07/12/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

It's Wednesday, it's 9am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

This morning, he shot a fatally wounded a Taliban

fighter in cold blood, but should this man,

His case has been referred to for appeal.

In his first TV interview we'll talk to Marine A's commanding officer

who resigned in protest of his treatment.

And more questions over the actions of Crewe boss Dario Gradi

and whether he did enough to prevent sexual abuse at the club.

We'll bring you our exclusive story shortly.

Also on the programme, we follow the former boxing promoter

Kelly Malonie as she takes some of her old clothes

I was once the finest nern England. I was once a boxing promoter, but I

had an issue with my life. I believe I was born in the wrong body and

throughout my life I struggled and I came to terms with myself and I

transitioned. Plus a little later in the programme

we'll bring you the first interview with three families of victims

of serial killer Stephen Port. They've told us they're all planning

on suing the Met Police And as always, you can get in touch

on all the stories we're talking about this morning, use

the hashtag Victoria Live and If you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate. More than 50 people have been killed

in Indonesia after a strong earthquake struck the northern

province of Aceh - the area of the country devastated

by a tsunami in 2004. Many more people are thought to be

trapped in the rubble The region has borne the brunt

of this morning's earthquake. Local officials say

many lives have been It's feared more people could be

trapped beneath the rubble. It struck at dawn as many people

were preparing for morning prayers. TRANSLATION: This morning I received

the report about the earthquake. And I've already ordered

all agencies to take action. And soon the chief of presidential

staff will be going there. The earthquake struck offshore,

about 170 kilometres from the city of Banda Aceh,

the capital of Aceh Province on the Sumatra island,

measuring a magnitude of 6.4. The effects were felt

across much of the province. This area was devastated 12 years

ago, when an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 triggered

a tsunami that killed 170,000 People fled the streets,

forced from their homes. Emergency workers try to help

and assess the damage. So far, several people have

been taken to hospital. And others try and leave the area,

fearing further after-shocks. Indonesian's meteorological agency

said there is no risk of the tsunami but there has been an appeal

for more people to come and help in the search and rescue as they try

and cope with the scale Our reporter Mehulika Sitepu is in

the Indonesian capital Jakarta. What is the latest on the rescue

efforts? Oh, well, heavy machinery is now being used to help escavate

the rubble and more machinery are sent to the district because they

are short of escavators. The Chief-of-Staff is heading to the

area to report to the president so that they can plan what they can do

to the area and people affected with the quake. And what about

aftershocks? It is reported at least five aftershocks happened after the

quake. I talked to one of the residents, so after the quake

happened, they actually ran out of their houses, fled to the higher

ground because they were afraid of a tsunami because they are still in

trauma of what happened in 2004. They say that even though emergency

tents, they are afraid to get into the tents or get into their houses

because they are traumatised that aftershocks or more quakes will

happen. Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary The number of patients waiting four

hours or more to be allocated a bed in hospitals in England has risen

significantly over A study of NHS England data by BBC

News shows that more than one in ten patients admitted for urgent care

last year faced long delays - that's almost a five-fold

increase since 2011. You've a beautiful

calendar for next year... By any standards, Norman Sykes

is extremely frail. At 92 he's had a series of strokes

and has dementia as a result. In March he was taken to a need

where, despite a doctor's warning that this life was at risk,

he had to wait for five hours I was shocked to find out

that he had to wait in a corridor. I was further exasperated that once

he was in A it then took another five hours before they were able

to find a bed and Mr Sykes' experience has become

increasingly the common. In 2010-2011, fewer than 100,000

people were kept on trolleys or temporary beds for longer

than the NHS' four hour maximum. By 2015-2016, it was more

than 470,000, although that number was slightly inflated by a new way

of calculating trolley waits. Patients on so-called trolley waits

are a symptom of a deeper problem. For safety and efficiency,

hospitals should have no more than 85% of their beds occupied,

but almost three-quarters of England's hospital trusts have

exceeded that figure. Health Service figures for Scotland,

Wales and Northern Ireland aren't directly comparable with England,

but do suggest an increasing Doctors say many hospitals

are already dangerously full. With winter coming, demand

is likely only to increase. Two drugs firms have been fined

almost ?90 million after hiking the cost of an anti-epilepsy

drug by up to 2006%. The Competition and Markets

Authority said drug-maker Pfizer and distributor Flynn Pharma broke

competition law in 2013 when they increased the cost

of a medicine used by around 48,000 Both companies say they will appeal

against the decision. The senior UN official in Yemen has

accused the world of turning a blind eye to a worsening humanitarian

disaster there after twenty Jamie McGoldrick told BBC News that

children were dying of hunger because the international response

was "extraordinarily underfunded". He said the country's infrastructure

had collapsed and more than half the population lacked

the means to sustain itself. And later in the programme,

Victoria will be talking to Oxfam to find out more

about the situation in Yemen. Government forces in Syria have

taken control of more rebel strongholds in the divided

city of Aleppo. Reports say they've captured five

more previously rebel-held areas, and now have control

of all of Aleppo's historic The army, which is being supported

by Russian forces, has now seized about seventy percent of territory

held by rebel forces in Aleppo Authorities in Bolivia have arrested

the head of the airline involved in last week's plane crash

in Colombia that killed 71 people including most

of the Brazilian football team, The plane, operated by the LaMia

airline, was flying from Bolivia to the city of Medellin

when it ran out of fuel. New powers to prevent people

being stalked are to be introduced Officers will be able to apply

for Stalking Protection Orders as soon as people raise the alarm,

which would ban suspects from approaching their targets

and sending them messages The move comes after the number

of stalking offences reported to police increased by more

than 1,000 over the past year. The Royal Navy's former flagship HMS

Illustrious will make its final voyage this morning when it sails

from Portsmouth on its The aircraft carrier

was decommissioned in 2014 after 32 years in service

in which it was deployed as far afield as the Falkland Islands

and the Persian Gulf. It had been hoped that the ship

could be kept in the UK, but last year the Government

announced it was being sold to a Turkish scrapyard

for ?2 million. That's a summary of the latest BBC

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

throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

and if you text, you will be charged Sad sad news. Good morning. Sad

news, indeed this morning. The Dubai ladies Masters first round was

suspended after the caddy of French player collapsed on the 13th

fairway. Here she is being consoled. We don't see her caddy. She has not

been named -- he has not been named as yet. He was treated by the

medical team in Dubai before he was taken to hospital where he died. The

tournament has been reduced. Play will resume. The European Tour

offered heartfelt condolences to the individual's family and loved ones.

Let's talk about the Champions League. What are the highlights?

Yes, it was a good night for Arsene Wenger. They went to Basel and won

4-1. They topped Group A. It was a special night for Lucas Perez. He

helped them finish top of their group for the first time in four

years. Paris St Germain drew. The Gunners to still face the likes of

Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, so they will be hoping for a favourable

draw. Manchester City finished second. They drew with Celtic who go

out of Europe altogether. Novak Djokovic is making changes to try to

get back to the number one spot in tennis? Indeed, Victoria. It has

been a difficult time of late for Novak Djokovic. I say difficult, but

he is still the world's number two player. The rise of Andy Murray has

been food for thought for Novak Djokovic. This time last year he had

twice as many ranking points as his nearest rival, although he won the

Australian and French Opens, he decided to split from his coach

Boris Becker with whom he has worked for the past three years. The pair

won six Grand Slam titles in their time together and they say they have

achieved their targets, the Serbian talked of personal issues and he has

struggled with injury. A new direction could be what he needs to

drive him on to the 13th Grand Slam, Victoria. And cheer leading at the

Olympics? Stay with me on this one! I was surprised when I heard the

news as well, thinking, surely, it must be an American thing. Well,

there are many countries that would be wanting to take part, the

International Cheer leading Union boast over 100 national federations

and more than 4.5 million registered athletes which is rather a lot.

Importantly as well for the International Olympic Committee the

sport has a youth focus as they are looking to build for the future. It

won't ever necessarily make the Games, but it has received

provisional recognition as an Olympic sport. That means they can

get IOC funding and they apply for a place in the Games so it is a

possibility for the future, Victoria. Thank you very much, Hugh.

This morning, more questions over the actions of Crewe boss

Dario Gradi and whether he did enough to prevent sexual abuse

at the club where he was the manager and is now Director of Football.

A mother of one ex-youth player has told this

programme she wrote - anonymously - to him more

than 25 years ago, back in 1989-1990, saying

she was concerned that boys were being asked to stay overnight

in the same bedroom as an adult member of staff and warning

Dario Gradi has consistently said he didn't know anything

about alleged abuse until 1994 - five years later.

Dario Gradi one of the longest serving managers in the professional

game. He has been at Crewe for more than 30 years. Anyone that's been

following events in football recently will know that Crewe has

been at the centre of some of these abuse allegations. People want to

know what did people in authority know back then? And could more have

been done to protect young players? Well, as you say, we have been

speaking to a mother of one young trainee around the end of the 80s

and the beginning of the 90ings she says she wrote an anonymous letter

to Dario Gradi back then raising concerns about some of the ways

young players were being treated including, she says, her young boy

was being taken away for away games overnight. Was being kept in a hotel

and often there weren't enough bedrooms available for the boys so

he was being forced and other boys were forced to share a room with

adult members of stasmt. She is not saying abuse took place, she is

saying she wrote this letter saying, "Look this arrangement was totally

inappropriate." She wanted Dario Gradi to take action, she says, to

stop this. This is what she told us.

So I wrote to Dario Gradi to say I was concerned that a member of staff

was taking the young footballers on footballing weekends and they

hadn't, they were telling the young boys that they hadn't booked enough

beds for all the boys and some of them would have to share beds with

this member of staff and so I said in a letter that I thought it was

totally inappropriate and it was easily remedied that they could get

some more beds. I asked if he could look into, you know, what was going

on. I didn't make any accusations because I didn't know what was going

on. I didn't have proof. I just wanted someone to find out why

members of staff were sleeping with young boys. Why do you write

anonymously? I did not want them to take it out on my son.

I did not trust them. I thought they may just say, we don't want your son

in our team if you are going to cause trouble. I was pretty weak at

the time, probably not the best thing to do. But you were worried?

Yes, it was that good instinct. I have no proof. And the fact this

member of staff did not feed my son, son he did really well, my son lost

such a lot of weight, over two or three days. I said, why did you not

go and buy some food? He said, the member of staff had taken the money

off him, he did not have any, they had no way of getting food or

anything. Your letter was purely about the sleeping arrangements?

Yes. Do you know if Dario Gradi got the letter, read the letter? I have

no idea. I thought it will take time, because they may be doing

covert investigations, naive me. Nothing happened. As far as I know,

nothing happened. There was another weekend that my son wanted to go on,

so he went on this weekend, he had money in his bags, I said, you can

go, but if you don't feel right about anything, you must either

phone me... Because if you don't, I will come to get you. Hopefully I

did not frighten him, but I said I would come and get him. He did phone

me, and I said, are you OK? He said, we have been showing some horror

movies. It turned out he had his own bedroom, but even then there were

boys sharing beds with members of staff. My son sounded when he phoned

me. They had done nothing, because they were still sharing a bed. It

might be hard to answer, but when you reflect, do you think there was

more you could have done then? I did speak to a social worker, and she

said that if nothing had happened to my son, they could not do anything,

and it was up to other people's parents to report it. And to take my

son away from the School of excellence if I was worried. He

wanted to take football, so that fosters occult. I spoke to a police

officer who did not share my concerns, so that got nowhere. I

wrote to two National newspapers, but I am not aware that anything

happened. Asking them to investigate, just to see what was

going on. I could have done a lot more, I suppose, but I did not have

evidence. I did not know of anyone else. I did not really know, it was

a gut instinct, really. It was very difficult.

They are men now, but all of those children. Somebody must have known

it was going on, it cannot just have been me. It cannot just have been me

that told somebody something was going on, there is no way. Out of

all those parents or people watching the football, it can't have been

just me. I find it very odd. You did as much as you could. I want to say

I am sorry to those lads that got abused, because I could have done

more. But it is all hindsight. She is the mum of one youth player.

Her bawling was about children sleeping in bed with adults and the

under booking of beds -- her warning. It was not about abuse.

What have Dario Gradi and Crewe said?

Well, Mr Gradi has previously said he "knew nothing" about the alleged

abuse of young footballers by anyone connected with the club until 1994,

five years after this mum wrote her anonymous letter.

We don't know if this letter was ever received or read

by Mr Gradi or anyone else at the club.

In a statement last night he said to us, "Aside

from denying any wrongdoing, it would be unfair on all parties

to comment piecemeal through the media at this time."

And we now know that the FA expects to interview Dario Gradi

There was a report in the Independent newspaper last week,

about him when he was at Chelsea. The allegation is he smoothed over

more allegations of abuse against a man called Eddie Heath, a youth

trainer and coach at Chelsea at the time. Dario Gradi denies wrongdoing.

Yesterday our colleague Dan Roan spoke to Mr Gradi outside

Hello. Can we ask if you have considered your position, given what

has happened? I have made my statement, I have nothing more to

add. Did you want to apologise to the players? Steve Waters has not

had an apology. What are your links with Eddie Heath? What are your legs

with Eddie Heath? -- your links? And Matt Le Tissier also spoke out

about abuse last night? A man who played eight

times for England and one of Southampton's best-loved players,

spent his whole career Last night he spoke

out for the first time about the allegations around

Bob Higgins, the former He said he doesn't consider himself

a victim of sexual abuse, but did see what he describes

as inappropriate behaviour. I became a schoolboy late, I did not

have a great deal of time as a schoolboy. My apprenticeship came

quickly afterwards. Boys talk at that age, they take the Mickey, it

gets covered up as banter at that stage. When you grow into an adult

and you look back, you think, that is not right. " boys used to stay

over at his house, and that was quite commonplace. How do you look

at that now? It would never be allowed in this day and age. There

was one time on one of the few occasions I chemicals to Southampton

I was due to stay at his house, and the day before I was told, no, you

will stay at one of the other players who with their parents.

Looking back, I feel less that happen. -- blessed. Was it just

banter? How was it reviewed at the time? When I was there, everyone was

naked, getting thrown on this bed, very quick massage. It was

uncomfortable, it was something I was not used to, growing up, even at

school, you were shy about your body at that age, you did not address in

front of other people. I remember feeling very uncomfortable. You

experienced it? Yes. How do you look at it now? It is very, very wrong.

Looking back on it, you think it was wrong. But as a young boy, you saw

everybody else doing it, and you thought, right, is this normal?

Clearly, it wasn't. The BBC hasn't been able to speak

to Mr Higgins, who until recently He has in the past

denied the allegations, and he was acquitted of sexual-abuse

charges in 1992. And, yet more revelations,

this time about a London club? This is about Queens Park Rangers,

QPR, and a man called Chris Gieler. He was at the club for 30 years,

working in youth development We spoke last night to a former

player who said he was sexually Touched inappropriately

when he was just 15. Speaking anonymously, he said, "He,

that's Chris Gieler, I had an ice pack on my groin

and he started touching my groin." He went on to say he "slapped his

hand out of the way" We also spoke to a second QPR

player, again this is anonymously. He told us that although he didn't

suffer abuse himself, Mr Gieler used to give the boys

presents and gifts, and he felt overall his actions

were often inappropriate. QPR say they take these allegations

very seriously and will cooperate A couple of messages from those of

you who were watching the mother of one former youth player at Crewe

Alexandra. One says, the poor woman is blaming herself, and she told

people what was happening. Another person says, she did more than so

many others that knew more. If you have been affected by any of these

issues, you can find a list of helplines on our website.

Still to come, we follow the former boxing promoter who revealed just

over two years ago she was living as a woman as she takes her old

clothes, she wore throughout her career, to donate to refugees in

France. The families of three of the victims

of serial killer Stephen Port have told this programme that they're

intending to sue the Met Police. They'll be with me in the studio

to tell us why just after 10am. Time for the latest news headlines.

More than 50 people have been killed in Indonesia after a strong

earthquake struck the northern province of Aceh.

The 6.5 magnitude quake struck offshore in the early

Dozens of buildings have collapsed and people are feared

The number of patients waiting four hours or more to be allocated a bed

in hospitals in England has risen significantly over

A study of NHS data by BBC News shows that more than one in ten

patients admitted for urgent care last year faced long delays -

that's almost a five-fold increase since 2011.

NHS England said "growing demand" was putting pressure on the system.

But it said the vast amount of patients were treated within four

hours of. Two drugs firms have been fined

after hiking the cost of an anti-epileptic drug by up to 2006%.

The Competition and Markets Authority said drug maker Pfizer

and distributor Flynn Pharma broke competition law in 2013

when they increased the cost of a medicine used by around 48,000

Both companies say they will appeal against the decision.

The senior UN official in Yemen has accused the world of turning a blind

eye to a worsening humanitarian disaster there after twenty

Jamie McGoldrick told BBC News that children were dying of hunger

because the international response was "extraordinarily underfunded".

He said the country's infrastructure had collapsed and more than half

the population lacked the means to sustain itself.

your messages, Harry says, why is this still going on? When is this

going to end? Time for the latest sport.

The Dubai Ladies Masters first round was suspended after a caddie

collapsed on the 13th fairway. It was a sad scene. This is a picture

of her being consoled. He has not yet been named, but he was treated

before being taken to hospital, where he later died.

Arsenal finished top of their Champions League group for the first

time in four seasons, with a 4-1 butchery at Basel. Lucas Perez

scored a hat-trick. Manchester City finished second in their group, they

drew 1-1 against Celtic, who dropped out of Celtic -- Europe.

Keaton Jennings will become Alastair Cook's latest opening partner.

England are 2-0 in the five match series. Could cheer leading become

an Olympic sport? The discipline received provisional recognition as

an Olympic sport which means it can get IOC funding. It can also apply

for a place in the Games three years from now. That's all the sport for

now. I will be back with more after 10am.

Frank Maloney was a British boxing promoter who managed the likes

of undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.

Just over two years ago she announced that she was living

as a woman and undergoing gender reassignment.

Now Kellie Maloney's decided to donate her old clothes

to refugees in France where she also wanted to see

first-hand the challenges faced by lesbian, gay,

bisexual and transgender refugees who fled their homes

because of persecution due to their sexuality

I need as much PR out of this as possible!

In the last 24 hours, the 61-year-old has revealed

This jacket was one of the first jackets I ever got.

It was given to me by the TV company that promoted Lennox's fights.

And it's got a lot of history and a lot of value to it.

I used to buy a suit after every fight and this was my first real

sort of expensive suit I bought in New York, just after Lewis

As soon as I saw this in the Italian shop in New York,

I thought do you know what, I've got to have that suit,

and I bought it, and I would get people saying to me,

who do you think you are, wearing it, a gangster?

And I would say, I could be, couldn't I?

And I went and had this suit made in London,

it's from old English worsted and I wanted a Rupert Bear type suit

Actually if I had to pay for it it would have been about ?3000.

But the tailors gave it to me as long as I gave them a free ad

in the programme which was good because I used to do

The amount of money I paid, over the years, for these suits,

I will admit I have kept one jacket that I'm not going to give away.

That was my Lennox Lewis world title jacket.

These are part of my life and my history and I was keeping it

and I was going to do some boot sales this coming summer and donate

But, you know, I've always watched on television,

And I realised, like, I've got so much stuff here,

instead of selling it, it might be beneficial

I'm just finally, I suppose, cutting the final strings,

and it's taken me quite a bit of time to bury Frank, I suppose,

because he was such a larger than life character.

And sometimes I get upset about it, and other times, I think, it's just,

it was someone that really lived a life that wasn't the true life.

You know, it's time now to let the past and let Frank

I think the clothes will be going to a good cause now.

I've watched lots of programmes on the refugees and I've got

But I don't think anyone's ever covered the LGBT refugees,

what they've been through, to get to where they are.

Besides losing their country and some of their family,

they've had to come to terms with themselves and come out

in a society which, you know, if you are trans or gay,

And I feel their journey would have been a lot harder than mine.

We should have brought the chocolate with us?

To see this first-hand has made me see things so different.

I work for myself, helping people that suffer with identity

I believe that I was born in the wrong body and throughout my

life I struggled and eventually I came to terms with myself

and I transitioned to the person I am today.

And now I'm on a mission to try and help people.

Have they got a hospital here in the camp?

We have lots of clothes that you can take.

This is a nice jacket for one of the boys.

Most of these were all my clothes at one time.

This is all part of my life now disappearing.

Yesterday was quite an emotional day, because to meet the people

Because in one way they seemed contented but in the conditions

they were living in, it was disgraceful.

When we got talking they started to ask me personal

Trying to explain that I was a man in a previous life,

I know that when we gave them the clothes and I said to them,

these were mine, a couple of the guys' eyes, sort of looked...

What would be like to be in that camp as an LGBT

Today we're in Paris, where we're actually having some

meetings set up with some refugees that are from the LGBT community.

And I want to meet with them and ask them what their experience was,

getting here to France, and what life is like for them now.

We heard someone screaming loud, oh, a woman and a woman!

Come and see these two stupid women of the highest order.

So we were scared immediately, we ran.

Me I fell down, I was paraded in front of all the traders,

I tried to plead, saying, no, we were just there was just

whispering in her ear, but nobody would listen.

I tried to plead, saying, no, we were just...

I was just whispering in her ear, but nobody would listen.

They were saying, let's burn her, let's

Contaminated which needs to be wiped out.

In order not to contaminate the younger generations.

I am a trans woman and I've actually been to

What would people of Uganda, would they accept

a trans person or would they be discriminated against in Uganda?

You would expect to face a lot of threats of violence, even possible

It is dangerous in Uganda to live an LGBT life.

You can't come out in public and speak, you are hated.

Your family, have they accepted you or have they

My family members have said, if they come across me,

they are the ones who will hand me to the police, what

How do you feel now that you are in Paris and have met other refugees

that have gone through the same experience?

I have no fear, I am enjoying my life.

The LGBT refugees that come here and ask for asylum on the

reason of sexual orientation, normally they avoid being in a camp

and being out in a camp, if you are a gay, lesbian

or transgender person and you come in from Syria, for

example and you are going to camp, you will be, I think very careful

not to say that you are gay, lesbian, or transgender, because

this can be very dangerous to be discriminated by your peers.

Refugees in general, in France, face very

difficult times and to be an LGBT refugee, it's a challenge.

I came on this journey because I wanted to

understand what the refugees, especially gay refugees, suffered to

To meet people and understand their journey but being

here and personally seeing it and meeting people like Kate and

Marmaduke, it has really opened my eyes and made me understand how

brave and incredibly strong these people

are to make this journey and find peace and happiness.

Also it was a way of burying the last traces

I bring what was left of Frank's life,

giving it to the refugees who probably needed it more

And you can watch that full fill on our programme

Aid agencies accuse the world of ignoring the conflict in Yemen,

where half a million children are severely malnourished

and the country is just months away from widespread starvation.

MPs will vote for the first time later today on the Government's plan

to start the formal process of leaving the EU by the end

Theresa May says she will publish her proposal for Brexit

to avoid a rebellion from within her own party.

Some Conservative MPs were set to get together with Labour

in Parliament today in a vote to force ministers to publish

something, anything, about their plans for Brexit,

Let's speak to Labour's Brexit Shadow Minister Jenny Chapman MP,

who voted Remain, and Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng,

Mr Kwarteng, has Theresa May actually got a Brexit plan?

I think we do have a Brexit plan. For me, it has always been clear

what the plan is. We want to restrict freedom of movement and

have wide as possible access... What's her plan? I think that's her

planment she made that many times and Government ministers said it

many times and I'm not sure what all the fuss is about, frankly. I'm not

sure they have said it many times actually, I don't think it is a

blueprint, is it? It is very clear... It is clear to you because

that's what you want? Well, that's what people voted for. How do you

know? Because they voted to leave the EU. It was a vote to leave the

EU, but not a blueprint? The polls subsequently suggested that

immigration was a big issue, the Remainers said it was a big issue

and we want to have as wide access to the single market and the

Chancellor said that as has the Prime Minister.

Do you back more details, or did you not needed? I have not had an issue

with this, I just feel the basic principles were obvious. We needed

some restraint on freedom of movement, they may want to restrict

our access to the single market, but we don't know what their position

will be. Did you back her publishing more details? I would be interested

to see them, but I did not see it was necessary. She delivered a sound

bite yesterday, we are going for a red, white and blue Brexit. A sound

bite? It was a way of saying we will have a British Brexit, some

restraint on freedom of proof and, because that is what the polling

data suggests people want, and we want access to the single market, as

much as possible. It is up to them to decide what the final deal will

be. Two parties are negotiating, we don't have an actual say. She has

agreed to your demands but she has added one of her own, this vote

requiring MPs to vote to back the triggering of article 50. We will

vote for that, that has been our position, we respect the referendum,

we have said repeatedly we will not block Article 50, ... You happy with

her timetable? I welcome the opportunity to put to bed this idea

that the Labour Party is a bold in the road that will try to stop this,

which is constantly the accusation from the Conservative Party. At

least this afternoon we get to get rid of that accusation, by voting

accordingly. What is interesting is that when he says he think there is

a plan and this is what he would like to see, the trouble is, we are

hearing one thing from him and other backbenchers, but we are hearing

other messages from the forum secretary which contradict things

that David Davis is saying, we are getting glimpses of handwritten

notes from meetings, we have had nothing of any substance from the

Government, which is why we had to force them to publish their plan,

which we have now done. I do not happy about a red, white and blue

Brexit? It is absolute nonsense, it probably sounded great in rehearsal,

but it is that you are nonsense. When do you want her to publish her

details? We would like something well before the end of March,

because that is only fair. January would be good. I would expect her to

commit to January. We need time to examine it. Business, the select

committee and many others would like to see an outline of the plan, the

basic plan, that is what we are asking for. What is your ideal

scenario? Labour is not going to be negotiating... But you have an ideal

scenario. We have priorities. But at the end of the day, with the best

will in the world, it is not the Labour Party who is going to be

negotiating in Brussels, it is the Government. Our job as the

opposition is to challenge, scrutinise... Labour wants full

access to the single market, but you have not said how you would achieve

that. We think that is the most important priority. Would you

continue to accept freedom of movement? We want management of

migration as well. These are not unrealistic aims. We think it is a

negotiation, you need to go in, say what you would like to achieve, then

there is a negotiation. But unless you state where you would like your

destination to be, you are not going to land there by accident, you have

to start with clarity. The idea that you can keep this to yourself and

that nobody will find out is ridiculous, because MEPs will be

told. It is not ridiculous. The idea that they will keep it all to

themselves and there will be no... You have not asked me, but when you

enter a negotiation, you don't reveal everything that you want. You

know the plan anyway. I know what the broad plan is, that is what

Jenny said, we want to restrict freedom of movement and the widest

possible access to the single market. You said manage immigration.

Unless you wanted unrestrained immigration, that is a restriction,

some form of management. We can play with words all morning. The main

point is the principles are clear will stop I am disappointed you feel

the Government has not made that clear, because they have said it

again and again, maybe we should say it more often. The Government is

saying contradictory things. Last Thursday David Davis said that he

expected we would make contributions to the EU budget after we had left.

To have access to the single market. Indeed, but Boris Johnson says he

think it is pure speculation, not necessarily the case. It is

speculation. This what the Secretary of State for leaving the EU at the

dispatch box in response to a question saying there is. Who is in

charge? We have not even started article 50 process. The Germans have

said clearly that they do not want any renegotiation, they want to stop

once we have triggered article 50. Everything we say before it is

triggered is regulation. So there is no plan. I have said there is a

plan, we want... We want to restrict freedom of movement and we want the

widest possible access to the single market. It is regulation insofar as

we don't know what the other people are going to say. It would be great

to decide exactly what the outcome is, but that is not the process. We

have 27 countries with different ideas, and we have to negotiate with

them. It's day three of proceedings

at the Supreme Court, with more legal argument over

who has the right to We'll be getting the latest

at about 10:45am, but if you want to watch what's happening

inside the court without interruption, you can go to the BBC

News website at bbc.co.uk/Brexit. Sergeant Alexander Blackman,

the royal marine who was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting

dead an already badly-wounded Taliban fighter in Afghanistan five

years ago, has had his case referred It now means there's

a "real possibility" that his conviction could be

quashed, and he could be home before Sergeant Blackman, who initially

was referred to as Marine A, He says he did so whilst under

intense combat stress. The whole incident was filmed

on the headcam of another soldier. After firing the shot,

you can hear Sergeant Blackman tell his colleagues he's just broken

the Geneva Convention on how If you don't want to hear

it, turn your TV down Anyone to do first aid on this

idiot? Colonel Oliver Lee was Blackman's

commanding officer In Helmand. He resigned his commission soon

after he was sentenced. I spoke to him in his first

TV interview about it. For two reasons. Principally, I felt

that the proceedings relating to him had omitted a series of very

important factors that would have been material to his case, and I

felt that was deeply regrettable. Secondly, a slightly more subtle

reason. It seems a peculiar idea that my career would continue to

flourish and move forward when somebody working alongside me and

for whom I had to command responsibility was serving a life

sentence for murder. Tell us what those important factors were that

you believe should have been considered in his case that were

not. It is difficult for anybody who has not been in that position, and I

have not been in the same position that he was in on that particular

operational tour, to understand the level of extreme stress that is

bearing down on somebody who is being asked to do what was asked of

him. I think there are also a series of broader factors associated with

preparations for a tour like that, oversight of a tour like that, that

are highly material to his case, and that were not considered at least as

far as I can see in any great degree of detail in proceedings that have

been against him. But it is illegal to shoot a wounded soldier.

Absolutely. That is entirely right. It is consistently why I have made

the point that I neither seek to condone his actions, nor do I seek

to exonerate him from his response abilities of. But I think it is

right and proper in order for him to be dealt with justly and fairly, and

by that I don't mean leniently, for all the factors that were at play at

that particular moment too bigoted carefully and in the round by the

appropriate legal authority -- to be considered carefully. What do you

think should happen to him now? I don't know the answer to that

question, because I am not a lawyer, I am the son of lawyers, but I am

not a lawyer. I respect rightly the legal system. I simply wish that

what should happen from here, and I am delighted with the announcement,

is that in the round, in the broadest sense, to include all of

the factors at play, his case is considered carefully, such that he

is dealt with in a just and fair manner. Our audience heard earlier

some of the audio that recorded him and his colleagues around the time

of the shooting dead of the Taliban soldier. He said things like, no,

not on his head, because that will be obvious. Move him around.

Somebody else says, I am going to switch this camera off. Then he

says, I have just broken the Geneva Convention. I can't possibly, and

nor what I conceive of, condoning that or seeking to exonerate anybody

from their responsibilities who has been involved in that. The

fundamental principle upon which I led the commando in Afghanistan had

ten principles, the first one was to treat Afghans with dignity, and I

believe in that fundamentally. However, that does not conflict with

my view, which is that all of the factors in play in his case should

be available to the legal authority in order for the legal authority to

take a judgment that is just unfair. In the next hour, we will speak to

his lawyer. Needs to do with the earthquake in

Indonesia. The latest reports say the death toll has risen to 97. 97

people now known to have been killed, after the 6.5 magnitude

earthquake that struck. The death toll now 97.

We will bring you the latest news and sport in a moment, but before

that, the weather. It is not cold, it has been a mild

start, and it still is mild. There is a chance that Northern

Ireland could break its December ten of June record today, it have to

break 16 Celsius for that to happen. We have the mild air cos it has been

pumping up from the Azores through the course of yesterday evening and

overnight, winding high temperatures by night and by morning. As we go

through today, we are looking at quite a lot of cloud for some of us,

but there will be some good sunshine around. We have a weather front

moving south across northern and western Scotland, getting to the

east, and the same for Northern Ireland. It will have an impact on

the temperature. If the rain comes early, the temperature won't have a

chance to climb higher. Cloud for Northern Ireland, sunny breaks. The

North could hit 16. We also have the rain moving across Scotland. Not

heavy. Warmer around the Moray Firth. As we pushed down into

northern England and North Wales, the weather front producing the

rain. South of that, a fair amount of sunshine. A lot of sunny spells.

There will be a bit more cloud. Not as windy as it will be in the north

and west. As we push into the south-west of England, a fair bit of

sunshine. We will see the cloud built, as it will do across Wales,

then the rain comes in. Gales across the North and west of Scotland. We

could well have some severe gales with exposure. The rain coming

south, it turns around and starts to come back north. It will be heavy

and persistent. Also windy. It is not going to be a cold night, we are

not expecting frost problems anywhere.

Chancellor said that as has the Prime Minister.

Tomorrow we start off with the rain. That pushes off into the North Sea

leaving cloud and misty conditions and hill fog and drizzle. The far

north of England and Northern Ireland and Scotland, still seeing a

fair bit of cloud at times, but here it will break and we will see

sunshine with a few showers peppering the west of Scotland.

Temperatures ten to 13. So just a touch down on today.

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

The families of three of the victims of serial killer Stephen Port tell

this programme that they're launching legal action to try to sue

More questions over the actions of Crewe boss Dario Gradi and whether

he did enough to prevent sexual abuse at the club? One mum tells us

she raised the alarm 25 years ago. Dario Gradi said he has consistently

co-operated with allegations of alleged abuse and the first time he

knew of any allegations was in 1994. A country suffering starvation and

conflict, 500,000 children severely malnourished, 20 months of civil

war, but aid agencies say the world doesn't care. We will be speaking to

the Red Cross in Yemen later this hour.

Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

100 people have been killed in Indonesia after a strong

earthquake struck the northern province of Aceh -

the area of the country devastated by a tsunami in 2004.

The 6.5 magnitude quake struck offshore in the early

Many people are thought to have been trapped in the rubble of buildings.

Our reporter Moholika Sitepu is in the indonesian capital Jakarta.

Heavy machinery is now being used to help escavate the rubble and more

machinery are sent to the district because they are

The President's Chief-of-Staff is heading to the area to report

to the president so that they can plan what they can do to the area

There are more questions this morning over whether the director

of football at Crewe Alexandra FC, Dario Gradi, did enough to prevent

A mother of one ex-youth player told this programme she wrote,

anonymously, to him in 1989, more than 25 years ago,

saying she was concerned that boys were being asked to stay overnight

in the same bedroom as an adult member of staff, and warning

Carole told us she's devastated action wasn't taken.

She didn't allege that abuse had taken place.

I could have done a lot more, I suppose, but I didn't have evidence.

I didn't know of anyone else, or I didn't know...

It was a gut instinct, really, so it was really difficult.

It was really difficult, I have to say.

I mean, they're men now, but all those children, it's like...

Someone must have known it was going on.

It can't just have been me that told somebody there

Out of all those parents or people watching the football,

Dario Gradi has said the first time he knew about any alleged abuse

was in 1994 and that he has consistently co-operated

The number of patients waiting four hours or more to be allocated a bed

in hospitals in England has risen significantly over

A study of NHS data by BBC News shows that more than one in ten

patients admitted for urgent care last year faced long delays -

that's almost a five-fold increase since 2011.

NHS England said "growing demand" was putting pressure on the system

but the vast amount of patients were treated within four hours.

Two drugs firms have been fined almost ?90 million after hiking

the cost of an anti-epilepsy drug by up to 2006%.

The Competition and Markets Authority said drug-maker Pfizer

and distributor Flynn Pharma broke competition law in 2013

when they increased the cost of a medicine used by around 48,000

Both companies say they will appeal against the decision.

The Royal Navy's former flagship HMS Illustrious will make its final

voyage this morning when it sails from Portsmouth on its

The aircraft carrier was decommissioned in 2014

after 32 years in service in which it was deployed as far

afield as the Falkland Islands and the Persian Gulf.

It had been hoped that the ship could be kept in the UK,

but last year the Government announced it was being sold

to a Turkish scrapyard for ?2 million.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

A comment from Emma regarding mum Carole who wrote to Dario Gradi at

Crewe to talk about inappropriate behaviour. She was the mum of an

ex-youth player and Emma tweets this to say, "Carole thank you for

speaking out, the intuition and the gut instinct was with many parents.

I hope they are brave and speak out." Get in touch with us

throughout the morning. Use the hashtag Victoria Live

and if you text, you will be charged Some very sad news

indeed this morning. The Dubai Ladies Masters first

round was suspended today after the caddie of

a French player collapsed It was a sad scene,

here she is being consoled. We don't see the caddie

here and he has not been named but was treated by the on-site

medical team before being taken to hospital,

where he later, tragically, died. The tournament has been reduced

to three rounds instead of four The European Tour has offered

"heartfelt condolences to the individual's family

and loved ones." Arsenal are through to the knock-out

stages of the Champions League as group winners -

they went to Basel and won 4-1 to top Group A in the Champions League

and a particularly special night for Lucas Perez, who scored his

first hat-trick for the club helping them finish top of their group

in the competition for Paris St Germain drew

against Ludogorets, allowing Manchester City finished

second in their group. They drew 1-1 with Celtic

who go out of Europe all together. England captain Alastair Cook

has another new opening partner for the Third Test

against India tomorrow. Durham's Keaton Jennings will

replace the injured Haseeb Hameed With England trailing the five match

series 2-0, the top run scorer in the County Championship will be

hoping for an immediate impact. It is a great achievement by him. He

scored a lot of runs over the last 18 months or so. He's in form with

100 obviously for the Lions last week. It is great. A great

opportunity for him. The pressure is off him. He can go out and play and

we've got to decide the best balance to the side for us.

Premiership rugby and the Rugby Football Union have discussed how

and why the Northampton and Wales wing George North was allowed

to return to the field of play despite being knocked unconscious

North has suffered concussion three times and on Saturday

Rules state he should have been immediately withdrawn.

But he was returned to the field with Northampton saying

However, the club admit all of the TV pictures

of the incident weren't available to them pitch-side.

North won't play again until he's been independently assessed.

And finally, cheerleading, yes cheerleading,

The International Cheer Union is the sport's governing body

and boasts over 100 national federations, more than 4.5

It won't necessarily ever make the Games,

but has received provisional recognition as an Olympic sport.

It means they can get IOC funding and apply for a place

That's all the sport for now. We'll be back more at 10.30am.

The families of three of the victims of serial killer Stephen Port have

told this programme that they're launching legal

action to try and sue the Metropolitan Police.

The 41-year-old chef will spend the rest of his life in prison,

for the murders of four younger men who he met on dating apps.

He'd drugged and raped them, before dumping their bodies close

But for many months, the families of Anthony Walgate,

Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor, had to endure

the anguish of being told by the police that they had died

from drugs overdoses or suicide before the police finally

linked their deaths and investigated them as murders.

In fact it was the families who forced the police to look

Sarah Sak is the mother of Anthony Walgate -

the first man killed by Stephen Port.

Mandy Pearson is the step-mum of Daniel Whitworth.

He was the third victim and he was found with a fake suicide

note claiming he'd accidentally killed Gabriel Kovari who'd

actually been killed by Port the month before.

And Donna and Jen Taylor are Jack Taylor's sisters.

It was them who forced police to look for a link

They join us now in their first joint interview.

Thank you very much for coming on the programme. We really appreciate

it. I'd like to start with you two if I may, Donna and Jen, the police

failed to link three similar deaths all in the same area and they said

that your brother had died of a drugs overdose. What were you

telling the police at this time? It wasn't right. That he wouldn't do

drugs. So we knew that he hadn't died of a drugs overdose. We just

knew that we had to try and get them to listen to us and try and piece it

all together. Yes, it was just, that was just not Jack. He was

anti-drugs. And that he wouldn't have gone to an area where they were

saying he had gone and sat and we needed them to not just look at the

fact that, you know, Jack didn't go to that area and sit down and do

that himself and he didn't take the drugs himself, but because we had

looked at other bits and pieces to do that with, we needed them to look

at the whole situation from our point of view and from what we were

finding. So you were saying, look at these previous deaths. Look at this?

Yeah. Yeah, because there were too many similarities. We had done a lot

of our own homework on it. And there was too many different bits and

pieces that you couldn't say were linked, but when it came down to the

individual boys, there were so many similarities that to us, linked them

and we wanted that to be checked. You were asking questions like for

example the bottle of the drug GHB that was found on Jack, a syringe

found with him that he didn't use. And they, those items needed to be

tested and looked at obviously? Yeah. But it wasn't happening? No.

What were you thinking was going on? Well, because it wasn't deemed as a

suspicious, they said that those things wouldn't be looked at and

there was no need to look at them. They basically had already said that

Jack had done an overdose and they were going to wait for toxicology

results and that was that. You must have felt like you were

banging your head against a brick wall? Yeah, definitely. Sarah,

mother of Anthony, thank you for talking to us. Your son, Anthony was

the first victim of Stephen Port, but even before Stephen Port met

Anthony, you say there were missed opportunities to stop his death?

Yes, in 2012, Port was seen at the railway station with a man heavily

drugged and distressed and the police have come and seen Port going

through his bag and an ambulance was called for this man. This man

obviously, he wanted to remain anonymous, he didn't want the police

involved or anybody to know, but nothing was done. This man was

screaming, "Help. Help me." So why were no notes taken. Nothing was

recorded? Not at that time, no. I think straightaway, as soon as you

heard Anthony had been found you knew that it wasn't as the police

were describing it? The first conversation I had with the police I

told them that. There is something not right about this. What did they

say to you had happened to him? That he had been found dead in the street

and I said, "Heart attack, has he been stabbed? What happened?"

Nothing, he has been found dead in the street, we don't know. I said

something is not right. Something is not right about this. And one of the

things that wasn't right is that he was wearing Stephen Port's T-shirt?

Anthony was 5'9", with weighed nine-and-a-half stone, he was as

thin as they come and this T-shirt must have been four sizes too big

and there was no questions asked. I found out in court, his underwear

was on inside out and back to front. So the police never asked, never

looked at this and never thought this is a bit strange, I was told by

the police he had dressed himself and gone to bed, gone into Port's

bed when he didn't feel very well. Was he dressed? Did he have his

shoes on? Did somebody dress him? No.

Your stepson was found with a suicide note, reportedly written by

Daniel, saying that he had taken his own life, because he had

accidentally killed Stephen Port's previous victim.

Did they investigate the handwriting? No. They did not

realise it was not his handwriting? No, they did not see it as

suspicious. It was a while before we saw it anyway. But we could not

understand why he would do that. I know people who do commit suicide

are very good at covering up things, but the content of the letter said

that he had accidentally taken the life of Gabriel. We had been out to

family functions and things since that time, since Gabriel was found,

and we could not believe how he would be functioning with that

knowledge as well as he was. It did not make sense. What else did the

notes say? It also said not to blame the man he was with last night.

Which was Stephen Port. We did not know that, we asked where he had

been, who was the man he was with last night? We don't know. We may

never know. We got that reply quite frequently to quite a few questions.

What would you thinking was going on, if officers investigating the

death of your son were not asking questions? We did trust them, even

in their absence, to be doing something. Because we could not

understand why he would do that at this time in his life, when

everything was going well. He was a very happy man, very happy with his

job and his life in general. He was quite happy. Where they were ending

up piecing things together and turning detective, you were trusting

the police to do their job, because you wanted to grieve. We were

finding the whole circumstance difficult to deal with. His grandma

especially, they were extremely close. We had yet to give the news

to her. To try and explain it to her. She has already lost her son to

suicide, and then she had lost her only grandchild. To what we thought

was suicide. And being told by the police that he was a murderer. Yes.

I do run the saying I wish he had come to us, it would have been

misadventure, if it really was accidental, of course it would have

been accidental, our son is not a murderer. That is the only way we

could look at it. But all the time we were trying to fathom how he had

kept that to himself. His partner was trying to work out how he could

have even been in the Barking area when Gabriel died, because that was

not adding up either. All of this stuff was going through your head.

They were very difficult to get hold of, the police, anyway. Our liaison

officer did not liaise. That is my take on it. Nine months before I met

my liaison officer, it took nine months for him to meet me, and we

could not get hold of him. It was weeks and weeks in between calls.

You would bring them, it will take them a fortnight to get back to you.

Every time I would say, have you found anything, there was nothing to

investigate. He took the drugs and he died. We were told that time and

time again. We will never know the truth, many times they said that. It

was so hard to get any information at all, they refused to investigate

it. What do you feel about the lack of investigation, the missed

opportunities? They were absolutely appalling. The way we were treated,

the way we were spoken to sometimes. A total and utter lack of any

investigation whatsoever. You feel incredibly strongly. They should

never be here. A child could have put together the clues that he was

giving, one death after another. After Daniel was found, I rang the

liaison officer, and I had been on the Internet, looking at the every,

and I said, there are another two, that is free, within a mile. Nothing

to do with each other. One was a homeless guy and one did not live in

the area. As we found that, Stephen Port planted drugs on them, they

were within feet of each other, two of the lads, the other was 500

metres away. A five-year-old child could have put that together. We

were in the dark. A lot of things were found out later. I found out

most of the things we needed to know the public inquest. Five or six

months after his death. Had I known those things, I would have not stood

back. Absolutely not. There were so many things that were coming to

light in Walthamstow Forest. I found out at the trial a lot of stuff I

did not know. We have never had an inquest. It is quite a shock. It is

bad enough going to the Old Bailey, and things were coming out that we

knew nothing about. Tell us about the decision to sue the Metropolitan

Police. As far as we are concerned, as a family, we feel very strongly

about this. Stephen Port took Jack's life, but we feel that the police

that did not do their jobs with any of the families, as far as we are

concerned they have played a massive part in Jack's death. If they had

done their job properly, Jack would still be here today. There is no

other way of looking at it. We feel that we want them to be held

accountable. We want the answers of why they did not do this, did not do

that. We want them to be held accountable. The IPCC is

investigating, and the Met police have said the commander in charge of

the specialist crime and operations command has written to each of you

to express severe condolences and to apologise for missed opportunities.

How do you take that? I feel it is a bit late. A letter when somebody's

life has been taken that is so dear to you, no, it does not cut it. At

the end of the day the police officers, no matter what part they

are in in their job, they are trained to look out for certain

things, and we feel that that was not done, because if it was, we

would not be sitting here now. How did you take the apology? It is too

little, too late. If they were for girls, would it have been any

different? If Anthony had been a 23-year-old girl, and then Gabriel

and Daniel, if they had been girls found in suspicious circumstances,

there would have been more media coverage, and a massive part of this

investigation was homophobic. I really do think that. Do you think

that? Massively. That is why they did not investigate, because they

thought it is gay men, it does not matter? Data could at face value.

Young gay lads, done. From the very beginning, they refused to

investigate anything. No matter what you said, there was nothing to

investigate. Daniel was not out there doing that kind of thing. He

worked some unbelievable hours, his recreational time was minimal, and

when he did go out, he went out with his partner. They did not want to

know about the personality, they did not want to know, really. They had

made up their mind. That came across. Do you believe it was today

with homophobia? Yes, if they were women it would have been looked

into. We said that from the start, if it was a woman, you would do a

lot more. They just thought it was another druggy, possible gay man,

and that is it. That is literally it. It is heartbreaking. Thank you

for coming on our programme and for talking so eloquently about this. We

will follow the case as you pursue your legal action.

More than 21 months of conflict have devastated Yemen,

and left 18 million people in need of some kind of

Yemen is in the Middle East, just below Saudi Arabia.

The United Nations estimates 14 million people are at risk

of hunger with half of those on the brink of famine.

14 million people in one country are at risk of hunger -

and over seven million of those on the brink of famine.

Our reporter Fergal Keane has been to Yemen.

His report is distressing and harrowing, and you may find

it difficult to watch, but we're showing it to be better

understand what is happening to a country 4,000 miles away from us.

Judah Jaba is four months old and she has been fighting

to survive since the day she was born.

Soumaya Beltifa is from the International Committee

of the Red Cross and joins me now from Sanaa in Yemen.

We have just heard the scale of this crisis. What can the world do?

The world can do a lot. Starting by calling all parties in the conflict

to bear in mind that civilians are to be spread -- 's bed, and they

need to get access to the basics. As it was shown, the dire situation is

everywhere. People are having a hard time to bring bread to the table,

which is the basic of the basics. Are you expecting things to worsen?

Unfortunately, things might be worsened if we don't reach any kind

of political agreement that the situation on the ground might be

easier. Also in terms of security, because one of the other issues that

humanitarian is facing on the ground is that we cannot provide assistance

to the population, because of the security of our staff. We need to

balance between the needs and the security to hand over assistance to

the population. Their lives are in danger. Indeed.

As you said, the needs actually are huge. For many years the Yemeni

population, they were already suffering before the current

conflict and with the conflict, the situation has become a little bit

more tougher. One of the main things actually is regarding the economic

situation. People, they don't have cash, money. This dire situation is

bringing a lot on Yemenis. Thank you very much for talking to us. Thank

you for your time. Should marine A still be in prison?

His case hand referred for appeal. We will be talking to his lawyer.

James Arthur is having a successful career since winning The X Factor.

Now he goes undercover as a street busker.

With the news, here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom.

Nearly 100 people are now known to have been killed in Indonesia

after a strong earthquake struck the northern province of Aceh -

the area of the country devastated by a tsunami in 2004.

The 6.5 magnitude quake struck offshore in the early

Many people are thought to be trapped in the rubble of collapsed

buildings and more than 200 people have been injured.

There are more questions this morning over whether the director

of football at Crewe Alexandra FC, Dario Gradi, did enough to prevent

Carole, a mother of one ex-youth player, told this programme

she wrote anonymously to him in 1989, more than 25 years ago,

saying she was concerned that boys were being asked to stay overnight

in the same bedroom as an adult member of staff, and warning

She didn't, however, allege that abuse had

I could have done a lot more, I suppose, but I didn't have evidence.

I didn't know of anyone else, or I didn't know...

It was a gut instinct, really, so it was really difficult.

It was really difficult, I have to say.

I mean, they're men now, but all those children, it's like...

Someone must have known it was going on.

It can't just have been me that told somebody there

Out of all those parents or people watching the football,

Dario Gradi has said that he has consistently co-operated

with investigations into alleged abuse and that the first

time he knew about any allegations was in 1994.

The number of patients waiting four hours or more to be allocated a bed

in hospitals in England has risen significantly over

A study of NHS data by BBC News shows that more than one in ten

patients admitted for urgent care last year faced long delays -

that's almost a five-fold increase since 2011.

NHS England said "growing demand" was putting pressure on the system

Dario Gradi has said that he has consistently co-operated

with investigations into alleged abuse and that the first

but the vast amount of patients were treated within four hours.

Here's some sport now with Hugh. news, join me for BBC

The Dubai Ladies Masters first round was suspended today

after the caddie of French player Anne-Lise Caudal collapsed

We don't see the caddie here and he has not been named

but was treated by the on-site medical team before

being taken to hospital, where he later, tragically, died.

Arsenal finished top of their Champions League Group

for the first time in five seasons with a 4-1 win away at Basel.

Lucas Perez scored a hat-trick in the win.

Elsewhere Manchester City were second in their group.

They drew 1-1 with Celtic who are out of Europe all together.

Durham's Keaton Jennings will become Alastair Cook's latest opening

partner for England in the fourth Test against India

He replaces the injured Haseeb Hameed, with England

currently 2-0 down in the five-match series.

Could cheerleading become an Olympic sport?

The discipline has received provisional recognition

as an Olympic sport, which means it can get

IOC funding and apply for a place in the Games,

That's it from me for today but we will have more on BBC News

throughout the day as Warren Gatland names three of his coaches for next

Shall we have a bet as to whether cheer leading will become an Olympic

sport? I'll bet ten quid. I'm happy to bet it will.

OK. The Supreme Court hearing continues

today looking at whether Parliament or Government has the right

to trigger Brexit. Our legal correspondent

Clive Coleman is there. Good morning. This epic legal battle

continuesment at stake who has the power to trigger Article 50 of the

Lisbon Treaty. That's the process by which the UK leaves the EU. Is it

ministers using executive powers and bypassing Parliament or is it the

representatives of the people over the way there in Parliament who have

to give their authority through an Act of Parliament? Well, this case

has drawn protesters every day. No difference today of the let's talk

to some of them here. First of all, let's chat with Dr Zwrulia Reid who

is a Ukip MEP. You're here again today. Dr Reid, why is it so

important for you to be here? Well, I think it is important first to

show support four activists like Herbert here who produced these

amazing posters and to convey that we believe that Parliament has

already had a vote, they voted 6-1 that the British people should have

a referendum. They also got to vote in the actual referendum itself. And

they should stand up and in spite of the fact that perhaps they wanted to

remain, in constituencies where the majority of the people voted to

leave, they should be supporting that. We consider that this is a

delaying tact UK and we never expected after winning the

referendum nearly six months ago that we'd still be fighting it now.

I mean... Let's have the other side. Let the other side have a say. Let's

speak to Antonio Bright. You're from the Movement For Justice, why do you

think it is important to demonstrate outside the court? There is only one

policy put forward and that's immigrant bashing. It leads to more

fascism and that's the danger for us. It needs to be... You'd like a

second referendum? Yeah, I think there needs to be way more time

given and debate. We'd like to see Brexit stopped to be quite frank

because of the direction that it leads us... That isn't going to

happen. This case is about who has the power to trigger Brexit?

Ministers or Parliament? There it has to come back to Parliament and

no secret deals and it has to be opened up. We're looking at a

dangerous direction in the future. Thank you very much. Demonstrators

here again today. At the moment Lord Pannick representing Gina Miller the

main claimant is on his feet making the case that it really must be the

representatives of the people, over there in Parliament, who have the

authority to trigger Article 50. Arguments go on today.

Thank you very much, Clive. Proceedings are underway now as we

can see if you want to watch what is happening inside the court without

interruption, go to the BBC website. Sergeant Alexander Blackman,

the Royal Marine who was sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting

dead an already badly wounded Taliban fighter

in Afghanistan five years ago, has had his case referred back

to the military appeal court. It now means there's

a "real possibility" that his conviction

could be quashed. It is very difficult for anybody who

hasn't been in that position and I haven't been in the same position

that Sergeant Blackman was in on that tour to understand the level of

extreme stress that is bearing down on somebody who is being asked to do

what was asked of Sergeant Blackman. I think there are also a series of

broader factors associated with preparations for a tour like that,

oversight of a tour like that, that are highly material to his case and

that weren't considered at least as far as I can see in any great degree

of detail in the proceedings that are have been against him hitherto.

And in Westminster is Sir Gerald Howarth -

Mr Goldberg, what's the new evidence? Well, three distinguished

psychiatrists, one of them appointed independently by the Criminal Cases

Review Commission are unanimous that he was suffering from what we lay

men would call combat distress disorder. I'm not going to bother

with the psychiatric terms at the moment he shot. None of this was

presented to any of the courts previously. That's not the only

ground I want to emphasise, there are at least four other grounds

which would have justified bringing his conviction of murder down to

manslaughter with a much lesser sentence and probably meaning his

release today. Why wasn't stress taken into account

at the original hearing? The court is only as good as the evidence and

arguments presented to it by the then defending lawyers and I'm going

to make no further comment at all. I understand. Right, Sir Gerald, good

morning to you, what do you think about the fact that a fresh appeal

has been granted? I'm delighted. This is a case which has, I think,

seriously upset the public. We send our men and women to go and do

pretty filthy jobs, putting their lives on the line whilst the rest of

us are enjoying our lives at home with our families and I think that

therefore, there is a responsibility particularly on the politicians who

make the decisions about going to war that we do all that we can to

support our soldiers. Soldiers, sailors and airmen, of course, and

I'm pleased that the CCRC decided to refer this case to the Court of

Appeal. You say we should support them even when they shoot dead a

wounded soldier which is illegal? It is illegal and it is very important

that we instil in our armed forces the need to uphold the highest

possible standards. That, of course, is absolutely important, that's what

we as ministers and as members of Parliament, that's what we expect of

our soldiers, sailors and airmen, but they are often facing absolutely

filthy conditions and if you see your comrades' bodies parts hanging

from a tree, I defy anybody watching this programme now not to feel a

sense of anger at that happening to brave British soldiers. So, you

cannot excuse action taken in the heat of battle, but you do have to

put it in the context of actions taken in the heat of battle and you

just heard from Mr Goldberg that one of the reasons why the can Criminal

Cases Review Commission has referred to this case back to the Court of

Appeal is because of the new evidence, not least the state of

mind of Sergeant Blackman at the time. Mr Goldberg, we heard our

audience heard, from the videoing of the incident at the time that

Sergeant Blackman himself acknowledged he had broken the

Geneva convention? You see, he meant by that, he thought desser rating an

already dead body in the moment of anger. This man was dying. He was

within seconds of death at best. I've obtained the best pathologist

in the country who has taken a new look at the case and the film and

all of the rest of it and he says you would have needed to be a doctor

to have known that this fella wasn't already dead. Again, none of that

was presented to original court. He had fired at him 139 high explosive

rounds from an Apache gunship and you know, in many previous wars

dying soldiers begged their own comrades to put them out of their

death agonies, but of course, that's not a defence in law, I say,

straightaway. What would be the right thing for

him now, in your view? What I said at the time, and I was not alone,

but I thought the sentence was unquestionably and Julie Heavey, and

is a case for manslaughter is going to be made, I don't know what his

legal arguments are going to be, but if the court considers this

objectively and all of the circumstances, I think back a

reduced sentence which would allow him to walk free and back into the

military is what I would like to see, and a lot of people in the

country are the same. One thing that worries me is that some of these

cases are being taken, ... We have the Iraq historic allegations

tribunal, where a private company has been paid ?22 million by the

Ministry of Defence to go and search for soldiers who may have committed

illegal acts in Iraq many years ago. This is being done because the

Labour Government in 2001 wanted Britain to sign up to the

International Criminal Court, and therefore put our soldiers, sailors

and NN at risk of prosecution... Your Government would be within its

rights to close down those tribunal is, it could do that tomorrow, but I

take your point. One in eight people who're in work

are living in poverty. That's according to the charity

the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which says more people are currently

in work but living in So are the so-called just-managing

families and working people actually He's from the New Policy Institute

and the author of the report published today by the Joseph

Rowntree Foundation. Tracy Miller is a mother with two

daughters who works freelance Jermaine Lawlor works full time,

he lives alone in Greater London. And Murad Alam is a father

with two children. He's currently not

working but his wife is. When he was also recently

working, he says the family was still living below

the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's The number of people who are working

and who are still poor 3.8 million people in work, one in

aid of all people in a job, and we then add on top of that the children

who are living with them and any nonworking partners, and it is

giving about 7.5 million people across the UK who are in a working

household but below what is in effect official poverty line is,

well more than half of the people in poverty. The idea that poverty is

mainly about nonworking families is not the case.

You work 37 and a half hours a week and, according

to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's definition of poverty, you're living

As a parent, you think, let me get a job and provide for the kids and

life should be easier, but as a working parent it is not. Two people

ask why you work. Of course, but you have to have a positive outlook, and

I would encourage mothers to work, because it is not just about the

financial gain, it is about being out in society, socialising and

mixing with people that can help you with things and not being indoors

and being mentally depressed. You're exactly the kind of person

who Peter's talking about, you're single, living alone,

you're a youth worker and you've just done a 12-hour night

shift before coming here. Would you class yourself

as living in poverty? The statistics are higher than one

in eight. I think the majority of people that are working struggle to

meet bills. I am a youth worker, I have done it for nine years, and my

problem is we have constant cuts by Government. We are tackling issues

that affect our communities, and there are cuts which mean we cannot

sustain our jobs. Sometimes I do an 80 hour week, and I don't get time

to spend the money, because I am always working, and if I don't do

that, you all in the vicious circle of being poor. You lost your job a

few months ago, your wife works. Even when you were working you were

living in poverty. What do you have to cut back on? General

entertainment, I cannot go out for a meal, I can't go to the cinema, the

new Star Wars film is coming out and I cannot afford to take them, which

is a crying shame. Just have to cut back on extra food, heating, have to

keep the heating down. I don't think we should have to do it in UK

society today. What chance of you getting more work soon? I will get

another job, it is just the time of year, nobody is starting any IT jobs

in December. I will get something, but it will not be until the New

Year. What is the answer? The minimum wage goes up more than it is

due to? It is due to be sex ban -- ?7 20 eight April, ?9 by 2020. We

just need single mothers and singer father 's to be able to keep our

wages. Wages should rise of the cost of living rises. You talked about an

80 hour week, when you do more hours, you are away from your kids

more, and they are with childcare, so you don't seem them much. I have

my little one, saying, you are always at work. I say, if I don't

work, how am I going to provide for you? You are torn, it is hard. The

poor get poor, the rich get richer, and the gap gets broader. The

taxation system is unfair, you have football players earning ?300,000 a

week for kicking a football, you have doctors that do not learn that

in a lifetime, so we have to look at our priorities. People are greedy,

politicians say that this is the minimum living wage, but they are

not living on it themselves, so it is a contradictory message. Wings

are going up, food, rent, living in London, but our wages are not going

up, opportunities, access to education, in adversity grounds, so

much needs to be done, but it boils down to greed, we are living in a

greedy society. There is a lot therefore any politician to take on

board. Where would you start? I would look at policies and

legislation is, job opportunities, jobs that are sustainable and when

you can build a career and life. And taxation is a big one. Take more

people out of tax? People that are earning large sums of money, they

are not taxed a lot. But for lower wages, it is quite a lot, so we need

to look at the balance. James Arthur has gone

on to have a successful career since winning the X Factor

four years ago. Now, in a stunt for Radio 1, he went

undercover as a street busker. Our house band are busking,

covering their three Time for Big Willie McNulty

to take to the stage. # Stop me, I will get

what's coming to me # I am ready, baby,

I will be somebody... Willie's funds were

looking low so far, # You're nobody till

somebody loves you # Fill up my cup,

fill up my cup, yeah # It's a cold heart

when nobody wants you # I held your hair back

when you were throwing up # Then you smiled

over your shoulder... After just a few bars

of Say You Won't Let Go, the crowds were gathering and the money

was finally coming in. It was almost like they'd worked out

there was a massive pop star performing their number one single

right in front of them. Why are this many people in a train

station not in a rush? Surely you get there a minute

before your train by multiplatinum selling

artist James Arthur. James was very in character,

it was just that his character seemed to be

a massive James Arthur fan. But it seemed to be working,

look how many people were there. As Big Willie McNulty

finished his set, it was time to make a swift exit as,

let's face it, Everyone knew

it was James Arthur. In fact, it was totally

blown, as you can see. But who was going to

take the busking crown? You got ?33, which makes

you, James, the winner! So there you have it -

our secret busker beat the Radio 1 buskers, but only by three quid,

although I feel that a few people may have twigged that it was

actually James Arthur. And you can watch the full

version of that film If you'd like to watch our films

and interviews any time, you can do that online,

wherever you are. Just visit our programme page

at bbc.co.uk/victoria. On the programme tomorrow,

we meet the women desperate MUSIC: Beyond The Sea

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