17/03/2018 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Munchetty.

Police investigating the murder

of a businessman in London begin

contacting other Russian exiles

to discuss their personal

safety in Britain.

Forensic teams have been working

through the night to find out

what happened to Nikolai Glushkov,

who was found dead on Monday.

Good morning, it's

Saturday 17 March.

Also this morning: Police launch

a murder investigation after two

women are shot dead

at a house in East Sussex.

100 flights are cancelled

and drivers are told to expect

disruption, as the "mini beast

from the east" sweeps in.

It will be a shock to the system to

many of us today, as the Siberian

air returns, ringing a sheet of ice

and snow, there are numerous

warnings out including amber

warnings, from the Met Office, and I

will tell you more in about 15

minutes.

In sport, the St Patrick's Day party

heads for Twickenham.

Ireland know they're Six Nations

champions already but victory over

England would give

them the Grand Slam.

First, police investigating

the murder of a Russian man

in London say

they have begun contacting other

Russian exiles in Britain

to discuss their safety.

Forensics teams have continued

working at the home of 68-year

Forensics teams have continued

working at the home of 68-year-old

Nikolai Glushkov, who was

found dead on Monday.

But police say at this stage,

it is not being connected

to the poisoning of former

Russian spy Sergei Skripal

and his daughter in Salisbury.

John McManus reports.

68-year-old Nikolai Glushkov, found

dead at his home on this unassuming

road in Southwest London on Monday.

But Mr Glushkov's life was anything

but ordinary. The postmortem has

revealed he was murdered, killed by

compression to the next. Unusually

counterterrorism police are leading

the -- investigation because of Mr

Glushkov's past weeks. In the 90s he

was the director of Russian airline

Aeroflot, but sought political

asylum in the UK and was still being

sued by Russia. He was friends with

Russian businessmen Boris Berezovsky

who was found dead in 2013. An open

verdict was recorded but Mr Glushkov

believed he had been murdered. Some

observers believe it is time to join

the dots.

Mr Glushkov's death fits

into a wider pattern of the last 12

years of Russian opponents dropping

dead across Europe. The consequences

for the Kremlin of this were limited

to far too long, the UK response as

recently been much stronger, but

there are still awful lot we could

do.

The former PR executive, Lord

Bell, a friend of Mr Glushkov has

told the BBC he suspects he was

killed after being deemed a traitor

by the Russian state. Police say

that at present there is no link

between the murder in London and the

poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his

daughter in Salisbury. But some

Russian exiles are being contacted

about their safety.

Our reporter John McManus is outside

the Russian embassy this morning.

John, what's the latest?

Tell us more about the discussions

that police are having with Russian

exiles?

They have gone to want some

Russian X-Files to talk to them

about their safety, they say there

is not a definite danger to them but

they want to make them aware that

there may be things going on. That

the dramatic row regarding what

happened to Sergei Skripal and his

daughter in Salsbury is still

continuing as well. They were

poisoned using a nerve agent on the

fourth of March, they are both still

critically ill and the Prime

Minister Theresa May is pointing the

finger very firmly at Russia. She

says that 23 Russian diplomats in

the embassy based in the building

behind me will have to leave Britain

as part of Britain's retaliation.

The war of words since begetting

worse, you say the Foreign Secretary

Boris Johnson said it was

overwhelmingly likely that the

Russian President Vladimir Putin

personally ordered that attack in

Salsbury. The Russians say that is a

disgusting accusation and they are

angry with Boris Johnson to making

it. They will also probably expels

some British diplomats at some point

from Russia. That could happen at

any point, and they said they are

also going to have their own

investigation into what happened to

Sergei Skripal. These investigations

at the moment between Britain and

Russia are at a very low point, and

it could carry on like this the

sometime to come.

Thank you very

much.

Police have launched a murder

investigation after two women

were shot and killed

at a house in East Sussex.

Officers were called to an address

in St Leonards-on-Sea last night.

A man has been arrested.

Marta Newman's report contains

some flashing images.

Officers responded immediately when

they got a report of a shooting at a

house at around 8pm last night. The

road in this seaside town was closed

and local residents were asked to

stay away from the area and remain

indoors. Police say two women aged

32 and 53 were killed. Two other

women including one who is pregnant

were led to safety by officers and

taken to hospital. Both were

uninjured but suffering from shock.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested

on suspicion of murder. He remains

in custody for questioning. Police

have said that it is were known to

the suspect and that they are not

looking for anyone else in

connection with the shooting.

The former deputy director

of the FBI, Andrew McCabe,

has been fired just hours before

he was due to formally retire.

Mr McCabe had faced repeated

criticism from President Trump.

In a statement he said his sacking

had been politically motivated

and claimed it was part of a wider

effort to taint the FBI

and intelligence professionals.

The number of hospital admissions

due to older people falling

is expected to rise to nearly 1,000

a day by the end of the decade.

That's according to figures obtained

by the Local Government Association.

It's prompted calls for more funding

for adult social care.

After a fall if someone does not

recover fully they are housebound,

they may need to be provided with

home help, meals on wheels, and it

can also have wider impacts on

health, and it is often a case that

when a person has a serious fall it

is one of the things that's liberate

-- precipitate the slickly slope of

them becoming housebound. --

slippery slope.

More than 100 flights

to and from Heathrow have been

cancelled ahead of predicted bad

weather dubbed "the mini beast

from the east."

The Met Office has issued an amber

warning for snow and ice in much

of England and parts of Scotland

ahead of another cold snap.

Highways England is advising

motorists to avoid trans-Pennine

roads.

Tens of thousands of people have

been fleeing the northern Syrian

town of Afrin, as Turkish forces

fight a US-backed Kurdish militia

that it considers a terrorist group.

The UN estimates that almost 50,000

people have been displaced

in the last few days,

with reports from the area that

dozens of people were killed

in air strikes on Friday.

At least eight people have been

injured after a faulty ski lift

threw people from their seats

at a mountain resort in Georgia.

Skiers and snowboarders

were flung off at speed,

Skiers and snowboarders

were flung off at speed,

and others were forced to jump

from the chairlift as their seats

hurtled backwards down the mountain.

So far no cause has been given

as to what caused it

to malfunction.

to malfunction.

Three children are being treated

for infections that may be linked

to bacteria in the water supply

at a Glasgow hospital.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

is investigating after the discovery

at the Royal Hospital for Children.

The source of the bacteria

is not yet known.

It said tests were ongoing to try

confirm if the children's infections

are linked to water contamination.

RuPaul has been awarded a star on

the Hollywood walk of Fame. The host

of RuPaul's drag race said it was

the most important moment of his

career. Jane Fonda who presented the

awards it should have been three

times larger. Landmarks across the

globe are turning a shade of green

to set -- celebrate St Patrick's

Day. New York and Dublin will host

the biggest public parade which will

include live music, a sea of green

and presumably one or two drinks.

Happy St Patrick's Day to all those

celebrating.

What we're going to

say? I was going to say time.

I was

going to say, let's look at the

papers. The front page of the papers

this morning, the Times, the picture

there is from the Gold cup,

celebrating there, the jockey

celebrating there. The main story is

Oxfam engulfed by a second sex

scandal in earthquake torn Haiti.

The Daily Mirror has taken a look at

the Salsbury scandal, -- at the

child-abuse scandal in Telford,

saying there are 12 more victims. On

the front page of the Daily

Telegraph, a huge picture of Theresa

May, and affordable having scheme on

-- affordable housing scheme on new

estate, the cameras capturing the

moment when she was cuddling a small

baby, the baby 's name is Teddy

Young. The main story is the murder

probe after one of light emitted

in's Dicks was found strangled at

his home. And police advice this

morning to a number of Russian ex-

aisles living in the UK -- exile.

That story also leading the front

page of the Guardian, Russian exile

was murdered, police say. The

picture today is of Olivia De

Havinand, who has brought a case

against the TV company about her

identity. We are waiting slightly to

see how the weather is going to be

across the weekend, a lot of

warnings in place as we speak. Helen

will bring

warnings in place as we speak. Helen

will bring is up-to-date.

Good

morning to you both. Lots of changes

this weekend, a shock to the system,

this was yesterday's temperatures

across the country, some 10 degrees

more down across southern and

eastern areas. No surprise when I

tell you that we have warnings out,

Campbell warnings from the Met

Office, -- amber warnings. We have

ice issues is morning before those

warnings come into force later this

afternoon. The Siberian air returns,

blasting across the country from the

east and it is because it is a

strong- gale force winds that it

will feel even colder than it has

done this week, is because of that

windchill. We have some winter in

this in our weather system -- wintry

nest in the weather system, pushing

southwards, rein in it but it will

turn into sleet and snow. It is the

showers following that we are

concerned about as we go through the

day, hence the amber warning. There

will be some brightness in the north

of Scotland but very little

sunshine, it will be cloudy and will

feel cold without the strength of

March sunshine. Temperatures are a

lot lower than they have been this

week, perhaps 6-8 in the south-west

because we are getting on to the

mother -- rather mild start. -6 and

-7, the windchill, a real shock

after what we have had full top the

amber warning, we are concerned

about the killer areas, from the Met

Office the north-east of England.

Through the top of England and

through the Thames Valley, and

overnight we're concerned about a

widespread area of slow coming

across southern England in the south

of Wales. Really quite a lot to keep

your eye naturally, if you have

players that today, don't make this

loss forecast C. It is this easterly

wind that is bringing the snow but

we could have something more

significant drifting up from the

south across the southern half of

the country, and there is a lot of

uncertainty as to exactly where and

how much we will see Premat. Through

the evening and overnight we keep

this easterly wind going, some areas

could see snow showers, because the

error is so cold it will settle and

then it comes together to form a

widespread area so we could see some

fairly significant snow in southern

areas. That could cause some

disruption is. It is blowing the

snow around, and clearly with the

sort of temperatures is going to be

icy as well, the fact that we have

snow in the forecast. We are

bringing back winter if you like. As

we go through Sunday that initial

snow clears out of the way but it

will take some time, fewer showers

and ugly for Scotland and Northern

Ireland as we see the high-pressure

sinking in, nevertheless it is not

going to be very warm, it will be

significantly cold day in the south

with that windchill. The main

message from this forecast is that

it is much colder this weekend,

today we have some major rugby

matches on the way and in the

mornings -- warnings which kick in

from the mid-afternoon, amber

warnings for snow. Do stagings to

local radio and our weather website

will have more updates.

How much

colder is that we are expecting for

this time of year, we are well into

spring now?

The strength of the sun,

if you're out there in the sunshine

you start to feel its effects. So

without that today it will feel even

colder. The average around this time

of year would be double figures

across most of the country. What we

have seen this week is probably more

akin to what we should see, this is

a dramatic drop. But that is not

unusual in March to see snow, we see

snow as late as June here in the UK.

That is not predict that.

I'm not

saying that. It is not that unusual

to see topsy-turvy weather at this

time of year, because some are isn't

-- because you get the cold air in

from the Arctic, and we are likely

to see some snow.

Britain's department stores

used to be the height

of luxury and service.

If you needed anything from clothing

to electricals or food,

they were the place to go.

But today, they face fierce

competition in all categories,

as online retailers offer everything

a customer wants at the click

of a button.

Radio 4's consumer reporter

Samantha Fenwick has been finding

out how department stores

are fighting back.

George Davies has been called a

cereal brand creator, a fashion

visionary, the king of the high

street.

street. They are very Abba, these,

aren't they?

Yes, very Abba. I was

too young to remember Abba.

He was

the man behind Capi, and M&S.

When

we started, there were 400 stores.

By the time ago to the 1990s, when I

starting George and ASDA, I already

knew parking was a real problem.

So

you could see that there was at that

point decline in the high street.

Yes, sure. It was obvious.

George

left M&S in 2008, vowing never to

return to the high street. He said

it was no longer a place to make

money. Ten years on and he has

changed his mind. His new line of

women's and children's clothing will

be in the shops next week. So why

the change of heart?

Rents are high,

business rates are high, but dealers

own a lot of their properties.

Probably 70% they own it, so that

takes quite a high risk out of it.

But not all department stores are

that lucky. This is London's Oxford

Street. It is where all the big

names have their flagship stores.

But the buildings are big, with too

much unprofitable space. House of

Fraser have asked their landlords to

reduce their rent, and the likes of

Debenhams and Marks & Spencer 's are

closing stores completely.

Costs are

going up for retailers, and shoppers

want to go online because it offers

convenience. They can get the lowest

prices, and they get the lowest

prices because those operators don't

have the same kind of costs as a

physical store.

The government is

concerned about the state of the

UK's High Street. It has just set up

a special panel to investigate how

best to adapt to that changes in the

wake we shop. It is being led by

Richard Penny Cook, the chairman of

department store Fenech.

Department

stores are about theatre and

service, and those are things that

can't be replicated online. So I

think there is a really good future

for department stores, but it is all

about making sure that we are

providing something different, which

makes the visit worthwhile --

Fenwick.

It will have to be

something very different to get us

off the internet and into the high

street.

We will be back with

the headlines at 6:30am.

Now it is time for the Film Review,

with Jane Hill and Jason Solomons.

Hello, and welcome to

The Film Review on BBC News.

To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Jason Solomons.

Good to see you, Jason.

What have you been watching?

This week, we'll go

to raiding and cliffhanging

with the new Lara Croft

in Tomb Raider.

Look at the meaning of art

and find our inner ape in Swedish

satire The Square.

And we dip into biblical times

for the real story of Mary Magdalen,

as played by Rooney Mara,

opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus.

What a mixture!

Tomb Raider is back.

Did they need to remake this?

Well, it wasn't very

good the first time!

Often they do remakes of things that

are really good and you think,

'why have they ruined it'?

But they may be trying

to get this right,

because Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft

has dated terribly -

the effects are bad

and it was never quite right.

Tomb Raider was sort of a teenage

fever dream for many boys who used

to play that as a game

when it was early computer games,

and they've now changed the whole

figure of Lara Croft for this

new actress, who I happen

to think is fantastic.

She's beautiful, gorgeous,

and she has got this strength

to her and balletic,

which she needs, because she has

done a lot of running in this movie.

She is slumming it in Shoreditch

when we start this, but then we find

out she is the daughter

of a billionaire, who is played

in a flashback.

She has to go and sign

the papers which means

that she will inherit his fortune.

That was Dad's?

Yes, Miss Croft.

According to his will,

I was supposed to give it to you.

And, technically speaking,

you are meant to sign

the papers first.

I could never understand

your father's obsession

with those things.

I can't believe how many of those

were lying around the house.

There's got to be

some purpose to it.

The first letter from

my final destination.

But he didn't leave a letter.

Well, they've got all the great

British actors in there as well.

They've lined them all up!

They are only in it

for a bit, I have to say -

for the money, I think!

She goes off on her quest -

this is a quest movie.

She goes hunting with clues

that her father has left her.

These riddles, which you might start

off solving them yourself

in your head - but don't bother,

because they don't make

any sense, really!

It's just another level

of the game that she goes to.

She goes to Hong Kong,

and then she is pursued,

which is all very good,

then she has to go to a remote

Japanese island on a ship,

and survive a storm,

going down a waterfall

and solving another puzzle.

She does a lot of jumping and then

she does a lot of dangling.

LAUGHTER.

You know, it's a bit krypton factor!

Considering the indignities heaped

upon her and ridiculous scenarios

thrown at her, I was mesmerised

by how brilliant she is at this.

She brings a balletic

strength to it.

She's got great abs,

fantastic skills with a bow

and arrow, and she's far,

far better than the film she is in.

I wondered whether you

were getting to that.

She is great, but is it worth

seeing apart from her?

It's very kinetic, the best I can

say for it is it keeps hurling stuff

at poor Alicia Vikander.

But the climatic tomb raid

is almost laughable -

it looks like something that you get

on the back of the cereal packet!

It's like, is that what this

has all been about?!

Maybe there will be more

Tomb Raiders and maybe

they will get them better!

They will keep trying.

I'm loving the sound of the next

one, it sounds intriguing.

It won the Palm d'Or at Cannes,

and has taken a year to get here,

but it was nominated

as Best Foreign-Language Film

at the Baftas.

Much of it was not in Swedish.

Elisabeth Moss is in this.

It features one of the great

scenes of the year,

which we are seeing here.

An American actor

comes in as an artist.

It is an art world satire.

This is an art gallery

benefit dinner.

He comes in to do a performance

piece, but takes it far too far.

Here he is kind of

goading Dominic West.

It's about finding art in that era.

It's a satire on the art world.

Art that can be dated,

what's the point of art,

is it ridiculous?

This is about modern art.

It's about the curator of this

gallery that we're seeing here.

He loses his mobile phone,

and his life completely falls

apart and unravels.

It really is a sort of film

predicated on that.

Is that in the category

of 'first-world problems?'!

It is very much about white male

privilege and what it is to be a man

in the privileged world.

Like, here they are in their black

ties, and he is an artist.

This scene goes on for 11 minutes,

and you can't stop watching.

It's extraordinary, but you don't

go how to react to it.

It's all about, what would

you do in that situation?

It keeps throwing moral

quandaries at you.

It's very funny, but also

very thought-provoking,

perhaps a bit too thought-provoking,

like the monkey poking Dominic West

in the ear.

You have been to see

Mary Magdalen as well.

It's Easter coming up,

time for a Passion story.

This is reported to tell

for the first time the story

of Mary Magdalen, who has been cast

as a prostitute since Pope Gregory

in 591 declared that

she was a prostitute,

which is apparently

wrong - she wasn't.

This film aims to correct that

and show the Jesus story

through the eyes of the only female

disciple, Mary Magdalen,

played by Rooney Mara,

who leaves her fishing village

and follows the son of God.

Mary.

Each of you stand at the threshold.

Do you fear that you will

never reach the kingdom?

Whose kingdom?

You know as well as I do,

there's only one true kingdom.

And that is God.

And God's kingdom has taken root.

So we must prepare.

We must wash away the stains

of your corruption.

And be born anew.

Like children.

I have been hidden for too long.

I'm not sure what to say about that!

You can see why her father would be

upset if she went to follow him,

this kind of hairy bloke

who's really boring!

Whatever you think about the Bible,

there's no denying it's got some

great lines in it.

Why this film hasn't got any

of them is a mystery to me.

It is extraordinarily dull.

Is it a long couple of hours?

Absolutely so dull you

would not believe it!

It even looks dull, it has got this

tablecloth fashion with the stones

everywhere in the desert.

At one stage it was the greatest

story ever told, when it was in

Hollywood, now it's just the most

boring story ever told.

It's extraordinary what it does,

trying to rectify it and make it

a story for a new age,

kind of a story for everyone -

it won't offend Catholics,

Christians, Jews, Muslims

or even atheists.

Is it trying to be too careful,

is that part of the problem?

It is trying to tiptoe

over any heresy.

People boycotted

Martin Scorcese's film.

Any film that makes you cry

for Mel Gibson has got it wrong!

It also makes you think

of Monty Python all the time!

There are scenes when people

are going, 'Messiah,

Messiah'!

You know what, he's not the Messiah!

I do wish you'd say

what you really think,

Jason!

So that's a long two hours,

and we'll leave it at that!

I don't think this will make a lot

of money at the box office, either.

I think faith-based audiences

will go and be completely mystified

as to what this was about.

It is a Passion of the Christ

without any passion.

What should we be going to see?

You've got to see Black Panther.

And you've got to see

it now at the cinema.

It is becoming a cultural event -

people are seeing it four or five

times, it has broken

records at the box office,

it is changing the way that

audiences are going,

black audiences are flocking to it,

families are enjoying

the representation.

It is a great superhero

movie, it's sexy, it's

exciting, it's funny.

People are hollering

at it in the cinema.

If you haven't been to a Marvel

movie in the cinema,

this is the one to go and see.

And DVD of the week

is also so lovely.

I will admit, I cried

at Paddington 2!

But it's a delight,

it's an absolute sweet,

delightful, charming,

sometimes silly, but just

lovely, lovely, lovely.

Beautifully done...

He is in his little

outfits, wondering around.

Paddington didn't win

Best British Film at the Baftas,

that went to Three billboards.

This is one of the best British

films we've ever made.

And how good is Hugh Grant?!

He's fantastic!

He is.

And Sally Hawkins is great in it,

the whole Brown family,

the whole look of it is perfect.

It's a work of genius,

Paddington two.

And when did you cry?!

I cried at the end!

I'm not going to give anything away

for anyone who hasn't been

to see it.

If you want a marmalade sandwich,

you can't have one!

It's very sweet, wonderful.

A mixed week, but

an interesting one.

Jason, good to see you, thank you.

That's it for this week.

Enjoy your cinema-going

and your DVD watching.

It's terrific, honestly!

Thanks for being with 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.

Police investigating the murder

of a Russian man in London say

they have begun contacting other

Russian exiles in Britain

to discuss their safety.

Forensics teams have continued

working at the home of 68-year-old

Nikolai Glushkov, who was

found dead on Monday.

But police say at this stage,

it is not being connected

to the poisoning of former

Russian spy Sergei Skripal

and his daughter in Salisbury.

John McManus reports.

68-year-old Nikolai Glushkov,

found dead at his home on this

unassuming road in south-west

London on Monday.

But Mr Glushkov's life

was anything but ordinary.

The post mortem has revealed

he was murdered, killed

by compression to the neck.

Unusually counterterrorism

police are leading

the investigation because of

Mr Glushkov's past links.

In the 1990s he was the director

of Russian airline

Aeroflot,

But was jailed after being found

guilty of fraud and

money-laundering.

He sought political asylum in the UK

and was still being sued by Russia.

He was friends with Russian

businessmen Boris Berezovsky

who was found hanged in 2013.

An open verdict was

recorded but Mr Glushkov

believed he had been murdered.

The deaths of 14 other Russians who

died in the UK in what may be

suspicious circumstances are being

re-examined.

Some observers believe

it is time to join

the dots.

Mr Glushkov's death fits

into a wider pattern of the last 12

years of Kremlin opponents

dropping dead across Europe.

The consequences for the Kremlin

of this were limited

to far too long.

The UK response has recently

been much stronger,

but there is still

awful lot we could do.

The former PR executive, Lord Bell,

a friend of Mr Glushkov,

has

told the BBC he suspects

he was killed after being deemed

a traitor by the Russian state.

Police say that at

present there is no link

between the murder in London

and the poisoning of Sergei Skripal

and his daughter in Salisbury.

But some Russian exiles

are being contacted

about their safety.

Police have launched a murder

investigation after two women

were shot and killed

at a house in East Sussex.

Officers were called to an address

in St Leonards-on-Sea last night.

A man has been arrested.

The victims were known to the

suspect, police they are not for

anyone else in connection to the

shooting.

More than 100 flights to and

from Heathrow have been cancelled

YouTube bad weather. Drivers are

being asked to avoid trans Pennine

roads.

The former deputy director

of the FBI, Andrew McCabe,

has been dramatically fired,

just hours before he was due

to formally retire.

Mr McCabe

said his sacking had been

politically motivated,

and claimed it was part of a wider

effort to taint the FBI

and discredit the

intelligence community.

Mr Trump tweeted it had been

a "great day for democracy".

The number of hospital admissions

due to older people falling

is expected to rise to nearly 1,000

a day by the end of the decade.

That's according to figures obtained

by the Local Government Association.

It's prompted calls for more funding

for adult social care.

It might have been panned by some

critics, but Hugh Jackman's movie

musical 'The Greatest Showman'

continues to dominate the cinema

and music charts -

sitting at the top of the UK album

chart for ten weeks.

The film is loosely based

on the life of circus impresario

PT Barnum - aka

The Greatest Showman.

The only other album that's managed

to spend longer at the top spot

in the UK in the last 30

years is Adele's 21,

which managed 11 weeks at the top.

Those are the main story this

morning. That film is like a crabby

film, which is why it has been so

popular, because so many people have

just thought, I don't want any more

misery, I just want happiness. And

there will be some great happiness

misery, I just want happiness. And

there will be some great happiness

today in the rugby, if this colour

comes out on top. What a St

Patrick's Day that would be.

Ireland face England at Twickenham,

normally a fortress for Eddie Jones'

side - but they've had

their problems throughout

the tournament,

as Joe Wilson reports.

Twickenham on Friday revealed the

seats, they always green not for St

Patrick's Day. But here Ireland six

since nations perfection. First they

beat France. Lastgasp in Paris. The

second win was against Italy. Next

Wales were beaten in Dublin. Four

more tries beat Scotland which

leaves just England, five wins and a

grandslam.

Everyone is aware of the

significance it has four Irish rugby

in this group of players, but there

is nervous energy but it is very

exciting.

Ireland did the grandslam

nine years ago by the early other

time they achieved this feat was

1948. There was no commentary,

Ireland in grave. If Ireland are

here to try and make history,

England are certainly trying to find

a future. Coach Eddie Jones week

apologising about a leadership

speech filmed last year when he

bantered about island being

"Scummy". He has made radical

changes to his team to play Ireland,

often selections speak louder than

words.

Any team that wins 11 games

in a row are worthy champions of the

Six Nations. We are very respectful

of them, they have weakness like any

team.

England's weaknesses have been

starkly exposed in two consecutive

defeats. Eddie Jones has never lost

with England at Twickenham and that

is part of the fascination tomorrow.

Tickets offered for crazy sums,

grandslam seats a grand each.

England's women ended

their Six Nations with victory over

Ireland - but they finished

runners up to France.

It finished 33-11 to England

at the Ricoh Arena -

Danielle Waterman becoming

the nation's leading try-scorer

with 47 - she's now just two tries

short of Rory Underwood's overall

England record.

France took the title

with victory over Wales.

Medals have proved elusive

for Great Britain on the penultimate

day of competition at

the Winter Paralympics.

Let's go over to Pyeongchang now,

and our reporter Kate Grey -

bring us up to date, Kate.

It has been a quiet day for Great

Britain on the eighth day of action

here in Pyeongchang, just to make

this athlete in action. James

Whitley went in the standing slalom

in the alpine skiing, he finished

10th in the end in what was a very

tough course and a very competitive

category with lots of mistakes made

by athletes higher up than him, but

he could not quite improved on his

performance, finishing 10th, but it

is his best performance at the

Paralympic games, he did compete at

in Sochi where he finished 14th and

15. An improvement but no medals for

the 20-year-old. Great Britain also

had an athlete over at the

cross-country skiing, he went in the

7.5 kilometre race. He came to these

games just hoping to gain some

experience, he only got into the

sport 18 months ago and hoping to

make it to the Beijing 2022 games.

And he finished 14th today, so great

experience for him, who will be

hoping to improve in his next games.

There was gold for South Korea in

that event, the first time South

Korea have won a Paralympic gold, a

great result for the home nation

here and date to get a gold medal.

Lots of mixed emotions, Great

Britain, the visually impaired women

will go in the slalom where Great

Britain will have their last attempt

at winning a medal.

Thank you very

much. If you thought you had seen it

all from Jose Marino, you are wrong.

He gave a 12 minute answer his press

conference yesterday defending

Manchester United 's Mac shop exit

in the Champions League. Here is

just a snippet of this rant.

I am

not going to cry, because I heard a

bit of building, I am not going to

disappear, when I was 20 years old I

was nobody in football, and now at

505I am what I am, I did what I did,

because of work, because of my

talent and because of my mentality.

I could be in another country with

the league in the pocket, the kind

of lead you win even before the

league starts, but I am here.

He is

the kind of many wouldn't interrupt,

you are just let it go. TV gold.

Could you imagine interrupting him,

you would not want to do it.

It was a frustrating evening

for Hibernian as they missed

the chance to go third

in the Scottish Premiership.

Hibs went ahead

in the second minute,

had their keeper sent off not long

after, and held out until the final

stages when Chris Kane

equalised for St Johnstone.

We'll see video assistant referees

used at this summer's World Cup

in Russia after Fifa approved

the controversial system.

It's been trialled in the FA Cup

this season but has been criticised

by many for taking too

long and being overused.

It allows referees to consult

an official with access to video

replays in order to

make key decisions.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup

is one of the biggest racing events

of the year - and we got a contest

which lived up to that billing.

It was, literally, a two horse race

with Native River holding off

the favourite Might Bite.

That gave jockey Richard Johnson his

second Gold Cup triump -

and a first for trainer

Colin Tizzard.

And it seems that Kevin Pietersen

might have finally hung

up his bat.

He tweeted 'Boots Up.

Thank you' after playing

for Quetta Gladiators

in the Pakistan Super League.

The former England captain had

indicated the tournament

would be his last.

The second of our commonwealth games

previews. Last week Michael went to

meet the youngest game -- youngest's

athlete, what 11-year-old tennis

player, and this week he has been to

meet one of the oldest.

David Calvert from Northern Ireland.

He's heading to his 11th games

to compete in the highest calibre

shooting event, full bore rifle.

Before he left Mike joined David

and his partner in Surrey -

although it was more like Siberia.

He is arguably the best in the world

will stop you a matter target which

could be 900 metres away. A little

black. On the horizon, a bull's-eye

the size of a dinner plate, and yet

conditions more aching to Siberia,

David Calvert-Jones now in his 60s,

is going to his 11 commonwealth

games, will hit 99% of the time.

It

is a sport that you can start in

your teens and continue well past

normal retirement age, you can

compete and be competitive the

decades. It is the challenge of the

wind effect and also the skills of

firing a good shot.

There is a

crack, you see the splash of the

sound can you feel the buzz in the

target, you pull it down, it could

be a stomach muscles.

Give it

another push, and at this point

there would be another hole in the

target. The maximum possible score

in the individual commonwealth game

event is 405 points. David scored

404 to set the record.

Wow. David is

used to being carried to the podium,

as is the tradition in fullbore

rifle shooting, having won four

commonwealth golds for his native

Northern Ireland and four bronze.

It

is regarded as a blue-ribbon event

by quite a few in the sport of

shooting, partly because of the

heritage colour is where it all

started back in 1860, with the award

of the Queens prize by Queen

Victoria.

Never been that

comfortable around large bangs but

what worried me most as I was

invited to take a shot in this high

calibre sport is how far the bullet

can travel in that wind.

Fresh winds

today would blow the bullet by ten

feet.

It is why in pairs you rely on

your partner to help you line up

your shots.

Line up the sites...

Take your time.

It is all about

mental strength under pressure.

Ready when you are. To squeeze

gently.

You do feel a slight, once

it is pushing to your shoulder, the

whole body takes it.

The shop that

is showing is a simple bull's-eye. I

would stop while you are ahead.

I

will leave it there, to 25-year-old

Jack Alexander to partner David at

the Commonwealth Games.

Privilege to

shoot alongside David, and are not

many people in the game who would be

at the top of their game for as long

as David had, he is passing on his

knowledge and enjoys me doing well

as well.

All that Jack and David are

aiming for now is a Commonwealth

golds.

That is amazing, isn't it?

It is

such a precision game, but also in

the cold, which won't be a problem

in Australia!

900 metres, I hope

there was nothing behind the target

when he was shooting.

Everyone was

giving him a very wide earth. And

Mike is looking forward to... Is he

going out?

He will be at the

Commonwealth Games for the duration

of the games, starting in two weeks

because time. -- two weeks' time.

The mini beast from the east is what

we have been told about, and some

The mini beast from the east is what

we have been told about, and some

really low temperatures. It will

feel very cold for the next couple

of days.

Here is Helen Willetts with a look

at this morning's weather.

A real shock to the system, because

yesterday it felt so mild across the

central half of the country. Today

will be 10 degrees down, and we are

concerning ourselves with ice from

the morning and slow as we go

through the day to day will out from

the weather office, much more detail

on the website. I will try and take

you through it. The high pressure

across Scandinavia is sinking

southwards, allowing the mini beast

from the east, pushing the cold air,

the Siberian air back across the

country. We also have weather fronts

to complicated, so the weather front

sinking southwards through the

Midlands and East Anglia at the

moment. As a drift south it will

turn progressively to snow, light

snow initially. Showers following

across the north-east of England,

the Midlands, and later the south

and east, causing concern. That is

where we have the amber warnings. It

is cold out there, and it will be

bitterly cold today because of the

strength of the wind. It will feel

like -6 minus seven. The fewest

showers across Northern Ireland in

the western fringes of Scotland,

England in particular, perhaps

north-west England as well. Let's

focus on the amber warnings. We are

concerned for several centimetres

building up across parts of

Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, right

across the North Midlands, possibly

as far west is north Wales. Those

showers will keep going, and across

the south-east of England, during

the day and overnight. Overnight as

well is the added complication of a

longer spell of rain across southern

England and south Wales. Those are

the main areas concerned, but we

could see snow showers just about

anywhere and we could see rather icy

conditions where that snow has

fallen. Through the evening and

overnight you can see the snow

showers continuing to feed in on

strong to gale force winds. Here is

the more significant is no

potentially in the south. Big

question marks as to how large that

area will be, how far north and west

it will go. It will be bitterly cold

anyway tonight, so where we have

seen any rain, sleet was no, it will

turn quite icy. We could wake up to

a covering of snow across many

southern areas, more so across the

Central Lowlands overnight and at

first tomorrow. I think we have a

few showers continuing, another

really cold day. Where we have had

this know it will be lying around

because of that strong to gale force

winds, and temperatures will again

reach above freezing. But he added

on effect of the wind, it will feel

bitterly cold. It will probably just

be small, a mini beast from the

east, because we start to cut off

this easily feared is we go into

next week. And instead we pull in a

northerly. That is not that much

warmer, but it cuts off the really

bitterly cold air from Siberia. I

will keep you updated through the

morning.

Thank you very much, we

will see you later.

We will be back with

the headlines at 7:00am.

Now it's time for Click,

and the team are looking at how

Now it's time for Click,

and the team are looking at how

technology could transform

the health service.

For almost 70 years,

the UK's National Health Service has

For almost 70 years,

the UK's National Health Service has

been a free service

at the point of care.

But that model is under strain

as the population ages and chronic

health conditions increase

while resources shrink.

A recent study by the Royal College

of Physicians showed that almost two

thirds of doctors think that patient

safety has deteriorated with one

doctor saying we are not robots.

We are human staff with limits.

Should the NHS turn to robots

to ease the strain on human staff?

Jane has been looking at how data

driven technology could transform

care in the NHS.

Could artificial intelligence

help save the NHS?

More people are looking

at innovative ways to ease

the workload of doctors and nurses.

Computer programmes can rapidly

analyse huge quantities

of information in ways that humans

do not have the time nor brain

capacity to do.

In 2016, Click filmed

Google's Deep Mind at

Moorfield's Eye Hospital.

They were developing an algorithm

to identify abnormalities

in eye scans.

I am going to see three other

projects integrating AI and data

collection for monitoring,

automation and decreasing waiting

times.

Dementia is now the leading

cause of death in the UK.

At the Manor Hospital in Coventry,

software is being tested to remotely

monitor patients

on the dementia ward.

This is one of the

rooms on the ward.

It looks like any other hospital

room except in this one

there are two infrared illuminators

and an optical sensor

monitoring my movements

including when I'm asleep.

Oxehealth uses a standard digital

camera and the tongue-twisting

science of photoplethysmography.

Every time your heart beats,

your skin briefly flashes red.

We can not see this but the sensor

in the camera can detect

these so-called microblushes.

It even picks up my vital signs

when I am hiding under a table

in the room as those microblushes

can still be seen on my arm.

There is an alert if I leave my bed.

And the nurse can click on a live

feed to see what is happening

and determine whether they need

to come and check on me right away.

For the staff, initially,

when it looked like we had a camera

in a box in a room,

they were not happy about it.

But when we spent some

time with Oxehealth,

they explained to them

and they see how it works,

they love it.

They love the fact it

gives you an extra...

An extra support.

The project is in the pilot stage

and is awaiting medical

certification.

The data collected is being analysed

remotely by a team in Oxford

and will be used to train

the programme to be more predictive.

We have never had this

capability as a species,

to constantly get heart rate,

breathing rate, movement

and routine data.

There is no reason as we combine

and we fuse the data using AI

we cannot detect the onset

of dementia or prevent

it getting worse.

We can detect problems early

so you can stay in your own home

or a comfortable setting

without coming into hospital.

That will save a huge

amount of time.

Saving critical time

was the motivation behind automating

processes at NHS

Blood and Transplant.

4,500 people receive

a transplant each year,

but 6,500 are on the list.

Every day, three people die

waiting for a transplant.

A lot of information needs

to be sifted through to

make life-and-death decisions.

The NHS is now using public cloud

technology from IBM to help maintain

huge databases that used to be

managed with a marker

and a whiteboard.

By working with some of this

automated technology we can make

sure we are making the best possible

decisions and that our clinical

teams are thinking through the best

outcomes for all of the patients

on the transplant waiting list,

and that our staff, who are often

working until three in the morning

in a high-pressure environment,

needing to allocate organs

quickly, they are supported

by this technology.

In the future, the team hopes that

artificial intelligence will be able

to predict how long people will be

on the waiting list for an organ.

There is an average waiting time

of two weeks to see a doctor

in the UK.

This can drop to two hours

if you register with GP At Hand.

You can sign up if you live or work

within certain zones of London.

You need to give up your regular

practice doctor and register with GP

At Hand's remote surgery.

26,000 people have

registered so far.

I had a chance to test it out,

pretending I had a case

of food poisoning.

First I went through a triage

with a chat bot on the app

who recommended I speak remotely

to a real-life human doctor.

The doctor recommends further care

and can even send a prescription

to a pharmacy.

The artificial intelligence

in the app draws on billions of data

points and can cross reference

the latest medical research

from journals and studies

around the world.

You use artificial intelligence

to tell you whether or not

to see a doctor.

You are always free to see a doctor

anyway but what we find is that 40%

of the people who get reassured

that they have everything they need,

they stop there.

The app has faced criticism

from the Royal College of GPswho say

that younger users are being cherry

picked for the service.

NHS England lodged a formal

objection to the planned

rollout beyond London.

Whenever anybody comes up

with a great, exciting idea

they are desperate to see it

rolled out everywhere.

I would say we need to give people

safe, fair and equitable care.

If we roll things out too quickly

without ensuring that safety

and fairness, we run the risk

of causing unintended harm.

So it is wise and sensible that

independent evaluations are now

going on of these new technologies

so that people can be reassured

that they are safe and they

are fair for everybody.

I think it is wrong.

I genuinely think that slowing down

what people want is just not right.

I cannot understand why

people are hesitant.

Often it is because they are

scared of new technology.

They do not know what

the consequences are.

And that is fine.

They need to check that

and reassure themselves.

There is nothing wrong with that.

I have seen three ways companies

are working with data to help

with monitoring, automation

and decreasing waiting times.

All areas that could help

an overstressed health service.

Could artificial intelligence

help to save the NHS?

It is an exciting development

worldwide but never more

so than in healthcare

and there are certainly things AI

can help as we to plough

through data we already have,

and provide answers

to the questions we didn't even

know needed answering.

But let's be clear, AI will never

replace person-to-person

interaction.

The touch of a doctor,

the looking deep into someone's eyes

and recognising their physical,

social and psychological make-up

of the person is what matters,

not just a bleeding leg

or a headache.

It is much more than that and AI,

it will be quite a long time before

AI comes close.

You think it ever will?

I will be stunned if within my

lifetime AI ever replaces a doctor.

We are going to interrupt this

broadcast with some breaking news

coming into us here at the BBC.

It is a world first,

BBC Click presenter Spencer Kelly

has been replaced by a robot.

It has been dubbed RoboSpen

and the artifical intelligence

machine is apparently capable

of a whole host of emotions

as well as understanding and writing

stories and crucially,

he never forgets his lines.

RoboSpen joins the now

from the factory that created him.

Over to you.

Sounds like you said

I was artificially intelligent.

As a robot I am often asked to pose

for photos and TV reports about AI.

While I am a humaoid robot,

I am not intelligent.

Everything I am saying

is written by a human.

The point is, robots and AI

are not the same thing.

Observe my articulated hands

with four independent fingers

powered by eight air cylinders.

Engineering Arts has made a name

for itself by making robotic

performers, actors

and communicators.

Which, according to Will,

is pretty much the only reason

the world might need

humanoid robots.

Humanoid robots are great

for entertainment and communication,

if you want something that

interacts with people,

the best way to do that is to make

something person-shaped.

So if you think Star Wars, C3P0 -

the robot that talks a lot,

has a personality, doesn't do

a lot of useful things.

Will and his team design and build

robots here from scratch

from the aluminium bones

to the rubbery spines

and plastic shells.

While the robots they have made

are more C3P0, the next wave our way

into the uncanny valley.

Oh my goodness, it has just come

to life with the eyes there.

You have seen Silence

of the Lambs, haven't you?

That is very eerie, that is.

If you know what I mean.

Will is fascinated with how

the human body works and a lot

of this research concentrates

on making natural looking body

movements that are also very quiet.

It is something that he believes

might find a place in the field

of prosthetics, although he says

there is still a lot of work

to be done.

I don't have a single

precision part in my body.

How can I achieve this level

of precision with these organic,

bones and bits of mushy flesh.

One of the biggest problems we have

is that there is nothing as good

as human muscle.

So for all of this motor

development that we have done,

we don't come anywhere

near to what a human can do.

Where you will see humanoid robots,

you will see them in a commercial

context, so you might go into a shop

and you might see a robot

in there that is trying

to sell you something.

Don't worry about all the clever AI,

that's really going to stay

on your computer, on your

smartphone, on a webpage.

It's not going chase you up

the stairs any time soon.

That's it for the short

cut of Click this week.

The full version is up on iPlayer.

Join us next week for part

two of our special look

at the future of work.

Don't forget we are on Twitter

at @bbcclick and on Facebook too.

Isn't it time you were leaving?

OK, we're off.

Hello, this is Breakfast with

Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt.

Police investigating the murder

of a businessman in London begin

contacting other Russian exiles

to discuss their personal

safety in Britain.

Forensic teams have been working

through the night to find out

what happened to Nikolai Glushkov,

who was found dead on Monday.

Good morning, it's

Saturday 17th April.

Also this morning:

Police launch a murder investigation

after two women are shot dead

at a house in East Sussex.

100 flights are cancelled

and drivers are told

to expect disruption,

as the "mini beast from

the east" sweeps in.

A bit of a shock to the system. We

have got amber warnings enforced

from the Met Office taking effect

later this afternoon, but it will be

bitterly cold will stop I is

concerned and snow from the mid

afternoon onwards. All the details

in quarter of an hour.

All the details in

quarter of an hour.

In sport, the St Patrick's Day party

heads for Twickenham.

Ireland know they're Six Nations

champions already but victory over

England would give them the Grand

Slam.

Our main story this morning:

Our main story this morning:

Police investigating the murder

of a Russian man in London say

they have begun contacting other

Russian exiles in Britain

to discuss their safety.

Forensics teams have

continued working at the home

of 68-year Nikolai Glushkov,

who was found dead on Monday.

But police say at this stage,

it is not being connected

to the poisoning of former Russian

spy Sergei Skripal and his

daughter in Salisbury.

John McManus reports.

68-year-old Nikolai Glushkov,

found dead at his home

on this unassuming road

in Southwest London on Monday.

But Mr Glushkov's life

was anything but ordinary.

A post mortem has revealed

he was murdered, killed

by compression to the neck.

Unusually, counterterrorism police

are leading the investigation

because of Mr Glushkov's past.

In the 90s he was the director

of Russian airline Aeroflot,

But was jailed after being found

guilty of fraud and

money-laundering.

money-laundering.

He sought political asylum

in the UK and was still

being sued by Russia.

He was friends with Russian

businessmen Boris Berezovsky

who was found hanged in 2013.

An open verdict was recorded

but Mr Glushkov believed

he had been murdered.

Some observers believe

it is time to join the dots.

Mr Glushkov's death fits

into a wider pattern of the last 12

years of Russian opponents dropping

dead across Europe.

The consequences for the Kremlin

of this were limited for far too

long, the UK response as recently

been much stronger, but there

are still awful lot we could do.

The former PR executive, Lord Bell,

a friend of Mr Glushkov has told

the BBC he suspects he was killed

after being deemed a traitor

by the Russian state.

Police say that at present

there is no link between the murder

in London and the poisoning

of Sergei Skripal and his

daughter in Salisbury.

But some Russian exiles are being

contacted about their safety.

Our reporter John McManus is outside

the Russian embassy this morning.

A lot of new lines coming in and

shuffling in terms of how much

people been told and we understand

that is an international diplomatic

situation.

The police told us last night they

are contacting Russian exiles to

talk to them about their safety.

That does not mean they are in

danger about the safety, but they

want to talk about their

circumstances. The diplomatic

fallout is very tense, given what

happened to Sergei Skripal and his

daughter, who were poisoned using a

nerve agent. Theresa May says that

nerve agent was produced in Soviet

era Russia and is pointing the

finger at Russia and the Russians

had denied all knowledge of what

happened, but the diplomatic row has

been huge. The Prime Minister is

expelling 23 diplomats from the

Russian embassy behind me and the

Russians will respond in kind,

expelling British diplomats from our

embassy in Moscow. The words get

hotter day by day. Yesterday the

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said

it was overwhelmingly likely that

the Russian president, Vladimir

Putin, had personally ordered that

nerve attack in Salisbury. The

Russians say those comments are

disgusting and they are annoyed by

that. Quite a lot going on

diplomatically. It does not look

like it will cool down any time

soon.

soon.

Police have launched a murder

investigation after two women

were shot and killed at a house

in East Sussex.

Officers were called to an address

in St Leonards on Sea last night.

A man has been arrested.

Marta Newman's report contains

some flashing images.

Officers responded immediately

when they got a report of a shooting

at a house at around 8pm last night.

The road in this seaside town

was closed and local residents

were asked to stay away

from the area and remain indoors.

Police say two women aged

32 and 53 were killed.

Two other women including one

who is pregnant were led to safety

by officers and taken to hospital.

Both were uninjured

but suffering from shock.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested

on suspicion of murder.

He remains in custody

for questioning.

Police have said that the victims

were known to the suspect

and that they are not looking

for anyone else in connection

with the shooting.

The Met Office is issuing an amber

warning for snow and ice in many

areas of Scotland. More than 100

flights to and from Heathrow have

been cancelled. Highways England is

advising motorists to avoid

trans-Pennine roads.

trans-Pennine roads.

The number of hospital admissions

due to older people falling