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tv   The Briefing  BBC News  January 16, 2018 5:45am-6:01am GMT

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bonuses was changed in 2016, making it harderfor them to be to be clawed back. let's look at the front page of the daily mail. we do not often have this paper in this particular review. it leads with the british supermarket iceland planning to become the first in the world to remove plastic packaging from its products. a story from sweden makes the irish times. swedish homes will all receive a booklet warning them what to do if war breaks out. it's gone back into print for the first time since the end of the cold war in 1991. we'll tell you why. trailblazing english footballer cyrille regis honoured by the daily mirror. he's died at the age of 59. he's described as a hero and role model for many black players who followed him. and fox news among media across the world covering the fact that sneezing could be the death of you. a new warning from doctors after a man supressed a sneeze and blew a hole in his throat.
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sneezing suppression is something television presenters do all the time so we must heed that morning. so, let's begin. with me is liam booth—smith, chief executive of the independent think tank localis. let's get stuck in, plenty to talk about. carillion, so much to say on carillion. the financial times looking at as many angles as possible. yes, the first phase of this story was about what would happen to the contract they have with the government and what will happen to their 20,000 workers and their subsidiaries. happen to their 20,000 workers and theirsubsidiaries. it's happen to their 20,000 workers and their subsidiaries. it's evolving a bit and more information is coming to light, you highlighted the payee question and in 2016. at the time that could be talked away but given its almost two years later and the company has gone bust and we can't get that money back, it looks a bit less like a coincidence. this links
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to something that is important that came out in the commons yesterday, many questions were put to david liddington about why the government was letting contracts to a company that had numerous recent profit warnings. so there is a confluence of information coming together now to suggest people may have been aware the business wasn't in the best of health and perhaps shouldn't have been contracting at least as widely as it has been in recent yea rs. widely as it has been in recent years. david lidington, the cabinet secretary in charge of this liquidation of carillion, i don't envy him at all, he obviously had thejob of explaining envy him at all, he obviously had the job of explaining how this process would go and one of the things i saw him say it was private companies would get just things i saw him say it was private companies would getjust 48 hours of government help, whereas a carillion employee, theirjob will be secure, yet it's the many private companies, small companies, some medium—sized companies, that are facing difficult times with very little support.
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absolutely and it belies a broader point about the state of the public service market in the uk as well. these companies operate on increasingly tight margins. it means the difference between pricing a job correctly, bidding for a contract, can be the difference between success can be the difference between success and failure and if you get too many of those wrong and things overrun, there's serious consequences. serious consequences and no doubt many questions and an investigation and all sorts so we will keep an eye on that story that's dominating the uk press. there is many thousands working for carillion around the world as well, lots of detail on that on our website. we are covering the daily mailfront page, website. we are covering the daily mail front page, unusual for us, supermarket banning plastic, this is everywhere, iceland, the supermarket chain in the uk, for he was around the world, most of their goods are frozen goods, if not all of them i would imagine. this is quite a big and a bold move for them. —— for viewers around the world. it's
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reflecting public opinion? and well done to iceland, because it is, it's annoying to have so much plastic packaging. it annoys everyone i know. that is what good businesses do, followed consumers, give the punters what they want. easier said than done, i wonder how they will pull this off. they have set a significant time frame, is it 2021? 2023. they have a bit of time to do it, they say it affects 1000 product lines and it will have an impact on 250 potential suppliers. it would be easy for them to do it but it's the right move and even if they only got to taking this forward, it is still a significantly and it will also become a mark of competitive advantage for that business.” become a mark of competitive advantage for that business. i must admiti advantage for that business. i must admit i have consciously changed my behaviour to reduce the plastic use, i know you done the same, and many have been in touch about this story.
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steve saying paper bags for lots of things, cheese, cooked meat, fresh fruit and veg, people saying local shops, farm shops, they are using very little plastic. it is interesting to see a big company responding and hopefully we will see more. thanks for your comments, maybe we will share more later. let's move on to the irish times, what if war comes? sweden reissues the cold war emergency pamphlet. this is a scandinavian story. kind of amusing but there is a worry out there? it's the description in the irish times as the armageddon ikea catalogue, which is funny in itself. if there's a war coming and there's going to be nuclear bombs lying about, i don't think a booklet is going to help me too much. —— flying. if something bad happens like that i will reach for a strong drink and not worry too much. the serious thing about this is it's not
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just about war. the civil contingency authorities in sweden say it's about natural disasters and terror attacks and pandemics and other things. it shows the threats that are out there right now. hawaii on the weekend was issued with a false warning about a missile. you need to know what to do in those circumstances. i don't buy into it, i don't think a booklet is going to help but if they wa nt booklet is going to help but if they want to do it, fair enough, it is up to them. tell us about the mirror, which is giving a big tribute to cyriljust, inspirational hero who changed the face of football, he sadly died yesterday at just the age of 59, but he absolutely was a trailblazer, wasn't he? -- southwell -- cyril rioli this. he did the hard yards when it was difficult and he's created a space for black footballers to get the space they
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deserve and for that alone he deserves the plaudits and reflection he's getting. what's important is this guy was a real patriot as well. in the interview in the mirror he's talking about the first time he gets called up for england and the first thing he does is he wants the photo taken with himself in the sun with the flag. he is a class act. he faced racism on a scale beyond. in football when he first came on the scene football when he first came on the scene it was horrendous. it's still really bad now, but yet he seemed to take that in such a really good way, you know, he handled it extremely well, when it was very difficult to handle especially. very impressive quy- handle especially. very impressive guy. from all the stories he deserves the credit he is getting. this is a worrying story, the sneeze. blew a whole in the back of the throat or something? there's images and graphics here. looks horrendous! this guy for 30 years
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has been holding his nose every time he time he sneezes, apparently that's because it said in the british medicaljournal, which is the source of the story, he does so because he thinks it is a unhygienic to sneeze into the atmosphere or in the face of someone. i would agree with that. as if they're the only two options for sneezing! but seriously, i hold my sneeze in the studio, obviously not great on—air, many of us do this and yet this hugely bad consequence is a factor if you go ahead with that. thanks very much indeed for coming up! no problem. i won't sneeze! they are some of the stories we're talking about today. some more responses with regards to plastic. we have ramil who got with regards to plastic. we have ramilwho got in with regards to plastic. we have ramil who got in touch, thanks for your tweet, he said a plastic free britain is exciting. britons can live without plastic. if there is a country who leads the world in a
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plastic free world it can be the uk. bob simply says reduce, reuse and recycle. then another one who said what about using different bags, biodegradable bags, paperbacks, far more environmentally friendly. thanks for your thoughts on that and thank you for your company on the briefing today. we've got plenty more in about five minutes on bbc world and if you're on bbc one you canjoin dan and louise. see you soon, have a good day. hello there. i think some people might welcome the change to the weather this week from what we had last week — grey, damp, drizzly conditions.
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this week, it is looking colder. certainly we're getting our air sourced from the arctic, from greenland. it's going to bring strong winds, sunshine, and showers. some of these showers will continue to be quite frequent, as they will be through the course of the night, and early on into tuesday. with snow falling over the higher ground of the north, even some wintriness down to lower levels. to the south, largely of rain. on tuesday itself, looking colder than it has been. windy, as well, and there will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. some of these will be heavy and frequent, most of them in the north and the west of the uk. watch out for ice first thing, as well, across parts of scotland, northern ireland, and into north—west england. there'll be accumulating snow on the hills. some wintriness down to lower levels. add on the wind, it's going to be quite a wild morning. there could be some ice, as well, across parts of northern and western wales. but i think, to the south of here, these showers should be mainly of rain, just maybe a little bit of wintriness over the very highest hills. but, for east anglia into the east midlands and the south—east, a largely dry start.
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but chilly wherever you are, if you factor in that wind. and then, throughout the day, it's going to be a blustery one. west or north—west winds will be touching gale—force in exposure, blowing in plenty of showers, as you can see here, most of them in the north and the west. snow, maybe even blizzard conditions, with accumulating snow over the higher ground in the north. if you factor in the wind, it's going to feel more like sub—zero in that wind across central and northern areas, but at least some places will have the sunshine to compensate. on wednesday, fewer showers. they will be most frequent across the north and north—west corner of the country. again, accumulating snow over the hills, wintry down to lower levels, and some good, lengthy spells of sunshine for parts of england and wales. temperatures of 3—7 degrees. now, things get quite interesting as we head into the middle of the week. we look out to the atlantic to the next area of low pressure. it looks like it's going to be a deepening area of low pressure, and could bring a significant spell of gales, maybe even severe gales, to england and wales. and to its northern flank, in the cold air, we could see some significant snow through central southern scotland.
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so either where you get the gales or the snow in the north, it's likely there could be some disruption possible to this system, so keep tuned to your bbc local radio. but the good news is it will hurtle through quite quickly, and in fact, for thursday morning, those winds will have died down, the snow will have east away. not a bad day for many central, southern, and eastern areas. plenty of sunshine, further blustery showers across the north and the west. and things look like they've calmed down slightly as we head on in towards the end of the week and into the weekend, but remaining on the cold side. hello. this is breakfast, with louise minchin and dan walker. concerns for thousands of small businesses following the collapse of carillion. after britain's second largest construction firm has gone under, ministers held an emergency meeting with suppliers and subcontractors facing millions of pounds of unpaid bills.
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i will look at what chance the small businesses have of getting their money back and what that means for the work already carried out by carillion across the uk. good morning. it's tuesday, january 16. also this morning: two parents are arrested in california after their 13 children are found captive at home, some shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks.
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