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BBCNEWS BBC News February 24, 2018

At a Florida School. Fresh revelations of misconduct by aid workers uk Charity Plan International admits to six cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of children by its staff and associates. As we brace ourselves for an arctic blast, we will be getting some top tips on how walkers can stay safe in the snow. And phil has tips for all of us. Good morning, a dry, bright, sunny weekend for all of the British Isles, a little on the chilly side. Its next week where things get much, much colder and we could see a real return of winter. More details injusta real return of winter. More details injust a few real return of winter. More details in just a few minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Team gb is celebrating its best ever Winter Olympics, after billy morgan won bronze in the mens snowboard big air. The medal is team gbs fifth in pyeongchang, taking them past the four won in 1924 and 2014. And its not over yet. There could be more. The Womens Curling Team faces japan in a bronze medal match later this morning. At the age of 28, morgan was the oldest snowboarder competing in the final and fell on his firstjump, but came back with two great runs to finish less than one point from silver. He spoke to breakfast in the last half hour. He spoke to breakfast in the last halfhour. We are all out here doing oui halfhour. We are all out here doing our best, trying to represent our country as best as we can and we have done really well, especially a fi from a nation which has no coming from a nation which has no snow. We are pushing. Boundaries snow. We are pushing the boundaries of what sport can do and the lottery funding that we have got has given us funding that we have got has given usa funding that we have got has given us a lot of opportunities and hopefully we can keep going. Lets speak to our Sports Correspondent David Ornstein who is in pyeongchang. It was great to speak to billy a few minutes ago at the sensation he got when he landed on his feet and he knew hed done a good run, when he knew what that meant not just for him good run, when he knew what that meant notjust for him but for the whole team that. Thats right, and it was all the more remarkable because he had fallen on all four of his training runs and his first running competition but then when it mattered most, the dujon c needed to score on, he nailed and he got that bronze medal. He came through a field of, on paper anyway, some far superior athletes, but many of them fell and he took that bronze medal. Quite some history there as the first british male to ever win a medal in snowboarding and five british medals makes it a record for the team. It makes the doubled investment from sochi for this game is very justified, some investment from sochi for this game is veryjustified, some may say thats quite right, others will say its clearly a good thing. It could get even better with the curling today. A number of us companies have cut ties with the national a boycott of firms linked to the powerful gun lobby. They include the Car Rental Companies hertz and enterprise holdings, both of which have stopped offering discounts for members of the association, in the wake of the Florida School shooting. Our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. The aftermath to a School Shooting that could prompt change in america. Amidst the grieving, the mood has been different this time. Within hours of the gunman killing 17 people, anger overflowed onto the streets. Never again now it is social media where pressure is being exerted on the hugely powerful gun lobby. Under the Hashtag Boycott nra, activists are targeting firms that offer special benefits to members of the National Rifle association. And they include some of the most familiar corporate names. The Car Rental Companies hertz and enterprise, which also owns alamo and national. Theyre ending discounts offered to members of the Gun Lobby Group from next month. Met Life Insurance and the Software Company symantec are taking similar action. There has been no word in response from the nra. It is unclear whether these actions will hurt an organisation that boasts 5 million members. During the week, its chief executive hit out at the protesters. Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment and our firearms freedoms. So they can eradicate all individual freedoms. Donald trump says he is open to new ideas but the one he seems to like best is giving guns to teachers. Its concealed. So this crazy man who walked in wouldnt even know who it is that has it. Thats good. Thats not bad, thats good. And a teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew what happened. The debate over what to do next will be highly charged and intensely political. One of the uks biggest childrens aid charities has confirmed there have been six cases of child sexual abuse by staff and volunteers in the last two years. Plan International Says five of them were criminal cases and reported to the local authorities in the countries involved. Adina campbell reports. Another charity mired in Sexual Misconduct making the front pages. This time, Plan International uk, which works in more than 50 countries to improve childrens rights and promote equality for girls. In its latest online blog, it has confirmed six cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of children between july 2016 and june last year. One involved a member of staff. The others were by volunteers or associates. Plan International Says the staff member was not from the uk and was dismissed without a reference. And it ended the contracts with the other volunteers and organisations involved. The charity also says there were nine cases of Sexual Misconduct and harassment by staff against other adults which led to seven dismissals. In the past, Plan International uk has received millions of pounds of funding from the government. It is the latest Major Charity to admit cases of Sexual Misconduct and follows investigations into aid organisations including oxfam and save the children. In an open letter, the three charities and many others have now promised a series of urgent and immediate measures to protect the vulnerable. A former Senior Adviser to donald trump has admitted charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators, who are examining russian political interference in the 2016 president ial election. In a plea deal, rick gates admitted conspiracy to defraud the government and making false statements. Hes become the third associate of the president to agree to co operate with a special investigation, in return for more serious charges against him being dropped. Before you throw your Lottery Ticket away, check it, double check it, triple check it. Because someone out there in the uk has won nearly £78 million after last nights euro millions draw. They havent got in touch with us yet, sadly. I havent checked my numbers, actually. I need to do that. I might not be here in ten minutes time. They need to share the jackpot with somebody in spain but they still get £78 million. The jackpot has been growing since the beginning of the year and was the beginning of the year and was the second visit in the drawers history. Although as i was saying to you, i think that money would send you, i think that money would send you doolally. Yes, but what a way to go it is 9 09am and you were watching bbc brea kfast. Campaigners in london say the authorities need to take action quickly to prevent knife crime, after two more men were stabbed to death in the capital this week. The figures make grim reading. It brings the total number of people fatally wounded by knives in the captial to 16 so far this year and knife crimes on the rise across the uk. For knife attacks, seven attacks in one area of london. After years of dropping, it is going up across the uk. In the run up tojanuary dropping, it is going up across the uk. In the run up to january for the last 12 months, police in london recorded 14,521 knife crime offences, a0 recorded 14,521 knife crime offences, a0 every recorded 1a,521 knife crime offences, a0 every single offences, nearly a0 every single day. So far in 2018, 16 people have been stabbed to death in the capital. On tuesday, it was this 17 year old and this 20 year old. London needs me alive. London needs me alive. The mayor of london launched a Campaign Last year to tackle knife crime. My thoughts and prayers are with their families. Im afraid its not the first time we have sent condolences to the victims of life crime. My worry is that it wont be the last time either. I have asked the Prime Minister and the home secretary to meet with the commissioner and myself to discuss a way forward, not to name blame, but to see if we can Work Together to grapple with this issue that is causing huge misery to londoners. Yesterday, the head of the met Police Cressida Dick was in glasgow speaking to police that. The knife crime rate that has halved in the last 13 years. Could the model work here . Some are sceptical. Some in london say action needs to be taken 110w. London say action needs to be taken now. We have had knife crime fall before and we need to start taking action quickly to have that happen again. This isnt a quick switch. Nobody can flick a switch and it falls straightaway. At the moment, we seem to be out in an impasse and thatis we seem to be out in an impasse and that is most frustrating, particularly when we see so many young people being stabbed and murdered. The race is now want to stop some way to find some way to stop some way to find some way to stop knife crime before any more life is lost. We are joined stop knife crime before any more life is lost. We arejoined now stop knife crime before any more life is lost. We are joined now by a former met Police Borough,. Thank you very much for your time this morning. These are very depressing figures. Have you any kind of explanation for yet again this spike in knife crime . I think young people when i speak to them feel frightened. I speak to the parents of young people being murdered. A lot of them are working incredibly ha rd lot of them are working incredibly hard with their young people, with their children, but unfortunately children feel frightened, they are carrying knives to protect themselves and ironically because they are carrying knives, we are losing more young people. We really need to make sure people feel confident. I feel very disappointed that ofsted arent doing more, because we are talking about young people, teenagers who are victims of crime. What we should be doing is seeing ofsted going to schools, checking to see what schools are doing and actually taking their safeguarding responsibility around knife crime very seriously. Ofsted are there to ensure standards of excellence in schools. Its not really theirjob to bring down crime of this sort, is it . We need to widen the way we look at this, rachel, because you are absolutely right. The police are the wider agency but we need a wider approach. Cressida dick was looking at the Public Health model in scotland which is about other agencies working with the police, working together, working with schools, hospitals, accident and emergencies, Community Groups to make sure that we have a much wider approach. Sadly, by the time the police get involved, we are looking at young people in body bags so we need to gather much earlier, work with the different agencies, and schools have a huge role to play in making sure that young people understand the dangers of carrying a knife and the repercussions. The met police incredibly successful in arresting, charging and convicting people who commit these crimes, so those people who a commit these crimes, so those people who a knife to murder someone who use a knife to murder someone are likely themselves to have their lives destroyed because will be lives destroyed because they will be arrested and go to prison for a very long time. It is worth perhapsjust bringing you a little bit about what the home office have said on this matter. They said that every single death from knife crime is a tragedy, they talked about consulting on new laws, banning the sales of offensive weapons in certain ways, but also about a new way of thinking. They say their new Serious Violence and strategy will have Early Intervention measures at its heart and will look to shift attitudes and challenge behaviour among those young people who viewed knife crime possession as normal and necessary. This is the kind of culture you are having to deal with him. Why is it that you say these young people are frightened . That you say these young people are frightened . What are that you say these young people are frightened . What are they frightened and who are they frightened of . you go onto youtube, you will see a breath of videos of young people with knives, waving them about. The Technology Companies have a huge role to play to make sure that these aggressive and very dangerous videos are taken off. I spoke to one young father. Week whose son was father this week whose son was murdered by a group of individuals who his son had never met before. They saw a youtube video, they saw a social media video, travelled across london and murdered a young man. What we need to be doing is making sure that everybody steps up to the mark and it is about cooperation. What disappoints me is that u nfortu nately what disappoints me is that unfortunately this is nothing new in terms of resources. We need to make sure we put resources into this and resources have been cut down. The police have been reduced by 20 . We need to increase the resources the police had to deal with this issue. We talk about the role of police, you have been pointing the finger at schools outside funding is an issue. Iifififili egiiifie fiufifilfie lg. efi. 25. 2 . About what is going on in the what about what is going on in the home, within families and small home withinfamilies and small ~ , ~~ ~ ~. That allows this kind neighbourhoods that allows this kind of behaviour to emerge . Well, i think the parents i speak to are very supportive of their children but we live in a world where so much happens on social media and we need to be looking at how we can deal with individuals. With those individuals. Families need to take responsibilities, you are right, and they need to talk to their children, and it is predominantly young men. We need to make sure young men understand the consequences of carrying knives. I speak to some parents who say that if they catch their young person, their child with a knife, they will ta ke their child with a knife, they will take it off them, and i think that is what we want to see. We want to see people having those conversations. I am see people having those conversations. Iam not see people having those conversations. I am not suggesting that families dont have a huge responsibility, but we need a coordinated system across all the agencies that works to make sure that we reduce this tragedy that is happening across the country. Thank you very much for your time. A former met Police Borough governor. Just after 9 15am. Thank you for joining us on breakfast this morning. If you are sitting inside thinking it looks nice and funny at the moment, apparently it is not going to stay that way, so if you dont like the cold watch the first pa rt dont like the cold watch the first part of this weather broadcast and the back end of it, hey, phil . Well, thank you to joining the back end of it, hey, phil . Well, thank you tojoining my building my audience there, john i will plough on regardless. Our weather watchers are not being deterred, they are a hardy crew. This was the scene in the bingley area. At this stage, the High Pressure i have been showing you is benign. There is nothing wrong with the weather this weekend. There is a lot of dry weather out there. Considering we could have atlantic iu ns considering we could have atlantic runs piling in at this stage of the year giving us wet, miserable affair, it is not like that today. There are some grey skies, even there are some grey skies, but even those areas are cloudy, it those areas which are cloudy, it will pop away and of you will will pop away and many of you will see sunshine, i think perhaps tempered in northern ireland. Temperatures, six, seven, 8 temperatures, six, seven, maybe 8 degrees. All the sporting fixtures this afternoon shouldnt have too many problems. A feast of running by many problems. A feast of running rugby in dublin and the calcutta cup match scotland take on england. That isa match scotland take on england. That is a full a0 5pm kick off with coverage on the bbc. For a0 5pm kick off. It is going to be another chilly night under clear skies. See what a difference it makes. Minus four degrees in norwich. And we are off and running into another super day again. Ok, we have a shield of cloud tempering the sunshine but a lot of dry weather. Not too much of wind at this stage, but it is beginning to look a bit like winter. Three, four, five as our maximum and who we go on monday. You have heard all about the beast from the east. This is the first sign of it with a cold that surging in from siberia into the eastern side of the British Isles particularly, that is where we see the threat of the snow showers, thatis see the threat of the snow showers, that is your thermometer and this is what it is going to feel like with the strength of the wind. It wont be feeling like that this weekend but it will from monday onwards because we

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