07/12/2015 Victoria Derbyshire

Misery for tens of thousands of people flooded out after

Storm Desmond sweeps across north-west England.

The Government's emergency committee Cobra are meeting this morning.

Got no electricity, nothing. We didn't have enough food. We didn't

have a toilet which is downstairs. We take an exclusive look inside

a programme that rehabilitates He got a cricket bat and took it and

hit my legs. I didn't think he would actually do it. I stood there and

let them because I thought, no, he will come to his senses, my son will

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and searching Victoria Derbyshire. "Extreme and unprecedented" is how

the Government is describing the torrential downpour that caused this

weekend's severe flooding across And

the misery continues this morning. Schools and hospitals have been

closed, thousands of homes of Cumbria are without power,

while the Army spent a second day evacuating people across Carlisle,

Keswick and Appleby. Let's take a look

at how the weekend unfolded. Storm Desmond hit the UK on Saturday

afternoon, and rain continued Towns in Cumbria in the north

of England were the worst affected, after the River Eden burst

its banks. A major incident was declared

in the city of Carlisle where the Army was brought in to help get

people out of their homes. Some had to wade through

waist-high water, while emergency These residents in Carlisle told us

how shocked they were the flooding It is madness, so surreal, really

bad. Worse than the last floods we had. It never got as far up as this

and it keeps coming. It is more alarming than people

realise. You see it on the TV and say, how

awful. But when you are here and see the water come out the step, you

think, you realise what goes with it, the emotions. You look at

people. It is tragic. Parts of Cumbria,

which were badly flooded in 2009, By the early hours of Sunday

morning, water had spilled over the top of some of the county's new

flood defences which were built to This map shows volume of rain

which fell across the county Rain gauge figures showed

a record amount fell in the 24 hours, some areas had

double the usual rainfall for the Over a month of rainfall fell into

it for hours, really above anything that has been modelled will stop

these are extreme weather events. On top of other rainfall over the past

few weeks, there has been over else for it to go.

For many families, it was a traumatic weekend.

This footage shows a family of six being rescued by the

Welsh Coastguard from their flooded home in the Lake District.

And this was the river through the Borders town of Hawick, in Scotland.

It rose rapidly meaning 600 people had to be evacuated

Part of the footpath collapsed and fell into the river.

Travelling around has also been difficult.

Bridges have collapsed, and landslides and flooding have

Trains between England and Scotland have been cancelled.

Rising water also left livestock trapped across the region.

Jonny Gios is a community worker for a church

He's been helping with the relief effort and has made us a video

diary to show us first hand the damage where he lives and works.

This is the estate I work on, in north-east Kendall, where we have

seen an unprecedented amount of rain and major localised flooding on our

estate. These are the effects were all the houses... Residents have

been flooded. Cars have been abandoned.

This is the church that I work for. We have been totally flooded. The

community has really pulled together. A great community spirit

to help each other out. Yesterday, we opened the Methodist church as a

refuge centre. But then this flooded and we had to

evacuate to Kendal town hall. We concede volunteers from the

community and church cleaning, helping to tidy up the church. It is

great to see the community coming together.

We have heard David Cameron will be visiting some of the affected areas

today. We heard there from Jonny who

works in a church in Cumbria. We can also speak to people

from around the region who will be involved in the clear-up over

the coming days and weeks. Nic Hewitt, rescued from the first

floor of her flat in Carlisle. You and your partner were rescued

from a flat, what happened? Yesterday morning, we heard voices

from our top window, and it was then, we did not know what it was,

and it was one of the lifeboats from the RNLI asking how many was in the

house. Are you coming out now? We grabbed what we could. And went into

the lifeboat. How quickly had the waters started to affect you?

It all happened so quickly. We noticed the water coming down, 10pm,

just a trickle. Between midnight and 2am, it kept coming. There was no

stopping it. We watched it buys a couple of feet and were told to stay

upstairs, it would be fine. At 4:30am, we went to bed. We woken up

by the boat outside. How high did it come? You were in a

flat on the first floor? It was above our front door on

ground level. From our top window, it was about one foot from our top

window. It must have been eight feet. Where you frightened?

I was terrified. Everything happened so quickly. The night before, we

packed a bag of essentials on the basis we might have to go. When the

RNLI told us it was time, we had been awake five minutes. We grabbed

the bag and didn't stop for anything. It was more than just as

needed to be rescued. What damage has been caused in your home?

At the moment, we don't know. When we left, the water was at the top of

the stairs. We were hoping... It is devastating. You could see people

leaving, they were devastated. You have had to leave without

knowing when you can go back? We don't know as of yet. We're

waiting for the Environment Agency. We are in my parents's house and

waiting for word whether the levels have dropped so we can get in. We

were the lucky ones, if you like, being on the top floor, we might be

lucky and not many possessions may be damaged. But others aren't as

lucky. You had been helping people

affected, we saw your video diary, what more have you been doing?

Just really helping the residents of our local community to clear up.

Charities have donated cleaning materials. We have been giving goes

out to people on our estate to clear up. We have been going door-to-door

to see how people are. Lots of people feel upset, as you can

imagine. We have been going around and

helping people as much as we can. Just chatting to them, it all giving

things out, food as well. People have been very kind and donated

things to us. We have been flooded here at the church.

Tell us how people are reacting. We heard from some saying it is one

thing seeing it on the TV and you empathise, but another altogether

when you see the water coming and your life is affected directly.

Yes. Very emotional yesterday morning when I went into the church

and saw the houses flooded. There is something in Cumbria, a community

spirit when we pulled together. We have been blown away by the fact...

People who owned the fish and chip shop said they wanted to give free

food to the people who had been flooded. Food has been donated.

Farmers have come down with slurry tanks and pumped out water from

houses. Out of three houses, 269 and gallons of water. And donations of

cleaning material. A lady in Carlisle said it was very surreal. I

was involved in the 2005 floods, it was surreal then. But this is

bonkers. We have 600 properties flooded in Kendal alone.

Our many people without flood insurance?

That was the most upsetting thing yesterday. I was with Tim Farron

visiting properties on the estate. In the short visit on the main road,

we found three people who were not insured. I am so thankful to the

Cumbria foundation who will help those people out, and our local

council. Have you got flood insurance? It is

not always straightforward? No, the property we have, we read

from a local landlord and I'm sure she has insurance for the

structure. Ourselves, we don't have contents insurance, we have only

been living there for three weeks. That is why we hope the water hasn't

got far up the stairs, otherwise we will have nothing left.

We hope that is not the case, let us bring in Andy from Cumbria community

foundation. You helps people in 2005 and 2009. Can you believe we are

here again, especially after the money spent on flood defences?

It is exceptional. We raised ?3 million in 2009. We supported a

number of the Environment Agency schemes in Cockermouth and Keswick.

I was watching the pictures on Saturday, and to see the Keswick

barriers be breached, and yesterday to see what happened in Carlisle,

was heartbreaking. The money spent on this side

defences, was it a waste? Has it done anything to mitigate the

flooding this time? It is too early to tell.

The general view is they have helped. With flooding, it buys

people time to react and get out. We also helped fund grab bags,

sandbags. Knowing flooding was likely, with weeks of rain, we sent

a news release to remind people to stop essential items. It is chilly

exceptional. What we thought was once in a 500 year instant six years

ago, has been beaten now. It would be harsh to criticise the flood

planners to match. Equally, if you have been flooded this week, you

will feel very upset and bitter. How do you feel about that?

I think the flood defences that are in kept the water back for as long

as they could. The way that it is, if the rain is coming and the rivers

are bursting the banks, how high can you build a side defence, what more

can you do? They have done everything they can. There are other

things they could do, we need funding into infrastructure in the

area, take care of that. The flood defences have done as much as they

can. I don't feel bitter. We had to go. It was exceptional. The water

levels were exceptional. Does it make it worse the fact it is

close to Christmas, will this affect your Christmas? It will, but the

community spirit... We are not on our Rome, there are people worse off

than us. Local businesses are coming together. I saw yesterday somebody

was offering free dance lessons to keep children occupied whilst

parents can get on. If anything, it will bring the community closer

together. I am proud to be part of the community. That is great to

hear. Thank you all very much. Good luck with dealing with this. Let's

find out from Carol how things are looking. Do stay in touch with your

experiences, with the usual ways of getting in touch. Tell us. This has

been talked about as unprecedented, once in 100 year event. How does it

compare? There have been huge amount of

rainfall, as you know, this weekend and we are still waiting for these

statistics which may tell us it is the wettest 24-hour period on

record. They should be in in the next few days. This gives you an

idea of the amount. 36 hours in Shap 222 millimetres of rain. We have

seen the pictures of the flooding across Cumbria but also flooding in

Northern Ireland, Tyrone, and also southern Scotland as well. Weather

watchers have been sending us some pictures from the weekend which

shows this. We have seen lots of pictures, the devastation it has

caused and the grief and anguish it causes. This is one from Dumfries.

And another one from Cumbria, this one sent to us this morning. A lot

of water. The other thing you find is some of the rivers across

northern England are quite short, so you will find the water comes into

them at quickly and causes terrible flooding like this with the amount

of rainfall we have had from storm Desmond, then it moves to the sea

quite quickly. On a day like today when it will be largely dry, that

will help the situation because it will help it go. The rivers have

already peaked. If you had this in the south of England, for example,

in the Thames, it has a much longer track before it gets to the sea and

it takes everything longer for the rains come the hills. It is a

horrible situation where ever you are. More pictures showing how awful

it was. You expect to travel the road bike car not by boat.

Incredible. You say today will be quite right, what about later the

week? We have more rain coming our way but it will not be as heavy as

it was at the weekend. Initially it will come in across Northern

Ireland, probably through the afternoon, clearing Northern Ireland

medieval and then move quite smartly across the rest of the UK, heavy at

times, but not as heavy as we can. That will clear leaving us tomorrow

with a day of sunshine and showers. Most of the showers tomorrow will be

in the north-west. There is something else coming in on

Wednesday. Another great big long weather front coming from the

Atlantic is connected to an area of low pressure, which will bring more

wet and windy weather. We do not expect it to be as significant as we

saw at the weekend but it is something we are keeping an eye on.

Talking of whether France, interestingly the centre of the low

pressure of storm Desmond did not cross the UK but when further north.

The cold front that brought all the rain associated with it extended

from Scandinavia all across north-west UK and down the Atlantic

towards Miami. It was huge. A details forecast from you at ten

o'clock. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today.

With a growing number of parents being attacked

by their own children, we've had exclusive access to a rehabilitation

And we'll take a look at the impact of the comment, "You ain't

no Muslim, bruv," on a film of an attack at Leytonstone Tube station

What do you think about that? Do let us know.

The Prime Minister David Cameron will visit areas hit by those

devastating floods later, as schools and roads remained closed in parts

of northern England and Scotland. 46 Severe flood warnings are

still in place and more rain is The Prime Minister has chaired

an emergency Cobra meeting, Security's to be stepped up

at London Underground stations after the knife attack

at Leytonstone on Sunday. A 56-year-old man suffered

"serious" stab wounds and another A man is due in court this morning

charged with attempted murder. He is 29 year old Muhaydin Mire,

from east London. The driver of the bin lorry in

Glasgow killing six people deliberately misled doctors over his

medical history. He repeatedly lied in order to gain and obtain jobs and

licenses. Our correspondent James Shaw has the

latest from Glasgow. Tell us more. It is a very detailed

and very long document which we are just adding to digester at the

moment. Essentially the sheriff makes 19 recommendations and many of

them are about the recording, the sharing of information about

patients long-term conditions by GPs. Because this is one of the

problems in the Harry Clarke case. Doctors didn't share information,

they did not share it on, so it was possible for Harry Clarke to get

under the radar, to continue driving even though he had a condition which

meant he was medically unfit. The sheriff also talks about the DVLA

and the means by which people are able to carry on getting an

licenses. Essentially it is a self reporting system, so you record

whether or not you have a medical condition. The sheriff clearly says

there are issues with that. Harry Clarke was able to claim he was

medically fit to drive when he was not, so the sheriff suggests there

should be a tightening up of that system. And perhaps most crucially,

he calls for the Secretary of State for Transport to institute the

review to see whether the law should be changed in this respect. To try

and prevent something like this terrible tragedy from happening

again. Thank you, James. President Obama has confirmed that

the murder of 14 people at a Christmas Party in California

was a terror attack. Mr Obama said there was evidence

the killers had gone down He sought to reassure Americans that

he's doing everything he can to overcome what he called an

"evolving terrorist threat." Our success will not depend on tough

talk or abandoning our values or giving in to fear. That is what

groups like Isil are hoping for. Instead we will prevail by being

strong and smart, resilient and relentless and by drawing upon every

aspect of American power. France's far-right Front National

party has taken almost a third of the vote in the first round of

the country's regional elections. It's the first major test of public

opinion since gunmen from the so-called Islamic State group killed

130 people in Paris last month. The party's leader Marine Le Pen has

called the result "magnificent". TRANSLATION: I call on all

patriotically Wouters to turn their back on France's mainstream parties

and join us. Amish and is to unify the country. -- patriotic voters.

Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Jess - and more bad

They are making the headlines again and pressure is mounting. The BBC

has discovered the FBI are investigating Fifa, in regards to a

bright scandal. It is alleged a sports marketing company paid about

?66 million to Fifa officials in return for lucrative TV and

marketing rights throughout the 1990s. Suspended Fifa President Sepp

Blatter denies knowledge of these payments but Panorama has found that

perhaps that might not be true. There is more on that on BBC One at

8:30pm this evening. Elsewhere in football Newcastle have been in the

relegation zone for much of this season and they beat inform

Liverpool yesterday 2-0. Only their third win of the season. Newcastle

boss Steve McClaren can breathe a sigh of relief as he has been under

fire recently for the poor run of results. A massive three points of

them. And finally we will have number one text batsman live in the

studio with us. Yes, Joe Root will be with us. -- Test batsman. He will

be talking about what it's like to be one of the best players in the

world at just 24. His incredible knock of 120 at Lord's secured the

Ashes in the summer. And we were asking of England was my chances in

the T20 in the spring. Thank you.

What's it like to be bullied by your own child?

A growing number of parents are seriously concerned about

We've had exclusive access to a programme in Doncaster

which is the first of its kind to rehabilitate teenagers

Our reporter Noel Phillips has been to meet some the people involved.

Some of those in this film have chosen to talk us anonymously.

It's one of Britain's most hidden crimes, and good experts, about 4

million parents have experienced violence from their children.

Many of the people in this film wanted to remain anonymous, so we

But a vast majority of those suffering at the hands of their

teenagers goes unreported, and rarely do we hear from survivors.

He first started off initially just kicking.

That was in the first year, and he would push and push,

and the first real violent episode came when he got a cricket bat

I didn't think he was actually going to do it, and I just stood there and

I let him, because I thought, no, he is going to come to his senses.

My son is not going to do this to me.

For Sarah, life became not just difficult but almost unbearable

after her 13-year-old son started attacking her two years ago.

He's just like any other teenager, and people look and think, well,

That he is a violent child or can be violent times.

It is lone parents like Sarah who according to the University

of Oxford are most at risk of being abused by their children.

Her son was given a 12 month youth referral order

earlier this month after injuring her with a bread knife.

Under the order, he will be required to write a letter explaining to her

He was raged, and there was a bread knife in the kitchen.

I was working in my home office, and...

And he just came in with a bread knife, and I was completely shocked.

He had no intention of putting it down, and in that struggle,

I got cut really badly, so much so that I had to call the paramedics.

Can you just describe that moment to me, tell me what it is like.

Your son threatening you with a bread knife?

I don't know, fear, like I have probably never, you are almost faced

And then my hand was cut, I don't know, that was the point

at which I had to admit that I had this violent child.

Now in some cases it can be really difficult for mums

like Sarah to actually report their children to the authorities,

but for those who aren't able to do so, it's not getting any easier.

We've heard of some really shocking stories of

parents being attacked, including one child being accused of murder.

So, what causes some children to threaten, bully and even

There can be various motives that feed into that wish to control,

but controlling the others is inevitably the outcome

Well, there is a belief that it is happening

We can't actually find evidence for that,

because there hasn't been research that has been carried out into

the prevalence of child-to-parent violence over the years.

One view is that it is happening increasingly more often than

Another view is that it has been a hidden form of domestic violence,

because until very recently we haven't spoken about child-to-parent

But whilst the problem remains largely hidden,

I went to Doncaster to find out how this teen-to-parent abuse programme,

the first of its kind in the country, is helping to

rehabilitate teenagers who have been abusing their parents.

It is their fifth week on the programme,

and both 13-year-old Luke and 12-year-old Kyle are now starting to

How many times do you think you've hit your mum?

So you hit your mum at least 60 times?

At what age did you start hitting your mum, do you think?

Cheryl, who runs the intervention programme helping mums and their

abusive sons, says the signs aren't always clear, and parents should

I think each case in its own right is quite heartbreaking in that, for

me, these families are fractured, and they need support to kind of

get back on track, and move forward together in a very healthy manner,

and the impact that that is having on the rest of the family.

So, what we are doing, which is quite unique with this type of

programme, is ensuring that, whilst Mum and

worked with, siblings also have the opportunity to have direct work as

well, so we're taking very much a whole

I like the fact that he has thought about you and gone, that is going to

For Debbie, who has been kicked, punched and even strangled

by her son, it's here in these meetings where

I'd say over a thousand. you have been attacked?

It's been going on since he was two or three years old.

Many people would struggle to believe that

your own son has attacked you nearly a thousand times.

That is why you don't tell people, it's something you are ashamed of.

I mean, how many people do you know who goes round saying,

Beats me black and blue on a daily basis?

What is the worst thing he has ever done to you?

Those like Debbie, who are unable to cope, often feel too ashamed

Liz, a mum of two, has lost count of the number of times she has been

How do you actually cope with your child hitting you?

You can't 100% blame my son for the way that he is.

But I can't 100% not blame him, if you understand what I mean.

Latest figures from the Crown Prosecution Service show that

in the last year, more than 2500 14- to 17-year-olds

have been prosecuted for a range of domestic abuse offences.

That's compared to just over 200 in 2013-2014.

If it wasn't a priority for us, we wouldn't be raising awareness

In the last 12 months, West Midlands Police say they have dealt

with almost 200 cases of under-18s abusing their parents, but only 13

Criminal justice outcomes are not the only solution,

and in the majority of times, they are not the best solution.

We have to consider the welfare of the child even though it is the

child was causing the problem in the family, it is their welfare as well.

The worst case, we have had a case of a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old

where they have been assaulting the parents, mother in this particular

case, and the family is in such crisis that they feel they have no

other option but to call the police, and that is when we intervene.

Back in Doncaster, Natalie knows all too well the pain

many mums and your when abuse lives and breathes within the home.

Do think we're back where we used to be?

She and her son Ben spent nine weeks on

He never physically attacked her, but used to bully and threaten her.

I went to find out how they are now rebuilding their relationship.

Just because it is not physical doesn't mean to say doesn't hurt.

Mentally, I think I probably got a point where

You accept it, and that is how it becomes the norm, the behaviour, it

I accepted it because of the guilt, and it was just

I love my son, and I could never give up on him.

I look to him when he is asleep at night.

I've cried so many nights thinking, I just wish you would just behave.

I felt that, after all these years, suddenly my parenting was a problem.

It is clear more needs to be done to spot the signs of abuse that speaks

Most of the mums who I've met spoke out because they no longer

But, despite their ordeals at the hands of their teenagers,

Unconditional love for their children.

For Luke, who we met earlier, he is now a lot calmer, and is hoping

I used to hit my mum at least twice a week.

If you're affected by that report - you can ring the Family Lives

And you can watch that film again on our programme page -

We will be talking about the issue later.

As the Prime Minister says he's to visit areas hit by flooding,

we'll bring you the latest from the worst-affected areas.

A man is due to appear in court later today charged with

attempted murder, following an attack at Leytonstone tube station

Muhaydin Mire from Leytonstone will appear

The comment of one witness to Saturday's events can be heard

on a video of the events at Leytonstone Tube station has now

And so the hastag, "You ain't no Muslim, bruv," was born.

It has trended on social media for most of the weekend.

Watching that with us here is British Muslim comedian Nazim Ali.

And founder of British Muslim Youth, Muhbeen Hussain.

Five words, a huge impact. A huge impact. As communities, we

are very cohesive anyway, within mainstream society, Muslims

integrate at a normal level. What this has been with this hashtag is

an example of how Muslims themselves perceive themselves. We have to

defend what is really a knife crime. What it appears to be.

You were saying before, it is the frustration of individuals.

What you see in this instance, this was a brave British Muslim, who at a

summer had an act of defiance, saying that. These very settlers

were not said by himself. Contrary to what the Sun newspaper may tell

you, this is a frustration to million Muslim is a frustration to

million Muslims across hijack the religion of Islam with these acts.

This was real frustration coming from this man. Frustration we have

seen in the communities. In fact, this individual was a hero for the

British Muslim 20 for speaking out against this.

When you talk about frustration, there has been criticism not enough

people have been speaking out. Do think that criticism has been fair?

We have to look at it in a spectrum. One thing we must see, many Muslims

say they do speak out. A British imam came out and attacked the

ideology behind Daesh. One complaint is why has it not reached national

media? From social media, it has hit national media. We should speak out

as a whole, people as a whole and stand against this vile cult. One

way is by using the fact when an individual has spoken out, it has

got press, people have understood. Thank God there is a mobile phone of

old. Otherwise these words would not have made mainstream media. It would

have been lost. Islam phobia is pregnant. We had a 5 year old kid

last week being dragged in front of the kids because he had said he was

playing with guns at the weekend -- Islamophobia is prevalent.

This is really caused by Government policy. What impact will this have?

One person on Twitter Matt Kellie said, in five words, one passer-by

has got the last ten years down in a sentence. Someone else said it will

do more for community cohesion than any Government initiative.

Have this discussion with the editors of tabloids who said Sherrie

Schneider is Cutts sensationalise everything and who do not do any

service to the British community or wider community, don't do anything

to bring forward cohesion amongst different groups.

Although I must agree with much of that, we have, we must have an

optimistic sense. Yes, people in the Muslim committee have not had their

frustration heard. But the vacuum has been heard with national BDO. We

should call on all British Muslims and all communities to stand up and

demonstrate, show people we will say no to all forms of terrorism and

extremism. We do that anyway. When we turn up

to work, bus drivers, doctors, teachers, we form the fabric of

society. You are trying to give back to the community. That is all we are

trying to do. This idea we had to come out, it has to change.

Do you think this will change the debate? As long as the media acts

responsibly, as long as politicians get rid of this prevent agenda which

is an absolute disgrace. You think...

Prevent. We have a double negative. We need prevent Prevent.

What is your problem? The whole concept is wrong, asking you to spy

on me and me to spy on him. We are trying to create some type of

Homeland situation in every single home.

What is the best way? Something like this?

I personally think there are a lot of issues to deal with. How I see it

is, there is no more powerful tool than British Muslims telling Daesh

that you cannot hijack Islam. British Muslims across the country,

if they are heard to counteract this for the gander, I believe there is

no more powerful technique. We need support from Government, the editors

who have blindly and negligently not played a role. We need to come

together, and empower British Muslims to say no to Daesh and

extremism, and stand together. Has this been a peculiarly British

response? It has, in the sense, like you say,

a few words, but it has captured the imagination. This is the beautiful

thing about our community. We all get along. If you watch the media

and TV, you think we don't. But we track jokes together, we turn up to

a Christmas party, birthdays, funerals. There are no issues.

Unfortunately, it is Government policy which is creating this,

putting Muslims on the back foot. Let us know what you think. All the

usual ways of getting in touch. As the misery continues for tens of

thousands feeling the effects of the floods after Storm Desmond, we'll be

live in the worst-affected areas. This morning, we have seen some rain

and we still have something in the forecast today. That will move away.

Most of us will have a dry day. But there is more rain in the forecast

coming in from the west later. It will move across all of us tonight.

In detail, the Environment Agency still has 46 severe flood warnings

in force. This is the number to call. We have

been watching the rain falling this morning across Northern Ireland,

Scotland, northern England, parts of Wales, a few showers just ahead of

it as well. Now it is tending to push up across Scotland, leaving a

lot of dry and bright weather in its wake, courtesy of this warm front.

After a cold start, that warm front moves northwards and the temperature

will continue to rise. A remarkably mild day today. It has been a mild

star and it will continue through the cause of the day. He is the next

weather front waiting in the wings, which will bring in heavy rain, but

not as heavy as the weekend. Into the afternoon, cloud in North Anglia

but for the rest of us bright skies and feeling mild as well. The first

rain coming across the Isles of Scilly and into part of Cornwall and

Devon. Not far away from Pembrokeshire, but much of Wales and

northern England dry and bright. After a dry Interlude across

Northern Ireland, the rain will come in and the wind will strengthen. A

lot of drizzle and Mark in central and northern Scotland, but the main

rain in the Northern Isles. A brighter slot across the Southern

uplands. That will be short lived because the weather front moving

across Northern Ireland moves across the whole of the UK over the course

of the night. Some of it will be heavier behind it we will seize on

cooler conditions coming our way. Not immediately, because as you can

see still a mild night at this time of December. As we head into

tomorrow, we lose our weather front, taking its rain to East Anglia and

Kent, clearing off to the north sea. Behind it we have bright spells of

sunshine and showers and breezy conditions. Some of those showers

will merge to give longer spells of rain, particular we so in the

Northwest. Tomorrow these are our maximum temperatures but as we go

through the day behind the cold front increasingly will turn colder.

The temperatures will go down as we go from the course of the day. Is

that leader said Wednesday, when we have a plethora of weather fronts

coming our way. From the Atlantic, great big long ones, bringing in

some wet weather. As you can see from the proximity of the isobars it

will be windy. It will be heavy at times, but we do not expect the rain

to be as heavy as it was at the weekend.

Hello it's Monday, it's 10am, I'm Joanna Gosling in for Victoria,

welcome to the programme if you've just joined us.

Emergency services continue to battle against the effects of

The Prime Minister says he'll visit the areas affected.

Some people face losing everything. We haven't got contents insurance,

we have only been living in the flat for three weeks. That's why we hope

the water has not got that far up the stairs, because if it has we

will have nothing left. I am Christian Frazier live in Carlisle,

still under water and this morning the emergency services have been

removing people from their homes by boat.

And kids who physically abuse their own parents.

We take a look inside a programme that aims to rehabiltate teenagers

He got a cricket bat and he took it and hit my legs. I didn't think he

was actually going to do it and I just stood there and I let him

because I thought no, he's going to continue senses. My son is not going

to do this to me. Also ahead of a bin lorry who crashed in Glasgow

killing six people misled doctors over his medical history according

to the inquiry into the accident. We will bring you the details.

Prime Minister David Cameron will visit areas hit by devastating

floods later, as schools and roads remain closed in parts

46 Severe flood warnings are still in place and more rain is

The Prime Minister has chaired an emergency Cobra meeting,

The Environment Secretary says the government is doing all it can to

assist people. The Prime Minister chaired Cobra this morning and this

is making sure the emergency services have all be support they

need. We have the army out in Cumbria helping out. We have people

working round-the-clock, supporting those communities and I have every

sympathy for people affected by flooding. What our priority is now

is getting the power back up and running. Is getting the power back

up and running. Getting transport infrastructure sorted out so the

roads and the rail, to get things back to normal as soon as possible.

attempted murder after an attack at Leytonstone Underground station in

A 56-year-old man suffered serious stab wounds in the assault

Muhaydin Mire, who is 29, will appear in court this morning.

The driver of a bin lorry which crashed in Glasgow killing 6 people,

"deliberately misled" doctors over his medical history according to

It found Harry Clarke "repeatedly lied in order to gain

President Obama has confirmed that the murder of 14 people

at a Christmas Party in California was a terror attack.

Mr Obama said there was evidence the killers had gone down

He sought to reassure Americans that he's doing everything he can to

overcome what he called an "evolving terrorist threat."

Our success will not depend on tough talk or abandoning

That is what groups like Isil are hoping for.

Instead, we will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient

and relentless and by drawing upon every aspect of American power.

France's far-right Front National party has taken almost a third

of the vote in the first round of the country's regional elections.

It's the first major test of public opinion since gunmen from the

so-called Islamic State group killed 130 people in Paris last month.

The party's leader Marine Le Pen has called the result "magnificent".

I call on all patriotic voters to turn their back on France's

Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Jess - and there's

Suspended Fifa president, Sepp Blatter,

is being investigated by the FBI, over his role in a bribery scandal.

It's alleged that sports marketing company paid Fifa officials

about ?62 million in return for lucrative TV rights during the

Mr Blatter had denied knowing about the bribes,

but the BBC's Panorama programme has seen documents which suggest he did

The 79-year-old is currently serving a provisional 90-day suspension

from Fifa, and faces a hearing with the body's ethics judge next week.

Elsewhere in football, it's all over the sports pages this morning.

Newcastle stunned Liverpool in a 2-0 win at St James' Park

to pick up only their third win of the season.

Liverpool had won 7 of their last 8 games before this,

but they went behind when Georginio Wijnaldum's shot was

Liverpool's Alberto Moreno had a goal disallowed incorrectly,

before Wijnaldum added a second in injury time.

Newcastle remain in the bottom three but have leapfrogged local

Neil Robertson produced a history-making maximum break on

his way to a second UK Championship title in three years, as he defeated

Along with a ?150,000 winner's cheque,

Robertson snatched the bonus of ?44,000 for making an incredible 147

break in the sixth frame - the first maximum made in a final of any of

Now, after a brilliant summer where his incredible century at Trent

Bridge helped secure the Ashes for England against Australia and

becoming the number one Test batsman, Joe Root has written a book

about bringing home the Ashes. Thank you for joining us. Aged 24 and

already considered one of the best Test batsmen in the world, how does

it feel? Pretty good. This year has been a fantastic year for me more

importantly England. It is important of those fond memories to share them

with everyone else. Soberly accomplished performances you. Do

you consider yourself for captain one day? I'm not sure, we will have

to wait and see further down the line. More importantly is about

taking each series and game as it comes on trying to do your best. The

Test series against South Africa coming up. How do England improve on

their Test form? I think just keep doing the stuff we are. The more we

have played together as a side, there is quite a lot of inexperience

in there, the more experience we can gain like we can on the previous

tour, if we can take that forward and learn from our mistakes we can

hopefully produce something special. In the spring you have the T20 World

Cup coming up. You must be looking forward that? Absolutely. The

one-day stuff is flying at the minute and hopefully we can take

that confidence poured into that woman and keep building on the great

start we have had this year. Finally, one story that caught my

eye in your book was about sock snipping. Tell us about that? As you

can imagine, over a five-day Test match you have a lot of downtime in

the dressing room. Some of the guys find different ways of keeping

themselves use. If you're not careful you can come back to your

socks with a few massive holes in the bottom, which can end up around

your thighs! Thank you very much for joining us Joe. Best of luck in

South Africa. That is all the sport for now.

Thank you. I was worried about where that anecdote was going!

Hello, thank you for joining us this morning, welcome to the programme

We're on BBC 2 and the BBC News Channel until 11 this morning.

You've been getting in touch this morning following this

weekend's exreme flooding in the north-west of England.

"The flooding is a real disaster and as usual the government response

Well, we're hearing that the Prime Minister David Cameron is to

"My daughter and family were flooded in Cumbria not far from Kendal

and they were overwhelmed by the kindness of friends

and neighbours who spent all day helping them to get cleaned up and

We'll be live in Cumbria in just a moment, but do get

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Relief efforts are continuing as emergency services continue to

Many schools and hospitals have been closed - and thousands of homes

David Cameron is holding a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee

this morning to co-ordinate the response.

Our correspondent Christian Fraser joins us from Carlisle.

Good morning, we are on the Warwick Road in the centre of Carlisle, one

of the main routes through the centre but it has been closed

because of the River Eden bursting its banks. You can see the rescue

Jeep, the Land Rover, that is where the water starts. It has receded a

little bit in the last few hours, but this morning still Water Safe UK

have been pulling people out of their houses by boat. They have been

without electricity for 24 hours and am thinking it is too grim to hang

around. They are being taken out of their homes and brought here to what

is effectively a service hub. I would show you around. You can see

search and rescue here. There is a police truck that has been set up.

They are coordinating the rescue efforts, getting information from

people out in the boat is about where people are and who needs

rescuing and then all of this is coordinated with the police and fire

and rescue teams that are here. You can see the DVDs. We have seen three

or four taken beyond the police line, which are still working and

has been working throughout the night. Real disruption in Carlisle

this morning, huge traffic jams in the city centre, no one can get

anywhere this morning. A lot of the schools are close. Railways are

practically nonexistent this morning, not working at all. Nothing

north of Preston to Scotland, the main line is closed as well.

Conservative estimates about how many homes have been affected around

2000-3000 so far but it could be many more. I was in Keswick last

night, quite depressing as the waters were receding. As I walked a

mile through Keswick to wear my car was parked I was passing doors where

carpets have been bundled outside, fridges, everything in the

downstairs rooms that people were jumping on the pavement ready for

the Council to pick up. It is carnage in Keswick at the moment.

The towns and a very hard indeed. I think we can talk to Nigel Cobb from

water safe UK. He is very busy, going back and forth. Tell us what

you are doing. Our mini people have you pulled out this morning? We have

evacuated probably eight people so far. We have a medical emergency, an

elderly lady. If some have stuck it out in their home started with the

electricity out, it is grim? Yes, around 2500 properties affected.

Around one third, the residents decided to stay put last night. Now

thinking that was perhaps a bad decision and want out. The water is

receding a little bit but beyond the water that we can see it was really

deep, up to the first-floor windows? It was. Places last night

were six or seven feet. It is still not possible to passing vehicles.

You are from water safe UK, a Derby charity? Yes, based in the East

Midlands but we are also a national asset for the UK. That is why we are

here. We were tasked by the National coordination Centre. What is the

advice to people in Carlisle today? People in the flood zone? People in

the flood zone, listen to advice and I would get out of the house. There

is no service, no electricity and it will get worse. Where are you off to

now? We going down road because we have to make an emergency evacuation

for an elderly lady. We will let you go. Thank you. As I said, we do not

know how we homes have been affected yet. The Environment Agency saying

around 2000-3000. That figure could rise as people get beyond the flood

zone is an see the mopping up operation. A lot of finger-pointing

going on this morning, I saw it yesterday in Keswick, about whether

the flood defences have worked. It depended who you spoke to. Is in

some parts of Keswick they thought they worked quite well. In the

bottom end of the town the river was up against the glass flood barriers.

In other parts they say the flood defences backed up the water and

that is why they were suffering. You push water from one direction and go

somewhere else. Lots of questions for the flood defence Minister to

talk about. We have to be honest with people. In

Cockermouth, the level was five inches lower than 2009. That relates

almost exactly to the height of those defences. What we need to show

people is how high those defences are, and explain to them how often

that kind of rainfall comes. We have never seen this rainfall

before in the UK. We will have to look again at our

models, go again to the Met office. It seems with these kinds of

unpredictable, exceptional events, we are facing something which was

not predicted and which will test the defences.

No rescue service can work on an empty stomach.

This had been set up to date, steak and burger. Don't be shy!

This is the owner. Alan, what are you doing today?

We are providing hot food and drinks for the rescue workers. And people

who have pulled out. There is a community centre for the residents,

hot food and drink. We are primarily here to provide

food for the crew. Tell us about the community centres

around Carlisle, how many are they? Tell us about the community centres

I haven't been into them, no. What is it? It is local produce.

Stakes, beefburgers, and Cumberland sausage. Locally cured bacon. That

is what we are providing for them, good quality stuff, which they

appreciate. They don't normally get that in this sort of event.

Have you seen it like this in Carlisle? Yes, in 2009.

I live on top of the health so it did not affect me. Grzegorz

Krychowiak hill. We were hoping it would never happen again --

CORRECTION - hill. If you want to keep up-to-date with

what is going on around Cumbria, we have a live update page, and also

your local radio station. They have the traffic details.

The Environment Secretary has been at the Cobra meeting and says she

has huge sympathy for those affected. She has been speaking to

Carol Walker. The Prime Minister chaired Cobra

this morning to make sure the emergency services have all the

support they need. We have the army in Cumbria helping out, people

working around the clock, supporting those communities. I have every

sympathy for people affected by flooding. Our priority is getting

the power up and running, a number of homes have been connected today.

Getting transport infrastructure sorted out so the roads and rail, to

get things back to normal. Looking at the scale of what has happened,

the numbers of homes affected, is the Government is prepared to spend

more to improve flood defences? We have spent 45 in pounds in

Cumbria, and spending in real terms increase this parliament on flood

defences across the country, ?2.3 billion. After this major incident

where we have seen unprecedented rainfall, we will look at the

lessons we can learn. Today, I will make a statement to Parliament

talking about the support we will give the local community.

Clearly, flood defences were inadequate in some areas. You do

need to spend more inside these specific committees which seem to be

hit again and again. I have huge sympathy for people affected by

flooding Malta play. It is a real concern. We will do

what we can to support those communities. Across the North of

England, hundreds of homes were protected by flood defences. Even

where those defences were overtopped, they delayed the floods

and gave an opportunity to evacuate and protect people, and reduced the

impact of those floods. I fully understand how devastating a

situation it was, and we will learn the lessons we can from this

unprecedented event. One more point. Can you give an

accurate figure for how many people were affected, and what will be done

to make sure they can get money back from the insurers?

At present, we still haven't got the final figures, it is in the

thousands. Further people have been affected by power outages. In the

Cobra meeting, we spoke about many people who have been reconnected to

the power network. This afternoon, I will outline further support we will

be giving. The rabid secretary. You can get all

the details on our website! Parents who are attacked by their

own children - we'll take a look at a programme aimed at rehabilitating

teenagers who abuse their mums and Millions of pounds have been spent

on its recruitment, but the British Army has admitted

that it needs to change its message Figures show the Army has fallen

below it's required number of troops for nine out of the last ten years,

with the head of recruitment saying the benefits of signing up could be

better explained. We've followed new recruits to

the British Army from the day they Through drill, physical training,

exercises and inspections - we see what modern army training is all

about - as you can imagine it is a Each year, 13,000 young people join

the British Army. They will work in a variety of jobs, chefs, drivers,

medics. First, each of them must train to be

a soldier. It is a tough process. Not everyone will make it. I have

got this far. I am here. Over 14 weeks, we follow some of the newest

recruits. The mental robustness of certain individuals is not there. On

their journey from civilians to soldiers.

For around 100 young recruits, it is their first date in the British

Army. Young man, do your top button up and your tie up to the top. You

are here for a job interview, look as smart as possible. It is a shock

culture. Don't really know what is going on.

Within the first few days you can tell who will be hard work and who

will be a good guy. You see guys from all works of life keen as

mustard, and others who are not sure.

Everyone wants to go in. My brother has been in for four years.

A lot of people have spoken to me. I will try my best. The last time they

will see their families for More four weeks.

After the emotional goodbyes, it is straight to business.

Anyone stand up, please. The oath. Say your name. I swear by Almighty

God. This I will be faithful and bear

true allegiance to. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

I needed a fresh start. I am quite fit. I feel it is a good

opportunity. And that I will, as duty-bound honestly and faithfully

defend Her Majesty. My dad was in the Army. My elder

brother was in the Marines. My mum is a bit wary.

They are all really supportive. Sign your name below. Congratulate

themselves you have got this far, well done. Now, the hard work

starts. The recruits get their first taste

of Army fitness, including a series of tests they must complete before

they can pass out on training. It made me go dizzy. I couldn't get

the technique properly. It is going to get harder but I

won't give up. I am going to stick at it and try.

Even if it does break me, I will get back up and do it again.

One two, three. Stop bending at the hips!

What was that? Louder. It is a bit hard but they are

getting there. For the remaining recruits, each day

brings a packed schedule. Where is your fleece? Why is a military kit

in your civilian locker, why? You never had time to forward it so you

thought... I am asking them to do simple things

like make a bed, make sure you fill in your diaries.

Seriously! I ask you to do one thing.

They are choosing not to do that but spend the whole time eating pizzas,

watching films. Mr nice guy is not coming back!

Next, a skill at Arms lesson. Before it is back to the gym for a

battle physical training. Having injured her knee on a run earlier in

the week, Becky is not able to take part.

It took two years to get where I am now and I have got this far. I am

here. I don't know if I actually want to be here. But then I do want

to go in. I don't want to let other people down.

After a quick bit of food, and having failed their inspections this

morning, the recruits don't have long before a reinspection.

I just went in there now, it is a 100% improvement from earlier.

The recruits get two weeks off for some elite, then it is straight back

to Army knife. -- summer leave, then it is straight back to Army life.

Where is your aggression? It is getting used to getting into it

again. Advance!

It teaches them how to control their aggression.

Dreading it. Really tired. The recruits are arriving on site

for the first exercise. But Becky's knee injury means she cannot take

part. I feel like I am letting people

down. Who are you letting down? All of the

goals, the Sergeant. When I get back, I think I will try in the next

couple of years. I don't know what I want to do.

After a quick demo to show how dangerous it can be without the

proper safety attachment on their rifles, it is straight to work. This

will be their base for the next two nights.

We are making a whole to sit in when we are on the look out, to make sure

no one is intruding on the area. This is where we sleep and where our

kit is. been in the field properly. I think

it is a bit of a shock to the system for most of them. But they will get

there, in the end. Sentry duty continues on a rotor throughout the

night before a rude awakening in the morning.

I washed it. You washed it off after? I washed it. Which bit? The

spring. No you didn't. I have, I sprayed it.

It's the female troops turn for the respirator confidence test. As soon

as you remove the gas mask it hurt my eyes. I tried to close them but

then you have to open them to make up eye contact with your corporal.

I can't say. Come towards me. OK. I can't see. Look at me. Stevie picked

up a toe injury and exercise are now both her and Becky are in the

medical centre. We feel a bit better about it because we are together.

If she wasn't here, if I wasn't here or she wasn't there...

It is nice having them on their, you know? Injuries happen very often in

training and Courtney has experienced how hard it can be. I

got to week five training and ended up with pain in my back. I went to

the doctor and she said I had an abscess. It turned out I had to have

surgery. That was hard. It is the final exercise, time to put into

practice everything that has been taught in the last 13 weeks.

Just carry on the routine with these on. If you need to drink, drink, if

you need to eat, do your eating drill. Any questions? Sort it out.

It's awful. We had to go on the patrol and you can't even breathe

whatsoever. I don't know how we coped. The location has been

compromised and we now have to move location. Closing down as quickly

and as quietly as we can. It has been five days since the recruits

had a shower, a proper night's sleep or eight food not from a ration

pack. And moving camp in complete darkness is one of the many tasks

designed to push them both mentally and physically. Fatigued after a

fifth night in the field, the final attack sees them storm two enemy

bases led by their instructors. Get in, get in, straight in! Close them

down. That's it, that it. It's a good start for Courtney.

The females are advancing on the second base. GUNFIRE

And having pulled up close and noticed it is Courtney's job to

throw a grenade into the enemy's position.

Didn't put enough power in so it hit a tree and killed me. It's not funny

really, but practice... They need to evacuate a casualty on a makeshift

stretcher, before switching to a dummy and finishing the exercise. It

is physically hard for everybody. Girls, why are you walking? Let's

go! Go! You did it, don't shake your head is be proud, you did it.

Everyone needed to work together. It was tough. The teaching is over. Of

the recruits that started 14 weeks ago, those who have been successful

are about to pass out of their phase one Army training. I was so nervous

that first day, I was apprehensive about what was going to happen. It's

been good. It's definitely... It changes you for the better, I'd have

remained as I was the other way. For Stevie it is tough seeing her

original troupe leave. It was emotional, horrible. I think it

would be better when they fail, so I could see them. You will get there.

I did. I'm having an operation but it should be completely fine after

that. You can see more on the BBC News

channel tonight at eight o'clock. Prime Minister David Cameron will

visit areas hit by devastating floods later, as schools and roads

remain closed in parts of Northern 46 Severe flood warnings are

still in place and more rain is The Prime Minister has chaired

an emergency Cobra meeting, A man has been charged with

attempted murder after an attack at Leytonstone Underground station

in east London. A 56-year-old man suffered serious

stab wounds in the assault Muhaydin Mire, who is 29,

will appear in court this morning. The driver of a bin lorry which

crashed in Glasgow killing 6 people, "deliberately misled" doctors over

his medical history according to It found Harry Clarke

"repeatedly lied in order to gain We can catch up with the sport, Jess

has the details. Good morning again. Your sports

headlines: Sepp Blatter is being investigated by the FBI over his

role in a bribery scandal. It is alleged a sports marketing company

paid Fifa officials about ?62 million in return for lucrative TV

and marketing rights during the 1990s. More can be found on that in

the Panorama programme on BBC One at 8:30pm this evening. In the Premier

League relegation contenders in Newcastle stunned Liverpool in a 2-0

win. Steve McClaren says he hopes the victory will flick a switch and

help improve future results. As you have been discussing, there has been

a lot of bad weather around the UK. Carlisle United's ground Brompton

Park is currently under water. Three of the players cars were swept away

by the flooding. Reyes have offered to help the local community with the

clear up is that in the city. Neil Robertson won UK's snooker jump in

Japan for a second time, winning 10-5 in York and made a maximum 147

break on the way to the title. David Beckham believes that 2022 World Cup

should be held in Qatar despite uncertainty over its hosting rights.

In the radio Times Christmas issue David Beckham says whether it is

corrupt or not to those countries have been chosen. That is all the

sport for this morning. Thank you, Jess.

What's it like to be bullied by your own child?

Experts say a growing number of parents are experiencing violence at

the hands of their children. We have had exclusive access to a programme

in Doncaster, the first of its kind to rehabilitate teenagers who have

been abusing their parents. Our reporter Noel Phillips has been

to meet some the people involved. Some of those in this film have

chosen to talk us anonymously. It is one

of Britain's most hidden crimes, and according to experts, about 4

million parents have experienced But the vast majority

of those suffering at the hands of their teenagers goes unreported and

rarely do we hear from survivors. He first started

off initially just kicking. That was in the first year,

and he would push and push, and the first real violent episode

came when he got a cricket bat Its lone parents like Sarah who

according to the University of Oxford, are most at risk

of being abused by their children. Her son was given a 12 month

Youth Referral Order earlier this month, after injuring her with

a bread knife. Under the order he will be required

to write a letter explaining to her We had a disagreement

and he was raged and there was I was working in my home office

and he just came in with the bread But whilst

the problem remains largely hidden, I went to Doncaster to find out how

this teen-to-parent abuse programme, the first of its kind

in the country, is helping to rehabilitate teenagers who have been

abusing their parents. We're taking very much

a whole family approach to the violence and giving them time

to recover from past experiences. In the last 12 months

West Midlands Police say they have dealt with almost 200 cases of under

18s abusing their parents, but only The criminal justice side is not the

only solution, and the majority of We have to consider the welfare

of the child, even though it is the child who is causing

the problem in the family, we have It is clear more needs to be done

to spot the signs of abuse. Most of the mums I've met spoke

out because they no longer Ann Ramsden founded the

Rosalie Ryrie Foundation, based in Wakefield,

which helps young people, children and families to deal with domestic

abuse and aggressive behaviours. Seamus Oates is a Youth Justice

Board Member, and CEO of a chain Helen Bonnick is

a former social worker, and now blogs and campaigns about child

and adolescent to parent violence. Thank you for joining us. I

mentioned the foundation, take us back to you as a child and how you

saw what we have been hearing about their through the eyes of a child,

because you were a child who was aggressive and violent your father?

My mother left when I was 14 and that is when I became quite

aggressive and controlling towards my dad. Quite violent towards my

dad. It is going back a long time. What sort of things did you do?

Pulling a knife on my dad. I know it sounds odd, I had no intention of

hurting him, but I needed what I wanted. Mentally I destroyed him, I

think. Is that anger because your mum left? There was stuff going on,

my mum met another guy who was quite abusive to her. I needed, in a

sense, to be violent as well. His new -- her new partner, if he was

violent she needed me to go and sort him out. That is extraordinary. It's

my mum. Did you sort him out? Yes, until the age of 24, when she died.

She was not murdered, by the way. How were people around you reacting

first at your mum telling you to sort someone else out rather than to

renew that is not the way to behave? 1980s nobody did anything, the

police didn't do anything. Did anyone tell you it was wrong? No, it

was normal. The school knew. Everyone was aware of what was going

off... How did you feel inside Qwest might just angry? Alone. My

family... I would do anything I could to keep her alive. And if she

were still alive to this day I would probably still do it. When we're

working with children we need to find out their background first and

what is happening to them. Were you to frightened, did you feel out of

control? I didn't get into fights at school. I was scared of what I could

possibly do, but I didn't mind hurting men. You are looking shocked

at me. No, it's just interesting to hear, talking to you as an adult,

you being so articulate and taking yourself back to that perspective of

you as a child. When did things change for you and what made them

change? I got pregnant at 20 and then my mum passed away, she got

cancer, she died when I was 24. It was the first time I have been free

and not having to look after her. I think that is what turned my life

around. Ask kids had a few problems, when we were growing up. I ended up

having a fall out with my sister, my older sister. From that day on I

thought, you know what, it's not right. So I started... I didn't do

school either, I skipped school. If anybody came I would just say go and

do something... I didn't want to hurt other people, it was just

within my home. You then set up a foundation to help others.

I helped young children. I went into youth work, residential work. I

still saw children behave the same way as I did. I couldn't get my head

around it. It was 2004, how come these children have had support to

change? I thought I would do it myself.

How much is this happening? One issue is we don't really know

how much is going on because, until fairly recently, we haven't had a

name for this sort of abuse. We are now talking about child parent

islands or other names. People are starting to count it.

Do they potentially it has been there but behind closed doors.

Very much. We have conceptualised it in a different way, seeing it as

disturbed children, or poor parenting. Governments are holding

parents to account for their failure to control their children.

What do you think is the cause? There seem to be a lot of causes.

Certainly, a huge number of children have come through and witnessed

domestic violence, a huge number of children have experienced terrible

abuse in their early childhood and perhaps suffered some form of

post-traumatic distress now. With heightened anxiety, hypervigilance.

We know from talking to parents that there are many other causes, whether

it is about involvement with drugs or being bullied. Perhaps children

who have had everything in their lives and suddenly somebody says,

no. Issues about autism. Families where there has been fatal alcohol

syndrome. A raft of issues. There is no one single cause. It seems to

affect families everywhere. In the end, these are often

damaged, vulnerable children. From your perspective, what is the best

way to deal with it? In the 1980s, it was a hidden

crime, not talked about. We are developing terminology to describe

it, the concept of adolescent two-parent violent abuse. The

ultimate destination for these young persons is criminalisation which we

do not think should happen. Within the youth Justice board we have

worked hard to reduce the numbers of young people in custody across the

country. It has gone down, in 2005, there were 3000 young people in

custody. Today, it is 1000. A lot of that is because of the work being

done at local levels by youth offending teams, multi agency

groups, voluntary groups, trying to prevent this getting to a point

where a young person is criminalised. There are occasions

where the violence is so bad they need to be criminalised, to access

other support. If we can get in early enough, to actually get

everybody working together to look at the causes. They are often

complex. I have had many young people who have exhibited violence

towards staff, each other, the building. We can always trace it

back to come off, abuse in the family, or experience of drug and

alcohol issues, trauma. Violence is often a cry for help and an

expression of trauma a young person has been through.

As professionals, we work closely together to provide support.

But it can be difficult. It is difficult for parents to access

support in a lot of parts of the country. There is a lot of work for

us to do in ensuring we have support available for parents, giving them a

voice to express what they are going through.

In my experience, that will come through school, or if they become

involved with the criminal justice system, the youth offending teams.

We hope you describing being a child, the grown-ups terrorising the

grown ups. Do you understand the other way around, how parents feel,

being frightened by their child? I do.

I have that experience, to help parents understand.

You get self harm is. That is one behaviour that hurts other people.

-- harmers. A lot of it is manipulative and

psychological. It is about getting parents understanding how to work

against that. Looking at teenagers who have been better for a long

time, manipulation is one of the top skills in destroying others.

I wanted to say that verbal abuse is often a key feature of this. When

you think of physical beings particularly, but it is not just

physical. Damage to property can be controlling, manipulative. The

verbal stuff may start that way and build up.

The verbal abuse is something we experience in alternative vision

schools. Can that be nipped in the bud by

adults saying that is not acceptable. It is often a symptom of

what has gone on and we need to look deeply into the life of that young

person, how they have come to this point.

Having clear boundaries, obviously, will make a difference. Where a

parent has been experiencing that in isolation, too frightened to ask for

support, coming into a school situation where the school is

trained in responding to those situations. I always tell my stuff,

never take anything personally. These young people will find the

thing which will get under your skin straightaway. That is an early sign

of the kind of abuse you have been talking about, control. As a system,

we work closely together. The youth Justice board has a lot of projects

across the country, the youth offending teams have been working in

partnership, there is a good buy Brighton where young people can

refer themselves or be referred by parents, and they have a

multi-agency approach to supporting them. There is a lot more to do.

If you're affected by any of the issues you can ring the Family

Lives helpline for advice on the free-phone number 0808 800 2222.

And you can watch that film again on our programme page -

Back to the weather and storm Desmond.

46 severe flood warnings are still in place,

homes and businesses destroyed and chaos across the transport network.

Storm Desmond has caused havoc in parts of Northern England

and Scotland over the weekend, and even more rain is forecast

David Cameron chaired an emergency cobra meeting this morning.

Later today, he'll visit some of the areas hit by the floods.

Heather Shepphard has been helping flood victims overnight in Cumbria

on the front line, and joins us now from Carlisle.

Tell us what you have been coming up against?

Mostly, we have been travelling around to evacuation centres based

in Carlisle yesterday, moving on to Keswick and Cockermouth later today.

The evacuation centres are gradually filling.

Very well organised, very caring staff. A warm place to go, plenty of

donations. Donations are everywhere. Trying to have a relaxed atmosphere

as possible in those centres. How are people coping when they face

up to the prospect they have lost so much?

It is very difficult. The sort of people we spoke to yesterday, a lot

of it is tiredness. They have been awake long time. Feeling exhausted.

There were some people disconnected from their family.

One lady was trying to get to her sons, her sons needing to get to

her. She was sitting tight in that

factories to centre -- evacuation centre until they could meet up.

People from Edinburgh, trying to get back out of Cumbria and up north.

Lots of vulnerable people also being cared for with caring staff. It is

sad to see. Feeling disorientated. A nasty experience for them. You

have helped in the aftermath of flooding before.

Every time it happens, I guess it is devastating all over again. Seeing

this happen after so much money spent on flood defences, how do you

feel? It is very sad. We were here in 2000

and 916 months supporting committees, setting up action groups

across the county. Those Flood action groups and

communities have fought so hard to reduce the risk and prepare for a

future flood. What has been put in place has been over topped. It has

been very distressing for them. It is not the blue lights. You go with

the flow. You do as you are told. What is ahead of them wants this

ends is months of clearing up, dealing with insurance companies,

knowing what to expect next and the process.

Tell us a little more about that process? You say you have been

affected directly, what was the biggest challenge for you?

When you first Flood and insurers gets involved, lots of people come

into your house. It is confusing as to who they are, why they are there.

Your home doesn't feel your home, it doesn't look your home. It is a

feeling of homelessness, to be honest. An invasion of privacy, of

where you usually go as a sanctuary in your life, you shut the door on

the outside world can you can be you. That is stripped away from

people. It leaves you feeling very vulnerable.

Heather, thank you very much for joining us. We are hearing police

have said they have found a body in the River Kent near Kendal, they had

been searching for an elderly man reported to have fallen into the

flooded river yesterday morning. Police have found a body in the

River Kent near Kendal. Thank you for your company today,

and for all your messages which really do help to inform

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