Some either as elements

don't only not come together, they

start completely fracturing.

The film is not short.

It is two and a quarter hours long

and it could have done with some

downsizing in its

running time, frankly.

After the initial setup and promise,

after what looked like being a good

use of a science fiction

premise, it falls apart.

It's a shame because there

are lots of interesting ideas

and it's always good to see

a director aiming big even if it

does not come together.

But I have to say there was a good

half of it I find frustrating.

Having given you all these ideas,

it then does not know

what to do with them.

It does not know whether it wants

to be funny, satirical,

sombre about the fate of the planet

or whether it wants to concentrate

on a marriage falling apart.

It ends up not

satisfying any of them.

Unfortunately, it is terribly

unsatisfying, despite

the fact it starts so well.

Very disappointing.

I was a big fan of Sideways.

Me, too.

And I am a very big fan

of Wallace and Gromit.

And no disappointment for Earlyman.

A Stone Age clanis driven out

of its valley by the arrival

of Lord Knuth who says the Stone Age

is over and long live

the age of bronze.

What then happens is the young hero,

Dug, agrees to have a football match

for ownership of the valley.

It turns out that way

back in his heritage,

football is deep in his genes.

However, all his tribesmen

can't play football,

so they have to recruit a young

woman to teach them

to get the match ready.

Firstly, the visuals are incredible.

They use some computer graphics

to get a sense of stadium size,

but all the primary animation

has that Aardman feel,

it is physical, and I can see

you looking at these images.

It is fantastic.

It is wonderful.

And it is properly funny.

It has great slapstick

jokes that referred

to Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

There is a homage at the very

beginning, but it is also not

about straightforward end

of the pier, innuendo humour.

I started laughing right

from the very beginning.

I never lost it, I laughed

all the way through.

In the screening there was only me

and one other person.

I became embarrassed

by how much I was laughing.

Were they enjoying it too?

They were enjoying it

but not as much as I was.

You see so many comedies

with insufficient laughter.

All the way through this I chuckled

and I was delighted by the visuals.

The story was charming.

And I can go on my own,

I don't need to find a child?

Everybody understands it.

They make genuine family films

for people of all ages.

I would happily go back

and see it again, not least

because they were so many fleeting

sight gags that I did not catch

the first time round.

I want to see it again.

I love Nick Park,

he does a great job.

A genius.

Your third choice?

Last Flag Flying.

It is adapted from a novel

and The Last Detail was adapted

into a film and this is the novel

sequel to his novel.

It is an adaptation of a novel

that is not a sequel.

We are going to test people on that.

The story is three former Marines

are reunited decades later

when one of their sons

dies in Iraq and they go

on a road trip together.

One of them has taken holy orders.

They go on a road trip together

and they bicker and the bond

and they talk about the past

and the present.

Here is a clip.

What if I don't like it?

We get stuck with a

contract for two years?

Two years.

What if you fall down?

Have you thought of that?

With your legs that

is a possibility.

You cannot get up and

nobody can see you?

But with your mobile

phone you can get it out

and if you could see the numbers,

your glasses, I can't see,

help me, I cannot get up.

911 calls do not count

against minutes either.

Come on!

If I say yes, Will

you shut the hell up?

The joy of it is the performances.

Laurence Fishburne is really good.

Steve Carrell

is the person facing up to grief.

I think he does that

really brilliantly.

If you go there looking

for a film that is as cutting

edge as the last detail,

you will be disappointed.

If you see it as a film

in its own right and you are able

to enjoy the ensemble performances,

it is a film about their

relationship, it is melancholic,

it is sad and nostalgic.

It is often laughed out loud funny.

It will not change the world.

Rather than saying it is the sequel,

it is more of a footnote,

but a rather charming footnote,

largely because the three central

performances carry it through.

You were enjoying that clip.

Yes.

It is a film that stands on its own.

Oddly enough, the problem becomes

if you try and put it next to others

and it is a different

kettle of fish.

It is a not sequel to the movie.

Is that clear?

I think so.

And the best DVD?

Coco came out last week

and I love Three Billboards.

It is great that Pixar

animation is finally back

at the top of its game.

Deals with some really

complicated subjects.

Life, death, grief, loss, memory,

but it does it in a way that

children and adults alike

can watch it.

It looks beautiful.

If you see it and you love it,

get The Book Of Life on DVD.

It is a film that prefigures many

themes and is also a very good

movie.

And DVD.

I felt ignorant when I read lots

about this because of your

forthcoming recommendation,

and it sounds fascinating.

I felt bad I did not

know very much about it.

In Between is a story about three

women living in Tel Aviv,

each fighting their own personal

battle for freedom against

political, religious

and social repression.

It is beautifully observed,

fantastic performances,

really, really well written.

It deals with difficult

subject matter, often very

light-hearted and funny.

It has a beautifully enigmatic

ending and the best way

of describing it is you have seen

The Graduate?

Yes!

At the end is that incredible sense

of ambiguity, I think it has that.

It is really well worth seeing.

It didn't get a huge theatrical

release, but I have yet to meet

anyone who has seen it

who has not loved it.

No greater recommendation than that.

Thank you very much, Mark.

An interesting week.

We are now creeping up

towards awards season as well.

Right in the middle of it.

Lots to talk about

in the coming weeks.

A quick reminder before we go that

you'll find more film news

and reviews from across the BBC

online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode.

And you can find all our previous

programmes on the BBC iPlayer.

That's it for this week.

Enjoy your cinema going.

See you next time.

Goodbye.

Hello, this is Breakfast with

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

Here's a summary of the main stories

today from BBC News: All current

rate and sexual assault cases in

England and Wales are being reviewed

as a matter of urgency -- rape. The

Director of Public Prosecutions

announcement follows the collapse of

several recent trials including that

of 22-year-old Liam Allen, he was

accused of rape but the case against

him was dropped after it emerged

police failed to hand over vital

phone records. It's believed a

number of trials could be stopped as

a result of the review.

The Prime Minister has welcomed a

landmark ruling by trade authorities

in the US overturning a decision to

impose huge tariffs on planes partly

built in the UK. The aerospace firm

Bombardier won a surprise victory as

the dispute with the broking company

Boeing about selling passenger jets

to US airlines. The wings for the

planes are manufacturing in Belfast

where unions said around 1000 jobs

could have been at risk at the

decision gone against them.

The workforce has stayed

squarely behind this,

put their shoulder to the wheel,

we've seen politicians nationally

given up the ghost saying this

is something that can't be

overturned, we've demonstrated

tonight the power of trade Unions

globally, we work with our

colleagues in Canada the US and this

is a victory for workers to like.

Residence in Paris are bracing

themselves for further disruption as

flooding is expected to reach its

peak -- residents. Is the wettest

January in more than a century and

the River Seine got five metres

above normal levels yesterday that

its. Hundreds have been evacuated

and tunnels and roads have been

sealed off. The Louvre museum has

shut down displays on lower floors

as a precaution.

The US gymnastics board will resign

because of its handling of a sex

abuse scandal involving former team

Doctor Larry Nassar. The Olympic

Committee had threatened to strip

the organisation of powers had the

directors bailed to step down. Larry

Nassar has been given a sentence of

175 years for abusing more than 150

female gymnasts.

New research has shown companies are

abusing a loophole in the law to put

up phone boxes on the high street

and then using them as little more

than advertising boards. The Local

Government Association said there's

been a tenfold increase in

applications to install the boxes

which don't require formal planning

permission.

It's a trip to collect an engagement

ring which took a very dramatic

turn. And the fiddler from Preston

was in a jewellery shop with his

fiancee. Andy calmly got his jacket

off, stop the robber from leaving.

-- stopped. Wrestles into the

ground, the owner joined into

restrain the suspect and then the

police arrived moments later. Nobody

is advising anyone to have a go in

these circumstances, but you do have

to say he did that with some style.

The jacket removed calmly and then

he said you're not taking anything!

Good morning, Mike.

No FA Cup

fairytale for Yeovil town, well

beaten by Manchester United in the

end and the debut man, Alexis

Sanchez, who did pretty well.

A good debut for the man worth 18

times the whole Yeovil squad as 12

time winners Manchester United eased

to a 4-0 win. A goal for Marcus

Rashford set up by Sanchez got them

on the on their way just before

half-time. Then the 87 league places

separating the sides started to show

as Herrera, Jesse Lingard and Lukaku

added second-half goals.

A few days after joining Manchester

United from Arsenal in the swap

deal, Jose Mourinho chose to start

Alexis Sanchez, the highest-paid

player in Premier League history. He

was kicked, booed by the locals but

sent home with the man of the match

award. How did his manager think he

got on?

He will bring us all so this extra

maturity and class so we are very

pleased with him and he was keen to

play, I know that was going to be

difficult, I knew that was going to

be an easy one for him but I'm happy

with his performance.

The night's other tie was an all

Championship match with Sheffield

Wednesday beating Reading to earn a

place in the fifth round 3-1 at

Hillsborough.

There are 12 other fourth-round ties

taking place today, among them

Newport County of League two taking

on... Newport nearly went out of the

league last season and now they are

pushing for a play-off place and

remember, they beat Leeds United in

the last round.

Beating Leeds was my highlight

because I could enjoy that game and

it was due to our hard work of

getting in that position. And what

happened at the end of last season

was obviously more important for the

football club. You only have to see

the struggles Hartlepool are going

through and it could quite easily

have been asked. We're fortunate.

We're working hard to keep improving

and that's what we always do.

There will be a new women's champion

happy Australia Day open this

morning in just under two hours.

Simona Halep and Wozniacki meet in

the final, both looking to win a

maiden grandslam and the world

number one ranking is also at stake.

Wozniacki will go above Halep if she

wins.

I'm just excited, it's another

finals, it's another great two weeks

and regardless of what happens now

I've done my best and when you go

out there on Saturday you have

everything to win.

She's a strong opponent. I've played

her many times. Like you said, I've

won against her many times so it's

going to be a different match, a new

match, tough one, emotions are

there, pressure is therefore both of

us so we'll see what's going to

happen, I can't say anything else

about it.

Live commentary of the women's final

starts from 8:30am and highlights

are on BBC One from 1:15pm this

afternoon.

From a first-time winner to a serial

grandslam champion, tomorrow morning

Federer plays a record seventh

Australian Open men's singles final

when he plays Marin Cilic in

Melbourne looking for a 20th

grandslam title. His semi-final

opponent Chung was retired with

severe blisters. Federer thrashed

Cilic in Wimbledon last year but

they met in more unusual

surroundings a couple of months ago.

I'm excited to play against him,

he's a great guy, we won the Laver

Cup and had a blast, we saw each

other on vacation believe it or not.

Where was that?

In the Maldives a

couple of months ago, it was just

the two of us and we were looking

for a hitting partner and it

happened we were both there, the

weirdest thing. I said the practice

in the tropicals helped us get to

the final this time around. Very

cool and I can't wait.

Even on holiday they play tennis.

It's funny, you go around the world

on holiday and then you bump into a

tennis rival.

And then you just say,

let's have a game!

What else can you

do? I think you have sorted out my

Tuft, Naga, apologies!

Ben Stokes has been snapped up this

morning for £1.4 million in the

auction for the IPL. He has been

bought by the register and Royals

despite facing a charge for affray

after an incident outside the

nightclub in Bristol in September.

He was the most valuable player last

year at the 20, Twenty20 tournament.

England captain Joe Root is on

Seoul, he's in the auction for the

first time along with other England

players like Eoin Morgan, who is

captaining England in Australia at

the moment. He says they won't be

changing their positive mindset

despite losing in Adelaide in the

fourth 1-dayer by three wickets

yesterday. The England innings got

off to that worst possible start

losing the first five wickets for

eight runs. Things improved slightly

with Chris Woakes hitting an

excellent 78 but their total of 196

never looked good enough with

Australia cruising to the target

with 13 overs to spare. The final

match of the series, which England

have already won, is in Perth

tomorrow.

The third day of the third test

between South Africa and India came

to a dramatic halt when umpires

decided the pitch in Johannesburg

was too dangerous for play to

continue. Chasing 241 to win the

match in the final innings, Elgar

was hit on the helmet by a short

ball from India's bowled a.

Discussions took place between the

umpires and play was abandoned for

the day. Play will resume later this

morning.

It isn't just Roger Federer doing it

for the older sports men, Anderson

has become the oldest winner of a

snowboard or cup event. He's not

really that old, 42, depends how old

you are! It is his 28th career win

in Bulgaria in the giant slalom.

Good timing. The penultimate World

Cup event for, before the Winter

Olympics. Anderson is the only rider

to have competed in the Winter

Olympics since snowboarding made its

debut in 1998.

42 is very old for snowboarding.

Very much an old person's sport!

Do

you know why he is smiling?

Because

he is being mean.

42 is never old.

Talking of the Winter Olympics being

three weeks away, a moving story to

show how the slopes are opening up

to all, albeit with mountainous

challenges. Ed Stevens was a British

junior champion but at 19 A car

accident left him with a traumatic

brain injury and many convocations,

however, this week, five years on,

he's done what many thought was

impossible and returned to the

slopes in Andorra to learn to sit

ski. I went with him.

Getting ready for one of the

greatest boarding comebacks. It's

rumoured that Gloucestershire -- in

his room in Gloucestershire where he

stays reminders when he was British

ski champion before at 19 he was

left with a brain injury and complex

disabilities.

Are used to do a lot

of skiing, would you like to see me

ski?

He was keen to show me how he

got to the top and for five years

these on a mission to get back

their. He's come a long way from

lifting his head to be able to greet

his mum in the morning again.

Morning, mum.

Fantastic! You can't

talk and laugh at the same time, you

know that!

Physiotherapy staff at

the college have help him realise

his main dream, strengthening his

head and right shoulder muscles that

will help him carve his own way down

the mountain once more.

It's been a

massive part of his life. To think

that he's going to have a go at

doing it again is just amazing,

yeah. It means more than you can

imagine.

This week the moment came in

Andorra. It was a gamble because

neither Ed or anyone else knew

exactly how he would react to being

back on the slopes. This is it and

it's a moment his family never

thought they would seek and it's not

just a historic moment for him as we

go off down the mountain but also

for the whole sport because in a way

this opens up the mountains for all.

Although he was being guided at

first, his sit ski has been adapted

so Ed can soon control his own

direction and speed with his head

rather than relying on someone

pushing him on a wheelchair. By the

end of this week he was nearly ready

to fly down the slope alone.

How was

it? Pretty amazing for him to do

this. And to be taking control.

Most of the students at national

star need assistance with everything

they do, so to be able to go out in

a sit ski Andrew Leigh and

experience the freedom skiing gives

them, not to be wrapped in cotton

wool, it's something hard to

replicate. Ed still has the ability

to ski and enjoy it.

Ed wasn't

alone, 20 students from national

star were back on the slopes and

third years showed how much freedom

they can have.

It really does open

up the entire mountain. We really

aim for giving everyone the maximum

independence possible.

Josh, Zoe,

Dom and Abby Worth, followed and the

students wanted to give me a taste

of how much skill is needed to

control your dissent with your upper

body. I thought we were off, I

thought we were over!

But on the slopes I was always going

to be in the shadow of a former

British champion. Another reason you

love skiing, Ed, is the apres ski.

And you said there's some karaoke in

there? I'll buy you a beer!

Ed of opted for a side and the apres

ski is a crucial part of this whole

experience as these amazing athletes

posted their success. And

independence.

A remarkable experience. They have

such a team effort, you have the

instructors and the staff. But you

can't wrap them in cotton wool, let

them go on their own.

When you were

sitting there, what was your

feeling?

It was very unusual.

You

normally ski?

Normally I do but

badly, it is very strange just using

your upper body strength, you felt

like you were tipping the whole

time. Very hard. Lots of challenges

to overcome to get down, amazing

skills.

Thanks very much, Mike.

You're watching Breakfast from BBC

News, the main stories: An urgent

review has been launched into every

active rape and serious sexual

assault case in England and Wales

after the collapse of several

trials.

Around 1000 jobs in Belfast appear

to have been saved after the

aerospace firm Bombardier won a

landmark case against the American

company Boeing.

Time to take a look at the weather

and Susan has everything about

what's going on. Good morning. Many

of us very grateful that we're not

in Paris this weekend?

Indeed. A lot of difficult weather

across France at the morning. Paris

looks in the clear at the moment,

but obviously we have seen stories

about the flooding and the December

to January period this year was the

third wettest on record. But

actually about half of France has

severe flood alerts at the moment. A

lot of problems in the south, low

pressure here at the moment. A lot

of snowmelt and a lot of rain, so

the situation is very touch and go

and actually this area of low

pressure could mean difficult

conditions on the slopes. Fresh snow

is great, as it might mean you can't

get in and out of your results, it

could mean poor visibility and it

could mean a high risk of avalanche.

Anyway, let's head back to city the

British Isles. Really this is our

legacy for the weekend. This big

area of cloud streaming all the way

back into the Atlantic and it will

also bring with it some rain. We've

got weather fronts tucked in there,

and it's just pushing across

Northern Ireland. It is nearly out

of the way to the east of Northern

Ireland and the picture this morning

in Northern Ireland will be

improving. However, for Scotland and

northern England the front is firmly

in place at 9am, so a wet start to

the day. A windy prospect for

Scotland, to the north and west.

Gales and may be severe gales for a

time. Heavy rain across the hills to

the north-west of England. Patchy to

the east of the Pennines. Drizzly

rain at first in the Midlands, but

then a wet story for much of the

morning for the Midlands and Wales

and the south-west of England.

Further east it is clear, some early

sunshine and quite chilly. It will

get mild quite quickly as the

south-westerly kicks in and it will

also get cloudy and then it will be

the south-east of England and East

Anglia that has the wet weather this

afternoon. Elsewhere it will become

dry. Things are brighter the

Scotland and northern England.

Showers in northern Scotland.

Further south, still stuck with

quite a lot of low cloud, mist and

murk. It is breezy to take us

through this evening. The wind will

be lighter into the small hours.

Chilly briefly, but with a cloud in

the Atlantic we will get a lot more

of that piling across us towards the

end of the night, so it will be a

mild start to Sunday. Rain on the

forecast from the word go. This is

the weather front. Going nowhere in

a hurry. Through Sunday pretty great

picture. Still windy across Scotland

and Northern Ireland. Outbreaks of

rain for much of the day. Further

south, largely dry and not very

bright. But it will be mild. In

fact, in some spots we could see

temperatures as high as 14 or 15

degrees, which is slightly

freakishly warm for January. Here is

Monday. It will be heavy for a time

as it tucks into England and Wales

and some cooler air pushing into

Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Daytime highs are close to average,

7-8, but still dub -- double figures

on

7-8, but still dub -- double figures

on Monday.

Those higher temperatures usually

come with rain, don't they?

But also quite a lot of low cloud.

Very mild air that gets pulled up

from the south. So not... It's not

an early taste of spring, is it?

It certainly isn't. Thank you.

Now it's time for Click.

This week the team have gone to San

Francisco.

Ah, the streets of San Francisco!

Mecca for technology

innovators and aficionados.

A destination where the cult

of geek reigns supreme.

Everyone's got that billion-dollar

idea here and everyone wants

to save the world.

The ethos of nothing's impossible

runs in the veins and Twitter feeds

of every twentysomething

Zuckerberg wannabe.

Now Silicon Valley is taking

on life's biggest challenge, death.

Dave Lee has been looking at how

Silicon Valley is trying to help us

all live longer.

This will be my last

meal for 36 hours.

Like a growing number

of people in Silicon Valley,

I'm about to try fasting,

something some here believe

could contribute to

extending our lifespan.

My advice to you, just sleep

in really late so you don't have

to deal with it!

Kristen Brown is a

biotechnology journalist.

She tells me living longer

is becoming something

of an obsession for many techies.

We tend to see people not just

thinking of their body as a machine

but talking about it

metaphorically as a machine.

Are they actually

making any progress?

It's growing so quickly right now,

we understand so much more this year

than we did last year even

but the other thing about science

is the more questions you answer,

the more questions there are.

One incredible idea being tested

here can be traced back to this man,

Paul Bert.

In the mid-1800s, he claimed

if you took an old mouse

and literally stitched it

together with a young mouse,

the young mouse would become more

agile, have a better memory and heal

more quickly once it had the young

blood flowing through its veins.

Of course we can't start

stitching humans together,

but there is a start-up that thinks

it can do than expected thing.

Alkahest is a California based

start-up that believes weekly

injections of blood plasma

from young people could fight

the onest of Alzheimer's.

We treated these patients once

a week for four weeks with one unit

of plasma, and we found

the treatment was safe and very

importantly, although it was a short

study to see learning and memory

improvements, but it was good enough

to see some near-term improvements.

The team said it found those treated

were more capable of basic daily

tasks and more aware

of their surroundings.

Encouraging but far from conclusive.

Bigger trials are happening soon.

We're basically fertilising

the brain so to speak

with this protein cocktail.

To get some answers

on whether or not fantastical ideas

could actually work,

I went to visit one of the world's

foremost experts on ageing.

One of the ideas we're looking

at is fasting and how that can

perhaps rejuvenate

the body in some way.

If that's true, what's

the science behind that?

Fasting elicits a response

in your body that triggers

a protection against many

of the diseases associated with age.

So there's growing realisation that

multiple forms of fasting might

actually be beneficial

in the long-term.

One of them or perhaps outrageous

ideas is that you can transfer young

blood into an older person and that

will rejuvenate and slow the ageing

process, is that true?

First let's talk about

the science in mice.

It is actually amazing work.

The science is really strong.

Now, taking this and bringing it

to humans is a completely different

story, so the idea for example that

one would take human plasma or human

plasma product and give it to humans

to prevent ageing is,

in my opinion, lunacy.

Finally, my 36 hours were up.

I'm not sure it's worth it,

the lows I had last night and this

morning were awful and to do that

regularly I think might lead

to a longer life but it certainly

wouldn't be a happier one.

What could be really interesting,

though, is if these companies can

recreate the positive effects

of fasting without the hard work

of having to go without food

for such a long period of time.

But for now, I think I'm

going to choose breakfast.

Now, we've been looking at various

ways to try and extend human life,

possibly indefinitely,

but the researchers can't do it yet

and so, until they can,

there are those who are offering

to put your life on pause.

Marc Cieslak has been to Arizona to

meet the self-preservation society.

Death and taxes, as the saying goes,

are the two things none

of us can avoid.

What about if there was

a workaround for death,

some way of extending our physical

existence on this planet?

Alcor was founded in 1972 in order

to preserve people from the point

of death, freeze them and then

when technology is sufficiently

advanced revive them in the future.

A process it calls cryonics.

This is an interesting infographic

on the history of cryonics,

which starts actually

as far back as 1773,

when Benjamin Franklin thought

about the future of America

and speculated that maybe

he could be pickled in a vat

of madeira with his best friends

to see how the country came out.

What goes on in this space here?

Obviously this simulates a procedure

you would normally perform

when somebody dies?

Exactly.

We have to wait for the legal

death to be declared.

At that point we move the patient

from the bed to the ice bath.

We're gonna cover them with ice.

And at the same time,

even though they've been called

legally dead, we're gonna restart

all kinds of things.

We're gonna use a respirator

to recover breathing,

we will use this mechanical CPR

device and the reason we're doing

that is that we want to administer

a series of different medications

to protect the cells.

So this is even though the patient

themselves is dead at this point?

Right.

It's very much like when you donate

an organ, even though the person has

been declared dead that doesn't mean

all of the cells are suddenly dead.

Patients are effectively

pumped full of antifreeze

to protect their tissue

from the freezing process

which comes later.

It costs up to $200,000 to preserve

a full body and $60,000 if somebody

just wants their head preserved.

So this is our operating room.

The patient will be put on this

special operating table.

It's basically designed to shape

the patient for long-term storage.

We don't want someone

at a very low temperature

with their arm sticking out.

It's very hard to fit

into the capsule.

This here as well,

this is just for heads?

So usually we'll begin

on the operating table over

there and then we do a neuro

separation, a few vertebrae down,

and then place the patient's

cephalon, which is the brain

plus the skull, upside

down in the neuro ring.

Essentially the same process,

we're going to remove the blood

and fluids from the brain and cryo

protect them against ice formation.

Why would people want their head

separated from their body?

I'm not going to come

back just as a head,

I'm going to get a new body

and my view is that,

unless I die early in an accident,

then maybe I'm 95, 100-years-old

if I'm lucky, my body's going to be

in lousy shape anyway and the whole

thing will have to be regenerated.

Why go to the extra cost

of storing my whole body,

which is ten times

the volume of just my head?

The corridors here are lined

with photos of people

who are already frozen

in Alcor's storage facility.

This is the patient care base,

where we currently store

all of our patients.

Currently 152.

These are all of your patients?

Yes, all of our patients here.

Actually about two thirds

of them are neuro patients.

That means they're just heads?

Yeah.

So about half our living

members are whole body.

We actually have more

neuro patients here.

This can actually contain four

whole body patients.

Alcor doesn't have any legal

obligation to the people stored

here as they've technically

donated their bodies to science.

What happens if you have a power

cut, for instance?

Well, we don't need

electricity for this.

These are passive vessels,

they're just gigantic,

very expensive Thermos flasks

and you don't plug your Thermos

flask into electricity.

We just use the liquid nitrogen,

which boils off at -320,

to maintain that temperature.

Alcor says it's a non-profit making

organisation and that it has 1,150

people signed up for its services,

including Silicon Valley billionaire

Peter Thiel.

But what motivates ordinary people

to shell out up to $200,000

for cryogenic preservation?

Back in the UK, Derek Watkinson has

signed himself and his family up

for just that via a different outfit

called The Cryonics Institute.

I imagine being on my deathbed,

dying, and then immediately waking

up.

If it's gonna work, I'm gonna

wake up straightaway,

'cause the passage of time

won't mean anything,

because I'm dead.

So I'll wake up immediately

and hopefully I'll be able

to remember things.

My memory will be intact, hopefully.

Who I am.

Your whole family is going

to be preserved as well?

Yeah.

Luckily my wife and daughter

are for the idea and they are signed

up members of cryonics institute.

But is this all too good to be true?

We spoke to a neuroscientist who has

serious misgivings about the basic

foundations of cryonics.

You really can't afford to freeze

biological tissue until it's

been appropriately protected.

But unless you take it down to those

low temperatures for protection

quite quickly, it will

continue to decompose.

And my problem with the cryonics

dream, the wishful thinking

contracts that are sold,

is that they haven't

resolved that conflict.

There's no evidence that they can

get the antifreeze into all those

micro nooks and crannies

into the brain and satisfactorily

protect it.

We put this to Alcor,

who provided a detailed response:

So is this the ultimate

insurance policy then?

So is this the ultimate

insurance policy then?

Yeah, but I've not lost anything.

A bit of money.

But what's a bit of money!?

That's it for the shortcut

of Click in San Francisco.

The full-length version is up

on iPlayer for you to watch right

now and there's more from us

on Twitter @BBCclick and on Facebook

throughout the week.

Thanks very much for watching

and we will see you soon.

Hello, this is Breakfast

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

Every active rape case in England

and Wales is to be reviewed

because of recent failures

to disclose evidence.

The Director of Public Prosecutions

said cases yet to come

to trial would be examined

as a matter of urgency and admits

some will have to be stopped.

Good morning.

It's Saturday the 27th of January.

Also on the programme this morning:

Paris on high alert as record

rainfall causes the River Seine

to burst its banks.

The entire US Gymnastics board

resigns over its handling

of the Larry Nassar

sex abuse scandal.

Relief for 1,000 workers

at aerospace firm Bombardier,

the US authorities stop plans

to impose massive tariffs

on plane parts made in Belfast.

In sport, no FA Cup final

for Yeovil Town, beaten 4-0

by Manchester United,

Alexis Sanchez the new

signing instrumental but tonight

Newport County have the chance

for an upset when they

take on Tottenham.

And Susan has the weather.

My daughter Angela was murdered

seven months ago.

Multiple

Oscar-nominated film three

Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,

we hear from its British writer and

director.

And Susan has the weather.

Good morning, we will be up

against the cloud this weekend,

some pretty grey

prospects for most today.

A windy story.

More details coming up.

Thank you.

Our main story:

All current rape

and sexual assault cases in England

and Wales are being

reviewed as a matter

of urgency.

The announcement from the Director

of Public Prosecutions

follows the recent collapse

of several high profile trials

after vital evidence

had not been shared

with defence lawyers.

It's believed a number

of cases could be stopped

as a result.

Adina Campbell has more.

In a move seemed to help rebuild

trust in the justice system,

In a move seen to help rebuild trust

in the justice system,

every rape and sexual assault case

in England and Wales

is now under review.

The Crown Prosecution Service has

taken action after public concerns

that evidence, particularly digital

records, are not being disclosed

early enough to defence lawyers.

22-year-old Liam Allen was wrongly

accused of rape and sexual assault,

but his trial collapsed last month

after the Metropolitan Police failed

to disclose phone records

which were vital evidence.

Last week, a rape charge

against Oxford University student

Oliver Mears was dropped shortly

before his trial when a diary

which supported his

case was uncovered.

And Danny Kay, who had a rape

conviction overturned after spending

two years in prison,

said earlier this month he felt let

down by the justice system.

Devastating for a system that

you trust to let you down and I had

complete faith in it.

I trusted the truth would come out

in trial and it didn't.

Earlier this week the BBC revealed

the number of collapsed prosecutions

increased by 70% over

the last two years.

A national disclosure plan has now

been published by the CPS,

the National Police Chiefs Council

and the College of Policing

to help make improvements.

Adina Campbell, BBC News.

The Prime Minister has welcomed

a landmark ruling by trade

authorities in the US overturning

a decision to impose huge tariffs

on planes partly built in the UK.

The aerospace firm Bombardier won

a surprise victory in its dispute

with Boeing about selling

its passenger jets to US airlines.

The wings for the planes

are manufactured in Belfast.

Our Ireland correspondent

Chris Page reports.

Workers, politicians and business

leaders had feared one

of Bombardier's biggest

projects would be grounded.

The firm in Belfast has 4,000

employees and a quarter of them work

on the C Series jet.

But the programme was after threat

after Boeing claimed it was unfairly

subsidised because of financial

help from the Canadian

and British governments.

The authorities in Washington

initially proposed to impose tariffs

of just under 300%

on imports of the C Series.

But last night, the US

International Trade Commission

decided not to go ahead

with the tariffs, the four

commissioners all voting

in Bombardier's favour.

Workers and their representatives

were surprised but very pleased.

The workforce has stayed

squarely behind this,

put their shoulder to the wheel.

We've seen politicians nationally

given up the ghost saying this

is something that can't be

overturned, we've demonstrated

tonight the power of trade unionism

globally, we worked with our

colleagues in Canada the US

and this

is a victory for workers tonight.

The prime minister spoke

to Donald Trump at the World

Economics Summit in Davos this

week about the dispute.

Theresa May Tweeted she welcomed

the decision as good news

for British industry.

People have been prepared here for

bad news from across the Atlantic

but there are delighted

with this unexpected result.

After months of worry,

Bombardier's victory in this trade

dispute has brought

a great sense of relief.

Chris Page, BBC News, Belfast.

Residents in Paris are bracing

for further disruption as flooding

in the city is expected to peak.

Hundreds have been evacuated and

tunnels and roads have been sealed

off. We can speak to Kevin Connolly.

What's the situation in the early

hours there?

It is still pretty dark

here in the City of Lights but you

can see behind me the River Seine 20

feet above where it should be at

this time of year. Further outside

the city down the valley of the

River Seine, things are much worse,

people are punting about in boats in

the streets and waiting for the

waters to recede to find out how

much the damage will be. Today is

the big day for Paris, we expect the

river will get to its highest level.

It would be very unusual in Paris

for the waters to come over the

banks of the Seine, a pretty deep

channel in the city, but there's a

certain anxiety around all of this

because of course the river here

runs right through the heart of the

city. Some residents have been moved

from their homes and the Louvre

Museum not far from the river here

has been closing lower ground floor

galleries and people are taking

precautions. What everyone is

talking about here is the fact the

tremendous weight of water in that

swollen river has been flushing rats

out of their normal underground

homes so people have reported seeing

more rats than normal in Paris. The

highest point of the river we think

will be reached at some point later

this afternoon. A day of anxiety

here more than anything else. No

immediate crisis yet, traffic is

flowing here across the Pont de la

Concorde pretty much as normal, but

the city authorities are braced for

things to get worse. Enormous

preparations have been made sure of

the water, over the banks of the

Seine and the authorities here say

they're going to have to get used to

this because it's all about in their

view global warming. Paris hasn't

really flooded since 1910. We will

see later on today whether this year

is going to join that year in the

historical record books.

Kevin, for

the moment, thank you very much.

Kevin, lead reporting from Paris.

The entire US gymnastics board

is to resign because of its handling

of the sex abuse scandal involving

the former team doctor,

Larry Nassar.

The country's Olympic Committee

threatened to strip the organisation

of its powers if the directors

failed to step down.

Larry Nassar has been given a prison

sentence of up to 175 years.

He abused more than 150 female

gymnasts.

Peter Bowes reports.

As Larry Nassar begins

to what amounts to a life sentence,

the fallout from the abuse scandal

has been swift and decisive.

The entire board of USA Gymnastics

has gone and there have been

other resignations too.

Mark Hollis was the athletic

director at Michigan State

University when Nassar worked there.

He and another official

have decided to quit.