this is bbc news. the headlines: paralysis continues in the us congress with the republican leader in the house, kevin mccarthy, failing in his 11th attempt to get elected speaker. the session has now been adjourned and voting will continue on friday. a small group of republicans has been derailing attempts to elect him. three mexican security personnel have died in the northwestern state of sinaloa in violence that broke out following the arrest of a leader of an infamous criminal gang. ovidio guzman—lopez is the son of the notorious drug lord dubbed �*el chapo�*, who's serving a life sentence in a us jail. there have been further revelations by prince harry about his life in britain's royal family. his new book isn't due out until next week,

but parts of it have already been made public. it contains a series of claims, including an allegation his brother prince william physically attacked him. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has set out his vision for government, promising to devolve more power out of westminster. he says he'll introduce a so—called "take back control" bill, in favour of communities across the country. sir keir also says if labour wins the next election, he'll oversee a decade of national renewal. the government dismissed labour's plans as "vacuous". here's our political editor chris mason. this is how you would have done it. politicians who hope to embody the future find attempting to have a go with the technology of tomorrow. keir starmer shadow chancellor or at a high—tech engineering site in east london today. robots, gizmos, gadgets.

keir starmer... and a labour leader who backed remain and wanted a second eu referendum, now claiming a leave campaign catchphrase as his own. we will embrace the "take back control" message, but we'll turn it from a slogan into a solution, from a catchphrase into change. we will spread control out of westminster, devolve new powers over employment support, transport, energy, climate change. he wants to reassure brexit voters he gets it. he wants to reassure conservative voters last time that labour can now be trusted on the economy that his plans won't involve lots more money. none of this should be taken as code for labour getting its big government chequebook out. of course, investment is required. i can see the damage the tories have done to our public services as plainly as anyone else.

but we won't be able to spend our way out of their mess. it's not as simple as that. keir starmer has a confidence that comes from a prospect of winning now being realistic. but he knows plenty of crucial voters still need convincing about labour. we can feel the public looking at us again, and we won't let up. we'll work every day to earn their trust. thank you very much. applause you cloaked yourself today in the language of brexit, talking about taking back control, and yet you campaigned for remain, you campaigned for a second referendum. some people might ask you — who is the real keir starmer on this? well, whichever way you've campaigned, i've always accepted that among the issues in that brexit vote was a real desire by people to have more control over their own lives. it seems opportunistic, though, doesn't it, that you've gone from one position to a polar opposite one in the blink of an eye? i've many times said that we all need to listen to that basic case

about taking back control. i've said it for many, many years. would you pay striking workers more than the government is currently offering? what i would do with striking workers is to get in the room and talk to them. but you get in the room, and you're on one side of the table and they're on the other, what do you actually say? we will have to compromise, any negotiation is a compromise. that means paying them more, doesn't it? it's a compromise. we need to get in the room and do it. watching on, the conservatives. people will notice that there was nothing in the speech about economic growth from labour, nothing in the speech about controlling immigration from labour, and nothing practical about how to deal with these global issues that are affecting us all. after the prime minister's new year speech yesterday, keir starmer�*s today. welcome to the new political season. chris mason there. and there is much more of that on the bbc news website. now on bbc news, the travel show. no turning back now.

ijust need to get there. even if it is— ijust need to get there. even if it is a — ijust need to get there. even if it is a debris field. i will be very— if it is a debris field. i will be very happy, paying my respects in the debris field. it was weird. titan was surprised when they made — titan was surprised when they made a — titan was surprised when they made a turn as they discover the platform. made a turn as they discover the platform-—

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breakfast! i good? hungry. need some breakfast!— breakfast! i am already for when they _ breakfast! i am already for when they come. - breakfast! i am already for when they come. must - breakfast! i am already for when they come. must be| breakfast! i am already for| when they come. must be a breakfast! i am already for - when they come. must be a busy 'ob for when they come. must be a busy job for yom _ when they come. must be a busy job for yom very _ when they come. must be a busy job for you. very busy. _ when they come. must be a busy job for you. very busy. it is, - job for you. very busy. it is, indeed- _ job for you. very busy. it is, indeed. yeah. _ job for you. very busy. it is, indeed. yeah. one - job for you. very busy. it is, indeed. yeah. one meal- job for you. very busy. it is, l indeed. yeah. one meal rolls into the other into the other, and especially on dive days, very busy. but i wouldn't have it any other way!— very busy. but i wouldn't have it any other way!- you | it any other way! really? you like it better _ it any other way! really? you like it better doing _ it any other way! really? you like it better doing this? - like it better doing this? absolutely, ioo%. every day is like the excitement. are they going to make it? what did they see? who is going down? another coming back? some days, like i said, are more challenging than others, but for the most part, every day is great. every day is great. for sure.

bottom out around 800 metres... so this is like the very first measurement an oceanographer would make from the site, you record the saltiness of the water throughout the whole depth profile and you record the temperature change. the ocean is getting warmer, it is acidifying, we are seeing much faster glacial melting, the ice sheets are melting, there's huge injections of fresh water that are going on. having this kind of information from remote parts of the world like this is really important to understand those changes. and we're going to be able to link this data to all of the species that we document through the video and through the edna, so we can link these species observations to the environmental conditions that they are found in. edna stands for environmental dna, and it is dna that is left in the environment by all the organisms living there.

so you can imagine a fish swimming through the environment is shedding skin cells and bodily fluids as it moves around, and all of that leaves a bit of dna behind in the environment. this expedition, we are collecting samples with niskin bottles, which are hollow tubes with caps on them that can be closed at particular depths to detect a sample, and those bottles are attached onto the titan submersible. we do have communication with the sub while they are down there, but for me, i don't believe that there is a sample there until i see the bottle at the surface that is closed with the samples. the first time i dove the sub, i said, "this is amazing," it isjust such a different experience, it is a totally different emotion. when you are in the sub, if you didn't bring it with you, nobody is bringing it to you. the sounds are different, what you see is different, and i thought, more people have to go in subs. it looks like silk! oh, my god, it is

getting bigger too! on the way down, we saw a layer of animals we called mesopelagic animals. a lot of those animals are bioluminescent, so you get flashes of light here and there all through the water column. we were going very fast down, so it was very difficult to see with the naked eye, but once in a while, a critter went by. ooh! wow, that was beautiful. we are at 1,200 metres. as we went down through the water column, it became darker and darker until past 1,000 metres there are no photons that get past that layer and it is pitch black. so it is very, veryjarring . because for about 2.5 hours we see nothing but darkness, and then all of a sudden - you see the floor come up to you, the ground come. up to you. all of a sudden, you see l the earth come up to you, and it does feel like i it is coming up to you because you are - descending so quickly.

and so even before seeing - any part of man—made material of the ship, seeing the natural bottom of the ocean come upl at you was sort of spectacular. i mean, it was very exciting just to see dirt and mud. i wow, it was amazing, so suddenly you saw the sand come up and we were just in the debris field there and then. seeing the pieces of debris was sobering. _ all five of us - in the submersible kind of unofficially had| this moment of silence when we hit the bottom. the first pieces i see - looking out of the porthole are pieces of coal. and it didn't even connect. that they were coal at first. i thought they were just rocks. and then someone in the subl said, "oh, look, there's coal." and that — that's the moment

that connected me _ to the humanness of the titanic, - that people had shovelled this, people had brought it onto the boat, - and that during the sinking, itjust all spilled out. - and then we began to see other things — we saw a plate, a big dinner platejust sitting there on its own, then we saw a washhand basin with a tap still attached. we were only about 300 metres apparently from the wreck at that stage. i don't know what is going on, i feel like... like what, like it's thrusters? yeah, i don't know what is going on. we have a grid map that corresponds. with the grid map that topside has. | 946... it is like battleship, they tell us which square we are in _ we had kind of a good idea which square we were in, l but we had topside l confirm that with us and then give us a heading.

is something wrong with my thrusters? i am thrusting and nothing is happening. range...and bearing...two... are we closer to the bank? i guess. we will find out. i don't recognise that mud out there, do you? no, no. here is the map! i haven't been here before. am i spinning? yes. iam? yes. looks like it. now you are going north. oh, my god. and scott is like, _ "oh, no, we have a problem." when we are thrusting forward,

one of the thrusters is thrusting backwards right now. the only thing i can do right now is a 360. i was thinking, "we're not going to make it!" we are literally 300 metres from titanic and although we are in the debris field, we can't go anywhere but go in circles. when i am initiating thrust, i am turning. that is why i spun on the platform. yeah. oh, god, no, don't tell me we have to go to surface, at 300 metres away from the titanic. well, i had covid a few years ago. the first covid, the nasty one, as they say. and i found, i had lost 80kg in the last two years, i had been keeping myself very fit and watching my diet. one of the things i do

is i box every day. so usually i spend about two, three hours in the gym, but one of them is boxing for an hour, and i found i was running out of breath a lot. i went to see a heart specialist in london. they did a myriad of tests and they found the covid had given me sarcoidosis in one of the ventricles in my heart. so they decided i needed a pacemaker and a defibrillator immediately, literally within 48 hours. i went in on a saturday, he allowed me back in the gym three days later, and gave me the all—clear literally that week to come here and do the dive. people used to say to me, "oh, you are doing your bucket list?" well, it feels like i am now. no, it makes it more exciting, and the fact that i am able to do it is fantastic. if i had ignored my symptoms, i might not be here. on the sticks now, the actual| sticks, what is left and right? the right stick, that's

forward, back, turn left, turn right. and when he goes forward, he is getting a turn. what's the left stick? down and up. yeah. what would cause that? they swapped out one of the thrusters. they put it on the wrong way? i mean, it is unidirectional. yeah, it should be, but something happened. yeah, what he can do, so on the controller you have the up, down, left, right arrows, and you can set them so that one was going and every time you hit the button, it would go forward. um... inaudible i hope he knows how to do this. hi, jerome. stockton on wendy's phone. just call me back if you got a chance, we've got a question. we're on the dive right now, just looking for a way to remap

the ps3 controller. thanks. it's not going to be easy. if we bring up a picture of that controller, we can tell him to press x, press y, press a, press b. yeah, except i don't remember which one is up and down. it might be that he could go forward with left and right. he'd only be able to turn one way, maybe. yeah, it would be interesting. so close! so if that is the case, when he goes left, it should go forward. when he goes to take a turn to the left, he is going to go forward starboard, which would be reverse starboard. it might work, yeah. yeah, left and right might be forward and back. huh, i don't know. alter track by 90 degrees.

try turning right. then we go forward, do we? go forward, 77. so forward... forward. right is forward. i'm gonna have to write this down. right is forward. great, live with it. perfect. 0k. ok, just say rotate the controller. it's a lot easier if you just rotate the controller and then you've got it, because if right is forward, then left is back. 0k. rotate controller. and we were so happy that we figured it out that we could just move forward, that we started clapping in the submersible,

going, "yes, we can go!" piece of metal on the right. can you bring up more light, scott, or is this it? - one of the early pieces we ran across were some tiles. not sure what part of the wreck they were from, but you could see the really pretty colours in the painted tiles. the pieces that were intact were pretty phenomenal because we see colour at the bottom of this ocean. this is definitely the most challenging piloting i've ever done! so, bearwith me, guys, i'm trying my best! good job, scott. laughs. i'm trying my best! yeah, you're doing great! it's immensely exciting. you never know what's going to swim by.

i don't see any wreckage. i lost my dvl, my altitude. i see the wreck on sonar though. 0k. how close are we to the titanic? very close. two metres, no? the bow should be visible. if you guys see anything, you've got to let me know, ok? yeah, nothing yet. we're ten metres away from the bow. i don't see it yet. it might be on your right.

it's gonna be on the right. 0k. you've gotta rotate around to it. yes, yes, yes, rotate, rotate! bow, bow, bow, bow, bow! we are at the bow. please send that message. oh, my god, you did it! confirm they are at the bow of the titanic. doing everything in reverse

to make us get here, - it looks fantastic. can't believe it. in real life, it's ginormous! it's really incredible. i'm lost for words, - actually, to be honest. it's that good, yes. i'm just crying. we've made it! finally, made it. how does it feel to get a lifelong dream? hard to explain. hard to put in words. she is big. i mean, to imagine how

big she must have been, there must be 20 feet of wreck inside the sand. and even like that, what you're seeing is 20 feet high. amazing to realise that you are at titanic. it's no longer a myth for me. it's reality, it's right there, in front of you. you are so close to it that you can actually touch it. when you go to the bottom and you start slowly going up and you can see every portal — some of them are open, which is one of the things that people are amazed, that the people left portals open when all this was going on, and you're going up and up and up, and it seems endless because the ship is huge. this was a floating palace. you can imagine the people walking up and down, taking in the sun, whatever, etc. we went down the side and captured the whole anchor.

there is the name of the titanic on the anchor, we were able to see that. so this, sort of, nostalgic view, in a way, and also a tragic view. imagine seeing nothing and then, lights turn. on and you see an entire . skyscraper in front of you — that's what it was like. there is no words to - encapsulate the feeling of it. seeing the scale of the titanic is what anchored me - into the realness of that - night, of the numbers of lives that were lost. 0k! bottom time expired, return. then we finally started leaving the site. it was a sad moment for me at the time to leave it. it was so short, that the time went by so quick. i'm gonna tell them "no hablo ingles". inaudible. there he is.

it's an incredible experience. you are in this capsule, just like a spacecraft, with your other four travellers, and you go through it and when you come to the surface and they open the dome, it isjust like somebody snapped theirfingers and all of a sudden, you are back on planet earth. how was it? it was fantastic! how are you doing, jaden? hey! good. oh, my gosh. what a trip. it feels like i've left earth and now i'm just returning. it feels incredible, thank you. both models are closed in the debris field. so, we've got two samples from the site. which makes me happy.

3,800 metres. there is enough pressure to break the cups. that's pretty good. that's cool. everybody kind of started to go out, and i was trying to gather myself. cheering ship horn toots the ship even blew the horn, which was fantastic. and once i saw stockton, i started crying. happy tears! happy tears. one less dream. are you crying? it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. i needed to do that to feel complete, and ifeel now complete.

we got it done. hello there. the weather's going to calm down a bit on friday, but we've got more wet and windy weather to come this weekend. another area of low pressure, weather fronts to eventually push in from the west. this weather front has brought some heavy rain and gusty winds. that area of low pressure is where we've got the strongest of the winds in scotland. even first thing in the morning, it's very windy through the central belt of scotland, but the strongest winds will be in northern

parts of the country, gusting 60 or 70 miles an hour. and we've also got a lot of showers coming into scotland. that band of rain sweeping away from england and wales will be followed by clear skies and temperatures early in the morning, 6—7 degrees. lots of showers, though, to begin with in scotland, very windy start, but the winds do moderate. the showers become fewer and we'll see some sunshine. other parts of the uk seeing some sunshine, especially in the morning, but tending to cloud over a bit more in western areas in the afternoon. a little bit of rain coming into the south—west of england and south wales as well. a breezy day, a mild day, temperatures 9—12 degrees on friday afternoon. but there is this band of rain here coming into western areas during the evening. itjust gets wetter and maybe windier again during the evening. and that band of rain pushes its way eastwards overnight. strong southerly winds are likely. it's going to be a very mild night, of course, with that cloud and rain. temperatures in southern parts of the uk, perhaps no lower than 11 degrees. but we start the weekend with some rain. it's going to be a very unsettled weekend. quite windy as well. blustery winds to come, bringing some rain or some showers as well. and we've got that rain to start with, then, across much of scotland, england and wales. it's going to shuffle its way

eastwards, it's going to hang around into the morning, perhaps into the afternoon across east anglia and the south—east. following that, the winds pick up again around these western coasts. we're going to find lots of showers feeding in. some of those will be heavy. some sunshine in between the showers and temperatures still on the mild side, 8—ii degrees. second half of the weekend, we're dominated, really, by this low pressure. it's going to hang around for a while. it's approaching the north—west of scotland. it will be very windy here saturday night into sunday morning, and around that area of low pressure, we've got these strong and blustery winds. that's going to feed in some sunshine, but we're also going to find quite a few showers. some of those could be heavy and thundery and it's just about cold enough for a little bit of snow over the tops of the mountains in scotland. temperatures will be a shade lower on sunday, around 7—9 celsius.

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