hello, this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. 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 10th 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 but the white house says north korea must take "concrete steps" 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 skier millie knight and her guide brett wild in the downhill skiing. it's absolutely fantastic.

this time last year i sustained quite a severe concussion on this slope where i crashed into the finish line. and to now cross the line today, as paralympic silver medallists, is amazing. and louise has the weather... good morning. some good news for this saturday. mild for all of us, but there will be some rain around. more details on exactly where coming up shortly. first, our main story. 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, as andy moore reports. driven away by the army last night, a police car possibly contaminated by traces of nerve agent. it had been parked outside salisbury hospital.

during the day, military personnel in protective gear had made it ready for transportation. this cemetery is another focus of the investigation. sergei skripal‘s wife is buried here, and there's also a memorial stone for his son. alexander's birthday was last week. yulia had flown in from russia to visit her father. did they both come here to pay their respects before they fell ill? we're told yulia is responding better than her father to medical treatment, but they are both seriously ill. detective sergeant nick bailey, who was also exposed to the nerve agent, is said to be making good progress. from the people of salisbury, there's some understandable anxiety, but no sign of widespread fear. we're concerned about public safety. we've got two young sons who often come into the centre. so, you know, we want it to be safe here. if there have been no further cases that we have been told about — and i presume we would have been

told about — then we can only trust the government and trust the local authorities that they are handling the case. i don't feel worried. i feel very safe in salisbury. i assume that everybody has got it under control. i just hope they get to the bottom of it so we can actually find out exactly what's 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 counterterrorist police officers will give an update on the progress of their investigation. but very little information is being shared with the public. andy moore, bbc news. let's go to salisbury now, and our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. bring us up to date with developments. troops are still on the streets there. yes, not quite on the streets there. yes, not quite on

the streets, i presume overnight they have been in their barracks and having a hearty breakfast ahead of what is probably going to be quite challenging and full day for them. last night we saw the car removed from the hospital, a police car, the first of many vehicles are expected be taken away. we think their next focus could possibly be ambulances that were used in first response because of the possibility that they are also contaminated with traces of the nerve agent, orjust as a precautionary measure, it taken away to decontaminate them. police also wa nt to decontaminate them. police also want the be our media, specialist units with chemical warfare training, to take away other objects that might be of interest. i think we saw the first sign of that. —— police also want the army here. they to the graveyard where skripal‘s wife and son have gravestones. they

took away a sealed yellow tub, which may have been flowers, which they left before they fell ill. there is some military activity going on through the day. the zizzi pizza rear behind the investigation is behind large screens. police will be there for some time if they have put up there for some time if they have put up these semipermanent screens. there is a lot of activity up at sergei skripal‘s house. we expect to see recovery work and items taken away. as for the cobra meeting, it's really not clear whether or not the home secretary will come out to say anything new. i don't think we should hold our breath to hear about who did it and why they did it yet. dominic casciani reporting from salisbury. 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 correspondent robin brant is in seoul. what's the feeling in south korea? south korea's leader is the man his

government engineered this meeting, or certainly the agreement to the meeting. he is hugely optimistic about what might come from it. yesterday he referred to the prospect of these two men sitting down, donald trump and kimjong—un asa down, donald trump and kimjong—un as a miracle. he has described it as as a miracle. he has described it as a milestone on the road to realising a milestone on the road to realising a peace agreement. that is before it has even happen, before we have had a time and place for the meeting. and there is naturally as well, for those who are more cynical and realistic, they might say the chance of anything substantial coming from the meeting in the past, the north koreans have promised to freeze their nuclear weapons and missile programme, but go back on that when they don't get what they want. in

terms of the message overnight from washington, after a startling agreement from the president to sit down with kim jong—un, it agreement from the president to sit down with kimjong—un, it has been confusing. on the one hand we have the white house press secretary saying the meeting would only go ahead if there were concrete steps coming out from north korea in terms of denuclearisation. that is the first time we heard of preconditions. we were told the president had just agreed to sit down with kim jong—un without preconditions at all, but we had this text, rather this tweet from the president talking about a deal being very much in the making and if completed, he said, it would be a very good one for the world. he then went on to say that plans are being made. it's clear from the white house, despite the confusing message, that this will happen by the end of may. details about any kind of agenda and who is willing to offer what, we are a long way from that. 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. 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 today by the education secretary, dominic hinds. he will tell a headteachers‘ conference in birmingham that long working hours and too much red tape

are becoming a barrier to recruiting and retaining staff. 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. she crossed the line last night! we should warn you that there's some flash photography in the pictures we're about to show you. zoe arrived in brighton after cycling 350 miles from blackpool. yesterday was a tough day with lots of big hills and heavy rain. welcoming her to the end of her journey. she's raised more than half—a—million pounds for sport relief. we saw her along the way. she struggled on a couple of days, i think. can you imagine the saddle sore, well done zoe. teachers have long said that red tape and bureaucracy have been getting in the way of them doing theirjobs. over the last five years retention targets for teachers have been missed, as more of them

leave the profession. now the education secretary will lay down his plans to cut teachers‘ workload, in an attempt to resolve the recruitment crisis in england‘s schools. we can speak now to the head of ofsted, amanda spielman. good morning to you and thank you for your time this morning. talk to me about this red tape and workload. can you nail that‘s down a bit, what are we talking about? we are talking about a lot of different things, partly about government policies and the accountability system, performance tables and inspection. we are talking about the consequences, how people use them, how local authorities govern us and what they do in response to an inspection. we are talking about things like the fear of litigation and how high school leaders act and what they do in response to pressures and manage their schools. what you have said quite a few things there, you have said quite a few things there which i can‘t

relate to the day to day doses of being a teacher. things like what you choose to teach. does it have every teacher planning out every teacher planning every lesson in detail. the thing is how these things are made up can make an enormous difference. lets try and be specific. you talk about company data structures to do with marketing and how the work is set out. and how much you have to put into that. is it possible to make that simpler while retaining standards?” it possible to make that simpler while retaining standards? i think so. while retaining standards? i think so. and there are many schools that are doing really interesting and innovative marketing policies that are very clearly reducing the workload and absolutely getting the focus on the right things for children. what i‘m trying to do today in my speech is talk about all the ways that without accident we can bump up the workload for teachers. ofsted is a part of that.

i‘m talking about what we are doing and saying and most importantly, what we are saying we don‘t need to see around these things that can become giant pieces of workload for schools. my sons get the impression that you think, as head of ofsted, the chief inspector of schools, is ofsted pa rt of the chief inspector of schools, is ofsted part of the problem? we are all part of the problem. it‘s fair to say. we have been for a couple of yea rs to say. we have been for a couple of years now, more than a couple of yea rs, years now, more than a couple of years, and are continuing to do everything we can to defuse. an important message from us is that if you are running a good school, if every week things are running well, and you let ofsted see the school as it actually runs normally, then the inspection outcome will be good. that‘s the core message for teachers. talk to us about teacher recruitment. is there one glaringly obvious possibility to getting more people, and the best people into teaching, which is to pay them more money. that's a whole different angle. we do not look at the money

side of schools. but in reality it's not a different argument. what you are trying to achieve is the best people to being teachers. that‘s what we want, the best people being teachers, who can do it most effectively. one of the arguments around this come you can‘t disassociate these things, is that if you offer greater salaries, maybe alongside some of the changes you are talking about, that could get the result you want. at the end of the result you want. at the end of the day, you could pay people all the day, you could pay people all the money in the world, but if the job is not fulfilling and rewarding them people are not going to want to do it. the first thing to do is make sure thejob is do it. the first thing to do is make sure the job is as doable as it can be and the value for children is as high as it can be for all the effort that goes into it. how are we going to know whether any of these ideas, either from the health secretary or from yourselves at ofsted, how will we know whether any of this is making a difference? the proof will be in the pudding. there are a lot of surveys of teacher workload. lots

of surveys of teacher workload. lots of data about teacher recruitment and retention. it will be easy to track and see how things are moving. what will be the statistic that tells us whether it is working? when you say it is working, there are a whole series of things. i‘m talking today about seven or eight things that we are doing and have done. the secretary of state will talk about things from their perspective. let me steer you in a certain direction. if we are talking about teacher recruitment, for example, one of the keyissues recruitment, for example, one of the key issues everyone is thinking about, a lot of people leaving the profession for any number of reasons, how can we judge this? you seem reasons, how can we judge this? you seem to be saying there are eight different ways we can judge it. what about teacher recruitment? how soon, if these policies the education secretary and you are talking about, if they brought in, how soon could we see a result? that's not a question i could answer. we are talking about time for changes to

work through systems. it‘s always a little uncertain, especially when you have to shift perceptions... time is so crucial in education. anyone with a child in a school today who has eight more years of education, they do not have time. that will be their child‘s education over. it is frustrating when people who are involved in education say, just give it a length of time, we do not know how long it will take but that could be someone‘s entire education. i did not say give it a length of time, i said i could not say how long it would take for this to work through. that is exactly why we‘re doing

you‘re 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. here‘s louise with a look at this morning‘s weather. everything we can right now are not

waiting. doing everything we can, today, and we have been doing it for a couple of years and we are carrying on doing it as fast as we can. there will be a pulse of wet weather. it‘s a bit of a messy start to saturday. the heaviest and most persistent rain through northern ireland and into northern england and into scotland. behind it, showery outbreaks of rain. that could allow the sunshine to come through and temperatures to climb. a mix of snow in there but we‘re not concerned about it with milder air pushing in. into northern ireland and the lake district through the

afternoon. the cloud breaks up and we will get some sunshine. 15 degrees and may be higher, and if that happens, it could be the warmest day of the year so far. i know it‘s only march but we are trying to add a glass is half full story to the weather at the moment. the rain continues to push its way into the far north of scotland overnight. the winds full white, the skies are clear and it will be quite murky with patchy outbreaks of fog. tomorrow morning, particularly through eastern england, a murky start to mother‘s day. hopefully that will lift away and we will see a better picture into the afternoon. as the head through the day, we keep the risk of rain in the northern isles, but elsewhere we will have showers breaking out across the west, possibly heavy and thundery in places as they drift across the north. but double digit temperatures, the last time we had that in scotland was the 20th of february. that little ray of

sunshine, we had some clearer skies earlier. it looks as though there was a chance to see the aurora last night in scotland. it looks tonight as if there is the chance to see it again. the bright yellow is that greater chances but some of the green shows that across the northern islands and the far north of scotla nd islands and the far north of scotland come you might get a chance to see it. get some photographs and i would love to show them tomorrow morning. more often than not after a baby‘s born, the umbilical cord is thrown away, and along with it a vital source of blood stem cells. this blood can be a lifeline for people with genetic disorders and cancers like leukaemia, but there‘s been a steady decline in donations since 2014. steph‘s been finding out more. now, when it comes to having a baby, donating the placenta is probably

not something you‘ll have given much thought. but it is exactly what actress and my mate kellie shirley did. so why did you decide to donate cord blood? i found out that lots of places end up just chucking the cord blood away. and these people actually keep the cord blood, and they can harvest it for stem cells for use with blood cancer. so i had a boy and a girl, and two placentas, and we think that louie was a match for somebody, which was really, really amazing. he‘s a little legend, louie, and pearl is. only ten hospitals in the uk, like this one, have a dedicated team of cord collectors like zoe, who is on hand to help mothers donate. so zoe, this is where you collect the cord, isn‘t it? it is a bit much to show on telly, but explain what happens. so once we have got the placenta, we bring the placenta up here and carry out a collection. we insert the needle

into the cord and drain as much blood from the placenta. the placenta is rich in stem cells, so the blood that we do collect from it can be used to transplant. so if you don‘t collect these placentas, they just get chucked away? it does, it only gets thrown in the bin. so we have a cord collection from what we have just collected. that is the blood we had just collected, and that is the blood we take from the placenta. so it it has literallyjust come from the woman‘s body. it has. so what happens now? it gets tested to see if there is enough stem cells in, and once that is done, we determine if it‘s good enough for translate. of course, it is a decision every family has to make for themselves. we popped in to see sophie just before her caesarean, to ask why she is going to donate. so with my first, i didn't even know about it. i didn't see any posters and wasn't told about it. and then with the second, the midwife mentioned it at one of my community midwife chats, and then a lot of my

friends who were pregnant in sunderland were like, oh, that is amazing, how have you done that? and we want to do it, but then they couldn't, because they don't do it in newcastle or sunderland. it is a no—brainer for me. it‘s something i keep saying, as well. it‘s become a catchphrase. it‘s a no—brainer. yes, totally. but having dedicated collectors on call 24/7 is costly. nhs blood and transplant say they deliberately target hospitals and communities that often struggle to find a stem cell match. look, just a couple of hours after we left, sonny arrived, and before he had opened his little eyes, he had already done something good in the world. now, that is worth screaming about. right on cue. you‘re watching breakfast from bbc news. time now for a look at the newspapers. professor cary cooper from the university of manchester is here to tell us what‘s

caught his eye. good morning. good morning. what do you make of this, donald trump, this is good for the world, this north korea meeting? the nobel peace prize in the end. i have to look at this, it is all over every newspaper. what i liked about this story was the fa ct i liked about this story was the fact that they showed their dialogue between the two of them over the past couple of years, wonderful. in january 2018, kim jong—un said, it is a reality i have a nuclear button on my desk, and trump response was, i also have a nuclear button but it is bigger and main works. it goes on. it is amazing. it is going to be a soap opera. everyone

thinks it is a joke but in a way it is healthy for us regardless of the motives. they want to take away from their own internal problems. they both have internal problems to a large exte nt both have internal problems to a large extent and i think trump sees this as a peace process. he says, if iam this as a peace process. he says, if i am robust and i confront people, it delivers. you all think i am an idiot, too aggressive, but he will use that as an excuse. ultimately, as always with these things, if it works, then the motivation or whatever, it becomes relevant. exactly. does the world need to unpredictable people getting at each other? it does not need this and if this works, i do not care what their motives are, i am happy for my grandkids and my kids. at the bottom there is also the story about the pr coup. to do with where there are going to hold it. that will be funny. will they do it on a vessel? where are they going to hold peace talks? they cannot do it in each of the respective countries where will

they hold it? it will be interesting. i think that will take three orfour months interesting. i think that will take three or four months to sort out. they have not got long. we will leave aside the picture of this cute dog. this story is from social media. the government is saying kids are on social media too much. 12—15 —year—olds spend 12—15 hours a week on social media. three quarters of ten—year—olds are on one form of social media or another. the point i wa nted social media or another. the point i wanted to make about this, maybe we should control it, but how about the pa rents ? should control it, but how about the parents? think about us, on twitter, doing e—mail on a friday night, on a sunday, on saturday, when we are on holiday. we do social media, they are modelling the behaviour. they are modelling the behaviour. they are going to introduce laws saying you cannot have a social media count if you‘re under 13.

you cannot have a social media count if you're under13. if you cannot have a social media count if you're under 13. if someone were to assess your time spent on social media, would it be uncomfortable for you? very uncomfortable, particularly when i open my mouth about it. in the workplace i think it isa about it. in the workplace i think it is a big problem for us. from a personal perspective, what would you need to be told to reduce your on twitter. or even e-mails? what is happening in the workplace, i am an organisational psychologist, companies are blocking people‘se—mails after five o‘clock. they do this in germany. and france as well. france has a lot, it says that no manager from shop floor to top floor can send an e—mail to their subordinates out of office hours. totally unenforceable, but it is sending a message. we need to control ourselves in this space. yes, the kids, but we are modelling this behaviour. unless we change, we are not doing very much good for them. from today, are you going to

change? probably a bit, them. from today, are you going to change? probablya bit, but them. from today, are you going to change? probably a bit, but not a lot. it is hard. it is already talk about it. i have kids at are older and they say, you should not be doing e—mail when you‘re with your grandchildren. weight is the harm? i will tell you what the hamas, you‘re going out with your family dinner on a friday night, and i go to dinner where i live, and i see people looking, a family of four michael, looking, a family of four michael, looking at the knees. the kids are texturing and the parents are looking at the e—mails. it is not healthy for our interactions. this isa healthy for our interactions. this is a story about the white house. the possibility of a tv series. what is this? for netflix, azeris is that it is purported they will be paid 500 million to date. a documentary? we do not know, they are not seeing. we do not know, they are not seeing. we think it is a documentary because his chief adviser says, we have

a lwa ys his chief adviser says, we have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire. throughout their lives, the obamas have inspired people... it is going to be something like that, probably a documentary. i love this man. i am worried. i do not want to see his reputation damaged. think about bill clinton, tony blair, people who‘ve gone to give big speeches. all those people have put their money in foundations but it is the image it portrays to the public. this man is such an icon. i hope there is no real damage. this is a lovely story to finish. a six—year—old boy who estimated stem cells. a boy has donated to his brother, he is four. he has leukaemia. this is so uplifting. we have such a lot of negatives around, this is uplifting. what i really like, he even shaved his head in sympathy with his brother to raise money for the royal

marsden. on that rather uplifting note, we will leave it for now. you will be back in an hour‘s time. i will be back in an hour‘s time. i will indeed. the headlines are coming up. we‘ll see you soon. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. coming up before 9:00am, louise will have the weekend‘s weather for you. but first, a summary of this morning‘s main 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. 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 today by the education today by the education secretary. he will tell a headteachers‘ conference in birmingham that long working hours and too much red tape are becoming a barrier to recruiting and retaining staff. we are all part of the problem. so you are part of the problem? yes, but we have been for a couple of yea rs, but we have been for a couple of years, more than a couple of years, and are continuing to do everything we can to defuse. the important message from us is that if you are running a good school, if every week things are going well, and you let ofsted see the school as it actually ru ns runs normally, then the inspection outcome will be good. somebody has lost theirjob... it‘s not someone, it‘s it. he‘s been in the job just one day — but flippy the robot isn‘t up to it and has already been replaced by human resources. the burger—flipping arm had been serving customers at a restaurant in california,

as the owners attempt to replace human cooks. but he‘s out already. because he was just too slow and couldn‘t turn the burgers quickly enough. he‘s just dawdling. what we learn with that is that a robot can flip burgers but can‘t put cheese on them. let‘s add it to the list of things robots can‘t do. them. let‘s add it to the list of things robots can't do. small flaps of cheese are quite flimsy to be fair. if it‘s the first day on the job it can take time to learn. fair. if it‘s the first day on the job it can take time to learnm robots can do tiny minute movements... at least the burgers didn‘t end up up the wall. movements... at least the burgers didn't end up up the wall. is that what happens when you flip burgers? all the time! millie knight and brett wild are world champions in downhill skiing but just over a world champions in downhill skiing butjust over a year ago she

suffered a serious concussion. i spoke to her in the alps and she said she didn‘t even know how long she would be out for whether we would see her at the winter olympics in pyeongchang. a great start for tea m in pyeongchang. a great start for team gb‘s mission to try to get seven medals. 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. our reporter kate gray is in pyeongchang and earlier spoke to britain‘s first medallists, and kate, tell us why this is such an important medal for millie and brett. this really is the important medal that millie knight and brett wild wa nted that millie knight and brett wild wanted from these games. it‘s the eventually as world champion in. as you said, she has had a tough year overcoming concussion and the fears that come with getting back on the skis. what you went to the top of the soap today she was feeling ready to go. it was a really tough

downhill slope. her team—mate and her guide had wiped out earlier in the event. she had to knuckle down and focus on getting down the slope. luckily guided by brett wild, they got down the slope safely, winning the silver medal, the first medal for great britain at these games. clearly over the moon. i caught up with them just before they went to pick up their medals. it's absolutely fantastic. this time last yearl absolutely fantastic. this time last year i sustained quite a severe concussion on this slope where i crashed into the finish line. to cross the line today as paralympic silver medallists is amazing. were you nervous at the start, was it going through your mind?|j you nervous at the start, was it going through your mind? i certainly was nervous, but i guess that means i cared about it. the moment i pushed out of the start gate, all the nerves went. brett, you are guiding her down the mountain. it wasn‘t an especially easy downhill with incidents with other athletes. it was a challenging downhill. the

terrain, there was no popular points to race. the conditions were challenging. but we had a game plan and we stuck to it and we are pleased to be back in the mix, a great start to the paralympics. is this like disappointed wasn‘t gold this like disappointed wasn‘t gold this time? definitely not. with the season we have had, it's been quite a frustrating season. we haven't got the results we wanted and coming back from concussion was really tough. this is the highest result we have had all season. for it to come out of the paralympic games is wonderful. a great result for millie knight, who will be back in action tomorrow in the super g along with her team—mates mena fitzpatrick and kelly gallagher. there has been a brilliant wheelchair curling match unfolding in pyeongchang with great britain up against world champions norway. it was just over an hour match. great britain took the lead from the very beginning and managed to hold off the world champions. but it came down to the final stone.

norway had to pass the stone down theice norway had to pass the stone down the ice and knocked out three of the great british stones. but it wasn‘t quite possible. great britain managed to win that round 5—2, a great result and a great way to start their paralympic campaign. they will hope to continue that success , they will hope to continue that success, and they will be in action again tomorrow. lots to look forward to in pyeongchang. what a start for paralympics team gb on the first day of proper competition in pyeongchang. the other place to be todayis pyeongchang. the other place to be today is dublin. it‘s the penultimate weekend of the six nations. in paris, england will play france and in dublin, scotland will play ireland. john watson is at the city‘s aviva stadium this morning. and john, there‘s every chance there could be some party there in dublin tonight. couldn‘t there just. it will be an incredible weekend here. if ireland beat scotland at the aviva stadium later, and england could potentially

lose to france in paris, that would see ireland wrap up a third six nations title in five years, party time here if that happens. who would anticipate we would find ourselves in this position on the penultimate weekend of the six nations championship. a lot of the tournament predictions expecting ireland and england to win all their match to set up a potential title grand slam decider in the last match of the tournament with ireland travelling to twickenham to play england next week. but scotland blew that apart with incredible performance against england in the calcutta cup two weeks ago. they we re calcutta cup two weeks ago. they were too good for england, and that keeps scotland‘s chances alive of winning this year‘s tournament. scotla nd winning this year‘s tournament. scotland have been very impressive, we saw that against england. today they have to win away from home, which it‘s fair to say they have found difficult in the six nations. away from rome, where italy play, the perennial whipping boys in the six nations. scotland have struggled to win away, only winning twice in the six nations. they will be

boosted by the fact the last win came in dublin eight years ago. but they need finn russell and that the players to turn it on later. ireland have an incredible record at home, they haven‘t lost on thejoe schmidt in the six nations here. england, it‘s interesting to see how it will play out in france later. they have dyla n play out in france later. they have dylan hartley missing, a notable absentee, so owen farrell will deputise as captain in his absence. england have to match whatever ireland produce here to take it to the final weekend at twickenham next weekend. it‘s worth pointing out, you talk about a party atmosphere. let‘s speculate ireland when he later and england lose in france, ireland with then travel to twickenham next weekend chasing a potential grand slam, they could win all their matches, and if they beat england on saint patrick‘s whee kim, thenit england on saint patrick‘s whee kim, then it really will be party time. so many permutations. thanksjohn. it's so many permutations. thanksjohn. it‘s all about the bonus points,

england will have to go to france score four tries today, they will know what they have to after kicking off after the ireland and scotland match has finished. a bit of trivia, mathieu bastareaud, the france centre, the heaviest man on the pitch at 20 stone. in the days when the backs used to be lighter, the heaviest man on the pitch, he lives and plays in toulon. he hasn‘t got a driving licence but has a little 50 cc motorbike. he lives at the top of the hill. he can barely get up the hill, this gigantic man on his little mopeds. it's like that famous bread out adverts, running up the hill. good morning dan walker. i‘m sure

this man eats very healthily. he certainly eats a lot. but he is an athlete. we need to see a picture of him. dan, a huge day today in terms of the race for second place. manchester city have the premier league title sewn up, but it‘s manchester united taking on liverpool, second against third with two points separating the sides. we have chris smalling on the show today. he scored in the comeback against christabel palace last week. he was talking about mentality from the manchester united point of view. danny welbeck is on the programme, a strange season for arsenal. they lost against manchester city twice and against brighton, but won against ac milan. and brighton is another focus, chris hughton against ac milan. and brighton is anotherfocus, chris hughton is manager of the month. and ryan bertrand, the potential first manager of the month. and ryan

bertrand, the potentialfirst choice left back for england this summer, playing for southampton, who are in a spot of bother. you don‘t expect a footballer to speak like this, but he talks about going back to the site at grenfell tower, spending time in the community and try to help people there. itjust resonated with me. i grew up in tower blocks, the same. i still have friends and family there, in those situations. i didn't understand the logistics of how this would happen and the resistance it seemed the residents and the residents' families were receiving, the lack of compassion to get it fixed as soon as possible. it seemed as if there was too much red tape, these are humans here. they have lost their lives, lost loved ones and lost their homes. ryan bertrand really feels that hard. you can see how he explains that situation. you expect is sometimes footballers to talk ina expect is sometimes footballers to talk in a certain way but he really

broadens out the discussion. we talked about the shebelieves cup, england losing to the usa in the end, but phil neville reflected on it, and we will look in more detail at the world cup qualifying campaign. and plymouth, 325 miles from plymouth to fleetwood, a proper old strip today. carlyle is the furthest probably. —— a proper old trip today. in league1 in december they were bottom of the lead and now they were bottom of the lead and now they are in the play—offs. mark clemmit has been to speak to them. is it all about garnish pasties? —— cornish pasties? we will have mark lawrenson and isjermaine cornish pasties? we will have mark lawrenson and is jermaine jenas cornish pasties? we will have mark lawrenson and isjermainejenas on the programme as well. is that a cardigan ora the programme as well. is that a cardigan or a jacket? it's a cardigan. i saw charlie‘s eyebrows perk. i was trying to counter the buttons. i got to about 12 and stopped. sometimes they're fake

buttons on these things. but there are eight, and you have to do them all up. it took an hour to get into this this morning. it's a rare cardigan. it's a bit like a corset. there is quite a lot to hold in. in the scottish premiership, we have rangers against celtic in the old firm derby tomorrow. last night, hibernian moved 12 points clear of neighbours hearts with a 2—0 win at easter road. hibs are nowjust a point behind third—placed aberdeen. now in the last few hours, victory for england‘s cricketers. england clinching their sixth successive win in one—day cricket. they will have the test series soon. looking good for the one—day world cup in england. millions of people who have been automatically put into their company

pension scheme could find their pay goes down next month. the government has decided that the contributions that are paid into these workplace pension schemes will rise steeply in april, which could leave people with less take home pay. paul lewis from radio 4‘s money box is in our london studio. good morning. do you want to outline what the problem is? if it is a problem, i suppose that is the question. people have been automatically enrolled into a pension scheme throughout the uk, every employer has to offer on the contributions going on automatically, from the employee and their boss. from april, those contributions will automatically go up. the individual‘s contribution will travel from 1% of their pay to the present. just to give you an example, somebody on £385 a week, they will find they are paying an

extra £4 23 each week into their pension. their take-home pay will go down. whether it is a problem, but people will notice it, and they should be prepared for it if they are one of the 9 million automatically enrolled people. you do not have a choice in this? it is something that will happen and you will get less money when it comes to your payday? yes, you do not have a choice, except anyone can opt out of the pension, but fortunately very few people do. it is well under one in ten, especially among younger people. you cannot code if you want, and that is the fear, that when people see their pay going down they will thing, i will get out of it, but that is not the best thing to do. you are paying more in, there is a bigger tax subsidy going in, your bossesis a bigger tax subsidy going in, your bosses is being boring, so have the extra going incomes from other people, so that means it is earning more over the course of your pension. some companies are now saying you should see it as a pay

rise, not a pay cut. tax and national insurance are also being cut from april which will be an extra £100 a year so that will offset some of this. and some people will have a pay rise which will offset some of it. it is going to be complicated but when people get that first paid back in april, they have got to think, we‘ve is this money going? some more of it will be going into their pension. i know you have talked about this so much over the yea rs, talked about this so much over the years, about how important it is to think hard about your pension. if there is a danger this means people are going, i do not want to pay that much and they withdraw, that is a problem? it would be a problem. auto enrolment has been a great success because there are more than 9 million paying into a pensioner who we re million paying into a pensioner who were not before. even these contributions are not going to be enough. they are going up again next april. it is quite a campaign to have that

forces continued into the future. people will be paying more. you really need to be paying 18% of your pay into a pension to get anything that you can call a decent pension and retirement. much of our most of that 15 or 18% should come from your boss. there is a tax subsidy, so it is not all coming from you. that is why leaving the scheme is a bad thing, because you‘re giving up the money that your bosses putting into your pension. in a way you can see it like a pay cut but it will not look like that on your april payslip. thank you very much. you can here more on money box on bbc radio 4just after 12:00pm today. you‘re 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. here‘s louise with a look at this morning‘s weather.

rays of sunshine? yes, i am trying ha rd rays of sunshine? yes, i am trying hard this morning. a week ago we we re hard this morning. a week ago we were talking about subzero temperatures and snowdrifts. i have managed to find you a ray of sunshine in the south—east this morning. it has been a beautiful start to the day. the milder air will affect the whole of the country by the end of the day. we do have some rain in the forecast. not a great start to the day in hull. bad visibility and light rain. the rain has been stretching from the south through the night, but behind the rain, it has brought melbourne air. the yellow denotes where the male bear is sitting. it will push steadily north into scotland as rain arrives. the rain will push into scotla nd arrives. the rain will push into scotland through the afternoon and behind it, there is a weatherfront

which brings more rain into the south west. it is surely in nature, which will allow some sunny spells to come through. it is a wet start to come through. it is a wet start to northern ireland. eventually the rain will push through the borders into central scotland. behind it, sunny spells and scatter showers. by by the middle of the afternoon it looks likely to be a wet story for scotland. some snow on higher ground but we are not too concerned as the melbourne air moves. but —— double digits in northern ireland with the rain. if the cloud breaks up and we get lengthy spells of sunshine, temperatures will respond. if we get over 15.1, it will be the warmest day of the years of earth. through the night the rain continues to drift north, and handed the winds will become light. clear skies and fog forming with that moisture around. it could be a murky start to mother‘s day and the chilly start with single figures in some places.

the fog will lift in the morning, and as we go through the day, for many, there will be dry weather. the rain will linger in the northern isles, but not a bad day for scotla nd isles, but not a bad day for scotland in the north of england. showers in the south and they will drift into wales and the midlands. some showers heavy and possibly thundery, but widespread double digits for all. we have not seen temperatures of 10 degrees above since the 20th of february in scotland. this picture was sent in this morning, it was glorious last night in scotland for seeing the aurora for some. it looks as though there could be the potential to see it tonight, perhaps in the northern isles and the north of scotland. that is what the green colour denotes. where it is bright yellow you will have a better chance. i suspect in the far north of scotland you may get to see the aurora tonight. thank you. see you later. from the latest exploits of the beatles in the 1960s,

through to punk, indie and britpop, nme magazine has been a must—read for music fans for almost 70 years. but yesterday saw the end of an era, with the publication of its final print edition. rising costs and falling advertising mean it will only be available online. in a moment, we‘ll be discussing why the magazine became so iconic, but first, here‘s a look at some of its front covers down the years. music: space oddity by david bowie. music: fools gold by the stone roses. that was nice to look back on those.

a nice little musical interlude. i was enjoying the stone roses. here with us now are musician and journalistjohn robb, and the photographer kevin cummins, who snapped a number of nme front covers. thank you forjoining us. what does this mean? it is the end of an era ina sense, this mean? it is the end of an era in a sense, but it is like all media, it isjust in a sense, but it is like all media, it is just moving in a sense, but it is like all media, it isjust moving onto in a sense, but it is like all media, it is just moving onto the internet, it is difficult for magazines to survive. i say that as someone magazines to survive. i say that as someone who publishes a magazine. i started with a website and published a magazine back to front. it started with a smaller modern —— smaller model. the nme is an expensive operation. it is not the end of music writing. people look at the information on mobiles and ta blets. the information on mobiles and tablets. they had those problems. there were some mistakes made towards the end. it is funny culling of the magazine, because two as it was always a paper. i think of it as a newspaper. the images come off on

your fingers. a newspaper. the images come off on yourfingers. you talk a newspaper. the images come off on your fingers. you talk about the old days but i remember going to buy five papers in the 70s, music papers. melody maker? sounds, nme, disk. many —— not many people will remember that. they gradually shut down one by one. i remember the day that kallis sounds got shot down. it was sad. eventually it happened to nme as well. it's staggered on for a few more decades. one of the things about the publication, you have the benefit of that front page, photograph, and some of yours will run nme back in the day? yes, the thing with the music paper as well is that it is really important to build iconography. i do not think you can do that without the printed page. it is very different when you're talking about pictures online. they are not permanent. you

do not put them on your bedroom wall. lots of people who bought the music prize would pin those pictures on their wall and live with them, now they have just got instagram boards for their favourite pictures. it is not the same. is it time to adapt? i do not know how it would change, yourjob, in terms of how you photograph, or what you photographed, but that is the medium that people are using, to be visually stimulated, then you have got to go with it, haven‘t you? visually stimulated, then you have got to go with it, haven't you? to agree but the paper should have realigned itself in the marketplace. a lot of people are used by the nme would buy it for gig guides and record reviews, things that are easily available online. you just have to change the way the magazine looks. maybe do more on the road pieces, go on tour with bands. take it in pieces, go on tour with bands. take itina pieces, go on tour with bands. take it in a slightly different direction. there is still a place

for printed media. ifi am honest, when i used by the nme, sometimes i did not read it, ijust thought... you look at the pictures? it felt like it was quite a cool thing to make people think you were reading. i have heard people say that. there are some sad cases, probably you. having it in your pocket would make you cool. there was a cool cachet to it, but each music paper had its own clump offans, it, but each music paper had its own clump of fans, sounds would have its fa ns clump of fans, sounds would have its fans as well. i remember it being good on post punk in the 70s and thenit good on post punk in the 70s and then it became a metal paper. the nme was for indie music. it would be your badge of coolness if you were into indie music, sixth form, book form, whatever. the writing was really good. kevin was talking about photographs. the photography was good. i disagree with kevin slightly. i like looking at

photographs online as well. kevin‘s photographs online as well. kevin‘s photographs look fantastic on an iphone. great photographs can survive on a keg of media. we have got some of your photographs, kevin. this is a shot of oasis. that photograph was taken in manchester. we had to pretend we had been to new york with the band because they had already done, i had shot them for fox, the companion magazine to the nme. the paper had decided they wanted to trail it the week before so they took one of the pictures out of the session and pretended we are done it in new york. a picture of the two them together would be worth quite a bit now. the next one is the stone roses. what is the last one? it is

morrissey. tell us about that picture, with his back to the camera. yes, we put morrissey on the cover of the nme at any opportunity. ijust wanted cover of the nme at any opportunity. i just wanted to cover of the nme at any opportunity. ijust wanted to see him on a japanese tour. i suggested to morrissey that rather than do an interview, which he did not feel he had anything more to say, having done about six already that year, i said to him, why don't you write the picture captions? i spent a week with him injapan, and sent him a selection of pictures. i expected him to send me a typed list of captions on the road each one in crayon and a need for sheet of paper which was a really beautiful piece of artwork, actually, and we ran those on the pictures with the feature. for some people it will feel like we‘re being nostalgia. move on, things change. in a sense, it is sad it has gone, people have lost jobs. there is

it is sad it has gone, people have lostjobs. there is still a rock weekly magazine, karanka. music moves forward, it is about technology, there is great writing out there, great websites. there are still good young writers out there and good bands. do we need to have it in print? what about smash hits? it is fantastic for covering what it was covering. it was more about pop music. each thing represented its own scene, music. each thing represented its own scene, the nme was covering indie, smash hits were covering pop music. it was a well written magazines you have not upset me. lovely to see you. thank you for your time. the headlines injust a moment.