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Theresa May is forced to backtrack on one of her key manifesto pledges, | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
On the campaign trail, Theresa May says she would consider | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
imposing a cap on the total amount people might pay for care, | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
But talk of imposing a limit has come after days of controversy | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
about elderly people being forced to pay more for their social care. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
The basic principles remain absolutely the same | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
as when they were put in the manifesto and | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
As elderly people and their carers took in news of the change, | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
the Prime Minister's opponents accused her of causing | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
They haven't explained to the millions of people | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
who are desperately worried about the sort of care what they're | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
who are desperately worried about the sort of care that they're | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
This is a government in chaos and confusion. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
We'll be looking in more detail at the Conservative approach | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
to social care in England, and what it could mean | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
President Trump starts his official trip to Israel and expresses | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
confidence about a peace deal with the Palestinians. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
I've heard it's one of the toughest deals of all, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
but I have a feeling we're going to get there, eventually. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
Facebook insists that it is serious about monitoring offensive material | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
And two centuries of tradition in Japanese art stealing the show | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: David Moyes resigns | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
as Sunderland manager after just one year in charge. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
The club ended the season bottom of the Premier League. | :01:51. | :02:12. | |
The Prime Minister stands accused of performing a hasty U-turn | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
on her plans to reform social care in England. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Just four days after publishing the Conservative manifesto - | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
and following widespread controversy - Theresa May claimed she was now | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
The Prime Minister said she would consider imposing a limit | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
on the cost of home care for the elderly. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Mrs May's opponents said the about-turn was the very opposite | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports. | :02:38. | :02:54. | |
Serenely rolling along, it had seemed, with only a few noises off. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
An antihunting protest was the last of the Tories' problems today. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The manifesto created a mess over social care that | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
The original version of the Tory plans were to be bundled away. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
It might not sound like it, but this is a big change | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
to what Theresa May had planned - introducing a limit, | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
a cap, on how much people in England could have to pay. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
This manifesto says that we will come forward | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
with a consultation paper, a government green paper, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
and that consultation will include an absolute limit on the amount | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
people have to pay for their care costs. | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
You have just announced a significant change | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
to what was offered in your manifesto, saying there will now be | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
the possibility of a cap on social care that was not in the plans | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
that was announced just four days ago. | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
That doesn't look so strong and stable, Prime Minister, | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
it looks rather like panic in the face of opposition. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Our social care system will collapse unless we address this problem, | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
and we can't leave it to the future, we have to start | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
That is why I want to fix it, and I'm going to fix it. | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
She was, though, pressed again and again, seeming | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
Let's be clear, we have not changed the principles that we set | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
out in the manifesto, we are very clear about | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the principles on which this system will operate. | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
And ministers, well, they didn't really want to talk about it either. | :04:26. | :04:36. | |
Can I ask you very quickly about the U-turn on social care? | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Secretary of State, can we ask you very quickly | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
When did Theresa May change your mind? | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
A closed-door, because just yesterday, ministers were saying | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
Any chance that you will look at it again? | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
But there were concerns inside the party. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
The Prime Minister herself had heard nerves on the doorstep. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
The principle of who pays stays the same, but the change of heart | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
is a gift and a source of gags for Labour. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
You cannot trust this woman, she does U-turns an immigration, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
on Parliament won't be meeting, having an election until 2020! | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
And it is what is called strong and stable! | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
But the opposition is still attacking the part | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
of the plan that remains - the value of people's homes | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
in England will be factored in for all kinds of social care, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
even though assets below ?100,000 will be protected. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
This is what happens when you have a government that | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
thinks it's going to win with an enormous majority. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Governments that have landslide majorities make bad decisions, | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
big mistakes and take people for granted. | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
Social care is devolved, decided separately in Wales, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Northern Ireland, and in Scotland, where her plans for the future | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
will be published in the manifesto tomorrow. | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
Theresa May, though, has been trying to make inroads | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
in areas that have been hostile to Tories for years. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
And don't forget, she's been trying to make this campaign | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Are you embarrassed by this U-turn, Prime Minister?! | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
The Prime Minister is adamant she has not budged on her principles, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
but she has made a big change to her plans published | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
For the first time in this general election campaign, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
The Tories say they are the only ones who are willing to be honest | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
Why was there no mention of a cap in the manifesto? | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
But if honesty is the best policy, seemingly, that involves | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
being ready, at short notice, to take your own plans apart. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
The idea of a cap, or limit, was first put forward | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
in a Government review, commissioned by David Cameron | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
It had been due to come into force last year | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, examines how | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
the Conservatives intend to tackle the challenge of | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
Pensioner Peter Martin is fulltime career for his | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
Limited savings mean they qualify for council help, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
OK, I'll make you another cup of tea, then. | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
Peter has spent the last few days trying to work out | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
what the Conservative care plans would mean for them. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
He believes they'd lose local authority help because the value | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
of their home would be included in calculations for the first time. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
At the moment, we're paying ?68 a month. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
And if the new system came into effect tomorrow, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
He says he finds little reassurance in the promise they could pay later. | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
He also wants more details on how a care cap would work. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Under the new system, I see only uncertainty. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
I see the money disappearing very quickly, the debt | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
And just a complete lack of certainty for the future. | :08:16. | :08:27. | |
So what would the Tory plans mean for people who need care? | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
At the moment, in England, anyone who has assets or savings | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
of more than about ?23,000 pays for their care. | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Last week in their manifesto, the Conservatives said | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
they'd increase that, allowing people to keep ?100,000. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
The value of their home would be included in the calculations | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
for both residential and home care, deferred payments would allow | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
the costs to be recouped from someone's estate after death. | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
But it is what was missing that has caused the controversy. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
No mention to the cap or limit to the massive costs someone | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
would still face before they got council help. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
Now Theresa May says they will consult on what she calls | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
an absolute limit, but doesn't say what that will be. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Sir Andrew Dilnot wrote the report which said a cap on care costs | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
was essential to help people plan ahead. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Worried by last week's proposals, he welcomes this change. | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
The proposals, as they were described last week, | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
failed to answer one of the two big questions | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
is everybody going to manage the risks that they face? | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
So people with last week's proposals were left with an enormous | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Putting a cap in place means that people will be able to manage it, | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
and that means this set of proposals is much better. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Many questions remain about the costs and details | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
of the plans, but for people like Peter and Doris, getting this | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Earlier this evening, the Prime Minister was asked again | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
to explain her thinking on social care, when she spoke | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
The principles on which we have based our social care policy remain | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
We need to ensure that we have long-term | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
We need to be able to ensure we can fund social care for the future. | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
We're doing the honest thing about putting a proposal | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
And they will make their choice on that. How could it be honest to | :10:34. | :10:45. | |
reject a cap in your manifesto and four days later say, we are going to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
have a cap? That is honest about that? I set out in our manifesto was | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
a series of principles to say to people, this is a big issue, will | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
need to address it and we being honest that we need to fix it and | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
that is what I want to do. I will not bury my head in the sand play | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
politics that Jeremy Corbyn. I'm going to fix it. | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is with me. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
This kind of absurd is not usual in a campaign of this kind. What impact | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
could it have on the Conservative campaign? Unusual for two reasons, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
because in living memory, there is no other main party leader who has | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
made a significant change to their published manifesto that they waved | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
in front of the cameras days after putting it out into the public | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
domain. It is also unusual because this is the first time in this | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
election campaign at least we have really seen Theresa May showing the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
pressure clearly being rattled and being exasperated by repeatedly | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
being asked the same straightforward questions and struggling to give | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
clear answers and is trying to wriggle out of a technique OT of | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
whether this is a change a lot. Denying this is a straightforward | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
U-turn, but this is a change to the plans put forward several days ago. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Theresa May and the Tories have clearly made the political | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
calculation was worse to suck up the political embarrassment of a day | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
like today rather than stick to a set of plans that could risk | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
serious, serious damage to their prospects. One Cabinet Minister | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
said, better deal with it now than risk it overtaking the whole | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
campaign. This is the problem, Theresa May has made this campaign | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
obviously and deliberately about questions of leadership. Her | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
resolve, her determination to make decisions and to stick to them. And | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
we have here an episode suggesting she is maybe quite a lot more | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
susceptible to pressure and her team and the rest of the Tory party would | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
have us believe. Again, thank you. A reminder - for all the latest | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
election news and analysis, And if you want to watch | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
all of Andrew Neil's interview with Theresa May, | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
you can do on the BBC iPlayer. NHS trusts in England will record | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
a deficit of around ?750 million The figures have been made public, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
despite the Government's insistence that they should not be published | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
during an election campaign, Our health editor, Hugh Pym, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
is here with more details. Tell us about well-being. -- tell us | :13:28. | :13:47. | |
about the figures. They are important figures about the state of | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
NHS finances in England and they were due out at the end of May but | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
the Department of Health and Brady told NHS leaders, you cannot publish | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
them because that would be a breach of Whitehall convention, restricting | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
government announcements. NHS leaders were not happy as tonight, | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
one organisation representing trusts and NHS providers has put out its | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
own estimate, saying there was a deficit of between 700 and ?750 | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
million, a big deficit but they say an improvement on the previous year | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
because of cutting agency staff bills. So this is an absurd position | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
that the public figures were not released until a couple of weeks but | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
versions have been doing the rounds tonight. Very much. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Labour says it will bring forward its pledge to scrap tuition | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
fees to include students starting university in England this autumn, | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Jeremy Corbyn also said that students, who are part-way | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
through their courses, would not have to pay | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
In Labour's attempt to reach out to young people, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Mr Corbyn also promised more investment in Britain's arts, | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
music, film and theatre, as our political correspondent, | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
In what used to be an old fruit and veg market, Jeremy Corbyn | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
upped his sales pitch to students in Hull. | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Labour had already promised to scrap tuition fees for English students | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
studying at English universities from next year. | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
Now he says students starting this year will be free of fees. | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Surely we should be investing in our future. | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
Somebody who doesn't achieve the profession they want - | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
nursing, teaching, medicine in some other form, engineering, - | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
whatever it happens to be, they lose out, but we, | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
as a society, lose out because we've lost a qualified person who can help | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
improve our industries, improve our services, | :15:38. | :15:38. | |
From this autumn, universities in England can charge up to ?9,250 | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Labour says new students and those part way through courses would have | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
The party claims this policy would cost the taxpayer | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
But the Tories, Lib Dems and those studying the numbers said the policy | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
would benefit better off graduates most of all. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
If you're a relatively low earner, you'll never pay back anything | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
like what you've borrowed and the whole thing gets | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
It's only the higher earners who pay it all back. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
So if you get rid of the tuition fees, then it's the highest earners | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
who benefit the most and the lowest earners don't benefit | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's on the stump today with one of Hull's heavy hitters, | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
But if Jeremy Corbyn's going to have a chance of getting | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
to Number Ten in just over two weeks, it's young voters he needs. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Today's policy is a clear attempt to woo them. | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Education is a devolved issue and Scottish students at Scottish | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
At the University of Hull today students weighed up the latest | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
have Concerned about how it's going to be funded. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Also concerned about Jeremy Corbyn on policies such as Trident. | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
I won't be voting Labour again unfortunately. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
I think it's going to go down really well with students. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
Labour policies are historically pretty popular with students. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
I think this will be absolutely no exception. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
At a rally here this evening, a rapturous | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
welcome for Jeremy Corbyn, but in this Labour-held city is | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
he just preaching to the converted or reaching new supporters? | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
President Trump, who's on a visit to Israel, | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
has demanded that Iran stop supporting what he called | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
He said there was a growing realisation in the Middle East | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
And he underlined the strength of the link between | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
the United States and Israel, suggesting there was a rare | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
opportunity to move forward with seeking peace | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, sent this report. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Even with his arrival on Air Force One, | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
a small piece of history was made - | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
the first-ever direct flight between Saudi Arabia and Israel. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
The two countries have no diplomatic relations. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
he's here on an outreach programme, not that Melania Trump seemed very | :18:13. | :18:25. | |
interested in that. The self-proclaimed deal maker is after | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
what he called the ultimate deal, peace between Israelis and | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
Palestinians. We have before us a rare opportunity to bring security | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
and stability and peace to this region and to its people, defeating | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
terrorism and creating a future of harmony, prosperity and peace. But | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
we can only get there working together. There is no other way. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
After the warmth of his reception in Saudi Arabia, it seemed the whole | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Israeli ruling cast had decamped to the airport to make a public display | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
of appreciation towards this country's most important ally. It | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
was then on to Jerusalem, a still divided city, whose future status | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
will be hotly contested Any Currency peace agreement. When Donald Trump | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
was a candidate, he vowed the US embassy would move from Tel Aviv to | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Jerusalem, now under pressure from the Palestinians that seems | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
increasingly unlikely. As a candidate, he had nothing to say | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
about settlement building in the West Bank. Now that he's president, | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
he's urging Israelis to be cautious. It seems that the candidate and the | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
president can be two different people. But symbols can be as | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
important as words. It won't have been lost on Israelis that Donald | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Trump became the first president to visit the western wall, one of | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
Judaism's most holy site. He put a note in a crevice, a tradition going | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
back centuries. The Trump mission to bring together the three great | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This evening, Donald | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Trump went to have dinner at the Israeli Prime Minister's residence | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
and Benjamin Netanyahu was sounding unusually upbeat and positive about | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
the future prospects. For the first time in many years, and Mr | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
President, for the first time in my life tip, I see a real hope for | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
change. But in the West Bank, talk of change and new beginnings seemed | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
as far away as ever, as Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
protesters, some clearly unhappy about the president's visit. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Jerusalem. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
What are your impressions of this visit so far? First of all, the | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
comments about Iran. Things which will go down very well with the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Israelis and the Saudis, the reality is that President Trump continues to | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
honour the nuclear agreement with the Iranians. Now Iran and Israel | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
have been drawn together by their shared feeling that Iran is an | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
enemy. Now that is unlikely, I mean, I beg your pardon, Saudi Arabia and | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Israel have been drawn together by a shared feeling that Iran as an | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
enemy. I think that is very unlikely to translate into Saudi Arabia | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
taking up Israel's positions on the Palestinians. The Saudis already | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
have a peace plan of their own that's been on the table for 15 | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
years, offering full peace and recognition by Arab countries of | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Israel in return for a Palestinian state in the whole of the west bank | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
and east Jerusalem. The Israeli government is way away from | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
accepting anything like that. Also, the Palestinians and Israeli | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
leaderships really dislike and distrust each other. That's another | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
big problem. So President Trump thinks he's a deal maker with the | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
personality to cut through the kinds of problems that have defeated | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
lesser men. Now I think that the whole point about what's going on | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
here, it's not like trying to fix the price of an office building. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
It's not about trying to get the numbers right. It's about reck | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
numbers right. It's about reconciling the world views with | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
very different perceptions about the way ahead. Jermey Bowen there, our | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Middle East editor there in Jerusalem. | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
Facebook says it takes very seriously its responsibility | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
to monitor offensive material posted on its pages, after leaked documents | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
showed its policy is not to remove all graphic content, | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
The live-streaming of people self-harming is also tolerated, | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
because Facebook says it doesn't want to censor or punish | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Our media editor, Amol Rajan, has more details. | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
The founder of Facebook is nothing if not an idealist. Facebook's | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
mission is to make the world more open and connected. But such | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
openness comes with dangers. With nearly two billion users now, the | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
sheer volume of content on Facebook is proving impossible to control. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
The leaked policy guidelines refer to areas such as extremist violence, | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
revenge porn and self-harm. Moderators are required to intervene | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
when there is a statement of intent to commit violence against an | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
identified and vulnerable person. So a specific threat targeted against | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
the American president would be deleted. But a more general | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
expression of massive such as this would not. These guidelines show | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
that the soon to be 7500 moderators who work for Facebook are often | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
making hugely important decisions under immense time pressure. But the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
reporter behind the story says it's just too big a responsibility. We | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
realise what the extent and breadth of the problems that Facebook has, | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
everything from racial problems on the site to revenge porn. There's no | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
way that Mark Zuckerberg would have thought 14 years ago that Facebook | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
would have been facing those issues in 2017. A former Facebook staffer | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
says its role is not to be the asher of what is and isn't offence itch | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
material. -- arbitor. It's not a bunch of people making it up as they | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
go along. Over many years, this rule book has been built up as new social | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
problems come along, new users come along. The company says, "We work | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
hard to make Facebook as safe as possible while enabling Free Speech. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
In addition to investing in new people, we're building better tools | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
to keep our community safe." Amy Wilson, who has self-harmed in the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
past, was upset when asked by Facebook to remove images of her | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
healing wounds. She believes such images can symbolise recovery. But | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
the images of people in crisis should never be shown. I don't think | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
photos of actual self-harm and somebody doing it on the live | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
streams or photos of wounds, I don't think they should be shown at all. I | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
don't understand how there could be any positive in it. Facebook say | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
they work with law enforcement to save lives. But all this is | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
uncharted terrain, neither a simple platform nor conventional publisher, | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
technology giants are a new kind of company growing so fast that the law | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
and public opinion is struggling keep up. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
President Trump's former National Security Advisor, | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
Michael Flynn, will reportedly refuse to give evidence | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
to a Congressional committee, investigating alleged Russian links | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
He's been summoned to give evidence to the inquiry but is expected | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which gives him the right not | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
A prison psychiatrist, who until last month | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
worked at Woodhill Prison in Buckinghamshire, has told BBC | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
News that safety improvements were not made following a series | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
of suicides, because there was a shortage of staff. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Since 2013, 18 inmates have died at Woodhill Prison. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
According to official figures, there were 120 suicides in jails | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
in England and Wales in 2016 - a record number. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Campaigners will find out tomorrow if the High Court is to order | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Our correspondent, Michael Buchanan, has the story. | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
18 prisoners have killed themselves at Woodhill since 2013. | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
Levels of assault and violence are also rising. | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
The prison is chronically understaffed. | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
Inmates can be locked up for 23 hours a day. | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
What does that do to you, to be locked up for that amount of time? | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Well, it has a big impact on you mentally. | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
It can give you serious mental health issues. | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
Jamie Blyth has been in and out of Woodhill for the past 12 years. | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Everyone can break and I was at breaking point, like. | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
And obviously, my brother hit that point and now he's gone. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
His brother, Daniel, killed himself in prison last year. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
An inquest jury found Woodhill's failure to learn from previous | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Jamie was in a neighbouring cell block at the time. | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
He has known seven of the 18 prisoners who have died here. | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
We're getting the wrong type of staff. | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
Like, where we used to get all the old ex-forces and that, | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
guys that were, you know, could be annoying and hard to be | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
around, but they were straight and you where you stand with them. | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
We're getting a lot of people that I don't think are meant for the job. | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Campaigners will learn tomorrow if judges are willing to order | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
They argued before the High Court last month that the prison had | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
failed to fulfil previous promises to make the jail safer. | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
Their concerns about Woodhill come amid record levels of prison | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Since 2012, the number of prison officers has | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
During the same period, the number of prison suicides | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
I remember going home and saying, my job has become insane! | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
Elisabeth van Horn worked as a psychiatrist at Woodhill | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
She resigned, frustrated at the challenges she faced. | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
There've been a number of inquests after suicides saying that | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
You can only get things done if you've got the workforce to do it. | :28:32. | :28:45. | |
So was the prison regime itself creating mental health problems? | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
Particularly for people with pre-existing mental health problems. | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
That's a sort of added burden that they really cannot cope with. | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
Nearly ?1 billion has been taken out of the prisons and probation | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
budget in recent years, but ministers now say they're | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
looking to recruit 2,500 new prison officers. | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
Prison suicides don't elicit widespread sympathy, but each one | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
And each avoidable death also blunts the argument that prison works | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Woodhill Prison in Buckinghamshire. | :29:17. | :29:28. | |
A promise to campaign for a referendum on the final Brexit | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
deal features prominently in the manifesto of the Green Party | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
The co-leader, Caroline Lucas, who was the party's only MP before | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
the election was called, set out what she called | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
a Green Guarantee, including a universal basic income | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports. | :29:43. | :29:51. | |
The Greens are a party with not just one but two leaders. | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
In Central London today, they set out what they called | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
big and bold ideas, which they insisted were possible. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
This election is about what kind of future we want for our children. | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
It is about protecting our values of openness, | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
It's about our promise that a confident and caring future | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
is possible, if we work together, if we do politics differently | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
The party's policies include holding a second referendum | :30:20. | :30:26. | |
They want to explore having a universal basic income | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
Plus, they've got a long-term aim to scrap university tuition fees | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
in England and all existing student loan debt. | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
They're defending one seat but hoping to win over voters | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
I feel like a lot of Green supporters are now maybe going more | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
Labour because Labour have maybe more of a chance. | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
I wouldn't personally vote for the Green Party. | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
But I can see them becoming a force in the future | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
The Greens say they're standing up for young people | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
and the environment, but they're standing aside in more | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
seats than they're likely to win in the hope that it will help Labour | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
Pushing for a progressive alliance with other parties on the left has | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
led to criticism they'll end up in a coalition of chaos. | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
To do that, they first need to get located. | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
Sinn Fein has launched its general election manifesto, | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
which is calling for a referendum on whether Northern Ireland should | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
leave the UK and become part of the Irish Republic. | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
The party wants the vote to be held within five years. | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
Sinn Fein's leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill, | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
said the only way of securing a future in the European Union | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
was to end partition with the Republic. | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
So this is very much an opportunity to tell both the Tories and the DUP, | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
again, in the strongest possible terms that we reject Brexit, | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
that we reject any border, that we reject any attempt to put | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
limits on our freedom of movement, we reject barriers to trade | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
And we absolutely reject Tory cuts, that we stand | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
for rights, for equality and for Irish unity. | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
One of the most recognised and imitated images in the world, | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
known as The Great Wave, was originally a woodblock print | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
created by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai almost | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
It is the centrepiece of a show, that opens this week | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
at the British Museum, looking at the last decades | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
of the artist's long life, when he produced some | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, has been to take a look. | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
It's emblematic of the power of the sea. | :32:49. | :32:58. | |
You've got these men in their boats completely dwarfed | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
But I think it's also become in some ways emblematic | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
And you're immediately aware of this almost frozen power of the image | :33:10. | :33:18. | |
and I've come to think that maybe Hokusai is actually inventing | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
When Hokusai made his famous series of wood block prints | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
featuring Mount Fuji, he was around 70, old for | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
He considered it a new beginning of his life as an artist | :33:32. | :33:37. | |
At the age of 75 he takes the name Old Man Crazy To Paint | :33:38. | :33:45. | |
which is wonderful, I think it's an expression of this | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
He is determined, the older he gets, the better he will become. | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
From the age of 90, there is an extraordinary painting | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
Technically this is a staggering painting and Hokusai has this | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
all worked out in his head before he ever touches his brush to paper. | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
You can't make corrections with this kind of painting, | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
it's not like an oil painting where you can scrub a bit | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
You've got to get it right the first time. | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
What is it about his work that makes it resonate so? | :34:18. | :34:24. | |
He's interested in the world of work. | :34:25. | :34:26. | |
Ordinary people going about their business | :34:27. | :34:28. | |
in sometimes amazing nature, sometimes in the city of Edo. | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
It's not the really grand people he tends to paint, it's us. | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
We know Hokusai was a great master who influenced the likes | :34:38. | :34:39. | |
of van Gogh and Degas, but what this exhibition also shows | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
is that old age doesn't necessarily mean a slow decline, | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
rather a fresh start and unleashing of creative powers and a time | :34:46. | :34:48. | |
Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two, here's Even. | :34:49. | :35:02. | |
An awkward day for the Tories altering a manifesto policy on | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
social care, that was only four days old. What does it tell us about | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
Theresa May? We'll hear what one of the Daily Mail's most senior | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
columnists makes of it. Join me now on BBC Two. | :35:18. | :35:19. | |
Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :35:20. | :35:23. |