10/03/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

The attempted murder of a former

Russian spy and his daughter -

the government will hold a second

emergency meeting today.

Nearly 200 military experts

in chemical warfare have been

deployed to help the investigation.

Good morning, it's Saturday

the 10th of March.

Also this morning, a deal "very

much in the making."

President Trump strikes a positive

tone over a potential meeting

with Kim Jong-un, but the White

house says North Korea must take

"concrete steps" before

it can take place.

Tackling the recruitment crisis

in England's schools.

The Education Secretary promises

to cut teachers' workloads.

In sport, a first medal for Britain

at the Winter Paralympics,

and it's a silver for visually

impaired skiier Millie Knight

and her guide Brett Wilde

in the downhill skiing.

I've been to meet the 11-year-old

table tennis champion,

hoping to bat away the competition,

when she represents Wales

at the Commonwealth

Games next month.

And Louise has the weather.

Good morning. Some good news on this

Saturday. It will be mild for all of

us. There will be some rain. More

details on exactly where, coming up.

Good morning.

First, our main story.

The Home Secretary will chair

a second meeting of the government's

emergency Cobra committee today,

as investigations continue

into the poisoning of

a former Russian spy.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter

Yulia are both in a serious

condition in hospital

in Salisbury after being exposed

to a nerve agent.

Specialist troops trained

in chemical warfare have been

deployed to the city,

as Andy Moore reports.

Driven away by the army last night,

a police car possibly contaminated

wide traces of nerve agent. It had

been parked outside Salisbury

Hospital. During the day, military

personnel and protect it year made

it ready for transportation. -- in

protective gear. This cemetery is

another focus of the investigation.

Sergei Skripal's wife is buried

here, and there is a memorial stone

for his son. Alexander's Earth Day

was last week. Yulia had flown in

from Russia to visit her father. Did

they both come here to pay their

respects before falling ill? We are

told Yulia is responding better than

her father to medical treatment, but

they are both seriously ill.

Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, also

exposed to the nerve agent, is said

to be making good progress. From the

people of Salisbury, there is some

understandable anxiety, but no sign

of widespread fear.

We are concerned

about public safety, we have to

young children who often come into

the centre. We want it to be safe

here.

If there have been no further

cases that we have been told about,

and I presume we would have been

told about them, we can only trust

the government and the local

authorities they are handling it.

I

don't feel worried, I feel very safe

in Salisbury. I assume everybody has

it under control.

I hope they get to

the bottom of its early can find out

exactly what has been happening.

On

Tuesday, the Defence Secretary was

just one of several senior ministers

to attend the first meeting of Cobra

dealing with this attack. This

afternoon there will be a second

meeting. Senior counterterrorism

police officers will give an update

on the progress of their

investigation. But very little

information is being shared with the

public.

President Trump has tweeted that

a deal with North Korea is "very

much in the making," which he said

would be "very good for the world."

The White House says he won't meet

Kim Jong-un unless Pyongyang takes

concrete steps to end

its nuclear programme.

Our China correspondent

Robin Brant is in Seoul.

Good morning. Tell us a little bit

about some of the reaction, firstly

in Seoul itself?

Well, they are very

optimistic here. President Moon

Jae-in, the leader of South Korea,

is the man who seems to have

engineered this meeting, or

certainly the prospect of it.

Yesterday he was calling the meeting

a miracle, and characterising it is

as a milestone on the road to

realising peace. That is even before

it has happened. So they are very

optimistic here, which is frankly no

surprise. This is a city and a

country which has lived under the

threat of a conventional military

attack or decades, from its

neighbours in the north, and more

recently, certainly in the last few

months, they were living under that

rhetoric between Washington and

Pyongyang, worried about the growing

threat of a possible nuclear strike.

They are very glad things are

looking more positive now.

Robin, of

course, this extraordinary sequence

of events began with that letter

being read out in Washington. What

more are we hearing from their? --

there?

Mixed messages. We had

President Trump accepting the

invitation yesterday, much to the

surprise of many of his very senior

aides. We don't know when it is

going to happen, we don't know where

it is going to happen, we don't know

what the big issues on the agenda

would need. What does the US want,

what is North Korea willing to

offer? What we do know is that at

the moment, the White House is

sending out mixed messages. Just a

few hours after the President

accepted the invitation, his press

secretary said there would need to

be concrete steps before this

meeting would happen. The Wall

Street Journal has reported the

meeting is going to go ahead.

Without preconditions. But that's

just shows you how dysfunctional

some people think this Trump White

House is. -- that's just shows you.

Robin, thank you.

An 85-year-old man has died

while waiting in an Accident

and Emergency unit because of

"dangerous overcrowding," according

to a hospital boss.

The man suffered a cardiac arrest

while waiting to see a senior

consultant at Northampton

General Hospital.

A leaked email from the trust's

medical director describes his death

as "due entirely to dangerous

overcrowding in the department."

In a statement the hospital

said the long wait for

treatment was "unacceptable."

Three women have been found dead

after they were taken hostage

during a staff party at a US

veterans facility in California.

The body of a gunman was also found.

He's understood to

have killed himself.

The residential community centre,

which is the largest of its kind

in the United States,

provides mental health services

for veterans of the Iraq

and Afghanistan wars,

who are transitioning back

into civilian life.

Meanwhile, the National Rifle

Association has mounted a legal

challenge to new gun control

measures in Florida, drawn up in the

wake of a school shooting last month

which left 17 dead. It says the new

law, which will raise the legal age

to purchase firearms, is

unconstitutional. Chris Buchler has

more.

Standing side-by-side

with the families of some of those

killed inside a school,

Florida's Governor signed new laws,

legislation designed

to try to prevent such shootings

by restricting access to guns.

The common sense things as a father,

as a grandfather, as a Governor

is we need to have law

enforcement in our schools,

we need to harden our schools,

we need more mental health

counselling, we need to make sure

people that are going to do harm...

Think about it, we know...

These people are talking.

The legislation is named

after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas

high school in Parkland.

Last month 17 people,

both staff and students,

were shot dead here as others

fled from classrooms

in search of safety.

Former pupil Nikolas Cruz is accused

of carrying out the killings

with an assault rifle he had bought

when he was just 18.

The new law raises the age

at which somebody can buy a firearm

in Florida from 18 to 21,

and imposes a three-day waiting

period for all sales.

It allows some staff to be armed

subject to training and school

district approval, but it doesn't

ban the type of semi-automatic

weapons that were used

in the Parkland shooting.

We are done with your agenda to

undermine voters' will and

individual liberty in America.

Alongside advertisers arguing that

their members' voices are not being

heard, the National Rifle

Association is now bringing legal

action to try to overturn the new

legislation in Florida. The NRA

claims that raising the age at which

somebody can buy a gun breaches both

the second Amendment and the 14th

Amendment.

It's an argument that may end up

being fought out in Florida's

courts, but it's only one

part of a wider debate,

and before the end of the month

students will march in Washington

to demand new countrywide

restrictions on gun sales.

The campaigners say they no

longer want just sympathy,

they want change.

For five successive years now

recruitment targets for teaching

have been missed, and schools have

complained about the cost

and disruption involved

in hiring temps.

Schools are spending £835 million

a year on supply agencies,

according to the most

recent government figures.

Here's our Education

correspondent, Elaine Dunkley.

This is Passmore 's academy in SX.

Like so many schools, it is

struggling to recruit teachers.

Classrooms around the country are

now relying on agency supply

teachers to cover permanent

vacancies.

We employ supply staff in

our school, long-term supply staff

to get to know the students. But

when we have to use short-term

supply, they don't know the systems

or the students. There is a lack of

trust that often comes, which it can

build up when you have a

relationship. It is an erosion of

standards.

In a survey, 71% of head

teachers who responded said they had

had to increase the amount they

spent on agency supply teachers over

the past three years. Nearly one

fifth spent between 6% and 10% of

their budget on supply teachers.

According to the most recent

government figures, schools are

spending £835 million per year on

supply agencies. The issue isn't

just recruitment, but stopping

existing teachers leaving.

For me it

was a multitude of factors. I found

the workload and the job itself

assuming. I would work 65 or 70 hour

weeks. -- job itself can assuming.

Planning, marking, the assessments.

The actual teaching part probably

took up a lease time.

Today the

government will announce a strategy

drive to improve teachers'

workloads, which includes no changes

to the national curriculum for GCSEs

and A-levels, and no new tests for

primary schools, measures which the

government claims will attract new

teachers and stop experienced ones

leaving.

If you've been watching this week,

you'll have seen that we've been

keeping up to date with

Zoe Ball's Sport Relief challenge.

Well there's some good news.

After setting off from Blackpool

on Monday morning, Zoe arrived

in Brighton yesterday evening,

completing her 350-mile cycle

between the two towns.

Yesterday was a tough day

on the bike, battling big hills

at the end, and riding

into driving rain.

But it's all been worth it -

she's raised more than £500,000

for Sport Relief.

You can still donate online.

Now, where do dogs stay when they're

away from home at a conference?

At a hotel, of course!

It's Crufts at the NEC

in Birmingham this weekend,

and with so many dogs spending

a night or two away from home,

one hotel in the city has

opened its doors to 1,000

dogs and owners.

The hotel has even set up

a doggy dining room,

where owners and their pets

can eat together.

Two dogs go to conferences much?

Yes. Attendance is very strong.

On

the front page of the Times

newspaper, let's look through some

of the papers. Here are some of the

pictures from Crufts, of course. A

wirehaired fashions, that dog is, if

you are interested. -- wire-haired

daschund. A new proposal is being

drawn up to tame what is being

called the wild west of the

internet.

Since you names that dog,

I was trying to find the breed of

this dog. Is it the same? No, it

isn't. Do you know it? That is an

Afghan hound. Well, there you go.

There is a piece in the Guardian

taking a look at the weirdness of

crafts. -- Crufts. The lead story,

the US will take a tough stance when

it comes to North Korea.

I am happy

to take any other guesses about that

dog's read.

Yes, get in touch the

usual way.

On the front page of the

Daily Telegraph, this is our lead

story this morning. Residents' fear

of a poison risk. This is in

Salisbury, of course. Extraordinary

images. These are police officers in

chemical hazard suits. They are now

investigating the graveside of

Sergei Skripal's wife and son, which

is in Salisbury Cemetery. We will

have more on that story throughout

the morning.

The same story is on

the front page of the Daily Mirror.

There are suspicions, or

speculation, that perhaps his son

and wife were poison. His wife died

in 2012, his son died last year.

This is the front page of the Daily

Mirror.

We will have a full review

of the newspapers a little later in

the morning. It is time now to talk

to Louise and find out what is

happening with the weather. I

understand it is going to be very

mild?

My glass is definitely half full,

there will be some sunshine. This

little arc of yellow is mild air

spilling up behind the rain we have,

and that will move its way steadily

north. It is cold in Scotland, minus

eight degrees in the Highland

overnight at the mild air heading in

your direction. If you haven't

already got the message, it will be

milder this weekend. Some wet

spells, and some of the rain heavy

as well. If the cloud breaks, the

temperatures are likely to respond.

This has been the story for the last

few hours. A little bit of wet sleet

and snow as it comes into that cold

air but we expected to turn back to

rain as we go through the day and

the mild air pushes him. Significant

rain pushing its way through

Northern Ireland, northern England

and into Scotland. A brief lull in

proceedings before seeing more wet

weather pushing in from the

south-west. If we look a little more

detail, by the middle of the

afternoon we have temperatures

sitting around four 28 degrees. A

little bit of snow for the higher

ground, but it will be rain

elsewhere -- 4- eight degrees. Some

of the rain could be heavy, the odd

rumble of thunder, but as the cloud

breaks up those temperatures will

respond. We could see temperatures

as high as 30 -- 13 to 15 degrees

for some of us. My glass is half

full today. That rain pushes its way

steadily north through the night

tonight. A misty and murky night,

especially across the east, where we

could see some fog. That will be

slow to clear. A slightly chilly

start to tomorrow, and if the fog

lingers it will take those

temperatures a bit longer to get

going. Generally speaking a quieter

day, some showers to the south, some

of them heavy and thundery but

eventually a good deal of dry

weather. We are looking at highs of

around nine to 12 Celsius. As we

move out of Sunday into Monday,

another area of low pressure could

spoil proceedings for the start of

the week, but then a ridge of high

pressure is like to quieten things

from Tuesday. More from me later in

the programme.

from Tuesday. More from me later in

the programme. Back to you two.

Glass half full, we are very happy

with that, Louise.

We will be back with

the headlines at 6:30am.

But now it is time

for The Film Review,

with Ben Brown and Mark Kermode.

Hello there, and welcome

to The Film Review on BBC News.

And taking us through this

week's cinema releases is,

who else, but Mark Kermode.

So Mark, what have you

got for us this week?

Very mixed bag - we have Gringo,

which is a kind of caper movie

starring David Oyelowo.

We have You Were Never Really Here,

which is the new film

by Lynne Ramsay, whose work I love.

And Mom And Dad, a sort of satirical

horror film starring Mick Cage.

OK, so let's kick off with Gringo.

This is about a businessman who

becomes a kind of wanted criminal?

Yeah, so the story is,

David Oyelowo is a sort of fairly

hapless character

working for a drug company.

And he ends up faking his own

kidnapping in Mexico

because he discovers essentially

that he's going to lose his job,

it looks like he's going to lose his

wife, he hasn't got anything else

to lose, so he fakes

his own kidnapping.

It starts off with him

going on the trip to Mexico,

with Joel Edgerton

and Charlize Theron,

both of whom are chewing the scenery

as his evil superiors.

Here's a clip.

There it is again.

What is that smell?

Barbecue - I always

bring it for Angel.

Angel, buenos dias.

There you go.

Gracias.

Hello.

New app.

Amazing.

Knew what else is amazing,

is actually learning

a foreign language.

Taco Bell, huh?

That's sensational.

I mean, as I said,

chewing the scenery.

Here's the thing with this film.

In terms of the plot,

it is all over the place,

it's one where the writers have

clearly decided to throw a bunch

of ideas at the wall

and see what sticks,

and only some of them do.

It gets by, however,

largely on the fact that

you like the cast.

So, David Oyelowo is a very

likeable antihero figure.

They are very dislikeable

villains in a real -

she's basically playing

Cruella Deville, and they're

enjoying

themselves.

There are entire

character threads...

Sharlto Copley turns up

halfway through suddenly,

and the film takes an entire

different direction.

There are entire sections of it that

don't hang together,

and at the end

you go, none of it added up.

But whilst watching it,

I enjoyed it much more

than I thought was going to

because the individual set pieces.

There is one set piece

in which a drug lord demands to know

from the people who he's holding

hostage whether or not they agree

that Sergeant Pepper

is the best Beatles album.

And it's one of those weirdly

surreal moments that works.

Others don't.

The film could have

lost 20 or 30 minutes.

It could have lost

one entire thread.

It's shambolic, no question,

and it's a mess, no question.

But it's an entertaining mess,

largely because I like

the central characters.

David Oyelowo is absolutely

brilliant, and he kind of holds

the whole thing together.

Is Sergeant Pepper

the best Beatles album?

No.

No, OK.

Glad we got a verdict there.

Now, next, You Were

Never Really Here.

This is a kind

of vigilante thriller?

Well, it looks like

that but it isn't.

It's a Lynne Ramsay film.

Lynne Ramsay made Rat Catcher,

We Need To Talk About Kevin.

She is someone who makes films

entirely on her own terms.

This is based on a novella

by Jonathan Ames.

And the story is that

Joaquin Phoenix is an enforcer,

somebody who is a hired gun,

who specialises in retrieving lost

kids, lost teenagers.

He is sent at the beginning

of the film to get back

a senator's missing daughter.

That's the mechanics of the plot.

However, Lynne Ramsay isn't really

that interested in plot mechanics.

What she's interested in is the fact

that he's a very damaged character.

She described him as somebody who's

got what is like a head full

of broken glass.

And what the film does is it gives

you this nominal thriller

narrative, but actually it's a very

poetic portrait of somebody who's

life is falling apart,

who's haunted by the ghosts

of the past,

who's haunted by past

abusive traumas.

Plus it upends your expectation,

because you know at the beginning

that he's a kind of...

He's a hired enforcer,

his weapon of choice is a hammer,

and yet he loves his mother,

he looks after his mother.

When they're at home,

Psycho comes on the television,

so you think, "Oh,

he's Norman Bates."

But he's not Norman Bates.

Later on, Shawshank Redemption

comes on the television,

which is very significant

if you're a Shawshank fan,

which I am.

The score is by Johnny Greenwood,

whose work is brilliant.

The whole film has this really

overwhelming sensory experience,

it's got a brilliant sound design.

See it in a cinema

that's playing it loud.

And I've now seen it a couple

of times, and the first time I found

it elliptical, almost

hard to follow the plot,

but you don't care

because what you're

following is the characters.

Second time around I thought,

this is proper cinema making.

Lynne Ramsay is an absolute genius,

nobody makes films like her.

She makes few films,

and when she does they are always

worth it.

As far as I'm concerned,

she has a perfect strike rate,

and this is already one

of my favourite films of the year

and we're only in March.

Wow.

Yes.

Now, Mom And Dad, which sounds very

nice, with Nicholas Cage,

but it's actually parents turning

quite nasty on their children?

Yeah.

So it's one of those

"what if" horror movies,

what if parents suddenly

decided to turn on their kids,

because they've been in this case,

we think, infected either by a virus

or perhaps by a signal

which is coming through

the television.

It seems to be sort of sent

through television distortion.

The film is directed by the guy

who is one half of Neveldine

and Taylor, who made films

like Crank, who are not

known for understatement.

So, at the very beginning

of the film, it starts as a standard

thing, a mother and father

and they're resentful

of their children's freedoms

but they're also very protective.

And then this strange,

horrific outbreak happens,

and the parents turn

on their children, but also

at the same time remain

weirdly, satirically protective.

Here's a clip.

It's not what you think.

What are you doing in my house?

Is my daughter here?

Carly?

Joshua?

Is that dad?

I want dad.

We need to leave God damn it.

I want to get my backpack.

Why?

Fine just get it.

We need to talk.

Oh, do we need to talk?

Yeah, we do need to

talk you can't be hit.

It's not about me and Carly,

it's about what's happening.

I get exactly...

It's called hormones.

Now, this is one of those films

in which Nic Cage goes full Nic

Cage.

There is a sequence

in which he attacks a pool table,

and it ranks alongside, you know,

Nic Cage's craziest moments.

The reason it works is this.

If you have a horror film like this,

it has to have a central truth

at the heart of it.

And the central truth is,

these parents basically resent

the fact that they -

they were once young,

crazy, free-spirited,

Nic Cage and some kind of...

And now their lives have changed,

because they've dedicated themselves

to looking after the children.

So, although what happens is a sort

of supernatural manifestation,

it's sort of clawing away at that

idea that these resentments

are actually real things.

It's a really odd film,

it's definitely not for everybody.

It's very taboo-breaking.

It's dealing with a very taboo

issue, which is parents

turning on children.

We've seen plenty of movies

with scary children,

you know, whether it's

Village Of the Dammed,

or The Excorcist.

This is the other way round.

And it works, up to a point.

It's completely bonkers.

There are several moments

in it when you think,

this is just preposterous.

But it works because it's got

a central core idea,

and it's not afraid, you know,

to over-crank itself.

And I enjoyed it, but I was very

aware after watching it,

I'm enjoying it as a horror fan.

It's not for everybody.

Well, I can imagine as a parent

you might find it pretty

uncomfortable kind of viewing.

Yeah, and the moments that it works

the best are exactly those moments,

when it taps into the idea

that this is outrageous,

this is terrible, but it's tapping

into a sort of parental resentment

idea, which is a very,

very taboo idea.

So it's, you know, as I said,

not for everybody, but if you're

a horror fan, if you

like films like Teeth,

if you like films like

American Mary, if you like offbeat,

strange, quirky American horror

movies, that dare to go

into fairly dark places,

then I think it's

an interesting film.

And it is genuinely

horrifying, is it?

It's genuinely satirically nasty,

which is slightly different.

OK.

All right,

I think we get the distinction.

You're not going, I can tell.

I'm not going, you're

absolutely right!

What is best out at the moment?

Fantastic Woman, which just won

to the Oscar for Best Foreign

Language Film, is a wonderful story

about a transgender woman who finds

herself shut out of her life

when her lover dies and the family

descend, it has a brilliant

performance by Daniela Vega,

who is just wonderful,

really mesmerising, a great screen

presence and really

carries the movie.

Sebastian Lelio, who directed it,

I think does a wonderful job

of mixing on the one hand, you know,

realist, gritty story elements

with moments of fantasy.

At one point it turns into a sort

of musical fantasia,

in which she levitates.

There's another moment when she's

walking down the street and the wind

is blowing, and it's almost

like a supernatural wind.

And the film is about, you know,

finding your identity,

finding your place,

asserting your name,

you know, saying, "I am

Marina, this is who I am."

I've seen it a few times now,

and every time I've seen I've seen

more in it.

It's really well worth watching,

and it was a deserved Oscar winner.

So, your recommendation.

Absolutely.

All right, and the best DVD?

Killing Of A Sacred Deer.

Killing Of A Sacred Deer

is the new film by Yorgos Lanthimos.

It's interesting because it was at

Cannes the same time

the Lynne Ramsay film was at Cannes,

and they shared the prize

for best screenwriting.

This is a very, very odd story

about a medic who has a secret

in his past.

It starts off looking like it's

a kind of strange social satire,

and then it turns into

a full-blooded horror movie.

It's more horrifying than anything

that's in Mom And Dad.

I mean, it's genuinely

disturbing at the end.

But it's a film, again,

in which it's all to do with the way

in which the story is told rather

than the story itself.

It makes a very, very interesting

double bill with the Lynne Ramsay

movie, and I don't want to say it

again but the Lynne Ramsay movie

is one which everybody

has to go and see.

There is quite a lot

around which blurs horror

and social satire.

Horror is in a fantastic

period at the moment,

horror is in a period in which it

doesn't look like a single genre.

We are seeing horror inflecting

a whole lot of other

areas, and obviously...

That was my I grew

up on horror movies.

Get Out is a movie I absolutely love

- if you call that a horror movie.

It is absolutely a horror movie.

And people started saying it wasn't

a horror movie when it got nominated

for Oscars, because that's always

the thing which scares people off.

But it is a horror movie,

it's in the tradition of Ira Levin,

but it's also a social satire,

it has elements of comedy in it.

You know, horror can inflect

absolutely everything.

It is the genre to end all genres.

Well, it's your favourite genre.

It is, absolutely.

Fair enough.

Mark, thank you very much indeed.

Thank you.

Just a quick reminder before you go

that you will find more film news

and reviews from across the BBC

online at bbc.co.uk/MarkKermode

and you can find all our previous

programmes on the BBC

iPlayer as well.

But that is it for this week.

Thank you very much for watching,

and from us, goodbye.

Hello, this is Breakfast

with Naga Munchetty and Charlie

Stayt.

Good morning.

Here's a summary of today's main

stories from BBC News.

The Home Secretary will chair

a second meeting of the government's

emergency Cobra committee today,

as investigations continue

into the poisoning of

a former Russian spy.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter

Yulia are both in a serious

condition in hospital

in Salisbury after being exposed

to a nerve agent.

Specialist troops trained

in chemical warfare have been

deployed to the city.

The grave of Mr Skripal's wife,

who was buried in 2012,

and the memorial stone of his son,

who was cremated last year,

have been cordoned off.

President Trump has tweeted that

a deal with North Korea is "very

much in the making," which he said

would be very good for the world.

The White House says he won't meet

Kim Jong-un unless Pyongyang takes

concrete steps to end

its nuclear programme.

No sitting US president has ever met

a leader from North Korea before.

An 85-year-old man has died

while waiting in an Accident

and Emergency unit because of

"dangerous overcrowding," according

to a hospital boss.

The man suffered a cardiac arrest

while waiting to see a senior

consultant at Northampton

General Hospital.

A leaked email from the trust's

medical director describes his death

as "due entirely to dangerous

overcrowding in the department."

In a statement the hospital

said the long wait for

treatment was "unacceptable."

President Trump has tweeted that

a deal with North Korea is "very

The National Rifle Association has

mounted a legal challenge to new gun

control measures in Florida drawn up

in the wake of a school shooting

last month which left

17 people dead.

It says the new law,

which will raise the legal age

to purchase firearms,

but also allows the training

and arming of school staff,

is unconstitutional.

Teachers in England could see their

workloads cut under proposals being

set out to David why the education

secretary. He will tell a head

teachers' conference in Birmingham

that long working hours and too much

red tape have become a barrier to

recruiting and retaining staff.

He's been in the job just one day,

but he's not up to it,

and has

already been replaced

by human resources.

'Flippy,' the burger-flipping robot

had been serving customers

at a restaurant in California,

in an attempt to replace human

cooks.

There he is. But apparently he is

not that good.

not that good. He has been told he

is too slow and cannot flip erg is

quickly enough. He is being

reprogrammed, apparently. That is

it.

And he couldn't put the cheese

on the burgers either. It was a

human hand putting the cheese on.

It

is a well-known fact that robots

can't handle cheese.

Was it his or

her first day in the job? That is a

bit harsh. You need to give them a

six-month apprenticeship.

In the

burger business, you can either do

it or you can't do it.

It is a

cutthroat world, the burger

business.

Will there ever be a

sports presenter robot?

Don't we

already? That was a joke!

That was

good. Especially at this time of

day. We are talking about the Winter

Paralympics. We are delighted for

Millie Knight and is Brett Wilde. I

was with her in the Alps a year ago,

she had been injured, she had a

concussion and wasn't sure if she

would make Paralympics.

It could be the start of a medal

rush, not just for Britain,

but for Millie Knight

and her guide Brett Wild,

because they still have

four events to compete in.

Let's get some reaction

now in Pyeongchang

and speak to our reporter Kate Gray.

Hi, Kate.

A great start for 19-year-old Millie

and a boost for the whole team.

Yes, absolutely. It was the first

medal event of these games.

Paralympics Team GB have come away

with a medal in the downhill skiing.

I by those medallists, Millie Knight

and her guide Brett Wilde. Huge

congratulations, what a relief to

get a medal on the first day!

Absolutely fantastic. This time last

year I sustained a severe

concussion, on the slopes, when I

crashed into the finish line. To

cross the line today is a

silver-medallist is amazing.

Were

you nervous at the start? Was that

going through your mind at all?

I

certainly was nervous, I guess that

just means care about it. All the

nerves went as soon as we started.

Brad, you are guiding her down the

mountain. Not a particularly easy

downhill. Some incidents with other

athletes?

Yes, quite a challenging

downhill. That rank there was no

proper point where you could rest

and the conditions were quite

challenging. We had a game plan and

we stuck to it and we are so pleased

that we made it.

Is there a slight

disappointment but it wasn't the

gold this time?

No, definitely not.

With the season we've had, it has

been quite a frustrating season. We

have not been getting the results we

wanted. Coming back from concussion

was very tough. This is the highest

result that we have had all season

and so for it to come at the

paralytic games is wonderful. And

you have a busy programme ahead of

you. -- Paralympic Games. How do you

recover and get back on the slopes?

We have done our recovery, we will

be speaking to the team psychologist

this evening to get our game plan

together and reset our heads. Nearly

thrives off confidence. -- Millie

thrives. So this result, we can

hopefully go on to achieve better

later in the week.

We wish you the

best of luck. Please continue that

incredible form that you've got.

That is Great Britain's first medal

of the games. Unfortunately was

disappointment for Fitzpatrick and

Keyhoe, who crashed out early in the

race. They will get to go again, as

will Millie Knight and Brett Wilde,

in the Super G tomorrow. Great

Britain are against Norway in the

wheelchair curling today. Recently

it was 1-1 between them.

Yes, that's

on a knife edge. Please pass on our

huge congratulations to Millie

Knight and Brett Wilde. That is

fantastic. Millie Knight is only 19

years old, she only has 5% vision,

she relies on sound and feeling, and

quinces of Brett Wilde's orange

jacket. More victory for England's

cricketers, as well.

Jonny Bairstow hit 104 as England

beat New Zealand by seven wickets

in Christchurch to win

the one-day series 3-2.

Chris Woakes excelled with the ball,

finishing with figures of 3-32.

Adil Rashid also claimed three

wickets as the Black Caps

were bowled out for 223.

England reached that total

with the loss of just 3 wickets.

They've now won five

successive ODI series.

And what a catch that was.

The Six Nations Championship

could be decided today.

If results go their way,

Ireland will take the title.

They're the only side that

can do the Grand Slam,

winning every match -

and if they beat Scotland and take

a bonus point, England must do

the same in France to take

the championship

to the final weekend.

We just need to make sure that we

play from the first minute and that

we don't let any distractions or any

little things or even a dropped ball

in the warmup, or the bus breaking

down, or anything left field like

that, but that doesn't catch us.

This game is all about experience.

So, they are up against a Scotland

team full of confidence after

beating England. Scotland are not

actually out of the running yet.

They are third on the table. Victory

for Scotland would mean a whole new

selection of limitations.

If we want to challenge for the

title we need to win this game. They

are going well. They are a very good

side. So it will be a huge test for

us, one which we have to meet

head-on.

The good thing for England is that

they will not exactly what they need

to do by the time they kick off in

Paris.

They might have to score four

tries and pick up a bonus

point but their boss

won't be rolling the dice.

I'm not a gambler. I'm not a

speculator. The only thing I need to

worry about is catching England to

beat France. That is the only thing

we can control. We play really well,

we get a bonus point. We don't play

well, we get beaten. We play above

average, we win the game.

Manchester City may be flying ahead

in the Premier League title

but the fight for second place

is warming up nicely.

Two of the contenders

meet at lunchtime,

with Manchester United

facing Liverpool at Old Trafford.

They played out a goalless draw

when they last met back in October,

with United's defence tying

Liverpool's attack in knots.

It is not a battle of systems or

philosophies. It is to make a very

good football team to face each

other. -- it is two very good. When

they are attacking, I have all my

players are involved in defending.

If we are parking the bus in that

moment, we parked the bus, I have no

problem with that.

In the Scottish Premiership,

we have Rangers against Celtic

in the Old Firm derby tomorrow.

Last night, Hibernian

moved 12 points clear

of Hearts with a 2-0

win at Easter Road.

Hibs are now just a point behind

third-placed Aberdeen.

British number one

Johanna Konta said defeat

in the second round at Indian Wells

was one of the tougher losses

of her career.

She lost in straight sets

to 18-year-old Marketa Vondrousova,

ranked 54th in the world.

Konta has won only eight matches

since she reached the semi-finals

at Wimbledon last summer.

Rory McIlroy's Masters preparations

suffered a setback after another

poor round at the Valspar

Championship in Florida.

He won't be back for the weekend

after carding a 73 to finish

on five over par.

Meanwhile Tiger Woods is two shots

off the pace after a round of 68.

Canada's Corey Conners

leads on six under par.

The continuing controversy

surrounding Team Sky doesn't seem

to be affecting their race

performances after Geraint Thomas

took the lead in the Tirreno

Adriatico in Italy.

The Briton finished fourth

on yesterday's third stage,

but that was enough

to move him up to the top

of the general classification.

Team mate Chris Froome is in third

place, three seconds off the lead.

It's less than a month

away until the start

of the Commonwealth Games and teams

from across Great Britain

are preparing to head

to Australia's Gold Coast.

In the lead-up to the games I've

been meeting some of the medals

hopes from each team.

This week I've been to Wales to meet

an extraordinary table tennis player

who's only 11.

Your first year at secondary school

is a big step in life. But maybe not

if you are Anna, who at the age of

11 is about to rip Zantac country on

the other side of the world, --

represent. And that the same time,

rewrite the history books. MUSIC.

Now, these pictures haven't been

sped up. This is how good Anna is.

At school, in her lunch hour, she

doesn't give anybody a chance, as

she builds up to competing at the

senior Commonwealth Games in

Australia.

It was really good, it's

exciting. I am a bit nervous. Senior

countries, and making new friends.

-- seeing a new countries.

It is

mesmerising watching Anna, who just

remember, only recently that rhyme

is cool and has already graduated to

the Commonwealth games, lead to be

the youngest athlete in history to

do so. -- recently graduated primary

school. No shame, John!

It is

breathtaking how fast years, it is

remarkable. We are very lucky as a

school to have her here. I think she

is going to do her school proud and

do Wales proud as well.

She is

really nice and we didn't know at

first that she was this good when we

were in primary, it is really

amazing how she is just 11 years old

and she beats all the adult players.

Anna started playing table tennis

when she was five and because there

are not enough players of her

standard in Wales, she has recently

spent time training in China against

the best in the world. OK, I'm very

nervous about this.

nervous about this. This humiliation

is the result of most of Anna's

gains. This is what she is going to

try to do to all those... Spin! Look

at that! This is what Anna will be

doing, I'm sure, too many senior

players on the Gold Coast.

You have

to be really fast.

Spin! That is

crazy.

Sorry. You have to be, like,

thinking quick, which ball you are

going to hit, what you are going to

do, planet before you play your

point and then you risk it for three

seconds and then you play again.

Just think about it.

Anna now spends

over three hours a day perfect in

her shots because she wants to show

the world she is not going to the

Gold Coast just for the experience.

-- perfecting.

I'm going there to

try to win.

What would it mean to

get a medal?

It would mean a lot.

There is no pressure, you just have

to play your best.

She is already the top under 18

player in Wales, and just about in

the world's top 20 now. It is

incredible that she will be

competing in the senior Commonwealth

games at the age of 11. Now, the

records for the Commonwealth Games

are a bit sketchy. It is believed

she will be the youngest ever to

compete, that when it was the

British Empire Games, we don't know

if maybe, sometime, there was a

younger player from somewhere.

An

amazing achievement.

She seems so

calm.

Like a professional athlete,

really.

But when she is at the table

her mind is obviously rising.

Such

an experience, to be people who are

older and more experienced than her.

So the games are building up in the

next few weeks, we will have the

other home nations featured over the

coming weekends.

You are watching

Breakfast from BBC News.

The main stories this morning: 180

troops have been brought

in to assist police

after the attempted murder

of a former Russian spy

and his daughter in Salisbury.

President Trump has reaffirmed that

a deal with North Korea is very much

in the making, after agreeing to

meet Kim Jong-un.

Also coming up in the programme:

We will be asking whether mandatory

passing distances and fines

for motorists who fling

open their car doors

could be the way to protect

cyclists from danger.

It's time for the weather,

but first, we can have a look

at the view across

London this morning.

Here is Louise.

It is one of those kinds of days, I

can't quite work out what the

weather is going to do, that is my

amateur forecast.

Do you know what I

like? Just a month ago it would have

been dark at this point, and it is

getting lighter. It feels as though

we

getting lighter. It feels as though

we are getting into spring. What do

you think, Louise?

We are definitely

heading into spring. It looks as

though we are going to see milder

air over the next few days. I have a

picture coming up which will top

that one in London, stay watching.

But take a look at the story as we

go through the day to day. The mild

air pushes up from the south and

will move into Scotland. I know it

has been a cold night, we have seen

loads of -8 in the Highlands, but

the mild air heading in your

direction. Most of us, a mild day

around, some of the rain heavy at

times. And this has been the story

through the rain overnight, in

actual fact pushing up across the

south-west in the northern England

and Northern Ireland. A little bit

of sleet and snow as it comes into

that cold air. As the mild at

Thaksin behind we are not too

concerned about the snow in Scotland

today. That rain will turn quite

heavy as it pushes its way into

Central Scotland by the middle of

the afternoon. Further south we will

see another band of rain moving

through but this one could be some

brightness from time to time. Either

middle of the afternoon we will see

some rain, and some of it quite

heavy. Temperatures starting to

climb, four to eight degrees, the

real mild air will arrive later on.

Through Northern Ireland, double

digits. Rain across northern

England, Wales, down into the

Midlands. If it rakes up and is

rather showery in nature, we will

see sunshine coming through. We

could see highs of 15 degrees. If we

get higher than that, the warmest

day of the year so far. The rain

will continue to push its waste

steadily northwards, southerly winds

driving in that warmer air, but

overnight they will do back down to

single figures and we could see a

problem with some fog firstly the

morning. That is certainly worth

bearing in mind. It could be a murky

old start to our Sunday, and because

of that fog, some of its slow to

clear, the temperatures will take

their time to pick tomorrow. We

could see a few showers starting to

push in from the south-west. Some of

the showers heavy and possibly

thundery at times. A better day for

northern England, Northern Ireland

and Scotland. Some sunny spells

coming through perhaps, and look at

this. Nine to 12 degrees. The last

time we saw double digits in

Scotland is in on 20 February. This

is the far north of Scotland,

because of those clear skies, and in

fact there is the potential tonight

to see the aurora up into the north.

The bright yellow denotes the

greater chance of seeing it, but you

will see how it nudges into the far

north of Scotland, so get out there

and take a look before you go to

bed. You could see an amazing sight.

I would be very jealous.

Thank you

very much, talk to you later on.

We will be back with

the headlines at 7:00am.

First it's time for Click,

with Spencer Kelly.

As International Women's Day

was marked this week,

it brought with it further focus

on the many issues still to be faced

in bringing about true gender

equality in all walks of life.

The technology industry,

of course, has its own issues,

as we'll hear later.

Silicon Valley's culture

and its treatment of women raises

a lot of questions.

But tech can also be

a force for good.

It's been just six months

or so since the Me Too movement gave

a voice to so many women around

the world, who used social media

to expose just how widespread sexual

harassment and assault is.

Many women feel that reporting

sexual assault can also be really

traumatic, and the experiences

of some women in Silicon Valley have

spurred them to create something

that may make that just

a little bit easier.

Sumi Das has travelled

to Stanford University to meet

survivors of sexual abuse,

and the creators of Callisto.

Every tattoo tells a story.

For Stanford University

student Jacqueline Lin,

the story is bittersweet.

Lin was one of 50 sexual assault

survivors invited to share the stage

with Lady Gaga during

the 2016 Oscars.

While we were rehearsing,

I remember at one point

we were all crying and hugging each

other, and someone just said,

"We need to get a tattoo

to commemorate this

and to give us strength."

Something to look at

when you are feeling down,

Lin says that a few days

after she was assaulted by a friend

in 2015, she told the Title IX

office, which investigates sexual

misconduct.

I decided to report because I didn't

want him to do it to anyone else,

and later I did find out

that he had done a lot of...

A lot of harassment,

stalking and also assault

on someone else.

What was that experience like?

It was awful.

My GPA dropped down,

and I was fighting with the school

back and forth every single

hour, every single day.

Lin, now an activist,

wants greater transparency

in the adjudication process.

They're trying to cover up

the number of sexual assault that

happen on their campus, because that

makes your university look safer.

It's better for your

public relations.

Stanford told Click:

Stanford

changed its Title IX process in 2016

and has begun reporting

case numbers.

In the US, one in five women

is sexually assaulted

while in college.

I was sexually

assaulted by a friend.

Over a year after that happened,

I decided to report my assault,

and I ended up finding the process

of reporting to be more traumatic

than the event itself.

Feeling not believed

by the people who I thought

were there to protect me

was incredibly destabilising.

Jessica Ladd's ordeal

spurred her to create Callisto,

so survivors would have a way

of reporting sexual assault.

They can, one, just say

what happened to them

with a timestamp, doesn't have to go

anywhere if they don't want to.

Two, report electronically

to the authorities at their school.

Or three, just save what happened

to them for now, but report

electronically if someone else

names the same assailant.

You can think of Callisto

as an information escrow agency.

It holds onto records,

and only alerts schools

when there's a match.

Students often report

to protect others.

This matching feature helps do that

by detecting repeat offenders.

People might use different names,

they may look different.

How do you make sure you've

got the right person?

We ask victims to put in not just

the name of their perpetrator,

but also a series of

unique identifiers.

Currently, Facebook

profiles are used to match.

Some students want more ways to ID,

and Callisto may add mobile numbers

and e-mail addresses in the future.

12 US colleges use Callisto.

The University of San

Francisco was the first.

We knew students weren't reporting.

If you look at our numbers from once

we first started with Callisto,

three years ago, to now,

there is definitely

an increase in reporting.

Callisto allows for our students

to write what happened,

to write about the incident.

And sometimes just writing

your perpetrator's name

gives people power.

Seeing the need for Callisto,

Shanta Katipamula led an effort

to bring it to Stanford.

It's just available 24/7,

and they have seen spikes in usage

during times like spring break,

when the Title IX office might not

be available, but students

wanted to file a report,

or during the weekends,

when no-one's staffing.

With Callisto, survivors

recount what happened

at their own pace, privately.

Often victims, including

in in-person interviews,

will want to seem credible.

So they want to fill

in all the details, and tell

a wonderful story arc.

But that's not how memory works,

and that's particularly not how

memory works in the event of trauma.

So being able to allow somebody

to say, I don't know this answer,

I'm not sure of that.

And only recording things

that they are sure of,

is really essential to make sure

that that time stamped record isn't

later used against them.

Students must create a username,

password and pass phrase that

can't be recovered.

Not quite a one-click sign up.

That deters some users.

For Callisto, it ensures privacy.

Because then we'd be having

to store the password,

which means that we could

potentially decrypt the data,

and we want to make sure that even

we can't view what's in the form.

Since students choose

whether to report assaults,

some records are never

seen by schools.

But they're still useful.

We provide our institutions

with an aggregate data report

that gives them a better sense

of what is happening in that store

record, what type of years

are assault occuring,

what type of assault is it?

Is it involving alcohol, is it not?

What class years are involved?

Others are also working to make

reporting less daunting.

The spot app creates a record

from the user's conversation

with a chat bot, while All Voices

will let them report electronically.

Lin isn't sure electronic reporting

would have changed her was handled,

though she see its potential.

What I think Callisto is great

for is to track perpetrators.

If they decide to apply to grad

school, if they decide to transfer

schools,

I think that's where

this can really come in,

and have a very powerful effect.

As we grow, we want to create one

system, one database that allows us

to track any perpetrator, even

as they move through space and time.

Which would give survivors a way

to find out if their assailant

is a repeat offender,

something Ladd says she wonders

to this day.

Hello, and welcome

to the Week in Tech.

It was the week that Sony blocked

the videogame Super Seducer

from being released

on the PlayStation 4.

It's been criticised as too sleazy

and for promoting toxic behaviour.

Dyson announced it won't be making

plug-in vacuum cleaners any more,

they'll be developing

their cordless battery range.

Dating app Bumble has banned members

from posing with guns

in their profile pictures,

though an exception is being made

for military and law enforcement

officers in uniform.

Solving in three, two, one.

And a robot managed to solve

a Rubik's Cube in under a second.

Blink and you'll miss it.

Here it is again in slo-mo.

It was the week that mobile

companies Three and Vodafone came

under investigation over the way

they handle data on their network.

Ofcom's looking at whether they're

intentionally slowing down internet

speeds while customers are abroad.

And finally, Flippy the robot has

been working at a restaurant in LA.

Its job - yep, you've guessed it,

is flipping burgers.

It uses image recognition

and heat sensing to cook.

The company, Caliburger,

is installing Flippy in 50 locations

but it's not cheap

at $60,000 a robot.

Hope those burgers taste good!

I think I've found him.

That's not possible.

If this gets out...

We've bought ourselves a war.

There's obviously a huge

responsibility to deliver something

for the audience of Blade Runner

from the first one.

The expectation visually,

making everything look cool,

was on our mind every day.

The demands of Vegas

and the expectation of making

something that was based

on what we know of Vegas now,

but what it would be in the future.

So we started with the US geodata,

of the Vegas Valley

and the city itself.

So we had a simple

model in the computer.

Dennis Gassner, the art

director of the film,

had built a simple model of Vegas

with significant buildings loosely

placed around, and so forth.

We took those two and sort

of smashed them together initially.

We looked for ways very subtly

of how to bring in the human element

into the shots, how to sell that

scale, analysing some of Syd's work

and how he used graphics

on the face of his buildings,

how he in a lot of his

paintings used little human

scale futuristic items.

We built all that stuff and placed

it around the city in an organised

way to make it look like people

were there at one time,

even though we see no one,

and that's what made it look real

or look like a place

people could have been in.

To build Trash Mesa was based

on the idea that everyone had moved

to the city, and all the structures

outside the city had been

pretty much abandoned.

There was no power, there was no

water, nothing outside.

So the trash that's generated

from the city was dumped

on the buildings outside the city.

Again, we're trying to base things

on as much reality as we could.

So we started with the landscape

of current-day California,

from Los Angeles to San Diego,

and we determined Iceland

The sequence of the ships was based

on the Bangladesh ship harvesting

yard where they recapture

all the metal, and so forth,

that happens now.

So a lot of the ships,

and the pieces of the ships,

and the idea of these

little tiny human beings working

on these massive structures sort

of drove that look through

the middle of that sequence.

So it's a matter of grabbing

all these components that were based

on today's reality, scaling them

so they have this massive

relationship between K in his little

spinner and this enormous landscape,

and these huge mounds of trash.

It was just a matter of pulling off

that scale and that distance,

which was just a massive

undertaking, just in the amount

of data and assets we had to build,

and things we had to manage

in itself to pull that off.

The future of the species

is finally unearthed.

It is a brilliant film,

absolutely superb.

Blade Runner 2049,

a well-deserved Oscar win.

And that's it for the short

version of Click this week.

Don't forget, the full-length

version is ready and waiting

for you to watch

right now on iPlayer.

And we are always waiting to you

on Twitter and on Facebook as well.

Thanks for watching,

and we'll see you soon.

Hello, this is breakfast, with

Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

The government hold a second

emergency meeting today over the

suspected attempted murder of a

former Russian spy and his daughter.

-- the government will hold. Nearly

200 British troops have been

deployed to assist in the

investigation.

Good morning. It is Saturday, March

ten.

A deal "very much in the making" -

President Trump strikes a positive

tone over a potential

meeting with Kim Jong-un,

but the White house says North Korea

must take "concrete steps" before

it can take place.

Tackling the recruitment crisis

in England's schools,

the Education Secretary promises

to cut teachers' workloads.

In sport, a first medal for Britain

at the Winter Paralympics,

And it's a silver for visually

impaired skiier Millie Knight