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tv   Breakfast  BBC News  January 21, 2017 6:00am-7:01am GMT

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hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and steph mcgovern. the first full day in office for the new president of the united sates, donald trump, pledges to fulfill his campaign promises. he's already signed his first orders as president, including changes to barack obama's healthcare act, which mr trump said he will repeal. we wa nt we want to make america great again, and we will. inauguration day ended with a series of balls, before the president and first lady returned to the white house to spend the first night in their new home. good morning, it's saturday the 21st of january. we'll look back on president trump's inauguration, and what's in store for his first few days in power. also ahead, three more survivors
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have been pulled out of the debris of a hotel, almost 72 hours after it was swamped by an avalanche. leaders of europe's right wing parties gather in germany to discuss their opposition to the european union, thousands of protestors are expected to demonstrate. in sport, a woman on a roll, and yohanna konta is aiming to keep her winning run going, by knocking out a former world number one out of the australian open. she's taken the first set. and in from the cold. i've been training with the british long speed skating team, who's sport has been revived in the netherlands. and nick has the weather. the weekend is getting off to a frosty start. a hard frost in some parts. patchy fog around as well. a mostly dry day, and i've got all
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your weekend weather in the next half an hour. good morning. first, our main story. president donald trump has wasted no time in getting to work. shortly after his inauguration parade ended, the new man in charge signed an executive order to begin dismantling barack obama's affordable care act, known as obamaca re. in his first speech as president, mr trump promised to take power from the establishment in washington and give it back to the people. last night the president and first lady attended a number of traditional balls held to thank his supporters. here's our washington reporter, laura bicker. and now, the president and first lady of the united states will take their first dance. never has a song been more appropriate for a president. donald trump got here by doing things very differently, a trait he shows no sign of losing our
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scamander in chief. should i keep the twitter going or not? i think so —— losing as commander in chief. the twitter going or not? i think so -- losing as commander in chief. he was smiling, class the hand of his wife and first lady. in the balls are part of the political choreography of this day, and he invited supporters from across the country. well, we did it. we began this journey, country. well, we did it. we began thisjourney, and country. well, we did it. we began this journey, and i country. well, we did it. we began thisjourney, and i said we, we and me. we didn't have a chance, but we knew we were going to win. and we won. as he shuffled around the floor, word spread that he had already made his first executive move, an action that will help repeal obamacare. his predecessor's
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signature healthcare repeal obamacare. his predecessor's signature healthca re law. repeal obamacare. his predecessor's signature healthcare law. across the country, gatherings of a more hostile nations spread out from coast to coast. —— hostile nature. over 200 people were arrested in washington after a handful of small rallies turned violent. in chicago, hundreds peacefully voiced their concerns at donald trump's agenda. in seattle, they marched through the streets. though the demonstrations are planned over the weekend. but the new president will shrug off this criticism, just as he did during the campaign. surrounded by family and friends, he is taking time to enjoy this pageantry before the real work begins. we'll be speaking to veteran white house correspondent
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connie lawn from washington in around ten minutes' time. women in 32 countries will stage protest marches today to mark the first day of donald trump's presidency of the united states. this one in sydney, australia, is already underway and hundreds more are due to take place around the world, including many uk cities. around 200,000 people are expected to attend a march on the american capital to highlight the need for women's rights. italian firefighters say three more survivors have been pulled out of the debris of the hotel swamped by an avalanche on wednesday. four children were among those pulled from the remains yesterday. attempts are continuing to rescue two more known survivors, but at least 15 people remain unaccounted for. andy moore reports. as darkness fell on the third night since the avalanche, a six—year—old girl was pulled from the rubble, cold but apparently well. soon after came another child, a boy. one of
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four children who have so far been rescued from the rubble of the hotel. they survived in the kitchen, protected by concrete walls that also silenced their cries for help. after these images were filmed, another three adults were also rescued. all survivors were flown to hospital. they are said to be cold and dehydrated, but otherwise in remarkably good condition. for some relatives who have endured a long wait for news, there was huge relief. can't you see it on my face? doesn't it show how happy i am? it's great, i can't describe it. i'd like to see him. for now he is safe, and i hope his parents have managed to survive. or other relatives, the anxious wait goes on. rescuers believe there are at least two more people alive and trapped under the snow. they haven't managed to get to them yet. some bodies have been
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recovered, at least 15 people are unaccounted for. the former president of the gambia has finally agreed to step down and leave the country. yayya jammeh had been clinging on to power despite losing last month's election. troops from several west african countries had threatened to depose him by force if necessary. the leaders of some of your‘s right—wing populist parties will gather in a german city goal attack to discuss marine le pen. the dutch minister is also planning to attend. thousands of protesters are expected to demonstrate outside the event —— ina german to demonstrate outside the event —— in a german city today. the mexican drug lord joaquin guzman, also known as el chapo, appeared in a us court after a surprise extradition from mexico. guzman pleaded not guilty to charges that he headed the world's largest drug—trafficking organisation, the sin—a—loa cartel, in a criminal life spanning decades. he's accused of drug trafficking, kidnapping, murder and conspiracy.
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the brazilian football club, chapecoense, will play its first match tonight after nearly all of its players were killed in a plane crash in columbia. the club made 20 new signings following the disaster, which left 71 people dead. our reporter, julia carneiro has more. the match will be a friendly, and will raise money for the victim's families. let's get back to our top story and it's the first full day in office for president trump. our correspondent laura bicker is in in washington. laura, the new president has already got to work, hasn't he? there is no escaping the fact that his tone and tamina have suggested this is a very different presidency? never has there been such a contrast
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between an incoming and outgoing president. here, we have president trump, as is seem behind me, he has been at three inaugural balls behind me “— been at three inaugural balls behind me —— as you've been at three inaugural balls behind me —— as you've seen been at three inaugural balls behind me —— as you've seen behind me. he was forthright, opinionated and himself, evenjoking was forthright, opinionated and himself, even joking about his twitter account. i think i said in the piece you played earlier, never was a song more appropriate. my way. just as he was as a candidate, donald trump is intending to do it his way. he is already intending to repeal obamacare, the his way. he is already intending to repeal obamaca re, the affordable ca re repeal obamaca re, the affordable care act that gives people healthcare and health insurance. that was initiated by president obama. it was a campaign promise. some republicans have told him to slow down. donald trump is pushing ahead with these moves to repeal
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obamacare. and other moves as well. we wonder what will come next. the whole white house system has been reset. we are now looking at a new era in us politics. for the moment, thank you. connie lawn is a journalist who's covered the white house for nearly five decades, seeing 10 different presidents in that time. she also joins us from washington. thank you very much forjoining us. we were talking about change, this isa we were talking about change, this is a big change from president obama leaving. one of the big themes was of course putting america first. how do you think his speech compared to those you've seen over the years? it's really tough. this is one american who is delighted to talk to you. it is amazing. i am sure the allied leaders, traders and merchants are very nervous because
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he is almost merchants are very nervous because he is almost declaring a trade war on most of the world. he didn't talk about the mexican wall in depth, but he did talk about the middle east. he used the term, radical islamist terrorists. the obama administration did not use the term islamic for that. there is a lot of change in tone. the press wondered if we were going to be able to function as white house press. i have been functioning since 1968. i don't know if we will be able to get back into the white house on monday. he has done a few things. he has named two generals. he has got to people in place. ——2. tomorrow he goes to the cia and it is going to be interesting, he has criticised that organisation. there is going to be a huge march which i understand you have in london as well. as you said,
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there is a huge change in tone. a lot of the same rhetoric from the campaign was not there. the idea of taking away from the politicians and giving back to forgotten people. how do you think that is going to play out now that he is a politician? tougher, edgy, a bit shocking when you consider him standing on the podium with the former president around him. not as many supporters as president obama had when he was sworn in. but it was very shocking, people were very surprised about it. what you think success is going to look like? how is he going to judged? it is too early to tell, but the country is divided. you can see that with the demonstration. these are not just protests, that with the demonstration. these are notjust protests, these are anarchists. there has been quite a bit of damage today in washington. over 217 people have been arrested for smashing and burning things. it
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is one thing to object to what you think are his policies, but if you are going to protest without a focus, you lose your point. we don't know what is going to happen. but he does have a lot of followers. i predicted last, that he probably would win the presidency, because he says things that people are afraid to say. people who are voting for him wouldn't admit they are going to vote for him. he represents a lot of hatred in this country. as you said, he has said a lot of things that other people are afraid to say. now he has to follow through on all of that. as you mentioned, he has a meeting with the cia today. he has been very critical of the intelligence services. how is that going to go down? it will be an interesting meeting. most of what he wa nts, interesting meeting. most of what he wants, he will get, it was he has a republican house and senate. he has
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hundreds ofjudges who he could nominate, including those in the supreme court. he is pretty much going to get his way. it is a totally new era and goodness knows what is going to happen to relations with the uk, germany, nato, trade could deteriorate with a lot of countries. we don't know what will happen with north korea, russia, china, the middle east. very serious changes. thank you very much for your time. underneath the duvet, that is not a bad start to be. it is called a van yesterday in rural southern england, -8,
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yesterday in rural southern england, —8, you can see the extent into northern ireland, in fact, widespread, more so than recent mornings. the frost avoiding coastal parts of northern and western island, not just a parts of northern and western island, notjust a case of frost parts of northern and western island, not just a case of frost as well. we have frost for eastern england, northern ireland, eastern scotland, some of it might be slow to clear. it is quite wintry looking. it is fine and dry ahead. more clout for cornel and devon. the frosty start, temperatures lower in rural start, with fog affecting central and eastern england, into the welsh marches, eastern scotland, but you can see this frosty blue across the map, although there is no rain to show, we are dry for the start of the day and it will be like that for most of us at the end of the day as well. as we move through, it isa the day as well. as we move through, it is a case of looking out for cloud compared to first thing, with
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plenty of sunshine. more cloud pushing into south—east england and northern ireland, but this cloud will invade north—east england, the midlands and north—west england. the closer to the north—east coast, patchy light rain, and single figure temperatures. it is a cold feeling day. the frost is more patchy in nature because there is more cloud around. in northern england, scotland, delivering patchy, light rain, sleet and snow over the hills, not amounting to much, showers into southwest england and wales, and they could be wintry over the hills. you might see the frost coming and going with the cloud overnight, some patchy fog into tomorrow morning possible, the best sunshine tomorrow, you can see it, east anglia, the midlands, elsewhere it is cloudier, with showers patchy rain in scotland, wintry flurry especially on the hills, because it is cold enough for single figure temperatures once again. start of next week, monday, tuesday, it is
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quiet, although there might be some troublesome fog around, and we will hear more about that as we approach the weekend. troublesome fog to look out for, ok. thank you very much. we'll be back with a summary of the news at 6:30am. now it's time for the film review with jane hill and mark kermode. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, mark kermode is with me, and what will you be telling us about this week, mark? very interesting week. we have jackie, in which natalie portman plays the first lady. we have split, a psychological thrillerfrom m night shyamalan. and lion, the true story of a little boy lost. well, jackie, how timely?
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yes, extraordinary, isn't it. so this is directed by chilean film—maker pablo larrain, and it's the story of the assassination and aftermath ofjohn f kennedy, as seen through the eyes of jackie kennedy, played, as everyone will know, by natalie portman. there's been an awful lot of interest in her performance, lots and lots of nominations, and the film plays out like a kaleidoscope. it's essentiallyjuggling a series of different time frames that are all meant to be representing her fragmented state of mind, so we have the motorcade in dallas, the aftermath in washington, we have the funeral, the huge sort of funeral arrangements, and we also have a wrap round which is jackie kennedy being interviewed by a journalist who, in the film is unnamed, but it's obviously inspired by the life magazine interview. at the very beginning of the interview she says to him, "just remember i'm editing this conversation." and he says, "ok, it's going to be your version of events." here's a clip. you'll have to share something personal eventually.
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people won't stop asking until you do. and if i don't, they'll interpret my silence however they want? "her brow furrows, her lips are drawn. she holds back her tears but she can't hide her anger." most writers want to be famous. you want to be famous? no, i'm fine as i am, thank you. you should prepare yourself. this article will bring you a great deal of attention. in that case, any advice for me? yes. don't marry the president. are you afraid i'm about to cry again? no, i'd say you're more likely to scream? scream what? "my husband was a great man." and interesting, because people might think we know everything there is to know about that story, is there anything new in this, does it resonate? what it does is, it attempts to portray her, firstly as somebody
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going through an horrendous personal crisis, and we do have the assassination, and it is shocking, as it should be. but also somebody who, in the period immediately afterwards, is constructing the legacy, is basically building the camelot story, which then became the story everybody told aboutjfk. jackie is portrayed very much as first lady of the televisual age, somebody who is a master of the printed word and also the moving image. some of the things — you may have noticed from that clip her performance is very arch, very stagey, very mannered, and when i first saw the film i actually found that alienating. it was only later on, and i have seen it twice now, i realised what it is alienated. she is alienated from her surroundings. because the film has this kaleidescopic and necessarily fragmentary structure, it is possible that it may not gel, that it may not engage you emotionally. the key to it doing the emotional engagement is mica levi's score, which is absolutely brilliant, and it's one of those films in which the music is the thing that pulls it all together. pulls all these different fragments, shards, elements together, and involves you in the story emotionally.
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i think natalie portman's performance is very peculiar, very strange, but it's because she is performing a performance. she is playing somebody on a stage, also somebody in the eye of a storm. the music for me is what made it, you know, cohere, what made it gel, what made it into something other than just a kind of arch and slightly abstract exercise in revisiting history. well, we will find out next week whether she has been nominated for an oscar, of course. let's talk about split. james mcavoy, great british actor back on the screen. yes, so this is a new film from m night shyamalan, who i think is still best known for the sixth sense, and had a run of critically acclaimed films and then made some real stinkers, and kind of came back recently with a sort of stripped down found footage movie. this is, i think it's an interesting story. james mcavoy plays somebody who has 23 separate personalities.
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at the beginning of film we see him kidnapping some young women, one of them is played by anya taylor—joy, who was so brilliant in the witch, who realises pretty early on the key to her survival is going to be negotiating with different personalities that seem to be existing within this one warring character. now, mcavoy has real fun with the role. he really enjoys it. on the one hand, he is playing someone who is a fashion designer, another is a young child with a lisp, and there's a veyr prim, proper woman called patricia, and all these controlling elements, and they keep talking about the beast, the beast, this thing called the beast, which may or may not surface. shyamalan, i think, is not the — is not quite the master of the genre that he once looked like being. sometimes the screenplay is very clunky, some of the direction is a little bit creaky and the story is preposterous, but in a way which is — but if you saw it as like an old fashioned b—movie, when you kind of think, ok, it's one of those films, it kind of functions ok, but it is held shoulder high by mcavoy‘s performance, and also by the fact that if you accept that the set up is fairly preposterous,
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and what you're going to get shouldn't be taken too seriously, there are certain joys about it. it is much better than the films he was making a few years ago, when he really did seem to be somebody, who, having started with, you know, brilliant work like sixth sense, had then just gone completely out of control, and was making nonsensical science fiction movies. and described as horrorfilm when i've read about it. is that accurate? it's a psychological thriller with some horror elements, yes. that's probably the best way... i think he would like to describe it as a mystery. i would describe it as a clunky b—movie, raised shoulder high by the central performance, which of course is several central performances in one. lion, based on a true story. an extraordinary true story. this whole thing about truth is stranger than fiction. the story of a young boy in the mid 805, from kandahar, who got onto a train on which he was trapped, which then travelled 1600 kilometres, and by the time he got
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off it he was away from home, couldn't speak the language, didn't know how to describe how to get himself back home, and ended up in the hands of the authorities and ended up being adopted by a couple in tasmania. decades later, the taste of an indian sweet food suddenly sends him into a reverie, which takes him back to his childhood and he suddenly becomes obsessed with trying to find the life that he lost, and had almost forgotten about. here's a clip. saroo! you need to face reality. what do you mean, reality? do you have any idea what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spend every day of their lives looking for me? how every day my real brother screams my name? can you imagine the pain they must be in, not knowing where i am? 25 years, luce.
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25! why didn't you tell me that was happening for you? we swan about in our privileged lives. it makes me sick. i have to find home. they need to know i'm ok. i mean, he's a hugely likeable actor, dev patel. he is absolutely brilliant in this, and also the film itself does a very good job of not becoming what you think it might be, which is the film in which somebody looks something up on google earth. it's a film which has real emotional resonance. the opening scenes with the young boy, the five—year—old boy getting lost in the train station has a spielbergy element to it. the young kid with the enormous machinery of these train stations. it's heartbreaking stuff. it doesn't descend into melodrama. nicole kidman as saroo's his adoptive mother does a very, very good job of an understated performance, which manages to show two things. firstly anguish, but she also manages to demonstrate love, which is a really hard thing to act on screen,
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and i think she does it brilliantly. i have seen this twice now, both times i confess i have been reduced to floods of tears by it. i think you would have to be pretty hard hearted not to. it is a really, really moving story, and it is told in a way which is populist and accessible, but also, i think, profoundly touching, and even second time around, even when i knew, because the first time round i didn't know anything about the story, i saw it completely cold. even second time round when i did, i found it a very overwhelming experience. definitely one to see then. best out — i have a feeling i know what you might pick? it's la la land. the biggest problem la la land has is, everyone says la la land is brilliant, so now there is almost a backlash, people saying "oh, surely it can't be as good as that." it is, i'm sorry, it is. it's a modern musical that owes a debt to the umbrellas of cherbourg and singin' in the rain, but also to casablanca and new york, new york.
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and the big crowd scenes, the big numbers are quite something. and i've heard some people say "oh, there's not a memorable tune in it." there's lots! of course there are. i could be singing that soundtrack endlessly since seeing the film. i thought it was really charming. i thnk damien chazelle has done an absolutely brilliant job. i would recommend anybody saw it. it's bitter—sweet. it does have a strong poignant thread of sadness, which is what makes the joyful element morejoyful. i loved it. i absolutely loved it. your thoughts about dvd. i don't know this one, i confess. so kubo and the two strings is an animated film, stop motion animation film, and, i mean, i'm a huge animation fan, not least because it's such a diverse genre. what i loved about this is the animation itself is breathtaking, you canjust watch it over and over again, which is why it's lovely to have it for home viewing. it's a lovely complicated multi—layered story, which is told through words, actions, but also through music, and it's one of those films i think genuinely audiences of all ages can watch, and a film which treats its audience with respect. it imagines that its audience is smart enough to keep up
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with the story, is emotionally engaged enough to understand the deeper themes of the story, and are also willing for the story to play out in its own time. i thought it was dazzling. i thought it was wonderful, and several nominations. i think it's a film which really deserves repeat viewing. i can imagine, i have the blu—ray of this, i can imagine going back to it time and time again, and every time you see it seeing something you missed the first time. well, that is a recommendation. mark, great to see you, as ever, thank you very much. just a reminder, you can find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online, including you can see all these previous shows. that's at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. also, of course, it is award season. we were talking about natalie portman, find out who has been nominated for the oscars on our special programme coming on tuesday, 1:15pm lunchtime, on the bbc news channel. join me and the film critic jason solomons for all of that. that's the oscar nominations 2017. that's it for this week, though, thanks for watching.
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bye. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and steph mcgovern. coming up before seven, nick will have the weather. but first, a summary of this morning's main news. president donald trump has wasted no time in getting to work. shortly after his inauguration parade ended, the new man in charge signed an executive order to begin dismantling barack obama's affordable care act, known as obamaca re. and now, the president and first lady of the united states will take their first dance. music: "my way" by frank sinatra.
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the president and first lady also attended a number of traditional balls held to celebrate the inauguration. they danced to ‘my way‘ just hours after thousands gathered to see him take the oath of office and hear his inaugural address. people that were so nice to me were saying that we did a really good job today. they had to do it, but they did it. and i respect that —— weren't. you're going to see things happening over the next few weeks. 0h, happening over the next few weeks. oh, you're going to be so happy. because you know, they are very elegant people tonight, but they are also very political people, writes? we wa nt also very political people, writes? we want to see great things happen for our country. we want to make america a great again, and we will. and we will. italian firefighters say three more survivors have been pulled out
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of the debris of the hotel swamped by an avalanche on wednesday. four children were among those pulled from the remains yesterday. attempts are continuing to rescue two more known survivors, but at least 15 people remain unaccounted for. the former president of the gambia has finally agreed to step down and leave the country. yayya jammeh had been clinging on to power despite losing last month's election. troops from several west african countries had threatened to depose him by force if necessary. the leaders of some of europe's right—wing populist parties will gather in the german city of koblenz today to discuss their shared opposition to the european union. the leader of the french national front, marine le pen, and the dutch politician geert wilders are among those planning to attend. thousands of protestors are expected to demonstrate outside the event. the brazilian football club, chapecoense, will play its first match tonight after nearly all of its players
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were killed in a plane crash in columbia. the club has made 20 new signings since the disaster, which left 71 people dead. the friendly against current champions palmeiras will raise money for the victims‘ families. those are the main stories this morning. time to talk sport. it's been brilliant at the australian open for the brits, hasn't it? yes, it is. johanna konta has won her eights match. —— eighth. johanna konta has breezed into the fourth round of the australian open. shejust beaten former world number one caroline wozniacki, in straight sets in an hour and fifteen minutes. konta's been in fantastic form this year, winning a title in sydney in the build up to the big grand slam in melbourne,
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and wozniacki simply had no answer to britain's number one. wozniacki, who's seeded 17, only managed to win four games, as konta cruised to an eighth straight victory. she'll now play ekaterina makarova, in the fourth round. liverpool and tottenham, will be looking to narrow the gap, on top of the table chelsea, in the premier league today. they are seven points ahead, at the moment. and there are seven matches today, with the leaders amongst those playing tomorrow. spurs are involved in the late kick off, they are away at manchester city, who you might remember got hammered 4—0 at everton last weekend. liverpool are the early kick off at home to swansea city, who were also beaten 4—0 last weekend. they lost to arsenal, but the liverpool manager jurgen klopp says results aren't everything. we saw the last resort, of course, it could have been an easy game for arsenal. it it was a bit of an opposite of an easy game. it was really difficult for them. we were good, but swansea also had a lot of chances. but that's what this is for. we don't watch results, we
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watch performance. they are good side and we are going to have to defend well, not dissimilar to what we did in the first 30 minutes against arsenal. we had our chances against arsenal. we had our chances against arsenal. we had our chances against arsenal. if we get those against arsenal. if we get those against liverpool, we need to take them. and we need to be more consistent. steven gerrard is heading back to liverpool, to be a youth coach. the former liverpool and england captain, who made his liverpool debut in 1998, said the move feels like completing the circle. he played 710 times for the reds, winning nine trophies, and left anfield nearly 2 years ago to join mls side la galaxy. he retired as a player in november. we're into the business end of the january transfer window, and in the last 12 hours, a couple more premier league players have agreed moves. west ham united have signed the southampton defenderjose font for a fee starting at 8million pounds, and saido berahino
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is to move from west bromwich albion to stoke city for 12 million pounds. the striker, is 23 and played for england at under 21 level, but he hasn't played for west brom since the 10th september. he's had a strained relationship with the club since a bid from tottenham was turned down in the summer of 2015 and he responded with angry words on social media. in the 11th round of the scottish cup, what a day for bonnyrigg rose athletic, who will be trying to take down last year's winners hibs. and if you are wondering who they are, they are based just south of edinburgh, and they're the current champions of the east region super league! that's one of the three o clock kick—offs. before that, last year's beaten finalist rangers take on motherwell. elsewhere formartine united, from the highland football league have a trip to top flight partick thistle. brighton have gone two points clear, at the top of the championship after a 2—1win over sheffield wednesday in a bad—tempered game. two goals from anthony knockaert, including the winner five minutes from time,
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was enough for chris hughton's side. there were though three red cards in the match and wednesday missed a penalty. in rugby union, northampton, suffered a fourth european champions cup defeat of the campaign, as they were beaten 26—17 at montpellier. saints already knew they couldn't progress, but the french side can go through, in a best runner—up spot if other results go their way this weekend. and in the european challenge cup, edinburgh, comfortably beat romanian side, timis—oara saracens. lei nster boosted their chances of securing a home quarter—final, with a thrilling 24—all draw, at castres. leinster came back from seven points down at half—time, to earn two points. only a massive win for connacht, away to toulouse tomorrow, would deprive them of home advantage. jonny bairstow will replace alex hales in england's twenty20
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squad to face india. hales will miss the remainder of the tour, after suffering a fractured hand. the opener damaged it during the second one—day international defeat on thursday. he will fly home today. england play the final game, of their three—match one series tomorrow, before the twenty20 series starts on thursday. barry hawkins has denied world number one mark selby the chance to hold the world, uk and masters crowns at the same time after beating him 6—3 in their masters semi final. neither player was at his best in a nervy match at alexandra palace. but at 4 frames to 3, hawkins won two in a row, to book his place in the last four. he'll will play joe perry, who eased past ding jun hui by six frames to one.
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that match is later today. the other semi final is between ronnie o'sullivan and marco fu. if there had been television 100 years ago, we might have been reporting on household names. the stars of speedskating back in the day, they had amazing nicknames like fish. but as the climate changed, the sport almost died out, until now. where once the worldtop speed skaters would draw a huge crowd... in the second half of the 20th century, it seems like this and the ice itself were both sin on the ground. by the 1990s, british long track speedskating had all but gone. three years ago, the british programme was reborn here in the netherlands. the country that now dominates this sport. looking more
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like a stadium than an ice rink, the netherlands responded to warmer winters by nodding 17 of these arenas with 400 metre tracks. for the british people that come here, it is home. ona rink on a rink as big as this, there enough space for the team to build their stamina enough space for the team to build theirstamina and enough space for the team to build their stamina and speed, alongside hundreds of leisure skaters who use it everyday. it's been reborn in the netherlands mainly because we don't have a facility like this in the uk. an absolute tragedy. in the very beginning, we were in the development. we only have short track figure skating rink is, which area maximum track figure skating rink is, which are a maximum of 60 metres long in the uk. we quickly run out of space. first steps with the british team.
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these are a bit more difficult than when you go out for leisure, because they are only 1.2 millimetres thick. get nice and low, low shoulders. i needed a body suit. to learn the moves, the british team pact is at home. —— practice. at least in long track, its a time trail. supposedly about pure speed rather than a race with the risk of others taking you down. to help you on your way, special boots are hinged to give you extra leverage. i feel like i'm part of the wind. you really need to explode to get the speed up. then you can accelerate and really finish your stride. as she was keen to prove, in our debut time trail.
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races prove, in our debut time trail. ra ces ca n prove, in our debut time trail. races can be up to 10,000 metres. for me, 100 metres was a mouth on. she finished injust for me, 100 metres was a mouth on. she finished in just over 12 seconds and had time to put on some tea before i came over in 46 seconds. the faces of the crowd really struck me. they thought i was some kind of british competitor. their faces... it was a bit like that. it is something that shows the investment is working in benevolence. at the last olympics, they won 23 from 36 medals in that area. it is making a difference to the british team, they are hoping to get to the olympics in 2022. thank you very much. the time now is 641. going back to our main story. donald trump's inauguration, which happened yesterday. tens of
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thousands of supporters witnessed him being sworn in as president in washington. you can see them walking down pennsylvania avenue —— 6:41am. that was following the inauguration speech. the eyes of the world very much on donald trump. this was the procession immediately after his inauguration speech. he waved to onlookers and well—wishers. away from capitol hill, there were violent clashes between police and protesters. our international correspondence by the day meeting people on both sides of the argument. praising unity. when american presidents are sworn in, it is usually a time used to talk about human divisions. but few have had such divided states to try and reunite. on one side is team trump. hundreds of thousands of them turned out from across the land. once
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people see, give him a year. they'll see they have more money in their pockets, and thou be lack, while, this is a good deal. we don't need anybody else like talking, blah, blah. i feel it's like, asking president trump, hoping that he fails, that is like being on a plane and hoping it crashes. he is the president, you have to vote for the best. an underground movement rallied around the trump campaign. today they came from parts of the country that many feel has been forgotten. it into the dawning of a very different day in america. forgotten. it into the dawning of a very different day in americalj think it's going to bring a new era of hope and prosperity for our country. the thing i like about donald trump is he as an alpha male, as opposed to our previous command in chief. here's an alpha male, a mover and shaker. he
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in chief. here's an alpha male, a moverand shaker. he has in chief. here's an alpha male, a mover and shaker. he has no agenda other than to do the right thing, basically. we loved it. we are conservative, we love america. this is ridiculous. you don't think they have a right to object and protest? at the right time. not this. there is no class in this. they may have lost the election, but don't expect divisions to heal anytime soon.|j feel a bit afraid for my community. what are you apprehensive about?” think there are a lot of people who are vulnerable in our country who are vulnerable in our country who are going to suffer under this presidency. from anger to violence. some businesses were attacked by a small group of protesters. dozens we re small group of protesters. dozens were arrested. it seems donald trump will have to work hard to be
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president of the united states of america. here's nick with a look at this morning's weather. yesterday you talked about it looking quiet over the next couple of days. is it still the case? absolutely right, with high pressure in control. we had a bit of frost, well, a lot of frost around to start the day. it is cold. the last few mornings have been called a stint rule, southern england, which is the case today, but the extent of scotland, wales, northern ireland —— mornings have been called. one or two patches elsewhere. some of it might linger into the first part of the afternoon. yes, frosty, for he may be, but plenty of dry weather. more cloud around southwest england
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compared to elsewhere, you can see the fog at nine o'clock this morning. cloud coming in from the north sea into eastern england. for northern ireland, sunshine will be best this morning. but a sunny day across more of scotland compared to recent days after the cold start. not so cold in the northern and western isles. as we go through the day they will be a bit of cloud increasing across southwest england, into northern ireland, but this area of cloud will extend into eastern england, the midlands, and into north—west england as well, and may produce patchy drizzle. temperatures, well, single figures, mid single figures, the cold feel to the weather after the frosty start. if you are looking for the frosty blue tonight, that is more patchy in nature with the cloud producing showers into southwest england and wales. and patchy rain in northern
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england and scotland producing sleet and snow over the high ground. it won't amount to much. it is looking fairly light. and tomorrow it is quiet. there is more cloud around. you might encounter more showers. wintry over the hills of scotland. the best of the sunshine into central, eastern and southern england is it will be feeling cold and that is how all of the weekend is looking. so, keep yourjumpers on still, thank you very much. see you later on. we'll be back with the headlines at 7am. now it's time for click. 5:45am on sunday, 19th october 2014, 19 miles above new mexico,
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and the type of sunrise that not many people have ever seen. it's the view from a test flight which is preparing to take tourists into the stratosphere by balloon. while all the attention has been focused on space tourism using rockets and space planes, we've got exclusive access to one company in the arizona desert that's been quietly building its own spaceport. welcome to world view. it's really the way to do space tourism, because you want to go and spend time and look at the view and have a gentle ride up and a gentle ride back. i mean, look, the rocket rides are going to be great, i'm sure, but for me, i want to sit there with my glass of champagne and my best friend and look. tickets are currently selling
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for $75,000 each for a two—hour ascent in a pressurised capsule to an altitude of 100,000 feet. today, one of world view‘s co—founders and his team are showing me a small piece of the balloon's material, a secret blend of polyethylene and other materials. i can't help but notice you have, i think, the world's biggest table. tell me you use this for christmas dinners. absolutely, you should see the parties we have on this table! it's about a tenth of a mile. 0k! and, seriously, are you going to make a balloon that covers this entire table? so full—scale balloons for heavy—lift flights, so like a voyager flight, use the entire table. if you want to take a payload that is 10,000 pounds to 105,000 feet, it takes a balloon the size of this entire table, so you could take a football field and spin it inside the balloon when it's fully inflated. whoa!
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contrary to what i thought, as the helium expands, it doesn't cause the material to stretch. instead, the gas just occupies more of the initially empty balloon. can you navigate when you are up there? can you actually decide on a course? or are you subject to whichever way the wind blows? so it turns out that in the stratosphere you very often get counter—flowing winds, the stratosphere and the troposphere going different directions, and in that interface the wind swirls. so by guiding my altitude up and down, i can sort of sail the stratosphere, much like a ship uses the currents and winds to sail the oceans. and then there's the question of how you get back down again, which is apparently like this. they go into what's pretty close to freefall for something like ten seconds, so it feels very light, like going over the top of a roller—coaster, just feeling light, and then we come back to about 1g, 12 or 15 seconds later,
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so we're just gaining some speed, and then it feels like a normal flight in an aircraft. but you have to be finished your champagne by then. one of our requirements was that you don't spill your champagne, literally, when that happens, and so i think we are going to have a little cup on the champagne. the person who will make sure you don't spill your booze, or any other fluid for that matter, is the pilot. it's a unique job, and that's why an ex—nasa test pilot and astronaut will be the one pulling the strings, as it were. what are your controls? when you are on a parafoil or something like that, you have this left—right thing going on, is that what you've got, two strings? you can think of it that way, but in reality the spacecraft is about 10,000 pounds. we've got a parachute that's the size of a basketball court, so we couldn't physically, you know, have enough force to pull on it. so we are actually controlling it probably with a joystick,
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we're still designing exactly what it's going to look like, but that joystick or that whatever controller is controlling motors that are pulling on lines on the parachute, just like you would if you were skydiving, butjust on a much, much bigger scale. what will this look like when it's kitted out for passengers? when it's kitted out for passengers, it will have these tremendous windows, at least four of them, four big ones and then some smaller ones. there will be seats for everybody, there will be a bar, who wants a spacecraft without a bar? and it will have a bathroom, it's a five—hour flight, at least, so you need a bathroom on board too. and you say this is the first spacecraft you've flown with a bar, so you've flown other spacecraft, then? i have. tell me about this. so i've flown on both the us space shuttle and i flew on the russian soyuz spacecraft. how do you think this will compare to that? it'll be a different experience, i can tell you that, you know, when we came
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back with the soyuz, for instance, we hurtle through the atmosphere on fire at five miles per second. it's a very violent, very dynamic, lots of g forces, you're getting thrown all over the place in the cockpit, you feel the heat, you're labouring to breathe. this will be nothing like that. this will be a lot more gentle, a lot more relaxing, and frankly it will enable people to take in the experience a lot more. it's not like you're wondering whether you're going to survive the next second or not. world view‘s boss, jane poynter, is a developer of technologies
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for extreme environments like space. and she hopes that the view from 20 miles up will give passengers a unique perspective on the fragility of our planet. and curiously, this project was born out of a view that was pretty much the opposite — when its two founders took part in a two—year study of how age humans, plus animals and plants, would interact and survive in a completely closed ecosystem. you come from a space background, but really interesting, in the early 90s, you shut yourself away in biosphere 2 with some other crazy... i mean, some other people! what was that like? oh, my gosh, so biosphere 2 was actually an inspiration for world view, so when we were in the biosphere, one of the most extraordinary experiences that i had, and i think most of the people in there had, was the experience of really being part of our biosphere, and you really get this sense of the unity of the biosphere that we are in, that is on such a huge scale, but in normal life we can't even imagine it, really. and it's a very similar idea to the experience that astronauts having the earth from space, and it was that experience that we wanted to give people,
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because of the experience that we've had in the biosphere. so i guess it's easy to imagine that we are all looking at you guys in the biosphere, but i suppose you're looking out from a unique vantage point as well. that is right, so both truths are true, so we had people walk around the outside of the biosphere, and i got e—mails from people who said, i get it now! i've been hearing about the fact that this planet is a finite place for some many years, and i never understood until i walked around this miniature version of our planet. and suddenly i got it, i could see its boundaries, i knew that you guys that were living inside only had what you had in there, which is exactly the same as we have right here on planet earth, on spaceship earth. emotions certainly run high in that kind of environment, but they're not all bad. one of the other biosphere 2 crewmembers was taber maccallum, who later becamejane's husband.
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he's explaining how, although a balloon can't technically get you into the vacuum of space, the conditions in the stratosphere are similar enough, with very low air pressure and extremes of temperature in the sun and shade, to mean that world view‘s balloons are already carrying scientific equipment up in so—called stratolites, which can hang over one location for days at a time. so there's satellites in low earth orbit that are whizzing around at 17,000 mph, there are satellites in geostationary orbit that are very far away, have a hard time focusing in on things. and then below that we have aircraft, that can carry cameras and drones, and where we sit is sort of between all those. we can sit over a piece, persist over a piece of land for a while, and we have a close view, because we are only about 20 miles up, but we don't have the speed and expense of being a rocket, and we don't have all of the fuel burn of flying an airplane through the air. it is a compelling argument, i suppose — that rockets are dangerous, and they are
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expensive, and they are rather noisy. and if you want to send something up close to space, and you can do it with a balloon, why wouldn't you? it's also a compelling argument that the more people who see the earth from way up there,the more people may have the kind of transcendental shifting viewpoint that seems to be striving the team here. it changes the way you embed yourself in our biosphere, the way you think about our place in this biosphere that we inhabit. i mean, it clearly changes the way many people have gone about developing our environmental movement. it changes the way we think about communication around the planet, collaborating with people around the planet. it really does strip away the notion of boundaries, of national boundaries, because we think of this as an entity that we all inhabit at once. what has changed is my definition of the word "home", and when we had the re—entry of the soyuz spacecraft, we initially hit
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the ground, flipped and rolled over, and now my window was pointing down at the ground, and i remember looking at the window and seeing a rock, a flower and a blade of grass, and i rememberthinking, "i'm home." what was really interesting about that thought is i was home, but i was in kazakhstan, and so to me my home wasn'tjust in houston, texas, where at the time i lived with my family — my home expanded to include earth, and i think our definition of that word home has profound implications for how we problems on our planet, how we treat each other, how we treat our planet, and i think that is one of the things that we're trying to do here. that is it for the short shortcut of click. there is much more in the
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full—length version, which you can find on iplayer now. follow us on twitter for lots of backstage photos and fun too. thanks for watching and i will see you soon. hello. this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and steph mcgovern. the first full day in office for the new president of the united sates. donald trump, pledges to fulfill his campaign promises. he's already signed his first orders as president, including changes to barack obama's healthcare act, which mr trump said he will repeal. we want to make america great again, and we will. inauguration day ended with a series of balls, before the president and first lady returned to the white house to spend the first night in their new home. good morning, it's saturday the 21st of january.
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