0:00:14 > 0:00:16This is BBC World News Today.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17I'm Samantha Simmonds.
0:00:17 > 0:00:22Our top stories.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Donald Trump tells world leaders -
0:00:24 > 0:00:28it's America first - but NOT at the expense
0:00:28 > 0:00:36of the global economy.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42What Brexit Differences?
0:00:42 > 0:00:45The UK minister in charge denies a government split on how to handle
0:00:45 > 0:00:46the departure from the EU
0:00:46 > 0:00:47Also in the programme.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Paris braces itself for more flooding with water levels set
0:00:50 > 0:00:58to peak this weekend.
0:01:02 > 0:01:07Hello and welcome to World News Today.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09"America First does not mean "America alone", that's the message
0:01:09 > 0:01:11from Donald Trump speaking at the World Economic Forum
0:01:11 > 0:01:12in Davos in Switzerland.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15He told an audience of business and political leaders that the US
0:01:15 > 0:01:17was doing "fantastically well" and was "open for business."
0:01:17 > 0:01:20But he hit out at what he called other countries' "predatory"
0:01:20 > 0:01:26trading practices.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Earlier, the President said he would be prepared to apologise
0:01:28 > 0:01:30for sharing social media posts by the far-right
0:01:30 > 0:01:31group Britain First.
0:01:31 > 0:01:39Our North America Editor Jon Sopel reports.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Wherever Donald Trump has gone in Davos, the crowds
0:01:41 > 0:01:42have gone with him.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47And wherever the cameras have been, the President has
0:01:47 > 0:01:49been pleased to oblige.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I hope we're going to bring back many billions of
0:01:52 > 0:01:53dollars into the US.
0:01:53 > 0:01:54I think that will happen.
0:01:54 > 0:01:55It's already happening.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58But billions of dollars is coming back into the US and I think
0:01:58 > 0:01:59that will just continue.
0:01:59 > 0:02:00How much today?
0:02:00 > 0:02:01How much?
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Probably a lot.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04And that was the theme of his speech.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09America first, yes, but an America welcoming the world.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I will always put America first, just like the leaders
0:02:11 > 0:02:19of other countries should put their country first also.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27But America first does not mean America alone.
0:02:27 > 0:02:33When the United States grows, so does the world.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36But at the end of a week in which the US imposed extra
0:02:36 > 0:02:39charges on some imported goods from China, he played down
0:02:39 > 0:02:40talk of a trade war.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Nevertheless, there was a warning.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45We cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system
0:02:45 > 0:02:53at the expense of others.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55We support free trade, but it needs to be fair,
0:02:55 > 0:03:01and it needs to be reciprocal.
0:03:01 > 0:03:07Because in the end, unfair trade undermines us all.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Some stood to applaud, but it wasn't the ovation given
0:03:09 > 0:03:13to President Xi of China last year.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16This hasn't been a complete meeting of minds, but then again
0:03:16 > 0:03:18it was never going to be.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20That said, Donald Trump has been more conciliatory than many
0:03:20 > 0:03:22would have expected, and the audience have
0:03:22 > 0:03:24reacted more warmly.
0:03:24 > 0:03:29It may be that Davos 2018 turns out to be a win-win.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34And the President was in conciliatory, almost repentant mood
0:03:34 > 0:03:36over those Britain First anti-Muslim retweets from last year that
0:03:36 > 0:03:44brought him to blows with the Prime Minister.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55There's a lot they liked about what Donald Trump said,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57and who would disagree with his central message,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59that a booming US economy is good for the global economy?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Jon Sopel, BBC News, Davos.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02Well, President Trump took a lot of credit
0:04:02 > 0:04:05for the robustness of the US economy, claiming the share-market
0:04:05 > 0:04:07has risen by almost 50% under his tenure.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09That's not completely accurate, but for the Dow Jones at least,
0:04:09 > 0:04:12it's a claim that isn't too far off the mark.
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Let's bring in the BBC's Yogita Limaye,
0:04:13 > 0:04:15who joins me from New York.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Welcome to you, Yogita, let's get first, the talk about the speech
0:04:18 > 0:04:22Davos, what did you make of the more conciliatory tone that the President
0:04:22 > 0:04:29struck?Most people noticed that it was restrained. He was going to
0:04:29 > 0:04:36Davos literally after signing in the US the approvals on the increase on
0:04:36 > 0:04:41the tariffs of sodas and in some cases it was over %, quite a lot of
0:04:41 > 0:04:46money imported into the US. Sores, that is sort of going to
0:04:46 > 0:04:53largely affect countries like China and South Korea. So the actions were
0:04:53 > 0:04:56strong, quite harsh and questions were put to him about whether or not
0:04:56 > 0:05:02he would trigger a trade war, then goes to Davos to have a speech. Not
0:05:02 > 0:05:07a long speech. He stuck to the script and when he spoke about
0:05:07 > 0:05:11America no longer turning a blind eye to unfair trade practices, it
0:05:11 > 0:05:15was restrained in the sense he talked about America first but
0:05:15 > 0:05:19specifically, he said that this is not America alone. If we grow, so
0:05:19 > 0:05:24does the global economy. So it will benefit everyone. So making a case
0:05:24 > 0:05:30and defending his stance. In terms of the message of
0:05:30 > 0:05:36protecting American manufactures, we are apacting an announcement on
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Bombardier, the plane industry, explain that to us?Yes, that's
0:05:38 > 0:05:43right. In about half an hour we are expecting the international Federal
0:05:43 > 0:05:49Trade Commission in the US to vote on that. The US commerce department
0:05:49 > 0:05:55has told them, or recommended to them that Bombardier jets, when they
0:05:55 > 0:06:00are sold in America, that is a Canadian company, that when their
0:06:00 > 0:06:04aircraft is sold in America, they should have a 300% tariff imposed on
0:06:04 > 0:06:10them. At the centre of the dispute, really, is a deal that Bombardier
0:06:10 > 0:06:15signed with delta airlines in 2016, where they ordered 75 jets. Boeing
0:06:15 > 0:06:19777, a rival company, an American company, they have disputed that,
0:06:19 > 0:06:24saying that Bombardier was able to sell the jets cheaper, more than 30%
0:06:24 > 0:06:28cheaper than the market price because of illegal subsidies that
0:06:28 > 0:06:33they received from the Canadian government. But Bombardier are
0:06:33 > 0:06:38disputing that, saying it is not uncommon for the companies that make
0:06:38 > 0:06:42aircraft to receive subsidies from the government simply because of the
0:06:42 > 0:06:45costs involved in the operations. And tell us about the American
0:06:45 > 0:06:50economy. They have had figures but not quite the growth that Donald
0:06:50 > 0:06:55Trump was hoping for?That's right, they were expecting that the growth
0:06:55 > 0:07:01in 2017 would come in at 3% but the number we have seen today is 2.6%.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05So it misses that streak that they were hoping for. It would have been
0:07:05 > 0:07:10three-quarters of more than 3% growth. We did hear Donald Trump
0:07:10 > 0:07:16talking of successes there on the economy, on unemployment, which at
0:07:16 > 0:07:204.1% is at a 17-year low. But many contest this was a situation, that
0:07:20 > 0:07:26this was a position that the US economy was reaching anyway and that
0:07:26 > 0:07:29the President shouldn't take credit for it.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33For example, in jobs, he spoke about creating lots of jobs in America but
0:07:33 > 0:07:40to give you a comparison, in 2016, that was the last year of the Obama
0:07:40 > 0:07:45presidency, the US economy created 2.1 million jobs, in 2017, it was
0:07:45 > 0:07:502.2 million jobs. So not a huge increase. Unemployment, it was at
0:07:50 > 0:07:574.8%. Yes it is down to 4.1% but many say these are underlying
0:07:57 > 0:08:04factors that are there and we are only seeing the outcome of it now.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Meanwhile back in America - reports in several newspapers claim
0:08:06 > 0:08:09President Trump tried to fire the man investigating alleged
0:08:09 > 0:08:10collusion with Russia during the 2016 Presidential election.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13It's alleged Mr Trump was only stopped from sacking Robert Mueller
0:08:13 > 0:08:14by White House advisers.
0:08:14 > 0:08:22It's a claim the President addressed head - on, in Davos.
0:08:24 > 0:08:30Did you want to fire Mr Mueller? Fake news. It's called New York
0:08:30 > 0:08:31Times, fake news.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32It's called New York Times, fake news.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35A short time ago I asked the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue
0:08:35 > 0:08:39who might have leaked this information, and why?
0:08:39 > 0:08:44There were stories at the time last year that the President had
0:08:44 > 0:08:49considered firing Robert Mueller, the special counsel and since then,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53what Robert Mueller has been doing is interviewing a bunch of people,
0:08:53 > 0:09:00we are told that 20 staffers from the White House have been spoken to
0:09:00 > 0:09:04by the special council and spoken to Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08So it is not entirely surprising if some of that stuff started to leak
0:09:08 > 0:09:12out. We have seen the flat denial from the President if he considered
0:09:12 > 0:09:17that but what is new is the idea that when they floated or supposedly
0:09:17 > 0:09:25floated the idea last June that it was the
0:09:27 > 0:09:30was the White House council -- council, the most senior lawyer,
0:09:30 > 0:09:37that he was the one that threatened to resign and this is the new piece
0:09:37 > 0:09:41of information. It has everyone concerned again whether or not he is
0:09:41 > 0:09:46still thinking about doing that. And Democrats have been through to
0:09:46 > 0:09:50introduce legislation on Capitol Hill that would prevent him from
0:09:50 > 0:09:54doing that, even though the legal position suggests he would have a
0:09:54 > 0:10:00hard time doing it anyway. You mention the Democrats, and there
0:10:00 > 0:10:08have been some political opponents, say if he were to fire the counsel
0:10:08 > 0:10:16it woulding crossing the line and an abuse of the perhap shall power? It
0:10:16 > 0:10:25looks like he would have to get someone else to fire him for him. It
0:10:25 > 0:10:30could be the deputy general. He could refuse to do that, then Donald
0:10:30 > 0:10:36Trump could fire the deputy general and keep firing people until he
0:10:36 > 0:10:41finds someone to fire the special counsel. But casting your mind back,
0:10:41 > 0:10:45Richard Nixon fired special prosecutor during the Watergate
0:10:45 > 0:10:50affair and that didn't do him any good at all.
0:10:50 > 0:10:58Now breaking news. Canadian pharmaceutical billionaires Barry
0:10:58 > 0:11:02and Honey Sherman were murdered. The couple were found hanged in their
0:11:02 > 0:11:07home. Officers ruled out the murder, believing Mr Sherman killed his wife
0:11:07 > 0:11:13and hung her before hanging himself. The coup's children disputed this
0:11:13 > 0:11:17and hired private investigators. Now the police say that they agree.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22No-one has been charged with their deaths.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27-- couple's.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Britain's future relationship with the European Union is again
0:11:29 > 0:11:31causing tensions in the country's governing Conservative Party.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33The Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has suggested
0:11:33 > 0:11:36the relationship post-Brexit might only be a little different from now.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39That's sparked an angry reaction from those in the party who want
0:11:39 > 0:11:40a clean break from Europe.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42The minister in charge of Brexit has denied a split
0:11:42 > 0:11:45and today outlined the government's plans for the transition period
0:11:45 > 0:11:46after Britain leaves the EU.
0:11:46 > 0:11:52Alex Forsyth reports.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55In Teesside today, the Brexit secretary was trying to calm
0:11:55 > 0:12:02troubled waters. Surrounded by businesses, dependant on EU trade he
0:12:02 > 0:12:07promised certainty and continuity when we leave. David Davis set out
0:12:07 > 0:12:10the government's plans for a transition period of up to two years
0:12:10 > 0:12:14after Brexit. This is a bridge to a new future
0:12:14 > 0:12:18partnership. When crucially, the United Kingdom is outside of the
0:12:18 > 0:12:20single market and outside of the customs union.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24He said that there would be no dramatic change but the UK would
0:12:24 > 0:12:30start to talk trade with other countries, or to be negotiated with
0:12:30 > 0:12:36the EU but for now it is comments by his Cabinet colleague causing
0:12:36 > 0:12:40possible levels. The Chancellor saying that there could be modest
0:12:40 > 0:12:45changes but if the Cabinet can't agree on its position, how can you
0:12:45 > 0:12:50negotiate with Brussels?I'm in politics. People debate and have
0:12:50 > 0:12:53different views and diversive views on the subject in all parties, it
0:12:53 > 0:12:58doesn't mean that we don't have or can't have a coherent and forceful
0:12:58 > 0:13:01view in the interests of the United Kingdom.
0:13:01 > 0:13:07Ministers don't always want their divisions laid bare but the
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Chancellor insisted he would back the Government's view.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14I was speaking about our trade relationship with the EU. It is the
0:13:14 > 0:13:19Government's policy to maintain the maximum possible access to markets
0:13:19 > 0:13:23and the minimum friction at our borders.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25But the businesses Brexit will affect say that the political
0:13:25 > 0:13:31discord is damaging. This car parts manufacture in Redcar relies on
0:13:31 > 0:13:37being aim to import and export to the EU, and the boss wants a are
0:13:37 > 0:13:40more clarity from the Government about the long-term Brexit plan.
0:13:40 > 0:13:45I think it has been shambolic. I want them to get on with it. From
0:13:45 > 0:13:49the contrary statements coming out and the infighting that is happening
0:13:49 > 0:13:53I don't know what they are expecting to achieve. I don't know what the
0:13:53 > 0:14:00targets are. It is just Werby washy. Businesses like those here which
0:14:00 > 0:14:05rely heavily on trade with the EU crave certainty. I Government says
0:14:05 > 0:14:10that is what the transition phase will offer, the trouble is that the
0:14:10 > 0:14:16Conservative Party cannot agree on what should come beyond. And as
0:14:16 > 0:14:20talks approach future trade relation, what has been a packagile
0:14:20 > 0:14:26truce among the Tories looks rocky. -- fragile.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27-- fragile.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Let's take a look at some of the other
0:14:29 > 0:14:30stories making the news.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Residents in the South African city of Cape Town have been warned
0:14:33 > 0:14:36to "save water as if your life depends on it" to avoid
0:14:36 > 0:14:37the supply being shut off.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39A severe drought has seen consumption limited to 50
0:14:39 > 0:14:40litres per person per day.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Now officials are urging people to switch off their toilet
0:14:43 > 0:14:44cisterns and limit flushing to conserve water.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46Formal coalition talks have begun in Germany
0:14:46 > 0:14:48to try to break four months of political stalemate
0:14:48 > 0:14:49following September's inconclusive elections.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are seeking to form
0:14:51 > 0:14:53a government with the country's second-biggest party,
0:14:53 > 0:14:59the centre-left Social Democrats.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Top chefs from as far afield as the US and Japan have
0:15:02 > 0:15:05attended the funeral in France of one of the prime exponents
0:15:05 > 0:15:06of their art, Paul Bocuse.
0:15:06 > 0:15:11They filled Lyons cathedral in their hundreds, dressed
0:15:11 > 0:15:14in their chefs' whites, to pay homage to a man nicknamed
0:15:14 > 0:15:20the Pope of French gastronomy.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22South Korean officials are investigating a fire that
0:15:22 > 0:15:24swept through a hospital, killing as many as 40 people.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28It took firefighters several hours to put it out.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31The fire is the country's deadliest in almost a decade.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33It's now emerged the building didn't have any sprinklers -
0:15:33 > 0:15:36even though it was built only a few years ago.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Laura Bicker reports from Seoul.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42Black smoke billowed from the emergency wing,
0:15:42 > 0:15:44as firefighters tried to get to patients trapped inside.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47There were nearly 200 people in the building.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Many were elderly.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54Those who escaped needed urgent treatment.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56Others died on their way to hospital, most
0:15:56 > 0:15:57from smoke inhalation.
0:15:57 > 0:16:03Firefighters said they did everything they could.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06TRANSLATION: We prevented the fire from spreading to the second floor
0:16:06 > 0:16:11in the early stages, so that we could secure the second,
0:16:11 > 0:16:13third, fourth and fifth floors.
0:16:13 > 0:16:19As crews inspect the blackened shell of the hospital,
0:16:19 > 0:16:21it was revealed that no water sprinklers had been installed.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24This is the deadliest blaze in a decade in South Korea,
0:16:24 > 0:16:26and the government said there would be a thorough
0:16:26 > 0:16:29investigation.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31TRANSLATION: The president has ordered an investigation to figure
0:16:31 > 0:16:35out the exact cause of the fire and come up with measures to prevent
0:16:35 > 0:16:37more fires at building complexes, as well as preparing support
0:16:37 > 0:16:40measures to promptly cope with the personnel and property
0:16:40 > 0:16:43damage caused by this fire.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Just last month, 29 people were killed in a fire
0:16:46 > 0:16:48in a sports centre in Sejong.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50An inquiry found there were too few emergency exits,
0:16:50 > 0:16:54and it had been built with flammable materials.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Questions are now being asked about safety regulations
0:16:56 > 0:16:59in South Korea, and what needs to be done to prevent something
0:16:59 > 0:17:00like this happening again.
0:17:00 > 0:17:08Laura Bicker, BBC News, Seoul.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11It's been nearly four months since the Kurds in Iraq held
0:17:11 > 0:17:13a referendum on independence for their oil-rich region.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15The referendum's result came with an overwhelming majority
0:17:15 > 0:17:16voting for separation from the rest of Iraq.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20But things quickly deteriorated from then, as the Iraqi forces took
0:17:20 > 0:17:26control of the city of Kirkuk from the Kurdish fighters.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29The Kurds had felt emboldened in recent years due to their role
0:17:29 > 0:17:31in the fight against so-called Islamic State.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34But it now seems as though they have missed their moment in history.
0:17:34 > 0:17:42Shaimaa Khalil sent this report from Kirkuk with this report.
0:17:44 > 0:17:49On the road to Kirkuk, now back in the hands of the Iraqi forces. For
0:17:49 > 0:17:56the last three years, the city has been under the control of the
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Kurdish Peshmerga fighters but then lost it in a matter of hours a few
0:18:00 > 0:18:06months ago. The Kurds here say that they now live in fear. This is a
0:18:06 > 0:18:0825-year-old actress, saying that prospects are bleak for the Kurds
0:18:08 > 0:18:14after they voted for independence. TRANSLATION: Things were stable and
0:18:14 > 0:18:24we used to feel safe in Kirkuk, then the Iraqi Army and the popular
0:18:24 > 0:18:29mobilisation forces came in October and we live in fear since then.
0:18:29 > 0:18:34We have had to leave home. Who do you blame?I blame the
0:18:34 > 0:18:41politicians for how we ended up. Our political leaders did not act
0:18:41 > 0:18:47responsible.
0:18:47 > 0:18:52responsible. IfThe once thriving Iraqi/Kurdish region is now
0:18:52 > 0:18:55suffering after the fierce response to the referendum.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00The Kurds were involved in a key role that in the battle against the
0:19:00 > 0:19:04so-called Islamic State. They thought that they finally had their
0:19:04 > 0:19:10moment but it was not meant to be. Until recently, a Kurdish flag flew
0:19:10 > 0:19:15here but it has been replaced by an Iraqi one when the government forces
0:19:15 > 0:19:20took control. Things have changed dramatically for the Kurds after an
0:19:20 > 0:19:25independent vote. What seemed an historic moment, turned out to be a
0:19:25 > 0:19:30political gamble that the leadership took and lost. The outgoing Kurdish
0:19:30 > 0:19:37President, however, remains defiant. TRANSLATION:I said before and I
0:19:37 > 0:19:43will say it again, I don't regret it I don't regret the vote of 3 million
0:19:43 > 0:19:47people. You say it's been successful but in
0:19:47 > 0:19:50reality it has not as the Kurdish people suffered after the referendum
0:19:50 > 0:19:59and you didn't do what you wanted? TRANSLATION:What is happening now
0:19:59 > 0:20:04is the result of Baghdad and the budget for the Kurdish people of
0:20:04 > 0:20:122014. Also, the fight against Daesh came at an expense and the dramatic
0:20:12 > 0:20:23cut in the oil prices has cost us a lot. Remember, we
0:20:23 > 0:20:26lot. Remember, we also have around 2 million
0:20:26 > 0:20:31INAUDIBLE So why call this a failure. Many
0:20:31 > 0:20:39people in the Iraqi Kurdistan are now struggle to make ends meet.
0:20:39 > 0:20:47Welders in the workshop come from there different ethnicities, Kurds,
0:20:47 > 0:20:51Arabs and Turkmen. Like many in Iraq's Kurdish region,
0:20:51 > 0:21:00they have learned to live with conflict and sun certainty.
0:21:00 > 0:21:02Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in Paris
0:21:02 > 0:21:04as the city braces itself for more flooding.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07Tunnels and roads have been sealed off and the bottom floor
0:21:07 > 0:21:08of the Louvre was closed.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10Residents of this suburb in the south of the city
0:21:10 > 0:21:12were among the worst affected.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14It follows the wettest January in Northern France
0:21:14 > 0:21:15for over a century.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17And it's not over yet - flood waters are expected
0:21:17 > 0:21:18to peak this weekend.
0:21:18 > 0:21:26The BBC's Hugh Schofield has been stepping out to bring us the latest.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29For the second time in a year-and-a-half Paris is waking up
0:21:29 > 0:21:36with its feet in the water. It was June 2016, we were reporting almost
0:21:36 > 0:21:43exactly the same story - heavy rain upstream from Paris, the train wares
0:21:43 > 0:21:50of the filling up with water, and then this mass of water coming down
0:21:50 > 0:21:57here to create localised flooding here in the 16arondissement. Here
0:21:57 > 0:22:02the ground flats have been boarded up. These were flats. People lived
0:22:02 > 0:22:10here, they have had to move out. Across here, the commuter Network
0:22:10 > 0:22:18Rail work comes in. This has been shut down as it is flooded.
0:22:18 > 0:22:24And the museum, the Louvre have once again started to move precious item
0:22:24 > 0:22:28from the basement to higher levels. Every time there is a inadequate in
0:22:28 > 0:22:34Paris, they ask if this is the big one, there is a bigger one. Like in
0:22:34 > 0:22:411910. This peaked at six metres, it is the norm, it is not the big one.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42it is not the big one.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45In just under a month's time, the winners of this year's
0:22:45 > 0:22:46British Academy Film Awards will be announced.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Incredibly, former students from just one British School have
0:22:49 > 0:22:51received ten individual BAFTA nominations - for films
0:22:51 > 0:22:52including Darkest Hour, Star Wars and Bladerunner 2049.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55The BBC's Chi Chi Izundu went to the National Film
0:22:55 > 0:22:57and Television School to meet some of the nominees
0:22:57 > 0:23:04and current students.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07The 1979 release of Alien, the first film a graduate
0:23:07 > 0:23:13from the National Film and Television School
0:23:13 > 0:23:15won a BAFTA for.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18Skip forward to 2018 - studying their craft
0:23:18 > 0:23:22is very hands-on.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24The courses here are so practical 93% of graduates get
0:23:24 > 0:23:27a job in their specialism within the industry,
0:23:27 > 0:23:32just like Jessica Jones, who graduated in 2016,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and is now nominated for a BAFTA that's part of the music composition
0:23:35 > 0:23:39team for Darkest Hour.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Lots of people don't know about it, and it's sort of tucked away
0:23:42 > 0:23:46in the middle of the country and, yeah, but I think it used to be
0:23:46 > 0:23:49studios so it is definitely the kind of place where you meet
0:23:49 > 0:23:51lots of different people and you learn your trade
0:23:51 > 0:23:53and you meet people learning their craft, so you'll
0:23:53 > 0:23:55meet cinematographers and producers and editors,
0:23:55 > 0:24:00and I'm still really close with all those people now.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Our island, whatever the cost may be...
0:24:02 > 0:24:03Then there's the alumni.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05The school maintains links with those working in the industry
0:24:05 > 0:24:07who regularly come back to teach, like Oscar-winning
0:24:07 > 0:24:11composer Dario Marianelli.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13But I think the uniqueness of the film school is
0:24:13 > 0:24:15that the composition students will work alongside the production
0:24:15 > 0:24:23students and the director students, and the writers.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Think of every big British blockbuster,
0:24:26 > 0:24:28from the Harry Potter franchise right through to the Wallace
0:24:28 > 0:24:31and Gromit animation series.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33This school and its students have had a hand in it.
0:24:33 > 0:24:37The students even get to learn how to build a set like this.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39So far, graduates have managed to scoop ten Oscars and 129 BAFTAs,
0:24:39 > 0:24:42but for the first time the school itself will be acknowledged
0:24:42 > 0:24:49for its contribution.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52It's not just film and TV production.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Gaming, animation and model-making are also points of pride
0:24:54 > 0:24:59for staff and students.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01To win the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award, it's unbelievable,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04and it's such a vote of confidence in the school.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07You know, for 47 years we've really worked hard to provide the people
0:25:07 > 0:25:12of the future of the film, television and now games industries.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Britain still attracts foreign film investment,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18which is largely thanks to the broad skill base of British movie-makers
0:25:18 > 0:25:21which this school plays a crucial role in providing.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Chi Chi Izundu, BBC News, at the National Film
0:25:23 > 0:25:29and Television School.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32A discount on Nutella has led to violent scenes in a chain
0:25:32 > 0:25:33of French supermarkets, as shoppers jostled
0:25:33 > 0:25:40to grab a bargain.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43Intermarche
0:25:43 > 0:25:46supermarkets offered a seventy percent discount on the
0:25:46 > 0:25:48chocolate hazelnut spread.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Similar scenes have been reported across France, with some
0:25:51 > 0:25:59being described as "riots".
0:25:59 > 0:26:05Don't forget you can get in touch with me and some