07/10/2013 BBC News at One

The 15-minute flying visits to the elderly and disabled. It's been

criticised by a charity. They say elderly and disabled. It's been

the practice is on the rise with elderly people having to choose

between having a drink and going to the toilet. They really need some

time. They need to feel you can help and that you care about what's

happening. What's happening to them, what they need. Also this lunchtime.

The Scotland Secretary, Michael Moore, is sacked as David Cameron

begins a ministerial reshuffle. Britain's version of the FBI, the

new National Crime Agency, to fight serious organised crime is launched.

A series of attacks on strategic targets in Egypt. At least ten

people die in attacks against security forces in the latest wave

of violence. And shot in the head by the Taliban, the Pakistani teenager

Malala Yousafzai says talking to the extremists, is the only way to

achieve peace. They must do what they want through dialogue. They

must tell us what they want and killing people and hurting people,

and flogging people is totally against Islam. Later on BBC London,

tax relief on season tickets. The Mayor asks the Treasury for helping

hand for computers and what lies beneath? The Japanese plant bringing

down house prices in the capital. Good afternoon and welcome to the

BBC News At One. Elderly and disabled people are missing out on

essential care because many carers disabled people are missing out on

only have time to make flying visits. That's according to the

charity Leonard Cheshire Disability. It says older people are having to

choose between having a drink or going to the toilet because their

carers are spending so little time with them. And more and more

councils are allocating visits that are just 15 minutes long. Our

correspondent Mike Sergeant reports. This woman never does visits as

short as 15 minutes. The provider she works for the policy of half an

hour minimum. Giving carers enough time to build a relationship and do

all the necessary tasks. They really need some time, they need to feel

you can help, and that you care about what's happening. What's

happening to them, what they need. And they need to be treated with

happening to them, what they need. kindness and clarity and patients.

But today's study by the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability reveals

two thirds of all councils in England use some 50 minute visits,

the overall number of them increasing 15% in five years. And in

some extreme cases, cancelled commission three quarters of all

home care in 15 minute slots. Whilst the government and local authorities

share the view 15 minutes is not long enough to help with everyday

tasks, some councils say shorter visits can be useful if the purpose

is just to check someone is OK or that they have had their medication.

Senior care managers say the type of support should be tailored to the

needs of the individual. I think we talked generally about care needs as

if they are the same. But we have always said we need to treat people

as individuals, and make sure that their needs are assessed and that

the time is given in order to make the needs that they have met.

Because they are all difference, some people can manage with less and

others need more. But many, like Richard, who has multiple sclerosis,

think council should be told to make all visits longer. They just don't

have enough time. Bless them, they do their best, but it just doesn't

work, really. They are good people, most of them. They want extra time

but on their remit. Campaigners this morning want a ban on all 15 minute

visits. But councils says significant can cut their funding

mean local authorities are struggling to meet rising demand for

care. Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt is here.

This has been looking at the situation in England. Is it all down

to money? Well the Association of directors of adult social services

say that there are times when it is fully justified and fully adequate

to provide someone with a 15 minute visit. That might just be because of

medication or something relatively quick, but I think at the end of

it, money has to be a major in this. The directors of adult social

services estimate £800 million short of budgets. And they are not

seeing, they say, the transfer of money from the NHS to local

authorities. The government would say that is happening, and they have

made it clear it believes 15 minute visits are too short. It's also

clear from the point of view of the companies who are providing this

care, some of them agree it's far too short and some refuse to give

that sort of short visit, because it's not the care that they want to

deliver. And we have a society now where the ageing population is

growing all the time. It's difficult to see how this can be resolved.

300,000 people in England get home care at the moment. That figure is

going to rise. Not only are we an ageing population, and ageing

doesn't always mean good health. We are trying to shift care from being

provided in hospitals to at home, which is where most people would

want it to be. But that has a cost attached to it if that person needs

support. And that means there is a need for wider debate, not just

about the individual funding, which is being looked at, but also, are we

putting enough into the pot of money which provides care via local

authorities? Thank you very much. The Scottish Secretary, Michael

Moore, has been sacked from the cabinet as the Prime Minister begins

a minor reshuffle. He will be replaced by another Liberal

Democrat, the Chief Whip, Alistair Carmichael, less than a year before

the Scottish independence referendum. Our chief political

correspondent, Norman Smith, is at Westminster. The reshuffle is now

well and truly underway. We are told that the Prime Minister wants to

bring in more women, more MPs from the north, and so far only one woman

who also happens to be from the North, has been promoted, but the

big story of the day has to be the axing of the Scottish Secretary,

Michael Moore, who was deemed to be not a enough, not a belligerent

enough towards Alex Salmond, head of independence referendum next year.

Chris Mason now reports. Arriving at his new office with a smile, as

Secretary of State for Scotland. Alistair Carmichael was greeted by

the boss and will now lead the government's fight to give UK

together in next year's independence referendum. He is replacing Michael

Moore, who has been sacked from the Cabinet. I'm disappointed to be

leaving office right now, but I'm very pleased with what I have

achieved in the last couple of years particularly in the constitutional

debate with Scotland and the Edinburgh agreement but this big

decision we are taking as a country, is bigger than one individual,

bigger than one party. Also leaving, the Cabinet Office Minister Chloe

Smith, the deputy Chief Whip, John Randall and the Transport Minister,

Simon Burns. Chloe Smith finds a ministerial career over aged just

31. This is entirely my decision, positive one to me because it allows

me to focus on the things most important to me, my work for the

constituency and work I can do to also promote the cause of young

people. The government is made up of 120 ministers. Before today, 24 were

women. 21 Cabinet ministers. Northern MPs and women are expected

to do well in this shake-up. Esther McVeigh has become employment

Minister. MPs have been clutching their phones trying to find out news

as to whether or not they could be working in Whitehall or no longer

working here. What is guaranteed today is some MPs will be

disappointed either because they have been fired or because they have

been overlooked. It could mean some of them are rather grouchy on the

backbenches. But, on the whole, this is a shake-up of the government's B

team rather than the ministers we tend to see the most of. So not

everyone is riveted. Sophie, what we have not had is the traditional walk

of shame as those about to be dispatched have to walk in front of

the cameras into number ten. Instead, ministers have all been

promoted. Be in no doubt, tonight there will be many former ministers

who are deeply unhappy and deeply unhappy former ministers can spell

trouble for party leaders on the backbenches. It's not just the

government doing reshuffling today because the Labour leader is

expected to make changes to his top team? The biggest story today may

actually be the Labour reshuffle because we are told this will be a

Shadow Cabinet reshuffle in which Mr Miller band will seek to reshape his

top team, to send out a different Miller band will seek to reshape his

message and also signal a different approach in key policy areas so we

could see movement in the top posts such as health, DWP, education and

transport. -- Ed Miliband. The real story at the Denver that they could

be the Labour reshuffle. Thank you very much. It's being dubbed

Britain's version of the FBI - a new police organisation called the

National Crime Agency is launched today. It's replacing the much

criticised Serious Organised Crime Agency and will focus on organised,

economic and cyber crime, border policing and child protection. But

Labour says it's just a re-branding exercise. Our home affairs

correspondent Tom Symonds reports. Open the door. National Crime

Agency. Britain's FBI comes calling. Early this morning, this

was the first operation of the new National Crime Agency. It is the

third attempt to create a UK wide law enforcement body in 15 years.

But the new director says it won't just work alongside the police. It

will take a lead. We need leadership to bring agencies together, based on

a clear intelligence picture, intelligence led, and we target

interventions appropriately and our top priority is continuously

disrupting people involved in organised crime. So what difference

will it make and what firepower can call upon? This unit is training in

Gateshead and is one of around two dozen based around the country. The

officers are firearms capable but also experienced investigators. This

is clearly the sharp end. But the new National Crime Agency behind it

will be a bigger, much more visible, operation. Active across

the UK, but, for the first time, with the powers to direct local

police forces. The broader remit will include continuing to tackle

serious and organised criminals. But also cyber crime and economic crime.

Immigration and cross-border crime, and child exploitation and online

protection also becomes part of the National Crime Agency. In Northern

Ireland, Sinn Fein and the SDLP blocked them from having full powers

because of concerns it would upset a delicate pleasing balance and Labour

claims there is no new money. This does not live up to the Home

Secretary's hype. It is important, we wish it well, but its rebranding

from existing organisations and, unfortunately, with a 20% budget

cut. The government denies it's just the rebranding and is promising it

will seize more proceeds of crime and be more innovative. Not just

prosecuting criminals, but relentlessly destructing their

activities as well. That's why it's a new approach which says we will

use all the tools available to ensure we fight against organised

crime, which is a national security threat. The body is replacing worked

in the semi secrecy. No signs outside its offices. The new agency

is moving into the same offices with a different approach. Like the FBI,

it wants to build a public reputation and to be publicly judged

on its successes and failures. There has been a fresh wave of violence

across Egypt this morning with a string of attacks on the Egyptian

Security forces. A car bomb went off at their headquarters in Sinai near

the northern port city of Ismailia killing five soldiers. Yesterday

more than 50 people were killed in clashes between police and the

supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi. Jim Newell reports.

The explosion badly damaged the Mohammed Morsi. Jim Newell reports.

security building. There were fears casualties could rise as more people

are pulled from the rubble. Attacks by Islamist militants in Sinai are

veritably common but mainly in the north. This one in the South, will

do nothing for tourism at nearby resorts. At Ismailia, gunmen opened

fire on soldiers killing five or six. And, in Cairo, grenades were

fired at a communication centre wounding several people. Despite all

that, Cairo itself was calm and it was business as usual for many this

morning after a day of riots and killings that left more than 50

people dead. With the Muslim brotherhood now largely driven

underground, people on the streets have only harsh words for them. They

want to bring the countries to its knees, and want to rivers and

callous, but they can't, this man says, because the army and the

police on the people are altogether. Yesterday 's violence was the worst

since the security forces moved against the Muslim Brotherhood in

August, killing hundreds and arresting their leaders. The

movement is trying to stay behind by staging demonstrations against the

military. Which ousted President Morsi in July. No more have died but

they are promised further mope -- protests further in the week. Our

top story this lunchtime. A leading charity brands the 15-minute flying

care visits to elderly and disabled people are disgraceful. And still to

come. The Olympic torch takes off in Russia covering 40,000 miles and

will even go into space for the first time before arriving at the

Winter games. Later on BBC London, as Spurs fans are arrested at

yesterday 's match for using a word banned by the FA, and how children

are getting the chance to study priceless works of art in the

comfort of their own schools. One year ago this week, Pakistani

teenager Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taleban near her home in

Pakistan as she travelled to school by bus. She was targeted because she

had spoken out for girls' education. After the attack, which nearly

killed her, she was flown to Britain for treatment, and she has stayed in

Birmingham, where she has undergone a series of major operations. In her

first interview since the attack, she told the BBC's Mishal Husain

that talking to the Taliban is the only way to achieve peace.

A day out in Birmingham for Malala Yousafzai. This 16-year-old's life

was transformed by the attack that nearly killed her. Hello! One year

on, I have been spending time with her and her family. Hello, Malala,

how are you? What has been the her and her family. Hello, Malala,

hardest thing about coming to Birmingham? The weather, of course!

She is much better now than she was, Birmingham? The weather, of course!

but your life changed in that one moment. In seconds, everyone's life

changed in that moment. Malala was only 11 when she first

spoke out for girls' writes to go to school. I would get my education, if

it is in a home, school or anyplace. The world she knew was about to

disappear, the whole valley of Swat came under the brutal rule of the

Taleban. I was afraid of my future. I don't

want to see any girl to be ignorant, and I don't want to see any girl to

be illiterate in future, and I did not want my future to be just

sitting in a room, to be imprisoned in four walls and just cooking and

giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way. But

her determination to speak out would come at a cost. On the 9th of

October last year, she and her friends were travelling home on

their school bus when it was stopped.

Malala was shot in the head, deliberately targeted by the

extremists. We know the Taleban never targeted a child. If not adult

girls, but they never killed children. Swat today is a very

different place from Howard was in Taleban times. In those days, this

area was notoriously, because this was where they would display the

bodies of those they had hanged. The locals know this area as Green

Square, but in Taleban times they locals know this area as Green

renamed it Bloody Square. A few streets away is Malala's old school.

Where did she sit? Her class is full of bright,

articular girls with high aspirations for the future. They

tell me they miss their friend's competitive spirit. Are you still

like that in your new school, competitive? Yes, I do like it, but

I still miss my friends. The new school environment in Birmingham is

very different to what she was used to.

Do you think British girls take their education for granted, then?

Yes, I believe that. I want to tell students of the UK to think that it

is very precious, very prestigious. Go to school. Malala has made a

remarkable physical recovery, and are major operations, including one

to reattach her facial nerve. Now I can move my face, I can smile. It is

getting better day by day. I want you to tell me when you can hear a

tiny sound... And thanks to a cochlear implant, they're hearing

has been restored. I am going to say the days of the week, Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Today Malala has become the face of the world's 57 million out-of-school

children. She has an influence view other 16-year-olds can imagine, and

yet she told me she still sees herself as an ordinary teenager.

And you can watch that interview in a special Panorama programme this

evening. Home Secretary Theresa May is to be

questioned by MPs over white one of the world's most wanted Al-Qaeda

terror suspects, captured by US special forces this weekend in

Libya, was given asylum in Britain. According to reports, Abu Anas

al-Liby arrived in Britain in the mid-1990s and lived in Manchester

after being granted political asylum. Frank Gardner is here, so

what more do we know about him and why was he granted asylum here? Abu

Anas al-Liby is a nickname. He came to this country in the mid-1990s as

one of several political dissidents from Libya, fleeing the Gaddafi

regime, and at the time he was seen as somebody who had a right to free

speech in this country. He was part of the movement, even though we went

to live in Manchester, with many Libyans, he was part of a movement

of people that were opposing quite to spotting, unpleasant regimes in

the Middle East. He, though, went on to do other things. He joined a big

organisation, Al-Qaeda, and the extraordinary thing is that one year

after the East African embassy bombings that he is accused of

helping to mastermind, he was reportedly picked up by the police

but let go. Now, lots of calls have gone into Whitehall from lots of

news organisations today to try to get some answers out of them. This,

of course, was a previous government, in the late 1990s, so

firing questions at Theresa May will only go so far. But I think they

probably learnt their lessons. They are much tighter on the sort of

people they allowed to proselytise and plan from the UK.

People with severe mental illness are more likely to be victims of

crime than the general population, according to a new study. It found

that men were five times more likely to experience assault and severely

mentally ill women work ten times more likely to be assaulted. Dominic

Casciani reports. Your chance of being a victim of

crime is far lower than 20 years ago, but if you suffer from a mental

illness, it is a different story. Research by academics and the

charities Victim Support and Mindset that people at these conditions you

experience crime are often let down. Lydia Hodges was the victim of a

rape that left suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She

says her visible anxiety made her the target for further crimes. She

volunteered to talk openly about how the police reaction to her illness

hampered her chances of getting over mugging. I would have liked to have

got justice, but it is very... I think going through a trial would

have been very difficult, because of dealing with the police's reaction

to my mental health issues, that was the more difficult bit. Today's

report looks at victims of crime who have mental illnesses. It says these

victims are three times more likely to experience crime than anyone

else. Women with severe mental illness are ten times more likely to

be assaulted. Campaigners say the police often dismiss these victims

when they should be giving them more support. These people are far more

vulnerable than the general population, and they therefore find

it harder to process the risks that they put themselves into, and the

risks that other people present to them. And those people could be

members of their own family or people that they know well. The

Associaton of Chief Police Officers says it except the recommendations

in the research. There is a public perception that mental health

patients commit crimes, but this report shows how they are more

likely to be victims. Now, the longest ever journey for an

Olympic torch is under way in Moscow today. It will travel 40,000 miles

from the capital, across Russia, on its way to next year's Sochi Winter

games, and for the first time the Olympic flame will journey into

space. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports.

At the Kremlin today, a fanfare for a flame. With pomp and plenty of

pom-poms, Russia sent the Olympic torch on its long journey to Sochi

and the Winter Games. Although this synchronised swimmer looks like she

might drown in the sea of streamers. So the Olympic flame is on its way

at the start of a marathon journey, 40,000 miles across the biggest

country in the world. Along the way, the torch will travel by nuclear

icebreaker to the North Pole. It will plunge to the bottom of a lake

and blast into space, for an historic Olympic spacewalk. Back on

earth, there have been problems, though. This was the Kremlin

yesterday. A good job he was on hand with his lighter. There has been

controversy, too. Gay rights groups have called for a Western boycott of

the games in protest at a Russian law that restricts the spread of

information about homosexuality. But these Olympic volunteers near red

Square today were upbeat about the Sochi games. It is a chance for the

whole world to see what Russia is, what is Russia? We will surprise the

world. Big country, big show! And a big journey before the flame finally

reaches Sochi next February. From the Olympics to the

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year, and it has been announced that

the army of volunteers enlisted to help during the 2014 games will be

known as Clydesiders, and more than 50,000 people registered to become

volunteers. This morning the process of informing the successful

applicants and telling them which events they will be working at has

begun. On Wednesday the Queen will launch the bat and relay or the

Glasgow game from Buckingham Palace as it started its journey of almost

120,000 miles to every Commonwealth nation and territory before arriving

back in Scotland in June. You can watch the launch of the baton relay

on Wednesday morning, we will be at Buckingham Palace from 10:45am.

Talking of Buckingham Palace, it has hosted garden parties, children's

parties, concerts and many royal ceremonies, but this afternoon for

the first time the gardens are being turned into a football pitch for a

match between England's oldest amateur clubs, Polytechnic SC and

team-macro FC. Nicholas Witchell is there.

Yes, one better than Wembley! Here we are in the back garden of

Buckingham Palace with a full-sized football pitch marked out for what

will be the first fully competitive football match staged in the ground,

all in aid of the 150th anniversary of the Football Association, of

which Prince William is the of the Football Association, of

president, and a short time ago he welcomed the two teams and their

supporters and some of the volunteers who do so much to make

the game a success. I cannot tell you how excited I am

that later today we will be playing football on my grandmother's lawn.

One warning, though - if anyone breaks a window, you can answer to

her! In fact, Her Majesty, who has been the proud patron of the FA for

61 years, Sensor regrets that she cannot join you today. One small

silver line to Her Majesty not being presence today is that they should

not be any corgis running onto the pitch. Laugh a minute! Prince

William, I think, is just being introduced shortly to the two

teams. The kick-off is in a couple of minutes from now, a game between

two amateur sides, Civil Services FC, one of the teams which formed

the FA, and Polytechnic SC. Whether this carefully nurtured ground which

has been marked out with the assistance of Wembley groundstaff,,

quite how it is done to bear this afternoon with 22 players running up

and down it, we will have to see. I am sure the Queen will be delighted

that it is being staged here. Let's have a look at the weather now

with Nina Ridge. Some fine weather at the moment,

sunshine in places, decent temperatures as well, so the rest of

the afternoon, sunshine, bright spells at times and it will feel

the afternoon, sunshine, bright quite warm once again. A little bit

more cloud further west, and at quite warm once again. A little bit

times for parts of South West England we cannot rule out the odd

spot of rain, but for most it should be dry throughout the afternoon with

cloud coming and going, highs of 17 or 18 degrees. The rest of the

afternoon, Wales is mostly dry, one or two light showers perhaps.

North-west England is more overcast, and through parts of

Northern Ireland some heavier rain sitting to the north-west. The

north-west corner of Scotland sees rain continuing to be quite

persistent, and at times heavy, but through the Moray Firth, with some

shelter, warm sunshine, we will pick up that sunshine again through

north-east England, I run the Wash, part of Lincolnshire, East Anglia

and the south-east corner. -- around the Wash. There is the potential for

and the south-east corner. -- around temperatures to get into the low

20s, maybe 21 or 22 by the end of the day. Through the night, the

weather front is moving its way south, bringing with it a little

more cloud, patchy rain, heavy at times, but most of it fairly light.

Still some showers moving into the north-west of Scotland. Another mild

night with that blanket of cloud, those of 13-15 degrees. A grey

starts tomorrow morning, and with that week weather front, more

overcast in the south with one or two showers. But behind that, bright

spells once again, showers moving into the north-west corner of

Scotland. Temperatures still in the high teens across the country,

although more cloud in the south, still maybe around 20 degrees. But

there are some changes, and around the middle part of the week we start

there are some changes, and around disease and fronts moving south, and

that means a change in damages. -- we start to see cold fronts. Behind

that, with the cold air setting in, a strong wind where the temperatures

that, with the cold air setting in, are really tumbling away, 10-12

degrees with frequent and heavy showers, which may be wintry across

higher ground of Scotland. For the last of the mild air clearing away

on Thursday, the whole country is sitting underneath the blues, so the

daytime temperatures by then, 10-13, a strong northerly wind will make it

feel even colder. At least there will be a little bit of sunshine

around, although for eastern areas we will still have the risk of

showers. Be warned, if you have got used to 20 degrees, it will come as

a bit of a shock by the end of the week.