02/06/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Thursday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

This morning - are mainstream schools failing children

with special educational needs or disabilities?

A new report claims many schools in England don't have the funding

Parents will tell us their experiences. My son is a bright and

capable boy who also has autism. With the right support he could

succeed at secondary school mainstream but we have had to fight

for everything and now he is not in school at all.

I am really keen to hear your experiences this morning.

Also on the programme - Johnny Depp's estranged wife

has given a police statement about alleged domestic abuse -

it's claimed in one incident the actor tried to smother

Amber Heard with a pillow whilst drunk.

He denies it all - we'll bring you the story.

And, the extraordinary story of a baby swapped at birth

We'll bring you the full interview with the parents who have finally

been allowed to return home with their one-year-old son -

having missed the first four months of his life.

The thought that the baby I had been nursing, taken care of,

loving him, bathing him, that he was not mine and then

I had another thought which came with it -

Throughout the programme we'll bring you the latest breaking news

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is due to give a speech after 10 this

morning where he'll say the UK leaving the European Union would be

a "disaster for the majority of people" in this country.

Plus - we'll look at the extension to the Government's right to buy

scheme which means people housing association tenants could

scheme which means people, who are housing

association tenants could have the right to buy their homes.

Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

use the hashtag VictoriaLive and if you text, you will be charged

Our top story today - it's just three weeks

until voters across the country will cast their ballot and decide

whether or not to stay in or leave the European Union.

This morning, Labour is being urged to do more to argue the case

Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's been a less prominent voice

in the campaign so far - but he's giving a key speech

With us now is our political guru Norman Smith.

Why is it important for the leader of the Labour Party to say what he

really thinks about this issue? Because there is minor panic

breaking out in the Remain campaign that many Labour voters are

confused, uncertain and apathetic about what they should do in this

referendum. We heard from one MP who has long-term Labour supporters

bringing her up and saying, which way should I vote? There has been a

view that Jeremy Corbyn has been sitting in his office, not getting

out and about enough, trying to bang the drum for staying in the EU.

Today, he will argue that the EU guarantees fast amounts of

employment rights, things like equal pay, guaranteed holidays, protection

for part-time workers, maternity workers, or guaranteed by the EU. If

they pull out -- if we pull out, he warns all that could be at risk. But

the concerns are huge. We heard from the new leader of the GMB Tim Roach

this morning, he said unless Jeremy Corbyn does more then the referendum

will be lost. My biggest concern is that Labour

voters will stay at home and they will see it as a bunfight in the

Tory party. Let's be clear. This is one of the biggest decisions that

any of us will make in a generation and it will not just impact on

myself and my three kids, but probably on their kids as well. I

doubt there will be another vote like it in my lifetime. It may seem

easy to say, let's get out of Europe and see what it brings, let's stay

in. The other thing is Mr Corbyn has got to talk about immigration. For

voters, it is a massive issue. Bluntly, we have had zilch from Mr

Corbyn. I don't think he will be saying about it today either.

The Leave side are saying a lot about immigration and former cabinet

minister Iain Duncan Smith, another attack on Downing Street about

immigration today? Guess, they have made this their centrepiece of the

campaign. They want to make this referendum all about immigration it

seems. Today, Iain Duncan Smith accusing Downing Street of treating

voters with contempt, over their concerns about immigration and the

effect on schools and hospitals. Polling suggests the majority of

voters believe free movement of Labour, in other words, the free

access migrants get to the UK, has damaged public services. My sense

is, they will keep pushing and pushing and pushing on this, because

they believe it is a strategy which is working for them. Thank you. As I

said, we will hear some of Jeremy Corbyn's speech live after ten

o'clock. Annita McVeigh is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary A couple who were given

the wrong baby by a hospital in El Salvador a year ago,

are finally back home after a long fight to be reunited

with the correct child. Richard Cushworth, who's British,

and his wife Mercedes, were given a birth certificate

for their son Moses They landed back home in Dallas,

Texas this week and have been Mr Cushworth describes the moment

he realised there had been The first trauma to me was, oh my

goodness, I have a child and my child is somewhere out there in the

world, where is he? Who is taking care of him? What happened to him?

How did this happen? Am I ever going to see him again? I felt a panic

that my only child was lost or stolen. I didn't know what it was.

And you can see more of that exclusive interview

At least five people have died after heavy flooding

Rivers have burst their banks in France and Germany.

Search teams in the Bavarian town of Simbach am Inn found the bodies

of three people killed when they became trapped in a house

In France, there're fears that water levels on the River Seine could rise

further, threatening more towns and villages.

This was the only way out for some who found themselves surrounded

Heavy rain forced the river right through this town in Bavaria.

Residents headed upstairs to escape the water,

then they waited to be rescued by boat, if not by air.

By night, they were assessing the damage and loss of life.

Four people died in their homes, close to the Austrian border.

TRANSLATION: There must have been flash floods where people had no

Those on the first floor were lucky and got out,

while unfortunately others did not make it.

Parts of France have seen the same sorts of problems.

An 86-year-old woman died when water rushed through her home.

These houes have all been evacuated, says the fireman.

It is only just possible to make out the murky shape of a car,

TRANSLATION: It's a challenge, because those places will need

It is difficult, but there is a sense of solidarity.

While thousands have been put into boats and moved,

in the French capital, trips on the river were cancelled

In just over a week, this country hosts

There is clearing up to do, and there's more rain to come.

Our Europe correspondent James Reynolds is by

James, just put this in context and give us a sense of how much the

river has risen? You can see from behind me how much the river has

risen and I can see why trips have been cancelled because boats won't

be able to make it under the bridges like the one behind me. The waters

have reached such as height. This capital is under a yellow alert.

There are eight areas on a higher orange alert. Two areas or under red

alert. The authorities in Paris say they do have the situation under

control. They have a plan which would siphon off floodwater in case

rains continue here. Thank you. James Reynolds in Paris for us.

A decision on the future of the high street retailer BHS

The company went into administration in April, a year after it was sold

If no buyer is found, BHS could be forced

into liquidation with the loss of eleven thousand jobs.

More allegations of domestic abuse have emerged in the troubled

marriage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

The actor is denying all the allegations.

It's been claimed that Depp has attacked his wife at least

three times, including one occasion where he reportedly tried

to smother her with a pillow while drunk.

Amber Heard said in court papers that she feared for her life.

An audio recording of an emergency call made by a mother whose son fell

into a gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo has been released.

Shortly after that call was made the zoo shot

Harambe the gorilla dead, sparking global outrage.

The parents of the three-year-old have released a statement

saying their son is recovering well, but they could now face

criminal charges as police investigate the incident.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30 am.

Thank you. In the next few minutes, we will talk to parents of children

with specialist educational needs who say mainstream schools are

failing them. Quite a few have got in touch already. Naomi said

mainstream has failed my son for the last five years, and the local

special educational needs or disabilities department just

cancelled a meeting twice in a row without good reason. Our son is not

in school because nowhere can meet his needs. The local education

authority could not care less. Our son stands little chance of getting

any meaningful qualifications as a result of their failure, and will

likely to end up not in education, employment or training.

Another person said mainstream is failing my grandson big-time. I

cannot get him the help he so needs and he is almost ten.

That is clearly striking a chord. Do get in touch. Time for some sport

now with Hugh. Good morning. Andy Murray says he

believes he can win the French Open and he will be giving everything to

do so, after he set up a semifinal meeting with the defending champion

Stan Wawrinka. Murray came through in four sets against Richard

Gasquet. He was inspired by his home crowd in Paris. He took five

consecutive games to take it 7-5. The first two sets taking nearly two

hours but Murray came through in less than half that time. My last

opponent was even Karlovic. There were not many long rallies there. It

is a different way of playing. With Richard you have to be more patient

and rallies are longer. It was tough. I managed at the right

moment. Top seed Novak Djokovic is a match behind Murray. He beat Spain's

Roberto Bicester -- Roberto Bettis to add it. Poor weather also delayed

Serena Williams' fourth-round match from Monday until yesterday, but she

cruised 6-1, 6-1, against Elina Svitolina.

Portugal take on Wembley in their final warm up match -- Portugal take

on France. Cristiano Ronaldo will not feature for Portugal after he

was granted time off following Real Madrid's Champions League victory.

We are happy with the two opponents we have had so far.

We will come away satisfied with what we have done and I can be

satisfied with what I have seen, and I have to say the three preparation

games have served their purpose. Royal Troon is to hold a special

meeting at the beginning of July two proposed the introduction of female

members. The club is the host for this year's open which takes place

later that month. Last month, near Field's members voted not to admit

women knowing they would not be able to host the Open Championship.

Great Britain's female junior gymnasts have won silver medal in

Switzerland. The team finished second behind Russia. Britain's

female senior gymnasts get their competition underway later today.

Just before we go, some breaking news in the last few minutes.

Manchester City have announced they have signed a Borussia Dortmund

player on a four-year contract. More on that later.

Are mainstream schools failing children with special educational

Really keen to hear your own experiences this morning.

20 months ago the government changed the way those pupils

are funded through school - the Department for Education

called these reforms "the biggest in a generation."

It introduced personalised education, health and care plans

which would support children through to adulthood.

Now, a survey of more than a thousand head teachers

in England has found schools are strapped for cash

and the education of children with special needs

More than eight in ten mainstream schools across England do not have

sufficient funding adequately to provide for pupils with special

Almost nine in ten of school leaders think initial teacher training does

not adequately prepare teachers to support those pupils.

And three-quarters of schools have pupils who have been waiting longer

than the expected time for an assessment of special

educational needs or an education, health and care plan.

Let's talk to Tania Tirraoro and her 16-year-old son Giorgio.

Giorgio and his brother are autistic and were taken out of mainstream

Renata Blower's here with her three children.

Elliot is 13, Lilia is 11 and Dominic is 9.

Dominic's in a mainstream primary school and enjoys it,

but Elliot who has autism, OCD and anxiety problems has stopped

going to his secondary school altogether.

year old disabled son in the mainstream system.

He thinks schools find it easier to cope with physical disability

Tanya, Giorgio and Aluko have autism, and you move them out of

primary school. Giorgio found it difficult to go to school, he was

very bright, he could read at the age of three, but they placed him in

remedial English because he had writing difficulties, so instead of

supporting him with his intellectual peers, they put him down with the

children that he didn't want to go to, and one child came to me and

said they had to drag him to the lesson because he didn't want to go.

That is really not right. Did they have to drag you, Giorgio? Yes, I

felt in that class I wasn't really being challenged, and there was a

lot of work that I just found was below me or in a lot of cases was

too difficult. There was never an in between where I could be at the same

pace with my peers. I find that there is a lot more accept vents,

and in classroom support. There are a lot of people who have

similar issues that you can relate to, and the support, you don't in a

lot of cases feel it is there, but when you do, you definitely notice

it. So you don't feel out of place, and there are people like you there?

And they have small classes, ten or 11, and there is on-site

occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy. They just know the

boys in and out, as well. Let me bring in all the children here, and

Renata as well. Manik is in mainstream primary school, he has an

undiagnosed genetic condition, and you enjoy school, don't you? Kenny

Thalys Wyre? -- can you tell us why. They are very good at including me

and they make me feel like I am normal, and also, I have got really

good one-to-one s who are good at assisting me with work and medical

needs. But I think Elliott, he is not at school, you didn't really

like main stream secondary school, can you tell us why? It is very

crowded, you can very rarely be alone, and they don't let... There

is constant crowding, you can never be alone. And the teachers didn't

understand your specific needs. I get teaching assistants, but they

are not specialised with me, and because I can't pay attention very

well, I am mostly taught by them instead of the teacher. OK. From

your point of view, the mainstream secondary school, state school, yes

there will be 30 kids in that class, but Elliott should be able to get an

all right there, because there should be specialist trained staff

to help him in a one-to-one situation, similar to your younger

son. One of the difficulties with Elliott is he is a very bright, so

when a school hasn't got much of a budget, and they have a lot of

children to look after, a childlike Elliott who even without the support

isn't going to fail so much that inspectors will ask why, they are

quite easy to miss. But it means you have a child who is perfectly

capable of being in a mainstream school with the right support then

becomes so anxious that he can't even attend school, and it is a

disaster for everyone, because he should be able to be included within

a mainstream school, it is simply a case of having the right resources

when he needs it at a very vulnerable time when he is

transitioning from primary to secondary school, just for that

school to be able to have the resources to hand in order to be

able to support the children, and he can go on to be an independent

adult, but now we face a situation where he can't even go to school.

What do they do right at his secondary state school? They were as

innovative as they possibly could be within the resources they had

available. So where it wasn't a money issue, they did things like,

he helped with the sound at the school production to try to getting

more involved in school life, and they found a teacher he really got

on with who he could go and spend time with, things like that, cost

free, and they were brilliant and we are appreciative of them. The issues

arose around the more costly interventions like support in the

classroom and the things that actually schools do need help with.

Because they said they didn't have the money to do it? It was more that

Elliott's needs were overlooked. My belief is perhaps because they

couldn't afford it, they would rather say the needs didn't exist

rather than admit that they couldn't meet them. That is your take on it.

Alex says, I am 19, and the best support I had from a special

educational needs was my year six teacher, the last year of primary

school. I was given little or no help after that until I left year

13. Deb says we couldn't find a school that could meet my daughter's

needs and we are home educating. And Stefanie says, schools failed my

sister who has cystic fibrosis. She wasn't supported in hospital and she

left school with no GCSEs. And Jeb is saying that she agrees with what

you were saying, Giorgio. My son also found greater acceptance within

a specialist setting, plus friends who were like-minded, which is

exactly your point. Doug, tell us about your son Ben. He has a

condition called spinal muscular atrophy, it is clear and obvious he

has a physical disability, he drives an electric wheelchair, and it is

easy to identify his needs, so when you think about special educational

needs or an educational health care plan, it is relatively easy to be

able to establish what needs to be done in a school setting to support

him. And so in that respect we have been lucky to be able to get the

right support around him in the school setting and outside to ensure

that he can essentially reach the curriculum. Because of that, he is

thriving in school. He is included in all the lessons, he can access

everywhere in the school, and that is good. Of course there are

problems, there always are, but because of the open, sometimes very

frank but honest conversations that we have with the school, we are able

to move him forward. So are you saying the approach of the school is

absolutely spot on, or are you saying it is different when it is a

child with a physical disability as opposed to a learning disability or

a special educational needs? I think I do sense that there is a

difference. It is because of the visibility, and I do sense that some

educators, people in schools, whether teaching assistants or

teachers, possibly don't intervene early enough with children with

learning disabilities or who are struggling for whatever reason in

the school setting because of the challenges they face. What do you

think of that theory, Tanya? I think it is a training issue. Many

children who don't have an education, health and care plan,

there is a nominal ?6,000 per child with special educational needs, but

it is not ring fenced for each child but worked out with some complicated

funding formula, and their needs are supposed to be helped within that.

And there is the local offer, which was as a result of the children and

families act where it is supposed to have all these services for children

with educational needs and disabilities, which schools can look

at and use and be innovative, but I don't think it is working

particularly well at the moment. Children with an education, health

and care plan have their own budget, because that is supposed to be

worked out as part of their needs. So you need that plan, it triggers

the money. And that is where the issues are coming, because of the

changes, local authority staff haven't been trained properly,

schools haven't been trained properly. And this is what this

survey is suggesting today, it is backing up your own experience, more

than two thirds of schools in England saying children with special

educational needs and disabilities are being let and by mainstream

education. In terms of Elliott's education, you haven't been to

schools and Easter, is that right? Because it was becoming too much,

how would you describe it? His anxiety levels started as soon as he

transitioned to secondary school, so in primary school he was well

supported, but you have one teacher, one class, and so teachers can make

those adaptations within the school, but in secondary school you have

multiple teachers, so you either need a culture within the school

where there is understanding throughout, or you need a school

where you have specialist staff who are teaching, and as Tanya said, the

training is a real issue, especially where, as dog was saying where a

child like Dominic is obviously disabled, it is difficult for anyone

to deny the fact that he has a disability, whereas with Elliott, he

is an incredibly articulate boy, it is quite easy to be another say he

is absolutely fine because he is making academic progress. So what

are you going to do in terms of where he will go to school? This is

where again the system lets us down, because there is no specialist

schools that he can go to that are mainstream schools. There is nowhere

anywhere near us that can actually meet his needs, with the exception,

we found one independent school, and obviously independent schools are

expensive, so I know we have a tribunal had a bus in order to be

able to get funding for him to go to that school and get an education,

and that is adding another year to him being out of school, which does

him no good at all. And this is what the reforms were supposed to stop

happening. They were supposed to put the child and family at the centre,

and not the resources driven, but be needs driven by the child, but

budget does come into it somewhere. It is a utopian vision, which is

fantastic. The whole idea of the reforms, fantastic. There wasn't

enough time to training, and money only goes so far. It is being

chipped away by budget cuts. Lilia, you are about to go to the school

that Elliott has been not going to since Easter. How does that make you

feel? Because you have had such a difficult time with battling with

the school, with Elliott's needs, I kind of a bit worried that, because

I have to go in, and I'm his sister, that they will think, it is another

one of them. Do you really think that

we have been pitched against the school, and we should be working

together, that is what we have always wanted, we have a long

relationship with the staff there, and we know that they want the best

Elliott, but the system is forcing us to go head dead against them in a

tribunal, and it has relationships apart, so it is really awkward, and

as nice as you want to be, the end of the day you are fighting tooth

and nail for your child, so it does get ugly sometimes, and siblings are

affected, too, because I'm sure they would treat Lilia fantastically, and

I'm confident they will, but I understand why she would be

concerned. Judging by the messages I am

receiving, what you are experiencing is representative. Thank you all for

coming on the programme, very nice to meet you.

More claims of domestic violence from Johnny Depp's

She says he tried to smother her with a pillow.

We will bring the reaction from Women's Aid.

As housing association tenants get the right to buy their homes,

questions are raised as to where the money to pay for it

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Good morning. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will make a speech

shortly setting out why he believes the UK should remain in the EU. He

has been urged to do more in the campaign. Downing Street has been

accused of showing contempt for voters over the impact of

immigration. A couple who were given

the wrong baby by a hospital in El Salvador a year ago,

are finally back home after a long fight to be reunited

with the correct child. Richard Cushworth, who's British,

and his wife Mercedes, were given a birth certificate

for their son Moses They landed back home in Dallas,

Texas this week and have been The first trauma to me was,

oh my goodness, I have a child and my child is somewhere out

there in the world, where is he? I felt a panic that my only child

was lost or stolen. And you can see more

of that exclusive interview At least five people have died

after heavy flooding Search teams in the Bavarian town

of Simbach am Inn found the bodies of three people killed

when they became trapped in a house In France, there're fears that water

levels on the River Seine could rise further, threatening more

towns and villages. A decision on the future

of the high street retailer BHS The company went into

administration in April. If no buyer is found,

BHS could be forced into liquidation with the loss

of eleven thousand jobs. An audio recording of an emergency

call made by a mother whose son fell into a gorilla enclosure

at Cincinnati Zoo has been released. Shortly after that call

was made, the zoo shot Harambe the gorilla dead,

sparking global outrage. The parents of the three-year-old

have released a statement saying their son is recovering well,

but they could now face criminal charges as police

investigate the incident. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.00. Good morning. John McEnroe has told

the BBC that Andy Murray is playing his best ever tennis on clay. He set

up a semifinal meeting with Stan Wawrinka. Yesterday, he beat Richard

Gasquet four sets. England take on Portugal at Wembley

tonight. The visitors without Cristiano Ronaldo. He is holidaying

in IB is that after -- I be the after Real Madrid won the Champions

League. And finally, Royal Troon is holding

a special meeting at the beginning of July to proposed the introduction

of female members. The golf club is to host this year's Open

Championship. Muirfield members voted not to accept women knowing

that the course could not host the open. I am back in the next hour.

Thank you. In 1980, the then Conservative Prime

Minister Margaret Thatcher introduced "right to buy" allowing

people who live Last year the current Conservative

Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced an extension of that

right-to-buy scheme. Housing association tenants

will get the chance to buy But as the first housing

association properties are about to go under hammer,

questions are being raised as to where the money to pay for it

all is going to come from. 30 years ago, the British government

was the biggest landlord in Europe. Today, it houses

relatively few of us. And that's because of

what happened right here. You almost certainly

won't recognise this street but here in Essex,

about 30 years ago, It was actually the biggest

privatisation in British history. And I'm not talking

about electricity or gas, but the sale of

British Council houses. Actually the first one was just

here at the end of this street, sold for ?8,000, all

the way back in 1980. As luck would have it, it's just

been sold again, the ?260,000. Somewhere along the line,

a lot of people made a lot of money from something that used

to belong to all of us. And now the latest chapter

in this Right to Buy story is about to start all over again,

probably in a street near you. I've looked at the other

councils in the UK. I mean, I've looked down in Essex,

I've looked at Essex Council, I've looked at Waltham Forest,

which is where I used to live. And the same thing again, 25,

30 year waiting lists. The Government talks

about a one-to-one replacement but currently there is only a one

in eight replacement. So the Government would need

to drastically change its approach. Channelling his inner

Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron announced last

year that the government was going to extend Right to Buy

to housing association tenants. Remember, Right to Buy is a scheme

where the Government offers big discounts to council

tenants to buy their homes. Now housing association tenants

will enjoy the same opportunity. The first sales are expected

imminently. The problem is, unlike council

houses, the Government doesn't own these homes so as to compensate

the So how does the Government

suggest we pay for them? That's why Conservatives have

committed to building a property owning democracy for generations

and today I can tell you what this generation of Conservatives

is going to do about it. As the most expensive council

properties fall vacant, we're going to require councils

to sell them off and we will replace them with new, affordable

housing in the same area. However, now we know

how the legislation And there may be two

important snags. Starting with the so-called

"Expensive council house sell offs". Now, you might imagine that

when the Government says they are going to force councils

to sell off their most expensive properties, they might look

something a bit like this one. Whereas in fact, it will also be

selling houses like this. This is in Southwark

in south London. This one was sold as soon

as it became vacant by the council to fund the sale

of housing association properties. And that's because the law says that

every council up and down the country has to sell

off their more expensive homes. That money is then divvied up,

put into a pot and given to the housing associations

to compensate them. The problem is if you don't have

houses like this, many councils will have to sell houses a bit

like that one over there. The original intention was that some

expensive council houses in London would be sold off and this

would make a difference. During the passage of this act,

the Government change the definition to what's called

"Higher value properties". We've estimated that is ?26 million

worth of homes per council It's two-bedroom properties

in the West Midlands, in Dudley... It's not big, fancy homes in London,

it's homes all across the country. This city is undergoing

a construction boom. You can see it on the

skyline behind me. Development of every shape and size,

commercial, business, residential. But one type of development you're

unlikely to see And that's a big problem,

because the Government said that every home lost under this

new scheme would be replaced Unfortunately, on the basis

of their current record, This is state was a recently built

by Haringey Council and a housing association in north

London as a mixture of social rent The council there fears this

new legislation means it may have to be sold off and it

wouldn't be replaced. As the funding system works,

it's simply impossible for us to replace them and to an extent

nationally, one in eight We think the Government should cut

the red tape and let councils build. It's hard to replace Right to Buy

properties because of Government rules, which means that councils

have to put up most of the money. You can't use Right to Buy

with any other grant, That really restricts the homes

you can build. And this is a problem,

because if we assume that we need to sell around 113,000 council

houses to compensate and only one in eight are replaced,

we will lose around 100,000 When you consider we have nearly

2 million people on the council housing waiting list,

those are houses She lost her job, the home she owned

and now faces eviction For 30 years I was in

full-time employment. Having to sell the house

was the worst thing that could happen to me,

I had my car repossessed, And now at a time when I really need

help, I didn't even approach the council back then,

I just went for private let. But now I really do need the help

and it's just not there. She's been told by her local

authority she will have I do think that given my situation

and the fact that I do have a disability, it would have

been taken into consideration. But basically the lady I spoke

to was There wasn't any option

she could actually offer. You must have been quite scared

during this whole experience, When I knew I was going to lose

the house, I went into I just couldn't pull myself up

out of it. At one point, I actually

came close to suicide, There's going to be people like me

in a situation where you've lost your home for whatever reason,

you are on low income, So there needs to be something

in place to help They are not dealing

with it from the bottom up. This brings us to the

second apparent snag. Even if we assume the government can

replace those council houses, And will they even be council

homes at all? There is no guarantee that these

will be replaced like-for-like. What is most likely to happen

is they will be replaced The minimum value, probably in most

places, between ?250,000 outside So this is a sell-off of reasonable,

good, affordable homes to pay for homes to buy which most

people can't afford. In the 1980s, Right to Buy

transformed the lives of millions of people who had never had

the chance to own their own homes. In its newest guise,

hundreds of thousands of housing association tenants

will do the same. But now we know that the nuts

and bolts of Right to Buy mark 2, questions are being asked

about whether this new policy will make the biggest social housing

crisis in 70 years worse still. We asked the Government

to talk to us about this issue this morning -

but they declined. In a statement the housing minister

Brandon Lewis told us: Do get in touch with your own

experiences this morning - we'll get more reaction to this

after 10.15am this morning. Families having to eat grass

to survive, thousands of children being used as human shields,

medicines, drinking water and food in short supply -

with a bag of flour costing around 850 dollars - details are emerging

of the horrifying conditions faced by civilians trapped

inside the Iraqi city of Falluja. Aid agencies have described

the situation as a "human catastrophe" with around fifty

thousand people trapped. Falluja has been under siege

from Iraqi and pro-government forces for more than six months,

and it has been under IS control The latest massive assault by the

Iraqi army has intensified the appalling conditions.

Let's talk to Dr Bernardita Gaspar from the International Medical Corps

who has been speaking with people in these camps.

Tell us some of the stories you have been hearing. Good morning. I am

from the International medical Corps, and I have just come from

Baghdad. In one of the camps, I met with a mother who was telling me

that at the time, the reason that they fled Falluja was that her

husband was being recruited to work for the Isis, and her husband

refused. They had at that time a four-year-old son who saw his father

died, killed and their house burned down. He is now six, and when we saw

him, he was withdrawn. He doesn't really play with other children his

age. And the reason why we met him was that he was approached Oracene

by one of our workers, our social workers in one of the locations that

we work in Baghdad. So he witnessed his father being killed because his

dad refused to fight for Islamic State? Exactly, yes. So now he is

the only male in the family. He has his mother and two younger sisters,

and his mother who they have said would always cry most of the time,

his grandmother. And he would cry with her. And most of the time, we

have people who we see, who we encounter with these memories with

them. That they usually have to live with everyday. I wonder how you can

help such traumatised people. We deploy a mobile team, this mobile

team is supported by the European Commission for humanitarian aid and

civilian protection. This mobile unit is composed of medical doctors,

nurses, pharmacists and also social workers. So basically, we help and

send social workers into places where these families have been

accommodated in unfinished buildings or in camp is. And in trying to

escape from the horrors of Falluja to get to the camps, how difficult

is that for them? I would imagine that it is quite difficult,

especially since coming from Falluja or anywhere where Isis have overrun

the place, they themselves are subject did to security assessment,

security checks, so it is unlike other places where families would

come and would have the ability to walk through. They would usually

have to be searched, men would be separated from women and from

children, just so that the security forces will have to make sure that

none of the Isis would come with these families, so that is how, the

reality that they have to content with when fleeing Falluja or areas

where Isis have taken over. And what about the conditions in the camps

where they arrive? What is the reality of that? At some point, they

would have to wait for some time, sometimes a day, so they can have

their own place. They would usually come out or shelter with another

family who is already living in a tent or maybe in a building, so that

means that one room would be shared by two or three families at a time,

and when a tent or shelter is identified or put up for them, or

they can put them up themselves, then it would be the same thing, so

it is one room, it is usually something like six metres by four

metres. Sometimes it would have a cement floor, sometimes not, if it

is hurriedly done then it would not have any cemented flooring. They

would sleep there, they would be eating there, and they would be

gathering their and telling their stories to each other. Just the

other day, we went to visit one of our clients, and it struck me that

it is summer, it is almost some are now in Iraq, so the heat, the

temperatures are rising. You can really feel the heat when you get

into these tents. There is very little ventilation, most of the

families would not have air coolers or electric fans, and they are

cramped, usually a family of five or six would share that space. And you

can just imagine that if one person is having let's say a cough or cold,

everybody in the family will have the same infraction in a few days.

Thank you very much for your time this morning, we really appreciate

you giving some of your time to explain the conditions in those

camps, those images we were just showing were sent to us so you

conceive yourself what the conditions in the camps are alike.

But I suppose at least those people are safe from Islamic State

fighters. Thank you viewer time, we appreciate it, Dr Gaspar from the

medical Corps. This morning there are more

allegations of domestic abuse in the marriage of Johnny Depp

and Amber Heard. It's claimed the Hollywood star

has attacked his wife at least three times,

including one occasion where he reportedly tried to smother

her with a pillow whilst drunk. In legal papers, 30-year-old

Amber Heard has said After Heard left

court in Los Angeles, where she was granted

a restraining order against her estranged husband,

new photos from December also emerged of the actress

with a bruised eye and cut lip. The judge also said Mr Depp should

not try to contact Ms Heard. Johnny Depp denies all

the allegations against him. Here with us in the

studio is Polly Neate. Polly is the Chief Executive

of Women's Aid, the national I want to start by asking you what

you think of some of the media coverage of these allegations. I

have a couple of headlines here. I have the times, is this the most

toxic divorce in Hollywood? Reputations are at stake, says

Hannah Betts. The Mail says he owns ?7,000 a month, but spends ?30,000

on clothes and laundry. So what? What on earth has that got to do

with the issue of whether or not she was abused by her husband? This

judging of victims, sadly it is not surprising, so the main thing I

think is, here we go again, but it has to stop. It really is not

tolerable that we pass judgment on the victim of an alleged offence and

leapt to the defence of the alleged offender before we know all the

facts and insult the victim in what are actually some deeply misogynist

ways. The whole idea that she is a gold digger is a misogynist

constructed of a woman who happens to Mary to a wealthy man. Do you

think that kind of coverage could potentially stop other victims

coming forward? I really hope not. One of the things it is important to

say is that most victims of domestic abuse are not in high-profile

relationships. Those that are should have just as much right to justice

as those who are not, but most are not, and in this country, you can

phone the National domestic violence helpline, there are local specialist

services available who will support you to go through the Criminal

Justice Act process if you want to and to recover from your experience.

I really hope it won't put victims off, but I have to say that this

kind of victim blaming is extremely common, and it is frightening to

women. On the one hand we go, if it is so bad, why don't they leave?

They don't, because they are afraid they won't be believed, they will be

taken seriously, they will be blamed. This happens everyday.

Johnny Depp denies the claims. How typical or otherwise is this kind of

case, do you think? It is quite typical for a claim of domestic

abuse to be contested, and we need to wait until the outcome of

whatever legal proceedings happens, so I don't want to make any kind of

judgment about the case itself. I think it is quite typical, one thing

it is important to say it it is very typical that a man could be abusive

to his partner, but seen as a completely guy and lovely and

adorable by his male friends, which is clearly the case with Johnny

Depp, and that is not uncommon even the people who know the couple very

well to be unaware of abuse that is going on within a relationship. Of

course we don't know what has happened in this case. Thank you

very much armour Polly Neate. Let's have a look at the weather with

Carol. Thank you. That should stay mainly drive the bulk of the UK,

there is a little rain for the Northern Isles that will sink its

way south, still a lot of cloud in the East. Under the cloud and wind,

it will feel quite cool, but come towards the west, the cloud breaking

up nicely and we are looking at a fair bit of sunshine. Into the

afternoon across parts of the south-west, once we have that

sunshine, a little farewell cloud here and there, temperatures up to

19 Celsius in Barnstable and Cardiff. The cloud again burning

away and leaving a sea breeze across the West. Sunshine from the word go,

and we will continue from the word go west of Scotland seeing again

some sunshine, but we will see the rain moving from the Northern Isles.

Eastern Scotland and eastern England, we are back into this

cloud, easing through the day but still very noticeable across East

Anglia and the south-east. Accentuating the cooler feel.

Through the evening and overnight, if anything, all this cloud in the

East moves towards the West. We still have that keen breeze out

towards the West, temperatures dropping to around nine Celsius.

That is how we start the day tomorrow, again, it is a real East/

West split to start the day. A weather front coming in from the

North Sea bringing in rain, and the timing of exactly where this is

going to be could change. It could speed up or slow down. The lions

share of the sunshine will be across parts of the Channel Islands, the

South West. Temperatures in the sunshine up to 19. As we head into

the weekend, the forecast is mostly dry, there will be some sunshine but

also scattered showers. Not all of us will see the showers, some could

be heavy thundery. Looking at in more detail, not as much of a

breeze, but still coming in from the North Sea, and you can see how

things brighten up a touch. We have all these showers across southern

areas with a high of up to 22. Hello, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

welcome to the programme Coming up before 11:

The extraordinary story of a baby swapped at birth in a hospital in El

Salvador. We'll bring you the full interview

with the parents who have finally been allowed to return home

with their one year old son - having missed the first four months

of his life. The thought that the baby I had been

nursing, taken care of, loving him, bathing him,

that he was not mine and then I had another thought

which came with it - As housing association tenants get

the right to buy their homes - questions are raised

as to where the money to pay for it There will be people like me in a

situation, where you have lost a home, for whatever reason, you are

on a low income, you need somewhere to live. There needs to be something

in place to help anybody who needs help. And live, we will bring you a

speech from the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who will explain why he

thinks leaving the EU would be a disaster for the majority of people

in this country. Here is a need to McVeigh with a summary of the news.

Good morning. Jeremy Corbyn will make a speech about why Labour

should remain in the EU -- Britain should remain in the EU. Meanwhile,

Downing Street has been accused of showing contempt for voters on the

impact of immigration. Coming up live, the founder of Cobra

beer will be answering your questions.

A couple who were given the wrong baby by a hospital

in El Salvador a year ago, are finally back home after a long

fight to be reunited with the correct child.

Richard Cushworth, who's British, and his wife Mercedes,

were given a birth certificate for their son Moses

They landed back home in Dallas, Texas this week and have been

The first trauma to me was, oh my goodness, I have a child

and my child is somewhere out there in the world, where is he?

can see more of that interview after the news summary.

At least five people have died after heavy flooding

Rivers have burst their banks in France and Germany.

In France, there're fears that water levels on the River Seine could rise

further, threatening more towns and villages.

More than 80% of schools in England are struggling to properly support

children with special educational needs or disabilities,

A survey of head teachers has found that insufficient budgets and local

authority cuts are having a detrimental impact on both pupil

The government says it has increased the funding for children with high

A decision on the future of the high street retailer BHS

The company went into administration in April.

If no buyer is found, BHS could be forced

An audio recording of an emergency call made by a mother whose son fell

into a gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo has been released.

Shortly after that call was made, the zoo shot

Harambe the gorilla dead, sparking global outrage.

The parents of the three-year-old have released a statement

saying their son is recovering well, but they could now face

criminal charges as police investigate the incident.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

Thank you. Thanks for your comments, on your own experiences of whether

mainstream schools in England are failing children. Hannah says she is

a teacher and we do not have enough funding to support pupils with

special educational needs. Often I do not have a classroom assistant.

Supporting 30 children on your own is hard.

Judith said your segment was unfair on those who work hard to provide

reasonable adjustments. Tina said, I am the mother of a son at a state

special school for children with complex needs. The school could not

do more but all the children are different. If the school is failing

some children it is because we do not know much about autism and how

to manage it. Keep those coming in. Thank you.

Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party and he has a speech on

the benefits of staying in the European Union.

As a get closer to what may be a very tight vote, it does not help if

the hype and histrionic claims continue, or worse, intensify. I

believe that the European Union has the potential to deliver positive

change for the people of this country. If there was a radical

reforming government to drive that agenda in Britain. Too often, what

has held back the European Union is having to move at the pace of the

slowest and you do not get much slower than a British Tory

government. Let me say this up front, to anyone listening who is

not already registered to vote, please register to vote. You have

just five days left to register to vote. Particularly for young people

who will be living the longest with whatever decision is made, please

register to vote. The process can be done online, said Lyse Doucet, so

you have your aquatic opportunity. George Osborne claimed the British

economy would enter a year-long recession if we voted to leave. This

is the same George Osborne who rejected the austerity policies to

be closed by 2015. That has been rescheduled to 2021. It is the same

George Osborne who said the British economy would be carried aloft by

the march of the makers. Yet the manufacturing sector has stagnated

ever since. The biggest risk of recession in this country is from a

Conservative government that is failing on the deficit, the debt and

failing to rebalance the economy and failing to boost productivity. Two

weeks ago, Boris Johnson claimed, and I have to quote with care here:

it is absurd that we are told we cannot sell bananas in bunches of

more than two or three bananas. Apart from saying bananas twice in

the same sentence, it seems fairly absurd and I am tempted to use the

name of the same fruit to describe his thoughts on the same process.

Utterly absurd. The Leave side have conceded a number of myths about the

evils of the EU which frankly nonsense. Let's remind ourselves of

the positive. It was European regulation which improved Britain's

beaches, which if you go back 30 or 40 years, wherein a terrible state.

Britain used to pump raw, untreated sewage straight into the sea. Just

25 years ago, one in four of the beaches in this country were too

dirty to swim from. Now 95% of our beaches have a clean bill of health

because of tough regulations which help people not just in this country

but all over Europe, because clearly sewage pumped into the sea here can

end up in France or Holland and vice versa. Three years ago, the European

Union voted to restrict the use of some pesticides which are strongly

linked to a decline in the bee population. A bee population is

essential for our biodiversity. These restrictions were passed and I

hope will be tough. It will be tough implementation to ensure

regeneration of the bee population and the biodiversity that goes with

it. Too often, the British government has had to be dragged

kicking and screaming in order to protect our own environment. The

Prime Minister has lurched from his hug a husky phase when he became

Tory leader, a decade on to gassing badgers, and then a decade on trying

to poison bee. I think he needs to take some eco-lessons on

biodiversity. APPLAUSE

Macro and understanding the necessity and beauty of our natural

environment. A recent court judgment ordered the British government to

tackle air pollution. It was the UK Supreme Court in London which acted

24th EU standards. A recent study found EU air quality regulations are

saving roughly 80,000 lives per year, across the whole continent. It

is time this government acted to save lives here as well. The air

quality in London is poor. It is pouring other cities. It has to be

improved. We can use EU legislation to improve it. European Union

targets have been vital for the adoption of renewable energy. Some

countries like Germany have embraced this change, revolutionising their

energy markets, creating new high skilled jobs and leading

technological advance. Britain has dragged its heels. So much for David

Cameron's rhetoric about leading the greenest government ever. There are

other things as well. It is an EU directive which stopped the mobile

phone companies ripping us off if we make or receive a call anywhere in

Europe. It is the collective strength of 28 countries that

achieved that. A crucial area is the European Convention on human rights,

that empowers citizens to hold the government to account. This has

strengthened our rights as citizens, and stopped our government from

gagging free speech and a free press. It was a Labour government

which wrote the convention into UK law through the very important and

seminal Human Rights Act of 1998. Today, senior figures in the

Conservative government are discussing repealing the act which

has ensured the state cannot violate people's right. It is because of

those human rights in law, that we actually achieved the inquest into

Hillsborough, so those families finally got justice after 27 years

of hard work and campaigning to get a hearing. And congratulations to

them, all of them. APPLAUSE

For the tenacity and the dignity with which they conducted themselves

overall those very long, very difficult years. It is worth

reflecting that if this government repealed the Human Rights Act, and

opted out of the European Convention on human rights, it would join

Europe's only dictatorship, Belarus, as the only other country not to

support universal human rights. A Labour government will restore our

human rights in full if they managed to repeal the Human Rights Act of

1998. On rights at work, this is a very important area, Europe, through

the social chapter and other directives, has delivered a number

of good things. 26 million workers in Britain benefit from being

entitled to 28 days of paid leave a year. And a limit on how many hours

they can be forced to work through the working Time directive. Over 8

million part-time workers, 6 million of whom are women, have equal rights

with full-time colleagues. 1 million temporary workers have the same

rights as permanent workers. 3 million women every have guaranteed

rights to take maternity leave. It is important to understand these

games. It means workers throughout Europe have decent rights at work.

It means it is harder to under cut terms and conditions. I pay tribute

to governments across Europe who have forced these regulations

through and campaigned even further. STUDIO: That is the Labour leader

Jeremy Corbyn setting out his reasons for why he thinks you should

vote to stay in the European Union. He began by criticising the

Conservative Chancellor George Osborne for his economic forecasts,

even though in this debate on the EU, they are both on the same side.

Then Mr Corbyn spoke about environmental reasons why the EU has

been good for this country. He spoke about the declining bee population.

He talked about the fact that it is because of the European Union we

have a directive which has stopped the rip-off mobile phone roaming

charges and there will be no roaming charges from next year because of a

vote by the European Parliament. He talked about European Convention on

human rights which guarantees the right to a family life and to

practice the religion you want. And then he was talking about workers'

rights which he says we enjoy as a result of the European Union. Four

weeks paid leave, paternity leave, the right to go to antenatal

appointment and so forth. A couple have been describing

the moment they realised the child they'd loved,

nurtured, fed and bathed for four months wasn't theirs -

but had been swapped at birth After a DNA test and a long legal

battle Richard Cushworth, who's originally from

Bradford in West Yorkshire, and his Salvadoran wife

Mercedes Casanellas have now finally returned

home with their child, They are still none the wiser

as to why their baby Matthew Price has been to meet them

for the Today programme on Radio 4. He was born, and immediately when he

was taken out of me, he was passed to me, and I gave him a kiss and

they took him to the nursery. And that was the last time I saw him. So

the next morning, what happened? The next morning they bring all the

babies back, so at noon I got my baby, and when I saw him, the first

impression was, this is not the same baby that I saw last night. And I

looked at him, and I remember that the baby I saw was just like my

husband, and this baby did not look like my husband, and I started to

tell all the staff that was in the hospital, and they all insisted and

said, no, this is your baby, you were medicated last night after the

C section, they put extra medication on me, so they said, you were not

aware, this is your baby. I asked the doctors, they said, this is your

baby. So I was like, OK, this is my baby. But your mothers instinct told

you it was not, and yet still you brought that child home here to

Texas? Yes, I took the baby on the fourth day at the hospital, I was

going home, and I had visitors, my friends came, and I said, look, do

you think they changed my baby? And my friends would say, no, it is the

same baby. I asked 20, 30, how many people, everybody that came, and

they all said, no, this is your baby. So I went home and then my

husband came from Texas, and the baby, the days started to go by, and

his features, his skin, everything started to change, and he started to

not look anything like either one of us. So I had that thought in my

heart, in my mind. I was nursing the baby, taking care of him, loving him

like ours, and I started to fall in love with the baby, and this feeling

was so difficult, because you love this baby like your baby, but then

inside, I had the thought, what if this is not my baby? What if this is

not my child? Where is my child? Where is my baby? And I tried to put

that thought away, I said, this is not real, this cannot have happened

to me, this is Hollywood, this is the movies. And that thought came

back and forth every day, every week. I could not resist that

thought, that feeling. And I took the decision to go and take a DNA

test. So I never told my husband and a thing, I never mentioned to him, I

would ask and, hey, do you think the baby looks like us? And what was

your answer? I just accepted that it was my child. Now I look at the

pictures, right around the time that we came to Dallas when he was three

months old, and I am shocked that I never suspected, because you can see

that it is just obviously not my child, if you look at some of the

pictures. I don't know how I didn't ask myself. You don't think about

these things. We were in love with the baby, and even when I did the

big DNA test, I thought I was betraying him, that was thought I

had, I am betraying my son, but I cannot live with this. And I

thought, if this is my son, DNA test will prove that he is mine, and this

thought has to abandon me. When the test results came back, what did

they say? 0.0% the mother of the baby. It was impossible but that was

your son? Impossible. 0.0%. And how did you feel at that moment? I just

fell on the floor. My body just couldn't resist the pain, the

thought that the baby that I had been nursing, taking care of, loving

him, bathing him, that he was not mine. And then I had another thought

which came with it, where is my baby? So I had to thoughts, what is

going to happen with this baby, and where is my baby? So I just fell on

the floor and started to cry and cry and cry, and then my husband came

and he was like, what happened? And I am like, how am I going to tell

him? What am I going to tell him? I couldn't even speak for minutes and

minutes and give him the news that way. And how did you feel when

Mercy told you? I was overwhelmed. I remember the first trauma to me was,

oh my goodness, I have a child, and my child is somewhere out there in

the world. Where is he? Who is taking care of him? What happened to

him? Why did this happen? Am I ever go to see him again? And I just felt

like a panic that my only child was lost or stolen. I didn't know what

it was, and that was the concern. It was after that but I started to

process, we might lose this child that we have been raising for three

months, and that was the second trauma, that we might lose one, and

I remember in the beginning, it was so difficult to talk about losing

Jacob, wasn't it? And so we started saying to each other and hoping, our

hope in the beginning was that we would find our real child but also

be able to keep the one we had raced for three months, and that we would

have to children was our hope. But I remember I was the first one who

started saying, this child has a legitimate family, we are going to

have to give him away, and I think I was the one that accepted that

first. They did track down your biological child, they did DNA tests

on babies born that day in the hospital, and they found him, and

then within a matter of hours, you had to hand over the child you had

been caring for? I remember that, the judge called me into her room,

and she said, we have found your baby, and when she told me that, I

couldn't even, her words were like, what? I couldn't understand, I

couldn't believe it. It was something wonderful. A great relief.

And then my lawyer in the car, he said, we were celebrating, can you

imagine after all these weeks looking for him, and we were crazy,

and calling everybody, it was a big party, and my lawyer said, we have

to bring the other baby. And I am like, what? And he said, we have

found his family and you have to hand him in. And I couldn't believe

it. That is when I realised, until he told me, you have to give the

other baby... And we got there, and we had to rush, we were rushed in,

we have to go quickly, just bring the baby, and we barely got time to

say goodbye. And I got all his clothes...

And we took him in the office, and we handed him in. And that was the

most difficult part of all the situation. And then at the same

time, it is so sad, but we got our baby, and it was so happy, we

finally saw him, and when he saw us, he was smiling and he was laughing,

and it was so... Something happened really beautiful. He was dressed

just like my husband. And Jacob was dressed like his dad, too. We didn't

know each other, we don't know anything, but the babies, when we

took him in, the each were dressed like their father. It was really

nice, and we celebrated, we took Moses home, and it was beautiful. It

was a blessing of God. I got to nurse him, too, without any

problems, and he adjusted. He never cried. It was amazing, his

adjustment, how peaceful he was. Peaceful and smiling and happy, very

happy. And when we got home, we realised that we didn't have any

clothes for him, because we took all the other clothes for the other

baby, and we were like, what will we do tonight, because we got home very

late? And then our friends started to come and bring gifts. But you

don't even think about that. Your thoughts are like, it is like an

emotional roller-coaster. Do you have any contact with Jacob now? The

last time we saw was when we got their footprints and birth

certificate. And we got to spend about two hours with the other

family, we took a lot of pictures and videos. Do you think you will

continue to have a place in his life over the years, or is that not going

to be possible? I think so. We would like that. I would really love to

see justice in this situation, Matthew. I would like to know what

happened. How did this happen? Because I don't want to see it

happen to another person. It has done terrible financial and

emotional damage to us. But we are here, we survived, and God has

helped us and comforted us through the process, and everything is

turning out OK. That was an astonishing interview.

The couple finally reunited with their delicious little boy.

Six weeks ago James Taylor was suddenly forced to retire from

cricket due to a potentially fatal heart condition.

The former England batsman has been speaking to retired

The footballer was forced to retire at the age of 23 after collapsing on

the pitch. They are brought together in a lovely conversation in the next

half an hour. And a recording of the emergency

call made by the mother whose son fell into a gorilla

enclosure is released. With the News here's Annita McVeigh

in the BBC Newsroom. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

is making a speech setting out why he thinks the UK should remain

in the EU. He's being urged to do more to get

Labour supporters more Meanwhile Leave campaigner

Iain Duncan Smith has accused Downing Street of showing contempt

for voters over the A couple who were given

the wrong baby by a hospital in El Salvador a year ago

are finally back home after a long fight to be

reunited with their son. Richard Cushworth, who's British,

and his wife Mercy, were given a birth certificate for their son

Moses only a few days ago. They landed back home in Texas this

week and have been speaking The first trauma to me was, oh my

goodness, I have a child, and my child is somewhere out there in the

world. Where is he? Who is taking care of him? What happened to him?

Why did this happen? Am I ever go to see him again?

At least five people have died in heavy flooding

In one Bavarian town, the bodies of three people

who became trapped in a house by rising waters have been found.

In France, there are fears that the River Seine could rise

further, threatening more towns and villages.

The Department for Education has defended its support for pupils

with special needs - after a study found that head

teachers across a majority of mainstream schools say cuts

and insufficient budgets are having a damaging impact.

The Government says it has increased funding for children

The study said around 80% of schools were struggling to help pupils

who need special educational support or have disabilities,

with staff fearing the effect on pupil assessments

The fate of 11,000 jobs hangs in the balance -

with a decision on the future of the high street retailer BHS

The company went into administration in April.

If no buyer is found BHS could be forced into liquidation.

An audio recording of an emergency call made by a mother whose son fell

into a gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo has been released.

Shortly after that call was made the zoo shot dead

Harambe the gorilla - sparking global outrage.

The parents of the three-year-old have released a statement

saying their son is recovering well, but they could now face

criminal charges as police investigate the incident.

That's a summary of the latest news, join me for

This news just in. A former aide to David Cameron has been given a

two-year conditional discharge at Southwark Crown Court for making

indecent images of children. He is 65 years old, he is called Patrick

Rock. He has effectively walked free from court -- for downloading images

of indecent children. Good morning. Andy Murray has been

playing his best ever on clay, according to John Kavaliauskas.

England take on Portugal at Wembley tonight in their final warm up match

before the European Championship in France. The visitors will be without

Cristiano Ronaldo. He is on holiday after Real Madrid won the Champions

League. Pep Guardiola has made his first

signing for Manchester City. Ilkay Gundogan has signed a four-year deal

at the Etihad. And Royal Troon is to hold a special

meeting in July to propose the introduction of female members. The

club will host the Open Championship. The field members

voted not to accept women in last month, knowing that only courses

with equal membership rules could host the Open. I will have more

later. Thank you.

We have had some tweets about children with special educational

needs. One mother says children in mainstream schools are being failed.

The system is buckling under cuts and autism families are having to

fight every single day. Thank you for that. Do keep them coming in. We

heard Jeremy Corbyn's speech earlier, and when it comes to

reasons for the UK to stay in the European Union, you would not

necessarily put the safety of bees at the top of the list. Jeremy

Corbyn has explained why bees will be safer if Britain remains in the

European Union. We can talk to our political Guru Norman Smith. That

was interesting, bees and beaches? I have heard lots of reasons for

staying in the EU but I have never heard that bees would be better off.

Mr Corbyn is a keen gardener and has his own allotment so it is probably

an issue that he feels strongly about. He said the EU had passed EU

regulations about pesticides which then if it did bees and he said the

EU was better for beaches. Say beaches and bees would both benefit

if we stay in the EU. That is a bit and then because he was making a

much bigger picture about the EU and why Labour people should be in

favour of it. Primarily, it has to be said about workers' rights and

employment rights. He talked about trying to extend those. He says

Europe has done a lot but it can do more. Some of the areas he said a

Labour government would seek to address, he said four example if the

Conservatives abolished the Human Rights Act, Labour would seek to

reinstate that. If they sign up to this controversial transatlantic

trade deal, Labour would veto it. We did get some grit from Jeremy Corbyn

but I think some eyebrows would be raised at the thought that bees and

beaches were the bigger issues. Thank you, Norman.

Six weeks ago, James Taylor was living out his childhood dream

and had a promising career as a professional cricketer

But at the age of 26, he was forced to retire when doctors

discovered he had a potentially fatal heart condition.

It means he can't do strenuous exercise.

Medics likened his diagnosis to that of former footballer Fabrice Muamba,

who collapsed on the pitch during an FA Cup quarterfinal

The player, who was 23 at the time, was "in effect dead" for 78 minutes.

Former England batsman James says he drew inspiration from Fabrice.

Here's what happened when the two came face to face.

A Premier League football is fighting for his life

after collapsing on the pitch during an FA Cup tie.

I grew up wanting one thing in life, to play football.

England and Nottinghamshire batsmen James Taylor has been forced

to retire after discovering he has a very serious heart condition.

I made my England ODI debut in 2011, and my Test debut in 2012.

He fell to the ground just before half-time during Bolton's

match against Spurs, and was rushed to hospital.

James Taylor says it has been the toughest week of his life,

and his world has been turned upside down.

I will never play the sport I love again.

But I knew I was lucky to still be alive.

I knew your story because of how big it was at the time,

and that was obviously a few years before what happened to me,

and it was actually, when I eventually got a hospital,

I knew how serious mine was, my problem was, when they go,

we think you've had something similar to Fabrice Muamba,

and then I knew, that was the first time that I knew how

Do you count yourself very lucky to find yourself in the difficult

position where it could have been a lot worse, would you feel like,

I did not count myself lucky up until I had when I had all the tests

done, and I had my final MRI scam, where they put dye inside you and it

It wasn't until I got the results of that,

When he told me I would never be able to play competitive sport

again, which meant I would never obviously play cricket,

I was obviously in hysterics when he told me.

But then he said, what you have, if it is any consolation,

it is usually found in postmortems so a lot of the time you die.

That is the first time, after all of this, I felt,

I am actually quite lucky here to have survived it.

If you have just tuned in, let me remind you of

the very upsetting news from White Hart Lane this evening.

The midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed in the match

It was all around the world what happened to you,

but can you talk in your own words what happened on that

We travelled down to White Hart Lane.

There was no sign or indication that something would happen

I think it was 1-1 at the time and I had the chance

Just past the halfway line on the right side of the pitch

I felt very dizzy and all of a sudden I fell down.

I think the first time my head hit the floor, the second time

I did not wake up until Monday morning, very drowsy.

Because I was so drugged up and everything else, it was like,

I saw everyone in my room and I was wearing a white dress,

All of a sudden, I started to see so many people that I had spoken

to a couple of days before coming into my room.

Some of them looked worried, some of them could not

The most important thing is I am here.

You get a great perspective of life, because that is a good thing.

He has a smile on his face, removing his helmet, the crowd know.

He has got his maiden 100 and he got a big hug...

What does this ground represent for you?

I know you scored your first 100 for England here?

Like when you are boy, scoring your first goal

I had done what I wanted to do all my life.

Especially in the situation where we had won the game.

It makes your 100 score more important.

I hit the ball and I had to dive in to get to the other end,

Doing the skill you love and showing everybody how good you are at that

skill, that is the thing I am most going to miss.

It is going to be tough but there are things

in the future we can both look forward to.

Every condition is very different, and every person,

and we are an extreme case because we are so young.

When you had yours, you were 23, am I right?

And now I'm 26, so when they try and relate, certainly on social

media when people try to relate, it is really nice when they do,

but when they say, I know exactly what you're going through,

my grandad had this, I am like, you said it

So it is nice when people do try to relate, but every condition

This condition is more common than ever, it is not out

there yet, but a lot of people who are involved,

I appreciate life more, but I'm not scared of anything.

As a sports person, we like to pretend we are

I think having somebody to literally go out there, if you are going

to cry, let the person see you are vulnerable,

you are crying, because it kind of helps long-term.

Look at all these dodgy pictures, dodgy haircuts.

This was my first Midlands cap, Andy Caddick, look at his big ears

I am happy with that haircut, I'm not sure about these.

Yes, it is exciting, as you can see.

That is young, young lions, maybe.

I think it this is when I had my pacemaker done, I think.

I just wanted to go home then.

That I think was after about five days of being in hospital,

Hopefully the next chapter will be much more enjoyable.

That is the worrying thing for me at the minute.

I can't put my finger on what exactly I am going to do,

which is always going to be the case, but it was always

going to happen at some point, but had it happened later on down

the line, I would have prepared myself better.

As soon as this happened, you are my inspiration,

and now it is funny, sat it talking to you,

that is the exact message you are saying back to me,

just appreciate life and every second, and life is a real

The one thing that I have noticed since it happened

We have a totally different perspective on life,

and rather than your viewpoint being here, football or cricket,

And we appreciate life and everything that comes with it,

and more importantly, our friends and family,

and to cherish every minute and opportunity.

It is no more to question why this, why that.

You have to remember we are in a very special team,

It is my proudest moment to have survived what we have both survived,

and we wouldn't be where we are now without our family, and I think

that is the biggest thing, and people around us.

They have certainly done wonders for me, and I know by the sound

You can watch When James Taylor met Fabrice Muamba now on the BBC

iPlayer, or you can hear more by downloading a podcast

of the programme from the BBC Radio 5 live website.

Audio of the emergency call made by the mother whose child fell into the

gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati zoo has been released.

Minutes after that call, Harambe the gorilla was shot dead,

Well, we can talk now to Sheila Gray from Good Morning Cincinnati.

Thank you for talking to our audience. I wonder if the release of

this phone call will make people realise how distressing it was for

this mother. I think everyone realised from seeing the video how

distressing it was for the mother, but I can tell you that she released

a statement this week saying that her little boy had been back to the

doctor and he is just fine. That is great news, Brett Sheehan is

received such a backlash, and I understand the police are now

potentially investigating her for neglect? Yes, they have wrapped up

the investigation, and they will recommend whether they think she and

the father should face charges in this case. They have handed over the

investigator to the Hamilton County prosecutor, and we expect to hear

tomorrow. Charges for what? Child endangering, and we hear from

defence attorneys that that would be hard to prove. Because there was a

hole in the fence. Correct. It seems extraordinary they were

investigating, but if a complaint is made, I suppose that has to happen.

Yes, and I think because people were so upset about what has happened to

the gorilla, and people feel there should be some responsibility for

what happened to Harambe. Is there an investigation into the zoo? Not

by the police. The zoo itself is reviewing its besiegers and the

security, -- it's procedures. And the mother has been receiving

horrible threats? She has received death threats, she had to delete her

Facebook page because people from all over the world were saying

terrible things to her, but she also pointed out she spoke with our

managing editor and she said she has also received a lot of messages of

support, so they are asking the donations be made to the zoo in

honour of Harambe. Thank you, Sheila Gray at Cincinnati.

Just over a year ago, the government announced

the Right To Buy Scheme would be extended - so not only

would council tenants be allowed to buy their homes at a discounted

price, it would also be open to Housing Association

In April this year, the Housing and Planning Act set out exactly

what this would mean and how it would work.

But as the first housing association properties

are about to go under the hammer, questions are being raised

as to where the money to pay for it all is going to come from.

Here's a short extract from that full report we bought you earlier.

Last year, channelling his inner Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron

announced the Government was going to extend Right to Buy

to housing association tenants, giving them big, Government funded

The Government says it can fund it by selling off the country's most

You might imagine that when the Government says

they are going to force councils to sell off their most expensive

properties, they might look something a little

Whereas in fact the also means selling houses like this.

This is in Southwark in south London.

This will have to be sold as soon as it

became vacant by the Government to fund the sale of housing

And that's because the law says that every council up and down

the country has to sell their more expensive homes.

That money is then divided up, put into a pot and given

to the housing associations to compensate them.

The problem is, if you don't have houses like this,

many councils will have to sell houses a bit like

This estate was recently built by Haringey Council

The council fears this new law means it may have to be sold off

As the funding system works, it's simply impossible for us

to replace them to that extent, nationally only one in eight council

homes are rebuilt and we think the Government should cut the red

Because if we assume that we need to sell around 113,000 council

houses to compensate housing associations and only one

in eight are replaced, we will lose around 100,000

When you consider we have nearly 2 million people on the council

housing waiting list, those are houses we can ill

She lost her job and now faces eviction.

She's been told by her local authority she will have a 25-year

I did think that, given my situation and the fact that I do

have a disability, it would have been taken into consideration.

But basically the lady I spoke to was called a Housing Options

There weren't any options she could actually offer.

You must have been quite scared during this whole experience,

potentially being homeless, I suppose?

When I knew I was going to lose the house, I went

I just couldn't pull myself up out of it.

At one point I actually came close to suicide, I genuinely did.

Right to Buy mark 2 will give hundreds of thousands of housing

association tenants the opportunity to own their own homes,

But for those who are not so lucky and waiting

for council accommodation, this new change may make

Let's talk to two Housing Association tenants -

John Kavaliauskas who's lived in his flat in central

London for nearly 20 years and Leslie Channon

who's one of the people considering buying her home,

but not, she says, through her own choice.

You feel you are being pushed into buying your property, why? I am

looking to go back into work, so I will hit the threshold of being

forced to buy, I think my rent will go up about ?700 per month, so it

will be more cost-effective to do Right to Buy. But on the other hand,

I am conflicted, because when I found myself a single mother in

desperate need of housing, I was housed, so I am very passionate

about social housing, and while it might benefit me moving forward to

buy my home, what about the other people coming through? Berkane you

forward and extra head ?700 a month on your rent? No, I can't, so I am

feeling like a traitor. And John, you want to buy your housing

association property in Chelsea. You can understand why I would, but on

the same principle, I happened to be fortunate that I have ended up in

that position. But my housing association hasn't offered it to ask

to us, so people are not being treated equally. We are not treated

the same as council tenants when they got the chance to buy. We were

made to wait later, and even some of us within the Guinness trust are not

being offered the opportunity. I would like the opportunity, what the

value would be is another matter, and where I would find the income to

do it, but I am sure that there are ways that I could come to a position

to buy it. And do you trust that your authority will replace, if you

do end up buying your place, like-for-like,

one for one. It looks like once every eight will be replaced. The