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Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:11 | |
A lack of trust among disabled
people over how their welfare | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
claims are assessed. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
MPs find assessors submitted reports
that were riddled with errors | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
and regularly missed
quality targets. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:26 | |
Good morning. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
It's Wednesday, the 14th February. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Also this morning: | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
Boris Johnson moves to reassure
voters who he says are angry | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
and alienated because of Brexit
in the first of a series of speeches | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
on Brexit from senior
cabinet members. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
A new times table test is introduced
for thousands of eight and nine year | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
olds in England's primary schools
in a bid to raise numeracy levels. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
Good morning. I am in Liverpool,
where the council is selling off | 0:01:01 | 0:01:08 | |
over 100 empty homes for just £1.
Houses like these. I will look at | 0:01:08 | 0:01:14 | |
whether this is one way we can solve
the housing shortage and I will take | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
you inside some of the houses. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
And in sport: From the farm
to the curling sheet. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
Great Britain's men beat Switzerland
in their opening match. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
Team GB won silver four years ago,
but this is a new team, all of them | 0:01:25 | 0:01:34 | |
farmers. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:35 | |
There's black and then there's one
of the blackest substances | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
known to man. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:38 | |
What can vantablack be used for? | 0:01:38 | 0:01:40 | |
We'll tell you later. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
And we have the dark Lord himself on
the weather forecast. We can bring a | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
bit of colour to your forecast. Lots
of frost and sunshine to begin with, | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
but rain and hill snow on the way.
All the details in 15 minutes. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:59 | |
Good morning. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
First, our main story: | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
A committee of MPs has said
there is a "pervasive lack of trust" | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
among disabled people
in how their welfare | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
claims are assessed. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:08 | |
The Commons' Work and Pensions
committee said reports by private | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
contractors were "riddled
with errors" and quality targets had | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
been "regularly missed". | 0:02:14 | 0:02:14 | |
Here's our disability news
correspondent Nikki Fox. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:20 | |
Anastasia Ashley is having a good
day. But it's not always like this. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:25 | |
Most days she is unable to get out
of the house. The 24-year-old has | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
multiple sclerosis. She used to work
full-time, but now she struggles to | 0:02:30 | 0:02:35 | |
get around. She applied for a
disability benefit and was assessed | 0:02:35 | 0:02:41 | |
at home by a healthcare professional
from a private company. She says she | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
told says she could only walk 20
metres, but when the report came | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
back it said she could walk further.
She didn't give me a physical | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
assessment. I was sat down the
entire time. I was very, very cross | 0:02:53 | 0:02:59 | |
about that. Today's report
identifies a culture of mistrust | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
around the whole process. It says
assessors risk being viewed as at | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
best lacking competence and at worst
actively deceitful. The committee | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
says the government's Loe bar for
what is considered acceptable leaves | 0:03:13 | 0:03:18 | |
rooms for reports to be riddled with
obvious omissions. Clearly the | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
system needs a major overhaul, but
there are some things government | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
could do better to improve it.
Automatic audio recording of | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
assessments for people, why not
share the assessment results with | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
the claimant at the point of claim a
decision? The government says | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
assessments work for the majority of
people and it is committed to | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
improving transparency. What with
current contracts up for review and | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
targets being consistently missed,
the future of the system is unclear. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:49 | |
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
will address what he calls | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
the "grief and alienation"
of those who voted to stay | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
in the European Union
in a speech later today. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
He says that people who voted
to leave the EU should | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
try to persuade worried remainers
to focus on the possible benefits | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
of, rather than their
fears over, Brexit. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Our political correspondent,
Leila Nathoo, is in Westminster this | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
morning. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:15 | |
What exactly is he expected to say
later? We are expecting a very | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
conciliatory tone from him later. He
wants to reach out to people on both | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
sides of the debate, a recognition
that there are still divisions. He | 0:04:24 | 0:04:30 | |
says he understands the anxieties
amongst Remainers but he wants to | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
convince them that Brexit is about
hope and not fear. He also has | 0:04:33 | 0:04:38 | |
strong words for people he thinks
are trying to stop Brexit and wants | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
to warn them that they would be a
disastrous mistake, but this is a | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
first in a series of speeches we
will get from senior Cabinet | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
ministers over the coming weeks.
Number 10 is calling the series of | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
speeches the road to Brexit. Theresa
May will speak about security this | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
weekend and we will hear from the
Brexit secretary David Davis about | 0:04:57 | 0:05:02 | |
business, from the Cabinet office
secretary about devolution. This is | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
all a plan from Number 10 to reveal
more details about what exactly our | 0:05:05 | 0:05:11 | |
relationship with the EU will look
like in the future. Theresa May has | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
been under great pressure to reveal
that. There is no agreement yet | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
among Cabinet ministers on what
exactly the future relationship with | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
the EU will look like. Cabinet
ministers will gather for an away | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
day to try and flesh this out, what
in the speeches that we are | 0:05:26 | 0:05:30 | |
expecting to hear, including from
Liam Fox, we are going to get more | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
detail and they will be very closely
watched both here in Westminster and | 0:05:34 | 0:05:39 | |
Brussels for the exact arrangement
that the government wants to see. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:47 | |
Boris Johnson will also speak about
controlling immigration, but quite a | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
few MPs say the Home Office doesn't
have the resources to deal with any | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
changes to the system. This is a
warning from the Home Affairs Select | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
Committee that there are no
preparations in place. Not enough | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
preparations in place for a new
immigration system post- except and | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
no clarity yet on what exactly the
government wants it the transition | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
period and beyond. Interestingly in
these speeches we will hear, the | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
Home Secretary Amber Rudd isn't
among them. The government has been | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
promising a draft policy of future
immigration that has been delayed | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
and MPs are also criticising that.
The Home Office says we are well | 0:06:25 | 0:06:30 | |
prepared, it is ridiculous to
suggest otherwise, but it is clear | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
that there is impatience now from
all sides for more flesh on the bone | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
of Brexit plans. Thank you very much
and speak to you later. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:45 | |
The jury at the trial of the former
football coach Barry Bennell, | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
who's been found guilty of dozens
of sexual offences against boys, | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
will continue deliberations
on other charges today. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
Yesterday, the jury
at Liverpool Crown Court returned | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
guilty verdicts on 36 counts
and asked for more time | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
to consider seven more. | 0:06:58 | 0:06:59 | |
Bennell, who appeared in court
via videolink due to illness, | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
declined to give
evidence in his defence. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:09 | |
Film star Minnie Driver has quit
as an Oxfam ambassador | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
following claims that staff working
for the charity in disaster zones | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
paid vulnerable local
people for sex. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:16 | |
The actress resigned after 20 years
with the aid agency, | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
saying in a statement
that she was "horrified" | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
by the allegations. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:22 | |
Oxfam said it was "grateful"
for Ms Driver's commitment, | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
and that it was more
determined than ever to learn | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
from its mistakes. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
Hundreds of premature babies
could avoid brain damage | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
if their mothers were all given
a cheap drug during labour, | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
according to a new report. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health says there are huge | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
regional disparities
in the proportion of mothers given | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
magnesium sulphate to reduce
the risk of cerebral palsy. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
It claims providing the drug
could save the NHS £280 million | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
a year. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:55 | |
The actress Emma Watson has spoken
about her shock at realising | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
that there was no system
in place to help people | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
in the film industry who had
been sexually harassed. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
She's one of a number of women
in the industry who've been | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
consulted by the British Film
Institute and BAFTA, | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
as it announces changes aimed
at tackling the problem. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
Our entertainment correspondent
Colin Paterson has been looking | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
at the plans. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
This Sunday it is the BAFTA awards
and ahead of British film is' | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
biggest night of the year, the
industry has announced a brand-new | 0:08:22 | 0:08:25 | |
plan aimed at tackling both sexual
harassment and bullying. It is a | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
direct response to the Harvey
Weinstein allegations. You can talk? | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
Of course we can talk! Emma Watson
was one of the many actresses asked | 0:08:34 | 0:08:39 | |
for input. These principles are
important because up until recently | 0:08:39 | 0:08:44 | |
there were no guidelines, there was
no protocol for someone who had been | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
sexually harassed in the
entertainment industry. I know this | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
to be a fact because I've asked for
principles and asked to see | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
guidelines and no one could give
them to me. To change this more than | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
40 organisations, including after
and the British Film Institute, | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
worked on a set of eight principles
which they want to be used across | 0:09:04 | 0:09:09 | |
the film, to the video games
industries. So what will actually | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
change? Every production must employ
two people trained to handle any | 0:09:12 | 0:09:18 | |
accusations of harassment. A
dedicated phone line will open in | 0:09:18 | 0:09:22 | |
April, offering free confidential
help. And PFI funding will only be | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
given to projects committed to the
changes. -- BFI. This isn't about a | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
set of commands, it is about a set
of principles which everyone has | 0:09:31 | 0:09:38 | |
willingly and with huge enthusiasm
signed up to. At last month's Golden | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
Globe awards almost all actresses
wore black to show solidarity for | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
the times up campaign calling for
change. The same is expected at the | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
Baftas. Those behind the
announcement hope such a stand would | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
be needed next year. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
A heart-warming image of a gorilla
in the arms of one of her rescuers | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
has won the top prize
at the Wildlife Photographer | 0:10:02 | 0:10:05 | |
of the Year awards. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:07 | |
Chosen by almost 20,000 nature
fans, the winning snap | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
was taken by Canadian
photographer Jo-Anne McArthur. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
Pikin, a lowland gorilla,
was being moved to a new home | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
by her caretaker in Cameroon. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:20 | |
It is a beautiful picture. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
Other finalists included this image
of a polar bear and her cubs | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
emerging from their den. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:35 | |
This bird is a
lilac-breasted roller. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
It doesn't look real! | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
Snapped hitching a ride
on a zebra in Kenya. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
Have you ever seen a bird like that?
I have now! | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
This three-toed sloth was hanging
around in the Brazilian rainforest. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
Was it Planet Earth II that this
loss was in? | 0:10:59 | 0:11:05 | |
And, finally, here's an underwater
image of a humpback whale | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
and her calf floating
in the waters off Tonga. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
The winning images will be showcased
at the Natural History Museum | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
in London, until the end of May. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
How are you feeling this morning? | 0:11:15 | 0:11:16 | |
Are you all right? I feel OK.
Those pictures might have warmed the | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
heart but perhaps you are in need of
a little pick me up. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:29 | |
Those words translated
into Italian mean tiramisu, | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
where they've just broken the record
for the longest ever coffee | 0:11:31 | 0:11:39 | |
flavoured desert, 266m in length. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
30 pastry chefs in the town
of Villesse baked all day. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
We don't know if all these people
who were watching got to sample it | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
when they'd finished. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:51 | |
I really want tiramisu for
breakfast. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
I can't bear rich. Anything coffee
-based... | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
Honestly, it's not up there.
You big coffee bully. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:05 | |
You make this stuff up!
I like it picked me up, but I don't | 0:12:05 | 0:12:11 | |
like the Italian pick me up.
I could do tiramisu right under the | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
desk right now. A big slab.
There isn't any, in case you were | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
wondering. Good morning.
Are you a coffee found? I love | 0:12:20 | 0:12:27 | |
coffee, but coffee flavoured things,
I'm not a fan. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
I didn't when I was younger, but now
I would be the first to grab the | 0:12:31 | 0:12:36 | |
coffee chocolate.
I will bring mine in at Christmas. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
I will happily eat leftovers.
I will take all the strawberry ones | 0:12:39 | 0:12:44 | |
and bring in the coffee ones. Are we
curling this morning? | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
We are gripped by the curling this
morning! The men have done very well | 0:12:48 | 0:12:54 | |
and they already beat Switzerland
later and women are doing very well | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
as well. There is something about
curling. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
The way they shout at each other,
trying to decipher what they are | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
actually saying.
It is all about tactics. And the | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
furious brushing.
Earlier we said it is one of those | 0:13:08 | 0:13:13 | |
sports where you watch AT think, I
could do that. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
It's not like the snow jumping. You
think that. You think you could give | 0:13:15 | 0:13:24 | |
it ago and you completely mess it
up. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
I would kick the stone.
Totally the wrong sport. Good effort | 0:13:26 | 0:13:31 | |
all the same. As I say, the women
have been doing very well and are | 0:13:31 | 0:13:38 | |
leading the Olympic Athletes from
Russia this morning. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
There are lot of Muirheads out there
this morning. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:52 | |
Redemption for American
snowboarder Shaun White. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
After a shock defeat in Sochi,
the Flying Tomato landed a third | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
Olympic halfpipe title,
with a mesmerising final run. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
In the Champions League,
Manchester City beat Basel | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
and Tottenham recovered
from a dreadful start to earn | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
a draw against Juventus. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
And England all-rounder Ben Stokes
is heading to New Zealand to join up | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
with the T20 squad. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:13 | |
He pleaded not guilty to charges
of affray at Bristol | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
magistrates court yesterday. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:21 | |
So we will be keeping across the
curling this morning. It's going to | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
be happening throughout the
programme and we are very excited. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
Can I ask you, do you celebrate
Valentine's Day? | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
I do.
Have you left something for your | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
other half?
I can't tell you that. He'll be | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
watching.
That's true love, watching it at | 0:14:38 | 0:14:43 | |
this time.
OK. Lots of people are getting in | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
contact about how they are marking
Valentine's Day. Helen says she is | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
meeting her best friends for lunch.
I will have to make time for the | 0:14:51 | 0:15:00 | |
husband later.
She has her priorities correct! | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
Verity says it was her birthday
yesterday. Doesn't celebrate it. He | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
spoils me every day, but she bought
a packet of love hearts in his | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
lunchbox with his sandwiches.
Do you celebrate it? May be a | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
Chinese takeaway.
I don't do anything. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:19 | |
Nothing at all? Nope.
How is your partner about that? | 0:15:19 | 0:15:24 | |
Absolutely fine.
What about birthdays? | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
Yes. Christmas?
Yes. Chinese New Year, Easter, all | 0:15:28 | 0:15:33 | |
of that.
Not Valentine's Day. David said he | 0:15:33 | 0:15:38 | |
and his wife don't celebrate it. At
his youngest daughter was born on | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
the 14th of Edgar in 1997 and it is
her 21st birthday today. Happy | 0:15:42 | 0:15:48 | |
birthday, Joy! | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
Here's Matt with a look
at this morning's weather. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
A twinkly romantic Sky. A romantic
view across the water. This was the | 0:15:55 | 0:16:02 | |
scene last night in Cumbria, lovely
starry skies and those starry skies | 0:16:02 | 0:16:06 | |
led to a chilly start this morning. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
Temperatures below freezing in many
areas, -4 on the outskirts of | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
Banbury and even into parts of
southern Scotland, -2. Some avoid | 0:16:14 | 0:16:18 | |
the frost, the blue is at or below
freezing. Avoiding it is bang and | 0:16:18 | 0:16:24 | |
the south-east because of the cloud
is today, avoiding it in the west. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
Through the day, in the | 0:16:29 | 0:16:35 | |
Through the day, in the southern
half, outbreaks of rain coming and | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
going through the morning, turning
as snow for a while in the tops of | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
the Welsh hills and into the early
afternoon on the tops of the | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
Pennines. East Anglia and the
south-east largely dry. The northern | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
half, outbreaks reading to Northern
Ireland, 70 mph gusts developing in | 0:16:49 | 0:16:54 | |
the Hebrides, some in the Hebrides
-- spreading. Some in the east stay | 0:16:54 | 0:17:07 | |
dry throughout. Across the border a
windy day, outbreaks of rain and | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
hill snow spreading erratically
eased. -- across-the-board. Ten or | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
11 by the end of the day -- east.
Eastern areas will be chilly. Into | 0:17:16 | 0:17:22 | |
the night, outbreaks of rain and
hill snow and quickly depart into | 0:17:22 | 0:17:27 | |
the near continent, lingering
longest in East Anglia and the far | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
south-east allowing clear skies and
showers to push in, turning into | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
sleet and snow in Scotland and
Northern Ireland. In between | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
temperatures avoiding a frost but
one or two could get close enough | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
for icy patches into tomorrow. This
is tomorrow morning, low pressure | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
towards Iceland, winds coming in
from a westerly direction, not as | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
strong as they will be today but a
blustery bright day for many. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
Sunshine and showers the name of the
game, southern and eastern areas, a | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
few showers, many staying dry, to
the north and west, sleet and snow | 0:17:58 | 0:18:03 | |
showers, covering the hills in
Scotland, Northern Ireland, the far | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
north of England. Rain in the south
as temperatures get to double | 0:18:06 | 0:18:10 | |
figures. Friday, another a frosty
start as winds fall light, a frosty | 0:18:10 | 0:18:17 | |
day for England and Wales but cloud
in over into western Scotland and | 0:18:17 | 0:18:22 | |
Northern Ireland later. I'll keep
you updated through the morning. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:25 | |
Back to Naga and Dan. Thanks, Matt,
we will see you later. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
Let's take a look at today's papers. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
Let's take a look at today's papers. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:33 | |
This is one of the stories we were
talking about in our headlines, the | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
Daily Telegraph has Minnie Driver
quitting Oxfam after years of | 0:18:37 | 0:18:40 | |
working with the charity over the
recent allegations of the way the | 0:18:40 | 0:18:44 | |
money has been used to get
prostitutes in Haiti and some of the | 0:18:44 | 0:18:49 | |
other accusations made against
Oxfam. The main story, Boris says EU | 0:18:49 | 0:18:55 | |
laws intolerable after Grexit,
that's what we will talk about with | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
our reporter outside Westminster
this morning. -- Brexit. Front page | 0:18:59 | 0:19:05 | |
of the Times, looking at Brexit,
Remainers risk a betrayal of Britain | 0:19:05 | 0:19:11 | |
over Brexit. Boris Johnson today
warning those attempting to reverse | 0:19:11 | 0:19:15 | |
it that their efforts will trigger
permanent feelings of betrayal. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:22 | |
Meghan Markle at Edinburgh castle
yesterday said the hen party is | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
sorted. And the lead story, Oxfam
aid worker had already been | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
investigated. Another line with
regards to the eight worker at the | 0:19:30 | 0:19:38 | |
centre of a scandal in Haiti. She
wore a £2000 code yesterday. The | 0:19:38 | 0:19:43 | |
story with Minnie Driver on the
Mail. -- aid worker. Former coach | 0:19:43 | 0:19:50 | |
found guilty of sexually abusing
footballers, he will be in court | 0:19:50 | 0:19:56 | |
later. The back pages have been
dominated by two images, we are back | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
in Champions League action, last
night Harry Kane dominating with the | 0:20:00 | 0:20:05 | |
glorious fight back. 2-0 down?
Absolutely. It was a miserable | 0:20:05 | 0:20:13 | |
start. I walked in after 17 minutes,
walked out, came back half an hour | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
later to get ready for bed...
Against Juventus, who have conceded | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
since November last year. A great
result for Tottenham. The other | 0:20:22 | 0:20:28 | |
image dominating the back pages,
Elise Christie after crashing out in | 0:20:28 | 0:20:34 | |
the 5000 metres speedskating.
Heartbreaking for her. She has a few | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
days to come back and show her
metal. It isn't all over for her by | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
a longshot shop so we will be an eye
on her so this also caught my eye | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
this morning. There's lots of way to
get your funding together for the | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
Olympics -- longshot. This guy in
the bobsleigh team did it through | 0:20:52 | 0:20:59 | |
gameshows, why not? Including the
Cuban Deal or no Deal, he won | 0:20:59 | 0:21:05 | |
£12,000, which has helped to fund
some of his equipment, some of which | 0:21:05 | 0:21:10 | |
is very expensive, so why not? Love
that story. One online story I need | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
to share, there's a guy who claims
to be a time traveller, he's called | 0:21:15 | 0:21:20 | |
Loe, he is from the year 2030 and
there's various predictions he has | 0:21:20 | 0:21:25 | |
made. Donald Trump will get
re-elected -- he's called Neuer. He | 0:21:25 | 0:21:30 | |
also says that many forms of cancer
will be cured by 2030. We are still | 0:21:30 | 0:21:36 | |
using pennies but technology has
developed to the point where you can | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
independently run your home. The US
president in 2030 will be a figure | 0:21:40 | 0:21:51 | |
called Ilana Remikee, there will be
electric cars, and he is 50 but he | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
has used a drug to make him look
like a 25-year-old. He was asked to | 0:21:55 | 0:22:01 | |
take a lie detector test and he
passed. Is he minted? I don't know. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:06 | |
He would be if you could predict the
future. Happy Valentine's Day, | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
everyone! | 0:22:10 | 0:22:18 | |
everyone! what is six times seven?
42. I was always good at my six | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
times table. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
Reciting times-tables was a feature
of school life for many of us | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
in years gone by. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:32 | |
Now the Government is set
to reintroduce timestables checks | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
for thousands of primary
school children in England | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
from this spring. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:38 | |
Opponents, including
some teaching unions, | 0:22:38 | 0:22:39 | |
are questioning the
educational benefits. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:40 | |
Our business correspondent
Nina Warhurst has been to test | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
the maths skills of some
people in Manchester. | 0:22:43 | 0:22:45 | |
My times tables, yeah, or some. Your
dad is very confident, Harvey, do | 0:22:45 | 0:22:50 | |
you think he's going to be up for
it? Know. Start with an easy one, | 0:22:50 | 0:22:55 | |
two times seven. 14. Dad, four times
six. 24. Two times six. 12. You're | 0:22:55 | 0:23:08 | |
confident you know you're times
tables, will start with a hard one, | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
seven sixes? 42. 89 is our? 72. 48
agricultural R? Of... | 0:23:11 | 0:23:25 | |
Three times five? 15. Two times
four? Eight. Good girl. Five times | 0:23:32 | 0:23:44 | |
five is? 25. Eight times five? 40.
Two times eight? 16. Four times | 0:23:44 | 0:23:54 | |
nine? | 0:23:54 | 0:24:01 | |
nine? 36. You're getting too good,
well done. Nine times six? 54. Ten | 0:24:01 | 0:24:07 | |
times for? 40. My goodness, smashed
it, well done. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:17 | |
We can speak now to the Schools
Minister Nick Gibb. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
How were you at school when it came
to maths? Fine, but I won't be | 0:24:20 | 0:24:25 | |
answering any of your times tables
questions this morning. This is an | 0:24:25 | 0:24:29 | |
important initiative to make sure
every time leaves primary school | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
fluid in their multiplication
tables, just as we introduced the | 0:24:32 | 0:24:37 | |
phonic shift in 2012, that has led
to a huge improvement in reading | 0:24:37 | 0:24:43 | |
standards and this we suspect will
lead to a huge increase influence E | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
and arithmetic so when they do
secondary school they will be better | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
equipped to handle secondary school
mathematics -- huge increase in | 0:24:50 | 0:24:57 | |
fluency. What's wrong now, is there
evidence they aren't making the | 0:24:57 | 0:25:02 | |
grade in secondary school? I've been
visiting schools since 2005 and I | 0:25:02 | 0:25:08 | |
have noticed an improvement in the
number of children able to do their | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
multiple patient tables in primary
school. It is being taught, it is | 0:25:12 | 0:25:15 | |
being taught well, but we want to
make sure every single child knows | 0:25:15 | 0:25:21 | |
their multiplication tables by heart
and this check, introduced at the | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
end of Year 4, will enable schools
to identify those children still | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
struggling. The great prize here is
every single child leaving primary | 0:25:29 | 0:25:35 | |
school will know their tables by
heart, just as more and more | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
children leaving primary school are
fluent in reading. To be able to | 0:25:38 | 0:25:42 | |
identify them at the end of Year 4,
are you saying the problem is | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
teachers aren't identifying them
now, the ones who do have problems | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
with times tables? No, they are, but
we want a systematic approach right | 0:25:50 | 0:25:55 | |
through the school system so we can
be sure in the years ahead every | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
single child is leaving primary
school mastering their times tables. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:03 | |
I've been looking at, for example, a
few years ago the E and F grades of | 0:26:03 | 0:26:09 | |
GCSE papers and it was clear them
out those children struggling at the | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
age of 16 with GCSE maths, some of
their problems stemmed from not | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
being able to multiply, for example,
and if we can get those basics | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
sorted in primary school for every
single child, not just most | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
children, we will see a huge
improvement, particularly those | 0:26:25 | 0:26:30 | |
children from disadvantaged
backgrounds, those children who are | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
now struggling in mathematics at
secondary school, we can make sure | 0:26:32 | 0:26:36 | |
every child stars secondary school
able to cope with the secondary | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
school maths curriculum. -- starts.
Can you guarantee this would create | 0:26:40 | 0:26:46 | |
more stress in the classroom, for
children, another layer of testing | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
and assessment, but also for
teachers? We've been piloting this | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
check for the last two years, it's
very simple, it takes about five | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
minutes, it is onscreen. The
feedback from children is that they | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
enjoy taking it and it isn't an
accountability measure. The results | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
won't be published on a school by
school basis, it is simply a tool to | 0:27:04 | 0:27:09 | |
enable schools to identify children
still struggling and schools will be | 0:27:09 | 0:27:14 | |
able to look at their results and
compare them to the national figures | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
and the local authority figures but
we won't publish the figures by | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
school. It would be high stakes for
the school so it shouldn't add to | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
stress or workload for teachers.
Hash it won't be high-stakes. Isn't | 0:27:26 | 0:27:37 | |
Bakar and -- it won't be
high-stakes. With Boris Johnson, | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
should the cabinet be unified ahead
of this speech today? There appears | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
to be a lot of backstabbing and
mealy words so to speak in terms of | 0:27:45 | 0:27:51 | |
the last few weeks? What Boris
Johnson will be saying in his | 0:27:51 | 0:27:56 | |
speech, I haven't read the full
speech, but what he will be saying | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
is we should be optimistic about the
future of our country outside | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
Europe. The country has differing
views on this issue and we now need | 0:28:02 | 0:28:07 | |
to come together as a country as a
whole to look ahead to see the great | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
opportunities that being outside the
European Union will present in terms | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
of global trade and projecting
Britain right across the world. That | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
is the essence of Boris Johnson's
speech today and it's the first of a | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
series of speeches by other members
of the cabinet that we'll see, | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
including the Prime Minister, who
will be speaking on this issue on | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
Saturday. When you ask for the
country to come together as a whole, | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
what about the cabinet? The cabinet
is united behind determining to get | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
for Britain a is excess or outcome
of our negotiations with Europe. We | 0:28:38 | 0:28:43 | |
want to take back control of our
laws, borders and money. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:51 | |
laws, borders and money. -- is a
successful outcome. We are united | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
behind that and I'm optimistic we
will secure a good trading deal with | 0:28:54 | 0:28:58 | |
the European Union after we leave,
which we will do in March 2019. We | 0:28:58 | 0:29:02 | |
have secured the passage of the EU
withdrawal bill in the Commons and | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
it's starting its passage in the
House of Lords and we have completed | 0:29:05 | 0:29:09 | |
the first stage of the negotiations
with the European Union in terms of | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
the negotiations about our terms of
exit. Nick Gibb, thanks for joining | 0:29:13 | 0:29:17 | |
us on Breakfast this morning. My
pleasure. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:22 | |
Steph is house hunting in Liverpool
for us this morning. | 0:29:22 | 0:29:26 | |
Good morning and good morning,
everybody. I'm in way the tree in | 0:29:26 | 0:29:31 | |
Liverpool where there are around 120
empty homes around here that have | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
been derelict, a lot of them for
more than a decade so what the | 0:29:35 | 0:29:39 | |
councils have been doing, because
they can't refurbish them | 0:29:39 | 0:29:42 | |
themselves, they have been selling
them off to families for £1 each. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:46 | |
You can buy one of these homes...
There are some rules, you have to be | 0:29:46 | 0:29:51 | |
a first-time buyer and live or work
in Liverpool, you have to be able to | 0:29:51 | 0:29:55 | |
do it up with your own cash and do
that within the first year or they | 0:29:55 | 0:29:59 | |
will take it off you and you can't
sell it for at least five years. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:04 | |
This is Mel's wonderful house she
has done up over the last several | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
months or so, we will look inside
and we will be chatting to Mel | 0:30:07 | 0:30:11 | |
later. She's done a wonderful job,
it looks gorgeous. This is Mel and | 0:30:11 | 0:30:17 | |
her daughter, Rosie. Give us a wave!
Rosie is a bit shy. I will be | 0:30:17 | 0:30:22 | |
talking to them later but first
let's get the news, travel | 0:30:22 | 0:33:46 | |
I will be back in half an hour. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:52 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty. | 0:33:52 | 0:33:56 | |
We'll bring you all the news
and sport in a moment. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
But also on Breakfast this morning: | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
Can you still recite
your times tables? | 0:34:01 | 0:34:06 | |
It was a feature of school
life for most of us, | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
now primary schools in England
are set to re-introduce testing. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
Countdown's Rachel Riley will be
here to tell us why she thinks it's | 0:34:13 | 0:34:17 | |
so important If you think black
is black, think again. | 0:34:17 | 0:34:20 | |
We're going to show you the blackest
substance on earth! | 0:34:20 | 0:34:23 | |
It's been described as looking
like "a window peering | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
into the depths of outer space". | 0:34:25 | 0:34:30 | |
From women who drill through frozen
seas to gather food, | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
to villagers who scale sheer cliff
faces to get to church. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:35 | |
We take a look at the extreme
communities risking their lives | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
on a daily basis, just to get by. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:45 | |
Here's a summary of today's main
stories from BBC News. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
A committee of MPs has said
there is a "pervasive lack of trust" | 0:34:48 | 0:34:52 | |
among disabled people
in how their welfare | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
claims are assessed. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:55 | |
The Commons' Work and Pensions
committee said reports by private | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
contractors were
"riddled with errors". | 0:34:58 | 0:35:02 | |
It recommends ministers take
the service back "in house" | 0:35:02 | 0:35:04 | |
when contracts end
with private firms. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
The government says the majority
of claimants are happy | 0:35:06 | 0:35:08 | |
with their overall experience. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
says he wants to reassure those | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
who feel angry and alienated
because of the Brexit vote. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:19 | |
In a speech later today
he will suggest that supporters | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
of Brexit try to persuade worried
remain voters that leaving | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
the European Union is a cause
for "hope, not fear". | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
His is the first of a number
of cabinet speeches | 0:35:28 | 0:35:30 | |
expected this week. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:34 | |
MPs have criticised the Home Office
for seriously underestimating, | 0:35:34 | 0:35:38 | |
what they described as the "immense
bureaucratic challenge" | 0:35:38 | 0:35:40 | |
posed by Brexit. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:41 | |
In a report published today,
the House of Commons home affairs | 0:35:41 | 0:35:46 | |
committee hits out at the Government
for long delays in publishing | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
a post-Brexit
immigration white paper. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
The government has said it's
considering various options | 0:35:51 | 0:35:57 | |
and will set out its initial plans
"as and when they are ready". | 0:35:57 | 0:36:00 | |
The jury at the trial of the former
football coach Barry Bennell, | 0:36:00 | 0:36:04 | |
who's been found guilty of dozens
of sexual offences against boys, | 0:36:04 | 0:36:07 | |
will continue deliberations
on other charges today. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
Yesterday, the jury
at Liverpool Crown Court returned | 0:36:09 | 0:36:11 | |
guilty verdicts on 36 counts
and asked for more time | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
to consider seven more. | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
Bennell, who appeared in court
via videolink due to illness, | 0:36:16 | 0:36:18 | |
declined to give
evidence in his defence. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:25 | |
The actress Emma Watson has
spoken of her shock, | 0:36:25 | 0:36:27 | |
at realising that there was no
system in place to help people | 0:36:27 | 0:36:31 | |
in the film industry who had
been sexually harassed. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
She's one of a number of women
who've been consulted | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
by the British Film Institute
and BAFTA, as it announces changes | 0:36:36 | 0:36:39 | |
aimed at tackling the problem. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:40 | |
Now BFI funding will only be given
to projects committed | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
to the proposals. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
Valentine's Day is traditionally
marked with gestures | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
of love and affection. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:53 | |
And with that in mind,
on the most romantic day of the year | 0:36:53 | 0:36:58 | |
pairs of Gentoo penguins at
the National Sea Life Centre | 0:36:58 | 0:37:04 | |
in Birmingham have been
treated to a serenade. | 0:37:04 | 0:37:08 | |
This is a violinist
from the Royal Birmingham | 0:37:08 | 0:37:10 | |
Conservatoire. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:12 | |
I think they are enjoying it, aren't
they? | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
They aren't attacking him, or
walking. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:19 | |
They want more!
There are roses on the shelf. Yeah. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:25 | |
A beautiful thing.
That's how you charm one of those | 0:37:25 | 0:37:30 | |
penguins.
It's like the Pied Piper! | 0:37:30 | 0:37:40 | |
We are talking curling.
I was more concerned that the | 0:37:40 | 0:37:45 | |
penguins would have a more romantic
day than me. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:49 | |
It's not all about you! How it's the
curling? | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
The men's curling is going very
well. Eating Switzerland in their | 0:37:52 | 0:37:56 | |
first heat. These are examples of
the stones they will be using in | 0:37:56 | 0:38:01 | |
Pyeongchang. -- beating.
They are impressive looking. How | 0:38:01 | 0:38:06 | |
heavy are they?
Only 470 pounds each, the one used | 0:38:06 | 0:38:15 | |
in Pyongyang.
Bargain! I did a piece on curling | 0:38:15 | 0:38:20 | |
sometime ago and I was told they
were £1000 each. | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
But they do last you 50 years, so
that's all right. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:26 | |
They are an investment.
They've been doing OK for them in so | 0:38:26 | 0:38:32 | |
far. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:33 | |
The men's team is a completely
new line-up to the one that took | 0:38:33 | 0:38:37 | |
silver four years ago
and they've already | 0:38:37 | 0:38:38 | |
provided nerve-shredding
entertainment. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:39 | |
Their match against Switzerland
swung to and fro, and they were tied | 0:38:39 | 0:38:42 | |
at 5-5, so it went to an extra end. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:45 | |
And GB skip Kyle Smith landed
the stone bang on target. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
They'll play defending champions
Canada at 11 o'clock. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:55 | |
These are live pictures
from the women's opening match | 0:38:55 | 0:38:57 | |
against the Olympic
Athletes from Russia. | 0:38:57 | 0:39:00 | |
Great Britain leading
5-1, so heading for victory. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:02 | |
There's live coverage on BBC Two
and catch-up programmes | 0:39:02 | 0:39:04 | |
throughout the day. | 0:39:04 | 0:39:11 | |
Now, are you familiar
with the Flying Tomato. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:14 | |
He's otherwise known as Shaun White. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:15 | |
The American has become a three
time Olympic champion | 0:39:15 | 0:39:18 | |
after a dramatic halfpipe final. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:19 | |
He was in second place
going into the final run | 0:39:19 | 0:39:22 | |
and he produced some outstanding
twists and turns and huge air | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
to take gold. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:30 | |
It is very impressive. I had to look
up exactly why he is called the Red | 0:39:30 | 0:39:37 | |
Tomato and it is of course because
of his red hair! The women's slalem | 0:39:37 | 0:39:43 | |
will now take place on Friday.
Moving away from Pyeongchang. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:50 | |
The Champions League
returned last night | 0:39:50 | 0:39:52 | |
and Tottenham produced a brilliant
fightback against Juventus, | 0:39:52 | 0:39:54 | |
who were last season's
beaten finalists. | 0:39:54 | 0:40:00 | |
Spurs were 2-0 down inside ten
minutes but Harry Kane | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
and Christian Erikkson earned them
a draw, to take into the second leg | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
at Wembley next month. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:08 | |
Pep Guardiola said their midfielder
was extraordinary after his side | 0:40:08 | 0:40:14 | |
took a giant step towards the
quarter-finals. He scored twice in a | 0:40:14 | 0:40:19 | |
4-0 win at these all. -- Basel. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:30 | |
4-0 win at these all. -- Basel. Ben
Stokes will be of New Zealand today | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
to join up with England team, who
are currently struggling in the | 0:40:32 | 0:40:35 | |
Twenty20 Tri-Series. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:42 | |
That's after he entered a plea
of not guilty to charges of affray | 0:40:42 | 0:40:46 | |
at Bristol magistrates
court yesterday. | 0:40:46 | 0:40:47 | |
His case was adjourned to the local
Crown Court on March 12th but he's | 0:40:47 | 0:40:51 | |
not required to appear in person,
meaning he's available for the rest | 0:40:51 | 0:40:54 | |
of England's winter tour. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:56 | |
And finally, the British
teams may have only | 0:40:56 | 0:40:58 | |
started their Olympic
campaign, but this | 0:40:58 | 0:40:59 | |
morning, but curling fever has
already taken hold it seems! | 0:40:59 | 0:41:02 | |
Take a look at this. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:03 | |
Maybe it's a new way to start the
house work. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
That's some technique. We need the
volume up on this. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:10 | |
Clean harder! It's absolutely
brilliant. In four years, I want to | 0:41:10 | 0:41:17 | |
see them in four years. Brilliant.
It is impressive! | 0:41:17 | 0:41:24 | |
We can give it ago and later. We've | 0:41:24 | 0:41:26 | |
It is impressive!
We can give it ago and later. We've | 0:41:26 | 0:41:26 | |
got the stones. Thanks very much. We
will have to weather shortly. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:33 | |
Film star Minnie Driver has quit
as an Oxfam ambassador | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
following claims that staff working
for the charity in disaster zones | 0:41:36 | 0:41:39 | |
paid vulnerable local
people for sex. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:41 | |
The actress resigned after 20 years
with the aid agency, | 0:41:41 | 0:41:44 | |
saying in a statement
that she was "horrified" | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
by the scandal. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:47 | |
Let's speak to our
correspondent Tom Burridge. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:55 | |
This will be a big blow. The front
page of many papers, Minnie drier | 0:41:55 | 0:41:59 | |
saying she doesn't want to be
involved with Oxfam any more. She is | 0:41:59 | 0:42:03 | |
best known for her role in the film
Good Will Hunting and she has been | 0:42:03 | 0:42:08 | |
an ambassador of Oxfam for 20 years.
She says she was devastated by the | 0:42:08 | 0:42:15 | |
response of Oxfam. Some people
claimed Oxfam tried to cover up the | 0:42:15 | 0:42:19 | |
scandal and she said she was
horrified that senior members of | 0:42:19 | 0:42:22 | |
Oxfam staff reportedly held parties
with prostitutes in the wake of the | 0:42:22 | 0:42:31 | |
earthquake in Haiti in 2010. She
said it was a series of abhorrent | 0:42:31 | 0:42:35 | |
mistakes. She says she still wants
to do some charity work abroad, | 0:42:35 | 0:42:39 | |
helping people in place of a calf
cut in the developing world, but not | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
with Oxfam. Also some reports in the
Sun about allegations against | 0:42:42 | 0:42:50 | |
International Rescue Committee is.
What more can you tell us about | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
that? It is a huge charity,
headquarter based in New York. The | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
head is David Miliband. What has
emerged overnight and into this | 0:42:57 | 0:43:04 | |
morning is that the Department for
International Development, the part | 0:43:04 | 0:43:06 | |
of our government which basically
distributes money to charities to | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
help people abroad, withheld
millions of pounds of funding from | 0:43:09 | 0:43:15 | |
the IRC relating to a programme
which the IRC was running in the | 0:43:15 | 0:43:22 | |
Democratic Republic of Congo. It did
so reportedly because of allegations | 0:43:22 | 0:43:26 | |
of fraud and sexual misconduct. The
charity has told us that there were | 0:43:26 | 0:43:31 | |
three allegations of sexual
exploitation within and other | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
organisation. I've asked the charity
to clarify what it means by that, | 0:43:34 | 0:43:40 | |
what was this other organisation and
what was its relationship to the | 0:43:40 | 0:43:44 | |
programme that the IRC was running.
It has yet to do so. The | 0:43:44 | 0:43:48 | |
International Rescue Committee says
that when the allegations came to | 0:43:48 | 0:43:51 | |
light in 2016, it fully investigated
them and kept the international... | 0:43:51 | 0:43:57 | |
The Department for International
Development fully informed. There is | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
no suggestion that this is a scandal
anything like the scale of the | 0:44:00 | 0:44:03 | |
scandal in boiling Oxfam at the
moment, but it shows that an extra | 0:44:03 | 0:44:09 | |
ray of light is being shone onto the
charity sector and especially work | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
abroad at any possible misdemeanours
in the past. Thank you very much. | 0:44:13 | 0:44:20 | |
Let's find out what's happening with
the weather. That doesn't look | 0:44:20 | 0:44:23 | |
pretty! | 0:44:23 | 0:44:23 | |
the weather. That doesn't look
pretty! | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
Yes, let's get back. That's even
prettier. Clear skies last night | 0:44:25 | 0:44:31 | |
across parts of the UK. That made
for a lovely scene in Cumbria. But | 0:44:31 | 0:44:37 | |
with those clear skies overhead it
has meant temperatures have tumbled. | 0:44:37 | 0:44:41 | |
A widespread frost. Temperatures
drop as low as -4 in the outskirts | 0:44:41 | 0:44:45 | |
of Banbury. The coldest air in
Scotland shown by the blue colours, | 0:44:45 | 0:44:53 | |
avoiding the Anglia and the
south-east with the clout from | 0:44:53 | 0:44:56 | |
yesterday still lingering anger
cloud keeping temperatures up. Rain | 0:44:56 | 0:45:02 | |
through the day will bring a change
from the south. Sunshine through | 0:45:02 | 0:45:06 | |
much of the morning in the east, the
cloud from the west brings outbreaks | 0:45:06 | 0:45:10 | |
of rain with hill snow turning
heavier in the Pennines and the Peak | 0:45:10 | 0:45:15 | |
District and a covering of snow
before it turns back to rain. | 0:45:15 | 0:45:19 | |
Wettest conditions around the coast
and a windy day, widespread gales, | 0:45:19 | 0:45:25 | |
winds could touch 70 mph in the
Western Isles but in the north, | 0:45:25 | 0:45:30 | |
early occasional rain in Northern
Ireland will clear to sunny spells | 0:45:30 | 0:45:33 | |
but turning cloudy with snow and
rain in Scotland. Ten centimetres in | 0:45:33 | 0:45:37 | |
the snow here and there but at lower
levels, turning back to rain as | 0:45:37 | 0:45:42 | |
temperatures lift. Windy across the
board, severe gales for some but | 0:45:42 | 0:45:47 | |
temperatures lifting, still a chilly
day in eastern parts. Through the | 0:45:47 | 0:45:52 | |
night the rain and hill snow will
clear east, lingering longest in | 0:45:52 | 0:45:56 | |
East Anglia and the south-east so
into Thursday clear skies | 0:45:56 | 0:46:00 | |
developing, sleet and snow showers
in Scotland, Northern Ireland and | 0:46:00 | 0:46:04 | |
northern parts of England. Just
about avoiding the frost but some | 0:46:04 | 0:46:08 | |
could have icy patches in the
morning. This is the chart for | 0:46:08 | 0:46:12 | |
tomorrow morning, low pressure in
Iceland, our weather fronts push | 0:46:12 | 0:46:16 | |
east from today so we are back in
familiar territory with sunshine and | 0:46:16 | 0:46:21 | |
scattered wintry showers. Rain,
sleet and hill snow in Scotland and | 0:46:21 | 0:46:25 | |
Northern Ireland and rain and hail
in England and Wales but central and | 0:46:25 | 0:46:29 | |
eastern areas will be dry through
Thursday with good sunny spells. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:33 | |
Temperatures holding up reasonably
well in the sunshine. Cold night to | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
take us into Friday morning,
widespread frost in England and | 0:46:36 | 0:46:40 | |
Wales after lighter winds, clearer
skies through the night. Not a bad | 0:46:40 | 0:46:44 | |
day on Friday in England and Wales
for the half term, but for Scotland | 0:46:44 | 0:46:49 | |
and Northern Ireland, cloud in over,
rain in Northern Ireland and the | 0:46:49 | 0:46:53 | |
rain turning to snow in the hills in
Scotland once again -- cloud in | 0:46:53 | 0:47:02 | |
over. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:03 | |
You're watching Breakfast. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:07 | |
House prices are rising
by just over 5% a year, | 0:47:07 | 0:47:09 | |
with the average UK home now
costing more than £220,000, | 0:47:09 | 0:47:12 | |
according to the latest figures. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:13 | |
Despite the Government's promise
to build a million new homes | 0:47:13 | 0:47:16 | |
by 2020, there are still more
than 200,000 properties | 0:47:16 | 0:47:19 | |
across England and
Wales lying empty. | 0:47:19 | 0:47:20 | |
So in Liverpool they're trying
an unusual approach to tackling | 0:47:20 | 0:47:23 | |
the housing crisis. | 0:47:23 | 0:47:24 | |
Steph has gone to take a look. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:32 | |
Good morning. Good morning, good
morning, everyone, I'm in Wavertree | 0:47:33 | 0:47:39 | |
in Liverpool and you can see around
me there are eight fair few derelict | 0:47:39 | 0:47:44 | |
homes here and a lot of these houses
have been so for around a decade -- | 0:47:44 | 0:47:49 | |
a fair few. The council want to do
something and they haven't got the | 0:47:49 | 0:47:53 | |
money to refurbish so what they've
been doing is getting families in | 0:47:53 | 0:47:57 | |
the area to buy them for £1 each
with the view that they will then do | 0:47:57 | 0:48:02 | |
them up themselves. The rules for it
are you have to live and work in | 0:48:02 | 0:48:06 | |
Liverpool, you have to be a
first-time buyer, you have to do it | 0:48:06 | 0:48:10 | |
up yourself with your own cash and
if you don't do that in the first | 0:48:10 | 0:48:14 | |
year they will take the house. You
have to not sell it for five years | 0:48:14 | 0:48:18 | |
or so. This has been happening for
some time, now they have been slowly | 0:48:18 | 0:48:22 | |
selling them, they've allocated
around 100 homes in the area already | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
to families. Let's go inside and
meet Ilana Remikee, she's done a | 0:48:25 | 0:48:29 | |
cracking job with this house. This
is Mel and Rob's house -- | 0:48:29 | 0:48:39 | |
is Mel and Rob's house -- Melmeet
Mel. We have Kieron from the | 0:48:39 | 0:48:42 | |
national Housing Federation. This
looks gorgeous, tell us about the | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
effort that's calling? It's been
about seven months of non-stop | 0:48:46 | 0:48:52 | |
decorating and ripping walls down --
efforts -- effort that's gone in. | 0:48:52 | 0:48:58 | |
What was it like when you bought it?
It was a shell, you could see the | 0:48:58 | 0:49:03 | |
sky from where we are, the rain was
pouring down. It was awful. What | 0:49:03 | 0:49:10 | |
made you do it? Obviously you bought
it for £1 but you've had to spend | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
money on it, it isn't like you
walked into it and it was like this? | 0:49:14 | 0:49:18 | |
There's not many other way is that
you could be mortgage free. It's a | 0:49:18 | 0:49:23 | |
really good opportunity. It's hard
to get on the property ladder now | 0:49:23 | 0:49:26 | |
unless you save a deposit and we
thought we would rather use our | 0:49:26 | 0:49:30 | |
deposit to do something like this
than to be tied to a mortgage we'd | 0:49:30 | 0:49:34 | |
struggle with for the rest of our
lives. Could you have afforded to | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
buy a house? We could have got a
mortgage in all honesty but we would | 0:49:37 | 0:49:42 | |
have struggled every month and I
think we would have been stressed | 0:49:42 | 0:49:45 | |
out trying to make the payments, it
wouldn't have been easy at all with | 0:49:45 | 0:49:48 | |
three kids. Given where you are,
obviously there's still a lot of | 0:49:48 | 0:49:52 | |
work to be done. I know you got a
neighbour doing theirs up, what does | 0:49:52 | 0:49:56 | |
it feel like being in the community
because there's still a lot to do? | 0:49:56 | 0:50:00 | |
It's exciting, every time you see a
shutter getting open and you see | 0:50:00 | 0:50:04 | |
work starting you get excited
because you feel the community is | 0:50:04 | 0:50:07 | |
coming together and we're building
our own community really. Rosie, you | 0:50:07 | 0:50:12 | |
like your new house? Yes. She is
making me jealous with her | 0:50:12 | 0:50:16 | |
breakfast, it looks lovely. We have
Kieron from the national Housing | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
Federation. Tell us about the
scheme, what are your thoughts, is | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
this a way of solving the housing
shortage? This is a great example | 0:50:24 | 0:50:29 | |
and Liverpool City Council need to
be commended but it's only a small | 0:50:29 | 0:50:32 | |
piece of the puzzle. Looking at the
north-west of England there's 40,000 | 0:50:32 | 0:50:36 | |
empty homes and we are saying
Housing associations can work with | 0:50:36 | 0:50:39 | |
local authorities to solve the
problem. We know regeneration isn't | 0:50:39 | 0:50:44 | |
just about renovating property, it's
about providing the community, | 0:50:44 | 0:50:52 | |
transport and economic
infrastructure around it to ensure | 0:50:52 | 0:50:55 | |
people can live and thrive in their
communities. It's not cheap to do up | 0:50:55 | 0:50:59 | |
areas where there is a lot of
derelict houses, and as Mel was | 0:50:59 | 0:51:04 | |
describing, in a right state?
Exactly. The work Mel and the other | 0:51:04 | 0:51:09 | |
residents have done is vital. It
shows money needs to be put into | 0:51:09 | 0:51:13 | |
these areas to ensure they can come
up and help the real communities and | 0:51:13 | 0:51:19 | |
we're saying housing associations
are a willing partner for local | 0:51:19 | 0:51:22 | |
authorities to ensure that happens.
Interesting. Thanks, Mel, for | 0:51:22 | 0:51:27 | |
letting us in. You're part of a
Channel 4 show tonight? You've been | 0:51:27 | 0:51:31 | |
doing a whole documentary, that will
be on at 9pm. That's called | 0:51:31 | 0:51:36 | |
Britain's Cheapest Street. You will
see some of the shots of Mel and her | 0:51:36 | 0:51:42 | |
partner, Rob, doing it up. We've got
a question about the Palop shock | 0:51:42 | 0:51:47 | |
with jam on top, that has made me
hungry. Legendary. We were saying, | 0:51:47 | 0:51:53 | |
has Rosie found a new way to eat one
of these? I think she has. Can't | 0:51:53 | 0:52:00 | |
argue with it. | 0:52:00 | 0:52:02 | |
Look at this. | 0:52:02 | 0:52:07 | |
We haven't gone off air, we have
gone to black. That's how black this | 0:52:07 | 0:52:14 | |
new material is. | 0:52:14 | 0:52:21 | |
new material is. There's a bit of
depth to it, you can see that. It's | 0:52:21 | 0:52:27 | |
a crinkly piece of foil. If you saw
it crinkly... If you turned it round | 0:52:27 | 0:52:33 | |
you would see the crinkles on the
other side. That is so black... | 0:52:33 | 0:52:39 | |
There's a percentage somewhere,
99.96%. That's how much light it | 0:52:39 | 0:52:45 | |
absorbs. The only thing darker is a
black hole. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:48 | |
It's been used on an amazing
new building which has just opened | 0:52:48 | 0:52:51 | |
at the winter Olympics
in South Korea. | 0:52:51 | 0:52:53 | |
Designed by a British architect
using materials created by British | 0:52:53 | 0:52:56 | |
scientists, the structure absorbs
99% of the light that hits it. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:59 | |
I tell you what, we can compare
this... I'm going to move this | 0:52:59 | 0:53:04 | |
towards Dan's suit jacket. Almost
makes you look great, doesn't it? | 0:53:04 | 0:53:09 | |
Look how dark it is. -- grey. | 0:53:09 | 0:53:14 | |
Breakfast's Graham Satchell reports. | 0:53:14 | 0:53:16 | |
It's the blackest building on earth.
This pavilion outside the Olympic | 0:53:16 | 0:53:24 | |
stadium in South Korea is coated
with aim mid reel called VBX2. It | 0:53:24 | 0:53:31 | |
absorbs 98% of the light. -- with a
material. Wanted people to be | 0:53:31 | 0:53:37 | |
awestruck and starstruck by this
building, and to see it and stop in | 0:53:37 | 0:53:41 | |
their tracks. The pavilion is the
brainchild of British architect Asif | 0:53:41 | 0:53:49 | |
Khan. You feel drawn into it, you
want to plummet into its blackness. | 0:53:49 | 0:53:56 | |
Asif has peppered the building with
small lights to look like stars. As | 0:53:56 | 0:54:00 | |
you walk around the building, you
get the effect of power laps so it | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
appears the stars are moving against
each other, as though you were | 0:54:05 | 0:54:11 | |
diving through the universe. This
laboratory in southern England is | 0:54:11 | 0:54:18 | |
where | 0:54:18 | 0:54:23 | |
where VBX2 and Vantablack were
created. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
It might look like paint but
Vantablack is made billions of | 0:54:27 | 0:54:31 | |
microscopic carbon nano tubes. It
absorbs 99.96% of the light. The | 0:54:31 | 0:54:37 | |
only thing darker would be a black
hole? The only thing darker in the | 0:54:37 | 0:54:41 | |
universe is a black hole. A back
hole that we know of that this time. | 0:54:41 | 0:54:48 | |
It's so black it changes the
dimension Haliti of an object. It | 0:54:48 | 0:54:53 | |
makes things look flat. --
dimensions. You're seeing the lack | 0:54:53 | 0:54:57 | |
of photons being reflected back to
your eyes and so your eyes are no | 0:54:57 | 0:55:01 | |
longer able to make sense of what
you're seeing so therefore you see | 0:55:01 | 0:55:05 | |
it as a void or a very black area
that you can't make shape or sense | 0:55:05 | 0:55:09 | |
from.
Looking at black nothingness like | 0:55:09 | 0:55:15 | |
this is a rather odd sort of
experience. It is slightly | 0:55:15 | 0:55:19 | |
vertiginous, like you're standing on
the edge of an abyss looking into a | 0:55:19 | 0:55:23 | |
void. It's exciting and unsettling
at the same time. | 0:55:23 | 0:55:30 | |
Vantablack is used in space
exploration, in cameras and | 0:55:35 | 0:55:38 | |
telescopes to reduce the amount of
flair from the sun. It gives | 0:55:38 | 0:55:42 | |
astronomers a clear view of distant
stars and planets but using this | 0:55:42 | 0:55:47 | |
nanotechnology has only just
started. The possibilities of | 0:55:47 | 0:55:51 | |
designing materials are kind of
quite limitless. I imagine coating | 0:55:51 | 0:55:58 | |
materials with nano materials,
imagine vehicles that slip in and | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
out of visibility, that's the sort
of world that we're talking about | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
here. So a stunning building using
technology that has the potential to | 0:56:04 | 0:56:12 | |
revolutionise photography, space
exploration, architecture, design. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:15 | |
Graham Satchell, BBC News. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:19 | |
I feel like I need to go to that
building. And have your mind warped. | 0:56:19 | 0:56:24 | |
It would feel like it would be a
complete mind warp. You know when | 0:56:24 | 0:56:29 | |
you go to the toilet in the middle
of the night and then you turn the | 0:56:29 | 0:56:34 | |
light on and for the moment after
you switch it off, it is super black | 0:56:34 | 0:56:38 | |
and then your eyes get used to it. I
was worried, Dan, but I will give | 0:56:38 | 0:56:43 | |
you that one. I'll be honest, I was
slightly worried myself! I tell you | 0:56:43 | 0:56:48 | |
what, you get to that age when you
got to go in the night! | 0:56:48 | 0:56:52 | |
Time now to get the news,
travel and weather where you are. | 0:56:52 | 1:00:12 | |
Vanessa is talking about cycle theft
on | 1:00:12 | 1:00:14 | |
Vanessa is talking about cycle theft
on BBC Radio London because a bike | 1:00:14 | 1:00:16 | |
is stolen in London every 90
seconds. | 1:00:16 | 1:00:19 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:22 | |
A lack of trust among disabled
people over how their welfare | 1:00:22 | 1:00:25 | |
claims are decided. | 1:00:25 | 1:00:26 | |
MPs find assessors submitted
reports that were riddled | 1:00:26 | 1:00:28 | |
with errors and regularly
missed quality targets. | 1:00:28 | 1:00:36 | |
Good morning, it's
Wednesday 14th February. | 1:00:44 | 1:00:46 | |
Also this morning: | 1:00:46 | 1:00:49 | |
Boris Johnson moves to reassure
voters who he says are angry | 1:00:49 | 1:00:52 | |
and alienated because of Brexit
in the first of a series of speeches | 1:00:52 | 1:00:55 | |
from senior cabinet members. | 1:00:55 | 1:00:59 | |
A new times table test is introduced
for thousands of eight and nine year | 1:00:59 | 1:01:03 | |
olds in England's primary schools
in a bid to raise numeracy levels. | 1:01:03 | 1:01:09 | |
Good morning. | 1:01:09 | 1:01:14 | |
In Liverpool the council has been
selling off derelict homes for £1 | 1:01:14 | 1:01:18 | |
each. These are some of the ones
which have been renovated already as | 1:01:18 | 1:01:23 | |
planned to try and make sure we get
rid of the derelict homes in the | 1:01:23 | 1:01:27 | |
area. It could help the housing
shortage. We will have a look in | 1:01:27 | 1:01:31 | |
some of the houses later. | 1:01:31 | 1:01:34 | |
Good morning from a much warmer but
rather windy Pyeongchang. Get ready | 1:01:34 | 1:01:39 | |
to go mad for curling again because
both the men and women from Great | 1:01:39 | 1:01:44 | |
Britain begin their push for the
medals. The women are in action at | 1:01:44 | 1:01:48 | |
the moment and I will keep you
updated through the morning. | 1:01:48 | 1:01:51 | |
Mad for curling, will be be mad for
the weather? | 1:01:51 | 1:01:54 | |
I don't know how much love you will
have for a Valentine's Day later. | 1:01:54 | 1:01:59 | |
After a frosty and sunny start
there's rain and hill snow on the | 1:01:59 | 1:02:02 | |
way. The full forecast in 15
minutes. | 1:02:02 | 1:02:05 | |
Good morning. | 1:02:05 | 1:02:05 | |
First, our main story: | 1:02:05 | 1:02:06 | |
A committee of MPs has said
there is a "pervasive lack of trust" | 1:02:06 | 1:02:10 | |
among disabled people
in how their welfare | 1:02:10 | 1:02:12 | |
claims are assessed. | 1:02:12 | 1:02:12 | |
The Commons' Work and Pensions
committee said reports by private | 1:02:12 | 1:02:15 | |
contractors were "riddled
with errors" and quality targets had | 1:02:15 | 1:02:18 | |
been "regularly missed". | 1:02:18 | 1:02:18 | |
Here's our disability news
correspondent Nikki Fox. | 1:02:18 | 1:02:26 | |
Anastasia is having a good day. | 1:02:26 | 1:02:28 | |
But it's not always like this. | 1:02:28 | 1:02:30 | |
Most days she is unable
to get out of the house. | 1:02:30 | 1:02:35 | |
The 24-year-old has
multiple sclerosis. | 1:02:35 | 1:02:37 | |
She used to work full-time,
but now she struggles to get around. | 1:02:37 | 1:02:42 | |
She applied for a disability
benefit and was assessed | 1:02:42 | 1:02:45 | |
at home by a healthcare professional
from a private company. | 1:02:45 | 1:02:52 | |
Anastasia says she told the assessor
she could only walk 20 metres, | 1:02:52 | 1:02:56 | |
but when the report came back it
said she could walk further. | 1:02:56 | 1:02:59 | |
She didn't give me
a physical assessment. | 1:02:59 | 1:03:01 | |
I was sat down the entire time. | 1:03:01 | 1:03:03 | |
I was very, very cross about that. | 1:03:03 | 1:03:05 | |
Today's report identifies
a culture of mistrust around | 1:03:05 | 1:03:07 | |
the whole process. | 1:03:07 | 1:03:10 | |
It says assessors risk
being viewed as, at best, | 1:03:10 | 1:03:15 | |
lacking in competence and,
at worst, actively deceitful. | 1:03:15 | 1:03:18 | |
The committee says the government's
low bar for what is considered | 1:03:18 | 1:03:23 | |
acceptable leaves room
for assessment reports to be riddled | 1:03:23 | 1:03:26 | |
with obvious errors and omissions. | 1:03:26 | 1:03:28 | |
Clearly the system needs a major
overhaul, but there are some things | 1:03:28 | 1:03:34 | |
the government could do relatively
quickly to improve it. | 1:03:34 | 1:03:37 | |
Automatic audio recording
of assessments for people. | 1:03:37 | 1:03:38 | |
Why not share the assessment
results with the claimant | 1:03:38 | 1:03:41 | |
at the point of claimant decision? | 1:03:41 | 1:03:43 | |
The government says assessments work
for the majority of people and it's | 1:03:43 | 1:03:46 | |
committed to improving transparency. | 1:03:46 | 1:03:47 | |
But with current contracts up
for review and targets | 1:03:47 | 1:03:49 | |
being consistently missed,
the future of the system is unclear. | 1:03:49 | 1:03:56 | |
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
will address what he calls | 1:03:56 | 1:03:59 | |
the "grief and alienation"
of those who voted to stay | 1:03:59 | 1:04:02 | |
in the European Union
in a speech later today. | 1:04:02 | 1:04:04 | |
He says that people who voted
to leave the EU should | 1:04:04 | 1:04:07 | |
try to persuade worried remainers
to focus on the possible benefits | 1:04:07 | 1:04:10 | |
of, rather than their
fears over, Brexit. | 1:04:10 | 1:04:14 | |
Our political correspondent,
Leila Nathoo, is in Westminster this | 1:04:14 | 1:04:16 | |
morning. | 1:04:16 | 1:04:20 | |
Good morning. What are we expect in
from Boris Johnson today? We are | 1:04:20 | 1:04:28 | |
expecting him to really give the
Barry Conser you treat time, | 1:04:28 | 1:04:32 | |
reaching out to both sides of the
debate -- conciliatory. Recognising | 1:04:32 | 1:04:38 | |
there are still divisions between
people in terms of the merits and | 1:04:38 | 1:04:42 | |
perils of Raqqa. He want to reassure
people who voted to remain who are | 1:04:42 | 1:04:47 | |
still anxious that it is about hope
and not fear, but he will have a | 1:04:47 | 1:04:55 | |
straw -- stark warning for those who
want to stop it and he will say that | 1:04:55 | 1:04:59 | |
will be a dangerous mistake. This is
the first in a series of speeches | 1:04:59 | 1:05:04 | |
the government is calling the road
to Brexit. Boris Johnson will be the | 1:05:04 | 1:05:08 | |
first Cabinet minister to give his
speech today. We will hear from | 1:05:08 | 1:05:11 | |
Theresa May on her speech on
security at the weekend and then | 1:05:11 | 1:05:16 | |
there will be speeches by Liam Fox,
David Davis the Brexit secretary and | 1:05:16 | 1:05:21 | |
the Cabinet office minister who will
speak about devolution. So there | 1:05:21 | 1:05:25 | |
will be a series of speeches at
Number 10 and it is promising they | 1:05:25 | 1:05:28 | |
will set out more detail on the
government's approach to Brexit. The | 1:05:28 | 1:05:33 | |
reason there has been under pressure
to set out what she wants from | 1:05:33 | 1:05:37 | |
Britain's future relationship with
the EU. There is no secret that | 1:05:37 | 1:05:40 | |
there are divisions at the highest
level of government. There will be | 1:05:40 | 1:05:44 | |
an away day to try to thrash out
differences, to come to settle on a | 1:05:44 | 1:05:48 | |
final position. But Downing Street
is promising that at the end we will | 1:05:48 | 1:05:52 | |
have an idea of the precise nature
of what the government actually | 1:05:52 | 1:05:56 | |
wants from Britain's departure from
the EU. Should also talk about the | 1:05:56 | 1:06:00 | |
impact all of this will have
government resources, in terms of | 1:06:00 | 1:06:03 | |
offices. The Home Office will come
under more pressure I suppose when | 1:06:03 | 1:06:08 | |
it comes to how Immigration will pan
out? Yes. There is a warning today | 1:06:08 | 1:06:13 | |
from MPs in the Commons home Select
Committee, which says it is already | 1:06:13 | 1:06:19 | |
too stretched, let alone making
plans for wrecks at macro later. | 1:06:19 | 1:06:24 | |
They haven't properly laid out for
plans for the immigration policy and | 1:06:24 | 1:06:27 | |
they say that is causing anxiety for
EU citizens. The Home Office as | 1:06:27 | 1:06:31 | |
preparations are under way and it is
ridiculous to use suggest otherwise, | 1:06:31 | 1:06:35 | |
what I think of the -- it's a sign
of the inpatients to set out the | 1:06:35 | 1:06:42 | |
Brexit plans. Thank you. | 1:06:42 | 1:06:44 | |
The jury at the trial of the former
football coach Barry Bennell, | 1:06:44 | 1:06:47 | |
who's been found guilty of dozens
of sexual offences against boys, | 1:06:47 | 1:06:50 | |
will continue deliberations
on other charges today. | 1:06:50 | 1:06:52 | |
Yesterday, the jury
at Liverpool Crown Court returned | 1:06:52 | 1:06:54 | |
guilty verdicts on 36 counts
and asked for more time | 1:06:54 | 1:06:57 | |
to consider seven more. | 1:06:57 | 1:06:58 | |
Bennell, who appeared in court
via videolink due to illness, | 1:06:58 | 1:07:01 | |
declined to give
evidence in his defence. | 1:07:01 | 1:07:04 | |
Our reporter Andy Gill is outside
Liverpool Crown Court this morning, | 1:07:04 | 1:07:09 | |
remind us of the
background to the case? | 1:07:09 | 1:07:17 | |
Well, Barry Bennell is a football
coach who worked for a number of | 1:07:17 | 1:07:23 | |
clubs, Manchester City, who has been
accused as the prosecution has put | 1:07:23 | 1:07:30 | |
it of child molestation on an
industrial scale. The jury today | 1:07:30 | 1:07:34 | |
have seven more verdicts to reach,
including four charges against and | 1:07:34 | 1:07:38 | |
11th complainant. Yesterday 36
guilty verdicts against ten men, | 1:07:38 | 1:07:45 | |
some of those complainants were in
tears in court as the verdicts were | 1:07:45 | 1:07:48 | |
announced. Barry Bennell was
watching on CCTV from prison. He has | 1:07:48 | 1:07:51 | |
been too unwell to attend court. The
jury gave those 36 verdicts and at | 1:07:51 | 1:07:59 | |
the start of the proceedings he
pleaded guilty to seven offences of | 1:07:59 | 1:08:03 | |
child molestation. The crowns they
at home he had arcade games, a pool | 1:08:03 | 1:08:09 | |
table, exotic pets, where he invited
young men to stay overnight and | 1:08:09 | 1:08:14 | |
where he molested them. He said in
one police interview the jury heard | 1:08:14 | 1:08:18 | |
that he wanted the young men to like
him. He agreed he was manipulative, | 1:08:18 | 1:08:24 | |
but said that he wasn't evil. He
said that some of his accusers were | 1:08:24 | 1:08:28 | |
jumping on a bandwagon. Barry
Bennell is now looking at a fourth | 1:08:28 | 1:08:32 | |
jail term for child tax offences.
The jury will resume their | 1:08:32 | 1:08:37 | |
deliberations here at Liverpool
Crown Court at 10:15am. Thank you | 1:08:37 | 1:08:41 | |
very much for the latest on that
story. | 1:08:41 | 1:08:46 | |
Minnie Driver has quit as an Oxfam
ambassador following claims that | 1:08:46 | 1:08:50 | |
staff working for the charity in
disaster zones paid vulnerable local | 1:08:50 | 1:08:55 | |
people for sex. She resigned after
20 years with the aid agency, saying | 1:08:55 | 1:08:59 | |
that she was horrified by the
allegations. Oxfam said he was | 1:08:59 | 1:09:02 | |
grateful for her commitment and that
he was more determined than ever to | 1:09:02 | 1:09:07 | |
learn from its mistakes. | 1:09:07 | 1:09:08 | |
Thousands of eight and
nine-year-olds are to be formally | 1:09:08 | 1:09:10 | |
assessed on their times tables
at primary schools in England. | 1:09:10 | 1:09:15 | |
The tests will be trialled at nearly
300 schools this spring, | 1:09:15 | 1:09:18 | |
before becoming mandatory in 2020. | 1:09:18 | 1:09:20 | |
Unions say they won't tell teachers
and parents anything about children | 1:09:20 | 1:09:23 | |
that they don't already know
but ministers say the tests | 1:09:23 | 1:09:25 | |
will identify those pupils
who need extra support. | 1:09:25 | 1:09:30 | |
This is an important initiative, to
ensure that every child leaves | 1:09:30 | 1:09:37 | |
primary school fluent in their
multiplication tables, just as the | 1:09:37 | 1:09:42 | |
phonic table we introduced in 2012.
That has led to a huge improvement | 1:09:42 | 1:09:45 | |
in reading standards and we expect
this will lead to a huge improvement | 1:09:45 | 1:09:49 | |
in children's fluency in
arithmetics, so when they start | 1:09:49 | 1:09:53 | |
secondary school they will be far
better equipped to handle the | 1:09:53 | 1:09:57 | |
challenges of secondary school
mathematics. | 1:09:57 | 1:09:58 | |
Hundreds of premature babies
could avoid brain damage | 1:09:58 | 1:10:00 | |
if their mothers were all given
a cheap drug during labour, | 1:10:00 | 1:10:03 | |
according to a new report. | 1:10:03 | 1:10:07 | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health says there are huge | 1:10:07 | 1:10:10 | |
regional disparities
in the proportion of mothers given | 1:10:10 | 1:10:12 | |
magnesium sulphate to reduce
the risk of cerebral palsy. | 1:10:12 | 1:10:17 | |
It claims providing the drug
could save the NHS £280 million | 1:10:17 | 1:10:20 | |
a year. | 1:10:20 | 1:10:22 | |
The actress Emma Watson has spoken
about her shock at realising | 1:10:22 | 1:10:25 | |
that there was no system
in place to help people | 1:10:25 | 1:10:28 | |
in the film industry who had
been sexually harassed. | 1:10:28 | 1:10:31 | |
She's one of a number of women
in the industry who've been | 1:10:31 | 1:10:34 | |
consulted by the British Film
Institute and BAFTA, | 1:10:34 | 1:10:39 | |
as it announces changes aimed
at tackling the problem. | 1:10:39 | 1:10:41 | |
Our entertainment correspondent
Colin Paterson has been looking | 1:10:41 | 1:10:44 | |
at the plans. | 1:10:44 | 1:10:47 | |
This Sunday it's the BAFTA awards
and ahead of British film's | 1:10:47 | 1:10:50 | |
biggest night of the year,
the industry has announced | 1:10:50 | 1:10:52 | |
a brand-new plan aimed
at tackling both sexual | 1:10:52 | 1:10:54 | |
harassment and bullying. | 1:10:54 | 1:10:57 | |
It's a direct response
to the Harvey Weinstein allegations. | 1:10:57 | 1:11:01 | |
Hello! | 1:11:01 | 1:11:02 | |
You can talk? | 1:11:02 | 1:11:03 | |
Of course we can talk! | 1:11:03 | 1:11:07 | |
Emma Watson was one of the many
actresses asked for her input. | 1:11:07 | 1:11:10 | |
These principles are important
because up until recently | 1:11:10 | 1:11:13 | |
there were no guidelines,
there was no protocol for someone | 1:11:13 | 1:11:17 | |
that had been sexually harassed
in the entertainment industry. | 1:11:17 | 1:11:20 | |
I know this to be a fact
because I've asked for principles | 1:11:20 | 1:11:23 | |
and I've asked to see guidelines
and no one could give them to me. | 1:11:23 | 1:11:27 | |
To change this, more
than 40 organisations, | 1:11:27 | 1:11:29 | |
including BAFTA and the
British Film Institute, | 1:11:29 | 1:11:32 | |
worked on a set of eight principles
which they want to be used | 1:11:32 | 1:11:38 | |
across the film, television
and video games industries. | 1:11:38 | 1:11:40 | |
So what will actually change? | 1:11:40 | 1:11:41 | |
Every production must employ two
people trained to handle any | 1:11:41 | 1:11:44 | |
accusations of harassment. | 1:11:44 | 1:11:45 | |
A dedicated phone line will open
in April, offering free confidential | 1:11:45 | 1:11:48 | |
help. | 1:11:48 | 1:11:49 | |
And BFI funding will only be given
to projects committed | 1:11:49 | 1:11:51 | |
to the changes. | 1:11:51 | 1:11:55 | |
This isn't about a set of commands,
it's about a set of principles | 1:11:55 | 1:12:02 | |
which everyone has willingly
and with huge enthusiasm | 1:12:02 | 1:12:04 | |
signed up to. | 1:12:04 | 1:12:08 | |
At last month's Golden Globe awards,
almost all actresses wore black | 1:12:08 | 1:12:12 | |
to show solidarity for the Times Up
campaign, calling for change. | 1:12:12 | 1:12:15 | |
The same is expected at the Baftas. | 1:12:15 | 1:12:23 | |
Those behind today's announcement
hope such a stand won't be | 1:12:23 | 1:12:26 | |
needed next year. | 1:12:26 | 1:12:30 | |
It's that time of the morning where
I think we need a little bit of | 1:12:30 | 1:12:34 | |
love. Apparently it's the day it for
it. | 1:12:34 | 1:12:37 | |
Here's a heart-warming image
of a gorilla in the arms of one | 1:12:37 | 1:12:41 | |
of her rescuers. | 1:12:41 | 1:12:42 | |
This won the top prize
at the Wildlife Photographer | 1:12:42 | 1:12:44 | |
of the Year awards. | 1:12:44 | 1:12:45 | |
Chosen by almost 20,000 nature
fans, the winning snap | 1:12:45 | 1:12:48 | |
was taken by Canadian
photographer Jo-Anne McArthur. | 1:12:48 | 1:12:55 | |
Pikin, a lowland gorilla,
was being moved to a new home | 1:12:55 | 1:12:58 | |
by her caretaker in Cameroon. | 1:12:58 | 1:12:59 | |
Other finalists included this image
of a polar bear and her cubs | 1:12:59 | 1:13:03 | |
emerging from their den. | 1:13:03 | 1:13:04 | |
Very nice. | 1:13:04 | 1:13:07 | |
This is a lilac-breasted roller. | 1:13:07 | 1:13:12 | |
It's hitching a ride
on a zebra, taken in Kenya. | 1:13:12 | 1:13:16 | |
That bird doesn't look real!
It does have a magical tone to it. | 1:13:16 | 1:13:21 | |
This three-toed sloth was hanging
around in the Brazilian rainforest. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:24 | |
And, finally, here's an underwater
image of a humpback whale | 1:13:24 | 1:13:27 | |
and her calf floating
in the waters off Tonga. | 1:13:27 | 1:13:29 | |
The winning images will be showcased
at the Natural History Museum | 1:13:29 | 1:13:32 | |
in London, until the end of May. | 1:13:32 | 1:13:40 | |
The way welfare claims for disabled
people are assessed is coming | 1:13:40 | 1:13:43 | |
in for criticism this morning. | 1:13:43 | 1:13:48 | |
Claimants were asked for their views
by the Work and Pensions Committee, | 1:13:48 | 1:13:51 | |
and it found what it calls
a "pervasive lack of trust". | 1:13:51 | 1:13:54 | |
It recommends ministers take
the service back in house | 1:13:54 | 1:13:57 | |
when contracts end
with private firms. | 1:13:57 | 1:13:58 | |
The government says the majority
of claimants are happy | 1:13:58 | 1:14:01 | |
with their overall experience. | 1:14:01 | 1:14:03 | |
Joining us now is Rob Holland
from the charity Mencap which works | 1:14:03 | 1:14:06 | |
with people with
learning disabilities. | 1:14:06 | 1:14:09 | |
Thanks very much for talking with
us. What has been happening in terms | 1:14:09 | 1:14:13 | |
of the way they've been assessed
that is coming under scrutiny? | 1:14:13 | 1:14:19 | |
We know working together with the
disability benefits Consortium that | 1:14:19 | 1:14:23 | |
many disabled people have a really
difficult to awful experience when | 1:14:23 | 1:14:27 | |
it comes to being assessed for
benefits so we carried out a survey | 1:14:27 | 1:14:33 | |
of 3000 disabled people and half
told us the assessment report didn't | 1:14:33 | 1:14:37 | |
accurately reflect the answers they
gave during their assessment. These | 1:14:37 | 1:14:40 | |
assessments are being done by who?
They're being done by private | 1:14:40 | 1:14:49 | |
contractors, a source Maximus and
Capital and there being conducted by | 1:14:49 | 1:14:55 | |
health officials -- Assos Maximus
and Capital. But they might not know | 1:14:55 | 1:15:04 | |
anything about your condition. We
have the case of an assessor asking | 1:15:04 | 1:15:09 | |
someone, when did you catch Down's
syndrome? When might you recover | 1:15:09 | 1:15:13 | |
from an incurable disease? The
assessor might not know anything | 1:15:13 | 1:15:18 | |
about your disability. That was
recorded by the person being | 1:15:18 | 1:15:21 | |
assessed obviously.
There's questions about accuracy and | 1:15:21 | 1:15:23 | |
I was reading some of the examples,
one person saying they were in bed | 1:15:23 | 1:15:28 | |
through the assessment and the
assessor was in a chair and when | 1:15:28 | 1:15:31 | |
they saw the assessment it said the
person was able to get out of the | 1:15:31 | 1:15:35 | |
chair and aided and they never sat
in the chair during the assessment. | 1:15:35 | 1:15:39 | |
Things like that I would imagine
leave no confidence in the system -- | 1:15:39 | 1:15:43 | |
unaided. Disabled people say they
have very little confidence and | 1:15:43 | 1:15:47 | |
trust in the system and that of
course is borne out in the number of | 1:15:47 | 1:15:51 | |
people that go on to challenge the
assessment decision and when they do | 1:15:51 | 1:15:55 | |
get to appeal stage actually more
often than not they are likely to | 1:15:55 | 1:16:00 | |
see the decision overturned in the
disabled person's favour. That tells | 1:16:00 | 1:16:03 | |
you really the assessment is not
accurate as it is. What happens then | 1:16:03 | 1:16:09 | |
when you have Capita, the one
delivering... One of the bodies | 1:16:09 | 1:16:16 | |
delivering these assessors, it says
all our qualified healthcare | 1:16:16 | 1:16:19 | |
professionals are fully trained and
are dedicated to delivering a | 1:16:19 | 1:16:23 | |
professional and empathetic
assessment for all claimants. It | 1:16:23 | 1:16:26 | |
doesn't seem to think there's
anything wrong. Where's the link | 1:16:26 | 1:16:30 | |
missing in terms of educating these
bodies and making sure these | 1:16:30 | 1:16:34 | |
assessments are done properly and
thoroughly? Half of the people we | 1:16:34 | 1:16:39 | |
surveyed said the assessor didn't
understand their disability or | 1:16:39 | 1:16:42 | |
health conditions so there's clearly
a need for better training. Does | 1:16:42 | 1:16:46 | |
Mencap talk to the likes of Capita
to offer training and offer insight | 1:16:46 | 1:16:51 | |
into what's being missed? We do try
to advise those assessors on how | 1:16:51 | 1:16:58 | |
they can make their processes more
accessible for disabled people. That | 1:16:58 | 1:17:03 | |
is certainly the case. But it's also
not just about the assessor but also | 1:17:03 | 1:17:09 | |
how they bring in specialist
evidence as well, so that might be a | 1:17:09 | 1:17:17 | |
specialist medical professional for
example, or it might be family, | 1:17:17 | 1:17:22 | |
friends, support workers, employers,
who can also provide that evidence | 1:17:22 | 1:17:25 | |
so you can build up the full picture
about how their ability affects them | 1:17:25 | 1:17:31 | |
on a day-to-day basis. Better
qualified assessors I would imagine | 1:17:31 | 1:17:35 | |
are more expensive, so is there a
fear that if you pay for that back | 1:17:35 | 1:17:39 | |
could take away the money there is
available for benefits? At the | 1:17:39 | 1:17:47 | |
moment the government is spending
millions of pounds administering the | 1:17:47 | 1:17:50 | |
appeals process, it spent £100
million over the last two years | 1:17:50 | 1:17:54 | |
fighting against disabled people in
the tribunal is challenging these | 1:17:54 | 1:17:58 | |
things. We think that money would be
better spent upfront to make sure | 1:17:58 | 1:18:02 | |
you get the assessment right first
time and disabled people don't have | 1:18:02 | 1:18:05 | |
to challenge it. Rob, thanks for
talking to us. Rob Holland from | 1:18:05 | 1:18:10 | |
Mencap.
Let us know what you think about | 1:18:10 | 1:18:12 | |
that. | 1:18:12 | 1:18:13 | |
The headlines. That is the headline.
That pervasive amount of lack of | 1:18:13 | 1:18:21 | |
trust with disabled people over how
their welfare claims are assessed | 1:18:21 | 1:18:27 | |
according to a collection of MPs. | 1:18:27 | 1:18:30 | |
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
says supporters of Brexit must | 1:18:30 | 1:18:35 | |
reach
out to people who are angry | 1:18:35 | 1:18:37 | |
and despairing about leaving the EU | 1:18:37 | 1:18:39 | |
Naga has been saying today in your
house you don't do Valentine's Day | 1:18:39 | 1:18:43 | |
because there is love every day of
the year. They're genuinely is, I | 1:18:43 | 1:18:46 | |
don't need a day to tell my partner
I love him. -- there. And you don't | 1:18:46 | 1:18:53 | |
need the commercialisation? No.
Isn't there a proper reason for it, | 1:18:53 | 1:18:56 | |
Saint Valentine, he protected
people, a priest or member of the | 1:18:56 | 1:19:03 | |
community, people wanted to be
married but it was against the law. | 1:19:03 | 1:19:07 | |
I like the historical aspect. Lots
of people getting in contact about | 1:19:07 | 1:19:11 | |
how they're celebrating, Dan says
I'm going to work for hours in the | 1:19:11 | 1:19:15 | |
freezing cold with eight Pot
Noodles. Is that you? No, not me. | 1:19:15 | 1:19:19 | |
Ash a -- of | 1:19:19 | 1:19:25 | |
Hannah says she is getting a Subway
sandwiches. This is my favourite. | 1:19:25 | 1:19:32 | |
Leezer said in bed watching BBC
Breakfast. -- Lisa. | 1:19:32 | 1:19:38 | |
Here's Matt with a look
at this morning's weather. | 1:19:38 | 1:19:41 | |
Good morning. Chilly start. Lovely
sunny start. Look at Lincolnshire a | 1:19:42 | 1:19:48 | |
short while ago | 1:19:48 | 1:19:49 | |
sunny start. Look at Lincolnshire a
short while ago but where you have | 1:19:49 | 1:19:50 | |
the clear skies, temperatures are at
or below freezing and we saw them | 1:19:50 | 1:19:54 | |
drop in the last hour to around -4
in a few spots. This is the general | 1:19:54 | 1:19:59 | |
theme where they are at the moment,
in parts of England and Scotland, | 1:19:59 | 1:20:02 | |
the blue colours show where
temperatures are below freezing, if | 1:20:02 | 1:20:05 | |
you don't have blue hue avoid the
frost. In eastern England because of | 1:20:05 | 1:20:10 | |
the cloud from yesterday -- blue you
avoid. While we have sunshine | 1:20:10 | 1:20:16 | |
through much of the morning, central
and eastern areas cloud in over. | 1:20:16 | 1:20:20 | |
Outbreaks of rain coming and going
in south-west England and Wales -- | 1:20:20 | 1:20:24 | |
cloud in. Acting house styled of
course it is said | 1:20:24 | 1:20:31 | |
the coast. 60 mph gusts are
possible. Rain coming and going in | 1:20:31 | 1:20:37 | |
Northern Ireland. More snow over the
hills, ten centimetres in places. | 1:20:37 | 1:20:45 | |
Rain and sleet to lower levels later
on as temperatures rise but we could | 1:20:45 | 1:20:50 | |
see severe gale for, 60 or 70 mph
gusts in the west and a windy day | 1:20:50 | 1:20:56 | |
across the board. Chilly in the east
but in the west, sunshine in | 1:20:56 | 1:21:00 | |
Belfast, maybe in Plymouth, ten or
11 possible. The mildest day of the | 1:21:00 | 1:21:05 | |
week so far for some. The mild
weather sweeps out of the way as the | 1:21:05 | 1:21:09 | |
rain goes to the near continent into
tomorrow morning. Chillier | 1:21:09 | 1:21:12 | |
conditions on its way back in with
snow flurries to western Scotland | 1:21:12 | 1:21:16 | |
and Northern Ireland and a few
showers in the west. Clear skies | 1:21:16 | 1:21:19 | |
around to start Thursday, low
pressure to the north but the winds | 1:21:19 | 1:21:24 | |
coming in from the west instead of
the south and not as strong as | 1:21:24 | 1:21:27 | |
today. Brighter for many on Thursday
with good sunny spells, the best of | 1:21:27 | 1:21:31 | |
which to the south and east, more
showers to the north and west, a | 1:21:31 | 1:21:35 | |
mixture of rain, hail, sleet and
snow and a few centimetres possible | 1:21:35 | 1:21:38 | |
in Scotland. Something less chilly
holding on across the south. On | 1:21:38 | 1:21:44 | |
Friday morning a frosty start across
the south of the clear skies, but | 1:21:44 | 1:21:48 | |
further north, the cloud will gather
without breaks of rain and hill snow | 1:21:48 | 1:21:51 | |
again, the best weather on Friday
will be in England and Wales with | 1:21:51 | 1:21:55 | |
sunshine at times. Before I go,
let's give you a bit of romance, | 1:21:55 | 1:21:59 | |
Valentine's Day summary. Sunrise is
red, the sky will turn grey, after | 1:21:59 | 1:22:05 | |
the a frosty start, rain and snow on
the way. Who say I can't do romance? | 1:22:05 | 1:22:11 | |
That's not romantic. I didn't do it
very well, did I? Do it again with | 1:22:11 | 1:22:16 | |
some love. How can you say that when
you don't like Valentine's Day and | 1:22:16 | 1:22:20 | |
you said when we were listening...
Someone hit a nerve. Your husband | 1:22:20 | 1:22:28 | |
doesn't like pancakes. Do you want
to know why? He is a coeliac so he | 1:22:28 | 1:22:33 | |
has gluten problems. Thanks, Matt,
excellent weather. I'm in the middle | 1:22:33 | 1:22:38 | |
of something so shall I slink off?
Very serious issue. | 1:22:38 | 1:22:42 | |
Yesterday we were live at Birmingham
airport as flights from British | 1:22:44 | 1:22:47 | |
holiday companies took off
for Tunisia for the first time | 1:22:47 | 1:22:50 | |
since a terror attack
nearly three years ago. | 1:22:50 | 1:22:52 | |
38 people were killed
when a gunman opened fire | 1:22:52 | 1:22:54 | |
on the beach at Sousse
in June, 2015. | 1:22:54 | 1:22:56 | |
Afterwards, the UK government
advised British citizens not | 1:22:56 | 1:22:59 | |
to visit the country. | 1:22:59 | 1:23:00 | |
That advice changed last summer
and yesterday the first | 1:23:00 | 1:23:02 | |
direct holiday flights arrived. | 1:23:02 | 1:23:03 | |
Our reporter, Emily Unia,
was onboard and we can now speak | 1:23:03 | 1:23:06 | |
to her live from Tunisia. | 1:23:06 | 1:23:07 | |
to her live from Tunisia. | 1:23:07 | 1:23:08 | |
We can talk to her live from
Tunisia. Emily, good to see you. | 1:23:08 | 1:23:12 | |
What was the mood like on the
flight, must have been trepidations | 1:23:12 | 1:23:16 | |
for the holidaymakers?
Yeah. Some of them were quite | 1:23:16 | 1:23:23 | |
anxious. I think a few didn't
realise they were on the first | 1:23:23 | 1:23:27 | |
flight back but others were
genuinely really excited and | 1:23:27 | 1:23:29 | |
enthusiastic. They were year-on-year
visitors to Tunisia and they were | 1:23:29 | 1:23:33 | |
quite disappointed they weren't able
to come during the travel ban, but | 1:23:33 | 1:23:37 | |
they understood the reasons
following the shootings. Actually | 1:23:37 | 1:23:40 | |
yesterday there was a mood of
celebration and that carried on | 1:23:40 | 1:23:43 | |
right on through to our arrival at
the airport. They handed out | 1:23:43 | 1:23:47 | |
flowers, there was music and
dancing, lots of drinks and cakes | 1:23:47 | 1:23:51 | |
and a real sense of delight that the
Brits were back. Visitor numbers are | 1:23:51 | 1:23:55 | |
still low and the beach behind me is
empty, the hotel I'm in is very | 1:23:55 | 1:24:00 | |
quiet. It is the low season, the
feeling is as the summer approaches | 1:24:00 | 1:24:04 | |
things will pick up and the first
plane load of Brits coming back this | 1:24:04 | 1:24:08 | |
week is seen as a good sign. | 1:24:08 | 1:24:10 | |
This time last year government
advised barred all but essential | 1:24:12 | 1:24:15 | |
travel to Tunisia. But now package
tourists are turning. | 1:24:15 | 1:24:23 | |
This couple are visiting Tunisia for
the first time. There on honeymoon | 1:24:23 | 1:24:27 | |
and the shootings on the beach in
2015 haven't put them off. | 1:24:27 | 1:24:31 | |
I think they'll have stepped
security up so I think will be | 1:24:31 | 1:24:35 | |
perfectly safe, there's no reason
for people to be worried. We're just | 1:24:35 | 1:24:38 | |
really excited to get out there and
see what it's like. You can't live | 1:24:38 | 1:24:42 | |
in fear otherwise you'd never do
anything. | 1:24:42 | 1:24:45 | |
The return of British visitors is
welcome news for Tunisians who are | 1:24:45 | 1:24:50 | |
working to put on a good show for
their guests. -- who were keen. | 1:24:50 | 1:24:56 | |
Since 2015, the tourist economy has
suffered. There was a 90% drop in | 1:24:56 | 1:25:01 | |
the number of British visitors in
the first four months of 2016. | 1:25:01 | 1:25:06 | |
Bookings were cancelled, hotels
closed and beaches lay empty. But | 1:25:06 | 1:25:11 | |
now security has improved a lot.
Most hotels have arches like this | 1:25:11 | 1:25:14 | |
one, they've got scanners inside and
there is a much more visible police | 1:25:14 | 1:25:19 | |
presence all around the resorts.
For businesses dependent on tourism, | 1:25:19 | 1:25:23 | |
the lifting of the travel ban and
the return of package holidaymakers | 1:25:23 | 1:25:27 | |
is building expectations of economic
revival. It's looking great, it's a | 1:25:27 | 1:25:32 | |
start because all the big tour
operators are coming back. | 1:25:32 | 1:25:35 | |
Rescheduling all the flights and the
promotion will take some time. We | 1:25:35 | 1:25:42 | |
have very good forecasts for the
summer. It should be a great year, | 1:25:42 | 1:25:46 | |
but not perfect. I think it's a
start. | 1:25:46 | 1:25:51 | |
The hope now is one of the most
popular destinations for British | 1:25:51 | 1:25:55 | |
tourists will return to the top
spot. | 1:25:55 | 1:26:01 | |
And the mood among the business
owners here really is one of | 1:26:01 | 1:26:05 | |
cautious optimism because they've
still got a long way to go. Visitor | 1:26:05 | 1:26:09 | |
numbers really dropped off a cliff
edge at the start of 2016 following | 1:26:09 | 1:26:13 | |
those shootings and although they
have visitors from Algeria, lots | 1:26:13 | 1:26:17 | |
more from Russia and other European
countries, it really was the Brits | 1:26:17 | 1:26:20 | |
they were hoping to see return. The
fact you've now got these direct | 1:26:20 | 1:26:24 | |
flights coming back and later on in
the summer they believe they will be | 1:26:24 | 1:26:28 | |
starting to Sousse as well, there's
a feeling among the business owners | 1:26:28 | 1:26:32 | |
here that perhaps some good news is
just around the corner. We certainly | 1:26:32 | 1:26:37 | |
wish everyone well. Word Emily,
thanks very much. -- Emily, thanks | 1:26:37 | 1:26:44 | |
very much. | 1:26:44 | 1:26:46 | |
Time now to get the news,
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is stolen in London
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I'm back with the latest
from the BBC London newsroom | 1:30:09 | 1:30:12 | |
in half an hour. | 1:30:12 | 1:30:13 | |
Hello. | 1:30:13 | 1:30:14 | |
This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker
and Naga Munchetty. | 1:30:14 | 1:30:17 | |
A committee of MPs has said
there is a "pervasive lack of trust" | 1:30:17 | 1:30:21 | |
among disabled people
in how their welfare | 1:30:21 | 1:30:22 | |
claims are assessed. | 1:30:22 | 1:30:28 | |
The Commons' Work and Pensions
committee said reports by private | 1:30:28 | 1:30:31 | |
contractors were
"riddled with errors". | 1:30:31 | 1:30:36 | |
It recommends ministers take
the service back "in house" | 1:30:36 | 1:30:38 | |
when contracts end
with private firms. | 1:30:38 | 1:30:40 | |
The government says the majority
of claimants are happy | 1:30:40 | 1:30:42 | |
with their overall experience. | 1:30:42 | 1:30:44 | |
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
says he wants to reassure those | 1:30:44 | 1:30:46 | |
who feel angry and alienated
because of the Brexit vote. | 1:30:46 | 1:30:50 | |
In a speech later today
he will suggest that supporters | 1:30:50 | 1:30:53 | |
of Brexit try to persuade worried
remain voters that leaving | 1:30:53 | 1:30:59 | |
the European Union is a cause
for "hope, not fear". | 1:30:59 | 1:31:02 | |
His is the first of a number
of cabinet speeches | 1:31:02 | 1:31:05 | |
expected this week. | 1:31:05 | 1:31:06 | |
MPs have criticised the Home Office
for seriously underestimating, | 1:31:06 | 1:31:08 | |
what they described as the "immense
bureaucratic challenge" | 1:31:08 | 1:31:10 | |
posed by Brexit. | 1:31:10 | 1:31:16 | |
In a report published today,
the House of Commons home affairs | 1:31:16 | 1:31:19 | |
committee hits out at the Government
for long delays in publishing | 1:31:19 | 1:31:22 | |
a post-Brexit
immigration white paper. | 1:31:22 | 1:31:23 | |
The government has said it's
considering various options | 1:31:23 | 1:31:25 | |
and will set out its initial plans
"as and when they are ready". | 1:31:25 | 1:31:29 | |
The jury at the trial of the former
football coach Barry Bennell, | 1:31:29 | 1:31:32 | |
who's been found guilty of dozens
of sexual offences against boys, | 1:31:32 | 1:31:35 | |
will continue deliberations
on other charges today. | 1:31:35 | 1:31:37 | |
Yesterday, the jury
at Liverpool Crown Court returned | 1:31:37 | 1:31:39 | |
guilty verdicts on 36 counts
and asked for more time | 1:31:39 | 1:31:42 | |
to consider seven more. | 1:31:42 | 1:31:48 | |
Bennell, who appeared in court
via videolink due to illness, | 1:31:48 | 1:31:51 | |
declined to give
evidence in his defence. | 1:31:51 | 1:31:53 | |
Film star Minnie Driver has quit
as an Oxfam ambassador | 1:31:53 | 1:31:55 | |
following claims that staff working
for the charity in disaster zones | 1:31:55 | 1:31:58 | |
paid vulnerable local
people for sex. | 1:31:58 | 1:32:03 | |
The actress resigned after 20 years
with the aid agency, | 1:32:03 | 1:32:05 | |
saying in a statement
that she was "horrified" | 1:32:05 | 1:32:08 | |
by the allegations. | 1:32:08 | 1:32:15 | |
Oxfam said it was "grateful"
for Ms Driver's commitment, | 1:32:15 | 1:32:18 | |
and that it was more
determined than ever to learn | 1:32:18 | 1:32:20 | |
from its mistakes. | 1:32:20 | 1:32:21 | |
Thousands of eight and nine year
olds are to be formally assessed | 1:32:21 | 1:32:24 | |
on their times tables
at primary schools in England. | 1:32:24 | 1:32:27 | |
The tests will be trialed at nearly
300 schools this spring, | 1:32:27 | 1:32:30 | |
before becoming mandatory in 2020. | 1:32:30 | 1:32:31 | |
Unions claim they won't tell
teachers and parents anything | 1:32:31 | 1:32:34 | |
about children that they don't
already know, but ministers say | 1:32:34 | 1:32:36 | |
the tests will identify those pupils
who need extra support. | 1:32:36 | 1:32:39 | |
The actress Emma Watson has
spoken of her shock, | 1:32:39 | 1:32:42 | |
at realising that there was no
system in place to help people | 1:32:42 | 1:32:45 | |
in the film industry who had
been sexually harassed. | 1:32:45 | 1:32:47 | |
She's one of a number of women
who've been consulted | 1:32:47 | 1:32:50 | |
by the British Film Institute
and BAFTA, as it announces changes | 1:32:50 | 1:32:53 | |
aimed at tackling the problem. | 1:32:53 | 1:32:55 | |
Now BFI funding will only be given
to projects committed | 1:32:55 | 1:32:57 | |
to the proposals. | 1:32:57 | 1:33:03 | |
How i.e. Filling this morning?
Feeling good! | 1:33:03 | 1:33:07 | |
Do you need a pick me up?
Always need a pick me up. Did you | 1:33:07 | 1:33:13 | |
know that | 1:33:13 | 1:33:18 | |
know that in Italian pick me up
translates as tiramisu? 30 chefs | 1:33:20 | 1:33:24 | |
baked all day to produce this large
tiramisu. We aren't yet sure if | 1:33:24 | 1:33:34 | |
everyone standing alongside the
giant tiramisu got to sample it. | 1:33:34 | 1:33:40 | |
I need tiramisu this morning.
I and very anti- tiramisu. | 1:33:40 | 1:33:46 | |
You don't like food with coffee in
it. | 1:33:46 | 1:33:48 | |
It is on the list of the worst
deserts available. | 1:33:48 | 1:33:51 | |
Is there a long list? I used to be
very anti- trifle, but I am | 1:33:51 | 1:33:58 | |
bordering on welcoming it into my
life. | 1:33:58 | 1:34:00 | |
I am with you on trifle, but
tiramisu! | 1:34:00 | 1:34:03 | |
Shambolic.
Good morning. Have we curled? | 1:34:03 | 1:34:09 | |
We are still going strong! The
Russians made a bit of a comeback, | 1:34:09 | 1:34:14 | |
but we are still looking pretty
good. After the men's result we get | 1:34:14 | 1:34:20 | |
Switzerland as well. It turns out we
are all right at curling. People | 1:34:20 | 1:34:25 | |
have been glued to their screens. A
lot of people trying to get involved | 1:34:25 | 1:34:29 | |
with equipment around their house.
It is a very impressive sport. I | 1:34:29 | 1:34:34 | |
think when you are watching it from
home it's not like snowboarding or | 1:34:34 | 1:34:39 | |
the freestyle where you watch and
think, I will just watch it on the | 1:34:39 | 1:34:43 | |
TV. There is something about the
curling where you think, I could | 1:34:43 | 1:34:48 | |
give that a go.
I don't think I could do all of | 1:34:48 | 1:34:52 | |
those aerial acrobatics. But I can
see how you would get there. The | 1:34:52 | 1:34:56 | |
patients. You need so much
discipline and patients with | 1:34:56 | 1:35:01 | |
curling.
I feel like I couldn't break my neck | 1:35:01 | 1:35:05 | |
doing it. That's about the only
thing. The patients, as you say. | 1:35:05 | 1:35:10 | |
It's all about tactics. You think
it's just a case of drawing a large | 1:35:10 | 1:35:15 | |
rock on some smooth surface, but
it's not. You have to think about | 1:35:15 | 1:35:20 | |
where it's going to end up, where
the oppositions will leave their | 1:35:20 | 1:35:23 | |
stones. It is fascinating to watch.
And we will speak to a gold medal | 1:35:23 | 1:35:28 | |
winning curler a few years ago
later, talking us through the | 1:35:28 | 1:35:34 | |
skills.
Absolutely. And it is something that | 1:35:34 | 1:35:40 | |
takes a lot of skills. There a
completely new lineup with the men, | 1:35:40 | 1:35:45 | |
from the one that took silver four
years ago. They've already provided | 1:35:45 | 1:35:49 | |
nerve shredding entertainment. Their
match against Switzerland swung to | 1:35:49 | 1:35:53 | |
and fro this morning and they were
tied at 5-5. Kyle Smith landed the | 1:35:53 | 1:36:00 | |
stone bang on target and they will
play the defending champions Canada | 1:36:00 | 1:36:04 | |
at 11 o'clock. | 1:36:04 | 1:36:08 | |
Are you familiar with the flying
tomato, Sean White? He has become a | 1:36:08 | 1:36:14 | |
three-time Olympic champion after a
dramatic halfpipe final. He was in | 1:36:14 | 1:36:19 | |
second place going into the final
run and he produced some outstanding | 1:36:19 | 1:36:22 | |
twists and turns and huge air to
take gold. It really is an | 1:36:22 | 1:36:27 | |
incredible result. | 1:36:27 | 1:36:29 | |
Yet another skiing event
had to be cancelled | 1:36:29 | 1:36:31 | |
because of the high winds though. | 1:36:31 | 1:36:33 | |
The women's slalom should have
featured Britain's Alex Tilley | 1:36:33 | 1:36:36 | |
and Charlie Guest but it will now
take place on Friday. | 1:36:36 | 1:36:41 | |
Moving away from Pyeongchang now. | 1:36:41 | 1:36:43 | |
The Champions League
returned last night | 1:36:43 | 1:36:45 | |
and Tottenham produced a brilliant
fightback against Juventus, | 1:36:45 | 1:36:47 | |
who were last season's
beaten finalists. | 1:36:47 | 1:36:50 | |
Spurs were 2-0 down inside ten
minutes but Harry Kane | 1:36:50 | 1:36:53 | |
and Christian Erikkson earned them
a draw, to take into the second leg | 1:36:53 | 1:36:56 | |
at Wembley next month. | 1:36:56 | 1:37:04 | |
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola
said midfielder Ilkay Goondogan | 1:37:08 | 1:37:11 | |
was "extraordinary",
after his side took a giant step | 1:37:11 | 1:37:13 | |
towards the quarter-finals. | 1:37:13 | 1:37:14 | |
He scored twice in
a 4-0 win at Basel. | 1:37:14 | 1:37:17 | |
It was a good performance. We are in
the Champions League. We were able | 1:37:17 | 1:37:23 | |
to go to the quarter-finals, OK, we
did better from last season and | 1:37:23 | 1:37:28 | |
that's the first step and after that
we will see. If we go to the | 1:37:28 | 1:37:32 | |
quarter-finals, Hal we arrive in a
moment. | 1:37:32 | 1:37:36 | |
Let's get more from Pyeongchang now.
I would say it is looking warmer | 1:37:36 | 1:37:42 | |
than last time I spoke to you, but
it's really not. Give us the latest | 1:37:42 | 1:37:46 | |
from Pyeongchang. It really is. No
hat today! That's a real difference. | 1:37:46 | 1:37:53 | |
But the wind is casting behind the
mountains. As you said earlier it is | 1:37:53 | 1:37:58 | |
causing chaos again with the
schedule. Luckily for Great | 1:37:58 | 1:38:01 | |
Britain's curl is the curling takes
place inside, so the wind not a | 1:38:01 | 1:38:05 | |
problem for them. Great Britain's
women got their push for a medal | 1:38:05 | 1:38:10 | |
under way. They've won bronze in
Sochi and they are the reigning | 1:38:10 | 1:38:14 | |
European champions and it was a
really good start to the Olympics. | 1:38:14 | 1:38:18 | |
They are against the Olympic
Athletes from Russia. They were | 1:38:18 | 1:38:21 | |
completely dominant from the
beginning. They won it can- three | 1:38:21 | 1:38:25 | |
and were shaking hands after just
seven ends. That means that Eve | 1:38:25 | 1:38:29 | |
Muirhead and her gang go through and
they have done a magnificent first | 1:38:29 | 1:38:36 | |
performance, looking to add to their
first medal. The men play again | 1:38:36 | 1:38:41 | |
later and they will be playing the
defending champions Canada later in | 1:38:41 | 1:38:47 | |
the afternoon, so we will keep you
up-to-date with that. A lot of the | 1:38:47 | 1:38:51 | |
talk amongst Team GB and Team GB
fans in South Korea has been about | 1:38:51 | 1:38:56 | |
Elise Christie, because of course
she was going for three gold medals. | 1:38:56 | 1:39:02 | |
She is a three-time world champion,
that it was heartbreak for her last | 1:39:02 | 1:39:07 | |
night. She crashed out of the final
in the 500 metres and you can see | 1:39:07 | 1:39:12 | |
from the stands that there was
complete heartbreak on her face. | 1:39:12 | 1:39:17 | |
Let's hear what she had to say after
that final. The beginning in the | 1:39:17 | 1:39:23 | |
sport it wasn't cool to really want
to win and you see these guys now, | 1:39:23 | 1:39:27 | |
they want to win and they are hungry
and motivated and even in the | 1:39:27 | 1:39:31 | |
qualifying of the finals. I'm really
proud to come out on top and | 1:39:31 | 1:39:35 | |
thankful to those guys because they
pushed me to get to this point, to | 1:39:35 | 1:39:39 | |
be able to do this kind of runs.
That's obviously not Elise Christie, | 1:39:39 | 1:39:44 | |
that is in fact the legendary Sean
White, who won his third Olympic | 1:39:44 | 1:39:49 | |
title in the men's halfpipe.
Absolutely lead it down in the final | 1:39:49 | 1:39:53 | |
run. He came fourth in Sochi and is
once again on the top of the tree | 1:39:53 | 1:39:59 | |
and he will not be letting go of
that Olympic title any time soon. | 1:39:59 | 1:40:04 | |
Brilliant stuff from Sean White. The
rest of the sport on a mountain, | 1:40:04 | 1:40:08 | |
especially the women's slalom, has
had to be postponed because of the | 1:40:08 | 1:40:12 | |
wind. It is much warmer, a little
bit of sun peeking through, but it | 1:40:12 | 1:40:17 | |
has been incredibly windy. Alex
Tilley and Charlie Guest will have | 1:40:17 | 1:40:25 | |
to wait until Friday to get their
Olympic campaign is under way. Thank | 1:40:25 | 1:40:28 | |
you. I must say I do miss the hat!
It has just been amazing. The | 1:40:28 | 1:40:35 | |
weather is causing problems, but
still some great results so far and | 1:40:35 | 1:40:40 | |
it has been a pleasure to watch.
I do miss the hat! Thank you. The | 1:40:40 | 1:40:47 | |
Winter Olympics follows us at 9:15am
on BBC One this morning. | 1:40:47 | 1:40:55 | |
Britain is described
as the "loneliness capital | 1:40:55 | 1:40:57 | |
of Europe", so many of us are likely
to be affected by it at some point | 1:40:57 | 1:41:01 | |
in our lives. | 1:41:01 | 1:41:02 | |
A new BBC Radio 4 survey aims
to explore the nation's attitudes | 1:41:02 | 1:41:05 | |
and personal experiences
of loneliness. | 1:41:05 | 1:41:07 | |
We'll meet two of the people behind
the project in a moment, | 1:41:07 | 1:41:10 | |
but before we speak to them,
let's find out a little bit more. | 1:41:10 | 1:41:14 | |
At some point in our lives it's
likely that you or I will feel | 1:41:14 | 1:41:18 | |
lonely. It's not the same as being
the which can be fine, or even | 1:41:18 | 1:41:21 | |
relieved to get away from other
people. It's that feeling of having | 1:41:21 | 1:41:25 | |
no one you can really talk to. No
one who really understands you. We | 1:41:25 | 1:41:29 | |
can be surrounded by friends but
still feel lonely and it hurts. | 1:41:29 | 1:41:34 | |
Chronic loneliness is bad for our
health too. It can increase your | 1:41:34 | 1:41:38 | |
risk of heart disease and stroke by
almost a third and social isolation | 1:41:38 | 1:41:42 | |
might make us more susceptible to
everyday illnesses too, including | 1:41:42 | 1:41:47 | |
information on the body and reducing
our ability to fight in action. | 1:41:47 | 1:41:50 | |
BBC Radio 4 presenter Claudia
Hammond and Professor Pamela Qualter | 1:41:50 | 1:41:53 | |
from the University
of Manchester join us now. | 1:41:53 | 1:41:58 | |
Lovely to see you both this morning.
Why did you decide to look into this | 1:41:58 | 1:42:03 | |
issue? Loneliness is such a huge,
important topic and it will affect | 1:42:03 | 1:42:07 | |
all of us at some point in our
lives. Often it is temporary and | 1:42:07 | 1:42:11 | |
that Sirte but he really matters
when it is chronic. -- and that's | 1:42:11 | 1:42:16 | |
OK. People often think it is older
people and that causes a lot of | 1:42:16 | 1:42:20 | |
misery, but it is all sorts of ages.
Adolescence, maybe new parents at | 1:42:20 | 1:42:26 | |
home, at all sorts of ages people
can feel lonely and you can feel | 1:42:26 | 1:42:30 | |
lonely even when you are surrounded
by other people. So you can feel | 1:42:30 | 1:42:34 | |
lonely in a marriage or lonely with
other family. One of the things we | 1:42:34 | 1:42:40 | |
could find out through the survey
that researchers haven't been able | 1:42:40 | 1:42:44 | |
to find out already, because we have
the opportunity to do it. You helped | 1:42:44 | 1:42:49 | |
design the survey. The questions
need to be put in such a way where | 1:42:49 | 1:42:54 | |
people can feel free enough to
answer but not feel bad about | 1:42:54 | 1:42:57 | |
themselves. Absolutely. We've
designed the survey so people can be | 1:42:57 | 1:43:02 | |
as honest with us as they want to
be. It's hard to admit you are | 1:43:02 | 1:43:06 | |
lonely. Yeah and we tap into the
stigma around loneliness. What we | 1:43:06 | 1:43:09 | |
find is people don't necessarily
want to talk about it, they don't | 1:43:09 | 1:43:15 | |
talk to their friends if they
ardently. So we've got a number of | 1:43:15 | 1:43:19 | |
tasks that tap into that. Give us
some examples. The idea that you | 1:43:19 | 1:43:24 | |
might be... Gosh... Can you think of
something? We have tasks where | 1:43:24 | 1:43:31 | |
people have to identify different
facial expressions. We look and see | 1:43:31 | 1:43:35 | |
what they think about those, whether
one bit of the survey influences how | 1:43:35 | 1:43:41 | |
they and the and there are questions
about friendship and trust. It | 1:43:41 | 1:43:45 | |
really made me think about what I
look for in a friend and whether you | 1:43:45 | 1:43:49 | |
can trust your neighbours and your
community. We talk a lot about it | 1:43:49 | 1:43:55 | |
and I suppose in the same way that
mental health becomes a far more | 1:43:55 | 1:43:58 | |
accessible topic, loneliness is as
well. I think we've got a lot of | 1:43:58 | 1:44:04 | |
charities that do great work,
talking especially about older | 1:44:04 | 1:44:09 | |
people, something we forget is that
it is at its peak in adolescence as | 1:44:09 | 1:44:14 | |
well. We are the two points in time
where we see those peaks in | 1:44:14 | 1:44:18 | |
loneliness. What we don't know is
much about the timing in between. | 1:44:18 | 1:44:21 | |
The other points in older adolescent
and the survey taps into that. It's | 1:44:21 | 1:44:28 | |
interesting you talk about
adolescence, because they are | 1:44:28 | 1:44:30 | |
probably the people least likely to
be alone, as in they are at school | 1:44:30 | 1:44:35 | |
or social groups, what emotionally
most likely are understandably | 1:44:35 | 1:44:39 | |
likely to feel alone, if that makes
sense. Because they are going | 1:44:39 | 1:44:44 | |
through so many different
experiences. They are trying to find | 1:44:44 | 1:44:47 | |
their own identity, they are moving
away from the family as a source of | 1:44:47 | 1:44:52 | |
support to find their peer group as
the source of support and in that | 1:44:52 | 1:44:56 | |
they are trying to work out who they
are in the world. With the really | 1:44:56 | 1:45:00 | |
difficult time. You got all of those
things going on. You are going to | 1:45:00 | 1:45:04 | |
feel some level of loneliness and
that's why we this peak. You can't | 1:45:04 | 1:45:08 | |
decide what you want on the
television, but what would you like | 1:45:08 | 1:45:12 | |
to see come out of the survey? One
of the things we are looking at is | 1:45:12 | 1:45:16 | |
we want to know why is it that
everyone isn't lonely? In certain | 1:45:16 | 1:45:20 | |
situations some people feel lonely
and others don't. What is it that | 1:45:20 | 1:45:24 | |
prevents some people from being
lonely? We have to get some answers | 1:45:24 | 1:45:28 | |
to that. And what other solutions
some have found? There are solutions | 1:45:28 | 1:45:34 | |
that people have found and we want
people to fill it in, whether or not | 1:45:34 | 1:45:38 | |
they are feeling lonely. Anyone over
the age of 16 can fill it in because | 1:45:38 | 1:45:43 | |
then we can really work out what's
going on. We spoke about happiness | 1:45:43 | 1:45:46 | |
yesterday and there was a doctor
running back survey in line with the | 1:45:46 | 1:45:50 | |
BBC and they were saying things like
exercise can make a big difference | 1:45:50 | 1:45:53 | |
and how you deal with wings... Bad
stuff happens on everyone's life, | 1:45:53 | 1:45:58 | |
but it has you deal with those
things which can make a big | 1:45:58 | 1:46:01 | |
difference. Is it the same with
loneliness? Exactly the same. There | 1:46:01 | 1:46:07 | |
will be a whole host of different
solutions. Some will be exercise, | 1:46:07 | 1:46:11 | |
some will be destruction with work
or with other social relationships. | 1:46:11 | 1:46:15 | |
And it is about tapping into that in
the survey. We want to know what | 1:46:15 | 1:46:19 | |
those solutions are. Thank you very
much. | 1:46:19 | 1:46:24 | |
If you want to find out more about
the loneliness experiment, you can | 1:46:24 | 1:46:28 | |
take part, go to the Radio 4
website. You just have to be 16 or | 1:46:28 | 1:46:35 | |
over. If you missed that we will put
it on our social media later so you | 1:46:35 | 1:46:39 | |
can follow a direct link and
hopefully get involved. Thanks for | 1:46:39 | 1:46:43 | |
coming in. | 1:46:43 | 1:46:44 | |
Let's talk to Matt and find out
what's happening with the weather | 1:46:44 | 1:46:47 | |
this morning. That is a glorious
sky. Happy Valentine's Day! A wonky | 1:46:47 | 1:46:54 | |
heart cloud, isn't it? Allowed yeah,
almost. | 1:46:54 | 1:47:02 | |
almost. -- a wonky heart-shaped
cloud, isn't it? Yeah, almost. | 1:47:02 | 1:47:08 | |
Red skies overhead, you know what
that means, lovely shot of the | 1:47:08 | 1:47:12 | |
morning in west Yorkshire, in
Marston in particular, similar for | 1:47:12 | 1:47:17 | |
many but a chilly start, clear skies
overnight with temperatures in parts | 1:47:17 | 1:47:20 | |
of the east and south of Scotland
still below freezing. Looking at the | 1:47:20 | 1:47:26 | |
temperatures for the past few hours,
blue is where the frost was. The | 1:47:26 | 1:47:31 | |
greens on the far eased of England,
cloud still lingering from last | 1:47:31 | 1:47:35 | |
night, and this cloud spreading in.
For the south, cloud, outbreaks | 1:47:35 | 1:47:43 | |
developing -- far east. Not a wet
day but hill snow around and for | 1:47:43 | 1:47:48 | |
late morning we will see a covering
of snow in the Pennines and the Lake | 1:47:48 | 1:47:52 | |
District and the fells before it
turns to rain later but some parts | 1:47:52 | 1:47:56 | |
of the east of England staying dry,
you might get away with it in the | 1:47:56 | 1:48:00 | |
West Midlands. Outbreaks for the
next few hours in Northern Ireland, | 1:48:00 | 1:48:04 | |
windy across-the-board, severe gales
in the west of Scotland and severe | 1:48:04 | 1:48:09 | |
snowfall, up to ten centimetres in
the Grampians, sigh of Highlands and | 1:48:09 | 1:48:14 | |
Southern Uplands and a mixture of
sleet and snow at lower levels later | 1:48:14 | 1:48:19 | |
as temperatures rise. 60-7 the mph
gusts of in some areas. Through the | 1:48:19 | 1:48:30 | |
night the milder air almost goes
away with this area of cloud and | 1:48:30 | 1:48:35 | |
rain to the near continent, clear
skies in the morning. The breeze | 1:48:35 | 1:48:38 | |
should keep the frost and be but
more showers into Thursday, they | 1:48:38 | 1:48:41 | |
will be wintry in Scotland and
Northern Ireland -- the breeze | 1:48:41 | 1:48:48 | |
should keep the frost at bay.
Brighter skies on Thursday. More of | 1:48:48 | 1:48:53 | |
you will see the sunshine. The best
of which will be in the south and | 1:48:53 | 1:48:58 | |
east of England and eastern
Scotland. Showers in the north and | 1:48:58 | 1:49:00 | |
west, sleet and snow in Scotland and
Northern Ireland, rain, hail and | 1:49:00 | 1:49:06 | |
sleet in western England and Wales.
A cold night on Friday morning. A | 1:49:06 | 1:49:14 | |
fine day for much of England and
Wales, good sunny spells before | 1:49:14 | 1:49:18 | |
cloud thickens in the west later.
After a bright start in Scotland and | 1:49:18 | 1:49:22 | |
Northern Ireland more rain and hill
snow on its way. More in half an | 1:49:22 | 1:49:26 | |
hour. See you then, Matt. | 1:49:26 | 1:49:30 | |
Let's talk house prices, they are
arriving by just over 5% a year with | 1:49:30 | 1:49:34 | |
the average UK house now costing
£220,000 according to the latest | 1:49:34 | 1:49:39 | |
house price figures. This is despite
a government promised to build 1 | 1:49:39 | 1:49:43 | |
million new homes by 2020. There are
still more than 200,000 properties | 1:49:43 | 1:49:47 | |
across England and Wales empty. In
Liverpool they're trying a rather | 1:49:47 | 1:49:52 | |
unusual approach to tackling the
crisis and Steph is checking it out | 1:49:52 | 1:49:56 | |
this morning. You're being nosy,
you're in and out of people's houses | 1:49:56 | 1:50:01 | |
bothering them this morning! I'm not
bothering them, they love having me | 1:50:01 | 1:50:06 | |
here I'm sure! Good morning,
everyone. I'm in Wavertree in | 1:50:06 | 1:50:11 | |
Liverpool and here as you can see
there's quite a few derelict houses. | 1:50:11 | 1:50:15 | |
There's about 120 that Liverpool
City Council have decided they will | 1:50:15 | 1:50:21 | |
sell off for £1 so over the last
couple of years they've been selling | 1:50:21 | 1:50:25 | |
off some already, you can start to
see some that have been done up. If | 1:50:25 | 1:50:30 | |
you want one of these £1 houses you
have to live or work in Liverpool | 1:50:30 | 1:50:34 | |
already. You have to be a first-time
buyer. You can't sell the house for | 1:50:34 | 1:50:39 | |
five years and you have to do it up
with your own money. If you don't | 1:50:39 | 1:50:43 | |
get it done in a year, or at least
get some way to getting it done, | 1:50:43 | 1:50:47 | |
they can take the house back off you
so it's all about trying to | 1:50:47 | 1:50:51 | |
regenerate and use those derelict
houses. We're going to have a pop in | 1:50:51 | 1:50:55 | |
here to Mel and Rob's house, she's
done a cracking job, I have to say. | 1:50:55 | 1:50:59 | |
I love going in people's houses but
they do know I'm here! She has done | 1:50:59 | 1:51:04 | |
it all up and she's one of the
people who's been working on this | 1:51:04 | 1:51:08 | |
poor about seven months and she's
here with her kids, Rosie and Lola, | 1:51:08 | 1:51:11 | |
and we have Kieron from the National
Housing Federation -- or about. Mel, | 1:51:11 | 1:51:16 | |
tell me about this, what was the
house like when you got it, what did | 1:51:16 | 1:51:20 | |
you do when you got it? -- for
about. It was a shell, we got it in | 1:51:20 | 1:51:26 | |
April, it had a hole in the roof,
you could stand here and see the | 1:51:26 | 1:51:31 | |
sky, it was damp and in a really bad
way. Looking at it now, how much | 1:51:31 | 1:51:35 | |
effort has it taken? A lot, non-stop
for about seven months, being here | 1:51:35 | 1:51:40 | |
everyday working on it all day long
to get it how it is now. Obviously | 1:51:40 | 1:51:44 | |
getting this house for £1 has meant
you're able to get a house, you | 1:51:44 | 1:51:50 | |
don't have a mortgage, but you've
probably had to spend a fair bit on | 1:51:50 | 1:51:54 | |
it? I think we've spent around
£40,000, maybe a bit more. £40,000? | 1:51:54 | 1:52:00 | |
Yeah, £40,000. For you is this the
best way to get a house, would you | 1:52:00 | 1:52:05 | |
have been able to get one otherwise?
Probably with our savings we would | 1:52:05 | 1:52:09 | |
have got a mortgage but we would
have struggled every month paying a | 1:52:09 | 1:52:12 | |
mortgage with one income and three
kids, it would have been really | 1:52:12 | 1:52:16 | |
hard. Your house looks absolutely
gorgeous but obviously it's still in | 1:52:16 | 1:52:20 | |
a street where there are still
derelict houses, does that worry | 1:52:20 | 1:52:24 | |
you? I'm really excited because I
think everyday use the new houses | 1:52:24 | 1:52:27 | |
getting started. Work is going on. I
think give it another year and it | 1:52:27 | 1:52:33 | |
will be completely transformed. This
is a wonderful home for you and your | 1:52:33 | 1:52:37 | |
kids. Let me bring Kieron in from
the national housing association. | 1:52:37 | 1:52:42 | |
We've seen other schemes like this
in Stoke, how much do they help the | 1:52:42 | 1:52:46 | |
housing shortage problem? They add
to the puzzle, they're part of that | 1:52:46 | 1:52:50 | |
jigsaw, but if you look at
Liverpool, it's a problem that is | 1:52:50 | 1:52:55 | |
pretty big. Looking at empty homes
in the north-west of England, | 1:52:55 | 1:52:59 | |
there's 40,000. Liverpool City
Council and the residents are | 1:52:59 | 1:53:04 | |
working here on that, but housing
associations can add with that and | 1:53:04 | 1:53:07 | |
work with local community groups and
local authorities to build desirable | 1:53:07 | 1:53:11 | |
areas and regenerate them. Could we
see more projects like this? | 1:53:11 | 1:53:15 | |
Definitely. We need to come up with
ways of regenerating and using... | 1:53:15 | 1:53:23 | |
Also we need to build and we need to
work hand in hand to solve the | 1:53:23 | 1:53:27 | |
housing crisis. Interesting, thanks
for your time this morning. You're | 1:53:27 | 1:53:30 | |
going to be on television tonight,
Mel, because you're part of the | 1:53:30 | 1:53:35 | |
Channel 4 documentary, Britain's
Cheapest Street on at 9pm on Channel | 1:53:35 | 1:53:41 | |
4. You can see the scene of you
walking in the house and the | 1:53:41 | 1:53:45 | |
problems you had when you first came
in. Thanks, Steph, I see those | 1:53:45 | 1:53:49 | |
croissants are going down as well? I
know. Rosie is really munching them | 1:53:49 | 1:53:55 | |
down! Nothing wrong with that. Good
old Rosie! | 1:53:55 | 1:53:59 | |
Look at this. | 1:53:59 | 1:54:03 | |
It's a piece of crinkly tin foil
but on the other side it's black. | 1:54:03 | 1:54:08 | |
It is so black, the crinkles
have disappeared. | 1:54:08 | 1:54:10 | |
The only other thing
that is blacker than this material, | 1:54:10 | 1:54:13 | |
in the whole universe,
is a black hole. | 1:54:13 | 1:54:15 | |
Shall we show you why this is so
extraordinary? This is a piece of | 1:54:15 | 1:54:20 | |
foil. This black is painted onto a
piece of foil. You can see how | 1:54:20 | 1:54:25 | |
crinkly it is and you would imagine
if you turned it around you would | 1:54:25 | 1:54:29 | |
see it is crinkly but look at that,
it looks flat, it is absorbing so | 1:54:29 | 1:54:35 | |
much light, 99%. More than 99%. If
this was out of this plastic case, | 1:54:35 | 1:54:42 | |
if you shone a torch into this you
wouldn't see the light. The reason | 1:54:42 | 1:54:48 | |
why it is in there is it is more
expensive than gold. It is called | 1:54:48 | 1:54:53 | |
banter black and a version of this
has been designed, used to design a | 1:54:53 | 1:54:58 | |
building in South Korea. | 1:54:58 | 1:54:59 | |
Designed by a British architect,
using materials created by British | 1:54:59 | 1:55:02 | |
scientists and the structure absorbs
99% of the light that hits it. | 1:55:02 | 1:55:05 | |
Breakfast's Graham Satchell reports. | 1:55:05 | 1:55:06 | |
It's the blackest building on earth. | 1:55:06 | 1:55:13 | |
This pavilion outside the Olympic
stadium in South Korea is coated | 1:55:13 | 1:55:16 | |
with a materia called VBX2. | 1:55:16 | 1:55:22 | |
It absorbs 98% of the light. | 1:55:22 | 1:55:24 | |
I wanted people to be literally
awestruck and starstruck by this | 1:55:24 | 1:55:27 | |
building, and to see it
and stop in their tracks. | 1:55:27 | 1:55:30 | |
The pavilion is the brainchild
of British architect Asif Khan. | 1:55:30 | 1:55:32 | |
You feel drawn into it,
you want to plummet | 1:55:32 | 1:55:35 | |
into its blackness. | 1:55:35 | 1:55:43 | |
Asif has peppered the building with
small lights to look like stars. | 1:55:44 | 1:55:52 | |
As you walk around the building,
you get the effect of parallax, | 1:55:53 | 1:55:56 | |
so it appears the stars
are moving against each other, | 1:55:56 | 1:55:59 | |
as though you were diving
through the universe. | 1:55:59 | 1:56:01 | |
This laboratory in southern
England is where VBX2 | 1:56:01 | 1:56:09 | |
and Vantablack were created. | 1:56:12 | 1:56:13 | |
It might look like paint
but Vantablack is made billions | 1:56:13 | 1:56:16 | |
of microscopic carbon nano tubes. | 1:56:16 | 1:56:18 | |
It absorbs 99.965% of light. | 1:56:18 | 1:56:26 | |
The only thing darker
would be a black hole. | 1:56:28 | 1:56:31 | |
The only thing darker
in the universe is a black hole? | 1:56:31 | 1:56:34 | |
Is a black hole that we know
of that this time. | 1:56:34 | 1:56:37 | |
It's so black it changes
the dimensionality of an object. | 1:56:37 | 1:56:40 | |
It makes things look flat. | 1:56:40 | 1:56:47 | |
You're seeing the lack of photons
being reflected back to your eyes, | 1:56:47 | 1:56:50 | |
and so your eyes are no longer able
to make sense of what you're seeing | 1:56:50 | 1:56:54 | |
so therefore you see it as a void
or a very black area that you can't | 1:56:54 | 1:56:59 | |
make shape or sense from. | 1:56:59 | 1:57:00 | |
Looking at black nothingness
like this is a rather odd | 1:57:00 | 1:57:03 | |
sort of experience. | 1:57:03 | 1:57:10 | |
It's slightly vertiginous,
like you're standing on the edge | 1:57:10 | 1:57:13 | |
of an abyss looking into a void. | 1:57:13 | 1:57:15 | |
It's exciting and unsettling
at the same time. | 1:57:15 | 1:57:17 | |
Vantablack is used in space
exploration, in cameras | 1:57:17 | 1:57:19 | |
and telescopes to reduce the amount
of flair from the sun. | 1:57:19 | 1:57:27 | |
It gives astronomers a clear view
of distant stars and planets | 1:57:32 | 1:57:35 | |
but using this nanotechnology
has only just started. | 1:57:35 | 1:57:40 | |
The possibilities of
designing materials are, | 1:57:40 | 1:57:42 | |
kind of, quite limitless. | 1:57:42 | 1:57:43 | |
I imagine coating materials
with nano materials, | 1:57:43 | 1:57:45 | |
imagine vehicles that slip
in and out of visibility, | 1:57:45 | 1:57:47 | |
that's the sort of world that
we're talking about here. | 1:57:47 | 1:57:55 | |
So a stunning building
using technology that has | 1:57:56 | 1:57:58 | |
the potential to revolutionise
photography, space exploration, | 1:57:58 | 1:58:00 | |
architecture, design. | 1:58:00 | 1:58:01 | |
Graham Satchell, BBC News. | 1:58:01 | 1:58:09 | |
We need to go and see that building.
I need a suit made out of | 1:58:13 | 1:58:18 | |
Vantablack. Even though this is
black, it looked entirely grey up | 1:58:18 | 2:01:44 | |
I'm back with the latest
from the BBC London newsroom | 2:01:44 | 2:01:47 | |
in half an hour. | 2:01:47 | 2:01:50 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast
with Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty. | 2:01:50 | 2:01:52 | |
A lack of trust among disabled
people over how their welfare | 2:01:52 | 2:01:55 | |
claims are decided. | 2:01:55 | 2:01:56 | |
MPs find assessors submitted
reports that were riddled | 2:01:56 | 2:01:58 | |
with errors and regularly
missed quality targets. | 2:01:58 | 2:02:06 | |
Good morning. | 2:02:14 | 2:02:15 | |
It's Wednesday the 14th of February. | 2:02:15 | 2:02:17 | |
Also this morning: | 2:02:17 | 2:02:18 | |
Boris Johnson moves to reassure
voters who he says are angry | 2:02:18 | 2:02:20 | |
and alienated because of Brexit
in the first of a series of speeches | 2:02:20 | 2:02:23 | |
from senior cabinet members. | 2:02:23 | 2:02:31 | |
A new times table test is introduced
for thousands of eight | 2:02:35 | 2:02:38 | |
and nine-year-olds in England's
primary schools in a bid | 2:02:38 | 2:02:40 | |
to raise numeracy levels. | 2:02:40 | 2:02:44 | |
Good morning from Liverpool, where
the council is selling of houses for | 2:02:44 | 2:02:47 | |
a pound. These empty houses have
been bought up from families who | 2:02:47 | 2:02:53 | |
want to renovate them into brand-new
homes. I will be taking you inside | 2:02:53 | 2:02:56 | |
some of them. | 2:02:56 | 2:02:57 | |
Good morning from a comparatively
balmy all bait. Both Team GB's men | 2:02:59 | 2:03:07 | |
and women have got off to a winning
start this morning. -- balmy | 2:03:07 | 2:03:15 | |
Pyeongchang. | 2:03:15 | 2:03:17 | |
And Matt has the weather. | 2:03:17 | 2:03:21 | |
After a brighter frosty start,
strong winds, rain, and hill snow on | 2:03:21 | 2:03:25 | |
the way. Your forecast is coming up
in the next 15 minutes. See you | 2:03:25 | 2:03:28 | |
then.
See you then, Matt. | 2:03:28 | 2:03:32 | |
First, our main story. | 2:03:32 | 2:03:34 | |
A committee of MPs has said
there is a "pervasive lack of trust" | 2:03:34 | 2:03:37 | |
among disabled people when it comes
to how their welfare | 2:03:37 | 2:03:39 | |
claims are assessed. | 2:03:39 | 2:03:40 | |
The Commons' Work and Pensions
committee said reports by private | 2:03:40 | 2:03:42 | |
contractors were "riddled
with errors" and quality targets had | 2:03:42 | 2:03:45 | |
been "regularly missed". | 2:03:45 | 2:03:46 | |
Here's our Disability News
Correspondent, Nikki Fox. | 2:03:46 | 2:03:51 | |
Anastasia is having a good day. | 2:03:51 | 2:03:53 | |
But it's not always like this. | 2:03:53 | 2:03:54 | |
Most days she is unable
to get out of the house. | 2:03:54 | 2:03:57 | |
The 24-year-old has
multiple sclerosis. | 2:03:57 | 2:03:59 | |
She used to work full-time,
but now she struggles to get around. | 2:03:59 | 2:04:05 | |
She applied for a disability benefit
and was assessed at home | 2:04:05 | 2:04:07 | |
by a health care professional
from a private company. | 2:04:07 | 2:04:10 | |
Anastasia says she told the assessor
she could only walk 20 metres, | 2:04:10 | 2:04:15 | |
but when the report came back it
said she could walk further. | 2:04:15 | 2:04:17 | |
She didn't give me
a physical assessment. | 2:04:17 | 2:04:19 | |
I was sat down the entire time. | 2:04:19 | 2:04:21 | |
I was very, very cross about that. | 2:04:21 | 2:04:27 | |
Today's report identifies
a culture of mistrust | 2:04:27 | 2:04:28 | |
around the whole process. | 2:04:28 | 2:04:32 | |
It says assessors risk
being viewed as, at best, | 2:04:32 | 2:04:34 | |
lacking in competence and,
at worst, actively deceitful. | 2:04:34 | 2:04:39 | |
The committee says the government's
low bar for what is considered | 2:04:39 | 2:04:42 | |
acceptable leaves room
for assessment reports to be riddled | 2:04:42 | 2:04:44 | |
with obvious errors and omissions. | 2:04:44 | 2:04:49 | |
Clearly the system needs a major
overhaul, but there are some things | 2:04:49 | 2:04:52 | |
the government could do relatively
quickly to improve it. | 2:04:52 | 2:04:54 | |
Automatic audio recording
of assessments for people. | 2:04:54 | 2:04:56 | |
Why not share the assessment results
with the claimant at the point | 2:04:56 | 2:04:59 | |
of claimant decision? | 2:04:59 | 2:05:02 | |
The government says assessments work
for the majority of people and it's | 2:05:02 | 2:05:05 | |
committed to improving transparency. | 2:05:05 | 2:05:06 | |
But with current contracts up
for review and targets | 2:05:06 | 2:05:10 | |
being consistently missed,
the future of the system is unclear. | 2:05:10 | 2:05:17 | |
The Foreign Secretary,
Boris Johnson, will address | 2:05:17 | 2:05:19 | |
what he calls the 'grief
and alienation' of those who voted | 2:05:19 | 2:05:21 | |
to Stay in the European Union
in a speech later today. | 2:05:21 | 2:05:25 | |
He says that people who voted
to leave the EU should | 2:05:25 | 2:05:29 | |
try to persuade worried remainers
to focus on the possible | 2:05:29 | 2:05:31 | |
benefits of, rather
than their fears over, | 2:05:31 | 2:05:33 | |
Brexit. | 2:05:33 | 2:05:34 | |
Our political correspondent,
Leila Nathoo, is in | 2:05:34 | 2:05:36 | |
Westminster this morning: | 2:05:36 | 2:05:42 | |
It's likely to annoy some people.
What exactly will Boris Johnson be | 2:05:42 | 2:05:46 | |
saying? Boris Johnson was one of the
leading voices in the league | 2:05:46 | 2:05:52 | |
campaign in the referendum more than
18 months ago. Today he wants to | 2:05:52 | 2:05:56 | |
reach out to those who supported the
remaining side. -- leave campaign. | 2:05:56 | 2:06:01 | |
He wants to recognise that there are
divisions on the decision. But he | 2:06:01 | 2:06:06 | |
will say that Brexit should be about
hope, not fear, although he will | 2:06:06 | 2:06:11 | |
recognise the anxieties of those,
but he wants to stress the | 2:06:11 | 2:06:13 | |
opportunities presented by Brexit.
But he has a stark warning for those | 2:06:13 | 2:06:17 | |
who he thinks are out to thwart and
stop Brexit. He says if that | 2:06:17 | 2:06:22 | |
succeeds that would be a disastrous
mistake. This would be the first in | 2:06:22 | 2:06:29 | |
a series of speeches we will be
hearing from senior Cabinet | 2:06:29 | 2:06:31 | |
ministers over the next few weeks.
Boris Johnson will be the first of | 2:06:31 | 2:06:34 | |
those Cabinet ministers to set out
his stall today. Theresa May will be | 2:06:34 | 2:06:37 | |
giving a speech on security over the
weekend. Then we will hear from Liam | 2:06:37 | 2:06:42 | |
Fox, David Davis, who will be
talking about business, and the | 2:06:42 | 2:06:48 | |
Cabinet Office minister who will
talk about devolution. At the end of | 2:06:48 | 2:06:52 | |
the speech number ten has promised
we will be given an idea of the | 2:06:52 | 2:06:56 | |
detail of the plan the government
has for Britain's relationship with | 2:06:56 | 2:07:01 | |
the EU after Brexit. Lots of
pressure on Theresa May to flesh her | 2:07:01 | 2:07:06 | |
plan and, with bottom lines what she
wants to see from Britain's | 2:07:06 | 2:07:11 | |
relationship with the EU in the
future. And we are going to have a | 2:07:11 | 2:07:14 | |
good idea of that after the
speeches. Thanks very much. | 2:07:14 | 2:07:20 | |
MPs have criticised the Home Office
for seriously underestimating, | 2:07:20 | 2:07:22 | |
what they described as,
the "immense bureaucratic | 2:07:22 | 2:07:23 | |
challenge" posed by Brexit. | 2:07:23 | 2:07:24 | |
In a report published today,
the House of Commons Home Affairs | 2:07:24 | 2:07:27 | |
Committee hits out at the Government
for long delays in publishing a | 2:07:27 | 2:07:30 | |
post-Brexit immigration white paper. | 2:07:30 | 2:07:31 | |
The government has said it's
considering various options | 2:07:31 | 2:07:33 | |
and will set out its initial plans
"as and when they are ready." | 2:07:33 | 2:07:39 | |
The jury at the trial of the former
football coach Barry Bennell, | 2:07:39 | 2:07:42 | |
who's been found guilty of dozens
of sexual offences against boys, | 2:07:42 | 2:07:45 | |
will continue deliberations
on other charges today. | 2:07:45 | 2:07:49 | |
Yesterday, the jury
at Liverpool Crown Court returned | 2:07:49 | 2:07:50 | |
guilty verdicts on 36 counts
and asked for more time | 2:07:50 | 2:07:53 | |
to consider seven others. | 2:07:53 | 2:07:57 | |
Bennell, who appeared in court
via videolink due to illness, | 2:07:57 | 2:07:59 | |
declined to give evidence
in his defence. | 2:07:59 | 2:08:02 | |
Our reporter Andy Gill is outside
Liverpool Crown Court this morning, | 2:08:02 | 2:08:05 | |
remind us of the background
to the case? | 2:08:05 | 2:08:10 | |
Give us the background to this. | 2:08:10 | 2:08:17 | |
Barry Ben Alexander former youth
football coach who worked for clubs | 2:08:17 | 2:08:19 | |
like Stoke city, Crewe Alexander,
and Manchester City. -- Barry | 2:08:19 | 2:08:26 | |
Bennell was a former youth football
coach. He was found guilty of 36 | 2:08:26 | 2:08:32 | |
child six offences. Some of them
serious, involving ten victims. They | 2:08:32 | 2:08:36 | |
haven't reached verdicts on seven
charges including four including an | 2:08:36 | 2:08:41 | |
11th complainant. Some of the men
and their families were in tears in | 2:08:41 | 2:08:45 | |
court yesterday as the verdicts came
through. Bennell Is watching from | 2:08:45 | 2:08:50 | |
prison by a CCTV because he is too
unwell to get to court was seen | 2:08:50 | 2:08:55 | |
muttering when the verdicts were
read out. They say he had arcade | 2:08:55 | 2:09:04 | |
games, a pool table, exotic pets at
his home where he invited the young | 2:09:04 | 2:09:08 | |
players he was coaching, and in some
cases abused them. Some of the abuse | 2:09:08 | 2:09:14 | |
also happened on trips away and in
his car. The jury were told that | 2:09:14 | 2:09:23 | |
Bennell wanted them to like him. He
is now looking at a fourth jail term | 2:09:23 | 2:09:30 | |
for child six offences. The judge
has told the jury to come to a | 2:09:30 | 2:09:38 | |
unanimous decision on the remaining
charges. If they don't there will be | 2:09:38 | 2:09:44 | |
majority charges.
Thank you for bringing us up to | 2:09:44 | 2:09:47 | |
date. | 2:09:47 | 2:09:48 | |
Film star Minnie Driver has quit
as an Oxfam ambassador | 2:09:48 | 2:09:50 | |
following claims that staff working
for the charity in disaster | 2:09:50 | 2:09:53 | |
zones paid vulnerable
local people for sex. | 2:09:53 | 2:09:55 | |
The actress resigned after 20 years
with the aid agency, | 2:09:55 | 2:09:57 | |
saying in a statement
that she was "horrified" | 2:09:57 | 2:09:59 | |
by the allegations. | 2:09:59 | 2:10:01 | |
Oxfam said it was "grateful"
for Ms Driver's commitment, | 2:10:01 | 2:10:03 | |
and that it was more determined
than ever to learn | 2:10:03 | 2:10:05 | |
from its mistakes. | 2:10:05 | 2:10:11 | |
Hundreds of premature babies
could avoid brain damage | 2:10:11 | 2:10:13 | |
if their mothers were all given
a low-cost drug during labour, | 2:10:13 | 2:10:16 | |
according to a new report. | 2:10:16 | 2:10:19 | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health says there are huge | 2:10:19 | 2:10:21 | |
regional differences in the number
of mothers given magnesium | 2:10:21 | 2:10:23 | |
sulphate to reduce the risk
of cerebral palsy. | 2:10:23 | 2:10:31 | |
It claims providing the drug
could save the NHS £280 | 2:10:35 | 2:10:38 | |
million a year. | 2:10:38 | 2:10:42 | |
The actress Emma Watson has
spoken about her shock, | 2:10:42 | 2:10:45 | |
at realising that there was no
system in place to help people | 2:10:45 | 2:10:47 | |
in the film industry who had
been sexually harassed. | 2:10:47 | 2:10:50 | |
She's one of a number of women
who've been consulted | 2:10:50 | 2:10:52 | |
by the British Film Institute
and BAFTA, as it announces changes | 2:10:52 | 2:10:55 | |
aimed at tackling the problem. | 2:10:55 | 2:10:56 | |
Our Entertainment Correspondent
Colin Paterson has been | 2:10:56 | 2:10:57 | |
looking at the plans. | 2:10:57 | 2:10:59 | |
This Sunday it's the BAFTA awards
and, ahead of British film's | 2:10:59 | 2:11:01 | |
biggest night of the year,
the industry has announced | 2:11:01 | 2:11:03 | |
a brand-new plan aimed at tackling
both sexual harassment and bullying. | 2:11:03 | 2:11:06 | |
It's a direct response
to the Harvey Weinstein allegations. | 2:11:06 | 2:11:10 | |
Hello! | 2:11:10 | 2:11:11 | |
You can talk? | 2:11:11 | 2:11:12 | |
Of course we can talk! | 2:11:12 | 2:11:13 | |
Emma Watson was one of the many
actresses asked for her input. | 2:11:13 | 2:11:17 | |
These principles are important
because up until recently | 2:11:17 | 2:11:19 | |
there were no guidelines,
there was no protocol for someone | 2:11:19 | 2:11:22 | |
that had been sexually harassed
in the entertainment industry. | 2:11:22 | 2:11:27 | |
I know this to be a fact
because I've asked for principles | 2:11:27 | 2:11:29 | |
and I've asked to see guidelines
and no one could give them to me. | 2:11:29 | 2:11:37 | |
To change this, more than 40
organisations, including BAFTA | 2:11:37 | 2:11:40 | |
and the British Film Institute,
worked on a set of eight principles | 2:11:40 | 2:11:43 | |
which they want to be
used across the film, | 2:11:43 | 2:11:45 | |
television and video
games industries. | 2:11:45 | 2:11:47 | |
So what will actually change? | 2:11:47 | 2:11:51 | |
Every production must employ two
people trained to handle any | 2:11:51 | 2:11:54 | |
accusations of harassment. | 2:11:54 | 2:11:55 | |
A dedicated phone line
will open in April, offering | 2:11:55 | 2:11:57 | |
free confidential help. | 2:11:57 | 2:12:00 | |
And BFI funding will only
be given to projects | 2:12:00 | 2:12:02 | |
committed to the changes. | 2:12:02 | 2:12:06 | |
This isn't about a set of commands,
it's about a set of principles | 2:12:06 | 2:12:09 | |
which everyone has willingly
and with huge enthusiasm | 2:12:09 | 2:12:11 | |
signed up to. | 2:12:11 | 2:12:17 | |
At last month's Golden Globe awards,
almost all actresses wore black | 2:12:17 | 2:12:20 | |
to show solidarity for the Times Up
campaign, calling for change. | 2:12:20 | 2:12:25 | |
The same is expected at the Baftas. | 2:12:25 | 2:12:30 | |
Those behind today's
announcement hope such a stand | 2:12:30 | 2:12:32 | |
won't be needed next year. | 2:12:32 | 2:12:37 | |
A heart-warming image of a gorilla
in the arms of one of her rescuers | 2:12:37 | 2:12:41 | |
has won the top prize
at the 'Wildlife Photographer | 2:12:41 | 2:12:43 | |
of the Year' awards. | 2:12:43 | 2:12:51 | |
Chosen by almost 20,000 nature fans,
the winning snap was taken | 2:12:52 | 2:12:54 | |
by Canadian photographer Jo-Anne
McArthur. | 2:12:54 | 2:12:55 | |
"Pikin", a lowland gorilla,
was being moved to a new home | 2:12:55 | 2:12:58 | |
by her caretaker in Cameroon. | 2:12:58 | 2:13:00 | |
There is nothing better than a
really good cuddle. | 2:13:00 | 2:13:07 | |
I think you might be right.
And that looks like a fabulous | 2:13:07 | 2:13:11 | |
cuddle. | 2:13:11 | 2:13:13 | |
Other finalists included this
image of a polar bear | 2:13:13 | 2:13:16 | |
and her cubs after
emerging from their den. | 2:13:16 | 2:13:19 | |
We always like to learn something
new. | 2:13:19 | 2:13:21 | |
This bird is a "lilac-breasted
roller" - snapped hitching | 2:13:21 | 2:13:23 | |
a ride on a zebra in
Kenya. | 2:13:23 | 2:13:26 | |
I did not know that.
Its colours are so intense. | 2:13:26 | 2:13:31 | |
It looks like it has been touched up
on photo shop. | 2:13:31 | 2:13:39 | |
This three-toed sloth
was hanging around in | 2:13:46 | 2:13:48 | |
the Brazilian rainforest. | 2:13:48 | 2:13:49 | |
And finally, here's an underwater
image of a humpback whale | 2:13:49 | 2:13:51 | |
and her calf floating
in the waters off Tonga. | 2:13:51 | 2:13:54 | |
The winning images will be showcased
at the Natural History Museum | 2:13:54 | 2:13:56 | |
in London, until the end of May. | 2:13:56 | 2:14:02 | |
I think they would be even more
stunning on the wall. Fabulous. | 2:14:02 | 2:14:09 | |
Do you know what 11 times 12 is? | 2:14:09 | 2:14:11 | |
Yes.
Go on, then. | 2:14:11 | 2:14:16 | |
Reciting times tables
was a feature of school life | 2:14:16 | 2:14:18 | |
for many of us in years gone by. | 2:14:18 | 2:14:20 | |
Did you enjoy it when you got
tested? | 2:14:20 | 2:14:21 | |
Always.
Me, too. | 2:14:21 | 2:14:25 | |
Now the Government is set
to reintroduce times tables checks | 2:14:25 | 2:14:28 | |
for thousands of primary school
children in England | 2:14:28 | 2:14:30 | |
from this spring. | 2:14:30 | 2:14:32 | |
Not everybody enjoyed it. | 2:14:32 | 2:14:33 | |
Opponents, including some teaching
unions, are questioning | 2:14:33 | 2:14:35 | |
the educational benefits. | 2:14:35 | 2:14:36 | |
Our business correspondent
Nina Warhurst has been to test | 2:14:36 | 2:14:38 | |
the maths skills of some
people in Manchester. | 2:14:38 | 2:14:43 | |
My times tables? | 2:14:43 | 2:14:44 | |
Yeah, awesome. | 2:14:44 | 2:14:45 | |
Your dad is very confident,
Harvey, do you think he's | 2:14:45 | 2:14:48 | |
going to be up to it? | 2:14:48 | 2:14:49 | |
Errr... | 2:14:49 | 2:14:50 | |
No. | 2:14:50 | 2:14:51 | |
Start with an easy one, two sevens. | 2:14:51 | 2:14:53 | |
14. | 2:14:53 | 2:14:54 | |
Dad, four sixes? | 2:14:54 | 2:14:56 | |
24. | 2:14:56 | 2:14:56 | |
Harvey, two sixes. | 2:14:56 | 2:14:59 | |
12. | 2:14:59 | 2:15:00 | |
Right, Anne, you are confident
you know your times tables. | 2:15:00 | 2:15:02 | |
Yes I am. | 2:15:02 | 2:15:03 | |
Right, we'll start with a hard
one, seven sixes are? | 2:15:03 | 2:15:06 | |
42. | 2:15:06 | 2:15:07 | |
Six eights are? | 2:15:07 | 2:15:08 | |
48. | 2:15:08 | 2:15:09 | |
Eight nines are? | 2:15:09 | 2:15:10 | |
72. | 2:15:10 | 2:15:11 | |
My goodness. | 2:15:11 | 2:15:16 | |
One times one is? | 2:15:16 | 2:15:17 | |
One. | 2:15:17 | 2:15:18 | |
Two times two is? | 2:15:18 | 2:15:19 | |
Four. | 2:15:19 | 2:15:21 | |
Three times five is? | 2:15:21 | 2:15:29 | |
15... | 2:15:30 | 2:15:32 | |
Some smart cookies there! | 2:15:41 | 2:15:43 | |
We're joined now by Countdown
mathematician Rachel Riley and maths | 2:15:43 | 2:15:46 | |
teacher Gary Chambers,
who you might recognise | 2:15:46 | 2:15:47 | |
from Educating Greater Manchester. | 2:15:47 | 2:15:50 | |
Good morning to you both. Your job
is about being brilliant maths and | 2:15:50 | 2:15:55 | |
getting the answers that no one on
the panel has got. Were you always | 2:15:55 | 2:15:58 | |
good at it? I was, yes, and it is
one of those things you get a lot of | 2:15:58 | 2:16:06 | |
praise if you are good at, and
people see it as a difficult thing, | 2:16:06 | 2:16:10 | |
so you go on and do it more, and
that happen to me. But I think the | 2:16:10 | 2:16:15 | |
problem is some people get across
and get it wrong and turn off the | 2:16:15 | 2:16:19 | |
early as well. Isn't that part of
the problem, it is either right or | 2:16:19 | 2:16:23 | |
wrong? It is not like English or
history were interpretation is | 2:16:23 | 2:16:27 | |
important. With maths, you show your
workings and get to the answer. We | 2:16:27 | 2:16:33 | |
try to make our students, to make
the examiners work a little bit, so | 2:16:33 | 2:16:36 | |
if you can show the correct working,
there are marks available there as | 2:16:36 | 2:16:40 | |
well, so it is building from what
you can get down on paper, so even | 2:16:40 | 2:16:47 | |
if you only get part of it right,
you get some marks. I'm sure some | 2:16:47 | 2:16:51 | |
pupils come to secondary school who
don't know their times tables. What | 2:16:51 | 2:16:55 | |
difficulties does that cause? It
gives you a break in the formula, so | 2:16:55 | 2:16:59 | |
where they want to move on, it
causes a little bit of a handbrake | 2:16:59 | 2:17:02 | |
for them. So where you should be
doing the calculation, they struggle | 2:17:02 | 2:17:06 | |
on a certain part of it, and
something as simple as a | 2:17:06 | 2:17:10 | |
multiplication can stop the moving
onto something more complex, so it | 2:17:10 | 2:17:13 | |
is key in the big picture. Rachel,
we were saying we enjoy being tested | 2:17:13 | 2:17:18 | |
at school, but did you ever play
that game, you stand up in the class | 2:17:18 | 2:17:21 | |
and your teacher starts doing loads
of times tables, and then you sit | 2:17:21 | 2:17:25 | |
down when you have lost your way,
the last one standing as the winner. | 2:17:25 | 2:17:29 | |
Did you do that?
I never did that, I loved it but I | 2:17:29 | 2:17:34 | |
wonder if those who don't see maths
as a strong point, it is just | 2:17:34 | 2:17:37 | |
another, almost saying, you are not
good enough. The thing I'm loving | 2:17:37 | 2:17:42 | |
about this interview is you are so
positive about maths on the way you | 2:17:42 | 2:17:45 | |
speak about it. Away from having to
learn your times tables, I think the | 2:17:45 | 2:17:49 | |
most important thing forgetting the
country more numerate, because only | 2:17:49 | 2:17:53 | |
half of adults at the moment are the
right level of numerous either they | 2:17:53 | 2:17:56 | |
should be, is having a positive
attitude, and stop saying, I can't | 2:17:56 | 2:18:00 | |
do maths, it's not for me, and
passing that onto kids can. That | 2:18:00 | 2:18:05 | |
comes from parents and teachers, and
it passes on. But there is a | 2:18:05 | 2:18:09 | |
negative side, a lot of people
watching this morning will be | 2:18:09 | 2:18:14 | |
saying, I don't need to know my
times tables to get through life, to | 2:18:14 | 2:18:18 | |
get my breakfast, to do my job. The
data and common sense says actually | 2:18:18 | 2:18:24 | |
you do need maths and whether...
Lots of people use it without | 2:18:24 | 2:18:29 | |
thinking about it. It is more about
having a feel for | 2:18:29 | 2:18:36 | |
having a feel for numbers, you just
said to me, do you know your 72 | 2:18:37 | 2:18:41 | |
times table? I don't, but I know my
75 and my three, so I can work it | 2:18:41 | 2:18:48 | |
out. We watch Countdown, we watch
you working out the maths when no | 2:18:48 | 2:18:52 | |
one else can do it. Do you think you
get that at it because you're always | 2:18:52 | 2:18:57 | |
working at it? Absolutely. When I
applied for my job, I had an | 2:18:57 | 2:19:02 | |
interview, and I had just started a
maths Masters at Oxford, and I | 2:19:02 | 2:19:05 | |
hadn't used numbers for four years,
so I had to go back to my times | 2:19:05 | 2:19:12 | |
tables, and I was doing it in a book
as I was commuting, and the more you | 2:19:12 | 2:19:18 | |
do it, the more you get faster at
it. On some of the celebrities who | 2:19:18 | 2:19:24 | |
come onto the programme, they become
a Fuser stick about it because they | 2:19:24 | 2:19:29 | |
improve as they practice. Gary, this
doesn't look like fun. It is not | 2:19:29 | 2:19:36 | |
like... Speak for yourself! I am
quite excited about it. But it isn't | 2:19:36 | 2:19:43 | |
the same as a beautiful piece of art
and thinking about how that was | 2:19:43 | 2:19:47 | |
constructed or a timeline in history
or the politics of an event. How do | 2:19:47 | 2:19:52 | |
you make this attractive and look
attractive so that you can practice | 2:19:52 | 2:19:55 | |
it and be inspired by it? It is the
fantastic art of teaching. You have | 2:19:55 | 2:20:00 | |
to break things down. What is there
is irrelevant, it is the passion and | 2:20:00 | 2:20:04 | |
drive you put into it. You get these
young people to be inspired to get | 2:20:04 | 2:20:08 | |
involved, and once you start to
break things down, you can start to | 2:20:08 | 2:20:12 | |
piece things together, and people
start to learn. Everybody likes to | 2:20:12 | 2:20:16 | |
learn, and once you start to put
bits together and you make it | 2:20:16 | 2:20:19 | |
interesting if you set challenges,
you want to learn. And you might | 2:20:19 | 2:20:23 | |
like what we're trying to do one
Breakfast later this year because | 2:20:23 | 2:20:26 | |
Naga is taking a challenge...
Three of us are going back to | 2:20:26 | 2:20:34 | |
school, and we have taken a
challenge, some accepted in some | 2:20:34 | 2:20:38 | |
refused.
I just said I was happy for others | 2:20:38 | 2:20:41 | |
to do it! I'm too busy to do my
maths GCSE a game. | 2:20:41 | 2:20:46 | |
Take a look at how we are going to
it. | 2:20:46 | 2:20:54 | |
it. We are going back to school. In
four months, you are going to sit | 2:20:57 | 2:21:02 | |
the maths GCSE from real.
Expand and simplify. What does that | 2:21:02 | 2:21:07 | |
mean? What did I get at school for
maths? De. | 2:21:07 | 2:21:14 | |
I haven't seen a maths paper for
years. I does wonder if I am beyond | 2:21:14 | 2:21:19 | |
that point in my life and it is too
late. We can do this, Tim! | 2:21:19 | 2:21:24 | |
Yes, we can!
That wasn't you saying, I am so | 2:21:24 | 2:21:31 | |
bored, on the desk?
What happens in the classroom stays | 2:21:31 | 2:21:34 | |
in the classroom!
Thank you both for coming in this | 2:21:34 | 2:21:39 | |
morning. Hints of anyone who is
starting again, learning again, what | 2:21:39 | 2:21:41 | |
would you say? I would say, national
numerous it is having its first big | 2:21:41 | 2:21:47 | |
day on the 16th of March, you can go
online and do a health check of your | 2:21:47 | 2:21:52 | |
numerous E, they tell you how you
are doing, and there is all the help | 2:21:52 | 2:21:56 | |
and advice on there, otherwise
everyday maths, when you are at the | 2:21:56 | 2:21:59 | |
supermarket, use your brain first.
That applies to everything, use your | 2:21:59 | 2:22:04 | |
brain first!
Turn it into a game. Shall we play | 2:22:04 | 2:22:10 | |
with the weather? You often do, so
you might as well. | 2:22:10 | 2:22:12 | |
Here's Matt with a look
at this morning's weather. | 2:22:12 | 2:22:16 | |
10 degrees times minus 32
Fahrenheit, that equals... ? | 2:22:16 | 2:22:22 | |
Spot on! I like maths like that. | 2:22:22 | 2:22:30 | |
A very good morning to you. This was
a glorious sunrise in Oxton in | 2:22:30 | 2:22:35 | |
Nottinghamshire this morning. But a
hint of red in the sky. Look at the | 2:22:35 | 2:22:44 | |
blue in the charts today, but it is
diminishing from the South West as | 2:22:44 | 2:22:48 | |
we speak. And this is the cloud
responsible for that. Across the | 2:22:48 | 2:22:52 | |
southern half of the UK, the
sunshine is out, Central and eastern | 2:22:52 | 2:22:57 | |
areas turning hazy, and in the West,
occasional rain through the morning, | 2:22:57 | 2:23:01 | |
a little snow on the tops of the
hills but a covering of snow across | 2:23:01 | 2:23:05 | |
the Cumbrian fells, Pennines and
Peak District with rain to lower | 2:23:05 | 2:23:07 | |
levels as it pushes its way
eastwards. Strong winds across the | 2:23:07 | 2:23:11 | |
board today, touching gale force
around the coast of England and | 2:23:11 | 2:23:14 | |
Wales, may be severe in the West of
Scotland. As the cloud sprinted | 2:23:14 | 2:23:22 | |
across Scotland, we will see a
little snow across the Grampians, | 2:23:22 | 2:23:28 | |
the Highlands, the Southern uplands.
And a windy day for all, gales | 2:23:28 | 2:23:32 | |
around the coast, severe gales for
12 across Scotland, but note the | 2:23:32 | 2:23:36 | |
temperatures. 10 degrees in Belfast,
warm compared to of late. Into | 2:23:36 | 2:23:44 | |
tonight, a spell of heavy rain
spreads across England and Wales for | 2:23:44 | 2:23:47 | |
a time, almost clearing into
tomorrow morning, then we have some | 2:23:47 | 2:23:51 | |
clearer skies, starry skies for
some, a few showers towards the | 2:23:51 | 2:23:55 | |
West, sleet and snow for Scotland
and Northern Ireland, a coating of | 2:23:55 | 2:23:58 | |
snow here and there to start
Thursday. But at least we are into | 2:23:58 | 2:24:02 | |
something a little brighter. The
wind coming in from the West, | 2:24:02 | 2:24:05 | |
nowhere near as strong tomorrow as
today, but it will still be | 2:24:05 | 2:24:09 | |
blustery. The best of the sunshine
through the afternoon, to southern | 2:24:09 | 2:24:14 | |
and eastern parts of the country,
showers elsewhere, much as we have | 2:24:14 | 2:24:17 | |
seen earlier this week, hail and
sleet in southern areas, sleet and | 2:24:17 | 2:24:23 | |
snow for Scotland and Northern
Ireland, but temperatures not as low | 2:24:23 | 2:24:25 | |
as they were to start the week. Into
Friday, the wind will be light | 2:24:25 | 2:24:31 | |
across southern and eastern parts,
but after a bright start, Scotland | 2:24:31 | 2:24:36 | |
and Northern Ireland turn cloudy,
outbreaks of Rainford Northern | 2:24:36 | 2:24:39 | |
Ireland and a little hill snow for
Scotland. But temperatures still | 2:24:39 | 2:24:41 | |
across the South on Friday could be
into double figures. Cloud and rain | 2:24:41 | 2:24:45 | |
today, but a bit more sunshine for
the rest of the week. | 2:24:45 | 2:24:48 | |
Thank you. We have had a poem sent
in. It says, dear Matt. I thank you | 2:24:51 | 2:24:59 | |
for this from the bottom of my
heart, let's make it clear right | 2:24:59 | 2:25:02 | |
from the start, forecasts from you
make the long days with buy, but | 2:25:02 | 2:25:05 | |
will I get my washing dry? It went
on where you are across the country! | 2:25:05 | 2:25:12 | |
I don't know where Erika is. I will
get her to look at the map and | 2:25:12 | 2:25:17 | |
sorted out.
Thank you very much for that. | 2:25:17 | 2:25:21 | |
Steph is given a nod to Valentine's
Day as well, she is house-hunting in | 2:25:21 | 2:25:28 | |
Liverpool this morning, but take a
look at what she is wearing this | 2:25:28 | 2:25:31 | |
morning. Taking the love to lots of
homeowners. | 2:25:31 | 2:25:37 | |
There we are, happy Valentine's Day,
everyone. Matt is right about the | 2:25:37 | 2:25:41 | |
weather, it is freezing here, but I
am in a way victory in Liverpool, | 2:25:41 | 2:25:45 | |
you can see around me lots of
derelict homes. -- Wavertree in | 2:25:45 | 2:25:52 | |
Liverpool. There are around 6000
empty homes in the region, so what | 2:25:52 | 2:25:56 | |
they have been doing over the last
couple of years is selling them off | 2:25:56 | 2:26:00 | |
for £1. You can buy one of them for
£1 under the proviso that you live | 2:26:00 | 2:26:05 | |
or work in Liverpool, that you are a
first-time buyer and that you use | 2:26:05 | 2:26:10 | |
your own cash to do it up and then
you would sell it for five years. | 2:26:10 | 2:26:14 | |
This is one of the fabulous ones
which Mel has bought and dunnock. We | 2:26:14 | 2:26:17 | |
are going to have look around. Later
on we can have a chat with her, | 2:26:17 | 2:26:22 | |
because it is fascinating to see
what she has done to it and how this | 2:26:22 | 2:26:25 | |
project might help things. If you
have a little look around, you can | 2:26:25 | 2:26:31 | |
see how nice it is. That is rosy and
Lola, good morning, girls! We're | 2:26:31 | 2:26:38 | |
going to be talking about the guys
and chatting about the house, | 2:26:38 | 2:26:41 | |
because this project could help to
solve the housing shortage that we | 2:26:41 | 2:26:44 | |
have across the UK. More from the
bit later, but first, the news, | 2:26:44 | 2:26:47 | |
travel and weather where you are
this morning. | 2:26:47 | 2:26:50 | |
Don't forget to stay tuned to see
one of the world's best teachers, | 2:30:11 | 2:30:14 | |
who teaches from Wembley. | 2:30:14 | 2:30:15 | |
one of the world's best teachers,
who teaches from Wembley. | 2:30:15 | 2:30:20 | |
Welcome back. | 2:30:22 | 2:30:22 | |
Hello, this is Breakfast,
with Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty. | 2:30:22 | 2:30:25 | |
It felt weird, then, didn't it, no
music! I was going to sing along, | 2:30:25 | 2:30:32 | |
but I thought best not to! Good
morning! | 2:30:32 | 2:30:37 | |
A committee of MPs has said there is
a pervasive lack of trust among | 2:30:37 | 2:30:42 | |
disabled people when it comes to how
their welfare payments are made. | 2:30:42 | 2:30:47 | |
Private contractors were riddled
with errors, the report says. It | 2:30:47 | 2:30:50 | |
recommends that the Government takes
the contracts back in-house when the | 2:30:50 | 2:30:56 | |
contracts end. | 2:30:56 | 2:30:58 | |
The Foreign Secretary,
Boris Johnson, says he wants | 2:30:58 | 2:30:59 | |
to reassure those who feel angry
and alienated because | 2:30:59 | 2:31:02 | |
of the Brexit vote. | 2:31:02 | 2:31:03 | |
In a speech later today,
he will suggest that supporters | 2:31:03 | 2:31:05 | |
of Brexit try to persuade worried
Remain voters that leaving | 2:31:05 | 2:31:07 | |
the European Union is a cause
for "hope, not fear". | 2:31:07 | 2:31:10 | |
His is the first of a number
of Cabinet speeches | 2:31:10 | 2:31:12 | |
expected this week. | 2:31:12 | 2:31:15 | |
MPs have criticised the Home Office
for seriously underestimating | 2:31:15 | 2:31:17 | |
what they described as the "immense
bureaucratic challenge" | 2:31:17 | 2:31:20 | |
posed by Brexit. | 2:31:20 | 2:31:23 | |
In a report published today,
the House of Commons Home Affairs | 2:31:23 | 2:31:26 | |
Committee hits out at the Government
for long delays in publishing a | 2:31:26 | 2:31:29 | |
post-Brexit immigration white paper. | 2:31:29 | 2:31:30 | |
The Government has said it's
considering various options | 2:31:30 | 2:31:32 | |
and will set out its initial plans
"as and when they are ready". | 2:31:32 | 2:31:40 | |
The jury at the trial of the former
football coach Barry Bennell, who | 2:31:42 | 2:31:46 | |
has been found guilty of dozens of
sexual offences against boys, will | 2:31:46 | 2:31:51 | |
continue deliberations on other
charges today. Yesterday, the jury | 2:31:51 | 2:31:55 | |
at Liverpool Crown Court returned
guilty verdicts on 36 counts and | 2:31:55 | 2:31:59 | |
asked for more time to consider
seven more. Then all, who appeared | 2:31:59 | 2:32:05 | |
via video link because of illness,
declined to give evidence -- Barry | 2:32:05 | 2:32:11 | |
Bennell, who appeared via video
link. | 2:32:11 | 2:32:12 | |
Film star Minnie Driver has quit
as an Oxfam ambassador | 2:32:12 | 2:32:15 | |
following claims that staff working
for the charity in disaster | 2:32:15 | 2:32:17 | |
zones paid vulnerable
local people for sex. | 2:32:17 | 2:32:19 | |
The actress resigned after 20 years
with the aid agency, | 2:32:19 | 2:32:21 | |
saying in a statement
that she was "horrified" | 2:32:21 | 2:32:23 | |
by the allegations. | 2:32:23 | 2:32:24 | |
Oxfam said it was "grateful"
for Ms Driver's commitment, | 2:32:24 | 2:32:26 | |
and that it was more determined
than ever to learn | 2:32:26 | 2:32:29 | |
from its mistakes. | 2:32:29 | 2:32:31 | |
Thousands of eight and
nine-year-olds are to be formally | 2:32:31 | 2:32:34 | |
assessed on their times tables at
primary schools in England. The | 2:32:34 | 2:32:37 | |
tests will be trialled at nearly 300
schools this spring, before becoming | 2:32:37 | 2:32:43 | |
mandatory in 2020. Unions say they
won't tell teachers and parents | 2:32:43 | 2:32:46 | |
anything about children that they
don't already know. But ministers | 2:32:46 | 2:32:50 | |
are saying the tests will identify
those pupils who need a little extra | 2:32:50 | 2:32:54 | |
support. The actress Emma Watson has
spoken of her shock at realising | 2:32:54 | 2:32:58 | |
there is no system in place to help
people in | 2:32:58 | 2:33:07 | |
people in the film industry who have
been sexually harassed. She is one | 2:33:07 | 2:33:10 | |
of a number of women who have been
consulted by the British film | 2:33:10 | 2:33:12 | |
Institute and Bafta as it announces
changes aimed at tackling the | 2:33:12 | 2:33:14 | |
project. Now BFI funding will only
be given to films that tackle the | 2:33:14 | 2:33:17 | |
proposals. I feel that we've learnt
a lot this morning... I never knew | 2:33:17 | 2:33:21 | |
that her Missoup was Italian for
pick me up -- tiramisu. I never knew | 2:33:21 | 2:33:28 | |
that you didn't like coffee! I feel
that tiramisu can swing you around. | 2:33:28 | 2:33:34 | |
Only if it is the largest ever turn
Missoup. And here is what we've got! | 2:33:34 | 2:33:44 | |
30 pastry chefs in the town
of Villesse baked all day. | 2:33:44 | 2:33:47 | |
We don't know if all these people
who were watching got to sample it | 2:33:47 | 2:33:50 | |
when they'd finished! | 2:33:50 | 2:33:53 | |
But it certainly would have been a
great pick me up. Very impressive. | 2:33:53 | 2:33:57 | |
At the end of a wedding, that would
be great. I hope nothing was wasted. | 2:33:57 | 2:34:02 | |
That's always the good thing, give
it away and enjoy. The thought of | 2:34:02 | 2:34:06 | |
coffee has made me cross my arms!
You've become all defensive! | 2:34:06 | 2:34:13 | |
Still to come on Breakfast
this morning... | 2:34:13 | 2:34:14 | |
Her pupils say she looks after them
just like their mum, | 2:34:14 | 2:34:18 | |
her colleagues are in awe
of her energy and enthusiasm. | 2:34:18 | 2:34:22 | |
We'll meet Andria, who's
in the running to be named the best | 2:34:22 | 2:34:26 | |
teacher in the world. | 2:34:26 | 2:34:30 | |
We will be talking to her on the
sofa. | 2:34:30 | 2:34:33 | |
If you think black | 2:34:33 | 2:34:34 | |
is black, think again. | 2:34:34 | 2:34:35 | |
We're going to show you the blackest
substance on Earth. | 2:34:35 | 2:34:37 | |
It's been described as looking
like a window peering | 2:34:37 | 2:34:39 | |
into the depths of outer space. | 2:34:39 | 2:34:45 | |
And Dan has another comparison,
which is also very accurate! | 2:34:45 | 2:34:48 | |
From women who drill through frozen | 2:34:48 | 2:34:50 | |
seas to gather food to villagers
who scale sheer cliff faces | 2:34:50 | 2:34:52 | |
to get to church. | 2:34:52 | 2:34:53 | |
We take a look at the extreme
communities risking their lives | 2:34:53 | 2:34:56 | |
on a daily basis just to get by. | 2:34:56 | 2:35:02 | |
Following us at 9:15am is the winter
Olympics, live, loads of coverage, a | 2:35:02 | 2:35:07 | |
bit of curling today, we saw Elise
Christie yesterday. | 2:35:07 | 2:35:10 | |
Kat Downes is in Pyeongchang,
and can bring us up-to-date | 2:35:10 | 2:35:12 | |
on all the latest from the Winter
Olympics. | 2:35:12 | 2:35:14 | |
We can show you where she is, she's
somewhere down there. On the bottom | 2:35:14 | 2:35:18 | |
right of your screen, where the
funny cone shaped tent is, the | 2:35:18 | 2:35:21 | |
circus tent, there we go, that its
technical name, I'm sure! That is | 2:35:21 | 2:35:26 | |
where our very own cat bounce is
braving the cold. Slightly warmer, | 2:35:26 | 2:35:29 | |
no bobble hat today?! Know-how
needed today, Naga, it's positively | 2:35:29 | 2:35:36 | |
tropical compared to the last few
days -- no hat needed. You saw the | 2:35:36 | 2:35:41 | |
sliding centre on the hill away to
my right, the good news for Britain | 2:35:41 | 2:35:45 | |
is that that skeleton riders, Lizzie
Yarnold and Laura deeds have been | 2:35:45 | 2:35:52 | |
topping the practice rights. Their
competition kicks off on Friday. The | 2:35:52 | 2:35:57 | |
curling competition has been running
from the start, curling goes on | 2:35:57 | 2:36:00 | |
through all of these games, and
Great Britain's teams got their game | 2:36:00 | 2:36:04 | |
under way as well, and a winning
start for both. Let's look at how | 2:36:04 | 2:36:08 | |
the winning -- the women got on.
Even your head, they are the | 2:36:08 | 2:36:14 | |
reigning European champions. They
beat the Olympic athletes from | 2:36:14 | 2:36:21 | |
Russia 10-3. The teams shaking hands
after just seven ends. Eve Muirhead | 2:36:21 | 2:36:25 | |
and the girls, the Olympic bronze
medallists from last time around, | 2:36:25 | 2:36:31 | |
winning there. The men, they have a
really good start to their | 2:36:31 | 2:36:36 | |
competition, beating Switzerland,
who won bronze at the World | 2:36:36 | 2:36:39 | |
Championship, so, a big win for
them. They don't want to take on the | 2:36:39 | 2:36:45 | |
defending Olympic champions, Canada,
later on -- they go on to take on. | 2:36:45 | 2:36:49 | |
That will be live from 11:05am. A
big match for Great Britain's men. | 2:36:49 | 2:36:56 | |
Eve Muirhead's Brothers, Thomas and
Glenn, are in that. It is a family | 2:36:56 | 2:37:01 | |
affair out in the eyes. A gold medal
on the half pipe, and what a gold | 2:37:01 | 2:37:06 | |
medal it was. The legendary Shaun
White of the USA, he won the gold. | 2:37:06 | 2:37:12 | |
He came fourth in so cheap, so he
really have a point to prove. This | 2:37:12 | 2:37:15 | |
is his third Olympic title. He is
back on top once again, laying it | 2:37:15 | 2:37:22 | |
down and the last run to claim that
title. He had to go blast, he had to | 2:37:22 | 2:37:27 | |
beat the Japanese athlete, and he
did. So go. That means all four | 2:37:27 | 2:37:33 | |
snowboarding medals so far have gone
to the USA. It was heartbreak | 2:37:33 | 2:37:38 | |
yesterday for Elise Christie, who
did not win her gold medal. She did | 2:37:38 | 2:37:41 | |
get through to the final, there were
such high hopes for her, she is the | 2:37:41 | 2:37:45 | |
three-time world champion when it
comes to short track speed skating, | 2:37:45 | 2:37:48 | |
but she crashed out in that final,
eventually finishing fourth after | 2:37:48 | 2:37:53 | |
the South Korean athlete was
eliminated. But she was absolutely | 2:37:53 | 2:37:56 | |
heartbroken. She has her two best
events yet to come, but she was so | 2:37:56 | 2:38:00 | |
gutted with that crash. Let's you
what she had to say after that race. | 2:38:00 | 2:38:05 | |
You know, I've got a few days to be
set. It's still about a week until | 2:38:05 | 2:38:14 | |
my other events. So, that's a
positive. I don't know... No, I just | 2:38:14 | 2:38:19 | |
can't see living with this feeling,
you know's I mean, it's out of my | 2:38:19 | 2:38:24 | |
control, I got knocked over and
that's that. A really difficult | 2:38:24 | 2:38:31 | |
interview for Elise Christie after
that disappointment. That is just | 2:38:31 | 2:38:34 | |
the name of the game in the speed
skating, one false move from any of | 2:38:34 | 2:38:38 | |
the athletes and it's game over. It
is also because of the wind, it's | 2:38:38 | 2:38:43 | |
causing all kinds of havoc he in
South Korea. The ladies' slalom had | 2:38:43 | 2:38:47 | |
to be postponed until Friday. The
wind is howling across the course. | 2:38:47 | 2:38:51 | |
It means that Great Britain's Alex
Kelly and Charlie Guest will have to | 2:38:51 | 2:38:55 | |
wait a few days to get their Olympic
challenge underway. We have just | 2:38:55 | 2:38:59 | |
heard that the Olympic Park, down on
the coast where all the ice events | 2:38:59 | 2:39:03 | |
are taking place, including the
speed skating, curling and figure | 2:39:03 | 2:39:07 | |
skating, that had to be evacuated.
People who are in the venues can | 2:39:07 | 2:39:11 | |
stay and enjoy the sport, but anyone
hanging around outside has had to be | 2:39:11 | 2:39:15 | |
moved on because there were fridges
and drinks | 2:39:15 | 2:39:23 | |
and drinks cabinets blowing over,
the concessions stands for taking | 2:39:23 | 2:39:25 | |
off. The wind is something else.
Today, we're talking about the wind, | 2:39:25 | 2:39:27 | |
not the temperature is. Gosh, that
sounds amazing, sounds fantastic. | 2:39:27 | 2:39:29 | |
Even despite that wind, they've
still... I don't blame them for | 2:39:29 | 2:39:35 | |
taking a little break. Kat gave us a
little detail about the curling. | 2:39:35 | 2:39:40 | |
Curling has only been part
of the modern Winter Olympics | 2:39:40 | 2:39:42 | |
since 1998, but it is one
of Britain's most successful | 2:39:42 | 2:39:45 | |
sports. This year seems to be no
exception, with both the men | 2:39:45 | 2:39:48 | |
and women's teams off
to a fantastic start, | 2:39:48 | 2:39:50 | |
winning their first
games this morning. | 2:39:50 | 2:39:51 | |
If you don't know your stones
from your skip, here's | 2:39:51 | 2:39:53 | |
Ben Croucher with an explainer. | 2:39:53 | 2:39:55 | |
Curling. | 2:39:55 | 2:39:56 | |
Take lawn bowls, replace the grass
for ice, the bowls for stones, | 2:39:56 | 2:39:59 | |
and you've got yourself a winter
sport that grips Great Britain. | 2:39:59 | 2:40:01 | |
The aim is to get more
of your stones near | 2:40:01 | 2:40:04 | |
the middle of the target -
or house, as it's known. | 2:40:04 | 2:40:06 | |
Getting there is more
like the coldest game of chess. | 2:40:06 | 2:40:09 | |
Always thinking two
or three moves ahead. | 2:40:09 | 2:40:10 | |
Each team has four members. | 2:40:10 | 2:40:12 | |
They each deliver two
stones over ten ends. | 2:40:12 | 2:40:14 | |
Matches can last up to three hours. | 2:40:14 | 2:40:16 | |
And with the house nearly 2.5
cricket pitches away, | 2:40:16 | 2:40:20 | |
and the stones weighing 20 kilos,
curling tests brain, | 2:40:20 | 2:40:26 | |
brawn and lungs as well. | 2:40:26 | 2:40:30 | |
Yes! | 2:40:30 | 2:40:35 | |
Come on! | 2:40:35 | 2:40:36 | |
Sit, sit! | 2:40:36 | 2:40:41 | |
That is seriously, seriously heavy!
Have a go. Oh, yes! | 2:40:41 | 2:40:45 | |
We're joined by former curling
athlete Rhona Howie, | 2:40:45 | 2:40:47 | |
who was in the gold medal-winning
women's team at the Salt Lake City | 2:40:47 | 2:40:50 | |
Olympic Games in 2002. | 2:40:50 | 2:40:58 | |
It's fine here, I'm just holding it
up! These are really heavy! We would | 2:40:58 | 2:41:02 | |
us talking about Weatherstone is
from, I understand they are quarried | 2:41:02 | 2:41:06 | |
in two parts of the UK -- we were
just talking about where the stone | 2:41:06 | 2:41:10 | |
is from. The granite stones come
from the Ayrshire coast in Scotland. | 2:41:10 | 2:41:15 | |
You can also get them from Wales as
well. These are the ones that are | 2:41:15 | 2:41:19 | |
used. Spoken like a true Scotswoman!
There are two types of granite in | 2:41:19 | 2:41:26 | |
there, there is a blue granite in
the other stone, it makes it a good | 2:41:26 | 2:41:30 | |
curling stone. I just have one
question, do you have your own | 2:41:30 | 2:41:34 | |
personal one. No, EU never get the
excise luggage to carry that! You | 2:41:34 | 2:41:39 | |
don't have your own personal curling
stone Gazala no, the world curling | 2:41:39 | 2:41:44 | |
Federation produced all of the
Stones. I never knew that. It's not | 2:41:44 | 2:41:47 | |
quite a set of golf clubs! You can
talk golf, because the club is just | 2:41:47 | 2:41:54 | |
off the coast of Turnberry. We will
talk about 2002 and your memories of | 2:41:54 | 2:41:59 | |
that, that ignited the nation's love
of curling. What have you made of | 2:41:59 | 2:42:03 | |
the way that the two British teams
have started in Pyeongchang? The | 2:42:03 | 2:42:07 | |
start is so important, especially
for the men, they had a tough first | 2:42:07 | 2:42:11 | |
day against Canada, two of the
strongest nations. It was great for | 2:42:11 | 2:42:15 | |
the men to get off to a win against
that alone. And for | 2:42:15 | 2:42:25 | |
that alone. And for Eve's team, you
know, they've been playing the | 2:42:25 | 2:42:27 | |
Olympic athletes from Russia. That
was a game that they should have | 2:42:27 | 2:42:30 | |
won, but it was good, clinical, they
played very well. You know, they got | 2:42:30 | 2:42:32 | |
after the start they wanted. Even
your head has spoken about this, it | 2:42:32 | 2:42:35 | |
is her third Olympics, -- Eve
Muirhead. They were hurt by only | 2:42:35 | 2:42:38 | |
winning the bronze last time around.
They are regarded as one of the best | 2:42:38 | 2:42:41 | |
teams out there. It is a real
challenge to get it right on the big | 2:42:41 | 2:42:45 | |
occasion. Absolutely. It is two
separate competitions. They have | 2:42:45 | 2:42:50 | |
nine games to play to get that
semifinal stage and then it is a | 2:42:50 | 2:42:54 | |
different competition, it is medals
at stake. The first competition is | 2:42:54 | 2:42:57 | |
to qualify for the top four. It is
just one game at a time. They have | 2:42:57 | 2:43:02 | |
certainly started | 2:43:02 | 2:43:09 | |
certainly started really well, very
good curling. It is certainly a game | 2:43:09 | 2:43:11 | |
that captures the imagination.
Everyone is enjoying the shouts that | 2:43:11 | 2:43:13 | |
you hear and the commands that are
given. In the mix, there are some | 2:43:13 | 2:43:16 | |
couples which play together, and
this is allowed. Even when the | 2:43:16 | 2:43:21 | |
English-speaking teams are shouting,
I don't understand what they're | 2:43:21 | 2:43:23 | |
saying! Is there a code? No, well,
are different terminology is used, | 2:43:23 | 2:43:29 | |
whether they are too sweet, whether
it is for a line. So, yes, it is | 2:43:29 | 2:43:34 | |
probably just curling terminology --
whether to sweep. I have got the | 2:43:34 | 2:43:40 | |
brush here! Love curling is the
number one hashtag on social media | 2:43:40 | 2:43:44 | |
at the moment. People will be
getting into it today, and as the | 2:43:44 | 2:43:48 | |
competition progresses, the use of
the brush, what are you doing when | 2:43:48 | 2:43:52 | |
you are furiously doing that as it
goes down? You are helping the line | 2:43:52 | 2:43:56 | |
and weight of the stone. It has a
pebble with a watering can nozzle | 2:43:56 | 2:44:01 | |
type, these three bubbles on the
ice, wind was weeping, you wear them | 2:44:01 | 2:44:07 | |
away, so the stone will travel
further and can also hold the light. | 2:44:07 | 2:44:11 | |
If you are a sweeper or extra work,
what are you, a slider -- a throw | 2:44:11 | 2:44:18 | |
up. All four players throws two
stones each. I like being skipped, I | 2:44:18 | 2:44:24 | |
like the angles of the game, how
every game is different. I love the | 2:44:24 | 2:44:29 | |
technical, tactical side of the
game. One of the things I worried | 2:44:29 | 2:44:34 | |
about, the shoes. So, you have to be
quite nifty on your feet, because | 2:44:34 | 2:44:38 | |
you're not allowed to touch the
stone, are you? No, if you touch the | 2:44:38 | 2:44:44 | |
stone, it's removed. I was feeling
the brush, is the same material | 2:44:44 | 2:44:48 | |
basically as the sofa! But it's
cleaner, for a start! But how do the | 2:44:48 | 2:44:53 | |
shoes feel underneath, what kind of
grips that they have? If you are | 2:44:53 | 2:44:58 | |
right-handed, your left foot is the
Teflon, that's what you slide on. | 2:44:58 | 2:45:04 | |
Your right foot would be a grip. So,
your two shoes are very different. | 2:45:04 | 2:45:10 | |
Did you know that?! At the start,
you put yourself in a sort of clip | 2:45:10 | 2:45:14 | |
and you push yourself off before you
reach the stone. I've obsessively | 2:45:14 | 2:45:18 | |
watched hours of curling over the
years, I noticed that the shoes are | 2:45:18 | 2:45:22 | |
slightly different. We saw you back
in 2002, have you still been | 2:45:22 | 2:45:25 | |
together with the team from back
then, the gold medal winning team? | 2:45:25 | 2:45:30 | |
Oh, yes, we have reunions every so
often. We are spread all over the | 2:45:30 | 2:45:33 | |
country, but we do get together. Do
you curl when you get together? Oh, | 2:45:33 | 2:45:39 | |
no! We do social get-togethers. | 2:45:39 | 2:45:47 | |
no! We do social get-togethers. It's
been love having you on. Catch! Do | 2:45:47 | 2:45:49 | |
you think there are real gold-medal
chances for both? Absolutely, | 2:45:49 | 2:45:50 | |
definitely, no reason why not. It's
been so good talking to you, thank | 2:45:50 | 2:45:53 | |
you so much, Rhona. Thank you for
bringing in your bits and pieces as | 2:45:53 | 2:45:56 | |
well. Matt, see, what you always
wondered about curling, you now | 2:45:56 | 2:46:00 | |
know! | 2:46:00 | 2:46:04 | |
I love curling and always have done
since I grew up as a wee lad in | 2:46:04 | 2:46:08 | |
Glasgow. | 2:46:08 | 2:46:09 | |
since I grew up as a wee lad in
Glasgow. IS of course is involved | 2:46:09 | 2:46:12 | |
and there is my tenuous link for the
moment and there was a frosty start. | 2:46:12 | 2:46:20 | |
This was in East Sussex, but the
sum, the frosted not get going. For | 2:46:20 | 2:46:25 | |
others it is disappearing. The blues
are shrinking on the map | 2:46:25 | 2:46:30 | |
particularly towards the south and
west where thick cloud is pushing in | 2:46:30 | 2:46:33 | |
and if we split the country into
starting with the southern half of | 2:46:33 | 2:46:38 | |
the UK, sunny start across the East
before clouding over but cloud in | 2:46:38 | 2:46:42 | |
the West will bring occasional rain
and some hill snow, and a covering | 2:46:42 | 2:46:46 | |
of snow across the Cumbrian fells
and the Peak District. Some heavy | 2:46:46 | 2:46:50 | |
bursts of rain are gathering towards
western coast later and the south | 2:46:50 | 2:46:54 | |
and east will stay dry, but a windy
day. Some of the stronger winds are | 2:46:54 | 2:46:59 | |
across western Scotland at around 60
or 70 mph. Northern Ireland sees | 2:46:59 | 2:47:03 | |
rain then brighter skies in the
afternoon but a cloudy day in | 2:47:03 | 2:47:07 | |
Scotland after a bright start with
significant snow across the | 2:47:07 | 2:47:11 | |
Grampians and the Southern uplands.
It will turn back to rain later long | 2:47:11 | 2:47:15 | |
-- later on as rain works its way
in. Chile across the eastern areas, | 2:47:15 | 2:47:22 | |
especially where the snow is falling
over the hills later. The smell of | 2:47:22 | 2:47:27 | |
wet weather overnight for England
and Wales -- there is a spell of wet | 2:47:27 | 2:47:31 | |
weather overnight for England and
Wales and it will disappear. Then | 2:47:31 | 2:47:35 | |
starry skies taking this into
Thursday and a small chance of | 2:47:35 | 2:47:40 | |
frost, but more sleet and snow
showers into Northern Ireland and | 2:47:40 | 2:47:43 | |
western Scotland. You can follow
Dier back going into the north of | 2:47:43 | 2:47:49 | |
the Atlantic. Not quite as cold as
how we started with, and in southern | 2:47:49 | 2:47:56 | |
and eastern areas not bad at all.
Morning rain in the far east of | 2:47:56 | 2:47:59 | |
England. Showers in the West, sleet
and snow in parts of Scotland and | 2:47:59 | 2:48:07 | |
Northern Ireland to give a coating
in places. A frosty start on Friday | 2:48:07 | 2:48:11 | |
are lots of sun for England and
Wales and northern Scotland not | 2:48:11 | 2:48:15 | |
faring badly but the cloud will
increase and there are outbreaks of | 2:48:15 | 2:48:20 | |
rain foremost and again over the
higher ground we will see snow but | 2:48:20 | 2:48:23 | |
temperatures lifting through the day
thanks to south-westerly winds. That | 2:48:23 | 2:48:27 | |
is how the rest of the week looks.
My ode to Valentine's Day will give | 2:48:27 | 2:48:32 | |
you a quick summary of what will
come. | 2:48:32 | 2:48:35 | |
Happy Valentine's Day. I will see
you tomorrow. | 2:48:39 | 2:48:42 | |
You remember your favourite teacher
at school. Yes, Mrs King, Primary | 2:48:44 | 2:48:50 | |
three, straightaway. That is where
you know you really deep like | 2:48:50 | 2:48:55 | |
someone -- really did like someone.
Mrs Towers was great. Why? She was | 2:48:55 | 2:49:02 | |
kind and she liked to play in the
Wendy house. That was primary | 2:49:02 | 2:49:06 | |
school, by the way. We are talking
about this for a reason. | 2:49:06 | 2:49:14 | |
Many of us remember with fondness
our favourite teacher and the impact | 2:49:14 | 2:49:17 | |
they had on our school lives.
| 2:49:17 | 2:49:18 | |
Teachers just like our next guest, | 2:49:18 | 2:49:19 | |
Andrea Zafirakou, in fact. | 2:49:19 | 2:49:23 | |
Did I said that right? She has -- | 2:49:23 | 2:49:29 | |
She's been named as a top ten
finalist in an annual search to find | 2:49:29 | 2:49:32 | |
the world's best teacher.
| 2:49:32 | 2:49:33 | |
As we're going to hear | 2:49:33 | 2:49:34 | |
she's an inspiration,
not just to her pupils, | 2:49:34 | 2:49:36 | |
but also her colleagues
at her school in the deprived | 2:49:36 | 2:49:39 | |
London borough of Brent. | 2:49:39 | 2:49:41 | |
first of all, take a look at this. I
found out in primary school I had | 2:49:41 | 2:49:50 | |
special needs, speech problems and
she said, look at your work, that is | 2:49:50 | 2:49:55 | |
your work. Do what you love. She is
like a hero to me. She really is. | 2:49:55 | 2:50:02 | |
She will push you to your full
potential, no matter what. She wants | 2:50:02 | 2:50:06 | |
everybody to achieve the best they
can. She said any individual can | 2:50:06 | 2:50:12 | |
achieve the best, and you believe
her and you think you can do it. It | 2:50:12 | 2:50:15 | |
must be nice. I love watching that.
It's fantastic. You are on a short | 2:50:15 | 2:50:22 | |
list of ten, and to give you an
idea, this is a 70 countries, over | 2:50:22 | 2:50:30 | |
30,000 entered, and you are
officially one of the ten best | 2:50:30 | 2:50:33 | |
teachers in the world. I find it
hard to hear it over and over again, | 2:50:33 | 2:50:37 | |
but that is right and there are ten
of us and we are celebrating. It is | 2:50:37 | 2:50:42 | |
amazing. Tell us about the school
you work-out. This is one of the | 2:50:42 | 2:50:49 | |
reasons you have been nominated. To
say it is challenging for a teacher | 2:50:49 | 2:50:52 | |
there, many would say it is an
understatement. I work at a school | 2:50:52 | 2:50:58 | |
in Brent, and we have our
challenges, and the main challenges | 2:50:58 | 2:51:01 | |
we experience is the deprivation we
have around the school, and that is | 2:51:01 | 2:51:07 | |
the key thing. But we overcome that
with the things we put in place. I | 2:51:07 | 2:51:11 | |
don't want to be negative about this
but I want people to understand what | 2:51:11 | 2:51:15 | |
you do every day, not just in the
classroom but outside. In this area | 2:51:15 | 2:51:20 | |
there are concerns that many
children could be attracted or | 2:51:20 | 2:51:22 | |
bullied into gangs. There are
language issues as well which you | 2:51:22 | 2:51:28 | |
and the headteacher have tackled in
terms of learning languages. Tell us | 2:51:28 | 2:51:31 | |
why. I feel it is so important to
ensure that when students come to | 2:51:31 | 2:51:36 | |
the school and their families that
they feel comfortable and welcomed | 2:51:36 | 2:51:40 | |
and when you have a community, and
we have 35 different languages in | 2:51:40 | 2:51:45 | |
the school, it is beautifully
diverse and they are able to feel | 2:51:45 | 2:51:48 | |
connected unable to feel like they
want to be there and it is a safe | 2:51:48 | 2:51:54 | |
place for them, and whatever happens
outside the school gates, don't | 2:51:54 | 2:51:57 | |
worry about that. We have got you in
school and we will look after you | 2:51:57 | 2:52:01 | |
and help you succeed and that is
what we do in the school. You must | 2:52:01 | 2:52:07 | |
have an incredibly positive attitude
though. When you speak to teachers, | 2:52:07 | 2:52:11 | |
and it's something we cover a lot on
the programme, the system does not | 2:52:11 | 2:52:15 | |
seem to be working as well as it
could do. There is an issue with | 2:52:15 | 2:52:19 | |
funding in various parts of the
education system as well. How do you | 2:52:19 | 2:52:24 | |
accept that, get on with that, but
try and bring fun into the classroom | 2:52:24 | 2:52:29 | |
and involvement, and bring your
enthusiasm to the children sitting | 2:52:29 | 2:52:31 | |
in front of you every day? At the
end of the day it's all about our | 2:52:31 | 2:52:36 | |
children, and every school teacher
will say that. We don't worry about | 2:52:36 | 2:52:39 | |
what is happening, it is how we can
support the kids. Teachers know what | 2:52:39 | 2:52:44 | |
is best for their students and at
the end of the day, it doesn't | 2:52:44 | 2:52:49 | |
matter, policies will come and go.
Our role is to make sure that every | 2:52:49 | 2:52:53 | |
child has a great experience. We
were talking about maths GCSE today, | 2:52:53 | 2:52:59 | |
and times tables, in fact. My
daughter is going through it. Lots | 2:52:59 | 2:53:04 | |
of people will connect with you
about this. What do you make of the | 2:53:04 | 2:53:08 | |
whole testing or assessing eight and
nine-year-olds on times tables? It's | 2:53:08 | 2:53:14 | |
really interesting. I would like to
say, what do the students think? | 2:53:14 | 2:53:19 | |
What do the teachers think? Nobody
likes more testing, do they? They | 2:53:19 | 2:53:24 | |
don't, but I like to think somebody
is looking at the children and their | 2:53:24 | 2:53:26 | |
mental health and making sure they
are ready and prepared. There are | 2:53:26 | 2:53:30 | |
lots of people who are working
together with schools to make sure | 2:53:30 | 2:53:34 | |
they come up with the best outcome.
It is a really difficult one. I see | 2:53:34 | 2:53:40 | |
my daughter at home and she says,
ma'am, can you test me and she asked | 2:53:40 | 2:53:44 | |
these questions and on the other
hand I think, is she OK? Is | 2:53:44 | 2:53:50 | |
everything OK with her? It's a
difficult one. Did you have somebody | 2:53:50 | 2:53:54 | |
who inspired you at school? Did you
want to be like them? I wouldn't say | 2:53:54 | 2:53:58 | |
I want to be like him because he was
fantastically bonkers, it was my | 2:53:58 | 2:54:02 | |
music teacher, and what I love about
him and this was Saint Marylebone's | 2:54:02 | 2:54:07 | |
School for girls, I loved his
passion and energy. He loved his | 2:54:07 | 2:54:12 | |
subject and he was a music teacher
and you did not know what you were | 2:54:12 | 2:54:15 | |
getting yourself into the moment you
crossed the door. Every time I left | 2:54:15 | 2:54:19 | |
the classroom I was like, wow, did I
go through that? He was a phenomenal | 2:54:19 | 2:54:26 | |
teacher and hopefully still is and
he is a person who inspired me but | 2:54:26 | 2:54:30 | |
I'm not a music teacher, I am an art
teacher, so it has been different | 2:54:30 | 2:54:33 | |
how my journey has gone. You are
changing children's lives, that is | 2:54:33 | 2:54:38 | |
what you are doing. We are.
Congratulations. It's not that, it's | 2:54:38 | 2:54:43 | |
down to lots of people, and Sheikh
Mohammed, who sponsors the award. | 2:54:43 | 2:54:51 | |
They get it, they understand the
importance of teachers and we | 2:54:51 | 2:54:55 | |
deserve the platform and we do an
amazing job. I am so honoured that I | 2:54:55 | 2:54:59 | |
am celebrating this on behalf of
teachers in the UK, across the | 2:54:59 | 2:55:04 | |
world, and I'm just so proud and
privileged. It will be amazing. Do | 2:55:04 | 2:55:09 | |
come back and letters know what
happens. I will. When you will -- | 2:55:09 | 2:55:16 | |
win. I know it's not about the
money, but there is £1 million for | 2:55:16 | 2:55:19 | |
the winner. Yes, we are honoured. I
have my lovely boy who is on it and | 2:55:19 | 2:55:28 | |
thinking about projects and we have
got it in hand. This is great for | 2:55:28 | 2:55:31 | |
the school if we can get it, but we
will see what happens. Great to be | 2:55:31 | 2:55:37 | |
recognised. Andria, thank you so
much. | 2:55:37 | 2:55:38 | |
The winner of The Global Teacher
Prize will be announced next month. | 2:55:38 | 2:55:41 | |
We will come back and revisit that.
We are talking about building new | 2:55:41 | 2:55:46 | |
homes. | 2:55:46 | 2:55:51 | |
Despite the Government's promise
to build a million new homes | 2:55:52 | 2:55:54 | |
by 2020, there are still more
than 200,000 properties across | 2:55:54 | 2:55:57 | |
England and Wales lying empty. | 2:55:57 | 2:55:58 | |
So, in Liverpool they're
trying an unusual approach | 2:55:58 | 2:56:00 | |
to tackling the housing crisis. | 2:56:00 | 2:56:02 | |
They are selling homes for £1 and
there is a new Channel 4 documentary | 2:56:02 | 2:56:06 | |
which has followed families on their
journey to find a dream home. Rob | 2:56:06 | 2:56:12 | |
works shifts as a forklift truck
driver while Melanie stays at home | 2:56:12 | 2:56:16 | |
with children. You are pretty heavy.
But home for almost two years has | 2:56:16 | 2:56:21 | |
been with Melanie's parents, and
their two young daughters and | 2:56:21 | 2:56:24 | |
teenage son have two bedroom. --
have two share a bedroom. Living | 2:56:24 | 2:56:30 | |
with parents have meant they have
been able to save up around £25,000. | 2:56:30 | 2:56:35 | |
They are spending it all to move
their family here. Don't touch it. | 2:56:35 | 2:56:43 | |
Someone has just thrown a match on
it. How is anybody going to even | 2:56:43 | 2:56:48 | |
move that now? Just a few months
later the home is fully renovated | 2:56:48 | 2:56:53 | |
and that is where Steph is. Can you
hear us? I can. Sorry, I was just | 2:56:53 | 2:57:03 | |
adopting -- adapting to the snow
that has come in this morning. It is | 2:57:03 | 2:57:07 | |
freezing. Let me get you inside the
house because you met Mel and Rob, | 2:57:07 | 2:57:11 | |
but we are in the street on which
they live and one of the vans has | 2:57:11 | 2:57:15 | |
turned up here and they will start
renovating one of the other houses | 2:57:15 | 2:57:18 | |
because there are something like a
houses here which shot up for sale | 2:57:18 | 2:57:22 | |
for a pound and a lot of them have
been sold. Around 100 families have | 2:57:22 | 2:57:27 | |
started on the process of renovating
them and you saw Mel's house in that | 2:57:27 | 2:57:32 | |
clip, so let's have a nose inside.
Her and Rob have done a cracking | 2:57:32 | 2:57:36 | |
job. Seven months and they have
transformed this into a wonderful | 2:57:36 | 2:57:41 | |
home. We can also meet some of the
neighbours here this morning. We | 2:57:41 | 2:57:46 | |
have Victoria here. And Rosie is
here as well, Mel's daughter. Good | 2:57:46 | 2:57:50 | |
morning to all of you. We just saw a
clip of you on the programme from | 2:57:50 | 2:57:54 | |
when you first got the house. Tell
us what it was like? The house was | 2:57:54 | 2:57:59 | |
an empty shell and you could look up
and see the sky through the roof, | 2:57:59 | 2:58:02 | |
there was a big hole, it was damp,
there was no gas, central heating or | 2:58:02 | 2:58:07 | |
electrics, it was pretty awful. It
is the similar for you as well? Yes, | 2:58:07 | 2:58:13 | |
the back of the house didn't have a
roof, random holes in the ceilings, | 2:58:13 | 2:58:20 | |
and weird cuddly toys and dolls
which were a bit creepy. Similar. No | 2:58:20 | 2:58:26 | |
utilities or anything, so it really
was just a shell. And for you as | 2:58:26 | 2:58:33 | |
well? What was it like? Pretty much
a derelict property. There was | 2:58:33 | 2:58:37 | |
nothing, holes in the ceiling and
just nothing there am I like a | 2:58:37 | 2:58:41 | |
shell. Now you have all managed to
transform it or you are part way | 2:58:41 | 2:58:47 | |
through the process. Tell us what it
has been like for you because it has | 2:58:47 | 2:58:51 | |
been seven months of work. It's been
really hard. I had to do a lot | 2:58:51 | 2:58:56 | |
myself because we did not have a
massive budget to get someone in to | 2:58:56 | 2:59:00 | |
do everything so it has been
challenging and hard. | 2:59:00 | 2:59:09 | |
challenging and hard. You have to
get somebody in to do everything, so | 2:59:09 | 2:59:12 | |
it has been challenging. You have
two really see beyond the houses | 2:59:12 | 2:59:20 | |
because we are living here now --
you have to do. There is work going | 2:59:20 | 2:59:27 | |
on but you do your part as well
because in the night-time it doesn't | 2:59:27 | 2:59:35 | |
feel great, but I think we see the
bigger picture of eventually these | 2:59:35 | 2:59:39 | |
streets will be just as sought-after
as the other streets further down. | 2:59:39 | 2:59:43 | |
Is this the only way you could
afford to get a house? Pretty much. | 2:59:43 | 2:59:48 | |
It's the only way to get on the
property ladder is to take a massive | 2:59:48 | 2:59:53 | |
mortgage, or if we won the lottery,
but other than that we could not get | 2:59:53 | 2:59:58 | |
a four-bedroom house like we have
now. Good luck with it, and it's | 2:59:58 | 3:00:02 | |
great to see the neighbours already
chatting to each other and all | 3:00:02 | 3:00:05 | |
hanging out. You are on this
programme is a night on Channel 4. | 3:00:05 | 3:00:09 | |
What was it like being filmed for a
documentary? It was a strange | 3:00:09 | 3:00:13 | |
process because we were doing the
house up so we had all that trauma | 3:00:13 | 3:00:21 | |
and anything that happened, like
when you drop something or you spilt | 3:00:21 | 3:00:25 | |
paint, it wasn't forgotten and no
one would see it. A camera in your | 3:00:25 | 3:00:29 | |
face. Welcome to my world. Thank you
so much chatting to me and good luck | 3:00:29 | 3:00:34 | |
with it all, and that programme is
on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm. | 3:00:34 | 3:00:43 | |
Britain's Cheapest Street. Steph,
thank you very much and stay there | 3:00:43 | 3:00:46 | |
if it is starting to snow. Enjoy the
last croissant. | 3:00:46 | 3:00:54 | |
Rosie has got her eye on that again!
We had a few technical difficulties | 3:00:54 | 3:01:01 | |
there, you might have spotted that
the screen went black. Do not adjust | 3:01:01 | 3:01:05 | |
your telly when you see this, we are
shunning do it | 3:01:05 | 3:01:08 | |
with good reason. That is very
black, we can show you just how | 3:01:08 | 3:01:13 | |
black it is. Do you want to explain
how black it is? This has actually | 3:01:13 | 3:01:18 | |
been designed by a British
scientist, it is the new black, if | 3:01:18 | 3:01:22 | |
you like, the only thing that is
black and this is meant to be a | 3:01:22 | 3:01:26 | |
black hole. It absorbs over 99% of
light. Lawsuit is very black, but it | 3:01:26 | 3:01:37 | |
looks great next to this. If I turn
this to the side, it is a crinkly... | 3:01:37 | 3:01:44 | |
It is black painted onto a crinkly
piece of foil. You would think that | 3:01:44 | 3:01:48 | |
when you saw it slept on, you'd
think you with the all of the Queen | 3:01:48 | 3:01:53 | |
course. You can't see a thing,
because it absorbs that much like. | 3:01:53 | 3:01:58 | |
It is more expensive than gold and
it has been used in one of the | 3:01:58 | 3:02:02 | |
buildings at Pyeongchang at the
Winter Olympics. It has been | 3:02:02 | 3:02:06 | |
designed by a British scientist.
Graham Satchell has been | 3:02:06 | 3:02:09 | |
investigating more about the
blackest of the black. | 3:02:09 | 3:02:11 | |
It's the blackest building on earth. | 3:02:13 | 3:02:20 | |
This pavilion outside
the Olympic Stadium | 3:02:20 | 3:02:24 | |
in South Korea is coated
with a material called VBX2. | 3:02:24 | 3:02:27 | |
It absorbs 98% of the light. | 3:02:27 | 3:02:33 | |
I wanted people to be literally
awestruck and starstruck by this | 3:02:33 | 3:02:35 | |
building, and to see it and stop
in their tracks. | 3:02:35 | 3:02:41 | |
The pavilion is the brainchild
of British architect Asif Khan. | 3:02:41 | 3:02:46 | |
You feel drawn into it, you want
to plummet into its blackness. | 3:02:46 | 3:02:51 | |
Asif has peppered the building with
small lights to look like stars. | 3:02:51 | 3:02:58 | |
As you walk around the building,
you get the effect of parallax, | 3:02:58 | 3:03:00 | |
so it appears the stars are moving
against each other, | 3:03:00 | 3:03:05 | |
as though you were diving
through the universe. | 3:03:05 | 3:03:12 | |
This laboratory in southern
England is where VBX2 | 3:03:12 | 3:03:15 | |
and Vantablack were created. | 3:03:15 | 3:03:23 | |
It might look like paint,
but Vantablack is made billions | 3:03:27 | 3:03:29 | |
of microscopic carbon nano tubes. | 3:03:29 | 3:03:31 | |
It absorbs 99.965% of light. | 3:03:31 | 3:03:34 | |
The only thing darker
would be a black hole. | 3:03:34 | 3:03:41 | |
The only thing darker
in the universe is a black hole. | 3:03:41 | 3:03:44 | |
Is a black hole that we know
of that this time. | 3:03:44 | 3:03:47 | |
It's so black, it changes
the dimensionality of an object. | 3:03:47 | 3:03:49 | |
It makes things look flat. | 3:03:49 | 3:03:52 | |
You're seeing the lack of photons
being reflected back to your eyes, | 3:03:52 | 3:03:56 | |
and so your eyes are no longer able
to make sense of what you're seeing | 3:03:56 | 3:04:01 | |
so therefore you see it as a void,
or a very black area that you can't | 3:04:01 | 3:04:05 | |
make shape or sense from. | 3:04:05 | 3:04:08 | |
Looking at black nothingness
like this is a rather | 3:04:08 | 3:04:12 | |
odd sort of experience. | 3:04:12 | 3:04:14 | |
It is slightly vertiginous,
like you're standing on the edge | 3:04:14 | 3:04:16 | |
of an abyss looking into a void. | 3:04:16 | 3:04:21 | |
It's exciting and unsettling
at the same time. | 3:04:21 | 3:04:28 | |
Vantablack is used in space
exploration, in cameras | 3:04:30 | 3:04:33 | |
and telescopes to reduce the amount
of flair from the sun. | 3:04:33 | 3:04:37 | |
It gives astronomers a clear view
of distant stars and planets | 3:04:37 | 3:04:40 | |
but using this nanotechnology has
only just started. | 3:04:40 | 3:04:45 | |
The possibilities of
designing materials are, | 3:04:45 | 3:04:47 | |
kind of, quite limitless. | 3:04:47 | 3:04:50 | |
I imagine coating materials
with nano materials, | 3:04:50 | 3:04:54 | |
imagine vehicles that slip
in and out of visibility, | 3:04:54 | 3:04:58 | |
that's the sort of world that
we're talking about here. | 3:04:58 | 3:05:01 | |
So a stunning building
using technology that has | 3:05:03 | 3:05:05 | |
the potential to revolutionise
photography, space exploration, | 3:05:05 | 3:05:07 | |
architecture, design. | 3:05:07 | 3:05:10 | |
Graham Satchell, BBC News. | 3:05:10 | 3:05:13 | |
I found that fascinating. I think
your analogy this morning of how | 3:05:20 | 3:05:24 | |
black that feels when you look at it
was brilliant. What is a? You said | 3:05:24 | 3:05:29 | |
that when you get up at night to go
to the loo and you turn the light on | 3:05:29 | 3:05:33 | |
because it's really bright, do your
business and turn it off and it's | 3:05:33 | 3:05:36 | |
really dark. Until you're attuned to
read. That's how black that feels -- | 3:05:36 | 3:05:43 | |
when you attuned to it. It's one of
those moments where is likely forgot | 3:05:43 | 3:05:47 | |
I was on television, announcing to
the nation! | 3:05:47 | 3:05:49 | |
Let's get a last, brief
look at the headlines | 3:05:49 | 3:07:24 | |
Have a good morning. | 3:07:24 | 3:07:31 | |
Welcome back. | 3:07:32 | 3:07:33 | |
Tropical forests, spectacular
islands, soaring mountain ranges | 3:07:33 | 3:07:35 | |
and frozen polar worlds are explored
in Earth's Natural Wonders, which | 3:07:35 | 3:07:37 | |
returns to our screens tonight. | 3:07:37 | 3:07:41 | |
I'm in! It sounds good! Yes, with
there! -- we are there. | 3:07:41 | 3:07:47 | |
It tells the stories of some
of our planet's most spectacular | 3:07:47 | 3:07:50 | |
places and how they've shaped
the lives of those who live there. | 3:07:50 | 3:07:53 | |
The first of three episodes
is called Surviving the Extreme, | 3:07:53 | 3:07:55 | |
where we meet 63-year-old Minnie
and her granddaughter Eva, | 3:07:55 | 3:07:57 | |
on one of the most hazardous
expeditions for food - | 3:07:57 | 3:08:00 | |
the mussel harvest. | 3:08:00 | 3:08:01 | |
Here's a clip. | 3:08:01 | 3:08:02 | |
Joining us now is executive producer
Jane Aldous and series | 3:08:02 | 3:08:04 | |
producer Russell Leven. | 3:08:04 | 3:08:05 | |
Let's have a look at some fantastic
pictures. | 3:08:05 | 3:08:11 | |
There are few places on earth where
you can walk under the sea like | 3:08:16 | 3:08:19 | |
this. But this is a perilous place
to be. | 3:08:19 | 3:08:27 | |
The ice above them is no longer
supported by sea water. And is | 3:08:36 | 3:08:42 | |
extremely unstable. The risk of it
collapsing at any moment is high. | 3:08:42 | 3:08:50 | |
STUDIO: That gives you an idea of
the programme. Jane and Russell are | 3:08:50 | 3:08:55 | |
here with us. Welcome to the
Breakfast is over. Russell, you went | 3:08:55 | 3:08:59 | |
down through that is. You are
cracking through two or three metres | 3:08:59 | 3:09:03 | |
of is, how dangerous is it to be
down that? It is tied to extreme | 3:09:03 | 3:09:09 | |
tides. The ladies go down to collect
mussels. And at certain points of | 3:09:09 | 3:09:13 | |
the year, the tide drains in an
extreme way, leaving the sea bed | 3:09:13 | 3:09:20 | |
completely, you know, water free.
The ladies smashed through about 2-3 | 3:09:20 | 3:09:23 | |
metres of is, they had under and
they have a very short window with | 3:09:23 | 3:09:29 | |
which to gather as many muscles as
they can. Why a short window? The | 3:09:29 | 3:09:34 | |
tide comes back in and three floods
the Chambers. The gap is normally | 3:09:34 | 3:09:39 | |
full of water, and the tide returns,
and it drains for about 45 minutes, | 3:09:39 | 3:09:45 | |
giving the ladies this window to
collect the muscles. They've done it | 3:09:45 | 3:09:50 | |
for years, something which has
happened for centuries. An age-old | 3:09:50 | 3:09:55 | |
process, practised by the Inuit
women of the community. Do they know | 3:09:55 | 3:09:59 | |
exactly where the mussels are, or is
it potluck, or through experience, | 3:09:59 | 3:10:04 | |
this is in a certain area that they
breed? Through experience and having | 3:10:04 | 3:10:08 | |
done it for many hundreds of years,
they have a fairly clear idea of | 3:10:08 | 3:10:13 | |
roughly where the mussels are,
obviously they move with the types | 3:10:13 | 3:10:17 | |
to a degree. There is an element of
potluck. Once they find them, there | 3:10:17 | 3:10:22 | |
are a load of mussels dambuster
quake Jane, you wouldn't put | 3:10:22 | 3:10:25 | |
yourself in that situation unless
you had to. This series is looking | 3:10:25 | 3:10:31 | |
at reasons for the Bible, methods of
survival here. You go through some | 3:10:31 | 3:10:37 | |
extraordinary landscapes. What was
the highlight -- reasons for | 3:10:37 | 3:10:39 | |
survival. I love that story. We were
keen in the second series to do | 3:10:39 | 3:10:46 | |
stories where women were doing
things, it wasn't all about men | 3:10:46 | 3:10:49 | |
doing all the hard work. That is an
amazing story, a hunter gatherer | 3:10:49 | 3:10:53 | |
story. Men hunt, women gather, that
is something that women do. We have | 3:10:53 | 3:10:59 | |
pictures of some people going to
church in Ethiopia. You might think | 3:10:59 | 3:11:03 | |
going to church is a normal activity
which you might just walk down what | 3:11:03 | 3:11:07 | |
drive, but you talk about women,
this is people | 3:11:07 | 3:11:19 | |
this is people with babies on their
back climbing up sheer cliffs to get | 3:11:19 | 3:11:21 | |
there. It is still linked as
arrival. These people believe that | 3:11:21 | 3:11:23 | |
if they don't get their children
baptised they won't have a good | 3:11:23 | 3:11:26 | |
start in life. One in five children
die in that area before their fifth | 3:11:26 | 3:11:28 | |
birthday. The women have to climb
with their babies, if it's a boy, 40 | 3:11:28 | 3:11:31 | |
days after they've given birth. If
it's a girl, 80 days after they've | 3:11:31 | 3:11:34 | |
given birth. Some remarkable filming
techniques as well. When you see | 3:11:34 | 3:11:38 | |
this, it looks as if the person
there is talking directly to the | 3:11:38 | 3:11:41 | |
viewer. Can you explain what was
happening that? We were very keen | 3:11:41 | 3:11:45 | |
that when we told these stories,
although people's rise seemed very | 3:11:45 | 3:11:50 | |
different to ours, | 3:11:50 | 3:11:55 | |
different to ours, most people
wanted exactly the same thing. You | 3:11:58 | 3:12:00 | |
want to get your child into the best
school you can locally, these people | 3:12:00 | 3:12:02 | |
are doing the best they can to give
their kids the best start in life. | 3:12:02 | 3:12:05 | |
We wanted to feel connected to them.
This idea of filming with them | 3:12:05 | 3:12:09 | |
talking straight into the lens,
looking at the camera, gives you a | 3:12:09 | 3:12:10 | |
greater connection to them. Can we
talk about some yaks, please?! You | 3:12:10 | 3:12:14 | |
take a very simple, it seems like a
simple job, a yak herder. This is | 3:12:14 | 3:12:19 | |
not a simple case of talking --
crossing from field to field. The | 3:12:19 | 3:12:25 | |
whole series being about the simple
things we take for granted, but the | 3:12:25 | 3:12:31 | |
extraordinary lengths that people in
these places have to go to do these | 3:12:31 | 3:12:35 | |
simple things. The yak herding is a
great in point. To all intents and | 3:12:35 | 3:12:42 | |
purposes, it's kind of sheepdog
herding, its herding animals. The | 3:12:42 | 3:12:45 | |
difference being they are 15,000
feet up in the Himalayan mountains | 3:12:45 | 3:12:49 | |
and herding their yaks, around 200
animals, down 2000 feet in five days | 3:12:49 | 3:12:58 | |
to get down to summer pastures. It
involves some incredible passes, | 3:12:58 | 3:13:01 | |
some really steep drops they have to
move through. It is staggering | 3:13:01 | 3:13:07 | |
television. As a family, I didn't
make my kids, but we love watching | 3:13:07 | 3:13:12 | |
blue planet, it is amazing TV. Jane
and Russell, thank you so much for | 3:13:12 | 3:13:16 | |
coming in. | 3:13:16 | 3:13:16 | |
And Earth's Natural Wonders
is on tonight on BBC One at 9pm. | 3:13:16 | 3:13:19 | |
That's it from us today. | 3:13:19 | 3:13:20 | |
I'll be back with Charlie
tomorrow from 6am. | 3:13:20 | 3:13:22 | |
Next on BBC One, Clare Balding's
here with the Winter Olympics, | 3:13:22 | 3:13:25 | |
including Britain's Amanda Lightfoot
in the women's Biathlon, | 3:13:25 | 3:13:27 | |
and the final of the women's
10,000-metre speed-skating. | 3:13:27 | 3:13:29 | |
Bye for now. | 3:13:29 | 3:13:32 |