channel. good morning welcome to breakfast from b.b.c. news of me susanna read. new airport security measures are being brought in full body scanners are being considered. the prime minister accepted the detroit plane's lot he calls it a wake up call in the fight against terrorism. for good morning to you it's friday january the first. happy new year. also on today's program. the freed british hostage peter moore looks set to leave baghdad later today will be live there shortly. a warning that the rising number of people needing treatment for alcohol could cripple n.h.s. hospitals. how music is helping to heal the scars of the italian earth quake.

we'll hear from one of the survivors and celebrations in london and around the world. when the new year and the new decade. first on may news this morning a review of airport security has been ordered by the prime minister after the failed. detroit. plane plot which he's described as a wakeup call right here on the downing street website gordon brown says the u.k. will move quickly in its fight against terror a full body scanners will now be considered as part of the new measure. the new decade is starting as the last began with al qaeda. creating a climate of fear that right. the prime minister is why they could be no complacency in dealing with the failed detroit attack he says the national terrorism. very great country. title from a tional perspective. terrorists to stop them movement and procedures.

now being carried out to look. port in the next few days. new physical security measures. also seem inevitable rumor for root abdulmutallab. explosives went undetected through dutch and nigerian airports. and gordon brown says new techniques will be examined in cooperation with america including full body x. ray scanners. the prime minister also says the country can't rely on a fortress britain strategy alone. and urged people to be vigilant in identifying people at risk of radicalization. and right b.b.c. news. the freed british hostage peter moore is likely to leave baghdad later today that's according to british embassy sources in the iraqi capital. he was released on wednesday after two and a half years in captivity. let's speak now to the b.b.c.'s middle east correspondent jim mir who is in baghdad very good morning to you jim what do we know officially about. when peter moore will be coming. what i've been your to you too though we're expecting him to move on later today

but i have to say that his movements and plans are being kept very much on the run by the shills here. here. it's in line with their policy or and his desire and that of his family to have a period of decompression of the eases gently back into the life and the challenges that lie ahead. so we're not being told anything about the likely timings or indeed the modeller to the roots and aircraft that will be used to to move him back home but to the expectation is that he will be on the move in that in the next few hours. jim what do we know about what he's been doing since he was released and what is likely to happen to him once he returns home. well. from what we understand he's been having a quiet time of course it was his second night of freedom last night and it was two years night but there was kind of moderate. certainly not a not mr rubble riyad nothing like that at the embassy or find it very quiet evening. and he's being allowed to decompress is i mean quiet time obviously he's receiving medical attention

and counseling which is very important. after hostages come out of that captivity. once he goes back to the u.k. of course he will be reunited with his family and to be left with i would imagine for quite some time but of course there will also be further counseling on the briefing because of course people will want to know what light he can shed on the whole affair of the kidnapping which of course many aspects of which remain very murky. ok jim your reporting from baghdad jim thanks very much for now. a judge in america has dismissed all charges against five men from the u.s. security firm blackwater over the killing of seventeen iraqis. the ganser accused of opening fire on a crowd in baghdad in two thousand and seven. the federal judge said the u.s. justice department and used evidence. prosecutors were not supposed to have the national health service in england is struggling to keep up with the rising number of people needing treatment because of alcohol.

that's the claim in a report by health service managers at the n.h.s. confederation. they say better services need to be developed in the community. this is where alcohol is putting the n.h.s. under pressure. ambulance crews and accident and emergency staff deal with incidents daily. patching up the damage from heavy drinking. behind this front line. there is a less visible. but growing. burden of disease. today's report says the n.h.s. lead to pick up alcohol problems earlier. when it easier and cheaper to treat you reckon about ninety percent of spending on alcohol related health problems. is in is in acute hospitals and ambulances. we think that actually that could be better spent if there was more prevention and more identification of alcohol problems. the cost of treating alcohol problems in england has risen rapidly from one point four billion pounds a year in two thousand and one to two point seven billion pounds by two thousand and seven.

but only one in eighteen people with alcohol problems receive treatment. and many people still don't realize that drinking. above healthy levels. as the new year begins. some will be resolving to cut down on pay and that's what many doctors and h.s. managers believe is needed a shift in our drinking habits. to reduce the health damage from alcohol. branwen geoffrey's b.b.c. news. economists a warning that retailers face a tough spring as the v.a. t. rate returns to seventeen and a half percent today. the taxes cut fifteen percent a year ago to help drive up consumer spending during the recession. many businesses say they will delay passing on a higher rate. others say they'll absorb the cost of the increase. and the suspension of stubborn g.t. on home is worth less than one hundred seventy five thousand pounds has ended. it means buyers will once again have to pay the tax on property is worth more than a hundred twenty five thousand pounds. the so-called stub g.t. holiday was introduced back in september two thousand and eight.

to help the property market. the archbishop of canterbury dr rowan williams will describe the last decade as a terrible and gruelling period when he delivers his new year message. later today. the archbishop will also say that the suffering and risks people face. across national boundaries. he alleged people not to lose sight of what he calls the one enormous lesson. we can learn from the last ten years. it's about not losing our hope for change. and i love and respect for the dignity of everyone in a world where risk and suffering not everybody's problem. the needs of our neighbours of the needs of the whole human family. that's respond. just as we do when our immediate family is in need or trouble. we may be amazed by the difference we can make. you can watch the archbishop of canterbury delivering his knee a message on because he was at twelve thirty five this lunchtime. and again on the this he too. at five o'clock this evening. it's the first day of a new decade. and the year twenty ten has been welcomed in with parties and celebrations across the world in the u.k.

hundreds of thousands of party goes braved freezing temperatures. to set the new year off with a bang. big bang signal the start of the fireworks in the capitol hill centered on the london bombers johnson said the display showed the most exciting city on a board to the future with optimism and energy. the crowd on the embankment dance to the very top the blanks on it and brought tens of thousands of people from around the world brave subzero temperatures. to watch the fireworks over the castle and celebrate hogmanay in moves so she stopped.

to call it what they could have gotten australia with a display of fireworks over sydney harbor. that was labeled the greatest show on earth. cities around the world competed to put on the best performance in hong kong the waterfront skyscrapers provided the perfect platform for the pirating to moscow. fireworks to top the sky behind some battles to be drawn to make square. paris opted instead for a sound and light show centered on the eiffel tower. in the city of romance couple celebrated in traditional style. and in times square new york. america. i should in the first year of the new decade. address shower. of conflict. and he more b.b.c. news. normally fast a look at our top stories this morning alex taken will be here in about fifteen minutes to tell us what's

in store with the weather. this new year's day. now one of the biggest stories of the last year with the devastating earthquake which hit the italian city of l'aquila in april. more than three hundred people died and tens of thousands were left homeless. in the days which followed our correspondent don king kennedy met many survivors of the quake. and he's been back to see how one of them escaping. it sometimes takes immersion in sublime music. to forget to pick it. destruction to get loss of family and friends. joanna griffith jones originally from liverpool. remembers the day her own home. really conceived. i will never forget nobody here will ever forget the terrible screams that night. you were never. we first met. joanna.

last april in the rural hours after the lack of quake destroyed her village. i do find it difficult. saying most especially if you go through to the main square in the church has gone. such a beautiful little man's houses are gone. why people are still made. we've now been back to see joe in her chalet style temporary home. on the edge of her village outside like will or you never hear the walls no longer sway. or ceilings cascade. it's warm. somewhere safe to reflect a life changing experience. i absolutely love that there is no doubt no doubt. because they put so many things into perspective in her life.

the things that are really necessary things that aren't necessary. life changing experience. when you remember the night in question. is there a particular smell and noise. that sets it all off again. dust. dust. the smell of dust the cause that night as the. the ceiling was collapsing in on us. and the whole house was just rocking and shaking. just dustbuster us to hear. a memorial. joe took me to all those new garden of remembrance. bathed in watery winter sunlight. it's forty one names. babies grandparents. whole family. and then finally on to others once charming main street. now home to rubble. ghosts and hope. it's almost unbelievable. really that of those are villages complete be wiped out.

i have run the full members of this village. and i'm sure they will be wonderful memories again but joanna says it will be sick of the forgiving. passage of time for the top of duncan kennedy. b.b.c. news. thirteen minutes past eight as for you up to date with the headlines and on breakfast this morning. gordon brown says the u.k. will move quickly to enhance airport security after the wakeup call of the failed detroit plane a tank. and the b.b.c. understands the freed british hostage peter moore is likely to leave baghdad later today. we've just left the decade which many dubbed the northeast behind but what should the next ten years be called there's been plenty of suggestions including the twenty tennis. the tennis. a latina yes that's what some of you think the next decade.

should be named on the twenty can definitely and he says a lot of actors know i know been and i was talking about twenty ten seconds. this is time for a kid. yes. the caption for me anyway. i thought i was it says you know from africa. the african patch are we think we want to know we were just the. ok city dense. is countdowns dictionary expert. and she joins me along with piers fletcher who is a producer on the chief. question wrangler from the program q i very good morning navy. and it was. she's question raglan. well happy new year to you both and thanks very much indeed for joining me this morning. and he's just have to clarify that we calling this a new decade. but officially. i mean a new decade well i think you have to be one really special.

pedant to say that we are not in the by that logic you say that. here nine hundred ninety was and was not in the one nine hundred ninety s. which is it. i think we can cause a new decade. ok kentucky with that ok we've got that cleared up that's officials far as i'm concerned and. susie tell us about the north cease because still to me it sounds kind of a lot. courting the loss of like of the northeast. i know it's my favorite nickname for the decade that just passes the owns or is only a little of the button. numerical nickname but you have noted didn't really sort of fix and fill probably two thousand and eight that that quite interesting that it was applied retrospectively a so i guess a decade out to prove itself for those days and i would say. we have been especially naughty in fact anything anything but. so that was purely sort of linguistically you know nice sounding nickname. but yet. do you think it is i mean that's exactly that point. the northeast sounded a bit cheeky. so perhaps people didn't want to pick up on it. but then they realize the decade was a composite had called it something where i don't i don't think anyone really

worries about it during the decade or so we would look at in retrospect this is and we probably wouldn't call this decade anything at all. i'm afraid to sue your father until nine or ten years time when they will be running the articles in the papers about what happened last decade and by then it'll be twenty nineteen will be calling the teens. ok for you you think that's the most likely. well you have coming around to that view. the deans of the twenty first century and perhaps. so when something happens in twenty fifteen it'll be. yet amid. now the but the other thing is of course if you look back the twentieth century they didn't call the corresponding tecate anything. but there was a war going on in the cato identity called it the war. and they be will have some you know i would be calling this muddies. you know the disaster he's all right. so it might be defined by is bad. yeah. rather than than give a name and susie apparently competition in australia awarded the prize. to the wonder years. i'm not that keen on that one i have to say.

wanted to build and i think because at the moment feels like there might be anything but the one d. and i've offered to some the fans as well like. the tenterhooks or you know that this to time capsule it was the sort of uncertainty that we're facing with but it turns tense means of course american is this a twenty four seven element but i think this is right it'll be a while before something really settled. and in a recent survey of five thousand brits most popular choice of name over here. was the tried to tens. be sing off competition from the teeny. the ten ts. and the tennis. i think the twenty's are going at such a big ok for us it's just amazing made up the time when it says it's all kind of i hope in exceptional decade i've got this means sixty the more and twenty will find something that really kind of gives it some homes and it'll be a better decade that we can that back on the to muster to let them know. there's just a talking point. although it's always a some it's a sailor i said is the one on new year's day. so you don't put that past and do you think that it's important for us to label.

decades now more label easy is it a case don't don't fit into this this is the sixty's resulted in nine hundred sixty three. really lucky. pointed out and went on to about nine hundred seventy four so you know i mean so you know j.f.k. assassinated nine to sixty three beatles album at sixty three. ending with a ritual from vietnam or something like that. and so the masters in this really tie in with the. i mean it was like ghosts no trees not that hard and i think that's right you know. and because if it was then the northeast would have been quite naughty. yes. but we've been had they been. but. you know they've been through fifty's really and. yeah. and the war on terror and all the things that you know that that's what people think it's characterizing this for us to carry here. and you being chief question wrangler on q i mean all these things are important because they form the basis of all sorts of things you ask people if we can get a laugh. yeah yeah. ok well where the loss. well i was ok i think that we have a choice here but it's also the interest like there was a much for joining us.

love this is sort of you. where did you finally come down so easy on what you going to call as a so straightforward twenty turns to me it's central. but i hope that we do get some sort of nickname like the ruling twenty that we have to prove ourselves first. yes and you're and you're going for i'm going mining. event for a defining event. and if there isn't one of the teams. but not for ten bucks and i have ten years. ok. lovely start you both happy new year. i do very much like this is right. ok nineteen minutes past eight your ching breakfast. the strains being put on the health service by excessive drinking. are highlighted this morning in a new report by n.h.s. managers and other countries are also facing up to the challenges posed by alcohol. from today. russia has introduced a minimum price for all vodka sales in an attempt to tackle the country's drinking problem. correspondent richard galpin is in moscow. and a very good morning to you richard just give us an idea of the kind of scale of the problem rusher is trying to tackle here. it's absolutely huge officially. there are two and a half million registered alcoholics.

but i know many people believe. the figure is much much harder some estimates which are to say that one in three men in this country are alcoholic and if you just look at the figures for example of the number of people who died. die from alcohol poisoning. every year. it's something like thirty five thousand people so an enormous number not just for our whole poisoning because they're drinking. horrific products. horrific moonshine. which kills them. very very rapidly. ok but moonshine not being targeted here this is about. officially sold vodka. isn't it. yeah that's right the idea of course is to increase the minimum price which they dafur hope will decrease consumption because people will think twice about buying a bottle because it's more expensive. but the problem with that as has been proved in the past is that if you do that then more and more people are likely to turn to the moonshine which then in fact. could increase the number of deaths.

and the number of people who are seriously ill. as a result of alcohol abuse because people turn i mean it's not just a moonshine. here in russia they turn to things like cleaning fluids to turf you. to aftershave anything. which contains some form of our culture of course. that is extremely dangerous. and the government there with this increase of a minimum price. must think that it will have some positive impact give us an idea of how much forget currently cost. how much it will cost. well. at the moment so until now. the minimum price for the lowest price for vulcan you could pick up a bottle of vodka. for less than a pound. it's now going to cost almost two pounds which is still pretty cheap for half a liter of vodka but yes. you know i mean the government. clearly thinks it has to do something when the prime minister described as described alcoholism in this country.

as a national tragedy. in an effort to kill or where because one of the key problems in this country is the fact that the population is declining. at a very rapid rate according to some statistics. by about three quarters of a million people around him. so they have to do something to tackle the health crisis in this country. and that means. of course tackling alcoholism but i think many people will be very skeptical about whether this initial measure will actually have any impact. and richard what is the feeling there about why russia has this particular problem with alcohol consumption. it's a very good question but i guess you know. it's tradition. it's culture. it's in the literature. and it's you know it's pretty much institutionalized you know. if you go out to any level i mean if you go meet. top officials. then you know. the probability is if you go for dinner with them or get some kind of function. your sit down at your standup and toast or have many toasts with me people just do it. it's something in the russian so perhaps connected to the climate as well.

and it's a tough place and some people need some kind of escape but you know this is nothing new in this country it's been going on for centuries. which a gap in our reporting there from moscow thanks very much indeed richard. sigh. we can polish a hello scott me. we can do you know you well behaved. and i had two sips of one. midnight went straight sleep very well behaved indeed an exciting day for because first day of the new year means a new transfer window has opened it's a bit early yet to be talking about signings but tottenham manager harry redknapp says roman pavlyuchenko is welcome to leave with one condition. they have to recoup most of the thirteen point eight million pounds. they paid spartak moscow for him at the start of last season. but not isn't keen to let him go with the players made no secret of his desire to leave spurs. he hasn't played since october. he wants to leave and somebody comes in and pays a money for in the is worth then you know we'll have to look at is not one that we're looking.

crazy a shift of is a good player again this is a tell it. but as we look at the weeks ago yeah. in the series is you know he felt you want you to move in this and the others. but it's up to somebody is going to come and make an offer that you know the club exception is a good enough offer for us to even look at why is it is no. there's no chance of doing. of him leaving. well the burning a manager alex mcleish is not keen on the transfer window saying it encourages panic buying. although he was promised around forty million pounds by the new club's owner mcleish doesn't intend to splash out. but we are in a comfortable position sitting in the premier league after an eleven match unbeaten run. i'm sure that when you open a beer with the relegation zone or in the relegation zone. to make rash decisions. and then panic and maybe make spend more money than you should in that's why the journey went to a great fan of the.

because people to panic my window. we are in a position no one i don't have to spend any money so i was mentioned. when the new owners came and we we can be proven you can make sure we do intelligence and shine. thanks to a few personal keepers taken over the nation. now at the start of the six nations championship just over a month so wide as a major worry for wales. have to fly half stephen jones picked up a shoulder injury in the scholars celtic league win at newport. quench dragon. forty nine victory was their first away from home all season. dr occasionally quarter of an out of this man she was newport great dragons who broke the deadlock. fly half short color with a drop goal which finally got the school board meeting. the scarlets response was immediate that said to jonathan davies powering through the midfield the soft body to reach priest and. he's trying to put the visitors in front.

the lead don't change hands full bore times either side of the break as qalandiya two penalties for the dragons were pretty to maintain the rugby can hold records this season and stephen jones did likewise for the scarlets who just aren't used to being so close to the bottom of the table. jones afternoon came to a premature end when he was forced off by a shoulder injury sustained earlier in the match and that will be a concern to the whole of wales. with the six nations just five weeks away. a priest and penalty then extend to the scarlet three to five points. but the visitors were focused withstand the dragons old school run it to the end only when this as it was held up in the six minutes of stoppage time that the scarlets finally celebrate their first away win of the season. column harrison speak to seniors and. coming up places i will be hearing from the in cricket camp in cape town there in the nets. today. victory in a surtax would of course when then the series not found on that or just about on foot for me to go on in years resolutions here. be a bit healthier. i think about you.

yet they're boring ones but they only story. my many been organized and eat less chocolate evil how can i always more shocked that you're yasin ok fine. that's probably quite an easy one to stick to your. sunny thanks very much indeed. and let's get a look at the weather now with alex. now is very much suzanne i give morning to you and a very happy new year. the weather. well it's more the same it's bitterly bitterly cold once more and we have more met office. severe weather warnings in force but snow and ice could be pretty slippery. if you heading out particular course. eastern counties of england and scotland this is the radar showing the shallow as the showers are of snow as well especially across north east england. southeast got an answer to northern scott a more heavy snow falling here. for the west many places. actually dry and sunny but so bitterly cold the snow showers continue to feed in especially for. mari. and aberdeenshire throughout the day after the ten centimeters of snow is possible. could well be covering this morning across the borders.

spreading its way as south was that line of snow showers into northeast doing that for the south mainly amateur rain sleet and snow showers across east anglian the southeast but falling on the roads and freezing so therefore it could well be icy had some rain overnight in a coma as well that is fizzling out this morning but again he could be icy where we've had the overnight right. of course it's generally a dry day a sunny day but it is crisp and cold. a few showers across north wales maybe want to shower is here and there in northern out of the most places here also having a sunny. but bitterly cold day. now as you run through the day will see more the snow showers for northern eastern skulked and southeast cultured and northeast england. a few more developing perhaps inland across parts of the midlands. maybe wells but actually many areas. particular way from the north sea coast. having a fine and sunny crisp. new year's day but it is cold zero to plus three feeling a bit colder think it did yesterday. overnight tonight we get a few more showers moving across the u.k.

so that could turn things i see once more as temperatures why the drop to minus three or minus four degrees celsius movie minus five. in class go. later the night they'll be so much more snow working its way into northern parts of scotland is going to be accompanied by a strong wind. and that band of heavy snow could cause some problems it tracks its way south was down the eastern side of scotland. eventually into northeast ng the stubby is some wintry showers for northern ireland and northwest england as well but from the middle and southward. should be a bright fine. saturday. but again it's colder widespread for us to start the day and temperatures barely getting much above freezing zero two. plus for feeling particularly cold with a strong wind and the snow across parts of the northeast. so the cold weather continues and it doesn't change throughout the weekend another cold day on sunday. with a widespread morning frost. and a fair few wintry shasta that's all for me at the with the rest.