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Hello it's Tuesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire, | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
30 British people died during this terror attack in Tunisia in 2015. | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
This morning a judge at inquests into their deaths will set out why | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
he believes negligence did not play a part. | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
INAUDIBLE The families of the victims | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
already... INAUDIBLE | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
We will sort his microphone out, no worries. | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
Throughout the programme we'll get reaction from those | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
He just stood there with this huge gun. He ran around all the people | :00:48. | :01:02. | |
shouting. Just killing and murdering them. | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Also on the programme - Britain's most senior child | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
protection officer says paedophiles who view indecent images shouldn't | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
be charged with a criminal offence but should go | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
We'll hear the rationale, and get reaction to | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And meet Kate. Hello, I'm Kate, I had a heart attack a day after | :01:15. | :01:36. | |
running a ten kilometre race. I'm one of the youngest people to have | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
one of this type of heart attack with no known risk factors. We will | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
hear her story before ten. Welcome to the programme, | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
we're live until 11 this morning. We will bring you the latest from | :01:53. | :02:04. | |
the inquests into those British deaths in Tunisia. Also we will hear | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
how two executives have paid for a trip to travel around the moon. The | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
estimate is $50 million. Do get in touch | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
on all the stories we're talking about this morning - | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
at the standard network rate. The inquests into the deaths of 30 | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
British tourists who were murdered in a terror attack in Tunisia two | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
years ago will conclude The coroner at the hearing heard | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
that local policemen did nothing to stop the gunman for at least 25 | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
minutes, but in an exclusive interview with the BBC | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
ahead of the verdict, a British witness has described how | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
he stepped in to save some This is the gunman casually | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
walking along the beach by the Imperial Hotel in the midst | :02:44. | :02:55. | |
of the attack. Trained by so-called Islamic State, | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
and unchallenged by the police, he systematically murdered 38 | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
holidaymakers, most were British. Today, Alan Pembroke | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
leads a normal life, But he was on the beach | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
at the time of that attack, and did something quite | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
extraordinary, running back into the scene the attack | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
after taking his wife to the safety I ran towards the gunfire, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
where I could now see I hit the deck, and as I hit | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
the sand, I saw a lady, she was moving, semiconscious, | :03:29. | :03:43. | |
breathing, and she had some I dressed her hand and covered her | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
wrist with a scarf I had pulled down She then told me she had pain in her | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
leg and she had a hole in her leg, so I got a beach towel and I wrapped | :03:52. | :04:10. | |
it around her leg to compress His actions saved the life of Sarah, | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
whose husband lay dead beside her. But he is haunted by what he saw | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
and angry at the failure of the Tunisian police | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
to intervene in time. I was on the beach for a good 20 | :04:23. | :04:23. | |
minutes with her alone. And I saw no military | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
or medical staff. It is only in recent reports that | :04:27. | :04:40. | |
I found out police waited, They need to be held | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
accountable for that. Just three months earlier, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
foreign tourists were targeted in an attack by Islamic extremists, | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
leaving 20 dead, in Tunis. But the Foreign Office did not | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
change their overall travel advice. The colour-coded map for travel | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
advice remained green for the coastal areas, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
so tourists could still go, even though the Foreign Office | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
was warning of a high risk The senior official told the inquest | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
here that the criteria had not been met to stop tourists from travelling | :05:12. | :05:24. | |
to coastal resorts in Tunisia. Several survivors gave | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
testimony that the holiday and instead they were told | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
it was safe to go. Today, the families will finally | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
hear the conclusions of the coroners Let's speak now to our correspondent | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Ben Brown who is outside court for us, and will be | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
following the inquest the coroner, Doctor Nicholas | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
Loraine-Smith, will be giving his conclusions on the deaths of all of | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
those 30 British citizens who died at the massacre in Sousse. -- judge | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
Nicholas Loraine-Smith. We will hear if he has any criticism of the | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
holiday company involved. The lawyers for the families accused the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
company of utter complacency and gross neglect. That is, they say, | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
because the customers were not alerted to the fact there had been a | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
previous terror attack in Tunis three months previous where two | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
people had died. And also because the Hotel where the customers were | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
saying they say was not possibly vetted in terms of security cameras | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
CCTV cameras, and armed guards. Tui Had failed in their duty of care of | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
their customers, according to the families. They also have questions | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
about the Foreign Office, whether the Foreign Office should have | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
raised their advice in the wake of that attack in Tunis three months | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
earlier at the museum. Whether they should have barred all travel to | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
Tunisia. Families are angry about the response of the security forces, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
which the inquests have heard there was an unjustifiable delay by the | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Tunisian police. At one patrol, even though they had assault rifles in | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
their vehicle, decided to go to a nearby police station and collect | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
more weapons before going to the hotel to try to stop the gunman. He | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
wasn't killed until some 45 minutes after his attack had begun. | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
Thank you. Ben Brown is live outside the Royal Courts of Justice. More on | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
that come from Ben throughout the morning. -- to come from Ben. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
A BBC investigation has revealed there were more than 20,000 | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
allegations of abuse made against home care workers over | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
Many of the cases involved neglect but there were also | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. | :08:12. | :08:12. | |
The UK Home Care Association has described the findings as horrifying | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
but warns the system is under extreme pressure. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Caught by a hidden camera, Maurice Campbell was jailed for over | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
two years for abusing 85-year-old Dora in her own home. | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
These images are especially disturbing because he was supposed | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
It is a serious case of obvious neglect. | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Complaints against home carers can cover a range of problems | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
from cruelty to mistakes with medication to being | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
My father was quite a mild-mannered man all his life. | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
He had not had a shave, he was a smart man and became | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
Pauline believes that neglect, in particular when he was given | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the wrong medication, contributed to his death. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Just over half the councils in the UK contacted by the BBC | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
answered a Freedom of information request which found there had been | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
23,500 allegations of abuse against home carers over | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
The police were involved in almost 700 cases and there | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
We do not know how many of the total complaints were valid but the local | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
government ombudsman has seen a significant rise in cases. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
We have seen a 25% increase in complaints about home-care | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
When we investigated the complaints what we found is that 65% | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
of the time our investigation shows that there was fault | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
That is far higher than we found in any other part of the work we do. | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
The government says it has introduced tougher | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
inspections and given councils dedicated funding. | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
But with an ageing population and tight budgets the theory is that | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Britain's most senior child protection police officer has said | :10:13. | :10:31. | |
paedophiles who pose no physical threat to children shouldn't be | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
prosecuted. Simon Bailey said | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
the system had reached 'saturation point', because of the increased | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
reporting of sexual abuse - and that 'lower-level' offending | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
should be decriminalised Spacek 's has announced plans to fly | :10:44. | :10:56. | |
two passengers around the moon next year. -- SpaceX. The pair have paid | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
a significant deposit for the trip. Greg Dawson reports. | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
It remains the pinnacle of human exploration. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
But since this NASA Apollo 17 mission in 1972, nobody has | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
since made the 240,000 mile journey to the moon. | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
This is the company that claims that's about to change. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
SpaceX, the commercial US rocket company, has announced plans to send | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
two private citizens on a lunar journey late next year. | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Their owner, the entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted - | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
An astronomical journey like this comes with an astronomical price | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
tag, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Mr Musk revealed little about the mystery travellers | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
except they paid a significant deposit and that they are aware of | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
The late 2018 deadline for this flight is ambitious. | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
-- SpaceX has had problems in the past. | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
Last September, one of its rockets exploded | :12:18. | :12:18. | |
But it represents a new era of the space race with private | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
companies, not countries, competing against each other. | :12:24. | :12:24. | |
NASA has given its support to the plans which, if successful, | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
will launch the era of space tourism. | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
In half an hour we are going to talk to an individual who gets personal | :12:40. | :12:53. | |
independence payments for his anxiety, depression, his OCD, and | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
his eating disorder. When he was assessed it was ruled that he | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
shouldn't get disability payments, but he overturned that on tribunal. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
He is going to react to the fact Theresa May's policy unit has said | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
these payments should be for really disabled people, not simply people | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
taking pills for anxiety at home. Some comments. Mark says anxiety and | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
depression has ruined my life, it is bad enough for me to try and live on | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
a day-to-day basis without constant fear of my benefits being cut or | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
stopped. I'm 60 this year so cannot yet claim my pension. Can somebody | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
make the Conservatives see sense and leave us alone? Another comment, | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
this is sheer ignorance of depression. This is absolutely | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
outrageous. Do get in touch with us | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
throughout the morning. Especially if you are somebody who | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
suffers from depression, and particularly if you are" somebody | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
who takes pills at home". Use the hashtag Victoria LIVE | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport now | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
with Katherine Downes. If you are Claudio Ranieri, after | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Leicester's performance last night, wouldn't you be hurt? | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
We don't know if you watched, because he was reportedly at a zoo | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
with his family. Claudio Ranieri was sacked as boss of Leicester a few | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
days ago. Nobody knew what the atmosphere was going to be like. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Would the fans be sad, would there be anger? In the end it was a | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
celebration of everything he achieved at this time at Leicester. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
He took the Premier League title last season. The sad reality is that | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
it took the removal of Claudio Ranieri, as manager, for Leicester | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
to find the form they enjoyed under him last season. Some great goals | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
coming up. Check out this one from Danny Drinkwater. Leicester scoring | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
their first goals in the league this year in 2017. That was Danny | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Drinkwater's. And two from Jamie Vardy. Meaning they beat Liverpool | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
last night 3-1. Remarkable, considering they had such a dreadful | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
season so far, finding themselves in the bottom three. They pulled | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
themselves out of the relegation zone. Their first match without | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
manager Claudio Ranieri. Let's listen to what Jamie Vardy made of | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
that result. Lots unfair stuff has been written. -- lots of. Lots of | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
stuff had been written about everybody, not just me. It got us | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
fired up in a good way to put a reaction on the pitch, which we have | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
done. What reaction to that win? Plenty. The eyes of the footballing | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
world would have been on that to see how Leicester reacted following the | :15:58. | :15:58. | |
removal of Claudio Ranieri. Chris Sutton is talking about Craig | :15:59. | :16:21. | |
sheuks sphere. This one, Leicester players | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
certainly proving a point. That's Matt Dickinson writing in the Times, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
whether it is a point about them or Ranieri will be much debated. Plenty | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
of debate in the papers this morning. This is Richard Osman | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
saying, "I'm putting some money on Leicester winning the title. | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Mathematically they can't win the title this year." John Cross writing | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
in the Mirror should Leicester players be celebrating or hanging | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
their heads in shame? The question over the team about whether they | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
downed tools to get Ranieri sacked? It is the controversy surrounding | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
that match and that result. 3-1 against Liverpool last night. | :16:58. | :16:58. | |
Cheers. Thank you. 38 people were killed, | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
30 of them British tourists, when a gunman opened fire on a beach | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
in Tunisia two years ago. As holiday-makers fled | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
for their lives, Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui, | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
continued his attack, entering the hotel complex | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
through the pool area. The massacre was the greatest | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
British loss of life in a terror attack since the London | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
bombings in 2005. For the last six weeks there have | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
been extensive inquests into the deaths of those | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
who were killed on that day and in less than an hour's time | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
the coroner will start to deliver his conclusions | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
on how they died. We'll bring you those | :17:43. | :17:43. | |
conclusions as they happen But first, here's a reminder | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
of how the day unfolded. The terrifying moment a gunman | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
enters a popular beach resort in Tunisia and opens fire with a | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Kalashnikov. Holiday-makers flee across the sand. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
For half an hour, he is able to roam across the beach and through the | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
hotel. Seeking out and systematically killing innocent | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
tourists. 38 people died. 30 were British. The | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
biggest loss of British life in a terror attack since the London 7/7 | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
bombings. So-called Islamic State said it was behind the attack, | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
carried out by a Tunisian student. Who those who survived recall the | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
horror of what happened that day. He just stood there with his huge gun. | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
He was wandering around all the people shooting them. He was just | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
killing and murdering them. I just had my head phones on. I just | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
heard some sounds. I just thought, fireworks like everyone else did. I | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
just turned and looked at my wife on the sunbed next to me and she was | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
already off the sunbed running in that direction. I just decided to | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
run straight down the beach. Into the sea. I could still hear | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
everything still going on. You never forget that sound. Now, a coroner's | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
inquest has heard what factors could have ccted to the attackment one key | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
area is the Foreign Office's travel advice. At the time of the attack, | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
three months after Jihadists targeted tourists a shooting in the | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
condition's capital, it did specifically advice holiday-makers | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
against going to Tunis yasmt instead advice on its website said, "Further | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
attacks are possible." A senior Foreign Office official has defended | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
the decision. The inquest also heard claims that part of the attack or | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
most of it, could have been prevented by tighter security with | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
tour operator TUI showing utter complacency. There were four unarmed | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
security guards on duty that day. TUI's lawyer argued some steps were | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
taken by the firm to keep guests safe. The inquest also heard there | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
was an unjustifiable delay by Tunisian law enforcement units to | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
intervene during the attack with some units taking 30 minutes longer | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
than they should have to reach the scene. It heard this was due to | :20:17. | :20:30. | |
simple cowardice. From 10am, the coroner will explain | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
why neglect is a contributory factor. | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
We can speak now to two British survivors of the Tunisian terror | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
attack, Colin Bidwell was on the beach with his wife | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
He was shot at and grazed by two bullets and in Sheffield | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
She was also on the beach with her husband and her | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Colin thank you very much for coming on. Tell us where you were when the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
gunman started shooting? I was lying on the sunbed following the shade. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
My wife was following the sun. I had my head phones on. I thought it was | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
fireworks like everybody else. By the time I got up and realised it | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
was gunfire, most of the people had run off the beach including my wife. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
So you saw people running. Did you see the gunman? I didn't see him at | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
that point, no. Where did you run to? Well, I managed to fall off the | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
sunbed and crawl as far as I could and literally hid behind a boat and | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
just prayed for my life. You hid behind a boat? I hid behind one of | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the spare boats from the water sports team and just put me head in | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
the sand and prayed to God. I thought I was going to die. Did you? | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
Yes. While you were doing that, you could hear the chaos? I could hear | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
gunfire. I didn't know if it was aimed at me, but as far as I was | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
concerned, someone was out to kill me. When did you realise you had | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
been shot at? Still to this day, I don't know. The adrenalin kicks in. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
When I swam out to sea and I started to signal to someone when I turned | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
back to look at the beach, that's when I realised something was wrong. | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
I couldn't see any blood or anything, I just felt a tingle and I | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
just didn't know. Not until Mohamed pulled me on the boat that probably | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
I had maybe got an injury. Tell us about that. Well, the bullet passed | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
as close as it could to the back of my arm. It took a bit of flesh away | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
and I took one to the inside of my right leg as well. But, how they | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
just did nothing to me really, just scratches, you know, compared to the | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
injuries other people had. I count myself very lucky, very lucky. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
Remarkable actually? Yes. What about your wife when you were running into | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
the sea? Well, when I looked up off the sunbed she was already running | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
to escape. I was a few seconds behind everybody because I had my | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
head phones on. She went a different way than what I went and it is funny | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
when you're panicking, I didn't really think about my wife until | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
later on because you're just trying to protect yourself. You're trying | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
to survive. The animal instincts fight or flight. That's all you can | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
do in those moments. You had been to Tunisia a few times, I think, before | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
the attack. Where you aware of the security concerns around the country | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
when you went this time? That's a very good question. We had been to | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
Tunisia on numerous owication and we were aware of the Arab Spring, the | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
revolution, so we decided not to go for 18 months, two years. We saw the | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
shocking attack. I did think that possibly we wouldn't go, but once we | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
went to the travel agent and we thought OK, we'll go back to the | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
hotel we've always wanted to go to, it suited our budget and the timing, | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
it was not until I realised when we got there, I met the Thompson rep, | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
we went to book a trip and they said that trip has been taken off because | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
it is in the red area. Meaning? They didn't want any British tourists in | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
that that part of Tunisia. That was the first time maybe it crossed my | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
mindment you think that everywhere is going to be safe when you go on | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
holiday. You think you're going to be safe. The Foreign Office have | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
been criticised, advice on their website at that time was that | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
further attacks in Tunisia were likely, but it didn't actually say | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
don't travel to Tunisia? That's true. That's true. I did look at it | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
and maybe I should have looked at it a bit more thorough, but when you go | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
away and you know something has happened, you never think its going | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
to happen to you anyway. How has what happened that day affected the | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
way you live now, Colin? Well, for me I've decided to live my life for | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
the better of my experience. I've decided that my wife is still | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
suffering and there is still lots of people out there injured and | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
uninjured that are still suffering. PTSD is the worst thing. And my wife | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
is dealing with it every day. We're getting help now. She has PDST, does | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
she? Yes. Things are improving. At the beginning it was a little bit | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
lacking in the help that the people who came back got help. It was a bit | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
slow coming through, but now, I think, you know, we have got a good | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
support groups with, we have got a good Facebook page and everyone stay | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
ins touch and regularly meets up as a group of survivors, we're not | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
victims, we're survivors. I made some life long friends that I have | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
forever. Forever. You will know that the coroner is going to say that the | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
people who were killed were victims of unlawful killing, but he's not | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
going to say that neglect contributed to their deaths ie, lack | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
of security at the hotel, cowardice is the word that's been used during | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the inquest hearings of some of the local police officers, what do you | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
think about that decision? At the time, I thought it was lacking and | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
since more information has come through, preinquest, it is quite | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
shocking to think that there was that long space of time when nobody | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
came which is, it is concerning I will say. Everything was lacking is | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
the kindest word. So it would be the wrong decision if the coroner says | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
unlawful killing? I would rather not comment until the inquest and leave | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
it to the experts, that's my suggestion. OK, let's bring in | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
Maxine. I don't know if you know Maxine. Yes, I do. Yes. Maxine, | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
hello. Hello. I've got Colin here with me. Thank you very much for | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
talking to us Maxine. I wonder if you can tell our audience about | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
where you were with your husband and your 14-year-old daughter when the | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
attack started? We went down to the beach that morning. Bronwyn wanted | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
to go into the sea. So we let her go into the sea and having a lovely | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
holiday like everybody expects and then within five, ten, 15 minutes | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
everything just erupted. It was just unbelievable. I looked towards | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
forward on the beach and I noticed that there were people running | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
towards us and Bronwyn and I started panicking a little bit and then I | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
was getting worse and worse as they were coming closer and closer. And | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
there were two gentlemen, I think, some young lads were playing | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
football further on the beach and then gentlemen did have a gun and I | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
knew it was a gun and I could hear all this noise and people running | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
towards us. I said, "Get out of the sea now." She was saying, "Mum, I'm | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
OK." I said, "Get out of the sea now." I didn't want to explain to | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
her what I thought was happening. It was obvious what was happening. How | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
would you say your lives have changed as a result of what you saw | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
that day and also, your daughter as well, how has she been affected by | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
it? Bronwyn has took it really, really, really well. In fact she has | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
been superb really. She has really managed with it very well. We had | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
counselling. I had counselling. Richard had counselling. I think I | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
was worst because it affected me really bad. You go away on holiday | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
hoping for a lovely time. Unfortunately, this incident | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
happened, but we're lucky because we survived, but there is so many | :29:13. | :29:28. | |
people that actually had fatalities some families and my heart goes out | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
to everybody who had a fatality. I think we should have had a bit more | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
help than what we did as well by Government, by Tunisia people. They | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
probably saved our lives. They hid us in cupboards. We was in a kitchen | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
unit under, it was horrendous. It was really, really horrendous and | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
I'll never ever get over it, ever. But you just learn to live with it. | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
It is one of the reasons I think... My heart goes out to all them that | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
had fatality and that's what gets to me more than anything because I just | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
hoped they got help and everything for themselves and to be better | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
because it's just horrendous and I just hope they get the results when | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
they come to the conclusion this afternoon. It is one of the reasons | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
you destroyed your pictures from that time. Let me come back to | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
Colin. You have been back there. Yes. Let's have a little look. | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
Let's do it. Let's do it. just had my headphones on. I heard | :30:38. | :31:33. | |
some sounds. I just thought it was fireworks, like everybody else did. | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
I just turned and looked at my wife next to me on the sunbed. She was | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
already off the sunbed, running in that direction. I just decided to | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
run straight down the beach into the sea. I could still hear everything | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
still going on. You never forget that sound. We could hear you | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
breathing deeply to steal yourself when you walked in that place. It | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
brought a lump to my throat again, seeing it again, but I definitely | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
feel better for the experience of going back. I've always said this | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
isn't for everybody, but I just started to doubt things in my mind. | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
Did I really see what I saw? Did that really happen to me? I was | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
conscious when people were asking what happened to me I did not want | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
to give a fisherman 's tale. Because I couldn't believe it myself, what | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
had happened. So the opportunity to go back and meet the people who were | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
significant to my story, my particular story, Mohammed and | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
monster, the people who were integral to my survival. I would not | :32:38. | :32:42. | |
be here if it wasn't for those people. -- Monsef. What happened? | :32:43. | :32:50. | |
Mohammed definitely pulled me into the boat and saved my life. Monsef | :32:51. | :32:55. | |
Was throwing debris at the gunman, that distracted him, I was stopped | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
from jumping over the wall. It put all of the pieces back together. It | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
is all a part of my journey. Thank you for talking to us today. No | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
problem and pleasure to meet you. Thank you for coming onto the | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
programme. We appreciate it. The coroner will start to deliver his | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
conclusions on how the 30 Britons died in around 25 minutes. | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith is expected to say that all 30 Brits | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
He'll also examine whether the UK government and travel firms failed | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
He's also expected to reject a request to rule neglect | :33:31. | :33:37. | |
was a contributory factor in their deaths. | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
We'll bring you those conclusions as they happen | :33:40. | :33:41. | |
Our correspondent Ben Brown will be outside the Royal Courts of Justice | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
A rare type of heart attack that mainly affects young women. | :33:48. | :34:02. | |
We'll be talking to two mothers, one who is one of the youngest | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
people in the UK to survive this kind of attack. | :34:06. | :34:07. | |
One had a heart attack ten hours after giving birth, the other had a | :34:08. | :34:15. | |
heart attack the day after running a ten kilometre run. | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
Two tourists have paid to be sent round the moon; the mission next | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
Here's a summary of todays news from the BBC Newsroom. | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
The inquests into the deaths of 30 British tourists, | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
who were murdered by an Islamist gunman in Tunisia two years ago, | :34:33. | :34:35. | |
They were among 38 people killed near the resort of Sousse. | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
At the hearing, at the Royal Courts of Justice, the coroner will explain | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
why he has rejected a request by many of the bereaved relatives | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
to rule that neglect contributed to their deaths. | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
A BBC investigation has revealed there were more than 20,000 | :34:49. | :34:50. | |
allegations of abuse made against home care workers over | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
Many of the cases involved neglect but there were also | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
The UK Home Care Association has described the findings | :35:03. | :35:04. | |
as horrifying, but says the system is under extreme pressure. | :35:05. | :35:16. | |
Simon Bailey has said paedophiles who pose no physical threat to | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
children shouldn't be prosecuted. He said the system had reached | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
saturation point because of the repeated cases of abuse. He said | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
lower-level cases should not be decriminalised -- should be | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
decriminalised in preference of rehabilitation. | :35:39. | :35:39. | |
The Prison Officers' Association has announced more industrial action | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
Members are being told to withdraw from voluntary duties | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
An overtime ban will also be phased in from April. | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
It's understood the union has been warned it will be taken to court | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
The UN children's agency says thousands of unaccompanied child | :35:54. | :36:02. | |
refugees are being subjected to violence and sexual abuse on their | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
away from Africa to Europe will stop -- to Europe. | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
A report by UNICEF says nearly 26,000 children made | :36:12. | :36:13. | |
the dangerous sea journey from Libya to Italy in 2016, twice as many | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
as the previous year - and nine out of ten | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
It's calling on the international community to do more | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
SpaceX Has announced plans to fly two people around the moon. The pair | :36:23. | :36:37. | |
had already paid a significant deposit but were not celebrities. If | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
successful the trip would be the first trip in over 40 years. | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.00. | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
We have some comments on personal independence payments. Alexandra | :36:54. | :37:02. | |
says, I am 45, I have depression, personality disorder, and have a | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
brain tumour which has left me with terrible seizures on a weekly basis. | :37:06. | :37:13. | |
I am under the mental health team and a specialist for my seizures. | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
I've had my personal independence payments put down from the highest | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
rated, which I need, to the lowest. And having to go to court now to | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
claim it back. Even letters from a specialist say I need the highest | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
rate and I'm unable to work. I'm now in debt and trying to level 300 | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
pounds per month. I feel really let down. I never asked for this. I | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
always worked up until I became ill. Sharon says I suffered PTSD after a | :37:41. | :37:43. | |
bad car accident a couple of years ago. I still have anxiety and | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
depression and I'm on medication. I was recently awarded PIP which was | :37:48. | :37:55. | |
helped a lot. I would be devastated if it stopped. Some days I cannot | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
leave the house. I have a visit every day from a psychiatric nurse | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
which helps greatly. We will talk more about the government's plans | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
about PIPs. Katherine's here now | :38:08. | :38:09. | |
with the sports headlines. Leicester have pulled themselves out | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
of the relegation zone with a 3-1 win over Liverpool last night. Danny | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
Drinkwater scored this great goal. And there were two, as well, for | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
Jamie Vardy as Leicester won their first game after the dismissal of | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
manager Claudio Ranieri. The crowd had a march of celebration to thank | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
Claudio Ranieri for all he achieved for them. | :38:35. | :38:36. | |
David Haye and Tony Bellew had to be kept apart as they met in Liverpool | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
ahead of their heavyweight clash on Saturday. The pair came to blows | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
with the last met at a press conference in November. | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
World rugby says it is too early to speculate whether there will be a | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
rule change after Italy's tactics in their six Nations defeat to England | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
on Saturday. There was confusion among the England players with | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
Italy's calculated plan which frustrated Eddie Howe. | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
More later. Thanks very much. | :39:06. | :39:07. | |
This morning: women who've had heart attacks in their 30s - and survived. | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
Catherine Becks was 37 years old when she had a heart attack - | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
she was 9 months pregnant at the time and gave birth 10 | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
hours later to a happy and healthy baby boy, Harry. | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
Kate Alderton had her heart attack at 30 - | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
the day after taking part in a 10k run - she's one of the youngest | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
women to ever survive a heart attack in the UK. | :39:28. | :39:29. | |
They both had a type of spontaneous heart attack called SCAD | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
which mainly affects healthy, young women. | :39:33. | :39:34. | |
Cardiologist David Adlam is trying to raise awareness | :39:35. | :39:36. | |
of the rare condition - and he's also with us now. | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
And Kate, tell us what happened. It was Saint Patrick's Day 2014. I ran | :39:45. | :39:52. | |
a ten K race the day before. That was nothing unusual. I have done a | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
lot of running. I work up, I felt fine, I went downstairs, I've got | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
two little ones, I made them breakfast. As I started to make my | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
own breakfast I had a chest pain which went on for quite a while. I | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
was quite short of breath. In hindsight, looking back I had the | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
classic heart attack symptoms but you don't expect it at 30. I had | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
numbing down my left arm. Chest pain. Shortness of breath. The chest | :40:19. | :40:27. | |
pain got worse. After half an hour I called my husband. He came home from | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
work. He saw me and he rang in ambient straightaway. At that point | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
I still thought it was a chest infection. The paramedics came. They | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
initially thought I was having an anxiety attack because of my age. | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
Because I kept holding my chest the paramedics did an ECG. And he said | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
there are some abnormalities. She said if we were -- if you were older | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
we would think you are having a heart attack. But we will take you | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
in just in case. When I went and I was met by a cardiologist. At this | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
point I could not understand why they were talking about hearts. I | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
still thought I had a chest infection. I was in the lab for two | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
hours. They were looking at my arteries. They kept talking to me, | :41:10. | :41:15. | |
kept showing me pictures of the heart, couldn't understand it. It | :41:16. | :41:18. | |
wasn't until later that where I was sat with people in the coronary | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
heart care unit, people who were a lot older than me, and it dawned on | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
me that there was a problem with my heart and I was told I'd had a heart | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
attack. Extraordinary. Clearly you survived, but there is damage to | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
your heart, we will talk about that in a moment and what changes you | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
have had to make. Catherine, your case is different, you were nine | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
months pregnant at the time, what happened? -- Catherine Becks. Like | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
Kate. I woke up feeling very thirsty, chest pain, numbness down | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
the left arm, I went downstairs, had a drink, just felt very tight | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
chested. I felt I needed to get to the hospital. I had an inkling that | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
it was crucial for me to get to the hospital. At the time we only had | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
one mile from a hospital. I went, I was told to wait, I was looked on as | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
a lady about to go into labour. I was pacing the floor. I knew I | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
wasn't in labour. Just was very focused on this vice like chest | :42:21. | :42:28. | |
pain. I was taken to the maternity floor. I became very unwell. They | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
then decided that to put monitors on the baby. They did an ECG. It showed | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
my heart was in trouble. I was brought into another room. I was in | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
and out of consciousness. I was very unstable. In and out of | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
consciousness for quite a while. Then they decided to transfer me to | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
Southampton General. I was moonlighted down there with two | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
doctors in the ambulance, as well. I was then stabilised. Because it was | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
such a long time ago, this was, well, it'll be 18 years this June, I | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
don't think they knew quite what to do regarding the pregnancy. | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
Approximately ten hours later I think they decided it was crucial to | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
get the baby out. I was given a general anaesthetic and emergency | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
Caesarean. And, yes, fortunately Harry was born fit and well. Doctor | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
Adler, you have let research into these kind of attacks, what can you | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
tell us that you have learned so far. -- Doctor Adlam. Catherine's | :43:37. | :43:46. | |
story is telling. These conditions are often unrecognised -- under | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
recognised. And diagnosis can sometimes be delayed. It is one of | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
the things we are trying to do on a rare disease Day, raise awareness of | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
conditions like spontaneous, Rory artery dissection -- spontaneous | :43:59. | :44:07. | |
coronary artery dissection. It is nothing to do with cholesterol like | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
the normal heart attacks we are very familiar with. What happens in this | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
case is you get a bruise which forms on the wall of the coronary artery | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
and it squashes. If you think about a bruise in your shin and how tense | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
that feels when the pressure rises, it does the same thing. The pressure | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
rises and it compresses the artery from the outside. That is what stops | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
blood flowing to the heart muscle and causes these ladies to have a | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
heart attack. It is a very different course for a heart attack. As a | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
result it's important to recognise and identify patients who, if you | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
like, are rather different from those patients we usually see with | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
heart problems presenting to hospital. Absolutely. Kate, there | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
was damage to your heart, what changes have you had to make to your | :44:58. | :45:02. | |
life as a result of that? Do you think a day after day, the same | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
thing could happen every day, is that a major worry? I think about | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
that every day. It's made a huge impact. I feel more tired than I | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
used to do. I left it so long to get help because didn't expect it to be | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
anything to do with my heart. That is why I have so much damage. A lot | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
of survivors talk a lot about finding a new normal. I think that | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
summarises it quite well. It is gaining that confidence with your | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
body when you have lost it. And the tiredness is hard. I think, as well, | :45:36. | :45:38. | |
because you look normal, you are young, people don't expect it, when | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
you say you've had a heart attack it is quite a shock to people. It is | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
the adjusting. What changes have you made, Catherine? Yours was 18 years | :45:51. | :45:51. | |
ago. Can you still hear me? Sorry, I didn't get that last bit. | :45:52. | :46:04. | |
Yours was 18 years ago. What changes have you made in your life over | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
those years? Basically, it is a condition I have to manage every | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
day. I do, I take three tablets a day. But I'm careful. I go to the | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
gym. I look after my health. I make sure I have enough rest and sleep. | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
My body will let me know quickly if I'm not getting enough rest. You | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
know, I'm working. I'm a parent advisor now and I really help other | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
parents just to, you know, I have been there when times are very tough | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
and it is very isolating so I really support them with a mentor as well. | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
I live as normal life as possible. OK. Well, thank you for talking to | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
us today and telling us about this condition. | :46:50. | :46:57. | |
With just over two weeks to go before the Dutch election, | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
an anti-Islam politician called Geert Wilders is leading the polls. | :47:01. | :47:02. | |
So why do so many people in this usually liberal country support him? | :47:03. | :47:30. | |
A lot of people call him a racist, but he is not a racist, | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
because he said if you are foreign, you can stay here, | :47:34. | :47:36. | |
The Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, twice. | :47:37. | :47:54. | |
They will not do anything at all, I do not believe them anymore. | :47:55. | :48:03. | |
I hope Geert Wilders will accomplish something. | :48:04. | :48:16. | |
When you are here, you have to accept certain | :48:17. | :48:18. | |
For example, I am gay, I have a boyfriend, I cannot walk | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
I am in a country where I used to be safe. | :48:25. | :48:39. | |
I go for Geert Wilders, because Holland must be a power again. | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
It is not Muslim, it is not every other kind of belief, religion. | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
A lot of politicians disagree with it, but they did not | :48:46. | :49:01. | |
stand up against him, and therefore it has become more | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
More people are starting to believe it, because it is not challenged. | :49:05. | :49:13. | |
A lot of people are going to vote for him, but he will not be | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
the President, because nobody wants to work with him. | :49:18. | :49:19. | |
Downing Street has defended plans to limit access | :49:20. | :49:37. | |
to a key disability benefit, saying that "nobody is losing out". | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
A benefits tribunal had ordered the Government | :49:41. | :49:41. | |
to extend its personal independence payments system to include people | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
The Government says that would add ?3.7 billion to the benefits bill | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
by 2023 and it now intends to change the rules around PIPs instead. | :49:50. | :50:03. | |
George Freeman, a Tory MP and head of the Number Ten policy unit, | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
caused outrage by saying the reason the changes were being made | :50:07. | :50:08. | |
was to make sure benefit payments went to "really disabled people" | :50:09. | :50:11. | |
rather than those "who suffer from anxiety". | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
Looking truth on the disability budget is we spend ?50 billion a | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
year on disability benefits and what we're trying to make sure is we get | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
them to the right people who are most in need. You didn't mention the | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
tweaks are actually to do with rolling back some bizarre decision | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
through the tribunals that mean benefits are being given to people | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
who take pills at home. Who suffer from anxiety. We want to make sure | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
we get the money to really disabled people. The people who need it. | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
Let's talk now to Labour MP and Shadow Work and Pensions | :50:48. | :50:49. | |
And 27 year-old James Downs who receives PIP for severe anxiety, | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
He's also a student at Cambridge University. | :50:54. | :50:55. | |
Alexandra got in touch. She receives PIP for depression and personality | :50:56. | :51:02. | |
disorder. James, the head of Mrs May's policy unit said, "PIP should | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
be for really disabled people." In the past you have had anxiety, | :51:09. | :51:13. | |
depression and OCD and an eating disorder. Is that really disabled? I | :51:14. | :51:18. | |
think these comments really concern me because living with severe mental | :51:19. | :51:23. | |
health problems like I have for over a decade really is not something | :51:24. | :51:28. | |
that's, you know, a small matter. It's something that's really, really | :51:29. | :51:30. | |
serious and eating disorders which is the main thing that I have | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
struggled with, anorexia and bulimia, they have the highest | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
mortality of any mental health problem. This is something that's | :51:38. | :51:40. | |
really serious and in this country people with mental health problems | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
die between ten and 20 years younger than other people. If that's not | :51:45. | :51:47. | |
really a disability then I'm not really sure what is and I think to | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
have this comment coming from somebody so senior in the Government | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
is just really concerning about the attitude that says, you know, | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
physical health problems are real, but mental health problems, they're | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
not really quite as real or deserving of support and we really | :52:01. | :52:03. | |
need to be supporting people with mental health problems because they | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
can recover too and it's a good investment to pay them what's a | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
small amount of money for them to gain their independence and live | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
normal lives. Alexandra what do you think of the | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
comments from the head of Mrs May's policy unit? Oh, I was just | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
absolutely devastated. I honestly felt like I'd been kicked in the | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
teeth. Why? I have currently lived with my condition for 12 years now | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
and I have had ups and downs and then got diagnosed with a brain | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
tumour that's left me with severe daily seizures and I still got taken | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
off the highest rate three months ago to the lowest rate and I'm now | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
trying to live on ?300 a month, getting into debt and I got turned | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
down at the tribunal, I'm now having to go to court. I have letters from | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
my specialist from Sheffield Hospital, from my mental health | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
team, all stating that there is no way I can work currently. I'd love | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
to go back to work. I can't. I'm uninsurable as well which is the | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
medication I'm on. OK. Let me bring James back in. You too went to a | :53:23. | :53:27. | |
tribunal, but you won it. They ruled in your favour saying you should | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
receive enhanced rates of this payment. This is what the Government | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
is now fighting. It doesn't want to give you this. Why do you need this | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
benefit to live a full life? I mean, I need to have the PIP because I use | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
it really to pay for therapy which I have privately. I had a real | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
struggle it get any therapy in the NHS. It took nearly seven years it | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
get any specialist trelt for really severe anorexia because I was too | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
unwell for any treatment which doesn't make much sense to me. But I | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
have had a great damage in my trust with the NHS and I have had pretty | :54:04. | :54:07. | |
much all that they can offer me. So I have to seek therapy and support | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
privately. There is no long-term therapies in the NHS that I'm able | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
to access. It seems to be very short-term interventions and that's | :54:16. | :54:17. | |
not really suitable for a long-term condition like mine which is very | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
complex and entrenched and look a long time to get help. So if I | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
didn't have the PIP I would be really concerned whether I could | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
continue having therapy and all the recovery that I've really worbed | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
hard would be put at risk and I think if therefore, I had a relapse, | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
and was back to going into hospital, into A all the time with low | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
potassium and potential heart failure and mental health crisis | :54:43. | :54:45. | |
with the crisis team having to pick up the piece, that's going to be | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
more expensive than paying me this amount of money to maintain my | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
health. It is a really short-sighted decision. Let me bring in Labour MP, | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
Debbie Abrahams. The Government say they are not cutting PIPs to people | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
who currently get them. So what's the wRob? 164,000 people with | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
chronic mental health conditions will be affected and you're right | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
that's about ?3.7 billion. The Government in 2015 said that | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
psychological distress to Dutch a debilitating extent that it | :55:20. | :55:23. | |
prevented you from going outside your home, undertaking normal, every | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
day activities was a factor that should be considered in the PIP | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
assessment now we're rolling back on this like they did in 2016. PIP is | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
there to help people with their extra costs. Scope estimate that an | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
extra ?550 a month is spent on extra costs for people with disabilities, | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
it may include somebody who may need a support worker to help them get | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
out and have a as normal a life as possible. You mentioned the cost, | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
?3.7 billion, where would Labour find the cash? It's about different | :55:59. | :56:04. | |
decisions, different choice, we heard yesterday that the Resolution | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
Foundation analysis showed that people on a the lowest income have | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
borne the brunt of seven years of austerity compared to people on the | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
highest incomes. Disabled people including people with chronic mental | :56:17. | :56:18. | |
health and other conditions are twice as likely to live in poverty | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
as non disabled people. What sort of society do wet want? We know that | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
this sort of thing can affect anybody. Nine out of ten | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
disabilities are acquired and we as a civilised society need to be doing | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
better. George Freeman, the Conservative MP, the head of Mrs | :56:39. | :56:41. | |
May's policy unit said he thought it was bizarre that claimants with | :56:42. | :56:43. | |
mental health problems or psychological problems who are | :56:44. | :56:46. | |
unable to travel without help should be treated in a similar way to | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
people who are blind. This is about enabling people as I say to live as | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
independently lives as possible. Somebody with a physical impairment | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
will need support in being able to live whether that's help with | :57:03. | :57:05. | |
mobility. Somebody with a mental health condition will also need | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
support to enable them to live as independently as possible. And as I | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
say, you've heard James. I was speaking to one of your team earlier | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
about their own son, about how he was affected and he has ended up | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
moving back in with his parents. This is happening, you know, across | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
the country. James, you want to come back in? I | :57:29. | :57:34. | |
just wanted to comment about the bizarre decision that people with | :57:35. | :57:37. | |
mental health problems might experience difficulties in transport | :57:38. | :57:40. | |
and going out and living their daily lives. I think it's really | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
surprising that even if physically somebody could walk down the road, | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
there is no consideration in the system at the moment of whether | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
psychologically that's actually really difficult and from my | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
experience with eating and going through this process of applying for | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
PIP, I'm physically fit so they thought I could physically prepare a | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
meal, but psychologically I can't do that so easily. There is a really | :58:08. | :58:12. | |
big gap in the way they're assessing this. I agree with that. It | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
contradicts with the Prime Minister herself said that people with mental | :58:18. | :58:19. | |
health conditions needed more support. It contradicts what the | :58:20. | :58:25. | |
Government has said. As others have said around a parity of he is seem. | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
This is not fair and it is disgraceful. Spitfire says, "Anxiety | :58:30. | :58:36. | |
can be just as crippling as being physically disabled in some cases, | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
more." E-mail from Andy, "Mental health issues are disabling. | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
However, they produce physical symptoms that also are disabling. It | :58:45. | :58:47. | |
is just another example of the Government trying to make work pay. | :58:48. | :58:52. | |
It is modern day cruelty." This from Clare, "I have had a life living | :58:53. | :58:57. | |
with the chaos caused by mental illness, symptoms include anxiety | :58:58. | :59:01. | |
for which I take pills at home. This latest behaviour by the Government | :59:02. | :59:05. | |
just shows again how much it says one thing and demonstrates another | :59:06. | :59:07. | |
when it comes to mental health." Thank you. Thank you for coming on | :59:08. | :59:11. | |
the programme. We will continue to report on that. We will see if any | :59:12. | :59:16. | |
decisions are made in the Budget which is not too far away. We will | :59:17. | :59:20. | |
have the latest news and sport in a minute. Before that, here is the | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
weather. Colder than Russia says one newspaper this morning! Just as | :59:25. | :59:35. | |
spring comes! This morning it was minus eight | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
Celsius in some places. We have got clear skies. Some of us have seen | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
snow this morning. Look at these beautiful alpacas in Derbyshire! | :59:47. | :59:52. | |
We have got snow in Cheshire, in Macclesfield and we have had snow | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
this morning and you can see it lying there in Shropshire, but blue | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
skies as well. It has not been snowing everywhere. It was in | :00:01. | :00:03. | |
Cumbria. Look at the cloud here. It is a high feature as we go through | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
the next few hours. Here is the beautiful picture of North | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Yorkshire. What is happening is we've got this weather front here | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
and it's going to be sinking southwards and eastwards taking its | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
showers with it. As temperatures rise, you will find any snow at low | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
levels will be a thing of the past and it will be a high level feature. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Showers coming in across Northern Ireland and Dumfries and Galloway, | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
through parts of Wales and south-west England. The lion's share | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
of the sunshine will be across central parts of Scotland. As we | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
come south, again it will be mostly dry. Maybe just one or two showers. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
As in the north-west, we will see fight a few showers. South-east | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
England, one or two showers, but through the Midlands and heading | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
towards the South Coast, again we are looking at some of the showers | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
merging. They could be wintry on higher ground. Through the | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
afternoon, although we will see sunshine across south-west England, | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
we're not immune to the showers, neither are we across South Wales. | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
You might see the odd bit of sleet. Northern Ireland, bright spells and | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
sunshine and showers for you. Quite a cloudy afternoon with one or two | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
breaks in Southern Scotland, but it is across the central swathe where | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
we've got the sunshine and the wintry showers persisting across the | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
far north. Through this evening, the first front makes it over to the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
east and clears off. Another one comes in from the north towards the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
south. So there will be showers around. Wintry across the far north | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
of Scotland and it's going to be a cold night. These temperatures are | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
indicative of towns and cities. In rural areas they will be lower. So | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
you will have to watch out for ice on untreated surfaces tomorrow | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
morning. But it does mean under the clear skies, a beautiful start for | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
many parts. The wintry showers prevail across Northern Scotland and | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
then we have got a weather front coming in from the south, bringing | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
rain across the Channel Islands and into the south-west of England and | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Wales and across the Midlands and the South East. Behind that, | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
temperatures will rise, but as it engages with the cooler air we could | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
see snow again on higher ground. Move north of that, we're back into | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
sunny spells and a few showers and some of those will be wint ary. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Temperatures five in the far north to 11 Celsius in the far south. | :02:12. | :02:24. | |
Hello it's Tuesday, ten o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire. | :02:25. | :02:38. | |
Our top story today - the coroner examining | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Our top story today - the coroner examining the deaths of 30 | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
British tourists who were murdered in a terror attack in Tunisia two | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
years ago will begin delivering his conclusions | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
The coroner has just started giving his conclusions. The court is packed | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
with families eager to hear if there will be any repercussions for the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
holiday company involved to the relatives believe could have done | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
more to prevent the deaths of their loved ones. | :03:03. | :03:02. | |
We'll be live with Ben throughout the programme and we'll get | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Just stood there with his huge gun. Moving round all the people | :03:06. | :03:17. | |
shooting. Just killing and murdering. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Also on the programme - criticism for the police chief | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
who says low-risk paedophiles should not be sent to jail. | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
I am proposing that we have to take a slightly different approach, | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
whereby, and all individuals will still be arrested, but there are | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
alternative solutions rather than putting these people through the | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
court system. Reaction to come. And - two private citizens | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
have paid to be sent around the Moon next year, | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
Apparently they've signed We'll speak to others | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
on the waiting list. Let's go to the BBC Newsroom | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
with a summary of today's news. The coroner at the inquest into the | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
deaths of 30 British tourists in Tunisia is about to deliver his | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
conclusions. An Islamist gunmen carried out the killings at a resort | :04:19. | :04:19. | |
in Sousse in 2015. At the hearing, at the Royal Courts | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
of Justice, the coroner will explain why he has rejected a request | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
by many of the bereaved relatives to rule that neglect contributed | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
to their deaths. A BBC investigation has revealed | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
there were more than 20,000 allegations of abuse made | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
against home care workers over Many of the cases involved | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
neglect but there were also allegations of physical, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
psychological and sexual abuse. The UK Home Care Association has | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
described the findings as horrifying, but says the system | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
is under extreme pressure. Britain's most senior child | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
protection police officer has said paedophiles who pose no physical | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
threat to children should Simon Bailey said the system had | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
reached 'saturation point', because of the increased reporting | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
of sexual abuse - and that 'lower-level' offending | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
should be decriminalised A doctor in Leicester | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
is investigating why some women suffer from spontaneous heart | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
attacks at a young age. Spontaneous Coronary Artery | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
Dissection is an under-diagnosed condition which can sometimes | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
occur during pregnancy. It usually results in women | :05:30. | :05:30. | |
suffering a heart-attack That's a summary of the latest BBC | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
News - more at 10.30. Becky has texted to say I've tried | :05:33. | :05:44. | |
working for years while having chronic depression. Even though I | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
was heavily medicated I was getting worse due to work and it was | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
detrimental to my colleagues. Now I'm at home taking pills, to use | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
that quote, and more stable, no longer a danger to myself, I am able | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
to be properly medicated which was impossible in the past due to side | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
effects. And an e-mail from Debra, suffering | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
from depression means you are an outcast at work, nobody understands | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
or is interested, they just want happy people chatting about their | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
social lives and seem to despise the person who is depressed and not part | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
of the happy chatting brigade. Making it impossible for people with | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
mental health conditions to be part of the working world. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Thank you for those. Do get in touch with us | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
and if you text, you will be charged Here's some sport now | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
with Katherine Downes. In their first game since sacking | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
manager Claudio Ranieri Leicester City beat Liverpool 3-1 to get their | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
first league win in 2017. Last that the players produced the sort of | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
performance which saw them crowned champions. Before the game fans | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
turned out to honour their sacked manager. Fans walked from the city | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
centre to the stadium to show their gratitude to Claudio Ranieri. It | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
took the removal of their manager for Leicester City to rediscover | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
their form. A great golfer Danny Drinkwater. Two from Jamie Vardy who | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
previously had only scored five so far this season as Leicester City | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
pulled themselves out of the relegation zone. | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
The British boxing board of control has expressed unhappiness at David | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Haye's comments that Tony Bellew will be risking his life when the | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
pair meet in the ring this weekend. Some flash photography coming up. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Tony Bellew has described the sentiment as distasteful and | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
disgusting. The pair came head-to-head again after a press | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
conference in Liverpool yesterday ahead of their fight at the O2 Arena | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
on Saturday. That is all of the sport for now. | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
Back to you, Victoria. A judge at the inquests | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
into the deaths of 30 British people in a terror attack at a Tunisian | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
resort is beginning to lay A total of 38 people were killed | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
when an Islamist gunman opened fire at a hotel in Sousse on 26th | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
June 2015. The inquest examined whether the UK | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
government and travel firms failed to protect British tourists and also | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
looked at whether neglect was a contributory | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
factor in their deaths. Our correspondent Ben Brown | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
is outside the Royal What has been happening? | :08:19. | :08:30. | |
In the last couple of minutes the coroner has started to deliver his | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
conclusions. He has started off with some remarks when he said he will | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
not reach the conclusion that it was neglect that contributed to the | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
deaths of those 30 British tourists in Tunisia. The families of the | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
victims have said that they want criticism of the holiday company, | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
Tui. On a number of counts they believe Tui should have contacted | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
holiday-makers going to Tunisia that there had been an earlier terror | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
attack in the capital of Tunis three months before. And also that the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
holiday company should have done more to that security at the hotel | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
where the guests were staying, make sure the CCTV cameras were working, | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
and that there were armed guards. The family have also been critical | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
of the Foreign Office's advice, and whether the Foreign Office warning | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
should have been raised to tourists, telling them not to go to Tunisia at | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
all in the wake of the attack at the museum in Tunis in March of 2015 | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
were 22 people were killed three months before the attack in Sousse. | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
We are hearing right now from the coroner. We will bring you his | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
conclusions when we get them. I was speaking to the head of the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Metropolitan Police counterterrorism command at the time of the attacks | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
when British citizens lost the macrolides. It was the highest death | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
toll from a terror attack since London 77. This was particularly | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
challenging because many of these relatives had been there, of course, | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
in the actual resort themselves. A lot of them had seen their loved | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
ones killed in front of them by the terrorist. Nothing could be more, | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
you know, more serious and more traumatic, really, than that, to see | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
your loved one actually killed in a terrorist attack. That is why this | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
was particularly difficult. And particularly challenging for some of | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
the officers dealing with the families. Should and could the | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Tunisians have done more to protect that stretch of beach and hotels, | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
that hotel, and other hotels like it? Could this attack have been | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
prevented? The attack could have only been prevented by good | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
intelligence and arresting perpetrators before they actually | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
carried out the attack. Once the attack is happening and started, | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
obviously people are going to die, sadly. But measures can be taken to | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
reduce the impact of terrorist attacks. Whether those measures | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
could actually have reduced the numbers of people killed is an open | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
question. Once the attack started it went on for a long time. The gunman | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
was able to act freely for a long time without being stopped. What do | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
you think of the Tunisian police response to what happened? The | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
Tunisian police response, you know, could have been better. It is easy | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
in hindsight to be very critical as to how they responded. But on the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
face of it, it did seem like a slow response. And a faster response may | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
have helped save lives. What should be in place at resorts like that? If | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
not to stop an attack happening to make sure the gunman, or gunman, are | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
not free to run around that period of time? There are pleasures hotels | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
-- there are measures hotels can put in place. CCTV, better training for | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
staff, so that the response is faster and more professional. You | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
can tail top terrorist incidents. You can train and equip staff to be | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
prepared for it. And that can help when an attack actually occurs. But, | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
obviously, as I stress, you know, those measures would not | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
necessarily, in this instance, have reduced the number of lives that | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
were lost. But if you had more armed guards, more officers on patrol | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
around the hotels, around the beaches, surely they could have | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
intercepted that man. At resorts in places of the world where the threat | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
is highest, where the terror threat is very high, armed guards and armed | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
police in the locality can help in terms of response. It is easy in | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
hindsight to say these things. An attack happening with so many lives | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
lost. But it is important the hotels have an understanding of the threat, | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
the local threat, as well as the regional and global threat. That was | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
Richard Walton, who was head of the Met police's counterterrorism | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
department at the time of the attack. You have been covering the | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
whole inquests. It is important for the families, what the coroner says | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
today, because they are considering litigation against the holiday | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
company involved, Tui. He isn't going to consider that issue of a | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
claim of neglect. That is clear. It isn't unexpected. The coroner | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
intimated that is what he would say last week. Essentially, the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
barrister for the families of those killed, last week accused Tui of | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
gross neglect. One part was about the whole issue of security at the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
hotel. That Tui hadn't carried out a security audit of it, even though | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
there had been these previous attacks. He pushed hard for that. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
The coroner rejected it. And the barrister for Tui denied it and said | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
there was no basis of a claim for that. Now, my understanding is that | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
at least 22 families of those killed will take this up in the civil | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
court. They will put claims in for damages, personal injury, and fatal | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
accident and want to take on Tui in that way. The families here | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
listening to the conclusions, the last few weeks has been harrowing. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Listening again. And in some cases talking to the inquest about how | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
their loved ones died. It has been extraordinary. I think a lot of the | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
survivors, and the people whose husbands, wives, brothers, were | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
killed were incredibly brave. They stood up and gave evidence. One | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
woman in particular who lost her father, her brother, and her oldest | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
son, standing up and basically describing their macrolides. Very, | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
very, very difficult. Hugely emotional. -- their lives. It was | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
impossible not to shed a tear. Very difficult for them. Something that | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
has emerged is the behaviour of the Tunisian security forces. The | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
inquest had been hearing how they delayed their arrival at the scene | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
for so long. It was three quarters of an hour, more or less, before | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
armed Tunisian police got to the scene and killed the gunman. This | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
was one of the most important pieces of evidence given during the | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
inquest. It came from a Tunisian investigation by a Tunisian judge. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
That report was summarised. We heard it in the inquest. It was totally | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
extraordinary. There was a Tunisian police unit armed with automatic | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
weapons, with body armour, in a four by four vehicle, who were literally | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
minutes, maybe just about three minutes away, from the site of the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
attack at the time of the attack beginning. What did they do? They | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
did not move towards the attack to try and take up the gunman, they | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
went in the opposite direction. They claimed they needed more weapons and | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
more body armour. They had those weapons, they had magazines with | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
ammunition, they had body armour and helmets. They could have gone in. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
They didn't. One of their officers was quoted as saying that this was | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
an act of simple cowardice. Other units did the same thing. There was | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
a unit on a quad bike. There was a unit with armed policemen on | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
horseback. They will one kilometre further away. They could have got | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
there quickly. They didn't. The judge in the Tunisian conclusion was | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
that they deliberately slowed down and only arrived after it was far | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
too late. Thanks very much. We will be hearing the coroner's conclusions | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
in the next few minutes. The families listening out for any | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
criticism implied or otherwise from the coroner of the holiday company, | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
Tui, but also of the Foreign Office their travel advice, and also of the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Tunisian security forces, as well. That's the latest from the royal | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
court of justice. Olivia Leathley spent nearly two | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
hours barricaded in an office after fleeing the sound | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
of machine gunfire outside. I want to talk about what you | :17:51. | :18:00. | |
learned from the inquest. A lot of information was new to you, like | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
what, for example? I'm actually slightly in shock. I've just heard | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
the recent summary from the coroner. I can't believe it. I can't believe | :18:11. | :18:22. | |
they were so close. We were lucky. All of those families and friends | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
who lost that many people and they were that close. The police | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
officers. The Tunisian hotel employees were standing in front of | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
people they'd never even met and they showed more bravery than people | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
who had something to fight back with. And I'm just... I am just at a | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
loss at the moment. It has come as a complete shock. And you had no idea | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
until the inquest. I had no clue, really, about... Could it have been | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
prevented? I don't think any terror attack is ever going to be | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
preventable and that is the sad truth. Some are. There are things I | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
didn't learn about until today. I was hoping from the inquest that | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
precautions would be put in place. Better protocol. Better training for | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
staff. More information for tourists about what to do. That is what I was | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
hoping to come from the inquest and hopefully some closure for the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
families. I cannot believe they turned around and drove away. I | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
really hope they cannot live with themselves because there are people | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
who are not alive now. It could not have been prevented in your view, | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
but British tourists could have been better protected. Yes, I think so. | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
We were aware there has been a previous attack in the capital. We | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
did read up on things and find out what was going on. But we thought | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
because we are here, so far away from the capital it'll be fine, you | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
know, but I was just hoping that there would be better security | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
measures put in place after something like this. Families who | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
lost relatives wanted the coroner to say today their loved one, it was | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
the conclusion of unlawful killing, with neglect. The coroner has made | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
it clear he isn't going to say that neglect was a contributing factor. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
What do you think about that? It has got to be the most impossible | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
situation for those families. They need to find somebody culpable. They | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
need to be able to get some closure. And I believe that, unfortunately, | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
we cannot put that man on trial. We cannot watch him the punished to the | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
full extent of the law. We cannot find peace and closure in that. It | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
is awful that we cannot do that. It is awful that he got away with it, | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
in a sense. We are lucky we are still here. I just hope that | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
throughout all of these court proceedings, and things that they | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
are doing, that it is quick and easy and they get their results and the | :21:23. | :21:35. | |
closure they need. We will get more from Ben Brown who was outside the | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
Royal Courts of Justice. Prison officers at jails in England and | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Wales are taking part in industrial action again from tomorrow in a | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
dispute over pay and pensions. We will bring you more on that. And low | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
risk paedophiles who view indecent images of child sexual abuse should | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
not be prosecuted, according to Simon Bailey, unless they pose a | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
physical threat to children. Simon Bailey, the National police chief's | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
lead on child protection says people who are not in contact with children | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
and have been looking at what he calls "Low-level images" online | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
should be cautioned, rehabilitated, and put on the sex offenders | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
register. So, he says, the police can focus on the most dangerous | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
paedophiles. I think there is a clear message that I'm giving today. | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
The police service working with the National crime agency has never been | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
so robust in this field. We are arresting over 400 men every month. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
We are safeguarding over 500 children every month as a result of | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
targeting those people who we view -- who view indecent images of | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
children. Fact is, we are becoming inundated with the amount of | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
referrals you having to deal with, and the number of cases which our | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
child protection teams are having to cope with. We have sophisticated | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
risk assessment tools that I am as confident as I can beat will be able | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
to determine whether or not an individual poses a risk of contact | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
abusing a child. And when you look at the number of resources we now | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
have working within this field, you look at the numbers we are having to | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
deal with, I am proposing that we have to take a slightly different | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
approach whereby and all the individuals will still be arrested. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
But there are alternative solutions, rather than putting these people | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
through the courts system who are now dealing with between 40 and 50% | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
of their time on allegations of sexual abuse, unfortunately. Cases | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
are taking too long to get to court. We must look at an alternative | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
whereby those individuals we assessed as posing little risk to | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
children of contact abuse have to attain some sort -- attend some sort | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
of rehabilitation course. Have to attend a course whereby they are | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
educated as to the impact of their abuse and their offending and they | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
are not then put into the justice system itself. The Home Office have | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
responded by saying downloading and viewing child abuse images is a | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
terrible crime and should be treated as such. Let's get reaction from the | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
chair and co-founder of a specialist treatment organisation for the | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
prevention of sexual offending and Nigel O'Mara who experienced abuse | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
as a child and now runs the East Midlands survivalist group who have | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
-- for people who have been abused. What is your reaction? We need to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
think about what will be the most effective way to prevent child abuse | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
from happening. What is happening is we have a UK wide network of | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
therapists who can see anybody who feels at risk of anybody who has | :24:55. | :25:06. | |
committed a crime of any kind. As well as preventing further crimes, | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
we are also some instances, able to stop the first crime. As your other | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
guest knows, the consequences of child sexual abuse are horrendous. | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
We all need to doing everything we can to try and reduce and stop child | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
abuse in the UK. But if you are simply viewing images | :25:23. | :25:34. | |
of child sexual abuse, you have not had physical contact with a child, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
then you should receive a caution, rather than the full sanctions of | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
the law, do you agree? They would be on the sex offenders register. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
Cautioned and on the sex offenders register. So, not charged with | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
desertion of all viewing indecent images. The question is, there are | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
750,000 men in the UK with a sexual interest in children, according to | :26:03. | :26:15. | |
the Statistics. We can't lock them all up. 750,002 | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
86,000 doesn't go. We have defined another solution. Provided it is | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
effective, it might be a good way to go forward. Do you believe people | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
who view indecent images of children being abused can then go on to abuse | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
children? I believe they can and I believe they do. And I also believe | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
that we are not really looking at the real issue here. The real issue | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
is, over the last 30 years, the police have failed survivors, and | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
the reason we have the backlog and the cases coming to court now is | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
because they asked Art in to act on something that they should have | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
acted on 30 years ago. I agree with the lady that prevention is the best | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
tool we have got, and they are one of the best people doing it. The | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
fact is, this is a problem that we have built into the system for 30 | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
years. You would accept that police have made a lot of progress when it | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
comes to dealing with the survivors of sexual abuse, and they are, they | :27:29. | :27:39. | |
say, overwhelmed now, which is why Simon Bailey has suggested this. | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
They are overwhelmed because they have failed to act for so many | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
years. That may be so, but they are still overwhelmed and can't deal | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
with people who are physically and sexually abusing children now, which | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
is why Mr Bailey is suggesting that those who simply view, simply is my | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
work, simply view images of children being abused should be treated with | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
a caution, rather than charged and taken through the criminal justice | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
system. Every image of a child being abused means that a child has been | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
abused, whether you are viewing it or whether you have committed the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
act yourself, by viewing it you are creating the market for it. Those | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
people should therefore face serious commercial sanctions. If the police | :28:26. | :28:37. | |
can't cope in... then what? If the police can't do their job, then they | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
need to be funded properly and properly resourced to be able to do | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
their job. But the fact that these offences are occurring doesn't | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
change, just because you decriminalise a part of it. It means | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
that those people who are abused in that situation then have no recourse | :28:57. | :29:04. | |
in law. Can I come in? It is important not to decriminalise the | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
viewing of child abuse images. I agree, for every image that is | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
created, a child has been harmed. I wouldn't suggest that we | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
decriminalise that. What I would suggest is, we offer therapy. My | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
experience is that therapy can be incredibly effective in stopping | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
people having the desire to act out, because many of the people we are | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
working with and offering therapy to in the community have themselves | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
been the victim of some kind of trauma in their history. Thank you | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
both. We appreciate your time. This e-mail from the wheeze, as a victim | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
of serial abuse since the age of four up to 13, -- Louise, I find | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
Simon Bailey's suggestion of giving leniency to paedophiles viewing | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
online abuse as appalling. A paedophile does not care about the | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
victim, whether they are in contact with them. "I Have worked in a | :30:01. | :30:07. | |
secure hospital with paedophiles, they cannot be counselled to leave | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
their perversion behind them. Every of them today was thinking about who | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
and which sex their next victim would be. That them going". There is | :30:16. | :30:23. | |
no low risk paedophiles. They start at a low level and quickly move on | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
to abusing children. A senior policeman asked me if a paedophile | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
can be rehabilitated. No is the answer. Thank you very much for | :30:33. | :30:34. | |
this. Families of the 30 | :30:35. | :30:36. | |
Britons killed in a terror attack at a Tunisian resort are hearing | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
the conclusions of an inquest We'll bring you all the latest live | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
from outside the court and will also be speaking | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
to the Tunisian And a plan by a US aerospace | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
company to fly two private If the mission goes ahead | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
as planned in late 2018, humans will be returning to deep | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
space for the first time With the News here's Annita | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
in the BBC Newsroom. The coroner at the inquests | :31:02. | :31:13. | |
into the deaths of thirty British tourists in Tunisia | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
is delivering his conclusions. An Islamist gunman | :31:18. | :31:19. | |
carried out the killings at a resort near Sousse, | :31:20. | :31:21. | |
in June 2015. The coroner is also due to explain | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
why he has rejected a request by some relatives to rule that | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
neglect by the travel firm TUI Some of the families involved have | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
told the BBC that they are planning to take their case against TUI | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
to the civil courts. A BBC investigation has revealed | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
there were more than 20,000 allegations of abuse made | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
against home care workers over Many of the cases involved neglect, | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
but there were also allegations of physical, | :31:45. | :31:51. | |
psychological and sexual abuse. The UK Home Care Association has | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
described the findings as horrifying, but says the system | :31:54. | :31:55. | |
is under extreme pressure. Britain's most senior child | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
protection police officer has said paedophiles who pose no physical | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
threat to children should Simon Bailey said the system | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
had reached "saturation point", because of the increased | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
reporting of sexual abuse, and he says that what he calls | :32:17. | :32:25. | |
"lower-level" offending should be decriminalised | :32:26. | :32:27. | |
in favour of rehabilitation. The Prison Officers' Association has | :32:28. | :32:29. | |
announced more industrial action Members are being told | :32:30. | :32:31. | |
to withdraw from voluntary duties An overtime ban will also | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
be phased in from April. But the Ministry of Justice says | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
the action is unlawful and has warned the POA it will be taken | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
to court if it goes ahead. That is a summary of the latest | :32:42. | :32:43. | |
news. Join me at 11am. Katherine's here now | :32:44. | :32:54. | |
with the sports headlines. This was the pick the goals last | :32:55. | :33:05. | |
night, Leicester beat Liverpool. Leicester winning their first game | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
since the dismissal of manager Claudio Ranieri. The fans organised | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
a march of celebration to thank Ranieri for all he had achieved. The | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
British boxing board of control has expressed unhappiness at David | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
Haye's comments that Tony Bellew would be risking his life. | :33:23. | :33:28. | |
Tony Bellew described the comments as distasteful. The pair came head | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
to head again at a press conference in Liverpool yesterday. | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
World rugby says it is too early to speculate whether there will be a | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
rule change after Italy's tactics in their six Nations defeat to England | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
on Sunday. There was confusion among the England team. That is all the | :33:44. | :33:51. | |
sport for now. Back to you, Victoria. | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
A judge at the inquests into the deaths of 30 British people | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
in a terror attack at a Tunisian resort is setting | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
In the past few minutes, he's said the response to the attack | :34:01. | :34:13. | |
was at best shambolic and at worst cowardly. | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
Fill us in. The quote you just read was very strong indeed from the | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
koruna. The Tunisian security forces, we | :34:23. | :34:31. | |
heard during the inquest how an armed patrol who had a salt -- | :34:32. | :34:38. | |
bustled rivals, they tried not to intercept the gunmen, because they | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
wanted to get more weapons from the local police patient. He said their | :34:43. | :34:47. | |
response had been, at best shambolic and at worst cowardly. The word | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
cowardice was heard earlier on in the inquest. What the families are | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
looking for is criticism of the holiday company TUI. They wanted the | :34:57. | :35:08. | |
coroner to reach a conclusion of neglect that contributed to the | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
deaths of their loved ones. He said he could not do that. Neglect was | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
not a verdict open to him, because that would have meant gross failure | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
by the company involved, in terms of checking the hotel security. Richard | :35:22. | :35:29. | |
Galpin has been covering the inquest all the way through for the last six | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
weeks. On the point of neglect, Richard, this is the key. This is | :35:35. | :35:43. | |
the families and relatives of the victims, they may well take | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
litigation, civil claims for financial compensation from the | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
holiday company. What the coroner says is important to them. It may | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
have an impact on their ability to bring those claims, or to win those | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
claims, the fact that the coroner here has set aside, saying it is not | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
possible to say, for gross failures you have to prove that. You also | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
have to prove a high wrecked cars or link between the failure and deaths | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
of those people who were killed in that attack. That is very difficult | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
to do. They don't really have the evidence to be able to do that. My | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
understanding from the barrister of the families. They will be looking | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
for more evidence when they go through that process in the civil | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
courts. They will want to find more evidence and witnesses. We must | :36:36. | :36:45. | |
stress, TUI strongly denies any neglect or failures. One of the | :36:46. | :36:52. | |
points the coroner has been referring to is whether there should | :36:53. | :36:58. | |
have been more guards at the hotel where the 30 British citizens lost | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
their lives. For example, he was saying, the question about armed | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
guards is limited by Tunisian firearms laws. It would be difficult | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
for them to have armed guards. It is not impossible. It is possible to | :37:12. | :37:15. | |
get a license to do it, but clearly they weren't at the hotel. There | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
were only three guards there on the day. They weren't trained. They | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
didn't even have walkie-talkies. One supposed guard was on the beach. The | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
barrister for the families was saying he was the guy that handed | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
out the cushions for the guys to sit on sunbeds. Not only did he not have | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
a walkie-talkie, he didn't have a phone to communicate at all. It was, | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
as the judge said, utterly shambolic. Questions about the CCTV | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
cameras in the Hotel as well. Whether all of that taken together, | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
if there had been good CCTV and a good number of guards, that might | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
have been a deterrent, so the gunmen might not have attacked in the first | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
place. Yes, the key point is, we heard evidence in the inquest that | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
the terrorist cell responsible for the attack had carried out | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
reconnaissance on the Hotel prior. They deemed it to be an easy target. | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
So there is definitely that element, but still it is not enough to | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
persuade the judge to include neglect, there is the need for the | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
gross failure. To establish it, it would have made a difference with | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
CCTV, and it is difficult to establish. The strongest words have | :38:38. | :38:42. | |
come about the Tunisian security forces, at best shambolic, at worst | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
cowardly. Strong criticism. I am not surprised, given what we heard from | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
the investigation carried out by the Tunisian authorities. One group of | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
armed policeman effectively running away. They didn't go to the scene of | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
the attack, which is their job. Their role was to protect two | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
arrests in these resorts. They ran back, driving back to the | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
headquarters, come armed spent eight minutes inside the police | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
headquarters -- the commander spent eight minutes. The whole thing was a | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
deliberate delaying tactic, because they were terrified. To be fair, in | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
some respects, there is no excuse, of course, but they had no idea how | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
many people were involved in the attack. Maybe they felt there were | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
three or four different gunmen, and couldn't take them on, but it is not | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
an excuse. OK, Richard. Thank you. The inquest heard that the armed | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
police could have been at the scene within three minutes, but it was | :39:47. | :39:49. | |
almost three quarters of an hour before they finally intercepted and | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
killed the gunmen who had, by that time, already slaughtered 38 people, | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
30 of them British. The worst attack on British citizens, the worst | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
terror attack since the seventh July 2000 and five. The coroner is | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
continuing to deliver his conclusions. We will bring you more | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
as we get it. -- seventh July 2000 and five. The simple and tragic... | :40:20. | :40:29. | |
the police response should and could have been effective, says the | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
coroner this morning, he has not found a direct and causal link, he | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
said, between the response of armed officers in the area, and the | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
deaths. He is more detail about how the day unfolded. The | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
a gunmen enters a holiday resort in Tunisia and opens fire. | :40:48. | :40:57. | |
Holiday-makers flee across the sand. For half an hour, he is able to roam | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
across the beach, enter the Hotel, seeking out and systematically | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
killing innocent tourists. 38 people died, 30 were British. The biggest | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
loss of British life in a terror attack since the London 7-7 | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
bombings. So-called Islamic State said it was behind the attack, | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
carried out by a Tunisian student. Those who survived recall the horror | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
of what happened that day. I just stood there, he had this huge gun. | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
Moving around all the people, shooting. Killing and murdering... | :41:37. | :41:50. | |
I just had my headphones on, and I heard some sounds. I thought, | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
fireworks, like everyone else did. I turned and looked, my wife on the | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
sunbed next to me, and she was already off the sunbed, running in | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
that direction. I decided to run straight down the beach. Into the | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
sea. I could still hear everything still going on. You never forget | :42:11. | :42:18. | |
that sound. Now a coroner's inquest has heard what factors could have | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
contributed to the attack. One key area is the Foreign Office's travel | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
advice. Three months after being targeted, it did not specifically | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
advised holiday-makers against going to Tunisia. Instead, advice on its | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
website stated further attacks are possible. A senior Foreign Office | :42:39. | :42:45. | |
official has defended position. Part or most of the attack could have | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
been prevented by tighter security with tour operated TUI. | :42:50. | :43:00. | |
Some steps were taken by the firm to keep guests say. The inquest also | :43:01. | :43:06. | |
heard there was an unjustifiable delay by Tunisian law enforcement | :43:07. | :43:13. | |
units with some units taking 30 minutes longer than they should have | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
to reach the scene. It heard this was due to "Simple cowardice". | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
The Foreign Office now advises against all but essential travel to | :43:27. | :43:27. | |
Tunisia. We can talk now to Nabil Ammar, | :43:28. | :43:29. | |
the Tunisian Ambassador Colin Bidwell is back with us, | :43:30. | :43:31. | |
he was on the beach with his wife He was shot at and | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
grazed by two bullets. And Richard Barrett is the former | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
head of counter-terrorism at MI6, and now the director | :43:40. | :43:41. | |
of the Global Strategy Network, which works with governments | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
and international organisations What do you think of the Foreign | :43:45. | :43:55. | |
Office's current advice that all but essential travel to your country is | :43:56. | :44:04. | |
the latest advice? I think it is too tough. It does not reflect the | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
correct situation on the ground. There have been a lot of | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
improvements brought to Tunisian security services. And more | :44:17. | :44:19. | |
important than that, the whole country is much better prepared to | :44:20. | :44:26. | |
struggle against terrorism. So there is a new context in Tunisia, and we | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
would ask you to take into account this new context. What happened in | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
Tunisia could have happened everywhere in the world, including | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
in the most sophisticated countries with the most specialised and | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
sophisticated security services. It has happened, actually. Not that it | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
could happen, it has happened already. We are only asking to be | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
treated fairly according to what is the situation on the ground. You may | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
know that we are between the US and UK when it comes to international | :45:04. | :45:07. | |
threats and terrorism. We do not understand why we are banned when we | :45:08. | :45:13. | |
should not be and should be supported. Let's bring in Richard | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
Barrett, does the ambassador have a fair point? I think it is true, | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
terrorism can happen anywhere. Terrorists go. At targets. -- for | :45:25. | :45:35. | |
soft targets. But the advice at the moment is not to say to British | :45:36. | :45:42. | |
people, only go to Paris for essential business, or only go to | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
Brussels for essential business. Exactly. And in London, too. Let's | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
not forget, That's the case in 2015? Yes. The | :45:53. | :46:08. | |
fact of the matter is, there is a preparedness which tends to mitigate | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
these attacks. If a terrorist sees that there is some protection around | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
a target they will go on and move elsewhere, but I think if you just | :46:15. | :46:17. | |
knock it down the road to the next hotel, you haven't really gained | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
anything very much as a country. So I think for Tunisia and other | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
countries which are prime destinations particularly for | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
western tourists they have to have a whole area of protection which is | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
enormously expensive and if you lay it on too thick I guess it puts | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
tourists off as well. I wonder if you think with the deaths of 38, the | :46:40. | :46:46. | |
murders of 38 people that day, the fact that your tourist industry has | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
been hit and countries like the UK, advising people only to go to | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
Tunisia unless it is essential that the terrorists have won? Yes. This | :46:57. | :47:02. | |
is the wrong message to deliver to them. It is not all the countries | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
that are banning Tunisia from travel. They have their own | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
citizens. We do protect our citizens as well. We are very conscious and | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
anxious about the security for our own people as we are for our guests | :47:20. | :47:24. | |
so we are not wanting tourists to come back again at any cost. We are | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
saying that there have been a lot of improvements that have to be taken | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
into account. Zero risk doesn't exist anywhere. If we are really | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
serious about struggling against terrorism which is an international | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
problem that we have not cre crit add, we have not created the | :47:40. | :47:49. | |
ideology, they didn't train in Tunisia. So they need ideology and | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
money and we are not responsible. When it comes to the chain of | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
responsibility, I would appeal to all the wise people to all those who | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
really want to know about the truth, and to go through the chain of | :48:06. | :48:11. | |
responsibility until they detect who is responsible. But we, Tunisians | :48:12. | :48:19. | |
are apooling to our friends to show more solidarity with us to struggle | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
with us, our security is part of their security. Let me bring in | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
Colin who was on the beach that day when the attack happened. How do you | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
react to what the coroner has said so far that the response from the | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
police at that time was at best sham bottle k and at worst cowardly? | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
Well, think that's been common knowledge before today anyway. With | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
some of the findings on some particular television programmes. I | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
mean I must say... Well, it is now official. The only thing I will say. | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
How do you respond to that? Well, I still think it is a little bit of | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
everyone. I don't think anyone is particularly to blame and this is | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
just my opinion, but I must say the Tunisian people on the day and the | :49:06. | :49:08. | |
way they looked after the injured and everything was, you know, first | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
class, you know, they have nothing to give, but they gave us | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
everything. So well, it is the Security Services that were at | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
fault. It is the armed police patrols. It is not the Tunisian | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
people. That's what the coroner is talking about, you know, the armed | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
police patrol just three minutes away... Yes. Instead of going | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
towards those who were injured and dead, actually decided to go in the | :49:36. | :49:37. | |
opposite direction to a police station to get more weapons. A lot | :49:38. | :49:42. | |
of people who visited the area know there is around they are just around | :49:43. | :49:46. | |
the corner with some armed police and how they didn't get there, I | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
don't know, but obviously the more it develops, the more we will find | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
out. I don't think Tunisia as a country should be punished. Richard | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
as, as a former professional, what do you think of that behaviour by | :50:00. | :50:02. | |
those armed police officers? Well, I think it is lack of preparedness and | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
it is lack of practise, you know, in this country for example, in and in | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
many other countries and I'm sure in Tunisia too, people do drills, you | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
know and plan and prepare for such an incident as this. Fortunately, it | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
is very, very rare, but when it happens, like in Sousse in June of | :50:20. | :50:28. | |
2015, I mean, you know, it's a very, very dramatic incident and everybody | :50:29. | :50:31. | |
says we should have been doing morement to be fair to the Tunisian | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
people and to the Tunisian authorities to prodict these things | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
requires a great deal of intelligence work, of careful | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
investigation and so on and then if you did get all that intelligence | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
you try and stop the thing happening rather than react for quickly. Thank | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Mr Ambassador. | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
Prison officers at jails in England and Wales are taking part | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
in industrial action again from tomorrow in a dispute | :51:01. | :51:02. | |
Members will withdraw from voluntary duties, | :51:03. | :51:05. | |
including staffing "Tornado" teams which respond to | :51:06. | :51:06. | |
The Government is threatening to go to court to stop the action saying | :51:07. | :51:15. | |
it is unlawful. Peter Dawson, who's a former | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
Prison Officer and Director Alex Cavendish, a former prisoner | :51:21. | :51:22. | |
is on the line as well - we're not showing his face | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
because he was targeted He left prison three years ago. | :51:29. | :51:38. | |
Thank you very much for coming on the programme. First of all, just | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
remind our audience about this action and what you think of it. | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
Well, I entirely understand why prison officers are so frustrated. A | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
huge amount of damage has been done to their service over the last three | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
years by the speed and the extent of the cuts the Government has made. | :51:59. | :52:00. | |
Industrial action can only make matters worse and it could put | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
people's lives at risk. I certainly don't support them in taking that | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
out ot of the problems they face. OK, what should they do? We hear | :52:11. | :52:15. | |
about public services all the time that have rising demand and not | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
enough resources to cope. But in prison, the demand for prisons is in | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
our hands. It's about how many people we send to prison and how | :52:22. | :52:26. | |
long we send them there for. So a huge part of the solution has to be | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
sending fewer people to prison and not keeping them there as long. It | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
is not necessary for rehabilitation and for some people it can undermine | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
their chances of making a go of it when they leave prison. Alex, what | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
do you think of the industrial action by prison officers? Well, I | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
take on board Peter's points, but I think we have to accept the present | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
prison crisis is an entirely political construct. It is the | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
result of years of cut, over ?900 million cuts from the budget and | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
unfortunately the levels of violence that we're seeing in prison makes it | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
an incredibly dangerous place for staff and prisoners alike. So I can | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
certainly see what prison officers would not want to undertake | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
voluntary activities at a time when their safety cannot be guaranteed on | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
a day-to-day basis. Do you agree with the Government that it should | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
be stopped by them going through the courts? I think it's going to be | :53:29. | :53:37. | |
very difficult to stop people not doing voluntary activities. You | :53:38. | :53:40. | |
know, one can see it is not a strike. No one is suggesting that | :53:41. | :53:44. | |
prison officers won't report for work. What they're saying, they | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
won't do are activities which are above and beyond their contractual | :53:52. | :53:54. | |
duties. So I suppose in a sense, it is a work to rule. But I imagine | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
that if the Government really takes this to court the morale of prison | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
officers is going to hit rock bottom and I think that's an extremely | :54:05. | :54:07. | |
dangerous thing for everybody, prisoners and staff alike. OK. Thank | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
you both. Thank you both very much. Thank you for coming on the | :54:13. | :54:13. | |
programme. A US private rocket company called | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
SpaceX has announced that two private citizens have paid to be | :54:19. | :54:20. | |
sent around the Moon in 2018. The two unnamed passengers | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
are said to be entering it "with their eyes open, | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
knowing that there is some risk". Richard Garriott flew | :54:27. | :54:34. | |
to the International Space Station in 2008 as a self-funded space | :54:35. | :54:36. | |
tourist and I began by asking him what he thought of the fact that two | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
people have paid for this once It is incredibly exciting news and | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
whilst the announcement was a surprise to me and I consider myself | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
an industry insider, it's the timing is not that shocking in the sense of | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
this is really what this space industry and the commercial space | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
folks have been trying to pull off for some years. It is great to see | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
it happening now. How much do you think they will have paid for this | :55:04. | :55:09. | |
trip? Well, you know, I don't, I don't have any inside information | :55:10. | :55:16. | |
and Elon hasn't said publicly, but my personal estimate knowing what | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
the vehicle costs is somewhere between ?100 million and $150 | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
million a seat would be my personal estimate. Wow. So what sort of | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
person will that be awe part from someone who is incredibly wealthy. | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
If you ask anyone on earth, you know, would they like to go, if they | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
could afford it and they thought it was safe enough, would they go and | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
80% of all people say yes to that question. And that means, you know, | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
whether you can awe ford it or not, it's still 80% and so, if you think | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
of the thousands and thousands of highly wealthy people, people that | :55:53. | :55:56. | |
have hundreds of millions of dollars, that's well below 1%, but | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
that's still a lot of people so 80% of those people want to go too. So | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
finding people who can pay to go and want to go is actually not the hard | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
part. The hard part is people to take such a trip like this they have | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
to retire from their businesses for a year or two and if they, you know, | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
for example a captain of industry to become that industry, it could | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
affect the stock price of the companies they helment and so, | :56:24. | :56:28. | |
taking time off is really a much bigger deal, a harder hurdle than | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
the money. They're going to the moon. What will they see? First of | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
all, only 12 people have gone to the moon and back and those all happened | :56:40. | :56:44. | |
when I was quite young and so, you know, for the majority of people | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
alive on the planet today, they don't remember a time when humanity | :56:49. | :56:55. | |
went beyond orbit. This is extremely exciting from the fact that humanity | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
is going to be returning to the moon and you know, if you go to the space | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
station and things like I did, you're only 250 miles up. That's not | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
very far away really. No. And when you go to the moon, you know, you're | :57:08. | :57:10. | |
hundreds of thousands of miles away. I think one of the first amazing | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
things they will see is just the view of the earth from space which | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
is life changing. Then as you travel to the moon, the Earth will recede | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
into the distance until it literally becomes the blue marble that is | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
famous from the Apollo pictures of that era and finally, the most | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
spectacular part will be the arrival and trip around the moon before | :57:34. | :57:35. | |
returning. Thank you for your comments on | :57:36. | :57:44. | |
personal independence payments and whether they should be paid for | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
mental health illnesses and also psychological problems. This texter | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
says, "My son has paranoid schizophrenia and managed to work | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
for 17 years with people who accepted his limitations. He can no | :57:55. | :58:00. | |
longer work aged 48. He takes strong antipsychotic drugs to cope and yet | :58:01. | :58:05. | |
cannot claim PIP. He struggles on minimum benefit payments. How | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
majorly mentally ill does one have to be to qualify?" Sam says, "I have | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
had a physical health problem. Can't get PIP because I'm not disabled | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
enough. " Clearly, we're going to come back it this issue. Do keep | :58:22. | :58:26. | |
getting in touch with us with your own experiences. More throughout the | :58:27. | :58:30. | |
day into the The thing that's so clear | :58:31. | :58:32. | |
is that it's 100% honest. We're right in the middle | :58:33. | :58:34. | |
of the action. The remarkable story | :58:35. | :58:39. | |
of British photography. The only cameras that were there | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
that day How pioneering artists | :58:43. | :58:45. | |
and technology | :58:46. | :58:51. |