Huge questions on whether the royal family has been doing its duties properly and has it been as active in its private life to make sure that it in its private life to make sure thatitis in its private life to make sure that it is seen to be acting in a morally responsible way, as it has beenin morally responsible way, as it has been in public. There is a huge controversy been in public. There is a huge c0 ntrove isy now been in public. There is a huge controversy now boiling over this. It is interesting because the British Royal family has long had an approach of never complain and never explained. If they are facing criticism or Turbulent Times to keep your head down, keep working and the issue will just your head down, keep working and the issue willjust kind of fade into the background. And there have been various instances over the years. This situation is so very different to anything never encountered before. Indeed. And there have been some reports in the original interview that it was not sanctioned by Buckingham Palace or by her majesty the queen herself. And now they have been reports that he wants to do another one to set the record straight, to say some things he did not say or do perhaps clarify some of the things he did say. That have been called into question. Again, thatis been called into question. Again, that is extraordinary. Would he even be allowed to do a second interview . Plus he has now said he will comply with people calling for him to a nswer with people calling for him to answer questions into the ep stone probe. Again, it is quite extraordinary, now affecting people on both sides of the pond. Fascinating and i will be interested to see what develops next in this story. But lets turn our attention to the financial times. A huge amount of attention on the impeachment enquiry. Are you following every of coverage . Have you followed it closely . As much as ican. You followed it closely . As much as i can. Things are happening at such a pace it is difficult for anyone to keep tabs on it unless they are watching it 21w. It was interesting to see the reactions of some gop members when they heard sunderlands testimony. You thought gesticulating and suggesting that he had turned tales on donald trump and that has obviously caused some consternation within the gop itself. Obviously caused some consternation within the gop itselflj obviously caused some consternation within the gop itself. I watched the opening of that session about 2k hours ago and the tone among the members of the committee was quite terse, to say the least. And then sondland began his testimony. At the white house take on this is interesting. This testimony exonerates the president. While we have seen that there are facts and according to the current president there are alternative facts. Sondland says there was a quid pro quo and donald trump was clear there was no quid pro quo. Sondland has gone under oath and testified this in both public and private testimony. We have no reason to disbelieve what he said under oath. Plus sondland says that his work with donald trump has gone back for yea rs, with donald trump has gone back for years, that he helped to raise money for the president ial campaign, in 2016, and then donald trump came out later and said i barely know the guy and do not speak to him much. But he was one of the key money earners for the campaignfundraising. Was one of the key money earners for the campaign fundraising. So you have to ask questions, really, over who is telling the truth and it is difficult, unless donald trump goes and stands before a committee. From us politics to uk politics. A twin, connected stories, really. The Prime Minister pledging a tax cut for millions of workers. It is interesting how the cake is sliced with this because depending on whether you use the figure it is a guaranteed amount or the figure that is the ambition, you have two very different outcomes. Absolutely. The ambition amount is 12,500. If you look into the details they say it is probably not going to happen in the next parliament. So you look at maybe four or five years out before this takes effect. However, i have concerns about this. If you are raising people out of the threshold 01 raising people out of the threshold or raising the threshold at which you start paying contributions, how will that affect the state pension entitlement . Because we know it does help employees get their benefits and pensions and if you are earning less tha n and pensions and if you are earning less than the lower earnings limit, you less than the lower earnings limit, yu pay less than the lower earnings limit, you pay nothing anyway so youre all entitlement to state benefits can come under question. Will this affect the pension . And meanwhile, the guardian carries the labour pledge of 75 billion pounds to tackle the uk housing crisis. They describe that as the biggest house held biggest Council HouseBuilding Programme since the war. Held biggest Council HouseBuilding Programme since the wanm they can make it work, it would be amazing. Were looking at over 100,000 houses a year, that is the ambition, and target of 50,000 social housing. In the 2004 review of housing, there had been such a period for 30 years of house price increases that most people were pushed out of affordability for a house. And she said to reduce the race and increase of at least 70,000 houses would be needed. Nothing has been done since 2004. So if labour can go ahead with this and bring in more Affordable Housing for those who needed, this could be a good vote winning pledge. Tied into all of the political pledges is political advertising and we have seen twitter than the promoted political ads on its platform and 110w political ads on its platform and now just within the political ads on its platform and nowjust within the last political ads on its platform and now just within the last few political ads on its platform and nowjust within the last few hours, google confirming that from next week it will ban targeted political advertising, this being covered in the verge. The it is interesting that it the verge. The it is interesting thatitis the verge. The it is interesting that it is specific about targeted political advertising. So it is not a ban on age related advertising, not a ban on contextual advertising, for example if you are reading about the economy you may see a political at the talks about economic issues. But it is not going to go into specific locations nor use public voter records to target people almost individually as has been the case in the past. It is a huge. It will have a huge effect on the political ecosystem but i think it might also help to improve consumer trust. We saw the sort of Cambridge Facebook and people were rightly upset on both sides of the debate that they were perhaps being deceived. No one likes to be deceived, no one likes to feel that they have been targeted with something that may not be completely true. So we really need to mitigate all the damage that has been caused. People want to trust their information sources, not be targeting them on such minute detail and they want to know that what they are seeing is true and can be trusted, can be believed and i think thatis trusted, can be believed and i think that is very important step that google has taken with these new rules. And they can still target you know, the article says they will only be able to target on general location age and gender but that put together gives you a detailed picture about the kind of person that you are reaching. That is true. It also you have seen with all the brexit news that in certain areas people can be widely divided so it will be a hotly contested between two completely divergent parties. So you can still promote in that area without being seen to be particularly favouring one target market and, hopefully, without telling lies or perhaps distorting the truth. And interesting, the grammy award nominations. Nominations in 2020 dominated by women, they took to heart the message from the grammys to step up if you want to be nominated and here we have it. I dont necessarily think they have to step up, these women have become nominees because of the power and popularity of the music and they are definitely here on talent and not some gender related ticket. They are in all the big categories, record of the year, album of the year, some of the year, best new artist. For album of the year, Ariana Grande has thank you, next. I hope that will be her a cce pta nce next. I hope that will be her acceptance speech. We have lizzo, 100 nominee, so it is great to see these powerful women with powerful voices. And we will see who walks away with those awards. Thank you for being with us. Plenty more coming up. Hello there. Earlier this week we saw the coldest weather of the autumn so far but since then things have been turning a little bit milder. Most places yesterday had a dry day, with a little bit of sunshine coming through. We will see the temperatures continuing to rise a little bit day and night but it is turning milder because the weather is turning more unsettled, there is more rain in the forecast. Most of the rain today is going to be near that area of low pressure its been with us for a while its sitting to the south west, so that will see most of the rain. Got a few showers though, coming in off the north sea, threatening towards the north east of scotland and we have got a few showers to come across Northern Ireland. Those i think should fade away, getting blown away by a fairly brisk south easterly wind. Quite a grey day for the midlands. Towards the south east of england, feeling chilly in the breeze. A little bit of sunshine further north, but the rain is going to be in the south west of england and south wales and this is where we are likely to find the highest temperatures, perhaps double figures. But that rain can be a little heavy at times. It will push its way overnight towards the south east of england, further north across wales, perhaps into the midlands as well. And a few showers towards Northern Areas too. A lot of cloud around. Rain never too far away so not too cold temperatures typically 3 6 degrees. Weve got a few showers to come really, i think, on friday. Its a messy sort of day. Things could develop a bit wetter though towards the south west. Those showers heavy for a while, merging into some longer spells of rain through the south west of england, the west midlands, into the west country and wales through the day. That is an area to watch as things get wetter but those temperatures typically nine or 10 degrees. Now lets head into the weekend and its a weekend dominated by low pressure. We have got one slow moving area of low pressure over the uk which is why we are seeing that rain developing. How far north the rain gets, a little bit uncertain. Could see most of the rain across england and wales, perhaps heading towards Northern Ireland as far north as the central belt, allowing something a bit drier and brighter to arrive across southern parts of england and wales and temperatures again typically 9 11 degrees. But some rain around on saturday. And whilst that rain is going to peter out, as the low pressure itself tends to fill, we have another one coming in from the atlantic and this one looks a little bit deeper, and it means the winds will be stronger. Again, the position could change but, at the moment, it looks like, whilst we have some residual rain to clear away from scotland, the wetter, windy weather should be arriving towards the south west of england, spoiling the afternoon in wales and into the midlands but again temperatures again better than they have been, typically 9 11. Good morning welcome to breakfast with Naga Munchetty and charlie stayt. 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