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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Breakfast 20171219

Athletics anti doping officials have launched an investigation into what iaaf president lord coe called serious allegations about World Champion sprinter Justin Gatlins coach and an agent. Weve looked at benefits of singing together. Hopefully louder than that. Now theres a chance to join in. This morning, were linking up choirs for a live uk wide sing along. Keep watching for details of how you can get involved. And matt has the weather. You need to know that details of fog around. Frost as well. Mostly a dry day. A day of massive temperature contrast. Good morning. First, our main story. The royal navys new £3 billion Aircraft Carrier, hms Queen Elizabeth, is leaking. The navys future flagship, which was commissioned by the queen earlier this month, has a problem with one of its propeller shafts. Our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, reports. Earlier this month, amid much fanfare, the royal navys largest, most expensive warship was being commissioned into service by the queen. I name this ship Queen Elizabeth. The white ensign. But what the navy did not say at the time was that she was leaking. According to the sun newspaper, a fault with a seal around one of the propeller shafts has left her taking on up to 200 litres of water every hour. The problem was first identified during her sea trials earlier this year. A royal Navy Spokesman insisted the fault was now scheduled for repair and that it would not prevent the 65,000 ton warship from sailing again early in the new year. Its not clear how easy or how much the repair will cost, but its believed to be one of a number of snags that will have to be rectified by the contractors. The first f35 international delivery. Meanwhile, mps have issued a warning about the cost of the new aircraft that will eventually fly off her. The Commons Defence Select Committee says there has been an unacceptable lack of transparency over the f35 jets, with one estimate that each plane will cost more than £150 million. The mod insists the multibillion pound programme is on track, on time and within budget. Jonathan beale, bbc news. The Health Regulator is warning that the nhs workforce is at crunch point and its calling on the government to act. In its annual report, the General Medical Council says the supply of new doctors is failing to keep pace with demand, and warns the service could suffer increasing pressure over the next 20 years. 0ur health correspondent, adina campbell, reports. Another stark warning about the state of our nhs. This time, the gmc says its concerned about the pressures and unease on doctors as they grapple with their growing workloads. In its latest report, it found that the supply of new doctors into the uk has not kept up with demand. With then dependence on non uk qualified doctors some specialist areas. There was also a risk that some overseas doctors were being put off working in the uk. And an ongoing strain on doctors training. At the moment, we see our doctors day in, day out, doing a fantastic job, but we shouldnt take that for granted, and thats why things like the training environment forjunior doctors is particularly important. And thats why we should be really clear about what we need to do to look after the attractiveness of the uk for overseas doctors as well. The department of health in england says the nhs currently has a Record Number of doctors, nearly 15,000 more since 2010, and is expanding the number of training places by 25 . Labour, though, has accused the government of mismanaging the nhs, and says the workforce is in crisis. To meet the future needs of patients, the gmc now wants to reduce the burden on doctors, with improvements to their Work Life Balance through better training and Flexible Working conditions. Adina campbell, bbc news. At least three people are confirmed to have died when a passenger train derailed and fell from a bridge onto a busy motorway in the us state of washington. Officials say 72 people were taken to hospitals after most of the trains carriages left the track. Emergency services say its been difficult to get access to parts of the wreckage. 0ur north america correspondent, james cook, reports. Amtrak 501, emergency, emergency. We are on the ground. The conductor calling for help from amtrak 50 has just survived a deadly high speed crash. Is everybody 0k . Im still figuring that out. We got cars everywhere, and down on the highway. Passengers say the train rocked and creaked as it took a curve at speed, and turmoil followed. Ijust grabbed onto the chair in front of me for dear life. My laptop went flying, phone went flying. It was all the way at the other end. People were screaming, it was crazy. The new express was taking a faster route from seattle to portland for the first time. Investigators will consider whether the train was speeding when it left the track. Some experts say the Rail Industry should have embraced technology to prevent such accidents years ago. Its really ridiculous, the amount of Automation Capability that we have and the fact they have not implemented it yet, for somebody like me whos an engineer, its just pathetic. This is the latest in a series of deadly rail accidents in the us. President trump says it vindicates his call to improve the nations infrastructure but its too early to say whether that would have made a difference. James cook, bbc news, los angeles. The government will outline measures to tackle race bias in the criminalJustice System in england and wales later today. It follows a report from the labour mp david lammy which found the system discriminated against people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Thejustice secretary David Lidington says therell be work done on each of mr lammys 35 recommendations, but its understood a proposal aimed at boosting Ethnic Diversity among the judiciary has not been accepted. Theresa may will meet the entire cabinet for the First Time Since the European Council summit today to plan how they see the uks relationship with the eu after transition. It follows a meeting with senior cabinet ministers yesterday in which the Prime Minister told them the government is well on the way to delivering a smooth and orderly brexit. It will be the last time that cabinet ministers meet in 2017, before the break for christmas. Parents, teachers, and young people are being asked to help create a new relationship and Sex Education curriculum which could include lessons on sexting and on line pornography. Earlier this year, the education secretary Justine Greening said the subject would be made compulsory in all schools in england. 0ur correspondent, richard galpin, reports. What is different, and what is the same . The guidelines for teaching schoolchildren about relationships and sex has not changed since the turn of the century. And the lessons like this to be made compulsory in all englands schools, and update is urgently needed, especially given how much time many children now spend on line. Here, there are new risks, like sexting. And their risk Cyber Bullying, and the availability on line of hard core pornography. 0ften, young people do not necessarily know what is inappropriate in off behaviour and materials. They are confronted by a light on the internet. They do not even know what is illegal and what is legal in terms of what they are. It really is time we update guidance. Teachers and parents are to suggest how it could be updated to suggest how it could be updated to make it more relevant. There will bea to make it more relevant. There will be a vigorous debate. To make it more relevant. There will be a vigorous debatelj to make it more relevant. There will be a vigorous debate. I am a mother of two. I want a talk about healthy relationships, friendships, your first boyfriend at the end of primary school, when people are starting to say i am going out with him,i starting to say i am going out with him, iwant starting to say i am going out with him, i want them to understand what makes a Good Relationship between people. At the end of this process, the government says its goal is to make sure young people learn the importance of healthy and stable relationships. Richard galpin, bbc news. Researchers have found a way of improving the accuracy of summer weather predictions in the uk. Scientists found a connection between sea surface temperatures in the north atlantic in march and april, and the subsequent summers rain or shine. They say the new method could benefit agriculture, tourism and construction. Can you hear that noise . There is a bit of beeping. We will figure it out. Definitely, i can hear it. It is high pitched. It is sending me wild. Dont adjust your sets. A snail eating turtle discovered in a thai food market and a horseshoe bat are just two of 115 new species discovered by scientists. They already face an uncertain future due to threats to their habitat in the greater meekong region of south east asia. The creatures have been documented by the World Wide Fund for nature. What a shnoz perhaps he is making the noise thats a mole, isnt it . And some sort of fog. Do you know the difference between a frog and a toad . 0ne the difference between a frog and a toad . One is a frog and one is a toad. This board. Justin gatlin. We have to be careful about how we talk about it. Anti doping and athletics authorities are investigating allegations that members ofJustin Gatlins entourage offered to supply performance enhancing drugs. Legal representatives of the world 100m champion have reacted to the telegraphs report by releasing the last five years of his tests, showing the sprinter to be drug free. They say that gatlin wasnt present at the time banned substances were allegedly discussed and that his coach Dennis Mitchell has been sacked. Everton make it four wins from five games under sam allardyce. Two penalties and then this stunning strike from Gylfi Sigurdsson against his old club were enough to win 3 1. Swa nsea his old club were enough to win 3 1. Swansea remain bottom of the table with just 12 points. West ham could be without midfielder Manuel Lanzini for tonights carabao cup quarter final with arsenal after being charged with diving in saturdays game against stoke. Lanzini, who could be banned for two games, is expected to appeal. Mo marley is currently interim boss but england are struggling to find female candidates to be the next permanent womens team manager, according to the fas head of womens football baroness sue campbell. No permanent successor to mark sampson is expected to be named until next year. They start them young in the horse racing world and we mightjust have a couple of racing dynasties in the making as the daughter of former champion jockey jim crowley won this Shetland Pony grand National Race at the 0lympia horse show. Frankie dettoris son, won a similar race a few days ago. Dont you love them . I love the hug at the end. Thats a horse for mike we should give him one. No, he has equine issues. Beautiful horses, though. Is it horse riding weather . Ido though. Is it horse riding weather . I do not even know if that link even worked. Heres matt with a look at this mornings weather. It is dry across many parts of the uk. For the morning could be it, for some of you, patches of dense fog. A few issues at Heathrow Airport with the fog. Also icy in places. Ifound that out this morning. Temperature contrasts. Look at the difference they will exist in the south east and north west today. The south of the uk. This is where you will have dense fog, especially towards east anglia and the south east corner. Some sunshine for some. Frosty on roads and pavements. It will drastically reduce as you go down some of the faster routes this morning. Not much fog towards the south west. Patchy rain and drizzle possible in anglesey. Fog in the vale of york. The greatest skies towards the pennines. Greyest. A cloudy start for scotland and Northern Ireland. Fog patches to start the day. Fairly cloudy through the day. Cloud in scotland and Northern Ireland and wales in the midlands. Misty in the hills. Temperature contrasts. Look at that. There will be some sunshine across the south east compared to other parts of the country. Tonight, a fairly cloudy picture quite widely. Wet before clouds disappear in Northern Ireland and northern scotland. Most should be frost free tonight. The odd pocket in eastern areas. Misty in the hills this morning. A dry day for england and wales. A weather front pushing through Northern England. Sunshine out. A pleasant afternoon in much of scotla nd out. A pleasant afternoon in much of scotland and Northern Ireland. Grey and murky but more mild in southern parts of england and wales. The weather front is still with us across central parts of the uk on thursday. Not much rain. Mild but grey. A little bit more chilly further north. Scotland, Northern Ireland, the far north of england, sunshine. Cold air in place gets moved out of the way on friday. For the start of the weekend as well. After the festive more cool weather for the past few weeks, things look more mild and murky as we go into the start of the weekend in the run up to christmas. The chance of something more chilly pushing in northern areas. We have been joined we have beenjoined by sally and shown to look at this mornings papers. Do you want to start with the front pages . Sean. The daily mail taking the front pages . Sean. The daily mailtaking a the front pages . Sean. The daily mail taking a look at the end of the Plastic Recycling shambles. New rules to end the Postcode Lottery on recycling. There is a four point plan put forward by the environment secretary, who wants to tie councils to common gardens, common guidelines, which will make recycling less complicated for all of us. It will avoid issues with what can be recycled. When you have patch packaging with plastic and cardboard, what are you supposed to do . Separate. The front page of the times has a picture from this train crash in washington, where three people died. We will be bringing more detail on that a little later on, speaking to somebody who was on the train at the time. Police took bribes from an organised crime gang is on the front of the times, allegations against the biggest force, an investigation collapsing. So you spend £3 billion building a ship and you find out it has a leak. The navys new Aircraft Carrier. Up ship creek is the headline. It has a fa u lty ship creek is the headline. It has a faulty seal around one of the propeller shafts. The front page of the guardian, barnier tells theresa may you will not get a special brexit dealfor the may you will not get a special brexit deal for the city. They have done the best tv shows for 2017, the guardian, 50 best tv shows and it caused quite a bit of debate yesterday on social media with some people saying there are only three non scripted tv shows in that top 50, which isnt really a fair reflection of the actual tv you watch. It is all highly scripted drama rather than things like i am a celebrity. You are always off piste, sean. Naga said to me, dont touch the mirror, it is seans toysrus on the brink, and there is a deadline on thursday to come to some deal to save most of the business. Already they have said 26 stores will close and 800 jobs at risk a nyway will close and 800 jobs at risk anyway but if they dont come to a deal to get that done by thursday, settling things with creditors and stuff like that, those jobs could be in question. So anyone who is concerned and has ordered stuff from toysrus for christmas, obviously. Every store is open for business. You can go in and buy something and it is absolutely fine. Kim jong uns plan is to something and it is absolutely fine. Kimjong uns plan is to get something and it is absolutely fine. Kim jong uns plan is to get to a deal done on thursday. So the main question is about pensions for their workers toysruss plan. The too often consider when there are question marks about the company is gift vouchers. If you give a gift voucher for christmas and two weeks later it has not been spent on the go into administration, all of a sudden you are one of the creditors and pretty far down the list. Sudden you are one of the creditors and pretty far down the listlj dont know whether dan is going to dont know whether dan is going to do the same paper i am going to do. Shall we show you the front page of the Daily Telegraph . This is the entire front page of todays Daily Telegraph, about the 100m runner justin gatlin. Do you remember he was booed at the world athletics championships were previously serving doping ban . The Daily Telegraph have been investigating him and his entourage, and his agent, according to them, has footage that they have off offers to supply illicit substances to journalists. He has subsequently sacked his coach who claimed drug use in American Athletics was widespread. Justin gatlin, of course, denies all the allegations but the Daily Telegraph investigation into makes fascinating, slightly disheartening reading. By the way, later on today, you know we did our bbc sing . Todays the day we have getting involved, six choirs around the uk singing 0h come al

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