17/06/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

Vigils have been held to remember the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox.

In London, MPs laid flowers and lit candles outside Parliament.

And in the village of Birstall where she was shot and stabbed

in the street, hundreds packed into the parish church.

She was not for money or power, she was a real woman.

I am Jane Hill in Birstall where constituents of Jo Cox have been

arriving all morning to lay flowers. We will be talking to local people.

Also this morning, should Russian track-and-field athletes be allowed

As athletics chiefs meet to decide, we'll ask British

athletes what they think, following Russia's doping scandal.

Here in Paris, we're looking back at an epic day for the Home Nations

as England beat Wales, and Northern Ireland

send their travelling fans delirious with victory over Ukraine.

All three sides afre well placed to make it into the last 16

Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning

with reaction throughout the next two hours to the murder of Jo Cox.

A little later we'll be hearing from some of her closest colleagues

and we'll be asking whether security concerns will now mean our

relationship with our local MPs will have to change.

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Let's go back to Jane Hill in Birstall. Hello from Birstall, less

than ten miles from Leeds, a small market town where you really get the

sense that people still can't quite believe that British MP has lost her

life. All morning we have been standing here by one of the focal

points of the town, the local memorial here, to Joseph Priestley.

I have been watching people coming, consistently, to lay flowers. A lady

arrived a little while ago with her young daughter, for example, and she

said she just wanted to pay her respects. Jo Cox was an MP who

helped her, she had cause to go to one of her regular sessions with the

public, she wanted help for a problem, and she was very helpful

and she wanted to lay flowers for that reason. She particularly

remembered that Jo Cox leaves behind her two small children. This lady

said, I have children of a similar age myself, and was clearly very

upset at the thought of children of such a young age no longer having

their mother around. There are so many similar sentiments like that

here in this market town. The strength of feeling was illustrated

last night with a vigil in a nearby church. It was packed out with

hundreds of people attending to remember a much loved local MP. This

report from our correspondent Fiona Trott.

From all backgrounds and all faiths, they came together

A woman who was killed while working for them,

She was a people person, she was for us.

She had so much warmth and compassion.

Police say Jo Cox was stabbed and shot near Birstall village library.

She was holding a drop-in session for her local constituents.

A guy was bent over the woman, I could see her legs sticking out.

The words I heard him say was, Britain first or put Britain first,

I can't say exactly what it was, but definitely Britain first

The BBC understands the man being arrested is called The BBC

understands the man being arrested is called Tommy Mair,

Jo Cox was more than an MP, she was a wife and mother.

In a statement her husband Brendan Cox said...

The very heart of this West Yorkshire village remains

And the villagers within it are overcome with grief.

We will talk to some local people in the next few minutes but first let's

get the thoughts of Fiona Trott, because you have been here since the

shocking news emerged, and we make no apology for continuing to use the

word shock? That's right, look at all of the flowers that people have

been laying since yesterday afternoon, and when you walk around

in the local community, the cost Jo Cox was such an important member of

the community, she was so well liked and it's not difficult to find

someone who says that they were helped or inspired by her. A lady in

the hairdressers yesterday said that she had a particular problem and got

to know Jo Cox well and realised they had children of the same age,

she felt the family's loss. Another woman who was buying flowers at the

local market to bring to the memorial said that they voted for Jo

Cox and gave her a voice. That voice has been silenced. You get the

impression that this MP was interested in them and she

represented their interests. That is something that people are finding it

hard to come to terms with this morning. A brief thought as well

about the investigation and how much do we now at this stage? A

52-year-old man is still being questioned by the police. He was

named locally as Tommy Mair but that has not been confirmed by police. We

understand the house where he lives has a police presence and it was

searched yesterday. When you look around the village this morning I'm

surprised there is still a huge cordon around the heart

of the Market Square. It is still in place. None of it has been lifted

overnight and it's difficult to get into the village square. Still a

huge police presence with at least three or four police vans by the

library where this shooting happened yesterday. The 52-year-old man is

still being questioned at the moment. And it's hard not to be

simplistic at the time I guess, but it is, even I am struck by almost

the look on peoples faces and the fact people are so overwhelmed, the

fact that this just isn't meant to happen in Britain, this is not a

nation where people have ready access to firearms, and in terms of

democracy, we are built on the notion that MPs have face-to-face

contact with constituents and we can see how close we are to the library

where Jo Cox would have held her surgery, where she would have

readily met people. That is why there are so many flowers here today

and we can't stress enough how untoward, how bizarre this turn of

events is to local people? And MPs should be able to do that, shouldn't

they? They should be accessible to their constituents and yet we heard

from Rachel Reeves, another local MP, who said her surgery was closed,

safety was a concern. I spoke to one of the parents yesterday collecting

his son from school, primary school, that was in lockdown yesterday,

again, something you don't expect to hear about in Britain. He was

concerned about his child. They had no idea what was going on. Even he

said that it is not something you expect here, it is difficult for

people here to come to terms with it. Thank you very much for now. We

will be speaking with Fiona throughout the day. It is very

sobering and very moving, to read the tributes on the flowers on the

memorial behind me. To give you just one example, someone has written

simply, why? You lived for others. We will talk more about Jo Cox's

international approach and international work in a few minutes.

Hisham Runs a local cafe right in the heart of the town. Regrettably,

you saw a lot of what happened yesterday afternoon? Yes. I was in

the cafe yesterday, and I was talking to some customers having

their lunch. We were talking about the pre-match of England and Wales.

And the topics around that. Premier League, stuff like that. All of a

sudden I could see a river of people going down market Street, screaming

and shouting. It is the scene that you see in Spain running after a

Bulls. -- bull. It is not a normal scene that you see everyday. We got

out. In the back of my mind, something very shocking has

happened. I got out and I saw a guy with a baseball cap, dirty white.

And an Asian guy tried to tackle him, to stop him. There was a row of

cars and an empty space. And he was hitting and shoving him in that

area, and pulling at something. I thought he was arguing with his wife

or something. We thought it was just a man and wife dispute. So we went

back. When we heard back we heard another big screen like in a

stadium. We got out again, and this time people were screaming, no!

Things like that. We got even further and the guy pulls his hand

back and tries to grab the gun, it was probably that big. The size of

an average cucumber. It looked like the beginning of a walking stick. It

was an old-fashioned gun. Probably handmade, makeshift. It was maybe a

vintage shot gun. Something of that type. Not a modern firearm. Anyway,

all of a sudden he fires a shot and we just ducked and went into the

restaurant. As we entered, there was a second shot, and between the first

and second there was about three or four seconds, not more than five

seconds. We waited about 30 seconds and went out again and as I went

close, very close, the guy disappeared in the thing. As the

hours passed and you realise that it was your local MP who had lost her

life, give us a sense of what went through your mind and what people

were saying. Jo is a great loss. We found out that after her death, I

did not know all of her work, but especially she had a ripple effect

internationally now, because her work was really happy aspect of an

international sound, she was. An the war, helping the children of Syria,

she spoke about the Russians not entering into Syria and not bombing

there. She campaigned for several charities. In slavery and all sorts

of stuff, and she worked with the community. You know, security issues

and all sorts of stuff. That she was handling. She handled it very well.

I think Jo has left an unfinished job. I think peace and peace, she

was such a peaceful lady, she has left two kids and a husband. It's a

difficult day for everybody here, I realise that. We must let you go. We

came together for the Labour elections. It's a great loss. Thank

you very much indeed, reflecting very much the view of so many people

here and a lot of what Hicham, who owns a local cafe, has been echoed

in the tributes and cards that people have written with their

flowers. I mentioned the vigil last night, the local church was packed

with people remembering Jo Cox and giving thanks for all her work. The

Bishop of Huddersfield is with me. You spoke at last night's vigil. The

right Reverend Jonathan Gibbs. What are your thoughts at this extremely

difficult time for the community? Yesterday was an enormous shock for

everybody. None of us could believe the news as it began to filter

through, and I think last night it was the community coming together in

shock, there were three or 400 people there, wonderful

representation from across the community and faith groups, and many

of our political representatives, for whom it was an enormously

difficult occasion. The community needed to come together and the

church was able to provide a space for people to begin to grieve.

And people have been signing a Book of Remembrance, and I noticed that

one of the local churches was pointing out that people of all

faiths and none have been signing the book. The point is that Jo Cox

was a hard-working MP, and that is what unites people. Absolutely, she

was a woman of this community, she was born here, she went to school

here, she wanted to serve the people of the community in which she grew

up. Her family still live here, her parents, and the affection and

respect in which he was held across different communities is very clear.

I was able to speak to some of our Muslim friends and brothers last

night, representing their community, and they spoke of her with enormous

warmth. She was held in great affection and with great respect

right across the communities, and she will be terribly missed. The

fact that she went to Westminster to represent the area she grew up in,

that is actually quite unusual in politics, and I get the sense that

was hugely important to her and, therefore, to your worshippers, her

constituents. Absolutely, I mean it is something very special, and she

went into politics with a passion, wanting to make a difference,

wanting to make a difference for the people of this community. I know,

from talking with people today, that she would be willing to stop and

listen and hear concerns. I saw that. One minutes playing with their

children on the floor after a church service, then get in up and talking

to people and engaging with people. She was a woman of passion and

compassion for the people she served, especially in this community

which she so loved. What will your role be in the coming days? There

are still difficult days ahead, but particularly for her family, but for

local people as well. Sure. Obviously, in terms of ministering

to the family has cells, her parents live in one of the neighbouring

villages, they are connected with the local church, and they are

involved in caring for them. One of the league leaders worked with Jo

and was with her when she died, so the Church is very much involved in

supporting them. We offered a place for people to come together and

grieve, and we will continue to offer that space, because there will

be a range of different emotions going on - shock and sadness, and

Bobley Anderson too, and we need to support one another through this

very difficult time. -- and probably anger too. Thank you for your time,

the Bishop of Huddersfield. So much of what the bishop was saying there

is reflected in these remembrances on the flowers behind me. To leave

you with one final thought, Naseem, who laid flowers here, says simply,

we have lost one of the good ones. From here in Birstall in Yorkshire,

for now, it is back to the studio. Lots of you getting in touch with

your tributes to Jo Cox, James on Facebook, rest in peace, Jo, you

were an inspiration and will never be forgotten for the good work you

have done, always full of passion, you will be sadly missed. My

thoughts and prayers to a family and friends in this tragic time. Anthony

on Facebook, so sorry to hear about Jo Cox, this is too sad for words.

Philip said, I cannot recall being so upset at the death of someone I

never met, the most decent people killed by hatred. May his soul rest

in peace. Mike has texted, to honour and respect the memory of such a

promising young lass and one of our own MPs, both sides of the

referendum must now clean up their campaigns, being as honest and open

as young Jo Cox was. And from John, a very tragic loss of life. Lots of

tribute being paid to Jo Cox, not just in Britain, but from around the

world and in her constituency hundreds of local people came

together to remember their MP, who they say never forgot that she had

been elected to serve their constituents.

She were lovely, weren't she? Yeah, really lovely.

Not what we expected, was she? No.

Because we did expect, grammar school, Cambridge,

we thought, oh God, she's going to be a snob.

But no, far from it. Absolutely lovely.

I wrote to her a few times, actually.

She always replied, and she was so approachable.

Candles were lit outside Westminster, the Prime Minister said

Parliament had lost a great start, and Jeremy Corbyn led tributes,

praising her deep commitment to humanity.

A real servant of democracy in every way one could want or imagine.

A wonderful woman, parliamentarian, mother, wife.

Her life has been taken through an act of warped hatred.

Jo fought to help the refugees from the Syrian civil war.

She gave a voice to those whose cry for help

and I know it contributed to a change in policy.

She will never know how many lives she helped to transform.

The Leeds Central MP, Hilary Benn,

who's a long-time friend, tweeted, "May you rest eternal, Jo."

"We were all so proud to have known you and to call you our friend."

US presidential contender Hillary Clinton

has also spoken of a "cruel and terrible assassination".

The American Secretary of State said the attack

was "an assault on everybody who cares about democracy".

Canadian MP Nathan Cullen, who's a friend of Jo Cox,

Jo Cox used her voice for those who had none.

She dedicated her passion to those who needed it most,

and she harnessed her limitless love,

even and especially for those who allowed hate to consume them.

Her husband Brendan said it beautifully, she would have wanted

two things above all else to happen now,

that our children are bathed in love,

and that we all unite to fight

against the hatred that killed her.

To Brendan and Jo's beautiful children, we express our

deepest condolences. Excuse me.

Let's talk to two of her friends and Labour colleagues now.

Anna Turley became an MP at the same time as Jo last year.

And Clive Betts is the MP for Sheffield South East.

Anna, you started in Parliament with Jo after last year's

general election and formed quite a bond?

It is heartbreaking, you look at these photographs of this vibrant

woman and cannot believe it has happened. Exactly, it is just so

difficult to comprehend and to process, such an act of unspeakable

wickedness and hatred to somebody who was such a good soul, such a

kind heart, so compassionate, so decent. Those smiling pictures you

see in the paper, that is what we saw every day with Jo, she always

smiled, always bundles of energy, effervescent, she fizzed with

energy, passion and commitment. She was just inspiring, someone you

looked up to unfold, wow, she is making a difference, and impact on

the world. -- and thought. She will be held in so much honour and esteem

by her legs in parliament, but all of our hearts go out to her family,

who have lost the most wonderful mother and wife, and we think of

them today. You talk about someone who had such an impact, having only

been an MP for a year, but she clearly shone out. What was the

first that you came across, the first time you came across her?

Well, I mean, I had met her before, but when she stood out for me

exceptionally was when she got agent questions on issues like Syria and

Iraq Yuji. We have it in your programme about what a brilliant

constituency MP she was. -- and refugees. But she was a global

citizen who strove to leave the world a better place than she

founded, and that inspired as the most. I think of a massive smile,

she seemed to have more hours in the day than everybody else. I remember

going to have bowed once for an evening dinner, and we got back

late, and you have prepared a three course meal. -- back to her boat. We

laughed at the time and called her superwoman, she was phenomenal, I do

not know how she did it. All we can do to pay tribute is to try to take

forward the issues that she wanted us to take on, to live with love, to

tackle bigotry and hatred and hostility where ever we see it,

particularly in political debate, we all have a responsibility to take

that forward. What are your thoughts of Jo this morning? Just reflecting

what Anna was saying, the last time I remember seeing Jo was walking

across Portcullis House, with that wonderful bouncy stride, she turned

and smiled with that great, infectious smile, and she was so

full of life and determination. It was not just for its own sake, it

was a behalf of other people, pushing forward causes, whether in

her constituency or on the international stage. I just reflect

now on the comments she made in a maiden speech. There is more that

unites us than divides us, and she applied that whether representing

all the people in her constituency, from many different backgrounds,

face and ethnicities, or on the international stage, where she

campaigned for countries to come together to solve problems on the

global stage. That was a wonderful approach she had delight, and so

much passion, so much intelligence, but a wonderfully nice, pleasant

person as well. What an enormous loss. Just the sort of person you

would want as an MP, what promise did her career hold? In must

promise, because she was passionate, she was determined, she could be

very forceful in making arguments. But because of the way, she made

them, because she was so approachable, a genuinely nice

person, I think she carried that with more conviction. She did not

antagonise people or upset them with aggression. She sought to persuade

them by reasoned and rational argument in a most wonderful way.

And therefore I think she had a great future haired offer, because

people took her seriously and really had high regard for her. -- ahead of

her. We're just saying goodbye to viewers on BBC One, but we will

continue talking on BBC News. So sorry to interrupt you there,

Clive, but clearly a woman who was greatly loved. Absolutely, and you

have heard tributes in the last few hours across the political divide,

even when Members of Parliament might disagree, they recognise his

sincerity and recognise the sort of person she was, open and honest and

decent. And she had enormous respect for those personal attributes, as

well as for the campaigns and principles she fought for. Did she

ever speak to you about any security concerns? It has emerged that there

had been some issues, it seems absolutely not related to what has

happened, but security had been looked at. Well, it she did not

mention any specific concerns, but all the time about the increasing

nature of hostility and aggression, particularly towards female MPs,

particularly on social media. Many of us who came in last year were

quite shocked and taken aback at how much aggression there is targeted

towards MPs, most of us come to try and do public service, and Jo was

the best of the best at that, and we often talk together, Jo, myself and

others, about how distressed we were about the aggression, hostility and

the nature of the debate. We were all reviewing our security, and I

think it needs to be looked at. Jo would not have wanted us to be

hiding behind walls, our job is to be in the community, to be at

surgeries, public events, to see people. We chat to people when we

are doing shopping, walking out dogs. This is our job, to be amongst

the people, we cannot hide from that, everything that is good and

great about our job, Jo embraced that. Clive, do you think that

security needs to change? How do you balance that in parrot for MPs to be

accessible? Well, security is being reviewed all the time, and we don't

talk about details of that, but in the House of Commons you can see,

when I became an MP in 1992, people could walk up to the main reception

desk and just ask to see add MP. Now you have to go through significant

security checks and there are an police around the Palace of

Westminster. Different in the constituency, nobody would want

armed police following us around, and all MPs will be dealing with

people whose benefits have been stopped, who are facing eviction

from their homes, who need help from their MPs. We cannot refuse to see

people in those circumstances because of security worries. So

there is always a challenge, we have always got to be careful and

sensitive about it. But in the end, we are elected by our constituents,

and we have to be there for our constituents when they need us. The

bishop was talking about the emotions that people will be

feeling, the sadness, the last - but also the anger, how are you feeling

this morning? -- the loss. I am still struggling to process it, I

think there will be several stages of grief to go through. There is

some talk of recalling Parliament, and some of us want to come together

to share our grief and memories of Jo, and to think about her and how

she would have wanted us to go forward. It is just a shocking time,

but as I say, mostly our thoughts are with her family, who wonderful

husband and children, because at the end of the day this is what is most

important, and it is then that we think of today.

Thank you very much for joining us and sharing your memories. Let us

know your thoughts, all of the usual ways of getting in touch. Still to

come, should Russian track and field athletes be allowed to compete after

the doping scandal? We will ask British athletes what they think.

Let's catch up with the day 's news with a neater. -- Anita.

Vigils have been held for the Labour MP Jo Cox, who died yesterday

after being shot and stabbed in an assault in her constituency.

The 41-year-old mother became an MP in the general election last year.

David Cameron said the killing was tragic and dreadful news.

She was attacked in the village of Birstall

after she held her constituency surgery.

Russian athletes will find out later today whether they will be allowed

following claims of widespread doping.

Members of the world governing body of athletics

are meeting in Vienna to make the decision.

The team was suspended earlier this year

following a damning report into alleged drug use.

Barack Obama has made a new appeal for greater gun-control measures

to be introduced in the United States.

The US President met survivors and relatives

He's calling on the Republican-controlled Congress

to pass new legislation following the attack.

As has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving

family members and they asked why this keeps happening and they

pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage.

The Labour Party has held the south-London constituency

of Tooting in the by-election sparked by Sadiq Kahn's

Junior doctor Rosena Allin-Khan won with a majority of more than 6,000.

A two-minute silence was held during the count

Allin-Khan chose not to make a victory speech

Two drugs which work together to shrink tumours in skin cancer

have been approved for use by the NHS in England.

In trials, the treatment, called combination therapy,

shrank the most aggressive type of skin cancer in most patients.

The move to approve the drugs is one of the fastest in NHS history

and is likely to influence similar decisions elsewhere in the UK.

The American rock star Meat Loaf has been taken to hospital

after collapsing on stage during a concert in Canada.

Fans at last night's concert in Edmonton saw the 68-year-old

while performing his hit song I'd Do Anything For Love.

Canadian media reported the music venue was then cleared

Meat Loaf had previously cancelled two recent concerts due to illness.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at ten.

Thank you. Let's catch up with the sport. Sally is in Paris. Good

morning. If you're an England or Northern Ireland fan this morning

you probably will still be celebrating, but heartbreak for

Welsh bands after seeing their side concede a last-minute goal

yesterday. We will start with Northern Ireland, they beat Ukraine

2-0 which keeps them with a chance of qualifying for the knockout

stages. Gareth McAuley put them ahead before they had to overcome

bizarre summer conditions. A huge hailstorm briefly caused the match

to be suspended and players and officials ran for cover. It did not

hold them back for long, despite heavy Ukrainian pressure Niall

McGinn poked home a second goal lead in stoppage time to spark wild

celebrations. A night to remember. We did not just come here to making

up the numbers. Getting here is just a party from now on and it's a

bonus, we are not here to make up the numbers, watch out the Germans,

we are coming for you. It's amazing, the last ten minutes were so nerve

wracking, you could feel the tension. My prediction was 2-0, I'm

glad we won, bring on Germany. 30 years of being a Northern Ireland

fan, now I know why I've done it. They change the formation and had a

completely different approach, the horizontal rain did it! Fantastic.

It's a proud day for me, for the country as well. The first win in

the European Championships, it's our first time so it must be our first

win! The level of performance is what I'm most proud of, the players

reacted to the defeat in the first game and the disappointment of the

first game. I thought today every of was magnificent. The rain was

obviously the thing that helped! England are now top of group B after

the 2-1 win over Wales, their first victory at this championship. Daniel

Sturridge scored in injury time to clinch the dramatic win. Wales had

lead at half-time before Roy Hodgson made a double substitution which

paid off as Jamie Vardy equalised and then Daniel Sturridge put them

on the brink of qualification with his goal, and that prompted

jubilation from the manager! As you saw on the bench, probably the most

spontaneous exhibition if you like of pure joy from myself and the

coaching staff that we have seen for a fair while, but that is what these

tournaments do to you, they make certain that you suffer. When you go

into a game of this magnitude and up against that quality, you have to do

something special to get something out of it and I thought the guys

showed such heart, they stuck in the game, and with 30 seconds, 60

seconds remaining to give up that point that we worked so hard to get,

that was disappointing. I think you will like this, if you want to

impress the Queen, here's how. Jockey Ryan Moore Road Order Of

Saint George to victory in the Gold Cup at Ascot, have a look at this. I

say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, you can't get much more

colour-coordinated than that! Her Majesty looked quite pleased about

that as well. We will have more sport throughout the morning. You

picked their colours first? Maybe she was paying tribute to him. I

would imagine it would be the Queen. Thank you very much, Sally. Let's

talk more about the loss of Jo Cox. She has been described as a devoted

wife and mother of two Her husband Brendan posted this

photo and said she had an energy and a zest for life

that would exhaust most people. The couple divided their time

between her Batley and Spen constituency in West Yorkshire and

living in a houseboat on the Thames, The commute to Westminster was out

of the ordinary, too. Usually I'm hoping I'll be zipping

down to the House of Commons, which is about half an hour away

from where I live on the boat, Now this is the way to start

the day, isn't it? Yorkshire born and bred,

Jo Cox only became an MP last year, of representing her "proud,

no-nonsense" constituency. The spirit of nonconformity

is as prevalent now in my part of West Yorkshire,

as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors,

Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock. They were both known

for their own brand of independent, nonconformist service,

albeit in very different ways. And I intend to maintain

that established tradition, Before her election,

she was a tireless She spent ten years

in international development, which took her to conflict

zones around the world. She met her husband Brendan working

for Oxfam, who have described her as a "passionate campaigner

on humanitarian issues". She also worked closely

with Sarah Brown, the wife of former

Prime Minister Gordon Brown. When we spoke to her last October

ahead of a Commons debate on Syria, she called repeatedly for Britain

to do more to help the victims

of Syria's civil war. working in many conflicts zones

all around the world. I've seen that military

intervention can save lives. It did in Kosovo, it did in Bosnia,

it did in Sierra Leone. There is a case that can be made,

when you've got an intervention grounded in the protection

of innocent civilians, My big proposal tonight

in the House of Commons, when we debate this, will be I think

the Government should consider a no-bombing zone,

to stop President Assad raining down aerial bombardment

on innocent civilians, killing children and grandmothers,

and mums and dads, to change the battlefield dynamic

and force him to the table. Jo Cox's colleagues in the House of

Commons are clearly in shock at what happened. Carole Walker is in

Westminster to talk about the impact that she had in that very short

political career. She was passionate, and by all accounts a

very good woman? Absolutely. You got a real sense of how strongly

motivated she was there when she came to Parliament, she was only

here for a year, but she really made her mark in that time, she was

already marked out as a rising star, someone who would have had such a

great future ahead of her, she brought all of that experience of

working around the world for aid agencies, and here in Parliament she

continued to campaign passionately to help some of the most

disadvantaged around the world. And I think that is why you have seen

such warm and glowing tributes from right across the Houses of

Parliament, for someone who really cared about what she was doing, but

was really motivated to try to help others in society. And of course

somebody who got along so well with so many people, very approachable

and personable, often turning up at Parliament with her two young

children, now sadly grieved. Many MPs will be thinking of her family

and their loss today. Ordinary politics has been suspended for now,

and it is hard to imagine how things move forward, what will be happening

there? Well, you are right. Campaigning in the EU referendum has

been temporarily suspended, all of the campaigns did that as a mark of

respect last night. It is not yet clear when that will resume. The

campaigns will simply have to try to judge the public mood and decide

when they think it is appropriate to return to that. It will be

interesting to see whether her death does affect the tone of the

campaign, which had become pretty frenetic and personal and of a very

highly pressurised nature. It will be interesting to see whether the

tone remains somewhat more subdued and quiet. There has been talk of

possibly recalling Parliament, clearly there is nothing crucial for

Parliament to decide. MPs may well pay tribute. No firm decisions on

that yet, but I think MPs are still thinking about the loss of such a

bright, a bold, capable MP. And of course the loss felt by her family.

Thank you, Carol. Until yesterday, the last attack

on an MP was against the Labour He was stabbed in the stomach by

a student in his east London office. But in spite of that,

he doesn't want to make it harder After I was attacked,

six years ago now, the police spoke to every MP about their arrangements

in their constituency surgeries, There may be things

that can be done. What none of us would want is a big

change in the culture of our country, which would make it

much harder for people to get After I was attacked,

the police said to me, would you like a metal

arch, a metal detector But the problem with that would be,

it would make going to see your MP a pretty unpleasant experience,

and none of us want that to happen. I want my constituents

to come and talk to me, and I don't want to make it

hard for them to do so. Dr David James is the co-founder

of the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, a Home Office unit

which examines security risks to politicians

and other public figures. Thank you for joining us. There has

been a survey done of MPs, and what they encounter and how vulnerable

they feel, what does that survey show? It has shown that around 80%

of MPs have been subject to intrusive harassment by

constituents. But nearly a fifth of all MPs have suffered some sort of

attack or attempted attack during their time in Parliament. We know

quite a lot about this now. There are two very important facts. The

first is that most of the people who attack politicians are mentally ill

owners with some personal grievance. The second thing is that most of

them give some sort of warning behaviour of what they make you want

to do in the form of threatening letters or difficult visits to the

constituency. The Nigel Jones case was won in point, you will remember

that in his constituency surgery he was attacked and his aide was

killed. This was 16 years ago. Yes. The aggressor in that incident had

been to the constituency surgery dozens of times before, raving in a

paranoid fashion. There was no mechanism to deal with it. This is

why the Home Office setup the fixated threat assessment centre

which is there to have difficult behaviours referred to it, so it can

assess and manage risk from mucking up warning behaviour is reported to

it. It relies on MPs actually bringing matters to its attention.

One of the problems is that MPs, some MPs tend to see this sort of

aggressive behaviour as just something that goes with the job. It

isn't and it shouldn't be. What would you say the answers are? We

are hearing from Steven Timms even, who was attacked and badly injured

as a result, even he says, actually, in the end, the balance of being

open as a constituency MP versus security means that he would prefer

openness. Obviously everyone will have a different perspective but how

do you see it? Where should the balance be?

Well, I would agree with what he said, but because people give

warning signs of what they may go on to do, it is important that these

are brought to the attention of the authorities. MPs are reluctant to

complain to the police or us about the behaviour of their constituents.

There is a worry that they may be seen as shopping their constituents.

But actually these people are mentally ill and in need of

attention. So if MPs do report them to the authorities, they are likely

to end up getting the psychiatric care that they need and have not had

before. There are things that can be done, but it is at that sort of

level. We certainly don't want to have fortified constituency

surgeries. Thank you for joining us, Dr David James. One tweet from Ali,

Jo's legacy will remain in our hearts for ever. Seeing the footage

is both inspiring and heartbreaking. Heather has tweeted, saddened and

shocked by the killing of Jo Cox, she was born for a purpose and

lifted by showing kindness and peace. She challenged the things

that isolate Westminster from the public, conviction politician and

local MP. Sarah on Facebook, we are talking about our memories of Jo Cox

and the thing she inspired us to do, I am on it to have been able to call

such an inspirational lady a friend and to have shared moments of life

with her. Thank you for your thoughts, keep letting us know your

thoughts this morning. The usual ways of getting in touch.

Should Russian track and field athletes be allowed to compete

They were suspended from international competitions

last November after a damning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The agency described a culture of cheating

and what it called state-sponsored doping.

Later today, the International Association of Athletics Federations

- headed by Lord Coe - will decide whether Russia has

changed enough for its athletes to be allowed to travel to Rio.

But what exactly did Russian athletes do wrong?

It's the worst doping scandal in history.

It could all end with a full Olympic ban for Russia.

But how did we get here in the first place?

Talk of Russian doping has been around for years.

Just days before the Beijing Olympics,

seven athletes were suspended for providing fake urine samples.

Four years later in London, and Russia had a successful Games.

A total of 71 medals in what was called the Clean Olympics.

In 2014, a German TV station broadcast claims

that most Russian athletes were using banned substances,

could make positive tests disappear for cash.

The World Anti-Doping Agency set up an independent commission

to look into the claims, headed by this man,

The same TV station and the Sunday Times

this time claiming that so-called blood doping is rife in athletics,

with 80% of Russia's medal winners under suspicion.

It said the sport's governing body, the IAAF,

had done next to nothing to stop it.

The then front-runner to lead that organisation, Lord Coe,

Nobody here is questioning the right of a news organisation,

a newspaper, to challenge, to kick the tyres,

to forensically examine the work of our federation.

To say we are sitting here on our hands

simply not investigating, or turning a blind eye to this,

and Wada's independent commission published its findings.

Russia was guilty of systemic state-sponsored doping.

Our recommendation is that the Russian Federation be suspended.

said it had retested frozen samples from the two most recent Games.

31 athletes from the Beijing Olympics failed those retests,

23 athletes from London also failed, eight of those were again Russian.

Sport chiefs must now decide if the country is doing enough

for the ban to be lifted, or whether its athletes should now

be stopped from travelling to the Rio Games.

In the studio with me is Olympic relay runner Andrew Steele,

who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

He's been told he could now be awarded a bronze medal

after coming fourth behind the Russian team back then.

And also part of the conversation is former swimmer and Olympic silver

medallist Sharron Davies, who appealed to have her medal

upgraded after allegations of doping came to light.

Thank you for joining us. Andrew, explained where you are with

possibly being upgraded to bronze from fourth place eight years later.

Yeah, quite a bizarre scenario eight years, looking back at the Beijing

Olympic Games. We finished fourth in the relay, the fastest time to ever

not win a medal. And so we finished just behind the Russian team, who

ran an unusually fast time, unexpectedly so. So if we see that

the B samples come back positive, the A samples did test positive, we

stand to be upgraded to third, and the process of awarding those medals

goes ahead. How do you feel about it? You were robbed of the podium

moment. No, that is the most bothersome part for me. A lot of

people will say, think of the endorsements you could have had as

an Olympic medallist, but what matters to me is that we did not get

that moment of joy, of recognition for our hard work at the time. You

cannot ever really get that back. In this bizarre mixture of a Venn

diagram of joy and anger, where they cross, it is a very bizarre feeling.

I would be thrilled to call myself a medallist, but angry that I did not

get to experience it at the time eight years ago. So you are hoping

to compete in Rio, how would you feel about competing alongside

Russian athletes? I would not feel that comfortable with the idea. I

believe personally there has to be quite a harsh stand made, and clean

athletes will get caught up in this, like there will be the unfortunate

cases of clean Russian athletes, if Russia are bad, who do not get to

compete at the Olympic Games. But I cannot see any way to send a clear

message that the sport is transforming other than to Ban

Russia as a whole. If the assessment is that they think enough is being

done, would you take that at face value? Probably not. Wada released a

report on their recent activity in Russia over the last 6-9 months, and

it didn't paint a very clean picture. It doesn't appear from my

point of view that the right moves have been made to make sure the

sport is clean in Russia. And if that is the case, I really would not

be all that comfortable competing against Russian athletes in Rio.

Sharron, you lost out to a gold medal to an athlete, a swimmer,

later tested positive for banned substances. That was even longer ago

for you, how do you feel about everything? Well, I am still very

much involved with swimming, and ICO athletes competing against people

who have tested positive ones. -- I see our athletes. I think we have to

work on bigger deterrence. The Russians are not getting their house

in order, this is a state system, not individuals. This is a

state-sponsored system, so the only way we can make the Russians behave

and do proper testing internally is to come down on the whole country.

Personally, I would like to see the whole country, not just track and

field, because we can be sure it is not just track and field that is

doing this. Do you think much has changed? No, sadly not. That report

that has just been talked about, over the past few months there have

been 700 tests, many of them cancelled, objects put in front of

the testers to make it difficult for them to get to the athletes. 111

tests were the athletes could not be found, 58 positive tests. That is

not change. So Russian athletes at Rio, yes no? Personally, I would

love to see them not there. They have to give a strong deterrent for

things to change. You talked about my particular situation, that was

the East Germans many years ago. We knew at the time, you could see it,

to be honest, they had huge success, nobody did anything about it. There

were two victims, people like myself, whose lives could have been

different, people who were fourth, maybe could have been medallists,

but also those athletes themselves, taking drugs with no idea what the

long-term effects are. We should be protecting the clean athletes but

also those who have been persuaded to take drugs as well. So then they

knew, they did not categorically no, but there were signs. Does everybody

look at each other with suspicion? Unfortunately so, I think, now.

Certain countries have said they read like more than others, Russia

was one of those, thanks to, I guess some high profile cases over the

past. We were suspicious when we finished fourth. If we said we would

run to: 58, we thought we would have a chance of a medal, and we did not

expect Russia to do that. Sometimes people perform better than expected,

but we were certainly suspicious, and it seems, this many years later,

that perhaps we were vindicated in our suspicion at the time. You have

signed a letter to Wada, asking for all countries to be looked at, what

do you want to happen? I just think that we really need to move to a new

plane of what is normal for sport here. We are losing faith in

athletics, in particular. The sport has been really degraded by these

ongoing doping scandals. We need to make a clear stand against even the

federation as a whole, and that is a big step, one of the biggest

decisions we will ever have in Olympic sport, I guess. But I cannot

see we will change without doing that. It will be unfair on a few,

but how else will we do this? We need all our resources and deterrent

available to make a change. So the public can reignite their love for

the sport and be sure that what they see is a true performance. Sharron,

you are nodding. It is just so sad, and people watch the Olympics and do

not know whether it is a drug aided win or not. I just want a healthier

nation, I want people to be involved in sport and to love doing it, and

we need to work harder to get drug cheats out. Sharron Davies, Andrew

steel, thank you very much. Good luck, you are still waiting to hear

if you are going to Rio. Coming up, the NHS in England agrees to fund

two pioneering drugs that fight skin cancer, we will have the details.

Now, let's catch up with the latest weather update with Matt Taylor, how

are things looking? Stormy once again, have you managed

to avoid them? No, keep getting caught! The Weather Watchers

pictures have been capturing the scene, lots of lightning across the

UK, some particularly severe storms, this one not far from Heathrow,

having an impact on the roads, and airports have been suffering as

operations have to be reduced. As well as the lightning, we have seen

hail and flooding, and reports quite widely across parts of Oxfordshire

of a funnel cloud, a prequel set to tornadoes. -- precursor. That is not

uncommon in the UK, but we're not done with the storms yet, and there

will be more storms today across the UK, some of them quite severe once

again. It is towards parts of the south-east, East Anglia, we have

already got thunderstorms rumbling away. It is not just here where wet

weather will be confined, a damp day across eastern Scotland and the

north-east of England. Lots of cloud, though, sunshine breaking

through with lift temperatures across southern areas, and the

storms going again. East Anglia and the south-east of the worst ones

today, we have to watch conditions closer to Queens and Ascot. In

between the areas, there will be heavy showers around, we cannot rule

out the odd rumble of thunder, but perhaps not as bad as elsewhere.

Further rain, in the north, brightness to the western parts of

Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man. In the East of Scotland, and

other cool day, heavy rain around Aberdeenshire and the Moray Firth.

Through tonight, storms for a time across the south, they will ease

away, rain across eastern Scotland slides down through easternmost

counties of England, a bit of a breeze here. Not desperately cold,

not much lower than double figures for many. It did a weekend, a sign

of some good news, goodbye to the storms, this area of high pressure

kicks the storms into northern parts of Europe, and it keeps things much

dry for many of us. But a completely dry story on Saturday, central and

eastern England rather grey, cool, rain and drizzle at times. Nowhere

near the intensity of rain as we have seen of late. Most of you will

have a dry Saturday, the best warmth across western areas, where

temperatures will get into the high teens. As we go into Sunday, it is

eastern areas where we will most likely see the driest and brightest

weather, and the warmest too. In the West, lots of cloud, patchy rain and

drizzle, later in the day more in the way of heavy rain. By and large,

compare to this week, the storms are easing, the weekend looking much

better, and that is also the same in Kazakhstan, where we have got

showers at the moment. Tim Peake returns to earth tomorrow and it is

looking brighter across central Kazakhstan, where he is expected to

land during tomorrow morning. That is how it is looking, see you soon.

Hello it's Friday, it's ten o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

Welcome to the programme if you've just joined us.

Tributes continue to flood in for the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox.

Last night vigils were held outside Parliament and in

the village of Birstall, where she was shot and stabbed.

Her fellow Labour MP and friend Anna Turley has given

us her own recollections of Jo Cox...

Those smiling pictures you see in the paper, that is what we saw every

day, she was always smiling, bundles of energy, she was fizzing with

energy and passion and commitment. I'm Jane Hill in Birstall, where

local people are arriving in the Market Square all the time to lay

flowers. Many simply saying thank you.

Also this morning - a charity is accusing the government

of ignoring the issue of who cares for our increasingly

We'll speak to people who are worried about who'll care for them -

Lots of you getting in touch to pay tribute to Jo Cox this morning. John

on Facebook, still can't quite believe the events of yesterday and

that she is no longer with us. I first met her during the general

election campaign in the summer of 2014, we did not always see eye to

eye from a political point of view but I was amazed by how she

connected with people and she was so caring, embracing everything in

front of her, she would always find time for you even know she was so

busy. An e-mail from Sarah, we had a wonderful party on her boat where my

children were inspired by her fighting and campaigning nature,

they became little campaign is because of her. I am privileged to

have shared moments of life with her. Thank you for your comments.

Keep getting in touch. All of the usual ways. If you text you will be

charged that the standard network rate. Let's get back to Jane Hill.

We are spending most of the morning looking at the death of Jo Cox and

Jane is in Birstall for us. Good morning. From Birstall. Where people

are arriving all the time here in the Market Square, to lay flowers,

people of all ages, backgrounds, people bringing their children. It

is a market town. Now, with a somewhat unwelcome media presence.

Journalists from here and overseas as well, not just British

journalists, such is the extraordinary nature of what has

gone on in the past 24 hours, local people who simply can't believe that

this has happened. As the Yorkshire Post says this morning, a young

woman murdered in the line of duty. The messages are extraordinarily

touching, it is very moving to read them. A lot of cards simply say

thank you. One lady in the last few minutes has laid the statuette of an

angel and the cards simply says, you worked so hard for us all, and that

is one of the things you pick up on from what people are saying, the

feeling that Jo Cox really was a terribly hard-working and well liked

local MP. She was from this area, of course. She said herself that she

was so proud to represent the part of the country that she grew up in.

And those local routes very much welcomed and celebrated, and people

remembering that here today. And last night. There was a digital in

the church last night. -- a vigil. The church was full. Fiona Trott was

there and has Trump now. From all backgrounds

and all faiths, they came together A woman who was killed

while working for them, She was a people person,

she was for us. She had so much warmth

and compassion. Police say Jo Cox was stabbed and

shot near Birstall village library. She was holding a drop-in session

for her local constituents. A guy was bent over the woman,

I could see her legs sticking out. The words I heard him say

was, "Britain first" I can't say exactly what it was,

but definitely "Britain first" The BBC understands the man

being arrested is called The BBC understands the man being arrested

is called Tommy Mair, Jo Cox was more than an MP,

she was a wife and mother. In a statement her husband

Brendan Cox said... The very heart of this

West Yorkshire village remains And the villagers within it

are overcome with grief. Fiona is now with me. As people come

and lay flowers, what is striking is that many people still have tears in

their eyes, people asked Gill stunned. They are, they are walking

around in a daze. -- they still are stunned. The school was on lockdown

yesterday and they are now trying to get on with their daily business and

it's very hard, the heart of the community, the Market Square is

still cordoned off, there is a huge police presence. And of course with

the media presence that you mentioned, it has hit them that this

did happen yesterday, it is very hard for them to come to terms with

it. They are trying to come to terms with it by laying floral tributes.

They are continuing to grow, and the messages talk about a woman who was

interested in their lives, interested in their local campaigns

for a pedestrian crossing and one woman mentioned she had a particular

personal problem that the MP was helping her with. She got to know

her. They both had children of the same age. She really felt the loss

for her family. Another message says, she will be remembered for her

tireless work for the less fortunate. You get the impression

from speaking to people that Jo Cox represented their interests but she

was also very interested in them and it will be hard to come to terms

with it. The fact that she was born and bred in the region plays an

important part here, the Bishop of Huddersfield who we spoke to in the

past hour picked up on that, and you get the sense that it was hugely

important to her and she was proud to represent the part

of the country where she grew up, and it resonated and it meant

something to her constituents? It really does. In this part of the

world that means a lot. Someone has left a message that says, for eight

Yorkshire Rose. The bishop said that she had passion and compassion. --

for a Yorkshire rose. You always get a story about every background and

every faith, and that was reflected in the vigil last night. And the

thoughts about the police investigation, because there is

still a lot of police in evidence and police tape crossing the entire

Market Square and it is closed off, it is quite a wide police cordoned.

What do we know at this stage? I wonder if we can turn the camera

around to the streets, I can see out of the corner of my eye, a fingertip

search is going on. It looks like an officer is using a rod. They are

checking drains. That is the area outside the library where Jo Cox was

stabbed and shot yesterday. Still, 52-year-old man has been arrested

and is still being questioned by police today, and you can still see

here this morning, this huge police cordoned, huge police presence, this

investigation is very much continuing. We will talk again a

little later, thank you for now. We will talk to local people throughout

the day here as you would expect. For now, from here in Birstall, back

to you. We can now speak to two more of Jo's

friends and Labour colleagues. Caroline Flint attended the vigil

in Birstall last night Thank you for joining us. Just a

terribly sad day. Yes it is. I think it's important, you know, everything

everyone has said about how wonderful and MP she has been, but

also what she brought to her commitment and passion to helping

those less fortunate in her life before becoming an MP is important.

We have lost someone who had so much more to give. The vigil must have

been hard so soon after something so shocking. What were emotions like?

It must have been very raw? Yes, it was, but I think people were coming

together from Birstall and the surrounding areas, myself and

colleagues and others from the Labour Party, and it was a chance to

just come together, to hold each other, to think of Jo and take a bit

of time out from obviously a lot of discussion about what has happened

to really focus on the most important thing, thinking about Jo

Cox and her family. When you think about her, what do you remember?

What I remember is very much what everyone has been saying, someone

who was so positive, someone who had worked in some of the most difficult

parts of the world, but like many people who get elected was

throwing her heart and soul into being the best she could as an MP.

It is so poignant in terms of what happened because much of what MPs do

is only seen through what we see in the chamber of the House of Commons.

There is such another important side to that part of our lives. Very much

feet on the ground and working in the constituency and she was just

there for the people she grew up with, doing her best, doing her

duty. That obviously brings you into close contact with anybody who wants

to get up close. The events that the constituency surgeries are well

advertised, anyone can turn up. Have you had concerns and had you ever

spoken to her about security concerns about anything like that?

No. But I think over the years MPs share some of the things that we

face and how to handle bump. -- handle them. It is part of our

democracy that is very good and positive, I have spoken to MPs from

other parts of Europe and America and other parts of the world and

they are astonished at the very up close and personal relationship that

we have with our constituents and it's a very good thing. I think we

also have to be mindful of not just our security but those of our staff

as well. And sometimes you have to deal

I also recall that only recently she shared with myself and others that

she could not make something because she was applying camomile lotion to

the chickenpox spots of... With myself and others, she shared that

she could not make something because she was applying camomile motion to

the... Sorry, we have lost our line to

Caroline Flint, but remembering her friend and colleague, Jo Cox, as so

many are this morning. Normal Parliamentary business is suspended

for now, campaigning in the referendum is suspended. It is not

clear when campaigning will resume, but there was supposed to be a big

set these events tonight, Andrew Neil talking to Iain Duncan Smith

for the latest in his head to head interviews on the referendum. That

is not going to be going ahead. There are also some calls for

Parliament to be recalled, as MPs struggled to come to terms with what

has happened. And we were hearing from one MP, who was a close friend

of Jo Cox, saying it would be a good thing for them to get together in

Parliament just to talk about her. Caroline, would you like to see

Parliament recalled? I think, you know, if we do come back together to

Parliament next week... There as part of me that sort of feels that I

would like to have something rather like the vigil service in Birstall

the other night, last night, where actually we just can come together

in a quiet way and think about what Jo and her family and what has

happened. I think that is the most important thing at the moment, and

there will be time for all of us to talk about our work and what we do

and how we deal with that and where we may need to look at security.

What I would not like, Joanna macro, is to come back to Parliament and

lose sight of what we want to come back for, which is to think about

Jo. If we do go back, I do not know that is making sense to you, but I

feel like we should come back and reflect in quietness, maybe with a

few contributions, and that is what we should be doing, rather than

coming back to Parliament and having a bigger debate about the future and

what we do about how we work as MPs. I would like to make sure that we

focus on what is the most important thing at this present time, thinking

about Jo and her family. That is completely clear and understandable.

Anything that any of us go through that is shocking, or we lose

somebody dear to us, it changes us. You move on eventually, you deal

with it in the long term, but do you feel, even though it has just

happened, that it might change the way you see politics? How are you

feeling this morning about how you contemplate what has happened? Well,

I am feeling sorrow, and so sad, you know, fog Jo's loved ones. -- for.

In terms of politics, if something comes out of this, it is about

understanding that MPs, anybody in political life should be held to

account. And when they do things wrong, they should answer for that.

But I think we should be really proud of our democracy, and proud of

our political system, because for the most part it is a very good

system, and people come into politics with the best of reasons,

for the most part, and to do a good job. And I think, if anything, if it

says something about what MPs do outside of just being in Parliament,

and how that is such an important contribution to helping people,

ordinary people, have their voices heard. I think that would be a

really good thing. Thank you very much, Caroline Flint, friend and

colleague of Jo Cox, joining us. Let's talk more about the questions

raised about MPs security, touching on security issues there, with

Caroline Flint, people are talking about it this morning, it is still

very raw, but it is obviously an issue that will be discussed now and

in the coming days and weeks. Yes, absolutely, and it is emerging that

there were already security concerns surrounding the Labour MP. It

emerged that, in March this year, one man was arrested following what

has been described as malicious communication. Now, he was given a

caution by police. Just to make it clear, the man who received the

caution was not the man who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of

murder. We have also heard a lot from her colleagues, as we were just

hearing them, and other colleagues who have in fact said she was

receiving more malicious communication, and police were

looking into this. There are reports that police were looking into

beefing up the security surrounding her homes, not only in London, but

in Yorkshire. And I have been speaking to Lord Kinnock, who knew

her extremely well for around 20 years, and he described to me a

little bit about what she was like, but also any security concerns she

had. Just a little technical issue at the

moment, we are just finding that. We can listen to it now, Frankie. She

would use her very high intelligence for its best purpose, solving

practical problems. Steve, our sun, her colleague, spoke of her last

night when we talked to him, as a doer. And that is what you was, she

would identify a problem and pursued, and she was prepared to

fight on every front - for justice, fair play, common-sense. And this

was a woman that couldn't be suppressed. If she had a fault, and

I guess everybody has got a fault, it is that she was too modest. Not

in any cloying way, not with false modesty, but I used to say to her

sometimes, as indeed Glenys did, but a bit harder for your wife, because

of the need to get her - not any selfish motive - the need to get

hurt. And she just smiled and... There will always be a sort of

giggle in her voice, she had that kind of voice. She was full of

merriment. Are you OK? Do you... There have been some concerns and

reports that she was perceiving some form of hate mail at some point

macro, did she ever speak to you or her family about her personal

security? Not in solemn terms like that. In any conversation,

occasionally in conversation, these things crop up, when people are

politically active. When we talk together. And in fact I remarked on

the reality that, whilst when I was a Member of Parliament in the 1970s

and 1980s, I would occasionally encounter dances that could I guess,

be described as dangerous, sometimes because of political antagonism,

sharply felt, and sometimes because people were just utterly hopeless.

That was Lord Kinnock speaking to me just a little bit earlier, and this

seems to be an issue, the security issue, that has been bubbling up

over a number of years. There have been incidents in the past, and

something I am sure we are going to be discussing much more in the

future, Joanna. Thank you, thank you. We're going to speak to Neil

Kinnock's some right now, his sun had known Jo for 20 years, and they

shared an office with each other. -- son. Upsetting to see your father

clearly so deeply affected by this, how are you feeling? Because she was

a good family friend, wasn't she? She was, and we are absolutely

devastated. It is a terrible, terrible waste, and she was such an

amazing person. I have known her for 20 years, and we share an office in

Westminster, and I will always remember her coming in in a cycling

gear, cycling helmet, grabbing some stuff. She used to use my cupboard

as a wardrobe, grabbing some stuff to get changed. We would have a

chat, and you knew that if you saw Jo at the beginning of your day,

your day was going to be a better day. She just had so much positive

energy and optimism and, you know, she was a real fighter for the

causes that she believed in, and she inspired us. She inspired all of the

new intake of MPs and many, many others. She really had the street

cred, she had been out there working in the refugee camps, working with

the poorest and most dispossessed people on the planet. And she just

had that authority about her, because of that, but also the

special charisma and charm that she had, I mean, she was one in a

million. She could never ever be replaced. You obviously, as you say,

sharing an office, working at close quarters - did she ever talk to you

about security worries? Yeah, a little while ago, I mean we all get

dozens, almost on a daily basis, of vicious and aggressive e-mails and

tweets and Facebook messages, whatever it might be. You just get

used to it, it kind of becomes water off a duck's back, but she did

mention a little while ago some kind of creepy messages which she had

been getting, but I think that is what was reported in the Times

today, and I do not think it was related to the tragic events of

yesterday. I think that it was something else. But it reflects the

fact that sometimes people develop bizarre obsessions and starts to get

feelings of violence and aggression, and sometimes public figures like

MPs are on the receiving end of that. MPs, when I have a

constituency surgeries, are completely accessible to anybody who

wants to come and see them. It was just after one of those sessions

that Jo was attacked. Does that need to change? Can that change? Well, I

think the fact that we are so close to our constituents and very open,

and I run surgeries like that on a very regular basis as well, is

really important as part of our democratic process. I think it is

very important that we hold onto those and protect them as something

that we hold dear. But what I think is more where we could add trying to

address this issue is around the mood music. It is around the way the

media lays into politicians. I mean, you know, of course we have to have

a robust debate, but I think it goes over the mark sometimes, and the way

politicians sometimes interact with each other, and then of course the

way that all gets into the melting parts of social media, and what

social media has done as with everything up, where you can, in 140

characters, you can completely monster somebody in terms of their

reputation, personally, their family, as individuals. That, I

think, is dangerous, because it creates a permissive environment,

where sometimes it is not that big a jump from saying and writing

horrible stuff to actually doing something horrible. And there I

think we need to have a conversation about the tone of our politics, and

we need to reflect on that in the light of what has happened to Jo.

You are talking about the roles of media and social media in that -

what about politicians themselves? Do you think that potentially a

legacy of this might be gentler politics? I mean, obviously, in the

immediate aftermath of anything, people will look at the way things

are done, possibly the type of politics you are talking about, but

do you believe there may be a long-term impact? Well, I hope so,

and I absolutely agree that you cannot just separate media, social

media and politics and politicians. It is all part of one big picture,

and that conversation has to take place between all of us in terms of

what it means to be in public life in this UK, what sort of example we

set to others. But then we have to also get some of those people out

there, who are full of hatred and anger, to reflect today, and I hope,

to dial it down. And while it's down in the long term, not just for a

week or two weeks, whilst at the memory of this appalling thing is

still raw, but for ever. I think we do need to change the tone, because

if we don't, there is such a risk that this sort of thing could even

happen again. And what we also have to reflect on is what Jo Cox stood

for through her whole life - she stood for the values of decency and

into nationalism and... -- international is. And solving

problems together in the community, hope not hate, and I hope that those

values that she stood for will be something that we can honour, and

when I say we, everybody who has an opinion and is out on social media,

they need to reflect on what Jo stood for, and they need to think

about their own behaviour in that light. It is clearly very upsetting

for you to talk about someone who was very dear to you. Finish, if you

will, with what... When you think of Jo now, what will be the key thing

about her that will come into your mind? You said before that when you

met her at the start of the day, you knew the day would be good. That

right, she just had that wonderful optimism and hope radiating from

her, such a ball of energy, so you just had to be near her and you

picked up some of that positive energy, irradiated off her. But I

think I will remember her mostly as a mother, and she often used to

bring the kids in, she was constantly juggling the demands of a

busy job with being the mother of two young kids. They used to come

in, they would draw a picture for me, we would always have a chat, two

absolutely lovely kids. And I had the privilege of spending a bit of

time at their cottage in Monmouthshire, so not that far from

my constituency, so I did spend some lovely time there, and I remember

going out on a little canoe trip just in the river by their cottage,

with her and the kids and Brendan. And I will always remember that,

because you saw the way that she was with those kids and how much she

loved them and... I think I will probably remember her in that light,

more than any other. Thank you very much, Stephen Kinnock.

Lots of you have been getting in touch. Kemal has tweeted, we are all

shocked, it has happened in a society of tolerance, there are no

words. Martin has e-mailed to say, I want to express sympathy to all

those who knew her, I am a 60-year-old veteran, I family means

everything to me and my heart goes out to hers. Pam has e-mailed,

terribly sad, my condolences. She spent time at the GP practice that I

managed, to find out about the sharp end of primary care, a very

impressive woman who was genuine in her desire to improve life for the

ordinary person. Bill has e-mailed to say, she was truly robbed of her

life potential, she was a radiant young lady and adoring mother. I

feel sick to hear about her taking from her family and friends. William

says, I did not know her but I have felt the grief and emotions, I can't

believe what happened to this wonderful woman, my heart goes out

to her family. Much more tributes still ahead. Also still to come, the

pioneering skin cancer drugs that will be available to everyone in

England after the NHS agrees to fund them. We will hear from people

worried about who will care from them in old age because they don't

have children. A new report says that the government should be doing

more for the ageing population. Let's catch up with all of the news

with Anita in the newsroom. Thank you, Joanna.

Vigils have been held for the Labour MP Jo Cox who died yesterday

after being shot and stabbed in an assault in her constituency.

The 41-year-old mother became an MP in the general election last year.

David Cameron said the killing was tragic and dreadful news.

She was attacked in the village of Birstall after she held her

Russian athletes will find out later today whether they will be allowed

to compete in the Rio Olympics following claims

Members of the world governing body of athletics

are meeting in Vienna to make the decision.

The team was suspended earlier this year following a damning report

by the World Anti-Doping Agency which alleged systemic cheating.

Barack Obama has renewed his appeal for tougher gun control

measures to be introduced in the United States.

The US President has met survivors and relatives

of the 49 people killed in the Orlando nightclub shooting.

He called on the Republican-controlled Congress

to pass new legislation following the attack,

and said all sides should do more to stop such mass

As has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving

And they asked, why does this keep happening?

And they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage.

The Labour Party has held the south-London

constituency of Tooting, previously held by Sadiq

Khan who last month was elected Mayor of London.

Rosena Allin-Khan, who's a junior doctor,

won with a majority of more than 6,000.

A two-minute silence was held during the count

Ms Allin-Khan paid tribute to her, instead of giving a victory speech.

The American rock star Meat Loaf has been taken to hospital

after collapsing on stage during a concert in Canada.

Fans at last night's show in Edmonton saw

fall down while performing his hit song

Canadian media reported the music venue was then cleared

Meat Loaf had previously cancelled two recent concerts due to illness.

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

See you later, thanks, Anita stops Sally is in Paris again. Over to

you. -- thanks, Anita. If you are an England fan you will still be

celebrating but heartbreak for Welsh bands after they conceded a

last-minute goal. Northern Ireland are still in with a chance of

qualifying for the knockout stages after beating Ukraine 2-0. Gareth

McAuley put them ahead and then they had to overcome bizarre summer

conditions here in France. The hailstorm caused players and

officials to run for cover and the match was briefly suspended. They

did not bother them much despite heavy Ukrainian pressure.

Niall McGinn poked home a second goal lead in stoppage time

We did not just come here to make up the numbers.

The hard work happened over the past two years.

Getting here is just a party from now on and it's a bonus,

we are not here to make up the numbers, watch out the Germans,

It's amazing, the last ten minutes were so nerve wracking,

My prediction was 2-0, I'm glad we won, bring on Germany.

30 years of being a Northern Ireland fan, now I know why I've done it.

They changed the formation and had a completely different

approach, the horizontal rain did it!

It's a proud day for me, for the country as well.

The first win in the European Championships, it's our first time

The level of performance is what I'm most proud of, the players reacted

to the defeat in the first game and the disappointment

I thought today every one was magnificent.

England are top of group B after beating Wales 2-1. Their first

victory of this championship. Daniel Sturridge scored in injury

time to clinch the dramatic win. Wales had lead at half-time before

Roy Hodgson made a double substitution which paid off

as Jamie Vardy equalised and then Daniel Sturridge put them

on the brink of qualification with his goal, and that prompted

jubilation from the manager! As you saw on the bench,

probably the most spontaneous exhibition - if you like -

of pure joy from myself that we have seen for a fair while,

but that is what these tournaments do to you, they make

certain that you suffer. We are here to get into the last 16

and we have always said that. It was always the middle game of three. We

are gutted. We have to move on and put this Tibet and show a reaction.

We play on Monday against that of Russian team knowing that if we get

a good result, then we are still in the tournament, so it is still all

to play for. I think you will like this,

if you want to impress Jockey Ryan Moore rode

Order Of Saint George to victory in the Gold Cup at Ascot,

have a look at this. The moment of the presentation, you

cannot get more colour-coordinated than that! I wonder if they had a

little conversation beforehand to work it out. That's it from me, I

will have more sport throughout the morning. See you later, Sally.

The NHS in England is to pay for two pioneering cancer drugs that use

James Gallagher is here. What are these drugs and how effective have

they been? Let's go back in time ten years and think what was happening

to patients with advanced melanoma. The average life span was nine

months after diagnosis but with these drugs, they give the immune

system boost and allow it to attack cancer which we will explain in a

bit, but two years after starting the therapy 69% of patients have

tumours that are shrinking, most of these would have been dead before,

and a fifth have no sign of cancer at all. Remarkable difference

compared to ten years ago. Extraordinary. It has been so

effective that it has been fast-track. This is almost unheard

of in terms of the speed of drugs being officially licensed. The NHS

say this will be offered to every suitable patient in England. There

is a body called Nice that approves drugs for England but it is hugely

influential in the rest of the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland etc will

follow suit. This is great news for skin cancer treatment but in terms

of the bigger picture and immunotherapy for cancer patients,

does it kind of have implications for that? These have been tried, I

have just returned from the world's biggest cancer conference in

America, and it is the talk of the town, everybody thinks this will be

one of the great pillars of cancer treatment, alongside radiotherapy,

this will be the next big thing in treating cancer. One of the things

that is so exciting is that it has a really long-term effect. They seem

to fail after a few months, and then Michu resists the treatment and the

patient dies. For immunotherapy, it only works really well in a small

subset of patients but for those for whom it works it lasts for years

with a really beneficial effect. Thank you very much. Let's talk more

about the tragic loss of Jo Cox. Her husband Brendan posted this

photograph and said she had an energy and zest for life that would

exhaust most people. They divided their time between their

constituency in West Yorkshire and living in a houseboat on the Thames.

Their commute to Westminster was something out of the ordinary, too.

Normally I hope to be zipping down to the House of Commons about half

an hour away from where I live. On a little speedboat. This is a way to

start the day, isn't it?! Yorkshire born and bred, she only became an MP

last year and at that time she spoke of her joy at representing her proud

and no-nonsense constituency. The spirit of nonconformity is as

present now in my part of West Yorkshire as it was in the time of

my two media predecessors, Mike would and Elizabeth Peacock. They

were both known for their own brand of independent, nonconformist

service. Albeit in very different ways. I intend to maintain that

established tradition in my own unique style. Before her election

she was a tireless campaigner, and aid worker. She spent ten years

working in international development which took her to conflict zones

around the world. She met her husband Brendan working for Oxfam

who described her as a passionate campaigner on humanitarian issues.

She worked closely with Sarah Brent on, the wife of former Prime

Minister Gordon Brown. When we spoke to her last October she called

repeatedly for Britain to do more to help the victims of the Syrian Civil

War. I spent ten years as an aid worker in many conflict zones around

the world and I have seen that military intervention saves lives,

it did in Kosovo, Bosnia and Sierra Leone. A case can be made when you

have an intervention grounded in the protection of innocent civilians,

and military component can save lives. My big proposal when we

debate this will be that the government should consider a no

bombing zone to stop President Assad raining down aerial bombardment on

innocent people, killing grandmothers and mums and dads, and

change the dynamic and force him to the table.

Holly Lynch is the Labour MP for Halifax and was

Holly, thank you for joining us at this very difficult time. How close

were you to Jo? We were both newly elected last year, both obviously

MPs from the same area of West Yorkshire. Both represented quite

similar constituencies actually, we would regularly swap notes about

what was working, what was best practice, the challenges we had and

how to share information and good ideas about campaigns. She really

was an incredible woman and I was her whip as well when I was asked to

join the whip's office towards the end of last year. We had a close

working relationship but we were good friends as well. What did you

take from her? She really was like people have already said, a ball of

energy, she was incredibly dynamic in the way she went about her

politics and she came in with a real clarity of what she was trying to

achieve in Westminster. She really did not waste any time in getting on

with that. We have heard tributes from right across the chamber, right

across the benches and all over the UK, she really did build support for

the arguments she was making from everywhere, and that was grounded in

her vast experience of the issues that she was quite often working on.

She would take people with her and was really able to make a difference

in Westminster in the time that she had on that basis. It was said that

she seemingly had more hours in the day than anyone because of how much

she packed in, what was her secret? I really could not tell you, I do

not know. As we have heard she was rooted in her family as well, two

young kids, the kids recently had chickenpox, and she would always

update you on the trials and tribulations of being a working mum

with two young children, she was besotted with them. On top of that

she was this incredibly dynamic MP who managed to achieve so much and

she really did set the standard for all of us. About what was possible

when you really got stuck in, and this is such a tragedy that she just

had those humans with us in Westminster. -- those few months.

It seems a lot of people were looking at where her career may have

led, what were your thoughts? She had a confidence in our own

convictions, when she was speaking, that was very much rooted in her

vast experience. When she spoke, she knew she had a mandate to represent

those people who had elected. She really did get on with the job, and

you could see she was going to go on to great things in Westminster. So,

so sad that you won't have the opportunity to do that. Yeah. There

has been research done on the vulnerability of MPs, because of the

nature of the job. I mean, obviously, what happened to her

happened after she had been in contact with constituents, it is

something that all MPs do when they go to their constituency, and meet

local people, whether it is in a formal session or whether they are

out shopping or whatever it is. Did she ever talk to you about any

concerns? Well, I think, for all of us that came in in 2015, you do have

to get used to the way Westminster works, but also you do have to get

quite thick skin quite quickly, actually. It took all us back a

little bit, because the nature of the jobs that you engaged with a lot

of people, and the nature of democracy is you meet people with a

different opinion to yours. You have to listen to all of those, and you

try to take those views and opinions with you in your decision-making.

There is a challenge, I think, and how we manage that. We have seen

that there are people who struggle to articulate that in a way that is

responsible and respectable, in going about their business of an MP

and engaging on issues where you might have different opinions, but

you have already mentioned that Jo was just going about her business as

a hard-working MP in a constituency. She was holding an advice surgery,

something we all do. You try to make yourself as available as possible as

an MP. And so we do have to think about how we can ensure the safety

of those people coming to the surgery as well, but our staff, who

are often with us, and it would be really sad if we have to change the

way we start engaging with people to reflect these very serious but

unusual incidents. Holly, thank you very much for joining us with your

memories and thoughts this morning. Thank you. Much more coverage coming

up on the sad death of Jo Cox with any two Newsroom Live -- with Anita

on Newsroom Live. Do you ever worry about who will

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