tv Breakfast BBC News January 10, 2019 6:00am-8:31am GMT
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good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: britain's biggest car maker jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. police investigating the murder of a 14—year—old boy in london think they've found a car linked to the attack. good morning. the worst christmas in a decade for uk retailers. with sales flat in december, how did some of our big—name shops cope? we get crucial updates from m&s, tesco, debenhams, and john lewis. manchester city were relentless in their 9—0 thrashing of burton albion last night. they have managed to score 16 goals in their last two matches alone. good morning. it's a cold and frosty start across southern england. we will see some sunshine before cloud
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rolls in later. today for most of us will be cloudy with patchy light rain or drizzle, possibly sunshine in the afternoon across northern england, northern ireland, and southern scotland. i will have more inis southern scotland. i will have more in 15 minutes. good morning. it's thursday 10th january. our top story: jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs from its 40,000 strong uk workforce, because of falling sales in china and concerns over brexit. the car manufacturer has also been hit by a slump in demand for its diesel vehicles. it's expected mostjob losses will come from management, marketing and administration roles, but the bbc understands that some factory staff may be affected. our business editor, simonjack has the details. jaguar land rover has enjoyed a great run for nearly a decade, but recently it has come to a shuddering halt. today's layoffs are part of a $2.5 billion cost—cutting plan facing a storm —— £2.5 billion.
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sales in the biggest market, china, have fallen nearly 50%, as consumers their hold back on big purchases amid global trade tensions. they have also been badly affected by the diesel emission scandal as 90% of its vehicles are diesel powered. today's job losses come on top of cuts to the production in the uk in the past you. jaguar has been increasing attack and elsewhere in the world. 4000 workers have been hired in china ready for dean, production of the land rover discovery is being moved to slovakia with plans to hire up to 3000 workers. the company has warned that a no—deal brexit would cost it more thani.2 blimp out a no—deal brexit would cost it more than 1.2 blimp out each year, wiping out any profit. and that uncertainty has been deterring further investment in uk —— £1.2 billion. if the uk bears the brunt of not the entirety of the global cost—cutting, the management may well feel that they can say the decision did not come out of the blue. simonjack,
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bbc news. later in the programme, we'll be asking a motoring journalist what these expected job losses could mean for the rest of the uk's car industry. we now know more about the timetable next week should the prime minister lose that crucial vote on her brexit deal on tuesday. it follows another day of fiery exchanges in the house of commons with speaker at the centre of more controversy. 0ur political correspondent iain watson is outside parliament with the latest. good morning to you. it was a busy day yesterday in the commons and it was a pretty fiery day. start with what we do know about next week. yes. it was indeed a fiery day as you suggest, charlie. the speaker, john virgo, challenge for more than an hourfor john virgo, challenge for more than an hour for his john virgo, challenge for more than an hourfor his decision john virgo, challenge for more than an hour for his decision to allow a motion that would effectively mean the prime minister has only three days to come back to parliament with a plan b if the deal is rejected next week, if the deal is rejected on tuesday —— john bercow. i think
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it will be a lot less fiery but of more substance. the discussion today will focus on environmental rights and workers‘ rights went britain leaves the european union and it is interesting that the prime minister met various labour mps on this subject yesterday. they put down an amendment. it is up to the speaker whether he accepts is not. they are putting down, basically, an attempt to try to guarantee workers were rights and environmental protections after britain leaves the opinion —— workers‘ rights. i‘m told downing street is open to considering that, improving as they said the prime minister‘s deal. and to offer reassurance to mp5. it is to build a broad coalition of support. she certainly needs it. the labour leadership have said that there is no guaranteed rights that would come from these reassurances. they are also saying that they will only support the prime minister‘s deal if
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she is prepared to form a customs union with the european union, something which the prime minister has rolled out. it looks as though she will go down to defeat has been stand next tuesday. you will have to come back with eight plan b very quickly after that. it is an interesting straw in the wind is that there is no direct contact between the prime minister and some labour mps to try to bring them on—site. labour mps to try to bring them on-site. iain, for the moment, thank you —— on side. police think they have found the car used to knock a 14—year—old boy from a moped before he was stabbed to death. detectives say three men used the black mercedes to ram into jayden moodie before killing him in a targeted attack in east london. officers have stepped up patrols in the area, including at local schools. absolutely shocking. that is the question. i did not sleep last night thinking about that. i think about his family and his friends, what actually happened at? 14 years old. i think that will strike a chord with semi— parents and so many people across london and the uk that that could happen to such a young
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boy —— so many parents. that rb at —— that‘s the answers we try to get at the moment. uk retailers experienced the worst christmas in a decade and we‘re due to get details from some big high street names later. nina‘s got more on this. nina? good morning. that is according to the british retail consortium, the trade body that represents shops. they told us there was no great competitor last christmas. that has not happened since the depths of the globalfinancial not happened since the depths of the global financial crisis ten years ago. retailers have been trying really ha rd. ago. retailers have been trying really hard. it felt like there had been perpetual sales in the past year or been perpetual sales in the past year 01’ so. been perpetual sales in the past year or so. but it has not been tempting shop is enough. barclaycard have been looking at their shop is because shopping. they say that they think their shoppers were making sacrifices in other areas to make christmas work. around half of their members say they are worried about the future of the economy. whether we realise it or not all biblical term i‘ll going on, and 0ssai, affects the way that we spend —— political turmoil going on. the grocery stores a re
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political turmoil going on. the grocery stores are reporting back with decent results. sainsbury‘s and morrissons did better—than—expected. ali had a 10.4 increase in like—for—like sales from last you. it is the non— grocery market we are worried about the most. toward the end of last year debenhams were not doing so well. there was concern they would go completely under. their results are something we‘ll find out later on. we will also hear from them and s and john lewis, perceived that being at the higher end of the market. it will be telling to see how they fared over christmas —— m&s. we will get those results and about an hour. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. a part of the motorway near stoke—on—trent was closed in both directions last night while police carried out searches, causing long delays. ben ando reports. a busy motorway brought to a standstill. hundreds of cars gridlocked. thousands of travellers stuck for hours. eyewitnesses said the police were stopping lorries on the m6 near stoke—on—trent, and in one, 27 suspected migrants were discovered. i did see a few of them
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roll up the motorway, and the police gave chase. it was astounding. they opened a trailer doors, and just watched them piling out the back. there‘s one, there‘s another, wait, there‘s another. when‘s this going to stop? in a statement, staffordshire police said... this woman was pictured trying to get her baby to sleep, standing in the outside lane, and many on social media asked why stopping one lorry led to the motorway being closed for six hours. hundreds of burton albion supporters tweeted their frustration. very few were able to reach the etihad stadium for their side‘s cup tie against manchester city. the m6 reopened late last night. the police say those discovered in the lorry were given medical checks and are being seen
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by immigration officials, while a 42—year—old lorry driver has been arrested on of trafficking. one in five children in the uk under the age of 15 live without reliable access to affordable and nutritious food, according to mp5. a report by the cross—party environmental audit committee says the government has failed to recognise and respond to what it calls a significant rise in hunger levels in the uk, particularly amongst children. it says a minister for hunger should now be appointed. no child should go to bed hungry in the uk, the sixth richest country in the uk, the sixth richest country in the world. but, sadly, for too many children that is the reality. they are growing up in families that are unable to put food on the table. and we discovered that we are the worst performing nation, in europe, for children growing up in severely food insecure households. will be talking about that later on
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with a head teacher in the programme. it is ten minutes past six. sally, good morning. 16 goals in one game for one team. you would have looked at them a couple of weeks ago and said they were having a blip. not so much. pep guardiola said, they played burton albion last night, in the first leg of their semi—final, and pep guardiola said he was showing respect to burton albion by scoring semi— goals. showing respect to burton albion by scoring semi- goals. i can see that. “ so scoring semi- goals. i can see that. —— so many goals. scoring semi- goals. i can see that. -- so many goals. explain that. you could say in the team talk before, they are not in our class, if we get some goals in, everyone is up a bit, but don't get injured. he is an these are quality side, play against them, do your best, see what happens. how does he stop his players that three 0 going we have done this —— 3—0. players that three 0 going we have done this -- 3-0. i don't know why i
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am answering these questions. instinct if you have a very good team, ithink instinct if you have a very good team, i think this go through all sports, —— instinctively foot of you have a certainly play and you say do that. do you know what it is? it is the m word. momentum. it is. it was the biggest win for manchester city in 31 years as they thrashed burton albion 9—0 in the first leg of the league cup semi—final. the second leg, looks to be little more than a formality when it takes place at burton in two weeks‘ time. city, who are the current cup holders, are set to meet either tottenham or chelsea in the final. tottenham have confirmed that wembley is going to the team‘s temporary home for at least another six weeks. their new 62,000 seater stadium was supposed to be finished in september last year, but, they‘ve announced it‘s still some way off being ready. tackling player safety — plans are made to reduce the severity of injuries in rugby union after a new report reveals tackling is the biggest risk to players. the draw for the australian open takes place in a few minutes,
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and an unseeded andy murray could face a tough first round opponent. he‘ll be hoping to avoid this man. he played novak djokovic in a practice match overnight. djokovic was leading when they called it a day. that is andy murray thinking i don‘t wa nt to that is andy murray thinking i don‘t want to play him. please, not him. very good. we will see you in a couple of minutes. there is plenty to talk about this morning. can you talk about anything else?|j to talk about this morning. can you talk about anything else? i might talk about anything else? i might talk about anything else? i might talk about wembley. i think that is quite a good story. i think so. a lot to look forward to there. it has been really lovely the last few days. i had a few days off and played golf everyday. really nice. i blame farrell. i thank her. i‘m not blaming you today. good morning —— m&s. i'm blaming you today. good morning —— m&s. i‘m starting fresh. i knew me.
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—— carol. it will last for 23 minutes. that long. good morning. good morning to you at home as well. if you are just waking up good morning to you at home as well. if you arejust waking up in the south of england it is a cold start to the day. there is frost around as well. when the sun comes up you will see sunshine for a time, before cloud spread south. for many of us todayit cloud spread south. for many of us today it will be a cloudy day with some patchy light rain or drizzle, but for some it will be mild than it was yesterday. not all though. what we have this morning is a fair bit of cloud. you can see the distinctive band, that is a weather front which is continuing to sink southwards, taking cloud and patchy light rain and drizzle with it. after a sunny start in the south the cloud will arrive later. as it pushes up it will brighten up for northern england, southern scotland, and parts of northern ireland will stop in the north—west we are looking at a fair bit of cloud, the odd spot of drizzle. temperature wise we are in good shape across much of the land. the milder
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conditions haven‘t quite got into the far south yet. but they will. as we had through the evening and overnight, eventually the front does get into the south, starts to put away, with some patchy light rain and drizzle on it. quite a breezy night. they will be breaks in that cloud. it will not be as cold as the nightjust gone. we are not anticipating any major issues with frost. that leaves us into tomorrow. we still have the cloud and patchy light rain or drizzle in the south. that will move away and then we will have brighter skies. not as windy tomorrow as it has been in the last few days. ahead of this weather front coming our way you will notice the cloud beckoning across the west of scotland, with some drizzle and the odd shower. by tomorrow the milder and will have filtered right away across the uk. as we head into the weekends, well, it is going to be pretty mars for the time of year. it will be windy as well and cloudy times we will see some rain sweeping in from the north—west. this is how saturday is looking. the first front
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goes out taking the cloud and drizzle with it. then some brighter skies. it will be a windy day. the next front comes in from the west and it will introduce some heavy and persistent rain. but by the time it gets towards the east it won‘t have a lot of lady —— rain left in it. temperatures mahle for the time of year. heading into sunday, gales across the north, and other windy day, still some of that rain coming in from the west. not particularly happy. 0nce in from the west. not particularly happy. once again that there will be some sudden turnaround. temperatures pretty good for this stage. if we look in london, 12 on sunday, the average at this stage would usually be eight. that is the uk forecast. i am going to take you across into other parts of europe. you can see quite readily all this snow we have got in the alps. yesterday we were talking about the red warning which are still in force. the austrian met service have this in force and it is for snow. very windy conditions and
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there still is a high risk of avalanches. treacherous conditions. there are already two or three metres of snow lying, on high levels more than that and on tops of mountains will stop as we go through the next few days we are expecting more snow. it will come back, heavy so, as we head on through sunday and into monday. this is certainly one to be keeping an eye on. thank you very much. chat to you later. carol would thank you very much. chat to you later. carolwould be gratefulto be in the studio today because of the mild temperatures in the uk. unusually heavy snowfall and freezing conditions are continuing to cause havoc across large parts of europe. in austria, several people have been killed in avalanches and a number of ski resorts have had to be evacuated. 0ur correspondent bethany bell is in the austrian town of scheibbs for us this morning. i cannot tell you how grateful you are that you are bringing us what is happening. it looks awful from the shot here. tell us more. it is the
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snow that has just continue to fall overnight. when we drove up here yesterday, the mountain roads were very, very slippery. just constant snow. some areas, there is up to three metres of snow. some people saying they try to start to dig themselves out, but one or two hours later the snowmass is back again. we are not very far here in scheibbs from the area, one of the ski resorts, and the area high up in the alps that has been declared a catastrophe is owned by the austrian authorities. —— catastrophe zone. it had to be a vacuum rate it. yesterday, several more ski resorts not far from here were also evacuated. —— it had to be evacuated. —— it had to be evacuated. residents were asked to leave their homes because of the danger of avalanches. in this part of central austria where we are now, and in certain parts of the west,
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the brisk avalanches in certain areas has been put at the very highest level —— the risk of avalanches. in other areas it is not much better, it is level four. so there is the concern that, as you see, the snow is falling out, that it will keep falling and that will make the danger of more snow slides even greater. bethany, thank you very much. many people grateful. skiing holidays now. this isjust horrible. a little bit coal. wrap up warm if you are there. you won‘t be watching this if you are there. —— cold. let‘s take a look at today‘s papers. brexit leads much of the coverage in on the front pages this morning. the guardian pictures speakerjohn bercow in a packed commons as the government suffered another defeat. mr bercow is also pictured here on the front of the mail. the speaker was accused of anti—brexit bias after allowing
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a vote to take place which the government then lost. the divorce of the world‘s richest man, amazon bossjess bezos, is the picture story on the front of the times. the paper also reports on the foreign office‘s decision to drop fees levied on victims of forced marriages. "mr speaker takes control" is the daily telegraph‘s headline. the paper also reports on a gaff by the national theatre, after they accidently let slip that the duchess of sussex will be its royal patron. and the amazon boss‘s divorce is also getting lots of coverage online this morning. i know you are taking a look at this as well, nina. sally, we were talking about the statement, jeff bezos, sorry, you sayjeff bezos, i sayjeff bezos, bezos, sorry, you sayjeff bezos, i say jeff bezos, they bezos, sorry, you sayjeff bezos, i sayjeff bezos, they are divorcing after 25 years, but the statement,
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there are interesting things about this, the amount of money, $137 billion. £107 billion. yes. the statement is lovely. they said they will divorce after 25 years. if they have their time again, and they knew they would separate at the end of it, they would do it all again. that isa it, they would do it all again. that is a lovely statement. half of 107 billion would be lovely. if they split down the middle, which she might be entitled to claim, because she was with him for the whole time she was with him for the whole time she grew amazon, she could be entitled to half of that and she would become the richest woman in the world. wow. it is still sad, though, isn‘t it? the world. wow. it is still sad, though, isn't it? if you are going to do it, that‘s not a bad way. though, isn't it? if you are going to do it, that's not a bad way. what have you got for us, sally. no, no, no. don‘t start. i am going to do mine. you are going to like this. guess what, there has been a survey
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about rugby injuries. the survey about rugby injuries. the survey about rugby injuries. the survey about rugby injuries, lots of players are getting more serious injuries now. it is career changing. guess what they have said? tackling causes injuries. you know what, there is a phrase for that.|j causes injuries. you know what, there is a phrase for that. i think i could have told them that. this in the mall this morning, he has had his injury problems, billy, three times in ten months, so he is living on milk because he had a blood test and his vitamin d is low so he was advised to take extra vitamin d ta blets to advised to take extra vitamin d tablets to overcome the problem and he says living somewhere not very sunny hasn‘t helped him with his vitamin d levels. he is a big fellow. i wonder how much is a lot of milk. does it say? it doesn't say. he says he is having vast
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quantities of milk to strengthen his bones. "i started drinking a lot of milk and cheese, but i can‘t drink much cheese. camembert is my favourite." on sophisticated science. tackling causes injuries and milk makes your bone stronger. asa and milk makes your bone stronger. as a child they used to save, milk for your bone. yes, exactly. do you think he has ever had a greggs vegan sausage roll? oh, don't start this. can it be a sausage roll? you can't call it that. you have veggie sausages. it is still a sausage roll up sausages. it is still a sausage roll up in pastry. hundreds of thousands in the first week have sold. what is weird is that it has been flying off the shelves and increased sales of the shelves and increased sales of the sausage sausage rolls for people who were disappointed and settled
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for the sausage version. surely you wa nt for the sausage version. surely you want the normal version. for the sausage version. surely you want the normalversion. not for the sausage version. surely you want the normal version. not the vausage roll! i have read this article several times and i can‘t say i understand it. my eyes were drawn to it, because we are always interested about dogs who look like their owners. and dogs wearing clothes. these two are wearing the same shirt. i don‘t know who they are. they are not named. the scientists in america have looked into the dna of dogs and the dna of people and are drawing some conclusions that maybe there is more to the reasons why we choose dogs that look like ourselves than we think. scientifically proven, because there might be dna in the dogs somehow that replicates the dna in the owner. when you said you didn‘t understand it, you were not lying about it. laughter. can you see the picture of a man who looks like his dog. sally, you have a
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gorgeous dog. she is really blonde. 0r gorgeous dog. she is really blonde. or you blonde when you were younger? i was. she or you blonde when you were younger? iwas. she has or you blonde when you were younger? i was. she has lovely chocolate brown eyes. was she wearing a purple dress? yes, most days. we are veering into weird territory. the other day she had a red hoodie and i did do without realising it. what have you got? it is about spurs and the new stadium. interesting piece from chris sutton. they are going to stay at wembley. chris has said that they should have announced they would be at wembley for the rest of the season. instead they are saying, "not ready, not ready, three more matches, six more matches," and it is at the point where it is unsettling. it has gone from a small delay to a lengthy delay, and they would end up not having many matches in the new stadium anyway when they
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get there. even at this rate. what they should do is cut their losses and say, "we are staying at wembley. " and say, "we are staying at wembley." big changes going on at the stadium as well. it is going to have a double pitch. hugely ambitious, incredibly modern, hugely ambitious, incredibly modern, hugely ambitious new stadium, it is going to be amazing when they get there. in half—an—hour, we expect the high street results. yes, tesco, mms, debenhams and john lewis, they will be an indicator of the split between grocers who are doing well and non— grocers who are doing well and non— grocer retailers doing badly —— m&s. the luxury end is doing quite badly and the bargain retailers doing a lot better, aldi and lidl in particular. i would be interested in knowing about january sales because if we dampen down ahead of christmas i wonder how much we are hunkering down now. you don't know when a sale
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isa down now. you don't know when a sale is a sale any more. we will get those results in a couple of months forjanuary as well. no, of course. thank you. you‘re watching breakfast from bbc news. still to come this morning: life in newcastle as we haven‘t seen it before. the story of some rather special amateurfootage being made public for the first time. iam i am looking forward to seeing that. time now to get the news, travel, and weather where you are. see you shortly. good morning from bbc london news, i‘m sara 0rchard. there‘s concern a beauty spot in buckinghamshire could be ruined if plans go ahead to landscape a country park. buckinghamshire council will receive £6 million to restore the former landfill site at thorney country park to the east of slough. residents say they understand the lake is to be filled in with soil, which will destroy local wildlife,
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but the council have now said it will be protected. we would not accept any proposal to fill in the lake. the retention of the lake is absolutely guaranteed under the plans as they are being developed. london‘s men are being encouraged to give blood, after new figures revealed twice as many women as men become new year‘s donors. the figures from nhs blood and transplant showed last january over 1,500 females in london gave blood, compared to just over 800 men. it‘s an area of london that over four decades ago declared itself an independant state. frestonia, near latimer road, had its own flag and passport stamp. it was the work of a large community of homeless people who squatted there, establishing the unoffical community as a means of forcing the authorities to find housing for them. now the photograher who captured the residents‘ story at the time has returned to frestonia. it still feels like home in a way that really surprises me. everything
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has changed, but somehow it is still a bit the same. let‘s take a look at the travel situation now. there‘s a good service on the tubes this morning. traffic on the a13 is building westbound heading out of dagenham into barking. in wandsworth, the a217 garratt lane is closed at earlsfield road following a building fire near earlsfield station. buses are on diversion. and in hampton wick, kingston road is closed between wick road and holmesdale road following a collision alongside langdon park, with diverting traffic slow southbound towards hampton wick station. now the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it is going to be feeling mighty chilly egg and today. and to start off the morning some of our temperatures are below freezing. there will be patches of mist and fog. it will be cold all they once more. at least the north—westerly winds are falling a touch lighter than yesterday. always plenty of cloud. the best of any brighton is really through the first
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half of the day. perhaps limited spells of sunshine this morning before cloud amount increased and the crowd thickens into the afternoon. we may just the crowd thickens into the afternoon. we mayjust get a few spots of drizzle from the thickness of the cloud but otherwise it is set to bea of the cloud but otherwise it is set to be a dry day. temperatures on a a par with yesterday four and six celsius, not so much windchill. through this evening and overnight, there will always be plenty of cloud, some more mist and fog patches forming, but the mild air filters down from the north, so temperatures above freezing into tomorrow morning. and then tomorrow those temperatures are set to rise somewhat. dry and cloudy again tomorrow. windy, mild over the weekend, a few outbreaks of rain, but mostly dry. i‘m back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though it‘s back to naga and charlie. bye for now. hello. this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. we‘ll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning —
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as jaguar land rover announces big job losses, we‘ll look at what it could mean for the rest of the uk‘s car industry. the bbc series hospital returns with its candid view of life on the wards, we‘ve got special access to the royal liverpool hospital. and after 9am, we find out what it takes to be part of the elite parachute regiment, as tv cameras are granted rare access for a new documentary. good morning. here‘s a summary of today‘s main stories from bbc news. jaguar land rover is planning to cut up jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5000 jobs from its 40,000 strong uk workforce. the car manufacturer has been hit by a downturn in chinese sales. a slump in concern for diesel vehicles and brexit. mostjob in concern for diesel vehicles and brexit. most job losses in concern for diesel vehicles and brexit. mostjob losses are expected to come from management, marketing,
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and other areas. some factory stuff may be affected. the five—day brexit will debate continues in parliament. following yesterday‘s dramatic events in the house of commons. speakerjohn bercow came under intense criticism for allowing an amendment which led to another defeat for the government. labour leaderjeremy corbyn will make a speech to party members today, arguing that theresa may will lose her right to govern if she loses the main vote on tuesday. police think they have found the car used to knock a 14—year—old boy off a moped before he was stabbed to death. detectives say three men used the black mercedes to ram into jayden moodie before killing him in a targeted attack in east london. officers have increased patrols in the area, including at local schools. absolutely shocking. you know, that‘s the question... i didn‘t sleep last night thinking about that. i think about his family and his friends — what actually happened ? 14 years old. i think that will strike a chord with so many parents and so many people across london and the uk that
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that could happen to such a young boy. that‘s the answers we try to get at the moment. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. some of the group fled, but were later detained by police. a part of the motorway near stoke—on—trent was closed in both directions while officers carried out searches, causing long delays. one in five children in the uk under the age of 15 live without reliable access to affordable and nutritious food, according to mp5. a report by the cross—party environmental audit committee says the government has failed to recognise and respond to what it calls a signficant rise in hunger levels in the uk, particularly amongst children. it says a "minister for hunger" should now be appointed. unusually heavy snowfall and freezing conditions are continuing to cause havoc across large parts of europe. in austria, several people have been killed in avalanches and a number of ski resorts and mountain villages have had to be evacuated. more snow is expected to fall today. we will keep you updated with that.
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it‘ll be an uphill struggle, but a quiet residental street in north wales is hoping to scale a new world record. measurements have been taken and residents of harlech are hoping they will soon officially have the steepest street in the world. the result is expected to be announced later this month. it will need to see off the current record holder in new zealand, which has a gradient of 35 per cent at its steepest. that just looks like thatjust looks like a flat road, personally. there you go. there is some perspective. imagine cycling up that. that would be tough. hard work. sliding down that in the winter would be fun.
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i will tell you what is hard work. being a burton albion fan last night. but it was done with respect. according to pep guardiola. their 9-0 according to pep guardiola. their 9—0 defeat was respectful.” according to pep guardiola. their 9-0 defeat was respectful. i get it. it is still painful. it was really painful. there were absolutely thrashed by manchester city. city have scored 16 goals in there last two matches after beating rotherham in the fa cup. 0ur correspondent david 0rnstein watched the goals rain in. the kind of away trip lower league clubs tend only to dream about, but for burton albion, that dream became a reality. the biggest game in their history — a night to enjoy regardless of the result. we will be happy with their 0—0. nigel clough‘s late father, brian, won this competition four times, though beating pep guardiola to get a shot at emulating him was always
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unlikely, and kevin de bruyne soon set city on their way. separated by 51 places in the football league, the gulf in quality was clear, and underlined as gabrieljesus scored twice in four minutes. clough‘s expression said it all, although worse was to follow for his side. even when city didn‘t mean to shoot, they found the net, 0leksandr zinchenko turning this into a basketball score. jesus completed his hat—trick before calling on his team—mates to get in on the act, and they obliged, a second—half onslaught resulting in four more goals. the home fans chanted for ten, but happily settled for nine. although burton‘s dream had turned into something of a nightmare, even clough saw the bright side. good luck in the second leg. david 0rnstein, bbc news. we are in the final. we played the
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second game. we took it seriously. that is the most important thing, these kind of games. a big congratulations to button for the tournament he has done. because at the end it was, so he beat teams from the premier league and three or four from the championship, from the premier league and three or fourfrom the championship, so he deserved to be here. well, let‘s have a look at some of the reaction on social media starting with match of the day‘s gary lineker. journalist sam lee said — that is exactly what they would do. i would love to see that happen.” was watching junior football last night. it was a bit like that. wembley is going to be tottenham‘s temporary home for at least another six weeks.
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they have confirmed that their new 62,000 seater stadium, which is on the site of the old white hart lane, is still someway off being ready. they say that building tests need to be carried out and test events need to be organised. their next four home matches, including their champions league game against borussia dortmund next month will take place at the national stadium. they have known about the test events for a long time now. west ham have received a bid of £35 million from an unnamed chinese club for striker marko arnautovic. the austrian is the hammers‘ joint—top scorer this season, and came from stoke last year on a £20 million club record. it‘s understood west ham have no desire to sell arnautovic, who is under contract with the club until 2022. the australian open begins next monday, and the draw for the tournament takes place in just a few minutes. we‘ll bring you all the updates from that when it happens, but until then... andy murray played a warm up match against world number one novak djokovic in melbourne overnight. murray won just two games and trailed 6—1, 4—1 before the pair called it a day. murray wasn‘t injured though.
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there‘s good news for rafa nadalfans too — there were worries he may not make it to the first grand slam of the year after he pulled out of the brisbane tournament with a thigh strain. but, he‘s arrived in melbourne to train, and says he‘s feeling confident going into the australian open on monday. it‘s a big year for england‘s cricketers — they begin their tour of the west indies in the next week or so. then they‘ll play in a home world cup this summer before the ashes series starts in august. 0ur sports correspondent joe wilson was at lords, where ashley giles was speaking publicly for the first time since taking over as the ecb‘s director of cricket. i think we found ourselves, in the past, running into world cups with suddenly a bit of a meltdown going on and change. that‘s not the case this time around. if you talk about my role again, as much as anything, that train is moving quickly along the tracks for the world cup and i need to make sure that down the line
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it‘s leader, there‘s no interference thatis it‘s leader, there‘s no interference that is going to derail us. —— clear. for the second year in a row, there‘s been an increase in the average time premiership rugby players are out with injury. the number of concussions has fallen slightly, but tackling is still the big risk for players. here‘s 0wen farrell escaping punishment for this challenge during the autumn internationals — rule—makers now say they‘ll look to improve safety in the tackle. it's it‘s not necessarily the person carrying the ball that is injured, it is the person making the tackle. it comes at a technique, height of tackle, head—on head contact within the tackle. we need to look at that. also the speed of the collision, thatis also the speed of the collision, that is an important thing. how the ballcarrier approaches things, his movement, there are ways to mitigate against that and make it safe. hattie mitigate that without changing the rules on changing the game? it is very difficult —— how do you? and finally, if you‘re having a bad day, spare a thought for this chap — this is from a match in a brazilian under—20 competition. he‘s on the floor with an injury.
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a medical cart is called on to help him, but manages to run over his foot by mistake. if that wasn‘t bad enough it has gone viral overnight on the internet. it is not him, it is the person who drive the car. yet he is at his most vulnerable, crying in pain... it is unfortunate. a fall in chinese sales, lower demand for diesel cars and concerns over brexit are said to be behind the expected loss of thousands of jobs at jaguar land rover. so what does this tell us about the state of the uk car industry? jim holden is editorial director of whatcar and autocar magazines and joins us from our london newsroom. good morning to you. they give are talking to us. what you make of this announcement is? it has been brewing over the past few weeks. to have been repeated warnings from jaguar
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land rover and the british car industry as a whole that it is an industry as a whole that it is an industry under pressure and it is under pressure not just industry under pressure and it is under pressure notjust at home but abroad as well. there is this perfect storm of issues. mostly for jaguar land rover coming from the slump in chinese sales, but because of the huge drop in diesel registrations around europe and, of course, the pressure is coming from brexit that jaguar land rover‘s own boss has estimated that a potential billion pound per year costs it a go through with an ideal. why is jaguar land rover, with all those issues, white is it hit so hard by a loss in sales or in terms of profits on the vehicles it makes? -- gueye? it has been rolling along really at a great pace. it has been making great profits up in the last year. it is this combination of events that have hit it. because it is smaller in global terms than, perhaps, some of its rivals, it is around the quarter of the size of a rival like ian w,
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it will really feel the pain much, much earlier. it has expanded quickly —— bmw. when the tide has turned it will hurt first. if it is feeling the pain more quickly, as you say, should we expect other uk—based car manufacturers or other companies based in the uk that are car manufactures to show similar problems soon? i think there is potential for it but no certainty. i think other car companies in the uk are much bigger on the whole, in terms of their scale. they have different problems. jaguar land rover has some unique problems. it is harder hit than most. it is more reliant on diesel sales than its rivals. it is more exposed because it has such a large uk manufacturing base to the fluctuations from brexit. so it has its own peculiar situations. it has to be said it has made some of its own problems. it has come with the benefit of
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hindsight, perhaps expanded too fast and needs to right—sided cell. all of these problems could hit other carmakers —— right sided. but what about the issue of diesel. we have seen a about the issue of diesel. we have seen a loss of talk about diesel ca rs seen a loss of talk about diesel cars and it has affected sales. jaguar land rover is a big diesel manufacturer. around nine out of ten car selling a year ago, perhaps 18 months ago, were diesel. it has been slow to react. it has now got a very good range of plug in hybrid vehicles on sale. it has the first premium in electric suv on sale. it is seen as a market leader there. it has been behind the curve and it has been more reliant on diesel than its rivals, so it has been particularly ha rd rivals, so it has been particularly hard hit for that. they have invested billions in developing modern diesel technology and the latest diesels are much cleaner than those before, but this does signal that the company needs to look
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further into the future and it probably needs to intensify its plans for electrification. a quick word on brexit. you have mentioned ita word on brexit. you have mentioned it a couple of times. what exactly does uncertainty over brexit, how does uncertainty over brexit, how does that affect the car company now? because so much of jaguar land rover creates, what it produces, the ca rs rover creates, what it produces, the cars it builds in the uk, predominantly, they have to export them and they have to export them, potentially, with a very, very collocated supply chain. they bring goods into the uk, they take without the uk, that will get more expensive. they are extremely exposed to fluctuations in the currency. there are all sorts of impacts that swing on from the brexit decisions, no matter where you stand on the brexit debate, these are things that are impacting in reality. jaguar is particularly exposed because it is so heavily based in uk its manufacturing bases. 0k,jim holden, thank
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based in uk its manufacturing bases. 0k, jim holden, thank you for expending all of that to me. jim holden, thank you. here‘s carol with a look at this morning‘s weather. good morning. if you are stepping out in the south of england, wrap up warmly as there is a cold start of the day with frost. temperatures in devon at the moment are —4 whereas shetland is 10 degrees, so today it will be mild for some, but not all of us. what is happening is whether from sinking south, and you can see it here. this is the warm front and behind we a pulling in mild air producing a lot of cloud and patchy, light rain. —— weather front. that is weakening all the time as it is a dominant area of high pressure. breezy in the north, hardly a breath anywhere else. so first thing this morning, as well as being cold and frosty in southern england, it will bea frosty in southern england, it will be a bright start, sunshine around from the word go, the weather front sinking south will obliterated that,
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and it will be cloudy with patchy light rain and drizzle. meanwhile, although it is a cloudy start, it will brighten up for northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland, but for the rest of us it will be fairly cloudy. you can see the difference in the temperatures, nine or ten in the north, whereas we have cooler conditions as we push further south, six or seven. through the evening and overnight we have a weather front of cross southern counties, that will produce patchy light rain and drizzle for southern england, south wales, and behind it we will see some breaks developing in the cloud. it won‘t be as cold as the onejust gone, but cloud. it won‘t be as cold as the one just gone, but it will be quite breezy, so we don‘t expect any problems with frost. first thing tomorrow we have the weather front in the south of england to clear, taking drizzle with it. then behind it, some bright skies, more sunshine than today, although there will be a fair bit of cloud in the west. it
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won‘t be as windy either, so it will feel better. and ahead of this weather front, it will be quite cloudy with some showers and drizzle for western scotland. you will notice the difference in the temperatures. the mild air getting all the way down into the channel islands. for the weekend, all the way down into the channel islands. forthe weekend, it all the way down into the channel islands. for the weekend, it is going to turn milder, even milder than friday. it will be windy at times as well. cloudy a game. we are chasing the breaks in the cloud. and rain at times from the north—west —— again. here we are on saturday. 0ne front sinking south as the week feature. the next one from the west introducing rain. this is likely to be heavy and persistent. it will be windy on saturday, but the further east and especially south—east that you are, the brighter the skies are likely to be. and on sunday, just a quick look, some more rain from the west, not as heavy, lots of sunshine, still windy, gail singh the north, but the top temperature
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in london of 12 degrees —— gaels in the north. that is way above average. what do you think that would be in london was yellow happy as it is. eight degrees, seven degrees. eight degrees. you were right the first time, charlie. i got it right. if you have the numbers from one to 12, you would get there eventually. i used eight first. no—one heard it. no—one is listening. laughter. i am no—one heard it. no—one is listening. laughter. iam happy no—one heard it. no—one is listening. laughter. i am happy with the way it is. we will talk later on. it was the worst christmas for retailers for a decade. we heard that this morning. nina‘s taken a trip to our very own high street to find out how those poor sales might have affected the big—name shops. this part of january is really important because we find out how the big retailers did in the run up to christmas. we‘ve already heard from some big names, and there‘ll more declaring results today. so far there is a bit of a theme
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emerging between the food and non—food stores. the first big retailer to report was next at the very start of january. its takings are usually seen as a sign of how the whole high street is doing. and it was better news than expected, telling a familiar story. store sales down, but online sales up. next is a big rival to marks & spencer, so it will be interesting to see what they have to say when they report later this morning. we‘re also going to hear from debenhams in the next 15 to 20 minutes. now, they didn‘t have a great 2018. in october, their full—year results they announced almost £500 million of losses, closure of a third of its department stores, and thousands ofjob cuts. there was speculation that it may issue a profit warning over the christmas period. it hasn‘t, so it will be interesting to see what it does have to say later. what about the grocery stores? on tuesday, morrison‘s reported a 4% rise in sales. it also said it will cut prices on a range of products, prompting speculation that we could be on the brink of a supermarket price war. but no price cuts needed
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at the german discounter aldi. it reported £1 billion in sales for the month of december, shifting 17 million bottles of wine, and 50 million mince pies. that is one hell of a party. tesco has launched a cut price store called jack‘s to rival the discounters, and later we‘ll hear how it performed over the christmas period. so what can we read in to the results so far? it seems there‘s a real split emerging. a pretty tough time for the non—food retailers. that‘s what prompted the brc, the shops‘ trade body, to say it‘s the worst december since the financial crisis in 2008. but maybe a different story for food retailers, with one market analyst saying overall grocery sales were up on last year. we‘ll be looking at the figures from m&s, tesco, debenhams and john lewis, all due out in the next half hour. we will bring them as soon as we get them. it is all in one shop. it is
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all under one roof. you don‘t have to go anywhere. you just have to say you want to be in so—and—so and there you are. you always want to rescue the high street and that is how. dirty word in retail. we will see the impact of the online market later. ok, thank you. no preference of one over the other. younger viewers may find this hard to imagine, but there was a time when filming everyday life was a rare hobby for a tiny number of camera enthusiasts. some of the footage they left behind has now been compiled into a rare depiction of life on tyneside over the past 100 years. it‘s being made available to the public for the first time. 0ur north of england correspondent fiona trott has been taking a look. a rare glimpse of life in and around newcastle captured by the people who lived and worked there.” newcastle captured by the people who lived and worked there. i mean it.
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100 years of solitude has been compiled by the north—east film archive and for the first time put onto a dvd. it includes one of the first great north run is, and newcastle united‘s victory parade after the cup final in 1951, filmed by chris lawson‘s dad. after the cup final in 1951, filmed by chris lawson's dad. my father was danny on the balcony of the county hotel opposite central station and thatis hotel opposite central station and that is where he took the film from. there is my stepgrandfather. he was a director and chairman of the club, looking very proud. it was such an occasion. and, you know, i‘m grateful that, as a result of what he did, and the fact that a lot of that has survived, we‘ve been able to pass that on to the archive. and u nfortu nately,
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to pass that on to the archive. and unfortunately, it means in the long run, unbeknown to me, i and my brothers in future have been preserved for posterity. this is a fantastic, really special film of a visit from laurel and hardy, as you can see there. and here they are giving out gifts to some under privilege children on a visit to the seaside. and what a special site to see some of these famous world celebrities. it has taken the team two years to put it together. we have the archive is putting it together, they may have to be digitised. we have to delve into the vault and choose which one will make the compilation —— archivists. sometimes the hardest job the compilation —— archivists. sometimes the hardestjob is the compilation —— archivists. sometimes the hardest job is what to leave out rather than what to put in but then we have had really good choices. we have curated it and on a journey through time and through their film heritage. living in the shadow of the ships. today‘s sites like this can only be seen on archive footage. i think one of the
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reasons that people are really wanting to hold onto the memory of the shipyards is because they got a real sense of achievement from creating ships and standing them out into the world. newcastle now is known for its entertainment industry. it has got a big service industry. it has got a big service industry. and that work is also really important, but it is a very different feeling for people when they actually make something and can see a physical result from their labour. many of these filmmakers we re labour. many of these filmmakers were amateurs. little did they know their hobby would help make history. fiona trott, bbc news, newcastle. love seeing those old pictures. lovely, isn‘t it? love seeing those old pictures. lovely, isn't it? and laurel and hardy as you saw, the new film about their later lives, we had an interview with steve coogan, on tomorrow‘s programme, actually, they visited the uk on tour and do that.
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it is fascinating to see the footage. it is lovely. you‘re watching breakfast from bbc news. still to come this morning: we catch up with the presenter of bake 0ff and 01, comedian sandi toksvig, as she takes her stand—up show on the road. so we will be talking to her about that. what is she wearing? i think she is being painter. a little beret, that‘s what it was. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i‘m sara 0rchard. there‘s concern a beauty spot in buckinghamshire could be ruined if plans go ahead to landscape a country park. buckinghamshire council will receive £6 million to restore the former landfill site at thorney country park to the east of slough. residents say they understand the lake is to be filled in with soil, which will destroy local wildlife, but the council have now said it will be protected. we would not accept any proposal to fill in the lake. the retention of the lake is absolutely guaranteed
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under the plans as they are being developed. london‘s men are being encouraged to give blood after new figures revealed twice as many women as men become new years donors. the figures from nhs blood and transplant showed last january over 1,500 females in london gave blood, compared to just over 800 men. it‘s an area of london that over four decades ago declared itself an independant state frestonia, near latimer road, had its own flag and passport stamp. it was the work of a large community of homeless people who squatted there, establishing the unoffical community as a means of forcing the authorities to find housing for them. now the photograher who captured the residents‘ story at the time has returned to frestonia. it still feels like home in a way that really surprises me. everything has changed, but somehow it is still a bit the same. let‘s take a look at
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the travel situation now. there‘s a good service on the tubes this morning. traffic on the a13 is building westbound heading out of dagenham into barking. and on the m25 anticlockwise atjunction 2, the westbound exit slip from the a2 is down to one lane following a collision, with traffic tailing back towards gravesend. in wandsworth, the a217 garratt lane is closed at earlsfield rd following a building fire near earlsfield station. buses are on diversion. now, the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it‘s going to be feeling mighty chilly again today. and to start off the morning, some of our temperatures are below freezing. there are also some patches of mist and fog out there too. and it‘s going to be cold all day once more. at least the north—westerly winds are falling a touch lighter than yesterday. always plenty of cloud. the best of any brightness really through the first half of the day.
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perhaps some limited spells of sunshine this morning before cloud amounts increase, and that cloud thickens into the afternoon. we mayjust get a few spots of drizzle from the thickness of the cloud, but otherwise it is set to be a dry day. temperatures on a par with yesterday, between four and six degrees. but not so much windchill. now, through this evening and overnight, there will always be plenty of cloud, some more mist and fog patches reforming, but that milder air filters down from the north, so temperatures above freezing into tomorrow morning. and then tomorrow those temperatures are set to rise somewhat. dry and cloudy again tomorrow. windy, mild over the weekend, a few outbreaks of rain around at times, but mostly dry. i‘m back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: britain‘s biggest car maker jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants
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were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. police investigating the murder of a 14—year—old boy in london think they‘ve found a car linked to the attack. the worst christmas in a decade for uk retailers. with sales flat in december, all eyes are on how manchester city were relentless in their 9—0 thrashing of burton albion last night. they have managed to score 16 goals in their last two matches alone good morning. it‘s a cold and frosty start across southern england. it is going to be a bright one. cloud and patchy light rain and drizzle is coming your way. it will be cloudy and dab for most of the uk first thing. it will brighten up across northern england and northern ireland and southern scotland later. more details on 15 minutes. it‘s thursday 10th january.
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our top story: jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs from its 40,000 strong uk workforce, because of falling sales in china and concerns over brexit. the car manufacturer has also been hit by a slump in demand for its diesel vehicles. it‘s expected mostjob losses will come from management, marketing and administrative roles, but the bbc understands that some factory staff may be affected. our business editor, simonjack has the details. jaguar land rover has enjoyed a great run for nearly a decade, but recently it‘s come to a shuddering halt. today‘s layoffs are part of a £2.5 billion cost—cutting plan designed to combat a perfect storm facing the uk‘s biggest car maker. sales in what was the company‘s biggest market, china, have fallen nearly 50%, as consumers there hold back on big purchases amid global trade tensions. jlr has also been badly affected by the diesel emissions scandal, as 90% of its vehicles are diesel powered. today‘s job losses come on top of cuts to the workforce
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-- it —— it has been making great profits up —— it has been making great profits up until last year. because it is smaller in global terms than perhaps some of its rivals, it is a quarter of the size of a rival like bmw or aldi, in terms of sales. it will feel the pain much earlier. today‘s job losses come on top of cuts to the workforce and production in the uk in the last year. butjaguar has been increasing its headcount elsewhere in the world. 4000 workers have been hired in china since 2014, production of the land rover discovery is being moved to slovakia, with plans to hire up to 3000 workers. the company has warned that a no—deal brexit would cost it more than £1.2 billion each year, wiping out any profit. and that uncertainty has been deterring further investment in uk. if, as expected, the uk bears the brunt if not the entirety ofjlr‘s global cost—cutting, the management may well feel they can say the decision did not come out of the blue. simon jack, bbc news.
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we now know more about the timetable next week should the prime minister lose that crucial vote on her brexit deal on tuesday. it follows another day of fiery exchanges in the house of commons with the speaker at the centre of more controversy. 0ur political correspondent iain watson is outside parliament with the latest. those debates will carry on today. i suppose the top line is we know more about the structure of next week, but also more about talks between parties. that's right. the fiery scenes were dramatic, and our long challenge to the speakerjohn bercow yesterday. we know that theresa may, ifa yesterday. we know that theresa may, if a dealfalls yesterday. we know that theresa may, if a deal falls next tuesday, will have to come back with a plan b within three parliamentary days, about five days in truth. what was happening beneath the radar, behind the fiery scenes, could be even more significant. for the first time, the prime minister was meeting face to face with labour mps to try to convince some of them tobacco deal.
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she metjohn mann, and one of the handful of labour mps that voted to leave, other mps in the voting constituencies, they discussed bringing forward an amendment today to improve workers and via mental rights. it looks likely that the government would accept that amendment to detach some labour mps from the leadership and push through the vote next week —— workers‘ rights. she has such a huge task that it certainly won‘t save her from defeat, even if there is an incremental change. iain, thank you. police think they have found the car used to knock a 14—year—old boy off a moped before he was stabbed to death. detectives say three men used a black mercedes to ram into jayden moodie before killing him in a targeted attack in east london. officers have increased patrols in the area, including at local schools. absolutely shocking. you know, that‘s the question... i didn‘t sleep last night thinking about that. i think about his family and his friends — what actually happened there? 14 years old. i think that will strike a chord with so many parents and so many
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people across london and the uk that that could happen to such a young boy. that‘s the answers we‘re trying to get at the moment. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. a part of the motorway near stoke—on—trent was closed in both directions last night while police carried out searches, causing long delays. ben ando reports. siren. a busy motorway brought to a standstill. hundreds of cars gridlocked. thousands of travellers stuck for hours. eyewitnesses said the police were stopping lorries on the m6 near stoke—on—trent, and in one, 27 suspected migrants were discovered. i did see a few of them run up the motorway, and the police gave chase. it was astounding. they opened a trailer doors, and just watched them piling out the back.
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there‘s one, there‘s another, wait, there‘s another. when‘s this going to stop? in a statement, staffordshire police said... this woman was pictured trying to get her baby to sleep, standing in the outside lane, and many on social media asked why stopping one lorry led to the motorway being closed for six hours. hundreds of burton albion supporters tweeted their frustration. very few were able to reach the etihad stadium for their side‘s cup tie against manchester city. the m6 reopened late last night. the police say those discovered in the lorry were given medical checks and are being seen by immigration officials, while a 42—year—old lorry driver has been arrested on of trafficking. ben ando, bbc news. unusually heavy snowfall and freezing conditions are continuing to cause havoc across large parts of europe.
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in austria, several people have been killed in avalanches and a number of ski resorts have had to be evacuated. 0ur correspondent bethany bell is in the austrian town of scheibbs for us this morning. bethany, this is a really serious situation. lots of people thinking it is skiing weather, but this has become very dangerous. good morning. yes. talking about skiing, a number of ski resorts have had to be evacuated because of the great danger of avalanches. not very far from where i am is a ski resort which has had to be evacuated... to our view was there, we have just lost the connection to bethany bell who is in the austrian town of scheibbs. it has been reported that there have been 13 deaths and avalanches in many ski resorts. ——
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and as bethany reported, avalanches in many ski resorts. carol have the weather for us later. the measurements have been taken the residents haalick are hoping they will soon officially have the steepest street in the world. the results are expected to be announced later this month. it will need to see off the current recordholder, which is in new zealand. apparently that has a gradient of 35% at its steepest. i don't understand, if they have a sign as is 40%, doesn‘t —— isn‘t it a fact that it is the steepest street? a good point. i think the officials from the guinness world records whatever have deceived for themselves. logically, you would accept the fact it is what they say it is. what about the officials who decide what other goes on the gradient on the side?
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different officials. it‘s alljust different officials. i can‘t explain it. eight minutes past seven is the time. uk retailers experienced the worst christmas in a decade and we‘ve had an update from some of the big names. nina‘s got more on this. nina? we had this morning from the british retail consortium. it has not been that bad since the financial crisis in 2008. in the last few minutes we have had some results in. marks & spencer is, mark —— like for like sales were down 2.8% competitive before. that is not a disaster. it is in line with what we expected. they said they think it is a solid performance among difficult conditions. they say it is on track. they are referring to ae plan that sees some stall close, and a focus on digital and online. —— a five—year plan. grocery was doing quite well compare cheap clothing and homeware. this
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fits into that. a chimes with that theory. food sales were down 2.1% but clothing and home work at 2.4%. if we move onto debenhams, we were worried about them towards the end of last year. it looked like they we re of last year. it looked like they were due to give a profit warning. the sia -- were due to give a profit warning. the sia —— sales are down like for like 5.7%. that is more worrying. they said they expected it. they also say they are on track with their transformation plan. a lot of retailers are telling us and debenhams have said this, increasingly we are looking for bargains. we do want to pay full price. we wait for the sales we have come to expect. there has been uncertainty around debenhams from a consumer point of view as well. people thought debenhams was closing down and some of them were not. resemble the one in manchester, people did not think there would be stock —— for example. people did not think there would be stock -- for example. it is interesting that confidence in a product and in the future of the economy really affects the way that we spend. we do keep coming back to
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brexit and analysts are saying that because we are not certain about the general future of the economy, we are not confident about spending what is in our pocket and that has an effect on every shop in the high street. we will talk about more on those figures later in the programme. thank you. high living costs, stagnating wages and changes to the benefits system mean an increasing number of children are going without the nutritious food they need, according to a committee of mps. they say people are being forced to rely on the very cheapest foods, which are often low in nutrients but high in calories. families hit by unemployment or long—term sickness are most likely to be affected, but the government says the number of children living in workless households is at a record low. joining us now is siobhan collingwood, a head teacher at a primary school in morecambe. good morning to you. the reason we are talking to you about this is because you have direct experience. 0ne because you have direct experience. one in five children now has problems accessing a household with
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food, basically, nutritious food and a certain level of nutrition. you are witnessing is first hand. we are. unfortunately i have faces behind all of the statistics. we have at any point in time at the moment about 35 children in our school who are dependent upon food banks in order to have... a third of the children... 35 children across the children... 35 children across the school. about three children in every class will stop about one tenth of the school that would be dependent on foodbank usage. just out of curiosity, how do you know that? you know because the family show this kind of information with your? exactly. it is probably higher than that, these are just the ones we know about. we have a close working relationship with the foodbank in the area, because when families come in and tell us their desperate stories we needed to be able to refer them quickly to get some help, because they made already
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have gone days without food or they may not have any money to put in the meter for electricity that night. can you share with us how that process happens, a family is struggling a parent is struggling, they come to you, how does that conversation go? how do you know about these things and what help are you able to give them? usually the first indicator is the child's behaviour. when children have been food deprived it alters their behaviour so they do become quite food obsessed. so we have some children who will be stealing from the bins after the children have had fruit in class. we have children who have nothing in their lunch boxes and children who are just fixated upon food. that is something we will speak to parents about and say why do you think that maybe? because we have such a good... we are the only agency, really that opened our doors every day. so families come through, they have a close working relationship with us, they will come
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in and they will tell us when they are really in desperate trouble. evenif are really in desperate trouble. even if we have not picked up on it from the children, they might come in and tell us themselves. it must be heartbreaking to witness. children taking old fruit cores from the bins simply because they are that hungry. it is heartbreaking. it isjust not a cave. the fact that that hungry. it is heartbreaking. it is just not a cave. the fact that we now have 3741 food bank packages given out in the morecombe area is a massive rise, a massive increase ——. 0k. studies show that the effect on children's mental health, being exposed to that sort of poverty, is significant. i am assuming you have been a teacherfor significant. i am assuming you have been a teacher for sometime. have you seen been a teacher for sometime. have you seen things change? what are you sing in terms of what has changed over the years? it is a variable pattern. poverty has always been with us to some extent. there was a drop in poverty, child poverty
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statistics, it reached its lowest point at 2011— 2012 and has been rising steadily since. we have definitely seen an increase in families arriving, bursting into tears, telling me they have no means of feeding their children over the next few days. what are they saying is the trigger now? this statistic, one in five children faced with poverty and a lack of nutrition. what a family saying is driving this now? we had a raft of reasons when we we re now? we had a raft of reasons when we were introducing new. what is their main concern? the biggest driver, the citizens' advice bureau published a report and said that 80% of foodbank usage within our area is linked to universal credit and problems with universal credit and the rollout of universal credit. it has definitely put families in crisis in terms of having to wait for their benefits to kick in or to change and finding themselves in debt. families are coming in telling me about routinely loading food to
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each other when they find themselves in those situations. watering milk down so the children don't realise they have not got milk. you are not here to talk politics. i completely understand that. people will understand that. people will understand from what you have said that you are practically done to help people. i suspect that if we we re help people. i suspect that if we were to have a government minister on right now they would probably say they are doing more than ever before to try to help people. there would bea to try to help people. there would be a series of statistics they would roll out its just money is being spent and allocated resources. you must despair sometimes when you see what happens ido, i do, because there is a complete distance between what we are hearing and the statistics. the problem is we don't have a proper statistical base. the mp is looking to get a proper statistical data set we can use that will allow us to not get confused by false statistics or data, because my day to day experience is telling me that this isa experience is telling me that this
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is a growing problem. what do you do ona is a growing problem. what do you do on a day—to—day practical level to help these children, to help these families? we have... before christmas we gave out 20 food parcels to families to make sure that they would have a christmas dinner. we gave out another 25 food bank parcels to families to keep them going over the holiday. we opened the school over the holidays to feed children so those families reliant on free school meals can feed their children during the holidays. we have another food club where parents come in, spend £3, and can then access food from the local supermarket that would otherwise go to waste. so there is a lot of stuff i never thought i was going to do as a teacher at around about meeting people's basic needs, because children who are fixated on maslow's basic needs can't learn, so unless we handle and do something positive
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to change those experiences of children, they won't be able to do that whole business of learning in the school. thank you very much for your time this morning. head teacher in morecambe. just worth reminding you those statistics, one in five children under the age of 15 live in a home where there is not reliable access to food, or quality food.” am sure many of you have thoughts, so am sure many of you have thoughts, so do get in touch in the usual way. here‘s carol with a look at this morning‘s weather. we were talking to bethany bell earlier in austria, some awful conditions. in stark contrast, really mild over here. yes, it is today, you are right on all counts. good morning. temperatures at the moment for example, 10 degrees in shetland, whereas in benson, —5, so we have a 15 degrees difference. the milderair is we have a 15 degrees difference. the milder air is already a crossed the
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northern half of the country, and won‘t get into the south until tomorrow. today, mild for many, it will be fairly cloudy with one or two exceptions as always. we have clear skies in southern england and south wales currently. it will be a sunny start for you. it is a cold and frosty one. you can see there is and frosty one. you can see there is a lot of cloud across our shores. this distinctive white band is a weather front which is continuing to move southwards through the rest of the day, but it is going through a potent area of high pressure, so it is weakening all the time. not much in the way of isobars. the breezy conditions in the north today. so first thing this morning we will have sunshine for the south of england, south wales, but it won‘t last long because the weather front is moving southwards, taking cloud, patchy light rain and drizzle with it. a lot of cloud generally but it will break for northern england, the north—east especially, southern scotland, the south—east especially, and parts of northern ireland, with and parts of northern ireland, with a sunny morning in northern ireland.
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for the rest of scotland, wales, southern england, it will be cloudy. temperature—wise, nine or ten in the north, six or seven pushing to the south. tonight the weather front continues to move southwards, with a lot of cloud, still with patchy light rain and drizzle, and a fair bit of cloud around generally. 0nce again we will see some breaks in the cloud. but it won‘t be as cold as the one just cloud. but it won‘t be as cold as the onejust gone, cloud. but it won‘t be as cold as the one just gone, so we don‘t anticipate any problems with frost. tomorrow morning we have the dregs ofa tomorrow morning we have the dregs of a weather front in the south of england, still producing some drizzle, but it will clear. tomorrow won‘t be as windy and we are looking atafair won‘t be as windy and we are looking at a fair bit of sunshine around. temperature—wise you will notice the difference, nine or ten pushing further south. we have another weather front waiting in the wings. i had of it the cloud will build. showers for western scotland and northern ireland —— ahead of it. we will have windy conditions and it
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will have windy conditions and it will be fairly cloudy with rain at times. so the first weather front rebels north overnight, eventually clearing the south on saturday morning with any patchy rain. brighter skies, a windy day and then we‘ve got rain piling in from the west. some of that will be heavy and persistent. rain in the north through sunday. there will be gales in the north. some sunshine. temperature—wise, way above average. across the land, the average is seven in the north, eight in the south, we could see a 11 or 12. seven in the north, eight in the south, we could see a 11 or12. not complaining about that at all. thank you. flooded wards, broken down lifts and bed shortages. those are just some of the issues facing staff and patients at the royal hospital in liverpool on an almost daily basis. they feature in the new series of the bbc‘s hospital, which takes a candid look at life on the ward. brea kfast‘s jayne mccubbin is there for us this morning. hopefully not getting in the way. you are in the surgical ward, i
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understand. yes, so i will try to keep my loud voice down a little bit. good morning. good morning, team. you have just bit. good morning. good morning, team. you havejust come on, so what have you had for breakfast? birthday cake. these guys are just going home. how was the night shift? very busy. you don't have to stay, you can go home. this is where the fourth series of hospital start this evening at 9pm and that is an unprecedented view of the nhs from the frontline in unprecedented times and maybe one of the most staggering stories within nhs history has been the collapse of karelian, which left this hospital crumbling while a state—of—the—art hospital is empty just next door. look at the flavour of what is to come. it is really
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frustrating when you look out the window and you think of the cost of repairing this building every year. the new royal is a £335 million state—of—the—art hospital. after the construction company karelian went bust it has sat empty for the last ten months. incomplete electrical fittings mean the trust can‘t even turn off the lights. —— carillion. we just try to make it as positive and experience as it can be for all of them. the amount of problems that we have — we didn‘t have this ten yea rs we have — we didn‘t have this ten years ago, even five years ago. u nfortu nately years ago, even five years ago. unfortunately there is a lot of unhappy patients here tonight. come and meet hayden, the chief executive, and the first question to ask is, in the middle of this chaos,
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the flooded wards, the lifts that don‘t work, deal that isn‘t signed to save the hospital next door, why did you let in the cameras? it is important that the public sees what we are dealing with, the pressures on staff, to get a real picture for how the nhs is. for us also it was important to get things moving with the debacle, we wanted to get the hospitalfinish. the debacle, we wanted to get the hospital finish. you want to put the rocket under the bum of the powers that be to crack on? no, we have some fantastic support from the government, trying to get the deal completed. everyone wanted to get the dealfinished. the blame sits with carillion. we got lots of support. as you have seen, through the programme, we need this hospital built. it is not a great environment for patients or staff, providing great services, so it is about pushing it on and getting finished. there is a powerful clip in the programme you will see tonight where you speak of your fury about
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carillion taking bonuses while the people of liverpool suffer. what do you want to see happen? you talk at the beginning at the human effect on this and it is massive. the people of liverpool deserve a new hospital, staff deserve a new hospital. of course i‘m angry with carillion. they left an unfinished hospital. we can look forward to a fantastic building that will be one of the finest facilities anywhere in the world. we can all be excited about that now. thank you very much for your time. john, you are featured in the programme tonight, you are a cardiovascular surgeon. before we came on air, you feel very strongly about carillion, don‘t you? came on air, you feel very strongly about carillion, don't you? my version of it is that most people have some story of having something done to their house and builders disappearing or taking their money andi disappearing or taking their money and i say that you should magnify that several hundred times and imagine how you feel about that. i feel very bad about the way that
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people running these companies are able to disappear without losing out of pocket and somehow nothing ever happens. what do you want to see happen? i don't know, i can't get worked up about it, because i know that nothing ever happens. ok. you say that, but the power of amazing tv, just look at hillsborough, is that it not only informs the public, but it has the power to shape public policy. 0ne but it has the power to shape public policy. one thing you spoke about in detail in the programme tonight is about amazing keyhole surgery for your patience, which is under review right now. do you hope this programme could shake that and make a positive impact, to stop the review coming up with a negative conclusion? yes, i mean, it is not quite as simple as that, but i would like the message to get out that the reason we are doing these things is not because we are trying... the
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development of keyhole surgery is the way that all medicine has gone in the last decade. and 20 years even. suddenly to step back from that and to go back to more traditional open surgery, which requires longer length of stay, higher mortality, it requires greater use of critical care, which we don‘t have, it is a completely negative step and i am surprised that that is the conclusion they have come to. you hope it doesn't happen. thank you for your time. the details of the programme is phenomenal. they are moving to the hospital next year. work is under way. the detail you see is contracts are signed and the workmen are going in. it is the access. 9pm on bbc two. thank you. good morning from bbc london news, i‘m sara 0rchard. london‘s air ambulance is marking its 30th
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birthday this week. since 1989 it‘s been on nearly 40,000 missions. bbc london has been given special access to the crews to mark the anniversary, including the pilots who land in some of the capital‘s most unusal and exciting places. yes, it does have its challenges, trying to land in the middle of london. most of temperatures are pa rt london. most of temperatures are part from the railway bridges. the best place? the garden of buckingham palace was quite interesting. there‘s concern a beauty spot in buckinghamshire could be ruined if plans go ahead to landscape a country park. buckinghamshire council will receive £6 million to restore the former landfill site at thorney country park to the east of slough. residents say they understand the lake is to be filled in with soil, which will destroy local wildlife, but the council have now said it will be protected. we would not accept any proposal to fill in the lake. the retention of the lake is absolutely guaranteed under the plans as they are being developed.
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london‘s men are being encouraged to give blood, after new figures revealed twice as many women become new years donors. the figures, from nhs blood and transplant, showed last january over 1,500 females in london gave blood, compared to just over 800 men. let‘s take a look at the travel situation now. there‘s a good service on the tubes this morning. 0n the roads in arnos grove, a contraflow continues on the a406 nth circular at the junction with bowes road for emergency water work causing westbound delays. in wandsworth the a217 garratt lane is closed at earlsfield rd following a building fire near earlsfield station. buses are on diversion. and in hampton wick, kingston road is closed between wick road and holmesdale road following a collision alongside langdon park. now, the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it‘s going to be feeling mighty chilly again today. and to start off the morning,
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some of our temperatures are below freezing. there are also some patches of mist and fog out there too. and it‘s going to feel cold all day once more. but at least the northrly winds are falling a touch lighter than yesterday. always plenty of cloud. the best of any brightness really through the first half of the day. perhaps some limited spells of sunshine for a time this morning before cloud amounts increase, and that cloud thickens into the afternoon. we mayjust get a few spots of drizzle from the thickness of the cloud, but otherwise it is set to be a dry day. temperatures on a par with yesterday, between four and six degrees. but not so much windchill. now, through this evening and overnight, there will always be plenty of cloud, some more mist and fog patches reforming, but that milder air starting to filter down from the north, so temperatures above freezing into tomorrow morning. and then tomorrow those temperatures are set to rise somewhat. dry and cloudy again tomorrow. windy, mild over the weekend, a few outbreaks of rain around at times, but mostly dry. i‘m back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour.
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plenty more on our website at the usual address. now, though, it‘s back to charlie and naga. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. good morning. here‘s a summary of this morning‘s main stories from bbc news. jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs from its 40,000 strong uk workforce, because of falling sales in china and concerns over brexit. the car manufacturer has also been hit by a slump in demand for its diesel vehicles. it‘s expected mostjob losses will come from management, marketing and administrative roles, but the bbc understands that some factory staff may be affected. the five—day brexit bill debate continues in parliament today, following yesterday‘s dramatic events in the house of commons. speakerjohn bercow came under intense criticism for allowing an amendment which led to another defeat for the government. labour leaderjeremy corbyn will make a speech to party members today, arguing that theresa may
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will lose her right to govern if she loses the main vote on tuesday. police think they have found the car used to knock a 14—year—old boy off a moped before he was stabbed to death. detectives say three men used the black mercedes to ram into jayden moodie before killing him in a targeted attack in east london. officers have increased patrols in the area, including at local schools. absolutely shocking. you know, that‘s the question... i didn‘t sleep last night thinking about that. i think about his family and his friends — what actually happened there? 14 years old. i think that will strike a chord with so many parents and so many people across london and the uk that that could happen to such a young boy. that‘s the answers we‘re trying to get at the moment. it was the worst christmas for the uk high street in nearly a decade. the british retail consortium says sales in december were flat and price cuts were not enough to tempt shoppers through the doors. within the past few minutes, we‘ve heard from some of the big high street names.
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there were drops in sales at debenhams and m&s but it was better news atjohn lewis and waitrose, while tesco had a very impressive christmas. nina will have all the details later. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. some of the group fled, but were later detained by police. a part of the motorway near stoke—on—trent was closed in both directions while officers carried out searches, causing long delays. one in five children in the uk under the age of 15 live without reliable access to affordable and nutritious food, according to mp5. a report by the cross—party environmental audit committee says the government has failed to recognise and respond to what it calls a significant rise in hunger levels in the uk, particularly amongst children. it says a minister for hunger should now be appointed. unusually heavy snowfall and freezing conditions are continuing to cause havoc across large parts of europe. in austria, several people have been killed in avalanches and a number of ski resorts and mountain villages
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have had to be evacuated. more snow is expected to fall today. it‘ll be an uphill struggle, but a quiet residential street in north wales is hoping to scale a new world record. measurements have been taken and residents of harlech are hoping they will soon officially have the steepest street in the world. the result is expected to be announced later this month. it will need to see off the current record holder in new zealand, which has a gradient of 35% at its steepest. normally pictures of steep roads don‘t do itjustice. you have to be there, 40% is extraordinarily steep, it does not look that steep. there, 40% is extraordinarily steep, it does not look that steepm there, 40% is extraordinarily steep, it does not look that steep. it is difficult to photograph and get the perspective correctly. you can‘t ta ke perspective correctly. you can‘t take it from the side, which is what
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you would want to do. what you would need to do is peaceably cycling up it. then you would really know. i have done you all a favour this morning. we have been watching the draw for the study and open so you don't have too. it is so confident it -- don't have too. it is so confident it —— the australian open. it has been presented in a complex fashion. it is happening as we speak, right now. they notjust picking names out ofa now. they notjust picking names out of a hat? no. they have done all of that. don't worry about that. all you how to do is this, andy murray was in the draw, he will play roberto bautista—agut. the draw is taking place just now. andy murray is ranked 230 in the world. he played against novak djokovic in melbourne overnight and one just two games. he trailed 6—1, 4—1 before the pair called it a day. murray wasn‘t injured though.
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right. kyle edmund probably represent britains‘s best hope. he‘s seeded 13 and will play thomas berdych. he turned 24 on monday and got a nice birthday surprise on the practice court. can you see what that is? it's cake. it will not last long in that heat. ice cream and fruit. 24. that is all he is. the women‘s draw is coming up. i will bring you the latest details as we have it. it was a pretty spectacular night of football last night at the etihad stadium. league one side burton were thrashed 9—0 by premier league champions manchester city in the first leg of their league cup semi—final last night. city have scored 16 goals in there last two matches after beating rotherham in the fa cup. our correspondent david 0rnstein watched the goals rain in. the kind of away trip lower league clubs tend only to dream about, but for burton albion, that dream became a reality. the biggest game in their history — a night to enjoy regardless of the result. we will be happy with 0—0.
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nigel clough‘s late father, brian, won this competition four times, though beating pep guardiola to get a shot at emulating him was always unlikely, and kevin de bruyne soon set city on their way. separated by 51 places in the football league, the gulf in quality was clear, and underlined as gabrieljesus scored twice in four minutes. clough‘s expression said it all, however worse was to follow for his side. even when city didn‘t mean to shoot, they found the net, 0leksandr zinchenko turning this into a basketball score. jesus completed his hat—trick before calling on his team—mates to get in on the act, and they obliged, a second—half onslaught resulting in four more goals. the home fans chanted for ten, but happily settled for nine. although burton‘s dream had turned into something of a nightmare, even clough saw the bright side. good luck in the second leg. david 0rnstein, bbc news. they have got a second leg to
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survive. well, let‘s have a look at some of the reaction on social media starting with match of the day‘s gary lineker. he said... and city fan andy mee said... i think that would have been only fair. it‘s a big year for england‘s cricketers — —— wembley is going to be tottenham‘s temporary home for at least another six weeks. they have confirmed that their new 62,000 seater stadium, which is on the site of the old white hart lane, is still someday off being ready. they say that building tests need to be carried out and test events
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need to be organised. their next four home matches, including their champions league game against borussia dortmund next month will take place at the national stadium. for the second year in a row, there‘s been an increase in the average time premiership rugby players are out with injury. the number of concussions has fallen slightly, but tackling is still the big risk for players. here‘s owen farrell escaping punishment for this challenge during the autumn internationals — rule—makers now say they‘ll look to improve safety in the tackle. it‘s not necessarily the person carrying the ball that is injured, it is the person making the tackle. it comes at a technique, height of tackle, head—on—head contact within the tackle. we need to look at that. also the speed of the collision, that is an important thing. how the ballcarrier approaches things, his movement, there are ways to mitigate against that and make it safe. isa is a difficult debate to have. if you are going to change the tackle you are going to change the tackle you are going to change the tackle you are changing the game. and where do you change it? you have to start changing things from junior level
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and then, again, that will change again, change the way kids learn to play. it takes away the essence of by. play. it takes away the essence of rugby. i think part of the problem with tackling is that rugby players are bigger than they have ever been. and farstar... are bigger than they have ever been. and far star... and faster and more powerful —— faster. the impacts are greater than they have ever been. some parts of the game are easier to control than others. the scrum, for example, you have rules. in urban plate is a lot harder. that is where some of bb collisions happen —— in open play. if you watch england playing or any team playing 20 years ago, the players look completely different. look tiny. the american football, the lessons that have been learnt of their and how seriously now the repercussions are from the damage, that must lurk in the background of people's thoughts, are we doing enough? the positive thing is that they are taking concussion
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much more seriously. that is what the survey has shown. the incidences have fallen slightly. which is good. and finally, if you‘re having a bad day, spare a thought for this chap. this is from a match in a brazilian under—20 competition. he‘s on the floor with an injury. there he is. he hasjust been injured. it isjust so bad. ithink we will see it again. let‘s run over his foot. he is like "what did you do?!". his foot. he is like "what did you do?!" . this has gone viral. everywhere overnight. i‘m not surprised he has been taken off the pitch with his head in his hands. they were trying to help. they were trying to get in quickly. we will see you later on. he is fine. a second house of commons defeat injust 24 hours is piling the pressure on theresa may and her brexit deal. the setback was led by rebel conservative mps who‘d joined forces with labour — and this morning
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jeremy corbyn will say a general election is now the only way forward. richard burgon is the shadow justice minister and joins us from westminster. thank you very much for your time this morning. now, most people will not have followed every twist and turn of yesterday in the house of commons. you will be aware of that. it is unfolding. can you just outlined for me what do you think was achieved in this motion that is forcing theresa may, if indeed she loses the vote, to come back with plan b within three days? why is that a good thing to do? it's a good thing to do because it helps to stop theresa may trying to hold the country to ransom. she‘s tried to run the clock down and say you either accept a rotten deal or you accept a disastrous no deal. and all the practised traffic jams accept a disastrous no deal. and all the practised trafficjams of lorries, and circling boats, the rest of it, they are part of our
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operation, really, to try and intimidate parliament and the country into accepting her second rate, worst of all worlds a deal. so this motion, this amendment being passed, that she has to come back within three days if a rotten deal is voted down, it stops being able to drag it out and then wind the clock down in order to put further pressure on people to accept a rotten pressure on people to accept a rotte n d eal pressure on people to accept a rotten deal which is not in the national interest. in that way it is positive. that is one way to look at it. it in the other it is absurd. she gets defeated in the vote it gives them no time to rethink or talk to her colleagues in the rest of the eu. you are putting her in an absurd position. she has put herself in an absurd position. she has put us in an absurd position. she has put us up in the position of having ridiculous red lines dictated to her by extreme elements within her own party. she has had two years to negotiate something decent. she has
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failed to do so. should she go back over the christmas recess to negotiate something better, she has clearly failed to do that. it is a mess of her own making. but rather than worrying about the mess she is in i‘m worried about the mess the country is in. it is not an a cce pta ble country is in. it is not an acceptable choice to put to the country, either a rotten deal, which is the worst of all worlds, or a disastrous no—deal brexit, which as sure as night follows day will lead tojob sure as night follows day will lead to job losses, will lead to financial insecurity, and will lead to people‘s living standard is getting worse. it is not appropriate to hold the country to ransom. we have a situation where a government is actually tried to hold its own people to ransom. that‘s wrong and it‘s immoral... people to ransom. that‘s wrong and it's immoral... we are role in the business of clarity at the moment, which is wonderful if we can achieve it -- which is wonderful if we can achieve it —— we are role. and it is of clarity, if theresa may loses the vote on tuesday night, will you be bringing forward a vote of no—confidence? bringing forward a vote of no-confidence? yes, we will be
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bringing forward a vote of no—confidence. bringing forward a vote of no-confidence. will that happening immediately? whether it happens on one day or the next i can‘t say at this stage. but we will definitely be doing it quickly, yes. with respect, that is the kind of vague and so that helps no—one. are you saying that it could happen the following week or in a month‘s time orare following week or in a month‘s time or are we following week or in a month‘s time orare we talking... following week or in a month‘s time or are we talking... we will know on tuesday night, so presumably you will get together with your fellow shadow cabinet members and you will make a decision. what could stop you from doing it at that point? you are right. we will make a decision. it will happen quickly. i can‘t announce now whether it‘s the tuesday, the wesser, whatever it may be. it will happen. it will happen quickly —— wednesday. be. it will happen. it will happen quickly -- wednesday. we are in an absurd position. are you saying it will happen next week? it will happen within a matter of davies. and it will happen quickly. you needn‘t worry. we are eager to bring a motion of no—confidence in this wretched government as quickly as we
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can in terms of being able to win at... the reason i am pursuing this is it is one of the frustrations people feel, and you must be aware of it by now, of labour‘s position. why is it such a hard question was back why can‘t you tell us now that by the end of next week you will have brought that vote of no—confidence? have brought that vote of no-confidence? well, i don't think it is one of the great dissatisfactions. when i have been out in my constituency and elsewhere, nobody has said to me bb king they were worried about is whether labour will bring in a no—confidence vote —— the big thing they were worried about. what people are concerned about is the country is divided and the government are holding the people to ransom, saying except their rotten deal or disastrous... ok. so help us with this one. we understand the theresa may is appealing directly to some of yourmps, labourmps, may is appealing directly to some of your mp5, labour mps, specifically on the issues of workers‘ rights. jeremy corbyn is due to speak today. that is one of your key themes. one
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of the problems is workers‘ rights. have you had a conversation with any of your mps who have been in to see theresa may or had those phone calls ? theresa may or had those phone calls? you know what those conversations are? is it working? is she appealing to mps? well, theresa may wants to get her rotten well, theresa may wants to get her rotte n d eal well, theresa may wants to get her rotten deal three in any way she can. obviously workers‘ rights are important, but i would take the news paper stories about that with a pinch of salt. we want to see legally binding promises in relation to workers‘ rights. and also, i have to workers‘ rights. and also, i have to say, the history of the conservative party and workers‘ rights is not a very positive one, so rights is not a very positive one, soi rights is not a very positive one, so i take the whole thing with a pinch of salt. so you are dismissing it before you even know what it is she is proposing? no, i am taking it with a pinch of salt given the history of the conservative party on workers‘ rights, but also understanding that a desperate prime
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minister may make all sorts of empty promises. what we want is legally binding promises when it comes to protecting workers‘ rights. binding promises when it comes to protecting workers' rights. and just one other thought, looking forward, you want a general election, you have been very clear about that, that part of it, in the general election manifesto, will it said, "we will have a referendum", supposing you win the election, he we go on the ifs, "supposing you win the referendum, would you have that we would have the referendum? the manifesto would be decided in due course. do you want in the ma nifesto ? due course. do you want in the manifesto? it is for the members to decide. do you want it? personally? what i want to do is what we are doing, which is to follow the labour party policy. i am sorry, the question is, would you like in the labour party manifesto, your input into that debate, would you like a referendum in your manifesto in the event of a general election? what do you think? we are getting ahead of ourselves. the labour party conference set out a clear policy,
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sequence conference set out a clear policy, sequence of events. it did say that in the event of a deadlock, and if a general election doesn‘t happen, then all options, including a public vote, and other options, would be on the table to be considered. i think you‘ve got to be careful not to get ahead of ourselves. let me make it clear, the reason we want a general election is to bring people together, because whether people live in huddersfield and voted leave, or people who live in hackney voted remain, they are united by facing the same problems of a housing crisis, posterity, low wages, debt, attacks on public services, so i think a general election is not only the democratic way out of the deadlock, it can bring people together so that people can decide not only on a new deal with europe, but a new dealfor eve ryo ne a cross with europe, but a new dealfor everyone across the diverse communities who had been attacked by the ruthless conservative government. thank you very much for yourtime, government. thank you very much for your time, the shadowjustice secretary. later on we will speak with sarah wollaston, conservative mp, atabout
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with sarah wollaston, conservative mp, at about 8:10am. here‘s carol with a look at this morning‘s weather. very mild at the moment, i am enjoying this weather. good morning. for some of us you are right. we have a real range of temperatures. the overnight lowest temperatures we re the overnight lowest temperatures were 9.1 degrees in south uist, and -6.4 were 9.1 degrees in south uist, and —6.4 in ben sim in oxfordshire, so more than 15 degrees north to south overnight. today it will be fairly cloudy for much of the uk, some of us in the milder atlantic air. now, you can see we have a weather front which, through the course of the night, has been continuing to move slowly southwards, taking cloud and patchy light rain with it. it is really bumping into this potent area of high pressure, so it is continuing to weaken through the course of the morning. and you can tell from the lack of isobars not very windy today at all. it is breezy in the final. first thing this morning it is a cold and frosty start in southern england and parts of south wales. through the morning
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quite quickly we will see the weather front bringing the cloud and patchy light rain and drizzle south with it. behind it will brighten up for northern ireland, northern england at specially in the north—east, southern scotland in the south—east, but for the rest of us it will be fairly cloudy and you can see too the temperatures in the north, nine and ten, in the south we are still in the cold air, six or seven. so, as we go through the evening and overnight, the weather front will become ensconced in southern counties, england, wales, producing patchy light rain and drizzle. behind it there will be some clearance in the sky. it will bea some clearance in the sky. it will be a breezy night. you will find we won‘t have any issues with frost. it won‘t have any issues with frost. it won‘t be as cold as the night that has just won‘t be as cold as the night that hasjust gone. so won‘t be as cold as the night that has just gone. so we start tomorrow with the dregs of the weather front in the south, still producing cloud, patchy light rain or drizzle. when that clears, not very windy tomorrow at all, and we are looking at some sunny spells. by tomorrow, too, mild airwill sunny spells. by tomorrow, too, mild air will have got right the way down to the channel islands. now we have
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a weather front waiting in the wings, which is going to bring rain overnight into saturday, and just had the cloud will thicken in northern ireland and western scotland, introducing some showers. so, for the weekend, we are looking at milder can conditions, it will be windy and fairly cloudy at times with some rain. this is the weather front crossing overnight, clearing saturday morning, leaving asset of sunshine behind, then the next weather front of them, introducing the cloud and rain. —— leaving us with sunshine. sunday is a windy day with sunshine. sunday is a windy day with gales in the north, rain from the west, not particularly heavy, and temperature—wise we are in good shape, 11s and 12s which is above average for the time of year, which is seven or eight, naga and charlie. thanks very much, carol. see you later. lots of figures coming through this morning. it was the worst christmas on the high street in a decade. we‘ve had an update from some of the big names this morning. nina has all the details. yes, good morning. we heard from the major trade body this morning,
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the british retail consortium, who said sales were flat in december. it‘s not been that bad since the financial crisis. within the past hour, we‘ve had updates from some of the big names. let‘s go through it all with bryan roberts, a retail analyst and insights director at tcc global. good morning to you, bryan. let‘s start with marks & spencer, overall like—for—like sales down 2.2 present, it doesn‘t strike me as disastrous in the context of the wider picture of a high street. disastrous in the context of the wider picture of a high streetm is not calamitous, it is slightly worse than they were expecting, and the decline in food sales are think was quite widely expected because they invested heavily in lower prices, also made the range of lot simpler. i think in clothing that is yet another disappointment, and the frustration in the cities is now that m&s have been saying for ten or 15 years, yes, we will sort out women‘s wear, but it hasn‘t materialised, so the pressure is building to look at the women‘s wear
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range, work out the customer, who they want their customer to be, and have the appropriate range for the target consumer. so still our way to go. the big plan that fails to deliver. let‘s move on to tesco. sales like—for—like up 2.2% for the christmas period, chief executive dave lewis talked about the exclusively at tesco range. tell us why it‘s important. exclusively at tesco range. tell us why it's important. great numbers from tesco, outperforming morrisons and sainsbury‘s, who we heard from earlier. that exclusively at tesco has been very good, the fake farm brand, then moved across the entire range of what used to be the everyday value range, lots of different brand names in chilled and ambient, that has allowed lots of shoppers —— prevented shoppers from leading to albert and lidl, so it has been a good self defensive mechanism from tesco and quite a big yearfor mechanism from tesco and quite a big year for them, lots of moves with their sister company and the centenary, so lots of activity in
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store. so the lower end brand is working. debenhams‘ like—for—like sales down 5.7%, on the face of it, quite worrying. interestingly it was less about as we got to christmas. decoud been worse. —— it could have been worse. yes, reporting that their reformatted stores have performed very strongly and that is quite welcome news as well. so i think the city have been a bit too quick to write off debenhams. there is life in the old dog yet and we should start to see them maintain steady progress through the rest of the year. some good news. let's finish withjohn lewis, 2.5%, but for now they might have to put a hold on the staff bonuses, that is all because of the ufp, isn‘t it, so why have they frozen that? they are worried about the overall consumer environment, like everyone else, concerned about the guidance and information on brexit and what it means for a big retailer. consumer confidence has taken a knock. we
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spent big on the heatwave in the world cup. retailers have been cautious about the year ahead. john lewis are famed for rewarding partners with the quite significant bonus. just sounding a note of caution that given what they have to invest in, distributing the bonus has to be a decision they think long and hard about. bryan, many thanks. anyone who votes 2019 is the return of the high street would be disappointed. some good news. the increase in sales and the price wars might mean better prices for consumers. thank you very much, nina. for any budding space boffins, this is an offer that‘s out of this world. the uk space agency is offering young people a share of £50,000 to develop their ideas of how satellites could improve life on earth. winners from last year‘s competition included a wristband that uses satellite data to locate swimmers and surfers while in the sea. breakfast‘s john maguire is with the students behind the project on porthtowan beach in cornwall. it looks beautiful there, john. good
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morning. yes, good morning, naga, it is beautiful, but comedy know what, it is chilly, so let‘s introduce you to the four schoolgirls from the high school here, came up with an excellent idea to use a satellite in this way. ellie, jess, summerand emily, good morning. we have met you a couple of times. remind us your idea and how it works. using radio wave technology and a transmitter on a wristband we can track people in the sea and we can monitor them so we can make sure they are not in dangerous areas and hopefully reduce the amount of casualties we get every year. very, very clever idea. jess, what has the year been like since winning the competition, what have you been doing? we have had offers from the dragons, and some money, but we want to put it on hold for now, because of our gcses, so we
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will resume that afterward. you have to pitch to the dragons from the space agency. that was impressive. what was the process like, what did you learn? it was amazing to me the industry experts and see what people actually do in this area, and it was really inspiring and really, really helpful. good for you. third year this year, emily, so anyone who wa nts to this year, emily, so anyone who wants to have a go, what advice would you offer? if you have creative idea that out of the box, just go for it. that is excellent, thank you. go and get warm. it is cold here. competition from the uk space agency launches for those between 11 and 22. if you have an idea like the girls, innovative, as they said, get in touch because it isa they said, get in touch because it is a unique competition, you get cash at the chance to meet experts in the industry. it also feeds into your school studies and we will speak about that later in the programme if we have more time. anyway, from porthtowan, let‘s hand you to the news teams across the country for the news, travel and
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weather wherever you are watching brea kfast weather wherever you are watching breakfast this morning. good morning from bbc london news, i‘m sara orchard. london‘s air ambulance is marking its 30th birthday this week. since 1989 it‘s been on nearly 40,000 missions. bbc london has been given special access to the crews to mark the anniversary, including the pilots who land in some of the capital‘s most unusal and exciting places. yes, it does have its challenges, trying to land in the middle of london. most of the bridges, apart from the railway bridges. the best place? the garden of buckingham palace was quite interesting. there‘s concern a beauty spot in buckinghamshire could be ruined if plans go ahead to landscape a country park. buckinghamshire council will receive £6 million to restore the former landfill site at thorney country park to the east of slough. residents say they understand the lake is to be filled in with soil, which will destroy local wildlife, but the council have
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now said it will be protected. we would not accept any proposal to fill in the lake. the retention of the lake is absolutely guaranteed under the plans as they are being developed. london‘s men are being encouraged to give blood, after new figures revealed twice as many women become new years donors. the figures, from nhs blood and transplant, showed last january over 1,500 females in london gave blood, compared to just over 800 men. let‘s take a look at the travel situation now. on the overg round on the overground we have minor delays between liverpool street and cheshunt following an earlier faulty train. on the roads in arnos grove, a contraflow continues on the a406 north circular at the junction with bowes road for emergency water work causing westbound delays. apologies, you can‘t see those
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pictures at the moment. in wandsworth, the a217 garratt lane is closed at earlsfield rd following a building fire near earlsfield station. buses are on diversion. now, the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello, good morning. it‘s going to be feeling mighty chilly again today. and to start off the morning, some of our temperatures are below freezing. there are also some patches of mist and fog out there too. and it‘s going to feel cold all day once more. but at least the northrly winds are falling a touch lighter than yesterday. always plenty of cloud. the best of any brightness really through the first half of the day. perhaps some limited spells of sunshine for a time this morning before cloud amounts increase, and that cloud thickens into the afternoon. we mayjust get a few spots of drizzle from the thickness of the cloud, but otherwise it is set to be a dry day. temperatures on a par with what we had yesterday, between four and six degrees. but not so much windchill. now, through this evening and overnight, there will always be plenty of cloud, some more mist and fog patches reforming, but that milder air starting to filter down from the north, so temperatures above freezing into tomorrow morning. and then tomorrow those temperatures are set to rise somewhat. dry and cloudy again tomorrow. windy, mild over the weekend,
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a few outbreaks of rain around at times, but mostly dry. i‘m back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now, though, it‘s back to charlie and naga. bye for now. good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: britain‘s biggest car maker jaguar land rover is set to lose up to 5000 jobs. the worst christmas in a decade for uk retailers. a mixed picture for some of the big names this morning. a bumper december for tesco, while sales continue to fall at m&s and debenhams. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. the draw for the australian open
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is taking place right now and andy murray has been drawn against roberto bautista agut, a player who has never managed to take a set off him. good morning. it is a cold and frosty start across southern england and south wales but there is some sunshine. for most of the uk it will be cloudy and damp. brightening up later across northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland. i will have more in 15 minutes. it‘s thursday 10th january. our top story: jaguar land rover is planning to cut up to 5000 jobs from its 40,000 strong uk workforce because of falling sales in china and concerns over brexit. the car manufacturer has also been hit by a slump in demand for its diesel vehicles. it‘s expected mostjob losses will come from management, marketing and administrative roles, but the bbc understands that some factory staff may be affected. our business editor, simonjack, has the details. jaguar land rover has enjoyed a great run for nearly a decade,
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but recently it‘s come to a shuddering halt. today‘s lay—offs are part of a £2.5 billion cost—cutting plan designed to combat a perfect storm facing the uk‘s biggest car maker. sales in what was the company‘s biggest market, china, have fallen nearly 50%, as consumers there hold back on big purchases amid global trade tensions. jlr has also been badly affected by the diesel emissions scandal, as 90% of its vehicles are diesel powered. it has been making great profits up until last year. it is this combination of events that has hit it. because it‘s smaller in global terms than perhaps some of its rivals, in terms of sales it‘s a quarter of the size of a rival like bmw or audi, it will feel the pain much earlier. today‘s job losses come on top of cuts to the workforce and production in the uk in the last year. but jaguar has been increasing its headcount
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elsewhere in the world. 4000 workers have been hired in china since 2014. production of the land rover discovery is being moved to slovakia, with plans to hire up to 3000 workers. the company has warned that a no—deal brexit would cost it more than £1.2 billion each year, wiping out any profit. and that uncertainty has been deterring further investment in the uk. if, as expected, the uk bears the brunt if not the entirety ofjlr‘s global cost—cutting, the company management may well feel they can say the decision did not come out of the blue. simon jack, bbc news. we now know more about the timetable next week should the prime minister lose that crucial vote on her brexit deal on tuesday. it follows another day of fiery exchanges in the house of commons with the speaker at the centre of more controversy. our political correspondent iain watson is outside parliament with the latest. good morning to you. in many ways that some people thought this week might clearup that some people thought this week might clear up some of the fuzz around brexit but i don‘t think it
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really is, do you? there certainly we re really is, do you? there certainly were fiery exchanges in the house of commons yesterday but it did clear up commons yesterday but it did clear up one thing. if the prime minister‘s deal goes down to defeat next tuesday, she has got to come back pretty quickly, three parliamentary days, five days in reality, with plan b. and that would open up other options. mps could put forward their own plans for brexit at that stage. i think something has moved on substantially but what was also interesting is that while those exchanges were going on in the house of commons, behind—the—scenes something perhaps more significant was happening, the prime minister meeting key labour mps in leave areas to find out what it would take to get them to back the deal. the house of commons will be discussing the thing they want to see an workers‘ rights and environmental rights, but it is not enough to win over the labour leadership. they wa nt to over the labour leadership. they want to negotiate a customs union before winning any support. while
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those overjoyed might limit a possible defeat next tuesday, it is not going to avoid it. thank you. ian watson. uk retailers experienced the worst christmas in a decade and we‘ve had an update from some of the big names. nina‘s got more on this. what is the picture? the british retail consortium have said it is the worst for ten years but as naga was saying, it is not terrible for everyone. marks & spencer, like with sales down 0.2%, which we sort of expected, so not too bad, and debenhams was down by 5.7%, which sounds like a big number but in terms of their recovery plan, it is 0k. tesco sales were up 2.2% which fits into a bigger picture of groceries doing a bit better, specifically the new value range, exclusively at tesco, which they have lots to compete with the likes of also and lidl —— aldo and lidl. and waitrose are reviewing their
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bonuses for staff, and they are known for that, but they might not be able to protect it in the year ahead. a mixed picture overall but not as bad as some were fearing. anyone who was hoping that 2019 would be a good yearfor anyone who was hoping that 2019 would be a good year for the anyone who was hoping that 2019 would be a good yearfor the high street will be disappointed this morning. thank you. police think they have found the car used to knock a 14—year—old boy off a moped before he was stabbed to death. detectives say three men used a black mercedes to ram into jayden moodie before killing him in a targeted attack in east london. officers have increased patrols in the area, including at local schools. a lorry driver has been arrested after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his vehicle on the m6. some of the group fled but were later detained by police. a part of the motorway near stoke—on—trent was closed in both directions while officers carried out searches, causing long delays. one in five children in the uk under the age of 15 live without reliable access to affordable and nutritious food, according to mp5. a report by the cross—party
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environmental audit committee says the government has failed to recognise and respond to what it calls a signficant rise in hunger levels in the uk, particularly amongst children. it says a minister for hunger should now be appointed. unusually heavy snowfall and freezing conditions are continuing to cause havoc across large parts of europe. in austria, several people have been killed in avalanches and a number of ski resorts have had to be evacuated. our correspondent bethany bell is in the austrian town of scheibbs for us this morning. we can get a sense just looking behind you at the level of the snow there. it is causing serious problems. it is a really serious problem. the snow has been falling consistently over the last few days. as you can see, it is snowing now. just standing out here for half an hour or just standing out here for half an hourorso, just standing out here for half an hour or so, you get covered in it. i
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am quite close to an area further up the mountain from here, which has been evacuated completely. it is a ski resort. they and residents around here have been evacuated because of the high danger of avalanches. the risk of avalanches in this region has been raised to the very highest level, level five. the authorities are really struggling to try and cope with the conditions on the road, trying to clear roads and mountain areas so that people can get through. but some people are very much snowed in and there have been deaths from avalanches. thank you. it‘s fair to say it was another chaotic and bad—tempered day in westminster as the government suffered a second defeat in 24 hours over its brexit plans, thanks to a group of rebel tory mps. we‘ll speak to one of them in a moment, but first let‘s look again at how events played out. why are you overriding a motion of the house today?
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the answer... the answerto the... jeering. i would suggest to some of my honourable friends, the ones that are getting somewhat overexcited, that perhaps they should don a yellow jacket and go outside. when are we going to start acting like public servants, doing the right thing and having the debate and getting on with it? i wondered, therefore, if you could please confirm that your decision was taken with full advice from the clerk of the house of commons and other senior parliamentary advisers, and whether you might consider under these circumstances publishing that advice for the further knowledge of the house? shouting. most of those conservative mps were angry at the speaker for allowing the amendment which led to the government defeat. but one who supported it was dr sarah wollaston. she joins us now from westminster. thank you very much forjoining us this morning. why did you support
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that? i think the speaker has always been a champion of the back benches and what we have seen over recent weeks as the government riding roughshod over the will of parliament, for example pulling the vote before christmas, trying to run down the clock, when we are only 78 days from possibly crashing out with no deal whatsoever. i think what the speaker was doing was allowing an amendment for parliament to express its will. after all, this is supposed to be about returning sovereignty to parliament, and taking back control, if you like, and say that is what he was doing. parliament very clearly expressed its will. we don‘t want to see this co nsta nt its will. we don‘t want to see this constant delay tactic being used. the prime minister will now have to
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come back after three days rather than the further 21 days in order to set out to plan b. do you think that isa set out to plan b. do you think that is a reasonable amount of time, three days, for something that is so important and so much time and effort has been put into, to discuss this by people of all sides? do you think that is a reasonable amount of time? of course because it isn‘t three days. it is many, many weeks now that the prime minister has been advised that a deal cannot pass parliament. it is not mathematically possible for that to happen. the government has known this for weeks and extending it by a further 21 daysis and extending it by a further 21 days is clearly unreasonable, so it is not really three days, it is far longer than that. wouldn't you want the person who is proposing the deal, who has worked with eu leaders up deal, who has worked with eu leaders up to now, to get to this point, to get the best deal on the table, as the prime minister and the cabinet have said, what did you want that person to be focused on this deal rather than to be working on the potential of no deal and
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renegotiating and working in that sense? the point is that the reality here is that the priming minister knows that her deal will not pass. she also knows that the european union made it absolutely clear that there will be no change to the legal text of the withdrawal agreement. the point is that we all know what brexit looks like now. this is brexit, warts and all, and the view of many of us is that because parliament has reached an absolute impasse now, the right thing to do is for the prime minister to take a deal to the people, to say is this the brexit that you voted for and do you want us to go ahead? to weigh up the risks and benefits and to compare that with the deal that we already have. at the time of the original referendum, there were so many different versions are brexit possible, and many false and misleading claims made about what would be possible. we now know what is possible and what brexit looks like. parliament has reached impasse, so let‘s ask the people, that would be my personal view. so what is your timetable now? you have been described as being part of the
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guerrilla campaign to put pressure on the government and avoid a no—deal brexit. give me your ideal timetable for the next four weeks. what we would like the prime minister to do is come back in three days and set out her plan b and for parliament to be able to debate that and to debate all the other possible options, but they have got to be realistic options, not fantasy options. there isn‘t going to be another major renegotiation with other options on the table. reality is that we run out of time, 78 days from and we run out of time and have no deal unless something else is put in its place. we don‘t have the luxury of time, so we want the prime minister to set out her preferred plan b, the parliament to be able to discuss that and the options, and for us to reach an agreement. the uncertainty here for business is causing major problems. we have seen thousands more job losses announced from jaguar land rover today, and businesses around the country are having to spend a fortune on no deal planning, as if the government, over
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£4 billion now, and what we are calling on the prime minister to do is to rule out the most damaging version of brexit, which she could do. very many mps both in private meetings and in large cross—party groups have been urging her to do that, to put the interests of communities and the economy first. this is what i don‘t understand. i have been taking notes on what you have been taking notes on what you have said. plan b, you want realistic options, and you have said we have got to be realistic that there is not going to be a major renegotiation. so plan b will not be drastically different to what is on the table now. but you have said it is mathematically impossible for this deal to go through. if there can be no major renegotiation and plan b will not be massively different to what is on the table now, how will that get through? the point is that there are other options that some groups of mps could put forward, like the norway style model. but that is dramatically different, isn‘t it? yes, but it is an option that has already been offered. the point is that we need to be clear that parliament has reached gridlock
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here, and that is what needs to be becoming clear over the next week. then the prime minister can set out when she goes next. there are three paths then. if no options are voted on. either take her deal, the negotiated brexit to the people, which would be my preferred option, with the option to remain on the ballot. or she could say no deal, in which case very many conservative collea g u es which case very many conservative colleagues of her would resign the whip, myself included, because we are so whip, myself included, because we are so worried about the impact of that on communities which we represent. and of course the other option would be to revoke article 50, but i personally think that would not be the right way forward. i think the right way forward would be to have a referendum before taking such a drastic step. but there are a limited number of options in a very, very short space of time to decide where we go from here. we spoke to richard burgin from the labour party 20 minutes ago, and they are hoping that if
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tisdale doesn‘t go through, a vote of no confidence will be made and a general election will follow. —— if this deal doesn‘t go through. isn‘t that playing into the hands of what labour wants? this tory rebellion? not at all. the labour party are trying to look both ways on this issue, saying to one section of the electorate that they might come back with a people‘s vote in the future, and to another section of the electorate that they would go into another election campaign campaigning to leave. they need to make up their mind about what they are going to do. i very much hope that they will move next week to fully getting behind a people‘s vote, which is after all what the vast majority of their membership wa nt vast majority of their membership want them to do. sarah wollaston, thank you for talking to us on brexit. we are hoping to talk to greg clark later and we will talk to him about jaguar land greg clark later and we will talk to him aboutjaguar land rover and the effective brexit on that as well. it
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is now 8:18am and time for carol to tell us about the weather. this morning we have got some beautiful pictures and from the weather watchers. this one sent in from devon shows that it is a frosty start across southern parts of england and south wales, and you are going to start off with some sunshine but it will not last. much of the uk is cloudy and it is spilling south, so it will brighten up spilling south, so it will brighten up laterfor some spilling south, so it will brighten up later for some northern areas, and it will be milderfor some of us thanit and it will be milderfor some of us than it was yesterday. this is where the front has been moving steadily southwards as we have gone through the night. behind it we are pulling in the milder atlantic air with overnight low temperatures in the south at 9.1, but in oxfordshire, minus 6.4, say 15 degrees difference north to south. the weather front is
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very wea k north to south. the weather front is very weak as it moves through this area of high pressure, and after the sunny start in southern england and wales, you will notice the cloud coming down and bringing in some patchy light rain and drizzle. it will remain fairly cloudy for much of the uk but as that weather front sinks south, out of northern england and northern ireland and southern scotland, for you it will brighten up scotland, for you it will brighten up and you will see some sunny spells developing. temperature—wise, higher temperatures in the north, but still quite cold in the south. through the evening and overnight we still have a weather front across southern england, south wales, and behind it there will still be a fair bit of cloud with cloud break. and there will be breezy conditions developing that it will not be as cold overnight as the nightjust gone, cold overnight as the nightjust o cold overnight as the nightjust gone, so we are not cold overnight as the nightjust gone, so we are not expecting any issues with frost. first thing tomorrow morning we have the dregs of the weather front in the south clearing away, taking the drizzle
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and patchy light rain with it as it does so. behind it, it will brighten up does so. behind it, it will brighten up quite nicely with more sunshine tomorrow. the other thing you will notice is a new weather front coming in from the west. ahead of that, the cloud will build across western scotla nd cloud will build across western scotland and northern ireland, introducing patchy light rain and drizzle again. but note the temperature difference. not just drizzle again. but note the temperature difference. notjust in the north with temperatures of nines and tens but all the way down to the channel islands, not as cold. as we head into the weekend, it is going to turn milder. when the air as well and cloudy with rain at times. the weather front of that was waiting in the wings will cross us overnight on friday, clearing to the south on saturday morning, and then saturday will be windy with sunny spells in central and eastern areas. a new weather front coming in from the west will bring heavy and persistent rain and temperatures widely in the tens and 11. a quick look at friday, a breezy day with gales. —— sunday. there the east and further east that you travel, the brighter the skies,
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but temperatures are worth noting. 11 and 12. at this time of year the average in the capital cities in the north is seven and the capital city in the south, about eight, so turning much milder. you learnt that a number from charlie, turning much milder. you learnt that a numberfrom charlie, didn‘t you? yes, he is the fount of all information. thank you. it is 8:22am. if you love looking back at archive film, this is a real treat. a collection of historic footage capturing life on tyneside over the past 100 years has been made public for the first time. from ship launches and days at the beach to an fa cup parade and even a visit from hollywood royalty, our north of royalty, our north of england correspondent fiona trott has been taking a look. a rare glimpse of life in and around newcastle, captured by the people who lived and worked there. i mean it. you‘re not married, this will get you married. 100 years of footage has been compiled by the north—east film archive, and, for the first, time put onto a dvd. it includes one of the first great north runs, and newcastle united‘s
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victory parade after the fa cup final in 1951, filmed by chris lawson‘s dad. my father was standing on the balcony at the county hotel, opposite central station, and that‘s where he took the film from. there is my step—grandfather, who was a director and chairman of the club, looking very proud. it was such an occasion. i‘m, you know, grateful that as a result of what he did and the fact that a lot of that has survived, we‘ve been able to pass that on to the archive. and unfortunately it means in the long run that, unbeknown to me, i and my brother and sister have been preserved for posterity. this is a fantastic, really special film of a visit from laurel and hardy, as you can see there. and here they are giving
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out gifts to some of the under—privileged children on a special visit to the seaside. and what a special time to see these famous world celebrities. yeah. it has taken the team two years to put it together. we've got the archivists looking at those original films, and preserving those original frames of celluloid, then they have to be digitised. we've got to delve into the vaults and choose which ones are going to make the compilation. sometimes the hardest job is what to leave out rather than what to put in, but then we have had really good choices. we've curated it and taken people on a journey through time and through their film heritage. living in the shadow of the ships. today sites like this can only be seen on archive footage. i think one of the reasons that people are really wanting to hold onto the memory of the shipyards is because they got a real sense of achievement from creating ships and sending them out into the world. newcastle now is known for its entertainment industry. it‘s got a big service industry.
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and that work is also really important, but it‘s a very different feeling for people when they actually make something and can see a physical result from their labour. many of these filmmakers were amateurs. little did they know their hobby would help make history. fiona trott, bbc news, newcastle. some stunning pictures there. it ta kes you some stunning pictures there. it takes you right back. that laurel and hardy visit to newcastle that you saw a glimpse of, we are talking about the film that is out tomorrow, which is the tour of the uk that they did in the twilight years of their career, visiting all the cities around the uk. we will talk more about that tomorrow. and we will have steve coogan and john see riley on, and they are playing laurel and hardy. john maguire is in cornwall this morning talking about satellites in space and the uk space
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agency, which once your ideas and he will tell us all about that. good morning. good morning. i don't want to steal carol‘s thunder but i want to steal carol‘s thunder but i want to show you the skies of the north cornwall coast this morning. why have we come here? to talk about a competition for young people aged 11 to 22. a group of teenagers who come to 22. a group of teenagers who come to the surf life saving club here came up with an idea. it is a wristband that communicates via satellite to tell people that it‘s macro lifeguards exactly where they are in the water. their entry won in are in the water. their entry won in a group category and they earn some money and they went to see some dragons experts from the space industry who are advising them on taking that idea forward. the competition launches today and they are looking for young people across the country to come up with ideas. an innovative way to say that satellites can improve life on earth. we will tell you more after
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the news, travel and weather where you are watching breakfast this morning. for scotland and northern ireland this morning it has been much milder and it is the milder which will be moving southwards today, bringing a fairamount of moving southwards today, bringing a fair amount of with it. high pressure dominic day dominating things at the moment, it is this warm front which is quite weak and it is moving south and east and bringing the cloudier skies. around this high pressure we have got this less cold air filtering in from the atlantic. through today, lots of cloud, some outbreaks of rain and
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result perhaps across central and southern areas. there will be some brighter skies initially in the south before the cloud increases here. by this afternoon panel there will be some sunnier spells northern ireland. in scotland and the far north of england, where temperatures will be about 8—11, but still quite chilly across the south, where the milderair chilly across the south, where the milder air has not quite reach you yet. overnight it will filter down and for many of us there will be varying amounts of cloud, nowhere near as cold as last night across many parts of england and wales. in fa ct, many parts of england and wales. in fact, a frost free night to come. so, during friday, we start off again with a fair amount of cloud but that will break up and there will be some sunny spells developing, particularly across the midlands, northern england, to the east of scotland. a dry day for all of us on friday but perhaps the odd shower coming into the western isles. temperatures across the south will be back them today. as for the
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weekend, we have got a few weather fronts coming over the top of this area of high pressure and that is going to bring us some rain for a time during the weekend, some gusty winds as well, with gales expected in the far north. this is business live from bbc news, with jamie robertson and maryam moshiri. a bumpy road ahead forjaguar land rover, as the luxury carmaker is set to announce thousands ofjob cuts. live from london, that‘s our top story on thursday 10th january. the car maker owned by india‘s tata is battlling brexit, a diesel decline and a slowdown in china. also in the programme... fear and loathing in las vegas — we find out why the odds are stacked
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