16/02/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

The suspect in America's latest high

school shooting appears

in court charged with

17 counts of murder.

19-year-old Nikolas Cruz

is accused of carrying

out his killing spree

at a campus in Florida.

Police say that just moments

after his attack the teenager ate

at a McDonald's and Subway

before being arrested.

Tributes have been paid

to his victims as vigils are held

in the town of Parkland

late into the night.

Good morning, it's Friday

the 16th of February.

Also this morning:

The aid

worker at the centre of the Oxfam

scandal speaks publically

for the first time as he denies

using prostitutes in Haiti.

And in sport, it's bronze

for Dom Parsons in the skeleton

as he wins Britian's first medal

of the Winter Olympics.

Young people have just one in four

chance of gettign on the property

ladder according new research.

It's blamed on rising

prices and a shortgage

of new homes being built.

And Breakfast goes back to school.

We're beginning a new series looking

at the UK's maths problem,

some of our very best brains will be

put through their GCSE paces.

And Matt has the weather.

Good morning from Blenheim Palace,

where I'll be all morning. Gorgeous,

stunning surroundings on what will

be a nice gorgeous winter's day for

many. A a frosty start but your full

Friday and we can forecast in the

next 15 minutes. See you then.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

The 19-year-old accused of carrying

out a school shooting in Florida,

which left 17 people dead,

has appeared in court charged

with premeditated murder.

Nikolas Cruz went on a killing

spree in the town

of Parkland on Wednesday.

The FBI is now investigating how it

handled a warning that the teenager

reportedly posted on YouTube

claiming he would be

a professional school shooter.

Vigils were held late into the night

in tribute to the victims,

as Nada Tawfiq reports.

They came to mourn the lives lost

and the lives scarred

by this senseless attack.

Neighbours, friends and the students

of Stoneman Douglas High comforted

one another as best they could.

Jed was among the students who ran

in panic when the first

shots were fired.

He doesn't know if he can handle

returning to the halls

where his classmates'

lives were cut short.

I don't know if I'll be able

to cope with just walking

through the bottom floor

of the freshman building,

knowing that everything

has been cleaned up...

Like, everything -

you can almost imagine blood

on the walls, bodies on the floor.

No one is going to be able to walk

through that building.

No one.

All 17 victims have

now been identified.

Among them talented students,

star athletes and Aaron Feis,

a beloved football coach

and security guard.

He has been called a hero

for shielding children

from the gunman's bullets.

Nikolas Cruz appeared in court

briefly on 17 charges

of premeditated murder.

His lawyer said he was sad

and remorseful and described him

as a broken human being.

The sheriff's office said

he confessed to opening fire

on his former school.

He told authorities he bought

a drink at Subway and stopped

at McDonald's after the rampage.

On social media, Cruz often posed

with guns and on one post he wrote

he would be a professional

school shooter.

Those who knew him were

troubled by his behaviour.

He's someone who use racial slurs,

who was just awful to other people

and I'm sure he was bullied himself

by some but he was the type of

person where people were scared to

bully him because they knew

something could happen. They just

didn't think this would happen.

These terrifying scenes of students

completely helpless and trembling

with fear have shaken the nation

and they have reignited

the debate on gun control.

People here are in a state of shock,

that someone from their own

community could be capable of such

killing,

and that their city now

joins the long list of America's

school shooting tragedies.

Nada Tawfiq, BBC News,

Parkland, Florida.

Anyone who's been abused by Oxfam

staff has been invited

by the international head

of the charity to tell their story

and obtain justice.

Winnie Byanyima said

every complaint would be

examined by an independent

commission, and wrong-doers would be

held to account.

She said she could not guarantee

that there were no sexual

predators among Oxfam's almost

10,000 paid workers.

Our diplomatic correspondent,

James Landale, has been

speaking to her.

The earthquake that struck

The earthquake that struck in 2010

reduced much of Haiti to rubble. But

the after-shocks are still being

felt by Oxfam.

In her native Ugandan, Oxfam's

global head said sorry for the

sexual exploitation carried out by

some of her staff in Haiti,

something she told me she only found

out about last week.

I'm inviting

anyone who has been a victim of

abuse to come forward, we're going

to do justice, we are torn for the

past.

Right now thousands and thousands of

Oxfam staff doing the right thing in

the most dangerous places in the

world.

She promised a new

independent commission to

investigate Oxfam's handling of past

cases, tougher new checks on staff

work references and more cash for

safeguarding vulnerable people.

Changes that might in the future

stop Oxfam employing men like Roland

van Hauwermeiren, its former

director in Haiti, who has denied

paying for sex. TRANSLATION:

Some

unprofessional journalists are

implying that Oxfam organises sex

orgies using money from donations,

which is absolutely untrue.

What is true is that Oxfam now faces

the huge task of trying to rebuild

public confidence.

Winnie Byanyima said more Oxfam

staff could be sacked if they're

found to have mishandled past cases,

but...

We have almost 10,000 staff around

the world working in more than 90

countries. The majority of those are

doing the right thing.

You cannot

give that guarantee that there are

no sexual predators working for your

organisation?

How would I be able to

guarantee that there is no one who

is going to offend? What I can

guarantee is that we will build a

new culture that doesn't tolerate

that behaviour.

What went on in Haiti has cost Oxfam

donations, public trust and

celebrity ambassadors. Miss Byanyima

said the organisation was

demoralising but she insisted it

would survive. What doesn't kill it,

she said, will make it stronger.

James Landale, BBC News.

The Football Association

is to review thousands of files

to find out how much was known

about the abuse carried out

by former youth coach Barry Bennell

as part of its internal review.

Yesterday he was found guilty

of another seven counts

of sexually abusing boys,

meaning he's now been convicted

of a total of 43 offences

between 1979 and 1990.

He'll be sentenced on Monday.

We will be speaking to two of Barry

Bennell's victims on this programme

a little later this morning, that's

coming up at 6:40am.

New figures show a dramatic

reduction in the number of young

people buying their own homes

over the last 20 years.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

found that a quarter of those under

the age of 34, earning

average incomes,

were able to buy, compared

to two thirds in 1998.

Our finance correspondent

Simon Gompertz has more.

So I've been living here a couple of

years now...

30 years old, keen to

buy but shut out of the market. Tom

wants to stop paying rent in

Brighton but house prices are beyond

him.

It's completely out of reach at

the moment, there's not a chance

I'll be able to get the deposit.

There's such a cost and with utility

bills, the cost of trains going to

London, with my Brent prices it's

just unachievable and my friends,

they're all around the same age and

none of us are on the property

ladder yet.

Years to give for fiscal

studies looked at young people aged

25-34 on middle incomes at the

moment between around 22000 and

30,000 for a house hold after-tax.

In most cases couples with children.

Two decades ago 65% of those on

middle incomes earned their own

homes, that's dropped to just 27%.

Most of the rest forced to rent.

It

will cost you more in the long-term

if you rent and you're not putting

that money towards a mortgage that

can eventually be paid off, let's

face it. So I think we will see

people less disposable income, a

smaller savings pot and potentially

as well less money to put towards

their retirement.

High household

prices are making young people like

Tom look further and further afield

in the hope of finding something

they can afford. Simon Gompertz, BBC

News, Brighton.

A BBC investigation has revealed

a significant difference

between the highest earning male

and female consultants working

for the NHS in England.

Figures show that one in five

of the top 100 earners are women,

while on average full-time men owned

14,000 pounds a year more

than their female counterparts

when including bonuses and overtime.

Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes explains.

Many different organisations have

faced tough questions around the gap

in pay between men and women, not

least the BBC. Now an examination of

the pay of consultants, the most

senior clinicians working in the NHS

in England, reveals it's an issue

for the health service to two.

On average, consultants earn a basic

salary of just over £85,000 a year

but they can get paid extra, for

example in overtime or special

awards for clinical excellence. But

when that figure for total pay is

broken down for men and women,

full-time female consultants earn

£14,000 less on average than their

male colleagues. And other top 100

owners, just five are female, even

though they make up more than a of

the workforce.

Certainly within the

NHS there should be no disparities

in pay because pay structures are

national and are clearly publicised.

And so other than for issues of, for

example people working longer hours,

there shouldn't be any reason for

discrepancies in paid.

The

government has already announced an

independent review of how the gender

pay gap can be eliminated in

medicine. It might be that men are

more willing to work overtime or

more likely to apply for an award,

but a study in 2009 revealed a

similar picture and female

consultants say it's disappointing

that these differences still exist.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

A Department of Health spokesperson

said, "We are committed to ensuring

hardworking doctors are rewarded

fairly and equally for their work

regardless of gender and have

commissioned an independent report

alongside the medical profession

to examine how that

can be achieved."

Britain's bus network has shrunk

to levels last seen in the late

1980s, that's according

to a BBC investigation.

Rising car use and cuts to public

funding are being blamed

for a loss of 134 million

miles of coverage over

the past decade alone.

The Campaign for Better Transport

says the scale of the miles lost

is a sign that buses are on course

to be cut to the same extent

railways were in the 1960s.

The Hollywood actress

Jennifer Aniston has announced

she is to seperate from her husband

Justin Theroux after two

years of marriage.

The pair, who were married

in a secret ceremony in Los Angeles

in 2015, reportedly met on the set

of comedy film Wanderlust.

They gave no reason for the split

but said it was a mutual decision

which had been lovingly made

at the end of last year.

It's the beginning of what could

well be the biggest annual

celebration worldwide,

the Lunar New Year,

also known as the Spring Festival.

More than 1.4 billion

Chinese people around

the world marked the official entry

into the Year of the Dog

with lanterns, banquets

and colourful celebrations.

Mike is here with the sport. We have

been talking about it and it's

happened?

It has, you mentioned the

Year of the Dog, now it is the year

of the Dom, he has one Briton's

first medal at the Winter Games,

another milestone for skeleton

because the first man to win a

British medal in skeleton racing

since 1948. Fantastic. He almost

blew it, he came back on the last

bend, it was touch and go.

So another historic day

for British sliding,

day seven of these Winter Games has

already proved to be a magnificent

one for Team GB, as

Ben Croucher reports.

Dom Parsons!

At last, six days of no

medals for Great Britain, on the

seventh that Demon was laid to rest.

Dom Parsons is doing a Ph.D. In

mechanical engineering, a study of

calm before the most important two

runs of his life. Lying in fourth

Parsons got his angle is just right,

sliding down the track but crucially

up the standings after his first

run. All he had to do now was to

initiate off. If he beat the Russian

athlete behind him he'd be

guaranteed a medal, a first for

athlete behind him he'd be

guaranteed a medal, a first for, a

British man in the sport since 1948.

The misses out by two hundredths of

a second.

So was that wait for a medal going

to continue? Parsons didn't have too

long to find out, needing a slipup

from Latvia's Martin Doctor is. --

Martins Dukurs.

I thought I'd lost it and after that

second run, well, forefront, I

thought it had gone away. Yeah, I

looked up at the time, made a couple

of mistakes on that run. But Martins

made more mistakes and he's the last

person I thought would make those

mistakes.

Parsons' teammates were the first to

congratulate him as well. Elise

Christie, having suffered her medal

agony, was the first to express her

delight but could this be a catalyst

for GB and skeleton?

Dom doing that,

the guys, the development squad

behind him have proven it isn't

impossible and the girls have got

the medals and now the guys have

started it with Dom and let's see

what the future brings more British

spell skeleton.

Now Parsons has got Britain up and

running, the wait for another medal

might not be too long, the women

could add to it tomorrow. Ben

Croucher, BBC News.

You have to look at Jenny Jones and

how it made her a household name a

while ago and looking at the effect

it will have on Dom Parsons. He's

30, wanted to be an F1 driver, I'm

sure he will settle with skeleton!

I

think skeleton is more thrilling!

In

both sports you need huge strong

neck muscles.

We will hear from him

live later?

Very exciting. Andrew

Musgrave has just gone off in the 15

kilometre cross-country skiing

freestyle, he could get a medal so

it could get better today!

How are we looking at the moment,

Matt?

Good morning. I am in Oxfordshire. A

stunning surroundings. The alarm

clock can be a little bit tough

sometimes, but this makes it worthy.

This was built in the early 1700 and

has been the back drop for films

like Spectre and Mission Impossible.

We are looking for signs of spring.

It is around the corner and numbers

are up at the moment, but we could

have those few hints over the next

few days. Not so much if you are up

in the early hours. Let's have a

look at the forecast. Today it is

frosty, but a fine day across most

parts of the country. We will see

some further wintry showers across

the north-west, especially across

parts of western Scotland. There is

a little bit of patchy mist and fog

which will quickly clear. As you can

see there are showers towards the

north and west, but very little

cloud on the map. It will build

towards the west later. If you have

a closer look at about three o'clock

you can see most places across

England and Wales are dry. It could

be a bit thicker in the west. Maybe

patchy rain towards Northern Ireland

and still a few showers in Scotland.

The odd rumble of thunder as well,

but nowhere near as many as

yesterday. More of us will see the

sunshine through today and the winds

will be a bit lighter. Still a

breezy northern Scotland. It will

feel reasonably nice. Across

southern areas we could see

temperatures into double figures.

Into the night, we will see a band

of rain, sleet and snow into western

fringes of England and Wales into

the morning. The south-east of that

we have a frost into the morning and

as the skies clear it is showers

later in the north-west of Scotland.

It could be a little bit icy in a

couple of. It makes for a cloudy is

tight for many. In northern and

western parts of England and Wales

we have cloud and outbreaks of rain

and maybe a bit of hill snow, which

will pull south and east. A few

showers in north-west Scotland

through the day. Many will have some

sunny spells. Not a bad day. Again,

temperatures on the mild side

compared to what we've had of late.

We continue that while the theme

into Saturday night and Sunday. More

cloud developing through Saturday

night and on Sunday that will fit in

up in western Scotland and Northern

Ireland and western fringes of

England and Wales. Further east,

especially towards East Anglia and

the south-east, you may have dry

weekend. Still a chance of sunny

spells, although there will be a

fair bit of cloud. We will have

hints of spring, but we may see

temperatures quite widely getting

into double figures and not far off

in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Before you get too complacent about

thinking spring is with us, there

are hints at the moment that things

could turn much colder again during

next week. I will keep you updated.

You can never get too optimistic

about the weather when you are

around, Matt.

Definitely not when I am here!

Just a joke! The more double figures

we see, the more we will feel like

we are stepping into spring. See you

later.

You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News.

The main stories this morning:

The FBI has launched a review

over its handling of a warning

about the teenager accused

of carrying out a shooting

at a school in Florida where 17

people were killed.

Team GB has claimed its first medal

of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Dom Parsons won bronze

in the men's skeleton.

We will return to our main story

this morning and the murder of 17

people. The deadliest US school

shooting since 2012.

Teachers and pupils ran for cover as

19-year-old Nikolas Cruz began his

attack. We will now

attack. We will now speak to Ivy

Schamis, a teacher at that school,

and she has therefore been directly

affect the by what happened and some

of the details could be distressing.

Thank you for taking the time to

speak to us. I first question to you

is how are you today?

Pretty

devastated, actually. Still thinking

about my students.

That's completely

understandable. If you would, could

you just described where you were

when you first realised something

was happening was that I was

actually teaching the history of the

Holocaust and I have mostly seniors

in that classed and I was in front

of a big recording and we were

finishing up on a recording of the

1936 Olympics in Berlin when we

heard loud pop, pop, and the kids

instantaneously go for the door.

--

the floor. We didn't question it, it

was unmistakable. The kids were all

trying to take cover in the

classroom.

So you realised something

was happening. Was it immediately

apparent it was a shooter? It came

close to where you were. What

happens next?

There were a lot of

students and so we just tried to go

behind my desk, the Hind the file

cabinet, behind the laptop. They

tried to find cover. It was

instantaneous, but within seconds

the student came to my door and he

shot out the whole glass panel in

the door and hitting students while

he did that.

This is the point, this

is so awful for you, I know, you

lost some of the students who were

in your class at that time?

Yes,

sir. We didn't know it at the time.

He hit several students and they

were injured and I didn't realise at

that moment will stop two were

female and male student who were

seniors and ready to go to college

soon. They were killed.

I really

seeking not to distress you any

further and I know this is very

difficult for you. We now have seen

some of the names of the ages of

those students. These will be

students you know well. 14, 15, 16

and 17 years old. You've had a

little time to try to understand a

bit more of what happened. Watched

you of it now?

I make no sense of

this. It was completely random.

Completely senseless. This teenager

should not have had an assault rifle

at all. I don't think we were

targeted, I didn't know the shooter,

I've been teaching at that school

for 17 years and never had him. It

is a large suburban high school, I

don't know him, so I think whatever

then that he had he just randomly

sought out several classrooms and

unfortunately mine was one of them.

From what we understand, and explain

this for us, you were explaining how

your students reacted, that they did

exactly the right thing at the time,

notwithstanding the terrible loss

that you've suffered within your

classroom. But they did the right

thing. It was something you had

rehearsed for? You had trained your

students for?

Yes. We have been

practising because of everything

that we've seen on the news, we've

been practising what would happen in

code black or code red, and we were

not ready for shots to be fired in

the hallway, we didn't practice for

that, but they knew right away just

to take cover. No one thought, this

is a drill, no one looked around,

they just immediately... I was very

proud of them. They immediately ran

to find anything to cover themselves

and find something to hide behind.

They all crowded behind my desk and

tried to call 911.

It is very early,

especially someone so close to the

event as you were, to have these

discussions, but I don't know what

security measures you had in place

at your school and some people are

saying there should be an armed

police officer in schools now. What

do you make of those... That thought

process?

We have an armed police

officer, but it's an extremely large

campus and I guess he can't be

everywhere all the time. We didn't

really see this coming. I... I don't

know. I mean, I don't think I should

have been armed and I don't think

teachers should be armed, as I don't

think those teenagers should have

had an assault rifle over. I don't

know how you get ready for this.

Just a couple of last thoughts. Are

you going to be going back to the

school itself? I know there have

been vigils held.

This must be

agonising times. Very, however I did

go yesterday in the afternoon and I

was there for several hours. The

students felt it was quite

therapeutic and we were able to

reunite. There are a lot of rumours

flying around, but I was injured or

killed, so just by seeing each other

and being with each other, I have no

idea when school will be ready to be

in session.

Given that you were in

the classroom when this occurred and

the students you know so well, how

do you think you will go about

helping them deal with something no

young person, indeed no teacher,

though people, should ever have to

go through?

No one should ever. I

didn't think I would have to do this

either. I just think if I am there

for them, I love my students dearly,

I feel like if I listen, we listen,

and we talk about it and it really

does help to talk and listen to what

they have to say and just let them

know that we love them. We love

them.

I really thank you for your

time this morning. I know it's a

very difficult time for you. Thank

you very much.

Thank you so much.

That's Ivy Schamis. She was teaching

in a class when the shooter arrived

in her school.

We will be talking a lot more about

that throughout the programme.

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Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and

Naga Munchetty. Here's a summary of

the main stories from BBC News: The

FBI is investigating how it handled

a warning about the teenager accused

of carrying out Wednesday's school

shooting in Florida, which left 17

dead. Nikolas Cruz, 19, reportedly

posted a YouTube comment claiming he

would be a professional school

shooter. Tributes were paid to his

victims with vigils through the

night.

The former Oxfam director,

accused of hiring prostitutes

while working in Haiti and Chad,

has denied paying for sex but said

he had made some mistakes.

In an open letter,

he admitted he'd had

an intimate relationship

with a woman in Haiti,

but said she was not a prostiture.

The international

head of the charity

has invited anyone who's

been abused by Oxfam

staff to tell their story

and obtain justice.

New figures show a dramatic

reduction in the number of young

people buying their own homes

over the last 20 years.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

found that a quarter of those under

the age of 34, earning

average incomes,

were able to buy, compared

to two thirds in 1998.

A BBC investigation has revealed

a significant difference

between the highest earning male

and female consultants working

for the NHS in England.

Figures show that one in five

of the top 100 earners are women,

while on average full-time men

owned £14,000 a year more

than their female counterparts

when including bonuses and overtime.

Only 5% of women among the top 100

owners. The Department of Health

said it's committed to ensuring

doctors are awarded fairly equally

regardless of gender.

The Hollywood actress

Jennifer Aniston has announced

she is to separate from her husband

Justin Theroux after two

years of marriage.

The pair, who were married

in a secret ceremony in Los Angeles

in 2015, reportedly met on the set

of comedy film Wanderlust.

They gave no reason for the split

but said it was a mutual decision

which had been "lovingly made"

at the end of last year.

Those are the main stories this

morning. Good morning, Mike.

It has

started, the medal rush for Great

Britain, Dom Parsons in the skeleton

with his bronze and by around 705,

we could have a second with Andrew

Musgrave competing in the

cross-country seeing -- 7:05am. They

have started in the 15 kilometre

cross-country skiing but let's focus

on the historic moment for Dom

Parsons. The first medal for Britain

at these Games. He thought the medal

had slipped away after a couple of

errors on his final run in the

skeleton, but... Latvia's Martin

stutters when slower guaranteeing

Great Britain a first men's skeleton

medal in 17 years.

medal in 17 years. Sunbing Yun was

bird.

I thought I'd lost it

and after that second run,

well, fourth run,

I thought it had gone away.

Yeah, I looked up at

the time, made a couple

too many mistakes on that run.

But Martins made more

mistakes and he's the last

person I thought would

make those mistakes.

We were trying to bring you the

commentary, it was special, on the

final bend, listen to how the

commentators reacted here.

commentators reacted here.

Five

hundredths between himself and

Parsons at the second last term.

Behind Parsons, Dom Parsons

unbelievably has his medal! Yes,

Don! For Great Britain! -- Dom.

As a

commentator that will be one of the

highlights of your whole career, I

love the laughter in the background,

the uncontrolled, unbridled joy.

There's a realisation that the

timing is our edging ahead by a tiny

little bit.

You have to do your bit

and wait for the Latvian as well to

not quite match your time, which is

what happened. Next we going to look

at Andrew Musgrave because he is in

action in the 15 K cross-country

seeing which claims to be the

hardest of all winter sports because

of the endurance and the pain you go

through in training. We can go live

to South Korea. Musgrave is a

genuine medal contender. He got a

third place in the World Cup event

in Italy in December, so he has done

it, he has got form. It's a bit like

a time trial, they go out in

staggered starts and it's all about

the time they can achieve so we

should get a split of Musgrave's

time to see how he's getting on in a

few moments.

They've been struggling

with the weather but it looks like

perfect conditions, bright sunshine.

When they have been training and

racing here before, it is freezing,

but they have got a pleasant day

with the sun shining, one of those

lovely skiing days when the sun is

basking on the piste and you feel a

bit of warmth, which must help.

It's

moments like this when you know

they're getting a little bit of

relief as they go down the hill.

You

have to go to the BBC sport website

and see how Andrew Musgrave trains

because he goes on roller skis

around Scotland and Norway, and also

there is a treadmill for roller skis

and he shared this one clip in which

he flies off!

Trying to prove why it's the hardest

of all Winter Olympic sports.

Are

roller skis long versions of roller

blades?

They are skis with wheels

you can go on the road with.

That's

the live event, are we going to get

an idea of the split?

Not yet.

He

only started around 6:30am.

Briefly away from the Winter

Olympics...

Scotland will this morning announce

Alex Mcleish as their

new football manager.

It'll be his second stint in charge

of the national side,

having left the post 11 years ago.

He replaces Gordon Strachan,

who left in October after failing

to qualify for the World Cup.

There was sucess in the last 32

of Europa League for Celtic.

They managed a 1-0 victory over

Russian side Zenit St Petersberg

at Celtic Park.

Calum McGregor's second half winner

means they Glasgow side

have the slight advantage

going into the second leg

in a weeks' time.

Meanwhile, the impressive week

for English clubs in Europe

continued with a comfortable 3-0

away win for Arsenal against

Ostersunds.

Mesut Ozil with the last

of the goals in their first leg

against the Swedish side.

The women go later on, including

Laura Dees and Lizzy Yarnold in the

skeleton and I have been to see

Lizzy Yarnold in training in Germany

to see how she feels about becoming

the first British athlete to try to

retain an Olympic title.

We will get

the split at some point.

See you

later.

For 25 years, Barry Bennell

lived a double life.

Publicly lauded as one of English

football's best talent

spotters, but in private he carried

out a campaign of sexual abuse

against young boys.

He's been convicted of a total

of 43 charges relating

to assaults carried out

between 1979 and 1990.

One of his victims was

David Lean, who joins us now.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank

you so much for joining us this

morning. Just before we talk in a

bit more detail about what happened

to you, I'm imagining the events of

the past few years, specifically the

past few days, must feel very

important for you?

It is great to

finally see justice. I don't feel I

got justice in 2015, he just got a

two-year sentence, served 12 months.

I always knew there was going to be

many more. Told everybody there was

many more. Finally it's been shown

there's been many more.

I think we

will go through who you told and who

did or didn't react appropriately

perhaps as we can now say, but what

happened to you? It was in the 1980s

that you came across Barry Bennell.

It was 79, met him in May at the

Butlins holiday camp, he was the

resident football coach there and

instantly took a shine to me. The

sessions were for ten to 14-year-old

boys, was only 11. He took a real

shine, told me he had links to

Manchester City and alternately

after that he wanted me to try and

go and play for his feeder team.

What did that mean in terms of your

parents, they would have been so

excited, talented child, every

opportunity?

Absolutely. I was doing

quite well at football anyway in my

own home town of Blackpool. He was

basically saying to me, yeah, he's a

real star. My dad was never a pushy

parent but he was always right

behind my dream so it meant

everything to my dad as well, he

spent time talking to my dad during

those sessions so he got to know him

quite well.

There was a point when

you were invited to stay at his

house while you were on a training

camp?

We had been writing to each other

for about 11 months at that stage.

He basically said there is a

full-day course on the Friday, a

soccer coaching course, skills,

that's the kind of thing I loved, it

was a chance for me to go and state,

do the course but it was quite an

early start on the Friday, so go

down Thursday, stay over and rather

than your dad rush up to work on the

Friday, come down Saturday morning

to pick you up, so tonight.

You were

in his house, did the training

course, what happened?

From the

second my dad drove off and we went

into the property it was just...

Complete attention. He just never

left me alone, he was constantly

play fighting with you, tickling,

hugging up to you on the couch,

rubbing his bristle on your cheeks

when he pinned you down but it was

all playful at that stage. In the

kitchen, whipping you with tea

towels, just generally messing

around. But there was a lot of mass

Arj and stuff. He was very

touchy-feely the whole time -- mass

Arj. Obviously things changed when I

got into bed and he came back from

getting himself ready and just

jumped into bed.

David, do you

remember the time when you first...

We can feel how hard it is even now

to recount these things. Do you

remember the time when you first

told someone else?

Believe it or not

I don't actually remember it. The

first thing I said to my dad when my

dad pick me ups on the Saturday

morning is he'd been trying to get

into bed with me but I wouldn't let

him and he slept on the floor. My

dad mentioned that to the police at

his interview but I've got no

recollection of saying that. Other

than that, the next time I spoke was

when I walk into a police station in

Macclesfield on the fourth of

February, 2013, and disclosed.

Effectively for all those years it

was something you had kept inside?

Yeah. There's a lot of reasons. You

know, pure embarrassment, trying to

deal with it yourself, the way your

own body reacts to the abuse isn't

the way you would want your body to

react to the abuse. Massage in plain

terms you were a young man, a young

boy, and he was predatory, sexually

attacking you?

That is confusing for any young

child?

It messes messes with your

head for a long time afterwards.

After the abuse the psychological

stuff affects you worse.

At the

start of this conversation you said

there were going to be others, you

have spoken to the police and the

football Association, can you tell

us initially how you feel you were

reacted to as an adult saying what

had been going on?

Generally the

police were good with me. I told

them there was many, I told them

there were many more, he was

coaching at that stage for 15 or 20

years and during that period they

are saying he abused six or seven

boys who had been found at that

stage when I went into the police

station and he had been previously

convicted for those. Are told them

there would be many more. I asked to

go to the media but they said not to

do that because it would ruin my

case -- I told. It was the first

time I had any... I had used the

criminal justice system in any way,

I had no idea how it would go and I

told the CPS when I had my meeting

after they dropped my case on public

interest grounds, they said that

because he had been convicted prior

to myself that it wouldn't be in the

public interest to take my case

forward.

Can I just ask, David, many

people of course, many organisations

are asking themselves officially or

unofficial league a lot of questions

about why he was allowed to do what

he did for so long -- and

officially. Do you take any comfort

from that? Are you concerned people

won't forget about it quickly and

would ask the right questions?

Absolutely. Abuse is going on

everywhere, sexual abuse is

continuing to this day and it will

be continuing right through football

to this day at grassroots level, I'm

absolutely convinced of that. This

has got to be something that

continues to be in the public

spotlight and people continue to

campaign.

Even now there are

football clubs that haven't got the

right structures in place to stop

this?

I'm not talking professional

clubs, the game has moved on a long

way, but grassroots football

everywhere with people in positions

of power and trust. I ran a junior

football team myself for many years

and it's very easy for the parents

to let you pick their children up,

shall we say, and you go and watch

any junior game on the sidelines

this weekend when they get to under

12s, under 13s, very few parents are

watching. Managers go round and

let's be fair, 99% of managers will

be fantastic, wonderfully dedicated

volunteers but they will be that 1%.

Now these convictions have been

made, do you feel you can move on

with your life?

It will always be

there, there's no doubt about that,

but it is something now that I want

to campaign for. I've been trying

hard to do that and raise awareness

and speak publicly about it, but it

is still very difficult and raw and

emotional and my wife has been

fantastic because obviously when we

met she had no idea, and so it hit

her cold as well. She's been very

supportive. But the justice that

I've got now and the feeling that

I've got now is very much going to

help.

Thank you so much for talking

to us and for all the work you are

doing and for being so brave to talk

to us.

Thank you very much.

Matt's out at Blenheim Palace this

morning to take a look

at today's weather.

Good morning!

Good morning!

Good morning. Yes, we are at

Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire this

morning. Stunning surroundings. The

building behind me has history

stretching back 300 years. It was

the birthplace of Winston Churchill

and it's a world in as the heritage

site as well. Not just the building

of course, there are beautiful

surroundings. Parklands, forestry

and a lake. We are looking for hints

of spring this morning, but

certainly there is still a hint of

winter, because it's a cold start

the day, a frost. If we take a look

at the forecast there is a frost in

many parts of the country.

Temperatures at or below freezing.

Most will have a fine winter's day

with sunshine, but we continue to

have showers in the north and west.

Showers in the north-west will be

wintry, nowhere near as abundant as

yesterday. And we will see cloud

gathered across western areas into

the afternoon, which will turn the

sunshine hazy. A few showers may be

into Northern Ireland, but it will

be across parts of western Scotland

where you can see the showers coming

and going. Sleet and snow and maybe

thundered mixed in. Cabbages for the

afternoon, similar to what we've

seen in recent days. Peaking at

about... INAUDIBLE... Given the fact

that the sun has a bit of strength

to it, it will feel pleasant in the

afternoon. Tonight, as we see the

sky is clear in southern parts,

there will be a frost. Northern

Ireland, maybe the heavy burst of

rain. That will keep temperatures

up. To the north we will have a

frost. To the south, frost as well.

Through Saturday we will see

southern and eastern areas staying

largely dry through the morning.

Cloudy into the afternoon. After a

spell of rain and drizzle in

northern England, Wales and the

Midlands, that will fizzle out. To

the north we will have showers and

some wintry showers. Dry weather

around on Saturday. Some sunny

spells and still staying fairly

mild. Through Saturday night we will

see the cloud and rain start to ease

where we have it in southern areas.

But thicker cloud will gradually

pushing from the west. Temperatures

will stay up, so we shouldn't see

much of a frost, but by and large

sum eastern areas will still see

breaks in the cloud, with sunshine.

In the west there will be more

outbreaks of rain and drizzle, but

not the temperatures. Single figures

only just. Most places into double

figures by this stage. The weekend,

it will be mild. Saturday isn't bad

for many. In the Sunday we will have

outbreaks of rain and drizzle out in

the west. That's how your forecast

is looking. I will bring you

the west. That's how your forecast

is looking. I will bring you more

wonderful sites throughout the

morning.

It will be glorious. Thanks very

much.

It has been 30 years since GCSEs

were introduced in England, Wales

and Northern Ireland, but one

subject remains tricky for many.

Maths.

Our teenagers rank 27th in the world

and that poor performance

continues into adulthood.

So what's the problem?

We're launching a special

series to try to find out,

We're launching a special

series to try to find out,

and to show that maths can be

interesting - and even fun.

Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin

and Tim Muffet and Naga will be

taking their maths GCSE this summer.

Revision or learning has begun.

Let's

Let's have a look.

We are going back to school. I never

knew what this was for.

What I

remember from my maths days, I

remember phone is the size of house

bricks.

remember phone is the size of house

bricks.

I can't remember much maths.

I love learning every day, so if

anything I'm going to get to sharpen

the old brain and probably really

appreciate just how tough it is.

Good morning. I'm going to be your

maths teacher throughout your GCSE

course.

Good morning!

You may

remember me from University

Challenge. I have a doctorate from

Cambridge University. In four months

you will be setting -- sitting the

maths GCSE for real. I set you a

challenge, our past GCSE paper. How

did you find them?

Really bad. For

me, expand and simple five. What

does that even mean? It's just a

terminology which I haven't used for

like 30 odd years.

Hearing you say

that is already making me feel a bit

nervous. What did I get that school

from maths in old money? I got a D.

I hope I can help make it a bit more

at the end of it.

I quite enjoyed

remembering some of the maths I used

to do. I love algebra. I did my

maths GCSE a couple of years early

and got an A. I always loved maths,

but I will be honest, I haven't seen

a paper in years. This is how you

measure the area of the circle and

the circumference of a circle.

OK,

Pythagoras theorem. Can anyone tell

me?

Hypotenuse.

me?

Hypotenuse.

Jane, do you know

what a squared is? If it is three

centimetres?

Nine. I know I

shouldn't be thinking this, but I am

thinking I haven't got a maths

brain.

There's no such thing as a

maths brain. People have a negative

or positive experiences to maths and

that leads them to think they can or

can't do maths.

How important is it

for parents to not give off this

message being I'm terrible at maths,

I don't understand it?

50% of

working age adults have the new

Brucie skills you would expect of an

11-year-old. So they haven't got a

clue when their kids ask them for

help. If we are going to change the

way maths is perceived in the

country, have to work with adults as

well.

I think we are going to enjoy

it. I'm going to be the positive

one.

I wonder if I'm beyond that

point in my life and it's too late.

We can do this.

One fear down, 58 to

go.

Can we do it? Yes, we can!

You

saw him dead, one of the biggest

maths brains in business and he is

helping us that the morning. -- saw

< KIM good morning. Why do 70 people

a problem with maths?

It isn't an

easy subject but it is also an image

problem. There is a perception that

there is a maths brain, people can

do it or not. I think that's wrong.

Secondly there is a perception that

it is almost like a badge of honour

to say you can't do maths and that's

something I want to tackle.

I think

our teenagers are 27th in the world.

That's not good for business or

future.

Absolutely. We need to find

a way of encouraging kids to become

better at maths and parents and

adults to change their attitude

towards it, they can support their

children.

I was one of those

annoying kids that really enjoyed

doing your times table when you got

up and you could only sit down when

you got it right. That's

intimidating for a lot of children,

the way it is taught.

Sometimes it

is binary, right or wrong, but I

think we need to change the way that

is perceived. Mathematics is more

than getting the right answers. It's

about creative thinking and if we

can move it to see the exciting part

of it.

Something we are excited

about is you have set up the

challenge this morning, which we can

do at home.

Shall we explain it? It

is the year of the dog, so I am

going to be hosting a handover party

at the zoo for the top dogs.

Roosters and monkeys as well. In

this particular party there are

twice as many dogs as roosters and

twice as many roosters as monkeys.

And we assume that all the dogs have

four feet and all the roosters and

monkeys have two feet. So there are

88 animal feet at this party. How

many dogs, roosters and monkeys are

there at this party?

It will take a

little bit of working out, but it is

definitely doable. We are going to

put our puzzle on our Twitter page

and if you want to find out the

answer, try to GCSE maths question.

And people can go online and get the

answers. Interactive learning is

more encouraged now?

People are used

to interactivity and getting answers

immediately, so the more we can

adapt to that the better.

Thank you.

We will put the puzzle on our social

media page.

Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are.

with patchy outbreaks of light rain

and drizzle later.

Have a nice day.

Plenty more on our website

at the usual address.

Bye for now.

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

The suspect in America's latest high

school shooting appears

in court charged with

17 counts of murder.

19-year-old Nikolas Cruz

is accused of carrying

out his killing spree

at a campus in Florida.

Police say that just moments

after his attack the teenager ate

at a McDonald's and Subway

before being arrested.

Tributes have been paid

to his victims as vigils.

One teacher told us of her harrowing

ordeal.

One student came to my door and he

shot out a glass panel of the door,

hitting students as he did that.

Good morning, it's Friday

the 16th of February.

Also this morning:

The aid

worker at the centre of the Oxfam

scandal speaks publically

for the first time as he denies

using prostitutes in Haiti.

And in sport,

Dom's done it...

It's a first medal for Britain

at the Winter Olympics.

Behind Parsons and Dom Parsons

unbelievably has his medal!

Yes,

Don!

For Great Britain!

Young people have just one in four

chance of gettign on the property

ladder according new research.

It's blamed on rising

prices and a shortgage

of new homes being built.

And Breakfast goes back to school.

We're beginning a new series looking

at the UK's maths problem,

some of our very best brains will be

put through their GCSE paces.

And Matt has the weather.

Are we seeing the first signs of

spring?

Good morning. Join me

through the morning at Blenheim

Palace in Oxfordshire, looking for

signs of spring as temperatures rise

over the next few days but Friday, a

frosty scene but a pleasant winter's

day ahead. Your full forecast in 15

minutes.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

The 19-year-old accused of carrying

out a school shooting in Florida,

which left 17 people dead,

has appeared in court charged

with premeditated murder.

Nikolas Cruz went on a killing

spree in the town

of Parkland on Wednesday.

The FBI is now investigating how it

handled a warning that the teenager

reportedly posted on YouTube

claiming he would be

a professional school shooter.

Vigils were held late into the night

in tribute to the victims,

as Nada Tawfiq reports.

They came to mourn the lives lost

and the lives scarred

by this senseless attack.

Neighbours, friends and the students

of Stoneman Douglas High comforted

one another as best they could.

Jed Westmer was among the students

who ran in panic once the first

shots were fired.

He doesn't know if he can handle

returning to the halls

where his classmates'

lives were cut short.

I don't know if I'll be able

to cope with just walking

through the bottom floor

of the freshman building,

knowing that everything

has been cleaned up...

Like, everything -

you can almost imagine blood

on the walls, bodies on the floor.

No one is going to be able to walk

through that building.

No one.

All 17 victims have

now been identified.

Among them talented students,

star athletes and Aaron Feis,

a beloved football coach

and security guard.

He has been called a hero

for shielding children

from the gunman's bullets.

Nikolas Cruz appeared in court

briefly on 17 charges

of premeditated murder.

His lawyer said he was sad

and remorseful and described him

as a broken human being.

The sheriff's office said

he confessed to opening fire

on his former school.

He told authorities he bought

a drink at Subway and stopped

at McDonald's after the rampage.

On social media, Cruz often posed

with guns and in one post he wrote

he would be a professional

school shooter.

Those who knew him were

troubled by his behaviour.

He's someone who used racial slurs,

who was just awful to other people

and I'm sure he was bullied himself

by some but he was the type

of person where people

were scared to

bully him because they knew

something could happen.

They just didn't think

this would happen.

These terrifying scenes of students

completely helpless and trembling

with fear have shaken the nation

and they have reignited

the debate on gun control.

People here are in a state of shock,

that someone from their own

community could be capable of such

killing,

and that their city now

joins the long list of America's

school shooting tragedies.

Earlier on BBC Breakfast,

we spoke to Ivy Schamis,

who is a teacher at the Marjory

Stoneman Douglas High School

and witnessed the attack.

She was teaching when the gunman

tried to force his way into her

classroom using his rifle.

There was a lot of students and so

we just tried to go behind my desk,

behind the file cabinet, behind the

laptop cart. There's a lot of stuff

in the classroom so they tried to

find cover. It was instantaneous but

within seconds the student came to

my door and he shot out the whole

glass panel inside the door, hitting

students while he did that. We

didn't know it at the time but he

hit several students and they were

injured, and I didn't realise at

that moment, two female and a male

student, who were seniors, and ready

to go to college soon, they were

killed.

Ivy Schamis there, a teacher, and

two of the students in her class

were killed.

The former Oxfam director,

accused of hiring prostitutes

while working in Haiti and Chad,

has denied paying for sex but said

he had made some mistakes.

In an open letter,

Roland Van Hauwermeiren

admitted he'd had an

intimate relationship

with a woman in Haiti,

but said she was not a prostiture.

The international head

of the charity, Winnie Byanyima

has invited anyone who's

been abused by Oxfam

staff to tell their story

and obtain justice.

Our diplomatic correspondent,

James Landale, has been

speaking to her.

The earthquake that struck in 2010

reduced much of Haiti to rubble.

But the after-shocks

are still being felt by Oxfam.

In her native Ugandan,

Oxfam's global head said sorry

for the sexual exploitation carried

out by some of her staff in Haiti,

something she told me she only found

out about last week.

I'm inviting anyone who has been

a victim of abuse to come forward,

we're going to do justice,

we'll atone for the past.

Right now thousands and thousands

of Oxfam staff doing the right thing

in the most dangerous

places in the world.

She promised a new independent

commission to investigate Oxfam's

handling of past cases,

tougher new checks on staff

work references and more cash

for safeguarding vulnerable people.

Changes that might in the future

stop Oxfam employing men like Roland

van Hauwermeiren, its former

director in Haiti, who has denied

paying for sex.

TRANSLATION:

Some unprofessional

journalists are implying that Oxfam

organises sex orgies

using money from donations,

which is absolutely untrue.

What is true is that Oxfam now faces

the huge task of trying to rebuild

public confidence.

Winnie Byanyima said more Oxfam

staff could be sacked if they're

found to have mishandled

past cases, but...

We have almost 10,000 staff around

the world working in more than 90

countries.

The majority of those

are doing the right thing.

You cannot give that guarantee

that there are no sexual predators

working for your organisation?

How would I be able to guarantee

that there is no one

who is going to offend?

What I can guarantee

is that we will build a new culture

that doesn't tolerate

that behaviour.

What went on in Haiti has

cost Oxfam donations,

public trust and

celebrity ambassadors.

Miss Byanyima said

the organisation was

demoralising but she

insisted it would survive.

What doesn't kill it, she said,

will make it stronger.

James Landale, BBC News.

The Football Association

is to review thousands of files

to find out how much was known

about the abuse carried out

by former youth coach Barry Bennell

as part of its internal review.

Yesterday he was found guilty

of another seven counts

of sexually abusing boys,

meaning he's now been convicted

of a total of 43 offences

between 1979 and 1990.

Earlier we spoke to one

of his victims, David Lean,

who gave us his reaction

to the verdict.

It's great to obviously finally see

justice. I don't really feel I got

justice in 2015, he just got a

two-year sentence, served 12 months.

I always knew there was going to be

many more, told everybody there was

many more, and finally it's been

shown there's been many more.

Britain's bus network has shrunk

to levels last seen in the late

1980s, that's according

to a BBC investigation.

Rising car use and cuts to public

funding are being blamed

for a loss of 134 million

miles of coverage over

the past decade alone.

The Campaign for Better Transport

says the scale of the miles lost

is a sign that buses are on course

to be cut to the same extent

railways were in the 1960s.

The Hollywood actress

Jennifer Aniston has announced

she is to seperate from her husband

Justin Theroux after two

years of marriage.

The pair, who were married

in a secret ceremony in Los Angeles

in 2015, reportedly met on the set

of comedy film Wanderlust.

They gave no reason for the split

but said it was a mutual decision

which had been lovingly made

at the end of last year.

So, Mike, we have one, we were

hoping for another one, I'm talking

medals.

At the Winter Olympics.

But

we didn't get one?

Isn't quite over

for Andrew Musgrave in the

cross-country, last time I looked,

18th, out of the medals at the

moment but we should celebrate the

first medal for Great Britain in the

Winter Games, Dom Parsons, 30,

trained at Bath, started as a runner

before switching to skeleton and an

historic moment for British sliding.

Day seven has already proved a

magnificent one for Team GB, as Ben

Croucher now reports.

ANNOUNCER:

Dom Parsons!

At last!

Six days of medal-less

Olympics for Great Britain,

on the seventh that

demon was laid to rest.

Dom Parsons is doing a PhD

in mechanical engineering,

a study of calm before the most

important two runs of his life.

Lying in fourth, Parsons

got his angles just right,

sliding down the track but crucially

up the standings

after his first run.

All he had to do now

was to finish it off.

If he beat the Russian

athlete behind him he'd be

guaranteed a medal,

a first for a British man

in the sport since 1948.

COMMENTATOR:

He's in front

marginally of Tregubov.

But it's uphill for the line now.

Off bend 16, is it to be?

No!

Oh, no!

He misses out by two

hundredths of a second.

So was that wait for

a medal going to continue?

Parsons didn't have too long to find

out, needing a slipup

from Latvia's Martins Dukurs.

Yes!

Behind Parsons.

Dom Parsons unbelievably

has his medal

for Great Britain!

Yes, Dom!

I thought I'd lost it

and after that second run,

well, fourth run,

I thought it had gone away.

Yeah, I looked up at

the time, made a couple

too many mistakes on that run.

But Martins made more

mistakes and he's the last

person I thought would

make those mistakes.

Parsons' teammates were quick

to congratulate him as well.

Speedskater Elise Christie,

having suffered her own medal

agony, was one of the first

to express her delight.

Could this now be a catalyst

for the rest of Team GB

and men's skeleton?

Maybe Dom doing that,

all the new team, the guys,

the development squad

behind him have proven it isn't

impossible and the girls have got

the medals and now the guys have

started it with Dom,

and let's see

what the future brings more

British spell skeleton.

Now Parsons has got Britain

finally up and running,

the wait for another medal

might not be too long,

the women

could add to it tomorrow.

Ben Croucher, BBC News.

Congratulations to Dom Parsons and

the first heats for the women, Laura

Dees, Lizzy Yarnold later today, and

we will have a special interview

with Lizzy Yarnold later in the

programme.

Thanks, Mike.

Matt is going to have the weather

outside Blenheim Palace this

morning.

Let's return now to our top story

and the murder of 17 people

in the deadliest US school

shooting since 2012.

Teachers and pupils ran

for cover as 19-year-old

Nikolas Cruz began his attack.

We're going to talk in a moment to a

commentator for the National Rifle

Association, Antonia Okafor.

Also joining us is Greg Pittman,

a teacher at the Marjory Stoneman

Douglas High School where

the attack took place.

Greg, thank you for talking to us on

BBC Breakfast this morning, this

can't be easy for you. I should

first of all ask, how are you?

I'm

doing OK. Some bad moments with

students... INAUDIBLE... Some have

deceased and are injured.

Greg, we

are just... I apologise profusely,

we having a few technical problems,

your sound is cutting in and out. We

will try to sort that out, talk to

our next guest and come back to you

and talk to you in a moment.

Let's

talk to Antonia Okafor, a member of

the National Rifle Association. Good

morning, Antonia. Thanks for your

time. What are your thoughts this

morning? We should says straightaway

that you are a gun owner yourself

and someone who believes absolutely

in the right to bear arms, what are

your thoughts this morning?

Thanks

for having me on. My condolences to

those who are family and friends of

the victims. It's a time of right

now in America and the world and

unfortunately these things keep

happening -- time of mourning. Part

of that is that we have to have a

substantial conversation about what

it looks like as an owners -- gun

owners and what reform looks like.

People are talking about gun control

right now, but we need to empower

those who are law-abiding and who

would be able to stop or at least

stop those people who are criminals

from engaging with those who are the

most vulnerable, and that's our

children and schools.

You said

people are talking about gun control

right now but many people are

noticing that Donald Trump made no

reference to even thinking about the

issue of gun control in his comments

about what happened at the high

school in Florida.

I would disagree.

I think what people think about gun

control unfortunately is that we

just look at this object and we

think that is a solution, takeaway