hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and mega munchetty. the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter — the government will hold a second emergency meeting today. nearly 200 military experts in chemical warfare have been deployed to help the investigation. good morning, it's saturday the 10th of march. also this morning, a deal "very much in the making." president trump strikes a positive tone over a potential meeting with kim jong—un, but the white house says north korea must take "concrete ste ps" before it can take place. tackling the recruitment crisis in england's schools. the education secretary promises to cut teachers‘ workloads. in sport, a first medal for britain at the winter paralympics, and it's a silver for visually impaired skiier millie knight and her guide brett wilde in the downhill skiing.

i've been to meet the 11—year—old table tennis champion, hoping to bat away the competition, when she represents wales at the commonwealth games next month. and louise has the weather. good morning. some good news on this saturday. it will be mild for all of us. saturday. it will be mild for all of us. there will be some rain. more details on exactly where, coming up. good morning. first, our main story. the home secretary will chair a second meeting of the government's w ”£51;in condition in hospital in salisbury after being exposed to a nerve agent. specialist troops trained in chemical warfare have been deployed to the city, as andy moore reports. driven away by the army last night, a police car possibly contaminated

wide traces of nerve agent. it had been parked outside salisbury hospital. during the day, military personnel and protect it year made it ready for transportation. —— in protective gear. this cemetery is another focus of the investigation. sergei skripal‘s wife is buried here, and there is a memorial stone for his son. alexander's earth day was last week. yulia had flown in from russia to visit her father. did they both come here to pay their respects before falling ill? we are told yulia is responding better than her father to told yulia is responding better than herfather to medical told yulia is responding better than her father to medical treatment, but they are both seriously ill. detective sergeant nick bailey, also exposed to the nerve agent, is said to be making good progress. from the people of salisbury, there is some understandable anxiety, but no sign of widespread fear. we are concerned about public safety, we have to young children who often come into the centre. we want it to be safe

here. if there have been no further cases that we have been told about, andl cases that we have been told about, and i presume we would have been told about them, we can only trust the government and the local authorities they are handling it.” don't feel worried, i feel very safe in salisbury. i assume everybody has it under control. i hope they get to the bottom of its early can find out exactly what has been happening. on tuesday, the defence secretary was just one of several senior ministers to attend the first meeting of cobra dealing with this attack. this afternoon there will be a second meeting. senior counterterrorism police officers will give an update on the progress of their investigation. but very little information is being shared with the public. president trump has tweeted that a deal with north korea is "very much in the making," which he said would be "very good for the world." the white house says he won't meet kim jong—un unless pyongyang takes concrete steps to end its nuclear programme. our china correspondent robin brant is in seoul. good morning. tell us a little bit

about some of the reaction, firstly in seoul itself? well, they are very optimistic here. president moon jae—in, the leader of south korea, is the man who seems to have engineered this meeting, or certainly the prospect of it. yesterday he was calling the meeting a miracle, and characterising it is asa a miracle, and characterising it is as a milestone on the road to realising peace. that is even before it has happened. so they are very optimistic here, which is frankly no surprise. this is a city and a country which has lived under the threat of a conventional military attack or decades, from its neighbours in the north, and more recently, certainly in the last few months, they were living under that rhetoric between washington and pyongyang, worried about the growing threat of a possible nuclear strike. they are very glad things are looking more positive now. robin, of course, this extraordinary sequence of events began with that letter

being read out in washington. what more are we hearing from their? —— there? mixed messages. we had president trump accepting the invitation yesterday, much to the surprise of many of his very senior aides. we don't know when it is going to happen, we don't know where it is going to happen, we don't know what the big issues on the agenda would need. what does the us want, what is north korea willing to offer? what we do know is that at the moment, the white house is sending out mixed messages. just a few hours after the president accepted the invitation, his press secretary said there would need to be concrete steps before this meeting would happen. the wall streetjournal has meeting would happen. the wall street journal has reported meeting would happen. the wall streetjournal has reported the meeting is going to go ahead. without preconditions. but that's just shows you how dysfunctional some people think this trump white house is. —— that'sjust some people think this trump white house is. —— that's just shows you. robin, thank you. an 85—year—old man has died while waiting in an accident and emergency unit because of "dangerous overcrowding , " according

to a hospital boss. the man suffered a cardiac arrest while waiting to see a senior consultant at northampton general hospital. a leaked email from the trust's medical director describes his death as "due entirely to dangerous overcrowding in the department." in a statement the hospital said the long wait for treatment was "unacceptable. " three women have been found dead after they were taken hostage during a staff party at a us veterans facility in california. the body of a gunman was also found. he's understood to have killed himself. the residential community centre, which is the largest of its kind in the united states, provides mental health services for veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars, who are transitioning back into civilian life. meanwhile, the national rifle association has mounted a legal challenge to new gun control measures in florida, drawn up in the wa ke measures in florida, drawn up in the wake of a school shooting last month which left 17 dead. it says the new law, which will raise the legal age to purchase firearms, is

unconstitutional. chris buchler has more. standing side—by—side with the families of some of those killed inside a school, florida's governor signed new laws, legislation designed to try to prevent such shootings by restricting access to guns. the common sense things as a father, as a grandfather, as a governor is we need to have law enforcement in our schools, we need to harden our schools, we need more mental health counselling, we need to make sure people that are going to do harm... think about it, we know... these people are talking. the legislation is named after the marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland. last month 17 people, both staff and students, were shot dead here as others fled from classrooms in search of safety. former pupil nikolas cruz is accused of carrying out the killings with an assault rifle he had bought when he was just 18. the new law raises the age at which somebody can buy a firearm in florida from 18 to 21, and imposes a three—day waiting period for all sales. it allows some staff to be armed

subject to training and school district approval, but it doesn't ban the type of semi—automatic weapons that were used in the parkland shooting. we are done with your agenda to undermine voters' will and individual liberty in america. alongside advertisers arguing that their members' voices are not being heard, the national rifle association is now bringing legal action to try to overturn the new legislation in florida. the nra claims that raising the age at which somebody can buy a gun breaches both the second amendment and the 14th amendment. it's an argument that may end up being fought out in florida's courts, but it's only one part of a wider debate, and before the end of the month students will march in washington to demand new countrywide restrictions on gun sales. the campaigners say they no longer want just sympathy,

they want change. for five successive years now recruitment targets for teaching have been missed, and schools have complained about the cost and disruption involved in hiring temps. schools are spending £835 million a year on supply agencies, according to the most recent government figures. here's our education correspondent, elaine dunkley. this is passmore ‘s academy in sx. like so many schools, it is struggling to recruit teachers. classrooms around the country are 110w classrooms around the country are now relying on agency supply teachers to cover permanent vacancies. we employ supply staff in oui’ vacancies. we employ supply staff in our school, long—term supply staff to get to know the students. but when we have to use short—term supply, when we have to use short—term supply, they don't know the systems 01’ supply, they don't know the systems or the students. there is a lack of trust that often comes, which it can build up when you have a

relationship. it is an erosion of standards. in a survey, 7196 of head teachers who responded said they had had to increase the amount they spent on agency supply teachers over the past three years. nearly one fifth spent between 6% and 10% of their budget on supply teachers. according to the most recent government figures, schools are spending £835 million per year on supply agencies. the issue isn't just recruitment, but stopping existing teachers leaving. for me it was a multitude of factors. i found the workload and the job itself assuming. i would work 65 or 70 hour weeks. —— job itself can assuming. planning, marking, the assessments. the actual teaching part probably took upa the actual teaching part probably took up a lease time. today the government will announce a strategy drive to improve teachers‘ workloads, which includes no changes to the national curriculum for gcses

and a—levels, and no new tests for primary schools, measures which the government claims will attract new teachers and stop experienced ones leaving. if you‘ve been watching this week, you‘ll have seen that we‘ve been keeping up to date with zoe ball‘s sport relief challenge. well there‘s some good news. after setting off from blackpool on monday morning, zoe arrived in brighton yesterday evening, completing her 350—mile cycle between the two towns. yesterday was a tough day on the bike, battling big hills at the end, and riding into driving rain. but it‘s all been worth it — she‘s raised more than £500,000 for sport relief. you can still donate online. now, where do dogs stay when they‘re away from home at a conference? at a hotel, of course! it‘s crufts at the nec in birmingham this weekend, and with so many dogs spending a night or two away from home, one hotel in the city has opened its doors to 1,000

dogs and owners. the hotel has even set up a doggy dining room, where owners and their pets can eat together. two dogs go to conferences much? yes. attendance is very strong. on the front page of the times newspaper, let‘s look through some of the papers. here are some of the pictures from crufts, of course. a wirehaired fashions, that dog is, if you are interested. —— wire—haired daschund. a new proposal is being drawn up to tame what is being called the wild west of the internet. since you names that dog, i was trying to find the breed of this dog. is it the same? no, it isn‘t. do you know it? that is an afghan hound. well, there you go.

there is a piece in the guardian taking a look at the weirdness of crafts. —— crufts. the lead story, the us will take a tough stance when it comes to north korea.|j the us will take a tough stance when it comes to north korea. i am happy to ta ke it comes to north korea. i am happy to take any other guesses about that dog‘s read. to take any other guesses about that dog's read. yes, get in touch the usual way. on the front page of the daily telegraph, this is our lead story this morning. residents‘ fear ofa story this morning. residents‘ fear of a poison risk. this is in salisbury, of course. extraordinary images. these are police officers in chemical hazard suits. they are now investigating the graveside of sergei skripal‘s wife and son, which is in salisbury cemetery. we will have more on that story throughout the morning. the same story is on the morning. the same story is on the front page of the daily mirror. there are suspicions, or speculation, that perhaps his son and wife were poison. his wife died in 2012, his son died last year.

this is the front page of the daily mirror. we will have a full review of the newspapers a little later in the morning. it is time now to talk to louise and find out what is happening with the weather. i understand it is going to be very mild? my my glass is definitely half full, there will be some sunshine. this little arc of yellow is mild air spilling up behind the rain we have, and that will move its way steadily north. it is cold in scotland, minus eight degrees in the highland overnight at the mild air heading in your direction. if you haven‘t already got the message, it will be milder this weekend. some wet spells, and some of the rain heavy as well. if the cloud breaks, the temperatures are likely to respond. this has been the story for the last few hours. a little bit of wet sleet and snow as it comes into that cold

air but we expected to turn back to rain as we go through the day and the mild air pushes him. significant rain pushing its way through northern ireland, northern england and into scotland. a brief lull in proceedings before seeing more wet weather pushing in from the south—west. if we look a little more detail, by the middle of the afternoon we have temperatures sitting around four 28 degrees. a little bit of snow for the higher ground, but it will be rain elsewhere —— 4— eight degrees. some of the rain could be heavy, the odd rumble of thunder, but as the cloud brea ks rumble of thunder, but as the cloud breaks up those temperatures will respond. we could see temperatures as high as 30 —— 13 to 15 degrees for some of us. my glass is half full today. that rain pushes its way steadily north through the night tonight. a misty and murky night, especially across the east, where we could see some fog. that will be slow to clear. a slightly chilly start to tomorrow, and if the fog

lingers it will take those temperatures a bit longer to get going. generally speaking a quieter day, some showers to the south, some of them heavy and thundery but eventually a good deal of dry weather. we are looking at highs of around nine to 12 celsius. as we move out of sunday into monday, another area of low pressure could spoil proceedings for the start of the week, but then a ridge of high pressure is like to quieten things from tuesday. more from me later in the programme. back to you two. glass half full, we are very happy with that, louise. we will be back with the headlines at 6:30am. but now it is time for the film review, with ben brown and mark kermode. hello there, and welcome to the film review on bbc news.

and taking us through this week‘s cinema releases is, who else, but mark kermode. so mark, what have you got for us this week? very mixed bag — we have gringo, which is a kind of caper movie starring david 0yelowo. we have you were never really here, which is the new film by lynne ramsay, whose work i love. and mom and dad, a sort of satirical horror film starring mick cage. ok, so let‘s kick off with gringo. this is about a businessman who becomes a kind of wanted criminal? yeah, so the story is, david 0yelowo is a sort of fairly hapless character working for a drug company. and he ends up faking his own kidnapping in mexico because he discovers essentially that he‘s going to lose his job, it looks like he‘s going to lose his wife, he hasn‘t got anything else to lose, so he fakes his own kidnapping. it starts off with him going on the trip to mexico, with joel edgerton and charlize theron, both of whom are chewing the scenery as his evil superiors. here‘s a clip.

there it is again. what is that smell? barbecue — ialways bring it for angel. angel, buenos dias. there you go. gracias. hello. new app. amazing. knew what else is amazing, is actually learning a foreign language. taco bell, huh? that's sensational. i mean, as i said, chewing the scenery. here‘s the thing with this film. in terms of the plot, it is all over the place, it‘s one where the writers have clearly decided to throw a bunch of ideas at the wall and see what sticks,

and only some of them do. it gets by, however, largely on the fact that you like the cast. so, david 0yelowo is a very likeable antihero figure. they are very dislikeable villains in a real — she‘s basically playing cruella deville, and they‘re enjoying themselves. there are entire character threads... sharlto copley turns up halfway through suddenly, and the film takes an entire different direction. there are entire sections of it that don‘t hang together, and at the end you go, none of it added up. but whilst watching it, i enjoyed it much more than i thought was going to because the individual set pieces. there is one set piece in which a drug lord demands to know from the people who he‘s holding hostage whether or not they agree that sergeant pepper is the best beatles album. and it‘s one of those weirdly surreal moments that works. others don‘t. the film could have lost 20 or 30 minutes. it could have lost one entire thread. it‘s shambolic, no question, and it‘s a mess, no question. but it‘s an entertaining mess, largely because i like the central characters. david 0yelowo is absolutely brilliant, and he kind of holds the whole thing together.

is sergeant pepper the best beatles album? no. no, 0k. glad we got a verdict there. now, next, you were never really here. this is a kind of vigilante thriller? well, it looks like that but it isn‘t. it‘s a lynne ramsay film. lynne ramsay made rat catcher, we need to talk about kevin. she is someone who makes films entirely on her own terms. this is based on a novella byjonathan ames. and the story is that joaquin phoenix is an enforcer, somebody who is a hired gun, who specialises in retrieving lost kids, lost teenagers. he is sent at the beginning of the film to get back a senator‘s missing daughter. that‘s the mechanics of the plot. however, lynne ramsay isn‘t really that interested in plot mechanics. what she‘s interested in is the fact that he‘s a very damaged character. she described him as somebody who‘s got what is like a head full of broken glass. and what the film does is it gives you this nominal thriller narrative, but actually it‘s a very poetic portrait of somebody who‘s life is falling apart, who‘s haunted by the ghosts of the past, who‘s haunted by past abusive traumas. plus it upends your expectation, because you know at the beginning that he‘s a kind of...

he‘s a hired enforcer, his weapon of choice is a hammer, and yet he loves his mother, he looks after his mother. when they‘re at home, psycho comes on the television, so you think, "0h, he‘s norman bates." but he‘s not norman bates. later on, shawshank redemption comes on the television, which is very significant if you‘re a shawshank fan, which i am. the score is byjohnny greenwood, whose work is brilliant. the whole film has this really overwhelming sensory experience, it‘s got a brilliant sound design. see it in a cinema that‘s playing it loud. and i‘ve now seen it a couple of times, and the first time i found it elliptical, almost hard to follow the plot, but you don‘t care because what you‘re following is the characters. second time around i thought, this is proper cinema making. lynne ramsay is an absolute genius, nobody makes films like her. she makes few films, and when she does they are always worth it. as far as i‘m concerned, she has a perfect strike rate, and this is already one of my favourite films of the year and we‘re only in march. wow. yes. now, mom and dad, which sounds very nice, with nicholas cage, but it‘s actually parents turning quite nasty on their children?

yeah. so it‘s one of those "what if" horror movies, what if parents suddenly decided to turn on their kids, because they‘ve been in this case, we think, infected either by a virus or perhaps by a signal which is coming through the television. it seems to be sort of sent through television distortion. the film is directed by the guy who is one half of neveldine and taylor, who made films like crank, who are not known for understatement. so, at the very beginning of the film, it starts as a standard thing, a mother and father and they‘re resentful of their children‘s freedoms but they‘re also very protective. and then this strange, horrific outbreak happens, and the parents turn on their children, but also at the same time remain weirdly, satirically protective. here‘s a clip. it's not what you think. what are you doing in my house? is my daughter here? carly? joshua? is that dad? iwant dad. we need to leave god damn it.

i want to get my backpack. why? fine just get it. we need to talk. 0h, do we need to talk? yeah, we do need to talk you can‘t be hit. it's not about me and carly, it's about what's happening. i get exactly... it‘s called hormones. now, this is one of those films in which nic cage goes full nic cage. there is a sequence in which he attacks a pool table, and it ranks alongside, you know, nic cage‘s craziest moments. the reason it works is this. if you have a horror film like this, it has to have a central truth at the heart of it. and the central truth is, these parents basically resent the fact that they — they were once young, crazy, free—spirited, nic cage and some kind of... and now their lives have changed, because they‘ve dedicated themselves to looking after the children. so, although what happens is a sort of supernatural manifestation, it‘s sort of clawing away at that idea that these resentments are actually real things. it‘s a really odd film,

it‘s definitely not for everybody. it‘s very taboo—breaking. it‘s dealing with a very taboo issue, which is parents turning on children. we‘ve seen plenty of movies with scary children, you know, whether it‘s village of the dammed, or the excorcist. this is the other way round. and it works, up to a point. it‘s completely bonkers. there are several moments in it when you think, this is just preposterous. but it works because it‘s got a central core idea, and it‘s not afraid, you know, to over—crank itself. and i enjoyed it, but i was very aware after watching it, i‘m enjoying it as a horrorfan. it‘s not for everybody. well, i can imagine as a parent you might find it pretty uncomfortable kind of viewing. yeah, and the moments that it works the best are exactly those moments, when it taps into the idea that this is outrageous, this is terrible, but it‘s tapping into a sort of parental resentment idea, which is a very, very taboo idea. so it‘s, you know, as i said, not for everybody, but if you‘re a horrorfan, if you like films like teeth,

if you like films like american mary, if you like offbeat, strange, quirky american horror movies, that dare to go into fairly dark places, then i think it‘s an interesting film. and it is genuinely horrifying, is it? it‘s genuinely satirically nasty, which is slightly different. 0k. all right, i think we get the distinction. you‘re not going, i can tell. i‘m not going, you‘re absolutely right! what is best out at the moment? fantastic woman, which just won to the oscar for best foreign language film, is a wonderful story about a transgender woman who finds herself shut out of her life when her lover dies and the family descend, it has a brilliant performance by daniela vega, who isjust wonderful, really mesmerising, a great screen presence and really carries the movie. sebastian lelio, who directed it, i think does a wonderfuljob of mixing on the one hand, you know, realist, gritty story elements with moments of fantasy. at one point it turns into a sort of musicalfantasia, in which she levitates. there‘s another moment when she‘s walking down the street and the wind is blowing, and it‘s almost like a supernatural wind. and the film is about, you know, finding your identity, finding your place, asserting your name, you know, saying, "i am

marina, this is who i am." i‘ve seen it a few times now, and every time i‘ve seen i‘ve seen more in it. it‘s really well worth watching, and it was a deserved oscar winner. so, your recommendation. absolutely. all right, and the best dvd? killing of a sacred deer. killing of a sacred deer is the new film by yorgos lanthimos. it‘s interesting because it was at cannes the same time the lynne ramsay film was at cannes, and they shared the prize for best screenwriting. this is a very, very odd story about a medic who has a secret in his past. it starts off looking like it‘s a kind of strange social satire, and then it turns into a full—blooded horror movie. it‘s more horrifying than anything that‘s in mom and dad. i mean, it‘s genuinely disturbing at the end. but it‘s a film, again, in which it‘s all to do with the way in which the story is told rather than the story itself. it makes a very, very interesting double bill with the lynne ramsay movie, and i don‘t want to say it again but the lynne ramsay movie is one which everybody has to go and see. there is quite a lot

around which blurs horror and social satire. horror is in a fantastic period at the moment, horror is in a period in which it doesn‘t look like a single genre. we are seeing horror inflecting a whole lot of other areas, and obviously... that was my i grew up on horror movies. get out is a movie i absolutely love — if you call that a horror movie. it is absolutely a horror movie. and people started saying it wasn‘t a horror movie when it got nominated for 0scars, because that‘s always the thing which scares people off. but it is a horror movie, it‘s in the tradition of ira levin, but it‘s also a social satire, it has elements of comedy in it. you know, horror can inflect absolutely everything. it is the genre to end all genres. well, it‘s your favourite genre. it is, absolutely. fair enough. mark, thank you very much indeed. thank you. just a quick reminder before you go that you will find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer as well. but that is it for this week. thank you very much for watching, and from us, goodbye. hello, this is breakfast

with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. good morning. here‘s a summary of today‘s main stories from bbc news. the home secretary will chair a second meeting of the government‘s emergency cobra committee today, as investigations continue into the poisoning of a former russian spy. sergei skripal and his daughter yulia are both in a serious condition in hospital in salisbury after being exposed to a nerve agent. specialist troops trained in chemical warfare have been deployed to the city. the grave of mr skripal‘s wife, who was buried in 2012, and the memorial stone of his son, who was cremated last year, have been cordoned off. president trump has tweeted that a deal with north korea is "very much in the making," which he said would be very good for the world. the white house says he won‘t meet kim jong—un unless pyongyang takes concrete steps to end its nuclear programme. no sitting us president has ever met a leaderfrom north korea before. an 85—year—old man has died while waiting in an accident

and emergency unit because of "dangerous overcrowding," according to a hospital boss. the man suffered a cardiac arrest while waiting to see a senior consultant at northampton general hospital. a leaked email from the trust‘s medical director describes his death as "due entirely to dangerous overcrowding in the department." in a statement the hospital said the long wait for treatment was "unacceptable." president trump has tweeted that a deal with north korea is "very the national rifle association has mounted a legal challenge to new gun control measures in florida drawn up in the wake of a school shooting last month which left 17 people dead. it says the new law, which will raise the legal age to purchase firearms, but also allows the training and arming of school staff, is unconstitutional. teachers in england could see their workloads cut under proposals being set out to david why the education secretary. he will tell a head teachers‘ conference in birmingham

that long working hours and too much red tape have become a barrier to recruiting and retaining staff. he‘s been in the job just one day, but he‘s not up to it, and has already been replaced by human resources. ‘flippy,‘ the burger—flipping robot had been serving customers at a restaurant in california, in an attempt to replace human cooks. there he is. but apparently he is not that good. he has been told he is too slow and cannot flip erg is quickly enough. he is being reprogrammed, apparently. that is it. and he couldn't put the cheese on the burgers either. it was a human hand putting the cheese on. on the burgers either. it was a human hand putting the cheese onm isa human hand putting the cheese onm is a well—known fact that robots can‘t handle cheese. is a well—known fact that robots can't handle cheese. was it his or her first day in the job? that is a bit harsh. you need to give them a six—month apprenticeship. bit harsh. you need to give them a six-month apprenticeship. in the burger business, you can either do

it or you can‘t do it. burger business, you can either do it or you can't do it. it is a cutthroat world, the burger business. will there ever be a sports presenter robot? don't we already? that was a joke! that was good. especially at this time of day. we are talking about the winter paralympics. we are delighted for millie knight and is brett wilde. i was with her in the alps a year ago, she had been injured, she had a concussion and wasn't sure if she would make paralympics. it could be the start of a medal rush, not just for britain, but for millie knight and her guide brett wild, because they still have four events to compete in. let‘s get some reaction now in pyeongchang and speak to our reporter kate gray. hi, kate. a great start for 19—year—old millie and a boost for the whole team. yes, absolutely. it was the first medal event of these games. paralympics team gb have come away with a medal in the downhill skiing.

iby with a medal in the downhill skiing. i by those medallists, millie knight and her guide brett wilde. huge congratulations, what a relief to get a medal on the first day! absolutely fantastic. this time last yearl absolutely fantastic. this time last year i sustained a severe concussion, on the slopes, when i crashed into the finish line. to ci’oss crashed into the finish line. to cross the line today is a silver—medallist is amazing. cross the line today is a silver-medallist is amazing. were you nervous at the start? was that going through your mind at all?|j certainly going through your mind at all?” certainly was nervous, i guess that just means care about it. all the nerves went as soon as we started. brad, you are guiding her down the mountain. not a particularly easy downhill. some incidents with other athletes? yes, quite a challenging downhill. that rank there was no proper point where you could rest and the conditions were quite challenging. we had a game plan and we stuck to it and we are so pleased that we made it. is there a slight disappointment but it wasn‘t the gold this time? no, definitely not. with the season we've had, it has been quite a frustrating season. we

have not been getting the results we wanted. coming back from concussion was very tough. this is the highest result that we have had all season and so for it to come at the paralytic games is wonderful. and you have a busy programme ahead of you. —— paralympic games. how do you recover and get back on the slopes? we have done our recovery, we will be speaking to the team psychologist this evening to get our game plan together and reset our heads. nearly thrives off confidence. —— millie thrives. so this result, we can hopefully go on to achieve better later in the week. we wish you the best of luck. please continue that incredible form that you‘ve got. that is great britain‘s first medal of the games. unfortunately was disappointment for fitzpatrick and keyhoe, who crashed out early in the race. they will get to go again, as will millie knight and brett wilde, in the superg will millie knight and brett wilde, in the super g tomorrow. great

britain are against norway in the wheelchair curling today. recently it was 1—1 between them. wheelchair curling today. recently it was 1-1 between them. yes, that's ona it was 1-1 between them. yes, that's on a knife edge. please pass on our huge congratulations to millie knight and brett wilde. that is fantastic. millie knight is only 19 yea rs fantastic. millie knight is only 19 years old, she only has 5% vision, she relies on sound and feeling, and quinces of brett wilde‘s orange jacket. more victory for england‘s cricketers, as well. jonny bairstow hit 104 as england beat new zealand by seven wickets in christchurch to win the one—day series 3—2. chris woakes excelled with the ball, finishing with figures of 3—32. adil rashid also claimed three wickets as the black caps were bowled out for 223. england reached that total with the loss ofjust 3 wickets. they‘ve now won five successive 0di series. and what a catch that was. the six nations championship could be decided today. if results go their way, ireland will take the title. they‘re the only side that can do the grand slam, winning every match — and if they beat scotland and take

a bonus point, england must do the same in france to take the championship to the final weekend. we just need to make sure that we play from the first minute and that we don‘t let any distractions or any little things or even a dropped ball in the warmup, or the bus breaking down, or anything left field like that, but that doesn‘t catch us. this game is all about experience. so, they are up against a scotland tea m full of so, they are up against a scotland team full of confidence after beating england. scotland are not actually out of the running yet. they are third on the table. victory for scotland would mean a whole new selection of limitations. if we want to challenge for the title we need to win this game. they are going well. they are a very good side. so it will be a huge test for us, one which we have to meet

head—on. the good thing for england is that they will not exactly what they need to do by the time they kick off in paris. they might have to score four tries and pick up a bonus point but their boss won‘t be rolling the dice. i‘m nota i‘m not a gambler. i‘m not a speculator. the only thing i need to worry about is catching england to beat france. that is the only thing we can control. we play really well, we can control. we play really well, we get a bonus point. we don‘t play well, we get beaten. we play above average, we win the game. manchester city may be flying ahead in the premier league title but the fight for second place is warming up nicely. two of the contenders meet at lunchtime, with manchester united facing liverpool at old trafford. they played out a goalless draw when they last met back in october, with united‘s defence tying liverpool‘s attack in knots. it is not a battle of systems or philosophies. it is to make a very good football team to face each other. —— it is two very good. when

they are attacking, i have all my players are involved in defending. if we are parking the bus in that moment, we parked the bus, i have no problem with that. in the scottish premiership, we have rangers against celtic in the old firm derby tomorrow. last night, hibernian moved 12 points clear of hearts with a 2—0 win at easter road. hibs are nowjust a point behind third—placed aberdeen. british number one johanna konta said defeat in the second round at indian wells was one of the tougher losses of her career. she lost in straight sets to 18—year—old marketa vondrousova, ranked 54th in the world. konta has won only eight matches since she reached the semi—finals at wimbledon last summer. rory mcilroy‘s masters preparations suffered a setback after another poor round at the valspar championship in florida. he won‘t be back for the weekend after carding a 73 to finish on five over par. meanwhile tiger woods is two shots off the pace after a round of 68. canada‘s corey conners leads on six under par. the continuing controversy surrounding team sky doesn‘t seem to be affecting their race performances after geraint thomas

took the lead in the tirreno adriatico in italy. the briton finished fourth on yesterday‘s third stage, but that was enough to move him up to the top of the general classification. team mate chris froome is in third place, three seconds off the lead. it‘s less than a month away until the start of the commonwealth games and teams from across great britain are preparing to head to australia‘s gold coast. in the lead—up to the games i‘ve been meeting some of the medals hopes from each team. this week i‘ve been to wales to meet an extraordinary table tennis player who‘s only 11. your first year at secondary school isa your first year at secondary school is a big step in life. but maybe not if you are anna, who at the age of 11 is about to rip zantac country on the other side of the world, ——

represent. and that the same time, rewrite the history books. music. now, these pictures haven‘t been sped up. this is how good anna is. at school, in her lunch hour, she doesn‘t give anybody a chance, as she builds up to competing at the senior commonwealth games in australia. it was really good, it's exciting. i am a bit nervous. senior countries, and making new friends. —— seeing a new countries. countries, and making new friends. -- seeing a new countries. it is mesmerising watching anna, who just remember, only recently that rhyme is cool and has already graduated to the commonwealth games, lead to be the commonwealth games, lead to be the youngest athlete in history to do so. —— recently graduated primary school. no shame, john! it is breathtaking how fast years, it is remarkable. we are very lucky as a school to have her here. i think she is going to do her school proud and

do wales proud as well. she is really nice and we didn't know at first that she was this good when we we re first that she was this good when we were in primary, it is really amazing how she isjust11 years were in primary, it is really amazing how she is just 11 years old and she beats all the adult players. anna started playing table tennis when she was five and because there are not enough players of her standard in wales, she has recently spent time training in china against the best in the world. 0k, spent time training in china against the best in the world. ok, i‘m very nervous about this. this humiliation is the result of most of anna‘s gains. this is what she is going to try to do to all those... spin! look at that! this is what anna will be doing, i‘m sure, too many senior players on the gold coast. you have to be really fast. spin! that is

crazy. sorry. you have to be, like, thinking quick, which ball you are going to hit, what you are going to do, planet before you play your point and then you risk it for three seconds and then you play again. just think about it. anna now spends over three hours a day perfect in her shots because she wants to show the world she is not going to the gold coast just for the the world she is not going to the gold coastjust for the experience. —— perfecting. gold coastjust for the experience. -- perfecting. i'm going there to try to win. what would it mean to get a medal? it would mean a lot. there is no pressure, you just have to play your best. she is already the top under 18 player in wales, and just about in the world‘s top 20 now. it is incredible that she will be competing in the senior commonwealth games at the age of 11. now, the records for the commonwealth games area bit records for the commonwealth games are a bit sketchy. it is believed

she will be the youngest ever to compete, that when it was the british empire games, we don‘t know if maybe, sometime, there was a younger player from somewhere. an amazing achievement. she seems so calm. like a professional athlete, really. but when she is at the table her mind is obviously rising. such an experience, to be people who are older and more experienced than her. so the games are building up in the next few weeks, we will have the other home nations featured over the coming weekends. you are watching breakfast from bbc news. the main stories this morning: 180 troops have been brought in to assist police after the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter in salisbury. president trump has reaffirmed that a deal with north korea is very much in the making, after agreeing to meet kim jong—un. also coming up in the programme: we will be asking whether mandatory passing distances and fines for motorists who fling open their car doors could be the way to protect cyclists from danger.

it‘s time for the weather, but first, we can have a look at the view across london this morning. here is louise. it is one of those kinds of days, i can‘t quite work out what the weather is going to do, that is my amateur forecast. do you know what i like? just a month ago it would have been dark at this point, and it is getting lighter. it feels as though we are getting into spring. what do you think, louise? we are definitely heading into spring. it looks as though we are going to see milder airover though we are going to see milder air over the next few days. i have a picture coming up which will top that one in london, stay watching. but take a look at the story as we go through the day to day. the mild air pushes up from the south and will move into scotland. i know it has been a cold night, we have seen

loads of —8 in the highlands, but the mild air heading in your direction. most of us, a mild day around, some of the rain heavy at times. and this has been the story through the rain overnight, in actual fact through the rain overnight, in actualfact pushing through the rain overnight, in actual fact pushing up across the south—west in the northern england and northern ireland. a little bit of sleet and snow as it comes into that cold air. as the mild at thaksin behind we are not too concerned about the snow in scotland today. that rain will turn quite heavy as it pushes its way into central scotland by the middle of the afternoon. further south we will see another band of rain moving through but this one could be some brightness from time to time. either middle of the afternoon we will see some rain, and some of it quite heavy. temperatures starting to climb, fourto eight heavy. temperatures starting to climb, four to eight degrees, the real mild air will arrive later on. through northern ireland, double digits. rain across northern england, wales, down into the midlands. if it rakes up and is rather showery in nature, we will see sunshine coming - we see sunshine coming through. we could far.

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greater chance of seeing it, but you will see how it nudges into the far north of scotland, so get out there and takea north of scotland, so get out there and take a look before you go to bed. you could see an amazing sight. i would be veryjealous. thank you very much, talk to you later on. we will be back with the headlines at 7:00am. first it‘s time for click, with spencer kelly. as international women‘s day was marked this week, it brought with it further focus on the many issues still to be faced in bringing about true gender equality in all walks of life. the technology industry, of course, has its own issues, as we‘ll hear later. silicon valley‘s culture and its treatment of women raises a lot of questions.

but tech can also be a force for good. it‘s beenjust six months or so since the me too movement gave a voice to so many women around the world, who used social media to expose just how widespread sexual harassment and assault is. many women feel that reporting sexual assault can also be really traumatic, and the experiences of some women in silicon valley have spurred them to create something that may make thatjust a little bit easier. sumi das has travelled to stanford university to meet survivors of sexual abuse, and the creators of callisto. every tattoo tells a story. for stanford university studentjacqueline lin, the story is bittersweet. lin was one of 50 sexual assault survivors invited to share the stage with lady gaga during the 2016 oscars. while we were rehearsing, i remember at one point we were all crying and hugging each other, and someone just said,

"we need to get a tattoo to commemorate this and to give us strength." something to look at when you are feeling down, lin says that a few days after she was assaulted by a friend in 2015, she told the title ix office, which investigates sexual misconduct. i decided to report because i didn‘t want him to do it to anyone else, and later i did find out that he had done a lot of... a lot of harassment, stalking and also assault on someone else. what was that experience like? it was awful. my gpa dropped down, and i was fighting with the school back and forth every single hour, every single day. lin, now an activist, wants greater transparency in the adjudication process. they‘re trying to cover up the number of sexual assault that happen on their campus, because that makes your university look safer. it‘s better for your public relations. stanford told click:

sta nford changed its title ix process in 2016 and has begun reporting case numbers. in the us, one in five women is sexually assaulted while in college. i was sexually assaulted by a friend. over a year after that happened, i decided to report my assault, and i ended up finding the process of reporting to be more traumatic than the event itself. feeling not believed by the people who i thought were there to protect me was incredibly destabilising. jessica ladd‘s ordeal spurred her to create callisto, so survivors would have a way of reporting sexual assault. they can, one, just say what happened to them with a timestamp, doesn‘t have to go anywhere if they don‘t want to.

two, report electronically to the authorities at their school. 0r three, just save what happened to them for now, but report electronically if someone else names the same assailant. you can think of callisto as an information escrow agency. it holds onto records, and only alerts schools when there‘s a match. students often report to protect others. this matching feature helps do that by detecting repeat offenders. people might use different names, they may look different. how do you make sure you‘ve got the right person? we ask victims to put in notjust the name of their perpetrator, but also a series of unique identifiers. currently, facebook profiles are used to match. some students want more ways to id, and callisto may add mobile numbers and e—mail addresses in the future. 12 us colleges use callisto. the university of san francisco was the first. we knew students weren‘t reporting. if you look at our numbers from once we first started with callisto, three years ago, to now, there is definitely

an increase in reporting. callisto allows for our students to write what happened, to write about the incident. and sometimes just writing your perpetrator‘s name gives people power. seeing the need for callisto, shanta katipamula led an effort to bring it to stanford. it‘s just available 26/7, and they have seen spikes in usage during times like spring break, when the title ix office might not be available, but students wanted to file a report, or during the weekends, when no—one‘s staffing. with callisto, survivors recount what happened at their own pace, privately. 0ften victims, including in in—person interviews, will want to seem credible. so they want to fill in all the details, and tell a wonderful story arc. but that‘s not how memory works, and that‘s particularly not how memory works in the event of trauma. so being able to allow somebody to say, i don‘t know this answer, i‘m not sure of that.

and only recording things that they are sure of, is really essential to make sure that that time stamped record isn‘t later used against them. students must create a username, password and pass phrase that can‘t be recovered. not quite a one—click sign up. that deters some users. for callisto, it ensures privacy. because then we‘d be having to store the password, which means that we could potentially decrypt the data, and we want to make sure that even we can‘t view what‘s in the form. since students choose whether to report assaults, some records are never seen by schools. but they‘re still useful. we provide our institutions with an aggregate data report that gives them a better sense of what is happening in that store record, what type of years are assault occuring, what type of assault is it? is it involving alcohol, is it not? what class years are involved? others are also working to make reporting less daunting. the spot app creates a record from the user‘s conversation with a chat bot, while all voices will let them report electronically.

lin isn‘t sure electronic reporting would have changed her was handled, though she see its potential. what i think callisto is great for is to track perpetrators. if they decide to apply to grad school, if they decide to transfer schools, i think that‘s where this can really come in, and have a very powerful effect. as we grow, we want to create one system, one database that allows us to track any perpetrator, even as they move through space and time. which would give survivors a way to find out if their assailant is a repeat offender, something ladd says she wonders to this day. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that sony blocked the videogame super seducer from being released on the playstation 4. it‘s been criticised as too sleazy and for promoting toxic behaviour. dyson announced it won‘t be making plug—in vacuum cleaners any more, they‘ll be developing their cordless battery range. dating app bumble has banned members

from posing with guns in their profile pictures, though an exception is being made for military and law enforcement officers in uniform. solving in three, two, one. and a robot managed to solve a rubik‘s cube in under a second. blink and you‘ll miss it. here it is again in slo—mo. it was the week that mobile companies three and vodafone came under investigation over the way they handle data on their network. 0fcom‘s looking at whether they‘re intentionally slowing down internet speeds while customers are abroad. and finally, flippy the robot has been working at a restaurant in la. itsjob — yep, you‘ve guessed it, is flipping burgers. it uses image recognition and heat sensing to cook. the company, caliburger, is installing flippy in 50 locations but it‘s not cheap at $60,000 a robot. hope those burgers taste good! i think i‘ve found him.

that's not possible. if this gets out... we've bought ourselves a war. there‘s obviously a huge responsibility to deliver something for the audience of blade runner from the first one. the expectation visually, making everything look cool, was on our mind every day. the demands of vegas and the expectation of making something that was based on what we know of vegas now, but what it would be in the future. so we started with the us geodata, of the vegas valley and the city itself. so we had a simple model in the computer. dennis gassner, the art director of the film, had built a simple model of vegas with significant buildings loosely placed around, and so forth. we took those two and sort of smashed them together initially.

we looked for ways very subtly of how to bring in the human element into the shots, how to sell that scale, analysing some of syd‘s work and how he used graphics on the face of his buildings, how he in a lot of his paintings used little human scale futuristic items. we built all that stuff and placed it around the city in an organised way to make it look like people were there at one time, even though we see no one, and that‘s what made it look real or look like a place people could have been in. to build trash mesa was based on the idea that everyone had moved to the city, and all the structures outside the city had been pretty much abandoned. there was no power, there was no water, nothing outside. so the trash that‘s generated from the city was dumped on the buildings outside the city. again, we‘re trying to base things on as much reality as we could. so we started with the landscape of current—day california, from los angeles to san diego, and we determined iceland the sequence of the ships was based on the bangladesh ship harvesting yard where they recapture all the metal, and so forth, that happens now.

so a lot of the ships, and the pieces of the ships, and the idea of these little tiny human beings working on these massive structures sort of drove that look through the middle of that sequence. so it‘s a matter of grabbing all these components that were based on today‘s reality, scaling them so they have this massive relationship between k in his little spinner and this enormous landscape, and these huge mounds of trash. it was just a matter of pulling off that scale and that distance, which was just a massive undertaking, just in the amount of data and assets we had to build, and things we had to manage in itself to pull that off. the future of the species is finally unearthed. it is a brilliant film, absolutely superb. blade runner 2049, a well—deserved 0scar win. and that‘s it for the short version of click this week. don‘t forget, the full—length version is ready and waiting for you to watch right now on iplayer. and we are always waiting to you on twitter and on facebook as well. thanks for watching,

and we‘ll see you soon. hello, this is breakfast, with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. the government hold a second emergency meeting today over the suspected attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter. —— the government will hold. nearly 200 british troops have been deployed to assist in the investigation. good morning. it is saturday, march ten. a deal "very much in the making" — president trump strikes a positive tone over a potential meeting with kim jong—un,