Going to do people for hate crimes. If you scared kids, this halloween, heres what one woman thought about that. Thought about that. I dont know. I dont know how its heating. Just how its heating. Its just saying like youre deliberately terrifying. Children scarred them for life. Oh, yeah. Maybe thats a bit oh, yeah. Maybe thats a bit bad. I dont know. Yeah. Put her right. Theres a lot more where that came from. We take you into the spin room where news stories turn where bad news stories turn good. This week were good. And this week were focusing have you seen it . Focusing on. I have you seen it . Rishi sunak. Our minister rishi sunak. Our Prime Minister coming out saying that it coming out and saying that it could us all. Yes, it could could kill us all. Yes, it could create a weird bioweapon or something. Not, something. Believe it or not, weve got panellist whos weve got a panellist whos going and turn that into going to try and turn that into a good story. What else a good news s
This morning, i am looking at what is on the agenda. Good morning. In sport britains kyle edmund is 2 1 sets up against Grigor Dimitrov in the quarter finals of the Australian Open. And we will be keeping you up to date on his progress throughout the programme. Come on so exciting. And matt has the weather. It is not just it is notjust the Australian Open where things are hotting up, 15 degrees for one or two today, but a little bit of rain during your morning rush hour. All the details coming up later. Good morning. First, our main story england is lagging behind scotland and wales when it comes to introducing measures to improve child health, according to a new report. The Royal College of paediatrics and child health says children deserve better, but westminster insists it has world leading plans in place. The college also says four out of five young people who are obese will battle ill health for the rest of their lives. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Being healt
But well start with the Winter Olympics action from pyeongyang where lightning unfortunately struck twice for elise christie. Four years ago she was disqualified in each of her three events in sochi. This morning it was the 500 metres short track speed skating final. Our correspondent David Ornstein reports from south korea. Elise christie arrived in pyeongchang with high hopes of redemption following triple disqualification from sochi four yea rs disqualification from sochi four years ago and now a triple champion. The world record holder in this event the 500 metres. She sailed through the heat and the quarterfinal earlier today, the semifinal presented warning signs, a scrappy semifinal presented warning signs, a scrappy race and she finished second and then disaster struck in the final. Not a great start and then on the penultimate lap with her in third place she slipped off, she said that she was pushed into the hoardings and left on the ice. Afterwards she spoke to the bbc and sh
As the tears flowed, she tried to make sense of her seemingly endless misfortune. I know its short track and i know im supposed to be prepared for this, but it still hurts, you know. Obviously, its still almost a week until my best distance, so thats the positive. I dont know, right now i just cant see living with this feeling, you know. I just. But, i mean, its out of my control, i got knocked over and thats that. Commentator christie. Oh, theyve gone down those memories of sochi four years ago, though, may now prove hard to erase. She crashed in the same final there, but her team are urging her to stay positive. I think you could all see she tried to put everything out there to try and get gold. She wasnt going for anything else. You know, thats the nature of the sport. You know, crashes do happen, unfortunately. The question now, though, is whether britains biggest medal hope can pick herself up again on a desperate day of deja vu. Andy swiss, bbc news, pyeongchang. Here on bbc one
Supporters of jacob zuma its very hard to find real supporters ofjacob zuma even in his former stronghold, its hard to find supporters now. Well look at a legacy of allegations of corruption. And we are here talking to willian from the black eyed peas about a range of issues. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories and as always really keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The bbc has learned that the commonwealth has begun considering who might succeed the queen as the head of the organisation. Our reporter Caroline Davies is here. First of all, what is the commonwealth . Its a group of 53 countries, some of them used to be british, colonies, some of them have no ties to britain at all, the language mostly used as englis