08/04/2016

:00:10. > :00:11.Hello it's Friday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling.

:00:12. > :00:16.Five statements in five days - the Prime Minister is accused

:00:17. > :00:18.of hypocrisy after revealing he did profit from an offshore fund set

:00:19. > :00:25.A report published by a House of Lords committee today

:00:26. > :00:27.on the social mobility of school leavers and their path

:00:28. > :00:31.into employment, finds that teenagers should be encouraged

:00:32. > :00:34.to decide earlier whether they follow a mainly

:00:35. > :00:39.We'll discuss all that with our audience and let us know

:00:40. > :00:49.At 13, Alicia was lured from her home by a man she thought

:00:50. > :00:55.What happened next changed the course of her life.

:00:56. > :00:57.She tells us about her ordeal and why she is campaigning

:00:58. > :01:03.I feel, and I felt at the time, that he was going to kill me.

:01:04. > :01:13.It feels horrible to say this, but if I didn't serve a purpose,

:01:14. > :01:26.that he was going to kill me, that he didn't have another option.

:01:27. > :01:30.We're live until 11:00am this morning.

:01:31. > :01:33.Five days, five statements from the Prime Minister attempting

:01:34. > :01:36.Is he a hypocrite, as he has been called?

:01:37. > :01:41.We will explain the story from the beginning.

:01:42. > :01:44.And we will bring you the extraordinary story of a young

:01:45. > :01:47.woman who was held captive in an ordeal that changed her life.

:01:48. > :01:52.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

:01:53. > :01:55.Use the hashtag Victoria live and If you text, you will be charged

:01:56. > :01:59.And don't forget if you've got a story you think we should be

:02:00. > :02:04.Some of our best stories come from you, our viewers.

:02:05. > :02:06.Our top story today - Labour is accusing David Cameron

:02:07. > :02:08.of double standards, after the Prime Minister revealed

:02:09. > :02:10.he'd previously owned shares in an offshore trust,

:02:11. > :02:15.Mr Cameron sold them for more than ?30,000 in 2010

:02:16. > :02:16.shortly before becoming Prime Minister.

:02:17. > :02:27.The Prime Minister has faced persistent questions

:02:28. > :02:29.about an offshore trust set up by his late father.

:02:30. > :02:33.It was based in a tax haven and did not pay tax in Britain.

:02:34. > :02:36.Faced with bad headlines all week, the Prime Minister gave away more

:02:37. > :02:42.information bit by bit about his own financial affairs.

:02:43. > :02:46.He said he did not own any shares in offshore trusts and would not

:02:47. > :02:50.But last night he revealed he had profited from the sale of shares

:02:51. > :02:53.in his father's trust when he was Leader of the Opposition.

:02:54. > :03:00.We owned 5000 units in Blairmore Investment Trust,

:03:01. > :03:06.That was worth something like ?30,000.

:03:07. > :03:09.He insisted the trust was not set up to avoid tax.

:03:10. > :03:13.The criticisms are based on a fundamental misconception,

:03:14. > :03:17.which is that the unit trust was set up with the idea of avoiding tax.

:03:18. > :03:22.But Labour and the SNP said the public would not

:03:23. > :03:25.and he will face more questions when Parliament resumes on Monday.

:03:26. > :03:27.What other shareholdings did David Cameron hold while he was

:03:28. > :03:33.Was he invested in any other trusts that were

:03:34. > :03:44.Tax doesn't need to be taxing, says the slogan,

:03:45. > :03:49.but the Prime Minister is currently finding it very taxing indeed.

:03:50. > :03:53.We will discuss this a little later with a couple of MPs.

:03:54. > :04:03.How much pressure is the Prime Minister under? It's certainly

:04:04. > :04:07.embarrassing for the Prime Minister. I think Downing Street have been

:04:08. > :04:12.thrown on the defensive on this all week. And I think they are pretty

:04:13. > :04:18.furious too. The Prime Minister now says he will publish his tax return,

:04:19. > :04:23.and after the admission he made last night, he will hope he can finally

:04:24. > :04:27.draw a line under it. Labour is not satisfied and says the public will

:04:28. > :04:32.find it difficult to trust the Prime Minister. The SNP says David Cameron

:04:33. > :04:35.has played the public over his tax affairs. I think the questions will

:04:36. > :04:40.keep coming and the pressure will stay on the Prime Minister. Remember

:04:41. > :04:46.that neither David Cameron nor his late father have done anything

:04:47. > :04:51.illegal and ten point out that he has been the most open Prime

:04:52. > :04:55.Minister in recent times when it comes to tax affairs, but it doesn't

:04:56. > :04:59.help his political image. He's currently in the middle of the

:05:00. > :05:03.political fight of his life to keep Britain in the EU and anything that

:05:04. > :05:08.creates distance between him and the electorate not help. One final

:05:09. > :05:12.thing, a Downing Street source admitted to me that the well-known

:05:13. > :05:16.phrase, hindsight is a wonderful thing, I think it was an admission

:05:17. > :05:20.that they would do things very differently if they had their time

:05:21. > :05:24.again. It has been a week in the headlines with MPs back to

:05:25. > :05:30.Westminster next week. Presumably this will not go away any time soon.

:05:31. > :05:33.And Labour is calling for David Cameron to come to the House of

:05:34. > :05:37.Commons next week to deliver a statement on his tax affairs. We

:05:38. > :05:41.will also get the publication of his tax return, and I'm told that will

:05:42. > :05:43.come as soon as and we should expect it in the coming days. Questions

:05:44. > :05:46.will continue to be asked. We'll be discussing this story

:05:47. > :05:51.in more detail at 9.15 - but first, a summary of the rest

:05:52. > :05:58.of the day's news. In the past half hour,

:05:59. > :06:01.the first of two boats carrying migrants from the Greek island

:06:02. > :06:04.of Lesbos, has arrived in Turkey. It's part of the deal agreed

:06:05. > :06:07.with the European Union last month aimed at deterring migrants

:06:08. > :06:22.from making the hazardous Around 45 migrants, mostly of

:06:23. > :06:26.Pakistani origin, made up the first sailing to Turkey.

:06:27. > :06:28.A second boat is scheduled to leave later today.

:06:29. > :06:30.Let's get the latest from our correspondent Mark Lowen

:06:31. > :06:41.So far it seems to be going relatively smoothly. Yeah, pretty

:06:42. > :06:46.smoothly. We can see the scene, the boat that came in about an hour ago

:06:47. > :06:53.with 45 people on board, Pakistani 's who have been escorted off one by

:06:54. > :06:56.one onto the port and mainland. They have been taken to white tents to

:06:57. > :07:05.have names and fingerprints taken before they are put on buses to be

:07:06. > :07:09.sent to a deportation centre on the Turkey and Hungarian border. Turkey

:07:10. > :07:15.has signed a readmission agreement with Pakistan, and we expect a

:07:16. > :07:21.second boat in about an hour with about 100 people on board from three

:07:22. > :07:22.Greek islands, again, mainly economic migrants who Turkey will

:07:23. > :07:36.try to deport. What's been the picture there? In

:07:37. > :07:43.the last ten minutes another boat left Lesbos for Turkey. It was

:07:44. > :07:54.carrying 79 migrants and we are told 50 of them came from the island of

:07:55. > :07:58.Kos and 29 from Samos. The dream of a better life in Europe is over for

:07:59. > :08:01.those on board but European leaders hope their disappointment will deter

:08:02. > :08:06.others from making the dangerous journey across the short stretch of

:08:07. > :08:10.water. It's difficult to tell if it is working at this stage, but we

:08:11. > :08:14.know the Greek authorities and those assisting here say they are still

:08:15. > :08:20.massively understaffed. We went to a detention camp yesterday and they

:08:21. > :08:23.said they needed another 400 officers and 400 interpreters to

:08:24. > :08:28.process asylum applications effectively. The numbers of people

:08:29. > :08:32.arriving have reduced significantly since the deal between the EU and

:08:33. > :08:37.Turkey were was struck. In the days before the deal be regularly sought

:08:38. > :08:42.1500 people arriving on a daily basis on Lesbos, and now the numbers

:08:43. > :08:50.are much smaller, normally under 100 per day. On Wednesday, there were in

:08:51. > :08:52.-- there were no new arrivals at all.

:08:53. > :08:54.A man has been arrested and is being questioned on suspicion

:08:55. > :08:57.of murder over the disappearance of a London police officer.

:08:58. > :09:00.PC Gordon Semple was reported missing a week ago and was last seen

:09:01. > :09:02.on CCTV on a street near London Bridge.

:09:03. > :09:04.Yesterday, police were called to a property in Southwark

:09:05. > :09:07.where human remains were discovered and a man was arrested.

:09:08. > :09:10.The property is still being examined and the arrested man

:09:11. > :09:16.Live to Scotland Yard - and our correspondent

:09:17. > :09:29.It was just last Friday when PC Gordon Semple left his home in

:09:30. > :09:38.Dartford for work as normal. He went to a business meeting at a hotel

:09:39. > :09:43.near the famous London Shard, leaving around 12:30pm. At 3:30pm he

:09:44. > :09:47.was captured on a CCTV Cameron Neild London Bridge, the last confirmed

:09:48. > :09:52.sighting of him. When he failed to return home his partner called the

:09:53. > :09:56.police and reported him missing. A search began, and at one stage last

:09:57. > :09:59.week it involved police divers. There was no trace of him until

:10:00. > :10:05.yesterday when a member of the public called the police and they

:10:06. > :10:08.attended an address in a housing estate in south-east London, and

:10:09. > :10:13.they arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of murder. We recently

:10:14. > :10:15.heard from the commander of a short time ago who said the police also

:10:16. > :10:18.found human mains at the address. Due to the condition

:10:19. > :10:20.of the human remains, it will take some time for the cause

:10:21. > :10:24.of death to be established, and for At this point, I do not wish

:10:25. > :10:29.to speculate on what has happened. Yesterday, a forensic search started

:10:30. > :10:45.at the address and is still going. A postmortem examination is still to

:10:46. > :10:50.be carried out and police are not commenting on any possible cause of

:10:51. > :10:54.death, neither are they speculating on a possible motive. Specially

:10:55. > :10:58.trained police officers are working with the family of PC Semple, and

:10:59. > :11:05.this has been a very difficult time for colleagues as well. He was an

:11:06. > :11:10.officer for 30 years, so it has been a tough time at the Met. A

:11:11. > :11:12.49-year-old man remains in custody and is being questioned on suspicion

:11:13. > :11:15.of murder. The fourth strike by junior

:11:16. > :11:18.doctors in England over the government's new contract,

:11:19. > :11:21.has finished in the past hour. Government sources say

:11:22. > :11:23.that the British Medical Association has blown its chance to negotiate,

:11:24. > :11:26.and a new contract will now be But the BMA is planning

:11:27. > :11:33.another walkout at the end of the month when -

:11:34. > :11:36.for the first time in the dispute - emergency cover will

:11:37. > :11:40.also be withdrawn. There's a warning this morning that

:11:41. > :11:43.young people in England who don't go to university are being overlooked

:11:44. > :11:45.and left behind. A report by the House of Lords

:11:46. > :11:50.claims teenagers who don't go into higher education often end up

:11:51. > :11:53.drifting into their first job. And is having one going to get

:11:54. > :12:04.you a well-paid job? The Lords say that young people

:12:05. > :12:16.are being let down by vocational qualifications, disadvantaging

:12:17. > :12:18.even the most ambitious. I would like to be a journalist

:12:19. > :12:20.doing current affairs. He did not get the grades to study

:12:21. > :12:25.A-levels but likes the You should value all skills

:12:26. > :12:30.and talents and just because someone can't do theory,

:12:31. > :12:34.theory, theory and do really well at it compared to someone else,

:12:35. > :12:40.then I think it is unfair. The majority of young people don't

:12:41. > :12:44.go on to A-levels or university, but according to this report,

:12:45. > :12:53.this group are in fact overlooked. Left with an array of

:12:54. > :12:55.qualifications that employers They're not work ready

:12:56. > :12:59.and the difference in the funding between further

:13:00. > :13:05.and higher education is too great. Schools and employers in further

:13:06. > :13:08.education colleges have The government says it is investing

:13:09. > :13:17.in improving careers education allowing more young people to gain

:13:18. > :13:20.action to work experience to prepare And Joanna will be discussing this

:13:21. > :13:27.story, asking whether social mobility for young people

:13:28. > :13:30.is actually achievable, after 9:30 Tata Steel is refusing to comment

:13:31. > :13:37.on claims it made significant profits from a policy designed

:13:38. > :13:41.to protect the climate. Three separate experts say Tata made

:13:42. > :13:49.hundreds of millions of pounds selling carbon emissions permits

:13:50. > :13:52.it was given for free under It's a controversial allegation

:13:53. > :13:55.because Tata had complained that one of the reasons it wasn't able

:13:56. > :14:08.to make a profit was because of EU Last week the firm announced it

:14:09. > :14:10.would sell its UK steel plants threatening thousands of jobs.

:14:11. > :14:13.The private hire firm, Uber, has agreed to settle a legal case

:14:14. > :14:16.in the US state of California over how it described its vetting

:14:17. > :14:19.Uber was accused of misleading customers after calling itself

:14:20. > :14:30.Uber has paid $10 million, that's around ?7 million,

:14:31. > :14:32.to settle the claim and says it will now change its adverts.

:14:33. > :14:45.Prosecutors said Buber had failed to prevent 25 people with criminal

:14:46. > :14:47.convictions from becoming drivers. -- Uber.

:14:48. > :14:50.Pope Francis is releasing a document later which will set

:14:51. > :14:52.out his views on family life, marriage, contraception

:14:53. > :14:55.The publication has been eagerly awaited by the world's

:14:56. > :14:59.Many are hoping that it will lead to the church offering Communion

:15:00. > :15:01.to the divorced and people who have civil marriages, something

:15:02. > :15:10.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30.

:15:11. > :15:22.a story of extraordinary courage - a young woman who was kidnapped

:15:23. > :15:26.and abused over four days as a child and who now has made it her life's

:15:27. > :15:28.work to highlight the dangers of online grooming.

:15:29. > :15:33.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:15:34. > :15:36.use the hashtag Victoria live and if you text, you will be charged

:15:37. > :15:46.A lot of you getting in touch on the Prime Minister. Violet said that it

:15:47. > :15:52.is outrageous that David Cameron can continue to lie to the British

:15:53. > :15:57.public and he should resign today. Another says he wishes people would

:15:58. > :16:07.get off the Prime Minister's back. He said the tax expert clarified he

:16:08. > :16:12.had paid any tax due on profits. I think that is a reference to the tax

:16:13. > :16:17.expert on Radio 4 earlier. Keep getting in touch with your thoughts

:16:18. > :16:20.on that. We will talk about it after the sport. We can catch up with the

:16:21. > :16:26.sport. Good morning Liverpool fans will be

:16:27. > :16:31.happy with the draw away at Dortmund. Especially as they got

:16:32. > :16:40.what could be a crucial away goal. Before the game a nice moment as the

:16:41. > :16:49.stadium sang You'll Never Walk Alone. Jurgen Klopp was proved right

:16:50. > :16:54.choosing the Belgian youngster in the first half. Neither side could

:16:55. > :17:01.force a decisive goal. The second leg is at Anfield next Thursday.

:17:02. > :17:07.They are still in a good position. It was important for us to show

:17:08. > :17:14.this. A lot of people thought a lot of things about our possible

:17:15. > :17:20.performance. Maybe they are surprised and I am really happy with

:17:21. > :17:23.the performance. Another man happy was Jordan Spieth who said he was

:17:24. > :17:29.extremely pleased with his opening round at the Masters. The defending

:17:30. > :17:35.champion is top of the leaderboard. It was a windy Augusta and Jordan

:17:36. > :17:41.Spieth managed a six under par 66 to finish the day two shots clear off

:17:42. > :17:45.the field. Rory McIlroy still believes he can spoil Jordan

:17:46. > :17:51.Spieth's dreams of a second straight title he is four shots off the pace.

:17:52. > :17:58.He dropped two in the last three to card 70. Conditions were tricky out

:17:59. > :18:02.there. I was four under with three left to play and it would have been

:18:03. > :18:10.nice to get it in under 70, at least. It is a tough golf course and

:18:11. > :18:13.you will make bogeys. I need to be aggressive tomorrow and get the

:18:14. > :18:27.shots back as quickly as possible. How about this? Former world number

:18:28. > :18:32.one Ernie Els has a putt for par. Nine shots in total. The ball

:18:33. > :18:39.eventually dropped. That is the worst opening hole in Masters

:18:40. > :18:45.history. He said he could not explain it. You can see first round

:18:46. > :18:50.highlights now on the red button and on BBC Two at 6:30pm. The BBC sport

:18:51. > :18:56.website has comprehensive coverage. Ben Stokes says he felt complete

:18:57. > :19:00.devastation following England's Twenty20 final defeat to West

:19:01. > :19:06.Indies, giving his first interview since he was smashed for four sixes

:19:07. > :19:10.in the final over. He told the Daily Telegraph it was like the whole

:19:11. > :19:13.world had come down on him. That is all the sport. I will be back with a

:19:14. > :19:16.look at the headlines at 9:30am. Five days, four different statements

:19:17. > :19:19.about his financial affairs. Now the Prime Minister admits he did

:19:20. > :19:22.own and he did profit from shares He said he and his wife Samantha

:19:23. > :19:27.sold their shares in the fund in 2010 for ?30,000 -

:19:28. > :19:33.before he became Prime Minister and he insisted all UK

:19:34. > :19:35.taxes had been paid. So why didn't he want to tell us

:19:36. > :19:38.about it earlier? It follows a week of questions

:19:39. > :19:40.about his tax arrangements - When the Panama Papers

:19:41. > :19:45.were released on Sunday night, and Ian Cameron's name appeared

:19:46. > :19:49.in them, journalists began to ask whether Mr Cameron had benefited

:19:50. > :19:56.from Blairmore Holdings, On Monday, the Prime Minister's

:19:57. > :19:59.official spokesman told journalists in a briefing

:20:00. > :20:02.that it was a "private matter". On Tuesday Downing Street issued

:20:03. > :20:05.a statement saying: the prime minister, his wife

:20:06. > :20:14.and their children do not benefit from any offshore funds," adding

:20:15. > :20:18.the prime minister owns no shares. Mr Cameron reiterated his position

:20:19. > :20:21.after a speech in Birmingham. And on Wednesday morning another

:20:22. > :20:22.statement was released or trusts which the prime minister,

:20:23. > :20:27.Mrs Cameron or their children And then last night the Prime

:20:28. > :20:33.Minister spoke to ITV News. Samantha and I had a joint account

:20:34. > :20:38.and we owned 5,000 units in Blairmore Investment Trust

:20:39. > :20:42.which we sold in January 2010 - that was worth

:20:43. > :20:44.something like ?30,000. There was a profit on it

:20:45. > :20:55.but that was less than the capital gains tax allowance,

:20:56. > :20:59.so I didn't pay capital gains tax, but it was subject to all the UK

:21:00. > :21:02.taxes in all the normal ways. I think a lot of the criticisms

:21:03. > :21:05.are based on a fundamental misconception which is that

:21:06. > :21:07.Blairemore Investment, a unit trust, was set up with the idea

:21:08. > :21:11.of avoiding tax. It wasn't - it was set up

:21:12. > :21:18.after exchange controls went so that people who wanted to invest

:21:19. > :21:24.in dollar-denominated shares could do so, and there are many

:21:25. > :21:27.other, thousands of other unit It was reported to the HMRC,

:21:28. > :21:31.it reported itself every year Joining us now is Damian Collins,

:21:32. > :21:38.who's the Conservative MP Heather Self is a tax

:21:39. > :21:46.partner at Pinsent Masons. And joining us from Cardiff,

:21:47. > :21:57.is the Shadow Work and Pensions Thanks for joining us. It has taken

:21:58. > :22:01.a long time to get here? If the Prime Minister made the statement on

:22:02. > :22:05.Monday, Tuesday this week is dead yesterday I do not think there would

:22:06. > :22:10.be much difference. There would be interesting what he had to say. I

:22:11. > :22:16.think we can get too focused on the process and not the issue, which is

:22:17. > :22:21.did he do anything wrong? No. Was he avoiding tax? No. He paid UK tax on

:22:22. > :22:26.the investment and sold the shares six years ago and made his personal

:22:27. > :22:31.declaration of that now. I do not see he has more questions to answer.

:22:32. > :22:35.On the point of it making a difference if it was declared up

:22:36. > :22:38.front, it maybe would not have led to five days of headlines of

:22:39. > :22:43.different details coming out gradually. We are talking two, three

:22:44. > :22:47.days, and there would be interesting what he said regardless of when he

:22:48. > :22:51.said. He gave the impression he was not being completely straight at the

:22:52. > :23:03.beginning. There is no question that anything he said was not correct or

:23:04. > :23:10.accurate. He was not avoiding tax, he paid UK tax on that investment

:23:11. > :23:17.and he has made that clear. Were the shares declared when he was a

:23:18. > :23:21.regular MP? I have not looked at his register of members' interest from

:23:22. > :23:26.that period but he has sold that investment in that unit trust. Units

:23:27. > :23:31.rather than shares. He paid UK tax on that, this is a trust registered

:23:32. > :23:36.with HMRC and Inland Revenue and all UK investors would have paid UK tax

:23:37. > :23:41.on the investments. Owen Smith, he sold the shares, they were declared

:23:42. > :23:47.to the Inland Revenue, tax was paid on them as it should have been, what

:23:48. > :23:51.has he done wrong? I think the main thing is he has been hypocritical,

:23:52. > :23:58.arguing for the last six years tax avoidance was a bad thing, he said

:23:59. > :24:02.it was morally repugnant. He gave a speech where he talked about a

:24:03. > :24:06.travelling caravan of international tax accountants and lawyers hiding

:24:07. > :24:11.money from state governments. At the same time, he has invested into a

:24:12. > :24:19.vehicle designed to avoid paying tax. Registered overseas. That is

:24:20. > :24:24.legal stop should it be legal to be able to avoid tax in this fashion?

:24:25. > :24:29.He clearly did benefit from this and although he may have paid tax at the

:24:30. > :24:33.end point when he took the money out, when he sold the units or

:24:34. > :24:36.shares, of course he would have benefited from the fact the company

:24:37. > :24:43.was making money in the period in which he invested without paying tax

:24:44. > :24:50.for 30 years. Heather, picks that in terms of the benefits. We need to

:24:51. > :24:54.distinguish between overseas companies, separate legal entities,

:24:55. > :24:58.and offshore funds. This is an offshore fund, it is like a

:24:59. > :25:04.partnership, there has been a special tax regime since 1984 and it

:25:05. > :25:07.says if you are a UK investor in an offshore fund you pay tax as it goes

:25:08. > :25:13.along on everything the entity earns. What about whether the funds

:25:14. > :25:18.grow because of benefits arising from the fact they are overseas? Why

:25:19. > :25:23.have them overseas if there is no benefit? It is an intermediate layer

:25:24. > :25:28.investing in companies that pay tax and the investors pay tax. You have

:25:29. > :25:32.profits that pay tax at the bottom, investors at the top who pay tax and

:25:33. > :25:36.in the middle you have something that does not pay tax because it is

:25:37. > :25:45.a pass-through vehicle, saving an extra layer of tax in the middle. He

:25:46. > :25:50.could have set up, David Cameron's father, this vehicle, hedge funds or

:25:51. > :25:55.any investment vehicle, in the UK, but he set it up overseas and we

:25:56. > :25:59.know from the papers he went searching for the most tax

:26:00. > :26:04.efficient, as they put it, tax friendly location, and simply to

:26:05. > :26:08.avoid tax and scrutiny. The big picture is surely that we have a

:26:09. > :26:14.Prime Minister who has sought to say we are in it together and that the

:26:15. > :26:19.burden of austerity has been evenly born and this reveals that is not

:26:20. > :26:24.true, there is an elite in society and he is part of it, who do not

:26:25. > :26:28.play by the same rules as the rest, it is one rule for ordinary people

:26:29. > :26:32.who pay taxes and another for those who don't, and that is the

:26:33. > :26:37.underpinning I think double standards that have been exposed. I

:26:38. > :26:41.think the Prime Minister has to come to Parliament and give a fuller

:26:42. > :26:46.description of what his holdings have been in the past and explain

:26:47. > :26:52.how it was he can speak out over the last six years and explain what the

:26:53. > :26:59.government's real attitudes are to wealth being hoarded in this

:27:00. > :27:04.fashion. Hypocrisy? I think Owen is deliberately confusing issues. David

:27:05. > :27:09.Cameron did not avoid tax. He paid tax on the dividends whilst he held

:27:10. > :27:13.the units in the trust and was liable for UK tax when he sold his

:27:14. > :27:18.interest as everyone was. It is not double standards. Why not be clearer

:27:19. > :27:24.about it from the beginning. He has been clear about his relationship

:27:25. > :27:29.with that trust. The bigger issue... He has been asked about it

:27:30. > :27:34.repeatedly. The big issue is that is the Prime Minister saying one thing

:27:35. > :27:37.and doing another? He is not, he has not avoided tax and as Prime

:27:38. > :27:40.Minister he has led a government that has clamped out on tax

:27:41. > :27:46.avoidance in the way the last Labour government never did. Recouping

:27:47. > :27:50.taxes that might have been avoided by people who do use vehicles and it

:27:51. > :27:55.is right we clamped down on tax avoidance but at no point has the

:27:56. > :27:59.Prime Minister try to avoid tax. A lot of people are concerned there

:28:00. > :28:06.has not been transparency. Steve saying it is fairly typical in the

:28:07. > :28:09.comments, he said the issue is not David Cameron has done anything

:28:10. > :28:13.wrong rather the lack of transparency and changing stories.

:28:14. > :28:18.The story has not changed. It has developed. He has added to what he

:28:19. > :28:22.said but has not gone back on anything he said and this investment

:28:23. > :28:27.he got rid off before he was a government minister, before he was

:28:28. > :28:30.Prime Minister. He made a voluntary declaration, it was not dragged out

:28:31. > :28:35.of him, he has set the record straight and published his tax

:28:36. > :28:39.return. Owen Smith, the Prime Minister says this government has

:28:40. > :28:43.done more than any other to tackle tax avoidance and he says that

:28:44. > :28:49.demonstrates his view of the issue. He keeps repeating that but the last

:28:50. > :28:54.Labour government introduced in 1998 rules to open up the tax behaviour

:28:55. > :28:58.of overseas territory and introduced the most important piece of tax

:28:59. > :29:04.avoidance legislation, the disclosure of tax avoidance

:29:05. > :29:11.vehicles, in 2004, but the big question here is speaking out of

:29:12. > :29:15.both sides of his mouth, the fact the Prime Minister has talked a

:29:16. > :29:22.great game about tax avoidance and transparency. He said sunlight is

:29:23. > :29:25.the greatest disinfectant and we should be open about financial

:29:26. > :29:29.dealings to restore trust in politicians and yet he did not

:29:30. > :29:33.include this in the register before he became Prime Minister and did

:29:34. > :29:37.divest himself of it as soon as he became Prime Minister, and he has

:29:38. > :29:42.refused to divulges not the past six days but the past six years. If

:29:43. > :29:49.there was nothing wrong, why has he been coy for so long? Damian

:29:50. > :29:53.Collins, why not be clearer sooner? You are talking about an investment

:29:54. > :29:57.he got rid off before he was Prime Minister some years ago and he is

:29:58. > :30:02.now because of the interest made a declaration. He was an MP sometime

:30:03. > :30:07.before that. The question is has he done anything wrong? Nobody is

:30:08. > :30:11.saying he has done anything wrong. He has not avoided tax, which is the

:30:12. > :30:15.view of independent experts talking today. To pretend he is in some way

:30:16. > :30:21.saying one thing and doing another is wrong, he has led a government

:30:22. > :30:24.that has gone after tax avoidance and people using offshore vehicles

:30:25. > :30:30.to hide from paying tax in the way no other government has done before.

:30:31. > :30:35.It has long been not to include measures that would have introduced

:30:36. > :30:38.greater transparency of ownership of trusts, even as he was saying, we

:30:39. > :30:41.are clamping down on tax avoidance in this country. He has been guilty

:30:42. > :30:47.of double standards throughout the period. I don't think that is true

:30:48. > :30:51.and if you go further than the measures on tax avoidance, the new

:30:52. > :30:54.measures the government has brought in to make sure anyone with a stake

:30:55. > :30:59.in a British company is registered so people cannot hide their identity

:31:00. > :31:03.behind offshore vehicles is an important reform. We have a

:31:04. > :31:08.clamp-down on tax avoidance had greater transparency in investments.

:31:09. > :31:15.That's not true, because there has been some welcome progress, largely

:31:16. > :31:19.driven by the European Union, I'm glad to say, giving us some insight

:31:20. > :31:25.on vehicles where there are profits and interest paid, but we do not

:31:26. > :31:28.have full disclosure about who owns overseas held just, investment

:31:29. > :31:32.vehicles, and who the true beneficiaries are. In order to have

:31:33. > :31:36.that, we would need full country by country reporting and a public

:31:37. > :31:40.register. I think we should be talking about that, and I suspect

:31:41. > :31:44.this Prime Minister will resist that rigorously. Should the Prime

:31:45. > :31:51.Minister looked at these issues to make it clear where he stands? In

:31:52. > :31:55.our own jurisdiction we have made it clear. This whole story, the release

:31:56. > :31:59.of the documents, it has revealed the extent to which UK territories

:32:00. > :32:02.are caught up in this. Does the government is now need to take a

:32:03. > :32:10.look at what's going on and take a much stronger line and, possibly

:32:11. > :32:16.change the way governments are run, if they do not take a tougher line

:32:17. > :32:25.on this? It's rather difficult to change the way other governments run

:32:26. > :32:29.their own affairs. What we should insist on is transparency. Anyone

:32:30. > :32:34.who has investment or interest in a British company should declare that,

:32:35. > :32:38.make it known, and not hide behind an offshore vehicle or hide their

:32:39. > :32:42.identity. We have much greater transparency so it is much harder

:32:43. > :32:45.for people to hide their money off shore, or in investments in

:32:46. > :32:50.Switzerland in a way we cannot trace what they are. Progress has been

:32:51. > :32:55.made in the last six years on that. Owen Smith, what do you see the

:32:56. > :33:00.Prime Minister position being now? I think he still has questions to

:33:01. > :33:04.answer. Is this a resignation issue? I will not call for the Prime

:33:05. > :33:09.Minister's resignation, but I think you should look to himself, and ask

:33:10. > :33:14.himself whether it was right that he spent the last six years and longer

:33:15. > :33:19.lecturing Britain and indeed the world about transparency and the

:33:20. > :33:24.need to get rid of these morally repugnant practices, and telling us

:33:25. > :33:28.he has been at the vanguard of changing the world and these tax

:33:29. > :33:33.practices, while in truth he has benefited from those sorts of

:33:34. > :33:41.shadowy practices. Even when in office he's lobbied to maintain

:33:42. > :33:44.greater secrets in trusts and the European want to introduce. I think

:33:45. > :33:47.he needs to explain to the country whether he has been stringing us

:33:48. > :33:52.along over the last six years whether believes in this stuff.

:33:53. > :33:54.Thank you for your comments on that, keep them coming in.

:33:55. > :34:01.Should teenagers decide at fourteen whether to do A-Levels

:34:02. > :34:04.One group of politicians says they should.

:34:05. > :34:06.What do you think - get in touch with us

:34:07. > :34:12.It's the last in our London Mayor cab share series

:34:13. > :34:15.and today it's the turn of the Lib Dems to join Norman

:34:16. > :34:25.But will Caroline Pidgeon pass his London Knowledge test?

:34:26. > :34:33.Opposition parties are accusing David Cameron of hypocrisy,

:34:34. > :34:36.after he revealed he'd previously owned shares in an offshore trust,

:34:37. > :34:42.The Prime Minister sold the shares in 2010, before

:34:43. > :34:44.he entered Number Ten, and insists he paid all

:34:45. > :34:57.Mr Cameron has been under pressure all week to give more details about

:34:58. > :35:02.his involvement with Blair more Holdings, registered in the Bahamas.

:35:03. > :35:06.I think the main thing is, he has been hypocritical, arguing for the

:35:07. > :35:11.last six years that tax avoidance is a bad thing, he said it's morally

:35:12. > :35:15.repugnant and he gave a big speech in which he majored on this and

:35:16. > :35:20.talked about a travelling caravan of international tax accountants and

:35:21. > :35:25.lawyers hiding money from state governments, but at the same time he

:35:26. > :35:28.has invested into a vehicle that was designed to avoid paying tax,

:35:29. > :35:33.something that was registered overseas. It's perfectly legal, but

:35:34. > :35:39.the problem is, should it be legal to avoid tax in this fashion. The

:35:40. > :35:43.issue is, did he do anything wrong? No, nobody is suggesting that. He

:35:44. > :35:47.wasn't avoiding tax by investing in this trust, he paid UK tax from this

:35:48. > :35:51.investment and sold those shares more than six years ago and has made

:35:52. > :35:53.a public declaration of that now. I don't see he has any more questions

:35:54. > :35:54.to answer. The first of two boats

:35:55. > :35:56.carrying migrants from the Greek island of Lesbos -

:35:57. > :35:58.has arrived in Turkey. It's part of the deal agreed

:35:59. > :36:01.with the European Union last month aimed at deterring migrants

:36:02. > :36:03.from making the hazardous Around 45 migrants, mostly

:36:04. > :36:07.of Pakistani origin, made up the first sailing

:36:08. > :36:11.to the Turkish port of Dikili. A second boat is on

:36:12. > :36:19.it's way right now. A man has been arrested

:36:20. > :36:21.and is being questioned on suspicion of murder over the disappearance

:36:22. > :36:24.of a London police officer. PC Gordon Semple was reported

:36:25. > :36:27.missing a week ago and was last seen on CCTV on a street near London

:36:28. > :36:30.Bridge. Yesterday, police were called

:36:31. > :36:32.to a property in Southwark where human remains were discovered

:36:33. > :36:40.and a man was arrested. The property is still

:36:41. > :36:43.being examined. The fourth strike by junior

:36:44. > :36:45.doctors in England, over the government's

:36:46. > :36:47.new contract, has ended. Government sources say

:36:48. > :36:49.that the British Medical Association has blown its chance to negotiate,

:36:50. > :36:52.and a new contract will now be But the BMA is planning

:36:53. > :37:04.another walkout at the end of the month when -

:37:05. > :37:07.for the first time in the dispute - emergency cover will

:37:08. > :37:08.also be withdrawn. Young people who choose not to take

:37:09. > :37:11.A-Levels or go to university are being let down by our education

:37:12. > :37:14.system, according to a report It proposes that 14 to 19 year olds

:37:15. > :37:19.should go through a "transition stage" where they can make

:37:20. > :37:21.choices about their career, rather than having to make

:37:22. > :37:33.all the big decisions at 16. We will be discussing this story on

:37:34. > :37:39.the programme in the next human rights.

:37:40. > :37:48.Time to catch up with the sport. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was

:37:49. > :37:55.defiant after his side's draw in Dortmund last night. Klopp said

:37:56. > :37:59.people thought his side would be beaten, but Divock Origi scored a

:38:00. > :38:05.crucial away goal as they drew with Dortmund. Jordan Spieth says he

:38:06. > :38:08.would have taken a two under par in windy conditions on the first at

:38:09. > :38:15.Augusta, but the defending champion leads again with an opening six

:38:16. > :38:21.under par 66 to finish the day two shots clear. Rory McIlroy says

:38:22. > :38:25.Jordan Spieth will be tough to beat, he dropped to four shots off the

:38:26. > :38:28.pace, chasing the only major Mac easier to win. Ben Stokes says he's

:38:29. > :38:36.only just coming to terms with the complete devastation he felt after

:38:37. > :38:40.the England lost to the West Indies in the T20 final. Stokes says he

:38:41. > :38:41.felt just shock. We will be back with more from the masters just

:38:42. > :38:45.after 10am. The Liberal Democrat's mayoral

:38:46. > :38:48.candidate, Caroline Pidgeon, will be speaking to our political

:38:49. > :38:55.guru Norman Smith. Social mobility is described

:38:56. > :38:59.as the ability of people or groups to move up or down in status based

:39:00. > :39:03.on wealth, jobs or education. Today a House of Lords committee has

:39:04. > :39:06.put out a report looking at the social mobility

:39:07. > :39:08.of school leavers and their They say that more than half

:39:09. > :39:13.of teens who don't head down a traditional academic route

:39:14. > :39:15.into work are being let down And that the 53% of school leavers

:39:16. > :39:21.who opt not to got to university or do A levels are often allowed

:39:22. > :39:24.to "drift" into their first job or further education

:39:25. > :39:27.with no real prospect A possible solution to this

:39:28. > :39:35.is argued to be letting teenagers decide earlier whether to follow

:39:36. > :39:37.a mainly vocational Let's speak now to Hashi Mohamed,

:39:38. > :39:45.who arrived in London in 1993 He's now an Oxford-educated

:39:46. > :39:50.barrister. Naivasha Mwanju works

:39:51. > :39:54.at youth employment charity Elevation Networks, which aims

:39:55. > :39:56.to help underprivileged teenagers Andrew Kingston is 18 and has

:39:57. > :40:05.completed an apprenticeship. He has landed his first job

:40:06. > :40:07.as a web and social media Ali Rashid is also 18 years

:40:08. > :40:12.old and studies performing arts. Laine Esperanzate is a 17-year-old

:40:13. > :40:20.apprentice in digital marketing. And from Bristol we have

:40:21. > :40:23.Baroness Corston, chair of the Lords Select Committee

:40:24. > :40:36.on Social Mobility and who is Thank you for joining us. Baroness

:40:37. > :40:41.Corston first, are you saying social mobility is a myth for many kids?

:40:42. > :40:45.I'm saying it's not achievable for them, and the evidence is that it is

:40:46. > :40:51.going backwards. What are the issues? There are young people who

:40:52. > :40:56.find that when they leave school they haven't had careers advice,

:40:57. > :40:58.because there isn't a careers service. They haven't had the

:40:59. > :41:02.opportunity forward experience because they don't have the family

:41:03. > :41:08.contacts to make that possible. They are not ready for work, they do not

:41:09. > :41:12.have the life skills that will enable them to succeed in the

:41:13. > :41:16.workplace. If they go into further education, they are in a situation

:41:17. > :41:24.where there is a bewildering array of qualifications, many of which are

:41:25. > :41:29.not even understood by employers. Explain what you mean when you say

:41:30. > :41:36.that for many kids social mobility is going backwards. The evidence is

:41:37. > :41:40.that in the last ten years, social mobility, that is people from poorer

:41:41. > :41:47.backgrounds becoming high earners, has gone down from 17% to 13%. There

:41:48. > :41:52.is an element of going backwards. As part of this enquiry, which started

:41:53. > :41:58.last June, we made strenuous efforts, successful, I'm pleased to

:41:59. > :42:02.say, to contact as many young people through social media as possible.

:42:03. > :42:07.The message from them, and these were people who did feel overlooked

:42:08. > :42:12.and left behind, was that they didn't have those opportunities to

:42:13. > :42:19.be work ready, and at school, following a solely academic path

:42:20. > :42:25.until the age of 18 was very demotivating. If they had the

:42:26. > :42:30.opportunity to do some work experience at the age of 14, or

:42:31. > :42:34.vocational work, while continuing to do the core subjects like English,

:42:35. > :42:40.maths and science, they felt it would give them a better opportunity

:42:41. > :42:44.for their future. Explain a bit more how that would work. You say that

:42:45. > :42:48.you think the national curriculum should end at 14. What sort of

:42:49. > :42:52.things could go out of the window for some? How it would operate is

:42:53. > :42:58.for the government. We are making a recommendation. What we are saying

:42:59. > :43:03.is that the exclusively academic pathway doesn't suit everybody. It

:43:04. > :43:08.suited me, it suited five of my grandchildren. It didn't suit one of

:43:09. > :43:14.them, and I saw how he struggled. If you speak to these people, who know

:43:15. > :43:23.they could be high achievers, but stopped from being so, they know

:43:24. > :43:29.what it is they are missing. We can talk to our panel in the studio,

:43:30. > :43:33.some of who... All of whom have been through education in one form or

:43:34. > :43:36.another. Andrew, you finished an apprenticeship, you are 18 and have

:43:37. > :43:41.your first job. How do you feel about this debate and how you were

:43:42. > :43:47.helped, or helped or hindered through your education. I feel like

:43:48. > :43:51.in education you are prepared academically for certain aspects,

:43:52. > :43:55.using computers, learning how to use programmes and basic knowledge, but

:43:56. > :43:59.I think when you step into the real workplace you are not given certain

:44:00. > :44:02.skills from school. I went straight up to London, learning how to

:44:03. > :44:08.commute, or tell your boss you will not be in, you are not given certain

:44:09. > :44:12.skills in education and you lack that real life experience, which is

:44:13. > :44:16.why I chose doing an apprenticeship that being better for me. Is that

:44:17. > :44:20.the same for everyone, how good school address that? If schools

:44:21. > :44:24.could give you more work experience time, give you more chance to

:44:25. > :44:30.experience real life in the workplace. Did you get any work

:44:31. > :44:33.experience? I got about three weeks in total but it was such a rush and

:44:34. > :44:37.so disorganised, is you don't know what you want to do, you don't know

:44:38. > :44:41.where you want to work or what experience you need. I think it

:44:42. > :44:44.needs to be more targeted and more help needs to be given to young

:44:45. > :44:51.individuals to help target what they want to work in. You want to be an

:44:52. > :44:59.actor and studying performing arts, Ali. How do you see the debates?

:45:00. > :45:03.It's 50-50. At school I never really got work experience until I got to

:45:04. > :45:12.college. It felt a rush for me, as he said, it felt rushed for me as

:45:13. > :45:16.well. I think we need more practical training, we need to be there to

:45:17. > :45:20.feel it, because, personally, I don't feel I'm actually ready for a

:45:21. > :45:25.work place job, or subbing similar to that. This is all about whether

:45:26. > :45:31.kids are able to break out of their background and go on to achieve

:45:32. > :45:32.whatever they want to, effectively. Have you ever felt constrained by

:45:33. > :45:43.your background? I have never felt constrained. It is

:45:44. > :45:49.about the individual at the end of the day. If I am going to put in

:45:50. > :45:55.100% effort I will get 100% out of it. You are a 17-year-old

:45:56. > :46:03.apprentice, what is your experience of school and moving on from that? I

:46:04. > :46:09.left school at 15 so I did not take all of my GCSs. I was actually in

:46:10. > :46:14.hospital for nine months. By the time I came out, everybody was in

:46:15. > :46:20.the sixth form or college and I felt stuck, as if they had just dropped

:46:21. > :46:25.me. I did not know what I wanted to do, what career I wanted to get

:46:26. > :46:29.into. I felt I was unprepared for the situation. You did not think

:46:30. > :46:34.school was gearing you up for a world outside of studying? In terms

:46:35. > :46:42.of everything I have learned from school, I have not really applied

:46:43. > :46:51.any of that in the working world. I just was not given the opportunity

:46:52. > :46:56.to work out what I wanted to be, instead of thinking about what other

:46:57. > :47:02.people wanted to be. You work at a youth employment charity. Do you

:47:03. > :47:06.think background is still a constraint on ambition and schools

:47:07. > :47:10.are not doing enough? I think sometimes the problem is that people

:47:11. > :47:17.think there is a one size fits all solution and do not look at things

:47:18. > :47:23.such as gender, do not look at race, socioeconomic status, which all play

:47:24. > :47:28.into potential careers people may want to go into. Another thing is

:47:29. > :47:32.representation. A lot of students might not go into particular sectors

:47:33. > :47:38.if they don't see people who look like them that are excelling in

:47:39. > :47:43.there. There needs to be emphasis at school on work experience and things

:47:44. > :47:49.like that. I did work experience in year ten and also year 12. I wanted

:47:50. > :47:53.to become a barrister but after two weeks of working in chambers I

:47:54. > :47:57.realised I no longer wanted to do it and it saved me going to university

:47:58. > :48:05.and doing law to come out and find I did not want to. It is quite

:48:06. > :48:08.important. You are a barrister, you arrived as a child refugee from

:48:09. > :48:15.Somalia. You achieved from a difficult background. For me, what

:48:16. > :48:20.the baroness has done with the report represents important steps

:48:21. > :48:25.about choice in the school system. At the moment it is clear a lot of

:48:26. > :48:28.people are not provided with choice early on to be able to make an

:48:29. > :48:33.informed decision about what they want to do and it is critical

:48:34. > :48:37.because if you go to university and you are not sure about going and you

:48:38. > :48:42.do it and come out with debt to discover that route was not for you

:48:43. > :48:47.is quite difficult. What the baroness has done with the report is

:48:48. > :48:54.say the system as it is set up is not assisting the vast majority of

:48:55. > :48:57.people and not giving them that choice. If they choose not to go

:48:58. > :49:00.down the academic route, do they have the skills to get on and do

:49:01. > :49:05.what they need to do next time? What I see, when I have kids coming on

:49:06. > :49:09.work experience, who might ask for help, they lack the most basic

:49:10. > :49:15.things of understanding the issues of being on time, being presentable,

:49:16. > :49:22.understanding how to network, firm handshakes, eye contact. Following

:49:23. > :49:27.up on friendships, relationships, finding ways of getting somebody to

:49:28. > :49:31.mentor you, what does that mean? What are your targets? These are

:49:32. > :49:39.skills the system does not equip anyone for, and people who do

:49:40. > :49:43.succeed, it seems, are people whose parents and networks are able to

:49:44. > :49:48.assist them to solidify those things. Most people who are from a

:49:49. > :49:52.very poor background or disadvantaged background do not have

:49:53. > :49:56.those networks. That is not true to say people only get on in life if

:49:57. > :50:01.their parents give them a leg up the ladder? That is not what I am

:50:02. > :50:07.saying, I am saying the majority of people, especially in this country,

:50:08. > :50:11.especially in the English system, the nepotism and the way in which

:50:12. > :50:15.people help one another, and I am not suggesting there is anything

:50:16. > :50:19.wrong with that because every parent wants their child to get on, it is

:50:20. > :50:25.skewed against people who do not have those contacts. I can tell you

:50:26. > :50:29.myself, my mother was not formally educated. At the age of 18 I did not

:50:30. > :50:36.know what a barrister did, let alone be one. The connections and options

:50:37. > :50:40.given to me by people who assisted me and introduced me to people,

:50:41. > :50:45.without that I would not be where I am today and so in this country more

:50:46. > :50:51.than any other, how you connect yourself, whether through family,

:50:52. > :50:56.other ways, is so central to being able to succeed. Baroness, in the

:50:57. > :51:01.end, isn't the best way a state can help any kid to give them the best

:51:02. > :51:08.education they can get, the alternative argument could be put to

:51:09. > :51:12.when you say about ending the National Curriculum at 14, people

:51:13. > :51:16.might say that case, at 14 you are effectively writing off somebody's

:51:17. > :51:21.potential if they choose not to go down the academic route at that

:51:22. > :51:25.stage. Interesting you use the phrase writing off because I do not

:51:26. > :51:29.think young people see it that way. People who want to do an

:51:30. > :51:33.apprenticeship at Rolls-Royce do not feel they are being written off. It

:51:34. > :51:39.is because we do not value this training. It's 14 too young to

:51:40. > :51:42.decide they do not want to do something that might require a

:51:43. > :51:48.higher level of academic achievement? That is not my opinion,

:51:49. > :51:53.it is based on evidence we have taken from academics, teachers, over

:51:54. > :51:57.the last almost a year and it was recommended to the previous Tony

:51:58. > :52:02.Blair government in 2004 by Professor Tomlinson, who could see

:52:03. > :52:09.the system was not assisting social mobility and your young people have

:52:10. > :52:12.made the case. They want life skills, work experience. Work

:52:13. > :52:16.experience is usually related to whether your family knows somebody

:52:17. > :52:25.and in smaller enterprises, new jobs often go through that route. Andrew,

:52:26. > :52:32.did you feel early on something more academic was not for you? My father

:52:33. > :52:36.is very academic and my sister is studying for a masters and my

:52:37. > :52:41.brother is training in medicine. I feel that I was going along the

:52:42. > :52:43.route, and I was doing well, especially in business, but

:52:44. > :52:49.everything else was not working out for me and I thought maybe the best

:52:50. > :52:53.way of achieving my potential was going into the workplace,

:52:54. > :53:01.emphasising the professional skills, and networking. The company I work

:53:02. > :53:05.for, the CEO champions networking and I feel it helps. The drive of

:53:06. > :53:09.having your own motivation to get out there and develop skills to help

:53:10. > :53:14.you will also be the deciding factor on where you get to. Anyone can

:53:15. > :53:21.decide they want to be someone, they want to drive to that and develop

:53:22. > :53:25.their skills. How do you see this, you spoke earlier about making your

:53:26. > :53:36.own choices and making good on those choices? As I said about putting in

:53:37. > :53:44.100%, personally, if I put in 100%, I will get 100%. It is all about the

:53:45. > :53:54.work rate and ethic. It is about the individual, that is what I think.

:53:55. > :53:59.And what people keep coming back to is the issue of networking and being

:54:00. > :54:02.able to reach out to people, whether in the academic world or another

:54:03. > :54:09.one, to help you. How do kids get that? At elevations networks that

:54:10. > :54:14.was the premise of the youth charity being born, to connect students from

:54:15. > :54:23.underrepresented backgrounds and build their network. We built the

:54:24. > :54:28.charity on know who and know-how. I feel networking definitely plays a

:54:29. > :54:34.big part in it. It is something at school they should definitely try to

:54:35. > :54:40.push. It is a skill you not taught but you learn the way and I think it

:54:41. > :54:45.is not encouraged at school. It is important especially when you get in

:54:46. > :54:49.the career. People get promotions through networking and talking to

:54:50. > :54:54.people in the organisation says it is a skill we cannot forget.

:54:55. > :55:00.Baroness, we have to let you go, we will carry on chatting in the

:55:01. > :55:04.studio. Thanks for joining us. Thank you to your guests who have made my

:55:05. > :55:14.point. Would you say you have been good at networking? Before having my

:55:15. > :55:21.apprenticeship I did not have experience in even talking to

:55:22. > :55:27.employers. I feel if I were encouraged more to get myself out

:55:28. > :55:35.there, I would probably be in a really good place. A better place.

:55:36. > :55:41.Success is different for everyone and everyone has a different way of

:55:42. > :55:46.getting to where they want to be. Schools should maybe try to

:55:47. > :55:53.encourage teachers to show students what it is like to be in the working

:55:54. > :55:56.world. Did you feel inside yourself you knew where you wanted to go and

:55:57. > :56:04.you would get there, or did you feel you did need support? I had no idea

:56:05. > :56:12.there was support available. I was stuck on what to do. I had to look

:56:13. > :56:16.myself, and young people should be encouraged to look for themselves.

:56:17. > :56:23.When I was in education, I thought work would be handed to me. I was

:56:24. > :56:30.not sure what I wanted to do. You are nodding. I agree. I have been

:56:31. > :56:34.lucky where I have got to and I am representing my company in meetings

:56:35. > :56:38.in London and networking with influential people. I feel in

:56:39. > :56:42.education these skills are not taught to people, how to greet

:56:43. > :56:48.someone who might be very important to your career down the line. You

:56:49. > :56:52.are not taught how to cope in these situations but thankfully I was

:56:53. > :56:57.guided by by CEO for that but sitting in a run with 50 other

:56:58. > :57:00.people who are top bankers in London can be intimidating. You are

:57:01. > :57:06.entering the world of work at a younger age if you do not go to

:57:07. > :57:10.higher education. It can be intimidating, oh, I am 18, you 40

:57:11. > :57:14.and you have money and are influential, but you have to learn

:57:15. > :57:18.to stand your ground and know you are worth something and can get

:57:19. > :57:26.there if you push us up. Thanks. Are out of time. Still to come. We will

:57:27. > :57:31.hear the story of a woman who was kidnapped as a child and held

:57:32. > :57:36.hostage for four days. She describes her ordeal and how it changed her

:57:37. > :57:40.life. Let's catch up with the latest weather.

:57:41. > :57:48.Good to see you. Welcome to the weekend. A lot of

:57:49. > :57:54.sport taking place this weekend, with the golf in Augusta, but I will

:57:55. > :58:00.talk about the Grand National. You may notice this temperature, which

:58:01. > :58:05.is 6 degrees, which is what we expect, cold for the Grand National

:58:06. > :58:09.at Aintree. There will be showers around and also spells of sunshine.

:58:10. > :58:14.Not the warmest Grand National ever. I talked about the golf and we are

:58:15. > :58:18.set fair for the rest of the tournament but the wind has been a

:58:19. > :58:26.feature so far but by Sunday it will ease. That is the sport covered, now

:58:27. > :58:30.I will take you to a weather watch a picture from West Yorkshire.

:58:31. > :58:36.Daffodils enjoying the sunshine. Looking at the satellite, cloudy in

:58:37. > :58:42.Northern Ireland, which will produce rain. Cloud in the UK and elsewhere,

:58:43. > :58:46.producing showers, but the majority is so far have had a cold but lovely

:58:47. > :58:52.morning. This is the picture at midday with sunny spells around.

:58:53. > :58:56.Temperatures gradually recovering. The odd shower breaking out where we

:58:57. > :59:01.had sunshine to start the day and this afternoon focused on the East

:59:02. > :59:07.Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east. Not as heavy as recent

:59:08. > :59:11.days. The odd heavy one around but not as widespread. Lighter wind and

:59:12. > :59:16.sunshine, it will feel quite pleasant. In Northern Ireland, you

:59:17. > :59:21.have rain moving in, spoiling things for the afternoon. That will reach

:59:22. > :59:25.into Western fringes of Scotland and Wales and the far west of England

:59:26. > :59:30.this afternoon. The temperatures higher than the past few days.

:59:31. > :59:36.Tonight the rain will push eastwards across the UK and behind it it will

:59:37. > :59:39.turn colder with a touch of frost developing. Temperatures dipping

:59:40. > :59:44.markedly with clear skies in Northern Ireland, close to freezing

:59:45. > :59:49.in some spots. Showers will move in and will deliver sleet and snow

:59:50. > :59:53.tomorrow morning to the hills of Wales and the Moors in south-west

:59:54. > :00:00.England and also maybe a few flakes in lower levels. The rain pushes

:00:01. > :00:03.away and northern Scotland might have outbreaks of rain through the

:00:04. > :00:08.day but elsewhere sunshine, scattered showers, some heavy and

:00:09. > :00:15.thundery. They push of colder air coming into the UK and the chill we

:00:16. > :00:23.talked about at the Grand National. On Sunday, possibly rain in the far

:00:24. > :00:28.north of Scotland. Some outbreaks of rain in the west. Away from the wet

:00:29. > :00:29.weather systems, fine but breezy weather and less cool weather on

:00:30. > :00:35.Sunday. Five statements in five days -

:00:36. > :00:43.the Prime Minister is criticised after finally revealing that he did

:00:44. > :00:54.profit from an offshore fund set We have a Prime Minister who has

:00:55. > :00:57.sought to say, we are all in it together, and the burden of

:00:58. > :01:04.austerity in the last six years has been evenly born. What this reveals,

:01:05. > :01:07.is that this isn't true. Did he do anything wrong? No, he has not done

:01:08. > :01:13.anything wrong. He didn't avoid tax by investing in this trust. He paid

:01:14. > :01:16.UK tax on this investment and souls those shares more than six years

:01:17. > :01:19.ago. She was 13 when she snuck

:01:20. > :01:21.out of her home to meet But he wasn't a boy -

:01:22. > :01:26.he was a man who then tortured and abused her for four days

:01:27. > :01:28.and broadcast it online. I feel, and I felt at the time,

:01:29. > :01:32.that he was going to kill me. It feels horrible to say this,

:01:33. > :01:36.but if I didn't serve a purpose, that he was going to kill me,

:01:37. > :01:43.that he didn't have another option. Spieth you can hear the full

:01:44. > :01:47.interview after 10:30am. It's more than a year since

:01:48. > :01:50.Robin Williams took his own life - and today his last major film

:01:51. > :01:53.Boulevard comes out in the cinema, and it's being hailed as one

:01:54. > :02:00.of his best. We can go to the BBC Newsroom

:02:01. > :02:11.with a summary of today's news. Opposition parties are accusing

:02:12. > :02:13.David Cameron of hypocrisy, after he revealed he'd previously

:02:14. > :02:15.owned shares in an offshore trust, The trust had been set up by his

:02:16. > :02:25.late father. The Prime Minister sold

:02:26. > :02:27.the shares in 2010, before he entered Number Ten,

:02:28. > :02:36.and insists he paid all The Prime Minister has faced

:02:37. > :02:40.persistent questions about an offshore trust set up by his late

:02:41. > :02:44.father. It was set up in a tax haven and didn't pay tax in Britain. Faced

:02:45. > :02:48.by bad headlines all week, the Prime Minister gradually gave away more

:02:49. > :02:51.information about his own financial affairs, saying he didn't own shares

:02:52. > :02:55.in offshore trusts and wouldn't benefit from them in the future.

:02:56. > :03:01.Last night he revealed he had benefited from shares in a Father's

:03:02. > :03:06.trust when he was Leader of the Opposition. Samantha and I owned

:03:07. > :03:12.5000 units in Blairmore investment trust which we sold in January 20

:03:13. > :03:17.ten. That was worth something like ?30,000. He insisted his father's

:03:18. > :03:22.trust wasn't set up to avoid tax. The criticisms are based on a

:03:23. > :03:25.fundamental misconception, which is that Blairmore investment, a unit

:03:26. > :03:33.trust, was set up with the idea of avoiding tax, it wasn't. Labour and

:03:34. > :03:38.the SNP say the and he will face more questions when Parliament

:03:39. > :03:41.resumes on Monday. What other shareholdings did David Cameron hold

:03:42. > :03:44.when he was an MP and leaders of the opposition? Did he invest in any

:03:45. > :03:49.other trusts that were established in this kind of way? Revenue and

:03:50. > :03:52.Customs had a slogan, tax doesn't need to be taxing. The Prime

:03:53. > :03:55.Minister is currently finding it very taxing indeed.

:03:56. > :03:57.The first of two boats carrying migrants from

:03:58. > :03:59.the Greek island of Lesbos - has arrived in Turkey.

:04:00. > :04:02.It's part of the deal agreed with the European Union last month

:04:03. > :04:04.aimed at deterring migrants from making the hazardous

:04:05. > :04:10.Around 45 migrants, mostly of Pakistani origin,

:04:11. > :04:13.made up the first sailing to the Turkish port of Dikili.

:04:14. > :04:15.A second boat is on it's way right now.

:04:16. > :04:17.Let's get the latest from our correspondent

:04:18. > :04:32.What's the picture there this morning? The first boat has now

:04:33. > :04:38.arrived here in the last hour or so. This is the scene behind me, it has

:04:39. > :04:46.docked here from Lesbos this morning. White a lot of the 45

:04:47. > :04:50.Pakistanis on board are still on the boat, it's a slow process to get

:04:51. > :04:54.them off. Turkish officials are boarding and escorting the migrants

:04:55. > :04:59.off, who then have their names and fingerprints taken, have a medical

:05:00. > :05:01.check, and are then taken to a deportation centre in north-west

:05:02. > :05:05.Turkey close to the Hungarian border, from where the Turkish

:05:06. > :05:09.government hope they will be sent back to Pakistan. The second boat is

:05:10. > :05:14.docked in the sea a few hundred metres away. That will soon come in,

:05:15. > :05:20.and we think 145 in total will arrive today. The second wave has

:05:21. > :05:23.been delayed by lack of personnel on the Greek islands and a surge in

:05:24. > :05:28.last-minute applications by migrants. The Turkish Prime Minister

:05:29. > :05:33.said the Turkish government would only stick to the deal if EU stuck

:05:34. > :05:41.to its side of the bargain, giving more money to Turkey, opening up

:05:42. > :05:44.talks, and by the end of June if certain conditions are met. He's

:05:45. > :05:46.playing hardball and saying both sides need to stick to the deal if

:05:47. > :05:54.it is to work. A man has been arrested

:05:55. > :05:57.and is being questioned on suspicion of murder over the disappearance

:05:58. > :05:59.of a London police officer. PC Gordon Semple was reported

:06:00. > :06:02.missing a week ago and was last seen on CCTV on a street near London

:06:03. > :06:04.Bridge. Yesterday police were called

:06:05. > :06:06.to a property in Southwark where human remains were discovered

:06:07. > :06:12.and a man was arrested. Due to the condition

:06:13. > :06:14.of the human remains, it will take some time for the cause

:06:15. > :06:17.of death to be established, and for At this point, I do not wish

:06:18. > :06:24.to speculate on what has happened. Yesterday, a forensic search started

:06:25. > :06:33.at the address and is still ongoing. The fourth strike by junior

:06:34. > :06:39.doctors in England, over the government's new

:06:40. > :06:40.contract, has finished. Government sources say

:06:41. > :06:42.that the British Medical Association has blown its chance to negotiate,

:06:43. > :06:45.and a new contract will now be But the BMA is planning

:06:46. > :06:49.another walkout at the end of the month when -

:06:50. > :06:52.for the first time in the dispute - emergency cover will

:06:53. > :06:59.also be withdrawn. Tata Steel is refusing to comment

:07:00. > :07:01.on claims it made significant profits from a policy designed

:07:02. > :07:03.to protect the climate. Three separate experts say Tata made

:07:04. > :07:06.hundreds of millions of pounds selling carbon emissions permits

:07:07. > :07:10.it was given for free under It's a controversial allegation

:07:11. > :07:16.because Tata had complained that one of the reasons it wasn't able

:07:17. > :07:20.to make a profit was because of EU Last week Tata announced it would be

:07:21. > :07:24.selling its UK steel plants, Uber has agreed to pay around

:07:25. > :07:32.?7 million to settle a dispute in the United States over

:07:33. > :07:36.its background checks for drivers. The company was sued in 2014

:07:37. > :07:41.after it claimed its vetting process was safer than systems that

:07:42. > :07:44.traditional minicab firms used. Prosecutors said Uber had failed

:07:45. > :07:47.to prevent 25 people with criminal The firm will now

:07:48. > :07:53.change its adverts. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:07:54. > :08:15.News - more at 10:30. Coming up, the latest in our trips

:08:16. > :08:22.around London, prospective mayoral candidates, Norman will be speaking

:08:23. > :08:24.to the Lib Democrat candidate. We will be speaking about Robin

:08:25. > :08:27.WIlliams' latest film Boulevard. Do get in touch with us

:08:28. > :08:29.throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:08:30. > :08:36.and If you text, you will be charged Social mobility inspiring lots of

:08:37. > :08:46.comments. We will bring you a flavour of some of those in a little

:08:47. > :08:54.while. Time to catch up with the sport. A positive result for

:08:55. > :08:59.Liverpool in Dortmund last night, but they were left with a major

:09:00. > :09:01.injury worry for Jordan Henderson just a month before Roy Hodgson

:09:02. > :09:04.names his England squad for Euro 2016.

:09:05. > :09:06.Jurgen Klopp's side drew 1-1 with his old club

:09:07. > :09:08.Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Europa League

:09:09. > :09:10.quarter-final - Divock Origi with an important away goal.

:09:11. > :09:14.But Henderson suffered a knee injury and Klopp said it didn't look good.

:09:15. > :09:16.The German side levelled through Mats Hummels

:09:17. > :09:18.but Liverpool will feel positive going into the second leg

:09:19. > :09:26.Now to the Masters and a terrific start for the defending

:09:27. > :09:30.The American is two clear of the field after an opening 66

:09:31. > :09:32.and he's the first player in the history of the tournament

:09:33. > :09:34.to lead the field for five successive rounds.

:09:35. > :09:40.Our man at Augusta is Stephen Watson.

:09:41. > :09:47.It was the start of the defending champion had been dreaming of. A

:09:48. > :09:51.near flawless opening round of six under par for Jordan Spieth. Three

:09:52. > :09:56.birdies on the front nine, and three on the back nine to open up a first

:09:57. > :10:02.day two shot lead. Another impressive round from a player who

:10:03. > :10:09.has finished first and second on his two masters appearances. I was

:10:10. > :10:14.accepting so taking four extra strokes out there with no bogeys, it

:10:15. > :10:17.was just awesome. It's a good feeling to be in this position

:10:18. > :10:22.again. It's the first round and we have a long way to go. Playing

:10:23. > :10:26.alongside Jordan Spieth was the impressive Paul Casey, who finished

:10:27. > :10:31.three shots adrift of the champion. A joy to be playing with, the

:10:32. > :10:35.defending champion. I'm not sure I've been privileged to be paired in

:10:36. > :10:40.that group before, and to get up close and personal and see how he

:10:41. > :10:45.really took the golf course apart today was really oppressive. Paul

:10:46. > :10:49.Casey is one of a trio of Englishmen in contention, including Justin

:10:50. > :10:54.Rose, the joint runner-up a year ago. And Ian Poulter, who is also

:10:55. > :10:58.well placed on three under par. It's the only major I'm in right now, so

:10:59. > :11:03.I have to take advantage of that. I worked hard last week. Practised

:11:04. > :11:10.hard, worked well with Pete Carroll and, and I feel pretty fresh.

:11:11. > :11:13.Fitting is a good golf shots. Tournament favourite, Australian

:11:14. > :11:18.Jason Day, started brilliantly but dropped five shots in the last four

:11:19. > :11:26.holes to slip down the leaderboard. And a patient Rory McIlroy made a

:11:27. > :11:35.good start, two under and inside the top ten. Disappointed with the three

:11:36. > :11:39.put back on 16. -- three putt. I need to make those shots back as

:11:40. > :11:43.quickly as I can. Execute the game plan, which is to take advantage of

:11:44. > :11:48.the par fives and if I know I can do that, keep it tidy, then by the end

:11:49. > :11:54.of the week I will not be far away. It was another Irishman who grabbed

:11:55. > :11:59.some of the headlines. Shane Lowry, in just his second Masters, showed

:12:00. > :12:02.the composure and ability of an Augusta veteran. It's a very healthy

:12:03. > :12:04.British and Irish looking leaderboard and we should be set for

:12:05. > :12:10.an intriguing day two. The Prime Minister has now admitted

:12:11. > :12:14.he did own and profit from shares He said he and his wife Samantha

:12:15. > :12:21.sold their shares in the fund in 2010 for ?30,000 -

:12:22. > :12:23.before he became Prime Minister. And he insisted all UK

:12:24. > :12:27.taxes had been paid. So why didn't he say that

:12:28. > :12:30.at the start of the week when he was first questioned

:12:31. > :12:32.about the matter? The Panama Papers were

:12:33. > :12:34.released on Sunday night, and when Ian Cameron's name appeared

:12:35. > :12:40.in them, journalists began to ask whether David Cameron had benefited

:12:41. > :12:42.from Blairmore Holdings, On Monday, the Prime Minister's

:12:43. > :12:46.official spokesman told journalists in a briefing

:12:47. > :12:49.that it was a "private matter". On Tuesday Downing Street issued

:12:50. > :12:53.a statement saying: "To be clear, the Prime Minister, his wife

:12:54. > :12:59.and their children do not benefit from any offshore funds, adding

:13:00. > :13:01.the prime minister owns no shares. Mr Cameron also stated his position

:13:02. > :13:04.in a speech in Birmingham. And on Wednesday morning another

:13:05. > :13:06.statement was released by Downing Street, saying:

:13:07. > :13:08."There are no offshore funds or trusts which the prime minister,

:13:09. > :13:11.Mrs Cameron or their children And then last night the Prime

:13:12. > :13:17.Minister spoke to ITV News. Samantha and I had a joint account

:13:18. > :13:20.and we owned 5,000 units in Blairmore Investment Trust

:13:21. > :13:22.which we sold in January 2010 - that was worth

:13:23. > :13:27.something like ?30,000. There was a profit on it

:13:28. > :13:38.but that was less than the capital gains tax allowance,

:13:39. > :13:40.so I didn't pay capital gains tax, but it was subject to all the UK

:13:41. > :13:44.taxes in all the normal ways. I think a lot of the criticisms

:13:45. > :13:48.are based on a fundamental misconception which is that

:13:49. > :13:51.Blairemore Investment, a unit trust, was set up with the idea

:13:52. > :13:55.of avoiding tax. It wasn't - it was set up

:13:56. > :13:59.after exchange controls went so that people who wanted to invest

:14:00. > :14:02.in dollar-denominated shares could do so, and there are many

:14:03. > :14:05.other, thousands of other unit It was reported to the HMRC,

:14:06. > :14:23.it reported itself every year Labour has accused David Cameron of

:14:24. > :14:27.hypocrisy and says voters would not believe the Prime Minister's

:14:28. > :14:32.assurances. Conservative backbench MP Damian Collins said he had

:14:33. > :14:34.nothing to apologise for. The issue is, did

:14:35. > :14:36.he do anything wrong? He wasn't avoiding tax

:14:37. > :14:40.by investing in this trust, he paid UK tax from this investment

:14:41. > :14:43.and sold those shares more than six years ago and has made a public

:14:44. > :14:46.declaration of that now. I don't see that he has any more

:14:47. > :14:55.questions to answer. On the point whether it would have

:14:56. > :14:58.made a difference if it was declared upfront, it may be wouldn't have led

:14:59. > :15:02.to five days of headlines on different details coming out

:15:03. > :15:05.gradually. We are talking about two or three days. I think there would

:15:06. > :15:09.have been interest in what he said regardless of when he said it. There

:15:10. > :15:12.was the impression he wasn't being completely straight at the

:15:13. > :15:15.beginning. There is no question that anything he said was in any way

:15:16. > :15:29.incorrect or inaccurate and he has now made a full declaration of

:15:30. > :15:35.previous holdings. David Cameron says this was not set up to avoid

:15:36. > :15:42.tax is. It is a company he had shares in, he sold them, he paid all

:15:43. > :15:50.UK taxes. Talk us through what this fund was and what has gone on here.

:15:51. > :15:56.These funds exploded in the 1980s, 1990s as a way of allowing people,

:15:57. > :16:03.often wealthy people, to invest in international assets. If you wanted

:16:04. > :16:08.to invest in Africa, African countries, if you wanted to invest

:16:09. > :16:13.in the emerging markets in Asia, these funds allowed you to do that

:16:14. > :16:17.when the rules changed in the 1980s and money could move around the

:16:18. > :16:22.globe much more easy. They weren't to avoid tax directly because these

:16:23. > :16:28.companies are taxed in the country they invest in. All the profits

:16:29. > :16:31.taken by the funds are taxed by the individuals themselves in the

:16:32. > :16:35.country where they live, so David Cameron when he sold his shares was

:16:36. > :16:43.tax on that income in the UK. What they were therefore was to stop the

:16:44. > :16:48.being a third layer of tax by the actual fund itself. All these tax

:16:49. > :16:52.havens set themselves up to allow that to happen and competed with

:16:53. > :16:57.each other on having on the tax environment. That is really to avoid

:16:58. > :17:05.a third layer of tax rather than to avoid tax altogether. The other

:17:06. > :17:09.point is that for the wealthy, they would have direct investment in

:17:10. > :17:13.these funds but all of us if we have a pension fund, if we have a savings

:17:14. > :17:21.account of some description are likely to indirect Lee have used

:17:22. > :17:29.similar sorts of structures to avoid this third layer of tax. What these

:17:30. > :17:34.funds were forward to allow people to invest in global assets around

:17:35. > :17:38.the world and for money to be more easily investable interfaces like in

:17:39. > :17:43.Africa countries and these funds were legally set up for the British

:17:44. > :17:49.ones, like the British Virgin Islands on the Bahamas were set up

:17:50. > :17:54.under British law, so you could be at least have some security that the

:17:55. > :17:57.legal system in these countries, like the British Virgin Islands,

:17:58. > :18:03.would be as strong as it would be in the UK and you would not be exposed

:18:04. > :18:07.to legal risk. If you were to invest in Nigeria, for example, there would

:18:08. > :18:12.be legal risk. These funds were set up in British jurisdiction because

:18:13. > :18:17.they sat under British law funny meaning there were much more legally

:18:18. > :18:23.robust. Let's talk to Stuart Hosie of the SNP. David Cameron said this

:18:24. > :18:32.was not set up for tax avoidance purposes. We have just had the

:18:33. > :18:37.explanation on why there were set up by Kamal Ahmed, David Cameron said

:18:38. > :18:43.he sold the shares and paid all UK taxes on them anyway. What do you

:18:44. > :18:47.think he has done wrong? I don't doubt that is correct and I don't

:18:48. > :18:54.think he has done anything wrong in any legal sense at all. Some of

:18:55. > :18:58.those institutions were set up to do precisely what he said. The problem

:18:59. > :19:05.is there are tens of thousands of them and we know that many of these

:19:06. > :19:12.companies have been set up not to avoid paying tax directly, but to

:19:13. > :19:16.hide the real ownership behind them, so you have a company established in

:19:17. > :19:20.a British Overseas Territory administered by a Panamanian lawyer

:19:21. > :19:25.so that the beneficial owner, the ultimate owner of the business might

:19:26. > :19:31.not be known to the tax authorities in this country or another country.

:19:32. > :19:35.Specifically in terms of David Cameron, he said exactly what he

:19:36. > :19:41.had, he has spelt about coming he said he sold them. As Farid -- as

:19:42. > :19:45.far as you're concerned does that draw a line under the matter for

:19:46. > :19:51.him? For him personally I don't think he has done anything illegal

:19:52. > :19:55.at all. The profit he made was under the capital gains tax thresholds so

:19:56. > :20:03.that was no tax due. That is not the point. The point is, what we know

:20:04. > :20:07.from the Panama Papers is that there are now tens of thousands of these

:20:08. > :20:13.organisations in any number of countries administered by Panamanian

:20:14. > :20:24.lawyers so that the ownership is not known to the tax authorities. That

:20:25. > :20:28.is exactly the kind of tax avoidance mechanism that this government have

:20:29. > :20:32.railed against, calling tomorrow. What we need now is not David

:20:33. > :20:37.Cameron to tell us any more about his private affairs, but real

:20:38. > :20:42.transparency so that the ultimate beneficial ownership of all of these

:20:43. > :20:47.institutions is properly known to the appropriate tax authorities. In

:20:48. > :20:51.terms of personal difficulties for David Cameron who has been under a

:20:52. > :20:55.lot of pressure over this with people accusing him of hypocrisy, as

:20:56. > :21:00.far as you're concerned is that now over and the at how to address the

:21:01. > :21:08.bigger issue, issue, the broader issue of these overseas trusts? As I

:21:09. > :21:15.said, I don't think he has done anything wrong in the legal sense

:21:16. > :21:22.the difficulty for him is that it went four or five days from saying

:21:23. > :21:28.this is nobodies business, two we forgot that we had ?30,000 in this

:21:29. > :21:33.trust. The Chancellor should have come clean right at the very stark

:21:34. > :21:36.rather than making this go away. The big issue is not David Cameron, it

:21:37. > :21:39.is the regime that allows this to happen in the first place. Thank you

:21:40. > :21:57.very much, Stuart Hosie. Still to come, with Robin Williams's

:21:58. > :22:07.last film. The race to succeed Boris Johnson

:22:08. > :22:10.as London Mayor has In less than a month's time

:22:11. > :22:14.a new person will be elected to one of the biggest political jobs

:22:15. > :22:25.in the country. I have in the back of my cab today

:22:26. > :22:30.Caroline Pidgeon, the Lib Dem candidate for London Mayor.

:22:31. > :22:35.Caroline, welcome. You have made housing one of your big issues. You

:22:36. > :22:41.said you want to start at City Hall house-building company. Isn't this

:22:42. > :22:46.basically going back to council housing? I truly believe in council

:22:47. > :22:50.housing and I'm afraid the Conservative government at the

:22:51. > :22:55.moment just wants to get rid of it. I will build the homes that we need.

:22:56. > :23:02.One in four of those homes will be genuinely council housing. I will

:23:03. > :23:04.ask Londoners to continue paying the level of council tax rulers last

:23:05. > :23:11.year. money into the housing,

:23:12. > :23:14.and then on top of that I believe We don't have enough skilled

:23:15. > :23:17.construction workers, so I'd set up a state-of-the-art

:23:18. > :23:29.building academy in London to make Ket's talk about those who have

:23:30. > :23:32.to rent in the private sector, No, I'm not, but we have got to do

:23:33. > :23:37.something to help those people who too often

:23:38. > :23:39.are being ripped off What I'd do is by massively

:23:40. > :23:43.boosting the supply, But that's going to

:23:44. > :23:47.take years and years? Then on top of that,

:23:48. > :23:50.I'd be looking at bringing in licensing across London to make

:23:51. > :23:53.sure that every landlord meets a certain minimum standard and give

:23:54. > :23:55.them some kind of kitemark, so you know if you are a private

:23:56. > :23:59.renter, this is a decent landlord, There has been a lot of hoo-ha

:24:00. > :24:06.about the Panama Papers, really wealthy foreigners buying

:24:07. > :24:09.properties in London which they just What about saying you can only buy

:24:10. > :24:13.in London if you're a UK taxpayer? I want to see investment

:24:14. > :24:17.coming in from overseas. I'd far rather see it being put

:24:18. > :24:20.into building blocks of quality private rented housing,

:24:21. > :24:22.so they get a regular return but it's affordable

:24:23. > :24:23.housing for Londoners. I think we've got to work

:24:24. > :24:26.with government to make sure that there aren't any loopholes that

:24:27. > :24:28.are allowing people... It's not just that people

:24:29. > :24:30.are buying properties, We need to make sure we tackle

:24:31. > :24:35.that loophole that's You want 3000 more police

:24:36. > :24:38.officers in London. What I would do is put them

:24:39. > :24:42.on the transport network, on the Tube, trains and buses,

:24:43. > :24:44.to make sure as Londoners move I'd take it out of transport

:24:45. > :24:50.funding. I'm going to increase the congestion

:24:51. > :24:52.charge, I'm going to bring I've got other ways to raise money

:24:53. > :24:57.in the transport budget and that's how I'd pay for them,

:24:58. > :24:59.because they'd come Quickly, before we go on to some

:25:00. > :25:02.London-based questions, how much are you putting

:25:03. > :25:04.the congestion charge up by? I'd be looking to increase

:25:05. > :25:07.it to ?14 a day. And also, if you're

:25:08. > :25:10.travelling at peak hours, I would charge you even more,

:25:11. > :25:13.because I want to get those private vehicles off the streets so that

:25:14. > :25:16.taxis like this and buses can move Let me ask you some London

:25:17. > :25:19.questions, because you're Central Line, not a difficult line,

:25:20. > :25:24.a lot of people use it. If I started at Holborn,

:25:25. > :25:27.then I went to Tottenham Court Road, then I went to Oxford Circus,

:25:28. > :25:29.what would be next? If I said to you, Chelsea,

:25:30. > :25:35.Albert Bridge, what would That's the other side

:25:36. > :25:40.of London to where I focus. You're a South London woman,

:25:41. > :25:45.so you'll get this. When you said wrote,

:25:46. > :26:01.I was thinking it was a book rather Lastly, we're in a cab,

:26:02. > :26:04.so let me ask you this question, It's cabbie slang

:26:05. > :26:07.for something. Caroline Pidgeon, thank

:26:08. > :26:21.you very much. We have the Lib Dem plans for London

:26:22. > :26:24.with their mayoral candidate, In total, 12 candidates are hoping

:26:25. > :26:29.to succeed Boris Johnson as mayor of London in the election on 5th

:26:30. > :26:30.May. You can find a full list of them

:26:31. > :26:34.on the BBC News site. And if you want to watch back

:26:35. > :26:36.the other interviews You can find them on our programme

:26:37. > :26:52.page - bbc.co.uk/victoria. Lots of you getting in touch about

:26:53. > :26:57.our discussion on social mobility. Jordan has got in touch to say 14 is

:26:58. > :27:03.far too young, it is a choice that should not be forced onto them, that

:27:04. > :27:07.is because of the call for the national curriculum to end up 14.

:27:08. > :27:12.Josie has said that everyone working in education need to remind you that

:27:13. > :27:16.academia is not the norm for all. Someone else has said that

:27:17. > :27:19.interpersonal and life skills around the centre of career success and

:27:20. > :27:24.Stephen has tweeted to say that young people know what networking

:27:25. > :27:29.is, just teach them in school how to apply it in the working world.

:27:30. > :27:39.Someone else says school is not responsible for getting you into

:27:40. > :27:43.work, children can make an informed decision for education over career.

:27:44. > :27:47.Someone else says I worked in a school for 30 years, some children

:27:48. > :27:54.develop later rather than earlier. Lots of you getting in touch on

:27:55. > :27:58.David Cameron, as well. He did say that he did have some shares in an

:27:59. > :28:03.investment trust that was set up by his father, but he sold them and

:28:04. > :28:09.paid all UK taxes due on those shares. Steve has tweeted to say

:28:10. > :28:11.that the issue is that Cameron has done anything wrong, it is the lack

:28:12. > :28:18.of transparency and changing stories. An e-mail from Alan saying

:28:19. > :28:24.and typical furore over nothing. There are many other reasons we

:28:25. > :28:28.people have offshore accounts. John has e-mail said that if David

:28:29. > :28:32.Cameron has nothing to hide, why has he gone to such lengths over a

:28:33. > :28:39.number of years to hide it. Paul has said that I think if anybody was

:28:40. > :28:43.given the opportunity to make money from investing in the legal offshore

:28:44. > :28:45.trust, people would grab that with both hands. Keep your comments

:28:46. > :28:48.coming in. We will hear the extraordinary story

:28:49. > :28:51.of a woman who was kidnapped as a child and held hostage

:28:52. > :28:53.for four days. She describes her ordeal and how

:28:54. > :28:57.it changed her life. It's more than a year

:28:58. > :28:59.since Robin Williams' death and we'll review his final film

:29:00. > :29:02.Boulevard, which comes out That's to come before the end

:29:03. > :29:13.of the programme. Opposition parties are accusing

:29:14. > :29:19.David Cameron of hypocrisy, after he revealed he'd previously

:29:20. > :29:23.owned shares in an offshore trust, The Prime Minister sold

:29:24. > :29:28.the shares in 2010, before he entered Number Ten,

:29:29. > :29:30.and insists he paid all Mr Cameron has been under pressure

:29:31. > :29:36.all week to give more details about his involvement

:29:37. > :29:49.with Blairmore Holdings, I don't think he's done anything

:29:50. > :29:52.wrong in a legal sense. The difficulty for David Cameron is that

:29:53. > :30:03.it took four or five days from, this is a private matter with no overseas

:30:04. > :30:06.interest to, we forgot. We made a profit on this some years ago.

:30:07. > :30:08.The issue is, did he do anything wrong?

:30:09. > :30:12.He wasn't avoiding tax by investing in this trust,

:30:13. > :30:17.he paid UK tax from this investment and sold those shares more than six

:30:18. > :30:19.years ago and has made a personal declaration of that now.

:30:20. > :30:22.I don't see that he has any more questions to answer.

:30:23. > :30:26.The first of two boats carrying migrants from

:30:27. > :30:29.the Greek island of Lesbos - has arrived in Turkey.

:30:30. > :30:32.It's part of the deal agreed with the European Union last month

:30:33. > :30:34.aimed at deterring migrants from making the hazardous journey

:30:35. > :30:36.Around 45 migrants, mostly of Pakistani origin,

:30:37. > :30:43.made up the first sailing to the Turkish port of Dikili.

:30:44. > :30:48.The second boat has 79 people on board, none of them from Syria.

:30:49. > :30:51.A man has been arrested and is being questioned on suspicion

:30:52. > :30:53.of murder over the disappearance of a London police officer.

:30:54. > :30:56.PC Gordon Semple was reported missing a week ago and was last seen

:30:57. > :30:58.on CCTV on a street near London Bridge.

:30:59. > :31:00.Yesterday police were called to a property in Southwark

:31:01. > :31:03.where human remains were discovered and a man was arrested.

:31:04. > :31:06.The property is still being examined.

:31:07. > :31:09.Young people who choose not to take A-Levels or go to university

:31:10. > :31:12.are being let down by our education system, according to a report

:31:13. > :31:17.It proposes that 14 to 19 year olds should go through a "transition

:31:18. > :31:20.stage" where they can make choices about their career,

:31:21. > :31:26.rather than having to make all the big decisions at 16.

:31:27. > :31:29.We'll be discussing this story on the programme

:31:30. > :31:42.For about the last 25 years, governments have focused on getting

:31:43. > :31:47.more young people into university, which is laudable. They have also

:31:48. > :31:51.focused on the very small number of people who have left school, who are

:31:52. > :31:57.not in training, who are not at work. But the majority of young

:31:58. > :32:01.people are in the middle. 53% of young people are not in either of

:32:02. > :32:02.those categories. We found that in many ways they have been overlooked

:32:03. > :32:04.and left behind. That's a summary of the latest news,

:32:05. > :32:07.join me for BBC Newsroom Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp

:32:08. > :32:16.was defiant after his Klopp said people thought his side

:32:17. > :32:21.would lose 2, 3 or 4-0 but Divock Origi scored an important

:32:22. > :32:24.away goal, as they drew 1-1 with Borussia Dortmund in the first

:32:25. > :32:27.leg of their Europa League Jordan Spieth said he'd have taken

:32:28. > :32:34.a 2-under par in the windy conditions on Day One of the Masters

:32:35. > :32:37.at Augusta but the defending champion is leading again

:32:38. > :32:39.with an opening 6-under par 66 And Ben Stokes says he is only just

:32:40. > :32:47.coming to terms with the "complete devastation" he felt

:32:48. > :32:49.after following England's World Twenty20 final

:32:50. > :32:53.defeat to West Indies. After being hit for four

:32:54. > :32:58.sixes in the final over, Tyson Fury's trainer and uncle,

:32:59. > :33:03.Peter, has said on Twitter that Britain's World Heavyweight Champion

:33:04. > :33:05.will have a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko

:33:06. > :33:10.in Manchester on July 9th. Tyson Fury ended Klitschko's 11 year

:33:11. > :33:18.reign as champion in November. Alicia Kozakiewicz was 13-years-old

:33:19. > :33:21.when she snuck out of her home in Pittsburgh to meet a boy she'd

:33:22. > :33:24.been chatting to online. But far from an innocent adventure,

:33:25. > :33:30.what followed was a nightmare that Alicia had been lured into a trap

:33:31. > :33:35.by a man who kidnapped, Chillingly, her attacks

:33:36. > :33:40.were being broadcast online, but that eventually led

:33:41. > :33:44.to her dramatic rescue. Now 27, Alicia has rebuilt her life

:33:45. > :33:59.and made it her mission I met somebody online who I thought

:34:00. > :34:05.was my friend. He immediately began to groom me, and made me feel these

:34:06. > :34:11.things that kids don't feel every single day of their lives. He made

:34:12. > :34:15.me feel beautiful, important and special and unique. He told me what

:34:16. > :34:20.I wanted to hear against what I needed to hear. As a kid, that feels

:34:21. > :34:28.quite good. Over a period of about eight or nine months, I had agreed

:34:29. > :34:34.to meet him. Again, I thought it was somebody around my own age, somebody

:34:35. > :34:37.who was a friend. I remember on New Year's Day 2002, my family were

:34:38. > :34:43.having a nice meal, celebrating the New Year. I look back at those

:34:44. > :34:49.moments and think it was the last few moments of my life being, I

:34:50. > :34:55.don't want to say normal, but, yeah, normal. I remember asking my mother

:34:56. > :35:01.if I could be excused from the table because I had a stomach ache. She

:35:02. > :35:07.said, of course. And then I got up, slipped out of the front door. I

:35:08. > :35:12.left the door open a little bit because I was planning on coming

:35:13. > :35:16.back through it. To show how intense and effective grooming is, this was

:35:17. > :35:21.something completely out of my character. To this day, I can't

:35:22. > :35:26.understand how that happened, why that happened, and why I made that

:35:27. > :35:31.decision. But kids don't always make the best decisions. I was a

:35:32. > :35:38.13-year-old kid, and they make mistakes, kids, but it's an adult's

:35:39. > :35:42.prerogative to never exploit those mistakes. Ireland rendered stepping

:35:43. > :35:47.outside into the coldest night, it was so very cold. -- I remember

:35:48. > :35:51.stepping out. I walked down the street about a block or so, and I

:35:52. > :35:55.could still see my house when I turned around. I felt quite safe. I

:35:56. > :36:03.stood there, and finally the little boy showed up. My intuition kicked

:36:04. > :36:08.in, what are you doing, this is dangerous, go home. I turned around,

:36:09. > :36:12.and my name was called, and the next thing I know, I was in a car and

:36:13. > :36:17.this man was squeezing my hand so tightly I thought it was broken. He

:36:18. > :36:23.was barking commands at me to be quiet and be good. At this point he

:36:24. > :36:28.began a five-hour drive from Pittsburgh to his house in Virginia.

:36:29. > :36:31.How were you feeling at that moment when you realised you had the

:36:32. > :36:38.situation completely wrong and you were in danger? It's hard to

:36:39. > :36:46.describe that sort of tear, that fear of death, that you are no

:36:47. > :36:54.longer in control of your life. And just absolute fear again. There are

:36:55. > :37:01.no words. Did he talk much on that five-hour journey? I don't remember

:37:02. > :37:04.him speaking much. I just remember sitting there and crying. He had

:37:05. > :37:12.threatened me a few times. He had taken me through a few tollbooths.

:37:13. > :37:16.Ireland the thinking at each one that it was an opportunity, somebody

:37:17. > :37:22.would see me and I would be rescued. But he would threaten me, and the

:37:23. > :37:28.person behind the counter wouldn't recognise there was a little girl

:37:29. > :37:36.crying in the seat. Each mile, I had lost hope. At first direct it and I

:37:37. > :37:45.of streets on the signs, but then they were completely unfamiliar. --

:37:46. > :37:50.at first, I recognised the names of streets on the signs. After five

:37:51. > :37:56.hours of driving, the car finally stopped, and he took you into a

:37:57. > :37:59.house and let you down into a basement, which was effectively a

:38:00. > :38:04.dungeon. At that point did he start talking to you? He did. One of the

:38:05. > :38:15.first things he did was he propped me up on a sort of table, kind of

:38:16. > :38:25.device, and he said, this will be really hard for you. It's OK, cry. I

:38:26. > :38:34.can remember wanting to scream and cry, but also at the same time

:38:35. > :38:41.thinking that's what he wanted. Being in this strange and terrific

:38:42. > :38:47.battle, and fighting for my life. What happened at that point? Over

:38:48. > :38:57.the next four days I was raped and beaten and tortured in that

:38:58. > :39:04.basement. He kept reaching to the floor, either in the basement or

:39:05. > :39:10.next to his bed upstairs. Again, you can't explain that kind of terror

:39:11. > :39:14.and fear, and feelings of hope, and never losing that feeling of hope,

:39:15. > :39:19.but fighting off the hopelessness every second. Not knowing what is

:39:20. > :39:29.going to happen next, not knowing what terrible thing could possibly

:39:30. > :39:38.occur. Did you fear, believe, you would end up dead? I did. I feel,

:39:39. > :39:43.and I felt at the time, that he was going to kill me. I felt it was

:39:44. > :39:49.necessary, and it feels horrible to say this, but if I didn't serve a

:39:50. > :39:54.purpose, that he was going to kill me, that he didn't have another

:39:55. > :39:59.option. He couldn't simply say, OK, go home and don't tell anyone. I

:40:00. > :40:07.knew that, I had seen enough movies to know that wasn't how it worked. I

:40:08. > :40:16.truly felt, and still feel, that my days were numbered. How did you get

:40:17. > :40:24.through that? It's amazing what lies within us to survive. Whether it's

:40:25. > :40:29.surviving an abduction, or surviving any sort of tragedy, an abusive

:40:30. > :40:34.relationship, a terrible childhood, whatever it is, how much we have

:40:35. > :40:39.within us to survive. Not that it's easy or simple, not that it even

:40:40. > :40:43.really makes sense, but we do it. What really kept me going was the

:40:44. > :40:50.fact that I knew my parents were looking for me. And that they would

:40:51. > :40:55.never give up. And that they loved me, and they could find me, and

:40:56. > :40:58.would find me, because they were super heroes. Because they were the

:40:59. > :41:03.people who could do absolutely anything in this world. I truly

:41:04. > :41:11.believed that, and I just wanted to get back home to them, and that my

:41:12. > :41:16.days were numbered, and the question was, would they find me in time.

:41:17. > :41:22.Would they find me alive, or would they find me somewhere in a ditch?

:41:23. > :41:26.Amazingly, you were rescued after four days. What was the first to you

:41:27. > :41:37.knew that you were about to be taken away from that situation? Earlier

:41:38. > :41:44.that morning he had looked at me, and said, I'm beginning to like you

:41:45. > :41:53.too much. Tonight we are going to go for a ride. At that point, I knew

:41:54. > :41:58.the fight for my life was over, there was nothing more I could do,

:41:59. > :42:05.and he was going to kill me. And then he fed me for the first in four

:42:06. > :42:10.days. After that, he left for work. It's amazing, the questions people

:42:11. > :42:16.ask you in a situation like this, like, why didn't you try to jump out

:42:17. > :42:22.of a window or scream or yell? Please never asked anybody who has

:42:23. > :42:27.been in a sort of tragic situation, why they didn't do what they could

:42:28. > :42:31.have done. Or say, this is what I would have done in this situation.

:42:32. > :42:37.You truly do not know, and could never know. I was terrified, a

:42:38. > :42:42.13-year-old little girl, and I didn't know if he was standing right

:42:43. > :42:45.outside the doorway tinker here me scream for help, at which point he

:42:46. > :42:57.would come and kill me. Arch outside the door, listening. I was thinking

:42:58. > :43:00.what I would do if I was bigger or stronger, if I was some character in

:43:01. > :43:08.a comic book or action movie, what would I do. I made a promise to

:43:09. > :43:14.myself that I would fight him. I had thought him before and lost, and

:43:15. > :43:18.then my thoughts quickly shifted to, you are not going to be able to

:43:19. > :43:23.fight him. He's going to win, he has won so many times before. You are

:43:24. > :43:30.going to die. It was at that point I really lost all hope, and I started

:43:31. > :43:35.to think about my family in a different way. I started to think,

:43:36. > :43:40.when was the last time I told my parents, my brother, my grandmother,

:43:41. > :43:47.that I really loved them. And that they meant the world to me. Did they

:43:48. > :43:53.know that? Did they know that I was not in pain at the moment, what did

:43:54. > :43:57.they think was going on? I wanted to tell them and reach out to them, and

:43:58. > :44:06.I couldn't. It was so hopeless and helpless. I drifted off into a sort

:44:07. > :44:11.of stupor. It wasn't sleep, but it was something away from there. I

:44:12. > :44:16.drifted off in my mind. Hours passed, and I was brought back to

:44:17. > :44:21.awareness by a loud crashing on the door downstairs. At this time I had

:44:22. > :44:27.been chained to the floor in his bedroom. I heard men screaming, we

:44:28. > :44:31.have guns! The door crashed in, and I thought that these were people

:44:32. > :44:35.coming to hurt me. It did not occur to me at this moment in time,

:44:36. > :44:40.because I had given up hope, that they were there to do anything but

:44:41. > :44:45.hurt me. I was terrified and try to roll underneath the bed to hide from

:44:46. > :44:49.them. I stayed as quiet as I possibly could, but I must have made

:44:50. > :44:54.some sort of noise because a man came along beside the bed, I saw

:44:55. > :45:00.boots come along, and he demanded from me to crawl out and put my

:45:01. > :45:06.hands up. I can remember meekly crawling out, pulling a heavy chain

:45:07. > :45:09.behind me and covering myself because I didn't have closing on,

:45:10. > :45:15.and staring down the barrel of a gun. This was the moment I was going

:45:16. > :45:21.to die. And then he turned around, and I saw FBI on the back of his

:45:22. > :45:24.jacket, and all these law enforcement agents rushed in, cut

:45:25. > :45:28.the chain from around my neck and set me free to give me a second

:45:29. > :45:34.chance at life. The way I was rescued was, I don't have on the --

:45:35. > :45:38.I don't have another word for it, but it was miraculous. He was

:45:39. > :45:42.broadcasting me online to other people, and one of the viewers was

:45:43. > :45:48.watching this awful video, and they will have recognised a little girl

:45:49. > :45:54.in the missing poster as the little girl in this horrific video. And he

:45:55. > :46:00.feared he would get in trouble, because this was a real person, and

:46:01. > :46:08.he knew that. And Hugh and off to a payphone, and contacted the FBI. --

:46:09. > :46:12.and he ran off. Through that screaming they were able to track

:46:13. > :46:14.down the IP address, which led to his computer, which led to me. It

:46:15. > :46:34.was a miracle. I'm so lucky. You had been through four days of

:46:35. > :46:37.hell. You realised he had been given a second chance at life. The

:46:38. > :46:45.newspaper headline at the time said a happy ending. Resume with the just

:46:46. > :46:53.slotting back into the life that you had no on. How did you manage that

:46:54. > :46:58.transition? I am also very lucky that they have such a strong support

:46:59. > :47:04.system. I have incredible family and they think about the children who

:47:05. > :47:10.are returned home and they don't have that kind of support. I was

:47:11. > :47:19.very lucky to have that. My mother allowed me to hurt, and I think that

:47:20. > :47:23.is so important. No matter what sort of horrific circumstance Jews

:47:24. > :47:27.survive, you have been through something truly awful, somebody has

:47:28. > :47:35.hurt you. Your life has been completely altered and turned upside

:47:36. > :47:41.down. It isn't -- it is OK for you to to cry. There is no timeline on

:47:42. > :47:46.healing. People might say it has been weeks, months, years, how are

:47:47. > :47:54.you not over this? While you may feel you are safe on a physically.

:47:55. > :47:59.The victims of post-traumatic stress disorder, you're reliving that

:48:00. > :48:03.experiencing night carers, flashbacks and panic attacks. You're

:48:04. > :48:08.reliving it so while you may be physically safe, it is still

:48:09. > :48:13.occurring in some way. It is different for everybody. There is no

:48:14. > :48:21.timeline non-healing. Whatever you need to do to help you to heal,

:48:22. > :48:26.whether it is painting, dancing, whatever it is, you have to find

:48:27. > :48:29.that one thing for you that helps. That moment when you were reunited

:48:30. > :48:36.with your parents, when your parents knew you were serious, how did they

:48:37. > :48:40.react? It is almost unimaginable to think of how they had been feeling,

:48:41. > :48:46.then that moment that they knew you were safe, they were getting you

:48:47. > :48:55.back. My dad was the first one. It is kind of funny. He was the first

:48:56. > :49:01.one to really hug me. If you ask this hug, he would go on and on

:49:02. > :49:04.about it. It was incredible. While I had been surrounded by law

:49:05. > :49:10.enforcement and they knew they could protect me, would they? Would they

:49:11. > :49:15.protect me like my father would? I don't know. I know that my dad would

:49:16. > :49:22.lay down his life for me, do anything to protect me. When I was

:49:23. > :49:26.in my father's arms, then I knew my ordeal was over and I was truly safe

:49:27. > :49:32.under one could hurt me again. My mum was there as well, but she

:49:33. > :49:38.didn't get that really powerful hug that my dad and I shared, it was a

:49:39. > :49:46.really special moment. From the age of 40 team, you try to turn this

:49:47. > :49:50.into something good by talking to other people, talking about what you

:49:51. > :49:55.had been through, to raise awareness. What did you start to do?

:49:56. > :50:00.I started going into schools and speaking with students. I'm knew

:50:01. > :50:07.that little or no Internet safety education was being taught. I went

:50:08. > :50:12.to the kids and started sharing my story, sharing tips and tools for

:50:13. > :50:18.them to stay safe online. It grew into the Alicia project, which has

:50:19. > :50:21.been such an amazing journey. It has been the one true thing that this

:50:22. > :50:30.helped me to heal. Not everybody has to turn to advocacy. It just really

:50:31. > :50:35.helped me. It gave my horrible experience a purpose to say, yes,

:50:36. > :50:41.this did happen to me that I can use it for good. That is what I have

:50:42. > :50:46.been working to do, educate parents, children, teachers, law enforcement,

:50:47. > :50:52.anybody I can talk to. It has been great to reach the international

:50:53. > :50:56.community, which has been happening more frequently as well. I hope to

:50:57. > :51:04.be able to travel. That would be incredible. There is so much more

:51:05. > :51:10.awareness around the dangers online. What would your message beta kids

:51:11. > :51:16.and parents watching you? One of the most important messages to get

:51:17. > :51:26.across is to realise that this can happen to you. Violence, crime,

:51:27. > :51:32.there is not the type of person that it happens do. I am from a good

:51:33. > :51:37.family, good neighbourhood, I'm a good kid. And this happened to me.

:51:38. > :51:42.When I speak am I shot this photograph of me when I am sitting

:51:43. > :51:47.at the computer at 13 years old, it is not a flattering photograph at

:51:48. > :51:52.all, but it is very important of what this photograph shows, a

:51:53. > :51:56.13-year-old girl. What I tell these kids is that if this little girl

:51:57. > :52:02.came and sat in this room with you with Dewey thinks she is so strange?

:52:03. > :52:06.You just know something is going to happen to her, she is good to get

:52:07. > :52:10.kidnapped. They realise that that would not happen I would just blend

:52:11. > :52:17.into the crowd, I am just like them. For parents, please, please monitor

:52:18. > :52:21.what your children are doing on the intruders, mobile devices, gaming

:52:22. > :52:26.systems, anywhere that they can connect to the Internet. Learn what

:52:27. > :52:33.you -- what they are doing, downloading apps. Protect your kids.

:52:34. > :52:39.I know that if my parents could go back there would have such a lengthy

:52:40. > :52:44.conversation with me, but they didn't have the knowledge, the

:52:45. > :52:48.tools. But you do. Find them. Educate yourself, talk to your kids

:52:49. > :52:52.and realise that kids make mistakes and you are the one who is supposed

:52:53. > :52:58.to be there to guide them and help them through, and also keep them

:52:59. > :53:09.safe. Alicia, thank you for joining us. Thank you. That was two. Someone

:53:10. > :53:13.has contacted us to say heartbreaking, but is empowering.

:53:14. > :53:14.Someone else says, what we are free to talk so candidly about an

:53:15. > :53:17.horrific experience. Robin Williams' final film,

:53:18. > :53:19.Boulevard is released today. It is the story of a man facing

:53:20. > :53:21.loneliness and depression The US actor and comedian best known

:53:22. > :53:26.for his comic roles such as Mrs Doubtfire or as the troubled

:53:27. > :53:29.psychologist in Good Will Hunting - died in August 2014 in an apparent

:53:30. > :53:32.suicide at the age of 63. He was known for his energy,

:53:33. > :53:34.quick-fire improvisations and ability to mimic

:53:35. > :53:36.other famous people. In a moment we'll speak

:53:37. > :53:42.to Stefan Kyriazis, Digital arts editor for the Daily Express,

:53:43. > :53:44.who's seen the movie. We should think about

:53:45. > :53:55.a cruise sometimes. You've been here 25 years now.

:53:56. > :54:03.Almost 26. You must have thought about making

:54:04. > :54:06.a change from time to time. Nothing turned out the way

:54:07. > :54:10.I thought, I guess. You want to give me a ride?

:54:11. > :54:15.Excuse me? I asked if you want

:54:16. > :54:18.to give me a ride. I don't even know

:54:19. > :54:23.your name. I'm really swamped at work here,

:54:24. > :54:29.and the only way to get We have separate beds,

:54:30. > :54:33.separate lives, separate rooms. I went out on a limb for you.

:54:34. > :54:41.Get out of my house. It's just time for us

:54:42. > :55:13.to be in the real world. Maybe it's never too late to start

:55:14. > :55:27.finally living Thank you for joining us. Tell us

:55:28. > :55:32.more about it. It is a wonderful film. It is a man at the end of his

:55:33. > :55:36.life thinking about what he has missed out on, what choices he

:55:37. > :55:40.didn't make. There is a wonderful line where he talks about being a

:55:41. > :55:45.12-year-old who had a dawning of realisation who he really was. We

:55:46. > :55:49.felt like I've made him promise, and he feels like that promised never

:55:50. > :55:55.came. He is angry, afraid, and finally may be about to try and

:55:56. > :55:58.reach for something, to be part of life. In personal terms, it is

:55:59. > :56:03.poignant saying this because of the fact of what was going on, things

:56:04. > :56:08.that he knew about his health but we didn't. Yes, it is hard to distance

:56:09. > :56:13.it from our own feelings about the act, the sadness of the story, what

:56:14. > :56:18.the man is going through in the film and what he was wrestling with.

:56:19. > :56:22.Also, to wonder if you knew what was coming, what he was going to do.

:56:23. > :56:26.There is a sense of resolution in this film, it is a person working

:56:27. > :56:34.through the own personal Demons, the own life and what they missed out

:56:35. > :56:40.on. The face. Yes, the face. It is a man he is living in his own head for

:56:41. > :56:46.a large part, that expressiveness is vital. Robin Williams spent a long

:56:47. > :56:50.time with physical, the, animated performances. Only gets the chance

:56:51. > :56:54.to be more muted there is a real power there, like we saw in Good

:56:55. > :56:59.Will Hunting. He doesn't have to do too much. There was a bunch of

:57:00. > :57:02.recent clips released from Mrs Doubtfire which were not released in

:57:03. > :57:07.the film because they were too upsetting. It is closer to this,

:57:08. > :57:14.more internalised moments, upsetting. He did it so well. It is

:57:15. > :57:17.wonderful to remember about. You wonder if you pick to do this

:57:18. > :57:23.because he knew it was going to be his final movie. Sure. If there was

:57:24. > :57:27.an awareness that the Parkinson's disease was coming, but his

:57:28. > :57:34.faculties were going to be reduced. There is a sense of maybe seizing

:57:35. > :57:40.the moment to express. That stuff aside, is it a great movie that

:57:41. > :57:44.stands alone for anyone to watch? Particularly for the fans of Robin

:57:45. > :57:50.Williams? It is an honest film about life. It is uncomfortable at times

:57:51. > :57:56.to watch and it is upsetting within its content, not just what we know

:57:57. > :58:00.about him. It is also profound, wonderful, sad, melancholy, but it

:58:01. > :58:04.is threaded through with hope. It is about the most normal of men who are

:58:05. > :58:08.thinking about their life, wondering what they missed out on. It is about

:58:09. > :58:13.choice is not made, not having enough bravery, do you have a last

:58:14. > :58:15.chance? And think everybody can respond to that. I think it is a

:58:16. > :58:28.fitting end to his career. Have a lovely weekend, I will see

:58:29. > :58:32.you on Monday. Goodbye.