It is began an 8 day strike over pay pensions and working conditions members of the University and College Union say staff of reach breaking point and that after the strike they'll work to rule universities say they'll do everything they can to lessen the impact during a stoppage by union members last year there were calls from some students for financial compensation many students support this year's action but some are worried that I've paid so much money and to have basically a week written off of my course so it's not what I want my money back and happen to my undergrads I had no distaste and 8 to 6 weeks which I think back to my final mark considerably safer to be happening again is just really annoying Labor has announced plans to improve conditions for tenants in privately owned accommodation and introduce a charter of renters rights if it wins the general election the party said it wanted to take on dodgy landlords who exported the housing crisis to charge on a watering rents his case he Prescott in England a 5th of households live in privately rented accommodation Labor says it wants to improve affordability standards and security for these tenants it's proposing to introduce rent controls so rent couldn't be raised more than the rate of inflation and could be curbed even further in areas with high housing costs tenancy agreements would be open ended rather than for a fixed period landlords would need to conduct an annual property check and could only evict people on tightly defined grounds such as not paying their rent but the residential landlords Association argues that this would devastate the private rental market driving landlords out of the sector a 2nd the cinema chain has cancelled its screenings of a film about South London gangs Blue story after violence broke out of the cinema in Birmingham which was showing it 7 police officers were injured as they attempted to break up a brawl on Saturday 6 teenagers have been arrested showcases followed the view cinema chain and announcing that it is pulling the fill it said safety was its top priority. The top civilian in the us Navy Richard Spencer has been fired in Iraq are over handling of a disciplinary case involving an officer accused of war crimes in Iraq last week President Trump said the Navy wouldn't be allowed to strip any Gallagher of his membership of the elite Navy SEALs from Washington our correspondent Chris popular Eddie Gallaher was accused of killing a member of the Islamic state group he was in American custody he was acquitted of that charge but find guilty of posing with the prisoner's corpse and demoted as a result President Trump intervened and restored his rank but the chief petty officer with an informed he would have to face a need to review board and could be dismissed from the SEALs the Navy's elite special operations team Mr Trump said that would not happen on nights the Navy secretary Richard Spencer who has lost his job. The inventor of the World Wide Web So Tim Berners Lee is launching a global action plan for the Internet to try to combat threats such as the spread of misinformation and online Harrison and his contract for the web search 9 Principles for governments companies and individuals in an interview with the b.b.c. So Tim warned of a digital dystopia and said Facebook should ban targeted political advertising 10 years ago if you go out to the street enough people or from where they say nothing great now people are worried about privacy people are worried about what happens to their data in a way get this money plated they'll know what information to trust a 70 year old British man and his Filipino wife who were abducted in the Philippines last month have been freed during a military operation Alan and Wilma Hiren's were seized on the southern island of Mindanao by militants and lied with the Islamic state group the Foreign Office advises Britons against all travel to the area the couple the now undergoing medical checks the time is 6 minutes past 6 let's get the weather forecast Chris Fox is standing by at the b.b.c. Weather Center only Chris good morning Michelle an area of low pressure to the west of Ireland continues to bring critically mild air across the Cape it's also cloudy skies most of us will see some rain at some point today as well we'll start off with the weather picture across southwest England and Wales where we do have some heavy rain working in at the moment I would think it would slow the Brighton a pass through the afternoon with the risk of further showers so staying unsettled it will be mild though temperatures of 13 degrees in both Clay math and Cardiff as well for southeast England the Midlands eastern England and Northern counts of England breaks the rain working across the middle and into northern England today I would think it will turn down for a time across the eastern England and southeast England as well so Cloudy with rain at times best sums it up temperatures today $10.00 to $12.00 degrees Celsius in Northern Ireland it's also a cloudy start with outbreaks of rain here it probably will stay pretty cloudy today with the threat. Further rain into the afternoon temperatures 11 degrees Celsius Meanwhile in Scotland it's a murky start to the day with the mist and fog packages particularly in eastern Scotland it was quite murky for example around Edinburgh at the moment for most is a cloudy start we have some showers pushing in this morning as well a low be bright for a time in Northern Scotland I think generally will see thick a cloud working in through the day with more general outbreaks of rain spreading into southern and central Scotland later on temperatures today around 9 or 10 degrees Celsius it stays unsettled overnight and into tomorrow with more rain in the forecast and a zone of strong winds tomorrow affecting quails and also southwest England oscillators whether they are much 7 minutes past 6 quick look at the front pages of the papers most of them dominated by the can serve as manifesto announcements as you would expect the Guardian not impressed the scale of the difference in spending ambitions between the 2 parties is now Stark it says on its front page for every pound the conservatives have pledged to spend by the end of the next parliament Labor has promised 28 pounds for the Financial Times says the Tory manifesto as in the words of its headline a low risk pitch to voters the Daily Mail is very pleased good sense vs nonsense it says virus delivers practical plan for thousands more nurses tax cuts in a bricks and boost and the sun as you would expect follows pretty much that same line Mary Bracks most unhappy blue year is its headline the nurse's line also on the front page of the Igs breasts the mirror says Hair lies the Tory manifesto and lies and lies also on the front page of The Guardian revealed China's vast camps for minorities This is because the Guardian is among the journalists who've got a set of documents classified government papers call the China cables will be the subject of a b.b.c. Panorama programme that is on tonight The Guardian says it reveals the internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to detain at least a 1000000 people from the nation's Muslim minorities it's the. Official blimps says the paper into the structured daily life an ideological framework behind centers in north west and Shin Jang region that have provoked international condemnation China says that the documents are false and the entry confirmed entry of the weekend of America's 8th wealthiest man into the presidential election on behalf of the Democrats is cross the front page of The Times billionaire business Michael Bloomberg Times announced a later tempt to unseat President Trump next year hoping to emerge from a crowded field his entry to the race dismissed by the White House as a sign of the weakness of the other potential Democratic candidate more on Prince Andrew it's their lead in The Daily Mirror and also the son says that his elusive friend given Maxwell is ready to come out of hiding and lift the lid on their links to Jeffrey Epstein's also told The Sun she said to defend herself and the prince the time is just going at 10 past 61 of the great claims of pro Beijing politicians in Hong Kong has been that most Hong Kong people don't want the protests and don't approve of them well there have been an elections an actual test of that Jonathan Head is South Asia correspondent is on the line what happened John from. Well it went very wrong for the government and for China in the end the record turnout and there was no doubt in the minds of all the people we spoke to outside polling stations that this was not just a local election they were voting on the government's handling of the protests the votes of perhaps not quite as divided as the result shows the sort of 1st Past the Post local council system but the opposition have swept nearly 90 percent of the seats in local councils that they've never controlled before they were previously pretty much all held by pro-government parties the chief executive Kerry Lam has taken a stunning rebuke with this result it's a clear vote of no confidence from a wide variety of Hong Kong as all ages came out to vote yesterday a look a vote of no confidence in the Howard Government the these are district council actions so they don't in themselves have a great deal of power but control of them will give the opposition a bigger say over the future choice of the next Hong Kong leader after Kerry lamb and a lot of people are looking at this blow to have prestige and she's taken a number of course over the course of these protests are wondering really how long can Beijing keep her there they would expect that she might have to be moved quite so you do you think it's likely that the protests now pulls or does it just give further heart to those who've been protesting and make them want to get back on the streets with even greater force. Well it depends how the government responds and particularly how China responds I mean I've just been out right in the commercial hearts the sort of retail heart of Kong Kong in Central and we've just seen a flash mob of office workers coming out to find the riot police who tried to corral them and chanting the protesters demands you know 5 demands not one less that we which we've heard over the last 5 months I think it's given new momentum that to the protest movement we're expecting some of those victorious opposition candidates who remember many young activists themselves who never had a political position before to go down to the university which was besieged last week where a small number of protesters are still holed up in a show of solidarity so there's no doubt the the victorious opposition alliance it's quite a disparate group who've come together to win this election have aligned themselves with the protesters and will continue to do so the protests are not over everything depends on whether the government is willing to make concessions now and whether China will let them join the net thank you 12 minutes past 6 Michael Bloomberg has entered the race to become the Democratic challenger to President Trump next year is there any chance he could win Chris Booker is our correspondent in Washington. Well he obviously believes he has a chance because he said that as far as he was concerned he wouldn't get involved in this unless he believed those on the stage already hoping to be the Democratic candidates did not have the chance to beat Donald Trump and it is very clear from the campaign that he has launched that he is setting himself up as an untidy Trump counted at a moments to see this as a battle of the billionaires and certainly Mr Trump has said time and time again he's quite happy to take on Michael Bloomberg he refers to him as little Michael and he has a couple of advantages 1st of all he has got name recognition he's known because of his time as New York City mayor he also has a great deal of wealth which is incredibly important in the United States because these political campaigns just cost so much money even in launching this presidential campaign and he has spent more than $30000000.00 just on buying votes but I have to say his big problem is is that the Democrats might be looking for something different I think given that they are trying to get President Trump out of the White House do they want to put another white billionaire in the seventy's into us I'm not sure they do and certainly if you take a look at some of the statements that have come from candidates like Bernie Sanders they are saying that they aren't going to let Michael Bloomberg buy the selection and it's also quite an interesting strategy I guess risky strategy to miss out the 1st 4 states in the in the primary battlegrounds Yeah he wants to come in for Super Tuesday but this is the argument I suppose for Michael Bloomberg he is trying to say that he has got national recognition and therefore he will fight it almost on a national basis but you're right and I mean the other thing is he's very late to these this whole campaign and I mean there have already been several Democratic the bears in which people have been up on the stage setting out what they want to do and trying to get their name recognized he is coming in. 2 polls that have already got people in 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th playoffs and all of a sudden he's going to try and cull through that will be expensive but I suppose you could argue he's got the money to do that Chris Buckley in Washington thank you but I'm quarter past 6 the Conservative manifesto doesn't contain many new big spending pledges and doesn't contain any big tax rises either. With that's not news I suppose and the rest of his d.c. Has done or possibly needs if your tax dollars and has promised what he calls a triple tax look no increase on the headline rate of income tax or national insurance or the 80 for 5 years and while there were no big spending plans it's worth remembering the Conservatives have already announced quite big spending increases on the n.h.s. Schools and the police later on be talking about the takeover of Tiffany the luxury jeweler just $16000000000.00 expected to happen today and in the wake of Black Friday the business of sending your online purchases back where they came from but the manifesto 1st a Conservative manifesto Paul Johnson is director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Good morning Mr Johnson No no new big spending pages but of course if you can make a couple of months who are quite big spending pledges on the number of subjects yes we're seeing something like 13000000000 pounds worth of spending increases next year big increases for the n.h.s. And some pretty big increases for schools and the n.h.s. The schools will continue to see rises over the couple of years after that it was interesting about the manifesto yesterday as it didn't really add anything significant on top of that and I suppose the implication is that going by that manifesto most public services won't see much in the way of increases over the next 4 or 5 years can we can the conservatives then say that this is an end to austerity which is what they were talking about when they announced those spending pledges a couple of months ago in the sense that we've turned the corner that most more indeed all. Blick services are only the seeing some increases or no further cuts they didn't then yes that's an endorser actually in that sense but most areas will still have considerably lower spending than they had back in 2010 now the n.h.s. In particular is a big exception to that West spending on the n.h.s. Is way higher than it was a decade ago and. You said the was the was going to be extra spending next year from the from the things that had already been announced with that money coming from if there aren't going to be any new taxes. We're seeing we're seeing borrowing right rise a bit so boring next year will be about $50000000000.00 pounds about 2 percent of national income which is about well limit that the government set itself and I think the reason we didn't see anything in the manifesto yesterday is that 1st the concert is clearly don't want to raise tax and 2nd they set themselves a fiscal target to only borrow to invest only borrowing to invest means they can make a borrow about 2 percent national income something like that and with pretty much that if your if you've got that borrowing target and you don't want to raise taxes even really very little room for maneuver in terms of extra spending on day to day things one of the big news from labor the weekend was the a commitment to pay a woman who had lost out from an increase in the state pension age to so-called waspy women $58000000000.00 pounds do you agree with that rough costing is how much it would cost to pay what the indicated Well let's hope it isn't any more because that is a very very large sum of money indeed a very interesting things about Lot Wally's the sheer scale of it and of course it immediately breaks the promises they paid in their benefits to just last week to only to borrow to invest so they would be even more than their $80000000000.00 pounds of time tax rises if they wanted to cover that and the other I suppose is just a statement of priorities or to some extent lack of praties because there's so much money for so many things but but they're not finding money to for example. Reverse the welfare cuts for genuinely poor people of working Asian Of course while some of these waspy would really have suffered hardship as a result of not realizing that this pension age increase was happening all that was announced back in the early nineties nineties many of them are actually quite well off thank you very much Paul Johnson director for the Institute for Fiscal Studies when markets gets this morning is fairness and culture has a market analyst at Citi index fairness thing with Amenophis those 2 big companies from National Grid and see the former Scottish and Southern Energy have decided going to move the holding companies offshore Switzerland Luxembourg and Hong Kong and it's all to do with the Labor manifesto just talk us through this yes this is to do or even to do with nationalization and neighbors plans to to nationalize certain sectors that companies and the idea being that sort of national greatness as they would set up holding companies in these. In these areas in order to rely on the international treaties and the it would this wouldn't necessarily prevent nationalisation but it does mean that shareholders would get the best compensation possible. As far as the when so we have treaties with these with these individual countries Switzerland Hong Kong whatever it is and the companies of Goldney because they realize that much be a better protection for their shareholders or Lonnie's treaties than what might happen in the u.k. As ironic if that's exactly true is that I mean that could push the price up again they all of these of the of the firms if that if Labor would actually have to base a full whack for for Sched. But the other thing to bear in mind here they were not just talking about the private shareholders these the pension funds as well say this is a nationalization of these firms would actually affect. Of quite a broad sector of society and Lissa move to the luxury jewelry market l v m h the French luxury. It's Company leave it's the owner of the beetle is this morning expected to buy Tiffany jewelers American jewels for about $16000000000.00 but more if you include the dent Why would you want to buy a Tiffany his slightly fall on hard times in recent years when you bought would you go to Tiffany to buy Unix I don't agree I'm not sure I would I think it's I think a one off but with this the big question isn't one of people not being going to yeah I think that's just them it's just a change of brand image maybe or how it's being perceived just a changing of the times and it's not quite keeping up my Especially with the millennial and the sun is suffering to attract Millennial. It just needs a reboot every beast and every brand I think is what we're looking at and what while we know much more for you know luxury suitcases for example Lou Vito it has been a been amazing job turning around buggery and making it into a really big jewelry brand when it was falling on hard times before that's right this I mean this is something the. Appears to do very well will have bought in 2011 operating margins of just 8 percent in sales of 1100000000 in a fast forward to 2018 and that sales of 2200000000 a month in the 25 percent say this is a real turnaround story is something that there was did very well I want to give another guy also don't forget that Tiffany and that prime retail estate they and their friendship store in the us in New York it's mom just briefly if you own a big day today for its London Lawson's is going to be the sort of the I've got a 2 month extension and September and today's the day with it finds that I can continue to almost hard to imagine London with it even now it's been here it's been a fixture for a long time and it is I mean this would go I think would go if they if they did lose it would gauge for appeal and they would almost certainly be allowed to continue operating lost it went through a pale but there is this thought as well supposing they did lose the a pail and that Bill was withdrawn from London I mean that would have a pretty serious impact on the share price but here in La. And I think they would be competition that would fill that void quite quickly. I don't think we're going to be without an error thank you very much fairness and culture from city and it's Black Friday is upon us and much as you might have tried to ignore the marketing blitz many people attempted to buy into buying online but what happens when you don't want what you receive and you have to send it back while looking after the returns of things bought online is becoming an industry itself it's the weighted perhaps of guestimated that next year 50000000 items bought online will be returned one of the specialists in this in this world is rebound return and its chief executive Graham base is in our commentary she did Good Morning is the best Can you give us an idea what is there an easy metric what proportion of things bought online induct being returned depends Good morning depends on the industry I think. Probably the bid the biggest challenges in his online fashion apparel where you've got 25 percent up returns quarter of all things that return absolutely one in 4 so it's a pretty big challenge for retailers and it says it's currently you know pretty much a blind spot where so how do retailers handle it says have the big players like a sauce do they do it all themselves that come back to their warehouses or do they outsource it to someone like you and allow you to sort of bring some order to it that's that's what it's really an outsourcing decision I mean they want to be part of the process because they need to decide if it's you know on policy if it's a free return or what services in which country to use except for but essentially we do the heavy lifting for them so they can concentrate on really the customer experience and just making sure that they combine I guess buying behavior with returns behavior from a data point of view so they get a much better insight into. What keep rates they can target because we you know we have a saying basically it's not sold in 2 you've kept it or wherever the truth online fashion and but what about harvesting the data presume. If you if you're on top of the returns you can tell them which lines are being returned and which ones are sticking as it were that's exactly right I think the data the 2 types of data for us there's a sort of normal transactional data which is we know what's coming by you know what's coming back from where and why they return reason I think increasingly. We need to look at analytical data so sort of predictive modeling etc I'm as opposed to sort of driving for you know with a review mirror stop in a little bit more proactive about targeting the right products at the right customer so the optimizer turns rather than prevent them what do you see what's the what's the nuts and bolts the returns business at some stage is there a person involved looking at the item to say Ok go back to the warehouse to be sold again or or is it more out automated than that it's fairly complex actually I mean mentioned earlier in the program where I guess we're a common equivalent model model we have a global platform with all sorts of services on the platform I don't own d.h.l. But I integrate d.h.l. Services and others around the world. It's really about choice it's about given a consumer lots of confidence that they can buy from anywhere to anywhere and consumers obviously care about their refund 1st and foremost from a retailer point of view it's really about was ability so if we can put all those services together on one platform allows them to disk in sunny access any consumer in the world from returns perspective confidence and just very briefly what about fraud returns you know you hear about people buying online fashion we're wearing it once and then sitting straight back is fraudulent activity a big big issue gets a lot of airplay if you look at the data and we do a lot of data and research as part of what we're doing the source sharing this knowledge I mean Trojan returns in fashion are probably less than 2 percent I think there's a misconception about fraud versus a serial return as 0 to 0 attorneys can actually turn out to be the most profitable customers because they're returning so much over time. In that they actually get to understand this so it's fit in shape so we're quo grama have to live if we're bit tight on time thanks much Graham bass from rebound written. Thanks so much to my daughter the serial return of the stories that daddy has to get the post office anyway 26 minutes past 6 and his role in the school is just in Good Morning Well maybe you're waking up hoping to hear the thing and of Save the 1st Test against New Zealand in Mt Maunganui when you're about to be disappointed Why goes on his way up he goes now bowls always a full toss and of all the birds all because the thing here in New Zealand one Congratulations New Zealand it's only the 3rd time you've beaten England by an innings and that is quite. An innings and $65.00 runs to be precise where they've been bowled out in the 2nd innings for $197.00 with about an hour and a half of play remaining and they were responding of course to the home side 615 for 9 declared in their 1st innings that included 205 from b.j. Watling and 126 from Mitchell send up his name account and Joe Root you look at the 2 innings comparison and the difference been they had a guy going to get double injured in 100 and we had 3 guys make very good fifties we just got to make sure that one of those does make it really can and the other one backs up a 1000000000 if we have 45500 on the board that's one less wicket to gave us a lot more pressure on the other side serving the go to the 2nd Test in Hamilton later this week one nil down in the 2 match series Meanwhile quite a game at Bramall Lane as the United's of Sheffield in Manchester delivered a 3 all draw Sheffield lead to Neil early in the 2nd half only for the visitors to reply with 3 goals in just 7 minutes but then came a late Sheffield equaliser examined but ultimately allowed by v.a. Here the 2 managers are they going to solve the 1st Sheffield United scris wild crumble we had a little change in the shape and. Again when the boys have got that they've got that in in abundance and and we will need that through the season half time when you will know down there is you've got to get new players you've got to get them wanting it you've got to get there. And then when you're to know the one. You fear the worst and that was avoided but Sheffield United the 6th in the Premier League this morning Manchester United 9th and in the Scottish Premiership Rangers won 31 at Hamilton to stay level with the leaders Celtic while women Super League leaders Chelsea won 6 nil at Birmingham the other lines include a big day for Spain with tennis as well number one rough on the down guiding his country to the Davis Cup title in Madrid they be counted in the final while John rom one gulf European Tour season long Race to Dubai he made a birdie told win the Tour Championship by one shot in as Tommy Fleetwood finished 18 under one shot behind to Canton 340 number 2 storm rising Ludlow 350 also number 2 artichoke hot thanks for of. Sound Music radio podcasts. Is a good guy great to me and he's got a podcast to tell you just how good he is many people on the women's March is I was I actually completed in the fastest time exploring issues like finish inclusive and the environment could go wrong so you were cancelled Yes like I. Want you to know he is not man on his new podcast cleverly titled. Is not man. To free b.b.c. Sounds happy to listen. You're listening to today on Radio 4 with Justin Webb and Michelle Hussein and at half past 6 a summary of the news from Chris Aldridge pro-democracy candidates have won a landslide victory in Hong Kong's local elections reports in the Territory say the opposition has won control of 17 of the 18 councils the election was seen as a test of support for Hong Kong's rulers after months of unrest the chief executive Kerry said the government would seriously reflect on the results and that she hoped the current peaceful safe and orderly situation could continue. Lecturers and support staff at 60 universities are beginning an 8 day strike over pay pensions and working conditions the University and College Union says more than half of academics are on temporary contracts and salaries have fallen dramatically more than a 1000000 students face disruption the institutions affected say they're working to lessen the impact of the industrial action Labor has announced plans to improve conditions for tenants in privately owned accommodation and introduce a charter of renters rights if it wins the general election the party said a quarter of all privately rented homes were either damp cold in disrepair or unsafe to live in a 2nd national cinema are change showcases join view in stopping all showings of the British gang film Blue story 7 police officers were injured in a disturbance during a screening of the film in Birmingham on Saturday showcase insisted that the safety of customers was its top priority 6 teenagers have been arrested the u.s. Navy secretary Richard Spencer has been fired over his handling of a Special Forces officer accused of war crimes the Navy Seal involved Edward Gallaher was convicted of posing for a photo alongside the corpse of an Islamic state fighter Donald Trump had intervened in the case reversing a decision to demote the officer. The inventor of the World Wide Web Search Tim Berners Lee is launching a global action plan for the Internet to try to stamp our political manipulation fake news and privacy violations Facebook and Google have signed up to his contract for the web which asks governments companies and individuals to promote technologies that support the best in humanity the time is now 28 minutes to 7 Don't rock the boat seems to have been the order of the day for the Conservative manifesto launched with 2 and a half weeks to go of the election Norman split our assistant political editor is on the line what did you make of it Norman Well I thought it was a remarkably unambitious document if you put breaks it to one side and although Boris Johnson's often accused of being a very untypical Tory that is sort of rumbustious bruising smashed the crockery kind of approach is out of keeping with the traditions and culture of the Conservative Party actually this manifesto seems to me to be a very very small c traditional Conservative manifesto so there is no big vision thing no big idea for the country there are no big toe to make policies no big spending pledges no big surprises really beyond the highly contested claim to recruit $50000.00 nurses most sense that the sort of scourges of our time going to be confronted I suppose most pertinently social care which once again I think many people think is being dogged and really we don't seem any further forward than we were 10 or 15 years ago and broadly it's a manifesto which I suspect pretty much any Tory leader of the past 50 years barring Mrs Thatcher could have signed up to given no doubt it is still overshadowed by that under clap of change of bricks it which they say they'll deliver by January 2020 which of course means leaving the e.u. Not the rest of it it does. I mean it's true to say I think that the driving narrative of Boris Johnson in this manifesto and in this campaign is just that one simple thought let's get it done and I think in part that explains why this is such a cautious manifesto because they simply don't want any noises off distracting from that central narrative and of course you know they don't want any repeat of Mrs May's catastrophic manifesto launch and I think privately take they take the view that they are within striking distance of victory so why take any risks it doesn't mean all of that there's an ever clearer distinction in terms of spending plans between the Conservatives and Labor and in fact labor added to its spending promises yesterday but I mean it Strawberry the Gulf in the scale of spending and visit yesterday Mr Johnson proposing a relatively modest extra $3000000000.00 by the end of the next parliament as we know. Jeremy Corbyn sums I think a heading up towards $90000000000.00 we have the additional $50000000000.00 or so to compensate the so-called waspy women it's not just on spending though it's in the sort of political culture and we get more evidence of that today with the new red tenant's charter being proposed by Labor to introduce rent caps openended tendency is an annual m o t as it were for landlords and what it tells you is that the the view of team Corbin I think is that the private sector has failed is failing and cannot be trusted and the state needs to step in precisely the reverse I would say of the Boris Johnson view Norman thanks will be speaking to Nicky Morgan the culture secretary at 10 past 825 to 7 is the time now the Chinese government stands accused today of running a network of high security prisons into which they have put a 1000000 or so people it is the subject of tonight's panorama of the reporter is Richard Burton is here in the studio morning Richard tell us what 1st what what you found for tonight. Program that takes us on from the kind of vague knowledge of this that we thought we had. What we had before was kind of grabbed images of the wars maybe shots from inside there were Google Earth data sets that suggested something was going on inside these camps the Chinese have always said they're voluntary and offer education what this leak of documents shows is it's kind of a really what is going on and it's on 2 levels because this is the orders that are sent to the people who run the camps so we can see why they're there and the way they operate so the 1st thing is they're run as high security prisons no blind spots it's all about discipline and people being where they should be at all times and no escapes is one of the lines in the document but we can also see why these camps are there and it's about indoctrination so the people who are in these camps have to earn points they earn points by changing the way they behave what they believe even the language they use and they are weak as they're from the minority Muslim population but a very large number of people yeah I mean the estimates are probably a 1000000 people in hundreds of camps they are predominantly we go but there are all the people from this area of northwest China shin Jang the Chinese would say this is a terror crackdown there is a problem in that area this is a security crackdown and these people are being offered de radicalization but if you look at this document it is a long way beyond that it is it seems a simple expression but it's hard to think of any of the word other than brainwashing you only leave these camps when you agree to believe in the things that you're told every day and what are those things I mean what what what is it is it is are they eradicating or an entire culture or is it just political views about an end of violence or whatever what what is it that you think that they're trying to do so others have said that this is a kind of attempt to wipe out the we get culture so if you just take the language for example that we could have their own language as to the Kazakhs and various other groups who live in that part of China. As I say you qualify for points before you're allowed out of these prisons you have to stay there for a year Mandarin the language of the main hand Chinese you have to learn Mandarin you have to leave the way that you speak you have to change the way you behave and you have to change the things in which you believe which might be your religion it's it's in this document it's a kind of this is what we have to do in the future now I should say what the Chinese say the Chinese say that what we have found in our documents a fake news they say should junk population supports and applauds the measures they say that it was a fact distorting exercise from the b.b.c. And there hasn't been a single terrorist attack they say it's fake news the documents suggest it's not rich a building thank you the time is 22 minutes to 7 let's take a look at the papers in the news websites which are giving their verdicts on the Conservative manifesto The Times The Daily Express say that Boris Johnson has put the n.h.s. At the heart of his election campaign with the promise of $50000.00 more nurses the Independent Online points out that that claim has been attacked as fake by labor because it includes more than $18000.00 current nurses the government hopes to persuade to remain in the workforce the Sun calls it a jumbo manifesto package of spending promises which are aimed at ordinary working families in contrast the I described it as a safety 1st election blueprint and the Financial Times agree saying Mr Johnson's prospectus includes a series of policies intended to reinforce his double digit Foley the stakes of never been higher according to identical headlines in the matter in the Daily Telegraph which take the line for Mr Johnson's speech the Telegraph goes on to say the prime minister made it clear he would not enter a spending competition with German Coburn the Guardian agrees that the battle lines of public spending have been drawn it says the Conservatives plan to spend an extra 2900000000 pounds a year compared with the 83000000000 pounds outlined by Labor The Daily Mirror doesn't believe the conservative pledges it has a picture of a tombstone with the words here lies the Tory manifesto and lies and lies in Hong Kong the South China Morning Post says that Beijing has been left reeling by a tsunami of disaffection which swept through polling stations across. The city following almost 6 months of street protests it says opposition candidates rode the wave to win in poor and rich neighborhoods alike the pro China Hong Kong commercial daily reports on the record turnout and concedes that many of the Legislative Council were defeated by newcomers without mentioning the pro-democracy movement it suggests unscrupulous rumors from the opposition directly affect the fairness of the vote and says some candidates were personally attacked the sun and the star among those the picture a young man carrying a machete during a violent disturbance at Birmingham Star City complex on Saturday in Machete mayhem is the headline in the mail that says that $100.00 people clashed with each other and with the place outside a cinema showing blue story with them about street gangs the film's director tells The Guardian he hoped the blame for the disorder would be placed on individuals not the film itself he said the themes about love not violence and fears that satanists have been killing animals in the New Forest are in several papers including The Daily Telegraph it has a picture of a dead sheep that's been spray painted with a pentagram a symbol associated with Magic The paper says 2 other sheep that then killed and 3 cards found with stab wounds this month the Reverend David Bacon who's also at the number 666 scrawled on his church door tells the paper he's never seen anything like it in his 15 years there have to police are investigating whether any of the incidents are linked times 18 minutes to 7 the main headline this morning is that Hong Kong's chief executive Carol Lam a said her government will reflect seriously on the views of the public after pro-democracy candidates won the vast majority of council seats in local elections . Delivering $50000.00 more nurses for the n.h.s. In England is one of the key pledges of the conservative election manifesto although it turns out that nearly half of that figure would be made up of people persuaded not to leave Sally Warren is director of policy the King's Fund an independent charity that researches health care she was previously previously director of social care at the Department of Health and she's in our Southampton studio Good morning good morning how hard do you think it is going to be to to keep as many as 20000 nurses in the system or indeed bring back some of those who've already chosen to leave it's certainly going to be a very large challenge we've seen a lot of nurses leave the workforce over the last few years and I think there's a set of commitments that need to happen say the government's committed to some funding around continuing professional development which may be an important way to keep nurses but there's also a commitment around a supportive hospital management environment I think that's really important it's worked when we look at why nurses are leaving the workforce it's quite often the workload the stress it's no longer a good place for them to work so they're choosing to step away from nursing so it's a really big cultural change to mean that nurses will stay in the n.h.s. How do you deliver a supportive hospital environment I think this is about how do you think about leading and managing in services say the n.h.s. Clearly has really high standards it needs to meet waiting times targets and an awful lot of scrutiny around meeting those but as there is a set of actions leaders can take about how do you lead people an inclusive way in a collective way that means that it's not a kind of doing to kind of shouting out it's more about them collectively coming together as a as a workforce in their local hospital in the local g.p. Surgery to go out to deliver the best I mean that really depends on the attitudes of managers and then the kind of environment they set in and yet the the conservatives seem to be. Sort of really imagining that that is definitely something that they can promise it's a central part of the of this of this pledge for the 50000 more nurses Yeah well it's absolutely around managers in hospital but it's also really importantly about some of the senior leadership. Across the health system so this is about the secretary of state and his minister or team it's about how the the regulators act as well so there's a whole set of people that influence what the culture is in the local n.h.s. Hospital and it's important that all of those bodies think very carefully about how their behavior is being perceived by frontline staff and make sure that they are working in a much more supportive way to support staff to deliver the best they can every day Ok Social Care This isn't even involved with for a long time this whole money for social care in this but that's not the same as a as a plan to change the system no it definitely isn't and the money we've seen promise from the conservatives yesterday is not going to be enough to continue to meet demographic pressures as our population ages over the next 5 years so the money isn't enough and all the money would be doing would be continuing to fund the current system and the current system is widely seen to be very unfair for people who need to use it and it's been struggling to be able to have enough funding to deliver high quality care so we do need a fundamental reform of the system the conservatives have been promising a green paper for more than 2 and a half years that green paper could have started a process of seeking consensus and they haven't yet published a paper and how big is the gap between what they are promising which is about a 1000000000 pounds a year and what would be needed. Probably a couple of 1000000000 pounds short a year and the other thing of the team main parties have promised more funding for social care in their manifest age which is much more in line with demographic pressures whereas the conservatives have recommitted to the 1000000000 that they announced at spending around in September but no further funding beyond that Sally Warren thank you very much time to go to 7 which means it's time for the puzzle the very Actually it's a little early for the puzzle there anyway Dr Geoff Everett set it he's at the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester inherit is a puzzle is composed of 5 shaped pieces which when fitted together form square through the pieces of triangles one of which hasn't. Area half of the total area one whose area is an 8th and one whose area is a 16th the 4th piece is a smaller square whose area is a quarter the size of the total area what is the missing piece of the puzzle. Well well this week moth is not only far from the puzzle but also far from the election trail and clued in really about as far as it's possible to be because she's in and talked to Ca to look at the impact of climate change and she's on the line now from rather a the research station run by the British Antarctic Survey morning motha What is it like there. Well it's I have to say the weather changes very dramatically when we started you on Saturday was bright blue there are steel gray skies now and it's heavily sleety and I have to say Rachelle just as I was about to come on air I can see an elephant seal in front of me just slithering across the ice now where I am this research station really feels remote but actually the main works carried out by tiny teams of scientists out on the ice sheet and that can be as far as a 1000 mile journey away. First off also vote for the other. Day Rob you're about readability one what have you guys been doing today the high up in the operations tab where supervisor Rachel Morris is doing the scabs that's shed your contacts in the teams who are deep in the field and tell me about all the people you're talking to Siri talk to any field party who are out to fill posses they're all summer so we have to bluff sort of 200 miles south of here and then we have Sky play which is really deep failed and that's quite high altitude to the blue ice from waste of what you might imagine plastic on Talk to go to be like a considerable distance away. Riding on snowmobiles become high above the research station to. Camp under a range called reptile Ridge to find out how scientists like them trained to live and work in such remote snowy conditions. Now one of the scientists who needs special training is Jack far he's come to be. Just here we have several field sites out so it's an old around Antarctica so if we get caught out while we're out of the field so it's we need to be trained up ready to pitch 10 so of way out for the weather to be able to come back what do you think about heading off into such remote places. It's a little bit scary like this training is certainly helping so Provos fears very young What were you doing before this I was in a working in a coffee shop just sort of making drinks make me do occasionally from around station that is so different from working and I'm totally completely different it's been it's been a great 1st job experience more than I could have ever asked for. Sarah crazily is one of the field guides here at Rothera tech so using a sort of classic pyramid tent they look in a way so old fashioned don't they they look like they could have come from the age of Scott of the I'm told that's exactly what they have yes otherwise known as a Scot so this is essentially is that what they were using in those times we keep using them because they are the only thing that stands up the Antarctic conditions that we've got to have a look at how it's set up inside and so I don't think yeah I'm living for them really want to poke your head through the air and have a little. We've got a row of boxes and then braced in between a couple those boxes we've got the stove set up again that's a classic Primus stove heavy duty old school that really works well for what we want a very very light here if we think system I'm only going to be trying to out for one night but I'll take your word for the large areas aspect of it well it seems like you're going to be trying out quite well because the forecast for the morning is quite brutal so. We might be put in these tents to the test. We come into what's called the caboose it's a little shed up here so what we're going to do masters you're going to get this promise to go in and you can make it sort of up to you so you've got the brass trying on the bottom here and we've got that filled already with paraffin which is what the stove is going to run. Just above the mats and that will be heating all the pipework here Ok the flames are getting slightly more engine out. Of that to the right lots of times to. Go That's enough of this really hard. To get good if you're going to go yes. Ok when you promised me yesterday. Now into my sleeping bag and I have to say it doesn't feel too cold that's partly because we've had a paraffin. Called to lead up but I'm just going to turn it off. And head off to sleep. I think you are now officially the hardiest presenter of this program did you manage to sleep. Well the Field Guide was right the weather was absolutely brutal the wind was howling around outside and it did get a bit chilly I have to say in the middle of the night but what it did even just for one night it gave me a real sense of what it's like for those science the kind of commitment involved to sleep out in the middle of nowhere what happens is they'll meet a field guide possibly through the 1st time here and rather and then end up spending 2 months in a 2 person tent with them so that is real commitment but the other thing was just what I was trying to sleep in the tent in that pyramid tent the orange head that we know from from Scott you did end up feeling you know how small humanity is you felt like this tiny speck in the middle of these vast wintry wastes we'll have another of your reports later on in the program talk to you then thanks the time now 9 minutes to 7 the Liberal Democrats are going to be concentrating today on foreign affairs and the front bench Christine Jodeen is in a studio morning to you good morning and I suppose the 1st thing when it comes to foreign affairs today on people's minds will be what's going on in Hong Kong what what's your general sense as liberal Democrats about what if anything more a British government ought to be doing about what's happening there I mean what is happening in Hong Kong is no is absolutely horrifying and it's extremely disappointing that we don't seem to be able to persuade the Chinese government to to respect and to try to deal with the situation in a different way and I think what we want more we can do is we can continue to to put I would hope put pressure on the Chinese government the authorities in Hong Kong to try and calm the situation to respect the dream and of the. That. Hundreds were between the treaty between Britain and China up by the. 2 governments and I really do think that it's we have to we really have to protect the rule of law internationally and human rights and we've seen them under threat in Hong Kong and the government has to do everything it can to protect it or that then leads to a kind of wider reappraisal doesn't adore does it about our relationship with China because the other thing in the news today we were talking and then you will have heard it we were talking earlier about panorama of the seedling which is concentrating on China's treatment of the we goes in the stuff on the front page of the guy you know as well and we did it in if we establish in our own minds that China is not going to be a respect of human rights and in fact is going to work against respect of human rights around the world does that mean that we have to change our commercial relationship with China long term. Without going into the specifics of that which as you said I haven't seen I think all or foreign policy I'm not a foreign policy spokesperson but I think all of foreign policy in this country going forward should have an ethical foundation to it and there are a number of countries we are I think a Liberal Democrat government would take a different attitude to dealing with them from the current conservative even an even a real cost to our commercial interests what I think what we have to take into account is the actual cost of of those commercial interests to the citizens of the country or that we're dealing with and we also have to ensure that we protect our rights in this country and we don't get involved in anything which could undermine in future the stability of the international system of the European Union of of our own defenses which are the thing which we are concerned about today . You mentioned the domestic us. Yeah and in with that role you have talked about the gender recognition I don't know if I could turn to that because we had people on the program on Saturday who were both in favor and against Labour's manifesto commitments on the general commission a lot of people feel very strongly about it you have said you're going to build a brighter future where every person's rights are respected including expression of their gender identity does that mean that someone who self identify as as a woman would have access to spaces that are currently banned to them this has been this is an issue which has been hugely controversial over the past few months and I personally and this party extremely disappointed with the government's inaction over the 10 to record next night. Human rights supply to all of us every single person in this country and we should respect. Me we should respect the rights of those individuals whether the a trans women were the plans men and yes I think if someone identified if someone is. Identifying as a woman is living as a woman then I think we have to respect that and we have to relive them so I mean that's a plane around so frankly that I've heard a lot of other politicians do you think even when it comes to for instance a women's refuge that someone who self identify as a woman even if they are anatomically male they should have access Well ask yourself why they're at the refuge I mean if someone is going to support I don't know they might be at the refuge for all sorts of reasons no noise going on that a lot of feminists make we don't know if someone has gone to a refuge for help if someone has gone to refuge because they have been abused or physically or emotionally then they deserve our help and I think we have to look at this from a different perspective we've got a long way to go on a dealing with gender recognition and get in for one of a better expression getting our heads right and the. Skeel of the. Understanding that involved in the whole scale of. Dealing with transgender issues there at our conference this year this autumn in Bournemouth I heard an incredibly moving speech by a trans woman and her wife who the money to be for this person went through gender recognition. And went through gender reassignment and it was incredibly moving to hear what they had to say one of the things that stuck with me was when a wife said was that she had to face the situation where she had a husband who because of the trauma that he was going through had become suicidal and she had to decide whether it was better for her children to have 2 mothers or one pay don't know that is the skill of the the trauma that people are going through the difficulties that they're facing and I think what we need to take is a much more compassionate approach to and stop seeing well they shouldn't do this or they shouldn't do that let's try and think about the human beings at the center of this in deal with that and it's a subject we should keep on coming back to Christine Judie thank you very much for talking to us 2 minutes to 7 increase folks here with the weather I was well for most of us it's a cloudy day got a couple of pounds of rain working northwards across England and Wales will be some dry weather for a time across southeast England but I think the rain really setting in for a time as we head towards the middle part of the day the early afternoon so when at times probably best sums up the weather today temperatures around 10 to 13 degrees we have these 2 rain bands also working across Northern Ireland have a slow moving so there will be quite a lot of rain for a time today in Northern Ireland and eventually with that what weather pushing in across Scotland but stronger and brighter for a time in the far north as the weather thanks Chris a new series on Radio 4 looks at charity starting with shelter. It's the eye of a homeless person and I've got to admit to this I don't think in our relationship with charity can be a difficult one stop asking me for money because I do do charity I'm still leave. It and write a lens to say progs our attitudes to giving us really messed with your heads and challenges assumptions how many people do you think are homeless right now assumptions about need that question is wrong a new series about what charity means then to Ses social enterprise on the b.b.c. Radio 4 this Wednesday morning at half past 11 in the next on this program we had extraordinary story of a family dealing with Huntington's Disease We'll also be talking about Mike Bloomberg can the multi-billionaire topple Trump You're listening to today on b.b.c. Radio 4 with Justin Webb and Michelle Hussein. It's 7 o'clock on Monday the 25th of November the headlines this morning Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lamb has said she will listen humbly after pro-democracy candidates swept to victory in local elections started almost half the U.K.'s universities are beginning an 8 day strike affecting more than a 1000000 students and labor pledging a private tenants charter with annual property inspections and caps on rent rises the b.b.c. News is read by Chris Aldridge candidates calling for greater democracy in Hong Kong who have made unprecedented gains in the territories local elections opposition parties won almost 90 percent of the district council seats contested yesterday in a vote which sure the highest turnout in Hong Kong's history the councils which in the past have been held by pro Beijing politicians have only limited power but the results represent a repudiation of the chief executive carried them and the handling of months of anti-government protests she said she respected the outcome and would listen humbly to the public from Hong Kong our correspondent Jonathan Head opposition supporters in Hong Kong are jubilant after a dramatic victory over the pro-government parties who usually dominate as Rupp.