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:00:07. > :00:10.Hello, it's Monday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:00:11. > :00:14.We're on air at the new time of 9am every weekday morning fron now on.

:00:15. > :00:17.On the programme this morning: "Don't make us the brunt of yet more

:00:18. > :00:19.cuts" - that's the message to the Chancellor George Osborne

:00:20. > :00:29.this morning from this group of disabled people.

:00:30. > :00:36.Hello, my name is Susan. In the recent cuts I have lost about ?3000

:00:37. > :00:40.a year. I just feel there is a witchhunt going on with the

:00:41. > :00:46.government against disabled people. My name is Kate. So far in the cuts

:00:47. > :00:51.I have lost my job and my car and I just don't know what else they want

:00:52. > :00:54.to take. We'll hear more from

:00:55. > :00:56.them just 9.15am. Also on the programme -

:00:57. > :00:59.giving children hope. Why Arsenal have sent players

:01:00. > :01:02.to Iraq teach children fleeing war I have had a big smile on my face

:01:03. > :01:14.being here with you guys. And - one leading tennis boss says

:01:15. > :01:16.women players should "get on their knees and thank" stars

:01:17. > :01:19.like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for carrying the sport,

:01:20. > :01:22.whilst Novak Djokovic has said it's right that men earn more than women

:01:23. > :01:25.because more people Hello, welcome to the programme,

:01:26. > :01:46.we're now on air every day As always throughout the morning

:01:47. > :01:52.we'll bring you the latest news and developing stories

:01:53. > :01:56.and every half hour, Joanna will bring you an update of

:01:57. > :01:59.the main news headlines. Do get in touch throughout

:02:00. > :02:02.the programme to give us your take on all the stories

:02:03. > :02:03.we're talking about - use the hashtag Victoria

:02:04. > :02:06.live and If you text, you will be charged

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:02:09. > :02:10.online wherever you are - via the BBC news app

:02:11. > :02:12.or our website bbc.co.uk/victoria. Our top story today: David Cameron

:02:13. > :02:15.will seek to ease the crisis within the Conservative party -

:02:16. > :02:17.following Iain Duncan Smith's resignation - and reject

:02:18. > :02:19.claims that his policies The Government is to announce

:02:20. > :02:27.that the plans to cut disability payments - which provoked

:02:28. > :02:30.Mr Duncan Smith's decision to quit - Our political correspondent,

:02:31. > :02:37.Chris Mason, has this report. This was the Chancellor George

:02:38. > :02:39.Osborne delivering his Budget This is a Conservative Government

:02:40. > :02:43.that is on your side. The reaction ever since doesn't get

:02:44. > :02:53.much worse for a government. Iain Duncan Smith resigned

:02:54. > :02:56.with several incendiary parting shots to boot, and then a weekend

:02:57. > :03:00.of insults hurled by Conservatives So today the Prime Minister's

:03:01. > :03:07.challenge is clear. He will try to do it by talking

:03:08. > :03:13.about how it all started for him as Conservative leader,

:03:14. > :03:16.how what he will call "compassionate Conservatism" has been his trademark

:03:17. > :03:21.since 2005 when he became Leader He made the case that

:03:22. > :03:25.the Conservative Party, how it looked and sounded,

:03:26. > :03:31.had to change. It is a big day too for this man,

:03:32. > :03:34.the new Work and Pensions Secretary, He inherits a divided department

:03:35. > :03:39.and potentially a hole He will make clear the changes

:03:40. > :03:46.and cuts to disability pensions will not now happen,

:03:47. > :03:48.but that leaves the Government looking for cuts elsewhere or not

:03:49. > :03:53.saving as much as it was hoped. This leaves David Cameron

:03:54. > :03:55.and George Osborne attempting to recover from the biggest

:03:56. > :04:23.challenge to their authority Norman Smith is at Westminster.

:04:24. > :04:28.There is pressure on George Osborne to resign. The bullet that has been

:04:29. > :04:33.fired is ricocheting around the Conservative Party. Some are saying

:04:34. > :04:41.that the Chancellor will not build to survive after the referendum and

:04:42. > :04:46.some Tories have asked him to re-craft his Budget. One person is

:04:47. > :04:50.suggesting the party should tear up its commitment to protect pension

:04:51. > :04:53.benefits, especially wealthy pensioners like the winter fuel

:04:54. > :04:57.allowance, and to scrap it even though they promised it in their

:04:58. > :05:04.manifesto, in order to find the ?4 billion that will not now be saved

:05:05. > :05:08.to the changes to Personal Independence Payment. The response

:05:09. > :05:09.to me seems to be to circle the wagons

:05:10. > :05:13.around the Chancellor, to protect him. Number Ten are playing down

:05:14. > :05:20.reports of a rift now between Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne. The Prime

:05:21. > :05:25.Minister is apparently angry that the Chancellor has kicked up such a

:05:26. > :05:30.furore with his Budget. Downing Street are saying such claims are

:05:31. > :05:32.nonsense and the two men remain as close as ever in their words. Thank

:05:33. > :05:37.you. Also today, five people have died

:05:38. > :05:40.after their car crashed off a pier Joanna has more on that

:05:41. > :05:45.and a summary of the rest At least two children are among five

:05:46. > :05:50.people who have died after a car The tragedy happened at Buncrana

:05:51. > :05:56.in County Donegal yesterday evening. A passer-by helped rescue

:05:57. > :05:58.a baby girl from the car. She was taken to hospital,

:05:59. > :06:04.where her condition Local councillor Jack Murray

:06:05. > :06:17.gave his reaction after Early run we were fearful that more

:06:18. > :06:22.tragedy would be visited on this community. We have just had it

:06:23. > :06:25.confirmed that our worst fears have been realised. There has been

:06:26. > :06:28.significant loss of life again in this area. I just feel numb, to be

:06:29. > :06:32.honest. President Obama has described his

:06:33. > :06:34.visit to Havana as an historic opportunity to engage

:06:35. > :06:36.with the Cuban people. He's the first serving US president

:06:37. > :06:39.to visit Cuba for 88 years. Mr Obama will meet

:06:40. > :06:40.President Raul Castro, but not the retired revolutionary

:06:41. > :06:42.leader Fidel Castro. Here's our Cuba

:06:43. > :06:44.Correspondent, Will Grant. Cuba is a country which relies

:06:45. > :06:47.on the power of the image. But few in recent memory have been

:06:48. > :06:50.as powerful as these. This comes after months of careful

:06:51. > :06:56.planning but the one thing they could do little about,

:06:57. > :06:57.of course, The first stop on the trip

:06:58. > :07:03.was to thank embassy staff This is a historic visit

:07:04. > :07:08.and a historic opportunity to engage And to forge new agreements

:07:09. > :07:13.and commercial deals to build new ties between our two peoples

:07:14. > :07:23.and for me to lay out a vision for a future that is

:07:24. > :07:25.brighter than our past. Cubans everywhere have

:07:26. > :07:26.long for reconciliation Seeing President Obama in old Havana

:07:27. > :07:30.felt like that moment had come. But there are still

:07:31. > :07:34.differences between them. Shortly before he arrived,

:07:35. > :07:39.Cuban authorities detained members of a dissident group,

:07:40. > :07:41.the Ladies in White on their weekly

:07:42. > :07:42.antigovernment march. Most Cubans these days aren't

:07:43. > :07:44.dissidents, they're just trying to make ends meet

:07:45. > :07:47.under the US embargo. President Obama is due to meet

:07:48. > :07:49.entrepreneurs in the new market economy, like this man

:07:50. > :07:56.who runs a beauty salon. TRANSLATION: I hope this

:07:57. > :08:03.new friendship will help business. Closer links between the two peoples

:08:04. > :08:06.is the most important thing. The next two days will lead

:08:07. > :08:09.to the most exciting moments from this trip including

:08:10. > :08:11.President Obama addressing the Cuban Whatever comes, this is likely to be

:08:12. > :08:15.one of the most memorable A young British woman is among those

:08:16. > :08:24.injured in a bus crash in Spain, Tallulah Lyons, who's 19

:08:25. > :08:29.and from Swindon, is being treated for fractured vertebrae,

:08:30. > :08:32.after a bus carrying foreign students crashed on a Spanish

:08:33. > :08:35.motorway between the cities The nationalities of those who died

:08:36. > :08:42.have not been released. A British businessman who has been

:08:43. > :08:45.in prison in Dubai for nearly two years - over charges of 'cyber

:08:46. > :08:47.slander' relating to a tweet - David Hague, who was once

:08:48. > :08:52.the managing director of Leeds United football club

:08:53. > :08:54.is expected to fly back Mark Lobel is following

:08:55. > :09:03.the story for us. What happened here? Well, this is

:09:04. > :09:15.clearly good news for Mr Hague because he spent 670 days behind

:09:16. > :09:20.bars in Dubai in rough conditions. As a result of today's acquittal, Mr

:09:21. > :09:25.Hague's spokesman said he was delighted and is likely to be home

:09:26. > :09:27.by Easter. There were fears for his welfare. Human Rights Watch and a

:09:28. > :09:36.Conservative MP had come out because what Mr Hague's spokesman

:09:37. > :09:44.described was what happened, after 22 months behind bars which began

:09:45. > :09:47.when Mr Hague 's to Dubai voluntarily to discuss a new

:09:48. > :09:52.business opportunity. But when he landed at the offices of this

:09:53. > :09:56.company 22 months ago, they said that while discussing this new

:09:57. > :10:01.business opportunity, he was surprised when the police came in

:10:02. > :10:05.and arrested him. He was held for 14 months on suspicion of fraud. He was

:10:06. > :10:11.convicted in the summer. The company which used to only United football

:10:12. > :10:16.club insist they did not influence the authorities in that decision.

:10:17. > :10:22.When he was due to fly home in November, just a few days before

:10:23. > :10:28.these new Twitter charges emerged, he was accused of slander which is a

:10:29. > :10:32.criminal offence in Dubai. He had an agonising four month wait. We have

:10:33. > :10:35.heard he has been acquitted of all those charges and will be home it is

:10:36. > :10:42.likely by Easter. Thank you. Turkish and Greek officials

:10:43. > :10:44.will discuss today how to implement a deal which aims to ease

:10:45. > :10:46.the ongoing refugee The agreement between the EU

:10:47. > :10:50.and Turkey means that migrants arriving in Greece will be sent back

:10:51. > :10:53.to Turkey if they don't apply for asylum or their

:10:54. > :10:55.claim is rejected. But there are still questions over

:10:56. > :10:58.how the migrants will be sent back or what will happen to the thousands

:10:59. > :11:01.of people already in Greece. Strikes by French air traffic

:11:02. > :11:03.controllers will lead to flight cancellations and delays over

:11:04. > :11:05.the next three days. EasyJet and British Airways

:11:06. > :11:07.flights from Gatwick, Heathrow and Luton Airport to French

:11:08. > :11:09.airports are likely to experience lengthy delays or cancellations

:11:10. > :11:12.as a result of the action. A spokesman for EasyJet

:11:13. > :11:14.confirmed that 82 flights Prince Harry's continuing his tour

:11:15. > :11:20.of Nepal, as the country rebuilds following last year's earthquake,

:11:21. > :11:22.which killed more than 8,000 people. He's visited families who've been

:11:23. > :11:24.left homeless and later, he'll go to a national park to learn

:11:25. > :11:27.about measures to tackle poaching. Our royal correspondent,

:11:28. > :11:29.Nicholas Witchell reports. He said he wants to shine a light

:11:30. > :11:32.on what he's called Nepal's Yesterday, Harry started to see

:11:33. > :11:36.for himself how last April's earthquake is still affecting

:11:37. > :11:40.hundreds of thousands of lives here. He was taken to a camp for people

:11:41. > :11:43.made homeless by the quake, just one such tented

:11:44. > :11:47.village among many. He heard these families must expect

:11:48. > :11:51.to remain in temporary accommodation for at least another

:11:52. > :11:54.year, possibly more. The pace of reconstruction

:11:55. > :11:57.here is very slow, as Harry saw in Patan Dubar Square

:11:58. > :12:00.in the centre of Kathmandu, where many of the ancient temples

:12:01. > :12:02.were either destroyed Today, Harry will travel

:12:03. > :12:08.beyond Kathmandu into the foothills of the Himalayas to view a nature

:12:09. > :12:11.conservation project and to see the damage inflicted by

:12:12. > :12:31.the earthquake on rural communities. You are up-to-date with the main BBC

:12:32. > :12:35.News. Thank you. We will be hearing from

:12:36. > :12:36.disabled people who do not want the government to make them the brunt of

:12:37. > :12:44.any further cuts. After 930 AM we will show you a

:12:45. > :12:46.beautiful and moving film how Arsenal football club is teaching

:12:47. > :13:03.kids how to play football in Iraq. Good morning. We have those comments

:13:04. > :13:08.coming up, real furore brewing in the tennis world. Ahead of the

:13:09. > :13:14.Indian Wells tournament has apologised after claiming the WTA

:13:15. > :13:18.rides on the coat-tails of the men. Serena Williams and Billie Jean King

:13:19. > :13:23.are some of those who have criticised Ray Moore's divisive

:13:24. > :13:27.comments. This is what he said. In my next life when I come back I want

:13:28. > :13:29.to be someone in the WTA because they ride on the coat-tails of the

:13:30. > :13:34.men. They don't make any decisions. They

:13:35. > :13:40.are lucky, they are very lucky. If I was a lady player I would go down

:13:41. > :13:41.every night on my knees and thank God that Roger

:13:42. > :13:45.Federer and Rafael Nadal were born. Of

:13:46. > :13:49.course, those words have produced a seismic reaction.

:13:50. > :13:56.Novak Djokovic condemned the comments that has suggested that men

:13:57. > :13:58.should be paid more as they attract more spectators. Women's will be the

:13:59. > :14:10.ones Serena Williams noted the women's final sold-out quicker

:14:11. > :14:11.than the men's. If people tell me every day they are not

:14:12. > :14:16.watching tennis -- they would not be watching

:14:17. > :14:24.tennis if it was not for me and my sister, I could not tell you that

:14:25. > :14:28.number. Identity that is not -- I don't think that is a very accurate

:14:29. > :14:37.statement. There are a lot of women who are really exciting to watch. I

:14:38. > :14:45.think it goes both ways. I think those remarks are very much

:14:46. > :14:52.We will keep you across any further reaction as we get it.

:14:53. > :15:01.It was another day to remember in the young career of Marcus Rashford.

:15:02. > :15:05.Derby day in Manchester was his day, as United boosted his hopes of a top

:15:06. > :15:10.four finish. The 18-year-old born and raised in Manchester scored the

:15:11. > :15:13.only game in the Etihad, putting United four points behind Manchester

:15:14. > :15:18.City. Leicester are still top but

:15:19. > :15:19.Tottenham are still five points behind after a

:15:20. > :15:28.at White Hart Lane. Harry Kane is the top scorer for the season.

:15:29. > :15:34.Dundee United were trailing their next-door neighbours Dundee in

:15:35. > :15:39.injury time but Billy Mackay popped up to make it two wall. They are

:15:40. > :15:46.still seven points adrift. There you go, that is how you do it, Billy.

:15:47. > :15:51.The world road race champion timed her challenge perfectly attacking

:15:52. > :15:53.near the end of the one day race to finish more than a second clear. It

:15:54. > :15:59.is her third win of the season.

:16:00. > :16:02.Make sure you join us later on, when we will be talking to Dame Kelly

:16:03. > :16:08.Holmes who has got her running shoes back on and we will let you tell

:16:09. > :16:15.her, let her tell you for why! I understand. Thank you very much.

:16:16. > :16:19.In case you hadn't realised we're now on air every weekday morning

:16:20. > :16:21.from the earlier time of 9am until 11am.

:16:22. > :16:24.Later in the programme we'll get more reaction to those comments that

:16:25. > :16:26.women players should "get on their knees and thank" players

:16:27. > :16:28.like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for carrying the sport.

:16:29. > :16:31.Novak Djokovic defended the women's game but went on to say men should

:16:32. > :16:35.be paid more than women because more people want to watch them play.

:16:36. > :16:37.We would love to hear your thoughts this morning.

:16:38. > :16:39.Use the hashtag Victoria live and If you text,

:16:40. > :16:41.you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:16:42. > :16:46."Don't make us the brunt of yet more cuts" -

:16:47. > :16:49.that's the message disabled people are telling this programme,

:16:50. > :16:51.saying they've already been hit enough.

:16:52. > :16:55.The new Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabb, will confirm today

:16:56. > :16:58.that the Government is abandoning its planned ?1.3 billion of cuts

:16:59. > :17:00.to Personal Independence Payment or PIP.

:17:01. > :17:04.Those cuts would have seen a reduction in the amount

:17:05. > :17:07.of financial support people would get to help with daily living

:17:08. > :17:11.activities like dressing and managing toilet needs.

:17:12. > :17:13.The former Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith,

:17:14. > :17:16.resigned over the issue on Friday claiming it was unfair to cut taxes

:17:17. > :17:19.for the better off at the same time as cutting benefits

:17:20. > :17:30.That unfairness is damaging to the Government. It is damaging to the

:17:31. > :17:35.party. And it is actually damaging to the public. You know, I am in

:17:36. > :17:39.politics genuinely, I am passionate and you know whatever people can

:17:40. > :17:43.disagree with me about issues, about my own policies and things, but as

:17:44. > :17:46.has been said earlier on, I am passionate about trying to improve

:17:47. > :17:50.the quality of life for those in difficult circumstances. Now, I want

:17:51. > :17:55.to do that and I want my party to do that, but I felt that I am losing my

:17:56. > :17:59.ability to influence that and that was where the culmination of all of

:18:00. > :18:02.this came to by Friday and I had consulted with everybody and I

:18:03. > :18:05.talked to them all and I felt that I was not getting that message across.

:18:06. > :18:08.Iain Duncan Smith, do you understand that among a lot of disabled

:18:09. > :18:12.campaigners and so forth, there will be a certain amount of hollow

:18:13. > :18:17.laughter because they see you as the man who supported the benefits cap,

:18:18. > :18:21.that supported the bedroom tax, that supported lots of things that caused

:18:22. > :18:24.real hardship to people at the bottom of the heap and they see you

:18:25. > :18:30.as the bad guy. They find it hard to see you as the great reformer and

:18:31. > :18:37.champion of disability rights? We have spent a lot of trying to even

:18:38. > :18:41.out and smooth out the proposals and policies, Discretionary Housing

:18:42. > :18:44.Payments increased at my request and demand. So people who had difficult

:18:45. > :18:45.problems, local authorities would be able to give them more money and

:18:46. > :18:49.support them. So how much have disabled people

:18:50. > :18:52.been hit by cuts so far? PIPS themselves or Personal

:18:53. > :18:55.Independence Payments were announced They're still being rolled out

:18:56. > :18:59.and effectively replace the Disability Living Allowance,

:19:00. > :19:08.but with a 20% built-in cut. There is the work capability

:19:09. > :19:11.assessment and employment support This policy, initially

:19:12. > :19:14.introduced by Labour, but extended by Iain Duncan Smith

:19:15. > :19:17.in 2010, introduced a computer led fitness-for-work test which aimed

:19:18. > :19:20.to save money by redefining disability and therefore,

:19:21. > :19:24.reclassifying about 23% of people who previously claimed benefits

:19:25. > :19:27.as being fit to work. The spare room subsidy,

:19:28. > :19:32.sometimes called the bedroom tax, means that people who claim housing

:19:33. > :19:35.benefit have to pay extra for any

:19:36. > :19:37.spare room in their house. It's estimated this affects over

:19:38. > :19:39.400,000 disabled people, many who say they use their spare

:19:40. > :19:42.room to keep important equipment Last year the Government closed

:19:43. > :19:51.the Independent Living Fund. It was a fund which provided support

:19:52. > :19:55.for around 18,000 of the most severely disabled people to live

:19:56. > :20:10.independently including paying Let's talk to four people who have

:20:11. > :20:13.strong views on the cuts so far and the row over the last few days.

:20:14. > :20:16.Kate Rae lost her motability car after being reassessed for PIP

:20:17. > :20:19.and will lose daily living support under the new changes.

:20:20. > :20:23.Romina Puma receives disability living allowance and is waiting

:20:24. > :20:26.to move over to PIP, but is concerned she'll be affected

:20:27. > :20:31.Susan Donnelly was told last week she will have to reapply for PIP,

:20:32. > :20:37.Graeme Ellis quit the Conservative Disability Group over what he calls

:20:38. > :20:53.He receives the disability living allowance and is due to be

:20:54. > :20:58.transferred over to PIPs soon. What do you think of Iain Duncan Smith's

:20:59. > :21:05.resignation? It feels too little, too late. It is a jump before he was

:21:06. > :21:09.pushed sort of feeling to it. I can't believe that he truly was

:21:10. > :21:16.against all these things because he had an opportunity to speak out

:21:17. > :21:21.previously. So when he says now, these cuts are unfair particularly

:21:22. > :21:25.put alongside income tax cuts for the better off. You don't believe

:21:26. > :21:30.him? I agree that's true. I just don't agree that's what he believes.

:21:31. > :21:37.I find that difficult to understand. I just feel it is a against disabled

:21:38. > :21:43.people. I got caught in the first round of the benefit changes,

:21:44. > :21:47.transferring over from Income Support to support allowance. I had

:21:48. > :21:51.to sent so much paperwork off and I was transferred over and I have

:21:52. > :21:53.received a letter from the disability living allowance

:21:54. > :21:57.department, who have told me sometime in the near future I'm

:21:58. > :22:01.going to have to reapply for PIP, but there is no guarantee I'm going

:22:02. > :22:07.to get it. What does that do to you? What does that make you feel like? I

:22:08. > :22:11.just want to cry. I really do just want to cry. People don't

:22:12. > :22:17.understand, you know, we didn't ask to be disabled. Disability doesn't

:22:18. > :22:21.dus criminate and at the end of the day, why should we keep being

:22:22. > :22:26.penalised all the time? You know, it is not fair to us. We go through

:22:27. > :22:30.enough, you know. Do you agree that it sometimes feels like a witch-hunt

:22:31. > :22:37.against disabled people? Agree with that. It is very obvious that it is.

:22:38. > :22:43.We have been an easy target because we're vulnerable. OK, a small

:22:44. > :22:48.minority of disabled people shout out, but many of us are silent

:22:49. > :22:55.voices, the events of the Budget last week pushed us into shouting

:22:56. > :23:01.up. What about you? I totally agree. I still am on DLA and it is very

:23:02. > :23:06.stressful like, you know. I don't know how it will affect, when it is

:23:07. > :23:11.going to affect. You mean when you have to transfer over to the

:23:12. > :23:14.Personal Independence Payment. Muscular dystrophy is a tricky

:23:15. > :23:19.condition and most people don't understand how it works and muscular

:23:20. > :23:24.dystrophy UK we receive a lot of phone calls about this issue because

:23:25. > :23:31.they are all very, very scared and stressed. Scared and stressed. You

:23:32. > :23:35.relate to what Susan was saying? I can't sleep at night and I have a

:23:36. > :23:39.physical condition and all this stress affects also my mental

:23:40. > :23:49.health. So I'm getting even worse instead of better.

:23:50. > :23:53.I got my letter to switch to reapply for PIP at the beginning of December

:23:54. > :23:57.and my decision came through in the middle of January and they took my

:23:58. > :24:01.car on 1st March. They rush everything through quickly that

:24:02. > :24:06.during that time, you are panicked because you don't know what's going

:24:07. > :24:10.to happen. The uncertainty of it, I have a chronic pain condition and a

:24:11. > :24:14.connective tissue condition. They are not easy things to manage at the

:24:15. > :24:23.best of times because they play on each other. Stress increases pain

:24:24. > :24:32.which then means I'm more at a disadvantage because I'm not coping.

:24:33. > :24:37.The Motabilty car was the car you used to get to work. Can you get

:24:38. > :24:41.there now? Public transport I have no issue with, but I can't

:24:42. > :24:45.physically manage it and the amount of travel time has to be

:24:46. > :24:48.proportionate to what I can do at work to allow me to actually be

:24:49. > :24:53.effective and do a job. When Number Ten points out today that the bill

:24:54. > :24:57.for personal independence payments is rising by around ?1 billion a

:24:58. > :25:03.year, what do you think when you hear that? Which is part of their

:25:04. > :25:08.justification for why PIP was targeted in the Budget last week? It

:25:09. > :25:12.is other cuts made people more vulnerable, made people lose

:25:13. > :25:16.capability, so there is bound to be an increase in people claiming the

:25:17. > :25:21.been fit and that increases the cuts and it really does illustrate the,

:25:22. > :25:25.you know, all these cuts are not saving money in the long run because

:25:26. > :25:28.they are making, it is a vicious circle. Do you accept George Osborne

:25:29. > :25:33.and David Cameron's premise that they have to continue to keep

:25:34. > :25:35.reducing the deficit and it is a burden that's going to fall on

:25:36. > :25:41.everybody in society? Yeah. There is a deficit, but as I

:25:42. > :25:46.say, the events of the past week have highlighted that they have been

:25:47. > :25:50.plugging the gap at the expense of disabled people for a long time and

:25:51. > :25:55.that is what has to stop. If there has to be cuts they need to be

:25:56. > :25:58.across all the whole of society, you can't just target the most

:25:59. > :26:03.vulnerable and think that's acceptable. People don't seem to

:26:04. > :26:10.grasp that when you're disabled, you spend more time at home. So

:26:11. > :26:14.obviously, your utility bills will be higher than someone who is in

:26:15. > :26:18.full-time work. Yeah, absolutely. Where do you find the money? I've

:26:19. > :26:22.got in debt. I've got in serious debt just trying to live a daily

:26:23. > :26:27.life and manage my money. Do you mind me asking you how much you've

:26:28. > :26:32.borrowed in what kind of loan? It was a payday loan. Doorstep loan and

:26:33. > :26:39.I am in debt to the value of ?3,000 now. And you say you needed that

:26:40. > :26:44.just to pay your regular bills? Before Victoria I never paid council

:26:45. > :26:49.tax, I never paid for my network alarm, I never paid bedroom tax and

:26:50. > :26:53.I didn't have to pay for my inContinent pads and now I have to

:26:54. > :26:58.pay for all of that. Is that not right, should you not

:26:59. > :27:03.have to pay for those things? I'm supposed to be on a special diet

:27:04. > :27:08.because I've got a number of health issues, quite serious issues. I am

:27:09. > :27:12.supposed to be on a special diet, I can't afford to go on that special

:27:13. > :27:16.diet that my consultant told me to go on because I don't have the money

:27:17. > :27:20.to finance it. Do you accept that because of some of the reforms slash

:27:21. > :27:25.cuts that Iain Duncan Smith has made over the past few years in

:27:26. > :27:29.reassessing various people, actually people who were on disability

:27:30. > :27:35.benefits have been able to go back to work and do you think that's a

:27:36. > :27:40.good thing, Graham? Yes, a small minority have been able to return

:27:41. > :27:46.back to work. I mean, perhaps I'm an example. I work. I find it really,

:27:47. > :27:52.really difficult to sustain working, but I do. But again, it is the way

:27:53. > :27:56.they are doing it. I deal every day with clients at work that have been

:27:57. > :28:00.told they are fit for work. I have one client that hasn't received any

:28:01. > :28:04.benefit for 12 months now and is living off food parcels and is

:28:05. > :28:09.actually clinically suffering from malnutrition. Wow. It has given his

:28:10. > :28:19.benefit appeal is on Thursday. At last. So I do hope, you know... The

:28:20. > :28:30.appeals process in itself is not designed to help. I mean, I'm trying

:28:31. > :28:34.to appeal my decision. I'm no less disabled now than I was on 29th

:28:35. > :28:38.February when I still had a job and was still contributing tax and

:28:39. > :28:46.still, you know, a contributing member of society. I'm no less

:28:47. > :28:51.disabled now than when on 1st March when they took my car. The tribunal

:28:52. > :28:55.process takes up to nine months. We don't know whether the new guy in

:28:56. > :29:00.the Department of Work and Pensions, a man called Stephen Crabb will be

:29:01. > :29:04.asked to find the equivalent of the ?4 billion cuts that would have been

:29:05. > :29:08.saved had George Osborne's changes gone through. We know the PIP

:29:09. > :29:14.changes are scrapped. What would you say to the Government if they are

:29:15. > :29:18.considering asking Mr Cabb to look again in his department at working

:29:19. > :29:22.age benefits and maybe he should look at pensioner benefits. I don't

:29:23. > :29:26.know where he should look. I do believe, there have to be cuts made,

:29:27. > :29:34.there always are, but I think to take them from social care and

:29:35. > :29:37.social welfare is, it doesn't make any sense. Should he look at other

:29:38. > :29:41.departments and forget the welfare department now? They should look at

:29:42. > :29:45.other departments, but I'm going to be controversial and say that there

:29:46. > :29:50.are wealthy pensioners that don't need the benefits. They don't need

:29:51. > :29:55.?200 at Christmas towards the fuel bills etcetera. I don't know, the

:29:56. > :30:01.sums, but there must be a huge sum doing that. The problem is, in the

:30:02. > :30:07.manifesto, you know, ten months ago, they said they would not touch

:30:08. > :30:11.pensioner benefits. And they also promised ?12 billion cuts in the

:30:12. > :30:16.welfare? And they haven't broken other things in the manifesto, you

:30:17. > :30:21.know? With the pensioners, it is because it is a huge vote and it is

:30:22. > :30:26.a vote they want to keep and yet we're a huge vote and they don't

:30:27. > :30:31.consider keeping or trying to get our vote. Some of the questions that

:30:32. > :30:37.they asked you on these forms, you know, an example, when I applied for

:30:38. > :30:41.disability living allowance, do you really need assistance or how many

:30:42. > :30:47.times a day do you need assistance with tour toileting? Well, I can't

:30:48. > :30:52.answer that question. I could have a really bad day and spend all day in

:30:53. > :30:56.my bathroom and it takes away your dignity and it is very hard when

:30:57. > :31:01.you're disabled to try and rise above that and it is very hard to

:31:02. > :31:10.try and keep the momentum going and to keep yourself going. Sarah

:31:11. > :31:15.e-mailed to say, although the DWP have agreed I can't walk more than

:31:16. > :31:26.50 meters, they consider me not disabled enough to claim the higher

:31:27. > :31:31.rate portion of PIP. This means I am housebound from

:31:32. > :31:40.tomorrow as I have to hand my car back. They havetain away -- taken

:31:41. > :31:44.away my independence and I won't be able to drive my disabled son to

:31:45. > :31:48.school. Thank you, Conservatives. Victor says, "This could have been

:31:49. > :31:52.avoided, why should ?4 billion over four years need to be cut from our

:31:53. > :31:56.people when over the same four years we will be giving ?48 billion to

:31:57. > :32:01.other countries in overseas aid?" Darren e-mailed to say, "I'm

:32:02. > :32:05.disa-abled and I'm tired of living in fear of losing my much needed

:32:06. > :32:09.income because of this so-called compassionate Government. If they

:32:10. > :32:12.had any compassion they would stop the stress and threats of stripping

:32:13. > :32:36.genuinely disabled people of the vital money they need.

:32:37. > :32:42.Graham says, why should it come from the disability budget? Bankers cause

:32:43. > :32:46.the problems, increase their tax until it is sorted out.

:32:47. > :32:52.Leroy says, those who affect disabled people should go through

:32:53. > :32:59.that themselves, they should be ashamed. I would not wish that on

:33:00. > :33:04.anybody. I understand it. I would invite some MPs to live with me for

:33:05. > :33:12.at least one week so they understand how it is to have a disabled live.

:33:13. > :33:17.Is that a serious invitation to a Conservative MP? Yes, they can stay

:33:18. > :33:21.with me for one week. They can help me move! They can put cameras in my

:33:22. > :33:28.house and live the life I live on the money I get for a week and see

:33:29. > :33:33.how far they get with it. I also think Iain Duncan-Smith should man

:33:34. > :33:38.and meet a group of disabled people and publicly apologise for

:33:39. > :33:42.everything he has done. Exactly. We will ask him and a Conservative MP

:33:43. > :33:46.to see if they want to spend a week with you to see how you live your

:33:47. > :33:53.lives on a daily basis. Thank you. David Cameron will defend his

:33:54. > :33:56.government's record after the resignation of Iain Duncan-Smith as

:33:57. > :34:01.Work and Pensions Secretary and he will tell MPs he believes in a

:34:02. > :34:04.modern compassionate conservatism. He will speak at half past three and

:34:05. > :34:05.you can hear that live. Still to come.

:34:06. > :34:09.How Arsenal hopes to teach football to youngsters fleeing war.

:34:10. > :34:16.And we'll bring you reaction to the comments made by one leading

:34:17. > :34:19.tennis boss that says women players should thank male stars like Federer

:34:20. > :34:34.The latest headlines with Joanna. Thank you.

:34:35. > :34:36.Plans to cut some disability benefits are expected

:34:37. > :34:47.The new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb will announce the

:34:48. > :34:49.plans. The disability payment cuts will be scrapped, just days after

:34:50. > :34:54.Iain Duncan-Smith resign over the issue. The Prime Minister will today

:34:55. > :34:59.defend his record, describing himself as an advocate of a modern,

:35:00. > :35:03.compassionate conservatism. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told the

:35:04. > :35:06.BBC Chancellor should also consider his position after the U-turn.

:35:07. > :35:09.At least two children are among five people who have died after a car

:35:10. > :35:13.The tragedy happened at Buncrana in County Donegal yesterday evening.

:35:14. > :35:15.A passer-by helped rescue a baby girl from the car.

:35:16. > :35:17.She was taken to hospital, where her condition

:35:18. > :35:30.An eyewitness described how a passer-by rescued the baby from the

:35:31. > :35:33.car. He took off his clothes to his underwear and headed out and it was

:35:34. > :35:39.great that he did and he came back with a baby. Some people were saying

:35:40. > :35:45.it was handed out to him. He came back totally exhausted. Another five

:35:46. > :35:50.yards, I do not know how he could have made it. He was shouting,

:35:51. > :35:52.grabbed the baby. He was taken to hospital, but very heroic and he

:35:53. > :35:54.saved the baby's life. President Obama has described his

:35:55. > :35:57.visit to Havana as an historic opportunity to engage

:35:58. > :35:59.with the Cuban people. He's the first serving US

:36:00. > :36:01.President to visit Cuba Mr Obama will meet

:36:02. > :36:03.President Raul Castro, but not the retired revolutionary

:36:04. > :36:08.leader Fidel Castro. A British businessman who has been

:36:09. > :36:11.in prison in Dubai for nearly two years - over charges of 'cyber

:36:12. > :36:14.slander' relating to a tweet - David Haigh, who was once

:36:15. > :36:17.the managing director of Leeds United Football Club,

:36:18. > :36:19.is expected to fly back The social network Twitter

:36:20. > :36:23.is celebrating its ten-year Since the first tweet

:36:24. > :36:28.was sent on March 21st 2006, the website has changed the way

:36:29. > :36:30.people communicate online, most notably with its

:36:31. > :36:35.140-character format. Now more than 500 million

:36:36. > :36:37.tweets are sent each day, and the site has found itself

:36:38. > :36:41.at the centre of some of the biggest That's a summary of

:36:42. > :36:49.the latest BBC News. Now, Ore's here with

:36:50. > :36:58.the sports headlines. The words of one man

:36:59. > :37:00.dominating the headlines. Serena Williams has heavily

:37:01. > :37:02.criticised Indian Wells tournament boss Ray Moore, who has apologised

:37:03. > :37:05.after saying that female tennis players should drop to their knees

:37:06. > :37:08.and "thank God that Roger Federer Williams called the comments

:37:09. > :37:16.'offensive and very inaccurate'. She lost in the final to Victoria

:37:17. > :37:19.Azarenka. Teenage striker Marcus Rashford

:37:20. > :37:22.stole the show in the Manchester derby, as United beat

:37:23. > :37:25.City 1-0 at the Etihad. United still hopeful

:37:26. > :37:28.of a Champions League spot. They're just a point behind

:37:29. > :37:36.City, who are fourth. Tottenham cut Leicester's lead

:37:37. > :37:38.at the top of the Premier League Two goals from Harry Kane helped

:37:39. > :37:42.them to a comfortable 3-0 win over Britain's Lizzie Armitstead

:37:43. > :37:46.timed her challenge to perfection, to retain her World

:37:47. > :37:48.Tour title in Italy. It's the third win of the season

:37:49. > :37:51.for the world road race champion. And snowboarder Jamie Nicholls has

:37:52. > :37:53.won his first World Cup Nicholls hadn't made the podium

:37:54. > :37:57.before, but he came out on top Arsenal has built football pitches

:37:58. > :38:09.for children fleeing war in Iraq. The football club has teamed up

:38:10. > :38:12.with Save The Children to fund two pitches and train

:38:13. > :38:16.both boys and girls. Arsenal say they hope this project

:38:17. > :38:18.will help children in the worst of circumstances experience

:38:19. > :38:23.the joy of football. Our reporter Catrin Nye had

:38:24. > :38:54.exclusive access to the project. The tragedy of children forced

:38:55. > :38:58.to flee their homes by war in Iraq. And the wealth and fame

:38:59. > :39:02.of Arsenal Football Club. These two things don't obviously

:39:03. > :39:04.have much in common. But a new project is

:39:05. > :39:15.trying to change that. For me, growing up, football

:39:16. > :39:18.was more than a game then. Arsenal have long provided

:39:19. > :39:24.sports facilities and training for young

:39:25. > :39:27.people in North London. With Save The Children,

:39:28. > :39:31.they've built football Think about a kid

:39:32. > :39:38.who is in Iraq, whose life has been ripped apart,

:39:39. > :39:41.who has been pulled out It is a very powerful

:39:42. > :39:52.statement that a club like Arsenal can come

:39:53. > :39:55.in and say not just you are a part of our community,

:39:56. > :39:59.but also that we care. If I go and I can have a positive

:40:00. > :40:03.impact on any of these children's I know what it meant to me playing

:40:04. > :40:08.in that football cage That is when I dreamt of playing

:40:09. > :40:15.for England and Arsenal. I used to picture that football cage

:40:16. > :40:18.and that was Wembley. Yes, even still to this day

:40:19. > :40:22.I have people phoning me, saying, "Why, Alex,

:40:23. > :40:23.why are you going? Out of all the conversations

:40:24. > :40:27.I have had, there have only been three people who have

:40:28. > :40:29.said, "This is great, what you are doing,

:40:30. > :40:32.going over there." I remember I read an article

:40:33. > :40:35.in the Daily Mail a couple of weeks ago that

:40:36. > :40:37.a boy had been beheaded because he was listening to Western

:40:38. > :40:40.music and it is things like that, Stuff like that is going

:40:41. > :41:02.on and it is serious." The horrors that Alex's friends

:41:03. > :41:04.and family have heard about is what has

:41:05. > :41:06.caused a mass movement Since January 2014, more

:41:07. > :41:11.than 3 million Iraqis had to abandon their homes

:41:12. > :41:15.because of war. So, this is Kurdistan

:41:16. > :41:27.in northern Iraq. Relative safety compared

:41:28. > :41:29.with the rest of the country, but we are still just

:41:30. > :41:31.a few hours from the frontline, from territory

:41:32. > :41:46.controlled by Isis. This is Alwand camp,

:41:47. > :41:51.near the border with Iran, now home to more than 6,000

:41:52. > :41:53.people, all of them Iraqis who have fled other

:41:54. > :41:57.parts of the country. A lot of the people that live

:41:58. > :42:00.in this camp have had their homes destroyed

:42:01. > :42:06.since they left them. So, they are pretty stuck,

:42:07. > :42:08.living in these caravans, provided in the camp,

:42:09. > :42:13.and not having any idea if and when they will ever be able

:42:14. > :42:17.to return to where they came from. I'm going to meet one girl who lives

:42:18. > :42:20.here with her family. What was it like having

:42:21. > :43:13.to leave your friends? Are there any good things

:43:14. > :43:46.about the camp, about living here? Football is not going to bring these

:43:47. > :43:49.children their homes back but it is hoped it can

:43:50. > :43:56.bring them an escape. Alex has been flown

:43:57. > :44:01.in to meet the children. This is more fancy than the one

:44:02. > :44:45.I grew up playing in. For the girls, you need

:44:46. > :44:47.to understand they come from very conservative families

:44:48. > :44:49.and have witnessed violence, gone through displacement

:44:50. > :44:51.and now have come to The girls, it is not really

:44:52. > :44:57.in their cultural norms they would be engaging

:44:58. > :45:03.in such activity and sport. Who is better,

:45:04. > :45:13.the boys or the girls? Boys and girls are learning

:45:14. > :45:19.to play football here. Why did you decide today that Alex

:45:20. > :45:22.would teach the girls? To them, she is a big

:45:23. > :45:25.source of inspiration. The fact she's a woman and she has

:45:26. > :45:31.made it internationally. It's not common to have a female

:45:32. > :45:38.figure who is such a good leader. All the boys behind you look quite

:45:39. > :45:41.jealous that the girls The girls are saying

:45:42. > :45:58.they want to be footballers. As long as they have a dream

:45:59. > :46:06.and something to look forward to. Look at the cheers and the smiles

:46:07. > :46:12.on their faces today. It is like they are

:46:13. > :46:16.forgetting all the violence. I just want to say a big

:46:17. > :46:19.thank you for today. I have had a big smile

:46:20. > :46:21.on my face being here Some of them have lost

:46:22. > :47:01.their families, their loved ones. I'm lucky because I get

:47:02. > :47:05.to leave and go home. You never think people

:47:06. > :47:12.would be living like this. They are stuck, basically,

:47:13. > :47:14.we're in the middle of nowhere. They just carry on with

:47:15. > :47:17.their lives every day, That film by Catrin Nye

:47:18. > :47:42.and Benjamin Lister. Alex Scott, captain

:47:43. > :47:43.of Arsenal Ladies who's played for England over 100

:47:44. > :48:01.times, is with us now. What did you come away with? It

:48:02. > :48:04.makes me realise how disconnected I was to a situation which is so

:48:05. > :48:08.severe, and even though you cannot help everyone, being able to give my

:48:09. > :48:14.time and realising the impact I had on those children, it means so much.

:48:15. > :48:19.Interesting what you said, there were people who said you, don't go,

:48:20. > :48:22.what were they worried about? The safety, you hear the reports on

:48:23. > :48:27.Iraq, the bombings, and they were like, Alex, you don't have to go.

:48:28. > :48:33.Why would you put your own life at risk? If everyone adopted that

:48:34. > :48:38.attitude, there would be no hope for these children and that is why I

:48:39. > :48:44.really wanted to go. In the small time that you were there, what kind

:48:45. > :48:49.of difference did you make to some of those girls? That is what touched

:48:50. > :48:54.me the most, the impact I made, just giving them my time, and that is why

:48:55. > :48:59.I'm so proud of this partnership between Save The Children and

:49:00. > :49:04.Arsenal, it is using football, which is so powerful, and that is what I

:49:05. > :49:11.saw. The future. Would you hope to go to northern Iraq again? Could you

:49:12. > :49:17.meet these same children in maybe a year? I hope so, but if I do go back

:49:18. > :49:21.I hope I'm not seeing the same children, because some of them have

:49:22. > :49:24.been in that camp two and a half years and they don't know when they

:49:25. > :49:28.will be able to leave or if they will ever be able to leave and I

:49:29. > :49:32.hope that I do return but will not see the same children. Would you go

:49:33. > :49:40.to other places with different conditions? Where children have had

:49:41. > :49:44.to flee war. Yes, that is what Arsenal wanted to get involved with,

:49:45. > :49:47.this partnership is so powerful, Arsenal have been doing this in the

:49:48. > :49:52.local community for many years, but they have formed this partnership

:49:53. > :49:55.with Save The Children to take it globally, and if this is a success,

:49:56. > :50:03.they are looking to do it in other areas, as well. You are in someone

:50:04. > :50:07.who grew up in a different part of the world and you wanted to play

:50:08. > :50:11.football, what is it like when you are eight and you start kicking a

:50:12. > :50:19.ball around and you realise this is good? Can you remember that feeling?

:50:20. > :50:22.Yes, that is why I have such a good connection with this project, I

:50:23. > :50:26.started playing football in a football cage in the East End of

:50:27. > :50:30.London, and that is where my dreams started playing for Arsenal and

:50:31. > :50:33.England. It gives children the hope and dreams that they can go on and

:50:34. > :50:38.become something. Thanks for joining us. Alex Scott, thank you.

:50:39. > :50:42.And if you want to share that film you can find it on the progrmame

:50:43. > :50:46.What's it like supporting the team nobody thought could win

:50:47. > :50:54.We'll bring you a special video diary made by some of

:50:55. > :51:02.That is two Leicester City supporters. Thank you for your

:51:03. > :51:12.comments about what Novak Djokovic has said, he said men deserved to

:51:13. > :51:20.pay the -- deserved to be paid more than women. Glenn says, men deserved

:51:21. > :51:27.more because they play five sets. Another one says the men are more

:51:28. > :51:35.exciting than a token women's final. Another person has said a woman can

:51:36. > :51:42.win in two straight sets, 12 games, but a man can win in three straight

:51:43. > :51:51.sets, and men play more games per match. Bill says women tennis

:51:52. > :51:55.players are worth less, fact, they play shorter games and they are less

:51:56. > :52:04.entertaining. My personal view is that I would not watch Sharapova or

:52:05. > :52:10.Williams but I would watch Murray or Federer. Wimbledon charge less for

:52:11. > :52:15.the women's final. Another one says they agree that men should be paid

:52:16. > :52:19.more, because they play longer matches, and they would be annoyed

:52:20. > :52:22.if women got paid the same for less work. Please keep your comments

:52:23. > :52:24.coming in. Five members of the same family have

:52:25. > :52:27.died when their car plunged off A passer-by helped rescue a baby

:52:28. > :52:32.girl from the car. It happened at Buncrana

:52:33. > :52:34.in County Donegal last night. Local councillor Jack Murray spoke

:52:35. > :52:36.of his shock shortly Earlier on we were fearful that

:52:37. > :52:49.more tragedy would be We have just had it confirmed our

:52:50. > :52:54.fears have been realised and a significant

:52:55. > :53:05.loss of life again. I just feel numb, to be honest. It

:53:06. > :53:11.is horrible, people have been fearful for the last few hours that

:53:12. > :53:15.something so bad at happened. It is a very dark day.

:53:16. > :53:18.With me now is our news reporter Jonny Dymond.

:53:19. > :53:25.What do we know about this? It is a terrible story, five people are

:53:26. > :53:33.dead, but there is a glimmer of hope, a baby was saved from the

:53:34. > :53:37.disaster, in what appears to have happened -- and what appears to have

:53:38. > :53:43.happened, a holidaying group was on this pier in Buncrana in Donegal, a

:53:44. > :53:48.lovely spot, people had gone to the area to have a look. They were in

:53:49. > :53:54.their car and they appeared to have tried to turn their car around or

:53:55. > :53:58.reverse it down the pier to get a bit of space and their wheels hit

:53:59. > :54:04.thick algae and the car slipped into the water. It had five people

:54:05. > :54:10.inside, three children and two adults and an infant. The car stayed

:54:11. > :54:14.in the water for about ten minutes, it was seen very quickly by

:54:15. > :54:18.witnesses who raised the alarm and there was awful shouting coming from

:54:19. > :54:24.the car, as you can imagine. The emergency services came to light.

:54:25. > :54:28.The one glimmer of hope, one man was on the pier, he stripped off and

:54:29. > :54:32.dived in and he made it to the car and he rescued the infant who we

:54:33. > :54:39.think might have been handed out of the car, astonishing story. And then

:54:40. > :54:47.this man made his way back to the shore, the witness who saw this,

:54:48. > :54:52.said it -- if it had been five yards Morecambe and they would not have

:54:53. > :55:00.made it, he shouted, take the baby, and the baby was saved -- five yards

:55:01. > :55:04.more, they would not have made it. The other five people died, it is a

:55:05. > :55:12.terrible story, but with the glimmer of hope with the baby being said.

:55:13. > :55:16.Our cars allowed on the pier? It seems that it is used by cars as

:55:17. > :55:22.they get onto a ferry, and locally it is known to be quite slippy, but

:55:23. > :55:27.as a tourist you don't know that, and whether there needs to be signs

:55:28. > :55:31.that is something to come, but five people have lost their lives as a

:55:32. > :55:34.result of this disaster. Something will have to be done, but our

:55:35. > :55:35.thoughts are with the family and their relatives. Thanks for joining

:55:36. > :55:37.us. As the world tries to deal

:55:38. > :55:41.with a diabetes epidemic, we'll be hearing from a cycling team

:55:42. > :56:06.which is made up of diabetic riders, How are you? I'm good, how is it

:56:07. > :56:10.looking? High pressure has been dominating the weather, for the last

:56:11. > :56:13.week, giving us a real headache, we are trying to find breaks in the

:56:14. > :56:19.cloud for sunshine, and some people have sent pictures, this is Hexham

:56:20. > :56:29.in Northumberland, a cloudy start with some blue. Isn't that stunning?

:56:30. > :56:33.Gorgeous. It is a mixed picture depending where you are, it is

:56:34. > :56:42.dealing cool, with hazy sunshine. -- feeling. Hopefully the cloud will

:56:43. > :56:46.break, Devon, again, daddy to start with, but the sunshine breaking

:56:47. > :56:51.through -- cloudy to start with. Where ever we have the breaks in the

:56:52. > :56:56.cloud, that is where we have had the lowest temperatures, but also

:56:57. > :57:02.sunshine. If I carry on with the forecast, today we are looking at

:57:03. > :57:06.variable amounts of cloud, some sunshine, high-pressure continuing

:57:07. > :57:09.to dominate, as the weather front continues to move from the west

:57:10. > :57:15.towards the East through the course of the day, taking patchy rain with

:57:16. > :57:18.it. A bright start in north-west England, North Wales, but the cloud

:57:19. > :57:22.rolling in and will continue to do so through the course of the day.

:57:23. > :57:29.Brighter skies in the east of the UK, as well. The sunshine really

:57:30. > :57:33.hanging on the longest across south-west England, south Wales and

:57:34. > :57:38.parts of southern England generally. As I mentioned, it is finding the

:57:39. > :57:41.holes in the cloud, it is tricky at this stage, but we are looking at

:57:42. > :57:47.some developing in south-east England and there will be high cloud

:57:48. > :57:52.and then lower cloud into parts of northern England, but also breaks in

:57:53. > :57:55.the shelter of the Pennines. Eastern Scotland, a few outbreaks of

:57:56. > :57:59.sunshine, but we have the rain moving from the west towards the

:58:00. > :58:04.east and the cloud is thick enough in Northern Ireland for some rain

:58:05. > :58:07.through the day. In Wales it is the far south which has the sunshine,

:58:08. > :58:12.and for the rest of Wales we are looking at a cloudy picture. Through

:58:13. > :58:16.the evening and overnight we hang on to cloud but it breaks, and we will

:58:17. > :58:22.see some frost in rural areas and there will also be patchy mist and

:58:23. > :58:30.fog. The rain clearing in the north-west of Scotland, a bit of

:58:31. > :58:33.drizzle left behind, temperatures 7-8, but tomorrow we start on a

:58:34. > :58:38.cloudy night, the East is favoured for sunshine. High-pressure clinging

:58:39. > :58:45.on. Towards the West we have spots of rain, and under the cloud,

:58:46. > :58:51.temperatures will be suppressed, but in the ease, temperatures getting up

:58:52. > :58:55.to 10-11d. -- East. The weather front comes in from the West,

:58:56. > :58:59.bringing more rain, and again some brightness around, but it will be a

:59:00. > :59:08.fairly cloudy day extensively. We are looking at 10-12, and under the

:59:09. > :59:11.cloud, 7-8. It will take the rest of Wednesday to move away, eventually

:59:12. > :59:19.clearing off in the east and then things break down, we lose the area

:59:20. > :59:23.of high-pressure, and this will introduce wet and windy conditions,

:59:24. > :59:28.and that will lead us into the Easter weekend. By no means this

:59:29. > :59:31.will be a wash-out, stronger winds at times and also spells of rain,

:59:32. > :59:37.but in between there will be sunshine.

:59:38. > :59:40.I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme if you've

:59:41. > :59:46."Don't make us the brunt of yet more cuts" -

:59:47. > :59:48.that's the message to the Chancellor George Osborne this

:59:49. > :59:53.morning from our panel of disabled guests.

:59:54. > :00:01.Disability does not discriminate. And why should we keep being

:00:02. > :00:04.penalised all the time? It is not fair. We go through enough.

:00:05. > :00:07.A leading tennis boss says women players should "get on their knees

:00:08. > :00:09.and thank" stars like Roger Federer and Rafeal Nadal for

:00:10. > :00:15.Whilst Novak Djokovic has said it's right that men earn more than women,

:00:16. > :00:17.because more people want to watch them.

:00:18. > :00:23.And with Leicester City riding high at the top

:00:24. > :00:26.of the English Premier League, what's it really like supporting

:00:27. > :00:27.this season's surprise footballing package?

:00:28. > :00:38.We'll be hearing from Foxes fans out on the road.

:00:39. > :00:44.Everyone the shouting, we are going to win the league, is fantastic

:00:45. > :00:51.feeling. And I tell you what, it is going to be an interesting end to

:00:52. > :00:54.Plans to cut some disability benefits are expected

:00:55. > :00:58.Joanna has more on that and a summary of the rest

:00:59. > :01:03.The Prime Minister will try to calm the mood among Conservative MPs

:01:04. > :01:05.when he addresses Parliament this afternoon, following the resignation

:01:06. > :01:08.of the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan-Smith, who had spoken

:01:09. > :01:14.out against cuts to benefits for disabled people.

:01:15. > :01:16.The new Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabbe, is expected

:01:17. > :01:18.to announce that the changes will be shelved.

:01:19. > :01:20.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the Chancellor should

:01:21. > :01:25.'consider his position' over the row.

:01:26. > :01:32.George Osborne has presented to Parliament a budget that simply does

:01:33. > :01:36.not add up, with a Work and Pensions Secretary who has not as yet I

:01:37. > :01:41.suspect he into his office and has been told and accepted he will make

:01:42. > :01:42.massive cuts. I think the government is in a mess.

:01:43. > :01:47.At least two children are among five people who have died after a car

:01:48. > :01:51.The tragedy happened at Buncrana in County Donegal yesterday evening.

:01:52. > :01:53.A baby girl was taken to hospital, where her condition

:01:54. > :01:56.Eyewitness Francis Crawford described how a passer-by rescued

:01:57. > :02:11.He stripped off to his underwear and he headed out. And he did. And he

:02:12. > :02:14.came back with a baby. How he got it, some people are saying it was

:02:15. > :02:19.handed out to him and he came back totally exhausted. If it had been

:02:20. > :02:23.another five yards, I cannot see how he would have made it. He was

:02:24. > :02:29.shouting, grabbed the baby. He was taken to hospital and he was cooked.

:02:30. > :02:31.But very heroic and he saved the baby's life.

:02:32. > :02:34.President Obama has described his visit to Havana as an historic

:02:35. > :02:36.opportunity to engage with the Cuban people and forge

:02:37. > :02:39.He's the first serving US President to visit Cuba

:02:40. > :02:43.Mr Obama will meet President Raul Castro, but not the retired

:02:44. > :02:58.New figures show a record number of immigrants arrived in Germany last

:02:59. > :03:02.year. Net migration for 2015 was 1.14 million. It is the highest ever

:03:03. > :03:04.recorded in Germany, largely due to a massive influx of people seeking

:03:05. > :03:07.asylum in the country. A British businessman who has been

:03:08. > :03:10.in prison in Dubai for nearly two years - over charges of 'cyber

:03:11. > :03:13.slander' relating to a tweet - David Haigh, who was once

:03:14. > :03:16.the managing director of Leeds United Football Club,

:03:17. > :03:18.is expected to fly back The social network Twitter

:03:19. > :03:21.is celebrating its ten-year Since the first tweet

:03:22. > :03:28.was sent on March 21st 2006, the website has changed the way

:03:29. > :03:30.people communicate online, most notably with its

:03:31. > :03:32.140-character format. Now more than 500 million

:03:33. > :03:34.tweets are sent each day, and the site has found itself

:03:35. > :03:38.at the centre of some of the biggest That's a summary of

:03:39. > :03:56.the latest BBC News. Can you remember your first tweet?

:03:57. > :04:01.I was so slow to the game! Probably something tragic like, I have

:04:02. > :04:06.finally got to grips with Twitter, several years after it was going.

:04:07. > :04:12.And you? It was the third of debris 2009, this sounds like bad grammar

:04:13. > :04:17.but I had not worked out how you were supposed to write things. I

:04:18. > :04:24.put, is on end now, talking about why so many schools had shut across

:04:25. > :04:28.the UK -- on air. Very bad grammar. You are saving the

:04:29. > :04:30.characters. It took a while to get to grips with that.

:04:31. > :04:33.Speak for yourself! Every weekday morning,

:04:34. > :04:35.we're now on air from the earlier Over the next hour, we'll bring

:04:36. > :04:39.you the latest breaking news And - as always - we want to hear

:04:40. > :04:50.from you on all the stories A lot of you getting in touch about

:04:51. > :04:57.the cuts to disability benefits. A very passionate plea from people

:04:58. > :05:01.with disabilities we were talking to who was saying, we cannot take any

:05:02. > :05:05.more. There have been a number of cuts since 2010, since the

:05:06. > :05:09.Conservatives got into power. At that stage, the Liberal Democrats

:05:10. > :05:14.alongside them. We cannot take any more. This text says, every time a

:05:15. > :05:17.brown envelope arrives, you are physically sick. I had to go to

:05:18. > :05:20.court for my Disability Living Allowance and it is so embarrassing

:05:21. > :05:25.and degrading, heading for money when you have always worked. This

:05:26. > :05:30.says, I was declared fit for work without ever having a medical

:05:31. > :05:34.assessment. Since been declared fit, I have had five operations, the

:05:35. > :05:38.system is a joke. Chris says, everyone agrees genuine disability

:05:39. > :05:41.claims should get help but it is getting ridiculous with the number

:05:42. > :05:46.of claimants, maybe there should be a benefit for the board taxpayer!

:05:47. > :05:50.When will it end? Mike says, your guests this morning, they are

:05:51. > :05:54.clearly intelligent and eloquent who could be valuable in the workplace.

:05:55. > :05:58.Physical and mentor disabilities should not be a barrier to

:05:59. > :06:02.employers, but each not be an excuse for a life on benefits. A lot of

:06:03. > :06:07.non-disabled people work part-time and from home and I think some

:06:08. > :06:10.people do take an easy option. Andrew says, I get the Personal

:06:11. > :06:14.Independence Payments and employment support allowance because I have an

:06:15. > :06:19.incurable brain tumour. That is not it, I now find may yesterday is

:06:20. > :06:25.being withheld because supposedly I have had too much and working tax

:06:26. > :06:31.credits -- ESA. I am not able to work and it is unlikely I can ever

:06:32. > :06:34.work again. Colin says, I sympathise with genuinely disabled people but

:06:35. > :06:40.they should realise the welfare system is a shambles and it seems

:06:41. > :06:46.unfair with people who should get it not able to and some people that you

:06:47. > :06:50.should not. So I am totally in agreement with the government that

:06:51. > :06:53.the welfare system needs sorting out. We will get more reaction to

:06:54. > :06:54.this story. Do get in touch with us

:06:55. > :06:56.throughout the morning. And if you text, you will be charged

:06:57. > :07:00.at the standard network rate. Now, Ore is back with the sport -

:07:01. > :07:12.and he's not alone. I am not alone. What is my next

:07:13. > :07:16.wheat going to be? Something like, hanging around with a double Olympic

:07:17. > :07:22.champion. We have already taken a selfie. We have, indeed. That is

:07:23. > :07:25.next on the Thailand ash timeline. Ten years and she retired, migratory

:07:26. > :07:30.is getting her running shoes back on. Good to see you this morning.

:07:31. > :07:37.Running shoes on! What exactly have you decided to do and why? I am

:07:38. > :07:45.doing the Virgin London Marathon. I am trying to raise money for five

:07:46. > :07:50.charities. ?250,000. It might sound a drop in the ocean but I am finding

:07:51. > :07:54.it extremely difficult. The motivation of running for the

:07:55. > :08:00.charities is fantastic. If you are going to do a marathon, it has to be

:08:01. > :08:03.London, an iconic city. As a former middle distance runner, it is

:08:04. > :08:09.completely different. My body is suffering. People are listening to

:08:10. > :08:14.you and saying to you as a runner, a legendary runner, will find it hard

:08:15. > :08:17.but it is a completely different skill set. What has been the most

:08:18. > :08:24.difficult thing about the training and in less than a month, you will

:08:25. > :08:27.be going 26 miles? I was a middle distance runner for years and it was

:08:28. > :08:35.short and high-intensity in chaining. I go up on my toes, so you

:08:36. > :08:39.have a big stride. This changes me mechanically because you have to go

:08:40. > :08:45.slower, I do not get up on my toes, so my hips have been affected, my

:08:46. > :08:50.lower back, I had injections in hospital to try and release the

:08:51. > :08:55.tension and inflammation in my body. And it is also the recovery. It is a

:08:56. > :09:01.lot slower than before. But ten, 11 years, I just did the gym and

:09:02. > :09:07.running as a fitness tool, 30 minute runs, 40 minutes. So the distance is

:09:08. > :09:11.hard and my body is not coping. And the mentor approach. You have one

:09:12. > :09:16.thing going, you have to do this right. And I am clock watching and

:09:17. > :09:21.thinking, I am tired, I have to drink. I am nowhere near the

:09:22. > :09:26.distance yet. I am getting a bit scared because I know you have to

:09:27. > :09:31.get those miles in the legs. And my body is feeling the pressure of

:09:32. > :09:34.that. I am sure your body will be absolutely incredible. We are

:09:35. > :09:38.looking forward to seeing you hitting the roads of London. We have

:09:39. > :09:43.to talk about Great Britain at the recent world Indoor Championships.

:09:44. > :09:47.One silver and two Bronze. Steve Cram said it could be seen as a

:09:48. > :09:52.disappointment but it was not the entire British team that will go to

:09:53. > :09:56.Rio. Yes, and it is not the Olympics, some of them it just

:09:57. > :10:01.breaks up the monotony of winter training and they want to assess

:10:02. > :10:04.where they are, some of them, it is part and parcel of development. They

:10:05. > :10:09.might not get into the British Olympic team. And others, there is

:10:10. > :10:12.no point doing it because the focus is the qualifier for the real

:10:13. > :10:16.Olympic Games. We should not think Britain is not doing well, you have

:10:17. > :10:22.to look at who took part, why and what they will do next. It is still

:10:23. > :10:27.all go for Rio. Still all go for Rio and for you. Three weeks and

:10:28. > :10:33.counting? No, at least six! I hope! Still time. Dame Kellie Holmes, best

:10:34. > :10:35.of luck with the new venture. Of course, she will smash it.

:10:36. > :10:48.Good luck, thank you. The Labour Duke -- the Labour leader

:10:49. > :10:52.Jeremy Corbyn says the Chancellor should take responsibility for a

:10:53. > :10:55.budget that does not add up and resign.

:10:56. > :11:00.Norman Smith can tell us more. What a morning! I am in the cafeteria

:11:01. > :11:05.where ministers gather in the morning. The only thing they do know

:11:06. > :11:10.is that the planned ?4 billion worth of cuts to disability benefits have

:11:11. > :11:15.now been kicked into the long grass. What none of us know where on Earth

:11:16. > :11:20.this money is going to come from. One Tory MPs, the chairman of the

:11:21. > :11:23.Health Select Committee, suggested the Tories have to rethink their

:11:24. > :11:28.commitment to protect pension benefits. Things like the free

:11:29. > :11:33.winter fuel allowance, others said they have to look at the triple lock

:11:34. > :11:39.on pensions, where pension rises are guaranteed. Maybe you will have to

:11:40. > :11:44.rethink protecting the NHS budget. Maybe look at the overseas aid

:11:45. > :11:48.budget. Questions about how this ?4 billion will be saved because that

:11:49. > :11:53.was the biggest saving in George Osborne's budget. So the money has

:11:54. > :12:00.to be found from somewhere. And Labour not surprisingly have seized

:12:01. > :12:04.on this, demanding that any cuts to disability benefits get ruled out

:12:05. > :12:07.completely. And leader Jeremy Corbyn has said George Osborne should

:12:08. > :12:12.resign. Yes, you should because he has brought forward at budget that

:12:13. > :12:18.simply does not add up. He has tried to take ?4 billion over the last

:12:19. > :12:21.Parliament out of Work and Pensions budget through Personal Independence

:12:22. > :12:25.he then decides that this was a consultation and a day after that

:12:26. > :12:30.that we would cancel it all together and the same day, Iain Duncan-Smith

:12:31. > :12:33.reside and we find a new Work and Pensions Secretary is going to find

:12:34. > :12:37.the same savings from somewhere else within that budget. And so George

:12:38. > :12:41.Osborne has presented to Parliament a budget that simply does not add

:12:42. > :12:45.up, with the Work and Pensions Secretary who has not as yet I

:12:46. > :12:49.suspect even be into his office and has been told and has accepted he

:12:50. > :12:55.will make these massive cuts, I think it is a government in a mess.

:12:56. > :13:02.Although the planned changes to PIPs have been put to one side, those

:13:03. > :13:08.around Mr Cameron still believe PIPs are going to have to be reformed.

:13:09. > :13:13.Because they say the cost is unsustainable. Apparently, they have

:13:14. > :13:17.gone up by around ?1 billion a year. So changing them is off the table

:13:18. > :13:22.for now put down the line, Number 10 is of the opinion they will have to

:13:23. > :13:25.revisit them and the man who does that is the new Work and Pensions

:13:26. > :13:31.Secretary Stephen Crabb. He is in the firing line this afternoon when

:13:32. > :13:35.he will make a statement. He has indicated he does want to continue

:13:36. > :13:40.with the business of welfare reform. It is obvious the very early days. I

:13:41. > :13:44.have not even had a chance to speak to my new team at the department

:13:45. > :13:47.yet. But clearly, there is an important mission this government

:13:48. > :13:51.has in terms of reforming our welfare system, the better support

:13:52. > :13:56.people making the transition to work is one of the reasons we now have

:13:57. > :14:00.record employment levels in this country. We have spent six years

:14:01. > :14:03.focusing on this key issue of welfare reform and intend to carry

:14:04. > :14:08.on with that. You think, what a baptism of fire

:14:09. > :14:13.for him. Only in the job 24 hours and he is straight into this massive

:14:14. > :14:18.controversy. And what about George Osborne's

:14:19. > :14:20.leadership prospects? He wants to be leader of the Conservative party,

:14:21. > :14:25.potentially the next Prime Minister, does this damage that? Big time.

:14:26. > :14:30.Serious questions now about whether George Osborne can remain in

:14:31. > :14:35.position, certainly after the referendum in June. Let me show you

:14:36. > :14:41.the front page of The Times this morning. Cameron, I'd blame Osborne!

:14:42. > :14:46.That is because the Prime Minister wanted a budget which would not

:14:47. > :14:50.upset everyone. George Osborne has upset everyone. And now the

:14:51. > :14:58.briefings from unnamed Tory MPs suggesting Mr Osborne will have

:14:59. > :15:04.helped to pay. Another suggesting he is dead in the water if he thinks he

:15:05. > :15:09.can remain as Chancellor after the referendum. Why? Not just because of

:15:10. > :15:14.the potential rift in merging with the Prime Minister. It is because if

:15:15. > :15:18.there are further savings and austerity measures that have to be

:15:19. > :15:24.deduced, can George Osborne do it? Given the revolt he has already

:15:25. > :15:29.provoked over disability benefits. And if you think the last year over

:15:30. > :15:33.tax credit. This morning, Downing Street had been circling the white

:15:34. > :15:38.guns around Mr Osborne, saying reports of a rift between the two

:15:39. > :15:42.are complete nonsense and they are as close as ever, and we had former

:15:43. > :15:44.Tory leader Michael Howard on the Today programme singing lodge

:15:45. > :15:54.Osborne's praises. I would be telling my colleagues to

:15:55. > :15:59.calm down, to remember it is less than a year since the Conservative

:16:00. > :16:02.Party won a general election under David Cameron's leadership, and that

:16:03. > :16:07.one of the main elements in the election victory, probably the main

:16:08. > :16:10.element, was our economic recovery in the five years leading up to the

:16:11. > :16:13.election, for which George Osborne as Chancellor of the Exchequer

:16:14. > :16:17.deserves an enormous amount of credit. That we have a

:16:18. > :16:21.responsibility as a party to continue to govern the country and

:16:22. > :16:28.that we all therefore have to behave in a very responsible way. I would

:16:29. > :16:32.say, calm down, listen to the Prime Minister this afternoon and remember

:16:33. > :16:36.our responsibility to the country. What is difficult about pleas for

:16:37. > :16:45.the party to calm down, this is not just about George Osborne's future

:16:46. > :16:50.or the disability cuts, this is about the Colossus issue which is

:16:51. > :16:53.dogging the Tory party, and which has done since the toppling of

:16:54. > :16:59.Margaret Thatcher, and that is Europe. You sense we are seeing the

:17:00. > :17:03.final reckoning between the two wings in the Tory party, those who

:17:04. > :17:09.want to be pro-European and those who want to be anti-European and my

:17:10. > :17:15.instinct is that this is a fight to the finish. It is very hard to see

:17:16. > :17:28.how these sides can live with each other after all this. That is

:17:29. > :17:31.apocalyptic. The disabled people we had on the studio said they had

:17:32. > :17:38.borne so many cuts and they have had enough. One of them actually said,

:17:39. > :17:43.maybe it is time to look at the well off pensioners, maybe they don't

:17:44. > :17:47.need the ?200 winter fuel allowance. Paul has said, I've just been

:17:48. > :17:55.assessed for the personal independence payments and I only got

:17:56. > :17:58.ten points. The higher the number of points, the higher the payment, he

:17:59. > :18:05.said he needed well to keep his motor ability car. He says he is an

:18:06. > :18:08.amputee with a slipped disc and this has now made him housebound because

:18:09. > :18:13.the nearest bus stop is too far for him to walk to. He says his

:18:14. > :18:18.condition is getting worse every day and this is causing mental health

:18:19. > :18:21.problems, as well. Mike says he has great sympathy, but he believes

:18:22. > :18:24.giving brand-new cars to the disabled because they can't walk

:18:25. > :18:32.more than 50 metres is something the country can't afford. Three-year-old

:18:33. > :18:40.cars would be better value. Another one says, me and my husband are

:18:41. > :18:47.pensioners, and we would willingly forfeit our winter fuel allowance,

:18:48. > :18:55.if it helped disabled people. Some pensioners have said they are not

:18:56. > :18:58.giving up the winter fuel allowance. The difficulty, there are Tory MPs

:18:59. > :19:03.who think it is absurd that very well off pensioners get a winter

:19:04. > :19:06.fuel allowance, but the problem is, David Cameron has made it

:19:07. > :19:12.non-negotiable, it is central to what he's about. He has promised in

:19:13. > :19:17.front of cameras that pensioners will keep these benefits, he has

:19:18. > :19:21.almost locked himself in, it is impossible for him to do a U-turn

:19:22. > :19:27.even though many people in his party think this is getting ridiculous.

:19:28. > :19:32.Why are they doing this? When instead they have to cut benefits to

:19:33. > :19:33.some of the poorest in the country. Thanks for joining us.

:19:34. > :19:36.Earlier I spoke to David Davis, Conservative MP for Haltemprice

:19:37. > :19:37.and Howden, who stood against David Cameron

:19:38. > :19:40.for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2005

:19:41. > :19:43.and has seen many crisis in the party over the 20 years he's

:19:44. > :19:49.I asked him whether he accepted Ian Duncan Smith's premise

:19:50. > :19:54.that the cuts in disability benefits were unfair and divisive.

:19:55. > :20:02.I think that is why he resigned. You have got to bear in mind, he has

:20:03. > :20:05.dedicated ten years of his life to dealing with the problems of poverty

:20:06. > :20:11.and helping people back on the escalator. You agree with him? He's

:20:12. > :20:17.more expert than I am, this is his life, central to what he does, he's

:20:18. > :20:21.a man of integrity, anyone who sees him on television concedes the

:20:22. > :20:29.integrity coming through. The budget was unfair? In this particular area.

:20:30. > :20:33.That is what it looks like. But Iain Duncan Smith proposed these changes

:20:34. > :20:35.to the personal independence payments, agreed them, and then

:20:36. > :20:44.resigned over the reforms he had proposed. That is a rather number

:20:45. > :20:50.ten definition of this issue. What is different then? The general

:20:51. > :20:54.election, the Prime Minister and the general election said they would

:20:55. > :20:58.save ?12 billion from welfare, but they said they would not cut the

:20:59. > :21:02.fuel payment for wealthy pensioners, and they will not cut free travel

:21:03. > :21:08.for wealthy pensioners and they will not cut the subsidy to the TV

:21:09. > :21:12.licence for wealthy pensioners. And they won the general election on the

:21:13. > :21:17.back of that. Yes, this was a political judgment. Iain Duncan

:21:18. > :21:23.Smith is objecting to the fact that forces him to take the money from

:21:24. > :21:26.somewhere in the working age poor, the people on benefits, and forces

:21:27. > :21:31.him down to a position where he is taking money away from where he

:21:32. > :21:35.doesn't think it should. But he proposed these changes. It was

:21:36. > :21:46.started between his department and the Treasury, I think. He still came

:21:47. > :21:51.up with them. I don't think so. Why did he not resign then? Resignations

:21:52. > :21:54.are difficult in politics, it takes a long time and you know you will be

:21:55. > :22:00.vilified and you know it will be unpleasant. It takes time to get

:22:01. > :22:06.your courage to do it. What we saw, him saying that he can't carry on

:22:07. > :22:11.with this, because although he was winning the argument in terms of PIP

:22:12. > :22:14.he was not winning it over the fact that money will come out of the

:22:15. > :22:19.working age poor budget, that was the problem, and it is that group of

:22:20. > :22:24.people... He's in politics to help and that is why he made the

:22:25. > :22:28.decision. Would it be a mistake if George Osborne asks the new Work and

:22:29. > :22:32.Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb to find the equivalent of those ?4

:22:33. > :22:36.billion savings that were going to come from the changes to the

:22:37. > :22:40.personal independence payments over to someone else in the budget? I

:22:41. > :22:45.think it would be, they have got to think again. The deficit reduction

:22:46. > :22:51.programme is very important to the economy, let's understand it, in

:22:52. > :22:54.Duncan Smith accept is that, but we have narrowed it down, we are not

:22:55. > :22:58.going to touch international development and health care and

:22:59. > :23:06.education and not half of the welfare budget. ?22 billion welfare

:23:07. > :23:10.budget, half of that is in the pension sector, and that is not

:23:11. > :23:14.being touched. And so it turns out to be a big cut in a much smaller

:23:15. > :23:17.budget for other areas, and if you are going to take ?4 billion you

:23:18. > :23:26.have got to find someone else to take it from. Do you mean by raising

:23:27. > :23:34.fuel duty? I think across all of government, this is a small cut, a

:23:35. > :23:39.fraction of ?700 billion, total spending, but it is a very big cut

:23:40. > :23:49.when you take it out of 30 or ?40 billion. It is a surprise that no

:23:50. > :23:55.one on Friday morning ahead of the budget's speech did not say, doesn't

:23:56. > :24:02.it look bad but not cutting personal independence payments for disabled

:24:03. > :24:08.people. -- doesn't it look bad? It is not a question of whether you

:24:09. > :24:13.like it, it is a statement, this is what is going to be. But you can say

:24:14. > :24:21.that you don't like it. Who knows what was said. It was collectively

:24:22. > :24:27.agreed, they said. You don't always agree with things, but that is the

:24:28. > :24:32.nature of government. It takes time. We all listened to the budget and it

:24:33. > :24:34.sounded very good initially and we defended it, but then you start

:24:35. > :24:40.picking the details are part and it falls apart. And that is what

:24:41. > :24:44.happened. It falls apart, you say, so do you think this Rex George

:24:45. > :24:51.Osborne's chances of becoming Prime Minister? Not ever. If the

:24:52. > :24:57.leadership election was in the next six months, he would be sunk without

:24:58. > :24:59.trace. He still has a chance? There will have been interesting

:25:00. > :25:04.reflections over the weekend, whether it would be good for George

:25:05. > :25:08.to move him somewhere else, Foreign Secretary, or something, but very

:25:09. > :25:11.few people go from being Chancellor to Prime Minister and it is not

:25:12. > :25:15.always a success, Gordon Brown was the last one. Very few people do

:25:16. > :25:21.that, but quite a few go from Chancellor to something else, to

:25:22. > :25:24.Prime Minister, James Callaghan, for example, who was, given the

:25:25. > :25:28.circumstances, a very successful Prime Minister. It is not kill him

:25:29. > :25:34.for ever, but it is quite hard for him at the moment. Mr Cameron could

:25:35. > :25:38.sack him after the June referendum? They are very close, and rightly so,

:25:39. > :25:44.they are a team. The Times newspaper front page suggests a rift between

:25:45. > :25:49.George Osborne and the Prime Minister. I don't know. I saw the

:25:50. > :25:54.headline, David Cameron was blaming George Osborne, but who knows? That

:25:55. > :26:00.could be a throwaway line. What I do know, they are very close, and

:26:01. > :26:03.George Osborne is a political talent, no doubt, and if at some

:26:04. > :26:10.point he moves somewhere else, that might be in his own interests. You

:26:11. > :26:19.have seen infighting before, how bad is this? Not as bad as it was in the

:26:20. > :26:25.past. Voters don't like infighting. They do hate divided parties, yes

:26:26. > :26:30.can but they also want to see that the parties live by their own words

:26:31. > :26:35.and we have used the phrase we are all in this together and so we have

:26:36. > :26:38.got to live by this. I'm very sympathetic to Iain Duncan Smith, we

:26:39. > :26:45.have had our differences, but I'm sympathetic to him and his position.

:26:46. > :26:48.This is what he stands for, and people will understand this, the

:26:49. > :26:53.public will understand. He's no softy, he has taken tough decisions

:26:54. > :26:59.and made himself unpopular with various groups in his time, in his

:27:00. > :27:03.department's reach, but people understand that this was something

:27:04. > :27:09.very important to him. He had spent half a decade before he came into

:27:10. > :27:13.government, with the scent for social justice, trying to drive

:27:14. > :27:21.these items. -- Centre for Social Justice. For him it was important

:27:22. > :27:25.and I think the public will recognise that.

:27:26. > :27:36.A record number of immigrants arrived in Germany last year, 1.4

:27:37. > :27:43.million. Our correspondent is in Berlin. As we know, last year was

:27:44. > :27:46.pretty unprecedented for Germany in terms of the vast number of people

:27:47. > :27:52.coming into the country to sick asylum. We knew the number was 1.1

:27:53. > :27:57.million, but today we have official confirmation of overall net

:27:58. > :28:02.migration. You take the number of people who left and you end up with

:28:03. > :28:08.net migration and that is now officially 1.14 million. The vast

:28:09. > :28:13.majority of that number are people who came into the country seeking

:28:14. > :28:17.asylum, many still living here, in camps across the country, waiting

:28:18. > :28:21.for their asylum applications to be processed. This has been a very

:28:22. > :28:25.interesting time for Germany, and these figures will be of no surprise

:28:26. > :28:29.to people, but they will once again have confirmed what many already

:28:30. > :28:35.know, that Germany has witnessed an unprecedented year. It was last

:28:36. > :28:40.summer, we saw Germans at various railway stations applauding migrants

:28:41. > :28:46.as they arrived, has the view of people in Germany changed when it

:28:47. > :28:52.comes to the migrant situation? The mood has shifted, especially in the

:28:53. > :28:56.light of the Cologne New Year's Eve six attacks which have been blamed

:28:57. > :29:01.on migrants, although not necessarily on people seeking asylum

:29:02. > :29:03.here. Politically things have changed and there has been

:29:04. > :29:12.infighting within Angela Merkel's own party and concern, we have seen

:29:13. > :29:15.the rise of a popular anti-migrant party which recently gained a huge

:29:16. > :29:20.amount of votes in regional elections, so things are shifting. A

:29:21. > :29:24.recent poll suggested eight out of ten Germans do not believe that the

:29:25. > :29:32.German government has got a handle on the refugee crisis. That might be

:29:33. > :29:37.changing, now that Angela Merkel's EU Turkey deal has been finalised,

:29:38. > :29:42.politicians have said this is a first real step in solving the

:29:43. > :29:47.refugee crisis, the first European solution that we have actually seen

:29:48. > :29:52.on the table. The number of people coming into Germany has all but

:29:53. > :29:56.stopped, in January 90,000 people arrived, but now there are simply

:29:57. > :30:02.maybe a few hundred every day, if that, so things are starting to

:30:03. > :30:05.change. Make no mistake, though, the German press has many articles

:30:06. > :30:09.talking about the fact that when the resettlement from Greece and Turkey

:30:10. > :30:16.start to happen, it is likely the vast majority will come to Germany,

:30:17. > :30:20.as well. A very complex picture. There are many people in Germany who

:30:21. > :30:26.say that it is the right thing to do, to give shelter to war refugees.

:30:27. > :30:31.Thanks for joining us. Jenny hill, reporting from Berlin.

:30:32. > :30:35.We'll bring you the latest instalment of the video diaries made

:30:36. > :30:41.It could see their team winning the English Premier league.

:30:42. > :30:43.And we'll bring you reaction to the comments made by one leading

:30:44. > :30:46.tennis boss who's said women players should get down on their knees

:30:47. > :31:02.and thank male stars like Federer and Djokovic for carrying the sport.

:31:03. > :31:07.David Cameron will today continued to do with the fallout after the

:31:08. > :31:09.resignation of his Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith of the

:31:10. > :31:10.planned cuts to disability benefits. Joanna has more on that

:31:11. > :31:13.and a summary of the rest The new Work and Pensions Secretary,

:31:14. > :31:17.Stephen Crabb, is expected to announce today that plans

:31:18. > :31:19.to reduce some disability payments It comes just days after

:31:20. > :31:24.Iain-Duncan Smith resigned The Prime Minister will today

:31:25. > :31:28.defend his record describing himself as an advocate of "a modern,

:31:29. > :31:33.compassionate Conservatism". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says

:31:34. > :31:38.the Chancellor should go. Osborne has presented to Parliament

:31:39. > :31:41.a budget that simply doesn't add up, with a Work and Pensions Secretary

:31:42. > :31:46.who hasn't as yet, I suspect, even been into his office and has

:31:47. > :31:50.been told and accepted At least two children are among five

:31:51. > :31:57.people who died after a car plunged The tragedy happened at Buncrana,

:31:58. > :32:01.in County Donegal, yesterday A baby girl was taken to hospital,

:32:02. > :32:04.where her condition Eyewitness Francis Crawford

:32:05. > :32:07.described how a passer-by rescued He stripped off to his underwear

:32:08. > :32:20.and he said he was heading out. Some people are saying

:32:21. > :32:28.it was handed out to him. If it had been another five yards

:32:29. > :32:34.to go, I can't see how He was taken to hospital

:32:35. > :32:39.and he was all cut up. But very heroic, and he saved

:32:40. > :32:41.the wee baby's life. President Obama has described his

:32:42. > :32:44.visit to Havana as an historic opportunity to engage

:32:45. > :32:45.with the Cuban people. He's the first serving US President

:32:46. > :32:48.to visit Cuba for 88 years. Mr Obama will meet

:32:49. > :32:50.President Raul Castro, but not the retired revolutionary

:32:51. > :33:01.leader Fidel Castro. Four British plane spotters arrested

:33:02. > :33:08.in Kenya have given -- have been given a fine of ?1400. They have

:33:09. > :33:13.been accused of taking pictures of planes in the capital Nairobi and

:33:14. > :33:15.have been threatened with prison if they refuse to pay.

:33:16. > :33:17.New figures show a record number of immigrants arrived

:33:18. > :33:20.The country's Statistics Office says net migration for 2015

:33:21. > :33:24.The number - which is the highest ever recorded in Germany -

:33:25. > :33:26.was largely due to a massive influx of people seeking

:33:27. > :33:30.Prince Harry's continuing his tour of Nepal, as the country rebuilds

:33:31. > :33:32.following last year's earthquake, which killed more than 8,000 people.

:33:33. > :33:36.He's visited families who've been left homeless.

:33:37. > :33:38.And later, he'll go to a national park to learn about measures

:33:39. > :33:51.Join me for BBC Newsroom live at 11 o'clock.

:33:52. > :33:57.Thank you. News just in, Madonna has been told by a how court judge that

:33:58. > :34:03.she can ends legal action over the future of her 15-year-old son Rocco.

:34:04. > :34:07.Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie have been borrowing over the custody

:34:08. > :34:12.of their teenage son since he refused to fly back to Madonna's

:34:13. > :34:16.American home at Christmas. It is understood she now hopes to solve

:34:17. > :34:19.the situation amicably instead of continuing with the legal action.

:34:20. > :34:22.Now, it's time to join Ore again for the sports headlines.

:34:23. > :34:26.The words of one man dominating the headlines.

:34:27. > :34:28.Serena Williams has heavily criticised Indian Wells tournament

:34:29. > :34:31.boss Ray Moore, who has apologised after saying that female tennis

:34:32. > :34:34.players should drop to their knees and "thank God that Roger Federer

:34:35. > :34:46.Williams called the comments 'offensive and very inaccurate'.

:34:47. > :34:51.Teenage striker Marcus Rashford stole the show in the Manchester

:34:52. > :34:53.derby as United beat City 1-0 at the Etihad.

:34:54. > :34:55.United still hopeful of a Champions League spot.

:34:56. > :34:57.They're just a point behind City, who are fourth.

:34:58. > :35:00.Tottenham cut Leicester's lead at the top of the Premier League

:35:01. > :35:06.A Harry Kane double helped them to a comfortable 3-0 win over

:35:07. > :35:13.Britain's Lizzie Armitstead timed her challenge to perfection,

:35:14. > :35:15.to retain her World Tour title in Italy.

:35:16. > :35:22.It's the third win of the season for the world road race champion.

:35:23. > :35:27.And snowboarder Jamie Nicholls has won his first World Cup

:35:28. > :35:32.Nicholls had never made the podium before, but he came out on top

:35:33. > :35:36.That is all the sport for now this morning. More on the News Channel

:35:37. > :35:38.throughout the day. Diabetes is often described

:35:39. > :35:40.as the world's fastest growing epidemic - 400 million

:35:41. > :35:42.people worldwide have it, The costs, financial

:35:43. > :35:48.and human, are huge. Last week, Chancellor George Osborne

:35:49. > :35:55.announced a sugar tax to help fund more sport in schools -

:35:56. > :35:57.a move welcomed by campaigners. But much more can be done,

:35:58. > :35:59.as Matt Slater discovered when he met an all-diabetes cycling

:36:00. > :36:02.team determined to inspire, Last week, Chancellor George Osborne

:36:03. > :36:13.announced a sugar tax to help fund To win the best amateur

:36:14. > :36:16.cyclist in Ireland award, to sign for the top amateur team,

:36:17. > :36:19.all was going well, and for that to take a U-turn and for

:36:20. > :36:21.things to go downhill. I thought the end was in sight,

:36:22. > :36:24.I could not pursue that I was diagnosed in the middle

:36:25. > :36:30.of the bike race, I collapsed at the end of the stage,

:36:31. > :36:33.I was desperate to get out of hospital, I still thought

:36:34. > :36:43.I was going to start the next day. They said, it's not going to happen,

:36:44. > :36:46.you can forget about that and you can forget about

:36:47. > :36:50.competing for a while. It is morning on the Costa Blanca

:36:51. > :36:53.and the sun is warming Young and fit with winter tans

:36:54. > :37:01.and the best bikes money can buy, the riders of Team Novo Nordisk know

:37:02. > :37:04.that for many, they have already As well as the winning ticket,

:37:05. > :37:08.they share something else, diabetes. The world's

:37:09. > :37:12.fastest-growing epidemic. Until recently, riding bikes was not

:37:13. > :37:14.part of the prognosis. They told my mum I

:37:15. > :37:20.would be dead by 25. And then it was up to her in those

:37:21. > :37:24.early years to manage and take She saw when I was active,

:37:25. > :37:38.my blood glucose was more like hers. At the time, sport

:37:39. > :37:40.and diabetes was like, But others were saying

:37:41. > :37:42.sport and diabetes, Clearly, Sutherland was not

:37:43. > :37:46.dead or blind by 25. He was on top of the podium

:37:47. > :37:50.after racing across America, a 3000 mile ride which he

:37:51. > :38:06.won with seven other The team was born. I know the bike,

:38:07. > :38:12.I know diabetes, combine two passions and change the world. That

:38:13. > :38:14.was early days and it was a business plan project and I just kept

:38:15. > :38:20.thinking, there is something to this. We have got to change the

:38:21. > :38:24.world and the bike can do that. And here we are almost 11 years later

:38:25. > :38:29.now, we have made some good progress.

:38:30. > :38:36.The two types of diabetes. Type one, the pancreas does not produce in off

:38:37. > :38:40.of the hormone insulin. The team's riders or all type one. Type two is

:38:41. > :38:47.linked to a lack of exercise, obesity and smoking. These diabetics

:38:48. > :38:49.cannot use the insulin their body produces which unlocks glucose,

:38:50. > :38:54.energy in our food and drink and without that, glucose can stay in

:38:55. > :38:59.the blood, causing life-threatening issues. Not that these raiders

:39:00. > :39:05.looking for excuses. Diabetes is a condition you have to live 24 at --

:39:06. > :39:14.24-7, making decisions every minute on nutrition, insulin, etc. It

:39:15. > :39:25.should not become an obstacle. But more like an opportunity for getting

:39:26. > :39:31.to know your body at a different level to which nondiabetics will

:39:32. > :39:35.never experience. It is an opportunity for self-awareness that

:39:36. > :39:38.is growing. There are more than 400 million diabetics worldwide and by

:39:39. > :39:45.2035, it is estimated to be 600 million. In the UK, it is 4 million.

:39:46. > :39:49.Western Europe's fattest country, and it is expensive and accounts for

:39:50. > :39:55.more than 10% of the NHS budget, not to mention the human costs. The

:39:56. > :39:59.frustrating thing is simple exercise can help prevent type two, as well

:40:00. > :40:06.as control the symptoms of all diabetes sufferers. My exercise, my

:40:07. > :40:12.cycling improves my control. When I stop cycling, if I am injured, it

:40:13. > :40:16.becomes more complex. Phil Sutherland, the team founder, his

:40:17. > :40:20.motto is, exercise is the 1,000,000,000-dollar drug that never

:40:21. > :40:25.gets prescribed. It is so true. There are easier support than

:40:26. > :40:29.cycling. These athletes have to constantly manage and monitor their

:40:30. > :40:33.condition. By doing so, they are also motivating and saying to a

:40:34. > :40:39.global community, you can also claim any mountain.

:40:40. > :40:42.To help them do that, the riders use continuous blood sugar monitors,

:40:43. > :40:47.embedded Under The Skin. They fill their pockets with energy bars and

:40:48. > :40:50.carry insulin needles for emergencies. But sometimes the best

:40:51. > :40:54.solution is the easiest. A healthy meal.

:40:55. > :41:01.Some shrimp, which is a healthy source of protein. This is a bit of

:41:02. > :41:07.pasta. With some kidney beans. And peace. And these have complex

:41:08. > :41:14.carbohydrates needed to restore glycogen back to the muscles.

:41:15. > :41:19.Following exercise. The team noticed just even knows food for Leeds is

:41:20. > :41:23.fuel. But it has to be just the right fuel -- for athletes. I

:41:24. > :41:31.believe there is some fish over here, which is another good source

:41:32. > :41:37.of lean protein. And I may also grab some pie all which is another source

:41:38. > :41:44.of carbohydrates, and protein, there is some shrimp and possibly squared

:41:45. > :41:48.on here so I will grab a bit more carbohydrates. Again, they need

:41:49. > :41:54.carbohydrate in order to replenish the glycogen loss in training.

:41:55. > :41:59.Australian Chris Williams is a team veteran. He knows how far they have,

:42:00. > :42:07.and how far they want to go. Cycling is a sport where you need to own

:42:08. > :42:11.your spot. People that just come along and jump in, they are not

:42:12. > :42:16.really viewed in a good light. It takes years to get your cycling

:42:17. > :42:24.legs. So to just suddenly show up out of the middle of nowhere, it

:42:25. > :42:28.took us a long time to earn the respect. The ultimate goal is the

:42:29. > :42:36.Tour de France. Insulin is the drug that keeps us all with diabetes

:42:37. > :42:40.alive. So a big milestone. That was a very defining moment for our

:42:41. > :42:45.people because before that, if you had diabetes, you died, and of

:42:46. > :42:49.story. Fast forward 100 years, if we can get our team to the tourist --

:42:50. > :42:54.to the Tour de France and win the yellow jersey, I think we can ensure

:42:55. > :43:01.everybody in the world with diabetes can have the motivation to go out

:43:02. > :43:05.and pursue their dreams. Diabetes is not going away. It will

:43:06. > :43:10.take more than a tax on sugary drinks to do that. Perhaps if we

:43:11. > :43:11.look after ourselves a little better, life could become so much

:43:12. > :43:12.sweeter. The head of a tennis tournament has

:43:13. > :43:21.apologised for saying women players should, quote: 'get down

:43:22. > :43:24.on their knees and thank God for male stars like Roger

:43:25. > :43:26.Federer and Rafa Nadel'. Raymond Moore is in charge

:43:27. > :43:28.of the Indian Wells During an interview, he said

:43:29. > :43:32.the Women's Tennis Association, or the WTA as it's known,

:43:33. > :43:34.rides on 'the coat-tails' Not stopping there, Moore also

:43:35. > :43:49.described up and coming stars He later admitted his comments

:43:50. > :43:53.were "in extremely poor taste". They ride on the

:43:54. > :43:55.coattails of the men. They don't make any decisions

:43:56. > :43:57.and they are very lucky. If I was a lady player,

:43:58. > :44:00.I would go down every night on my knees and thank

:44:01. > :44:03.God that Roger Federer I think the WTA has

:44:04. > :44:11.a handful, not just one or two, but they have a handful

:44:12. > :44:14.of very attractive prospects that They have a lot of very

:44:15. > :44:24.attractive players. The standard in ladies tennis has

:44:25. > :44:27.improved unbelievably. Do you mean physically

:44:28. > :44:36.attractive or competitively? They can assume the mantle

:44:37. > :44:45.of leadership once Serena They have quite a few very,

:44:46. > :45:06.very attractive players. He later acknowledged what he had

:45:07. > :45:11.said was in extremely poor taste. Serena Williams was asked about his

:45:12. > :45:16.comments after losing the Victoria Azarenka and she did not hold back.

:45:17. > :45:26.To say any woman should be down on their knees like that, I think

:45:27. > :45:34.Venus, myself, a number of players... If I could tell you about

:45:35. > :45:41.everybody watching myself or my sister, I could not even predict

:45:42. > :45:49.that number. So I do not think that is a very accurate statement. I

:45:50. > :45:57.think there are a lot of women out there who are very exciting to

:45:58. > :46:06.watch. I think it is just, it definitely goes both ways. And I

:46:07. > :46:16.think those remarks are very much mistaken. And very, very inaccurate.

:46:17. > :46:24.Novak Djokovic was then asked about Raymond Moore's remarks, he said men

:46:25. > :46:25.should earn more money than women because more people watched the

:46:26. > :46:29.men's game. I think our men's tennis world,

:46:30. > :46:31.the ATP world, should Stats show that we have more

:46:32. > :46:46.spectators for men's tennis matches and that is one of the reasons why

:46:47. > :46:49.maybe we should get rewarded more. But women should fight

:46:50. > :46:52.for what they think they deserve and we should fight

:46:53. > :46:57.for what we think we deserve. Matthew Syed writes for the Times

:46:58. > :47:07.on Tennis and joins us Good morning. What you think about

:47:08. > :47:13.what Raymond Moore had to say? -- what do you think. I cringed at the

:47:14. > :47:19.language, but the point that men's tennis is in a golden age, which has

:47:20. > :47:23.created unprecedented interest, they are driving more revenues and they

:47:24. > :47:31.deserve to earn more money, and the prize-money in ATP events is bigger.

:47:32. > :47:37.The point that the WTA is riding on the coat-tails of the men's game,

:47:38. > :47:42.that is substantial? Worth debating? I'm not worried about the fact that

:47:43. > :47:47.women's tennis is benefiting from the interest that is being driven by

:47:48. > :47:51.the men, but one thing, one anomaly, which is wrong, in the Grand Slams

:47:52. > :47:58.women and men earn the same prize-money. Imagine if that was

:47:59. > :48:01.extrapolated to football, where women footballers earned the same as

:48:02. > :48:06.the men who are generating huge global interest through the Premier

:48:07. > :48:10.League but I think that would be wrong. The sexiest thing in women's

:48:11. > :48:18.tennis is that they play three sets rather than five sets -- sexist

:48:19. > :48:21.thing. There is the presumption that women are not capable of playing

:48:22. > :48:27.five sets and in symbolic terms that is a real problem. Is there a

:48:28. > :48:32.movement in the women's game to increase the sets from three to

:48:33. > :48:36.five? I have not heard any campaigns on that, that is terribly sad.

:48:37. > :48:46.Women's bullseye -- women used to not run the

:48:47. > :48:53.marathon, but this assumption that women cannot play five sets, that is

:48:54. > :49:00.antediluvian. Raymond Moore says female players should get down on

:49:01. > :49:04.their knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Nadal were born, because

:49:05. > :49:09.they have carried the sport. He's the boss a tennis tournament, what

:49:10. > :49:14.was he thinking? -- of a tennis tournament. It is such a dreadful

:49:15. > :49:18.thing to say, but it is interesting to rewind a couple of decades when

:49:19. > :49:27.men's tennis was going to a bad period. It was dominated by the

:49:28. > :49:30.Serb, when Pete Sampras played Goran Ivanisevic in the Wimbledon 's

:49:31. > :49:36.final, it was quite boring and there were no decent rallies -- it was

:49:37. > :49:42.dominated by the serve macro. At that time, the rivalry between

:49:43. > :49:47.Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf was more interesting, and they were

:49:48. > :49:54.earning more money, and that was because they were persuading people

:49:55. > :49:57.to come through the gates and watch on television, and that is how the

:49:58. > :50:01.free market works, but the basic point that people should earn more

:50:02. > :50:05.money according to how much money they are generating from sponsorship

:50:06. > :50:17.and commercial contracts, that is a really valid point. Thanks for

:50:18. > :50:26.joining us. This is a statement from the WTA.

:50:27. > :50:28.Can Leicester City win the English Premier League?

:50:29. > :50:32.And if they do, how seismic would that be for the club itself

:50:33. > :50:35.Since the English Premier League began, only Manchester City,

:50:36. > :50:38.Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Blackburn have won

:50:39. > :50:40.the title - that's in nearly 25 years.

:50:41. > :50:42.For a smaller club, without the cash of,

:50:43. > :50:44.say, Manchester City, to beat the so-called 'big boys'

:50:45. > :50:52.We've asked two leicester City fans, Sandra Fixter and Gary L Johnson -

:50:53. > :51:01.the L stands for Leicester, I'm not kidding you -

:51:02. > :51:10.And the Gary Issott after Gary Lineker. -- the Gary is after.

:51:11. > :51:12.We asked them to keep a video diary to record their thoughts

:51:13. > :51:15.and emotions on the final games of the season.

:51:16. > :51:20.It is March the 19th and we are off down to Crystal Palace.

:51:21. > :51:22.To hopefully see the Foxes make Alan Pardew swallow his words.

:51:23. > :51:28.He reckons he's going to show us how to play football.

:51:29. > :51:31.I'm wearing my new scarf which our kind owners sent us

:51:32. > :51:35.What fantastic owners we have, all part of the spirit

:51:36. > :51:40.We are off to Crystal Palace this morning.

:51:41. > :51:48.It is going to be an interesting day.

:51:49. > :51:51.It is a tight ground, old-fashioned, and it is one which always

:51:52. > :52:08.They are a team, like Newcastle, they are fighting for

:52:09. > :52:13.But then again, we are on the final countdown.

:52:14. > :52:19.One thing we do every single match before we go on the coach

:52:20. > :52:25.It does not look like much but this is the sign we put up every single

:52:26. > :52:28.I wanted to change it halfway through the season.

:52:29. > :52:32.But because we have done so well, I daren't change it.

:52:33. > :52:36.And hopefully we will win again today.

:52:37. > :52:40.Where everything is blue and white, more Leicester fans.

:52:41. > :52:47.What do you think we are going do today?

:52:48. > :52:57.What do you think the score is going to be?

:52:58. > :53:02.And what do you think the score is going to be today?

:53:03. > :53:26.Is anyone excited? Yeah! Who is going to win today? Leicester! Only

:53:27. > :53:35.one vote of confidence. What about the score? 1-0, to Leicester. That

:53:36. > :53:42.is the prediction. I think it might be 2-1. I'm sat outside a cafe

:53:43. > :53:47.outside the Crystal Palace ground, many Palace supporters trying to

:53:48. > :53:56.ignore us as we sit here with a big smile on our faces and I hope they

:53:57. > :54:02.do not know how nervous we are, we are trying to look very confident,

:54:03. > :54:08.thinking about starting a chorus of, "We are Leicester City and we are

:54:09. > :54:16.top of the league". Who is on the programme? Someone we don't care

:54:17. > :54:23.about. Ready to go to the turnstiles, come on, Leicester, we

:54:24. > :54:34.can do it. Come on! Are you nervous? We are going to win, come on.

:54:35. > :54:43.Nervous? No. Good on you. How are you today? Are we nervous? Yeah,

:54:44. > :54:49.little. Start getting the stomach cramps now, don't we? They will make

:54:50. > :54:59.it difficult, but we will come out on top. Hopefully we will be there.

:55:00. > :55:11.It is half-time and the ladies of Leicester City are all here. Very

:55:12. > :55:12.happy. Cult heroes, Leicester City. Another couple of goals and we

:55:13. > :55:28.should be doing it. We're going to win the league, I

:55:29. > :55:32.know you won't believe us, but we're going to win the league. We're going

:55:33. > :55:40.to win the league #. We have been in the stadium for

:55:41. > :55:44.an extra 15 minutes, everyone shouting, we're going to win the

:55:45. > :55:51.league, it is a fantastic feeling and I tell you what, it will be a

:55:52. > :55:57.very interesting end to the season. We are on their way out, we have won

:55:58. > :56:04.1-0, we have lost our voices, we are still singing and we are absolutely

:56:05. > :56:09.shattered. What an effort. I just wish they would not leave us on

:56:10. > :56:13.tenterhooks at 1-0, but what the day. We are still top of the league

:56:14. > :56:20.and I can't believe it. More video diaries to come from

:56:21. > :56:26.Sandra and Gary. Nearly 700 sex offenders,

:56:27. > :56:29.including 157 child abusers, have been taken off the register

:56:30. > :56:35.in the last four years. It comes after a ruling

:56:36. > :56:38.by the Supreme Court in 2010 allowed sex offenders to appeal against

:56:39. > :56:41.being held on the register for life. With me now is John

:56:42. > :56:53.Cameron, from the NSPCC. Are you concerned? I am. You have

:56:54. > :56:56.46,000 people who are on the six offenders register, and the reason

:56:57. > :57:02.they are there is because they present a potential threat to the

:57:03. > :57:06.public in our communities. We have got to make sure that if anybody is

:57:07. > :57:11.going to apply to have their name removed, there has to be a thorough

:57:12. > :57:13.assessment so that the public can have confidence that these no longer

:57:14. > :57:22.require monitoring, these individuals. You monitor six

:57:23. > :57:26.offenders because they present a risk and so we need a robust form of

:57:27. > :57:29.assessment, and this report indicates that there is a

:57:30. > :57:36.significant variation in the theme from one constabulary to another in

:57:37. > :57:40.terms of people being removed. Who is meant to do the thorough

:57:41. > :57:45.assessment? It should be a multi-agency assessment, social

:57:46. > :57:50.services, probation, offender services, but it is clear that we

:57:51. > :57:54.have got to be as confident as possible that if these individuals

:57:55. > :58:02.are not going to be monitored, it must, by definition, mean they are

:58:03. > :58:04.safe in our communities. We are coming to the end of the programme,

:58:05. > :58:20.but I'm thankful. That is it. Joanna is here tomorrow at our new

:58:21. > :58:22.early time of nine o'clock, and I will be back on Wednesday.

:58:23. > :58:37...and that's what she felt with the blues.