12/12/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

Could a lack of choice when it comes to contraception for women lead

to a rise in unplanned pregnancies and abortions?

I really do think we will see an increase in unwanted pregnancies. If

the cuts carry on at the rate we are seeing now, we will see another

escalation in teenage pregnancy. We'll bring you that story

around 9:15 this morning. We're keen to hear your experiences,

too, on the contraceptive Plus: outdated and held back

by elderly white men - that's the view of the Football

Association from five middle-aged We'll speak to two of them

before ten this morning. And Madonna says the most

controversial thing she's ever done Thank you for acknowledging my

ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant

misogyny, sexism, constant bullying and relentless abuse.

Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

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Five former Football Association chiefs have urged the Government

to reform the structure of the Football Association.

They criticised its upper ranks as being "out of balance" and filled

David Bernstein, David Davies, Greg Dyke, Alex Horne

and David Triesman called for legislation to be

passed, blaming the FA's "inability to reform".

Their concerns are laid out in a letter to the Culture,

Its chairman says legislation is needed to turn the FA

The letter that was sent to the committee clearly demonstrates the

frustration of former chairman of the FA that they did not have the

power to get through the reform that they wanted and that football is

dominated by a series of vested interest who wield too much power.

I'm joined now live from Wembley by our sports

Is this the catalyst for reform? We have been down this road more than

once before, Victoria. There have been repeated calls in the past for

the FA to reform, to modernise, to bring itself up to date, but they

haven't materialised. This is a major intervention nevertheless,

five senior figures from within the FA over the years, its first three

independent chairman calling for that reform, for gov-mac to

intervene, for legislation to be passed saying simply that there are

too many all the white men within the organisation who are incapable

of passing even the smallest of things, let alone the big structural

reforms that they believe are needed to bring the organisation dragged

into the 21st-century. So I think it will be a significant moment in this

debate. Whether it is enough to bring about change, we will have to

see, but there is certainly an appetite from the Culture, Media and

Sport committee to try to do what it can to pressure and bring about that

change, even through calling for a vote of no-confidence and by

drafting legislation. And Tallaght dash-mac talk about the latest in

terms of historical sexual abuse in football. We have heard that the

director of football has been suspended by the FA, and in

Scotland, John Swinney of the SNP has told the BBC he believes the

Scottish football Association should conduct an independent, call for an

independent inquiry into abuse within Scotland, and he says Police

Scotland must take a lead on this. This issue of historical abuse

within football ongoing, and we will have to see where the story goes

next, whether claims take us next, but those enquiries starting within

England, and there are calls in Scotland for more to be done there.

Thank you, Richard Conway at Wembley.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

Six people have been arrested this morning on suspicion of offences

Four men from Derby, a woman from London and a man

from Burton-on-Trent are being held in police custody on suspicion

of preparing for an act of terrorism as part of an ongoing

European migrants living in the UK should be given a guarantee they can

stay in the country after Brexit, according to a think tank

It calls the Prime Minister's refusal to guarantee

the status of Europeans in the UK "morally wrong".

There are almost three million people from other parts of the EU

living and working in the UK, and it is unclear what happens

This report from the British Future think tank, which includes Leave

and Remain supporters, says those living in the UK

now should be offered permanent residency,

but the triggering of Article 50 should be the cut-off date.

The Government wants that to happen in March,

so anyone arriving after should not expect to stay indefinitely.

People's lives are important, and it sets the right

tone for negotiations, because we would expect that EU

countries to do the right thing by UK citizens,

but if we make the first step, put in concrete proposals on how

to make this happen, I think we will serve both UK

A cut-off date may cause a surge in applications

In order to cope, the report calls for a streamlining of the system,

fast-tracking the two million who have been here for

The Government says it wants to protect the status of EU

nationals already living here, and the only circumstances

in which that wouldn't be possible is if British citizens' rights

in European member states were not protected in return.

Those behind the report say using people as part

of the negotiations is morally wrong.

Later today, campaigners will deliver a letter to Downing Street,

asking the Prime Minister the end the uncertainty for the millions

of EU nationals who have already made their lives here in the UK.

Officials in Nigeria say two young girls have been

At least one other person died in the attack in a packed

marketplace in Maiduguri which is situated in the north

Authorities described the girls as being 7 or 8 years old.

It's not known which group was behind the bombings.

But Boko Haram militants have carried out similar attacks before.

Syrian activists say government forces have retaken another key

district of eastern Aleppo from the rebels, after a night

Forces loyal to President Assad now control the overwhelming

The advance comes less than 24 hours after rebels received a US-backed

proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians, under safe passage

More than ten thousand civilians are reported to have fled Aleppo

The Prime Minister is understood to be considering plans to allow

councils in England and Wales to increase council tax to fund

It follows warnings that the system could "topple at any moment" leading

to pressure on the NHS if patients cannot be released from hospital.

Local councils have suffered more than a 40% reduction

Many GPs in England have stopped providing some forms

of contraception because of funding cuts, the Victoria Derbyshire

Some clinicians have said cuts to contraceptive services

will mean "more unplanned pregnancies and abortions".

The Advisory Group on Contraception's research comes

after the Government announced public health cuts totalling more

and we will have more on that for you at quarter past.

Scientists have expressed concern about a surge in the levels

of methane gas being released into the atmosphere.

US researchers say emissions of methane -

a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide -

are growing at their fastest rate in 20 years.

The cause is thought to be agriculture, with rice paddies

and cattle significant sources of methane.

Scientists say efforts to tackle climate change will be undermined

unless the emissions are brought under control.

The Home Secretary is planning to make it become a criminal offence to

become a member of the far right group. Members of the rail union

Aslef are planning three days of strikes this week, a move the Home

Secretary called totally unacceptable. The strikes will halt

all Southern services, affecting millions of passengers every day.

Santa Claus may have to look for a new animal

to pull his sleigh in future, because apparently reindeer

Scientists have found that wild reindeer living in the Arctic weigh

Changes to winter and summer conditions are causing the animals

to develop smaller body sizes, to die younger and to

That is a summary of the latest news. I will have more at 9:30am.

Thank you for your comments on cuts to contraceptive services. Mari on

Facebook says, why are we surprised, even GPs do not do proper

consultation any more. John says, why do we blame the NHS for our own

sexual well-being? Money for the vulnerable or money for family

planning? Do get in touch. Let's get some sport now. John, a nightmare

for England's cricketers? They are looking for Christmas to

come early, a little bit of trouble for them out there in India are the

moment, they lost their fourth test by one innings and 36 runs. They

needed the bottom order to show resistance, but when Jonny Bairstow

went, it was looking unlikely, and they lost their remaining four

wickets in just over half an hour. Ravi Ashwin Mandarin the damage of

India, he took six wickets in this innings. This follows a man of the

match performance from Virat Kohli with an incredible score of 235

yesterday, so England are now 3-0 down in the series with one match to

play, and I think they would rather fancy coming home now for an early

Christmas! Let's talk about Chelsea. What is

behind their superb run? You do wonder, because Antonio Conte

is using the same players that Jose Mourinho had at his disposal when he

was sacked last season. They just have their fighting spirit back

again, that determination. He has managed to galvanise this group of

players once again, and that man, Diego Costa, who scored the winning

goal against West Brom yesterday, he is now the Premier League's leading

goal-scorer, and they are on a nine match winning run, seeing them top

the table with 37 points, so they are going very well. But that

fighting spirit boiled over when they played Manchester City in the

previous match. They have been charged by the FA for failure to

control their players, but Antonio Conte has laughed off suggestions

that they could face a points deduction despite the fact that they

have failed to control players for the fifth time in 19 months. They

will face punishment, but we wait to see what it will be.

And the fallout for the Russian doping scandal goes on on?

Yes, you wonder what is next. The second part of Richard McLaren's

report came out on Friday, providing that extra detail into the

state-sponsored doping programme. Now Latvia have come out to say that

they will now boycott the world Skeleton bobsleigh champion that are

due to take place in February. They have said they will only take part

if it is moved. And Lizzy Yarnold who won gold in the skeleton bob out

in Sochi in the winter Olympics says she may boycott the World

Championships. So the sporting community taking a stand against

Russia following those revelations about the state-sponsored doping

programme, and you wonder what further punishment are to come. The

IOC have said they will retest the samples of all Russian athletes from

the London Olympics and the Sochi Games, but I think the sporting

community wanting to see a greater stand taken, and some suggesting

Russia should have the World Cup taken away. We wonder what is to

come. More from John throughout the morning, thank you.

This morning, could a lack of choice when it comes to contraception

for women lead to a rise in unplanned pregnancies

This programme has learnt that many GPs in England have stopped

providing some forms of contraception

Clinicians are warning it could mean "more unplanned

Jean Mackenzie has this exclusive report

which does contain some frank details.

I experienced weight gain, complete loss of libido, I had thrush. I just

felt like I wasn't me. I felt a little bit off of my centre. Sex is

supposed to be something we enjoy, yet to get contraception is so hard,

it is a barrier to enjoyment. These are your pills, we have mail

condoms, and then this is a diaphragm. We also have the

contraceptive injection, and this is a very flexible plastic ring that

you can use. There are now 15 types of contraception, but no

contraception is perfect and works for everyone. Every woman's

experiences different, and what is important is choice, but how much is

that choice being eroded? Clinics are having to close down, restrict

their hours. Difficulty getting to GPs, contraception clinics. We are

constrained with time and money. I do think we will see an increase in

abortions and women having unwanted pregnancies. We have seen evidence

that contraceptive services are being cut, and heard how women's

choices being taken away. My experience with contraception has

been a rollercoaster, but mainly at the bottom. It feels as though it's

messed my body around and my hormones and my emotions. The worst

contraception I had was the coil. It I just had no libido. I tried

proguest ropeb pills. One led to heavy bleeding. One led to bleed,

but really affected my mood. Suddenly I was crying in the shower

every morning and I felt like I was going to burst into tears at any

moment and I was so low. After a few months I came off that and

straightaway I was fine again. I have made the decision not to be on

any contraception. It means I'm relieved every month when I get my

period. It is a risk and it makes me quite nervous, but I'm not willing

to go back and go through those side-effects again.

Most contraception in England is paid for out of Connell's public

health budgets, by last year the Government cut by ?800 million over

six years. Now research by a group of leading sexual health experts

uncovered cuts to local contraceptive services, they say

making it harder to get contraception will mean more

unwanted pregnancies and more abortions. Tracey works with women

seeking abortions. You speak to women every day whose contraception

failed them. What are they saying to you? Women tell me every day that

their choice has been taken away and they tell me about the difficulties

in accessing services, difficulty getting into GPs, they are not

allowed to have the same pill that they have had. Some women have been

on the contraceptive patch and they are told their GPs don't do that

anymore. Some women have been on the ring and they have been told they

don't do that anymore and they are finding that contraceptive clinics

have shutdown. Most women get their contraception

from their GP and in recent years there has been a drive to offer

women a range of options particularly what is called long

acting contraception, things like the coil and the implant, but in

some surgeries those options are being taken away. A third of

councils are in the process of making these cuts to long acting

contraception. This doctor's practise has stopped

offering some of these methods. As a female doctor I feel terribly

embarrassed that I can't offer my patients a local service in my

practise. My concern is for my patients and I do feel that, you

know, I feel bad when I have to say, I'm sorry, if you want the implant

you would have to go elsewhere. Recently I had a woman who came in,

she said right, I'm ready. She wanted the coil. We had a discussion

about it and unfortunately, we couldn't arrange that for her here

so I said you need to go to the family planning centre and I found

out there was a like a six-week wait and you know, we just laughed and I

said, you will probably get pregnant before you get your next coil at

this rate. It is quite shocking. How much pressure are GPs under to

prescribe women contraception based on how much they cost? I'd like to

say we would always give a woman what she wants, but drug costs are

an issue and they are at the back of most GP's mind when they are doing

prescriptions. If someone was for example talking about the ring, you

are thinking OK, that's about ?30 for three months compared to an

ordinary pill which is ?1.80 for three months.

We have seen a survey of more than 1,000 GPs. Only 2% said they offered

all 15 methods of contraception. And more than half said there isn't

enough time in an appointment to give a woman all the information she

needs. What impact does it have on women if they are not given the

contraception that they want? You're less likely to get a woman coming

back for repeat prescriptions. That pill that's giving her maybe

side-effects that she couldn't come back to you and talk about because

she felt that was her only option, that's a challenge. And so you then

you find women coming in, they are pregnant and you are saying, but you

were given the pill, contraception is only as good as you use it and if

that woman isn't comfortable with the choice that you've made for her

rather than what she wanted then that really is a failure towards

those patients. I went on the pill when I was about

18 or 19. I found it uncomfortable to say the least. I just found I

didn't feel myself. After experiencing those side-effects I

decided that I didn't want to take hormonal contraception. My first

stop was a diaphragm. I looked into every single option and I decided I

didn't want the impact. The nurse's reaction wasn't positive. Her

reaction was terrible. She told me I was going to get pregnant and she

told me it wasn't effective and because I'm young I was super

fertile. She laughed me out of the room and she reluctantly fitted, but

because of her reaction when I was having trouble with it or when I

wasn't quite sure, I didn't want to go back and I didn't want to go

back. So I just stopped, I just gave up on it. I basically got pregnant

and although that was, it was unplanned, it was definitely

unplanned and definitely a lot, I was at uni and yeah, it was tough.

As much as I don't want to say it is the system's fault that I got

pregnant, there is blame there. There is definitely blame there. I

felt like I had made an informed choice based on the information I

had available to me, and when I walked into that clinic, I felt that

I wasn't supported in that choice and that eventually led to my

contraception failing me. As well as GPs women can go to sexual health

clinics for their contraception, but a quarter of councils have closed

clinics or are looking at cutting them back. I'm really lucky here

because our access hasn't been restricted. In other areas, clinics

are having to close down. They're having to restrict their hours.

They're losing staff. Certainly outside London, women may have to

travel enormous distances in order to access sexual health settings

which may only be open a couple of days a week. What do you say happens

to sexual health clinics? We are seeing an increase in women seeking

long acting methods of contraception because they're having difficulty

accessing that elsewhere. So these are the methods which would

probably, the pills and emergency contraception are probably the

things that most women would access from their GPs. Then on the other

hand we've got what we call our long acting reversible methods. The

coils, the implant and the injection and it is these methods that we're

seeing in some areas being restricted because they're perceived

to be expensive and GPs might not actually be able to prescribe them.

These methods here, the patch and the ring, also very good and easy to

prescribe from general practice, but we're seeing the funding for those

being limited because they're thought to be quite expensive

methods. We're actually really leaves us with a limited choice

which many women might find the only methods they're able to get hold of.

What happens when you restrict women's choice? You take away

options from them? While all these new methods of contraception have

been developed, which have been so much more reliable, and given women

so much more reproductive control, if we remove those choices again, it

is an enormous step back woords and the steps forwards we made to help

women plan pregnancy at a time that's convenient for them will be

undone. If the cuts carry on at the rate we're seeing now, we will see

another escalation in teenage pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy and

abortion rates. I know what it is like not to get

the contraception you want. I went for my six to eight week check-up

and discovered that he didn't provide contraception at all and was

just kind of given a leaflet and shoved out the door. I was left

feeling stranded and alone and quite angry. My next option was to go to a

sexual health clinic, but I didn't get the chance to do that until five

months after the birth of my daughter. Trying to find a clinic

that worked for me was difficult. I had a C-section with my first child

and I want able to lift anything heavier than the baby. I had to

envisage a situation where I could get somewhere without having to lift

the buggy and fit with the opening hours and also it was drop-in. So it

was not knowing how long I was going to be there in a waiting room with a

young baby. So to go without contraception for into that period

meant it was more difficult in terms of me and my partner having the

intimacy that we fleetingly got to have with a five-month-old baby. We

take risks when choice is taken away from you. You don't like to say that

because you're trying to be conscientious with your health. I

have had sex and I have not had protected sex and I could have got

pregnant. It shouldn't be that hard to get the pill. A third of women

who need contraception live in an area now where services are

restricted in some way. Most women try very hard to avoid a

pregnancy. They use condoms or they use the pill, but there is nothing

they can do about a six-week wait to get the implant fitted or a coil

fitted and they feel quite helpless about it. How concerned are you

about the direction that this is going in? I'm really concerned. We

have spent years doing really good work. Contraception, sexual health,

all that, now but now with all the cuts what we're looking at is an

increase in unwanted pregnancies. Someone made an informed decision

that out of all these options I want to choose this, it is the duty of

the healthcare professional to support them in that choice, give

them as much information as they can to get on with that and when that

isn't happening, that's a failure. We did, of course, ask

the Department of Health to talk to us today,

but they said no. They did however tell

us that they believe, "Local areas are best placed

to decide how to provide the sexual health services

their communities need." If you want to read more about that

you can find an in depth article on the BBC News site

and you can find the full film on our programme

page bbc.co.uk/Victoria Debbie says, "Our NHS used to be

envied by the world. I'm disgusted this Government has allowed it to

fall apart and fail our people. Doctors, nurses, GPs being driven

away, not recognising just how precious they are. We see necessary

and valuable drugs being denied to women who need them. Now women are

losing choice over something so basic as contraception. ." We will

talk more about this in the second hour of the programme. Your

experiences are very welcome. Get in touch in the usual ways.

We talk to the makers of a new BBC Two programme, Muslims Like Us.

It's being billed as Big Brother for Muslims,

but critics say it could perpetuate negative stereotypes of Muslims.

And after carpool karaoke, Madonna has picked up an award

for Woman Of The Year and hit out at the sexism, misogyny

and ageism she says she's received in her career.

It's nearly half past nine. Time for a summary of the latest news with

Joanna. Good morning. Five former Football Association

chiefs have urged the Government to reform the structure

of the Football Association. They criticised its upper ranks

as being "out of balance" and filled David Bernstein, David Davies,

Greg Dyke, Alex Horne and David Triesman called

for legislation to be passed, blaming the FA's

"inability to reform". Six people have been arrested as

part of an ongoing investigation under terrorism legislation.

The prime minister is understood to be considering plans to allow

councils in England and Wales to increase council tax to fund

It follows warnings that the system could "topple at any moment" leading

to pressure on the NHS if patients cannot be released from hospital.

Local councils have suffered more than a 40% reduction

Officials in Nigeria say two young girls have been

At least one other person died in the attack in a packed

marketplace in Maiduguri which is situated in the north

Authorities described the girls as being 7 or 8 years old.

It's not known which group was behind the bombings.

But Boko Haram militants have carried out similar attacks before.

Many GPs in England have stopped providing some forms

of contraception because of funding cuts, this programme has learned.

Some clinicians have said cuts to contraceptive services

will mean "more unplanned pregnancies and abortions".

The Advisory Group on Contraception's research comes

after the Government announced public health cuts totalling more

The Home Secretary Amber Rudd has hit out over planned strikes

on Southern Rail that are set to cause travel chaos

Members of rail union Aslef have planned three days

of strikes this week - a move the Home Secretary called

The strikes will halt all Southern's services,

disrupting the 500,000 passengers who use the service every day.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

John Watson's here now with this morning's sports headlines.

England's struggles on their tour of India continues, as they lost by an

innings and 36 runs. The bottom order needed to show resistance, but

they lost their remaining four wickets in just over half an hour.

James Anderson was the last to go, and with him when the series. They

are 3-0 down with one Tester play. Chelsea have extended their winning

run to nine matches, top of the table after a 1-0 win over West

Brom. Yego Costa with the goal. He now has 12 for the season so far,

more than any other player in the Premier League. The draw for the

Champions League will be made at 11am with Arsenal, Manchester City

and Leicester all waiting to see who they will face in the knockout

stages, the final of which is to be played in Cardiff this year. And

Latvia have said they may pull out of the Skeleton and bobsleigh World

Championships next year unless Sochi are removed as hosts. It comes in

response to the details of that Russian state-sponsored doping

programme which came in the second part of Richard McLaren's report on

Friday. That is all the sport for now, plenty more for you later on.

Thank you very much. England's Football Association

is outdated, held back by "elderly white men" and unable to counter

the power of the Premier League, say five former executives

of the governing body. David Bernstein, David Davies,

Greg Dyke, Alex Horne and David Triesman say the FA has

failed to self-reform, and they describe their

decision-making structures We'll speak to two of those men

who've written to MPs But, of course, today's criticism

of the FA comes at a time when it's already under intense

pressure over the way it's handled historic allegations

of sex abuse in football - a story which has unfolded on this

programme over the last few month: The impact it has had on my life is

just catastrophic. I can't put into words what that has

done to me. But I felt that I needed to do this

so that other people will come out. You are through to the NSPCC advice

line, you are speaking to Sheila. Are you calling with concerns for

child? Both my parents have died, and that

hurts me. Not telling them. Does it? Yes, but I don't know if it is a

good thing that I didn't tell them, because they would have blamed

themselves, so... What we have got to do is make sure

those victims are supported, that this doesn't turn into an exercise

of football trying to protect its own reputation.

There is a lot of shame, a lot of guilt attached, a lot of confusion.

And like I say, it was just impossible at that time to come out,

just impossible. Everyone was kind of just naked and

would get thrown on this bed, a very quick massage. It was uncomfortable.

It's very, very wrong, for a start. I was tired because I had to be back

for school, so just lay your head in my lap, and he would be stroking my

head and that was when I started thinking that that was odd to me

that this was happening. When you signed that confidentiality

agreement, what were you thinking when they wanted you to keep quiet

about the abuse you have suffered? With the document, I was basically

pushed into a corner, and it was basically, there is the money, but

to have the money, you have to sign this.

Let's speak to David Bernstein who was FA chairman from 2011 to 2013,

and Greg Dyke who replaced him from then until earlier this year. They

have spoken to MPs calling for reform of the FA. Mr Bernstein, what

you want to see changed? First of all, this is something I have been

speaking about for three or four years, it is not something that has

just arisen. Greg will speak for himself, but I know he agrees, we

and David Triesman are all very independently of this same view that

the FA basically is antiquated, out of date, and not sufficiently

independent. What I want to see, the Parliamentary select committee have

said the same thing, changes to the FA shareholder base, which I could

explain, the FA Council, the FA board, the FA committees, and

perhaps later on I would like to see the direction of travel for money

that goes from the Premier League actually not to go directly from the

Premier League to the rest of the game, but for -- from the Premier

League to the FA to reform the FA, because I think it would remove part

of the Premier League's soft power that it has and exercises well, and

reinforce the power of the FA. We need an FA that can bring better

balance back into the niche game. Why didn't you do this when you were

chairman? As my predecessor or successor found out, it was

basically impossible. I did what I could, I did bring in some reform, I

did bring in some independent directors, including a woman, which

was some achievement, but beyond that, it is impossible. The

structure is resistant to change, and that has been made clear by the

select committee's initial report, which remember goes back for five

years, and from the letter they have just released. Greg Dyke, you left

the FA earlier this year after trying to change things, and

failing. All five of you would have fought against being subject to

legislation when you lead the organisation. Is it not hypocritical

for you to call the legislation now? I'm not sure I would have fought

against legislation. What I said was, let's try and reform this place

before the legislators have to do it, and in truth, I failed. I

couldn't get them to agree, this arcane system wants to carry on as

it is. And I think what this letter is really saying to the select

committee and to government is, if you want change, you are going to

have to do it, because if this organisation will not reform itself,

it is in desperate need of reform, and it won't do it. So don't do any

more reports saying we want this, we want that, and not doing anything

about it. In my time of chairman, two ministers of sport said to me,

if you don't change, we are going to change you, and I said, but nobody

believes you. And unless you give it some teeth and start to do it, they

don't believe you, so they will never reform. Right. Wider you say

it is in desperate need of reform? I invite you to go along to a meeting

of the FA Council, because it is like stepping back into the 1940s.

It is 120 people, overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly men... They

are not representative of greater society, but that doesn't tell us...

They fight to retain what is, because what is suits them, and in

no organisation does that make sense. In any organisation you have

to have a structure and a system which embraces change. The venue,

and from the council to the board, and the board, as my predecessor

just said, the board has a majority from either the national game or

from the rational side, and they together join up to make sure that

things that we wanted to do was stopped. And therefore it doesn't

make sense. What we were saying to Damian Collins, and I hope what he

will say when he comes on to your programme is that he will now take

some action and press the Government, and then the FA might

begin to reform itself, but at the moment, there is no chance. As you

say, we will talk to Mr Collins Injera is to moment. I want to move

on to historic sexual abuse, and also an FA government issue, the

issue of our time. Mr Bernstein, you were chairman of Manchester City

from 1984 to 2003, chairman of the FA from 2011 to 2013. Diddy issue of

sexual abuse in football ever cross your desk while you were in either

role? No, it didn't, it really, really didn't. And if it had done, I

would have taken it up and dealt with it. I commend what you have

done on this subject, it is awful, and this matter is under

investigation now and I hope the investigations are strong enough and

independent enough. Let me ask the same question to Mr Dyke... Sorry,

but what I would say is that if an organisation is modern, cutting-edge

and with a modern society, it is more likely to react to things like

this positively and less likely to sweep them under the carpet. We will

see what comes out of these investigations, but this and many

other issues go back over decades, and I believe would have been

treated more efficiently and in a more sympathetic way had the

organisations themselves been modernised. Right. Mr Dyke, Mr

Bernstein never heard anything about allegations of abuse. What about you

when you are in the top job? I have to say in the three years I was

chairman, it never came across my desk. What did come across my desk

was, were our processes effective? Most of the complaints I have heard

so far, most of the cases are historic cases, they are not modern

cases, and I think the FA staff have run quite an effective system in

recent years, but hopefully they will now set up an investigation

that looks at how effective is the existing system, and could that be

improved, because clearly that is the priority before we go back to

historic cases. I take your point that some of the cases are

historical. But I put it to you again, we now know nearly 100 clubs

have been named over 80 alleged abusers. Is it really feasible, is

this what you are telling the audience, is it really feasible that

the people at the top knew nothing? Absolutely. I assure you that was

the case. These questions need to be addressed to many others as well, to

the Premier League, to the football league, and also to the PFA. The PFA

is the players union, and you would have thought that would be the first

port of call that players would go to if they were in trouble, and I

would be fascinated to know how over 20 or 30 years, the PFA never seemed

to know about these things or react to these things. That would be the

first port of call, I would have thought. Mr Dyke? And the clubs,

they are the employer. The clubs employ these people. As I say,

certainly in my three years, this did not cross my desk. Unless it is

referred up to you as chairman, you are not likely to discover it

yourself unless somebody writes to you, and nobody wrote to me. Again,

it may not have crossed your desk, Mr Dyke. In the time when you were

chairman, Barnsley have confirmed they hired an Academy physio without

doing all the criminal record checks on him. So in your time as boss,

that was happening. We are not in charge of Barnsley. But you were the

top man running the FA! What is interesting to me seems to be first

of all you need an urgent checks, which is what the FA are doing, on

the processes that exist now and how effective they are. On the second

case, you then have to get into the historic cases. But I can only tell

you what happened. As the chairman of the FA, I really wouldn't have

known that Barnsley would have employed someone who hadn't passed

the checks. I made a mistake, it was in Mr

Bernstein's time. Those decisions are not referred up. Now, there

should be a checking system. Let's not kid ourselves, whatever you do,

you're going to avoid this happening on odd occasions. What you want to

know, it is not a systematic process, it is not systematically

happening as it seems to be in the 90s. Gagging clauses... Victoria,

coming back to the, sorry, coming back to the core issue here which is

the FA structural governance, you had an FA council, an FA board, an

FA shareholder base, all modernised and geared and more receptive to

these things, there is more likelihood the whole atmosphere

within the Football Association and within football generally would be

to take these things on board and maybe there would be less reluctance

- Greg is right, he and I, I certainly and he, I'm sure never had

these things put on our desks and we are both strong enough in

personalities, if we had done, we would have reacted to them. This

e-mail from Philippa, will nobody in FA management take responsibility.

"I do not believe these guests when they say they knew nothing about the

abuse. It is not credible." I can't do much about that. The answer is,

it was not, it did not, and I mean you also need to look at the

position of the media and everybody else involved in this because

actually it is Channel 4 did do a Dispatches back in the 1990s on this

and no one else followed it up. I mean, it is only the FA, this is a

societal thing of that time. What is essential to know is are the systems

today effective? Gagging clauses which I think was in your time as FA

chairman Mr Greg Dyke, did Chelsea break FA rules in your mind? I'm not

there now so I don't know what happened. I haven't seen a report. I

have only seen what's happened. What I do know is a lot of organisations

when they are historically when they have been given these issues have

not accepted liability, but paid compensation on the basis of a

gagging clause and that doesn't only happen, the BBC does it which I know

intimately. It doesn't mean to say you accept guilt, it means you

accept that there is a case and you wish to end the case. David

Bernstein, could you see a situation where a case involving sexual abuse

could be subject to a gagging clause? I don't know the answer to

that. It is something I can't answer. I don't know.

Should clubs face some sart of sanction if they're found to use

them? Neither David or I are in a position to know that. We haven't

seen all the details, but in the end the clubs are the employer. Not the

FA. And in the end, it is the employer who has the responsibility.

Could we go back to the wider issue? What I think is, that there is no

effective regulation in football. And I think you are only going to

get effective regulation if either the FA becomes more independent or

you have an outside regulator. OK. If you look at the Premier League,

the Premier League is 20 clubs, 20, what are now big businesses, coming

together to sell their rights together in a cartel. If you did

that in any other industry people would laugh at us. It is actually

quite effective in football, but you can only do it therefore if you have

an effective regulator as well because it is a cartel. OK, well I'm

sure the Premier League would reject that.

David yen Collins you received the letter. You're chair of the culture,

media, and sport Select Committee. The Premier League accused by Greg

Dyke there of operating like a cartel. What's your view? Well, the

former chairmen are right that the Premier League are incredibly

powerful and works strongly for the interest of its member clubs, but

the issue with English football as Greg Dyke said, there is no

effective regulator for English football. The FA doesn't have the

power to say there is an issue we're going to resolve, it doesn't matter

if it is a Premier League issue or conference issue, we are the

governing body and we have the final say. Would you back an external

regulator? The FA should be the regulator for English football. It

should be the governing body and have the powers and the independence

to regulate the whole of the game. But it doesn't have that. So would

you back an external force or not? What I'm proposing in response to

the letter we've received from David Bernstein and Greg Dyke and the

other former officials, we restrict ture the Football Association using

legislation in line of the recommendations made by the Select

Committee report. It would give the Chief Executive and the chairman of

the fae along with independent non-executive directors a majority

on the board so they could outvote the Premier League representatives

and behave like a governing body. You talk about legislation? What I

have asked the clerk ins Parliament is produce a Draft Bill which we'll

publish in the New Year and it is possible to create a Bill which can

legislate to change the rules of a private organisation like the

Football Association. So Parliament could pass a Bill that would

externally reform the constitution and the FA and we would leave it to

the FA to use the new powers to be an effective regulator for the game.

Is the FA a stagnant old boys club? Well, yes. It doesn't represent the

modern game. It doesn't represent the people that play the game today

and it is not effective at dealing with the challenges that face

football today. And I think that's why it needs to be totally reformed

and I think legislation is the only way it can be done. What is really

significant about the letter we received, David Bernstein and Greg

Dyke and David Davis, they have all appeared in front of the Select

Committee and they have been asked about reform and done their best to

achieve reform. Here we have senior figures from the football family

saying it cannot be done without legislation to drive through the

change. When you spock to us a couple of weeks ago, you told us

that you were concerned that the FA's internal inquiry into

allegations of sexual abuse in football was being run by a QC who

had worked with the FA previously. And you worried about her

independence. You also worried about whether they were going to publish

the findings of that I review. They have changed the QC and they say

they are committed to publishing it. Are you happy? Yes, I am. I think

the scope of the inquiry, it is better set-up and it is broader and

it has got the power to go into the clubs and investigate what went

wrong in the clubs which is conclusion. What I said to the FA,

the only grounds for not publishing anything within the report should be

the relegation of the police that doing so may compromise an open

investigation, but the FA shouldn't have the power to block any of it on

policy grounds or football maybe embarrassed. This has to be

completely transparent. By having a properly published report and a

proper debate, we can check it a make sure the current safeguarding

procedures are in place. Should the Scottish FA launch their inquiry? I

think so. I think all national governing bodies of sport should

behaving a serious look at their own sport because I don't believe this

is purely a football problem. It probably affected other sports too.

Football is a popular game that it is likely to involve more cases, but

there are safeguarding issues elsewhere. I have not seen any

evidence, but all sports should take this seriously. Thank you very much.

Damien Collins head of the culture rks maod, media and sport Select

Committee. Your views are welcome. Get in

touch. Madonna picks up an award

for Woman of the Year and hits out at the sexism,

misogyny and ageism she says she's These are the ?995 trousers

at the centre of a row This woman, the former

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, criticised those leather trousers

saying they'd been "noticed and discussed" in local Tory circles

and that she didn't think she'd ever spent that much on anything apart

from her wedding dress. As a result of her comments on those

trousers, Nicky Morgan got dumped via text from a meeting

with Theresa May at Downing Street. And now it's being claimed that

after all that criticism - Nicky Morgan owns a handbag

worth ?950 anyway. Our political correspondent

Chris Mason is here. Right, where do you want to start

with this? Let's have a look at trouser texts that you have been

referring to. This refers to Amanda Wakeley designed bitter chocolate

leather trousers. They are the trousers that Theresa May was

photographed in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago. Prompted this

row over text message between Downing Street, Nicky Morgan, the

former Education Secretary and Alistair Birt a former minister was

involved in this. Here are the trouser texts. Let's look at them.

Alistair Birt and Nicky Morgan were at a meeting in Downing Street, but

at po thant Fiona Hill the joint Chief-of-Staff said to Alistair

Birt, "Don't bring that woman to Number Ten again." This after Nicky

Morgan had passed judgement on the foft those leather trousers saying

they did not pass the Loughborough market test! Loughborough the town

in the East Midlands that Nicky Morgan represents in Parliament. She

said she couldn't go out into Loughborough market wearing those

trousers people would think it was ridiculous she spent ?995 on the

trousers. If you pass comment on somebody's expensive clothes

somebody will find stuff that you bought that might be expensive.

Enter Nicky Morgan's brown leather Bays Water bag from a brand called

Mulberry! It cost yes, ?950, ?45 cheaper than the trousers! But still

about the same cost that I would have spent on a second-hand car!

I love the way you say bitter chocolate and the rest of us would

say brown! OK. Where are we in this row between Number Ten and Theresa

May's people, who protect her and surround her and the former

Education Secretary? I would like to tell you that this is a row that

groans with national input! Firstly, Nicky Morgan and Theresa

May, in case you hadn't guessed it, don't get on! They didn't really get

on when they were around the Cabinet table and since Nicky Morgan was

fired by Theresa May a couple of months ago, there have been plenty

of barbs coming from Nicky Morgan in the direction of Downing Street and

she said she is somebody who is willing to continue doing that and

put her head above the para pet. Some have criticised and regularly

criticised a sexist stint as they see it in the media to bang on and

on about bang Theresa May's clothes, but this was a photograph she sat

down to have taken by the Sunday Times. She wasn't snapped in her

constituency going to church by someone on a camera phone hiding in

the bushes! This was something prearranged. It is not just female

Prime Ministers who of pictures taken of them in clothing that

causes a remark. This is the former Prime Minister, also in the same

newspaper the Daily Mail wearing jazzy trunks. James our cameraman

has a pair of them. They feature a picture of a 1969 swimming pool at

the exclusive hotel Eden Rock in a chic French Mediterranean resort. So

it is not posh leather trousers or indeed posh Mulberry or whatever it

is bags, swimming trunks can feature too and why not?

Anyway, there is my pitch to be fashion editor. It is Mulberry, you

know that! Sales of those trunks are they going to go up or down as a

result of that photo of Mr Cameron? I wonder if those trousers will end

up in a charity shop in Maidenhead in the Prime Minister's

constituency. They may only be ?825 now!

Let's get the latest weather update with Carol.

We have had fog and frost. We've had a fair bit of rain around and there

is more rain to come too. So to show you a picture of what we've had, one

of our Weather Watchers sent this in from Lincolnshire. There is fog

across parts of Eastern England. If you're travelling on the M1 or A1

bear that in mind. The fog will linger in the hills and

it will be fairly cloudy. We've got another weather front coming our way

aacross Western Scotland and Northern Ireland. So after a bright

start, the rain moves in. Some of it will be heavy through the day as it

will across the islands and Highlands of Scotland too, but

north-east Scotland seeing something brighter, not just now, but into the

afternoon. As we come south, there will be more cloud around and

splashes of rain. After a bright start in north-west England, the

rain moves up from the south-west towards the north-east. Not

particularly heavy, but it will be surrounded by murky conditions. Same

too across East Anglia, Kent and heading over towards the Home

Counties. Drifting further west, as the rain clears, it will brighten up

nicely across parts of Cornwall and Devon. We could see sunshine through

the afternoon, but for Wales, we will have the dank conditions, the

hill fog and also the drizzly bits and pieces moving north-east wards.

Pembrokeshire could see something brighter later. The rain clears

away, but the rain coming in from the west will be heavy as it crosses

parts of southern England and Wales. Tonight too, we could see patchy fog

reform, but not as widespread as or as dense as we had this morning.

Tomorrow the rain continues to journey eastwards clearing off into

the North Sea, but there will be a curl behind it across southern

England and Wales and that will produce spots of rain. Further

north, well, we are looking at brighter skies. Some fog around, it

could lift into low cloud. It will be swept away as we head on into

Wednesday as another weather front comes our way. That's going to brood

deuce more rain and just ahead of, there really isn't much in the way

of isobars and what we have are well spaced so that means it won't be

windy, but around the weather front it will be so. . So we have got rain

spreading in across Northern Ireland and Western Scotland, gusty winds.

Ahead of it for England and Wales and Eastern Scotland, a bright day,

with sunshine, temperatures not bad for this stage in December. Highs of

nine or ten to 13 Celsius as we sweep down towards the south.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

This morning: Claims that abortion and unplanned pregnancies could rise

because of cuts in funding to the contraception GPs offer.

We've spent years doing really good work -

contraception, sexual health, all that.

But now, with all the cuts, what we're looking at now is

We're keen to hear your views on the contraceptive

Also on the programme: Two former heads of the FA tell us why it

What this letter is really saying to the select committee and to

Government is, if you want to change, you are going to have to do

it, because this organisation will not reform itself, it is in

desperate need of reform and it will not do it. The bosses also told us

that the issue of abuse in football never reach their desk when they

were in charge of the organisation. No, it didn't, it really didn't, and

I must tell you, if it had done, I would have taken it up and dealt

with it. Do let us know your views about what they told us this

morning. You can e-mail or get in touch on Twitter.

Plus BBC Two's new TV programme Muslims Like Us is being billed

as Big Brother for Muslims - but will it end up perpetuating

I'm your average, normal British Muslim person.

We're the majority, but our voice is the least heard.

We'll talk to the makers of the show.

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

Five former Football Association chiefs have urged the Government

to reform the structure of the Football Association.

They criticised its upper ranks as being "out of balance" and filled

David Bernstein, David Davies, Greg Dyke, Alex Horne

and David Triesman called for legislation to be

passed, blaming the FA's "inability to reform".

Their concerns were set out in a letter to the Culture,

Its chairman says legislation is needed to turn the FA

The letter that was sent to the committee clearly

demonstrates the frustration of the former chairman of the FA

that they did not have the power to get through the full

that they wanted power and football is dominated by a series of vested

Six people have been arrested this morning on suspicion of offences

Four men from Derby, a woman from London and a man

from Burton-on-Trent are being held in police custody on suspicion

of preparing for an act of terrorism as part of an ongoing

Syrian activists say government forces have retaken another key

district of eastern Aleppo from the rebels, after a night

Forces loyal to President Assad now control the overwhelming

The advance comes less than 24 hours after rebels received a US-backed

proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians, under safe passage

More than ten thousand civilians are reported to have fled Aleppo

Many GPs in England have stopped providing some forms

of contraception because of funding cuts, this programme has learned.

Some clinicians have said cuts to contraceptive services

will mean "more unplanned pregnancies and abortions".

The Advisory Group on Contraception's research comes

after the government announced public health cuts totalling more

The Home Secretary will lay an order in parliament to proscribe the right

wing group National Action, later this morning, to be debated

It would mean it would become a criminal offence to be a member

or to encourage support for the group.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

use the hashtag #Victorialive and if you text, you will be charged

E-mail from Janet on GPs cutting back injuries is on contraception

methods. Could I said jest to the young woman who holds the GB

responsible for the fact that she fell pregnant, she herself made a

choice, and there is another choice, not to be sexually active. Thank you

for this important issue and the other important issues you raise.

John Watson's here again now with more sport.

Not a great morning for Alastair Cook and his team, they have lost

the fourth match in Mumbai by one innings and 36 runs. The lower order

needed to show some resistance, but lost their remaining four wickets in

just over half an hour. James Anderson the last ago, and with when

the series. There are 3-0 down with one match left to play. The

performance has prodded some strong words from former captain Michael

Vaughan. The question would be to everyone who has been watching, have

they got better? Have they improved as a side, and I don't think they

have, and that is a real worry. The fact that they got 400 and could

still lose by an innings, last time they lost by eight wickets, the time

before 246 runs. When they lose, they get a hammering. Chelsea

extended their winning run to nine matches, Diego Costa with his 12th

goal of the season earning his side a 1-0 win over West Brom yesterday.

Manager Antonio Conte transforming the fortunes of the former

champions. It is brilliant in this moment,

because we won nine games in a row, and it is fantastic because this

league is very tough. A league with great difficulty, and to win nine

games in a row, it means that we are working very well. Liverpool are now

six points behind the league leaders after dropping points at home.

Liverpool managed to pull level when Origi equalised in the second half.

2-2 it finished, meaning West Ham are now out of the legation zone.

Jose Mourinho got the win he feels his side's recent performances

deserve as Manchester United beat Tottenham 1-0. Mkhitaryan with the

only goal of the game. United States sixth, and fifth placed Spurs are

now ten points off the top. Arsenal, Leicester and Manchester

city are waiting to learn who they will face the knockout stages of the

Champions League, the draw is being made in around an hour in

Switzerland. If any of the three can get there, they won't have to travel

far, because the final will be played in Cardiff's principality

Stadium in May. And Latvia have said they may boycott the bobsleigh and

Skeleton World Championships in Sochi next year unless the event is

moved. It comes in response to the second part of the McLaren report

which outlined the scale of state-sponsored doping in Russia.

Lizzy Yarnold, who won skeleton gold in Sochi at the winter Olympic Saint

2014, said she, too, may boycott the games unless a different city is

chosen. That is all your sportswear now, more at around half past.

Cheers, John. Welcome to the programme.

In the last year, we have reported what is happening in Aleppo

regularly in this programme. It has been described as a humanitarian

disaster. Now Syrian opposition activists say

government forces have retaken a key district in the east of Aleppo

from rebel fighters overnight. There are claims that rebel forces

are using civillians as "human shields", thousands have

fled their homes in recent days, those left behind face starvation

and a lack of medical People living in East Aleppo

are caught in a war between two broad groups: On one

side are the Syrian government forces and their allies -

which are mainly the Iranians and the Russians, and on the other

are the 900 or so jihadis from the al Nusra group -

which used to be part of Al Qaeda. It's incredibly difficult to speak

to residents inside Aleppo - but a couple of weeks ago we managed

that - and this is their story I'm an English teacher

at Aleppo high schools. I've been living here for about six

years, since the beginning Actually, no one can believe

the situation inside Aleppo. No one can imagine what

happens inside Aleppo. I'm married with three children,

two sons and a daughter. The aircraft just shell and shell

and shell, without stopping. And the artillery field

shell at the same place. Er, in Aleppo right now, 300,000

living in a complete demolition... Every day, dozens

of people are dying. I might die just now

whilst speaking to you. People just sleep in the darkness

and wake up at the voice of the aircraft, at the voice of

the bomb, at the voice of missiles. Bombing and targeting

people, civilians. My house was targeted

and collapsed to the ground. People pulled out

from under the rubble. That was a miracle that

all of us survived. Sometimes we find people want a car,

want something to take dead body, dead sons, dead father,

in order to be buried. Even vehicles are not available

to bury their sons and their father. Our work seems to be

like a drop in the ocean. What can you do for those

people who starve? What can you do for those people

who are under the rubble? Hundreds and hundreds

under the rubble. Up to now there are 30

people under the rubble that we couldn't do

for them anything. People who are being targeted

or being wounded, we don't know where to get them,

where to bring them. Just even the small medical

centres were completely The hospital right now is the most

dangerous place ever in Aleppo. After all the hospitals have been

destroyed and crushed. Civilians start to move in large

numbers towards the Kurdish area They are quite afraid

of more advances towards People who went to the regime

areas were all arrested. They arrested all men

between 18 and 42. They were taken to the intelligence

stations and are still trapped there, and they are going to be

investigated, one by one. Some families stay in their homes, and

they find themselves just in the hands of the regime. A lot of people

would prefer to defend their own land, and they are ready to

sacrifice their lives for their land, because they already know that

when the regime are getting closer to their areas, they will execute a

lot of people. The Russian government is seeing

some sort of political gap in America. We have seen some movement

between Barack Obama and the Trump, and there is some sort of political

space, so to speak, so they are doing that without any international

questioning or even in the midst of international silence, nobody is

doing anything towards what is happening in Aleppo. People believe

that the question of Aleppo and the civilians, and shelling the

civilians, it is not only a scheme that is written organised, not only

Tehran or Moscow, but also Western countries. The UN can do a lot for

the people here, the innocent people. They can make pressure on

Russia to stop the continual shelling and make a way out for

people here to go out. This is a shame of the world because

it is 2016 and people have been through this and suffered through

this and starving to death. That's the situation in Aleppo.

Separatley so-called Islamic State group fighters have re-entered

the ancient city of Palmyra, nine months after losing

This footage shows some of the devastating impact on the city.

Reporters believe IS appears to have taken advantage of the Government's

focus on Aleppo. We are going to try and talk now

live to a resident of Aleppo. An English teacher and Dr David

Knott a surgeon who worked in Aleppo and speaks to people there every

single day and professor of international relations from the

London School of Economics. Abdul, thank you very much for

talking to our British audience. What is it like in Aleppo right now?

Thank you very much, thank you for letting me go on air. I want to tell

you what's going on. Most people when they know I'm going to talk to

you, told me just to send this message - the situation inside

Aleppo is the doomsday. It is doomsday. It is literally the

doomsday. Just when I'm coming here to the internet centre, I have to

take maybe 15 minutes, it is so close to my house because bombs,

bombs are everywhere, people are running, they don't know where, just

running. Some people are injured in the streets. No one can go to help

them. Some of them, some people no one can help them. They just leave

them until they die under the rubble. These houses are their

graves. Bombs here. People don't know what to do. For me, I risk my

life. I risk my life to go out because it is so dangerous. No one

can move ten meters or 20 without having bombs close to them. Most

people don't have houses because all those people who moved from the

areas that were controlled by the regime, now they are in our areas.

It is so dangerous and the bombs are likely so they make huge numbers of

casualties and kill people. Have you seen in the last few days

and weeks any sign of aid agencies, of humanitarian workers, anybody,

has anybody been able to get to you to help you and your family? Sorry,

can you repeat your question? I might not get it. Have you seen any

aid agencies or any humanitarian workers who could help you, your

family, your neighbours? No one could care to come to help us.

Russian regime decided to exterminate parts of Aleppo. This is

the regime this. Is what some of them are telling us. So no one comes

there. No United Nations. No humanitarian agencies can come to

help us. All the night and in the morning my wife just has been crying

and she doesn't know what to say because it is dangerous. She is

always afraid. She is always scared. We don't know what to do, but I want

to have a comment about something in your report. You said that the

rebels make us as human shields. This is not true. A lot of people

who want to go to the regime areas are going there. Some people can go.

For me, I'm talking to you now, so this is a crime for the regime. I

will be arrested. I will be put in prison or I'm going to be killed

directly. I'm a civilian. I'm not a fighter of the it is a crime for a

regime A lot of people here who work as doctors and teachers and as

activists will be killed or arrested if they go to the regime. Even their

families are going to be killed or arrested. So we can go there. It is

not a matter of human shields at allment we don't want to go there.

We don't want to go to the regime areas. Yes, we might go to the

countryside but the regime, it is another kind of death. I understand.

I'm going to introduce to Dr David Knott who is a surgeon who worked in

Aleppo. Talk to Abdul. Abdul, can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. I

have been on the whatsapp and various messages to your colleagues

there, all the doctors, I regularly speak to them every single day and

we're trying our very, very best because they also will be looked on

as terrorists and they also don't want to go into the regime areas.

And what we are trying to do is to try and create a ceasefire between

the Russians and the Syrian regime and I know the armed operating

groups there have agreed to a ceasefire, but at the moment the

British Government and everybody are trying their very, very hardest to

try and create a ceasefire. That is the most important thing that we're

trying to do at this present time. We hope that, really, we hope to

have a ceasefire soon because most people now are dying here... Those

people who are dying here now don't have a chance to go out and to treat

their injuries. Of course, no hospitalses awe know, all the

hospitals were detroud. We might have now a ceasefire just to help

those people. At least some people in the rubble, we want to take them

out and put them this their graves of the it is catastrophic. It is

really catastrophic, it might be one of the worst human situations in the

new history. Would you agree with that? Without a dausmt they are in

an area by ten kill old terse by ten kilometres and there is 50,000 in

that area. We have got children ready to go and patients ready to

go, we have got everybody waiting to get out. The UN are surrounding the

areas with their vehicles, but the shelling is so intense that nobody

can move and if you do go outside, you have the problem of being killed

and this morning there were women and children killed on the road. The

big issue is somehow, somehow, the Russians and the Syrian regime need

to stop bombing to get the civilians out and that's what we're trying.

This is not going happen. What, the ceasefire is not going to happen?

The ceasefire has been on the table for a week. The Russians and the

Syrian Army and their allies are trying to do really squeeze the

rebels. It is to really bleed the rebels, is to really increase the

costs for eastern Aleppo. Aleppo has fallen. The regime now controls

almost more than 90%. You have today, last night and today, they

captured the neighbourhood which is the nerve centre of the rebels. So

with the Syrian Army and its allies are trying to force the rebels to

surrender, they are not going accept any ceasefire. They want to dictate

saying the rebels are going to leave and that's why the pressure, the

ceasefire is not going to happen, unless there is an agreement for the

rebel to exit eastern Aleppo and who is paying the price? The civilians.

It is a hellish situation on earth for the civilians. You have 150,000

civilians in the eastern part in 10% eastern Aleppo. Last week, we were

able to negotiate with the Russians to get a road up from east Aleppo,

through west Aleppo, up to another area. The road, they agreed and

everybody agreed that was the way the teachers, the professionals and

the doctors could get out, plus the patients. But the shelling just

won't stop. What's happening is you have between 30,000 and 50,000

civilians who have been able to leave eastern Aleppo, what do you do

when you have 100,000 who don't want to leave? You have a major segment

of the population who are terrified to go to the western part that's

controlled by got and the reality is the Americans and the western powers

on the one hand and Russia are negotiating a way out. So far, there

is no deal. And that's why in the past 24 hours the Syrian Army and

its allies have made major inroads into the 10% of eastern Aleppo.

Almost 1,000 rebels had to surrender and who knows what's going to happen

to them according to Russia? The next 48 hours or two or three days

are pivotal, not only deciding the future of the 5,000 rebels, deciding

the future of the people who remain in eastern Aleppo. Abdul, we are

particularly grateful to you for talking to us. Talking to our

British audience when things are so dangerous there. Thank you very much

for your time, Abdul. Thaumpbleghts.

Professor thank you, and Dr David Knott, thank you. This tweet from

Michelle, "No help, no humanitarian aid, no one seems tb able to help

them." Another tweet, "Future generations will ask what did you do

during the massacre in Syria?" Some of the description from Abdul, you

know, he said the bombs were like rain. He talked about his wife not

being able to stop crying. He was frantic. He was scared. He was

desperate and we await to see if there will be a ceasefire.

A former youth player at Chelsea, where owe Gradi was assistant

manager says he was assaulted by Eddie Heath's the club's chief scout

when the boy was 15. Heath who has since died has been accused of

several people of abuse in the 70s and 80s, Crewe have yet to speak

publicly about Dario Gradi's statement. John Bowler faced

questions from journalists. Was it you or the FA that suspended Dario

Gradi? I will be putting out a statement later on. We have had a

statement from Crewe Alexandra. "Following discussions with the

Football Association Crewe can confirm that Dario Gradi is under an

FA interim suspension." That's it. That's the length and breadth of the

statement from Crewe. Following discussion with the Football

Association, Crewe can confirm that Dario Gradi is currently under an FA

interim suspension. Dario Gradi, Director of Football and before

that, manager, of course as you know for many years. Let's talk to

Richard Conway who is at Wembley. Tell us more.

A-short statement from Crewe. Just confirming what we have been

reporting for around 24 hours that Dario Gradi has been suspended. The

FA have taken this action against Dario Gradi. Given the

circumstances, surrounding Crewe Alexandra, it is one they clearly

have gone. Nothing from the FA themselves on this, but confirmation

coming from Crewe. Last week, we should say, there were reports in

the Independent newspaper, that Dario Gradi was when employed by

xhles in the 1970s involved in smoothing over a complaint of

inappropriate behaviour towards a young player who was with Chelsea at

the time. Now, it is reported again that that may have prompted action

from the FA against Dario Gradi, but we simply do not know at this stage

because we don't have information from the FA or from Crewe

themselves, just that very brief statement saying that he has been

suspended pending this ongoing investigation. Cheers, Richard.

Richard Conway at Wembley. Joanna is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Five former Football Association

chiefs have urged the Government Grundy denies any wrongdoing, and

says he will assist with the FA's review.

Five former Football Association chiefs have urged the Government

to reform the structure of the Football Association.

They criticised its upper ranks as being "out of balance" and filled

David Bernstein, David Davies, Greg Dyke, Alex Horne

and David Triesman called for legislation to be

passed, blaming the FA's "inability to reform".

Six people have been arrested this morning on suspicion of offences

Four men from Derby, a woman from London and a man

from Burton-on-Trent are being held in police custody on suspicion

of preparing for an act of terrorism as part of an ongoing

The Home Secretary Amber Rudd has hit out over planned strikes

on Southern Rail that are set to cause travel chaos

Members of rail union Aslef have planned three days

of strikes this week - a move the Home Secretary called

The strikes will halt all Southern's services,

disrupting the 500,000 passengers who use the service every day.

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

John Watson's here now with this morning's sports headlines.

Thank you. England's struggles on their tour of India continue as they

lost the fourth test by one innings and 36 runs. To stand any chance of

forcing a draw, their bottom order needed to show some resistance this

morning, but they lost their remaining four wickets in just over

half an hour. James Anderson was last ago, and with him when the

series, meaning they are now 3-0 down with one match left to play.

Chelsea have extended their winning run in the Premier League to nine

matches after a 1-0 win over West Brom. Diego Costa with the only goal

of the game. He now has 12 for the season, more than any other player

in the league. The draw for the Champions League will be made at 11

o'clock, with Arsenal Manchester City and Leicester all waited to see

who they will face in the knockout stages, the final of which is to be

played with Cardiff's With the polity Stadium. And Latvia have said

they may well Paul Aiton of the bobsleigh World Championships next

year unless Sochi are removed as hosts. This is in response to the

report on the state-sponsored doping system run by Russia according to

the McLaren report in 2011 for a four-year period. And that is all

your sportswear now. Plenty more on BBC news throughout the day. Thank

you very much. Condoms, combined pill,

progesterone pill, implant, injection, hormonal coil,

copper coil, diaphragm, cap, female condoms,

patch, vaginal ring, female sterilisation,

male sterilisation, fertility awareness -

these are the 15 types of contraception that

all Gps should provide. But this programme has discovered

that some GPs have stopped providing And clinicians are warning it

could lead to a rise in abortions A survey of GPs from the family

planning Association suggests only 2% offer the full range of

contraceptive methods. 53% don't have enough time to give women all

the information they need, and 23% won't offer the contraceptive

implant. Let's speak now to GP

Anne Connolly who is a member of the Advisory Group

on Contraception Laura Russell, from And Shelly Raine - a nurse,

specializing in contraception and who now trains nurses

in the field. Good morning to all of you. Why does

this matter? We have seen fantastic reductions in teen pregnancy over

the last ten years, and one of the major point about that, one of the

major factors in that has been improved education in primary-care,

to the contraceptive services. A lot of extra training, but particularly

a focus on the much more reliable, much more cost efficient long-acting

reversible methods. What is a long acting reversible method? Anything

that a user doesn't have to take every day or to use during the

actual act of sex. So, the implant, the coil, the injection, what we

call the fit and forget methods, so once they are there, they will not

fail. But it is rare for a woman not to be able to get hold of

contraception. ? It is becoming more difficult, and fundamentally it is

about choice for women. When women can choose which contraception to

use, they are more likely to use it consistently and correctly. Do you

need a choice of 15? Or 15? As we heard in your film earlier, some

methods work more effectively for different women, and if you don't

have the choice available, you may not find the one that is right for

you, and when you consider that women spend around 30 years either

planning or preventing pregnancy throughout their lifetime, choice is

really important. Shelley, you are a nurse specialising in this area.

What problems are you seeing because of cuts? We are getting more

pressure on the clinics and nurses in particular, and we are finding

that women are coming to ask, there is reduced access to appointments,

reduced choice as we have heard, nurses are under increasing pressure

to take on a lot of the workload as staff are leaving, they are having

to see more patients in less time, and we are frustrated that we can't

give the kind of service that we would like and should be able to

give to winning, and if women's choice is reduced, then this is

going to have a long-term effect. In what respect? Your film showed

earlier that people are concerned about possible increases in

unplanned pregnancies. If women have a less effective method, then if

they have problems with a method and they can't get access to a clinician

for help or support to either carry on with the same method or change to

another method, then people are going to take risks, and that is the

reality of the situation, and we don't want that to happen. We have

had some viewers saying that women cannot hold partly responsible GPs

for an unplanned pregnancy, that is just ridiculous. Would you accept

that? I think we as GPs need to be able to advise women on all of the

methods and support them with their choices. But in the end it is down

to the individual to protect themselves? It is, but they can only

do that if they are aware that they have these options. Really the women

that are struggling most with all these cuts, particularly around

access to the specialist services or to primary-care are women who are

already most vulnerable. So we are particularly seeing the young women,

their services were cut so they don't even know there is an option.

their services were cut so they need to be a bore to support most,

because they are the most vulnerable, and they are the women

struggling to access contraception. And your group is partly funded by

drugs company, is that correct? It gets support for it, but those of us

who attend meetings do that involuntarily in our own time. So

you would say it would be unfair if someone accused you of pushing this

because you are partly funded by drugs company? I would be

disappointed if any body for -- if anybody felt that, because we have

been pushing the importance of this for women. So is this a message to

local authorities as to whether allocate their fund, or to

Government? Local authorities and GPs are facing increasing strain, so

this is a message to Government. The funding system is so complex and

fractured, it makes it really difficult, and there doesn't seem to

be significant oversight from any particular body of government, and

that is an important issue that needs to be addressed. A final

thought from you if I may. If a woman is not getting the choice she

thinks she should be offered, what should she? It is a case of shopping

around. Women can look to where there are clinics local to them,

they can contact reproductive health centres, they may get some

information there to really find where services are locally, because

that is the message we get when women come to us, that sometimes

they have had to wait, have to or three visits to be able to access

one of the more effective methods that they actually want to use when

they do know about them. Thank you all very much. FDA also has a

contraception tool that takes into account your physical needs and

personal preferences, and that will help you decide, Si Woo Kim print

out the survey and take it to your GP. Thank you all very much. -- so

you can print it out. The Department of Health didn't want to talk to us

today. They did however tell

us that they believe, "Local areas are best placed

to decide how to provide the sexual health services

their communities need." A group of EU nationals living

in the UK want Downing Street to assure them they'll be able

to stay in the UK after Brexit. They want a guarantee before

Article 50 is triggered. Sunder Katwala is director

for British Future, the independent In our Westminster studio

is the former leader In Cambridge is Jakub Nagrodski,

who's a student who moved And Anne-Laure Donskoy moved

here from France nearly 30 years ago Welcome to all of you. Tell us more

about the recommendations you have come up with. We brought together

people from both sides of the referendum. We found that we could

agree that it is the right thing to do that people who live here can

stay, and secondly, we need a practical plan to do this well. This

is one of the biggest things the British Government has ever done,

sofa two thirds of people who have been here for five years, they

should be able to apply locally, check if they are on the tax

records, get the green light very simply. And after that? After that

you would have a process to check the different groups. Everybody who

was here before the referendum or up to the article 50 date, because you

need a safe legal moment, should get it guaranteed right to settle.

People coming after that, that will depend on the new immigration rules

we make, and you come with your eyes wide open, people who he already did

not know this was going to happen. Lord Pearson, would you agree with

that? Of course I agree that the European nationals living here

should be allowed to stay, I agree completely about that. But the

problem is that as I understand it, the British Government about a

fortnight ago did offer the European Union to allow all of the 3 million

EU citizens living here to stay here provided our 1.2 million citizens

who are living there could also be guaranteed residency, and the

problem is that Mrs Merkel and Donald Tusk turned that down. 20

countries wanted to accept it, but they turned it down as usual because

they don't give a down about the people who unfortunately suffer

under their crazy project of European integration. They are only

interested in keeping the wretched thing alive, and all the EU has to

do is to accept the offer that was made, which is very much more to

their advantage than ours, because they have three million people

living here and we have 1 million people living there, and then this

would go away, so don't blame the Government, blame, as usual,

Brussels. Are you even bothered about blaming anybody? I am

interested about how you feel about your status right now. Good morning,

thank you for having me on your programme. The way that the 3

million feel today, there is hope in this report, hope that our status

will be settled sooner rather than later, because there is so much

anxiety currently amongst our members. People do not want to be

treated as bargaining chips. We are people who are just trying to lead

ordinary lives just like anybody else. Jakub, what about your own

feelings? Good morning. I agree there is so much anxiety in the

population of EU nationals living in the UK right now, that this has to

be settled very quickly, and we would like some sort of guarantee

that we would not only be able to stay, but for myself and my friends

as students, we would also like a guarantee that we would be able to

continue our university courses under the same conditions as we

applied under, as well as our career prospects will be protected. I

wonder if you accept Lord Pearson's went, that we need a guarantee about

the 3 million nationals all swear. We think the British government has

the ability to do that. In it irrespective of what Angela Merkel

and Donald Tusk are saying? If the Government insist on doing it both

ways, let's hope they can do it as quickly as possible. Lord Pearson

said 20 governments agree already, I wish they would just say in public

we are going to sort this out. The Polish Prime Minister came to London

and said nobody wants to feel they are hostages in this negotiation,

and we should be clear that the first thing we are going to do post

Brexit, we should do it well and do it properly. Thank you all very much

for your time. It's been described

as Big Brother for Muslims - ten British Muslims in a Georgian

house in York filmed living together The first of two programmes called

Muslims Like Us goes out The ten include a man who announces

to the group he's gay, and a former boxer, a convicted

fraudster who has openly supported On the surface, Britain's 2.7

million Muslims are united in faith. But behind closed doors,

in Muslim homes across the country, there's a struggle to define

what makes a good Muslim. Muslims judge each other too much

and hold each other to these I want the foundations of Islam laid

out so that Muslims will be happy to say, "I am

a fundamentalist Muslim". This religion is betrayed

by the whole world. Because they are not

applying it properly. Now, ten Muslims from across Britain

will live under one I've never heard so much

emphasis on heaven and hell. Don't tell me what I can talk about.

Go start with someone else. Can we ten people come together

and understand each other? ..to work out who embodies

the spirit of Islam... We have huge amounts

of racism and anti-blackness We really struggled

with looking at our own flaws ..what being a Muslim

really means... When I say Allahu akbar, those

are the best minutes of my life. ..and how that fits

with modern Britain. Muslims need to integrate

more for their own sake. You must be where you are.

Fully. I'm a Muslim, in case

you didn't know. Are you?

I'm part of the EDL. I run the EDL. Oh, really?

Give me a hug, then. Here one of the women in the house -

Mehreen Baig explains why she feels her voice as a liberal

Muslim woman isn't heard enough. Growing up, I wasn't the most

attractive child. I had a very, very big monobrow and a moustache and

beard. In Year ten I was allowed to remove my beard and get my eyebrows

done and I actually looked pretty. A lot of Muslim people have a warped

view. They think I'm the Muslim girl gone bad. That my religion is a

very, very, important part to me. I pray every single day. I'm your

average, normal British Muslim person. In the majority, but our

voice is the least heard. Let's talk to Kieran Smith