18/02/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Chris Mason and Rachel Burden.

The husband of the murdered MP

Jo Cox resigns from two

organisations set up

in her memory after allegations

of sexual harassment.

Brendan Cox admits he behaved

inappropriately while working

for Save the Children,

but denies assaulting a woman

at Harvard University in 2015.

Good morning, it's Sunday

the 18th of February.

Also this morning:

A major review of university funding

will be unveiled by ministers today

as MPs claim interest

rates on student loans

are "unjustifiable".

Thousands of people in Florida,

including survivors of Wednesday's

mass school shooting,

take to the street to demand

tighter gun controls.

If all the government and President

can do is send thoughts and prayers

than it is time the big is to be the

change that we need to see.

After a Super Saturday for Team GB

at the Winter Olympics,

we'll hear from all three medallists

live on today's Breakfast.

And Britain came very

close to another medal

at the Winter Olympics this morning.

James Woods has just missed out

on bronze in the slopestyle

skiing in Pyeongchang.

The Sheffield skier

finished in fourth place.

And Sarah has the weather.

That morning. A mild and mainly

cloudy day out there. The best of

the sunshine is towards the east.

Some rain in the west. I will bring

you your full forecast in around 15

minutes.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox

has resigned from two charities

he set up in her memory

after allegations of sexual

harassment were published

in the Mail on Sunday.

Mr Cox denies assaulting a woman

at Harvard University in 2015,

but admits to "inappropriate"

behaviour while working

for Save the Children.

Our political correspondent

Susana Mendonca reports.

The murder of Jo Cox AN-26 been

shocked the nation. The Labor MP who

was also a mother of two small

children was murdered they are far

right extremist Taringa EU

referendum campaign. After her

death, her husband Brendan became a

prominent campaigner against

extremism and went on to help set up

to organisations, Aqua three and

More In Common. Now he has resigned

from both following allegations in

the Mail on Sunday that he sexually

harassed female colleagues while

working for the charity Save the

Children. In a statement, he said:

a source close to him said he had

ever sexually assaulted anyone and

that the allegations were

exaggerated. The Jo Cox foundation

said that Mr Cox was admired by

staff there to the integrity

commitment and dedication he had

shown to creating a positive legacy

for his wife.

Susana Mendonca, BBC News.

The new education secretary says

he wants to see more variety

in university tuition fees

in England, rather than what he says

is almost all institutions charging

"exactly the same price".

Interviewed in the Sunday Times,

Damian Hinds also suggests

the benefit of a university course

to the economy could help

decide future fees.

It comes as he and the Prime

Minister announce a review

into university funding today,

as Simon Clemison reports.

Many of the day's students were not

born when university tuition fees

were first introduced but 20 years

on, the link between getting a

degree and paying towards the cost

of it remains that has meant big

sacrifices for some.

But parents

sold their house all I could come to

uni, on the first one in my family.

Looking at it there were lots of

aspects about how much to pay back

in the long run and it is a really

scary prof act.

-- Prospect. The

government still backs the idea that

students should contribute towards

the cost of the higher education and

it is one area covered by its of

student finance, coming as it is one

area covered by its major review of

student finance, coming as the

committee says current interest

rates on loans of up to 6.1% are

questionable. With students in

England to Kimi letting more than

£5,000 in charges while they are

still studying. The average depth of

graduates totalling more than

£50,000.

They need to look at grants

available to help poorer students,

look at the level of interest that

is currently being applied to

student loans than they need to

rebuild public trust and confidence

in the fairness of the system by

ironing out some of these real

injustices in the way that the

system works.

Education Secretary

Damien Hinds says there are due to

review would consider extra

subsidies for expensive subjects

like science and engineering and

could make it easier to universities

to lower the cost of courses offered

by their departments. The threshold

for repayment would also be

considered, as will the length of

time before loans are written off.

But with the outstanding amount due

to hit £160 billion by 2021, Labor

argues the system is unsustainable.

Some of the survivors of Wednesday's

school shooting in Florida have

taken part in a rally to demand

tighter gun controls in the US.

Thousands of people gathered

outside the court building

in Fort Lauderdale, a short distance

from the school where a former

student killed 17 people.

Laura Westbrook reports.

CHANTING:

No more!

Outside the Federal Courthouse

in Fort Lauderdale,

this was the message to lawmakers.

Among the protesters

was Emma Gonzales,

who took cover on the floor

of her school's auditorium

as a gunman started shooting.

She had this to say to Donald Trump.

If the President wants to come up

to me and tell me to my face

that it was a terrible tragedy

and how it should never have

happened and maintain telling us how

nothing is going to be done

about it,

I will happily ask him how

much money he received

from the National Rifle Association.

What she's referring to

is the millions of dollars

the NRA has given towards

the Trump campaign.

On a visit to the hospital

where the victims of the attack

are being treated,

the President once again made

no mention of guns or gun control.

Instead, he says

the problem is mental illness.

When somebody infringes a rightful

presence in this company to keep and

Bear Arms than it is a violation of

our civil liberties and we have a

bigger problem.

We will be spending

our time at funeral.

After yet

another school shooting, anger among

the younger generation is rising. In

fact, students across the country

are planning a mass walkout of

schools in April. The anniversary of

the Columbine high school massacre

will stop they are demanding adults

listen to them and tighten the gun

control.

control. President Trump has

criticised the FBI is failing to

stop the shoot. In a tweet, he says:

Israel says it's carried out heavy

air strikes on Hamas targets

in the Gaza strip.

The military says it targeted 18

sites used by the Palestinian group,

including an arms factory.

They say it's in response to a bomb

attack near the border which injured

four Israeli soldiers.

Doctors in Gaza say two Palestinians

were injured and three are missing.

Nearly 200 British women

from the stage, film,

and TV have launched a fund ahead

of tonight's BAFTAs,

demanding the eradication

of sexual harassment.

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas,

Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson

are three of the women who signed

an open letter calling for the end

of harassment and abuse.

Emma Watson has donated one

million pounds to the fund,

and Keira Knightley

and Tom Hiddleston have each

given 10,000 pounds.

Church spires are going to be used

to help people in rural areas get

better access to mobile networks,

broadband and wifi services.

A deal between the government

and the Church of England aims

to make it easier to put

communication masts in spires

and towers, as James

Waterhouse explains.

the church spire can often be the

highest point of the village and

given that the Church of England has

more than 16,000 buildings of

different kinds, government

ministers are hoping this will give

the perfect infrastructure to help

more parts of the UK get better

signal. They say this deal will make

it better for Vickers to get this

technology installed and there is

cash to be made.

The rental is

typically between five and £10,000.

Which can be equivalent or more to a

normal income for a church for one

year.

Conservationists are not like

the idea of a mobile phone mast

being bolted onto their local church

however the government argues in

many cases the technology can be

hidden within the spire. They will

be rolled out over the next five

years and both parties will be

hoping this signals that of foreign

coverage and internet for more parts

of the UK. James Waterhouse, BBC

News. We will go to the Winter

Olympics in just one moment. Yes.

It was a Super Subzero Saturday

in Pyeongchang yesterday with three

women giving Team GB their most

successful day at a Winter Olympics.

Lizzy Yarnold retained her gold

medal from 2014 in the skeleton

and Laura Deas came third,

while Izzy Atkin claimed

Great Britain's first ever

medal in a skiing event

with a slopestyle bronze.

David Ornstein sent this report.

Guiding Great Britain

to unprecedented glory,

Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas

turning dreams into reality,

rewriting the record books.

COMMENTATOR:

Lizzy Yarnold next.

The Olympic champion.

Can she make history

and win it again?

Yarnold went into her

final slide in second place,

but conjured an imperious display,

and the fastest time any woman

has produced on this track

to enter sporting folklore.

COMMENTATOR:

That is a gold

medal-winning run, I am sure of it!

So it's gold for Lizzy Yarnold.

She's defended her title

and become the most decorated

British Winter Olympian in history.

She was joined on the podium

by team-mate Laura Deas.

the pair rounding off

the most successful day

their nation has ever

seen at a Winter Games.

As Yarnold jumped into the crowd

to join the celebrations,

how did she feel?

I feel exhausted!

Now a back-to-back champion,

the 29-year-old

couldn't hide her delight.

I'm just so relieved

that I've done the race,

I've been consistent, and Laura

and I are on the podium together.

For her parents, Judith and Clive,

another moment to savour.

From the mixed season that she's

had, to come and win a gold medal

here today - and we have a bronze

medal as well through Laura -

is just absolutely mind-boggling.

The success story was started

by the youngest member of Team GB,

19-year-old Izzy Atkin,

saving her best until last to take

bronze in the slopestyle

and become Britain's first official

Olympic skiing medallist.

Great Britain's Izzy

Atkin takes a bronze!

A

Super Saturday to live

long in the memory.

David Ornstein,

BBC News, in Pyeongchang.

And if you're wondering how our BBC

commentary team keep their composure

on days like yesterday,

the answer is...they don't.

She goes fourth! Lizzy Yarnold wins

gold again! Laura Deas have won

bronze as well!

The very essence of

cool, calm and collected. Also in

partiality! John Hunt was on the

microphone.

He was alongside John Jackson

and Amy Williams, struggling

to contain their excitement

as Austria's Janine Flock

slipped into fourth place,

sealing those medal places

for Lizzy Yarnold and Laura Deas.

There were pens flying around,

microphone cables flying around, all

over the place, and, Gett. They were

effectively celebrating someone

coming fourth in not being terribly

well which benefited the British

competitor but that is what they

were celebrating. It will speak to

all three medal winners

were celebrating. It will speak to

all three medal winners.

Kat Downes will be live

in Pyeongchang with Izzy Atkin just

after 7:30, and with Lizzy Yarnold

and Laura Deas at around 8:30.

It is 6:13pm so let's look at the

newspapers. -- AM. Let's go with the

sun on Sunday, the good old show

business front page, all about

Cheryl Cole, who splits torque

smoothly, they are ready to end it,

they are on the rocks, says the sun

on Sunday. The Mail on Sunday, lead

story for us as well, allegations of

sexual harassment against the

husband of the late MP Jo Cox. It

has been explaining his side of the

story in the Mail on Sunday. He

apologises to his previous

behaviour. And taking a look at the

Sunday Times which can be a big news

story, politically, as the day

develop stash might students to get

cheaper places at university

according to the Sunday Times, the

interview the new education

Secretary Damian Hines, he will be

on the Andrew Marsh show on BBC One

in a couple of hours. The big

question about what happens to

university tuition fees in England

with Labor promising to get rid of

them and the government saying it

will look at the whole way in which

they are charged and the interest

rates and the period over which

people are asked to pay them back.

Given that you normally hide out in

Westminster he would not all about

this, more on the claims of

connections between senior members

of the Labour Party and certain

secret agents back in the 1980s, and

the Sunday Telegraph said the

Livingston, John McDonnell and

Jeremy Corbyn were part of a group

of at least 15 senior Labor figures

who shared information with Eastern

bloc agents. It is claimed. Jeremy

Corbyn himself has denied having any

kind of formal relationship with

anyone who was known to be a spine.

I think there are a few more

front-page headline the long that

kind of things still to come.

Really? That would be my guess. It

is 6:15 AM let's check in with the

weather.

Snowdrops in the Yorkshire dales. Is

spring around the corner?

Snowdrops in the Yorkshire dales. Is

spring around the corner?

Things are

looking springlike this weekend.

Don't get used to it. It is mild,

but things will get more cold.

A

step back in the winter through the

week. A chilly start to the day.

Clear skies in the north and east

staff in northern Scotland last

night, a beautiful blooms of the

Northern Lights. This was taken by a

Weather Watcher in Shetland. We will

keep clear skies in the east.

Westley dry. Some rain. -- Mostly

dry. This is the satellite image

showing this area of cloud coming in

overnight associated with this warm

front in the Atlantic. Bringing mild

air through much of the country at

the moment. High pressure in the

near continent. Largely dry towards

the east. Decent spells of sunshine.

Further west, cloud is pushing in.

Getting the three-day. Mist and fog

lifting.

Rain in Northern Ireland into the

evening. Working through Scotland.

With all of the cloud and rain

tonight, not as cold as last night.

No frost tomorrow morning. Monday is

dominated by this front sitting

across the country which will fizzle

out when it bumps into the high

pressure coming out of Europe. Rain

in the front. You can make out the

yellow and green on Monday. Mild and

murky. Mist and fog. Outbreaks of

rain in the east of Scotland and

eastern England. Further west, a

better day. A little bit of

sunshine. Still pretty mild. 11-12.

More cold towards the east. Tuesday.

Rain is lingering in eastern

England. Dry for Scotland, Northern

Ireland, the west of England and

Wales. Temperatures are starting to

drop down. Through the course of

next week, the wind direction is

changing, coming in from the east.

Blue colours with a cold air mass on

the way. Mild and murky. Things will

turn more cold later on this week.

I

do not

do not know where crisp has been

living,

do not know where crisp has been

living, but we've had snowdrops for

weeks!

Yes. I guess it depends on

way you why living.

way you why living. -- where you are

living. Now it is time for the film

review.

Hello, and a warm 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, the writer and director,

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, like New York.

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'm sorry we don't 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,

which around the Oscars I am,

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 wet

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 Chris Mason and Rachel Burden.

Good morning.

Here's a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox

has resigned from two charities

he set up in her memory

after allegations of sexual

harassment were made public.

Mr Cox denies assaulting a woman

at Harvard University in 2015,

but admits to "inappropriate"

behaviour while working

for Save the Children.

He has left posts at More in Common

and the Jo Cox Foundation

after the Mail on Sunday

published the claims.

The new education secretary,

Damian Hinds says he wants more

variety in university tuition fees

ahead of an England-wide review

into university funding.

In an interview with

the Sunday Times, he also said

the income threshold for repayment

would be considered,

as well as the length of time before

loans are written off.

It comes on the same day

the Treasury Committee called

the interest rates

on loans unjustifiable.

Some of the survivors of Wednesday's

school shooting in Florida have

taken part in a rally to demand

tighter gun controls in the US.

Thousands of people gathered

in Fort Lauderdale, near the school

where a former student

killed 17 people.

In a tweet, President Trump blamed

the FBI for failing to stop

the shooter because they were too

busy trying to prove collusion

between his electoral

campaign team and Russia.

One survivor of the shooting

criticised Mr Trump's links to

America's gun lobby.

If the

President wants to come up to me and

tell me to my face that it was a

terrible tragedy and how it should

never have happened and maintain

telling us how nothing is going to

be done about it, I'm going to

happily ask him how much money he

received from the National Rifle

Association.

(CHEERING AND

APPLAUSE).

Israel says it's carried out heavy

airstrikes on Hamas targets

in the Gaza strip.

The military says it targeted 18

sites used by the Palestinian group,

including an arms factory.

They say it's in response to a bomb

attack near the border which injured

four Israeli soldiers.

Doctors in Gaza say two Palestinians

were injured and three are missing.

Nearly 200 British women

from the stage, film,

and TV have launched a fund ahead

of tonight's BAFTAs,

demanding the eradication

of sexual harassment.

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas,

Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson

are three of the women who signed

an open letter calling for the end

of harassment and abuse.

Emma Watson has donated one

million pounds to the fund,

and Keira Knightley

and Tom Hiddleston have each

given 10,000 pounds.

Church spires and towers are to be

used to boost mobile phone and

broadband connectivity in rural

areas. The Church of England would

benefit by charging rent for the

space, the government says the

equipment would usually be installed

inside the spire so it wouldn't harm

the look of the building.

Now, time for a little sport and

this is a secret, in the studio we

have on one of our screens the

curling as part of the Winter

Olympics. So it is a very little

corner of my eye keeping an eye on

but constantly. Our women are

involved at the moment. They are, we

will go to that in a moment, they

are taking on Sweden, Britain's

curlers, that we have just missed

out on a medal, became really close.

The ski slopestyle, James Woods just

finished fourth, 1.4 points away

from the parity. We always knew the

competition was going to be tough.

It was. He was in the bronze in

opposition the sometime, just didn't

quite get it right on one of the key

sections, the rails section, but he

came very close.

So James Woods just missed out

on that bronze medal.

After yesterday's bronze

for Britain's Izzy Atkin

in the womens slopestyle,

hopes were high for another podium

finish in the men's event,

and we nearly had it.

This was how James just missed out.

The Sheffield skier

was in the bronze medal position

after two of the three runs

but he couldn't better that

in his final effort

and was eventually overtaken meaning

he finished in an

agonising fourth place.

Result wise, amazing. Performance

wise, you cannot engineer

perfection. I did the run three

times in a row and that is meagre,

seriously make up. If everyone had

been perfect it would have been last

place one or two people had slipped

up, we would have been on top. --

mega. That is the game of

perfection.

He did Linsley. -- he

did brilliantly.

It was a tough start for Team GB's

womens curlers but they have fought

back against Sweden.

It's the sixth match

of the round robin.

The Swedish are top

of the table and unbeaten.

GB are currently fourth.

As you can see, it is 3-3, is it?

Look up and I on that. --

We will keep an eye on that

through out the morning.

it is a game that Britain probably

need to win to give themselves the

best chance of making the

semifinals. You can still get

through but let's hope they can do

it in this match against Sweden. We

will keep you fully up-to-date with

that through the morning.

This time yesterday,

we were talking about Izzy Atkin

winning a bronze in ski slopestyle.

The day went on to become Team GB's

most successful ever at a Winter

Games.

Lizzy Yarnold became Britain's most

decorated Winter Olympian

after retaining her skeleton title.

She went into the fourth and final

run behind the leader but produced

a track record to

take the gold medal.

She's the first Briton to retain

a Winter Games title and her fellow

Brit Laura Deas took the bronze

to make it three medals in a day

for Great Britain.

I was absolutely terrified through

all four runs. I just wanted them

over. This is an awful thing to say?

I wanted her to get to the end and

be safe and be fast. Lizzie is

amazing under pressure. Look what

she have done. She said she would

come and do this for our country,

and she is.

There was a controversial VAR

decision in the FA Cup yesterday

but it didn't prevent

Manchester United booking

their place in the quarterfinals.

Southampton and Brighton are also

through, as Drew Savage reports.

So, if this off side or isn't it?

Have your sister at the rear was

supposed to bring clarity in such

situations but it hasn't provided

answers or more questions.

COMMENTATOR: Young. Matai. He is off

side and has made it 2-0.

Or had he,

the assistant referee flagged down

but did the video is this the river

rethink? For a lengthy wait Kevin

friend ruled that he had been off

side, his goal disallowed. Then the

debate over the television pictures

began. Was the yellow line straight

or even at right angles across the

pitch? Whatever your point of view

it didn't affect the outcome of the

match.

Sanchez, a fabulous all,

Lukaku right through here, can he

get the shot in, he can. Lukaku has

his.

Manchester United second. The

answer is most wanted to hear after

the final whistle were not about the

football.

This video assistant

referee from my point of view maybe

I am to traditional but it killed

the emotion of the game in these

situations and this is why I don't

like it.

What the VAR is bringing

good and bad, they have to kill the

bad. Make it, make it perfect.

Because everyone much loved the game

I think what's the truth.

Or the no

controversy after Brighton reach

their first final for 32 years after

a 3-1 win over Coventry, a goal from

their record signing, 35 years since

they took Manchester United to an FA

Cup final replay, this year they

will meet them in the last eight.

Speaking of replays, Sheffield

Wednesday will need a second go to

decide whether they all Premier

League Swansea will face the winner

of Rochdale versus Spurs, played

later today, and the controversial

wit of the peace West Brom finish

with 2-1 defeat. The Saints were two

up, then a wonder goal gave Albion

hope. They had a replay of their

own, Southampton will fly out on

Monday night, they trundled to

Manchester City or Wigan in the

quarter-finals.

George Groves successfully

defended his WBA Super middleweight

title with a win over

Chris Eubank Junior in Manchester.

The British world title

bout went all 12 rounds,

with Groves boxing clever

to withstand the challenge

from Eubank Junior.

The victory was unanimous

and also means Groves

is through to the World

Boxing Super Series final.

England's cricketers are in action

in New Zealand at the moment.

Despite losing all their matches,

a win here could mean they face

Australia in the final.

They're likely to need

to win by around 20 runs

to reach the final.

It's been mixed so far from England.

Jason Roy hit a rapid 21 before

gifting a simple catch

to the New Zealand

skipper Kane Williamson.

The latest from Hamilton -

England are 71/2 after 9 overs.

In the balance, that is, and they

probably haven't need to win by 20

runs, the average runs scored over

basically the over the tournament.

It is good having stuff happening

all over the world involving our

athletes, isn't it? Of one

description or another, we are just

sitting on the sofa. You will talk

to you later. This is another legend

of the Winter Olympics of the past.

One of the most hotly-tipped films

for tonight's BAFTA awards is I,

Tonya, based on events linked

to the Winter Olympics of 1994.

It's a biopic about

the American figure skater

Tonya Harding, who became notorious

for her link to an attack

on a fellow competitor.

Margot Robbie plays

the disgraced Tonya,

and Allison Janney her mother.

Our arts editor Will Gompertz

has been to meet them.

I was the best figure

skater in the world at one

point in time.

4.8.

How do I get a fair shot here?

It wasn't about telling

the Tonya Harding story.

The haters always say,

"Tonya, tell the truth."

REPORTER:

Tonya, how do you feel...?

TYRES SQUEAL.

Everyone has their own truth.

There's the whole, you know,

conversation around truth.

We have all these unreliable

narrators telling completely

contradictory versions

of the exact same event.

I mean, come on!

What kind of friggin' person bashes

in their friend's knee?

Who would do that?

The juxtaposition of everyone's

different point of view and story

is where the dark comedy comes in,

where you see my character throw

a knife at Tonya and then

you cut to me saying,

"You know, what family doesn't

have their ups and downs?"

I didn't stay home making

apple Brown Bettys.

No.

I made you a champion!

Knowing you'd hate me for it!

That's the sacrifice a mother makes!

I wish I had a mother

like me instead of nice!

You cursed me.

In the movie, you assault your

daughter on more than one occasion

and yet, her mother in real life

denies it happening.

I told her side of

the story very well.

I think I - I understood I had

to make her a three-dimensional

character.

She wasn't just a monster.

How old are you, honey?

She's a soft four.

Having been a figure skater myself,

I know how expensive it is to have

custom skates and have

the skating costumes.

I know what it took for my parents

to get up at 5:00 in the morning

and to take me to the rink before

school in the morning

and after school.

So I - I knew - I felt

like I could tell her side

of the story.

What can you tell us

about Tonya Harding?

Hmm, I don't know a Tony Harding.

Aren't you her bodyguard?

As a young producer and actor

in the business, do you think

the game is still

rigged against women?

There's far more female-driven

content, female-led films now

than even when I started -

and I haven't even been doing

it this long.

I think the next step is having

female storytellers tell those

stories and that's the change that

I can see happening right now.

Everyone is really making

a conscious effort and I think

we will see the, you know,

the result of that over the next

couple of years.

But still, is it enough?

No.

We still have - the statistics

are so imbalanced, I think it's

going to take a while.

But, yeah...

Such an extraordinary story.

That was our arts editor

Will Gompertz talking to actors

Margot Robbie and Allison Janney

about BAFTA nominated film,

I, Tonya.

They brought us Ikea

and Scandi-noir, and now

a new Swedish fitness craze has

reached British shores.

'Plogging' or picking litter

while jogging has gaining momentum

in the UK, as Greg Dawson reports.

In many ways, it looks like any

other week and fitness routine. You

will need a pair of these. A warmup

will help. It is February. But don't

forget to pick up one of these. And

maybe this will come in handy too. ,

all plucking and dropping first

gained popularity in Sweden but has

quickly caught on around the world

from the beaches of Australia to the

pavement of India and here in the

parts of south-east London.

I like

running, I like doing something in

the community, like finding places I

didn't know existed, like I didn't

know this park was here even though

I live in the area I have never been

here before the think it does two

things that helped me get fit a

company under more about where I

live in but I enjoy.

Ivor Gormley is

the founder of good gym which runs

plogging sessions and other

activities across the UK.

We have

been getting hundreds of new people

signing up every time you go for a

run you go for a run up unlikely to

pass by somewhere where there isn't

things going on, house of someone

who is isolated and lonely every

time you were running through your

community there are things that need

doing and actually you can combine

it with your exercise.

This is about

fun more than running though, as we

no a lot of our litter and up in the

waterways which means that the

ploggers end up in wages. It isn't

just about the climate of the public

purse, clearing the cost authorities

more than £700 million a year in

England alone. This local level

volunteering coincides with a

growing momentum nationally to cut

waste. Following the popularity of

the BBC 's blue planet series which

highlighted the damage plastic is

causing to our oceans, the Scottish

Parliament announced plans to ban

plastic straws. And the Royal family

has even backed efforts to reduce it

will use plastic on Britain 's Royal

Estates. Is it ever frustrate you

when you litter picking, you see the

state of some of the Parks and

waterways?

It is a bit frustrating

but especially because this is my

local park. I live around the

corner. But it is good that so many

people are willing to give up their

Saturday mornings to clean up parks

and rivers and... To get involved.

It involved in the community. With

that sense of making a small

difference to a bigger problem,

plogging offers much more than just

a strenuous workout. Greg Dawson,

BBC News, south-east London.

It would be quite good for your

biceps as well because by the Tony

get only have two big bin bags. You

would never Lukas Webb if your park

was full of litter.

I am not sure about the weather for

running.

I am not sure about the weather for

running.

It was glorious yesterday.

Sunshine. Sunshine towards the east.

Further west, cloud rolling in. The

north and east of the country, clear

skies overnight stop in northern

Scotland, seems like this. The

Northern Lights. This was taken from

the Shetland Isles. Today, clear

skies in the north and east for a

time. Largely dry. Later on, cloud

thickening and rain moving to the

west. Cloud moving in from the

Atlantic. Clear skies in the central

and eastern parts of the country.

Today, the weather front pushes in.

A warm front bringing mild

conditions. High pressure ahead of

that. Rain pushing into Northern

Ireland. Eventually into the west of

England and Wales and Scotland. Much

of the country, dry weather. The

best of the sunshine in eastern

Scotland to eastern England. The

mist and fog should lift. Staying

grey. Temperatures are still on the

mild side. The evening hours. The

rain initially in the west goes

east. England and Wales, cloud,

patchy and light outbreaks of rain.

Not as cold tomorrow. Monday, we

have the warm front with us sitting

in central and eastern parts of the

country. Bringing mild air. You can

see the yellows. Still a mild day on

Monday. Mild and murky. A cloudy

day. As the weather front stalls in

the east, a bit of rain for eastern

Scotland, eastern England, and

further west across the country, a

better day. Brightness breaking

through. Temperatures up to 12,

possibly 13 degrees. Tuesday's

weather. A weather front hanging on

in the east of England. Much of the

country, not a bad day. Sunshine

returning to Scotland and Northern

Ireland and Wales in the west of

England through Tuesday.

Temperatures starting to dip down,

especially towards the east. A sign

of things to come through the week.

Drawing in this easterly wind. Cold

air is on the way from Scandinavia

and Siberia. A change in the weather

through the week ahead. Quite a mild

and murky start to the week. Things

will get more cold. Do not get rid

of the winter layers just yet.

Mostly dry with sunshine. Back to

you.

Thank you

Mostly dry with sunshine. Back to

you.

Thank you so much.

I love a

little bit of sunshine. We will be

back with the headlines at seven.

Now it is time for The Travel Show.

This week on The Travel Show...

Seeing Africa by train.

We witnessed seven lions that

were chasing a zebra.

It was like a movie!

And this was real.

DISTORTED SINGING

And rocking the mike

underwater in Denmark.

Making music, whoo-hoo!

We're starting this week in Africa

on a train line that passes

through some of the continent's

wildest landscape.

The Freedom Railway cuts

through more than 18,000 kilometres

of dense jungle, mountains

and Savannah, as it winds its way

from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania

to Zambia's central province.

But more than 40 years after it

opened, it's now beginning

to show its age and is

overdue and major upgrade.

We bought a ticket and went

to find out what makes

the journey so unique.

And finally this week,

I travel to Aalborg in Denmark.

This is a country almost completely

surrounded by water,

no matter where you are you are

never more than 50 kilometres

from the coast.

So it should come as no surprise

that it was here that a local artist

was inspired to combine music

and water in a way that you have

never heard before.

This is the group Between Music,

their latest show is

the first in a four part

series called Aquasonic,

which explores who we

are as human beings

and it begins with our

time in the womb.

We are so often divided

between you and me, them

and us, different religions

and different cultures,

but this is something

we all know something about.

We have our first nine months

covered by this water

filter, so I think somehow

the audience, I think

they are on at least an unconscious

level will have a flashback

to hearing those sounds.

So as performers, how does it feel

when you are underwater performing

to an audience?

It gets really, somehow a sense

of loneliness to it.

There is not only a visual

loneliness to see these humans

in the tanks, but also the sound has

a kind of loneliness to it,

I think that is quite a nice idea.

So, here goes.

One deep breath and well,

actually this is quite nice.

You are doing good!

It is lovely and warm.

Yeah.

This is great.

So if you take this microphone

that is hanging and then

you hit this bell plate,

you see the one?

Yes, this one here?

Yes.

Then you take the microphone

and put it towards it.

Do you hear that effect?

Then you can sort of play with it.

Playing music in

water has two sides.

On one side it is

terrifying because also

when you are singing into the water

you have to have water

down your throat and if you open up

you get the water in your lungs.

So that's quite terrifying.

So how on earth do you get

musical insurance to play

underwater?

Well it took us 10-11 years to make

this and how come it took so long?

Because OK, it is something that

you need to really research

and when you see

what other people have

done and trying other instruments.

Most instruments didn't sound really

good, but we saw somehow a potential

in this.

But we also realised we had to build

instruments to work in the water,

so we found collaborators around

the world to help us build

instruments for this project.

Back in Denmark I am beginning

to think I am a bit of a natural.

Maybe you should just pull

the darbuka to the front window

and if you hit it with a hammer

you can close the sound

with your hand.

Another thing, if you take -

there is a small stick on the top

of the - yeah, exactly.

And you can use that

for the ring over there,

with the holes in it.

Oh OK.

That's so cool!

You're making music!

It is amazing, you have these

hammers - when you hit,

it resonates and you can

feel it in your body.

It is a totally different experience

than hanging a bell with a hammer.

And when you have

been out of order for

a couple of weeks or months

and when we go, we have to play

somewhere and get in the tank,

it feels like getting home again.

Try to go down and then

hit maybe number one

and number three together.

Underwater music, trickier than it

appears and definitely one not

to try at home.

Unfortunately that's all we've got

time for on this week's show.

Coming up next week:

With the Winter Olympics in full

swing in South Korea,

Carmen heads to Seoul for a taste

of its street food culture.

Let me tell you, it is pretty

cold out here right now,

it feels well below zero,

And we are off to one

of the toughest,

wildest environments

the UK has to offer.

Jo Walley joins a tour

which teaches you how to survive

a night outdoors in Scotland's

Cairngorm mountains.

So I have been digging for a couple

of hours now and the camera

is finally starting to completely

freeze over and I am also

freezing over.

Cheers everyone!

So do join us then, if you can.

In the meantime, don't forget

you can catch up with us

while we are out on the road

in real-time by signing up

to our social medai feeds.

Details are on the screen now.

From now, from me and the rest

of the Travel Show team in Denmark,

it is goodbye.

Hello this is Breakfast,

with Chris Mason, and Rachel Burden.

The husband of the murdered MP

Jo Cox resigns from two

organisations set up in her memory

after allegations of sexual

harassment.

Brendan Cox admits he

behaved "inappropriately"

while working for Save the Children,

but denies assaulting a woman

at Harvard University in 2015.

Good morning, it's Sunday

the 18th of February.

Also this morning:

A major review of university funding

will be unveiled by ministers today,

as MPs claim interest

rates on student loans

are "unjustifiable".

Thousands of people in Florida -

including survivors of Wednesday's

mass school shooting -

take to the street to demand tighter

tighter gun controls.

If all our government and President

can do is send thoughts and prayers,

then it is time for victims to be

the change that we need to see.

After a Super Saturday for Team GB

at the Winter Olympics,

we'll hear from all three

medallists live on Breakfast.

Yes, it is the morning after the

night if you are here in

Pyeongchang, red Britain have just

missed out on another medal, James

Woods being edged into force in the

ski slopestyle. More VU in 30

minutes.

-- More for you in 30 minutes.

And Sarah Keith-Lucas

has the weather.

A mild and mainly cloudy day, the

best of the sunshine towards the

east, the rain in the west. If all

forecast in around 15 minutes. Speak

to you in a bit!

Good morning.

First, our main story.

The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox

has resigned from two charities

he set up in her memory

after allegations of sexual

harassment were published

in the Mail on Sunday.

Mr Cox denies assaulting a woman

at Harvard University

in 2015 but admits to

"inappropriate" behaviour

while working for Save the Children.

Our political correspondent

Susana Mendonca reports.

The murder of Jo Cox

in 2016 shocked the nation.

The Labour MP, who was also a mother

of two small children,

was murdered by a far

right extremist during

the EU referendum campaign.

After her death, her husband Brendan

became a prominent campaigner

against extremism and went

on to help set up two organisations

- the Jo Cox Foundation

and More In Common.

Now he has resigned from both

following allegations in the Mail

on Sunday that he sexually harassed

female colleagues while working

for the charity Save the Children.

In a statement, he said: A source

close to Mr Cox told the BBC

that he had never sexually assaulted

anyone, and that the allegations

were exaggerated.

The Jo Cox Foundation said that

Mr Cox was admired by staff

there for the integrity,

commitment and dedication he had

shown to creating a positive

legacy for his Jo.

Susana Mendonca, BBC News.

The new education secretary says

he wants to see more variety

in university tuition fees

in England, rather than what he says

is almost all institutions charging

"exactly the same price".

Interviewed in the Sunday Times,

Damian Hinds also suggests

the benefit of a university course

to the economy could help

decide future fees.

It comes as he and the Prime

Minister announce a review

into university funding today,

as Simon Clemison reports.

Many of today's students were not

born when university tuition fees

were first introduced.

But 20 years on, the link

between getting a degree and paying

towards the cost of it remains,

and that has meant big

sacrifices for some.

And my parents sold their house

so I could come to uni -

I'm the first one in my family.

Looking into it, there were lots of,

like, different aspects of the debt

and how much you're paying back,

obviously, in the long run,

and it's just a really prospect.

The government still backs the idea

that students should contribute

towards the cost of their higher

education, and that's one

of the areas that will covered

by its major review

of student finance.

It comes as a committee of MPs

coming today says says current

interest rates on loans of up

to 6.1% are questionable.

With students in England

accumulating more than £5,000

in charges while they

are still studying.

The average debt for graduates

totalling more than £50,000.

They need to look at grants

available to help the poorer

students, they need to look

at the level of interest

that is currently being applied

to student loans, and they need

to rebuild some public trust

and confidence in the fairness

of the system by ironing out some

of these real injustices

at the heart of the way

that the system works.

Education Secretary Damian Hinds

suggests the review will consider

extra subsidies for expensive

subjects such as science

and engineering.

It could make it easier

for universities to lower the cost

of courses offered

by the departments.

The income threshold for repayment

would also be considered,

as will as the length of time before

the loans are written off.

But with the outstanding amount due

to hit £160 billion by 2021,

Labour argues the system

is unsustainable.

Simon Clemison, BBC News.

Some of the survivors of Wednesday's

school shooting in Florida have

taken part in a rally to demand

tighter gun controls in the US.

Thousands of people gathered

outside the court building

in Fort Lauderdale, a short distance

from the school where a former

student killed 17 people.

Laura Westbrook reports.

CHANTING:

No more!

Outside the Federal Courthouse

in Fort Lauderdale, this

was the message to lawmakers.

Among the protesters

was Emma Gonzales, who took cover

on the floor of her school's

auditorium as a gunman started

shooting.

She had this to say to Donald Trump.

If the President wants to come up

to me and tell me to my face

that it was a terrible tragedy

and how it should never have

happened, and maintain telling us

how nothing is going to be done

about it, I'm gonna happily ask him

how much money he received

from the National Rifle Association.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

What she's referring

to is the millions of dollars

the NRA has given towards

the Trump campaign.

On a visit to the hospital

where the victims of the attack

are being treated, the President

once again made no mention of guns

or gun control.

Instead, he says the problem

is mental illness.

When somebody infringes a right

for persons in this country to keep

and bear arms, then it's

an infringement upon our rights

as a violation of our

civil liberties, now

we have a bigger problem.

We will be spending

our times at funerals!

But after yet another school

shooting, anger among the younger

generation is rising.

In fact, students across the country

are planning a mass walkout

of schools in April -