Claims are assessed. Also in the wake of Harvey Weinstein, actor emma watson talks about new british Film Industry standards to tackle bullying and Sexual Harassment. And great britains men edge out switzerland to make a winning start to their curling campaign at the Winter Olympics in pyeongchang. Good morning. Its wednesday, 14th february. Welcome to bbc newsroom live borisjohnson is about to set out his vision for how britain can seize the opportunities of brexit in an attempt to reassure remain voters who feel angry and alienated by the decision to leave the eu. In a speech in central london, the foreign secretary will argue that its a project of tearing down barriers rather than erecting them, and promoting globalfree trade. The foreign secretarys speech is the first in a series of speeches by government ministers which they have dubbed the road to brexit ahead of key talks on the uks future relationship with the eu. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is outside the venue of borisjohnsons speech in central london. It isa it is a big speech. It is a big speech. It is, it is the first really serious and significant attempt we have seen from senior ministers to try and woo former remain is still unhappy, still crisp gale disgruntled, anxious about what brexit might mean. Borisjohnson seeks to address many of their fears and to reassure them about brexit. He will go through a list of things which many former remainers are worried about, leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union, saying the benefits of those injured students, they have been exaggerated, we will be fine outside them. Of those have been exaggerated. Immigration, once we have left the eu, will still be an open, welcoming, albert king country. He will talk a bit about security and say just country. He will talk a bit about security and sayjust because we are leaving, it does not mean we are turning back on the defence of europe. Talk about the brexit david denton david denton. That will be his message of reassurance but it comes with a pretty blunt warning which is basically that remainers need to forget about trying to throw or block brexit because he says were they to succeed in that, that would be seen as a betrayal by the 17 Million People who backed brexit. It isa Million People who backed brexit. It is a sort of cake and eat it strategy, the mere one from Boris Johnson, he reaches out to remainers but he has also got a warning to remainers as well. The question i suppose is whether this is too little too late to get former remainers on board and whether Beryl Johnson is really the man to relay that sort of message, giving the clear antipodes felt by former remainers towards him personally. Let us just have a listen to the views from other european capitals about how this speech is seen with the views from some of my colleagues other capitals. Here in france, the good news on brexit is that paris does want to preserve in the long runa does want to preserve in the long run a good working relationship with london, that is important here in all sorts of areas, notably security and defence. But does not mean that paris is being uneasy partner in the brexit negotiation, quite the contrary. President macron has made clear on more than one occasion but there will be no preferential arrangements, if you want to be part of the club, he said, you pay the fees. Overriding everything here, a good feeling, no bad feeling, it is simply doubled the mental confusion. France does not had to react to the british position on brexit because france doesnt know what the british position on brexit actually is. London and the government here in warsaw have a good relationship, they thought poland might break away from the eu consensus. That has not happened. Warsaw has already achieved its main brexit goals. Securing the rights of polls now living in the uk and maintaining the current eu budget. What it once now isa current eu budget. What it once now is a trading relationship that gives certainty the polish businesses. Poland is arguing with the eu on many issues. But on brexit, it is sticking to brussels line. To be blunt, brexit negotiations i suspect the very last thing on Angela Merkels mind right now and thatis Angela Merkels mind right now and that is because she has been preoccupied for some months now with the rather protracted and painful business of trying to form a government of her own. It looks as though, it is no mean set in stone, but that government will be another coalition with her former allies the social democrats. Whatever form that government takes, whoever holds the ministerial post, you can rely on one thing, bernard is very, very unlikely to shift from its basic sta nce unlikely to shift from its basic stance on brexit. Berlin. If britain was have access to the Single Market, it is going to have observe freedom of movement. That is not going to change. I think secondly what is on changing is the broader view here in germany on brexit. Britain matters to germany, in particular of cost to the very important business lobby will stop that relationship is key, it is considered crucial but what matters more here in germany is Holding Together the future integrity of the European Union. Some views from around the european capitals. Norman, just waiting for Boris Johnsons speech capitals. Norman, just waiting for borisjohnsons speech should begin. Above all, what a European Partners are looking for some of the specifics of what the uk hopes in that future relationship, but it doesnt sound as though we are going to get much about today . I think you are right. I think its going to be a detail like speech. We are not going to get the sort of nitty gritty that clearly people in brussels want. This is more big picture stuff, overarching message to remainers and nothing from Boris Johnson as the wedding, he just drove the short distance to the speech venue. As he went in. He took the car to avoid waiting. If you look up here, you can see there isa remain you look up here, you can see there is a remain welcoming party for him. Not a enthusiastic one. A lot of pro remainers the greeting borisjohnson when he arrived. The only sort of detail we get, we may find out in the speech. He is coming in now so we will see what he has got to say what he is introduced. We know that he is going to stress the need for britain to have control of its own Regulatory Framework. He will also talk about having control of foreign customs, talk about our own tariffs. So that would suggest and confirm what has long been his view, we need to shake off any semblance of eu rules and regulations so we can strike borrowing trade deal and maybe even diverged from the eu in terms of regulations. That is quite a long way from the views of those like Philip Hammond who was saying we are only going to diverge very modestly. Those of the two polar ends of the Cabinet Division over brexit. Those who think we have got to hunker down, stay close to the eu, maybe even accept some of their regulations to minimise any additional damage to the economy and those like borisjohnson who believed the real golden opportunity, as a state of brexit, is to have the freedom to strike our own trade deals which means hacking off all eu rules and regulations. It also sparked fears, i suspect, amongst trade unions about whether Boris Johnsons amongst trade unions about whether borisjohnsons vision also encompass borisjohnsons vision also encompass changes to some of our working practice rules, maybe to the 48 hour week. David davis has, do not worry, we are going to carry on with all the same workers rules and regulations i noticed in the midst of this speech, he talked about having the opportunity to exploit our new freedoms once we leave the eu. It is not specific about what that might mean that it is clear Boris Johnsons that might mean that it is clear borisjohnsons vision of a country leaving europe entirely in the sense of rules and regulations, very different one it seems from the likes of Philip Hammond, the chancellor. We are just waiting for the introduction speech is continuing, or standing there with his notes ready to go. Boris standing there. Even those around the cabinet table, it looks as though it is getting to the lectern now, lets have a listen. Thank you very much. Good morning. It is great to be here. The other day a woman pitched up in my surgery ina day a woman pitched up in my surgery in a state of indignation, because once broadband trouble. But it was soon clear as so often in a constituency surgery, that the real problem with something else. No one was trying to understand her feelings about brexit. No one was trying to bring her along. She felt so downcast, she said, but she was thinking of leaving the country to canada. It wasnt so much that she wa nted canada. It wasnt so much that she wanted to be in the eu, shejust didnt want to be in britain that was not in the eu. And i recognise that feeling of grief and alienation because in the last 18 months, ive had those same sentiments so often. I have heard it from friends, from family, from people hailing me abusively industry, as is their right. In many cases i believe the dealings are debating with time, some of the fears about brexit do not materialise. In some cases, i detect a halving of the mood and the deepening of the angle, i fear some people are becoming ever more determined to stop brexit, to reverse the referendum vote and to frustrate the will of the people. I believe that would be a disastrous mistake that would lead to permanent and ina mistake that would lead to permanent and in a radicalfeelings of betrayal. We cannot and will not let it happen. But if we are to carry this project through, the National Success , this project through, the National Success, as we must, then we must also be child to those who still have anxieties. I wanted a i want today to anatomise some of the fears and the show to the best of my ability that these fears can be laid and at the very opposite is true. That brexit can be grounds for much more hope and fear. And i think there are essentially three types of concern about the momentous choice the nation has made. The first is this is simply it strategic or geostrategic mistake. On this view, britain is an offshore island comprising a deer than 1 of humanity and we knew to be bound up in the European Union for protection, partly for production, partly so that britain can settle its historic role of providing protection for other countries of the european continent. I come across quite a few people who think that brexit has cost us adrift, made archie adjusted the position somehow more vulnerable while weakening the security of the whole of europe. The second anxiety is essentially spiritual and aesthetic, that by beating to leave the eu we have sundered ourselves from the glories of european civilisation. People believe we have stirred up by figurative drawbridge, made it less easy to live, study, work abroad and decided to sacrifice the european nurse in art identities. European nurse. They feel the brexit vote was a vote for nationalism and xenophobia. They think it was reactionary and at the british have shown the worst of their character to the wild, indeed that it was some on british unbritish. The third is the economic fear, the membership of the eu is vital for uk is the economic fear, the membership of the eu is vitalfor uk business and investment and at the canopy of eu legislation has made life easier for companies and citizens. People feared the destruction, they associate with change and that friends and partners in the eu may make life difficult for us. Sometimes these economic anxieties are intensified by other spheres. Other spheres. They acquire an expected emotive powers, i believe whatever the superficial attractions of these points, they can to prevent on the hand. Iwant points, they can to prevent on the hand. I want to show you the day that brexit need not to be nationalist but can be internationalist. It is not an economic threat but a considerable opportunity, not against britain by the manifesto of this countrys genius. I am the manifesto of this countrys genius. Iam running the manifesto of this countrys genius. I am running the risk in making this case of causing further irritation. But i must run that risk. Because it is this governments duty to abdicate and explain the mission of what we are now engaged. It has become clear to me that we cannot take the argument for granted, we can expect the case to make itself. We cannot expect the case. That was a mistake when they won the last referendum in 1975. As the guardian journalist points out in his book, this blizzard plot, the most corrected trait i kept encountering was the sense so prevalent among the euro elites are having won the decision they had won the argument. Many exhibited the unmistakable opinion that the battle was over, but the other side however loudly shouted, had simply lost and should now shut up. He went on to say the noisy the contest became, during the early 19805, contest became, during the early 1980s, the heavier these violent bleating that accompanied it from the class that knew it commanded every forum, to the outpost of the commission. The boot is now on the other set at least in theory. For all their power and influence, every Major Political party, the cbi, barack obama and so on, those voices did not prevail. Is this time, is this the time now for the referendum winners to gloat . Should we sit back and silent and self satisfaction . I do not think we should. It is not good enough for us now to the two remainer grey, you lost, get over it. We must except that the vast majority have noble sentiments. A real sense of solidarity with our european neighbours and a desire for the uk to succeed. All i am saying is that by going for brexit, we can gratify those sentiments and more. Let me take the three anxieties in turn. To all who worry about strategic position and be supposed loss of britain to european security, i can offer this same vital reassurance that the Prime Minister has made so many times and i believe is welcomed by our partners. Our commitment to the defence of europe is unconditional and in movable. Already this country is the single biggest spender in the eu, both on aid and defence. Although we represent only 30 of the eus population, we contribute 20 of defence spending and the art a ats giant aircraft represents 20 of the heavy lifting capacity of the whole of europe, as well as 25 of the overseas aid budget. It makes sense for us to continue to be intimately involved in european foreign and the giddy policy, it would be illogical not to discuss such matters as sanctions together, bearing in mind that the uk expertise provides more than half of all eu sanctions listed. We will continue to be europeans both practically and psychologically it is our status as one of the great contributors to european culture and civilisation and status as one of the great guarantors of the security of europe is simply not dependent on the treaty of rome, as amended at amsterdam or listen in. Let us next tackle the suggestion that we are somehow going to become more insular. It flies in the face of the evidence, it was my labour predecessor who said my Foreign Policy is to go down to Victoria Station and go anywhere id dam well please. That is pretty much what the british people already do. 6 million points of light sprinkled across the globe. There are more uk people live in australia than across the whole of the eu. More than a Million People who go to thailand every year, where are fantastic consider deal with what the gap to that. The statistical trajectory suggest that this wanderlust is most unlikely to abate. In 2016, the british people made 71 million visits to other country, 70 increase in the mid 19 90s and now more than one foreign trip per person per year. If we get the right deal on aviation and these do travel, this continue. We will continue to go on cheap flights to stag parties in agent cities. I am sure we will receive a warm welcome. Meet interesting people, fall in love, struggle to live the other really dunn european line which is, languages. There is no sensible reason why we should not continue to retire to spain or anywhere else as we did indeed long before spain joined what was then called be the Common Market. We can continue academic exchanges and whose speed of cross pollination has been accelerated by the internet as well as schemes like rasmus, all of which we can continue to support and that dissipating scholars are not confined to the eu. But those who wa nt to confined to the eu. But those who want to make britain less insular, we all want to do that, dont we . I jolly well hope we do, policy exchange. Thank you. For all those who want to make britain less insular, the answer is not to submit for ever to the eu legal order but to think about how we can undo the physical separation that took place at the end of the ice age. Fly over the channel at dover and you see how narrow it is. The ferry plying back and forth like buses in Oxford Street and as you measure the blue streets with your fingers, you can see that this might is rarely an overgrown prehistoric river that once flew down from the mountains of norway, was fed by its tributaries the thames. Britain and holland used to bejoined in the old days by a territory known, they all now lost to history. In 1986, Margaret Thatcher had the vision to heal the ru ptu re thatcher had the vision to heal the rupture with the first dry crossing and it is notable that eurotunnel is now calling for both sides of the channel to prepare for a second fixed link. It seems incredible to me that the fifth and six most incredible powerful economies in the world should be connected by one railway line. I accept the solut