0:00:05 > 0:00:08Patients are dying prematurely in hospital corridors -
0:00:08 > 0:00:09the stark warning to the Prime Minister from
0:00:09 > 0:00:13dozens of senior doctors.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16They've written to Theresa May saying safety is being compromised
0:00:16 > 0:00:18at some A&E units in England and Wales, and conditions
0:00:18 > 0:00:22are at times intolerable.
0:00:22 > 0:00:27There is a clear emergency and what a number of other observers
0:00:27 > 0:00:30have clearly described as a crisis.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33The doctors' warning comes with A&E waiting time levels in England
0:00:33 > 0:00:36and Wales amongst the worst since records began.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Also on tonight's programme.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Dealing with plastic pollution - the government promises to eliminate
0:00:41 > 0:00:46all avoidable plastic waste by 2042.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Still searching for survivors - rescue dogs are brought
0:00:49 > 0:00:53in to look for the missing, after California's deadly mudslides.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55A mixed bag of Christmas results on the high street -
0:00:55 > 0:00:58with some winners and big losers.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59I'm 22 years old.
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0:01:02 > 0:01:05The famous video blogger punished by YouTube -
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0:01:08 > 0:01:12of followers.
0:01:12 > 0:01:17The New York Times was barred from publishing any more classified
0:01:17 > 0:01:19And Steven Spielberg's new film on Nixon and the press,
0:01:19 > 0:01:21and why the director sees echoes of Donald Trump.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26Anybody that offends, you know, there is a label that is immediately
0:01:26 > 0:01:28attached to them which is called, well that can't be true
0:01:28 > 0:01:32because they're all fake news.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36And coming up on Sportsday on BBC News, slam dunks and Celtics -
0:01:36 > 0:01:44the bright lights of the NBA hits London again this evening.
0:02:01 > 0:02:02Good evening.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Dozens of senior doctors who run Accident and Emergency departments
0:02:05 > 0:02:09in England and Wales have written a stark letter to the Prime Minister
0:02:09 > 0:02:13warning that patients are dying prematurely in hospital corridors
0:02:13 > 0:02:16and conditions are at times "intolerable".
0:02:16 > 0:02:19They say thousands of patients are left in the back of ambulances
0:02:19 > 0:02:21waiting to get into A&E.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24And very high rates of flu recently mean that some hospitals
0:02:24 > 0:02:26are running out of beds.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31Today, there's fresh evidence of the pressure A&E units are under.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35More than 300,000 patients waited longer than they should in December.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39Staff managed to see 85% of patients within four hours -
0:02:39 > 0:02:43that's well below the 95% target - and some of the worst figures
0:02:43 > 0:02:44since records began.
0:02:44 > 0:02:50Our health editor Hugh Pym reports.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53A long wait in an overcrowded A&E unit, that's what 87-year-old
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Yvonne had to endure.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59It was ten hours before she saw a doctor, and hours more before
0:02:59 > 0:03:01she was admitted to a ward.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Her daughter, Esther, used her scarf to secure her in a wheelchair,
0:03:04 > 0:03:08because for some of the time, there was no trolley.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12It was just heaving with ambulances, ambulance drivers, patients
0:03:12 > 0:03:14on the ambulance trolleys, and it was literally wall-to-wall,
0:03:14 > 0:03:22both sides, corridors just full of patients.
0:03:23 > 0:03:28It was like, "Gosh, how long is it going to take us to get through?"
0:03:28 > 0:03:30And with scenes like this filmed by a patient,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33senior A&E doctors say they're so concerned they've written
0:03:33 > 0:03:38to the Prime Minister setting out some of their own experiences.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Over 120 patients a day managed in corridors,
0:03:41 > 0:03:45some dying prematurely, an average of 10-12 hours
0:03:45 > 0:03:50for a decision to admit a patient until they are transferred to a bed
0:03:50 > 0:03:53and patients sleeping in clinics as make-shift wards.
0:03:53 > 0:04:00They say NHS winter planning failed to deliver what was needed.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02There is no doubt that our emergency departments are facing
0:04:02 > 0:04:05the biggest crisis that we have had for over 15 years.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08We absolutely must work together as system leaders at every level
0:04:08 > 0:04:13in order to find both short-term and medium-term solutions.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15The Prime Minister insisted again there had been extensive measures
0:04:15 > 0:04:18to prepare for winter.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20For the first time ever, urgent GP appointments
0:04:20 > 0:04:24being available throughout the Christmas period,
0:04:24 > 0:04:28that was a decision taken to improve the service for people but also
0:04:28 > 0:04:31to ensure that the NHS had that better capacity to deal
0:04:31 > 0:04:34with these winter pressures.
0:04:34 > 0:04:41For the opposition, the problem is really about funding.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Money's got to go in now, but it should have gone in earlier.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Even if the Chancellor announced billions today,
0:04:46 > 0:04:50you can't spend it all by tomorrow.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53While the debate goes on, Rosie can only reflect
0:04:53 > 0:04:58on a humiliating experience in A&E.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00She was in severe pain because of a gynecological problem
0:05:00 > 0:05:02and was bleeding heavily but she was examined
0:05:02 > 0:05:04in a crowded corridor.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06I think I was trolley number 12.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09And there were trolleys, then, all the way up.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12You can't see to someone's dignity, you can't ensure that they're having
0:05:12 > 0:05:15a private conversation and that if they break down in tears,
0:05:15 > 0:05:23which, I think I did, I'm pretty sure that I cried as well
0:05:23 > 0:05:25but you can't look into anybody's right to privacy
0:05:25 > 0:05:27or anything like that.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31At some hospitals like Ipswich they say careful planning paid off
0:05:31 > 0:05:36and though staff were stretched, they coped with the pressures.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41At times over the really busy New Year period there were trolleys
0:05:41 > 0:05:44down the corridor here but at this A&E unit things do seem to have
0:05:44 > 0:05:46calmed a little this week, with fewer patients coming
0:05:46 > 0:05:48through the front door of the hospital, though no-one's
0:05:48 > 0:05:54complacent about what the weeks ahead may bring.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56The medical director told me that flu was a significant concern.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59We've worked very well to get our staff vaccinated
0:05:59 > 0:06:02but we're not at all complacent.
0:06:02 > 0:06:10I think the next two months are going to be a challenging time.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12We are looking still to get flu vaccinations for vulnerable
0:06:12 > 0:06:14patients and staff members and the battle isn't over.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17And with the latest figures showing the highest numbers of flu
0:06:17 > 0:06:19figures in seven years, health leaders call for vaccinations
0:06:19 > 0:06:22for NHS staff to be compulsory.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26Some hospitals have greater than 90% vaccinations
0:06:26 > 0:06:30for their health workers, others less than 20%.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33This has to be an issue of leadership but we need people
0:06:33 > 0:06:37in the health care sector to protect their patients.
0:06:37 > 0:06:41We have a duty of care to our patients.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Flu's been an even bigger problem for Scotland's hospitals,
0:06:45 > 0:06:47a teenager died after catching the virus which developed
0:06:47 > 0:06:50into pneumonia.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Scotland and Wales as well as England have missed A&E
0:06:52 > 0:06:57waiting time targets.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00One answer, say the consultants in their letter, is a big increase
0:07:00 > 0:07:03in social care funding to allow more patients to leave hospitals to be
0:07:03 > 0:07:04cared for in the community.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08It's a debate gaining momentum as the NHS's bleak winter continues.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13Hugh Pym, BBC News.
0:07:13 > 0:07:19Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is in Westminster.
0:07:19 > 0:07:23Certainly a very stark letter to the Prime Minister from these very
0:07:23 > 0:07:27senior doctors. Politically, how awkward is this for the government?
0:07:27 > 0:07:30This isn't the first government that's had to grapple with these
0:07:30 > 0:07:33agonising pressures on the health service in the winter and they are
0:07:33 > 0:07:37not the first government to have been around and in charge when a
0:07:37 > 0:07:41conversation about the longer term needs and sustainability of the NHS
0:07:41 > 0:07:45has done the rounds at this time of year. However, there does seem to be
0:07:45 > 0:07:50something a bit different this year, not just because of how stark
0:07:50 > 0:07:54warnings are, how awful the experiences of some patients that
0:07:54 > 0:07:58are emerging have been, but because there is a mood in the Tory party,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01the governing party, there are more and more voices speaking out,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05raising the question of whether or not the current model can last
0:08:05 > 0:08:10without some significant change. Either in how we pay for it, or in a
0:08:10 > 0:08:15significant extra amount of cash going in. Now Number Ten and number
0:08:15 > 0:08:1911 of course who are in charge of the money, are not yet in a place
0:08:19 > 0:08:21either publicly or behind closed doors where they would acknowledge
0:08:21 > 0:08:27that something does have to budge, but it's well worth noting that the
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who remember Fort and won the battle to
0:08:31 > 0:08:36stay in his job this week, said MPs in the House of Commons, not just
0:08:36 > 0:08:39that he would quite like to have a 10-year funding deal for the health
0:08:39 > 0:08:46service, but that in the coming years significantly cash,
0:08:46 > 0:08:49significantly more money would have to go into the health service. Now,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53plenty of debates and conversations about the long-term model, should
0:08:53 > 0:08:56there be radical change, have frankly hit the buffers, but there
0:08:56 > 0:09:00is a sense round here right now that perhaps in the coming months the
0:09:00 > 0:09:05political pressure on the government's position in the NHS is
0:09:05 > 0:09:08going to build and build and something might have to give.What
0:09:08 > 0:09:12the Prime Minister did want to talk about today was in fact the
0:09:12 > 0:09:16environment?yes, very telling. Theresa May's first big speech of
0:09:16 > 0:09:22this first New Year was basically her message to say, if you will want
0:09:22 > 0:09:27to go green, you have to vote blue. She launched the government's big
0:09:27 > 0:09:32environmental plan to cover the next 25 years today. Top of her hit list,
0:09:32 > 0:09:36a crackdown on plastics, with the environment now seeming to be one of
0:09:36 > 0:09:40her top political priorities.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42What do you think I should look for?
0:09:42 > 0:09:45A grand vision, we were promised, a plan to look after the spaces
0:09:45 > 0:09:48around us for years to come, and the Prime Minister trying
0:09:48 > 0:09:50to spot political opportunity, too.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52The environment is something personal to each of us but is also
0:09:52 > 0:09:58something which collectively we hold in trust for the next generation,
0:09:58 > 0:10:04and we have a responsibility to protect and enhance it.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06Top of the list, cleaning up plastics that harm
0:10:06 > 0:10:10wildlife on land and sea, more charges for plastic bags,
0:10:10 > 0:10:14possible taxes on containers, encouraging shops to use less.
0:10:14 > 0:10:20But over time, a long time, with no new law to underline the change.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23In years to come, I think people will be shocked at how today
0:10:23 > 0:10:27we allow so much plastic to be produced needlessly.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31This truly is one of the great environmental scourges of our time.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34So we will take action at every stage of the production
0:10:34 > 0:10:37and consumption of plastic.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40You're talking about ideas that will take place over 25 years
0:10:40 > 0:10:42with no legal guarantees.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46If actions speak louder than words, do you really believe this problem
0:10:46 > 0:10:48is acute and urgent?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51This is an inspiring plan, it is a long-term plan,
0:10:51 > 0:10:54it's about the next 25 years.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56But it's a plan that speaks to everybody who has
0:10:56 > 0:10:59an interest in our environment.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Everybody who wants to ensure that future generations are able to enjoy
0:11:02 > 0:11:05a beautiful environment and a beautiful place
0:11:05 > 0:11:10in which to live.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14Looking on, alongside the white-faced whistling ducks,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16green campaigners pleased there is a plan.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19But not quite convinced that a government that also believes
0:11:19 > 0:11:24in fracking and building high-speed rail really means it.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27The problem about talking about a 25-year plan right now,
0:11:27 > 0:11:30in the absence of hard measures about what they will do
0:11:30 > 0:11:32here and now, is this is a government where most
0:11:32 > 0:11:35commentators question if it will last 25 months,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38or possibly even 25 days.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40What we need is to know what are the actions happening
0:11:40 > 0:11:43in 2018 to make a difference.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Theresa May says conservation and Conservatism have
0:11:46 > 0:11:49always gone hand in hand, but this isn't just
0:11:49 > 0:11:54about principles, or policy, or this new environment plan,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56it's also about politics and how the Tories fell back
0:11:56 > 0:11:59at the general election.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03Anxious that millions of younger voters turned to Labour then,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07the Tories have tried to detox their image with those
0:12:07 > 0:12:09groups, greening their credentials, banning microbeads, plans to end
0:12:09 > 0:12:11the sale of ivory.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13What does Labour make of the plastics plan?
0:12:13 > 0:12:1525 years is far too long.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18The plastic culture has to be challenged.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22The throw-away society culture has to be challenged and the pollution
0:12:22 > 0:12:25of our rivers and our seas by plastic waste is
0:12:25 > 0:12:28absolutely dreadful.
0:12:28 > 0:12:34The Prime Minister believes her promise is the right one to make.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Her hope - to create a habitat more friendly to her political breed.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News.
0:12:42 > 0:12:49Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin joins me now.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Plastics and dealing with them is what has grabbed the headlines, but
0:12:52 > 0:12:56what the Prime Minister announced today was much broader and ambitious
0:12:56 > 0:13:01plans to improve our environment. Its ironic she focused on plastics
0:13:01 > 0:13:05because that's one of the weakest areas of the document she produced
0:13:05 > 0:13:09today. If she wants to be a world leader in plastics, which she says
0:13:09 > 0:13:12she does, maybe someone should have told her that Bangladesh banned
0:13:12 > 0:13:17plastic bags back in 2002. We are lagging in the UK behind many
0:13:17 > 0:13:22African countries in that. Having said that, she has set the tone for
0:13:22 > 0:13:25government, one that we haven't seen before. Ministers have been nervous
0:13:25 > 0:13:29about talking about the environment. The plan itself is in many ways
0:13:29 > 0:13:33really quite radical. It talks about not just holding the environment
0:13:33 > 0:13:38study, which governments have tried to do before, but actually improving
0:13:38 > 0:13:41it, improving wild flowers, which are almost down to 2% now of their
0:13:41 > 0:13:46previous range, in improving forests and rivers, perhaps bringing more
0:13:46 > 0:13:50greenery back to people's playgrounds, children's playgrounds,
0:13:50 > 0:13:54bringing the environment into people's lives. All that looks
0:13:54 > 0:13:58radical. Some caveats. Nothing on how they will reduce CO2 emissions
0:13:58 > 0:14:03in line with the Paris agreement and that crucial caveat, no underpinning
0:14:03 > 0:14:08by law, no firm policies, no money, nice pictures of bunnies but it
0:14:08 > 0:14:13could be on the shelf within a year. Roger Harrabin, thank you.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18The former Ukip leader Nigel Farage says he's on the verge of supporting
0:14:18 > 0:14:21a second referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23He said a second vote to leave could "kill off" the Remain
0:14:23 > 0:14:25campaign for a generation.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27He said he thought the leave vote would be even higher
0:14:27 > 0:14:30if there were another poll.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has joined with other
0:14:32 > 0:14:35European foreign ministers to call on Donald Trump not to reintroduce
0:14:35 > 0:14:38sanctions against Iran.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41Mr Johnson said the current arrangement was the best way
0:14:41 > 0:14:45of stopping Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, and no one had yet come up
0:14:45 > 0:14:49with a better diplomatic solution.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Dominic Chappell, who was in charge of BHS when it went bust in 2016,
0:14:53 > 0:14:56has been found guilty on three charges of failing to provide
0:14:56 > 0:14:59information demanded by the Pensions Regulator.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02The scheme had 19,000 members and a shortfall
0:15:02 > 0:15:06of £571 million when BHS collapsed.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09He'll be sentenced at a later date.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Lingerie company Rigby & Peller said it was "deeply saddened"
0:15:12 > 0:15:15at losing its most prestigious customer - the Queen.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19It had held the royal warrant since 1960.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21But the decision to cancel it came after the retailer's
0:15:21 > 0:15:28director wrote a book - Storm In A D-Cup -
0:15:28 > 0:15:30revealing details of life inside Buckingham Palace.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Shares in Marks and Spencer dropped sharply today after the retailer
0:15:33 > 0:15:35posted disappointing Christmas results, with falls in both
0:15:35 > 0:15:36food and clothing sales.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40But there was good news for Tesco and for some more recent arrivals
0:15:40 > 0:15:42on the retail scene, as our Business Correspondent
0:15:42 > 0:15:50Emma Simpson reports.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52The show's over, we've moved on, but the Christmas
0:15:52 > 0:15:55story for retailers is only now becoming clear.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00So who are some of the winners and losers?
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Tesco's done well with sales up today, so have many
0:16:02 > 0:16:04of the other grocers.
0:16:04 > 0:16:09But food sales, usually a bright spot for Marks & Spencer,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12went into reverse, and there have been profit warnings at Debenhams,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Mothercare and Moss Bros.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Things are certainly more challenging here on
0:16:16 > 0:16:18the High Street.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Take House of Fraser, a business under pressure,
0:16:21 > 0:16:27it saw another fall in sales today.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31And you don't have to go far to see how the gap between the weaker and
0:16:31 > 0:16:34the stronger players is widening.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Here at John Lewis, it had no problems.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38Pulling customers in.
0:16:38 > 0:16:43It's one of the winners today.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45There's a sort of slight air of caution about people's attitudes.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47They're not coming in for all sorts.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51For perfectly understandable reasons.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54But there is demand there, you just have to go and find it and you have
0:16:54 > 0:16:57to create the conditions where people want things and of course
0:16:57 > 0:16:59that comes to down to having fabulous products.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01And it actually means you have to be outstanding
0:17:01 > 0:17:03at online and shops.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Boohoo is a small but fast-growing online retailer,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07which is doing very nicely without shops.
0:17:07 > 0:17:13...And is expecting to grow sales by 90% this year.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17But some are predicting problems for the High
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Street ahead.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24This is going to be the year of retail distress.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28We've already seen bits of distress percolating through
0:17:28 > 0:17:31even before Christmas and I think that the weaker players are going to
0:17:31 > 0:17:34find it too tough to really survive.
0:17:34 > 0:17:40It's been a season of mixed fortunes for retailers.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44The New Year heralds the clearance sales and some
0:17:44 > 0:17:49uncertainty about what 2018 will bring.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53Emma Simpson, BBC News.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Hundreds of rescuers are using helicopters,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58search dogs and thermal imaging equipment to try to find 8 people
0:17:58 > 0:18:00who are still missing in California after the devastating
0:18:00 > 0:18:03mudslides on Tuesday.
0:18:03 > 0:18:0617 people are known to have died after a torrent of mud carrying
0:18:06 > 0:18:08boulders the size of small cars smashed through the
0:18:08 > 0:18:09town of Montecito.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11More than 500 homes have been damaged or destroyed.
0:18:11 > 0:18:19James Cook is there for us.
0:18:19 > 0:18:27James? Yes, Sophie, we have details, in the past few seconds, the police
0:18:27 > 0:18:32released the name of all 17 of those who confirmeded to have died.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36Including four children, aged, three, six, attendant twelve and the
0:18:36 > 0:18:42oldest person to have been killed so far, an 89-year-old man. There seems
0:18:42 > 0:18:46little hope of finding more survivors from the terrible tragedy.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50We've been getting details about the harrowing moment when the mud
0:18:50 > 0:18:55landslide roared down this mountain in the dead of night.
0:18:55 > 0:18:56Turn around!
0:18:56 > 0:18:58The flash flood is right there!
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Get out of here, go!
0:18:59 > 0:19:00This was the moment it began.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Oh, my God, Mom!
0:19:01 > 0:19:03And then panic.
0:19:03 > 0:19:09Close the door!
0:19:09 > 0:19:11It was a million miles an hour in slow motion,
0:19:11 > 0:19:13if that makes sense.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I clicked into survival gear, survival mode.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Wake Dad up!
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Every second, it is just roaring and banging against the house
0:19:22 > 0:19:28and the most vicious and violent sounds you have ever heard.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Montecito is only just beginning to grasp the scale of the disaster
0:19:30 > 0:19:32which will bear its name.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35For this idyllic little town of just 9000 people,
0:19:35 > 0:19:41recovery will be long and hard.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43People walked their dogs through here, there are trails,
0:19:43 > 0:19:46my kids have grown up riding their bikes.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Noelle Strogoff fled with her three children just before the storm.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52But many of her neighbours did not.
0:19:52 > 0:19:57Two young boys were swept out of their home,
0:19:57 > 0:19:59along with their mother in the middle of the night.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01And the dog is gone.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03And they're lucky to be fine.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06It is like a war zone here.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08There are homes that are just missing.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11And I walk down the street and I see balls, and toys,
0:20:11 > 0:20:12and bicycles and shoes and socks.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13And knives and hammers.
0:20:13 > 0:20:21It's like people's lives are just washed to the ocean.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23Much of that debris ended up clogging the main coastal motorway.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26We were told the people in this car escaped.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Above the town, the scorched hills are scarred by rivers of mud.
0:20:30 > 0:20:35Well, the mudslide came roaring down here,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38sweeping everything before it and if you want to know how houses
0:20:38 > 0:20:44can be swept from their foundations so easily, well, this is the answer.
0:20:44 > 0:20:49Just look at the size of the boulders that were pushed
0:20:49 > 0:20:52down from the mountains.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55To drive through this little town is to be stunned by the
0:20:55 > 0:20:58power of this mudslide.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Southern California was once famed for its
0:21:02 > 0:21:03agreeable climate.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05These days, it reels from drought, fire and flood.
0:21:05 > 0:21:13James Cook, BBC News, Montecito.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16Personality disorder - it affects more than three million
0:21:16 > 0:21:19people in the UK and costs the NHS around £10 billion a year.
0:21:19 > 0:21:20Now health professionals are demanding better access
0:21:20 > 0:21:23to treatment for those affected saying that one in 10 people
0:21:23 > 0:21:25diagnosed with it end up taking their own lives.
0:21:25 > 0:21:33Our Home Editor Mark Easton reports.
0:21:37 > 0:21:43I'd seen bar codes on the back of my victim's neck, that were sending
0:21:43 > 0:21:46messages to me, telling me to poison her.
0:21:46 > 0:21:53It was only when Kathleen was moved from a mental clinic, after being
0:21:53 > 0:21:57accused of trying to poison a work colleague, she was finally diagnosed
0:21:57 > 0:22:01with a mental disorder. It is one of the darkest places in
0:22:01 > 0:22:07my head, I have ever been. I would have preferred death to that.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12Kathleen tried to control a lifetime of chronic self-harm and suicidal
0:22:12 > 0:22:19thoughts, she is not cured. But part of her therapy is helping the NHS
0:22:19 > 0:22:22getting people with personality disorder into treatment.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26People are waiting months and months and months for treatment and these
0:22:26 > 0:22:30people are dying waiting, Mark. Because they could kill themselves?
0:22:30 > 0:22:34It has happened to a lot of my friends, I'm afraid.
0:22:34 > 0:22:40What is a personality disorder? A mental diagnosis with two common
0:22:40 > 0:22:47types, border line or emotional unstable personality disorder,
0:22:47 > 0:22:52involving disturbed ways of thinking and problem in solving emotion, Many
0:22:52 > 0:22:57kill themselves. Anti-social personality disorder disorder is
0:22:57 > 0:23:03similar. Around 70% of the prison population are thought to have PD. A
0:23:03 > 0:23:08decade ago, mental health campaigners were trying to convince
0:23:08 > 0:23:14that personality disorder existed, even now some psychiatrists question
0:23:14 > 0:23:20if it is a mental illness. But there is a big change on the estimated
0:23:20 > 0:23:23three million people with the disorder should get.
0:23:23 > 0:23:27Sometimes it may be appropriate... This treatment in group in wind
0:23:27 > 0:23:34isson agreed to let us witness the way that therapy helps them deal
0:23:34 > 0:23:38with problematic behaviour, linked to a past trauma.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43Passively suicidal all the time.You are self-destructive and push
0:23:43 > 0:23:50everyone away. It's been a lifetime of depression,
0:23:50 > 0:23:56trauma, sexual abuse, rape...You lose a sense of wanting to survive.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Sometimes doing the simple things can be the hardest thing in the
0:23:59 > 0:24:04world. You can't help it sometimes. Unfortunately, people with
0:24:04 > 0:24:08personality disorder, what hits the headlines is often violent
0:24:08 > 0:24:10behaviour. They see them as bad people?
0:24:10 > 0:24:16Absolutely. That then adds to the problem of those people are not
0:24:16 > 0:24:21offered the treatment that they may need.They are, I think, the most
0:24:21 > 0:24:27let down group of people within the NHS.Today in the Houses of
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Parliament, campaigners and health professionals launched a consensus
0:24:31 > 0:24:36statement, demanding help for people with PD. NHS England says getting
0:24:36 > 0:24:40people the help that they need close to home is at the heart of their
0:24:40 > 0:24:43plans. We need early intervention asking
0:24:43 > 0:24:48people when younger, what happened to you, how can we help? Giving them
0:24:48 > 0:24:52tools and skills to help them manage their live, emotions and
0:24:52 > 0:24:57relationships. Like Katherine and others diagnosed
0:24:57 > 0:25:02with it, personality disorder does not conform to traditional labels.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06It causes untold misery and country beauties to countless tragic early
0:25:06 > 0:25:10deaths. It is surely time we helped to understand it better.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12It is surely time we helped to understand it better.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Details of organisations offering information and support with mental
0:25:14 > 0:25:16health are available at: bbc.co.uk/actionline,
0:25:16 > 0:25:23or you can call for free on: 08000 564 756.
0:25:23 > 0:25:27YouTube has cut business ties with the video blogger Logan Paul -
0:25:27 > 0:25:29after he posted video appearing to show the body
0:25:29 > 0:25:31of a suicide victim.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33Logan Paul, whose channel has 15 million subscribers,
0:25:33 > 0:25:36subsequently apologised for the video, which was filmed
0:25:36 > 0:25:39on a location in Japan.
0:25:39 > 0:25:45Here's our Media Editor Amol Rajan.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48We're going to take a break from vlogging and take
0:25:48 > 0:25:51a break from each other.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Low budget, confessional and often astonishingly popular.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57This couple announced they were breaking up on YouTube
0:25:57 > 0:26:01in a video seen 15 million times.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03If I can do it, you can do it, for sure.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06They're part of a phenomenon called vlogging, or video blogging,
0:26:06 > 0:26:11very often on Google-owned YouTube.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14This 21st-century cottage industry has created a vast new fleet
0:26:14 > 0:26:19of online celebrities.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22Many vloggers have a committed following among those
0:26:22 > 0:26:24aged between 18 and 34 - a demographic prized by advertisers.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26Vloggers like Logan Paul.
0:26:26 > 0:26:33The 22-year-old American is a YouTube star - or was.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37I think this definitely marks a moment in YouTube history.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39This morning, YouTube cut business ties with him
0:26:39 > 0:26:42after he naively posted a video from Japan's Aokigahara forest,
0:26:42 > 0:26:46infamous as a suicide spot.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Paul issued an apology to his 15 million subscribers on YouTube.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52I have made a severe and continuous lapse of my judgment and I don't
0:26:52 > 0:26:56expect to be forgiven.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58I'm simply here to apologise.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00YouTube declined to be interviewed.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03In a statement, they said: It's taken us a long time to respond,
0:27:03 > 0:27:05but we've been listening to everything you've been saying.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08We know that the actions of one creator can affect
0:27:08 > 0:27:10the entire community.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13Vlogging is now a hugely profitable business with the likes
0:27:13 > 0:27:18of Logan Paul making vast sums of money in a variety of ways.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21They get paid between £1 and £3 per 1000 clicks
0:27:21 > 0:27:23and can top up their income through merchandising
0:27:23 > 0:27:27and deals with brands.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30And they do all of that without the more stringent controls
0:27:30 > 0:27:31applied to traditional media.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34OK, rolling that.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36Licensed broadcasters in Britain are regulated by Ofcom
0:27:36 > 0:27:38and have to vet material before publishing it.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42Vloggers however face no such constraints.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44They are only censored after the event.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46The boss of Britain's biggest media agency wants
0:27:46 > 0:27:50to see smarter regulation.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53I would definitely like to see vloggers with this much reach
0:27:53 > 0:27:55and this much influence to have the sorts of regulation that
0:27:55 > 0:27:59traditional broadcasters have to adhere to, particularly around
0:27:59 > 0:28:03content that can be dangerous, can be glamorising or condoning
0:28:03 > 0:28:06anti-social behaviour, dangerous behaviour,
0:28:06 > 0:28:11that can be copied by children.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14I'm going to be the biggest entertainer on the planet.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Logan Paul and his ilk portend a new kind of celebrity -
0:28:17 > 0:28:20one that is intimate, incessant and ever more devotional.
0:28:20 > 0:28:24For all of the glory of the open web, the danger is that his kind
0:28:24 > 0:28:26of immaturity exposes audiences to material that's
0:28:26 > 0:28:28in nobody's interest.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31I'm just getting warmed up.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Amol Rajan, BBC News.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36The Hollywood film director Steven Spielberg says he believes
0:28:36 > 0:28:38the Trump administration is using the same tactics
0:28:38 > 0:28:40as President Nixon to "try to silence the press."
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Tomorrow sees the release of his latest film 'The Post',
0:28:42 > 0:28:45which tells the story of the leaking of the classified Pentagon papers -
0:28:45 > 0:28:47to American journalists - during the Vietnam war.
0:28:47 > 0:28:55Here's our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58This is a devastating security breach that was leaked
0:28:58 > 0:28:59out of the Pentagon.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Before the Watergate Scandal, there were the Pentagon Papers.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04The first expose of a cover-up in the Nixon government
0:29:04 > 0:29:08by the Washington Post, led by its legendary editor Ben
0:29:08 > 0:29:12Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15Do you have the papers?
0:29:15 > 0:29:17Set in 1971.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19Yes.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21But you have described it as a timely movie.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25Well, obviously you just flip the 1 and the 7, or the 7 and the 1,
0:29:25 > 0:29:28and you really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought
0:29:28 > 0:29:31us right back to the same tactics that Richard Nixon used
0:29:31 > 0:29:33to try to silence the press.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35I'm talking about the current administration and their absolute
0:29:35 > 0:29:37broadsiding of media, social media, news,
0:29:37 > 0:29:45anybody that offends.
0:29:47 > 0:29:52You know, there is a label that is immediately attached
0:29:52 > 0:29:55to them, which is called, well, that can't be true,
0:29:56 > 0:29:58because they're all fake news.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00I mean, it's a lot more insidious today, by the way,
0:30:00 > 0:30:01than it was in 1971.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04If you publish, we'll be in the Supreme Court next week.
0:30:04 > 0:30:05Meaning?
0:30:05 > 0:30:09We could all go to prison.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11There's been another massive press expose in the last six months,
0:30:11 > 0:30:19which is what looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation
0:30:19 > 0:30:21which is, what looks like the endemic sexual
0:30:21 > 0:30:22harassment and exploitation
0:30:22 > 0:30:23of women in Hollywood.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25I mean, you're a really senior figure in Hollywood and you've
0:30:25 > 0:30:28been around a long time.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31Do you ever think, you know what, I think I could have done
0:30:31 > 0:30:33a bit more to stop this?
0:30:33 > 0:30:36Well, you know, I can only basically react to that question
0:30:36 > 0:30:38within my own workplace environment.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40Within my organisation, there weren't incidences,
0:30:40 > 0:30:43except for just a couple of years and years ago, that I would say
0:30:43 > 0:30:46gave me the experiences to be the authority on that
0:30:46 > 0:30:47question you ask.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49What happened in those incidences?
0:30:49 > 0:30:51There were just a couple of incidences.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53I don't go into detail on them, but they happened years
0:30:53 > 0:30:56and years ago, where we had to let somebody go.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59People are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03That she doesn't have the resolve to make the tough choices.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Thank you for your frankness.
0:31:06 > 0:31:10My prediction is that this watershed moment for women,
0:31:10 > 0:31:13in extolling the courage of women who, like Katherine Graham,
0:31:13 > 0:31:15with the Pentagon Papers, and with her decision to publish
0:31:15 > 0:31:19or not to publish, so many women have found their voices
0:31:19 > 0:31:22and they have been given so much support.
0:31:22 > 0:31:26Not just by other women, but also by certain men.
0:31:26 > 0:31:32I think this is not just another news cycle.
0:31:32 > 0:31:34I think this is not just another news cycle,
0:31:34 > 0:31:37I think this is a permanent change in the culture.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38Maybe.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40But as Kay Graham showed with her courageous leadership
0:31:40 > 0:31:42of the Washington Post, exposing deeply rooted corrupt
0:31:42 > 0:31:44behaviour is one thing - changing it is quite another.
0:31:44 > 0:32:05Will Gompertz, BBC News.