Transcripts For BBCNEWS Breakfast 20180207

They put 8 goals past them to set up a 5th round tie Sheffield Wednesday. And meet the ancestors dna analysis of the oldest skeleton found in britain shows he had dark skin and blue eyes. Carol has the weather. Good morning. Its a cold start to the day. Cold gcioss its a cold start to the day. Cold across parts of Northern England but across parts of Northern England but afair bit across parts of Northern England but a fair bit of sunshine. There is also going to be some snow in the forecast. As you can see, my spanking new graphics. More in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. American billionaire elon musk, whose Company Space x is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. Keith doyle reports. This is Ground Control to major tom. This is not a scene from a film. This actually is a car and an astronaut dummy in space with david bowie playing on its music system. Far above the world. Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare. This bizarre but very real image came after the launch of the falcon heavy rocket from Kennedy Space center in florida last night. The successful launch of the most powerful and largest rocket since the shuttle has been called a game changer in space exploration. In part, due to its reusable boosters which have returned to earth. Two spectacularly landing together in florida, the third had a less successful landing, crashing into the sea. However getting bigger and heavier payloads into space is a major breakthrough for this commercial space company. Seeing the two boosters land in synchronisation, really like the simulation. It makes you think it can be a scalable approach. You could imagine large numbers of those just coming in and landing, taking off, landing, doing many flights per day. When the story of mans exploration of mars and beyond is written, this may well be seen as the moment it was all made possible. It doesnt look real but that is a live shot. Amazing. That is his first car that he didnt want any more, he sent it into space. There isa more, he sent it into space. There is a copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy in the glove compartment. Elon musk says it will be there for a billion years, that car. Just extraordinary. Hundreds of thousands of workers are to receive new rights, including holiday and sick pay, for the first time. The plans are part of the governments response to a review into the so called gig economy. Our Business Correspondent theo leggett reports. Up up to upto5 up to 5 Million People are thought to earn a living in the so called big economy. Companies like uber and deliveroo and deliver the jobs on thejob byjob basis on on line platforms. Others like to use people employed in agencies or on zero hours contracts. Its let them have staff when they need them and cut costs when they dont. Matthew taylor said flexibility in the workplace is important but it often put too much power into the hands of employers. He said change was needed to ensure people didntjust have work but had to work. The government has accepted most of his recommendations. For example, it says workers were entitled to sick pay and holiday pay actually receive it. Its promised to clamp down on companies which illegally make unpaid interns do the work of employees and it will ask the low Pay Commission to consider raising the minimum wage workers on zero hours contracts. Matthew taylor has welcomed the proposals but says more will need to be done to help vulnerable workers. But the tuc has accused the government of taking baby accused the government of taking ba by ste ps accused the government of taking baby steps when it needed to make a giant leap. Well be speaking to business secretary greg clark about the proposals after eight. The high court will hear the start of a legal challenge this morning against the release of the serial sex attacker, john worboys. Last month the parole board was criticised when it announced that worboys would be freed after less than nine years in prison. He is thought to have drugged and attacked more than a hundred women after picking them up in his taxi in londons west end. Aftershocks continue to rock taiwan after a strong earthquake which killed at least four people and injured more than 200 others. Many buildings in the city of hualien including the local hospital, have been damaged and a number of people are still missing. Hundreds of residents have spent the night sleeping out in the open. We can show you the scene as rescue workers are still trying to free people from there. This is the marshall h in hualien. It is in a really precarious situation. Rescue workers are trying to find two members of staff who are unaccounted for. Theresa may is to meet senior ministers later, to try to agree the governments approach for the next stage of the brexit negotiations. It comes after leaked documents show the European Union wants to be able to restrict the uks access to the Single Market if there is a dispute after brexit. The power to suspend certain benefits would apply during the post brexit transition phase. A man who said hed been abused by a paedophile ring involving high ranking establishment figures has been charged with multiple offences relating to indecent images of children. Nick, as hes known, is alleged to have committed some of the offences while Scotland Yard was investigating his claims. Tesco is facing britains largest equal pay law suit which could affect up to 200 thousand mostly female shop floor workers. The women say theyre paid less than men who work in the companys distribution centres even though their work is of the same value. Lawyers estimate tesco could be liable for up to four billion pounds in back pay if it loses. The bbcs economics editor, kamal ahmed, has more. 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 is one of the countrys largest employers and is now facing a series of test cases that could lead to the largest equal pay claim in employment history. Lawyers for tesco workers say that female staff on an hourly rate earn considerably less than a man even though the value of work is comparable. These two women 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. I think tesco is just one of Many Companies that are not addressing the fact that women seem to still be paid less. Tesco said that all their staff could progress equally and were paid fairly. This is the start of a long legal battle. Tesco just the latest business to be caught up in a fight over equal pay. New dna analysis of the oldest complete skeleton found in britain has come up with some surprising results. Scientists have discovered that the man who lived around 10 thousand years ago had much darker skin than was previously thought and he also had blue eyes. Paul rincon reports. One, two, three. Revealed for the first time. The oldest modern britain. He lived 10,000 years ago, just when britain was warming up after the last ice age. He was originally found in 1903 during a dig in cheddar gorge. Now, a replica lies on the spot where he was found. There have been attempts to reconstruct what he looked like before. Modern techniques in dna analysis have given us new information about his features and his lifestyle. Ive been studying the skeleton for more than 30 years so the skeleton for more than 30 years so its incredible now to have the dna data which really shows us what this guy looked like. The hair, the eyes, the face, that combination of blue eyes and dark skin, really very striking, something we wouldnt have imagined and to also go from the dna, details of his biology, the fa ct dna, details of his biology, the fact he couldnt just dna, details of his biology, the fact he couldntjust milk as an adult, thats something that came really with the advent of farming and 10,000 years ago, people in britain didnt have that. The project brought together experts from different fields. Geneticists and artists and palaeontologists. A young man in his 20s who lay undisturbed the 10,000 years has revealed secrets that are changing the picture of our past. Its fascinating. We are speaking to someone about the Natural History museum. We were. Its fascinating what they found as well. And there is a distinctive dna markerfor blue and there is a distinctive dna marker for blue eyes. They got dna from the skeleton and there is a markerfor blue they got dna from the skeleton and there is a marker for blue eyes. Did they drill the little two millimetres hole . Imagine the pressure. You would not want to crack that skull. Incredible. Holly is here. Shes also got the blue eyes as well. Absolutely. Speaking of blue eyed boys. Carlos had a great night last night. Moving out of the relegation zone. Just a super is artand of the relegation zone. Just a super is art and making continue to play sheffield in the nest the next round. It is a homecoming for carvalhal. He says hes looking to going back. Swansea city thrashed notts county 8 1 in their fa cup 11th round replay. Danjames finished off the mauling on his swansea debut. The swans will now face Carlos Carvalhals former Club Sheffield wednesday. Huddersfield and rochdale also won their replays. A service took place at old trafford yesterday to mark 60 years since the munich air crash which killed 23 people, including eight Manchester United players. The crash happened as united returned from a european cup tie in belgrade. Its looking increasingly likely that leicester midfielder wales have named an unchanged side to face england in the six nations at twickenham on saturday. Warren gatland has kept faith with the same team that thrashed scotland by 3a points to 7 at the weekend. Great britain start their fed cup campaign ina Great Britain start their fed cup campaign in a stoneywood joanna konta. They hope to get to the world group two play offs. They do that, it will be the First Time Since 1993 that they have reached the elite level in this competition. Its not going to be easy for them. But we will keep across it. Are you going to hang about the papers . Are you excited about carols new weather graphics . There has been so much chat about these graphics. Carol, we are all watching, now we have the real thing. Good are all watching, now we have the realthing. Good morning. It is really exciting. Brilliant new graphics. The weather today, first of all, its a cold start to the day. There is a widespread frost and a severe cost as well. That cold theme continues through the day. We are also looking at a band of rain and some snow for a time. To show you my groovy new graphics, where you see the lights is where we can see street lights, but you can also see a big band of cloud. That weather front will bring in also see a big band of cloud. That weatherfront will bring in rain preceded by snow as we go through the day. However weather fronts Still Producing some wintry showers in the south east. They will tend to fade as that moves away and with a ridge of High Pressure across us it will be a decent day for many parts of the uk. Starting in the south east, we still have some wintry showers, we have had them through the course of the night as well. Behind them there is a lot of dry weather and sunshine. As our weather front comes in dry weather and sunshine. As our weatherfront comes in it dry weather and sunshine. As our weather front comes in it will introduce cloud is introduced here by the right door matt light. The bright light is where we are looking at snow, that will be at lower levels for a time before it retreats into the hills and then for most of us into the hills and then for most of us in western scotland and Northern Ireland we are looking for some rain. Temperature wise, a little bit milder than yesterday but nothing to write home about. Instead, it will be cold if you are stepping out. As you head to the evening and overnight this band of cloud with hill snow and rain slowly sinks southwards, across scotland and in the Northern Ireland. The cloud building into wales and South West England. Under clear skies it will be cold. Once again were looking at some frost. Temperatures below freezing, in some places we could see as low minus five. Kind this band of rain, again, those showers and still cold. Like this morning, there is the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Our weather front will perk up a bit as it continues to sink southwards, taking its rain, pre ceded by cloud. That eradicates the bright start in the south east. Behind it, some brighter skies and then showers coming in across the north west. Temperature wise, not really surprising with all this cloud around, and the rain not quite as low as it has been. As we head on into friday, our weatherfront makes it down towards the south, hitting parts of the Channel Islands as well, bringing cloud and rain with it. Behind it we are looking at some sunny spells, but still a rush of wintry showers coming in across Northern Ireland and northern and western scotland. Temperatures by then, well, the wintry showers gives it away. They are starting to slide a little bit and it will feel cold once again. That takes us into the weekend, where it will remain cold. I will have even more graphics for you in half an hour. It looks like you in half an hour. It looks like you are sort of in the weather now. It is absolutely brilliant. But wait and see what i have to show you in half an hour seriously, carol, half an hourwe half an hour seriously, carol, half an hour we have to wait . |j half an hour seriously, carol, half an hour we have to wait . I can come backin an hour we have to wait . I can come back ina an hour we have to wait . I can come back in a few minutes, if you like. Lets just do weather this morning. You have until 9 15 a. M. , take lets just do weather this morning. You have until 9 15a. M. , take it away. In the meantime, between the weather slots. The good people of scotla nd weather slots. The good people of scotland are happy, apparently, with the new graphics. Scotland looks a lot bigger, it used to be tilted in proportion to the rest of the uk, and now it is flatter. So people have noticed and already sent us messages . She was doing a little sheu messages . She was doing a little shell around on twitter yesterday and all of us have watched it. |j will need to look at that when i get back. Shall we have a look at the papers . We mentioned about cheddar man, and louise was talking about them finding that very clear marker for the gene for blue eyes. This reconstruction was done by two dutch brothers, suggesting inhabitants of the British Isles may have had much darker skin than first thought. Our main story, mi6 raises concern at oligarchs £1 billion city flotation. It is about a Russian Oligarch with links to the military, able to use the London Stock Exchange to raise an estimated £1 billion. The front page of the times talks about racks that, as many papers do, of course. They have a story that brussels is demanding that theresa may submit to powers allowing the European Union to ground flights, suspend Single Market access, and impose trade tariffs on the uk during the transition period. We will be talking about that a little later. And we have the falcon heavy rocket. It has lifted off, and we havent seen this live shot, but we will hopefully see that shortly. The front page of the mirror, it hurts me so much but my marriage is over. Exclusive, they say, i will never give up fighting for my alfie, the mother of brain damaged alfie evans, who has vowed to never stop fighting to save his life. And the stalker sentenced to 26 years in jail for murdering a beautiful and intelligent student that he met on tinder. You will be unsurprised to heari tinder. You will be unsurprised to hear i am talking about the market. That is the word, volatility in the markets. The Financial Times is covering that this morning, but having looked at the markets, they have picked up a little bit. We saw a big fall yesterday across all of the Global Stock Markets, and that means people are selling off their shares because they are worried about what will happen in the future. I will explain a little bit more about that in half an hours time, and more about that in half an hours time, and i have some fancy graphics for you. Another couple of stories for you. Another couple of stories for you. Another couple of stories for you before i get myself into that competition with carol. More of a site using vegetarian, apparently, according to research is in the daily mail this morning. Almost one in three evening meals contain no meat orfish, in three evening meals contain no meat or fish, amid in three evening meals contain no meat orfish, amid the rise of vegetarianism, and the so called flexitarians, who decide today i am a vegetarian, tomorrow i am not. Flexitarians, who decide today i am a vegetarian, tomorrow am not. You mean normal people . I have got myself into a whole world of trouble there. Have you got any graphics . havent got any graphics for you at all, but we have just been looking at the papers and a lot of them talking about conte and the fact he has decided to stay on after discussions yesterday. The front of the sports section this morning in the sports section this morning in the telegraph was that gorgeous picture as old trafford paid tribute to the 60th anniversary of the munich air disaster. A lot of people who were there, talking about just how. Not eerie, but the tone with the snow falling, just really added to the atmosphere, and it was a Beautiful Day for everyone who was to attend that. Also this morning, we have found in the papers, madonnas sun. For anybody who didnt know, he has been training with benfica, we saw madonna turning up with benfica, we saw madonna turning up at with benfica, we saw madonna turning upata with benfica, we saw madonna turning up at a few games last year, and she has moved to portugal to support him in his career. This is one of the first pictures we have seen, and he isjumping. He is not really toll believe it or not, he is only 12 yea rs believe it or not, he is only 12 years old. And nine foot three absolutely. But madonna, soccer mum. Who knew . And we talk about technology a lot, but this is technology a lot, but this is Technology Used to rescue a spaniel. After nearly three days trapped down a water pipe, spencer the spaniel was rescued after they used heatseeking equipment, cameras, all sorts of things. They think he basically went missing after a walk and chaste something down a pipe and got stuck. He needs a good wash. You know what i did yesterday . I had a shower and my wife had washed the dog in the bath, and she put the dog shampoo next to my shower gel. So this, ladies and gentlemen, is washed with coat shine shampoo. Like you have just stepped washed with coat shine shampoo. Like you havejust stepped out washed with coat shine shampoo. Like you have just stepped out of so long, is what you are trying to say when i walked in this morning, the first thing i noticed was the shine on your head. It does feel very powerful, it is like charlie state stayt. Powerful, it is like charlie state stayt. | powerful, it is like charlie state stayt. I am glad it works, you will have to pass that trick on to the rest of us. A group of children in glasgow are waging war on plastic in particular straws. Yes, they have already persuaded scotlands biggest council to ditch single use straws, and convinced the entire village of ullapool to scrap them. Now, they are taking their campaign further afield. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordonjoined them on the isle of arran. They call themselves the ocean defenders, passionate about nature and conservation, and on a mission to end the use of Plastic Straws. Now, they are heading across the water to arran, in a bid to spread the word. Ijoined because there are animals out there who are in danger, because they are eating plastic. What do you hope to do with this campaign . Try and stop drastic straws from being used, and start using paper straws. It is our future, and we need to make sure that it future, and we need to make sure thatitis future, and we need to make sure that it is not all gone when we grow up. Their campaign is having an impact. The company which operates the ferry they are travelling on has signed up. Do you have the straws . We only have paper ones, would you like some . But the youthful campaigners from sunnyside primary think that key to their nationwide battle against plastic is getting other children, including those on arran, involved as well. other children, including those on arran, involved as well. I havent really thought about it, but now the presentation has taught me a lot more about it, and it is very different now. The most surprising and interesting thing is how much this does affect the environment. You wouldnt expect that from the tiny Plastic Straws. We can speak to some of the cafes on the island, because i know that a lot of the cafes to sell Plastic Straws. So if we could maybe get them to change to the paper straws, that would be really good. There is always litter on the beaches, and plastic litter in particular. They work hard on arran to keep their waters and beaches clean. These blue things are in fact beaches clean. These blue things are in fa ct cotton beaches clean. These blue things are in fact cotton bud sticks. But Plastic Waste once it enters the sea can travel far, injuring and killing marine life in the process. Even here we find plastic, despite all the cleaning that goes on. You claim, a storm comes in, and there will be more plastic washed up. How do you feel about that . will be more plastic washed up. How do you feel about that . I really dislike it. Everyone can do something to try and help marine environment, and issues of elastics. School by school and business by business, the childrens messages being heard. We are trying to make people stop expecting a straw in a drink. These Primary School pupils, with a passion to reduce Plastic Waste, have had much success already. The kids were fantastic. They are so knowledgeable, and they are they are so knowledgeable, and they a re really they are so knowledgeable, and they are really confident and passionate in the way they speak. And did you find the right in its persuasive . I mean, you have got the Plastic Straws. Absolutely, this is my naughty pot. Naughty pot no more. The childrens hope now that arran will become scotlands first island to ditch Plastic Straws for good. I love that they were on a mission to do that. Ditch the straws. Coming up before 7 00am the terracotta warriors guarded the tomb of chinas first emperorfor 2,000 years. Now, they are in liverpool for a major new exhibition, and brea kfasts tim muffett is there. Good morning. Yes, good morning to you. It was one of the biggest archaeological discoveries of all time. For more than 2000 years, a vast Terracotta Army lay undiscovered, guarding the tomb of the First Chinese emperor. This is a major coup for the world museum in liverpool, because from friday they are going on display. Part of that collection have been brought here, as you can see. We will be speaking to the experts about the cultural significance of them coming here, and what they tell us about life in ancient china. It is an extraordinary collection. First, here is the news, weather and travel where you are. Good morning from bbc london news, im katharine carpenter. The metropolitan police are being criticised forfailing to log thousands of cases of female genital mutilation in london. More than 2,500 cases were recorded by the nhs over a year, but the Police Figures show there were only around 200. The police say they are committed to tackling fgm, and it is incorrect to compare the figures, as the anonymous nhs data includes women who have had the procedure carried out abroad in the past. London fire brigade say a man has died after a fire at a flat in holland park overnight. 12 fire engines and about 80 firefighters were called to the blaze at a first floor flat in holland park gardens just before 10 00pm last night. Another eight homes nearby were evacuated as a precaution. The cause of the fire is not yet known. A commuterfrom berkshire has become so unhappy about his train journeys to work he has invented a Smartphone App to help people complain. Nick schultz from wargrave developed the grumpnow software in the hope train operators will get more feedback on their services. Users put in details about their journey, and pick from a set list of possible complaints. Great western railway says there are plenty of ways for people to complain without using a third party app. Visible to not only the user, but also the public, so you can easily see which providers are being ground about the most. Grumped. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. There is a good service on the tubes this morning, but there are severe delays on london overground. Virgin trains west coast and london North Western have delays of up to half an hour, in and out of euston, because of a problem being investigated. On the roads the a13 slow moving westbound between dagenham and barking the usual delays. In barnes, temporary traffic lights are in place on the south circular at the red roverjunction, for repairs to a gas leak. And Chelsea Embankment is closed westbound for roadworks from chelsea bridge to battersea bridge. Lets have a check on the weather now. Good morning. Well, it was another very cold night last night, so yes, another widespread frost this morning. The chilly start, but the good news is it is largely dry and largely sunny. Just one or two further snow showers to watch out for in the east and the met office hasissued for in the east and the met office has issued a yellow weather warnings or snow and ice. Has issued a yellow weather warnings orsnow and ice. Now, has issued a yellow weather warnings or snow and ice. Now, these snow showers are restricted to the east. They are moving down from the east coast. Pa rt of they are moving down from the east coast. Part of essex, kent, maybe just drifting down towards east london as well. Elsewhere we have got right sunshine. It is going to remain cold, though, in the cloud drifting away for all parts later on this afternoon, so brightening up. The maximum temperature still chilly, im afraid, just six celsius. Overnight tonight could be staying clear. So the temperature will plummet, it will stay a bitterly cold night. Perhaps colder than last night with the minimums ranging from 3 to a very cold minus six. So another very cold start tomorrow morning. The cloud is going tomorrow morning. The cloud is going to increase, though, through thursday. And with its slightly colder air so the temperature for the next few days is on the climb. It is, however, going to feel quite cold. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Plenty more on our website at the usual address. Bye for now. Hello this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Well bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning hedgehogs are in major decline in the uk. Well chat to a woman who provides sanctuary to hundreds of them about what we can do to help. Lifelong burnley fan Alastair Campbell and his childhood hero, paul fletcher, will tell us how they came together to write a novel blending politics and the beautiful game. A 10,000 year old face. One of the scientists who helped recreate so called cheddar man, from britains oldest skeleton, willjoin us on the sofa. Good morning. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. American billionaire elon musk, whose Company Space x is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. The 19 million spacecraft could one day transport people and supplies as far as mars, but on its Maiden Voyage the cargo is elons own tesla car, with a space suited mannequin in the drivers seat. Seeing the two boosters land in synchronisation, reallyjust like the simulation. It makes you think it can be a scalable approach. You could imagine large numbers of those just coming in and landing, taking off, landing, doing many flights per day. Hundreds of pa rt time hundreds of part time and flexible workers are to receive sick and holiday pay, as the result of a review into the gig economy. The number of self employed workers has risen in recent years partly because of apps like uber and deliveroo. The high court will hear the start of a legal challenge this morning against the release of the serial sex attacker, john worboys. Last month, the parole board was criticised when it announced that worboys would be freed after less than nine years in prison. He is thought to have drugged and attacked more than a hundred women after picking them up in his taxi in londons west end. Aftershocks continue to rock taiwan after a strong earthquake which killed at least four people and injured more than 200 others. Many buildings in the city of hualien including the local hospital, have been damaged and a number of people are still missing. Hundreds of residents have spent the night sleeping out in the open. We can show you the scene as rescue workers are still trying to free people from there. Theresa may is to meet senior ministers later, to try to agree the governments approach for the next stage of the brexit negotiations. It comes after leaked documents show the European Union wants to be able to restrict the uks access to the Single Market if there is a dispute after brexit. The power to suspend certain benefits would apply during the post brexit transition phase. Hedgehogs are continuing to decline in the uk according to a new report. Surveys show a hedgehog numbers have fallen by about 50 in the past two decades. Conservation groups say they are particularly concerned about the plight of animals in rural areas. Rumour has it there is a lady in here from a rescue centre and to hedgehogs are coming in. We have to live hedgehogs. Im not sure what names they have. I dont know how you would spot a hedgehog. I know what they look like but i havent seen them running about. How would you spot them in the garden . I see what you mean. I know what they look like so we can ask that. We will get to the bottom of that hedgehog mystery. No one has anything no one has called anything no one has called anything hedgehog mystery before. Anything no one has called anything hedgehog mystery beforem sounds like a great movie. Yes, beautiful. The hedgehog mysteries. Theyll always called holly. Holly the hedgehog. Were you named after a hedgehog . I was very prickly. I have a rescue shapland called holly. Very popular animal name. At least they are quite cute. Have you got a middle name . Im going to change it right now. I am sick of dogs being named after me. Its always golden retrievers. Lets get away from golden retrievers. What a great night in swansea. Berlin is not the swansea. Ever since this man arrived as well, a great turnaround. That result last night, 8 1. That is an annihilation. Just incredible. Nowjust a few weeks ago swansea city were bottom of the premier league and in disarray. Then they parted with head coach paul clement and hired Carlos Carvalhal. The portuguese had left Sheffield Wednesdayjust days before and his appointment at the Liberty Stadium was questioned by many. However, hes guided them to wins over liverpool and arsenal to move them out of the premier League Relegation zone and last night he masterminded a club record fa cup win beating notts county eight one 8 1 in theirfourth round replay. And thats earned him a return to his former side Sheffield Wednesday in the next round. I will be happy to be back home. I cant say to normal game. It will be a game for me because i was there and not a long time ago but at the same time, its the competition is the cup and of course we will try to do our best again. So in december Sheffield Wednesday didnt think he was good enough to get them out of the championship and then a few days later he finds himself with a premier league club. And now he gets an early opportunity to possible rub his old clubs noses in his new success. Its a funny old game. I live in sheffield and sometimes you need a shakeup and its worked. They did leave on good terms. He said last night to, he will always be an owl. And nicknamed the sheffield fans. But he also said he will also be a jack. Have a look at this pitch in rochdale. It looks a bit like a throwback to the 70s. The league one strugglers had an upset, 1 0. They will play the winner between totte n ha m will play the winner between tottenham in Newport County. And huddersfield will host Manchester United in the fifth round after they beat birmingham in extra time. The service has taken place to mark 60 years since the munich air crash which killed 20 people including eight Manchester United players. The crash happened on uniteds return from a european cup tie in belgrade. Eight players, pre club staff, journalists and crew members were killed. The old Carpet Service included a silence at four minutes past three which was the time of the disaster. Thank you all. Great britain start their fed cup campaign in estonia later today. Led by british number one Johanna Konta they are attempting to get through the european and african groups to the world group two play offs. They play estonia and portugal in a group before hopefully playing off for a place to get to the next level of world tennis. Later this week, the Winter Olympics get under way in south korea and one thing you wont see there is anything quite like this. This is extreme off piste skiing. Like something you might see in a James Bond Film. This is not a movie or a stu nt to bond film. This is not a movie or a stunt to social media, its the first event of the freeride world tour. Its enough to make your heart skipa tour. Its enough to make your heart skip a few beats. Oh, my goodness. I like skiing but thats extraordinary. I dont think your holiday insurance would cover that. Wow, you would need some bits and bobs that. Have a look at this. We often hear about remarkable sporting exploits being out of this world. Its actually the view from the falcon heavy spacecraft, which was launched into orbit yesterday. The spacex boss, elon musk, chose a very special cargo for its Maiden Voyage his own tesla car, complete with a space suited mannequin in the drivers seat. Lets chat to dallas campbell, a scientist and broadcaster. He joins us now from our london newsroom. Good morning to you. Good morning. I think he is all right. That is fantastic watching these pictures. Is it breaking barriers . How important . Those pictures arejust so extraordinary and you are right, it looks like a Science Fiction film. Seeing that car with the earth behind it. Ive never seen anything like it before. Only elon musk could do Something Like that but on a more practical level, its very important because getting things into space is very expensive. Of course, whole Business Model for space x is to reduce the cost of that. The fact they have reusable rockets. Those separate boosters you saw on the launch returned back to work and landed together. Its absolutely amazing. It is that which is bringing the cost down. We can send much bigger and heavier payloads into space. Its great for science, great for engineering. How do you think it will affect what other people are planning and thinking about doing at the moment . people are planning and thinking about doing at the moment . I suspect all the other rocket builders are wondering what to do. How that is going to change, what other people do, who knows . Hes got the car on the front, hasnt he . Its a sort of mass simulation. You want to have something on board that simulates what a real payload would do. In the past, they used things like tanks of water. Elon musk, he is a showman, a Simon Danczuk man. He likes to have a bit of whimsy. A few years ago, you actually had a wheel of cheese so he likes to play with the gallery. We heard him talking today, that this could become part of daily flights into space. When might that be . Elon musks whole thing, the whole point about space x, is to make human beings and into the dash is to make human beings and interplanetary species. Everything he does, even though it has practical implications, that is his end goal. He is thinking about his next fleet of rockets. Giant spaceships which are apparently going to be taking us to mars on a regular basis. The trouble is with elon musk, he is a difficult man to bet against. Anybody else, you would bet against. Anybody else, you would be raising your eyes. The timescales, he talks about a few yea rs. Timescales, he talks about a few years. Who knows. I cant see at any time in the immediate future. There isa time in the immediate future. There is a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy in the glove compartment. He says it will be there for a billion years. The battery is a pretty good but i dont know if it will last a billion yea rs. Dont know if it will last a billion years. The final burn that will push it into that mars heliocentric orbit. I think it was heading out to the asteroid belt. What would you play if you had to play it on a loop forever . What would i play . That is too difficult question. Hes gone for the obvious choice, david burleigh. On an infinite loop and i had to hear one song . burleigh. On an infinite loop and i had to hear one song . I will let you think about it. David powley. What would it be . I think about it. Bohemian rhapsody. It needed to be something long. You get your money s worth. I think we are thinking the same thing. Thank you very much indeed. You can tweet me if you like. We are thinking about that, wont we . What would you play forever and ever . I know what carol would play. Something by bryan adams. She has some fantastic new graphics, and she will show us around. We could even have graphics accompanied by bryan adams, but they dont need it. I want to show you some of our new graphics and what we actually have. This is what we call our window on weather. So this beautiful scene represents what is happening across much of the uk. But i will add a little bit of extra detail. It might be snowing somewhere, as it is today, so what i would do is choose the element relevant to the weather, and add it. At the same time, you could add maybe some winds, blowing leaves, or indeed some rain. It is making the weather much clearer, much more user friendly than it has been. We will also be showing you the jet stream much been. We will also be showing you thejet stream much more readily, so we can start it across north america, take it all away across the atlantic, and then across our shores. If there is something happening in australia, we can tell this globe and take it to australia so you can see what is happening there. Something new is the forecast for the aurora borealis, the northern lights. If this were the first forecast for the day, these are the chances of seeing it. The green is less of a chance, yellow a bit more of a chance, and if it was read, there would be a pretty good chance you would be able to see it. That is something our viewers are certainly interested in. The other thing which is different is the map is now green and flat. Cloud is represented by the light, snow by the bright light, and blue rain coming our way. We can zoom the bright light, and blue rain coming our way. We can zoom right in to give you our High Resolution data. So a closer look at what is happening where you are. And we can add roads to this map as well, so if it was snowing, you would be able to see a lot more detail. If we go back to todays forecast, the temperature at the moment is 9. 8, almost 10. There is ice and a widespread frost. And the bright light indicates cloud coming in from the atlantic. That is courtesy of a weather front which will bring in some rain preceded by some snow. But there is a lot of clear sky this morning, so there will be a lot of sunshine. That is why the temperatures are so low, and we have the risk of ice. Wintry showers across the south east will tend to fade as we go through the morning. The rain will be preceded by snow at lower levels, moving into the hills during the day. Coming in across parts of scotland and Northern Ireland, and temperature wise it will be a cold one, whichever way you look at it. Not quite as cold as it was yesterday, though. A weatherfront producing this rain and hill snow continues to move across scotland and Northern Ireland. The cloud ahead of it builds across Northern England, wales and the south west. Clear skies in the south east, so here it will be cold and once again frosty. Close as low as 6, for example, and once again the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Something to bear in mind if you are travelling first thing tomorrow morning. Torquay of tomorrow, we start with a bright start in the south east, and as our weather front sinks southwards, it will rejuvenate in the rain will turn heavier across Northern England, parts of the midlands, wales and South West England. Behind it you will find it will brighten up, but there will still be a fair few showers across the north and the west. But it wont feel as cold as it has done in the last couple of days. Then, as we move on him from thursday to friday, this is the weather front we have been talking about. He pushes into the south east, taking its rain with it. Colder air follows on the south east, taking its rain with it. Colder airfollows on behind, and snow showers coming in across the north and west. Thank you very much. My highs deceiving me, or is the United Kingdom a little skinnier . It is flatter, so a better representation of what we look like. So you see the northern isles, the channel isles as well, and the reason this is going backwards and forwards is because i have put it on a loop so that you can continuously see that weather front sinking south, with the ridge of High Pressure building on behind it. They are brilliant, i cant wait to show you more ijust wish we had more weather so i could show you more things we will at some stage, thank you very much. It has been a turbulent couple of days for Financial Markets, after £50 billion was wiped off the value of the uks biggest firms tuesday. Steph is here to explain what has been going on. It isa it is a bit like the weather, it is all over the shop. It is volatility we havent seen in quite some time in the market. I will take you back to why this all started. This was on monday in the united states, where they brought out some statistics about what was happening with wages. And that got everyone worrying that inflation was going to rise, and prices would go up and when prices go up, prices would go up and when prices go up, economists raised Interest Rates. When Interest Rates go up, it will be more expensive to borrow money, meaning consumers dont have as much money, and neither do businesses, and therefore this could hit company profits. It takes loads of influences to get to this decision where they suddenly say maybe companies will not do as well as we thought. Therefore we had better sell off the shares in them because they will not be as valuable as they once were. That is what we talk about when we say the value of money being wiped off. It means the shares being sold off. Then there is a domino effect. So in america this happens, and obviously with the time differences and the different times the markets are open, then in asia they think maybe we should worry as well, and the following morning we start selling shares as well. If you look at this graphic, this shows you what happened with the ftse 100, look at this graphic, this shows you what happened with the ftse100, the top 100 Companies Listed on the stock market here. And so that shows you that the fall in january has been about 7 , in the value of the ftse100, working out at about £80 billion in the last few days knocked off the value of our top 100 companies. That sounds like loads of money, and it is, but it is all theoretical because it could all change today. And we are already seeing in asia some of the market go up seeing in asia some of the market go up again, and in the us it did. It could be we will start to see them go could be we will start to see them 9 up could be we will start to see them go up again. And if you put this on the Bigger Picture of the whole of what has been going on in the last few years, Financial Markets have been doing really well. For example, last year we saw the value go up by £140 billion. Last year we saw the value go up by £1110 billion. If last year we saw the value go up by £140 billion. If you put that in context of what has come off over the last few days, it has been growing a lot. A lot of people think this is a correction, so the markets have been too optimistic, and now people are putting a bit of realism in that. This is what an expert was telling us about that earlier. M in that. This is what an expert was telling us about that earlier. It is much more likely to be a correction thana much more likely to be a correction than a crash, because actually, companies are still making good profits, and eve rytime companies are still making good profits, and everytime see results, the profits generally, across the whole piece, are looking pretty good. That means that investors will still want to buy those companies. I think it is a correction. But we are ata think it is a correction. But we are at a turning point, and it does mean we will probably see a lot more volatility this year than we saw la st volatility this year than we saw last year. The reason we care about all of this is because a lot of pensions are invested in the stock market, and obviously people have stocks and shares personally. So it means the value of their money going up means the value of their money going up and down. Again, people invest in things like this for the long term, so you shouldnt look at what is happening over a couple of days. It will be more interesting to look at what happens over the course of the year. Good graphics, but not quite up year. Good graphics, but not quite up to carols. The city of liverpool is used to welcoming visitors from around the world, but the latest arrivals are not your average tourists. Six feet tall and stony faced, they weigh up to 47 stones, and have spent most of the last 2,000 years underground. Brea kfasts tim muffett has gone to meet them. Good morning. Yes, good morning. This is a bit of a moment. Take a look at the Terracotta Army, part of one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time. They lay undiscovered for 2000 yea rs, time. They lay undiscovered for 2000 years, guarding the tomb of the First Chinese emperor. In 1974 they we re First Chinese emperor. In 1974 they were discovered by accident, and they now form part of one of the most incredible collections. Very, very unusual for them to be seen in the uk. Ten years ago there was an exhibition at the British Museum, and now they are here at the world museum in liverpool. David fleming is director of National Museums at liverpool, and tell us how you managed to get these extraordinary figures here. Well, fortunately a chinese colleague had heard of liverpool, it is a great brand in china because of the beatles and football, and liverpool fc play in the auspicious colour of red, and the auspicious colour of red, and the fact they had strong links with china, especially shanghai, they knew a lot about liverpool. All we had to be sure about is that we knew what we were doing at our end, because this is very precious material. It is chinas major tourist attraction. The stuff is very old and delicate, and the chinese needed to know that the people at the british and knew exactly what they were doing. Lets talk about the place where they were discovered. When and why and how we re discovered. When and why and how were they found . Discovered. When and why and how were they found . In 1974, some peasants were digging a well, i say peasants, guys farming their land, and they found pottery. Eventually they found so much stuff that they called on the authorities. The authorities arrived, stopped all work going on and what they actually found was the worlds biggest burial ground. And these figures were created by the first emperor for what purpose . Simply to guard him in his afterlife. At that time there was a strong belief that life continued after death, and he needed an army because it was a very fractious time in china at the time. So he had maybe 8000 or 10,000 warriors buried with him, but all made of terracotta and larger than life. The state they are in, given their age, is remarkable. They were not this colour originally, worth a . Threw they were painted, and if you look carefully at some of the warriors, you can see traces of the paint. Generally speaking it has faded, leaving the terracotta lying underneath. It is actually quite special to see the coloured paints which have lasted for more than ten doormat 2000 years. Thank you ever so much. We will be talking to other experts throughout the morning. The exhibition opens on friday and runs through until the autumn. If you wa nt to through until the autumn. If you want to see this very unusual chance to appreciate an ancient piece of chinese history, now is your chance. I will leave you with the beautiful sites of the Terracotta Army about to go on display in liverpool. M sites of the Terracotta Army about to go on display in liverpool. It is great to see the perspective and how tall they are. I didnt realise until i saw you with them. And there are thousands more still to be excavated, as well, arent they a . Stunning. Time to get the news, travel and weather where you are. Arent they . Good morning from bbc london news, im katharine carpenter. A man has died in a fire at a flat in holland park last night. 12 fire engines and 80 firefighters were sent to tackle the first floor blaze on holland park gardens. Eight nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution, but the cause of the fire isnt known. The met should be investigating more of cases of female genital mutilation in london, according to an assembly member. During a yearlong period when the nhs recorded more than 2,500 victims, the police logged just 200 cases, and no charges were brought. But the met denies letting women down, and says the procedure is often carried out before they come to the uk. Southend has become the latest place in this region to reduce funded ivf to women on the nhs. The body which commissions services in the area has decided only one cycle should be funded, instead of two. It will also stop women over 40 from getting free treatment. The Charity Fertility fairness says patients in essex are the worst off in the country. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. A commuterfrom berkshire has become so unhappy about his train journeys to work he has invented a Smartphone App to help people complain. Nick schultz from wargrave developed the grumpnow software in the hope train operators will get more feedback on their services. Users put in details about their journey, and pick from a set list of possible complaints. Great western railway says there are plenty of ways for people to complain without using a third party app. There is a good service on the tubes this morning but there are severe delays on london overground. Virgin trains west coast and london northwestern have delays of around 20 minutes in and out of euston because of a problem being investigated. On the roads the a13 slow moving westbound between dagenham and barking the usual delays. M11 is slow moving southbound betweenjunction 7, harlow and junction 6, m25 following a collision. Barnes temporary traffic lights are in place on the south circular at the red roverjunction for repairs to a gas leak. And Chelsea Embankment is closed westbound for roadworks from chelsea bridge to battersea bridge. Lets have a check on the weather now. Good morning. Well, it was another very cold night last night, so yes, another widespread frost this morning. A chilly start, but the good news is it is largely dry and largely sunny. Just one or two further snow showers to watch out for in the east, and the met office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice. Now, these snow showers are restricted to the east. Theyre moving down from the east coast, part of essex, kent, maybe just drifting down towards east london, as well. But elsewhere, weve got bright sunshine. It is going to remain cold, though, and the cloud drifting away for all parts later on this afternoon, so brightening up. Maximum temperature still chilly, though, im afraid just six celsius. Overnight tonight, could be staying clear. So the temperature will plummet. It will stay a bitterly cold night, perhaps colder than last night, with the minimums ranging from minus three to a very cold minus six. So another very cold start tomorrow morning. The cloud is going to increase, though, through thursday, and with it we pick up some slightly colder air. So the temperature for the next few days is on the climb. It is, however, going to feel quite cold. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Bye for now. Hello this is breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. The most powerful rocket in the world successfully launches. Its billionaire backer elon musk says it will help cut the cost of space travel and he even put the first car in space. Millions of workers in the gig economy are to get new rights including holdiay and sick pay. Its been a rollercoaster on the Global Stock Markets over the last two days. In sport, swansea city demolish notts county in their fa cup replay. They put 8 goals past them to set up a 5th round tie with Sheffield Wednesday. And dna analysis of the oldest skeleton found in britain shows he had dark skinned and blue eyes. And carol has the weather gaff rigs graphics. A cold start to the day. The risk of ice and widespread frog. The risk of ice and widespread frog. The many, dry with sunshine. Also some snow in the forecast. Coming with some rain across the north west. More in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. American billionaire elon musk, whose Company Space x is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. Keith doyle reports. This is Ground Control to major tom. This is not a scene from a Science Fiction film. This actually is a car and an astronaut dummy in space with david bowie playing on its music system. Far above the world. Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare. This bizarre but very real image came after the launch of the falcon heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space center in florida last night. The successful launch of the most powerful and largest rocket since the shuttle has been called a game changer in space exploration. In part, due to its reusable boosters which have returned to earth. Two spectacularly landing together in florida, the third had a less successful landing, crashing into the sea. However getting bigger and heavier payloads into space is a major breakthrough for this commercial space company. Seeing the two boosters land in synchronisation, really like the simulation. It makes you think it can be a scalable approach. You could imagine large numbers of those just coming in and landing, taking off, landing, doing many flights per day. When the story of mans exploration of mars and beyond is written, this may well be seen as the moment it was all made possible. Hundreds of thousands of workers are to receive new rights, including holiday and sick pay, for the first time. The plans are part of the governments response to a review into the so called gig economy. Our Business Correspondent theo leggett reports. Up to 5 Million People are thought to earn a living in the so called gig economy. Companies like uber, deliveroo and yodel deliver the jobs on a job by job basis on online platforms. Others like to use people employed through agencies or on zero hours contracts. It lets them have staff when they need them and cut costs when they dont. In his review, Matthew Taylor said that flexibility in the workplace was important but it often put too much power into the hands of employers. He said change was needed to make sure people didntjust have work but what he called good work. The government has accepted most of his recommendations. For example, it says it will make sure workers who are entitled to sick pay and holiday pay actually receive it. Its promised to clamp down on companies which illegally make unpaid interns do the work of employees. And it will ask the low Pay Commission to consider raising the minimum wage for workers on zero hours contracts. Matthew taylor himself has welcomed the proposals but he says more will need to be done to help vulnerable workers. But the tuc has accused the government of taking baby steps when it needed to make a giant leap. Theo leggett, bbc news. A document leaked says that the eu wa nts to a document leaked says that the eu wants to restrict the uk after brexit. Norman smith is in the westminster studio price. Agreement between senior ministers, that is one of the difficult things to sort out at the moment, isnt it . Its going to be difficult, certainly in the next few days. The signs are this could take weeks. We have tended to show our hand in the negotiations pretty late in the day. The focus of ministers at the moment remains on getting this transition deal which we have to get signed, sealed and delivered by the end of march. Above all, because of the divide between different cabinet ministers over to brexit we want, between those like the chancellor, philip hammond, who want is to stay close to the eu, to minimise any disruption to british business, and those like borisjohnson who thinks we had to cut free to give ourselves the ability to strike free trade deals because they say the great golden opportunity of breaks it is to strike deals with countries outside of the eu and that is going to bea outside of the eu and that is going to be a real growth area. If you put those divisions together, it seems the likelihood of any agreement merging is probably still a bit optimistic. Thank you very much this morning. We are speaking to greg clark a bit later. In other news this morning aftershocks continue to rock taiwan after a strong earthquake which killed at least four people and injured more than 200 others. Many buildings in the city of hualien including the local hospital, have been damaged and a number of people are still missing. Hundreds of residents have spent the night sleeping out in the open. We can show you the scene as rescue workers are still trying to free people from there. This is the Marshall Hotel in hualien. The basement on the ground floors we re the basement on the ground floors were completely destroyed by the quake. Search teams are trying to find members of staff who are as yet unaccounted for. A man who said hed been abused by a paedophile ring involving high ranking establishment figures has been charged with multiple offences relating to indecent images of children. Nick, as hes known, is alleged to have committed some of the offences while Scotland Yard was investigating his claims. Tesco is facing britains largest equal pay law suit which could affect up to 200,000 mostly female shop floor workers. The women say theyre paid less than men who work in the companys distribution centres even though their work is of the same value. Lawyers estimate tesco could be liable for up to £4 billion in back pay if it loses. Tesco says it is working hard to make sure employees are paid fairly. New dna analysis of the oldest complete skeleton found in britain has come up with some surprising results. Scientists have discovered that the man who lived around 10 thousand years ago had much darker skin than was previously thought and he also had blue eyes. Paul rincon reports. One, two, three. Voila revealed for the first time, the oldest modern briton. He lived 10,000 years ago, just when britain was warming up after the last ice age. He was originally found in 1903 during a dig in cheddar gorge. Now, a replica lies on the spot where he was found. There have been attempts to reconstruct what he looked like before. Modern techniques and dna analysis have given us new information about his features and his lifestyle. Ive been studying the cheddar man skeleton for more than 40 years so its incredible now to have the dna data which really shows us what this guy looked like. The hair, the eyes, the face, that combination of blue eyes and dark skin, really very striking, something we wouldnt have imagined and to also go from the dna, details of his biology, the fact he couldnt digest milk as an adult, thats something that came really with the advent of farming and 10,000 years ago, people in britain didnt have that. The project brought together experts from different fields geneticists, artists and palaeontologists. A young man in his 20s who lay undisturbed for 10,000 years has revealed secrets that are changing the picture of our past. Paul rincon, bbc news. We will be talking to somebody involved in that project a little bit later. It well have a bit more ofa bit later. It well have a bit more of a look. Hes thought to be one of britains most prolific sex attackers but the london cab driver john worboys could soon be released on parole after just eight years in prison. Today, High Court Judges will decide if there are legal grounds to challenge the parole boards decision in a judicial review. Before we speak to a barrister about that process, lets have a quick reminder of the key facts. In 2009 worboys was given an indeterminate jail sentence, with a minimum term of at least eight years. Last november, the parole board approved his release but their reasoning remained confidential. That decision was made public last month, to a furious reaction. Campaigners hoped the government would apply for a judicial review but the justice secretary said lawyers had advised against it. Just over a week later, two of worboys victims won a legal challenge to stop him being released but only temporarily. The first stage of their legal challenge to keep him behind bars begins later. Matt stanbury is an appeals barrister. He can tell us more about how todays hearing will work. Lets rewind a little bit to this whole legal process. We have looked at the time line. How does it get to this point where someone like him is being released . Obviously the parole board takes its decision is and that is that. In this case, there has been to challenges which have been brought. The first challenge the victim challenge which has been brought by some of mr worboys victims. And the london mayor has attempted to challenge it in the courts. Quite unusual. If thejudges say there is a judicial review, is there a further process for those who believe he should still be in jail . In other words, whether it is hopeless. That will be an end to these proceedings. There wouldnt be any further proceedings. He would have to be released sooner rather than later. Just talked was little bit about these victims. Is there nothing anybody can do that is the decision . There is a technical writer appeal. This is being heard by two very seniorjudges. If permission to proceed with this case is refused, the chances of it going any further would be very slim indeed. After his conviction, older people are talking about this. 85 women complain to police that they believed worboys might have assaulted them as well. Would it be possible at any stage for those allegations to be put forward . In theory, it would be but the cps has suggested a must the metropolitan police refer any further cases to them, they are not going to, of their own motion, look at these cases again. We do know as well that there is a fresh investigation and there is a fresh investigation and there has been a further complainant who has come forward. The met police have started an investigation but that. That might more likely route. And just talking about the parole board. These decisions are confidential, arent they . That is one of the arguments they are having today. Its impossible you might think to challenge a decision when you dont know what the decision is. That is one of the key issues that is before the court today. Does it have to be handed over to the Victims Survey can better frame their arguments. They are saying in effect, the secretary of state didnt have the power to make the rules that he did. Making parole decision secret. That is one of the arguments. The justice decision secret. That is one of the arguments. Thejustice secretary said that he started an urgent review of the parole boards secrecy. That is an issue before the courts today. The port the court rules in favour, that would have an impact. Many people will be interested in the outcome. Here is carol with a look at this mornings weather. And it is chilly out. It certainly is, and the temperature in the highlands as minus ten. So this morning, wherever you are, it is cold. Watch out for ice on untreated surfaces and we have a widespread frost. The forecast generally is a cold and sunny one. However, there are some winter showers and some rain in todays forecast. If we look at the satellite picture, to point out a few things which are different on our new graphics, the twinkling lights represent a street light in our towns and cities. We have a distinctive band in the south east and another one coming in from the atlantic. Both areas of cloud, both weather fronts. This one atlantic. Both areas of cloud, both weatherfronts. This one in atlantic. Both areas of cloud, both weather fronts. This one in the south east is producing wintry showers, but High Pressure builds in behind before this next front comes our way, introducing transient snow and also some rain. As we go through the course of the morning, after the cold start, we are looking at wintry showers across the south east. They will fade, and the south east will join much of the rest of the uk in a decent day with sunny spells. As our weather fronts coming the west it will introduce a bit more cloud ahead of them. Then we will see transient snow at low levels across scotland. As the rain comes in behind, that is no level will lift into the hills. Northern ireland also has rain and hill snow but wherever you are today it will feel cold. Temperatures, two or three across Northern England, and generally we are looking at five, six, seven or eight, so not quite as cold as yesterday. It will still be nippy if you are standing outside for any length of time. Through the evening and overnight, clear skies across england and wales for a time, but as our weather front sinks southwards, the cloud will build ahead of it in Northern England, wales and South West England, and the rain follows on behind. Behind that there will be some showers and here and there are some clearer skies. Once again a cold night, temperatures dipping in the south east to 6, and we are looking at some frost and ice on untreated surfaces. After a beautiful start of the south east, the Cloud Connected with this weather front builds as it sinks southwards. The weather front producing rain across Northern England, wales and South West England, wales and South West England rejuvenates and the rain turned a bit heavier. Behind that, some brighter skies. Still some cloud around, and some showers. Tomorrow it will feel a little bit milder than it is going to do today. Temperatures up to about nine, maybe even ten. As we head on into friday, our weather front makes it down into the south east. Taking its rain into east anglia, the Channel Islands, and behind it, although there will be avail of cloud, that pushes away and they will be right this coming through. A rash of wintry showers across the north and west of the uk. Thatin across the north and west of the uk. That in itself will tell you that it will feel cold. By the time we get to friday, temperatures slipping back down by a couple of degrees. We will have a look at some of the front pages. We were talking about cheddar man, and speaking to one of the people involved in this project. This is basically a reconstruction ofa this is basically a reconstruction of a skull, this man lived in britain 10,000 years ago, and they have done an extraordinary analysis into dna and have reconstructed his face, his features, and we understand from the dna that he had blue eyes and he had black skin, and obviously curly hair as well. Changing some peoples view of where our ancestors had come from. The front page of the times has a picture of the falcon heavy rocket, funded via elon musk, launched from the Kennedy Space centre. What is groundbreaking is the cost. It is far cheaper than it has been in the past, and two of the thrusters came back in, and what is the word . Back to earth . Thatll do. They were recovered for use again. It was probably a good thing. There is weird stuff going on. The front page of the mirror, this is a mum of a brain damaged alfie evans, vowing to never stop fighting to save his life. And the metro are talking about a stalker sentenced to at least 26 years in jail for murdering a beautiful and intelligent student that he met on tinder. You are not wearing much jewellery today. Not much, no. Apparently the crown jewels or jewellery which much, no. Apparently the crown jewels orjewellery which looks a bit like the crown jewels is making a comeback. You watch the crown, dont you . I do. On the back of that and similardramas dont you . I do. On the back of that and similar dramas there is huge demand for double drop earrings and sales of lockets have risen by 150 . Pearl necklaces are back in vogue for women between 18 and 34. Some of the earings warning the crown are £2500 apiece, but there is a version you can get from a popular retailer from £30. Are you looking at the papers . I am not. Just monitoring you. Iam papers . I am not. Just monitoring you. I am doing an audit, actually, of your work. How have we gone . Not great. I just have of your work. How have we gone . Not great. Ijust have some breaking news. The Energy Regulator, ofgem, have been trying for some years now to try and work out how they can make sure vulnerable customers, so people who cant necessarily afford big energy bills, how they can make sure that they are not continually overcharged by suppliers. They brought up something called the safeguard tariff last year, to help people on prepayment, because often they are the ones which are the most expensive. They brought out a cap on that so that suppliers could not charge more than this cap, and it was the competitions and markets authority who decided what this cap would be. That saved people about £60 a year on average, with that cap. Now they have announced they are extending it to another million households, and it is households which already benefit from the warm homes discount from the government. They will now also get the safeguard tariff, which should, according to ofgem, bring down their bills by around £60 a year on average. It is all about trying to make sure the most vulnerable are not yet with co nsta ntly vulnerable are not yet with constantly Rising Energy prices, when they are often paying in the most expensive way, with prepayment meters and things. What is interesting about this, as i have been reading through all the details, is that safeguard tariff which came out last year is being put up 5. 5 this year. All those people saving 60 quid last year, it has gone up by about £57 a year. They are saying they had done some analysis of what is going on with energy costs at the moment, and they look at this twice a year, and work out whether to put the tariff up. The good news is more people will benefit from this tariff. The bad news is those people who have already been benefiting will see their bills go up a bit. Overall, ofgem are saying this is good news, because even though they have gone up because even though they have gone upa bit, because even though they have gone up a bit, not as much as if the suppliers were completely in charge. It is important if you are someone paying big energy bills, and you are vulnerable customer. As always, you have explained it magnificently. So my audit has gone all right, then. Sometimes you are outside the studio, and people hand you a massive bunch of papers and say go on and talk about that managing traffic, delivering medical supplies and boosting wi fi are just some of the ways drones could be used in the future. Breakfasts john maguire is at a research lab in southampton, finding out more. Looks amazing. Good morning, all sorts of drones in all sorts of shapes and sizes at the university of southampton. These are used to send back data for climatologists. They are benign and almost biodegradable. You simply make them up biodegradable. You simply make them up like this. What the scientists do is they are able to drop hundreds of these into an area, and they will all send back data. In true blue fashion, here is one i made earlier. It gives you an idea of the range of roles that drones are performing in this day and age, but also the type of functions that they do. Professor jim scanlan from the university, good morning to you. Give us a run through on what you are working on at the university. Our major interest is the scientific and civilian applications of drones, and that means making them cheap and making them high performance, to do Cost Effective roles, essentially. You will see on this table here we have this aeroplane here which was the worlds first printed aeroplane. That is printed on a 3d printers . 3d printed, nylon printed, which brings the cost down and allows you to do complex, sophisticated structure is very cheaply. We have scaled that up. That was really a technology demonstrator, although we flew it in antarctica, and we have scaled up to the aeroplane you see behind you, which now uses 3d printing extensively. The phrase we use, it buys its way onto the aircraft. The sky is the limit, really. And you have been running this competition. You invited all cities to bid for funding, to come up with ideas on how drones can be used. Tell us what will be happening. As you can see, Drone Technology is really very advanced, and what we think is very important is that cities think about how they want to introduce drones, and what they want drones to do and not to do. So the challenge we ran was a search for the leading cities in the uk, which were going to do that. We selected five, so southampton is one, bradford, preston, west midlands, london are the others. Each of those cities will be working with us over the next few months to think through what they want drones to do in their cities and to develop use cases about how they may go forward in the future. It is all about that practical application, that link between drones and communities. Peter, you are from southampton city council. How do you see drones helping your work on the council . There is huge potential for drones in the city. With southampton in the heart of the city, we need to work with support to think about how drones can monitor goods and services coming into the city. Also in terms of working directly with what is a very busy shipping area. So working with the police and the coastguard is to really get the Fast Response emergency opportunities. But also working with our highways teams, looking at traffic monitoring, looking at road condition, and also our group structures. Thank you very much indeed. From engineering to research to search and rescue. Once we get some daylight we will show you some of the drones and other technology the university is working with. Drones will play an increasing part in daily drones will play an increasing part in daily lives, doing all sorts in our daily lives, doing all sorts of things they are unable to do at the moment. They have been looking at situations where it is not safe for humans to go, like after a Nuclear Power station accident, so drones can go in to feedback to scientists. It is a fascinating aspect of life and of science. And it has changed in so many ways television, as well, because all those pitiful shots we are now getting used to seeing, routinely. We are talking about drones and space, and elon musk has his car in space. We were asking people, if there was one song, what would you play over and over in space . Someone sent this. In order for sound to travel, there has to be something with molecules for it to travel through. On earth, sound travels to your ea rs through. On earth, sound travels to your ears by vibrating molecules. In deep space there are no air, molecules to vibrate, therefore there is no sound. That is a sound fa ct. There is no sound. That is a sound fact. So that strapline to alien was right, wasnt it . There is no point playing any music, just get used to the silence. Thats right, the sound of silence, i simon and garfunkel. By of silence, i simon and garfunkel. By simon and garfunkel. Good morning from bbc london news, im katharine carpenter. A man has died in a fire at a flat in holland park last night. 12 fire engines and 80 firefighters were sent to tackle the first floor blaze on holland park gardens. Eight nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution, but the cause of the fire isnt known. The met should be investigating more of cases of female genital mutilation in london, according to an assembly member. During a yearlong period when the nhs recorded more than 2,500 victims, the police logged just 200 cases, and no charges were brought. But the met denies letting women down, and says the procedure is often carried out before they come to the uk. Women struggling to conceive in southend will now only be able to have one cycle of ivf funded by the nhs, instead of two. The body which commissions services in the area has also cut funding altogether for women over 40. It says it was a tough decision. The move has been criticised by the Charity Fertility fairness, which says patients in essex are the worst off in the country. A commuterfrom berkshire has developed an app to help people complain about their train journeys to work. Nick schultz says he hopes the grumpnow software will make sure operators will get more feedback, but Great Western railway says there are plenty of ways for people to complain without using an app. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. There is a good service on the tubes and trains. On the roads this is the marylebone flyover which is slow moving into town from westway. M11 is slow moving southbound betweenjunction 7, harlow and junction 6, m25, following a collision. In barnes, temporary traffic lights are in place on the south circular, at the red roverjunction, for repairs to a gas leak. And Chelsea Embankment is closed westbound for roadworks from chelsea bridge to battersea bridge. In Shepherds Bush, the Goldhawk Road remains closed both ways between Shepherds Bush green and st stephens avenue, for repairs to a burst watermain. Lets have a check on the weather now. Good morning. Well, it was another very cold night last night, so yes, another widespread frost this morning. A chilly start, but the good news is its largely dry and largely sunny. Just one or two further snow showers to watch out for in the east, and the met office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice. Now, these snow showers are restricted to the east. Theyre moving down from the east coast, part of essex, kent, maybejust drifting down towards east london, as well. But elsewhere, weve got bright sunshine. It is going to remain cold, though, and the cloud drifting away for all parts later on this afternoon, so brightening up. Maximum temperature still chilly, though, im afraid just six celsius. Now, overnight tonight, it looks like its staying clear. So the temperature therefore plummets. It will stay a bitterly cold night, perhaps colder than last night, with the minimums ranging between minus three and a very cold minus six. So another very cold start tomorrow morning. The cloud is going to increase, though, through thursday, and with it we pick up some slightly colder air. So the temperature for the next few days is on the climb. It is, however, going to feel quite cold. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Bye for now. Hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. Billionaire elon musk, whose Company Space x is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. The 19 million spacecraft could one day transport people and supplies as far as mars, but on its Maiden Voyage the cargo is elons own tesla car, with a space suited mannequin in the drivers seat. Seeing the two boosters land in synchronisation, reallyjust like the simulation. It makes you think it can be a scalable approach. You could imagine large numbers of those just coming in and landing, taking off, landing, doing many flights per day. Hundreds of thousands of part time and flexible workers are to receive new rights, including holiday and sick pay, for the first time. The plans are part of the governments response to a review into the so called gig economy, which recommended a number of changes to reflect modern working practices. The number of self employed workers has risen in recent years, partly because of apps like uber and deliveroo. The high court will hear the start of a legal challenge this morning against the release of the serial sex attacker, john worboys. Last month, the parole board was criticised when it announced that worboys would be freed after less than nine years in prison. He is thought to have drugged and attacked more than a hundred women after picking them up in his taxi in londons west end. Theresa may is to meet senior ministers later, to try to agree the governments approach for the next stage of the brexit negotiations. It comes after leaked documents show the European Union wants to be able to restrict the uks access to the Single Market new dna analysis of the oldest complete skeleton found in britain has come up with some surprising results. Scientists have discovered that the man who lived around 10 thousand years ago had much darker skin than was previously thought and he also had blue eyes. An amazing project, it really is. The gene for blue eyes is really distinct. Quite a few people asking that question this morning. We will have a proper expert later to talk about it. Hedgehogs are continuing to decline in the uk, according to a new report. Surveys show hedgehog numbers have fallen by about 50 per cent in the past two decades. Conservation groups say they are particularly concerned about the plight of the animals in rural areas. We will have to hedgehogs visiting the studio later. Holly thing is one of them will be called holly. the studio later. Holly thing is one of them will be called holly. I have already named one of them wholly. The other one is henry, or harry. No prickly characters last night but maybe a prickly reception. A great result for swansea and it might be down to one man. What an impact Carlos Carvalhal has had at swansea. Just a few weeks ago they were bottom of the premier league. Then in walked carvalhal. The portuguese had left Sheffield Wednesdayjust days before and his appointment at the Liberty Stadium was questioned by many. However, hes guided them out of the premier League Relegation zone and they hammered notts county eight one in theirfourth round fa cup replay. And thats earned him a return to his former side Sheffield Wednesday in the next round. I will be happy to be back home. I cant say its a normal game. It will be a game for me because i was there and not a long time ago but at the same time, its the competition, the cup and of course we will try to do our best again. So in december Sheffield Wednesday didnt think he was good enough to get them out of the championship and then a few days later he finds himself with a premier league club. And now he gets an early opportunity to possible rub his old clubs noses in his new success. He said he will always be an owl, which is another word for a fan from sheffield. But he did add he will always be a jack as well. Keeping everybody happy. Two other replays last night. And have a look at this pitch at rochdale its like a throwback to the seventies. The league one strugglers upset championship side millwall one 1 0 thanks to ian henderson. Theyll face the winner of the replay between tottenham or Newport County which takes place tonight. Huddersfield will host Manchester United in the fifth round after they beat birmingham after extra time. Tom ince rounded off the 4 1win at st andrews. It was a poignant moment at old trafford yesterday as fans and players, both past and present gathered for a memorial to mark 60 years since the munich air disaster. Sir Bobby Charlton was among the survivors of the crash that happened on uniteds return from a european cup tie in belgrade. Eight players, three club staff, eightjournalists, two crew members and two passengers were killed. Great britain start their fed cup campaign in estonia later today. Led by british number one Johanna Konta they are attempting to get through the european and african groups to the world group two play offs. They play estonia and portugal this week before hopefully playing off for a place to get to the next level of world tennis for the First Time Since 1993. Later this week the Winter Olympics gets underway in pyeongchang in south korea. One thing you wont see there is anything quite like this. This is extreme off piste skiing. It looks like something you might see in a James Bond Film doesnt it . But this isnt a movie or stunts for the benefit of social media. Its the first round of the freeride world tour which got underway in Kicking Horse in canada. Enough to make your heart skip a few beats just watching it. Inspiring, out everything else. A group of children in glasgow are waging war on plastic in particular straws. Yes, they have already persuaded scotlands biggest council to ditch single use straws, and convinced the entire village of ullapool to scrap them. Now, they are taking their campaign further afield. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordonjoined them on the isle of arran. They call themselves the ocean defenders passionate about nature and conservation, and on a mission to end the use of Plastic Straws. Now, they are heading across the water to arran, in a bid to spread the word. Ijoined because there are animals out there who are in danger, because theyre eating plastic. What do you hope to do with this campaign . Try and stop Plastic Straws from being used, and start using paper straws. Its our future, and we need to make sure that its not all gone when we grow up. Their campaign is having an impact. The company which operates the ferry they are travelling on has signed up. Do you have the straws . We only have paper ones. Would you like some . But the youthful campaigners from sunnyside primary think that key to their nationwide battle against plastic is getting other children, including those on arran, involved as well. I havent really thought about it. But now, the presentation has taught me a lot more about it, and its very different now. The most surprising and interesting thing is how much this does affect the environment. You wouldnt expect that from the tiny Plastic Straws. We can speak to some of the cafes on the island, because i know that a lot of the cafes do sell Plastic Straws. So, if we could maybe get them to change to the paper straws, that would be really good. There is always litter on the beaches, and plastic litter, in particular. They work hard on arran to keep their waters and beaches clean. These blue things are in fact cotton bud sticks. But Plastic Waste, once it enters the sea, can travel far, injuring and killing marine life in the process. Even here, we find plastic, despite all the cleaning that goes on. You clean, a storm comes in, and therell be more plastic washed up. How do you feel about that . I really dislike it. Everyone can do something to try and help the marine environment, and issues of plastics. School by school, and business by business, the childrens message is being heard. We are trying to make people stop expecting a straw in a drink. These Primary School pupils, with a passion to reduce Plastic Waste, have had much success already. The kids were fantastic. Theyre so knowledgeable, and theyre really confident and passionate in the way they speak. And did you find their arguments persuasive . I mean, you have got the Plastic Straws. Absolutely, this is my naughty pot. Naughty pot no more. The childrens hope now that arran will become scotlands first island to ditch Plastic Straws for good. Christian dunn runs a campaign to reduce the number of single use Plastic Straws in chester. You have started, youve taken the city, chester, and what have you tried to do . We have tried to make this campaign for the whole community. We are trying to get chester to be the first city in the uk to stop using single use plastic drinking straws. Were not saying ban straws. We just making a request on the item in the pubs and bars that serve drinks. How successful . Incredibly successful. I was emailing different groups to get the support. There is no point in doing it. They signed up straightaway in chester. They are no longer giving straws to their drinks. Seek and still get a straw but you have to do ask it . Some people need straws. Were not ban them. If you serve drinks, dont automatically put a straw in a drink. Hopefully, we are trying to convince businesses to go over to reusable straws or fully compostable straws. What kickstarted this . Was it blue planet or a long time before that . Blue planet is influential but also it was having two young kids and doing recycling with them. It makes you realise how much plastic we are throwing away. I was surfing on anglesey and coming back to the car, looking at the beach and the amount of plastic on the ground, washed up. I thought, we should really be trying to do something. Presumably you have ambitions beyond chester . Of course, there are a lot of people doing this. Like the children we saw. This is an important thing about this whole plastic issue. Its something that people can actually get involved with. I think thats why it has taken off. Its an issue like climate change. We need to be doing something about it. It is hard sometimes for people to brought to relate. Plastic, just stop using a straw, straightaway, you are doing something about it. It doesnt need to be plastic, its an easy change to be plastic, its an easy change to make. Some plastic is essential and it is made our modern life but there is so much plastic we dont need. We are starting with straw free chester but hopefully it gets people thinking about the other things which they dont need. Start with a straw and lets see where it can take us. Louises christmas presents this year. Im counting how mini bottles we have saved so far. How many . Nine bottles a week. Do you use straws . We dont hear. You have signed up to straw free chester. When we lose these, we will get into problems. Everyone can do these Little Things which make a big difference. I hope you still like your christmas present. The only one i got your christmas present. The only one igotiam your christmas present. The only one i got i am still using. Here is carol with a look at this mornings weather. Good morning. It is chilly, 10 in parts of the highlands, but a widespread hard frost and the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Under clear skies that means there will be afair bit clear skies that means there will be a fair bit of sunshine today. But it will remain cold. There is also some rain and snow in the forecast, coming in from the north west, and eventually the snow will retreat into the hills. You can see on the satellite picture, first of all, i point out that wrinkly bits on it, these represent street lights in the towns and cities. We have a weather front and another coming our way, both of them producing some rain and some snow. The first one producing wintry showers across the south east. Those showers will push away throughout the day, a ridge of High Pressure behind and the second set of france will bring in some rain and some transient snow. We start and the south east with wintry showers, pushing away, and then we have a lot of sunshine. But as the weather fronts moving from the north west, a line of cloud coming in ahead of them. They will be some transient snow at lower levels across western scotland. Through the day that will retreat into the hills as the rain pushes in behind. Northern ireland also has cloud building ahead of the band of rain, and you will also see some hill snow. Wherever you are today it will feel cold. Not quite as cold as yesterday but nonetheless we are looking at seven or eight across Northern England, only getting up to about two or three in Northern England as a maximum temperature. As we head through the evening and overnight, clear skies across parts of england and wales, before we see the cloud move in ahead of the weather front, the cloud move in ahead of the weatherfront, producing the rain and the hill snow. That is sinking south eastwards. Behind it, there will still be some showers. Tonight will still be some showers. Tonight will be another cold night, with some frost, and the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Bear that in mind first thing tomorrow morning if you are heading out early on. Tomorrow we start off with sunshine across the south east and east anglia. As the weather front comes south, it introduces more cloud, after that right start. The rain on that weather front will pick up. Heavier rain for Northern England and wales, eventually in the South West England. Behind it will have right skies. Still some cloud around, brighter than in the morning, and more showery outbreaks of rain coming in across the north west. Temperature wise, with all this cloud and rain around, it will not feel as cold. Some parts of the country could get up as high as 10 celsius. Moving from thursday into friday, we have that rain pushing down into the south east, affecting east anglia, london, kent and the Channel Islands. Hide it, this band of cloud pulls away with the rain, with sunshine coming in behind. Wintry showers across the north west of scotland and Northern Ireland. You probably guessed the temperature is going back down, so by the time we get to friday it will feel cold once again. And i am loving the new look, the graphics are fantastic. I like the little line under the numbers, under the temperature numbers. Have a look next time. I will be watching. Hundreds of electrical gadgets and appliances are recalled every year, but most consumers arent aware of it because they havent registered their details with the manufacturer. Steph has more. Good morning to you both. It is not uncommon when you buy something not to fill out all the forms that come in the box. It can be a bit of a problem. Only a quarter of us register with a manufacturer when we buy a new gadget or appliance. If you look over the past ten years. Why this is important is there have been about 500 recall notices issued for electrical goods in the uk. But only a small proportion of goods ever returns, so there are potentially millions dangerous appliances still in peoples homes. Onlya appliances still in peoples homes. Only a small proportion of goods are ever returned. Can you tell us what kind of recalls we are talking about, what kind of products . The type of products we get recalled all of them, small ones like phone charges, but also white hoods, which we have in all of our homes. So it can be as big as your dishwasher and dry, and things like that. What kind of problems do they have . dry, and things like that. What kind of problems do they have . A variety of problems do they have . A variety of problems, it can be failure in the wiring, a design flaw in the materials used, something which has happened in the production process, so when that point comes, they need to ta ke so when that point comes, they need to take action, and we call those products we recall those products, and then the challenges where are they . They dont know where are they . They dont know where they are. So what does the manufacturer do if they are not registered . If they are not registered, they have to put notices on their website, and the retail outlets where they are selling those units, use social media, whatever they can do to get people to react. What they must do is make sure the language they use in those communications is clear, telling people what the issue is and what they need to do, so that people can make that choice. We have found that people will knowingly continue to use a recalled product because they dont think that it presents a danger, which is really concerning. If they are genuinely dangerous, though, should manufacturers be doing more to try and get them back . I know if they havent registered it is tricky. But still, shouldnt there be more of an emphasis if they are dangerous . Indeed, and we have been looking at the standards for fridges and freezes in particular, looking to get the backing of those units changed in calling for a volu nta ry units changed in calling for a voluntary mark to be added, so that consumers can be confident and have a choice when they buy the product. And if anyone is at home now thinking i should maybe register mine, can you do it even if you have had them for a long time . Absolutely, and the easiest way to register is to go to a website called register my appliance, and by putting in the make, model and serial number, that will give you the peace of mind that your product has been registered, and you shouldnt be contacted for other reasons such as marketing, but you have registered for safety purposes. That is the worry, people think it will be more junk that is the worry, people think it will be morejunk mail. That is the worry, people think it will be more junk mail. Absolutely, we co nta ct will be more junk mail. Absolutely, we contact consumers and two thirds of us do not register products because of that, we think it is so that manufacturers can sell a small products, and while that may be the case, and people may be interested in knowing what the next write this, our interest here is registering for safety so that people can be contacted when there is a safety concern. So the key thing is, make sure you register your appliances. That is it for me for now. That is interesting that you can still do it sometime later, thank you very much. The city of liverpool is used to welcoming visitors from around the world, but the latest arrivals are not your average tourists. Six feet tall and stony faced, they weigh up to 47 stones, and have spent most of the last 2,000 years underground. Brea kfasts tim muffett has gone to meet them. And this isjust and this is just fantastic, to see them up close and personal. Very up close, pa rt of them up close and personal. Very up close, part of the most significant archaeological discovery of all time as far as many are concerned. They lay underground for some 2000 years, protecting the tomb of the first emperor of china. How on earth did you bring them over to hear . We were actually approached first at the end of 2015 by colleagues in china who asked us whether we would be interested in staging an exhibition like this, and of course we were absolutely thrilled to be approached. You might think a lot why liverpool . Why would you be approached in liverpool . At liverpool is very well known to the chinese. There are lots of people who follow football in the city. Amazing, and that is how you them. Lets talk about their discovery. How, why and when were they found . They were found by chance in 1974 by farmers who were digging a well, and they uncovered some fragments of pottery which later turned out to be from the torso of one of the warriors. Yes, and they then realised that the first emperor had created thousands of them to protect him in the afterlife. Absolutely, yes. The ancient chinese believe that they would have an afterlife and that life in death would be similarto and that life in death would be similar to life on earth. So the first emperor of china wanted to protect his underground world for eternity with this enormous army. Protect his underground world for eternity with this enormous armym is extraordinary. When you go and see them in china, there are lots of them and they are quite some distance away. Here, although there are far fewer of distance away. Here, although there are farfewer of them, distance away. Here, although there are far fewer of them, you can get much closer. You can actually see the original painting. Talk us through some of the details we can see. This is a heavy infantrymen, and as you can see he is wearing armourand and as you can see he is wearing armour and there and as you can see he is wearing armourand there are and as you can see he is wearing armour and there are traces of red paint still surviving on this figure. That is because what people dont always appreciate is that after they were fired, these warriors were painted very brightly. So they must have looked magnificent when they were first placed in the pits. And they are so heavy, so actually putting them into position he was quite a struggle, wasnt it . It was quite an undertaking because they way from 110 to 300 kilograms. That is no mean feat. Dont drop them, i guess was the key thing. And it isa them, i guess was the key thing. And it is a very rare thing. Ten years ago some of them were shown in the British Museum in london. How popular do you expect this exhibition to be . We hope it will be immensely popular. Many of us it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see such outstanding works of art and archaeological treasures. And as you are saying, the detail is extraordinary. You can get close to these very significant archaeological discoveries, beneath ground for 2000 years and now on display in liverpool. And untilyou see them so close, i have learnt so much this morning. It is absolutely fantastic. Thank you. You are going to go. Definitely. Lets get some news, travel and weather, wherever you are watching. We will be back with the headlines at eight a. M. Good morning from bbc london news, im katharine carpenter. A man has died in a fire at a flat in holland park last night. 12 fire engines and 80 firefighters were sent to tackle the first floor blaze on holland park gardens. Eight nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution, but the cause of the fire isnt known. The met should be investigating more of cases of female genital mutilation in london, according to an assembly member. During a long period when the nhs recorded more than 2,500 victims, the police logged just 200 cases, and no charges were brought. But the met denies letting women down, and says the procedure is often carried out before they come to the uk. Women struggling to conceive in southend will now only be able to have one cycle of ivf funded by the nhs, instead of two. The body which commissions services in the area has also cut funding altogether for women over 40. It says it was a tough decision. The move has been criticised by the Charity Fertility fairness, which says patients in essex are the worst off in the country. A commuterfrom berkshire has developed an app to help people complain about their train journeys to work. Nick schultz says he hopes the grumpnow software will make sure operators will get more feedback, but Great Western railway says there are plenty of ways for people to complain without using an app. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. There is a good service on the tubes. On the trains, southern have cancellations between Shepherds Bush and Milton Keynes central, for urgent track repairs. On the roads this is the marylebone flyover, which is slow moving into town from westway. M11 is slow moving southbound, between junction 8 for bishops stortford, harlow and junction 6, m25, following a collision. In barnes, traffic is heavy on the south circular at the red roverjunction, for repairs to a gas leak. And Chelsea Embankment is closed westbound for roadworks, from chelsea bridge to battersea bridge. In Shepherds Bush, the Goldhawk Road remains closed both ways between Shepherds Bush green and st stephens avenue, for repairs to a burst watermain. Lets have a check on the weather now. Good morning. Well, it was another very cold night last night, so yes, another widespread frost this morning. A chilly start, but the good news is its largely dry and largely sunny. Just one or two further snow showers to watch out for in the east, and the met office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice. Now, these snow showers are restricted to the east. Theyre moving down from the east coast, parts of essex, kent, maybejust drifting down towards east london, as well. But elsewhere, weve got bright sunshine. It is going to remain cold, though, and the cloud drifting away for all parts later on this afternoon, so brightening up. Maximum temperature still chilly, though, im afraid, atjust six celsius. Now, overnight tonight, it looks like its staying clear. So the temperature therefore plummets. It will stay a bitterly cold night, perhaps colder than last night, with the minimums ranging between minus three and a very cold minus six. So another very cold start tomorrow morning. The cloud is going to increase, though, through thursday, and with it we pick up some slightly colder air. So, actually, the temperature for the next few days is on the climb. It is, however, going to feel quite cold. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Now, though, it is back to dan and louise. Bye for now. Hello this is breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. The most powerful rocket in the world successfully launches. Its billionaire backer elon musk says it will help cut the cost of space travel and he even put his first car in space. Good morning, its wednesday 7th february. Also this morning millions of workers in the gig economy are to get new rights including holiday and sick pay. The Energy Regulator wants to bring down bills for the most vulnerable customers. Ill be looking at how theyre going to do it. In sport, swansea city demolish notts county in their fa cup replay. They put eight goals past them to set up a fifth round tie with Sheffield Wednesday. And meet the ancestors, dna analysis of the oldest skeleton found in britain shows he had dark skin and blue eyes. And carol has the weather. Good timing. A cold start to the day, widespread frost and the risk of ice but a lot of sunshine around today. Wintry showers clearing that a friend coming into the north west introducing rain and some transient snow. More details in 15 minutes. Thanks. First, our main story. The worlds most powerful rocket, the falcon heavy, has successfully launched for the first time. Billionaire elon musk, whose Company Spacex is behind the project, has called it a game changer for space travel. Keith doyle reports. This is Ground Control to major tom. This is not a scene from a Science Fiction film. This actually is a car and an astronaut dummy in space with david bowie playing on its music system. Far above the world. Now its time to leave the capsule if you dare. This bizarre but very real image came after the launch of the falcon heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space center in florida last night. The successful launch of the most powerful and largest rocket since the shuttle has been called a game changer in space exploration. In part, due to its reusable boosters which have returned to earth. Two spectacularly landing together in florida, the third had a less successful landing, crashing into the sea. However getting bigger and heavier payloads into space is a major breakthrough for this commercial space company. Seeing the two boosters land in synchronisation, really like the simulation. It makes you think it can be a scalable approach. You could imagine large numbers of those just coming in and landing, taking off, landing, doing many flights per day. When the story of mans exploration of mars and beyond is written, this may well be seen as the moment it was all made possible. Keith doyle, bbc news, planet earth. A copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy on the glove compartment. It said dont panic on the dashboard. This comes at a leaked document shows the European Union wants to restrict the uks access to the Single Market. If theres a dispute in the transition period after brexit. The power to suspend certain benefits would apply in the post brexit transition phase. The high court will hear the start of a legal challenge this morning against the release of the serial sex attacker, john worboys. Last month, the parole board was criticised when it announced that worboys would be freed after less than nine years in prison. If the two seniorjudges decide that a judicial review is not possible, his release will be imminent. Today, theyre deciding whether the case is arguable, in other words, put another way, whether its hopeless. If they decide that it is hopeless, it cant move forward, then that will be an end to these proceedings. And there wouldnt be any further proceedings that could be brought to try and stop mr worboys being released, and hed have to be released sooner rather than later. Aftershocks continue to rock taiwan after a strong earthquake which killed at least four people and injured more than 200 others. Many buildings in the city of hualien, including the local hospital, have been damaged and a number of people are still missing. Hundreds of residents have spent the night sleeping out in the open. A man who said hed been abused by a paedophile ring involving high ranking establishment figures has been charged with multiple offences relating to indecent images of children. Nick, as hes known, is alleged to have committed some of the offences while Scotland Yard was investigating his claims. Tesco is facing britains largest equal pay law suit which could affect up to 200,000 mostly female shop workers. The women who work on the shop floor say they earn considerably less than men who work in the companys distribution centres. Even though their work is of the same value. Lawyers estimate the supermarket giant could be liable for up to £4 billion in back pay if it loses. The bbcs economic editor has more. 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 that could lead to the largest equal pay claim in employment history. Lawyers for tescos supermarket workers say that female staff on hourly rates earn considerably less than a man 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. New dna analysis of the oldest complete skeleton found in britain has come up with some surprising results. Scientists have discovered that the man who lived around 10,000 years ago had much darker skin than was previously thought and he also had blue eyes. Paul rincon reports. One, two, three. Voila revealed for the first time, the oldest modern briton. He lived 10,000 years ago, just when britain was warming up after the last ice age. He was originally found in 1903 during a dig in cheddar gorge. Now, a replica lies on the spot where he was found. There have been attempts to reconstruct what he looked like before. Modern techniques in dna analysis have given us new information about his features and his lifestyle. Ive been studying the cheddar man skeleton for more than 40 years so its incredible now to have the dna data which really shows us what this guy looked like. The hair, the eyes, the face, that combination of blue eyes and dark skin, really very striking, something we wouldnt have imagined. And to also go from the dna, details of his biology, the fact he couldnt digest milk as an adult, thats something that came really with the advent of farming and 10,000 years ago, people in britain didnt have that. The project brought together experts from different fields geneticists, artists and palaeontologists. A young man in his 20s who lay undisturbed for 10,000 years has revealed secrets that are changing the picture of our past. Paul rincon, bbc news. Hedgehogs are continuing to decline in the uk, according to a new report. Surveys show hedgehog numbers have fallen by about 50 in the past two decades. Conservation groups say they are particularly concerned about the plight of the animals in rural areas. More on that later on. One hedgehog fa ct, more on that later on. One hedgehog fact, i cant believe this, in the 19505 it fact, i cant believe this, in the 1950s it was estimated, would you believe, there were 36 and a half million hedgehogs in britain. In the 19505. Were now down to about. 1995 estimated 1. 5 million, that is quite a decline. We have someone here with a couple of rescue hedgehogs later. He will tell you how you can spot whether or not hedgehog lives in your garden, hopefully. Which is what you looking for. Mobile apps like uber and deliveroo allow workers to be flexible, but critics say the so called gig economy excludes thousands of people from key rights and protections. The government says its taking action with a set of proposals and consultations, but unions argue the measures dont go far enough. Lets speak to business secretary greg clark. He joins us from westminster. Dont worry, no questions about hedgehogs im interested in this. Tell me, is it a change to the law is ita tell me, is it a change to the law is it a consultation on a possible change to the law . Theres a lot of changes that we are making. The Matthew Taylor report was a big and comprehensive look into how we can ta ke comprehensive look into how we can take our Employment Laws and regulations and make them fit for the 21st century with the new platforms that are there. Its looking at how existing rights are enforced, how people can be clear what rights they have under different employment models and how we can make sure that the quality of work, as well as the number ofjobs, is at the heart of the governments agenda. And that we should be held to account for the quality ofjobs. So there is a very wide range of recommendations. We are responding comprehensively and enthusiastically to them, implementing almost all of them. Also following what some of them. Also following what some of the select committees in parliament called upon. A big change in our regulations. If somebody is at home who is a courier, thinking about sick pay, holiday pay, what are these proposals, what difference will they make to that person listening to you this morning . One thing is that they will be entitled on day one and a clear statement of what their rights are. At the moment, they dont have that. Lots of people zemke dont know whether they are entitled to holiday pay, sick pay and whatever simply dont know. That will be an important change. When it comes to holiday pay and sick pay, a lot of people who are entitled to it, never get it, because some of the poorer employers dont pay it. And then youve got a bit of a. David and goliath. How can the little guys challenge an employer that is determined not to pay their dues . Just as the government enforces the payment of the National Minimum wage, we will do so for sick pay and employment pay. They are two exa m ples of employment pay. They are two examples of how acting on these recommendations are going to give more confidence when people take jobs they get the rights they are entitled to. You say it is a substantial change but the unions are saying this is fiddling around the edges, tinkering and it is a wasted opportunity, how do you a nswer wasted opportunity, how do you answer that . I dont think that is right. It is there to reflect, as the taylor report does, that the model that we have in the uk is pretty successful, we have a lot of people in employment. People have flexible working. Most people want to have that and they say they want to have that and they say they want to have that and they say they want to have it. But we want to make it better. We want to adapt to the future. What we are saying on Employment Law, this is the biggest change in the framework of Employment Law for a generation. It will be absolutely. You wont have to work out what the courts and what tribunal s are saying that the rights are that people have. It will be Crystal Clear whether you are an employee or subcontractor or self employed, which category you are in, what rights you have and how you can have them enforced, that is a big change. It positions us in the world of all of these new technologies, every country in the world, going in this direction. We are the first country in the world to prepare for that, which makes us, i think to prepare for that, which makes us, ithinka to prepare for that, which makes us, i think a better placed to benefit from it. You will be involved in this brexit war cabinet, so called, later on. Today the chamber of commerce said patience is wearing thin and they want a clear statement. It was only a week ago that you wrote a letter saying businesses should be confident that it seems that is exactly what they are not because there is not that clear statement from the government. The letter i wrote to businesses with the brexit secretary and the chancellor, that letter i set out, it was the commitment to have an implementation period. Of around two yea rs. If agreed in march, it gives almost three years of continuity for arrangements for businesses. But, one week later the chamber of commerce has said we need a clear statement, their patience is wearing thin. Sure, let me address this. The first thing they asked for, and as a result of the chambers and businesses up and down the country, that we should have a clear and fermentation period, that was agreed. And business, quite rightly proved influential on the and implementation period. What they are saying today, the chamber of commerce, quite rightly, is that once we have that, then the final agreement is clearly going to be very important to business. We are about to start the negotiations over that. We cant have the. We cant know, for sure, whats going to be agreed until the negotiations have happened. Businesses know that. They know that we are going into a period of negotiation. But they deserve to know. And they should know. What our intentions are in that negotiation. Im very clear on that. Through all of the discussions i have come a day in, day out with businesses, it reflects what they need, which continue to trade without tariffs and the minimum of frictions with the rest of the European Union. Over the years ahead. That combination of the implementation period and a clear agreement that allows trade to continue is what business is asking for and its what im determined that they should get. You mentioned intentions, what you make of this so called threat from the eu, that if the uk breaks the rules in the transition period we risk losing certain access to the Single Market . I havent seen this. Some leaks that has emerged. What i would say, from time to time documents, statements and things do seem to come a cropper. Im not sure what authority it has. All i would say is the negotiations that we are about to have are clearly very important. I think they should be conducted, as i know they will be, ina way conducted, as i know they will be, in a way that is detailed, forensic, constructive and courteous, with the shared intention, because it is in everyones interest, to be able to prosper, whether it is the uk or the rest of the union. That is the way to conduct it, it seems to me, through the proper negotiations and not too kind and speculate on things which are uncertain. Greg clark, thank you forjoining us this morning. Its 8 17 and youre watching breakfast from bbc news. It is cold but carol can give us proper details. And the graphics as well good morning. Yes, temperatures fell as minus eight last night. Watch out forice as minus eight last night. Watch out for ice first thing. Also some snow now forecast, as you can see from this beautiful weather watchers pictures sent in this morning of east sussex. Snow in the south east. Also some snow coming in across the north west. It is transient snow in the north west, it will not last, it will retreat into the hills and be replaced by rain. In between those systems, we are looking at some sunshine. The satellite picture, you can see twinkly streetlights on the map but also this great cloud, that is one weather front. The second brilliant white cloud coming in from the atlantic is a very active weather front which is the atlantic is a very active weatherfront which is producing the atlantic is a very active weather front which is producing the rain, sleet and snow. It will continue to advance across the north west. Some snow in north west scotland already. This one in the south east clears away and in between things are fairly settled. As we lose those wintry showers from the south east and Channel Islands, we are looking at a lot of blue skies are also some showers that have produced some wintry mess. As the weather front advances in, the snow will increasingly retreat into the hills across scotland. The cloud building in eastern scotland, Northern England and wales. For Northern Ireland, some rain and hill snow. Todays temperature is not quite as low as they were yesterday but nonetheless, if you are stepping out, it will feel cold. If you are hanging around a bus stop or waiting outside for anything, you will certainly notice the cold feel. Through this evening and overnight, the weather front continues to advance south eastwards. The cloud continuing to build in Northern England, wales and southwest in them. Under clear skies in the south east, it will be cold. Once again, temperatures low enough for some frost and also some ice. Looking at below freezing for many parts of the uk. So that is how we start the forecast on thursday. Our weather front continues to push steadily south eastwards, eradicating the nice bright star we had in the south east as the cloud build ups. This weather front will rejuvenate and the rain will turn heavier in Northern England, wales and eventually into South West England. Behind it, some brighter skies, still some cloud around, not blue skies, and further showers coming in in the north west of scotland and Northern Ireland. Asa Northern Ireland. As a result of all this cloud cover and the rain, it wont be as cold as today. Were looking at temperatures possibly even as high as ten. The summit will feel much milder, but dont get used to it because i is this weather front continues to push down into the south east to east anglia, the south east and Channel Islands, behind it we have this cloud and looking at clear skies, temperatures going back down again. You can see that by looking at the wintry showers in northern and western scotland and Northern Ireland. By the time we get to friday, we have tumbled to touch, looking out for five in the north, 67 looking out for five in the north, 6 7 as we push by the south. If you are making plans for the weekend, this week and matt forecast against ill quite unsettled, outbreaks of rain. It will be breezy and also ll l. L l. L lll ll. A. Llll l. L ll l. L l. L lll ll. A. Llll ll llllllll l l. A ll l. L l. L lll ll. A llll ll llllllll l l. A bit colder on sunday turning a bit colder on sunday and some of us once again will seek some wintry elements. Thank you. A lot of people saying they are enjoying carols new look weather map this morning. I thought id miss the yellow numbers but i dont good Vulnerable People will save money on their energy bills after the uks Energy Regulator, ofgem Just Announced it is extending the safeguard tariff steph is here with more. Yes, and given the weather at the minute, ithink yes, and given the weather at the minute, i think this will be some relief for some people. What it is, ofgem who regulates the Energy Sector have been trying to think of ways to make sure that the most Vulnerable People, the people who mightfind it Vulnerable People, the people who might find it the toughest to pay energy bills, and stung by Constant Energy price rises. After most people who are the poorest are the ones who find the most expensive way to pay because they might be on, for example, a prepayment meter bust last year they announced they would bring out a cap on a tariff to make sure if you had a prepayment meter, the suppliers couldnt continually keep putting it up. That worked for 4 Million People, 4 million households that brought bills down by an average of £60 for them. There are two bits of news this morning. One, that safeguard tariff is going to extended to another million households. So they have already done it for everyone on prepayment meters, now for other customers who also qualify for the warms home discount, which the government provides. If someone qualifies for that, they will also qualify for this safeguard tariff. That is the first bit of news, so 5 Million People now who will get the safeguard tariff. Hidden in the detail, theres always the not so good news. Further down in the information they publish. What they are saying is this safeguard tariff cap is going to go up a bit. It will grow up about 5. 5 . So all of those people who got put on this tariff with their prepayment meter last year will see their bills go up by about £57 a year based on this. But the bigger point they are trying to say is overall it will save them money, compared to just letting the suppliers put up the amount by whatever they want. They are saying overall, lots of vulnerable customers will be helped by this, but if you look at the small print, prices are going up, 5. 5 . That is quite a bit. Thank you. 8 22am. Managing traffic, delivering medical supplies and boosting wifi are just some of the ways drones could be used in the future. They really could change things. Breakfasts john maguire is at a research lab in southampton, finding out more. He is outside. Will you be able to fly that broken . Good morning. Not that one but we are flying lots of other drones at the university of southampton. This gives you an idea of the scale of the aircraft. You do huge ones, like that one, but they come as small as this. What the scientist here are able to release those, they are biodegradable and the nine, hundreds of december lots of data. Joe is monitoring some of the flight here at mission control, he has an idea of air Traffic Control locally. Also tells you all of the details of the aircraft. This can be deployed to anywhere where the drones. We can say good morning to the professor from the university of the hampton. What we will do for you this morning, anthony is our pilot, our breakfast drone camera. That will take off and we should be talking to that camera to give you the birds eye view. I suppose that tells you everything you need to know about drones. They can go to places perhaps we are not able to go to ordinarily. What are you working on at the university now . Our primary interest is safety and beyond line of sight flying. That is a big Research Challenge for us and something we will be doing over the next few months. That means completely losing sight of the drone and relying on communications to control it and monitor it and making sure that we manage the airspace. Going into dangerous places sometimes, summerlike fukushima, where it is not safe to go and examples . Somewhere like. Where it is not safe to go and examples . Somewhere likem where it is not safe to go and examples . Somewhere like. It is the dangerous application and they are ideal for those sorts of roles. Thank you. I also want to say good morning to tristan. A couple of drone flying here. You have invited cities across the uk to tell you and all of us what they can do with drones into the future. Tell us the idea behind it all . The idea is as you can see, Drone Technology is very advanced. It has been used in a military context and also Parcel Delivery companies and in australia they were used to rescue people from drowning. The idea is cities need to think about how drones can be used for the benefit of their citizens on what they can do. We have selected five cities as the flying High Programme that are going to develop those plans and visions for the future and also come up with practical use cases they will take forwards, so there could be rescuing people from water, it could be looking at flooding, they could be Emergency Response or organ delivery tra nsfer Emergency Response or organ delivery transfer for Emergency Response or organ delivery transferfor emergency Emergency Response or organ delivery transfer for emergency situations. That is what we will find out next. Sometimes it is the mundane and other times the more exciting, the more exotic as it work . It is really important cities and citizens within the cities, the universities and businesses get together and think about where they want drones to go, what they want them to do and also what they want them to do and also what they want them to do and also what they dont want them to do as well. That has not happened anywhere in the world yet. This is a uk first. Lovely, thank you very much indeed. As i say, we have these drones flying. Where is our drone camera . Miles up there. Just give it a wave. Becoming an increasing part of daily life, drones. But asjim said from the university, they can do things that we are used in the military, agriculture, engineering, science, climatology, all sorts of different aspects. And the uk right at the front of this innovation at the moment. From the university is a fountain and above the university of southampton, back to you in the the shots are fantastic. Thank you. So interesting to see how technology can change things. It has changed our perspective. As humans we are not used to seeing the earth from i remember the earthquake in kathmandu and of pictures that came out well from a drone flying over. 8 27am. Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. Record start to the day with temperatures down to celsius in northern parts, widespread frost. 12 northern parts, widespread frost. 12 celsius. It should be dry and sunny but according to the satellite imagery, cloud moving its way to scotla nd imagery, cloud moving its way to scotland and Northern Ireland. Outbreaks of rain but down towards the south east. Some wintry showers to the south east of england, west wales, the south east of england, mostly dry and a glorious start, lots of blue skies around, that will continue into the afternoon. Scotla nd continue into the afternoon. Scotland and Northern Ireland, the cloud will increase with rain moving m, cloud will increase with rain moving in, hill snow by the white which could come down to low levels later. A cold day with maximum temperature is about four to eight celsius. Tonight, the cloud and rain will continue but look at the map, a bit greener across central and eastern areas. Indicating clear skies. There will be a hard frost again with temperatures down to 2 and minus six. North and west, a bit less cold because of the cloud and rain. It will continue to move south and east on thursday. Heavy rain for a time across wales and north west england. Try and brighter in the south east with brighter skies and showers in scotla nd with brighter skies and showers in scotland and Northern Ireland on thursday. Less cold. Temperatures up to maybe even 9 degrees by the end of thursday. That weather front bringing the rain will continue to spread into the south east of england into friday morning. Elsewhere, clear skies. Cold and frosty. Some ice across scotland and Northern Ireland with snow showers moving throughout the day. The rain will clear away from the south east. For many on friday, dry and sunny and a bit colder with temperatures dropping by a few more degrees. More online. Its a new website. This is business live from bbc news with ben thompson and sally bundock. Business leaders lose their patience about britians brexit plans as the Prime Minister meets senior ministers to thrash out the uks position on leaving the eu. Live from london, thats our top story on wednesday 7th february. The british chambers of commerce accused theresa may of ambiguity saying businesses must plan for their future and want a Firm Decision on the way forward in the next fortnight. Also in the programme grocery giant tesco faces britains largest ever equal pay claim that could top 5 billion dollars as thousands of women workers demand pay parity with men