All know people, other ways, we all know people, powerful people, within westminster who are still whispers about them, people know that their reputations are bad and we know they have done bad things but they still manage to get away with it. So if some people who have suffered see this and see these victims were very brave and came forward, they make sacrifices to speak out against this awful man who can only be described as a munster, if they take courage from this and who are willing to come out to stop other people, they can only bea to stop other people, they can only be a good thing. Do you think that is likely . You say that you both know of them i dont know if you know of them i dont know if you know that since a reputation. There isa know that since a reputation. There is a sense of powerful people in business and the media and and westminster of a sense that not perhaps that they are as Harvey Weinstein is don getty of raping people, but it is that sense of abusing power. Found guilty of raping people. Being intrusive and
making women feel incredibly uncomfortable and sometimes young men as well. It is that i hope that this will change both the way they make those calculations come realise that they are not untouchable, despite their power in their wealth. And also will change the feelings that victims have that it is safe or at least worth a try to speak out rather than at the moment i think for so many people it doesnt feel like it is worth your own career. Even to protect yourself. Do you think when you say it you see this culture, the anything cash change given the last few years with this case going on . I think parliament, every talk about westminster, parliament has ta ken every talk about westminster, parliament has taken steps to bring in an independent grievance system so in an independent grievance system so it is easierfor in an independent grievance system so it is easier for people to report stuff. But it is still really difficult. My polly says, it is these in between allegations, it is not rape, it is stuff that is lesser
end of the spectrum, he just think them i have so much to lose if i go out and make this allegation about someone. Out and make this allegation about someone. You start to keep quiet and i think those are difficult areas. Across all sectors. In wealth levels. Not just the across all sectors. In wealth levels. Notjust the political space oi levels. Notjust the political space or the movie industry. The guardian, they wanted to show the same as they have of Harvey Weinstein very much in the shadows, who was facing jail. His lawyer quote here saying her client would appeal he took it like a man. That is such id to say. Surely this has elevated concerns about this idea we have of masculinity. About this idea we have of masculinity. Such about this idea we have of masculinity. Such a i think whats up that you should be not have emotions if you are a man or be dominant or powerful or assertive. Grab people by. Surely we have to have a different view of what
manliness is. That it is about compassion and kindness and strength. But not aggression and lack of feeling. It is like the attitude of this man. Just a few weeks ago was talking about how he is planning a comeback in the movie industry. Just a few weeks ago he was talking about how it wasnt anybody in hollywood who had done more to promote women in films and him. It isjust more to promote women in films and him. It is just unbelievable that he cannot recognise and continues to protest his innocence at the hat was found guilty saying im innocent. How can this happen in america . It is extraordinary. This case will still develop, since a sink next month i think. Lets move on to the coronavirus. The other major story everybody has been covering. The ft say surging barriers cases hurting the markets. Are we on the verge of a pandemic being declared whatever that means. I dont know if that brings in new protections or
government movements or what. The key thing for whether a present pandemic is not just key thing for whether a present pandemic is notjust present but spreading within enough countries. Still the vast majority of cases have been in china comes to over 95 . What but because we are now seeing hundreds of cases in italy, and in south korea, the question is whether it can be brought under control and whether these quarantine measures will be sufficient. Control and whether these quarantine measures will be sufficientm control and whether these quarantine measures will be sufficient. It is amazing how quickly it is spreading. Somewhere like italy, just four days ago had three cases, and now has 229. China fills so far away from us that it 229. China fills so far away from us thatitis 229. China fills so far away from us that it is now coming so close. I think you will start to see more panic in the uk and it will be interesting to see how it ministers to respond to this. The telegraph is saying that we could see tomorrow the government recognised that people go to holiday in italy and come back to spend two weeks and quarantine themselves, and then keep
themselves away from everybody home rather than going to hospital. So that means you going to holiday may be, easter or this summer, that means you going to holiday may be, easter orthis summer, and make sure your kids dont miss school, if it is still running by the summer, but is that likely people going into quarantine . What they are saying at the moment is if you have symptoms and been italy you should sell quarantine. It is a question of if he gets out of control they might say everybody whos went to italy has to take those measures. But i think it is interesting to balance Good Public Health with also containing a sense of panic at alarm. My doctor who is eight is asking to go to school and a facemask because some of the child has come to school and a face mask. Thats my daughter who was eight. It feels like everybody want to take these measures in that is simply not these measures in that is simply not the supply. Facemask are in short supply need to be protective for the people who need them. You are telling us there were design a
facemask. Strings, emotions. Laughter. We are not getting those until they calm down. Definitely a market in any situation. Many to be made. Probably worrying and people will start asking is the government giving enough guidance to the public. That is one of the criticisms here in the telegraph article. Is that gps around the country are unsure what to recommend to come if you have been to one of those regions come italy, the government guidance is a bit unclear on government guidance is a bit unclear o n exa ctly government guidance is a bit unclear on exactly what you should be doing. They have quotes from family gps here saying that it is a bit of a shambles we are just not quite sure what to recommend. So obviously people know if you come back from china, if you have been and will hand, you know what to do and it is quite clear the guidance you get isolated in one of these places. But if you are the think that is when you start seeing panic if you are not getting quite clear guidance in the next few days. And they still
seem the next few days. And they still seem to be uncertainty as to which the extent you can spread it before symptoms. Saying stay at home if you have symptoms is no good if youve already spread it to your whole class so your whole office. They are saying that to call before you get symptoms i think. Lets move on trust of giving you both a political to the independent because there is a story on andrew grice by the labour leadership contest, but excited today. It feels like it is been going on for a long time and we have still got almost six was to go before we get the results. But obviously keir starmer is way out in front it looks increasingly difficult for either lisa nandi or rebecca long bailey to catch him up. The theory put forward by andrew giese in this piece is he thinks there is still a way that lisa nandi might win if she manages. She gets first and second preferences and voting. Laughter. When two. He is
saying that if lisa manages to over ta ke saying that if lisa manages to over take rebecca to get in the second place, she could pick up enough of the second preference balance votes from rebecca to then overtake keir starmer and they think that is her path to victory although he says he is still thinks that is unlikely to happen. Do you think there is any chance of keir starmer not when . think, it is very hard to poll labour party members. Thats not winning. We dont really know who they are. My husband is going to be voting and we had literature from keirstarmerand voting and we had literature from keir starmer and rebecca long bailey, nothing from lisa. I dont know is that its just us or suggest a carcampaign is know is that its just us or suggest a car campaign is doing something different. Neither of them are particularly inspiring to be honest. The challenge for all of them is they have no idea that really what to say about the last time the labour party was in government. And what they want and how they plan to get back to government. Or even if they do, there is the sense that
maybe the labour party is just a movement and it will be better to be totally pure and watch the conservatives do whatever they like to the country because at least it would protect the Labour Movement and unless the party gets over that, i think there is no path back to power. Do you think there is going to be press interest in whoever wins because the government has a huge majority and there is no scene of them not being on the seat for five yea rs. Them not being on the seat for five years. It will be difficult for whoever wins to get the attention. Years. It will be difficult for whoever wins to get the attentionlj think whoever wins to get the attention. think it will be difficult and obviously whoever is in power will a lwa ys obviously whoever is in power will always have these levers they can pull and announce stuff and if you are five years from an election, it will be difficult for the new leader to really build up in excitement and what they are proposing. But there is an element come if you get someone is an element come if you get someone who is more competent than Jeremy Corbyn and who sometimes struggle to score with them, it will be set up an easy to score a tory government or some of the issues and
sometimes pm qcs asked the wrong questions and not really hammered the government our stuff. Maybe if there is somebody in there it might manage to do that little bit more. But the daily mail, and back one of the candidates or not . Im not sure that will be very helpful for any of them. Laughter. The lease forcing your opinion. Many of them will be a bigger improvement overJeremy Corbyn. The least worst is your opinion. If labour net has any hope of getting back up our committees to move away from corbyn in so far all three candidates have been quite nervous and too scared to assert thatJeremy Corbyn nervous and too scared to assert that Jeremy Corbyn supporters nervous and too scared to assert thatJeremy Corbyn supporters and dancing around what they would do differently to what he did in the ma nifest differently to what he did in the manifest so that obviously did so badly for them at the election. He asked. None of them have really this on anything that Jeremy Corbyn did except a little bit on anti semitism when they said that rebecca today implying today that nobody meant to
use anti semitic troops and would be mortified if they realise what they we re mortified if they realise what they were saying about jewish mortified if they realise what they were saying aboutjewish people being rich and turned out to be anti semitic. That just feels like they havent woken up and smell the coffee and it will be a long way back to power for the labour party. You are still a lib dem. Former lib dem. Antipartisan. Im not a member of any political party. Thank you both indeed. That thats it for the papers this hour. John and polly will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers, and dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you 7 days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers. And if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. But for the moment, from us, its goodbye. Hello. Fair to say we have not really had a proper winter. There hasnt been a great deal of snow around and widespread cold weather either but we did get a fair bit of snow across the northern half of the uk earlier on today. In north yorkshire. And across much of Northern England in Northern Ireland and scotland. Further south, Northern England in Northern Ireland and scotland. Furthersouth, it Northern England in Northern Ireland and scotland. Further south, it is the high river levels that we still worry about on the severn. That followed earlier rain and that will feed into the River Systems again. Now we are drawing in cold air. Some showers really overnight, we will see more of their showers as the night goes on coming into the western side of the uk and any remaining snow move again from northeastern scotland and it will be cold and potentially icy and not just scotland but Northern England and Northern Ireland. Its polar mela time airthat we and Northern Ireland. Its polar mela time air that we see on tuesday, cold air, sunshine and showers, the order of the day, almost anywhere could catch a shower on tuesday. The
heavier ones have more frequent probably continuing across the western areas, some snow over the hills and hail and splendour mixed in there as well, and it will be quite windy i think towards the southwest of england. There will be a cold wind blowing across the whole of the uk and temperatures across england and wales i think will be noticeably lower than they were today. Up to 14 degrees and one or two places. Not a sassy temperatures we had last year. It was 21 degrees. Not as high as the temperatures we had last year. This time around on the same date, we will struggle for double figures. Still in the cold air. Windy, cold wind blowing again, more showers, towards the north was commissioned dry off a bit. In eastern scotland and icy patches to start the day, those west the northwesterly winds once again and it will be feeling quite cold in the wind in around five to 9 degrees. As we look ahead to
wednesday night, this area of low pressure threatens to bring some rain and perhaps even a bit of snow tomorrow seven parts of england. We get a ridge of High Pressure on thursday, fewer showers, but then we are back into mild air on friday, a lot of weather fronts on the scene and back into more unsettled weather by the end of the week and into the weekend. Rain at times, more rain not good news for those rivers and a bit of snow over some pills in the north and we will find the winds picking up during friday and into saturday as well. Back into more u nsettled saturday as well. Back into more unsettled weather and a little bit less but the next few days will be cold and showering. This is bbc news. The headlines at 11pm disgraced hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of Sexual Assault and rape, and now faces up to 25 years in prison. The accusations were at the centre of the metoo movement, that inspired women to go public, with allegations against powerful men. Its no longer business as usual in the united states. This is the age of empowerment of women, and you cannot intimidate them any more. The latest on coronavirus, as people queue for masks in south korea. The World Health Organization warns that other countries, including italy, needed to take tougher measures. A man has been found guilty of murdering a pensioner by shooting him with a crossbow outside his home
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