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Newsnight exposes the shocking treament being meths out to - meted | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
out to those in brain injury specialist units. Grant the staff | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
are coming in, they will come in, you have been told repeatedly the | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
staff are coming to wash you. We have to have handover first. The NHS | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Trust involved accept it was appalling. Will be talking to a | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
former patient who has been through the system, and with her, the woman | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
who is playing a key role in sorting it out. Rare pictures of Guantanamo | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
detention camp have been broadcast on US television. Act with us like a | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
human being, not like slaves. That is the voice of Shakar Ama, a UK | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
resident. His lawyer is here with his reaction. We're treated to the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
first guided tour of Tate Britain transformed. | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
Good evening, when someone suffers a severe brain injury, their chances | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
of recovery often rest upon the quality of the programme of | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
rehabilitation they receive. Sometimes relatives find it very | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
difficult to gauge the quality of that care. But what is indisbutable | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
is an expertise in care for brain-injured patients is uneven | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
across England. We have the story of desperate measures of a man's | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
treament in rehabilitation specialists. Every 90 seconds -- in | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
seconds their life and the lives of their families are changed. That's | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
what happened to Grant Clarke, he was 43 when he had a massive brain | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
emridge. He dropped the children off at school and then he was arranging | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
to go motor cross the following day, he had gone over to where the | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
motorbikes were scored and just collapsed. Grant was left severely | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
physically disabled, mentally he was fine but he couldn't really speak. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
18 months on he's still not home, and his partner feels he was let | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
down by poor care at his first specialist rehab unit. I was told he | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
would be there for 3-4 months, and I thought rehabilitation was exactly | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
that, rehabilitation, to get you home. After injury the brain has to | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
effectively build new pathways so that the person can regain the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
ability to do things. That can take weeks, months, even years. And it | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
shows why it is so important to have good care and rehabilitation. That | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
process of helping Grant relearn skills was meant to happen here, at | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
the West Kent neuro-Rehab bill station unit. Not long after he | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
arrived here in August last year, they started to worry. He didn't | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
have his teeth washed his armpits watches, he was in urine all the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
time, every time I went to see him wet to his armpits and cold. She | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
felt her complaints were ignored, so decided to taken a extreme step. He | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
was trying inconsolably, and I said would it be better if I got a camera | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
for your room. He stopped crying almost immediately and nodded yes. | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
From the first day the secret camera picked up care that shocked Binny. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
This LAELT care worker starts cleaning the top of the tube that | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
delivers food, fluid and medicine straight to Grant's stop marks care | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
is needed because of the risk of infection. She does use an | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
antiseptic wipe, but also borrows a pen and uses that. And over ten days | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
Grant's call bell, his means of getting help is taken away for three | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
times, for between ten and 16 minutes. On this occasion, when he | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
presses the bell, a healthcare worker notes he's wet with urine, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
and said he will have to wait until staff changeover is finish. Still | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
waiting five minutes later he buzzes again. This time a senior member of | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
staff comes in and takes away the call bell. More than ten minutes | :04:51. | :05:05. | |
later and with no call bell Grant starts pressing a keypad to get | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
attention. When the same woman returns she's not pleased. By now | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Grant has been sitting in his own urine for more than a quarter of an | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
hour. But what Binny saw two nights | :05:16. | :05:37. | |
running horrified her, Grant wasn't meant to have anything by mouth, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
unable to swallow, choking could be life threatening for him. The camera | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
shows an experienced healthcare worker giving Grant drinks of water | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
on five occasions. Here Grant starts to cough, the worker whispers him to | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
keep it quiet. Binny was really worried and overall Grant was making | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
no progress. He had to get out of there, I knew that he wouldn't come | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
home, I told them he wouldn't come home if he stays here and you keep | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
treating him like this, he's not going to make him home. Questioned | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
by police the healthcare worker said he regretted giving the drinks and | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
now realised his poor judgment had endangered Grant, no charges were | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
brought. The West Kent unit said it specialised in eurorehabilitation, | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
but shockingly -- neurorehabilitation, but shockingly, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
an investigation found only one member of staff had specialist | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
training in brain injury. The Trust upheld the 26 complaints that the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
family made against the Trust for the four months he was here last | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
year and he was moved to place a safety. The Trust says: | :06:54. | :07:19. | |
I think the attitude of the staff is very important as well. Professor | :07:20. | :07:32. | |
Mike cap Barnes has specialised in euro-rehabilitation medicine for | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
four decades. He says it is difficult to find people with | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
specialist training in this field but it is vital. You can't do good | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
quality rehabilitation without good quality people. It is not about | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
fancy equipment or scans, or equipment at all, it is about the | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
quality of the person that provides the hands-on assistance. He believes | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
that services for people with acquired brain injuries are too hit | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
and miss. There are some very good rehabilitation centres in this | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
country. But equally, I'm afraid, there are units around the country | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
that really don't provide proper co-ordinated rehabilitation at all. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Yet that is what they are called, that, I think, is a sad reflection | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
on something that needs to be done. And it's people like Shamell | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Courtney and her husband Mark, who have experienced what a lack of | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
specialist care can mean in practice time and again. In March 2007 Mark | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
had a major asthma attack, it left him severely brain-damaged. He needs | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
24-hour care, round the clock, one-to-one. He's totally dependant | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
on all his needs, nutritional, manual handling, washing, dressing, | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
absolutely everything. So long after the brain injury her concerns now | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
are less about Mark's rehabilitation, more about the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
failings in basic care which has meant she has been asked to train | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
staff herself. He has been in four different placements in the past | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
six-and-a-half years, I have not found that any placement is ideal. | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
They all have their serious risks to these patients. That if I wasn't | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
there, then you know, I don't think he would be here either. For Grant | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
Clarke, being in a new unit that is providing good care and the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
rehabilitation he needs seems to be making a real difference. At the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
last place he was told his future was in a nursing home. Thanks to the | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
progress he has made here, he's now starting to spend time back home | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
with his family. There is good evidence that although | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
rehabilitation costs more money clearly than someone going home or | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
to a nursing home. That money is recouped over two-to-three years by | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
that person requiring less support from the state, getting back to work | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
and therefore earning money. So the short-term investment in further | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
rehabilitation for six months or a year will be recouped by the state | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
over two-to-three years. Grant is now starting to speak more, and he | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
has clear goals. What is it you want to achieve? To walk. To walk. What | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
about going home, how important is that to you? Very. Very. The fight | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
to get the right help has added to the trauma they faced. They find | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
that hard to understand. We asked NHS England to come on to Newsnight | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
tonight and discuss care provision for patients with brain injuries, | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
nobody was available. But the National Clinical Direct for | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
Rehabilitation and Recovery in the Community gave the | :11:04. | :11:31. | |
Here tonight we have Kate Allatt who survived Lock In Syndrome, and knows | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
how vital good treatment is, and a rehab specialist who has been asked | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
to lead the NHS for the revised treatment of brain injury patients. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Good evening to both of you. What do you make of Grant Clarke's story? | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
Well, it is difficult to comment on individual cases of course. But | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
really that doesn't look at all the sort of standard one would expect to | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
have. I think the point about that is that it really underlines the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
necessity to have patients who have complex disabilities cared for by | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
staff. One staff was specialist in the treatment. That is | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
extraordinary, calling itself a specialist unit and one trained | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
specialist unit? And the British society of the Rehabilitation | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Medicine has set out standards to say what we would expect staff to be | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
on those specialised unit, and the recommendation is at least a third | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
of the staff to have specialised training in the nursing staff. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
Before I talk about what happened to you, I know you campaign on behalf | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
of relatives and families. Presumably Grant Clarke and Mark's | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
cases are not isolated? They are not isolated. There are a lot of people | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
I deal with who have great experiences in rehab, if they get | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
the opportunity to go to rehab. Which isn't always the case. So I | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
have to say that, there are some good example, mine was very good. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
But this was appalling. Appalling, my heart goes out. But how often do | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
we see vulnerable people in society being neglected like that, across | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
all sectors. And for you, what happened to you? I had a brainstem | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
stroke with Locked In Syndrome in February 2010, that left me unable | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
to do anything to communicate through blinking. That was it, | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
nothing else moved. I felt everything but I could move nothing. | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
The process of getting better, is it about a partnership, the way that | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
nurse was talking to Grant like a child. Well again I think that is | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
appalling and very patronising, I think that is very controlling. I | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
think the key thing in rehabilitation units there should be | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
a specialised neuroteam, speech therapist, neuro-psychologist, | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
neuro-physiotherapists, and I think especially in europsychologists, as | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
part of a re-- neuro-psychologists, I think you need loved ones on | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
board. You were unable to communicate, they wouldn't know if | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
you were receiving proper care or not? Exactly, and also you have to | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
also factor in the fact that loved ones tend to, a lot of loved ones | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
tend to believe the doctor in the white coat because they don't know | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
any different. Part of the problem is that you can't be guaranteed, as | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
we said, what did Professor Michael Baines said, that there were units | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
that don't provide proper co-ordinated care at all. It is a | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
postcode lottery? Indeed, it is fair to say up until now rehabilitation | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
has been something of a Cinderella speciality. Much of the focus has | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
been on acute and frontline services. Specialised rehabilitation | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
hasn't had the level of prioritisation that we would want to | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
see. Is that because as the professor was saying that the | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
initial injection of cash is high for rehabilitation, but it is down | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
the line that the savings are made and trusts saying they can't afford | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
it? It does look expensive to start off with, when you see those | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
advantages play out over the life of the patient and we're often looking, | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
as indeed in this film and quite young patients who have got the rest | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
of their lives to really make the gains. Is that about the budgets of | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
hospitals, they would like to think about the outcome three or four | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
years down the road, but they are concerned about their budget over | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
the next 12 months. Absolutely, that is partly the way the system is | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
funded at the moment going from year-to-year. Are you suggesting it | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
shouldn't be funded like that? No, I think one would like to see | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
long-term planning and strategy really trying to make sure that we | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
take advantage. We have, as Mike said really good evidence that | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
rehabilitation can be cost effective, we need to make sure we | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
do reap those benefits. On just the question of your rehabilitation, how | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
did that play out, were you with the same staff, did you have continuity | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
of care. I was in ICU for nine weeks and then went to 0s George Osborne | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
straight there, and they were an amazing team. They had a very driven | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
patient. Motivation of the loved one, motivation of the patient and | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
the team, who identified with a young mother with three kids at | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
home, it was easy for them to do something for me, because they could | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
see and feel my might. They got out of me as much as I did out of them. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
It was two-way and I worked hard. I think that is important. Also | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
rehabilitation, I have to say the rehabilitation should start earlier | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
than it does in this country, it should start in ICU as it does in | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
Denmark, two days after the coma. J In a moment rare access to the side | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
of Guantanamo pay BAI detention camp. The Reverend Paul Flowers who | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
led the Co-Op bank when it almost fell off the precipice was charged | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
with allegedly trying to buy cocaine. Today the accusations about | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
his behaviour were less about the drug deal about how about man with | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
almost no experience of banking got the job in the first place. A review | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
has been announced by the bank. Talk about breaking bad with a dose | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
of breaking banks to go with it. The story of Paul DMROURS is | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
extraordinary as it is multileveled. A Methodist minister, who | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
aauthoriseding a Sunday newspaper sting put the meth into Methodist. | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
Handing over ?200 for buying drugs. What else are we going to get, Ket? | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Up until June he was chairman of the Co-Op bank, a bank that went from | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
one financial disaster to another, eventually being bailed out by hedge | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
funds. The Reverend's life was in contrast to his poorer banking | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
experience. I worked for bank for four years after I left school, and | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
I undertook the examinations of the Institute of Bankers, I completed | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
part one and the best part of part two of those explanations before I | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
went to become a Methodist minister. So I have some experience but I | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
would judge that experience was largely out of date in relation to | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
the needs of contemporary banking, nonetheless I still had that | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
grounding. All that training in pre-desminute analogue banking four | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
decades ago must have been some use. Still he would be right on the money | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
to give us the modern numbers, wouldn't he. Give everybody who is | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
listening to this an idea of the size of the Co-Op Bank, roughly what | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
is your total asset value? About just over ?3 billion. I'm talking | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
about the assets so we are looking at the balance sheet here. I'm | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
talking about the balance sheets and the asset figures were ?3 billion. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
You are offering me and I'm telling you that your annual accounts show | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
it at ?47 billion. Indeed they did, forgive me. Your loan book is about | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
?32 billion. It is one of the features of our banking crisis that | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
when the dust settled it was clear that many of the people who had been | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
approved by the regulators to steward our most important | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
institutions were in retrospect wholly unsuitable. Though on the | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
evidence of recent revelations, perhaps the Reverend Paul Flowers | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
will be in a league of his own. Earlier I spoke to the chair of the | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
Treasury Select Committee you saw there, I began by asking him how | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
someone like Paul Flowers could be chairman of a large bank without any | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
banking experience? What we discovered, if we didn't already | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
know, is that the system of regulation was a flop, a failure. It | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
was scarcely worth having. This called approved persons regime meant | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
almost anybody could get through. I think it is important that we find | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
out how exactly he was scrutinised. How he did get through in this | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
specific case, and I will be writing to the regulators to ask them that | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
question. He was interviewed by the FSA to be a non-executive director | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
and he had a second interview when he became a chairman, this is at the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
height of the banking crisis. It is quite extraordinary at least I would | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
feel it would be extraordinary did we not already know on the banking | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
commission, which I also chaired in the summer, that this regime, this | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
approved persons regime was not fit for purpose. That is why we | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
recommended not to reform it but abolish it and replace it by | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
something much more robust. Are you confident that your recommendations | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
will be implemented in full? I can't be fully confident yet, it is | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
crucial that parliament and the banking commissioners hold the | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
Government's feet to the fire on this and make sure they implement | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
these proposals in full. They are a package of measures, if taken | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
together, can make a material difference to the way banks behave. | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
You highlighted something to David Cameron something you worry will not | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
be implemented what is that? There are a number, the Government haven't | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
worked out the definition of a bank for the purposes of the legislation, | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
that was made clear in the debate in the House of Lords, the Government | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
have gone to think about it. Their definition of a banks could exclude | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
investment banks. Most of us feel investment banks should be included | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
in the licensing regime that we have proposed in the replacement for the | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
very regime that went wrong here with the Reverend Flowers. When he | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
was in front of you, at the Treasury select, did you have any idea that | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
perhaps it was something to do with his lifestyle that he might have | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
been behaving the way, say in the assets of the bank saying they were | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
?3 billion and not ?40 billion? We will never know why he seemed in a | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
sense slightly short of the odd fact about the bank that he was running. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
It is extraordinary that he had no idea at all about the asset base of | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
his own bank after several years as chairman. Now, there are lots of | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
non-executives in banks, are you confident that all the | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
non-executives in large banks in this country are up to the job? You | :22:37. | :22:45. | |
can FLEFR be -- never be absolutely confident of that. We have put in | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
place a regulatory regime we are hoping the Government will | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
implement. If it is implemented fully should achieve that. That | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
means intensive interviews, not only at the beginning, but also during | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
people's tenure, to pick up whether anything is going wrong, a very | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
detailed list of what their responsible for, as individuals, | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
which can then be checked back to see how they are doing. And with | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
these interviews conducted by very senior people. I understand the veg | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
lators are -- regulators are beginning to do that. The problem is | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
going forward you could have these interviews for non-executive | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
directors that are more rigorous to ascertain their background and | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
experience. I'm talking about the non-executive directors in the banks | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
at the moment. Can you retrospectively test them? Of | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
course, one can have them come forward to be looked at to see if | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
they fit the standards of the new regime. And in time those incumbents | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
should be checked in that way. Are you confident the Government will go | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
ahead and implement that in full? I'm confident that the spirit is | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
willing. We have to make sure that the flesh doesn't weaken. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Thank you very much indeed. Get with the programme, and get on with it. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
That was David Cameron's instruction when he made his displeasure clear | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
last year after the Church of England had rejected the ordination | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
of women bishops. This week new legislation thrashed out between | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
different groupings in the church will be debated at the synod, if the | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
synod approves it, it will be the first step towards the concecration | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
of women bishops as early as next year. Opposition to the reform is | :24:16. | :24:31. | |
crumbling by the day. The synod began with a rousing hymn | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
of praise to Jesus, and prayers for the unity of the church in line with | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
the usual practice. In this bastion of tradition. But even here, immured | :24:41. | :24:52. | |
in Westminster, a modern world has intervened, no longer can the church | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
afford to insulate itself against a fast-moving technological society, | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
which prizes equality so highly, and finds discrimination hard to | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
understand. Women have served as Anglican priests for almost 20 | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
years, and now make up almost a third of the Clergy. Priests such as | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Rosie Harper have become increasingly impatient as successive | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
attempts to create women bishops have ended in failure. Well I think | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
the way the world, the country in particular, the whole world reacted | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
to the "no" vote in November was a real wake-up call. People are only | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
just beginning to realise in the Church of England how ridiculous we | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
look from the outside. And we had such a precious place in our | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
society, being the conscience for the country, people would refer to | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
the church, see what we believed and that would be a touchstone. Because | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
of that vote amongst other things this has been reversed in recent | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
years, so that the country in many ways thinks they have deeper and | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
higher ethical values than the church. In November last year lay | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
members of the synod blocked the legislation by a narrow margin, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
arguing that it did too little to he can cement traditionalists from | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
serving under bishops. If anyone has a Bible. After the tears of last | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
November, there is a lighter mood this week. Or even an iPad would be | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
wonderful! New proposals for women bishops have generated a sense of | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
expectation, even excitement. After years of bitter debate, the Church | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
of England seems this week to be genuinely on the brink of an | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
historic decision, to accept women bishops. Despite being offered | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
rather less than before, low church evangelicals and High Church | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
Catholics seem to be ready to bow to the inevitable. The reason, apart | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
from the continuing damage to the church done by the debate, and the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
increasing bewilderment of the world outside, it seems to come down to a | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
relatively simple plan. The appointment of an independent | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
arbitrator or ombudsman. The latest proposals have been simplified and | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
if passed would lead to the legislative process being speeded | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
up. Leading to a final vote on women bishops next July. This time | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
concessions to traditionalists would not be written into the law. But | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
critically they would be backed by an ombudsman-style independent | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
reviewer. For traditionalists on the Catholic wing of the church, such as | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
David Holding, Jesus's choice only of men as apostles means that women | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
are simply incapable of being priests. Still less bishops. But | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Father Holding is now ready to compromise. I think it is inevitable | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
it can go through, I don't think we can carry on holding this back, it | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
doesn't do us good we waste a lot of time and energy. It is very | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
important that we do move forward. I have always said we want to move | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
forward together. I haven't seen that possibility in the past. I see | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
it now. That is why this is quite exciting. Others who voted against | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
women bishops last November are also changing their minds. We helped to | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
defeat it because we believed that it was putting at risk some | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
absolutely essential elements in the tradition. And we needed to make | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
sure that those people would still be with us, would be able to go on | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
serving Jesus in that way. I believe that this legislation may be able to | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
do that. Even the cleric leading conservative | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
evangelicals in synod is ready to accept the inevitable. The church is | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
on the brink of women bishops and I personally think that is contrary to | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
what the Bible advises for church order, but it is not an essential | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
issue and therefore it is one that we can learn to live with each other | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
on. Provided everybody sticks to their side of the bargain. A final | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
vote next July and confirmation by Anglican diocese could see women | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
sitting among the bishops by 2015. Little did the church know that the | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
sol illusion lay in turning to a new figure in the process, the | :28:54. | :29:04. | |
arbitrator. CBS's 60-Minutes Programme has broadcast from inside | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
Guantanamo Bay, where 164 men suspected of being as terrorists | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
have been kept indefinitely without charge. In the film which shows the | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
tension inside the prison, you can hear the voice of a British prisoner | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
shouting out. He was identified as Shak Amr, his lawyer is with us. How | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
significant is the new footage? It is significant, it is very rare for | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
film crews to get access to Guantanamo Bay, it gives youen sight | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
into what life is like inside the prison. If we look at it here, we | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
see guards walking up and down the corridor in camp 5, prisoners are | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
held in single cells, others in isolation. Here we have more insight | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
into life in a cell. And you can see someone going about day-to-day | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
business. And a group of prisoners reaching the point where they go for | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
prayers. Again we see the guards going up and down with the | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
protective massingks on, which -- masks on, because we are told the | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
prisoners will sometimes throw things at them. What about this | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
British resident? We are dealing with Shaka Amr, a British resident | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
and Saudi national. This is his Department of Defence US file. And | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
basically this file alleges that the detainee is a member of Al-Qaeda, | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
tied to the European support network. It is important to say that | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
he denies this and he has never been tried for it. Let's have a look at | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
what he was saying now. Even you leave us to die in peace. Or even | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
tell the world the truth. Open up the place. Let the world come and | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
visit. Please Colonel, act with us like a human being. Not like slaves. | :30:51. | :30:58. | |
You cannot walk not even half a metre without being chained. Is that | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
a human being? That's a treatment of an animal! Thank you very much, I'm | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
joined by the lawyer of the prisoner. You have been in there | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
many times, what did you make of what you could see there? I have to | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
say I have been there 30 times, I have spent almost a year down there, | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
that is the first time I have ever seen someone with those masks on. I | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
see the soldiers every time. This was all set up for CBS. They took | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
them to one block on camp 5 and they tried to structure it in the words | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
of Colonel Bogden, the guy in charge, to show that every single | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
prisoner there is an evil Al-Qaeda person trying to kill everybody, it | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
is total nonsense. But your own client there has been this series of | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
letters and the UK Government and the US President asking for his | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
return to the UK. What has happened to that? I think the most important | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
thing we need to recognise is for all the allegations that people have | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
made, Shaka has been cleared for release for six years now. And he's | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
still sitting there. What we have to ask ourselves and what Shakar asks | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
themself every day, if I'm cleared where -- himself every day, if I'm | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
cleared why am I here. I sent a letter tonight to William Hague | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
because he had written a personal letter about everything the | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
Government had done. And Shakar wanted to thank William Hague, and | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
wanted to ask him why is he still there. As Richard was saying he has | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
been described as an Al-Qaeda affiliate? Well he's not. You know, | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
I was down there the other day and I said what I have often said which is | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
put up or shut up. And he has been cleared, he isn't an Al-Qaeda | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
affiliate, he never hadding? To do with Al-Qaeda. How was he cleared? | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
He was cleared by Bush and Obama, it is not like it is one person, all | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
six of the major American secret agencies, the CIA, the FBI, everyone | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
else has got together and said this guy is not a threat to anyone. Why | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
isn't he coming home? Oh please, would you tell me. I will tell you | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
why I think t this is what Shakar says, I can't talk about the | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
classified evidence I have seen. I have to be clear about that. What | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
seems clear, as much as I don't doubt for one second the bona fides | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
of David Cameron and William Hague, I think they are being stabbed in | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
the back by the British Intelligence Services. Shakar has given a | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
three-day statement about British complicity in torture, the only way | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
that becomes a criminal case against certain people is if he comes back | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
to Britain and is a proper witness. If he's shipped to Saudi Arabia he | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
can never be a witness and the case ends. I'm afraid there has been a | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
lot of secret stuff going on behind people's backs and I wish people | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
would stop it and just be up front. Do you think that films like this | :33:57. | :34:06. | |
actually have any impact on the Obama Government? Do you know I | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
don't really care. What this did was for the first time Shakar's daughter | :34:11. | :34:17. | |
who hasn't seen him for 12 years, and his son, who has never seen his | :34:18. | :34:24. | |
father, he was born on Valentine's Day in 2 O2, 2 -- 20 O2, the day he | :34:25. | :34:34. | |
was put into detention. They heard their dad, and they were thrilled. I | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
just hope those kids get to see their dad. While politicians and | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
business leaders argue about the health of the economy, one sector | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
enjoys rude good health, the art market. A work by a British artist, | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
Francis Bacon, has set a new record of ?90 million at auction. And Tate | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
Britain is about to unveil a ?40 million refit. At the centre of it | :34:57. | :35:05. | |
all is the great Tate Panjandrum. Has he turned art anything something | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
that will rival art, or has it exerted unfair influence. | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
We went on a tour of his gaff. It is all a kind of alchemy, in these lean | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
times, ?45 million conjured out of thin air, to splash on a grand | :35:28. | :35:34. | |
refurbishment of the original Tate Gallery. Shimmering into view is the | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
sourcer himself, Sir Nicholas Serota. This is a money that has | :35:40. | :35:43. | |
been committed to making sure that we really show British art at its | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
best. We're world leaders, historically and I would argue in | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
the modern era in terms of what our artists have produced. We want to | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
show it in the best possible way. In the case of Tate Britain it is a ?45 | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
million scheme, ?42 million of that has come from Trust, Foundations and | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
individuals, only ?3 million from the lottery. There are recent | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
figures that suggest per head of population that people in London and | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
the south-east are spoilt compared to others? I think that the great | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
thing about an institution like the Tate is it doesn't simply serve | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
London but the whole country. We have more loans going out to ROEJal | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
museum -- regional museums now than any time in the past. We work with | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
partners in museums and galleries across the country. A restaurant is | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
reopening, boasting this enchanted Muriel by Rex Whistler, a neglected | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
British artist of the 20th century. The Ta Tereks and Nicholas Serota | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
have been accused of having too much power over the careers of more | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
recent artists. I think I would be really niave that I didn't recognise | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
that if the Tate buys work by a young artist makes a difference. The | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
market however has a way of absorbing that and any artist's | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
price has to be sustained by a very great deal more than simply a | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
purchase by the gallery. Do you ever walk around Tate Modern and pass a | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
particular work and shudder and think, "what were we doing"? I think | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
the great thing about having the responsibility for buying | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
contemporary art is that you have an opportunity to make a judgment, | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
present it to the public, last year we presented a major exhibition at | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
Tate Modern of Damien Hirst, it had more visitors than any show we have | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
done since we opened that building in 2000. It got some flack too? The | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
Tatte -- Tate has a responsibility to show the work of leading British | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
artists whose work is highly regarded internationally. The Tate | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
has always been controversial, I hope it will remain so. Ladies and | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
gentlemen the magnificent Tryptic of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon. A | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
painting by Francis Bacon of his friend, Lucian Freud fetched ?90 | :38:21. | :38:30. | |
million in the UK this month. It won't be in the UK but in an | :38:31. | :38:37. | |
oligarch's front room. They live in Britain too and sometimes they lend | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
works to the Tate or the National Gallery or other institutions. I | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
don't think you should assume that the work, since it was bought by a | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
private collector that it won't be available for the public to see. | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
However historically once it goes into a private collection it does | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
disappear for a period. How is the Turner Prize doing, the great Robert | :38:59. | :39:04. | |
Hughes, admittedly a decade ago described it as soggy and flaccid. | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
How is it now? Showing it outside London as we have begun to do | :39:09. | :39:17. | |
outevery two years. It is in Derry in 2013, I'm pretty confident that | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
some of those people who are winning the Turner Prize in this decade will | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
be as well known as those who won it in the previous decades. Look at | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
Steve McQueen, an artist who won the Turner Prize ten years ago, | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
unregarded at that point. Now probably going to be receiving | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
Oscars for his major feature film. Grayson Perry in his Reith lecture | :39:44. | :39:51. | |
recently outed you as a fan of Sir iff Richard, and who isn't? | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
# She's just a devil woman # She's gonna get you Grayson has | :39:58. | :40:06. | |
his own view on the world, and he undoubtedly found some things in my | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
bedroom. What was he doing in your bedroom, you don't have to tell me, | :40:10. | :40:17. | |
that's true? Grayson came to really enjoyable party that we often give | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
at Christmas. He had a SNOOP around, and he found a few things and I | :40:23. | :40:36. | |
think he enjoyed himself. Are you a fan of Sir cliff? I'm fan you will | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
of a music, I collect memorabilia of all kinds. Today the President of | :40:42. | :40:48. | |
the Philippines criticised local Governmental officials for his | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
country not being prepared for the devastation wrought by supertyphoon. | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
The mayor of the worst-hit city pointed the finger straight back at | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
the President. While the blame game went on, the effort to get aid to | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
the thousands left striken stutters on. We have been across the island | :41:08. | :41:20. | |
of Lette. The poor and the weak bore the brunt, their flimsy houses were | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
flashed to pieces in -- smashed to pieces in the howling wind, and | :41:26. | :41:32. | |
swept away in the flood. This is Tacloban, it suffered more than | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
anywhere else. They barely even notice the bodies now. Joalen has | :41:36. | :41:48. | |
been searching for her son, she accepts she's now looking for a | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
corpse. TRANSLATION: We saw the warnings on TV, she says. But the | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
sky was clear, there was no wind. We couldn't have expected this. She | :42:01. | :42:11. | |
explains how she fled to the Town Hall as the waters rose, she texted | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
her son to come, but he was trapped by the wind and waves. They shut the | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
doors of the hall, she says, she was screaming, my son was swept away. | :42:22. | :42:31. | |
Right out to sea. People head back to the island of Lette to check on | :42:32. | :42:38. | |
homes or search for loved ones. Apprehensive about what they will | :42:39. | :42:49. | |
find. The boat docks in this town. It avoided the flood, but not the | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
200 mile an hour winds. They say that 90% of all the buildings here | :42:57. | :43:07. | |
were damaged or destroyed. At the Town Hall they are busy trying to | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
put a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. There is no power and almost | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
no water in the town. Their own buildings are badly damaged. As they | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
struggle to move aid supplies around rain pours down through the roof. | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
The big towns like this are starting to get supplies, mostly flown in by | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
the Americans. Slowly more police and more soldiers are being | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
deployed. It is rumours and fear, when it gets dark and you have no | :43:41. | :43:46. | |
roof, probably a few doors a few window, open or blown out. I think | :43:47. | :43:53. | |
it is not unnatural to feel a sense of dread, a sense of fear, but it | :43:54. | :44:02. | |
is, I don't know, I wanted to use the word "normal" I don't know what | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
that means. The new normal, right across the | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
road from the Town Hall. They haven't had so much as a sheet of | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
plastic to reveal these hellish conditions. We follow the trail of | :44:17. | :44:25. | |
devastation across the island. The scale of it never loses the power to | :44:26. | :44:37. | |
shock. The men with the shovels are from Manila, it is a rare sign of a | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
nationally directed aid effort, and people complain it has been largely | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
absent. What happened here has touched off a national debate. One | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
newspaper said the Government had been so ineffective they would | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
rather than American general or a UN official take charge. The sheer | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
scale of the calamity always meant there would be severe difficulties | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
in getting aid to where it was needed. But we have met people who | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
have seen only a trickle of foreign aid, or no aid at all, and they are | :45:05. | :45:12. | |
starting to get desperate. Spilled rice carpets the ground outside a | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
ransacked warehouse, eight people died in the scramble. The police let | :45:17. | :45:22. | |
them in, they knew they had nothing else to eat. What's left is rotting | :45:23. | :45:30. | |
in the damp. The hungry family salvages a few scraps. Officials say | :45:31. | :45:38. | |
blocked roads stopped aid getting through. But the traffic is moving | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
right past this man's family. They have received nothing since their | :45:45. | :45:50. | |
homes were destroyed. Now they are forced to live under the bridge. And | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
their pig is the only thing of value they have left. Please help us. We | :45:57. | :46:09. | |
really need shelter and we cannot recover as soon as possible because | :46:10. | :46:12. | |
of what has happened. Even if we have money we can't buy because the | :46:13. | :46:26. | |
supplies were already insufficient. Throughout all this there has been | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
very little disorder, people face the calamity with no small measure | :46:31. | :46:45. | |
of grace. They endured with dignity. A queue for food, literally a smile | :46:46. | :46:59. | |
long. There was no anger. With empty stomachs people are patient and | :47:00. | :47:06. | |
irrepressibly cheerful. It will be a much longer wait before their lives | :47:07. | :47:14. | |
are back to normal. That's just about all for tonight. The death of | :47:15. | :47:20. | |
the writer Doris Lessing was announced at the weekend at the age | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
of 94. She's best remembered for winning the Nobel Prize for | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
Literature back in 2007, the same day she won it I met her in her | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
North London home and asked her what it was that turned her into a | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
writer. I think what writers need, as children, is some way or another | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
to have a very stressed childhood, that they become people who always | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
watch face, watch hands, movements, body language, | :47:51. | :47:52. |