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Oh Hello good morning it’s 7:00 if you’re going out today even us Northerners might need our big coats after a week of storms torrential rains and floods get ready for The Big Chill there is snow coming it’s Monday the 8th of January hundreds of flood warnings are
Still in place and the Met Office says that snow could cause Rush Hour chaos across the southeast Amber warnings for cold weather yellow warnings for ice across large parts of the country just days after communities were flooded also ahead ministers meet this morning to consider how post office
Branch officers who were the victims of a miscarriage of Justice can be cleared the door that blew off Alaska Airlines jet is found by a school teacher a rocket to the moon the first Luna mission is in more than 50 years is due to launch in the next few minutes
Plus and the Golden Globe goes to Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan’s Blockbuster about the father of the atomic bomb winds big at the Golden Globes well thanks so much for joining us let’s talk to Rob and Steph about the big stories of the day uh Rob first day back at school for MPS yeah morning Jane the back after the Christmas break I think a big story today is going to be this post office Scandal ministers
Likely to meet to discuss what could be done to speed up the quashing of those wrongful convictions some awkward questions as well for the lib Dem leader Ed Davy he was post office minister at the time during the Coalition years and Steph the cold weather is here it is
Here it’s no more it’s on its way this is it so it’s cold us really in the Southeast we’ve got a very strong wind that’s making it feel far colder than it is and further north there’s also some showers there as well but it’s the southeast that we’re watching could
Bring us some snow wow we shall see just a bit late for Christmas uh well as Steph was saying after the floods comes the freeze over the past week we have seen storms and torrential rain cause rivers to burst their Banks from gloucestershire to Nottinghamshire the environment agency says more than 1,800
Properties have been flooded and communities are still mopping up it has happened before but it’s all been thoroughly repaired and tanked since then we were not expecting it because we had a lot of work done on it and we’ve had it all checked and maintained it’s just although it’s not high nevertheless
It’s getting everything wet and it’s seeping in as if it’s got under the floor so bull Stak stream goes right up into our yard uh there’s a there’s a kind of toe path that walks that we walk behind there usually that’s of course completely underwater now uh the blood
Water has came up very quickly uh since Friday they been stable but it’s right up to our back patio almost almost to our back door we have a neighborhood WhatsApp group and it was I’ve never seen it this active in this three years we’ve moved here uh some of our
Neighbors are dealing with a little bit of flooding in their kitchen um we’ve been pretty stressed out uh on Friday since I as I said it’s stabilized since Friday right now we’re okay kind of hoping for the best in England there are still 169 flood warnings and 159 flood alerts in
Place but attention is already turning to what is coming next that is snow ice and freezing temperatures well let’s cross live to our west of England and Wales correspond Dan Whitehead he’s in Longford in gloucestershire Dan a bit late for a white Christmas but it looks like it’s
Coming yeah for these communities here in Longford and elsewhere in the country who’ve just come off the back of floods this is not the news that they wanted the UK Health Security Agency the Met Office at the weekend issuing this Amber warning for cold weather and it covers
Large sways of the country not just the southwest of England where I am also uh the West Midlands the Northwest East Midlands right through until midday on Friday so expect those freezing temperatures right across uh the week what does an amber alert mean well according to the UK HSA it means that
This cold weather is going to impact um across the whole Health Service for an extended period of time so the advice is to check on those people who might be vulnerable now we’ve heard this morning about another warning as well this one specifically from the Met Office this is
For a yellow warning of ice in London in parts of the southeast southeast of England and also some parts of Northern Ireland you were mentioning the flood warnings there we’re on the High Street here in Longford which just a couple of days ago was completely underwater you
Can see some of the flood water Still Remains behind me it has now started to recede but this is not what these communities wanted they are mopping up still there’s lots of debris on the road and the concern is that this uh water this dirty water that remains in streets
And communities that have been flooded over the last couple of days could then of course turn to ice that combined with with warnings of snow means it’s going to be a very tricky couple of days ahead for those communities hit last week okay Dan Good Hat thanks very much uh let’s
Bring in Sky meteorologist Steph gter he’s here um Steph how cold is it going to get well it depends where you are because if you’re in the Southeast that’s where it’s going to be coldest today and tomorrow we’ve got this wind coming in from the East and it’s tapping
Into some extremely cold air that we’ve had in Scandinavia now they’ve had it cold for Scandinavia but fortunately it’s going to be slightly diluted by the time it reaches us but still strong wind and a little bit of moisture means that parts of the southeast may see some
Showers today some of them could turn wintry mostly on the North towns so a little bit of a wintry flavor there but elsewhere the winds will probably turn Northerly later in the week so for Scotland that’s when they’re going to see their snow it’ll continue off and on
Sort throughout the week but F the west where we’ve had some of the worst of the flooding there actually the snow should stay away so yes it will will be cold but at least we’re not going to have snow to deal with as well okay Steph warm coats but don’t panic essentially
Exactly great okay thanks very much now to politics and ministers are meeting this morning to consider how post office branch officers who were wrongly convicted of fraud can be cleared the Horizon it system was introduced by the post office in 1999 almost immediately losses in the system emerged with the
Post office taking legal action by 2015 736 people had been criminally prosecuted with 700 convicted a public inquiry into the Scandal was established in 2020 to date 93 convictions have been overturned with around1 138 million pounds paid in compensation our political correspondent Rob poell has more on this Rob the Justice secretary
Looking into how the government can help these victims and some would say not before time yeah morning Jaye I think if you’ve been campaigning on this for years and years and years you probably are wondering this morning why it’s taken an ITV drama series to kind of prompt the government to were into
Action to look at what can be done to speed up the quashing of some of these convictions I think we’re likely to get meetings of ministers today to discuss how this can be done stripping the post office out of the appeals process potentially of course other campaigners want something more widespread
Legislation to get some kind of mass exoneration of sub postmasters I think we’re also likely to see backbenchers as they return for their first day after the Christmas break trying to bring a minister to the commons through an urgent question something like that to address um some
Of these issues and as well as I think looking forward there may well be a little bit of looking backwards at how this was handled by conservative Le governments in the past when some of these allegations first emerged there was a lot in the papers over the weekend
About how people like s ed Davy who in 2010 was the minister in the coalition government responsible for the Post Office how seriously they took some of the accusations and some some of the concerns that were being raised by campaigners like um Alan Bates now a lot of unhappiness from those campaigners
About what went on back then think SED dve is not helped by the fact that he is quite fond of calling for people to resign over um perceived um mishaps or inadequacies what the Times newspaper has clocked up 31 times since 2019 that he has called for someone to resign on
His online Twitter X account so that might be why some people feel it would be appropriate to subject him to a little bit of pressure as MPS come back um to Westminster for their part the Liv Dems and N Davey says that back then he met Alan Bates that he regrets that he
Essentially didn’t realize that the post office was lying to him over concerns um about the Horizon software but I think likely to be the big story that dominates today on the first B first day back at term for MPS okay Rob thanks very much well let’s take a look at the
Papers this morning and the mail is leading with a post office Scandal it says pressure is growing on the government to compensate the thousands of sub postmasters who were wrongly convicted as part of the Horizon it Scandal elsewhere the guardian claims a senior conservative MP has warned his
Party faces obliteration at the next election the times warns That official government forecasts predict 2 million more people will be claiming disability benefit by the end of the decade meanwhile the telegraph says the mayor of London sadik Khan has bowed to rail unions by offering ing a bumper pay
Offer to avoid strikes on the London Underground and the Daily Star has a weather warning for us they say a 12-day chill and white outs are on the way from Scandinavia as Steph has just been explaining to us well let’s take a look at some of the day’s other headlines now and Ukraine’s
Military says Russia has launched a large-scale missile attack on several Ukrainian regions in the early hours of the morning military officials said say the capital K is under threat from ballistic missiles and have urged people to find shelter they say areas including zapia and kiv are also under
Attack a new National Drive to get pups back into the classroom is being launched today the department for education is promising 18 new attendance hubs across six regions of England bringing the total to 32 it says it’ll help nearly 2,000 schools tackle persistent absences new research has found that the
UK is the only country in the G7 where household budgets have not recovered to prepandemic levels the TU claim families would be 750 a year better off if incomes had grown in line with other leading economies Al jazer has accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists after
Two of its staff were killed in an air strike near Rafa in southern Gaza Mustafa thorah and Hamza Dadu died in the strike yesterday hza was the eldest son of alzer’s Chief correspondent while D what did Hamza do to them what did the family do to them what did the safe
Civilians in the Gaza Strip do to them but the world is blind to what’s happening in the Gaza Strip in a statement the AL jazer media Network strongly condemned the attack saying the assassination of Mustafa and Hamza while they were on their way to carry out their Duty in the Gaza Strip
Reaffirms the need to take immediate necessary legal measures against the occupation forces to ensure that there is no impunity Hamza is the fifth member of w dadu’s family to die since the start of the conflict he lost his wife son daughter and Grandson to an Israeli air raid at the end of
October meanwhile the US Secretary of State is in Abu Dhabi for the later stage of his tour of the Middle East anony Anthony blink’s meeting with Arab leaders in an attempt to prevent the conflict in Gaza from spreading across the region the missing door that blew off an
Alaska Airline flight in midair has been found by a school teacher in his garden well sabba chadri has more on this sabba so remind us what happened over the weekend with this plane door and it has at least finally turned up good morning Jane well the incident took place uh on
Friday and it was minutes after a takeoff from Portland International Airport the pilots on board a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft were forced to perform an emergency landing and this was after a massive hole RI through the side of the aircraft now luckily no one was seriously hurt and the plane the pilots
Were able to land the plane safely but as I say it could have been so much worse not just for the passengers and the people on the plane but also those on the ground in terms of deis that debris was today found by a teacher called Bob in Portland so a key
Component uh of that door that’s gone missing the door plug has today been found now uh this door without a doubt will be used in uh the investigation that’s currently ongoing to determine the cause of what happened with this particular uh incident but the anxiety amongst passengers I’m sure is uh really
U sort of U adding especially after given the fact that this is the fourth issue with Alaska Airlines flight uh in the past two months four incidents have been reported by pilots uh to the airline uh so this as I say will be adding to anxiety amongst Flyers indeed seba thanks very
Much well still to come on the program at 7:30 we’re going to be talking to the Pitch Perfect actress Britany snow about her role in a new film highlighting the plight of women trying to seek an abortion in the United States a little later we’ll hear from the conservative MP David Davis who’s
Urging the government to hold accountable those responsible for the Post Office Scandal well the let’s tell you a little bit more about a story about the paragan mission one it is attempting to become the first US Luna Lander since Apollo 17 uh more than 50 years ago uh this is the
Live shot that we are getting getting from NASA it’s going to take off very very soon our science correspondent Thomas Moore has more on this Thomas uh what are they trying to achieve here just explain it to us in simple terms yeah you’re looking at the United launch
Alliance Vulcan centur on Cape uh canaval in Florida there it’s due for launch any minute now uh the launch window is about 45 minutes it has to be quite precise in order to get to the moon at a point and uh so that it can
Enter orbit and it will be going for a Landing they hope on the 23rd of February now this is a really interesting Mission not just because it’s the first uh us uh Lander to go to the Moon uh since Apollo 17 in December uh 1972 but this time NASA is not at the
Controls it has bought a ticket to ride it has five instruments on board but it is paying a private us company to develop the rocket and another one to uh to actually uh build design uh and and control the Lander now this is controversial because alongside those instruments there will be commercial
Payloads too in including uh some human remains that have been cremated uh and are being taken to the moon and indeed also a marketing Stunt by a sports drink manufacturer and many scientists feel this is all a little bit icky um but uh for NASA it means they can control the
Cost so they’re paying just $18 million to get to the moon which is an absolute bargain but to get to such a low price they are taking a massive gamble here that rocket has never flown before the Lander has never attempted uh to to leave Earth’s orbit before so this
Technology is is really being tested well beyond its uh uh limits as as far as uh the existing tests down here on Earth so it’ll be be interesting to see whether this actually happens we know that getting to space isn’t easy um but uh United launch Alliance have flown
Other designs of Rocket before just just not this one so it’ll be interesting to see what happens and in terms of of what NASA will will benefit the fact that they are sort of Outsourcing various elements of it um I mean it’s still going to be of enormous scientific benefit to NASA
Isn’t it yes I mean this isn’t a purely scientific Mission they don’t have a particular goal they have got five instruments on board including one designed uh at the open University in Milton ke uh where they have an instrument that will be looking at the the moon’s extraordinarily thin
Atmosphere and trying to look at what happens to water molecules okay uh thanks so much Thomas so it’s one minute to launch uh before this United launch Alliance from Cape canaval in Florida sets off hoping to land on the moon on the 23rd of February let’s listen in 30 E4 start Bots
Go status check go Vulcan go Centaur Jo paragr 15 10 T minus 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 we have [Applause] ignition and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching a new era in space flight to the moon and Beyond two good srbs hitting Peak pressure on the
Srbs everything looking Good and we got Pitch programs in coming into normal rates for that event we have good hydraulic pressure on both engines good chamber pressure on both engines everything looking good Coming up on 60 seconds into the flight everything looking good two good engines two good srbs body rates look good nice and smooth and we’ve hit our first throttle point on the B4 is everything looking good and we have passed through Mach 1 we are now suers Sonic coming up on Max
Q had Max Dynamic pressure everything looking good we’re rolling off on the srbs and we have cut off on the srbs coming up on jettison and approximately 30 seconds 15 seconds that’s B jet b4s continue to operate nominally seeing expected pu activity and the Boost remains and we have separation of both
Srbs everything looking good b4s continue to operate normally coming up on two minutes into the mission we are now 17 miles in altitude we just heard confirmation of solid rocket booster jettison we have about 3 minutes until we well there a successful launch of the United launch Alliance
From Cape Canaveral uh the paragan mission let’s bring in our science correspondent Thomas Moore Thomas what are the big hurdles the Milestones that this rocket will will have to overcome in the next few minutes and hours that we know it’ll be it’s been a success
Yeah so far so good but it has to get to to orbit it’s got a few minutes to to to go yet uh then it will do one uh rotation around the earth then the peragine uh mission one uh Lander will separate from the rocket and will Veer
Off be slingshot towards the moon uh traveling at very high speed while the rocket and uh human remains and DNA from from 60 people including Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry and three other Star Trek uh actors astronauts and various others all that will head towards the the sun where it the the
Rocket and and those remains will remain in In Perpetual uh orbit U something that they clearly wanted to do be part of uh the celes makeup um the the Lander itself will then head to the Moon it will do a series of orbits around the
Moon uh while it tries to uh find the the exact spot that it wants to land it’s waiting for Sunrise so the lighting conditions are are right over there and then on the 23rd of February it will attempt a robotic Landing uh and then it
Will it remain there for for a series of days uh while all those uh scientific experiments are undertaken Thomas Thanks so much uh before we leave the story let’s just look back again at the launch and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching
A new era in space flight to the moon and Beyond two good srbs hitting Peak pressure on the srbs everything looking good we’re going to be talking a lot more about this later on in the program so stay tuned about quter N9 we’re going to be talking
To a space journalist on this as well well let’s get more on our big story of the day the post office Scandal which saw hundreds of sub postmasters falsely convicted of stealing money due to a faulty it system well the Scandal has been thrust back into the Spotlight
By a TV drama let talk to conservative Pier Lord ofnot who is uh features in that drama he played a prominent role in Seeking Justice For Those affec from the very beginning really and he joins me now um how do you feel about the fact
That it appears to have taken a TV drama to actually get some kind of action for all of those who have been wronged here well drama has its important role to play but the problem before was that the sub postmasters were failed by virtually every sector of society including by
Politicians um because we I was just representative on on that TV drama over a number of MPS who were working uh we failed to achieve anything it was uh Alan Bates taking the thing to court and having a fantastic judgment from Mr Peter Fraser uh and then the TV drama
That have really caught first uh the imagination of the court of appeal and second the imagination of the public uh but the the post sub post Masters have been really failed by the legal system before that by the uh corporate system by the media by everybody and so I’m
Delighted that at last it’s got to the attention of the public who do you blame for not taking it seriously at the time because of course Alan Bates and and the others they did the right thing they they went to their local MPS to complain
And to raise the issue uh he was very clear sighted about what was going wrong you got got on board why did others in government not take it seriously there was the problem that the post office was the most trusted brand in the country the problem that the court
System uh did not work for the sub postmasters uh lawyers were acting for the client of the post office and the post office had Deep Pockets and the sub postmasters did not uh the media found it difficult to cover because it was complicated and who wants to take on
The post office uh and these people had been convicted of theft why believe them um it was a series of catastrophes for the sub poost Masters and I just take my hat off to Alan Bates and all of his uh sub postmasters who were working so hard together that they persevered
And look what they’re now beginning to achieve but we’re still only in the foothold of what we’ve actually got to achieve indeed I mean do do you think that Davey has questions to answer he was the minister in charge of post office at the time um actually I think I think that’s
A bit of a red hering I think that what Ed Davy when he came into office as the post office Minister was doing he was following the uh line of the previous uh labor government namely this is an arms length organization which uh the government was simply
Refusing to oversee properly uh so yes all ministers who were involved in this labor libdem and conservative have got questions to answer I wouldn’t concentrate too much on uh any one party because no party comes out of it well no indeed I mean David Cameron prime
Minister at the time I mean are you aware whether the claims made it all the way to his desk whether he ignored what the postmasters were saying I don’t actually know whether it got onto his desk uh I don’t I don’t remember putting it onto his
Desk myself s um but I mean certainly I wrote I wrote to David Cameron along with all MPS to ask have you got similar problems to the ones that are cropping up in my constituency because as I say none of us politicians come out of this well the post office itself we talked
About it being you know such a big corporate entity should it now be stripped of its power to prosecute cases and should it it lose an ability to really have an influence over the appeals as well well the post office cannot be trusted by the sub postmasters and it
Should not prosecute anybody uh the idea that a corporation which itself is being investigated by the police should uh start Prosecuting people is absurd um so that would be that’ be quite wrong but I think they stopped Prosecuting people in 2015 in that not before
Time um what what would you like to see the government do to make this right one of the greatest problems is that there have been between 7900 convictions of sub postmasters and only 93 of those convictions have been overturned that’s an awfully small pathetically small number and I think
That this is a mass problem which has got to be dealt with in a mass way and I think that Parliament has got to step in and say that post office convictions are not safe we’ve seen the way that investigators behaved and they behaved in a way which was contrary to the rule
Of law and they’ve these convictions have got to be set aside we shall see Lord of buot very good to talk to you thanks very much thank you you well it is cold out there let’s get a look at the weather in more detail warm memories wherever you go The weather sponsored by kataar Airways conditions will be quiet and cold this week with a freshening Breeze bringing a significant wind chill to Southern parts of the country this morning there’ll be a widespread Frost overnight temperatures having dropped close to or below freezing patches of dense freezing fog over parts of Ireland
Scotland and Northwest England will be slow to clear some may linger throughout the day the weather sponsored by Kata Airways you’re watching Sky new breakfast still to come this hour we’re going to be joined by the star of a new Oscar shortlisted short film shining a light on the danger face by women seeking abortions in the United States so the talian government has have been in power since 2021 and in that time they have built Bridges and built roads and infrastructure and the country is coming to a point of Peace but they just don’t recognize women women’s education after the sixth grade doesn’t exist uh women are not
Allowed to go to Beauty parls which have been closed there are um parks are closed they can’t work for Nos and at this current day and age that is unacceptable that’s 20 million Afghan women who are being treated as second class citizens and that’s what I tried to highlight with my film well
Afghanistan has such a unique history in the sense that in my lifetime the country’s flag has changed 19 times it’s just a a a chaotic time of Government after government and every single time the women have always been victims to all these new different regimes um and they’ve always been impacted and it’s
Just it’s just enough there is no excuse for women not to be able to study 3,000 Afghan women Were Meant to join the Afghan Service as doctors but the board examinations were cancelled and they are just at home doing nothing those as a country we need stability and our
Economy to rise we need all the help we can get so it just doesn’t make sense that this policy set forth by the afan government is in place it’s it’s completely ridiculous the world is at a time where there’s just chaos and and upsetting uh events happening everywhere
But at the same time the Afghan women are being forgotten and this is what I’ve tried to do with my film yellow and it’s resonated so much around the world I get messages every day from people who’ve seen it and feel that it’s a message that need to be told women are
Becoming invisible again and as an Afghan myself I can’t let that happen it’s my duty as an artist and as a filmmaker to try to bring that to life Welcome back you’re watching Sky News breakfast at exactly 18 minutes past 7 the first rocket to the moon since 1972 was launched from Cape canaval in Florida the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago if it all goes well it will attempt to land on the surface of the Moon with
Scientific equipment to gather data Paving the way for a future human Mission everything looking good now since the US Supreme Court’s controversial decision to abolish the national right to abortion in 2022 the issue has become a key Battle Ground for both Republicans and Democrats now a new Oscar shortlisted short film about a
Single mother who crosses state borders in search of an abortion shining a light on the lengths some women are forced to to go to find help well let’s talk to the star of that show Britney Snow in just a moment first let’s take a little
Look at the film I’ve come all the way from our Yeah you and everybody from that state and all the other ones too please I’m Desperate well the actress Britney Snow who plays Rachel in the film joins us now from Los Angeles Britney lovely to talk to you today why did you want to get involved with this film um I think it’s a very important issue obviously one that’s very topical
To um so many of us specifically in the United States and something that we definitely need to discuss and what I loved about this short was it didn’t do it in a didactic way it it merely showed a lens and light on something that I felt was heartbreaking and poignant
Without pointing any fingers and I feel like a lot of people can take a lot of lessons from it without it being preachy were you not afraid of of stepping into to such a political subject because of course many actors and actresses go out of their way to
Avoid a role that could polarize an audience oh I think that’s some of the best parts of doing um anything artistic is is uh putting what you feel and what you want out into the world whether it is polarizing or not I guess um and I think the great thing about this short
Is that it really just poses a lot of questions and it doesn’t really necessarily um uh point it in any dire direction to to preach um and I think that that’s something that I really strive to do in my career as well is just to pose a lot of questions so I was
I was grateful to be a part of it and how would you describe the reaction to the film so far it’s been really amazing to see how many people have um have commented on it and take it in um i’ I’ve gotten even some people who have changed their minds
Um whether it be from one side to the other and um I think that that’s really what I what I set out to do and I think what the filmmakers really set out to do was just not necessarily change people’s minds but see it from a different perspective and you mentioned the
Filmmaker nazarin chowy a British screenwriter and director what was it like working with her it was so great I mean when I read the short I hadn’t done I I actually don’t think I’ve ever acted in a short film before and so I I read it you know
With a little bit of hesitation not that I wouldn’t do it but just I you know I was like this better be good and when I read there’s a there’s a Twist that happens that I will not give away um and it viscerally uh spoke to me it went
Through my entire body and I I talked to her right away and I said you are so talented and I need to be a part of this uh without question so I respected her talent and I know exactly what she was set out to do which I think is really a
Marking of a great director and of course it is an election year in the United States how great an issue do do you think abortion is going to be in the next few months I think it’s hugely important I think if um I think it’s going to be a
Very heated debate yes polarizing but I think something that we do need to speak about and I think that’s what I love about the Arts and I think that’s what I love about this short film is that um it is an election year and I think people
Will be talking about it hopefully due to this short how do you feel about about the state of Democracy in America at the moment I have my opinions um I wish things were you know all sorts of different ways but I will be um I will
Be silent about this for now because I do you know love my country but I I think you know you guys I wish I was over there [Laughter] sometimes the other the other big story of course across your side of the pond overnight is the Golden Globes um it’s
Been a big night for Barbie big night for oppenheim big night for succession uh what are your thoughts about the about the winners I loved Oppenheimer I loved Barbie I think that Barbie also liked this short did a really good job of uh painting a picture of something without it being
Too heavy-handed and also posing a lot of questions and um and doing it in entertaining really uh entertaining uh fascinating way so I loved I loved that movie um I didn’t get to go to the awards which is quite all right I was in my pajamas I’m in my pajamas now under here
Don’t worry I was my pajamas as well the gold gloves was on I was fast asleep yes exactly well listen lovely to talk to you and it’s a really fascinating film and it is a short so you know lots of people should be able to watch it uh Britney Snow good to talk
To you thanks for joining us on sky thank you for having me well as we were saying Christopher Nolan’s Blockbuster biopic about the father of the atomic bong took home the top gong at the Golden Globes overnight uh there were wins for the Oppenheimer director as well as his leading man
Selan Murphy but there was upset for fan favorite Barbie as poor things pipped it to best comedy musical of course Barbie did get other honors our arts and entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer reports and the Golden Globe goes to Barbie pitched as the Battle of barbon Heimer this year’s Golden Globes
Dominated by two films that when combined made over two billion while Barbie was recognized for its box office achievement thank you we would like to dedicate this to every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on Earth the movie theaters this was Christopher Nolan’s
Night his nuclear arms race Thriller taking home best film Best Director as well as a win for its leading man our first question do I have lipstick all over my nose I’m just going to leave it I was in the hands of a Visionary director and
Master and I want to thank Chris and Emma Amy are you okay yeah as for TV while chaotic road rage Thriller beef and frenetic kitchen drama the bear both went away with three Globes each perhaps more predictable the coldblooded power plays of the final season of Sky Atlantic succession
Sweeping the board with wins for Sarah snook this is really heavy um mat mcfaden I just adored every second playing um the weird and wonderful human grease stain that is Tom ws and Kieran culen rather fittingly loing it up over his Rivals this is a nice moment suck it Pedro
Sorry British showrunner Jesse Armstrong admitting it hadn’t been an easy decision to end the series we decided this was the right time to end the show and um that was very Bittersweet and the Golden Globe goes to Oppenheimer the first big Awards event of the Year recognizing the huge
Cultural impact of some of the most critically acclaimed drama we’ve seen in a long time Kat Spencer Sky News has been a fantastic 12 months on the screen hasn’t it uh still to come we’re going to take a look at the new exhibition bringing the Stark reality of homelessness to Parliament This is a a piece of uh Hardware built at the Oak University in metal kees it it’s called a mass spectrometer but what that is is a device that will land on the surface of the Moon on this Mission and it will measure the composition of the lunar atmosphere very very thin
Lunar atmosphere less than a millionth of the millionth of the thickness of the atmosphere on Earth and it will basically it attacks like a weighing scales so it separates the atmospheric molecules account according to how heavy they are and we know that water molecules weigh 18 nitrogen weighs 28 so
We can identify what those molecules are when when we did land on the moon we put you know humans on there and and um you know the initial idea was that the moon was quite dry it seemed to be a dry Barren bu dusty place but more recently
In the last 10 years or so we’ve had orbiters going around the Moon which is starting to reveal a different picture and and we’re getting suggestions that there’s actually a a very tenuous water cycle going on on on the moon with with kind of water molecules moving around
The surface maybe getting stuck at the poles and Frozen down as ice where it’s very very cold and also techniques have improved so the last time an instrument like this went to the moon was 50 years ago you know technology moves on so you know this mission is the first time to
Go and do this kind of science again after 50 years I mean the Moon is a real it’s getting to be a busy place with missions you know you as you’ve probably seen on your on your coverage um what’s different about this mission is that it’s commercially LED so it’s kind of
There’s a global feeling that the best way to explore space and the Moon is the the nearest place to go so this is where you’re going to go and try this out in the first place is to get everybody involved so it’s not just a kind of a national agency Endeavor but it’s
Involving commercial companies and universities and and trying to bring that all together to make it more sustainable and a cheaper way to explore one of the reasons people are really interested in water on the moon is that it might help sustain exploration there so if we want to put astronauts on the
Moon if we want to take a bottle of water up to them which weighs you know half a kilogram for a bottle of water it’s going to take about half a million pounds to do that because of lifting it through the Earth’s gravity field so one
Of the ideas that if you can find appreciable quantity of water on the moon and purify it bottle it sell it for less than half a million pounds then you’ve got a business case now that’s not my bag but you can see how using resources locally and not having to take
Everything with you in a massive spacecraft can make space exploration more Agile and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching a new era in space flight to the Moon fantastic pictures aren’t they at exactly 18 minutes past 7 this morning the first rocket to the moon was launched from Cape canava in Florida the first since the Apollo missions more
Than 50 years ago if all goes well it’ll attempt to land on the surface with scientific equipment to gather data Paving the way for a future human our science correspondent Thomas mo has more Thomas when’s it going to land so it’s due to do a series of
Orbits and then uh land on the moon on the 23rd of February it has to wait for particular light conditions before it can do that safely and that’s why we are so well ahead of the actual launch uh day it only takes less than a week to
Get to the moon itself so um they want to make sure that everything good launch they’ve got a series of payloads on board uh this is the first commercial uh Mission uh from the United States which is really interesting it just a big gear shift there from NASA they’re not of the
Controls they just bought a ticket to ride they got five experiments on board but they’ve paid this uh other company astrobotic to develop this robotic Lander um and they are paying just $18 million uh to transport their kit to the Luna surface but it is the private
Company that is taking all the risk uh and part of that risk was actually uh sending everything up on an untested rocket this was the the first launch of this particular re rocket but it seems to have gone completely to plan it’s now uh in orbit around the Earth doing a
Series of engine Burns before it slings sh this uh this capsule this uh astrobotic Lander which is the size of a garden shed out towards the moon in the in the coming minutes Thomas why why is there interest in going back to the moon now why is it
Taken 50 years for the idea of revisiting it it’s because they they realize that there is water on on the moon and that has given an awful lot of uh interest to to people going back there using the moon as a as a staging post to uh travel perhaps to Mars or
Even even Beyond because with with water you can make oxygen you can obviously hydrate astronauts but also there’s a possibility of making Rocket Fuel itself now it would be extremely expensive to lift so much water off uh Earth because of of it has to escape gravity but if
There’s water there on the moon it is it becomes relatively cheap to get to these FL flung uh destinations within the solar system uh that’s really driven uh this this new interest it’s not just about the science on the moon now it is about the practical application of space
Exploration so the beginning of a really exciting era in space travel okay Thomas Thanks so much now from today politicians members of the House of Lords and visitors to the houses of Parliament will be able to see a powerful new exhibition documenting homelessness in in the UK
From across the last six years well joining me now in the studio is the chief executive of the charity crisis Matt Downey uh and also the labor MP Paula Barker who is also co-chair of the all par party parliamentary group on ending homelessness um Matt to you first
Of all tell me about the exhibition what are you hoping it’ll achieve well it’s a beautiful exhibition uh detailing the kind of the light in the dark of homelessness so the darkness of people’s circumstances but also the light of their potential and it’s and it’s brings forward the humanity of people because
Quite often we stereotype homelessness we see people on the streets and we and we blame them for their situations um this really brings that uh into a different light and says no these are real lives that could have been where homelessness could have been prevented
And it’s a message that can be taken to Paula’s colleagues in in Parliament to say actually there are better choices parliamentarians can make to make sure people don’t end up homeless to start with I’m just looking at these images they they are beautiful and and Stark
Images a lot of them Paula why do you think it is important that this is displayed in the house of parliament well as mass has already said it’s very important for us to be able to see the potential of these people every single person who is homeless has their own
Story to tell they all have their own dreams and aspirations and you see so often people walking past people on the street who are homeless as if they don’t exist these have an individual story to tell and Mark has captured that in each of his photographs and I think it’s
Really really important as we make legislation going forward that we have that front and center in our minds and Matt homelessness Rising again according to analysis 14% higher than last year why is it going up is it as simple as the cost of living crisis or is it
Something more complex than that well the cost of living crisis is certainly making things worse but homelessness is going up because the causes of homelessness aren’t being dealt with um the you know the really high rents that people experience the fact that there’s simply enough not enough housing to go around so the
Causes are not being dealt with and and the consequences are being badly serve too and this exhibition is especially timely because this year the government are planning to legislate to actually criminalize people who are homeless um and that’s something that’s completely unacceptable from our perspective and you know instead of punishing people um
For their homelessness what we really need to see is those causes dealt with Paula do you think MP see an inverted commers homeless people I mean you know just here in Westminster you know there are the homeless people on the streets all over London do you
Think MPS are guilty as perhaps lots of other people are of of not seeing homeless people of them becoming invisible yes absolutely I think that’s uh absolutely um a pertinent comment to make and I think we have to deal as mass has already said with the reasons why
People become homeless I want to see services that are trauma informed and former Leed as it’s very hard and I want to be able to um give people not just hope but a future and I think that this exhibition is really important in doing that and hopefully will focus all
Colleagues Minds on how we can make things better Matt what would you like to see the government do to make homelessness better to reduce it to help those on the streets well first and foremost there’s there’s no time like the president to say that the the way
Out of all forms of homelessness is a to have enough homes to go around so that you know people have somewhere to live and then if people do have support needs that as Paula says they get trauma informed high quality care that’s it that’s you know every case of
Homelessness is different but at its heart everyone needs somewhere to live and if you need help you get that help and really what that means is you need a strategy to deliver that right across the board and and to stop sort of short-term or or misplaced initiatives like the criminal justice bill that’s
Saying that people should be punished and and fined or imprisoned for their homelessness Paul do you think in an election year as we anticipate it is that there is the political will to focus on this subject I think one of the things that concerns me is that when you
Look back to Suella Bran’s time in in office she talked about homelessness being a choice and she uh spoke about you know getting rid rid of tents and the criminal justice bill as M has already said will criminalize people who are living on the streets I think you
Know commitment from a Labor’s point of view is that we will build 300,000 homes uh initially per year and of course we would want to see that be much much more for me there has to be a fully cross departmental strategy um and when labor left office in 2010 we had practically
Eradicated homelessness and of sleeping and I think that there is definitely um you know a concerted effort and a will to be able to do that again F and finally Matt these images that we’re seeing they’re on display in the houses of Parliament of course unless you’ve
Got access and a parliamentary pass or a visitor you can’t see them but they are going to go out around the country at some point aren’t they yeah i’ I’d urge everyone to to look online and to even bu the book marks Mark’s Work is absolutely vital as far as I’m concerned
Because it does something we all need to do is just to see people who are homeless as equals as people with potential and not simply those people who you might walk past on the street Matt Dan from crisis and Paula Barka at Labor MP and chair of the all part of
Group on ending homelessness thank you both a lot for coming in and talking to us right let’s take a quick look at this morning’s sports news and Liverpool are through to the fourth round of the FA Cup Final they beat Arsenal 2-nil after dominating the first half
Arsenal fell behind late in the second half Trent Alexander Arnold’s free kick headed into his own goal by Arsenal Defender yakob kol and then deep into stoppage time Liverpool broke away to make it 2-n Lis Diaz scoring to seal the win the result means it’s now three consecutive defeats for Mel artetta
Side and they without a win in four FA cup holders Man City booked their place in the fourth round AN emphatic St pep guardiola’s side trashed Huddersfield 5 nil with two goals coming from England midfielder Phil foden and Chelsea Striker Sam Kerr is to miss the rest of the season after picking up
A serious knee injury in training and should we take a look at some of the back pites let’s wam bam says the sun after Patrick bamford’s stunner during lead’s 3-0 FA Cup victory over peterb the eye has leis Diaz celebrating Liverpool’s win away at Arsenal despite their defeat the misfiring Gunners may
Not be shopping for a new Striker after all it says and the times also features Arsenal’s FA Cup exit with a quote from Mel artetta we must get our heads right warm memories wherever you go the weather sponsored by Kata Airways well the weather conditions quiet and cold this week with a
Freshening Breeze bringing a significant wind chill to Southern parts of the country this morning there’ll be a widespread Frost overnight temperatures having dropped close to or below freezing patches of dense freezing fog over parts of Ireland Scotland and Northwest England will be slow to clear some may linger throughout the day
Showers and the southeast will turn wintry Over The High Ground as they spread Westward the weather sponsored by Kata Airways coming up on Sky News breakfast a rocket to the moon has been launched in Florida the first since the Apollo missions more than 50 years Ago Hello good morning it’s 8:00 if you’re going out this morning even us Northerners might need our big coats after a week of storms torrential rain and floods get ready for the big chill we’re told there’s snow coming but the weather was good in Florida good enough
In fact to launch a rocket to the moon it’s Monday the 8th of January and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching a new era in space first US Luna mission in more than 50 years lits off from Cape canav hundreds of flood warnings are
Still in place and the Met Office says that snow could cause Rush Hour chaos across the southeast an Amber warning for cold weather a yellow warning for ice all this comes just days after hundreds of communities were flooded also ahead ministers meet this morning to consider how post office branch
Officers who were the victims of a miscarriage of Justice can be cleared the door that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in midair is found by a school teacher and and the Golden Globe goes to [Applause] Oppenheimer Christopher Nan’s Blockbuster about the father of the atomic bomb winds big at the golden [Applause] Well good morning and thanks a lot for joining us Rob and Steph are here with the headlines Rob the MPS are back after a Christmas break what’s on their agenda today yeah morning Jane I think the big story today May well be the post office Horizon Scandal there’s going to be a
Meeting involving the Justice secretary he’s looking at potentially ways to speed up quashing those convictions you had a former Tor MP current Tor Pier who’s campaigned on the issue saying that they should all just be set aside on mass and that Parliament should intervene I think we might likely see
Something covered on this on the floor of the house today as well uh and Steph we’re all going to be wrapping up warmer that’s right the cold weather is here some places will see some snow but it’s not going to be Everyone by any stretch of the imagination so we’ll be looking
At exactly where is going to see some snow and how much okay St thank you both very much but first let’s remind you that at exactly 18 past 7 the US launched its first rocket to the moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago beond well our science correspondent
Thomas ma was watching the launch and joins us now Thomas just remind us what is the point of what they’re trying to achieve here yeah look this wasn’t just another space launch this was really significant not just because it’s the first time since Apollo 17 back in 1972
But this is the first commercial Venture from the United state so NASA is on board but it’s not at the controlled and that’s a big gear shift a new era in space exploration why well it brings down the cost NASA hopes that private companies uh getting involved will lead
To Innovation that brings down the cost of getting to the moon and it really wants to go back there because it sees the moon as a staging post for going Beyond perhaps to Mars deeper into the solar system and it’s the water on the moon that will allow them to do that not
Just to hydrate uh astronauts but also to provide oxygen and even rocket fuel in a really cheap way and that is the interest so one of the experiments on board has been designed by the open University in the UK that will be looking at the movement of water molecules within the very thin
Atmosphere of the Moon uh but it is this commercial Venture they’re paying just $18 million uh and that should keep the price down for for future missions that’s the excitement but it has led to slight controversy because there are other commercial payloads on board including human remains that have been
Cremated and also a marketing Stunt by sports drink manufacturer and some scientists feel that their experiments shouldn’t be going to space alongside what they would see as rather trivial cargos okay Thomas thanks very much well let’s bring you back down to earth and weather in the UK now and
After the floods comes the freeze over the past week we’ve seen storms and torrential rain cause rivers to burst their Banks from gloustershire to Nota the environment agency says more than 1,800 properties have been flooded and communities are still mopping up it has happened before but it’s all been
Thoroughly repaired and tanked since then we were not expecting it because we had a lot of work done on it and we’ve had it all checked and maintained it’s just although it’s not high nevertheless it’s getting everything wet and it’s seeping in as if it’s got under the
Floor so bull stti stream goes right up into our yard uh there’s a there’s a kind of toe path that walks that we walk behind there usually that’s of course completely underwater now uh the blood water has came up very quickly uh since Friday it been stable but it’s right up
To our back patio almost almost to our back door we have a neighborhood WhatsApp group and it was I’ve never seen it this active in the 3 years we’ve moved here U some of our neighbors are dealing with a little bit of flooding in their kitchen um we’ve been pretty
Stressed out uh on Friday since I as I said it’s stabilized since Friday right now we’re okay kind of hoping for the best well in England there are still 169 flood warnings and 159 flood alerts in place but attention is already turning to what is coming next that is snow ice
And freezing temperatures well let’s cross live to our west of England and Wales correspondent Dan Whitehead who’s in Longford in gloustershire they’re preparing for the cold weather there Dan but they’re still very much mopping up aren’t they yeah it was only at the week weekend that the High Street that I’m
Just Stood Beside here in Longford and Gloucester was underwater the houses bailing out water from their their homes um that has now receded that water but you can still see uh that the flood planes right behind me and the fields and stuff are underwater and that is the
Concern for those communities it’s the UK Health Security Agency and the Met Office uh which has issued this Amber warning for cold weather it lasts right through until midday on Friday it affects not only where I am here in the southwest but also the West Midlands the northwest of England the East Midlands
And as I say it’s going to last all week what does an Amber warning mean well uh the government says that it could have an extended impact on Health Services informing people to check on those vulnerable people over 65 uh to check that they are okay and that actually
Keeping homes uh warm 18° and above could be more difficult for vulnerable uh people so that’s the Amber warning in place but we’ve had another fresh warning today from the Met Office specifically that’s a yellow weather warning for for ice and that affects London it affects parts of the southeast
Of England and also parts of Northern Ireland but all this comes on top of the fact as you mentioned still 169 flood warnings in in place and in parts of uh the middle of England and the south east of England uh where those communities are still mopping up the last thing they
Need now are these freezing temperatures because the concern is that that low-lying water and the water that’s still on some of the roads in those flooded communities could freeze and turn to ice and create even more dangerous conditions okay Dan thanks a lot well let’s bring in uh Steph gter Steph how
Cold is it going to get well currently it’s minus 7 and a half in parts of Scotland so that’s a little bit chilly I think we could agree um but it’s going to be the southeast which has the biggest shock because we’ve got our temperatures lower than average compared
To elsewhere and it’s also been so mild here recently um for Scandinavia they’ve had some really really exceptionally cold conditions and we’re sort of tapping into that now fortunately Ely it’s diluted a little bit by the time it reaches us but it does mean the weather
Over the southeast is kind of of most concern in the next 24 hours or so we’re already seeing some showers the showers at the moment that I’m seeing reported are rain rather than sleet or snow but that’s not to say over the higher ground later on we could see some snow now I
Think mostly it’s going to be the north Downs that see the the wintry weather if we see any but it’s not going to be everybody and even over this week we’re not going to have a complete blanket of snow covered ing the whole of Britain
And Ireland it is going to be cold we’re all going to see that but only a few of us mostly over Higher Ground And in the East are going to see any wintry weather at all okay so those of us affected definitely wrap up warm the rest of you
Just but don’t panic consider yourself lucky Don’t Panic okay reassuring uh right let’s take a look at some of the day’s other headlines now and Ukraine’s military says Russia has launched a large scale missile attack on several Ukrainian regions in the early hours of the morning military officials say the
Capital K is under threat from ballistic missiles and have urged people to find shelter they say areas including zapara and H are also under attack a new National Drive to get pupils back into the classroom is being launched today the department for education is promising 18 new attendance
Hubs across six regions in England bringing the total of 32 it says it’ll help nearly 2,000 schools tackle persistent absence new research has found the UK is the only country in the G7 where household budgets have not recovered to pre-pandemic levels the TU claimed that families would be £750 a year better off
If incomes had grown in line with other leading economies Al jazer has accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists after two of its staff were killed in an air strike near Rafa in southern Gaza our Middle East correspondent alist bankle is in Jerusalem alist serious charges from Al jazer has Israel [Applause]
Responded said that they did strike a vehicle in southern Gaza that was containing number of people and they said one of those was someone they believe to be a terror operative in their words who was operating a drone now there are some contrary reports saying that uh the drone’s being
Operated for journalistic purposes to gather pictures not for um any kind of fighting or or or Terror purposes but in that strike uh two journalists were killed uh one of them the son of the AL jazer Bure Chief in Gaza well Al dud who’s already lost his wife two of his
Other children uh and his one of his grandchild as well um so not only personally has he paid An Almighty price um during the war in Gaza but actually journalists and the journalistic community there too um at least 79 journalists are calculated to have been killed during the fighting Palestinian
Journalists I should say foreign journalists like myself are not allowed uh into Gaza at least not unilaterally sometimes there are opportunities to go in on Israeli military embeds but there is no access being allowed in for foreign journalists and so the Palestinian journalists uh who work for
Channels like our own uh and others around the world are doing so under immense risk of being killed as was evident yesterday okay Ali thanks very much now ministers will meet this morning to consider how to clear the names of hundreds of post office branch managers who were wrongly convicted of
Fraud The Horizon it system was introduced by the post office in 1999 almost immediately losses in the system emerged with the post office taking legal action by 2015 736 people had been criminally prosecuted with 700 convicted a public inquiry into the Scandal was established in 2020 to date 93
Convictions have been overturned with around 138 million pounds paid in compensation well a little earlier the conservative peer lorda bunot told this program that postmasters had been failed by every section of society and that Parliament should step in to overturn their convictions one of the greatest problems is that
There have been between 700 and 900 convictions of sub postmasters and only 93 of those convictions have been overturned that’s a an awfully small pathetically small number and I think that this is a mass problem which has got to be dealt with in a mass way and I
Think that Parliament has got to step in and say that post office convictions are not safe we’ve seen the way that investigate has behaved and they behaved in a way which was contrary to the rule of law and they’ve these convictions have got to be set aside well noing long to that labor
Shadow environment seor Steve Reid is here uh Steve what do you think should be done well good morning well I mean certainly this is one of the gravest miscarriages of Justice we’ve seen in British legal history and it’s been dragging on for in excess of two decades
Now and I’ve spoken to sub postmasters in my own constituency who are victims of this Scandal people have lost their livelihoods their reputations their savings their pensions some people have even died of old age this has gone on for so long so I completely agree that those individuals who have still got
Convictions for crimes for which they were not responsible need to be exonerated they need to be compensated and that needs to happen quickly now as I understand it the Justice secretary is looking at whether there’s a legislative route for this to be done through Parliament rather than expecting either
The public inquiry to do it peace meal or each of those individuals to have to go to court one by one to seek um to seek exoneration uh and their conviction being overturned we will look at what the government brings forward constitutionally it’s very unusual to do
It that way but I think the gravity of the crisis uh and the level of the Injustice does mean that we have to look at doing something to support these people two decades many of them are very elderly now they deserve their reputations back and they deserve what
Remains of their Futures back while these prosecutions were going through uh the director of public prosecutions at the time was K starmer of course did he take his eye off the ball does he have questions to answer do you think well the the the the CPS doesn’t work like
That it’s not the guy at the top that takes the decisions they have individual officers that will be taking decisions but from what we can see the post office was blatantly lying to people about their role in all of this and there are huge questions for the Post Office to
Answer about their role the the public inquiry the investigation that’s underway will give us more evidence that we can use there but surely I think the priority right now is to get Justice for those people whose lives were utterly destroyed by this they deserve support they exer deserve exoneration and they deserve
Compensation and in terms of the Horizon it system that that the post off was had it was it was Tony Blair who was the leader while that was signed off no one is covering themselves in glory over this have they over the years well I I think there are lessons for
Everybody to to learn from this and you know as a somebody who hopes to become a minister if labor wins the next general election but ministers currently and certainly in the past as well the job of a minister should always be to ask questions it should be to listen to
Dissenting voices and give them due Credence to inform decision making it should not be that ministers are simply the mouthpiece for their officials or organizations like the post office who quite clearly were covering things up you talked about the election uh K arm told sky yesterday the people want
Change they must vote for labor what change do you think labor represents well labor represents the Only Hope for Change that this country’s got we I mean if you look at what’s going on at the moment the big problem that people come to me about is the cost of living crisis
And the reason that’s happening is we’ve had 25 different tax Rises under this government as they’ve made working people pay for their for their disastrous crashing of the economy which sent mortgages prices in the shops rents all soaring the only way that we can get this country back to working for
Everybody who lives here again is to grow the economy labor has a plan for growth you don’t have to take my word for that we’ve had captains of industry like the former chairman of Tesco saying there’s only one player on the pitch when it comes to economic growth but if
We don’t get that change You’re simply going to have this conservative government continuing to do the same they’ve done for these past 14 years now and if you ask people do you feel better off or worse off after 14 years of conservative government people all feel
Far worse off the UK as you say currently has the highest tax burden in more than 70 years but also crumbling Public Services you say you want to bring taxes down but how is it possible to do that and also fix Public Services what we don’t want to do is be
Increasing the tax burden on working people in the way that we’ve seen this conservative government do inrease there are a number of tax loopholes that labor could close that would get us additional funding for some of those Public Services I mean one of the most egregious for me is the non-dom tax
Loophole that’s a system by which uh foreign billionaires who are living in this country get away with paying less tax than the guy that cuts my hair that is simply unfair by making those people pay their fair share of tax you can raise three billion pounds that would
Make a big impact on schools that are crying out for funding on the National Health Service that is crying out for funding that would help but for the long term we need to look at how we can grow the economy and economic growth was 50% bigger on average every single year in
The 13 years of Labor government that preceded these 13 years of conservative government hasn’t Richi suette though started to turn things around we’ve seen interest rates uh start to fall from some of the mortgage companies inflation has fallen as he said it would are you not worried that you know if the
Elections not for another eight nine months things economically might be feeling a little bit sunnier for a lot of people well if you look at what the government’s doing right now let’s let’s take tax since that that was something we were just we were just discussing the government is just playing cynical
Pre-election tricks they’re talking about a tax cut that comes into Force this month but what’s really going on is we’ve had 25 different Tory tax hikes since they won the last general election in 2019 they’re now proposing to give back just two pounds out of every1 pounds extra they’ve taken off people
They’re trying to pretend that that is some kind of benefit for people actually people are far worse off and the reason there’s a cost of living crisis the reason it’s hitting people so hard is this conservative government crashed the economy and they decided to make working
People pay the price that is simply not fair Steve re had a secr state for environment food and Rural Affairs thank you thank you well let’s take a look at the papers this morning and the mail is leading with the post office Scandal it says pressure is growing on the
Government to compensate for thousands of sub poost Masters who were wrongly convicted as part of the Horizon it Scandal elsewhere the guardian claims a senior conservative MP has warned his party faces obliteration at the next election the times warns That official government forecasts predict 2 million more people will be claiming disability
Benefits by the end of the decade meanwhile the telegraph says the mayor of London sadik Khan has bowed to rail unions by offering a bumper pay offer to avoid a week of strikes on the London Underground and the Daily Star has a weather warning for us saying a 12 Day
Chill and white outs are on the way from Scandinavia well let’s just mop up some of the political reaction with our political correspondent Rob poell on the sofa here with me Rob the Justice secet looking into how the government can help uh victims the sub poost Masters yeah
And you had Lord arbuthnot former Tor MP Tory Pier now who’s worked with a lot of these sub postmasters on earlier saying that what he wants to see is is not so much the post office being stripped of its role in how these convictions are appealed but something bigger than that
Essentially Parliament legislating to on mass exonerate all the sub postmasters that have still got convictions on their name now Steve Reid from the labor front bench there said that that would be constitutionally unusual but I thought on the whole suggested labor would be pretty open to supporting an idea it
Does sound doesn’t it like they I think they you know they they clearly think that this is a a massive public issue that people are are really exercised about it they’re not going to push back on that are they if the government comes up with a plan and I think both sides
Want to show that something can be done quickly because there has been so many uh sort of bureaucratic hurdles to get over what with the inquiry and all of the court cases if they can show that something can be done a little bit more quickly and get something for everyone
In a shorter time frame then I don’t think anyone will necessarily stand in the way of that clearly it’s for government lawyers the Justice secretary and the cabinet to hammer out practically how that would actually work then of course there is also um some of
Uh the kind of looking back if you like to the Coalition years to ministers that were in post then and whether enough was done back then Lord AR bunot said that he wrote to all MPS including David Cameron the then prime minister to ask if they’d seen any issues with this post
Office system that he had been seeing cropping up in his constituency said he didn’t know if the issue made it to his desk in his capacity as prime minister but interesting nonetheless that he says he wrote to the then prime minister who is of course now the foreign secretary
Sir Ed Davy as well the libdem leader was from 2010 for a couple of years the minister with responsibility for the post office as well so I think you can expect some MPS to try and turn the heat up on him today as well okay Rob thanks very much now Christopher Nolan’s Blockbuster
Biopic about the father of the atomic bomb took home the top go at the Golden Globes overnight and there were wins for the Oppenheimer director as well as his leading man San Murphy but there was upset for fan favorite Barbie as poor things pipped it to the best comedy
Musical our arts and entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer reports and the Golden Globe goes to Barbie pitched as the Battle of barbon Heimer this year’s Golden Globes dominated by two films that when combined made over two billion while Barbie was recognized for its box office achievement thank you we would
Like to dedicate this to every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on Earth the movie theaters this was Christopher Nolan’s night his nuclear arms race Thriller taking home best film Best Director as well as a win for its
Leading man a first question do I have lipstick all over my nose I’m just going to leave it I was in the hands of a Visionary director a master and I want to thank Chris and Emma Amy are you okay y as for TV while chaotic road rage
Thriller beef and frenetic kitchen drama the bear both went away with three Globes each perhaps more predictable the coldblooded power plays of the final season of Sky Atlantic succession sweeping the board with wins for Sarah snook this is really heavy um Matty mcfaden I just adored every second playing um the weird and
Wonderful human grease stain that is Tom WS um and Kieran culin rather fittingly loing it up over his Rivals this is a nice moment suck it Pedro sorry British showrunner Jesse Armstrong admitting it hadn’t been an easy decision to end the series we decided this was the right time to end the show
And um that was very Bittersweet and the gold Globe goes to Oppenheimer the first big Awards event of the Year recognizing the huge cultural impact of some of the most critically acclaimed drama we’ve seen in a long time Kate Spencer Sky News looks like a good night let’s get a
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Matt godod the theme of this year’s content was New Perspectives you’re watching Sky News breakfast still to come the New Year signals the start of what could be the most important months in rushi Sak’s political career but what did Jack and Sam make of it they going to join us
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To the stories that will be making headlines on Sky News throughout the day that’s your new look breakfast show weekdays 6: to 10:00 a.m. here on Sky News so the Taliban government have been in power since 2021 and in that time they have built Bridges and built roads and infrastructure and the country is coming to a point of Peace but they just don’t recognize women women’s education after the sixth grade doesn’t exist uh women are not allowed
To go to Beauty pars which have been closed there are um parks are clothes they can’t work for Nos and at this current day and age that is unacceptable that’s 20 million Afghan women who are being treated as second class citizens and that’s what I Tred to highlight with
My film well Afghanistan has such a unique history in the sense that in my lifetime the country’s flag has changed 19 times it’s just uh a a chaotic time of Government after government and every single time the women have always been victims to all these new different regimes um and they’ve always been
Impacted and it’s just it’s just enough there is no excuse for women not to be able to study 3,000 Afghan women were meant to join the Afghan Service as doctors but the board examinations were cancelled and they are just at home doing nothing those as a country we need
Stability and our economy to rise we need all help we can get so it just doesn’t make sense that this policy set forth by the Afghan government is in place it’s it’s completely ridiculous the world is at a time where there’s just chaos and and upsetting uh events
Happening everywhere but at the same time the Afghan women are being forgotten and this is what I’ve tried to do with my film yellow and it’s resonated so much around the world I get messages every day from people who’ve seen it and feel that it’s a message
That needs to be told women are becoming invisible again and and as an Afghan myself I can’t let that happen it’s my duty as an artist and as a filmmaker to try to bring that to Life Welcome back to Sky News breakfast our top stories this morning the first US Luna mission in more than 50 years has successfully launched in Florida marking an important step towards commercial space travel hundreds of flood alerts are still in place across England with yellow warnings for ice in the Southeast and Northern
Ireland and ministers will meet this morning to consider how post office branch managers who were wrongly convicted of fraud can be cleared well the first uh week back of term for MPS it means there’s another episode of course of politics at Jack and Sam’s one of the pair dug up in
Westminster over the weekend nice to see you both thanks very much for coming in um so Jack to you first of all we’re gearing up front ction this year what do you think the big themes are going to be well this is the week that politics sort
Of returns properly all the MPS come back to Parliament this afternoon richy sunak has his first big political event of the Year this morning up in Lancashire um and as you say this is when all the framing is going to be about the election we don’t know when
It’s coming yet could be in May more likely going to be towards the end of the year uh as Rich Zak has suggested and the themes are going to be well it depends which party you talk to the Tories want to talk about tax they want
To talk about cutting tax and they say labor will raise your taxes labor wants to talk about the NHS and The Parlor state of the Health Service um and we’ll hear those messages from the two leaders today and probably tomorrow and probably on Wednesday and probably for the very
Many weeks and months to come but Sam dominating the headlines today and and dominating a lot of people’s thoughts and conversations over the last few days has been what’s happening with the postmasters Scandal and finally it seems to have taken an ITV drama series to to get politicians to actually do something
About this which has been rumbling away in the background for years and years yeah I I I I sort of think that the post office Scandal and there’s no doubt that it is an absolute Scandal um has not only been bubbling along for years but he’s an absolute testimony to sort of
Medium to long-term political failure right it was a system that was wrong the checks and balances didn’t work there were miscarriages of D Justice there was suicides and only many many years later as a result of the media it’s really has it really come back and you know I think
There’s a question about is there enough urgency inside government about doing this we understand there will be no announcements today uh about what’s going to happen we sort of know what the government are considering they’re considering maybe passing a law to um uh which would simply exonerate those that
Were wrongly convicted uh they’re looking at taking away the powers of the post office to uh launch uh prosecutions um but I think I think there’s a bigger Point Jane which is you know this kind of thing happens when your political system isn’t working very
Well and and I think it’s hard to argue that over the last few years the British political system has been working particularly well this is the first probably normalist general election campaign we’ll have had since 2015 post the brexit referendum Britain has tumbled through all sorts of big moments
And and episodes of chaos and that means that Downing Street cabinet ministers have not been focused on things that they should have been does 2024 Mark a sort of return to normality as far as we can manage that’s one of the big questions of the year and Jack in terms
Of Richi sunak of course he announces five priorities in January last year how would you say he’s done on those as we start a new year and move on to an election year yeah it’s almost exactly a year ago today that he made his big
First big spe to 2023 and he set out very clearly these are the five things I want to focus on um the only one he put a time limit on was cutting inflation and that is the thing that he would say has gone best in fact it definitely is
The thing that’s G best inflation is now coming down even quicker even than dowy Street had hoped it would but I’m afraid on all of the other priorities that he set out things are not going nearly so well you know cutting NHS waiting lists that just hasn’t happened sparking
Growth in the UK economy that just hasn’t happened we’re going to see GDP stats coming on Friday which are going to show at best the UK economy is flat as a pancake um immigration he promised to stop the boats he has reduced the number of uh boats coming across the
Channel but he’s far from stop them uh and in terms of getting debt falling that feels like some way off as well so you know he he made big bold promises he said he would be judged on them a year on it’s kind of one out of five so far
And and Sam is tax going to be the primary Battleground do you think during the election we spoke to labor about it a little earlier well as Jack say ear it will be if if the Tories get their way uh if they can convince people uh of of
Their Narrative of their claims uh yes on Saturday there was a 2 p cut to People’s National Insurance uh but as labor point out there has been a very big increase in people’s personal taxes uh the equivalent of uh 10p uh so really your sort of net 8p down overall uh they
Would argue um but but there’s also just a general question about whether tax is the biggest thing that people notice uh in their monthly finances given that despite mortgage re uh sort of renewal rates coming down that’s still much more expensive energy costs still high inflation has come down but you know we
Had a year of you know 8 n 10% inflation last year and it’s still going up uh so can you sort of crunch that through um it it strikes me there are always going to be three things in this election of which tax and economy is one uh uh
Another big one will be migration and that’s still a fight that particularly the Tory party need to uh have with itself but Labour need to spell out more about what they would do but also the NHS and you’ve got I mean I think if you talk to Downing Street that they would
Concede that of of the issues in their five priorities um the NHS is probably the trickiest uh with those waiting lists to deal to deal with but but there’s one solution I think they’re not really looking at at the moment Let’s uh let’s hear about that I’ve been talking
To people in Downing Street people next door in the treasury uh to other uh figures and um and and there’s nobody almost no nobody in government who thinks that the answer is a big further injection of cash into the NHS now it had been a theory of conservative
Politics that you need to neutralize the issue of the NHS by using the last kind of in the last few months up to an election put a big dollop of cash in order to sort of neuter uh the uh labor attack on the NHS but that hasn’t happened actually Labor’s commitments on
The NHS and funding are much much more measured this time compared to say what Jeremy Corbin offered in in 2019 and so there feels like there’s this will be the first election in a Years first election possibly in my lifetime where there isn’t a bit of cash arms race
About the NHS enormously enjoying the chinos there by the way thank you very much indeed uh you have to look stylish in Jack’s house uh it’s a little bit more free flow in my house um uh no it’s interesting on the NHS because I think the NHS probably depends uh on
Politicians wanting to give it more money in the run up to an election that’s just that’s just been part of our electoral cycle so if if if this election doesn’t see that I wonder what the impact is uh uh on our Health Service and of course one of the other
Things coming up this week the doctor strike the current Junior doctor strike finally comes to end Tuesday Morning um that’s that’s a six- day strike of half the doctors in NHS England that’s a big big impact on the health service for a prime minister who is trying to get
Waiting this down in fact who’s promised to get waiting this down very very hard to do that while you have this ongoing very very extreme industrial action and there’s no sign of that ending this strike is coming to an end I expect there’ll be more also a headache for the
Prime Minister Jack on on this vote in the Commons on Drilling in the North Sea we’ve already seen another resignation that’s right a big piece of uh Flagship government legislation about increasing uh the opportuni is to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea where there’s a big
Vote happening in the House of Commons this evening um there are some very unhappy Tory MPS about it Tory MPS who think that green issues are the most important things facing the planet do not think we should be uh further exploring the North Sea for more oil and
Gas and yeah Chris gmmore who was the prime minister’s advisor on uh on green issues resigned as an MP on Friday or announced he would do so uh the prime minister’s uh cop Envoy Alex Sharma also spoke out very strongly against it on Saturday so although he’ll win the vote
Tonight I’m sure it’s not a good look for richy sunak to have these big high-profile Tory politicians attacking his key policies and Sam Foreign Affairs also big today David Cameron in front of the common select committee that’s right and I know it’s a long way away I know
It’s kind of uh doesn’t always feel relevant but there’s a huge decision for Britain about what happens in the Red Sea because all our trade depends on on these key shipping routes uh some of which go up through the Red Sea next to Yemen where these uh hooti Rebels uh are
Launching attacks on container ships now they say they’re doing it because they want to stop ships reaching Israel this is about what’s going on in uh in the Middle East in Israel with um with Hamas and in Gaza uh but it’s also having a massive impact on the basically trade
Flows and every time one of those ships that would have gone up through the Red Sea goes around the bottom of South Africa around the Cape of Good Hope that adds a million pounds to the cost of that um of of that cargo uh being transported and takes 20 extra days that
Has an impact on things like inflation and our trade and our ability to Source goods and I think that the government is worried the big decision is whether or not to follow America and start launching missiles we’ve got ships in the region we could Downing Street have
Got to decide whether we will so potentially a massive escalation is is on the horizon finally before we let you go Jack um you know we the Prime Minister said last week that uh he was looking towards the end of the year for an election I mean in your head have you
Ruled out April May more or less um me and Sam don’t necessarily agree on this but I’m I just think the prime minister is so far behind in the polls he hasn’t been in Downing Street very long he will want to cling on as long as humanly possible and he’ll just pray that
Something turns up you know we’ve seen it before the last few years big events can suddenly happen and things can change so my my working assumption has always been he will hang on as long as he can which means probably an election at the end of November I mean it’s more
Likely than not definitely more likely than not that it’ll be in November but that does presuppose that Rishi sunak keeps control of when you call an election uh as we saw from 2023 there are just so many imponderables not least with the conservative party I think signs at that Rebellion on the Rwanda
Bill is is decreasing but you’ve never been able to say that it’s a happy party after the events the last 3 four years so uh his timing probably relies on waiting a bit longer hoping the economy improves uh and seeing if something bluntly just comes along to improv his
Uh improv his fortunes but who can say that the conservative party will let him do that okay Jack Blanchard sub coach thank you both very much and if you want to listen to Jack and Sam’s podcast you can scan the QR code on your screen right now there they are and they’re
Fetching uh off air podcast clothes also still to come on Sky News breakfast and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching a new era the paragan mission War blasts into space its destination the surface of the Moon we’ll have more on the successful Luna launch next
Morning everybody it is 8:00 you’re very welcome to join us on Sky News wherever you’re watching us Chancellor will be joining us in just a few moments time evidence of the cost of living crisis we’ll start with breaking news one place to start this morning against the dollar
Ever was like night F it’s 5:00 this is the newsour I’m Mark Austin coming up in the next 60 Minutes Welcome to the t on the UK tonight throughout the course of the week uh still to come this is a a piece of uh Hardware built at the O University in metal kees
It it’s called a mass spectrometer but what that is is a device that will land on the surface of the Moon on this Mission and it will measure the composition of the lunar atmosphere very very thin lunar atmosphere less than a millionth of the millionth of the
Thickness of the atmosphere on Earth and it will basically it acts like a w scales so it separates the atmospheric molecules account according to how heavy they are and we know that water molecules weigh 18 nitrogen weighs 28 so we can identify what those molecules are
When when we did land on the moon we put you know humans on there and and um you know the initial idea was that the moon was quite dry it seemed to be a dry Barren bu dusty place but more recently in the last 10 years or so we’ve had
Orbitas going around the Moon which is starting to reveal a different from picture and and we’re getting suggestions that there’s actually a a very tenuous water cycle going on on on the moon with with kind of water molecules moving around the surface maybe getting stuck at the poles and
Frozen down as ice where it’s very very cold and also techniques have improved so the last time an instrument like this went to the moon was 50 years ago you know technology moves on so you know this mission is the first time to go and do this kind of science again after 50
Years I mean the Moon is a real it’s getting to be busy place with missions you know you you seen on your on your coverage um what’s different about this mission is that it’s commercially LED so it’s kind of there’s a global feeling that the best way to explore space and
The Moon is the the nearest place to go so this is where you’re going to go and try this out in the first place is to get everybody involved so it’s not just a kind of a national agency Endeavor but it’s involving commercial companies and universities and and trying to bring
That all together to make it more sustainable and a cheaper way to explore one of the the reasons people are really interested in water on the moon is that it might help sustain exploration there so if we want to put astronauts on the moon if we want to take a bottle of
Water up to them which weighs you know half a kilogram for a bottle of water it’s going to take about half a million pounds to do that because of lifting it through thece Earth’s gravity field so one of the ideas that if you can find appreciable quantity of water on the
Moon and purify it bottle it sell it for less than half a million pounds then you’ve got a business case now that’s not my bag but you can see how using resources locally and not having to take everything with you in a massive spacecraft can make space exploration more Agile Now the missing do that blew off on Alaskan Airlines flight in midair has been found by a school teacher in his garden let’s talk to sabba chowri who’s got more on this uh Sabah I’m smiling but you know this is a really serious story for those on this plane an
Absolutely terrifying experience and but they have at least found the found the door yeah so the incident took place on Friday last week just minutes after the aircraft left Portland International Airport so uh the pilots on board were forced to perform an emergency uh Landing it was the Boeing 737 plane and
Alaska Airlines flight uh and like I say they were forced to perform an emergency landing on that plane after a massive hle tore through the side of that aircraft absolutely terrifying I I’m sure uh a terrifying ordeal for passengers but luckily uh no one was seriously hurt and also the pilots were
Able to skillfully uh land the plane in a safe and secure way now this was a lucky Escape really for the 171 passengers on board that plane and also the six members of the cabin crew but it really could have been so much worse not
Just for them but also the people on the ground because of inevitable debris that would have fallen from that plane and it just so happens uh that one piece of debris so a door plug from the missing door was found in the garden of an American teacher in Portland a man
Called Bob in his garden of all places now without a doubt this piece of debris will be used uh in the ongoing investigation to determine what exactly happened on the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane last week because at the moment the cause is still unknown now uh this
Without a doubt is you know a huge cause of concern for regular Flyers the damage arguably is done this is not the first time we are seeing a reported incident with these planes this is in fact the fourth in a matter of two months and also Optics 197 of these planes have
Been temporarily grounded while the investigations are taking place so uh worrying time indeed for regular passengers okay Saba thanks very much now at exactly 18 minutes P 7 this morning the US successfully launched its first rocket to the moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years
Ago two good srbs hitting Peak pressure on the srbs everything look well joining me is space journalist k K Aras gray Kate lovely to see you um so why is this Mission exciting there are so many reasons that this is an exciting Mission um firstly it was the the first time
This particular rocket had ever launched and it went off very smoothly there’ll be a lot of very relieved people at the United launch Alliance who are potentially going to go out of business if this had failed um it’s also potentially the first commercial Luna Landing that’s being uh taken uh taken
To the Moon uh it’s astrobotic is an American company from Pittsburgh which is not the usual place that you would imagine for a space company usually you’d think Houston or uh Florida for a space company um but as he was saying it’s it would be the first time that
America has soft landed on the moon since 1972 which is when the Apollo 17 Landing happened so it’s a very exciting time for them I mean has it got over the tricky bit it’s launched successfully but there are other tricky bits to come aren’t there before it successfully lands
Absolutely um landing on the moon is not easy in any way in fact in just the last well since 2019 there have been four failed Luna uh missions a couple of those did start out much like astrobotic as competitors in uh the Google Luna X prize which offered a big prize pull
About $30 million to to try and land a commercial mission on the on the moon nobody won that prize a few of the teams did try still to get their missions out there but the the Japanese and the Israeli Mission both both failed by you know they crash into the moon and just
Last year a few days before India successfully landed on the moon uh the Russian Luna Mission as they said in their press release ceased to exist after a collision with the Luna surface so in terms of of what it’s carrying on board tell us a little bit
About the kind of stuff that’s on there so this Mission has got a real wide range of things on it um for the important thing is they’ve got five payloads that are under the commercial lunar um delivery services program and they’re doing things they’ve got scientific experiments to check out
Radiation to analyze the uh lunar soil see how hydrated that is they’ also be looking at um the exosphere of the Moon and trying to find out how much water there might be on on the moon um but there are also these commercial payloads so they’ve got 16 custom custom from
Seven different countries and it’s anything from archives and artworks and Humanities projects through to some human remains There’s an actual Bitcoin a physical Bitcoin is being sent up there by the seals I’m not sure why they decided that would be their their first um point of bitco Bitcoins was that they
Weren’t physical well indeed indeed but they they have produced a unique physical coin which on on onto which is loaded a real Bitcoin why send DNA up there why send human remains up there well that’s um it’s an interesting one uh for one for one uh side of it you’ve
Got sending DNA is is part of a kind of archive of human you know what humans are and you know much like the the Voyer gold dis had information about Humanity but on the other side on the commercial side there are Services there are two companies offering services for space
Memorials where they’ll send a proportion of your remains or DNA or messages up and into space and actually the Navajo um nation in the US have been a little bit upset about the idea of of putting human remains on the the moon because they you know they don’t feel
That that’s respectful of of the Moon and in terms of of the the possibility of people going to the Moon I suppose that’s what a lot of people would be really interested in and the idea that you know we could see man or woman walking on the moon again quite
Soon does this Mission bring us closer to that becoming a reality yes yes absolutely um there are some radiation detectors on on this Mission and that’s all there to help us work out what sort of radiation the astronauts would be subject to on the journey to and on the
Surface of the Moon and we’re hoping that later this year we’ll see the uh Artemis 2 mission which will send humans around the Moon they won’t land on it not yet but it will be the first time that a woman will have gone around the Moon fantastic stuff well we’ll keep an
Eye on it and all of the next stages is the 23rd of February it’s going to land is that the date that’s what we’re hoping for there are also to watch out for uh in January there’s a Japanese mission that might be landing on the moon and there should be a second
American Mission uh if it launches in mid-February that should be landing around the same time as astrobotic okay we shall wait and see which one gets there first Kate alas gry space journalist good to talk to you thanks very much well let’s take a look at the morning’s sports news now and Liverpool
Are through to the fourth round of the FA Cup they beat Arsenal 2-n yesterday after dominating the first half Arsenal fell behind late in the second half Trent Alexander Arnold’s free kick headed into his own goal by Arsenal Defender yakob K and then deep into stoppage time
Liverpool broke away to make it two n Le Diaz scoring to seal the the result means it’s now three consecutive defeats for Mel Etta’s side and they’re without a win in four ra teses FA cup holders Manchester City book their place in the fourth round in emphatic style pep guardiola’s side
Thrashed Huddersfield 5- nil with two goals coming from England midfielder Phil foden and Chelsea Striker Sam Kerr is set to miss the rest of the season after picking up a serious knee injury in training well let’s see how the back pages are shaping up up this morning wam bam says the sun after
Patrick bamford’s stunner during leeds’s 3-0 FA Cup victory over Peterborough the eye has Lis Diaz celebrating Liverpool’s win away at Arsenal despite their defeat misfiring the misfiring Gunners may not be shopping for a new Striker though it says after all the times also features Arsenal’s FA
Cup exit with a quote from Mel artetta we must get our heads Right feet right too are also important time for the weather now warm memories wherever you go the weather sponsored by kataar Airways conditions will be quiet and cold this week with a freshening Breeze bringing a significant wind chill to
Southern parts of the country this morning there’ll be a widespread Frost overnight temperatures having dropped close to or below freezing patches of dense freezing fog over parts of Ireland Scotland and Northwestern England will be slow to clear some may linger throughout the day showers in the Southeast will turn wintry Over The High
Ground as they spread Westward for much of the country it’s going to be a dry morning the weather sponsored by Kata Airways coming up on Sky News breakfast after the floods comes the freeze warnings still in place for a lot of wet weather but the Met Office says it is
Snow which could potentially cause yet more chaos to come time to wrap up War Hello everyone it’s 9:00 if you’re going out this morning even us Northerners might need our big coats after a week of storms torrential rains and floods get ready for the big chill we’re told that there is snow coming but the weather was good in Florida good enough in fact to
Launch a rocket to the moon it’s Monday the 8 of January and liftoff of the first United launch Alliance Vulcan rocket launching a new era in space flight to the moon and Beyond the first US Luna mission in more than 50 years lifts off from Cape canav SRB pressure
On hundreds of flood warnings are still in place and the Met Office says that snow could cause Rush Hour chaos across the southeast an Amber War warning for cold weather a yellow warning for ice and all this comes just days after flooded communities also ahead ministers meet
This morning to consider how post office branch officers who were the victims of a miscarriage of Justice can be cleared the door that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in midair is found by a school teacher and and the Golden Globe goes to [Applause] Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan’s Blockbuster about the father of the
Atomic bomb winds big at the Golden Gloves thanks so much for joining us while Rob and Steph are here with the headlines politically Rob yeah morning Jane I think the post office story is probably going to dominate the first day back at term for MPS today we’ll have a meeting involving the Justice secretary
Calls for there to be legislation passed to basically set aside on mass these wrongful convictions that many sub postmasters um were subject to awkward questions potentially as well for those who are ministers back in the Coalition years including one had Davy the current leader of the lib Dems and Steph it’s
Flipping chilly out there isn’t it really rather brisk yes and down in the Southeast we’ve also got a keen wind to make that feels like temperature that little bit lower than it might be and there’s also the chance of seeing a little bit of snow but not many people
Will see it we’ll find out exactly where later okay thank you both so much but first at exactly 18 minutes P 7 this morning the US launched its first rocket to the moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago sence correspondent Thomas ma was watching the footage watching this that
Happened live uh Thomas tell us why why is this important and why has it taken 50 years yeah look I mean this looks like a a pretty regular space launch we used to seeing these now but this is anything but NASA wasn’t at the controls it has a
Ticket to ride it’s got five experiments on board but it has commissioned a private American startup to develop not just this rocket but also the the Luna Lander which sits in in the nose cone at the moment uh and will be heading towards the moon to land they hope on
February the 23rd now why do they want to go back to the Moon well it’s all about water because uh we know that the Americans have got Ambitions to send humans back there uh they they hope that water will obviously hydrate astronauts but also provide their oxygen and
Perhaps even uh Rocket Fuel to go uh further into the solar system that’s why you’re seeing this revival of the Space Race the moon race uh but it is commercial companies in charge this time because they NASA hopes that will bring down the costs to really deliver value
For money and make regular Lo missions much more practical but it does mean that this commercial company is not only taking science experiments but it’s also taking other commercial payloads including the ashes and DNA from human beings which has really angered some indigenous Americans who feel that the
Moon is a sacred Place uh but also there is a a marketing Stunt by a sports drink manufacturer that sending up a can of its drink in a powdered form so that future astronauts can mix it with with lunar water and enjoy now this is perhaps um a new way of thinking about
The moon and and many people are unhappy Thomas thanks very much well it’s the weather here on land in the UK now and after the floods comes the freeze over the past week we’ve seen storms and torrential rain cause rivers to burst their Banks from gleria to notans Shire the environment agency says
That more than 1,800 properties have been flooded and communities are still mopping up it has happened before but it’s all been thoroughly repaired and tanked since then we were not expecting it because we had a lot of work done on it and we’ve had it all checked and
Maintained it’s just although it’s not high nevertheless it’s getting everything wet and it’s seeping in as if it’s got under the floor so bull stti stream goes right up into our yard uh there’s a there’s a kind of toe path that walks that we walk behind there usually that’s of course completely
Underwater now uh the blood wat has came up very quickly uh since Friday it had been stable but it’s right up to our back patio almost almost to our back door we have a neighborhood WhatsApp group and it was I’ve never seen it this active in the three years we’ve moved
Here uh some of our neighbors are dealing with a little bit of flooding in their kitchen um we’ve been pretty stressed out uh on Friday since I as I said it’s stabilized since Friday right now we’re okay kind of hoping for the best well in England there are still uh
There are now 52 flood warnings and 152 flood alerts in place but attention is already turning to what is coming next that is snow ice and freezing temperatures well let’s cross live to our west of England and Wales correspondent Dan Whitehead who’s in Longford in gloucestershire and and Dan
Clearly it’s been enormously wet there they could do without freezing temperatures on top couldn’t they yeah they really could the flood uh Waters in Longford have receded from the houses now a street cleaning team just drove past cleaning up some of the debris but you can see behind me that
There is still plenty of low lining low-lying floodwater uh in the surrounding areas here in Gloucester and in communities right across sort of the middle and southern England that were impacted last week following those storms and they saw their properties uh flooded what they now are facing is a
Week of freezing weather which could make the conditions even more difficult for them the metes office and the UK Health Security Agency uh the weekend issued this amber alert for cold weather as essentially that is in place until midday on Friday not only here in the southwest of England but also in the
Northwest the West Midlands and uh the East Midlands uh and what that means is it could put stresses uh for a significant period of time on health services so the advice is to check on elderly people uh vulnerable people uh and actually that Amber Alert means that it could be particularly difficult for
Some to keep their properties warm which is class as 18° and above um and it could be difficult for them to do so so check in on those vulnerable people but we’ve had another warning this morning from the Met Office itself and that is a yellow weather warning this time for ice
Specifically that actually affects London it affects the southeast and it also affects parts of Northern Ireland so a difficult week ahead and it comes as you say as there are still around 150 uh flood warnings and alerts in place there are still high uh River levels as
You can see so the concern is that that low-lying water in those communities that are still uh facing ing floods and a stor mopping up that could turn to ice creating more dangerous conditions okay Dan thanks very much uh well let’s bring in Steph in the studio here so step how
Cold is it going to get well it got down to minus 7.5 last night so really quite chilly um and it’s going to stay cold for most of the week and into the weekend as well uh there’s slight differences on exactly where the high pressure is going to be and that will
Direct the wind towards us from slightly different places which will bring us slightly different temperature of air and that sort of thing so there’s slight discrepancies but essentially really cold in the Southeast for today and tomorrow and then slightly less cold more Cloud around but if you’re thinking
Of a winter wonderland Jane get that out your head it’s not going to be snow for everybody we’ve all got the cold weather yes but not the snow the snow they’re going to get days off school no um in the Southeast where we’ve got the snow warning at the moment it’s for ice
Really but there could be some snow there as well there are some showers currently they are of rain rather than snow at the moment but that could change but what’s happening is the winds are sort of channeling together so they’re funneling these clouds and the showers
Into a long line and that’s why we could end up with like one patch just having these showers Trail over them and they could have 1 to three centimeters of snow where about a mile down the road they’ll see nothing that’s why it’s so regionalized this snow we’re not all
Going to see it Jan okay thanks for clearing that up step well let’s take a look at some of the days other headlines now and Ukrainian authorities say at least two people have been killed after Russia launched a large-scale missile attack in the early hours of the morning
Military officials say the capital Kev is under threat from ballistic missiles and have urged people to find shelter they say areas including zapia and H are also under attack a shopping center and two dozen other buildings were damaged in the city of Crea a new National Drive to get pupils
Back into the classroom is being launched today the the department for education is promising 18 new attendance hubs across six regions in England bringing the total to 32 it says it’ll help nearly 2,000 schools tackle persistent absences new research has found the UK is the only country in the G7 where
Household budgets have not recovered to prepandemic levels the TUC claim families would be £750 a year better off if incomes had grown in line with other leading economies now ministers will meet today to consider how to clear the names of hundreds of post office branch managers who were wrongly convicted of fraud The
Horizon it system was introduced by the post office in 1999 almost immediately losses in the system emerged with the post office taking legal action by 2015 736 people had been criminally prosecuted with 700 convicted Ed a public inquiry into the Scandal was established in 2020 to date 93 convictions have been overturned with
Around1 138 million pounds paid in compensation a little earlier the conservative peer lorda bunot told us that postmasters had been failed by every section of society and that Parliament should step in to overturn their convictions 10900 convict of sub poost Masters and only 933 of those convictions have been overturned that’s
An awfully small pathetically small number and I think that this is a mass problem which has got to be dealt with in a mass way and I think that Parliament has got to step in and say that post office convictions are not safe we’ve seen the way that investigators behaved and they behaved
In a way which was contrary to the rule of law and they’ve these convictions have got to be set aside well our political correspondent Rob Powell has more on this Rob the Justice secretary looking into how the government can help these victims yeah Alex chalk the Justice secretary will
Meet with um the business Minister who’s responsible for the post office now Kevin hollinrake that B that meeting will take place later today a number of options being considered one of them how to strip the post office out of the process by which people that were wrongfully convicted can appeal those convict
I think it’s clear though listening to people like lorda bunot who was heavily involved in this campaign when he was an MP in Hampshire um many years ago um that actually there is a desire among some and certainly among campaigners for a kind of more widespread solution possibly even legislation passed by
Parliament that would set aside all of these wrongful convictions on mass so all of the individuals don’t have to go through this legal process um individually and take the time to do that something that could be done in a much more widespread fashion now you had
Labor front bench Steve Reid on a little bit earlier um and he I thought gave the impression that labor wouldn’t necessarily stand in the way of that have a listen to what he said I completely agree that those individuals who have still got convictions for crimes for which they
Were not responsible need to be exonerated as I understand it the Justice secretary is looking at whether there’s a legislative route for this to be done through Parliament rather than expecting the public inquiry to do it peace meal or each of those individuals to have to go to court one by one to
Seek um to seek exoneration uh and their conviction being overturned we will look at what the government brings forward constitutionally it’s very unusual to do it that way but I think the gravity of the crisis uh and the level of the Injustice does mean that we have to look
At doing something to support these people is taking place today um in government I don’t think we necessarily should expect any formal announcement on what the government plans to do today there may be an attempt by backbenches though to bring a minister to the commons to answer questions on this I
Think a lot of concern that’s been raised since that drama was AED last week maybe also focus on how ministers acted when some of these concerns were initially raised during the Cameron Le Coalition Years sir Ed Davy now the libdem leader was a business Minister
Back then a lot of focus has been put on how his Communications with one of the lead campaign ERS from the subm postmaster group and a lot of people pointing out that s ed Davy is someone who is rather fond of calling for other people to resign and be held to account
For indiscretions and failings and I think for that reason they will probably want to subject him to a little bit of heat today as well okay Rob thanks a lot now Al jaaz has accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists after two of its staff were killed in an air
Strike near Rafa in southern Gaza well our Middle East correspondent alist bule is inuring Jerusalem alist tell us about what happened and what kind of reaction there’s been from Israel well this air strike happened on a car that was in very deep into the south of the Gaza Strip um Al jazer said
That the three men were working for uh the network um but the IDF when asked about it last night said that at least one of them was using an aerial object we think a drone uh and that it was posing a threat to Israeli forces and so
They fired on the vehicle um killing two journalists inside including one of the sons of w aladu who is the bureau chief for Al jazer in Gaza now he’s already lost his wife two of his other children and one of his grandchildren in a in a previous air strikes he’s paid a very
Heavy toll uh during this conflict he’s become something the face of uh the uh the news in the in the Arab world because of course it is only Palestinian journalists who can operate in Gaza at the moment freely we as International journalists cannot get in so we rely uh
On our Palestinian colleagues in the G strip to provide us with uh imagery and interviews from there and they do so under great great risk as was demonstrated yesterday when um these two journalists were killed aler have very strongly condemned The Killing um but they are at odds with the IDF who claim
That it was because there was some sort of threat opposed to Israeli forces but there are reports that these journalists could have been using drones uh in order just to film the scene rather than trying to attack the uh any Israeli soldiers but now 79 at least 79
Journalists have been killed in Gaza since the War Began just over three months ago aliser thanks very much the missing door that blw off and Alaskan Airlines flight in midair has been found by a school teacher in his garden well Sabah chowri has more on this Sabah
Just remind us what happened here it was a terrifying incident for passengers yes the incident took place on Friday just last week and it happened minutes after takeoff from Portland International Airport pilots on board the Boeing 737 aircraft and Alaska Airlines flight were forced to perform an emergency landing
After a massive hole ripped into the side of the plane now luckily no one was seriously hurt and the plane landed safely but it could have been so much worse not just for those 171 passengers on the plane or the six members of the cabin crew but also for people on the
Ground because of inevitable debris now it just so happens that piece of debris was today found uh in the garden of an American teacher an individual called Bob and this was the missing door plug from the door uh just we can see the the Gap in the picture there now it’s uh we
Can determine that this piece of debr will be used in the ongoing investigations to determine what exactly happened on the Boeing 737 uh aircraft because at the this moment in time it’s not known the cause of the incident is not yet known and it’s going to cause a
Lot of concern for regular passengers about 197 of these planes uh currently have been suspended they’re on the ground they’re not going anywhere and also this isn’t the first time that we’re seeing an incident of this nature with the Boeing 737 this is in fact the fourth time in a
Matter of just two months that there has been a reported issue so this most recent incident will uh likely add to the anxiety amongst those regular passengers s thanks a lot coming up on Sky News breakfast I’m going to be joined by the conservative MP David Davis who’s calling on the
Government to do more to hold accountable those responsible for the Post Office Scandal breakfast is becoming even brighter here on Sky News there’s a new studio a new start time of 6:00 a.m. and some new faces I okay yes we bring you all the top stories from around the globe and here in Westminster as we countdown to an election f a look ahead
To the stories that’ll be making headlines on Sky News throughout the day that’s your new look breakfast show weekdays 6: to 10:00 a.m. here on Sky News so the Talan government have been in power since 2021 and in that time they have built Bridges and built roads and infrastructure structure and the country is coming to a point of Peace but they just don’t recognize women women’s education after the sixth grade doesn’t exist uh women are not
Allowed to go to Beauty parls which have been closed there are um parks are cloth they can’t work for Nos and at this current day and age that is unacceptable that’s 20 million Afghan women who are being treated as second class citizens and that’s what I Tred to highlight with
My film well Afghanistan has such a unique history in the sense that in my lifetime the country’s flag has changed 19 times it’s just a a a chaotic time of Government after government and every single time the women have always been victims to all these new different regimes um and they’ve always been
Impacted and it’s just it’s just enough there is no excuse for women not to be able to study 3,000 Afghan women were meant to join the Afghan Service as doctors but the board examinations were cancelled and they are just at home doing nothing those as a country we need
Stability and our economy to rise we need all the help we can get so just doesn’t make sense that this policy set forth by the afan government is in place it’s it’s completely ridiculous the world is at a time where there’s just chaos and and upsetting uh events
Happening everywhere but at the same time the Afghan women are being forgotten and this is what I’ve tried to do with my film yellow and it’s resonated so much around the world I get messages every day from people who’ve seen it and feel that it’s a message
That needs to be told women are becoming invisible again and as an Afghan myself I can’t let that happen it’s my duty as an artist and as a filmmaker to try to bring that to Life Welcome back while ministers will meet this morning to consider how to clear the names of hundreds of post office branch managers who were wrongly convicted of fraud well one of the those leading the calls to make sure that the right people are held responsible is the conservative MP David Davis he joins me
In the studio now the Prime Minister says he’s considering exonerating all victims of the post office Scandal it’s it’s going to be a tricky thing to get through legally yes do you confident it could it could happen oh I think it can be done and I think it will get done I
Mean how quickly though the huge well it’s got to be months not years put it that way I mean at the moment if we carry on at the current Pace it’ll be years because we’ve got what 10% of them cleared so far and one of the reasons
For that is because the authorities have challenged every appeal well what they doing you know so so that’s the first thing to stop that that process but I think you know there is a single fact that underpins every single case and that is that the Post Office lied about
Who had access to those accounts who had access to those computers that fact makes every single conviction well technically unsafe just wrong you know and I think we can use that fact to turn them all over that’s what we should be doing why is it taken so long to get to
This point do you think well I mean you you’ve got the problem with exoneration you got the problem on compensation and so on and this is because the bodies involved are still resisting I mean the post office is still although it says publicly it’s uh it accepts there’s been a massive
Injustice in in the way it behaves you know employs expensive lawyers to challenge all the compensation claims uh as I say I think it’s a post office authorities who actually challenging the cases when they come to appeal we’ve got to stop that the state the government is the single shareholder for the post
Office and we should be giving them a very simple instruction you know start behaving properly the manager’s responsible for this do do you know who they are and and do you think they should be prosecuted well I’ve got a good idea but you know I’m not I don’t
Want to replace one Injustice with another one I think there should be a proper investigation a criminal investigation and it should Encompass the behavior of the post office and a Fujitsu uh and then and see who lied basically that’s what it comes down to it’s simply who lied who made the
Decisions to say for example that uh there was no access to the uh post office computers individual post office computers who made that decision somebody must have done you know they represented that case in court as it were as well so you once we identify who
Lied not who made a mistake but who lied those are the people who should face criminal charges what about Paula ven benen of course she was the chief executive of the post office 2012 to 2019 a petition calling for her to be stripped of her CV has uh now reached
Over a million signatures do you think she should face personal sanctions well uh well again the the investigation got to do that and look if I were hurt I’d have given up my CBE I would have given it back you know um but if if that’s
Going to happen it’s got to be a proper process as I say don’t replace one Injustice with another one I think the odds are she’ll lose it um the forfeiture committee will no doubt look at it at some point there’s a special committee to look at these things uh and
They know they know what to look at you know whether or not she misrepresented whether or not she allowed uh uh miscarriages to go on you know so uh that will happen I’m pretty sure but it’s got to be done properly what changes would you like to see at the
Post office generally well for a start uh we should take away from them the right to police themselves you know I mean you shouldn’t be in the business of marking your own homework even if you’re a state body I think you know because they’re a state were a state body they
Were given this their own police force and we can see from from what’s happened we see from that docu drama uh precisely how badly that worked that ended up uh oppressing people of convicting of things they never did you know so that’s got to go that’s got to go straight away
Uh beyond that I mean in more immediate terms we’ve got to get them exonerated and we’ve got to get the Compensation Program accelerated because at the moment it’s being it’s being bogged down by the post office itself so all of those things got to be done and then
We’ll get glimmer of Justice at the end of this are there any other public bodies like the post office that have the capabilities to carry out these private prosecutions there are some others I don’t have the list in my mind at the moment but there are some others
But should questions be raised about all of those also yes indeed exactly right I think you know at some point we’re going to have to uh do some legislation to to change that because you know we’re going to have to take the police force as it
Were away from the post office and put it somewhere else the met or some other police agency probably um and when we do that we should go down down the list I mean one of the problems here which this characterizes I’m afraid uh is that big
Not just big state bodies but big uh bureaucracies are very very bad at handling issues of Justice we saw it as well with the tainted blood Scandal how long that took to get resolved we’ve seen it with things like the shinuk um crash where it took the RAF fought off
For 10 years attempts to exonerate the pilots this is a generic problem and we’ve got to find a better way of dealing with it David Davis conservative good to talk to you thank you very much thank right let’s get a look at the weather now warm memories wherever you
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At the eye to discuss what will be a very busy year in Politics Welcome back you’re watching Skyy breakfast our top stories this morning the first US Luna mission in more than 50 years is successfully launched in Florida marking an important step towards commercial space travel hundreds of flood alerts are still in place across England with yellow warnings for ice in the Southeast and Northern
Ireland and ministers will meet this morning to consider how post office branch managers who are wrongly convicted of fraud can be cleared well MPS are back in Westminster today after the New Year break and the next few months are likely to be crucially important as the country gears up for a
General election I’m joined Now by ktie balls political editor at The Spectator and Ian dun columnist for the eye and uh K you first of all I mean first day back there’s lots to discuss but do you think the post office Scandal is going to be the thing that dominates the first few
Days I think it is in the sense that both parties really pushing uh for movement on this obviously you could say better late than never if you think about how that ITV drama has brought the sense of urgency for something that really dates back to the ’90s um has
Been bubbling away since then um questions I think for the Tories for the government in terms of what they’ll do questions for Ed Davey the leader of the liberal Democrats his role in the Coalition at the time and I think labor wanting to make the most of that and
Appear as though they are on the side of you know those who who who want to see some form of justice so how far can the Tories go and will they get cross party backing which is a possibility or does it become Point scoring I mean Ian
Talking to Lord of bunar earlier who who who’s been involved in this from the very beginning I mean he he makes the point that that MPS have let down the sub post Masters they’ve been let down by pretty much every sector of society um you know it’s all well and good the
Prime Minister saying it’s an appalling miscarriage of justice but the politicians should have done more shouldn’t they yes I think journalists could take a little bit of the blame as well actually when not great on these when something really story hasn’t been covered though no no the story has been
Covered and also questionaries about it channels and questions have been asked in the commment as well so you can obviously find individual cases we’re talking about as a group you know how much ferocity of attention was there and usually when you get these cases they can be um they can seem sort of
Instinctively kind of boring in the same way that building regulation might seem kind of boring before um Gro fell It And yet when something kicks off once the emotions about it are suddenly brought up questions are raised by why we’re not discussing these things in a more ferocious manner nevertheless generally
As a political culture we’re quite bad at looking at issues like this and we’re quite good at looking at personalities and skull duggery and sort of you know Court Intrigue around politics less good on the policy a heartbreak of of little people’s lives and inverted Commerce
Isn’t it it just doesn’t perhaps make as good Telly as good journalism I think that’s perhaps why it has come to the point that it’s a dramatization that has suddenly meant people do feel that uh you know attachment to the story which means it’s now getting that Focus
Because as you say there has been lots of great journalism on this topic it just hasn’t taken off in that way so uh you can say better late than never I think for some who have been affected by this it’s going to feel a lot too late
Um but there is a chance still to you know do some good things here yeah um so 2024 an election year Ian we’ve already had Party leaders out on the rounds doing the interviews out meeting the public already fast out the traps how do you see the year playing out um I think
Soon is entirely correct when he says that it’s going to be happening in the Autumn there was a lot because we saw his statement last week sort of prevaricate rather obviously and be like Oh almost certainly the Autumn but you know leaving the door open for a May
Election at the same time I think it’s very unlikely to be May for the simple reason that he thinks he’s going to lose and he doesn’t want to not be prime minister so the later he can push out that date the more likely he is to do so
He will push it I think to the Autumn and I doubt it will do him any good at all when you look at even the way this year has be done already we’re just in I mean Parliament hasn’t even come back yet and we’re already dealing with resignations with byelections building
Up with rebellions over legislation there are very few indicators that suggest that his fate will improve when do you think the election will be KT I mean I think Autumn’s always been the most likely um I think there been you know for them to choose to go early
Would have been the statement move I think Rich didn’t had to put a lid on it because the speculation was getting to such a point you could see even they lab did last week you could see it getting to a point where if he you know didn’t
Go in the spring and he hadn’t done anything to cool it everyone you know he he’s frit he’s lost his nerve um I still think you know it hasn’t come from nowhere this idea of a spring election there are people around rishy sunak who would prefer to go in the spring or
That’s been the thinking in places I don’t it’s completely impossible but I do think probably the reality it’s quite easy to have these theories about you know almost 5D chess where it’s smart to go in a certain time even though it goes against the odds with the PO where they
Are I think as you get closer probably uh the laws of gravity suggest that you are more likely to push it back if something hasn’t shown up so Tim most likely but but you know if things go wrong his hand could be forced in and
And he’s got a lot on his agenda hasn’t he as you say we’ve already had resignations this year we’ve got the ra over Rwanda and a possible Rebellion over North Sea oil and gas that’s back in the Commons today yeah and I I don’t think we’re likely to see that collapse
In on itself and I have to say persistently what we see from moderate conservatives is quite a lot of bark and very little bite when it comes down to it so you look realistically who’s really going to vote against this thing who’s even likely necessarily to abstain
I think those numbers will be relatively small however we’ve now seen a resignation we’ve now seen another byelection that’s going to come up in the early part of this year as a result of what is taking place with that bill but will it stop the bill from getting
Through I very much doubt it what about Labor Katie what are the challenges K Arma faces I think there’s always something about uh being so priced in as the party that’s ahead I think that you know it’s very hard to find someone who doesn’t really think that K currently is
On the path to winning the next election if you look at the polling uh if you look at where the Tories are and therefore that does create a space where I think you have greater scrutiny for the election and I think during the election campaign it would be a lot more
About what are Labor’s plans is that realistic um because we were saying well what do you have this majority of 80 100 um and I think that that can be quite difficult something some and labor are worried about and then also you know where are their weaknesses and I think
You’ve seen all the rise about the Green Spending the 28 billion in the past few weeks we know the Tories want to ramp up Lowe’s attacks so can K dama find a line where he yes he said he’s going to go along with it but it still feels when
Different members of The Shadow cabinet speak they say slightly different things on it so are they going to be able to hold the line or find a position they’re all comfortable with and of course not just here that we’re seeing elections loads of countries around the world of
Course not at least including America Ian uh are we going to see a comeback for Trump definitely do you think I mean I’m certainly going to run in that election whether he wins is another matter but actually you know what you can look at the US and you can look at
The European parliamentary elections this year in quite similar ways that there are real chances for right-wing populists authoritarian right-wing populists to try and secure quite extraordinary degrees of power in the US I think almost indicating the end of the us as a functioning Democratic State I mean at that point you really are
Talking about a very dangerous moment in American history but also in Europe you’re looking at a parliament that has you know influence over the entirety of the continent and rightwing populists are very likely to make quite strong gains in that election and and Katie you know we heard from Mike Pence on Sky
News yesterday he said that the US needs new leadership but he thinks the Republicans could come up with a better candidate than Trump I mean do you think there’s anyone who can take him on than the Republican party I mean it’s hard to see at the moment I mean there’s some
Attention that Nikki Haley is getting um but then some are saying oh is that so through her criticism she ends up almost being his running partner um so like that I think at the moment it does feel as though Donald Trump is the most likely but of course you have all the
Legal issues relating to Donald Trump so it could be that they are forced into different candidate I think the risk for those who don’t want Trump to succeed though is H you know the sense of uh people not being allowed to back for him in certain areas almost helps his you
Know rallying Cry of everyone’s trying to stop me the establishment and he still does find a way for you and has boosted his support okay Katy balls gu through the spectator and inan colist at the eye thank you both so much for taking us through the week’s politics now Christopher Nolan’s
Blockbuster biopic about the father of the atomic bomb took home the top gong at the Golden Globes overnight uh winners to uh for the Oppenheimer director and his leading man selan Murphy but upset for some fans of Barbie poor things pipped it to the best comedy
Musical but Barbie did win an honor arts and entertainment correspondent Katie Spencer reports and the Golden Globe goes to Barbie pitched as the Battle of barbon Heimer this year’s Golden Globes dominated by two films that when combined made over two billion while Barbie was recognized for its box office
Achievement thank you we would like to dedicate this to every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on Earth the movie theaters this was Christopher Nolan’s night his nuclear arms race taking home best film Best Director as well as a win
For its leading man first question do I have lipstick all over my nose I’m just going to leave it I was in the hands of a Visionary director a master and I want to thank Chris and Emma am are you okay yeah as for TV while chaotic road
Rage Thriller beef and frenetic kitchen drama the bear both went away with three Globes each perhaps more predictable the cold blooded power plays of the final season of Sky Atlantic succession sweeping the board with wins for Sarah snook this is really heavy um mat MF I just adored every second playing um the
Weird and wonderful human grease stain that is Tom WS um and Kieran culin rather fittingly loing it up over his Rivals this is a nice moment suck it Pedro sorry British showrunner Jesse Armstrong admitting it hadn’t been an easy decision to end the series we decided
This was the right time to end the show and um that was very Bittersweet and the Golden Globe goes to Oppenheimer the first big Awards event of the Year recognizing the huge cultural impact of some of the most critically acclaimed drama we’ve seen in a long time K Spencer Sky [Applause]
News now you might have heard Sky News breakfast is getting a fresh new look K bly’s here and also weird sitting here yeah it must be weird I’m same I hate being interviewed it’s fine asking the question exactly exactly good morning good morning this is gar let me intr J
Morning hello and welcome thank you K tell us first of all uh what’s happening with this relaunch it’s very exciting so the first thing to note is that we start at 6 o’cl in the morning uh well Gareth does with uh Mari and then I come on at
7 we’ve got a brand new state-of-the-art studio which is amazing cost us quite a lot of money looks amazing uh you’ll see it for yourself on uh Monday um and we were I often felt as I was sort of on sit you know sitting on my own not
Having anyone to chat to I’ve got some new friends g g tell us about your role G kicking things off from six I’ve got I’ve got the early start me and Mari 6 till 7 and then K 7 till 10 and there’s so much news to get through as well is
Especially this year us election coming up there’s the UK election on the horizon 2 so we’ve got more capacity more space more cameras incredible new set news room as well lots of people coming and going so that kind of Breakfast family yeah exactly and I to
We the new set allows me to eye to eye eyeball the minister much more than you can sitting here literally straight opposite them so that will be entertaining especially with as you say a general election coming up prime minister saying second half of the Year let’s see let’s see and just looking at
The you set are are the ministers going to have to stand or are you going to let them sit down we’ll let them sit down unless they’re very naughty and then of course they’ll have to stand up but in the in the fullness of time we’ll be
Moving back into this studio to do those sort of interviews as well so yeah we’re taking over the whole of this floor well it’s going to be really exciting you to come isn’t it K yeah most certainly is can we have a look at the picture of the
Team yeah we show it before let’s show oh did we oh let’s they are we go yeah there you are ah yes uh in the middle uh Mario of course everybody knows and Wilfred who many of our viewers will know as well he will also be part of the
New Breakfast family won’t he popping up each hour between 7: and 10 showing us what’s coming up later in the day there’s a rate review for example looking ahead to the big events that going to happen throughout the course of the day coming to us live a and we want
Our viewers morning everybody to get involved as well with your thoughts at the end whatever the talking point of the day is to uh send in their thoughts either U I don’t think we’ve decided yet how we’re going to do that no it’s work in progress yeah I think we should give
Them your phone number my phone number it’s that’s quite scary thought well listen best of luck with it looking forward to it it’s launching Monday Monday the 15th 6 till 10 every weekday of course Anna joining us on Fridays Saturdays Sundays as well absolutely and I’ll be around
When when you guys are off so fantastic fantastic well you’re very welcome still to come on Sky News breakfast today a call from the rspca for people to do more to help animals as the charity marks its 200th birthday Breakfast is becoming even brighter here on Sky News there’s a new studio a new start time of 6 a.m. and some new faces I okay yes we’ll bring you all the top stories from around the globe and here in Westminster as we countdown to an election pass a look ahead to the
Stories that’ll be making headlines on Sky News throughout the day that’s your new look breakfast show weekdays 6: to 10: a.m. here on Sky News so the Taliban government have been in power since 2021 and in that time they have built Bridges and built roads and infrastructure and the country is coming to a point of Peace but they just don’t recognize women women’s education after the sixth grade doesn’t exist uh women are not
Allowed to go to Beauty parlers which have been closed there are um parks are closed they can’t work for Nos and at this current day and age that is unacceptable that’s 20 million Afghan women who are being treated as second class citizens and that’s what I Tred to
Highlight with my film well Afghanistan has such a unique history in the sense that in my lifetime the country’s flag has changed 19 times it’s just a a a chaotic time of Government after government and every single time the women have always been victims to all these new different regimes um and
They’ve always been impacted and it’s just it’s just enough there is no excuse for women not to be able to study 3,000 Afghan women were meant to join the Afghan Service as doctors but the board examinations were cancelled and they are just at home doing nothing those as a
Country we need stability and our economy to rise we need all the help we can get so it just doesn’t make sense that this policy set forth by the Avan government is in place it’s it’s completely ridiculous the world is at a time where there’s just chaos and and
Upsetting uh events happening everywhere but at the same time the Afghan women are being forgotten and this is what I’ve tried to do with my film yellow and it’s resonated so much around the world I get messages every day from people who’ve seen it and feel that it’s a
Message that needs to be told women are becoming invisible again and as an Afghan myself I can’t let that happen and it’s my duty as an artist and as a filmmaker to try to bring that to Life It’s SL it’s like Better Fly Emirates fly better now this year marks 200 years of the rspca and to celebrate the occasion the UK’s oldest and largest animal welfare charity is urging more people than ever to take action to change the lives of animals new figures show that in the last 10 years alone the Charities
Found homes for more than 400,000 pets in need but now it wants to go further well here to talk more about this is Joe Toscano from the rspca Joe uh lovely to talk to you looking back over the over the 200 years you’ve obviously not been
There for that long but what has the rspca achieved do you think well you know 200 years is a really long time as you said we’re the oldest animal charity so it’s also when we were founded it sparked a global Animal Welfare movement as you said these amazing rehoming
Figures we’ve helped millions of animals find homes be reh rehabilitated and rescued but also we’ve changed 400 laws and we do a lot of Education work as well we were founded to prevent cruelty and change minds and that’s really been the backbone of everything we’ve done uh
Since we were founded when it was founded what what was the era like and what were the kind of concerns that people had about animal welfare in those days I imagine they’re enormously different to what they are now well different in some ways and still shamefully some things are the same so
Back then um it there’s a lot of working animals so the very first law that was passed was um two years before we were founded the cattlea so that was the first time animals were ever protected but then 11 years after we were founded
In 1835 there was an act to um ban bull baiting and bear baiting and fighting so these things were just day-to-day entertainment ments for people so attitudes have changed hugely but we are still facing massive challenges you know industrial farming is a big issue from the extent of
Suffering that we see um on our farms and so building a more compassionate farming system is a real Focus for us and is was that you say would you say that was where the rspca focus is now that it’s moving more to things like farming rather than than people being
Cruel to their own pets I mean our rescue work is vital and it’s crucial to what we do and that will always be a key part of the PCA but as I say we’ve changed 400 laws I don’t think people realize how much campaigning we do and
How much law changing we do and that affects millions of animals not just here but around the world so doing that work we can’t do it alone we need people to support us we need other organizations and other big Charities these are huge challenges that we’re
Facing and the more people that join us uh the more real and Lasting change we can make for Animals I mean do you think it’s right that I mean obviously you know not denigra the rspca at all but here in the UK more money goes to animal
Charities than it does to Charities that help children um and I and I wonder how you feel about that do you think that that that’s the right kind of emphasis that we have in the UK what does it say about Society well do you know what it’s all about being compassionate and that
Is a big part of the work that we do we go into schools and we teach children to be compassionate to animals and we believe that that helps them be a more compassionate person all around it helps them understand how their actions affect other people so you know people are
Animal lovers but there’s space for every how has the cost of living affected Animal Welfare has has there been a big issue I mean we know that during Co for example so many people got pets what’s happened since then well that’s it we’ve seen the long effects of that that lots
Of people there are far more pets in our society and we have seen uh neglect and abandonment figures rise to a three-year high this year so more people are sadly abandoning their pets people are struggling with the cost of living we have a cost of living Hub on our website
Which offers Vice to help cut the cost while not compromising welfare we have a a pet food bank scheme as well which has delivered 1.5 million meals to needy pets this year so that really helps keep you know loving families together with their animals so we looked back on the
200 years what are the changes that the rspca would still like to see looking to the Future well I think as I’ve mentioned industrial farming is a massive issue for us and it’s not just an issue for Animals it’s an issue for the planet it’s an issue for human
Health as well often what is good for Animals is good for us so one particular issue probably the biggest um welfare issue we see in this country is the suffering of meat chickens so they have short brutal lives but it’s all Bes behind the scenes people don’t realize
This the sheer numbers a billion slaughtered each year in this um country and many of them just don’t have a life worth living so we want to build a more compassionate farming system in this country okay Joe Tuscano uh from the rspca marking 200 years of existing good
To see you thank you for coming in thank you let’s take a look at the weather now warm memories wherever you go the weather sponsored by Kata Airways well the conditions are going to be quiet and cold this week with a freshening Breeze bringing a significant chill to Southern parts of the country
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