A new report says yes, ill look at who is set to benefit. And im in pendle, home of gb slalom skier dave ryding. He started on the dry slopes here. They are so proud, he came in the top ten, ninth, well done to dave. Disappointment for the mens curling team, they are out must work the way this morning by switzerland. Theresa may, wheres the money for grenfell . A strong message from stormzy as the grime superstar wins big at the brits. And nick has the weather. Good morning. A touch of frost, patchy fog around this morning but plenty of fine, dry weather to come, not just today, plenty of fine, dry weather to come, notjust today, for the rest of the week and into the weekend with increasing sunshine by then. The main story is the turning colder pa rt main story is the turning colder part of the forecast and how cold it will get next week. Ive got the full forecast coming up. Nick, thank you very much. Good morning. First, our main story. President trump says hes considering Arming Teachers with guns and tightening background checks on people buying weapons after last weeks School Shootings in florida which left 17 people dead. Mr trump was speaking at a meeting at the white house where he listened to emotional and angry testimony from survivors of gun crime and their families. Barbara plett usher reports. The people demand a hearing. In florida telling their lawmakers loud and clear, they dont want this mass shooting to drop off the political agenda like all the others have. At the white house, President Trump was listening to victims of the Parkland School attack but also those that came before it. Andrew pollacks 18 year old daughter, meadow, was killed last week. Doesnt make sense, fix it, should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im kissed. Its my daughter im not going to see again. Shes not here, shes not here, shes in North Lauderdale at whatever it is, king david cemetery, thats where i go see my kid now. Whatever it is, king david cemetery, thats where i go see my kid nowm doesnt make sense to her schoolmate, samuel zaif either, especially the gunmans access to a semiautomatic rifle. I dont understand, i turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone and i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. The president has responded to calls for tougher gun laws with promises of strong background checks, but also more guns. Its called concealed carry where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them. They go for special training. There concealed gun on them. They go for specialtraining. There is concealed gun on them. They go for special training. There is some support for that argument, but stu d e nts support for that argument, but students who survived the attack flooded floridas state legislature demanding a ban on assault rifles. Never again the students aim to harness that momentum and turn it into a national campaign. Barbara plett usher, bbc news, tallahassee, florida. The largest study of its kind into the use of anti depressants has found that they are effective when treating depression. A review of more than 500 trials, published in the lancet, found 21 common anti depressants were more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than placebos. Andrew plant reports. Theyre one of the most commonly used drugs in the world with millions of prescriptions for antidepressants given out every year. Thats more than one prescription per person. But four years theres been debate and doubt over how effective they really are. Now the university of oxford has analysed the data on a huge scale and says eve ryo ne the data on a huge scale and says everyone of the 21 drugs they looked that did help patients to manage their depression. We found the most commonly prescribed and antidepressants worked for major depression and for people with moderate to severe depression, and we also found some of them are more effective than others, or better tolerated than others. Many who take antidepressants say there is still a stigma attached to using the medication. When i first started taking them, the first question asked was when are you going to come off them, are you going to take them for a short amount of time . It doesnt really work like that. You wouldnt say to a diabetic, when are you going to wean yourself off insulin, you know . Ithink you going to wean yourself off insulin, you know . I think people need to realise that the benefits. Its an ongoing thing. The study also ranked the drugs according to how effective they were, which could help doctors pick the right prescriptions for their patients. Andrew plant, bbc news. Theresa may will try to overcome differences among her senior ministers on brexit. Its being billed as an awayday at the Prime Ministers country residence, chequers. This is an away day with a bit of a difference . It is. The cabinet big hitters will head a0 miles north west of here at westminster to the rolling buckinghamshire countryside to the 16th century manor house, chequers, the Prime Ministers country retreat. It is roald dahl country in that part of buckinghamshire, the author spent much of his life there and the whole Brexit Process can feel a bit squiggle ink at times, i love those roald dahl made up words. Lets talk about some of the central characters in the plot today. Firstly and centrally we have the Prime Minister, she will be chairing the meeting today of these senior ministers, trying to find an agreement about what the end state should look like, our relationship with the eu. Thats once we are out the eu and the transition and implementation period is over. Who else will be there . This guy, david davis, the brexit secratary, he had a goat in vienna in a speech talking about the future relationship had about the future relationship had a go. Whenever you look at the cabinet, the country and the parliament, theres different views. Philip hammond, the chancellor, has recently talked about wanting a moderate change with the eu relationship after brexit and there are those who argued for brexit, you might recognise this chap, boris johnson, the foreign secretary, among others, who say there should be able attachment from the eu in the future. Theyre just the negotiations in the cabinet. Then the negotiations with brussels get under way in earnest. They say they dont want the uk picking and choosing the rules and regulations it stays close to or to ditch in the future. And to use that phrase we hear a lot of, the clock continues to tick, a00 days until brexit day on the 29th of march next year. 0k, a00 days. Chris, a00 days more of analysis. Thank you very much. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote later today on a draft resolution demanding a 30 day month long ceasefire in syria to allow deliveries of aid and medical evacuations. The move comes as International Concern giows over the syrian governments intense bombardment of the rebel held area of Eastern Ghouta, outside damascus. Reports suggest more than 300 people have been killed in the district since sunday. People convicted of Domestic Abuse offences in england and wales will be more likely to go to prison in future, under new sentencing guidelines. For the first time, the guidance will say domestic offences should be treated more seriously than similar crimes not involving partners or family members. The new guidance will also extend Domestic Abuse to threats on social media. A month of strikes affecting more than 60 uk universities and one Million Students is beginning today. Lecturers are walking out over changes to their pensions, which they say could leave them up to £10,000 a year worse off in retirement. Heres our education correspondent elaine dunkley. Thousands of lectures cancelled across university campuses. The strikes in response to plans by vice chancellors to make changes to the private pensions of university staff. Were going to see people really lose probably in their retirement up to a0 of what their pensions were before. The university and College Union says lecturers, on average, will lose up to £10,000 a year from their pensions. As many as a2,000 stuff at 6a universities will be affected. Universities uk, which represents vice chancellors, says changes to the pension are essential due to a deficit of £6 billion. If the dispute isnt resolved by the summer, exams could be cancelled. More than 70,000 students have signed a petition calling for fees to be be reimbursed for lost teaching hours. Its extremely worrying in terms of the impact that its going to have on students education. But myself and a lot of other students are very clear that we unequivocally support our lecturers in this dispute. Its quite scary to think about how much time were leaving, and especially with how much money were paying every year, i dont know whether well get that time back, especially with exams coming up and everything. 1a days of action are planned but it could go on longer. A dispute which could have a Significant Impact on the retirement of thousands of lecturers on the careers of millions of students. Elaine dunkley, bbc news. How much time do you spend on your phone . A new survey says were receiving, on average, at least four times more messages or alerts on our mobiles than ten years ago. The study by Virgin Mobile says we receive an average of nearly 3a,000 mobile phone messages 01 alerts a year. It means that peoples phones beep around 90 times a day thats the equivalent of spending 22 days a year checking your messages. In between the talking is better stop the phone. Do you know, when we do that and you have the sound effects of the phone and those kinds of things, its quite annoying when youre at home. Ijust did that phase, you note . Hello, ben. phase, you note . Hello, ben. I know that phase very well. Now, now good morning. Its annoying when it is co nsta nt morning. Its annoying when it is constant why ijust did that face, you know . Lets have a look at the front pages of the newspapers. Looking at the brexit plan, this important meeting in chequers today. We will look ahead with interest at the messages that emerge later in the messages that emerge later in the day. The guardian picking up on that. There are concerns among theresa mays cabinet, or about the cabinet, for some who want an extreme brexit, more closely aligned to the situation we are in at the moment with the eu. The picture is oui moment with the eu. The picture is our top story gun control, donald trump has had a meeting with some of those affected by gun crime. He met with them yesterday. This is another top story here, depression, antidepressants do work, some are more effective than others, theres been a groundbreaking study on that. That story also on the front page of the times. One of these harrowing images from syria making a lot of the papers, the chaos that is in assuming right now. In case you were worried, lee and cheryl are fine. On the front page of the times, doctors should prescribe more antidepressants, that is the sons ta ke antidepressants, that is the sons take on the latest research liam and cheryl front page of the metro son suns of the best results for lloyds since the best results for lloyds since the financial crisis. Lloyds now backin the financial crisis. Lloyds now back in private ownership after the big taxpayer bailout at the height of the financial crisis. Well get the barclays of the financial crisis. Well get the ba rclays results of the financial crisis. Well get the barclays results later, keep an eye on those. The bank of england yesterday signalling there could be an end to the altar are cheap mortgages we have got used to, Interest Rates at record lows at the moment, the governor of the bank of england suggesting there could be four rises over the course of the year, the first one we think could be in about may. Did he actually is a four be in about may. Did he actually is afouror be in about may. Did he actually is a four or hint . He said something more than three. Did he actually said four. More than many expected. What the bank is careful about is raising them too quickly, if Interest Rates go up that means it is more expensive to borrow, especially mortgages, so were just coming out that squeeze, if youre paying more for your mortgage you might feel the squeeze. Its worth pointing out, Mortgage Rate rises can make things difficult for households but even if there were fourin households but even if there were four in the space of 12 months, they are still historically low. That doesnt change in the space of a short period of time relatively. The issue. We should also talk about savers, good news for them finally after a decade of record low Interest Rates, but the issue is the fa ct Interest Rates, but the issue is the fact theres a whole generation of mortgage holders who have never seen an Interest Rate rise. Theres a whole range of people who havent seen their payments go up so psychologically its a big change to think about the money youre paying on your mortgage could go up. Do you know what a centi billionaire is . 100 billion. Gave the game away a bit. Breaking through 100 billion. This is the worlds richest people. Bill gates, he is at the top, this man breaking through the barrier of being worth more than 100 billion, jeff bayes oss, the founder of amazon. A select club, theres not many in there, five of them at the moment. How do you say it, centi billionaire . I dont think it works very well. No, ithink billionaire . I dont think it works very well. No, i think youre right. It sounds more like an animal than a measure of wealth. I dont think they care too much if theyre worth 100 billion good morning. Cold air on the way, even colder than what it is. We will look at that in just a moment. The weather is very quiet. Mainly dry today. There are just one or two showers around that most of us will see large amounts of cloud with occasional sunshine coming through. Lets ta ke occasional sunshine coming through. Lets take a look at the big picture. To get these weather fronts in the atlantique, they are not bothering us. It is High Pressure and mainly settled. Just patchy frost around. Large amounts large amounts of cloud and bright and sunny spells coming through. You can see them here to the east of Northern Ireland. Dont be surprised by that. A bit more of breeze in bed with the rest of the uk. As we go through tonight, large holes developing. Frost taking hold for more of us developing. Frost taking hold for more of us compare developing. Frost taking hold for more of us compare to last night going into tomorrow morning. Not many of us here, but you can see where the blues elsewhere. Nothing widespread thankfully. A frosty start compared with today. A few more wind arrows showing up. The wind becoming more of a factor. Temperatures fairly similar. That is still with us into the weekend, as is High Pressure to the east of us. Its an easterly flow. Loads of sunshine around at the weekend. Just a bit of patchy cloud, maybe towards Northern Ireland on saturday. Most of us will see plenty of sunshine, overnight frost in the clear skies and temperatures continuing to step down as we pump in the blue from the east. From siberia. The colder areas coming in. Thats what we expect. Even colder weather. An indication of some of our top temperatures. London, colder than elsewhere. A bigger dip in temperature. Then, as we go deeper into next week, a chance for seeing some snow. The cold there is definitely coming. In the past few months, the battle against plastic has been brought into sharp focus, in part thanks to the Television Series blue planet two. Series later today, annual waste statistics will be published. In recent years wales has outperformed the rest of the uk at recycling household waste. Weve sent breakfastsjohn maguire to new quay bay to find out why. Why they so much better in wales compared to the rest the uk . The next few minutes will reveal all. They do well in wales. The of court of course is whether it is top down or bottom up. We are joined by some locals from new quay. They are going to do a bit of a beach clea n, are going to do a bit of a beach clean, tell us about the kind of things they find on the beach. I suppose, its partnership really between local authorities, government and residents and volunteer groups, charities, committee groups, to try to get serious about the problem. I think you are right. It seems as if blue planet ii was a real watershed moment. So many have woken up to the problem of plastics in the ocean. But this is what we do so well here. Its a bin day in bridgend and on the curbside, a rainfall of refuse. Orange bags the cardboard, white paper, brown for food. Orange bags the cardboard, white paper, brown forfood. There orange bags the cardboard, white paper, brown for food. There are even bags the nappies, purple, and just two blue bags of non recycla bles just two blue bags of non recyclables collected every other week. Residents who transgress risk being fined but locals here seem happy. Good, yeah. Good for the environment and everything, keeps eve ryo ne environment and everything, keeps everyone on the toes. Ive got a child who is eight as well and he finds it because he chucked everything in the bin butjust getting him used to it. Once you are used to it, you are all right . Yeah. Bridgend council as reaching rates other councils dream of, reaching 7496. Other councils dream of, reaching 7a . The recycling level in wales is 6a against a uk average of aa . The pretty coastal village here is cutting down on single use plastic and has been awarded the special status by the Environmental Campaign group surfers against sewerage. The local shop owner mike allen shows me around. They havent banned plastics, they are offering alternatives. Wooden clothes pegs, looseleaf tea, and even a toothbrush made from bamboo. Wooden toothbrushes. Those are our second biggest seller. They seem to have attracted peoples attention. We have the plastic with those as well. There are around 150 dolphins living out in cardigan bay. The environment here is jealously guarded and it was a concern about ocean plastics that inspired resident gail tudor to rally community support. You look at the beautiful beach and you think it is pretty clean but when you start going down and see the stock that has washed up, in the seaweed, its not. That is left by holidaymakers and local people, a lot of it is washed in. The talk here is that cutting down on waste, especially plastic, can spread to the next village, the next county, the next country. Plastics are under attack from people power. Welcome back to new quay. I want to talk to hannah. The environment minister for wales, talk to hannah. The environment ministerfor wales, how come talk to hannah. The environment minister for wales, how come wales is doing so well in leading the way to the uk western mike we are just over 5 of the recycling and now were over 5 of the recycling and now were up to 6a . Over 5 of the recycling and now were up to 6496. It is a record to be proud of. In terms of how weve got there, its a combination of political leadership, but also working with local authorities for statutory targets and funding and things like waste treatment and collection. Lots of carrot and stick. What about businesses and larger organisations . Governments and councils themselves. Its one of those things which is the responsibility of all of us. We all need to play our part. Its good to see, particularly welsh based businesses such as iceland, with plastics, but it is also working together and how we go forward and how we encourage businesses to be pa rt how we encourage businesses to be part of that and its vesting for save rs part of that and its vesting for savers and as public consciousness grows, that helps in applying pressure on private organisations. Hugo brand. Youve been doing a lot of work trying to reduce plastic, your main drive and towns and communities are getting this plastic free status. The criteria as five objectives. Number one is trying to get the local council involved. It just means that as an official target. Number two is to get around all the businesses, get around into the fish and chips shops, the cafes, getting them to change their ways, Plastic Straws and bottles. Charles, just come in very quickly. Some breaking news for you. What can you tell us about new quay this morning . New quay has officially been recognised as a plastic free village community. Well done. We were told on monday but told to keep it quiet for a few days. We can announce it today. Breaking news, new quay has become the latest Plastic Free Community along this coastline. A beautiful location. You can see the harbour behind me. We will have a bit of a beach clean and see what we can find bit of a beach clean and see what we canfind and bit of a beach clean and see what we can find and make the most of this wonderful cardigan bay west welsh coastline. Youve started the morning off with a bang. If you start with breaking news, you need to bring something every time we see you. It has to get bigger and bigger. This is the place to come for it. Its going to be stunning their later. The camera work on that report was free styling. They should be in the winter olympics. At the winter olympics, writtens dave riding has finished well, finishing the top ten of mens slalom. Mike is with a bunch of people. We have been here all night, the tea and copy has kept us going because we watched his first run in the mens slalom and his second run, there was great excitement. He was leading the way. We are pretty pleased with that because this is the legacy. We will be seeing how it is going but first, the news, travel and weather where you are. Good morning from bbc london news, im sara orchard. A watchdog has found significant weaknesses in the way the met police deals with cases involving children. The latest audit of cases found that improvements have been made since a damning report in november last year, but that more needs to be done to protect under 18s involved in investigations. In a statement, the met said action has been taken in every case identified and that its aware of the urgency of improving its services further. Workers on londons Docklands Light Railway are staging a a8 hour strike in a dispute over pay and other issues. Members of the rail, maritime and transport union, employed as cleaners, security staff and travel officers, walked out at 5. 30am this morning. The workers also went on strike earlier this month. Low pay is having a corrosive impact on family life and the health of workers earning below the voluntary living wage, according to a new study. The survey for the Living Wage Foundation found that a quarter of respondents believed low pay negatively affected their relationship with their family and friends. More than three out of five said they worried so much it affected their day to day life. Progress in reducing premature deaths from Heart Disease is slowing to a near standstill thats the warning from the british heart foundation. The latest stats for london show that for every 100,000 people under the age of 75, 39 die from coronary Heart Disease. This is virtually unchanged from 2011. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. Starting on the tubes, edgware road station is closed to bakerloo Line Services for lift repairs, theres a good service on all other lines. On the roads this morning, theres northbound traffic on the blackwall tunnel southern approach its slow from the woolwich rd flyover. Lets have a check on the weather now with elizabeth rizzini. Good morning. It set to be another driver to other chilly feeling day. There will be some sunshine times, particularly through the afternoon for many areas but cloud coming and going as well. Patchy forced to stop this morning, temperatures hovering around freezing. Clout through the morning for many areas but coming up in the south east as we head through the afternoon, it looks like we will see more sunshine around the second half of the day. Top temperatures between four and possibly seven celsius but a chilly easterly breeze with wind around as well. Through this evening and overnight it will stay dry with lots of clear skies and a widespread frost developing into tomorrow morning. As low as 2 or minus three celsius. Tomorrow will feel really rather chilly. Six celsius but a strengthening easterly breeze as we head into the weekend and by the time we get the sunday, temperatures could be struggling to get above freezing into the course of the day and into the start of next week, we could see even a few snow showers. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Plenty more on our website at the usual address. Now though its back to charlie and naga. Hello, this is breakfast with Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt. Well bring you the latest news and sport injust a moment. Heres whats still to come this morning bring tumours in particularly grow very quickly brain tumours. And theyre very hard to spot. However, there is a good reason for hope. That was baroness jowell, who has a brain tumour, talking about the eliminate Cancer Initiative. Well speak to her daughter and the director of the project ahead of a top level summit on the condition. Hardship, secrets and family conflict provide the drama in dark river. Two of its stars, luthers ruth wilson and game of thrones mark stanley, will be on the sofa. Living standards are set to start rising again, good news for some. Well examine why cuts to benefits could see eight million families losing out. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. President trump says hes considering Arming Teachers with guns and tightening background checks on people buying weapons after last weeks School Shootings in florida which left 17 people dead. Mr trump was speaking at a meeting when he met survivors of gun crime at the white house. If you had a teacher with. Who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly, and the thing about a suggestion like that, and were going to be looking at it very strongly, and a lot of people are going to be opposed to it, but i think a lot of it are going to like it. But the suggestion was met with opposition by some stu d e nts was met with opposition by some students and families. I turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. I dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. A major study into the use of anti depressants has found that they are effective when treating depression. A review of more than 500 trials, published in the medical journal the lancet, found 21 common anti depressants were more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than placebos. Researchers say that many more people in the uk could benefit from taking the drugs. Theresa may will try to overcome differences among her senior ministers on brexit today. She will chair a meeting intended to hammer out the cabinets position on future relations with the european union. The discussion at chequers comes after new disagreements flared yesterday among the conservatives, when the government published its strategy for working with brussels during a transition period. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote later today on a draft resolution demanding a 30 day month long ceasefire in syria to allow deliveries of aid and medical evacuations. The move comes as International Concern grows over the syrian governments intense bombardment of the rebel held area of Eastern Ghouta, outside damascus. Reports suggest more than 300 people have been killed in the district since sunday. The un secretary general described Eastern Ghouta as hell people convicted of Domestic Abuse offences in england and wales will be more likely to go to prison in future, under new sentencing guidelines. For the first time, the guidance will say domestic offences should be treated more seriously than similar crimes not involving partners or family members. The new guidance will also extend Domestic Abuse to threats on social media. Three passengers died in the accident earlier this month while for more people, including the pilot, were badly injured. A preliminary report by accident investigators doesnt say why the helicopter crash. A month of strikes affecting 6a uk universities and a Million Students begins today. Lecturers are walking out over changes to their pensions, which they say could leave them up to ten thousand pounds a year worse off in retirement. Their employer, universities uk, says the Pension Scheme has a six billion pound deficit which cant be ignored. If you dont have a head for heights look away now. Snaking through the mountains of northern china, this is the worlds longest glass suspension bridge. Spanning nearly 500 metres with a vertical drop of more than 200 metres, it is supposed to represent a dragon flying through the valley. Its made up of 1,077 glass panels and is designed to take up to 2 ,000 people at a time. Dont worry about the number of people walking along it. Some of those images, it appeared to move quite a lot. Especially given the numbers of people on it. 500 metres talking of daring feats, we can catch up with the winter olympics. Dave ryding is britains star slalom skier. He had two runs overnight in pyeongchang. Mike is on a dry slope in pendle, where dave honed his skills. Good morning. Good morning, when he was six years old, he was told by his parents, unless he had a go on the dry slope he wouldnt be able to go on holiday and the rest is history. Hes transformed the landscape when it comes to brits competing in alpine skiing. They are so proud for him, they wanted to stay up all night during on his runs in the warmth of the clubhouse. Most of the kids are on the ski slopes. We had two runs, the first one was about 1 30 we had two runs, the first one was about1 30 a. M. , great we had two runs, the first one was about 1 30 a. M. , great excitement, he was doing well enough, then 13, but imagine the atmosphere in there when at one point in the second run he was into the gold position after a fantastic second run in the slalom, mens slalom, in korea. There were still plenty of others to come, but he still ended up inside the top ten in ninth place. This was the top ten in ninth place. This was the reaction to this. Dave the rocket ryding. Its amazing, ive never seen someone from britain do that. Its very motivating knowing it is possible to move from the dry slope to the snow. I know a lot of people want to follow in his foot steps. Could that be you next . Id love to, yeah. The man who learned to ply his trade on the upturned toothbrushes of the pendle dry slope in lancashire. Its exciting to see someone who comes from a small club to be in a medal position in the olympics. Tremendously exciting, it was great to see him in first place just for one run, it was fantastic. What an experience. Dave ryding skiing for gold medal position in the olympics. Its his for the moment now you see why it wasnt hard to stay awake all night, fantastic atmosphere. Basingstokes Laurie Taylor came 26th in his debut olympics. Elsewhere in pyeongchang, Great Britains curlers are out of the olympics. They were swept away by switzerland in their one off playoff match for a place in the semi finals. It had been an even match until the penultimate end, when the swiss scored five stones 9 a the final score. We came to our first olympics and we gave our best shot. We made the play offs. In the end we had a good game today but it wasnt to be sadly. A couple of things didnt go our way. A couple of half shots and thats all it takes against a team as good as them. Theres plenty to look forward to going forward, just need to take some time and reflect on this experience and what we can ta ke on this experience and what we can take from it. Well, youve heard about dave ryding this morning, but the man everyone was supposed to beat in the slalom was Marcel Hirscher. Hes been one of the stars of the games with two golds, but lost control and missed a gate in a massive shock and in the first ever big air final in the olympics, austrias anna gasser secured gold. Its a spectacular event this one, and gasser had just too much gas for her rivals in other sport, there were two big talking points from Manchester Uniteds goalless draw away to sevilla in the Champions League last night. Record signing paul pogba was left on the bench, although he did replace the injured Ander Herrera in the first half. Uniteds david de gea made some great saves to keep the score at 0 0. Victory by any margin in the second leg at old trafford will see Jose Mourinhos side through to the quarter finals. Castleford tigers have terminated the contract of zach hardaker after the player tested positive for cocaine in the lead up to octobers Super League Grand final. He was provisionally suspended prior to the defeat to leeds rhinos. Hardaker onlyjoined the club injune last year. It wasnt to be in the end for dave ryding, he started as a young kid on the dry slopes in pendle in beautiful lancashire, but consider he is up there in the top ten alongside nations that take mountains for granted, they have them forfun mountains for granted, they have them for fun in mountains for granted, they have them forfun in places like norway and austria. Lets speak to one of his former coaches, how will he be feeling . Ninth at the games. Will be pleased overall because anything can happen in the olympics and to think people like Marcel Hirscher didnt finish, he would have liked to have finish, he would have liked to have finish a bit higher but ninth is brilliant, were really pleased. In a world cup event last year he managed the podium, second. That was a lwa ys managed the podium, second. That was always a possibility at these games. It was, yes, one podium and he was leading the race in finland, which was the first slalom race of the season but unfortunately made a mistake on the second running of the bottom. Anything can happen and on the day it doesnt always go to form. To finish ninth, were really pleased. Not surprised youre so proud because when you compare how he started to those countries where snow is right on their doorstep, how much of an achievement is it and what is possible as well . A massive achievement, no one expected him to do as well as he has given his background, he only started skiing on snow when he was 12. When he was second in kids bill, it was a big deal in austria and they sent a film crew to film him because they were so crew to film him because they were so surprised about where he came from and they were surprised with the surface he skied on and the fact he has made it so far. Lets have a look at some of the skiers going down in his footsteps, or ski tracks, they can show us what an inspiration he has been. What is the dave ryding legacy already . Massive, the publicity it has created, not only for racing but skiing as a sport. Its encouraged some people to have a go at racing and a lot of people really enjoy it. You can have ago people really enjoy it. You can have a go whatever age you are but the younger skiers have the best chance of doing really well as they get older and it encourages people to participate, which is what we want. Is itan participate, which is what we want. Is it an elitist sport . On a track like this . Not as much as people expect because this club is run on a volu nta ry expect because this club is run on a voluntary basis, everyone here, the coaches, instructors, committee all work on a voluntary basis so we can keep the costs down to make it more accessible for people. Our membership is really high as a result. Lindsey, the new performance director of british ski and snowboard is, dan hunt, used to be in charge of cycling, he says he wa nts in charge of cycling, he says he wants skiing to be in charge of the next big swing. Is that realistic . think it is. Snowboardings co nfe re nce think it is. Snowboardings conference last year had him as the keynote speaker and his message was that, he wants to put skiing first and make sure that we make the progression we have made. Weve got people like dave, Laurie Taylor, some of the girls, charlie guest, alex tilley, were doing really well. It is possible. Now we have more publicity, theres more funding coming in, which is great to take the sport forward. Fantastic, lindsay, thanks for staying up with us. They say if you can ski on this then you can ski anywhere and if you think ive been walking funny, i have got the boots on, i will get some skis on at 7 30am to try it out to see how accessible these slopes are and how dave ryding started. Very tricky to walk in ski boots normally but im sure you will be much more elegant on skis later on, mike. Mike bushell on skis at a dry ski slope, what could go wrong . Youre watching breakfast from bbc news. The main stories this morning President Trump proposes Arming Teachers to prevent another mass School Shooting, after meeting survivors and relatives of those killed in florida last week. A major Study Concludes that anti depressa nts are effective, and that thousands more people in the uk could benefit from taking medication. Yes, please. Sorry, thank you. Lets have a look at the weather. Nick is going to tell us what is going on in a moment but we thought we would show you this gorgeous view a head of the sunrise at Salford Quays here. But nick will tell us what is happening. We are going to feel that next week. Just hold off about how chilly it feels. You hold all that often reserve those words the next week because that is when the proper cold siberian will be coming towards parts of the uk with a chance of snow. A lovely sunrise across parts of the uk. There are a few showers to start the day. Want to showers, we notice there are weather fronts in the atlantic. Some areas of cloud around, frost here and there. Mentioning the odd shower. The eastern parts of Northern Ireland and Western Areas of scotland through the day. Fairly light winds. 4 through the day. Fairly light winds. A seven degrees but no one as cold as it will be next week. In tonight, some areas of cloud around the large brea ks some areas of cloud around the large breaks in the cloud allowing frost to develop more widely than it did last night. More of those into the frosty blue tomorrow morning. Notice much of Northern Ireland, the western fringes of scotland staying away from the frost. More breeze compare with the rest of the uk. Tomorrow morning, may be the odd fog patch. Some sunny spells. More wind arrows showing up as well. The breeze is picking up and its beginning to feel a bit colder in that wind with temperatures still at around four, seven degrees. Pretty close to where they are going to be at the start of the weekend before they trail off even more. High pressure to the east of us. On through next week as well. But a lot of sunshine to come on saturday. We are getting rid of a lot of cloud, more on the way of sunshine but more in the way of breeze. It will feel colder still because of the wind picking up and its a similar picture into sunday as well. Pumping that much colder error towards us by the end of sunday and into next week. Sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, temperatures barely above freezing. London, two degrees on monday. It will feel much colder. Watching very closely. It is very changeable because we we re it is very changeable because we were heading into double figures. And now i am telling you, you need that big, big coat the next week. The start of meteorological spring next week but no sign of it in the weather. Very chirpy. We tried to relate what is happening in the world of money to household incomes, with ben. And its all been bad news for a long time. Prices have been going up but wages havent been. Finally that could now be over. The last 12 months have been the worst in 25 years for pay. Staff havent had pay rises, despite a rise in prices, so thats meant a squeeze on Living Standards. But figures from the think tank, the Resolution Foundation say that could finally be changing. But its not good news for everyone. With me is daniel tomlinson, from the Resolution Foundation. Good morning. Just explain this. Some winners, some losers. Much relief for people who might finally start to see that an increase in their Living Standards. On average, if we look at the typical family, they are going to be seeing increases in Living Standards and incomes this year and that is because finally, inflation is starting to fall, seeing a big fall in the value of the pound. Wage rises are slowly, we saw some signs of this yesterday, are slowly coming back to that is good for Living Standards. We will see real Earnings Growth which will transfer to income growth. Thats off the back of, like you are just saying, the year weve just had. Good news on average. Will come onto those in the second but as you touched on, there are so many conflicting demands. Potentially Interest Rates. Is it to say that people will categorically feel better off . We have taken all these things into account. People are taking this into account when they think about taking it into future. Interest rates will be causing pressure forfamilies Interest Rates will be causing pressure for families who are paying mortgages. Its going to be bearing down on those. What is different about the findings today . Not eve ryo ne about the findings today . Not everyone will benefit from this. In previous periods, when Living Standards have gone up, what is that mean . The last time we had a good increase in Living Standards, it was an equally sad. Everyone is seeing income growth. What we are seeing this time, we are going to have income group. It will be lower than what we were used to before the financial crisis but people at the bottom are going to be suffering because of the cuts to working age, in working support. That was announced in 2015 by george osborne, working up to £1a billion worth of cuts, freezing of working age benefits and cuts to universal credit. Worth up to. Theresa may says the focus is about managing families, people working, trying to get fired. These cuts are still coming in now concentrated even though Earnings Growth is spread out. The government says the National Living wage is important, they have frozen the personal allowa nce, they have frozen the personal allowance, the fuel duty frees, abolishing stamp duty for first home buyers. The government is doing some things and we are particularly welcoming of the National Living wage. A bold move for people on the lowest earnings to do better but the difficulty is not necessarily people earning the least other families in most support. He might have someone earning a little it has a partner earning a little it has a partner earning a little it has a partner earning a lot. Their incomes are quite high. What matters is family incomes and support when you need it the most. The cuts are concentrated with families with children. Its an interesting one of course, to see how much of this comes fruition. Good to see you. You are up to date, more from me after seven oclock when we have the results from ba rclays. Last nights brit awards belonged to grime superstar stormzy when he scooped best male and album of the year. Dua lipa took home the best female and breakthrough artist awards. She was also one of the many stars who wore a white rose in support of the times up and metoo movements against Sexual Harassment and supporting womens rights. Our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba was there. Theresa may, were as the money for g re nfell tower theresa may, were as the money for Grenfell Tower is to mart a powerful political performance from grime star stormzy. He won best mail and best album. This was the hardest thing that ive ever worked on Something Like this in my life. Everything i put in this album, i didnt have anything left after. You can ask fraser, we made something that i bought was undeniable, i can stand by today. Album of the year, i love you guys. Dont pick up the phone, you know he is only calling because he is drunk and alone. Two awards for 22 year old dua lipa. She won breakthrough artist and paid tribute to many of the women in music to influence. I want to thank every single female who has been on the stage performing it has given girls like me notjust girls in the Music Industry but girls in society a place to be inspired by, to look up a place to be inspired by, to look up to enter that have allowed us to dream this big. There was a politically charged when is streaked street clearly referencing brexit from blur star damon albon who is banned gorillaz won an award. Its not just a banned gorillaz won an award. Its notjust a small banned gorillaz won an award. Its not just a small little banned gorillaz won an award. Its notjust a small little thing but its a lovely place. What i want to say is, dont let it become isolated. I am in human, do what type man can. Isolated. I am in human, do what type man can. Rag and bone man won best single. Ed sheeran received a global success award and there was a global success award and there was a special tribute from Liam Gallagher commemorating last months Manchester Arena bombing. I enjoyed watching that last night, it was good fun. The grey whistle test. You look at the brit awards and how weak and elaborate it is, and how weak and elaborate it is, and people who remember, the old grey whistle test which had a different vibe to it. The old grey whistle test was presented by whispering bob harris and it was the way he presented. Everything was very mellow, very chilled. It was a different time in music. Welcome to the sparkling addition of the old grey whistle test. You get a sense of it, it was a whole different vibe. The amazing artists who appeared on the programme. We are going to be celebrating some of the people and talking to bob harris about those days. It couldnt have been more different. I didnt know it was founded by sir david attenborough. You learn something new every day. That is coming up, loads more. Time for the news, travel and weather where you are. Good morning from bbc london news, im sara orchard. A watchdog has found significant weaknesses in the way the met police deals with cases involving children. The latest audit of cases found that improvements have been made since a damning report in november last year, but that more needs to be done to protect under 18s involved in investigations. In a statement, the met said action has been taken in every case identified and that its aware of the urgency of improving its services further. Workers on londons Docklands Light Railway are staging a a8 hour strike in a dispute over pay and other issues. Members of the rail, maritime and transport union, employed as cleaners, security staff and travel officers, walked out at 5. 30am this morning. The union said there had been a breakdown in industrial relations with contractors iss. The workers also went on strike earlier this month. Low pay is having a corrosive impact on family life and the health of workers earning below the voluntary living wage, according to a new study. The survey for the Living Wage Foundation found that a quarter of respondents believed low pay negatively affected their relationship with their family and friends. More than three out of five said they worried so much it affected their day to day life. Rail enthusiasts will be out in force today to watch a famous steam engine travel from london to norwich. The cathedrals express service leaves London Liverpool street at 10. 20 this morning. The journey to norwich is expected to take just over 3 hours. The Oliver Cromwell was built over sixty years ago, in 1951. It will return to london this evening. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. On the roads this morning, theres northbound traffic on the blackwall tunnel southern approach its slow from the woolwich rd flyover. On the a1000, finchley high road is blocked between creighton avenue and chandos road while Emergency Services attend a building fire. In kentish town, malden road remains closed between Queens Crescent and prince of wales road for a police investigation. Lets have a check on the weather now with elizabeth rizzini. Hello, good morning. Its set to be another dry but a rather chilly feeling day. There will be some sunshine around at times, particularly through the afternoon for many areas but also some cloud coming and going too. A patchy frost to start off this morning, temperatures hovering around the freezing mark. Some cloud through the morning for many areas but were starting to get some drier air coming up from the south east as we head into the afternoon, it looks so it looks like we will see more sunshine sunshine around for the second half of the day. Top temperatures between a, maybe as high as 7 degrees celsius but a chilly easterly breeze so quite a bit of wind around as well. Through this evening and overnight it will stay dry with lots of clear skies around and a widespread frost developing into tomorrow morning. Temperatures rurally as low as 2 or 3 celsius. Tomorrow its going to feel really rather chilly. Highs of only 6 degrees celsius but a strengthening easterly breeze as we head into the weekend. By the time we get the sunday, temperatures could be struggling to get above freezing through the course of the day. And into the start of next week, we may even see even a few snow showers. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Plenty more on our website at the usual address. Good morning, this breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and nathan munchetty. Anger at the white house. President trump listens to the stories of survivors of School Shootings. I turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. I dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. The president promises change and suggests Arming Teachers could be the answer. Good morning, its thursday the 22nd of february. Also this morning antidepressants do work and more of us should be taking them according to new scientific research. Later this morning we find out exactly how much we throw away and how much we recycle in the uk. Were here in wales, which does far better than anywhere else in the uk, and where there already are cleaning the after the collapse of carillion, the boss of one of its biggest rivals, serco, says things have to change. Its results are out shortly, ill speak to the boss. Well also have updates from british gas and barclays too. Good morning from pyeongchang, its an unlucky day 13 for Great Britains mens curling team at the winter olympics. They are out, swept away by switzerland in their play off earlier this morning. And nick has the weather. Good morning. High pressure for the next few days but by the weekend, lots of sunshine. Thats not the whole story, though, turning colder and particularly into next week, with the chance of some snow. All the forecast coming up. See you later, nick. Good morning. First, our main story. President trump says hes considering Arming Teachers with guns and tightening background checks on people buying weapons after last weeks School Shootings in florida which left 17 people dead. Mr trump was speaking at a meeting at the white house where he listened to emotional and angry testimony from survivors of gun crime and their families. Barbara plett usher reports. The people demand a hearing. In florida telling their lawmakers loud and clear, they dont want this mass shooting to drop off the political agenda like all the others have. At the white house, President Trump was listening to victims of the Parkland School attack, but also those that came before it. Andrew pollacks18 year old daughter, meadow, was killed last week. It doesnt make sense, fix it, should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im kissed. Because my daughter im not going to see again. Shes not here, shes not here, shes in North Lauderdale at whatever it is, king david cemetery, thats where i go to see my kid now. It doesnt make sense to her schoolmate, samuel zeif, either, especially the gunmans access to a semiautomatic rifle. I dont understand, i turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone and i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. The president has responded to calls for tougher gun laws with promises of strong background checks, but also more guns. Its called concealed carry, where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them. Theyd go for special training. There is some support for that argument, but students who survived the attack flooded floridas state legislature demanding a ban on assault rifles. All never again the students aim to harness that momentum and turn it into a national campaign. Barbara plett usher, bbc news. The largest study of its kind into the use of anti depressants has found that they are effective when treating depression. A review of more than 500 trials, published in the lancet, found 21 common anti depressants were more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than placebos. Andrew plant reports. Theresa may will try to overcome differences among her senior ministers on brexit. Its being billed as an awayday at the Prime Ministers country residence, chequers. Chris mason is there. Im sure you would love to be a fly on the wall at that particular awayday . certainly would. It would be fascinating to be purged there, not least because its quite a pad, 16th century manor house, checkers, in the rolling buckinghamshire countryside, a0 miles north west of westminster. And awayday for the leading lights of the cabinet trying to leading lights of the cabinet trying to flesh leading lights of the cabinet trying to flesh out the brexit deal an awayday to flesh out. Who are the central characters who will be assembling around the table in checkers . Firstly of course the Prime Minister, she has to find a sense of agreement amongst her ministers checkers. We have seen these speeches in the last couple of days about brexit, not least one by david davis, the brexit secratary, in vienna, attempted to map out what the relationship with the eu might look like after brexit. The problem for the Prime Minister is when she looks around the table at chequers, when she looks around the conservative party and the country, there are different instincts about what brexit should look like, what flavour of brexit we should go for if you like. Around the cabinet table, take Philip Hammond, the chancellor, he has talked recently about having a very modest shift of relationship with the eu after brexit, very modest changes. Contrast that with those of a brexiteer instinct, not least this chap, you might recognise him, boris johnson, the foreign secretary, who said the whole point of brexit is to flex our muscles afterwards and have different rules and regulations. The Prime Minister has defined some sense of agreement so she can go to brussels and start the negotiations on the long term relationship as soon as possible. I was just checking the diary this morning, charlie, a00 days to go until brexit, the 29th of march, 2019, brexit, the 29th of march, 2019, brexit day, just a year left. Thanks very much, speak to you later on. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote later today on a draft resolution demanding a 30 day month long ceasefire in syria to allow deliveries of aid and medical evacuations. The move comes as International Concern grows over the syrian governments intense bombardment of the rebel held area of Eastern Ghouta, outside damascus. Reports suggest more than 300 people have been killed in the district since sunday. The un secretary general has described Eastern Ghouta as hell on earth. People convicted of Domestic Abuse offences in england and wales will be more likely to go to prison in future, under new sentencing guidelines. For the first time, the guidance will say domestic offences should be treated more seriously than similar crimes not involving partners or family members. The new guidance will also extend Domestic Abuse to threats on social media. A helicopter carrying six british tourists on a flight near the grand canyon in the United States spun around at least twice before crashing and catching fire, according to investigators. Three passengers died in the accident earlier this month, while four more people, including the pilot were badly hurt. The preliminary report by air accident investigators does not say why the helicopter crashed. A month of strikes affecting more than 60 uk universities and one Million Students is beginning today. Lecturers are walking out over changes to their pensions, which they say could leave them up to £10,000 a year worse off in retirement. Heres our education correspondent elaine dunkley. Thousands of lectures cancelled across university campuses. The strikes in response to plans by vice chancellors to make changes to the private pensions of university staff. Were going to see people really lose probably in their retirement up to a0 of what their pensions were before. The university and College Union says lecturers, on average, will lose up to £10,000 a year from their pensions. As many as a2,000 stuff at 6a universities will be affected. Universities uk, which represents vice chancellors, says changes to the pension are essential due to a deficit of £6 billion. If the dispute isnt resolved by the summer, exams could be cancelled. More than 70,000 students have signed a petition calling for fees to be be reimbursed for lost teaching hours. Its extremely worrying in terms of the impact that its going to have on students educations. But myself and a lot of other students i know are very clear that we unequivocally support our lecturers in this dispute. Its quite scary to think about how much time were leaving, and especially with how much money were paying every year, i dont know whether well get that time back, especially with exams coming up and everything. 1a days of action are planned but it could go on longer. A dispute which could have a Significant Impact on the retirement of thousands of lecturers on the careers of millions of students. Elaine dunkley, bbc news. We will have the weather in a few minutes. There were 6a million prescriptions for anti depressants in england last year, more than double the amount a decade ago. Despite this, a debate has raged as to whether they work. Now the authors of a major study say they do. Lets talk about this in more detail with the gp aisha awan and in our london newsroom, ellen scott, who has been taking antidepressants for just over a year. Good morning. Doctoraisha, good morning. Doctor aisha, this is new research thats been compiled together, a great deal of data from previous studies as to whether or not antidepressants work. Give us your take someone presumably who is prescribing them on a regular basis. Its a really useful study because as you said, its one of the largest studies thats ever happened looking at whether they work for acute depression. Depression over an eight week period. Its one of the most common things as a gp that i see in terms Mental Health issues on and its one of those things where you wa nt to its one of those things where you want to be able to help a person fairly quickly if theyre going through mood disturbances. This gives us useful information about firstly what patients can tolerate, and secondly which one of the medications were prescribing are working the best. Its been suggested by some presenting this that its answering the big question, do drugs for antidepression work, as simple as that. Its a really useful question that. Its a really useful question that we needed answered. I think it will ina that we needed answered. I think it will in a way really help doctors when prescribing the medication, but also patients when taking it. There are side effects to every medication we prescribe and you dont want people, especially those with Mental Health problems, to say no, were not going to take something because they feel it might not work for them and this gives us the evidence that they do work. Before we talk to allen, who has been on antidepressants for years, she will talk to us in a moment, you mentioned eight weeks, is that an ideal period for someone to be on antidepressants and then come off . This is one of the limitations of the study, it looks at a particular group of patients with depression and it is just depression. Group of patients with depression and it isjust depression. It doesnt look at patients with bipolar who might have depression, and a whole lot of other things, that all studies we cede ten to be limited so this gives us the best information we have currently for antidepressants we tend to see our limited. We antidepressants we tend to see ourlimited. We urge antidepressants we tend to see our limited. We urge patients watching to see their gp before they decide whether to take them. Ellen, thanks for talking to us from our london newsroom. Why all when were you told that taking antidepressants would be beneficial to you why all when. What impact has that had on your life . I suffered from depression and anxiety for over a decade, i was really scared of taking antidepressants because id heard so much about side effects or how they would change my brain. Last yearl how they would change my brain. Last year i kind of hit a real low point andl year i kind of hit a real low point and i decided i had to go to my doctor, thats when i was prescribed antidepressants and ive been on them ever since. What difference as that made to you in terms of day to day living, your mood and the way you are dealing with depression . Its made a huge difference. Basically it doesnt fix depression, but it makes me able to function. I can get up and go to work and actually take care of myself, which i wasnt doing before. Doctor aisha, one of the things this report now effectively is recommending is that more people should be on antidepressants, more people should be on a ntidepressa nts, clearly more people should be on antidepressants, clearly only according to if it is suitable. Is there a danger the equation is when is the other way . Possibly you might have people coming to you and saying, i know they work, i know you should be prescribing them to me, why not . Could it go in the other direction . Do you see what i mean . Absolutely, its been swinging that way for a while because of the pressure is currently on general practice and prescribers at the moment. Often it is seen as a quick fix for patients and doctors. But its very important to recognise that alongside medication, talking therapies like cognitive behavioural therapy are very important. You would need to be assessed. Its not the early treatment available, theres lots of different treatments available, and it would be used alongside and in conjunction with those treatments. Ellen, lets talk to you, you said youve been suffering from depression for nearly a decade now and you resisted taking this medication. We werejust talking there about the swing in terms of now being told they are ok, they work, how do you feel in terms of the stigma around taking antidepressants as well as just admitting to having depression, suffering from Mental Illness . There is still stigma, things have improved even in the last year but still, if i met i take antidepressants, i will get messages saying, you are taking this evil, terrible, addictive thing, it will change who you are. Its not an ok thing tojust say, change who you are. Its not an ok thing to just say, i change who you are. Its not an ok thing tojust say, i am on antidepressants. There is a lot of shame and stigma around it. Lets pick up on that theme. The preconceptions that people have for the myths around the taking of antidepressants particularly. Does this put an end to it . Will lay people, you often hear one report and in six months time, there is another report. As this put a lid on the debate . I think it has put a bit ofa the debate . I think it has put a bit of a lid on the debate because it tells you very clearly that they do work. It would be useful in patients such as the ones you brought on, she is able to function and work again but what it doesnt do is cover up for bad things that are happening in life, brief months, financial worries. Often those things are a normal part of life. Its important to have that distinction that this will help people with depressive illnesses but it cant sort out issues in life that can be normal. There has to be a distinction between Mental Health and just having a bad time in life. Ellen, what is the diagnosis in terms of what is the diagnosis in terms of what youre told to take, these antidepressant tablets, in terms of your recovery. For as long as i feel they are working. If i feel i still need them, i can stay on them. Thank you for being so straightforward about your situation. Heres nick with a look at this mornings weather. All quiet on the weather with High Pressure in control. Into the weekend, increasing sunshine. Still quite of the cloud around. Limited sunny spells. While most places are dry, even a High Pressure is close by, still one or two showers. Were not looking at the atlantic per hour weather for several days to come. It is from the east hour weather will be coming. This is the picture this morning. There are a few showers around. Pick a cloud elsewhere. On through the day, through parts of Northern Ireland, running to the far western scotland, dont be surprised if you see a little bit of wet weather at times. Quite breezy with a southerly wind. Temperatures around four, seven degrees. Thatll make it a bit colder than that. If you tonight, breaks in the cloud, allowing forced to develop and more widely than it did last night. At or just below freezing. The exceptions, Northern Ireland. Not really in the blue here. More cloud still around and even into tomorrow, you might encounter the odd light shower, and that keeps temperatures up, at least overnight. Still areas of cloud around and still some sunny spells and probably towards mid to late afternoon, increasing amounts of sunshine and those temperatures are fairly similar though the breeze is starting to pick up across the uk, just making a deal that bit colder and that is a story that continues into the weekend. Still High Pressure to the north east. Tomorrow, isobars on the chart. An indication that the breeze picks up. There will be more sunshine around. Asimilar there will be more sunshine around. A similar looking picture here into sunday as well. The arrows indicating the strengthening breeze. Looking at these temperatures, it will feel colder because of that wind and you aint seen nothing yet because going into next week, the picture for sunday, pumping in even colder where from siberia into parts of the uk. Still some uncertainty about how cold it will be and how is this . As we transition from february to march. Cold, very cold. It looks like southern parts of the uk makes might have a greater departure from average temperature. A bitter wind making it feel even colder. Widespread, sharp frosts and the chance of snow as we go through next week. That is something we are watching very closely and we will keep you updated. Watch this space. Weve had results from british gas and barclays this morning, bens got the details. The Parent Company of british gas, we will find out if we need to turn the heating on but profits are down for the group. A lot of the pipes and the cables. Profits down 17 . It is not necessarily the consumer bits that you and me use but the business pa rt that you and me use but the business part of it that is struggling. That actually signed up another 77,000 customers. You might remember how many they had lost and thats because they put up their prices quite a lot. If you look down into the statement, they talk why it is a difficult market. A combination of political and read it regular treat market tension. They talk about price caps. Weve also had figures from barclays. They have told us that profits are up 10 . Again, the devil is always in the detail. They talk a lot about brexit and what it could mean to them. They talk about an increased risk of uk recession. They are keeping an iron that. They also say the ability to attract or prevent the departure of staff is also a big issue for them. They are worried about immigration and getting the right staff. The issue for barclays as it was with lloyds, when they are able to draw a line under the worst of those sins . Their investment in risky mortgages. A criminal investigation going on into whether they raised loans from qatar and the boss was investigating a whistleblower in the company. There is a lot for barclays to content with. It was mostly ppi, wasnt it . Content with. It was mostly ppi, wasnt it . That try to get back on an even keel after the financial crisis. It is at its most profitable, lloyds, since the crisis. Barclays didnt ask for a bailout, it raised money from the gulf. Carillion collapsed but circa is suffering a difficult market. Wales is apparently the best in the uk at recycling household waste. John mcguire has been finding out. Its bin day in bridgend and on the curbside, a rainbow of refuse. Orange bags the cardboard, white for paper, brown for food. There are even bags for nappies purple and just two blue bags of non recyclables collected every other week. Residents who transgress risk being fined but locals here seem happy. Good, yeah. Good for the environment and everything, keeps everyone on the toes. Very good, yeah. Ive got a child thats eight as well and he finds it quite odd cause he automatically chucks everything in the bin butjust getting him used to it. Once youre used to it, youre all right . Yeah, its fine then, yeah. Bridgend council is achieving rates other parts of the uk can only dream of, reaching 7a . Bridgend council is achieving rates other parts of the uk dream of, reaching 7a . The recycling level in wales is 6a against a uk average of aa . The pretty coastal village of aberporth is cutting down on single use plastic and has been awarded a special status by the Environmental Campaign group surfers against sewage. At the local shop, the owner mike allen shows me around. Milk bottles, glass milk bottles. They havent banned plastics, they are offering alternatives wooden clothes pegs, looseleaf tea, and even a toothbrush made from bamboo. Wooden toothbrushes. Those are probably our second biggest seller after the glass bottles. They seem to have attracted peoples attention. We have the option of the plastic then with those as well. There are around 150 dolphins living out in cardigan bay. The environment here is jealously guarded and it was a concern about ocean plastics that inspired resident gail tudor to rally community support. You look at the beautiful beach and you think, yeah, it looks pretty clean but when you start going down and see the stuff thats washed up, and plastic bags washed up in the seaweed, its not all stuff left by holidaymakers or local people here, a lot of it is washed in. But it still needs to come out of the sea. The talk here is that cutting down on waste, especially plastic, can spread to the next village, the next county, the next country. Plastics are under attack from people power. You saw those lovely pictures of wales and it is just as stunning now in new quay bay. We were selling just showing just as the sun was coming up and people are really committed. Committed to making sure that there are environment is free of plastic and litter. You can see people take it really, really seriously. Certainly in cycling recycling terms. This talk to the environment minister. What is next . Asked residents do our part. How are you going to do the carrot and stick approach to get other people to join m, approach to get other people to join in, for businesses to cut down on the amount of packaging . We are proud to lead the uk in wales and we wa nt proud to lead the uk in wales and we want to become a world leader. It will work in partnership, grassroots, the government, businesses and other organisations and as we are here in beautiful new quay and in wales, it is the year of the sea and that will bring together stakeholders, tackling Marine Litter and plastic waste, working together and plastic waste, working together and all of us accepting we have a responsibility, whether its an individual or a business or government. Its important to get people on board. They did a big one on tuesday. We have charles and also she go from surfers against sewerage. We are talking about the plastic free status and we know that aberporth has it. New quay hasjust been afforded plastic free status. What is it mean . Going around your local cafes and making them change from single use plastic. Its something people are very concerned about. You did a big beach clean you told me on tuesday. What sort of things are you finding this morning . We are from the Wildlife Trust of west wales and we found a lot of metal and plastic and bottle caps. We did a beach clea n and bottle caps. We did a beach clean on tuesday, be picked up a lot of fishing gear and rope, still a lot that is getting washed up at this time of year. We dont want to interrupt you from your vital work. We will be back and find out a bit war about whats been happening locally and nationally and what lessons locally and nationally and what lesso ns ca n locally and nationally and what lessons can be for the rest of the uk. A bit lessons can be for the rest of the uk. A bit more about whats been happening. Good morning from bbc london news, im sara orchard. A watchdog has found significant weaknesses in the way the met police deals with cases involving children. The latest audit of cases found that improvements have been made since a damning report in november last year, but that more needs to be done to protect under 18s involved in investigations. In a statement, the met said action has been taken in every case identified and that its aware of the urgency of improving its services further. Workers on londons Docklands Light Railway are staging a a8 hour strike in a dispute over pay and other issues. Members of the rail, maritime and transport union, employed as cleaners, security staff and travel officers, walked out at 5. 30am this morning. The union said there had been a breakdown in industrial relations with contractors iss. The workers also went on strike earlier this month. Low pay is having a corrosive impact on family life and the health of workers earning below the voluntary living wage, according to a new study. The survey for the Living Wage Foundation found that a quarter of respondents believed low pay negatively affected their relationship with their family and friends. More than three out of five said they worried so much it affected their day to day life. Rail enthusiasts will be out in force today to watch a famous steam engine travel from london to norwich. The cathedrals express service leaves London Liverpool street at 10. 20 this morning. The journey to norwich is expected to take just over 3 hours. The Oliver Cromwell was built over sixty years ago, in 1951. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. Starting on the tubes, theres a good service on all lines. On the roads this morning, on the m25, theres anticlockwise Traffic Building towards the dartford tunnel. On the a1000, finchley high road is blocked between creighton avenue and chandos road while Emergency Services attend a building fire. In kentish town, malden road remains closed between Queens Crescent and prince of wales road for a police investigation. Lets have a check on the weather now with elizabeth rizzini. Hello, good morning. Its set to be another dry but a rather chilly feeling day. There will be some sunshine around at times, particularly through the afternoon for many areas but also some cloud coming and going too. A patchy frost to start off this morning, temperatures hovering around the freezing mark. Some cloud through the morning for many areas but were starting to get some drier air coming up from the south east as we head into the afternoon, so it looks so it looks like we will see more sunshine around for the second half of the day. Top temperatures between a, maybe as high as 7 degrees celsius but a chilly easterly breeze so quite a bit of wind chill around as well. Through this evening and overnight it will stay dry with lots of clear skies around and a widespread frost developing into tomorrow morning. Temperatures rurally as low as 2 or 3 degrees celsius. Tomorrow its going to feel really rather chilly. Highs of only 6 degrees celsius but a strengthening easterly breeze as we head into the weekend. By the time we get the sunday, temperatures could be struggling to get above freezing through the course of the day. And into the start of next week, we may even see even a few snow showers. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Plenty more on our website at the usual address. Now though its back to charlie and naga. Hello, this is breakfast with Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt. Heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. President trump says hes considering Arming Teachers with guns after last weeks School Shootings in florida which left 17 people dead. Mr trump floated the proposal when he met survivors of gun crime at the white house and promised to tighten background checks on those buying weapons with a very strong emphasis on Mental Health. A major study into the use of antidepressants has found that they are effective when treating depression. A review of more than 500 trials, published in the medical journal, the lancet, found 21 common antidepressants were more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than placebos. Researchers say that many more people in the uk could benefit from taking the drugs. Theresa may will try to overcome differences among her senior ministers on brexit today. She will chair a meeting intended to hammer out the cabinets position on future relations with the european union. The discussion at chequers comes after new disagreements flared yesterday among the conservatives, when the government published its strategy for working with brussels during a transition period. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote later today on a draft resolution demanding a 30 day month long ceasefire in syria to allow deliveries of aid and medical evacuations. The move comes as International Concern grows over the syrian governments intense bombardment of the rebel held area of Eastern Ghouta, outside damascus. Reports suggest more than 300 people have been killed in the district since sunday. The un secretary general described Eastern Ghouta as hell on earth. A month of strikes affecting 6a uk universities and a Million Students begins today. Lecturers are walking out over changes to their pensions, which they say could leave them up to £10,000 a year worse off in retirement. Their employer, universities uk, says the Pension Scheme has a £6 billion deficit which cant be ignored. If you dont have a head for heights look away now. Snaking through the mountains of northern china, this is the worlds longest glass suspension bridge. Spanning nearly 500 metres with a vertical drop of more than 200 metres, it is supposed to represent a dragon flying through the valley. Its made up of 1,077 glass panels and is designed to take up to 2,000 people at a time. The thing. I dont particularly have a fear of heights but the thing about that is the number of people, being on the bridge with so many others, if you wanted to get off quickly, you cant, theres too many people either side of you. Thats the only thing that occurs to me. Looks amazing. Looks stunning, would fa ncy looks amazing. Looks stunning, would fancy a go if i was lucky enough to get there. Mick will have the weather in about 12 minutes. Nick. Now, lets catch up on the winter olympics. Dave ryding is britains star slalom skier. Mike is on a dry slope in pendle, where he honed his skills. It wasnt even on the snow . Thats incredible, thinking what you can achieve when you start on the brushes like this on a ski slope when he was 12, his parents challenged him to have a go so that he could go on their ski holiday. My friends are been here all night, most of the parents in the clubhouse watching dave on the tv, the youngsters going up and down the slope, it is floodlit here. You think of what they can achieve after what dave ryding did, against countries that takes no for granted in norway, austria, switzerland, hes been standing on the same piste as them, and doing really well. He was 13th at 1 30am but imagine the atmosphere at around a 30am when we we re atmosphere at around a 30am when we were all watching and he went for his second run and for a time being he was in the gold position. The excitement was incredible. U nfortu nately excitement was incredible. Unfortunately there were plenty of other skiers to come but he crucially ended up inside the top ten, finishing these olympics in ninth place. Dave the rocket ryding. Its amazing, ive never seen someone from britain do that. Its very motivating knowing it is possible to move from the dry slope to the snow. I know a lot of people want to follow in his foot steps. Could that be you next . Id love to, yeah. Commentator the man who learned to ply his trade on the upturned toothbrushes of the pendle dry slope in lancashire. Its exciting to see someone who comes from a small club to be in a medal position in the olympics. Tremendously exciting, it was great to see him in first place just for one run, it was fantastic. What an experience. Commentator dave ryding skiing for gold medal position in the olympics. Its his for the moment maici are still recovering i think. A great night. My ears. Taylor on his debut olympics came 26th. Theres no snow here in lancashire, overlooking the hills, we matched for atmosphere whats going on in pyeongchang and we can find our very own kat. Hi, kat. Hi, mike. Its been snowing here, it was chucking it down for the slalom run for the womens combined, ill bring you up to date on that in a minute. After the great ninth place for dave ryding, disappointment for britains mens curlers in pyeongchang because they needed to beat switzerland in their play off to make it to the semifinals. It had been an even match until the penultimate end, when the swiss scored five stones they will be returning home without a medal. We came to our first olympics and we gave our best shot. We made the play offs. In the end we had a good game today but it wasnt to be sadly. A couple of things didnt go our way. A couple of half shots and thats all it takes against a team as good as them. Theres plenty to look forward to going forward, just need to take some time and reflect on this experience and what we can take from it. Some other headlines. Vonn racing in the combined event, and is well ahead after the downhill. But her lead will likely be threatened in the slalom. Can she hold on for gold . . And in the first ever big air final in the olympics, austrias anna gasser secured gold. Its a spectacular event this one, and gasser had just too much gas for her rivals she said the competition shouldnt have gone ahead but she came back and won gold. Shes the winter olympic champion. In the last few minutes the usa have won the womens ice hockey by beating canada on a penalty shootout. Dramatic celebrations, absolute heartbreak for the canadians, but the usa are the olympic womens ice hockey champions. Mike, i know you have been talking a lot about dave ryding, that top 10 finish for him, brilliant achievement at an olympic games. Ive got a couple of other top 10 finishes for Great Britain standing next to me, Misha Mcneill and mika more, our bobsled riders, who finished a fantastic eight yesterday. Are you still on a high . We were buzzing last night, absolutely, this morning we had the chance to read the messages and it brings the emotions back. We are so happy with our result. We felt like we really showed what we could do. Were looking forward to whats in the future. Yes, because it could be brilliant, particularly in four yea rs, brilliant, particularly in four years, so young with so much promise but it almost wasnt to be because just five months before the games you had your funding just five months before the games you had yourfunding pulled just five months before the games you had your funding pulled and you had to put your own backing together thanks to the generosity of the British Public. Crowd funding got you here, tell us about that . We lost our funding you here, tell us about that . We lost ourfunding in you here, tell us about that . We lost our funding in september, which was devastating at the time, but we are both sportswomen, very determined, and we set up a crowd funding page and we asked the British Public and we asked the public to spread the word and get behind us, which they did in six days. We raised all we needed so we we re days. We raised all we needed so we were able to go on season, put in ha rd were able to go on season, put in hard training, stay in perfect accommodation and make sure we were able to compete at the olympics. How did you feel when the funding was taken away . There was general outcry in the uk that the women were being left out but the men were being supported, nobody really heard from you about how you felt at the time so what was your reaction . Obviously it was absolutely devastating, every athlete wants to get to the olympic games, thats your dream, to represent your country, and we wa nted represent your country, and we wanted to represent women in bobsleigh so it was devastating. I havent felt heartbreak like that. But we did have to just do something about it. It did hurt a bit more, it wasnt ourfault, we met about it. It did hurt a bit more, it wasnt our fault, we met the qualifying standard, we were junior world can be. It was someone elses mistake. We didnt want to sit on this so than dwell on it, we asked for help. Coming into this was there an element of you wanting to show what youre all about, not only to sake what youre all about, not only to sa ke to what youre all about, not only to sake to the people who took away yourfunding sake to the people who took away your funding you didnt deserve that but as a responsibility to the uk public who got you here . Said. We didnt feel pressured to do that but we wa nted didnt feel pressured to do that but we wanted to do justice to the people that got behind us say. Our main aim to come to the olympics, it is our first olympics, we wanted to enjoy it and make sure when we go next we are pushing for the medal. Beijing in four years . Absolutely. We have for years to build as a team, get me consistent with my driving so we can get faster and stronger. Four years is awesome, we will be back and pushing for the medals. Four years is plenty, we will be expecting you on the podium. Eighth place is brilliant for now. Go in and get a tea. Mike, back to you in pendle on the ski slopes. Im afraid its pretty chilly here, might be quite wintry where you are too . I think it is, we think about one degree at the moment but much colder overnight. Im delighted to say, you may have dave ryding, here im joined by his sister, also a ski coach. You must be pretty pleased, i understand you have heard from him, not spoken, what his reaction to finishing ninth . We havent heard from him but he sent a photo to the family this morning and he seemed pretty happy so he is doing well. How will he feel . He will be ecstatic, top 10 inulin pics is phenomenal, not a medal like he wanted but top 10 is amazing. Phenomenal, not a medal like he wanted but top10 is amazing. Put it into context, he started on the brushes, compare the two countries with mountains in the backyard top 10 in the olympics. Someone said he cant do this, hes english top 10 in the olympics. Someone said he cant do this, hes english its phenomenal, for someone to come from a dry ski slope about 100 and is long to compete on the World Circuit and gain medals on the World Circuit, you cant even begin to think about it. Its phenomenal. What will be the legacy . We see the youngsters going down behind you, they are inspired by him, im inspired to give it a go, what will be the legacy . Hes an excellent role model for the youngsters. Hes really going to bring on the sports. You can see it coming through now, theres 300 People Racing at being race championships last week. Thats from under 16 through two under nine. Then the adults on top. Its already filtering through, which is awesome. I know you been itching for me to have a go on this, can you talk me down . Youre the coach they say if you can ski on this, you can ski on anything. Clipping into your skis is what you have to do first. It is slightly harder, isnt it . Yes, it is slightly harder. On the slope that dave ryding started on. Here we go. He nearly had a wobble there. Isaid here we go. He nearly had a wobble there. I said this was the easiest bit. He is doing quite well down here. Whether he gets through this area here, he has to have fast feet. He is good, we will make a racer out of him yet and hes crossed the line, he has done it joe, thank you very much for your commentary there jo. We are very much for your commentary there jo. We are quietly impressed. Back with mike later as he makes his way back to the top. I think we need more speed on the next run. He stayed upright, thats the best achievement of all, fabulous. Kat said it was chilly in pyongyang, one degree in pendle, what about the rest of the country, nick . Pyeongchang. There are some fog patches the parts of england are not very inspiring pictures. Its beautiful countryside but it is rather cloudy in cambridgeshire. Quite a bit of cloud across the uk. Sunshine fairly hard to come by. This High Pressure in control, dominating the weather. It is quite whether the several days to come in by the weekend, there will be increasing sunshine around the often cloudy today, some breaks in the cloud to see some sunshine. The chance that picking up a shower. Showing up on the map here the eastern parts of Northern Ireland. Dont be surprised if you catch a few showers. Seven degrees in belfast. Most of this a seven degrees. Easterly here, it suddenly reads the west of scotland. It means temperatures here are not going to fall as low as they will in uk. If you thought it was chilly this morning, it will be colder tomorrow morning. Away from Northern Ireland and western scotland which may still have the odd light shower around. Generally more breezy across the uk tomorrow. Still mainly drive that properly seeing more sunshine around during the afternoon. But as the breeze picks up, it will start to feel a bit colder. It is High Pressure to the north east of us. That is a chilly direction price. But actually, there is loads of sunshine to come. If you are a fan of that, their mind, the wind arrows again, it be an increasingly chilly breeze. And then it gets much, much colder going into next week as we start to draw the air from siberia into parts of the uk so temperatures drop further and for much of next week, temperatures will be barely above freezing so cold to very cold next week. Widespread and quite sharp and the complication comes with a chance of snow as we go into next week particularly, but not exclusively to parts of the uk. Keep watching for updates. Weve had results from serco the outsourcing company one of carillions biggest rivals this morning. Bens is speaking to the boss. Both these firms deal with outsourcing the running and maintenance of services for government. But since the collapse of carillion other, similarfirms are being watched pretty closely. Serco is one of the biggest. Its just said profits fell 29 in what its boss calls a difficult market hes also warned of a long and bumpy road ahead for investors. Half of sercos uk business comes from government and that includes a whole range of things. It runs five prisons for the ministry ofjustice. And it has contracts with nhs hospitals to provide support services. But it also does more unusual work. am it maintains the radar at the uks Nuclear Missile early it maintains the radar at the uks Nuclear Missile Early Warning system in north yorkshire. And they even have the contract to keep londons bike hire scheme going. So hows it all going . Sercos boss is Rupert Soames hejoins me now. Good morning to you. Im just looking to the statement, there is a lot to get through. All is not right in the market for Government Services. Given the collapse of carillion, many would agree with you. I think the market has become a bit imbalanced in many respects. We had our period of accounting carnage about three or four years ago, and we re about three or four years ago, and were one of the first outsourcing companies to get into financial difficulty. We have no pension deficit and our results are at the top end of the expectations. We were pretty content with where we performed in 2017. We are a rich country and our citizens deserve and should want to have world class public services. And how we organise that market is something of considerable importance and needs a grown up conversation. What we are proposing today is that we need to have an intelligent, grown up conversation between government and suppliers. The key to it is transparency. There should be open book accounting between government and suppliers but also and most importantly, that there should be the opportunity, the suppliers should be required and governments should be required and governments should be required and governments should be required, to put key Operational Performance indicators, to publish them, so the taxpayers and Service Users can see exactly how good or bad the service being delivered is. A lot of people will question the role of private companies and Government Services and they are pointing to the fact that in many cases, outsourcing firms will bid low, artificially low, when the contract and then go back to government in hand and say, i need more money. Nobody is blameless in this. Remember, there are1. 2 million blameless in this. Remember, there are 1. 2 Million People working for private companies and charities supplying public services. This is not a small sector. Providing services the government is difficult and complex and just as there are newspaper headlines every day or every week about something thats gone wrong in some form of government provision, the more you have private Companies Involved in that and clearly, people are going to turn a rise to that. It correct and natural and the main point is, we have a mixed economy. We dont wa nt to we have a mixed economy. We dont want to have a situation where the only people who can deliver Government Services are civil serva nts to Government Services are Civil Servants to get their pay slips from hm government. We need to have a mixed economy of state and private companies and charities delivering public services. We need to rethink the basis on which it is done. You talk about the government being a monopoly buyer. It is interesting, looking through your figures, before carillion collapsed, you agree to pay £a8 million for a contract. Carillion collapsed and many went back and said, we will only pay you 30 million. Thats not fair, is it . I think it is. That is between us and the official receiver. It becomes very difficult and much more complicated in receivership. We are currently working with the official receiver. Everybodys priority is to Keep Services going. Its notjust one contract, it is a series of contracts for hospitals. Those services need to be kept going. The government has done a good job of maintaining these services. But in the aftermath of carillion, we need to get these contracts sorted out and sorted out fast. Its an interesting issue. One we will talk about more. Profits foresaw that for serco is reset, down 29 . I will also have the results for barclays and british gas just after eight oclock. Its oclock. Its a busy morning in terms of results. Last nights brit awards belonged to grime superstar stormzy when he scooped best male and album of the year. Dua lipa took home the best female and breakthrough artist awards. She was also one of the many stars who wore a white rose in support of the times up and metoo movements against Sexual Harassment and supporting womens rights. Our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba was there. Theresa may, wheres the money for grenfell . Well, you fool me, just forgot about grenfell. A powerful political performance from grime star stormzy. He won best male and best album for gang signs prayer. Gang signs prayer, this was the hardest thing that ive ever worked on Something Like this in my life. Everything i put in that album, i didnt have anything left after. You can ask fraser, we went in there, we made something that i thought was undeniable, i can stand by it today. Gang signs prayer, album of the year, i love you guys. Thank you so much, man, thank you. One, dont pick up the phone. You know hes only calling cause hes drunk and alone. Two, dont let him in. Two awards for 22 year old dua lipa. She won breakthrough artist and best female. She paid tribute to the many women in music whod influenced her. I want to thank every single female who has been on the stage performing who has given girls like me, notjust girls in the Music Industry but girls in society, a place to be inspired by, to look up to, and that have allowed us to dream this big. There was a politically charged winners speech clearly referencing brexit from blur star damon albarn whose band gorillaz won best british group. This country is, believe it or not, quite a small little thing, right . But its full of. Its a lovely place. What i want to say is, dont let it become isolated. Im only human, i do what i can. Ragnbone man won best single for his hit human. Ed sheeran received the global success award. And there was a special tribute from Liam Gallagher commemorating last months Manchester Arena bombing. Maybe i dont really wanna know how your garden grows. Lizo mzimba, bbc news. I enjoyed that last night, it was good fun. The time is 756. See you at eight oclock. Good morning from bbc london news, im sara orchard. A watchdog has found significant weaknesses in the way the met police deals with cases involving children. The latest audit of cases found that improvements have been made since a damning report in november last year, but that more needs to be done to protect under 18s involved in investigations. In a statement, the met said action has been taken in every case identified and that its aware of the urgency of improving its services further. Workers on londons Docklands Light Railway are staging a a8 hour strike in a dispute over pay and other issues. Members of the rail, maritime and transport union, employed as cleaners, security staff and travel officers, walked out at 5. 30am this morning. The union said there had been a breakdown in industrial relations with contractors iss. Progress on reducing premature deaths from Heart Disease is slowing toa deaths from Heart Disease is slowing to a standstill. The latest statistics the london show that for every 100,000 people under 75, 39 die from country Heart Disease. This is unchanged from 2011. Rail enthusiasts will be out in force today to watch a famous steam engine travel from london to norwich. The cathedrals express service leaves London Liverpool street at 10. 20 this morning. The journey to norwich is expected to take just over 3 hours. The Oliver Cromwell was built over sixty years ago, in 1951. Lets have a look at the travel situation now. Starting on the tubes, theres a good service on all lines. On the roads this morning, on the m25, theres anticlockwise Traffic Building towards the dartford tunnel. On the a1000, finchley high road is blocked between creighton avenue and chandos road while Emergency Services attend a building fire. In kentish town, malden road remains closed between Queens Crescent and prince of wales road for a police investigation. Lets have a check on the weather now with elizabeth rizzini. Its set to be another dry but a rather chilly feeling day. There will be some sunshine around at times, particularly through the afternoon for many areas but also some cloud coming and going too. A patchy frost to start off this morning, temperatures hovering around the freezing mark. Some cloud through the morning for many areas but were starting to get some drier air coming up from the south east as we head into the afternoon, so it looks so it looks like we will see more sunshine around for the second half of the day. Temperatures between a, maybe as high as 7 celsius but a chilly easterly breeze so quite a bit of wind chill around as well. This evening and overnight it will stay dry with lots of clear skies around and widespread frost developing into tomorrow morning. Temperatures rurally as low as 2 or 3 degrees celsius. Tomorrow its going to feel really rather chilly. Highs of only 6 celsius but a strengthening easterly breeze as we head into the weekend. Sunday, temperatures could be struggling to get above freezing through the course of the day. Next week, we may even see even a few snow showers. Im back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. Hello, this is breakfast, with Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt. Anger at the white house President Trump listens to the stories of survivors of School Shootings. I turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. I dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. The president promises change and suggests Arming Teachers could be the answer. Good morning. Its thursday, 22nd february. Also this morning, anti depressants do work and more of us should be taking them according to new scientific research. Later we find about recycling rates, and here in wales, it leads the uk with very high rates. Theyll even out this morning, beach cleaning. The boss of serco says the system for running private contracts for the government is broken. After the collapse of brilliant, we see what it means for the future of how services are run. It is unlucky day 13 for the british mens curling tea m 13 for the british mens curling team who are out, swept aside by switzerland in their play off match in their play off match earlier. Moron that at 830 when i will be speaking to what is the most unlucky tea m speaking to what is the most unlucky Team Gb Athlete at the olympics more on that. Nick has the weather and hopefully it is not as cold as over there. Not quite, but wait until next week with quiet, settled weather with High Pressure in control but that same area of High Pressure will pump colder air towards the uk next week with a chance of snow. Keep watching for all of the details. Good morning. First, our main story. President trump says hes considering Arming Teachers with guns, and tightening background checks on people buying weapons, after last weeks School Shootings in florida which left 17 people dead. Mr trump was speaking at a meeting at the white house where he listened to emotional and angry testimony from survivors of gun crime and their families. Barbara plett usher reports. The people demand a hearing. In florida telling their lawmakers loud and clear, they dont want this mass shooting to drop off the political agenda like all the others have. At the white house, President Trump was listening to victims of the Parkland School attack, but also those that came before it. Andrew pollacks18 year old daughter, meadow, was killed last week. It doesnt make sense, fix it, should have been one School Shooting and we should have fixed it. And im kissed. Because my daughter im not going to see again. Shes not here, shes not here, shes in North Lauderdale at whatever it is, king david cemetery, thats where i go to see my kid now. It doesnt make sense to her schoolmate, samuel zeif, either, especially the gunmans access to a semiautomatic rifle. I dont understand, i turned 18 the day after, woke up to the news that my best friend was gone and i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. The president has responded to calls for tougher gun laws with promises of strong background checks, but also more guns. Its called concealed carry, where a teacher would have a concealed gun on them. Theyd go for special training. There is some support for that argument, but students who survived the attack flooded floridas state legislature demanding a ban on assault rifles. All never again the students aim to harness that momentum and turn it into a national campaign. Barbara plett usher, bbc news. A major study into the use of anti depressants has found that they are effective when treating depression. A review of more than 500 trials, published in the medicaljournal, the lancet, found 21 common anti depressants were more effective at reducing symptoms of acute depression than placebos. Researchers say that many more people in the uk could benefit from taking the drugs. The Prime Minister will try to iron out some of the differences between her senior ministers on brexit at a special meeting later. Its being billed as an awayday at the Prime Ministers country residence, chequers. Lets get some details from our Political Correspondent chris mason. Chris, whats on the agenda . It is an away day, a Team Building exercise, could we say . Its kind of like that. I dont know if they will be throwing beanbags at each other or climbing ropes to try and bond that they have plenty to talk about. They head off from here at westminster, about a0 miles north west of fear to checkers in the buckinghamshire countryside. Nestled in rolling buckinghamshire, its roald dahl country. He spent a big chunk of his lifejust down the road. And yes brexit machinations can feel a bit biffsquiggling at times cant it, so heres what you need to know today. Heres the central character, theresa may. Shes getting her ministers together to work out what the government wants our long term relationship with the eu after brexit to look like. David davis, the brexit secretary, had a go at setting that out the other day in a speech. There are differences around the cabinet and the country around their instincts. The chancellor Philip Hammond said recently he wanted very modest changes to how things work now. But brexit enthusiasts, like this chap you mightjust recognise, boris johnson, want a cleaner break from brussels. That the whole point is to emphasise differences and strike out on our own. Suppose its time to let our companions toddle off in the direction of the buckinghamshire countryside and it does take a while to get there central london. It is now a00 days to go until brexit day, the 29th of march, 2019, so not a lot of time left and a lot of talking to come. There is the idea that there are a00 days to go, does that there are a00 days to go, does that make you happy or sad . That there are a00 days to go, does that make you happy or sad7m that there are a00 days to go, does that make you happy or sad . It keeps me busy. That is undeniable. Diplomatic answer from chris mason. Good to see you. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote later today on a draft resolution demanding a 30 day long ceasefire in syria to allow deliveries of aid and medical evacuations. The move comes as International Concern grows over the syrian governments intense bombardment of the rebel held area of Eastern Ghouta, outside damascus. Reports suggest more than 300 people have been killed in the district since sunday. The un secretary general has described Eastern Ghouta as hell on earth. People convicted of Domestic Abuse offences in england and wales will be more likely to go to prison in future, under new sentencing guidelines. For the first time, the guidance will say domestic offences should be treated more seriously than similar crimes not involving partners or family members. The new guidance will also extend Domestic Abuse to threats on social media. A helicopter carrying six british tourists on a flight near the grand canyon in the United States spun around at least twice before crashing and catching fire, according to investigators. Three passengers died in the accident earlier this month, while four more people, including the pilot were badly hurt. The preliminary report by air accident investigators does not say why the helicopter crashed. One month of strikes affecting 6a universities and 1 Million Students begins today. Lectures are walking out over changes to pensions which they say could leave them up to £10,000 a year worse off in retirement. Their employer, universities uk says the Pension Scheme has a £6 billion deficit which cannot be ignored. Those are the main stories this morning and we have the sport coming later on, and also a full weather forecasting a few minutes. A reason for hope thats how baronessjowell, who has a high grade brain tumour, describes the eliminate Cancer Initiative, she and members of the organisation will attend a summit on the condition later today. Its an opportunity for medics to ask for more funding to bring uk cancer treatments in line with other countries. Well speak to the director of the initiative and tessas daughter in a moment, but first heres what tessa had to say in the house of lords last month. Diagnosis in cancer is too slow. Brain tumours particularly grow very quickly. And they are very hard to spot. However, there is a good reason for hope. And it is called the eliminate Cancer Initiative. In the eliminate Cancer Initiative. In the end, what gives a life meaning . It is not only how it is lived, but how it draws to a close. I hope that this debate will give hope to other Cancer Patients, like me, so that we Cancer Patients, like me, so that we can live well together with cancer, not just dying of can live well together with cancer, notjust dying of it. All of us, for longer. Thank you. Doctor Ronald Depinho from eliminate Cancer Initiative and tessas daughterjess mills, join us now from westminster. Thank you for your time, and jess, just hearing from your mother, it was very just hearing from your mother, it was very emotional, that moment in the house of commons. Bring us up to date on a personal note. How is she and how things looking forward . Is she and how things looking forward . She is as magnificent as ever. She is, as we all are, a staunch optimist. She is fighting this tooth and nail and its a case that she is determined to take the lessons we have learned and tried to create a huge benefit for hundreds and thousands of other People Living with cancer diagnosis. This is very much the initiative that todays event is all about. What is the point of what youre trying to achieve today . Today is a great day of hope for Cancer Patients. We have knowledge and technology that can make an enormous impact on the cancer problem, and what we are doing is calling on government, academic institutions, funders, patience, industry, to come together to harness the potential of that knowledge and technology to make an impact as quickly as possible. Breaking that down a bid for us, because, straightaway the issue of funding being answered a bit. How crucial is the element of money for people who are suffering now . Certainly funding is critically important and we need to enable the conversion of ideas into new drugs and diagnostics. That is clearly important, but equally important is collaboration. We have to break down silos and bring groups together so we can enable the collective capabilities of industry, academia, government and others to create a movement that can enable us to make cancer history. With the benefit of your expertise, in layman s terms, are there initiatives and things that could be done now to help people that are not being done because money is not available . Well, cancer in general, its greatest vulnerability is knowledge so the critical area is in the area of prevention. Up to 50 of cancers can be prevented, so increasing services for prevention and the knowledge of the public in areas of prevention is critically important. Also, at the same time, we need more activity in the area of Clinical Trials, notjust Clinical Trials that test one compound versus another but new, innovative medical trials that allow us to utilise molecular information to be able to apply the right drug to the right patient. These are all areas of opportunity and they require funding and they require collaboration and coordination. Jess, can you tell us, as your mum talked about where she was getting her treatment, the nhs here, but also the other avenues she explored, as anybody would do when they are suffering from this kind of condition. Tell us more about that. Its condition. Tell us more about that. Its an indescribably devastating thing when someone at the centre of your universe gets diagnosed with a very complex form of cancer like this and as a family we just went to work trying to find every other possible thing that could be of benefit to mum. We were met with a low ceiling which so many Cancer Patients are met by which is the standard of care which currently exists which, in many instances is almost decades out of date. If you can travel abroad and access a more global collaboration, you are able to access treatments which are significantly improving survival chances and quality of life for patients, and the big challenge now is to make that revolutionised so more patients can access treatment, so it is notjust for people who have the privilege of access or income, it has to be for everybody. Ifi income, it has to be for everybody. If i may, can you pick up on some of the themes jess if i may, can you pick up on some of the themesjess is talking about . Such a personal issue and there are many families who will hear what jessis many families who will hear what jess is saying and absolutely understand, how is it that we in the uk are behind . Why is it that people have two search elsewhere to get the best information and best help . M many respects i would argue the uk and nhs has been a model for the world in providing very good quality ca re world in providing very good quality care to many. Throughout all nations there is a unevenness of care and it is the responsibility of nations and academic institutions, care delivery systems, and the public, to be able to support access to high quality ca re everywhere to support access to high quality Care Everywhere for everyone. That is the challenge that notjust the uk faces but all countries of the world. Today we stand together with the patients. We call on all the stakeholders to come together so that we can provide the best quality of care that is available today but as importantly Work Together to push the frontiers of knowledge so that we can change new standards of care that enable us to truly make this disease history. Thank you very much for your time, disease history. Thank you very much foryourtime, and disease history. Thank you very much for your time, and jess, thank you so much for yours and best wishes to tessa jowell of course. Thank you so much. Its 8 16 and youre watching breakfast from bbc news. He is the weather with nick. Bovenisty and murky in some parts of the uk particularly eastern england, you can see High Pressure dominating the weather at the moment, this is why things are so settled, these weather fronts the atlantic, forget them, they are not having an influence in our weather for days to come, our weather is coming from the east, an area of High Pressure. Cloud around today but it is quite dry. We see sunny spells, mostly leave eastern parts of Northern Ireland running into western scotland, some into north east england this morning, yet the vast majority will have a dry day, between four and 7 degrees, the breeze picking up in southern and western parts, enough of the breeze to stop the temperature going down too file. Whereas elsewhere you can see the land, more in the way of cloud breaks, frost overnight so many parts of the country running into eastern scotland will see temperatures at all a few degrees below freezing going into tomorrow morning, so a good start tomorrow, frosty, but with good sunny spells during the day, still some areas of cloud and while most places are dry still showers towards western scotla nd still showers towards western scotland and northern england. The breeze picking up a bit more tomorrow so it should feel colder, that will continue into the weekend. Still High Pressure keeping us fine and dry, the easterly breeze picks up and dry, the easterly breeze picks upa and dry, the easterly breeze picks up a little more, more of a southerly across western parts of the uk, a generally breezy picture, sunday looks similar, loads of sunshine, a bit of cloud towards eastern scotland at times and Northern Ireland, more breeze so it will feel colder and that story goes on from sunday into next week as well, we drag in even colder air to the uk from the arctic, from siberia, you can see how much of europe is in the blue, so it is looking cold to very cold at times next week, a bitter wind will make it feel colder, widespread sharp frosts overnight and this most interesting one, some of us will see snow but it is too early to suggest where and how much, although next week s weather is looking very interesting, particularly as we go into much it will be a unusually cold. Back to you. Thank you. Ben will be talking about serco. We have a name and we wonder what it does. It does Government Service contracts so it runs some nhs contracts, it runs some prisons and that is why you will see the name on sides of fans, it runs the right london bike scheme, looks after some of the missile defences, very varied but in the spotlight following the collapse of carillion, a firm that did similar things so eve ryo ne a firm that did similar things so everyone is looking at the part that these private firms play in delivering public contracts. Their profits are down 29 this morning, this is for serco. People are worried it could go the same way as carillion. It is clear that they are still doing well and the services are still being delivered. Yet the boss told us this morning but the system for awarding these contracts is broken. He says that has to be much more transparency in the way people bid for them and crucially how they perform. We are proposing there should be open book accounting between government suppliers but also, most importantly, that there should be, suppliers should be required, and also governments should be required, to go and put operational Key Performance indicators, to publish them so that the taxpayers and the Service Users can see just how good or bad the service being delivered is. Thats the chief executive of serco, Rupert Soames. The heart of the issue is, there is a criticism that a lot of these firms are going to government, bidding really low and winning the contract and then going back to the government to say, we need more money. And the issue of transparency, the delivering what they promised . He says there should bea they promised . He says there should be a better system to measure them. Plastic has been in the news lately mainly because of the programme the blue planet. Later today and all waste statistics will be published, recently wales has outperformed the rest of the uk at recycling household waste. John maguire is in an incubator find out household waste. John maguire is in an incubatorfind out why. People did a big clean of the beach last tuesday so the speech does look immaculate, wales has done extremely well, 50 better than the rest of the uk. So what are they doing so well that the rest of the uk is not . What lessons can be learned from the welsh way of dealing with waste . Its bin day in bridgend and on the kerbside, a rainbow of refuse. Orange bags for cardboard, white for paper, brown for food. There are even bags for nappies purple and just two blue bags of non recyclables collected every other week. Residents who transgress risk being fined but locals here seem happy. Good, yeah. Good for the environment and everything, keeps everyone on their toes. Very good, yeah. Ive got a child thats eight as well and he finds it quite hard cause he automatically chucks everything in the bin butjust getting him used to it. Once youre used to it, youre all right . Yeah, its fine then, yeah. Bridgend council is achieving rates other parts of the uk dream of, reaching 7a . The recycling level in wales is 6a against a uk average of aa . The pretty coastal village of aberporth is cutting down on single use plastic and has been awarded a special status by the Environmental Campaign group surfers against sewage. At the local shop, the owner mike allen shows me around. Milk bottles, glass milk bottles. They havent banned plastics, they are offering alternatives wooden clothes pegs, looseleaf tea, and even a toothbrush made from bamboo. Wooden toothbrushes. Those are probably our second biggest seller after the glass bottles. They seem to have attracted peoples attention. We have the option of the plastic then with those as well. There are hundreds of dolphins living out in cardigan bay. The environment here is jealously guarded and it was a concern about ocean plastics that inspired resident gail tudor to rally community support. You look at the beautiful beach and you think, yeah, it looks pretty clean but when you start going down and you see the stuff thats washed up, and plastic bags washed up in the seaweed, its not all stuff left by holidaymakers or local people here, a lot of it is washed in. But it still needs to come out of the sea. The talk here is that cutting down on waste, especially plastic, can spread to the next village, the next county, the next country. Plastics are under attack from people power. It is all about the people power. Lets talk to Hannah Blythyn, am. Bore da. Wes is doing incredibly well, but what about the world government . We want to become a world leader, we are doing that in partnership, i want to congratulate Hannah Blythyn on achievement. This is the way we work in wales, bringing stakeholders together, the Welsh Government is working with businesses to take this forward and well be updating our waste strategy, be making an announcement in the assembly next week. What will that be about . Youll have to wait and see you to have been working here to get plastic free status, what kinds of things to people have to do to get it . Were asking people to do to get it . Were asking people to get rid of single use plastics, we dont need those on the beaches and are not generally. Easy changes to make . Mostly, they will always be the sum that are difficult but there are always alternatives and ways to get rid of them. And Charles Camille have done well here. Weve just been officially accredited with Plastic Free Community status, that came through on monday so we are happy about that. Good news for flipper. Hes an agreement. Lets talk to lily and josh. Why is it important to keep the beaches clean . Its important to keep the beaches clean and of plastic goes into busy the fishes will die. And josh, whatever you been finding when you clean the beaches . Plastic bottles and Plastic Straws. What do you think of People Living there is behind . straws. What do you think of People Living there is behind . I think its bad. It is bad, isnt it. , folks, thank you for doing a greatjob, the beach looks pristine. The these are stunning here. Naga, you were on the sofa the other day when we saw equally great views, we are not sponsored by the wales tourist board, we have just been lucky this week now back to you and the weather wherever you others morning. Coming up next the Business News in business life. Good morning. The cold weather still on its way for the end of the week and into next week, but for most of us its going to be dry and fairly bright over the next few days, and certainly this morning while there is cloud floating around there will be bright and sunny spells in the afternoon, but mostly dry. One or two showers affecting eastern parts, but looking at the satellite imagery you can see where we have got something cloud across england and wales and one or two mist and fog patches but those will clear. You can see the holes in the cloud where the map is, just that bit greener and the sunshine poking through. A few showers towards eastern areas of Northern Ireland, the west of scotland, and maximum temperatures getting up to five or 6 degrees. Through the morning on the night, look at the cloud as it will come and go through the night but more clear spells compared to last night meaning more of a frost into friday morning with temperatures widely below freezing may be down to minus four degrees but a little less cold in Northern Ireland and western scotland. This is our friday looks with cloud around so some bright and sunny spells and the south easterly wind developing so feeling a little colder on friday which is a trend that will continue. Maximum temperatures between four and 6 degrees. Through friday evening the cloud will go but lots of clear spells through friday and into saturday, so the temperatures will drop away quite quickly and there will be frost. Over the weekend and weve been talking about in the last few days, there is cold air from siberia and the dark blue is moving towards the uk. As we go through the weekend it will turn colder, widespread frost on saturday and sunday morning, lots of sunshine and it should be mostly dry. This is business live from bbc news with alice baxter and sally bundock. The fight for clean air goes to court a landmark ruling on whether cities can ban diesel cars in germany is imminent and being watched closely by the global auto industry. Live from london, thats our top story on thursday 22nd february. If the ban is approved, other major european cities could follow suit. Itll be a Pivotal Moment for european citizens as three quarters of all the worlds diesel cars driven on their roads. Also in the programme, double dutch. Will unilever ditch the uk for netherlands
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