almost 100 flood warnings are in place across england , and the situation set to get worse, with heavy rain forecast overnight the prime minister, borisjohnson, has served a christmas lunch to british troops during a nato mission in estonia. next on bbc news, victoria derbyshire now takes a look back at the exclusive interviews and films which have featured on her programme in 2019. welcome. over the next half an hour we'll bring you some highlights from oui’ programme we'll bring you some highlights from our programme over the last year. we start with a group of men who appeared on our show in february. they part of a collective known as 56 black men and they are trying to challenge the perceptions of young

black men today. it was the first time so many of them had come together. the beauty of the campaign is it changes the narrative and allows you to understand you are just as intelligent and we have the ability to articulate ourselves as well as anybody so it's changing the expectation of what we should be based on expenses. in 2019 it isn't an accurate measure of what someone should be like based on the way they look. we will talk about why that is still happening but nigel you want to come in. i am nigel, the co—founder of the group. just touching on what others have said about the perceptions today, it actually starts quite young. i remember being in school, being quite well spoken, i'd get the feedback of, oh, you sound right. even at the time, i didn't properly clock on to what that meant. what it means is there is a way you should speak if you're black and you don't fit that way, therefore you put this another way. it's people expecting this stereotype to come out of your

mouth and when it doesn't it's a surprise. and you have said sometimes in meetings you change your demeanour, your mannerisms, you've put on a white voice. what does that mean? hundred %, so we've had this discussion as well, me nigel and cass. we are all well spoken. for me, i speak like this but a lot of the rooms i found myself in over the last ten years of doing business, iam probably the only black person. and if i am there, iam only black person. and if i am there, i am the only young black person so there, i am the only young black person so i almost have to put on a proper voice. and annunciate and maybe raise the level... because, victory, if i talk like this and i tell them i want to put this on the balance sheet to move the figure here, get me? as long as i know what i'm talking about, they are going to say he is not serious but i can perform and run a business. i know about cash flow, profit and loss,

but even on the phone, dealing with customer service, a lot of people, when we speak to them, we switch it up. they will hang otherwise. i've almost had, can i speak to a manager, please? it isn'tjust me. it could be a form of impostor syndrome, it could be a lot. i said my surname is williams because of slavery and a lot of people in my white contactless, notjust white but people not black, they didn't understand that. my surname is williams because of slavery. from birth, my identity has not been there because i haven't been able to identify, down to my surname, where i come from. the idea of impostor syndrome is a feeling i have to be a certain type of way to be accepted doesn't mean people can't be well spoken, like nigel. next, general election meant we could bring back our election blind

dates will be sent to people with opposing views on a dinner date. we heard alistair campbell who was once tony blair's spin doctor with ken clarke, a conservative mp for nearly 50 yea rs. clarke, a conservative mp for nearly 50 years. one a lifelong tory, won a lifelong labour supporter. did they have more in common than they realise? that's better. i can see myself. my name is alistair campbell. i worked for tony blair. i'm ken clarke, health secretary, home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer. how are you voting? i've decided i am going to back the people who have been early supporters of the people's vote. in terms of my own vote, i'm going to vote for keir starmer. so,

are you campaigning for the other party? yes... and i will help dominic grieve and david gauke, i think. i have endorsed people like david gauke, anna soubry and dominic grieve. you and ifor the first david gauke, anna soubry and dominic grieve. you and i for the first time in our lives, although we get on perfectly well personally, you are definitely a labour man and i am definitely a labour man and i am definitely a labour man and i am definitely a conservative, both of us, in ourways, definitely a conservative, both of us, in our ways, our definitely a conservative, both of us, in ourways, ouractively supporting the same candidates in particular constituencies. parties are polarised, labour has gone left, tories have gone right. in both cases the left and right haven't purged the parliamentary party as they wanted to. i knew when i lost they wanted to. i knew when i lost the whip, ijoined a distinguished company because i thought that was michael heseltine! i didn't know you'd been expelled. michael heseltine! i didn't know you'd been expelledlj michael heseltine! i didn't know you'd been expelled. i got an expulsion e—mail 24 hours after i

saidl expulsion e—mail 24 hours after i said i voted for the lib dems and the europeans. we are reinforcing each other‘s moderate views, we think. have a chip, there we are. i don't thinkjeremy can win. jeremy could never become prime minister 1000 years. we were close last time. he isa 1000 years. we were close last time. he is a bogeyman, successfully portrayed as a bogeyman. boris best argument for voting for him is to say you've got to vote for me otherwise you'll getjeremy corbyn. i know. boris, what he does, he blu rts i know. boris, what he does, he blurts it out. he uses these boris phrases. he's got a schoolboy like phrases. he's got a schoolboy like phrase and he locks are bad.|j rememberyou said when phrase and he locks are bad.|j remember you said when he is he going to realise is actually for the first time in his life got a serious job so can he stop taking it seriously. stop treating it as a game, yes. he still hasn't taken it seriously! you still treated like a

game, i think. jeremy is genuine left wing, i like his naive sincerity. boris isn't really a right—wing brexiteer. he became a brexiteer by accident. it isn'tjohn major against tony blair, is it? no, he is an opportunist. brexit is doing so much damage to the country. so much damage to our politics. i genuinely worry if johnson gets a big majority, we are doing ourselves enormous damage and i think the only way to keep the idea of a second referendum even remotely alive is for nobody to get a decent sized majority. i know you haven't been in favour of the second referendum. i get quite rude about referendums. if it was the only way of stopping off leaving with no deal, i would. of stopping off leaving with no deal, iwould. it of stopping off leaving with no deal, i would. it is hugely complex, technical subject and i think two subjects that way yes or no opinion poll... i agree! i don't know a labour mp i can think

of who i think is genuinely anti—semitic. anti—semitism, we know what it is and it is nasty. and there is anti—semitism in the country, unfortunately, still. they are so country, unfortunately, still. they are so fanatically against the government, and they spill over. it encourages more anti—semitism in those sections of the public who might previously have been a bit embarrassed about it.|j might previously have been a bit embarrassed about it. i think corbyn's problem with anti—semitism... it is like a capacity and competence question. you didn't see this was developing as the kind of issue that it's now become because... similarly islamophobia. there isn't a conservative mp who is islamophobic. it's interesting you don't think there is a single tory mp who is islamophobic. i couldn't point you to anybody but... i've kind of fear there might be. there is a certain tendency to go for dog whistle

racism in the brexit campaigning part. johnson is a journalist and thatis part. johnson is a journalist and that is what he did! i thinkjohnson isn't too bad on race and immigration, really but one or two of his allies, the reason they went on about turks, which was a plain lie in the referendum, and quite effective, because they didn't think people were worried about white immigrants enough. if you start conjuring up millions of turks, wink, wink, they are brown and muslim, you know, we have a lot of those already. boris stuck to all of this millions a week for the nhs but he didn't campaign on the turks. that was go. when johnson was taken to task about letterboxes, burqas and all that sort of stuff. if you are a senior level politician, you can argue you are not in islamophobic but you know your words are being mocked by people who are. and you know that will have an effect on people sitting on the top ofa effect on people sitting on the top of a bus wearing a burger. i think

is either conscious about his words and doesn't care about the impact or is not conscious of the power of his words. i regular quote to people what you think your biggest mistake was. speed humps. the only one i ever admitted to. every time i go over a road hump with a taxi driver, my back goes on i say, that is ken clarke's bloody fault! quite right. the biggest mistake a politician can make is to own up and admit to a mistake because you will never forget it for the rest of your career. so that isn't the real mistake? i will carry my mistakes to the grave! laughter. ido laughter. i do think the important mistake in the blair government was invasion of iraq which neither i did think that its consequences would be so long lasting. so the government you are most associated with, with hindsight

you'd agree that was a terrible mistake. i'm sure i'd agree you should never necessarily admit... i might pick you up on health, being slow on the uptake about the tobacco lobby. i am a lifelong smoker! and the public health agenda, more generally. i used to have an amusing relationship with the public health lobby. do you still smoke? cigars. i gave up cigarettes. quite right, i am getting old so i always tell the same stories but when i returned as secretary of state for health and went into the room, first question i asked was what happened to the ashtrays? laughter. what will you do with the rest of your life? you sound like my children asking nervous questions!” think in terms of your career as a whole, i bet there isn't a single conservative alive that has more

people viewing you as the tory prime minister they could have tolerated. that is a great club to belong to. the best prime minister we never had. nobody would ever know how bad you would have been if they'd ever given you the chance. i can't be accused of not trying! what are we supposed to be doing now? two old men we are going to stand up and walk out, still talking. lovely to see you again. all the best. i don't have hush puppies, i don't think hush puppies make suede shoes. around 300,000 tonnes of your u nwa nted clothes around 300,000 tonnes of your unwanted clothes are sent to incinerators or landfill every year in the uk according to a report out this summer from mps. in the uk according to a report out this summerfrom mps. it is in the uk according to a report out this summer from mps. it is why many environmentalists want the era of fast fashion and cheap throwaway clothes to end but how can we all make our wardrobes more sustainable? we give that challenge to two

university students from loughborough with help from sustainable stylist alice wilby. with the globalfashion sustainable stylist alice wilby. with the global fashion industry producing 100 billion garments a year and responsible for 10% of global emissions, we wanted to challenge our students to reuse, repairand challenge our students to reuse, repair and recycle. they've got to find an outfit for an event without buying anything new. our sustainable fashion stylist alice will be started by rooting through their wardrobes. we have got a lot of cotton, a lot of t—shirts. how many t—shirts do you think you buy a year? probably ten or 15. takes about 3000 litres of water to make one cotton t—shirt, which is about as much water as one cotton t—shirt, which is about as much water as we one cotton t—shirt, which is about as much water as we drink in three yea rs, as much water as we drink in three years, and you are buying ten or 15 of them a year. that madness. 3000? tell me about this beautiful piece. my grandma bought it for me from

india. it is broken under the arms, this is where things tend to go a lot. i think this is perfect for us to go and get fixed this week. with one item found for repair, it is off to gobi. so, we have got a bunch of dresses here. i think it is safe to say, they are one of the cheapest british retailers. they are £7 a p0p: british retailers. they are £7 a pop, right? i feel like british retailers. they are £7 a pop, right? ifeel like the british retailers. they are £7 a pop, right? i feel like the most important thing is the price, especially for uni students, which is why when you've seen a cheaper thing, you go for it. this one doesn't like it has been warned, it still has its label. it's a new. when did you get to? a month ago. you had it for a month and you haven't won it yet? no. did you buy it for something specific? nights out. you're scared of people looking at you, thinking, have you worn it ain? at you, thinking, have you worn it again? there is a panic. there is nothing in that that necessarily suggests you have to go out and buy

ait suggests you have to go out and buy a it could be about how you style it differently, the accessories you put it with comedy jacket to put differently, the accessories you put it with comedyjacket to put over it, the entire way of presenting your outfit and look. this is a perfect example of something we can get fixed really easily. then got you've a really great top and a really great starting point for an outfit for a night out. we can't have you going out with a safety pin holding a top together. it's a look but it's not the one you might want one now right now. while the tories get repaired, go to batley. nestled between the hills as the oxfam centre and polly showed them around. we have garment sorters sorting through donations picked up from all around the uk. these guys sort through 80,000 tonnes of donated clothing and textiles per week. it isa clothing and textiles per week. it is a huge amount of stuff. we sort through them here and what these guys are doing is a really quick check to see if we can resell the item, if it is in good condition. if

item, if it is in good condition. if it isn't, it goes down the chute and onto the next part of the line. every week in the uk we send over 5500 tonnes of clothes to landfill. that is equivalent to 11,000 of these bales. luckily, nothing here will go to landfill but this room represents a tiny fraction of the clothing britain throws away every week. it's shocking, right? horrible. think about the amount of plastic in the material that isn't going to break down. it is shocking. it isn't good for the environment. back on the trail for the outfit challenge, we are in nottingham, a mecca for second—hand shops. challenge, we are in nottingham, a mecca for second-hand shops. 0k, challenge, we are in nottingham, a mecca for second-hand shops. ok, so we wa nt mecca for second-hand shops. ok, so we want you to build an outfit to go to an event, we will use the one item from your wardrobe you're having mended and we will give you £30 each to build the rest of the outfit. only £30? only £30 and you have to buy everything from and

reused clothing. you found something he'll really like. i really like it and i'm definitely going to buy it. amazing. we have converted you to buying second hand ? we have converted you to buying second hand? i am a convert. outfit is complete, now theyjust need somewhere to wear them. and where better than london fashion week. amy is the creative director of brother of pearl, their collection is 100% sustainable and she has invited the students to her show at london fashion week. what exactly does 100% sustainability mean? the whole supply chain in the

making of that fabric and that garment. we also wanted to look at how far your garment travels. the average they say is five countries for every garment you buy because, imagine, from each stage you go through, you have to send it to another country, another country, another country, another country, another country, another country, another country, you have to package it up each time, send it off, then you have to ship it which is fuel and energy. you look shocked by the number of countries. it's mad, the number of countries. it's mad, the numberof number of countries. it's mad, the number of countries! we would love to see legislation for your labels in yourgarment to see legislation for your labels in your garment not just to say made in italy or wherever it is from, we would like it to say cronin, finished in, manufactured in so you can understand there is a longer process. i think people will actually treasure their clothing more when they know there are so many processes underneath the process of producing one jumper. they will think twice before they actually buy so many of them. definitely.

at the beginning of the year new zealand's prime ministerjacinda ardern came to the uk on business and she gave her interview to us on that trip covering a wide range of topics including trade post—brexit and being a mother to a six—month—old. and being a mother to a six-month-old. i get a different joy from motherhood than i do with my role as prime minister. and she is a perfect antidote. so i'm finding we are working beautifully together. really? yes. at the end of the day, we are of course do easy to feel you've got the weight of your country on your shoulders but it is

amazing what her giggling at me can do to bring perspective. which is more pleasurable? i get great joy from both but i have said, because being prime minister is a privilege, as much as it is a difficultjob, it isa as much as it is a difficultjob, it is a privilege but politics comes and goes and when i am done with politics, i'll always be a mother. do feel conflicted sometimes, pulled one way when you want to spend time with your baby? absolutely! so does every parent, i expect, mums and dads. do you experience the guilt? yes, absolutely, you know? that is the guilt of whether or not i am a good enough daughter, sister, partner, mother. again, show me a woman who doesn't. built on twitter says this. i'd like to ask the panellist of new zealand if she has a spare hour could she take on being prime minister of the uk as well? being a mum should be used to multitasking and doing five things at once are running the uk should be

easy for her. sadly our current politicians couldn't even change a nappy. i don't have the challenges the politicians here do at this time. we have our own but very different. michelle obama was recently reported as saying the idea women can have it all is a lie. is she right? i think, you know, i was very she right? i think, you know, i was very aware she right? i think, you know, i was very aware that even when i announced i was having me, there was announced i was having me, there was a sense i needed to prove it was somehow possible for a woman to do everything. and i have always been open about saying that actually, i can't. i can't physically do the job of being promised and mother by myself. so, i constantly talk about the fact we shouldn't expect women to be superhuman. and, so, i do what ido to be superhuman. and, so, i do what i do because i have the support and help, and co—parenting of my partner. that's how i do what i do. i'm not super woman and we shouldn't

pretend we are. that does a disservice to all women, raising expectations no one can meet. when i look on your twitter feed, there are some people on their who are really praising you and saying you are a superwoman, that is how they view you. yes, no. no. there are days when i walk into my house and think, you know, if there is any side i'm letting down, it is the tidiness of the house i live in, so i am no superwoman at all. and i think we set ourselves up to fail if we present in that way so from time to timei present in that way so from time to time i might do a press conference with a bit of stick on my shoulder but, for me, that isjust with a bit of stick on my shoulder but, for me, that is just because i am human. and i don't mind people seeing frailty. laura texts, i already buy reasonably priced new zealand lamb, kiwi fruit, wine and butter under present eu trading agreements. once the uk leaves the eu, what are the benefits to the new

zealand economy exporting to the uk under world trade organisation tariffs? your goods will become more expensive. i wouldn't make any assumptions before we have the ability to move into a negotiation. our goal is to make markets more accessible for new zealand products by removing the barriers so i wouldn't say it is a natural by—product. for us it is about saying we are complimentary, i don't think the domestic market and the producers of food in the uk need to be nervous about greater access for using products because seasonally we are complimentary, so there is a nice synergy. when you are in winter, we are in summer. there are benefits between our markets having greater access to one another. for us as well, we like to add particular quality to our products. take for instance lamb, we have a particular lamb product high in omegas, likened to eating fish. so

we try to create a proposition that can differentiate from products that can differentiate from products that can be accessed already. for us, it is about increasing that trading relationship for the benefit of british consumers, too, because we are free range, we don't like to use hormones, environmentally sustainable products are all the better if you can access them. we will see what happens. you've been incredibly open, thank you. you are incredibly open, thank you. you are incredibly open, thank you. you are incredibly open about family life, your job, incredibly open about family life, yourjob, i've incredibly open about family life, your job, i've watched incredibly open about family life, yourjob, i've watched some of your facebook lives in the hospital room where you gave birth with your partner in the background. there we are. that's her. from your sofa at home with your sleeping baby on your lap, talking about a particular policy that came in the same day.” did one from the car as well. policy that came in the same day.” did one from the car as weltm policy that came in the same day.” did one from the car as well. it was a little bit dark but otherwise, it was great! no reading what someone else has written for you, no autocue, no scripts. it is rather

different from other world leaders, not that i've met that many but i've seen not that i've met that many but i've seen them. why is being open so important to you? i do think we are in an era, where, for a whole host of reasons, people have lost faith in politicians and political institutions and there is no point asking warning over the coles to point blame but i think now people are looking for reasons why they don't feel like they are getting a head or their life isn't what has been promised by politicians and if we are going to restore faith, in part, it is what we deliver and we need to respond to peoples needs. at the same time need to be human about the same time need to be human about the way we do it. politicians are ultimately frail individuals, we are humans. most of the time, we go into politics for a genuine reason. i think there is benefit injust demonstrating that there doesn't have to be a veneer. we are doing the best we can. you can be normal.

we can be and we are normal. that is it for now, we are back on january six, live 10am on bbc two and the bbc news channel. in the meantime, if you have a story, contact me on twitter. thanks for watching. hello. quite a gloomy picture, isn't it? but some of us have actually had a fairly decent day with some sunshine to end the afternoon. the south however is in for more rain and there are still flood warnings in force, particularly clustered around the south—east of england, parts of the midlands and also lincolnshire. this is the weather front that is currently across the south of the uk, this is a satellite image from the last few hours. you can see it approaching the south—west of the country, then it will be spreading itself across southern counties and towards the east.

this is what it looks like early evening, heavy rain for a time in the south over london, east anglia, there will be some rain in the midlands too but at the same time, the northern half of the uk a different story, clear spells and it will be dry with some fog early in the morning on sunday. colder as well, three in belfast and glasgow but milder where we have that overnight damp weather in london and norwich around 7 degrees. so the weather front that is currently sweeping across southern parts of the uk will eventually be out of the picture and behind it we have fresh atlantic north—westerly winds and some showers so this is what looks like on sunday morning. a little bit of rain left over there east anglia and the south—east but eventually the sun should come out in london, birmingham as well, sunny spells on the way but some from time to time will have showers on sunday as well. so for some of us it will be a changeable day, take a brolly if you are out for any period of time. ten in london tomorrow, a little bit colder in the north.

here is the christmas outlook, christmas week, and you can't miss this, a great pulse of orange here with the wind blowing out of the south—west, that's heading in our direction, that can only mean one thing, it will be a mild run—up to christmas. here is monday, so we have some rain in the forecast for western and north—west scotland and also the possibility only of some rain reaching south—west england and the south later on monday. the bulk of the country on monday is looking dry, sunshine by day and clear skies in the evening but that is monday. how about christmas eve? it is looking fine across most of the uk and looks as though we should have some sunshine also on the big day itself on christmas. bye— bye.

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