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Democrat nancy pelosi in which he claims shes cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment. Australia has experienced its hottest day on record with the National Average temperature reaching a high of 40. 9 celsius. Hundreds of thousands of people will have to wait months to have their faulty and potentially dangerous washing machines repaired or replaced. And bulls eye. Fallon sherrock becomes the first woman to win against a man at a major darts World Championship. Good morning 7 and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00am. Former Prime Minister tony blair is warning that labour will be replaced as a serious Political Force if it tries to in his words whitewash the scale of its election defeat. Speaking this morning, mr blair who led the party to three general election victories, says labours problems go far deeper than its brexit stance, or the unpopualrity ofJeremy Corbyn in some parts of the country. Mr blair has unveiled research which he says shows that the party faces electoral oblivion unless it changes course. The research, entitled northern discomfort, identifies a number of issues which mr blair says can help explain why labour did badly in its northern heartlands, losing some seats to the conservatives for the first time ever. This includes many labour voters feeling abandoned by the party because of concerns over its brexit policy. The Research Identifies mr corbyns leadership and the politics he represents as the main cause of the rupture with long held loyalties and the alienation felt by many traditional labour voters. And mr blair says there were concerns over a lack of economic credibility in its public spending and renationalisation proposals. Well, the current labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says he will stand down as leader early next year and a number of mps have suggested they could run for the partys leadership. Labours shadow business secretary, rebecca long bailey, is thought to be considering a joint ticket with labours shadow education secretary, angela rayner, possibly running as her deputy. Other possible names in the hat include the mp for wigan, lisa nandy, Jess Phillips the mp for birmingham yardley, and the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer. Hes told the bbc he is seriously considering running to be labour leader, saying it was time for the party to return to being a broad church. 0ur assistant Political Editor norman smith is in westminster. Good morning. Lets talk first of all about what tony blair has been saying. He knows a thing or two about winning elections and he has delivered a really blunt message this morning. I have heard tony blair deliver numerous speeches criticising Jeremy Corbyn, criticising Jeremy Corbyn, criticising his brexit policy. I have never heard him doing such a demolitionjob on the have never heard him doing such a demolition job on the labour party. Blu ntly, demolition job on the labour party. Bluntly, the demolition job on the labour party. Blu ntly, the gloves demolition job on the labour party. Bluntly, the gloves are off. He warns quite simply that in his words, if labour carries on with the corbyn programme it is finished. His belief is the electorate will never support this and the far left policies he espouses and it is now a battle for the very survival of the labour party and unless it discards what he calls a sectarian ultraleft policies it will be replaced by another party. He doesnt identify who but he suggests if labour is not seen as who but he suggests if labour is not seen as a who but he suggests if labour is not seen as a credible progressive alternative, some other Political Force will emerge. Im sure many of mr corbyns supporters and many in the labour party will say, same old tony blair, there he goes again. I think what is slightly different, i dont think tony blair is intending to surprise anyone with his comments, but is trying to open up a debate to ensure there is a genuine argument about what labour should do next, rather than a rather pale period of reflection where really nobody gets to grips with the scale of crisis that he clearly believes is engulfing the labour party. I think he is trying to prompt a much more radical and meaningful discussion about what happened to labour and what it has got to do to survive and avoid, as he sees it, a whitewash. And just a little nip and tuck and trying to carry on, because he is clear that unless labour pulls back from corbynism, it is game over and he cites the examples of the liberals who were the party of government before being overtaken by labour. These are some of mr blairs comments this morning. The take over of the labour party by the far left, turned it into a glorified protest movement with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government. The result has brought shame on us. We let our country down. To go into an election at any time with such a divergence between party and people is unacceptable. To do it at a time of national crisis, when a credible opposition is so essential to the national interest, is unforgivable. Mr blair clearly thinks the length of the road back to powerfor mr blair clearly thinks the length of the road back to power for labour depends very much on what happens next. Last night there was a meeting between Jeremy Corbyn next. Last night there was a meeting betweenJeremy Corbyn and former mps, defeated in this election, losing their seats, and there were recriminations and a feeling of angen recriminations and a feeling of anger. Do you get a sense with Jeremy Corbyn still staying on as leaderfor the Jeremy Corbyn still staying on as leader for the next couple of months, that the debate is flowing as freely as it could do about who should succeed him . Not quite yet, no. We are beginning to get people put their heads above the parapet. My put their heads above the parapet. My goodness, an awful lot, i counted nine different potential contenders this morning. Sir keir starmer firmly indicating he will stand with an interview on the hook today programme and an interview in the guardian newspaper. Whats interesting about keir starmer is that his is actually pretty carefully calibrated moderated message, unlike that of tony blair. So he does not criticiseJeremy Corbyn or the partys policies. Indeed, he praises the bold and radical agenda. He does not criticise momentum and he doesnt really criticise anything about the corbyn years. He he said instead that what happened during the campaign was that he didnt not see any challenging of the boris johnson, get brexit done mantra. It doesnt sound like a man poised to shake up and bring the labour party back from its worst defeat since 1935. However, the question is whether it is tactics. He knows he cant be seen to be castigating Jeremy Corbyn and disowning the corbyn years because the Party Membership is overwhelmingly pro Jeremy Corbyn and if he were to do that, it would be game over. So his was a much more nuanced approach. What we shouldnt do is now oversteer. I have seen organisations and Political Parties do this so many times. In 2010, we oversteered on austerity and began to think that it might be all right to have some cuts. In 2015, we oversteered on welfare. What we mustnt do now is for a third time oversteer, make this simplistic and go back to some forgone era. What is interesting, i think, is that there are kind of three schools of thought now emerging in this leadership contest. There is the corbyn camp that believes basically the manifesto was popular, the public like radicalism, although they didnt vote for it. There is a middle of seemingly around keir starmer, which believes in more professionalism, rebuilding the broad church, so the party can get back into government with one bound, with one more heave. And then there isa with one more heave. And then there is a blairite wing which believes the party is facing an existential threat and unless it changes radically it is game over. At the moment there is no candidate, it seems to me, for that blairite view and maybe one will not emerge because tony blair is now viewed by many in the labour party as toxic. But those are basically the three positions now in the parliamentary labour party. Carry on, nip and tuck, radical change. Members of the us house of representatives will vote on whether to impeach President Trump, and send him for trial in the senate. In a public letter, mr trump has accused the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and her party of an illegal, partisan attempted coup. If convicted by the senate, the president would be removed from office, but thats never happened in us history. Gary 0donoghue reports on an historical day for the United States. Without objection, the committee is adjourned. And with that simple strike of the gavel, democrats declared all out political war on one of the most controversial president s in americas history. Today is a solemn and sad day. Not one republican has come out in favour of impeaching the president. This is tribal politics at its most raw. They dont like the president , they dont like the president s supporters and they dislike us so much, theyre willing to weaponise the government. So what are the two charges against the president . The first is that he abused his power by pressuring the president of ukraine to investigate one of his main democratic rivals, former Vice President joe biden. The second is that he obstructed congress by trying to stop officials from giving evidence, and failing to provide documents. If its peace and goodwill to all youre looking forward to this festive moment, then washington is not the place to find it. Barring a political earthquake, democrats will shortly vote to impeach Donald John Trump with their sizeable majority in the house of representatives, making him only the third us president in history to face that fate. Good evening. From sex at the white house to a trial for his political life. Last time it happened was 21 years ago, almost to the day. Those opposed will say no. The republican controlled house impeached bill clinton for lying to a grand jury and for obstruction of justice, all relating to his affair with a 22 year old intern monica lewinsky. But he was cleared in the senate and thats the most likely outcome for President Trump, too. They took a perfect phone call that i had with the president of ukraine, an absolutely perfect call you know it, they all know it nothing was said wrong in that call. To impeach the president of the United States for that is a disgrace. Democrats know they wont get the two thirds majority needed in the senate to remove a president under the constitution, but theyre determined to do as much political damage as they can. The president has offered nothing exculpatory to disprove the evidence that has been put forward. Instead, hes orchestrated a cover up. Its left many in the senate and millions across the country asking, what is the president hiding . This impeachment process will all be over in a matter of a few short weeks, though its consequences will work themselves out right up to election day next november. Gary 0donoghue, bbc news, washington. Australia has experienced its hottest day on record. Data shows the average national reached 40. 9 celsius yesterday. In some inland areas, the temperature rose to more than 45 degrees. It comes as Fire Services continue to battle a drought and bushfire crisis. Forecasters predict the most intense heat could come later in the week so the record could be broken again. Hundreds of thousands of people are facing a wait of months to have their faulty and potentially dangerous washing machines replaced. Whirlpool recalled half a million appliances yesterday because of a fire risk, but customers are struggling to get information because of problems with its website. The company was already dealing with problems with its dryers, as dan johnson reports. Apologies, apologies with the sound on that report. We will try to get back to that as soon as possible. Lets ta ke back to that as soon as possible. Lets take a look at the headlines in the meantime. Former Prime Minister tony blair warns that labour will be replaced as a serious Political Force if it doesnt learn lessons from the failure ofJeremy Corbyns leadership. Nurses in Northern Ireland have begun a 12 hour walk out in a dispute of their pay and over Patient Safety. Donald trump faces an Impeachment Vote today. Hes sent a letter to top democrat nancy pelosi accusing her of declaring open war on american democracy. And in sport, history at the darts. Fallon sherrock becomes the first woman to win a match at the pdc world darts championship. She had to come from behind to beat ted evetts and said afterwards shes proven women can beat the men. Liverpool are right in the middle of a strange 2a hours. Their youngest ever side were thrashed 5 0 by aston villa in the quarterfinals of the carabao cup last night. As their senior team gear up for their first fixture at the Club World Cup in qatar. They play the mexican side monterrey in doha this evening and its live on bbc two. Ill be back with more on those stories later. Around 9,000 nurses in Northern Ireland have started a 12 hour strike over ongoing disputes about pay and Staffing Levels. It s the first time members of the Royal College of nursing have taken part in strike action anywhere in the uk. All Emergency Departments will remain open, but some routine appointments will be cancelled and a number of minor injury units will be closed. 0ur correspondent chris page is outside the ulster hospital for us. Chris, you are at the picket line. Tell us why nurses in Northern Ireland are paid less than cou nterpa rts ireland are paid less than counterparts in the uk. This is one of the key reasons behind the strike. Thats right. The basic demand of the people on the picket line here in east belfast is that they want to be paid the same as their counterparts in the rest of their counterparts in the rest of the uk. Nurses say their wages have fallen in real terms by 15 over the last eight years. There has been no devolved government in Northern Ireland for going on three years. Whilst there have been different pay arrangements awarded for nhs staff in england, wales and scotland, there have been no such arrangements here. There has never been a strike like this anywhere in the uk. A number of unions involved including unison and the Royal College of nursing, which has existed for 103 yea rs nursing, which has existed for 103 years but never before have its members gone on strike. A whole range of the staff aside from nurses taking industrial action including paramedics, social workers and administrative staff. The big demand is over pay. They also say administrative planning in Northern Ireland has been very poor, partly because pay has been so relatively low, there has been difficulty filling vacancies so Staffing Levels are ata filling vacancies so Staffing Levels are at a dangerously low level and patients are being effected. Scenes like this playing out at hospitals across Northern Ireland with thousands of workers out on strike. Health service bosses say there will be significant disruption. Emergency departments will remain open. Areas of care deems to be critical will not be affected by industrial action, for example, people involved with Cancer Treatment will continue to work today. But hospitals will have to prioritise urgent cases. Hundreds of outpatient appointments have been cancelled. The people affected by that have already been contacted affected by that have already been co nta cted by affected by that have already been contacted by hospital so the message is, if you have not been contacted to be cancelled today then you should turn up. The demonstrators in good voice. Plenty of cars beeping their horns as they pass in rush hour. Supporting these workers. Leaders of the five main health trusts in Northern Ireland said this crisis had been years in the making. Because funding had been so stretched. People taking industrial action here today are confident the public is behind them. It sends a message to politicians who are in the middle of talks in stormont today, talks that began on monday into reviving the power sharing devolved government that collapsed injanuary devolved government that collapsed in january of 2017, say they must strike a deal to get back in the assembly and get ministers back in office to make decisions on pay and bring in urgent reforms for the Health Service that had been planned but left on the shelf because ministers have been out of office for so long. When i have been in Northern Ireland in the last couple of weeks i detected a good deal of public support for the nurses. A lot of people actually blaming the fact that the Northern Ireland assembly is not up and running to make decisions, the sorts of decisions those nurses are calling for on pay. Is there any way the secretary of state for Northern Ireland could step in in the absence of any progress . Lots of people there hope there will be progress on restoring there will be progress on restoring the assembly but in the absence of that, and could the Northern Ireland secretary step in . Yesterday, leaders of the five main stormont parties wrote a joint letter to Northern Ireland secretary julian smith, and they said if the executive at stormont got back up and running then they would implement a pay rise that these workers are looking for. They told julian smith that gave him the cover to go ahead and do the same himself. But the Northern Ireland office has said that health is a devolved matter. The westminster government is reluctant to step in to intervene because they say it should be the responsibility of local politicians and not politicians ultimately based in london. The thinking is, if we step into intervene in this particular issue, then lots of other Northern Irish issues are affected by the lack of ministerial presence. There is a Funding Crisis among schools and head teachers. There is a fear that other people could call to do the same. The message from the london government is that it is down to local politicians to resolve their differences, to get back into government in stormont and take action on major issues like this. It would take around £100 million to make the pay demands of these striking workers a decent offer, they have already had an offer of around 77 million, another 23 million has to be found and stormont parties have already said they will act, to bring pay in line with the rest of the uk, but it looks like they need to strike a deal to form a government first. The legal deadline for the current round of talks is january 13 and everyone here will no doubt be hoping an agreement is possible by that stage. Chris page outside the ulster hospital in east belfast, thank you. A report says more than a third of gps have cut their hours in the last year with many blaming the demands of the job. The survey by the general medical council, has also found more than one in ten Family Doctors are taking time off due to stress. It also found that more than one in ten are taking time off due to stress. During the election, the conservatives promised an extra 6,000 gps within the next five years. Doctors in the uk are the first in the world to trial a new way of delivering chemotherapy, which could improve its success rate and lead to fewer side effects. The Royal Marsden hospital in surrey is testing acoustic cluster therapy, which uses ultrasound waves to target tumours, without attacking nearby healthy cells. Our health correspondent, laura foster, has more. Nerves are common when youre a patient in hospital, even more so when youre the first person in the world to receive a new treatment. You feel quite vulnerable, but its also very exciting. Am i a guinea pig . Its quite nerve racking. This is acoustic cluster therapy, which aims to make anti cancer drugs more effective. But how . One problem with chemotherapy is that the drugs flow around your whole body. Acoustic cluster therapy is going for a more targeted approach. Here, patients are also given micro droplets. An ultrasound machine detects when these arrive at the tumour and turns them into gas bubbles, filling and stretching the micro vessels inside the tumour. It means more of the drugs are pumped into the tumour directly. Then, hopefully, the lesions will respond better, the cancer will shrink more so then you can cure maybe more patients who are in that situation. This trial is at a very early stage and its still not clear whether there might be any long term side effects to the treatment. But if chemotherapy can be made more effective, then it could mean fewer people suffering the side effects such as nausea and hair loss, and it could make those difficult tumours, the ones that were previously thought to be untreatable, it could mean they start responding to chemotherapy drugs, too. You hope that theres a more easy way or a more gentle way of treating people. Hopefully, you know, this will happen. One day there will be a chemo where you dont have these side effects. But there would need to be many more tests and trials before we can get close to that. Laura foster, bbc news, sutton. We can return to our coverage of the nurses strike in Northern Ireland. Members of the Royal College of nursing, around 9000 of them, on strike today for the first time in the organisations103 year history, over concerns over pay and Patient Safety. We can speak to the chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of nursing. Thank you forjoining us today. I notice this morning on your twitter account that the banner at the top says, one nurse makes all the different sounds Northern Ireland is now missing thousands of them. Do you directly link the poorer pay that nurses in Northern Ireland receive relative to collea g u es Northern Ireland receive relative to colleagues in the rest of the uk to the Staffing Levels there . Yes, definitely. We can see there are almost 3000 vacancies in Northern Ireland. Every newly qualified nurse in Northern Ireland receives around £1500 less than a nurse anywhere else in the uk. I think what we can see is that if nurses can earn better elsewhere, they will go elsewhere. I really want to thank every single nurse in Northern Ireland today for standing up for Patient Safety. Presumably you want the money that is currently being spent, the large sums currently spent, the large sums currently spent on agency nurses, given to staff nurses. Definitely. We know that safety is better when there is continuity of care. So any nurse working on a ward understands the ward, they understand where the emergency equipment is, they understand how to work with a team with their colleagues. Agency nurses do come in and provide safe care as well but it is not as continuous as those fully employed by the hospitals they work in. What concerns do you have for patients today during the course of this 12 hour strike was that how will they be looked after given 9000 nurses as well as paramedics and so on and other staff are on the picket lines. We have taken every other staff are on the picket lines. We have ta ken every step we other staff are on the picket lines. We have taken every step we can to make sure Patient Safety continues on the ward. But actually, every single day Patient Safety is compromised in Northern Ireland because there are not enough nurses to deliver safe care. So today is no different. We have taken special measures to ensure wards are covered, particularly for life preserving ca re, covered, particularly for life preserving care, but if nurses do not stand up then Patient Safety is compromised every single day, today and thereafter. I suppose the irony is that in Northern Ireland, more is spent per head of Population Health ca re spent per head of Population Health care than elsewhere in the uk. You are still saying the money is not going to the right areas, fundamentally. Do you have a message for politicians . The Northern Ireland assembly has not been running for three years now to get back to work on delivering health ca re back to work on delivering health care for those in Northern Ireland. Northern irish patients and nurses are being let down by the lack of assembly in Northern Ireland. I would urge they get back together and make sure there is local Decision Making on the nhs in Northern Ireland. We have seen the nhs deteriorating over the last ten yea rs. Nhs deteriorating over the last ten years. More broadly, do you believe bursaries for nurses that Health Secretary matt hancock has been speaking about this morning, is that a welcome step and would it improve recruitment rates . Of course it is a welcome step. We know the hardship nurses face in england is real. And therefore any money that comes into bursary is welcome. However, we know that tuition fees are one of the things that deters nurses, and the debt they accrue to study nursing. Thats one step in the right direction, but we have further to go. Dame donna kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of nursing, thank you. In a moment the weather but first lets heres Victoria Derbyshire with what shes got coming up in her programme at ten. 0ur our exclusive report on homeowners stuck on a high interest mortgages and unable to switch to a cheaper deal to stop they are suing the firm they believed responsible. Having to work twojobs. They believed responsible. Having to work two jobs. Travelling about and working really hard. We havent been able to do all sorts of things that our friends could do, and we couldnt understand and it was putting a great strain on our marriage, how we could do what others were doing. History was made last night as 25 year old mother of one Fallon Sherrock became a first woman to beat a man at the pdc world darts championships. She will tell us darts championships. She will tell us what that is like after ten oclock. Now its time for a look at the weather forecast. Good now its time for a look at the weatherforecast. Good morning, carol kirkwood. Some of us have been looking at a fair bit of fog around across parts of england. That will turn into low cloud and drift north. Central and eastern areas will have the driest and brightest day. To the west, all this rain coming and that will be accompanied by strengthening wind. We have already had very strong gusts of wind across the isles of scilly, west wales and the western isles. As we head through the evening and overnight, all of us will see rain as it continues to push north and east with some hill snow for a time. Gail is in the irish sea and gail is quite likely to the western isles. But not a particularly cold night for most. Tomorrow we start with rain pushing east and north and we will have more coming in later in the day from the south. It will be breezy, but you will notice the temperatures tomorrow, much higher than today and some of us could see 1a. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines former Prime Minister tony blair attacksJeremy Corbyns leadership and warns that labour will be replaced as a serious Political Force if it tries to whitewash the scale of its election defeat. Thousands of nurses in Northern Ireland have begun a 12 hour strike over pay and Patient Safety. President trump faces a vote on removing him from office today. He writes a furious a letter to top democrat nancy pelosi, in which he claims shes declared open war on american democracy. Australia has experienced its hottest day on record, with the National Average temperature reaching a high of 40. 9c. Time now for the morning briefing, where we bring you up to speed on the stories people are watching, reading and sharing. President donald trump faces an Impeachment Vote today over allegations he pressured ukraine for personal political gain. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the leading liberaljudge on the us supreme court. In an exclusive bbc interview with razia iqbal earlier this week, Justice Ginsburg was asked about the role that senators should play in the impeachment process and, specifically, should they be impartial . The house indicts and the senate tries. Should a trier be impartial . Of course. Thats the job of a judge, to be impartial. As my. But you will be very aware that there are senators who are already saying before the impeachment gets to the senate, or the trial in the senate theyve already made their minds up. Thats problematic. Well, if a judge said that, a judge would be disqualified. Laughter. From sitting on the case. Applause but its about the level of accountability. So if a senator says, ive already made my mind up and the trial doesnt even exist at the moment, there is no accountability, is there . My old chief, chiefjustice rehnquist, put it very well, and he said, the day a judge stops being impartial and starts to do things to please the home crowd well, whatever your home crowd is thats the day thatjudge should step down from office. Applause supreme courtjustice ruth Bader Ginsburg. Well, last night, President Trump described the impeachment proceedings against him as an attempted coup by democrats. In a six page letter to the house speaker, nancy pelosi, he compared his treatment to that of the victims of the 17th century salem witch trials. In response to his comments, the mayor of salem, kim driscoll, tweeted that the president should learn some history. She pointed out that the witch trial convictions were made in the absence of evidence and resulted in innocent victims being killed. She then contrasted that with the case against the president , which she said involved ample evidence, with the perpetrators amongst the most powerful and privileged. Im joined by drjonathan parker, a senior lecturer of american politics at keele university. Good morning. Lets begin with that letter to President Trump has sent to nancy pelosi anti potosi has been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the constitution, including the right to give evidence. But he was invited, wasnt he, to give evidence to this impeachment hearing, so that is classic donald trump, isnt it . Yes, one of the charges as he obstructed congress in this investigation. Again, this is classic donald trump tactics. He is trying to call this an assault on democracy and he is trying to throw as much smoke and fire as he can at this and make it as partisan as possible. And what difference, ultimately, do you think thatis difference, ultimately, do you think that is going to make . As long as republicans are backing him, would it make any difference at all . Well, again, this is all a battle for public opinion. There is virtually no chance that donald trump will be removed as president by the senate and this is really a battle to try to get some standing with the public with the real action coming, that is the game everyone is playing for. The public is perfectly split unless animal republicans make it partisan and the more they keep their people in their own and the more they keep their people in theirown camp. And the more they keep their people in their own camp. Again, the public, a slight majority in favour of removing donald trump, but then the republicans have all stayed very loyal. His Approval Rating within his party is in the 90 percentiles. But what we will see unfolding today, this really is an historic day, isnt it . Oh, very much. Yes, this is only the third impeachment we have ever had historically. And again, it is a very serious moment constitutionally. But again, we will move to the senate trial in the new year. And the way in which donald trump of course is handling this process , trump of course is handling this process, he is unique among president s, isnt he, in the way he conducts himself when it comes to Something Like this . Well, again, we dont have very many historical precedents. Isnt too far from the way andrewjohnson behaved after the civil war, he fought with congress and made it a partisan battle and tried to obstruct them as much as possible, so there are parallels but you have to go back more than 100 yea rs you have to go back more than 100 years for that. 0k, in slightly longer in years past rather than in recent history. What do you think this is going to do, more broadly, to the electoral process in the us . Do you think donald trump can and will have another run for office . It certainly seems he will, but do you think it is going to damage him sufficiently that some in the court of public opinion, that some republicans in congress will begin to think that we need to be looking elsewhere . Well, there is absolutely no sign of that. His Approval Rating in the party is absolutely rock solid. And again, if you look at his Approval Rating in the nation can make it is not so popular. He has never been a particular popular president , but his base has stayed absolutely loyal and his Approval Rating has ticked up slightly during this process. 0k, doctorjonathan parker, thank you for your time today, at keele university. Scientists in denmark have extracted dna from a substance likened to ancient chewing gum and used it to recreate the appearance of a stone age woman who lived 6,000 years ago. The entire genetic code of the woman who has been nicknamed lola was decoded and used to work out what she might have looked like. Its the first time an entire ancient human genome has been extracted from anything other than human bone. Lolas dna was stuck in a lump of birch tar that she had chewed. Absolutely fascinating. Lets look at what you are reading and watching, number one on the most red is the warning from tony blair, who led labour to three election, general election victories, that u nless general election victories, that unless labour confronts its defeat in this general election, it will lead to electoral, huge electoral problem is being stored up ahead. Number two is australia and during the hottest record on hottest day on record. Number one on the most watched, a story we brought you a report on about and new Cancer Treatment being trialled which uses ultrasound waves to target chemotherapy at cancer tumours. Trying to avoid healthy cells around the tumour. Ngc karen cam of the first patient on this trail. This is being used to target a tumour on her leather and you can see karen, who is the first patient on this trail. Number four is who is the first patient on this trail. Numberfour is a who is the first patient on this trail. Number four is a fascinating story about a pianist, Award Winning, now 21, he has played around europe and he is in his third year at the prestigious Guildhall School of music. But it all began by him teaching himself how to play using a paper keyboard that he had made. This is when he was 11. His family didnt have the money to buy a piano. So he made himself a paper keyboard, which he practised on using a computer to listen to music, and it got him through his first five grades with distinction. Eventually, he got a piano. Wonderful story. Thats it for todays morning briefing. Iam going i am going to have a little sip of water. Excuse me. Breaking news now on inflation. The office for National Statistics said the Consumer Price index rate was 1. 5 in november, so no change from 0ctober. That news just in. Sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. And i can have more water to drink yes, you can take a proper break now. The big talking points from the world of sport. Lets start with an historical night at the darts, where englands Fallon Sherrock become the first woman to win a match at the pdc World Championship at ally pally last night. After coming from behind to beat tedd evetts, she says she did it for the girls, and proved that women can play the men and beat them. I had a chat with her on bbc breakfast a little earlier. It is just it isjust singing in a it is just singing in a little it isjust singing in a little bit more now. The realisation is hitting me now. Im still speechless about it. Im so over the moon about it. Took us through what happened last night. It wasnt the easiest of matches for you, was it, because you had to come from behind to win last night . Yes, i mean, tedd played so well last night, but ijust kept with him. Ijust kept going and going and going. But i would rather have a game like that than a lesser game so have a game like that than a lesser game so i am really proud of my performance last night. And you will done by huge there, some some 3,000 or so done by huge there, some some 3,000 orso in done by huge there, some some 3,000 or so in there supporting you you we re or so in there supporting you you were well done. Tedd alluded to that of your victory last night, didnt he . Yes, the crowd were amazing last night and he . Yes, the crowd were amazing last nightandi he . Yes, the crowd were amazing last night and i thank every one of them. The crowd gave me a boost in confidence and i relaxed and itjust made me play better so i really appreciate all of them last night. Amazing pictures there of the fans packed into what you. You said afterwards on social media that you did it for the girls. Is that some think you were aware of, what you have done . We have spoken so much about significant moments in womens sport and this victory, your victory last night, is going to be up there alongside those. Yes, i mean, definitely. I am so proud of myself to help put womens darts especially on the map now. There was a his criticism women couldnt compete against the man, we werent good enough, so the fact i have just proved it wrong. In any sport, i think women can prove themselves, we can beat the men, wejust need more opportunities. What macro pays her second round on saturday. Fallon sherrock. Two games, two continents in less than two days. Its a crazy 2a hours for liverpool, as the fixtures mount up. With the senior squad in qatar, liverpool fielded their youngest side in history against aston villa in the quarter finals of the league cup last night and were well beaten Jonathan Kodja scoring twice, as wesley rounded off a 5 0 win for villa. But that result unsurprising, with liverpool priortising the Club World Cup. The senior squad watched that match last night in doha, which is where we can join 0lly foster. Liverpool play monteray later, hoping to reach saturdays final. Its such a busy time for the team with this fixture congestion. It really is, we are right next door to the Liverpool Team hotel, they said they would stay out late, i wonder how many of them went to bed at half time. I didnt sign up for this, winter sun, they said, a rainy day, liverpool have brought the british weather with them. It is a big day for cattle, their national day, they have had flybys and parades and the rain. That was the condition is livable change in last night. Virgil van dijk is ok. We knelt and will not be ok. The full strength squad here, a strange situation, says full strength squad here, a strange situation, sasturgen full strength squad here, a strange situation, says jurgen klopp, full strength squad here, a strange situation, sasturgen klopp, but they are proud to be representing europe. They are the european champions, monterrey other central and north american champions from mexico, they spoke eloquently yesterday in a media session saying this is a huge opportunity for them to go out against what they consider to go out against what they consider to be the best club side in the world. Liverpool know what is waiting for them in the final on saturday also at the khalifa stadium. We saw flamengo played last night against the asia cup windows winners. They came behind the brazilian and south american champions, but their fans brazilian and south american champions, but theirfans have been fantastic. They are everywhere in doha, about 30,000 of them really enjoying themselves. And they will really enjoy getting through to that final as well. So that is who is waiting for liverpool. That would be a grand occasion. But they are focused, as they have been all season, and it has served them well, on the here and now, jurgen klopp says, and that is monterrey this evening, a half past eight local pick up, high pass five with you. The semifinals of the Club World Cup. Live in doha, many thanks indeed. And you can watch that life on bbc two and on the iplayer. If liverpool get there, they have the right to call themselves the best club in europe. Lets stay with liverpool because the red bull salzburg wingertakumi minamino is going to have a medical with them today. Here he is scoring forjapan at the world cup in 2016. Hell join liverpool on january 1st when the transfer window opens, and they re paying just over £7 million for him. The former arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said that fans will have to give mikel arteta time to adapt, if hes named the new boss at the emirates. Arsenal are in talks with manchester city, where arteta is currently assistant to pep guardiola. He is expected to be in the dugout when city play 0xford in the league cup tonight. Wenger says arteta has the qualities to succeed. But he will be given the time if and when that appointment comes. Thats all the sport for now. Printable throughout the day. Thank you very much. Plenty more throughout the day. Former Prime Minister tony blair is warning that labour will be replaced as a serious Political Force if it tries to in his words whitewash the scale of its election defeat. He got involved in a question and a nswer he got involved in a question and answer session after his speech. 0ur assistant Political Editor, norman smith, is in westminster. You said you have never heard such a strident speech from mr blair on the subject of how the labour party is doing currently. No, and there will bea doing currently. No, and there will be a backlash against it, of course there will. Carbonates will condemn, revile tony blair. No surprises there, and mr blair knows that, he knows his intervention will probably be dismissed by many in the labour party. But that is not what he is about. I think he is trying to open up about. I think he is trying to open upa genuine about. I think he is trying to open up a genuine debate. In other words, to ensure in the aftermath of labours worst defeat since 1935, they dont all sit around with a little nip and took here, a little bit of a change here come without really addressing the scale of what has happened. And mr blairs analysis is the scale of defeat now threatens the very future and survival of the labour party. But under survival of the labour party. But undeer survival of the labour party. But under mr corbyn, it has travelled so far away from electability, that if it carries arm on that trajectory, thenit it carries arm on that trajectory, then it will never be returned to government and it will be replaced by another force, another party, he doesnt identify you as the alternatives to the conservatives. So his analysis is a pretty dark one. Either the party because back from the corbyn agenda or it is over. This is a moment in the labour partys history. It is not like any election defeat labour has ever had. This is a moment when it has got to re engineer aggressive social democratic politics, and it can lead to that or over time, it will be replaced. Because there is too much Political Energy that is not conservative. In a question and a nswer conservative. In a question and answer session, he was asked how he would characterise the current period of reflection in the labour party and he said his fear was it was like everyone are sitting around ina was like everyone are sitting around in a living room and they were saying all the lights were flickering a bit, the furniture is looking a bit frayed or the crockery is not quite right, when there is a great big elephant sitting on grandma in the middle of the room. In other words, the partys far left, or to sectarian policies as he describes them, and it is those policies which he says whoever takes over as leader, must as a minimum start to address if the party is even to begin on the road back to power. The takeover of the labour party by the far left turned it into a glorified protest movement with culture trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible movement. The result has brought shame on us. We let our country down. To go into an election at any time with such a divergence between party and people is unacceptable. To do it at a time of national crisis, when a credible opposition is so essential to the national interest, is unforgivable. Where, or how does what tony blair is saying feed into the discussion going on within labour about the leadership contest and who should eventually succeed Jeremy Corbyn . Tony blair was asked who he would like to be leader and he said it would not be wise to give an answer because he knows whoever he backs is probably dead as a dodo and has no chance of being elected. That probably applies to a number of the candidates as well. They know they cannot be seen to even have the remotest whiff of blairism about them because that would also mean their prospects took a nosedive. I think his view is that if the leadership candidates cannot openly articulate these arguments, then others do have to start raising the question about how the party is going to find a route back to being an alternative government. And what is striking about the debate so far, we know rebecca long bailey is almost certainly going to be the continuity corbyn candidate. Keir starmer has put his head above the parapet today. But his message is fairly new ones, he is not criticising Jeremy Corbyn or the ma nifesto criticising Jeremy Corbyn or the manifesto or momentum. Fairly nuanced. He doesnt think the party should have a steer back to the centre ground. I suspect that will disappoint some mps who think the plight of the party is much greater than he suggests. But the difficulty is to get any chance in this race, you have to win the backing of the membership, who are overwhelmingly still proud Jeremy Corbyn. So you have to strike a very careful message and you cannot go out there like tony blair has done and simply wiped the floor with Jeremy Corbyn and corbynism. 0k, norman, thank you very much. A court in tokyo has ordered a prominent tvjournalist to pay just under £23,000 in damages to a woman who accused him of rape in 2017. Shiori ito, a film maker and activist broke her silence in 2017 and was seeking compensation from noriyuki yamaguchi. Mariko 0i has more details. Well, the amount he was ordered to pay in damages is not a lot, but this is a landmark case, because its highly unusual for people injapan to speak up that theyve been raped. In fact, the authorities estimate that only 4 of them came forward in 2017. And thats way shiori became the face ofjapans media movement, especially because the man who shes accusing of rape is a very high profile journalist. He denies any wrongdoing, saying that the sex was consensual, that he had to take her back to his hotel room because she was too drunk. Shiori also faced a lot of abuse online. Remarks like, why did you go out for dinner with him, wasnt it what you were wearing . I guess things that rape victims in other parts of the world also face. But she went ahead with the civil case. Its not a criminal case, so its not like mr yamaguchi will be arrested or go to jail. But nevertheless, it is a victory for her. Lets return to that lovely story amongst our most watch watched today. Learning to play a Musical Instrument is a great thing for a child to do growing up especially if they are keen to learn. But it can be expensive, putting it beyond the reach of some families. When 11 year old andrew garridos mother said they simply couldnt afford a piano, he was determined to find a way to follow his dream. My name is andrew garrido. Im an Award Winning pianist and musician and, fewer than ten years ago, i learnt how to play the piano on pieces of paper. This is my paper piano, the third version i drew. I started learning to play the piano on paper because my mum had just been made redundant and, lacking funds to afford an instrument or piano lessons, i went online and i drew a keyboard. So, i played on the pieces of paper, guided by sounds i was hearing on the computer. But after a while, ijust began to hear those notes in my head. I used the paper piano between grades one and grade five, after which, my mum saw my commitment, so she borrowed money from family and friends to pay for a keyboard that i could have at home. But i still had to continue to practise on real pianos, so often, i would go round to local houses who had pianos and i was allowed to practise for an hour or so a week on those. And i began a tour of practice rooms. Im now in my third of four years on my current course at the Guildhall School of music and drama and im loving it, i really am. Im alongside many people, i think, who have come from more affluent background, i think its fair to say. And when they had the opportunity to study music, they started very young. They studied with very fine instruments and very fine teachers. And it meant they were best placed to go for the opportunities that all of us were going after. I made a mistake i made a mistake on the paper piano you make mistakes, thats the thing i dont think theres ever been a greater challenge than playing on pieces of paper. Looking back, having done that, im quite ready to face any other challenges that come my way now. Never underestimate what youre able to do, and if you think youre at the limit of what youre able to do, try harder. He laughs you can always give more, and youll be surprised at what youre able to achieve when you really search inside yourself for that willpower, for that strength, to achieve what you really, really want to go for. Fabulous story. Andrew garrido. The second series of killing eve has been the biggest show of the year so far on the bbc iplayer. The spy thriller notched up 40. 4 million views on the streaming platform. Thats about 13 million more than line of duty, in second place. Peaky blinders fifth series was the third biggest, with 26. 6 million requests. Now, christmas may be a time of good will, but we all know that when you have all the family round, tempers can sometimes become frayed. Well, now your Smart Speaker can act as peacemaker. Amazon says it has has programmed its alexa devices to change the subject during family arguments. When you ask it to step in, itll ask you questions like what would your superpower be and why . , and whether jam or cream should be added to a scone first, or who your celebrity crush is. The idea is, the new conversation starters will help you forget all about your quarrel. Lets see time now for the weather forecast. Simon king is here. Good morning. It has been a rather foggy and frosty start to the day. That fog lifts and clears away for many of us, brighter skies developing the afternoon. But into the west, it will turn wet and windy. All because of this really quite big area of low pressure dominating the weather through today. Area of low pressure dominating that will bring these weather systems further east and the white lines show the isobars quite close together, so a strengthening wind in the west as well. The rain moves through Northern Ireland into western scotland, wales and south west england. Further east, the fog may be a bit stubborn to clear away from eastern areas, but there will be some brighter skies. Maximum temperatures down the east coast 5 9, 8 11 further west. By this evening, the wind really strengthens, gusts of 60 or 70 mph around exposed coastal areas, 50 60mph gusts further england. Those winds can strengthen with more of the Western Areas of Northern Ireland, rain spreads eastwards. But it will be a much milder night compared to the last few nights. Certainly frost free. Those temperatures will be up at about 9 11d on thursday morning. During thursday, we still have this broad area of low pressure towards the west. Still, these weather systems straddled across the uk, but the winds coming in from the south, so we will continue to lose the frosts and it will be milder for many of us for the end of the week. On thursday, rain across southern areas were gradually move northwards, after a bright start across scotland, Northern Areas of england and Northern Areas, rain eventually spreads its way in late in the day. Some dry interludes before further showers, those could be on the heavy side on thursday afternoon. Look at those temperatures, 10 13, maybe even 14 degrees. And we keep these weather systems and this broad area of low pressure going into friday. Further rain spreading in from the south during the day. Again, that could be quite heavy at at times during friday for england and wales. Rain eventually pushes into scotland. Further south, a bit drier and brighter into the afternoon. There could be one or two showers around. Temperatures, 10 11 celsius in the south, maybe coming down a few degrees in Northern Areas, 8 9d celsius. After a fairly quiet start to the week, the end of the week is looking much more unsettled, but it will be mild for many of us and today is certainly the last day of the frosts for this year. Goodbye. Hello, its wednesday, its 10 oclock, im Victoria Derbyshire, and were live from new broadcasting house. Homeowners who say theyve been forced to pay tens of thousands of pounds extra on their mortgages because theyre being held prisoner in bad deals, are suing the firms they say are responsible. I was having to work two jobs, late at night, getting home at 11 oclock at night. Travelling about, working really hard. And bridling that our friends were able to do all sorts of things that we couldnt do. We couldnt understand and it was putting a great strain on our marriage why we couldnt do the same as other people could do. 25 year old mum of one Fallon Sherrock was a professional hairdresser four years ago. Now shes just made history in the world of darts,