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showers. Things settle down on Thursday. Some wintry showers in the

east but largely dry with some sunshine, feeling a bit nippy.

I'm Joanna Gosling in for Victoria.

Welcome to the programme if you've just

Hospital workers have been telling us about the impact it's having:

On top of my ordinary shifts, I have worked extra shifts. That, I was so

exhausted that at all actually giving up the profession.

Lots of you are getting in touch with your experience.

Jay on Twitter says the goodwill that oiled NHS

to keep going has gone due to continual change and low morale.

no-one wants to be a part of a system that is being

Also on the programme - what impact can growing up

with an alcoholic parent have on children?

We'll talk to one 27-year-old whose father has recently died

And Jane's already brought you all the winners and losers

from this year's Oscars - before 11, we'll focus on diversity

and hear how host Chris Rock poked fun at the oscars-so-white

I am here at the Academy Awards are otherwise known as the white

people'schoice awards. An Oscar at last for Leonardo

DiCaprio. The 41-year-old won best actor for his survivor role in The

Revenant. He used his speech to call for action on climate change.

Thank you for this amazing award tonight.

Let us not take this planet for granted.

I do not take tonight for granted, thank you so much.

The NHS is struggling with a shortage of doctors and nurses in

much of the country. A BBC investigation has given a snapshot

revealing that trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are

actively recruiting abroad as they try to fill thousands of vacant

posts. This is impacting massively. We have wrote a gap throughout the

country in emergency medicine, and we are struggling to recruit doctors

to emergency medicine. A warning of tough times ahead for shop workers.

Almost one in three, or 900,000, could lose their jobs in the next

ten years, according to the British Retail Consortium. The squeeze will

be caused by more online shopping, higher taxes and the national living

wage, they predict. The Raspberry Pi has become the most

popular British computer ever made. British astronaut Tim Peake took one

into space, and total sales are now expected to top 8 million. The new

model has been unveiled with a faster processor, built-in wi-fi and

Bluetooth. Customers in the UK will soon be

able to buy fresh and frozen food online from Amazon. The retailer has

signed a deal with the Morrisons supermarket chain to provide the new

service, which is expected to begin later this year.

And the German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Greece could plunge into

chaos if neighbouring countries keep their borders closed the migrants.

Austria has led a group of central European states who have put up

fences, stranding migrants on the Greek side of the border.

Let's catch up with all the sport now. Never mind the Oscars,

Manchester City won football's first major award of the season. And there

was a pretty Oscar-winning performance from Louis Van Gaal? We

will be talking about that. The League Cup is not top of clubs'

priorities at the start of the season, especially those of the

stature of Manchester City, but it was a great final at Wembley

yesterday, 1-1 at the end of extra time. It went to penalties. City

made one change to their starting line-up, bringing back that up

keeper, Willy Caballero. He let in five against Chelsea in the FA Cup

last week, so there was some speculation that Manuel Pellegrini

might draft Joe Hart, England's number one, back into the team. But

the City manager said he had to keep his word because it would not have

been right to drop him. The Argentinian paid him back and some

in the shoot out, with three penalty saves to clinch the first silverware

of the season. Yaya Toure scored the winning penalty, but the hero of the

hour was Bolero, to give City a fourth League Cup title. Very happy

for Willy Caballero. He deserved his moment. Personally, about my

decision, I prefer to use the title than to lose my words and lose a

chance for Willie not to play. What a weekend we had in the Premier

League. Leicester went five points clear at the top of the table on

Saturday, so Arsenal and Spurs were playing catch up yesterday. Arsenal

slipped up at Manchester United, losing 3-2. What a few days it has

been for Marcus Rushford. We talked about his debut last week on this

programme, scoring twice in the Europa League on Thursday. Yesterday

was his Premier League debut and he followed up with another two goals.

The 18-year-old brought the feel-good factor back to Old

Trafford. This almost got the biggest cheer of the day, Louis Van

Gaal claiming that Arsenal players were diving. And just in case the

didn't understand, he did that. The crowd loved it. Mike Dean didn't

even raise a smile. But whenever Louis Van Gaal's reign ends, that

will be a defining image. Can we see it again? I cannot see that enough.

I have been told we can't. It is all over the internet. A lot of people

are having a lot of fun with this over the last 24 hours. Various

spoofs, those means across social media. Look at this one. In the

spread addition, this is him doing his Leonardo DiCaprio impression in

The Revenant, the opening scene with the bare. Here he is, crowd surfing.

Or what about having fun on a slide? There are a lot of them that we

couldn't show you at this time of the morning. Remember the picture of

a Manchester night out that went viral before Christmas choir --?

Those are brilliant. He was lamenting the fact that normally, he

gets criticised for just sitting on the bench, and he has gone to

another extreme now. It is a complete turnabout. Everybody loves

him, for now. Until they lose their next match, perhaps. At 10.02, I

will show him falling over once more. Nothing much to talk about

apart from the football at White Hart Lane yesterday. Just a very

important to-1 win for Spurs against Swansea City. They went three points

above Arsenal in the table, two points behind leaders Leicester.

They came from behind as well, Danny Rose with the winner inside the last

15 minutes. A great day for Spurs fans, with the gunners losing as

well, but no title talk from the manager yet. For me, Arab opponent

is not important. Our performance is more important -- our opponent is

not important to me. We have a lot of games ahead, 11th Premier League

games -- 11 Premier League games. It is important to focus. That is about

it. I can see people scrubbing away, getting that LVG picture ready for

you at 10.30. If I haven't got it for you, I am going to fall over

myself! That would be better! See you later.

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We were speaking to three NHS workers earlier, and you have been

getting in touch. Julie says, I was in A on Friday morning and again

last night with my 14-year-old. Staff were overworked and

understaffed. I fear the number of hours staff are working and the

mistakes that are being made. John says, I am a nurse in the south of

England, very experienced in acute and community settings. I was forced

to retire after 31 years in the service at the front line, due to

whistle-blowing over bad and unsafe practice. My son is a junior doctor,

and considering leaving to go into research if the new contract is

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What impact can growing up with an alcoholic parent

The National Association for Children of Alcoholics say

there are 2.6 million children living with an alcoholic parent -

but local authorities don't have a plan for dealing with them.

Radio 1's Newsbeat is running a special programme looking

We can speak now to Charlotte Hayman, who's 27 and from Cambridge.

Her father Ian died in December after losing his fight

You have decided to speak, because you feel that children of alcoholic

parents need more help. Tell us your experience? I first realised about

my dad's struggle in my early teens. It all came to a head when I was at

university at about 17. Other than my family, my sister and my mum and

a few close friends, I didn't have anyone to talk to about it. And I

didn't know what I could do. And there are all of these feelings that

you have, and you don't know how to process it. It's a very taboo

disease, and it is not common close to talk out about it. It leads to

embarrassing situations. So when you say there were few people to talk

to, would you have wanted to, or did you want to keep it hidden? It was

tricky, because perhaps the schools would have been willing to talk, but

then I didn't want to embarrass my dad that way. You don't want to open

yourself up to that judgment. People either laugh off alcoholism or

think, they have a perception of an alcoholic person that is not

necessarily true. Then there were groups that my mum went to the

partners or families of struggling alcoholics. Again, as a teenager,

that is not necessarily what you want. As a child, you do not want to

chat with grown-ups about this sort of thing. Without my friends and

sister, I would have struggled massively to deal with it. I think

it is good to talk about these things and help work it out and

realise it is not your fault and there is not much you can do to

help, or find out ways you can help. When you work it out, tell us how

you worked out what was going on. What were the first things you

started to see and you had to piece together what was going on? We would

soar to find a glass of wine in the morning, but it would be stashed

down the side of the sofa, rather than openly in the kitchen, like, I

had a drink last night. It began to be hidden. Then you would clean the

house and find bottles of wine behind the sofa and things like

that. When dad came out and said he was struggling and perhaps he should

stop drinking, that was when it became very hidden. If you ever did

find wine, you would be stuck behind a rock -- between a rock and a

helpless, not knowing whether tell my mum or keep his secret and help

them hide it. Must have been confusing for a child. It is really

the goal. All of a sudden, you are stuck between your parents. -- it is

really difficult. My mum loved him so much that she got frustrated with

him. If he was jinking, there might be an argument, because she herself

did not know how to help him -- if he was drinking. And we are not

going to stand a chance if adults don't know how to deal with it. As a

child, you have no clue where to go or who to talk to. What was your

relationship like with him? It was really good. He was a great dad. And

then he completely changed. It was very gradual. I was a proper daddy's

girl, so I was very close with him. Then in my 20s, that diminished and

I distanced myself from him more and more, because it became more and

more difficult. And to know that he was hiding this from so many people

and to either have to help him lie or to be the person to break my

mum's hard again and his family's hard again by telling them that he

was still drinking. The way you talk, it is like you lost your

father a long time before he sadly died. It felt that way. I would

often say to Kirsty, my sister, that he is a completely different person

now. It is almost like now he has died, we are allowed to grieve for

someone that we lost so long ago. That is what it feels like. Why does

it feel like you can grieve now when you could before? Because he was

still alive before, and it was about whether to help him and how to help

him and whether he was going to be open to kick this disease and

whether we would get him back. Whereas now, he is lost. I would say

I lost my dad in my early teens, because he was not that man any

more. There might have been glimpses of him, but he changed so much that

now, I feel like there was so much anger before. It is difficult to

explain. But there is so much anger for why he can't choose you over the

alcohol. But when he became ill, that diminished. I felt like for

him, we had to be strong. We all wanted to be there and we put it all

aside. We were at the hospital. It completely changed. It was really

difficult for my boyfriend particularly to understand, because

he has only ever known the alcoholic dad, and me not really wanting to

talk to him. And then suddenly, I was going to the hospital every day

and really sad about it, because I allowed those feelings to come.

Tell us more about the impact on a child. You felt he was choosing

alcohol over you and your sister and your mum. It is not as

straightforward as that, but that is the viewpoint of a child. How does

that impact on your self esteem and everything else? It is crazy because

as much as you tell yourself it is a disease, it feels like a choice and

you constantly questioning why and you constantly question whether

there is something you could be doing to help and constantly

question whether you are doing the right thing to help and whether...

You are constantly questioning yourself and questioning your role

and what you can do and wondering, always wondering, what you will be

coming home to. Children and teenagers should not have those

worries. It should be what to wear to school and things like that. You

ended up not doing very much housework and things to help out

because you don't want to find any evidence, any alcohol, anything in

the house to implicate him because you didn't want to be in that

position again. It takes a confidence knock and it means you

are always wondering what people think of your parents and think of

you and you are always worried people will find out because it is

so taboo that you do not want people to know. We gave the features of how

many children have alcoholic parents. That surprised me. What

would you say? Can you say anything from your experiences that would be

helpful to others in the same situation? Just go and talk to

someone, a friend or the other parent if they are not suffering or

chat to a GP, just talking really helps me with it because it helps

you realise a lot of thoughts and feelings you are having. It helps

the process the whole thing and talking to people makes you realise

you are not alone because it is not openly discussed, you eat feed like

you are struggling alone. The figures are there, there are so many

people and you have two feel like you are not alone and you are not

going to follow in the footsteps of your parents, that you can break

this and you can grow up to not be them, to be a normal adult. It is so

recently that he died, it was just before Christmas, how do you

remember him? Do you remember the dad of one you were very young or is

it still too recent for that? It varies from day to day, which is

bizarre, because you do not know what you are going to wake up

feeling. Sometimes I will have a dream about my old dad and I will be

filled with really warm memories and really nice things and sometimes you

think more about the alcoholic side think more about the alcoholic side

or I Will smell stale beer and it or I Will smell stale beer and it

will bring back those horrible memories and it is a whole mixed bag

of emotions. You do not know on a daily basis and I am trying to take

it one day at a time, process each of those feelings as they come up,

because usually when you grieve it is talking about the nice memories

and things, but as a whole we need to look at him as a whole and all of

that and get past the alcoholic side and get past the anger that I am

feeling so I can get down to the nice memories and the real happy

childhood that Kirsty and I had. I mentioned that the beginning you

were talking about it is because you want other children in the same

position to get more help. Have you had much help? Not so much. I am

getting more now with him passing. I have reached out to my GP and I am

going forward with mental health care. When I was younger, I didn't

know who to talk to. I did not know, I did not think about it, I did not

know that I could get help. You almost feel silly for going forward

and saying this is happening to my dad, but it is massively affecting

me, but of course it is. It is just a case of making people aware that

they are not alone and they do not have to go through this on their

own. They can put their hand up and say this is happening. It is a

little bit embarrassing, but we can't get through it. Thank you,

thank you very much Charlotte. And you can find out more

about the impact of alcoholism on children - including

help and support - at Newsbeat's website -

and in special programmes at 1245 The RSPCA is rethinking the way it

pursues prosecutions for animal cruelty with a greater emphasis on

pet owners. It follows a story with rocket last year on how prosecutions

by the RSPCA could be curbed. We will bring you the details.

Public beheadings, floggings and bombs reducing the city to rubble.

This is the daily reality inside the serene see it described as the

Islamic State capital. IS took over Raqqa in north eastern

Syria about two years ago. Now they run the city and patrol

every aspect of daily life. But that doesn't mean all the city's

current residents support the group. Those who don't, have to try not

to be noticed and attempt to survive both the constant bombings

from Russian and US-led forces Rules like no swearing in public -

that could get you forty lashes, whilst talking to a foreigner

could mean death by beheading. Getting information out

of Raqqa is difficult - since IS took over, the BBC hasn't

been able to send one of its reporters to the city

because it is too dangerous. But some of the people living

there want to speak out One resident of Raqqa has been

keeping a diary for Radio 4's Today programme, giving us a rare insight

into what everyday life This is the day we used to gather

in the street after prayers and have Anyone gathering in public

without permission now risks being accused of

plotting against Daesh. I am passing a crowd

in a public square. I don't want to join them

because they may have been told to watch a beheading,

but thank God, it His offence, I'm told,

was committing a homosexual act. Tomorrow I go back to work,

a new week, with new hopes But I want to tell you

about when Islamic State On Mother's Day,

a cold winter morning, My brothers and sisters and I had

planned a small party. As my taxi neared, clouds

of smoke filled the air. The regime's warplanes

had hit our street. People were running around,

carrying the dead and the injured. One of my neighbours told me

that my parents were hurt and had When we arrived there,

the smell of blood and death They asked us to look at the bodies

laid out in front of us to see His body was covered

in shrapnel wounds. A voice said quietly,

"Don't go in yet". Two hours passed

and finally a doctor "I have managed to save her life

but she is very ill", he said. A neighbour of ours,

who has a fruit and vegetable shop, "From now on", he said,

"You can work for me." A few weeks later, I was working

in the shop when I heard gunfire and the boom of heavy

weapons outside. My friend grabbed my arm and said,

"Daesh have taken over the city". Soon after that, a man

I had never seen before shouted at me, "Hey, you,

smoking is not allowed". Another cried, "Hey, you,

why is your wife not wearing a veil? I heard loudspeakers

in the streets saying some people were

about to be executed. A group of blindfolded young

men stood in handcuffs. In front of them, a masked

man began reading. "Hassan, fighting

with regime forces. Reza was a media activist,

accused of speaking A man with a sword carried

out the punishment. As I walked down

the road cursing out loud, a group of Daesh's religious

police rushed over and grabbed me. I tried to reason with

them but it was no use. "You were cursing out loud.

Your punishment is 40 lashes". And every day this week we'll bring

you another instalment of his diary. Mike Thomson is a correspondent

with Radio 4's Today programme and he helped this

man tell his story. Extraordinary to hear his words.

What can you tell us about the diarist? They were collated over a

period of months, it took quite some time to put them together. We were

extremely worried about identity is being revealed because the

punishment for anyone speaking out is death. The secret need and the

activist group he belongs to dedicate itself to trying to inform

the world about what is happening there, because the place is to shut

off. There is such brutality happening but no one can live

without permission from Islamic State and phone calls and intimate

use is heavily monitored and controlled. It was vital for them to

get their story and the best way to do it seemed to be by diary. A

testament to how strongly he feels about getting it out, the fact he is

risking his life doing that. He is risking his life. It is thought at

least ten people have been beheaded by Islamic State. Two of them in

Turkey. The crossed the border and thought they were safe, but they

evidence it or not. It is a very dangerous thing for him to do and it

is a great tribute to him and other activists that they are willing to

take this risk to help their city and they are doing this so well in

the diaries we will be hearing from this week. Without their voices, it

is so difficult to understand what is going on. It is the day-to-day

reach of what is being done. The way it affects families, communities. We

hear about it in a political or military context, here we are

hearing what happens in people's homes and shops and on the streets

and it is quite horrifying. And you can watch that film again

on the Today programme's website. It's been revealed that a dog has

been kept in a cage by police The pit-bull dog, called Stella

was seized by police in 2014 and has been kept in a 3ft by 9ft cage

in Devon ever since. She's being held under the dangerous

dogs act and is now on death row. Sergeant Allan Knight,

from the Devon and Cornwall Police dog handling

unit, has told the BBC back to their owners

during proceedings in the past. A few minutes ago, we spoke to

Charlotte, whose father was an alcoholic and died a few months ago.

She gave us a powerful insight into living with a parent who is an

alcoholic. So many people have been getting to talk about what you have

been saying. You have had a big impact. I just wanted to tell you

what people are saying. Karen best has been in touch son of George

best, who died from alcohol-related issues -- Cal best. He said, well

done for speaking up. Another says, the strength of my family kept it

together and kept my mother alive. She has come out positively on the

other side after a long struggle. I fear the genetic impact, as I know I

drink too much and have lost a cousin to the disease. However,

strong family values and the wonderful NHS can do much to combat

this problem. My condolences to your guest. Tracy says, my mum was

alcoholic and died in 2011. Sophie says, what an inspirational

young woman. And Heather has said, alcoholism is so isolating for the

alcoholic and the family. Please don't suffer in silence. A lot of

love for you out there. That is amazing. How is your family reacting

now that you are speaking openly about it? I was quite worried about

it, because I was being open about something we have been private

about, but they were so supportive and amazing. We are all dealing with

this big shock, but it has brought us closer. Especially as they family

unit, but also as a bigger circle, my cousin and my aunties. Someone

mentioned the genetic thing, and it is something that terrifies me

because there is a cycle of that kind of thing patting down. --

patting down. That was why I want to speak out, to break the cycle. It is

understandable that that is something you have thought about. It

is always there in your head. It is terrifying. It is difficult, but I

guess by being aware of it and speaking out and by making family

and friends aware that your parents were alcoholics, it helps you to be

more aware of your behaviour. But as someone said, it is very isolating.

Thank you, Charlotte. And thank you for those comments. Keep getting in

touch. You can hear more from Charlotte in a Newsbeat special

programme. A radical overhaul of the RSPCA's

animal cruelty policy - now it's to reduce prosecutions

and focus its efforts on pet owners. And we'll talk to a passenger

on the Ryanair plane that was forced to make an unscheduled stop

in Berlin because of a rowdy stag Some of the details of how that

party was pretty shocking. It's time for the main

news this morning. In the last few minutes, there has

been trouble on the border between Greece and Macedonia as migrants

have forced their way through borderlines and torn down razor

wire. Many migrants have been prevented from moving north after

countries began shutting their borders.

An Oscar at last for Leonardo DiCaprio, after more

than 20 years in Hollywood and six nominations.

He wins Best Actor for his role in The Revenant and uses his speech

to call for action on climate change.

Best actress was won by Brie Larson, who played a kidnap victim in Room.

Thank you to the fans, thank you to the moviegoers. Thank you for going

to the cinema and seeing our films. The NHS is struggling

with a shortage of doctors A BBC investigation reveals most

trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are actively

recruiting abroad, as they try to fill tens of thousands

of vacant posts. We've got rota gaps

across the country in emergency medicine and we're struggling

to fill and recruit doctors You know there is only one story I

am interested in! We will get there! These are your headlines

this morning. Manchester City have

claimed the first silverware They beat Liverpool

on penalties in the League

Cup final at Wembley. Willy Caballero was

City's match winner. He saved three

spot-kicks in the shootout. Arsenal have slipped up

in the title race. Teenager Marcus Rashford

scored another two goals. That's four in his first two

appearances for Manchester United, but this also got one

of the biggest cheers of the day, remonstrating with the fourth

official and explaining how he thought Arsenal's

players were diving. The Gunners' defeat was good

for Spurs, as they came from behind

to beat Swansea. Danny Rose scored their winner

at White Hart lane to close the gap on leaders Leicester to two

points once more. And one of the young athletes

who lit the Olympic flame at London 2012, Adelle Tracey, has qualified

for the World Indoor Championships in the 800 metres,

beating Lynsey Sharp and Jenny Meadows in

the British trials yesterday. That is all your sport. That makes

me giggle every time. I look forward to you falling over later.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is warning the Prime

Minister David Cameron against fighting what she has called a

miserable, negative, fear -based EU referendum campaign. Our political

guru Norman Smith is at Westminster for us.

It is an age-old question- does negative campaigning work? Is feared

that card to play? That is the accusation being made against the PM

and those who want to stay in the EU, that they are trying to give us

the heebie-jeebies about leaving. You remember that the other day, we

had warnings about the so-called Jungle refugee camp in Calais coming

over to Dover if we left the EU. Then we had those letters from

business people wanting about the damaging economic consequences. Then

we had the letter from military leaders about the security risks of

leaving. Well, today we get another dossier from the government which

says that it could take more than ten years to negotiate our

withdrawal from the EU. In the meantime, it is argued that that

would have a hugely negative impact on the economy, on the value of the

pound, on jobs, questions over what would happen to the 2 million Brits

still living in EU countries, what would happen to the fishing

industry? Would they still have access to EU waters? The response of

the Leave campaign is to say this is a dodgy dossier by Project Fear. In

other words, they are tried to make us nervous about the idea of leaving

the EU, that we just that, we will not do that. That was also the

message, interestingly, from one of Mr Cameron's unlikely supporters,

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, who is also campaigning

for us to stay in the EU. She also cautioned Mr Cameron not to go

negative, because it could backfire. I hope the debate we engaged in over

the next few months is a thoroughly positive debate, because one of the

undoubted lessons of the Scottish experience is that a miserable,

negative, fear -based campaign saw the no campaign in the Scottish

referendum lose, over the course of the campaign, a 20 point lead. I

don't have to point out to anybody here that the ink campaign in this

referendum doesn't have a 20 point lead -- the inner campaign.

Boris Johnson, in this morning's Daily Telegraph, has picked up on

that theme, saying the Brexit campaign is project hope. Those who

want to remain our Project Fear. He says, are you frightened? Have

Facebook you yet? The question is, does fear work? I guess if you look

at the Scottish referendum, it did work -- have they spooked you yet?

Maybe they are tried to do the same again. We also in for a debate over

TV debates? I think we are. The broadcasters have come up with a

series of proposals for TV debates. One will be hosted in Glasgow on May

the 19th. Then there are two others in June, one done by David Dimbleby,

I think on June 15, a Question Time style debate where the rival

leaders, presumably the Prime Minister and maybe Boris Johnson,

may be questioned by a studio audience as they were during the

general election campaign. Then there will be a third debate, which

will be a much larger debate at Wembley Arena. They had that in the

Scotland campaign, when they had a similar huge debate at the Glasgow

convention centre. Talking to the good folk at Number Ten, they say

the PM is happy to look at taking part in a debate. I get the idea he

doesn't want to take part in the Wembley Arena one, which was

described as a circus to me. Not very flattering. I think he will be

happy to take part in the Question Time one. The key issue is, who goes

up against him? Is it RS versus the PM? Is it Michael Gove versus the

PM? Believe campaign have not said so far, but they say both Boris or

Michael Gove would be very effective. So we could be facing a

sort of showdown in a Question Time style debate between the PM and

maybe Boris Johnson. What box office that would be. We will also have a

big studio debate here on the programme in June.

The RSPCA is changing the way it deals with cases of animal abuse

The charity takes more than 1,300 people to court each year.

After criticism of its record, it now says it will leave some cases

to local authorities and state prosecutors.

Our reporter Jim Reed looked into all this last year and is back

Tell us how much power the RSPCA has? It is worth pointing out that

these are some very grim cases of animal abuse. And it is worth

explaining how these things work. These are criminal offences.

Normally with a criminal offence, you would have the police

investigating and then you would have an independent organisation,

the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, deciding whether

there is enough evidence to take this to court and it is in the

public interest. In animal abuse cases, you don't work that way. You

have RSPCA inspectors investigating and a prosecution unit from the

RSPCA deciding whether to prosecute. Critics say there are not the right

checks and balances there. It means the wrong people can be taken to

court. Last year, we looked into one case of Claude, an elderly

15-year-old cat. He lived with the Burns family in Hertfordshire. Some

neighbours called the RSPCA because, they said, he looked shabby and had

been neglected. The RSPCA came round, and Claude was taken away and

put down two days later, the family say against their wishes. Then Mr

and Mrs Burns were prosecuted for animal neglect and animal cruelty

and went through a two-year process before all the charges were dropped.

We asked Richard Burns about the impact on him and his family. We are

a nation of animal lovers. No one would want to be associated with

animal cruelty. We loved Claude absolutely and never did anything

near cruelty that cat. What kind of treatment did you get on the

internet and social media? Well, I was compared to a paedophile. My

daughter came across Facebook pages saying things that are not

repeatable about me and the family. In that case, the RSPCA had to

apologise, but it is those cases which have proved for a

controversial over the last couple of years. What changes are being

made? There are a couple. Part of this is about the types of cases the

RSPCA is taking on. There are three areas where it says it will back

away from prosecuting. One is hunting cases involving red coated

hunts. Another is cases involving animal sanctuaries and a third is

cases involving farms. It may prosecute in the future, but it says

it will generally leave those cases to other authorities like trading

standards or the CPS. As for cases of pets, it will continue to

persecute, but there will be extra safeguards. There will be an

independent complaints service, and it says it is going to stop

publicising some of the prosecution cases as a way to increase

donations, which is another area it has been criticised in the last few

years. Let's speak now to Hayley Firman from the RSPCA. Are these

changes and acknowledgement that the RSPCA has been overstepping the

mark? We welcomed the review. The review

covered all of our prosecution processes and it has made 33

recommendations which we have embraced and are enacting in our

processes. As a result of that review, we have had an opportunity

to look at our business practices and lived to see how we can make

improvements and continue to do a good job. Under the changes, would

someone like Richard Bryans whose case we highlighted, go through the

same sort of thing, or is that going to be a thing of the past? I would

hope that is a thing of the past. The RSPCA acknowledges that in the

past we may not have conducted an investigation or prosecution in the

most measured ways and this has been helpful, the review, to look at that

and we sincerely hope that incidences like that are things of

the past and that we have learned from that experience. Why did it

take this review to make the changes come about, because people have been

criticising the RSPCA for years since it has been overstepping the

mark? We had to do something, I suppose, and this seemed like an

opportunity to have a review. I cannot say what it took so long, but

it has happened and it has been a positive experience for the RSPCA.

Your companion organisations in Scotland and Northern Ireland

generally do not prosecute, they do not prosecute their own cases, White

should you have this power in England and Wales but not use it in

other parts of the United Kingdom? Because we can. There is the power

to take private prosecutions. The RSPCA see it as a charitable purpose

for them to enforce animal welfare legislation and at the moment, we

are a leading player in that. Therefore, we use the opportunity to

take a private prosecutions in the cases where we think it is

appropriate. You will still have the right to do that going forward? Yes.

That has not changed. Would you expect the number to be reduced?

That is difficult for me to say. We have had to consider each case and

it will depend on how many cases are referred to us from the inspectors

are carried out investigations. I can say that we are looking to

review each case and we review each case in accordance with the code for

the Crown Prosecution Service and we make decisions following the code.

If there are cases where we feed there should be prosecutions because

they meet those standards, I expect we will be commencing prosecution.

Equally, we are looking at how we can move forward in eight more

educational and preventative type way, looking at ways we can work

with people who we field have committed animal welfare offences

and we are working with organisations to do that. Thank you

for joining us. Some breaking news we are getting from Moscow. A woman

has been arrested after reportedly being seen outside a Metro station

with a severed head of a child. She was dressed in black and shouting

God is great. That just three. Reportedly, a woman has been

arrested in Moscow after being seen outside a Metro station with a

severed child APPLAUSE Head.

We will check out those reports and we will bring you more as we get it.

The big talking point from the Academy Awards is the fact that for

the second year running, the acting nominees were white. It did lead to

boycott of the show. The host, Chris Rock, did not shy away from tackling

the race run head-on. I am here at the Academy Awards, also known as

the white people's choice. If they nominated hosts, I would not even

get this job. Actors Whoopi Goldberg,

Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Rylance praised Chris Rock's

hard-hitting monologue. I feel like, when you hire

Chris Rock, whatever is happening in the zeitgeist will

come through what he He pulled no punches

and he was not polite. Chris dealt with it I think

pretty well and you know, I think there is a bigger

issue, which is there has to actually be greater diversity

at all levels of Hollywood. I think it would be a shame

if it was just tokenism and a few more black actors

appear on the screen. I think at all levels,

in all the production companies and all the studios,

then needs to actually be positive discrimination and

affirmative action. When he talks about people hanging

from trees and that is why they didn't care about whether some one

cinematography, you party class and you pass want to cry. I am not sure

I want to be laughing at this. It is not just Hollywood he is responding

to come it is to do with the killings of people by police and the

number of African Americans who are in prison. There is a deep issue

that needs to be addressed. With me now is Akua Gyamfi,

is the founder of the British Blacklist, database

of Black British Actors. What do you think about how Chris

Rock handle it? He did the job was supposed to do. We all expected him

to come out blazing, say something hard-hitting and that is the comedy

we got used to. He does political, hard edged comedy. We knew he would

take people down. I think he did a good job and handled himself the way

people expected anti-cult of a feud things that needed to be spoken

about. There was pressure on him, so some people are saying it wasn't

enough, it shouldn't be comedy but he is a comedian and he did the best

job he could do. He drew the analogy with sororities. We don't have them

in this country but it is saying you are not in the right club. Was that

a good analogy for him to draw on? Absolutely. It is people who are

non-white looking in. It is across the industry and it is very

exclusive. How did you get into this? You have to jump through

hoops. You have got to be used before you can get in and are

equivalent is doing things that are not supportive or positively

representative of the community. Sometimes people think we have to do

certain things to get in and it is a problem. How does that happen? A lot

of actors spoke about it and they are saying the point is you just

need to have black faces in movies in the same way that white faces

are, but it is just not questioned and Chris Rock said every year

Leonardo DiCaprio gets a great role, where the group rose for Jimmy Fox?

How does that happen? Something needs to change in the industry and

then the awards can reflect that. It is about letting non-white people, I

represent black people but it is not white people, getting the chance to

tell stories outside of the stereotypical boxes. It is not about

slavery all the time or servitude, we have broader scope of stories to

be told and we have to be allowed to tell them and it is about getting

funding and support, it is the people who hold the keys to the kids

sharing their knowledge of and the platform so more diverse stories can

be told. There will be good to awards season, we have a broader

range of films to choose from and the members and judges can make more

informed decisions and we can look at the membership and spread that

diversity as well. The industry needs to change. Do you think the

process will speed up now it is being talked about in this way or

does it go into, that was talked about this year, where does it go

from there? That is why the people who boycott it has helped. People

like Chris Rock speaking on the platform have helped. People behind

the scenes have helped. We have to keep on talking about this and not

let the industry say we are doing this because it is in the headlines

but if you put down the line it will change and we will move onto

something else. It cannot stop and we have to push the industry to

change because otherwise... This has been going on, Richard Pryor, Eddie

Murphy, over the years, these statements have been made. It is

nothing new, but there is something different in the bus and around. I

feel people will not take it lying down and there are so different

mediums. The internet has been a massive ceiling breaker for people

and you cannot avoid the talent and independent talent coming out from

these communities. They give are talking about it. Let us know what

you think about it. A Ryanair flight was forced to take

an unscheduled landing in Berlin this weekend after members of a stag

party became overly rowdy. The group of 12 from Southampton

were among 170 passengers travelling from Luton to the Slovak

capital Bratislava. According to German press reports,

six members of the group became aggressive after being

refused further alcohol. One member of the group

then undressed. They may now face fines of up

to ?20,000 and a possible Darius Davis was a passenger on

board. What happened? It was a crazy flight. They were drug from the get

go. Ten minutes into the flight one of the stag members still the

trousers of someone else. One of them was exposed and he was being

boisterous and naked from the waist down. He said I don't care if we

crash, I have a helicopter and was spinning his genitals around. The

passengers, I do not think they realised what was going on, they

thought it was because it was a Ryanair flight. Most people were

recording what was happening to put it on YouTube and essentially the

stewards were not doing very much to help stop people recording and

halfway through when it got too rowdy, he kept getting up, they said

we are diverting to Germany. The vast majority of the group got

arrested, a feud remained behind. There were children on board and it

was terrible. You do not want to see that on your site. It ran our first

evening of the holiday. You describe the most extreme thing going on. Did

it come down after that or just keep going? If you can imagine very

drunk, boisterous British going on, that is what it was. They were

fighting amongst themselves. They would go quiet for two minutes and

then he would stand up and put his genitals on the seat in of him and

ask if the person wanted tea. It sounds funny now, but it wasn't at

the time. Thank you for joining us. Ryanair have sent us a statement

about the incident. They said we do not tolerate unruly or disruptive

behaviour at any time. This safety and comfort of our safety --

passengers, crew and aircraft is our number one priority. This is now a

matter for local police. On the programme tomorrow we look

at the number of homeless people risking their lives by sleeping

in commercial bins. All sorts of other up and down the

UK. It is fine and sunny after some wet and windy weather for some

people. Has been snubbed in Northern Ireland. It has been turning back to

green. Still some white stuff over the high ground. Pushing into