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Hello - this is Breakfast,
with Charlie Stayt | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
and Naga Munchetty. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
Just hours to the start of the 23rd
Winter Olympic Games | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
in South Korea. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
Diplomacy is high on the agenda | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
as senior figures from North Korea
and the US arrive in PyeongChang | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
for the Opening Ceremony. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
And bad news overnight for British
medal hopeful Katie Ormerod - | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
she's broken her heel
in snowboard training, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
and is out of the Games -
she'd already fractured her wrist. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:39 | |
This is the scene in PyeongChang
this morning where plummeting | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
temperatures have left some
concerned these could be the coldest | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
winter games on record. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
Good morning - it's
Friday 9 February. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Also this morning: | 0:00:59 | 0:01:00 | |
Two British men - believed to be
Islamic State militants known | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
for killing Western hostages -
are captured by Syrian Kurdish | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
fighters. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:12 | |
Good morning. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:12 | |
Stock markets around the world have
taken a tumble for the second time | 0:01:12 | 0:01:20 | |
this week - and a lot of it's
because of the prospect | 0:01:25 | 0:01:29 | |
of higher interest rates. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
I'll have more in a moment. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:31 | |
Human eggs have been grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
And Carol has the weather. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
Good morning from the roof of
Broadcasting House in London. Rain | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
will cross the rest of the
south-east. Some wintry showers, | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
most prolific in the north and west.
Some of them will be over lower | 0:01:42 | 0:01:50 | |
levels and heavy. We will see when
15 minutes. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
Good morning. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:56 | |
First, our main story. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:57 | |
There are just hours to go
until the Opening Ceremony | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
of the Winter Olympics
in South Korea. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
The US Vice-President Mike Pence
and sister of the North Korean | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
leader, Kim Jong-un,
are expected to arrive | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
in Pyeongchang shortly
to watch the event. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
47 Russian athletes and coaches
implicated in doping | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
allegations have lost a last-minute
appeal to take part in the Games. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
Our correspondent,
Stephen McDonell reports. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
After years of preparation, the
PyeongChang Winter Olympics is here. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:25 | |
The venues are ready and the
spectators are pouring in. The cold | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
and windy conditions don't seem to
be dampening people's enthusiasm but | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
even the most diehard sports fans
are finding it difficult to dodge | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
the political manoeuvres being
played out of these games. The North | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
Korean leader's sister will be at
the Opening Ceremony and she will | 0:02:43 | 0:02:50 | |
also meet South Korea's president.
The United States government has | 0:02:50 | 0:02:56 | |
dispatched Vice President Mike Pence
who says he is here to challenge the | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
North Koreans, reminding people of
the country's human rights abuses | 0:03:00 | 0:03:05 | |
and nuclear weapons programme. Many
South Koreans say they find it a bit | 0:03:05 | 0:03:09 | |
odd that the Trump Administration
has decided to counter the north of | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
its own propaganda offensive at the
Olympics. But there are divided | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
opinions amongst locals at these
games over how they will feel when | 0:03:18 | 0:03:23 | |
North and South Korean athletes
march into the stadium together. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
TRANSLATION: many in the older
generation but is negatively. They | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
say, why this unification flag and
not the South Korean flag? | 0:03:31 | 0:03:37 | |
TRANSLATION: I hope this Olympics
belts the snow, but it is a gradual | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
melt, not too fast. Naturally, once
elite athletes start hitting the | 0:03:43 | 0:03:48 | |
slopes here, then they will take
centre stage in the many spectators, | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
this can't come soon enough but even
in the sporting arena, there are | 0:03:52 | 0:03:57 | |
political dimensions here following
the recent doping scandal. Just | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
hours before the Opening Ceremony
was due to start, 45 Russian | 0:04:02 | 0:04:07 | |
athletes and two coaches lost their
appeal to participate. Those Russian | 0:04:07 | 0:04:12 | |
athletes who are allowed to compete
here will do so under the Olympic | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
flag and following any medals, the
Olympic theme will be played. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:27 | |
Our Correspondent, Stephen McDonell,
is in Pyeongchang for us. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
Stephen, what is the atmospere
like ahead of the Opening Ceremony? | 0:04:29 | 0:04:37 | |
How certain faces are going to be
seen today. Absolutely. We are all | 0:04:39 | 0:04:46 | |
read up on the Opening Ceremony to
see what is on offer that even | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
before that starts in a few hours,
we have heard that President Moon | 0:04:50 | 0:04:58 | |
Jae-in is hosting a VIP cocktail
party. You can imagine who would be | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
there. Vice President Mike Pence,
meet Kim Jong-un's sister. How are | 0:05:03 | 0:05:09 | |
you going? Nice weather we're
having. Do you like skiing? Even | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
though there will not officially be
a meeting between the North Koreans | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
and the American delegation, they
were all these types of | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
possibilities, very intriguing.
Stephen, thank you very much. We'll | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
be talking to Stephen throughout the
morning. The Winter Olympics will | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
begin shortly and the Opening
Ceremony can be seen from 10:30am on | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
BBC One, the red button and on line.
For a round-up if you are in | 0:05:36 | 0:05:42 | |
BBC One, the red button and on line.
For a round-up if you are in England | 0:05:42 | 0:05:42 | |
and Scotland, 7pm from --7 p.m. On
BBC Two. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:50 | |
Two British extremists,
believed to be members of one | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
of the so-called Islamic State
group's most notorious cells, | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
have been captured by Syrian Kurdish
fighters in Syria - | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
according to US officials. | 0:05:58 | 0:05:59 | |
They are accused of
being part of a unit | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
which executed 27 Western hostages
and tortured many more. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
Andy Moore reports. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:10 | |
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee
Elsheikh, the two Britons captured | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
by Kurdish forces last month, and
questioned by the Americans. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:20 | |
Together with two others, they
formed a kidnap gang which became | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
known as the Beatles because they
were usually masked and the captors | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
could only hear their British
accents. British aid worker Alan | 0:06:28 | 0:06:32 | |
Henning was one of the least two
dozen foreign hostages they held | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
Henning was one of the least two
dozen foreign hostages they held | 0:06:35 | 0:06:35 | |
captive and then executed. Last
year, the American State Department | 0:06:35 | 0:06:41 | |
designated Alexanda Kotey and El
Shafee Elsheikh is wanted terrorists | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
who had fought for Islamic state.
Kotey was born in Paddington, of | 0:06:44 | 0:06:52 | |
carne in and Greek Cypriots
background. The citations said he | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
used: | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
used: Elsheikh's family had fled Sue
Dann in the 1990s and he became a | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
British citizen. According to the
State Department, he developed a | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
reputation for water boarding, mock
executions and crucifixions. The two | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
men were grabbed by a Kurdish led
militia. The fate of the two men is | 0:07:15 | 0:07:22 | |
unknown. They could be sent to the
US detention centre at Guantanamo | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
Bay or they could stand trial in the
States. The UK Foreign Office said | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
it would not comment on individual
cases or ongoing investigations. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
Andi Mohr, BBC News. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:42 | |
Andi Mohr, BBC News. -- Andy Moore. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
For the second time in a week,
US stock markets have fallen | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
sharply, with the Dow Jones index
falling more than 4 per cent. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
Sean's with us on the
sofa to tell us more. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
Why's this happening? | 0:07:53 | 0:07:54 | |
There are concerns about interest
rates, are they still bothering | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
markets? Definitely they are. At the
beginning of the week in America, we | 0:07:58 | 0:08:03 | |
saw falls of 4% or more in the
American stock market, that Dow | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
Jones industrial average. The
equivalent of our FTSE 100. 30 of | 0:08:07 | 0:08:13 | |
the biggest companies in America.
That fell by 4% earlier in the week. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:19 | |
Then we had a few days which were
more calm. Last night in America, | 0:08:19 | 0:08:25 | |
another fall of 4%. Overall, from
the top of the market, you could say | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
we have seen a fall of around 10%.
To put it in context, the US market | 0:08:30 | 0:08:36 | |
has been up by about 50%. You can
picture the graph. Some would say it | 0:08:36 | 0:08:42 | |
is a correction rather than a
crisis. But why interest rates? | 0:08:42 | 0:08:48 | |
Investors are thinking, if interest
rates are going to start going up, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
our own Governor of the Bank of
England said we are looking to see | 0:08:51 | 0:08:56 | |
interest rates go up sooner than we
previously thought. If that happens, | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
people are more likely to put their
money into savings accounts and | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
things linked to interest rates
because you get a better return | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
which is why you start to see a fall
in the stock market so people are | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
not too sure what is going to happen
next. We will keep an eye on it. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
Human eggs have been fully grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
Scientists removed egg
cells from ovary tissue | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
at their earliest stage
of development, and matured them | 0:09:25 | 0:09:27 | |
to the point they were
ready for fertilisation. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
Researchers at Edinburgh University
say it could help to preserve | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
fertility in women, such as those
undergoing chemotherapy. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
Key US government agencies have
shut down for the second time | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
in three weeks. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
-- The Senate failed to vote
on a budget deal before a midnight | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
deadline, after a Republican senator
demanded a last minute ammendment. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
For the temporary shutdown to end,
the spending deal must be passed | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
in both the Senate and the House
of Representatives and then signed | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
by the President. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
When we show you pictures
of groundbreaking research taking | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
place in laboratories,
it's usually the scientists | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
who wear the goggles. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:03 | |
But in this experiment
into insects' vision | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
at the University of Newcastle,
it was praying mantises | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
who were fitted
with tiny 3D glasses. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:13 | |
And if you're wondering how
the spectacles stay in place, | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
they were stuck on
temporarily using beeswax. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
Researchers say the results will be
used to help develop robots. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:27 | |
It's like a mini personal cinema.
That was their many personal insect | 0:10:32 | 0:10:38 | |
cinema. We are going to talk a lot
about this later on. Why would you | 0:10:38 | 0:10:46 | |
put 3-D glasses on a bug?
Apparently, function of their eyes | 0:10:46 | 0:10:52 | |
are less complicated than ours. If
scientists can figure out how they | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
see 3-D, they can use that
information to get robots to see | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
3-D. Rather than a robot being
programmed to come over to that | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
point, it will be able to see you.
What Bill were they watching? It was | 0:11:05 | 0:11:11 | |
the circle is going round and round
film. The praying mantis, one of | 0:11:11 | 0:11:16 | |
those early species that will
survive a nuclear will --a nuclear | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
war. I thought that was cockroaches.
It is praying mantis is as well. I | 0:11:19 | 0:11:25 | |
used to have a thing about praying
mantis is. It was one of those great | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
little creatures. Have you got one
in the studio? No, we don't. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:45 | |
I can't believe it. Katie Ormerod,
when Britain's greatest hopes, on a | 0:11:48 | 0:11:53 | |
snowboard, has broken her at heel.
We had a picture of her on that very | 0:11:53 | 0:12:00 | |
screen with the rest cast. She was
competing on Sunday but then | 0:12:00 | 0:12:05 | |
overnight, another training injury.
That means she is out of the game is | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
completely. Absolutely awful. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:17 | |
completely. Absolutely awful. She
has tweeted that it is the worst | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
luck she has had. She broke her
keel, not a wrangle, just a day | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
after fracturing her wrist. She is
already had surgery. She had been | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
due to compete in the big error
vents. Those of the medical pictures | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
showing the extent of the injury.
That will help bind it. The action | 0:12:35 | 0:12:46 | |
is under way in the right to Opening
Ceremony. Going well in the team | 0:12:46 | 0:12:52 | |
pairs event are the Olympic athletes
from Russia. But while they are | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
competing, two coaches have lost
their appeals. They won't be at the | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
Winter Olympics. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:01 | |
West Bromwich Albion striker
Jay Rodriguez says he'll | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
prove his innocence after being
charged by the FA for using racist | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
language in an incident involving
the Brighton defender | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
Gaetan Bong last month. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:10 | |
He has until the 16th
of February to respond. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:18 | |
And rugby union referee Joy Neville
will make history again tonight - | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
she'll be the first woman to take
charge of a Pro-14 match. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
The former Ireland international
is already the first woman | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
to referee a European club fixture -
that was in December. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:36 | |
In the papers, something very odd
that Eddie Eagle has done. First of | 0:13:36 | 0:13:43 | |
all, this is Eddie the Eagle's
preview of the Winter Olympics. This | 0:13:43 | 0:13:49 | |
is the women's curling team. The
brooms looked like the ones I use in | 0:13:49 | 0:13:54 | |
the kitchen. Eddie the Eagle says he
once went down a bobsled track in a | 0:13:54 | 0:14:00 | |
walk at 70 miles an hour and its
span around and around. Have we got | 0:14:00 | 0:14:06 | |
pictures? No, we don't. It sounds
like another big event. I've tried | 0:14:06 | 0:14:14 | |
curling in a pub. Here they are
getting ready, the British team with | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
the Korean mascot. Do we know the
name? We will see a lot of that over | 0:14:18 | 0:14:25 | |
the next few weeks. Looking for the
first British competitor. We have | 0:14:25 | 0:14:31 | |
Ben Kelly in the Mogul skiing. Those
are the bumpy skis. We will be | 0:14:31 | 0:14:42 | |
looking ahead to some of the
characters and people who will be | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
involved in the Games. Very exciting
this morning. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:52 | |
It's gone off his!
-- piece. It has been a few days. | 0:14:52 | 0:15:08 | |
Ministers warn employers after an
paid interns. An exclusive that the | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
Guardian says it has the government
is launching a crack down on unpaid | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
internships which has resulted in
550 warning letters sent to | 0:15:17 | 0:15:22 | |
companies and enforcement teams to
tackle repeat offenders. Mike was | 0:15:22 | 0:15:27 | |
just showing all of the stars and
characters to look out for in the | 0:15:27 | 0:15:31 | |
Winter Olympics. Lizzy Yarnold on
the front page. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
This is the front page on the
Telegraph. The story has been | 0:15:33 | 0:15:39 | |
knocking around for a few days, the
campaign about a new media campaign | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
that is suggesting they will be
putting up the arguments for us | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
remaining within Europe. Then on the
Daily Telegraph their lead story is | 0:15:48 | 0:15:56 | |
the reporter says they've seen a
memo from Jeremy Corbyn, in | 0:15:56 | 0:16:02 | |
connection with his meeting with
Michel Barnier. Worth saying that I | 0:16:02 | 0:16:07 | |
understand the Labour Party have a
very different aspect is on this | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
particular story. Maybe we will find
out more about that later. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
We've been talking about interest
rates and the concern about interest | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
rates going higher.
That's what makes the front of the | 0:16:18 | 0:16:23 | |
FT this morning, a hawkish Bank of
England signalling a swift rate rise | 0:16:23 | 0:16:28 | |
to keep inflation in check.
Effectively that means they might be | 0:16:28 | 0:16:34 | |
looking to raise rates sooner than
they previously thought, which will | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
be an interesting one. We will be
talking more about that in about 20 | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
minutes. We have one of the chief
execs of a major bank on. Every time | 0:16:42 | 0:16:49 | |
we talk about this, the cautionary
word is really important. Mortgage | 0:16:49 | 0:16:54 | |
rates are still historically low.
Hugely. It is clearly a significant | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
moment when they start ratcheting
up. At compared with the routine | 0:16:59 | 0:17:04 | |
figures there used to be for so many
years... Routine for many people | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
affected by interest rates in the
90s, but for so many people who | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
owned a house for ten years they
haven't seen a rise in interest | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
rates other than the one we saw last
year. That's where it gets | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
important. A lot of people used to
low interest rates. And the cap on | 0:17:19 | 0:17:23 | |
Downing Street on the FT. Getting
into every paper. What is the cat's | 0:17:23 | 0:17:30 | |
named? Larry. That is the attempt to
stroke him, and that the chief | 0:17:30 | 0:17:37 | |
executive of Mitsubishi in Europe.
Diplomacy in action. If he known for | 0:17:37 | 0:17:44 | |
being rather elusive? Larry, not the
chairman. I'm not an expert on | 0:17:44 | 0:17:51 | |
either, I have to admit. Thank you
and see you both later. Let's find | 0:17:51 | 0:17:56 | |
out what's happening with the
weather. We can take a look from | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
above. Carol is somewhere on the
roof of New Broadcasting House, in | 0:18:00 | 0:18:09 | |
central London.
Is it pouring | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
central London.
Is it pouring with rain where you | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
are? It was chucking it down
earlier, but the rain has stopped. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:18 | |
The forecast for today is another
cold one. Not as cold as yesterday, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
but cold nonetheless. The risk of
ice this morning on untreated | 0:18:23 | 0:18:28 | |
surfaces. Something to be aware of
if you are heading out early. Also | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
once again some wintry showers in
the forecast, meaning a mixture of | 0:18:32 | 0:18:36 | |
rain, sleet and snow and at times on
some of the heavier showers we will | 0:18:36 | 0:18:42 | |
see some of that at lower levels as
well. Some snow on the hills through | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
the day. In the south-west first of
all you can see we've got some | 0:18:46 | 0:18:51 | |
wintry showers, as we have in Wales,
north-west England and south-west | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
Scotland. We also have the remnants
of the rain moving away from the | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
south-eastern corner. For the rest
of us we are off to a dry start and | 0:18:59 | 0:19:04 | |
when the sun gets up there will be a
fair bit of sunshine around. Looking | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
at the forecast for the day, you can
see how the rain moves away from the | 0:19:08 | 0:19:13 | |
south-east. It lightens up with
sunshine. The wintry showers in the | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
west will start to move towards the
east, across the Midlands, through | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and
temperatures still in single figures | 0:19:21 | 0:19:26 | |
for most of us. Into the evening and
overnight, we start with snow | 0:19:26 | 0:19:31 | |
showers in East Anglia. They will
move away, cold air moves in behind, | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
clear skies and again the risk of
ice. Then high pressure comes on, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:41 | |
accompanied by a front, bringing in
rain, snow and strengthening winds. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
Through tomorrow that will move
eastwards, so we start on a cold | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
note in central and eastern areas,
but with sunny spells. This band | 0:19:49 | 0:19:53 | |
will come in. Increasingly the snow
will be in the hills and we have | 0:19:53 | 0:19:57 | |
rain at lower levels. Notice the
winds, especially in southern areas, | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
costing up to 50 miles an hour. --
gusting. Into Sunday, on Sunday | 0:20:01 | 0:20:09 | |
itself we have wintry showers in the
forecast. There will still be a lot | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
of dry weather around and it will
still feel cold and some of those | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
wintry showers will get down to
lower levels. As for the outlook, it | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
does remain cold even as we head on
into next week. So I know you love | 0:20:21 | 0:20:27 | |
the cold, Naga, so this must be a | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
into next week. So I know you love
the cold, Naga, so this must be a | 0:20:31 | 0:20:32 | |
really nice forecast for you.
Thank you very much! I appreciate | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
it.
Keep warm. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:40 | |
You can see my bottle of water on
the desk. In this place, this is | 0:20:40 | 0:20:44 | |
about the worst thing you can do.
Show people that we drink water | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
during the programme. Shocking. My
profound apologies to people who | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
thought we didn't drink water.
You missed the point. The point is | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
it's a plastic bottle. That's the
problem. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
Richard Handley had Downs Syndrome
and was just 33 years | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
old when he died from complications
caused by severe constipation. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
Yesterday, an inquest found
there were "gross and very | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
significant failings" in his care
and opportunities to give him | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
life-saving treatment were missed. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
The government is currently
reviewing the deaths of people | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
with learning disabilities
in England and is due to publish | 0:21:20 | 0:21:23 | |
the first of its
findings next month. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
This programme has been told
there is concern over a significant | 0:21:25 | 0:21:29 | |
number of cases. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
Richard was cheeky and a huge sense
of the ridiculous. Toilet humour. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:41 | |
Yes. Close to Richard's heart.
Because that's how the family dealt | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
with what was a lifelong problem for
Richard. Constipation. A problem | 0:21:45 | 0:21:50 | |
which should have been manageable,
but which killed him when he was 33. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:55 | |
It's just so incomprehensible, isn't
it? It so devastating, really. It | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
shouldn't have happened. Richard's
dye it was well looked after by his | 0:22:00 | 0:22:06 | |
family and care home, but when that
care home turned into supported | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
living he was allowed to eat what he
liked. By the time he was admitted | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
into hospital his constipation was
so severe he appeared full-time | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
pregnant. I saw a picture of him
actually when he was lying on the | 0:22:16 | 0:22:21 | |
hospital bed. The picture was taken
after he had had one of the | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
procedures to hopefully reduce the
size of his tummy and looking at | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
that picture I couldn't believe my
eyes. If all those measures to | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
protect him had been in place, it
wouldn't have happened. He would | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
still be here? He would still be
here, yes. I'd still have a son. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:43 | |
You'd still have a brother.
Yesterday, and inquest hearing | 0:22:43 | 0:22:50 | |
Ipswich found missed opportunities
to help Richard gross failures to | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
act by the hospital, report after
report has shown there are too many | 0:22:53 | 0:22:58 | |
avoidable deaths and three years ago
Jeremy Hunt ordered a world first, | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
scrutiny of every single death of a
learning disabled person in England. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
It will be a very important moment
to step out and look at the way we | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
look after that particular highly
vulnerable group. That review will | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
publish its first report next month,
what we've learnt that one in ten | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
deaths looked at so far have come
with red flag indicators. That might | 0:23:18 | 0:23:24 | |
mean, as with Richard, there is
evidence that treatment was delayed, | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
or perhaps there is evidence of
abuse or neglect or concerns have | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
been raised by a family member. This
woman led the serious case review | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
into Richard's death and also the
scandal of Winterbourne View. She | 0:23:36 | 0:23:41 | |
says both cases exposed a system
which cares deeply at the point of | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
birth, but less as a child becomes
an adult. We know that they can be | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
fantastic when an infant derives in
this world -- arrives. The NHS has | 0:23:48 | 0:23:54 | |
done some astonishing things to keep
those alive. However, that appears | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
to caper and certainly sustained
austerities has shown us that | 0:23:58 | 0:24:03 | |
services have reduced and workforces
have diminished and that is left | 0:24:03 | 0:24:10 | |
families, some families,
floundering. And do you think has | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
cost some learning disabled people
their life? Yes, indeed. It has. The | 0:24:15 | 0:24:23 | |
family have received apologies from
the hospital, the council and the | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
care provider. All sailors and have
been learnt, a phrase often use of | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
the unavoidable death. The
department for health say they must | 0:24:30 | 0:24:34 | |
stop. From July trusts will have the
published data on deaths and | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
evidence of improvement. NHS England
say they are committed to improving | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
the lives of people with a learning
disability. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
Jayne's here now. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:47 | |
So many things from your film. One
is of course the personal poll taken | 0:24:47 | 0:24:53 | |
on Richard's family, then the bigger
questions about what difference this | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
will make. -- toll. This is a world
first. No one has done a national | 0:24:57 | 0:25:04 | |
review of any group of death before
and they hope it will make changes. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:09 | |
They hope that this national review
of all learning disability deaths | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
will enable people to learn from
mistakes. Families like Richard's | 0:25:12 | 0:25:18 | |
are sick of hearing that phrase,
lessons have been learnt. We will | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
learn from mistakes. Six months
after Richard died in a hospital, | 0:25:21 | 0:25:24 | |
another person died. They had
learning disabilities and died of | 0:25:24 | 0:25:30 | |
constipation. There are good of
elements going on. Things like | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
healthcare passport for people with
learning disabilities, things like | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
an annual health review for people
with learning disabilities. Richard | 0:25:37 | 0:25:42 | |
had that passport. It said he was
largely independent. That was wrong. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
Richard was invited to an annual
health check. He missed the | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
appointment and was struck off the
GP surgery, Cosby wrote to him to | 0:25:50 | 0:25:53 | |
invite him. He can't read and nobody
read him the letter. These | 0:25:53 | 0:25:59 | |
initiatives and changes are only
ever as good as the people and | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
systems that are implementing them.
The coroner did say there was one | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
thing that could have saved Richard,
a healthcare co-ordinator. Somebody | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
who had overarching review of what
he needed and to deal with all of | 0:26:10 | 0:26:16 | |
these agencies and join up the dots.
Last night the Department of Health | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
said they had no plans to introduce
this. Thank you very much. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:27 | |
This morning we are going to go to
the national history Museum's dippy | 0:26:27 | 0:26:31 | |
the dinosaur. Well, it is no longer
at the Natural History Museum | 0:26:31 | 0:26:36 | |
because it started a UK tour. John
Maguire is with him this morning. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:43 | |
Good morning. Dippy takes his bow.
We are in Dorchester at the museum | 0:26:43 | 0:26:52 | |
and he is going on a two-year tour.
He has been out of the public days | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
for the first time in more than 100
years and has been refurbished. He | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
has been to Canada and he is now
back and will go on a nationwide | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
tour. It has -- will take two years
to get round. What is really cool | 0:27:05 | 0:27:12 | |
about this is that Dorchester is the
home of palaeontology, as we are | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
just up the road from the Jurassic
coast, where people are still | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
finding dinosaur fossils. Also this
view, the mezzanine, we didn't have | 0:27:20 | 0:27:25 | |
that at the natural history museum,
so it's a wonderful and perhaps | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
natural location. It is almost a
homecoming. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:36 | |
homecoming. Originally it roamed in
what is now the US. Not quite a | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
homecoming, I think you get what I
am saying. Anyway, we will tell you | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
more about him and have a great look
around and we will also completely. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
292 bones, but there is one missing
and we will put the final one in | 0:27:49 | 0:27:54 | |
later. | 0:27:54 | 0:31:12 | |
I'm back with the latest
from the BBC London newsroom | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
in half an hour. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:16 | |
Plenty more on our website
at the usual address. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:18 | |
Bye for now. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:19 | |
Hello - this is Breakfast
with Charlie Stayt and Naga | 0:31:26 | 0:31:28 | |
Munchetty. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
We'll bring you all the latest news
and sport in a moment, | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
but also
on Breakfast this morning. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
Snow, skis and skating. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:36 | |
The Opening Ceremony
of the Winter Olympics takes place | 0:31:36 | 0:31:38 | |
in South Korea today
and after eight, Clare Balding | 0:31:38 | 0:31:46 | |
I don't think that was her there. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:53 | |
When was the last time you sent
or received a love letter? | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
We'll be discussing
whether the practice has become | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
a dying art in the digital age. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:01 | |
(PAUSE FOR 5 SECS UPSOT + OW
"renaissance boys" + TX OOV) | 0:32:01 | 0:32:04 | |
-- From ruthless rulers
to revolting revolutions, | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
we'll be celebrating 25 years
of Horrible Histories. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:16 | |
Good morning, | 0:32:17 | 0:32:17 | |
here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:22 | |
There are just hours to go
until the Opening Ceremony | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
of the Winter Olympics
in South Korea. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:26 | |
The US Vice-President Mike Pence
and sister of the North Korean | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
leader, Kim Jong-un,
are expected to be among those | 0:32:29 | 0:32:31 | |
watching the event in Pyeongchang. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
47 Russian athletes and coaches
implicated in doping | 0:32:33 | 0:32:35 | |
allegations have lost a last-minute
appeal to take part in the Games. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:43 | |
Two British extremists believed to
be one of the most notorious Islamic | 0:32:44 | 0:32:51 | |
State sells members have been
captured in Syria. They were part of | 0:32:51 | 0:32:55 | |
the unit comprising four men from
London who became known as the | 0:32:55 | 0:32:59 | |
Beatles because of their British
accents. The State Department said | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
they beheaded more than 27 Western
hostages and tortured many more. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:08 | |
Global stock markets have continued
their volatility. It follows another | 0:33:08 | 0:33:13 | |
day of corrections in share prices
on Wall Street. The Dow Jones fell | 0:33:13 | 0:33:18 | |
by more than 1000 points for the
second time this week. There are | 0:33:18 | 0:33:24 | |
concerns central banks are going to
raise interest rates. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:27 | |
Human eggs have been fully grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:31 | |
Scientists removed egg
cells from ovary tissue | 0:33:31 | 0:33:33 | |
at their earliest stage
of development, and matured them | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
to the point they were
ready for fertilisation. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:38 | |
Researchers at Edinburgh University
say it could help to preserve | 0:33:38 | 0:33:43 | |
fertility in women, such as those
undergoing chemotherapy. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:48 | |
Key US government agencies have
shut down for the second time | 0:33:48 | 0:33:51 | |
in three weeks. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:54 | |
The Senate failed to vote
on a budget deal before a midnight | 0:33:54 | 0:33:57 | |
deadline, after a republican senator
demanded a last minute ammendment. | 0:33:57 | 0:34:00 | |
For the temporary shutdown to end,
the spending deal must be passed | 0:34:00 | 0:34:03 | |
in both the Senate and the House
of Representatives and then signed | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
by the President. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:14 | |
Marble's newest film, black Panther,
took place -- had its premiere take | 0:34:16 | 0:34:21 | |
place in London last night. -- Micro
three. The actor Michael B Jordan | 0:34:21 | 0:34:29 | |
said the bill was empowering the
young black people. My ten-year-old | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
son did not have many superheroes to
identify with sober the kids to be | 0:34:32 | 0:34:39 | |
able to dream and imagine and see
themselves, without the typical | 0:34:39 | 0:34:45 | |
stereotypes were used to seeing, I
think it is extremely important for | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
the future. Good to see some strong
female characters as well which is | 0:34:48 | 0:34:53 | |
pretty typical Marvel films. We will
see some strong characters in the | 0:34:53 | 0:34:59 | |
Winter Olympics but one of them,
young hopeful, you are gutted for. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:04 | |
One of the things that make the
Olympic -- the Winter Olympics so | 0:35:04 | 0:35:09 | |
great, the lottery of the snow and
ice. You can get injured in training | 0:35:09 | 0:35:14 | |
as Katie Ormerod has done, only 20,
a gold-medal hope. The last | 0:35:14 | 0:35:18 | |
Olympics, remember it was about
Elyse Christie getting disqualified. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:26 | |
For Katie Ormerod, she must wait for
another four years. What is her | 0:35:26 | 0:35:30 | |
event? There was the snowboarding.
The big air, we do lots of tricks | 0:35:30 | 0:35:37 | |
but the one where you go down the
hill and ferries things on the way | 0:35:37 | 0:35:42 | |
down. The potential for medals. But
she is out, she is in hospital and | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
has had surgery done. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:52 | |
has had surgery done. In
snowboarding, it's very painful. You | 0:35:53 | 0:35:55 | |
can't do about that. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:56 | |
We keep hearing it could be the best
wintyer olympics ever | 0:35:56 | 0:36:04 | |
Winter Olympics for Great britain,
and we mustn't take it for granted | 0:36:07 | 0:36:14 | |
It began in 1924, the first Winter
Olympics. | 0:36:17 | 0:36:22 | |
It all began in the 1920s. This was
Saint Moritz, one of the early | 0:36:22 | 0:36:28 | |
venues which went on to stage the
Olympics in 1928. British success in | 0:36:28 | 0:36:32 | |
those early years came be ice
hockey. The team here eventually won | 0:36:32 | 0:36:38 | |
gold in 1936. These days, they don't
qualify. Also, Bobsleigh. How | 0:36:38 | 0:36:43 | |
different sport was then, no
protective walls and by 64, it was | 0:36:43 | 0:36:49 | |
gold. The first-ever winter Gold in
Great Britain was made in Scotland. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:53 | |
These pictures show how massive
curling had begun -- become, | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
inspired by the gold medal in 1924.
All the thrills of watching the £30 | 0:36:57 | 0:37:03 | |
stones as they are called smooth
over the ice. The trouble was, after | 0:37:03 | 0:37:07 | |
its appearance in the inaugural
games, it wasn't reintroduced until | 0:37:07 | 0:37:11 | |
1998 and didn't -- and it didn't
take long for Team GB to strike gold | 0:37:11 | 0:37:16 | |
again. It's looking good. She's done
it. Salt Lake City, 2002. The other | 0:37:16 | 0:37:26 | |
winter sport in which Britain has
struck gold as figure skating. From | 0:37:26 | 0:37:31 | |
the Queen of the ice Jeannette
artwork in 1952 to the golden years | 0:37:31 | 0:37:35 | |
of John Curry in the 1970s, Robin
cousins and many iconic moment of | 0:37:35 | 0:37:40 | |
turbulent team but a generation,
that was it. There was Eddie Eagle | 0:37:40 | 0:37:44 | |
to look to the hearts and a
scattering of bonds but the barren | 0:37:44 | 0:37:49 | |
ewes continued until Britain found
its place again. And then the | 0:37:49 | 0:37:54 | |
survivors of 2006 full is -- 2006.
Led by Lizzie Arnold and the | 0:37:54 | 0:38:00 | |
supporting crew of four years ago
which proved the current generation | 0:38:00 | 0:38:03 | |
never had it so good. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:06 | |
We can cross live now to Andy Swiss
who's in Pyeongchang. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:14 | |
First of all, we start with a low
lights. Katie Ormerod was carrying | 0:38:16 | 0:38:22 | |
on with a wrist batch of. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:28 | |
on with a wrist batch of. Horribly
cruel luck for Katie Ormerod. 24 | 0:38:29 | 0:38:36 | |
hours later, she has broken a heel
and it is a bad break as well. She | 0:38:36 | 0:38:47 | |
was taken to Seoul for emergency
surgery. She said, words can't | 0:38:47 | 0:38:52 | |
describe how gutted I am. It is a
real blow to Team GB because she was | 0:38:52 | 0:38:57 | |
one of the biggest medal hopes.
Russia, you may remember, is banned | 0:38:57 | 0:39:04 | |
from these games because of the
doping scandal but controversially, | 0:39:04 | 0:39:10 | |
169 Russian athletes have been
allowed to compete here as neutrals, | 0:39:10 | 0:39:15 | |
Olympic athletes from Russia, they
are called. We saw two of them | 0:39:15 | 0:39:19 | |
taking part in the figure skating
heats earlier on today. Earlier Ron, | 0:39:19 | 0:39:25 | |
47 more Russian athletes who wanted
to compete here have had their | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
requests rejected. Even so, this
whole issue has caused a lot of | 0:39:29 | 0:39:35 | |
uncertainty and confusion on the eve
of the Winter Olympics. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:45 | |
of the Winter Olympics. I have been
told the White Tiger is the mascot. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:49 | |
What else is in store? The Opening
Ceremony gets under way at 11 | 0:39:49 | 0:39:57 | |
o'clock this morning your time. The
big theme is peace. That seems | 0:39:57 | 0:40:02 | |
particularly relevant seeing that
North Korea and South Korea will be | 0:40:02 | 0:40:07 | |
parading under a single flag.
Something that would have seemed | 0:40:07 | 0:40:12 | |
unthinkable a few weeks ago. There
will be lots of noise, lots of | 0:40:12 | 0:40:19 | |
colour. As far as Team GB are
concerned, they will be led by | 0:40:19 | 0:40:26 | |
Lizzie Yarnold won gold in 2014.
Around 40 of Team GB's 59 athletes | 0:40:26 | 0:40:34 | |
will take part in the parade. They
will not be taking part in the | 0:40:34 | 0:40:41 | |
Opening Ceremony deceiving. The big
question is, how will they keep warm | 0:40:41 | 0:40:45 | |
and combat the chill. The big news
from the athletes and the | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
spectators, it does feel a lot
milder. That does feel good after | 0:40:49 | 0:40:53 | |
the worries of yesterday. The
Opening Ceremony is live on BBC One. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:58 | |
Coverage starts at 10:30 a.m.. Then
Kelly is now representing France. I | 0:40:58 | 0:41:07 | |
was trying to claim him but he is
flying the French flag. Or is he an | 0:41:07 | 0:41:15 | |
Olympic athlete from France. And
OAF? | 0:41:15 | 0:41:25 | |
Human eggs have been fully grown
in a laboratory for the first time, | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
in what scientists hope
could be a breakthrough | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
in preserving fertility. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:31 | |
Researchers say it could offer
hope to women undergoing | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
treatments such as chemotherapy. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:34 | |
Let's find out more about this
from Professor Daniel Bryson, | 0:41:34 | 0:41:37 | |
who's a Professor of Embryology
at the University of Manchester. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:42 | |
Good morning to you. Can you give
us, if you like, the Leiman 's | 0:41:42 | 0:41:52 | |
version of this? I think it's very
exciting because it's the first time | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
we've been able to grow human eggs
in the lab from an early stage. They | 0:41:55 | 0:42:00 | |
are dormant in the ovary when they
very tiny and immature. This allows | 0:42:00 | 0:42:04 | |
us to grow eggs in the lab for 20
days to the point where they are | 0:42:04 | 0:42:09 | |
mature and can be fertilised. The
first time we've been able to do | 0:42:09 | 0:42:12 | |
that in humans. At what point have
they been removed? Women are born | 0:42:12 | 0:42:20 | |
with several hundred thousand eggs
and they are immature and small and | 0:42:20 | 0:42:25 | |
dormant and when women reproduce,
they are released once a month. That | 0:42:25 | 0:42:30 | |
takes several months in the ovary.
Scientists have repeated that | 0:42:30 | 0:42:35 | |
process in the lab. Three phases.
The initial stage when they are very | 0:42:35 | 0:42:39 | |
small. Another stage when it matures
and it's the Burleigh Beach, the | 0:42:39 | 0:42:45 | |
growth but, that they've been able
to activate the eggs from being | 0:42:45 | 0:42:50 | |
dormant. That is the breakthrough.
Stupid question, how big is an egg? | 0:42:50 | 0:43:01 | |
Less than 0.1 millimetres. Tiny.
What has been a process in the | 0:43:01 | 0:43:09 | |
laboratory, who have they been taken
from? They had tissue donated by | 0:43:09 | 0:43:13 | |
patients or they can use tissues
donated by patients who have | 0:43:13 | 0:43:18 | |
undergone cancer treatment. In this
study, they used fresh tissue. They | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
are taking bits of that tissue, put
it in the lab and dissected, taken | 0:43:22 | 0:43:27 | |
at the immature eggs. They put those
through this complex series of steps | 0:43:27 | 0:43:35 | |
using complicated chemical compounds
to get them through to maturity. The | 0:43:35 | 0:43:39 | |
interesting part is the growth
element. Particularly for young | 0:43:39 | 0:43:43 | |
women who are undergoing
chemotherapy, cancer treatment. You | 0:43:43 | 0:43:47 | |
hear when older women are undergoing
chemotherapy, they can have their | 0:43:47 | 0:43:53 | |
eggs taken out and preserved but
it's the younger people this could | 0:43:53 | 0:43:57 | |
help. Exactly. If the young girl or
woman goes to treatment, they can | 0:43:57 | 0:44:03 | |
surgically frees them all we can
make embryos with her partner and we | 0:44:03 | 0:44:09 | |
can take ovarian tissue and freeze
out that the only option with cancer | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
is to have transplanted back many
years later which is invasive and | 0:44:13 | 0:44:16 | |
risky. With this new technique we
can take the tissue out of the | 0:44:16 | 0:44:21 | |
freezer and take the eggs out and
grow them in the lab and use those | 0:44:21 | 0:44:25 | |
eggs in an IVF procedure. It was
another treatment to someone who has | 0:44:25 | 0:44:29 | |
cancer. That is very exciting for
the future. For some people, there | 0:44:29 | 0:44:37 | |
is a sense of concern about how much
science is doing. Are those some | 0:44:37 | 0:44:44 | |
people who think, how far do we go
down certain alleys? Most scientists | 0:44:44 | 0:44:52 | |
in this field are very responsible.
We have tight regulations. These | 0:44:52 | 0:44:57 | |
eggs that are matured in a lab would
never be used for treatment to make | 0:44:57 | 0:45:02 | |
a baby without full regulatory
oversight. The scientists involved | 0:45:02 | 0:45:07 | |
in the work emphasised these eggs
had to be tested to see if they are | 0:45:07 | 0:45:11 | |
normal, whether they can develop
normally we have a good reputation | 0:45:11 | 0:45:14 | |
but doing that in the UK. Wasn't
nine out of 100 successful? The | 0:45:14 | 0:45:22 | |
people doing this work, they need to
improve efficiency. They need to | 0:45:22 | 0:45:29 | |
make sure the eggs are very good
quality before they were testing and | 0:45:29 | 0:45:34 | |
the need to test them to make sure
they are normal and said they | 0:45:34 | 0:45:38 | |
develop normally. But this has been
20 years. We were able to do this 20 | 0:45:38 | 0:45:43 | |
years ago with a mouse and now in
humans. Dockers thank you very much. | 0:45:43 | 0:45:52 | |
-- thank you. | 0:45:52 | 0:45:54 | |
Here's Carol with a look
at this morning's weather. | 0:45:54 | 0:45:58 | |
Good morning. | 0:45:58 | 0:45:59 | |
Good morning. This morning for many
of our cities and as cold start to | 0:45:59 | 0:46:03 | |
the day as yesterday, that doesn't
mean it won't be a cold day. The | 0:46:03 | 0:46:10 | |
other thing to watch out for is ice
on untreated surfaces. An icy start | 0:46:10 | 0:46:15 | |
for some of us and we've also got
wintry showers in the forecast. Some | 0:46:15 | 0:46:19 | |
of those even at lower levels and
some of the heaviest showers into | 0:46:19 | 0:46:22 | |
the weekend. The unsettled theme
continues. At 9am in south-west | 0:46:22 | 0:46:28 | |
England and Wales we do have some
wintry showers. Not all of us are | 0:46:28 | 0:46:32 | |
seeing them. They extend across
northern England and parts of | 0:46:32 | 0:46:36 | |
southern Scotland. In between
there's a lot dry weather. We've | 0:46:36 | 0:46:41 | |
also got another weather front and
we are right under it at the moment | 0:46:41 | 0:46:45 | |
in London. It is producing rain and
that will continue to make its way | 0:46:45 | 0:46:49 | |
in away from the south-eastern
corner into the North Sea. The it | 0:46:49 | 0:46:53 | |
will brighten up. Wintry showers in
the west will drift eastwards across | 0:46:53 | 0:46:58 | |
the Midlands, into East Anglia,
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Some of | 0:46:58 | 0:47:02 | |
the heavier ones could be in the
levels. Temperature wise, still | 0:47:02 | 0:47:07 | |
feeling cold. As we head to this
evening and overnight we start with | 0:47:07 | 0:47:11 | |
wintry showers in East Anglia, but
they will clear and then it's going | 0:47:11 | 0:47:15 | |
to be a cold night. Then we have an
active weather front coming in | 0:47:15 | 0:47:19 | |
across the north-west. That will
introduce windier conditions and | 0:47:19 | 0:47:23 | |
rain and also some snow. It's a cold
night, so the risk of ice again. We | 0:47:23 | 0:47:28 | |
pick the system up tomorrow as it
continues to move eastwards. It will | 0:47:28 | 0:47:33 | |
be a clear start and a bright start
across central and eastern areas | 0:47:33 | 0:47:36 | |
first thing, but through the day the
cloud will build as the weather | 0:47:36 | 0:47:40 | |
front moves from west to east and it
will be very windy tomorrow, | 0:47:40 | 0:47:44 | |
especially in the south, with gusts
of up to 50 miles an hour. Not | 0:47:44 | 0:47:48 | |
particularly cold. Look at the
temperatures. Ten and 11 in the | 0:47:48 | 0:47:51 | |
south. Heading through the evening
and into Sunday, all the rain and | 0:47:51 | 0:47:59 | |
snow connected with this weather
front moves eastwards and it looks | 0:47:59 | 0:48:02 | |
like it could bring some snow across
southern Scotland and northern | 0:48:02 | 0:48:06 | |
England and rain for the rest of us.
And then for Sunday, behind it, it | 0:48:06 | 0:48:13 | |
will brighten up in central and
eastern areas and there will still | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
be wintry showers in the west. Some
of those in Northern Ireland and | 0:48:16 | 0:48:19 | |
Scotland, the heavier ones, could be
at sea level. Temperatures will | 0:48:19 | 0:48:24 | |
still feel cold and that cold theme
continues into Monday. | 0:48:24 | 0:48:28 | |
still feel cold and that cold theme
continues into Monday. | 0:48:28 | 0:48:30 | |
Thanks very much. It is a bit
drizzly. Keep dry under that | 0:48:30 | 0:48:35 | |
umbrella! | 0:48:35 | 0:48:40 | |
Let's talk about the prospect of
interest rates rising now. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:43 | |
Possibly suit an unexpected?
We were talking about it affecting | 0:48:43 | 0:48:47 | |
the stock market this week but it
could also affect a lot of savers | 0:48:47 | 0:48:52 | |
and borrowers as well and that's
something Mark Carney was talking | 0:48:52 | 0:48:55 | |
about yesterday. Good morning. | 0:48:55 | 0:49:02 | |
Yesterday Mark Carney and his team
gave us an update on the Bank | 0:49:02 | 0:49:06 | |
of England's thinking
on interest rates. | 0:49:06 | 0:49:07 | |
They have been at historic lows
for a long time now. | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
But in November the Bank of England
raised the cost of borrowing | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
for the first time in more than ten
years from 0.25% to 0.5%. | 0:49:14 | 0:49:19 | |
Its forecasts at the time indicated
there could be two more increases | 0:49:19 | 0:49:22 | |
of 0.25% over three years. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:30 | |
But yesterday, this is where things
changed, he gave a strong hint | 0:49:33 | 0:49:38 | |
that they were likely to go up
faster than we'd been expecting, | 0:49:38 | 0:49:46 | |
particularly if we take
into account how the economy | 0:49:48 | 0:49:56 | |
is going, rising steadily
as it is at the moment. | 0:49:58 | 0:50:00 | |
So what will that mean
for borrowers and savers? | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
Craid Donaldson is boss
of Metro Bank the boss of one | 0:50:03 | 0:50:06 | |
of the UK's newest banks. | 0:50:06 | 0:50:07 | |
When you hear is -- Mark Carney St
Bees restraint rises could be bigger | 0:50:07 | 0:50:12 | |
than we expected does that mean you
can pass on in full any interest | 0:50:12 | 0:50:16 | |
rate rise that the Bank of England
announces to savers? I think what | 0:50:16 | 0:50:22 | |
Mark Carney was trying to warn
everybody for was getting ready, so | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
they are prepared. I expect rates
will be passed on to savers and | 0:50:25 | 0:50:32 | |
borrowers as well. There will be a
management to look after borrowers | 0:50:32 | 0:50:37 | |
and savers. What is the link between
what the Bank of England says | 0:50:37 | 0:50:40 | |
interest rates are and your savings
account? If you have 0.7% of an | 0:50:40 | 0:50:46 | |
interest rate, if they go up by
0.25% in the next few months does | 0:50:46 | 0:50:51 | |
that mean you can put up your
savings rates by 0.25%? Fully pass | 0:50:51 | 0:50:56 | |
it on? I don't know if we will fully
pass it on, but we put it up. We | 0:50:56 | 0:51:02 | |
will look at the lending rates. If
we pass it on to mortgages they will | 0:51:02 | 0:51:11 | |
also go on to savers. So it's really
looking at the difference between | 0:51:11 | 0:51:17 | |
deposits and lending and that's what
happens to people in markets. So you | 0:51:17 | 0:51:22 | |
have mortgage products as well, so
you will be lending money to people. | 0:51:22 | 0:51:26 | |
Do you think people are ready for a
rate rise? Can they handle what we | 0:51:26 | 0:51:30 | |
might see in the next couple of
years? The vast majority have been | 0:51:30 | 0:51:36 | |
on fixed rates. So they will be
fine. Also when we lend to people we | 0:51:36 | 0:51:41 | |
do it at a rate higher than
borrowing to make sure they can | 0:51:41 | 0:51:44 | |
afford it if rates go up. But four
out of ten people are sitting on a | 0:51:44 | 0:51:48 | |
standard variable rate. They play a
lot more money. -- pay. If you don't | 0:51:48 | 0:51:55 | |
understand that, talk to somebody,
because you shouldn't be paying that | 0:51:55 | 0:51:59 | |
much. Mark Carney says, in terms of
the state of the economy... How do | 0:51:59 | 0:52:05 | |
you view things? We have over 1000
customers, business customers, | 0:52:05 | 0:52:11 | |
joining us every week and they say
they are growing, recruiting people | 0:52:11 | 0:52:15 | |
and building their businesses,
carrying on. So I do see the | 0:52:15 | 0:52:19 | |
strength in the economy. That's why
we are creating 900 jobs this year, | 0:52:19 | 0:52:23 | |
because we are growing because we
are winning customers every day. | 0:52:23 | 0:52:28 | |
Where are you growing? Last week we
spoke about people... Branches being | 0:52:28 | 0:52:34 | |
closed. Can you open them where
people really need them? We are | 0:52:34 | 0:52:38 | |
looking at Wolverhampton at the
moment, Birmingham, we are in | 0:52:38 | 0:52:42 | |
Manchester today and we will look at
places around Manchester, Leeds, | 0:52:42 | 0:52:46 | |
Liverpool. We are looking at new
markets, to grow nationally, but we | 0:52:46 | 0:52:51 | |
look after personal customers and we
also look after. Businesses We | 0:52:51 | 0:52:56 | |
really do need more competition on
the high street. Not necessarily | 0:52:56 | 0:53:02 | |
rule villages? We will get there. It
will just take time. We will be | 0:53:02 | 0:53:08 | |
talking much more about that through
the morning. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
Very interesting. Thank you. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:17 | |
Dippy is on tour. That's a dinosaur
travelling around the UK. And with | 0:53:17 | 0:53:22 | |
him is John Maguire! Good morning.
Good morning. Yes, 150 million years | 0:53:22 | 0:53:31 | |
ago Dippy and his mates were roaming
the planet and now he will go on a | 0:53:31 | 0:53:36 | |
two year tour around the UK. It is a
cast of the dinosaur bones. 292 made | 0:53:36 | 0:53:43 | |
of plaster of Paris. The great thing
about this location in Dorchester, | 0:53:43 | 0:53:47 | |
this is the home of palaeontology.
You also get this mezzanine view of | 0:53:47 | 0:53:52 | |
him, which you didn't use to get at
the Natural History Museum in | 0:53:52 | 0:53:57 | |
London. We will take you down to
have a closer images, and we can | 0:53:57 | 0:54:02 | |
tell you more about the process of
actually bringing in here. You may | 0:54:02 | 0:54:06 | |
remember about one year ago he left
the Natural History Museum. He had | 0:54:06 | 0:54:13 | |
been on display for more than 100
years. I think they took on | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
downstairs to keep him safe during
the Second World War. Now he's back | 0:54:16 | 0:54:20 | |
is about to go on this big journey
across the UK. Good morning. How has | 0:54:20 | 0:54:26 | |
this process being? Long, exciting,
moments of, will it fit in the | 0:54:26 | 0:54:33 | |
space? It's been absolutely
brilliant and we are so delighted | 0:54:33 | 0:54:36 | |
with the outcome. Don't you think it
looks great in this space? He does | 0:54:36 | 0:54:40 | |
look great. 25 metres long and he
fits in perfectly. We just had to | 0:54:40 | 0:54:45 | |
take out a little bit of the balcony
to fit the tailing. There was a lot | 0:54:45 | 0:54:49 | |
of measuring going on. It came in at
86 pieces, but this race was over | 0:54:49 | 0:54:54 | |
200 pieces to put together, so it
was a long time. -- this base. | 0:54:54 | 0:55:00 | |
Dorset County has been fabulous.
This is a huge win for you. You will | 0:55:00 | 0:55:06 | |
double your numbers! We are
anticipating a significant number of | 0:55:06 | 0:55:10 | |
people coming, up to 70,000 in the
next three months. It's a massive | 0:55:10 | 0:55:15 | |
moment for this museum and for this
part of the UK. Let's have a bit | 0:55:15 | 0:55:20 | |
more of a walk round as we talk.
What is it you think that people | 0:55:20 | 0:55:25 | |
would want to see? Why is he so
exciting and inspirational? I think | 0:55:25 | 0:55:29 | |
it is an exceptionally iconic museum
specimen. World-famous, from a whole | 0:55:29 | 0:55:34 | |
range of films and TV programmes.
Here's what people imagine a museum | 0:55:34 | 0:55:39 | |
dinosaur looks like. Why you would
want to see him here is you get a | 0:55:39 | 0:55:44 | |
very different experience. You get
much more up close and personal with | 0:55:44 | 0:55:48 | |
Dippy in this space, then previously
in the Natural History Museum. The | 0:55:48 | 0:55:53 | |
mezzanine at the new dimension and
one that is unique, I think. Thank | 0:55:53 | 0:55:56 | |
you. The other thing that strikes me
about seeing him as a skeleton and | 0:55:56 | 0:56:01 | |
not as a model is you get an idea of
his physiology and how he would have | 0:56:01 | 0:56:07 | |
walked. How dinosaurs would have
made their way across the surface of | 0:56:07 | 0:56:12 | |
the planet 150 million years ago.
You can see him across the UK over | 0:56:12 | 0:56:16 | |
the next two years. For now, we
leave | 0:56:16 | 0:59:39 | |
I'm back with the latest
from the BBC London newsroom | 0:59:39 | 0:59:41 | |
in half an hour. | 0:59:41 | 0:59:42 | |
Plenty more on our website
at the usual address. | 0:59:42 | 0:59:45 | |
Bye for now. | 0:59:45 | 0:59:46 | |
Hello - this is Breakfast,
with Charlie Stayt | 1:00:14 | 1:00:17 | |
and Naga Munchetty. | 1:00:17 | 1:00:17 | |
Just hours to the start of the 23rd
Winter Olympic Games | 1:00:17 | 1:00:20 | |
in South Korea. | 1:00:20 | 1:00:22 | |
Diplomacy is high on the agenda | 1:00:22 | 1:00:25 | |
as senior figures from North Korea
and the US arrive in PyeongChang | 1:00:25 | 1:00:28 | |
for the Opening Ceremony. | 1:00:28 | 1:00:36 | |
And heartbreak overnight for British
medal hopeful Katie Ormerod - | 1:00:39 | 1:00:42 | |
she's broken her heel
in snowboard training, | 1:00:42 | 1:00:44 | |
and is out of the Games -
she'd already fractured her wrist. | 1:00:44 | 1:00:49 | |
This is the scene in Pyeongchang
just before the opening ceremony - | 1:00:49 | 1:00:57 | |
we'll talk about diplomacy. | 1:00:58 | 1:01:06 | |
Good morning. | 1:01:20 | 1:01:28 | |
Also, two British men are to be
Islamic State militants are | 1:01:37 | 1:01:41 | |
captured. Also, the prospect of high
interest rates. More on that in a | 1:01:41 | 1:01:45 | |
moment. | 1:01:45 | 1:01:50 | |
moment. Scientists succeed in
raising human eggs in the | 1:01:52 | 1:01:59 | |
laboratory. A band of rain in the
south-east of England. That will | 1:01:59 | 1:02:03 | |
clear, leaving sunny skies behind
but we also have wintry showers | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
moving from the West to the east.
More in 15 minutes. Perfect weather | 1:02:06 | 1:02:11 | |
to be standing on top of the
building in London. | 1:02:11 | 1:02:15 | |
Good morning. | 1:02:15 | 1:02:16 | |
First, our main story. | 1:02:16 | 1:02:17 | |
There are just hours to go
until the Opening Ceremony | 1:02:17 | 1:02:19 | |
of the Winter Olympics
in South Korea. | 1:02:19 | 1:02:21 | |
The US Vice-President Mike Pence
and sister of the North Korean | 1:02:21 | 1:02:24 | |
leader, Kim Jong-un,
are expected to arrive | 1:02:24 | 1:02:26 | |
in Pyeongchang shortly
to watch the event. | 1:02:26 | 1:02:28 | |
47 Russian athletes and coaches
implicated in doping | 1:02:28 | 1:02:30 | |
allegations have lost a last-minute
appeal to take part in the Games. | 1:02:30 | 1:02:34 | |
Our correspondent,
Stephen McDonell reports. | 1:02:34 | 1:02:42 | |
After years of preparation, | 1:02:45 | 1:02:46 | |
the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
is here. | 1:02:46 | 1:02:48 | |
The venues are ready
and the spectators are pouring in. | 1:02:48 | 1:02:51 | |
The cold and windy conditions don't
seem to be dampening people's | 1:02:51 | 1:02:54 | |
enthusiasm but even the most
diehard sports fans | 1:02:54 | 1:02:56 | |
are finding it difficult to dodge
the political manoeuvres | 1:02:56 | 1:02:58 | |
being played out of these games. | 1:02:58 | 1:03:06 | |
The North Korean leader's sister,
Kim Yo-jong, will be | 1:03:06 | 1:03:09 | |
at the Opening Ceremony and she'll
also meet South Korea's President, | 1:03:09 | 1:03:12 | |
Moon Jae-in. | 1:03:12 | 1:03:13 | |
The United States government has
dispatched Vice-President Mike Pence | 1:03:13 | 1:03:17 | |
who says he is here to challenge
the North Koreans, reminding people | 1:03:17 | 1:03:20 | |
of the country's human rights abuses
and nuclear weapons programme. | 1:03:20 | 1:03:28 | |
Many South Koreans say
they find it a bit | 1:03:31 | 1:03:34 | |
odd that the Trump administration
has decided to counter the North | 1:03:34 | 1:03:37 | |
with its own propaganda
offensive at the Olympics. | 1:03:37 | 1:03:39 | |
But there are divided opinions
amongst locals at these games | 1:03:39 | 1:03:42 | |
over how they'll feel when North
and South Korean athletes | 1:03:42 | 1:03:44 | |
march into the stadium together. | 1:03:44 | 1:03:46 | |
TRANSLATION: Many in the older
generation view this negatively. | 1:03:46 | 1:03:49 | |
They say, why this
unification flag and | 1:03:49 | 1:03:53 | |
not the South Korean flag? | 1:03:53 | 1:03:55 | |
TRANSLATION: I hope this
Olympics melts the snow, | 1:03:55 | 1:03:57 | |
but it is a gradual
melt, not too fast. | 1:03:57 | 1:04:04 | |
Naturally, once elite athletes start
hitting the slopes here, | 1:04:04 | 1:04:06 | |
then they will take centrestage
and for many spectators, | 1:04:06 | 1:04:13 | |
this can't come soon enough,
but even in the sporting arena, | 1:04:13 | 1:04:16 | |
there are political
dimensions here following | 1:04:16 | 1:04:23 | |
the recent doping scandal. | 1:04:23 | 1:04:24 | |
Just hours before
the Opening Ceremony | 1:04:24 | 1:04:26 | |
was due to start, 45 Russian
athletes and two coaches | 1:04:26 | 1:04:28 | |
lost their appeal to participate. | 1:04:28 | 1:04:31 | |
Those Russian athletes
who are allowed to compete | 1:04:31 | 1:04:33 | |
here will do so under the Olympic
flag and following any medals, | 1:04:33 | 1:04:38 | |
the Olympic theme will be played. | 1:04:38 | 1:04:44 | |
Stephen McDonell, BBC News
at the PyeongChang Olympics. | 1:04:44 | 1:04:49 | |
Two British extremists,
believed to be members of one | 1:04:49 | 1:04:52 | |
of the so-called Islamic State
group's most notorious cells, | 1:04:52 | 1:04:54 | |
have been captured by
Syrian Kurdish fighters in Syria | 1:04:54 | 1:04:57 | |
according to US officials. | 1:04:57 | 1:04:58 | |
They are accused of
being part of a unit | 1:04:58 | 1:05:00 | |
which executed 27 Western hostages
and tortured many more. | 1:05:00 | 1:05:02 | |
Andy Moore reports. | 1:05:02 | 1:05:08 | |
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee
Elsheikh, the two Britons captured | 1:05:08 | 1:05:10 | |
by Kurdish forces last month,
and questioned by the Americans. | 1:05:10 | 1:05:14 | |
Together with Aine Davis
and Mohammed Emwazi, | 1:05:14 | 1:05:19 | |
they formed the kidnap gang that
became known as the 'Beatles' | 1:05:19 | 1:05:22 | |
because they were usually
masked and their captors | 1:05:22 | 1:05:24 | |
could hear only their
British accents. | 1:05:24 | 1:05:32 | |
British aid worker Alan Henning
was just one of at least two | 1:05:32 | 1:05:35 | |
dozen foreign hostages they held
captive and then executed. | 1:05:35 | 1:05:38 | |
Last year, the American
State Department | 1:05:38 | 1:05:41 | |
designated Kotey and Elsheikh
as wanted terrorists | 1:05:41 | 1:05:45 | |
who had fought for Islamic state. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:47 | |
Kotey was born in
Paddington in London. | 1:05:47 | 1:05:49 | |
He was of Ghanaian and
Greek Cypriot background. | 1:05:49 | 1:05:51 | |
The citation said he used
exceptionally cruel torture methods | 1:05:51 | 1:05:58 | |
including electronic
shock and waterboarding. | 1:05:58 | 1:05:59 | |
Elsheikh's family had
fled Sudan in the 1990s. | 1:05:59 | 1:06:01 | |
He became a British citizen. | 1:06:01 | 1:06:07 | |
According to the State Department,
he'd earned a reputation for | 1:06:07 | 1:06:14 | |
waterboarding, mock
executions and crucifixions. | 1:06:14 | 1:06:17 | |
The two men were captured
by the American-backed Syrian | 1:06:17 | 1:06:20 | |
Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led
militia. | 1:06:20 | 1:06:21 | |
The fate of the two men is unknown. | 1:06:21 | 1:06:23 | |
They could be sent to the US
detention centre at Guantanamo Bay | 1:06:23 | 1:06:27 | |
or they could stand
trial in the States. | 1:06:27 | 1:06:29 | |
The Foreign Office in the UK said it
would not comment on individual | 1:06:29 | 1:06:32 | |
cases or ongoing investigations. | 1:06:32 | 1:06:33 | |
Andy Moore, BBC News. | 1:06:33 | 1:06:37 | |
The owner of the Mirror
and Sunday Mirror has just announced | 1:06:37 | 1:06:40 | |
it's to buy the Express
and Star newspapers, | 1:06:40 | 1:06:42 | |
as well as celebrity magazine, OK! | 1:06:42 | 1:06:49 | |
Sean's here - how
significant a deal is this? | 1:06:49 | 1:06:55 | |
The Daily Express, the Daily Star,
OK! Magazine. The company that owns | 1:06:55 | 1:07:01 | |
the Daily Mirror, the Trinity Mirror
group, have proposed an acquisition | 1:07:01 | 1:07:05 | |
that they would like to buy these
titles for £130 million. It's been | 1:07:05 | 1:07:11 | |
much rumoured, this link, at some
point about why they would like to | 1:07:11 | 1:07:17 | |
do it. You can see from the Commons
this morning from the Chief | 1:07:17 | 1:07:21 | |
Executive about the thinking behind
it, there are a lot of synergies, a | 1:07:21 | 1:07:25 | |
lot of efficiencies that can be made
between big companies like these and | 1:07:25 | 1:07:29 | |
they merge. Duplication, minimising,
reducing duplication, is something | 1:07:29 | 1:07:33 | |
that jumps out at me when you look
at the comments you. The printing of | 1:07:33 | 1:07:40 | |
these papers, the stories, the
websites. The stories are similar, | 1:07:40 | 1:07:49 | |
aren't they? There may be some
efficiencies. Very interesting. | 1:07:49 | 1:07:58 | |
efficiencies. Very interesting. They
are different aren't they? How does | 1:08:00 | 1:08:05 | |
that work? All quite important as
well. The reduction in local | 1:08:05 | 1:08:15 | |
newspapers recently, what is going
in the newspaper industry. We will | 1:08:15 | 1:08:23 | |
be speaking to the boss of Trinity
Mirror and about 30 minutes. We are | 1:08:23 | 1:08:28 | |
talking about that interest rate
rises. That will have an impact on | 1:08:28 | 1:08:36 | |
equity markets. The Dow Jones, the
equivalent of our FTSE 100, since | 1:08:36 | 1:08:42 | |
last November, he conceded that a
good run. It had an even better run | 1:08:42 | 1:08:46 | |
before that but right at the end,
that is key bit. We saw one big fall | 1:08:46 | 1:08:51 | |
of 4% on Monday night and we talked
about that. Then it bounced back a | 1:08:51 | 1:08:57 | |
little bit but last night, in
America, there was a fall of 4%. | 1:08:57 | 1:09:02 | |
There are falls in Asia overnight.
That is because people are thinking | 1:09:02 | 1:09:09 | |
interest rates might be on the rise.
If interest rates are on the rise, | 1:09:09 | 1:09:14 | |
people might start putting their
money into things linked to interest | 1:09:14 | 1:09:20 | |
rates like interest accounts and not
the stock market. We will keep an | 1:09:20 | 1:09:25 | |
eye on that, especially when the
markets open. | 1:09:25 | 1:09:28 | |
especially when the markets open. | 1:09:28 | 1:09:32 | |
Researchers at Edinburgh University
have grown human eggs | 1:09:32 | 1:09:35 | |
in a laboratory for the first time. | 1:09:35 | 1:09:41 | |
The team say their findings
could lead to new ways of preserving | 1:09:41 | 1:09:44 | |
women's fertility . | 1:09:44 | 1:09:45 | |
Here's our Health and
Science Correspondent, | 1:09:45 | 1:09:46 | |
James Gallagher. | 1:09:46 | 1:09:47 | |
In laboratories in Edinburgh,
scientists have grown human eggs. | 1:09:47 | 1:09:49 | |
They had taken immature eggs that
women are born with and transformed | 1:09:49 | 1:09:53 | |
them so they are ready
to be fertilised. | 1:09:53 | 1:09:55 | |
It's taken decades of work to copy
what happens inside women's ovaries. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
We never imagined that we would be
getting these kind of results | 1:09:58 | 1:10:01 | |
using human tissue. | 1:10:01 | 1:10:04 | |
So it's a significant step, but,
of course, the main objective for us | 1:10:04 | 1:10:07 | |
is to improve and determine
the safety of these techniques, | 1:10:07 | 1:10:10 | |
so that they could, in the future,
see an application. | 1:10:10 | 1:10:16 | |
It could be used for young girls
with cancer, as treatment can | 1:10:16 | 1:10:20 | |
damage their fertility. | 1:10:20 | 1:10:20 | |
So how would that work? | 1:10:20 | 1:10:23 | |
A girl diagnosed with cancer
would have a sample of her ovary | 1:10:23 | 1:10:27 | |
frozen before cancer treatment,
then later, as an adult, | 1:10:27 | 1:10:29 | |
the tissue would be defrosted,
an egg grown, fertilised, | 1:10:29 | 1:10:32 | |
and then put in the womb. | 1:10:32 | 1:10:39 | |
There may even be other applications
in fertility treatment. | 1:10:39 | 1:10:45 | |
This treatment is at an early
stage and needs refining. | 1:10:45 | 1:10:47 | |
None of the eggs have been
fertilised, so it is still uncertain | 1:10:47 | 1:10:51 | |
how viable they are. | 1:10:51 | 1:10:53 | |
James Gallagher, BBC News. | 1:10:53 | 1:10:54 | |
Key US government agencies have
shut down for the second time | 1:10:54 | 1:10:57 | |
in three weeks. | 1:10:57 | 1:11:05 | |
The Senate failed to vote
on a budget deal before a midnight | 1:11:06 | 1:11:09 | |
deadline, after a republican senator
demanded a last minute ammendment. | 1:11:09 | 1:11:12 | |
For the temporary shutdown to end,
the spending deal must be passed | 1:11:12 | 1:11:19 | |
in both the Senate and the House
of Representatives and then signed | 1:11:19 | 1:11:22 | |
by the President. | 1:11:22 | 1:11:24 | |
When we show you pictures
of groundbreaking research taking | 1:11:24 | 1:11:26 | |
place in laboratories,
it's usually the scientists | 1:11:26 | 1:11:28 | |
who wear the goggles. | 1:11:28 | 1:11:29 | |
But in this experiment
into insects' vision | 1:11:29 | 1:11:31 | |
at the University of Newcastle,
it was praying mantises | 1:11:31 | 1:11:33 | |
who were fitted
with tiny 3D glasses. | 1:11:33 | 1:11:38 | |
And if you're wondering how
the spectacles stay in place, | 1:11:38 | 1:11:40 | |
they were stuck on
temporarily using beeswax. | 1:11:40 | 1:11:42 | |
Researchers say the results will be
used to help develop robots. | 1:11:42 | 1:11:50 | |
We'll be talking about that a little
bit later. | 1:11:57 | 1:12:00 | |
Later today, the sister
of the North Korean leader | 1:12:00 | 1:12:03 | |
will attend the Winter
Olympics Opening Ceremony. | 1:12:03 | 1:12:05 | |
Kim Yo-jong will be the most senior
member of the ruling family | 1:12:05 | 1:12:08 | |
to ever visit South Korea. | 1:12:08 | 1:12:09 | |
So what do we know about her? | 1:12:09 | 1:12:11 | |
Part of the high-level
delegation sent by Pyongyang, | 1:12:11 | 1:12:16 | |
Ms Kim is the younger sister
of Kim Jong-un and a close adviser. | 1:12:16 | 1:12:20 | |
She is said to be very close
to the regime's leader. | 1:12:20 | 1:12:22 | |
The two of them lived
and studied together in Berne, | 1:12:22 | 1:12:25 | |
Switzerland. | 1:12:25 | 1:12:26 | |
She is the granddaughter
of North Korean founder | 1:12:26 | 1:12:29 | |
and President Kim Il-sung
and the daughter of Kim Jong-il. | 1:12:29 | 1:12:32 | |
She has been on the US
sanctions list for a year, | 1:12:32 | 1:12:35 | |
because of alleged links
to human rights abuses. | 1:12:35 | 1:12:42 | |
Let's speak to Ramon
Pacheco Pardo | 1:12:42 | 1:12:44 | |
Korea Chair at the
Insititute for European | 1:12:44 | 1:12:47 | |
studies. | 1:12:47 | 1:12:51 | |
Good morning to you. Established to
us how important Kim Yo-jong years | 1:12:51 | 1:12:59 | |
and her arrival at the Winter
Olympics. She is the first member of | 1:12:59 | 1:13:06 | |
the Kim family -- family to visit
South Korea. She is very close to | 1:13:06 | 1:13:10 | |
her brother plus she has a | 1:13:10 | 1:13:17 | |
her brother plus she has a very high
position in the government of North | 1:13:20 | 1:13:23 | |
Korea, the politburo, so she has
political power and family ties. | 1:13:23 | 1:13:26 | |
Just tell is a bit more about the
relationship between her and her | 1:13:26 | 1:13:30 | |
older brother. He is four years old.
They grow up together in | 1:13:30 | 1:13:32 | |
Switzerland. They know each other
since they were little which is not | 1:13:32 | 1:13:36 | |
that common in the North Korean
ruling family. In addition, she was | 1:13:36 | 1:13:41 | |
part of the propaganda machine that
put her brother in power and | 1:13:41 | 1:13:45 | |
basically made him retain power a
few years ago. Also I think this is | 1:13:45 | 1:13:51 | |
quite significant that if you look
at other members of the Kim family, | 1:13:51 | 1:13:57 | |
some have been executed. She is
ruling together with her brother in | 1:13:57 | 1:14:01 | |
the same politburo. She has a
position of power that other members | 1:14:01 | 1:14:07 | |
of the family don't have. Do you
think she will be bringing with her | 1:14:07 | 1:14:13 | |
a direct message from North Korea to
South Korea and indeed, to the | 1:14:13 | 1:14:18 | |
Americans who are represented at the
Games by Mike Pence? To South Korea, | 1:14:18 | 1:14:24 | |
definitely. Apparently there will be
a mention tomorrow between herself | 1:14:24 | 1:14:29 | |
and the South Korean president. I
don't think the Americans want to | 1:14:29 | 1:14:34 | |
meet with her. They are banned from
doing so because there are sanctions | 1:14:34 | 1:14:38 | |
on her but when it comes to South
Korea, I think she's probably going | 1:14:38 | 1:14:44 | |
to express to South Korea North
Korea wants to economic ties and it | 1:14:44 | 1:14:51 | |
wants to start again Family Reunion
is an improved relations between the | 1:14:51 | 1:14:57 | |
two countries. We will get some of
those pictures and they will be | 1:14:57 | 1:15:01 | |
important in the international stage
but the reality check here is that | 1:15:01 | 1:15:05 | |
simultaneously, as we understand it,
North Korea is planning one of their | 1:15:05 | 1:15:09 | |
giant military parades. On the one
hand, the Winter Olympics gives them | 1:15:09 | 1:15:13 | |
an opportunity to send out one
message but they are keen to send | 1:15:13 | 1:15:17 | |
out a different one. Almost
simultaneously. Absolutely. Looking | 1:15:17 | 1:15:25 | |
at the military parade, it is the
way to North Korea to tell the US | 1:15:25 | 1:15:29 | |
and the international community they
are missile power, don't ever strike | 1:15:29 | 1:15:32 | |
us. On the other hand you see this
dramatic approach towards South | 1:15:32 | 1:15:36 | |
Korea, which is a different and --
message. We are willing to discuss | 1:15:36 | 1:15:43 | |
important issues with South Korea
and the international community. We | 1:15:43 | 1:15:47 | |
have the military power, but we want
to have normal diplomatic relations | 1:15:47 | 1:15:50 | |
with other countries. Thank you very
much for your time this morning. | 1:15:50 | 1:15:55 | |
That was the Korean share at the
Institute for Korean Studies. | 1:15:55 | 1:16:02 | |
Here's Carol with a look
at this morning's weather. | 1:16:02 | 1:16:05 | |
Braving the elements up I on the
roof of new broadcasting house in | 1:16:05 | 1:16:10 | |
London. It doesn't look great at
there! | 1:16:10 | 1:16:13 | |
London. It doesn't look great at
there! | 1:16:13 | 1:16:14 | |
You are taking one for the team. It
is raining in London. It's been on | 1:16:14 | 1:16:18 | |
and off, but it is coming down
heavily at the moment. It will | 1:16:18 | 1:16:22 | |
however clear. For most of us
because we have cloud and rain | 1:16:22 | 1:16:27 | |
around, it's not as cold start the
day as it was yesterday, but it will | 1:16:27 | 1:16:32 | |
still be a day, especially if you
are hanging around our lives. The | 1:16:32 | 1:16:36 | |
forecast is again feeling cold. The
risk of ice on untreated surfaces | 1:16:36 | 1:16:40 | |
this morning. Some wintry showers in
the forecast as well and we will | 1:16:40 | 1:16:45 | |
lose the rain that we currently have
in London in the next few hours. | 1:16:45 | 1:16:49 | |
Starting at 9am, these are the
wintry showers in south-west | 1:16:49 | 1:16:53 | |
England, Wales, parts of northern
England and also across south-east | 1:16:53 | 1:16:57 | |
Scotland. By wintry showers I mean a
mix of rain, sleet and snow. As we | 1:16:57 | 1:17:04 | |
pull out to the big map you can see
that we've got the rain continuing | 1:17:04 | 1:17:09 | |
to move away from south-east
England, so behind, a lot of dry | 1:17:09 | 1:17:13 | |
weather and a fair bit of sunshine.
But the wintry showers in the west | 1:17:13 | 1:17:17 | |
will be drifting eastwards as we go
through the course of the day and | 1:17:17 | 1:17:21 | |
you can see them almost anywhere.
Temperatures, most of us in single | 1:17:21 | 1:17:25 | |
figures, so still feeling cold.
Then, heading through this evening | 1:17:25 | 1:17:28 | |
and overnight, we start with wintry
showers across East Anglia. They | 1:17:28 | 1:17:33 | |
will leave a cold night behind with
a lot of moisture round. Again the | 1:17:33 | 1:17:37 | |
risk of ice on untreated surfaces.
Then they will be low pressure with | 1:17:37 | 1:17:42 | |
an active front, coming in from the
north-west and introducing rain, | 1:17:42 | 1:17:45 | |
with snow, mostly on the hills, and
strengthening winds. So tomorrow we | 1:17:45 | 1:17:51 | |
start on a nice, bright and clear
note across central and eastern | 1:17:51 | 1:17:55 | |
parts of the UK, but the system
coming in from the west is moving | 1:17:55 | 1:17:59 | |
eastwards through the day. So the
cloud will continue and another | 1:17:59 | 1:18:02 | |
feature of the more's weather is it
will be wintry, especially in the | 1:18:02 | 1:18:06 | |
south, with gusts of up to 60 mph
potentially. So increasingly the | 1:18:06 | 1:18:11 | |
snow will retreat into the hills and
it will be rain at lower levels. | 1:18:11 | 1:18:15 | |
That will cross us during the course
of Saturday night. It could bring | 1:18:15 | 1:18:20 | |
snow across southern Scotland and
also northern England. It clears | 1:18:20 | 1:18:22 | |
into the North Sea on Sunday and
high did we have a cold day once | 1:18:22 | 1:18:27 | |
again. Sunshine in east, still
wintry showers in the west and some | 1:18:27 | 1:18:32 | |
of those even at lower levels will
get down as snow. As we head into | 1:18:32 | 1:18:37 | |
the new week we continue with this
cold thing. | 1:18:37 | 1:18:41 | |
the new week we continue with this
cold thing. | 1:18:41 | 1:18:42 | |
Yet you say it with a smile on your
face! | 1:18:42 | 1:18:45 | |
It's winter, it's not as bad.
You stay out there than! | 1:18:45 | 1:18:53 | |
Of the 800 UK nationals who have
travelled to fight for so-called | 1:18:53 | 1:19:00 | |
Islamic State, four brutal killers
dubbed 'The Beatles', | 1:19:00 | 1:19:02 | |
because of their British accents,
were the most notorious. | 1:19:02 | 1:19:05 | |
One of them, a militant
nicknamed Jihadi John, | 1:19:05 | 1:19:07 | |
was killed in a drone
strike in 2015. | 1:19:07 | 1:19:09 | |
Another was jailed
in Turkey last year. | 1:19:09 | 1:19:11 | |
Now the remaining two have been
captured by Kurdish fighters. | 1:19:11 | 1:19:16 | |
Let's talk more about this to Dr
Shiraz Maher, from the | 1:19:16 | 1:19:19 | |
International Centre
for the Study of Radicalisation. | 1:19:19 | 1:19:23 | |
Thank you very much for joining us
this morning. What do you know about | 1:19:23 | 1:19:27 | |
the capture of these two British
men? I think their capture is highly | 1:19:27 | 1:19:35 | |
significant because 'The Beatles'
were a wanted group. They had been | 1:19:35 | 1:19:40 | |
known to have held a number of
Westerners hostage as and when known | 1:19:40 | 1:19:43 | |
to be incredibly brutal to those
they had in their captivity. These | 1:19:43 | 1:19:47 | |
men who were beheaded ultimately by
IS had been held before that for | 1:19:47 | 1:19:52 | |
quite a long period of time and had
been subjected to the most vicious | 1:19:52 | 1:19:56 | |
kind of torture by these people. The
fact that these two individuals have | 1:19:56 | 1:20:01 | |
now been caught will be very
significant and of course there will | 1:20:01 | 1:20:04 | |
be a lot of intelligence that people
want to know about. What does the | 1:20:04 | 1:20:11 | |
future hold? Will they be trialled
or questioned? There's a bit of a | 1:20:11 | 1:20:14 | |
legal grey whole right now. A number
of Western and British foreign | 1:20:14 | 1:20:19 | |
fighters who had travelled out there
and joined Islamic State have been | 1:20:19 | 1:20:24 | |
captured by the Kurds in some
instances, by the Free Syrian Army | 1:20:24 | 1:20:27 | |
in others. Those in the Iraqi side
tend to be passed over in the state | 1:20:27 | 1:20:33 | |
custody on that side of the board.
So there are some reports emerging | 1:20:33 | 1:20:36 | |
that these two individuals would
have been transferred into US | 1:20:36 | 1:20:39 | |
military custody. If they are we
could expect to see them stand trial | 1:20:39 | 1:20:44 | |
at some date in the future. I
suppose what a lot of this comes | 1:20:44 | 1:20:47 | |
down to is how cooperative they will
be. Is there any history of captured | 1:20:47 | 1:20:53 | |
jihadist being cooperative with
authorities? I think you do find | 1:20:53 | 1:20:56 | |
that. Not all of them will talk, but
increasingly with a number of IS | 1:20:56 | 1:21:03 | |
individuals who have been captured
and detained, you see them express | 1:21:03 | 1:21:05 | |
remorse about what they've done and
as a result of that really opening | 1:21:05 | 1:21:09 | |
up to their captors. That happened
in a number of cases. It is hard to | 1:21:09 | 1:21:14 | |
know with these individuals how hard
and they are and how committed they | 1:21:14 | 1:21:17 | |
remained to be ideology they were
once following, but time will tell | 1:21:17 | 1:21:22 | |
as to whether they will give up a
lot of their secrets. What is the | 1:21:22 | 1:21:26 | |
situation in regards to the group
they were in, in terms of the | 1:21:26 | 1:21:30 | |
atrocities or things they've been
involved in? It's important to know | 1:21:30 | 1:21:34 | |
that of course Islamic State
captured the world-class market | 1:21:34 | 1:21:39 | |
attention when it became a protest
state and government large parts of | 1:21:39 | 1:21:42 | |
Syria and Iraq. Of course the
western mac road led dilatory | 1:21:42 | 1:21:45 | |
campaign against them resulted in
that aspect of the group being | 1:21:45 | 1:21:50 | |
pushed back -- Western. But that's
not the be all and end all of a | 1:21:50 | 1:21:55 | |
group like this. It originally
emerged across Iraq and Syria and | 1:21:55 | 1:22:02 | |
emerged as a terrorist movement,
which is how we encounter it in the | 1:22:02 | 1:22:06 | |
West. So we have pushed back one
aspect of it, but it's really gone | 1:22:06 | 1:22:12 | |
back to its insurgent groups and
pulled back to the desert. We know | 1:22:12 | 1:22:16 | |
it still operating across parts of
Iraq and we know it will live to | 1:22:16 | 1:22:20 | |
fight another day with those remain
in its clutches at the moment. But | 1:22:20 | 1:22:23 | |
in what form and with how much
strength? Because in Syria, | 1:22:23 | 1:22:31 | |
effectively Islamic State has been
beaten. I think it is overstating | 1:22:31 | 1:22:35 | |
the case. I would certainly counter
against popping the champagne at | 1:22:35 | 1:22:40 | |
this moment in time. The estimates
on where Islamic State is, the US | 1:22:40 | 1:22:46 | |
government said it may be down to
3000 hardened fighters. That may not | 1:22:46 | 1:22:51 | |
sound like a lot, given what it was
at its watermark of tens of | 1:22:51 | 1:22:55 | |
thousands of fighters, but it is
worth noting the roots of this | 1:22:55 | 1:22:59 | |
organisation came off the back of Al
Qaeda in Iraq after the 2002 | 1:22:59 | 1:23:03 | |
invasion and at that point comment
for it pushed into Syria and grew | 1:23:03 | 1:23:06 | |
into a what we know, it was
estimated to have about 1000 | 1:23:06 | 1:23:11 | |
fighters. We are still looking at
three times the number in the court | 1:23:11 | 1:23:16 | |
today than those who emerged in the
first place. Dr Maher, thank you | 1:23:16 | 1:23:20 | |
very much for talking to us. | 1:23:20 | 1:23:27 | |
There is a dinosaur roaming the UK.
John Maguire has the latest. | 1:23:27 | 1:23:34 | |
Yes, we would have roamed the earth
around 150 million years ago, | 1:23:34 | 1:23:38 | |
something like that. Dippy the
Dinosaur is in the UK now and he has | 1:23:38 | 1:23:45 | |
been on display for more than 100
years in the Natural History Museum | 1:23:45 | 1:23:49 | |
in London. He is now going on a
nationwide tour. If you are in | 1:23:49 | 1:23:55 | |
Dorchester, Birmingham, Newcastle,
Cardiff, Rochdale, Norwich or | 1:23:55 | 1:23:58 | |
anywhere near their opening next two
years you will get the chance to | 1:23:58 | 1:24:02 | |
come and see him. We are in
Dorchester and it is sort of the | 1:24:02 | 1:24:07 | |
home of palaeontology. You just up
the road from the Jurassic coast. It | 1:24:07 | 1:24:11 | |
feels as if it's a bit of a
homecoming but of course they would | 1:24:11 | 1:24:15 | |
have originally been in the United
States. That's a hallowed to Philip | 1:24:15 | 1:24:19 | |
Charles. You've been behind funding
the tour -- Phillipa. IK Kim on | 1:24:19 | 1:24:29 | |
tour? This was way to people around
the country and of course Dippy had | 1:24:29 | 1:24:33 | |
a long heritage in the Natural
History Museum, but it felt like | 1:24:33 | 1:24:37 | |
such a great opportunity to take on
about and bring people in and of | 1:24:37 | 1:24:41 | |
course to have him here in Dorset
first is really exciting. It's a | 1:24:41 | 1:24:46 | |
wonderful museum. He is 25 metres
long and just about fits in, by the | 1:24:46 | 1:24:51 | |
skin of his nose. Although there is
no skin on his nose. It feels to me | 1:24:51 | 1:24:57 | |
in a funny way it feels like a
homecoming. Why do people want to | 1:24:57 | 1:25:01 | |
see him? I think the sheer scale. He
is truly magnificent. An amazing | 1:25:01 | 1:25:06 | |
thing. I think many people who may
have been to the Natural History | 1:25:06 | 1:25:10 | |
Museum themselves as the will
remember him, I know myself and the | 1:25:10 | 1:25:15 | |
trustees do. So he has a special
place in the hearts of the British | 1:25:15 | 1:25:19 | |
public. Lovely. Thanks very much.
This is what he would have looked | 1:25:19 | 1:25:23 | |
like when he was roaming the earth
with his mates. With this location | 1:25:23 | 1:25:27 | |
you get a mezzanine level, so you
can get a Birds Eye view or a | 1:25:27 | 1:25:31 | |
pterodactyl's view of what he would
have looked like and what his | 1:25:31 | 1:25:35 | |
skeleton looks like these days. We
will bring you more from Dippy and | 1:25:35 | 1:25:38 | |
have a chat to lots of | 1:25:38 | 1:28:58 | |
Plenty more on our website
at the usual address. | 1:28:58 | 1:29:00 | |
Bye for now. | 1:29:00 | 1:29:01 | |
Welcome back. | 1:29:09 | 1:29:15 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin | 1:29:15 | 1:29:17 | |
Hello this is Breakfast
with Charlie Stayt and Naga | 1:29:17 | 1:29:20 | |
Munchetty. | 1:29:20 | 1:29:20 | |
There are just hours to go
until the Opening Ceremony | 1:29:20 | 1:29:23 | |
of the Winter Olympics
in South Korea. | 1:29:23 | 1:29:25 | |
The sister of the
North Korean leader, | 1:29:25 | 1:29:27 | |
Kim Jong-un, has arrived
in the country and is expected | 1:29:27 | 1:29:30 | |
to attend the event alongside US
Vice President Mike Pence. | 1:29:30 | 1:29:32 | |
Kim Yo-jong's arrival marks
the first time a member | 1:29:32 | 1:29:35 | |
of the North's ruling family
has visited the South. | 1:29:35 | 1:29:40 | |
Two British extremists,
believed to be members of one | 1:29:40 | 1:29:42 | |
of the so-called Islamic State
group's most notorious cells, | 1:29:42 | 1:29:45 | |
have been captured by Syrian Kurdish
fighters in Syria - | 1:29:45 | 1:29:47 | |
according to US officials. | 1:29:47 | 1:29:48 | |
They were part of a unit comprising
of four men from London, | 1:29:48 | 1:29:52 | |
who became known as the 'Beatles'
because of their British accents. | 1:29:52 | 1:29:55 | |
The US State Department said
they beheaded more than 27 Western | 1:29:55 | 1:29:58 | |
hostages and tortured many more. | 1:29:58 | 1:30:06 | |
Trinity Mirror newspapers has
announced a deal to buy several | 1:30:13 | 1:30:19 | |
newspapers. It brings celebrity
magazines such as OK! Magazine with | 1:30:19 | 1:30:25 | |
other newspapers. | 1:30:25 | 1:30:27 | |
Global stock market have
continued their volatility this week | 1:30:27 | 1:30:29 | |
- overnight Asian and Austrailia
markets have dropped overnight. | 1:30:29 | 1:30:33 | |
It follows another day
of corrections in share prices | 1:30:33 | 1:30:35 | |
on Wall Street. | 1:30:35 | 1:30:36 | |
The Dow Jones fell by more
than a thousand points | 1:30:36 | 1:30:39 | |
for the second time this week. | 1:30:39 | 1:30:40 | |
Investors are selling off shares due
to concerns central banks | 1:30:40 | 1:30:43 | |
are going to raise
interest rates soon. | 1:30:43 | 1:30:45 | |
Human eggs have been fully grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 1:30:45 | 1:30:48 | |
Scientists removed egg
cells from ovary tissue | 1:30:48 | 1:30:50 | |
at their earliest stage
of development, and matured them | 1:30:50 | 1:30:53 | |
to the point they were
ready for fertilisation. | 1:30:53 | 1:30:56 | |
Researchers at Edinburgh University
say it could help to preserve | 1:30:56 | 1:30:59 | |
fertility in women, such as those
undergoing chemotherapy. | 1:30:59 | 1:31:04 | |
Key US government agencies have
shut down for the second time | 1:31:04 | 1:31:07 | |
in three weeks. | 1:31:07 | 1:31:08 | |
(TX OOV) The Senate failed to vote
on a budget deal before a midnight | 1:31:08 | 1:31:15 | |
deadline, after a republican senator
demanded a last minute ammendment. | 1:31:15 | 1:31:18 | |
For the temporary shutdown to end,
the spending deal must be passed | 1:31:18 | 1:31:21 | |
in both the Senate and the House
of Representatives and then signed | 1:31:21 | 1:31:24 | |
by the President. | 1:31:24 | 1:31:27 | |
The European Premiere of Marvel's
newest super hero film, | 1:31:27 | 1:31:30 | |
Black Panther, took place
in London last night. | 1:31:30 | 1:31:32 | |
It is the first film
to focus on black characters | 1:31:32 | 1:31:34 | |
from the comics and has also
received praise for its portrayal | 1:31:34 | 1:31:37 | |
of strong female characters. | 1:31:37 | 1:31:38 | |
The actor, Michael B Jordan,
said that the film was empowering | 1:31:38 | 1:31:41 | |
for young black people. | 1:31:41 | 1:31:49 | |
My 10-year-old self did not have
many superheroes to kind of identify | 1:31:50 | 1:31:53 | |
with so for the kids now to be able
to dream and imagine and see | 1:31:53 | 1:32:01 | |
themselves, see different
possibilities in an empowerinng way, | 1:32:03 | 1:32:06 | |
without the typical stereotypes
we're used to seeing, | 1:32:06 | 1:32:08 | |
I think it is extremely
important for the future. | 1:32:08 | 1:32:16 | |
This is that the work they are doing
to the Winter Olympics. This | 1:32:18 | 1:32:22 | |
morning, we have one of those
stories. Katie Ormerod, she has been | 1:32:22 | 1:32:31 | |
dreaming about being in the Winter
Olympics. Cold conditions, it is | 1:32:31 | 1:32:37 | |
snowboarding basically. Doing things
like the rails and various things on | 1:32:37 | 1:32:44 | |
the way down. Then write as you're
about to realise your dream and | 1:32:44 | 1:32:48 | |
achieve your dream, snow sports are
always going to be a bit of a | 1:32:48 | 1:32:53 | |
lottery. You have an injury. That
means she is in hospital instead of | 1:32:53 | 1:32:56 | |
competing. It is over for her. But
she is only 20. She can start again | 1:32:56 | 1:33:03 | |
in four years' time. It is a
lifetime annuities. | 1:33:03 | 1:33:12 | |
It was a real blow to their medal
chances. | 1:33:13 | 1:33:16 | |
We can cross live now to Andy Swiss
who's in Pyeongchang - | 1:33:16 | 1:33:19 | |
Andy, really disappointing news
about Katie Ormerod, | 1:33:19 | 1:33:21 | |
she was planning to carry
on with a fractured wrist, | 1:33:21 | 1:33:24 | |
but with a broken heel
she has no chance. | 1:33:24 | 1:33:26 | |
Beautiful views there but not such
great news. Broken Hill means she | 1:33:26 | 1:33:31 | |
has no chance in these games now. --
broken heel. It is desperately cruel | 1:33:31 | 1:33:39 | |
luck for Katie Ormerod. She broke
her wrist in a training accident. | 1:33:39 | 1:33:43 | |
She said that would not stop her. 24
hours later however, she broke her | 1:33:43 | 1:33:48 | |
heel and it was a bad break as well.
So bad, she was taken to Seoul for | 1:33:48 | 1:33:56 | |
emergency surgery. She said, words
can't describe how gutted she is. | 1:33:56 | 1:34:04 | |
The British team admit it is a big
blow. Yes, indeed. She is in an | 1:34:04 | 1:34:14 | |
extreme sport, she sat at their
share of injuries, an incredible | 1:34:14 | 1:34:17 | |
thing, she's got brilliant
resilience. She comes back better | 1:34:17 | 1:34:22 | |
from injuries. You wouldn't wish
this on anyone. It will be very sad | 1:34:22 | 1:34:28 | |
for the rest of the team as well not
to have about. A very positive | 1:34:28 | 1:34:32 | |
member of the team. We just wish the
best. When she is fit and well, she | 1:34:32 | 1:34:39 | |
can come back and fulfil the great
potential that she has. The other | 1:34:39 | 1:34:47 | |
big news concerns Russia's athletes.
Russia is banned from these games | 1:34:47 | 1:34:53 | |
because of their doping scandal but
controversially 169 Russian athletes | 1:34:53 | 1:34:57 | |
have been allowed to compete here
under a neutral lag. They are known | 1:34:57 | 1:35:05 | |
as OARs, Olympic athletes from
Russia. We saw a couple in the | 1:35:05 | 1:35:09 | |
Olympic figure skating earlier
today. 47 more Russian athletes had | 1:35:09 | 1:35:14 | |
their appeals rejected by the Court
of Arbitration for Sport. Even | 1:35:14 | 1:35:20 | |
still, this is caused a lot of
uncertainty right on the eve of | 1:35:20 | 1:35:24 | |
these Winter Olympics. A bit of
action already so far. We are | 1:35:24 | 1:35:29 | |
looking forward to the Opening
Ceremony. I am sensing that could be | 1:35:29 | 1:35:33 | |
a few white tigers involved. It'll
be interesting to see how this | 1:35:33 | 1:35:40 | |
Opening Ceremony pans out. It starts
at 11 o'clock in the morning your | 1:35:40 | 1:35:46 | |
time. We've had rehearsals here. We
are told the big theme of this | 1:35:46 | 1:35:50 | |
Opening Ceremony is peace which
seems very relevant at the moment | 1:35:50 | 1:35:54 | |
because North Korea and South Korea
will be parading into the stadium | 1:35:54 | 1:35:59 | |
together under one flag, something
which would have seemed unthinkable | 1:35:59 | 1:36:04 | |
a few weeks ago. Team GB will be led
into the stadium by Lizzie Yarnold | 1:36:04 | 1:36:12 | |
who won gold four years ago. 40
members of the British team will | 1:36:12 | 1:36:18 | |
parade in the stadium. There are 49
in total. The big question is how | 1:36:18 | 1:36:24 | |
calls will it be? We had minus 20.
The good news for the fans and | 1:36:24 | 1:36:31 | |
indeed the athletes parading
tonight, it is feeling a lot milder. | 1:36:31 | 1:36:39 | |
I do have an Opening Ceremony. White
tigers are the symbol of Korea even | 1:36:39 | 1:36:45 | |
though the last one was hunted in
the 1930s. Heated cushions? | 1:36:45 | 1:36:56 | |
the 1930s. Heated cushions? They
won't need them now, it has warmed | 1:36:56 | 1:36:58 | |
up. You have one of those heated car
seats? Never underestimate the power | 1:36:58 | 1:37:07 | |
of the bum warmer. | 1:37:07 | 1:37:13 | |
Here's how you can follow
the Winter Olympics on the BBC today | 1:37:13 | 1:37:17 | |
- you can watch build up
to the Opening Ceremony from 10:30 | 1:37:17 | 1:37:20 | |
this morning on BBC One,
the Red Button and online. | 1:37:20 | 1:37:23 | |
And for a round up of all the day's
action if you're in England | 1:37:23 | 1:37:26 | |
or Scotland, you can watch
"Winter Olympics: Today | 1:37:26 | 1:37:29 | |
at the Games" at 7pm on BBC Two. | 1:37:29 | 1:37:31 | |
Don't forget, the one and only Clare
balding is with us. A little bit | 1:37:31 | 1:37:35 | |
later. Just build-up to the arrival
of cloud. | 1:37:35 | 1:37:39 | |
We have the second round of
Six Nations matches coming | 1:37:39 | 1:37:42 | |
up this weekend, and England head
coach Eddie Jones has ramped up | 1:37:42 | 1:37:45 | |
the mind games ahead
of their meeting with Wales. | 1:37:45 | 1:37:48 | |
He's questioned whether Wales
fly-half Rhys Patchell has | 1:37:48 | 1:37:50 | |
the "bottle" for the
match at Twickenham. | 1:37:50 | 1:37:52 | |
Patchell only has six caps
but he was instrumental as Wales | 1:37:52 | 1:37:55 | |
crushed Scotland last weekend. | 1:37:55 | 1:37:56 | |
It's a massive step up. He hasn't
played much test rugby at all. He's | 1:37:56 | 1:38:03 | |
a young guy doesn't have much
experience. He has great experienced | 1:38:03 | 1:38:10 | |
players around him. He has a lot of
experienced players coming at him. | 1:38:10 | 1:38:14 | |
The pressure on him is going to be
enormous. It depends if he has the | 1:38:14 | 1:38:19 | |
bottle to handle it. He doesn't need
a heated cushion, he has a lovely | 1:38:19 | 1:38:23 | |
fire. | 1:38:23 | 1:38:31 | |
fire. It wasn't a happy homecoming
to Danny McGuire. The defending | 1:38:31 | 1:38:36 | |
champions came from behind for a
victory. They were marching on | 1:38:36 | 1:38:42 | |
together last night. Elsewhere,
Huddersfield Giants picks up -- | 1:38:42 | 1:38:45 | |
picked up their first win of the
season against Waddington. More at | 1:38:45 | 1:38:50 | |
8:30 a.m.. Including the last 100
years of Olympic highlights the | 1:38:50 | 1:38:54 | |
Great Britain but there have been
many barren years. Seven games, | 1:38:54 | 1:38:58 | |
nothing at all. No medals.
Here is hoping. Heady days, these | 1:38:58 | 1:39:05 | |
days, for the Olympics in winter. | 1:39:05 | 1:39:11 | |
A big deal announced in the world
of newspapers this morning. | 1:39:12 | 1:39:19 | |
There will be fewer? | 1:39:19 | 1:39:22 | |
It depends on this big merger.
Trinity Mirror group have the Mirror | 1:39:22 | 1:39:28 | |
titles and Richard Desmond's titles,
the Express, the Daily Star as well, | 1:39:28 | 1:39:34 | |
and when these things happen, it is
interesting to see what decision the | 1:39:34 | 1:39:38 | |
bosses make. The owner of the Mirror
and the Sunday Mirror announced he | 1:39:38 | 1:39:45 | |
will buy those publications. Just
under £130 million. Simon Fox is the | 1:39:45 | 1:39:53 | |
boss of Trinity Mirror and joins us
from London. Why is this a good deal | 1:39:53 | 1:39:59 | |
for readers of those newspapers?
Firstly, there will not be fewer | 1:39:59 | 1:40:05 | |
titles. It's a very deal because by
bringing two organisations together, | 1:40:05 | 1:40:11 | |
we can be stronger. Our editorial
teams together, instead of | 1:40:11 | 1:40:19 | |
duplicating and sending the same
reporters to the same football | 1:40:19 | 1:40:23 | |
matches. We can be much more
efficient and cover much more | 1:40:23 | 1:40:28 | |
breadth of coverage. It's good for
readers and advertisers and | 1:40:28 | 1:40:32 | |
shareholders and pension funds. It's
not good for the people who work the | 1:40:32 | 1:40:37 | |
company. Absolutely. If you are
employed by a financially stronger | 1:40:37 | 1:40:44 | |
organisation. Will there be job
cuts? Overtime because we are going | 1:40:44 | 1:40:50 | |
to remove duplication, mainly in
back-office functions. Two very | 1:40:50 | 1:40:56 | |
similar businesses together, and
inevitably, there is duplication is | 1:40:56 | 1:41:02 | |
there will be changes. Obviously we
will be talking to those teams in | 1:41:02 | 1:41:06 | |
due course. Broadly, this is very
good for all concerned. On a | 1:41:06 | 1:41:11 | |
national level, you can see why that
duplication might not be necessary | 1:41:11 | 1:41:16 | |
but when you look at local
newspapers who have had a tough time | 1:41:16 | 1:41:19 | |
of it, Theresa May talking about
losing a bit of democracy because of | 1:41:19 | 1:41:26 | |
the amount of local papers that have
gone under, surely it can't be a | 1:41:26 | 1:41:30 | |
good thing if you are making
efficiencies across local | 1:41:30 | 1:41:33 | |
newspapers. This transaction, we
operate around 100 regional papers. | 1:41:33 | 1:41:42 | |
Manchester News, through to the
Plymouth Herald. Trinity Mirror as a | 1:41:42 | 1:41:47 | |
group makes over £120 million. We
are absolutely committed to | 1:41:47 | 1:41:52 | |
continuing our investment for our
great regional titles, in print and | 1:41:52 | 1:41:57 | |
digitally. Will you be closing any
local titles? No plans to do that. | 1:41:57 | 1:42:04 | |
Let's take the Daily Mirror and the
Daily Express. To newspapers with | 1:42:04 | 1:42:10 | |
different approaches. | 1:42:10 | 1:42:15 | |
different approaches. Will we see
any change there? Definitely not. | 1:42:15 | 1:42:18 | |
The Daily Mirror is not going to
become right-wing, the Daily Express | 1:42:18 | 1:42:22 | |
is not going to become left-wing. We
have 100 titles. Those editors have | 1:42:22 | 1:42:30 | |
full territorial independence. We
are quite used to operating aboard | 1:42:30 | 1:42:36 | |
stable of titles. Will you have
journalists asked to write a story | 1:42:36 | 1:42:43 | |
from a right-wing perspective and
the next day, a left-wing | 1:42:43 | 1:42:46 | |
perspective? We will not see
political teams Nick Singh in any | 1:42:46 | 1:42:50 | |
way. Sport, features, what we call
the back of the newspaper. We can | 1:42:50 | 1:42:57 | |
actually invest and improve our
products. Part of your announcement, | 1:42:57 | 1:43:05 | |
you highlight the costs that he had
paid in relation to phone hacking, | 1:43:05 | 1:43:11 | |
saying they are higher than you
expected. Why should a company like | 1:43:11 | 1:43:15 | |
Trinity Mirror which is admitted
hacking people's phones be allowed | 1:43:15 | 1:43:20 | |
to increase its influence on more of
our newspapers? Phone hacking was a | 1:43:20 | 1:43:26 | |
really bad part of our history,
before my time there. In fact, we | 1:43:26 | 1:43:33 | |
settled with Hugh Grant will over a
year ago. In our announcement, the | 1:43:33 | 1:43:39 | |
legal costs associated with coming
to the end was higher than it had | 1:43:39 | 1:43:45 | |
been and that's why we increased the
provision but fortunately, we are | 1:43:45 | 1:43:49 | |
getting towards the end of what's
been a long and difficult process. | 1:43:49 | 1:43:54 | |
We may have committed something in
the past that was wrong. It doesn't | 1:43:54 | 1:44:00 | |
matter now. The editorial standards
today, ten years on, are completely | 1:44:00 | 1:44:07 | |
different. This could never happen
today. If you've got the same sports | 1:44:07 | 1:44:14 | |
reporters covering things on the
back pages of the paper, why would | 1:44:14 | 1:44:18 | |
you go to buy the Daily Star or the
Daily Express or the Daily Mirror | 1:44:18 | 1:44:22 | |
ahead of another one if they are all
going to merge? | 1:44:22 | 1:44:30 | |
going to merge? The idea is to
improve the coverage and different | 1:44:30 | 1:44:32 | |
people like different titles for
different reasons, as you say. | 1:44:32 | 1:44:36 | |
Different political points of view.
So what we are trying to do is to | 1:44:36 | 1:44:41 | |
improve and invest in the titles, to
prolong the circulation and to | 1:44:41 | 1:44:45 | |
develop the online digital
offerings. Simon, thank you very | 1:44:45 | 1:44:49 | |
much. For anybody in the Midlands,
the Star is a different newspaper in | 1:44:49 | 1:44:58 | |
the Midlands.
Thank you for clearing that up. | 1:44:58 | 1:45:04 | |
It's just coming up to 7:45am and we
are with Carol who now has her | 1:45:04 | 1:45:14 | |
umbrella down.
What's going on? | 1:45:14 | 1:45:15 | |
The rain has finally stopped! This
morning it is not | 1:45:15 | 1:45:21 | |
The rain has finally stopped! This
morning it is not a cold start like | 1:45:21 | 1:45:24 | |
yesterday, but it will still feel
cold through the day. To start the | 1:45:24 | 1:45:29 | |
day there is also the risk of ice on
untreated surfaces. We've got rain | 1:45:29 | 1:45:34 | |
in the south-east which will clear.
We've also got quite a lot of wintry | 1:45:34 | 1:45:37 | |
showers around and that means a
mixture of rain, sleet and some | 1:45:37 | 1:45:41 | |
snow. Some heavier showers could
provide snow at lower levels. This | 1:45:41 | 1:45:46 | |
morning we have snow showers in the
west England, Wales, northern | 1:45:46 | 1:45:50 | |
England and especially south-east
Scotland. Those will drift eastward | 1:45:50 | 1:45:55 | |
through the day. Looking at the big
map you can see where we have rain | 1:45:55 | 1:45:59 | |
in the south-eastern corner. That
will continue to push into the near | 1:45:59 | 1:46:02 | |
continent as we go through the
morning, leaving a lot of dry | 1:46:02 | 1:46:06 | |
weather behind. Remember those
wintry showers I mentioned? They are | 1:46:06 | 1:46:10 | |
drifting eastward and we could see
one almost anywhere as we go through | 1:46:10 | 1:46:14 | |
the day. It will feel cold.
Temperatures roughly 4-7. Through | 1:46:14 | 1:46:19 | |
this evening and overnight we start
with wintry showers in East Anglia | 1:46:19 | 1:46:23 | |
and they will tend to move away,
then it will be a cold and dry night | 1:46:23 | 1:46:27 | |
for many, with the risk of ice. On
untreated surfaces. We've also got | 1:46:27 | 1:46:31 | |
low pressure coming into the
north-west of the country. That will | 1:46:31 | 1:46:38 | |
introduce rain, snow, mainly on the
hills, and strengthening winds and | 1:46:38 | 1:46:42 | |
it will be cold. Roughly minus 2-
two degrees. Tomorrow we start on a | 1:46:42 | 1:46:49 | |
cold note in central and eastern
areas. But the weather front brings | 1:46:49 | 1:46:53 | |
the rain and hill snow and it moves
to the north-east, with cloud | 1:46:53 | 1:46:58 | |
building ahead of it, eradicating
the brighter start. It will also be | 1:46:58 | 1:47:02 | |
very windy in the south, gusting 40-
50, maybe more. But look at the | 1:47:02 | 1:47:08 | |
temperatures! Some of us seeing
double figures. We haven't seen that | 1:47:08 | 1:47:12 | |
for a while. As we head through the
overnight period that system, the | 1:47:12 | 1:47:18 | |
weather front, producing the rain,
sleet and snow moves into the North | 1:47:18 | 1:47:21 | |
Sea. We could see some snow in
northern England for a time before | 1:47:21 | 1:47:26 | |
that clears and on Sunday we have
some sunshine behind that front. It | 1:47:26 | 1:47:31 | |
will be cold. And we also have
wintry showers, especially in the | 1:47:31 | 1:47:34 | |
north and west. In some of the
heavier ones we could see some of | 1:47:34 | 1:47:39 | |
those getting the lower levels,
meaning snow at lower levels. If you | 1:47:39 | 1:47:42 | |
like it cold, there's a treat for
you, because we are carrying on with | 1:47:42 | 1:47:47 | |
the cold being in the next week.
What do you think, Carol? | 1:47:47 | 1:47:53 | |
I don't think you will be too | 1:47:53 | 1:47:55 | |
What do you think, Carol?
I don't think you will be too happy, | 1:47:55 | 1:47:55 | |
Naga.
It makes me feel better to see what | 1:47:55 | 1:47:59 | |
happening in Pyeongchang.
It is pretty cold there, but today | 1:47:59 | 1:48:03 | |
isn't as called for the Opening
Ceremony it has been. Tomorrow won't | 1:48:03 | 1:48:07 | |
be as cold either. But then as we
head into the latter part of the | 1:48:07 | 1:48:12 | |
weekend, into Monday, it will turn
cold again and when you add on the | 1:48:12 | 1:48:17 | |
strength of the wind will make it
feel it. In the hills that time they | 1:48:17 | 1:48:21 | |
will have -16, with a westerly wind
of 32 mph. | 1:48:21 | 1:48:24 | |
I wouldn't like that! Random
question for the morning, well, it | 1:48:24 | 1:48:29 | |
will make sense in a moment. When
was the last time you broke all | 1:48:29 | 1:48:33 | |
received a love letter?
I think it was BC, actually. 500 BC. | 1:48:33 | 1:48:40 | |
A long time ago.
Well, you might be interested in | 1:48:40 | 1:48:44 | |
this. See you later. | 1:48:44 | 1:48:46 | |
There was a time when putting pen
to paper was the only way | 1:48:46 | 1:48:49 | |
to express your feelings
for an absent loved one. | 1:48:49 | 1:48:52 | |
But nowadays the language of love
is less letter-writing and more | 1:48:52 | 1:48:55 | |
texting, as technology
has taken over. | 1:48:55 | 1:48:56 | |
So could the art of writing love
letters be dying out? | 1:48:56 | 1:48:59 | |
Not if the Royal Mail have
anything to do with it. | 1:48:59 | 1:49:02 | |
They've compiled a list
of do's and don'ts for | 1:49:02 | 1:49:05 | |
the modern-day wordsmith. | 1:49:05 | 1:49:06 | |
To tell us more we're joined by poet
Louise Fazackerley and writer | 1:49:06 | 1:49:09 | |
Simon Garfield. | 1:49:09 | 1:49:15 | |
Good morning to both of you. Is it a
source of some dismay to you, the | 1:49:15 | 1:49:21 | |
idea of love letters slightly on the
wane? I guess we probably knew that. | 1:49:21 | 1:49:26 | |
And we know why. It's so much easier
to write an e-mail. But we will | 1:49:26 | 1:49:30 | |
never discover love e-mails in the
attic, so that the value of the | 1:49:30 | 1:49:36 | |
letter. It means so much more. I
always thrilled... When I get | 1:49:36 | 1:49:42 | |
anything but junk mail through the
post, anything personal, and that | 1:49:42 | 1:49:46 | |
could be a thank you note or just an
expression of not necessarily love | 1:49:46 | 1:49:55 | |
but affection. I think the key in
all of this is to make sure that we | 1:49:55 | 1:50:02 | |
don't disregard love letters as
necessarily the most passionate | 1:50:02 | 1:50:04 | |
rings ever, -- things ever, but they
could just be nice things to write | 1:50:04 | 1:50:12 | |
to siblings or anyone in your family
and, as I say, the delight of | 1:50:12 | 1:50:16 | |
getting something through the post
is thought of a vanishing art, a | 1:50:16 | 1:50:21 | |
vanishing joy. Would you not
appreciate a love letter in the form | 1:50:21 | 1:50:26 | |
of an e-mail? I think it depends who
it was from, really. Obviously a | 1:50:26 | 1:50:30 | |
happily married man so I have to be
a bit careful. It wouldn't mean the | 1:50:30 | 1:50:37 | |
same thing, I don't think. The joy
of a letter is what you get from a | 1:50:37 | 1:50:42 | |
letter beyond just the text, the
words. It could be... You could tell | 1:50:42 | 1:50:48 | |
a lot from someone's handwriting,
from their choice of pen and paper | 1:50:48 | 1:50:53 | |
as well. If it means something, it's
something you want to hold to your | 1:50:53 | 1:51:00 | |
heart and keep and as an historian
who has written a lot about history | 1:51:00 | 1:51:06 | |
told through letters, the idea of...
What would you do now if you wanted | 1:51:06 | 1:51:14 | |
to tell someone their history? You
would need to have access to their | 1:51:14 | 1:51:20 | |
passwords, their computer. Some of
the letters behind us from the | 1:51:20 | 1:51:25 | |
British library. It's a fantastic
archive. E-mails are harder to | 1:51:25 | 1:51:31 | |
catalogue and see afterwards. You
are someone who uses words. That | 1:51:31 | 1:51:35 | |
your world that you live in. Do you
think if love letters are dying out, | 1:51:35 | 1:51:40 | |
what are we missing out on? I think
we are missing out on a very | 1:51:40 | 1:51:45 | |
particular moment in time and I
think that you forget how much you | 1:51:45 | 1:51:49 | |
love someone as time progresses. So
if you can capture those tiny little | 1:51:49 | 1:51:53 | |
details about how you both love the
smell of ironing, or other times | 1:51:53 | 1:52:01 | |
together, they could be lost. But
they could be in other forms. It is | 1:52:01 | 1:52:05 | |
beautiful. There's no denying. We
look at those letters. We learn | 1:52:05 | 1:52:09 | |
about relatives from those letters,
but we aren't in those times. Does | 1:52:09 | 1:52:14 | |
it matter that they are in a
different form? I don't think it | 1:52:14 | 1:52:17 | |
does. I'm a big fan of the text
message and e-mail and people having | 1:52:17 | 1:52:22 | |
these conversations and sometimes
people do print them out and keep | 1:52:22 | 1:52:25 | |
them in that sense. I wouldn't like
the idea that someone would be | 1:52:25 | 1:52:29 | |
worried about the spelling or
handwriting. And I think that's | 1:52:29 | 1:52:35 | |
what's holding some people back as
well. They found people were | 1:52:35 | 1:52:42 | |
frightened and they somehow felt
that if you write a letter and post | 1:52:42 | 1:52:47 | |
it, they are being more tested in
their writing skills. So obviously | 1:52:47 | 1:52:51 | |
that great it frontage of the text
or tweak is the informality of it. I | 1:52:51 | 1:52:56 | |
think one writes a letter in a
different way. It is a slower, the | 1:52:56 | 1:53:00 | |
liberal whirring. You think of your
words more, maybe you will put a | 1:53:00 | 1:53:07 | |
beginning, middle and end to it.
It's a more thought out and | 1:53:07 | 1:53:12 | |
hopefully considered document as
well. I do think you can learn a lot | 1:53:12 | 1:53:18 | |
from love letters. This reminded me
of something. This is Johnny Cash | 1:53:18 | 1:53:22 | |
wishing his life due a happy 56th
birthday. -- wife June. It is about | 1:53:22 | 1:53:29 | |
taking words and seeing how they can
apply to your own relationships. We | 1:53:29 | 1:53:33 | |
get old and get used to each other.
We think alike, we read each other's | 1:53:33 | 1:53:37 | |
mines, we know what the other wants
without asking. Sometimes we | 1:53:37 | 1:53:41 | |
irritate each other and little bit.
AB sometimes we take each other for | 1:53:41 | 1:53:45 | |
granted. Does that make you think of
me? | 1:53:45 | 1:53:47 | |
Not remotely. What I will share this
with you. I met Johnny Cash and Tim | 1:53:47 | 1:53:53 | |
Carter and I met them together and
we did have a really lovely | 1:53:53 | 1:53:57 | |
relationship, without wishing to
namedrop. So that doesn't surprise | 1:53:57 | 1:54:01 | |
me in the least.
That's why I was connecting. | 1:54:01 | 1:54:04 | |
Absolutely. I see where you're
going... | 1:54:04 | 1:54:10 | |
Dissed on live television! You can
share your photos with us, the | 1:54:10 | 1:54:17 | |
Dissed on live television! You can
share your photos with us, the | 1:54:17 | 1:54:17 | |
number is coming on the screen.
Let's feel the love with Dippy. John | 1:54:17 | 1:54:26 | |
Maguire is | 1:54:26 | 1:54:26 | |
Let's feel the love with Dippy. John
Maguire is with Dippy, the dinosaur. | 1:54:26 | 1:54:28 | |
Tell us more.
He is a plaster of Paris dinosaur, | 1:54:28 | 1:54:34 | |
made over 100 years ago. His head
weighs 500 kilograms in total 80 | 1:54:34 | 1:54:39 | |
weighs two times. A magnificent
specimen about to go on to around | 1:54:39 | 1:54:43 | |
the UK over the next couple of
years. Wherever you are in the UK | 1:54:43 | 1:54:47 | |
you can see him in a museum near
you. They say never work with | 1:54:47 | 1:54:52 | |
children and animals, but we are
pretty sure Dippy will behave | 1:54:52 | 1:54:55 | |
himself. We are going to introduce
you to a group of schoolchildren who | 1:54:55 | 1:55:01 | |
are seeing Dippy for the first time.
Let's see what they make of him. | 1:55:01 | 1:55:04 | |
Come on out. Come and have a look.
What do you think of him? He is | 1:55:04 | 1:55:14 | |
massive! He is massive. Can you
imagine those wandering around on | 1:55:14 | 1:55:20 | |
the Earth 150 million years ago?
Where is evident? -- Evan? He has | 1:55:20 | 1:55:28 | |
been to see him in London already.
What's it like seeing him closer to | 1:55:28 | 1:55:32 | |
home? Good. This is Beryl, the
exploring bear. Why have you brought | 1:55:32 | 1:55:39 | |
her? She is a really good explorer.
And so why you. Have a good look | 1:55:39 | 1:55:45 | |
around and see what is think. They
are being very quiet. I think they | 1:55:45 | 1:55:50 | |
are really enjoying it very much. | 1:55:50 | 1:55:56 | |
are really enjoying it very much. He
is sort of coming home for you, as | 1:55:57 | 1:56:01 | |
I've been saying. What's it like to
have him here? It's fantastic. It's | 1:56:01 | 1:56:05 | |
coming back to his own time zone on
the Jurassic coast and seeing these | 1:56:05 | 1:56:11 | |
kids a posture the reaction is just
why we have been working so hard | 1:56:11 | 1:56:15 | |
with a museum to bring him to Dorset
for ten weeks over the next period | 1:56:15 | 1:56:19 | |
of time. He is in a museum and it is
ticket only, but there will be | 1:56:19 | 1:56:23 | |
tickets available in a few weeks. It
is a big deal, isn't it? We are | 1:56:23 | 1:56:27 | |
trying to build on the national
history idea and we've got events | 1:56:27 | 1:56:33 | |
happening all along the coast, as
far as Taunton, Salisbury, and | 1:56:33 | 1:56:37 | |
everywhere in between. That's about
getting people involved with nature | 1:56:37 | 1:56:45 | |
and the natural environment and
that's what the Jurassic Trust is | 1:56:45 | 1:56:50 | |
trying to do. Get people involved
with the natural world. Thank you. A | 1:56:50 | 1:56:54 | |
link from the fast 150 million years
ago right up to the date and the | 1:56:54 | 1:56:59 | |
next generation of explorers and
palaeontologists getting a good look | 1:56:59 | 1:57:03 | |
at Dippy.
Thanks very much. It is fascinating. | 1:57:03 | 1:57:06 | |
You can see the awe in those
children. | 1:57:06 | 1:57:15 | |
Lovely to see. | 1:57:15 | 1:57:17 | |
Time now to get the news,
travel and weather where you are. | 1:57:17 | 2:00:36 | |
in half an hour. | 2:00:36 | 2:00:37 | |
Plenty more on our website
at the usual address. | 2:00:37 | 2:00:39 | |
Bye for now. | 2:00:39 | 2:00:40 | |
Hello. | 2:00:43 | 2:00:44 | |
This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt
and Naga Munchetty. | 2:00:44 | 2:00:47 | |
Just hours to the official start
of the 23rd Winter Olympic | 2:00:47 | 2:00:49 | |
Games in South Korea | 2:00:49 | 2:00:50 | |
Diplomacy is high on the agenda
as senior figures from North Korea | 2:00:50 | 2:00:53 | |
and the US arrive in Pyeongchang
for the Opening Ceremony. | 2:00:53 | 2:01:00 | |
And heartbreak overnight for British
medal hopeful Katie Ormerod. | 2:01:00 | 2:01:03 | |
She's fractured her heel
in snowboard training, | 2:01:03 | 2:01:04 | |
and is out of the Games. | 2:01:04 | 2:01:06 | |
She'd already fractured her wrist. | 2:01:06 | 2:01:12 | |
This is the scene in Pyeongchang
just before the Opening Ceremony. | 2:01:12 | 2:01:20 | |
We will be talking about the
excitement with TV presenter Clare | 2:01:21 | 2:01:26 | |
Balding. | 2:01:26 | 2:01:34 | |
Good morning, it's
Friday 9th February. | 2:01:34 | 2:01:36 | |
Also this morning... | 2:01:36 | 2:01:39 | |
Two British men - believed to be
Islamic State militants known | 2:01:39 | 2:01:42 | |
for killing 27 Western
hostages - are captured | 2:01:42 | 2:01:44 | |
by Syrian Kurdish fighters. | 2:01:44 | 2:01:46 | |
Good morning. | 2:01:46 | 2:01:49 | |
The owner of the Daily Mirror has
bought the Daily Express, | 2:01:49 | 2:01:54 | |
the Daily Star. | 2:01:54 | 2:01:58 | |
The boss just me there would be job
cuts but it would be good for | 2:01:58 | 2:02:02 | |
readers. | 2:02:02 | 2:02:04 | |
Scientists succeed in growing human
eggs in a laboratory, raising hopes | 2:02:04 | 2:02:07 | |
of new fertility treatments. | 2:02:07 | 2:02:08 | |
And Carol has the weather. | 2:02:08 | 2:02:10 | |
Good morning from the roof of
Broadcasting House in London. We had | 2:02:10 | 2:02:15 | |
rain this morning. The rain in the
south-east is continuing to move | 2:02:15 | 2:02:18 | |
away. There will be wintry showers,
a mix of rain, sleet and hail and | 2:02:18 | 2:02:24 | |
they could be almost anywhere. More
in 15 minutes. | 2:02:24 | 2:02:31 | |
Good morning. | 2:02:31 | 2:02:33 | |
There are just hours to go
until the Opening Ceremony | 2:02:33 | 2:02:36 | |
of the Winter Olympics in South
Korea. | 2:02:36 | 2:02:38 | |
The US Vice President Mike Pence
and sister of the North Korean | 2:02:38 | 2:02:40 | |
leader, Kim Jong-un,
are expected to arrive | 2:02:40 | 2:02:43 | |
In a last minute development,
47 Russian athletes and coaches | 2:02:43 | 2:02:46 | |
implicated in doping allegations
were told they have lost | 2:02:46 | 2:02:48 | |
an appeal to take part. | 2:02:48 | 2:02:52 | |
Our Correspondent,
Stephen McDonell, reports. | 2:02:52 | 2:02:53 | |
After years of preparation,
the PyeongChang Winter Olympics | 2:02:53 | 2:02:55 | |
is here. | 2:02:55 | 2:02:57 | |
The venues are ready
and the spectators are pouring in. | 2:02:57 | 2:03:02 | |
The cold and windy conditions don't
seem to be dampening people's | 2:03:02 | 2:03:04 | |
enthusiasm but even the most
die-hard sports fans | 2:03:04 | 2:03:10 | |
are finding it difficult to dodge
the political manoeuvres | 2:03:10 | 2:03:18 | |
being played out at these Games. | 2:03:18 | 2:03:21 | |
The North Korean leader's sister,
Kim Yo-jong, will be | 2:03:21 | 2:03:23 | |
at the Opening Ceremony and she'll
also meet South Korea's President, | 2:03:23 | 2:03:26 | |
Moon Jae-in. | 2:03:26 | 2:03:29 | |
The United States government has
dispatched Vice-President Mike Pence | 2:03:29 | 2:03:33 | |
who says he is here to challenge
the North Koreans, reminding people | 2:03:33 | 2:03:36 | |
of the country's human rights abuses
and nuclear weapons programme. | 2:03:36 | 2:03:40 | |
Many South Koreans say
they find it a bit | 2:03:40 | 2:03:44 | |
odd that the Trump administration
has decided to counter the North | 2:03:44 | 2:03:47 | |
with its own propaganda
offensive at the Olympics. | 2:03:47 | 2:03:53 | |
But there are divided opinions
amongst locals at these games | 2:03:53 | 2:03:55 | |
over how they'll feel when North
and South Korean athletes | 2:03:55 | 2:03:58 | |
march into the stadium together. | 2:03:58 | 2:04:02 | |
TRANSLATION: Many in the older
generation view this negatively. | 2:04:02 | 2:04:04 | |
They say, why this
unification flag and | 2:04:04 | 2:04:06 | |
not the South Korean flag? | 2:04:06 | 2:04:11 | |
TRANSLATION: I hope this
Olympics melts the snow, | 2:04:11 | 2:04:13 | |
but it is a gradual
melt, not too fast. | 2:04:13 | 2:04:18 | |
Naturally, once elite athletes start
hitting the slopes here, | 2:04:18 | 2:04:21 | |
then they will take centrestage
and for many spectators, | 2:04:21 | 2:04:24 | |
this can't come soon enough,
but even in the sporting arena, | 2:04:24 | 2:04:27 | |
there are political
dimensions here following | 2:04:27 | 2:04:30 | |
the recent doping scandal. | 2:04:30 | 2:04:35 | |
Just hours before
the Opening Ceremony | 2:04:35 | 2:04:37 | |
was due to start, 45 Russian
athletes and two coaches | 2:04:37 | 2:04:39 | |
lost their appeal to participate. | 2:04:39 | 2:04:47 | |
Those Russian athletes
who are allowed to compete | 2:04:49 | 2:04:51 | |
here will do so under the Olympic
flag and following any medals, | 2:04:51 | 2:04:54 | |
the Olympic theme will be played. | 2:04:54 | 2:04:56 | |
Stephen McDonell, BBC News
at the Pyeongchang Olympics. | 2:04:56 | 2:05:02 | |
Our Correspondent, Stephen McDonell,
is in Pyeongchang for us. | 2:05:02 | 2:05:07 | |
It is going to be really interested.
Everyone is gearing up to get | 2:05:07 | 2:05:12 | |
excited and get involved in the
winter Olympics. Also the political | 2:05:12 | 2:05:17 | |
events, shall we say,
behind-the-scenes, they will also be | 2:05:17 | 2:05:23 | |
closely watching those. Absolutely
here, people are so excited about | 2:05:23 | 2:05:29 | |
the opening ceremony. There are not
too many skiers on this mountain | 2:05:29 | 2:05:33 | |
because the crowds are starting to
head into town, drifting towards the | 2:05:33 | 2:05:39 | |
stadium. Interestingly, in recent
hours, we have seen images broadcast | 2:05:39 | 2:05:45 | |
on television of the sister of the
North Korean leader. She stepped off | 2:05:45 | 2:05:49 | |
the plane and the Korean cameras are
following however she goes. She will | 2:05:49 | 2:05:56 | |
be in the stadium alongside the US
vice president. We're all waiting to | 2:05:56 | 2:06:00 | |
see what comes of this opening
ceremony. The cultural aspects of | 2:06:00 | 2:06:05 | |
it, the political aspects of it, the
two Korean teams coming in together, | 2:06:05 | 2:06:12 | |
it will be quite an historic event
and there is a lot of enthusiasm for | 2:06:12 | 2:06:16 | |
it. Thank you very much. Good to see
you. | 2:06:16 | 2:06:30 | |
Two British extremists,
believed to be members of one | 2:06:30 | 2:06:33 | |
of the so-called Islamic State
group's most notorious cells, | 2:06:33 | 2:06:35 | |
have been captured by Syrian Kurdish
fighters in Syria - | 2:06:35 | 2:06:37 | |
according to US officials. | 2:06:37 | 2:06:38 | |
They became known as the Beatles due
to their Richard Jackson 's. They | 2:06:38 | 2:06:45 | |
headed more than 27 Western hostages
and tortured many more. The Mirror | 2:06:45 | 2:06:52 | |
newspapers has reached a deal to buy
a number of other titles including | 2:06:52 | 2:06:56 | |
the Daily Express and the daily
Star. The agreement brings together | 2:06:56 | 2:07:00 | |
tabloids from the opposite ends of
the political spectrum. The chief | 2:07:00 | 2:07:05 | |
Executive of Trinity Mirror told us
there would be changes. There will, | 2:07:05 | 2:07:10 | |
over time, be job cuts. We are going
to remove duplication, mainly in | 2:07:10 | 2:07:16 | |
back-office functions. We are
bringing two similar businesses | 2:07:16 | 2:07:20 | |
together. When you do that there is
a certain amount of duplication. It | 2:07:20 | 2:07:25 | |
does not affect regional newspapers
at all. We operate around 100 | 2:07:25 | 2:07:31 | |
regional newspapers like Manchester
Evening News and the Plymouth | 2:07:31 | 2:07:34 | |
Herald. Trinity Mirror, as a group,
makes over £120 million. We are | 2:07:34 | 2:07:41 | |
absolutely committed to continuing
our investment in great regional | 2:07:41 | 2:07:46 | |
titles, both in print and digitally. | 2:07:46 | 2:07:50 | |
Human eggs have been fully grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 2:07:50 | 2:07:58 | |
In laboratories in Edinburgh,
scientists have grown human eggs. | 2:08:12 | 2:08:14 | |
They've taken immature eggs that
women are born with and transformed | 2:08:14 | 2:08:17 | |
them so they are ready
to be fertilised. | 2:08:17 | 2:08:19 | |
It's taken decades of work to copy
what happens inside women's ovaries. | 2:08:19 | 2:08:23 | |
We never imagined that we would be
getting these kind of results | 2:08:23 | 2:08:25 | |
using human tissue. | 2:08:25 | 2:08:26 | |
So it's a significant step, but,
of course, the main objective for us | 2:08:26 | 2:08:29 | |
is to improve and determine
the safety of these techniques, | 2:08:29 | 2:08:31 | |
so that they could, in the future,
go into some kind of application. | 2:08:31 | 2:08:34 | |
It could be used for young girls
with cancer, as treatment can | 2:08:34 | 2:08:37 | |
damage their fertility. | 2:08:37 | 2:08:38 | |
So how might it work? | 2:08:38 | 2:08:40 | |
A girl diagnosed with cancer
would have a sample of her ovary | 2:08:40 | 2:08:42 | |
frozen before cancer treatment,
then later, as an adult, | 2:08:42 | 2:08:45 | |
the tissue would be defrosted,
an egg grown, fertilised, | 2:08:45 | 2:08:48 | |
and then put in the womb. | 2:08:48 | 2:08:51 | |
There may even be other applications
in fertility treatment. | 2:08:51 | 2:08:54 | |
This treatment is at an early
stage and needs refining. | 2:08:54 | 2:09:00 | |
None of the eggs have been
fertilised, so it is still uncertain | 2:09:00 | 2:09:03 | |
how viable they are. | 2:09:03 | 2:09:05 | |
James Gallagher, BBC News. | 2:09:05 | 2:09:13 | |
In about two and a half hours, the
eyes of the world will be in South | 2:09:13 | 2:09:19 | |
Korea because they will be watching
the opening ceremony of the winter | 2:09:19 | 2:09:23 | |
Olympics. | 2:09:23 | 2:09:26 | |
Clare Balding will be presenting
the BBC's coverage of the Games | 2:09:26 | 2:09:30 | |
and has just returned. | 2:09:30 | 2:09:35 | |
Do a big scene setter for us. It is
about 50 miles from the border of | 2:09:35 | 2:09:43 | |
North Korea. It is not a town, it is
a bit like going to Northumberland, | 2:09:43 | 2:09:51 | |
it is one of my favourite places. It
will be the smallest Winter Olympic | 2:09:51 | 2:09:57 | |
venue for a long time. The venues
are not that far apart. There is | 2:09:57 | 2:10:04 | |
that region where the ski jump and
the sliding events will be, and the | 2:10:04 | 2:10:10 | |
Alpine events, and then there is a
coastal region as well. You see the | 2:10:10 | 2:10:16 | |
sea lapping up against the snow
virtually. That is worth thing is | 2:10:16 | 2:10:22 | |
like hurling will take place. How
does it feel? It was really cold in | 2:10:22 | 2:10:33 | |
Seoul. I had a lovely day in the
sunshine at Pyeongchang. It is not | 2:10:33 | 2:10:38 | |
too bad today. I think it would be
almost impossible to do what I did | 2:10:38 | 2:10:45 | |
in Sochi, which was roaming around.
With the time difference as it is, | 2:10:45 | 2:10:50 | |
to do mornings live and then
highlights, it is not possible. I | 2:10:50 | 2:10:58 | |
did not have my shopping trolley
this time around. Before we talk | 2:10:58 | 2:11:03 | |
around the potentials of glory and
some of the characters, it is a | 2:11:03 | 2:11:09 | |
nightmare for any sports star. They
work to go into the Olympics and | 2:11:09 | 2:11:12 | |
this is your moment. Katie Ormerod
missed out narrowly on selection | 2:11:12 | 2:11:17 | |
four years ago when she was 16. She
was one of the medal hopes. A big | 2:11:17 | 2:11:23 | |
start | 2:11:23 | 2:11:31 | |
start of the X Games. She broke her
wrist and was still going to compete | 2:11:31 | 2:11:35 | |
but this time around she broke her
heels she has been operated on this | 2:11:35 | 2:11:41 | |
morning, Korean time. We saw the
pins, two pins in her heels. She is | 2:11:41 | 2:11:49 | |
in bed now with a cast on and
everything. As Mike said, she is 20 | 2:11:49 | 2:11:55 | |
years old but four years. One of the
big stars, Lindsay von has had so | 2:11:55 | 2:12:03 | |
many injuries. She is really old,
33. You have a life span in winter | 2:12:03 | 2:12:11 | |
sports and Katie is very young, so
hopefully there are another couple | 2:12:11 | 2:12:13 | |
of chances. You have a compilation
of ones to watch. Talk us through | 2:12:13 | 2:12:19 | |
some names. Lizzy Yarnold. She is
carrying the flag. An amazing honour | 2:12:19 | 2:12:34 | |
to actually be the one to carry the
flag. She is hoping to become the | 2:12:34 | 2:12:40 | |
first British athlete ever to
successfully defend a Winter Olympic | 2:12:40 | 2:12:45 | |
title. Obviously, Bob skeleton is
her thing. In Sochi she led all four | 2:12:45 | 2:12:51 | |
runs and the margins got bigger.
This season she has struggled a bit | 2:12:51 | 2:12:55 | |
and only reached the podium once.
She got a bronze medal. She will | 2:12:55 | 2:12:59 | |
need to get a good time on the ice
and get to know the track. She talks | 2:12:59 | 2:13:05 | |
about different tracks having
different characteristics and having | 2:13:05 | 2:13:13 | |
a personality. She has not worked
out with this track in Pyeongchang | 2:13:13 | 2:13:16 | |
is a stroppy teenager or not. The
opening ceremony will take her time | 2:13:16 | 2:13:20 | |
today was my one concern would be,
it being so cold. I think the | 2:13:20 | 2:13:26 | |
British team have the electric
suits. Therefore, they have warmed | 2:13:26 | 2:13:31 | |
trousers, like the swimmers have.
They have warming trousers and | 2:13:31 | 2:13:35 | |
jackets. She also said something
about she will hold alternate hands | 2:13:35 | 2:13:41 | |
and keep one hand inside the just
because they are so concerned. I | 2:13:41 | 2:13:46 | |
hope she wears gloves as well. And
hand warmers inside the gloves. | 2:13:46 | 2:13:53 | |
Those pictures, what is it, just
half an inch? I would never be able | 2:13:53 | 2:13:59 | |
to do it. My chin is too big. I'm
going to stay out of that one. Ellie | 2:13:59 | 2:14:08 | |
Morgan was a gymnast as a kid. --
Billie Morgan. He will be competing | 2:14:08 | 2:14:18 | |
in the air at the end of the games
he will also be doing slope style. | 2:14:18 | 2:14:25 | |
This is what Jenny Jones won the
gold medal in in Sochi. We have all | 2:14:25 | 2:14:29 | |
these really exciting Trinity,
young, cool events. That is why kids | 2:14:29 | 2:14:36 | |
will love to watch. It offers some
fantastic pictures. It is brilliant, | 2:14:36 | 2:14:43 | |
isn't it? This time of year, when it
is grey and damp, to be able to look | 2:14:43 | 2:14:49 | |
at beautiful, snow-covered mountains
can it lets you do beautiful things. | 2:14:49 | 2:14:54 | |
This is how I see... This is myself.
Will we see that in four years' time | 2:14:54 | 2:15:02 | |
in Beijing? No, exactly. There are
some great characters in winter | 2:15:02 | 2:15:07 | |
Olympics. | 2:15:07 | 2:15:17 | |
Olympics. In Sochi she was
disqualified. She say she is | 2:15:18 | 2:15:25 | |
concerned the redemption bit is
done, I've done it, this she wants | 2:15:25 | 2:15:29 | |
to do for all the fans and family
and friends who supported her. She | 2:15:29 | 2:15:34 | |
is outstanding and I'm so impressed
with her resilience. Elise Christie | 2:15:34 | 2:15:39 | |
has had a lot of help and mental
strength now. It is off the scale so | 2:15:39 | 2:15:46 | |
I really hope she can do it and her
first medal chance will be on | 2:15:46 | 2:15:50 | |
Tuesday. Isn't it a bit ironic that
one of the other competitors was | 2:15:50 | 2:15:55 | |
South Korean and she got loads of
stick about blocking her. And taking | 2:15:55 | 2:16:01 | |
her out. She got lots of online
abuse. Lindsey Vonn, who I would say | 2:16:01 | 2:16:06 | |
is the biggest international star
and favourite for the women's | 2:16:06 | 2:16:09 | |
downhill, has talked about the
online abuse she got after she said | 2:16:09 | 2:16:13 | |
she would compete here for the
people of America and not for the | 2:16:13 | 2:16:17 | |
President and she has already said I
won't go to the White House and not | 2:16:17 | 2:16:20 | |
visit Trump if I win a gold medal
and got a load of abuse. It is just | 2:16:20 | 2:16:24 | |
modern life and you've got to do
with it. Frankly, you have to learn | 2:16:24 | 2:16:30 | |
to disrespect what needs
disrespecting. Looking at some of | 2:16:30 | 2:16:33 | |
the downhill skiing, one of the
things that is hard to get across in | 2:16:33 | 2:16:37 | |
television is just how steep it is.
It sounds like a very obvious thing | 2:16:37 | 2:16:41 | |
to say. Yeah, and also they will
spray it with water and make it I | 2:16:41 | 2:16:48 | |
see a. I ski a bit and used to ski a
lot, I hate ice and I hate the noise | 2:16:48 | 2:16:53 | |
of it and everything about it. This
is Marcel Hirscher, he in terms of | 2:16:53 | 2:16:57 | |
hot favourites, he has a great
chance of winning a gold medal. He | 2:16:57 | 2:17:02 | |
has not got an Olympic gold medal
yet, he is Austrian, won six out of | 2:17:02 | 2:17:07 | |
eight slalom races in the World Cup
this year, never won an Olympic gold | 2:17:07 | 2:17:11 | |
medal, this is his great chance,
some people think he's one of the | 2:17:11 | 2:17:14 | |
greatest skiers of all time but you
cannot be considered that if you | 2:17:14 | 2:17:17 | |
don't have an Olympic gold medal.
Dave Ryding will be up against him, | 2:17:17 | 2:17:22 | |
from Lancashire, he learned to ski
on plastic slopes here. He didn't go | 2:17:22 | 2:17:26 | |
into the snow until he was 16. 15
and I think it was. Can you give us | 2:17:26 | 2:17:32 | |
an idea of your studio, we have
pictures of it, where you will be | 2:17:32 | 2:17:37 | |
taking the info in. We have a
curling rink and randomly placed, a | 2:17:37 | 2:17:42 | |
skeleton and I brought those toys
back from Korea, the mascot | 2:17:42 | 2:17:46 | |
somethings. Is that where you are
going to be sitting? Yes, I can move | 2:17:46 | 2:17:50 | |
and walk down to various positions
but it looks quite good, doesn't it? | 2:17:50 | 2:17:54 | |
You are lucky being allowed to walk,
we have to be stuck to the sofa. Do | 2:17:54 | 2:17:58 | |
they not let you move? That would be
too much. | 2:17:58 | 2:18:03 | |
Do you ice the floor? Obviously the
floor is completely covered in ice, | 2:18:03 | 2:18:08 | |
it's very cold in there, Charlie,
yes! Special shoes with offset | 2:18:08 | 2:18:14 | |
blades so that I can negotiate the
terms into the table. You will be | 2:18:14 | 2:18:18 | |
wearing a helmet and goggles. The
whole thing. You will tune in at | 2:18:18 | 2:18:23 | |
10:30am now. Good idea. At least do
one sequence like that. I would | 2:18:23 | 2:18:27 | |
actually. I look forward to it
already. | 2:18:27 | 2:18:32 | |
It is a fabulous studio, I'm sure it
will be great, enjoy. If you want to | 2:18:32 | 2:18:37 | |
follow the Winter Olympics on the
BBC today, as Clare Balding | 2:18:37 | 2:18:42 | |
mentioned, you can watch the
build-up to the opening ceremony | 2:18:42 | 2:18:45 | |
from 10:30am on BBC One. The red
button and access online. If you | 2:18:45 | 2:18:50 | |
want around above all of the day's
action if you are in England or | 2:18:50 | 2:18:57 | |
Scotland you can watch: | 2:18:57 | 2:19:05 | |
Winter Olympics: Today
at the Games at 7pm on BBC Two. | 2:19:05 | 2:19:08 | |
Here's Carol with a look
at this morning's weather. | 2:19:08 | 2:19:10 | |
it's | 2:19:10 | 2:19:11 | |
as it was yesterday and not nearly
as cold as we are heading. The Greg | 2:19:11 | 2:19:18 | |
-- great cloud is pushing away. We
have had some rain over the | 2:19:18 | 2:19:24 | |
south-east but that will clear away,
the forecast is a cold day ahead and | 2:19:24 | 2:19:26 | |
we have wintry showers in the
forecast meaning a mixture of rain, | 2:19:26 | 2:19:31 | |
sleet and snow and hail, and also
the risk of some ice first thing | 2:19:31 | 2:19:35 | |
this morning. In between all of that
there will be a fair bit of dry | 2:19:35 | 2:19:39 | |
weather and also some sunshine. If
we start the forecast at 9am in the | 2:19:39 | 2:19:42 | |
south west of England, there are
some wintry showers this morning, as | 2:19:42 | 2:19:47 | |
a parts of Wales, northern England
and the southern and south-eastern | 2:19:47 | 2:19:51 | |
Scotland. We have the wintry rain,
sleet and snow moving eastwards so | 2:19:51 | 2:19:55 | |
as we pull out to the big map you
can see where we have rain in the | 2:19:55 | 2:20:00 | |
south-east. Through this morning it
will pull away leaving dry weather | 2:20:00 | 2:20:03 | |
behind it, some sunny spells, but
don't forget the wintry showers. The | 2:20:03 | 2:20:07 | |
wintry showers in the west
continuing to push to the east | 2:20:07 | 2:20:10 | |
joining forces with some of them
that will remain in the east. | 2:20:10 | 2:20:14 | |
Temperature is nothing to write home
about, between 4-6 so it will feel | 2:20:14 | 2:20:18 | |
cold especially if you are standing
around outside. This | 2:20:18 | 2:20:28 | |
around outside. This evening and
overnight the showers eventually get | 2:20:28 | 2:20:29 | |
into East Anglia, probably late
afternoon into the evening and clear | 2:20:29 | 2:20:32 | |
away leaving a cold and dry night
for many leaving a risk of ice | 2:20:32 | 2:20:35 | |
again. The active system coming in
from the west will introduce windier | 2:20:35 | 2:20:37 | |
conditions, rain and some snow but
most of the snow will be on the | 2:20:37 | 2:20:41 | |
hills. Temperature is -2 up to plus
two. Tomorrow we start on a cold and | 2:20:41 | 2:20:51 | |
bright note but the weather front
bringing rain and hill snow will | 2:20:51 | 2:20:55 | |
move steadily eastwards, so the
cloud continuing to build ahead of | 2:20:55 | 2:20:57 | |
it as it does so. Look at the
temperatures, windy in the south, | 2:20:57 | 2:21:03 | |
mind you, gusting up to 40, 50 mph
and possibly more but temperatures | 2:21:03 | 2:21:08 | |
tens and elevens and a little high
as we push north. The weather front | 2:21:08 | 2:21:12 | |
will continue to move away
eventually through the latter part | 2:21:12 | 2:21:14 | |
of the night into the North Sea. It
may well deposit overnight some snow | 2:21:14 | 2:21:19 | |
over southern Scotland and northern
England but as it moves away the | 2:21:19 | 2:21:22 | |
skies will brighten and we will
season sunshine and it will feel | 2:21:22 | 2:21:25 | |
cold, and we will have wintry
showers in the north and west. Some | 2:21:25 | 2:21:29 | |
of the heavier showers, some of the
snow in the showers will get down to | 2:21:29 | 2:21:33 | |
lower levels. Look at the
temperatures, going back down. Naga | 2:21:33 | 2:21:38 | |
and Charlie, it continues on this
cold theme for next week. | 2:21:38 | 2:21:42 | |
The time is 8:21am. | 2:21:44 | 2:21:50 | |
Richard Handley had Downs Syndrome
and was just 33 years | 2:21:50 | 2:21:52 | |
old when he died from complications
caused by severe constipation. | 2:21:52 | 2:21:55 | |
Yesterday, an inquest found
there were "gross and very | 2:21:55 | 2:21:57 | |
significant failings" in his care. | 2:21:57 | 2:21:58 | |
The Government is currently
reviewing all deaths of people | 2:21:58 | 2:22:01 | |
with learning disabilities
in England, and is due | 2:22:01 | 2:22:04 | |
to publish the first
of its findings next month. | 2:22:04 | 2:22:06 | |
They told BBC Breakfast
there is concern over | 2:22:06 | 2:22:08 | |
a significant number of cases. | 2:22:08 | 2:22:09 | |
Jayne McCubbin reports. | 2:22:09 | 2:22:10 | |
Richard was cheeky and had a huge
sense of the ridiculous. | 2:22:10 | 2:22:13 | |
Toilet humour. | 2:22:13 | 2:22:14 | |
Yes. | 2:22:14 | 2:22:15 | |
Close to Richard's heart. | 2:22:15 | 2:22:18 | |
Because that's how the family dealt
with what was a lifelong | 2:22:18 | 2:22:20 | |
problem for Richard. | 2:22:20 | 2:22:21 | |
Constipation. | 2:22:21 | 2:22:23 | |
A problem which should
have been manageable, | 2:22:23 | 2:22:25 | |
but which killed him when he was 33. | 2:22:25 | 2:22:28 | |
It's just so incomprehensible,
isn't it? | 2:22:28 | 2:22:30 | |
It so devastating, really. | 2:22:30 | 2:22:31 | |
It shouldn't have happened. | 2:22:31 | 2:22:34 | |
Richard's diet was well looked
after by his family and care home, | 2:22:34 | 2:22:41 | |
but when that home turned
into supported living he was allowed | 2:22:41 | 2:22:43 | |
to eat what he liked. | 2:22:43 | 2:22:49 | |
By the time he was admitted
to Ipswich hospital his constipation | 2:22:49 | 2:22:51 | |
was so severe he appeared
full-term pregnant. | 2:22:51 | 2:22:53 | |
I saw a picture of him,
actually, when he was lying | 2:22:53 | 2:22:56 | |
on the hospital bed. | 2:22:56 | 2:22:57 | |
The picture was taken after he had
had one of the procedures | 2:22:57 | 2:23:00 | |
to hopefully reduce the size
of his tummy and looking at that | 2:23:00 | 2:23:03 | |
picture I couldn't believe my eyes. | 2:23:03 | 2:23:06 | |
If all those measures
to protect him had been in place, | 2:23:06 | 2:23:08 | |
it wouldn't have happened. | 2:23:08 | 2:23:09 | |
He would still be here? | 2:23:09 | 2:23:11 | |
He would still be here, yes. | 2:23:11 | 2:23:15 | |
I'd still have a son. | 2:23:15 | 2:23:17 | |
You'd still have a brother. | 2:23:17 | 2:23:23 | |
Yesterday, an inquest
here in Ipswich found missed | 2:23:23 | 2:23:25 | |
opportunities to help
Richard and gross failures | 2:23:25 | 2:23:27 | |
to act by the hospital. | 2:23:27 | 2:23:35 | |
Report after report has shown
there are too many avoidable deaths | 2:23:35 | 2:23:37 | |
and three years ago Jeremy Hunt
ordered a world first, | 2:23:37 | 2:23:40 | |
scrutiny of every single death
of a learning disabled | 2:23:40 | 2:23:42 | |
person in England. | 2:23:42 | 2:23:43 | |
It will be a very important moment
to step out and look at the way | 2:23:43 | 2:23:47 | |
we look after that particular
highly vulnerable group. | 2:23:47 | 2:23:49 | |
That review will publish
its first report next month, | 2:23:49 | 2:23:53 | |
but we've learnt that one in ten
deaths looked at so far have come | 2:23:53 | 2:23:56 | |
with red flag indicators. | 2:23:56 | 2:23:57 | |
That might mean, as with Richard,
there is evidence that treatment | 2:23:57 | 2:24:00 | |
was delayed, or perhaps
there is evidence of abuse | 2:24:00 | 2:24:03 | |
or neglect or concerns have been
raised by a family member. | 2:24:03 | 2:24:06 | |
This woman led the Serious Case
Review into Richard's death and also | 2:24:06 | 2:24:09 | |
the scandal of Winterbourne View. | 2:24:09 | 2:24:15 | |
She says both cases expose a system
which cares deeply at the point | 2:24:15 | 2:24:18 | |
of birth, but less as
a child becomes an adult. | 2:24:18 | 2:24:21 | |
We know that they can be fantastic
when an infant arrives | 2:24:21 | 2:24:23 | |
in this world. | 2:24:23 | 2:24:30 | |
We know that the NHS has done some
astonishing things to keep | 2:24:30 | 2:24:33 | |
infants alive. | 2:24:33 | 2:24:34 | |
However, that appears to taper
and certainly sustained | 2:24:34 | 2:24:40 | |
austerity has shown us that services
have reduced and workforces | 2:24:40 | 2:24:44 | |
have diminished and that has left
families, some | 2:24:44 | 2:24:46 | |
families, floundering. | 2:24:46 | 2:24:49 | |
And do you think has cost some
learning disabled people | 2:24:49 | 2:24:51 | |
their life? | 2:24:51 | 2:24:52 | |
Yes, indeed. | 2:24:52 | 2:24:53 | |
It has. | 2:24:53 | 2:24:56 | |
Richard's family have received
apologies from the hospital, | 2:24:56 | 2:25:00 | |
their council and the care provider. | 2:25:00 | 2:25:02 | |
All say lessons have been learnt,
a phrase often used | 2:25:02 | 2:25:06 | |
after an avoidable death. | 2:25:06 | 2:25:08 | |
The Department of Health
say they must stop. | 2:25:08 | 2:25:10 | |
From July, trusts will have
the published data on deaths | 2:25:10 | 2:25:13 | |
and evidence of improvements. | 2:25:13 | 2:25:14 | |
NHS England say they are committed
to improving the lives of people | 2:25:14 | 2:25:17 | |
with a learning disability. | 2:25:17 | 2:25:22 | |
Jayne's here now. | 2:25:22 | 2:25:26 | |
Harrowing to hear from Richard's
family. Lots of people would say, | 2:25:26 | 2:25:29 | |
looking at this would say, the
review is happening but the only | 2:25:29 | 2:25:37 | |
thing is the hope that something
changes. This world first review, | 2:25:37 | 2:25:42 | |
the hope is it leads to a better
understanding about what's going mad | 2:25:42 | 2:25:46 | |
lessons will be learned but families
are sick of that phrase. Months | 2:25:46 | 2:25:49 | |
after Richard died another person
with learning disabilities died of | 2:25:49 | 2:25:54 | |
the same problem, constipation, in
the same hospital. Lessons have been | 2:25:54 | 2:25:59 | |
learned, the hospital says. There
have been lows of positive changes | 2:25:59 | 2:26:02 | |
to try and make sure that lessons
are learned, the introduction of | 2:26:02 | 2:26:06 | |
things like health passports, annual
health checks for people with | 2:26:06 | 2:26:10 | |
learning disabilities. But Richard
had a health passport and said he | 2:26:10 | 2:26:13 | |
was largely independent. He wasn't.
Richard had access to annual health | 2:26:13 | 2:26:17 | |
checks and was invited to one, he
mist the appointment, why? They sent | 2:26:17 | 2:26:22 | |
him a letter and he couldn't read
and nobody read the letter to him. | 2:26:22 | 2:26:27 | |
New initiatives are only worth the
paper they are written on if they | 2:26:27 | 2:26:30 | |
are permitted properly. Last night
the Department of Health told me had | 2:26:30 | 2:26:33 | |
no plans to introduce a scheme
recommended by the coroner that he | 2:26:33 | 2:26:37 | |
said could have saved his life, and
that was for a health care | 2:26:37 | 2:26:42 | |
coordinator. No plans at all. We
were told that we should be shamed | 2:26:42 | 2:26:47 | |
by our health care system is for
people with learning disabilities. | 2:26:47 | 2:26:50 | |
Thank you very much. | 2:26:50 | 2:26:54 | |
The time is a 20 6am. We will be
back with you around 8:30am. Time | 2:26:54 | 2:27:00 | |
for the news, travel and weather
where | 2:27:00 | 2:30:19 | |
website at the usual address. | 2:30:19 | 2:30:19 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with
Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty. | 2:30:29 | 2:30:33 | |
There are just hours to go
until the Opening Ceremony | 2:30:33 | 2:30:36 | |
of the Winter Olympics in South
Korea. | 2:30:36 | 2:30:39 | |
The sister of the North Korean
leader, Kim Jong-un, | 2:30:39 | 2:30:42 | |
has arrived in the country
and is expected to attend | 2:30:42 | 2:30:44 | |
the event alongside US
Vice President Mike Pence. | 2:30:44 | 2:30:46 | |
Kim Yo-jong's arrival marks
the first time a member | 2:30:46 | 2:30:49 | |
of the North Korean ruling family
has visited South Korea. | 2:30:49 | 2:30:52 | |
Two British extremists,
believed to be members of one | 2:30:52 | 2:30:54 | |
of the so-called Islamic State
group's most notorious cells, | 2:30:54 | 2:30:58 | |
have been captured by Syrian Kurdish
fighters in Syria | 2:30:58 | 2:31:00 | |
according to US officials. | 2:31:00 | 2:31:05 | |
They were part of a unit comprising
of four men from London, | 2:31:05 | 2:31:08 | |
who became known as "The Beatles"
because of their British accents. | 2:31:08 | 2:31:11 | |
Andy Moore reports. | 2:31:11 | 2:31:13 | |
Alexanda Kotey and
El Shafee Elsheikh - | 2:31:13 | 2:31:15 | |
the two Britons captured by Kurdish
forces last month and | 2:31:15 | 2:31:22 | |
questioned by the Americans. | 2:31:22 | 2:31:23 | |
Together with Aine Davis
and Mohammed Emwazi, | 2:31:23 | 2:31:26 | |
they formed the kidnap gang that
became known as the Beatles, | 2:31:26 | 2:31:28 | |
because they were usually masked
and their captors could hear | 2:31:28 | 2:31:31 | |
only their British accents. | 2:31:31 | 2:31:36 | |
British aid worker Alan Henning
was just one of at least two dozen | 2:31:36 | 2:31:39 | |
foreign hostages they held captive
and then executed. | 2:31:39 | 2:31:43 | |
Last year, the American State
Department designated Kotey | 2:31:43 | 2:31:45 | |
and Elsheikh as wanted terrorists
who had fought for Islamic State. | 2:31:45 | 2:31:48 | |
Kotey was born in
Paddington in London. | 2:31:48 | 2:31:51 | |
He was of Ghanaian and
Greek Cypriot background. | 2:31:51 | 2:31:54 | |
The citation said he used
exceptionally cruel torture methods, | 2:31:54 | 2:31:58 | |
including electronic
shock and waterboarding. | 2:31:58 | 2:32:02 | |
Elsheikh's family had
fled Sudan in the 1990s. | 2:32:02 | 2:32:04 | |
He became a British citizen. | 2:32:04 | 2:32:07 | |
According to the State Department,
he'd earned a reputation | 2:32:07 | 2:32:09 | |
for waterboarding, mock
executions and crucifixions. | 2:32:09 | 2:32:14 | |
The two men were captured
by the American-backed | 2:32:14 | 2:32:16 | |
Syrian Democratic Forces,
a Kurdish-led militia. | 2:32:16 | 2:32:24 | |
The fate of the two men is unknown. | 2:32:25 | 2:32:28 | |
They could be sent to the US
detention centre at Guantanamo Bay | 2:32:28 | 2:32:30 | |
or they could stand trial
in the States. | 2:32:30 | 2:32:32 | |
The Foreign Office in the UK said it
would not comment on individual | 2:32:32 | 2:32:36 | |
cases or ongoing investigations. | 2:32:36 | 2:32:37 | |
Andy Moore, BBC News. | 2:32:37 | 2:32:43 | |
Human eggs have been fully grown
in a laboratory for the first time. | 2:32:43 | 2:32:46 | |
Scientists removed egg cells
from ovary tissue at their earliest | 2:32:46 | 2:32:49 | |
stage of development,
and matured them to the point | 2:32:49 | 2:32:51 | |
they were ready for fertilisation. | 2:32:51 | 2:32:53 | |
Researchers at Edinburgh University
say it could help to preserve | 2:32:53 | 2:32:56 | |
fertility in women, such
as those undergoing chemotherapy. | 2:32:56 | 2:33:00 | |
Key US government agencies have
shut down for the second | 2:33:00 | 2:33:03 | |
time in three weeks. | 2:33:03 | 2:33:04 | |
The Senate failed to vote
on a budget deal before | 2:33:04 | 2:33:07 | |
a midnight deadline,
after a republican senator demanded | 2:33:07 | 2:33:09 | |
a last minute ammendment. | 2:33:09 | 2:33:11 | |
For the temporary shutdown to end,
the spending deal must be passed | 2:33:11 | 2:33:14 | |
in both the Senate and the House
of Representatives and then | 2:33:14 | 2:33:17 | |
signed by the President. | 2:33:17 | 2:33:25 | |
Quite a few developments linked to
newspaper ownership. | 2:33:29 | 2:33:34 | |
Yes, good morning. The owner of the
mirror and the Sunday Mirror has | 2:33:34 | 2:33:38 | |
announced it will buy those
publications, including the Daily | 2:33:38 | 2:33:41 | |
Express, the Daily Star and OK
magazine. They were previously owned | 2:33:41 | 2:33:47 | |
by Richard Desmond. We were chatting
earlier to the boss of Trinity | 2:33:47 | 2:33:52 | |
Mirror and he told me there would be
job cuts at some of the titles as | 2:33:52 | 2:33:56 | |
they get some of those efficiencies
and reduce duplication. But he | 2:33:56 | 2:34:01 | |
argued it would be good news for the
company overall and better value for | 2:34:01 | 2:34:05 | |
money and readers would not lose
out. The shares are up about 6% on | 2:34:05 | 2:34:10 | |
the back of that, so investors are
happy. US markets have fallen | 2:34:10 | 2:34:15 | |
sharply again overnight. They were
down 4% last night. We saw a fall in | 2:34:15 | 2:34:22 | |
Asia as well. But here in the UK the
FTSE 100 is only down a smidgen. The | 2:34:22 | 2:34:29 | |
falls in the markets have been
because of the feeling that the rise | 2:34:29 | 2:34:32 | |
in interest rates will be sooner
than expected. All of that could | 2:34:32 | 2:34:38 | |
affect our biggest building society,
nationwide, which has seen an | 2:34:38 | 2:34:42 | |
increase in profits over the last
nine months. But mortgage lending, | 2:34:42 | 2:34:46 | |
which could be affected by the
interest rates, has fallen by about | 2:34:46 | 2:34:53 | |
£2 billion as the housing market
cools in the UK. Loads of things | 2:34:53 | 2:34:58 | |
beautifully link between them.
Your producer did a very good job of | 2:34:58 | 2:35:02 | |
writing your scripts.
Come on! Well ban for reading them | 2:35:02 | 2:35:08 | |
so well.
I will pass on your thanks. You can | 2:35:08 | 2:35:11 | |
throw it right back at me if you
want! | 2:35:11 | 2:35:18 | |
And coming up here
on Breakfast this morning... | 2:35:18 | 2:35:21 | |
Why sending a praying
mantis to the cinema | 2:35:21 | 2:35:24 | |
could help develop robots. | 2:35:24 | 2:35:28 | |
Dippy the Dinosaur has arrived
on the Jurassic Coast | 2:35:28 | 2:35:30 | |
for the start of his UK tour. | 2:35:30 | 2:35:32 | |
We'll be there before 9am to see
how he's settling in. | 2:35:32 | 2:35:40 | |
And we'll meet SuRie,
the UK's entry for this year's | 2:35:43 | 2:35:47 | |
Eurovision Song Contest. | 2:35:47 | 2:35:54 | |
Also, Horrible Histories, 25 years
old. We will be talking to the | 2:36:00 | 2:36:04 | |
people who have been working on the
books and the programmes. This week | 2:36:04 | 2:36:09 | |
we have been celebrated the rights
granted to women over the age of 30. | 2:36:09 | 2:36:15 | |
Getting the boat 100 years ago. So
we have been seeing this drawing | 2:36:15 | 2:36:22 | |
being done by one of the guys behind
horrible histories of a suffragette | 2:36:22 | 2:36:26 | |
on the sofa and eventually with a
BBC mark. | 2:36:26 | 2:36:34 | |
The great thing about Horrible
Histories is that it has brought so | 2:36:34 | 2:36:38 | |
many things to life.
I am a big fan. It is so | 2:36:38 | 2:36:46 | |
educational, it sinks in without you
realising it. What have we got? Two | 2:36:46 | 2:36:51 | |
and half hours until the opening
ceremony? | 2:36:51 | 2:36:57 | |
Maybe in the future Katie will look
back on this, but she is out of the | 2:36:57 | 2:37:07 | |
Olympics, a real medal hope, but she
has fractured heel and she has been | 2:37:07 | 2:37:11 | |
operated on. She tweeted a picture
this morning saying fixed, but not | 2:37:11 | 2:37:15 | |
fixed in time. | 2:37:15 | 2:37:19 | |
We can cross live now to Andy Swiss
who's in PyeongChang. | 2:37:19 | 2:37:22 | |
Andy, really disappointing news
about Katie Ormerod. | 2:37:22 | 2:37:26 | |
She was planning to carry on with
a fractured wrist, but with a | 2:37:26 | 2:37:29 | |
broken heel she has no chance. | 2:37:29 | 2:37:35 | |
Yes, it is desperately cruel for
Katie. On Wednesday she had a | 2:37:35 | 2:37:41 | |
training accident, she broke her
wrist, but she said she would still | 2:37:41 | 2:37:45 | |
carry on and compete. But 24 hours
later another accident and she broke | 2:37:45 | 2:37:49 | |
her heel and it is a bad break as
well. She has been taken for | 2:37:49 | 2:37:56 | |
emergency surgery in Seoul. She
posted a couple of photos online and | 2:37:56 | 2:38:00 | |
the message, words cannot describe
how gutted I am. She was one of the | 2:38:00 | 2:38:05 | |
British team's big medal hopes and
Team GB admit it is a big blow. She | 2:38:05 | 2:38:13 | |
has had her fair share of injuries
already and she is very young and | 2:38:13 | 2:38:17 | |
she has got this brilliant
resilience and she comes back better | 2:38:17 | 2:38:21 | |
from injuries. You would not wish
this on anyone in the team at this | 2:38:21 | 2:38:24 | |
point and it will be very sad for
the rest of the team not to have to | 2:38:24 | 2:38:30 | |
bear. She is a very positive member
of the team and that is a big loss, | 2:38:30 | 2:38:33 | |
but we wish her the best recovery
and when she is fit and well she can | 2:38:33 | 2:38:38 | |
look forward to the future and come
back and fulfil the great potential | 2:38:38 | 2:38:42 | |
that she has. The other big news
concerns Russian athletes. Russia | 2:38:42 | 2:38:49 | |
are banned from the games because of
their doping scandal, but | 2:38:49 | 2:38:54 | |
controversially 169 Russian athletes
are being allowed to compete here as | 2:38:54 | 2:39:00 | |
neutrals, Olympic athletes from
Russia. A couple of them were | 2:39:00 | 2:39:05 | |
competing in the figure skating
earlier on. Earlier on 47 more | 2:39:05 | 2:39:09 | |
Russian athletes had their request
to take part in these games | 2:39:09 | 2:39:13 | |
rejected. That will cause a lot of
relief for some people at the games, | 2:39:13 | 2:39:19 | |
but this issue has created confusion
and uncertainty on the eve of the | 2:39:19 | 2:39:23 | |
Winter Olympics. I know some of the
action is already under way, but | 2:39:23 | 2:39:27 | |
what can we expect from the opening
ceremony? The opening ceremony | 2:39:27 | 2:39:33 | |
begins at 11am your time. There have
been rehearsals taking place here | 2:39:33 | 2:39:39 | |
all week. The big theme of the
opening ceremony we are told is | 2:39:39 | 2:39:43 | |
peas, which seems relevant bear in
mind that North Korea and South | 2:39:43 | 2:39:47 | |
Korea are parading into the stadium
together under one flag, something | 2:39:47 | 2:39:51 | |
that would have seemed unthinkable a
few weeks ago. Team GB will be led | 2:39:51 | 2:39:57 | |
into the stadium by Lizzie Yarnold
who won gold at the Sochi games four | 2:39:57 | 2:40:01 | |
years ago. 40 of the 59 members of
team GB are expected to take part in | 2:40:01 | 2:40:07 | |
the opening ceremony. Some of them
are competing over the weekend. The | 2:40:07 | 2:40:12 | |
big question is can people keep warm
tonight? We had -20 oh earlier in | 2:40:12 | 2:40:17 | |
the week and the good news is that
it is getting milder today, but it | 2:40:17 | 2:40:22 | |
promises to be a pretty chilly start
to the Winter Olympics. We can keep | 2:40:22 | 2:40:29 | |
warm at home and watch the opening
ceremony from the warmth of our | 2:40:29 | 2:40:32 | |
homes. The build-up is at 10:30
a:m.. | 2:40:32 | 2:40:40 | |
I understand it could get as low as
-20 six. We keep hearing it could be | 2:40:40 | 2:40:48 | |
the best Winter Olympics for Great
Britain. But this is not the norm. | 2:40:48 | 2:40:54 | |
Think back to the 90s and the barren
years before that, so I had a great | 2:40:54 | 2:40:59 | |
day yesterday rummaging through the
archives to come up with my | 2:40:59 | 2:41:02 | |
highlights of the last nearly 100
years. | 2:41:02 | 2:41:05 | |
It all began in the 1920s. | 2:41:05 | 2:41:07 | |
This was St Moritz, one of the early
venues which went on to stage | 2:41:07 | 2:41:10 | |
the Olympics in 1928. | 2:41:10 | 2:41:11 | |
British success in those early years
came in the ice hockey. | 2:41:11 | 2:41:14 | |
The team here eventually
won gold in 1936. | 2:41:14 | 2:41:17 | |
These days, they don't qualify. | 2:41:17 | 2:41:20 | |
Also success in bobsleigh. | 2:41:20 | 2:41:22 | |
How different the sport was then,
no protective walls. | 2:41:22 | 2:41:24 | |
And by '64, it was gold. | 2:41:24 | 2:41:28 | |
The first-ever Winter gold
for Great Britain had | 2:41:28 | 2:41:30 | |
been made in Scotland. | 2:41:30 | 2:41:32 | |
These pictures show how
massive curling had become, | 2:41:32 | 2:41:34 | |
inspired by the gold medal in 1924. | 2:41:34 | 2:41:38 | |
VOICEOVER: For 3,000 Scotsmen,
and all the thrills of watching | 2:41:38 | 2:41:40 | |
the 30-pound stones,
as they're called, gliding | 2:41:40 | 2:41:42 | |
over the smooth ice. | 2:41:42 | 2:41:44 | |
The trouble was, after its
appearance in the inaugural games, | 2:41:44 | 2:41:46 | |
it wasn't officially reintroduced
to the Olympic family until 1998. | 2:41:46 | 2:41:53 | |
And it didn't take long for Team GB
to strike gold again. | 2:41:53 | 2:41:56 | |
It's looking good. | 2:41:56 | 2:41:58 | |
She's done it! | 2:41:58 | 2:42:01 | |
Salt Lake City, 2002. | 2:42:01 | 2:42:06 | |
The other winter sport
in which Britain has struck | 2:42:06 | 2:42:08 | |
gold is figure skating. | 2:42:08 | 2:42:09 | |
From the queen of the ice
Jeannette Altwegg in 1952 | 2:42:09 | 2:42:12 | |
to the golden years,
with John Curry in the 1970s, | 2:42:12 | 2:42:15 | |
Robin Cousins four years later
and the iconic moment | 2:42:15 | 2:42:17 | |
of Torvill and Dean. | 2:42:17 | 2:42:19 | |
But for a generation,
that was pretty much that. | 2:42:19 | 2:42:22 | |
There was Eddie the Eagle
to lift the hearts, | 2:42:22 | 2:42:24 | |
and a scattering of bronze,
but the barren years continued | 2:42:24 | 2:42:26 | |
until the curlers of 2002 helped
Britain find its place again. | 2:42:26 | 2:42:30 | |
And then came the sliders
of Shelley Rudman of 2006, | 2:42:30 | 2:42:33 | |
Amy Williams with gold four years
later, followed by Lizzie Arnold | 2:42:33 | 2:42:38 | |
and the supporting crew of four
years ago, proving the current | 2:42:38 | 2:42:42 | |
generation have never
had it so good. | 2:42:42 | 2:42:49 | |
Some of the British highlights of
the last 100 years. Your favourite, | 2:42:49 | 2:42:53 | |
Charlie? It is of course Eddie the
Eagle. It is the story. In a way it | 2:42:53 | 2:43:01 | |
is not the sport, it was the
craziness of the whole thing which | 2:43:01 | 2:43:06 | |
remains. Every time I see that...
There is something special about the | 2:43:06 | 2:43:13 | |
Winter Olympics because of the
lottery and the characters and the | 2:43:13 | 2:43:16 | |
snow and the ice. Join Neville does
not lack bottle. | 2:43:16 | 2:43:24 | |
The former Ireland international
and rugby union referee will make | 2:43:24 | 2:43:27 | |
yet more history tonight when she'll
become the first woman to take | 2:43:27 | 2:43:29 | |
charge of a Pro 14 rugby match,
Ulster versus Southern Kings. | 2:43:29 | 2:43:32 | |
Neville is already the first woman
to oversee a men's European club | 2:43:32 | 2:43:35 | |
fixture but she says
she often encounters negativity. | 2:43:35 | 2:43:37 | |
Often the little stories of coming
into clubs and, "Oh, | 2:43:37 | 2:43:39 | |
are you here to referee the third
division men's game?" | 2:43:39 | 2:43:42 | |
I'm like, "No, I'm actually
here to ref the division one." | 2:43:42 | 2:43:44 | |
And they're like, "Oh,
will you be able to keep up | 2:43:44 | 2:43:47 | |
with the pace of play?" | 2:43:47 | 2:43:48 | |
You know, it's... | 2:43:48 | 2:43:49 | |
I don't get defensive,
there's no point, because you don't | 2:43:49 | 2:43:52 | |
win if you get defensive. | 2:43:52 | 2:43:53 | |
They'll get annoyed and you'll
get annoyed, there's | 2:43:53 | 2:43:56 | |
no message being sent. | 2:43:56 | 2:44:04 | |
A great icon for women in the men's
game. It all begins at 10:30 a:m.. | 2:44:05 | 2:44:18 | |
Shall we just go to the studio?
Shall we relocate? That is decided | 2:44:19 | 2:44:25 | |
then. | 2:44:25 | 2:44:30 | |
then. From ruthless rulers... I
can't say yet. Try saying Horrible | 2:44:32 | 2:44:39 | |
Histories. | 2:44:39 | 2:44:42 | |
Over the last 25 years
Horrible Histories | 2:44:42 | 2:44:44 | |
has brought us shocking
facts and bonkers beliefs | 2:44:44 | 2:44:46 | |
all accompanied with a healthy dose
of | 2:44:46 | 2:44:47 | |
gore. | 2:44:47 | 2:44:48 | |
It began as a book series
that has gone on to sell | 2:44:48 | 2:44:51 | |
31 million copies worldwide. | 2:44:51 | 2:44:55 | |
Since then, it's become a stage
production, TV show and even a film | 2:44:55 | 2:44:58 | |
out later this year. | 2:44:58 | 2:44:59 | |
In a moment, we'll speak
to author Terry Deary | 2:44:59 | 2:45:01 | |
and illustrator Martin Brown. | 2:45:01 | 2:45:03 | |
But first, let's take a look. | 2:45:03 | 2:45:04 | |
And welcome to this lovely occasion. | 2:45:04 | 2:45:05 | |
Love Day, 1458. | 2:45:05 | 2:45:06 | |
Yes. | 2:45:06 | 2:45:07 | |
Led by Queen Margaret,
members of the English royal family | 2:45:07 | 2:45:10 | |
process into St Paul's Cathedral. | 2:45:10 | 2:45:11 | |
Oh, a little stumble there. | 2:45:11 | 2:45:12 | |
Nerves obviously playing a part. | 2:45:12 | 2:45:13 | |
The Yorkists in their white ribbons
and the Lancastrians in their red. | 2:45:13 | 2:45:16 | |
Oh, a little shove, there,
from Queen Margaret | 2:45:16 | 2:45:18 | |
on the Earl of Warwick. | 2:45:18 | 2:45:21 | |
Yes, a bit of regal horseplay,
but I'm sure all in the spirit | 2:45:21 | 2:45:24 | |
of peace and harmony. | 2:45:24 | 2:45:25 | |
And we now just await Queen
Margaret's husband, King Henry VI. | 2:45:25 | 2:45:28 | |
Ah, yes, and there he is. | 2:45:28 | 2:45:29 | |
OK. | 2:45:29 | 2:45:30 | |
Great stuff, guys. | 2:45:30 | 2:45:31 | |
Great stuff. | 2:45:31 | 2:45:33 | |
That's lovely. | 2:45:33 | 2:45:34 | |
Let's all just simmer down. | 2:45:34 | 2:45:35 | |
So the aim today is
to get you Lancies - | 2:45:35 | 2:45:37 | |
big up - and you Yorkies -
respect - together in one room, | 2:45:37 | 2:45:40 | |
just feeling the love. | 2:45:40 | 2:45:43 | |
One big happy family. | 2:45:43 | 2:45:47 | |
So all you have to do,
just lean over to the person next | 2:45:47 | 2:45:50 | |
to you and just hold hands. | 2:45:50 | 2:45:53 | |
Great, the King's gone mad again. | 2:45:53 | 2:45:55 | |
Yeah. | 2:45:55 | 2:45:56 | |
I think we're getting the Duke
of York to take over anyway. | 2:45:56 | 2:45:59 | |
You and whose army?! | 2:45:59 | 2:46:01 | |
Terry Deary and Martin
Brown, welcome. | 2:46:01 | 2:46:07 | |
Terry, just to explain for those
people who do not know, the idea is | 2:46:08 | 2:46:12 | |
yours, is that fair to say? Gulp it
started as a joke book, Horrible | 2:46:12 | 2:46:18 | |
Histories joke book. I put in a few
facts with the jokes. For example, | 2:46:18 | 2:46:25 | |
where did the French buy their
guillotines? In the chopping centre, | 2:46:25 | 2:46:29 | |
of course. And I found that the
facts were better than the jokes, so | 2:46:29 | 2:46:35 | |
we ended up with a fact book with
jokes and a joke book with facts, | 2:46:35 | 2:46:39 | |
and Horrible Histories was born.
Accompanied with fantastic pictures. | 2:46:39 | 2:46:43 | |
I was working with the publishers
beforehand on something similar, we | 2:46:43 | 2:46:48 | |
did a bit of history in those books.
When we thought, can we do more | 2:46:48 | 2:46:53 | |
history, the editor said, hang on,
something has come in you might be | 2:46:53 | 2:46:57 | |
interested in. She put us together.
And that was Horrible History. I am | 2:46:57 | 2:47:05 | |
sure some people are not familiar
with Horrible Histories. What have | 2:47:05 | 2:47:08 | |
you not covered yet that you would
like to cover? You have covered a | 2:47:08 | 2:47:13 | |
martyr? We haven't done the BBC.
Look forward to that one! I wanted | 2:47:13 | 2:47:22 | |
to do the Horrible Histories of
Australia, because their history is | 2:47:22 | 2:47:26 | |
just self written for Horrible
Histories, it is horrible. I get | 2:47:26 | 2:47:31 | |
requests for China, India and
Russia. Terry, fundamentally, if you | 2:47:31 | 2:47:37 | |
were to break down, you embrace the
gore. I do not want to this the | 2:47:37 | 2:47:45 | |
history part, that you embrace the
gore? It is human experience. It is | 2:47:45 | 2:47:52 | |
not gore for the sake of gore.
People suffer this, how would you | 2:47:52 | 2:47:57 | |
cope with somebody did that to you?
You measure yourself, that is the | 2:47:57 | 2:48:01 | |
nice thing about Horrible Histories.
The transformation from books into | 2:48:01 | 2:48:05 | |
television, did that change how you
approach the stories you are | 2:48:05 | 2:48:09 | |
covering? Not really, the BBC
brought in some absolutely top adult | 2:48:09 | 2:48:15 | |
scriptwriters, sketch writers, which
was a great idea. They are so | 2:48:15 | 2:48:19 | |
competent at their job. I stick to
writing books and plays, they do | 2:48:19 | 2:48:25 | |
their job. When my kids were younger
I remember watching the one about | 2:48:25 | 2:48:32 | |
the Incas. There was a song about
the England Lord which has remained | 2:48:32 | 2:48:34 | |
in my head! For the first series we
were not nervous, but it was our | 2:48:34 | 2:48:41 | |
baby, we have been with this for a
long time and we wanted to see how | 2:48:41 | 2:48:45 | |
it went. They asked our opinions but
they got it, like the stage guys | 2:48:45 | 2:48:49 | |
they just get it. They have been
going for ten years. We can sit back | 2:48:49 | 2:48:54 | |
and enjoy it like regular punters.
Illustration is your thing, how long | 2:48:54 | 2:48:59 | |
have you been working this morning?
Eight is the idea. What can we do, | 2:48:59 | 2:49:05 | |
can we do this or that? But once you
have the idea, it is a question of | 2:49:05 | 2:49:11 | |
building the picture. So talk us
through what you went for? About it | 2:49:11 | 2:49:16 | |
is a suffragette on the couch. I am
sure you would have had a | 2:49:16 | 2:49:21 | |
suffragette on the couch if you have
the chance, back in the day. We have | 2:49:21 | 2:49:25 | |
been lucky to talk to descendants of
suffragettes this week, marking the | 2:49:25 | 2:49:30 | |
100 year anniversary of women over
30 getting the votes. It is almost | 2:49:30 | 2:49:37 | |
wee won? We have come far, but a
long way to go. When you're doing | 2:49:37 | 2:49:45 | |
the illustrations, this was done in
record time. Do you work very | 2:49:45 | 2:49:50 | |
quickly? I wish! I am hopelessly
slow, that is my problem. I tend to | 2:49:50 | 2:49:58 | |
work same size. If the drawing in
the book will be this big, I will | 2:49:58 | 2:50:03 | |
draw it that big, otherwise I will
spend hours putting on detail that | 2:50:03 | 2:50:08 | |
is not strictly necessary. Sometimes
it is just a gag. One of my | 2:50:08 | 2:50:11 | |
favourite ones is of the Middle
Ages, or the early Middle Ages, | 2:50:11 | 2:50:17 | |
where all the documents had seals on
them. That is how you made your | 2:50:17 | 2:50:20 | |
signature. So I just drew a seal.
Which was a terrible pun. I quite | 2:50:20 | 2:50:28 | |
like it. You can spend too Lahmert,
it is a little gag and you move on. | 2:50:28 | 2:50:33 | |
Some of the books at 180 joints. How
long do you spent writing them? | 2:50:33 | 2:50:40 | |
About two or three weeks. I am too
busy to spend time writing. Terry, | 2:50:40 | 2:50:46 | |
when you were young, was history
your thing? Paint as a picture, you | 2:50:46 | 2:50:52 | |
are nine years old or 11 years old
at school, getting history taught to | 2:50:52 | 2:50:57 | |
you? I was not taught history, I was
taught how to pass the 11 plus. I | 2:50:57 | 2:51:03 | |
learned nothing about history. At
secondary school we had stories | 2:51:03 | 2:51:06 | |
dictated to us which we copied down
verbatim. Literally just dates, no | 2:51:06 | 2:51:13 | |
understanding? No understanding, no
interest, no human content. Lots of | 2:51:13 | 2:51:17 | |
people complain that history used to
be taught that way instead of doing | 2:51:17 | 2:51:23 | |
what you do, telling stories.
Importing people still think that | 2:51:23 | 2:51:27 | |
important dates are important. We
are much more about the people. -- | 2:51:27 | 2:51:32 | |
important people still think. You
have your kings, queens, rulers and | 2:51:32 | 2:51:37 | |
dictators, but as poor chinooks had
to seeds and their families -- but | 2:51:37 | 2:51:45 | |
as poor schmucks had to. Which
period stoked your interest the | 2:51:45 | 2:51:53 | |
most? I have been asked so many
times, I always say all the eras | 2:51:53 | 2:52:00 | |
with dirty and dangerous terrible
toilets, poor food. I said the best | 2:52:00 | 2:52:05 | |
time was the 1950s when I grew up. A
little girl said was that the Middle | 2:52:05 | 2:52:09 | |
Ages?!
Are academics snooty about what you | 2:52:09 | 2:52:16 | |
do? Some of them, because I sell
more books than men. Others say | 2:52:16 | 2:52:20 | |
really unpleasant things about me
like Tyler parasite because I use | 2:52:20 | 2:52:26 | |
that wonderful research, but that is
absolutely right. I am pleased that | 2:52:26 | 2:52:30 | |
has been cleared up. What have you
brought? It is a little figure. One | 2:52:30 | 2:52:36 | |
of my favourite people from history
is a peasant, just the ordinary | 2:52:36 | 2:52:41 | |
person. Mr and Mrs on the kids,
trying to survive. This year we are | 2:52:41 | 2:52:48 | |
still celebrating... Commemorating.
Commemorating 100 years after the | 2:52:48 | 2:52:52 | |
First World War. The helmet is
synonymous with the Tommy in the | 2:52:52 | 2:52:57 | |
trenches. The thing is, that is not
on general release until the summer | 2:52:57 | 2:53:04 | |
of 1916. Some of them were left in
the trenches in the early days, | 2:53:04 | 2:53:07 | |
soldiers would come in, pick up the
helmet and use it, but as far as | 2:53:07 | 2:53:12 | |
being issued to everyone, it only
happened midway through 16. So for | 2:53:12 | 2:53:17 | |
the first two years of the war,
halfway through the war, they faced | 2:53:17 | 2:53:21 | |
machine guns and bombs wearing a
cloth cap. It puts into perspective | 2:53:21 | 2:53:26 | |
what those guys did. That is
Horrible Histories. Very much | 2:53:26 | 2:53:31 | |
Horrible Histories. It has been
lovely having you. It has been | 2:53:31 | 2:53:34 | |
great. | 2:53:34 | 2:53:35 | |
To coincide with Horrible Histories'
25th anniversary, there | 2:53:35 | 2:53:37 | |
are celebratory editions
of | 2:53:37 | 2:53:38 | |
their bestselling classics. | 2:53:38 | 2:53:42 | |
Let's have a look at the weather
with Carol | 2:53:42 | 2:53:46 | |
Let's have a look at the weather
with Carol. Where are | 2:53:46 | 2:53:48 | |
Let's have a look at the weather
with Carol. Where are you and how | 2:53:48 | 2:53:50 | |
are you?
Not too bad, I am on the roof of | 2:53:50 | 2:53:53 | |
Broadcasting House in London. A band
of rain has pushed through, showers | 2:53:53 | 2:53:58 | |
are following behind, and for many
others it is not as cold a start as | 2:53:58 | 2:54:02 | |
yesterday. It was -6 at sure airport
yesterday, this morning it was 12 | 2:54:02 | 2:54:09 | |
degrees higher than that. Quite a
difference. But it will nevertheless | 2:54:09 | 2:54:14 | |
be cold. First thing this morning
there is the risk of ice on | 2:54:14 | 2:54:18 | |
untreated surfaces, so watch out.
The rain is clearing the south-east | 2:54:18 | 2:54:22 | |
and we have wintry showers, meaning
a mix of rain, sleet and snow and | 2:54:22 | 2:54:27 | |
maybe some hail. Across south-west
England, Wales, northern England in | 2:54:27 | 2:54:32 | |
south-east Scotland.
Looking at the big map, you can see | 2:54:32 | 2:54:35 | |
how the rain across the south-east
moves away. There will be a lot of | 2:54:35 | 2:54:39 | |
dry weather and sunshine. Those
wintry showers I have just | 2:54:39 | 2:54:51 | |
wintry showers I have just pointed
out will move eastwards through the | 2:54:51 | 2:54:52 | |
course of the day and it is cold
enough for them to be falling almost | 2:54:52 | 2:54:55 | |
anywhere. Do not be surprised if you
see sleet or snow at times. | 2:54:55 | 2:54:57 | |
Temperatures roundabout four 27
Celsius, feeling chilly. | 2:54:57 | 2:55:01 | |
Through the evening and overnight,
we start with wintry showers across | 2:55:01 | 2:55:04 | |
East Anglia before they clear away.
Clear skies follow behind, it will | 2:55:04 | 2:55:08 | |
be cold. The risk of ice on
untreated surfaces again. Then an | 2:55:08 | 2:55:13 | |
area of low pressure with a potent
front comes into the West, | 2:55:13 | 2:55:18 | |
introducing stronger winds and some
rain and mostly held snow. | 2:55:18 | 2:55:21 | |
Temperature wise, -2-macro two plus
two, still cold. | 2:55:21 | 2:55:27 | |
Tomorrow starts with the risk of ice
but a fair amount of sunshine. As | 2:55:27 | 2:55:31 | |
the weather front comes in, the wind
will strengthen across the South, | 2:55:31 | 2:55:35 | |
gusting 40 or 50 mph, possibly more.
The rain will come in with held | 2:55:35 | 2:55:41 | |
snow. Temperature wise, double
figures, we will not know ourselves. | 2:55:41 | 2:55:46 | |
Ten or 11 for sun. -- for some.
Temperature is higher in the North | 2:55:46 | 2:55:52 | |
than this afternoon. From Saturday
into Sunday the whole system pushes | 2:55:52 | 2:55:57 | |
into the North Sea. It could deposit
snow across southern Scotland and | 2:55:57 | 2:56:03 | |
northern England. We will keep an
eye for you. As it moves behind it | 2:56:03 | 2:56:07 | |
hit will brighten. There will be
some sunshine but it will feel cold. | 2:56:07 | 2:56:11 | |
Towards the West we have those
wintry showers, also in the north. | 2:56:11 | 2:56:18 | |
It will be snowing at times lower
levels. | 2:56:18 | 2:56:21 | |
We might be complaining of the cold,
it will be nothing like they will | 2:56:21 | 2:56:25 | |
see in South Korea. Today it will be
try, not as cold as it has been. | 2:56:25 | 2:56:31 | |
These other temperatures tomorrow,
-16 in the morning, warming to -14 | 2:56:31 | 2:56:36 | |
in the afternoon. A westerly winds
in excess of 30 mph. So the wind | 2:56:36 | 2:56:41 | |
chill with that, it will be bone
chilling. It should stay dry, but | 2:56:41 | 2:56:46 | |
heading from Sunday to Monday we
will see wintry showers, and it will | 2:56:46 | 2:56:50 | |
be windy as well. | 2:56:50 | 2:56:56 | |
Glad you stay dry, Carol Good use of
brolly, congratulations! | 2:56:56 | 2:57:02 | |
It sounds like something
from a Disney movie, a bespectacled | 2:57:02 | 2:57:04 | |
praying mantis with a special power
which makes him different | 2:57:04 | 2:57:06 | |
to all the other insects. | 2:57:06 | 2:57:09 | |
In fact, this was part of some very
serious research into 3D | 2:57:09 | 2:57:11 | |
vision and how it might be
used in robotics. | 2:57:11 | 2:57:14 | |
It was led by Vivek Nityananda,
who can tell us more. | 2:57:14 | 2:57:22 | |
A very good morning to you. This was
your research. The way we have | 2:57:22 | 2:57:28 | |
explained it is you have these
praying mantis, they are wearing 3D | 2:57:28 | 2:57:33 | |
goggles? Can you set up what was
happening? We put on these 3D | 2:57:33 | 2:57:38 | |
goggles on the praying mantis is so
we could show them the kind of 3D | 2:57:38 | 2:57:44 | |
illusions. How did you put the | 2:57:44 | 2:57:45 | |
we could show them the kind of 3D
illusions. How did you put the | 2:57:45 | 2:57:45 | |
goggles on them? We fix them with
beeswax, we put a spot of beeswax on | 2:57:45 | 2:57:55 | |
the praying mantis's forehead, if
you like. What are they seeing? Just | 2:57:55 | 2:58:02 | |
the normal world through the
glasses, but when we show them a | 2:58:02 | 2:58:06 | |
stimulus we are showing different
colours to each eye, that is what | 2:58:06 | 2:58:09 | |
the glasses help achieve. When you
show them this stimulus, does that | 2:58:09 | 2:58:15 | |
appear to them as a 3D film would
appear to us if we were wearing 3D | 2:58:15 | 2:58:20 | |
glasses? More or less exactly that.
So what is the advantage of putting | 2:58:20 | 2:58:25 | |
these spectacles on a praying mantis
when you could just see what happens | 2:58:25 | 2:58:29 | |
to us? The only insects that we know
have 3D vision, we can ask whether | 2:58:29 | 2:58:36 | |
they have a completely different way
of doing 3D vision compared to | 2:58:36 | 2:58:40 | |
others, if it is an easier, simpler
solution to doing three division | 2:58:40 | 2:58:45 | |
then we can try to implement it. How
do you know if an insect has three | 2:58:45 | 2:58:51 | |
division? By putting on these
glasses and sharing them the | 2:58:51 | 2:58:54 | |
allusions. But you said you put them
on because you know they have it? | 2:58:54 | 2:58:59 | |
Some work in the 1980s but prisms in
front of their eyes, by manipulating | 2:58:59 | 2:59:05 | |
the strength of the prisms it showed
that the praying mantis has three | 2:59:05 | 2:59:12 | |
division. Where does this research
lead you? What do you do with this | 2:59:12 | 2:59:20 | |
information? They have a different
way of seeing in 3D which is much | 2:59:20 | 2:59:25 | |
easier to implement. We're hoping we
can model that and use in robotics. | 2:59:25 | 2:59:30 | |
How would it be useful? It requires
much less computing power. You can | 2:59:30 | 2:59:37 | |
have a lightweight robot, you can
compute distance using much less | 2:59:37 | 2:59:41 | |
processing power. Currently we try
to mimic human 3D vision. If you can | 2:59:41 | 2:59:48 | |
make mantis 3D vision, you can do it
with much less. So effectively you | 2:59:48 | 2:59:53 | |
could have a robot able to judge
depth of field rather than just | 2:59:53 | 2:59:57 | |
going to a fixed point, knowing it
could come up to you and be close to | 2:59:57 | 3:00:02 | |
you but keep a proximity? Keep
distance, or when it reaches out to | 3:00:02 | 3:00:09 | |
catch something I can judge that
distance. How long before we see | 3:00:09 | 3:00:13 | |
this? We have just found out what
the mantises do, we have developed a | 3:00:13 | 3:00:20 | |
model and are ready to collaborate.
Thank you, Vivek Nityananda. Good to | 3:00:20 | 3:00:24 | |
see you. | 3:00:24 | 3:00:30 | |
For more than a century at the
Natural History Museum in London, | 3:00:30 | 3:00:36 | |
Dippy the dinosaur made it his home
and now he is going on tour. John | 3:00:36 | 3:00:41 | |
Maguire is there for us this
morning. Quite a lot of youngsters | 3:00:41 | 3:00:46 | |
have been enjoying it. It is
fantastic. Yes, it officially opens | 3:00:46 | 3:00:50 | |
tomorrow. It is ticketed before
Dippy goes on to a right across the | 3:00:50 | 3:00:58 | |
UK. It has been an incredible
challenge to get him here to Dorset | 3:00:58 | 3:01:02 | |
in Dorchester. They just about
squeezed him in and this is how they | 3:01:02 | 3:01:09 | |
did it from this footage. They
pieced all the pieces together. The | 3:01:09 | 3:01:15 | |
cameraman is coming downstairs to
get a view from downstairs. | 3:01:15 | 3:01:23 | |
get a view from downstairs. His 292
plaster of Paris bones weighed 22 | 3:01:23 | 3:01:27 | |
tonnes in title. Even his head is 50
kilos. This was made with a 3-D | 3:01:27 | 3:01:32 | |
printer. But as you can see, a very
big animal with a very small brain. | 3:01:32 | 3:01:42 | |
I said there were 292 bones to make
up Dippy. At the moment there are | 3:01:42 | 3:01:51 | |
only 291 because we are going to put
the very last bone, a Toblerone, | 3:01:51 | 3:01:56 | |
onto Dippy right now to finish the
installation. 11-year-old Harry is | 3:01:56 | 3:02:01 | |
going to do the honours for us.
Harry, will you do that for us? It | 3:02:01 | 3:02:09 | |
is quite a delicate operation. | 3:02:09 | 3:02:10 | |
Just put it on and wriggle it.
Perfect. How was that? Exciting. | 3:02:22 | 3:02:29 | |
Tell me what you had to do to win
the competition? I had to send in an | 3:02:29 | 3:02:35 | |
e-mail. What did you say? That I
love dinosaurs. What do you love | 3:02:35 | 3:02:44 | |
about dinosaurs? They are big
creatures for the land. Especially | 3:02:44 | 3:02:52 | |
when you are and anyone. 150 million
years since they walked the face of | 3:02:52 | 3:02:59 | |
the Earth and 42 years he will be
going on tour. Why take him and | 3:02:59 | 3:03:04 | |
about? It is an opportunity to
inspire and engage people and we | 3:03:04 | 3:03:10 | |
hope it will encourage people to
come back to their local museums. | 3:03:10 | 3:03:14 | |
Dorset County Museum is a fabulous
museum and there is every reason for | 3:03:14 | 3:03:19 | |
people to come back and explore it
again even if they have been here | 3:03:19 | 3:03:22 | |
before. You have been working with
Debbie since? 1980 exhibition mark | 3:03:22 | 3:03:30 | |
what is the appeal of this bag of
bones? He is amazing, and he has had | 3:03:30 | 3:03:37 | |
a fantastic history since being here
in 1905. Dinosaurs evoke the | 3:03:37 | 3:03:41 | |
imagination. Children have visited
him, parents have taken their | 3:03:41 | 3:03:47 | |
children, so he is the people's
dinosaurs and he is in Dorset and it | 3:03:47 | 3:03:52 | |
is so exciting to be working with
Dorset Museum to bring him to live. | 3:03:52 | 3:03:57 | |
He does feel as if he has been
brought to life. Over the next few | 3:03:57 | 3:04:01 | |
years who will be going to
Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff, | 3:04:01 | 3:04:05 | |
Rochdale, ending up in Norwich in
2020. You will not be able to get as | 3:04:05 | 3:04:13 | |
close as this, but pretty close. I
suppose this is what it would have | 3:04:13 | 3:04:17 | |
felt like to have been a leaf all
those years ago. A very poignant | 3:04:17 | 3:04:25 | |
thing to imagine yourself as. How
lucky was Harry to be able to put | 3:04:25 | 3:04:28 | |
the last claw in? | 3:04:28 | 3:04:31 | |
In a moment we'll meet SuRie,
the UK's entry for this year's | 3:04:31 | 3:04:34 | |
Eurovision Song Contest. | 3:04:34 | 3:04:35 | |
First, a last look at the headlines
where you are this morning. | 3:04:35 | 3:06:10 | |
First, a last look at the headlines
temperature of 7 degrees. I am back | 3:06:10 | 3:06:14 | |
with the latest after the one
o'clock news. | 3:06:14 | 3:06:20 | |
20 years ago, the late
Sir Terry Wogan hosted | 3:06:21 | 3:06:23 | |
the Eurovision Song Contest
from Birmingham, after the UK won | 3:06:23 | 3:06:26 | |
the competition with Love Shine
a Light by Katrina and the Waves. | 3:06:26 | 3:06:33 | |
Does that feel like 20 years ago? I
think it does. | 3:06:33 | 3:06:37 | |
I think it does. | 3:06:37 | 3:06:41 | |
In the two decades that followed,
we've sent an eclectic mix | 3:06:41 | 3:06:43 | |
of girl groups, boy bands,
duos and solo artists - covering | 3:06:43 | 3:06:45 | |
nearly every musical style -
to try and emulate that success. | 3:06:45 | 3:06:48 | |
But despite that, on only three
occasions have we made the top ten. | 3:06:48 | 3:06:51 | |
This year, SuRie will represent us
with her song, Storm. | 3:06:51 | 3:06:56 | |
This year will be different. | 3:06:56 | 3:07:05 | |
Congratulations. Thank you very
much. Let's have a look at the highs | 3:07:05 | 3:07:10 | |
and lows of the last 20 years. | 3:07:10 | 3:07:11 | |
Let's have a look at the highs
and lows of the last 20 years. | 3:07:11 | 3:07:16 | |
# I see a picture in a frame... | 3:07:16 | 3:07:18 | |
Let's hear it for Imaani
and the United Kingdom, | 3:07:18 | 3:07:20 | |
let's make it two on the trot. | 3:07:20 | 3:07:22 | |
# Riding alone on an empty train. | 3:07:22 | 3:07:24 | |
# Where are you? | 3:07:24 | 3:07:26 | |
# Bye-bye, baby. | 3:07:26 | 3:07:28 | |
# Lie to me baby. | 3:07:28 | 3:07:29 | |
# Survive without you, baby. | 3:07:29 | 3:07:31 | |
# Baby, bye. | 3:07:31 | 3:07:32 | |
# Baby, bye-bye. | 3:07:32 | 3:07:34 | |
# There's nothing I'm afraid of. | 3:07:34 | 3:07:37 | |
# I'll show you what I'm made of. | 3:07:37 | 3:07:39 | |
# Show you all it's my time. | 3:07:39 | 3:07:45 | |
# I can, I will. | 3:07:45 | 3:07:47 | |
# I know I can. | 3:07:47 | 3:07:49 | |
# Get back up again. | 3:07:49 | 3:07:55 | |
# The way I speak the truth. | 3:07:55 | 3:07:59 | |
# I'd never lie to you. | 3:07:59 | 3:08:02 | |
# If you just believe in the things
that your eyes can see. | 3:08:02 | 3:08:05 | |
# Believe in me. | 3:08:05 | 3:08:09 | |
# Just give me your
hand and hold on. | 3:08:09 | 3:08:13 | |
# Together we'll dance
through this storm. | 3:08:13 | 3:08:21 | |
Flawless, that has to be one
of our strongest entries | 3:08:21 | 3:08:24 | |
in the last few years. | 3:08:24 | 3:08:28 | |
And hopefully that is reflected
in the votes later on. | 3:08:28 | 3:08:34 | |
What position did that one make? 50.
But she did beautifully. It was | 3:08:34 | 3:08:43 | |
stunning. We will see your entry in
a moment, but you must go into it | 3:08:43 | 3:08:48 | |
with some trepidation and cynicism
may be because of how the votes come | 3:08:48 | 3:08:51 | |
through? I am probably one of the
most cynical people out there, but I | 3:08:51 | 3:08:58 | |
actually do not. Once you get
through the hurdle of Wednesday | 3:08:58 | 3:09:03 | |
night, you decide programme, we do
not have to qualify for the final. | 3:09:03 | 3:09:07 | |
We do not have to get through the
semi-s. We will just be a part of | 3:09:07 | 3:09:12 | |
one of the biggest night in the
calendar. It is better than the | 3:09:12 | 3:09:16 | |
Super Bowl half-time show from a
viewing point of view, so there is a | 3:09:16 | 3:09:20 | |
lot of fun to be had. I know there
is a leaderboard but... Shall we see | 3:09:20 | 3:09:24 | |
your son?
# We can hold our hands together | 3:09:24 | 3:09:32 | |
through the storm.
# Storms do not last for ever, for | 3:09:32 | 3:09:39 | |
ever, remember.
# We can hold our hands together, | 3:09:39 | 3:09:44 | |
through the storm, through the
storm. | 3:09:44 | 3:09:51 | |
That was you in a winning
performance. Congratulations. | 3:09:51 | 3:09:57 | |
Eurovision is completely mad. The
event is madness, that is why people | 3:09:57 | 3:10:01 | |
love it so much. You seem like a
very calm and mellow person. It is | 3:10:01 | 3:10:07 | |
very early, Charlie. You are
entering a mad world, although you | 3:10:07 | 3:10:12 | |
have been to the event before as a
backing singer, but for non-British | 3:10:12 | 3:10:17 | |
entries. Correct. How does that
work? I worked for the Belgians in | 3:10:17 | 3:10:24 | |
2015 as a backing singer and dancer
and last year in 2017 with lunch. | 3:10:24 | 3:10:31 | |
For which country? For Belgium
again. So the backing singers do not | 3:10:31 | 3:10:38 | |
have to be the nationality of the
country? You know, the lead artist | 3:10:38 | 3:10:42 | |
does. So you know about the
magnitude of this event having been | 3:10:42 | 3:10:48 | |
there, so you might have a bit of an
advantage? I know what to expect, | 3:10:48 | 3:10:55 | |
the incredible team that put that
amazing, tight ship together. It is | 3:10:55 | 3:11:00 | |
a different ball game being the lead
artist and representing your | 3:11:00 | 3:11:04 | |
country, there is a different level
of responsibility. I thrive on it. | 3:11:04 | 3:11:09 | |
All performers are self obsessed
show-offs and that is what we live | 3:11:09 | 3:11:12 | |
for and that is what we do, so I
can't wait. What do family and | 3:11:12 | 3:11:17 | |
friends say? I can't keep up with
the messages that are coming in and | 3:11:17 | 3:11:23 | |
replying to people because it was
only yesterday, but it is very | 3:11:23 | 3:11:26 | |
exciting. Have the days of... I have
used the word mad before, but the | 3:11:26 | 3:11:39 | |
gimmicky performances, the
extraordinary artists in the past to | 3:11:39 | 3:11:42 | |
have one extraordinary costumes and
to have done something weird to | 3:11:42 | 3:11:47 | |
generate interest, are people still
doing that? Is there the temptation | 3:11:47 | 3:11:51 | |
to come up with a stand on stage to
generate interest? You Looe it is | 3:11:51 | 3:11:56 | |
definitely an entertainment show.
With such a huge, universal appeal | 3:11:56 | 3:12:01 | |
with the songwriting, whether you
like the songs or not there is | 3:12:01 | 3:12:06 | |
something for everyone in that show.
But there are a lot of cultural | 3:12:06 | 3:12:11 | |
differences. I do not think our
British, sarcastic humour translates | 3:12:11 | 3:12:15 | |
well, but there are beautiful,
cultural differences to be respected | 3:12:15 | 3:12:20 | |
and supported and people want to put
on a colourful, wonderful or very | 3:12:20 | 3:12:26 | |
minimal, emotionally connected
performers, and have that | 3:12:26 | 3:12:29 | |
entertainment. Have you decided how
you are going to present Storm? You | 3:12:29 | 3:12:35 | |
have got three months. We have got
fun to get into the creative | 3:12:35 | 3:12:40 | |
meetings and develop that. A wind
machine? Umbrellas everywhere. | 3:12:40 | 3:12:45 | |
Flowing capes. Someone from the BBC
on a ladder with a watering can. Put | 3:12:45 | 3:12:53 | |
it in the mix and see what comes
out. Very good luck. Enjoy it. It is | 3:12:53 | 3:13:01 | |
impossible not to. That is nearly
it. Don't forget in an hour and 15 | 3:13:01 | 3:13:08 | |
minutes BBC One is going to be
leading you up to the opening | 3:13:08 | 3:13:13 | |
ceremony to the Winter Olympics at
PyeongChang. | 3:13:13 | 3:13:19 | |
It is just getting dark there with
the time difference. We can see the | 3:13:19 | 3:13:23 | |
venue where the ceremony will be
taking place, so it is looking | 3:13:23 | 3:13:26 | |
rather dramatic with the mountains
surrounding it. All events start at | 3:13:26 | 3:13:33 | |
11 | 3:13:33 | 3:13:33 |