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Hello, it's Monday, it's 9:00am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

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Police investigating the disappearance of the Sheffield

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toddler Ben Needham 25 years ago will begin excavation work

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reporting live from Kos, where police say they are optimistic about

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finding evidence that could solve this 25 year mystery. What did

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happen to Ben Needham in 1991? Also today - this programme has been

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told that a US firm used by the Government to cut tax credit

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payments received calls We were dealing with people claiming

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that they were going to commit suicide. You have to try and keep

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them on the phone while the manager phones the police to go to their

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address to make sure they are OK. Concentrix say their staff

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follow the guidelines - we'll bring you more of that

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exclusive story around 9:15. Plus, after Jeremy Corbyn's decisive

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victory at the weekend to retain his job as leader

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of the Labour party, we'll talk to voters

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about what they want to see now I made Jeremy Corbyn supporter and I

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believe he gives Labour the chance to have an identity which they lost

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before the 2015 general election. I have always voted Labour, but now I

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reluctantly don't want to vote Labour because of Jeremy Corbyn.

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Plenty more to come from our audience of voters.

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And plans to strengthen the international ban on ivory trade

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are being discussed today in a bid to stop the slaughter

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Hello, welcome to the programme, we're live until 11:00.

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This morning, we'll bring you the latest breaking news

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and developing stories - plus we'll look ahead to the US

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And as always, really keen to hear from you on all the stories we're

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Use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text,

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It has been a quarter of a century since British toddler Ben Needham

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went missing on the Greek Island of Kos and today, police will today

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start excavating a site there in the latest search for him.

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Ben vanished in 1991 and no trace of him has ever been found.

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A public appeal in Greece earlier this year led to information

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which detectives believe has given them an important new lead,

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about a possible digger accident close to where the 21-month-old was

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Let's talk now to our correspondent in Kos,

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Tell us more about what will happen today. This is day one of a dig

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which could last ten to 12 days. Two weeks of work to carry out at this

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site. We are right outside the building where Ben Needham was

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playing on the day he vanished on that July afternoon. His mother has

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always campaigned in the belief that he was abducted and that he is still

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alive. However, it has looked increasingly likely now, from what

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police investigations have been taking place, particularly recently

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with the renewed investigation, that he may have been the victim of an

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accident on the day he vanished and he may have been accidentally run

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over and buried by a bulldozer that was working here at the time. So

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South Yorkshire Police have come here to the island of Kos to carry

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out some work to start that excavation. A little while ago, the

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senior investigating officer here told us what he hoped to get and

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what was likely to happen. There was a team here in 2012 doing

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a search of an area of land to my right that was based

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on information that was known at that time -

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a very thorough and intricate A number of items were found

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during that search which now bear significance, having had opportunity

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to do the investigation that we've As a result of that

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and the new information that came to light in May, that is why

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the decision has been made to search the area of land that

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we are now doing. To cut through the police speak

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about what is happening, basically, someone has come forward with new

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information and they believe that information points them to the fact

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that Ben was the victim of an accident on the day he vanished.

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They are now digging to see if they can find Ben's remains, and police

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say they are optimistic that they could solve this mystery. Thank you,

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Danny. Let's get the summary now

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from the BBC Newsroom. New and startling claims have

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emerged this morning about Concentrix -

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the firm used by the government This programme can reveal the firm

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have been told to keep "suicidal" claimants on the phone until police

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arrive at their homes. A whistleblower has told us

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they received hundreds of calls from distressed people who had not

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received advance warning With some people screaming

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at call centre workers. And Victoria will be speaking

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to a claimant who had her benefits Theresa May's supporters have hit

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back at claims she was branded "lily-livered" by former PM

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David Cameron after urging him to take a softer line on immigration

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during EU negotiations before June's Sources close to Mrs May say

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she wrote to Mr Cameron making the case for what was described

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as an "emergency brake" to curb the number of people coming

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to the UK from the rest of Europe. The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell

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has told BBC News that Britain should increase borrowing

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in the short-term in order to create for the ?100 billion investment by

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increased employment. His comments

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come amidst calls for unity in the party, following a divisive

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leadership campaign. The UK's ambassador

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to the United Nations has walked out of an emergency session

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of the Security Council, Matthew Rycroft left the meeting

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after accusing the governments of Syria and Russia of unleashing

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a "new hell" on the city of Aleppo. Activists say more than 200

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civilians have been killed in the rebel-held part

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of Aleppo in the past week. The owner of Alton Towers will be

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sentenced today after admitting health and safety breaches which led

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to the crash of the Smiler ride 18-year-old Leah Washington and

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20-year-old Vicky Blanch both had to have a leg amputated

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after the smash and three others A debate about how to prevent

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the extinction of African elephants is expected to dominate the world's

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biggest conference on species protection, which has

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opened in Johannesburg. Delegates from 180

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countries are taking part in the meeting of the Convention

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on the International Trade They will discuss measures

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to protect hundreds of types Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton

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will go head-to-head in the first candidates running neck

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and neck in the polls, their performances will be

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heavily scrutinised. Tens of millions of people

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are expected to tune in. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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have been meeting Syrian refugees in Vancouver

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as they continue their The couple went to hear what support

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the Canadian government is giving It's the first time the Cambridges

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have toured as a family of four, with both Prince George

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and Princess Charlotte. That's a summary of the latest BBC

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News - more at 9.30. Do get in touch with us

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throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

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and if you text, you will be charged Golf great Arnold Palmer

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has died overnight. Let's cross straight to the BBC

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Sport Centre and join John Watson. Tell us why he made such an impact

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on golf. I think it was as much to do with the way he played the game

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as it was with what he did away from the game. He was a hugely successful

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golfer. He won seven major titles over 60 US PGA Tour titles. Looking

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at these black-and-white pictures, I think it is about when he was

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playing the game. This was when golf was being beamed around the world in

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black and white TV before it moved into colour. He was at the forefront

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of growing the game globally. Commercially, he was very photogenic

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and had huge charisma, a real big personality. And that transcended

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the game. We talk about the word legend. Used within a sporting

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context, people who break out on beyond the world of sport, he

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certainly did that. A fascinating character, huge personality. Rory

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McIlroy said overnight that he didn't feel any one had left a

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legacy like Arnold Palmer. McIlroy is obviously one of the current

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generation, hugely successful himself, but interesting that even

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he, as one of the frontrunners of the game, appreciated what Arnold

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Palmer did for the game. More reaction from the golfing world?

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Yes. President Barack Obama tweeted a lovely picture from the White

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House. The former World number one and 14

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time major winner Tiger Woods said: I guess that shows what high regard

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he was held in. Hugely endearing character and much loved within the

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golfing community. Rory McIlroy gave his reaction to the death of Arnold

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Palmer after what was a very lucrative 24 hours for him. Yes,

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usually. He has just pocketed ?7.7 million for winning the FedExCup,

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which is a culmination of events. He has now topped that, and he did so

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by winning the tour championship last night. This was him on the

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16th. At this point, he was three shots off the lead. That was a legal

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meaning he shot back up the leaderboard and then birdied the

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last two holes, so that meant he went into a three-way play-off, and

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he won it on the fourth play-off hole. Talk about pressure. But you

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can see why he is so happy, ?7.7 million. He will be at the forefront

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of the European team heading into the Ryder Cup, which starts next

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week. And away from golf, a first for Manchester City. Yes, they have

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won their first SWM title. They won 2-0 against the Chelsea ladies,

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which means they cannot be caught. Goals from Katie Chapman and Toni

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Duggan, who scored a penalty to seal the win. That is their first WSL

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puddle. They are also competing in the Continental cup final next

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month, so more potential silverware for the Manchester City ladies.

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This morning, fresh and startling claims about Concentrix,

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the firm used by the government to cut tax credit payments.

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This programme can reveal that Concentrix staff have been told

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to keep "suicidal" claimants on the phone until police

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In an exclusive interview, a whistleblower told us claimants

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"screamed" at call-centre workers after their tax credits were cut,

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claiming "hundreds" of households had not received advance warning

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credits - this is how it unfolded, this clip we're about to show

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This programme has exclusively learned that a 19-year-old mum

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had her child tax credits stopped by a private firm used by HMRC

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after they said she was married to a dead 74-year-old man

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She's one of hundreds of people claiming they have been incorrectly

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punished by the American firm, Concentrix, which is employed

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by HMRC to cut tax credit fraud and overpayment.

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I lost ?64 each week, and that normally obviously goes

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on my son, on nappies, wipes, food, gas and electric

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They have absolutely unfairly stopped people's benefit on a really

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And there are many more where those came from.

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As you'd expect, we asked the private American firm Concentrix

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Instead, they told us, "We recognise that individual tax

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credit claims can be difficult for all concerned.

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We adopt a rigorous process at every stage to ensure

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we manage this responsibly, in full, according to

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we manage this responsibly, in full accordance with

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I've done nothing wrong and they know that, but I'm

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My tax credit was cut at the beginning of August.

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It took me three to five hours a day for a week

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I've lost my child tax credit and working tax

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credits, which is the bulk of what I get each month.

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And how much are you down by as a result of what you say

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I've had no money for two weeks now and I've had

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Because of this, my housing benefit could be stopped as well,

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which means that my tenancy could be affected.

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Hours after we exclusively revealed on this programme yesterday that

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a US firm was accused by hundreds of you of wrongly stopping your tax

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credits, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs announced they would not

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be renewing its contract when it runs out next year.

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HMRC has acted pretty decisively in this.

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And clearly, anyone who is dealing with people who are claiming

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benefits needs to be sensitive to their needs as well as

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Why does it take the BBC's programme, two days running,

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to bring ministers to this dispatch box?

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On Monday, a member of my staff was given the runaround

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Yesterday in Parliament, the issue prompted an urgent

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Let's talk to our reporter, Peter Whittlesea.

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Let's talk now to our reporter Peter Whittlesea who has more.

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The latest from HMRC is today, they are getting executives

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from Concentrix in and they will be talking to them about the issues

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that they need to address because they are not

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Many of these have talked about the problem is that

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They also said that this programme had highlighted what a big issue

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it was and how the mistakes were affecting hundreds of people.

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Sources close to this have told me that just before we did our report,

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our exclusive report, HMRC and Concentrix were close

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Concentrix was only told an hour before HMRC told the press

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that their contract was not being renewed.

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That is why some staff in Belfast heard that potentially their jobs

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could be at risk with tweets from the BBC rather

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Let's talk now to our reporter Peter Whittlesea who has more.

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You have been talking to a Concentrix employee? Yes, this

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person, words are spoken for him but he accuses Concentrix of failing

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benefits claimants. Also staff at the call centre are put under

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pressure after they deal with complaints, after complaint.

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Calls, even if you were there until eight o'clock,

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there were still two, 300 calls that had to be

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But when you were answering calls from people, you knew

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that they weren't married to their grandmothers

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or six-year-old children but what could

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90% of the cases, you could just tell, honest people,

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claiming tax credits, trying to get on with

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It put a lot of pressure on the staff there, so it has.

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And all that information, the wrong information

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Yes, HMRC choose which claimants they were looking to do

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The information was passed to Concentrix and we were just

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How many people do you think never received that first letter saying

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they had to provide information or their tax credit would be cut?

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In a campaign, there were 600 employees, not including managers,

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I personally spoke to hundreds of them.

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It couldn't be a coincidence, so many people calling in that

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you know haven't met each other, saying they had not

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They must have been yelling down the phone at you?

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No money, sitting there, people crying down the phone,

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saying they are down to their last nappy,

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last bag of wipes, no food in the fridge to feed their kids.

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We were dealing with people claiming that they were going

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You have to try to keep them on the phone while the manager

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phoned the police to go to their address to make sure

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Some of the people we were dealing with, the suicide calls,

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were not even given a back-up, were not given after-care

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by the after-care team for taking suicide calls.

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Most of the people weren't even trained in how to deal

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They were just told, "Oh, go out and have a smoke,

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come back, you will be fine, deal with another 40 or 50 calls".

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Just to get this clear, you had people that were suicidal

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on the phone to you and your managers would say, "Keep them

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on the phone while we phone the police and get the police

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round the house so they don't kill themselves"?

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Yes, and even in some cases, the claimant was not at the address

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They were in family's houses because they did not have the money

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to top up their phones to pay their phone bills so they had

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I know one incident where the police broke down the door because there

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was no answer at the door from the claimant but

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There was a period in July where we were told

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So you were dealing with calls from claimants, calling through,

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who were being told, "Oh, it will be up in a few hours,

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tell those claimants to call back in a few hours".

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The timeline was just gradually pushed along for a week.

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Don't take the contract if your system can't deal with it.

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Yeah, there is at the minute, there's cases sitting since May,

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information has been sent to the claimants and still hasn't

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It speaks for itself, the buck has been passed

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between HMRC and Concentrix here but the buck firmly lies

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Quite extraordinary claims, Peter? We showed this to Frank Field. He

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has many constituents who say they have had their benefits cut by

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Concentrix. But this is the first time he had heard what it was like

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to work if that call centre. The revelation, I think

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to the public will be that this has It is a tragedy for the actual

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claimants who are just Concentrix deny the whistle-blower's

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claim there is a backlog of complaint. Finally, the

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whistle-blower said the computer system was inadequate. Concentrix

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responded, by saying our system was not down for a whole week. Issues

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were beyond our control and specific to a third party and it was resolved

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as quickly as possible and any impact on claimants was minimised.

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At no time would we have set the expectation to call back within an

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hour. HMRC said they were not renew the contract from next May. What

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have HMRC had to say about the latest claims. We did ask for an

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interview, but they have declined. They did issue a statement. This was

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specifically about the whistle-blower saying the HMRC data

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supplied to Concentrix was inaccurate. To that, HMRC said, we

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provide Concentrix with cases that have flagged up as showing potential

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discrepancies, along with the data we hold and have received from third

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parties. Concentrix is responsible for doing their own internal checks

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to identify which of these cases they think requires further

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investigation. One social media group alone has had hundreds of

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people still claim they don't have their benefits. Therefore, this

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matter is still ongoing. We want people to contact us so we can get

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to the bottom of what is happening now.

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She's 36 and is a single mum with two girls, aged 11 and three.

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She says her child tax credits were stopped six weeks ago.

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Thanks for coming on the programme. React to these claims by this

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whistle-blower, this Concentrix employee who said they had suicidal

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parents on the phone and were told to keep them on the phone while the

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manager called the police and got them round to the address? I can

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understand this because I am in the same desperate situation of having

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my money caught with two children. Not a penny to spend on food or

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anything else. I can understand the desperation of people. Can I just

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say, it is not hundreds of people affected, it's thousands. Were you

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in a similar boat to those thousands when Concentrix said you were in a

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relationship with somebody and you weren't? I was apparently living

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here with two previous tenants who have not been here for two years. I

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never received a letter to tell me they were going to stop my tax

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credits. Says of the credits were just turned off and you've got what

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was going on? Yes, I'm not in receipt of income support so the tax

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credits were the only benefits I was receiving. How have you been

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managing for the last six weeks? Friends and family. I have exhausted

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all resources, I am at the level now where I have just over ?1 in my

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bank. Did you say you have ?1 left in your bank account? Yes. Goodness

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me. You have been told York tax credit payments will be reinstated,

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which is good news, but what is the butter? It is, there is an IT system

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down and I got the call last Thursday to say it is being

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reinstated, but I am still without payments still nothing. Have you

:25:55.:26:00.

been told when they will start paying you back? It could be up to

:26:01.:26:09.

ten more days. And in these ten days, I don't know how I am supposed

:26:10.:26:17.

to survive. I have a statement from HMRC. They say payments that have

:26:18.:26:21.

been suspended will be reinstated within four working days, if not

:26:22.:26:25.

sooner. Any money due to customers will be paid back. Some will get a

:26:26.:26:32.

lump sum, some get payments over a period of time, depending on

:26:33.:26:35.

individual circumstances. They say any customers in difficulties,

:26:36.:26:47.

contact HMRC payment line. The back payment, it is all well and good

:26:48.:26:53.

that they will pay the back payments, but on some occasions they

:26:54.:26:58.

are spreading it over the year. But we have all got ourselves into debt

:26:59.:27:05.

and I don't know how we are able to pay off the debt through these tiny

:27:06.:27:11.

little lump sums. It's all down to them, but it is really, really...

:27:12.:27:18.

Enough is enough now. I can hear the desperation in your voice. Might be

:27:19.:27:22.

worth ringing the helpline again, say you need help now! I have spent

:27:23.:27:29.

hours on the phone, I am surprised the phone is still working, I don't

:27:30.:27:35.

know how I haven't been cut off. Thank you, we will keep across this

:27:36.:27:41.

story. Do keep in touch. Catherine on Twitter says, thanks for covering

:27:42.:27:45.

this and keeping it in the public eye. But there are some people

:27:46.:27:50.

saying an overhaul of people using and abusing an overburdened benefit

:27:51.:27:55.

system needs doing. But people having no money is often the

:27:56.:27:59.

consequence of their own choices. Later in the programme we will talk

:28:00.:28:05.

more about this. After 10am with somebody else who is getting their

:28:06.:28:09.

payments reinstated, but in tiny amounts, so it's not going to help

:28:10.:28:15.

because she is in arrears. Also later, we will talk about calls to

:28:16.:28:19.

strengthen the international ban on ivory trade.

:28:20.:28:26.

Elephant populations in Africa have declined by around 111,000

:28:27.:28:30.

The main reason for that is that they've been killed for their ivory

:28:31.:28:36.

After 10:30 we'll speak to Virginia McKenna

:28:37.:28:43.

from the Born Free foundation but first let's take a look at why

:28:44.:28:46.

the plight of elephants is at the top of the agenda,

:28:47.:28:49.

and a warning that our film we're about to show contains flashing

:28:50.:28:54.

images and distressing scenes from the start.

:28:55.:28:58.

You may not want young children watching.

:28:59.:29:12.

We have been flying along this flood plain that divides

:29:13.:29:16.

All the way along here, we have been seeing carcasses of elephants,

:29:17.:29:22.

some four months old, some less than a week old.

:29:23.:29:26.

Poaching and traffic in wildlife is now a branch of

:29:27.:29:59.

The fight against it will be won by alliances

:30:00.:30:07.

If this current rate continues, within nine years, Africa could be

:30:08.:31:03.

left with half of the current estimate of African elements.

:31:04.:31:05.

Materialistic greed cannot be allowed to win against our moral

:31:06.:31:07.

duty to protect threatened species and vulnerable communities.

:31:08.:31:09.

Do get in touch with your views throughout the programme.

:31:10.:31:43.

We will speak to Virginia McKenna later from the born free foundation.

:31:44.:31:50.

We've got a studio full of Labour supporters and viewers passionate

:31:51.:31:52.

about politics to talk about Jeremy Corbyn's big win

:31:53.:31:54.

at the weekend and where this leaves the Labour Party

:31:55.:31:57.

We'll be getting reaction in just a few minutes' time.

:31:58.:32:01.

Five-time Olympic Champion Bradley Wiggins defends taking steroid

:32:02.:32:03.

injections for his asthma, saying it didn't enhance

:32:04.:32:05.

but does he still have questions to answer?

:32:06.:32:10.

Let's get the summary now from the BBC Newsroom.

:32:11.:32:17.

New and startling claims have emerged this morning

:32:18.:32:20.

about Concentrix - the firm used by the government

:32:21.:32:22.

This programme can reveal the firm have been told to keep "suicidal"

:32:23.:32:28.

claimants on the phone until police arrive at their homes.

:32:29.:32:31.

A whistleblower has told us they received hundreds of calls

:32:32.:32:34.

from distressed people who had not received advance warning

:32:35.:32:38.

with some people screaming at call centre workers.

:32:39.:32:41.

Concentrix say their staff follow the guidelines.

:32:42.:32:48.

Excavation work will begin on the Greek island of Kos today,

:32:49.:32:51.

as part of the search for the British toddler Ben Needham

:32:52.:32:53.

Police say new information suggests he could have been

:32:54.:32:57.

Ben's mother Kerry Needham has been told to "prepare for the worst"

:32:58.:33:01.

Theresa May's supporters have hit back at claims she was branded

:33:02.:33:07.

"lily-livered" by former PM David Cameron after urging him

:33:08.:33:14.

to take a softer line on immigration during EU negotiations

:33:15.:33:16.

Sources close to Mrs May say she wrote to Mr Cameron making

:33:17.:33:20.

the case for what was described as an "emergency brake" to curb

:33:21.:33:23.

the number of people coming to the UK from the rest of Europe.

:33:24.:33:28.

The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has told BBC News that Britain

:33:29.:33:30.

should increase borrowing in the short-term in order to create

:33:31.:33:37.

a "manufacturing renaissance". Mr McDonnell said that he would pay

:33:38.:33:46.

for the ?100 billion investment with taxes

:33:47.:33:47.

His comments come amidst calls for unity

:33:48.:33:50.

in the party, following a divisive leadership campaign.

:33:51.:33:52.

And Victoria will have more on that in a moment

:33:53.:33:54.

The French President Francois Hollande has used a visit to Calais

:33:55.:33:58.

to call for the migrant camp there, known as "The Jungle",

:33:59.:34:01.

He intends to close the sprawling camp and move migrants to reception

:34:02.:34:05.

Many of the thousands of migrants are trying to cross

:34:06.:34:08.

Mr Hollande said Britain had to play its part

:34:09.:34:13.

The UK's ambassador to the United Nations has walked out

:34:14.:34:17.

of an emergency session of the Security Council,

:34:18.:34:20.

Matthew Rycroft left the meeting after accusing the governments

:34:21.:34:23.

of Syria and Russia of unleashing a "new hell" on the city of Aleppo.

:34:24.:34:26.

Activists say more than 200 civilians have been killed

:34:27.:34:28.

in the rebel-held part of Aleppo in the past week.

:34:29.:34:33.

The owner of Alton Towers will be sentenced today after admitting

:34:34.:34:38.

health and safety breaches which led to the crash of the Smiler ride

:34:39.:34:41.

18-year-old Leah Washington and 20-year-old Vicky Blanch both had

:34:42.:34:45.

to have a leg amputated after the smash and three others

:34:46.:34:48.

Tributes are pouring in for the golfer Arnold Palmer, who has died

:34:49.:35:07.

at the age of 87. The American won seven golf majors but will be

:35:08.:35:11.

remembered not only for his golfing genius, but his huge personality,

:35:12.:35:15.

which helped to grow the game during the 50s and 60s. Rory McIlroy won

:35:16.:35:21.

the FedExCup overnight. The PGA's season long points race. He came

:35:22.:35:26.

from three shots behind to win the tournament and in doing so pocket a

:35:27.:35:32.

cool ?7.7 million. Manchester City's women won their

:35:33.:35:35.

first Super League title after beating Chelsea ladies 2-0. They

:35:36.:35:39.

have now gone the whole season unbeaten and have the chance for

:35:40.:35:43.

more silverware in the cup final next month.

:35:44.:35:47.

And 16 Taione Vea world champion Phil power won the first PDC

:35:48.:35:51.

Champions League starts in Cardiff, beating world number one Michael van

:35:52.:35:55.

Gerwen in the final. That is all the sport. More a bit later.

:35:56.:36:01.

Labour's Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has told this programme

:36:02.:36:06.

that everyone who resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's top team is welcome

:36:07.:36:10.

back. Tell us more, Norman Smith. Yes, I had a cup of tea with John

:36:11.:36:22.

McDonnell earlier today. We talk a lot about stuff which probably just

:36:23.:36:26.

sounds like a political gobbledygook to most people, mumbo jumbo. We talk

:36:27.:36:30.

about the national executive committee. We took about the

:36:31.:36:34.

selections and rule changes. This morning, I wanted to sit down with

:36:35.:36:38.

Mr McDonnell and get him to explain in easy-peasy language what it was

:36:39.:36:43.

about Jeremy Corbyn that seemed to be changing the Labour Party and

:36:44.:36:46.

attracting those huge crowds, to explain in simple terms what Jeremy

:36:47.:36:49.

Corbyn was about. I think people got fed up

:36:50.:36:54.

of politicians who just said And Jeremy Corbyn came

:36:55.:36:56.

along and said, look, At least I'm being

:36:57.:36:59.

straight with you. A lot of people are attracted

:37:00.:37:03.

to that sort of honesty. With Jeremy, what you

:37:04.:37:08.

see is what you get. But is that kind

:37:09.:37:13.

of an anti-politics? It is a bit, because people

:37:14.:37:15.

turned off by politics You got to the stage

:37:16.:37:17.

where you couldn't believe a word That wasn't true, but people

:37:18.:37:21.

had that impression. Jeremy brings that sort

:37:22.:37:24.

of confidence and trust, and we've lost that

:37:25.:37:29.

for a period of time. You will have heard the criticism

:37:30.:37:31.

that it is basically a personality He gets these huge rallies,

:37:32.:37:34.

but it is all focused around him rather than about

:37:35.:37:40.

a policy for government. There are huge rallies,

:37:41.:37:44.

but most of those rallies are taken up by people getting up

:37:45.:37:47.

from the floor and saying, I have got this problem,

:37:48.:37:49.

and I think this is the solution. So there's a sort of

:37:50.:37:54.

reinvention of politics. For a long time, we have had

:37:55.:37:56.

politicians talking down to us What Jeremy has done is unleashed

:37:57.:37:58.

all these ideas Say I have a problem with housing,

:37:59.:38:03.

how do we sort it out? Well, we used to have rent

:38:04.:38:12.

controls in this country. Those solutions are coming

:38:13.:38:20.

from people themselves. Is it fair to say that basically,

:38:21.:38:22.

Jeremy Corbyn is a socialist and he wants a socialist

:38:23.:38:25.

style of government, with much greater state control

:38:26.:38:27.

and state intervention? Sometimes they use that as a dirty

:38:28.:38:34.

word and we have What we are saying socialism

:38:35.:38:42.

for us is is a society that is radically fairer,

:38:43.:38:51.

where people and corporations So it is more democratic

:38:52.:38:53.

and people have more of a say, We are living in a society now more

:38:54.:38:57.

unequal than any we have seen in generations,

:38:58.:39:02.

but it has to be based We want that economy

:39:03.:39:04.

to be more sustainable. Environmentally sustainable,

:39:05.:39:07.

because of climate change. And also, the prosperity has to be

:39:08.:39:16.

shared by all of us, People have different

:39:17.:39:19.

versions of socialism. The idea that it is all

:39:20.:39:23.

the state has gone. You said at the beginning that

:39:24.:39:25.

you are a socialist We're having a cup of tea

:39:26.:39:28.

here because you are trying to woo Labour MPs by taking them out

:39:29.:39:33.

for cups of tea. If you had to choose

:39:34.:39:35.

between having a cup of tea with the following,

:39:36.:39:38.

who would you pick? Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir

:39:39.:39:39.

Ilyich Lenin, or Josef Stalin. Who would you have a cup

:39:40.:39:45.

of tea with? I meet with a group of economists

:39:46.:39:47.

who give me advice on their systems, I'll give people a name, it is a guy

:39:48.:39:59.

called Joe Stiglitz. He says we need to rewrite

:40:00.:40:08.

the rules of our economy, and I think if you start reading

:40:09.:40:15.

some of his work along He probably drinks coffee,

:40:16.:40:18.

given that he is American. He dodged the cup of tea question.

:40:19.:40:34.

But it is interesting having that sort of conversation with John

:40:35.:40:36.

McDonnell because in many ways, he is viewed as the power behind the

:40:37.:40:39.

throne, the brains behind Jeremy Corbyn, the man pulling it all

:40:40.:40:44.

together. What I take from that is that team Corbyn genuinely believe

:40:45.:40:47.

we are in a different type of politics. Everything has changed and

:40:48.:40:53.

the old rules no longer apply. People want something entirely

:40:54.:40:56.

different. But that is a massive gamble, because the view of his

:40:57.:41:01.

opponents is that actually, life is carrying on pretty much as usual and

:41:02.:41:05.

it is fine and dandy getting these massive rallies, but it doesn't

:41:06.:41:09.

reach out to the electorate. So this is high wire politics. If Team

:41:10.:41:13.

Corbyn are right, we will all have to rethink how we do politics. If

:41:14.:41:18.

they are wrong, the danger is that they are leading the Labour Party of

:41:19.:41:22.

a precipice. Thank you, and Norman. Steve says

:41:23.:41:30.

Jeremy Corbyn should be supported. Another viewer says that is the

:41:31.:41:34.

Labour Party consigned to the dustbin.

:41:35.:41:40.

I declare Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader of the Labour Party.

:41:41.:41:42.

Please, Jeremy, welcome onto the stage.

:41:43.:41:48.

I am honoured to have won the votes of a majority of members,

:41:49.:41:51.

affiliated supporters and registered supporters,

:41:52.:41:55.

who have given me the second mandate in a year to lead our party.

:41:56.:42:01.

They threw everything except the kitchen sink at Jeremy

:42:02.:42:06.

and he still increased his share of the vote.

:42:07.:42:11.

The membership came out for Jeremy because they realised he had not

:42:12.:42:14.

been given the chance and he hadn't been treated fairly.

:42:15.:42:18.

What we want now is unity and stability.

:42:19.:42:20.

So Labour MPs who have been critical, who have been

:42:21.:42:22.

opponents of Mr Corbyn, have nothing to worry about?

:42:23.:42:24.

Not at all, we have said that time and time again.

:42:25.:42:27.

Now you know that the mandate is won... This has distracted us for

:42:28.:42:47.

three months when we should have been a strong opposition. There was

:42:48.:42:50.

no difference between the parties. Now there is a real difference. The

:42:51.:42:56.

problem with that thesis is that it goes on to totally dismiss Tony

:42:57.:42:59.

Blair as the absolute epitome of all that was wrong with Labour. We are

:43:00.:43:04.

talking about what happens to people now. Where I am from in Twickenham,

:43:05.:43:10.

we have food banks. Why have we got food banks? But do you think Jeremy

:43:11.:43:14.

Corbyn being leader of the Labour Party makes a Labour government more

:43:15.:43:18.

or less likely? Absolutely more likely. Let us work together for

:43:19.:43:24.

real change in Britain. Thank you very much.

:43:25.:43:27.

With us now, an audience of labour voters, members and supporters

:43:28.:43:31.

What are you thinking now that Mr Corbyn has been re-elected? I think

:43:32.:43:44.

that now it is time for the Labour Party to be the real opposition it

:43:45.:43:47.

ought to have been in the first place. In the past couple of months,

:43:48.:43:52.

we have seen a 300% rise in Islamophobia hate crime. It is now

:43:53.:43:56.

time for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party to unite and fight what

:43:57.:44:00.

is happening in society and fight the vile atmosphere that exists

:44:01.:44:04.

today. I am Tony, from a construction background. Are you a

:44:05.:44:09.

Labour voter? I class myself as an old Labour voter. I abandoned them

:44:10.:44:13.

when they abandoned me under Tony Blair. Who did you vote for at the

:44:14.:44:18.

last election? Sun I voted Ukip because I wanted a referendum. Now

:44:19.:44:23.

we have had that, I am looking for somebody to vote for.

:44:24.:44:26.

So what does Labour have to do to bring you back into the fold? It has

:44:27.:44:30.

got to unite. There is a lot of confusion at the moment. He has won

:44:31.:44:36.

two leadership contests now, so he has won the right to take us into a

:44:37.:44:40.

general election. I would vote Labour if Jeremy Corbyn is there.

:44:41.:44:46.

There is a lady shaking her head. My name is limp and I am retired. I

:44:47.:44:51.

voted Labour for 50 years, but since Jeremy Corbyn has been there, no. He

:44:52.:44:55.

frightens me about what he did do with the Labour Party. He talks

:44:56.:44:59.

about uniting, but he will not listen to the people. He says he

:45:00.:45:04.

will, but there are 170 MPs out there that voted no confidence in

:45:05.:45:10.

him. They must know more, so why did they walk out? You are shaking your

:45:11.:45:16.

head. I am the chair of a local Labour Party branch. I have been

:45:17.:45:20.

there since before 2015. I understand what you are saying, but

:45:21.:45:24.

at the end of the day, there is a huge number of members from before

:45:25.:45:28.

2015, new members and a wider group who have backed Corbyn twice now. It

:45:29.:45:33.

is an opportunity for people to get the MPs on board. They have a lot of

:45:34.:45:40.

skills to offer. The constituency Labour parties have backed Corbyn.

:45:41.:45:43.

Now is a chance for all of the MPs to back the constituencies and

:45:44.:45:44.

follow the mandate. My name is Paul. Are you a Labour

:45:45.:45:59.

voter? I want to be a Labour supporter and I want to like Jeremy

:46:00.:46:06.

Corbyn. It means campaigning is brilliance, it is back on the front

:46:07.:46:12.

pages. But what I don't see is leadership. Instead, I see a dirty

:46:13.:46:22.

smog of insults and humiliation. Do you think that is consigned to

:46:23.:46:29.

history? Absolutely not. Jeremy Corbyn made it clear on Saturday,

:46:30.:46:33.

wipe the slate clean, it doesn't matter what you said in the past.

:46:34.:46:41.

But you don't believe him? We have John McDonnell using the word lynch

:46:42.:46:46.

when referencing an opponent. It is extremely insulting and knowing all

:46:47.:46:50.

about what the word means and the impact the word would have, this is

:46:51.:46:56.

an intelligent man and he is supposed to be taking us forward. I

:46:57.:47:03.

am Mandy, a student from London. I know where you're coming from, I am

:47:04.:47:08.

a Labour Party member, but I backed Owen Smith this year. I went to a

:47:09.:47:15.

hustings and experienced abuse myself. The sat next to me was

:47:16.:47:20.

shouting at me because I tried to listen to Owen Smith and accuse me

:47:21.:47:26.

of being a Blairite and I supported Iraq. I do respect Jeremy now has

:47:27.:47:30.

the second democratic mandate, but uniting as a party is much easier

:47:31.:47:35.

said than done. We need to respect the MPs who have had their own

:47:36.:47:41.

democratic mandate from their constituents. , I am a bit older

:47:42.:47:49.

from you, I come from old Labour and someone like Owen Smith, he will

:47:50.:47:56.

just carry on like Tony Blair. I am one of those people who feels like

:47:57.:48:02.

they don't have a voice in today's politics. I feel Jeremy Corbin might

:48:03.:48:09.

speak up for the likes of me. I am a Labour Party member for seven years.

:48:10.:48:14.

I used to work for the Labour Party on the general election in 2015 in

:48:15.:48:22.

two key seats. I have done my time at the doors, spoke to thousands of

:48:23.:48:30.

people. I can tell you, these people are not looking for a political

:48:31.:48:34.

revolution, it is very important... Are you talking about his policies,

:48:35.:48:39.

they are not popular? Or this idea of building a social movements? He

:48:40.:48:44.

didn't join in in singing the national anthem, what is it? It is

:48:45.:48:49.

things like that. People these days don't want a big revolution, they

:48:50.:48:56.

want their kids to go to a nice cool, good housing and a job. Simple

:48:57.:49:01.

things. Isn't Jeremy Corbyn saying those simple things? It is not just

:49:02.:49:08.

about his polities, it is his lack of leadership. If you have 80% of

:49:09.:49:14.

your own MPs that don't support you, for any leader of a party, would

:49:15.:49:20.

have been a wake-up call and they would have to go. Don't know what

:49:21.:49:28.

else he has to do to show he's popular? It is the members, why

:49:29.:49:33.

don't we look towards the electorate. That is what matters to

:49:34.:49:38.

a political party that aims to get power. They have forgotten that and

:49:39.:49:42.

they are looking very inwards. I am David, I have been a Labour Party

:49:43.:49:48.

member since 2010. The talk about Jeremy Corbyn's policies, but he has

:49:49.:49:53.

nothing to say on Brexiter and about as needing to build more homes. We

:49:54.:50:00.

need to build more homes, we need to build 250,000 homes a year. You will

:50:01.:50:07.

build them, how will we build them. You want some detail? , Yes. I am a

:50:08.:50:13.

supporter of Jeremy Corbyn. All of his opponents, the only way we will

:50:14.:50:22.

win the general election, which needs to be the focus, is if you

:50:23.:50:29.

find an alternative candidate who is more compelling to the electorate.

:50:30.:50:35.

There is no point, if you don't have a better alternative. They thought

:50:36.:50:39.

Owen Smith was a better alternative. , These people, it seems to me the

:50:40.:50:45.

Labour MPs who are saying Jeremy Corbyn cannot win a general election

:50:46.:50:50.

are the same one that said Ed Miliband would. He should have the

:50:51.:50:54.

chance, they have got it wrong before. I said Ed Miliband wouldn't

:50:55.:51:01.

win, he didn't have the strength. Jeremy Corbyn wants to take us back

:51:02.:51:07.

to the old days of the union striking, do as I say, don't do as I

:51:08.:51:14.

do. Hilary Benn, he disagreed with him, now he's out. I spoke to John

:51:15.:51:21.

McDonnell who said Hilary Benn would be welcome back to the Shadow

:51:22.:51:26.

Cabinet. Why was he sucked in the first place. I have now defected to

:51:27.:51:32.

Ukip in the last election. What I don't like about Jeremy Corbyn at

:51:33.:51:37.

the moment, is the level of borrowing he is proposing. We need

:51:38.:51:42.

to get high-tech industry selling abroad to get foreign investment.

:51:43.:51:50.

What worries me is if he also gets rid of Tridents. We don't want a

:51:51.:51:59.

nuclear bomb, that is true, but we need the workers and industry from

:52:00.:52:04.

BAE Systems, we need Rolls-Royce, we need those companies to be

:52:05.:52:09.

supported. It would demolish them. For you it is his policies that will

:52:10.:52:16.

not take him forward? Yes, it is, but it is all very well the party

:52:17.:52:22.

members have voted for Jeremy, but we need the wider electorate to vote

:52:23.:52:26.

for him. It is interesting you supported a party late Ukip who

:52:27.:52:30.

wanted to leave the European Union and then talk about investing in

:52:31.:52:34.

Britain. Looking less attractive to invest in now than we were before.

:52:35.:52:38.

It is interesting people's thoughts are not panning out on the ground. A

:52:39.:52:45.

lot of policies will be clarified in the Labour manifesto. We know what

:52:46.:52:51.

some of the policies will be, we know it will be more housing. We

:52:52.:52:56.

don't know about Trident yet, we know it will be borrowing to invest

:52:57.:53:00.

in infrastructure, broadband, roads and housing. It is whether it will

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be enough to attract conservative voters or Ukip voters. I am the

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owner, I was a Labour member in the 80s and became disaffected with the

:53:13.:53:18.

parties. I am back now, I have been back before the Jeremy Corbyn

:53:19.:53:22.

element came back in. I am a passionate Jeremy Corbyn supporter.

:53:23.:53:27.

I have heard him speak on a number of occasions. One of the things

:53:28.:53:33.

missing is people are not listening to what he is saying. They have a

:53:34.:53:40.

preconceived idea they have got from the media. Lots of sound bites. They

:53:41.:53:46.

talk about him being a weak leader. What do you think will win over the

:53:47.:53:52.

wider electorate? He has no problem in recruiting members, but the

:53:53.:53:55.

electorate is trickier. He is appealing, social media has played a

:53:56.:53:58.

massive part in Jeremy's surge forward. I am part of a lot of

:53:59.:54:05.

social media groups now. People like me, who are over 50, who felt

:54:06.:54:09.

marginalised and disaffected, especially over 50 women. I was just

:54:10.:54:14.

going to say, I felt the same, disillusioned. We are a group of

:54:15.:54:18.

people who are marginalised and now we feel inspired to go forward

:54:19.:54:24.

because of Jeremy. Derek is in Blyth in Northumberland. Welcome to the

:54:25.:54:32.

programme. Tell the audience, many Labour members and voters, some of

:54:33.:54:37.

whom used to be Labour voters, how you feel now? I don't think Labour

:54:38.:54:44.

have a viable leader. I don't think either of the candidates were

:54:45.:54:49.

appropriate. Jeremy Corbyn, I think is a dangerous little man. I think

:54:50.:54:56.

he will lead the Labour Party to oblivion. He doesn't seem to care

:54:57.:55:01.

about that. Are you a member, Derek? I joined about two months ago. I

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would have voted for Owen Smith until I had to pay ?25 for the

:55:08.:55:15.

privilege to do so. But having said that, he was the lesser of two

:55:16.:55:21.

evils, in my opinion. Will you continue being a Labour member? No,

:55:22.:55:27.

I phoned up this morning to try to cancel my membership, but they are

:55:28.:55:31.

not taking any calls today. Some people over here. It is important to

:55:32.:55:38.

remember we have the biggest party in Europe, over half a million

:55:39.:55:41.

members, that is the strength. Whether you like Jeremy Corbyn or

:55:42.:55:46.

not, the point is we can mobilise and go out and talk to people about

:55:47.:55:52.

our policies. It is about having affordable homes you don't feel like

:55:53.:55:58.

you will be turfed out of the next day, which is my case. I live in

:55:59.:56:05.

rented accommodation, I cannot tell my daughter whether we will be

:56:06.:56:10.

living there next month, next year. If we get to talk to ordinary

:56:11.:56:15.

people, they say our ideas are exciting. You are a Conservative

:56:16.:56:18.

voter, thanks for coming on. From what this lady is saying and others,

:56:19.:56:24.

are there policies that that would attract you to move over? I have

:56:25.:56:31.

voted Conservative all my life. But you acknowledge conservative voters

:56:32.:56:37.

will have to be persuaded to vote Labour? Those are the pivotal voters

:56:38.:56:44.

that give you a election is. The issue I have with the whole thing

:56:45.:56:51.

is, we are going back. I joined politics 47 years ago when I was a

:56:52.:56:58.

student. The sort of things we're hearing from Jeremy Corbyn now is

:56:59.:57:02.

what we were hearing from the socialist in 1972. Nothing has

:57:03.:57:06.

changed. Aoyama student and I have been a Labour member for over a

:57:07.:57:10.

year. I agree, having a big membership is fantastic, the Labour

:57:11.:57:15.

Party that one the last election only had a membership of 150,000.

:57:16.:57:22.

Lotsa people were willing to do social media and activism. There was

:57:23.:57:28.

a small proportion of new members who are willing to go out on the

:57:29.:57:33.

streets, doorstepping and leafleting. The gentleman down here,

:57:34.:57:36.

hello. , I am Brian, a floating voter. I am pleased Jeremy Corbyn

:57:37.:57:43.

got elected. Talking about being 15 points behind in the polls. He

:57:44.:57:50.

hasn't had a chance to go out and sell his policies. We have Jeremy

:57:51.:57:55.

Corbyn, a principled man, changing face in UK politics. The lady over

:57:56.:58:03.

there said, we are fed up of being dictated to by business, whatever it

:58:04.:58:08.

might be. I think he is a principled man and you have to go and sell your

:58:09.:58:17.

policies. Are you going to give him a chance, he needs the chance to

:58:18.:58:22.

sell those policies before the next election. It cuts both ways. He did

:58:23.:58:28.

an interview, and a supporter said it is not my job to point out the

:58:29.:58:36.

government is in MS, it is Jeremy Corbyn's job. He's not a leader, he

:58:37.:58:44.

could be wiping the floor with the Tories over Brexit. He has never

:58:45.:58:51.

mentioned it. On the 24th of June, Labour MPs were directly attacking

:58:52.:58:58.

Jeremy Corbyn. On the issue of policy, in the first conference

:58:59.:59:04.

after electing a leader, we should be discussing policy, make a

:59:05.:59:09.

manifesto to sell to the public. We should be discussing Brexit. But

:59:10.:59:14.

delegates at the Labour conference voted not to discuss Brexit. It is

:59:15.:59:21.

important Labour finds credible opposition because they must hold

:59:22.:59:26.

the government to account. His rhetoric, he talks about Labour

:59:27.:59:30.

policies and everything, but you actually need to hold the government

:59:31.:59:34.

to account, provide alternative policies. Your final thoughts. I am

:59:35.:59:45.

an X nurse and I am in support of the Labour Party. I think Jeremy is

:59:46.:59:53.

the best man to do it, because he has a long and credible history in

:59:54.:59:58.

supporting issues like human rights, international relations and the

:59:59.:00:01.

welfare of the British people. The common people. News just in from the

:00:02.:00:06.

conference at Liverpool. Labour have announced it will ban fracking if it

:00:07.:00:13.

wins the next general election. Good idea? We're not going to win, so it

:00:14.:00:20.

doesn't matter. And that we will leave it.

:00:21.:00:23.

Coming up: How to stop the dramatic decline in African elephants?

:00:24.:00:29.

Plans to strengthen the international ban on ivory trade

:00:30.:00:34.

are being discussed today in a bid to stop the poaching.

:00:35.:00:34.

On Twitter, this man says the slaughter of elephants for nothing

:00:35.:00:39.

more than greed is heartbreaking. China and Vietnam need to be more

:00:40.:00:45.

accountable. Someone else says, this sad and cruel slaughter in the name

:00:46.:00:50.

of profit, is what happens in the name of financial or political power

:00:51.:00:54.

throughout the world. We must stop this growing destruction of life.

:00:55.:01:01.

Good morning, well a lovely sunrise this morning. This shot from

:01:02.:01:08.

Weston-super-Mare in the past half an hour, more typical of Wales and

:01:09.:01:13.

Western England. Heavy rain and strengthening rain and it will feel

:01:14.:01:17.

cool here. Further east across England, the morning brightness

:01:18.:01:22.

giving way to cloud and one or two showers. It turns wetter across

:01:23.:01:26.

Central Scotland. After a cold start, it will be a sunny afternoon.

:01:27.:01:29.

Just one or two showers for the Highlands and islands. Temperatures

:01:30.:01:33.

generally in the mid to high teens. As we go through this evening and

:01:34.:01:37.

overnight, we lose a lot of the wLet initially, but then there is more

:01:38.:01:40.

which comes in from the west and with this, increasing amounts of low

:01:41.:01:44.

cloud and it turns misty and murky around the coasts and the hills, but

:01:45.:01:47.

it is the southerly wind that accompanies it. Temperatures holding

:01:48.:01:52.

in double figures. It makes for a grey and gloomy start to Tuesday

:01:53.:01:57.

morning. There will be rain and drizzle. The low cloud becoming

:01:58.:02:01.

confined to eastern parts of England. Elsewhere, after the gloomy

:02:02.:02:08.

start, things brighten up nicely, but the winds will strengthen,

:02:09.:02:11.

touching gale force and there is another bout of strong winds to come

:02:12.:02:13.

on Wednesday afternoon too. Take care.

:02:14.:02:19.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

:02:20.:02:22.

Also today, this programme has been told that a US firm used

:02:23.:02:26.

by the Government to cut tax credit payments received calls

:02:27.:02:28.

People crying down the phone saying that they'r down

:02:29.:02:33.

People crying down the phone saying that they're down

:02:34.:02:35.

to their last nappy, their last bag of wipes,

:02:36.:02:37.

have no food in the fridge to feed their kids.

:02:38.:02:40.

We were dealing with people claiming that they were

:02:41.:02:42.

You have to try to keep them on the phone while the manager

:02:43.:02:46.

phones the police to go to their address to

:02:47.:02:49.

Concentrix say their staff follow the guidelines.

:02:50.:02:56.

And you can watch that interview back on our programme page

:02:57.:02:59.

Britain's most decorated Olympian Sir Bradley Wiggins says

:03:00.:03:02.

he was allowed to take banned steroid injections because of his

:03:03.:03:05.

asthma and that it didn't enhance his performance.

:03:06.:03:11.

This was about trying to find a way to gain an unfair advantage. This

:03:12.:03:20.

was about putting myself back on a level playing field in order to

:03:21.:03:22.

compete at the highest level. We'll be speaking to fellow cyclists

:03:23.:03:24.

and one of his good friends in a few minutes time and asking them

:03:25.:03:28.

if he still has questions to answer. And plans to strengthen

:03:29.:03:31.

the international ban on ivory trade are being discussed today in a bid

:03:32.:03:33.

to stop the slaughter If this current rate continues,

:03:34.:03:36.

within nine years Africa could be left with half of the current

:03:37.:03:39.

estimate of African elephants. 100 million people will be tuning

:03:40.:03:43.

in to the first US Presidential debate tonight to watch Donald Trump

:03:44.:03:47.

and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head. I will not make age

:03:48.:03:51.

an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit

:03:52.:04:00.

for political purposes my opponent's Let's get the summary now

:04:01.:04:03.

from the BBC Newsroom. New and startling claims have

:04:04.:04:21.

emerged this morning about Concentrix, the firm

:04:22.:04:27.

used by the Government This programme can reveal the firm

:04:28.:04:29.

have been told to keep 'suicidal' claimants on the phone until police

:04:30.:04:33.

arrive at their homes. A whistleblower has told us

:04:34.:04:36.

they received hundreds of calls from distressed people who had not

:04:37.:04:38.

received advance warning that their payments would end

:04:39.:04:40.

with some people screaming Concentrix say their staff

:04:41.:04:42.

follow the guidelines. Excavation work will begin

:04:43.:04:48.

on the Greek island of Kos today, as part of the search

:04:49.:04:50.

for the British toddler Ben Needham Police say new information

:04:51.:04:53.

suggests he could have been Ben's mother Kerry Needham has been

:04:54.:04:56.

told to "prepare for the worst" There was a team here

:04:57.:05:00.

in 2012 doing a search of an area of land just over

:05:01.:05:07.

to my right, over there. That was based on the information

:05:08.:05:10.

that was known at that time. A very thorough and intricate

:05:11.:05:13.

search took place. A number of items were found

:05:14.:05:15.

during that search which now bear significance having had opportunity

:05:16.:05:18.

to do the investigate that we've As a result of that,

:05:19.:05:20.

and the new information which came to light in May, that is why

:05:21.:05:24.

the decision has been made to search the area of land

:05:25.:05:27.

that we are now doing. Theresa May's supporters have hit

:05:28.:05:34.

back at claims she was branded "lily-livered" by former

:05:35.:05:46.

Prime Minister David Cameron after urging him

:05:47.:05:47.

to take a softer line on immigration during EU negotiations,

:05:48.:05:50.

before June's referendum. Sources close to Mrs May say

:05:51.:05:52.

she wrote to Mr Cameron making the case for what was described

:05:53.:05:54.

as an "emergency brake" to curb the number of people coming

:05:55.:05:57.

to the UK from the rest of Europe. The Shadow Chancellor,

:05:58.:06:01.

John McDonnell, has told BBC News that Britain

:06:02.:06:03.

should increase borrowing in the short-term in order to create

:06:04.:06:07.

a "manufacturing renaissance". Mr McDonnell said that he would pay

:06:08.:06:09.

for the ?100 billion investment with taxes

:06:10.:06:12.

from increased employment. His comments come amidst calls

:06:13.:06:13.

for unity in the party, following a divisive

:06:14.:06:16.

leadership campaign. There is a re-invention of

:06:17.:06:29.

politicsment for a long period of time, we have had politicians

:06:30.:06:32.

talking down to us and politics coming from above and solutions

:06:33.:06:37.

coming from above. What Jeremy has done, he has unleashed all these

:06:38.:06:41.

ideas coming from just ordinary people saying, "I've got a problem

:06:42.:06:45.

with housing. How do we sort it out?" Well, we build council house.

:06:46.:06:50.

My rent is too high. They used to have rent controls. Those solutions

:06:51.:06:55.

are coming from the people themselves.

:06:56.:07:00.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:07:01.:07:02.

Tony said, "I support Jeremy Corbyn. Like me, he is a socialist." This

:07:03.:07:13.

texter says, "I will never vote for Labour as long as Jeremy Corbyn is

:07:14.:07:20.

leader and Momentum should be classed as a terrorist movement with

:07:21.:07:24.

all the threats and death threats and deselection of Labour MPs." Next

:07:25.:07:29.

text this is, "Lesser men than Mr Corbyn would have walked away with

:07:30.:07:36.

all the abuse he has received from the right-wing media."

:07:37.:07:46.

Tributes are being paid for one of golf's first

:07:47.:07:55.

sporting superstars, Arnold Palmer who has

:07:56.:07:56.

His golfing genius saw him win seven major titles but he will also be

:07:57.:08:01.

remembered for his huge personality, the photogenic golfer bursting out

:08:02.:08:03.

of black and white television sets in the late fifities and sixties,

:08:04.:08:06.

popularizing the game around the globe.

:08:07.:08:08.

He grew the sport commercially too, a real trailblazer on and off

:08:09.:08:11.

the course, the sport's first big superstar of the television age.

:08:12.:08:13.

President Barack Obama tweeted a great picture of the pair of them

:08:14.:08:17.

He said, "Here's to The King who was as extraordinary on the links

:08:18.:08:28.

The former World number one and 14 time major winner Tiger Woods said,

:08:29.:08:36.

"Thanks Arnold for your friendship, counsel and a lot of laughs.

:08:37.:08:38.

Your philantrophy and humility are part of your legend.

:08:39.:08:40.

It's hard to imagine golf without you or anyone more important

:08:41.:08:43.

Will miss that vice handshake and glint in your eye

:08:44.:08:48.

Meanwhile one of the sport's current superstars Rory McIlroy,

:08:49.:09:00.

He did so much for golf when golf needed him. He brought golf to the

:09:01.:09:10.

masses. He leaves a legacy that no one else in any sport can leave. I

:09:11.:09:16.

think he left the biggest legacy of any sports star over the past

:09:17.:09:19.

century and what he has done for us, for the game of golf, for charity,

:09:20.:09:23.

he was such a generous man, so charismatic. Everyone loved him. And

:09:24.:09:27.

I was lucky enough to spend sometime with him and you know, those are

:09:28.:09:32.

memories I'll have for the rest of my life.

:09:33.:09:36.

McIlroy was speaking after winning the PGA

:09:37.:09:38.

Tour Championship in Atlanta for the first time in his career.

:09:39.:09:41.

The win means he also takes home the lucrative FedEx Cup.

:09:42.:09:44.

The world number three has been in fine form with the Ryder Cup

:09:45.:09:47.

This eagle on the 16th helped him force a play-off

:09:48.:09:51.

with American Ryan Moore and McIlroy held his nerve to win

:09:52.:09:53.

Manchester City Women have won the Women's Super League

:09:54.:09:57.

Unbeaten City needed to avoid defeat against defending champions Chelsea.

:09:58.:10:02.

A 2-0 win sealed the title with one game to spare.

:10:03.:10:06.

They can do the domestic double too when they face Birmingham

:10:07.:10:08.

in the Continental Cup final on Sunday.

:10:09.:10:14.

There is some girls that haven't played as much as they want to.

:10:15.:10:21.

People have started every single game. They are such a good bunch and

:10:22.:10:25.

they want us to be successful and that's part of having a winning team

:10:26.:10:29.

is that everyone is on the same page and wanting to win trophies.

:10:30.:10:33.

That's the sport for now. Thank you very much.

:10:34.:10:37.

The owner of Alton Towers, Merlin, will be sentenced today

:10:38.:10:39.

after admitting health and safety breaches which led to the crash of

:10:40.:10:42.

18-year-old Leah Washington and 20-year-old Vicky Balch both

:10:43.:10:56.

had to have a leg amputated after the smash and three others

:10:57.:10:59.

Vicky Balch told us about the impact of the crash in an exclusive

:11:00.:11:03.

I was, I had my friends there and I just slept.

:11:04.:11:08.

I didn't, I couldn't really sleep to them or do anything.

:11:09.:11:11.

And then obviously you realise that something wasn't right and told

:11:12.:11:13.

the surgeon and they said if there is sign of infection

:11:14.:11:16.

would you sign for me to amputate and I said yes, because I couldn't

:11:17.:11:19.

I had gone back to having people, like I had to sit down and someone

:11:20.:11:24.

had to hold my leg and someone else had to wheel me.

:11:25.:11:27.

When you woke up after the operation, when your leg had

:11:28.:11:37.

been amputated, what did you, what were your initial

:11:38.:11:49.

My mum was on this side of me and the nurse there.

:11:50.:11:59.

So I knew the nurse quite well, I was in there for that long that

:12:00.:12:03.

I got to know them really well and they just sort of looked at me

:12:04.:12:07.

and they were upset and so then I got upset and said hang

:12:08.:12:10.

I looked down and I looked at my leg and it was a relief.

:12:11.:12:15.

It was a relief not to have it there because eventually

:12:16.:12:17.

I would be able to walk again with a prosthetic.

:12:18.:12:20.

Our correspondent Phil Mackie is at Stafford Crown

:12:21.:12:22.

This is a really important day. HSE as well, the Health and Safety

:12:23.:12:29.

Executive that's bringing the case have arrived this morning. We have

:12:30.:12:34.

seen all of the victims arriving including Vicky Balch and Leah

:12:35.:12:38.

Washington, the two girls who were in the front row of the Smiler

:12:39.:12:44.

carriage who both lost a leg. And the other people who were seriously

:12:45.:12:49.

injured. What is going to go on is a sentencing hearing which will last

:12:50.:12:53.

today and possibly tomorrow in which first we'll hear the HSE outline

:12:54.:12:57.

what happened that particular day. What we've heard in the past was

:12:58.:13:02.

that there was operator error that led to an empty carriage being

:13:03.:13:05.

stalled on the track and nobody who was running the ride being aware it

:13:06.:13:09.

was there. So they set this particular carriage, carrying 16

:13:10.:13:12.

people, off on the track and it crashed into it at a speed of up to

:13:13.:13:17.

50mph. We don't know the exact details, we don't know what went

:13:18.:13:21.

wrong, whether there was something wrong in the training or the design

:13:22.:13:25.

of the ride itself which is one of the most popular and one of the

:13:26.:13:31.

biggest rollercoasters in Europe. We would then expect to hear mitigation

:13:32.:13:36.

on behalf of Merlin Entear inamount and the judge will retire to

:13:37.:13:39.

consider what sentence to hand out. We are thinking that it could be a

:13:40.:13:44.

hefty fine for Merlin Entertainments. It is likely that we

:13:45.:13:47.

will hear statements from the victims as well as as the operator

:13:48.:13:52.

of the theme park afterwards to react. That could happen today. It

:13:53.:13:57.

could easily happen tomorrow. The case is due to start shortly and

:13:58.:14:01.

we'll be bringing you updates throughout the day.

:14:02.:14:07.

This morning fresh and startling claims about Concentrix,

:14:08.:14:12.

the firm used by the Government to cut tax credit payments.

:14:13.:14:15.

This programme can reveal that Concentrix staff have been told

:14:16.:14:17.

to keep "suicidal" claimants on the phone until police

:14:18.:14:19.

In an exclusive interview a whistleblower told us claimants

:14:20.:14:23.

"screamed" at call-centre workers after their tax credits were cut,

:14:24.:14:25.

claiming "hundreds" of households had not received advance warning

:14:26.:14:27.

We were dealing with people claiming that they were

:14:28.:14:31.

You have to try to keep them on the phone while the manager

:14:32.:14:36.

phoned the police to go to their address to

:14:37.:14:38.

Some of the people we were dealing with, the suicide calls,

:14:39.:14:43.

were not even given a back-up, were not given after-care

:14:44.:14:45.

by the after-care team for taking suicide calls.

:14:46.:14:48.

Most of the people weren't even trained in how to deal

:14:49.:14:51.

They were just told, "Oh, go out and have a smoke,

:14:52.:14:58.

come back, you will be fine, deal with another 40 or 50 calls".

:14:59.:15:01.

Just to get this clear - you had people that were suicidal

:15:02.:15:04.

on the phone to you and your managers would say, "Keep them

:15:05.:15:07.

on the phone whilst we phone the police and get the police

:15:08.:15:10.

round the house so they don't kill themselves"?

:15:11.:15:12.

Yeah, and even in some cases, the claimant was not at the address

:15:13.:15:16.

They were in family's houses because they did not have the money

:15:17.:15:23.

to top up their phones to pay their phone bills so they had

:15:24.:15:26.

Concentrix told us their staff are trained following

:15:27.:15:42.

She's asked us not to use her real name.

:15:43.:15:54.

She claims tax credits for her 20 month-old daughter.

:15:55.:15:54.

Welcome to the programme. You were initially investigated by Concentrix

:15:55.:16:09.

for undisclosed partners? , they were previous tenants who had never

:16:10.:16:15.

met. But they are reinstating your payments? Yes, they said my back pay

:16:16.:16:29.

will be spread over ?3 a week and not in a lump sum. That is not

:16:30.:16:36.

helpful to you? Yes, it is devastating. You have to make

:16:37.:16:42.

decisions on what bills to pay. ?3 a week will not cover the minimum

:16:43.:16:47.

repayments for banking arrears and also to be paid back. It is

:16:48.:16:52.

difficult to cover everything you glossed over those weeks at ?3 a

:16:53.:16:57.

week. It just drives you further into poverty. What have they said to

:16:58.:17:04.

you? Basically the system said no. The system generates how much you

:17:05.:17:11.

are owed and lump sums are not available to everybody. It is

:17:12.:17:18.

bizarre. The Hague shams -- the HMRC statement it is says some will get a

:17:19.:17:28.

lump sum. Any customers who are in hardship should contact the helpline

:17:29.:17:35.

and they can look at options to help customers. That is not applying to

:17:36.:17:42.

everyone, I have been turned down consistently for hardship payments,

:17:43.:17:45.

being told by her HMRC because Concentrix had ticked the box that

:17:46.:17:51.

said no to hardship payments. So I have not qualified for any

:17:52.:17:55.

additional support from her HMRC. What are you going to do? I will

:17:56.:18:01.

have to keep fighting. It is devastating. You have birthdays and

:18:02.:18:05.

Christmas coming and you do worry about how you will survive. Can I

:18:06.:18:10.

thank you for coming on the programme, thank you for your time.

:18:11.:18:13.

We wish you lots of luck. We will continue to follow the

:18:14.:18:30.

story. We have asked them to come on the programme ten times. Same with

:18:31.:18:36.

HMRC, asked them ten times and they have said no.

:18:37.:18:40.

How to stop the dramatic decline in African elephants?

:18:41.:18:46.

Plans to strengthen the international ban on ivory trade

:18:47.:18:52.

are being discussed today to try to stop the poaching.

:18:53.:18:56.

Actress and campaigner Virginia McKenna will be with us

:18:57.:19:00.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has defended his use of powerful steroid

:19:01.:19:07.

injections to treat asthma and allergies before

:19:08.:19:11.

Computer hackers leaked his confidential medical

:19:12.:19:23.

The stolen data reveals Sir Bradley Wiggins was given position to inject

:19:24.:19:31.

the banned steroid just days before three major races. The 2011 and 2012

:19:32.:19:39.

Tour de France and the 2013 -year-old Italia. But in his

:19:40.:19:43.

autobiography, Bradley Wiggins describes his health in 2012 like

:19:44.:19:47.

this... I've done all the work, I was fine tuned, ready to go. My body

:19:48.:19:56.

was in good shape, the form of my life. I was only ill once or twice

:19:57.:20:04.

with minor colds, and I barely lost training. In an interview yesterday,

:20:05.:20:08.

he said he had been struggling with his breathing. It was prescribed for

:20:09.:20:12.

rest between problems. I have been a lifelong sufferer of asthma. I went

:20:13.:20:18.

to the team doctor at the time and in turn, went to a specialist to see

:20:19.:20:25.

if there was anything else we could do to cure these problems. He said,

:20:26.:20:30.

you will need authorisation from cycling's governing body. You did

:20:31.:20:34.

ask permission to take it? You have two show evidence that you have had

:20:35.:20:38.

this from a specialist and then three independent doctors will

:20:39.:20:41.

authorise you to take this product. Only then do you take the

:20:42.:20:50.

medication. In the same book, Sir Bradley Wiggins said he had never

:20:51.:20:54.

had an injection, apart from vaccinations and occasionally I have

:20:55.:20:58.

been put on a drip when I have come down with diarrhoea or been severely

:20:59.:21:03.

dehydrated. This contradicts what the Hack data says he had. This is

:21:04.:21:14.

how he explained it to Andrew Marr. In 2012 at the height of Lance

:21:15.:21:19.

Armstrong and just before the crash, as it were with him, have you ever

:21:20.:21:25.

used needles, it was always loaded questions with regards to doping.

:21:26.:21:29.

Intravenous injections of iron, no one asked the question. Have you had

:21:30.:21:34.

an injection by a medical professional to treat or cure a

:21:35.:21:39.

medical conditions. There are two sides to that and it was with a

:21:40.:21:47.

doping emphasis in the question. But some people say that response

:21:48.:21:52.

doesn't add up. Sir Bradley Wiggins, who won the BBC Sport personality of

:21:53.:22:00.

the year in 2012 says the drugs were used to level the playing field.

:22:01.:22:04.

This was to cure a medical condition and the governing body, the World

:22:05.:22:09.

Anti-Doping Agency said, this wasn't about trying to find a way to gain

:22:10.:22:16.

an unfair advantage, it was about putting myself back on a living

:22:17.:22:21.

playing field to compete at the highest level. World Anti-Doping

:22:22.:22:25.

Agency rules on obtaining a therapeutic use exemption, highlight

:22:26.:22:31.

it must not produce an additional enhancement of performance. This is

:22:32.:22:38.

what the doctor were Bradley Wiggins finished fourth in the 2009 Tour de

:22:39.:22:44.

France told Newsnight. I was surprised to see there were TUEs

:22:45.:22:53.

documented just before three major events, two Tour de France and

:22:54.:22:59.

another race. We have to think it is coincidental big dose of a big dose

:23:00.:23:06.

of this would be needed at that time of year, at that exact time, before

:23:07.:23:14.

the most important race of the season. No doubt in my mind, this is

:23:15.:23:21.

very, very strong. It is performance enhancing. It was postponed the

:23:22.:23:27.

sensation of fatigue, increase your recovery speed and most importantly,

:23:28.:23:40.

it would quite easily may be one or two K. David Miller has prescribed

:23:41.:23:46.

the power enhancing side-effects of the and cannot fathom why a doctor

:23:47.:23:53.

would prescribe it so close to a race. There is no suggestion form

:23:54.:24:05.

Team Sky or Bradley Wiggins have broken any rules.

:24:06.:24:10.

Worth pointing out that Bradley Wiggins wasn't specifically

:24:11.:24:14.

asked about those questions in depth during his interview

:24:15.:24:17.

with Andrew Marr, and that he insists he has stayed

:24:18.:24:20.

within both the letter and the spirit of the laws.

:24:21.:24:23.

We can speak now to Dr Michael Hutchinson.

:24:24.:24:27.

He's a former TeamGB cyclist turned journalist.

:24:28.:24:31.

And the Welsh Olympic cyclist Louise Jones

:24:32.:24:35.

who knew Bradley Wiggins when he was growing up.

:24:36.:24:38.

Thank you both for coming on the programme, Michael Hutchinson, what

:24:39.:24:44.

do you think? TUEs are grey areas and this is the explosion a lot of

:24:45.:24:53.

us have been waiting for. It is like the tax arrangements of some

:24:54.:24:56.

multinational companies who will be the letter of the law, perfectly

:24:57.:25:03.

legal. But a lot of people look and think, it doesn't feel right. That

:25:04.:25:08.

is the problem Bradley Wiggins has here. What do you think about him

:25:09.:25:14.

using this drug, a strong drug just before his hardest races. Apparently

:25:15.:25:18.

he doesn't need the medication after those races? One of the things that

:25:19.:25:24.

concerns people, it has been used in doping programmes in the past. You

:25:25.:25:30.

would expect it to be more of an issue. I am not a medical doctor, I

:25:31.:25:36.

am a doctor of something else entirely. But equally, I can see if

:25:37.:25:39.

you are genuinely concerned about asthma and allergies, the three

:25:40.:25:43.

weeks of the year he would be most concerned would be the three weeks

:25:44.:25:50.

of your biggest race. It is an angle that has come up quite frequently.

:25:51.:25:55.

People who don't suffer from asthma don't know what it feels like when

:25:56.:26:00.

symptoms come out of nowhere and you are struggling to breathe. The

:26:01.:26:03.

medication alleviates all of this. These same people don't have the

:26:04.:26:08.

right to criticise Bradley Wiggins for what could be a life-threatening

:26:09.:26:13.

conditions. Louise Jones, as the Sunday Times journalist said, does

:26:14.:26:24.

it look bad to you or not? Does it look bad to you? I think there is

:26:25.:26:37.

more read into this ban has actually happened. He has done everything by

:26:38.:26:42.

the letter of the law, he does suffer from asthma. I have seen

:26:43.:26:47.

people suffering from asthma who have not had medication. It is not a

:26:48.:26:53.

nice site. Only two weeks ago, we had to get an ambulance out to

:26:54.:26:59.

someone I get them to the emergency department very quickly. So a race

:27:00.:27:04.

like the Tour de France, anything you can do to make sure you are not

:27:05.:27:12.

going to be ill, it is something any athlete at that level will do within

:27:13.:27:18.

the rules of the sport and that is what he's done. Apparently he didn't

:27:19.:27:24.

need this steroid in 2009 in the Tour de France? Things change all

:27:25.:27:29.

the time, different conditions, different stresses, coming into the

:27:30.:27:34.

team as team leader. Asthma is related to stress as well. I think

:27:35.:27:41.

Team Sky were at a higher level than other teams were, looking after

:27:42.:27:44.

their cyclists in making sure everything was OK beforehand.

:27:45.:27:51.

Michael, is there any contradiction to you in that biography that was

:27:52.:27:57.

written for him, that he was in the form of his life before the 2012

:27:58.:28:04.

Tour de France, no sign of breathing problems? It does seem in

:28:05.:28:08.

consistent, I appreciate it was written by a ghost writer but it

:28:09.:28:15.

does have his name on it and he was involved in the writing process. I

:28:16.:28:18.

would have thought the breathing problems he described would have

:28:19.:28:21.

been a serious concern running into an event like the Tour de France. At

:28:22.:28:29.

the time he wrote this, maybe he was glossing over it because he doesn't

:28:30.:28:34.

want to give future riders any hope than they have already got. But

:28:35.:28:39.

also, to strive against the use of needles when they were being used

:28:40.:28:42.

for things like injections. It doesn't seem to me to quite

:28:43.:28:45.

necessarily quite square up. Thank you both. Michael Hutchinson, former

:28:46.:28:53.

Team GB cyclist and no journalist and the former Olympic cyclist,

:28:54.:28:54.

Louise Jones. And of course - Sir Bradley Wiggins

:28:55.:29:01.

therapeutic use exemptions were approved by British authorities

:29:02.:29:04.

and cycling's world There is no suggestion that either

:29:05.:29:07.

he or Team Sky, his former team, This has been reported by the

:29:08.:29:18.

Associated Press. An Egyptian health Ministry official said a total of

:29:19.:29:22.

170 bodies have been pulled from the water is five days after a boat

:29:23.:29:29.

carrying hundreds of migrants capsized in the Mediterranean while

:29:30.:29:33.

attempting to head to Europe. They say the numbers of dead are expected

:29:34.:29:39.

to rise, as many bodies are believed to be trapped inside the boat's

:29:40.:29:42.

refrigerator, the official said. The boat capsizing five days ago and now

:29:43.:29:47.

170 bodies have been pulled from the waters, according to an Egyptian

:29:48.:29:50.

health ministry official in Cairo. News and sport coming up in the next

:29:51.:29:56.

few minutes. Remember this photo that went viral a few weeks ago? It

:29:57.:30:02.

shows an elderly couple in tears as they were forced to live in separate

:30:03.:30:07.

care homes in Canada. The wasn't the room for them to be in the same one.

:30:08.:30:15.

The photo went viral after their granddaughter shared it, calling it

:30:16.:30:19.

the saddest photo I have ever seen. The couple, who have been married

:30:20.:30:24.

for 60 years, spends very little time apart until they were separated

:30:25.:30:27.

eight months ago because there wasn't room for them in the same

:30:28.:30:29.

home. I'm here now. This is the binning of

:30:30.:30:48.

the line. -- beginning of the line.

:30:49.:30:54.

All right. OK.

:30:55.:31:03.

That was the couple. She said to her when she had her hands on his face,

:31:04.:31:11.

"Look at me. I love you." They are reunited and living in the same care

:31:12.:31:13.

home in Canada. Thank goodness. How to stop the dramatic decline

:31:14.:31:21.

in African elephants? Plans to strengthen

:31:22.:31:23.

the international ban on ivory trade are being discussed today

:31:24.:31:25.

to try to stop the poaching. Actress and campaigner

:31:26.:31:27.

Virginia McKenna will be with us And 100 million people will be

:31:28.:31:30.

tuning in to the first US Presidential TV debate tonight

:31:31.:31:38.

to watch Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton go

:31:39.:31:40.

head-to-head for 90 minutes. We'll be live in the

:31:41.:31:41.

states at 10.45am. With the news here's Joanna

:31:42.:31:49.

in the BBC Newsroom. New and startling claims have

:31:50.:31:51.

emerged this morning about Concentrix, the firm

:31:52.:31:55.

used by the Government This programme can reveal the firm

:31:56.:31:57.

have been told to keep "suicidal" claimants on the phone until police

:31:58.:32:04.

arrive at their homes. A whistleblower has told us

:32:05.:32:07.

they received hundreds of calls from distressed people who had not

:32:08.:32:09.

received advance warning that their payments would end,

:32:10.:32:11.

with some people screaming Concentrix say their staff

:32:12.:32:13.

follow the guidelines. Excavation work will begin

:32:14.:32:18.

on the Greek island of Kos today, as part of the search

:32:19.:32:22.

for the British toddler Ben Needham Police say new information

:32:23.:32:24.

suggests he could have been Ben's mother Kerry Needham has been

:32:25.:32:28.

told to "prepare for the worst" There was a team here

:32:29.:32:32.

in 2012 doing a search of an area of land just over

:32:33.:32:40.

to my right, over there. That was based on the information

:32:41.:32:43.

that was known at that time. A very thorough and intricate

:32:44.:32:45.

search took place. A number of items were found

:32:46.:32:47.

during that search which now bear significance having had opportunity

:32:48.:32:50.

to do the investigate that we've As a result of that,

:32:51.:32:53.

and the new information which came to light in May, that is why

:32:54.:33:02.

the decision has been made to search the area of land

:33:03.:33:05.

that we are now doing. Theresa May's supporters have hit

:33:06.:33:09.

back at claims she was branded "lily-livered" by former

:33:10.:33:12.

Prime Minister David Cameron after urging him to take a softer

:33:13.:33:15.

line on immigration during EU negotiations before

:33:16.:33:20.

June's referendum. Sources close to Mrs May say

:33:21.:33:22.

she wrote to Mr Cameron making the case for what was described

:33:23.:33:25.

as an "emergency brake" to curb the number of people coming

:33:26.:33:28.

to the UK from the rest of Europe. The Shadow Chancellor,

:33:29.:33:32.

John McDonnell, has told BBC News that Britain

:33:33.:33:33.

should increase borrowing in the short-term in order to create

:33:34.:33:41.

a "manufacturing renaissance". Mr McDonnell said that he would pay

:33:42.:33:43.

for the ?100 billion investment with taxes

:33:44.:33:46.

from increased employment. Speaking to the BBC's

:33:47.:33:48.

political Guru Norman Smith, John McDonnell said he believed

:33:49.:33:50.

Jeremy Corbyn was introducing For a long period

:33:51.:33:52.

of time, we have had politicians talking down to us and politics

:33:53.:34:07.

coming from above and solutions What Jeremy has done,

:34:08.:34:10.

he has unleashed all these ideas coming from just ordinary people

:34:11.:34:13.

saying, "I've got Those solutions are coming

:34:14.:34:15.

from the people themselves. 170 bodies have been pulled from the

:34:16.:34:37.

water in the Mediterranean. The death toll is expected to rise as

:34:38.:34:40.

many bodies are believed to be trapped inside the boat. Four men

:34:41.:34:44.

have been arrested in Egypt on suspicion of people-trafficking.

:34:45.:34:48.

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

:34:49.:34:52.

Thank you very much. Jackie e-mailed on Concentrix, "I had a letter

:34:53.:35:01.

investigating my tax credits, saying they suspected I was in a

:35:02.:35:04.

relationship. I work full-time and I have two teenage daughters and I

:35:05.:35:07.

have been divorced for two years. The letter they send you is very

:35:08.:35:11.

accusing and details what they do if you are found to be falsie claiming,

:35:12.:35:17.

but nothing about if they're wrong which makes you feel guilty even

:35:18.:35:22.

though you're doing nothing wrong. "This texter says, "Tanya said she

:35:23.:35:27.

needed her tax credits for Christmas and birthdays, I assumed tax credits

:35:28.:35:31.

were needed for basics and not luxuries."

:35:32.:35:35.

Tributes are pouring in for the golfer Arnold palmer,

:35:36.:35:42.

The American won seven golf Majors, but will be remembered not only

:35:43.:35:47.

for his golfing genius, but his huge personality

:35:48.:35:49.

which helped grow the game during the 50s and 60s.

:35:50.:35:52.

Rory McIlroy won the Fed Ex Cup overnight.

:35:53.:35:56.

The PGA's season long points race -

:35:57.:35:59.

after victory in the Tour Championship.

:36:00.:36:02.

He came from three shots behind to win a cool ?7.7 million.

:36:03.:36:08.

Manchester City's women won the their first Superleague

:36:09.:36:13.

title after beating Chelsea Ladies 2-0.

:36:14.:36:17.

They've gone the whole season unbeaten and have the chance

:36:18.:36:22.

of more silverware in the Cup Final next month.

:36:23.:36:24.

And 16 time World champion Phil the Power Taylor won

:36:25.:36:26.

the first PDC Champions League of darts in Cardiff

:36:27.:36:29.

beating world number one Michael Vann Gerwen in the final.

:36:30.:36:32.

And that's all the sport. Back to you.

:36:33.:36:34.

Thank you very much, John. When a judge was sentencing

:36:35.:36:38.

Christopher Halliwell last week for the murder of Becky Godden

:36:39.:36:40.

he said "but for your confession I have no doubt Becky's remains

:36:41.:36:43.

would never have been found". That confession and another

:36:44.:36:49.

to the murder of Sian O'Callaghan were made to the Wiltshire Police

:36:50.:36:53.

officer, Steve Fulcher. But because he did not follow police

:36:54.:36:56.

guidelines neither confession could be used in court

:36:57.:37:00.

and he was convicted of Sian's murder on the basis

:37:01.:37:02.

of different evidence. A judge only allowed the evidence to

:37:03.:37:12.

be becaused in Becky's case many years later after being convinced

:37:13.:37:15.

that Christopher Halliwell lied to the court.

:37:16.:37:17.

Detective superintendent Steve Fulcher resigned

:37:18.:37:18.

from the police after being disciplined for gross misconduct.

:37:19.:37:21.

He has been speaking to the Today programme.

:37:22.:37:27.

He had been interviewed and had declined to answer any questions as

:37:28.:37:35.

to secure the safety of Sian O'Callaghan. I pleaded with him for

:37:36.:37:41.

Sian O'Callaghan's life and after a period of time, all he said was,

:37:42.:37:46.

"Have you got a car? We'll go." On that basis, I followed him and

:37:47.:37:53.

allowed him to direct us to the White Horse where Sian O'Callaghan's

:37:54.:37:57.

body was found. But there was a moment when it became apparent that

:37:58.:38:00.

Sian must be dead? Yes. Because of what he said. Now that was the point

:38:01.:38:06.

when under the rules of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, PACE, you

:38:07.:38:10.

should have according to the judge and according to senior police

:38:11.:38:13.

officers, you should have further cautioned him as I understand it and

:38:14.:38:17.

offered him a lawyer and you decided not to do that. What I want to know,

:38:18.:38:23.

you might have had justifiable reasons for doing that, not least

:38:24.:38:26.

because he hinted there were more and there was Becky Godden's body

:38:27.:38:29.

who you found, but I wonder if you knew at the time that you were in

:38:30.:38:33.

danger of jeopardising the legal course of the case? No, not at all.

:38:34.:38:38.

The judgement was flawed. The only time I knew that Sian O'Callaghan

:38:39.:38:42.

was dead was at such time as a doctor and a paramedic certified her

:38:43.:38:46.

death. Any other assumption would have led to her death.

:38:47.:38:51.

So you say that at the time, you had to, you were doing what you should

:38:52.:38:54.

have done as a police officer? Exactly. He offered you also the

:38:55.:38:58.

information that led to the finding of Becky Godden? He did. All he said

:38:59.:39:03.

was, "You and I ought to have a chat. ." Following which he said,

:39:04.:39:08.

"Do you want another one?" When I spoke to the later detective

:39:09.:39:16.

in the case last week, he said that the breach of police guidelines was

:39:17.:39:20.

dealt with appropriately by the original trial judge and the

:39:21.:39:23.

original trial judge, of course, ruled all that evidence

:39:24.:39:28.

inadmissible? Quite and this is the fundamental point. There is a flaw

:39:29.:39:33.

in PACE That's the Police and Criminal Evidence Act... Doesn't

:39:34.:39:36.

allow police officers to act in the interests of parties who are

:39:37.:39:39.

threatened, their life is threatened and it is particularly pertinent in

:39:40.:39:43.

crimes in action in kidnap cases and in terrorism offences. There are no

:39:44.:39:47.

mechanisms under PACE to save the life of this party. Your argument is

:39:48.:39:51.

what, you should have had the discretion to go with it? That's

:39:52.:39:55.

right. And there is precedent, there is legal precedent in this before

:39:56.:39:59.

the European Court. But even in the later case, the judge still ruled,

:40:00.:40:02.

the only reason it was allowed, this evidence was allowed in the later

:40:03.:40:06.

case, was because the judge said that Christopher Halliwell had lied

:40:07.:40:10.

and therefore, on that basis this could be shown to the jury? That's

:40:11.:40:16.

right. That's how PACE is framed. This is a straight choice between a

:40:17.:40:21.

victim's right to life and an offender's right to silence. Do you

:40:22.:40:24.

think you have been hung out to dry over this? Well, I have. Because you

:40:25.:40:29.

were found guilty of gross misconduct? No investigation was

:40:30.:40:35.

conducted from Wiltshire Police from the time I left that force in May

:40:36.:40:39.

2011 until February 2014. No investigation.

:40:40.:40:44.

That's former Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher talking

:40:45.:40:49.

to Sarah Montague. Wiltshire Police acknowledged the

:40:50.:40:52.

case had been a difficult and challenging one for everyone

:40:53.:40:56.

involved and they said, "Any potential police officer, the

:40:57.:40:59.

objective would be to locate the victim and safeguard them from harm

:41:00.:41:03.

which tragically could not happen in this case."

:41:04.:41:09.

Should there be a ban on all ivory products?

:41:10.:41:11.

That's the question being raised at an international conference

:41:12.:41:13.

An estimated 30,000 elephants are being killed for their tusks

:41:14.:41:18.

every year with 70% thought to be sold to China where

:41:19.:41:20.

In a moment we'll talk to Virginia McKenna

:41:21.:41:25.

from the Born Free Foundation, but first let's take

:41:26.:41:27.

a look at why the plight of elephants is in the agenda,

:41:28.:41:30.

and a warning that our film we're about to show contains flashing

:41:31.:41:33.

images and distressing scenes from the start.

:41:34.:42:04.

We have been flying along this flood plain that divides

:42:05.:42:07.

All the way along here, we have been seeing carcasses of elephants,

:42:08.:42:13.

some four months old, some less than a week old.

:42:14.:42:15.

Poaching and traffic in wildlife is now a branch of

:42:16.:42:46.

The fight against it will be won by alliances

:42:47.:42:50.

If this current rate continues, within nine years, Africa could be

:42:51.:43:50.

left with half of the current estimate of African elements.

:43:51.:43:55.

Materialistic greed cannot be allowed to win against our moral

:43:56.:43:57.

duty to protect threatened species and vulnerable communities.

:43:58.:44:20.

With us now, Virginia McKenna from the Born Free Foundation.

:44:21.:44:34.

Philip Mansbridge, the UK Director of the International Fund

:44:35.:44:38.

And from Johannesburg, Steve Njumbi who heads up elephant

:44:39.:44:46.

conservation projects in East Africa and Heather Sohl

:44:47.:44:49.

And on the phone we're joined by Emmaunel Fundir,

:44:50.:44:56.

President Of Safari Operator Association in Zimbabwe.

:44:57.:44:57.

Welcome all of you. The proposals from some of these countries is that

:44:58.:45:06.

the ivory trade should continue, why should there be a ban? It is

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obvious. If you will leave an even larger loophole for the illegal

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trade to continue, it will continue and in a short space of time, as we

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have just learned, there will be no elephants left. It is imperative

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there is a total ban on the ivory trade. Most African countries, which

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of course is where the African elephants live, also want back.

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There is only three countries in Africa but don't want it. It is a

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big minority. So Born Free Foundation were 100% behind the 100%

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band. Do talk to Virginia McKenna about her call for a total ban on

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the ivory trade. On the phone, I think he is, can you hear us?

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Perhaps the phone line has gone down. Are you there? We will try and

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get him back. Philip, one of the issues that will be brought up in

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this conference is about making all elephants highly protected. Why are

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elephants in some countries endangered and protected, but not in

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others? This is the disparity and why would like to see this total

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protection. There are different populations and some of them, they

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will say they are in growth and there should be some kind of trade

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allowed. But that elephant doesn't know which country he is in at that

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time. The elephants naturally migrate across borders and it makes

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no sense that in one country they will be protected and then cross an

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invisible border into the next country, and they wouldn't. We have

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to look at the populations themselves rather than these

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political boundaries. One elephant every 15 minutes killed. What more

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do you need to afford better protection than a statement like

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that. Heather, what is it you want to come out of this conference? We

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know there is an existing international ban on the ivory trade

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and there is a proposal to put them on appendix one. But it is illegal

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to trade ivory internationally. So WWF once the focus to be on those

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countries where we are still seen rampant illegal ivory trade and

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there are 19 countries that have had to develop national ivory action

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plans that set out real measures that if implemented effectively,

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could change this disastrous poaching we are seeing. We need to

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see a focus in this conference and discussions around the issue, making

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sure countries take it seriously, put resources behind it and stop the

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illegal ivory trade. Steve, how do you stop the poachers? Well, there

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are several innovative ways we have been employing for the last two

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years. It is what you call community intelligence. Previously, law

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enforcement was confined to park Rangers or park officers. They have

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a limited amount of people who can do that kind of work. Through the

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communities, you have this wide network, for example, up to 300 game

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counts. Get this kind of support from the community and you have a

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very, very big advantage against any strangers who would come into an

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area. We are talking about expanding law enforcement by engaging with

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local communities, and also gather intelligence. What do you say to the

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argument that from some countries in southern Africa, if we regulate this

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as a trade, we can make elephant populations sustainable as well as

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having the trade in ivory? Can I answer that in a different way? We

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have talked a lot about numbers, export, legal and illegal. We're not

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talking about the elephant. Not talking about the individual animal

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that can suffer, and does suffer and die is for the sake of humans

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wanting money. It legally or legally. Many others thought the

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elephant to be one of the most extraordinary creatures on Earth,

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loving to its family, protecting the young and the old, respecting its

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dead, doing no harm to anyone. It is now being used like a bag of sugar

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on a shop shelf, it is quite disgraceful. The more I hear about

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and allowing more opportunities for trade, the more I am totally against

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it. Coming back to the sustainability. It is difficult,

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even if you take aside the amazing point

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Virginia makes about welfare and the structures of elephant families. It

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is difficult to run any parallel trade where you have a cloudy line

:50:38.:50:43.

between what is legal and illegal. We have seen stockpile sales in the

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past and they have been an epic failure. They are designed to flood

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the market, bring down demand and affect the price. But it is about

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enforcement on the ground. If the law is blurred, you cannot tell by

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looking at a product, if it has come from an ivory that is legally

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harvested, illegally harvested, what country, it is impossible to tell,

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it makes no sense. Can you see a total ban on the ivory trade in your

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lifetime? There has to be, because I am quite old. It is imperative there

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is a ban. As far as stockpiles are concerned, them. Everything. I think

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we now finally have our guest on the phone. Hopefully you can hear us in

:51:34.:51:38.

Zimbabwe, thanks for talking to others. My guests want a total ban

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on the ivory trade, why do you say no to that? For a number of reasons.

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The statement is based on people with information and the wildlife as

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an industry. We have a big population of elephants. We have

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84,000 in an area the size of which cannot sustain that level of

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elephants. If I can give an example, prior to 1980, we had the population

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of 1600 elephants in the whole country. Now we're talking about

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84,000 elements in the same habitat. -- elephants. I am going to pause it

:52:24.:52:39.

because it is hard to hear. I know you are saying in 1980 there were

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1600 elephants in Zimbabwe. Now there are 80 4000. He could have

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been 64,000, but a healthy population? Yes, it is fantastic

:52:50.:52:53.

news that individual population has grown. There is only around 350,000

:52:54.:52:58.

elephants left in the wild. The recent survey that came out a few

:52:59.:53:05.

weeks ago, revealed in the last seven years, in the country survey

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they had lost 30% of their populations. These consumers, do

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they know where the ivory is sourced from, even though you take on the

:53:14.:53:19.

welfare issues, do they know where it is sourced from? How can they

:53:20.:53:26.

tell if they are buying good, illegal ivory, if there were such a

:53:27.:53:32.

thing or ivory that is propping up a barbaric trade in poaching? Going to

:53:33.:53:38.

leave it there, thanks for coming on the programme. Thanks to our guests

:53:39.:53:40.

in Johannesburg as well. News just in. The BBC says Matt Le

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Blanc has signed a two series deal to host Top Gear. He will host the

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programme when it returns a four 24th series in 2017. He was one of

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the main hosts went Top Gear relaunched, alongside Chris Evans

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who quit in July. Matt Le Blanc will be the main presenter of top gay in

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a two series deal. US Presidential hopefuls

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head in their first

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TV debate tonight. More than 100 million

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people in the US alone are expected to tune in -

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that's an audience to rival the Superbowl, the biggest TV event

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in America's calendar. Trump and Clinton will face a 90

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minute grilling live So how will they be

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preparing for it? Look at those hands, are they small

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hands? And, he referred to in my hands if they are small. If they are

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small, something else must be small. I guarantee there is no problem. You

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can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call a basket of

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deplorable is. Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic,

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Islamophobic, you name it. Of course so much has changed

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since those debates, Have a look at this

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picture of Hilary Clinton. where everyone has her back

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to her so they can take a selfie. We can speak now to Matt Keelan,

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a Republican political strategist who works for the Trump campaign,

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and Atima Omara, president of the Young Democrats of America

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and Clinton campaigner. Tell us about Donald Trump's tactics

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that this TV debate? He wants to come across as acting very

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presidential. Measured responses and get into some deep policy. Also, I

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think he will want to prosecute the last eight years of failure on the

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economy and failure on the world stage. At the end of the day, the

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American people want a change. This is a change election and the only

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change agent on the stage will be Donald Trump. How does Hillary

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Clinton prepare to debate someone who is pretty unpredictable and

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doesn't play by the normal rules? Hillary is going to prepare the two

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Donald Trump 's. Talked about his hands and makes a lot of off-colour

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jokes and someone who has been a bit more sedate in the last weeks. No

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idea what to expect. We will be presenting our detailed plans we

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have been talking about since the beginning of the primary. What she

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is going to do for America. How will Donald Trump deal with the host, we

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have seen him attacked jealous who have hosted the sessions before? We

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have seen him go on the offensive and start attacking, it is much more

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likely he will attack the moderator than he does attack Hillary Clinton.

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He will try to come across as measured. We have had instances in

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the past were a debate moderator has put their finger on the scale. How

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important is this TV debate when the polls are pretty neck and neck? I

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think this debate will be very important. Clinton has been going up

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in the polls in the most recent weeks. For her, it is setting the

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tone for the rest of the next couple of debates coming up. How

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significant, what would you say? As Donald Trump will say, it is going

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to be huge, huge. 100 million people, bigger than the Super Bowl.

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This is where Donald Trump puts the campaign away with a great

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performance tonight on the debate stage. Thank you very much for your

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time. Thanks for your company today. Tomorrow we will bring you the

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