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Hello it's 7 o'clock on Tuesday the 14th of November you're listening to good morning also with Count Patterson and Nolte on some good morning our main story of passing this budget in Westminster does not mean a move to direct rule any more than did this Parliament legislating to set a regional rate in April once the budget is passed the detail decisions on power to spend will be made by the Northern on civil service the secular State of the Commons just recently will have a budget even though we've got no executive but it's not there I drew We'll have more throughout the crow Graham also should drivers have to have I test refused to make sure their site is up to scratch and it's crunch time for the Republic footballers Denmark tonight's opposition Russia and the World Cup the go I'm poor record with the sports headlines Martin O'Neill is telling his players it's time to deliver as they go for broke in Dublin However the as Yuri won't be in Russia Italy failed to make the finals for the 1st time in 60 years that's how the news now with Anne-Marie good morning the Northern Ireland budget bill is to go before the high severe ords later after it was bought by all parties in the Commons without a vote M.P.'s were also told by the secretary of state that the 1st 50000000 pounds of money from the confidence and supply deal between the Conservatives and the d.p. Will be released in this financial year from Westminster Here's our political correspondent Stephen Walker with no devolution and no sign of a daily James Brokenshire said he brought the Northern Ireland budget to the Commons with reluctance and he confirmed that money negotiated as part of last June's confidence and supply deal with the day you pay would soon be released that money will go towards health and education a move welcomed by the do you pay who also back the storeman budget in the Commons chamber. For their part Shin Fein insists that direct rule is not the answer and they say the current political crisis has been caused by the government and the d u a this budget bill was brought because a lack of an executive meant Northern Ireland's departments were running out of money this move ems to keep the cash flowing with the budget bill expected to become law this week the former Clark of the assembly Trevor Rainey is to carry out an independent assessment of and then a salaries 90 amylase who were elected in March are continuing to receive their full salary even though the assembly has failed to appoint a new executive Mr Rayney is to deliver his report by the middle of December teachers will no longer be able to drive school mini buses using a car driving license according to new guidance from the Department for infrastructure that have to hold a specific committee bus driving license our education correspondent Robin Meredith reports this would appear to bring a long running saga to an end and it's not good news for schools in the short term the department says that the teacher will need a full the one many bus driving license and a driver certificate of professional competence to continue to drive pupils in a school minibus as part of their job their guidance has been circulated by the education authority who say that they are going to offer teachers the relevant training and they do year but school leaders have warned that's likely to cause thousands of points and that sports much as an educational trips will be affected and these will today begin their line by line scrutiny of the central piece of Brecht's at legislation the e.u. Withdrawal bill among other things it will repeal the European Communities Act of 1972 which gave a you lost supremacy over Ukraine all opponents including Tory rebels have tabled scores of amendments Here's our political correspondent the e.u. Withdrawal Bell is designed to incorporate all European law into u.k. . Or to avoid a legal black hole on the day of departure but M.P.'s are proposing changes to it to try to influence the government's Brecht's approach that concerns include ministers being given sweeping powers and the impact of leaving the e.u. On the devolved administrations the government's concession yesterday that the eventual withdrawal agreement would have to be enshrined in law appears not to have satisfied potential rebels there will be more contentious votes in the coming weeks as M.P.'s tests the government's fragile working majority officials in say the rescue operation after the earthquake on Sunday has largely been completed more than 400 people are known to have been killed and around 7000 others were injured armed forces have been sent to the affected area to help with the relief efforts and set up shelters the television producer and writer dizzy Goodwin who created the i.t.v. Drama Victoria has claimed that she was groped by a government official chewing a visit to number 10 when David Cameron was in dining street she said she wasn't traumatised but was cross a low she didn't report it at the time to resume a has launched her strongest attack yet on Russia accusing the country of threatening the International Order of speaking at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London last night the prime minister accused Moscow of 4 meant in conflict meddling in elections and countering night cyber espionage it is seeking to weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and Photo Shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the West and undermine our institutions so I have a very simple message for Russia we know what you are doing and you will not succeed the largest diamond of its kind ever to be sold publicly goes under the hammer in Geneva later today discovered last year in an Gola it took 10 months to cut finishing at $163.00 carrots in size. David Warren the international jewelry director at Christie's says he expects it to fetch around $22000000.00 point is the largest of the flawless diamond ever come to market and it is the finest color of clarity and extraordinary portions and there's always a temptation with the diamond crystal to the largest possible and the maybe is a little sided or lumpy off it just to keep the weight not here this is perfection everywhere. And that's all for me until half past 7 oh gee Yes good morning oh well it's a much milder start I there this morning temperatures currently sitting between it and 11 degrees and we have a weak weather front over us as well so it's pretty gloomy Are there lots of loop law and we also have some drizzle in places particularly across this Barrens across some central parts and that drizzle will be edging into the southern counties as we go through the dance a very slow process it could still be quite damp across parts of her manner Don and are mad today but elsewhere it should become drier still a lot of Clyde it should lift off the hills a little bit and we might see a few bright spots more like each wards the north coast and the Northwest more or less holding where they are run 10 or 11 degrees Lane has traffic and travel what I guess not too bad either at the moment it is starting to get a bit busy though on the Am one from Junction it up to a junction 6 at Sanford wrote all enterprise rail services between about fast and when they are operating today that's after a proposed strike by our Israel was suspended and one flight to mention that George Best City Airport quarter's 9 arrival from Birmingham has been delayed until 22 Tan thank you Elaine as is 7 minutes past 7 well presenting budget measures and Westminster with the utmost reluctance the secretary of state yesterday said he did not intend to appoint ministers to take political control at Stormont speaking of the House of Commons James Brokenshire said 9 months had. Passed since it was a properly functioning assembly and despite efforts over the last 11 weeks there was still no agreement in bringing the parties together for this most recent phase of the political talks I have sought to help both d.p. And Shin Fein to bridge the gap on a small number of outstanding matters including on language and culture as well as on issues in relation to the continuing sustainability of the executive in doing so I work closely with the arse government in accordance with the well established 3 stranded approach I remain prepared to bring forth legislation that would allow for an executive to be formed should the parties reach an agreement my strong preference would be for a restored executive in Northern Ireland to take forward its own budget but in moving the bill for the budget he said it didn't mean he was instigating direct through passing this budget in Westminster does not mean a move to direct rule any more than did this Parliament legislating to set a regional rate in April once the budget is passed the detail decisions on how it is spent will be made by the Northern Ireland civil service and if as I hope will be the case the parties come together to form an executive in the weeks ahead those decisions but full to their so there is nothing we are doing that precludes talks from continuing an agreement being reached more than 2 men pee in Paisley said passing a budget for Northern Ireland without appointing direct full ministers was not sustainable and the long run the sample as she tonight but on taking us decision there is no clinical accountability and Northern Ireland either to an all functioning exactly of unimportantly tonight to him and his ministerial tame in Northern Ireland even the office not sustainable for any period of time whatsoever must be a political part of all that and he must move there urgently to appoint ministers. Take political control but the secular state said there was still potential for an executive to be formed is not a step I do intend to take as he one I while there is an opportunity for an executive to be formed and there have been discussions that have been ongoing even last week between his party and Shin Fein to find resolution around the outstanding issues between between the respective parties that that executive I think it is right that we continue to pursue that she entertains Johnno died told the evening Extra that austerity will continue and that an executive is the best way to govern our society ministers rather be a director or musters our joint ministers our executive ministers and future years are going to have to reshape our public services beyond current recognition of even the thought exactly of the financial outlook is not going to change we are still going to be fierce with significant cuts as a result of ongoing Tara Tory a story backed up later you pay over the next 2 years there's going to be at least a 3 percent cut to actual speargun power and not 3 percent on cop is based on book information running at 1.6 percent inflation is currently running up to somewhere around 3 percent so it's even worse than perhaps the forecasters have railways so the executive and or exacted of the budgets are going to be frightening but I do believe our executive is best placed to govern our society but it's hard to be an executive for everyone well after a long debate the budget bill was eventually but by all parties without a vote and the bill now goes to the House of Lords and we've been looking at the financial implications for Northern Ireland in light of the passing of the budget particularly health and education we also hear directly from the d.p.p. Later in the program on the issue of tax at 11 minutes past 7 Well if you worked in the public service and someone offered you some money or another form of bribe to do something for them what would you do hopefully not accept it but would you know how to react to it well the well and audit offices. Drawn up a good practice guide and the risks and how to manage them Kiran Donnelly is the Comptroller and Auditor General Ken a very good morning to you thanks for coming in have you been prompted to this by a fear that there's been an increase in the attempts to bribe and corrupt or public servants Nola think the main reason why we decided to do this piece of work is ready to guard against complacency and to raise awareness of the risks and sometimes in the public sector there can be a blind spot as regards bribery of corruption I think in the u.k. Generally you know government is quite clean. Not in itself carries its own rest protecting the rest of complacency where would you say would be the main potential areas for corruption. Attempts at corruption whether 3rd 3 areas it's important not to be complacent ones planning. To procurement on 3 grants. As regards planning. Responsibility was transferred from central government to local government in 2015 and we want to be obstinately sure that the controls are in tip top condition because that's one area where you think that water tight control so what's the advice the advice it's not rocket science some of it is very very simple get the basics right and so often the basics aren't done for example as regards planning procurement we need very very tight controls around conflicts of interests so that's one of the k. Messages and this guy to make sure declarations are to Claire properly managed and if someone comes do is an envelope full of used fivers What do you do what do you do. Well 1st of all you don't accept and. You highlighted to the relevant authorities as soon as possible those channels of communication are already there those styles of communication are already there. That's a very interesting point no because what's really important as regards bribery and corruption normal controls are not very good at picking up these type of things that are all under the radar and off month things do come out is through Wessel blowing so all public organizations need very robust was a blown procedures those are encouraged and those are encouraged I myself. In the people can come to have concerns on people who come to me and confidence as they have concerns about bribery and corruption how often has started kind of how often is that happened well I would come I'm a refuge of last resort for whistleblowers on the legislation I think of one point in time I was going to be people come to me once every couple of weeks. Saying what they've been offered money to the planning application. We bought of a small number in that area but there are wide range of issues from small to large and things like for example abuse of hospitality travel subsistence picture aren't issues they're not all big and not all stock up but as a very important source of intelligence reform I often do pursue the potential corruptors and bribers well. There's a strong prime of the case we will certainly refer the case on for investigation we're not fraud investigators ourselves. Where we get high grade intelligence that something is wrong with a pass to the relevant authorities is going to raise with you by potential sanctions because often you're talking about contracts perhaps worth hundreds or thousands maybe millions of times you can see. The temptation would be to pass a high as in development or win a contract for development Absolutely but their grandmother were Louis the temptations are huge all the more reason to make sure that the controls are absolutely we're told Ok that's the Comptroller and Auditor General Kiran Donnelly on the new guidelines thank you very much indeed for your emotional sake of events over at the news headlines the northern budget bill is set to go before the highs of Lords there is to be an independent assessment of m.l.a. Sell race and M.P.'s are to begin scrutinizing the e.u. Withdrawal and yes good morning Noel it's a much milder start I there this morning temperatures in double figures in some places and no lower than around it though towards parts of the North but a very misty murky start this morning and we drizzly rain in places too particularly in parts of the West Baron's down into parts of for manna but even a stripper running along close to the m one so that's going to make visibility a bit of an issue it's very murky and damp there that is there is a weather sussed system which is edging very slowly side so it could still be a little bit damp times cross for minor parts of Dinah and our mouth through the day towards the north the cloud base lifts up should become drier hopefully and we might even see some bright spots towards the north coast and the Northwest temperatures well I'll be staying around 10 or 11 degrees I threw this evening I think we'll see that any drizzle dying away it's many dry nights still a lot of cloud around to begin with but eventually we could see some clear spirals developing later in the night temperatures then dropping back to say 6 or 7 in the Times but given some clear spouse in the countryside there is a risk that they could temperatures could Diplo or there still might lead to or pockets of frost they are icy paths but I think Forbes is more likely to be an issue as those temperatures dip away and that fog where it does develop lingers into tomorrow morning's rush hour so some visibility issues I think for tomorrow morning that should lift slowly eventually into low cloud hopefully breaking a little bit by the afternoon with some bright spots and recovering to. 9 or 10 degrees. The all misspelled by the vegetation that is b.b.c. Children in need get ready for Eastenders in the West End musical extravaganza right now with. This particular car share I'm feeling. Exclusive Dr Who. Peter taking on Strictly that all. The polls seem to interrupt the party on some tough love man Robinson Yeah yeah join in the b.b.c. Children in the Friday night at 730 on b.b.c. One Northern Ireland big night going up on Friday night here's a question for you oh your eyesight may be a wee bit worse than it was a couple of years ago but how does it do say. Baby but how does it compare to your vision when you were in your twenties you might get away now with a bit of squinting at the newspaper but could per vision be affecting your driving optometrist say they see at least one patient every month who has vision below the legal standard but has continued to drive against advice Reverend Brenda got Pirtle it's nice Natalie died after being hit by a 78 year old driver with perforation it turned out at the inquest for the various up down the x. Participating that he deliberately. Kept driving knowing that he had one which even if of the poll today and in that one I 46 we were pulled up so. Great because of our lax 19 road traffic to been updated to it and the law changed so that you had to have an eye test at regular intervals. She would still be alive sad story there wouldn't speak to Julie and little from the Association of optometrists morning t.j. And. Good morning good morning good morning to hud bigger problem is this. Well I think it's a really all known how big the problem is because so many people don't routinely go and get their eyes tested I think you know as I was ordinary drivers we often feel like you know we got it checked when we passed our task. Therefore it must be fine but our laws are really quite Locsin that's an oxe Lee We have no requirement to have our eyes checked every 10 years when we renew your license and I think that. Is a point of fact that these things can these tragedies can often happen and when when when we really have no standards to here to welcome home interest do then if they are literally sitting face to face with someone and saying you really are not fit to drive your eyesight has let you done because my understanding is that it's up to the driver to a fare themself is not the case that's right although we do as other health care. Giuliani still with us. What a shame right we seem to have lost or damaged trying to get it back and little bit later but little now perhaps he yourself or someone he's recognizing your eyesight as a militia but you're fearful of going to the optometrist or having your license tampered with because of course your means of of independence let us know what you think the tax number of us have mana you can tweet us at b.b.c. t M e b hoping the referee in Dublin tonight has better eyesight than the one in Belfast last week of course is a big night in Dublin the Republic take on Denmark just to secure that spot in the World Cup finals in Russia that's all that's at stake the game in Copenhagen was no long insanities still all to play for and still to the former Republican National Mark Lawrenson and the Danish football reporter close to good morning to you both Mark it hasn't been pretty stuff the Republic's campaign but they are where they are and one push can do it yeah and it won't be pretty stuff tonight no either I don't. I don't see the team changing that we can't really change I just don't know the players that would enable them to change things I think the keep it extremely tight cause one of the worst things would be from the are responding to. A score that maybe got the way to go so we would need to win the prospect of a scoring to win a game at the moment the way the teams are particularly bright but the great thing about it is that you know we are extremely difficult to play against you know the day the weekend although they create a far more chances away do but we speak at it we've got a really good game plan bricks through a really well organized where real danger from step step that pieces and I think if you know even if we get to 70 many too many I mean still know that maybe might be the time to change but in terms of market nobody ever said that they want Britain. Will never change close the mind games have begun Deward Myler saying the Danes do . And you have the character and heart and desire that the Arabs have that's fighting talk. I don't think he's right I think fighting. Him anyway and. Playing at this level. But but if you think that they can pull it that they didn't to be being. Old all you want all you want but Kemp in the Irish company close has been based on one writer today saying grinding teams Dein and breaking their spirit and certainly people said that the Danes in the 2nd half in Copenhagen didn't seem to have any invention any spirit perhaps Martin O'Neill's tactics were working. I think there was a lot of things working favor for Ireland in the 1st issue you're just so. Funny that Kristen Erickson the one guy that everybody had kind of. Expected to to pry open diaries defense he made most passes to the William Crist and the center said. So that kind of. Suggests how how the game went and then there was another thing about the pigs in Copenhagen that was absolute old Megan so the dames who to play to play that one touch. Prefer. Actually it could be playing a bit and then Mark human and you would have been a better to provide a better. Mark Martin O'Neill covering all his options than been practicing spot kicks he says you have to cover all eventualities Oh yeah absolutely well as everybody knows now it's all part and cost of the game and there's also you know the fact that we could go into extra time so that you have to have a little bit of a different look at the substitutions you know it was said before if it's No No 7580 minutes to wait for substitutions in regards to extra time so there are all those things to play with. You know I mean the great thing obviously just listening to Klaus about Christian Action terms of the number of passes that you made to the defensive midfield players and central defenders It sounds like obviously we we did our job the problem tonight will be that there might be a little bit more space for Eriksson to play in which is a worry because he's a really top class Platt. I think he's going to be extremely close this well no I'm really serious a problem we'll go to extra time maybe even penalties close to the Danish manager saying there is just don't want us to make or they just do want us rather to make a mistake that's that's going to be the crucial thing is not keeping yourself saw the back so there's no chance of a breakaway. Could be pretty k.t.s. . So comfy Jacqui with that. Maybe a for if we look at it from from that. Football of us rather than that's. Still true that we could we could hope for a cold kind of. Throw away the entire. Early states but. I spect I mean it's a funny thing with these playoff matches because when you go deep into into these matches with a nil nil band been all of a sudden the mill will be working against Ireland because Will all of a sudden have 30 more minutes score in the starting goal if it goes straight time and that will be still a blow for for Ireland. It could be very very well in doubt but the match where you where you try to avoid making too many mistakes a game of attrition just before we go to know who it's really in the World Cup the 1st time in 16 years seen inconceivable it just seem inconceivable but but it's happened I mean they have been on the wane some are in the last couple of years but as you rightly said it just a massive surprise when when the full rounds of these playoff games started the last team we thought would not make it would have been Italy so yeah the is eerie wouldn't be very happy place to be this morning I would have Mark Lawrenson former Republican national of course and Klaus Allen thank you very much indeed and later in the program we'll be hearing from our supporters carbon Laird an ad local fans get ready to head down the road to the bank on this have a quick look at what the papers are saying this morning Belfast Telegraph front page a quote from the sisters of Michelle because staff explaining why they went to the funeral of Leslie Ross the man they believe killed her we needed to be sure it was him going in there this is just how. The paper The 70 year old stonemason was suspected Alou never convicted of the murder of Michelle because staff and 2 other former partners the paper reports that just 20 people turned up for the funeral there is news has the headline anger has broken sure signs off on 25000000 pounds for disgraced fund the paper reports that the s.t.l. P leader Colm Eastwood has demanded to know a firm's rubber stamp by James Brokenshire last night for the controversial social investment fund had been by our sized over hospital waiting lists teachers or victims of institutional abuse the newsletter features a picture of a largely empty House of Commons yesterday is James Brokenshire brought his budget on insisting it should not be seen as a move towards the end of devotion in Northern Ireland the paper quotes a secular state saying that while it was a government bill it was not a u.k. Government budget and does not reflect the priorities of me or any other minister the government offer to M.P.'s of another vote on record as described by the Financial Times as Mrs may bind to pressure from pro European conservatives sustained pressure says Buzz Feed u.k. The Daily Express calls it a kind on a bribe says the sun according to the Labor List website at provoked joy on the opposition benches for labor m.p. Saw it as a massive victory that humble the prime minister by the not everyone agrees that George Eaton the New Statesman says the government is putting a gun to M.P.'s heads in Dail on the reaction site says the small group of Tories who oppose breaks it does not decide whether they're prepared to bring down the government and split the party in order to achieve their goal Huff Post says nothing has changed except this parliament has left itself hostage to the fact that it's not either May's Deal or No Deal. Taking the time to very nearly half past 7 let's have a new summary with Amri foster the Northern Ireland budget bill is to go before the heist of Lords later after it was backed by all parties in the Commons without a vote M.P.'s were also told by the secretary of state that the 1st 50000000 pounds of money from the confidence and supply deal between the Conservatives and the d p. Will be released in this financial year it will be made available for health and education the former Clark of the assembly Trevor Rini is to carry out an independent assessment of m.l.a. Salaries 90 m. Allays who were elected in March are continuing to receive their full salary even though the assembly has failed to appoint a new executive Mr Rini is to deliver his report by the middle of December teachers will no longer be able to drive school mini buses using a car driving license the department of infrastructures new guidelines state that teachers will need to fill Deewana minibus driving license as well as a driver certificate of professional competence the education authority says it will offer the relevant training but many teachers have said that the move is likely to cost schools thousands of points M.P.'s will today begin their line by line scrutiny of the central piece of Breck's of legislation the e.u. Withdrawal among other things it will repeal the European Communities Act of 1972 which gave e.u. Law supremacy over u.k. Law opponents including Tory rebels have tabled scores of amendments one conservative who doesn't back the government's approach is the former attorney general Dominic Grieve He says the Government's proposal to put a fixed it on Bret's it could lead to a chaotic exit to have a situation where in fact the benefits of a sense of being negotiated breaks it are destroyed because parliament has been made to interact and end date for the membership of the European Union which turns out to be a few days short of what's needed to consolidate the agreement is frankly one of the most silly things I've ever heard a day of national mourning is being observed in Iran for more than 400 people killed in an earthquake on Sunday officials say the rescue operation has largely been completed and they're not focusing on providing aid and shelter. 2 survivors and that's all from me until it pours in sports this good morning to you good morning w.l. If you're feeling in Dublin the Republic will try to book its place in the World Cup finals in Russia the 1st leg against Denmark finished scoreless in Copenhagen holds cities midfielder David miner returns to the side after suspension while up front Darren Murphy or Shane Long may lead the attack how does the manager Martin O'Neill see the game panning art over there I think the onus was on the home side to try and break the opposition dying that may well be the case for us tonight I think the probably bit more room for teams to exploit players like Eriksson good players can always find a little bit of space while hopefully we've learned something from the game stand not might have learned as well I think the game's really in the balance said that the other night and I have no reason to change my mind having watched the game back again isn't about anything can happen. Legendary goalkeeper Jiang Luigi before says he's sorry for all over talian football after the World Cup playoff defeat by Sweden as well he was held to a scoreless draw in Milan last night and had followed the one nil defeat from the 1st leg means failure to qualify for the World Cup for the 1st time since 1958 journalist Ameena Rizieq He says the country Nar needs to find a silver lining after such heartbreak I think that perhaps we need to take this as a good opportunity there's many who wanted us to fall badly so that perhaps it would give us that give Italians and Italian football the chance to rebuild to start from scratch to start voting in the right now both management level and on the bench as well as on the edge and maybe this isn't always a blessing in disguise in the wake of Northern Ireland's failure to reach the finals after that controversial penalty decision on Belfast the Irish f.a. Is set to back the implementation of video assistant referees the i.f.a. Is one of the 5 members of the law making body the International Football Association Board tonight there are 2 friendly internationals England against Brazil and Wales against Panama which could mark Chris Coleman's last game in charge on less a new deal is agreed with the f.a. Of Wales locally Glen Ivan controls the gap on cold rain at the top of the downscale bank Premiership to 5 points with a win at Glentoran the Irgun blues haven't lost in their last 4 meetings with the glens something for Glen Ivan goalkeeper Jonathan Tuffy to ponder. It's always the night but you know one came up they all started in the season and it was a difficult time to tally the 2nd half of the one the way with the points so they had some results with a positive. Night like any game in this league to create a very very fast and then some of you to get on I think from the key and so you know we'll go to a response or program or know where they're out of that we'll try and be at the end of our past and hopefully take something from again. Fraudulent big skier David Darren Hill bronze medalist at the 2013 World Championship has died following a crash in training in Canada and injury has forced were number one Rafa Nadal to pull out of the a.t.p. Finals after a defeat by the Belgian 7th seed David Gough and in the opening round robin match and finally for now is there someone other than the referee your or officials whom you should fear when you're involved in sport well just ask the England head coach Eddie Jones who has apologised after being caught swearing on t.v. During the match against Argentina at Twickenham Jones says his mum wasn't happy oh you see I'm pretty good you know I love college as for the language are you going to Frankel from my mother's morning is 93 rather me out of the knockouts she still tells me. I mean travelling with my mother so that's a big enough. That's a big enough punishment from a I mean the doghouse and I certainly when I do it again told. It's for the rest of the arm oh my Ok for no thank you very much I was travelling as a lad and Belfast the traffic lights on corporations straight at its junction with Corporation Square are right of action at the moment drivers are advice to slow dying and be prepared to give way in terms of the rush hour delays topic is getting busier and Belfast with keys on the junction see it and 6 on the empty towards Belfast junction 5. Then again closer to the city from Junction one we've also got the usual delays on the West language it's busy on the 80 m. Buying or from the rocky road towards value Albert thank you Elaine it is 7 $37.00 spending on health is to increase by 5.4 percent in the budget published yesterday by the secretary of state but will the extra cash deliver improvements to our health system and hard on can we go on without health minister let's ask. I am a Smith director of the Royal College of Nursing and the chair of b.m.a. Northern Ireland's general practitioners Committee Dr Tom Black is on the telephone Good morning to you both You're very welcome So John is 5.4 percent is the headline figure it reads quite well will it make any difference and well I think it certainly helped to balance the books at the end with Mancini year but I don't think it's going to bring a bite change that will see the issues with our way in this access to services transformation nurses pay I don't think is going to do that because we have already been told those things can't be put in place until we have a minister Tom decent making a difference I think this is right I think what we need in the system is transformation we need change we need to use funding we are more efficient plate and effectively I think that this will bring some stability into the system but we need to shorten his waiting list and 2nd care we need to fill the on field posts both in medicine nursing and we need to fix primary care and we need to fix 2nd kids a huge agenda and we need a strategy cept by a minister so that we can put it in place so you think it is time for the secretary of state to appoint ministers to you to provide that leadership that policy direction of movement. I think the frustration that we feel jealous for her nursing members and myself for the doctors is huge at the moment never been the position across here with a lot of government for basically a whole year we need to change broad and if we're going to provide a decent level of care for our community and yes we need a minister in place and you get to the stage where your preference would be for a local minister but you've got to stage where you think you know what anybody will do I'll take the Scottish minister who seems to be in a very good job at the moment. Absolutely I think that time I mean I've said this before nurses see it every day we cannot continue the way you were doing at the moment but what's the mood among arses as you face into they are new will winter pressure period with no leadership on and not a lack of funding but just enough basically to tread water I don't think it has never been washed I think that nurses are going to be in the community in our hospital wards consistently with at least one registered nurse short on the shift but does that mean well what it means is that the registered nurses that are there and there aren't many of them 123 and that they are left then trying to be prioritise care and deciding what care they're going to leave on Don and that is on untenable position for a nurse to be and may know when they go off today that there is care that they should have provided to patients and I say when they go off duty I mean in our later than they should have gone off I don't mean at the time they should have gone off and I think that we we see not I on our register that are similar frequency telling us that more and more nurses and 3035 are leaving the register in the profession they are citing their workload pressures and the caring hands you're telling us that on a day to day basis hour by hour basis there are nurses on wards who are actively saying that patients are going to have to wait I can't look at that I should say that result is the reality of the health service that we are delivered in Northern Ireland I cannot be critical care cannot be care that well influence of patients overall outcome well all nursing care influences a patient's overall outcome and what happens in those circumstances our nurses prioritize to try and keep patients seeth but the things that they do get done with the things that I am deliver compassionate care the take time to be with patients that can actually observe patients that can see things coming down. And track those are the things that and supervise and other staff and actually supporting student nurses the nurses in training those are the things that really are impacting the hand of firefighting Tom are you encouraged to told by the fact that late yesterday afternoon it was revealed that the 1st tranche of the 50000000 pints allocated to health and education under the Tory d u p deal has been released is there a suggestion a hope perhaps that the 200000000 promised under that deal for for transformational delivery might come down the tracks in a rather than later or we live in hope we have to live in hope but just to echo what Thomas said there when he said it's never been worse I want to repeat that it's never been worse and then it's yes and thank you for it the waiting list and the staff shortages are the worst we have ever seen i patients are waiting for the purpose was and they were this was spinal surgery guy rang me us and said it is on me urgent waiting list for spinal treatment and that's a year. And it's not going to go right for Clearly he was apologizing to me for going privately and I said look you've got to get this sorted but then I apologize on behalf of the n.h.s. For failing Um because we're all one community the star or the patience and we really need to do better than we're doing at the moment because people are suffering our old folk setting a home with bad not getting done because we can't get system organized that's not good enough they're going to have to leave it Tom like and again a Smith thank you both so much 42 at a time when you might think it would be more important than ever for young people a new kid to be learning another language figures show a dramatic fall in the number of people wanting to study European and non European languages at university but according to the British Consul which specializes in international cultural relations the 5 top languages the u.k. Needs when it leaves the European Union are in no particular order Spanish Mandarin French Arabic and German reporter Helen Jones has been to Malone college in Belfast . Has come into college in the reception area right in front of me it's like a welcome board various peoples with various flags they're holding There's one from France from India been here for the pains northern Ethiopia Sudan so obviously language is a very important part of the school here Ok Ok no no it's quite and they you know we've got 41 Ok I want to lease that they play one that's an aspiring old. Comedy Imus comedy I must my name is Michael McIntyre I'm the head of languages here in Illinois which there has been such a decline and the uptake of the number of students wanting to study languages the g.c.s.e. It's really being quite hard to am trying to encourage the students to keep on language and they see it quite often there's a lot of negativity towards language learning and they see it as one. The harder subjects will be in Nathan this Green Bay this gravy to personally to cut back their. Own coral. My 2 main teaching subjects are Spanish and French all students study Spanish in year 89 and 10 am it's been benefits for them to concentrate on just one language was to complete an yes. You can play on. Says the an Era Our boys are all into you know Barcelona and Madrid football teams on you know it's just about tapping into what their interests and getting them to say they hear the footballers speak in Spanish on the field and you know so it's about really engaging with am I'm getting them interested on the line which Plus also saying the importance of it as a worldwide language spoken in 21 old countries not just in Spain I'm Keaton on I'm 17 years old when I got the year 10 there was an Austrian she picked the language show I was a does of on the For myself I wasn t. Upset with it but it was felt like I was out of this Vonage compartment peers for militia groups because they have it but I was going for a job and I had a similar g.c.s.e. Such as another individual to seem job but they had to know their language and no longer I feel a bit of an advantage over musical My name's b.-a and I'm 17 years old your specialist language is Portuguese. And you speak in the other languages I learned French but forget most of it is important for you to be able to speak languages Yeah because in our days with most jobs there for people who are able to speak they can turn off only when I moved here that's like the one thing that really surprised me the fact that there are so many people from different countries people from here well want to learn those languages so they can interact with others about the work he and his family My name is that nothing. If they and I have been here for sure year. Pretty much now and you're originally from Spain as like right why do you think languages are important even more now that we're living in the European Union the baseness all around the world are just by land which is even if English is like their principal language and the most important right now really in the world I think countries should focus like more. Languages and they're actually doing meter killer of men. Worth a lot of beer so that's Arabic My name is circularly I would speak Arabic and I'm from Somalia it's not easy to learn Arabic but the most important for me is English because English is the key for all the world Ok I. I'm here and I need to know what is about Chinese Mandarin that will get you on in life if you're into places Chinese memories a good choice because we know that chatter is one of most emerging markets and in the world notice they call Brinks a Korean so fast if you don't Chinese you'll get chimes to trade with Chinese companies which Yeah give you a lot of opportunities. Yeah big issues live in the program we'll do discussing whether the current emphasis on stem science and technology subjects has damaged the learning of books I'm talking about around the table all of our various experience you're very good at German for example you think therefore you're very good at general clothing here is dark and a little bit about your French maybe not I mean that we're all sort of bits and pieces but maybe not the confidence that we need to have a conversation about you know and just a little bit of Spanish Yeah that's because all the way we go. But let us know if you think my valuable is that or should it be that should have a greater profile on the cricket and let us know what you think it one double 71 but now let's take a look shall we at the headlines this morning the Northern Ireland budget bill is set to go before the House of Lords has to be an independent assessment of m.l.a. Salaries and M.P.'s are to begin scrutinizing the e.u. Withdrawal this. Year because. I knew basis. Yeah well I think clearly one of the we've got some of you've got bright. Well if you've got some brightness you're one of the lucky ones this morning generally there is a lot of cloud out there and quite low cloud in places too it's producing bits and pieces of drizzly rain particularly the moment across the Barrens parts of the West this is week weather front it's just nudging its way slowly saw through today so I think we could still see some damp spouse across parts of from managed on and are mad throughout the day to the north of that wealth where it's mainly dry as the day wears on and hopefully we'll see some bright spots developing more so towards the north coast of Northwest unties around 10 or 11 degrees and Alaska traffic control starting with the motorways and traffic gets low on the Mt towards Belfast a junction 5 at Temple Patrick then again closer to the city from our I and Bellevue like you said the am one me in from Junction to Valley scale and again from Junction 3 blacks road right 3 to junction one up Broadway and those delays then continue from Broadway on. The west link towards the end seance The 3 also the traffic lights on corporations straight at its junction with corporations square in Belfast they're out of action at the moment so drivers are advice to be prepared to give way with the French for information well if I want to do the business he's in French no that's a much much happier in English but yes the inflation figures are right later on this morning in Beijing currently stands at 3 percent that's squeezing incomes here as wages are rising at a slower rate than prices might one of the reasons why prices have been on the rise over the last 18 months or so is because of the weakening of Starling since the referendum result as well as increases in the price of things like petrol the Bank of England's target rate of inflation is 2 percent but if inflation is either one percent higher or lower than this target the not means that the governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney has to write a letter to the chancellor to explain why that Target has been missed I've been speaking to Jordan becoming an economist from also universities Economic Policy Center and I asked him what we can expect to find on this morning General economist consensus is for this figure to rise ever so slightly maybe 3 point one might some sort of 3.2 percent returns and much of the recent growth and inflation has been field but it will feel as one at the pumps largely driven by the increase in oil prices but as well as for the electricity prices one of the major agreement amongst economists is following the brakes at referendum that there will be an immediate depreciation starting which has really caused the surge in the inflation price if we think back to the referendum last year engine inflation was at a right no point 5 percent and now as we move forward to November of 2017 but you know half on efficient at 3 percent so that's a very large jump in quite a short space of time and we are seeing not starting to pile the pressure on personal finance as they have or as we move into the medium term the Bank of England mind and their fish report last week to suggest them fish. It should start to edge trying to run the sort of 2.2 percent bins by 2020 it's almost an embarrassing letter for the bank to have to write but I don't think that's as big an issue the bigger concern for me is how the economy responds in terms of this rising inflation on a particular high businesses pay their staff inflation is a big challenge for businesses here seeing an increase in their costs that then has a knock on effect on their customers in the form of higher prices and Jordan told me that this could all have a serious impact on the Northern Ireland economy if consumers have less money to spend the inflation is really an issue for everyone both consumers and the business community from the consumer's perspective consumers are really critical to economic forms in the u.k. And even more so in Northern Ireland and if we don't keep up with inflation we find ourselves finances are being squeezed and consumers can't buy as many goods and services for their money and that's particularly critical as we enter into this Christmas festive period and from the businesses so it's really it's a double edged sword the depreciation Sterling has provided a welcome boost for export oriented firms as they've improved their competitiveness and foreign markets over the rise in addition to has meant the businesses have been forced to pay higher import prices so that's really offsetting the gains they're benefiting from on the export side it's really it's cost of living crisis as inflation says the ends of of the average wage rate which has done for some time now if it really means consumers can't buy as many goods and services for their money so that's a real challenge for the Bank of England as they try to sustain stable prices but as well as managing economic growth for the economy Jordan becoming there from the universities Economic Policy Center at the markets the Fitzy closed down 18 points yesterday so that means it will open shortly at 7415 points a point is worth one $1.31 and $1.00 euro $0.12 and that makes a euro worth $89.00 pence I guess is what the French word for inflation is is it the theme to. I could have probably got that would have been a good guess. Taking as I'm for us to 7 minutes to 8 new research for. And that current laws which prohibit assisted dying in Northern Ireland and across the u.k. Are deeply flawed and are failing terminally ill people and their loved ones Margaret was 35 when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer 30 years later in the field of the disease she considered an assisted death abroad but fearful of the legal implications for her family she stayed and suffered a painful traumatic death at home her daughter Caroline is with us this morning good morning Caroline You're very welcome to the studio Your mother was a fighter that's the place I'd like to get across to people she had cancer since I was 10 and live for every day she was such a fighter and took every day as it came and I think people often think that if somebody's seeking assisted death there are some hard trying to escape she fought cancer for 28 years very valiantly and was a really good samples people who lived around us and when some was diagnosed with cancer they always said you know look at look at Margaret and I long she's kept going and but she had very strong views a bite her death and how she was going to die and what where they so I think she knew that the course of her disease that her death was likely to be unpleasant and indeed she spoke for assisted death of various debates that happened as well so she knew that that was something she would like to consider and I think she was also influenced by watching her parents both my grandparents died of cancer as well and she'd seen them in the last throes of their disease and knew that death death isn't pleasant and I think that's something where people feel modern medicine is going to make their death pain free ever try to persuade her otherwise because often for family members they so desperately do want to lose their loved one that day anything to keep them. You would do anything to keep them and we miss her very dearly but I think when somebody says that it will and in that much pain then I think you would see anything to relieve that pain for them and and she did it wasn't like she hadn't lived with pain she'd had permanent sciatica for running 15 years she said it was like somebody stabbing a knife into her leg and it wasn't she couldn't handle pain is that those last sort of moments of your disease maybe the last 3 weeks or so deeply deeply unpleasant that may assisted death is a byte helping people it's a by mercy and real a fact that final stage of the disease and yet she wasn't able to make it today far advanced was her plan to go there and what sort of well part of me wonders if she ever could have made it to take the task because really you've got to give away a lot of life in order to go to Dignitas because you've got to travel when you're well and so it's a huge decision for somebody to make a nobody takes it lightly so part of me wonders that she wouldn't have done it and but had it been available here I know that she absolutely would have given away those final moments of pain very happily and just saw relief a bit earlier or would you say though to those people who say this is not the right way to approach I understand your compassion but we have to protect those who are diagnosed with terminal cancer on protect their prospects and put shield them from any pretense of abuse I think for anybody who's watched a loved one die in pain I think they will absolutely understand where I'm coming from and for those who worry a bite and we're talking about people here here terminally ill and in paying to me it's a by relieving that agony for them it's not a bite slippery slopes or people being forced into situations there are ways of controlling not and putting in place. Official checks that that doesn't happen but we should be helping people in this day and age I'd have pain very briefly what needs to change in the law I think we need to allow people to take as much pain relief as they wish at death even even if it causes their death can I thank you thank you very much and later in the program we're a country argument counted position some 57 thoughts there with an interruption if you're a person of a certain age you'll be similar with that thing where you walk into a room and stand wondering what it was you came in for or you search for is there for reading glasses that are perched on your head in conversation you reach for a word and it isn't there the name of someone you know well momentarily escapes you you laugh it off but on easily oh lord you think I'm beginning to lose my marbles panic stricken you take up crosswords and Sudoku memory is a marvelous device for learning recording and storing information it's high we identify who and what we are we are the sum of our memories and spend a lifetime adding to our store a hoard of souvenirs and ephemera in an attempt to fix the meaningful moments in the mind's eye lest we forget lest we forget a phrase that cuts keenly to the emotional quick lest we God forbid or a loved one for victim to the predatory cruelty of dementia that sucks out to the self and leaves an empty shell. Memory is at once a blessing and a curse it's the sacredness of memory that carves the legend lest we forget on war memorial and churchyard headstone that drives the family of the disappeared to persevere in their search it's the therapy of memory that briefly transports old people with young back to youthful vigor by the stories and songs of their school days it's the curse of memory that perpetuates the agony of the abused child the victim of the punishment beating the robbed and traumatized pensioner it's the tyranny of memory that condemns us to the political prisoner of the past guarding our bitter archive of historic hate inbred prejudice and ancient and justice our life sentence and our children's legacy memories light to the corners of my mind a sign Barbara Streisand and a 1000 other lyricists who have built an entire industry on people's need for love and fear of being forgotten human vanity is such.