This c.b.c. 5. Country No it's 4 o'clock in the morning this is 5 Live this is up all night and I'm gone it's a substory the u.s. Agrees with Britain that Russia is likely to be responsible for the poisoning of a Russian double agent and in sport he would Indian Wells and he does it Williams big sister Serena sit in straight sets the end had come back to the w.c. I thought. This is b.b.c. 5 with the b.b.c. News on 5 Live his Clare Freeman The u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said it's clear that Russia was behind the poisoning of Sergei scruple and his daughter Yulia in Salzburg to reason May's gave a Moscow until midnight to provide an explanation or Correspondent David Willis is in the us he said those conclusions struck him as accurate saying it was beyond comprehension that a state or another country would do something like this and asked whether the the apparent attack on a NATO member could trigger an allied response missiles and said it certainly will trigger a response that deals being reached between university lecturers and employers have been locked in a dispute over pension cuts if the agreement is passed at the meeting later strike action will be suspended a 17 year old boys been jailed for more than 10 years for attacking 6 moped riders with acid while trying to steal their bikes a judge described Derrick Jones' crimes as despicable and cowardly the United States has drafted a new un Security Council resolution demanding a 30 day ceasefire in Syria the us Ambassador Nikki Haley claimed to Russia failed to instill a previous ceasefire was implemented we support the United Nations political process that seeks to end the war in Syria. But we also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and any human suffering most especially the outlaw Syrian regime the United States remains prepared to act if we must campaigners want health warnings to be put on Chinese takeaways and ready meals because of high levels of salt the group action on salt tested dishes at 6 outlets in London's Chinatown and more than 100 supermarket Mills Sonia Pombo is from the group it came back with quite some shocking results she had some takeaways if you know combined a main like meat dish with a noodles or a rice you'd be looking at 912 grams of salt in that one meal which is double the amount that we should be having in a whole day it's massive amounts that we're talking here in response Public Health England says it will report later this year on whether the industry is meeting the 2017 so targets it has set a film and that c.s.s. God known as the book keeper of Auschwitz has died at the age of 96 Oscar Groning was sentenced to 4 years in jail in 2015 but never began his sentence because of a series of appeals Dr Scanlon is an expert in the Holocaust history he was responsible for bookkeeping recording things that had been stolen from people counting money that had been stolen from people because as you can imagine people coming into Auschwitz are coming in from all corners of Europe so they're coming in with different currencies and he's responsible for kind of filing them putting them together and sending them back to Germany and then independent chicken shops as it's being bullied by numbers because it's threatened by its success Nando's has launched legal action against Fernando's in Redding accusing it of breaches of copyright news let's get the sport would shop now just a city of just 2 wins away. From being crowned Premier League champions and it could happen on Dobby day with victory of a 2nd place rivals Manchester United 2 goals from David Silva helped Pep Guardiola side to a comfortable to know when of a struggling Stoke to restore the 16 point lead at the top Southampton of Sox manager pal agree no after just one win from their last 17 league games as understood the hoping to have a replacement sim by the weekend Michael Carrick is retiring at the end of the season after 12 years with Manchester United the 36 year old who suffers from an irregular heart rhythm says he wants to leave the game on his own terms Well number one Roger Federer is through to the last 16 Indian Wells off to beating a Philip Cryan of h. 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I had a very good morning to you it's me connoted you 2 now and 5 o'clock now from the cold of the Winter Paralympics to the heat of the Australian sun from the massive success of the latest escape this superhero Marvel film to the horrific reality of events in Salzburg beginning around the globe in the next hour we'll be live on the hills above him Chang in a few minutes time to hear Britain's Olympic hopes of going at the Winter Games the days of a quick easy test for skiing counts or maybe just be around the corner the latest on the test results coming out of Australia a bit later in the 1st superhero film with a mainly black cast has taken over a $1000000000.00 of the box office it's a milestone in equality in Hollywood and we'll hear how the cast in the studio has done it we're also off to find out more about the nerve agent used in the poisoning of former spy Wilcher and why the spring statement from the chancellor of the Exchequer is probably not going to be much to write home about which in itself is something to write home about. We start this hour though with the news that a former Nazi s.s. Guard who was known as the book keeper of Auschwitz has died aged 96 in 2015 Groning was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment but never become his sentence due to a series of appeals that supported died in the hospital on Friday he was quite likely the last of the Nazis to stand trial for their actions in the 2nd World War Dr Anna Scanlon is an expert in Holocaust history Oscar Groning it was in the s.s. In 1942 he started working in Auschwitz a what you would call a desktop murderer in that even they have any hands on. How do I say how do I put it he didn't murder anyone. Explicitly has it in fact yes exactly but. He and that's why he thought that he wasn't guilty of any crime actually which is quite interesting but he was responsible for bookkeeping recording things that had been stolen from people counting money that had been stolen from people because as you can imagine people coming into Auschwitz are coming in from all corners of. Europe so they're coming in with different denominations of money different currencies and he is responsible for kind of filing them putting them together and sending them back to Germany. Groaning is what's really interesting about him as well is that he claims that he found out it's to be kind of unpalatable and asked to be transferred a couple of times and he actually was transferred in 1904. So he said that he found the whole situation to be rather gross and he witnessed a couple of things he heard some people being killed in the gas chamber at one point and he had seen a really awful thing happen with a baby at one point so he. He decided he wanted to be transferred away and so he finally was in 1944 and he was sent to the front at that time but what's interesting about running I think is that he kind of incriminated himself because he had somebody mentioned to him that the Holocaust never happened and he said wait a minute I was there it happened I know it happened and so he became kind of an advocate of speaking out against Nazi ism and growing tired of neo Nazi ism and Holocaust denial by sharing his own story and he shared his own story with the b.b.c. And that was actually used against him in 2015 I think it was when he was then stood trial for the murder of 300 if the murder of 300000 people between 299300000 people he said in his trial that's. He asked for forgiveness he shared I think morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law you will have to decide now of course the judge decided that he was guilty and he was sentenced for a it was over it was a very short sentence but it was because of his age and because. Well I don't know why because really Of Them Honest. Tonight it's thought that he will probably be one of the last Nazi war criminals to face trial that the won't be any more and it was it was his case was unique in many ways because so many people had walked free from and had been found not guilty because there was no direct link to them and specific deaths in the camps and yet here was somebody who was convicted who said that the only done is witness them is there a feeling of of justice not having been served with him. I would say personally as a historian looking at this. At him in general and looking at you know the different people that had been put on trial just as I don't feel was served very well at all it seems that if you go back and look at the different time periods that you know there was a big big thing as you know trying to get everybody if you had been involved in the Holocaust trying to capture them all you know in 1045046 to show off you know the Allies had won to show off their you know their Vic their victorious nature and everything and then the interest kind of died down and then in the sixty's you had a capture of Eichmann and then there were some other people that were captured with him that a lot of people don't know about and then the enters kind of die down in all cases people sentences were commuted I don't know that the. General public necessarily knows this because they know that the high ranking officials were executed it was a big show but a lot of these like smaller people like people who even directly is out with us now switched Auschwitz or other camps they would serve time but then oh no they were let off the good behavior they were Ok so they were just sent out back into the world there is even a case of a woman who became a doctor again and she had been experimenting on people in one of the camps and 'd she was had her doctors license only revoked because somebody recognized her and it was thought that maybe we should refer her license now but a lot of people got their licenses back lives normal lives. So I don't know if you heard anything about Eva Moses core who is an Auschwitz survivor he was experimented on by Mengele with her twin sister twin sister passed away when I say about 1015 years ago that she feels that all these people should be forgiven which is a very controversial thing as you could imagine. In her community but she was on this trial she was one of the plaintiffs in the in this trial and she spoke out against sending him to any kind of any kind of prison because she thought that it was too little too late that he should be doing community service for the rest of his life and I I find that to be interesting and I find that to be I believe that she's probably right because at this point there has been or you know with Demjanjuk and a couple of other people there is a resurgence of trying to capture these Nazis again but at the same time it's like well why didn't we do it earlier why why did we stop caring Why are we only suddenly caring again does that make any sense and does the day is the danger the as it gets we've moved to a stage where the can be no more convictions when I go have died on. The nobody left from from from that whole generation of people who were there the the Holocaust will start to move into something of the past rather than being something of the present. Definitely it well and I've already seen in myself just in my own work I've seen lots of uptick in minimalizing the Holocaust you know working in the Holocaust in general you get you know weird e-mails here and there and things like that but I feel like in the past couple 3 years there's like a huge uptick in it and people trying to minimize it trying to overshadow a trying to make it seem like it wasn't as big of a deal as a was what wasn't you know this huge culturally shifting moment. In history and I find that to be rather dangerous because the now as holocaust survivors are dying off it seems that this movement seems to be gaining speed a little bit definitely as you can tell from Acts and I'm from America but I live in the u.k. And it definitely seems to be gaining speed a little bit in America and a little bit and Britain as well I cannot be stopped is just education that can that can try and slow that's happening I don't now I think education is definitely key to a lot of it but it makes it more difficult now when we don't have someone to look into the eyes who was actually there who can actually convey the story now it's relegated to something in books now it's you know something like reading about and by the time I have children and they're grown up it's going to be something like reading about the American Civil War You know it's something where we don't know anyone who is there. Dr Anna Scanlon 415 the time tennis now and Serena Williams has come back is over at the hands of her sister Venus windy and well the time is correspondent Russell Fuller was watching as hopped back from from interview various people relatively straightforward to Venus in the end it was in the end and she played a good match there was pressure on her she doesn't have a very good record against her sister in recent years and she's the player who's been playing a more regular show Jule over the past year while her sister has been giving birth and suffering a pulmonary embolism in the days that followed the birth of Alexis a limp here she's the 8 seed and she played very well for the most part she got very nervous towards the end as so when a threatened to come back to her quite a few unforced errors too many double faults from Venus Williams But she was the better player the more consistent player she won 6364 there were areas you'd expect from Serena listed a lot of rust It's her 1st tournament since the Australian Open of 2017 that concluded at the end of January 27th so it's inevitable that it's going to take her a while to get back to her best but I would say on the whole it's been a very encouraging start for her to win 2 matches in straight sets and to get the experience of playing a top 10 player albeit her sister on a big show called again could only help her in the weeks and months to come and how was how they say they received at the game because the been problems in the past that's been put to one side but it was with a welcomed to this huge stage Yes Very much so the events of 2001 were just to recap briefly Venus pulling out of a semi final with Serena just a few minutes before the match because of tendonitis in her knee the crowd did not take too kindly to that when Serena came back to play the final against a couple of days later and Venus and father Richard came into the stand to watch there was a lot of booing and cheering unforced errors were booed by Serina by the unforced errors by serene. Were booed by the crowd and the family are absolutely no doubt that there were some quite strong racist undertones as a result so William stayed away for 14 years Venus Williams stayed away for 15 years she said she didn't really want to think about that but she hadn't thought about that as they prepare for this match in 2018 and the World Cup was every bit as warm as you'd expect it to be thankfully will they play together again in the future do you think I'm sure they will at some point you do wonder how long they'll both be out on top so we know Williams $3637.00 in September Venus Williams 3738 in June but given that the this is the 8th seed and Serena's ranking will rise very quickly then you think there are going to be meetings between them later in Taunton as he's unusual that they would play at this early stage relatively early stage the 3rd round stage we used to seeing the meeting in finals and semifinals because they've consistently been amongst the highest ranked players in the world Russell restore thanks so much for 18 the time a highly accurate online skin cancer test that can identify people at high risk of melanoma in just 90 seconds has been developed by Australian researchers it predicts the likelihood of developing the disease over the next 3 and a half years it was created with data collected from the world's largest skin cancer study overall mights filmers the joins me from Sydney how does this test work. These results are calculated based on age gender your ability to tan the number of moles you might have had at the age of 21 the number of skin lesions you had treated the color of your hair and how sensible you are with your use of sun cream this is essentially an early warning system to allow prompt diagnosis and treatment for those at risk of melanoma Australia has the highest rates of this disease anywhere in the world and Queensland researches have developed this online test that as you say can identify those most at risk from melanoma in just a minute and a half and it's using what's happened in the past to predict what's happening in the future it's one of these scientific studies that really does play the long game now this is the word the Q I m r Birkhoff a medical research institute in the Australian state of Brisbane and they've followed about $45000.00 people with melanoma over the course of a year so this is a huge study the biggest of its kind anywhere in all the data that's come out of this study has been used to help craft this online test and scientists here in Australia do say that this test this online test that as we say gives as far as they're concerned a pretty reliable indicator as to what might happen in the next 3 and a half years scientists do say that trials have shown it to be highly accurate doesn't work for everyone because it's no use really until it works for everyone as it. At the moment there is no national screening programme for melanoma there are for other types of cancers here in Australia for example the bowel cancer is one of those cancers that does attract a nationwide screening people can receive kits in the post so certain types of cancers well catered for in a nationwide scheme when it comes to melanoma there is no nationwide program to make sure everyone has their skin checked you can book yourself into a skin cancer clinic can be pored over by an expert's and that is clearly the advice too but for the most people getting that early warning is absolutely key Orthorexic here in Australia predict that this year 2000 people will die from melanoma that's about 5 deaths each and every day and $14000.00 cases will be diagnosed annually and the reason that Australians are a far greater risk of melanoma than people in other countries is a combination of a lot of people with fair skin living in a country with very high levels of sunlight Sydney for example Nick has on average about 7 hours of sunshine each each and every day but looking out of the window here today it's like a rainy old. Than Than sunny Sydney today but there is there is there's no sort of stigma or toll attached to trying to protect yourself from skin cancer and Australians know all the Seems to be less bravado that there is in some parts of the world everyone seems to realise what the risks are. Well the sun is dangerous and when your skin when your skin tans it's being damaged and Australians have that drilled into them at a very early age I remember being. A few months ago and one of the England supporters I was chatting to he was a goddess that they are I was sunshine sunglasses and a long sleeve shirts and had a slightly white look about me with it with a song cream and he was saying God Goodness me people in this country they just hide from the sun and that's that's exactly what it is in certain instances you go down the beach and people are under umbrellas they are taking care with some cream people know how fierce the sun can be in this part of the world and I would imagine if you took an anecdotal poll on any of the beaches on a hot day here in Sydney for example Nick those people who are baking themselves in the sun I would imagine most of them would not be from Australia because as I say it is drilled into people here at a very early age it's often you go into the sun. Without protection at your peril it's part of I mean it's part of the curriculum as it's taught in schools. Well my girls who go to school here they are not allowed to go outside in the playground unless they wear their hats and put sunscreen sunscreen on so it is you're absolutely right it is part of the curriculum if you go online and type in slip stop slap there is a very old in a very famous Australian t.v. Adverts with I think it's a duck you slip on or perhaps sunglasses slips up slap and the slop I think is putting some cream on but it's that message it's a very old down but it has endured through the years it's been modified over time but the message is still the same that the antipodean sun can be extremely fierce and it doesn't take too long to be outside in the sun even on a fairly cloudy day to feel the effects and as I say most Australians are very well aware that melanoma is the 4th most common cancer in this country and as we say Australia has the highest rates of melanoma in the world and it is of course the most serious form of skin cancer but you speak to doctors here Nic and they say it is highly preventable So one final thing just for you go firstly is available now and secondly is it available to anyone who's frankly not in Australia does the research hold roles were. Well I would imagine that the research has been tailored for Australian conditions as we say the the the fact that Australians have a greater risk of melanoma than people in other countries is a combination of fair skin and very high levels of sunlight but I would imagine that if you go on to the Q I m r Birkhoff or medical research institute in the Australian state of Brisbane on their front page has been this research and you can do the test for yourself it doesn't take very long and there are 5 categories the worst is very much above average risk for melanoma at the bottom very much below average risk so it is open as far as understands it to everyone and of course skin cancer and that type of melanoma is not restricted to a hot sunny countries like Australia felt thank you so much for that not a problem skin cancer working nights at the moment looking outside the windows here from the c.v.s. It's $25.00 past 4 Black Panther has made more than a 1000000000 us dollars at the global box office $26.00 days after its release the film stars British actors Daniel KOHLER Leticia Wright and Martin Freeman It's the 5th in Disney's Marvel Universe to reach the milestone it's the 1st superhero film with a predominantly black cast and has been praised by Michelle Obama for its inclusive a-T. . I've seen men build weapons I can even imagine. I see illions. From the sky. Seen anything like this image for you I think. Britney Danielle writes for Teen Vogue The Guardian and essence among girls very good morning to you. What's been the success of the film and why. I think one is aside from being a superhero movies so it comes with the backing of you know everything that Marvel puts find their movies all of the action all of the story crafting is firmly within . The Marvel Cinematic Universe so it already has a certain built in audience but prior to release Black Panther and. Sort of the team around the. Fans just really gravitated toward it particularly. Fans of color and they really were excited about the film before you know a year before it was announced a year before it hit theaters United hashtags like Black Panthers the lyric. You had people you know trying to figure out what outfit today would wear to be the film it really became sort of a fan phenomenon even way before the film came out does it work with the rest of the series of the series is it's a universe that. Does this film work in the. White House or is is definitely a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so we were fans were introduced to his character to challenge posed to Ted with bows and carry such a challenge in the previous Captain America movie so we got a little bit of Black Panther. Not quite his whole origin story but we got a little bit of his story in the previous Marvel movie and then the his origin story movie came out it's still very much an action film with superhero film but it's also very different and then the other sounds and the universe is not just about the big explosions and the fighting and the action and has all of that but it also has deeper conversations. Happening within the African Diaspora and it also has conversations about. Father son relationships responsibility as members of the community and so it has a lot more of a layered. Experience than in previous Marvel so and because of its popularity we're now seeing that you know it's a child who is the Black Panther. Who's played by the Nigeria character. They're going to also be in the next Avengers movie so there is definitely a tie in across the whole universe. Because it's still a Marvel film but it's also a very much different film than than others and given the amount of money that it's made it would be a. Film producer who didn't realize the the future potential full well making films of such inequality play and not only this from the previous. Another franchise that is one of the most popular and also one of the love. Profitable is the Fast and Furious franchise in the last film also made over a $1000000000.00 worldwide It also had a black director with and Gary Gray It also had a very diverse cast of people on Mashonaland even races so I think one of the things how you would particularly has really been slow to pick up on is that films live multi-ethnic diverse cast films of women playing very prominent roles aren't profitable and yet every time I have been invited to kind of surprised even though you know another film came before it that was also profitable with the diverse cast So yes there are definitely going to. Produce a sequel there's nothing else and hopefully this will just be one more example I'm still mad at me no it is inclusive is diverse is different but is also extremely profitable thanks so much time now it's 431 form digital on smartphones and tablets this is b.b.c. 5 Live and Claire's got the latest news update the u.s. Secretary of state turns agreed with the u.k. That Russia was likely to be behind the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter to reason may said if there's no credible response from Moscow by midnight then the government will conclude there has been an unlawful use of force the Chancellor will deliver his spring statement later ministers have ruled out any significant changes to tax all spending but Philip Hammond will argue Britain's national debt is still far too high 3 judges the High Court will hear a legal challenge today against a parole board's decision to release the serial sex offender John Worboys Police believe the former black cab driver attacked more than $100.00 women and the trials beginning of what's become known as the millennium rail card to give passengers aged between 26 and 30 a 3rd off most fares in Britain headlines and Russell follow her boss at Indian Wells where the main news is that phoney The 2nd time since 2009 Venus Williams has beaten her sister Serena and ended her 1st comeback totemic to the w.t. a Tour after becoming a mom Venus played the better tennis there are too many arrows from Serena to be expected on her return and Venus won 6364 despite a bout of nerves later on when Serena threatened to get back into the contest Serena heads to Miami Venus Williams on into the 4th round here at Indian Wells Now the rest of the day's sport from Shabnam Eunice Joel Monday. The city I just see wins away from lifting the Premier League trophy after the latest to know when of a struggling Stoke to make things even more interesting Pep Guardiola side could win the title on Dobby day by beating 2nd place rivals Manchester United but it sounds like the boss has already had enough of being asked about that prospect the 5th journalist asked me the same question so important the 12 Amar's who have 81 points and that is. That is a lot so a lot of points it's not in part I understand for the fans Ok but the importance to be champions when where it doesn't matter Meanwhile Paul Lambert side remain in trouble at the other end of the table they're still in the bottom 3 with no wins in 6 games. And those who said oh yeah Ok we will is as much as I say the other games left of. Brain which have to take points with. The. Points and we see from 4 foremost to 12 is not want to talk Southampton have signed to manage Emirates a pal agree no we're just 8 Premier League games remaining this season they're going to get a replacement in before the f.a. Cup tie with Wigan on Sunday a senior football reporter in Dennis has the latest Southampton McCain to have a richer pelligrino successor in place by the weekend the decision to dispense with a 46 year old Argent time was not a short have to Saturday's toothless display at Newcastle It's now one win from their last 17 league games and Southampton a teacher in just above the bottom 3 Marco Silver is the favorite there's been interest in him before from Southampton and his availability would enable the club to works with Michael Carrick says he wants to retire on his own terms for announcing he'll quit football at the end of the season the 36 year old who's won the Champions League and 5 Premier League titles with Manchester United suffers from an irregular heart rhythm the Leeds owner Andreea Robertson has written to the Football Association Premier League and a.f.l. To ask the Clark. Vacation on the link between wolves an agent Mendez Rajat Sahni question the legality of their association on Twitter after the championship leaders beat Leeds 3 nil last Wednesday defending champion Roger Federer is through to the last 16 Indian Wells after a straight sets victory of a Philip crying of h. But how does the well number one feel about chasing his 6 championship in California with no big games like Nadal and Murray competing many times look to the draw and I'm like oh God you know like last year rough as my 2nd round or something so I preferred it rough as not in my 2nd round but. At the same time enjoy playing the guy just because it's one of the ultimate challenges to play Novak and the roughest you name it all these guys but of course there's a different vibe and all these guys are not around but you know you can only beat the guy was opposite to you and Don I'm on says he'd be happy to play anywhere in the back row fees paid by England for the final $6.00 nations much against Ireland the exits a funk a go to call it by Eddie Jones after injured Courtney Lawes and Nathan he's ruled out of Saturday's clash at Twickenham when England will be trying to stop Highland from claiming the crown slam squad this is b.b.c. 5 live on digital online smartphone unstoppable good morning for much of England and Wales Monday was rather grey and wet at times but we should have a much better day today perhaps for many Tuesday will feed the best day of the week so let's take a look at some of the detail then starting off in Scotland in Northern Ireland the chance of some patchy not drizzle 1st thing for northern coast inland though the winds will be light in those be a few breaks in the clouds a chilly start low single figures expect a touch of light frost and sheltered limbs of Scotland there will be some clarity around particular in central and eastern parts and the risk of an isolated chasseur the best of the sunshine for Northern Ireland and western Scotland today high 6 to 9 Celsius for Wales in southwest England here we see perhaps some of the best weather predominantly dry with some lovely suppose the sunshine coming through winds will stay long. And temperatures peaking at 10 or 11 degrees now for the millions in the east in England this is a little bit of early morning rain to East Anglia early on to be quite fingers crossed for tired will break into the afternoon for an occasional glimpse of sun with highs for 11 Celsius by Wednesday though it's change again although it's going to be a rather slow one winds will strengthen across the country as a deep area of low pressure drift towards the u.k. Now this low is likely to stay out in the Atlantic and fronts around the low will bring some rain into southwest England Wales Northern Ireland and western fringes of Scotland we're not expecting the rain to be too heavy and there is a level of uncertainty how far inland it will drift the further east with winds coming from the south despite him being stronger we'll see some lovely breaks in the cows and decent spells of sunshine and highs possibly a 15 Celsius make the most of it or change as a brisk is set to return by the weekend. Whether podcast available now to me and the big c We are 3 friends until August we've all got one thing in common we all have a chance the train pulls into the station this ill thought right now it's really negative scary thoughts like yeah I was out I don't like paid I thought I see my consultant came in with I how you know so I just want to go home and have must precise very red wine talking about what it's really like deal with the dreaded big c This is rubbish we paid only with our Welcome to you me and the bitch say so it's 5 lies in your podcast are. For 38 the time to reason May says it's highly likely that Russia was responsible for poisoning the foremost by surrogate scrip our daughter Yulia with a rare nerve agent insult the prime minister has given President Putin until midnight tonight to come up with an explanation it is now clear that Mr script and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of the type developed by Russia. This is part of a group of nerve agents known as no factual. Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world leading experts at the Defense Science and Technology to poetry at Porton Down our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so. Russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against. Scripture and the u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson agrees that Russia was probably to blame but the Russian foreign ministry has called it a circus show in the British parliament and part of an information and political campaign based on provocation associate professor like say more or more of a off as a leading expert on Russian security and defense a Curtin University of Western Australia very morning we've heard what the Russian foreign ministry has said how can we be so abrupt about this well I mean I don't think any any any country. That allegedly being involved in the cover the duration would actually disclose any details I mean when you when you engage I mean you've sort of covered it to you just whether it's just an average of us gathering or a special type of a ration so your dog is clean gaijin deniable isn't religious so you would effectively say it wasn't us and we have no knowledge of that never happened it's not our practice and so on and so forth. That is. Well it does seem to be fairly obvious though I think when within come to chill finance on the investigation the investigations will prove to be really difficult to establish on the liable links between what may seem to be perceived sanctions by the Russian government and those who would actually be responsible for carrying out this assassination I mean normally this sort of a derision if it's if it's sanctioned and executed by the state it's done in the way that the state although his lee be in not just in complete denial but any any traces any any form of formal communique would have been nonexistent or would be almost impossible to access so what could be the motive in the suggesting that in some ways. It could be a false trial. Well I'm not suggesting it could be a false trail I I simply suggest we should not expect that the Russians would come out clean guilty and ask him and asking for forgiveness they will continue to deny because they would continue to accuse the waist of. Of a smear campaign that would continue to to describe this as a political circus something that is mean incredibly politically motivated something that the West got into the habit of blaming Russia for everything that is happening in. So but of obviously in terms of in terms of the interest why why did the Russians do it while I'm We may be able to find 2030 years' time politically it wouldn't make any sense for them to do it right now because the momentum of Allen attack can be worst. Given the fact that Russian presidential elections will be held this Sunday and obviously this will be pointed in the Kremlin in this with the pointedly the mere Putin who is likely to win the elections and even though it is unlikely that someone would question the outcome of the elections it would make very difficult for the Russian mind to to to sort of come out and present itself in a constructive form when the British government clearly accuses of state sponsored terror states things and terror on on its on its home soil so I think it will be it will be rather difficult for Western leaders to to engage in a new form of dialogue with the Russian government if Russia will be implicated or been responsible for for this attack I originally present we're not really sure that thanks so much for your time really appreciated set up because the time was when the government's main budget was in the spring but that's been replaced by the Chancellor or some statements later today the government and Philip Hammond is going to present his sperm. 1st spring statement to the House of Commons setting out Britain's economic position our political correspondent is Chris Mason but we began by talking about the big issue that's really dominating Westminster and that is the Salzburg poisoning it's novel really because Bracks it is this all consuming issue for parliament and yet along as come this event in Solsbury in Wiltshire which for the last 7 days or so it's been the dominating conversation at Westminster as it has been really around the country and those central questions a lot of them remain unanswered so who was responsible who were the individuals or the individual directly responsible in Salzburg how far up the political chain in Russia if it is Russia and the government assumes it is now does the responsibility go how did this nerve agent get into the u.k. Undetected what kind of range of options is the given government considering in response we heard yesterday didn't with a very striking and powerful rhetoric from the prime minister was a big moment for the prime minister in the Commons yesterday but rhetoric is one thing finding an answer in terms of the nature of the response and sanctions against Moscow is another not just the range of options that might be considered but the kind of options that might actually touch the sides been notice to make a difference in terms of in terms of how they go down in Russia so yeah a lot of consideration being given here on all sides of the political divide yes a bit of a spat yesterday about Joey Corbin the Labor leader deciding to have a pop at the conservatives for who they accept donations from that was roundly condemned by not just conservatives but looked at pretty skeptically by some labor m.p. Sitting behind him as well but that the focus of the essence of the conversation on all sides about the the central kind of geopolitics here really how does the u.k. Respond to this kind of attack on its own soil. Against a country that quite a few M.P.'s were willing to say as now completely gone rogue. I was going to say Were people surprised at what the Reserve may said but actually what I mean to say is we you surprised at what reason is that she came out and and as you say was quite forceful in watches that but that's that's a brave thing to do yeah it is it is big particularly because up until yesterday the government very very consciously say for that one moment last week when boys Johnson the foreign secretary started talking about withdrawing dignitaries from the World Cup apart from that moment every official government pronouncement last week about what happened in Salzburg effectively was done so with a pause button pressed because the government kept saying we will respond in the fullness of time but we've got to wait for some evidence now clearly as I say there's a 1000000 and one questions we still don't have an answer to but what we do know now via that statement from the prime minister is that she is confident it is this particular nerve agent of military grade that could only be produced by a state and in her view in all likelihood was a region be produced by the Russian state now she acknowledges there is and there remains a question as to whether or not it was administered by the Russian state or Russia had somehow lost control of it and it had passed into other people's into other people's hands now in terms of the level of surprise to answer your question Nick from the prime minister the had been those around her who had been pressing her to be rebuffed in her response she could've potentially fudged it today yesterday and said let's wait for more evidence we're not quite there yet we're in the business of governing by the rule of law and evidence she did say she did say that but she concluded that because of the testing that has been carried out on the . Samples of this nerve agent that they found there was enough for her to say what she did say. And as you say that is quite politically brave perhaps necessary in the in the current context but nonetheless she decided to go ahead and do it but what's striking I think is by setting this deadline of midnight tonight this ultimatum for the Kremlin to come back with arms as about whether it was responsible or it's lost control of this stuff means that the has to be a 2nd tier the next stage and the next stage is much tougher because it goes beyond rhetoric to say whether it's the expulsion of diplomats or looking at the whole business of visas or the property and money and assets of rich Russians who are based in the u.k. Or even some talk of could our intelligence services g c h Q one of those be involved in some sort of some sort of cyber attack against the Russians as a kind of counterattack against what's happened they are the kind of ideas that are currently floating around that could amount to what the British government does in direct action response to what we've seen happen and and I only ask this one very briefly because there's another area I want to talk about but but it's a complicated area for Labor to be in as well because they don't it's very difficult for them to know how to push it it is and I think we saw that we saw that manifest itself in the nature of the response from Jeremy Corbyn and then from of the Labor M.P.'s in the Commons on the one hand there was a real sense yesterday a real sense in the Commons chamber of it being one of these national security moments where broadly speaking the yah boo of daily domestic party politics tends to be left to one side and there is a and added If you like respect for the office of Prime Minister from and peace from other parties if not for the current occupants if you see what I mean. However as I say Germany Corben decided very specifically to go on a critic go on the criticism of the donations that conserves of the have accepted. From those of Russian heritage more broad lays Scottish nationalists and others a good number of Labor backbenchers like Yvette Cooper the chair of the home affairs select committee striking a more consensual tone with the government from Labor's perspective they've also faced the tricky question that plenty of their M.P.'s have been more than willing to talk to are to say Russia today that the Russian international news channel we saw over the weekend John McDonnell the shadow chancellor saying that he now acknowledged that that wasn't a good idea and he wouldn't be appearing again you know it's kind of slapped down a little bit by Jeremy Corbyn for saying that the argument being from some that we should say remains outlet that is broadcast free to air in the u.k. And is regulated by off calmly communications regulations so the argument from some is then why shouldn't Labor M.P.'s be able to appear if they are invited if they're invited on it but yeah you're right it is one of those ones that in terms of the response you see around the house it's doesn't immediately fall down the usual tram tracks of party politics right now I actually didn't want to keep you away could till this time of the morning just to talk about that because the other area that we want to talk about is the autumn statement now I remember a strange statement the spring statement yes the spring so you see here you see how confusing it is used to be a time when all we live for with these statements the whole of your agenda the whole of oh yeah my agenda was just waiting for these we we expected them we're excited by them weeks in advance and this one is just jumped up we don't know anything much about it what Yeah happened yeah I mean part of that is because of the conversation we've just been having you know the conversation around Russia and souls Prius been completely dominating the other big thing of course which drowns out everything politically at the moment is Brecht's and it speaks to the scale of what happened in Wiltshire last week that breakfast as a news story has been on the back burner for the last week or 2 but also the other reason why this. Statements at lunchtime today has barely barely hits the radar is intentional from the chancellor's perspective so what we've got into the habit of at Westminster in recent years is a plan something then a region instituted by Labor and carried on by the coalition and the conservatives was to basically have 2 budgets a year you'd have a proper budget and then you have an Autumn Statement always optimistically called an autumn statement as it was frequently in December anyway along comes this spring statement again rather optimistic I know it's March and hasn't felt like spring has it which is coming along at lunchtime but actually Philip Hammond has decided it won't have any tax and spending measures in it in other words the very staple of a budget stuff that the government wants to you know supper tax on and stuff that it wants to spend our taxes on as public government spending instead all we're going to get is the chancellor responding to the legally mandated new forecasts from the independent forecasts of the Office for Budget Responsibility So we'll get that he'll talk a bit about various consultations that the government is going to going to launch consultations don't make for particularly sexy had lines but you can make the argument that they are a sensible way of governing you know x. Ask expert stuff about stuff you want to legislate on in the future so there's going to be this consultation about single use plastics potentially could stray into what should happen to chewing gum made as it is of synthetic rubber so the chewing gum might feature from Philip I meant I don't think you'd be partaking in chewing it was delivering his 15 minutes statement I think overall my prediction Nick would be that the words of the chancellor at lunchtime unlikely to intrude particularly significantly on to 5 lives child coverage it's not one of those where Cornelius Lysaght is going to be interrupted for a very long Christmas and there so let's go off to the South by Southwest festival in America Kerry Flynn is business reporter at Mashable she's been enjoying the festival the last couple of days where the interactive the film the music industry's all come together good morning to you one of your being your highlights from this. Higher Things having Leon it's actually a good evening Carol but the highlight of the festival I would say what exactly this year is up by the for while reading about what the hottest treaded bulbul apps and we haven't really seen a lot of technology there right now but do you think fasting is the power of audio here there's a lot of cool have to be said for a lot of different companies I would say. Just a guess but Sony and those have quite divisions ashore the power of audio to augment your surround something that has talked about that really showed them experience before really cool throughout the festival evil Musk Sunday column Steven Spielberg it's a heck of a line up a myth. Yeah and you said you won what's the thing is he was the only original schedule so you know people have their whole days in their conference playing you were just swamped already 30 was coming at the side I was coming for the guys so I had to rewrite the schedule what there were thousands of people I wanted to go see him for he had a beret and I would say it sort of what he talked about there was nothing that was kind of like an typical kind of a. Very wary of our artificial intelligence to be very cautious of what we allowed that they would do but he. Says the mom who's who's building driverless car was. Faster. Because I think that they will have to show power company time at the fact that they haven't paid as reflected but responsible for. Really what they were talking about but tech companies need to take more responsibility for what they do given the power that they have that I think a lot Musk is one of those C.E.O.'s embrace is that it is really all of us. If you multiple companies you know like any is all about what people are to them so that's kind of refreshing to hear 20 seconds you've got now the festival continues to the end of the week what else is coming up. Well we're going to have so now we've transitioned to music so the 1st few days are all about the tractor industry you know with figures like you all boss talks about what they want to Peter then we also have farewell being a part of that the new movie script is ready to fire was Steven Soderbergh is still probably a blast right but that we're going to be a 2nd. You know the companies like Pandora. Sound Cloud it and other services host parties but also just local boards of all taxes and elsewhere just for 4 or about it is Joy going to preceding side of it which I very much for me to really carry thanks so much for that really good of you to talk to us we're going to end by heading over. Which which where which which it will be we're going to South Korea jeje Chalmers is the Winter Olympics for us and beyond Chang we spoke you were up on the hills where you know. I'm further up the hills as she was at the biathlon Center earlier now at the Alpine skiing between races in the combined event and it's in John song I'm seeing the moment as we say the build up to the next race is just about to come the crowds have been good here this morning people are just meant to wait to get their lunch and come back coming back for the build up to begin the news we've had today actually on the cry from is that this is a. Power lympics have sold more tickets than any Winter Paralympics before 320000 tickets have been sold for events here but I can say at the moment the build up is all it's all for that the 2nd phase of the combined. How is the Brits doing. The British are doing extremely well and actually when you say how are the Brits doing in actual fact while the team is doing well those 2 individuals are in fact 4 individuals are doing particularly well so 1000000 on our site he brought wild guy because they compete in the visually impaired category have already won 2 silvers in the alpine skiing and then met if it's Patrick and her guide Jan Keogh won the bronze there an auction happening in action this morning they're all there sitting in 2nd and 3rd position within this combined element after the Super g. This morning they'll be going in the slalom a round about 6 o'clock so as I say building up to that realistically they're in a very good position to win more medals and moving forward they've still got another 2 events after this they could reach Britain's medal tally of 7 medals themselves why has this Games had the record crowds that you were telling us. It's been an interesting what we've always seen ultimately I dropped off between the Olympics and the Winter Olympics in the Paralympics in terms of cried numbers and when I was concerning sort of lower ticket sales in the Olympics at one stage which were obviously boosted. We have seen an improvement here it's an interesting thing I think ultimately the Paralympics is growing and growing and it's growing as a result of in many ways the success of London 2012 and so we're still riding on that incredible wave because ultimately this is a sport that people don't know a tremendous amount about but they want to know more they want to see more and it's really opening their eyes and so this is the 1st time that it's come to South Korea since the 198988 went to summer games and so there is a real appetite here to see something which they never really seen before thanks very much indeed and that's a bit about it from me for tonight I just want to say before we go a special thanks to the main man Mick took who's worked on this program a long time and leaves us 5 Live today to move as just new a man who delighted me in making meat strange things in a back street Chinese restaurant in South Korea at 5 o'clock one morning and then admitted to me that he had no idea what he fed me he made me think maybe better really by giving me Korean barbecue I can open a bottle of beer with his prayer hands what more do you want. What more do you want indeed thank you very much to the guys a whole night has been bringing you the news and stories from around the world throughout the night and out of car the.