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BBCNEWS Breakfast July 13, 2024

Harry billinges tribute to his fallen comrades and this morning on Armistice Day, were live at the National Arboretum. I talk exclusively to three of tennis biggest stars about life on tour, family and their future in the game. It is either all of us stop on that of a stop. I think i will be the first to go, come on. Mike bows out of strictly in style he may not have won the glitterball but hes done breakfast proud. Its monday the 11th of november. Our top story. Six months after the collapse of British Steel, a chinese manufacturing giant is on the verge of agreeing a rescue deal for the firm saving up to 4,000 jobs. The agreement will secure the future of the firms flagship scunthorpe plant, but theres a warning that costs may have to be cut. Bens here with more details. 0n the face of it, this is really good news. A significant move given the Big Questions over the future for British Steel after its previous owner backed out blaming rex that uncertainty. What we know so far is that the group will play £70 million for it in this company is one that has operations right around the world. Industrial and steel but also in things like tourism. British steel has been kept running by the government since may when it went into liquidation. So lets run through the detail we know so far full there are 4000 staff employed at the scunthorpe and teesside plans of dish steel. The majority of them in scunthorpe. Of dish steel. The majority of them in scu nthorpe. What of dish steel. The majority of them in scunthorpe. What is significant is this 20,000 extra jobs in the supply chain. That of the smaller suppliers who work with these plans. Those jobs are significant as well. Jianye group, a chinese firm, thousands of employees around the world is a significant business and their investment will be valuable. The company is worth more than or in almost £4. 5 billion. They have said there is a lot of work still to do it British Steel. They want to increase production to make it more viable, they want to move about 3 million tons and that would make it commercially more interesting and attractive. Nonetheless, there is a challenge to do that because already we know there is a lot of criticism that steel is being dumped from china on the European Market and President Trump in the United States very angry with what he sees as dumping in the us market. So it is a difficult business to make work and thatis difficult business to make work and that is why we saw the previous owners find it difficult to make steelwork. Nonetheless, jianye say they can do it and it will certainly safeguard 4000 jobs over those two jobs that make sites. 4000 4000 jobs over those two sites. More than two inches of rain could fall today in parts of Northern England, where five severe Flood Warnings meaning there is a threat to life are already in place. River levels are rising again. An raf helicopter has been strengthening flood defences in doncaster, after a months worth of rain fell in just 24 hours. And later well be live from one of the worst affected areas fishlake where residents have been told to leave their homes. Two cannabis based medicines, to treat epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, have been approved for use on the nhs for the first time. It follows new guidelines from the drugs advisory body nice. The move has been largely welcomed by medical charities, but some parents who pay thousands of pounds for certain cannabis medicines say theyre unhappy that those products are still not available on the nhs. The conservatives and labour will mark Armistice Day by announcing new measures for the armed forces. The conservatives have pledged new protections to protect soldiers from legal action, while labour says it will improve military accommodation. 0ur Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake is in our westminster studio. What more can you tell us . It is unusualfor what more can you tell us . It is unusual for Armistice Day to fall during an Election Campaign so the tories and labour are focusing on their commitments to the armed forces today. Borisjohnson saying that as the country remembers those who pay the ultimate sacrifice it is right that we renew our commitment. The main pledge is a change in the law to protect Armed Forces Veterans from unfair legal action, they would amend the human rights act so it did not apply to incidents that happened before the year 2000 when it came into force. That is largely to prevent claims against members of the armed forces involved in the troubles. They will also commit to tax breaks for employers taking on veterans and childcare for the beginning and end of the day for armed forces families. Labour also focusing on the armed forces with a promise to improve pay and conditions. They point out that salaries for the most junior conditions. They point out that salaries for the mostjunior roles have been falling since 2010 so they will redress that and also promised to improve housing as well. There are the main focus today is a £845 million allowance for young peoples Mental Health. Labour promising to put a counsellor, a qualified counsellor in every secondary school in england, promising visits by counsellors to primary schools weekly and Mental Health hubs to improve access to counselling and Psychiatric Services for young people. This is clearly a priority forjeremy corbyn and he says our society is fuelling Mental Illness and their healthy young minds plan is an investment in young people in the countrys Mental Health as a whole. The liberal democrats looking at Adult Education today with a promise for a £10,000 skills wallet, as they call it, and allowance of money available to adults at various stages throughout their life after the age of 25, to spend on training and Adult Education. That will be paid for, the party says, by restoring Corporation Tax to 20 . More details on the policies and how they plan to pay for them all, in they plan to pay for them all, in the manifestoes that we expect to be published in the next few weeks. Thank you, jonathan. A state of emergency has been declared in areas of australia which are under threat from bushfires. The authorities in both New South Wales and queensland have been struggling to control dozens of fires, which have killed three people and destroyed scores of homes. Firefighters say the weather conditions are getting worse and that the coming days are critical. Police in hong kong have fired live ammunition at protesters, hitting at least one person. Footage broadcast on social media appears to show an officer shooting a demonstrator in the chest at point blank range. He is reported to be in hospital now in radical condition. And it was mikes turn to face the music last night as he became the latest contestant to waltz out of the strictly ballroom. He may not have won the glitterball, but hes done breakfast proud and has to go down in history as the best last dance on strictly ever even getting claudia and tess tojoin him in the conga. I have watched a lot of last dances andi i have watched a lot of last dances and i dont think i have ever seen the conga before. Many people just hold each other and do a little lift or they cry uncontrollably. But i think it is great. I think he would have wa nted think it is great. I think he would have wanted to make it to blackpool but he said when it was his time to go it was his time to go and he is happy. He has loved it he has enjoyed it. What i loved about it was even though he is desperately sad to go it was not like floods of tea rs. Sad to go it was not like floods of tears. He is not fully lost himself. He is not total show business, not yet. He does still answer my calls. We told him we need him back and he says he meet mrs us. He says he cannot wait to get back. We need him because there is a lot going on. I dont know where to start. We have an incredible story for you this morning, and exclusive with the three best tennis players ever. How many between them 7 three best tennis players ever. How many between them . 55 grand slams between the three. Between the three players we have coming up on the programme. I have never players we have coming up on the programme. I have never seen players we have coming up on the programme. I have never seen them together before and i have never seen together before and i have never seen them talk. They interviewed each other, which was great. Liverpool are eight points clear at the top of the premier league after beating champions Manchester City 3 1 at anfield. Sadio mane rounded off the scoring at anfield the win takes liverpool nine points clear of city and leicester are now the nearest title rivals. Celtic and rangers are still only separated by goal difference at the top of the Scottish Premier League both sides won 2 0 yesterday. Celtic sit top. Alex davies won a fourth gold medalfor Great Britain at the word para athletics championships in dubai. He took the title in the f63 shot put. And Roger Federer was beaten on the first day of the season ending atp finals at the o2 arena in london the fifth seed Dominic Thiem won in straight sets. Well be hearing a lot more from roger, and a few of his friends, later here on breakfast. What was that interview . It was because it was notjust them. We had the top eight who will all be playing. All of them on a boat . The joke was that if the boat went down, tennis would be in real trouble. Joke was that if the boat went down, tennis would be in realtrouble. And we had them cornered. They could not get anywhere. Sometimes when you get people like that, they have Something Else to go to. You cannot leave abode. They could you cannot leave a boat. Heres carol with a look at this mornings weather. In sheffield it has rained for much of the last week. And it does not look nice this morning. Good morning to you both. We have seen a lot of rainfall and we have seen a lot of flooding as well and there is mooring to come this week. This picture from saturday of Derbyshire Sheffield as well which has seen a lot of rainfall. If we pick on sheffield, this autumn so far, 383 millimetres of rainfall has occurred and that is until this morning. 45 of the average annual rainfall, giving you an idea of the sort of deluge we have seen full as we go through the course of this week, the met office has further rain warnings out so that will exacerbate the situation. At the moment we have five severe Flood Warning. They are mostly across the river don and that means Flood Warnings and danger to life. Take action. As well as that, Flood Warnings across england and wales. Low pressure driving the weather and the weather front moving from west to east, taking rain with it lingering across the north east of scotland. An array of isobars and it will be a blustery day with gusty wind, especially with exposure. Rain pushes towards the east, clearing the east of england later. It hangs around the north east of scotland and then we have a plethora of showers blown in on the gusty wind. Some of them will be heavy with hail and as we have already seen through the night, above 200 metres, especially because the highlands, we will see further spells of snow. No great weight shakes for temperature. We are still in the mild conditions as we push down towards the south west and the channel islands. In a heavy shower and would blast of a north westerly please breeze it will feel cold. Through the evening and overnight there is not a lot of change. We continue with the showers, merging four lovely spells of rain. In the sheltered glens with could see a touch of frost but genuinely it will be too breezy for most of us to have that issue. Temperatures from 1 4d. Those temperatures reflect what you can expect in towns and cities. Tuesday, low pressure moves towards the north sea and anchors itself for a bit. Tomorrow, once again, will be another unsettled day. With low pressure, everything around it moves in an anticlockwise direction so we have an array of showers coming our way. As is the way we showers, not all of us will catch one. You may get one, you may get a you may get none at all. In between there will be sunshine again above 200 metres in highland we are looking at snow. Clinging onto the milder areas. 10 degrees in plymouth. Here as well we are exposed to the north westerly. As we move from wednesday into thursday, this next area of low pressure comes our way, sinking south position could change but at the moment what we think is that it will bring more rain where we do not wa nt will bring more rain where we do not want it across parts of Northern England and parts of the midlands. That could exacerbate the problems further full of the met office has weather warnings out and you can see them on our website further spells of rain this week with some hill snow, often rainy and it will feel cold. Lets take a look at todays papers. Most papers show the queen at yesterdays remembrance sunday service, looking like she was shedding a tear as she watched the commemorations. The mail leads on a pledge by Prime Minister borisjohnson to change the law to protect Northern Ireland veterans. The daily mirror says labour will pledge £845 million to ensure every child has access to Mental Health support at school. The suns front page shows mother talia keates with her baby boys, the worlds tiniest twins, according to the paper. Ashley and joe each weighed less than 1lb when they were born at 23 weeks, and they are now doing well. And the Huffington Post is reporting on the well known faces that are arriving down under, as they speculate who might be entering the jungle for the latest series of im a celebrity. Caitlyn jenner and ian wright and both pictured. The full list is in quite a few papers. I havent seen it. Iwill run you through it later. What have you got for us, ben . Good morning. This good morning to all three of you. Im still here good morning to you. Im still here good morning to you too. Too late, ben. We are talking about the difficulty on the high street, another potential victim, clintons. A suggestion they are trying to do a deal with our landlords to reduce how much they pay in rent. They have about 300 stores and wants to shift another 206 locations to rent deals tied with its performance, so rather than paying a fixed rent, if the store is not performing very well, it wants a cut in rent. No idea whether those landlords will agree, crunch time could be about ten days time, when there is a crucial meeting to find out whether it can do a with those landlords to cut how much it pays in rent, and that could determine its future on the but as we know, they are the latest retail to it is novemberand are the latest retail to it is november and already we are seeing managers in the premier league looking very, very stressed and tense. I want to show you this, after yesterdays match between liverpool and Manchester City. Pep guardiola, at the final whistle, you would have to say he reacted with a kind of. A very controlled rage. That is the only way i can describe it. He went around and he shook the hands of the officials, who had been involved in that much. He was clearly very unhappy with a couple of decisions they had made. You can see at this point that for him, and also for the joe 0fahengaue club, the opposing manager yesterday, the amount of pressure they take on. Jurgen klopp. You could just see at that point yesterday, he was about to really, really lose it, and the other side of that coin, that angry face, as those happy faces on the front page of the guardian this morning. Liverpool, who were dominant yesterday against Manchester City, even though city would argue they had a couple of decisions go against them. Really quickly, one quick picture here, another great picture of pep guardiola. That is the times, saying that he boils over. He is normally a very cool customer. I want to talk to you about alexa, other devices are available, i understand. The front page of the telegraph, the digital assistant could, as well as having ears, hearing you, and i say you because i dont have one, could have eyes as well. What . Why would you want Something Like that in your house . It makes things a lot easier. We have got one in the house but it is only allowed in the kitchen, not anyone else. The idea is that it can potentially be built into all sorts of devices. What google and amazon and apple are doing with these devices is trying to harvest all the data, because clearly that is what they get from this, but the idea is that it makes our lives easier. So at the moment it can be pretty basic things like turning on music, play the radio, whatever. The whole idea is that it will be able to book a table at your favourite restaurant or order you a taxi, those sorts of things. Set your laundry machine to come on. To make the house easier. But if you are a bit worried about what it is listening to, you can tell it to delete things. What it is listening to, you can tell it to delete thingslj what it is listening to, you can tell it to delete things. Ijust dont want anything listening to me in my house. It has got to listen for its running words, which i dont wa nt for its running words, which i dont want to say it, because i will set them off around the country. Have you not already done that . Roll it into a sentence. I have

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