good morning. welcome to breakfast, with ben thompson and nina warhurst. good morning. our headlines today: widespread criticism for the metropolitan police over their handling of a vigil held in south london, in memory of sarah everard. the met have defended their actions but the home secretary has demanded a full report into exactly what happened here. 50. a full report into exactly what happened here. so, it's ready! it is, no, happened here. so, it's ready! it is. go. go. _ happened here. so, it's ready! it is. go. go. go. _ happened here. so, it's ready! it is. go. go. go. go! _ goodbye to the voice of formula 1. murray walker dies at the age of 97. good morning. yes. we'll have tributes

to murray walker in sport, plus, all eyes are on the grand slam for wales. a resounding win in rome leave them nowjust one win away from the title. the weather is a tale of two halves today with the bright start, the rain to follow by this afternoon for many. i will have more details in around 15 minutes. good morning to use. ——to you. it's sunday the 14th of march. our top story. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, is facing calls to resign after fierce criticism over how her force handled a vigil in memory of sarah everard. officers were seen handcuffing and leading women away from the event on clapham common, close to where sarah was last seen alive. the met has defended its actions, but the home secretary, priti patel, has asked for a full report. this report from simonjones contains flashing images. police moved in to try to break up

an unofficial vigil to mark the life of sarah everard, near to the spot where she was last seen. more than 1000 people had gathered. the police said it wasn't safe under lockdown restrictions, but the organisation reclaim these streets said it was deeply saddened and angered by scenes of officers physically manhandling women at an event dedicated to women against male violence. ~ ., ., , ., violence. women were angry, and women having _ violence. women were angry, and women having violence _ violence. women were angry, and women having violence against. violence. women were angry, and - women having violence against them? the police said they had repeatedly asked people to obey the law and go home at. in a tweet, the home secretary said some of the footage online from the village in clapham is upsetting. i have asked the metropolitan police for a full report on what happened. the mayor of london said although the police have a responsibility to enforce

covid laws, the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate, and there are reports from the met commissioner who visited clapham on friday, to resign. the lib dems had said cressida dick lost the confidence of millions of women in london. in the early hours of this morning, the police defended their actions, saying hundreds of people tightly packed together posed a very real risk of covid being spread. part packed together posed a very real risk of covid being spread.- risk of covid being spread. part of the reason _ risk of covid being spread. part of the reason i'm _ risk of covid being spread. part of the reason i'm speaking _ risk of covid being spread. part of the reason i'm speaking to - risk of covid being spread. part of the reason i'm speaking to you i the reason i'm speaking to you tonight— the reason i'm speaking to you tonight is— the reason i'm speaking to you tonight is because we accept the actions _ tonight is because we accept the actions of— tonight is because we accept the actions of our offices can be questioned. we absolutely did not want to— questioned. we absolutely did not want to be in a position where enforcement action was necessary, but we _ enforcement action was necessary, but we were placed in this position because _ but we were placed in this position because of— but we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect— because of the overriding need to protect people's safety. in brixton hill, reclaim the streets lit candles to mark the lives of women killed by men. sarah everard was remembered to at downing street and by the labour leader. a serving

officer, wayne couzens, has been charged with her murder and will appear in court next wednesday. sara's family had described her as bright and beautiful, and are now trying to come to terms with the loss. simonjones, bbc news. simon is live on clapham common for us this morning. and, simon, there is real pressure on the met police this morning? there is a widespread view they got this wrong. yes, and i think the met know they are facing some really serious questions this morning about the policing of this event. that is why we had the unusual sightjust before 1am this morning at a senior police officer coming out in front of the cameras at scotland yard to try to offer some sort of explanation. the met did not address because for the commissioner to resign, but what they did says they faced a really difficult policing decisions here. they set up until about 6am yesterday evening —— six o'clock, things had been calm, a steady stream of people had arrived,

bringing flowers and contemplating. but more and more people started to arrive, some people attempted to give speeches, then the crowd pushed forward to try to hear those, and then the police said that is when things became difficult. they say they spoke to people, tried to persuade them to leave but a small minority would not. 0fficers said they had objects thrown at them and they had objects thrown at them and the crowd started pushing, and that is when they decided to make arrests. four people were arrested. in terms of other events, there were visuals right across the country on a much smaller scale, lots of people lit candles, in terms of the protests, i think there will be pressure on damn cressida dick to come out herself and explain what happened. —— dame cressida dick. simonjones in clapham, is ——

clapham commons. a group of mps has warned that the british army's ageing armoured vehicles are in a "deplorable" state — and are likely to be "outgunned" in any conflict. the scathing report, by the commons defence select committee, says the army has been left with tanks which are "increasingly" outdated. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. borisjohnson boris johnson says borisjohnson says the upcoming defence review will end and area of retreat and transform britain's armed forces —— and era of retreat. but this asks serious questions as to whether the ministry of defence can deliver on that promise to be the army's tanks are in a deplorable state, outgunned and outmatched by allies and potential adverse areas of. the report says the army has a ready squandered large amounts of money with little to show for it. the mmd spent £400 million to modernise hundreds of these warrior armoured vehicles. now the entire programme's expected to be scrapped. mps describe it as a woeful story of

bureaucratic procrastination, military indecision, financial mismanagement and general ineptitude. i mismanagement and general ineptitude-— mismanagement and general inetitude. ., , , ., ineptitude. i welcome any plans to modernise the _ ineptitude. i welcome any plans to modernise the army's _ ineptitude. i welcome any plans to modernise the army's equipment i ineptitude. i welcome any plans to. modernise the army's equipment so over the years some of it has been neglected and that is long overdue. but by modernising, for example, a tank, you have to be very careful you don't use a really exquisite piece of equipment, but don't necessarily have it in another numbers or enough people to crew those vehicles. the numbers or enough people to crew those vehicles.— those vehicles. the mod insists a si . nificant those vehicles. the mod insists a significant increase _ those vehicles. the mod insists a significant increase in _ those vehicles. the mod insists a significant increase in funding - those vehicles. the mod insists a significant increase in funding for| significant increase in funding for defence will deliver an upgraded armour force defence will deliver an upgraded armourforce to the defence will deliver an upgraded armour force to the threats of the future. but the defence review is still expected to cut the number of tanks armoured vehicles. mps say the army's armoured capabilities today are at risk of being deluded on the promise of technically advanced jam tomorrow. murray walker, whose distinctive commentary turned him into the voice of formula 1, has died

at the age of 97. murray worked for both the bbc and itv, in a career that spanned over half a century, commentating on his first grand prix for the bbc at silverstone in 1949. andy swiss looks back at his life. so, it's ready, it is go, go, go! and schumacher leads! brilliant star! exuberant, _ and schumacher leads! brilliant star! exuberant, excitable, - and schumacher leads! brilliant star! exuberant, excitable, and| star! exuberant, excitable, and utterly unmistakable. the austrian driver! murray _ utterly unmistakable. the austrian driver! murray walker _ utterly unmistakable. the austrian driver! murray walker was - utterly unmistakable. the austrian driver! murray walker was the - utterly unmistakable. the austrian| driver! murray walker was the high octane voice _ driver! murray walker was the high octane voice behind _ driver! murray walker was the high octane voice behind a _ driver! murray walker was the high octane voice behind a high - driver! murray walker was the high octane voice behind a high octane l octane voice behind a high octane sport. it was once that even in his quieter moments he sounded like his trousers were on fire. it’s quieter moments he sounded like his trousers were on fire.— trousers were on fire. it's big bang and off! his — trousers were on fire. it's big bang and off! his passion _ trousers were on fire. it's big bang and off! his passion came - trousers were on fire. it's big bang and off! his passion came from - trousers were on fire. it's big bang and off! his passion came from his| and off! his passion came from his father, graham _ and off! his passion came from his father, graham walker, _ and off! his passion came from his father, graham walker, who - and off! his passion came from his father, graham walker, who racedj father, graham walker, who raced motorcycles and was himself a commentator, often sharing the duties with young murray. the sensation is that tommy would went through not on time, not after time,

but ahead of time! fight! through not on time, not after time, but ahead of time!— but ahead of time! and after commentating _ but ahead of time! and after commentating on _ but ahead of time! and after commentating on his - but ahead of time! and after commentating on his first i but ahead of time! and after- commentating on his first british grand prix in 1949, and putt became an integral part of formula 1, especially in a double act with former world championjames hunt. former world champion james hunt. but former world championjames hunt. but in a sport of inevitable risk, he was faced with tragedy, too. senna has been pronounced clinically dead. ~ ,, ., ., , senna has been pronounced clinically dead. ~ ,, ., , ., ., . dead. when senna was pronounced clinically dead _ dead. when senna was pronounced clinically dead in _ dead. when senna was pronounced clinically dead in a _ dead. when senna was pronounced clinically dead in a crash, _ dead. when senna was pronounced clinically dead in a crash, murray i clinically dead in a crash, murray walker's shock was clear to all. this is the blackest day in racing in the many many years i have covered in the sport. will in the many many years i have covered in the sport.- in the many many years i have covered in the sport. will get never covered in the sport. will get never covered his — covered in the sport. will get never covered his emotions. _ covered in the sport. will get never covered his emotions. most - covered in the sport. will get never. covered his emotions. most famously, when his friend damon hill won the world title in 1986.— world title in 1986. david hill exits! and — world title in 1986. david hill exits! and wins _ world title in 1986. david hill exits! and wins the - world title in 1986. david hill exits! and wins the japanese j world title in 1986. david hill - exits! and wins the japanese grand exits! and wins the japanese grand prix! and i've got to stop! because i got a lump in prix! and i've got to stop! because i gota lump in my prix! and i've got to stop! because i got a lump in my throat! the

calculator driving!— calculator driving! watch this! his frenetic style _ calculator driving! watch this! his frenetic style was _ calculator driving! watch this! his frenetic style was not _ calculator driving! watch this! his frenetic style was not without - calculator driving! watch this! his frenetic style was not without its| frenetic style was not without its gaps. frenetic style was not without its ta 5, �* , , , ., ' frenetic style was not without its as. ' _,, frenetic style was not without its gaps. it's been some 17 years since ou gaps. it's been some 17 years since you bought — gaps. it's been some 17 years since you bought mclaren, _ gaps. it's been some 17 years since you bought mclaren, you've - gaps. it's been some 17 years since you bought mclaren, you've had i gaps. it's been some 17 years since i you bought mclaren, you've had some good times and you had some bad times, what do you remember best? but the mistakes —— i don't think i ever owned mclaren. that but the mistakes -- i don't think i ever owned mclaren.— ever owned mclaren. that the advantage _ ever owned mclaren. that the advantage of— ever owned mclaren. that the advantage of being _ ever owned mclaren. that the advantage of being in - ever owned mclaren. that the advantage of being in front. i ever owned mclaren. that the l advantage of being in front. his ener: advantage of being in front. his energy and enthusiasm endeared him to millions. and when he covered his final british grand prix in 2001, the affection was plain to see. one of sport's most imitated voices, but there are only ever be one murray walker. —— there will only ever be one murray walker. more than 17,500 chain stores closed last year across britain, according to new research from the accountancy firm pwc. the figures, which include hospitality and leisure outlets, reveal the worst decline in more than a decade. there's also a warning that the full impact of the pandemic on high

streets is yet to be felt. the fa cup final at wembley and the world snooker championship have been lined up to test the return of big crowds to venues. around a dozen events in the spring will be used to find ways to bring fans and audiences back safely. it's expected that a number of the pilots will include spectators who are not socially distanced. it is 6:11. good music's biggest night of the year, the grammy awards, take place in los angeles tonight. but because of the pandemic, it won't be the same star—studded red carpet event we're used to. our west coast correspondent sophie long has been speaking to some first time british nominees who will be watching from afar. # so i'ma light it up- like dynamite, whoa oh oh# dynamite immediately became a record—breaking song on multiple platforms for k—pop band bts. it's earned a grammy nomination

for them and the london duo who wrote it. wow! we got a grammy nomination. so, getting a grammy nom on a song that we wrote over zoom in lockdown and in the midst of a pandemic hasjust got to be a silver lining to any dark cloud and any terrible year, so, yeah, we are just so, so happy. it wasjust like, a mad, like, surreal20 minutes of watching it and a buzz and then suddenly it was, back to real life. yeah. keep it moving. david and jessica have written hundreds of songs together and kind of knew this was a little different. we understood how huge bts were. we knew that it was their first—ever english—speaking song which was a major thing, but we were like, i think this is it. and it only got more and more exciting when we see the visual, we see the video

and we were like this is like nothing we could ever imagine, it's just the levels of this is like nothing that we had ever worked on before. in los angeles, the stages being set for bts to perform on sunday night, but due to the pandemic, jessica and david will be watching thousands of miles away in london. what's your grammy night going to look like? i will be watching it in bed with my girlfriend and my dog. that's as rock �*n' roll as it is going to get. yeah, i think i'm going to be doing the same, but i'm probably going to have to set an alarm, because i think i'll be in my dressing gown drinking mint tea and i think i'm gonna fall asleep by like 1am and that's when it comes on. they won't get to hang out with host trevor noah this time but a grammy nomination or two, in david's case, is a massive achievement and a vote of confidence in their partnership. you've had such amazing success together, are you, like, stuck together now, do you think? she's going to be stuck to me.

whoever she ends up marrying, whoever, like, i'm here. you can't get rid of me, girl. they may be missing out on the parties but that's not killing the excitement closer to home. it's absolutely, pure, like, joy from my whole family. i think if it wasn't for both of our families being so mega—supportive, we actually wouldn't have been able to do this job we're doing right now, we would have gave up a long, long time ago. so it's actually credit to our families' support that we have been able — even to be nominated fora grammy, because itjust wouldn't have got to this point without their support. the winners will be revealed in a socially—distanced but star—studded ceremony. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. that will be stuck in our head all day now. that will be stuck in our head all da now. ., ., , ., day now. you tried to sing it to me earlier but — day now. you tried to sing it to me earlier but i did not _ day now. you tried to sing it to me earlier but i did not recognise i day now. you tried to sing it to me earlier but i did not recognise yourj

earlier but i did not recognise your rendition. but i do now. let's take a look at some of today's newspapers. many of the front pages — like the sunday times — focus on last night's clashes between police and women who had gathered in south london to mourn sarah everard. the sunday telegraph says the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, is facing calls to quit following the incident. the sunday mirror is one of a number of papers to feature a picture of the duchess of cambridge paying her respects at the memorial earlier in the day. royal sources say kate remembered "what it felt like to walk around london at night" before she was married. and one of the stories trending online overnight was the death of the former undisputed middleweight world champion �*marvelous' marvin hagler, who has passed away at the age of 66. promoter frank warren has paid tribute, saying the sport has lost an all—time great. inside the papers, i picked this one up. a survey of dog owners and more

than 80,000 of them say they are more fearful of taking their pet for a walk in daytime because of the dog napping. one says they will not walk their dog into the daylight because ijust their dog into the daylight because i just do not their dog into the daylight because ijust do not dare. 20,000 people have said they know someone who is dog has been stolen. itjust struck me as something really sad that lots of people have invested in these pets, and now they are living with this constant paranoia. it is another member of the family. essen another member of the family. even “ust in another member of the family. even just in daytime- _ another member of the family. even just in daytime. lady _ another member of the family. even just in daytime. lady gaga one of the famous victims. we love a statistic and plenty of them here. the paper looking at the year in lockdown by numbers. one of the

statistics here, more than £1000 increase in the price of a puppy, suchis increase in the price of a puppy, such is their popularity. but all sorts. reduction of absolution bound by 30%, 36% of people working from home, and 7.5 hours of kitchen disco. 135 number 10 covid—19 press conferences. and we have been to every one of them. i conferences. and we have been to every one of them.— every one of them. i cancelled my . m every one of them. i cancelled my gym membership _ every one of them. i cancelled my gym membership because - every one of them. i cancelled my gym membership because you i every one of them. i cancelled myj gym membership because you get every one of them. i cancelled my i gym membership because you get into the routine of doing it at home. so the routine of doing it at home. sr much the routine of doing it at home. 5r much we will take away from that although i think things like absolution is already back up.

sticking with the kitchen disco, we are having a mother's day one later on. here's helen with a look at this morning's weather. how is it looking for mother's day? we love the kitchen disco, absolutely. if you are wondering which part of the day is best to get out for your exercise, i think the morning from most because we have some rights guys. generally the rain coming through the second half of the day. for northern ireland the rain knocking on the doorfairly soon. this is the low pressure from yesterday which gave us a wild night. we had more sleepless night without the wind battering but the rain is advancing. part of scotland could escape. some sunshine here.

rain for northern ireland and across wales and south wants and eastwards. reaching the south—east by teatime. temperatures on a part with those of yesterday stop perhaps a little up but not feeling that warm, particularly given we are heading to the middle of march. it does start to is a way as we go through the night. it was chilly this morning. tonight a better chance of seeing the odd touch of frost, particularly in rural areas. a bit of breeze. touch and go at this time of year. change is afoot though. not plain sailing with weather fronts around and quite a bit of cloud around with and quite a bit of cloud around with a northerly breeze. quite chilly in

the central eastern areas but later in the day, with a front creeping in introducing more rain. coming into the high—pressure, clouding things over. through the rest of the week, the high—pressure starting to advance in. it does not look as though it will bring heavy rain in particular, a lot of dry weather but the breeze will not make it feel particularly warm. if you are outside the wind, in the sunshine, you will notice the difference. back to you. you will notice the difference. back to ou. , ., ., you will notice the difference. back to ou. ., ., , to you. glad to hear there will be improvement _ to you. glad to hear there will be improvement later _ to you. glad to hear there will be improvement later in _ to you. glad to hear there will be improvement later in the - to you. glad to hear there will be improvement later in the week. | ifi

if i look a little electrified next time you see me, it is because i have one... time you see me, it is because i have one- - -_ time you see me, it is because i have one... ,, ., ., _ have one... she so outraged by your electric she — have one... she so outraged by your electric she lay _ have one... she so outraged by your electric she lay that _ have one... she so outraged by your electric she lay that she _ have one... she so outraged by your electric she lay that she is _ have one... she so outraged by your electric she lay that she is gone. i electric she lay that she is gone. —— gilet. lots to get through this morning and the obvious one, goodbye to murray walker. 50 morning and the obvious one, goodbye to murray walker.— to murray walker. so much respect across sport _ to murray walker. so much respect across sport and _ to murray walker. so much respect across sport and especially - to murray walker. so much respect| across sport and especially formula one. the world of formula 1 is paying tribute to the voice of the sport, murray walker, who, as we've been hearing this morning, passed away last night. after more than 40 years in broadcasting, his voice is one of the most recognisable in sport. world champions past and present have been sharing their memories — seven—time world champion lewis hamilton saying murray "made the sport so much more exciting and captivating". whilejenson button, the 2009 champion, said...

..a sentiment echoed by another former british world champion, damon hill. i think ithink in i think in the back of our mind we thought murray was going to go on forever but he will be there forever because his record is so huge and his achievements so fantastic and lovable. that is the biggest thing, people felt love for him and he loved us back. and some sad news from the world of boxing overnight. former middleweight world champion �*marvelous' marvin hagler has died at the age of 66. hagler dominated his division from 1979, until a controversial defeat by sugar ray leonard in 1987. the american won 62 of his 67 professionalfights — 52 of those by knockout. hagler�*s most memorable win was arguably in 1985 when he beat thomas �*hit man' hearns in a fight known as �*the war�*. the grand slam is still on for wales

after a thumping win over italy. seven tries for them in rome. while england left it late to beat france at twickenham. our sports correspondent joe wilson watched both games. can you stand in rome and be heard in cardiff? well alun wynjones tried. such is welsh confidence, anything seems possible. scoring tries against italy looked easy. with their opponent missing a man, they were 15 points up in 15 minutes. time to check on italy mahmoud abbas coach. right. for tries gets you a bonus point and they achieve that within 40 minutes. the second half featured some classic rees—zammit. the italians

were chasing a red ferrari. italy's reaction was understandable but remember, thus far, wales have beaten everyone. and so to twickenham for a match that began at a staggering pace. front scott in a minute, kick and collect, antoine dupont with the world at his feet and somehow the ball in his hand. england responded, watson n. that was good, the next try was special. it is what french player used to look like. france had four points ahead and have time and they lead with four minutes left. did he ground the ball? no. the tv official saw a fraction brush the grass. try. on such evidence was england's reputation rescued. an france's

unbeaten run defeated. —— and france's. joe wilson, bbc news. lee westwood will go head—to—head with american bryson dechambeau once again this evening — this time at the players championship in florida. westwood will take a two—shot lead into the final day after a bogey free round yesterday, getting four birdies, including this one at the seventeenth. dechambeau just edged out westwood at the arnold palmer invitational last week. the premier league title looks like it's heading back to the trophy cabinet at manchester city. pep guardiola's side are now 17 points clear at the top of the table after a 3—0 win over fulham. sergio aguero scored his first league goal in 14 months from the penalty spot afterjohn stones, and this goal from gabrieljesus has put city clear in front. the result keeps fulham in the bottom three. crystal palace's wilf zaha became the first premier league player not to take a knee before kick—off — stating that he felt the gesture had just become part

of the pre—match routine. when crystal palace's match against west brom got underway, it was zaha's cross which was handled, leading to a penalty, from which luca miliovejic scored — the only goal of the game. burnley took a big step towards safety as they beat everton 2—1. dwight mcneil�*s stunning strike proving to be the winner, with the victory moving burnley seven points clear of the bottom three. four more premier league games today, including the north london derby, but before that paul heckingbottom will take charge of sheffield united for the first time after chris wilder's sacking was confirmed. reports had come out as early as friday morning that wilder was to leave the blades after nearly five years in charge. but the premier league's bottom club only confirmed his departure yesterday. in just 24 house, salford city's reign as efl trophy winners will possibly be one of the shortest in sport. yesterday afternoon they beat portsmouth 4—2 on penalties

at wembley in the final that was delayed from last year. it finished goalless after extra time. the league two side converted all their spot kicks, with midfielderjason lowe scoring the winner. it's the most prestigious trophy the club has lifted. however, there will be new winners very soon, with the 2021 final being held this afternoon between sunderland and tranmere. very cruel, isn't it. not in front of fans either.— of fans either. you have barely settled in- _ of fans either. you have barely settled in. not _ settled in. not even finished the booze. thank _ settled in. not even finished the booze. thank you _ settled in. not even finished the booze. thank you jane. - it's mothers day, but for many of us the day will be spent separated from our families for a second year, with gifts sent by post and celebrations happening virtually. international travel restrictions also mean many people in the uk will miss spoiling their mums who are living in other parts of the world,

as caroline davies reports. there is nothing quite like mums cooking for iran, it has been a long time since being in mums kitchen in pakistan. the time since being in mums kitchen in pakistan. ., , time since being in mums kitchen in pakistan. ~ , ., ., pakistan. the kids love to see their grandad and grandma. _ pakistan. the kids love to see their grandad and grandma. nieces i pakistan. the kids love to see their grandad and grandma. nieces and| grandad and grandma. nieces and nephews they have not seen. it is a wide part of a child's life. regardless of how far away your mother lives, many will not be able to see that is on mother's day. the weight likely to be longer for some. flowers, chocolate, cake for mother. it is hard for me to do anything specialfor her. it is hard for me to do anything special for her.— it is hard for me to do anything special for her. after the roadmap announcement, _ special for her. after the roadmap announcement, pakistan - special for her. after the roadmap announcement, pakistan was i special for her. after the roadmap announcement, pakistan was the | announcement, pakistan was the second most search for destination. we want to be optimistic but at the same time we want to be cautious.

towards the beginning of may we will look at it and it looks and we're just talking about tourism and just the tourists that want to come from britain, we will look if they have been vaccinated, we can have a sort of bubble for them.— been vaccinated, we can have a sort of bubble for them. many others are also missing — of bubble for them. many others are also missing family. _ of bubble for them. many others are also missing family. this _ of bubble for them. many others are also missing family. this couple i also missing family. this couple visit vietnam every year. by, also missing family. this couple visit vietnam every year.- visit vietnam every year. a very difficult time _ visit vietnam every year. a very difficult time for _ visit vietnam every year. a very difficult time for them. - visit vietnam every year. a very difficult time for them. we i visit vietnam every year. a very difficult time for them. we are l visit vietnam every year. a very i difficult time for them. we are so worried about them. you difficult time for them. we are so worried about them.— difficult time for them. we are so worried about them. you cannot walk an hina. worried about them. you cannot walk anything- we — worried about them. you cannot walk anything- we were — worried about them. you cannot walk anything. we were planning - worried about them. you cannot walk anything. we were planning on i anything. we were planning on hopefully fingers crossed going back at christmas time this year but it is up _ at christmas time this year but it is up in _ at christmas time this year but it is up in the _ at christmas time this year but it is up in the. we have no idea when we can get back. is up in the. we have no idea when we can get back-— we can get back. vietnam's government _ we can get back. vietnam's government is _ we can get back. vietnam's government is telling i we can get back. vietnam's government is telling us i we can get back. vietnam's l government is telling us they we can get back. vietnam's i government is telling us they will consider the possibility of travel corridor or vaccine passport there are no dates yet. jamaica was one of many countries that closed its borders to the uk to stop the spread of the uk variant. sharon has not

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will in my heart. internationaltravel. will not be possible from england until at least the 17th of may seven out many families have to waive and send their love through a screen. caroline davies, bbc news. hgppy happy mother's day to all mums but especially those who are missing their kids this morning. hello, this is breakfast with nina warhurst and ben thompson. let's bring you up—to—date with today's main stories. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, is facing calls to resign after fierce criticism over how her force handled a vigil in memory of sarah everard. officers were seen handcuffing and leading women away from the event on clapham common — close to where sarah was last seen alive. four arrests were made. the met defended its actions, but the home secretary, priti patel, has asked for a full report. elsewhere, a group of mps has warned that the british army's ageing armoured vehicles are in a "deplorable" state — and are likely to be "outgunned" in any conflict. the scathing report by the commons defence select committee says the army has

been left with tanks which are "increasingly" outdated. the ministry of defence says recent extra funding will deliver an upgraded armoured force to meet future threats. the fa cup final at wembley and the world snooker championship have been lined up to test the return of big crowds to venues. around a dozen events in the spring will be used to find ways to bring fans and audiences back safely. it's expected that a number of the pilots will include spectators who are not socially distanced. the british—iranian woman, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, is due back in court today, a week after her five—year prison sentence in iran ended. she faces a separate security charge but her family fear it is not a real court process, and say tehran is using her as a diplomatic bargaining chip. she was first arrested in 2016 and accused of plotting against the iranian government — a charge she denies.

it's 6:32. hundreds of thousands of people here in the uk have a stammer — but it's not always immediately obvious. felicity baker managed to keep her stammer hidden through most of her school life and her professional career, as a producer here at the bbc. but now she's opened up about her experience in a new documentary. here it is. 0k. i've worked for bbc news for ten years as a producer, always behind the scenes, finding guests, setting up stories. i wondered if you had someone that might be available for an interview? but recently, during a chance conversation with the presenter sophie raworth, i revealed my secret. i have a stammer. hello. i'm calling from the bbc. i've spent my whole life trying to hide it. now, i'm discovering that i'm not alone, and i'm not the only one who struggles to say my name. and i know you can say your name. will you say it? ican. ijust have to breathe. crowd jeers there's the rugby player who says his violence

on the pitch was driven by his stammer. the self—loathing. i hated myself. i hated myself because i wasn't like other people. # pray, i guarantee you heard this song # you gone rememberthe name...# ..the young man who was bullied at school, but found an escape in music... i'm going to rap 'cause i can't talk. ijust think...little do you know. i ..the art student who refuses to be underestimated... oh, i'm not dumb! trust me. ijust can't say it. because people can, like, i—i—interrupt you without you not even knowing. ..the parents watching their son grow up with a stammer... it's heart—breaking. yeah. i mean, many a tears. oh, come on! sorry. i'm sorry. ..the film star whose father stammered... ah... i would bring friends home

from school who didn't know that my father stammered, and i got a bit embarrassed about that. ..the president who stammers and knows just how it feels. it drags you down in that empty hole in your chest. that feeling the panic you get and then anger. stammering is something i think about every single day, but no—one ever talks about it. so, now i'm stepping out in front of the camera to put stammering in the spotlight. # i said biggy is the name # killing all the game # k—killing all the # i said biggy is the name # yeah!# hi! i'm shelby, i'm 11 years old, and i have a stammer. shelby started stammering when he was two and a half. what is it you wanted? stammering: can... ..i...have... he stammers

one chocolate! both he and his brother stammer. it's not been easy, particularly at school. some people can be a tiny bit naive and not know, like... um, like, what, like, is wrong. and, like, they don't know that i have a stammer. this... yeah? around a million children in the uk will stammer at some point. stammering: ..is - for - daddy. most will go on to talk fluently. having two sons who stammer is not easy. to see them struggling, definitely, it wrenches your heart. it's painful, very painful. i remember that when they were younger, having two together, often the headache, you know? just having... having that in your everyday life is really hard to just step back and be calm and be patient, and not try

and step in and stop them. that's probably the hardest thing. it's something that - as a parent you want to fix. you can see your child's having difficulty speaking, _ so you really want to help them and fix the problem. _ sometimes, i—it... sometimes it can make me feel tired because of, um... if, like, you keep on... it's quite hard to, like, keep on speaking when if you speak and then you, like, stammer, so you have to say it again. it's, like, double what you're trying to say. grace cronshaw is 19, an art student in london. like shelby, she has always struggled with her speech. she says people have no idea how much of an effort it can be. ijust think, 'little do you know'. often it's people's reactions that bother her most.

stammering: with a stammer you, like, have to avoid, _ um, a lot of words. stammering: the... um, uh... the — the... so then people would just think, "oh, no, she's kind of dumb or like just kind of dim." and i was like, "i'm not dumb! trust me. i mean, like, i'm definitely worried about going into a job interview and just kind of making... i mean, m—m—making a fool of myself, butjust not being able to, like, answer any of the questions that they, like, give me, like, that's one of my fears in life. i get so anxious if i'm put in a situation where i feel like someone's going to say to me, "what's your name?" or you have to make a phone call and, say, introduce yourself. whenever i meet someone new, i... i will eitherjust like say, "hey, hey..." stammering: 'mmm. .. my name's grace. " just like there, just to make sure that, like, i don't have

to have that, like... that, like, moment of them being, like... and me just being like, "it's..." ugh. andjust, like, not being... like, not being able to say it. i know just how she feels. looking for the best... this was me ten years ago. could you tell me i your name, please? felicity... she stammers ..baker. um, i work for the bbc at the moment. ok, so, what brought you here, then? i around 1.5 million adults stammer in the uk, and i'm one of them. i've been struggling a bit on the telephone. you also have to use your tannoy, occasionally. being a woman who stammers is unusual. men are up to four times more likely to be affected. until now, i've never wanted to talk about it to anyone. i'm fine! but sophie's genuine interest when she asked me about it recently... it's a complete role reversal. this is great. ..persuaded me to open up. i'm going to interview you. how are you feeling about doing this? i'm feeling very nervous. it's very weird,

actually, being in the... normally, i'm standing behind the camera, and i'm out of it. i worked with you last year for pretty much a full year doing documentaries. we travelled, we filmed, we spoke on the phone a lot. i never knew. i know. i'm very good at hiding it, and i've been hiding it, honestly, for as long as i can remember, for as long as i can speak, i think. i learnt very quickly. i think a lot of people do. and i want to appear fluent. and i've spent so long kind of trying to appear fluent, that i... ijust avoid words and situations, and... i'm trying to think of the best way to describe it. and ifeel like quite a good thing is the image of a swan across the lake. and you kind of — i know i appear like i'm not... i'm not stammering now, but underneath the surface is kind of this mad pedalling. you know, i'm thinking, as i'm speaking to you, i'm thinking, you know, how i'm going to avoid diff... difficult words, difficult sounds. i know the sounds that i find hard to say. and so i don't tend to use them in my vocabulary.

i've learnt over the years not to use them. i'm constantly thinking ahead as to how i'm going to get through it without st... without stammering. what kind...? what do you find difficult to say? so, i do find my name... my name is quite a difficult sound. ifind hard letters, so... let's begin with b. my surname is quite a hard word for me to say because it's just a very... it's a very hard... it's a very hard sound. you know, you kind of have to go straight in with that word. and if someone says to me, "what's your name?" that's where i, you know... if the pressure's put on me to say it, that's when i find it really hard to... to get the words out. but i can, yeah. i mean, with a lot of breathing techniques...| have learnt to say it, but i'd rather not, and i do try and avoid it. that is extraordinary. to go through life... your name is felicity baker, but it's quite something to go through life not being able to say your own name. it's hard because everyone else says their name with such ease

and you kind of feel like you should be able to. and that's something that i do find quite difficult be able to own that. commentator: he's under the scottish posts. - but wales, once more, going for the try. - markjones is a former welsh rugby international. but it's a try for markjones in his first international... he gained 15 caps for his country in rugby union and played rugby league for great britain. he was known as one of rugby's hard men. it's a headbutt. it's a real bad one. my reputation was... ..of... ofa bad man, really, ithink. some would say that i was a dirty player. crowd jeers it's only now, decades later, that he feels ready to open up about the huge impact his stammer had on his behaviour. crowd jeers the style of play i had... ..was driven... ..from the stammer. i'v e. i've hit a couple of people, done this and that, but it was... none of it was ever... ..targeted.

shouting it was just that release. at home in wales, it's been... i've been looked at as a bit of a clown, yeah? but the stammer. .. . . influences your. . .your behaviour. it... it makes you into a bit of an outcast in...in your own head, and it's always like... it's as if your heads in a fish tank. commentator: out there, phil pugh. i anger was a big thing, yeah. the frustration, you'd be laughed at. i hated myself because i wasn't like other people. i've only ever spoken about it with my wife. no—one else.

why did you want to hide it? the embarrassment you feel... well, it's...it�*s a constant fight. it's as if you're not normal. you look back, you know, history, literature, it's the stuttering fool. caaaa. .. plenty of time. caaaaa. . .. caaaaa. .. the caaa.... oh, come on! sorry. i'm sorry. um... the actor sir michael palin plays the stammering ken pile in the 19805 hit film a fish called wanda. he knewjust what it was like. his father, ted, stammered all his life.

cathcart towers hotel? cathcart towers hotel. john cleese, who wrote the film, approached me and said he was writing a heist movie in which one of the main characters has a stammer and can't, at the vital moment, give the information, which i thought was a very funny idea, not in a way of mocking anyone or anything like that. itjust is a situation that might occur. and john was very... john knew that my father stammered. he said, "i mean, can we talk about it? and how would the stammer manifest itself?" so we talked through all the various aspects of the stammer. and in the end, i said, "well, i'll do it." i wouldn't have done it when my father was alive. i don't think i could have done, really. but i'll do it because, you know, it's sort of... i can be more sympathetic, perhaps. and how difficult do you think it was for him to cope with? i never spoke about it with him. this was really... you know, i can see now, a major, major sort of problem

to our understanding of it, because i think, you know, there was no... one felt there was nothing you could do. so, how would we talk about it? and at what stage do you suddenly say, "is there anything we can do to stop your stammer?" or, "how did you first get a stammer?" i'd love to have asked all these questions, but we just didn't because it would feel like rubbing in, you know, rubbing it all in, making him even more aware of it. and so there was a sort of unspoken feeling that we just accepted it in the family. and we did, really, around the table and all that. um... and to sort of single it out and sit and talk about it as if it were a disability would be...would be sort of, as i say, sort of underlining something he didn't want to be underlined. it was only after his father's death that he understood the importance of being open about stammering. he agreed to put his name to the michael palin centre for stammering in london to help raise awareness of this hidden disability.

it hasn't got one single cause that one single intervention is going to cure. what we know now is that stammering is a neurological condition. we know that there are differences, neurological differences, things in the brain that are different in people who stammer. and we know now from the research that that's... we can see that in children, so it's notjust because they've been stammering for years, but they are different from the... ..from the beginning. i stop talking. id—d—d—decide...? the centre runs courses for children and adults to help them learn to cope with their speech. so, parents are really worried about saying, "oh, you know, i can see that that was hard for you to say, wasn't it?" they're really worried about drawing their child's attention to it. but we have a problem that can start because of that, that it becomes something that nobody talks about, so it becomes a taboo.

and we have teenagers who come to the centre and say, "i've never spoken to my parents about my stammer because they didn't mention it and neither did i." and that becomes a whole big thing around, "well, i've got this big secret," and it's the shame thing can build into that, too, if we're not careful. so, primary message, it's ok to acknowledge it. you can call it a stammer. it's not going to cause a problem for the child if you start talking about it. it's a word i really struggle to say, so we're going to be solving linear... pupils: ..equations. abed ahmed was told his stammer meant teaching wasn't for him. now, head of maths at a school in birmingham, he uses his experience to help others. what i focus mainly on is confidence first. that's the most important thing. the most important thing is not trying to speak fluently. i think we measure success by being fluent in so manyjobs. unfortunately, for people

like me and 1% of the world, that can't be done. so, i teach some techniques that i've learnt in my life, so things like breathing techniques, just to calm and relax them a bit more. so, i tackle a lot of things with humour as well, and i tell the kids as well, you know, try and tackle something with humour, because itjust removes that tension. so, ijust tell people who ask me my name, "sorry, i do have a stammer and it might take me a very long time, but in some part of this conversation, i will tell you my name, stay with me." and they're like, "it's fine, man." i'mjust like, "yeah, it's fine, too." # yeah, i told my brother on the chat now # you ain't gotta be no g to be rap now # you can make p off the beats and stack wild...# he's called big heath. he's a rapperfrom cambridge. # i don't need no gat to rhyme # time for you to come alive...# his grandfather stammered, his father does, too. when i was in primary school, it wasn't as bad in primary

school, ithink, cos, like, you're too young for kids to really pick on you that bad in primary school. it was always a thing, there was always... our mates were like, "heath's got a stutter, that's just heath." people laugh, stuff like that. but it is what it is back then. but i think when i went to, like, secondary school, it was dreadful, actually dreadful. like, i was overweight and that, and when i think back to it, being picked on for being overweight was bad, but the stutter was way worse, because my weight i can do something about. my stutter is... i can't do anything about that. so i think that... i always got a lot more... not upset about it, but was a lot more, like... it hurt me more cos it was like, i can't do anything about my stutter. # like my mind was a prison, i was stuck in a tower # you see, bullies used to laugh # every time i used to speak # i used to s—s—stutter, man, it made me feel so weak # it's funny now cos when they see me # up in the streets # they be like, yo, big heath, yo, what's happenin', my g?# his real name is chris, but, like me, saying his name isn't easy. i'd rather say heath than my christian name.

cos heath is easy to say. "heath," i canjust say. heath, heath, heath. when "christopher," i can say it now, but it always used be so much harder to say, so much harder. he started listening to rap music at school and was amazed to find that when he rapped, he never stammered. # i didn't choose rap, bro # understand the game chose me # and that's the realest thing...# my brother picked me up from my speech therapist. he was playing, like, kanye west when i was really young, and i remember him looking at me. i'd probably over and over heard the same song, i started to rap it, and he looked to me and he was like, "you can do it," and i think subconsciously ijust fell in love with it, and i was able to, like, say what i wanted to say. obviously i wouldn't go into a class and rap what i wanted to say, but the same way you rap, you take your breath control, you pause, the way you flow on a beat is the same way i overcome a stutter, like take little breaths, then speak. and it's the same sort of... but as i say, i don't think it was on purpose. i think ijust subconsciously fell in love with the fact that

i could say what i wanted to say without it happening, and it was just... i love it. # ain't no lacking or # till my album's wrapped in plastic...# so, when i stutter, i do hand movements like i would if i'm holding a mic. so, it's like... i've actually never thought about that! i do, when i stutter sometimes, itap, and i do, like, little... as if i'm rapping, as if it's like... when my girlfriend's at home sometimes, i stutter, she'll see me, like, not like make movements, but i might, like, my whole body stutters, and then i finally get out the word. i think sometimes you sort ofjam up your whole brain. if i'm having that, ijust, i hit my leg really hard. yeah! what you're tapping is continuing the sentence which your mouth can't, so you're like, "go on, go on." and then you finally do it. # if i was born 1000 years ago, i'd be a king # i'd be the greatest for my people though named bling # i'd find the poorest peasant...# honestly, if someone asked me now would you rather have had a stutter, i actually would. i think it's made me a better person. i think it's made me notjudge other people with disabilities,

even though i don't have a disability, it's made me, like, notjudge other people's, like, i don't know, other things they have. and it's made me a lot more of... i don't know, i do actually think it's made me, like, a better person. i don't laugh at people when they maybe have something wrong... not "wrong," but you know what i'm trying to say. yeah, i kind of enjoy... now when i think about my stutter, it's different now, cos i've got ways of getting round it. butl... itjust made me stronger, made me... when i went into actual life, i feel like getting picked on then made me realise it's not that bad, people laugh, but you still get by. # i guarantee you heard this song # you gon' remember the name # biggy is the name, killing all the game...# i have a stutter. i have to say that every show, otherwise people look at me like, "does he know?" laughter. 29—year—old drew lynch has used laughter to help him cope with his stammer. i repeat myself, not because i'm disabled, but, you know, because you're dumb. laughter. he only started stammering ten years ago after

a head injury playing sport. it's taken me a lot longerthan i... i'm kind of ashamed to admit maybe how long it really took me to fully accept that this is... ..this is who i am. and it's not... it's not entirely who i am, but it's something that is a part of me, and i'm ok with it. i go to speech therapy and regular therapy, because i want my problems to sound good. laughter. he threw himself into the spotlight, a finalist on america's got talent, using his stammer, or stutter, as they call it in america, to make him a star. going on stage was something that made me feel... ..just like a human being again, like, people were listening to me again, because something about stuttering that i had to find out the hard way is, you know, a lot of people are impatient or they're... ..or they're dismissive, or they're not as understanding. i want joe biden to win.

cheering. laughter. applause. here's why. he's a person who stutters. that's the only reason why. it's not often you hear presidentjoe biden stammer, but he does. this isn't about... there's a reason why he's br...bringing up all this malarkey. he has spent his whole life mastering techniques to control his speech. but for him, it's no laughing matter. you know, think about it. stutter is the only thing people think they can laugh at. if i were standing up here talking about having a cleft palate, and how i had that operated on, or i had a withered arm... ..or i was partially paralysed... ..no—one would make fun of it at all, but think about it.

stuttering is the only thing that good people think it's still ok to laugh about. and those of you who are stutterers, remember how it feels. remember how it feels. it drags you down in that empty hole in your chest. that feeling of panic you get and then anger. for a while, there was not a realisation that he had a stutter, or a stammer, and it's only him talking about it where it's become clear. i think that he just is determined that people will see that, yes, he might have a stutter, but he is clear about what he wants to say, and it may fumble a bit, out as perfectly formed as he would like, but he's not going to keep addressing people who say, "you're an idiot, you're simple, you're senile,"

because i think he just doesn't want to be defined in that particular way and made to feel that he's permanently on the defensive. over the years, joe biden has worked hard to use his position to help and encourage others who stammer. to all of you young people and parents who are here tonight, if i could share one piece of advice with you, it would be this. first, your stutter does not define who you are. your stutter is not about who you are. it has nothing to do with who you are at your core. it has nothing to do with your intellectual competence. it has nothing to do with your decency, your character. everything that matters, it has nothing, nothing, nothing to do with. it's not been easy talking about my stammer after hiding

it for so long, but i realise now i'm not alone. it turns out being more open can help, and i now know i'm not the only one who dreads being asked my name. and i know you can say your name. will you say it? 0k, 0k. erm... i can, ijust have to breathe. 0k. felicity baker. yes! brilliant! that's brilliant. thank you. you were amazing! that was so lovely. oh, my god. oh, god. yes. situations i least like — interviews, so you guys. "oh, you're doing really well today." most of the time, itjust makes me stammer more. i'm trying to say a simple word, and they tell me i what the word is like i don't know it. i don't pity me. don't feel sorry for me.

if you're going to stammer, then you might as well stammer with. ..confidence. no, no. i pat myself on the back. everyone needs to be heard. everyone has a voice. and the idea, the old ideal that stammerers somehow have little to say or, - you know, weren't as bright as anybody else, i mean, that's i so utterly, ridiculously wrong. i the cliche that it's owned me... ..and now i own it. just let me do it. i will finish that sentence if i want to. i can't believe you've got me talking about this after 36 years! # see, i'm a modern day robin hood # i'm just a man of the people, make sure it's understood # see, i could never envision that i would be making cream # just a man with a team trying to achieve my dream # so bleep the haters, - i'mma see you in the afterlife

# i'll be kicking bat with the gods smoking half a pipe # and i ain't never going to change or do switch up # anybody hating on my name bleep — # biggy is the name, killing all the game, # k—killing all the # all you brothers sound the same # biggy is the name...# good morning, welcome to breakfast, with ben thompson and nina warhurst. our headlines today: widespread criticism for the metropolitan police over their handling of a vigil held in south london, in memory of sarah everard. the met have defended their actions, but the home secretary has demanded a full report into what happened here. �* , a full report into what happened here, f ., , a full report into what happened here. �*, ., , , a full report into what happened here, �*, ., , , ., a full report into what happened here. �*, ., , , ., ., here. so, it's ready, it is go, go, o, here. so, it's ready, it is go, go, no, no! goodbye to the voice of formula 1. murray walker dies at the age of 97. good morning. we'll have tributes from the world of formula 1 for murray walker,

plus, just one more win needed for wales. after thumping italy in rome, they're within touching distance of the grand slam title. the weather is a tale of two halves today with the bright start, the rain to follow for many by this afternoon. i will have all of the details for you in about 15 minutes. good morning to you. it's sunday, the 14th of march. our top story. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, is facing calls to resign after fierce criticism over how her force handled a vigil in memory of sarah everard. officers were seen handcuffing and leading women away from the event on clapham common, close to where sarah was last seen alive. the met has defended its actions, but the home secretary, this report from simonjones contains flashing images. shouting get off! police move in to try to break up an unofficial vigil to mark the life

of sarah everard, near to the spot where she was last seen. chanting: shame on you! more than 1,000 people had gathered. the police said it wasn't safe, under lockdown restrictions, but the organisation reclaim these streets, which had cancelled its own plans for a vigil, said it was "deeply saddened and angered" by scenes of officers physically manhandling women at an event against male violence. this image has made front page news. people are angry. they're angry that we were silenced, in this case, about women being silenced, and women having violence against them. the police said they had repeatedly asked people to obey the law and go home. but in a tweet, the home secretary said: "some of the footage circulating online from the vigil in clapham is upsetting. i have asked the metropolitan police for a full report on what happened." the mayor of london said although the police have a responsibility to enforce covid laws,

the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate. and there are calls for the met�*s commissioner — who visited clapham on friday — to resign. the leader of the liberal democrats said cressida dick had lost the confidence of the millions of women in london. in the early hours of this morning, the police defended their actions, saying hundreds of people had been tightly packed together, posing a very real risk of covid being spread. chanting: shame on you! part of the reason i'm speaking to you tonight is because we accept that the actions of our officers have been questioned. we absolutely did not want to be in a position where enforcement action was necessary, but we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect people's safety. in brixton hill, reclaim these streets lit candles to mark the lives of women killed by men. sarah everard was remembered too at downing street and by the labour leader. a serving police officer, wayne couzens, has been charged

with her murder. he'll next appear in court on tuesday. sarah's family, who describe her as "bright" and "beautiful", are now trying to come to terms with their loss. simon jones, bbc news. simon is live on clapham common for us this morning. and simon, there is real pressure on the met police this morning? yes, and| yes, and i think the met know they are facing some really serious questions. that's why we had the unusual sightjust questions. that's why we had the unusual sight just before questions. that's why we had the unusual sightjust before 1am this unusual sight just before 1am this morning unusual sightjust before 1am this morning at a senior officer being brought out in front of the tv cameras to defend the way this event had been policed. now, that officer did address calls for —— did not address calls for dame cressida dick to resign, but did explain some of the challenges police had had. she sat up until around 6pm yesterday evening, things here had been pretty calm, there had been a steady stream of people arriving including bringing flowers, taking a quiet moment of contemplation to remember

sever —— sarah everard's life. then people started giving speeches, moving in closer, there was a complete lack of social distancing. the police said they spoke to those involved, asking them to go home, but some of them simply refused and at that stage the police decided they needed to take action, to break up they needed to take action, to break up the unofficial vigil. four people were arrested. as well as the vigil here, there were a number of others taking place across the country on a much more the scale and a lot of people chose to light candles at home, but i think today a of people are expecting dame cressida dick to say something about the way her officers behaved.— say something about the way her officers behaved. simon jones there at club and commons _ officers behaved. simon jones there at club and commons -- _ officers behaved. simon jones there at club and commons -- clapham i at club and commons —— clapham commons. our political correspondent helen catt is in our london newsroom. helen, what has been

the political reaction to this? well, it was very quick condemnation from politicians across the political spectrum, those pictures we saw from clapham common, we had the home secretary, patel has asked for a full report from the met police. and the london mayor, sadiq khan is an absolutely the police have to enforce covid rules but from what he saw he felt the response was a time is neither appropriate nor proportionate. aerostar missing he said the anger of women coming together to remember sarah everard and the head of the women's equality committee saying the actions by police were badly misjudged stopping this all comes in the context of this all comes in the context of this much wider conversation being sparked by the disappearance, by the death of sarah everard about how women stay safe on the streets and how they can feel safe on the streets about violence against

women. and the message from the politicians of the last few days have been, look, we are listening, we understand that we hear you and understand the sensitivities of. the images we have seen across the papers this morning said the opposite message, and i think that is why we have seen such fierce backlash from politicians. thank ou. elsewhere this morning... a group of mps has warned that the british army's ageing armoured vehicles are in a "deplorable" state — and are likely to be "outgunned" in any conflict. the scathing report by the commons defence select committee says the army has been left with tanks which are "increasingly" outdated. the ministry of defence says recent extra funding will deliver an upgraded armoured force to meet future threats. murray walker, whose distinctive commentary turned him into the voice of formula 1, has died at the age of 97. well, murray worked for both the bbc and itv in a career that spanned over half a century, commentating on his first grand prix for the bbc at silverstone in 1949. andy swiss looks back at his life.

commentator: so, it's ready! it is: go, go, go! and schumacher leads! brilliant start! exuberant, excitable, and utterly unmistakable. by the austrian driver in the back! murray walker was the high—octane voice behind a high—octane sport. cross gets away! it was once said that even in his quieter moments, "he sounded like his trousers were on fire". that's it — bang, bang and off! his passion came from his father, graham walker, who raced motorcycles and was himself a commentator, often sharing the duties with young murray. the sensation is that tommy wood went through not on time, not after time, but ahead of time! and after commentating on his first british grand prix in 1949, murray walker became an integral part of formula 1, especially in a double act with former world championjames hunt. but in a sport of inevitable risk,

he was faced with tragedy, too. world motor racing champion ayrton senna has been pronounced clinically dead. when the great ayrton senna died in a crash in 1994, walker's shock was only too clear. this is the blackest day for grand prix racing that i can remember in the many, many years that i've been covering the sport. walker never hid his emotions. most famously, when his friend damon hill won the world title in 1986. david hill exits the chicane! and wins the japanese grand prix! and i've got to stop! because i got a lump in my throat! oh, real spectacular driving! watch this! his frenetic style wasn't without its gaffes. burnie! it's some 17 years since you've bought mclaren, you've had some good times and you've had some bad times, what do you remember best? i don't remember buying mclaren.

but the mistakes only increased his popularity. a, but the mistakes only increased his --oulari .�* , , but the mistakes only increased his --oulari .~ , ,~ ., popularity. a completely clean windscreen, _ popularity. a completely clean windscreen, that's _ popularity. a completely clean windscreen, that's the - popularity. a completely clean i windscreen, that's the advantage of being in front. his energy and enthusiasm endeared him to millions. and when he covered his final british grand prix in 2001, the affection was plain to see. one of sport's most imitated voices, but there will only ever be one murray walker. an incredible career. there's a warning that the full impact of the pandemic on high from the accountancy firm pwc. it found that more than 17,500 chain stores closed last year across britain. the figures, which include hospitality and leisure outlets, reveal the worst decline in more than a decade. around 2 million vulnerable people will receive a text from nhs england this weekend, urging them to book their coronavirus vaccination.

those with conditions such as diabetes and certain types of cancer who've not yet received a letter from their gp will be able to make an appointment via a link in the text. the fa cup final at wembley and the world snooker championship have been lined up to test the return of big crowds to venues. around a dozen events in the spring will be used to find ways to bring fans and audiences back safely. it's expected that a number of the pilots will include spectators who are not socially distanced. it's 7:11. good morning. let's return to our top story. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, is under mounting pressure over her force's handling of a vigil in south london that was held in memory of sarah everard. the home secretary priti patel has asked for a full report into the clashes on clapham common — while there's been criticism from across the political spectrum. joining us now is lord paddick —

a lib dem peer and former deputy assistant commissioner of the metropolitan police — and gracejessup from the campaign group reclaim these streets — who originally organised a vigil on clapham common but later cancelled it. good morning to you both. look, mounting pressure on the metropolitan police this morning, what did you make of what you saw last night, the images circulating online, we have shown some of them this morning. what did you make of what you saw? it this morning. what did you make of what you saw?— what you saw? it was absolutely a- allinu. what you saw? it was absolutely appalling- the — what you saw? it was absolutely appalling. the optics _ what you saw? it was absolutely appalling. the optics of - what you saw? it was absolutely appalling. the optics of it, i what you saw? it was absolutely i appalling. the optics of it, bearing in mind the background from the incident that happened last week, it was your worst nightmare. in terms of publicity for the police. it has to be said to have such large numbers that people gathered in such a small space was irresponsible, but the responsibility for creating that situation, i think, the responsibility for creating that situation, ithink, lies the responsibility for creating that situation, i think, lies with the police, because if the police had

negotiated a socially distanced vigil with reclaim these streets, then such scenes could have been avoided. �* , then such scenes could have been avoided. g ,, , then such scenes could have been avoided. . ,,, , ., avoided. and grace jessup, 'ust to brina ou avoided. and grace jessup, 'ust to bring you in — avoided. and grace jessup, 'ust to bring you in as i avoided. and grace jessup, 'ust to bring you in as lord i avoided. and grace jessup, just to bring you in as lord paddick i bring you in as lord paddick outlined _ bring you in as lord paddick outlined there, viewers said there was a _ outlined there, viewers said there was a certain inevitability like this — was a certain inevitability like this. when people turned up to a gathering that they had been told was not _ gathering that they had been told was not allowed? gf gathering that they had been told was not allowed?— gathering that they had been told was not allowed? of course. we did eve hinu was not allowed? of course. we did everything we _ was not allowed? of course. we did everything we could _ was not allowed? of course. we did everything we could to _ was not allowed? of course. we did everything we could to work - was not allowed? of course. we did everything we could to work with . was not allowed? of course. we did | everything we could to work with the met to— everything we could to work with the met to make — everything we could to work with the met to make sure _ everything we could to work with the met to make sure this _ everything we could to work with the met to make sure this exact - met to make sure this exact situation _ met to make sure this exact situation didn't— met to make sure this exact situation didn't happen, - met to make sure this exactl situation didn't happen, and met to make sure this exact - situation didn't happen, and we are really— situation didn't happen, and we are really deeply— situation didn't happen, and we are really deeply saddened _ situation didn't happen, and we are really deeply saddened and - situation didn't happen, and we are| really deeply saddened and actually angered _ really deeply saddened and actually angered to — really deeply saddened and actually angered to see _ really deeply saddened and actually angered to see the _ really deeply saddened and actually angered to see the site _ really deeply saddened and actually angered to see the site of- really deeply saddened and actually angered to see the site of many- really deeply saddened and actually i angered to see the site of many male police _ angered to see the site of many male police officers — angered to see the site of many male police officers at _ angered to see the site of many male police officers at a _ angered to see the site of many male police officers at a vigil _ angered to see the site of many male police officers at a vigil against - police officers at a vigil against female — police officers at a vigil against female violence _ police officers at a vigil against female violence dragging - police officers at a vigil against i female violence dragging female protesters — female violence dragging female protesters and _ female violence dragging female protesters and vigil— female violence dragging female protesters and vigil holders - female violence dragging female i protesters and vigil holders away. lord paddick, _ protesters and vigil holders away. lord paddick, talk— protesters and vigil holders away. lord paddick, talk to _ protesters and vigil holders away. lord paddick, talk to me - protesters and vigil holders away. lord paddick, talk to me about. protesters and vigil holders away. i lord paddick, talk to me about how they would have planned an event like this and what instructions are

passed to officers about how they will bully something like this? well, then, these are the questions we need to ask. i had a message last night from a former chief constable who was on the same course as me, that taught us how to police these sorts of demonstrations, and we both agreed the last thing you do is ban agreed the last thing you do is ban a demonstration, because it is very, very difficult to have sufficient numbers of police officers to handle it well, to handle it safely. it is far better to have a hands off approach, as i say, to have negotiated a better situation. but i have to say, as far as the frontline officers involved on the ground last night, they were doing, they were just following orders. they were doing what their bosses had told them. and the responsibility for this lies higher up, and we need to know how much higher up. if i ran

for mayor of london at one stage, if i was the mayor of london, indeed, if i was the home secretary, i would have been on the phone to the commissioner before this happened and said, ok, we have the high court decision, they are not going to intervene, how are you going to handle this? and we need to know what those conversations were and who made the decision to break up this vigil by force, because that was a serious mistake. this morning there were calls for cressida dick's resignation. should she go? i cressida dick's resignation. should she no? . ~ ., cressida dick's resignation. should she io? ., ~' ., ,, ., cressida dick's resignation. should sheao? ., ,, ., ,, ., she go? i have known cressida dick for decades _ she go? i have known cressida dick for decades. we _ she go? i have known cressida dick for decades. we served _ she go? i have known cressida dick for decades. we served together, l she go? i have known cressida dick. for decades. we served together, we are fellow colleagues. i do not want to get into whether or not she should resign but the leader of the

democrats, my party, has asked her to consider her position and i can absolutely understand why he has written to her in those terms, for the reasons you have just explained. in normal circumstances, when you are trying to reassure women in london how is that approach to that vigil going to help? the london how is that approach to that vigil going to help?— vigil going to help? the optics of these are wrong, _ vigil going to help? the optics of these are wrong, how _ vigil going to help? the optics of these are wrong, how does - vigil going to help? the optics of these are wrong, how does lastl vigil going to help? the optics of- these are wrong, how does last night reinforce or remind people that it is safe to go out given what you have organised and at the protest and the vigil you wanted to hold is not the case? this and the vigil you wanted to hold is not the case?— and the vigil you wanted to hold is not the case? this is a great shame because we — not the case? this is a great shame because we gave — not the case? this is a great shame because we gave the _ not the case? this is a great shame because we gave the met _ not the case? this is a great shame because we gave the met every - because we gave the met every opportunity to work with us from the very start _ opportunity to work with us from the very start. we involve them as soon as it began — very start. we involve them as soon as it began organising and we were

open _ as it began organising and we were open with— as it began organising and we were open with them. they have failed to work with— open with them. they have failed to work with us, they have created the dangerous _ work with us, they have created the dangerous and unsafe situation that occurred _ dangerous and unsafe situation that occurred last night and actually this goes— occurred last night and actually this goes to show the police and the government in fact need to listen and realise that the criminal justice system is failing women time and time _ justice system is failing women time and time again and this is an example— and time again and this is an example of that. we and time again and this is an example of that.— and time again and this is an example of that. and time again and this is an examle of that. ~ ., ., example of that. we heard from the met overnight _ example of that. we heard from the met overnight and _ example of that. we heard from the met overnight and i _ example of that. we heard from the met overnight and i just _ example of that. we heard from the met overnight and i just want - example of that. we heard from the met overnight and i just want to - met overnight and i just want to read what we received from the assistant commissioner, we absolutely did not want to be in a position where enforcement action necessary but we will place in this position because of the overriding need to protect people's safety. the olice were need to protect people's safety. the police were the ones that made the situation _ police were the ones that made the situation unsafe. we had worked so hard to— situation unsafe. we had worked so hard to create an environment where women _ hard to create an environment where women could come together peacefully and safely _ women could come together peacefully and safely to remember sarah and all

of the women who have been lost to violence _ of the women who have been lost to violence. and we just did not get that opportunity and it is as unfair to insinuate that this was because of the women who went to pay their resects. ~ ., ., ., ., ., respects. we have had a range of resonse respects. we have had a range of response including _ respects. we have had a range of response including asking - respects. we have had a range of response including asking for - response including asking for cressida dick's resignation. what will happen now? for cressida dick's resignation. what will happen now?—

will happen now? for helen boll representing _ what do we learn from this? every woman will — what do we learn from this? every woman will have _ what do we learn from this? every woman will have a _ what do we learn from this? every woman will have a story that - what do we learn from this? es woman will have a story that sounds similar to those we've been hearing across social media. or women —— all women are familiar with the feelings they have, fear, walking home alone in the dark, or often in daylight. the government and the police need to listen to us now, and the steps must be taken to ensure that one, we have an opportunity to protest and hold visuals peacefully, even during

coronavirus, and also to have a place to collectively come together to discuss what we do to move forward. gracejessup and lord paddick, many thanks forjoining us this morning. paddick, many thanks for 'oining us this morning.— this morning. thank you. it is 'ust about to turn fl this morning. thank you. it is 'ust about to turn 7:20. i this morning. thank you. it is 'ust about to turn 7:20. talent i this morning. thank you. it isjust about to turn 7:20. talent has - this morning. thank you. it isjust l about to turn 7:20. talent has more on the weather. good morning! i promise not to disappear at the end of this i. i had some computer problems. good morning to you. some fantastic sunrise schotts. this is west logan, you can see the red sky morning, shepherd's warning. we had yesterday's wind and rain clearing out of the way, drier and brighter weather, already steaming and of the atlantic on our next weather front, which will bring some rain to many parts to the cause of the day. the best of the drier and brighter weather across central and eastern

areas is definitely this morning, some chilly and frosty but bright weather across north—east scotland but you can see in the south—west and from northern ireland the rain comes in, reaching the irish seesaws around about lunchtime be the steady few hours of rain is that progresses southward and eastward through the day, giving way to hopefullyjail weather for northern ireland, perhaps later south—west scotland. temperatures are a little bit perhaps later south—west scotland. temperatures are a little hit up on those yesterday, it wasn't quite so chilly but not great if stuck under the cloud and there is a brisk wind about north—westerly, and we have had our share of rain in the past week. to the evening and overnight the skies clear once again is that rain eases out of the way, more in northern ireland by morning but in the interim it is going to be clear skies, which means it will be chilly again overnight and there will be a touch of ruralfrost again overnight and there will be a touch of rural frost at link in the glans of scotland in particular, north—east of england, and that is where things are quite down this weekend, i'm not promising, sorry, this week, not because of sunshine because we have these weather fronts enclosed committee but at least the north but should be a notes down on

what we have had in the last week, not as much heavy rain. that said, after that bright star, once again tomorrow morning we have the rain pushing back in. it doesn't look like an organised feature as it is coming into that high pressure tomorrow, it's only some rain, we think northern ireland, western fringes of scotland, england and wales to be temperatures will be higher because we have it sunshine which really helps at this time of year, we will start to feel the strength of the sunshine coming through. by tuesday that weather front pushes its way further eastwards, a lot of time to start the day with the cloud, and even though we have a weather front it will be a weak affair. it introduces some moisture, so some cloud, really. tuesday dawns on cloudy skies, we think, and behind it, northerly wind will bring in brightness and sunshine to be in the southern half of the day on tuesday will be brighter than the first copy even though it is northerly breeze, given some sunshine and lighter winds to the north, i think 12—14 will feel quite pleasant. we have a quieter week of weather on offer for you after today's rain and a little

bit of rain tomorrow, so, drier, less windy, at this stage it doesn't look like we'll see an abundance of sunshine. when we do with the light winds, as i said, we will feel that much unchained coming through now. we will get there, helen, aren't we? we are. the british army would find itself "outgunned" in conflict, because of it's ageing fleet of armoured vehicles — that's the claim in a new report from a group of mps. the commons defence committee says the tanks and troop carriers are increasingly outdated, and has accused the ministry of defence of squandering hundreds of millions of pounds. the conservative mp tobias ellwood is chair of the committee and joins us now. good morning to you. talk to me about how you prioritise spending as far as defence is concerned? how wars will be fought in future and whether we should be spending a new technology than rather perhaps order technology? you technology than rather perhaps order technolot ? ., ., ., , , . technology than rather perhaps order technolot ? ., ., ,. ., technology? you have raised such an

im tortant technology? you have raised such an important question. _ technology? you have raised such an important question. and _ technology? you have raised such an important question. and i _ technology? you have raised such an important question. and i thank- technology? you have raised such an important question. and i thank the l important question. and i thank the committee for the work we do. because new threats emerge on the digital plan, but it doesn't mean old threats appears to be you may have your laptop which is important to you and you have the software to protect it, doesn't mean you leave your back door open, and that is what we're seeing here. we have not invested in tanks for 20 years, we are not investing in our warrior armoured vehicles were even longer, and by definition we are seeing a reduction in our hard power capabilities. ourability to reduction in our hard power capabilities. our ability to do expeditionary warfare. we have an obligation to nato to provide a war fighting eggs —— park, and we can't really do that. we are being told to remove it because it is obsolete and give it to digital, but that is dangerous because those threats have not disappeared. dangerous because those threats have not disappeared-— not disappeared. clearly and there are financial _ not disappeared. clearly and there are financial implications. -

not disappeared. clearly and there are financial implications. taking l are financial implications. taking on cyber threats, joint technology, you take those on and something has to give? you take those on and something has to tive? ., .., you take those on and something has to itve? ., you take those on and something has to tive? ., ., , you take those on and something has totive? ., ., , , to give? you can say that but they have decided _ to give? you can say that but they have decided to _ to give? you can say that but they have decided to keep _ to give? you can say that but they have decided to keep some - to give? you can say that but they have decided to keep some tanks | to give? you can say that but they i have decided to keep some tanks but get rid of the armoured fighting vehicles that is like getting rid of your spitfire and your harrier in the second world war. they worked together to provide the firepower. we need to make sure we continue that conventional capability. i worry that perhaps mod have not explained themselves enough as to where had power can be utilised. this idea that we can change the biggest threat china by pushing out at the china sea, is not going to work. the cold war is to do with us being pushed out right across africa, the middle east and so forth. friendships we have had will

be nudged out by china so we need this upstream engagement and greater defence posture if you like to build those friendships up and that requires conventional capability which i am afraid we are losing. you call it deception _ which i am afraid we are losing. you call it deception and that is the issue, it is how we are viewed from other countries and what defence capability we have and even if this would not necessarily be used in warfare it is about looking like we have the resources in place? absolutely right. authoritarianism is on the rise stopjoe biden has come out and said america is back and borisjohnson has to come out and take on the big challenges, leap forward and recognise where the threats are and design the defence

architecture. i'm afraid that is not happening. we're cutting important areas. frigates, the f 35, conventional capability is so important it should never disappear. while we have you, what do you make of the scenes last night, increasing pressure on the metropolitan police this morning over the handling of the situation.— this morning over the handling of the situation. everybody would be shocked to see _ the situation. everybody would be shocked to see those _ the situation. everybody would be shocked to see those same - the situation. everybody would be shocked to see those same even. shocked to see those same even people wanted to pay their respects to sarah everard. that should have been better co—ordination. i pleased the home secretary has been asked to look at this in detail indeed. a very sad night indeed last night. good to talk to you, thank you.

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hello, this is breakfast, with ben thompson and nina warhurst. back to our top story this morning — there's been widespread criticism for the metropolitan police over its handling of a vigil held in memory of sarah everard. officers were seen handcuffing and leading women away from the event on clapham common, close to where sarah was last seen alive. the force has defended its actions. let's speak now to the conservative mp caroline nokes, who is chair of the women and equalities committee. first of all, caroline, your reaction to those pictures? they reaction to those pictures? the: were appalling scenes and reaction to those pictures? tte: were appalling scenes and i reaction to those pictures? tt9:1 were appalling scenes and i remember earlier on in the evening telling someone i have no doubt the met seek

to please that visual sensitively, and that isn't what happened at. we saw pictures of women being pinned to the floor, we sought tributes being trampled, it was just appalling, and i am so pleased the home secretary has said she has asked for a full report into what has clearly gone wrong.- asked for a full report into what has clearly gone wrong. should it have come _ has clearly gone wrong. should it have come to _ has clearly gone wrong. should it have come to this? _ has clearly gone wrong. should it have come to this? legally - has clearly gone wrong. should it. have come to this? legally speaking there was an opportunity for there to be a vigil, for it to be done with the right marshals, to make sure people were socially distanced, they could have allowed it and they didn't? ~ ,,:, y they could have allowed it and they didn't? ~ , , ~ they could have allowed it and they didn't? : ,,, , �* , they could have allowed it and they didn't? ~ , , ~ , :, didn't? absolutely. and they went to court to stop — didn't? absolutely. and they went to court to stop it- _ didn't? absolutely. and they went to court to stop it. i _ didn't? absolutely. and they went to court to stop it. i heard _ didn't? absolutely. and they went to court to stop it. i heard from - didn't? absolutely. and they went to court to stop it. i heard from the - court to stop it. i heard from the original organisers of the vigil yesterday, they had put really robust plans in place and reached out to the met throughout, trying to find a solution which would have enabled a peaceful vigil to go forward with staggered timings, with the appropriate social distancing. that could have happened. the met chose to stop it and then descended it into chaos we saw last night. in

it into chaos we saw last night. in your view, it into chaos we saw last night. in yourview, it it into chaos we saw last night. in your view, it should have gone ahead peacefully, also mistakes were made last night. the buck stops somewhere. should cressida dick go? i think the commissioner will be looking at what went wrong. i think she will do that hand—in—hand with the home secretary. i have no doubt. i was absolutely shocked when we heard the statement from the assistant commissioner, helen ball, saying they didn't want that to happen last night he saying they didn't want that to happen last night be well, it did happen last night be well, it did happen at. somebody has to take responsibility for it, this was a vigilfor women by women, and we have a commissioner and assistant commissioner who don't really seem to have understood how people are feeling about this dreadful murder, the way they wanted to grieve together, the way they wanted to show their determination. that women should not be subject to violence by men, and i'm extremely disappointed in both of them that they could not understand that. just to reiterate that position, assistant commissioner helen ball thing we did not want to be in this position but

it was necessary, we were placed in this because of the overriding need to protect people's safety. what is most important now is where do we go from here? �* ::, , most important now is where do we go from here? �* :. , :, :, from here? because if women have lost faith in — from here? because if women have lost faith in the _ from here? because if women have lost faith in the police _ from here? because if women have lost faith in the police at _ from here? because if women have lost faith in the police at a - from here? because if women have lost faith in the police at a time - lost faith in the police at a time when they are particularly concerned for personal safety, that is really worrying, isn't it? filth. for personal safety, that is really worrying, isn't it?— for personal safety, that is really worrying, isn't it? oh, it's hugely wor int worrying, isn't it? oh, it's hugely worrying and _ worrying, isn't it? oh, it's hugely worrying and l — worrying, isn't it? oh, it's hugely worrying and i have _ worrying, isn't it? oh, it's hugely worrying and i have absolutely i worrying, isn't it? oh, it's hugely! worrying and i have absolutely no doubt that women have lost faith in the police are. they feel really disappointed, let down and angry by what happened last night copy and i woke this morning to an e—mail inbox full of women who are dimly distressed at what happened. and i think the met —— what happened last night and i woke up this morning to an e—mail inbox full of women who were extremely distressed at what happened. fiur were extremely distressed at what ha- tened. :, ,:, were extremely distressed at what hat-ened. :, , happened. our e-mail inbox is full of tteole happened. our e-mail inbox is full of people who _ happened. our e-mail inbox is full of people who say _ happened. our e-mail inbox is full of people who say no-one - happened. our e-mail inbox is full of people who say no-one shouldl happened. our e-mail inbox is full- of people who say no-one should have of people who say no—one should have been there that night. this of people who say no-one should have been there that night.— been there that night. this wasn't a trotest, been there that night. this wasn't a protest. this _ been there that night. this wasn't a protest, this was _ been there that night. this wasn't a protest, this was a _ been there that night. this wasn't a protest, this was a vigil— protest, this was a vigil remembering a dead woman. the original organisers were very clear saying please do not go to clapham,

but people felt so strongly and wanted to express their grief in a way that enabled them to come together at. way that enabled them to come togetherat. i way that enabled them to come together at. i am just extremely disappointed it could not have gone together with the original plans that would have enabled it to be safe and controlled. just that would have enabled it to be safe and controlled.— safe and controlled. just to be clear, in your view, they were | clear, in your view, they were right to go last night if they wanted to? look, i think it was a difficult judgement call that individuals took for themselves. judgement call that individuals took forthemselves. i judgement call that individuals took for themselves. i stood on my doorstep with a candle, and i know millions of other women would have done the same, but i understand the strength and feeling, particularly for women who live close to clapham common, close to where this poor victim was abducted. so i can absolutely understand that for sarah, for their own safety, or a sense of togetherness, that they wanted to do that and i absolutely sympathise with their feelings about that. ~ :, , sympathise with their feelings about that. . :, , : :, sympathise with their feelings about that. . :, _ :, , sympathise with their feelings about that. :, _ :, , that. what is clear as this has been a touchpad — that. what is clear as this has been a touchpad for— that. what is clear as this has been a touchpad for the _ that. what is clear as this has been a touchpad for the wider— that. what is clear as this has been a touchpad for the wider issue - that. what is clear as this has been a touchpad for the wider issue of i a touchpad for the wider issue of how safe or unsafe women feel. most

women now are unaware if they had a bad experience that they are not alone in. but where to from here? t alone in. but where to from here? i think there are some important steps to be in the home secretary on friday announced they were reopening the copper evidence into the strategy against violence against women and girls —— coalfor evidence, so that is important, but we don't want to see just take of evidence or a chance for women to have their voices heard, but for that strategy to be really powerful, to make sure there are positive steps going forward but i think we also need to have a female justice strategy. one of the big concerns that has been repeated to me time and time again is women don't see the point in reporting, because they do not think that crimes will be properly investigated, they do not think they will come to court, if they get the court, they do not think there will be a conviction. that is a deeply worrying state of affairs for ourjustice system, and i would like to see the government pull together all the threats, whether it is from the home office policing, the justice whether it is from the home office policing, thejustice department, whether it is about how they make sure the crimes are prosecuted to

make sure we have a really solid strategy so women can have the confidence to report and know that their attacker or perpetrator will face justice to be a thing that is what is doubly upsetting about it, isn't it, that it is normalised when things have happened and women do not raise their voices. and things have happened and women do not raise their voices.— not raise their voices. and a cords l bill will come to the commons, part of that will give police bigger powers, they will be able to, for example, arrest people based on the volume of sound they make when there is a gathering, even a static gathering, would you be supporting that? i gathering, would you be supporting that? “ gathering, would you be supporting that? ,. :, :, , that? i think the government has real problems — that? i think the government has real problems with _ that? i think the government has real problems with this _ that? i think the government has| real problems with this legislation now, and i will be supporting an amendment being tabled by harriet harman about making matters to do with school children a particular offence. i think we have two look at this and engage in the debate. you have to give so much more advance notice as when you want to speak in

parliament, you cannotjust appear last—minute. that is just the way processes operating at the moment. a think this is an opportunity for us to look at legislation and look at what happened on saturday night at clapham common. do we think the police are getting it right now and we think they need additional powers? i'm sure you have a busy week ahead scrutinising that. good mornint to week ahead scrutinising that. good morning to you- — week ahead scrutinising that. good morning to you. it _ week ahead scrutinising that. good morning to you. it is _ week ahead scrutinising that. good morning to you. it is 7:36am. the nhs is sending texts to millions of vulnerable people in england, urging them to get their covid vaccination. around 2 million people with conditions such as diabetes and certain forms of cancer will receive a text this weekend, inviting them to book their appointment. let's say good morning to professor stephen powis who is the national medical director for nhs england. good morning to you. just clarify, if you would, first of all, who will be getting this text message? well. be getting this text message? well, we have done _ be getting this text message? well, we have done a fantastic— be getting this text message? -ii we have done a fantasticjob in the vaccine programme so far, nearly 20 million people in england have had theirfirstjab. in the million people in england have had their firstjab. in the last few weeks we have been working through

this group of vulnerable people, people with heart disease, people with certain forms of cancer, with diabetes, many have come forward already, over half. we want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to getjabs, so this weekend we are sending text messages out to remain people to book an appointment. if you get one of those text messages, through the national service and make sure you get yourjab. ii make sure you get yourjab. if people do receive that message they will have the option either to get a vaccination centre or maybe to hang on a bit into their gp tells them to come? , , , :, , on a bit into their gp tells them to come? , ,, :, , come? yes, gps have been contacting this trou- come? yes, gps have been contacting this group already. — come? yes, gps have been contacting this group already, they _ come? yes, gps have been contacting this group already, they still— come? yes, gps have been contacting this group already, they still have - this group already, they still have the opportunity to be vaccinated through one of the gp centres, but they can book into one of the vaccination centres or pharmacies available as well it's to be many, many ways now you can get a jab of the important things to get on the booking system if you have not already, get yourjab, make sure you get it. already, get your 'ab, make sure you tet it. : , :, already, get your 'ab, make sure you et it. : already, get your 'ab, make sure you .etit,�* , already, get your 'ab, make sure you tetit.: ,: get it. and you say it is clinically vulnerable _ get it. and you say it is clinically vulnerable people _ get it. and you say it is clinically vulnerable people as _ get it. and you say it is clinically vulnerable people as well, - get it. and you say it is clinically vulnerable people as well, and i get it. and you say it is clinically . vulnerable people as well, and they are high priority and it is important that they get it? yes,

absolutely. _ important that they get it? yes, absolutely, this _ important that they get it? yes, absolutely, this is _ important that they get it? yes, absolutely, this is a _ important that they get it? yes, absolutely, this is a group - absolutely, this is a group identified as vulnerable because we know they have a higher risk of serious effects of covid, it really is an important group. and by getting vaccinated you are notjust protecting yourself, you will also be able to protect your loved ones because there is evidence now that transmission may be reduced by getting a jab. transmission may be reduced by getting a jab-— transmission may be reduced by tetttin a'ab. :, �*, :, ,, :, getting a 'ab. that's talk about the rollout getting a jab. that's talk about the rollout overall, _ getting a jab. that's talk about the rollout overall, because _ getting a jab. that's talk about the rollout overall, because some - rollout overall, because some newspaper headlines yesterday suggesting that actually, everyone may be vaccinated much quicker than first thought. and that that would be a month earlier than first, yet the number of vaccination seem to have slowed a little bit of the concerns regarding supplies to be just explain where we are in terms of that rollout?— of that rollout? yeah, well, as i said, we have _ of that rollout? yeah, well, as i said, we have done _ of that rollout? yeah, well, as i said, we have done a _ of that rollout? yeah, well, as i said, we have done a fantastic i of that rollout? yeah, well, as i i said, we have done a fantastic job, said, we have done a fantasticjob, over 20 million people across the uk, around 20 million of these jabs in england. and we are getting substantial into the second jabs, occurring around 12 weeks after the first. we do have more supply coming in the next week or two, so we're

going to be working out to get those vaccines to people into people's arms but we also know that of course it is dependent on supply and we see ups and downs with supply. and as we look further ahead, i think we still have to be cautious because there will be that variability in supply coming through.— coming through. yes. just a comment on yesterday's — coming through. yes. just a comment on yesterday's newspaper _ coming through. yes. just a comment on yesterday's newspaper headlines, | on yesterday's newspaper headlines, that everybody over the age of a0 should be offered thatjab by easter, is that something you recognise?— easter, is that something you recotnise? ~ �* recognise? well, well, we've said we wanted to get — recognise? well, well, we've said we wanted to get to _ recognise? well, well, we've said we wanted to get to the _ recognise? well, well, we've said we wanted to get to the top _ recognise? well, well, we've said we wanted to get to the top nine - recognise? well, well, we've said we wanted to get to the top nine groups| wanted to get to the top nine groups by the middle of april, that's what we are working to i think we are always dependent on supply, the next two look really good in terms of supply, but we have seen ups and downs and we have seen that lumpiness people have talked about. and i think we will continue to see that. what we're doing is getting those vaccines into vaccination centres and people's comes from

manufacturers, and we will continue to do that. == manufacturers, and we will continue to do that. , :,, �*, manufacturers, and we will continue todothat. , �*, :, , to do that. -- people's arms. other still concerns _ to do that. -- people's arms. other still concerns about _ to do that. -- people's arms. other still concerns about people - to do that. -- people's arms. other still concerns about people not - still concerns about people not wanting to have the vaccine? we know that has been one of the concerns, particularly ethnic minority groups, too. what has been your response in getting people in those groups the vaccines? taste getting people in those groups the vaccines? ~ :, getting people in those groups the vaccines? . :, , :, . vaccines? we have seen fantastic u ttake, vaccines? we have seen fantastic uptake. well— vaccines? we have seen fantastic uptake, well over _ vaccines? we have seen fantastic uptake, well over nine _ vaccines? we have seen fantastic uptake, well over nine in - vaccines? we have seen fantastic uptake, well over nine in ten - vaccines? we have seen fantastic i uptake, well over nine in ten people in the upper edge groups have come forward already. but as you say it is important that those groups that might find access to healthcare harder, we worked really hard to ensure that we reach these groups. if they are worried about the vaccine, we have worked with local communities, localfake leaders, communities, local fake leaders, which communities, localfake leaders, which we are doing, to ensure that everybody understands the vaccines are safe and they are effective and we are seeing lots of progress. we have gps phoning everybody in their practice —— faith leaders. buses that can go to local communities, we

are seeing progress. and it's important everybody gets vaccinated be if you're in one of those groups, if you are hesitant, make sure you get your information, talk to your friends, colleagues and community leaders and get thatjab. abate leaders and get that 'ab. are concerned are t leaders and get that jab. are concerned are you about what we are seeing on — in mainland europe? we know in italy large parts of italy are going back into another lockdown. what impact could that have here? i lockdown. what impact could that have here? .. lockdown. what impact could that have here?— have here? i think it is really important — have here? i think it is really important to _ have here? i think it is really important to remember- have here? i think it is really important to remember that | have here? i think it is really - important to remember that although we are doing very well with the vaccine programme, we are still very much not out of the woods with this virus. we still see high infection rates, they have been dropping recently but higher than we would like, we still have thousands of people in hospital with covid—i9. and hundreds being admitted every day, so we are by no means through this. it is important that people remember that those social distancing rules are in place, don't get ahead of yourselves, we all need

to be careful, be patient, and stick to be careful, be patient, and stick to the rules because we do not want to the rules because we do not want to see what is happening in europe happening again here, either way. absolutely. professor stephen powis, good to talk to you, thank you for your thoughts on that. if you are one of the 2 million people who get your text this morning, do you get thatjab. jane is with us. murray walker, it really says something about him and his career, even if you don't know anything about motorsport, they still recognise that voice beats and he retired 20 years ago. wow, wow! yet his voice is synonymous with the sport, isn't it? the voice of formula 1, murray walker, has died aged 97. he worked for both the bbc and itv in a commentary career spanning more than 50 years, before his retirement in 2001. walker delighted the sport's fans with his fast—paced, excitable style of commentary, which we can hear now. commentator: so, it's ready!

it is: go, go, go! and is trying to go through on the inside and turning immediately?! this is amazing max and i goes there in the first corner but what has happened? he has gone off, too! amazing, but completely predictable. you are about to see germany's michael schumacher in italy's ferrari become world champion! and david hill exits the chicane and wins the japanese grand prix. and i got to stop! because i got a lump in my throat. the got to stop! because i got a lump in m throat. , :, , ~ my throat. the illustrious murray walker. someone who knew murray walker well and got to work with him covering formula i and other motorsports is steve rider, who we can speak to now. a very warm welcome to you and bbc breakfast, steve. he was known for

being such a professional, but we had the emotional tone of his voice when he talked about damon hill winning the championship just then. is that what he was such a love broadcaster?— is that what he was such a love broadcaster? yes, i think it was, because motorsport _ broadcaster? yes, i think it was, | because motorsport and formula broadcaster? yes, i think it was, i because motorsport and formula1 broadcaster? yes, i think it was, - because motorsport and formula1 in because motorsport and formula i in particular is a very complex port to trade to persuade the noncommitted audience to get enthusiastic about, but because murray was so enthusiastic, that sort of conveyed itself to the audience. he did become overly technical in his commentary, it didn't get too bogged down in the magnificent engineering that was going on in formula i. down in the magnificent engineering that was going on in formula 1. he wanted to know about personalities and develop the personal stories he had his own personal enthusiasm as well as that came through in his support for damon hill, nigel before that, his analysis of the whole senna era and he generated a whole new audience for formula i that has hopefully stayed with the sport ever since. was definitely the voice of formula i, the same way that peter

alice who died in december when was the voice of golf. and we are now losing this golden era of bbc commentators, they were all magnificently talented and murray was up there with the best. what was he like as a person? he was generous and fun. he walked around in a constant state of bewilderment. his support notjust for formula one but he was the voice for motorsport. he was just as enthusiastic at the british to car championship, motorcycling in particular as well. the rally cross and so forth. he was motorsport mad and even after his retirement he continued to be involved. constantly inquiring about

the talent. wanting to know about the talent. wanting to know about the new talent, how good they were going to be. an enthusiast through and through. he going to be. an enthusiast through and through-— and through. he covered iconic moments _ and through. he covered iconic moments and _ and through. he covered iconic| moments and some tragic ones as well, none more so than the death of senna. he well, none more so than the death of senna. , ::, ., well, none more so than the death of senna. , :, :, :, senna. he became a formula one commentator _ senna. he became a formula one commentator in _ senna. he became a formula one commentator in 78 _ senna. he became a formula one commentator in 78 so _ senna. he became a formula one commentator in 78 so he - senna. he became a formula one commentator in 78 so he went - senna. he became a formula one - commentator in 78 so he went through the 80s without dealing for many days without that level of tragedy and that is why it was such a level of shock. we tried to help as best we could but it was murray who had to shoulder the burden. he had to commentate on a race in the knowledge that senna had died but the news could not be made public

until afterwards. the news could not be made public untilafterwards. he the news could not be made public until afterwards. he went into the news bulletin, did a grand prix special straight after that. it was around nine o'clock we got in the car and headed home to the hotel we were staying and nobody said a word of that car journey were staying and nobody said a word of that carjourney but were staying and nobody said a word of that car journey but we were aware that murray was still meeting headlines and that we got to a restaurant, had a few bottles of red wine and all spilt out, or the emotion, anger and frustration and desolation of the day and i remember that murray said there is only one way to finish this and he looked across at the corner of the restaurant and there were a couple of arcane racing machines, jonathan was there as well, we put money into these machines and let all the frustration of the day come out in the next half—hour. was an appropriate and to a dreadful day

but murray was the ultimate professional that day. that comes across genuinely _ professional that day. that comes across genuinely that _ professional that day. that comes across genuinely that he - professional that day. that comes across genuinely that he was - professional that day. that comes across genuinely that he was such professional that day. that comes i across genuinely that he was such a professional. what would you say looking back on his career was maybe your favourite moment? looking back on his career was maybe yourfavourite moment? i looking back on his career was maybe your favourite moment?— your favourite moment? i think, it was understanding _ your favourite moment? i think, it was understanding how— your favourite moment? i think, it was understanding how he - your favourite moment? i think, it| was understanding how he worked. damon hill will championship, nigel vented success, working behind the scenes with him. we had our different ways but an hour before the grand prix, the british grand prix, you would go into the bbc catering tent and there was murray an hour before the broadcast, sitting that with the biggest sunday roast you could imagine. it was the

kind of thing you would fall asleep in front of the television. and in the next two hours, he would put such emotional input and physical input, sending up, pointing and so on and that enthusiasm just carried on and that enthusiasm just carried on through every level of his involvement with motorsport. he was a delight to be with him.— a delight to be with him. thank you steve rider for _ a delight to be with him. thank you steve rider for sharing _ a delight to be with him. thank you steve rider for sharing your - steve rider for sharing your memories. and some more stead news, the boxer marvin hagler also died. had a big roast dinner before a shift. what a hero. we're here on the bbc news channel until 9:00 this morning. but this is where we say goodbye to viewers on bbc one. bye for now.

time now for the travel show. this week on the show — the surfers making waves in fukushima, ten years after the nuclear disaster. we start this week in the fukushima region in north—eastern japan. now, as the world learns to cope with one disaster — a global pandemic — here, they're marking another. it's exactly ten years since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear catastrophe. the region has sadly become synonymous with those tragic events. a decade on, i'm here to find out how people are still battling to move on from the past.

this is kitaizumi beach, some 70km from the centre of fukushima city. while it's hard to believe now, this beach was once one of the most popular surfing destinations injapan. surfing was popularised injapan in the 1960s, when american gis stationed here headed for the beaches, armed with their boards, and the surf scene has been growing ever since. but at 2:a6pm on march 11, 2011, everything changed when,100km up

the coast, disaster struck. a nine magnitude earthquake triggered the most devastating tsunami injapanese history. person wails deadly 1a—metre waves engulfed entire communities, breaking down the walls of the daiichi nuclear power station, triggering four days of catastrophic failures to the reactor�*s cooling systems, releasing radioactivity and leading to an evacuation order covering a 12—mile radius. this man's home was washed away.

in total, the disaster claimed over 18,000 lives. sadly, events organised to commemorate the 10th anniversary of this horrific moment have been cancelled or scaled back, due to the pandemic. today, a decade on, after a $20

billion clean—up operation, the government says as much as 97% of the prefecture is safe to visit. locals are returning to live and domestic tourism is on the up, partly thanks to these surfers. suzuki—san was one of the first people back in the water. and they did return. kitaizumi officially opened in 2019 after the community pulled together by cleaning up the beach and hiring lifeguards.

and today, despite the water being about six degrees, there are plenty of surfers out. so how long have you been surfing? it's about five years. five years? i'm just a beginner. yeah. where you are not worried about radiation in the water?— where you are not worried about radiation in the water? many people are surfing- — radiation in the water? many people are surfing- ls— radiation in the water? many people are surfing. is it _ radiation in the water? many people are surfing. is it safe? _ radiation in the water? many people are surfing. is it safe? yes, - radiation in the water? many people are surfing. is it safe? yes, i- are surfing. is it safe? yes, i think so- _

we'll test the wet sand. and it's 0.a, 0.5... still safe ? yes.

levels have returned to where they were before the disaster, and despite a recent earthquake nearby, authorities say the water is completely safe. now, there are positive signs with the vaccine starting to be rolled out in many countries, but travel is still some way off for most of us so here's what is happening online around

the world this coming month — something to keep us going until we can hit the road again. windmills overlooking endless fields of colourful tulips have been the traditional postcard of the netherlands for centuries. every year at the end of march, millions of tourists usually flock to this flat country to admire the flowers blooming. but in 2020, the pandemic hit and the festival of colour transferred online. this year again, you can catch keukenhof, and the largest flower park in the world, virtually. speaks dutch from march 20, head to their website to watch two videos posted each week, with some of their 7 million flower bulbs putting on a show of colour. and although the wild parties usually held to celebrate the king's birthday on april 27 are on hold this year, you can still tour amsterdam's most

famous museums online. they have joined forces with google to offer virtual tours of their collection. you can wander through the exhibition rooms of the van gogh museum and look at the painter�*s self—portraits on your own, without the crowds. if you miss nature, there are plenty of options to explore the wildlife from your couch. for example, twice a day on wildearth.tv, you can take part in a live safari in africa and interact with a guide while being filmed on the lookout for the big five. hey, girl! wow! what a stunner! you see that? scent marking as she goes. now, if anybody wonders what a fresh track looks like, that is it. webcams are everywhere, too. explore.org features hundreds of livestreams from all around the world.

just choose the animal you're interested in. for those who'd like to celebrate world penguin day on april 25, you've got four live webcams to choose from, including one located underwater at the aquarium of the pacific in california. and finally, if you want to regain your fitness after lockdown, virtual marathons are now all the rage. you sign up to complete a full marathon wherever you live and register your timings using a running app. you can find a full range of virtual marathons on different websites. and if you need an extra incentive to take part, some of the proceeds for the next virtual marathon in mexico will go towards supporting local indigenous communities. that's all we've got time for this week. coming up next time — whilst we all wait to start travelling again, we've got some more inspiration for you — this time from thailand, as we look back at some of our favourite adventures there. i'm about to step in

the ring with momo. he looks really mean! in the meantime, if you enjoy the show and want to see the longer version, you can catch us on the bbc iplayer. and we are on social media too in all the usual places. but until next time, from all of us here in fukushima, injapan, keep planning your next adventure and we'll see you very soon. good morning, welcome to breakfast with ben thompson and nina warhurst. our headlines today: widespread criticism for the metropolitan police over their handling of a vigil held in south london, in memory of sarah everard.

the met have defended their actions but the home secretary is concerned and she has demanded a full report into what happened here. goodbye to the voice of formula one. murray walker dies at the age of 97. we'll have tributes from the world of formula one for murray walker, plusjust one more win needed for wales. after thumping italy in rome, they're within touching distance of the grand slam title. the weather is a tale of two halves a day with the bright start, the rain to follow for many by this afternoon. i'll have all the details for you in about a quarter of an it's sunday the 1ath of march. our top story. the metropolitan police commissioner, dame cressida dick, is facing calls to resign after fierce criticism over how her

force handled a vigil in memory of sarah everard. officers were seen handcuffing and leading women away from the event on clapham common — close to where sarah was last seen alive. the met has defended its actions, but the home secretary priti patel has asked for a full report. this update from simonjones contains flashing images. police move in to try to break up an unofficial visual to mark the life of sarah everard, near to the spot where she was last seen. more than 1000 people had gathered. the police said it wasn't safe under lockdown restrictions. but the organisation reclaim these streets, which had cancelled its own plans by vigil, said it was deeply saddened and angered at the sight of officers manhandling women at an event against male violence. this image has made front—page news.

people are angry. they are angry we were silenced, in this case, about women being silenced, and women having violence against them. the police said they repeatedly asked people to obey the law and go home, but in a tweet, the home secretary said: the mayor of london said although the police have a responsibility to enforce covid laws, the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate. and there are calls for the met�*s commissioner, who visited clapham on friday, to resign. the leader of the liberal democrats said cressida dick had lost the confidence of the millions of women in london. in the early hours of this morning, the police defended their actions, saying that hundreds of people had been tightly packed together, posing a very real risk of covid being spread. chanting: shame on you! part of the reason i am speaking to you tonight is because we accept that the actions of our offices have been questioned. we absolutely did not

want to be in a position where enforcement action was necessary. but we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect people's safety. in brixton hill, reclaim these streets lit candles to claim that mark the lives of women killed by men. sarah everard was also remembered at downing street and by the labour leader. a serving police officer, wayne couzens, has been charged with her murder. he will next appear in court on tuesday. sarah's family, who describe her as bright and beautiful, are now trying to come to terms with their loss. simon jones, bbc news. simon is live on clapham common for us this morning, and simon there is real pressure on the met police this morning? i think the understand they are facing some serious questions about what happened here yesterday that's why we had the unusual sight

of a senior officer been brought out to face the cameras and try to explain their version of how this was policed. there is no comment on whether dame cressida dick should resign. according to officers things were pretty calm until six o'clock yesterday evening and there was a steady stream of people bringing flowers, bit like what we're seeing this morning. everything was very carefully controlled and then about six o'clock people started giving speeches from the bandstand, the crowd grew and people came forward to try to hear what was being said. at that point according to officers there was no social distancing at all and they felt had to act to make sure of public safety here but i think there will be some real pressure on dame cressida dick to come out today and see what she felt about what happened. she is the first female boss of the met and she has been accused of letting women

down. our political correspondent helen catt is in our london newsroom. the home secretary has asked for a full report. you had criticism from across the political spectrum. and the london mayor, sadiq khan said absolutely the police have to enforce covid rules but from what he saw he felt the response was a time is neither appropriate nor proportionate. there has been a debate sparked by the death of sarah everard as to how women can feel safe on the streets. the home office opened a report into this on friday night and in the first 2a hours a 20,000 responses.

this is why we are seeing such a backlash from the politicians is to work out whether the policing of this individual was done in the light of that. a group of mps has warned that the british army's ageing armoured vehicles are in a "deplorable" state — and are likely to be "outgunned" in any conflict. the scathing report, by the commons defence select committee, says the army has been left with tanks which are "increasingly" outdated. the ministry of defence says recent extra funding will deliver an upgraded armoured force to meet future threats. murray walker, whose distinctive commentary turned him into the voice of formula one, has murray worked for both the bbc and itv, in a career that spanned over half a century, commentating on his first grand prix

for the bbc at silverstone in 19a9. andy swiss looks back at his life. so, it's ready, and it...is... ..go, go, go, go! and schumacher leads, brilliant start... exuberance, excitable and utterly unmistakable. ..by the austrian driver in the back... murray walker was the high—octane voice behind a high—octane sport. it was once said that even in his quieter moments, he sounded like his trousers were on fire. that's it. bang bang, and off! his passion came from his father graham walker, who raced motorcycles and was himself a commentator often sharing the duties with young murray. the sensation is that tommy wood went through not on time, not after time, but ahead of time. and after commentating on his first british grand prix in 19a9, murray walker became an integral part of formula 1. especially in a double act with

formal formula 1 racing driverjames hunt. but in a sport of inevitable risk, he was faced with tragedy, too. world motor racing champion ayrton senna has been pronounced clinically dead. when the great ayrton senna died in a crash in 199a, walker's shock was only too clear. this is the blackest day for grand prix racing that i can remember in the many, many years that i've been covering the sport. walker never hid his emotions, most famously when his friend damon hill won the world title in 1996. damon hill exits the chicane and wins the japanese grand prix, and i've got to stop because i've got a lump in my throat! real spectacular driving, watch this. his frenetic style wasn't without its gaffes. what do you remember best? i don't

remember buying — what do you remember best? i don't remember buying mclaren. - his energy and enthusiasm endeared him to millions, and when he covered his final british grand prix in 2001, the affection was plain to see. one of sport's most imitated voices, but there will only ever be one murray walker. last year, more than 17,500 chain stores disappeared from british high streets — that's an average of a8 per day. the figures, compiled by the accountancy firm pwc, reveal the worst decline in more than a decade. there's also a warning that the full impact of the pandemic on high streets is yet to be felt. our business correspondent emma simpson has more. richmond, on the edge of london, a prosperous and popular spot. but this last year, some big chains

have been pulling out, leaving an awful lot of holes. the majority of the high streetjust seems to be disappearing. not only high street shops, but restaurants and coffee shops as well. well, i think it is very upsetting for the locals and we are very sorry. we now have the final tally for these closures across britain over the last year. just over 17,5000 chain stores shut. that's an average rate of a8 a day. although more than 7600 shops opened, that was not enough to fill the gaps, meaning there was a net loss of nearly 10,000 shops. that is the worst decline in more than a decade. and the shake—out is far from over. you've seen the closures of the likes of debenhams

and topshop and that is really happening in 2021, so they are not even in our numbers, so i think, unfortunately, there is worse to come before it gets better. but on the positive, as we come out of covid, it does give an opportunity for people to invest and come on to our high street. this shop owner certainly hopes so. a few of our bigger chains, like this one, house of fraser, has pulled out. that was well flagged before covid. covid has exacerbated or speeded up the process. the high street is also renewing at the same time and here we are going to see a lot of new retail units and so on and the nature of retail will change. getting there, though, is painful, for so many of our high streets, and the full impact of the pandemic has yet to be felt. emma simpson, bbc news, richmond. around two million vulnerable people will receive a text from nhs england this weekend, urging them to book their around two million vulnerable people will receive a text from nhs england this weekend, urging them to book their coronavirus vaccination. those with conditions such as diabetes and certain types of cancer who have not yet received

a letter from their gp will be able to make an appointment via a link in the text. have been lined up to test the return of big crowds to venues. around a dozen events in the spring will be used to find ways to bring fans and audiences back safely. it is expected that a number of the pilots will include spectators who are not socially distanced. the metropolitan police says they will look to see if lessons can be learned after officers were seen handcuffing women attending a vigil for sarah everard in south london. the home secretary priti patel has asked for a full report into the clashes on clapham common — whilst there's been criticism from across the political spectrum. earlier we spoke to the conservative mp caroline nokes, chair of the women and equalities committee, and we asked her whether the vigil could have gone ahead legally and safely. absolutely. and they went to court to stop it. i heard from the original organisers of the vigil yesterday, they had put really robust plans in place and reached out

to the met throughout, trying to find a solution which would have enabled a peaceful vigil to go forward with staggered timings, with the appropriate social distance. that could have happened. the met chose to stop it and then descended it into chaos we saw last night. the metropolitan police said four arrests were made at the vigil to "protect people's safety" — but commissioner dame cressida dick is facing calls to resign. earlier we heard from lord paddick, a lib dem peer and former deputy assistant commissioner of the metropolitan police. he told us someone must be held to account. this is a very serious situation that needs to be looked at very seriously indeed in terms of who set the strategy here, who decided that the police would break up a vigil

by women who are mourning the death of another woman. who made the decision to break that vigil up by force ? and that person or those people need to be held to account. joining us now is deborah frances—white — who is a comedian, writer and host of the guilty feminist podcast should those women have attended last night? should those women have attended last nitht? ~ :, :, last night? women needed to grieve last night? women needed to grieve last nitht last night? women needed to grieve last night and _ last night? women needed to grieve last night and l— last night? women needed to grieve last night and i spoke _ last night? women needed to grieve last night and i spoke at _ last night? women needed to grieve last night and i spoke at an - last night? women needed to grieve last night and i spoke at an online i last night and i spoke at an online vigil but i don't blame any woman for going to the place with an off duty policeman has been charged with the abduction and murder of a woman. if there was ever a time for the police force not to be heavy—handed it was last night and there are images this morning of women being held down and face down to the ground. i am sorry but it is just not acceptable. ground. i am sorry but it is 'ust not acceptablei ground. i am sorry but it is 'ust not acceptable. what you think it's hat-ened not acceptable. what you think it's happened this _ not acceptable. what you think it's happened this week? _

not acceptable. what you think it's happened this week? the - happened this week? the conversations _ happened this week? the conversations move - happened this week? tt9: conversations move beyond happened this week? tt9 conversations move beyond sarah everard, women sharing their experiences of feeling disempowered and abused and it is normalised that women have these conversations with one another and diminish the significance of it.— one another and diminish the significance of it. one thing i want to see is 9696 _ significance of it. one thing i want to see is 9696 of— significance of it. one thing i want to see is 9696 of homicides - significance of it. one thing i want to see is 9696 of homicides are - to see is 96% of homicides are committed by men and that means if men stopped killing, killing would stop _ men stopped killing, killing would stop the — men stopped killing, killing would stop. the a% committed by women are often self— stop. the a% committed by women are often self defence against an abuser are a legal— often self defence against an abuser are a legal euthanasia. if 96% of homicides— are a legal euthanasia. if 96% of homicides were committed by women and men _ homicides were committed by women and men were frightened to go out onto the _ and men were frightened to go out onto the street after dark we would feel about — onto the street after dark we would feel about it. that would be called a female _ feel about it. that would be called a female problem and we would be asked _ a female problem and we would be asked to _ a female problem and we would be asked to address it, rightly. but most _ asked to address it, rightly. but most men — asked to address it, rightly. but most men watching this today would never _ most men watching this today would never kill _ most men watching this today would never kill anyone, never hurt anybody. _ never kill anyone, never hurt anybody, not deliberately. so we

have _ anybody, not deliberately. so we have to _ anybody, not deliberately. so we have to ask the question, the ones who are _ have to ask the question, the ones who are doing it, where are they getting _ who are doing it, where are they getting the idea it is normal? it is true, _ getting the idea it is normal? it is true, when — getting the idea it is normal? it is true, when they ask men who commit sexual— true, when they ask men who commit sexual assault, when the as to try to rehabilitate them about the situation the sea they think all men do it, _ situation the sea they think all men do it. just _ situation the sea they think all men do it, just some are brave enough and some — do it, just some are brave enough and some get away with it, theyjust .ot and some get away with it, theyjust got caught — and some get away with it, theyjust got caught. where are other getting that idea? _ got caught. where are other getting that idea? i would suggest they are getting _ that idea? i would suggest they are getting that idea from story, from iokesi _ getting that idea from story, from jokes, from what is said around them — jokes, from what is said around them i— jokes, from what is said around them. i talk to a friend of mine hannah— them. i talk to a friend of mine hannah gadsby who said story holds our cure _ hannah gadsby who said story holds our cure. only around 20% of stories we see _ our cure. only around 20% of stories we see televised on film by women and we _ we see televised on film by women and we see — we see televised on film by women and we see stories about women going missing _ and we see stories about women going missing and _ and we see stories about women going missing and about serial killers and we are _ missing and about serial killers and we are asked to empathise and there

is this— we are asked to empathise and there is this rosebud moment in his past. men are _ is this rosebud moment in his past. men are clearly influenced. we need to ask— men are clearly influenced. we need to ask every commissioner in this country— to ask every commissioner in this country to— to ask every commissioner in this country to rethink what stories they're — country to rethink what stories they're on— country to rethink what stories they're on television and on cinema. when _ they're on television and on cinema. when i _ they're on television and on cinema. when i saw— they're on television and on cinema. when i saw the programme by caitlin moran— when i saw the programme by caitlin moran i_ when i saw the programme by caitlin moran i was— when i saw the programme by caitlin moran i was shocked because i saw a scene _ moran i was shocked because i saw a scene with— moran i was shocked because i saw a scene with a — moran i was shocked because i saw a scene with a 16 year girl was in an hotel— scene with a 16 year girl was in an hotel room — scene with a 16 year girl was in an hotel room with a rock star and there _ hotel room with a rock star and there was— hotel room with a rock star and there was no creepy moment. i was shocked — there was no creepy moment. i was shocked because i'd never seen that before _ shocked because i'd never seen that before on— shocked because i'd never seen that before on screen. in life i have had that happen, over and over. so many men have _ that happen, over and over. so many men have made me feel comfortable and there _ men have made me feel comfortable and there has been no creepy moment. of and there has been no creepy moment. of course _ and there has been no creepy moment. of course i_ and there has been no creepy moment. of course i have had terrible moments but i am asking why don't we see more _ moments but i am asking why don't we see more stories by women which tell a different—

see more stories by women which tell a different sort of story? like promising young woman where we look at the _ promising young woman where we look at the good _ promising young woman where we look at the good guy narrative. we are looking _ at the good guy narrative. we are looking at — at the good guy narrative. we are looking at things from a different angle _ looking at things from a different angle and everyone is responsible for this _ angle and everyone is responsible forthis. everyjoke angle and everyone is responsible for this. everyjoke that is told that— for this. everyjoke that is told that you — for this. everyjoke that is told that you nervously laugh at contributes to this environment. that— contributes to this environment. that has— contributes to this environment. that has been a big conversation about how men can be encouraged to make women feel safer but you are saying it is also up to us as woman this brand up and be counted every time we encounter something that does not feel that it might make us feel comfortable.— does not feel that it might make us feel comfortable. yes, i think we do and if women _ feel comfortable. yes, i think we do and if women could _ feel comfortable. yes, i think we do and if women could stop _ feel comfortable. yes, i think we do and if women could stop men - feel comfortable. yes, i think we do and if women could stop men killing us we _ and if women could stop men killing us we would have done it by now. women _ us we would have done it by now. women are — us we would have done it by now. women are always being told it is up to us _ women are always being told it is up to us we _ women are always being told it is up to us. we shouldn't walk home alone. so do _ to us. we shouldn't walk home alone. so do we _ to us. we shouldn't walk home alone. so do we have a curfew for and chaperoned women? what difference does it— chaperoned women? what difference does it make? i was mugged and grabbed — does it make? i was mugged and grabbed on my doorstep. i had actually— grabbed on my doorstep. i had actually walked home and it wasn't even that— actually walked home and it wasn't even that dark and had i got out of

a cab— even that dark and had i got out of a cab a _ even that dark and had i got out of a cab a few— even that dark and had i got out of a cab a few doors down and getting my keys _ a cab a few doors down and getting my keys out it still could have happened. if women stay off the streets _ happened. if women stay off the streets after dark it will happen in the day— streets after dark it will happen in the day and men will break into homes — the day and men will break into homes. the men who want to do this are not— homes. the men who want to do this are not going, all, she wasn't walking — are not going, all, she wasn't walking right there, too bad for me. if an individual woman does not what coleman— if an individual woman does not what coleman gets a taxi, it just if an individual woman does not what coleman gets a taxi, itjust happens to another— coleman gets a taxi, itjust happens to another woman, may be a nurse who is coming _ to another woman, may be a nurse who is coming off— to another woman, may be a nurse who is coming off a — to another woman, may be a nurse who is coming off a night shift you can't — is coming off a night shift you can't afford a taxi home. the two most _ can't afford a taxi home. the two most frightening experiences i have ever had _ most frightening experiences i have ever had have been with taxi drivers _ ever had have been with taxi drivers. so the idea that we can stop— drivers. so the idea that we can stop this. — drivers. so the idea that we can stop this. a _ drivers. so the idea that we can stop this, a police officer in this case _ stop this, a police officer in this case may— stop this, a police officer in this case may be stop this, a police officer in this case may he could have shown her badge _ case may he could have shown her badge and — case may he could have shown her badge and said look that is a dangerous man in this neighbourhood, i will dangerous man in this neighbourhood, i will give _ dangerous man in this neighbourhood, i will give you a lift home. i'm not saying _ i will give you a lift home. i'm not saying that — i will give you a lift home. i'm not saying that happened but it does happen — saying that happened but it does happen. we saying that happened but it does ha- ten. ~ :, saying that happened but it does ha en, : ., ., , happen. we will leave it there, many thanks forjoining _ happen. we will leave it there, many thanks forjoining us _ happen. we will leave it there, many thanks forjoining us this _ happen. we will leave it there, many

thanks forjoining us this morning. i here's helen with a look at this morning's weather. i thought i'd share this lovely sunrise in clackmannanshire. also a lovely start to the day with the sunrise in east sussex. the best of the sunshine for many will be this morning. yes world weather moved out away and through the afternoon we have had a relatively calm spell of weather but this is marching in for the day. i will show you the rainfall chart and already that rain is getting on across northern ireland and western scotland. one of two showers picked up ahead of its not a totally dry picture but a speu not a totally dry picture but a spell of quite steady rain to come through this morning across northern ireland in southern and western parts of scotland. that weather system slips south and east so it could be that north—eastern scotland sees the lion's share of the day is dry and sunny weather. it is not

just the rain, it is throwing quite a lot of high cloud ahead of it so we will see the sunshine diminish and it is still quite a brisk wind, nowhere near the strength we had yesterday but a brisk north—westerly so it won't feel that mild at 9 degrees to 12 degrees although it is atlantic area saw temperatures up on yesterday a little. here today and gone by tomorrow. overnight under the starry skies it will be a chilly one again and we have just about avoided a frost overnight. temperatures close to freezing and a similar scenario to tonight, still quite a bit of cloud around and that brisk wind. as the next waterfront starts to come in pressure is building this week and those where fronts become weaker. it does mean they introduce quite a bit of cloud. it might start bright and fine but a little bit of mist around around the dawn period. cloud meanders on again. it doesn't look as persistent

or heavy tomorrow but it spells the sunshine come the afternoon across northern ireland and scotland. we have had a lot of rain recently. in the sunshine further east with lighter winds it might feel quite pleasant in the march sunshine is really showing its strength. by wednesday at high pressure trying to budge the isobars out of away but they come around this week clockwise and give us a northerly breeze so not the warmest direction for the middle of march but it does at least start to a that climbed out of away and give us more sunshine, just a few showers following might struggle to clear southern east areas but temperatures respond to the sunshine on a 12 and 13 degrees despite the breeze. the pattern this week is a gradual drying out after some lively weather in the last week or so. but it is not going to be particularly warm despite the strengthening march sunshine because on the hall we will probably keep quite a bit of cloud.

—— on the hall. —— whole. for many people, returning to a football stadium, or enjoying a gig with friends, would mark a significant return to normality. and for some, that could happen sooner than expected. that's because pilot events with large audiences — some of which will be without social distancing — will take place over the coming months — and could even include the fa cup final. liverpool is set to host some of the trials, which will look at how events can go ahead safely. we can speak now to the city's director of culture and tourism, claire mccolgan. talk is through how these events would work and what might be able to happen. we would work and what might be able to ha- ten. ~ :, would work and what might be able to ha en, . ., :, would work and what might be able to hat-en. ~ :, :, :, would work and what might be able to ha en, . ., :, :, :, “ happen. we are going to work with some key promoters _ happen. we are going to work with some key promoters in _ happen. we are going to work with some key promoters in the - happen. we are going to work with some key promoters in the city. i

happen. we are going to work with | some key promoters in the city. we are looking notjust the venue but the journey to and from the venue because this is a kind of science experiment trying to get us back to how we were 15 months ago in the city. it's usually important for us and we're really excited it. it's a whole other difficult level of operational organising because it's about organising events in liverpool and the rest of the country. you talked about _ and the rest of the country. you talked about how _ and the rest of the country. you talked about how people get to the venue but we are looking at people might go out for a meal or to a bar beforehand. they may mix inside the venue even though the stadium itself is outside. all of that needs to be taken into account. it is outside. all of that needs to be taken into account.— taken into account. it does and it needs to be _ taken into account. it does and it needs to be as _ taken into account. it does and it needs to be as normal— taken into account. it does and it needs to be as normal as - taken into account. it does and it| needs to be as normal as possible because we did want to get back to events without social distancing. then imagine standing next to somebody at an event and being at that environment? we need to create environments that are as normal as

possible and the signs around that will be hugely important and to do it safely but to get that economy that we really mess but is also hugely important to get the nation up hugely important to get the nation up and running again. we hugely important to get the nation up and running again.— up and running again. we are all desperate _ up and running again. we are all desperate to _ up and running again. we are all desperate to get _ up and running again. we are all desperate to get back _ up and running again. we are all desperate to get back to - up and running again. we are all desperate to get back to those i up and running again. we are all- desperate to get back to those sorts of events but economically they are so important for the economy. in liverpool alone ao% of our business rates which is 270 million come from the wider leisure economy and supports 50,000 jobs across the region so for many cities and places around the country getting that life back into city centres and places will take us back to normality will bring some much needed resources back to the city.— back to the city. wine liverpool as the lace back to the city. wine liverpool as the place to _ back to the city. wine liverpool as the place to trial _ back to the city. wine liverpool as the place to trial these? _ back to the city. wine liverpool as the place to trial these? i - back to the city. wine liverpool asi the place to trial these? i suppose testing might be required and liverpool has a good track record.

we started a pilot for mass testing in november which was hugely successful and 260,000 people have used lateral flow tests over the last period and we have a really good track record in testing. we have an incredible relationship with liverpool university who are leading on a lot of the thinking around us. but we had a great event city and you have seen a lot of events we do, we feel our streets and parks and fill our city and we are very good at doing them. i think. three factors combined at the reason why we were chosen.— we were chosen. there is loads of talk about — we were chosen. there is loads of talk about are _ we were chosen. there is loads of talk about are covid _ we were chosen. there is loads of talk about are covid passport i we were chosen. there is loads of. talk about are covid passport which would allow is to travel again and maybe get into cinemas and bars and bigger events. what happens if someone refuses to show a negative test or some sort of covid passport? with these three events we will be working with promoters and they know

their audience so you could take a test before and take a test after and we are thinking how that will work. you have got to trust people a bet that they want to do this. you would have to a nightclub so you would have to a nightclub so you would take a test that i don't think that should be a problem. i think it gets more complicated when you're talking about passports. hose talking about passports. how confident are _ talking about passports. how confident are you _ talking about passports. how confident are you these trials will be a success and we can be back at those events sooner rather than later? , :, :, , ,:, later? they are trials so the success will _ later? they are trials so the success will be _ later? they are trials so the success will be measured i later? they are trials so the i success will be measured when later? they are trials so the - success will be measured when they are happening but we will be doing these over april into the beginning of may. these over april into the beginning of ma . ,:, :, these over april into the beginning ofma. �*, , of may. good luck, let's hope this all toes of may. good luck, let's hope this all goes according _ of may. good luck, let's hope this all goes according to _ of may. good luck, let's hope this all goes according to plan - of may. good luck, let's hope this all goes according to plan and i of may. good luck, let's hope this all goes according to plan and at i all goes according to plan and at these events can be staged in some shape orform and we can get back these events can be staged in some shape or form and we can get back to some form of normality. we have taken for granted for so

nominally for so long the big venues, and then to hear the roar of the crowd. you're watching breakfast with nina warhust and ben thompson. every week, bbc news presenter ros atkins takes an in—depth look at one of the issues in the news. this time, it's the duke and duchess of sussex — harry and meghan — and why the royal family couldn't make it work. in this week's edition, i'm going to look at how the british royalfamily found itself at the centre of the most talked about story in the world — for the wrong reasons. back in 2018, it was different. the wedding of harry and meghan was the moment ofjoy. it was also a moment of change, and moment of difference and diversity for the royalfamily. from the guests to the performers, to the service. they are going to have an impact long after i've flown back to the us. they are going to have an impact through their lives.

and the difference was noticed and celebrated. it's kind of a big moment, because we've never seen anyone like meghan in the royal family. but now, less than three years later, harry and meghan have stepped back from royal duties. they live in california, they've been interviewed by oprah winfrey. and relations with the rest of the royal family are strained. race is still part of the equation, but for very different reasons. meghan told oprah winfrey she considered taking her own life during her lowest point. in a wide—ranging interview on cbs, she also spoke of conversations in the household about how dark their unborn son archie's skin might be. we can't know what happened in that conversation. in the words of the palace, recollections may vary. and this is prince william's response. is the royal family. a racist family, sir? very much not a racist family. what is certain is that the upset and the division within this family is real. and in the eyes of many, this is a lost chance

to change and stay relevant. i think meghan was a huge missed opportunity, because harry and meghan were obviously screaming into their pillows, you know, not being heard. after the interview i thought, oh, that's it. the royal family have really, really quite blown it. the independent put it this way. "meghan and harry could have been britain's greatest asset, but we screwed it up, royally." the former bbc royal correspondent peter huntarguing... and while the royal family would not accept that description, this definitely was not the plan. they really wanted this to work, and they will be looking very closely now at the reasons why it didn't. they are looking closely, so is a watching world. so why didn't it work? why did this chance pass by? that, of course, is very hard to answer, but there are three

apparent contradictions within the british monarchy that may help us understand. the first is how a very public family can lead a very private life. that's long that the royal�*s goal, and it's long looked near to impossible. let's go back to 1936. the british empire faces an extraordinary crisis. i i not for centuries have these housesi of parliament witnessed so dangerous a political struggle. shall king edward viii marry mrs simpson? i in fact, he abdicated to do just that. king edward viii's decision to marry the american divorcee wallis simpson mattered, in part, because it changed the head of state, but also because the public were voracious consumers of the royal soap opera. and that public glare has continued. in 1981, prince charles spoke about it. i don't know about diana, but i'm more used to it, i think probably now.

knowing for years that the cameras are poking at you from every quarter. and recording every twitch you make, so you can get used to a certain extent, and on those occasions you accept that that's part of it. i think if you don't try to work out in your own mind some kind of method for existing and surviving this kind of thing, you would go mad i think. each royal has to find their own method, says charles. this current split connects to a disagreement over what method that should be. for harry and meghan, the method was simply to leave. prince harry has revealed that the pressure caused by newspaper reports damaged his mental health. in an interview with presenter james corden, the princess in an interview with presenter james corden, the prince said his decision to move to the united states was what any husband and father would do. from 1936 to 1981 to 2021, we see the same tension. private versus public. but the idea that everything has to be kept in—house risks looking out of date.

this is hillary clinton this week. you know, this young woman was not about to keep her head down. you know, this is 2021. and this is all connected to what the bbc royal correspondent jonny dymond calls the merging of personal and public roles, of tradition. the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest, and the need to remain relevant. in that last point from jonny leads us to a second, related contradiction. how the british monarchy manages its global reputation, and stays relevant while saying next to nothing. bear in mind, the queen is the head of state to 16 commonwealth countries, and that number is going to go down. barbados and the caribbean will leave the commonwealth later this year. and its former high commissioner, guy hewitt, explains how this weeks furore plays directly into that decision. it represents notjust a symbol of historic oppression, but as we see with harry and meghan, the continued residue of the discrimination and the racism

that made the british empire. history has been, and is part of the royal family's selling point. it's a symbol of a long connection between britain and other countries. but in some places that connection is being reappraised, because of shifting views of colonialism and because of this week. news america's publishes across the caribbean and latin america. it ran this editorial which asks... the article goes on... now, as we heard, the royalfamily denies there is racism, but this illustrates the challenge. a two—hour harry and meghan interview creates one powerful impression. a short statement is the palace's response. and these different approaches are relevant because of debates already under way. for example, in australia. it's our country, it's our constitution.

you know, and our head of state should be an australian citizen, should be one of us. not the queen or king of the united kingdom. now, let's be clear, there's no sign australia is about to become a republic. the point is, though, the story of harry and meghan is, in part, the story of the royal family's future role in the world. it's a point we've heard throughout the week. the royalfamily, they are part of the commonwealth, they lead the commonwealth, they, you know, are leading a diverse country. and so i think the issues that are raised affect us. they affect more than just their family. they do. and the split with harry and meghan is connected to different views of where the royal family fits into the world. and also crucially, how and if to talk about that. and if that is the family, my third point concerns the uk itself. if there's such a thing as a brand, if you are talking about in relation to a country, this country's brand has been tarnished. and to use bonnie greer�*s

word, the royalfamily is part of the uk's brand. it's also central to the uk sense of self. the british are enthusiastic royalists. recent polls showed every age group supports the monarchy being the head of state. and looking back to that sunny spring day in 2018, and the girl we heard from earlier, the possibilities for the uk and the royal family were palpable. everyone from different nationalities just singing together, and i was like, even though there is a so much going on in our world, it's like this brought us together, this wedding. the historian, professor david olusoga has written... well, perhaps for the royalfamily, for parts of the british press, even for parts of the country, the answer is yes. perhaps there is an unresolved contradiction in trying to reshape a hereditary monarchy to fit into a modern, multicultural 21st—century democracy.

it is, at the very least, hard. we've seen that this week. it's also no surprise that the institution steeped in tradition moves at its own pace. the risk, though, is that it gets left behind. good morning. it is coming up to 8:a0am. and now time for a look at the sport. it's a busy weekend in the six nations. yesterday saw italy lose 7—a8 to wales, while england beat france 23—20 in a really tight match. still to come today, after a month off the field, scotland take on ireland. here to bring us up to speed is former scotland international andy nicol.

let's start with one of the matches, no respect to italy, we expected wales to win. after watching france play, do you think that wales are going to do it over france and take the grand slam title? itifhl’ha going to do it over france and take the grand slam title?— the grand slam title? who knows. what a game _ the grand slam title? who knows. what a game of — the grand slam title? who knows. what a game of rugby _ the grand slam title? who knows. what a game of rugby it _ the grand slam title? who knows. what a game of rugby it was. it i the grand slam title? who knows. i what a game of rugby it was. it was fantastic from the first minute that france came out of the blocks fly in, got the try early on and played brilliant rugby but so did england. it was great to see the attacking intent, the mindset, proving rugby union can deliver spectacles like that. �* :, :, that. brilliant game. some say the entland- that. brilliant game. some say the england- france _ that. brilliant game. some say the england- france game _ that. brilliant game. some say the england- france game is - that. brilliant game. some say the england- france game is the i that. brilliant game. some say the england- france game is the best| that. brilliant game. some say the i england- france game is the best of england— france game is the best of the tournament so far. what moments were particularly exciting for you? this tied with france with the trial early on. amazing. england just produced fantastic rugby as well. anthony watson was outstanding. it was the intent, both sides going out to play and proved rugby does not

have to be a kicking fest, not all about defences, it can be playing at pace and playing with attacking intent which was fantastic to see. despite that win, england are out of contention for the title, but wales certainly all in with it. have you been impressed?— certainly all in with it. have you been impressed? certainly all in with it. have you been im-ressed? , , :, :, been impressed? hugely. they had a difficult 2020 — been impressed? hugely. they had a difficult 2020 and — been impressed? hugely. they had a difficult 2020 and they _ been impressed? hugely. they had a difficult 2020 and they rode - been impressed? hugely. they had a difficult 2020 and they rode their- difficult 2020 and they rode their luck in the first couple of days, but you have to be in the right place to exploit that look that comes their waivers that they have turned it up, beat ireland and scotland and they had of the great game against england down in cardiff and pulled away at the end. yesterday i think we are knew wales would win that, but it was very clinical, good quality and they go to paris now absolutely full of confidence. this french side is very good, we saw glimpses, mustang glimpses, and it will be a real challenge for wales but they go with

huge confidence. if they don't win the grand slam, they have definitely got a good chance of the championship, which considering where they were in 2020, they would be absolutely delighted with. scotland play ireland later. not a great track record for scotland. and they haven't played for a month because of the covid cancellation. how do you feel this will go? always touth how do you feel this will go? always tough against _ how do you feel this will go? always tough against ireland, _ how do you feel this will go? always tough against ireland, and _ how do you feel this will go? always tough against ireland, and going i tough against ireland, and going back to the world cup in yokohama and back to november in the autumn nations cup, we saw from scotland, a month ago, scotland had got a team that can mix with the best when it comes to the physicality, and that is what ireland have dominated scotland with for scotland also have an attacking backline, so much

better balance to scotland team. it will be interesting to see the team that beat england at twickenham or the team that lost to wales at home, have scotland turned a corner? if they have and they have got the physicality then i think scotland can really match ireland this afternoon and win this game. goad can really match ireland this afternoon and win this game. good to hear optimism- _ afternoon and win this game. good to hear optimism. thank _ afternoon and win this game. good to hear optimism. thank you _ afternoon and win this game. good to hear optimism. thank you for - afternoon and win this game. good to hear optimism. thank you forjoining| hear optimism. thank you forjoining us. and some sad news from the world of boxing overnight. former middleweight world champion "marvelous" marvin hagler has died at the age of 66. hagler dominated his division from 1979, until a controversial defeat by sugar ray leonard in 1987. the american won 62 of his 67 professionalfights — 52 of those by knockout. hagler�*s most memorable win was arguably in 1985 when he beat thomas "hit man" hearns in a fight known as "the war". tributes have been paid to hagler across the sport of boxing, former featherweight world champion

barry mcguigan tweeted, "shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the incredible marvellous marvin hagler. i'm honoured to have spent some amazing times with him." former middleweight champion oscar de la hoya also tweeted — "saddened to hear about the death of marvelous marvin hagler. one of the greatest to ever step in the ring." lee westwood will go head—to—head with american bryson dechambeau once again this evening — this time at the players' championship in florida. westwood will take a two shot lead into the final day after a bogey free round yesterday, getting four birdies, including this one at the 17th. dechambeau just edged out westwood at the arnold palmer invitational last week. four more premier league games today, including the north london derby, but before that, paul heckingbottom will take charge of sheffield united for the first time after chris wilder's sacking was confirmed. reports had come out as early as friday morning that wilder

was to leave the blades after nearly five years in charge. but the premier league's bottom club only confirmed his departure yesterday. fans have not been hugely happy with the news that wilder has gone. thank you! it's time to say goodbye to ben now — you're off to read the news for andrew marr. goodbye. now here's helen with a final look at this morning's weather. hello ben and new. hello at home. some lovely sunrise pictures coming through. this is near stirling in scotland. this is in wigan. already we see the clouds thickening up across the irish sea. i really the tale of the day, a tale of two halves. many places having the better share of the dry weather, because we have the next massive

cloud rolling in off the atlantic. not as wet, not as windy as it has been this week. there is gradually the weather notching down as pressure starts to build. there will still be whether fronts around, weak weather fronts. still be whether fronts around, weak weatherfronts. today still be whether fronts around, weak weather fronts. today there will be some steady rain, getting on across northern ireland, southern western scotland crushing the irish sea. some showers ahead, but despite the chilly start, but deal of sunshine. could be the north—east of scotland escapes most of the rain and sees the lion's share of their dry and sunny weather. today the sunshine fading in the south and east because the cloud is thrown ahead of the weather system is thrown ahead of the weather system. it might dry up later for northern ireland the weather system. it might dry up laterfor northern ireland later. brisk north—west wind, will temper the feel also. this this time of year you can really feel the difference. through the night, the night is still long enough to allow forjust the odd touch of frost in the glens as the sky clear stub of a

morning we have the next weather front approaching from the south and west, patchy rain, this looks like it will be a weaker weather front for the day tomorrow and that is purely because it is coming into this area of high pressure. that will keep a lot of our weather fronts at bay this week that they will come around periphery. dry start on monday, probably quite chilly, but the cloud is thickening through the day, bringing patchy rain into northern ireland and western fringes of scotland, england and wales, the best of the drier weather further east and lighter winds. 13 degrees potentially in the south. by tuesday, the weather front moving across into the eastern counties of scotland, so it looks like the west closer to the area of high pressure will see the drier and brighter weather, so it is seesawing. quite a bit of cloud

around, a northerly breeze, similar to the best direction, but again out of the breeze, in the sunshine, central lowlands, feeling quite pleasant in that sunshine. have a lovely day that i hear in mind we have some rain heading its way eastwards today. thank you, helen. your weather watchers are on top form. for many of us, our pets are an invaluable source of companionship — but following a rise in pet theft, more than three—quarters of dog owners now fear taking their pooches out for walks. that's according to a survey by the association for police and crime commissioners. participants also called for tougher penalties for stealing a pet. francesca flynn reports. this is haggis. in 2019, he was taken from his owners' home in croydon when he was just two and a half months old. after a huge campaign on social media, someone eventually returned the terrier to his owners.

for me, it was that sense of, where is he? is he ok? is he being harmed? and, yeah, i don't think i have ever felt so empty. it was horrible for us. it was a happy ending for ben and haggis, but that is not always the case. only one in four stolen dogs are ever returned to their homes. it really struck us right in the heart when he went missing and we are just very fortunate that he's back with us and is a happy, healthy little dog and he enriches our lives every day. during lockdown, puppy sales have rocketed, doubling in price to around £2000 on average. and that has opened up an opportunity for organised crime gangs, with a 170% increase in dog theft in a year, reported by charity dog lost. now a new survey suggests three quarters of dog owners are more scared of walking their pets

compared to this time last year. we've seen pet theft, particularly thefts of dogs, rise up the public awareness and it's become very apparent during lockdown as well, where more people have purchased puppies to give them companionship at home. and this has become a big issue, but actually nobody was really talking to the public about it. so it was important we put this survey out so we could really get the public's opinion and it has been an overwhelming response. the home office says its giving police forces extra money to deal with theft to try and keep dogs like haggis safely at home with theirfamilies. joining us now is lisa dean, the founder of beauty's legacy, an online campaign to help find missing pets. good morning, lisa. first of all, tell us about beauty and you have a personal reason for taking the campaign forward. but personal reason for taking the campaign forward.— personal reason for taking the campaign forward.

personal reason for taking the cam-atinforward. �* , campaign forward. but it was my cat and five years _ campaign forward. but it was my cat and five years ago _ campaign forward. but it was my cat and five years ago she _ campaign forward. but it was my cat and five years ago she just - and five years ago she just disappeared out of the garden very unusually. we searched high and low for her, put posters up everywhere, went on social media for help. a lady kindly after a week donated an amount of money and said pop are wide on her in case she has been stolen, which i couldn't believe she would have been. but we did and within hours i got a phone call saying i have got your cat. so i went and collected her, she was clearly unwell, took her to the vet, she was very poorly, sadly she passed away a couple of hours later, but i returned to the people with a bunch of flowers and the check, the reward, which they promptly took and it opened my ice to everything in the lost and stolen pet world. find the lost and stolen pet world. and what is the _ the lost and stolen pet world. and what is the campaign? explain how you manage to reunite pets with their owners? we

you manage to reunite pets with their owners?— their owners? we are a group of volunteers _ their owners? we are a group of volunteers that _ their owners? we are a group of volunteers that has _ their owners? we are a group of volunteers that has grown i their owners? we are a group of| volunteers that has grown across their owners? we are a group of- volunteers that has grown across the country now. we are mainly social media based, we are building a website, and we support and assist families that find themselves in a shocking position and as pet theft has grown, so has our group. we work alongside the police, the local authorities, several organisations, animal protection services and we network across the country, put up posters, supply posters, banners, advice, support and raise awareness. we run campaigns, running the campaignfor we run campaigns, running the campaign for haggis for ben and we have as much as we can. flan campaign for haggis for ben and we have as much as we can.— have as much as we can. can you ex-lain, have as much as we can. can you explain, because _ have as much as we can. can you explain, because we _ have as much as we can. can you explain, because we heard i have as much as we can. can you explain, because we heard from | have as much as we can. can you i explain, because we heard from ben after he was reunited with haggis, it is difficult to imagine how traumatic it is when you are separated from a pet. the emotional

im act on separated from a pet. the emotional impact on these _ separated from a pet. the emotional impact on these families _ separated from a pet. the emotional impact on these families is _ separated from a pet. the emotional impact on these families is huge, i impact on these families is huge, possibly one of the worst dramas they are ever going to go through. they feel lost, they feel anguish, fearfor they feel lost, they feel anguish, fear for their pets, they feel lost, they feel anguish, fearfor their pets, guilt and it is just a shocking minefield of emotion, so part of our role is to help get the animal reunited but a massive pad is also supporting those families because the distress is huge, absolutely huge. we have got a lady at the moment who has recovered from cancer and her cancer is apart darker was stolen overnight —— her cancer support dog was stolen overnight. she thought she had gone through the worst thing in her life and it shows how distressing it can be. ~ :, and it shows how distressing it can be. . :, :, :, :, , be. we want to end, there are lots of tteole be. we want to end, there are lots of people who _ be. we want to end, there are lots of people who are _ be. we want to end, there are lots of people who are first-time i be. we want to end, there are lots of people who are first-time pet i of people who are first—time pet owners who perhaps got a dog over lockdown, what you would your advice be to keep their pets safe? don’t

be to keep their pets safe? don't leave your _ be to keep their pets safe? don't leave your pet — be to keep their pets safe? don't leave your pet unattended - be to keep their pets safe? don't leave your pet unattended in i be to keep their pets safe? don�*t leave your pet unattended in a public place, even in your own front garden, the biggest percentage stolen from their own gardens, so be vigilant, keep the microchip details up—to—date and don't leave them unattended, don't let them off the lead in a public place, vary our walks, try and keep your pet's details of the social media is that this happens every day to people of all walks of life so just be very alert. walk in pairs, vary our walk times. it all helps. just be very vigilant, increase your cctv at home. if you keep your dogs in kennels, increase your security there. ,, : :, kennels, increase your security there, ,, . ., , ., kennels, increase your security there. ,, : :, , :, :, :, there. such a shame not to en'oy our tet there. such a shame not to en'oy your pet at d there. such a shame not to en'oy your pet at a fi there. such a shame not to en'oy your pet at a time i there. such a shame not to en'oy your pet at a time when i there. such a shame not to enjoy your pet at a time when people l there. such a shame not to enjoy i your pet at a time when people are feeling isolated. thank you so much and what a beautiful lasting tribute to beauty. and for the mums watching, how are you spending your mother's day? will it be breakfast in bed? flowers ? a virtual sunday lunch for those

families who are apart? well, someone who i'm sure will be getting spoilt today is esther, who spoke to us last month about how she was finding home schooling her triplets — yimi, waimi and mbetmi. and they alljoin us again now. lovely to see you this morning. lead us, did you get breakfast in bed? no. to us, did you get breakfast in bed? no. :, , :, �* no. to be fair, i didn't get breakfast _ no. to be fair, i didn't get breakfast in _ no. to be fair, i didn't get breakfast in bed _ no. to be fair, i didn't get breakfast in bed becausei no. to be fair, i didn't get i breakfast in bed because these no. to be fair, i didn't get _ breakfast in bed because these three are still young to cook breakfast but i did have a lovely flowers and card. show your cards, guys. they made them in school for me. a very lovely messages, so i was quite pleased. lovely messages, so i was quite leased. : :, :, , lovely messages, so i was quite leased. : :, ., pleased. and what has the day got in store? what — pleased. and what has the day got in store? what treats _ pleased. and what has the day got in store? what treats is _ pleased. and what has the day got in store? what treats is money - pleased. and what has the day got in store? what treats is money going i pleased. and what has the day got in | store? what treats is money going to have later? —— is mummy going to have later? —— is mummy going to have later? -- is mummy going to have later?— have later? they are not sure because they _ have later? they are not sure because they prefer -

have later? they are not sure because they prefer a - have later? they are not sure i because they prefer a surprise, so we have not been told, but we have ordered a mealfrom a spanish restaurant that will come around 1pm. that is what we are waiting for. i 1pm. that is what we are waiting for. :, , , 1pm. that is what we are waiting for. , , :,: for. i hope my husband is watching and takint for. i hope my husband is watching and taking note! _ for. i hope my husband is watching and taking note! a _ for. i hope my husband is watching and taking note! a question - for. i hope my husband is watching and taking note! a question via i and taking note! a question via yimi, is this a special year after mummy has looked after you after lockdown? , , . mummy has looked after you after lockdown? , , : :, ,::, lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten. — lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten. it _ lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten, it is _ lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten, it is a _ lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten, it is a time. _ lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten, it is a time. a _ lockdown? yes. very much. on a scale of one to ten, it is a time. a solid i of one to ten, it is a time. a solid ten. of one to ten, it is a time. a solid ten- and — of one to ten, it is a time. a solid ten- and what — of one to ten, it is a time. a solid ten. and what about _ of one to ten, it is a time. a solid ten. and what about you, - of one to ten, it is a time. a solidi ten. and what about you, waimi? of one to ten, it is a time. a solid i ten. and what about you, waimi? i would say that she supports me and i wouldn't _ would say that she supports me and i wouldn't change _ would say that she supports me and i wouldn't change her— would say that she supports me and i wouldn't change her for— would say that she supports me and i wouldn't change her for the - would say that she supports me and i wouldn't change her for the world. i wouldn't change her for the world. zero to— wouldn't change her for the world. zero to eight— wouldn't change her for the world. zero to eight years? _ wouldn't change her for the world. zero to eight years? he _ wouldn't change her for the world. zero to eight years?— zero to eight years? he has been su- torted zero to eight years? he has been supported for _ zero to eight years? he has been supported for eight _ zero to eight years? he has been supported for eight years, - zero to eight years? he has been i supported for eight years, because he is _ supported for eight years, because he is eight — supported for eight years, because he is eight years old. will supported for eight years, because he is eight years old.— supported for eight years, because he is eight years old. will you show us the card? _

he is eight years old. will you show us the card? and _ he is eight years old. will you show us the card? and what _ he is eight years old. will you show us the card? and what does - he is eight years old. will you show us the card? and what does it i he is eight years old. will you show us the card? and what does it say l us the card? and what does it say inside? , a, , , a, a, inside? dear mummy, you add the c stal of inside? dear mummy, you add the crystal of my _ inside? dear mummy, you add the crystal of my heart _ inside? dear mummy, you add the crystal of my heart and _ inside? dear mummy, you add the crystal of my heart and no - inside? dear mummy, you add the crystal of my heart and no one - inside? dear mummy, you add the crystal of my heart and no one can| crystal of my heart and no one can replace _ crystal of my heart and no one can replace you — crystal of my heart and no one can replace yep-— replace you. from yimi. that's beautiful _ replace you. from yimi. that's beautiful. and _ replace you. from yimi. that's beautiful. and reuben, - replace you. from yimi. that's beautiful. and reuben, it- replace you. from yimi. that's beautiful. and reuben, it is. replace you. from yimi. that's beautiful. and reuben, it is al replace you. from yimi. that's i beautiful. and reuben, it is a day as well for the pattern is for mums to show their appreciation, so the pressure is on you today. i to show their appreciation, so the pressure is on you today.- to show their appreciation, so the pressure is on you today. i wake up early mining _ pressure is on you today. i wake up early mining to _ pressure is on you today. i wake up early mining to get _ pressure is on you today. i wake up early mining to get her _ pressure is on you today. i wake up early mining to get her flowers, - early mining to get her flowers, that is_ early mining to get her flowers, that is why she didn't have breakfast in bed. find that is why she didn't have breakfast in bed. �* ., ~ ., breakfast in bed. and what kind of man is esther? _ breakfast in bed. and what kind of man is esther? she _ breakfast in bed. and what kind of man is esther? she is _ breakfast in bed. and what kind of man is esther? she is a _ breakfast in bed. and what kind of man is esther? she is a terrific - man is esther? she is a terrific moment- _ man is esther? she is a terrific moment. she _ man is esther? she is a terrific moment. she holds— man is esther? she is a terrific moment. she holds up- man is esther? she is a terrific moment. she holds up the - man is esther? she is a terrific i moment. she holds up the whole house. _ moment. she holds up the whole house, looking after the kids exceptionally well, cooking for us and making sure that we all have what _ and making sure that we all have what we — and making sure that we all have what we need. and that is something that is_ what we need. and that is something that is really important in this confinement because we are still

living _ confinement because we are still living between the four walls. particularly this year all of that has been important. esther, what have you been doing since school has resumed? i took the opportunity to have a proper clean, i got under the sofa, even in between the cushions, because i have not been able to get that done with the kids at home. there are lots of movies i like to watch that i have not been able to watch that i have not been able to watch during the day, one hour lunch, so i have been able to go back on amazon prime and watch new amsterdam. . i have been trying to treat myself and read the books that i can't read when the kids are at home. , .,, ., i. home. sometimes as a mum, when you have that bit — home. sometimes as a mum, when you have that bit of — home. sometimes as a mum, when you have that bit of time, _ home. sometimes as a mum, when you have that bit of time, you _ home. sometimes as a mum, when you have that bit of time, you don't - have that bit of time, you don't treat yourself to things like books and films. kids, now you are a national television, how about we promise to make it a mother's week rather than mother's day?-

rather than mother's day? mother's week! you have _ rather than mother's day? mother's week! you have a _ rather than mother's day? mother's week! you have a chance _ rather than mother's day? mother's week! you have a chance to - rather than mother's day? mother's week! you have a chance to make l rather than mother's day? mother's l week! you have a chance to make her breakfast in — week! you have a chance to make her breakfast in bed _ week! you have a chance to make her breakfast in bed on _ week! you have a chance to make her breakfast in bed on monday, - week! you have a chance to make her breakfast in bed on monday, may - week! you have a chance to make her breakfast in bed on monday, may be. | breakfast in bed on monday, may be. is that a deal? that breakfast in bed on monday, may be. is that a deal?— breakfast in bed on monday, may be. is that a deal?_ it - is that a deal? that is a deal. it is too early _ is that a deal? that is a deal. it is too early for _ is that a deal? that is a deal. it is too early for them _ is that a deal? that is a deal. it is too early for them now. - is that a deal? that is a deal. it i is too early for them now. maybe just a croissant. enjoy the rest of your day, you really deserve it, and the pads are absolutely gorgeous. take care. that's all we have time for today. breakfast will be back tomorrow morning at six o'clock. to all the mums watching, had a lovely day. i hope you get spoilt rotten. bye— bye.

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