But what future do the People Living there now face . Youve got, like, a group of people now, who are so marginalised, which is the over 50, predominantly White Working Class man, who will never, ever work again. 3000 jobs went when the steel plant closed, we have an exclusive report from redcar. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. As we are each weekday. If you work for tesco, on the shop floor or in the warehouse do let me know. Is the job of someone who works in store, on the tills of equal worth to someone who works in the warehouse . And also, the high court will this morning hear the start of a legal challenge against the release of the black cab rapist, john worboys. Were you one of those who got into his cab and were targetted by him . Do get in touch and let me know the questions you want answered about why the parole board has made that decision to release him. You can get in touch anonymously. Our top story today. Tesco is facing britains largest equal pay law suit which could affect up to 200,000 mostly female shop floor workers. 0ur economics editor, kamal ahmed has got the latest. Tesco hasjoined a long list of organisations facing controversies over equal pay. Among retailers, asda and sainsbury are facing similar legal battles. Birmingham city council has already agreed to over £1 billion worth of payments for women cleaners and carers and the bbc has been accused of not paying men and women equally. Tesco, as one of the countrys largest employers, is now facing a series of test cases, which could lead to the largest equal pay claim in employment history. Lawyers for tescos supermarket workers said that female staff on hourly rates earn considerably less than men even though the value of the work is comparable. Kim element and pamjenkins have worked for tesco for over 20 years. I think that although we think we have equal rights, there are times where there are such discrepancies that you cant explain them. And i think tescos just one of Many Companies that arent addressing the fact that women seem to still be paid less. Tesco said that all their staff could progress equally and were paid fairly, whatever their gender or background. In a statement, the supermarket said this is the start of a long legal battle. Tesco just the latest business to be caught up in a fight over equal pay. Kamal is here. Is this just about tesco . Is thisjust about tesco . It isnt. This is a modern day dilemma for not just businesses but public authorities that have faced similar claims. Sainsbury s and asda are fighting similar claims. It comes down to this fundamental issue. Its not about to pay for the same job, which was the Carrie Gracie issue, which was the Carrie Gracie issue, which the bbc was facing. It is about to Business Value and public authorities valued jobs predominantly done by women in the same way they value jobs predominantly done by men. In this case shop working versus warehouse work. But if you think of professions that are mostly done by women, caring, catering, cleaning, they tend to be paid less than the type of jobs they tend to be paid less than the type ofjobs that are done in the main by men, lorry driving, warehouse work, bin collection. Is that a fundamental equal pay issue . Thats whats at the heart of this debate. A bit like the Birmingham CityCouncil Dinner ladies versus the bin men. Absolutely. What are tesco saying . It is interesting, the lawyer says tesco are actually a very good employer. They have done gender pay audits forjobs for women and men working in the same place in the business. This is a bigger structural issue. Tesco are saying we do approach these things equally, we do approach these things equally, we are an equal opportunities employer. We take gender very seriously. I think that is right. The issue for them is the same as many other businesses, there is a structural issue underlying this. The women that i spoke to us who are still working for tesco and have been working for tesco for over 20 yea rs, been working for tesco for over 20 years, you need great bravery to ta ke years, you need great bravery to take these type of cases. They will probably last for many, many years. The astor case has been going on for many years already. Women who fight these cases have to be ready for this huge battle because tesco knows if it loses, this liability could run to billions of pounds. Because we are talking about backpay . Backpay for up to six years, the people already retired could take a claim against tesco. There are over 200,000 shop workers that tesco employs in the uk, they are one. They are the countrys biggest private employer. Tesco has to make thisjudgment. It private employer. Tesco has to make this judgment. It gets accused of discrimination, which it denies, or it faces a huge bill. That is the big struggle for businesses, how do they move into the 21st century, valuing different types ofjobs equally without giving themselves these huge liabilities . Birmingham city council, which you touched on, has got a bill of over £1 billion. That needs to come from taxpayers, council tax payers. Theyve got to provide services. Tescos profits will be sucked up by £4 billion. That is the issue, many businesses are facing this challenge. Thank you. Annita is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. Good morning. Theresa may is to meet senior ministers later to try to agree the governments approach for phase. Lets talk to transition phase. Lets talk to norman smith, assistant Political Editor in westminster. Good morning. We know theres a difference of approach in government about what to do next what can we expect from today . Not very much i think is the honest answer. Despite the fact that we know business is screaming at the government to provide greater clarity, despite the fact that we know eu officials are saying to mrs may, come on, what do you want . The signs are that over the next two days of talks with senior ministers, we will not reach a final position. In part, thats because throughout this negotiation, we have shown our hand pretty late in the day. In part, its because the focus at the moment is on getting that transition deal, we have to get that first post but in part its because of the scale of divisions still between senior ministers, like philip hammond, the chancellor who say, look, weve got to stay close to the eu to minimise any potential damage to business. And those like Boris Johnson who say, weve got to cut free so we can strike our own free trade deals. Thats the real golden opportunity from brexit. The consequence of that is that we may still not know for some weeks yet exactly what mrs mays final brexit position is. Thank you. Hundreds and thousands of pa rt time position is. Thank you. Hundreds and thousands of part time flexible workers are to receive new rides including holiday and sick bay for the first time. It is part of the governments responding to a review to the so called gig economy recommending a number of changes to reflect modern working practices. The number of self employed workers has in recent league increased due to apps like uber and deliveroo. The high court is to hear a challenge on the release of John High Court is to hear a challenge on the release ofjohn worboys. They announced he would be freed after less than nine years in prison and he is thought to have drugged and he is thought to have drugged and attacked more than 100 women after picking them up in his taxi in london. Exclusive research for this programme has revealed that in parts of the country, the number of people working full time has fallen. Despite a Record Number of people being in full time work, analysis by the Resolution Foundation has found the Resolution Foundation has found the london alone accounts for half of the increase over the last decade. In other areas such as north yorkshire, strathclyde, merseyside and wales, the number of people working full time has actually fallen. We have a special report from redcar, which lost its steel pla nts two from redcar, which lost its steel plants two years ago. The uk could adopt a deposit based system for recycling plastic bottles at a ministerial delegation visited norway to see how we scheme that operates. The consumer pays a deposit of around 10p or 25p, depending on the size of the bottle and then returns it empty to a special machine where they receive a coupon for the deposit. In norway, the industry led scheme recycles 98 of bottles. 0nly around half of plastic bottles are recycled in the uk. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. American billionaire elon musk, whose company spacex is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. The 19 million space craft could one day transport people and supplies as far as mars, but on its Maiden Voyage the cargo is elon musks own tesla car, with a space suited mannequin in the drivers seat. New dna analysis of britains oldest complete skeleton has found he had much darker skin than previously thought and blue eyes. The mans 10,000 year old remains were unearthed at Cheddar Gorge more than a hundred years ago. Now breakthroughs in dna sequencing have allowed scientists from the Natural History museum to create this model of what he would have looked like just before he died. Thats a summary of the latest bbc news more at 9. 30. Steve has tweeted on the tesco issue, saying women and men get paid equally for doing the same job, not for what individuals consider work of comparable value. This seems to be total nonsense. 0n the subject of iran, we have a film coming up on that, matt on Facebook Says the White Working Class has been marginalised and forgotten for decades on the subject of redcar. We will talk to a labour mp and a conservative mp about that after 10am this morning. Is do get in touch with us throughout the morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Lets get some sport with hugh ferris. England are still playing cricket in australia, how is it going . They are still playing cricket in australia, good morning. Notjust against australia, the third form of the game to be played over the winter. And the third different kit as well. Australia are already better at test cricket, england are better at one day cricket, so what about t20 cricket . They are playing australia this morning. Playing australia this morning in their first match of a tri series tournament. The other team is new zealand. Who the aussies have already beaten. Started about 20 minutes ago in hobart. And australia won the toss. Jason roy, the england opener was out injust jason roy, the england opener was out in just the second over. David malan replaced him. And got to work. Pretty quickly. Thats six and an over containing three boundaries. Alex hales has fallen. His first delivery of the entire game. It is 772. Delivery of the entire game. It is 77 2. England are in the eighth over. Fa cup fifth round has thrown up a revenge match between a manager and his former club. I love a revenge match in football. Carlos ca rvalhal was sacked on Christmas Eve by Sheffield Wednesday. But now as swansea manager he has a chance to show what theyve been missing. The portuguese coach wasnt considered good enough to take wednesday out of the championship. But swansea think hes good enough to keep them out of the championship. Hes taken them out of the premier league bottom three after wining five of his 10 games in charge. Including last nights fourth round replay against notts county. They didnt just win they didntjust win it. It finished 8 1. That result means they will play Sheffield Wednesday in the next round. Two goals each for nathan dyer and tammy abraham. Huddersfield and rochdale also went through. And a premier League Player has gone missing, where is re admirers . The daily mirror this morning has the words have you seen this man . Alongside a picture of riyad mahrez. He was one of the big stories of transfer deadline day. This time last week he handed in a transfer request at leicester as Manchester City made a fourth bid of around £60 million for him. Leicester turned it down. The deal was off. And mahrez hasnt been seen since. The algerian hasnt been in training. Hes missed two games. And isnt expected to play in a third. Which is this weekend against. Guess who. Manchester city. I dont know whether its necessarily a long con or not, they missed out on the player but at least the consolation is that Manchester City dont have to face him at the weekend. It is a story that will develop over time given that will develop over time given that there is four months of the season that there is four months of the season left. Thank you. Good morning. It is 9 15am. A top british facebook executive has revealed she has a form of blood and says she wants to make her cancer high profile. Nicola mendelsohn is facebooks Vice President for europe, the middle east and africa, and one the most powerful british women in the technology industry. She was 46 when she was diagnosed; shes married with four children. The cancer is called follicular lympona. We can talk to Nicola Mendelsohn in her only broadcast interview. Good morning, thank you for coming on the programme. How are you . Im doing all right. Im not ill in the way you think someone with cancer would be. Explain that a little more. Your cancer diagnosis, you are told it is incurable, at the moment anyway. That is right. It all started in november, 2016. I had a tiny lump, tiny. I mentioned it to the doctor and he said properly nothing. Go away it will go away, she said if not come back and we will see what it is. I went back and she wasnt sure who to send meeting. I eventually went to see a it was gynaecologist to thought it was probably nothing also. Literally at the last minute said, lets just do act the last minute said, lets just do a ct scan to check. That is when everything changed. It was a friday afternoon. I had a ct scan and it basically i had tumours up and upper body, small ones everywhere. That was friday afternoon and that was it. Then we had to wait. We didnt know what to do. We had to see other doctors, but couldnt see anyone until monday. It was a hard weekend. I bet. When you are told there are tumours that a medical professional conceit up and down your body on a scan, what do you initially think . They thought it was some sort of cancer but they didnt know what it was and i did what anybody would, i spent the weekend googling and its not fun doing that. All be things it looks that had horrible prognoses. The word cancer is a horrible word. Id gone from thinking about business meetings and planning things with the kids, to having this suddenly smacked me in the face, thinking about whether i was going to live or die and how long did i have . Was i going to see grandchildren . It was really tough, really, really ha rd. Grandchildren . It was really tough, really, really hard. It was a horrible weekend. Was there a profound shift in your whole mindset and life . I think when you have a moment where death confronts you so abruptly, yeah, ithink moment where death confronts you so abruptly, yeah, i think it does make you think about things in a different way. What i decided was, actually im a very optimistic person and that is not too i am. Im not the person that weighs heavily with things, even though this is the ha rd est with things, even though this is the hardest thing i have ever had to deal with. I remember thinking, hardest thing i have ever had to dealwith. I rememberthinking, ifi am going to go on that monday to see different doctors again to start and work out what this thing was, im going to embrace it with the way ive always tried to live my life. At that point i hadnt told the children, so we were still piecing together what the diagnosis actually. You are sort of on a conveyor actually. You are sort of on a co nveyor co nveyor actually. You are sort of on a conveyor conveyor belt. Is it this . No. Have a biopsy, a pet scan, this doctor and that doctor until we got the diagnosis, follicular lympona, which i had never heard of. A nice asbos most people watching have never heard of. And i suppose most people watching have never heard of. It is a blood cancer, the fifth most common cancer and i dont think it has enough awareness or enough money going into the research either. We will talk about your effo rts either. We will talk about your efforts to change that a little later on. When you were diagnosed, your children, four children aged between 13 and 20, alongside your husband, you sat down and told them the truth . Yes, we did. We delayed telling them for a few days because we had a big family celebration and we had a big family celebration and we wa nted we had a big family celebration and we wanted to know exactly what it was. We waited until the family separation was out of the way so it didnt taint it. Then we gathered the children to sit around the table in the kitchen. It was really hard, i couldnt get the words. John was amazing, in helping me. They were flawed. You expect your mum to be this strong person. What you say . I said, i have some hard news to share with you and i want you to know i will always be honest with you, but i have a cancer. Its not as bad as some cancers but its my cancer. They didnt know what to say. There we re they didnt know what to say. There were some tears and then my youngest turned around and said, are you going to die, maam . What did you say . I couldnt get the words out. Thats not what you want, he was 12 at the time, i didnt want my 12 year old to be asking me a question like that. John helped. Then he just put his hand across the table and he came and gave me this big hug and it was finished. There we re big hug and it was finished. There were tears galore. How did the older ones react . They took their cues from him. Ispoke ones react . They took their cues from him. I spoke to them all the time about it but i spoke to them about a week or so before i did the article to see how they work and how they felt about me sharing the story said publicly, because it involves them, and how they work. We dont talk about i