Also of course is dead he committed suicide in August if you do an interview like this you don't get to apologize you can hear Prince Andrew's interview in full here on 5 life at full the government forces are being accused of covering up killing of civilians by British troops f. Gamma Stan and Iraq an investigation by b.b.c. Panorama and The Sunday Times spoken to 11 British detectives who say they found credible evidence of war crimes which they claim were disregarded Dave not his real name was part of the Iraq historic allegations team which was set up by the British government the Ministry of Defense had no intention of prosecuting. Any Soldier of whatever rank he was unless it was absolutely necessary and they couldn't wriggle their way out of it Boris Johnson says all prospective Tory M.P.'s have vowed to vote for his brakes it Dale if he wins a majority in the general election in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph the prime minister says it means voters can be 100 percent certain that a Conservative government will block parliament until if it breaks it meanwhile Labor's promising to abolish the cost of dental checkups for adults in England if it wins the election it currently costs $22.00 pounds but the people on certain benefits are exempt from paying he pin is a health editor labor argues that charges are putting people off going to the dentist and some are going instead to G.P.'s who can't provide dental treatment or heading to Accident and Emergency Departments the party wants to scrap the current charge in England for a check up which includes a scale and polish it says this will cost $450000000.00 pounds a year with details of how it will be paid for to be set out in the election manifesto the mayor of Greater Manchester is calling on the government to give people living in tower blocks with cladding peace of mind after a fire student flats in Bolton last night Andy Burnham says he'll be speaking to the prime minister and asking for clothing to be removed from buildings and finally wildlife campaign is a welcome change is to I'm a celebrity but he says a live in sex will no longer be eaten during the t.v. Shows Bush took a trials were up Schofield has the sports Wales boss Ryan Giggs says his side are gaining momentum after beating Azerbaijan 2 No in back you it means a win over hungry in Cardiff on Tuesday will qualify them for Euro 2020 and they won't have to rely on coming through a playoff that is what awaits Northern Ireland in March though there are slim automatic qualification hopes ended in a goalless draw with the Netherlands Windsor Park Captain Steven Davis missed a 1st half penalty Steve Clarke meanwhile has described his Scotland side as a work in progress. As they look ahead to their playoff goals from Ron Christie and John McCain sold the win 21 away to Cyprus Dominic team will play Stefan or sits a pass for the title at the a.t.p. Finals in London he be defending champion Alexander's Farah in straight sets office it's past so off Roger Federer much to stop and beat Sebastian Vettel to pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix champion Lewis Hamilton came in 3rd fastest in qualifying on England's women scored a last minute try to beat France in that also international this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live on digital b.b.c. Sound smart speaker. And the weather the Midlands and southeast England will remain tried in some misty patches that many northern and western areas areas can expect Sherry outbreaks of rain later today northern and western parts of in going to Miles we'll see cloud in patchy rain the south of England along with Northern Ireland and Scotland will be harshly dry highs of 7 degrees in Edinburgh and 9 degrees in London this weekend all sides of. This nice little role with him all join me and some big gas as we settle in kick back and to about everything that's bad our imagination this week consists of Germany in the future is to my parents like now my dad was nonplussed to say the least he was never really happy about the drumming until I bought a house. There for the new sound studio we can see the way this morning for the P.C.'s radio is full is life. This is all for not only for Van Dawson added Bryant coming up in this hour the program in a moment that Prince Andrew interview what really learned about his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein also the day after the fire at is student accommodation building in Bolton we hear why every multi-organ busy building in the country should be tested for fire resistance we'll hear about the American football controversy has got American schools talking and from. After the England team's 1000th football match on Thursday was a cheer in that if you've listened to a 1000 times you might even have told people I've heard this a 1000 times you have exaggerated or otherwise but the chain that feels that you listen to it a 1000 times and you're still not tired of it it's got to be some tin was a chain that even never get tired of listening to the text me from now on 85058 remain up all night Abby b.c. Dot co dot u.k. Or give us a call in an hour's time for phone in order of 800. 008-085-9096 extension 934 inches. The Duke of York has told the b.b.c. That he absolutely categorically did not have sex with a woman who's accused him of sleeping with her when she was 17 Prince Andrew said there were many things that were wrong with Victoria Roberts his account of the evening in question on certain questions for 1st time about the allegations Prince Andrew said he had no recollection of ever meeting her he said he couldn't remember a photograph which appears to show him with his arm around ever being taken the Duke said he had let the side down by staying with the disgraced financier Geoffrey Epstein even though he knew he had been convicted of procuring an underage girl for prostitution speaking to me mate less on Newsnight he refuted all of Gina Roberts' his claims in a legal deposition 2015 she said she had sex with me 3 times once in a London house when she was trafficked in Maxwell's house once in New York a month or so later at Epstein's mansion and once on his private island in a group of 7 or 8 other girls. No no to all of all of it absolutely all of it across well and the more has been watching the program and he I think I mean mainly said in the preamble to the interview that this was quite unprecedented to suite a member of the role family under these circumstances about allegations like this. That's right I mean it's a very personal troubling injury for Prince Andrew here to talk about these allegations of sexual offenses against Virginia Roberts he had to talk about very personal matters like his medical condition I mean for example he said the Virginia Roberts had accused him of. Having sex with her and she said that they went to a nightclub and Prince Andrew sweating profusely and he said Well that couldn't have happened he said because of the time because he said he was shot at in the Falkland Islands he had a problem with his adrenaline levels and he didn't actually sweat so he said you know that couldn't have happened it didn't happen I he said the condition has been sorted out now and he he does what now and that sort of intimate medical detail is reflected in quite a lot of the headlines in the papers today just running through some of the reaction Sunday Times I had a a pizza alibi Mail on Sunday not one single word of remorse perhaps the most critical of the newspapers the Observer I didn't have sex with teen the sun No sweat I was at Peter express Mira No sweat and no regret perhaps I should explain why Peter Express comes up as well because he the allegation is that he had sex with Virginia some March the 10th 2001 and he says he remembers that night because he took his daughter Prince Beatrice to Woking and to the Pizza Express there and he says in the interview he didn't doesn't go to working very often he doesn't go to peace which press so he has a very clear memory of that so it's an alibi effectively for one of those sexual encounters he's accused of it doesn't sound from the headlines that you read out there that he has got the outcome from this interview that you would have imagined was the reason why he wanted to do it in the 1st place he has got the kind of outcome. He would have expected no I think it's fair to say that most of the reaction has been negative certainly quite a few those headlines reflect that I haven't seen much in the way of a positive response may be as a response for example from the p.r. Man mount because ski who said this was an object lesson in doing everything wrong in p.r. Terms he said he was like a man in quicksand So I think yes I think it be fair to say that most of the reaction has been negative it's interesting that we haven't yet heard from Virginia Roberts herself it will be interesting to see what she makes of it and he for now thank you very much Chris when and to move it now 2 people were injured by the fire that engulfed the student accommodation building known as the cube in Bolton last night you may remember who we reported on this the blaze gutted the top floor of the building and seriously damaged other floors the 6 Tori building is understood to have been clad in high pressure laminate cladding material Arnold Tarling is a chartered surveyor and an expert in fire safety is a member of the association and Specialist of fire protection and when we spoke earlier I asked him why when the cause of the fire is yet to be determined so much attention as already been focused on the cladding material used on the building. Because of a far absolutely irrelevant in regards 'd to the fire spread it could be deliberate it could be accidental it could be electrical It could be you know you say they could be any number of things the cause of the fire is only for forensics and live as to who caused it are very reverent irrelevant as perhaps the building homes but just looking at the quality or covering it was good enough you got to actually look into. The whole my cup of the will and when it's come to the approved documents they were misleading they were ambiguous they were condemned off to the black and. Yet nothing was dumb What was the experts doing a voice in the midst of what did they tell him every pick was that him to do nothing whatsoever. The current read for all of the Building Regulations is a joke it doesn't go far enough it is still confusing it is still ambiguous it still has a section in this saying that if you have a thermoplastic and its a bomb did to another material you only consider the fun of writing over that of the material what your way is grim felt it was a material it was bonded to something else and the other thing it was bonded to pulsed so you get a whole load of stuff lessons have been look the only real trying just the approved documents a thing we go off to buildings above 18 leeches that's above 6 stories now this building is 6 stories now only loads of other people in the phone industry have been saying the buildings up to 6 stories must be included but the of voices to government haven't done it Well 'd I know what you've seen of the player in Bolton. Have you been able to conclude is why the Flies spread so quickly yes or have you what you have to do is go to Google Street View However the street behind the building which had the phone and it fell into place which has for 2015 and the start of the construction it was steel frame we like right steel in between into most of that you had to peel it in ceilings from now that's the same stuff that was on grand fellow which caused the solenoid poisoning was already to the saw not poisonings but this one isn't even as far resistant as the one of the gramophone kingspan Ferma which will be a clone of the old where he is the worst that you can get in for a writing. So I thought there was plywood on top of that you had a product code totally fake which is a breather membrane which is close and he is rapidly Almer that I had vertical to him because on the knife it is the clipping to the outside by looking at the drawings Oh I can't even see any fire stopping going a little very thickly to where the. Compartment was all horizontally where the floors are building and I was lucky that it the top and didn't stop turning both and because the whole of that building would have been ablaze just like we had recently and was to park where the getting the fall of stopping was correct who was missing what does the presence of material like fresh lemon it may Jackson fire more difficult but why is it flawed Munadi to spread quickly with this kind of material Well the 1st printing behind it you know this material is almost close say IAU close to the material we you know which is the 3rd and 4th was for writing it's made out of a plastic resin. Filled with Piper would fall into it contributes to the fog but doesn't burn as fast as what's going on behind it so the far Pickard applying for water owning a pond over to stop in the rain the water getting through because it's right on the screen cladding is doing its job how do you follow it for what's behind it but eventually it drops off when it's cold follow it drops to the ground. On the building regulations up to 16 metas a levels limitless amounts of smoke production and limitless amounts of science is building material dropping off the building or off the grain felled by only fixed a building is about fighting maintenance on Opportunity lost they have been 5 flies. In multi occupancy buildings yes it's Bolton is the 5th the. Building a molecule building that was on the postulate socially destroyed. You'll. Is there will be Moon said some of the time a grand fellow said before grand sounding 2014 only spoke the British Standard I knew for a conference I raise the issues of i.c.m. Cladding All right issue 10 backlighting raise the issue of timber balconies and if you know saying full if occupancy you are missing out there's more than. There were 2 hotels it was a there was a old people's home there was a bulking there was one thing it was to poke there were some of us were trying to get the names off that was this one well it's because we've got all these molten forms of construction and despite the warnings that were given to the its voices over the minister was nothing was done because one of the advises always said the number of people dying in Fuzzy's forewarning show me the bodies that was the attitude what I would like to know is what's the sniping setting the minister because that will reveal everything. Looking at the photos looking at the course of the fire saying the thing is going to be trying just isn't where they need to be looking and they need to look at the good voices who allow this to come to this part a state of affairs where we've got tens of thousands of buildings property with hundreds of thousands of Paypal the high for that risks but it's a fight on what if I said it should be made a matter of public record I know the huge reason The yourself with the. Paul big fire in south London the yes full story Richmond house bloke in the Hamptons housing scheme fire which broke out in the early morning of the night of September had quite a lot of widespread publishing about well just because it was so shocking I suppose but your reports is saying that the new building a pinhead to stick to the legend of the fire regulations and yet it was supposedly lost does that then mean a sorry you're missing Racing Form that there are things which complied with it the lack of the fun of stopping didn't comply but at that place it was compliant as far as I could say from the wreckage. Were parents with building regulations but they were breaches of the Building Regulations things were missing but a lot of it complied because the outside face all of the building was close to full spread risk is what was behind it wasn't you know you can you can say here that the timber behind it. Complies because it's more than 9 millimeters thick and that complies but because it didn't have the 1st topping it didn't comply. With the revision truce which there are very few to the new current rules you can still play at a building BUSY 18 meters high in the wood fire rated close to see if we can only get one worse let's close which is the. Topic letting on friends and is still out well does this mean we will literally have to go through the buildings have been built in the last you know how well right up to the last few weeks we have to go back over all the buildings have been built up to now look to see how they comply building regulations and particularly how they comply and sums of fire safety yes every single building with more than misses of construction 'd ready to be looked at. And we are still building buildings which are for traps for a test risks because the Kelo approved document appears to allow it on a talling that is charged surveyor and an expert in fire safety and a member of the association or specialist fire protection. It's been another interesting way in the Life of Colin Kaepernick you might remember him he's the American n.f.l. Quarterback who famously refused to stand to the national anthem as was customary it's stateside and he did what they call took the knee he took the knee he knelt on one knee as the national anthem was being played anyway this weekend in the considering saga of his life he has rejected what would have been an opportunity from the n.f.l. Well to some extent anyway he was thought to be about to attend an n.f.l. Arrange private workout to show off his skills to the n.f.l. Franchise is because he's been a free agent ever since he was sacked as POWs from his position as a quarterback for his team has netted teams since then so it's all good about this now with our North American sports show presenter James Wickham. James good morning Arlo Dawson Yeah this is yet another extraordinary day in the life of Cullen Kappa Nick I mean just give you an idea this is a story that has been going on in American football kind of overshadowing pretty much the whole sport for the last 3 years as you know Don I mean America is a society in so many ways that is divided by race and it's favorite sport America you know football is referred to as America's game is certainly no exception to that it's kind of a microcosm really of some of the problems that you see across the country and the calling Kappa Nick issue came about a few years ago as you say as he and another colleague of his Eric Reid took the knee as they say to protest racism in us society now fast forward a long time calling cap and it hasn't been able to play in the n.f.l. Since 2016 he hasn't had any clubs seemingly interest. In him there have been arguments legal arguments between him and the n.f.l. That was earlier this year a suggestion of a case against the n.f.l. From calling cap and it suggesting that the n.f.l. Had essentially colluded to keep him out of the league but that was settled out of court and we don't know what the details of that settlement were anyway get to today doesn't or Saturday at least and well coming up and it was shed to attend this private workout out the Atlanta Falcons complex where lots of the n.f.l. Scouts would come along have a look at him and see how he was doing he basically decided to turn that down and then go and do it instead about an hour away at a high school well let's hear what he had to say after the session. From now. With everything. Making sure we had 3 affairs you. Want to get. Him out here. Already here. Would you say to get updates as we hear from Wayne to hear Roger Goodell the n.f.l. 32 teams will let you know if we hear them wasn't there for everybody to go. Jane just one more question in case this is too confusing for listeners that's calling Kaepernick they essentially organizing his own child's you know like you go for so controls for a team and this is n.f.l. Trolls and he's organizing is own trials away from the official draw Yes because essentially what he is saying to cut a very long story short is that he doesn't really trust the n.f.l. To have run this trial properly or to have done it in good faith and he was talking there about a guy called Roger Goodell he's the commissioner of the National Football League and it's kind of through him it seems that a lot of this is going but look Don he knows much more about this than I do he's down woken who's a national columnist for USA Today sports he's been in Atlanta where it all happened Hello Don nice to have you back and just ask just tell us down what was the atmosphere like today and just how did it all work out. What was fairly confusing at the beginning because it dissipated. Going up to the Atlanta Falcons facility. Which is where the original workout was supposed to take place and there were you know there were a bunch of supporters and a couple protesters who are against cap or Nic who were there and you know that was fairly typical but. You just figured you were going to kind of wait the work that was supposed to be closed and you were just going to try to pick up whatever pieces you could but what happened is word started to circulate that that work out was not going to happen they were going to do it at a school that's all the way on the very southern side of the metropolitan area so it took about an hour to drive there so I got it Mike. Our end made my way there and there were about 250 people fans who also heard about it and came and you know they they made it quite the atmosphere and you know when it was all over capper Nick. He signed autographs he you know to talk to the his supporters and then he came over deliver the message that you just played it was so little bit surreal a little bit strange and you know I don't think that it helped his cause of playing in the n.f.l. Again but I think certainly for the people who were fear him as a as a cultural icon and. Certainly bolster those credentials. Down this is dos in 5 Live. The well is one of these would counts what would you do what does what does it until what would you see what's the c.s. You could if you like well for the actual work out it's really not much to to watch you know the quarterback position in football. Certainly everyone kept a lot of people can look good when there's no defense you know you're just out there throwing the football he had for receivers out there and it was basically just you know pitch and catch he would go and make throws a to those guys and all the different kinds of throws that that quarterbacks make you know short or long medium middle of the field out to the perimeter but those are not real throws I mean you're just sort of looking at you know for the scouts that are there you're looking at how someone moves their mechanics you know how they deliver the ball. You know the a la city the the arc of the ball you know and that'll look good but you know any competent quarterback is going to look good playing against no defense so I'm not sure how much was was learned but it's kind of a 1st step formality when you're looking to potentially sign a quarterback just to make sure that you know that their mechanics of throwing the ball or are looking like they're proper How embarrassing is this for the n.f.l. The person who's in the media spotlight and the n.f.l. Ready been accused by him at least of perhaps me. You know. He's not getting signed by need see or otherwise how the bear is in use it for them the egos ensued in training trials if you like Yeah well I think what happened is. The capper Nick camp was very suspicious about the whole 'd set up of this workout his agent Jeff now Ali was also with the workout and and I spoke to him today and it is now Lee said there was not a single team or general manager that requested this work out it came out of the blue it was the n.f.l. Calling up capper Knicks representation and saying we're going to put this work out together you know take it or leave it in that's not typically the way this works I mean it's the n.f.l. Office doesn't get involved in these kind of personnel decisions it's a team wanted to work cap or nick out or take a look at them they could do that at any time and no one had done that so there were a lot of suspicions about about the motives of the n.f.l. In this and one of the potential motives was to clear them of litigation responsibility. They were trying to make capper Nick signed this 6 page waiver that specified that if no team signed him that Capper Nick would not be able to to sue the n.f.l. . And he didn't want to sign that and that was one of the that was one of the. Sticking points that caused this thing to fall apart so you know it looks like it looks more more like the n.f.l. Had something up their sleeve and capper Nick didn't fall for it but given all of that Don does that mean a company likely not to play in the n.f.l. Or so well so yeah I think today I think today widened the gap no doubt about it I think I'm not sure anyone would have signed him anyway because it's just it's the amount of time and the issues are are big but today definitely didn't help matters . I don't really appreciate it or regards the I learned 0 as we say heartland So are they I welcome your national columnist for USA Today sports after the news and sport will get the news from Rumania where they've got election fever or maybe not 1st though let's get the latest 5 headlines as Emily levy on digital b.b.c. Says it's not speak German Venus is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live the Duke of York's been defending his relationship with the convicted sexual offender Geoffrey Epstein saying it had serious beneficial outcomes he also categorically denied having sex with a woman he claims she was forced to when she was 17 the government the military have been accused of covering up civilian deaths by British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq 11 British detectives have spoken to the b.b.c. 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In sport England's cricket has are in action on day 3 of their woman match against New Zealand a Adam outfit is a line from the cup an oval and in the closing on victory here they've reduced New Zealand day to 99 for 16 when they still trail by 3 runs are just got 3 for 25 we just had in New Zealand a captain caught with a short from a short ball for 8 we've had 2 wickets for some current as he tries to cement his place in the side for the test next week you have the 1st innings ensuring Phillips the 36 and she needs from the New Zealand one day international round a court behind for 9 also difficult caps drops of current as well Broad has a mature for 22 that's after him and ended on 405 with Butler making 110 and Archer unbeaten 41 before commentary on this game over on 5 Live Sports Extra right now whilst here on 5 Live we can now get the rest of the sport and joy Rob school field a win for Wales in their final qualifier next week will see them reach Euro 2020 they crucially beat Azerbaijan to no away from home Aaron Ramsey came off the bench to replace Gareth Bale in back Ryan Giggs says he wanted to keep both of them fresh for the crucial hungry game in Cardiff it was a difficult one over 6 of the lack of games of himself and Garrett and you know it would have been difficult to start the ball knowing that would be too substitution is used and also with Tuesday in mind probably not being able to be involved in Tuesday so it was once a gamble it was it was a difficult decision that we had to make Wales do have a playoff if qualify in Cardiff doesn't go their way that's what awaits Northern Ireland now after their goals draw with the Netherlands at Windsor Park Captain Steven Davis missed a much delayed spot kick in the 1st half which Michael O'Neill was not happy about now put my arm around him coming off the post because I know him and so much to him of course is gives a shit you know birds of an they you know and then that conversation with a referee post given the panel a bus for me tell a goalkeeper to walk. Office lane when Stephen a set to head the panel a I think it's easy to record of course a factor Steve Clarke Scotland are already working towards their playoff in March they edged past Cyprus 21 away elsewhere James Madison is unlikely to make his 1st start for England away 2 Kossovo later as he's struggling with a calf injury Stephanos it's a pass will play Dominic team for the title at the a.t.p. 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Sounds of all right was docile at about the news Rumania now with Michael Bird there's no election or presidential runoff election on the 25th November choices between the incumbent liberal class Your Highness and the Social Democratic former Prime Minister Hariri get down chiller you how nice is expected to be reelected comfortably but he's a very boring elections no one's really interested and they have 0 democratic scrutiny really surprises me 1st of all that nobody's interested but why 0 democratic scrutiny surely that they are fair and transparent Karen transparent but what's happened is the president you have this refuses to debate his rival because of what he calls party's support for criminals and he claims there can be no exchange of ideas with her party at all because he says they've trampled on the rule of law you have this has also refused to give any one on one interviews to journalists preferring only one single press conference speeches and Facebook to communicate and only next week you'll have one group talk with with a group of selected journalists Ok the debate over the resists is a debate with the opposition for enough but what about what is here for. Prayed where of in facing journalist who might scrutinize his policy what see if the afraid of what's he done I think that he hasn't actually done anything and this is maybe the problem he's done nothing that's necessarily good and done nothing that's necessarily bad so the idea is that if he's open to scrutiny it might actually show that he's been a pretty benign president the last 5 years and maybe that's not the kind of scrutiny he wants opened up in general what's happened is that he's kind of trying to sleep walk the country into just voting him back because the alternative is perhaps worse but surely the country knows if a president has done absolutely Jack during the course of his tenure surely the country knows without any journalist having to scrutinize it. Well it may be the case I mean he could argue that the the government has stopped him from putting any policies through but at the same time he's not really actually giving any policies he doesn't seem to have any part of the country which he's revealed to the people he's just based his entire. Campaign for reelection by saying I'm better than the other guy cause the other guy is worse than me and with the country by that you say that he's likely to be reelected yes I think the country will buy that. This is what will happen I mean I think that it in Rumania as in many other countries many people think they will vote for the least worst evil and in this case he's sort of building his campaign on that in fact his whole campaign is built on the fact that we want a normal Rumania a boring Rumania Rumania without any real kind of you know ideas or a future but something that isn't getting worse of what basis is the president suggesting that the opposition is worse than him where he sang that the the president of the opposition party is now in prison so he's kind of building his whole campaign on the fact that I am not criminal but the other guys are criminal So that's his idea it's like saying Who do you want to lead Rumania someone who's criminal or someone who's not criminal and people are going to say Ok we don't want a criminal and that's that in a nutshell that's the campaign but they probably would also say we don't want a return to check out Cesco the former president who was of course shot before a firing squad when remaining collapse of communists remain you collabs and he's been accused by the opposition of big. A new chair Cesco. That's right I mean she's saying that he refuses debate he refuses democracy he refuses to be part of what we fought for 30 years ago this month or so. But that again is not really going to have much effect on the population it will fire up her base but it won't actually stop him from being re-elected what about I don't think what about policies what are the big issues that rebellions if they if they're not sleepwalking. Will want to go vote on. All the big issues that face remain as the cost of living is rising the fact that maybe 3 between 3 and 5000000 people have gone abroad and there's a huge kind of lack of people working in the country these are the kind of issues which people really want to see solutions for and so far we haven't seen any kind of ideas for this yet. Through 5000000000 people go to broad in 2 to work abroad yes it's a work board did you know what the percentage of the population the that amounts to . Well that amounts to probably the working age population about 25 percent 25 percent of the population is overseas working what kind of impact does that have on the country. Well on one hand what it does is actually means that a lot of money gets sent home so that is something which is used to boost the g.d.p. But what it does mean is that there is a lot of jobs that can't be filled in the country at the moment so you have that that is a major issue at the moment it's not enough doctors is not enough teachers there's not because all the doctors are going to the cafe or the teachers one at a salary so they'll work as bakers in London for example I spoke to a banker in London who was a teacher in Rumania because he gets better paid has a better quality of life in in in south London lead us Rumanian it doesn't seem to have impacted on the infrastructure of the country so much were so you know in terms of the environment because remain as one of those countries is still very reliant on coal power yes that's right I mean but last month I visited the town of Rob in our in South Rumania where 12000 people live surrounded by 4 open cast mines on the edge of the town is a giant power station and which is 50 years old which is used to make electricity for 5 percent of the country and between the line in the plant belts that transport the fuel from the ground to the furnace and they run directly past people's gardens so if you can imagine your garden has sometimes 8 hours a day cold going past it sort of with folks of dust rising into the air. And. What happens is because he's an open cast mines the the giant excavators it slicing into the hills where people can walk and one no one no one resident Ned could be care who is a 62 years old retired retired engineer said to me that the coal dust is like a drug he said Oh when you leave this place arter 4 or 5 days you get headaches and your your heart beats irregularly because your all can isn't is no longer filled with this crap and personally when I was there felt as though you know the inhaling the dust just when you walking down the street was like kind of smoking like a full pack of cigarettes will once. How is that acceptable within the European Union remaining as part of the European Union are before there were health and safety guidelines not to talk of environmental guidelines of the country will have to meet. This is true I mean in some ways the the the company the running is running the mine is saying that it's making these efforts to to to mitigate the amount of pollution they open to warehouse. But I went a month after the the warehouse to deposit the coal warehouse had just been had just been opened and let me tell you that the place was just full of a fog of dust so for me it's quite incredible that these places can still survive I mean before I went there as carbon neutral in terms of my point of view but now you can see that the the quinces that they grow they're covered in told us the the the docks that they're covered in coal dust that the carrots are covered in coal dust it's a it's a very an entire city and mine intertwined is one so you have this situation whereby verdict has been done to actually kind of create an environment where people can actually live. There it remains David Wooding is from the Sun on Sunday and his 1st story is about the investigation in Superior Dj's for Briggs a posse members the police are investigating whether to hold an investigation so it's a bit like talks about talks and the child's phone now Lord full of the. The labor pay I am a Liberal Democrats have cold for an investigation into allegations that that the Conservative Party officials offered the Breck's it Party candidates jobs or pay ridges to stand aside now the big issue has been as you as you probably know in your listeners may have been following over the last couple of weeks of the breakfast room nodule Faraj is is potentially a big. Hurdle for the Boris Johnson the conservatives because they all the progress of policy will take votes off conservatives who really wants a hard breakfast and possibly cost them victory in December the 12th in the general election and they were do a deal with the backs of policy and Boris Johnson has been sending that message across that if you have vote for the backs of policy you could end up with Jeremy Corbin in numbers and well there's been rumors about pages being offered in fact knowledge of ferocity was twice offered a peerage himself. That this is all being denied by the conservatives will Charles fault and the Liberal Democrats as well have complained the police are looking at it. That they're not so it's not an investigation but it's police assessing the complaints and the nature of the allegations to decide whether it warrants a full inquiry now Michael Gove the Cabinet Office minister has said it's complete nonsense no. Peerages have been offered by again it does leave a bit of a read. Round around the whole business and it can't be good for the kid says it's out this one around and they'll be hoping that the police come to a quick conclusion on this one but we'll keep an eye on that one that one could flare up and indeed who we don't know was to come yeah but it's been quite a week for Dodger ferrets because the week started last week this is started with him insisting that he would field break to a party candidates in all every single constituency in the country including the Tory ones and then he was being attacked for. Sabotaging a possible break sit by not least his own form a sponsor Aaron bangs the millionaire and then he said he would only Hino ek man for their positions that he wasn't going to stand candidates in the Tory seats or the seats the Tories one of the last election and would focus on if you know taking on the Labor party and see if they hold which also could pose a problem for the Conservative Party because they were expecting to win some of those Labor seats etc And then yes out of nowhere it came out of this poem shows saying well look you know the Tories have been trying to get our candidates to stand down and offering them all sorts of things he's got a knack has an e. For grabbing the headlines almost from the jaws of both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition Yeah well the great thing Nigel Farage has is that that connection with the old man and woman in the streets he speaks in the same language as ordinary people and doesn't speak in this high falutin political speak and he doesn't use political cliches he uses ordinary terminology he smokes a cigarette he drinks up tights and I'm not swat why people connect with him and he's a very very good communicator and as a result the breakfast. Party is really all about him in the same way you kept was about him when when he left you can't you keep just sort of crashed and burned. The problem now that he faces is does he want to be the man who's delivered breakfast or does he want to be the man who delivers the Bracks it Party because there is a feeling that the Bracks a party is a success all it's going to do is is take it's not going to win seats it's going from a standing start so it's going to take lots of votes but in the current system we have a 1st past the post it will probably mean in the seat where the conservatives are a few 1000 ahead of Labor if they take conservative votes from people who want breakfast. Len with the conservatives losing those votes and falling behind Labor and if constituencies different obviously but that is the fear and that is why there is part pap some people fail well it is conceivable that some kind of office or could Joe legal or bribes if you like in in this sort of loose. May have been made to to get candidates to stand down you know the possible police investigation notwithstanding that the headlines or the news this week will be dominated will it not by the manifestos as they're being published Yes they're all going to come out next weekend and I suspect if it's early next week or next weekend will be lots more of that in in next week's Sunday papers we've been focusing a Labor had this meeting today very close 5 meeting which they've been. Trying to thrash out what will be in the Labor Party manifesto and we had some giveaways in the week the broadband for old Jeremy call been saying that everybody would have free broadband and people on the positive side were saying this is great free broadband that's a fantastic giveaway Well there's the. Critics were saying well nationalizing broadband I mean. How could how successful is that going to be you have David Wooding of the Sun on Sunday there let's catch of the headlines in The Chicago Sun Times now with Lynn Sweet from my vet and Elaine good morning and hello to you you spend your whole week what at the Trump impeachment hearings I went to both of them and I think I read in a deposition this and I did it and one of the stories I had at the 2 columns I did this week I tried I didn't Alison and some of the issues of what is really going on here and the broke lax that the Republicans are throwing up to try just distract people from the matter at hand. What do I mean by that well why did the focus of the demo of the Republican complaints is that the whistleblower hasn't been identified and you hear that a lot because people here whistle blower it sounds Wow Why why don't we know who this person is well. Whistleblower is a tipster it is a dramatic start to this impeachment inquiry it's a person and who has been identified as a CIA officer subtle intelligence agency but it's just one of the things that comes out of many many things to talk about from this hearing and yeah it's fascinating being in the room I like witnessing history and I covered the Clinton impeachment and I never thought I would be covering a 2nd impeachment in my my career no previous invasion had the president who was one of the witnesses was on the stand in this case the former ambassador to Ukraine him self what was a moment like when it was an electric moment now. I was as most of the reporters were hanging on their i Phones when this goes out you're multitasking tweeting taking your own notes and that was so we saw. Trump tweeted this so I wasn't surprised that it came up I was a little surprised at how soon it came up and it was dramatic because there are screens all around the room and you don't see this necessarily on the feeds if you turn it to cable or news outlets and. I don't think it was a long time after did it the least the tweet appeared on the screen so everyone could read it it was so up by the time Adam Schiff the California Democrat who's in charge of the committee started asking a question about it characterizing what the tweet was the audience who my or may not have known about it a lot of people were hanging on i Phones could read it for themself actually the only one who might not have been aware of it was. The new of it who was the witness and it was when I studied her face a few times afterwards. When I went looked at the replay. You see how her eyebrows shot up when Chef told her about this so it was it was a surprise because it wasn't surprise you brought it up but it was a surprise to have the president react in real time and the other thing just to be quick to to observe it out well 2 men were testifying Wednesday and didn't pursue Mirch their reputations here's this this woman who's he has already smeared he already removed she already suffered as a result of. Of getting in the crosshairs a trump and he still felt it necessary to very savagely personally attack her during the hearing it's only distracted from whatever the impeachment was about him as for go well that was about was we were talking about that Ok Just on another story I see that there's been yet another the Democrats to Greece President Joe Hoeffel throw his hat into the ring Yes former governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick it's very late some people have been running for almost a year and a 1st vote and I was about 80 days away but then you might say why did I devote a whole day to writing about him Well I've been covering him for years because he grew up in Chicago and I've been talking I saw him actually when I was in Chicago a few weeks ago when we were both at the Obama summit he said at the about a foundation board and I was covering it and by the way I did not get a clue he was about to run for president he didn't bring it up and I asked what he was up to but that aside. This is a remarkable American story he was born in to a mother who was so poor and he's only 63 so this is kind of reset it he was born at home few people in America are born at home he was swaddled and put it in of and the door was open to keep warm that's how per He was so it's it is a story that is so interesting because the way he ended up in Massachusetts is because he showed promise as a student and he had a teacher in middle school who is able to line him up with a program they gave him a scholarship to a very elite prep school in Massachusetts and that led him to leave the South Side of Chicago escape poverty. Get into an elite network that led to Harvard undergrad at law schools and then add to the governorship except era the other reason I'm fascinated is that in his his developing Actrix campaign consultants in 2006 were the same people David Axelrod and David Pluff who helped launch Barack Obama and his presidential campaign and were central to that so there are just a lot of things going on including just the calculus of how can anyone at this point and in the Democratic presidential race actually get organized in time to get on the ballot so it was a story that had a lot of rich aspects to it does it have it that I hate to say or does it have any hope of winning the Democratic nomination let alone. President Trump to give it to the keys of the White House it's such a long shot because it's more than just him he's got to have the money to get organized in the various states I forgot land of milk and honey and money money money. I don't well Money money money money pretty body of work just get organized get out the ballots the best things in life are free people for the birds and the beach was another song from your side Lynn thanks very much. It's been fun thanks you. Claim me for the. C.b.c. Radio which to call Good morning this is up for March. The top story this hour Prince Andrew defends his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey up staying in sport well 02020 qualification still in their own hands this is b.b.c. 5 with the. Prince Andrew has categorically denied having any sexual contact with the woman he claims she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 and in India at the b.b.c. Heels who said he saw no signs of his late friend Jeffrey Epstein was involved in trafficking young girls he is a role correspondent Nicholas Witchell where I think he will struggle more is his refusal to regret the friendship with Jeffrey upstream his statement earlier that he was somehow to honorable to have broken off that friendship I think it's the underlying sense an element of arrogance of naivety of a lack of self awareness that perhaps people will find rather surprising conservative says that all their plans to reduce immigration if they win the general election the party says the majority of migrants would require a job offer before they come to the u.k. Labor's promising free annual dental checkups for adults and if it gets into dawn in St next month the body says too many people end up going to the g.p.s. Or in a day with teeth problems an investigation has begun into what caused a far distant block of flats in Bolton last night concerns being raised about the cladding in the building and the speed at which the flames spread a reporter is a live in a rich world videos posted on social media show chunks of flaming rubble and sparks . Falling to the ground as the cube burned at its height $200.00 firefighters were here tackling the blaze witnesses described the flames climbing up the cladding and spreading fast the fire service said it had identified everyone who lived in the block but hadn't yet accounted for them all the cube is in the center of Bolton is privately owned and has accommodation for more than $200.00 students the university of Bolton says it's ensuring they all have somewhere to stay and the support they need police in Paris arrested more than a 100 people during protests yesterday to mark the 1st anniversary of the n.t. Government yellow vest protest movement violence erupted in places tear gas and water cannon to control the crowds and the 2nd of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers a seld into its home base of Portsmouth for the 1st time for the people welcome the 3000000000 by h.m.s. Prince of Wales into the port being Kember's From be a systems which both of us will when I see the ships the hairs on the neck which go up it's really great to see it's great to see the families welcoming their loved ones and it's just that little problem to you play a part in a very big program that's important to the Lucian Well that's new this time for the sport now with Rob Schofield Wales boss Ryan Giggs says his side are gaining momentum after beating Azerbaijan 2 No in back you it means a win over hungry in Cardiff on Tuesday will qualify them for Euro 2020 and they weren't have to rely on coming through a playoff that is what awaits Northern Ireland in March though there are slim automatic qualification hopes ended in a goalless draw with the Netherlands Windsor Park Captain Steven Davis missed a 1st half penalty Steve Clarke meanwhile has described his Scotland side as a work in progress as they look ahead to their playoff goals from Ron Christie and John McGinn saw them when 21 away to Cyprus Dominic team will play Stefan or sits a pass for the title at the a.t.p. Finals in London he be defending champion Alexander spare of in straight sets after sits. Roger Federer Max was stop and beat Sebastian Vettel to pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix champion Lewis Hamilton came in 3rd fastest in qualifying on England's women scored a last minute try to beat France in that also international this is b.b.c. Radio 5 Live on digital b.b.c. Sound smart speaker come on quickly whether overnight northern and western areas scenes from the Sharia breaks of rain in the Midlands and psyches thing then should stay dry with some mist and fog patches later on then Scotland Northern Ireland and psyche saying the remaining dry and bright but patchy rain cloud effect in northern and western parts of England and Wales far but breakfast we've been talking about the general election.