01/08/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

It is Monday. It is nine o'clock and I am Joanna Gosling standing in for

Victoria. Pregnant women have been advised not

to make non-essential trips to Florida amid concerns over

an outbreak there of the Zika virus which can cause birth

defects or miscarriages. So what are your options if you've

already booked a holiday to Florida Pokemon Go is the mobile phone game

which has taken the world by storm, and now it seems it is providing

vital help for youngsters We will be talking to players

and parents about how the game has And many of us carry donor cards

so our organs can be used after we die, but would you ever

consider donating your brain to be We will be finding out what happens

in a brain bank and how they are increasing our

understanding of Also today we will be talking

to the bobsledder who has just become the third fastest British

sprinter of all time but isn't Do get in touch on all the stories

we're talking about this morning. If you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate. People diagnosed with cancer

in the UK are almost twice as likely to survive for at least ten years

than they were in the 1970s. Macmillan Cancer Support says

an extraordinary number of people are still alive decades

after being diagnosed. But it warns thousands of people

struggle with the physical, emotional and financial effects

for many years afterwards. The other form of treatment

is known as chemotherapy... Back then there were fewer drugs

and ways of spotting the disease. But the charity Macmillan Cancer

Support says remarkably thousands of people diagnosed decades ago

are still alive today. And with better treatment

and quicker diagnosis, It estimates people are now twice

as likely to live at least another ten years after being diagnosed

with cancer as they were at More than 170,000 people in the UK

diagnosed with cancer in the '70s But many are facing poor health

or disability from their treatment. I get swollen fingers,

swollen feet, ankles. I ended up with a bad credit record

because I was not able to keep up payments on my credit

cards when I was out of work. Cancer may no longer be life ending

but it is life changing. With thousands living

with the side effects of therapy, the psychological impact

and financial worries To keep up, Macmillan says it has

expanded to even include benefits It says NHS services need to grow

too to make sure people surviving cancer live not just

long but healthy lives. Julian is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Good morning. Four teenage boys have

been charged with murder after the death of a man in Ashton underlined.

The victim, in his 40s, died in hospital after an assault close to

McDonald's on Warrington Street on Wednesday night. The boys cannot be

named for legal reasons and will appear at the Magistrates Court

later today. Opposition MPs have called

for a complete overhaul of the honours system

after an apparent leak of David It's said to include two major

Tory Party donors and more than 20 staff at Downing Street as well as

Samantha Cameron's stylist, A rogue trader jailed in 2012

for Britain's biggest banking fraud has said staff are under pressure

to make profits no matter what. Kweku Adoboli, who lost

?1.5 billion while working for the Swiss bank, UBS,

also said the type of crimes that Where the conflict comes

is where people fall So I think it could absolutely

happen again especially as we go into what could possibly be

the next phase of the great financial crisis over the next

12, 18 to 24 months. Thousands of pots of yoghurt have

been removed from supermarket shelves because of concerns they may

contain pieces of rubber. The Yeo Valley Company,

which supplies Asda, the Co-op, Sainsburys, Tesco

and Waitrose, says the yoghurts, including some supermarket own

brands, could pose a health risk. Customers have been asked to check

any recently-bought products against a full list

of affected brands on the Food The mother-in-law of the Formula One

boss, Bernie Ecclestone, has been rescued by police in Brazil

after being kidnapped in Sao Paulo. Aparecida Shunck was kidnapped

from her home more than a week ago. Her abductors demanded

a $36 million ransom. According to police,

67-year-old Aparecida Shunck was freed after being traced

to a farmhouse near the city of Sao Paulo after investigators

monitored phone calls At least two men were

arrested in the operation. Mrs Shunck's daughter,

Fabiana Flosi, is married to the 85-year-old chief executive

of Formula One motorsport, And the criminals who abducted her

ten days ago are reported to have demanded a ransom of ?28 million

for her release. The BBC understands that

Mr Ecclestone had wanted to come to Brazil to help in

the investigation and had even offered the services of a private

security company to deal But Brazilian police told

the billionaire racing boss that his presence in Brazil might be

counter-productive and advised him Such a relatively peaceful ending

to a kidnapping with no money being paid is a rare,

successful outcome for what used Wealthy families often pay

all or part of a ransom to free captives, fearing if they don't

the situation could end in tragedy. The mother of an American Muslim

soldier who was killed in Iraq has hit back at Donald Trump

saying he doesn't know Ghazala Khan spoke out

after the presidential candidate suggested she wasn't allowed

to have anything to say, after she stood in silence next

to her husband while he made a speech at the Democratic

Party Convention. Mrs Khan said her husband had

asked her if she wanted to speak I was very upset when I heard that I

didn't say anything. I was in the brain. You fight or you don't say

anything. I am not a fighter. I cannot fight.

A hotel used by foreign contractors near the Afghan capital, Kabul,

A truck bomb exploded near the entrance of the Northgate Hotel.

Police confirmed that one officer was killed as well as

The explosion could be heard several miles away and knocked out

An Australian family living in the Scottish Highlands face

deportation from tonight, despite a high profile campaign

Kathryn Brain arrived with her husband and young son

on a student visa five years ago, but a change in immigration rules

Meet the Brain family: Kathryn, her husband, Gregg,

and their seven-year-old son, Lachlan.

In 2011, they moved here when she was granted a student visa

and they were also accepted onto a Home Office scheme

to encourage professionals to move to the sparsely populated Highlands.

The Brains made their home in Dingwall, a town of around 5500

Their son attended the local school and now speaks Gaelic

But things started going wrong when the Home Office scrapped

that settlement scheme - it meant Mrs Brain had to find

a job, and not just any job, it had to satisfy

Despite extensive media coverage, a high-profile campaign

by their local MP, and a meeting with Scotland's First

Minister Nicola Sturgeon, that work did not materialise.

A local distillery did offer her a job but that fell

through over confusion about whether it fulfilled

The government has twice extended their deadline in an effort

to help the family but now the Home Office says all visa

applications are considered on their individual merits

and applicants must meet the requirements of

Now, unless Mrs Brain can find a job before midnight, they will be

classed as illegal immigrants and expected to make plans to leave

Joanna will be speaking to the Brain family just after 9.30.

Dramatic footage has emerged from the United States of bystanders

forming a human chain to rescue a woman whose car was swept away

The incident happened during flash flooding in the state of Maryland.

As well as sweeping away cars, the storm damaged homes

Officials confirmed two people died during Saturday night's storms.

That is a summary of the latest BBC News. More at 9:30am. Thank you.

Those pictures are incredible. Still to come we will be

hearing how Pokemon Go, is transforming the lives

of autistic youngsters. We talk to people in the besieged

Syrian city of Aleppo where a number of hospitals were reportedly hit

in bombings over the weekend, Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE

and if you text, you will be charged Now the sport. It is just four days

until the Olympics and I am joined by Sally Gunnell who won gold in the

hurdles and Colin Jackson who won silver. Incredible to think that we

are talking about the next Olympics when London seems like yesterday! .

How excited are we? I think we are very excited. It will be very

different compared to 2012. It does feel different. Once the games start

and we have the opening ceremony in four days, and the Games kick in and

we see the medallists and the stories behind everybody, that buzz

and excitement of the Olympics will be here. And that is what we need.

It seems we go into every Olympics with delays over stadiums, problems,

and Brazil has been no different and of course we have got to talk about

the doping crisis. It is affecting the Olympics of course. Yes, and it

is frustrating for everyone involved, from the IOC to the fans

themselves. It is really irritating that this story keeps rearing its

ugly head. Now it is a real moment for us. It is a huge change in the

way that we will think of sport and the way that we come down hard on

drug abuse in sport. When nations are getting completely pulled out of

it, certainly in athletics for example, there will be no athletes

competing at the Olympic Games, because it has been very clear that

there has been doping at a high level, and it is really important

that we start to see these real movements in getting rid of dirty

athletes. What have you made of the IOC's decision not to issue a

blanket ban on Russian athletes? I was quite shocked. I wanted to see

that. I thought we had a chance of cleaning up sport and it was a

strong message so I was shocked. Now they are going back to having a

panel. We are days away and there will be athletes out there already.

Will they stay? Will they be pulled out? It is really confusing. That is

why I am quite proud of what the iaaf have done, putting a blanket

over the sport. They are saying let's move on. Let's move on and

talk about Team GB. They have been set a target of 48 medals at the

Olympics, which would be better than what they managed in Beijing. A

realistic target? I think so, I really think so. I don't think they

have oversold anything. I have looked at it. We were targeted in

athletics between seven and nine medals, and I think we can get past

that, which would be fantastic. That is a fair assessment of what Team GB

can achieve. We know about Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford,

the super Saturday of the last Olympics, but what about the

athletes people do not know about? We have got to talk about Lauren

Miller, who broke Kelly Holmes's 1500 metres record recently. She has

a real chance of getting a medal. A great athlete and very talented. And

the relay teams. The girls have a new British record in the 4x100

metres, and the men as well, so a real chance, and we have Katarina

Johnson-Thompson, who might give Jess a good challenge, and Stena

Asha Smith and Adam Gemili. Youngsters who might get a real

chance this year and then the World Championships and then the Olympics

in four years. The World Championships are coming to London

in 2017, which is partly why you are here today. If we have more problems

and doping problems, overshadowing the Olympics, do you think Russia

should compete at the World Championships? We will be

scrutinising them very carefully and they will not be let back in just

because. We are under pressure to deliver fairness across the board so

the athletes can get on that line in the hope and desire that it is only

down to my hard work and natural ability that I get across the line

first. That will be paramount. For us, in London 2017, we are looking

forward to our team, the British athletics team, really shining. It

will be a mass missed opportunity for people who are sports fans to

seat sport at its very best in London yet again. -- a massive

opportunity. We hope they will of the Zika virus there -

that's according to Public Health The US State of Florida confirmed

the first cases that had been transmitted by local mosquitoes

there on Friday. Previous cases

were linked to women who'd caught Officials said the new cases all

came from a small area near Miami. Zika causes only a mild illness

in most people, but the virus has been linked to severe brain

defects in new born babies. We can chat now to Victoria Bacon

from the Association of British Travel Agents

and Dr Edward Wright, a virologist Tell us Edward what you think about

the guidance because they say the risk in Florida is moderate, but

women, if they're pregnant are adviced to consider postponing. It

is not definite that you shouldn't go? No. This is consistent with

previous advice that Public Health England have put out so far in this

outbreak. There is a growing body of evidence from scientific studies

showing that the Libbing between the Zika virus and neurological issues

in unborn babies or newborn babies is becoming more convincing. We have

data showing that if you take cells in a laboratory and infect it with

Zika it will cause damage to the cellsment there is case studies,

individual pregnant women who become infected with Zika virus who have

gone on to develop or the unborn babies developed microchefaly. We

have studies where they looked at a group of pregnant women in Brazil

and the current estimate is around 30% of pregnant women who become

infected with Zika virus will develop or their unborn babies will

develop some neurological issues. So what would your advice be to

somebody who is pregnant and has got a trip planned to Florida? They will

have to evaluate the sort of evidence and weigh up how they feel

personally about the risk. What would you say? Absolutely. This is

very much a personal decision. There is the advice out there as you said,

all non essential trips to Florida should be considered taking a

different or going to a different destination, but it is worth putting

this into connection. Context, within Florida there were 1600 cases

of Zika virus. This is the first time that we have seen a documented

evidence that the virus is transmitted from person to person

via the mosquito and it is only four cases limited a Square Mile within

Miami. It is very much a personal decision that people who have trips

planned have to weigh up the evidence that is provided by... It

is a horrible position to be in, isn't it? Absolutely. People like

definite advice when they are in this situation and they are feeling

vulnerable. What would you say to someone in your family? Given my

background and my work where I under stake experiments with dangerous

viruses, I limit risk as much as possible. I would advice on any

travel of people who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant to

areas where the virus is currently circulating. If somebody did decide

to cancel a trip, Victoria, what would happen? Would they get their

money back? The guidance says to consider changing plans. Most travel

providers are giving pregnant women the option to rebook to somewhere

else. Some of them are giving the option to cancel. I think one of the

important things with this is the Foreign Office advice refers to the

advice which is the health experts and they have put it at a moderate

risk rather than some areas which are high risk based on Falklands War

da's track record and controlling and containing illnesses and as we

have said, the cases that have happened have been in the southern

most tip of Florida. The... It is around Miami. If you are heading

elsewhere in Florida you can feel that you're safe or not? Well, the

mosquitos that transmit the virus from person to person are present

throughout Florida. However, there have been no other cases reported of

transmission via mosquito... But if it is in Miami, that prime territory

for where people go and there are lots of areas close by. You can't

guarantee... Orlando is the most popular destination which is a

couple hundred miles north of Miami. There is a slight distinction there,

yeah. It is important to note that there is a lot of work. They had a

bit of warning given the outbreak in Brazil started 18 months ago. So

countries where the mosquito is found have had time to prepare and

so they have been monitoring... Can what can they do to stop the spread

of the mosquitos? You can cover up. You can make sure, limit the chance

of being getting bitten using mosquito repellent and for the State

for areas where they are trying to control mosquito spread you can use

insect identity, there are other forms of genetic modified mosquitos

which can limit or reduce the number of mosquitos in that area. But the

actual programmes that are monitoring for Zika virus within

Florida and within our States haven't detected any Zika within

mosquitos they've trapped. There is again, this is another bit of

evidence that people need to consider when they are thinking

about whether their trip is non essential. You said Victoria, it is,

you know, everyone knows, a big travel hotspot for tourists from

here. Are you seeing many cancellations because of the Zika or

people just not choosing to go to certain areas because of Zika? No,

it is obviously very early days. This is for pregnant women. That's a

narrow minority of people who are going on holiday, but it is

important that people take that advice into consideration and

certainly have a conversation with their health provider and talk to

their GP about it and if they are concerned now that that advice is in

place they should I would recommend they get a medical certificate and

then talk to their travel provider will switching to an alternative

destination. It has been a fast learning process, hasn't it about

Zika. Tell us now what is known in terms of how it is transmitted, what

the risks are? So we have known about this virus or it was first

identified 70 years ago. That was in Africa. It hasn't really cropped up

on any public health body radar because it hasn't, the number of

cases, in a location hasn't really been seen and what we have now

documented... Why suddenly now? Well, over 80% or around 80% of

people will become infected, you won't know you have become infected,

but it just appears that, when the virus was identified in Africa it

moved across the Pacific islands and then was introduced into Brazil

around the end of 2014, the start of 2015. And for some reason, which we

are still sort of, there are studies still ongoing, it caused a spike in

the number of cases of microchefaly in newborn babies and then further

investigation showed that the number of Zika virus infections was also

increasing dramatically and the reason for this, we're not sure at

the moment. Hopefully answers will be forthcoming in the next few weeks

and months, but there is evidence in this that we gathered in the last

and months, but there is evidence in months that

and months, but there is evidence in showing the laboratory evidence case

studies, cohort studies where you look at groups of people, that the

link between the Zika virus infection and neurological issues in

unborn or newborn babies is there. But it is not just pregnant women

that need to be cautious. We do know that the virus is transmitted via

mosquito. However, there is again a growing number of cases reported of

sexual transmission both in male to female, but recently last week of a

female to male transmission. I think the current advice is to abide in

safe sexual practise for six months just to make sure that any chance of

transmission is really limited. OK, it is an evolving picture. Jay

tweeted, "Just back from Miami. The authorities were reluctant to admit

Zika presence. It was all over the news." Thank you for that.

Paul Cosford, the Medical Director at Public Health England gave us

a statement about their decision, saying, "This is not an unexpected

development as we know the Aedes aegypti mosquito,

which is known to carry Zika virus, is present in Florida.

The risk in Florida is considered moderate based on the number

and spread of cases and their demonstrated ability

to implement effective control measures for similar

diseases such as dengue, a virus transmitted by the same

mosquito..Pregnant women are advised to consider postponing non-essential

Advice to all travellers remains to avoid mosquito bites."

Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of running an old boys

network after it emerged that he is planning to reward

Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of running an old boys

many of his closest Downing Street staff and Tory Party donors

with honours following his resignation.

A list of the people he is intending to give honours to was leaked

They include press advisers and prominent members of the failed

Eleanor Garnier joins us. Tell us more about who is getting what?

Well, this list has been leaked to the Sunday Times. We don't know

these are the actual names that will get the rewards and honours. I guess

a little bit of context too. Prime Ministers when they resign, when

they leave Downing Street, do get this gift if you like. They are

allowed to award honours who whom they choose. Tony Blair and Gordon

Brown didn't have resignation honours list. John Major was the

last Prime Minister to do so. I think they always caught criticism

-- court criticism or controversy wherever there are honours being

bestowed, we always hear cries of cronyism. There is more criticism

this time around because remember when David Cameron was Tory leader,

he hasn't yet become Prime Minister, he talked then of bringing in a new

kind of politics. He said he was going to reverse what he saw as the

erosion of public confidence in politics and it is those sentiments

that are now being criticised for being hollow with this very long

list, leaked list, of these potential names that ranges from

Remain campaigners, party donors, Cabinet Ministers, but then a huge

swathe of people from inside Downing Street from press advisors and aides

to Samantha Cameron's aide who was a stylist some have said and that's

prompted the criticism, we have heard from Labour, from the deputy

leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, saying it is like an old

boys club, even a Tory MP, said it stinks of cronyism. There has been

plenty of criticism. Has there been any response from

David Cameron or anybody else within the Tory Party? Well, unsurprisingly

we haven't had a response from David Cameron. The Cabinet Office, which

is involved in the sort of technical side of how these honours are

vetted, it said it won't comment on leaked documents. What happens is

the Prime Minister draws up the list. It then gets sent out to

different honours committees which vet the name on the list. There is a

committee for arts and media, one for the economy, for example, and

once the committees have looked at the names, it gets sent back to the

Prime Minister who then sends it on to the Queen. He makes his

recommendations to the Queen who then formalises the list if you

like. There has been suspicion that there has been a hold-up, we would

have expected the honours list sooner than we have had it, but now

the idea is that perhaps we will get it next month.

Eleanor, thank you very much. Still to come: An Australian family

living in the Scottish Highlands is facing deportation from tonight,

despite a high profile campaign And how the mobile phone app

Pokemon Go is providing vital help We will be talking to players

and parents about how the game has Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. People diagnosed with cancer are now

twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years

as they were at the A report from the charity

Macmillan Cancer Support says better treatments

and speedier diagnoses have led But it warns thousands of people

struggle with the physical, emotional and financial effects

for many years afterwards. Four teenage boys have been charged

with murder after the death of a man The victim, in his 40s,

died in hospital after the assault close to a McDonald's

in Warrington Street The boys, who cannot be named

for legal reasons, will appear at Oldham Magistrates'

Court later today. Opposition MPs are calling

for a complete overhaul of the honours system

after a newspaper published what it said were leaked

details of David Cameron's It includes two major

Conservative Party donors, more than 20 staff at

Downing Street, and an adviser described in newspaper reports

as Samantha Cameron's stylist. Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson,

said the list was an example Thousands of pots of yoghurt have

been removed from supermarket shelves because of concerns they may

contain pieces of rubber. The Yeo Valley Company,

which supplies Asda, the Co-op, Sainsburys, Tesco

and Waitrose, says the yoghurts, including some supermarket own

brands, could pose a health risk. Customers have been asked to check

any recently-bought products against a full list

of affected brands on the Food A rogue trader jailed in 2012

for Britain's biggest banking fraud has said trading staff

are under pressure to make Kweku Adoboli, who lost

?1.5 billion while working for the Swiss bank, UBS,

also said the type of crimes that An investigation is under way after

firefighters were called to rescue 19 people including children at a

fairground ride at the Southbank Centre in London. It happened

yesterday evening when the right got stuck 20 metres in the F. There were

no reports of injuries and it remains closed.

Here's some sport now with John Watson.

For the first time in five years there have been first-time winners

Jimmy Walker won the US PGA yesterday.

His victory at Baltusrol follows Danny Willett's Masters win

in April, American Dustin Johnson who took the US Open in June,

and Henrik Stenson who won the Open two weeks ago.

Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn held on to win the Women's

She won by three shots on 16 under par.

Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix to extend his lead to 19 points

in the drivers' standings over team mate Nico Rosberg who could

With four days to go until the start of the Olympic Games in Rio,

there's more confusion over the involvement

of Russian competitors, after the IOC announced a three man

panel will have the final say on whether they can compete

after initially telling the international federations

And just a week after winning his third Tour De France title,

Britain's Chris Froome was back in the saddle

yesterday taking part in the Ride London

No victory this time though, as the event was won

Great shots. That is all the sport and I will have more for you later.

Thank you. Some of you are sending is comments about former Prime

Minister David Cameron's resignation honours list. This list always

contain people close to the outgoing Prime Minister, but what, locates

this is Brexit. Michael Gove would have been on the list if he and

David Cameron had not fallen out. Perhaps the problem is having these

lists. And David has emailed, saying the awards should go to heroes who

say people and animals not David Cameron's right-hand men. Thank you

for your comments on what we are talking about this morning.

An Australian family living in the Highlands of Scotland have

until midnight tonight to find a job which meets their visa requirements

Kathryn and Gregg Brain moved to Scotland on Mrs Brain's student

visa in 2011 but the terms of their stay were later changed.

The couple have been searching for the kind of job that will allow

them and their seven-year-old son Lachlan to remain here,

We spoke to them exclusively on this programme last May

and this is what they had to say about the way they had been treated

If I can quote James Brokenshire's letter, one of the letters he wrote

to us, he said that, "Applicants should

never assume that the provisions in place at the time

of their initial entry into the UK will continue to be viable

He seems to be saying that the UK Government's stated position

is to be untrustworthy in their dealing with immigrants.

We were promised a tier two work visa when we applied for a visa

in 2010, and when it was granted, which was the year before

the change to the visa regime was even announced.

At that point we had to have some ?15,000 or ?20,000 maintenance fund

sitting in an account for 90 days, so that will give you some level

Again, all we are asking for is for the UK Government...

This is a country which prides itself as being the birthplace

You would think that in dealing with the UK Government,

you would have the right to assume that you would be dealt

Mr Brokenshire's quote seems to suggest that that is an unwise

Hopefully, we are mistaken, and he's a better man than that.

He has the opportunity to demonstrate that we can

trust the UK Government to deal with us honestly.

That was the family in May. Let's talk to them now. Thank you for

joining us. Your visa expires at midnight

tonight. Is it just a case of watching the clock ticked down? We

are very much hoping that an employer will come forward and

picked up the ball where the previous one has dropped it. That

would be a game changer for us. The new Immigration Minister has been

very approachable and solution oriented and he said he would help

us if we can get an employer, in terms of getting the paperwork

sorted, so we hope that will happen today. That would be a game changer

for us. What have you been doing to try to sort yourself out? You have

had temporary reprieve is that the deadline has been put back to enable

you to have some time to get a job so that you can stay. Yes, in fact

we have been extraordinarily unlucky. We actually achieved the

goal of having that job twice now. Kathryn had a job at a law firm in

Dingwall, and due to a tragic change in the employer's health, she was

physically unable to continue with the process, and then in May a

distillery publicly promised Kathryn a historian position, which was the

basis on which James Brokenshire Iyer, that then Immigration

Minister, allowed as an extension to get the paperwork sorted, and then

we only had recently that the distillery could not go ahead with

giving Kathryn that position and then we only had two weeks to hit

the target again. So how long have you not been working for? Since

mid-March when the Home Office revoked our right to work. We both

had to quit our jobs with no notice, and unfortunately that was with

small employers of less than ten employees, so it impacted

significantly on them as well as ours. How have you been getting by

without working and with no income? Through the generosity of our

community and our church family. It has purely been through charitable

donations. We have been overwhelmed by the community support that we

have had. We are currently living under the fourth roof in as many

months, kindly donated by one of the church family. We are house-sitting

for a friend. The charitable donations have been putting meals on

the table each night. In fact we have had strangers posting checks to

our MP's office, asking to forward them on, so if we can use this

platform now to say thank you to everyone who has supported us

because without it we would not be here now. Sorry, I was just going to

say that not everybody is aware of the ins and outs of your case, and

it is complicated. Just explain briefly, if you can, your right to

work was revoked, but now the Home Office has given you time to get

jobs so that you can stay. How does that work? What sort of jobs would

you need in order to be able to stay? OK, well, I actually have a

job offer with a local construction firm, Springfield, which they are

keeping open at this point, but they have got to review that as their

operational demands require. That would not qualify for a visa. It

would have to be Kathryn getting a job at a degree level, which would

almost certainly involve her Scottish history and archaeology

qualifications, and that is what we are looking for now, but we would

still not be allowed to work until the Home Office grants the visa. We

both have highly valued skills, it is just that unfortunately the list

of positions that the Home Office have have everything from belly

dancer do historian curator, so it is an odd list of jobs that you have

to fulfil to get this work visa. You are smiling but how are you feeling

about this because the deadline expires tonight? Would that mean you

have got to get on an aeroplane tomorrow? How does it work? Well,

that is the essence of it. We have until tonight to put in an

application otherwise the leave to remain that we have expires. At this

point I am still hopeful that Robert Goodwill, the current Immigration

Minister, will see sense and give us what was promised six years ago,

eight level two work visa, and last night we heard that giving that visa

was not available to the Immigration Minister as an option, but we heard

late last night that the immigration department has reintroduced

post-study work visas for some English universities, which given

what we have been going through over the last weeks and months seems to

be adding insult to injury. Sorry, Kathryn. You are asking for an

exemption from the rules that are in place for everybody else, aren't

you? What we are asking for is for what was promised to us when we

committed to coming here and we sold our house, and just about everything

we owned, and brought the rest of it over here by Fred. We were promised

that if you study for three or four years, there would be this work visa

and we had to plan years ahead to achieve that. For the UK Government

to retroactively cancel that after we had committed to it, we think is

a breach of natural justice. We have lived up to our end of the bargain

and we are just asking UK Government to do the same. There have been

hundreds of other students who have quietly accepted this gone home, and

with respect that does not make it more right. Kathryn will happily

tell you I am probably the most stubborn person she knows! We're not

giving up and we just want what was promised to us. We are not asking

for exemptions and special treatment. This treatment should be

given to anybody by an honest and ethical trade. If a business had

treated somebody like this, the government would come down on them

and suggest we call the fraud squad, but because it is the government, we

have no one to turn to. Are you angry? Disappointed, frustrated. We

are angry. We don't see this as a party political or nationalistic

issue. It is just an issue where bureaucracy has made a decision

where any immigration policy should be to determine whether they can

come in if they are a net asset to the national interest. I suggest

that a professional couple who have contributed hundreds of thousands of

pounds to the economy and paid ?40,000 in taxes and are willing to

live in a comparatively sparsely populated and economically depressed

area, would be of interest to the nation. A policy that decides to

remove us despite being that asset may have been done in accordance

with policy, but I would argue whether that has occurred. But it

would be against the intent of that policy and all we are asking for is

for what we were promised to be given to us. You have explored all

the avenues up to this point to try to be allowed to stay. You have your

little boy. You could go back to Australia. What would it mean if you

did that? Have you got family there and can you go and start all over

again? Well, it would be starting all over again. We would be starting

from less than zero. I understand there are lots of countries in the

world which would be much more difficult to return to that

Australia. It is not that we don't love the place. But we will be

returning homeless, jobless and significantly in debt. If the Home

Office send us a letter the day we arrived in Australia saying all is

forgiven and here is your freezer, we would be ten years working hard

to pay off the debt that we now know, in terms of the tens of

thousands of pounds we have invested in dealings with the Home Office,

before we could even consider being able to return. And our son, who has

had no formal education in English, he does read and write in English

because we have taught him at home, he would be returning to Australia

at the end of primary three, having just finished primary two here,

having a two year deficit in his formal English education. James

Brockenshire, the former minister said this would pose no difficulty

for him, but I point out the disparity between that statement and

the fact you would have the full weight of the law brought on you if

you kept your son out of school for two weeks. We have an email here. My

heart goes out to this family and it seems unfair to treat them as they

retrospectively, but anyone who has tried to stay in Australia will know

that their government will get you out at the drop of a hat so it is

not confined to the UK. Things need to be fairer across the board. This

country is part of the Commonwealth and they should be allowed to stay.

Coming up, would you donate your brain to be used

We will be finding out what happens in a brain bank,

and how they are increasing our understanding of

A mobile phone game that has caught the attention of the world

also appears to have caused a breakthrough with

Pokemon Go, released in the UK earlier this month,

is played by users walking around the real world to catch virtual

It appears the game's mix of real and virtual reality has helped

to break down many of the social barriers autistic people feel

In a moment we'll hear from one mum and her son.

They came to London yesterday to prepare for our programme.

Rachel's son Lewis was afraid of crowds but because of the game,

he spent part of yesterday in Trafalgar Square.

But first, this programme has been to meet Jan and her son Adam,

who too has been affected by playing the game.

He has been engrossed and obsessed with Minecraft now

Literally living and breathing it.

He has gone from hardly leaving the house other than to go

to college into wanting to go out every night.

When he first said he wanted to come out, I thought we will see how it

goes and when three hours later we were still out, I was just

He spent two years pretty much out of school because he was either

going in and being sent home because he had a bad anxiety attack

to the point he was doubled up on the floor in pain

with his stomach and then he'd spend days wrapped in a sleeping bag.

Just, every time you would try and take him out,

Normally we wouldn't even have lasted two minutes,

we would've had to leave straightaway because he would have

starting ticking and feeling sick and his stomach would start hurting.

Just being around people that were a bit noisy

He wouldn't have coped and we would have had

He waved and he nodded his head a few times

What are you going to do?

It is helping reinstate that mum and son bond because I've spent

I've not seen him this relaxed and happy in a public

He's relaxed, you know, he's smiling.

He's not ticking and it's just so nice.

It's like I've got a bit of my son back.

He's made more progress than we've seen in the last four years.

Obviously it's small steps of progress, but what he has made

to us as a family has been immense and made a huge difference

to Adam's quality of life, which currently, pre-Pokemon,

it wasn't the greatest life he was living.

Shut up in his bedroom, locking himself away

If anyone told me six months ago that a simple game like this

would get him out of the house I would have laughed

at them and said no, not a chance.

I never in a million years thought this would happen.

Do you like being outside at the moment?

Are we coming out tomorrow night as well?

Let's now speak to Rachel and her son Lewis.

It's his first visit to London and Rachel reckons he would

never have come, had it not been for the game.

Also with us is Sarah Lamber, she's the head of policy

Thank you for coming in. I think you have been playing it right now in

the studio. Are there any Pokemon in here? No. You have been out on the

hunt around London. Have you found many in London? Yeah. Yeah. And this

is the first time you have been to London? Yeah. Apart from when I was

seven. OK. Did you want to come because it meant you could come and

do some Pokemon hunting before, would you have wanted to come to a

city? No. Why not? It is too crowded. Everybody is everywhere.

You can't get away from anybody because you don't know your

surroundings. So you're walking around looking for the Pokemon and

you feel like that? That means that you don't have to be aware of what's

going on around you? Yeah. How does that, does that make it feel better

for you? Yeah. Rachel, coming to London, with Lewis, is that

something you would have thought before he started playing Pokemon

Go, you would have been able to do? Not at all. We walked miles

yesterday. We came on the train. That's another big step and he was

hoping to catch solicitor, but the train was going quite fast, it was a

bit difficult catching them on the train. As soon as we got to London,

when we came out of Euston Station there was loads and his face lit up.

We went to the hotel in the cab and from there to Buckingham Palace and

we went and saw all the way around London we walked through the day.

What's the difference you have seen in Lewis salt of this? Massive, he

wants to go out and walk. He wants to be outside. Before, he would be

in the house wanting to be on his game station and playing and locking

himself away in his room. Now he is asking to go for walks and our poor

dogs are tired! Because they've never walked so far! We go every

evening arwalk. We're doing three times a week into town. It is

helping me lose weight and it is helping Lewis' fitness, but it is

helping him with his self he is seem, it is not just autistic of

children that play it, it is a wide variety of childrenment when he is

out, he can see everyone is playing it and he feels part of that group.

We saw that Jan was quite emotional about the change in her son. Do you

feel like that? Definitely. Definitely. It is differ when you

have got a child with autism, he finds it difficult to distinguish

school and home. At home he won't from friends around. He will go the

hole summer without seeing other children other than his brother

throughout the summer. But with this, now this app has come, we are

walking. We're going out every day and he is meeting other people and

talking. Adults will talk to him and go, "What are you doing there?" I'm

catching, I don't know the names of the Pokemon, this Pokemon and that

Pokemon and he is showing them and he is interacting. Before if someone

talked to him, he would hold on to my arm and cower away. Do you feel

happier now that you've got Pokemon Go? Yeah. In what way? You are

actually getting fresh air and you're not stuck in a stuffy room in

bed all day. Can you emergency going back to being like that? No. Sarah,

you work with lots of kids with autism and families, and have

dealings with them. Are you finding lots of kids are finding the same

thing? Yeah, since the game was released a couple of weeks, we have

been hearing from lots and lots of families. They are able to go out

and it is helping them with travel, lots of children with autism have

anxieties with travelling, but if they have got the game with them,

they have got something else to concentrate on and work with. It has

been transformational for lots of families. Lewis saying, "He can't

imagine going back to what was like before, being in the house." Do you

think it was a lasting change, and impact on a child where it has got

them out of the house? We don't know exactly what impact it will have in

the long-term and playing the game and meaning that you're going out

and about, doesn't necessarily mean that people will be able to transfer

that to other situations, but it is having a positive impact at the

moment and with other games as well, for example, Minecraft is another

game which children with autism and other young people are playing and

that helped with being used within schools, within our own schools at

the National Autistic Society we have been using Minecraft within

classrooms because if you use someone's special interest you can

get them interested in other things. With Pokemon Go it is getting people

outside? It is getting them out into the community and doing things that

they wouldn't have done before. Really using these kinds of

technology can really make a massive impact.

Lewis, are you getting new friends because of this? Yeah.

So you are really getting something out of it. Do you feel differently

about yourself now? Do you feel better? Yeah. I feel a lot better.

Mum, Rachel, you said it is for the whole family are getting exercise. A

lot of time, it is a fad, for this is so much more than that? It has

got him out. I'm hoping if it is a fad and it ends, it what got us out.

That will be the routine and we can make that part of our routine. A lot

with autism is building a routine. If he goes out walking three times a

week, if that becomes part of his routine, it is something we can put

on his planner and put that we're doing and it doesn't become a chore

because that's what we do. It is the norm. As before the norm was staying

in your bedroom, isolating yourself from the world, the norm now is

going out and catching Pokemon and being social. And it is that social

aspect that I want to build on with him. That's great. Lovely, thank you

very much for coming. Where are you going to go Pokemon hunting now?

We're going back to Euston and we will walk back from the train

station to our house from there. Lovely to see you all. Thank you

very much, thank you. Coming up, we talk to the bobsledder

who has just become the third fastest British sprinter

of all time, but isn't Let's get the latest weather

update with Alex Deakin. We are going to see wLet moving

across southern portions of the UK. Some places will see more rain today

than they saw throughout the entirety of July because July was a

remarkably dry month especially across the south. You can see here

this map showing the colours where it is drier than others. Further

north are the bluer colours where it was wetter than average.

This map actually the opposite of what we saw during June when

southern areas particularly across the South East were especially wet.

Much wetter than average of the it was drier across the north-west of

Scotland. Now, across the western half of Scotland, it is fine here

today. Our Weather Watchers have been sending in pictures throughout

the morning and it is a Bank Holiday in Scotland today.

Another area seeing fine weather today is Yorkshire and it is

Yorkshire Day today. Plenty of sunshine on offer across Yorkshire.

A beautiful image sent in here of nearby Bradford with the blue skies

early on. Further south, however, well the weather is definitely on

the change. Cloud arriving from the Atlantic. This mass of cloud is an

area of low pressure. It will spread that wet weather I talked about

across the south, particularly Wales and south-west England. The weather

fronts extending and extending towards the UK, gradually throughout

the day today bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain. Bringing some

more warm and humid air too. The rain already into parts of Pembroke

share and Cornwall, continuing to drift through Wales and south-west

England and we will see some of that rain arriving across the Midlands

too. To end the day across the South East. Further north, plenty of sunny

spells. Quite a bit of cloud across the far north, elsewhere, we will

see sunny spells. The threat of a little bit of rain trickling to the

far south of Northern Ireland. East Anglia dry for most of the day, but

the rain will arrive during the eveningment for the afternoon it is

soing yr in South Wales and south-west England. The breeze

picking up. Temperatures really struggling.

As we go overnight, the temperatures won'ting falling because the cloud

and the rain will shift its way further eastwards of the it is a

damp night across the south. A warm and humid night here. Much warmer

than last night with temperatures staying in the mid to high teens.

Drier further north with clearer skies. It will be cooler once more.

Into tomorrow, it is a north/south split. Cloud and outbreaks of rain

across the south. Dry initially further north, but patchy rain for

Northern Ireland and Northern England, sunny spells in Scotland

and in the south, where it brightens up, it will feel warm and humid with

temperatures over 20 Celsius. Bye for now.

Hello it's Monday, it's 10 o'clock I'm Joanna Gosling, in for Victoria,

welcome to the programme if you've just joined

A leading British surgeon, David Nott, tells us of his fears

for the last remaining doctors in the besieged Syrian city

of Aleppo after he lost contact with medics following the bombing

of a series of hospitals over the weekend.

Would you ever consider donating your brain to be used

We will be finding what happens in a brain bank, and how

they are increasing our understanding of conditions such

And we talk to the bobsledder who has just become the third

fastest British sprinter of all time - but isn't

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

People diagnosed with cancer in the UK are almost twice as likely

to survive for at least ten years than they were in the 1970s.

Macmillan Cancer Support says an extraordinary number of people

are still alive decades after being diagnosed.

But it warns thousands of people struggle with the physical,

emotional and financial effects for many years afterwards.

The other form of treatment is known as chemotherapy...

Back then there were fewer drugs and ways of spotting the disease.

But the charity Macmillan Cancer Support says remarkably thousands

of people diagnosed decades ago are still alive today.

And with better treatment and quicker diagnosis,

It estimates people are now twice as likely to live at least another

ten years after being diagnosed with cancer as they were at

More than 170,000 people in the UK diagnosed with cancer in the '70s

But many are facing poor health or disability from their treatment.

I get swollen fingers, swollen feet, ankles.

I ended up with a bad credit record because I was not able

to keep up payments on my credit cards when I was out of work.

Cancer may no longer be life ending but it is life changing,

with thousands living with the side effects of therapy,

the psychological impact and financial worries

To keep up, Macmillan says it has expanded to even include benefits

It says NHS services need to grow too to make sure people surviving

cancer live not just long but healthy lives.

A 12 year old boy and three other teenagers have been charged

with murder after the death of a man in Ashton-under-Lyne.

The victim, in his 40s, died in hospital after being assaulted

close to a McDonald's in the town centre on Wednesday night.

The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons,

will appear at Oldham Magistrates Court later today.

Opposition MPs are calling for a complete overhaul

of the honours system after a newspaper published

what it said were leaked details of David Cameron's

It includes two major Conservative Party donors,

more than 20 staff at Downing Street, and an adviser

described in newspaper reports as Samantha Cameron's stylist.

Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, said the list was an example

A rogue trader jailed in 2012 for Britain's biggest banking fraud

has said trading staff are under pressure to make

Kweku Adoboli, who lost ?1.5 billion while working

for the Swiss bank, UBS, also said the type of crimes that

Thousands of pots of yoghurt have been removed from supermarket

shelves because of concerns they may contain pieces of rubber.

The Yeo Valley Company, which supplies Asda,

the Co-op, Sainsburys, Tesco and Waitrose, says the yoghurts,

including some supermarket own brands, could pose a health risk.

Customers have been asked to check any recently-bought products

against a full list of affected brands on the Food

An Australian family living in the Scottish Highlands face

deportation from tonight, despite a high profile campaign

Kathryn Brain arrived with her husband and young son

on a student visa five years ago, but a change in immigration rules

The Home Office says all visa applicants must meet

We were promised that if you study for three to four years,

there will be this two-year post study work visa and we had to plan

for years ahead to be able to achieve that.

For the UK government to then retroactively cancel that

after we committed to it is, we think, a breach

We lived up to our end of the bargain, all we're

asking is for the UK government to do the same.

An investigation is under ay after firefighters were called

to rescue 19 people, including children,

from a fairground ride at the Southbank Centre in central

It happened yesterday evening, when the Starflyer ride got stuck

There were no reports of injuries and the ride remains closed.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE and if you text, you will be charged

Lots of people getting in touch with the Pokemon Go story, the fact it is

helping children with autism getting out and about. This text says, my

little brother has built confidence and now wants to go out. And this

one, I love that Pokemon Go is helping people get out and be part

of the community. Pokemon Go has done the same for our son as well.

He only left the home to go to school and we have been to numerous

places in the last few weeks, I think because there is a point to

going out. Thank you for those. Now the sport. Thank you. More

uncertainty over Russia's involvement at the Olympic Games

after the IOC announced they will have the final say over the

involvement of the country both macro athletes in Rio. Last week the

International Olympic Committee said individual sports governing bodies

must judge who is clean, after claims of state-sponsored doping,

but now it says a newly convened panel will decide whether to accept

or reject that final proposal. At a news conference in Rio, we asked the

IOC President how damaging this uncertainty was for the Games. I

don't think in the end this will be damaging, because people will

realise that we have to take this decision now. Imagine the situation

if we would not have taken a decision, what then the limbo would

be. I trust the people that they realise the difficulties we are in.

Earlier I spoke to the former Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion

Sally Gunnell, who backed the IAAF's decision to issue a blanket ban on

all Russian athletes competing in the track and field events. Now they

are going back to having a panel. We are days away and there will be

athletes out there already. Will they be staying, will they be pulled

out? It is really confusing. I think that is why I am proud of what the

IAAF have done, putting that blanket over athletics. It allows us to have

a stance to say that we want clean sport. Let's all play on the same

playing field and move on and I think that is really important.

For the first time in five years there have been first-time winners

Jimmy Walker won the US PGA yesterday.

He finished on 14 under par, one shot ahead of Jason Day.

His victory at Baltusrol follows Danny Willett's Masters win

in April, American Dustin Johnson who took the US Open in June,

and Henrik Stenson who won the Open two weeks ago.

My emotions, you know, Jason pulling out in front of you doesn't give you

a whole lot of time to soak it in. It was still gametime. With a

birdie, I had a couple to play with and I could relax a bit but I didn't

get to relax. I just stood on the fairway and we said let's go for it.

I didn't say this, but I figure 19 times out of 20 you are going to

make a five and I had a good French number and that is what we did.

Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn held on to win the Women's is what we did.

She won by three shots on 16 under par.

Catriona Matthew from Scotland was the highest placed Briton.

Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix to extend his lead to 19 points

Nico Rosberg made a poor getaway, slipping to fourth place. Taking the

win has enabled him to extend his lead to 19 points over his

team-mate. We will have more sport later. Thank you.

The UN estimates there are 300,000 people trapped with dwindling

medical and food supplies in Aleppo. There is no way in or out. Russia

said last week it had opened four humanitarian corridors to allow

people to leave, but their safety has been called into doubt by many

living in the city who do not trust that they will be kept safe even if

they do leave. Dr David Nott is one of the UK's leading British surgeons

and has worked in Syria. He said he fears the worst for the last

remaining doctors in Aleppo after he lost contact with medics who he had

been in contact with regularly following the bombing of a number of

hospitals over the weekend. I spoke to him earlier.

I'm in contact with people most days, really, but I haven't heard

from my colleagues in Syria and Aleppo for about a week now.

I can't get through to their phones, their phones are down,

and so the only contacts I've had are through the union

They have come back to me yesterday, and I spoke to the chairman,

I tried to say I can't get through to anybody and he said,

well, in fact nine hospitals were targeted last week alone,

and that the hospital I was trying to contact was attacked yesterday.

It's an underground hospital in the centre of Aleppo

There is a possibility that there was a high

explosive attack directed onto that yesterday,

and he said to me that the information they've got is that

70% of the hospital has been damaged, and also 70%

of the people in there have been either killed or injured.

That's the information I'm getting constantly, all the time.

I'm usually in contact with four or five doctors every week,

We discuss cases, we discuss their management of cases.

And I've not been able to hear from any of them at all.

As you said, you have worked in these places.

Describe them for us, the sort of resources

they have, what it's like and what the set-up is.

I was in Aleppo for six weeks in 2013.

It was when there was probably around 1.5 million

There was a full-blown war going on at the time

but we had resources, we had access to roads,

we had access to lots of medical equipment and everything else.

So there wasn't a huge amount of needs required at that time.

There were lots of casualties, but we were able to cope

There were lots of beds, lots of ITU beds and so on and so forth.

But 2014 was completely different because the city was being barrell

bombed and targeted by air strikes constantly.

To the extent that when we were dealing with patients,

we were dealing with terrible wounds, terrible fragmentation

wounds, and people dying of dust inhalation and so on.

Although the number of hospitals were still going at that time,

it didn't appear to me that there was anything too bad,

because we were still able to function.

But a lot of the hospitals have been targeted with barrel bombs,

so they made them underground hospitals.

So we were working in two underground hospitals at the time.

Those facilities at the time, we had intensive care unit

beds to put our patients into who were severely injured,

and we had people who were able to look after them as well.

But the situation now is really intolerable and really unacceptable.

Because yesterday I heard that there are only 13 intensive

care unit beds for the whole of Aleppo, and that means

if the hospital yesterday was targeted, it's

The problem is as well if the road is closed out of Aleppo,

the Castello Road, nobody can come in and come out.

Usually we would transport patients off to Turkey,

but we now can't transport them either.

You said several times about hospitals being targeted.

Do you believe they are being deliberately targeted and doctors

I have tried to fly the flag that this is happening.

In fact, we ran a march in London in Trafalgar Square,

about 250 of us walked down to give a letter to the Prime Minister

to say that hospitals were being directly targeted.

It's something that is against international humanitarian law,

But it's quite interesting that in 2012, the Assad regime

actually passed a law to say that it was legitimate to target

hospitals, to target doctors, to target civilians.

In fact, to target anybody that wasn't involved positively

So they made it legal to actually bomb hospitals.

And I know for a fact these hospitals are being targeted.

Because if you take out a doctor, if you take out a health care

worker, you really take out the facilities to help

Their lives are going to get more miserable, they will think

It's psychological on top of medical warfare, basically.

S In 2013 you called for humanitarian corridors? I asked for

them to allow people in. The humanitarian corridors suggested by

the Syrian regime is only to let people out and not to let aid in. It

is not a humanitarian corridor. It is a corridor of pretence that I

have been saying. Why do you think people aren't taking the opportunity

to leave? Because those people have been there for five years and the

300,000 people that have been there for five years, they're not going to

want to suddenly decide OK, I trust the regime now. I'm going to go and

live in a refugee camp because they have been watching the television

and they know what's been going on. They know how devastating it is to

cross the Mediterranean. They see what is happening. They don't want

to leave their homes. Thet don't want to leave their families.

They're happy to stick it out and they will not leave. Over the

weekend, there are two dozen people that left by this humanitarian

corridor. The rest of the people will stay and they will stay.

If they stay, they are going to be starved. Nobody is going to be

allowed to get any aid in or any provisions in or any medical aid at

all. We are going to sit there watching our televisions and

drinking our coffee, watching the NewsWatching these people suffering.

The real problem is I have had so much links with Aleppo. I know the

city very well. I know the people very well. They are lovely people.

They are just civilians like you and me, but they have been terribly,

terribly harmed. Harmed by lack of aid from the western side for

example. They have been expecting people, in fact, the British people

have done wonderfully, fantastic because they have, through Syria

Relief and through the Syrian NGOs they have donated millions and

millions of pounds to help Syrian refugees. The problem is people like

myself and other doctors that have been there, training the doctors to

try and help their people which we've done, and that's not been in

vain, but the problem is that now if I understand from yesterday, that

somebody, one of the chairmen told me that perhaps there was only three

surgeons left in Aleppo and you know it seems a travesty of justice that

we can just sit by and watch this happening.

What should be done? Well, I think, you know, I have always called for

things in 2013. I called for, you know, humanitarian corridors to be

set-up and they said it is not going to happen, David. I can understand

that you know boots on the ground perhaps is not the right thing to

do, but there should be really high level negotiations now between our

new Prime Minister, should say OK, we can't sit here and watch our

televisions and watch this happening. There should be

negotiations perhaps with the Foreign Minister from the British

Foreign Minister, the American Foreign Minister, they should go to

President Putin and they should try the highest President Obama

Governmental tack to try and change what's happening. Just to show that,

you know, we can't sit by and let this happen, not let this happen

now. We said in 2000, in 1994 when Rwanda was happening, we will never

let this happen again. When we saw Srebrenica, we said that should

never happen again, tu it is happening and it is happening in

front of outside eyes and I just feel, you know, myself and people

like myself go on the radio and television and I cannot understand

why there is no action from the Government. I cannot understand.

You have been to all sorts of war zones, many war zones over the

years, how does this situation compare if you can look at it in

that way with what you have seen before and experienced before? Well,

I think, you know, I have been to many war zones and I dip in and I

dip out. In this war zone, I dipped in in 2012 and I got to know people

very well and back in 2013 and back in 2014, it is a different situation

completely because it is really a tragic situation. It is really

terrible because I got to know so many people. I have got to know the

doctors, the civilians. I treated so many people out there and it is just

I go backwards and forwards. I'm constantly on the telephone

listening to see what is happening. I'm con isn'tly getting reports back

from the doctors about how do I manage this patient David, how do I

manage that patient? Two or three times a week I'm giving them advice

and so on. So I'm really with them on this one. I'm really in there

with them and to see them suffering so badly and to see everybody

suffering so badly is really, really heartbreaking. These are doctors who

could have presumably chosen to leave, but they chose to stay and

obviously many lost their lives? I said in a report in 2014 that these

doctors will stay until they will die and I have a terrible suspicion,

you know, because I can't get through to them, perhaps they are

dying. You know, we've done our best for them. We've shown them how to

operate, we have shown them how to treat their terrible cases. We

really did well from Syria Relief which is the charity I work for, a

British charity, has done remarkably to try and send so much aid to help

everybody there. Remarkable and it just seems to be so, a real travesty

that this has gone so badly, badly wrong.

That was Dr David who spent large chunks of his life helping others in

other war zones including Syria. Let's speak to another guest.

Describe what the humanitarian corridors are like? Are they

humanitarian corridors? Can we consider displacing people from

their homes is a humanitarian thing? Of course, people could runaway from

Aleppo before besieging it, but they decided to stay because this is

their home. This is their land. They want to stay here. So how can they

say that please? Either you are going to die here or you have to

leave. This is not a humanitarian at all. Some people have to go out

because some people are sick. They have to get medicine. Here most of

the hospitals were targeted by the air strikes. So some people will

leave soon, but of course, this is not their choice because they have

to do this. Do you believe if people are leaving that it is safe to do

so? Could you tell what the, you know, the journey would be like

through that corridor? Of course, they said that they are safe

corridors, they are not safe at all because these corridors they claim

they are not safe. It is full of snipers and then these corridors

will take people to the regime controlled area so what will happen

to those people who are going to go there? Of course, people who are

here four or five years, how can they go to these areas? They will

not be treated well. We are sure, of course. Nevertheless for me for

example and most people that I know, we will not choose to leave this

land even if we die here. What is it like there? People are saying if you

stay, you will effectively starve to death because there is just not

enough food or anything else that's needed? Yes, that's true. If we

don't leave, we will die of hunger and of lack of medicine. We know

that, but this is our choice. We want our freedom. We will not go

back to slavery of Assad again. So we will fight. We'll strive until we

get our freedom, our rights to stay. Yesterday the revolt started, a

battle to get a road out and in of Aleppo and we hope that we can get

this road. What do you see on the streets in terms of rebel fighters,

Isis fighters. Describe what it is like. Sorry, I couldn't understand

you. You said Isis fighters? Yes. Here in Aleppo, we don't have Isis

fighters. Isis fighters are somewhere else. Helpfully we don't

have these fighters, the only fighters are the Free Army, those

people who, you know, asked for their freedom at first. Those people

who went in demonstrations. Those people are on the streets of Aleppo.

So describe what it is like on the streets there. The daily existence

for people living there. Of course, I think the situation is serious now

because of lack of food and medicine. Two days ago my friend's

uncle was targeted by a rocket from a plane. He was taken to hospital,

but the hospital was full so he was taken to another one, but again, no

one could help him. So after three hours his ankle died because no

other hospitals, most of the hospitals are seriously damaged. So

-- uncle. If we go into the market here, we will find nothing, of

course. Four months ago, we couldn't see vegetables or fruits at all. All

other supplies of food are almost empty. Nevertheless we hope that

things will change soon. And we see pictures of rubble, obviously, huge

amounts of destruction around. Do people go out and about? Sorry, can

you repeat your question? We are looking at pictures from Aleppo and

seeing, obviously a lot of buildings still standing, but lots destroyed

as well. Describe what it looks like and whether people do actually go

out and about and meet up with each other? . OK, of course. Here Aleppo,

it is destroyed. People are moving from one place to another in the

same area of, of course, for example my friend yesterday, his house was

targeted and he was, it was destroyed. So he had to move to

another house. People here are trying to help each other also with

this destruction, but we can hang to live. Thank you very much. Thank you

very much for joining us from Aleppo. Thank you.

Coming up, we will be talking about the fact that Bernie he can he will

stone's mother-in-law has been freed after being taken hostage in Brazil

and a ransom of ?25 million was demanded for her release. She is now

freed and whelk speaking to the man who has become Britain's third

fastest man. He isn't actually a sprinter though, he is a bob

sleigher. We will be talking to him about why it is not that he won't be

representing us at Rio. Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. People diagnosed with cancer are now

twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years

as they were at the A report from the charity

Macmillan Cancer Support says better treatments

and speedier diagnoses have led But it warns thousands of people

struggle with the physical, emotional and financial effects

for many years afterwards. A 12-year-old boy and three other

teenagers have been charged with murder after the death

of a man in Ashton-under-Lyne. The victim, in his 40s,

died in hospital after the assault close to a McDonald's

in Warrington Street The boys, who cannot be named

for legal reasons will appear at Oldham Magistrates'

Court later today. Opposition MPs are calling

for a complete overhaul of the honours system

after a newspaper published what it said were leaked

details of David Cameron's It includes two major

Conservative Party donors, more than 20 staff at

Downing Street, and an adviser described in newspaper reports

as Samantha Cameron's stylist. Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson,

said the list was an example An Australian family living

in the Scottish Highlands face deportation from tonight,

despite a high profile campaign Kathryn Brain arrived

with her husband and young son on a student visa five years ago,

but a change in immigration rules The Home Office says all visa

applicants must meet A rogue trader jailed in 2012

for Britain's biggest banking fraud has said trading staff

are under pressure to make Kweku Adoboli, who lost

?1.5 billion while working for the Swiss bank, UBS,

also said the type of crimes that An investigation is under way

after firefighters were called to rescue 19 people,

including children, from a fairground ride

at the Southbank Centre in central It happened yesterday evening

when the Starflyer ride got stuck There were no reports of injuries

and the ride remains closed. Join me for BBC Newsroom

Live at 11 o'clock. Thank you. Now the sport with John.

Thank you. Good morning again. With four days to go until the start

of the Olympic Games in Rio, there's more confusion over

the involvement of Russian competitors, after the IOC

announced a three man panel will have the final say

on whether they can compete after initially telling

the international federations For the first time in five years

there have been first-time winners Jimmy Walker won

the US PGA yesterday. His victory at Baltusrol follows

Danny Willett's Masters win in April, American Dustin Johnson

who took the US Open in June, and Henrik Stenson who won

the Open two weeks ago and Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn held

on to win the Women's She won by three shots

on 16 under par. Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand

Prix to extend his lead to 19 points in the drivers' standings over team

mate Nico Rosberg who could A moment to savour for Lewis

Hamilton. That is all the sport for now. Back to you. Thank you. Five

supermarkets have been told to take thousands of pots of yoghurt off

their shelves. The products are made by Yeo Valley but are mainly sold

with own brand labels. Joining us now is the Professor of

environmental health at the university of Salford. Thank you for

joining us. How do you know if you have bought one of the affected

products? The thing to do is to go on to the Food Standards Agency

website because there is a good list of all the products affected. If you

have got one, what should you do? Take it back to the supermarket and

they will give you a refund. Supermarkets also have point of sale

notices up telling people what to do if they have them. So

straightforward but a palaver, and some people may have eaten them

without knowing anything about it. What are the risks? Probably pretty

low. It is more the potential for joking, particularly for younger

children. It is very important that you don't eat one. It is quite

likely that it will pass out of the body and not cause any harm. How

does something like this happen? Do you know what it is? They think

there is rubber in the yoghurt is so how could something like that get

into a part of yoghurt? Occasionally you get contamination. The

manufacturing process has incredible controls to make sure this sort of

thing is avoided and usually that is very good. It appears in this

situation that it might be contamination from the fruit element

that was put into the yoghurt, which came from another supplier.

Obviously they have been let down in that respect. Sometimes things do go

wrong but with something like Robert it is more difficult to detect if it

falls in. There are metal detectors when it is metal, and much easier to

find out if there is metal in your food. Something like robber would go

through metal detection and it might only have been a couple of small

pieces that might have escaped from a broken piece of machinery.

Obviously a company does not want to take any risks, so when a recall

happens, how wide does it have to be and how wide is it in this case? In

this case, it is many products, and also anything that might have been

affected within a certain date period. The company has reacted very

properly and quickly to the situation. They have made sure that

they cover all the dates and products that might be affected. How

much would this cost the company? It could cost them thousands and even

millions, not just the recall yoghurt and destroyed yoghurt, but

people might be put off. From a customer point of view, I would say

this is reassurance really, that the system is working. Things have gone

wrong but they have been cleared up very quickly. There has been good

notification to the consumer to make sure that product recall. I am sure

there are good systems in place to make sure it will not happen again.

Thank you very much, Doctor Lisa Ackerley. The products affected are

on the Food Standards Agency website if you are concerned.

Thanks to the donation of human brains to science

there is an increasing understanding of conditions like dementia pointing

But the research requires a constant supply of brains

The Medical Research Council allowed the BBC to film some

of the work being done at the Bristol brain bank.

And just a warning, you will see a brain

so if you are squeamish you might want to make a cup of tea.

A brain bank is a collection of tissue that has been donated

We don't keep brains floating around in jars.

There's no disfigurement to the person.

We treat all of the tissue with a great level of respect.

We specialise in dementia but there are lots of other brain banks.

CJD brain bank, multiple sclerosis, sudden death brain bank.

We all have different research interests and different

We take the whole brain, we cut it down the middle.

Half of that issue goes into formalin, which

The other half, we dissect and freeze at minus 80 degrees.

The reason we need those two kinds of tissue is because they both have

very different uses in terms of the experiments and the science

that we can perform to look at those diseases.

The brain is such a complex organ, without having that tissue to study,

We don't have adequate models of the brain yet.

So in order to make progress and understand these

diseases like dementia, we have to look at real

Donated tissue can be used for years.

So brain donations from up to 30 years ago can still be used

We don't dispose of any of the tissue here.

And one brain donation can be used in literally hundreds of research

projects until the tissue is used up.

The best way to sign up is to go to the Medical Research Council

website, which lists all of the brain banks in the UK,

so you can figure out which brain bank is closest to you.

Or if you've been diagnosed with a particular disease,

which brain bank would be most suitable to receive your donation.

It's not good to specify things like brain donation in your will.

Wills are often read a number of days, sometimes even weeks

This means it can be too late for donation.

The brain and the tissue in the brain starts to degrade quite

quickly and may not be as useful for research.

One of the most important things we do is to achieve a diagnosis,

so for each donation, we examine it individually

and we find out whether there was anything wrong with that person.

Once we have that information, we feed it back to the

I think getting a diagnosis is extremely important

Particularly people whose relatives have suffered with dementia find

a sense of closure in knowing the final diagnosis.

The majority of people who donate, they very much want to make

a difference, particularly if they have suffered

from something themselves, or have seen a loved one.

It gives a positive note to death, I suppose.

Let's talk to Dr Tammaryn Lashley, a scientist researching dementia

at the Queen's Square brain bank in London, and Margaret Allan

who has recently decided to leave her brain to researchers

Thank you for coming in. Margaret, why have you decided to donate your

brain to research? I am part of a study that started in 1946 with a

cohort of children. They have been studied over the past 70 years of

their life at that study is still going on. Part of it looks that the

mental and physical development of children, and also their social

backgrounds and how that has affected how they have grown up. I

have been followed all that time and I have seen the results of some of

that research. It seems to me that when it came to bring donation, that

was the way to go, because I know that if people get involved in this

sort of thing, it can make a difference, as your last researchers

said. Have you found it fulfilling, knowing that your life has helped

other people? Very fulfilling and constructive as well. I have a

background in education and as a result of some of the research done

early on in my life, things like comprehensive schools were set up.

What they have discovered has affected social policy in this

country over the past 70 years. You obviously work in brain research.

How important is it that people like Margaret do this? It is vital. They

are leaving us their greatest gift, to study these diseases. I in

particular study dementia and without that gift, we could not

understand these diseases. We could look at the pathology, what has gone

wrong in the brain, and studied them over years. But any research

projects that we do, but the tissue can be distributed to other research

groups around the world, to try and find cures for these diseases. It is

not such an obvious area of organ donation that is talked about.

Transplant is talked about and that is something that people give a lot

of thought to. Perhaps this is not so much. I don't think it is talked

about a lot and they need to talk about it more. It is one of the

greatest gifts that people can leave to figure these diseases. People

think about organ donation more because you are helping the living

with organ donation. With brain donation, you are selflessly helping

people of future generations. We were hearing in that report that

there is a 72 hour limit on the brain needing to be donated after

death, and it therefore means that people have got to be upfront with

their families about their intentions. Have you spoken to your

family about this? Yes, I got the information when I was at the

medical Research Council event in London in November. I had time to

think about it and I read the information. I decided this was

something I was going to do, not a spur of the moment thing. I spoke to

my husband about it and my daughters. I actually emailed them

with an explanation of why I wanted to do it. I will not say they were

happy, that is not the right word, but they were very supportive,

because apart from anything else my father-in-law suffers from dementia,

so my daughters have seen their grandfather's personality taken away

by this dreadful illness. It was almost natural for me to want to do

something like this in any case. Tell us more about what happens with

somebody's brain when it has been donated and it ends up in the area

where you are working? What do you do? As soon as we can get the brain

after somebody has passed away, the better. As the video said, we have a

cut-off limit of 72 hours. If the body is refrigerated as soon as

possible, that preserves the brain tissue. Once it arrives with us at

the brain bank, it is cut in half and half is fixed and half frozen.

We use the fixed half to diagnose the brain first of all. So that is

immediate examination of it? No, it is fixed for three weeks to begin

with and then the neuropathologist will cut certain areas of the brain

that has been affected by different diseases, and then we examined the

sections under the microscope to give the brain a diagnosis, though

which disease they have died from. What they are diagnosed with during

life is not always the disease we see at postmortem. So why is it

that... Is it easy to diagnose when you have the brain that you just

can't do with living people? Yes, we see antibodies and chemicals to see

the antibodies within the brain. Clinicians in life are usually great

and get it right, but there are clinical symptoms of diseases that

overlap, so sometimes you cannot determine which disease the brain

has. That is why we need the brain at postmortem to make that confirmed

diagnosis. Once that happens, they can enter different research

programmes, programmes that we have in-house, and previously we