09/03/2017 Timeline

As the crisis in South Sudan worsens, we will

hear from a Scottish aid worker on the ground.

And it has been 34 years, but could this be the weekend

Scotland finally beat England at Twickenham?

Lots coming up, from whether dancing can help with dementia,

to how the police rely on sniffer dogs.

And have you heard of parkour? Take a look at this.

A very interesting way to get around Edinburgh.

Plus, cannot wait to see what happens when John Beattie

tackles Will Carling over the Calcutta Cup.

But first, the UN has warned that government forces are preventing aid

in South Sudan reaching the communities who need it,

after famine was declared in the country last month.

The Scottish charity Mary's Meals supplies food

to schools in Lake State, just next to Unity State,

Their head of programmes Emma Turner sent us this video diary.

here visiting our school feeding programme. The next state is fairly

stable, but it is surrounded by very unstable ones. There are really is

fairly severe food insecurity even famine. I am here at a school on the

outskirts of the displaced persons camp. Schoolchildren coming from all

over the south of the country in search of peace. A lot of very

unhappy children here. Very hungry. The food crisis in security means

this is an enormous challenge for us to meet our commitment to feed

everyone. We are seeing huge numbers of displaced people coming in. They

are not at school and they are arriving very hungry and fairly

weak. We are than as a school feeding programme, it is helping

them get back on your feet. Let us take a look at UK aid

to South Sudan, in response to the first famine declared

anywhere in the world since 2011. ?100 million is allocated

to South Sudan for this year. No extra funding has been announced

in response to the famine, but we are one of the biggest donors

there and 400 British troops are being sent to help,

as part of the UN mission. Joining us now, Alistair Dutton,

who runs the Catholic aid charity SCIAF, and from London,

Sir William Patey, who used to be Thank you for joining us. I wonder

how much the divisive politics in the country have made the famine

situation even worse? Yes, the new niche in only came into being in

2011. For most of its young life, South Sudan as seen in conflict

raging. For people to hear cattle, plant crops, things like that, that

has been a huge problem. People are fleeing from waves in the face of

sectarian fighting. South Sudan It was always going to be in the PKK

send with regard to the security of food supplies, but the situation has

become a lot worse because of the civil war. Suggestions that PED

workers cannot even get through to the areas where they are most

needed. The first responsibility of government is to provide

humanitarian aid and if they cannot do that, they have a responsibility

to allow those who can deliver that to do so. Who is responsible? We

look very closely with the United Nations and all the other charity

organisations. We put in place all the mechanisms to give humility they

need and we have been able to help thousands, but the situation is

intensifying. Famine declared only two weeks ago and there are 1

million people rate on the edge of famine. Government troops and rebel

troops seem to be responsible for atrocities. There was a piece on the

BBC News about this last night. That is part of the problem. You have

divisions amongst the leadership of the government. They are not always

entirely in control of the various forces. The error random forces both

within the government and the rebels, who are basically out of

control. That is a huge problem. Are you happy with EE and currently

going to South Sudan? If you look at the way the crisis is proceeding,

that is going to only get worse in the next few months. We can do

something at the moment but we need to be able to do more, so that is

why we are appealing for extra Eades at the moment. But that is just a

small part of what must happen. A lot more work has to be done on the

behalf of the United Nations and by individual countries. How do you

feel about the political situation? What needs to happen now? The

various parties in South Sudan an assured themselves incapable of

reaching a political settlement. A ceasefire was negotiated towards the

end of last year and that has already broken down. The most

successful piece initiative are ones which are broken by a crusade

parties. The United States, United Kingdom and Norway have a long

history of working in this part of the world. It may be calls for a

combination of the United Nations and the African union to try and

broker a peace, even if they have to do it forcefully. Thank you both

very much for joining us. A big marker moment in the Six

Nations is coming up this weekend. Scotland play England

for the Calcutta Cup If we win, it will be the first time

we have beaten England Our very own John Beattie

remembers the match well. He was on the winning team,

so we sent him to Twickenham, It was a year for which brought us

the bold new way to play music. Cold War angst and antinuclear protest. A

lonely tongue to power of Britain's first female Prime Minister. It was

1983. It also brought us something else. The last time Scotland beat

England at Twickenham. Scotland will hope to make something out of this

situation. Laidlaw. Eagles weighed and he is going clear. He has

scored. I plead in late March and it was one of the most memorable days

of my life. I cannot believe it has been repeated. These things have

come and gone, but still no victory in London. England were cooler that

the anime in time to when the wooden spoon. But it was an expanding

Scottish performance. The team with one to win the grand slam the

following year. Why do we have such terrible record south of the border.

I put it to an England legend, the former Wil Carling captain. He is

not totally upset about that. It is something I like. But it will end at

some point. For the first time for a long time, they are coming down with

a genuine belief that they could be victorious. There is always talk

than they could win and then there is the hangover. I do not mean to be

arrogant. I genuinely think they could. What was like losing to

Scotland when you wear an England player. There's always something a

bit different. Is there? My personal bet was that they came after 1990.

That was my most painful experience as a captain. We were taught the

biggest lesson I ever got in my career. Russell,. There is a real

chance for Scotland to perpetrate these 34 years of heart. This is a

much improved team, as shown in the victories over Wales and Ireland. It

was a different model by Quinn. . We are saying a lot of drinks to the

room of the England team captain in the hotel. The day after, I actually

had my first McDonald's. I hope the team has the chance to celebrate. I

am sure I am speaking on behalf of everyone in 1983. That record needs

to be consigned to the dustbin. From an established sport

like rugby, to a brand-new one, which looks like it could be

even more risky. This year, the UK was the first

to recognise parkour These two young practitioners have

made a film to promote it. Choose good health. Choose a

starting place. Choose your friends. Choose to be breathless, tackling

the obstacles in front of you. Choose to travel and experience new

things. Physical strength and pursuit which gets your heart

pumping like never before. The star of the film and the director join me

know. The star of that film,

Robbie Griffith, and its director, Johnstone MacPherson-Stewart,

are here with us now. How did you get into the sport in

the first place? I got into it through indoor classes first, which

are obviously not much more safe environment. Now you can take it out

everywhere. How did that come about? We wanted to recreate the opening

scene of Trainspotting. It must been complicated film. When he told me

the idea, we went through on a Saturday morning to film it. It was

very quiet at the start. But with the running sequences, I was having

to run as fast as to keep up. You both do it. It is now officially a

sport within the United Kingdom. Would you like to be able to compete

in the Olympics? I would like to make a career out of it, maybe

teaching it, as well as competing. Although it is a sport, some people

might regard it as an art form. Would you agree? Especially for

yourself, as a film maker. There are so many brilliant things to capture.

You can fill some beautiful shots. Have you ever hurt yourself? Not

yet, touch wood. But it can be dangerous? Yes, if you are overdoing

it, do it under the guidance of the coach who knows what they are doing.

Have you ever get into trouble? We chain keep out of peoples ways, we

try to be as respectful as possible about people their property. Have

you ever been stopped by the police? Sometimes we got question, but when

the understand we're not trying to vandalise anything, it OK. Thank you

both very much for joining us. Dancing and dementia

are two words you would not necessarily put together,

but it seems music might be a way to help hold

on to memory for longer. Edinburgh University has teamed up

with choreographer Chris Wilson, to research the impact

of dance lessons. Timeline went along

to one of his sessions at the Eric Liddell

Centre in Edinburgh. OK, hands up. Everybody has an

incredible story. Everybody in this group, if you talk to them, some of

them have been nurses abroad, worked in the RAF, flight attendants. I

nursed in West Lothian. I used to jive when I was younger. Just enjoy

getting moving and the atmosphere. Everybody has a varying degree of

dementia. And whilst they might not remember me and my name on a weekly

basis, they remember what I was doing with them. At least, they were

doing the exercises at a faster rate than the week before. It was almost

like the concept of muscle memory. The exercises I repeat in a week the

basis were getting better, getting faster. Some are specifically

targeted at what a nation pathways, some are silly and they laugh at

themselves for doing it, because they get muddled up. Actually,

anybody at any age would be the same. But they were enjoying them.

So it sparked this interest that there is such a thing as muscle

memory and there is definitely something in music and physical

movement, repeated physical movement, that should possibly be

investigated as a form of therapy. I come here every Wednesday. Enjoy it

very much for stop it really gets you going. And it keeps going for a

while after, too. Edinburgh University got involved with the

project at the end of last year and got in contact with us. We have a

ten month experiment period. The university are sending their

students into our sessions to take data effectively, which will

hopefully reinforce my hypotheses about dance as a form of therapy.

It's fun, yes, great fun. It's just a bit of a laugh, and it's natural.

People forget about being who they are and they join in. Otherwise

we'll be sitting like this, sad, said two hours. There were a lot of

reasons I wanted to work with older adults in this way. Having seen both

my Gran and mother fall victim to dementia and how lonely that can be,

and thought that providing dance and music, even for just half an hour a

week, would make a huge difference to an individual's life. Well done!

Amazing work! You'll have seen the extraordinary

news this week, about the man jailed for shooting dead the Scottish

toddler Alistair Grimason His name was Daimi Akyuz.

He was released early from prison and, within a week, he was gunned

down at his own wedding. Alistair Grimason's

dad, David is here. Did you even know he was out of

prison? I had no idea until I received a phone call from a friend

in Turkey who gave me the news. How did he get out? He had a sentence

that was to all intents and purposes a life sentence. We were told he

would serve around 36 years. But I think with the attempted coup in

Turkey last year there have been a lot of arrests and the jails are

starting to be overcrowded. The reports I'm reading are that

prisoners who have served more than ten years are being released, and he

had served 13. That is far earlier than would have been expected. What

actually happened in the incident where he himself was shot? I believe

it was at his own wedding and he had stepped outside at night, at the

reception, and he was approached by a gunman and the man killed him. I

believe the man with him was injured as well. And what went through your

mind when you first heard that? I was shocked to hear he was out, and

I was disappointed to hear after the long court cases with my family and

having to face him over a period of six months, that suddenly he was

out. But for some reason I felt sadness as well at his death. If he

had been kept in jail where he should have been, he would still be

alive. At the moment, his family are suffering the way we suffered. I

won't mourn his death, I should never have known him, but at the

moment there are a family and have Turkey suffering the way we did. Is

there any justice in this? Not for me. I take no comfort in his death.

After Alistair's death we campaigned for a long time about raising

awareness about the misuse of firearms in Turkey, and this is

another instance of that. Here are pictures of Alistair, that we are

seeing now as a toddler. As I say, it is almost 14 years on, but I

imagine he is always in your thoughts. Perhaps no more so now

than when all this has brought it back. He is in our thoughts

everyday. It was a real injustice, what happened to him. These

injustices happen throughout world. Alistair would have been 16 in

January this year. He would have been leaving school and going to

university soon. He never got that opportunity to enjoy his life. The

man who was killed this week took that away. It seems as if Turkey has

not got safer when this man can be shot down at his own wedding. I've

been reading reports today that over the last five years there has been a

50% increase in gun sales in Turkey. 9 million handguns and 85% are

unregistered. You have taken your campaign all the way to the UN. Any

sign of progress there? Yes, after I campaigned about firearms in Turkey

I campaigned about the treaty to control the flow of arms. That was

adopted in 2013. It is hoped that can control the flow of arms getting

into conflict areas. How has your own life moved on? It's a difficult

thing to live with, to have a relative or someone who has been

killed at the hands of another. But you live with it and you move on. At

the moment I have another son, a three-year-old son, he keeps me

going and keeps a smile on my face. Thank you for coming in, David.

Gun crime here in the UK is thankfully not all that common -

due in part to the work of police dogs.

Explosive search dogs are the elite of the elite -

and one of them, Patch, has just retired after

working at the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and on

Yes! Good girl! The lead will come off and I'll detach the collar from

her neck and she will just wait until she is instructed to continue.

Wait, wait, good girl. Find it. Good girl.

Patch is here now with her police handler, PC Steve Warden,

who is the dog handling lead for Aberdeen Police.

Thank you for coming in. What age is she now. She is ten years old. She

looks younger, I know. And she has just finished her service. Maybe at

her age she would like a comfy seat. Come on, then. It's a good idea. So

what does retirement mean for her? She can put her paws up with the

rest of the dogs at home. She has done her part. You must have gotten

attached to her. Very much so. Are we keeping you awake? We do get very

attached to our dogs, they live with us at home, they are part of your

day-to-day life, on duty, off duty, all the time. She still lives with

you? Yes, but she's now moved inside. Tell us some of her career

highs. She's met some very important people. Absolutely. She's had very

good life. We've been to London 2012 Olympics, we were there for almost a

month. The Commonwealth Games, various state visits and obviously

royal Deeside in Aberdeen. It's a huge part of our day-to-day work

when the Royal family are up. Where do I sign up? We mentioned that she

is a sniffer dog, but no ordinary sniffer dog - she is a specialist.

She certainly is. There are a number of specialisms and she is an

explosives detection dog. There are other disciplines we can train them

in, whether it be firearms, and cash and explosives. Why are spaniels

particularly good at it? Just look at her. She speaks for herself. We

try to stick with the gundog breeds because of search ability, search

awareness. She enjoys it. Yes. And it's great fun working these dogs.

Thousands of years ago into these dogs' noses. When you get the dogs

from? How do you know which dog is going to be good at the job and

which not? A variety of places. Rescue homes, springer spaniel

rescue, gundog rescue, there are breeding programmes we can buy them

from. A lot of it depends on the dock itself. If the dog is suitable,

we won't roll out anything. They're fantastic dogs there that have been

gifted or handed in to charities. So you test their personality?

Absolutely. What are you looking for? Natural drive. Look, Hunt,

search. A nice, sound, level-headed dog. I hear she has met the most

firmest person, the Queen, at Balmoral. What happened there? It

was a nice gesture. Because of the amount of work we had done over the

years, a lot of early-morning starts, particularly on Sundays for

the church, the congregation nominated myself and Patch to meet

the Queen. It was a momentous day for a little dog from Aberdeen. She

can tell everyone in the retirement home all about it! And can she be

replaced? There is a replacement at home. He's called Bruce. Can she be

replaced at all? They are big pause to fill. Bruce is progressing well

and this one can put her feet up. All the best.

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