hello, this is breakfast, with christian fraser and tina daheley. britian‘s rail franchising system is failing customers and is no longer fit for purpose. mps say passengers are becoming less satisfied with the service they get but having to pay more for it. good morning, it's sunday the 5th of february. also ahead: the usjustice department has begun moves to re—instate president trump's travel ban on people from seven mainly muslim nations, after the order was suspended on friday. the government sets out plans to build more affordable homes for the rental market. in sport, scotland shock ireland in the six nations. and england beat france to get their defence of the trophy off to a winning start at twickenham. and nick has the weather. good morning. it is icy in a few

spots this morning with patchy fog around. although we expecting more cloud today than yesterday, still some dry weather to come. i have the full details in the next half—hour. good morning. first, our main story. train passengers in britain are being let down by the way the government oversees the railways, according to a report by mps. the commons transport committee says customers are less and less satisfied with the service they get and yet they are paying more for it. they're calling on the department for transport to give up some of its powers. rob young reports. dissatisfied passengers, rising ticket prices, poor performance. mps are scathing about the way the government oversees the railways. they say passengers have been failed by the way ministers award franchises to train companies. the commons committee says competition is meant to drive improvements but warns there is dwindling interest from potential operators. national express used to be the biggest train company here but is quitting the uk railway entirely. the mps say the government is too soft on companies

that break their promises and there is a call for the department for transport to give up its enforcement powers to an independent body. they have to have a better way of estimating major works on the line and they should hold the train operating companies to account. unless that happens, the taxpayer will be funding the bill and passengers will be suffering. the government acknowledges they can make improvements but points out it is investing more than £40 billion to deliver faster and more comfortable trains. train companies say under franchising, they have transformed the railway into a success story, doubling the number of passengers and creating the safest railway in europe. rob young, bbc news. and we'll be talking to the chair of the commons transport committee in ten minutes. the usjustice department has filed a motion with the appeals court to restore president trump's ban on travellers

from seven mainly—muslim countries. it follows a series of tweets from mr trump in which he denounced the judge who suspended the ban and warned that "bad and dangerous" people could be pouring into america because of it. simon clemison has more. first they could go to america, then they couldn't. now, one iraqi family is back at the departure gate again. some never unpacked their suitcases, others have been more wary, worried about how long the latest ruling will last. the us department ofjustice has now appealed against the judge's decision which lifted president trump's ban on foreign nationals arriving from seven predominantly muslim countries. the president has been attending a red cross ball in florida and has insisted the move was not about religion but about combating terrorism. for those arriving, for now, the signs at mean what they say. one man from yemen, a country on the list, quickly booked a flight back from turkey where he had been visiting his fiancee. he has a right to be in america but felt he couldn't stay away.

i'm very happy. now i'm free now. i safe now. donald trump tweeted. .. the white house believes the president has a constitutional authority to protect the american people but critics argue it is the constitution which is being violated, a claim mr trump denies. simon clemison, bbc news. more affordable homes will be built specifically to tackle the high cost of renting, ministers have pledged. the reforms will be announced in full on tuesday as part of plans for a shake up of the housing market in england. for more let's speak to our political correspondent, mark lobel who's in oui’ london newsroom. viewers may remember the target of building more homes. perhaps in an admission that am not be achievable, we have learned today that the government wants to build more homes to rent in england. —— that might

not be. it is building buildings for rental purposes. they also want people to consult about how to afford that may create more affordable rent and extend their tenancies for up to three years so that families can plan my head. that is because there has been more pressure on the rental market because more people are in rented accommodation. around half of the couples in rental accommodation and spend over half their salaries on this. —— on rental. why are they building more? two broadsides against the government today. first from labour. they said that last year the government built fewer fought —— affordable houses and they did before. the other is from the mail on sunday who wants the government not to contradict over the countryside. —— warns. concrete. some british airways cabin crew have begun a three day strike

in a dispute over what they describe as ‘poverty pay'. the unite union estimates the staff earn, on average, 16,000 pounds a year, including allowances. but ba insists none earn less than 21,000. the airline says all its passengers will be able to travel — but that the time of flights might be affected. the leader of the french national front, marine le pen, will officially launch her presidential election campaign later. she has promised to re—negotiate the terms of france's membership of the european union — then hold a referendum on leaving six months after the election. she would also take france out of the single currency and limit immigration. some companies that run doorstep charity bag collections give less than 10% of the money raised to good causes. the nspcc and regulators say charities may be losing hundreds of thousands of pounds because of unscrupulous collectors operating without licences, who are donating only a fraction of the money they should. some of it is completely legitimate — charities and proper clothes bag collectors collecting for real and donating proceeds to charities

but sadly, there are a number of others who are not doing it legally at all. black sabbath, the band credited with inventing heavy metal music, made a triumphant return to their home city of birmingham to play their final ever gig. the show featured three original members — ozzy osbourne, tony iommi and geezer butler and was heavy on nostalgia, with only one of the songs played having been released after 1972. it brought the curtain down on the legendary bands playing career, which spanned five decades. are you a big black sabbath fan? no. when britain's railways were privatised back in the 90s, the idea of different firms running different parts of the line was supposed to reduce fares and increase competition.

but in a scathing report out today, mps say passengers have been let down. the government is criticised for being too soft on companies that break their promises, and there's a call for the department for transport to give up some of its powers. let's talk to louise ellman, chair of the commons transport committee which wrote the report. thank you forjoining us this morning on breakfast. how bad is the problem and can you summarise the findings of your report? more people are using the railway. in fact, railway is very popular. too many are not getting a good deal. the costs are going up and went the train companies aren't really honouring what they promised, the department for transport isn't in forcing anything. if the department can't do that then perhaps somebody else should be looking at it. the thing is, this is about franchising, isn't it? why isn't it working? the concept with a —— was that franchising would bring competition and produce the best service. and

cheaper railfares. and produce the best service. and cheaper rail fares. and and produce the best service. and cheaper railfares. and cheaper costs of running them. the cost of running and hasn't gone down, the system doesn't work together very well and in reality there is actually very little competition. the department needs to look again at that to perhaps bring more competition into the system and to enforce the promises that the train companies make when they take over a running service. 20 odd years ago when we started the process of franchising it out. there were 25 companies bidding and now we're down to ten or 15. have you spoken to the companies that no longer bid to find out why they don't do that? there seems to be big problem. of the companies don't think it's profitable enough. it cost a lot to put the aid in. between five and £10 million. the areas that the train companies are to cover in the franchises are often very big. if the areas were smaller, maybe more operators would want to enter the field. smaller companies are facing

risk and don't want to take that risk? some of them think it is risky but in reality the public purse is actually facing the risk, not the train operator but it is seen as a risky thing and it could be the scale of the franchises and the money that they have to put down the premium before they have to run the service. we should say that this is about the relationship between net wreck wales and the train operating companies and how it works. —— network rail. it is a failing. it is important that network rail and the train companies to work together but that isn't happening. this post a work together. they set up something called a lion sing and it hasn't worked. —— —— alliancing. we are

saying the department of transport saying the department of transport saying that the sector needs to work together better. they should use their responsibility for enforcing their responsibility for enforcing the promises that the rail companies make. they should go to the regulator or elsewhere. we think that should be looked at. your party is pushing the proposal to take it all back into public ownership. is this report designed to undermine the system that we have or have you actually put forward proposals that you think will enhance and improve the financing —— franchising system? we are looking at the system as it is. are you in support of taking it back into public ownership? we are just looking at how it is operating and say that the competition isn't really working and suggesting how it might work better. so you don't agree withjeremy corbyn? might work better. so you don't agree with jeremy corbyn? that would be separate. this isn't about that. this is about looking at system as it is, on how it is meant to work, and we are saying it could work

better. in the context of what has been happening with southern rail, we have seen the headlines. it has been going on for months. industrial action, delays, misery for passengers. it has been a disaster for southern rail, so much has gone wrong so much the size of the whole franchise has made it 20% of all the journeys in the country. it was put under that one franchise. it was much too big. the impact of the major development on the railway, at london bridge in particular, was grossly underestimated. a company just hasn't been brought to account. things have gone wrong and there have been bad industrial relations. it has been a catastrophe. thank you very much becoming in this morning and being with us. thank you. here's nick with a look at this morning's weather. if you are heading out this morning

toa if you are heading out this morning to a platform, bus station, anything like that, your eyes might be drawn to this low pressure. the bulk of it is missing us to the south and going to france, spain and portugal. just a bit of rain will come to it —— from it. the front is edging northwards with patchy rain and hill snow from it. for a large part of the uk, although there is more cloud around competitive yesterday, we will have dry weather. a quiet today in the far north of scotland, and petty yesterday. dry and sunny. there is a band of rain and snow to the tops of the hills pushing northwards through scotland through the day. moving away from north—east england where it will be a damp start for some of us. patchy fog across south—east england. the odd patch as well along the south coast here and into the far south—west. the chance of catching some showers. a lot of cloud, as you can see. a gradual process towards brightening things up this afternoon with the exception of that band of rain and hill snow heading northwards through

scotland. 0utbrea ks of hill snow heading northwards through scotland. outbreaks of rain into the far south—east. particularly east sussex and kent could be this afternoon. maybe it could get to the london area and into essex. 5— nine degrees for us today. it is warmer for the night in italy but a chance for the night in italy but a chance for heavy showers. wales is in action in the six nations. the rain in the south—east of england will clear late this afternoon and go and to scotland. —— be dry in scotland. we are expecting a cold night with a widespread frost and freezing fog patches. away from towns and cities, you could see —5 —6 in a few spots in the countryside. into tomorrow, the cold start. any sunshine across eastern areas before cloud increases after a ny eastern areas before cloud increases after any fog clears because in the west we are expecting rain to move in and strengthening wind with severe gales developing. it is turning into a miserable afternoon. cold down the eastern side where it

over. after that chilly start. i am talking about cold weather stopped easterly winds kicking in later this week. it is and go to get any warmer any time soon. not what we want to you very much. we the andrew maher programme is coming up at nine a.m.. is there anything to talk about except for brexit? according to the news headlines there is. the rail system is very heavily criticised by mps, who say the franchising system is not longer fit mps, who say the franchising system is not longerfit for mps, who say the franchising system is not longer fit for purpose. mps, who say the franchising system is not longerfit for purpose. i'm joined by the transport secretary, chris grayling, to talk about that and of course brexit. we have the shadow foreign secretary of < labour. 0f shadow foreign secretary of < labour. of also got serb bernard hogan—howe to talk about knife crime, terrorism and much more. —— sir. i've got frank gardner on

teaching death in thejungle. a lot to talk about after 9am. we look forward to that. thank you. time to look at the newspapers. we have an author and poet with us this morning. we will talk about what's inside the papers in a moment. the sunday times, the huge gap in uk defences. bear talking about the peculiar and of ships and aircraft and according to the sunday times it isn't good enough. the sunday telegraph go with the damning verdict on iraq troops‘ witch—hunt. a10 month parliamentary enquiry is expected to conclude. they find the £60 million investment into abuse in

iraq is unfit for purpose and should be shut down immediately. nigel farage is keen for us to leave europe, according to the mail on sunday he is actually sharing his bachelor pad with a french politician who was at the centre of a probe into illegalfunding of his party, according to the mail on sunday. we‘ve just been talking about this. the observer, tori‘s rake with thatcher homes policy to back renters. 0n thatcher homes policy to back renters. on tuesday next week we will find out what theresa may is planning to do about the housing crisis. the observer says a major shift is in favour of people who rent and that will be announced, as a p pa re ntly rent and that will be announced, as apparently theresa may‘s government will admit that home ownership is out of reach for millions. the sunday express row. they got an interview with the former archbishop of canterbury, who criticises those who are criticising donald trump. he says it is one of the key characteristics of those who

consider themselves progressive to reserve condemnation for america from the west and ignoring the other issues like north korea. let‘s have a look at the stories that have caught your eye. i've gone for the personal. the television presenter mark austin who said to his daughter when she was suffering from anorexia, go on, staff. he was so shocked at what she was going through. —— starve. he got angry with her, basically, watching his daughter slowly kind of damage herself was too much for him. it flags up an article in the sunday times magazine and... did it work? it didn‘t work, but what did work is the nhs daycare centre in a hospital in surrey. that‘s what saved her

life. so he has actually come around to it. it is a brutally frank account. he said he got it wrong. was it a lack of understanding? this is a mental illness, it isn‘tjust deciding... what she is seeing in the mirror is an air. it is a mental illness and that‘s the conclusion he has come to. the unit identified it and bought her back and she is now well. he is being honest about his reaction. it is brave of him to admit that. a beautiful picture of him and his daughter looking well. that's good. robots march on safe jobs of middle—class, in the sunday times. we know robots... they are taking over the world! in sainsbury‘s and in any supermarkets you will see those robots working. but actually

they are now sort of marching on the more middle—classjobs. those at medium risk include, it says in a report, detectives, 33.6% with risks ofjudges and magistrates. the socialist candidate running for presidency in france, he wants to tax robots. what do you think? i think that‘s a good idea. we worry about immigration and people are talking about it and we‘ve got the robots sneaking in! yes. we need donald trump on this! robots are taking over ourjobs. donald trump on this! robots are taking over our jobs. this donald trump on this! robots are taking over ourjobs. this report is warning that it‘s going to get worse. there‘s a thing. warning that it‘s going to get worse. there's a thing. you're worried now, aren‘t you?

i think we are safe for the moment. who knows what how much longer! this makes me happy. ime big bob marley fan —— i‘m. makes me happy. ime big bob marley fan -- i'm. in a hotelthese tapes have been found, unheard tapes of bob marley. they are bit distressed but they have been digitised. the last quote of this article is wonderful. the experience was comparable to say finding van gough‘s easel and paint palates in a room somewhere. there's a thing here, because there were... well, they aren‘t lost, but prints tapes as well in his locker. —— prince. they aren‘t lost, but prints tapes as well in his locker. -- prince. he did those deliberately. these were just stowed away. it will be very

exciting. i am a great fan of bob marley, so i am very happy about this. also, it shows how advanced we are because it has taken on year 2 painstaking we restore the audio, because they were damaged. yes. we are lucky that technology has caught up are lucky that technology has caught up with us so much that we can draw inspiration from the past that has never been heard before. inspiration from the past that has never been heard beforelj inspiration from the past that has never been heard before. i was on the train having a creme egg yesterday and i sat there and thought about this story. i thought, this is a small egg that i used to get when i was a kid. i think it is true about jaffa cakes as well. get when i was a kid. i think it is true about jaffa cakes as welllj feel like i am going to be mad. 0ur —— are kit kats getting smaller? the point is, this article says they are made smaller because of some government direct if to reduce

sugar. so if they make the chocolate is small at this less sugar. there is small at this less sugar. there is perhaps some sense in that. surely they should charge you less. i‘ve been thinking that my hands have been growing bigger, out of proportion with my bought, every time i‘ve had the chocolates. but now i know it is the chocolates! that‘s where we believe it. now i know it is the chocolates! that's where we believe it. this newspaper review was a trump free zone. you are coming back in an hour. tank you. —— thank you. we are here until 9am on the news channel this morning. and coming up in the next hour: we‘ll meet the dad with motor neurone disease who‘s losing his ability to speak, but he‘s using technology to save his voice and his yorkshire accent. basil smith was a teenager when fred perry was winning wimbledon and now the 96—year—old is enjoying his own golden era of tennis. it‘s super bowl sunday and american football fans in the us are getting excited.

we‘ll ask why four million people in the uk are also expected to tune joining us from our london newsroom is adam pemberton from barnardo‘s. is this a case of their actually being more cases? is it happening more or at a more cases being reported? it is deeply alarming that it appears more children may be harming other children. we actually... we welcome increased reporting of these offences so it‘s a bit different to know exactly

whether more is happening, but what we do know from the work we do across the country is that more and more children and more parents are worried about these issues and it is really important that we talk about them. trials on child sexual abuse isa them. trials on child sexual abuse is a difficult issue to wrestle with and the first thing we can do is talk about it. —— child on child. but then we also need to think about how we support the children. not only the victims but also the children perpetrating, it was what we know is that they are often victims of abuse and trauma themselves and haven‘t received the support they need. if they get support, we also know that they won‘t reoffend again, or it is important we tackle this early. that‘s the key difference. if it is an adult offender is a key process. they go through a criminal process. what do you do when it‘s a child and how do you we —— rehabilitate? what do you do when it‘s a child and how do you we -- rehabilitate? you need to treat any case individually, because there are obviously serious cases that need to be dealt with through the criminaljustice system.

but many of these cases are ones where children exhibit poor social skills, or lack of knowledge about what is appropriate, how to respect others and how to respect their own bodies will stop children nowadays are growing up in a very different world. they have so much access to technology. they have the equivalent ofa technology. they have the equivalent of a film crew in their pocket, with the ability to transmit to the world almost instantly. it is really important that we keep pace with that and that we are teaching children how to stay safe, respect themselves and others. you talk about keeping pace with technology. 0n the one end of the spectrum there are serious offences, but with social media platforms children before would harm each other in the playground and on social media they are posting pictures which may not be appropriate. where is the line and as parents and teachers how do you go about enforcing it and drawing the line? this is why we think age—appropriate sex and

relationships education is vitally important and needs to be made compulsory in england. because those kinds of classes are a way of teaching children what is right, what‘s the right way use technology? how to respect themselves, what are good relationships? how to recognise when they are feeling uncomfortable, how to stay safe and who to talk to. it is important that this is a partnership between parents, schools and children. we did a poll of couple of weeks ago where children... 74% of children aged 11— 15 said they wanted these classes, to be able to stay safe, and many said they didn‘t even remember the classes they‘d had all what they had was bad. there is an opportunity for the government in the next few weeks and months to change that and to make sure that children all through as they are growing up get the education they need that reflects the challenges of what it‘s like to grow up in britain today. education

is the key. thank you very much. stay with us. headlines coming up. hello, this is breakfast with christian fraser and tina daheley. coming up before 8:00, we‘ll have the weather. but first, a summary of this morning‘s main news. train passengers in britain are being let down by the way the government oversees the railways according to a report by mps. the commons transport committee says customers a re less satisfied with the service they get, yet are having to pay more. the government says it‘s investing over ito—billion pounds to deliver faster and more comfortable trains. but mps say the department for transport should give up some of its powers. when there are delays or cancellations, very little action is taken. the railway isn‘t working together as a system so there may be delays on network rail, on the track. the cost of running the railways haven‘t come down. in reality, there is little competition so the department needs to look at bats to bring more competition into the system and to enforce the promises

that the train companies make when they take over running the service. the train operating companies can then claim compensation from network rail said aren‘t really pressing for any speedy action. the system isn‘t working properly for the passenger. and we‘ll be talking to the chair of the commons transport committee at 7:10. the usjustice department has filed a court motion aiming to restore president trump‘s ban on travellers from seven mainly—muslim countries. the announcement followed a series of tweets from mr trump, in which he said many "bad and dangerous people may now be pouring" into the united states. many major airlines have allowed nationals from the affected countries to board flights to the us again. ministers have pledged to build more affordable homes to tackle the high cost of renting. the reforms are part of plans for a shake up of the housing market in england which will be announced in full on tuesday. the government is also expected to put forward proposals for longer tenancy agreements which it says will provide more stability for families that rent their homes. the number of recorded cases of children committing sexual offences against other children has increased by nearly 80% over the last three years, according to the charity barnardo‘s. the charity has said such abuse "may become the next scandal

in our society". the national police chiefs‘ council said the increase was down to "more awareness and greater victim confidence". people who shine laser pens to distract pilots, train and bus drivers could face fines of thousands of pounds or even a jail sentence. stronger new powers are being planned by the department of transport. since 2009 there have been about 1,500 attacks a year on aircraft. the leader of the french national front, marine le pen, will officially launch her presidential election campaign later. she has promised to re—negotiate the terms of france‘s membership of the european union — then hold a referendum on leaving six months after the election. she would also take france out of the single currency and limit immigration. some companies that run doorstep charity bag collections give less than 10% of the money raised to good causes, according to the charities watchdog. the fundraising regulator says

charities may be losing hundreds of thousands of pounds because of unscrupulous collectors operating without licences and donating only a fraction of the money they raise. teams from around the world have been taking part in an unusual competition which combines indoor skydiving and dancing. the wind games is in its fourth year, and this is the race to become winners of the "four way speed", where the team need very precise flying skills. there are lots of other competitions, including a solo dance to music. had to say, it looks quite easy but iimagine it had to say, it looks quite easy but i imagine it would be hard. whizzing around that vortex. judging by the fa ct around that vortex. judging by the fact she has a helmet on... we would be careering into the walls. speak to yourself! unjust wondering, how do realise you are good at that. —— speak for yourself. i would just be wearing a helmet. ——i am just

wondering. the rugby. it wasn‘t pretty, was it? we then? yes. the crowd really added to the atmosphere. scotland island games are always incredible to watch but they were really behind it. it was like they knew something. they knew that this year, scotland have got something a bit special and ireland didn‘t stand a chance. especially in the first half. it was like they hadn‘t turned up. there was a bit of a fight back when they did but they came back again. it makes it exciting. i would have rather do i win, to be honest. six nations champions england have extended their winning run to fifteen matches, but the start of the defence of their trophy against france was far from convincing. coach eddiejones said afterwards that the 19—16 win ‘does not get much uglier‘. more impressive were scotland — they overcame a fight back from ireland to win 27—22 at murrayfield.

andy swiss reports. as curtain raisers go, it all takes some beating. the blossoming of the flower of scotland. against an ireland side many had tipped for the title, they raced out of the blocks. two tries from the twinkling toes of stuart hogg. ireland responded in equally fleet—footed style. keith earls charging over. but scotland had brains as well as brawn. what was centre alex dunbar doing as a lineout? this, and they led 21—5. come the second half, ireland reeled them in. when paddy jackson‘s try edged the visitors ahead, there seemed only one winner. but two nerveless penalties from greg laidlaw saw scotland got home. the first time in 11 years they have won their opening match. could it be the start of something special?

england meanwhile were looking to look continue something special. a 1a—match winning streak. what followed against france was not exactly pretty. this tackle earning johnny may a spell in the sin bin. 9—9 at the break, england was strangely stuttering. elliot daly thought he‘d snuck over. watch the left boot — just in touch. it was that sort of day. it got worse. rabah slimani rumbling over — france was in front. with ten minutes left, replacement ben teo‘o came to england‘s rescue. their 15th win in a row, a new record for them. but this was a lesson in winning ugly. you could almost sense the relief here amongst the england players fans here at twickenham. their six nations campaign is off to a winning start, but only just. andy swiss, bbc news, twickenham. the women‘s six nations has also started this weekend. straight after england‘s men beat france at twickenham, the english women did the same, they came from 13—0 down at half—time to win 26—13. amy wilson—hardy‘s late try sealed it for the home side. wales women got their campaign

off to a winning start. they beat italy 20—8 in ancona. captain carys phillips secured the 12—point lead in the final ten minutes. they face england next saturday. the final game of the opening weekend takes place in rome this afternoon. wales will have a new captain when they face italy. alun wynjones will lead the side out for the first time since being named permanent captain, so does he think that brings any extra pressure? hopefully not too different, to be honest with you. if it was, i probably shouldn‘t be captain. i said i am a player and performer first as in the job on the park. the captaincy has added to that. hopefully there is a bit of experience i can lean on that i have had in the past that can help people. that‘s pretty much it. there‘s no change at the top of the premier league — chelsea are still nine points clear

after beating arsenal 3—1. at the bottom of the table there were impressive wins for both hull city and sunderland. as ben croucher reports. the premier league plaudits reserved from one team in west london. chelsea continue to cry catch us if you can. after defeat against arsenal earlier in the season chelsea were keen to prove they‘re the dominant force in english football. the force of marcos alonso angered arsenal‘s manager. their defending won‘t have pleased him either. 3—1, another home win, a familiar feeling for chelsea fans. arsenal‘s season from one fan‘s reaction feels familiar also. chelsea went 12 points clear. that is until tottenham hosted middlesborough. a harry kane penalty was enough to close the gap to nine. handsha kes all round. heads scratch for liverpool. still winless in the league this year after a 2—0 defeat at struggling hull city. it can be a fun game when you win but lonely when you lose. commentator: well,

that tells the story. as the gaps grow in the top four, just two points separate the bottom six. sam allardyce was all smiles leading crystal palace against old side sunderland. 90 minutes later, the mood was decidedly different. mainly because sunderland, bottom of the table sunderland, ran riot in the first half. commentator: 4-0 sunderland, incredible! incredible for one set of fans. the others were less than impressed. they come to support the club. it is not very often they get much taken. they obviously deserved the booing they got today. i have to apologise for them first on what the first half performance was like. two months ago, west ham was in that dog fight and they are now up into the top half thanks to their 3—1 win at southampton. 28 goals in total yesterday, nine goals alone at goodison park. where everton beat bournemouth 6—3.

there was only 30 seconds before the first one. ross barkley completed the entertainment, complete with the celebrate before you score routine. in the day‘s other matches watford beat burnley 2—1. and west brom had a 1—0 win over stoke at the hawthorns. today manchester city play swansea city and manchester united are at champions leicester. in the scottish premiership, rangers slipped to third after being held to a 1—1 draw against ross county. meanwhile at fir park hearts overcame 10—man motherwell 3—0. esmael goncalves scored twice, his first goals for the club. elsewhere aberdeen beat patrick thistle 2—0 to move up to second in the table. leaders celtic move 27 points clear if they beat stjohnstone later today. great britain have taken a 2—1 lead in their davis cup tie against canada after winning yesterday‘s doubles. jamie murray and dom inglot beat daniel nestor and vashek pospisil in four sets in ottawa.

dan evans could clinch the tie against pospisil in the first singles rubber of this afternoon. the winners will travel to france in the quarter—finals in april. the teams and knew how important it was. it was a 50— 50 match. there was a favourite. we knew it was going to be close games. because of what the surface was. and everybody was serving on the court and everybody knows how to play doubles. we are very happy to win the point and give our guys to bite of the cherry tomorrow. british snowboarder katie 0rmerod has claimed a silver medal at the air and style big air competition in austria. 0rmerod has had an impressive start to 2017, winning herfirst big air world cup title and x games slopestyle bronze last month.

big air will make its winter olympics debut in pyong—chang next year. spain‘s sergio garcia goes into today‘s final round of the dubai desert classic with a three shot lead, but yesterday‘s round probably wasn‘t the easiest he‘s ever played. he finished in the dark — look at the lights on those surrounding buildings! it was after a weather delay on day two pushed some second rounds into day three. garcia somehow managed to birdie his final two holes but said he "couldn‘t really see much" of his final three shots. i don‘t think i could manage that evenin i don‘t think i could manage that even in daylight. they always say that they don‘t focus on the hole. just hope for the best. sticking with sport. when roger federer won his 18th grand slam last weekend, he proved that at the age of 35, he‘s not to be written off. and in carmarthenshire, tennis players are still chasing 96—year—old basil smith around the court. twice a week he plays the game he loves, inspiring players a quarter of his age.

sian lloyd has been to meet him. we play to win every time. he may be 96 but basil smith hasn‘t lost his competitive edge. he doesn‘t move around the court quite so fast any more but he gives his opponents are run for their money and feels the benefits of the game. you are picking the ball up, you are running around, concentrating on the ball all the time. i think it keeps your eyesight good. i do half an hour exercise every morning and every night. do you think that more older people should be playing tennis like you? what would your advice be to them? yes, they should be!

if he can do it, i might as well make a bit of an effort to come and play! what would they get out of it if they did and picked up a tennis racquet? well, they would be in dire straits now! basil‘s a big personality at swansea tennis centre, where he plays without fail twice a week. a very nice man off the court, a devil on it. the game has changed since he first picked up a racquet in 1928. tennis was dominated by frenchman rene lacoste who won the french singles title for the second time. all the players here are much younger than basil, but he isn‘t afraid to take them on. i‘m feeling a little bit tired and then you see basil and he plays for two hours. it is definitely an inspiration, to younger people as well, notjust older ones. you feel like you can keep going with the game. celebrating his 96th birthday, basil believes tennis helps to keep him young in heart and mind.

he isn‘t planning on retiring from the game any time soon. what a guy. if you are watching, basil, you‘re a legend. another legend! no afternoon nap for me. a lot of fine weather today. starting cloudy for many. brightening up this afternoon. a misty sunrise in norfolk. the weather watcher pictures are coming in. at 9am there‘s patchy rain anthill —— and hill song. in the north—east england. that will pull away. patchy fog around to begin with. some in eastern parts of england. a few showers towards the south coast of england. a couple

into cornwall and devon. an icy start in south—west england, wales, the west midlands and northern ireland. “11, —5 in a few spots, but we get sunny spells coming through. some fog patches may be slow to clear, but we should get there and many places brighten up in the afternoon. some rain heading into south—east england, especially into sussex and kent. it may fringe into london. 5— nine degrees is the top temperature. if you have cloud it may feel colder. 15 degrees for the six nations. the chance of a few heavy showers. rain in the far south—east could be heavy this afternoon and early this evening, before clearing away, and any wet weather in scotland will clear and showers in the west will fade. tonight, a lot of dry weather and cold weather, with a widespread frost setting in. down to —5, —6 in rural spots and freezing fog

matches. so scraping the ice off the car in the morning. maybe slowed down by the fog, especially in eastern parts of the uk, replaced with sunshine. time. into the west we have wet weather moving in. that will be accompanied by strengthening winds, with gales developing. a cold field despite any early sunshine across eastern areas. the cloud increases. talking about cold weather, that is on the cards this week. especially later in the week with a developing easterly wind. by the end of the week there could be some snow flurries around as well. we keep a close eye on that. nothing warm on the horizon. not looking forward to that! thank you. we‘ll be back with the headlines at 8am. now it‘s time for click with spencer kelly and lara lewington. for decades, scientists all around

the world have been trying to create a machine that can match our intelligence. and nowadays artificially intelligent algorithms can perform many tasks much better than us. for a long time scientists have been using games like chess, drafts and go as benchmark for testing ai. and that‘s because all these games have a certain amount of unpredictability built into them. namely, their human opponents. but this week the a! community has been celebrating a big win after a poker playing algorithm called liberatus defeated four top human players in a 20 day match of heads up no limit texas hold ‘em poker. i‘ve been using poker as a benchmark for 12 years.

now the best a! has surpassed the level of the best humans in the strategic reasoning under imperfect information. but even at this big win is only a little step towards creating a general artificial intelligence. 0ne that‘s capable of sophisticated thought across a wide spectrum of areas, and solving problems just as well as a human can. it‘s an incredible time and it‘s very hard to forecast. you know, what can these things do? it‘s a hard thing to think through, and has really incredible possibilities. but it‘s...i think it‘s impossible to forecast accurately. speech has been another big challenge for al researchers. personal assistants and chat bots are becoming more sophisticated, but they so far can‘t fool us into thinking that they‘re human. but what if you thought you were talking to another person? konnichiwa. do you speak english? speaks japanese

would that make you more likely to trust it and develop a relationship? well, two researchers at the london school of economics came up with an experiment to see if we would communicate better with a! if its messages were delivered to us by a human. they call this computer human hybrid the echoborg. and to explore the concept, jane copestick found herself becoming an echoborg herself. the echoborg was inspired by research from stanley milgram. he is the professor behind the controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s, to see if people would deliver electric shocks to others if instructed to by an authority figure. milgram also studied body perception, to determine if we hold preformed opinions of other people based on their looks. by using hidden earpieces, people could speak someone else‘s thoughts through their own body. the echoborg has updated this research for the 21st century

to see if people will react better to artificial intelligence, such as the messages from an online chat bot, if they are being delivered by a human. i‘m in the first stages of testing this out by becoming an echoborg myself. i‘m starting my speech shadowing practice — the first step in becoming a fully fledged echoborg. the professors have told me this process will take at least eight hours for me to get any good at it. i‘m starting my first practice withjk rowling‘s harvard commencement speech. members of the harvard corporation and the board of overseers... by shadowing speech, i should be able to quickly repeat back the messages from a chat bot so that people won‘t realise they aren‘t my own thoughts. it may seem something paradox, but there‘s horses in the cow... i did something and scuttled somewhere. now, to put it to the test, i‘m meeting creator professor alex gillespie at the london school of economics. hello, how are you doing? great to see you, come on in. and kevin corti, who

called in on skype. so that goes round your neck? that goes around your neck. first step. kevin is using a chat bot called rose, which is not preprogrammed. the most noticeable problem in becoming a convincing ai are the delays while rose thinks of a response to the question. where do you come from? i was born in san francisco. really? in the united states. when were you born? a couple of years ago. just a couple of years ago? are you a chat bot? i‘m a human. i thought for a moment you might be a chat bot. republic of ireland and croatia and france. my mother‘s from ireland. really? a magical place full of rain and crazy people. she says. well... that was... uh...interesting.

weird. what you notice is they tend to be quite disconnected. it takes each sentence as a stand—alone sentence. some of them will speak like they are artificial intelligence, and some will pretend not to be. so this one‘s pretending not to be? yes, although last time i spoke to it it said it was artificial intelligence. oh, it‘s confused. our final test for the echoborg was to bring it on stage in front of an audience of several hundred people at the bbc future conference in australia. a question a lot of humans find difficult, what is the capital of australia? canberra. 0k, good. and what is 235 multiplied by 676? i think it's 158,860. that‘s pretty impressive.

here and now, how do i know you‘re human, how do you know i‘m human? because i believe. you believe? because i appreciate beauty. because people saw me in the room. go ask them. in fact, some of the audience members were fooled. 0ne thought it was a real conversation with a human, not an artificial intelligence. it was based on my appearance. some people thought you didn‘t want to talk about artificial intelligence. that you were trying to avoid the question, they really thought you were trying to avoid the questions. someone even said, had it been a man would it have been perceived differently? i think so. without becoming fully fledged echoborgs, we are already giving a voice to artificial intelligence everyday. through the algorithms guiding our news consumption, to our shopping habits and online searches, we‘re bringing al to life more and more. projects like the echoborg let us reflect on what this means

for our a! future and perhaps even what it means to be human. where are the gadgets? 0h, play time was never like this in my day. i‘ve been taking a look at some of the latest toys hoping to light up the faces of children and grown—ups. and, inevitably, a few of them could be found at london‘s toy fair. this looks like a drone in a cage and that‘s because it is. it‘s also a proof of concept for a toy which is going to be available later this year. its inventor here is wearing this glove, which means you can control it via gestures. let‘s take a look at what it can do. i can catch it!

it all looks pretty simple, but i know you‘ve been studying robotics for 15 years, so there‘s quite a bit more to this than meets the eye, isn‘t there? yes, absolutely. once the science of gestures has been codified, and that‘s what we‘ve been able to do, as you can imagine we can bring out all sorts of robotic toys and consumer devices. the brain itself is in the glove, it‘s in the circuitry and electronics and the algorithms embedded in the glove. the drone is merely a conduit for the gestures being recorded on the hand. there was also a clear trend towards giving kids a deeper level of control when it comes to toy gadgets. this is a robot that aims to help kids learn to code. they can operate it manually via the app, or setup sequences of the functions they‘d like it to carry out. as you can see, it looks pretty raw where you‘ve got all these leads and buttons, so it really is giving kids a chance to develop something. i also recently got my hands on a drone that kids can programme,

spending time tweaking code at a computer or using drag and drop blocks. ijust had a play around with some of the drone‘s functions, so maybe that shows who the real kid is. first of all i press w, which should get the drone up and running. this is a spot of that well—known activity — drone bowling. and back a bit. we need to go down....ah! down, other way round! oh, no, no, back. oh, yeah! yes, the skittles are down here on the floor. the bowling is here, and i‘ve done it! it‘s notjust about flying, though, you may want to do a bit of driving. to do that, you swap the wings for wheels. last year we learned quite how much of an appetite there was for augmented reality in gaming.

so how about adding a robot to the mix? and give the big kids a chance for some play, too. there‘s the enemy. if i can turn around quickly enough... 0h! i‘m just trying to turn around. i‘m going to shoot. that‘s it...and i‘ve hit. this gaming robot, much like virtual avatars, becomes stronger as you use it. it‘s also customisable and upgradable, with the ability to add wheels or even take on another robot in the room. or if you want to get yourself moving, how about a personal training robot? this prototype has limited functionality, but still managed to put me through my paces. not that it fought too hard

when i decided i‘d had enough. that‘s it for the short version of click. the full—length version is ready and waiting on iplayer right now and you can follow us on twitterfor gossip. thanks for watching and see you soon. hello, this is breakfast with christian fraser and tina daheley.

britain‘s rail franchising system is failing customers and is no longer fit for purpose. mps say passengers are becoming less satisfied with the service they get but are having to pay more for it. good morning, it‘s sunday 5th february. also ahead: the usjustice department has begun moves to reinstate president trump‘s travel ban on people from seven mainly muslim nations after his order was suspended on friday.