17/02/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Naga Munchetty

and Charlie Stayt.

Donald Trump visits survivors of

the Florida High School shootings.

The US President and the First Lady

have been to the hospital

where the injured were taken

in the aftermath of the attack.

The first funerals have been held

amid an outpouring of grief

and anger from the families

of the victims.

Good morning, it's

Saturday 17 February.

Also this morning: Theresa May

will today warn EU leaders that

public safety will suffer if they

block a post-Brexit security deal.

The President of Haiti says

that the Oxfam scandal could be

the "tip of the iceberg"

as he accuses a second aid

charity of misconduct.

The future of UKIP.

An emergency meeting will be held

later to decide whether Henry Bolton

should remain as the party's leader.

In sport, a famous, second medal

for Great Britain at the winter

Olympics.

At just 19, Izzy Atkin has won

a bronze, after a brilliant aeriel

display in the women's slope style.

A first ever medal

for Britain on skis.

And beehives, bobs and blow dries.

Our entertainment correspondent

Colin Paterson takes a rather

personal trip back through

the history of hairdressing.

And Sarah has the weather for us.

And Sarah has the weather for us.

Good morning, a chilly start to the

day, a little bit of patchy rain

forecast, the best of the sunshine

towards the south-east of England. I

will bring you a full forecast in

about 15 minutes.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

President Trump has met survivors

of Wednesday's high school shooting

in Florida at the hospital

where they're being treated.

Mr Trump also thanked the emergency

services and medical staff

who treated those wounded

when the accused, Nikolas Cruz,

opened fire, killing 17 people.

Barbara Plett-Usher reports.

The funerals have begun. These

students were saying goodbye to a

14-year-old classmate. They and

their parents have been

14-year-old classmate. They and

their parents have been calling to

action from President dropped so

other teenagers won't die this way.

He and the first Lady visited some

of the injured still in hospital,

including a woman who had been shot

four times. He congratulated the

medical staff.

Dig a laws need to be

changed Mr President?

But ignored a

question about tougher gun control.

This is where the President is in

his element, meeting first

responders who rescued the wind and

captured the killer. He praised

their speed and bravery. His wife

thanked them for protecting the

children.

They are our future, and

let's take care of them are colours

they went through a lot and what

they experienced, we need to take

care of them.

The president is

talking about making schools safer

and has linked the violence to

mental health issues rather than

guns. A young man who carried out

the attack, Nikolas Cruz, was a

troubled youth loved guns and found

it easy to buy them. It has emerged

that the EI ignored a tipoff about

him last month. The caller warned he

had the potential to carry out a

school shooting. -- the FBI.

Mistakes by law informants -- law

enforcement at a new twist to a grim

argument. Mass shootings in America

revived debate about gun control.

But an issue -- the school shooting

like this one boils the issue down

to our question, how can we keep our

children safe, and the people he

will judge their president on how he

responds to that. 13 Russians have

been charged with interfering with

the pretty 16 US development in the

FBI investigation. Among the

allegations are that they promoted

disparaging information about

Hillary Clinton. The Russian

government says the allegations are

absurd.

Theresa May is expected to urge

the European Union to put aside

'political doctrine and ideology'

and sign up to a post-Brexit

security treaty with Britain.

At a conference in Munich,

she is expected to say that nothing

must get in the way of Britain

and the EU helping each other

to keep people safe.

Our chief political correspondent,

Vicki Young, reports.

In Berlin, with Angela Merkel, the

Prime Minister called for a deep and

special trading relationship with

the EU after Brexit. But she is also

asking for a unique arrangement on

security.

I will reiterate that the

UK remains unconditionally committed

to European security, and set out my

vision for a unique new partnership

between the EU and the UK. On

defence, information sharing,

security and law enforcement. We

must work together and use all

levers at our disposal to keep

people across Europe safe will stop

the thrust of her argument is that

the UK is a special case, offering

substantial defence resources and

expertise in counterterrorism.

The

Prime Minister will say that failure

to sign up to a new security treaty

would have damaging consequences,

playing into the hands of our

enemies, who would like nothing more

than to see Europe divided it comes

after the head of MI6 joined with

his French and German counterpart,

to appeal to continued intelligence

sharing after Brexit. Mrs May will

tell EU leaders not to let their

deep-seated ideology put Europe's

citizens in danger. The hope is that

the EU will take a practical

approach, because they accept that

continuing to work getter is

mutually beneficial. -- work

together.

Theresa May will be making her

speech just after 8:30 this morning.

We'll bring that live

to you as it happens.

The President of Haiti has called

for an investigation

into the activities of aid agencies

working in his country,

saying that the sex scandal

involving some Oxfam workers

after the 2010 earthquake was just

the tip of the iceberg.

He told the Reuters news

agency that one charity,

Medecins Sans Frontiers,

had repatriated some its staff

from Haiti without any explanation.

John McManus reports.

Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010

earthquake. Oxfam has been on the

defensive over allegations that some

of its staff paid prostitutes here.

I always drink of working for

them... This woman who spoke an

honest -- this and who spoke

anonymously to the BBC says she was

attacked by a colleague.

He pinned

me up against the wall, it was

groping me, grabbing me, kissing me

and I was just trying to shove him

off. And got him off eventually and

he got mad and he threw his class at

me.

Now, Haiti's president Jovenel

Moise has said other charities also

have questions to answer and he has

made a specific allegation against

Medecins Sans Frontiers, also known

as Doctors without Borders, who

sends medical staff around the

world. The President said MSF had to

repatriate about 17 people for

misconduct, without any explanation

why. In response, MSF said:

MSF has already admitted that it

fired 19 staff members last year

after allegations of harassment or

sexual assault. So how widespread is

the problem?

Oxfam and not alone in

this, every agency in the sector has

the problem that we work in a sector

that attracts the vulnerable, that

works sorry supports honourable

people.

They're for attracts

predators. Meanwhile Oxfam's UK had

says the evidence in Haiti were a

disgrace but also told the Guardian

newspaper that:

certainly the intense scrutiny of

the aid sector is unlikely to stop

soon.

UKIP members will vote

for or against sacking their current

leader at an emergency meeting

in Birmingham today.

The party's National Executive

Committee backed a vote of no

confidence in Henry Bolton last

month, but he has refused to step

down after it emerged his former

girlfriend had sent a series

of racist messages about

Prince Harry's fiance,

Meghan Markle.

British soldiers

British soldiers are to be deployed

to Africa to boost the fight

against illegal wildlife poaching.

They will train rangers in Malawi

to find and stop poachers,

in an expansion of a successful

pilot scheme that was

trialled last year.

The Defence Secretary,

Gavin Williamson said poaching puts

majestic animals at risk.

Animals under threat include

elephants, rhinos and lions.

those are the main stories, it is

nine minutes past six.

President Trump has been meeting

survivors of the Florida school

shooting, in which seventeen people

were killed this week.

Lewis Mizen is a student

at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

High School.

He's originally from Coventry,

and moved to Florida in 2015

with his family.

He joins us now with

his father David.

Thank you for your time this

morning. I know you have been

through a real ordeal this week, I

wonder if you could explain to

people where you were when the

attack happened, and what were the

sequence of events?

Thankfully I was

on the other side of the school, it

was towards the end of the day so

they were maybe 15 minutes left

before the end of school, and the

fire drills had just been pulled, so

I was with my friends, I grabbed my

backpack and I was walking down the

stairs when administrators began

screaming" code red, code red,",

which meant an active shooter, we

thought it was a drill so when we

went back to the classroom and we

were hiding under our desks, texting

our friends, asking what was going

on, it seemed a bit strange to have

two drills in one day. When we got

confirmation from the police

Department that there was a

situation at the school, our teacher

moved us into the closet so there

were maybe 20 of us cramped in a

closet and we were in their fur 90

minutes before the Army reserve came

in to get us out.

Those must have

been very frightening moments to

you, in that covered, not really

knowing what is going on?

knowing what is going on?

Yeah and

we did sort of know what was going

on, because thanks to social media,

we were getting information left

right and centre, but because there

is so much information coming in, we

couldn't discern between what was

actually true and what was just a

rumour because we were getting

varying reports between, there was

someone who had walked onto campus

and fired three shots in the air, to

rumours that there were five

shooters, so we didn't know what was

real or fake.

I know you have lost

friends, and we saw images over the

go of resident Donald Tropp going --

president Donald Trump going to

visit people at the hospital. But we

also heard some stories of the

heroism of teachers and the things

they did to protect some of the

children.

It's... My sister is a

teacher in England, and I was

speaking to her, and she said her

job as a teacher in England is to

make sure her kids get an education

and to make sure they turn in their

homework on time. And here, you have

to make sure your kids get an

education, you have to make sure

they turn in their homework on time,

you also have to put your life on

the line and that is not in the job

description.

If I could have a quick

chat with your dad David, those must

have been agonising moments you, and

we saw those pictures of those

parents and family members waiting

to their loved ones, and those who

sadly lost their children as well.

These must have been a very

difficult time to you.

Almost

impossible to put into words, I

can't describe the feeling, we were

able to contact Lewis very early on

into the shooting because we were in

the area, and we saw the hundreds

and hundreds of police vehicles

heading towards the school, so we

knew something had happened, we were

able to contact Lewis, we knew they

had gone back into the classroom. At

that point that they realised it was

real and the teacher had taken them

to this huge cupboard, Lewis lost

his mobile phone service. We now

couldn't contact him. So we are now

watching live TV and they are

telling us that the shooter is still

at large, he is on the campus, they

haven't got him yet. And that period

of time, it was just unbelievably

terrifying.

Not surprisingly David,

this has prompted another discussion

about gun control in the United

States. I just wonder, with your

British sensibilities, because you

have not been there that long, what

your thoughts are?

I personally have

a problem with guns anyway, I always

have and I really don't like them,

and moving to a place like America

you do know they have their

constitution, and it is very

shocking to understand just how much

they love their guns, and the right

to bear arms. And I think our

confusion here, which is shared by

the majority of Americans, is that

OK, if they need a hand gun to

protect whatever, then OK. If that

is in their constitution I

understand. But I'm sure nobody

would agree that anybody buying some

kind of assault weapon, a weapon of

war, let alone a disturbed

19-year-old, nobody can explain to

me how that makes any sense at all.

Lewis, can I ask you, I don't know

when you are next due to go back to

school, but it is hard to imagine

what that is going to be like the

students like yourself and others

who are even closer to some of the

dreadful things that happened. It is

not going to be easy for you, is it?

No, and we had the vigil yesterday,

we had to 31 with students and --

230, and a friend of me and sobbed

into my just because she had lost

her best friend. The one thing I

will say is that the juniors and the

seniors and the older kids who have

been there alongside, this is -- a

long time, this is our home, this is

our school, this is our city. It is

a personal attack for us, and the

people I have been speaking to, as

crazy as it might sound, we want to

go back. We want to walk those

balls, we want to bounce back, we

want to say that we might be scarred

but it hasn't beaten us, and I know

it is going to be a lot harder for

the freshman and sophomore is, it

was the freshman building and they

are much younger than us, and they

are going to have to walk those

holes for a lot longer than we are,

but the community here has been

phenomenal, and the recovery, it

will take time, but I am 100% sure

that we are going to bounce back

from this.

Your comments will make a

lot of sense to a lot of people. I

just wanted to ask you one of the

things, Nikolas Cruz, who has been

charged with 17 counts of

premeditated murder, he was a former

student at the school, and very

recently. When that emerged that

you, what will your thoughts then?

When people began to realise that it

was him, it was when we were finally

out of the school, me and almost all

the other students were kind of

making our way towards a road that

was maybe a mile to the east of the

school. Because that is where our

parents were picking us up. That is

when his name and picture began

circulating. I recognised the name,

I recognise the picture, I had seen

him before. And... There has been a

lot of talk about him because he is

the shooter, and I think that is the

saddest part of all this, because

out of all the things that have

happened on Wednesday, his name is

the one that is the most worthless.

17 people have lost their lives, 17

Bright futures, but it's his name

that is in all the papers, is his

name that has everyone talking

about, and that is the saddest part

of all this, because he doesn't

deserve any of it.

Thank you for

your time this morning, many people

will be in awe of how composed you

are and the words you have spoken

this morning, thank you, and David

thank you to you as well.

Here's Sarah with a look

at this morning's weather.

Here's Sarah with a look

at this morning's weather.

Good morning. Things are looking

mixed through the week. Today, a lot

of dry weather on the cards and some

of us will see sunshine. Tomorrow, a

cloudier and milder day with a bit

of rain working on from the west. We

stop forecast by looking at the

satellite image. The view from

space, looking at the cloud. Quite a

bit of cloud across much of the

country. Clearer skies from the

north-west. Clearer skies in the

south-east as well. In between this

system is draped through central

parts, bringing cloud and patchy

rain as it moves south-eastwards.

The front pushes to the Midlands and

towards the south-east by this

afternoon. Most of the rain fizzling

out. A largely dry day. Some showers

pushing into the north-west, falling

as snow over the hills in the west

of Scotland. Temperatures today 7-8

in the north, 10-11 further south.

This evening we have clear skies

persisting in many parts of the

country, as the weak front clears to

the east. Eastern parts of Scotland

and eastern England will have the

lowest temperatures. A frost

tonight. Further west, more cloud

and patchy outbreaks of rain, so

keeping things frost free. A warm

front will move on from the west

over the weekend, bringing in milder

conditions through the second half

of the weekend. The winds changed to

a west or south-westerly direction.

Chilly conditions in the east to

start the day. Eastern England and

eastern Scotland will have the best

of the sunshine, but we are also

likely to see mist and fog patches

around through the day. Already

cloudy towards the west. That cloud

increases and we have are the

raining Northern Ireland, the west

of Scotland, where it falls as snow

over the hills, and western parts of

England and Wales will have a rival

of rain. Monday is cloudy for most

parts of the country and the front

stalls towards these. We could have

more outbreaks of rain for eastern

Scotland, parts of eastern England.

Again, reasonably mild on Monday,

7-11 degrees. Murky, cloudy and grey

on Monday. The yellow colours are

clearing towards the south and what

we have as we fast forward through

the week is colder air moving in on

this easterly winds that are set to

developed through the second half of

the week. So things remain mild over

the next few days, also murky and

cloudy. But as we draw in easterly

wind it will become colder with a

return to something more wintry.

wind it will become colder with a

return to something more wintry.

Thanks very much and see you later.

We'll be back with a summary of this

morning's news at 6:30.

Now it's time for the Film Review.

Hello and welcome to

The Film Review on BBC News.

To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Jason Solomons.

Good to have you with us, Jason.

What have you been watching?

This week we go to Sacramento,

an ordinary town where Saoirse Ronan

stars as Lady Bird,

dreaming of romance and not

serving coffee anymore.

We go set sail on the oceans

with Colin Firth single-handedly

taking on the world in an around

the world yacht race,

starring as Donald

Crowhurst in The Mercy.

And there's more water,

as Sally Hawkins stars in Guillermo

del Toro's fishy fairy

tale The Shape of Water,

and an unlikely relationship

with an aquatic alien.

It is a very interesting week.

Oh, I loved Lady Bird, I loved it!

Well, I'm glad you did.

Of all the films that

are out this awards season,

Lady Bird has given me more pause

for thought than any

of the other ones.

I've seen it three times

and it has taken that long

for the subtleties and

emotions to sweep over me.

I think it's because it's a film

told from Greta Gerwig's point

of view, and it stars Saoirse Ronan.

Women crew the film.

I think it is a film told from

a very fresh feminine perspective.

It is a film we have seen

hundreds of times before,

a high school movie with cliques

and drama and mothers and best

friends and house

parties and prom night.

It is everything simple

on the outside but inside it is

sweet and beautiful.

Really, it is about a mother

and daughter relationship,

between Lady Bird -

that is her name, given

to her by herself -

her mum wants to call her Christine.

The mum is played by Laurie Metcalf,

who you remember from

Roseanne

all those years ago.

She has not been on the big

screen ever, really.

She takes her opportunity

brilliantly.

Anyone who has been a daughter

and had a mother, I think this film

will resonate beautifully,

movingly and hysterically.

Here they are arguing,

as they do throughout the entire

film, about which college

Christine - Lady Bird -

should go to.

I want to go where culture is.

How did I raise such a snob?

Or at least Connecticut

or New Hampshire.

You won't get into

those schools anyway.

Mom!

You can't even pass

your driver's test.

Because you wouldn't

let me practice enough!

The way that you work,

or the way that you don't work,

you're not even worse

state tuition, Christine.

My name is Lady Bird!

Well, actually, it's not

and it's ridiculous.

Call me Lady Bird,

like you said you would.

You should just go to City College,

with your work ethic,

go to City College, then to jail,

and then back to City College.

Then maybe you'll learn to pull

yourself up.

We both laughed at that

line, "then go to jail!"

It is for anyone.

I don't want to say it's a female

film in some stereotypical way.

I think lots of people will love it.

And there's an interesting twist

on the male characters,

which I won't give away.

It is so well observed, the writing.

That is the thing about this film.

Its charm accrues

through its details.

Its observations of small-town life,

though it's not that small town,

Sacramento is the capital

of California, actually,

but for Lady Bird it

represents a prison

that she wants to break out of.

Here she is with Timothee Chalamet,

who's Oscar nominated for Call Me

By Your Name, and plays

a pretentious pseudo-indie band

rocker in this, who she

falls for, of course.

It builds up all the stuff we have

seen before and gives it this very

fresh, gentle, subtle

and clever take.

It breaks your heart quite often.

It's about stuff that's not said.

It's a film of noncommunication.

All the frustration that

her and her mum have,

where her mother passively

aggressively nags her and says,

"Mmm, is that dress maybe too pink?"

It's all that stuff that is left

unsaid and never talked about.

People I know who have seen the film

have written to their mums and said,

mum, I actually really love you,

I do not say it enough.

There are many Hollywood films

about fathers and sons,

they always climax with the dad

saying "son, I love you."

Well, this is the opposite of that.

It starts with the mum and daughter

saying "I love you",

and then not doing it for the rest

of the film until it

breaks your heart at the end.

I think it's divine, this film,

absolutely gorgeous.

It is a delight and Greta Gerwig's

first, astonishing.

Her first on her own.

She is the fifth to be

nominated for the Oscar.

If you are a betting person,

I would have a discreet flutter

on Lady Bird taking Best Picture.

It is small but perfectly formed.

I'm with you entirely on that.

What did you make of The Mercy?

The Mercy stars Colin Firth.

You remember all those years ago him

emerging from the lake

in Pride And Prejudice.

In this one he gets

a right old soaking.

He plays Donald Crowhurst,

an eccentric from Devon.

He invented his old boat

and is about to enter

a round the world yacht race.

He decides to do it on his own,

although he has a happy marriage

with Rachel Weisz and kids

and he decides to do this

in an Ealing-esque spirit

of the little man

taking on the world.

So he's inventing it and getting

sponsorship from a local car dealer

played by Ken Stott

and getting sponsorship

from tinned soup firms and rum

firms, and then he sets sail up off

on his race and it becomes

a totally different movie.

It becomes profound and moving

and mystical and perplexing.

Why is this man taking

on this challenge?

And then, I mean, it's a true life

tale so I do not want to tell people

what happens, even though they can

look it up and find out,

but what happens

is extremely strange.

The film struggles

to take that on board.

Meanwhile, Colin Firth does some

of the best acting in years.

He's really challenged by this.

It might be something

to do with the water.

It brings the best out of Colin.

Fascinating!

I'm sensing it wasn't quite the film

you expected it to be?

It is a film of two halves.

David Thewlis is good.

Rachel Weisz does not have much

to do apart from answer the phone

and look worried a lot.

But Colin Firth is tremendous,

really, until he gets too wet

and then the film gets bogged down

in its own mysteries

but they are true mysteries.

No one knows what

happened in this movie.

It drifts rather to a climax,

to use a nautical phrase.

We won't give anything away.

The Shape Of Water, now this

is a curious film and I mean this

in a good way.

I really enjoyed it,

but you do get to the end and think,

I'm not sure what it is about.

I'll try to tell

you what it's about.

It is about Sally Hawkins who plays

a mute cleaner called Elisa

and she has a job in an American

underground nuclear facility

which I think peppered

the US in the Cold War

in the '50s and '60s.

We're set just on the cusp of then.

Then this creature is brought in,

rather like the Roswell incident.

They bring it in in a tank

to do experiments.

They suspect it can help them defeat

the Russians somehow and win

the space race.

It's never clear.

We don't know what it is, really,

and they mistrust this creature

entirely, except for one

mute outside cleaner

played by Sally Hawkins who strikes

up a strange relationship

immediately with this

creature in the tank.

How was your trip?

Fine.

Just one moment, please.

Security, who's security?

I'm head of security.

MOANING NOISE

Get them out!

There is Michael Shannon's agent

Strickland glowering

as only Michael Shannon can do.

That clip gives the impression

it is all foreboding and dangerous

and scary, and actually

a lot of it is not.

It's an unbelievably beautiful film.

The production design

is extraordinary.

Which is why it's got so many

nominations at the Oscars

and the BAFTAs, 12 and 13.

Because it looks great -

the design is good.

The music is great

and the cinematography.

There is a lot of great stuff in it.

I mean, there's a lot.

I think there's too much in it.

It is a busy film.

It pastiches B-movies

which the director Guillermo del

Toro was watching as a kid

and he thought, wouldn't it be nice

if the girl and the creature get

together, like they do

in King Kong and Splash?

And yet it is entirely unique

of the director's vision.

Any hint of cynicism will ruin

the spell of the film.

You have to watch it

entirely spellbound,

like Sally Hawkins does.

And she's terrific in it.

But if you enter with an outside

thought you will say,

this is a bit silly,

I think someone is dancing

with a fish.

I know it will not

be for some people.

Very interesting.

I think it's worth

seeing in a curious way.

We have not managed

to see Black Panther yet,

much to my other half's disgust,

but we are trying to get there!

It is such an important movie.

I have to mention it

as the best film out there.

I think it'll be huge,

it is brilliant.

For a Marvel movie it packs

so much thought into it.

It is about Wakanda,

this African country whose borders

have to be protected

by the new king.

People have compared

it to the Lion King.

If that's cute, this

is the cool version.

Everyone in it is fantastic.

Culturally, it has

an all-black cast.

So that's an important thing.

It's a black blockbuster,

which there's never been

before.

But watching it you forget

connotations of race.

You are just watching a movie

which transcends race which I think

is so important about it.

And everyone in it is amazingly hot

and sexy so Wakanda was the hottest

place in the Marvel universe.

Michael B Jordan takes his top off

and everyone was swooning.

Colin Firth has nothing on him!

That's saying something!

And a quick mention of a DVD?

A strange film that

went under the radar -

Most Beautiful Island.

It's a mystery set in New York

and is about immigrant cleaners

and au pairs who work

in New York, the black economy.

It's the nether world

they can get sucked into it,

the sex world.

It is made by Ana Asensio who stars

in it and directs it.

I thought it was fantastic.

The little details seeping in.

A fresh new indie film

that I can recommend,

because you have never

seen it before.

Jason, thank you very much indeed.

A really, really interesting week.

Thanks for being with us.

Enjoy your cinema going,

whichever of those interesting films

you decide to take on this weekend.

Thanks for being with us, bye-bye.

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Naga Munchetty

and Charlie

Stayt.

Good Morning, here's a summary

of today's main stories

from BBC

News.

President Trump has met survivors

of Wednesday's high school gun

attack in Florida, in

which seventeen people were killed.

He praised emergency workers

and medical staff for their response

but has refused to discuss gun laws,

despite strong calls from those

affected by the shootings.

Theresa May is expected to urge

the European Union to put aside

"political doctrine and ideology"

and sign up to a post-Brexit

security treaty with Britain.

Speaking at a conference

in Munich this morning,

she'll say that nothing must get

in the way of Britain and the EU

helping each other

to keep people safe.

She'll also talk of the need

for real political will to safeguard

the level of co-operation which has

developed over decades.

The president of Haiti has called

for an investigation

into the activities of aid agencies

working in his country,

saying that the scandal involving

some Oxfam workers was just the tip

of the iceberg.

He said the charity

Doctors Without Borders had

repatriated some of its staff

from Haiti without any explanation.

The charity said it takes any

reports of staff misconduct

seriously and are seeking to clarify

the questions raised.

13 Russians have been charged

with interfering in the 2016 US

election, in a major development

in the FBI investigation.

Among the allegations

are that they promoted disparaging

messages about the Democratic

candidate, Hillary Clinton.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has

described the allegations

as absurd.

UKIP members will vote for,

or against, sacking their current

leader at an emergency meeting

in Birmingham today.

The party's National Executive

Committee backed a vote of no

confidence in Henry Bolton last

month, but he has refused to step

down after it emerged his former

girlfriend had sent a series

of racist messages about

Prince Harry's fiance,

Meghan Markle.

British soldiers are to be deployed

to Africa to boost the fight

against illegal wildlife poaching.

They will train rangers in Malawi

to find and stop poachers,

in an expansion of a successful

pilot scheme that was

trialled last year.

The Defence Secretary Gavin

Williamson said poaching puts

majestic animals at risk.

Animals under threat include

elephants, rhinos and lions.

Here's Mike with the sport.

Another medal for Team GB? A special

one, the first ever on skis.

one, the first ever on skis. Thank

goodness her father was from

Birmingham, because Izzy Atkin has

chosen to represent Team GB.

Could this be the start

of a Super Saturday

on the slopes of Pyeongchang

for Great Britain?

Izzy Atkin has

made history this morning

with that first medal,

on skis, in the ski slopestyle.

It was a brilliant final run,

full of spectacular rotations

and clean landings and after

she planted down after the final

display of acrobatics,

she put her hands on her head

in disbelief.

But she still had to wait

for three other highly

fancied athletes to come down,

and when the final one fell,

Atkins knew she had

won a historic medal.

Lets get some reaction,

from Korea and speak to BBC

Commentators Ed Leigh

and Tim Warwood.

Is a medal sweeter when it's less

expected?

I would say yes, it was a very close

final, it is important to recognise

that there was a gold-medallist in

the Estonian, who broke a ACL two

months ago, and with her out it was

a wide-open field which meant there

was no one you could predict. All 12

finalists had a chance here.

What

was so special about Izzy's fibro --

final run?

She started outside

of the medals?

She did, and that final came down to

consistency. It was stacked final,

all the big guns in rare, and I

think the top four or five -- in

there. The top four or five were the

only ones who could put down runs

consistently, and for Izzy Atkin to

do it on the third and final run, it

was a big ask for her, and we were

happy. She is only 19 years old. She

has taken the silver two weeks ago

at the X games, and that was a great

precursor. She dealt with nerves so

well here, she was icecold from

start to finish and the difference

was that she backed herself here.

What will the impact be

of a first medal on skis?

It will have huge ramifications.

Mainly because it is men's lifestyle

tomorrow and it will have such a big

knock-on effect. James Woods we have

been speaking to, he loves this

course, he will be chomping at the

bit to get out this course.

That is

the short game, but long-term slope

style is a discipline we can

practice on dry slopes and in snow

domes, so hopefully it will say that

influx of talent, Moora more people

getting into the sport and as

participation levels go up, so do

the chances of finding more ill it

level athletes. -- as more and more

people.

people.

This is not an event for the

fainthearted. Those athletes really

have to go for it, don't they, they

have to take spectacular risks and

pull them off?

In qualification you

have two runs, so that prioritises

consistency but then in the final

you have three runs. What we saw

today, where you should have three

runs and at least be able to land

one of your best runs, that had not

happened so it left it wide open.

And the fact that Izzy Atkin was in

third place and the three top seeds

from qualification all failed to

bank run tell you everything you

need to know. They were really

pushing hard. But potentially too

hard.

Can you tell us what the

atmosphere is like, we had Jimmy

Alcott here yesterday, -- we had

someone here yesterday he was saying

that the costumes and equipment that

were being warned by the British

team, particularly when it comes to

the skeleton, what is the atmosphere

like? Are they enjoy in the

atmosphere and enjoying the games,

or is it really quite serious in

terms of competition?

I think appear

where we are we are a bit removed

from the sliding Centre at here, but

amongst the freestyle athletes, is

nothing but love, and we saw at the

end of the ladies final, it was hugs

all round, just a celebration, the

sport is winning almost, freestyle

skiing and snowboarding is coming up

trumps here. I think the general

consensus is that everyone is

enjoying themselves on having a good

time.

There is an important

distinction to make, all the

equipment the skiers and

snowboarders are using, you can walk

into a shop and buy. Whereas you

look at skeleton and Bobsleigh where

you have very highly engineered

pieces of equipment, marginal gains

come to the fore. Also they are

racing against the clock, where

there is that battle familiar

seconds. They hear you are racing

against yourself. -- title for

merely seconds. You spend three or

four years perfecting your run and

it is whether you can lend it on the

day. It is doing the best that you

can, and allows for a good sense of

camaraderie between the different

nations.

And also, the jumps are so

big here that it is pretty

dangerous, they all like to just put

their arms around each other and

say, you'll be all right!

Thank you,

we can watch from the comfort of our

sofas, thank you for keeping us

entertained and in touch with what

is going on out there, we look

forward to tomorrow.

In Curling, Britain's women

enjoyed a fairly routine

victory against Denmark.

They've now got three wins out

of four and haven't got too long

to feel too smug.

They'll play South Korea

later this morning.

The men are in action now

against South Korea -

They need a win as well after that

defeat to Sweden. It is currently

5-3 to Korea.

you can follow that

on the BBC Sport website.

The men do need to turn this around.

They were fourth going into this,

only the top four go through to the

semifinals.

Following Dom Parsons'

bronze medal yesterday,

Great Britain could add two more

medals in the Women's Skeleton.

Laura Deas lies in fourth position

at the halfway mark,

while teamate Lizzy

Yarnold is third.

She's just one tenth behind

the leader, with two more

runs to go.

She's aiming to become the first

Briton to successfully defend

a Winter Olympic title.

I athlete that loves to compete at

these big events, when everyone is

digging their deaths -- bringing

their best. I think I am and in the

mist -- I am in the mix, and that

was a big goal which is frightening

to say sometimes, to be the first

British winter Olympian to maintain

my title, it has not been easy, it

has been a hard few years but

hopefully I can do it to everyone

who has supported me.

We will be

glued to our seats later on. Just

after 11 o'clock for those third and

fourth runs.

Four senior West Bromwich Albion

players, Jonny Evans,

Gareth Barry, Jake Livermore

and Boaz Myhill, have apologised,

after breaking a curfew,

and allegedly stealing a taxi,

from outside a fast-food

restaurant in Barcelona.

The team are bottom

of the Premier League,

and were on a mid season

training break in Spain.

The players have released a joint

statement apologising

for the incident.

Catalonia police interviewed them

but didn't arrest the four men

in the early hours

of Thursday morning.

The club say the players will be

"subject to the full rigours

of internal,

disciplinary procedures."

It wasn't what we wanted, we have

gone their to try and get ourselves

up and ready for this run, and it

was not ideal. They break curfew and

that is unacceptable, I feel a bit

let down by that. But we have still

got training in, my focus now is on

the game.

But what he wanted, so

there we are.

And his focus is on

the game.

It is behind us now, the

police aren't taking any action. It

is like going back in time to say

Roger Federer is the world number

one.

He has become the oldest player

to become the world tennis

number one - 14 years after he first

topped the rankings.

He beat Robin Haase,

by two sets to one, at the

Rotterdam Open.

It was actually a double fault

from Haase, that handed match point

to the 36-year-old Federer.

But a very popular quarterfinal

victory, and Federer was presented

with a special award

to mark the occasion.

When you're older, you know,

you feel like you have to do

double the work.

This one maybe means

the most of my career,

getting to number one,

and enjoying it at 36,

almost 37 years old,

it is an absolute dream come true.

I can't believe it.

APPLAUSE.

In 2004 he took over from Andy wrote

it, -- Andy Roddick. He had long

hair and George Harrison was in the

charts with my sweet lord. Let's

talk to Sarah with the morning's

weather. That is a beautiful view is

that what most of us are going to

the experiencing?

Many of us today

will have things like

this.

This was taken in Fife yesterday.

Sunny skies there.

Very sunshine in the

forecast today as well.

Tomorrow will be cloudy, some rain

to the west.

Tomorrow will be cloudy, some rain

to the west. Looking at the rain,

first off we have a satellite image

which shows the cloud moving across

the country. This is a weak weather

front. Clearer skies heading in from

the north-west and clearer skies in

the south-east. In between this is

the front draped through central

parts of the country, bringing cloud

and patchy rain. What it will peter

out as the front shifts slowly south

eastwards. In parts of northern

England and the Midlands as well.

From the north-west clearer skies

for Scotland and Northern Ireland

and northern England. A couple of

showers moving in, especially for

the west of Scotland. A couple of

rogue showers for the Pennines and

north Wales. The south-east of

England will stay dry as the longest

and into this evening the weak front

cleaves to the east. The drier

conditions especially for central

and eastern parts of the country,

where temperatures fall lower. From

the west more cloud and the arrival

of some patchy rain to start the

day. On Sunday we have high pressure

towards the near continent and this

front moving on from the Atlantic.

It's a warm front, so it is drawing

on the milder air. You can see the

return to warmer colours. A westerly

influence to the wind. During the

day tomorrow northern and eastern

Scotland and central and eastern

parts of England should keep it dry,

bright and sunny day, after morning

mist and fog clears away. Then the

cloud moves in and later in the day

we will see patchy rain the Northern

Ireland, Wales and the west of

England. Temperatures mainly up in

double figures towards the south and

west. Towards Monday we have another

cloudy day. We still have the front

with us, so perhaps outbreaks of

rain in eastern parts of the

country, perhaps eastern Scotland as

well. Murky and cloudy wherever you

were on Monday, but still reasonably

mild, with temperatures in double

figures. They're looking at the

course of next week you can see

what's going to happen. The yellow

colours get cleared towards the

south and we have this easterly

breeze developing. The wind is

coming in from northern parts of

Russia, and Siberia, so that will

mean a cold spell through next week.

It will be quite a mild start, but

as the easterly winds develop we

could see something more wintry

as the easterly winds develop we

could see something more wintry next

week.

Tanks very much and see you later.

We'll be back with

the headlines at 7am.

Now it's time for Click.

Fashionably late, Apple has decided

it wants a slice of the home speaker

market, finally releasing

its Home Pod, some two a half years

after the first generation

Amazon Echo hit the shelves.

They have gone for the same

cylindrical shape as the Google Home

and the Amazon Echo,

but it looks like a premium high end

speaker than either

of those systems.

That is one of the key points.

The amount of audio work that Apple

have done on this device means

that its key selling

point is as a speaker.

It is impressive with

a four inch upward

facing woofer and seven

beam-forming tweeters,

each with its own amplifier,

meaning it can push

sounds in different directions.

It sounds exactly the same wherever

you are in the room but what it

doesn't do is give the opportunity

to change the levels in any way.

If I wanted to push the bass up

right now there is no way

of doing that.

Even in a space this big

the sound really carries.

What is interesting,

is even at 100% volume when I can't

hear myself think, Siri

will still recognise my voice.

Hey Siri, pause.

Just like that.

Whereas Apple seems to be

going all in for sound quality,

Amazon seem to be focusing

on different features.

Their Echo Spot is all about one

thing, this screen.

The latest from Amazon

now has the ability

to make video calls as well as doing

the usual like play music,

tell you the weather

and boil your kettle if you have

got a smart home setup.

But really, it comes

into its own as a

very nice alarm clock.

It is not function which makes these

two home assistants very different,

the price is another factor.

While the Echo Spot costs £119,

the Home Pod will set you back

£319.

As is Apple's way, it ties

you into Apple's walled garden,

so instead of being able to access

streaming services via voice

activation, it will only let you use

Apple Music in this way.

So if you are what of the 70 million

Spotify subscribers,

you have to get into

your phone and use

Airplay as a workaround,

essentially turning this Smart

speaker into a well, speaker.

As people have been discovering,

one that might leave a nasty white

mark on wooden top.

Their response?

Choose a different surface or get

a cloth and some elbow grease.

Over the next few weeks

we are going to be talking to some

of the gods of the

visual effects world.

Last week we went behind the scenes

of Blade Runner 2049,

this week is the turn of Guardians

of the Galaxy volume two

and we started by talking about its

truly bonkers opening sequence.

The beginning of the

sequence features a title

sequence where Groot

is dancing in the foreground,

and it doesn't cut.

So it is on Groot the whole time

he has got to hold the attention

of viewers with his crazy little

dance whilst what happens

in the background never stops.

So we have got something like 4000

frames of continuous action.

We were faced with the fact

that the environment was completely

spectacular and had to be

created entirely digitally.

Everything that we were inserting

had to be reflected and that's

multiple times the computation

to compute the life

of what is going on then,

also in the reflection

and so everything ended up

being done two or three times

because of the surface of these

worlds they were standing on.

We were delighted to take

on rocket the raccoon.

The first shade that we have got

here, the muscle systems,

all of these things had

updated in three years

between the first

Guardians and this one.

So we wanted to bring

all of that into Rocket,

which meant rebuilding

him from the ground up

and yet, making sure

that he is absolutely recognisable

as the same character

from the first movie.

Every movie that we get involved in,

we want to push the envelope,

trying something new with

expectation that we are going

to get there.

Old film stock is a treasure trove

of historical information

and in the case of old BBC

programmes it can be

a race against time to find any

remaining copy and digitise it

or risk losing it forever.

But when Charles Lawson

was given an old

Morecambe and Wise episode,

there was a problem.

Archivists at both the BBC

and the British film Institute had

a look at the film and potentially

judged it to be irrecoverable due

to advanced decomposition

and they were effectively,

it was going to be thrown out.

The pictures inside that film,

they are still there are imprinted

on the plastic, but they are

all locked inside this

permanently fused block of immobile

gunk, which sooner or later

will just rot away.

So Charles brought

the film to Queen Mary

University's dental department

to use their x-ray machine to see

through the lump of decaying film

the precious pictures within.

Now they had another

problem, the film

was too big to be x-rayed.

The only thing you could do

would cut the film into little

pieces and scan one piece at a time.

I didn't expect him to say yes

to cutting up the film,

but given the alternative

was watching this just rapidly

disintegrate, he said

yeah, let's do it.

We were using an infrared laser

which generates a lot of heat,

occasionally there were flames,

at the best we had a little

bit of damage at the edge

of the frame, at worst

we lost whole frames.

Graham took 5000 images of each

chunk as it rotated 360 degrees

to make a 3-D model

and at that point

they started to seep

what was on the film

for the first time.

When you first start seeing

those pictures of Eric

Morecambe and his stereotypical

pose, you can't help but smile

and think yes, this is -

yeah, this has to be done.

Once the scans were finished

they had loads of data but they

also had a new problem.

The next difficult part was finding

a way of digitally flattening out

this warped object

and digitally prizing

apart or the individual

film layers within it.

We initially had some manual

software where I would physically go

through each individual block

and spend five or ten minutes

flattening out one layer

after the other but that was over

several thousand frames,

quite labour-intensive.

At this point, Charles took

the problem to a data scientist.

What a human would do

is, would try to see

where the image was

within a cross-section.

The problem here is a computer

algorithm cannot quite do that.

What the algorithm does is it

follows, predominantly,

the layers of plastic

were not the images,

but the plastic.

And then once we have the layer

of plastic, we can move to the edge

of that layer and read

off the image.

That process was repeated

on all of the film, making short

work of a task that would take

a human thousands of hours of work.

Now Charles is beginning the next

phase, turning these scarred

pictures back into video.

That's the next problem.

But for now, he's managed

to put together a taster

of what is on that film.

And beautifully as well!

Not a word out of sync!

I am not miming now.

You realise of course

that the paper has

stopped?

Then start it again!

How does he do it?

That's an impressive

sight, isn't it?

That is the King's Library,

assembled by King George

III in the second half

of the 18th century.

Four floors below my feet

here at the British library

lie its vast basements,

which you can imagine also contain

a lot of books.

But did you know they also contain

six and a half million sound

recordings which are

now being digitised?

These are stored on all sorts

of physical formats from delicate

wax cylinders to brass discs,

to short lived formats

like minidiscs, remember those?

There is a big push

to digitise them and make

them available online.

Each of the 40 different

types of storage format

have unique challenges,

they all need their own playback

devices and some need a little TLC

to coax the best quality

sound from them.

Something reasonably

robust like a vinyl disc,

to shake its debris out

of its hiding place.

We also have a more

traditional type of record

cleaning machines, the brush

and vacuum arrangements that can

produce some quite startling results

when you start to clean off

otherwise invisible gunk.

The team also have a workshop

to keep their collection of machines

in tiptop condition so staff can

work on as many concurrent transfers

as possible and chip away

at the millions of recordings.

If you are faced with a tape

that is in a real state,

you take it off the

shelf and it may be

mouldy, need treatment

or some sort of repair,

doing that process, the active

process of caring for,

conserving and repairing can be such

that it can be replayed even just

once, is hugely rewarding.

Certainly challenging.

But with only 2% of their collection

digitised and only 15 years

until some recordings

become unsalvageable,

it is a race against time

to save as many as possible.

Anyway, that is it for

the short Click this week.

The full version is up

on iPlayer right now,

we are on Facebook and Twitter

@BBCClick is the address.

Thanks for watching

and we will see you soon.

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Naga Munchetty and Charlie

Stayt.

Donald Trump visits survivors of

the Florida High School shootings.

The US President and the First Lady

have been to the hospital

where the injured were taken

following the attack.

The first funerals have been held

amid an outpouring of grief

and anger from the families

of the victims.

Good morning, it's

Saturday 17th February.

Also this morning:

Theresa May will today warn EU

leaders that public safety

will suffer if they block

a post-Brexit security deal.

The President of Haiti says

that the Oxfam scandal could be

the "tip of the iceberg"

as he accuses a second aid

charity of misconduct.

An emergency meeting will be held

later to decide whether Henry Bolte

and should remain as the UKIP

leader.

In sport, a famous second medal

for Great Britain

at the Winter Olympics.

At just 19, Izzy Atkin has won

a bronze after a brilliant aerial

display in the women's slopestyle -

a first ever medal for

Britain on skis.

And beehives, bobs and blowdries -

our entertainment correspondent

Colin Paterson takes

a rather personal trip back

through the history of hairdressing.

And Sarah has the weather.

Good morning, actually start of the

day, a little bit of patchy rain in

the forecast that the sunshine

towards the east of England. I will

bring you the full forecast in 15

minutes.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

President Trump has met survivors

of Wednesday's high school shooting

in Florida at the hospital

where they're being treated.

He also thanked the emergency

services and medical staff

who treated those who were wounded

when the suspect, Nikolas Cruz,

opened fire, killing 17 people.

Barbara Plett-Usher reports.

The funerals have begun.

These students were saying goodbye

to a 14-year-old classmate.

They and their parents have

been calling to action

-- They and their parents have

been calling for action

from President Trump so other

teenagers won't die this way.

He and the First Lady visited some

of the injured still in hospital,

including a woman who had

been shot four times.

He congratulated

the medical staff...

REPORTER:

Do our gun

laws need to be changed,

Mr President?

..but ignored a question

about tougher gun control.

This is where the President

is in his element, meeting first

responders who rescued the wounded

and captured the killer.

He piled on the praise

for their speed and bravery.

His wife thanked them

for protecting the children.

They are our future,

and let's take care of them

because they went through a lot

and what they experienced,

two days ago, we need

to take care of them.

The President is talking

about making schools safer and has

linked the violence to mental health

issues rather than guns.

The young man who carried out

the attack, Nikolas Cruz,

was a troubled youth who loved guns

and found it easy to buy them.

It has emerged that FBI ignored

a tip-off about him last month.

The caller warned he had

the potential to carry out

a school shooting.

So, mistakes by law

enforcement add a new twist

to a grimly familiar arguments.

Mass shootings in America revived

debate about gun control.

But a school shooting like this one

boils the issue down

to our question - how can

we keep our children safe?

And the people he will judge

their President on how

he responds to that.

Earlier we spoke to one of the

students who moved from Coventry to

Parkland three years ago and told us

why he would be returning to the

school when the gunmen opened fire.

This is our home, this is our high

school, this is our city and it is a

personal attack for us and I know

the people I have been speaking to,

as crazy as it may sound, we want to

go back, you know? We want to walk

the halls, we want to bounce back,

we want to say that we might be

scarred but it hasn't beaten us. I

know what will be a lot harder for

the freshman and soft Moz and most

of them were obviously much closer

because it was the freshman building

and they are much younger than us

and they are going to have to walk

those halls for a lot longer than we

are. But the community here has been

phenomenal. And the recovery, it

will take time but I am 100% sure

that we are going to bounce back

from this.

from this.

But the Russians have

been charged with interfering in the

US election in a major development

in an FBI investigation. Among the

allegations are they promoted

disparaging messages about the

democratic candidate Hillary

Clinton. The Russian Foreign

Ministry has described the

allegations as absurd.

Theresa May will today urge

the European Union to put aside

political doctrine and ideology

and sign up to a post-Brexit

security treaty with Britain.

At a conference in Munich,

she is expected to say that nothing

must get in the way of Britain

and the EU helping each other

to keep people safe.

Our chief political correspondent

Vicki Young reports.

In Berlin, with Angela Merkel,

the Prime Minister called for a deep

and special trading relationship

with the EU after Brexit.

But she is also asking for a unique

arrangement on security.

I will reiterate that the UK remains

unconditionally committed

to European security and set

out my vision for a unique

new partnership between

the EU and the UK.

On defence, information sharing,

security and law enforcement.

We must work together and use

all levers at our disposal to keep

people across Europe safe.

The thrust of her argument

is that the UK is a special case,