30/03/2017 Timeline

We look at a new law on revenge porn.

People who share sexual images of ex-partners online could be

We'll hear from the actor David Hayman and the Scottish comic

book artist who's brought Batman and Superman to life and is now

We hear from two survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

and I've been in Brussels for the EU view on Brexit.

Plus how horses are helping traumatised soldiers.

We've been to an Aberdeenshire charity that's galloped away

There's a new clamp-down this week on so-called revenge porn -

where people have intimate images shared without their consent

via phone messaging services or online.

Anyone who breaks the law could now face up to five years in jail.

You might have noticed the adverts carrying that message this week.

But will changing the law stop the problem?

We asked Ellie Hutchinson, who's campaigned on the issue,

to make this film on why she thinks it's so important.

Revenge porn is on the rise. People using explicit images to shame,

humiliate and even control victims. There are people who are living

through that nightmare every day and as more of us share images, it's

become difficult to work out if you did or didn't give consent to images

being shared. As a campaigner on this, women told me it is hard to

explain the impact these images can have, whether they have had to leave

work or they live with fear that the images will come back to haunt them.

The new legislation coming into force means so-called revenge porn

is now a crime that could carry up to five years in prison. The law

sends an important message to victims that what they have

experienced is abuse and to perpetrators that this is serious.

Teenagers, conduct much of their lives online and their relationships

look very different to their parents'. But the line between

public and private are blurred like never before, with many using social

#3450ed -- media for fun. Tell me more about your lives online. It is

important for young people now, it gives them an opportunity to show

the world how they would like to be perceived and it gives them a great

chance to shape their identity more. Things can go wrong, but it can be

great. What can happen when things go wrong? There are cases from

bullying and harassment and stalking and something is that relevant, a

young person sending a private picture to somebody they're in a

relationship with. They have a bad break up and their image gets spread

around the school. Technology is changing the way relationships work

and it is important we understand what consent looks like. As things

stand, many victims won't come forward, because they're worried

about the response they may get. This new law aims to ensure that

police and prosecutors respond appropriately and take action. Let's

hope our communities will do the same.

With us now is Liz Ely from Zero Tolerance,

a charity that works to prevent violence against women.

And we're also joined from Newcastle by Clare McGlynn, a professor of law

from Durham University who specialises in the legal

regulation of pornography and was consulted about this issue

Liz, how big a problem is this in Scotland? I think it is a big

problem in Scotland. Is is an issue where the true scale of the problem

is not known about, because there is so much stigma associated with

people that are victims of this kind of crime that I think a lot of

people don't come forward and it is something we don't talk about much.

Do you think this law will make a difference? I think the law will

make a difference, it is an important new law for two reasons. I

think it is important because it sends a clear message to people who

are likely to perpetrate these crimes and share these images

without consent and sends a message this behaviour is not acceptable and

something we don't want to tolerate in society. I think it is sends a

clear message to victims what's happen to you was not your fault, it

was a crime and there is something you do about that. So I think it

will make a difference for that reason. How does this new law

compare with what is in place in England and Wales and has it worked

there? Well the law in Scotland is far better than the law in England.

England has a lot to learn from Scotland in this regard. The

Scottish law covers threats to distribute and that is an important

aspect when you think about the practices in controlling

relationships. The law in Scotland is also broader, because it covers

the person not just who intends to cause distress directly to victim,

but also the person who just doesn't care about causing distress and they

too will be, will come under the law. In England, what we have found

is that the laws are a welcome first step and we have seen people come

forward, but we haven't seen a lot of successful prosecution. There is

a lot for Scotland to learn from the English experience. To what extents

does the new law apply to under 18s? It is the same law for everybody,

but for under 18s, we have also got to remember that if they take or

share intimate images of themselves, they're falling foul of criminal

laws against child sexual abuse images, what sometimes people talk

about child pornography. With all ages we have got to use the new law

as an opportunity to educate, raise awareness and talk to young people

about this is an issue of consent and we should not be sharing images

without the consent of the person who is in them. Is it OK for people

to send sbim Nate images -- intimate images to themselves? I think it is

OK to do that. It can form part of a healthy relationship. I think we all

share things with our intimate partners in a situation of trust and

when we respect and care about a person, we respect their privacy and

should be able to share things and respect that partner will respect

our dignity. But the line between privacy and public is blurred now

with the internet? Yes, I think we have all got our own personal lines

on what we share and don't share on social media, but so much of our

lives is lived out online and we share photographs of what we ate for

dinner and what our dog's been doing. It normal to share our lives,

and there is not necessarily harm in that. I think what's harmful is when

people use that to have power over somebody and to shame and humiliate

someone. I think that is the problem, the abuse of power and

control, rather than the sharing itself. To what extent can a new law

change the cull dhur? I think it is an important first start. The fact

that we are having this kvrs means across -- conversation means people

are talking about is it right or wrong to share images. But you need

the police to take this seriously and have the resources to do so and

encourage victims to come forward, knowing something can be done about

it. What kind of impact does revenge porn have on the victims? There is

all sorts of impacts this can have on the individual and on society as

a whole. Really negative impacts in terms of mental health. The amount

of distress it can cause to know that, those images are out there. It

can impact on your personal and professional life. Knowing that

somebody may Google your name and find this. There is a wider impact

of people silencing themselves and choosing not to share things. There

i far-reaching consequences. Thank you both very much.

The effects of post-traumatic stress on former soldiers is well-known

and helping people recover is a huge challenge.

Now one charity, based in Aboyne in Aberdeenshire,

has won a national award for its novel approach -

by getting military veterans in the saddle and on a horse.

I'm Emma hutch this is my husband. We are founders of HorseBack UK. We

had friends up who had been in the military and some were struggling a

bit. We had horses and we had a big bonfire and we sat around the fire

and talked and one guy said, this what is people should be doing to

help them on their recovery. That is how it started. I was injured by a

suicide bomber just outside Kandahar. I came back through the

recovery path way and got fit and went out. But in 2008 I stepped on

an improvised explosive device, which talk my left leg and I lost my

left eye, my nose, I have a facial reconstruction. We found out about

the charity HorseBack UK and some friends said I might enjoy coming

and trying to ride horses. At that time, I had one leg and they had

four and maybe we could get out and about into the Highlands on a horse.

And make a break in that clinical recovery. Many of the people we

serve have become isolated because of physical or mental injuries or

both. This takes away your confidence to interact with other

people. The longer you're isolated, the less confident you are in

talking to people. If we want to help the people we have got to give

them a purpose beyond recovery. And what we can do is replace the

confidence and self-esteem that is stolen from them by getting them to

connect again with the wider world through the horse. There is no quick

fix for post-traumatic stress and people are coming with all types of

mental health issue. Anxiety and depression on high on the list. More

and more we have having mental health issues, rather than physical

issues. I don't think we realise quite what a big award ceremony it

was and we were shocked when we saw hundreds of people there. And

hundreds of very important people there. So it was very exciting as we

don't get out much. Yes, to then to win it was the... The icing on the

cake. It was very exciting. To quote Winston Churchill there is something

about inside of a horse that is -- outside of a horse that is good for

the inside of a man. It is a bit of mobility, a bit of adrenaline. What

an amazing idea. I think I would like the cowboy hat as well. No! Not

a good look on you. Now, you can't have failed to notice

that this is the historic week when Article 50 was finally

triggered and the Scottish Parliament voted to have another

independence referendum - and no-one seems sure about what's

going to happen next. I've been at the heart of Europe

this week in search of some answers and I spoke

to the Brussels correspondent of the Guardian, Jennifer Rankin,

about the EU view on Brexit - Jennifer, we are leaving, how do

people here feel about that? I think the mood is of sadness, regret, when

people voted to leave in June, there was shock and even anger in

Brussels. Now the overwhelming mood is of sadness, the reality has hit

home and the UK is leaving. We have handing in your letter, what happens

now? Now we go into a holding pattern. There will be a lot of

toing and froing in Brussels, but we won't sit down the UK face to face

with the rest of the EU until late May at the earliest. Maybe June. How

long will these talks take? Under the EU treaty, there is a deadline

and they must concluded in two years. Unless every one of the 27

other states agrees to extend them. That looks unlikely. In two years

whatever happens, the UK will be out. What are the big sticking

points? That is the money. As in any divorce, money will be a huge

problem and we have seen that's something that the UK and the rest

of the EU have clashed over. There is the question of EU sit zens, the

3.5 million EU citizens in the UK and the one million British citizens

on the continent and the Irish border is something the EU want to

settle soon. If there was another vote on Scottish independence? That

is a good question. If Scotland did vote to leave the UK it wouldn't be

able to maintain its EU membership and would have to reapply. But it

wouldn't be the in the position as somebody like Serbia or Turkey.

Having been a member of the EU for decades it would be simpler to join

and I imagine the EU would welcome Scotland as a pewer -- powerful

signal of confidence in the EU. The UK says I wants to keep buying and

selling stuff with Europe and control the number of EU citizens

coming in, can we have our waffle and eat it? The message here has

been consistent, the UK can't have its waffle and eat it. The EU is a

club and you have to pay to be a member and you can't get the

benefits of being in the club when you're on the outside. Did he bring

me back any chocolates? Did he heck. Don't you like the diamonds? Still

time for Easter. I won't live this down!

He's one of Scotland's greatest architects

but Alexander Greek Thomson has often been in the shadow of another

But with the 200th anniversary of Greek Thomson's birth,

his profile is to get a boost this year.

The actor David Hayman has made a film about him for the BBC.

I spoke to him earlier - but first let's take a quick

Wow, the scale of it! This is quite breath-taking. Open a door, walk

down the street, this is an incredible city. And one man did

more than anyone to transform this Victorian power house into a new

kind of metropolis. Born 200 years ago, Alexander "Greek" Thomson

created a bold sign that defined Glasgow's most ambitious age and

helped turn it into the second city of the empire. David Hayman welcome.

Most of us have heard of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but not so many

have heard of Alexander "Greek" Thomson. What for you is so special

about him? I think he is on a par with Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The

breadth of his work is extraordinary from warehouses to Villas to schools

to public buildings, to churches, his legacy is vast and greater than

Charles Rennie Mackintosh. What is interesting is after, he had a

lifetime of leaving his legacy behind, creating these wonderful

works. After he died, a bunch of friends got together to see how they

could honour his legacy. So they came up with a skal orship -

scholarship to take architects on foreign trip and the first to win

was a young Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It formed hi career. He

benefitted from him. How much has he influenced the way Glasgow looks

now? He has had a major influence. Most of iconic buildings were

created by Alexander "Greek" Thomson. His reputation is

worldwide. He never left the country. He was born in Balfron a

family of 20, he lost both his parents as a teenager and even more

tragically lost four of his own children in an epidemic of cholera.

But he managed to create some outstanding works of genius. His

influence, they were Greece and aSyria and India. He didn't like the

still of the day that was gothic. He would look at Glasgow University and

thought it was an ugly building. The gothic nature of most of everybody

he hated. He was breaking the mould and he was aware of his time. He was

very clever, because he used the best of the innovative engineering

and technological techniques that were being dropped in Glasgow when

we were building the ships and the engines and everything that was

needed for the British Empire. He was taking from that. I can hear

your passion. I want to talk about your day job, you do some acting.

Yes it has been known. It saw you in Taboo, the drama with Tom Hardy. The

company have stapted those involved -- stated those involved will hang.

You seem to be cornering the market in sinister man servant. Well if you

have a face like man, you don't get the romantic leads! It was a

wonderful six months. Tom Hardy is a speck individual and he has --

special individual and he has great intense #2i, I have a fair amount of

intensity myself and it was lovely to have these two heavy weights

knocking against each over. It was a great job. You couldn't wait to get

into work and we had interesting directors. One was Danish and one

was Finnish. And we didn't want to whitewash it. It is down and dirty

and dark, it is muddy. Manky is the words. It is a great words. I have

to ask you with Article 50 and a new independence referendum, how do you

feel about the future? I find change, any period of change

exciting. Out of change can come something new. I know people feel we

are living in a world of shifting sands, but out of that something

good will come, something that will lead us into a better future. I'm

pro-independence any way and I think it is inevitable whether it is two

year or 20 years we will gain independence and I'm very excited by

it. Thank you for joining us. When does the programme go out. BBC Two

Scotland this Sunday at 10pm. Thank you.

Nuclear weapons have been around for more than 70 years,

but they've only ever been used twice - when America dropped atomic

bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before

More than 100,000 people were killed and their use has

We've spoken to two survivors of those attacks,

who are on a visit to Scotland, about their experience

I'm 82, my name I Reiko Yamada. I lived in a town two kilometres from

ground zero. I'm the second generation of world we - word we

give to people exposed to the nuclear bomb. I was eleven, I was in

the school grounds in primary school. Half of the children were

already in the countryside as part of the evacuation. So the school was

only half full. It was very hot, very strong sunshine. The boys

pointed to the sky and shouted there was an American plane and everyone

stared at the plane. I saw the white smoke from the tail. I thought it

was beautiful. Then everything disappeared. I couldn't see

anything. I didn't know what happened. So I ran for the shelter.

I felt this hot blast behind my back and I fell. I got to the shelter,

and lots of people were running around me and I couldn't work out

what happened. There was a very black cloud in the sky and then rain

started. I was shivering, soaking wet, it was very cold. I couldn't

walk on the the street, there was so many people. When I was little, I

wasn't aware of being a second generation of these people, but

there was a young couple near my house who were expoemzed to

radiation -- exposed to radiation and tried not to have children. My

brother was engaged, but cancelled the engagement. I thought I

shouldn't speak about it. When I was 34 I had breast cancer and 20 years

later I had breast cancer in another area and I'm still having treatment

now. Just like me, a lot of the second generation worry the

explosion might be affecting our health. I would like to believe viz

silting other countries -- visits other countries helps raise

awareness. I give talks about how scary nuclear weapons can be and how

they kill people. If you look at politicians now, they never talk

about stopping nuclear development. They never talk about throwing

nuclear weapons away. The top people in the country won't do it. So the

citizens must force the people at the top.

Midori Yamada and Reiko Yamada there, talking about their

experience of surviving the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

He's an artist who's drawn for the official comics

of superheroes including Superman, Batman and X-Men, with millions

But from this weekend the art of Frank Quitely

will feature not in comics - but in a museum.

Frank's drawings will be a star attraction in his home city

of Glasgow at Kelvingrove Art Gallery.

Welcome to Timeline. How is it feeling to see it all up there in a

galley? It is exciting and humbling. Have you been along to see the

exhibition? Yes I have been in various stages of install and it's

just looking better Eamesest each time. -- each time. All the super

heros are there. We have a picture of superman. Yes. You didn't

actually take your inspiration from the American comic book heroes. How

did you get into it? My inspiration was the Dudley Watkins, who drew the

Broons and OorWullie. You see the influences? Yes I can still see the

influences. He was the first and still one of the most important to

me. Never mind the Broons, you have created a female version of Oor

Wullie, does she have a name. No people have calmed her Wilhememina.

I was asked to do the po for Glasgow comic con. So when I started out,

you know, like you went to a comic convention and like... No one. It

was less than 1%. Why are there so few female cashings the. --

characters. At first they were more aimed at boys. In Glasgow we have a

self-published independent comic scene with a lot of female writers.

Why is Scotland such a hot bed for comic creations? I don't know, we

are a nation of story tellers. I'm sure that has something to do with

it. I get the feeling if you didn't do it for a living you would do it

any way. Yes it is like people who play guitar or five-a-side. What do

you want people too take from the exhibition. On one hands, you can do

what you love for a career. It doesn't always work. But that is one

thing you could take from it. More importantly than that, it is just if

you have something that you're passionate about and you spend your

life doing it then keep trying to get better by your own standards. It

is just a kind of life-enriching thing. Thank you.

That exhibition begins at Kelvingrove Art

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