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Hello it's Monday, it's 9.15, I'm Joanna Gosling in for Victoria. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
A recruitment crisis in the NHS, with tens of thousands of nursing | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Hospital workers tell us the impact it has on them. | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
I'm an emergency nursing registrar and I'm concerned about the number | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
of doctors that are leaving emergency macro and the UK. -- A | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
I've just finished a night shift this morning and what concerns me is | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
the sustainability of the medical workforce in the future. I'm senior | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
staff nurse at A and I'm concerned about the number of nurses leaving | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
the profession and the impact on the NHS as a whole. We will hear much | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
more from them later. Let us know your thoughts with the usual ways of | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
getting in touch. Also on the programme - | :00:56. | :00:56. | |
life inside the capital of so-called A group of Daesh's religious police | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
rushed over and grabbed me. I tried to reason with | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
them but it was no use. "You were cursing out loud. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
Your punishment is 40 lashes". And at 9:30am, Jane Hill | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
will bring you all the glitz, glamour, winners and losers | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
from this year's Oscars. After six nominations, | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins Best Actor, as Spotlight defies | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
expectations to take Best Film. And it's not a been a bad night | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
for the Brits, either. Join me and the film critic | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Jason Solomons in 15 minutes. We're on BBC2 and the BBC | :01:32. | :01:50. | |
News Channel until 11am. A slightly different | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
programme today, because at 9:30am, Jane Hill will be | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
here to bring you all the winners And then after 10am, | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
we'll bring you more of the latest news and developing stories, | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
including a powerful interview with a 27-year-old whose father has | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
just died from alcoholism. We'll be looking at the impact | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
a parent's drinking can If you've grown up with an alcoholic | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
parent, do get in touch Texts will be charged | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
at the standard network rate. And of course, you can watch | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
the programme online wherever you are via the BBC News app | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
or our website bbc.co.uk/victoria. First this morning - | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
a recruitment crisis in the NHS. More than two-thirds of trusts | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
and health boards in the UK are actively trying to recruit | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
from abroad as they struggle to cope Tens of thousands of NHS nursing | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
and doctor posts are vacant. The figures - obtained by the BBC - | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
show that in December of last year, the NHS in England, | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland had more More than 6,000 doctor | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
posts were also vacant. Comparable figures | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
for Scotland were not available. Many hospitals in England are having | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
to rely on expensive agency staff to make up the shortfall | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
and that is driving a financial One solution is to recruit | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
from abroad. The figures show that more | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
than two-thirds of trusts and health boards across the UK are actively | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
seeking staff overseas. The Royal College of Nursing | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
and the British Medical Association blame poor workforce planning, | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
but the government says since 2010, more nurses and doctors have been | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
working in the NHS wards. So what impact does this have | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
on those working within the NHS? Dr David Rouse is an Emergency | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Medicine Registrar and Deputy Chair of the UK BMA Junior | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
Doctors Committee. Dr Reena Aggarwal is an obstetrician | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
and gynaecologist who has just And Joe Harrison is a nurse | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
who works in the A department of the Royal London | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Hospital in East London. He is originally from Ghana | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
and trained in this country. Thank you for joining us. . You have | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
been up all night working. Tell us about the impact where you are | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
working of staff shortages. Is it something you are aware of? You | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
can't work in the NHS and not be aware of the staff shortages, | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
whether you are a doctor or a nurse. For example, last night, on my own | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
labour ward, we were two midwives short wood is quite a common | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
occurrence across the country and in my own hospital as well. -- which is | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
quite. In terms of nurses, I often see shortages of nurses on the wards | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
during the week as well as at the weekends. In terms of junior | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
doctors, there's a huge shortage of junior doctors and gaps in the rotor | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
are ubiquitous across the country. In my own hospital last year, | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
between April and October, I worked a rotor of 14 registrars and we were | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
seven down and I was one of two full-time registrars that was | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
working on the rotor. On top of my ordinary shifts, I worked extra | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
shifts between April and October. By the time September rolled around, I | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
was so exhausted and burned-out that actually, at the time, I consider | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
reducing my shifts or actually giving up the profession. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Thankfully, I had a holiday and some sleep and got some perspective and I | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
remembered my vocation and why I love being a doctor. I'm still here | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
and I will carry on but this is a reality. The rotor gaps are driving | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
doctors out of the NHS. They are causing burn-out and it is a real | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
issue for sustainability in the future. What about the impact on | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
patients and care? It obviously has a huge impact if you have tired and | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
immoral life staff, it will have a huge impact. Yesterday, the real | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
impact of having two midwives down means that care has to change. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Patients have to wait. We had women on the antenatal ward that needed to | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
be induced. They are stable but we had to delay it because we had other | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
emergency to deal with. And we don't have the staff to be able to treat | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
those women or care for them. There are shortages now that the NHS is | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
facing a financial crisis and all hospitals are being asked to look at | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
their wage packets. As a result, hospitals are reducing the amount of | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
nurses on the floor and that impact care. For example, we have a triage | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
service in my hospital which used to have two full-time midwives who used | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
to staff it. Since December, it has only been one full-time midwives. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Obviously, the same number of women are coming to visit us which means | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
women wait longer and it means that it impacts patient care and | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
potentially it impacts patient care. You are an A nurse. What is it | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
like for you? I am not a political person. I don't want to say this in | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
a political arena. As a nation, if we are not healthy, we can't go to | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
work. The impact on a nation as a whole is that when nurses are given | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
a raw deal, they leave. It is patients who suffer. So on a daily | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
basis where you work, are you aware of shortages? Absolutely. A lot of | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
nurses are leaving, within the space of about six weeks, we have had | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
maybe ten or 15 leave because they are not getting the tools that they | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
need to nurse the way they want to do it. Therefore, the best thing for | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
them to do is to leave. Explain the impact of that of the Department. -- | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
on the department. It is the patient care, service users' care that is | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
the impact which is so terrible. When you are not given the resources | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
you need to give optimum care and so therefore, patients who come in get | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
the brunt of these shortages. David, you work in A as well and you | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
represent junior doctors with the BMA so you have the overview. What | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
is your perspective from your personal experiences and why it is | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
happening? From my personal experience, we are looking at | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
emergency departments where the numbers of patients attending are | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
skyrocketing. We are seeing 17 or 18% more attendance is now than we | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
did last year and the year before which impacts massively. We have | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
gaps in the rotors to rout the country in emergency medicine and we | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
are struggling to recruit and retain doctors in emergency medicine. I | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
think the two are linked. You look at the number of people attending | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
and you can see that people get burnt out because they can't cope | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
with the amount of demand being put on them. This is not just emergency | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
medicine. This is across the spectrum of specialities and not | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
just medicine, also nursing, physiotherapy and other | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
professionals are feeling the brunt of the strain being put on the NHS | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
at the moment. When you look at that and you think that doctors and | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
nurses are getting burnt out, they are voting with their beat. This has | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
been demonstrated by the fact that junior doctors going forward from | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
foundation years, the first two years after qualification, 15% are | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
choosing not to go into specialist training. They are either going | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
abroad, to Australia, all right choosing to leave the professional | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
together. That is compounding the problems and making burn-out more | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
likely. On top of that, the government is choosing to impose an | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
unfair contract on junior doctors at the moment when staff are the most | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
demoralised they have been in decades. It is not surprising | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
doctors are leaving the country. We wanted to get someone from the | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
government on but they could not put someone up. They said there are more | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
nurses and doctors in the NHS than ever before. 29,600 extra clinical | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
staff since 2010, of which there are more than 10,600 doctors and 10,600 | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
nurses. But you have to look at the numbers and thinking the government | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
are removing bursaries, making medicine and nursing in access of | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
all to students because it is very extensive. But they say in real | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
terms there are more clinical staff. But if you remove the amount going | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
in and you see more people leaving and the demand is still increasing, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
whether or not they have got more doctors or whether they are saying | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
there are, people are leaving in their droves so the number does not | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
stack up to what we see on the shop floor. It is like putting new wine | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
into old wineskins, the same problem repeats itself. We saw this in the | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
mid-2000s when nurses and other health care professionals were | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
brought in from different countries like the Philippines and Zimbabwe. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
They have left in their droves. It is the same problem. What I would | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
like to say is that the government says there are 10,000 more doctors | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
since 2010. There probably are but what David has been saying is that | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the junior doctor contract particularly has created such | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
negative publicity, particularly in the last six or eight months that | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
medical school applications are down in the last two years and statistics | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
show that they are almost 15% down so young 17 and 18-year-old people, | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
who have always wanted to be doctors, are now looking at the NHS | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
and the government and the contract and are not choosing to do medicine. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
You said you had to remember your vocation at one point. Do you all | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
feel like that? I chose to be a doctor when I was four and I've only | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
ever wanted to be a doctor and only ever wanted to work in the NHS. Over | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the last eight or ten months, with the junior doctors battle and we all | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
understand the NHS is under huge strain, we are the front line | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
doctors, we do this every day, front line nurses as well, we accept that | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
and take the job as it is. But the current rhetoric is really causing | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
us to think again. You have to realise as well is that these are | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
people who are not leaving medicine, they are choosing to stay with their | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
vocation and be doctors but they are choosing not to do it in the NHS | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
which speaks volumes. Thank you for joining us. Jason on Facebook says | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
look after the staff, when we have been if the treatment, they work | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
until they break, staying beyond their shift to help out, so busy | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
they dare not take a break and eating in the toilet because they | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
are so guilty about taking a break. They do their job so look after | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
them. Thank you for joining us. Keep your thoughts coming in and there | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
will be more on vacancies and recruitment in the NHS onto night's | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
Inside Out for viewers in England at 7:30pm on BBC One one. We will talk | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
more about this a bit later. Let's bring you right up to date with the | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
main news this morning. An Oscar at last for | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio, after more The 41-year-old wins | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Best Actor for his role in survival epic The Revenant - | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
and uses his speech to call Thank you all for this | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
amazing award tonight. Let us not take this | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
planet for granted. I do not take | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
tonight for granted. In a moment, Jane Hill and Jason | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
Solomons will have all the news from the Oscars. | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
The NHS is struggling with a shortage of doctors | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
A BBC investigation has revealed that most trusts in England, | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland are now recruiting abroad, as they try | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
to fill tens of thousands of vacant posts. | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
A warning of tough times ahead for shop workers. | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
Almost one in three could lose their jobs in the next ten years, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
according to the British Retail Consortium. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
It says the High Street will be increasingly squeezed by a switch | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
to online shopping, as well as rising costs | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
from the National Living Wage and higher taxes. | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
The Raspberry Pi has become the most popular British computer ever made. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
British astronaut Tim Peake took one into space, | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
and total sales are now expected to top 8 million. | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
The new Raspberry model has been unveiled with a faster processor | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Olly Foster - | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
and Manchester City were the big winners to start football's | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
They have been handing out the Oscars overnight in Hollywood but | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
the first award of the football season was won yesterday by | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
Manchester City who beat Liverpool in the League Cup final at Wembley | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
on penalties with a surprise lifetime achievement award for Willy | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Caballero. He has been City's upkeep or all season, let in five against | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Chelsea last week in the FA Cup but they stuck with him and he saved | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
three of the spot kicks. The best actor award, at 10am we will show | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
you how Louis Van Gaal of Manchester United threw himself to the ground | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
in frustration at Arsenal's antics and a lot of Internet spruce of the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
big Dutchman lying prostrate in front of the fourth official has | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
been doing the rounds. But they beat Arsenal with Marcus Rashford, surely | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
nailed on the best newcomer, two goals on his debut and another two | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
yesterday. With Spurs winning yesterday, the title race is getting | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
really interesting. I will be back at 10am. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
After 10am, we will get the impact of growing up with an alcoholic on | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
children. But first, Jane Hill has an Oscars special. | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins his first Oscar | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
Thank you all for this amazing award. Let us not take this planet | :15:54. | :16:06. | |
for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you very much. | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
And the Oscar goes to Spotlight. Investigative journalism drama | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
spotlight surprises the critics There was also British success | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
for Mark Rylance, Sam Smith and the documentary, | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
Amy. The race row continued | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
to dominate the awards, with host Chris Rock | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
tackling the issue head-on. We'll have all the glitz | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
and glamour from the red carpet with the low-down on this | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
year's Oscars fashion. And our entertainment correspondent | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
Lizo Mzimba will be on the red Well, this was the night when the | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
Best Film went to Spotlight. The Spotlight was thrown on the | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Hollywood diversity row and there were lots of great British winners | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
and we have been speaking to lots of them as they come past about their | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
wins and about what this evening said about diversity, Hollywood and | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
the few fewer. -- future. | :17:13. | :17:26. | |
I'm lacking in voice this morning, but the | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
film critic Jason Solomons will be helping me go through all the award | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
winners and losers and Harper's Bazaar's Jo Glynn Smith | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
is here to go through the night's fashion hits and misses. | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
Let's have a quick look at who the main winners were. | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
The Best Picture Award went to Spotlight, a film | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
about investigative reporters at the Boston Globe who uncovered | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
child abuse by Catholic priests in Massachusetts. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar, at the sixth time of asking, | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
for his starring role in survival epic, The Revenant. | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
The Best Actress award went to Brie Larson for playing | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Alejandro Inarritu took best director award for the | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
He won for The Revenant, following up his success | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Jason let's start with the issue of year with Birdman. | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
Jason let's start with the issue of diversity. We saw that | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
Jason let's start with the issue of long time in the run-up to the | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Academy Awards this year and really striking that they didn't try and | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
ignore the topic and they didn't try and Bury it? It overshadowed the | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
build up. I think rightly so. I don't think stfs a stellar year for | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
the films. I don't think any film was particularly outstanding. As it | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
happens, the most important thing was this diversity issue and Chris | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Rock as host, he took that on brilliantly on the night. He accused | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Hollywood of being racist. He said, of course you're racist. It was | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
brilliant satire, it was very smart stand-up for him. He was the perfect | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
host for the perfect night and they managed to squeeze a lot of | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
diversity into the awards. There were winners from the gay | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
communitiment there were winners from the Mexican community, I don't | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
know how Donald Trump will be taking that. This was a politicised Oscars. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
I think in a way cinema took a back seat. It was about what films could | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
mean in a wider scale. What the industry can mean, what narratives | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
can mean. I think it was an interesting, maybe a watershed | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
moment for the Oscars, the ceremony was one of the most interesting I | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
have seen in many, many years. I didn't know what Chris Rock might | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
say or what surprise might be or what film might win. For that reason | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
it was a really edgy ceremony. Let's hear from Chris Rock from, from the | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
host. To care about who won best cinema to | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
go grafr. Is Hollywood racist? To care about who won best cinema to | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
You're right, Hollywood is racist. Well, I amary here at the academy, | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
otherwise known as Well, I amary here at the academy, | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
People's Choice Awards. You realise if they nominated host, I wouldn't | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
even get this job. Let's go to the Vanity Fair after | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
party. Lizo Mzimba is there for us. Another long night for you, but I'm | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
really, really interested to hear what people have been saying to you | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
there at the Vanity Fair party about Chris Rock and the way he addressed | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
the issue of diversity? Well, we have had so many of the winners and | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
nominees in general, celebrities coming through the Vanity Fair party | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
over the past few hours and of course, as you say, one of the big | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
topics everyone was talking about was diversity. And particularly how | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Chris Rock handled it. I spoke to one previous winner, and one current | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
winner about what they thought about it all. Whoopi Goldberg and tonight, | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
Mark Rylance, Best Supporting Actor for the Cold War drama, Bridge of | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
Spies. I spoke to them both about how they felt it was | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Spies. I spoke to them both about evening. I feel like when you hire | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Chris Rock, whatever is happening will come through what he says. He | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
was magnificent. He pulled no punches and he wasn't polite and I | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
loved it. I think it is not just Hollywood that he is responding to, | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
of course, it is to do with the killings of people by police and the | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
number of African-Americans who are in prison. There is a deep issue | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
that needs still to be addressed. Of course, England, we were the ones | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
who brought so many African slaves over here. It is an issue that | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
affects us as well. Hopefully the beginning of things getting better | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
is people being honest about it and Chris did an amazing job to be able | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
to be honest and be funny. Mark Rylance, one of a number of British | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
winners tonight, we had Jenny Bevan taking home Best Costume design and | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
the team behind the documentary Amy won best documentary and the best | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
song went to Sam Smith. I spoke to them as they came through the red | :22:52. | :22:52. | |
carpet here. You have been successful | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
at the Brits and the Grammys before. It's only downhill from here, that's | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
the truth. This has been a huge evening. We | :23:05. | :23:22. | |
have seen the major winners go through, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
Larson, Mark Rylance, Alicia Vikander and Taylor Swift. They are | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
partying away and enjoying the evening and celebrating Hollywood | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
and show business' biggest night. I'm going to wrap up after an | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
incredible 24 hours of awards and parties to celebrate the Oscars. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
Lizo Mzimba at the Vanity Fair party in Los Angeles. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Jason, Leonardo DiCaprio did he win because he was the right person to | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
be picking this award up or was there a little bit of the academy | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
going, "It is 22 years since we first nominated him for an Oscar? ?" | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio has become an enormous star. I think tonight he | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
proved his worth as the leading actor. His speech was excellent. He | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
is a massive movie star. The Revenant is not my favourite. He | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
made a big hit both in America and here. It proves that he would have | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
been a great silent movie star as much as a talking movie star as | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
well. He is old school Hollywood. He is Hollywood through and through. | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio was a povy star throughout this epic movie of The | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Revenant. It would have been remiss if he never won an Oscar. I think | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio deserves it. Let's hear a little bit from the ceremony. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
Thank you for this amazing award tonight. | :25:15. | :25:15. | |
Let us not take this planet for granted. | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
I do not take tonight for granted, thank you so much. | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
So striking. That's one of the things that can be fun about Oscars | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
night. He took that award, the director, took best director, but | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
not Best Film and that film that you and I enjoyed so much, Spotlight was | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
chosen as Best Film? That's right, at the BAFTAs, Leonardo DiCaprio | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
went on to seal a win. Spotlight surprised everyone. Read out by | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
Morgan Freeman, to gasps of the room. He looked surprised I thought. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
God himself is surprised by this. The last time this happened when | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Crash won and the room was shocked. It beat Brokeback Mountain. I like | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
Spotlight. It was my favourite of the contenders. It is a solid, very | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
liberal credential Hollywood picture in a year when Hollywood wants to | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
show off its liberal credentials. This is about journalists, this is | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
about building your case painstakingly and it is about | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
passion and getting the story right. I'm right behind Spotlight and I'm | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
delighted it won. It is a journalists film, rightly or | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
wrongly, perhaps we will hear a little from the ceremony. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
This film gave a voice to survivors, and this Oscar amplifies that voice, | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
which we hope will become a choir and will resonate all the way | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
It is about the systematic, systemic abuse in the church that goes all | :26:42. | :26:54. | |
the way up to the Vatican. Yes, it is about journalists, but let's not | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
forget, it is about victims and about abuse in the church. All the | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
issues, it was a very issue-led Oscars, we heard Leonardo DiCaprio | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
and Chris Rock there and abuse was the winning film. It was an issue | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
movie at the end of the day that won. Yes, that's what the academy | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
wanted. Let's see a little from the film. | :27:16. | :27:28. | |
It is time, Robbie. It is time. They knew and they let it happen. Two | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
kids. OK. It could have been you. It could have been me. It could have | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
been any of us. We got to nail these scumbags and show people that nobody | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
can get away with, not a priest or a cardinal or a Pope. | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
A performance I really liked. He was nominated for supporting actor, he | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
didn't win, but gives it his all. Good casting there. Let's talk about | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
Best Actress, Brie Larson, until how many months ago, with respect how | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
many people heard of Brie Larson? They probably thought she was a | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
cheese in a Swedish deli. It is a victory for an extraordinary | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
performance in Room which is probably my favourite of all of the | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
films that were nominated. It is the film that got emotion and smot and | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
heart in the mouth moments. She plays a mother who had her child | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
kidnapped and she raises this child and protects him from the terrible | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
situation they are in and has to protect him from the world himself. | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
Brie Larson gives it her everything as this protective mother trying to | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
skull. The world to protect her child. It is a lioness as a | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
performance and it is brilliant. We never seen this actress before and I | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
think that probably helps if she was a famous actress, you would kind of | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
- as she is a blank canvass, she has come out of nowhere and she is a | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
brilliantly adaptly actress. She was in a comedy and unrecognisable | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
between the two. We have got a real star actress on our hands. It is a | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
hard watch that film as a woman. Let's hear a little from it. Are you | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
even listening to me? When I was a little older, when I was 17, I was | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
walking home from school... Where was I? You were still up in heaven. | :29:30. | :29:37. | |
There was a guy who precontinued his dog was sick. What's the dog's name? | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
Jack, there wasn't a dog. He was trying to trick me. OK. There wasn't | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
a dog. Old Nick stole me? I want a different story. No, this is the | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
story that you get. Oh just watching that very short clip reminds me how | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
difficult it is. But it is an extraordinary film and I think worth | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
mentioning the little boy, and they brought him on stage. Did he present | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
an award? Yes, he presented an award. He is still only eight. He is | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
nine now. He is terrific in the movie. I think he should have been | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
nominated too. Maybe children aren't diverse enough in Hollywood. He made | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
a lovely joke to Chris Rock about how he loved him as the zebra in | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
Madagascar. The two of them spark off each other. Brie Larson referred | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
to him as her partner in all of this and her performance wouldn't be | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
anything without his performance as well. Yes, staggering. If you | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
haven't seen it, it is staggering to see what a very young child can | :30:39. | :30:39. | |
achieve. One of my favourite performances was | :30:40. | :30:49. | |
Alicia Vikander in the Danish Girl. Anyone who see the film think she | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
could probably have been supported for leading actress. It was a nice, | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
fine line, politically, they got her in there and she won the supporting | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
actor because it is the biggest part in the supporting actress category. | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
Many people might not have heard of her but she had a fantastic year and | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
been in many other films this year as well that this was the one for | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
her, playing the partner who has to undergo the patience of a saint as | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
she supports her partner, played by Eddie Redmayne, as he undergoes a | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
sex transition operation. It is a very strong performance and the best | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
thing in the film, in fact, the Danish Girl, everyone thinks it | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
could refer to Eddie Redmayne bid it could easily revert to Alicia | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
Vikander. She is Swedish, of course. -- easily refer to. She was in the | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
film that was awarded for special effects to night, Ex Machina, | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
playing a robot. She's a versatile and beautiful. At the BAFTA awards, | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
she wanted everyone to know that she was going out with Michael | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
Fassbender and he gave her a big kiss when she once a night. A bit of | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
back page gossip as well but sometimes, the Oscars, suddenly, | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
Brie Larson and Alicia Vikander, a new generation being passed on, one | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
eye on the future and those to signal that. Absolutely. Let's be | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
slightly indulgent for a few minutes if we may add talk about the British | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
success. We are broadcasting around the world but it is nice to mention, | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
not least our very own Mark Rylance, extraordinary, there he is on stage | :32:25. | :32:29. | |
with his Oscar for Bridge of Spies and yet so many of us in Britain | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
have watched him on stage as a big theatre actor for years and now | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
suddenly everyone in America knows who he is. Andy Watts in Was Call, | :32:37. | :32:44. | |
which transferred very well to America and success on Broadway with | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
Jerusalem. He's a tremendous act and Easter Mendis in this film because | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
it is a real supporting role. Tom Hanks is the leading actor in that | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
but Mark Rylance brings a colour to it as well and is absolutely superb | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
as a Russian spy, a manic used being a Russian spy and we never know, he | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
is an enigma all the way through and as you can see in the clip, he | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
brings a delightful mystery to his delivery. Let us see it. | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
How did we do? In there? | :33:13. | :33:14. | |
Apparently you are not an American citizen. | :33:15. | :33:16. | |
And according to your boss, you are not | :33:17. | :33:20. | |
I love that like! He says it several times in the film. It has become the | :33:21. | :33:45. | |
catchphrase of the movie and maybe it is his catchphrase now, although | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
Mark Rylance could never be reduced to a catchphrase. He's a tremendous | :33:50. | :33:52. | |
man, re-energise the Globe Theatre in London and is taking theatre to | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
another level. Neither great performer. Sam Smith as well, best | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
song for the James Bond theme. I was delighted because everyone said Lady | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
Gaga was a shoe in and they did not like the Sam Smith is when it was | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
reached and it was quite a controversial bond theme but I loved | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
it and I think it works brilliantly, not just as a single on its own but | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
in the opening credits of the film, it works particularly well with the | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
spectral images in Specter and I thought it was liberally and | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
performance tonight. If he had not sealed the win already, he was | :34:24. | :34:25. | |
terrific on stage tonight. # As the stars begin to gather | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
And the light begins to fade Lady Gaga, in terms of performance | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
on the night, lots of emotion, taking us back to what we were | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
saying about some serious strands running through the evening's show. | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
She got a standing ovation for her big, choreographed performance of a | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
song about sexual abuse as well. She was introduced by the vice | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
president, Joe Biden, who also got a standing ovation. It was a political | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
Oscars, when he said, "My friend, Lady Gaga is going to talk about | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
abuse through her song". It was the right response to the song but it | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
was unusual because everyone was happy to show their liberal | :35:05. | :35:07. | |
credentials on stage, show how liberal they are, and Chris Rock | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
right at the beginning said, "You may be liberal buddies to have a | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
long way to go". That was the message, definitely best foot but | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
delighted for Sam Smith, who in his speech was wonderful, said he is the | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
first openly gay man to win an Oscar and was proud of it and dedicated | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
his award to the LGBT community. Go, Sam! Let's talk about one of our | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
other favourite of the year, Best documentary, which won at the BAFTA | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
's a few weeks ago and Ami Pickerill the Oscar in LA. -- Amy picked up. | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
I'm thrilled for Asif Kapadia because he's a friend and it's a | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
great film but did it previously with Senna which was overlooked by | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
the Academy, which was maybe even a better film that but this is what | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
happens with politics. Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best actor after a | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
while and Asif Kapadia has taken the documentary to a new cinematic | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
level. Both of these documentaries have been massive box office hit in | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
the UK and America. It tells the story of the girl next door, Amy, | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
this girl who grew up so lively and then became tragically an fulfilled | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
by stardom and drugs. It is a tragic story. It is desperately sad. | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
Brilliantly told. I'm thrilled for them. And another win for Britain. | :36:25. | :36:29. | |
And another win for Jenny Beavan, again taking costumes for mad Max, | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
in a repeat of the BAFTAs. Yes, without the bad jokes by Stephen Fry | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
this time! She is an extraordinary costume designer because anyone that | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
sees her would think she does not look like a costume designer but she | :36:44. | :36:47. | |
won it for mad Max with this post apocalyptic look that she gave it. | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
Not a lot goes on in the film. You can't look at the scenery because | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
it's all an orange desert so the costumes became very important in | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
delineating the differences with the characters. That is why she has one. | :36:59. | :37:06. | |
My favourite was Sandy Powell or Carol but I can see why Jenny Beavan | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
took it because people have been impressed with how the costumes have | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
become part of the figures and part of the landscape as well, not just | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
the characters in that film. That is what you can take away from the post | :37:18. | :37:23. | |
apocalyptic doom that mad Max inhabits. I must say that the film | :37:24. | :37:28. | |
also carried off six Craft award so a big night for that. A big total. | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
I hope there was no post apocalyptic fashion on the red carpet! What was | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
your overall take on the night? Quite often, we have been, off the | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
shoulder, on the shoulder, it is amazing how some looks come through. | :37:46. | :37:46. | |
What struck you? It was the ultimate red carpet and | :37:47. | :37:55. | |
for me, lots of plunging neckline is, dresses that went right to the | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
waist or quite far down so definitely a theme in that sense. | :37:59. | :38:03. | |
Lots of column dresses rather than big ones. And then have a rioting of | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
colours. I thought there were some very feminine, beautiful looks, | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
here. Brie Larson, I love Saoirse Ronan's dress as well, the emerald | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
green, beautiful Calvin Klein dress. She wore show part in a ring is, | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
different colours, which seems to have got quite a lot of notice. -- | :38:23. | :38:29. | |
Chopard Eranga. I always think Cate Blanchett does the red carpet well. | :38:30. | :38:36. | |
An Armani Prive dress. It might divide people because there's a lot | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
going on, Swarovski crystals. This is a beautiful dual boot dress from | :38:41. | :38:49. | |
Jennifer Lawrence, stunning look. -- Dior couture dress. You were with us | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
at the BAFTAs in London a few weeks ago and we were in agreement that | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
Cate Blanchett stole the show so let's start with that picture of her | :38:58. | :39:07. | |
in LA. Very, very detailed dress... That is Cate Blanchett, there. That | :39:08. | :39:14. | |
is the picture from earlier. It fits her beautifully. There's a lot of | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
detail. You can see feathers and crystals and flowers. But it is | :39:21. | :39:22. | |
beautifully cut. Another low neckline. And a really fresh, | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
springlike colour, really beautiful. I love it although I think it will | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
divide people because it is quite a lot of dress. She wears it | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
beautifully, as ever. I thought it was a great dress for the red carpet | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
evening. It looks lovely close-up when you can see the detail. Perhaps | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
from further back, it looks a bit fussy but when you see the detail, | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
it's lovely. Similar to the BAFTA dress, she loves detail in her | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
garments and with couture, that is word beauty and craft and art comes | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
into it and she wears it beautifully. And you mentioned | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
Saoirse Ronan who I thought was fantastic in Brooklyn, held the film | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
together and was wonderful but I think you thought she stood out on | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
the red carpet. It was a beautiful dress, the emerald green which | :40:12. | :40:14. | |
complements her pale skin tone, another slightly lower neckline, | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
obviously, she is slightly younger and with the long earrings, she has | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
not put on too much jewellery so the dress really, you really see the | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
actors which is what is important about the stresses, that they are | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
not wearing the actress, the actress is wearing them. -- important about | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
the dresses. She looks great with the loose hair and the simple make | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
up as well. Can we see an image of Julianne Moore because you die were | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
reflecting earlier about how graceful she looks? Was she wearing | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
Chanel? Yes, Chanel couture, another plunging neckline. But I thought | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
this was a beautiful dress, well structured and then fanning out at | :40:56. | :40:58. | |
the bottom and if you looked more closely, you could see that the | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
skirt was lazy. It is hard to tell because it is black but the | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
attention to detail in distress, as with all couture dresses, is | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
stunning. -- in this dress. She looks elegant. A quick thought, and | :41:13. | :41:21. | |
easier candour, we love her as an actress and -- Alicia Blagg candour, | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
we love her as an actress and winning, but will the dress divided | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
critics? Orange Mackreth I thought it was sweet, and she is young but | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
it looks fresh but it will divide people I'm sure. Very diplomatic! | :41:33. | :41:40. | |
Thank you for joining us. There's more on the BBC News website about | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
the fashion comedy films, the winners and losers. Thanks to my | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
guests. See you again at the same time next year. Goodbye. | :41:50. | :42:05. | |
Good morning, it's been a cold start to the day but we have had some | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
beautiful sunrises as sent in in some pictures. This was taken | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
earlier from Fraser Brown. It has also been rather frosty with some | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
frosty pictures from Swindon. It makes you feel cold just looking at | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
it. Temperatures widely fell below freezing overnight. This one shows | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
another frosty start in Suffolk but of course, where temperatures | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
tumbled, we have clear skies and we are looking at some sunshine. For | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
the rest of the week, we are looking at a chilly winds and wintry | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
showers, some of those at lower levels this morning and sunny | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
spells. It will turn colder. On Tuesday, we hang on to milder air | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
but they are replaced by the blue air as we head into Friday and | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
Saturday morning. You can see that it is going to be generally a cold | :42:49. | :42:54. | |
week. Rain coming in from the west, following sleet and snow across | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
Northern Ireland at the moment. Look out for ice from this. Also looking | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
at Hill Snow and the level of it will rise as we go through the day. | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
For the rest of the UK, primarily England, a beautiful start the day. | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
More clouds developing as we head into the afternoon. Turning the | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
sunshine hazy but it will be rather nice and temperature values similar | :43:15. | :43:17. | |
to yesterday. In light winds, it will feel not as bitter as | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
yesterday. Into the south-west of England, bit more cloud building | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
ahead of the rain and for Wales, a similar story, the cloud building | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
ahead of the rain coming in and any snow will largely be on the hills. | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
As temperatures rise across Northern Ireland, sleet and snow at lower | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
levels will Peter out and it will be replaced by rain, which will be on | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
and off through the day. In Scotland, a mixture of rain, sleet | :43:43. | :43:45. | |
and Hill Snow and in the shelter feels like the Grampians, we are | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
looking at some sunshine. Through the evening and overnight, a weather | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
front bearing all that rain continues to push eastward and | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
southwards. Another band comes in hot on its heels to bring persistent | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
rain to the west. It is going to be cold in some central and eastern | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
areas by the end of the night but in the West, the temperature will be | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
rising. Not as cold. For some, it will be 10 degrees colder tomorrow | :44:11. | :44:13. | |
morning than it was this morning. You can see how the band of cloud, | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
rain and also windy conditions sweep towards the south and east tomorrow, | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
leaving behind a brighter day. Some cloud | :44:24. | :44:24. | |
leaving behind a brighter day. Some and some of those will be wintry in | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
the hills. Mild in the south, not as mild further north and temperatures | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
continuing to come down as we go through the week. Looking at why we | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
have an array of fronts, the first one clears and the next one comes | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
in, wrapped around this area of low pressure. You can see the ice bars | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
are quite close together, indicating it will be windy. On Wednesday, the | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
end of the rain clearing away and behind it, brighter skies once | :44:51. | :44:53. | |
again, quite unsettled on Wednesday. A mixture of cloud, sunshine and | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
also showers. But things settle down a touch on Thursday so some wintry | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
showers, especially in the East but largely dry with some sunshine but | :45:03. | :45:03. | |
feeling a bit nippy. Welcome to the programme | :45:04. | :45:10. | |
if you've just joined us. Coming up before 11am: | :45:11. | :45:25. | |
a recruitment crisis in the NHS. Hospital workers have been telling | :45:26. | :45:27. | |
us about the impact it's having. I worked extra shifts and I was so | :45:28. | :45:36. | |
exhausted and so burnt out that actually at the time I was | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
considering reducing my shifts or actually giving up the profession. | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
Lots of you getting in touch with your experiences. | :45:45. | :45:46. | |
Jay on Twitter says, "the goodwill" that oiled NHS | :45:47. | :45:48. | |
to keep going has gone due to continual change and low morale. | :45:49. | :45:51. | |
Forbes on Facebook, "No-one wants to be a part of a system | :45:52. | :46:06. | |
that is being deliberately destroyed." | :46:07. | :46:07. | |
Do keep your thoughts coming in over the next hour. | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
Also on the programme - what impact can growing up | :46:12. | :46:13. | |
with an alcoholic parent have on children? | :46:14. | :46:15. | |
We'll talk to one 27-year-old whose father has recently died | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
And Jane's already brought you all the winners and losers | :46:20. | :46:21. | |
Before 11am, we'll focus on diversity and hear how host | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
Chris Rock poked fun at the Oscars so white controversy. | :46:25. | :46:32. | |
I'm here at the Academy Awards otherwise known as the White | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
People's Choice Awards. The main news, an Oscar at last for | :46:38. | :46:51. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio. After more than 20 years in Hollywood, the | :46:52. | :46:57. | |
41-year-old won Best Actor for his role in The Revenant. Thank you all | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much. The NHS is | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
struggling with a shortage of doctors and nurses in much of the | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
country. A BBC investigation has given a snapshot revealing trusts in | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
England and Wales and Northern Ireland to be actively recruiting | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
abroad as they try to fill tens of thousands of vacant posts. This is | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
impacting massively. We have got rota gaps throughout the country in | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
emergency medicine and we are struggling to recruit doctors to | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
emergency medicine. A warning of tough times ahead for shopworkers. | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
Almost one in three, or 900,000, could lose their jobs in the next | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
ten years according to the British Retail Consortium. The squeeze will | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
be caused by more online shopping, higher taxes and the national Living | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
Wage. The Raspberry Pie has become the | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
most popular British computer made. British astronaut, Tim Peake took | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
one into space and sales are expected to top eight million. A new | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
model has been unveiled. Customers in the UK will soon be | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
able to buy fresh and frozen food online from Amazon, the retailer | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
signed a deal with the Morrisons supermarket chain to provide the new | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
service which is expected to begin later this year. The German | :48:22. | :48:30. | |
chancellor, Angela Merkel, says Greece could plunge into chaos. | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
Austria led a number of states who put up fences stranding migrants on | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
the Greek side of the border. Now the sport. Here is Olly. There was | :48:38. | :48:47. | |
an Oscar winning performance as well from Louis van Gaal which I think | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
you will be talking about. We will be, good morning to you again. | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
Football, football, this morning, the League Cup isn't top of club's | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
priorities at the start of the season, especially those of the | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
stature of Manchester City and Liverpool, but it was a great final | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
at Wembley yesterday. It went to penalties. City made one change to | :49:05. | :49:10. | |
their starting line-up. Bringing back their Cup keeper. He let in | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
five against Chelsea in the FA Cup last weekend. So there was some | :49:15. | :49:22. | |
speculation that Manuel Pellegrini might draft Joe Hart into the team. | :49:23. | :49:27. | |
The City manager said he had to keep his word because it wouldn't have | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
been right to drop him. The Argentinian paid him back and then | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
some with three saves to clinch the first siller ware of the season. The | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
hero of the hour was the goalkeeper to give City a fourth League Cup | :49:42. | :49:52. | |
title. Very happy, dese everybodied his | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
moment. I prefer to lose a title than to lose my words. So there | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
wasn't any chance for him not to play. What a weekend in the Premier | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
League. Leicester went five points clear on Saturday. Arsenal and Spurs | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
were playing catch-up yesterday and Arsenal slipped up at Manchester | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
United losing 3-2 and what a few days it has been for Marcus | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
Rashford. He scored twice in the Europa League on Thursday. | :50:22. | :50:23. | |
Yesterday, was his Premier League debut and he followed up with | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
another two goals, the 18-year-old brought the feel-good factor back to | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
Old Trafford. This almost got the biggest cheer of the day. Louis van | :50:31. | :50:33. | |
Gaal claiming that Arsenal players were diving and just in case the | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
fourth official didn't understand, he did that! The crowd loved it. | :50:38. | :50:44. | |
Mike Dean didn't even raise a smile, but whenever Louis van Gaal's rain | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
ends that will be a defining image. Can we see it again? I can't see | :50:51. | :50:58. | |
that enough. I love it. We sclapblet it is all over the internet. A lot | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
of people are having a lot of fun with this over the last 24 hours. | :51:03. | :51:12. | |
Various spoofs. How about this one in the Oscar tradition. This is him | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
doing his Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant the opening scene with a | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
bear. Here he is crowd surfing. What about having fun on a slide? There | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
are a lot of them that we couldn't show you at this time of the | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
morning, Joanna. Remember that picture of a Manchester night out | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
that went viral before Christmas, there is LVG looking worse for wear. | :51:37. | :51:43. | |
It is not that dissimilar from the original. He gets criticised for | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
just sitting on the bench. He has gun to another extreme now. It is a | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
turn about. Everybody loves him until they lose their next match, | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
perhaps! I promise you at 10.30am, I will show you him falling over once | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
more. Nothing else to talk about apart from the football at White | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
Hart Lane. An important win for Spurs against Swansea City. That saw | :52:08. | :52:14. | |
them go above Arsenal in the table. Danny Rose with the winner. A great | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
day for Spurs fans with the Gunners losing as well. But no title talk | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
from the manager yet. For me, it is not important. Our opening is more | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
important now, our perform ns and take the three points today. We will | :52:31. | :52:39. | |
see. We have a lot of games ahead. 11 Premier League games ahead. A lot | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
of points. It is important that we focus on that. | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
That's about it. I can see people scrabbling getting the LVG picture | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
for you. If we haven't got it for you, I will fall over myself! | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
Actually, that might be better. No, we'll have both, please. See you | :53:01. | :53:01. | |
later, thank you. Hello and thank you for joining us | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
this morning, welcome to the programme if you've just | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
joined us, we're on BBC Two Over the next hour we'll keep you up | :53:13. | :53:15. | |
to date with the latest breaking Lots of you getting in touch | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
with your experience of the NHS facing a shortage | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
of qualified staff. We were speaking to three NHS | :53:25. | :53:30. | |
workers earlier and Julie e-mailed to say, "I was in A on Friday | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
morning and again last night with my 14-year-old. Staff were over worked | :53:35. | :53:37. | |
and under staffed. I fear the number of hours staff are working and | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
catastrophic mistakes that can and are being made." John says, "I am a | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
nurse and experienced in acute and community settings. I was forced to | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
retire after 31 years in the service at the frontline due to | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
whistle-blowing, bad and unsafe practise. My son is a junior doctor | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
and considering leaving to go into research if the new contract is | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
imposed, imposed." You can get in touch | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
in the usual ways - If you text, you will be charged | :54:12. | :54:14. | |
at the standard network rate. Wherever you are you can | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
watch our programme online via the BBC News app | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
or our website: bbc.co.uk/victoria Now what impact can growing up | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
with an alcoholic parent The National Association | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
for Children of Alcoholics say there are 2.6 million children | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
living with an alcoholic parent, but local authorities don't | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
have a plan for dealing with them. Radio 1's Newsbeat is running | :54:40. | :54:41. | |
a special programme looking We can speak now to Charlotte | :54:42. | :54:43. | |
Hayman, who's 27 and from Cambridge. Her father Ian died in December | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
after losing his fight Charlotte thank you for coming in. | :54:49. | :54:58. | |
You have decided to speak because you feel that children of alcoholic | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
parents need more help. Tell us what your experiences have been. So I | :55:04. | :55:11. | |
sort of first realised and knew about my dad's struggle, I guess | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
early teens and it all came to a head when I was at university about | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
17 and I just, other than my family and my sister and my mum, and a few | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
close friends, I didn't really have anyone to talk to about it and I | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
didn't really know what I could do and there is all of these feelings | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
that you have and that are going on and you don't really know how to | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
process it. It is a very taboo disease and it is not common place | :55:42. | :55:47. | |
to talk out about it. It leads to embarrassing situations and things. | :55:48. | :55:50. | |
So when you say there were a few people to talk about it, would you | :55:51. | :55:52. | |
have wanted to or people to talk about it, would you | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
want to keep it hidden? It was tricky because in terms of perhaps | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
want to keep it hidden? It was the schools would have been willing | :56:02. | :56:04. | |
to talk, but then I didn't, I didn't want to embarrass my dad that way. | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
You don't want to open yourself up to that judgement and things because | :56:10. | :56:16. | |
people either laugh off alcoholism or think that it's sort, they have a | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
perception of an alcoholic person that isn't necessarily true. So I | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
think and then there were groups that my mum went to for partners or | :56:25. | :56:30. | |
families of struggling alcoholics, but again, as a teenager, that's not | :56:31. | :56:34. | |
necessarily what you want to, as a child, it is not necessarily what | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
you want to be going into, a group situation kind of, chatting with | :56:40. | :56:42. | |
grown-ups about this sort of thing of the so there wasn't, without my | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
friends and sister, I think, I would have struggled massively dealing | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
with it because I think it is good to talk about these things and help | :56:52. | :56:57. | |
work it out and realise that it is not your fault and there is not much | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
you can do to help and things like or find out ways that you can | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
necessarily help your parents. When you say work it out, tell us how you | :57:08. | :57:13. | |
sort of worked out what was going on? What were your first | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
experiences? What was the first things you started to see and you | :57:18. | :57:19. | |
had to sort of piece together what was going on? We'd sort of find a | :57:20. | :57:28. | |
glass of wine in the morning, but it would be stashed down the side of | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
the sofa rather than openly in the kitchen like I had drink last night, | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
it began to be hidden and then you would clean the house and find a | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
bottle of wine stashed behind the sofa and things like that and then | :57:43. | :57:48. | |
obviously when dad came out and sort of said he was struggling and | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
perhaps he should stop drinking, that's when it became really private | :57:54. | :57:59. | |
and very hidden and then if you ever did find wine, you would be stuck | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
between a rock and a hard place, not knowing whether to tell my mum or | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
whether to keep the secret and help him sort of hide it and then... It | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
must be so confusing for a child. It is really difficult. You don't, all | :58:15. | :58:16. | |
of a sudden, you're stuck in between of a sudden, you're stuck in between | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
your parents and although, you know, my mum loved him so much that she | :58:22. | :58:27. | |
got frustrated with him so if he was drinking it might be an argument | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
because she was frustrated because she herself didn't know how to help | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
him or what to do and therefore, didn't know how to, you know, we're | :58:37. | :58:41. | |
not going to stand a chance if adults don't always know how to deal | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
with it. As a child you just have no clue where to go or who to talk to. | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
And what was your relationship like with him? It was really good. He was | :58:52. | :58:58. | |
a great dad and he completely changed. I guess thinking about it, | :58:59. | :59:03. | |
it is because it's very gradual. I was a proper daddy's girl. So I was | :59:04. | :59:11. | |
very close with him. And then in my 20s, that sort of diminished and I | :59:12. | :59:19. | |
distanced myself from him more and more because it became more and more | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
difficult to know that he was hiding this from so many people and to | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
either have to help him lie or to be the person to break my mum's heart | :59:31. | :59:37. | |
again. His family's heart again. By telling them that he, you know, he | :59:38. | :59:41. | |
is still drinking and things like that. So it's... The way you talk, | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
it is like you lost your father a long time before he sadly died | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
before Christmas? It felt that way. It is almost like I would often say | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
to Kirsty like... That's your sister? Kirsty is my sister that he | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
is a completely different person now and it is almost like now he has | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
died, I am allowed, we are allowed to grieve for someone that we lost | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
so long ago. That's what it sort of feels like and I just... Explain | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
that. Why does it feel like you can grieve now whereas you couldn't | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
before? Because he was still alive before and it was focussing on | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
whether to help him, how to help him, whether he was going to be able | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
to kick this disease and whether we were going to get him back. Whereas | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
now, you know, he he has lost and I lost my dad, I would say, when I was | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
early teens because he wasn't that man anymore. There might have been | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
glimpses of him, but he changed so much that yeah, now I just feel like | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
there was so much anger before. It is difficult to explain, but there | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
is so much anger for why he can't choose you over the alcohol and but | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
when he became ill that just sort of dimindished. I felt like for him, we | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
had to be strong and we all just, we wanted to be there and we were, we | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
put it all aside and we were at the hospital and it just completely | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
changed. It was really difficult for my boyfriend particularly to | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
understand because he has only ever known the alcoholic dad and me not | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
really wanting to talk to him and things and then suddenly I was going | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
to the hospital every day and really, really cut up and sad about | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
it because I allowed those feelings to come, I guess. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Tell us a bit more about the impact of a child, whereas you say you felt | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
he was choosing alcohol over you. -- on a child. He was choosing our goal | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
over you, your sister and your mum. That's not so straightforward but | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
it's the viewpoint of a child. How does it impact on yourself a steam | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
and everything else? It is crazy because as much as you tell yourself | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
it is a disease, it feels like a choice. You just constantly question | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
why and you are constantly questioning whether there is | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
something you could be doing to help and constantly questioning whether | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
you are doing the right thing to help him. You know, you are just | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
constantly questioning yourself and your role and what you can do, and | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
wondering, always wondering what you are going to be coming home to. I | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
think children and teenagers should not have such big worries. It should | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
be, what to wear to school and things like that. But it was just... | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
You ended up not doing, I ended up not doing bromance house work and | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
things to help out because you did not want to find any evidence, you | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
know, any alcohol, any thing in the house to implicate him because you | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
did not want to be in that position again. It takes a confidence knock | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
and it also means that you are always wondering what people think | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
of your parents and think of you, therefore. You are always worried | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
people are going to find out because it is so taboo. You really don't | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
want people to know necessarily. We gave the figures of how many | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
children have alcoholic parents. That surprised me, even. What would | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
you say? Can you say anything from your experiences that would be | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
helpful to others, perhaps in the same situation? Yeah, I guess, go | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
and talk to someone, like a friend or your other parent if they are not | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
suffering, or I guess chat to a GP, because just talking really helped | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
me with it. It helps you realise a lot of thoughts and feelings you are | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
having, since talking about it, it is helping the process the whole | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
thing, and just talking to people makes you realise you are not alone. | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
It is not openly discussed necessarily. You do feel like you | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
are struggling alone but the figures are there. There are so many people. | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
You have to feel like you are not alone and that you are not going to | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
end up following in your parents' footsteps, that you can break this | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
and you can grow up to not be them, you can grow up to be a normal | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
adult. It is so recently that he died, only just before Christmas. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
How do you remember him? Do you remember the dad from when you were | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
very young or is it still too recent for that? It varies every day. That | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
is really bizarre because you don't know what you are going to wake up | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
feeling. Sometimes I will have a dream about my old dad, and I will | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
be filled with really warm memories and nice things. But then sometimes, | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
you think more about the alcoholic side, or I will smell stale beer or | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
something and it will bring back those horrible memories. It is a | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
whole mixed bag of emotions. You don't really know which one you will | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
choose on a daily basis. I'm just trying to take it one day at a time, | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
process each of the feelings as they come up. Because normal... There is, | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
I guess, well, normally when you are grieving, it is talking about the | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
nice memories and things. But as a whole, I need, for me, to look at | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
him as a whole, at all of it and get past the alcoholic side and the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
anger that I am feeling so that I can get down to the nice memories | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
and the real happy childhood that Kirsty and I had. I mentioned at the | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
beginning that the reason you were talking about it was because you | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
wanted other kids in the same position to get more help. Have you | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
had much help in later years? Not so much. I'm getting more now, with him | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
passing, I have reached out to my GP and I'm going forward with mental | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
health side of it. But when I was younger, as I said, I did not know | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
who to talk to. And I did not know, I did not even think about it. I did | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
not know that I could get help. You almost feel silly for going forward | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
and saying, "This is happening to my dad that it is massively affecting | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
me". But of course it is. It is just a case of making people aware, as I | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
said, that they are not alone and they don't have to go through this | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
on their own. They can put their hand up? Yes, and say, "This is | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
happening, it's a bit embarrassing but we can get through it". Thank | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
you for joining us. And you can find out more | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
about the impact of alcoholism on children, including help | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
and support at Newsbeat's website and in special programmes at 12.45pm | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
and 5.45pm on Radio 1 and 1 Xtra. The RSPCA is rethinking the way it | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
pursues prosecutions for animal cruelty with a greater | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
emphasis on pet owners. It follows a story we brought you | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
last year about how prosecutions by the RSPCA could be curbed. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
Public beheadings, floggings, and bombs reducing the city | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
to rubble - this is the daily reality inside the Syrian city | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
described as the "capital of so-called Islamic State". | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
This morning, we're bringing you the first of five reports | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
from one resident who's risking his life to speak out. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
IS took over Raqqa in north-eastern Syria about two years ago. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Now they run the city and patrol every aspect of daily life. | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
But that doesn't mean all the city's current residents support the group. | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Those who don't have to try not to be noticed and attempt to survive | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
both the constant bombings from Russian and US-led forces | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
Rules like no swearing in public - that could get you 40 lashes, | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
whilst talking to a foreigner could mean death by beheading. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Getting information out of Raqqa is difficult. | :08:59. | :08:59. | |
Since IS took over, the BBC hasn't been able to send one | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
of its reporters to the city because it is too dangerous. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
But some of the people living there want to speak out | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
One resident of Raqqa has been keeping a diary for Radio 4's Today | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
programme, giving us a rare insight into what everyday life | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
This is the day we used to gather in the street after prayers and have | :09:20. | :09:34. | |
Anyone gathering in public without permission now risks | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
being accused of plotting against Daesh. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
I am passing a crowd in a public square. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
I don't want to join them because they may have been told | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
to watch a beheading, but thank God, it | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
His offence, I'm told, was committing a homosexual act. | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
Tomorrow I go back to work, a new week, with new hopes | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
But I want to tell you about when Islamic State | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
On Mother's Day, a cold winter morning, | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
My brothers and sisters and I had planned a small party. | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
As my taxi neared, clouds of smoke filled the air. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
The regime's warplanes had hit our street. | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
People were running around, carrying the dead and the injured. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
One of my neighbours told me that my parents were hurt and had | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
When we arrived there, the smell of blood and death | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
They asked us to look at the bodies laid out in front of us to see | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
His body was covered in shrapnel wounds. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
A voice said quietly, "Don't go in yet". | :10:53. | :11:03. | |
Two hours passed and finally a doctor came out. | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
"I have managed to save her life but she is very ill", he said. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
A neighbour of ours, who has a fruit and vegetable shop, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
"From now on", he said, "You can work for me." | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
A few weeks later, I was working in the shop when I heard gunfire | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
and the boom of heavy weapons outside. | :11:25. | :11:25. | |
My friend grabbed my arm and said, "Daesh have taken over the city". | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Soon after that, a man I had never seen before | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
shouted at me, "Hey, you, smoking is not allowed". | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Another cried, "Hey, you, why is your wife not wearing a veil? | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
I heard loudspeakers in the streets saying | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
some people were about to be executed. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
A group of blindfolded young men stood in handcuffs. | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
In front of them, a masked man began reading. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
"Hassan, fighting with regime forces. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
Reza was a media activist, accused of speaking | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
A man with a sword carried out the punishment. | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
As I walked down the road cursing out | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
loud, a group of Daesh's religious police rushed over and grabbed me. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
I tried to reason with them but it was no use. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
"You were cursing out loud. Your punishment is 40 lashes". | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
And every day this week we'll bring you another instalment of his diary. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Mike Thomson is a correspondent with Radio 4's Today programme | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
and he helped this man tell his story. | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
Extraordinary to hear his words. What can you tell us about the | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
diarist? The diaries were collated over a period of months, it took | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
some time to pull them together. We will always extremely worried about | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
identity is being revealed because the punishment for anyone speaking | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
out is death. But there is a great need, and in fact, the activist | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
group he belongs to dedicate itself to trying to inform the world about | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
what is happening there. The place is so shot off, and such brutality | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
is happening but no one can leave without IS's the mission and phone | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
calls and Internet use is heavily monitored and controlled. -- | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
permission. It was vital for them to get their story out and the best way | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
to do it seemed to be by diaries. And a testament to how strongly he | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
feels about getting it out, the fact that you say he's risking his life | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
to do it. Indeed he is risking his life. It is thought that around ten | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
people, at least ten have been beheaded by IS, two of them in | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Turkey, they crossed the border and presumably thought they were safe | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
but they evidently were not. It is a very dangerous thing for him to do. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
It is a great tribute to him and the other activists that they are | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
willing to take this risk to help their city and they are doing it so | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
well in the diaries that we will be hearing all of this week. Without | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
their voices, so difficult to actually understand what is going | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
on. It is the day-to-day things that are being done by IS, the way it | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
affects families and communities. We hear it otherwise in a more | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
political and military complex but you find out on the ground what is | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
happening to people in their homes here, in the shops and on the | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
streets. It is quite horrifying but it is a unique perspective. Thank | :14:34. | :14:34. | |
you for joining us. And you can watch that film again | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
on the Today programme's website. It has been revealed that a dog has | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
been kept in a cage by police The pitbull dog called Stella | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
was seized by police in 2014 and has been kept in a three-foot | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
by nine-foot cage She's being held under | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
the Dangerous Dogs Act and is now Sergeant Allan Knight from the Devon | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
and Cornwall Police dog handling for whatever reason, | :14:57. | :15:51. | |
that cannot go back, and cannot get walked by staff | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
because of the danger they possess. A few minutes ago, we spoke | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
to Charlotte whose father was an alcoholic and died | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
just a few months ago. She gave us a powerful insight | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
into what it's like living with a parent who's an alcoholic - | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
and so many of you have got in touch We have brought Charlotte back in to | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
hear some of your messages. Calum Best has been in touch, the | :16:13. | :16:28. | |
son of George Best who died from alcohol related issues. He says, | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
"Well done, Charlotte for speaking up." Ed says, "I grew up with an | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
alcoholic mother. She has come out positively the other side after a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
long struggle. I fear the genetic impact because I know I drink too | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
much and I have lost a cousin to the disease however strong values and | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
the wonderful NHS can do much to combat to difficult problem. My deep | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
con Dolans to your guest." Tracey says, "My mum was an alcoholic and | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
died in 2011. My brother died an alcoholic in 2008. I have been an | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
alcoholic, but I haven't had a drink for four years." Victoria says, "I | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
had an alcoholic father who took his own life in the end." ." Another | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
viewer says, "Alcoholism masks deeper mental health problems." | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
Another viewer says, "Courageous of Charlotte coming on TV." Sophie | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
says, "What an inspirational young woman. Well done, Charles shorl | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
loth." Another viewer says, "Please don't suffer in silence." A lot of | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
love for you. How is your family and everyone around you reacting now | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
that you are speaking openly about it? I was quite worried about it | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
because it has been quite open about something we have been very private | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
about, but they are so supportive and amazing. Yeah, we are all, we | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
are all dealing with this sort of big shock, but it has definitely | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
brought us closer especially as a close family unit, but as a bigger | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
sort of, my cousins and my aupties, I think it has brought us a bit | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
closer and it is nice. As someone said about the genetic thing and it | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
is something that terrifies me because there is a cycle of that | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
kind of behaviour, that kind of thing passing down, you're more | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
likely to and it is kind of why I wanted to speak out and get people | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
to have help and break the cycle of that sort of thing. No, that's | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
understandable. That element is something obviously that you have | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
thought about and it frightens you? Yeah. It is always there in your | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
head. It is terrifying and it is just, you know, it's difficult, but | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
I guess by being aware of it and by speaking out and by making family | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
and friends aware as well, that it, that you're parents were alcoholics, | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
I guess it kind of helps you to be more aware and notice more your | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
behaviour, but yeah, it's as someone said very isolating and very | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
difficult. Thank you, Charlotte. Thank you. Thank you. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Keep on getting in touch. And you can hear more from Charlotte | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
in a Newsbeat special programme at 12:45pm and 17:45pm | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
on Radio 1 and 1Xtra today. We will talk to the RSPCA about | :19:39. | :19:53. | |
changes in the way it will pursue prosecutions. | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
And we'll talk to a passenger on the Ryanair plane that was forced | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
to make an unscheduled stop in Berlin because of | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
Some of the details are pretty shocking. | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
There has been trouble on the border between Greece and Macedonia. Many | :20:09. | :20:20. | |
migrants, who want to get to Northern Europe, have been prevented | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
from moving north after countries began shutting their borders. | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
An Oscar at last for Leonardo DiCaprio, after more | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
than 20 years in Hollywood and six nominations. | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
He wins Best Actor for his role in The Revenant | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
and uses his speech to call for action on climate change. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
Best Actress was won by Brie Larson. Thank you for going to the movie | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
theatre and seeing our films. I appreciate it, thank you. | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
The Government says it's creating thousands more NHS training places | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
after a BBC investigation found the NHS struggling with a shortage | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
of doctors and nurses across much of the country. | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
A snapshot picture suggests that trusts in England, | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland are actively recruiting abroad | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
We've got rota gaps across the country in emergency | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
medicine and we're struggling to fill and recruit doctors | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Olly. | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
There is only one story I'm interested today, Olly. We'll get | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
there. These are your headlines | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
this morning. Manchester City have claimed | :21:31. | :21:31. | |
the first silverware of the season they beat Liverpool on penalties | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
in the League Cup final at Wembley. Willy Caballero was City's match | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
winner, he saved three spot-kicks Arsenal have slipped up | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
in the title race. Teenager Marcus Rashford | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
scored another two goals, that's four in his first two | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
appearances for Manchester United, but this also got one | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
of the biggest cheers of the day. Louis Van Gaal remonstrating | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
with the fourth official and explaining how he thought | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Arsenals players were diving. The Gunners defeat was good | :21:53. | :22:03. | |
for Spurs as they came from behind Danny Rose scored their winner | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
at White Hart lane to close the gap on leaders Leicester to two | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
points once more. And one of the young athletes | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
who lit the Olympic flame Adelle Tracey has qualified | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
for the World Indoor Championships in the 800 metres, | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
beating Lynsey Sharp and Jenny Meadows in | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
the British trials yesterday. And that's all your sport. | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
Thank you, Olly. It does make me giggle every time. Thank you, that's | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
what we like. And I look forward to you falling over later! | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
Stay with us for that. Scotland's First Minister | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Nicola Sturgeon has warned David Cameron against fighting | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
what she's called a "miserable, negative, fear-based" EU | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
referendum campaign. Our political guru Norman Smith | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
is at Westminster. It comes down to an age old campaign | :22:55. | :23:06. | |
does negative work? That's the accusation being made against the PM | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
and those who want us to stay in the EU, they are trying to give us the | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
heby gebies. We had warnings about the so-called Jungle refugee camp in | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Calais coming over to Dover if we left the EU and we had the letters | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
from business people warning about the damaging economic consequences | :23:27. | :23:27. | |
and we had the letter from military the damaging economic consequences | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
leaders about the security risks of leaving. Well today, we get another | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
dossier from the Government which says basically it could take us more | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
than ten years to negotiate our withdrawal from the EU. In the | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
meantime, of course, it is argued that would have a hugely negative | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
impact on the economy, on the value of the pound, on jobs, questions are | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
raised about what would happen to the two million Brits who are still | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
living in EU countries, what sort of rights would they have? What would | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
happen to the fishing industry? Would they have access to EU waters? | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
The response of the Brexit campaign is to say this is a dodgy dossier by | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
project fear. In other words, they are trying to make us so nervous | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
about the idea of leaving the EU that we just decide no, no, we won't | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
do that and interestingly, that was the message too this morning from | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
one of Mr Cameron's own supporters. Unlookly supporter, Nicola Sturgeon, | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
Scotland's First Minister, who is also campaigning for us to stay in | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
the EU. She too cautioned Mr Cameron, not to go negative, because | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
it could back fire. I hope that the debate that we | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
engage in, over the next few months is a thoroughly positive debate | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
because one of the undoubted lessons of the Scottish experience is that a | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
miserable, negative, fear based campaign saw the No Campaign in the | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Scottish referendum lose over the course of the campaign a 20 point | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
lead. And I don't have to point out to anybody here that the in campaign | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
in this referendum doesn't have a 20 point lead to squander. Boris | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
Johnson in this morning's Dilley Telegraph picked up on that theme, | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
saying the Brexit campaign's hope, he says, "Are you frightened? Have | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
they spooked you get? Yet?" The question is does fear work? If you | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
look at the Scottish referendum, it did kind of work because the | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
Government won that and they did play the fear card and maybe they | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
are trying to do the same. Are we in for TV debates, Norman? I think we | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
are, the broadcasters have come up with a series of proposals for TV | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
debates. One Vic will be hosting and two others in June, one done by | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
David dim bell deon 15th June which is a sort of Question Time-style | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
debate where the rival leaders, so presumably the Prime Minister and | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
maybe Boris Johnson, I don't know, will be questioned by a studio | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
audience as they were during the general election campaign, we had a | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
similar format and there is going to be a third debate which is going to | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
be a much larger debate at Wembley Arena. Now they had that in the | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Scotland campaign too where they had that much bigger, I think it was at | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
the Glasgow Convention Centre. Talking to the good folk at Number | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Ten, they say that the PM is happy to look at taking part in a debate. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
I get the idea he doesn't want to take part in the Wembley Arena, that | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
was described to me as a, "Circus" Not flattering by one of his people. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
He will be happy to take part in the Question Time one. The key issue is | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
who goes up against him? Is it a Boris versus the PM or Michael Gove? | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
The leave campaign haven't said, but they said Boris or Michael Gove | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
would be very effective. We could be facing a showdown of sorts and a | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Question Time-style debate between the PM and Boris Johnson, what box | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
office that would be. We will have a studio debate here on the programme | :27:21. | :27:21. | |
in June. The RSPCA is changing the way it | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
deals with cases of animal abuse The charity takes more than 1,300 | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
people to court each year. After criticism of its record, | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
it now says it will leave some cases to local authorities | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
and state prosecutors. Our reporter Jim Reed looked | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
into all this last year and is back Tell us how much power the RSPCA | :27:40. | :27:56. | |
have? These are grim and certificate yusz cases of animal abuse here and | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
it is worth explaining how these things work. These are criminal | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
offences. Normally with a criminal offence you have the police | :28:05. | :28:06. | |
investigating and an independent organisation in England and Wales, | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
that's the Crown Prosecution Service. Deciding whether there is | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
enough evidence to take this to court and it is in the public | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
interest. Now, in animal abuse cases, it doesn't work that way. You | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
have RSPCA inspectors investigating and another unit of the RSPCa, a | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
prosecution unit deciding whether to prosecute and critics says that | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
means there are not the right checks and balances there, that means the | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
wrong people can be taken to court. Last year we looked into one case in | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
particular, Claude, an elderly 15-year-old cat. Now, there, he | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
lived with the Burns family in Hertfordshire and some neighbours | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
called the RSPCA because they said he looked very shabby and he had | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
been neglected. The RSPCA came around and Claude was taken away and | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
put down two days later, the family say against their wishes. Mr and Mrs | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
Burns were prosecuted for animal neglect and animal cruelty and went | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
through a two year process before all the charges were dropped against | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
them and we asked Richard Burns there, about the impact on him and | :29:07. | :29:07. | |
his family. We are a nation of animal lovers and | :29:08. | :29:19. | |
no one would ever want to be associated with animal crueltiment | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
we loved Claude and never -- cruelty. We loved Claude and never | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
did anythingcule to that cat. What treatment did you get on the | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
internet and social media? Well, I was compared to a paedophile. My | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
daughter came across Facebook pages saying things that aren't really | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
repeatable about me and about the family in general. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
In that case the RSPCA did have to apologise, but it is those kinds of | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
cases which have proved very, very controversial over the last couple | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
of years. What changes are being made then? There is a couple of main | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
ones. Part of this is about the type of cases the RSPCA are taking on, | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
there is three areas where it says it will back away from prosecuting, | :30:06. | :30:12. | |
one is hunting cases. Another is cases involving animal aningtries | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
and a third is cases involving farms. It could prosecute in the | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
future, but it is going to leave the cases to other authorities like | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
Trading Standards or the CPS. As for cases involving pets, it will | :30:24. | :30:25. | |
continue to prosecute, but there will be extra safeguards put in | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
place. One is effectively an ombudsman, an independent complaints | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
service and it says it will stop publicising the prosecution cases as | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
a way to increase donations and raise donations which is another | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
area it has been criticised for in the last couple of years. | :30:44. | :30:53. | |
Are these changes and acknowledgement that the RSPCA has | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
been overstepping the mark? Not at all, I think it would be wrong to | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
say that. We welcomed the review, which has been conducted, a full | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
review of the RSPCA prosecution processes. A number of | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
recommendations have been made, 33, which we have embraced and we are | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
looking at and reflecting on our processes. As a result of that | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
review, we've had an opportunity to look at our business practices and | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
look to see how we can make improvements and continue to do a | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
good job that we do. Under the changes, would somebody like the | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
case we highlighted, Richard's, go through potentially the same kind of | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
thing again? Is that kind of thing going to becoming a thing of the | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
past? I would say that is a thing of the past. The RSPCA at the knowledge | :31:47. | :31:55. | |
that in the past, we may not have conducted an investigation or | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
prosecution in the most measured ways. -- acknowledge that. This has | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
been held for, this review, to hope us look at that and we sincerely | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
hope that incidents like that are things of the past and that we have | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
learned from that experience. Why did it take this review have to make | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
the changes come about? People have been criticising the RSPCA for | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
years, saying it has been overstepping the mark. Well, we had | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
to do something, I suppose. It seemed like an opportunity to have a | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
review. I can't say why it took so long. But it has happened. It has | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
been a very positive experience for the RSPCA, I think. Can I ask a | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
question, your companion organisations in Scotland and | :32:46. | :32:48. | |
Northern Ireland generally don't prosecute their own cases. Why do | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
you use this power in England and Wales but it is not used in other | :32:54. | :33:01. | |
parts of the UK? Because we can. There is the power to take private | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
prosecutions. The RSPCA see it as a charitable purpose for them to | :33:08. | :33:11. | |
enforce animal welfare legislation. At the moment, we are the leading | :33:12. | :33:19. | |
player in that. Therefore, we use the opportunity to take out private | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
prosecutions in cases where we think it is appropriate. And you will | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
still have the right to do that going forward? Yes, that has not | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
changed. But would you expect the number to be reduced? That is | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
difficult for me to say because obviously, we have to consider each | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
case. That will depend on how many cases are referred to us from the | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
inspectors who carry out their investigations. I can say that we | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
are looking to review each case and we review each case in accordance | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
with the code for Crown prosecutors, as the CPS do. We make our decisions | :34:01. | :34:08. | |
following the code. If there are cases where we feel they should be | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
prosecuted because they meet those standards, then I expect that we | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
will be commencing prosecution. But equally, we are looking at how we | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
can move forward in a more educational and preventative type | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
way, looking at ways that we can work with people who we feel have | :34:27. | :34:33. | |
committed animal welfare offences and we are working with | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
organisations to do that at the moment. Thank you for joining us. | :34:36. | :34:43. | |
Some breaking news that we're getting out of Moscow, we are | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
hearing that a woman has been arrested after reportedly being seen | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
outside a metro station with a severed child's head. The woman was | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
said to be dressed in black and shouting Allahu Akbar. We will check | :34:59. | :35:10. | |
out those reports and we will bring you more as we get it. | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
Leonardo DiCaprio may have won his first Oscar for his performance in | :35:17. | :35:23. | |
the drama the Revenant but the big talking point is that for the second | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
year running, or the acting nominees were white. | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
The show's host Chris Rock didn't shy away from tackling | :35:37. | :35:38. | |
Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the white | :35:39. | :35:45. | |
You realise if they nominated host, I would not | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
It was a big talking point on the red carpet. | :35:48. | :35:56. | |
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Rylance | :35:57. | :35:58. | |
praised Chris Rock's hard-hitting monologue. | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
I feel like, when you hire Chris Rock, whatever is happening | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
in the zeitgeist will come through in what | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
He pulled no punches and he was not polite. | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
Chris dealt with it pretty well, I think. | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
You know, I think there's a bigger issue, which | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
is there actually has to be greater diversity | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
I think it would be a shame if there's just tokenism and a few | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
more black actors in front of the screen. | :36:29. | :36:38. | |
I think that all levels, producers and studios need to have | :36:39. | :36:41. | |
positive discrimination and affirmative action. | :36:42. | :36:43. | |
When he talks about people hanging from trees and that is why | :36:44. | :36:45. | |
they did not care much about whether someone won | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
cinematography, you partly laugh and you partly think | :36:49. | :36:50. | |
you want to cry or you're not sure you want to be laughing at this. | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
I think it is not just Hollywood he is | :36:56. | :36:57. | |
It is also to do with the killings of people by police and the number | :36:58. | :37:02. | |
of African Americans who are in prison. | :37:03. | :37:10. | |
There's a deep issue which still needs to be addressed. Some of the | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
stars giving their take on it. With me now is Akua Gyamfi, | :37:15. | :37:16. | |
the founder of the British Blacklist, a database | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
of Black British actors. What do you think about the way | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
Chris Rock handled it? I think he did the best that he was supposed to | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
do, we all expected him to come out all guns blazing, send some | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
hard-hitting comments and that is the comedy that we are used to. He | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
does political, hard edged comedy and we knew he would take people | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
down, basically. He did a good job and handled himself the way people | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
expected. He called out a few things that needed to be spoken about. The | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
pressure was on him. Some people are saying it was not enough and it | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
should not be comedy but he is a political comedian and I think he | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
did the best job he could do. He drew an analogy with sororities, | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
which we don't have in this country, but basically saying, you are not in | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
the right club, therefore you are not being recognised. Was it a good | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
analogy? Absolutely, because it is like people who are non-white are | :38:18. | :38:20. | |
looking in and it is across the industry. It is very exclusive. How | :38:21. | :38:25. | |
do you get into this? It is like you have got to jump through hoops as | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
well, you have to be hazed before you can get in and the argument of | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
that is maybe doing things that are not maybe supportive... I | :38:34. | :38:39. | |
that is maybe doing things that are what to say, positively representing | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
the community. Sometimes people feel like they have to do certain things | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
do get in. How does that happen? Obviously a lot of actors were | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
talking about it last night and I've spoken to various actors about it, | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
saying you just need to have black faces in movies in the same way that | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
white faces are, that it is not questioned. Chris Rock was saying, | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
every year, Leonardo DiCaprio gets a great role but where are the great | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
Ross Ford Jamie Foxx? How does it happen? It's about | :39:10. | :39:10. | |
behind-the-scenes, the industry needs to change and then the awards | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
can reflect it back. It is about letting non-white people, not just | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
black, because I represent black people but also, all non-white | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
people getting the chance to tell stories outside of the stereotypical | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
boxes. We are not all impoverished gang bangers, it does not have to be | :39:29. | :39:31. | |
about slavery or servitude or the time. We have a broader scope of | :39:32. | :39:34. | |
stories to tell and we must be allowed to, so it is about getting | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
funding and support and it is the people who hold the keys to the | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
gates opening them and sharing their knowledge and wealth and the | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
platform so more diverse stories can be told. Then we will get to awards | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
season with a broader range of films to choose from and the members and | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
the judges can make more informed decisions and then also we will look | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
at the membership and spreading diversity out there as well. The | :39:57. | :40:01. | |
whole industry has to change. Do you think the process will speed up now | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
it is being talked about in this way? Does it go into, "That was | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
talked about this year, where does it go now? Lawyers quote this is why | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
the boycotts have helped and people like Chris Rock speaking on the | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
platform have helped and people behind-the-scenes pushing for change | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
have helped. It is about keeping on pushing, keeping on talking about | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
this and not letting the industry getting away with saying they are | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
doing it because it is in headlines but in a few weeks, it will change | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
and they will move onto something else. It can't stop. We have to push | :40:33. | :40:37. | |
the industry to change because otherwise... We have been doing | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
this, it has been going on, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, over the years, | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
the statements have been made. It is nothing new. But I think something | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
is different in the air this time around. I feel like people are not | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
going to take it lying down. There are so me different media, the | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
Internet has been a massive ceiling breaker for people. You can't avoid | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
the amount of talent and independent talent coming out from other | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
communities. Thank you for joining us. Let us know what you think as | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
well with all the usual ways of getting in touch. | :41:11. | :41:12. | |
A Ryanair flight was forced to take an unscheduled landing in Berlin | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
this weekend, after members of a stag party became overly rowdy. | :41:17. | :41:18. | |
The group of 12 from Southampton were among 170 passengers travelling | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
from Luton to the Slovak capital, Bratislava. | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
They may now face fines of up to ?20,000 and a possible | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
Darius Davies from London was a passenger on board the flight. | :41:29. | :41:39. | |
What happened? Hello. Good morning. It was a crazy flight. They were | :41:40. | :41:46. | |
drunk from the get go. About five or ten minutes into the flight, when we | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
were in the air, one of the members of the party stole the trousers so | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
one of them was exposed and he stood up and he was being boisterous, | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
naked from the waist down, saying, "I don't care if we crashed, I met | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
helicopter", spinning his genitalia around. -- I am a helicopter. We | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
were remonstrating with them, the other passengers and some of them, I | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
den think they realised what was going on, they thought it was normal | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
because it was a Ryanair flight. We were recording, most people were | :42:21. | :42:23. | |
recording what was happening to put on YouTube. Then essentially, the | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
air stewards were not doing much to stop people from recording. Halfway | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
through, when it got too rowdy because he kept on getting up, I | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
don't know what had happened to his trousers, then the pilot said we | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
were diverted into Germany, and the vast majority of the group were | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
arrested although a few remained behind. That was basically the | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
story. There were children on board and it was terrible to see that on a | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
flight and it ruined our first evening of the holiday. You | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
described the most extreme thing that was going on. Did it calm down | :42:58. | :43:05. | |
after that will keep going? -- or keep going. If you can imagine very | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
drunk, boisterous, British guy is going on, that was what it was. They | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
were drunk, fighting amongst themselves, go quite for a couple of | :43:14. | :43:16. | |
minutes and then he would stand up and plays his genitalia on the seat | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
in front of him... It sounds funny now but it was not at the time. | :43:22. | :43:23. | |
Thank you for joining us. Ryanair have sent us | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
a statement about the incident, We will not tolerate unruly | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
or disruptive behaviour at any time and the safety and comfort | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
of our customers, crew and aircraft This is now a matter | :43:35. | :43:37. | |
for local police. On the programme tomorrow, | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
we look at the number of homeless people risking their lives | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
by sleeping in commercial bins. I will see you at the same time | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
tomorrow. Have a lovely afternoon. Goodbye. | :43:55. | :44:02. | |
homelessness across the UK has soared. | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
People think it's easy out here, but it's not. | :44:06. | :44:07. | |
As part of BBC One's season of Sport Relief, | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
four celebrities are about to experience | :44:11. | :44:13. |