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popular american history writers and airs every weekend at this time. to if he recounts the forest fire that spread across -- timothy returns the forest fire that spread across oregon and washington. he discusses public opinion on national parks at the time. timothy: thank you so much. it's terrific to be here in montana, because i've been on a book tour. i've been in 25 cities or so and now here i am, basically home where the fire started. the source of the story, and the source of so much joy for me growing up in spokane and fishing here in rock creek and hiking here in the national forest basically learning to love this land as a little kid. so thank you for coming out on this gorgeous, wonderful, crisp montana night. the rest of the country can only look on us in and. -- in envy. also, i wanted to open with a wonderful quote from one of my literary heroes, norman maclean, famous montanan author didn't have his first book published until he was 72 years old, but it took a long time for that masterpiece to surface. and it was "a river runs through it." maclean says in the book that he and his brother, they were minister's kids, their father was a minister. that grew up in montana. they were raised thinking the world was full of love, but as maclean said, my brother and i soon discovered that the world outside was full of bastards. the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from missoula, montana. [laughter] timothy: and i just -- that just nails it for me. that tells the story about missoula. also, i should say this. after the book he was a huge success and publishers were tripping over themselves to print his next book, which was a book about fire. and took him 14 years to finish fire." he actually died before he could finish it. but alfred a. knopf said we will do anything, we are at your mercy. and he wrote, he said, you do not know my type. i'm scott irish and we have long memories. he said, if i were the last offer left on earth and you were the last publisher, that, sir, would be in the books as we knew it. which i love as well. [laughter] timothy: directly he got his kicks in, maclean, a to montanan. i was drawn to the story about writing about the dustbowl because, as was said in the introduction, i love these clashes between human beings and nature. you couldn't have anything really more elemental than human beings against fire. is as old as humanity itself, as old as anything. and to tell you the truth i was really going to write initially just a fire story. and to tell you the truth, more i was just going to write kind of a cool fire story. because i was attracted to the perfect storm quality of this fire story. we have never had a fire like this in our history. 3 million acres in a day and a half. the state of connecticut burns in 36 hours. now by comparison, a few months ago you had these fires raging in east of l.a., angelos national forest. big fires, burned for two weeks. at their peak those fires are 100,000 acres and blanketed most of the l.a. basin. so these are 3 million acres. 2000-degree temperatures, the estimated. crown fire going from tree to tree at its peak. a fire moving faster, this is what the men said at the time, faster than a horse to go at full gallop. and we had never tried to fight a wildfire before either. never tried to fight it on this give. this was the first time in our history, 100 years ago next year, that we assembled an army of men. and almost all men except for a woman cook, who i follow here in the story, a homesteader who outlived all men and became the last survivor of the fire. an army of men, poor irish and poor irish and poor italian. it was the peak of italian immigration. they just open the gates for the southern mediterranean and they were treated fairly. they call them beaten men, the races. and poor irish. many of whom grew up in butte, who were the famine irish , the defendants over those who survived that the descendents of those who -- the descendents over those who survived the famine. nearly 2 million people died in the famine of iron. they're getting paid 25 cents an hour to come here and try to fight this wildfire. those of you who live in montana know we get dry summers, and sometimes they can go months without the rain and you'll get these lightning strikes a come down, these dry lightning storms. there's no precipitation. that i was trying to explain this reading any of the washington, washington, d.c. when they get thunderstorms they get torrential rains. so that's what happened. if you had these come down. august of 1910, almost 3000 of these little fires burning in the newly created national forest of the northern rock use. -- northern rockies. just a few miles up the hill here, of the mountains. and so their concern. this is the age when towns were being burned to the ground. denver, seattle, chicago, san francisco. they were greatly concerned about fire. the trees -- they have changed -- they had chased every other element. grizzly bears were largely gone. wolves were a limited. bison were almost done. the indians were pushed to the edge. the only thing they still feared was fire. so with this thing happen, they assembled an army to try to prevent it from getting catastrophic, from destroying mozilla. and then it blew up. and i hope there's some people in the audience here tonight who fought fires before. i've only been as an embed and i was on the yellowstone fire in 1988. there are few things that scared me so much as being in yellowstone park would not fire blew up. it's like the sound of 10 jet liners roaring at once. i was just chilled to the bone when a fire starts to spot and shoot up in crown to crown that's what happened here. you have 70 miles an hour wind which are officially classified as hurricane force winds. matt, i know what is 70 mile an hour wind is because like i was in a documentary for the history channel on the dustbowl and some knucklehead got the idea, let's re-create 70-mile i went and put him in them. so they brought this flatbed truck out input to giant fans and fire them. poured a whole bunch of dust in there and had me be blowback. because it was a union production there was a doctor on site. [laughter] timothy: i was totally thrown back. i was a tumbleweed. in the 70 mile an hour wind. i could not stand. that's what caused this fire, to blow up, 70-mile an hour winds. so was a total failure in terms of human beings being able to beat the fire. and as i looked at this thing you know, i thought that's a great story in and of itself but what was it like to be a ranger fighters into the history of the formal study of united for service. what was a like to be an immigrant from italy? i traced it back to a little village in the north of italy these two boys basically gave it up for teddy roosevelt dream to be here in the strange american west so far from italy and suddenly fighting a fire. what was it like to be a black soldier? there were these african-american buffalo soldiers who were sent to idaho, to wallace, idaho, thereby almost doubling the population of blacks in the state of idaho by their arrival. treated terribly. the headline was dusky doughboys arrive in town. and then they would have stories about their singing and a gambling at night. and it turned out they saved to the two towns. -- two towns. these men were a rogue at will. -- you rose as well. -- euros as well. --heroes as well. i was going to write about the quality and drama of the wildfire when you didn't know how to fight one. but like so many americans before me, i absolutely fell head over heels for this man whose chiseled on mount rushmore, teddy roosevelt. and i also feel any strange way for a man who is not chiseled on mount rushmore but is almost forgotten to us, the founder of the forest service. let me to you about each of these men because they figure so much of this fire, and this fire changes our history. it's so interesting to think here in missoula, on the richer, two nights of pure hell changed everything in terms of saving our public land also the nature of firefighting in itself. but let me just back up. teddy roosevelt is a song of wealth and privilege. that -- son of wealth and privilege. he's the only native of new york city ever to be president. is our youngest president by the way. kennedy was a little younger but he was elected. as you remember, teddy roosevelt got the presidency when mckinley was assassinated. he grows up a son of privilege in new york city. he is fascinated by bugs insects, the outdoors, but he is told as a very young man he probably will not live until the 21st birthday. use a sickly child. he is asthmatic. he is nearsighted. and he wears spectacles. the kids make fun of him. it is scrawny. -- is groaning. -- you is scrawny. -- he is scrawny. is almost anorexic. he is told that he does want to live to his 21st birthday he probably shouldn't go outdoors. and roosevelt wills's wages for. -- whose way to strength. he says in his biography autobiography, i will will myself stronger. he builds his body. he overcomes his sister he was afraid of the dark that he was afraid of trees that he was afraid of forces. this most robust mail of our president he was this shallow very scared child. he wills himself to strength. he goes to harvard. he falls in love with this beautiful woman, and he leaves harvard and he starts with a little crabby very young age. he joins republican party and then he said was the least corrupt of the two corrupt parties as he said in new york the legislature was not 100% crop but perhaps 90% corrupt. soviet family will so he could afford virtue. didn't have to be corrupt. he is elected he assumed at age 20. at age 25 he's the leader of the republican party. he is the republican minority leader. then tragedy strikes. on valentine's day, 1884, his wife gives birth on west 57th street in new york where they are living. and she dies on childbirth. she dies upon giving birth to the first child, alice, that day, valentine's day, 1884. roosevelt goes upstairs where his mother is living. she dies on the same day. so this was our most prolific writer as a president. i am impressed with barack obama's two books. teddy roosevelt wrote 15 books before his 40th birthday. he wrote 10,000 letters while he was president. he was a prolific diarist. but what did he put on valentine's day 1884? this thing just chilled when i saw it in the national archives. he writes a big, shakey x. on february 14. that is that beneath that is -- that is a single line. he says, the light has gone out of my life. so he gets his newborn baby to his sister to race or. he resigns his position in the legislature. and he says goodbye to wealth and new york and he moves out west. he moves to the dakota territory and he becomes a new man. a different man. a transformed man. he sets up shop, i was hope it was a stage of your, but in a little cabin which i saw about 400 square feet. and he hangs his bare skin rugs up next to the fireplace and he brings all his books in by train. he puts a rocking chair next to the fire, and he becomes a cowboy. he becomes a man who lives and tries to get rid of his grief from the west. he spends the next two years as not a dude rancher. he worked 16 hours a day. some guy in the more cold him for hours -- some guy in the bar calles himm four eyes and roosevelt decks him, puts him at. some other guy stole horses. he spent three days chasing the guy and by the coffee that he was a tough as will be as they say. but it is also a lover of literature and a lover of nature. and two things happened. he is restored. agreed that happens to him from losing his wife and his mother is somewhat mitigated by the outdoors. it makes him a little whole again. but he sees something. he sees the west which he's, all his life he has this image of buffalo everywhere and these wild animals. is almost gone. he sees the american have eaten barely 100 years into us being a nation is all but destroyed. birds, even the birds which he thought there would be millions and millions of birds because that's what lewis and clark had discovered when they come up not far from where roosevelt set up a shop in that cabin. so he goes back to new york city after two years, and he is this transformed man. the west has saved him. he said i owe more than any man could ever owe to the west. the west made him whole again. so let's fast-forward to 1900. mckinley as president. roosevelt is vice president. they thought they would get rid of them by putting him on the ticket because he was a governor and a reformist governor and the corrupt people in albany did not like having roosevelt. he was placed on the vice presidency. mckinley is assassinated. he is not dead yet. roosevelt is hiking. the secret service goes and get him. they think mckinley is going to die but after a day they think he make go through. roosevelt goes back up into the adirondacks. about seven days later the secret service gets him again. the president is dead. it takes roosevelt another 36 hours to get to buffalo where he is sworn in as our youngest president. now, he says later in his autobiography, doesn't say it at the time, remember, he is leader of the republican party, i wanted to transform the republican party as he says, into a " fairly radical progressive party." that's the exact quote. fairly radical progressive party. he doesn't tell the country that but he says in his diary. and to do that he needs different potential. who also is a son of wealth and privilege. his father was a clear-cutter. one of his three homes were he grew up having 27 brits -- turre ts and about a half-dozen fireplaces. he grows up in his castle. i'm sorry yes. and i'm glad we have here tonight. [laughter] timothy: pinchot things like roosevelt. they think the american colossus is tearing apart what we have. they think that we are moving, at some point we will have a timber famine that will run out of trees. that we're tearing it all apart. that's what's left over from the louisiana purchase, this big open public domain is just systematically being ripped apart. so pinchot and he then over the course of the next seven years set aside an area almost, not quite, but almost the size of france. its national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges that they do most of it by executive order. the congress stops them eventually near the end. just before they stop them roosevelt and pinchot set aside another 16 million acres. they have these rangers bring in the maps. roosevelt describes if you put in the upper flathead valley? i remember being up there once and seeing this magnificent herd of elk. let's include. they are drawing the boundaries all over the west and creating -- these are why these original forest rangers were called arrangers, they were in on creation. they are drawing the boundaries that they were out of jail and given these huge magnificent forest for them to take over. so they create these national forests. but there is pushback that there is tons of pushback. women become this is the end of the gilded age. you have never in our history have had a bigger gap between rich and poor until just a few years ago during the wall street peak. but you have rockefellers, guggenheim's, j.p. morgan, who hated roosevelt. morgan said, when roosevelt left office in 1909, went off to africa for your, they asked morgan what he thought, he said i trust some lion will do his duty. [laughter] timothy: that's how they felt about him. and j.j. hill who built the railroads here. they are sort of knowing at this public domain. they don't like these national forest designations. they are used to getting land for free. so they fight roosevelt. there's one more check i should mention before i move on your. you had a united states senator here once named william clark. and he wanted to be the richest man in the world. he was utterly corrupt and fairly honest about his corruption. he made his money in being one of the copper veterans of butte, montana -- copper barons of butte, montana at a time when we get copper because the telephone was just taking off in copper wires and all that. and he bought his senate seat. at the time senators were not elected by the people, they were elected by the legislature. now that means that occasionally some corruption as we saw when the man in illinois, who has not been convicted of anything yet but has been accused of using some shenanigans from the selection there. well, that's what happened here. and clark bought his senate seat with $10,000 of the. that was the going price. he did and his monogrammed envelopes were his initials were stamped on the outside and stuff ed with hundred dollar bills. he didn't deny. he said later i never bought a man who was not for sale. so clark buys his senate seat and promptly leaves montana. he goes to new york city and he wants to be one of these gilded age titans. he build a 106 room house in manhattan. a few blocks from where these other guys were living, these guggenheim's and other powers. whom -- and just to give you a sense of what this guy was like. mark twain who was then still kicking around, said this about your former senator, clark of montana. " he is the most disgusting creature that the republic has yet produced." [laughter] timothy: and i should say, they knew how to hurl an insult back in those days. so clark spends his one term and the united states senate most ly living in his 106 room house in manhattan, and he has one great passion in the senate. do you know what it is? stop the national forests. so he is one of roosevelt's villains. these are the people he is fighting against. clark is democrat by the way. roosevelt as a republican. so the parties have sort of slipped in many ways. clark goes on to cofound las vegas and clark county, the biggest and most populous county in nevada is named for this man that mark twain called the most disgusting creature. i do not know if they have clark days in las vegas. that's who he was. so that's what they're up against. let's talk about the forest service itself for just a moment here. pinchot wanted these men to be the finest people of public service. so he endows the school in you with this pinchot money, they yale school of forestry. they were fighting for what they call the great crusade. there's no more noble cause for a young man they thought than to serve the united states forces -- forest service. pinocht by the way claims that he, he invented the term conservation. to give you a sense of how public policy was formulated between these two most exuberant characters. roosevelt someone said about him he was so full of energy that i thought his clothes were going to catch fire. he and pinchot used to go for these long walks in rock creek park which is just outside washington, d.c. they would occasionally skinny dip together. even late in november like we are now, and i was trying to think what this would be like today if, say, karl rove and george bush were skinny-dipping. [laughter] timothy: in the potomac. or rahm emanuel and barack obama. cable news cycle would play this. they would go for these horseback ride or skinny dip in the potomac or they would vigorously hike through -- and they say roosevelt burned up $2000 before noon and a cup of coffee with sugar as well. but that is where the conservation idea came from. pinchot said a came on one of these. that he brought the idea to roosevelt. it's a very simple idea. they didn't call it environmentalism. they didn't public safety or that basically said we're a nation of 92 million people. what will it be like when we are a nation of 300 million people. by the way, we are a nation of more than 300 million. will that be anything left for our great-grandchildren? it was so the idea, let's not consume it all in our generation. we owe something to future generations. so that was the simple idea around conservation. so they set up this public land and they set it up for the little guy. remember, they're not taking private land and putting it in the public domain. they are taking over the left over louisiana purchase and other lands and designating it forest service land, national parkland, national wildlife refuge, other uses. on the eve of the fire, 1910 here's what you have. roosevelt has left office. gifford pinchot is fire. the forest service is being underfunded. they are making $900 a year, a ranger with a yale degree, and i try to do the adjusted for inflation met, and that's less a teacher makes now that they have to be armed, because if you're in montana, a ranger was shot and killed, and no one was charged and the person who killed him said i mistook them for a deer. so they are facing a fairly hostile environment in the woods here as well. and these gilded age powers, william clark's, rockefellers, guggenheim's are sort of closing in for the kill. they want to define the agency. the train is going to die. it's five years old in 1910 and it's defenders are gone. it is orphaned. then the fire happens. and i said that it was the fire that saved america, because though the loss, though they were routed, though five towns burned to the ground, most of them to leave the map, i dare anyone of you to find taft montana, as i did. once a town of 3000, now nothing. just wind blowing through the trees. not even the fleas of a town. i defy anyone of you to find grand forks, idaho, another town gone, completely erase. five towns burned to the ground, 100 men died, 3 million acres burned, scores, incinerated. and what roosevelt did when this happened, he has returned from africa and a lion has not done its duty. and he is extremely angry. he sees the finest of young men having died on behalf of the great crusade which is what they call it. so he goes around, as roosevelt did -- by the way, you know he invented the term bully pulpit. that was his favorite term. bully for this, bully for the. i heard a voice recording of his and i don't that you would do in the television days that he had a high, squeaky voice. which does not match the physical presence of him. but he goes around after the fire and he says these people were martyrs that these people died for your public land. he does what any politician, good politician can do. he mythologize an event and makes it into narrative. and public sentiment shifts. so i've just come back from reading in the east, and i told people in virginia and pennsylvania and massachusetts that their national forests which they have along the spine of alleghenies, they owe to this fire in montana because there was a bill to create national forests in the east and it had never passed even during roosevelt's time. but after the fire happened, public sentiment shifted and historians directly attributed creation of national forest in the east to the big burn in montana of 1910. so that's one of the many ways that it rippled. now, so i did change. it did save the american public landscape it but they sort of took away the wrong fire lesson. because there after the forces -- forest service of our -- vowed that they would put out every fire. so the forest service which was intended to be this became the fire source. and to this day, in some years more than half of their budget is spent on fires. and you have almost 20 million americans living within a half-mile of a national force. so people that hated the national forests then, they are now loved to death appeared to have 300 million visitor days to these national force. the recreation council sinkers national that draws more people to the outdoors than the national forests. they are loved to death but they become the fire service and something called the 10:00 rule which was if a fire happened on your watch, on that day, it had to be put out by 10:00 the next day. and norman maclean, writing his wonderful book "young men and fire" said forest rangers coming of age after that, there after had 1910 on the brain. because it was expected that you would be judged by how we did in putting out fires. so there are some fires that we can't put out that there are some fires that human beings should never be anywhere near. this was one of those fires. i don't think we could have beat beat it back with any forest -- force today even with aerial force with a time of stuff we have. it did save our public lands to but also took away the wrong forest lesson. i'd like to read a brief passage here, and then i will take a couple of questions. i wanted to give you an idea of what it was like to be a forest ranger in 1910, because again, most of them are the brightest of bright. they are the best and the brightest. again, they are coming out of these ivy league schools. primary yale. there was a guy, a blue-collar guy, kicked around, middle aged but probably the most, the one indisputable hero of the fire, the plastic tool which of course is a tool with a play that one -- with a blade at one end and a whole at the other side of the. is they were. they call these people little tv -- little gps in honor of the big gp, gifford pinchot. he knew what it was like at a because he let you. but the other ones did not. so the come out here from you and they come to these new national forests and they are in their '20s. and they are being given charge of that area of southeastern states so they have these giant national forests is all full of interesting characters. people are not necessary take the idea of national forests the way that pinchot and roosevelt intended which would it would be land for the little guy. this is what i'm going to read as an idea of what it was like for a new ranger to newly arrive here in the great state of montana, and go out and check out his national forest. in a thicket of dark montana woods just downslope from the idaho divide, a towns sprang up with one prostitute for every three men and a murder rate higher than that of new york city. carved inside a national forest the village of taft frightened most anyone not use to humanity with all its raw appetites exposed. you could buy the basics in the town of taft, a woman, a man, a horse, a place at a card table or a spend of a roulette wheel a fat steak for 1 dollar to make quarter of whiskey, a bump for best bunk for 25 cents. one nearby shop advertised quote, shoes, booze and screws. [laughter] timothy: and they weren't talking about hardware. it was an easy place for an outlaw to hide because everyone at taft was camouflaged. a decent man would stand out like cactus on a nice low. people drifted into town by day and just as easily faded away at night, never to be seen until the snow melted in the spring. during one flaw, eight bodies were found. a reporter visiting from chicago described the town of taft as quoted the wickedest city in america. the townsfolk took their amusement wherever they could get it, and so they didn't miss a beat when the churchgoing, well fed, then secretary of war, william h. taft, came for a visit in 1907. at the time, the town was nameless. just a shelter place in the woods a place to get a blog and a bar to sleep off a hard night. secretary taft lectured the horse and the saloon keepers the fugitives and timber thieves. the claim jumpers and card sharks about morality and the ir wretched ways. this is so just send was in the find of how american settlements had been founded, dating to the pilgrims' sitting on a hill. from atop their tree sums people cheered and whistled in approval and hoisted their jugs, here here. and then just after the future president left, they decide to name their town for the big man. well, that spring, there were 18 murders in taft. the town of taft was part of the public land domain of our scotch, 25 year old supervisor of three national force and a fresh minted little gp. transixty ever told him that his empire would include some of the most lawless places in the country. pinchot always looked past the gambling dens and the mining claims to the trees. quote, the forest is as beautiful as it is useful, he wrote in his primer on 40. the old fairy tales which spoke of it as a terrible place are wrong. no one can really know a forest without feeling the gentle influence of one of the strongest parts of nature. but he had not visited the open sore of taft, montana. when young rangers first showed up and had to have a look, the saloon, the card and a dance hall, the crypto going full throttle. the bars were law and with hard face dance hall girls and every kind of gambit was going wide open. the rangers spent the night. they were unable to sleep because of the did. couch got out of bed, dressed and went down to the saloon. he dropped a coin in a slot machine and it hit. as his winnings slid out painted women were drawn to the forest supervisor. quote, one big blonde and a very low-cut dress had her arms white tightly around my neck he wrote. he ordered drinks for the house on him, of course. and he gathered his coins, ducked under the arm of the blog with a free flowing cleavage and made a recruit for his blog. welcome, sir, to the low low national force. [laughter] timothy: he had crews of single rangers to go with his full-time assistants. the adult telephones and build trails. they rescued hunters and hikers but in the winter they snowshoe deepens a forced on for days at a time a little but tea, sugar and raisins. they felt dead trees. years before anyone had a sleeping bag. he learned how to read the sky and the human heart as well. now his colleague just over the ridge in idaho, bill, had a bigger problem. for inside his national force, according, there were three towns and made by debauchery and loss of all time. the worst was grand forks where muddy streets were thick and lined with the burned out sounds -- stumps of big seeders like nubs on a half shaven face. saloons were held together by rough-cut place with canvas walled cribbs outback. outback. if they why they broke out in the middle of the street, it remained there until somebody burned it or it was picked apart for scrap. the little gps were for five. and perplexed by what they found in the people's land. instead of on his homesteaders they confronted land thieves. instead of pinchot little man who would be king, they found whiskey. instead of enlightened merchants, they found six righties of pam's, all operating in open the find of united states forced service. one man cut a swath in the was a half-acre so and he opened a bar with few horse just outside of taft. he did this under the eyes of several ranges. if flummox rangers sent a telegram to missoula, no idea how to respond. to prostitutes established on government land, he why. what should i do? a ranger wired back, get desirable ones. [laughter] timothy: so that's what they were up against. i was so lucky when i is reading in california a few weeks ago a woman came up to me and told me, she was the granddaughter of that ranger who said that telegram, and she presented me with a copy of that telegram which was absolutely wonderful. and it has a very important place, that telegram. in the forest service floor. and anytime i run into a rage -- ranger who has a sense of history, i say get two desirable ones and they know exactly what i'm talking about. so that was what they're up against. to me, this was a passing social history because it was an experiment that people now say some asked me today, who would -- were they to come out to tell people how to live? they didn't tell people how to live. but here's what they did that was different from other generations. pinchot had to study forestry in france. because there was no forest school in the united states, there was no concept of forestry. when he became a forrester he claims he was the first in the united states. he hung a shingle. there wasn't much beyond central park, but that's how he got his start. he goes to france to study as a boy and he is appalled, all the land is held by these nobles that peasants couldn't pick up twigs in the national force. you couldn't cut timber. you could walk in the woods without permission. england was the same way you had to have the permission of the lord of the land. so what roosevelt did that was so radical, so different was to break from that, to simply say this land belongs to you and i. and really, it's no more complicated than that. i grew up in spokane, and we had a big irish catholic family and we were not rich but we didn't h ave a summer home, but we had these public lands. as long as we had these publicly lands i knew we were rich. so we can't all over western -- cap -- camped all over western montana, all over northern idaho. all over western washington. this land was something that my mother always told me that was part of my birthright as an american citizen. that's what we really owe this president. it's also interesting to think, accidents, quirks of history. what is this fire hadn't happen? they were very close to killing . -- killing it. don't fool yourself that they have defined a distinct basically down to nothing. and i read the memos talking about how low the morality or how people were quitting and how they felt so, you know disrespected and so unsupported in washington. they were very close they felt to this thing. what if this fire hadn't happen? what if it hadn't changed the course of history? in national parks which you saw with the ken burns documentary are an important part of our heritage but a very small part of the public land domain. i mean, they are just a fraction of what they put forced service is. that's what i feel absolutely in awe of both the. and pinchot himself who has i think gotten kind of a bad rap over the year, he is always juxtaposed against john deere, the third of the founding members of american conservation. well let me just say one thing for a minute here. deere was pinchot's mentor. pinchot was a very strange guy. he lived with the goes for 20 years. the love of his life was like the love of roosevelt's guide. he couldn't accept his loss. he claimed the spirit appeared to him and he claims that he was sealed to her. this didn't come out until a few years ago by the way that it was the best kept secret of pinchot life. this is the top advisor to the president of the united states and he claimed he had his spirit wife with him many times when he was dining with roosevelt. he was read to this ghost at night, and he would tell her about his day. he would write his speeches by her. he is a very strange guy. he used to sleep on a wooden pillow and he was wake up sometimes with his valet throwing cold water in his face. whenever you would come out to visit his ranges everyone was sort of flummox because he was a great companion in the day. he could hike with anyone. he was a great fisherman. great marksman. but that has nice, pinchot would wander off into the dark and sleep by himself. john meyer wrote in his diary, when they were at crater lake, he said they all slept in the tent accept for pinchot. -- accept -- except for pinchot. this great mystery of what pinchot was up to. we know now on because of this scholarship done recently that he was commuting with his dead wife. now, he was his mentor. they go back and forth. i saw the letters were pinchot said am i really weird? am i doing the right thing? i go off by myself and me with strange until. he used to lash himself to a tree when a storm it comes that he could feel the force of the wind. he want to sway with the branches. but there were very close and bring to conservation drinking i stayed for almost 20 years and it broke only over one thing, a damning in yosemite. and it was really late in the career. and i should say it didn't happen. went yosemite was dammed it didn't help him on roosevelt's watch. -- have been on roosevelt's watch. -- happen on roosevelt's watch. it was woodrow wilson the following president who did it. so it wasn't even pinchot who did it. pinchot, because san francisco had been destroyed by earthquake in 1906 and they felt they needed the water to be rebuilt. he felt sorry for san francisco. but you can read and pinchot diaries. by the way, he was roosevelt's top speechwriter. so most of the speeches at roosevelt gave came from the pin of gifford pinchot. if you read those pages and to be those diary entries, you can't help but to see this man was committed to the american wild as deere ever was. but he lost his place in history. so thank you, and i will take a few questions from you all. [applause] timothy: you have to live up to missoula's reputation, and be inquisitive. >> how long did you research this? [laughter] -- timothy: the question was how did i research this. it was mostly glorious and really for me terrific research that i spent a lot of time here in missoula and archives where they have a tag is record of this fire. it was very well for rabbi the way. and i covered mount saint helen's, the eruption, was it 1980? yes. and it was every to look at these photographs of all the down timber from the big burn and see how similar it was to all the downed timber of mount saint helens that i didn't realize it until it went into the fires. the 70-mile an hour winds that came, essentially blew down so much of the forest. i spent a lot of time in montana researching the archives here. about time in all the forced -- forest districts around where the fire happened, because the forest service did a marvelous thing that they kept these records called early members of the forced service. early days, think that i am here again until glad you're here. i would go into the district and ask them for early days and someone would have a stapled or bound recollection of someone who it been a ranger in those early days. that was the second thing. third thing was i spent a lot of time in the national archives in washington, d.c. that was to research roosevelt pinchot, to look at their letters, their diaries. and fourth, this was very well documented that he was the first time we've reported on a fire that it was front page news, not just here but in the "new york times" to the personhood my job, 85 years ago, reported on this fire. it was page one news, like i said. the research, what i do is i go and i spend long hours looking at stuff and then i find a little nugget of gold. that's what's so great about research. something just pops. you see this marvelous passage that illuminates a character for you. also i mentioned a woman named pinky adair. they called her pinky because she had this red hair. and she was trying to establish a homestead on the national force illegally. but if you could prove the ground was irritable -- airabl e, that was one of the precepts of the national force if you could prove it was far mobile land, it wasn't. she is up there and she gets drafted to be a cook. and a cook for convicts because one of the things, they opened up the jails. they let people out of jail. they did this in wallace, idaho. they establish martial law. they were so desperate for men one of the headlines was men men, men. they would take anyone with a pulse. they were grabbing people off of trees. they were opening up the jails. they were grabbing hobos down on front street as they call them. and pinky adair is drafted to be a cook for these 80 convicts up in the national forest. and she shows them her pistol and they say do you know how to use that? she says put a can of beans up there on this done. she takes out a pistol and pop hits it dead aim. quieted them. so she had a fabulous expense and she described it as fabulous with his convicts whom she could -- cooked for. then she escapes the byrne. when the firestorm happens, they dive into the string. this is what a lot of people did. they were so helpless. they drive in to this shallow stream hoping this thing will hopscotch over them. a lot of people went into caves, too. that didn't work. it is a storm. it literally sucked the air out of the cave. that's why some people died even while they were in caves. they are in this extreme trying to survive his firestorm that she gets up in the middle of it and says i will not die here. they said what are you doing? you are crazy she walked 20 miles down to the town of a dair, which is on the saint joe river i believe, and she has this marvelous tale of her living through a. she outlives everyone. every major player in this drama big and small. and in her 90s, somewhat of a person, i don't know, i forget from the idaho historical society goes and sits down with pinky adair in her nursing home answers for today's with her. and she tells these marvelous stories. she says oh, it was the greatest time in my life that although she said later she could never eat a potato afterwards because she cooked so many potatoes. i found his pinky adair oral history sort of, you know, it had been any at of the big burn stories. that's the great thing when you do what i do. occasionally you find these bits of gold. that's how the research was done. and i always look for, i do this with the dust bowl book also that i look for four or five -- there are two ways to look at history. there is the great men through what history is look at to the president's and the people who built the railroads and people who started the bank and people who founded the town. and that is find and i -- fine and i certainly do that with roosevelt. but then there are people whose stories never get told. that's what i try to do with the dustbowl book, people who live through a town when the earth itself rose up and looked like a mountain range. that's what you get the texture of history. that's what you get -- what it smelled like look like? , what did it look like when the earth came toward you. i was looking for four or five people who could carry this story for me. so the way i research is i go through and go through, and then boom, i find somebody. it's not always them, issued a drawnout process. i find someone who has a story. so eller kotch wrote a fabulous book. it wasn't published until after his death. he has a wonderful tale to tell. been one of the rangers leading to the fire and then having gaslit about what had become of his beloved forced service. i looked to people who aren't often in history. yes, sir. what i should and critique -- >> i live and critique -- i could -- surely not critique a book before i read it. but i am so pleased that somebody wrote a book about the 1910 fire. when i first heard of it, i thought oh, my lord, just another one of them things? so pleased to see you to put the implications of it. i do have one thing, and i should say that before i read it. and the source of the fires, the common feeling around here for ever since i remember, was that the railroads were building roads, all kinds of stuff all over the place that they were cutting ties for the railroads slashed. so many people were getting stump ranches and trying to clear out the land. and all those little fires burned into big ones, and then it went into bigger ones yet. but more than just, there may have been some lighting strikes, too, i don't know. that's contrary to my way of thinking, but i better read the book. [laughter] timothy: thank you, sir. i brought him tonight and put him there. [laughter] timothy: i appreciate you said even though you haven't read and you like it. that's the best kind of reader i guess. he's absolutely right that i forgot to mention that, my apologies to in the official reports of what caused the big burn, they said lightning strikes cause many of the fires. but they said perhaps have the fires were started by the railroads themselves. the sparks that came off the. there's also, and so that started many of these little fires. and they just, trains come roaring through. it was the milwaukee road, the most expensive transcontinental railroad built to take $10,000 a -- to date, $10,000 a mile to go through the harder the mountains, so they could bring so back to chicago. that was rockefeller family money and that railroad. that's why there were all these itinerants living in taft because of that railroad. but those parts cause many of those buyers. -- those fires. you look in the book you will see some pictures of his. they were huge puzzles they built. not all of these tunnels, but these huge timbered trestles. when the fire was happening on saturday night, august 20, 1910, a lot of people fled by train. it was like the scene in the titanic in one way. women and children first. the whole town was being evacuated and they said that men had to stay behind and fight for their homes, but the women and children could not leave on the last train out of town. that last train out of town was a necessary going to get you to missoula, because all these trestles were burning as well. so there are these harrowing accounts of the trainees is a going out to the edge and then sending someone out to legacy is the fire was burning on the council and then nestling another mile. you will see the pictures in the book of this great engineering feat essentially being tossed around by the big burn as well. but thank you for bringing that up. >> can you talk about one of your other books just for a minute? timothy: sure. >> “breaking blue.” you were born and raised in spokane and you told this horrible story. how did you get into that? timothy: i was aboard -- i was born in seattle. i like to point out that. a little bit of both in my blood here. “breaking blue” was a sort of the oldest homicide sought in american history. -- solved in american history. it was all by sheriff in north idaho who found the bad guy, the killer who was an ex-con who was growing up in the 1930s. you won't believe, but they were killing people over bootleg butter. that was their racket in the 1930s. somebody got onto and they killed a night watchmen over this. 30 years later it is solved. they find a bad guy and he is living here in montana. i think flathead valley where he had been a judge. and had a pretty prosperous life. tony was the sheriff's name who caught up with his bad guy in the eve of his death. the guy died shortly thereafter. and i have been with the "new york times" for 20 years and it was one of those times stories that i did where i've been roaming the west for 20 years looking for stories. that's basic and what i do. somebody says you're a historian. the congressman called me a historian. thank you, congressman, but i am not worthy of that designation. i am a storyteller. i heard the story of tony. he found the murder weapon buried that was thrown off a bridge. when the river was drained, they found a gun. that had been used in the killing. 54 years later. so that was a great story. and i just had a kicking around doing my "new york times" of and being fascinated by the sheriff, done. yes, congressman william? [laughter] congressman williams: i just want wait until i felt almost everybody had asked you a question. thank you. i'm wondering, tim, about your impression from particularly your last two books, "the worst hard times," and in your latest book about the fire. you've not only lived in but circulated around the midwest for that book, and your home up here in the northern rockies for your fire book. and you wrote wonderfully and extensively about the citizens in the states affected by the dust bowl, as well as the state or states affected by the big burn. after you've finished the books, and now consider them, what are your impressions of the differences, if any, between the result and competency -- result -- resolve and competency of midwesterners in the midst of their terror, and people of the northern rockies in the midst of their terror? timothy: well, that's a real tough question because you are forcing me to say something bad about your people here. [laughter] timothy: i will just say what the record shows, ok, so this doesn't call me necessary to have an opinion. this is what the record shows. i don't think there aren't any cover americans than those -- tall for -- tougher americans than those who lived through the dust bowl, because if these people saw the utter, worst catastrophe ever created by american stars. 10 years of hell. these are some people who lived in sod roof houses that there was no social security. this was the worst economic collapse of our time. 25% unemployment. some were literally eating roadkill. the sheriff were drawn back to towns in the oklahoma panhandle and drop the roadkill and people would take it for dinner that night. there was a town that sent a telegram to the congress and say there is an entire town starving. there was no safety net at all. they were tough. people were dying right and left, and they were just being thrown one punch after another. someone said it was a hell of all nature. that was the quote, the hell of all nature was thrown at them. they are losing their farm, this one piece of dirt that they finally have, it's blown up and thrown to the sky. you can have a bright summer day at noon, and it would be as dark as someone once said like to -- two midnight in a jug. one of those great, great expressions you can only get when you go down and find these boys. i came away from that story full of admiration for their toughness and resilience. and by the way, these people are with us still. they are in their 90s do. they haven't left the plant get. -- lannett yet. -- planet yet. that is a great thing, i can look into their eyes when i do the story and asked what it was like to be seven years old in 1920 and they would tell the story. i hugely admire those people. by contrast, what the record about montana, as the firestorm was approaching, i don't know any of you have read the book yet, but the citizens of taft as the forest service was trying to save them, decide they're going to open up all the whiskey reserves and drink himself to death death. [laughter] timothy: that is exactly what they did. i swear to god, that's in the forest service record. if they were going to go down, they're going to go down drunk. [laughter] timothy: and the forced service -- forest service contemplated this is in the record as well, they were starting backfires than to try to save himself. they said why don't we start one that burns toward the town? they considered burning the town itself. and say to hell with the big as -- with it. as it turned out the forced -- forest -- forest service rescued everyone in taft. got the strokes on a train, got them out of there. and only one person died. and that person was draped in bandages when he came down just outside of taft. his buddy went up, he was in a train car and he had been drinking of course and the whiskey was all over the bandages that his buddy went in to take a look at him and he lit a match to see him. the guy caught fire. i'm glad you caught i didn't know the story. the guy caught fire and burned. that was the only death out of taft. so by comparison to taft, i would say to the dust bowl people, the record shows itself. i've got to sign books. thank you all for coming. it's a wonderful evening. 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-- tulsa. >> timothy egan recounts the events in oregon. he discusses the public opinion of national works at the time. timothy: thank you so much. it's terrific to be here in montana, because i've been on a book tour. i've been in 25 cities or so and now here i am, basically home where the fire started. the source of the story, and the source of so much joy for me too, growing up in spokane and fishing here in rock creek and hiking here in the national forest, basically learning to love this land as a little kid. and now trying to look at it as a storyteller. so thank you for coming out on this gorgeous, wonderful, crisp montana night. the rest of the country can only look on us in envy. also, i wanted to open with a wonderful quote from one of my literary heroes, norman maclean, famous montanan author didn't have his first book published until he was 72 years old, but it took a long time for that masterpiece to surface. and it was "a river runs through it." maclean says in the book that he and his brother, they were minister's kids, their father was a minister. good grew up in montana -- very grew up in montana. -- they grew up in montana. they were raised thinking the world was full of love, but as maclean said, my brother and i soon discovered that the world outside was full of bastards. the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets from missoula, montana. [laughter] timothy: and i just -- that just nails it for me. that tells the story about missoula. also, i should say this. maclean, after the book he was a huge success and publishers were tripping over themselves to print his next book, which was a book about fire. and took him 14 years to finish "young amendment and -- young men and fire." he actually died before he could finish it. but alfred a. knopf said we will do anything, we are at your mercy. and he wrote, he said, you do not know my type. i'm scots irish and we have long memories. he said, if i were the last offer left on earth and you were the last publisher, that, sir, would be the end of books as we know it. which i love as well. [laughter] timothy: he got his kicks in maclean, to montanan. i was drawn to the story about writing about the dustbowl because, as was said in the introduction, i love these clashes between human beings and nature. and, you know, you couldn't have anything really more elemental than human beings against fire. it is as old as humanity itself, as old as anything. and to tell you the truth i was really going to write initially just a fire story. and to tell you the truth, more , i was just going to write kind of a cool fire story. because i was attracted to the perfect storm quality of this firestorm. we have never had a fire like this in our history. 3 million acres in a day and a half. the state of connecticut burns in 36 hours. now by comparison, a few months ago you had these fires raging in east of l.a., in the angelos national forest. big fires, burned for two weeks. at their peak those fires are 100,000 acres and blanketed most of the l.a. basin. so these are 3 million acres. 2000-degree temperatures, they estimated. a crown fire going from tree to tree at its peak. a fire moving faster, this is what the men said at the time, faster than a horse could go at full gallop. and we had never tried to fight a wildfire before either. never tried to fight it on this scale. this was the first time in our history, 100 years ago next year, that we assembled an army of men. and almost all men except for a woman cook, who i follow here in the story, a homesteader who moved all over the -- who outlived all of the men and became the last survivor of the fire. an army of men, poor irish and poor irish and poor italian. it was the peak of italian immigration. they just open the gates for the southern mediterranean and they were treated fairly. they call them beaten men from beaten races. and poor irish. many of whom grew up in butte, who were the famine irish, the descendents over those who survived the famine. nearly 2 million people died in the famine of iron. they're getting paid 25 cents an hour to come here and try to fight this wildfire. those of you who live in montana know we get dry summers, and sometimes they can go months without the rain and you'll get these lightning strikes that come down, these dry lightning storms. there's no precipitation. that i was trying to explain this reading at the other washington, washington, d.c. when they get thunderstorms they get torrential rains. so that's what happened. if you had these come down. august of 1910, almost 3000 of these little fires burning in the newly created national forests over the northern rockies. just a few miles up the hill here at the mountains. and so their concern. this is the age when towns were being burned to the ground. denver, seattle, chicago, san francisco. they were gravely concerned about fire. they had chased every other element out over the wild. grizzly bears were largely gone. wolves were a limited. bison were almost done. the indians were pushed to the edge. the only thing they still feared was fire. so with this thing happen, they assembled an army to try to prevent it from getting catastrophic, from destroying micssoula. and then it blew up. and i hope there's some people in the audience here tonight who fought fires before. i've only been as an embed and i was on the yellowstone fire in 1988. there are few things that scared me so much as being in yellowstone park would not fire blew up. it's like the sound of 10 jet liners roaring at once. i was just chilled to the bone when a fire starts to spot and shoot up from crown to crown that's what happened here. you have 70 miles an hour wind which are officially classified as hurricane force winds. now i know what is 70 mile an hour wind is because like i was in a documentary for the history channel on the dustbowl and some knucklehead got the idea, let's re-create 70-mile i went and put him in them. -- 70 mile an hour wind and put him in them. so they brought this flatbed truck out input to giant fans and fire them. poured a whole bunch of dust in there and had me be blowback. because it was a union production there was a doctor on site. [laughter] timothy: i was totally thrown back. i was a tumbleweed in the 70 mile an hour wind. i could not stand in the face of it. that's what caused this fire, to blow up, 70-mile an hour winds. so was a total failure in terms of human beings being able to beat the fire. and as i looked at this thing, you know, i thought that's a great story in and of itself but what was it like to be a ranger five years into the history of the rangers service? what was a like to be an immigrant from italy? i traced it back to a little village in the north of italy, these two boys basically gave it up for teddy roosevelt dream to be here in the strange american west so far from italy and suddenly fighting a fire. what was it like to be a black soldier? there were these african-american buffalo soldiers who were sent to idaho, to wallace, idaho, thereby almost doubling the population of blacks in the state of idaho by their arrival. treated terribly. the headline in wallace was dusky doughboys arrive in town. and then they would have stories about their singing and their gambling at night. and it turned out they saved to the two towns. -- two towns. these men were heroic as well. i was going to write about the quality and drama of the wildfire when you didn't know how to fight one. but like so many americans before me, i absolutely fell head over heels for this man who is chiseled on mount rushmore, teddy roosevelt. and i also feel any strange way fell in a strange way -- fell in a strange way for a man who is not chiseled on mount rushmore but is almost forgotten to us, the founder of the forest service. let me to you about each of these men because they figure so much of this fire, and this fire changes our history. it's so interesting to think here in missoula, on the richer, -- ridge here two nights of pure hell changed everything in terms of saving our public land also the nature of firefighting in itself. but let me just back up. teddy roosevelt is a song of -- son of wealth and privilege. he's the only native of new york city ever to be president. the is our youngest president by -- he is our youngest president by the way. kennedy was a little younger but he was elected. as you remember, teddy roosevelt got the presidency when mckinley was assassinated. he grows up a son of privilege in new york city. he is fascinated by bugs insects, the outdoors, but he is told as a very young man he probably won't live until the 21st birthday. use a sickly child. he is asthmatic. the has kinds of ailments. that he has all kinds of ailments. -- he has all kinds of ailments. he is nearsighted. and he wears spectacles. the kids make fun of him. he is scrawny. is almost anorexic. he is told that he does want to live to his 21st birthday he probably shouldn't go outdoors. and roosevelt wills ishis way to strength. he says in his biography autobiography, i will will myself stronger. he builds his body. he overcomes his sister he was afraid of the dark that he was afraid of trees that he was afraid of forces. this most robust mail of our president he was this shallow very scared child. he wills himself to strength. he goes to harvard. he falls in love with this beautiful woman, and he leaves harvard and he starts with a little crabby very young age. george the republican party which he -- he joins the republican party and then he said was the least corrupt of the two corrupt parties as he said in new york, the legislature was not 100% corrupt but perhaps 90% corrupt. soviet family will so he could -- he had a rich family so he could afford virtue. didn't have to be corrupt. he is elected he assumed at age 20. at age 25 he's the leader of the republican party. he is the republican minority leader. then tragedy strikes. on valentine's day, 1884, his wife gives birth on west 57th street in new york where they are living. and she dies on childbirth. she dies upon giving birth to the first child, alice, that day, valentine's day, 1884. roosevelt goes upstairs where his mother is living. she dies on the same day. so this was our most prolific writer as a president. i mean i am impressed with , barack obama's two books. teddy roosevelt wrote 15 books before his 40th birthday. he wrote 10,000 letters while he was president. he wrote -- he was a prolific diarist. but what did he put on valentine's day 1884? this thing just chilled when i saw it in the national archives. he writes a big, shakey x. on february 14. and believe that -- and beneath that is a single line. he says, the light has gone out of my life. so he gets his newborn baby to sister to raise her. he resigns his position in the legislature. and he says goodbye to wealth and new york and he moves out west. he moves to the dakota territory and he becomes a new man. a different man. a transformed man. he sets up shop, and i was going to hope there was a stage up here, but in a little cabin which i saw about 400 square feet. and he hangs his bare skin rugs -- bear skin rugs up next to the fireplace and he brings all his books in by train. he puts a rocking chair next to the fire, and he becomes a cowboy. he becomes a man who lives and tries to get rid of his grief from the west. he spends the next two years as not a dude rancher. he worked 16 hours a day. some guy in the bar calls him four eyes and roosevelt decks him, puts him out. some other guy stole horses. he spent three days chasing the guy and by the coffee that he was a tough as will be as they say. but it is also a lover of literature and a lover of nature. and two things happened. he is restored. grief that happens to him from losing his wife and his mother is somewhat mitigated by the outdoors. it makes him a little whole again. but he sees something. he sees the west which he has mythologized, all his life he has this image of buffalo everywhere and these wild animals. is almost gone. he sees the american have eaten barely 100 years into us being a nation is all but destroyed. birds, even the birds which he thought there would be millions and millions of birds because that's what lewis and clark had described when they came up the missouri not far from where roosevelt set up a shop in that cabin. so he goes back to new york city after two years, and he is this transformed man. the west has saved him. he says i owe more than any man could ever owe to the west. the west made him whole again. so let's fast-forward to 1900. mckinley is president. roosevelt is vice president. they thought they would get rid of them by putting him on the ticket because he was a governor and he was a reformist governor and the corrupt people in albany did not like having roosevelt. he was placed on the vice presidency. mckinley is assassinated. he is not dead yet. roosevelt's hygiene in the adirondacks -- roosevelt is hiking in the adirondacks. the secret service goes and get him. they think mckinley is going to die but after a day they think he make go through. roosevelt goes back up into the adirondacks. about seven days later the secret service gets him again. the president is dead. it takes roosevelt another 36 hours to get to buffalo where he is sworn in as our youngest president. now, he says later in his autobiography, doesn't say it at the time, remember, he is leader of the republican party, i wanted to transform the republican party as he says, into a "fairly radical progressive party." that's the exact quote. "fairly radical progressive party." he doesn't tell the country that but he says in his diary. and to do that he needs gifford pinchot. who also is a son of wealth and privilege. his father was a clear-cutter. one of his three homes were he grew up having turrets and about 27 a half-dozen fireplaces. he grows up in his castle. i'm sorry yes. and i'm glad we have here tonight. [laughter] timothy: pinchot things like roosevelt. they think that the american colossus is tearing apart what we have. they think that we are moving, at some point we will have a timber famine, that will run out of trees. that we're tearing it all apart. that's what's left over from the louisiana purchase, this big open public domain is just systematically being ripped apart. so pinchot and he then over the course of the next seven years set aside an area almost, not quite, but almost the size of france. it's national parks, national forests, national wildlife refuges. they do most of it by executive order. the congress stops them eventually near the end. just before they stop them roosevelt and pinchot set aside another 16 million acres. they have these rangers bring in these maps. i have a scene where roosevelt describes have you put in the upper flathead valley? i remember being up there once and seeing this magnificent herd of elk. let's include. they are drawing the boundaries all over the west and creating -- these are why these original forest rangers were called arrangers, they were in on creation. they are drawing the boundaries, they are from youale and given these huge magnificent forest for them to take over. so they create these national forests. but there is pushback that there is tons of pushback. this is the end of the gilded age. you have never in our history have had a bigger gap between rich and poor until just a few years ago during the wall street peak. but you have rockefellers, guggenheim's, j.p. morgan, who hated roosevelt. morgan said, when roosevelt left office in 1909, went off to africa for your, they asked that for a year, -- for a year, they asked morgan what he thought, he said i trust some lion will do his duty. [laughter] timothy: that's how they felt about him. and j.j. hill who built the railroads here. they are sort of gnawing at this public domain. they don't like these national forest designations. they are used to getting land for free. the railroads have gotten the land grants that are still with us in montana. so they fight roosevelt. there is one more characteristic i should mention before i move on your. you had a united states senator here once named william clark. and he wanted to be the richest man in the world. he was utterly corrupt and fairly honest about his corruption. he made his money in being one of the copper barons of butte, montana at a time when we needed copper because the telephone was just taking off in copper wires and all that. and he bought his senate seat. at the time senators were not elected by the people, they were elected by the legislature. now that means that occasionally there is some corruption as we saw when the man in illinois who has not been convicted of anything yet but has been accused of using some shenanigans from the selection there. well, that's what happened here. and clark bought his senate seat with $10,000. that was the going price. he put it in his monogrammed envelopes were his initials were stamped on the outside and stuffed with hundred dollar bills. he didn't deny. he said later i never bought a man who was not for sale. so clark buys his senate seat and promptly leaves montana. he goes to new york city and he wants to be one of these gilded age titans. he builds a 106 room house in manhattan. a few blocks from where these other guys were living, these guggenheim's and other powers. whom -- and just to give you a sense of what this guy was like. mark twain who was then still kicking around, said this about your former senator, clark of montana. "he is the most disgusting creature that the republic has yet produced." [laughter] timothy: and i should say, they knew how to hurl an insult back in those days. so clark spends his one term and -- in the united states senate mostly living in his 106 room house in manhattan, and he has one great passion in the senate. do you know what it is? stop the national forests. so he is one of roosevelt's villains, too. these are the people he is fighting against. clark is a democrat by the way. roosevelt is a republican. so the parties have sort of flipped in many ways. clark goes on to cofound las vegas and clark county, the biggest and most populous county in nevada is named for this man that mark twain called the most disgusting creature. i do not know if they have clark days in las vegas. that's who he was. so that's what they're up against. so let's talk about the forest service itself for just a moment here. pinchot wanted these men to be the first people in public -- finest people in public service. so he endows the school in you -- yale with this pinchot money, they yale school of forestry. they were fighting for what they call the great crusade. this dream of conservation. there is no more noble dream for a young man they thought than to serve the united states forces -- forest service. pinocht by the way claims that he, he invented the term conservation. to give you a sense of how public policy was formulated between these two most exuberant characters. roosevelt, by the way, somebody wants -- once said about him he was so full of energy that i thought his clothes were going to catch fire. he and pinchot used to go for these long walks in rock creek park which is just outside the white house in washington d.c. they would occasionally skinny dip together. even late in november like we are now, and i was trying to think what this would be like today if, say, karl rove and george bush were skinny-dipping. [laughter] timothy: in the potomac. or rahm emanuel and barack obama. how our cable news cycle would play this. but that is what they did. they would go for these horseback ride or skinny dip in the potomac or they would vigorously hike through -- and they say roosevelt consumed or burned out 2000 calories before noon and a cup of coffee with sugar as well. but that is where the conservation idea came from. pinchot said it came on one of these. that he brought the idea to roosevelt. it's a very simple idea. they didn't call it environmentalism. they didn't public safety or that basically said we're a nation of 92 million people. what will it be like when we are a nation of 300 million people. by the way, we are a nation of more than 300 million. will that be anything left for our great-grandchildren? it was simply the idea, let's not consume it all in our generation. we owe something to future generations. so that was the simple idea around conservation. so they set up this public land and they set it up for the little guy. now remember, they're not taking private land and putting it in the public domain. they are taking over the left over louisiana purchase and other lands and designating it forest service land, national park land, national wildlife refuge, other uses. on the eve of the fire, 1910 here's what you have. roosevelt has left office. gifford pinchot is fired. the forest service is being underfunded. they are making $900 a year, a ranger with a yale degree, and i try to do the adjusted for inflation math, and that's less a teacher makes now that they have to be armed, because if you're in montana, a ranger was shot and killed, and no one was charged and the person who killed him later said i mistook them for a deer. so they are facing a fairly hostile environment in the woods here as well. and these gilded age powers, these william clark's, these rockefellers, guggenheim's are sort of closing in for the kill. they want to define the agency. the dream is going to die. it's five years old in 1910 and it's defenders are gone. it is orphaned. and then the fire happens. and i said that it was the fire that saved america, because though they loss, though they were routed, though five towns burned to the ground, most of them to leave the map, i dare any one of you to find taft, montana, as i did. once a town of 3000, now nothing. just wind blowing through the trees. not even the footing of a town. i defy anyone of you to find grand forks, idaho, another town gone, completely erased. five towns burned to the ground, 100 men died, 3 million acres burned, scores, incinerated. -- score -- scortched incinerated. and what roosevelt did when this happened, he has returned from africa and a lion has not done its duty. and he is extremely angry. he sees the finest of young men having died on behalf of the great crusade which is what they call it. so he goes around, as roosevelt did -- by the way, you know he invented the term bully pulpit. that was his favorite term. bully for this, bully for the. i heard a voice recording of his and i do not think that he would do well in the television days , he had a high, squeaky voice. which does not match the physical presence of him. but he goes around after the fire and he says these people were martyrs, that these people died for your public land. he does what any politician, good politician can do. the mythologize his -- he mythologizes an event and makes it into narrative. and public sentiment shifts. so i've just come back from reading in the east, and i told people in virginia and pennsylvania and massachusetts that their national forests which they have along the spine of alleghenies, they owe to this fire in montana because there was a bill to create national forests in the east and it had never passed even during roosevelt's time. but after the fire happened, public sentiment shifted and historians directly attributed creation of national forest in the east to the big burn in montana of 1910. so that's one of the many ways that it rippled. now, so it did change. it did save the american public land stream but they sort of took away the wrong fire lesson. because thereafter the forest service vowed that they would put out every fire. so the forest service which was intended to be this became the fire service. and to this day, in some years more than half of their budget is spent on fires. and you have almost 20 million americans living within a half-mile of a national force. so people that hated the national forests then, they are now loved to death appeared to have 300 million visitor days to these national force. -- national forests. the recreation council sinkers national that draws more people to the outdoors than the national forests. they are loved to death but they become the fire service and something called the 10:00 rule which was if a fire happened on your watch, on that day, it had to be put out by 10:00 the next day. and norman maclean, writing his wonderful book "young men and fire" said that forest rangers coming of age after that, there after had 1910 on the brain. because it was expected that you would be judged by how we did in putting out fires. so there are some fires that we can't put out, there are some fires that human beings should never be anywhere near. this was one of those fires. i don't think we could have beat it back with any forest -- force today even with aerial force with a time of stuff we have. it did save our public lands to but also took away the wrong forest lesson. i'd like to read a brief passage here, and then i will take a couple of questions. this is, i wanted to give you an idea of what it was like to be a forest ranger in 1910, because again, most of them are the brightest of bright. they are the best and the brightest. again, they are coming out of these ivy league schools. primary yale. but not all of them. there was a guy named ed polaski that a lot of you guys know about, a blue-collar guy, kicked around, middle aged but probably the most, the one indisputable hero of the fire, the plastic the polaski -- the polaski tool which of course is a tool with a blade at one end and a whole at the other side of the. is they were. they call these people little tv -- little gps in honor of the big gp, gifford pinchot. he knew what it was like at a because he let you. but the other ones did not. so the come out here from you and they come to these new national forests and they are in their '20s. and they are being given charge of, you know, an area bigger than some southeastern states so they have these giant national forests is all full of interesting characters. people are not necessary take the idea of national forests the way that pinchot and roosevelt intended which is that it would be land for the little guy. this is what i'm going to read as an idea of what it was like for a new ranger to newly arrive here in the great state of montana, and go out and check out his national forest. in a thicket of dark montana woods just downslope from the idaho divide, a town sprang up with one prostitute for every three men and a murder rate higher than that of new york city. carved inside a national forest , the village of taft frightened most anyone not use to humanity with all its raw appetites exposed. you could buy the basics in the town of taft, a woman, a man, a horse, a place at a card table or a spin of a roulette wheel, a fat steak for 1 dollar to make quarter of whiskey, a bump for best bunk for 25 cents. -- a bunk for 25 cents. one nearby shop advertised quote, shoes, booze and screws. [laughter] timothy: and they weren't talking about hardware. it was an easy place for an outlaw to hide because everyone in taft was camouflaged. a decent man would stand out like cactus on a nice low. -- ice flow. people drifted into town by day and just as easily faded away at night, never to be seen until the snow melted in the spring. during one thaw, eight bodies were found. a reporter visiting from chicago described the town of taft as "the wickedest city in america." the townsfolk took their amusement wherever they could get it, and so they didn't miss a beat when the churchgoing, well fed, then secretary of war, william h. taft, came for a visit in 1907. at the time, the town was nameless. just a sheltered place in the woods, a place to get a bunk to sleep off a hard night. secretary taft lectured the horse theives and the saloon keepers, the fugitives and timber thieves. the claim jumpers and card sharks about morality and their wretched ways. this is so just send was in the find of how american settlements had been founded, dating to the pilgrims' sitting on a hill. from atop their tree sums people cheered and whistled in approval and hoisted their jugs, here here. and then just after the future president left, they decide to name their town for the big man. well, that spring, there were 18 murders in taft. the town of taft was part of the public land domain of ellers kotch, 25 year old supervisor of three national forests and a fresh minted little gp. pinchot never told him that his empire would include some of the most lawless places in the country. pinchot always looked past the gambling dens and the mining claims to the trees. quote, the forest is as beautiful as it is useful, he wrote in his primer on 40. the old fairy tales which spoke of it as a terrible place are wrong. no one can really know a forest without feeling the gentle influence of one of the strongest parts of nature. but he had not visited the open sore of taft, montana. when he and his crew of young rangers first showed up and had to have a look, the saloon, the cards and the dance hall were going full throttle. the bars were law and with hard face dance hall girls and every kind of gambit was going wide open. the rangers spent the night. but they were unable to sleep because of the din. couch got out of bed, dressed and went down to the saloon. he dropped a coin in a slot machine and it hit. as his winnings slid out painted women were instantly drawn to the forest supervisor. quote, one big blonde in a very low-cut dress had her arms wrapped tightly around my neck he wrote. he ordered drinks for the house on him, of course. and he gathered his coins, dr. under the arm of the blonde with big free flowing cleavage and made a beeline for his bunk. welcome, sir, to the low low national force. [laughter] timothy: he had crews of single rangers to go with his full-time assistants. the adult telephones and build trails. they rescued hunters and hikers but in the winter they snowshoe deepens a forced on for days at a time a little but tea, sugar and raisins. they felled dead trees. years before anyone had a sleeping bag. he learned how to read the sky and the human heart as well. now his colleague just over the ridge in idaho, bill, had a bigger problem. for inside his national force, there were three towns and made -- animated by debauchery and loss of all time. the worst was grand forks where muddy streets were thick and lined with the burned-out stumps of big seeders like nubs on a half shaven face. saloons were held together by rough cut planks with canvas walled cribbs outback. if they why they broke out in the middle of the street, it remained there until somebody burned it or it was picked apart for scrap. the little gps were horrified and perplexed by what they found in the people's land. instead of on his homesteaders they confronted land thieves. instead of pinchot's little man who would be king, they found whiskey. instead of enlightened merchants, they found six varieties of pimps, all operating in open the find of -- defiance of the united states forest service. one man cut a swath in the was a half-acre so and he opened a bar with few horse just outside of taft. he did this under the eyes of several rangers. they -- the flummox rangers sent a telegram to missoula, no idea how to respond. two undesirable prostitutes established on government land he why. what should i do? a ranger wired back, get desirable ones. [laughter] timothy: so that's what they were up against. i was so lucky when i is reading in california a few weeks ago a woman came up to me and told me, she was the granddaughter of that ranger who said that telegram, and she presented me with a copy of that telegram which was absolutely wonderful. and it has a very important place, that telegram. in the forest service lore. and anytime i run into a ranger who has a sense of history, i say get two desirable ones and they know exactly what i'm talking about. [laughter] timothy: so that was what they're up against. to me this was a fascinating social history because it was an experiment that people now say some asked me today, who would -- were they to come out to tell people how to live? they didn't tell people how to live. but here's what they did that was different from other generations. pinchot had to study forestry in france. because there was no forest school in the united states, there was no concept of forestry. when he became a forrester he claims he was the first in the united states. he hung a shingle in the island of manhattan --- gifford pinchot, forrester. there wasn't much beyond central park, but that's how he got his start. he goes to france to study as a boy and he is appalled, all the land is held by these nobles. peasants couldn't pick up twigs in the national force. you couldn't cut timber. you could walk in the woods without permission. england was the same way, you had to have the permission of the lord of the land. so what roosevelt did that was so radical, so different was to break from that, to simply say this land belongs to you and i. and really, it's no more complicated than that. you know, i grew up in spokane, and we had a big irish catholic family and we were not rich but we didn't have a summer home but we had these public lands. and as long as we have these public lands i knew we were rich. so we camped all over western montana, all over northern idaho. all over western washington. this land was something that my mother always told me that was part of my birthright as an american citizen. and so that's what we really owe this president. it's also interesting to think, accidents, quirks of history. what if this fire hadn't happen? and they were very close to killing it. good for yourself. they had defunded it basically down to nothing. and i read the memos talking about how low the morale was or how people were quitting and how they felt so, you know disrespected and so unsupported in washington. they were very close they felt to this thing. what if this fire hadn't happen? what if it hadn't changed the course of history? in national parks which you saw with the ken burns documentary are an important part of our heritage but a very small part of the public land domain. i mean, they are just a fraction of what the forest service is. that's what i feel absolutely in awe of both roosevelt and pinchot himself who has i think gotten kind of a bad rap over the year, he is always juxtaposed against john deere, the third of the founding members of american conservation. well let me just say one thing for a minute here. deere was pinchot's mentor. pinchot was a very strange guy. he lived with this ghost for 20 years. the love of his life was like the love of roosevelt's guide. he couldn't accept his loss. he claimed the spirit appeared to him and he claims that he was sealed to her. this didn't come out until a few years ago by the way that it was the best kept secret of pinchot life. this is the top advisor to the president of the united states and he claimed he had his spirit wife with him many times when he was dining with roosevelt. he was read to this ghost at night, and he would tell her about his day. he would run his speeches by her. he is a very strange guy. he used to sleep on a wooden the low end he will -- wouldn't the low end he would wake up -- pillow and he would wake up sometimes with his valet throwing cold water in his face. whenever you would come out to visit his rangers everyone was sort of flummoxed because he was a great companion in the day. he could hike with anyone. he was a great fisherman. great marksman. but that night, pinchot would wander off into the dark and sleep by himself. john meyer wrote in his diary, when they were at crater lake, he said they all slept in the tent except for pinchot. this great mystery of what pinchot was up to. we know now on because of this scholarship done recently that he was commuting with his dead wife. now, he was his mentor. they go back and forth. i saw the letters were pinchot said am i really weird? am i doing the right thing? i go off by myself and me with strange until. he used to lash himself to a tree when a storm would come so that he could feel the force of the wind. he want to sway with the branches. but they were very close to bringing the conservation dream for almost 20 years and it broke only over one thing, a damning in yosemite. and it was really late in the career. and i should say it didn't happen. when yosemite was dammed it didn't happen on roosevelt's watch. it was woodrow wilson the following president who did it. so it wasn't even pinchot who did it. pinchot, because san francisco had been destroyed by earthquake in 1906 and they felt they needed the water to be rebuilt. he felt sorry for san francisco. but you can read pinchot's diaries. by the way, he was roosevelt's top speechwriter. so most of the speeches at -- that roosevelt gave came from the pen of gifford pinchot. if you read those pages and to be those diary entries, you can't help but to see this man was committed to the american wild as deere ever was. but he lost his place in history. so thank you, and i will take a few questions from you all. [applause] timothy: you have to live up to missoula's reputation, and be inquisitive. [laughter] >> how long did you research this? timothy: the question was how did i research this. it was mostly glorious and really for me terrific research . i spent a lot of time here in missoula in the forest service archives where they have a fabulous record of this fire. and i covered mount saint helen's, the eruption, was it 1980? yes. and it was every to look at these photographs of all the down timber from the big burn and see how similar it was to all the downed timber of mount saint helens that i didn't realize it until it went into the fires. the 70-mile an hour winds that came, essentially blew down so much of the forest. so i spent a lot of time in montana researching the archives here. a lot of time in all of the forest districts around where the fire happened, because the forest service did a marvelous thing that they kept these records called early members of the forced service. early days, thank you, i am here again until glad you're here. i would go into the district and ask them for early days and someone would have a stapled or bound recollection of someone who had been a ranger in those early days. that was the second thing. third thing was i spent a lot of time in the national archives in washington, d.c. and that was to research roosevelt, pinchot, to look at their letters, their diaries. and fourth, this was very well documented. this was the first time we've reported on a fire. it was front page news, not just here but in the "new york times" . the person who had my job, 85 years ago, reported on this fire. it was page one news, like i said. the research, what i do is i go and i spend long hours looking at stuff and then i find a little nugget of gold. that's what's so great about research. you will be going through and going through and going through and then something just pops. you see this marvelous passage that illuminates a character for you. also i mentioned a woman named pinky adair. they called her pinky because she had this red hair. and she was trying to establish a homestead on the national force illegally. -- national forest illegally. but if you could prove the ground was airable, that was one of the precepts of the national forest, if you could prove it was formidable -- formable land -- farmable land, it wasn't. she is up there and she gets drafted to be a cook. and a cook for convicts because one of the things, they opened up the jails. they let people out of jail. they did this in wallace, idaho. they establish martial law. they were so desperate for men one of the headlines was men men, men. they would take anyone with a pulse. they were grabbing people off of trees. they were opening up the jails. they were grabbing hobos down on front street as they call them. and pinky adair is drafted to be a cook for these 80 convicts up in the national forest. and she shows them her pistol at one point and they say do you know how to use that? she says put a can of beans up there on the stump. she takes out a pistol and pop hits it dead aim. quieted them. so she had a fabulous expense -- experience and she described it as fabulous with his convicts who machine -- whom she cooked for. then she escapes the burn. when the firestorm happens, they dive into the stream. this is what a lot of people did. they were so helpless. they dive in to this shallow stream hoping this thing will hopscotch over them. a lot of people went into caves, too. that didn't work. it is a storm. it literally sucked the air out of the cave. that's why some people died even while they were in caves. they are in this extreme trying to survive this firestorm that she gets up in the middle of it and says i will not die here. they said what are you doing? you are crazy she walked 20 miles down to the town of adair, which is on the saint joe river i believe, and she has this marvelous tale of her living through it. she outlives everyone. every major player in this drama big and small. and in her 90's, some wonderful person, i don't know, i forget from the idaho historical society goes and sits down with pinky adair in her nursing home and sits for two days with her. and she tells these marvelous stories. she says oh, it was the greatest time in my life that although she said later she could never eat a potato afterwards because she cooked so many potatoes. i found his pinky adair oral history sort of, you know, it had been any at of the big burn stories. that's the great thing when you do what i do. occasionally you find these bits of gold. so that's how the research was done. and i always look for, i do this with the dust bowl book also , i look for four or five --there are two ways to look at history. there is the great man theory looking at the presidents and the people who built the railroads and people who started the bank and people who founded the town. and that is fine and i certainly do that with roosevelt. but then there are people whose stories never get told. that's what i try to do with the dustbowl book, people who live through a town when the earth itself rose up and looked like a mountain range. that's what you get the texture of history. that's what you get -- what it smelled like, look like? what did it look like when the earth came toward you. i was looking for four or five people who could carry this story for me. so the way i research is i go through and go through, and then boom, i find somebody. it's not always boomm, issued a -- it is often a drawnout process. i find someone who has a story. so eller kotch wrote a fabulous book. "40 years a forrester." it wasn't published until after his death. he has a wonderful tale to tell. been one of the rangers leading to the fire and then having gaslit about what had become of his beloved forced service. i look for people who can carry the story and who aren't often in history. yes, sir. >> i should not critique a book before i read it. but i am so pleased that somebody wrote a book about the 1910 fire. when i first heard of it, i thought oh, my lord, just another one of them things? so pleased to see you to put the implications of it. i do have one thing, and i shouldn't say that before i read it. the source of the fires, the common feeling around here for ever since i remember, was that the railroads were building roads, all kinds of slash all over the place that they were cutting ties for the railroads slash. so many people were getting stump ranches and trying to clear out the land. and all those little fires burned into bigger ones, and then it went into bigger ones yet. but more than just, there may have been some lighting strikes, too, i don't know. that's contrary to my way of thinking, but i better read the book. [laughter] timothy: thank you, sir. i brought him tonight and put him there. [laughter] timothy: i appreciate you said even though you haven't read and you like it. that's the best kind of reader i guess. he's absolutely right that i forgot to mention that, my apologies. in the official reports of what caused the big burn, they said lightning strikes cause many of the fires. but they thought perhaps half of the fires were started by the railroads themselves. the sparks that came off the. there's also, and so that started many of these little fires. and they just, you know, these trains come roaring through. it was the milwaukee road, the most expensive transcontinental railroad built to date, $10,000 a mile to go through the harder the mountains, so they could bring so back to chicago. that was rockefeller family money in that railroad. that's why there were all these itinerants living in taft because of that railroad. but those sparks caused many of those fires. you look in the book you will see some pictures of his. they were huge trust souls -- trestles they built. not all of these tunnels, but these huge timbered trestles. when the fire was happening on saturday night, august 20, 1910, a lot of people fled by train. it was like the scene in the titanic in one way. women and children first. the whole town was being evacuated and they said that men had to stay behind and fight for their homes, but the women and children could not leave on the last train out of town. well that last train out of town was not necessary going to get you to missoula, because all these trestles were burning as well. so there are these harrowing accounts of the train essentially going out to the edge and then sending someone out to look if the fire was burning on the council and then nestling another mile. you will see the pictures in the book of this great engineering feat essentially being tossed around by the big burn as well. but thank you for bringing that up. >> can you talk about one of your other books just for a minute? timothy: sure. >> “breaking blue.” you were born and raised in spokane and you told this horrible story. how did you get into that? timothy: i was aboard -- i was born in seattle. i like to point out that. a little bit of both in my blood here. “breaking blue” was a sort of the oldest homicide sought in american history. -- solved in american history. it was all by sheriff in north idaho who found the bad guy, the killer who was an ex-con who was growing up in the 1930s. you won't believe, but they were killing people over bootleg butter. that was their racket in the 1930s. somebody got onto and they killed a night watchmen over this. 54 years later it is solved. they find a bad guy and he is living here in montana. i think flathead valley where he had been a judge. and had a pretty prosperous life. tony was the sheriff's name who caught up with his bad guy in the eve of his death. the guy died shortly thereafter. and i had been with the "new york times" for 20 years and it was one of those times stories that i did where i've been roaming the west for 20 years looking for stories. that's basic and what i do. somebody says you're a historian. congressman pat williams who is here tonight called me a historian. thank you, congressman, but i am not worthy of that designation. i am a storyteller. i heard the story of tony. he found the murder weapon buried that was thrown off a bridge. in the spokane river. when the river was drained, they found the gun that had been used in the killing 54 years later. so that was a great story. and i just found it kicking around doing my "new york times" thing and being fascinated by the sheriff, done. yes, congressman william? [laughter] congressman williams: i just wanted to wait until i felt almost everybody had asked you a question. but thank you. i'm wondering, tim, about your impression from particularly your last two books, "the worst hard times," and in your latest book about the fire. you've not only lived in but circulated around the midwest for that book, and your home up here in the northern rockies for your fire book. and you wrote wonderfully and extensively about the citizens in the states affected by the dust bowl, as well as the state or states affected by the big burn. after you've finished the books, and now consider them, what are your impressions of the differences, if any, between the resolve and competency of midwesterners in the midst of their terror, and people of the northern rockies in the midst of their terror? timothy: well, that's a real tough question because you are forcing me to say something bad about your people here. [laughter] >> go right ahead. timothy: i will just say what the record shows, ok, so this doesn't call on me necessary to have an opinion. this is what the record shows. i don't think there aren't any tougher americans than those who lived through the dust bowl, because these people saw the utter, worst catastrophe ever created by american soil. 10 years of hell. these are some people who lived in sod roof houses that there was no social security. this was the worst economic collapse of our time. 25% unemployment. some were literally eating roadkill. be sure if would come back to little towns in the -- the sheriff would come back to little towns in the oklahoma panhandle and drop the roadkill and people would take it for dinner that night. there was a town that sent a telegram to the congress and say there is an entire town starving. there are no food stamps, there was no safety net at all. they were tough. people were dying right and left, and they were just being thrown one punch after another. someone said it was a hell of all nature. that was the quote, the hell of all nature was thrown at them. they are losing their farm, this one piece of dirt that they finally have, it's blown up and thrown to the sky. you can have a bright summer day at noon, and it would be as dark as someone once said like two midnight in a jug. one of those great, great expressions you can only get when you go down and find these boys. i came away from that story full of admiration for their toughness and their resilience. and by the way, these people are with us still. they are in their 90's now. they have not left the planet yet. that is a great thing, i can look into their eyes when i do the story and asked what it was like to be seven years old in 1920 and they would tell the story. i hugely admire those people. now by contrast, what the record s show about half, -- taft, montana, as the firestorm was approaching, i don't know any of you have read the book yet, but the citizens of taft as the forest service was trying to save them, decide they're going to open up all the whiskey reserves and drink themselves to death death. [laughter] timothy: that is exactly what they did. i swear to god, that's in the forest service record. if they were going to go down, they're going to go down drunk. [laughter] timothy: and the forest service contemplated, this is in the record as well, they were starting backfires than to try to save themselves. they said why don't we start one that burns toward the town? they considered burning the town itself. and say to hell with it. as it turned out the forest service rescued everyone in taft. got the drunks on a train, got them out of there. and only one person died. and that person was draped in bandages when he came down just outside of taft. his buddy went up, he was in a train car and he had been drinking of course and the whiskey was all over the bandages that his buddy went in to take a look at him and he lit a match to see him. the guy caught fire. i'm glad you all know the story. the guy caught fire and burned. that was the only death out of taft. so by comparison to taft, i would say to the dust bowl people, the record shows itself. i've got to sign books. thank you all for coming. it's a wonderful evening. 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serio. >> hump day. oh, i heard bob kelly. we'll ask him to repeat when it is his turn. and it is almost his turn. we just want to gave you a brief look at the wet they are morning. we've got 30 degrees in philadelphia. but it feels like 30 this time. we don't have too much wind out there. so maybe it is a smidge better than it was yesterday. but you still need the winter coat. sunrise, 6:57 this morning. and in this case, we'll probably see a reverse of what we had yesterday. we'll start off with sunshine, then we have clouds by the end of the day. nothing to show you here on ultimate doppler radar. no precipitation, and not yet anyway so we have 30 degrees to start. some sunshine, and we are up into the 40's by the middle and the end of the day. we'll talk about what's going to happen when we get that rain and when we get those miler temperatures, that's all coming up in just a few minutes with the seven day forecast. all right, bob kelly your turn, say it again? >> hump day hump, hump day. good morning 4:02, coming up, on this wednesday morning. we're in pretty good shape along i95. no problems, looking live right near girard avenue in the construction zone, we are good to go again they've been working all this week on the overnight between the betsy ross bridge and cottman avenue. so on the overnight and into that maybe until about 5:00 or so just watch for brake tap of course it is work zone safety awareness week here, penndot and the police watching the speeds in all of the work zones live look at the benny coming into downtown philly. no problems or delays at all on the bridges. rest of the major roadways, actually pretty good shape 55, coming in on 422 no problems on 202 coming out of downingtown, and mass transit septa using shuttle buses until 5:00 this morning. and no delays on mass transit and no delays at philadelphia international airport. chris, lauren, back over to you. >> thank you, 4:02 the time. we have breaking news for you a man is in critical condition after being stabbed. police found the victim along the 900 block of north 29th street. that's in philadelphia's fairmount section. no one has been arrested. meantime, a pedestrian was struck and killed in gloucester county, new jersey last night. skyfox over tuck hoe road near route 322 in williamstown, just before 10:00 the unidentified victim died at the scene. the driver did stop. the investigation now is underway. >> a day after justice department on the philadelphia police department determine changes are needed there was another police involved shooting. >> the use of deadly force had been a big part that far reviewment fox 29's steve keeley now live at police headquarters with more on. >> this steve good morning to you. >> reporter: nobody says this, but it was the philly police that asked for that report because they wanted to make sure they were doing things right. it was just 28 hours after the release of the us justice report on philly deadly force shootings. twenty shots fired while still light after guy with two guns aims at two police offers, one fired at him in self-defense. all happened just block away, only moments after police saw this mini-van, lots of bullet holes through the windshield, the doors and in the man slumped out of the driver seat, too. the guy with the guns either just jumped into the back seat looking for something after that shooting, or maybe had been a passenger when the van was shot up. either way he wasn't exactly waiving police down for help when they arrived. he took off and ran after stepping over the other guy's body. >> the officer ordered the male to stop, drop the weapon, show his hands stop running the male refused, he turned, he pointed the weapon in the direction of both officers. that's when one officer discharged his weapon, striking the suspect. >> well, both guys are now stage at temple. police hope that one or both will tell them what happened. but won't be surprised if neither does. police now will test both of those two guns, the guy had in each hand, with the shells they found in the street, the bullets in the van and in the first shooting victim once the surgeons hand them over. and relating back to the federal report, chris lauren, on shootings it is standard foreign turn al affairs to look into all of them. so they are also on this right now. but unlike those officers who had the split second decision when a guy is point ago gun with a extended magazine at them right after they see this van shot up, they didn't have the luxury of months of looking at this, every which way, and all of the facts and actually cooperating witnesses. they've got the hardest job in the world that split second decision, life or death. >> tough, tough work for them, thank you so much, steve keeley. happening today, former philadelphia sportscaster don tollefson will be sentenced today for stealing hundreds every thousands of dollars by selling bogus sport theme travel packages. his attorney hopes to win a sentence without jail time. but tollefson could be sentenced to at least nine months in prison for the $340,000 scam. tollefson is a former fox 29 employee. >> and the court hearing scheduled today for philadelphia 17 year old charged in the shooting death of his friend. ivan overholtzer charged with involuntary manslaughter and related offenses, earlier this month, they say he shot 17 year old james becker the third in the stomach while playing with a gun. the two boys were schoolmate at kensington cap a high school. >> philadelphia police are now questioning the man they think is responsible for burying a body in a shallow grave in the city's frankford section police found the body behind a building on the 4700 block of frankford avenue. now, it was the landlord that tipped off police, once they got there officers say they saw a man running away and had to use a stun gun to stop him. witnesses say they heard yelling earlier that day. >> this is philadelphia, you know, people argue all the time on the street. and i justin minding my own business. then they went back there i kept walking and then that's when i came back and i seen him come out. the girl never came out. >> crime scene investigators recovered evidence from two dumpsters, including bloody clothing and box of trash bags. they also searched an apartment where they believe the murder may have happened. charges are pending against that person, by the way. this morning, bucks county teacher accused of having romantic relationship with a 17 year old. >> police say they were tipped off about the relationship just before the teacher planned to take the relationship a step further. fox 29's jennifer joyce live in warminster, pennsylvania this morning, with more. jennifer, what was about to happen next? >> we'll get to that in just a seconder but i wanted to tell this teacher was arrest the arraigned yesterday, but now out of became after police say he did have an inapropriate relationship with a 17 year old student. let's show you his picture. this is michael joseph, 33 years old a ten-year teacher at william tenant high school, social studies teacher accused with meeting up with 17 year old student after school hours outside of school. they kiss the, shared sexually explicit conversation cents. he booked a hotel room with the intention of having sex with the student but investigators found out before that happened. we talked to parent last night, one woman says her daughter had him as a teach they are year, and he's now placed on leave and she is shocked by these allegations. >> it makes me sick. i can't believe these teachers are doing this to children who are innocent, and they even put their job and their life on the line. >> now, the issue came up at school board meeting last night, the superintendent said the district's top priority is the safety and well-being of the student. they are saddened by the incident again michael had been teacher here at william tenant high school for ten years. he is now placed on leave facing multiple charges. back to you guys. >> all right jennifer joyce thank you for the update. counselor from montgomery county is accused of inapropriately touching teen girl. police have 73 year old bernard rivas endangering the welfare of children, corruption indecent assault works with troubled teens, mol else the the 14 year old in his home office. according to investigators the victim was able to take photos of rivas touching her. woman claims uber x drivers raymond her after picking her up in philadelphia last month. they cannot release many details but confirm they are investigate that report. uber tells us the driver was interviewed by police and was not arrested. the company released a statement saying in part upon learning of the incident, we immediately contacted philadelphia police department to assist in their investigation. as the investigation continues, the driver's access to the uber platform has been suspended. >> today the french interior minister says the black box voice recorder from a plane that crashed in the french alps is damaged. meanwhile, helicopter crews resumed operations over the mountainside looking for clues in the wreckage. french aviation officials say the pilot sent out no distress call and had lost radio contact with their control center right before the crash. all 150 on board that german airliner life and is a are presumed dead. >> we will do everything to make sure they get help and assistance available in the hours like these. >> at this point no cause has been ruled out in the crash but the white house and the airline chief said there was no sign that terrorism was involved. >> a school bus driver somehow loses control crashes into a montgomery county home. >> so luckily the family inside had just left the room. skyfox over winds mere drive in blue bell. nine student on board wissahickon school bus bound for saint helen elementary school it, hit a street sign, went on to the lawn, up into the home as you can see yesterday morning. >> we were in that room 52nd before, because my compute is her in that room. so i was doing some work on my computer. we just walked out it sounded like something explode in the my house. and my neighbor kept screaming get everyone out of the house. so that was my main concern. so i ran down the aisle and i opened the lock, like opened the kind of latch and i jumped out on to the grass and then i just was kind of in relief. i was out of the bus and it was smoking i guess. them i encouraged, come on, let's get out let's go, come on. >> so an interview coming one that brave girl and her school principal, later on good day. meantime we're told that the driver may have blacked out and since hospitalized. police have reviewed the dashboard camera but have not revealed what it shows. mystery there. still ahead president owe became a -- obama announces a change of plans. how many troops are now expected to stay. >> and let's take another little look outside. winter is just not done yet from clear and cold to warm and rain. sue serio has your full forecast coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> hey, don't mess with me. >> i never would. i met you. i know you. i work with you. and one thing i've learned i'm not going to mess with you. >> 4:14, it is chilly. is that why -- oh, no cough knee there? >> no, there is coffee. sue, this is one of those dorky mugs. it says -- >> my kids are teenage earth and i come down for coffee, embrace the moment, kids. >> are you under the dill use you don't annoy your kids? >> maybe bob has better mug for me? i lost my fox 29 mug. >> bob has a couple statement. >> that's an understatement. i sit next to him upstairs. >> that's what i hear. anyway, all right let's look at ultimate doppler radar because this will tell the tale of what is going to happen tomorrow and why you will need your i am umbrella tomorrow. nothing on it right now. but look what's on the way. we've got a mess. we have snow in wisconsin rain and thunderstorms in chicago, i think maybe little mix of precipitation there this is the leading edge after warmfront. we told you yesterday, first we're getting a warmfront then tomorrow night a cold front could touch off some thunderstorms. for now, we're okay. there is the possibility though, as we look at the future cast, we definitely see increase in clouds and now the latest computer models are showing the possibility of a shower or two even as early as noon today. but, it is going to be only rain at this point in time and warmer air coming along with it so it stays rain throughout maybe the rest of the day not much going on until tomorrow. and here comes 7:00 in the morning, as we continue to look at the future cast. you see pretty heavy rain moving through through lunchtime, through 2:00 in the afternoon, it is not raining every minute, but it will be around, and then it is in the evening hours. maybe 8:00, 9:00 that the thunderstorms could be happening. tan could get pretty loud with some heavy downpours, some high winds along with those thunderstorms. so say between 8:00 and midnight tomorrow we get the thunderstorms, left over showers possible friday morning, and then things get really cold so that by saturday morning way out west, we see some snow flurries. so that's how wacky the weather is going to be over the next 48 hours or so. we've got 30 degrees in the city, 20's to the north of us and the south of us. so dress for temperatures in the 20's today. don't have much of a winds. here's our foxcast for today. high of 48 degrees, still on the chilly side, very little sunshine, whatever you see will be in the morning and the clouds take over, we have the possibility of showers tonight. that is your weather authority forecast. we'll get that seven day to you as soon as we put it together, bob kelly we're still crafting the forecast. >> maybe lever the snow out for the weekend, kids will be crazy, they got soccer again this weekend they lost the last two weekends with rain and with snow, but good morning, everybody. looking at 4:17 this wednesday hump day. live look at the 42 freeway coming in toward philadelphia. light volume at least at the moment. the roads are dry no problems to report as you work yourself out of south jersey coming in toward philadelphia. do have an accident, though, this is westbound 422 as you work your way out past 29, between 29 and the royersford interchange. an accident there. police are on the scene. then north and south along 202, between west chester and king of prussia, just watch for the construction crews down there route 29. they still have the big bright white construction light on when i pass there this morning. and it has been rough go in the neighborhood, going to last for a month or so. grays ferry avenue, blocked between fitzwater and bainbridge. they are putting in a new underground water main system there. so we're going around the block, even the school buses are delayed and detoured during the morning rush hour. otherwise we're in good shape coming up out of downingtown no problems problems on the schuylkill expressway and mass transit looking good. >> there will not be reduction of us troops in afghanistan this year. speaking at the white house yesterday, with afghan president, president obama said the us will give afghanistan more time to beef up its forces by slowing the military pull-out. just fewer than 10,000 troops will stay through the end of the year. the president had planned to cut that number of troops to afghan by the end of 2015. the president says afghanistan, quote remains a dangerous place and it is important to maintain security cooperation between the two countries. >> happening now, in california federal state and local authorities are searching for a woman who they believe was kidnapped for ransom. she was allegedly taken from her home near san francisco. investigators are now releasing any details about the alleged ransom, but crews are focusing their search on lake near the woman's homement fox's patricia star has more. >> please don't hut her. >> a father desperate for information as authorities in northern california are investigating a possible kidnapping for ransom. the fbi now joining the search for 30 year old denise hoskins. >> the search dogs have hinted out an area that they are looking at with sonar as well. so the intention is for the dive team to go into the water and discover, or i should say to look at what this object that they've discovered to be. and at this point we have no idea what that is. >> investigators say the woman was forceably taken against her will from her home monday morning. a man who lives with hoskins reported the kidnapping, but waited several hours to do so. still, investigators say the man is cooperating and is not considered a suspect at this time. >> at this point he was the one that was -- that brought this matter to our attention. we are currently working with him to piece the puzzle together. >> as authority continue their search for hoskins the woman's father is pleading with his daughter's alleged kidnapper to let her go unharmed. >> the biggest fear is the horror that she might be going through, that's my biggest fear, is that she has gone through such horror. she doesn't deserve that. to not from anybody. >> michael hoskins says his daughter fighter. he refuses to give up hope she will return home safely. >> the family is there. we love her. we're not giving up. >> the woman's car was also take friend outside her home. it was eventually found at an undisclosed location. patricia stark fox news. >> a spokeswoman for mad man says the actor recently completed treatment for alcohol addiction. >> so "tmz" first to report the news. they say ham complete add 30 day rehab program just days before the premiere of the last season of madmen. ham is best known for playing don draper in the series, character also struggles with alcohol addiction, by the way. coming up in sports: eagles owner jeffrey lurie breaks his silence on why he gave chip kelly complete control. he sums it up in one word. >> fate. is that it? >> stay tuned. >> good morning, i'm tom shred end back, back january 2nd of this year, jeffrey lurie gave complete control of personnel to chip kelly. completely silent about it until yesterday. he said howie roseman was his general manager that all charged because of one word. >> chip had a vision of exactly how he thought we could get from good to great. and i thought it was a really sound vision that he is a very bright guy, he is all about football, he is all about want to go win big. and it made so much sense. >> jeffrey phillies and braves in orlando florida that was ryan howard with his heard homer this spring. a moon shot. very next pitch is darren rough. solo shot, back-to-back pitches. phillies beat the braves yesterday five to three. coming up later today the flyers host kimmo timonen and help kelly scheduled to speak at the meeting in phoenix. that's sports in a minute. i'm tom sredenschek. >> all you need is vision. >> sixers hope they have a vision for the future. they lost again. this time to the kings in sacramento 107-106. >> that was pretty close though. >> yes still lost. >> true. >> in the final six minutes of the really close game, the kings limited philadelphia to just three points, in six minutes. >> the sixers play tonight in denver. congress has awarded its highest civil yan ledge toned jack nicklaus. seventy-five year old received the congressional gold met al while discussing his life and triumphs speaker of the house john boehner cold him the quote gold standard. nicklaus the third pro-golfer alongside nelson and palmer to receive that honor. coming up: plans to use the former showboat casino in atlantic city as a college campus are in danger of collapsing. why the deal is now falling apart. >> braking noose, a person in the hospital right now after being stabbed, now police are looking for the person responsible. >> and a deal to convert the showboat in atlantic city to a college campus in in jeopardy, why the plan is about to fall apart. >> the next time you're on the ben franklin parkway, you will notice something different. what's happened to all the trees? we get to the bottom that far question. interesting. i take that home quite often. i didn't even notice. >> i was around it yesterday. >> the thing that wakes me up is trying to stay in my lane around the turn, sue serio good morning everyone, it is wednesday, march 25th, 2015. >> always an adventure pothole dodging for most of us trying to get -- avoid the lands mine, avoid the other lane of traffic. so careful out there, folks. 30 degrees in philadelphia, right now, it is dry no precipitation in the offing, at least for this morning. 30 degrees is what it feels like. not much after wind. sunrise happens officially at 6:57 this morning. nothing to show you as we said on ultimate doppler radar. so let's look at our planner for today. we are off to another cold start. temperatures are still below freezing we're now well into spring time, the fourth full day or the fifth full day of spring, and it is still below freezing in the beginning of the day. some sunshine. that will come early though, and 47 degrees, 48 by the time all is said and done today, 47 by lunchtime and sunset at 7:18. so that's your plan i for wednesday, clouding up, can't rule out a shower this afternoon, either, we will talk in more detail when we look at the future cast, and the seven-day forecast, which is all coming up. so, good morning bob kelly. what you got this morning? >> hey, sue, good morning 4:31, not off to good start here, a tractor-trailer accident on i-95, this is a live look at the northbound lanes of 95, at the newtown-yardley interchange up there in bucks county. first word is that this tractor-trailer rearended a vehicle, than is that stretch of 95 in bucks county, where it is only two lane roadway. no overhead street lamps. anti who hour, it is pitch black out there. if you travel by yourself it looks like a lot of emergency equipment on the scene looks like they only have this far left lane slowly squeezing past here. so again light volume at the moment. but if you are headed north on 95 expect a delay up in bucks county. otherwise, the ben franklin looking good, rolling out of south jersey, up and over the toll plaza in toward downtown. and an accident west on 422 this is just past the route 29 interchange. so between 29 and royersford, again, a stretch where there is no overhead street lamps and this hour of the morning we also have the deer jumping across the roadway. septa, shuttle bussing on both the market frankford and the broad street subway until about 5:00 this morning. then grays ferry, grays ferry avenue closed, fitzwater at bainbridge, with that water main work, coming in from south jersey, we're in good shape along both 42, 295 and no delays currently at the airport. chris, lauren, back to you. >> thank you, 4:32 the time. let's get to breaking news, a man is in critical condition after being stabbed. police found the victim along 900 block north 29th street in philadelphia's fairmount section. no one at this point has been arrested. >> and this morning, a bucks county teach is her accused of having romantic relationship with a 17 year old. >> police say they were tipped off to this about the relationship just before the teacher planned to take the relationship a little further. fox 29's jennifer joyce live in warminster pennsylvania this morning with more. hype jen. >> reporter: good morning, lauren chris. this 33 year old teacher was arrested and arraigned yesterday. he has since posted bail after police say he did have an ann prepare re at relationship with a 17 year old student, 33 year old michael joseph sweater, social studies teacher at william tenant high school accused of meeting 117 year old student after school hours and outside of school. police say they kissed, shared sexually explicit conversations. he booked hotel room with the intention of having sex with the student but investigators found out before that happened. we talked to parent last night, one woman says her daughter had him as a teach they are year, he's now place dollars on leave and she is shocked by the allegations but says she has talked to her daughter about these types of concerns that are in the news all too often. >> we had discussed it, a number of times because it has been on the news so much lately. so we had talked about you know, not being into those kind of situations, and if something like that happened, to please tell someone. >> as a school community we are extremely saddened about this situation. our concerns is always first and for most focus on our students. in preparation for student and faculty concerns, guidance support services have been put in place for individuals who need them at the high school and across the district. >> very talented young laid. >> i that was a portion of the centennial district statement. they go on to say they are fully cooperating with police as the investigation continues. and they plan to keep the school community informed as the situation develops. so, mike at sweeter was a teacher here at william tenant high school for ten years again, he is now placed on leave facing multiple charges. lauren chris? >> all right jenny joyce thank you so much for that update. >> 4:34, in tabernacle township, state troopers are warning of two possible child luring attempts by the same man this month on march 12th and then again ten days later on the 22nd. authorities say a suspicious man followed a group of young girls in his car along powell road. the man even tried to talk with the girls at one point. his description stayed the same in both incidents. police are now looking for heavyset white man in his 30's 40's, with long dark beards. plan to transform atlantic city showboat casino into a college campus could be falling apart. >> agreement with the casino's old neighbor stands in the way. a clause in the legal contract from 1988 requires the showboat to always be used as a casino resort. the contract is with trump entertainment resorts who wants tone force t last year stockton university bought showboat to use it as a satellite campus. university officials are trying to work out a deal with trump, but plans to sell showboat is a deal can't be reached quickly. >> but hope is still alive for a deal that would let a florida developer buy the revel casino. next week a bankruptcy court judge will again hear revel's latest request to sell the casino to glenn straub. straub would pay $82 million for the property. which cost $2.4 billion to build. both party are asking the judge to treat this proposal as a new sale request. >> 4:36. coming up: scary moment for some thrill seekers after a roller coaster breaks. how long they were stuck. >> plus, robert durst possibly linked to another missing person case? his connection to a missing college student. >> serious story connecticut man, the man who carried out the massacre at sandy hook elementary school has been demolished. the neighbors ask the home of adam lanza be taken down, constant romine of the horrible tragedy in newtown. he killed his mother inside the house then drove to the school where he killed 20 children and six adults, before taking his own life. >> a reminder to the neighbors and the town, i think it is better to just have it not and constant sign of what happened. >> the memory, and we have people stopping there that really shouldn't stop there and it is a nice area, and those people deserve to have privacy. >> officials plan to leave the property as open space. >> officials now say a cold case in vermont could be linked to millionaire robert durst. a 18 year old college student who disappeared in 1971 was reportedly last seen near a health food store owned and operated by robert durst. investigators say she shopped at the store on the last day she was seen alive. the case was reopened in 1992. >> in july of 2012 the middle berg police department received a tip from a citizen we were told that robert durst owned and operated the health food store all good things in middlebury, at the same time that lynn went missing. the tip came from a western no first-hand knowledge of a connection between robert durst and lynn scholl bye. >> durst's first wife has been missing since 1982. he is currently being held without bail in louisianna where he faces gun and drug charges. durst is waiting extradition to california on first degree murder warrant for the death of his friend, susan bergmann, back in 2,000. >> the knot so incredible ride for those on the roller coast nerve orlando florida. >> a technical glitch on the incredible hulk ride at universal studios caused the roller coaster stop in place. several passengers able to get out on their own but about dozen others had to be rescued. they saying it to took about 30 minutes to get everyone off the ride. the ride was stuck for 30 full minutes, and just about 15 feet off the ground. thank goodness they weren't at the highest point there. >> you shouldn't be on a roller coaster you're afraid of heights. >> true, too, you're right. hey still ahead next time you're on the ben franklin parkway, stay in your lane, well, what happened to all of the trees? we'll get to the bottom that far question straight ahead. >> later speaking of heights chris murphy, flight attendant gets a huge surprise when her boyfriend pops the question. she has no idea he was on the plane. we'll tell you how he was able to sneak and get it all >> ♪ ♪ >> oh, ya, singing aretha franklin happy birthday to aretha. if you like the movie the blues brothers great great -- this to me was the best part of the movie. she kind of goes crazy starts singing, everyone's dancing. >> which song are you kind of over? >> rptc -- >> i love it. it is great. but his song! >> it is. >> hi, sue? >> thank you and happy birthday. >> to aretha. >> the queen of soul. >> oh, ya. >> now, we have a look at ultimate doppler radar and right now we have freedom from precipitation. but not for long. because as we look ahead we see that there is some rainout to our west, and the leading edge of this warmfront has moved into virginia. so we're still getting a little discrepancy from our computer models. because we have dry air mass in place right now. weather, we will get any of this rain today, and here's a look he at the future cast, different model than we showed you last time. this has it us okay through about lunchtime maybe 3:00 little sprinkle or two so maybe wear the waterproof jacket today. still need to be warm today. although temperatures will be upper four's, instead of the lower 40's. see the rain on and off through the night through 4:00 a.m., through 10:00 a.m., still kind of rainy as the rest of the warmfront comes through. temperatures get really mild tomorrow until late at night maybe 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 midnight this cold front comes through. thunderstorms could happen. and you can see the cold air behind it, because precipitation changes. at least far north and west of us, to some frozen precipitation, possible, through about noon on friday. so we'll see how this all plays out but be prepared for huge roller coaster ride, and temperature and precipitation. 30 degrees in philadelphia, as you walk out the door right now, 17 mount pocono, 23 in reading and lancaster and 20 in millville, new jersey. we have high yesterday that was only 40 degrees, should have been 56. really was just so raw with the clouds that hung around for most of the day. today in the seven day forecast here's the roller coaster ride. forty-eight today, 68 tomorrow. 20 degrees! and then 52, now that high of 52 will probably come early in the day on friday, and temperatures will plummet so that our high on saturday, may not even reach 40 degrees. sunday's hi, 48. back to the 50's by the middle of next week. so perhaps a little bit of weather drama bob kelly over the next 48 hours. >> oh, drama over there. good morning everybody 4:47. i got some drama on the roadways here, i-95, for the gang headed northbound, through bucks county, an accident involving a tractor-trailer. this is 95 northbound, right at the newtown-yardley interchange, where the left lane, as you can see here, is open. here's what happened. i'm being told tractor-trailer rearended another vehicle on 95 this morning. i'm not sure if that vehicle was off on to the shoulder, or what the deal was but the bottom line right now is that the right lane is blocked left lane open, and this is 95 northbound. it will slow you down. this is the stretch just above the turnpike, where there is no overhead street lamps. as you roll up into bucks county, right before you get to the scutters falls bridge. so northbound, down to one lane, and right now we're okay because it is light volume. give it another hour or so, and i think we will start to see the jams pom up there. and then west, on 422 as we go for a ride, watch for an accident just west of route 29 between 29 and that royersford interchange septa still using shuttle buses on the market frankford and the subway line until about 5:00. hello northeast philadelphia, live look at i-95, right near cottman avenue. looking good as you work your way southbound again all this week. they are setting up new barriers on 95, in the betsy ross bridge interchange for what's the new project coming our way. and for the gang in the neighborhood, grays ferry avenue, still blocked fits water to bainbridge. it will be with us for about a month. putting in new water main system obviously digging up the road surface so some local detours, even the school bus haves to go around the block this morning. otherwise, coming in from south jersey no problems on the freeway 55 295, all looking good and if you are headed to the airport, good for you. no delays getting out of town. chris, lauren, back over to you. >> all right bob thank you so much. a woman is dead after being struck twice in a bucks county intersection considered dangerous by many, 28 year old christina massey killed yesterday morning at nights road bensalem. massey crossed the intersection without having the light. bensalem public safety director says this is just one of many accidents that's happened at that intersection in the past. >> people on their phones, people just doing whatever, and not paying attention. >> everybody runs lights. i mean, everybody's in a had your toy cut the arrow i mean breaking the law man. >> the intersection earned the name the worst in america, in a time magazine article back in 2014, the magazine used data from the national highway traffic safety administration, it found seven deadly crashes over ten years with bad sign and, aggressive drivers and jay walkers to blame. >> wow. >> speaking every walking walk along the ben franklin parkway, chance you notice something missing lately. ii didn't even notice, but apparently dozen every trees had been cut down. >> so evidently they've been part of the historical landscape along the parkway for decades and some are now wondering who made the decision to cut them down. so our chris o'connell went to find out. >> like you see out of dr. seuss' the lorax the backdrop of phillie's most famous street is now reduced to sawdust. >> someone has to because those walking by logan circumstance they will week are seeing this, dozen of mature healthy trees cut down in their prime. >> and then i realize all of the trees were gone. it is a graveyard of stumps, ash, popular, oak trees. >> somebody's getting a lot of firewood. >> if you count the rings many date back to the rizzo era. this is what logan circle looked like before the trees were cut down. this is what it look like today. >> very wide open, yes. looks a lot different doesn't it? >> a lot different. >> naked. >> now the stumps are becoming targets of graffiti. even under the watchful eye of pennypacker, no one seems to know who cut down the trees. was it vandals maybe the city? >> saw whole bun of of trees cut down. i stopped to sort of wonder why. and i saw some cryptic messages, and it adds to the mystery. >> after making sole calls we found the answer. the vine st. expressway, penndot is the one responsible for the removal of trees we're told it is the first phase of the five-year $80 million project to renovate seven overpasses that cross interstate 676. >> a lot better than they were here. >> the bad news is the trees lots of them, to be ripped out, but we are told when the project is finished, thousands of new trees and bushes will be replant dollars some admit it won't be the same. >> disappoint today see them go. hopefully they'll bring something unless their place. >> that was our chris o'connell reporting. penndot says it will stop construction on the project during the pope's visit in september. >> right. >> but the entire renovation is not scheduled to be finished until 2019. >> you mention the pope, though, so the pope will have the papal mass coming up this september. >> we think because the schedule is not officially released yet. >> presumably. stowe will be easier to see the pope without the trees there, too. maybe that's a little bit after back story. so coming up: flight attendants get huge surprise when her boyfriend pops the question, she had no idea he was even on the plane. how he was able to sneak on, and hide. ♪ ♪ >> 35,000 feet in the air, look what happened! >> (cheers). >> interestingly, way above sea level. >> oh, really? so they got engaged, you saw eric greener anal lascar lines pilot and his girlfriend, brandy pilot. >> he is a pilot. he hid in the cockpit of the plane, and surprised her mid-flight. her co-crew pulled off the surprise, hiding from in the cockpit. >> oh. >> all right 4:56. >> would you want to be propose in the front after bunch of smelly stranglers maybe. why not? >> show me the bling. give me the ring. >> ya. >> still ahead former philadelphia sportscaster don tollefson will be sentenced today. how much jail time he could be facing. >> and then someone just won an extra million dollars in a local community. hear from the store owner who sold that very lucky live from philadelphia. this is fox 29 morning news. a police-involved shooting in philadelphia's nicetown section is under investigation this morning. it comes just a day after the department of justice released a review of the city's police force. >> new details for this morning, about that deadly plane crash overseas. what officials are saying right now about the black box recorder found at the crash site. and let's take live look outside, another cold start to the morning. but sue's tracking little milder weather along with some rain. how long will this warm up last? >> someone just won a million bucks, in a local community. hear from the store owner who sold that very lucky lottery ticket. good day everyone, it is wednesday, march 25th, 2015. lauren, good morning. >> good morning to you. oh cold today warm tomorrow, rain coming back, cold, 50's. i can't keep up. >> unbelievable this roller coaster ride, sue. >> i got a headache already, and it hasn't even started yet. so for today we will give you another six. we're going to have clouds, we might have some showers by the end of the day. but it

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of football begins. welcome to euro 2020. it's that time of year again, and there's a real buzz around this wimbledon. they call it the greatest show on earth. take your marks for tokyo 2020. that was the sporting year that wasn't. a calendar with a line through it. 2020 showed sport's irrelevance, but also strangely its importance. it all began fatefully in smoke. fumes from the bushfires which were ravaging australia injanuary choked the melbourne air ahead of the australian open. at one point, the city had the worst air quality in the world. the whole competition was in doubt. but the winds changed, and the crowds, which saw novak djokovic win his 17th grand slam and sofia kenin win her first, were the lucky ones. things wouldn't be so normalfor long. las vegas has never really been normal, and in february it would host a fighter who's anything but ordinary. tyson fury. tyson fury! he was in town for a heavyweight title rematch. in the first fight, he and deontay wilder couldn't be separated. before the second, they had to be separated. this fight didn't need pushing, the world was already watching. i think this is the biggest fight in the last 50 years, since 1971. i've got his number because he put me down but he couldn't keep me down. and that's been playing on his mind because everybody else he's knocked out apart from the gypsy king. so i'm coming for you, baby. he was. carried to the ring as a king, he would leave as a champion, flooring wilder twice before the fight was stopped in the seventh round. fury, whose struggles with mental health took him to the very bottom, now stood on top of the world. before i was ever born, i was destined to do what i do. and i've had the highs and lows and everybody knows about it, and tonight was the icing on the cake. and i've got another old fellow across the pond who might want a little tickle with a gypsy king, and then that's it then, completed, done. that old fellow was anthonyjoshua, who defended his own titles this year. the world is still waiting for that fight because even as the desert dust settled in vegas, clouds were gathering around the planet. coronavirus continues to affect the sporting world. moved due to the coronavirus. april's chinese grand prix postponed as the coronavirus continues to spread. as the virus crept across the world and into british homes, the sporting impact was initially overseas. british sport lost handshakes, added hand gel and carried on. in early march, ministers insisted premier league football, england v wales rugby and the cheltenham festival could still go ahead with appropriate hygiene measures in place. at this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events. that was the morning of monday the 9th of march. by the end of that week, everything had changed. events escalated from thursday. bit of breaking news regarding the coronavirus. yes, arsenal have just confirmed that head coach mikel arteta has tested positive for covid—19. the premier league will convene an emergency club meeting tomorrow. all english and scottish football matches are suspended because of the impact of coronavirus. england have cancelled their two test cricket matches... the f1 season suspended until may at the earliest. the marathon is the next sporting match to be postponed. the final round of six nations fixtures, a complete write—off. what you have seen over the last 48 hours or so in effect is the collapse of the global sporting calendar. within a fortnight, the country was locked down, and with much of the world also under restrictions, the final dominoes were bound to fall. wimbledon was cancelled for the first time in peacetime, while euro 2020 was shifted to 2021. the women's euros moved to 2022. and having cost at least £10 billion, the biggest event of all finally accepted the inevitable. we came to the conclusion that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games tokyo 2020 to the year 2021. i feel relieved because we were getting more and more feedback from athletes and from sports saying they have to be postponed this year. it's all—consuming, an olympic campaign, so it really is a big deal to add another year to it, and then the question of will my body even hold up? i just don't think it's sensible to continue given the current circumstances the world is in. first of all, athletes can't train as normal. it is quite frustrating because right now i'm ready to go. and jordan wasn't alone. like all of us, athletes were told to stay at home, so expending energy and maintaining fitness required creativity. the enormity of what was happening drew some into the world outside sport, to the wards, to a cause. marcus rashford's campaigning on child hunger transcended the partisan world of football. football itself had a big question in front of it. with the stadium doors shut for the foreseeable future, should the season be stopped? in scotland, they called it a day. and celtic, 13 points clear, were crowned slightly lonely champions, their ninth in a row. in england, the women's super league also packed up. chelsea bumped up to champions on points per game at the expense of manchester city, who had been leading. english lower league football clubs also voted to stop. with no fans in grounds, their very survival was at stake. but for those who wanted to play on, the last day of may brought hope. we won't be sitting in the stands for a while and things will be very different to what we're used to, but live sports will be back on oui’ screens next week. the british sporting recovery has begun. when the premier league returned in england two and a half weeks later, it emerged into a weird, empty, sterile landscape, a place of twice—weekly covid tests and daily temperature checks. and it wasn't just the virus which had changed the world. the killing of george floyd in america saw the rise in the black lives matter movement. sportsmen and women across the planet took a knee in solidarity. meanwhile, liverpool, the world and european club champions, had a job to finish, a wait to end, a weight to lift. it's crazy to think that a club the size of liverpool will go 30 years without winning the league, without being english champions. one of the biggest problems liverpool had was just needed to get a title win over the line because it was starting to feel as though it was never going to happen. there's been plenty of times where we have said this is our year, it's our season and it's never quite come off. brilliant salah header, 2—0 liverpool! liverpool were phenomenal at the start of last season. to get 97 points and only come second, and then your response to that, rather than feel sorry for yourself, is we just have to win every single game next season, which is how they started. i think manchester united at home was the moment where everyone was like, "this is it, this team is going to be champions." salah sticks it away on the counter attack and people burst into a rendition of we're going to win the league. we have been so cagey about that. we both have season tickets, but we started singing we're going to win the league, and we were quite superstitious when it comes to the margin. my dad said i'm not saying anything until we have our hands in the trophy. liverpool 25 points clear at the top when football stopped. football is a game, again we all take very seriously, it's very central of all of our lives but it was a very small and insignificant sort of side act to what was happening around the world. you didn't know when it was going to return or whether there was going to be a void. no one had any idea what was going to happen. you follow football, it felt like the universe was finding another way to stop liverpool winning the league. we waited 30 years and we just had another three months on top of that. having the dates to come back was wonderful news. that was the light at the end of the tunnel, if you like, when we knew they are going to do it. on thursday, june the 25th, their chance came. manchester city had to beat chelsea just to stay in the race. one of my friends set up a big projector in his garden and managed to get a screen from somewhere. and liverpool surely headed to the title! liverpool was already starting to celebrate as soon as the penalty went in, and that's when you started hearing the fireworks, you started hearing the cheers. stuart attwell blows his whistle. and for the first time since 1990, the champions of england are liverpool. that feeling... that absolute rush, i've never felt quite anything like that when i've not been in a football ground. we started hearing liverpool breaking into this spontaneous party and suddenly all around you, people beeing the horn and shouting people beeping the horn and shouting out the car windows. i'm just so happy that i was with my dad, and i know for a fact that it meant so much to him. people running into their gardens and running into the streetsjust screaming into the air. people were just going outside and laughing and smiling and being so happy. it was beautiful really. it was much more than i was expecting to get. the joy was not entirely contained. the club and local leaders condemned some liverpool fans for ignoring social distancing rules and gathering in large numbers to celebrate. but for most, this was about being together apart. having a successful football team in a city always lifts the mood in a city, so it helps everything. it's good and at this moment in time in the biggest crisis we've probably have ever had, our generation have ever had, it's so important you don't forget to have something we really look forward to and we are allowed to look forward to. this is a really special team, this is a really special time. we won the 19th, but we are not quite ready to let go of it yet and we want that number 20. and it really was our year, let's just forget about everything else that's going on around the world and just give us that little bit ofjoy. it's not been the football that we knew and loved in quite the same way, we've not been able to engage with it in the same way. having in my opinion and currently technically the best team in the world to follow, it's been god's blessing. scotland fans had also been on hold, but this year brought a chance to end the wait since ‘98 when the men's team last made a major tournament. it all came down to a playoff and to penalties. if he can't convert, scotland go through. it is alexander, right—footed penalty, saved! saved! scotland are through! the torture, the pain, the anguish is over! scotland are through to euro 2020! restrictions meant the national celebration had to be expressed individually. 0nly small parties now but they have an invite to a big one. it was a long night. no sleeping after a game like that, no sleep with the emotions of the night. wake up to lots of messages on your phone and you begin to realise the magnitude of what we did last night. northern ireland's men narrowly missed out on qualifying but the women might still make it. they have a playoff for 2021 to see if they can join hosts england in the finals in 2022, by which time the english will be under new management. serena wiegman is due to replace phil neville. the old football season was running so late it overlapped the new one. it was november by the time manchester city won the women's fa the women's fa cup. arsenal lifted the men's version for a record 14th time. from gunners to a rider, and hollie doyle has always been a natural. this year she has gone galloping past milestones all over the place, the first royal ascot victory, the first woman to win five races on a british card. doyle also broke her own record for wins by a female jockey in a calendar year. i've been pretty blessed this year. i wasjust dreaming of riding a group winner and i've ridden a handful, so it is better than i ever expected. she's grafted to craft her body into a racing machine and there is talk of doyle becoming the first female champion jockey. she may only be five feet tall, but for hollie doyle, nothing is out of reach. barriers are there to be smashed, as terri harper will show you. only recently, her job involved spuds, not gloves. i wake up monday morning and think wow, how crazy has my life changed. i used to have tojuggle work, uni. i worked in a chip shop. and now i'm in a gym, boxing full—time. this was the year she went from a chippy to a champ, doing a lot of battering along the way. back in february, before the world changed, she conquered it, beating eva wahlstrom to become only britain's second female champion after nicola adams. her next fight was in promotr eddie hearn‘s backyard in essex in august, a bout with natasha jonas was a bloody battle, a landmark night for women's boxing. the war ended as a draw, harper still the champ. savannah marshall and cha ntelle cameron have since joined her at the top of the world. i had to learn how to survive. i've learned to go out and hold on and i've learned i got a heart and i learned that i've still got a lot more to learn. meanwhile those running cricket were trying to save the test match summer. millions of pounds were on the line. they found the answer inside a bubble. ecb has confirmed that england will face the west indies in a three test series. we'll go ahead with the players remaining in a strict biobubble. practising, playing and living inside two cricket grounds with on—site hotels. this was an experiment in sport. keeping the virus out meant locking everyone in for days and weeks on end. so what was the view like from the inside? a biosecure bubble, what an extraordinary thing it is. everybody had to buy into this because if there been a breach, if any of us had come down with covid during middle of a game, it could have been absolutely catastrophic. you get up in the morning, make sure that you walk in a clockwise direction around to the media centre to get your temperature checked. it was very disorienting to start with. but you get the hang of it and you get this sense of extraordinary privilege. the west indies were coming from an environment which had really low rates of covid and what they were doing was resurrecting the broadcast deals which keep sports afloat, especially when you could not get fans in, so what the west indies have done for the english this summer is nothing short of heroic. all members of both the england and the west indies and the umpires and officials taking a knee. when the west indies took the knee, that very first fall, that very first test, i had goosebumps. it was an extraordinary thing to see and it was marvellous that the england players also took the knee. the amazing thing was actually the quality of the cricket was as good if not better than it has been for some years. the west indies, that first test match, they ambushed england really. the west indies win a remarkable test match. wheneverjoe root has got a problem, it seems to get ben stokes who just arrives. this is incredible batting from ben stokes. stuart broad had an extraordinary summer. he was a man reborn really. and to take that 500th wicket, i remember it very distinctly because i was on commentary. he has given him! that is broad's 500th wicket in test cricket. that's one of the strange things about being a bubble because you would witness a really historic event and there was no one there to see it. second and third tests, england were just too good. the england test team return to face a new challenge, pakistan. theyjust gave a different flavour. they gave a different zing. they should probably have won that series and probably should've won that first test and in what looked like impossible circumstances, josh butler and chris woakes fashioned a partnership of 139 that took england to the brink of victory and then they got there. and what a win that is for england! zak crawley had this breakthrough innings and it was staggering. 267 he scored. well, that is glorious. we've got to mention forjames anderson. his longevity is extraordinary. 38 years old and still pumping out the wickets and then he got to the holy grail of 600 on the last test match day of the summer. got it! the first ever seam bowler to get 600 test match wickets. to go out there and get the chance to get the 600 was really special and obviously sharing that moment with the guys that i played a lot of cricket with was making it even more special. in a way, the performances on the field were a lot less important than the fact that it happened and the fact that we could prove that it was possible to put a biosecure bubble together. that sport does not have to stop because of the ravages of covid, that we don't have to just surrender in the face of this calamity. the march reign ended the world t20 hopes of england's women. it was more than half a year before they played again, winning all five of their t20 matches against the west indies. bubbles took off and landed around the world. 0ne formed around part of new york to allow the us open to take place. novak djokovic's tournament went pop. kicked out after a stroppy shot hit a linejudge, so dominic thiem's time had finally arrived. naomi 0saka won her second us title. in a chilly paris, a rearranged french open saw a first blossom for iga swiatek and a familiar harvest for rafa nadal. roland—garros title 13 — even in 2020 some things never change. an out of kilter year saw the master spring from springtime. johnson dominated an autumnal agusta and earned himself a nice winter jacket. staying with green cloth, this is ronnie 0'sullivan‘s canvas. he won his sixth world snooker title. rugby union had been on a specially long pause. it took until the last day of october for england to win the six nations and the first day of november for them to lift the trophy in their hotel garden. they also won the autumn league of nations cup. the women's six nations was won by england too, this time in a grand slam. while in club rugby, exeter competed an incredible rise in an incredible decade from a second division side to european champions. they won the english premiership too. at rugby league's challenge cup final, they saluted a bigger battle. former leeds player rob burrow honoured for his fundraising work while dealing with motor neurone disease. and fittingly it was the rhinos‘ current number seven luke gale who won the cup. luke gale with a drop goal and he peels away in celebration! leeds winners for the 14th time and the season would get some finish. all square in the last seconds of the super league grand final, one last saint helen's boot to beat the hooter and one last incredible twist. it is a try! it is a try from welsby! you will never see a finish to a rugby league game like that. sometimes sporting glory can be found in a touch, an inch, sometimes it reveals itself over hundreds of miles. tao geoghegan began cycling on the streets of hackney. he skipped school to go to the launch of team sky. this year at that year giro d'italia, he found himself by chance as the lead rider of the same team. now named ineos grenadiers. and on milan's roads, he powered himself to one of cycling's great prizes. tao, britain's giro, hero. tao geoghegan is going to win the giro d'italia. i don't know if it's going to sink in but it certainly has not now. ijust feel honoured to be here with this team and incredibly privileged to be in this position to race my bike for a living is a dream country. so i'm enjoying every moment of it. the blue peter garden 28 years ago, and a young man with a very clear sense of direction. is it easy to do? no. this young driver never really went for easy. soon he was in cars. recognise me now? i'm lewis hamilton. my brother is the bestdriver because he's fast. and one day he's going to be in formula 1. not everyone shared nicholas‘s faith. i rememberas a kid, adults, teachers, parents of other drivers and youngsters telling me that i would not make it and would never be in it, you are not good enough, no way you're going to make it. as a youngster, your young kid is saying, "dad, dad, i want to be a formula! racing driver, " how do you make this happen? i am living proof that you can manifest yourdreams and even the impossible ones. it's almost like he's reinvented himself and can find a way to drive that car faster than he ever could before. the foot‘s always been on the accelerator and this season as the best driver in the fastest car, there were records out there on the road ahead. but the route was not always straight. lewis hamilton won the styrian grand prix, the second race has been delayed. somehow lewis hamilton has won the british grand prix. crossing the finish line on just three wheels after suffering a puncture. and hamilton incredibly nursed his car around the track. it isn't just about the car and about the win, it's about the decisions that he's made along the way that makes him great. and that greatness was about to be confirmed on the algarve as hamilton passed michael schumacher‘s grand prix record, the ultimate overtaking. victory in portugal! a record—breaking 92 grand prix wins! it felt like '94 when the first time we won a carting championship, remembering the smile on his face and how excited he was. and here we are emulating the great michael schumacher and to have his son present lewis with a helmet was just a very humbling experience. you know, everyone asked me what would be it like if you win a seventh title? the man from stevenage comes across the line, wins the turkish grand prix and becomes the most successful formula 1 driver of all time! i definitely wouldn't have predicted that i would be hit with such emotion. but my whole racing career, my family, just flashed before my eyes. it is nice to see dominance, if you want, by an individual who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth but actually had to work for everything he has earned. my dad literally sacrificed so much, when i facetime with him and he's got a big smile on his face he says i knew you would do it. i love seeing him in the race car. i love seeing that perfection of man and machinery. i still feel young, i still feel energised, i still feel hungry and what's crazy is that yes, i've won this seventh title, but we have another big fight to win and that's for racial equality across the board. now is our time and lewis' opportunity to try and change the way people perceive the sport. after us there is a concern that there will never be another black driver in formula 1. that should not be in this day and age. watching george floyd, emotions i did not realise i even had supressed and challenged into my racing. i feel like i've had a real drive to try and push for change. that's probably why you see me drive faster than ever. two weeks after hamilton won the title, romain grosjean smashed into the barrier at the bahrain grand prix. amazingly he escaped from the inferno with only minor injuries. his life saved by a protective bar on the car. that fire shone a blinding light on the importance of safety within sport, a relationship that's been examined ever closer this year. the possible link between dementia and heading in football or relentless collisions in rugby will surely come under still greater focus. meanwhile the pandemic continues to attack sport, infecting athletes, postponing fixtures, cancelling tours and the restrictions needed cutting off the financial lifeblood, leaving many sports and clubs reliant on rescue packages. but there is hope in the trickling return to fans and the coming wave of vaccinations. and if 2020 as a sporting year was partly postponed, then 2021 is to be confirmed. there is at least something to play for. hello, storm bella is now looming large to the north of the uk. make no mistake, this is a powerful system that will bring problems to parts of the uk. we still have severe flood warnings in force across england. more rainfall, absolutely not what we need here. as this front come through, we could have up to an inch of rain, cold air follows behind it. showers turning wintry to the north through the evening and overnight. a windy night across the board, but the winds that we have, the greatest concerns for, target southern coastal regions of england and wales and may have gusts of up to 80 mph, the met office have issued an amber warning, but yellow wind warning means gusts of 50 to 60 mph widely in land the england and wales overnight. storm bella is likely to cause disruption, those winds could bring down power lines in some areas and anyone having to travel, these are going to be very challenging conditions. the front will slide off into the continent quite promptly during sunday morning, because it does so, we drag on much colder air behind it. that enables these at showers to turn increasingly wintry. there will be some sunshine for england and wales come sunday afternoon, but showers of snow and even across the lower ground parts of england and wales increasingly frequent, but particularly for scotland and northern ireland. also cold, temperature is barely above freezing in the north. we may well see a bit of circulation developing amongst the big low that is bella as we have three sunday evening and that means very heavy snow for a time across western scotland, northern ireland and to the north of england and a significant ice risk here on monday. the main low centre sits to the south—east of the uk on monday. we will have quite a keen northerly wind towards the west, but central and eastern areas at night, but that low centre with the cold air means a greater chance of wintry showers across central and eastern areas of england on monday. so there might be some snowy weather for the south across the uk through the early part of the week. it will be a cold day, temperatures at two to four at best and that moves us into the start of what is set to be a cold week ahead. this is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. millions of people in britain face tougher covid restrictions — as rule changes come into force. as the uk grapples with a new strain of coronavirus, there are now confirmed cases in france, spain and sweden. former mi6 officer and soviet spy george blake has died aged 98 in moscow. and coming up — we'll tell you about the sport that is high—speed and environmentally friendly — welcome to the world of extreme e, backed by f1 champion lewis hamilton.

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they call it the greatest show on earth. take your marks for tokyo 2020. that was the sporting year that wasn't. a calendar with a line through it. 2020 showed sport's irrelevance, but also strangely its importance. it all began fatefully in smoke. fumes from the bushfires which were ravaging australia injanuary choked the melbourne air ahead of the australian open. at one point, the city had the worst air quality in the world. the whole competition was in doubt. but the winds changed, and the crowds, which saw novak djokovic win his 17th grand slam and sofia kenin win her first, were the lucky ones. things wouldn't be so normalfor long. las vegas has never really been normal, and in february it would host a fighter who's anything but ordinary. tyson fury. tyson fury! he was in town for a heavyweight title rematch. in the first fight, he and deontay wilder couldn't be separated. before the second, they had to be separated. this fight didn't need pushing, the world was already watching. i think this is the biggest fight in the last 50 years, since 1971. i've got his number because he put me down and he couldn't keep me down. and that's been playing on his mind because everybody else he's knocked out apart from the gypsy king. so i'm coming for you, baby. he was. carried to the ring as a king, he would leave as a champion, flooring wilder twice before the fight was stopped in the seventh round. fury, whose struggles with mental health took him to the very bottom, now stood on top of the world. before i was ever born, i was destined to do what i do. and i've had the highs and lows and everybody knows about it, and tonight was the icing on the cake. and i've got another old fellow across the pond who might want a little tickle with a gypsy king, and then that's it then, completed, done. that old fellow was anthonyjoshua, who defended his own titles this year. the world is still waiting for that fight because even as the desert dust settled in vegas, clouds were gathering around the planet. coronavirus continues to affect the sporting world. moved due to the coronavirus. april's chinese grand prix postponed as the coronavirus continues to spread. as the virus crept across the world and into british homes, the sporting impact was initially overseas. british sport lost handshakes, added hand gel and carried on. in early march, ministers insisted premier league football, england v wales rugby and the cheltenham festival could still go ahead with appropriate hygiene measures in place. at this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events. that was the morning of monday the 9th of march. by the end of that week, everything had changed. events escalated from thursday. bit of breaking news regarding the coronavirus. yes, arsenal have just confirmed that head coach mikel arteta has tested positive for covid—19. the premier league will convene an emergency club meeting tomorrow. all english and scottish football matches are suspended because of the impact of coronavirus. england have cancelled their two test cricket matches... the f1 season suspended until may at the earliest. the marathon is the next sporting match to be postponed. the final round of six nations fixtures, a complete write—off. what you have seen over the last 48 hours or so in effect is the collapse of the global sporting calendar. within a fortnight, the country was locked down, and with much of the world also under restrictions, the final dominoes were bound to fall. wimbledon was cancelled for the first time in peacetime, while euro 2020 was shifted to 2021. the women's euros moved to 2022. and having cost at least £10 billion, the biggest event of all finally accepted the inevitable. we came to the conclusion that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games tokyo 2020 to the year 2021. i feel relieved because we were getting more and more feedback from athletes and from sports saying they have to be postponed this year. it's all—consuming, an olympic campaign, so it really is a big deal to add another year to it, and then the question of will my body even hold up? i just don't think it's sensible to continue given the current circumstances the world is in. first of all, athletes can't train as normal. it is quite frustrating because right now i'm ready to go. and jordan wasn't alone. like all of us, athletes were told to stay at home, so expending energy and maintaining fitness required creativity. the enormity of what was happening drew some into the world outside sport, to the wards, to a cause. marcus rashford's campaigning on child hunger transcended the partisan world of football. football itself had a big question in front of it. with the stadium doors shut for the foreseeable future, should the season be stopped? in scotland, they called it a day. and celtic, 13 points clear, were crowned slightly lonely champions, their ninth in a row. in england, the women's super league also packed up. chelsea bumped up to champions on points per game at the expense of manchester city, who had been leading. english lower league football clubs also voted to stop. with no fans in grounds, their very survival was at stake. but for those who wanted to play on, the last day of may brought hope. we won't be sitting in the stands for a while and things will be very different to what we're used to, but live sports will be back on oui’ screens next week. the british sporting recovery has begun. when the premier league returned in england two and a half weeks later, it emerged into a weird, empty, sterile landscape, a place of twice—weekly covid tests and daily temperature checks. and it wasn't just the virus which had changed the world. the killing of george floyd in america saw the rise in the black lives matter movement. sportsmen and women across the planet took a knee in solidarity. meanwhile, liverpool, the world and european club champions, had a job to finish, a wait to end, a weight to lift. it's crazy to think that a club the size of liverpool will go 30 years without winning the league, without being english champions. one of the biggest problems liverpool had was just needing to get a title win over the line because it was starting to feel as though it was never going to happen. there's been plenty of times where we have said this is our year, it's our season and it's never quite come off. brilliant salah header, 2—0 liverpool! liverpool were phenomenal at the start of last season. to get 97 points and only come second, and then your response to that, rather than feel sorry for yourself, is we just have to win every single game next season, which is how they started. i think manchester united at home was the moment where everyone was like, "this is it, this team is going to be champions." salah sticks it away on the counter attack and people burst into a rendition of we're going to win the league. we have been so cagey about that. we both have season tickets, but when they started singing we're going to win the league, and we were quite superstitious when it comes to the marching. my dad said i'm not saying anything until we have our hands on the trophy. liverpool 25 points clear at the top when football stopped. football is a game, again we all take very seriously, it's very central of all of our lives but it was a very small and insignificant sort of side act to what was happening around the world. you didn't know whether it was going to return or whether there was going to be null and void. no one had any idea what was going to happen. you follow football, it felt like the universe was finding another way to stop liverpool winning the league. we waited 30 years and we just had another three months on top of that. having the dates to come back was wonderful news. that was the light at the end of the tunnel, if you like, when we knew they are going to do it. on thursday, june the 25th, their chance came. manchester city had to beat chelsea just to stay in the race. one of my friends set up a big projector in his garden and managed to get a screen from somewhere. and liverpool surely headed to the title! liverpool was already starting to celebrate as soon as the penalty went in, and that's when you started hearing the fireworks, you started hearing the cheers. stuart attwell blows his whistle. and for the first time since 1990, the champions of england are liverpool. that feeling... that absolute rush, i've never felt quite anything like that when i've not been in a football ground. we started hearing liverpool breaking into this spontaneous party and suddenly all around you, people beeping the horn and shouting out the car windows. i'm just so happy that i was with my dad, and i know for a fact that it meant so much to him. people running into their gardens and running into the streetsjust screaming into the air. people were just going outside and laughing and smiling and being so happy. it was beautiful really. it was much more than i was expecting to get. the joy was not entirely contained. the club and local leaders condemned some liverpool fans for ignoring social distancing rules and gathering in large numbers to celebrate. but for most, this was about being together apart. having a successful football team in a city always lifts the mood in a city, so it helps everything. it's good and at this moment in time in the biggest crisis we've probably have ever had, our generation have ever had, it's so important you don't forget to have something we really look forward to and we are allowed to look forward to. this is a really special team, this is a really special time. we won the 19th, but we are not quite ready to let go of it yet and we want that number 20. in a really bizarre year, let's just forget about everything else that's going on around the world and just give us that little bit ofjoy. it's not been the football that we knew and loved in quite the same way, we've not been able to engage with it in the same way. having in my opinion and currently technically the best team in the world to follow, it's been god's blessing. scotland fans had also been on hold, but this year brought a chance to end the wait since ‘98 when the men's team last made a major tournament. it all came down to a playoff and to penalties. if he can't convert, scotland go through. it is aleksandar mitrovic, right—footed penalty, saved! saved! scotland are through! the torture, the pain, the anguish is over! scotland are through to euro 2020! restrictions meant the national celebration had to be expressed individually. 0nly small parties now but they have an invite to a big one. it was a long night. no sleeping after a game like that, no sleep with the emotions of the night. wake up to lots of messages on your phone and you begin to realise the magnitude of what we did last night. northern ireland's men narrowly missed out on qualifying but the women might still make it. they have a playoff for 2021 to see if they can join hosts england in the finals in 2022, by which time the english will be under new management. serena wiegman is due to replace phil neville. the old football season was running so late it overlapped the new one. it was november by the time manchester city won the women's fa cup. a few months earlier, arsenal lifted the men's version for a record 14th time. from gunners to a rider, and hollie doyle has always been a natural. this year she has gone galloping past milestones all over the place, the first royal ascot victory, the first woman to win five races on a british card. doyle also broke her own record for wins by a female jockey in a calendar year. i've been pretty blessed this year. i wasjust dreaming of riding a group winner and i've ridden a handful, so it is better than i ever expected. she's grafted to craft her body into a racing machine and there is talk of doyle becoming the first female champion jockey. she may only be five feet tall, but for hollie doyle, nothing is out of reach. barriers are there to be smashed, as terri harper will show you. only recently, her job involved spuds, not gloves. i wake up monday morning and think wow, how crazy has my life changed. i used to have tojuggle work, uni. i worked in a chip shop. and now i'm in a gym, boxing full—time. this was the year she went from the chippy to a champ, doing a lot of battering along the way. back in february, before the world changed, she conquered it, beating eva wahlstrom to become only britain's second female world champion after nicola adams. her next fight was in promoter eddie hearn‘s backyard in essex in august, a bout with natasha jonas was a bloody battle, a landmark night for women's boxing. the war ended as a draw, harper still the champ. savannah marshall and cha ntelle cameron have since joined her at the top of the world. i had to learn how to survive. i've learned to go out and hold on and i've learned i've got a heart and i learned that i've still got a lot more to learn. meanwhile those running english cricket were trying to save the test match summer. millions of pounds were on the line. they found the answer inside a bubble. ecb has confirmed that england will face the west indies in a three test series. we'll go ahead with the players remaining in a strict biobubble. practising, playing and living inside two cricket grounds with on—site hotels. this was an experiment in sport. keeping the virus out meant locking everyone in for days and weeks on end. so what was the view like from the inside? a biosecure bubble, what an extraordinary thing it is. everybody had to buy into this because if there been a breach, if any of us had come down with covid during the middle of a game, it could have been absolutely catastrophic. you get up in the morning, make sure that you walk in a clockwise direction around to the media centre to get your temperature checked. it was very disorienting to start with. but you get the hang of it and you get this sense of extraordinary privilege. the west indies were coming from an environment which had really low rates of covid and what they were doing was resurrecting the broadcast deals which keep sports afloat, especially when you could not get fans in, so what the west indies have done for english cricket this summer is nothing short of heroic. all members of both the england and the west indies and the umpires and officials taking a knee. when the west indies took the knee, that very first ball, that very first test, i had goosebumps. it was an extraordinary thing to see and it was marvellous that the england players also took the knee. the amazing thing was actually the quality of the cricket was as good if not better than it has been for some years. the west indies, that first test match, they ambushed england really. the west indies win a remarkable test match. wheneverjoe root has got a problem, it seems to be ben stokes who just arrives. this is incredible batting from ben stokes. stuart broad had an extraordinary summer. he was a man reborn really. and to take that 500th wicket, i remember it very distinctly because i was on commentary. he has given him! that is broad's 500th wicket in test cricket. that's one of the strange things about being in a bubble because you would witness a really historic event and there was no one there to see it. second and third tests, england were just too good. the england test team return to face a new challenge, pakistan. theyjust gave a different flavour. they gave a different zing. they should probably have won that series and probably should've won that first test and in what looked like impossible circumstances, josh butler and chris woakes fashioned a partnership of 139 that took england to the brink of victory and then they got there. and what a win that is for england! zak crawley had this breakthrough innings and it was staggering. 267 he scored. well, that is glorious. we've got to have a mention forjames anderson. his longevity is extraordinary. 38 years old and still pumping out the wickets and then he got to the holy grail of 600 on the last test match day of the summer. got it! the first ever seam bowler to get 600 test match wickets. to go out there and get the chance to get the 600 was really special and obviously sharing that moment with the guys that i played a lot of cricket with was making it even more special. in a way, the performances on the field were a lot less important than the fact that it happened and the fact that we could prove that it was possible to put a biosecure bubble together. that sport does not have to stop because of the ravages of covid, that we don't have to just surrender in the face of this calamity. the march reign in sydney ended the world t20 hopes of england's women. it was more than half a year before they played again, winning all five of their t20 matches against the west indies. bubbles took off and landed around the world. 0ne formed around part of new york to allow the us open to take place. novak djokovic‘s tournament went pop. kicked out after a stroppy shot hit a linejudge, so dominic thiem's time had finally arrived. naomi 0saka won her second us title. in a chilly paris, a rearranged french open saw a first blossom for iga swiatek and a familiar harvest for rafa nadal. roland—garros title 13 — even in 2020 some things never change. an out of kilter year saw the masters sprung from springtime. johnson dominated an autumnal agusta and earned himself a nice winter jacket. staying with green cloth, this is ronnie 0'sullivan‘s canvas. he won his sixth world snooker title. rugby union had been on a specially long pause. it took until the last day of october for england to win the six nations and the first day of november for them to lift the trophy in their hotel garden. they also won the autumn league of nations cup. the women's six nations was won by england too, this time in a grand slam. while in club rugby, exeter competed an incredible rise in an incredible decade from a second division side to european champions. they won the english premiership too. at rugby league's challenge cup final, they saluted a bigger battle. former leeds player rob burrow honoured for his fundraising work while dealing with motor neurone disease. and fittingly it was the rhinos‘ current number seven luke gale who won the cup. luke gale with a drop goal and he peels away in celebration! leeds winners for the 14th time and the season would get some finish. all square in the last seconds of the super league grand final, one last saint helen's boot to beat the hooter and one last incredible twist. it is a try! it is a try from welsby! you will never see a finish to a rugby league game like that. sometimes sporting glory can be found in a touch, an inch, sometimes it reveals itself over hundreds of miles. tao geoghegan began cycling on the streets of hackney. he skipped school to go to the launch of team sky. this year at that year giro d'italia, he found himself by chance as the lead rider of the same team. now named ineos grenadiers. and on milan's roads, he powered himself to one of cycling's great prizes. tao, britain's giro, hero. tao geoghegan is going to win the giro d'italia. i don't know if it's going to sink in but it certainly has not now. ijust feel honoured to be here with this team and incredibly privileged to be in this position. to race my bike for a living is a dream country. so i'm enjoying every moment of it. the blue peter garden 28 years ago, and a young man with a very clear sense of direction. is it easy to do? no. this young driver never really went for easy. soon he was in cars. recognise me now? i'm lewis hamilton. my brother is the best driver because he's fast. and one day he's going to be in formula 1. not everyone shared nicholas‘s faith. i rememberas a kid, adults, teachers, parents of other drivers and youngsters telling me that i would not make it and would never be in it, you are not good enough, no way you're going to make it. as a youngster, your young kid is saying, "dad, dad, i want to be a formula! racing driver," how do you make this happen? i am living proof that you can manifest your dreams and even the impossible ones. it's almost like he's reinvented himself and can find a way to drive that car faster than he ever could before. the foot‘s always remained on the accelerator and this season as the best driver in the fastest car, there were records out there on the road ahead. but the route was not always straight. lewis hamilton won the styrian grand prix, the second race has been delayed. somehow lewis hamilton has won the british grand prix. crossing the finish line onjust three wheels after suffering a puncture. and hamilton incredibly nursed his car around the track. it isn't just about the car and about the win, it's about the decisions that he's made along the way that makes him great. and that greatness was about to be confirmed on the algarve as hamilton passed michael schumacher‘s grand prix record, the ultimate overtaking. victory in portugal! a record—breaking 92 grand prix wins! it felt like '94 when the first time we won a carting championship, remembering the smile on his face and how excited he was. and here we are emulating the great michael schumacher and to have his son present lewis with a helmet was just a very humbling experience. you know, everyone asked me what would be it like if you win a seventh title? the man from stevenage comes across the line, wins the turkish grand prix and becomes the most successful formula 1 driver of all time! i definitely wouldn't have predicted that i would be hit with such emotion. but my whole racing career, my family, just flashed before my eyes. it is nice to see dominance, if you want, by an individual who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth but actually had to work for everything he has earned. my dad literally sacrificed so much, when i facetime with him and he's got a big smile on his face he says i knew you would do it. i love seeing him in the race car. i love seeing that perfection of man and machinery. i still feel young, i still feel energised, i still feel hungry and what's crazy is that yes, i've won this seventh title, but we have another big fight to win and that's for racial equality across the board. now is our time and lewis' opportunity to try and change the way people perceive the sport. after us there is a concern that there will never be another black driver in formula 1. that should not be in this day and age. watching george floyd, emotions i did not realise i even had suppressed and challenged into my racing. i feel like i've had a real drive to try and push for change. that's probably why you see me drive faster than ever. two weeks after hamilton won the title, romain grosjean smashed into the barrier at the bahrain grand prix. amazingly he escaped from the inferno with only minor injuries. his life saved by a protective bar on the car. that fire shone a blinding light on the importance of safety within sport, a relationship that's been examined ever closer this year. the possible link between dementia and heading in football or relentless collisions in rugby will surely come under still greater focus. meanwhile the pandemic continues to attack sport, infecting athletes, postponing fixtures, cancelling tours and the restrictions needed cutting off the financial lifeblood, leaving many sports and clubs reliant on rescue packages. but there is hope in the trickling return of fans and the coming wave of vaccinations. and if 2020 as a sporting year was partly postponed, then 2021 is to be confirmed. there is at least something to play for. after a storming start to the day, the winds from storm bella are starting to ease down, but we have them in excess of 80 mph and that has caused some damage and disruption. as well, we have had more heavy rain and that is also starting to clear away and all parts are getting into the colder arctic air and that will be with us till the end of 2020 now. there are issues with snow and ice, that risk especially in the north through the rest of the day, but for all parts heading to night—time. the winds are easing, still a windy day though and the flood warnings, severe flood warnings, still remaining. the rain is clearing away, we have sunny spells and showers following, plenty of sunny spells across central and eastern areas but showers further north falling as snow even at lower levels across scotland, parts of northern ireland, northern england, wintry flavour over the hills further south. the winds are easing, but still pretty gusty and actually that will exacerbate how chilly it feels, so nowhere near as mild as yesterday and temperatures having started relatively high, tens and 11s in the south, are dipping away. that wind will exacerbate the chilly feel and through this evening and overnight this spell of more persistent snow comes to scotland, northern ireland, runs into northern england and north wales. could see a scattering of snow over the moors further south so much colder overnight, not as windy, but temperatures will fall to freezing or below so where we have had rain, surfaces are damp and those showers could be quite treacherous with ice and snow. that same area of low pressure, the remnants of storm bella with us drifting southwards on monday, butjust dragging the cold air south. that means there could be snow to lower levels, even further south and certainly a few centimetres in those showers over the hills. it is colder air and you can see those showers are rushing in to eastern areas, showers for parts of northern ireland, a colder day throughout, four or five, but with sunshine between the showers, it is just the devil is in the detail. but for the rest of the week, as i say, and into the start of 2021, it remains on the chilly side, getting a little bit drier. fewer showers around, a little bit of sunshine as well. but it does look as if it will be a cold and frosty end to the year with snow and ice risk, warnings are online. this is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. borisjohnson promises big changes following his brexit trade deal, as his chancellor rishi sunak says the deal brings reassurance to those who were worried about the impact on businesses. for those who were anxious about the economic implications of leaving, they should be enormously reassured by the comprehensive nature of this trade agreement, ensuring tariff—free, quota—free access for british businesses to the european union. the rollout of the pfizer covid vaccine begins for millions of people across the eu, starting with italy

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let's take a look at how coronavirus impacted sport in 2020. patrick reflects on the highs and lows of the year in sport. we've got so much to look forward to in 2020. europe's festival of football begins. welcome to euro 2020. it's that time of year again, and there's a real buzz around this wimbledon. they call it the greatest show on earth. take your marks for tokyo 2020. that was the sporting year that wasn't. a calendar with a line through it. 2020 showed sport's irrelevance, but also strangely its importance. it all began fatefully in smoke. fumes from the bushfires which were ravaging australia injanuary choked the melbourne air ahead of the australian open. at one point, the city had the worst air quality in the world. the whole competition was in doubt. but the winds changed, and the crowds, which saw novak djokovic win his 17th grand slam and sofia kenin win herfirst, were the lucky ones. things wouldn't be so normalfor long. las vegas has never really been normal, and in february it would host a fighter who's anything but ordinary. tyson fury. tyson fury! he was in town for a heavyweight title rematch. in the first fight, he and deontay wilder couldn't be separated. before the second, they had to be separated. this fight didn't need pushing, the world was already watching. i think this is the biggest fight in the last 50 years, since 1971. i got his number because he put me down but he couldn't keep me down. and that's been playing on his mind because everybody else he's knocked out apart from the gypsy king. so i'm coming for you, baby. he was carried to the ring as a king, he would leave as a champion, flooring wilder twice before the fight was stopped in the seventh round. fury, whose struggles with mental health took him to the very bottom, now stood on top of the world. before i was ever born, i was destined to do what i do. and i've had the highs and lows andeverybody knows about it, and tonight was the icing on the cake. and i've got another old fellow across the pond who might want a little tickle with a gypsy king, and then that's it then, completed, done. that old fellow was anthonyjoshua, who defended his own titles this year. the world is still waiting for that fight because even as the desert dust settled in vegas, clouds were gathering around the planet. coronavirus continues to affect the sporting world. moved due to the coronavirus. april's chinese grand prix postponed as the coronavirus continues to spread. as the virus crept across the world and into british homes, the sporting impact was initially overseas. british sport lost handshakes, added hand gel and carried on. in early march, ministers insisted premier league football, england v wales rugby and the cheltenham festival could still go ahead with appropriate hygiene measures in place. at this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events. that was the morning of monday the 9th of march. by the end of that week, everything had changed. events escalated from thursday. bit of breaking news regarding the coronavirus. yes, arsenal have just confirmed that head coach mikel arteta has tested positive for covid—19. the premier league will convene an emergency club meeting tomorrow. all english and scottish football matches are suspended because of the impact of coronavirus. england have cancelled their two test cricket matches... the f1 season suspended until may at the earliest. the marathon is the next sporting match to be postponed. a complete write—off. what you have seen over the last 48 hours or so in effect is the collapse of the global sporting calendar. within a fortnight, the country was locked down, and with much of the world also under restrictions, the final dominoes were bound to fall. wimbledon was cancelled for the first time in peacetime, while euro 2020 was shifted to 2021. the women's euros moved to 2022. and having cost at least £10 billion, the biggest event of all finally accepted the inevitable. we came to the conclusion that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games tokyo 2020 to the year 2021. i feel relieved because we were getting more and more feedback from athletes and from sports saying they have to be postponed this year. it's all—consuming, an olympic campaign, so it really is a big deal to add another year to it, and including the question of will my body even hold up? i just don't think it's sensible to continue given the current circumstances the world is in. first of all, athletes can't train as normal. it is quite frustrating because right now i'm ready to go. and jordan wasn't alone. music. like all of us, athletes were told to stay at home, so expending energy and maintaining fitness required creativity. the enormity of what was happening drew some into the world outside sport, to the wards, to a cause. marcus rashford's campaigning on child hunger transcended the partisan world of football. football itself had a big question in front of it. with the stadium doors shut for the foreseeable future, should the season be stopped? in scotland, they called it a day. and celtic, 13 points clear, were crowned slightly lonely champions, their ninth in a row. in england, the women's super league also packed up. chelsea bumped up to champions on points per game at the expense of manchester city, who had been leading. english lower league football clubs also voted to stop. with no fans in grounds, their very survival was at stake. but for those who wanted to play on, the last day of may brought hope. we won't be sitting in the stands for a while and things will be very different to what we're used to, but live sports will be back on oui’ screens next week. the british sporting recovery has begun. when the premier league returned in england two and a half weeks later, it emerged into a weird, empty, sterile landscape, a place of twice—weekly covid tests and daily temperature checks. and it wasn't just the virus which had changed the world. the killing of george floyd in america saw the rise in the black lives matter movement. sportsmen and women across the planet took a knee in solidarity. meanwhile, liverpool, the world and european club champions, had a job to finish, a wait to end, a weight to lift. it's crazy to think that a club the size of liverpool will go 30 years about winning the league, without being english champions. one of the biggest problems liverpool had was just needed to get a title win over the line because it was starting to feel as though it was never going to happen. there's been plenty of times where we have said this is our year, it's our season and it's never quite come off. brilliant salah header, 2—0 liverpool! liverpool were phenomenal at the start of last season. to get 97 points and only come second, and then your response to that, rather than feel sorry for yourself, is we just have to win every single game next season, which is how they started. i think manchester united at home was the moment where everyone where everyone was like, "this is it, this team is going to be champions." salah sticks it away and people burst into a rendition of we're of we're going to win the league. we have been so cagey about that. we both have season tickets, but we started singing we're going to win the league, and we were quite superstitious when it comes to the margin. my dad said i'm not saying it until we have our hands in the trophy. liverpool 25 points clear at the top when football stopped. football is a game, again we all take very seriously, it's very central of all of our lives but it was a very small and insignificant sort of side act to what was happening around the world. you didn't know when it was going to return or whether there was going to be a void. no one had any idea what was going to happen. you follow football, it felt like the universe was finding another way to stop liverpool winning the league. we waited 30 years and we just had another three months on top of that. having a day to come back was wonderful news. that was the light at the end of the tunnel, if you like, we knew they are going to do it. on thursday, june the 25th, their chance came. manchester city had to beat chelsea just to stay in the race. one of my friends set up a big projector in his garden and managed to get a screen from somewhere. and liverpool surely headed to the title! liverpool was already starting to celebrate as soon as the penalty went in, and that's when you started hearing the fireworks, you started hearing the cheers. stuart attwell blows his whistle. and for the first time since 1990, the champions of england are liverpool. that feeling... that absolute rush, i've never felt quite anything like that when i've not been in a football ground. we started hearing liverpool breaking into this spontaneous party and suddenly all around you, people beeing the horn and shouting out the car windows. i'm just so happy that i was with my dad, and i know for a fact that it meant so much to him. people running into their gardens and running into the streetsjust screaming into the air. people were just going outside and laughing and inspiring and being so happy. it was beautiful really. it was much more than i was expecting to get. the joy was not entirely contained. the club and local leaders condemned some liverpool fans for ignoring social distancing rules and gathering in large numbers to celebrate. but for most, this was about being together apart. having a successful football team in a city always lifts the mood in a city, so it helps everything. it's good in this moment in time in the biggest crisis we've probably have ever had, our generation have ever had, so important you don't forget to have something we really look forward to and we are allowed to look forward to. this is a really special team, this is a really special time. you can move, but we are not quite ready to let go of it yet and we want that number 20. and it really was our year, let's just forget about everything else that's going on around the world and just give us that little bit of joy. not been the football that we knew and loved in quite the same way, we've not been able to engage with it in the same way. having in my opinion and currently technically in the world to follow, it's been a god's blessing. scotland fans had also been on hold, but this year brought a chance to end the wait since ‘98 when the men's team last made a major tournament. it all came down to a playoff and to penalties. if he can't convert, scotland go through. it is alexander, right—footed penalty, saved! saved! scotland are through! the torture, the pain, the anguish is over! scotland are through to euro 2020! music. restrictions meant the national celebration had to be expressed individually. 0nly small parties now but they have an invite to a big one. it was a long night. no sleeing after a game like that, no slip with the emotions of the night. wake up to lots of messages on your phone and you begin to realise the magnitude of what we did last night. northern ireland's men narrowly missed out on qualifying but the women might still make it. they have a playoff for 2021 to see if they can join hosts england in the finals in 2022, by which time the english will be under new management. serena wiegman is due to replace phil neville. the old football season was running so late it overlapped the new one. manchester city won the women's fa cup a few months earlier, arsenal lifted the men's version for a record 14th time. from gunners to a rider, and hollie doyle has always been a natural. this year she has gone galloping past milestones all over the place, the first royal ascot victory, the first woman to win five races on a british card. doyle also broke her own record for wins by a female jockey in a calendar year. i've been pretty blessed this year. i wasjust dreaming of riding a group winner and i've ridden a handful, so is it better than i ever expected. she's grafted to craft her body into a racing machine and there is talk of her becoming the first female champion jockey. she may only be five feet tall, but for hollie doyle, nothing is out of reach. barriers are there to be smashed, as harper will show you. only recently her job involved spuds, not gloves. that's how i wake up monday morning and how crazy my life is changed. i worked in a chip shop. and now i'm in a gym, boxing full—time. this was the year she went from a chippy to a champ, doing a lot of battering along the way. back in february before the world changed, she conquered it, beating eva to become only the second british champion. her next fight was in eddie hearn's backyard in essex in august, and foughtjonas in battle, a landmark for women's boxing. it ended as a draw with her the champ. savannah marshall has since joined her of the world. i've learned to go out hold on and i've learned i got harder and i learned that i still got a lot more. meanwhile those running cricket trying to save the test match summer. millions of pounds were on the line. they found the answer inside a bubble. ecb has confirmed that england will face the west indies in a three test series. we'll go ahead with the players remaining in a strict biobubble practising, playing and living inside two cricket grounds with on—site hotels. this was an experiment in sport. given the virus had meant locking everyone in for days and weeks on end. so what was the view like from the inside? a biosecure bubble, a wonderful thing it is. everybody had to buy into this because if there been a breach, if any of us had come down with covid—19 during the game, it could have been catastrophic. you get up in the morning, make sure that you walk from the right direction around to the media centre to get temperatures check. it was very disorienting to start with. but you get the hang of it and you get this sense of extraordinary privilege. the west indies are coming from an environment which had really low rates of covid—19 and what they were doing was resurrecting broadcast deals which keep sports afloat, especially when you could not get fans in, what the westies have done for the english this summer is nothing short of heroic. all members of both the england and the west indies and the umpires and officials taking a knee. that very first fall, that very first test, i had goosebumps. it was an extraordinary thing to see and it was marvellous that the england players also took the knee. the amazing thing was actually the quality of the cricket was as good if not better than it has been for some years. that first test match, they ambushed england really. the west indies win a remarkable test match. whenever joe root has a problem, he seems to get ben stokes who just arrives. this is incredible batting from ben stokes. stuart broad had an extraordinary summer. he was a man reborn really. and to take that 500th wicket, i remember it very distinctly because i was on commentary. he has given him! that is broad's 500 wicket in test cricket. that's when the strange things about being a bubble because you would witness a really historic event and there was no one there to see it. second and third test, england were just too good. the england test team return to face a new challenge, pakistan. theyjust give a different flavour. they gave a different thing. they should probably have won that series and probably should've won that first test and under impossible circumstances, woa kes fast and a departure of 139 that took england to the brink of victory and then they got there. and want to win that is for england! they had this breakthrough innings and it was staggering. 257 he scored. well, that is glorious. we've got to mention forjames anderson. his longevity is extraordinary. 38 years old and still pumping out wickets and then he can get the holy grail of 600 on the last test match day of the summer. got it! the first ever seam bowler to get 600 test match wickets. to go out there and get the chance to get to 600 was really special and obviously sharing that moment with the guys that i play a lot of cricket with was making it even more special. and the way they got on the field was a lot less important than the fact that it happened and the fact that we could prove that it was possible to put about secure bubble together. a covid—19 and that we don't have to just surrender in the face of this calamity. the march ended the world t20 hopes of england's women. they will have a year before they played again winning all five of their t20 matches against the west indies. bubbles took off and landed around the world. 0ne formed around part of new york to allow the us open to take place. djokovic's tournament went pot. after a shot hit a linejudge, so dominic thiem's time had finally arrived. naomi 0saka won her second us title. in paris, a rearranged french open saw the first a familiar harvest for nadal. the roland—garros title proving even in 2020 some things never change. and out of kilter year for the masters sprung from springtime. dustinjohnson dominated in autumnal agusta and earned himself a nice winter jacket. staying with green cloth, this is ronnie 0'sullivan's campus. he won his sixth world snooker title. rugby union have been on a specially long pause. it took until the last day of october for england to win the six nations and the 1st of november for them to lift the trophy in the hotel garden. they also won the autumn league of nations cup. the women's six nations was won by england too, this time in a grand slam. while in club rugby, exeter competed an incredible rise and an incredible decade from second division side from second division side to european champions. they one in the premiership too. the rugby league challenge cup final saluted a bigger battle. former leeds player rob burrow honoured for his fundraising work while dealing with motor neurone disease. and fittingly it was the number seven luke gale who won the cup. luke gale with a drop goal and he peels away in celebration! leeds winners for the 14th time and the season would get some finish. all square in the last seconds of the super league final, one last saint helen's boot to beat the hooter and it one last incredible twist. it is a try! you will never see a finish to rugby league game like that. sometimes sporting glory can be found in a touch, and ancient sometimes it reveals itself over hundreds of miles. geoghena rt began cycling on the streets of hackney. he skipped school to go to the launch of king's sky. this year at that year giro d'italia, he found himself by chance is the lead rider of the same team. now named ineos grenadier. and on milan's roads, he power to sell to one of cycling's great prizes. they'll get your heart is going to win the jury to tell you. i don't know if it's going to sink in but it certainly has not now. ijust feel honoured to be here with this team and incredibly privileged to be in this position to race my bike for a dream country. so enjoy every moment of it. the blue peter garden 28 years ago, mmet a man with a very clear sense of direction. it's easy to do. this young man never really went for easy. soon he was in cars. i'm lewis hamilton. my brother is the better because he's fast. and one that he's going to be at the track. not everyone shared nicholas‘s view. i rememberas a kid, adults, teachers, parents and other drivers and youngsters telling me that i would not make it and would never and would never be it, you are not good enough, no way you're going to make it. as a youngster, you're saying i want to be a racing driver, how do you make this happen? i really improved. manifest your dreams and even the impossible ones. it's almost like he's made himself and can find a way to drive that car faster than he ever could before. the foot always been on the accelerator and this season as the best driver in the fastest car, there were records out there on the road ahead. the route was not always straight. lewis hamilton won the grand prix, the race delayed. somehow lewis hamilton has won the british grand prix. a minute shy ofjust three reels after suffering a puncture. and incredibly nursed his car around the track. not just about the car and not about the win, it's about the decisions that he's making on the way that makes him great. and that greatness was about to be confirmed on the out car as hamilton passed michael schumacher‘s record, the ultimate overtaking. victory in portugal! 92nd grand prix win! it felt like i said '94 when the first time we 18 cart championship, remembering the smile on his face and how excited he was. and here we are in late and the great michael schumacher and to have his son present lewis with a helmet was just a very humbling experience. you know, everyone asked me what it would be like. the man from stevenage comes across the line, wins the turkish grand prix and becomes the most successful formula 1 driver of all time! i definitely would havfe predicted that he would be here. but my whole racing career, my familyjust flashed before my eyes. it is nice to seek dominance, if you want by an individual who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth but actually had to work for everything he has earned. my dad sacrificed so much, when i facetime with him and he's got a big smile on his face this is under you would do it. i love seeing him in the race car. i love seeing that machinery. i still feel young, i still feel energised and asked if the that's another side of that we have another big fight to win and that's for racial equality across the board. now it's our time and lewis is opportunity to try and change the way people perceive the sport. after us there is a concern that there will never be another black driver in formula 1. that should not be in this day and age. watching george floyd, emotions i did not realise i even had expressed and challenged my racing, i feel like i've had a real drive to try and push for change. that's why you see me drive faster than ever. two weeks after hamilton won the title, romain grosjean smashed into the barrier at the bahrain grand prix. amazingly he escaped from the inferno with only minor injuries. his life saved by a protective bar on the car. that fire shone a blinding light on the importance of safety within sport, a relationship that's been examined ever closer this year. in football or relentless collisions in rugby will surely come under still greater focus. meanwhile the pandemic continues to attack sport, postponing fixtures, cancelling tours and research is needed to cut off the financial lifeblood meaning sports rely on weekend packages. but there is hope in the trickling return to fans and the coming wave of vaccinations. and if 2020 as a sporting year was partly postponed, then 2021 is to be confirmed. there is at least something to play for. as promised, weather the was pretty quiet on christmas day across most of the uk, with some sunshine, but now all eyes on the atlantic and the weather is about to turn. storm bella is expected to bring heavy rain and severe gales on boxing day night. in the short term, the weather is actually not too bad. through the small hours of saturday morning, it's a case of increasing wind around coastal areas but, yes, some heavy rain already reaching parts of western scotland but the bulk of the uk i think a fairly calm night. 0vercast in most areas, just a few showers here and there, and not cold at all. mild air is being swept in by the storm. through the course of saturday, the weather is looking pretty decent, especially around eastern parts of england. maybe the midlands, the english channel coast as well. sunny spells here but generally speaking, a fair amount of cloud in the skies as well. around double figures in the south of the country, but at this stage the weather is quickly deteriorating in the north—west of the uk as storm bella approaches. the thinking is during the course of the evening on boxing day, the weather will downhill first in the north—west of the uk and then quickly the bad weather will spread from the north—west towards the south—east. we think particularly along this cold front, we will see some nasty conditions across wales and also england, and that's where the worst of the wind will be. the met office has issued an amber warning. this is certainly for southern parts of wales and along the english channel. damaging winds up to 80 mph are possible. also across england there will be gale—force winds causing problems, so storm bella is likely to bring some flooding, particularly across wales and the south—west of the country and those damaging winds as well. as we go through the course of sunday morning, that cold front sweeps out into the north sea and the near continent. then the wind will dramatically die down and as far as sunday is concerned, it is a mixture of sunny spells, chilly conditions and just about cold enough for some wintry weather here as well. we will find ourselves in the centre of that storm. we are still in the middle of the low pressure on monday, and there is just the possibility of some light sleet or snow almost anywhere across the uk, even in the south of the country. goodbye. this is bbc news. these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. queen elizabeth has been reflecting on the hardships of the coronavirus pandemic in her christmas speech as she and prince philip break tradition by staying in windsor. people have risen magnificently to the challenges of the year and i am so proud and moved by this quiet, indomitable spirit. european union ambassadors get details of a post—brexit trade deal in a christmas day briefing led by michel barnier. police in the us city of nashville in tennessee say a huge explosion in the city centre was a deliberate act. at least three people have been injured. pope francis gives his christmas day address urging all 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and lows of the year in sport. we've got so much to look forward to in 2020. europe's festival of football begins. welcome to euro 2020. it's that time of year again, and there's a real buzz around this wimbledon. they call it the greatest show on earth. take your marks for tokyo 2020. that was the sporting year that wasn't. a calendar with a line through it. 2020 showed sport's irrelevance, but also strangely its importance. it all began fatefully in smoke. fumes from the bushfires which were ravaging australia injanuary choked the melbourne air ahead of the australian open. at one point, the city had the worst air quality in the world. the whole competition was in doubt. but the winds changed, and the crowds, which saw novak djokovic win his 17th grand slam and sofia kenin win her first, were the lucky ones. things wouldn't be so normalfor long. las vegas has never really been normal, and in february it would host a fighter who's anything but ordinary. tyson fury. tyson fury! he was in town for a heavyweight title rematch. in the first fight, he and deontay wilder couldn't be separated. before the second, they had to be separated. this fight didn't need pushing, the world was already watching. i think this is the biggest fight in the last 50 years, since 1971. i've got his number, because he put me down and he couldn't keep me down. and that must be playing on his mind because everybody else he's knocked out apart from the gypsy king. so i'm coming for you, baby. he was. carried to the ring as a king, he would leave as a champion, flooring wilder twice before the fight was stopped in the seventh round. fury, whose struggles with mental health took him to the very bottom, now stood on top of the world. before i was ever born, i was destined to do what i do. and i've had the highs and lows and everybody knows about it, and tonight was the icing on the cake. and i've got another old fellow across the pond who might want a little tickle with the gypsy king, and then that's it then, completed, done. that old fellow was anthonyjoshua, who defended his own titles this year. the world is still waiting for that fight because even as the desert dust settled in vegas, clouds were gathering around the planet. coronavirus continues to affect the sporting world. moved due to the coronavirus. april's chinese grand prix postponed as the coronavirus continues to spread. as the virus crept across the world and into british homes, the sporting impact was initially overseas. british sport lost handshakes, added hand gel and carried on. in early march, ministers insisted premier league football, england v wales rugby and the cheltenham festival could still go ahead with appropriate hygiene measures in place. at this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events. that was the morning of monday the 9th of march. by the end of that week, everything had changed. events escalated from thursday. bit of breaking news regarding the coronavirus. yes, arsenal have just confirmed that head coach mikel arteta has tested positive for covid—19. the premier league will convene an emergency club meeting tomorrow. all english and scottish football matches are suspended because of the impact of coronavirus. england have cancelled their two test cricket matches... the f1 season suspended until may at the earliest. the marathon is the latest sporting event to be postponed. the final round of six nations fixtures, a complete write—off. what you have seen over the last 48 hours or so in effect is the collapse of the global sporting calendar. within a fortnight, the country was locked down, and with much of the world also under restrictions, the final dominoes were bound to fall. wimbledon was cancelled for the first time in peacetime, while euro 2020 was shifted to 2021. the women's euros moved to 2022. and having cost at least £10 billion, the biggest event of all finally accepted the inevitable. we came to the conclusion that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games tokyo 2020 to the year 2021. i feel relieved, because we were getting more and more feedback from athletes and from sports saying it has to be postponed this year. it's all—consuming, an olympic campaign, so it really is a big deal to add another year to it, and then you've got the question of will my body even hold up? i just don't think it's sensible to continue, given the current circumstances the world is in. first of all, athletes can't train as normal. it is quite frustrating because right now i'm ready to go. and jordan wasn't alone. like all of us, athletes were told to stay at home, so expending energy and maintaining fitness required creativity. the enormity of what was happening drew some into the world outside sport, to the wards, to a cause. marcus rashford's campaigning on child hunger transcended the partisan world of football. football itself had a big question in front of it. with the stadium doors shut for the foreseeable future, should the season be stopped? in scotland, they called it a day. and celtic, 13 points clear, were crowned slightly lonely champions, their ninth in a row. in england, the women's super league also packed up. chelsea bumped up to champions on points per game at the expense of manchester city, who had been leading. english lower league football clubs also voted to stop. with no fans in grounds, their very survival was at stake. but for those who wanted to play on, the last day of may brought hope. we won't be sitting in the stands for a while and things will be very different to what we're used to, but live sports will be back on oui’ screens next week. the british sporting recovery has begun. when the premier league returned in england two and a half weeks later, it emerged into a weird, empty, sterile landscape, a place of twice—weekly covid tests and daily temperature checks. and it wasn't just the virus which had changed the world. the killing of george floyd in america saw the rise in the black lives matter movement. sportsmen and women across the planet took a knee in solidarity. meanwhile, liverpool, the world and european club champions, had a job to finish, a wait to end, a weight to lift. it's crazy to think that a club the size of liverpool will go 30 years without winning the league, without being english champions. one of the biggest problems liverpool had was just needing to get a title win over the line, because it was starting to feel as though it was something that was never going to happen. there's been plenty of times where we have said this is our year, this is our season and it's never quite come off. brilliant salah header, 2—0 liverpool! liverpool were phenomenal at the start of last season. to get 97 points and only come second, and then your response to that, rather than feel sorry for yourself, is we just have to win every single game next season, which is how they started. i think manchester united at home was the moment where everyone was like, "this is it, this team is going to be champions." salah sticks it away on the counter attack and people in the kop burst into a rendition of we're going to win the league. we have been so cagey about that. we both have season tickets, but when they started singing we're going to win the league, we're quite superstitious when it comes to the marching. my dad said i'm not saying anything until we have our hands on the trophy. liverpool were 25 points clear at the top when football stopped. football is a game, it's a game we all take very seriously, it's a very central part of all of our lives but it was a very small and insignificant sort of side act to what was happening around the world. you didn't know whether it was going to return or whether it was going to be null and void. no one had any idea what was going to happen. you follow football, it felt like the universe was finding another way to stop liverpool winning the league. we waited 30 years and we just had another three months added on top of that. having the dates to come back was wonderful news. that was the light at the end of the tunnel, if you like, when we knew they are going to do it. on thursday, june the 25th, their chance came. manchester city had to beat chelsea just to stay in the race. one of my friends set up a big projector in his garden and managed to borrow a screen from somewhere. and liverpool surely headed to the title! liverpool was already starting to celebrate as soon as the penalty went in, and that's when you started hearing the fireworks, when you started hearing the cheers. stuart attwell blows his whistle. and for the first time since 1990, the champions of england are liverpool. that feeling... that absolute rush, i've never felt quite anything like that when i've not been in a football ground. we started hearing liverpool breaking into this spontaneous party and suddenly all around you, people beeping the horn and shouting out the car windows. i'm just so happy that i was with my dad, and i know for a fact that it meant so much to him. people running into their gardens and running into the streetsjust screaming into the air. people just going outside and laughing and smiling and being so happy. it was beautiful, really. it was much more than i was expecting to get. the joy was not entirely contained. the club and local leaders condemned some liverpool fans for ignoring social distancing rules, and gathering in large numbers to celebrate. but for most, this was about being together apart. having a successful football team in a city always lifts the mood in a city, so it helps everything. it's good and at this moment in time in the biggest crisis we probably have ever had, our generation have ever had, it's so important you don't forget to have something we really look forward to and we are allowed to look forward to. this is a really special team, this is a really special time. we won the 19th one, but we are not quite ready to let go of it yet and we want that number 20. in a really bizarre year, that just made us forget about everything else that's going on around the world and just give us that little bit ofjoy. it's not been the football that we knew and loved in quite the same way, we've not been able to engage with it in the same way. having, in my opinion and currently technically, the best team in the world to follow, it's been god's blessing. scotland fans had also been on hold, but this year brought a chance to end the wait since ‘98, when the men's team last made a major tournament. it all came down to a playoff and to penalties. if he can't convert, scotland go through. it is aleksandar mitrovic, right—footed penalty, saved! saved! scotland are through! the torture, the pain, the anguish is over! scotland are through to euro 2020! # yes, sir, i can boogie. restrictions meant the national celebration had to be expressed individually. 0nly small parties now but they have an invite to a big one. it was a long night. no sleep after a game like that, no sleep with the emotions of the night. wake up to lots of messages on your phone and you begin to realise the magnitude of what we did last night. northern ireland's men narrowly missed out on qualifying, but the women might still make it. they have a playoff in 2021 to see if they can join hosts england in the finals in 2022, by which time the english will be under new management. serena wiegman is due to replace phil neville. the old football season was running so late it overlapped the new one. it was november by the time manchester city won the women's fa cup. a few months earlier, arsenal lifted the men's version for a record 14th time. from gunners to a rider, and hollie doyle has always been a natural. this year she has gone galloping past milestones all over the place, the first royal ascot victory, the first woman to win five races on a british card. doyle also broke her own record for wins by a female jockey in a calendar year. i've been pretty blessed this year. i was just dreaming of riding a group winner at least and i've ridden a handful, so it is better than i ever expected. she's grafted to craft her body into a racing machine and there is talk of doyle becoming the first female champion jockey. she may only be five feet tall, but for hollie doyle, nothing is out of reach. but for hollie doyle, barriers are there to be smashed, as terri harper will show you. only recently, her job involved spuds, not gloves. i wake up monday morning and think wow, how crazy has my life changed. i used to have tojuggle work, uni, i worked in a chip shop. and now i'm in the gym, boxing full—time. this was the year she went from the chippy to a champ, doing a lot of battering along the way. back in february, before the world changed, she conquered it, beating eva wahlstrom to become only britain's second female world champion after nicola adams. her next fight was in promoter eddie hearn‘s backyard in essex in august, a bout with natasha jonas was a bloody battle, a landmark night for women's boxing. the war ended as a draw, harper still the champ. savannah marshall and cha ntelle cameron have since joined her at the top of the world. i had to learn how to survive. i had to learn to go out and hold on and i've learned i've got a heart and i learned that i've still got a lot more to learn. meanwhile, those running english cricket were trying to save the test match summer. millions of pounds were on the line. they found the answer inside a bubble. ecb has confirmed that england will face the west indies in a three test series. will go ahead with the players remaining in a strict biobubble. practising, playing and living inside two cricket grounds with on—site hotels. this was an experiment in sport. keeping the virus out meant locking everyone in for days and weeks on end. so what was the view like from the inside? a biosecure bubble, what an extraordinary thing it is. everybody had to buy into this because if there had been a breach, if any of us had come down with covid during the middle of a game, it could have been absolutely catastrophic. you get up in the morning, make sure that you walk in a clockwise direction around to the media centre to get your temperature checked. it was very disorienting to start with. but you get the hang of it and you get this sense of extraordinary privilege. the west indies were coming from an environment which had really low rates of covid and what they were doing was resurrecting the broadcast deals which keep sports afloat, especially when you could not get fans in, so what the west indies have done for english cricket this summer is nothing short of heroic. all members of both the england and the west indies and the umpires and officials taking a knee. when the west indies took the knee, that very first ball, that very first test, i had goose bumps. it was an extraordinary thing to see and it was marvellous that the england players also took the knee. the amazing thing was actually the quality of the cricket was as good if not better than it has been for some years. the west indies, that first test match, they ambushed england really. the west indies win a remarkable test match. wheneverjoe root has got a problem, it seems to be ben stokes who just arrives. this is incredible batting from ben stokes. stuart broad had an extraordinary summer. he was a man reborn really. and to take that 500th wicket, i remember it very distinctly because i was on commentary. he has given him! that is broad's 500th wicket in test cricket. that's one of the strange things about being in a bubble because you would witness a really magnificent historic event and there was no one there to see it. second and third tests, england were just too good. the england test team return to face a new challenge, pakistan. theyjust gave a different flavour. they gave a different zing. they should probably have won that series and probably should've won that first test and in what looked like impossible circumstances, josh butler and chris woakes fashioned a partnership of 139 that took england to the brink of victory and then they got there. and what a win that is for england! zak crawley had this breakthrough innings and it was staggering. 267 he scored. well, that is glorious. we've got to have a mention forjames anderson. his longevity is extraordinary. 38 years old and still pumping out the wickets and then he got to the holy grail of 600 on the last test match day of the summer. got it! the first ever seam bowler to get 600 test match wickets. to go out there and get the chance to get the 600 was really special and obviously sharing that moment with the guys that i played a lot of cricket with was making it even more special. in a way, the performances on the field were a lot less important than the fact that it happened and the fact that we could prove that it was possible to put a biosecure bubble together. that sport does not have to stop because of the ravages of covid, that we don't have to just surrender in the face of this calamity. the march reign in sydney ended the world t20 hopes of england's women. it was more than half a year before they played again, winning all five of their t20 matches against the west indies. bubbles took off and landed around the world. 0ne formed around part of new york to allow the us open to take place. novak djokovic's tournament went pop. kicked out after a stroppy shot hit a linejudge, so dominic thiem's time had finally arrived. naomi 0saka won her second us title. in a chilly paris, a rearranged french open saw a first blossom for iga swiatek and a familiar harvest for rafa nadal. roland—garros title 13 — even in 2020 some things never change. an out of kilter year saw the masters sprung from springtime. johnson dominated an autumnal agusta and earned himself a nice winter jacket. staying with green cloth, this is ronnie 0'sullivan‘s canvas. he won a sixth world snooker title. rugby union had been on a specially long pause. it took until the last day of october for england to win the six nations and the first day of november for them to lift the trophy in their hotel garden. they also won the autumn league of nations cup. the women's six nations was won by england too, this time in a grand slam. while in club rugby, exeter competed an incredible rise in an incredible decade from a second division side to european champions. they won the english premiership too. at rugby league's challenge cup final, they saluted a bigger battle. former leeds player rob burrow honoured for his fundraising work while dealing with motor neurone disease. and fittingly it was the rhinos' current number seven luke gale who won the cup. luke gale with a drop goal and he peels away in celebration! leeds winners for the 14th time and the season would get some finish. all square in the last seconds of the super league grand final, one last saint helen's boot to beat the hooter and one last incredible twist. it is a try! it is a try from welsby! you will never see a finish to a rugby league game like that. sometimes sporting glory can be found in a touch, an inch, sometimes it reveals itself over hundreds of miles. tao geoghegan began cycling on the streets of hackney. he skipped school to go to the launch of team sky. this year at the giro d'italia, he found himself by chance as the lead rider of the same team. now named ineos grenadiers. and on milan's roads, he powered himself to one of cycling's great prizes. tao, britain's giro, hero. tao geoghegan is going to win the giro d'italia. i don't know if it's going to sink in but it certainly has not now. ijust feel honoured to be here with this team and incredibly privileged to be in this position. to race my bike for a living is a dream country. so i'm enjoying every moment of it. the blue peter garden 28 years ago, and a young man with a very clear sense of direction. is it easy to do? no. this young driver never really went for easy. soon he was in cars. recognise me now? i'm lewis hamilton. my brother is the best driver because he's fast. and one day he's going to be in formula 1. my brother is the best driver because he's fast. and one day he's going to be in formula 1. not everyone shared nicholas's faith. i rememberas a kid, adults, teachers, parents of other drivers and youngsters telling me that i would not make it and would never be in it, you are not good enough, no way you're going to make it. as a youngster, your young kid is saying, "dad, dad, i want to be a formula! racing driver," you're thinking, how do you make this happen? i am living proof that you can manifest your dreams and even the impossible ones. it's almost like he's reinvented himself and can find a way to drive that car faster than he ever could before. the foot‘s always remained on the accelerator and this season as the best driver in the fastest car, there were records out there on the road ahead. but the route was not always straight. lewis hamilton won the styrian grand prix, the second race has been delayed. somehow, lewis hamilton has won the british grand prix. crossing the finish line onjust three wheels after suffering a puncture. and hamilton incredibly nursed his car around the track. it isn't just about the car and about the win, it's about the decisions that he's made along the way that makes him great. and that greatness was about to be confirmed on the algarve as hamilton passed michael schumacher‘s grand prix record, the ultimate overtaking. victory in portugal! a record—breaking 92 grand prix wins! it felt like '94 when the first time we won a carting championship, just remembering the smile on his face and how excited he was. and here we are emulating the great michael schumacher and to have his son present lewis with that helmet was just a very humbling experience. you know, everyone asked me, what would be it like if you win a seventh title? the man from stevenage comes across the line, wins the turkish grand prix and becomes the most successful formula 1 driver of all time! i definitely wouldn't have predicted that i would be hit with such emotion. but my whole racing career, my family, just flashed before my eyes. it is nice to see dominance, if you want, by an individual who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but actually had to work for everything he has earned. my dad literally sacrificed so much, so when i facetime with him and he's got a big smile on his face he says, i knew you would do it. i love seeing him in the race car. i love seeing that perfection of man and machinery. i still feel young, i still feel energised, i still feel hungry and what's crazy is that yes, i've won this seventh title, but we have another big fight to win and that's for racial equality across the board. now is our time and lewis' opportunity to try and change the way people perceive the sport. after us, there is a concern that there will never be another black driver in formula 1. that should not be in this day and age. watching george brought up emotions i did not realise i had suppressed and challenged into my racing. i feel like i've had a real drive to try and push for change. that's probably why you see me drive faster than ever. two weeks after hamilton won the title, romain grosjean smashed into the barrier at the bahrain grand prix. amazingly he escaped from the inferno with only minor injuries. his life saved by a protective bar on the car. that fire shone a blinding light on the importance of safety within sport, a relationship that's been examined ever closer this year. the possible link between dementia and heading in football or relentless collisions in rugby will surely come under still greater focus. meanwhile the pandemic continues to attack sport, infecting athletes, postponing fixtures, cancelling tours and the restrictions needed to tackle it have the cut off of the financial lifeblood, leaving many sports and clubs reliant on rescue packages. but there is hope in the trickling return of fans and the coming wave of vaccinations. and if 2020 as a sporting year was partly postponed, then 2021 is to be confirmed. there is at least something to play for. hello, it's a cold and wintry end to 2020. some mist and murk around. we have had some sunshine but also some wintry showers. some speckled cloud. some of the showers have been bringing snow. been bringing snow, even to quite low levels in parts of wales and the southwest. this more general area of cloudiness across scotland will be sinking and northern ireland. a mix of rain and snow. most of the snow over high ground. slightly less cold air working in with the weather system, very chilly, especially across the south this evening. 0vernight, as we end the old year and start the new one, we keep this band of rain, sleet and hill snow moving across parts of north england into wales. to the south of that, mist and fog will reform. freezing fog, temperatures as low as minus four or minus five degrees. quite chilly further north as well, particularly inland spots in scotland and northern ireland. tomorrow, mix of sunny spells and showers. showers still wintry over high ground, especially in northern scotland. all weekend the band of rain and sleet pushes southwards. quite murky as it pushes south. another rather cold day, temperatures getting to between 3 and 6 degrees at best. deeper into the new year, from friday into saturday, high—pressure to the west, low—pressure to the east. quite a familiar setup by now. that brings us northerly wind, not desperately strong but it will bring showers into north and eastern coastal counties, some wintry over high ground. one or two showers in parts of pembrokeshire or cornwall. sunshine in between but it will be another rather cold day. the chilly theme continues into sunday but by now high—pressure is likely to build to the north of the british isles, lower pressure to the south. the isobars are squeezed together and the wind will pick up, coming from a different direction, east or north—east, but it will feel cold as we head through next week. there will be a lot of dry weather around, some spells of sunshine. there is the forecast the next five days. there will also be rain at times, some of it could turn wintry with sleet and snow over the hills. this is bbc news. these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. britain and the eu get ready for a new chapter in their relationship, as the clock ticks down to the post—brexit era. we'll be live in dover to find outjust how ready the borders are for brexit. also ahead: china approves its first home—produced coronavirus vaccine for general use, claiming it's nearly 80% effective. the british government says there's no reason schools in england will not be ready to roll out mass testing of pupils for coronavirus. and fireworks welcome 2021 in new zealand, but celebrations are being scaled down due to 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class="nosel"> will set parties will set out their manifestoes. thousands of motorcyclists arrived at the end of a mammoth right from london to cumbria. and in sport, joyful we go in a day of commemoration at wembley where rob burrow was paid tribute to, ahead of their challenge cup final. a sunny start for many of you, a more cloud, increasing, thickening and patchy rain as well. details on breakfast. good morning. the main story, israel has been criticised by the european union's matheny diplomat over the key kneeling of dozens of palestinians in an operation to rescue four hostages in gaza yesterday. josep borrell called the report another massacre of civilians. a woman and three men were rescued in a mission involving airstrikes around a refugee camp. hamas claims more than 210 palestinians were killed, is report the number below 100. a dramatic rescue and she's free again. 25—year—old noa argamani, captured by hamas on the 7th of october, and taken to gaza, is finally back in israel. this is her being reunited with her father after a dramatic rescue. translation:— father after a dramatic rescue. translation: ., , ., ., ., translation: please do not forget there are another _ translation: please do not forget there are another 120 _ translation: please do not forget there are another 120 hostages - translation: please do not forget there are another 120 hostages in i there are another 120 hostages in captivity. we must release them and make an effort in any way to bring them to israel and theirfamilies. either way, them to israel and theirfamilies. eitherway, it them to israel and theirfamilies. either way, it is my birthday. look at my gift! also freed, andrei kozlov, who is 27. shlomi ziv, 40, and almog meirjan, 21. eight months ago, they were in the nova music festival in southern israel when hamas gunmen attacked. more than 360 people were killed here. the four hostages, it said, were found at two separate locations in the heart of the camp and were brought out under fire. special forces went in. the military said this was a complex operation and based on intelligence information. the four hostages, it said, were found at two separate locations in the heart of the camp and were brought out under fire. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. but the mission brought even more suffering to gaza. there was chaos and desperation at the nearby al—aqsa hospital. doctors were unable to treat many of the winter, many arrived dead. translation: we were at home. a rocket hit us. my two cousins died and my other two cousins were seriously injured. they did nothing. they were sitting at home. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited the freed hostages in a hospital near tel aviv. he's being urged to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal with hamas. rescue was considered a success by israeli authorities and change the calculation of a leader under pressure. campaigning continues ahead of what is likely to be a busy week in the lead up to the lith ofjuly general election with another scheduled election tv debate and manifestos set to be published. 0ur political correspondent ian watson has the latest. the prime minister is in a market for votes, the main westminster parties will launch manifestoes in the week ahead, rishi sunak will be hoping ms the focus for emily on chip policy, not hoping ms the focus for emily on chip p°licy, not personality. hoping ms the focus for emily on chip policy, not personality. it will be keen to move on from the dd apology and so will his party, and his candidates have been out campaigning this weekend and we have been speaking this weekend. some of spoken about anger and disappointment and one of them is firstlings that whatever will happen next? all the trousers fall down? 0thers next? all the trousers fall down? others say they have not raised the issue at all in one candidate said they were so vexed by it, they have already defected to labour or the reform party. the prime minister will be hoping to keep hisjob and he wants to get more people into work, promising to spend £700 million to help people struggling with mental health to rejoin and stay in the workforce. but he's also repeating previous announcements to toughen up benefits rules. the conservative claim they can save £12 billion of the welfare bill by the end of the next parliament. labour says existing jails are bursting at the seams and the government has failed to provide the 20,000 more prison places promised. if elected, the party says it would deliver that prison building programme and change the planning laws to make it a priority. those that give offenders more help to get into employment. the state of the nhs has been prominent in the lib dems campaign, saying they want to take pressure off the ambulance system by expanding urgent care systems and providing more than a thousand more beds. response time information will also be made readily available. today we get a sneak preview of the manifestoes but it is not until the full range of policies are published that we will know how well they connect with voters. the wife of the missing tv presenter michael mosely says his family refuses to lose hope, and the last few days have been unbearable. efforts are continuing to find the 67—year—old, on the greek island of symi, where he's been missing since setting off for a walk on wednesday. new cctv footage has been released of his last known movements. joe inwood, has the very latest, from symi. india's prime minister, narendra modi will be sworn into office later on sunday. he'll be sworn in alongside his cabinet as he leads a coalition of 15 parties following last week's election results. it makes him prime ministerfor a historic third consecutive term. an 11—year—old gold is one of those injured after a ride malfunctioned at lambeth. what more do we know about the situation?— at lambeth. what more do we know about the situation? lambeth council have described _ about the situation? lambeth council have described what _ about the situation? lambeth council have described what happened - about the situation? lambeth council have described what happened as - about the situation? lambeth council have described what happened as a l have described what happened as a serious incident. let me step away from the camera and i can show you the funfair, butjust behind that, you will be able to see the funfair where the incident happened. we do not know what ride it was on but the police were called yesterdayjust before 630 in the evening. the council have confirmed there was a malfunction with one of the fairground rides, four people were injured and an 11—year—old girl, a man and woman in their 405, and a man and woman in their 405, and a man in his 505. there was a big emergency response, as you would expect, air ambulance, ambulance crews with paramedics, they were crew5 with paramedics, they were treated at the scene and then taken major trauma units. we understand their conditions are not thought to be life—threatening but we do not know what injurie5 they have sustained the council has said there will be a thorough investigation following what they describe as a serious incident. thank you. an american veteran who flew back to france for the d—day celebrations got married near the beaches where the allies landed eighty years ago. harold teren5, who is one hundred years old, married his ninety—six year old fiancee, jeanne swerlin. harold visited france as an air force corporal, shortly after d—day. they then attended the state banquet in paris, thrown by emmanuel macron forjoe biden. i’m in paris, thrown by emmanuel macron forjoe ewen-— forjoe biden. i'm 100 years old and m forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and m bride forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and my bride is — forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and my bride is 96 _ forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and my bride is 96 and _ forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and my bride is 96 and to _ forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and my bride is 96 and to be _ forjoe biden. i'm100 years old and my bride is 96 and to be married, i my bride is 96 and to be married, it's my second, normandy is my second favourite place in the whole world. i could live here for the rest of my life and be as happy as could be. do rest of my life and be as happy as could be. ,, ,, ., ., could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, _ could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, i — could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, ifeel_ could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, | feel like, _ could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, i feel like, my - could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, i feel like, my god, - could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, | feel like, my god, i. yes! at 96, ifeel like, my god, i -ot yes! at 96, ifeel like, my god, i got butterflies, just like the young people! _ got butterflies, just like the young people! it is notjust the young people. — people! it is notjust the young people, love, you know! we get butterflies we also get a little bit of action! — butterflies we also get a little bit of action! ., , ., butterflies we also get a little bit of action! . , ., , . butterflies we also get a little bit i of action!_ and of action! that is a bit cheeky! and wh not? of action! that is a bit cheeky! and why not? definitely _ of action! that is a bit cheeky! and why not? definitely walking - of action! that is a bit cheeky! and why not? definitely walking on - of action! that is a bit cheeky! and why not? definitely walking on air. congratulations to them both! she was saying they feel young and they seem young and sprightly. i thought the not seem young and sprightly. i thought they got the — seem young and sprightly. i thought they got the ages — seem young and sprightly. i thought they got the ages wrong! _ seem young and sprightly. i thought they got the ages wrong! and - seem young and sprightly. i thought. they got the ages wrong! and someone else looking fabulous for his age, matt, good morning.— else looking fabulous for his age, matt, good morning. bless you! life beains matt, good morning. bless you! life be . ins at matt, good morning. bless you! life begins at 102. _ matt, good morning. bless you! life begins at 102, who _ matt, good morning. bless you! life begins at 102, who knew? _ matt, good morning. bless you! life begins at 102, who knew? hope - matt, good morning. bless you! life begins at 102, who knew? hope you| begins at 102, who knew? hope you are having a great weekend and it's lovely today weatherwise and this is just a short while ago in eastern scotland, blue skies across central and southern england but it is chilly, parts dropping as low as one degree. a cold start but for many, the sunshine is good, and some cards spilling in around some areas and patchy rain to go with it as well. the car has been streaming out across the north atlantic and here it comes, it will be sitting across northern ireland for much of the island, parts of northern england and north wales and spreading southwards and eastwards. lots of clear skies to begin with across the south and parts of scotland, continuing with sunny spells but a few showers over the mountaintops will be wintry. damp at times in north—west england and wales with the odd shower elsewhere. sunny throughout the day, channel islands, parts of devon and cornwall as well is dorset in particular, temperatures up to 19 but there will be high pollen levels across much of england and wales. lower further north. we finished the day with a persistent rain in northern ireland, that was spread its way across england and wales are some of the garden, you may not have to water the pots tonight. clear skies later tonight, maybe some parts of scotland down to three degrees into monday morning but holding up, and not as cold in the south because of this weather system. it will clear away to start monday and sitting across is impulsive england, producing heavy rain at times and parts of yorkshire and lincolnshire, east anglia and the southeast, and that would take a while to shift away from parts of yorkshire and east anglia and may be lingering for some in the afternoon. west of that, a day of sunshine and showers. particularly in areas of scotland and for monday, northerly winds, making it phil cooler than today. temperatures around 12—15 and actually start to the week. the northerly winds bringing colder and down, crossing into tuesday, temperatures well down for where you want this stage injune. the cloud will build up eventually and a few showers brewing particularly across central and eastern areas and the core behaviour showers on parts of tuesday afternoon. further west, brighter and drier throughout but temperatures 10— 16 degrees, 5—8 down for some of you on what we normally have at this stage of the year. call for the rest of the week, some showers around but there will be dry weather as well, so a bit of a washout of a week, even if it is not an especially warm one. the ressure not an especially warm one. the pressure on _ not an especially warm one. the pressure on public services is a key election issue and in an effort to understand the challenges, we will be reporting on three key areas over the coming days, education, courts and social care. this morning we are focusing on schools and their struggle to address a range of social issues beyond teaching. we have been to one primary school in telford where teachers are helping with potty training and basic communication. asimple a simple maths lesson a familiar part of the school day for most pupils. increasingly in classrooms are children who struggle to simply be at school. are children who struggle to simply be at school-— be at school. early years have a number of _ be at school. early years have a number of children _ be at school. early years have a number of children who - be at school. early years have a| number of children who struggle be at school. early years have a - number of children who struggle with basic communication, stringing a sentence together, please can i go the toilet, can i have a drink, sentences we had to teach the children. ., ., ., ~ , sentences we had to teach the children. ., ., ., , , ., children. london and academy is a small primary _ children. london and academy is a small primary school _ children. london and academy is a small primary school in _ children. london and academy is a small primary school in a - children. london and academy is a j small primary school in a relatively deprived area of telford, almost half the pupils are on free school meals. the lack of skills means the school has to teach a basic form of sign language. we school has to teach a basic form of sign language-— school has to teach a basic form of sin lanuae. ~ ., ., sign language. we have intimate care lans for a sign language. we have intimate care plans for a number— sign language. we have intimate care plans for a number of— sign language. we have intimate care plans for a number of our— sign language. we have intimate care plans for a number of our children, i plans for a number of our children, we change the children, we also try to teach them to go to the toilet as well so we try to do some of that potty training but we still have children are nappies in our early years environment. lafit children are nappies in our early years environment. last september of the 27 children — years environment. last september of the 27 children who _ years environment. last september of the 27 children who joined _ years environment. last september of the 27 children who joined the - the 27 children who joined the reception class, eight were a nappies. louise says her son was not potty trained when he started school. he potty trained when he started school. . , . potty trained when he started school. ., , ., ., , school. he was quite late, he was not ready- — school. he was quite late, he was not ready- and — school. he was quite late, he was not ready. and then _ school. he was quite late, he was not ready. and then we _ school. he was quite late, he was not ready. and then we felt - school. he was quite late, he was not ready. and then we felt when | school. he was quite late, he was i not ready. and then we felt when he was ready, school helped. they helped with that. had was ready, school helped. they helped with that.— was ready, school helped. they helped with that. had you tried to net him helped with that. had you tried to get him toilet _ helped with that. had you tried to get him toilet trained _ helped with that. had you tried to get him toilet trained before - helped with that. had you tried to get him toilet trained before he . helped with that. had you tried to i get him toilet trained before he got to school? ., , , ., to school? there was 'ust no interest from t to school? there was 'ust no interest from him _ to school? there was 'ust no interest from him at h to school? there wasjust no interest from him at all- to school? there wasjust no interest from him at all to i to school? there wasjust no| interest from him at all to try that. ,., , interest from him at all to try that. , ., ., , that. the parents have nothing but raise for that. the parents have nothing but praise for the _ that. the parents have nothing but praise for the school _ that. the parents have nothing but praise for the school but _ that. the parents have nothing but praise for the school but a - that. the parents have nothing but praise for the school but a chat - praise for the school but a chat reveals why schools increasingly struggle to focus solely on educating children. my oldest dau~hter educating children. my oldest daughter i — educating children. my oldest daughter i order _ educating children. my oldest daughter i order out - educating children. my oldest daughter i order out of - educating children. my oldestj daughter i order out of school educating children. my oldest. daughter i order out of school i educate her. how old is she? 14. she was self harming, bullied due to her mental health, now she is at home she does the work and she is happy. ' happy- he is work and s the does she my she does the work and she is happy. my wife died when i first started, a lot of— my wife died when i first started, a lot of stress and emotional health, that was— lot of stress and emotional health, that was affecting the children with the what _ that was affecting the children with the what was going on. we have had help from _ the what was going on. we have had help from social services. my wife is back— help from social services. my wife is back where she wanted to be. and that was is back where she wanted to be. situc that was through the is back where she wanted to be. fific that was through the school? london academy as part of a 13 school multi academy as part of a 13 school multi academy trust, the head says long—standing challenges caused by tight budgets have been exacerbated by covid—19 and cost of living pressure. by covid-19 and cost of living pressure-— by covid-19 and cost of living ressure. ., ., ., . pressure. coming out of the pandemic children are quite _ pressure. coming out of the pandemic children are quite often _ pressure. coming out of the pandemic children are quite often more - children are quite often more anxious about large social situations because people were out of that for a while and at a quite informative stage in their education and own personal development. i think ultimately, when children are coming to school or hungry, that's having a bigger impact as an ongoing thing, we would have recovered quicker if it hadn't been for those issue. to quicker if it hadn't been for those issue. ., , ., , ., issue. to help families the learning community has _ issue. to help families the learning community has a _ issue. to help families the learning community has a food _ issue. to help families the learning community has a food bank- issue. to help families the learning community has a food bank run - issue. to help families the learning community has a food bank run by| community has a food bank run by nikki morrison. i community has a food bank run by nikki morrison.— community has a food bank run by nikki morrison. i went out to have a visit myself. — nikki morrison. i went out to have a visit myself, the _ nikki morrison. i went out to have a visit myself, the children _ nikki morrison. i went out to have a visit myself, the children were - visit myself, the children were having weet—bix with tap water. she having weet-bix with tap water. she leads the having weet—bix with tap water. she leads the team who provide a lot of time providing emotional and psychological support to hundreds of peoples, she wonders what will happen to them once they are older. a lot of support is in place for children through the school system, but when they leave school, that support starts to beat, they will have to pick up for when the children leave school and put the support and so they can be productive and functional members of society. the productive and functional members of socie . . . , productive and functional members of socie . . ., , ., ., society. the challenges and telford are nationwide, _ society. the challenges and telford are nationwide, how— society. the challenges and telford are nationwide, how to _ society. the challenges and telford are nationwide, how to help - society. the challenges and telford are nationwide, how to help many. are nationwide, how to help many children who cannot open school. cope with life. michael buchanan, bbc news, telford. the time is coming up to 19 minutes past six, time to have a look at the papers, the observer leaves of the report is a future labour government would promise to establish 80 new rate courts in england and wales as part of wide ranging plans to tackle violence against women and girls. they say the policy is expected to be unveiled on the party manifesto next week, as we have mentioned, we expect to see the manifestoes unveiled from all parties. the sunday express _ unveiled from all parties. tie: sunday express reports on a quote 6—year master plan from a reform party leader nigel farage to in his words reshape politics and carry out what the paper calls a hostile takeover of the conservatives. the meal -- male _ takeover of the conservatives. the meal —— male leads with the search for former broadcaster michael mosley, it reports rescuers are focusing on a dangerous cave complex known as the abyss and we willjoin our correspondence live on the ireland later this morning. the mirror focuses _ ireland later this morning. the mirror focuses on _ ireland later this morning. tie: mirror focuses on the recovery of the princess of wales following her recent cancer diagnosis, it carries comments made by catherine in a letter to the irish guards when she said she hopes to return to public duties very soon. she apologised for not being there to take the salute at the drooping of the colour. let’s at the drooping of the colour. let's look inside — at the drooping of the colour. let's look inside the _ at the drooping of the colour. let's look inside the pages, _ at the drooping of the colour. let's look inside the pages, this is in the observer. it talks about how treehouses have gone from the childhood favourite to the height of clamping luxury. when i was younger i was desperate for a treehouse, i thought it was most magical thing. after reading the magic faraway tree by enid blyton i wanted to be up in the trees but i never got one from my parents. 50 the trees but i never got one from my parents-— my parents. so you are now living our my parents. so you are now living your treehouse _ my parents. so you are now living your treehouse streams? - my parents. so you are now living your treehouse streams? now - my parents. so you are now living your treehouse streams? now i i my parents. so you are now living i your treehouse streams? now i need to ask for a — your treehouse streams? now i need to ask for a glamping _ your treehouse streams? now i need to ask for a glamping treehouse, - your treehouse streams? now i need to ask for a glamping treehouse, it i to ask for a glamping treehouse, it is notjust a wooden shack put together it looks incredibly fancy now, some have a built in sauna inside which is very impressive, that takes a lot of logistic, the height of engineering.- height of engineering. sturdy branches- — height of engineering. sturdy branches. you _ height of engineering. sturdy branches. you can't - height of engineering. sturdy branches. you can't have - height of engineering. sturdy branches. you can't have any| height of engineering. sturdy - branches. you can't have any flimsy branches. you can't have any flimsy branches- if— branches. you can't have any flimsy branches. if you _ branches. you can't have any flimsy branches. if you are _ branches. you can't have any flimsy branches. if you are trying - branches. you can't have any flimsy branches. if you are trying to - branches. you can't have any flimsy branches. if you are trying to find i branches. if you are trying to find a wa for branches. if you are trying to find a way for such — branches. if you are trying to find a way for such a _ branches. if you are trying to find a way for such a fancy _ branches. if you are trying to find a way for such a fancy treehouse| branches. if you are trying to find i a way for such a fancy treehouse you might hope for some kind of find like this, a book bought for £1 at a car boot sale is expected to fetch £15,000 at auction because it is a rare first edition of the debut james bond novel.— rare first edition of the debut james bond novel. ., �* , , , , james bond novel. that's impressive was that a car _ james bond novel. that's impressive was that a car boot _ james bond novel. that's impressive was that a car boot sale? _ james bond novel. that's impressive was that a car boot sale? 1953 - james bond novel. that's impressive was that a car boot sale? 1953 copy l was that a car boot sale? 1953 copy of ian fleming's _ was that a car boot sale? 1953 copy of ian fleming's casino _ was that a car boot sale? 1953 copy of ian fleming's casino ryall, - was that a car boot sale? 1953 copy of ian fleming's casino ryall, onel of ian fleming's casino ryall, one of ian fleming's casino ryall, one of only 4,700... of ian fleming's casino ryall, one of only 4,700. . ._ of ian fleming's casino ryall, one of only 4,700. .. some people don't know what — of only 4,700. .. some people don't know what they _ of only 4,700. .. some people don't know what they have, _ of only 4,700. .. some people don't know what they have, could - of only 4,700. .. some people don't know what they have, could you - know what they have, could you imagine getting rid of that? 0nto what was once a common sight in our countryside and gardens, but now the willow tennessee to be at risk of extinction are the numbers declined by 90% after the past five decades. in response team of conservationists and have hatched a plan to rescue the reclusive species as our correspondence explain. these tiny birds were once _ correspondence explain. these tiny birds were once regular— correspondence explain. these tiny birds were once regular visitors - correspondence explain. these tiny birds were once regular visitors to l birds were once regular visitors to our gardens but not anymore. manchester alone, there are nowjust 120 breeding pairs after suffering a huge decline over the past five decades. we huge decline over the past five decades. ~ ., ., ., ., ., decades. we have got a lot of witness here, _ decades. we have got a lot of witness here, what _ decades. we have got a lot of witness here, what on - decades. we have got a lot of witness here, what on the - decades. we have got a lot of| witness here, what on the side decades. we have got a lot of - witness here, what on the side and brought on that side damp, wet woodland is what willow titx like. now volunteers are being asked to rescue them. we now volunteers are being asked to rescue them-— now volunteers are being asked to rescue them. we want to survey the -o - ulation rescue them. we want to survey the population once _ rescue them. we want to survey the population once we _ rescue them. we want to survey the population once we understand - rescue them. we want to survey the population once we understand thel population once we understand the population once we understand the population we will use the information to design habitat intervention.— information to design habitat intervention. a , , intervention. ashley maas has been identified as — intervention. ashley maas has been identified as an _ intervention. ashley maas has been identified as an area _ intervention. ashley maas has been identified as an area that _ intervention. ashley maas has been identified as an area that could - intervention. ashley maas has been identified as an area that could be l identified as an area that could be restored to help the willow tip population. we restored to help the willow tip population-— restored to help the willow tip --oulation. ~ ., ., ., ., population. we need rotten, deadwood like this in a woodland _ population. we need rotten, deadwood like this in a woodland for— population. we need rotten, deadwood like this in a woodland for willow- like this in a woodland for willow titx to excavate, this living tree is very hard, a willow tip could not excavate that for its nest.- excavate that for its nest. these birds are elusive _ excavate that for its nest. these birds are elusive and _ excavate that for its nest. these birds are elusive and hard - excavate that for its nest. these birds are elusive and hard to - excavate that for its nest. these | birds are elusive and hard to spot we did not see any today but they do have a distinctive call. thea;r we did not see any today but they do have a distinctive call.— have a distinctive call. they are often in places— have a distinctive call. they are often in places really _ have a distinctive call. they are often in places really close - have a distinctive call. they are often in places really close to i often in places really close to people '5 houses like in bolton and trafford, you have them write on the scruffy pockets of the land behind people '5 houses and they are an elusive bird so people don't know where they are. fit! elusive bird so people don't know where they are.— elusive bird so people don't know where they are. on the edge of the sark where they are. on the edge of the s - ark we where they are. on the edge of the spark we have _ where they are. on the edge of the spark we have a — where they are. on the edge of the spark we have a woodland - where they are. on the edge of the spark we have a woodland habitat. | spark we have a woodland habitat. volunteers — spark we have a woodland habitat. volunteers are working with the wildlife trust with funding they will work with landowners to increase the habitat of the willow tip, benefiting a host of other creatures into the bargain. it’s creatures into the bargain. it's tuite creatures into the bargain. it's quite often — creatures into the bargain. it's quite often a _ creatures into the bargain. it�*s quite often a habitat overlooked by people or undervalued, it's a bit scruffy looking, it is untidy, a bit wet and boggy, it's a bit unloved. there are a number of factors for the willow tip to climb. quite possibly climate change is playing a part, some of the weather habitats potentially might be drying up in the longer hotter summers. it is a bird that does not move that far and we need to create these pockets of habitats like steppingstones on the way across the landscape so they can move around and connect up. the wet willow wildlife _ move around and connect up. the wet willow wildlife project _ move around and connect up. the wet willow wildlife project aims _ move around and connect up. the wet willow wildlife project aims to - willow wildlife project aims to boost the willow tip's chance of survival and halts the alarming decline in this once common entry should bed. taste decline in this once common entry should bed-— decline in this once common entry should bed. we want to make sure there is always _ should bed. we want to make sure there is always a _ should bed. we want to make sure there is always a home _ should bed. we want to make sure there is always a home for- should bed. we want to make sure there is always a home for the - there is always a home for the willow tip in the west, it is a really iconic species and it needs our help. really iconic species and it needs our hel. , , really iconic species and it needs our hel. , ., , really iconic species and it needs ourhel. , “ , our help. judy hobson, bbc news. lovel to our help. judy hobson, bbc news. lovely to hear _ our help. judy hobson, bbc news. lovely to hear the _ our help. judy hobson, bbc news. lovely to hear the efforts - our help. judy hobson, bbc news. lovely to hear the efforts to - our help. judy hobson, bbc news. lovely to hear the efforts to help | lovely to hear the efforts to help support that endangered species. i don�*t know if you�*ve seen the don't know if you've seen the documentary on the rob burrow, that bbc breakfast has done, it is a really emotional watch. it was a boy can and time, a tribute to him, wasn't it?— can and time, a tribute to him, wasn't it? , ., . , , wasn't it? yesterday at wembley since the death _ wasn't it? yesterday at wembley since the death of— wasn't it? yesterday at wembley since the death of rob _ wasn't it? yesterday at wembley since the death of rob burrow i wasn't it? yesterday at wembley since the death of rob burrow 's| wasn't it? yesterday at wembley i since the death of rob burrow 's on sunday night of last week, we read a lot of words, we have heard a lot of words and seen the personal connection he had with a lot of people. viewers of this program will know especially the strong bond he built up on those people who had been supporting over the years of his motor neurone disease order struggles, it was something else to see it wordlessly as it turned out for a good minute at wembley, they were overwhelming to see, unanimous support and commemoration for rob burrow at wembley yesterday. it was remarkable, the pictures in addition to everything we have had, the personal, intense relationships described over the last few days, just to have all of those people doing the same thing and as i say... a powerful, wordless tribute. you are correct. _ a powerful, wordless tribute. you are correct. a _ a powerful, wordless tribute. you are correct, a poem date wembley as rugby pay tribute to one of its grades, on its perch saint helens women were challenge cup challenges. a game benefiting the memory of the great rob burrow.— great rob burrow. wigan warriors challenae great rob burrow. wigan warriors challenge cup _ great rob burrow. wigan warriors challenge cup winners, _ great rob burrow. wigan warriors challenge cup winners, a - great rob burrow. wigan warriors challenge cup winners, a momentj great rob burrow. wigan warriors i challenge cup winners, a moment of celebration the combination of a day of raw emotion. 0n the game '5 grandest stage the sport had come together to remember an inspirational champion. fans from across the rugby league cup community gathering to pay their own very personal tributes to the late rob burrows who passed awayjust a few days ago after the battle with motor neurone disease, tributes that would continue throughout the day. he meant everything, everything to me, to the club and the mnd community, just amazing. tithe me, to the club and the mnd community, just amazing. community, 'ust amazing. one thing that ru:b community, just amazing. one thing that rugby league — community, just amazing. one thing that rugby league cup _ community, just amazing. one thing that rugby league cup does - community, just amazing. one thing that rugby league cup does is - community, just amazing. one thing that rugby league cup does is look l that rugby league cup does is look after our— that rugby league cup does is look after our own and we all come together, _ after our own and we all come together, no matter what club you are from _ together, no matter what club you are from everyone can see what he did as _ are from everyone can see what he did as a _ are from everyone can see what he did as a player and as a human being afterwards _ did as a player and as a human being afterwards. he did as a player and as a human being afterwards. . , did as a player and as a human being afterwards. ., , ., , ., ., , ., afterwards. he was a star, he was a star. the men's _ afterwards. he was a star, he was a star. the men's showpiece - afterwards. he was a star, he was a star. the men's showpiece final- star. the men's showpiece final warrington _ star. the men's showpiece final warrington against _ star. the men's showpiece final warrington against wigan - star. the men's showpiece final- warrington against wigan beginning after a minutes of impeccable silence. we can already raining super league and club champions took the first half lead, bevan french twisting and turning his way... that's their second try captain liam farrell rampaging through to extend the lead and from there warrington would not find a way. wigan warriors, wembley winners once again. earlier, there was no fairytale win for leeds. beaten comprehensively by saint helens for the third year in a row. so glory for saint helen 's the third year in a row. so glory for saint helen '5 women and for wigan warriors men on a day when the whole sport of rugby league came together to celebrate one of its own. adam wilde, bbc news, wembley. northampton 's 10 year wait for a league title and rugby union is over they won a dramatic new ship final at twickenham, alex mitchell scoring the winning try against bath down to 14 men with 17 minutes left as they claim their second championship and gave a perfect sendoff to the parting courtney law after his 17 years with the club. it parting courtney law after his 17 years with the club.— years with the club. it has not really sunk — years with the club. it has not really sunk in _ years with the club. it has not really sunk in yet, _ years with the club. it has not really sunk in yet, we - years with the club. it has not really sunk in yet, we were i really sunk in yet, we were so focused on this for so long, during the game, it was get the one, however you can. you get there and you are like — we have done it! it is fast, can't put into words. i think we deserved it, over the season we have been the best team, sometimes you have to find a way to win. , . . ,, , ., sometimes you have to find a way to win. , . , ., ., win. english cricketers are without a win at the _ win. english cricketers are without a win at the t-20 _ win. english cricketers are without a win at the t-20 will _ win. english cricketers are without a win at the t-20 will cover- win. english cricketers are without a win at the t-20 will cover after l a win at the t—20 will cover after losing to australian bob artist, putting their chances of getting to the next stage in doubt. travis head made a flying start 70 without loss of five overs, australia reaching to hundred and one — seven, 13 sixes in that innings, captainjosh butler top scored with 42 but they lost those wickets at regular intervals and fell well short of the target, losing by 36 runs. the situations we find ourselves _ losing by 36 runs. the situations we find ourselves in _ losing by 36 runs. the situations we find ourselves in as _ losing by 36 runs. the situations we find ourselves in as the _ losing by 36 runs. the situations we find ourselves in as the situation - find ourselves in as the situation we find ourselves in, we have to be confident keeps heads up and look forward to the next one and keep up in the chest out and playing some good cricket which we know we are capable of. good cricket which we know we are ca able of. good cricket which we know we are caable of. ~ .., good cricket which we know we are capable of— capable of. south africa are top of the a-rou capable of. south africa are top of the group up _ capable of. south africa are top of the group up to — capable of. south africa are top of the group up to a _ capable of. south africa are top of the group up to a scare _ capable of. south africa are top of the group up to a scare against. capable of. south africa are top of| the group up to a scare against the netherlands, chasing 141, 12 — four at one stage but there after they managed the run chase well and were beaten from 51 balls from david miller, south africa one x four wickets, after a disappointing start to the british open they won the men's wheelchair doubles title, another serial winner in paris was iga swiatek she is now french open singles winnerfor a iga swiatek she is now french open singles winner for a fourth time, she continued her recent dominance on the clay with a straight sets win againstjasmine paolini obviously, against jasmine paolini obviously, it againstjasmine paolini obviously, it is her third title in a row in paris and herfirst it is her third title in a row in paris and her first grand slam triumph overall. i�*m paris and her first grand slam triumph over all.— paris and her first grand slam triumph over all. i'm really proud of m self triumph over all. i'm really proud of myself because _ triumph over all. i'm really proud of myself because the _ triumph over all. i'm really proud i of myself because the expectations obviously have been pretty high from the outside, and pressure as well, i am happy ijust went the outside, and pressure as well, i am happy i just went for the outside, and pressure as well, i am happy ijust went for it the outside, and pressure as well, i am happy i just went for it and the outside, and pressure as well, i am happy ijust went for it and i was ready to deal with all of this, and i could win. it is the turn of the men this afternoon. it is the first time that either of the players had reached the final length paris and they are hoping tojoin an the final length paris and they are hoping to join an illustrious list of spaniards to have one in roland garros. i of spaniards to have one in roland garros. ., ., , , ., ., garros. i want to put my name on the list of spanish — garros. i want to put my name on the list of spanish players _ garros. i want to put my name on the list of spanish players who _ garros. i want to put my name on the list of spanish players who have - garros. i want to put my name on the list of spanish players who have won l list of spanish players who have won the tournament, not only rafa nadal, ferrero, koster, and many have one from the sport and i really want to put my name on the list as well. i think in a grand slam final there are no— think in a grand slam final there are no easy matches or opponents. if you are _ are no easy matches or opponents. if you are in _ are no easy matches or opponents. if you are in the — are no easy matches or opponents. if you are in the final roland garros you are in the final roland garros you deserve to be there and that goes _ you deserve to be there and that goes for— you deserve to be there and that goes for him as well. he played a fantastic— goes for him as well. he played a fantastic match and tournament in general _ fantastic match and tournament in general. i�*m expecting a very difficult — general. i�*m expecting a very difficult match. general. i'm expecting a very difficult match.— general. i'm expecting a very difficult match. looks like the mercedes _ difficult match. looks like the mercedes formula _ difficult match. looks like the mercedes formula 1 _ difficult match. looks like the mercedes formula 1 team - difficult match. looks like the i mercedes formula 1 team could difficult match. looks like the - mercedes formula 1 team could be challenging for wins again after george russell claimed pole position for the canadian grand prix. he recorded a time of one minute and 12 seconds exactly on his first run qualifying and montreal. max verstappen posted exactly the same time but because george russell did at first, he gets to start from the top spot forjust at first, he gets to start from the top spot for just the second at first, he gets to start from the top spot forjust the second time in his career. great britain have won their first medals at the world athletics championships in rome. the race was won by marceljacobs in a time of 10.02 seconds as he successfully defended his european sprint title, and italy 13 medals but it is the competitors first met all. i but it is the competitors first met all. ., ., ., , all. i wanted to get the gold but i needed to take _ all. i wanted to get the gold but i needed to take the _ all. i wanted to get the gold but i needed to take the positive - all. i wanted to get the gold but i needed to take the positive and i | needed to take the positive and i want very much to be in the olympics are positive things you take from here and go back and look at the video and work on my race. george miller has one _ video and work on my race. george miller has one silver _ video and work on my race. george miller has one silver finishing - miller has one silver finishing behind the first place, and he has his sights set on the paris 0lympics next month. i his sights set on the paris olympics next month-— his sights set on the paris olympics next month. ., ., ' ., next month. i want to run the 15 and the five in paris _ next month. i want to run the 15 and the five in paris but _ next month. i want to run the 15 and the five in paris but hopefully - the five in paris but hopefully tonight has done my chances of selection no harm but we are still a month out in three weeks until trials and back to training as of tomorrow and we will get stuck in. michael dunlop has secured victory in the super sport and super twins races of the week and it takes the total number of victories to 29, three clear of the previous record, belonging to his late unclejoey. he had it for 24 years in the fourth time he has won four races across the week. whether it is dunlop or mills, a couple of stories about how you can send your sporting progress down the gene pool! absolutely! around 20,000 bikers completed aim mammoth ride in memory of dave myers who died of cancer in february. the procession made its way to his home town of barrow after setting off from the ace cafe in north—west london. sharon barber has been following the journey. it isa it is a big night in barrow, a celebration of the life of dave myers. tens of thousands have arrived, many of them hairy bikers. they are riding in all the way up the m6, thousands of people on every bridge, unbelievable. fits the m6, thousands of people on every bridge, unbelievable.— bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in throu~h bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the — bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the towns _ bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the towns and _ bridge, unbelievable. as were coming in through the towns and villages - in through the towns and villages leading _ in through the towns and villages leading into barrow, the streets were _ leading into barrow, the streets were lined and it was amazing! the roar of tens — were lined and it was amazing! the roar of tens of _ were lined and it was amazing! tie: roar of tens of thousands of motorbikes heard across england today, began to arrive late afternoon. the procession at times was 16 miles long, and the route was lined by supporters. leading the cavalcade that left london this morning was dave's best friend and fellow hairy by car.— fellow hairy by car. what a remarkable _ fellow hairy by car. what a remarkable reception! - fellow hairy by car. what a j remarkable reception! just fellow hairy by car. what a - remarkable reception! just mind blowing! all of the bridges all the way from london, people waving and showing kindness, courtesy and it was unbelievable! the showing kindness, courtesy and it was unbelievable!— showing kindness, courtesy and it was unbelievable! the tv chef died in february — was unbelievable! the tv chef died in february after _ was unbelievable! the tv chef died in february after he _ was unbelievable! the tv chef died in february after he was _ was unbelievable! the tv chef died in february after he was diagnosed | in february after he was diagnosed with cancer. he was 66. sharon barber, bbc news, cumbria. what a lovely thing to have done. very touching. we will be back with the headlines at seven but now it is time for the travel show. this year, all eyes are on the french region of normandy as it prepares to celebrate the major anniversaries. it may not be as well visited as paris, or as funny as the south of the country but if you come here and explore, you will fall in love with this part of france, it was a place that gave us a king, that change the course of history. it us a king, that change the course of histo . . , us a king, that change the course of histo . ., , , , us a king, that change the course of histo . ,, history. it has inspired the painter who started _ history. it has inspired the painter who started a _ history. it has inspired the painter who started a movement - history. it has inspired the painter who started a movement that - history. it has inspired the painter| who started a movement that took history. it has inspired the painter- who started a movement that took the artwork by storm. he painted the light up there. artwork by storm. he painted the light up there-— artwork by storm. he painted the light up there. while 80 years ago, the coastline _ light up there. while 80 years ago, the coastline was _ light up there. while 80 years ago, the coastline was at _ light up there. while 80 years ago, the coastline was at the _ light up there. while 80 years ago, the coastline was at the forefront i the coastline was at the forefront for the fight for freedom. i the coastline was at the forefront for the fight for freedom.- the coastline was at the forefront for the fight for freedom. i want to sound an enormous _ for the fight for freedom. i want to sound an enormous sentinel - for the fight for freedom. i want to sound an enormous sentinel to - for the fight for freedom. i want to i sound an enormous sentinel to those of taken part, it was a team effort. this is the region that has seen it all. and it's stories have all been woven into the tapestry of time. this is so cool! i will release the road until it is slapping. so the flapping starts and then from the flapping, we bring it in... just to stop? look at me! i'm a sailor! france and england may be neighbours but in the middle ages, they were bitter rivals, mainly thanks to this man, william, the duke of normandy, who history would come to know better as william the conqueror. in the year 1066, he left the shores to invade england and set it on a new course of history. william was descended from the fears that vikings, or northmen, who gave normandy its name. in 2027, normandy will mark the 1,000th anniversary of william's birth. but the preparations for this big occasion have already begun. la mora was the flagship of william's invasion fleet. and now, a historical society in the port town of honfleur are busy recreating the viking—style longship that would have carried william, his most trusted knights, their horses, and 60 oarsmen to the brutal battle of hastings. and there's not a power tool in sight. this is me splitting wood in what would be the norman way of doing it. yeah, and with this technique, you can split any tree. yeah, good. and that is how you split wood norseman—style. jean—marie is the president of the society and has some big plans for la mora when she's finished. so, it's all about timing. you start now so the boat is finished for the anniversary. oh, wow! we hope, we hope! yeah! we hope that. wow! the team made their plans for the new—look la mora by studying the 70—metre—long bayeux tapestry. so all of this is the battle of hastings? yes, it�*s all the battle. here is the famous death of king harold, which marks the end of the battle. where's the eye? where's the arrow in his eye? harold isjust here. you can see it with the arrow in the eye. yeah! the tapestry was completed in the decade following the battle of hastings. martin is a historian at the bayeux museum, whose job it is to study and interpret this priceless a rtefa ct. and on the next scene, you can see that william is taking off his helmet to being recognised by the helmet to show that he is alive and the battle have to continue to the victor. the story starts with the dying king of england, edward the confessor, promising the throne to william. he sends the message to william in france via a trusted nobleman called harold godwinson. but when edward dies, harold is offered the crown by the governing council of england and takes it for himself, ensuing william's rage. how factual is it? how factual? it's a representation, you know, of the events of the year 1064—1066. so, it's a story written by the victors, you know, and there is a lot, of course, of what we can call inaccuracy, and so mistake or choice to show some...only a point of view of the history. yeah. it's like... we can call it propaganda, you know? now over 900 years old, the bayeux tapestry has survived major events like the french revolution and even acted as a potential crib sheet for those looking to invade england as recently as world war ii. then it was confiscated by the germans. so it did end up in german hands? it did end up in german hands here in bayeux for they study it, and also to know how to invade england, of course. really?! yes, of course. so germany were taking tips from william the conqueror�*s story? dives—sur—mer is the town william left from to invade england. though i must admit, it's hard to imagine a full—blown invasion force gathered here today. wow, look at this place! where are all the knights in their suits of armour? i'm meeting francois, an archaeologist who, like many other normans, is in love with his history. wow! hello, steve. francois, bonjour! salut. nice to meet you. but what is it that separates normandy from other regions in france? what's so special here? there is so much history here. in dives—sur—mer, the past isn't just consigned to books and museums, it's part of everyday life. even the weekly market takes place in a hall that dates back to the 13005. this all looks so nice. yes. what have we got here? that doesn't look french. yeah? when i think french food, i think cheese, bread — not this. yeah? oh, really? i'd love to, please! thank you. when the baker finished with his oven, the villagers would make this? 0ui. 0h, amazing. that's nice, eh? that's nice. look, all of these names, the people — it's bizarre. you thinkjust william the conqueror. notjust soldiers — archers, stable boys. 0ui. there's lots of people involved. the names featured on the wall are william's top brass — the ones who helped him rule england, and that would later become the cornerstone for the country's aristocracy. william the conqueror — a national hero? was he a tyrant, a kind king? what kind of person...? normandy�*s countryside is — well, let's face it — picture—perfect. and there's only one way to see it — in the passenger seat of a french classic car... ..like the citroen 2cv. french culture has an abundance of style and a certainje ne sais quoi. so it's no surprise france has produced some of the world's finest artists. 2024 is a really important anniversary in the world of art. it's 150 years since the movement of impressionism was founded, giving the world artists like monet. i've come to the norman village of giverny. it's famed worldwide as being the home of french artist claude monet, who lived here from 1883 all the way up to his death in 1926. the gardeners here do an amazing job. they must go around with one of monet's pictures. it's identical! patricia is a local artist, and with giverny being a major tourist attraction in normandy, she has a sideline running tours around monet's house and gardens. patricia, this place is as pretty as a picture. i think i recognise it. really?! yeah! is it possible? he painted this place more than 250 times. yeah? yeah. so, tell me, why did he paint it so many times? because he made series of the light, yeah? so, you see today we have wonderful reflections, and this is what he loved. so, he created this garden being inspired by the japanese art, because at that time, in europe and all over the world, japan was the new fashion. and monet became a fashion victim. 0h, right! so, that makes sense. we've got the bamboo, we've got the very japanese—style bridge. yes. impressionism was groundbreaking. the year 1874 was a time of great change in france. claude monet and a group of his friends decided it was time for art to change too. with the opening of new train lines and the invention of paints in tubes, they could leave their studios in paris and capture places like normandy on canvas. when they set up their own radical exhibition on their return to the city, a notable critic of the time compared their work to a sketch for a wallpaper pattern — a mere unfinished impression — which gave this movement its name. but looking around this museum in giverny, it's clear to see who got the last laugh. how does yours already look better than mine? laughing: because i'm a painter. - because you're a painter, yeah. so, tell me a little bit about monet's relationship with normandy. normandy became one of his major subjects because he loved the light changes. you know, monet always used to say, "here the light changes every seven minutes." and if you look at that today, i think that's true. yeah. claude monet never painted any water lilies. what?! yes! he painted the light on top of the lilies. 0h... you get it? ..my mind is blown! i've come to that reflection part now, and i don't really know what i'm doing. in fact, to paint the reflections, you should do vertical lines. this is what monet made. and look, it's vertical. can you see? no. they both laugh. how is yours so different from mine? i don't understand. because you have a different style. i don't have a different style — i can't do it! patricia chuckles. it's starting to rain. i think we should better stop. what do you think? because otherwise, our paintings will be messy. we will never be able to sell them for $1 million. they both laugh. ok? ok. normandy�*s ever—changing weather has put an end to my lesson, but that is my first — and possibly last — effort at impressionism art. it's no monet, but it's a steve brown. back here on the coast, scars from normandy�*s more recent history can still be felt today. 0njune 6th, 1944, 80 years ago, the d—day landings happened on a stretch of normandy�*s beaches. the objective of d—day was to secure a foothold in nazi—occupied europe. it was the largest naval, air and land operation in history. on that fateful summer's day, the allies used over 5,000 ships and landing craft to carry more than 150,000 troops to normandy�*s beaches — codenamed utah, 0maha, gold, juno and sword. 4,414 allied soldiers died on d—day itself. in 2021, the british normandy memorial was opened overlooking gold beach. to mark the 80th anniversary of the d—day landings, dan and his team of volunteers from the arts group standing with giants will place 1,475 handmade silhouettes at the memorial to mark the number of servicemen who died on d—day itself under british command. applause. hey, look at that! give it a wiggle, ed. get your toes on it. so, that's the first one up, then. do they all look the same? no, we've got 11 different designs, all representing different groups that came over the beaches on that particular day. yeah, you don't want to leave anyone out, do you? well, no. we was told, apparently we've left out frogmen. oh, no! do you know, my great—uncle was a stretcher—bearer on d—day? 0h, right. you know, it's amazing, isn't it? everyone's got their stories. and did you meet your great—uncle? um, no, i didn't, and if i'm honest with you, my understanding and the facts that i've got from family are quite sparse. but, do you know, standing here with you, looking out across the beach that he would have been helping on, i'm certainly going to go back and find out more about him. because everyone played their role and the stretcher—bearers and the nurses, i mean, they were witnessing horror continuously — just continuously. and, you know, it was just so hard for them. and because of that, we've also designed two nurses. there were two nurses on one of the boats that hit a mine, and they got blown up and killed. so we've actually brought with us two giant nurses, laser—cut in steel, to represent the nurses and the ladies that took part and that worked so hard behind the scenes. i'm... i'm lost for words. dan chuckles. i'm lost for words. cafe gondree was the first french home to be liberated on d—day. it's so good to meet you. thank you very much. it's still run by the same family. and i'm meeting arlette, who was just four years old in 1944. but what a cafe! i mean, look around. there seems to be so many bits of memorabilia. it seems like everybody wants to share things with you. that's absolutely right. they want to come in because it's a house, a little house from the surface, that has lived history. we were woken up, or half asleep, by a tremendous crashing noise and then different movements around the house. and then suddenly the shutter from our dining room was being forced open and window panes were being broken, and we heard footsteps above our head. we thought the germans had come in to get us, but fortunately... that is... ..fortunately, daddy left us for a short time, walked up the little steps and was faced by soldiers saying to daddy, "it's all right, we've arrived. we're british." so he brought them in the cellar. and naturally, i was very frightened, so i went to hide behind the barrels. but then one of them took some chocolate out of his jacket with some biscuits, and so i came forward. mummy started kissing them. and then after that, daddy said, "it's all for you, this house," and opened the door. and by then, casualties were brought in. i want to say an enormous thank you... ..to all those who have taken part. it was a team effort. here, it's the british, but within the british army there were other nationalities that were trained together. and this is to be commemorated for the 80th anniversary. and i can see you mean that, as well. i can see you mean that from the bottom of your heart. d—day didn't end world war ii, but it was the beginning of the end, and there were still dark days ahead, and many more lives would be lost on all sides. the final stop on myjourney through time is the german war graves at la cambe. above the cemetery is a statue of a mother and father. it was placed there to watch over the sons that are buried below. history isn't just about buildings and museum pieces, it's about people. when you come to somewhere like normandy and see the places where it all happened, you start to realise that every name on a stone or in a textbook is a real person, and that offers you a perspective like no other. you thinkjust william the conqueror. good morning. welcome to breakfast, with luxmy gopal and ben boulos. 0ur headlines today: the eu's most senior diplomat has condemned the killing of palestinians in an israeli operation to rescue four hostages. the mission was to bring home the captives who had been held in gaza since the hamas attacks eight months ago. election campaigning continues across the country ahead of a key week, in which parties will set out their manifestos. after new cctv emerges of the tv presenter michael mosley, who vanished on a greek island on wednesday, his wife says she "will not lose hope". in sport, england's defence of the t20 world cup is in danger. they're still to win in the tournament after a hefty defeat by australia in barbados in their second game and while it should be a sunny start for sunday for many of you, a lot more cloud and some patchy rain. details here on breakfast. good morning, it's sunday the 9th june. our main story: israel has been criticised by the european union's most senior diplomat over the killing of dozens of palestinians in an operation to rescue four hostages in gaza. eu foreign policy chief josep borrell called the reports "another massacre of civilians". the mission to bring home the captives involved air strikes around a refugee camp. the moment she was made free. 25—year—old noa argamani, captured by hamas on the 7th of october, and taken to gaza, is finally back in israel. this is her being reunited with her dad after a dramatic rescue. translation: please do not forget there are another 120 _ hostages in captivity. we must release them and make an effort in any way to bring them to israel and theirfamilies. by the way, it is my birthday. also freed, andrei kozlov, who is 27. shlomi ziv, 40, and almog meirjan, 21. eight months ago, they were in the nova music festival in southern israel when hamas gunmen attacked. more than 360 people were killed here. the four hostages rescued in a major operation by the israeli military carried out at a refugee camp in central gaza. the military said it was a complex operation based on intelligence information. the four hostages, it said were found at two separate locations and were brought out under file. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. but the mission brought even more suffering to gaza. there was chaos and desperation at the nearby al—aqsa hospital. doctors struggled to treat all the wounded. many arrived already dead. translation: we were at home. a rocket hit us. my two cousins died and my other two cousins were seriously injured. they did nothing. they were sitting at home. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited the freed hostages in a hospital near tel aviv. he's being urged to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal with hamas. the rescue was considered a success by israeli authorities and could change the calculation of a leader under pressure. hugh bachega, bbc news, tel aviv. 0ur correspondent, jon donnison, is injerusalem. jon, what has the reaction been in israel? i think it has been one of celebration and huge relief, especially for the families of the hostages who were released after being held for some 246 days. i also think it is given a boost to benjamin netanyahu because it allows him to say, look, his strategy is working. he believes the only way to get hostages out, or the best way, is to continue to put military pressure on hamas. contrast that with the mood in gaza, which is one of outrage at the number of civilians killed, many women and children. we have also had the eu's most senior diplomat, josep borrell, calling this another massacre and saying the bloodbath has to end immediately. the israeli mind ministerfired back immediately. the israeli mind minister fired back and said to josep borrell, shame on you, instead of condemning hamas, for holding hostages in civilian areas, he was attacking israel for rescuing its citizens. . ~ attacking israel for rescuing its citizens. ., ,, ., attacking israel for rescuing its citizens. ., ., ., campaigning continues ahead of what is likely to be a busy week in the lead up to the general election, with another scheduled election tv debate and manifestos set to be published. 0ur political correspondent, iain watson, has this report. the prime minister is in the market for votes. the main westminster parties will launch manifestoes in the week ahead. rishi sunak will be hoping it moves the focus onto policy, not personality. he will be keen to move on from his d—day apology and so will his party, and his candidates have been out campaigning this weekend and we have been speaking to some this weekend. some of spoken about anger and disappointment and one of them said whatever will happen next? will rishi sunak�*s trousers fall down? others say voters have not raised the issue at all. 0ne candidate said they were so vexed by it, they have already defected to labour or the reform party. the prime minister will be hoping to keep his job afterjuly 4, and he wants to get more people into work, promising to spend £700 million to help people struggling with mental health to rejoin and stay in the workforce. but he's also repeating previous announcements to toughen up benefits rules. the conservatives claim they can save £12 billion from the welfare bill by the end of the next parliament. labour says existing jails are bursting at the seams and the government has failed to provide the 20,000 more prison places promised. if elected, the party says it would deliver that prison building programme and change the planning laws to make it a priority and give offenders more help to get into employment. the state of the nhs has been prominent in the lib dems' campaign, saying they want to take pressure off the ambulance system by expanding urgent care centers and providing more than 1,000 more beds. response time information will also be made readily available. today we get a sneak preview of the manifestoes but it is not until the full range of policies are published that we will know how well they connect with voters. we are nowjoined by our political correspondent, jessica parker. jessica, it's going to be a busy week for all of the parties, isn't it? absolutely! what we have had so far in the campaign is we have been essentially drip fed policy ideas and announcements and a couple of tv debates but it can feel like there is a lot of noise, charter, a bit hard to keep up with, but as we start to get those manifestoes over the coming weeks from the main parties, that will change a little bit because what a manifesto is as many will know, is a political party's programme for government, a blueprint for what it would do if that party was in power. i think what will be particularly interesting as well is that while we are not necessarily expecting major surprises from at least the two main parties, although of course you never know, i have not been the manifestoes yet, although there have been plenty of leaks and a announcements made, and a lot of discussion about how will parties pay for pledges? a lot of scrutiny and back and forth between labour and back and forth between labour and the conservatives and costings should be in the manifesto, so that will be very crucial. it will move the campaign onto the next phase after the first few weeks we've had so far. . ~' ,, ~ after the first few weeks we've had so far. ., ,, i. . , so far. thank you. we will be discussing — so far. thank you. we will be discussing this _ so far. thank you. we will be discussing this later- so far. thank you. we will be discussing this later in - so far. thank you. we will be discussing this later in with i discussing this later in with political pundits. the search for the tv presenter michael mosley will resume on the greek island of symi after he went missing while out on a walk on wednesday. 0ur correspondent, joe inwood, is in symi. joe, what will the search teams be focusing on this morning? it seems they will be looking at roughly the same area as they were yesterday. this is a big, rocky outcrop going north from the main village, the last known sighting of michael mosley, we saw new cctv shortage showing him walking at two o'clock purposefully towards the hills. the suggestion is he did not take the most direct route, the town where i'm staying now, symi, but instead around the mountain and over the top and all the way back that way. if he had decided to do that, that with a very long walk in incredible heat and my legs are burning from standing in the sun too long! it is really hot and it's only nine o'clock in the morning! at 130 in the afternoon it is seriously hot! that is why they are trying to find him quickly but as the days go on it is becoming a more consenting situation. �* , ., ., , situation. and his wife, claire has said they would _ situation. and his wife, claire has said they would not _ situation. and his wife, claire has said they would not lose - situation. and his wife, claire has said they would not lose hope? i said they would not lose hope? absolutely. she put out a statement yesterday describing the time since michael had left is the most difficult period. also thanking authorities but it is keeping that core message that they will not lose hope and authorities have said they will continue to search and look for michael mosley until he is found. the longer it goes on, the more they hope will dwindle, i'm sorry to say. it's another thing we have lent this morning is the search—and—rescue squad on the hillside has been sent to athens, which could be a sign they are winding down but it has been reported that it is so hot that the dog has been burning its paws on the dog has been burning its paws on the hillside that they cannot search because of the heat. so that is a development we have had in the last hour or. it development we have had in the last hour or. ., , hour or. it does highlight temperatures _ hour or. it does highlight temperatures there. - hour or. it does highlight i temperatures there. thank hour or. it does highlight - temperatures there. thank you. hour or. it does highlight _ temperatures there. thank you. we will return to symi to keep you updated throughout the morning. south korea says it will resume propaganda broadcasts against north korea for the first time in six years. seoul's national security council said its decision to install loudspeakers and begin broadcasts was in response to pyongyang's campaign of sending balloons carrying rubbish across the border. the council added that any attempt at causing distress to the people of south korea was unacceptable. narendra modi is set to be sworn in as prime minister of india for his third term today. he'll be sworn in alongside his cabinet as he heads a coalition of 15 parties following last week's election results. it makes him prime ministerfor a historic third consecutive term. an 11—year—old girl is among four people who were injured after a fun—fair ride malfunctioned in lambeth in south london. 0ur reporter helena wilkinson is at the lambeth country show where it happened. helena, what more do we know? it was a serious incident is what lambeth council are saying. let me step out of the shot and show you the fairground where the incident took place just before 630 yesterday afternoon. we do not know which rider was where the four people were injured but as you mention, the council confirming that a malfunction happened on one of the fairground rides. there was a huge emergency response, the air ambulance, four ambulance crews and paramedics came treat the four injured, an 11—year—old girl, a man and woman in their 405, and another man in his 505. they were taken from here to major trauma centres. it is not confirmed what injuries they have. we are trying to find that out. we do know their conditions are not life—threatening. the council say a thorough investigation will take place to work out exactly how that fairground ride malfunctioned. thank you. people in countries including france, germany and spain go to the polls in the european elections today. it's the final and main day of voting for the eu's 27 members with the first results expected tonight. damien mcguinness is in berlin. damien, what impact could this vote have across europe? could the results signal a shift to the far right?— could the results signal a shift to the far right? yeah, the big story this ear the far right? yeah, the big story this year does — the far right? yeah, the big story this year does seem _ the far right? yeah, the big story this year does seem to _ the far right? yeah, the big story this year does seem to be - the far right? yeah, the big story this year does seem to be a - the far right? yeah, the big story this year does seem to be a shift| the far right? yeah, the big story i this year does seem to be a shift to the right and in some cases indeed the right and in some cases indeed the far right. what we are thing across europe in many countries is a rise in popularity of either the hard populist right or extreme right. in germany it is slightly different because the far right party had been hit by a number of scandals that they may not do as well as others, but in countries like france, italy, the populist right is surging, meaning the european parliament will have a bigger chunk of eurosceptic meps there, having a big impact on eu policy because the eu does a lot of transborder issues and anything to do with migration, to do with climate change, a lot of stuff to do with supporting ukraine, is all decided by the eu, and all those laws have to be passed by the european parliament. so if you have one fifth or 20% of that parliament made up of eurosceptic and in some cases far right meps, that will have a big impact on whether those issues move forward or get blocked. i think that's what we will see and that's why people all over europe and indeed outside of europe or look at these elections and see whether the eu can make decisions when it comes forth a climate change migration and what those decisions may look like. in berlin, the polling stations have openedin in berlin, the polling stations have opened in the first few voters have walked in and the other big question is what will turn out be like? last time five years ago, it was relatively high but this time it could be even higher, and that is connected to the idea that the far right is doing well because that is also mobilising a lot of people in the centre and left to say they do not want to hand the european parliament over to the far right. lots to look out for today as the results start coming out tonight. thank you for the update. some poor ignorant moments in the coverage of the d—day 80th anniversary of the past week especially on breakfast, here is one that may have escaped your attention. a world war two veteran has married his bride on the 80th anniversary of d—day near the beaches of normandy in france. harold terens, a 100—year—old us army air force veteran from florida, tied the knot with 96—year—old jeanne swerlin at a ceremony in carentan—les—marais, in northwestern france. originally from new york, harold visited france as an air force corporal shortly after d—day, when he was just 20 years old. to top off the extraordinary day, the newly wedded couple then attended the state banquet in paris thrown by president macron for us leaderjoe biden. here is what the happy couple had to say. i�*m 100 years old and my bride is 96 and to be married, it�*s my second, normandy is my second favourite place in the whole world. i could live here for the rest of my life and be as happy as could be. do you feel young again? yes! at 96, ifeel like, my god, i got butterflies, just like the young people! it is notjust the young people, love, you know! we get butterflies we also get a little bit of action! i love them. that is so brilliant, that still puts a smile on my face however many times i see that. look at that stunning _ however many times i see that. look at that stunning blue _ however many times i see that. look at that stunning blue sky over saint pauls cathedral. tia at that stunning blue sky over saint pauls cathedral.— pauls cathedral. no cloud action above the city — pauls cathedral. no cloud action above the city of _ pauls cathedral. no cloud action above the city of london, - pauls cathedral. no cloud action above the city of london, blue i pauls cathedral. no cloud action - above the city of london, blue skies and a lovely start to sunday across many central and areas, its go further north to northern england, this is just outside further north to northern england, this isjust outside bradford. shower clouds, lots of clouds streaming its way in, many will take a step into the cloud as we go through the day even if you start with some sunshine, cloud has been streaming from the north atlantic overnight, here it comes, to the north cool conditions, blustery and a few showers to the south, clear skies, through northern island and parts of southern scotland north—west england and wales the cloud is thickest, central and southern ranges start with sunshine but cloud over, parts of devon, cornwall and dorset and south wales will stay sunny, to the north a mixture of sunshine and showers. let's look at that area of the cloudiest weather, across parts of island and northwest england and wales in the west of northern island, rain more persistent into the afternoon. temperature still well down on where you want at this stage injune, 10, 11 degrees for some in northern scotland, 18 or 19 for the south, this evening and overnight the rain will clear away from northern island and spread across england and wales giving some gardens a welcome soaking after a few dry days, the rain linger across eastern areas into tomorrow morning but clear skies for scotland and northern ireland, temperatures well down into low figures in rural areas, there are northerly winds from scandinavia this weather system will move eastwards overnight giving a wet and windy start across parts of lincolnshire, yorkshire, east midlands, east anglia on monday morning, rain lingering across eastern counties but away from that brighter weather around, a mixture of sunshine and showers, more cloud than sunshine in northern scotland, where ever you are a northern —— northerly wind and feeling chillier and cloudy moments, temperatures down on what we had this weekend, cool into tuesday, the northerly breeze brings a tear from the arctic in fact, you won't feel like that in the sunshine, still quite present out of the breeze and the sunshine. is the cloud builds up during the day it will feel cooler and we will see shells developed, central and eastern areas prone to showers on wednesday and eastern and western areas could stay dry, temperatures 10 - 17 areas could stay dry, temperatures 10 — 17 degrees, well down on where you want for the stage of the summer. as we grow through the rest of the week, it will stay on the cooler side of things, one of those weeks that won't be a washout, there will be dry and bright weather but a view showers around the forecast stop not feeling like june. view showers around the forecast stop not feeling likejune. taste view showers around the forecast stop not feeling like june. we will seak to stop not feeling like june. we will speak to you _ stop not feeling like june. we will speak to you later. _ stop not feeling like june. we will speak to you later. time - stop not feeling like june. we will speak to you later. time now - stop not feeling like june. we will speak to you later. time now for l stop not feeling like june. we will. speak to you later. time now for 27 minutes past 7 a blue badge past 7 can be a lifeline for people with disabilities or health conditions, helping them to park closer to their destination but the number of badge thefts in london has more than quadrupled in the last decade. last year, more than 6,000 were stolen in the capital alone. some blue badge holders are being forces to take extra precautions to keep theirs safe, as paul hawkins reports. another blue badge stolen in the capital. 6415 last year up 400% over nine years according to figures from the metropolitan police. here is the car, you come down and find it and you go oh no! the badge is gone. michael has had his badge taken four times is now paired locking it to his steering wheel.— times is now paired locking it to his steering wheel. what i had to do to sto it his steering wheel. what i had to do to stop it being _ his steering wheel. what i had to do to stop it being stolen, _ his steering wheel. what i had to do to stop it being stolen, is... - his steering wheel. what i had to do to stop it being stolen, is... get- to stop it being stolen, is... get one of these, you have to put it inside the metal holder. then you have a piece of pvc over the top. it fits so you can be seen, then, you put that through and then you block it to your steering wheel. since having this it has not been taken yet. you will see on the street there are two other blue badge over there are two other blue badge over the road that have got padlocks on. the blue badge is part of being liberated, if i come down and find my car has been robbed of my blue badge and i'm suddenly much more restricted and that is really what a blue badge is for, to open my welder will stop what would be your message for the people selling them? fitpplr; for the people selling them? apply for the people selling them? apply for one that _ for the people selling them? apply for one that is _ for the people selling them? apply for one that is in _ for the people selling them? apply for one that is in date _ for the people selling them? apply for one that is in date which - for the people selling them? apply for one that is in date which is what — for one that is in date which is what they— for one that is in date which is what they are going for? then surely that's— what they are going for? then surely that's a _ what they are going for? then surely that's a lot _ what they are going for? then surely that�*s a lot of parking, you would have _ that�*s a lot of parking, you would have to _ that�*s a lot of parking, you would have to park a lot. we that's a lot of parking, you would have to park a lot.— have to park a lot. we asked the olice for have to park a lot. we asked the police for an _ have to park a lot. we asked the police for an interview _ have to park a lot. we asked the police for an interview but - have to park a lot. we asked the | police for an interview but no-one police for an interview but no—one was available but they sent us a link to one of their webpages called prevent theft from a vehicle. there are 11 steps number set is take it with you or hide it, if it is valuable hide it from view or take it with you. how useful is that for you? it with you. how useful is that for ou? ., , ., it with you. how useful is that for ou? ., �* ,, , it with you. how useful is that for ou? ., j ,, �* you? not, you can't keep your blue badue out you? not, you can't keep your blue badge out of _ you? not, you can't keep your blue badge out of sight _ you? not, you can't keep your blue badge out of sight because - you? not, you can't keep your blue badge out of sight because it - you? not, you can't keep your blue| badge out of sight because it allows you to park. that's ridiculous. what you to park. that's ridiculous. what would be your— you to park. that's ridiculous. what would be your advice? _ you to park. that's ridiculous. what would be your advice? one - you to park. that's ridiculous. what would be your advice? one of - you to park. that's ridiculous. what| would be your advice? one of these adlock would be your advice? one of these padlock systems — would be your advice? one of these padlock systems seems _ would be your advice? one of these padlock systems seems to - would be your advice? one of these padlock systems seems to be - would be your advice? one of these padlock systems seems to be the i would be your advice? one of these i padlock systems seems to be the only way forward. the only thing is we need to have a redesign of the blue badge system, my photograph and designs are on the back of the blue badge which means everybody, the public, traffic wardens and fleas can't see if it is meant to be used by me, stealing people '5 blue badges is one of the things as we know is getting and more prevalent, it is disabling people more. pauli it is disabling people more. paul hawkins, bbc _ it is disabling people more. paul hawkins, bbc news. we are joined now by paul slowey, who is the founder of blue badge fraud investigations — a community interest company who work with local authorities investigating badge fraud. good morning to you, thank you for joining us. itjust sounds absolutely disgusting behaviour. why has there been an increase in this, why are people taking such drastic action to get hold of the badge? thanks getting a stolen badge enables the criminal to a park for free, there is very little detection, i am quite shocked at the police advised to see you book —— disabled people to do something to prevent the crime rather than the police investigate the crime or solve the crime or prosecute people. the serial numbers on the front of the badge and there is a national database of badges and it is easy to put on the serial number into that database and detect it is stolen, and we seized a badge north of leicester square yesterday that was stolen, and speaking to the driver, he said he bought it on the street, and leicester square yesterday. we were talking among ourselves about this earlier this morning. if the cars can be registered to a database for the tax does, could there not be a similar system where car numberplates could be registered on a central database and parking enforcement could check that and removes the need to have a badge on display. the removes the need to have a badge on disla . , , , ., removes the need to have a badge on disla. , ,, ., ., display. the badge is issued to an individual not _ display. the badge is issued to an individual not a _ display. the badge is issued to an individual not a vehicle, _ display. the badge is issued to an individual not a vehicle, mick- display. the badge is issued to an i individual not a vehicle, mick might go in a different car, go out with his friends, lots of disabled people don't have a car, they are driven around by friends or family. don't have a car, they are driven around by friends orfamily. and family will use different cars. the badges are issued to an individual not to a vehicle. however, there is a national database with all the badges on it, and it has the six and a half thousand badges stolen last years and the serial numbers that database, it is a simple task of checking the badge against the database and if it comes up stolen the badge can be seized, the car can be seized. some authorities are brilliant at this and doing a great job. the majority are doing nothing stopping the police are doing nothing. there were two cars parked outside a police station with stolen badges and police walking past them all day. badges and police walking past them all da . ~ ., ., badges and police walking past them allda .~ ., ., badges and police walking past them allda . ~ ., ., ~' all day. what do you think the solution is, _ all day. what do you think the solution is, how— all day. what do you think the solution is, how can _ all day. what do you think the solution is, how can it - all day. what do you think the solution is, how can it be - all day. what do you think the - solution is, how can it be stopped? it needs to be enforced, if you enforce the law people will lose the appetite to use a stolen badge, there is a real risk of people being prosecuted for fraud which is the fence they will stop seeing them. the courts have got powers to ban people from driving, power to seize vehicles, and in some authorities they are doing that, in some authorities they are prosecuting two or 300 people a year, and others they are doing nothing. people need to raise this with the councils, with mp5 and say, what is my counsel doing? fits with mps and say, what is my counsel doinu ? �* , , ., with mps and say, what is my counsel doint? a with mps and say, what is my counsel doint? ., , with mps and say, what is my counsel doing? as you say the owners should be on stopping _ doing? as you say the owners should be on stopping the — doing? as you say the owners should be on stopping the crime _ doing? as you say the owners should be on stopping the crime rather- doing? as you say the owners should be on stopping the crime rather than| be on stopping the crime rather than expect thing blue badge holders to prevent and themselves, we saw in the piece by paul some of the strange advice such as take the badge with you which obviously doesn't make sense because it has to be on display. what other advice do you have for blue badge holders to try to minimise the risk? the you have for blue badge holders to try to minimise the risk?— try to minimise the risk? the first thin is try to minimise the risk? the first thing is mick _ try to minimise the risk? the first thing is mick said _ try to minimise the risk? the first thing is mick said lock _ try to minimise the risk? the first thing is mick said lock the - try to minimise the risk? the first thing is mick said lock the badge l try to minimise the risk? the first. thing is mick said lock the badge to your steering wheel, don't display it overnight because a lot of their happens overnight. the emphasis should not be on disabled people to change their behaviour the emphasis should be on police and local authorities to enforce the scheme and eradicate the use of stolen badges. that will solve the problem. i will give a quick example. when i was younger, they did not have barriers to travel on trains, they did not have inspectors on the whole. a lot of people used to travel on the trains for free. they introduced barriers and inspectors, they started to enforce the scheme by giving out fines and compliance went up. we can increase compliance with the blue badge scheme, notjust stolen badges but the misuse of badges if the scheme is enforced, in some places it is not being enforced and it has been around for over 50 years, some councils have never enforced the scheme which is a shocking. it needs to be enforced. thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us. paul slowly found blue badge investigations. andrew malkinson had been branded a monster after being convicted for the rape of a woman in 2003. but police had got the wrong man. after serving nearly two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit, mr malkinson was released last year. speaking on a bbc documentary, he says he is still haunted by the ordeal, as our correspondent lindsey smith reports. 0rdinary people should be aware that they could be taken, it could happen to anyone. fish they could be taken, it could happen to an one. �* ., ., , ., ., to anyone. an ordinary man from grimsby who _ to anyone. an ordinary man from grimsby who suffered _ to anyone. an ordinary man from grimsby who suffered an - extraordinary miscarriage of justice. extraordinary miscarriage of 'ustice. , ., ,. , ., justice. these are describing a rape is especially _ justice. these are describing a rape is especially vicious. _ justice. these are describing a rape is especially vicious. in _ justice. these are describing a rape is especially vicious. in 2004 - is especially vicious. in 2004 andrew malkinson _ is especially vicious. in 2004 andrew malkinson was - is especially vicious. in 2004 - andrew malkinson was convicted of the rape of a mother in selford. when i said —— when he said i am taking you down i said i am completely innocent. so everyone could hear it, i was frightened. how will i survive in here for any length of time?— will i survive in here for any lenath of time? , ., , ., length of time? the news devastating his famil in length of time? the news devastating his family in grimsby. _ length of time? the news devastating his family in grimsby. as _ length of time? the news devastating 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wasjust— i�*m so pleased is back in my life. i wasiust so— i�*m so pleased is back in my life. i was just so emotional. _ i�*m so pleased is back in my life. i wasjust so emotional. he - i�*m so pleased is back in my life. i wasjust so emotional. he is i i�*m so pleased is back in my life. i wasjust so emotional. he is free. | wasjust so emotional. he is free. greater— wasjust so emotional. he is free. greater manchester _ wasjust so emotional. he is free. greater manchester police - wasjust so emotional. he is free. i greater manchester police apologised for the failings of their investigation, as yet nobody has been charged for the 2003 rape and attempted murder. lindsey smith, bbc news. you can hear more of andrew malkinson's story. on the wrong man: 17 years behind bars, which is available to watch now on bbc iplayer. sunday with laura kuenssberg' is on bbc one at nine o'clock this morning. let's find out what she has in store. good morning. it is busy and week three of this frantic election campaign and the pace is getting quicker and quicker and quicker. this morning will be asking how the tories can come back from the prime minister's disastrous blunder over leaving d—day early, the tories have been rattled by that and panicking to losing votes of reform uk, and nigel farage shall be with us live this morning along with politicians from the tory party, labour and the s&p and a cracking panel as well! look forward to seeing you at nine o'clock. more than 80 nautre conservation groups have come together to launch a legal bid to force the next government to do more in tackling the decline of wildlife in england. organisations including the national trust and the rspb are also calling for politicians from all parties to pledge to do more to boost bio—diversity. 0ur rural affairs correspondent, malcolm prior, reports. water fails, waterfails, one of water fails, one of the waterfails, one of the most endangered species in the uk, but entering a comeback in this nature reserve in the cotswolds, a welcome success story when uk wildlife is in decline. it takes hard graft to bring nature back to life. it is hoped networks of small sites like these will kickstart a wider wildlife resurgence across the countryside. wildlife resurgence across the countryside-— wildlife resurgence across the count side. ., , , countryside. the idea is then these areas can then _ countryside. the idea is then these areas can then expand _ countryside. the idea is then these areas can then expand into - countryside. the idea is then these areas can then expand into the i countryside. the idea is then these i areas can then expand into the wider countryside because we know that you're trying to manage a small nature reserve does not work. managing one reserve cannot work, we cannot do it on our own, we are small and charities and we need more political thinking, people higher up making the decisions to really improve nature. but making the decisions to really improve nature.— improve nature. but to the volunteers _ improve nature. but to the volunteers believe - improve nature. but to the i volunteers believe politicians improve nature. but to the - volunteers believe politicians share their passion to protect nature? the state of their passion to protect nature? tie: state of nature report last year says nature is still in decline and it needs to be something they are acting on immediately. we it needs to be something they are acting on immediately.— acting on immediately. we need commitment _ acting on immediately. we need commitment from _ acting on immediately. we need commitment from whatever i acting on immediately. we need - commitment from whatever government takes us _ commitment from whatever government takes us to _ commitment from whatever government takes us to the future to improve wildlife, — takes us to the future to improve wildlife, to— takes us to the future to improve wildlife, to improve peoples access to green— wildlife, to improve peoples access to green spaces. you wildlife, to improve peoples access to green spaces-— wildlife, to improve peoples access to green spaces. you cannot combat climate change — to green spaces. you cannot combat climate change without _ to green spaces. you cannot combat climate change without also - to green spaces. you cannot combat climate change without also looking | climate change without also looking after the _ climate change without also looking after the wildlife. _ climate change without also looking after the wildlife. but— climate change without also looking after the wildlife.— after the wildlife. but this is about more _ after the wildlife. but this is about more than _ after the wildlife. but this is about more than election i after the wildlife. but this is i about more than election prattle pledges and promises. there are already legally binding targets in place to protect more sites like this and to stop the decline of wildlife by 2030 but there's also concerns that we are far from achieving that. a coalition of more than 80 wildlife conservation and countryside groups are now launching a legal bid to force whoever is in power next month to step up efforts to fight nature decline in england. there has been a long—time decline of wildlife we see no sign that the policy in place right now will be able to halt and reverse the decline so we need whoever formed the next government to step up and make the investment, the legal changes and take the action necessary to start to turn things around. the department _ to turn things around. the department for— to turn things around. the department for environment, food and rural affairs would not comment on any future legal action that current policy did not need to be reviewed until the end of january 2028. this is a uk wide issue, all four of the nation's administrations are committed to protecting 30% of lancia nature by that 2030 but three of the uk's biggest conservation groups, the national trust, the rspb, and the wildlife trust have joined forces to column politicians to more. irate joined forces to column politicians to more. ~ ., ., , ., to more. we feel passionately that the nature crisis _ to more. we feel passionately that the nature crisis in _ to more. we feel passionately that the nature crisis in such _ to more. we feel passionately that the nature crisis in such an - to more. we feel passionately that the nature crisis in such an extent| the nature crisis in such an extent that none of another political parties are taking the challenge seriously so why here to ask them to think about that and show us their response. irate think about that and show us their resonse. ~ .,. ., response. we need action within the first ear response. we need action within the first year of— response. we need action within the first year of the _ response. we need action within the first year of the next _ response. we need action within the first year of the next government, i first year of the next government, nieaning _ first year of the next government, meaning they need detailed plans of how they— meaning they need detailed plans of how they will turn things around, restore _ how they will turn things around, restore the abundance of nature, get it working _ restore the abundance of nature, get it working again. this restore the abundance of nature, get it working again-— it working again. this coalition of rou -s is it working again. this coalition of groups is calling _ it working again. this coalition of groups is calling on _ it working again. this coalition of groups is calling on their- it working again. this coalition of groups is calling on their 8 i it working again. this coalition of| groups is calling on their 8 million plus members deport election candidates on the spot over nature decline. ., , u, candidates on the spot over nature decline. .,, u, , ._ candidates on the spot over nature decline. .,, , ., candidates on the spot over nature decline. , ., decline. people can play a part in this. absolutely, _ decline. people can play a part in this. absolutely, people - decline. people can play a part in this. absolutely, people should l decline. people can play a part in. this. absolutely, people should be asking candidates turning up on their doorstep and telling them what they want to see for this nature restoration programme. the conservatives _ restoration programme. the conservatives have - restoration programme. the conservatives have said they have clear policies to protect 30% of land by 2030, while labour launched a new countryside protection plan that it says will create new species rich habitats. the lib dems say they would double the amount of land would double the amount of [and protected for nature by 2050. like primary says more public investment is needed to support nature recovery while the s&p is also committed to halting biodiversity loss by 2030. no detail budgeting has been produced by any plans to protect uk wildlife. election promises are one thing but it is on the ground where the real work begins. malcolm prior, bbc news. election and the environment one of the key issues in this election. in the key issues in this election. in the meantime, here is some sport. and a focus on cricket?— the meantime, here is some sport. and a focus on cricket? england are in a bit of trouble _ and a focus on cricket? england are in a bit of trouble in _ and a focus on cricket? england are in a bit of trouble in the _ and a focus on cricket? england are in a bit of trouble in the t-20 - and a focus on cricket? england are in a bit of trouble in the t-20 cup. l in a bit of trouble in the t—20 cup. they were beaten heavily by australia last night, meaning england has started one draw, and high and they are running out of games, they have to be tomane and namibia heavily and hope australia beat another, scotland, namibia heavily and hope australia beatanother, scotland, in namibia heavily and hope australia beat another, scotland, in the same way to make sure they have a chance of getting through to the same stage. scotland are now in a position where they could stop england progressing. == position where they could stop england progressing. england's start of two matches no wins has put their chances of making the next stage in doubt. put into bat in barbados, david warner and travis head made a flying start — 70 without loss in the 5th over — australia reaching 201—7 from their 20 overs. in reply, england started strongly, captainjos buttler top scoring with 42 but they lost wickets at regular intervals and they ultimately fell well short of their target, losing by 36 runs. the situation we find ourselves in is the situation we find ourselves in. we have to be confident. keep our heads up and look forward to the next one and keep popping our chest out and play some really good cricket, which we know we are capable of. south africa remain top of their group after surviving a scare against the netherlands. chasing 104 to win, they were 12 for [i at one stage. but they managed the run chase well. an unbeaten 59 off 51 balls from david miller saw south africa win by four wickets. while, overnight, uganda were bowled out forjust 39 in their defeat to west indies. nearly a week on from the death of a rugby league legend, the sport had what is traditionally its biggest day of the season and the challenge cup finals at wembley provided a poignant backdrop to the commemorations of rob burrow. tributes were followed by the trophies for wigan's men and st helens' women, as adam wild reports. a game and a chief befitting the memory of the great rob burrow. wigan warriors rugby league challenge cup winners, a moment of celebration and the culmination of a day of raw emotion. 0n the game's rangers stage, the sport had come together to remember an inspirational champion. fans from across the rugby _ inspirational champion. fans from across the rugby league _ inspirational champion. fans from | across the rugby league community gathering to pay their very own personal tribute to the late rob burrow, who passed awayjust a few days ago after his battle with motor neuron disease, tribute that will continue throughout the day. he meant everything, everything to me, the club, _ meant everything, everything to me, the club, the mnd community, amazing — the club, the mnd community, amazinu. ,, ., the club, the mnd community, amazinu. _ ., ., , amazing. one thing rugby league does is look after its _ amazing. one thing rugby league does is look after its own _ amazing. one thing rugby league does is look after its own and _ amazing. one thing rugby league does is look after its own and we _ amazing. one thing rugby league does is look after its own and we come - is look after its own and we come togethen — is look after its own and we come togethen no— is look after its own and we come together. no matter— is look after its own and we come together. no matter what- is look after its own and we come together. no matter what club i is look after its own and we come. together. no matter what club you are from. — together. no matter what club you are from, everyone _ together. no matter what club you are from, everyone could - together. no matter what club you are from, everyone could see - together. no matter what club you i are from, everyone could see what he did as _ are from, everyone could see what he did as a _ are from, everyone could see what he did as a player— are from, everyone could see what he did as a playerand_ are from, everyone could see what he did as a player and also— are from, everyone could see what he did as a player and also as _ are from, everyone could see what he did as a player and also as a - are from, everyone could see what he did as a player and also as a human. did as a player and also as a human being— did as a player and also as a human being afterwards. _ did as a player and also as a human being afterwards. he _ did as a player and also as a human being afterwards.— did as a player and also as a human being afterwards. he was a star, he was a star- — being afterwards. he was a star, he was a star. the _ being afterwards. he was a star, he was a star. the men's _ being afterwards. he was a star, he was a star. the men's showpiece i was a star. the men's showpiece final, warrington _ was a star. the men's showpiece final, warrington against - was a star. the men's showpiece final, warrington against wigan i final, warrington against wigan beginning after a minute silence, and it was weekend already raining super league and while club champions who took the first half lead, bevan french twisting and turning his way over.— turning his way over. french, dazzling! _ turning his way over. french, dazzling! that, _ turning his way over. french, dazzling! that, their - turning his way over. french, dazzling! that, their second l turning his way over. french, i dazzling! that, their second try, the captain rampaging through to extend _ the captain rampaging through to extend the lead and from there, warrington would not find a way back _ warrington would not find a way back. wigan warriors, wembley winners — back. wigan warriors, wembley winners once again.— back. wigan warriors, wembley winners once again. earlier, there was no fairytale — winners once again. earlier, there was no fairytale windfall- winners once again. earlier, there was no fairytale windfall leads. i winners once again. earlier, there! was no fairytale windfall leads. -- was no fairytale windfall leads. —— leads, beaten comprehensively by st helen's for the third year in a row. gorry for st helen's women and for wigan warriors men on a day when the whole sport of rugby league came together to celebrate one of its own. adam wild, bbc news, wembley. northampton's 10 year wait for a league title is over after the saints won a dramatic premiership final at twickenham. alex mitchell scored the winning try against bath, who were down to 11! men, with just seven minutes left as northampton claimed their second championship and a perfect send off for the departing courtenay lawes after 17 years with the club. not really sunk in yet because we have been so focused on this for so long, and during the game, and i just wanted the win, however you can. then you get there and you're like oh! have we done it? do you know what i mean? cannot put it into words. i think we deserved it. over the season we have been the best team and sometimes you have to find a way to win. team and sometimes you have to find a way to win-— a way to win. apparently the goggles are because — a way to win. apparently the goggles are because of _ a way to win. apparently the goggles are because of the _ a way to win. apparently the goggles are because of the champagne i a way to win. apparently the goggles| are because of the champagne spray! after a disappointing start to the french open for british singles players the tournament ended on a high with alfie hewett and gordon reid winning the men's wheelchair doubles title for a fifth successive year. another serial winner is iga swiatek. atjust 23 years of age she's a french open singles winner for the fourth time. she continued her recent dominance on the roland garros clay with a straight sets win against first time major finalist jasmine paolini of italy. it was swiatek�*s third title in a row in paris and a fifth grand slam triumph overall. it's the turn of the men this afternoon, with carlos alcaraz taking on germany's alexander zverev. it's the first time either man has reached the final in paris. zverev is searching for his first grand slam title whilst alcaraz is going for his third and hoping tojoin an illustrious list of spaniards to have won the title at roland garros. i wanted to put my name on that list of the spanish players who have won this tournament, not only rafa nadal, ferrero, moya, cluster, a lot of the spanish players and players from all of the players on the spot he won the tournament and i really want to put my name on the list as well —— costa. there are no easy matches and if yodre _ there are no easy matches and if yodre in — there are no easy matches and if you're in the final at roland garros, _ you're in the final at roland garros, you deserve to be there and that went _ garros, you deserve to be there and that went for him as well. he played a fantastic— that went for him as well. he played a fantastic match and tournament in general— a fantastic match and tournament in general and a fantastic match and tournament in generaland i'm a fantastic match and tournament in general and i'm expecting a very difficult — general and i'm expecting a very difficult match. it's the final few days of pre—euros friendies and spain appear to be in good form although it was northern ireland that bore the brunt of it. not immediately though, sunderland defender daniel ballard gave northern ireland a shock lead just 67 seconds after kick off in majorca. but things soon turned as they conceded four goals in the first half and eventually lost 5—1. northern ireland should have an easier game against andorra on tuesday. spain face a far sterner test in their opening match of the euros against croatia on saturday. great britain have won their first medals at the european athletics championships in rome with romell glave taking bronze in the 100 metres. the race was won by olympic champion marceljacobs in a time of 10.02 seconds as he successfully defended his european sprint title on a golden night for hosts italy in rome, who won three medals. it's glaves first senior championship medal. it is incredible. i wanted to get the gold but i have to take the positive on top of that. positive things to take from here and just go back and look at the video and work on my weaknesses. george mills won silver in the men's 5000 metres, finishing behind norwegian starjakob ingebrigtsen. mills is the son of former england internationalfootballer danny mills and he's now got his sights set on the paris olympics next month. some want to run the 15 and the five in paris and hopefully tonight has done my chances of selection no harm. we will see. we're three weeks out until trials and straight back to training as of tomorrow and then get stuck in. )and it looks like the mercedes formula one team could be challenging for race wins again after george russell claimed pole for this evening's canadian grand prix. the briton recorded a time of one minute and twelve seconds exactly on his first run in the final session of qualifying in montreal. championship leader max verstappen posted exactly the same time in his red bull but because russell did it first he gets to start from the top spot forjust the second time in his career. that race is on later. you can listen to it on radio 5 live, coverage starting at 630. time for a check on the weather and it's not feeling particularly summary. what is going on with the temperature? good morning. it feels like spring has kept on giving at the moment! to give you an idea of where we should be in terms of average temperatures, generally around 16— 20 degrees across the uk but all parts of the uk below that, even caller on monday and tuesday, even some areas around five degrees lower than we expect. this chilly round of whether will continue and it could fill caller as we start the coming week and it's down to this area of low pressure. it is moving eastwards and drags down air from the north and some complication today is this cloud rolling in on a weather front, outbreaks of rain which are persistent in the west today and that will run into parts of southwest scotland, northern england and patches of rain and drizzle throughout the day. some sunny spells and showers but quite a cool breeze and to the south of it, blue skies overhead for many. more car through the afternoon. sunny throughout the channel islands and parts of the far southwest and temperatures down where we should be and similarto temperatures down where we should be and similar to what they were yesterday. the rain this evening will gradually clear and spread across england and wales overnight and persistent parts of northern england and midlands and east anglia by the morning and clear skies by the end of the night sees the temperatures dropped lois down to three degrees in some valleys. this area of low pressure pushing its way eastwards and opened the floodgates to even more northerly winds. temperatures will drop a little bit more. could be a foggy morning across parts of yorkshire, east midlands, lincolnshire, anglia, and clearing parts of east anglia and away from that sunny spells developing and shower clouds brewing in the afternoon and anyway could see a shower pastor on the northerly breeze. cloudier without later on in the far north of scotland. the northerly wind strengthens further into monday evening. still feeling a little bit like spring. we'll be back with the headlines at eight but now it's time for this week's click. we choose to go to the moon in this decade. not because it is easy because it is hard.— decade. not because it is easy because it is hard. one small step for man. because it is hard. one small step for man- one _ because it is hard. one small step for man. one giant _ because it is hard. one small step for man. one giant leap _ because it is hard. one small step for man. one giant leap for i because it is hard. one small step i for man. one giant leap for mankind. 52 years _ for man. one giant leap for mankind. 52 years ago — for man. one giant leap for mankind. 52 years ago we laid our last footprint on the moon. as the crew of apollo 17 left the surface they did not know gene simmons would be the last person to walk on another world. we're on our way, houston. but now, in this decade, finally... ..we're going back. mission control: and lift—off of artemis 1. nasa's artemis programme will, in the next year or two, return us to our neighbour. part of its mission — to land the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon. another part — to use what we learn here to send the first astronauts to mars. this is where it all began — florida's kennedy space center — named after the president who made the original pledge to go to the moon. and now, this place is at the centre of even grander plans, because this time, we're notjust visiting the moon — we want to stay. this is gateway, humanity's first space station that will orbit another world. it will go round the moon every seven days. and, like the international space station above earth, astronauts will call this place 'home'. although, where the iss can accommodate up to 12 astronauts and is comparable to a five— or six—bedroom house, gateway will be...more cosy. gateway is a studio apartment. it's... we're going to have room for our four astronauts, multiple docking ports, so we can bring our orion crew transportation ship, we can bring logistics, and we can dock a lander. these four explorers won't all be cooped up on board for the whole time, though. two will actually be spending a week or two on location, down on the lunar surface. it's a chance to further study the landscape and hopefully find a location for our next giant leap — a permanent moon base. gateway will be there before we put a habitat on the surface. gateway allows us to access any point on the lunar surface. when we went with apollo, we had to pick that spot on the moon and go to it. gateway will give us the opportunity to go down at different locations. the first section of gateway could be launched as early as 2025, with new modules then being added from 2027. a lunar base is admittedly further out and it comes with risk, but also reward. so, how do we make that a reality? to find out, it's time for me to take one small step of my own. oh, wow. i can instantly see the dust kind of kicking up. yeah. it's really fine, isn't it? it leaves the footprints like you'd expect. oh, my gosh. that's brilliant. and this is how moon dust behaves, itjust puffs up like that? it does, yeah. it's so fine. welcome to swamp works... ..the dusty, dirty lab where they work with simulated moon dust. now, the loose soil that covers the lunar surface is called regolith. it's extremely fine, very sharp on a microscopic scale, and it gets everywhere. so when we landed with apollo 11, we didn't know what the surface of the moon exactly was going to be like. you'll notice from some of the footage, the landing pads are quite huge on the landing legs and the ladder�*s far away from the surface. there was a lot of concern of, how much will this lander sink into the surface? how fluffy is this regolith? the surface is fine and powdery. i can...| can pick it up loosely with my toe. in fact, it's because the eagle lander didn't sink in as much as expected that neil armstrong had to take such a giant leap from the bottom rung of the ladder. today, swamp works is developing robots that can cope with and take advantage of lunar soil. and it will be very useful. see, moon dust is made of materials like silicon dioxide and calcium oxide, which all contain a lot of oxygen. if we could mine the regolith and use chemical processes to extract the oxygen, we could make our own breathable air and our own rocket fuel. the way space flight exploration has been working right now is imagine you're going on a holiday with your family, you're going on a long road trip, thousands of miles, right? right now, we are bringing a trailer behind us with all the gas, you know, that we need with us, all the fuel, everything that we need comes with us. so we want to change that paradigm. we want to... and one of the biggest things that makes the biggest impact is the fuel, right? if we can source some of that from the moon and eventually from mars, that will allow us to bring more and to go more often. making our own fuel makes regular trips to and from the gateway space station much more viable. now, mining moon dust is called isru... and, because they love an acronym round these parts, the robot to do this will be called the isru pilot excavator, ipex. we had to really reinvent how you do excavation for doing mining on the moon, and eventually mars. the challenge is the technology we have for mining here on earth relies on a lot of mass and a lot of weight, right? the more steel you put on an excavator, the heavier it becomes and the better it digs. we can't launch something as heavy as we want on a rocket. it's still very expensive, right? so we have to reduce the mass of what we put on rockets. and then when you land it on the moon, it weighs one—sixth of what it does here on earth, right? imagine, like, trying to dig as if you were on ice, right? it will just scoot across the surface. the scoop will not engage and you won't be able to collect anything. so the way the robot scoops up the dust is using this thing called a bucket drum. and it's got a kind of spiral in there. and if it turns it one way, it scoops the soil, which gradually works its way towards the middle and stays there. like that. and then when it wants to unload... ..it turns it the other way and it all comes out again. we put them on opposite ends of the robot and when it excavates, it's using both sets of drums at the same time, but they're digging in opposite directions. so one is pulling it that way and one is pulling it that way... right. ..and pulling itself down to the surface. yeah. one of the main dangers faced by extraterrestrial rovers is getting stuck. so, as an added bonus, ipex's scoops and arms can also help it to get out of a hole orflip it over if it takes a tumble. one of its other defences will keep its cameras free from all that electrostatic dust, now, just like the fuel situation, we can't take building materials with us to the moon either — we have to make our structures from moon dust. these bricks and blocks and bars have all been made by mixing and melting regolith with plastic. in the future, giant 3d printers will build shelters to protect those living on a world with no atmosphere from radiation, asteroid and micrometeoroid impacts, moonquakes and temperatures ranging from +100 to —200 degrees celsius. even replacement parts can be made from regolith. so this is a wheel that has been printed with regolith and polymer. ok. this is another example of what we can do if we capture the resources from the moon. now, do you know, i've seen and held wheels for rovers before, full—size wheels, and they're really light. right. but this is really heavy. yes, this is the opposite. because those wheels that are light, especially if you're sending it on a rocket, they need to be light because it's expensive. this is heavy because it's made on the moon. and heavy wheels are a good thing, i guess. it's better, right? especially for a digger like that. like the more weight that we have on the excavator, the better it's going to perform. would you believe you can even make rope out of regolith? this is made from basalt glass — really, really thin fibres, a bit like optic fibre. so you could even make rope out of moon dust. these are hopeful times for space exploration, but it's always been a risky endeavour. im—1 odysseus — lunar lander separation confirmed. this year, we've seen three probes sent to the moon. two made it, and both of those had, shall we say, awkward landings. and the artemis mission to put boots back on the lunar ground has been pushed back to 2026 at the earliest. but nasa says space explorers need to take these setbacks in their stride. i don't see it as a disappointment. it's very cliche to say space is hard, but what we're endeavouring to do is highly complex. we expect challenges along the way so this doesn't surprise us and we're pushing forward. it sounds really expensive to do space exploration. is it, and is it worth it? so, yes, it's really expensive. it was really expensive for us to explore this planet, really expensive to lay rail infrastructure, to lay highway infrastructure, to put the infrastructure in place that allows us to travel in air traffic around this globe. it's absolutely necessary for us to lay that critical infrastructure for going to space, because what we learn in that endeavour is tremendous. the exponential growth that we've seen in the world in technology is because of great endeavours like this. it's absolutely worth it. here in the united states, every year the general population is spending as much money on potato chips as our budget is every year to go out to the moon. that's a good figure. this has been a fascinating trip to nasa. motivation may be different to the space race of the 1960s. but the size of the ambition is just as great today. as we shoot for the moon, once again. good morning, welcome to breakfast with luxmy gopal and ben boulos. our headlines today. the eu's most senior diplomat has condemned the killing of palestinians in an israeli operation to rescue four hostages. the mission was to bring home the captives who had been held in gaza since the hamas attacks eight months ago. election campaigning continues across the country ahead of a key week — in which parties will set out their manifestos. after new cctv emerges of the tv presenter michael mosley — who vanished on a greek island on wednesday — his wife says she "will not lose hope". in sport, england's defence of the t20 world cup is in danger — they're still to win in the tournament after a hefty defeat by australia in barbados in their second game. whilst there'll be a sunny start to sunday for some of you, a lot more cloud around today. that cloud increases, thickens, and we'll see some patchy rain, too. i'll have all the details here on breakfast. good morning, it's sunday the 9th ofjune. our main story. israel has been criticised by the european union's most senior diplomat over the killing of dozens of palestinians in an operation to rescue four hostages in gaza. eu foreign policy chief josep borrell called the reports "another massacre of civilians". the mission to bring home the captives involved air strikes around a refugee camp. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. the moment she was made free. 25—year—old noa argamani — captured by hamas on the 7th of october and taken to gaza — is finally back in israel. this is her being reunited with her dad after a dramatic rescue. translation: please don't forget that there are another 120 - hostages in captivity. we must release them and make every effort in any way to bring them to israel and their families. by the way, it's my birthday — look what a gift i got! also freed — andrei kozlov, who's 27, shlomi ziv — 40, and almog meirjan — 21. eight months ago, they were at the nova music festival in southern israel, when hamas gunmen attacked. more than 360 people were killed here. the four hostages were rescued in a major operation by the israeli military in the nuseirat refugee camp in central gaza. special forces went in. the military said this was a complex operation, and based on intelligence information. the four hostages, it said, were found at two separate locations in the heart of the camp, and were brought out under fire. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. but the rescue mission brought even more suffering to gaza. there was chaos and desperation at the nearby al—aqsa hospital. doctors were unable to treat all the wounded. many people arrived already dead. translation: we were at home. a rocket hit us. my two cousins died, and my other two cousins were seriously injured. they did nothing — they were sitting at home. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited the freed hostages in a hospital near tel aviv. he's being urged to reach a ceasefire and hostage—release deal with hamas. the rescue was considered a success by the israeli authorities, and could change the calculation of a leader under pressure. hugo bachega, bbc news, tel aviv. our correspondent jon donnison is injerusalem. what reaction has there been? certainly do need here in israel has been one of celebration and relief, not least by the relatives of those four micro hostages who have not seen their loved ones for 246 days and i do think, as hugo suggested, it eases the pressure on prime minister netanyahu because it allows him to say, look, his strategy is working. he believes the best way to get the remaining hostages out, and there are some 116 people captured on october seven still being held, 40 on october seven still being held, a0 or so of whom are thought to be dead stop he believes the best way is to apply military pressure on hammers. —— hamas. there is outrage at the number of civilians killed. we have seen really discerning images from the two main hospitals in the centre of gaza, with scores of casualties being brought in, many women and children. there has also been strong condemnation from the eu's most senior diplomat, who said this was another massacre, and called for the bloodbath to end immediately. an israeli minister fired back, saying shame on you, instead of criticising hamas for holding civilians in civilian neighbourhoods, he was targeting israel for trying to rescue its citizens. ., ., ., citizens. for the moment, thanks very much- _ citizens. for the moment, thanks very much- jon — citizens. for the moment, thanks very much. jon donnison - citizens. for the moment, thanks very much. jon donnison in i very much. jon donnison in jerusalem. back here... we are hurtling towards the general election. now less than a month away. so the battle to win votes intensifies. campaigning continues ahead of what is likely to be a busy week in the lead up to the general election, with another scheduled election tv debate and manifestos set to be published. our political correspondent iain watson has this report. just when you get a bit stressed... the prime minister's in the market for votes. the main westminster parties will launch their manifestos in the week ahead. rishi sunak will be hoping that this moves the focus firmly onto policy, not personality. he'll be keen to move on from his d—day apology, but what's the mood in his party? his candidates — like him — have been out campaigning this weekend, and we've been speaking to some of them. some have spoken about anger and disappointment. one of them despairingly said, "whatever is going to happen next? will the prime minister's trousers fall down?" others say that voters haven't raised the issue at all, and one candidate said that those who are so vexed by this have already defected to labour or reform. the prime minister will be hoping to keep his job after polling day onjuly the ath, and he wants to get more people into work. he's promising to spend £700 million to help people struggling with mental health to rejoin and stay in the workforce. but he's also repeating previous announcements to toughen up benefits rules. the conservatives claim they could save £12 billion from the welfare bill by the end of the next parliament. labour say existing jails are bursting at the seams, and that the government has failed to provide the 20,000 more prison places that it promised. if elected, the party says it will deliver that prison—building programme, and change the planning laws to make it a priority. they'll also give offenders more help to get into employment. the state of the nhs has been prominent in the lib dems' campaign — they say they want to take pressure off the ambulance system by expanding urgent—care centres and providing a thousand more hospital beds. information on local ambulance response times would also be made readily available. so today, we get a sneak preview of the manifestos — but it's not until the full range of policies are published that we'll know how well they connect with voters. iain watson, bbc news. we are nowjoined by our political correspondentjessica parker. good morning. this week we are expecting more detail as the parties set out their policies. yes. set out their policies. yes, absolutely. _ set out their policies. yes, absolutely. the _ set out their policies. yes, absolutely. the key - set out their policies. yes, absolutely. the key week, | set out their policies. yes, | absolutely. the key week, i set out their policies. yes, - absolutely. the key week, i think, in the election campaign. because what we have had so far are glimpses of what is going to be in the manifesto, and a drip feed of policy announcements from the different parties. and that can, i think, feel like there is a lot of noise going around, it can be hired to keep track of exactly who has said what. what the manifestos do, as many will know, they are documents where parties lay out their promises or at least their intentions for government, if they were to win power. and crucially, as well, costings should really be provided and people might have noticed there has been a lot of back and forth, wrangling, particularly between the conservative party and the labour party about how they are actually going to pay for things and the public finances. manifestos really allow fresh scrutiny of that. they aren't that holistic package of —— they are a package of promises from they are a package of promises from the parties. as we expect to get them from the main parties over the next week or so, it will be a gear change to the campaign, a key moment in this general election campaign. thank you. we will be discussing policies in a bit more detail shortly. the search for the tv presenter michael mosley will resume on the greek island of symi after he went missing while out on a walk on wednesday. our correspondent joe inwood is in symi. the temperatures have affected the search. in the temperatures have affected the search. ., , ., ., ,., search. in the last hour or so we have heard _ search. in the last hour or so we have heard that _ search. in the last hour or so we have heard that a _ search. in the last hour or so we have heard that a police - search. in the last hour or so we have heard that a police dog i search. in the last hour or so we | have heard that a police dog that came over, we saw it coming over on the ferry, has been sent back to athens because it is just too hot for it to operate. apparently it was getting exhausted in the heat and burning its paws on the rocks. it doesn't indicate, we don't think it indicates they are changing the search, just that it seems the dogs are not able to operate on a hillside for long periods of time. despite that, the search is continuing, it is going on. they are basically working their way methodically across this stretch of land. it is a significant area they are trying to cover, though, and though there is not much cover there, there are caves, places that michael mosley could have tried to take shelter so they are obviously trying to search every inch of this hillside. �* trying to search every inch of this hillside. . , ., ., , hillside. and his wife clare has said that the _ hillside. and his wife clare has said that the family _ hillside. and his wife clare has said that the family would i hillside. and his wife clare has said that the family would not| hillside. and his wife clare has i said that the family would not lose hope. said that the family would not lose ho e, r , , said that the family would not lose ho e. �* , ,., , , said that the family would not lose hoe. , _. ., said that the family would not lose hoe. , , ., ., hope. absolutely. they said that and that was echoed _ hope. absolutely. they said that and that was echoed by _ hope. absolutely. they said that and that was echoed by the _ hope. absolutely. they said that and that was echoed by the mayor i hope. absolutely. they said that and that was echoed by the mayor of i hope. absolutely. they said that and that was echoed by the mayor of the | that was echoed by the mayor of the town, symi, who said they are going town, symi, who said they are going to continue searching for as long as it takes to find michael mosley. that statement from clare also thanked the people of this village, of this island, the greek authorities and the british consul for all the work they are doing, saying these have been the most terrible days. i am sure we can all imagine. terrible days. i am sure we can all imauine. ., ~ terrible days. i am sure we can all imauine. . ,, i. terrible days. i am sure we can all imauine. ., ~' ,, _. terrible days. i am sure we can all imauine. ., ~ ,, . ., imagine. thank you, joe inwood in 5 mi and imagine. thank you, joe inwood in symi and we _ imagine. thank you, joe inwood in symi and we will— imagine. thank you, joe inwood in symi and we will update _ imagine. thank you, joe inwood in symi and we will update you i imagine. thank you, joe inwood in symi and we will update you on i imagine. thank you, joe inwood in| symi and we will update you on any updates in the next hour. south korea says it will resume propaganda broadcasts against north korea for the first time in six years. seoul's national security council said its decision to install loudspeakers and begin broadcasts was in response to pyongyang's campaign of sending balloons carrying rubbish across the border. the council added that any attempt at causing distress to the people of south korea was unacceptable. narendra modi is set to be sworn in as prime minister of india for his third term today. he'll be sworn in alongside his cabinet as he heads a coalition of 15 parties following last week's election results. it makes him prime ministerfor a historic third consecutive term. an 11—year—old girl is among four people who were injured after a fun—fair ride malfunctioned in lambeth in south london. our reporter helena wilkinson is at the lambeth country show where it happened. good morning. what more can you tell us? �* ., , good morning. what more can you tell us? . . , , ., , good morning. what more can you tell us? . , , ., , . good morning. what more can you tell us? are really serious incident took lace here us? are really serious incident took place here yesterday _ us? are really serious incident took place here yesterday just _ us? are really serious incident took place here yesterdayjust before i place here yesterdayjust before 6:30pm. the fairground isjust behind me. iwanted 6:30pm. the fairground isjust behind me. i wanted to show you and live aerial view of the fairground itself. you will be able to see some of the rides in the fairground. there is some tarpaulin around one of them, but it is not clear, and we don't know rather, which is the ride that suffered that malfunction yesterday. what happened was a huge emergency response, as you would imagine. the airambulance emergency response, as you would imagine. the air ambulance arrived here. also four ambulance crews and paramedics. they treated an 11—year—old girl, a man and woman in their a0s, also another man in his 50s here. they were then transferred to major trauma units. we know that their conditions are not life—threatening, but we don't know what injuries they sustained during the incident here yesterday. the council says a thorough investigation will go on to establish why a ride here at the fairground malfunctioned, and the health and safety executive is also going to be informed.— health and safety executive is also going to be informed. thank you, our correspondent _ going to be informed. thank you, our correspondent helena _ going to be informed. thank you, our correspondent helena wilkinson, i going to be informed. thank you, our correspondent helena wilkinson, andj correspondent helena wilkinson, and there is more on the bbc news website, as well. a world war ii veteran has married his bride on the 80th anniversary of d—day near the beaches of normandy in france. harold terens, a 100—year—old us army air force veteran from florida, tied the knot with 96—year—old jeanne swerlin at a ceremony in carentan—les—marais, in northwestern france. originally from new york, harold visited france as an air force corporal shortly after d—day, when he was just 20 years old. to top off the extraordinary day, the newly wedded couple then attended the state banquet in paris thrown by president macron for us leaderjoe biden. here is what the happy couple had to say. i'm100 years old and my bridge is 96. i'm100 years old and my bride is 96. and to be married in carentan... it's my second—favourite — normandy is my second—favourite place in the whole world. i could live here for the rest of my life and be as happy as could be. do you feel young again? oh, yeah! at 96, i feel like... my god, i got butterfliesjust like the young people. - i mean it — it's notjust for young people, love, you know? - we get butterflies and we get a little action also! _ laughter oh, that is brilliant, i love that. 96—year—old jeanne and if i could have a fraction of the amount of energy she has... may be tying the knot, it's a good outfit for a. his knot, it's a good outfit for a. no wonder knot, it's a good outfit for a. in; wonder they have smiles on their faces! let's get the weather. blue skies over one part of the post—dinner glucose but they will be looking with envy. they certainly will. lighting the smile _ they certainly will. lighting the smile across many in southern and centrai— smile across many in southern and central areas. a few in eastbourne a short— central areas. a few in eastbourne a short while — central areas. a few in eastbourne a short while ago, looking mediterranean but let me take you north— mediterranean but let me take you north towards anglesey and close to hotyhead _ north towards anglesey and close to holyhead. different colour of sky. the cloud — holyhead. different colour of sky. the cloud has rolled in and it is that— the cloud has rolled in and it is that which— the cloud has rolled in and it is that which will become a bit more dominant— that which will become a bit more dominant overhead for many as we go through— dominant overhead for many as we go through the _ dominant overhead for many as we go through the coming hours and into the afternoon. a lot of it has been streaming — the afternoon. a lot of it has been streaming out of the north atlantic, this strip _ streaming out of the north atlantic, this strip here, pushing its way, bringing — this strip here, pushing its way, bringing outbreaks of rain and drizzle — bringing outbreaks of rain and drizzle to _ bringing outbreaks of rain and drizzle to northern ireland, parts of southern scotland and north—west england _ of southern scotland and north—west england and north—west wales. breaks up england and north—west wales. breaks up at times— england and north—west wales. breaks up at times across south—east scotland — up at times across south—east scotland and north—east england, so there _ scotland and north—east england, so there will— scotland and north—east england, so there will be some sunshine in the sunshine _ there will be some sunshine in the sunshine in — there will be some sunshine in the sunshine in south wales, the midlands, southwards, that will give way to— midlands, southwards, that will give way to a _ midlands, southwards, that will give way to a lot more cloud, parts of devon, _ way to a lot more cloud, parts of devon, cornwall, dorset, channel tines _ devon, cornwall, dorset, channel lines will— devon, cornwall, dorset, channel lines will stay sunny all day. still some _ lines will stay sunny all day. still some sunny spells by the north but a few showers. here is the cloudy is to spot _ few showers. here is the cloudy is to spot where the rain and drizzle will keep— to spot where the rain and drizzle will keep coming and going and in northern— will keep coming and going and in northern ireland, particularly to the west. — northern ireland, particularly to the west, is where the rain is heavier— the west, is where the rain is heavier and more persistent into the afternoon _ heavier and more persistent into the afternoon. it will feel rather chilly— afternoon. it will feel rather chilly here, ten to 13 degrees. simitar— chilly here, ten to 13 degrees. similar story in northern scotland. elsewhere. — similar story in northern scotland. elsewhere, around 13 to 16 for many, maybe _ elsewhere, around 13 to 16 for many, maybe 19 _ elsewhere, around 13 to 16 for many, maybe 19 and some of the brighter spots _ maybe 19 and some of the brighter spots in _ maybe 19 and some of the brighter spots in the south. a wet evening in northern— spots in the south. a wet evening in northern ireland, the rain then spreads— northern ireland, the rain then spreads across much of england and wales _ spreads across much of england and wales. there will be some southern counties _ wales. there will be some southern counties not seen much of anything at att~ _ counties not seen much of anything at all. persistent rain by the end of the _ at all. persistent rain by the end of the night for some eastern parts of the night for some eastern parts of in the _ of the night for some eastern parts of in the. scotland and northern ireland, — of in the. scotland and northern ireland, it — of in the. scotland and northern ireland, it will clear and with clear— ireland, it will clear and with clear skies and shelter from the breeze, — clear skies and shelter from the breeze, some valleys could see temperatures down to 2 or three degrees — temperatures down to 2 or three degrees. not helped by the fact you have northerly flow into monday, low pressure _ have northerly flow into monday, low pressure continuing to pull eastwards. the weather system you saw in _ eastwards. the weather system you saw in the _ eastwards. the weather system you saw in the chart, here it is, parts of of— saw in the chart, here it is, parts of of yorkshire, linkage, east midlands, east anglia will stop a wet and — midlands, east anglia will stop a wet and windy and cool start to monday — wet and windy and cool start to monday. outbreaks of rain continuing in east _ monday. outbreaks of rain continuing in east anglia, brightening to the afternoon — in east anglia, brightening to the afternoon. elsewhere, sunny skies will develop quite widely through the morning and then shower clouds will develop. some on the heavy side _ will develop. some on the heavy side. wintry in the scottish mountains and a bit more cloud to take away— mountains and a bit more cloud to take away some of that sunshine in the north— take away some of that sunshine in the north of— take away some of that sunshine in the north of scotland. temperatures drop further into monday, a cool start— drop further into monday, a cool start to — drop further into monday, a cool start to the week, 5 or 6 degrees lower— start to the week, 5 or 6 degrees lower than— start to the week, 5 or 6 degrees lower than normal thanks to the northerly— lower than normal thanks to the northerly winds and that cool it feel certainly there on tuesday, as wett~ _ feel certainly there on tuesday, as well. bright start for many, there whitst _ well. bright start for many, there whilst it— well. bright start for many, there whilst it will feel cool it is not will be — whilst it will feel cool it is not will be particularly wet. many places — will be particularly wet. many places will be dry. even in a northerly— places will be dry. even in a northerly wind we will see some showers — northerly wind we will see some showers develop, central and eastern areas _ showers develop, central and eastern areas most _ showers develop, central and eastern areas most prone. some of the heaviest — areas most prone. some of the heaviest of those. look at those temperatures, ten to 16 or 17 degrees. — temperatures, ten to 16 or 17 degrees. certainly doesn't look, or will feel. _ degrees. certainly doesn't look, or will feel, like early summer, that is how— will feel, like early summer, that is how it — will feel, like early summer, that is how it goes for the rest of the week _ is how it goes for the rest of the week. temperatures are fairly sinritar — week. temperatures are fairly sinritar a— week. temperatures are fairly similar. a few showers around at times— similar. a few showers around at times but— similar. a few showers around at times but equally a bit of sunshine. thank you. short—changed the temperatures but at least a bit of sunshine. thank you. even though the temperatures may not feel like it we are not far off in july. with under a month to go until the general election — it's been another busy week in politics with headlines domimated by party manifestos and d—day commemorations. here to discuss what we can expect over the next week is aubrey allegretti, the chief political correspondent from the times — and sonia sodha, a former labour advisor and observer columnist. good morning to you both. thank you forjoining us. aubrey, one key development in the past week is nigel farage and he was obviously part of the election debate, he will be on laura kuenssberg later this morning. the key question, how does he change the dynamic and the pressure on the conservative party? reform has been polling around 12% to 15% _ reform has been polling around 12% to 15% over— reform has been polling around 12% to 15% over the last few months and i suppose _ to 15% over the last few months and i suppose there has been a question about— i suppose there has been a question about whether or not that was the ceiling _ about whether or not that was the ceiling at— about whether or not that was the ceiling at which they might reach. nigel— ceiling at which they might reach. nigel farage has come into the fray both to _ nigel farage has come into the fray both to lead the party and stand as a candidate, that has rattled lots of conservative mps in a mostly red wall of conservative mps in a mostly red watt areas. — of conservative mps in a mostly red wall areas, who think the reform vote is— wall areas, who think the reform vote is most concentrated. they have said, _ vote is most concentrated. they have said. as _ vote is most concentrated. they have said. as the _ vote is most concentrated. they have said, as the election was getting closer. _ said, as the election was getting closer. the — said, as the election was getting closer, the minds of voters were being _ closer, the minds of voters were being narrowed around the two opportunities they thought would be most likely to lead country as prime minister. _ most likely to lead country as prime minister, rishi sunak and keir starnrer _ minister, rishi sunak and keir starmer. but since nigel farage's announcement, the reform vote has heightened again and they are concerned it could take lots of votes — concerned it could take lots of votes of — concerned it could take lots of votes of the conservative party without — votes of the conservative party without necessarily leading to reform — without necessarily leading to reform making the breakthrough is it might— reform making the breakthrough is it might need in the first past the post— might need in the first past the post system to get seats in parliament.— post system to get seats in parliament. ., ., , , post system to get seats in parliament. . . , , . parliament. sonia, it has been a busy week- _ parliament. sonia, it has been a busy week. what _ parliament. sonia, it has been a busy week. what is _ parliament. sonia, it has been a busy week. what is your - parliament. sonia, it has been a busy week. what is your take i parliament. sonia, it has been aj busy week. what is your take on parliament. sonia, it has been a i busy week. what is your take on the key moments we have seen? i busy week. what is your take on 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defining moment of this election— really defining moment of this election and _ really defining moment of this election and the _ really defining moment of this election and the reason - really defining moment of this election and the reason is i really defining moment of thisj election and the reason is that really defining moment of this . election and the reason is that it reveals — election and the reason is that it reveals something _ election and the reason is that it reveals something very - election and the reason is that it. reveals something very important about _ reveals something very important about the — reveals something very important about the prime _ reveals something very important about the prime minister's - reveals something very important i about the prime minister'sjudgment. he didn't _ about the prime minister'sjudgment. he didn't see — about the prime minister'sjudgment. he didn't see how— about the prime minister'sjudgment. he didn't see how important - about the prime minister'sjudgment. he didn't see how important it- about the prime minister'sjudgment. he didn't see how important it was. he didn't see how important it was for him _ he didn't see how important it was for him to— he didn't see how important it was for him to be — he didn't see how important it was for him to be there _ he didn't see how important it was for him to be there alongside i he didn't see how important it was| for him to be there alongside other international— for him to be there alongside other international leaders— for him to be there alongside other international leaders at _ for him to be there alongside other international leaders at that - international leaders at that ceremony— international leaders at that ceremony to _ international leaders at that ceremony to commemorate | international leaders at that i ceremony to commemorate the international leaders at that - ceremony to commemorate the war dead. _ ceremony to commemorate the war dead. as — ceremony to commemorate the war dead. as aubrey— ceremony to commemorate the war dead. as aubrey has _ ceremony to commemorate the war dead. as aubrey has said, - ceremony to commemorate the war dead. as aubrey has said, the i ceremony to commemorate the war dead. as aubrey has said, the reall dead. as aubrey has said, the real significance — dead. as aubrey has said, the real significance of— dead. as aubrey has said, the real significance of nigel— dead. as aubrey has said, the real significance of nigel farage - dead. as aubrey has said, the real significance of nigel farage we i dead. as aubrey has said, the realj significance of nigel farage we are assuming — significance of nigel farage we are assuming leadership— significance of nigel farage we are assuming leadership of— significance of nigel farage we are assuming leadership of reform, i assuming leadership of reform, standing — assuming leadership of reform, standing for _ assuming leadership of reform, standing for parliament, - assuming leadership of reform, standing for parliament, is- assuming leadership of reform, standing for parliament, is that| assuming leadership of reform, i standing for parliament, is that you will see _ standing for parliament, is that you will see them — standing for parliament, is that you will see them take _ standing for parliament, is that you will see them take more _ standing for parliament, is that you will see them take more seats. i standing for parliament, is that you will see them take more seats. the other— will see them take more seats. the other big _ will see them take more seats. the other big difference _ will see them take more seats. the other big difference from _ will see them take more seats. the other big difference from 2019 i will see them take more seats. the other big difference from 2019 is. other big difference from 2019 is that reform _ other big difference from 2019 is that reform are _ other big difference from 2019 is that reform are putting - other big difference from 2019 is. that reform are putting candidates in conservative _ that reform are putting candidates in conservative held _ that reform are putting candidates in conservative held seats - that reform are putting candidates in conservative held seats so - that reform are putting candidates in conservative held seats so the l in conservative held seats so the conservatives _ in conservative held seats so the conservatives are _ in conservative held seats so the conservatives are very— in conservative held seats so the conservatives are very much - conservatives are very much protected _ conservatives are very much protected from _ conservatives are very much protected from that - conservatives are very much protected from that reform | conservatives are very much - protected from that reform effect in 2019 because — protected from that reform effect in 2019 because they— protected from that reform effect in 2019 because they were _ protected from that reform effect in 2019 because they were not - protected from that reform effect in 2019 because they were not facing . 2019 because they were not facing those _ 2019 because they were not facing those candidates. _ 2019 because they were not facing those candidates. this _ 2019 because they were not facing those candidates. this time - 2019 because they were not facing those candidates. this time they. 2019 because they were not facing . those candidates. this time they are and i_ those candidates. this time they are and i think— those candidates. this time they are and i think aubrey _ those candidates. this time they are and i think aubrey is _ those candidates. this time they are and i think aubrey is right, - those candidates. this time they are and i think aubrey is right, we - those candidates. this time they are and i think aubrey is right, we will. and i think aubrey is right, we will not necessarily— and i think aubrey is right, we will not necessarily see _ and i think aubrey is right, we will not necessarily see that _ and i think aubrey is right, we will not necessarily see that translate i not necessarily see that translate into seats — not necessarily see that translate into seats for _ not necessarily see that translate into seats for reform _ not necessarily see that translate into seats for reform but - not necessarily see that translate into seats for reform but they. not necessarily see that translate i into seats for reform but they will take votes — into seats for reform but they will take votes from _ into seats for reform but they will take votes from the _ into seats for reform but they will take votes from the conservativesi take votes from the conservatives and make — take votes from the conservatives and make it — take votes from the conservatives and make it easier— take votes from the conservatives and make it easier therefore - take votes from the conservatives and make it easier therefore for. and make it easier therefore for labour— and make it easier therefore for labour to— and make it easier therefore for labour to win _ and make it easier therefore for labour to win it _ and make it easier therefore for labour to win it so— and make it easier therefore for labour to win it so they - and make it easier therefore for labour to win it so they will - and make it easier therefore for| labour to win it so they will give labour— labour to win it so they will give labour arr— labour to win it so they will give labour an advantage _ labour to win it so they will give labour an advantage in - labour to win it so they will give labour an advantage in labour. labour an advantage in labour conservative _ labour an advantage in labour conservative marginal- labour an advantage in labour conservative marginal seats. i labour an advantage in labour. conservative marginal seats. the labour an advantage in labour- conservative marginal seats. the net effect _ conservative marginal seats. the net effect of— conservative marginal seats. the net effect of nigel — conservative marginal seats. the net effect of nigel farage _ conservative marginal seats. the net effect of nigel farage will _ conservative marginal seats. the net effect of nigel farage will probably. effect of nigel farage will probably be to boost— effect of nigel farage will probably be to boost the _ effect of nigel farage will probably be to boost the size _ effect of nigel farage will probably be to boost the size of _ effect of nigel farage will probably be to boost the size of the - effect of nigel farage will probably be to boost the size of the labourl be to boost the size of the labour majority, — be to boost the size of the labour majority, so — be to boost the size of the labour majority, so att— be to boost the size of the labour majority, so all in _ be to boost the size of the labour majority, so all in all _ be to boost the size of the labour majority, so all in all a _ be to boost the size of the labour majority, so all in all a very- be to boost the size of the labour majority, so all in all a very bad . majority, so all in all a very bad week— majority, so all in all a very bad week for— majority, so all in all a very bad week for the _ majority, so all in all a very bad week for the conservatives. - majority, so all in all a very bad week for the conservatives. aubrey, one of the phrases _ week for the conservatives. aubrey, one of the phrases we _ week for the conservatives. aubrey, one of the phrases we hear - week for the conservatives. aubrey, one of the phrases we hear a - week for the conservatives. aubrey, one of the phrases we hear a lot, i one of the phrases we hear a lot, awful phrase, is cooked through. how much of the chat in the westminster bubble and all of this actually reaches people at home —— cut—through. not least rishi sunak�*s absence from the latter part of the d—day celebrations but also the election debate. how much do you think the debate that was broadcast on friday actually made a difference to voters' minds? it is on friday actually made a difference to voters' minds?— to voters' minds? it is a really interesting — to voters' minds? it is a really interesting question _ to voters' minds? it is a really interesting question and - to voters' minds? it is a really interesting question and to i to voters' minds? it is a really interesting question and to be honest— interesting question and to be honest both parties are asking themselves it because the poles have been stubbornly not moving —— the bolts _ been stubbornly not moving —— the bolts have — been stubbornly not moving —— the polls have been not moving for 18 months _ polls have been not moving for 18 months since rishi sunak became prime _ months since rishi sunak became prime minster. during the heat of the election campaign, and certainly the election campaign, and certainly the conservative party were hoping they would have narrowed that breed. the thought that more people would like rishi _ the thought that more people would like rishi sunak's forensics style and people would buy into his claims but that— and people would buy into his claims but that has not been borne out in the potting — but that has not been borne out in the polling so we suspected probably take three or four days for the major— take three or four days for the major news events, including things like rishi _ major news events, including things like rishi sunak singh the final part of— like rishi sunak singh the final part of the d—day commemorations and tv debates _ part of the d—day commemorations and tv debates devoted to the public consciousness and for us to be able to measure. — consciousness and for us to be able to measure, has there been an impact? — to measure, has there been an impact? probably slightly too early to tell, _ impact? probably slightly too early to tell, but certainly aren't rishi sunak's— to tell, but certainly aren't rishi sunak's actions there was a conservative mp who said this will realty— conservative mp who said this will really stick in the point of people i really stick in the point of people i spoke _ really stick in the point of people i spoke to — really stick in the point of people i spoke to. theresa may in 2017, commemorating victims of grenfell tower— commemorating victims of grenfell tower fire, — commemorating victims of grenfell tower fire, the queen stepped into the breach— tower fire, the queen stepped into the breach and in this case it was rishi _ the breach and in this case it was rishi suhak— the breach and in this case it was rishi sunak —— keir starmer meeting people _ rishi sunak —— keir starmer meeting people rishi sunak could have otherwise done on wednesday. this will be _ otherwise done on wednesday. this will be remembered as a really significant moment. the tv debate is interesting _ significant moment. the tv debate is interesting. mostly about whether we are irr— interesting. mostly about whether we are in post _ interesting. mostly about whether we are in post tbh for these debates. i beobte _ are in post tbh for these debates. i people much more attuned to social media _ people much more attuned to social media and _ people much more attuned to social media and getting their news that way? _ media and getting their news that way? the — media and getting their news that way? the political market is probably— way? the political market is probably very grateful that the social — probably very grateful that the social media clips are being picked up social media clips are being picked up but _ social media clips are being picked up but i _ social media clips are being picked up but i people getting tuned in and making _ up but i people getting tuned in and making up— up but i people getting tuned in and making up their minds question at three _ making up their minds question at three weeks to go so i suspect most people _ three weeks to go so i suspect most people witt— three weeks to go so i suspect most people will still be tuning in. picking — people will still be tuning in. picking up on that point from aubrey , sonia sodha. , sonia a picking up on that point from aubrey , sonia a lot of the impact is through those very short meme clips for example that labour has been putting on tiktok, getting traction. some of the conservatives' videos have had a significant number of views. in a week when the manifestos are launched, how much difference does the detail, the fine print that we get this week, make, given that attention spans are perhaps shorter than they were?— attention spans are perhaps shorter than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends _ than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends a _ than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends a lot _ than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends a lot what _ than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends a lot what is _ than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends a lot what is in - than they were? yeah, and i think it also depends a lot what is in the - also depends a lot what is in the manifestos— also depends a lot what is in the manifestos and _ also depends a lot what is in the manifestos and whether- also depends a lot what is in the manifestos and whether there i also depends a lot what is in the i manifestos and whether there are also depends a lot what is in the - manifestos and whether there are any surprises _ manifestos and whether there are any surprises i_ manifestos and whether there are any surprises idon't _ manifestos and whether there are any surprises. i don't think— manifestos and whether there are any surprises. i don't think there - manifestos and whether there are any surprises. i don't think there are - surprises. i don't think there are going _ surprises. i don't think there are going to — surprises. i don't think there are going to be _ surprises. i don't think there are going to be you _ surprises. i don't think there are going to be. you have _ surprises. idon't think there are going to be. you have both- surprises. i don't think there are . going to be. you have both parties trailing _ going to be. you have both parties trailing policies, _ going to be. you have both parties trailing policies, potential- trailing policies, potential policies _ trailing policies, potential policies that— trailing policies, potential policies that we _ trailing policies, potential policies that we might - trailing policies, potential| policies that we might see trailing policies, potential. policies that we might see in trailing policies, potential- policies that we might see in the manifestos— policies that we might see in the manifestos this _ policies that we might see in the manifestos this weekend. - policies that we might see in the manifestos this weekend. you i policies that we might see in the - manifestos this weekend. you know, it is quite _ manifestos this weekend. you know, it is quite unusual, _ manifestos this weekend. you know, it is quite unusual, i— manifestos this weekend. you know, it is quite unusual, i think, _ manifestos this weekend. you know, it is quite unusual, i think, for- manifestos this weekend. you know, it is quite unusual, i think, for a - it is quite unusual, i think, for a manifesto — it is quite unusual, i think, for a manifesto to _ it is quite unusual, i think, for a manifesto to really— it is quite unusual, i think, for a manifesto to really make - it is quite unusual, i think, for a i manifesto to really make someone think. _ manifesto to really make someone think. oh. — manifesto to really make someone think. oh. i— manifesto to really make someone think, oh, i might— manifesto to really make someone think, oh, i might vote— manifesto to really make someone think, oh, i might vote for- manifesto to really make someone think, oh, i might vote for this - think, oh, i might vote forthis party— think, oh, i might vote forthis party now _ think, oh, i might vote forthis party now. we _ think, oh, i might vote forthis party now. we saw _ think, oh, i might vote forthis party now. we saw in - think, oh, i might vote forthis party now. we saw in 2019 - think, oh, i might vote for this l party now. we saw in 2019 there think, oh, i might vote for this - party now. we saw in 2019 there was a very— party now. we saw in 2019 there was a very packed — party now. we saw in 2019 there was a very packed manifesto _ party now. we saw in 2019 there was a very packed manifesto for - party now. we saw in 2019 there was a very packed manifesto for labour, l a very packed manifesto for labour, promising _ a very packed manifesto for labour, promising lots— a very packed manifesto for labour, promising lots of— a very packed manifesto for labour, promising lots of things _ a very packed manifesto for labour, promising lots of things including i promising lots of things including free broadband _ promising lots of things including free broadband and _ promising lots of things including free broadband and the _ promising lots of things including free broadband and the voters i free broadband and the voters decided — free broadband and the voters decided labour— free broadband and the voters decided labour couldn't - free broadband and the voters' decided labour couldn't deliver free broadband and the voters - decided labour couldn't deliver it. i decided labour couldn't deliver it. i suspect— decided labour couldn't deliver it. i suspect the _ decided labour couldn't deliver it. i suspect the labour— decided labour couldn't deliver it. i suspect the labour manifesto, . i suspect the labour manifesto, published — i suspect the labour manifesto, published next _ i suspect the labour manifesto, published next week, _ i suspect the labour manifesto, published next week, there - i suspect the labour manifesto, published next week, there are| i suspect the labour manifesto, . published next week, there are not going _ published next week, there are not going to _ published next week, there are not going to be — published next week, there are not going to be surprises— published next week, there are not going to be surprises in— published next week, there are not going to be surprises in it. - published next week, there are not going to be surprises in it. labour. going to be surprises in it. labour has been — going to be surprises in it. labour has been very— going to be surprises in it. labour has been very deliberately - going to be surprises in it. labouri has been very deliberately running guite _ has been very deliberately running quite a _ has been very deliberately running quite a risk— has been very deliberately running quite a risk averse _ has been very deliberately running quite a risk averse incremental- quite a risk averse incremental campaign. _ quite a risk averse incremental campaign, very— quite a risk averse incremental campaign, very cautious - quite a risk averse incremental. campaign, very cautious because quite a risk averse incremental- campaign, very cautious because it wants— campaign, very cautious because it wants the — campaign, very cautious because it wants the country— campaign, very cautious because it wants the country to _ campaign, very cautious because it wants the country to trust - campaign, very cautious because it wants the country to trust the - campaign, very cautious because it| wants the country to trust the party when _ wants the country to trust the party when it _ wants the country to trust the party when it comes _ wants the country to trust the party when it comes to _ wants the country to trust the party when it comes to handling - wants the country to trust the party when it comes to handling the - when it comes to handling the economy— when it comes to handling the economy and _ when it comes to handling the economy and every— when it comes to handling the economy and every policy- when it comes to handling the economy and every policy will| when it comes to handling the . economy and every policy will be fully costed, _ economy and every policy will be fully costed, it _ economy and every policy will be fully costed, it says. _ economy and every policy will be fully costed, it says. there - economy and every policy will be fully costed, it says. there won't be any _ fully costed, it says. there won't be any big — fully costed, it says. there won't be any big surprises _ fully costed, it says. there won't be any big surprises in _ fully costed, it says. there won't be any big surprises in it- fully costed, it says. there won't be any big surprises in it but- fully costed, it says. there won't be any big surprises in it but i. be any big surprises in it but i don't — be any big surprises in it but i don't think— be any big surprises in it but i don't think they _ be any big surprises in it but i don't think they want - be any big surprises in it but i don't think they want there i be any big surprises in it but ij don't think they want there to be any big surprises in it but i. don't think they want there to be because — don't think they want there to be because they _ don't think they want there to be because they want _ don't think they want there to be because they want the _ don't think they want there to be | because they want the electorate don't think they want there to be i because they want the electorate to look at _ because they want the electorate to look at the — because they want the electorate to look at the manifesto _ because they want the electorate to look at the manifesto and _ because they want the electorate to look at the manifesto and say - look at the manifesto and say they're — look at the manifesto and say they're are _ look at the manifesto and say they're are good _ look at the manifesto and say they're are good ideas - look at the manifesto and say they're are good ideas but - look at the manifesto and say. they're are good ideas but they look at the manifesto and say - they're are good ideas but they are incremental— they're are good ideas but they are incremental and _ they're are good ideas but they are incremental and i— they're are good ideas but they are incremental and i believe - they're are good ideas but they are incremental and i believe that - incremental and i believe that labour— incremental and i believe that labour can— incremental and i believe that labour can deliver— incremental and i believe that labour can deliver them. - incremental and i believe that labour can deliver them. so. incremental and i believe that labour can deliver them. so i| incremental and i believe that - labour can deliver them. so i doubt the manifestos— labour can deliver them. so i doubt the manifestos will— labour can deliver them. so i doubt the manifestos will change - labour can deliver them. so i doubt the manifestos will change very - the manifestos will change very much — the manifestos will change very much 0n— the manifestos will change very much 0n the _ the manifestos will change very much. 0n the debates, - the manifestos will change very much. 0n the debates, i- the manifestos will change very much. 0n the debates, i think. the manifestos will change very - much. 0n the debates, i think they can affect _ much. 0n the debates, i think they can affect an — much. 0n the debates, i think they can affect an election _ much. 0n the debates, i think they can affect an election campaign - much. 0n the debates, i think theyj can affect an election campaign but very few— can affect an election campaign but very few people _ can affect an election campaign but very few people will— can affect an election campaign but very few people will watch - can affect an election campaign but very few people will watch a - can affect an election campaign butj very few people will watch a debate and make _ very few people will watch a debate and make up — very few people will watch a debate and make up their— very few people will watch a debate and make up their minds based - very few people will watch a debate and make up their minds based oni very few people will watch a debate l and make up their minds based on an houror— and make up their minds based on an houror90— and make up their minds based on an houror 90 minutes— and make up their minds based on an houror 90 minutes of— and make up their minds based on an hour or 90 minutes of tv. _ and make up their minds based on an hour or 90 minutes of tv. i— and make up their minds based on an hour or 90 minutes of tv. ithink- hour or 90 minutes of tv. i think when _ hour or 90 minutes of tv. i think when they— hour or 90 minutes of tv. i think when they do— hour or 90 minutes of tv. i think when they do make _ hour or 90 minutes of tv. i think when they do make a _ hour or 90 minutes of tv. i think when they do make a difference i hour or 90 minutes of tv. i thinki when they do make a difference is when _ when they do make a difference is when there — when they do make a difference is when there is— when they do make a difference is when there is a _ when they do make a difference is when there is a big _ when they do make a difference is when there is a big news - when they do make a difference is when there is a big news story- when they do make a difference is when there is a big news story out of it and _ when there is a big news story out of it and i— when there is a big news story out of it and i think— when there is a big news story out of it and i think the _ when there is a big news story out of it and i think the one _ when there is a big news story out of it and i think the one thing - when there is a big news story out of it and i think the one thing that| of it and i think the one thing that people _ of it and i think the one thing that people will— of it and i think the one thing that people will have _ of it and i think the one thing that people will have noticed - of it and i think the one thing that people will have noticed about. of it and i think the one thing thati people will have noticed about this last week— people will have noticed about this last week of— people will have noticed about this last week of debates _ people will have noticed about this last week of debates between - people will have noticed about this i last week of debates between leaders was the _ last week of debates between leaders was the row— last week of debates between leaders was the row about _ last week of debates between leaders was the row about the _ last week of debates between leaders was the row about the £2000, - last week of debates between leaders was the row about the £2000, what l was the row about the £2000, what labour— was the row about the £2000, what labour says — was the row about the £2000, what labour says is — was the row about the £2000, what labour says is a _ was the row about the £2000, what labour says is a lie _ was the row about the £2000, what labour says is a lie about _ was the row about the £2000, what labour says is a lie about their- labour says is a lie about their spending — labour says is a lie about their spending plans~ _ labour says is a lie about their spending plans. that- labour says is a lie about their spending plans. that was - labour says is a lie about theirj spending plans. that was what dominated _ spending plans. that was what dominated the _ spending plans. that was what dominated the news _ spending plans. that was whati dominated the news headlines. spending plans. that was what . dominated the news headlines. i think— dominated the news headlines. i think it _ dominated the news headlines. i think it may— dominated the news headlines. i think it may make _ dominated the news headlines. i think it may make a _ dominated the news headlines. i think it may make a difference . think it may make a difference through— think it may make a difference through a _ think it may make a difference through a vehicle _ think it may make a difference through a vehicle like - think it may make a difference through a vehicle like that. - think it may make a difference through a vehicle like that. aubrey, lookin: through a vehicle like that. aubrey, looking ahead _ through a vehicle like that. aubrey, looking ahead to _ through a vehicle like that. aubrey, looking ahead to the _ through a vehicle like that. aubrey, looking ahead to the manifestos . through a vehicle like that. aubrey, | looking ahead to the manifestos and the policies being set out, what do you think is going to be the issue that resonates most with voters, notwithstanding the points sonia made about perhaps the detail not reaching people. do you think cost of living, climate, immigration, what do you think are going to be the key point is that all parties... we have talked a lot about labour and the conservatives, but all parties, what do you think will be the standout one? the parties, what do you think will be the standout one?— parties, what do you think will be the standout one? the cost of living and the economy _ the standout one? the cost of living and the economy still— the standout one? the cost of living and the economy still polls - the standout one? the cost of living and the economy still polls highestl and the economy still polls highest as a due _ and the economy still polls highest as a due container voters. labour manifesto, — as a due container voters. labour manifesto, public services at the heart _ manifesto, public services at the heart of — manifesto, public services at the heart of the office, 40,000 more gp appointments every week, and trying to boost— appointments every week, and trying to boost the number of teachers in schools. _ to boost the number of teachers in schools. as — to boost the number of teachers in schools, as well. obviously the backdrop — schools, as well. obviously the backdrop to all of this is that there — backdrop to all of this is that there is— backdrop to all of this is that there is quite a difficult economic context — there is quite a difficult economic context. so whichever party goes into government afterjuly the 5th is going _ into government afterjuly the 5th is going to have quite limited room for manoeuvre to be able to do things— for manoeuvre to be able to do things they want to. the conservatives have been talking a lot about — conservatives have been talking a lot about tax cuts about their next agenda, _ lot about tax cuts about their next agenda, and while we saw the cuts to national— agenda, and while we saw the cuts to national insurance in the november budget— national insurance in the november budget last year and again in march this year. _ budget last year and again in march this year. it— budget last year and again in march this year, it was not quite clear that— this year, it was not quite clear that that — this year, it was not quite clear that that was resonating with voters — that that was resonating with voters. they certainly have concerns about _ voters. they certainly have concerns about the _ voters. they certainly have concerns about the cost of living and the economy— about the cost of living and the economy but i think they are looking to political— economy but i think they are looking to political parties to be quite serious — to political parties to be quite serious and tell them the truth about— serious and tell them the truth about the _ serious and tell them the truth about the extent of the difficulties they will— about the extent of the difficulties they will face if they come into office. — they will face if they come into office, and what they can and cannot fix. office, and what they can and cannot fix~ if _ office, and what they can and cannot fix~ if they— office, and what they can and cannot fix. if they cannot fix it, how long it will— fix. if they cannot fix it, how long it will take — fix. if they cannot fix it, how long it will take to do that even if it is not — it will take to do that even if it is not in — it will take to do that even if it is not in a _ it will take to do that even if it is not in a single parliament. aubrey— is not in a single parliament. aubrey allegretti, chief political correspondent at the times, and sonia sodha, a former labour adviser and observer columnist, thank you to you both. the pressure on public services is a key election issue and in an effort to understand the challenges they're under, we're going to be reporting on three key areas over the coming days — education, courts and social care. this morning we're focusing on schools and their struggle to address a range of social issues beyond teaching. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has been to one primary school in telford where teachers are helping with potty training and basic communication.. which column do i start with? you add these for me. a simple maths lesson — a familiar part of the school day for most pupils. fantastic. move onto the next one. but increasingly in classrooms are children who struggle to simply be in school. 50p! in early years, we have a number of children who struggle with basic communication, stringing a sentence together. "please can i go to the toilet?", "can i have a drink?" — they're sentences that we have to teach our children how to say. london academy is a small primary school in a relatively deprived area of telford. almost half the pupils are on free school meals. the lack of communication skills means the school has to teach makaton — a basic form of sign language. but that's not all. we have intimate care plans for a number of our children. we change the children. we also try and teach them how to go to the toilet, as well — so we try to do some of that potty training — but we do have children still in nappies in our early years environment. eight were in nappies. louise says her last september, of the 27 children who joined london academy's reception class, eight were in nappies. louise says her son wasn't potty trained when he started school. he was quite late in everything, really! he wasn't ready, so... and then we felt when he was ready, then school helped with that. had you tried to get him toilet trained before he came to school? i had, yeah, and he — there wasjust no interest at all from him to try that. the parents have nothing but praise for the school, but a chat with them reveals why schools increasingly struggle to focus solely on educating children. my oldest daughter, i've just — i've pulled her out of school. i home—educate my eldest one now. how old is she? 14. cos she was self—harming, bullying, due to her mental health. right. but now she's at home, she does her work. she's happy, she's eating, she's sleeping. it's great. my wife has borderline personality disorder. all right, ok. so there's a lot of stress and emotional mental health. so that was affecting the children, their upbringing, the things that were going on. so we've had help from the social services, help my wife get back to where she wants to be, but also guide the children into a better life. and that was through the school? through the school, yeah. london academy is part of a 13—school multi—academy trust. its head says long—standing challenges caused by tight budgets have been exacerbated by covid and cost—of—living pressures. coming out of the pandemic, children are quite often more anxious about large social situations because people were out of that for a while — and at quite formative stages in their education and in their own personal development. i think, ultimately, when children are coming to school more hungry, that's probably having a bigger impact as an ongoing thing. i think we would have recovered quicker if it hadn't been for those issues. so this is our food hub. to help its families, the learning community trust has a food bank run by nikki morrison. i went out to do a visit myself. the children in the house were having weetabix with tap water. she leads the trust welfare team, who spend a lot of their time providing emotional and psychological support to hundreds of pupils. but nikki wonders what'll happen to them once they're older. a lot of support is in place for children through the school system, but when they leave school, that support starts to peter off. somebody's going to have to pick up that group of children when they leave school, and then try to put the support in then to enable them to be productive and functional members of society. the challenges in telford are, of course, nationwide — how to help the many children who can't cope with school cope with life. michael buchanan, bbc news, telford. it is coming up to 833. sunday with laura kuenssberg is on bbc one at 9:00 this morning. let's find out what she has in store. the pace of the race for number 10 is getting quicker and quicker and quicker. after a terrible few days for the tories, we'll be asking this morning how they can turn things around — or if they can. the man who's making so many conservatives nervous is nigel farage — the leader of reform uk. he'lljoin us live along with labour, conservative and snp politicians, and a fantastic panel to boot. so join me over on bbc one at 9:00. see you then. as the uk election campaign continue we want your help in how we cover it. the bbc has launched 'your voice, your vote' so you can tell us the issues that matter to you. our reporter amanda parr has been to kingswood to speak to first time voters and hear their thoughts on the election.. thanks for having us. first—time voters. so have you registered. you registered yet? not yet. but you know your deadline. yeah. yeah, ok, good. i have. you have? brownie points to you. so you wanted to talk to me today about mental health. why is this a burning issue for you all this election? so it's such a relevant topic to everyone — it affects everyone — and it really impacts young people in their school life, in life in general. so it's really important that it's, like, more covered. i feel like the lack of support, or i feel like as life goes and, like, families, and obviously there's, like, a lot of negative things happen in people's lives. a lot of it kind of builds up to, like, what happens in the future and it really impacts the social life — whether they're doing, like, more knife crime orjust out more on the street. so there's not really enough support from the government and just education itself. lack of nhs funding with, like, mental health support. there's so many, like, really long waiting lists for mental health support, counselling, therapy. it's... it's got to change, you know? we want it... we really want it to change. i would sometimes link it to crime. and, you know, seeing as crime has become a really big issue in the recent years, i think there's a lot we could do to prevent it, rather than stop it — - preventing it better than the cure. so i think that's something . we could focus on, especially putting counsellors in schools - and helping them identify students that could be vulnerable to, - you know, mental health conditions and even criminal environments. so what do you want to see from the politicians? what do you want to hear in terms of policies — things that will make you vote for them? increase funding in schools to allow younger people to be able to find . other ways out instead of being, you know, picked up _ by gangs and violence. and really, like, say what they're going to change instead ofjust kind of...like, saying in a such a general way. i think being specific with it will really help people understand what they are voting for. you're obviously very switched on, and you're giving this election a lot of head space. how important do you think it is that young people do as you are doing? really important, i think. because, i mean, it's the future of our country and our lives. i mean, what's more important than that, right? and i think if we make our voices heard, we could make so much positive change to so many people. young people don't get, you know, the attention| of many of the policies in their manifestos. i and that means, you know, - we lose out in the end if we're not voting and we're not- making our voices heard. well, guys, it's great to meet you today. good to talk. and thank you for adding your voices to the debate. no problem. thank you. that report from amanda parr. you can find a full list of the candidates standing in the kingswood constituency on the bbc news website. and if you have a question for a politician or perhaps an issue that you're concerned about...(tx you can get in touch as part of 'your voice, your vote' — by scannig this qr code — or go to bbc.co.uk/news on your phone, tablet or laptop. time now for us to get the sport and hewittjoins us. focusing on cricket... england against pakistan later and they only play each other in these global tournaments because of all of the issues that everyone watching will understand. thea;r of all of the issues that everyone watching will understand. they are -la in: in watching will understand. they are playing in new _ watching will understand. they are playing in new york. _ watching will understand. they are playing in new york. they'll- watching will understand. they are playing in new york. they'll be - playing in new york. they'll be 30,000 plus people watching there. scotland play in a manner later on and that is important to england who lost their big rivalry match last night to australia. it means that they are in some peril as they want to defend this trophy successfully because they might not even make the next stage because currently the start that england has had of two matches and no wins has put their chances of making that suit a stage in doubt. put into bat in barbados... david warner and travis head made a flying start — 70 without loss in the 5th over — australia reaching 201 for 7 from their 20 overs. in reply, england started strongly, captainjos buttler top scoring with 42 but they lost wickets at regular intervals and they ultimately fell well short of their target, losing by 36 runs. the situation we find ourselves in is the situation we find ourselves in. we've got to be confident, keep our heads up, and look forward to the next one, and keep puffing our chest out and play some really good cricket — which we know we're capable of. south africa remain top of their group after surviving a scare against the netherlands. chasing 104 to win, they were 12 for 4 at one stage. but they managed the run chase well — an unbeaten 59 off 51 balls from david miller saw south africa win by four wickets... while overnight uganda were bowled out forjust 39 in their defeat to west indies. northampton's 10 year wait for a league title is over after the saints won a dramatic premiership final at twickenham. alex mitchell scored the winning try against bath... who were down to 14 men... with just seven minutes left as northampton claimed their second championship... and a perfect send off for the departing courtenay lawes after 17 years with the club... it's not really sunk in yet, i think, because we've been so focused on this for so long. and then during the game i thought, "let's just get the win — whatever, however you can," kind of thing. and then you get there and you're like, "oh... have we done it?" do you know i mean? but, no, its class. can't really put it into words. and i think we deserved it — i think over the season we've been the best team, and sometimes you got to find a way to win. social media tells us that those goggles were there because of all of the champagne that was spraying in the champagne that was spraying in the dressing room post—match. traditionally rugby league's big day of the year... the challenge cup final was a fitting occasion to pay tribute to rob burrow... and as the sport said goodbye to one of its legends... on the pitch wigan warriors beat warrington wolves at wembley to win the trophy for a 2ist time. after two first half tries captain liam farrell took wigan out of reach as he touched down to help seal an 18—8 win. matt peet�*s side now hold all four major honors in the league leaders' shield, the super league title, the world club challenge... while they'rejoint top of the current league table too... pretty surreal. we haven't really spoken about it, truthfully, until the beginning of this week. to hold all four trophies — i think there's only a couple of other teams ever done it, so a very big achievement for ourselves. and, yeah, we're in a great place at the moment. look, the year's not over — we've got... there's a lot of rugby left in us, so... don't get me wrong, we'll celebrate this rightly, next couple of days, but then it'll be back to business after that. st helens made it four straight women's challenge cup final victories as they comfortably beat leeds rhinos. rob burrow�*s old side were looking for inspiration on the wembley stage but came up short... saints running in four tries without reply to lift the trophy once again as they beat the rhinos for the third final running i think the only thing better than doing it the first time is going to be doing it the second time. like that... that is an amazing leeds side — to stop them from scoring with the pressure they had early on — honestly, i couldn't be prouder. we said... we spoke about, we were doing it for each other. every time you couldn't think of taking on the ball and you're doing it for the person next to you. there's people out there that didn't win it last year, and they've done it now and they're going to be champions. after a disappointing start to the french open for british singles players the tournament ended on a high with alfie hewett and gordon reid winning the men's wheelchair doubles title for a fifth successive year. another serial winner is iga swiatek. atjust 23 years of age she's a french open singles winner for the fourth time. the pole continued her recent dominance on the roland garros clay with a straight sets win against first time major finalist jasmine paolini of italy. it was swiatek�*s third title in a row in paris and a fifth grand slam triumph overall. it's the turn of the men this afternoon — with carlos alcaraz taking on germany's alexander zverev. it's the first time either man has reached the final in paris. zverev is searching for his first grand slam title... whilst alcaraz is going for his third and hoping tojoin an illustrious list of spaniards to have won the title at roland garros. and i wanted you to put my name on that list of the spanish players who won this tournament. not only rafa — but ferrero, moya, costa — a lot of the spanish players that are legends from our sport won this tournament. and i really want you to put my name on that list, as well. i think in a grand semi final, there's obviously no easy matches and no easy opponents. and if you're... if you're in the final of roland garros, you deserve to be there. and that goes for him, as well — he played a fantastic match today. you know, played a fantastic tournament in general, i think, and i'm expecting a very difficult match. it's the final few days of pre—euros friendies... and spain appear to be in good form... although it was northern ireland that bore the brunt of it. not immediately though... sunderland defender daniel ballard gave northern ireland a shock lead just 67 seconds after kick off in majorca. but things soon turned... as they conceded four goals in the first half and eventually lost 5—1. northern ireland should have an easier game against andorra on tuesday. spain face a far sterner test in their opening match of the euros against croatia on saturday. great britain have won their first medals at the european athletics championships in rome... with romell glave taking bronze in the 100 metres. (tx the race was won by olympic champion marceljacobs in a time of 10.02 seconds as he successfully defended his european sprint title on a golden night for hosts italy in rome... who won three medals. it's glaves first championship medal. george mills won silver in the men's 5000 meters, finishing behind norwegian star jakob ingebrigtsen. mills is the son of former england internationalfootballer danny mills and he's now got his sights set on the paris olympics next month. so i want to run the 15 and the five in paris, and hopefully tonight is my chances of selection. no harm. but, yeah, we'll see — there's still a month out — or three weeks out — till trials, so straight back to training as of probably tonight and tomorrow, and then we get stuck in. primoz roglic looks like he's coming into form just in time for the tour de france. the slovenian... who's recovering from a serious crash during a race two months ago... won the hardest stage of the criterium du dauphine. it was his second stage win in two days... and he leads byjust over a minute going into today's final stage. dutch cyclist lorena viebers claimed victory on stage three of the women's tour of britain which started and finished in warrington. her team mate world champion lotte kopecky retained her 17 second lead over britain's anna henderson. and it looks like the mercedes formula one team could be challenging for race wins again after george russell claimed pole for this evening's canadian grand prix. the briton recorded a time of one minute and 12 seconds exactly on his first run in the final session of qualifying in montreal. championship leader max verstappen posted exactly the same time in his red bull... but because russell did it first he gets to start from the top spot forjust the second time in his career. it feels amazing, i mean, so much hard work back at the factory. so much hard work over all of these years, i've sort of been zigzagging around and changing the philosophy and concept and over the last 26 months those zigzags have got a bit smaller and narrower. the upgrades we brought last week in monaco and a few more bits on the car this week, really have transformed the car and it is feeling great. and, so good to claim this poll. that race plus indeed the men's final is part of your radio listening for the day. thank you very much _ listening for the day. thank you very much for— listening for the day. thank you very much for that, _ listening for the day. thank you very much for that, hugh. - listening for the day. thank you very much for that, hugh. time now 846 and they _ very much for that, hugh. time now 846 and they were _ very much for that, hugh. time now 846 and they were once _ very much for that, hugh. time now 846 and they were once a _ very much for that, hugh. time now 846 and they were once a common l 846 and they were once a common sight in our countryside and gardens but now the willow to it is said to be at the risk of extinction after numbers declined by as much as 90% over the last five decades. in response, a team of conservationists and volunteers across the north of england have hatched a plan to rescue the reclusive species, as our correspondent judy hobson explains. these tiny birds were once regular visitors to our gardens. but not any more. in greater manchester alone, there are nowjust120 breeding pairs after suffering a huge decline over the past five decades. so we've got a lot of wetness here, water on this side and water on that side. damp, wet woodland is really what willow tits really like. now conservation volunteers in the north west are being asked to help rescue them. the project is called wet willow wildlife. so we're going to engage volunteers in surveying the willow tit populations across the north west. and once we've understood that population, we're going to use that information to design habitat interventions. astley moss has been identified as an area which could be restored to help the willow tit population. we need rotten deadwood like this in a woodland for willow tits to excavate, whereas, for example, this living tree here is pretty hard. so a willow tit wouldn't be able to excavate that for its nest. these birds are elusive and hard to spot. we didn't see any here today but they do have a distinctive call. willow tit beeps. willow tits are often in places really close to people's houses like in bolton and in trafford. you've got willow tits right in these scruffy pockets of woodland right behind people's houses and people just... they're an elusive bird so people don't know that they're there. this is a lowland rain bog site. but on the edges of it, we've got this kind of woodland habitat. volunteers are working with the wildlife trust with funding from the government species survival fund. they'll work with landowners to increase the willow tits' habitat, benefiting a host of other creatures into the bargain. it's quite often a habitat that's overlooked by people or undervalued. it's a bit scruffy looking, it's untidy, it's a bit wet and boggy, and it's a bit unloved. there are a number of factors for the willow tit to climb. quite possibly climate change is playing a part. some of the wetter habitats potentially might be drying up in the longer, hotter summers. it's a bird that doesn't move that far and we need to create these pockets of habitats, sort of stepping stones in a way across the landscape so that willow tits can move around and connect up. the wet willow wildlife project aims to boost the willow tit�*s chance of survival and halt the alarming decline in this once common bird. what we want to do is to make sure there's always a home for the willow tit in the west. it's a really iconic species and it really needs our help. judy hobson, bbc news. we did see some warm layers of clothing there because even though it is june we clothing there because even though it isjune we have not been able to put the jackets away just yet because it does not feel like summer! when do those bird—watchers get some slightly night said temperatures matt! i've been looking at the chart and there is not quite decided yet on the horizon. we will get there. things will get a little cooler over the next few days, can you believe it? just put it into context, the temperatures at this stage injune should be somewhere between 16 and 20 degrees but as we go through into the start of next week, they are going to be about four or 5 degrees below what we expect this time of year. when you have got the absence of any sunshine, so important for adding strength and warmth into the atmosphere, it will feel even chillier than that. we've got it all to blame with its area of low pressure, as it slowly meanders across the north atlantic and into scandinavia. as a more northerly wind develops. a weather system today which is going to take away some of the morning sunshine some of you have already been enjoying. the best of the sunshine across the central and southern areas but even here it will cloud over. north and central belt of scotland some sunny spells and a scattering of showers but that cloudier zone are particularly across the north of england, north midlands, north wales, patchy drizzle, south—west scotland to bet northern ireland the patchy drizzle replaced by the end of the afternoon. temperatures similar to yesterday but when the sun is gone it will feel cool. rain this evening in northern ireland but tonight some wetter weather spread eastwards across england and wales were some heavy bursts at times especially across north england and north midlands. and especially towards east anglia. it will clear up towards east anglia. it will clear up later on and will be a chilly night and temperatures in rural areas will get down to two or three degrees. northerly winds developing bitter cold and wet star developing to that week. rain lasting longer in east anglia but away from that, sunshine during the morning, some clouds building into the afternoon and some areas will stay dry. but it will feel chilly in that northerly breeze. whatever your plans for the weekend, enjoy! thanks very much, matt, see you. it's been incredible to see the outpouring of emotions and tributes for rugby league legend rob burrow who died of mnd at the age of 41 last week. it is hard to believe he is gone and if you have not seen it already do watch the documentary on iplayer at the moment. inspired by rob, a doctor diagnosed with motor neurone disease himself is taking on an epic challenge to raise money and awareness of the condition. our reporter katharine da costa met up with luke hames—brown during his training. initially, my symptoms started in my legs. it's progressed to my arms, my hands, my shoulders. luke hames—brown's already seeing the slow decline in his muscles, making it difficult to walk. he was only diagnosed with motor neurone disease in april last year. it's a fairly rare condition — it's not something you see a lot of in general practice...but certainly very aware of what that diagnosis meant. pretty devastating to hear that. certainly took some time to process that news, and what it meant for us and ourfamilies. having been an active snowboarder, surfer and walker, luke's used to challenging himself. but at 35, he's decided to leave his career as a gp to spend the time he has left with his wife and family. some of those numbers are very scary in people dying within two, three years of the diagnosis. the thing that we can try and do is pack in as much as we can in the next couple of years and hoping that it is slow and it continues to be slow and we have years rather than months. thank you. the couple is preparing to walk the length of hadrian's wall — covering around ten miles a day over eight days. this isn't about having to do it in the fastest possible time, it's about showing that i can still do these things i enjoy, and about hopefully helping other people to realise that, with adaptations, you can keep doing them. i can tell it will be really hard for him mentally and physically. so, as a team, i know that we'll get through it together — probably with lots of sweets and chocolate and tea breaks. they're raising money for the charity my name's doddie foundation, set up by the former scottish and british rugby legend doddie weir, who died from mnd in 2022. they're also donating funds to the mnd association — of which rob burrow was the patron. the rugby league star and his wife lindsey had agreed to meet with luke — to offer support and advice — before rob passed away. the way that he approached his diagnosis, and in being so open and candid about it in the public eye... ..has raised enormous awareness, which is so needed. and on a personal level, was inspirational to me. luke and kate will celebrate their second wedding anniversary while they're away — making memories and raising money for research into a cure along the way. katherine da costa, bbc news, in oxford. we wish him well with that challenge. a young lego fan has designed a spaceship which lit up the new york city skyline. ten—year—old lotty was one of six winners across the world who won a competition to design a spacecraft which was recreated by drones. corinne wheatley has more. mysterious lights over the new york skyline. not from outer space but definitely inspired by it. in fact, one of these designs came from somewhere much closer to home — a dining room table in kippax, west yorkshire. we had to break them ones to rebuild, but with what you've got on the table... you had to make a lego creation i would want to go to space in. you had to, in turn, tell it why you'd want to go in your creation. my design was a bed with butterfly wings, and fire coming out of the back, and then a snack drawer underneath it. both: five, four, three, two, one... lego—mad lottie won a trip to see her design lit up by drones — helping her dreams of space travel come alive. there's loads of planets that no—one's been to, and i would want to go discover some of the planets and see if there's life in any of them. not a lot of, like, girls have gone to space or been anywhere on the moon. and then it's always boys who go. er... you're doing it for the girls, aren't you? yeah. so how to build, then you can rebuild. when she's drawn on the piece of paper and it's gone from the paper to a real—life thing flown in the sky — it was just amazing. like you say, there was no words, you had to just stand in awe and look at it. she strives to do whatever she wants. but, yeah, it's just nice to see that she does want to go and push, don't you? follow your dreams. definitely. around 20,000 bikers have completed a mammoth ride from london to cumbria in memory of the tv chef dave myers, who died of cancer in february. the procession made its way to dave's home town of barrow after setting off from a famous biker hang—out, the ace cafe in north west london. our correspondent sharon barbour joined them on the journey. cheering. it's a big night in barrow — a celebration of the life of dave myers. tens of thousands have arrived — many of them hairy bikers. they're riding all the way up the m6. there was thousands of people on every bridge. it's unbelievable. as we were coming in through the towns and villages leading into barrow, just streets were lined and it was just amazing. the roar of tens of thousands of motorbikes — heard across england today — began to arrive late afternoon. the procession at times was 16 miles long, and the route was lined by supporters. leading the cavalcade that left london this morning was dave's best friend and fellow hairy biker— remarkable reception! just mind—blowing. all of the all the over—bridges, all the way from london to barrow in furness — people waving and showing kindness and courtesy and — oh! unbelievable! the tv chef died in february, after he was diagnosed with cancer. he was 66. sharon barbour, bbc news, cumbria. are perfect tribute. that's all from us this morning, but breakfast will be back tomorrow from six. enjoy the rest of your day. goodbye! who is on their way to number ten? the prime minister's had a dreadfulfew days after his d—day blunder. but the tories are still trying to torture labour with their disputed claims about tax. the power of the smaller parties has been centre stage. more antics on the trail, and full on farage making conservatives nervous. in the latest of our leader interviews, he joins us from essex. stephen flynn, the leader of the snp in westminster, joins us from aberdeen. and with all of us in the studio, mel stride, close ally of rishi sunak, the work and pensions secretary. and shabana mahmood, who'd be thejustice secretary if labour moves into number ten. welcome to you both, a rough week for you guys. welcome to you both, a rough week for you guys-— for you guys. we've got time, there are four weeks _ for you guys. we've got time, there are four weeks to _ for you guys. 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forward to hearing from you later in the programme. john curtice will give his 60 seconds on sunday need—to—know on the polls. now, as many as one in four 2019 tory voters are saying they will back reform. and our team at the desk for the next hour this week, amber rudd, former conservative minister and veteran of tv debates. matt wrack, the boss of the fire brigades union. and john caudwell, former tory donor billionaire. a warm welcome to all of you.

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