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Hello, it's Tuesday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire, | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Our top story today: Iraqi special forces try to retake the city | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
of Falluja from Islamic State fighters - as fears grow | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Also on the programme: Were zookeepers right to shoot dead | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
an endangered gorilla when a four year old boy fell into an enclosure? | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
We're talking about an animal that I've seen, with one hand, | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
The boy survived - but would he still be alive | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
if zookeepers hadn't shot the gorilla? | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
Do get in touch and tell us your thoughts this morning. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
The two fleets met in the historic battle of Jutland. | :00:57. | :01:11. | |
The battle of Jutland 100 years ago today cost the lives of 8500 | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
men in just 36 hours - during the first world war. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
We'll hear from relatives of some of those involved in the naval | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Welcome to the programme, we're on air till 11 this morning | :01:20. | :01:35. | |
on the BBC News channel - and on BBC 2 we're off air | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
at the slightly earlier time of 10.43. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
After 10 this morning we'll talk to the Labour MP Jess Phillips | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
who says in the last 36 hours she's received thousands of messages | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Is enough being done to tackle online abuse? | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
And of course we'll keep you up to date on the latest breaking news | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
and developing stories throughout the programme. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Plus if you have a story to tell or an experience | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
to share, do get in touch - use the hashtag Victoria Live | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
The Iraqi military say special forces | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
are leading a battle to recapture the city of Falluja | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
It was seized by IS more than two years ago. | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
Commanders say they've met fierce opposition, including snipers | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
It's believed there are 50,000 people still | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
Fighters are being widely accused of using them as human shields. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
This is footage released by the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
which it says shows air strikes targeting so-called Islamic State | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
With help from US-led coalition air strikes as well, | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
the Iraqi military is creeping closer to the centre | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
of the city, and closer to a possible all-out offensive. | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
Over the last few days, the Iraqi army, with the help | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
of Shi'ite militia, have been fighting to retake | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
It is believed the military wants to create a ring of steel around | :03:02. | :03:14. | |
the city, sealing in the IS fighters and then defeating them. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
In the north-west, it is said the advance is slower as forces | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
fight to secure villages on the outskirts of Falluja. | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
Perhaps in retaliation, IS carried out suicide bombings | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
in the capital, Baghdad, the worst was here in Shaab | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
As the battle for Falluja continues, the few to make it out of the city, | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
besieged for some nine months now, tell their harrowing tales. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
TRANSLATION: We were surrounded by Daesh for more than two years. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
We survived on barley bread because there is no food. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Once the army has surrounded the city, militia commanders say | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
there may well be a pause to allow thousands of the trapped civilians | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Maxine is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
Good morning. There was a warning that three quarters of older | :04:07. | :04:17. | |
children with type two diabetes are not receiving key checks to keep the | :04:18. | :04:18. | |
conditions under control. The figures come from an audit | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
of their care in England and Wales. Health officials recommend | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
all children with diabetes have their blood sugar levels | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
checked, and those aged 12 and over should have six other | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
check-ups every year. Here's our health | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
correspondent Jane Dreaper. But this can make managing her blood | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
sugar levels tricky as she has type 1 diabetes, meaning her body | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
cannot produce insulin. At the moment, we look for better | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
ways of managing it for her. We look at ways to make her more | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
independent in managing it, Being on an insulin pump | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
and the CGMS system means she can go about her daily life | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
without constantly Doctors have taken a close look | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
at the care provided to all diabetic They examined data for almost 28,000 | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
youngsters, the vast majority A growing proportion have excellent | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
control of their blood sugar levels, but only a quarter appear to have | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
seven vital healthcare tests. All of these healthcare checks | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
are checking for the possibility If you find changes you can work | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
with the family and the child Put your six grams in, and it | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
will give you a correction as well. Amber is lucky, she has excellent | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
care from a specialist team. She and her family work hard to make | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
sure her condition is well managed. The charity Diabetes UK hope | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
all children will have this level An inquiry into historical child sex | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
abuse in Northern Ireland is due to begin examining allegations | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
relating to the Kincora Three senior care staff | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
there were jailed in 1981 for abuse. The inquiry, led by a retired senior | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
High court judge, is expected to look at claims of links | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
to the intelligence services. It's already examined | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
allegations relating Both MI5 and MI6 have | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
agreed to take part. Families of patients who were abused | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
by staff at Winterbourne View private hospital say not enough | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
is being done to improve services for adults | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
with learning disabilities. They've written an open letter | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
to David Cameron saying they're angry that changes in the system | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
are too slow. The abuse was exposed by BBC | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Panorama five years ago. You may find some of the images | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
in Sangita Myska's It was the BBC's secret filming | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
here at the private specialist hospital Winterbourne View that | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
deeply shocked patients' families and the authorities involved | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
in providing care for people The Panorama investigation showed | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
staff abusing patients at the private unit and repeated | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
incidents of severe neglect. It revealed that some patients | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
who should have had their needs assessed and then moved on had been | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
stuck there for years. All the patients involved had | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
had their care paid for by the NHS Today, families of Winterbourne | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
View's former residents have openly expressed their anger at the lack | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
of change five years on, despite clear commitments and plans | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
from the Government and NHS. The open letter claims that 3,500 | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
people, including over 160 children, are stuck in places | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
like Winterbourne View In response to the families, | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
NHS England tell us that they recognise the pace | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
of reform has not been fast enough. They add that far-reaching plans | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
designed to provide what they call high-quality alternative care | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
to hospitals are now under way. Winterbourne View in Bristol | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
was closed down following the BBC's investigation, but according | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
to campaigners, the risk to residents in similar assessment | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
and treatment units still exist. to residents in similar assessment | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
and treatment units still exists. An Australian family at risk | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
of being deported from the UK have been told they can stay | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
until August, but will not be Kathryn Brain, her husband | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
Gregg and son Lachlan moved to Dingwall in the Highlands | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
in 2011 on a student visa, The family had thought | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
they were at risk of being They'll be speaking | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
to Victoria after 10. A French gardener who murdered | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
a British woman at her home in Southern France has been jailed | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
for 30 years. Jean-Louis Cayrou was found | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
guilty by a French court of killing Patricia Wilson, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
who was 58, after their The director of a zoo | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
in the United States has defended the shooting dead of a silverback | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
gorilla, after a four year old boy There have been protests | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
at Cincinatti Zoo, but staff there insist that critics are not | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
in a position to make a judgement It was the moment | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
every parent dreads. A little boy dragged around | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
by the ankle like a rag doll. Ten minutes that ends | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
with the animal being The footage of the four-year-old's | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
terrifying ordeal at the hands of a silverback clearly shocking | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
to those outside the gorilla pen, and to anyone else who saw it | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
beamed across the world. After animal rights protests | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
that the gorilla could have been tranquillised rather than killed, | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
the director of Cincinnati Zoo stood Looking back, we would make | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
the same decision. I know that after it is over | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
and the child is safe, it is easy like a Monday morning | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
quarterback to say wow, don't The people who say that, A, | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
don't understand primate biology and silverback gorillas | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
and the danger the child was in, and, B, were not there | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
at an important time We stand by our decision, | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
wewould make the same call today. We stand by our decision, | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
we would make the same call today. Outside the zoo, the death | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
of Harambe, a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla whose species | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
is listed as endangered, A fellow Cincinnatian | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
who lived his life in captivity, and through no fault | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
of his own was thrust into a horrible, terrible situation, | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
and he lost his life. Cincinnati Zoo maintains | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
the exhibit was safe The boy apparently climbed over | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
a three foot barrier. He has received hospital treatment | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
that his injuries are not said The zoo says Harambe's DNA | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
was saved, and it will be used as part of an ongoing | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
breeding programme. And Victoria will be talking | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
to three wildlife experts about whether the zoo was right | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
to shoot the gorilla - that's just that's just after the sport | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
at 9.15. Ceremonies will be held | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
in Orkney and at sea today, to mark 100 years since Britain | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
and Germany fought the naval Battle of Jutland in which more than 8,000 | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
sailors lost their lives. British and German warships | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
will scatter symbols of remembrance on the waters of the Jutland Bank, | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
above the wrecks of ships The Duke of Edinburgh was due | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
to attend but withdrew, Our correspondent Robert Hall | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
is at St Magnus Cathedral Give us a sense of what we can | :11:43. | :11:54. | |
expect. Good morning. From Britain's most northerly cathedral, the | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Princess Royal leading commemorations both here and at the | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
old cemetery overlooking what was the bleat Anchorage. -- the fleet. | :12:01. | :12:17. | |
The result of the Battle of Jutland clash was horrendous, losses and a | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
rather indecisive finish because the German fleet did manage to get back | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
to port. The action prevented them from coming out in any way in the | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
rest of the war. What one is most struck by the small number of | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
headstones for those people. Thousands of men, British and | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Germans still lie on the sea bed on the Battle of Jutland bank. There | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
will be a programme later at 1045 and also this afternoon. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News. | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Later in the programme we'll talk to relatives of those who fought | :13:02. | :13:13. | |
So many of you getting in touch already about the gorilla. | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
Do get in touch with us throughout the morning - | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
use the hashtag Victoria Live and If you text, you will be charged | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
One woman said that the time-lapse could have been fatal for the boy. | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
Do not knock the guys who made the decision, they feel bad enough that | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
they were put in that decision in the first place. Julie says I am | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
disgusted by the death of the gorilla, people need to be extra | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
careful, this mother was not. This particular enclosure will be | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
reopened without any modifications to the surrounding fencing. I don't | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
know if that is true, I am sure they will close the gap. Do get in touch | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
with us throughout the morning. We have a special guest this | :14:00. | :14:15. | |
morning. Here are our headlines. Not just England beating Sri Lanka by | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
nine wickets to win the Test series, but Alastair Cook finally brought up | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
his 10,000 test runs. He is the youngest player at 31 to reach that | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
milestone. The Indian great stashing temple garden is 6000 runs ahead. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
Roy Hodgson will name his final squad for the European Championship | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
later today. He needs to trim his squad by two England players, that | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
will be down to 23. Daniel Sturridge may be one of those to miss out. The | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
big question over the Wales squad announcement is whether Joe Ledley | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
will be included, he fractured his leg earlier this month, but he could | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
be fit for the final group match. Pele is selling all his football | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
medals and memorabilia, the reason is that the auction are on clear, | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
but it is expected to raise more than ?3 million. The 75-year-old is | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
even selling the boots that he wore in the film escape to victory. The | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
trivia question is what of Pele and the new champion Tony Bellew got in | :15:22. | :15:33. | |
common? You have both starred alongside Sylvester Stallone. In | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
Creed, you fought at Goodison Park, on Sunday night you fought at | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Goodison Park to become the new WBC cruiserweight champion. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
The dream became a reality is the best way of seeing it. It was a life | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
long dream and it was fulfilled on Sunday. You had a few bumps and | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
bruises going into the fight. You broke your nose and you thought this | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
isn't going very well, and you knocked him out in the third? I | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
first his also in the first and we got down to business and I settled | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
it all in the third. An amazing fight to be part of. I'm happy and | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
blessed and feel so lucky to have won this amazing, fantastic belt. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
The most prenlg staopeblegous belt in boxing. British fight scene is | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
buzzing. You are the 13th world champion. 13 world champions and the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
only WBC one. It is a proud, proud moment. Something like I say, I have | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
chased my whole life and career. 20 years of work has gone into this and | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
I have achieved the dream of winning it. An amazing achievement and goal. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Listen, it is down to me kids. I fight for them, me boys and me | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
family and stuff and I achieve this great goal through them. Boxers | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
always have options. There are other cruiser weights out there with world | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
titles. There are other great British fighters, but you probably | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
is a to step, have a pop at David Haye? Look, I don't want any | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
cherry-picking. I'm happy to fight David Haye. He put out an Instagram | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
video of me saying, "Come and get it." Anyone can get it in any weight | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
division. I'm the best cruiserweight in the world and I will beat every | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
small heavyweight and David Haye is a small heavyweight. He called you | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
out. You called him out. There you go, Victoria, a world champion and a | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
movie star. Thank you. Thank you very much, Tony as well. | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
Were zookeepers right to shoot a gorilla when a four-year-old boy | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Really keen to hear your views on this throughout the programme. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Overnight, one of the bosses of Cincinnati Zoo in America says | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
he stands by the decision to shoot the gorilla called Harambe. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
Thayne Maynard says the gorilla had been agitated and disorientated | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
Looking back we would make the same decision. I know that after it is | :18:15. | :18:27. | |
over and the child is safe, it is easy like a Monday morning | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
quarterback to look back and say, "Wow, wow, don't we need to do that | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
differently?" The people that say that don't understand primates and | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
the danger that the child was in and B, we're not there at an important | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
time to make important decisions. We stand by our decision. We would make | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
the same call today. That said, we were very glad that the little boy | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
is OK. That's one happy thing in a dangerous and bad story. Naturally, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
we did not take the shooting of Harambe lightly. But that child's | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
life was in danger. And people who question that or are Monday morning | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
quarterbacks or second-guessers don't understand that you can't take | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
a risk with a silver back gorilla because they are three times bigger | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
than a man and six times stronger than that this. Is a dangerous | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
animal. I know photos and videos, gosh it doesn't seem dangerous. We | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
are talking about an animal with one hand that I have seen take a coconut | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
and crunch it. He was disorientated. He never had anything like that | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
going on and that also led to the decision, of course, not to dart the | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
animal. In the real world you make difficult calls, but you have to | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
make them and the safety of that child was paramount. | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Could the gorilla which weighs about 400lbs and was the dominant male | :19:56. | :20:10. | |
in the pack - have put the boy's life in danger? | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
The zoo argue that a tranquiliser wasn't appropriate as it would take | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
ten minutes to take effect by which time it could be too late. | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
But the boy - who hasn't been named - had already spent ten minutes | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
with in the enclosure and wasn't hurt. | :20:24. | :20:24. | |
Some witnesses say they're convinced Harambe was trying to protect him. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
The footage which at one point shows the gorilla holding the boy's | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
hands before dragging him away from the noisy crowd really | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
is amazing, but clearly only tells a small part of the story. | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Our understanding of gorillas has been helped by a famous episode | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
of Life on Earth in 1979 which featured Sir David Attenborough | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
with a group of young male mountain gorillas. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
There is more meaning and mutual understand in exchanging of grunts | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
with a gorilla than any other animal I know. | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
Nearly 200,000 people have now signed an online petition in protest | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
at the killing of Harambe with calls for the boy's parents | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Questions are also being asked about the safety levels at the zoo | :21:04. | :21:13. | |
which allowed the four-year-old to crawl through a fence | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
In a statement on Facebook his family say the boy, | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
who hasn't been identified, is "doing just fine" and thanked zoo | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
They go on to say that they realise it was a difficult decision | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
for the zoo staff to shoot Harambe and that staff are grieving | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
With me to talk about this is Jillian Miller, Director | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Ian Redmond is founder and chairman of the Ape Alliance. | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
And Gisela Kaplan, Professor in Animal Behaviour | :21:40. | :21:40. | |
at the University of New England in Australia. | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
Gillian, did the zoo staff dot right thing? Who knows? It is a tragic, | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
tragic incident. We weren't there. I looked at that footage, I err on the | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
side of the people who said the gorilla could have been protecting | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
the child, but how could the zoo take the risk. They must be heart | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
broken. Thank goodness the boy is all right and he is recovering, but | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the keeper was so close to that gorilla. All those people would have | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
loved that gorilla. They must be heart broken today. It is an awful | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
thing. Ian, I think, I think I'm right in saying you're holding the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
microphone for David Attenborough in the clip that we just showed when he | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
was with the young mountain gorillas, you clearly know a lot | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
about the species. As much as you can, what is your reading from what | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
you saw on the mobile phone footage? Well, I agree with Gillian, we | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
weren't there, we cannot judge the decision because in the moments | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
before the man pulled the trigger and I am assuming it was a man, they | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
had to take that decision. I do wonder, this would be my question if | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
I could talk to them, whilst sharing their grief for the loss of the | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
gorilla, what nonlethal measures were in place in their protocols | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
that they tried. Had they tried diverting the gorilla's attention | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
with favourite foods? Had they tried just trying to calm the situation | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
down? Gorillas have a mind. They think. Clearly, he was stressed. A | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
lot of people shouting and scream, but the longest bit of video footage | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
is online is over two minutes and we are told that the incident lasted | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
ten minutes before they took the final shot. Do I should they should | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
have tried other methods? Yes, I do. By all means have a man with a gun | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
ready to shoot if the other methods aren't working, but I don't know | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
what other methods were tried. We are told there was a command to the | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
group of gorillas, a command to move towards the door which two of the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
gorillas did do, but not Harambe. Yes. He was clearly stressed and | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
something really different was happening and the video footage we | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
have seen show him both asserting his dominance in dragging the boy | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
through the moat, but interacting gently with the boy, but then we | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
don't know what happened in the next few minutes. People were apparently | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
herded away from the enclosure, but they were close enough to hear the | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
shot. Yeah. Those are the crucial minutes. I do wonder, you look at | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
what police or prison officers have to do when they have to quell a | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
disturbance and have various nonlethal methods from stun grenades | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
to Tasers to, there are guns that fire sticky fluid and form a net, | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
all sorts of things are available for humans that you want to restrain | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
without killing and I don't know if the zoo had or if in future they | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
will plan to have such methods because every year we hear several | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
instances around the world where zoo animals are killed to protect people | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
and you think well, why are they not using nonlethal methods which can | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
restrain the animal? I agree the zoo director saying a tranquilizer dart | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
is a painful and alarming procedure that would have perhaps exacerbated | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
the gorilla's stress, but that was the right call, but were other | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
methods tried? I don't know. Let me bring in a professor of animal | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
behaviour in Australia. Tell us broadly about the silver back | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
gorilla and their temperament? Well, agree very much with the last | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
speaker. The animal, there were no alternative methods attempted and | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
one wonders and one hopes that an outcome of this tragic event now | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
will be that strategies have to be in place. Now personally, I don't | :25:55. | :26:03. | |
think gorillas or orang-utans or large animals should be in zoos, | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
they should be in sanctuaries particularly if they are endangered | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
species and they maybe shown on occasion so people have a way of | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
interacting with them. That's a big debate and I think it is time we had | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
such a debate again. The other question is what the strategies are? | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
I understood that the staff were instructed if there are problems | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
they have to shoot there and then. One has to remember that a gorilla | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
is simply not a tiger or a lion where such immediate shooting | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
response maybe necessary in many occasions because they are | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
carnivores, but gorillas, are not carnivores, they are benign, | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
thinking, feeling, judging species. They are capable of making | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
assessment of risk and capable of making an assessment whether this | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
boy was a risk to the group or to the silverback and it clearly wasn't | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
and we have some evidence of that a situation like this can end very, in | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
a very benign way as was the case in England and that changed our views | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
and broke the imagery of the gorilla as a King Kong, as a fearful nasty, | :27:25. | :27:33. | |
large, destructive beast. A gorilla is certainly not a beast. It is not | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
necessarily aggressive. It may have been confused and certainly the | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
screaming of the people would have not been very helpful, but in this | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
case of the boy who fell into an enclosure in I think it was | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
Jersey... It was Jersey, yes, in England in 1986, it was a crucial | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
event for the world and for the perception of primates, because it | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
was clear there was a gorilla that had stepped in and had saved that | :28:06. | :28:15. | |
boy from drowning. The whole thing ran its course, but there is a very | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
important difference. Apparently this boy has gone on to the internet | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
debate to say he remembers it was all rather calm. Now if the | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
situation is calm also the gorilla, the silverback, the silverback can | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
think, but that wasn't the case in Cincinnati Zoo. People were | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
screaming and certainly not helping the situation. So 30 years on, we | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
have a very different context. Sorry, Ian, you're trying to come | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
back in there, go ahead. Oh, there is a third instance of a child | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
falling into a gorilla enclosure 20 years ago in Chicago. There famously | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
a female gorilla picked up the injured child and carried the child | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
to the hatch where the keepers were able to retrieve it. So out of three | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
ins stances were children have fallen into gor ril will enclosures, | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
in two of them nobody died and in this one, someone did. I think the | :29:16. | :29:23. | |
child was unconscious. That may have been the difference. As far as I | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
could see from the video, there was no aggression from the child and | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
most of the time I don't think it even cried. Even your reports | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
suggested you know this dangerous large beast, frankly, a silverback | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
is much too thoughtful to be dangerous, it can be dangerous, but | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
that serves a purpose to defend the group. There was no need to defend | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
the group. Do you accept, had the boy been injured, had the boy been | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
killed, then everybody would have been saying, "Why didn't you shoot | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
the gorilla dead?" Absolutely. What the two guests said is spot on. We | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
all care about gorillas. We care about gorillas and we know they have | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
this wonderful nature and this ability to care and feel and love | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
and cry. They are family animalsment we are not prey for them. They are | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
herbivorous and we know that, thinking about it from the zoo's | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
point of view, this is a $1 million facility putting animals in the | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
public arena for entertainment. First of all, how could a child fall | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
into that enclosure? There are clearly questions to answer there. | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
There was a gap for a child to crawl through? A wriggly four-year-old, we | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
know they will go anywhere. How can that happen? There are questions | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
whether gorillas should be used for entertainment. In a $1 million | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
situation could the zoo afford to risk that child's life? It is just | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
tragic. Thank you very much. Ian, thank you for your time. And | :31:04. | :31:11. | |
professor, thank you for your time as well. There is only one story | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
that you want to talk about today and it is from Debbie on Facebook | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
says, "A combination of unfortunate events. The zoo had no choice." Ken | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
on Facebook, "100%, they should have kill the ape." Clare on Facebook | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
says, "I wonder what the reaction would have been if the gorilla | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
killed the little boy." David e-mails: the zoo should have | :31:40. | :32:01. | |
moved him away from the child, they should have had a system to stop | :32:02. | :32:08. | |
them from falling into the pit. Sue said I am really angry because the | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
parents were negligent. Still to come: 2.5 million people | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
are living with cancer in the UK. We'll be previewing a new BBC | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
documentary series called The Big C Me which follows the lives of nine | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
people with cancer over a year. And we'll get the latest | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
on the Brain family we spoke to last week - | :32:30. | :32:31. | |
Australians who were encouraged to come to the Highlands | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
to work and are now They have been told that they can | :32:35. | :32:41. | |
stay here, but only until August and they will not be allowed to work. | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
Here's Maxine in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of todays news. | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
Here's Maxine in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news. | :32:51. | :32:53. | |
Iraqi military special forces are leading a battle | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
to recapture the city of Falluja from the so-called | :32:56. | :32:57. | |
It was seized by IS more than two years ago. | :32:58. | :33:08. | |
Commanders say they've met fierce opposition, including snipers | :33:09. | :33:10. | |
It's believed there are 50,000 people still trapped | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
in the city and IS is widely accused of using them as human shields. | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
There's a warning that three-quarters of older children | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
with Type 1 diabetes are not receiving key checks to keep | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
The figures come from an audit of their care | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
Health officials recommend all children with diabetes | :33:26. | :33:28. | |
have their blood sugar levels checked, and those aged 12 and over | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
should have six other check-ups every year. | :33:32. | :33:33. | |
An inquiry into historical child sex abuse in Northern Ireland is due | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
to begin examining allegations relating to the Kincora | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
Three senior care staff there were jailed in 1981 for abuse. | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
The inquiry, led by a retired senior High court judge, is expected | :33:46. | :33:47. | |
to look at claims of links to the intelligence services. | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
It's already examined allegations relating | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
Both MI5 and MI6 have agreed to take part. | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
The director of a zoo in the United States has defended | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
the shooting dead of a silverback gorilla, after a four year old boy | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
There have been protests at Cincinatti Zoo, | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
but staff there insist that critics are not in a position to make | :34:12. | :34:14. | |
Jillian Miller told us that zoo keepers would not have shot the | :34:15. | :34:29. | |
gorilla unless they felt it was absolutely necessary. We were not | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
there, we have looked at the footage. I out on the side that the | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
gorilla may have been protecting the child, but they must be heartbroken. | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
Thank goodness the boy is all right, but the keeper was so close to the | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
gorilla, all those people would have loved the gorilla. They must be | :34:48. | :34:49. | |
heartbroken today. An Australian family at risk | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
of being deported from the UK have been told they can stay | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
until August, but will not be Kathryn Brain, her husband | :34:56. | :34:58. | |
Gregg and son Lachlan moved to Dingwall in the Highlands | :34:59. | :35:03. | |
in 2011 on a student visa, The family had thought | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
they were at risk of being They'll be speaking | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
to Victoria after 10. Ceremonies will be held | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
in Orkney and at sea today, to mark 100 years since Britain | :35:15. | :35:16. | |
and Germany fought the naval Battle of Jutland in which more than 8,000 | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
sailors lost their lives. British and German warships | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
will scatter symbols of remembrance on the waters of the Jutland Bank, | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
above the wrecks of ships The Duke of Edinburgh was due | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
to attend but withdrew, That's a summary of the latest BBC | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
News - more at 10.00. A historic day at the cricket. Not | :35:34. | :35:54. | |
so much for England's nine wicket win in the second test against Sri | :35:55. | :36:00. | |
Lanka, but Alastair Cook brought up his 10,000 test runs. At 31 he is | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
the youngest England player to reach that milestone and only 11 other | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
players have achieved it will stop Roy Hodgson will name his England | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
squad later today, he needs to trim two players from his current squad | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
of 25. Daniel Sturridge may be one of those to miss out. The big | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
question over the Wales squad announcement is whether Crystal | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
Palace's Joe Ledley will be included. He fractured his leg | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
earlier this month, but he could still be fit for the final group | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
match and Andy Murray is juju phase Richard Gasquet for a place in the | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
semifinals. That is if the rain stops. -- is due to face Richard | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
Gasquet. Next - the Battle of Jutland - | :36:45. | :36:46. | |
the biggest naval engagement of the first world war - | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
which saw more than 8,500 killed off will be marked by a | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
commemorative service today. Princess Anne will be there - | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
but Prince Phillip won't be - We'll talk to relatives of those | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
who took part in the battle shortly - but first - | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
let's go through the events Germany could have won the war | :37:08. | :37:25. | |
through this. As well as being the only major naval battle of the First | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
World War which took place between 1914 and 1918, it became the largest | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
battle in naval warfare history with 250 ships involved, 151 from Britain | :37:36. | :37:42. | |
and 99 from Germany. It may have only lasted 36 hours, but there was | :37:43. | :37:45. | |
a high level of casualties, more than one in ten wounded. Elizabeth | :37:46. | :37:59. | |
Dixon's father survived the battle, but her uncle Archie just 16 at the | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
time was killed. I think it is very important to commemorate because | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
always the tradition of commemoration and the rituals of | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
commemoration are important, because they are healing. Despite the cost | :38:22. | :38:28. | |
in human terms, both sides claimed victory as the Germans lost 11 ships | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
and the enemy 14. But naval fleet was seriously weekend and was not | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
able to challenge the British seriously during the conflict. | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
Britain retained the larger navy of the two sides and insured it could | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
send troops and supplies to Europe until the end of the war. Let's | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
speak now to Pat Avery whose grandfather Basil Phillips survived | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
the battle of Jutland and to James Loudon whose grandfather commanded | :38:56. | :39:04. | |
the grand Fleet at the battle. Both join us from the Isle of Orkney | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
where a special service is being held to remember all those who lost | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
their lives. It is where the British fleet set off from. Thank you for | :39:14. | :39:20. | |
talking to us. Pat Avery, tell us why it was so important you to be at | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
the service today? For me and for my family it was a tremendous honour | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
and privilege to be invited here by the government and the people of | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
Orkney to pay tribute to these officers and men of the Royal Navy. | :39:40. | :39:47. | |
On a personal level, my grandfather Basil Phillips worked on one of the | :39:48. | :39:56. | |
destroyers of the small ship navy, but also his colleagues, the | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
officers, the captain, and the rest of the men on the ship, all of the | :40:03. | :40:10. | |
offices of the Royal Navy who made huge contributions to this | :40:11. | :40:21. | |
extraordinary battle. Your grandfather was the best-known naval | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
commander of World War I, tell us what you are thinking as you mark | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
this occasion to remember what he did. I am very pleased to be here | :40:29. | :40:36. | |
and I very much echoed Pat's thoughts and I would like to feel | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
that today will commemorate sailors of all ranks who fought not just in | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
Jutland, but there were some other engagements, I don't think we should | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
forget the Germans who lost their lives and this service is very much | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
a mutual commemoration for both British and German sailors. I am | :40:54. | :41:01. | |
certainly very proud to be here, I know a certain amount about the role | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
my grandfather played in the battle. He was appointed the commander of | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
the fleet the day war broke out in 1914 and it was a position that | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
Winston Churchill said he was the man on either side who could lose | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
the war in an afternoon. Tell us about the significance of the roll | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
your grandfather played. I think that is right and Winston | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
Churchill's remark has been repeated very many times, we did have control | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
of the high seas, the Royal Navy had control of the high seas and its | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
main objective of course was to keep control of the high seas. If we had | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
lost it, the war would have taken a very different course. Although one | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
can argue that the battle itself was somewhat indecisive, what was quite | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
decisive was we could retain control of the high seas and the German high | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
Seas Fleet never really came out properly enforce out port again. We | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
were able to maintain the blockade of Germany which eventually did lead | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
to our winning the war. Pat, your grandfather Basil survived the | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
battle of Jutland. When he was on board that ship, he was writing | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
diaries which I think he was not supposed to do. How did he do it and | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
what were some of the things he wrote about? He had been trained in | :42:25. | :42:34. | |
Morse code. He basically was receiving and sending the messages | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
from ship to ship, there was a requirement that he had a full | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
understanding of this method of communication. He used to keep the | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
pieces of paper that he had scribbled, the messages down on, and | :42:51. | :42:59. | |
he kept this remarkable diary of not only of the battle of Jutland, but | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
the entire period of the First World War. Fact is that his commanding | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
officer had little understanding of Morse code, actually worked in his | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
favour. -- the fact that his commanding officer had little | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
understanding of Morse code, that actually worked in his favour. He | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
sent a coded message to your grandmother to let her know that he | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
was all right. He did. When there was a fierce night action with a | :43:34. | :43:42. | |
re-treating German high Seas Fleet, they managed to get back to hear and | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
in order to let my grandmother no that he was OK and survived, he had | :43:49. | :43:55. | |
his photograph taken and to get around the quite strict censorship | :43:56. | :44:06. | |
he signed it affectionately yours, Basil. That was his way of letting | :44:07. | :44:14. | |
her know that he was OK. Why is it important that the experiences of | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
both your grandfather 's are remembered and Marks and talked | :44:19. | :44:29. | |
about? -- marked. I think the sometime the battle of Jutland was | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
forgotten about mainly because it was indecisive as a battle in | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
itself. But this commemoration today and other events that have been held | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
about Jutland have brought it very much to the forefront of the public | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
again. I would hope to think that that will remain the case. I would | :44:48. | :44:54. | |
repeat that I would hate today to be regarded just as a commemoration of | :44:55. | :45:03. | |
the British. I know at the same time as this ceremony, the ships of both | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
navies are meeting on the Jutland bank together. It is a mutual | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
commemoration for both fleets and both sets of savers. -- sailors. | :45:13. | :45:26. | |
Thank you very much, gentlemen, thank you. | :45:27. | :45:38. | |
You can watch full coverage on BBC One from 10.45am and throughout the | :45:39. | :45:39. | |
day on the BBC News Channel. Have you decided how | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
you're going to vote Well, you are very welcome to take | :45:44. | :45:45. | |
part in the second of our big TV On 6th June, we're in Manchester | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
just over a fortnight It's open to everyone and will take | :45:51. | :45:53. | |
place in our normal airtime If you want to take part | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
and can get to Manchester from wherever you are in the UK, | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
do e-mail: [email protected] to have your chance to quiz senior | :46:02. | :46:03. | |
politicians from the leave That's next Monday. | :46:04. | :46:24. | |
A Labour MP says she received thousands of vile messages talking | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
about raping her. What more needs to be done to tackle online abuse? | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
There are 2.5 million of us and the number is growing | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
That's how many people in Britain are living with cancer. | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
A new BBC documentary series which begins tomorrow night called | :46:39. | :46:40. | |
The Big C Me follows the lives of nine people across | :46:41. | :46:43. | |
Filmed over a year, the programme films them from the moment | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
of diagnosis, through treatment and life at home. | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
It's really moving and also uplifting. | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
There's Dominic from Leeds who has breast cancer. | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
Steve, the painter and decorator, who has prostate cancer. | :47:01. | :47:02. | |
Then there's Yvette whose belly dancing is integral | :47:03. | :47:06. | |
to her managing her cancer that she's had for 20 years. | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
And I think that's the thing that, actually, you can be living | :47:12. | :47:27. | |
with cancer and actually be fit and healthy and well | :47:28. | :47:29. | |
But living with her cancer has meant years of treatment, including | :47:30. | :47:40. | |
The treatment I've been through, the medical procedures, | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
has been a real assault on my self-confidence and self-esteem. | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
For me, my way of switching off and actually being able to just | :47:51. | :47:53. | |
It's been just, like, a life-saver, really. | :47:54. | :48:05. | |
Also featured in the programme is Katy, a year after being | :48:06. | :48:16. | |
the all-clear after having a malignant melanoma - | :48:17. | :48:18. | |
She decided to take part in a new clinical trial to try | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
and stop her cancer ever coming back, but there were risks involved, | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
and it wasn't an easy decision to make. | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
Two days after seeing her daughter marry, Katie is en route to London | :48:34. | :48:44. | |
to start the trial. I can feel myself not getting bigger. The | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
closer we get. It is just purely the fact you don't know how your body | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
will react to something that's That is a trial. Cancer drug research has | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
always moved forward on the back of human trials, but they are | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
unpredictable and there is always an element of risk. For Katie, it is a | :49:00. | :49:05. | |
leap in the dark. These drugs may save her, but they may prove | :49:06. | :49:11. | |
debilitating and toxic. It is a horrible choice to face. Hi Katie. | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
Hello, Emily. Nice to meet you both. How was the wedding? Oh, it was | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
wonderful. You got the weather for it. Amazing. We were very blessed. | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
I've got the consent form here. This is a trial. Yeah, quite. We are | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
always here to answer questions and if you want to stop the trial, you | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
can withdraw your consent at any point? The big stumbling blocks is | :49:38. | :49:44. | |
the worry of actually having it. Obviously if things get too bad and | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
the toxicity is too bad then I would, you would either say to me, | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
enough is a enough and we'll come off trial. OK. OK? Yes, no problem. | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
I think it is that fear of unknown, but once you start people tend to | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
feel a lot more reassured. I'm sorry... It is not you, don't worry. | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
It is the fear of the unknown. Yvette Cowles, 52 has had breast | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
cancer for 20 years. She has had both breasts removed | :50:13. | :50:14. | |
and Katy Garner was first diagnosed with melanoma six years ago, | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
was given the all clear, Yvette how do you manage cancer over | :50:18. | :50:28. | |
19, 20 years and it coming back three times? Well, I think I focus | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
on the present. I'm really grateful for every day I am alive really. I | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
do things that I enjoy and I do consider myself one of the lucky | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
ones because I've got so many friends and family members and | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
fellow dancers who haven't been so lucky who have lost their lives to | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
cancer. So I'm still here and I focus on that. Sometimes does the | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
uncertainty get to you? The fact thaw don't know what's going to | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
happen? Yes, I think that's one of the most difficult things because | :51:01. | :51:06. | |
you don't know what's around the corner, but then that's true of | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
everybody. I think cancer certainly focuses the mind. But it is true | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
that none of us knows what might happen tomorrow. Katie, how did you | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
react when you had gone five years, you were in the sixth year after a | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
malignant melanoma and you thought everything was fine and you found | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
another lump in your groin? Well, it was devastating to find it and the | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
first thought, no, it is not there. I can remember going to sleep that | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
night and thinking when I wake up, it won't be there. But, of course, | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
it was. I knew what it was because it just felt the same. So it's very | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
hard to re-enter into that same scenario that had you in 2009 and we | :51:50. | :51:54. | |
had, five years is the sort of, you know, you can have a big party at | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
five years is what I was told. It was our 25th wedding anniversary, we | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
decided to wait for the sixth year and have a celebration then and so | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
it was quite hard to know that I had to go back and restart, but the | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
difference was amazing because in 2009 Dr Larkin came to see me, he is | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
the oncologist and said basically, you know, if this comes back, it is | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
going to be life limiting. And this time, he came back and was talking | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
about 60% reduction rates with these new drugs and the whole thing seemed | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
very different. Which shows the rapid progress that is being made | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
constantly year after year after year. This clinical trial that you | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
have been involved in, you stopped after seven months, I think, what | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
were the side effects? It is like taking the brakes of your immune | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
system. The body starts to destroy your own healthy cells as well as | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
your own cancer cells if you've got them. So I've had, am I load to say | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
diarrhoea? Of course you are! I have had the effect of having what's | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
called cold lie tis. My body has attacked my gut and given me | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
diarrhoea. That's been the toxicity. I've lost my thyroid. That's | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
manageable. But I'm still strewing alg little bit with the colitis. The | :53:21. | :53:28. | |
documentary follows nine people you two included and various others and | :53:29. | :53:34. | |
it is in parts very upsetting and in parts incredibly uplifting, but it | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
feels to me that it is saying that, you know, no longer do we need to | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
speak in hushed tones about cancer. Clearly, people have different | :53:45. | :53:47. | |
diagnoses, clearly people deal with it in very different ways, but you | :53:48. | :53:51. | |
can speak out loud about this and people don't have to necessarily | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
speak to you in sombre tones as though you're about to die. No, I've | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
noticed a huge difference since I was first diagnosed 20 years ago and | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
even 25 years ago, my mother had breast cancer and her friends who | :54:07. | :54:09. | |
are lovely people would cross the street rather than talk to her... | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
Because they didn't know what to say? They were afraid of saying the | :54:14. | :54:18. | |
wrong thing. There is so much support for different groups of | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
cancer sufferers, you know, whether it is online forums, I belong to one | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
called Flat Friends for women who have had mastectomies and have | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
elected not to have reconstruction. Of the younger women because your | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
challenges when you are younger and your concerns are different to when | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
you are 30, or 40 or 50 or older and I think there is so much more | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
information available. What should people, who say to you when you have | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
cancer, what shouldn't people say to you... We were discussing this. One | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
of the things we were saying the terrible thing they say, "Poor you." | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
That's really helpful. I'm not poor. I'm not poor at all. I have | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
something that I'm just trying to get on with. There is only one thing | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
that's certain in our lives, that we will all die. Whether we die of | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
cancer or whether we die because a bus hits you, you know, you don't | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
know. Like Yvette was saying, the difference about having a cancer | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
diagnosis it puts that diagnosis in your face a bit. You don't know | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
whether the bus is going to hit you or when, but that's the difference, | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
but I think yes, so saying something like "Poor you" Not being prepared | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
to acknowledge that this is something that's going on in your | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
life. Yeah, I think if somebody says, "I'm sorry, I really don't | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
know what to say." That's fine. You're just acnobblinging that, but | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
you get people who sometimes start talking about their friends or, you | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
know, experiences and one woman said to me, "Well, this friend of mine, I | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
mean she is dead now." She launched into this whole story... That's not | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
going to help. Someone said to me last week, it was said in front of | :56:03. | :56:05. | |
everybody, "Well, I think it is nature's way of controlling the | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
population like AIDS and the black death." Wow. How is that helpful. | :56:09. | :56:14. | |
Even if that's what you think, I think keep quiet. Thank you very | :56:15. | :56:17. | |
much for coming on the programme. Very nice to meet you. | :56:18. | :56:20. | |
The Big C Me is a three-part documentary series beginning | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
So many of you getting in touch about the shooting dead of Harambe | :56:24. | :56:34. | |
the gorilla in the States. Let me read your comments. Bear with me. | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
This mouse is not very good. Lesley says, "That gorilla had the ability | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
to tear the baby apart in a second. Had they not shot it and the gorilla | :56:44. | :56:50. | |
killed the baby then there would be outrage that they had done nothing." | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
If you a large dart fired into you, do you think that might annoy you? | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
If this massive animal had fallen on the child while losing consciousness | :57:00. | :57:02. | |
that could have killed the boy as well." James says, "It was hasty. It | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
was unnecessary. The gorilla showed no intention of harming the boy." | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
Another viewer says, "The instinct of the gorilla is to be a parent. It | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
recognised the little boy wasn't a threat. I blame the parents and the | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
zoo." Thank you for those. Keep them coming in, we will get more reaction | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
from some of you before 11am. Keep your thoughts coming in. Right, time | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
for the weather and here is Carol. Hello, how? Very well, thank you. | :57:30. | :57:36. | |
You look very summery. A shame about the weather! Some places have a | :57:37. | :57:39. | |
beautiful start to the day. I want to show you what's happening across | :57:40. | :57:44. | |
Western Europe. In the hours between 8pm and 8am parts of Belgium and | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
parts of the south-east of England and parts of Northern France had | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
25,000 lightening strikes. That's a fair few. The French Open was | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
abandoned yesterday and this caused some disruption to air transport, | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
but this is the picture showing the 12 hours from 8pm last night. Now | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
the red crosses denote the most recent thunderstorms and then they | :58:05. | :58:07. | |
go back to yellow which are the last ones that we had. So what's been | :58:08. | :58:11. | |
happening is, it is an area of low pressurement now, it is quite a | :58:12. | :58:14. | |
potent area of low pressure. It caused a lot of problems across | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
France, Germany, Poland for example, through the course of the weekend | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
and it is brushing against our shores and that's produced the heavy | :58:23. | :58:25. | |
rain and some of the thunderstorms that we have seen this morning. The | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
area is unstable across the near Continent and with the higher | :58:31. | :58:33. | |
temperatures the whole lot just goes up. We have had thunderstorms this | :58:34. | :58:36. | |
morning and we've had torrential rain. In parts of Suffolk, which | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
isn't what this picture is showing, we had over 40 millimetres in a few | :58:44. | :58:49. | |
hours. That's an inch-and-a-half. It has been raining in Norfolk and | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
Suffolk, look at this. Where is that? This is Cornwall. The west is | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
gorgeous. Even the scenery by itself before you look at the weather is | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
lovely! This is Cumbria, gorgeous as well and finally there, one is in | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
Wales. Yes, it is so. So lovely. A real stark contrast. If you're in | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
the west, you look lovely, but you would be appropriately dressed in | :59:16. | :59:18. | |
the west as you are in the studio because it is not raining in here! | :59:19. | :59:24. | |
Why did I start that? I don't know, Carol. How is it looking anyway? It | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
is looking wet in the east. Torrential downpours. We have seen a | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
lot of rain this morning in parts of the east. It could lead to hazardous | :59:33. | :59:39. | |
conditions, a lot of spray around and big puddles and there is the | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
risk of localised flooding. As well as all that rain, we've got strong | :59:44. | :59:47. | |
winds. That combination is leading to a cold feel, if you haven't been | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
out yet, expect that and the wind is strong enough, gusting to gale force | :59:53. | :59:55. | |
off the coastline, as we drift west, we have got the bluer skies, through | :59:56. | :59:59. | |
the day though, you will notice the cloud building in parts of the west | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
and some of us will see rain. So this afternoon, we've got rain | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
across Northern England and a lot of cloud and then we run into more rain | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
across East Anglia and the South East. More rain as we head down | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
towards the Isle of Wight. Where you see greens or yellows, that's | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
denoting heavier bursts, but Cornwall, Devon, the Isles of | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
Scilly, the cloud building through Somerset. For most of Wales, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
beautiful this afternoon, but east Wales, you will see cloud building. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Northern Ireland, again, beautiful for you too. Highs up to 20 Celsius | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
in Belfast and for most of Scotland, a beautiful afternoon. A bit more | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
cloud at times across the north and the east, but not particularly | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
spoiling it. As we head on through the evening and overnight, we | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
continue with the rain. For a time, it will be particularly heavy from | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
the Wash heading up towards Yorkshire, in through Northumberland | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
and Durham. The rain getting over to east Wales and Somerset, but ahead | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
of it in the west and the north, it will be largely dry. For some, there | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
will be patchy mist and fog. Tomorrow, for England and Wales, | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
cloudy, quite windy and cool with the rain. Quite a contrast in Wales | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
and the south-west compared to today whereas for Scotland and Northern | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Ireland, we are in the sunshine away from the East Coast and highs of | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
around 20 Celsius. I'm Victoria Derbyshire, | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
welcome to the programme There's been a massive backlash | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
against the shooting dead of a gorilla in the US after a four | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
year old crawled into his enclosure; a lot of you think there the zoo | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
acted too hastily but plenty There's been a massive backlash | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
against the shooting dead of a gorilla in the US after a four | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
year old crawled into his enclosure. A lot of you think there the zoo | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
acted too hastily but plenty Could that zoo afford | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
to risk that child's life? Do I think the zoo should have | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
tried other methods? We'll be speaking to a female MP | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
who's campaign to stop sexist and racist abuse online has led | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
to a barrage of abuse And - we'll talk again | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
to the Australian family living in Scotland who are facing | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
deportation from the UK. Overnight they've been told they can | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
stay a bit longer, but not work. Good morning, here's | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
a summary of todays news. The Iraqi military say special | :02:25. | :02:39. | |
forces are leading a battle to recapture the city of Falluja | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
from so-called It was seized by IS more | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
than two years ago. Commanders say they've met fierce | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
opposition, including snipers It's believed there | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
are 50,000 people still There's a warning that | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
three-quarters of older children with Type 1 diabetes are not | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
receiving key checks to keep The figures come from | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
an audit of their care Health officials recommend | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
all children with diabetes have their blood sugar levels | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
checked, and those aged 12 and over should have six other | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
check-ups every year. All these health care checks are | :03:18. | :03:29. | |
checking for the possibility of early markers of risk factors and if | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
you find changes you can work with the family and the child to improve | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
diabetes control. An inquiry into historical child sex | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
abuse in Northern Ireland is due to begin examining allegations | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
relating to the Kincora Three senior care staff | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
there were jailed in 1981 for abuse. The inquiry, led by a retired senior | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
High court judge, is expected to look at claims of links | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
to the intelligence services. It's already examined | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
allegations relating Both MI5 and MI6 have | :03:55. | :03:55. | |
agreed to take part. Families of patients who were abused | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
by staff at Winterbourne View private hospital say not enough | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
is being done to improve services for adults | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
with learning disabilities. They've written an open letter | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
to David Cameron saying they're angry that changes | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
in the system are too slow. The abuse was exposed by BBC | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
Panorama five years ago. The group campaigning for Britain | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
to leave the EU has said it would allow VAT on gas | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and electricity bills to be cut. The Remain campaign says | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
that's the latest in more than a billion pounds in unfunded | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
spending commitments - If you've got any questions | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
on the EU Referendum, let us know. Chuka Umunna from Britain | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
Stronger In Europe will be answering your questions | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
at 12.30 and Chris Grayling from Vote Leave will do | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
the same on BBC News at 5. You can get in touch via Twitter | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
using the hashtag BBC Ask This An Australian family at risk | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
of being deported from the UK have been told they can stay | :05:04. | :05:28. | |
until August, but will not be Kathryn Brain, her husband | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Gregg and son Lachlan moved to Dingwall in the Highlands | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
in 2011 on a student visa, The family had thought | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
they were at risk of being They'll be speaking | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
to Victoria after 10. The German car-maker, Volkswagen, | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
has announced a huge The scandal over the rigging | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
of diesel emissions tests has lead The director of a zoo | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
in the United States has defended the shooting dead of a silverback | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
gorilla, after a four year old boy There have been protests | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
at Cincinatti Zoo, but staff there insist that critics | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
are not in a position to make Looking back we would make the same | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
decision, I know that after it is over and the child is safe, it is | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
easy like the Monday morning quarterback to say while, don't we | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
need to do this differently? But those people do not understand | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
primate biology and the danger the child was in and also you were not | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
there at an important time to make an important decision. We stand by | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
our decision and we would make the same today. | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at 10.30. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
James says, I cannot understand the reaction to the gorilla. This would | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
be the reaction that anyone would have for a child in danger. What | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
about a child in trauma due to people's negative reaction? Chris | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
says I wonder what people would say if it was their child being dragged | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
around by this gorilla. Liz says it was right to shoot the gorilla even | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
if it was ultimately protecting the child. It's strength or weight could | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
have crashed that the full boy. Do get in touch with us | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
throughout the morning. Victoria Live and if you text, | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
you will be charged Here is the sport. The deadline to | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
submit international squads is midnight tonight. England and Wales | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
will reveal all later today. Our reporter is with me this morning. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Good morning, David. We are waiting with bated breath. We don't know | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
when Roy Hodgson will reveal his 23. It has been slightly delayed. Is | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
this all because of Daniel Sturridge and his various issues? Yes, he is | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
the main concern. He missed the first friendly against Turkey in | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
magister because of his involvement with Liverpool, he's scored, but he | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
picked up a calf injury. He did not play against Australia and he did | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
not feature on the bench on Friday in Sunderland. He did return on | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Friday, their respect and elation he could be included after all as part | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
of five strikers which would include Marcus Rushford, the 18-year-old. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
This is Daniel Sturridge's final chance to impress. We are expecting | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
the squad to be announced later this afternoon. There are questions over | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
the likes of Andros Townsend, Danny Drinkwater. Will one of them have | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
two miss out? We are hearing that John Stones is probably going to get | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
the nod for his first match against Russia. That 26 man squad has come | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
down to 25 with Fabian Delph being injured, but there are two more | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
slots to go. They have the friendly against Portugal at Wembley on | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
Thursday night. Wales, half past two, we will find out. It seems | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
astonishing if Joe Ledley does make Chris Coleman's 23. He broke his leg | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
three weeks ago. It is incredibly exciting for Wales, the first major | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
tournament since 1958, the first time they have been at the European | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Championship finals. Joe Ledley fractured his leg on the 7th of May | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
playing for Crystal Palace. He has joined up with the squad, because he | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
has been a part of Wales's progress to the finals and a key part at | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
that, but it would be an astonishing return to fitness. Can you really | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
gamble with someone who is lacking such fitness. Roy Hodgson said he | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
would not take anyone who is not match fit. Joe Ledley certainly is | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
not, he missed the FA Cup final, but will he go to France? How about this | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
for a seamless link? Wales's last major championship was 1958 knocked | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
out by Brazil in the quarterfinals, Pele scored the winner and the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Brazilian legend is selling all his football medals and memorabilia. The | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
reason that the auction is slightly unclear, but it is expected to raise | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
more than ?3 million, he is selling his three World Cup winner medals | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
and a replica of a trophy and dozens of shirts he played in. He is even | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
selling the boots he wore in the film escape to victory. They are | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
expected to fetch about ?5,000. It is expected to take place over five | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
days in London next month. So much stuff, Victoria. | :10:49. | :11:07. | |
A Labour MP claims she's had over 1600 messages | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
about raping her in the space of 36 hours. | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
Last week Jess Phillips the MP for Yardley in Birmingham launched | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
a campaign against sexism, abuse and intimidation online. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
But since that campaign the threats against her have | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Here are some examples of the kind of messages she's received. | :11:19. | :11:37. | |
How do you react to those tweets? Unfortunately I have got used to it. | :11:38. | :11:51. | |
They are idiots on the Internet and it is not even the content of some | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
of the tweets. The level of discourse is that which I would | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
judge in Ireland and-year-old for having. -- judge my 11-year-old for | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
having. It is the sheer number of people who have got in touch with | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
me, it is dog piling, basically any normal discourse that could happen | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
on any social plaque home is completely crowded out. -- any | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
social platform. It poisons the timeline of anyone who speaks to | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
you. The number of tweets and the re-tweets and the people piling in, | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
dog piling as you call it, there have been 5000 tweets pretty much | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
referring to raping you or not raping you. The level of discourse | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
is saying they do not want to rape me as if it is something you do to | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
someone you like. Goodness knows where they have got it from. It is | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
about 5000 people, 5000 notifications, mentions that I have | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
got. The ones who are saying I would not rape you and the others that are | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
saying this is not an insult, they would not rape you as if you should | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
be grateful for that. I do not normally feel the need to tell | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
people I will not my view or hit you, because we are normal human | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
beings. It is as if I should be thankful that these people are | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
saying they are not going to rape me. You described them as idiots and | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
I have looked at the guidelines for what should be treated as a crime | :13:35. | :13:46. | |
under current law. Communication is targeting an individual which may | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
constitute harassment or stalking, communications which could be | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
considered indecent, obscene or false. Have you contacted the | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
police? I haven't. It all happened yesterday. While these people think | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
I'm sitting around playing the victim, I was playing games with my | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
children in the garden most of the day. I don't need to contact the | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
police any more, my local police officers watch what happens on | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
Twitter and they get in touch with me. I am sure they will. The vast | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
majority of people who do this are in America, so there is very little | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
West Midlands Police can do about it. I will be contacting Twitter | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
about some of the ringleaders of this dog piling. I have got to the | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
stage now that I feel that legal action be its civil or criminal in | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
some way is the way to attack these people. Rather than just ignore it | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
or mute them. Yes. I could never block them, you would need someone | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
full-time to block the number of people who got in touch with me over | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
the weekend. It is not a solution to block and ignore them. The only | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
solution in stopping seeing it is if I stop going on twitter which is a | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
very real possibility. I think the people who are the ringleaders of | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
this, some action needs to be taken against them, but also there needs | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
to be technology whereby I have blocked the person who started this | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
years ago and anyone who mentions him in a tweets and mention me, I | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
should not be able to see that and I don't want to see that. I think | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Twitter needs to do something about that. There are things you can do. | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
You also wrote that Twitter is dead. As a platform, it is the worst area | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
for this. Until twitter makes this sort of thing stop happening and | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
stop accepting that this sort of dog piling and mass bullying can happen, | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
their business model is totally flawed. People like me and people | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
who do not like this terrible side of the Internet will just walk away, | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
we will go to Facebook, mums net, other platforms where this does not | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
happen. Twitter are already struggling and I don't see how it | :16:15. | :16:15. | |
can last. I have seen some savage stuff on | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
Facebook. There are some vicious stuff wherever you go. I think that | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Facebook though for a start if you're not allowed to be anonymous. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
There is the govern of it being an internal group of people. Facebook | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
are massively funding counter speech where awful things are being said. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
If you look at models like Mumsnet or some of the other forums that, | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
you know, maybe me and you can't name because we are not into this | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
sort of thing, there are real community guidelines and anything | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
like this starts to happen, those people are either gone or the | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
community attacks them. Mumsnet is a really, really good example of where | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
this stuff just doesn't happen. In the early days of Twitter, it was | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
a really warm community. What has changed? Is it just because it has | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
become so popular? The fact that it has become, these people sort of | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
know that it is where you can really get at somebody. Also my husband was | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
just saying to me beforehand and he is a proper geek, he is on all sorts | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
of crazy forums that I've never heard of, he was saying to me the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
difference is people go to forums like Mumsnet to speak about | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
something specific, he goes on computer game forums to speak about | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
something specific, Twitter is your playground, it is the extension of | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
every bit of your life. If you want to bully somebody, that's the place | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
to do it. Not to do it in a place where you might be talking about | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
your toddler having a tantrum. Do you think it is a woman thing? Is it | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
mostly women being bullied or are men victims too? Oh men are victims | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
too. Most of the research shows if you are anything outside of sort of | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
white, mid--le class man, you are more likely so if you're black, if | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
you're gay, if you're Jewish, if you're any sort of slight break from | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
the norm about you means that you're more likely to get more attacks. | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
Lots of people got in touch to say this person who start this on you, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
we have had action from him, but he will never hate me as much as he | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
hates you because you're a woman. Thank you very much for talking to | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
us. No problems. Yeses Phillips the MP for Yardley. | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
-- jess Phillips the MP for Yardley. We reached out to Twitter | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
for comment on Jess' case. The social media platform told us, | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
"We do not comment on individual cases for privacy and security | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
reasons but there are multiple ways The organisation said, "We do not | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
tolerate behaviour that crosses the line into abuse including | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
behaviour that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
another user's voice." So many comments about the gorilla. | :19:04. | :19:16. | |
Let me get some. OK, this e-mail from Tim. He is in Hampshire. He | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
says, "The outcry regarding the decision to shoot the dor ril la is | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
truly amazing. Now senior zoo personnel are qualified zoologists | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
who know the behavioural characteristics and characteristics | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
capabilities of animals in their care. Of course, it was sad to lose | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
such a beautiful animal which should not even be in captivity, but what | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
would the public reaction had been if the gorilla killed the child?" | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
An Australian family facing possible deportation from the UK today have | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
now been told they can stay until August, but they won't | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Kathryn Brain her husband, Gregg, and son Lachlan moved | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
to the Highlands in 2011 on a student visa, | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
We spoke to them exclusively on this programme last week, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
since then they've both been offered jobs, which they can't take up | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Greg tell our audience what the situation is? The Immigration | :20:20. | :20:37. | |
Minister Mr Brokenshire has given us approximately 60 days until the 1st | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
August to get a visa application in. However, we have not been given the | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
right-to-work. As you just said we have both got jobs offers. Kathryn | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
has an offer from a community project. They were hoping Kathryn | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
could start this morning. Kathryn has not been involve will have | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
effects on not just herself, but for this distillery. The key about being | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
able to work is that will help you raise money which will help in a | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
further application for a new visa? Yes, well, that's the complication. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Mr Brokenshire knows that we can't work. He is the Immigration | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Minister? He is the Immigration Minister. Ordered us to stop in mid- | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
March, but we are likely to be faced with a visa requirement for what's | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
called maintenance funds. Which means we have to have ?3,000 sitting | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
untouched in an an account for 90 days prior to making an application. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
I doubt whether Mr Brokenshire would have any reason to believe | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
otherwise, we have less than no money. We are being set-up to fail. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
Kathryn, what do you think? I'm echoing what Greg just said, you | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
know, not just the funds having to be in the account for 90 days prior | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
to making the application, but we have got 60 days between now and 1st | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
August. Even if a wonderful person in the community are able to raise | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
those funds so we could have it sitting in our account, we don't | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
have the time to have that sitting in our account before making an | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
application. So you know, as Greg said, it is almost like he is trying | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
to appear generous by giving this extra time for us, but by the same | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
token taking it away by putting this impossible request on us. As Greg | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
also said with the job that I have been offered with the distillery and | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
the job that Greg has been offered, although it may not qualify for a | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
tier two work visa, it is a highly skilled job up here in the Highlands | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
where his employer needs him on the ground as well. But the job that I | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
have been offered is reliant on a deadline that we've got with raising | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
the capital for the distillery and John McKenzie needs me on the ground | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
as of today if possible, but without that right-to-work, I can't accept | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
the job even if a temporary capacity or as we have discovered recently | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
with another non-EU national who has been trying to organise an | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
indefinite leave to remain, even if I was to volunteer my services that | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
would be in breach. I can't even work for free! I doubt very much the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Immigration Minister is watching our programme. His officials might be. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
What would you say to them directly? Well, if I can quote James | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Brokenshire's letter. One of the letters he wrote to us, he said that | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
applicants should never assume the provisions in place at the time of | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
their initial entry to the UK will continue to be viable options in | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
future years. He seems to be saying that the UK Government's stated | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
position is to be untrustworthy in their dealings with immigrants. We | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
were promised a tier two work visa when we applied for our visa in 2010 | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
and when it was granted which was the year before the change to the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
visa regime was announced. At that point, we had to have some ?15,000 | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
or ?20,000 maintenance funds sitting in an account for 90 days. Again, | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
all we're asking for is for the UK Government, this is a country which | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
prides itself as being the birthplace of the rule of law, you | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
would think dealing with the UK Government, you would be dealt with | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
honourably and ethnically. Mr Brokenshire's quotes appears to | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
suggest that's not an assumption to make. He has the opportunity to show | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
that we can trust the UK Government. How is Lachlan? He is fortunate to | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
have a seven-year-old's understanding of what is going on | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
and that's shielding him a bit and for that, we're grateful He is going | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
through a growth spurt at the moment hence the yawns! | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
LAUGHTER His back is always hanging out of | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
the fridge and he is always tired at the moment. Kathryn can you say hi | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
to Lachlan And how he is. Darling, do you want to tell the TV people | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
how you are and how you're getting on with regards to how you're | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
feeling about mummy and daddy doing everything we can to stay here in | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Scotland? No. Sorry about that. Don't be daft. Fair enough. Thank | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
you very much. We will, of course, keep in touch. We will bring our | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
viewers any update in your story. We appreciate your time again, thank | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
you. Thank you. Thank you. Lachlan Is exhausted. I don't blame | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
her. Kathryn and Gregg Brain and Lachlan 6. | :25:58. | :26:11. | |
The body of Elliot Johnson was found on railway tracks. The coroner | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
refused a call by his family for a full inquest that could hear more | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
detailed about the months leading up to his death. Saying the purpose is | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
not to determine whether the allegations of bullying are true. We | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
should say those allegations have been denied from within the | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
Conservative Party. On this programme last year, we spoke to | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Elliot Johnson's father, Ray. He told us how the family were coping. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
It's very, very difficult for us. Elliot was a very bright, articulate | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
young man. He a great future ahead of him. He went to London in June to | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
start a new career and of course, that career was cut dreadfully | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
short. Well, Ben Ando is at the Coroners' | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
Court in Bedfordshire. Ben, what are we expecting today? | :26:58. | :27:07. | |
Yes, well, I mean, Ray and Alice Johnson are here to observe the | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
inquest. It started with the coroner being shown a photograph of | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
21-year-old Elliot Johnson on the day of his graduation proudy wearing | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
his robe and holding his scroll, but he did open the inquest by pointing | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
out that this was about ascertaining purely the facts of the case, who | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
the deceased was and how they came by his death and the coroner was at | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
pains to point out that that term phrase "How they came by the death" | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
Is specific in legal terms. He said it is beyond the scope of the | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
inquiry to look at allegations of bullying within the Conservative | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Party, to look at questions of self-harming and previous suicides | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
attempts by Mr Johnson, to look at possible relationship breakdowns or | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
other factors. They would be considered, he said, but it wasn't | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
for the inquest to apportion blame or look to find scapegoats or any | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
kind of evidence that could be used later in criminal or civil | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
proceedings. Thank you, Ben Ando outside the | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
coroners' court in Hampshire. Some comments from people watching Jess | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Phillips the Labour MP earlier. Last week, she launched a campaign called | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
Reclaim the Internet. On Sunday, into Monday, she had thousands and | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
thousands of comments from people talking about raping her. Many of | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
them incredibly abusive and horrible. David on Twitter says, | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
"Good point by Jess Phillips, they block out any civil conversation." | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
Tim on Twitter says, "Great dignity from Jess Phillips." The only | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
solution is to block or mute. Mark says, "A rape threat is illegal. | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
Report it to the police. I don't see why Twitter should be blamed for the | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
morans on there." Pete says, "On behalf of the 90% of the male race I | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
apologise for the other 10% who sicken us all." Mohamed says, | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
"Twitter reluctancy to react. They rely on trolls to keep the | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
engagement figures up." The latest from the city of Fallujah | :29:19. | :29:36. | |
as Government forces launch a final assault against so-called Islamic | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
State. We will bring you the very latest. | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
With the News, here's Maxine in the BBC Newsroom. | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
The Iraqi military say special forces are leading a battle | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
to recapture the city of Falluja from so-called | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
It says about 4,000 residents fled in the last week. Commanders say | :29:59. | :30:11. | |
they have met fierce opposition including snipers and suicide | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
bombers. It is believed there are 50,000 people still trapped in the | :30:17. | :30:17. | |
city. There's a warning that | :30:18. | :30:25. | |
three-quarters of older children with Type 1 diabetes are not | :30:26. | :30:26. | |
receiving key checks to keep The figures come from | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
an audit of their care Health officials recommend | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
all children with diabetes have their blood sugar levels | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
checked, and those aged 12 and over should have six other | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
check-ups every year. Families of patients who were abused | :30:43. | :30:44. | |
by staff at Winterbourne View private hospital say not enough | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
is being done to improve services for adults | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
with learning disabilities. They've written an open letter | :30:50. | :30:50. | |
to David Cameron saying they're angry that changes | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
in the system are too slow. The abuse was exposed by BBC | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
Panorama five years ago. Steve Sollars, whose | :30:56. | :30:57. | |
son Sam was held there, is among those who have | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
signed the letter. There are still roundabout 3500 | :31:03. | :31:13. | |
people in these units and they are all at risk of abuse through | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
medication, through restraint. Sam was one of them with the use of over | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
medication and overuse of the restraints. It has to stop. The | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
government have had five years to do something, they have not done | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
anything. I think they should be ashamed of themselves. | :31:37. | :31:38. | |
And Victoria will be speaking to a woman whose daughter was sent | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
to a unit in Brighton and the charity Mencap | :31:42. | :31:43. | |
who are calling for immediate changes to the way patients | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
with learning difficulties are cared for. | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
The group campaigning for Britain to leave the EU has said it | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
would allow VAT on gas and electricity bills to be cut. | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
The Remain campaign claims it's the latest in more | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
than a billion pounds in unfunded spending commitments - | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
If you've got any questions on the EU Referendum, let us know. | :32:02. | :32:13. | |
Chuka Umunna from Britain Stronger In Europe | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
will be answering your questions at 12.30 and Chris Grayling | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
from Vote Leave will do the same on BBC News at 5. | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
You can get in touch via Twitter using the hashtag BBC Ask This | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
An Australian family at risk of being deported from the UK have | :32:29. | :32:41. | |
been told they can stay until August, but will not be | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
Kathryn Brain, her husband Gregg and son Lachlan | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
moved to Dingwall in the Highlands in 2011 on a student visa, | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
The family had thought they were at risk of being | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
As things currently stand, Mr broken Shire has given us another 60 days | :32:55. | :33:04. | |
to the 1st of August to get a Visa application. However, we have not | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
been given the right to work. We both have job offers, Catherine has | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
a job offer with a distillery, a community project, we were hoping | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
she could start there this morning. An inquest into the death of a young | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
Conservative activist, who made allegations of bullying | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
in the party, is beginning today. The German car maker, Volkswagen, | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
has announced a huge The scandal over the rigging | :33:28. | :33:29. | |
of diesel emissions tests has lead to higher costs | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
and falling sales. The director of a zoo | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
in the United States has defended the shooting dead of a silverback | :33:36. | :33:37. | |
gorilla, after a four year old boy There have been protests | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
at Cincinatti Zoo, but staff there insist that critics | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
are not in a position to make I know it is easy like a Monday | :33:44. | :33:58. | |
morning quarterback to say wow, don't we need to do this | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
differently? People who do that don't understand primate biology and | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
the danger of the child was in and also you were not there at an | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
important time to make an important decision. We stand by our decision. | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
We would make the same today. Ceremonies will be held | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
in Orkney and at sea today, to mark 100 years since Britain | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
and Germany fought the naval Battle of Jutland in which more than 8,000 | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
sailors lost their lives. British and German warships | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
will scatter symbols of remembrance on the waters of the Jutland Bank, | :34:27. | :34:28. | |
above the wrecks of ships The Duke of Edinburgh was due | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
to attend but withdrew, That is the end of your news | :34:32. | :34:55. | |
summary. Now to the sport. Alastair Cook scored 10,000 test runs, at 31 | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
he is the youngest player to do that. They beat Sri Lanka to clinch | :35:00. | :35:06. | |
the series. Roy Hodgson will name his final England squad for the | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
European Championship later today, he needs to trim two players from | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
his current squad of 25. Daniel Sturridge may be one of those to | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
miss out. The big question over the Wales squad announcement at 230 this | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
afternoon is whether or not Joe Ledley will be included. He | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
fractured his leg earlier this month, but he could still be fit for | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
the final group match. The Arsenal full-back has been called up to the | :35:33. | :35:34. | |
Spain squad. He replaces. Andy Murray will be playing Richard | :35:35. | :35:54. | |
Gasquet, but it is still raining in Paris. It looks like there will be a | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
big log of matches. Families of victims of the Winterbourne view | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
scandal have written to the Prime Minister is saying that he should | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
shut outdated care institutions. After five years, not enough has | :36:09. | :36:19. | |
changed. You may remember panorama showed residents being slapped, | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
having their hair pulled and medication was forced into their | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
mouths. After that programme, the government vowed to move patients | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
with learning difficulties out of hospitals and into community care. | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
Five years on the charity mencap says that is not happening. We have | :36:40. | :36:50. | |
a spokesman from mencap and we have a mother whose daughter stays in a | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
care home. George Julian is from a campaign group set up in memory of | :36:58. | :37:09. | |
Conor sparrowhawk. Why is it not happening. They target was set in | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
2014 to get people out of these units and back into the community, | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
that has not happened, it has not happened because we have not seen | :37:21. | :37:24. | |
the right infrastructure put in place locally. Councils and the NHS | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
working together. We have not seen the right services developed in | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
local communities are people with a learning disability can be supported | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
in their community. Is it a lack of will, a lack of cash, a lack of | :37:37. | :37:41. | |
planning? There is money in the system, but it is a lack of | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
planning. The directives have come down from on high, but they have not | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
been delivered locally. In some areas you see change, but in others | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
you don't. Last October a report was published by the NHS saying of the | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
next three years over 50% who are in the units will come back into the | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
community over the next three years. That is welcome, plans are being | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
developed at the moment, but families have been let down before, | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
people with learning disabilities have been let down before. We need | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
to see things being done differently and lessons learned from previous | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
failure. Your daughter Claire has autism, she has had a year in the | :38:22. | :38:27. | |
assessment and treatment unit, there is no abuse, but she is quite | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
distressed and you would like her to move into supported accommodation. | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
Yes, she was sent to the forensics unit and she has been home with us | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
19 months. People are starting to listen and the plan is she has | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
supported living accommodation. It is all about working together with | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
families, listening to the young people, their voices, their dreams, | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
their wishes. They are all human beings, there are so many people | :39:00. | :39:08. | |
still locked up. Our daughter had been home 29 days the previous month | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
and then on the 1st of August she was sent five hours away from us. | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
She had been in the community doing no more things, but she had not been | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
given a chance. Now she is home, we are lucky we have support in place | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
now. Five and a half, six hours a day. She is living here with us, | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
people are listening to her. Once the child turns 18, parents are | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
normally just excluded completely. Why do you think in the final years | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
since Winterbourne view, things have not got any better for people with | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
learning disabilities? I am not sure there is the will. I think there is | :39:54. | :39:57. | |
a conflict of interest between people who are working to charities | :39:58. | :40:00. | |
and those who provide services and some who are not of a high enough | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
quality themselves, including mencap who run unsafe services. We have | :40:07. | :40:14. | |
known about these problems, they are systemic problems. There has been no | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
action and three years ago when Conor died, there was a study that | :40:20. | :40:28. | |
showed people were dying 20 years early, he was 18 years old, he | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
should not have died, it was due to neglect. His family and friends have | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
tried to improve things and get some answers. They talked to the chief | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
executive of NHS England who commissioned a review into the trust | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
Web Conor died. It found 337 learning disabled people died in | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
that four year period and only two of the deaths were investigated. -- | :40:54. | :41:07. | |
where Conor died. Do you want to answer the point about unsafe | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
services? We provide services and sometimes there are issues in our | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
services. They are not unsafe. The care regulator has found issues in | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
some of our services. It is right they are identified and it is our | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
responsibility to put those right and we accept full responsibility | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
for that. The reason why we are talking about Winterbourne view | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
today, the families have said there has been no change over the past | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
five years. Plans are being developed up and down the country to | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
bring people out of these units and back into the community. Over the | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
next few months it is absolutely key that those areas are listening to | :41:47. | :41:53. | |
people with learning disabilities and families. You are shaking your | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
head. We have been saying this for five years, mencap or 151 | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
organisations who put their name to the Winterbourne view Concorde to | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
change this. It is not acceptable they are calling on the government | :42:09. | :42:11. | |
to make changes that they have failed to make themselves. None of | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
their provision is outstanding and one of their services is unsafe. | :42:17. | :42:23. | |
Perhaps they should sort their own house out before they criticise | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
others. Why are we having this conversation and not people with a | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
learning disability. Mencap have not given the voice, not given the | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
power, to people who are learning disabled to put their perspective | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
across. We could not do that at 24 hours notice, they could have. We | :42:41. | :42:45. | |
are holding the power in the system, we are not giving the opportunity to | :42:46. | :42:47. | |
learning disabled people to speak for themselves. Go on. Talk to her. | :42:48. | :43:00. | |
At the end of the day, families who had relatives at Winterbourne view | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
wanted us to sign this letter to show there had been a lack of | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
progress. I agree that we need to be at the forefront. We are bringing | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
together a group of families to meet with NHS England to look at the | :43:12. | :43:14. | |
plans being developed to make sure what will be bowling out across the | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
country over the coming years is the right kind of support that people | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
want. What have you done for the last five years? What has been | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
happening? We signed the Concorde act to hold the government and NHS | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
to account, that is why we are sitting here today having this | :43:33. | :43:35. | |
conversation which is say there has not been the change that we want and | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
to raise the profile. We will pause to say goodbye to viewers on BBC | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
Two, the programme continues on the BBC News Channel. Do carry on, Dan. | :43:46. | :43:56. | |
In your answer to George. We all want the same thing, we all want | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
people to not go into assessment and treatment unit and we want to see | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
the people who are in units supported to come back to their | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
communities. We all agree on that and that is what we want to see in | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
the future and what we need to work together on. The longer these people | :44:13. | :44:19. | |
are away from their families, away from the communities, it gets harder | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
for them. The stress, the families, they all had to cope with it. It is | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
not easy to get them out of these places when doctors have them under | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
section and families have two fight against it. This is what is | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
happening all over the place. We will leave it there. I appreciate | :44:39. | :44:45. | |
your time. Have you decided how you will vote in the EU referendum? | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
Whether you have or haven't, you are welcome to take part on the 6th of | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
June next Monday, we are in Manchester, just over a fortnight | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
before the actual vote, it is open to everyone and it will take place | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
between 9am and 11am. If you want to take part and you can get to | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
Manchester from wherever you are in the UK, do e-mail us to have a | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
chance to have your chance to quiz senior politicians from the Leave | :45:14. | :45:15. | |
and Remain campaigns. In the last half hour, | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
it has been reported from Iraq that the UN refugee agency has | :45:20. | :45:22. | |
received several reports of people being used as human shields | :45:23. | :45:24. | |
by the so-called Islamic State 50,000 people are feared trapped | :45:25. | :45:27. | |
in the city which was captured by IS two years ago and is now | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
the subject of a fierce final assault by Iraqi government forces | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
as they try to retake it. There's growing alarm | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
about conditions there, with reports of people starving | :45:40. | :45:41. | |
to death and of being killed One women who was lucky enough | :45:42. | :45:43. | |
to escape to a refugee camp to the south of the city, | :45:44. | :45:50. | |
spoke to us of her ordeal. TRANSLATION: Thank God we were able | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
to get away from suffering under They let us starve | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
and left us thirsty. They took away our men and told us | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
to go home saying they'll return, but they didn't send | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
them back alive or dead. We can speak to Afzal Ashraf, | :46:07. | :46:17. | |
a consultant fellow at Royal United Services Institute | :46:18. | :46:19. | |
and was a senior officer And in Iraq is Becky Bakr Abulla | :46:20. | :46:22. | |
from the Norwegian Refugee Council. Becky, tell us about the camp first | :46:23. | :46:36. | |
of all. What things people are telling you when they arrive in the | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
camp. Well, the camps are located approximately 30 kilometres away | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
from Falluja town where the intense fighting is still ongoing. The | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
families I've met are telling me about an extremely dire situation | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
they have lived in for the past months. They have had no access to | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
proper food, water, there has been no electricity or any medicines to | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
get a hold of. They have been surviving on water from the river | :47:03. | :47:11. | |
and dry dates. Some have managed to get hold of yoghurt they told me the | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
escape from the intense fighting has been dangerous, they have been | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
running for hours at night-time carrying only the clothes on their | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
back and their ID cards. What do they say it is like inside fa fa? | :47:25. | :47:28. | |
They have been telling me they have been afraid for their lives every | :47:29. | :47:31. | |
minute of the day. They haven't been sleeping. They haven't been eating. | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
They are staying indoors. Children are not going to school anymore. It | :47:36. | :47:40. | |
has been extremely traumatic for them. Let me ask you. In terms of | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
where Iraqi Government troops are in relation to Falluja can you describe | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
that for our audience, please? Well, it is not entirely clear because | :47:53. | :47:55. | |
they haven't given a clear indication of their positions, but | :47:56. | :47:58. | |
it seems they have surrounded most of the city, not all of it, so that | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
does allow the Daesh fighters to withdraw if they wish to which may | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
not be a bad thing under the circumstances, if they withdraw it | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
means that the civilians are not in danger. With dra from fa fa? Yes. If | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
Iraqi Government troops are surrounding it? I'm not sure they | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
have surrounded it difficult. It is difficult to surround fa fa. | :48:24. | :48:32. | |
Fa fa the Falluja a regiment had to help the coalition which was | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
American to surround the city. That was to defeat Al-Qaeda back then, | :48:40. | :48:45. | |
wasn't it? It was the fore runners of Daesh who were Al-Qaeda in Iraq | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
and who have more offed into Daesh. It was this group. IS have been in | :48:50. | :49:00. | |
control of Falluja for two years, why is it crucial the Iraqi | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
Government get them out here? First of all, there have been recent | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
bombings. Yesterday there were several suicide bombings leading to | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
the deaths of dozens of people. This has been going on for a few weeks. A | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
few weeks ago we had the storming of the green zone because the | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
protesters... That's the so-called safe area in Baghdad for Government | :49:25. | :49:31. | |
officials, for important VIPs? The belief amongst ordinary Iraqis | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
particularly in Baghdad the Government is ineffective, it is not | :49:35. | :49:38. | |
providing for the basic needs of security, water, electricity and so | :49:39. | :49:46. | |
on. All of this is being now championed by a politician to led | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
the biggest insurgency against the Americans again in 2004 and it was | :49:52. | :50:00. | |
only the intervention of ayatollah Sistani that stopped that. It would | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
have been difficult for the coalition to keep him under control. | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
He is on the scene. This is conspiring to make the Baghdad | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
Government feel they must do something and Falluja is a | :50:13. | :50:15. | |
convenient and easy location for them to demonstrate success. | :50:16. | :50:18. | |
Briefly, some people have clearly escaped. Some citizens escaped from | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
Falluja. What about those who cannot get out? What's going to happen to | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
them? That's a good situation. The situation is dire. There is | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
cross-fire, the Iraqi army will find it douf avoid casualties and with | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
the militias involved and with the lack of training and maybe | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
discipline as well, I think we should expect I am afraid some | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
civilian casualties and it could be a very large number and of course, | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
Daesh are killing people who are not supporting them and fighting for | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
them. So I am afraid, as always in these cases, the civilians, the most | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
vulnerable children, the elderly, the infirm, are the ones that are | :50:59. | :51:05. | |
going to suffer. Becky back in Falluja. Are you agreement that | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
there are going to be a large number of people who could be hurt or | :51:10. | :51:18. | |
killed? Well, all the reports we are seeing indicate that the fighting | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
will intense. So we are extremely concerned about the 50,000 | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
individuals that are still trapped inside Falluja. We have also, and I | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
have been talking to families that managed to get out, tell us that | :51:29. | :51:32. | |
Isis came to my house and threatened us and our lives if we had any plans | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
of escaping. So no doubt, we are extremely concerned. How good is the | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
Iraqi army? Well, it has not been very good so far. It is the reason | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
why the country was overtaken by Daesh in a matter of three or four | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
weeks or the large parts of the country and it has taken them two | :51:52. | :51:54. | |
years with the American help in training, lots of equipment, and | :51:55. | :51:59. | |
also with Iranian help as well to only be able to take on a few towns | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
and cities and even here in Falluja they are being assisted by civilian | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
militia. So it is not a very inspiring army and that, I think, is | :52:13. | :52:19. | |
one of the longer term problems that the Baghdad Government has to force | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
is that it doesn't have the capability of providing security | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
across the nation and if it doesn't do that, it shouldn't be surprise | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
iffed the Kurds and the Sunnis and others want independence because | :52:33. | :52:34. | |
they're not getting what they would expect from a Government. Thank you | :52:35. | :52:43. | |
very much. Thank you very much for your time. | :52:44. | :52:44. | |
Thank you, I appreciate it. Let's return now to one | :52:45. | :52:48. | |
of our main stories, and the one you've been getting | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
in touch to talk about, were zookeepers right to shoot | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
a gorilla when a four-year-old boy Overnight, one of the bosses | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
of Cincinnati Zoo in America says he stands by the decision to shoot | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
the gorilla called Harambe. Thayne Maynard says the gorilla had | :53:03. | :53:05. | |
been agitated and disorientated Looking back we would | :53:06. | :53:07. | |
make the same decision. I know that after it is over | :53:08. | :53:15. | |
and the child is safe, it is easy like a Monday morning | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
quarterback to look at it and say "Wow, wow, wow, don't we need | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
to do this differently?" The people that the people that say | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
that A, don't understand primate biology and silverback gorillas | :53:26. | :53:28. | |
and the danger the child was in. And B, we're not there | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
at an important time to make That said, we are very glad | :53:33. | :53:35. | |
that the little boy is OK. That is one happy thing | :53:36. | :53:44. | |
in a dangerous and bad story. Naturally, we did not take | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
the shooting of Harambe lightly. And people who question that | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
or are Monday morning quarterbacks or second-guessers don't understand | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
that you can't take a risk They are three times | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
bigger than a man and six I know you see photos | :54:05. | :54:17. | |
and videos and you think gosh, We are talking about animal with one | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
hand that I have seen take He had never had anything | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
like that going on. And that also led to the decision, | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
of course, not to dart the animal. In the real world you make difficult | :54:31. | :54:33. | |
calls, but you have to make them in and the safety that | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
child was paramount. Kyle is in ju Newcastle and Jan is | :54:38. | :55:00. | |
in Surrey. What do you think? It is ridiculous from the zookeepers, the | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
way they were saying that the child was in danger. I just think it is | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
the parents fault. They should have kept an eye on the child. The | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
gorilla was holding the child, protecting it, yeah, the gorilla got | :55:17. | :55:24. | |
scared because of the crowd shouting and I'm just seeing the pictures | :55:25. | :55:31. | |
now, Victoria. The gorilla is protecting the child and the reason | :55:32. | :55:38. | |
for the zoo to refer their decision as a quarterback after a game on a | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
Monday is ridiculous. The gorilla should not have been killed. It | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
should have been tranquillized there and then. It took ten minutes before | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
any decision was made. So for the zoo to do this is a bit ridiculous. | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
Jan, what about you? I think by the time it comes to decisions about | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
what to do with this gorilla, it is all too late. There are two innocent | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
parties here and the innocent parties are a little child aged four | :56:11. | :56:17. | |
and a beautiful animal in captivity and I feel there is lack of | :56:18. | :56:20. | |
responsibility on so many parts here. Particularly who is caring for | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
that child? What happened? Where were any keepers on the perimeter | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
warning of dangers, where are signs? Where is the public helping? By the | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
time the child has crawled in there, it presumably thinks it is going up | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
a climbing frame in a park to see a beautiful cuddly animal and by the | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
time it gets in there, it is panic stations and I think lack of | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
responsibility for not ensuring the public are safe and that the child | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
can't get into this enclosure in the first place and I'm very, very sad. | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
I wish so much tranquilizers could have been used because surely in | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
shoot ago beautiful gorilla it could have fallen on the child anyway. | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
That's outside our knowledge, but I think, lack of responsibility on the | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
part of the carers and the zoo for their safety procedures. Yes, I | :57:19. | :57:22. | |
mean, Kyle would you agree there are still questions the zoo have to | :57:23. | :57:25. | |
answer, not necessarily about the decision to shoot the animal, but | :57:26. | :57:29. | |
how the child got through the fence into the enclosure? It is | :57:30. | :57:35. | |
astonishing. Yeah, I complete agree. The safety features should have been | :57:36. | :57:39. | |
there, but for the child to manage to get through that and fall into | :57:40. | :57:46. | |
the enclosure is just dangerous. The zoo should take responsibility about | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
that and the comment about the gorilla if it gets tranquillized | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
that is a possibility, but there is no guarantee that it will fall on to | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
the child. Thank you both very much. Kyle in Newcastle and Jan in Surrey, | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
just two of our viewers out of so many of you who have got in touch on | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
this story. Tomorrow, an exclusive interview | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
with Willie Thorne about his gambling addiction. Jilly says, | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
"This incident with the gorilla would never have happened had the | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
child's mother been watching her own child." Thank you four your | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
comments. Back tomorrow at 9.15am. Have a good day. | :58:30. | :58:35. |