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Our top story today, calls for voter registration to be | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
extended after the website crashed last night due to | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
At Westminster red faces and ranker amid calls for emergency legislation | :00:16. | :00:29. | |
to extend the period for voter registration. This after angry | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
clashes in last night's television debate. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
We need to be in this organisation fighting for British interests and | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
for British jobs. Leaving is quitting. I don't think Britain, I | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
don't think we're quitters. I think we're fighters. We fight in these | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
organisations for what we think is right. I'm sorry. We're British, | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
we're better than that. We're not going to be bullied by the | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
unelected, charming show he maybe junk. Forget it. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
-- Claude Juncker. Also on the programme, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
an 11-year-old girl with a neurological disability, | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
handcuffed, put in leg restraints and her head covered with a mesh bag | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
by British police officers. Her mother says her | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
treatment was vile. The use of spit hoods, it shouldn't | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
be used on children. And certainly not on disabled | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
children who aren't in control When I saw her with one | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
on it was horrific. I'll never get the image | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
out of my mind. There is just absolutely no excuse | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
for spit hooding children. The head of the group that bought | :01:26. | :01:39. | |
BHS for ?1 will appear before MPs shortly. We will bring you the | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
details. Later in the programme, we'll bring | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
you an interview with race walker Tom Bosworth who has now qualified | :01:53. | :02:08. | |
for the Rio Olympics having just missed out | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
on qualification for London 2012. You may remember Tom came out | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
on this programme as gay last year. Do get in touch on all the stories | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
we're talking about this morning. Use the hashtag Victoria | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Live and if you text, you will be charged | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
at the standard network rate. There are calls for voter | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
registration for the EU referendum to be extended after the official | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
website suffered serious technical problems in the run up | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
to last night's deadline. The Government is looking at whether | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
it is legally possible to extend the deadline after what was described as | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
unprecedented demand in the run-up to the midnight deadline. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
David Cameron and Nigel Farage were subjected to tough | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
questioning on the EU referendum from a television | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
One Conservative voter accused the Prime Minister of failing | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
to honour his promise to curb immigration, while the UKIP leader | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Our political correspondent Chris Mason watched the exchanges. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Tonight, as the arguments intensify... | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
Arguably the two most famous faces on either side of the argument, | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
I think it was very bad, wrong of us, to turn our backs | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
on the Commonwealth in favour of the European political project | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
You use scaremongering and inflammatory comments | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
in your campaign that have gone against people that look non-white. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
If we have an Australian-style points system rather than an open | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
door to 500 million people, then actually it would be | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
Half an hour later, it was the Prime Minister's turn. | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
I voted for you in the last election because one of the things | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
in your manifesto was to get immigration down. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
You haven't been able to do that because you aren't | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
The biggest risk we can take is to pull out of the EU, | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
the single market, damage our businesses and jobs | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
and there would be fewer opportunities for our | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
I hope when people go to vote on 23rd June they think | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
about their children and grandchildren, they think | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
about them and opportunities they want for them and the sort of | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Yes, it was an hour of passion, anger and irritation from those | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
putting the questions, but soon it was over. | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
Welcome to what is known as the "spin room". | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
Politicians and political advisers speak to journalists | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
and try to convince us that their man won. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
And yes, both sides claimed their side was victorious, | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
but neither seemed to manage a knock-out blow. | :04:42. | :04:54. | |
And our Political guru Norman Smith is in Westminster. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
What are they going to do about the voters registration shambles? The IT | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
boffins at the Cabinet Office are probably being beaten about the head | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
at the moment as to why this happened! Everyone has been abelg to | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
people particularly young people to make sure they're registered and lo | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
and behold people did try and make sure they are registered. 500,000 | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
people tried to register yesterday in one five minute period, 50,000 | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
people tried to register. What happened, smoke pretty much came out | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
of the computer! Here is the website now. It is up and running now. It | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
wasn't yesterday. And there is a consensus that the deadline is going | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
to have to be extended. Simple as that. The Labour Party said they | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
want it extended. The Liberal Democrats say they want it extended | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
and the Scottish National Party say it has got to be extended. Folk in | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Government say, we are looking at it, we are trying to work out what | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
the legal implications are. Under the 2015 referendum conduct Act, | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
when the clock strikes midnight bong, that's it! Time is up. So the | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
question is, how do you get round that? Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
is suggesting the way to get around that, is to rush through emergency | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
legislation. It is not as big a deal as it might sound, it can be done | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
quickly if everyone is in agreement, and as far as I can see everyone is | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
in agreement. There is another reason, I suspect, why some on the | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Remain side are desperate for the extension to the deadline because | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
there is a view most of those signing up yesterday were probably | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
young folk because certainly I think the Smith girls, they do everything | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
at the last minute, rush, rush, there is only five seconds to go, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
there is never a plan, it was probably young folk who didn't sign | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
up and the fear of the Remain side, that's going to hit them harder. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Listen to Tim Farron. If the vote is close in either direction it will | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
leave a cloud of uncertainty and of illegitimacy over the outcome. The | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
last thing we want is for the outcome of the referendum to be | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
unclear. Win or lose, it won't be a draw, we might end up in a situation | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
where this becomes a draw because the margin of victory could be | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
smaller than the number of people excluded because of a technical | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
glitch. Vic, to cut to the chase, where we are the world and his wife | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
at Westminster think it is a shambles and something must be done | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
about it. I suspect some sort of legal way will be found to satisfy | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
them and to ensure the deadline can be extended by 24 hours or so. One | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
other thing to say, Tim Farron asked for a statement in Parliament on | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
this, I would think he will get that, unless Mr Cameron is going to | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
raise it himself at Prime Minister's Questions. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
Thank you very much, Norman, cheers for now. Thank you. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
We will try and bring you some facts, yes, some FACTS when it comes | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
to making up your mind when it comes to voting in the referendum. We have | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
two impassion organisations. They will explain why they feel they are | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
impartial and hopefully they will give you facts. I'm on the edge of | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
my seat, I don't know about tu! Joanna has the rest of the news. I'm | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
looking forward to that! The team who took over BHS | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
before its collapse last week will give evidence to MPs | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
on the Work and Pensions The 88-year-old company was bought | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
by Dominic Chappell from Sir Philip Green | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
for a pound last year. Administrators confirmed last | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
Thursday that a buyer hadn't been found for the retailer, | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
meaning 163 stores would close President Obama has congratulated | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
Hillary Clinton on making history by becoming the first woman | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
to become a major party's nominee Mrs Clinton had a good night | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
in the last big round of primaries, polling strongly against her rival | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Bernie Sanders. He is now under pressure | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
to quit the race. Barring any unforeseen events | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
at the Republican Party convention, the former First Lady will be up | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
against Donald Trump "All men are created | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
equal" says America's That has sounded dated | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
for a very long time, and yet it's only now, | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
240 years on, that it may be about to change, | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
thanks to this woman. Thanks to you, we've | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
history that a woman will be But, as her rivals point | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
out, Mrs Clinton is one of the most unpopular presidential candidates | :09:33. | :09:49. | |
since polling began. This is shaping up to be | :09:50. | :09:50. | |
the bitterest of battles. We can't solve our problems | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
by counting on the politicians The Clintons' have turned | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
the politics of personal enrichment Her place in history | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
assured, Hillary Clinton "To every little girl | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
who dreams big," she said, "yes, you can be anything | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
you want, even president." Mrs Clinton could become | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the first First Lady to move in to what was once her | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
husband's Oval Office. The police watchdog has | :10:30. | :10:39. | |
criticised the Sussex force for using handcuffs, | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
leg restraints and a so-called spit-hood on an 11-year-old girl | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
with a severe mental disability. The girl was also detained by police | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
without the presence The Independent Police Complaints | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Commission says 11 officers have a case to answer for misconduct | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
over the treatment of the girl, who was detained four times and held | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
for a total of 60 hours. Avon and Somerset Police hope new | :11:00. | :11:14. | |
developments in DNA profiling will help catch the killer of a young | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
woman in Bath. Melanie Hall was last seen alive in a city nightclub 20 | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
years ago this month. Victoria will be talking to her dad Steve Hall | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
later in the programme. Severe weather and storms have | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
caused problems across the UK. A 37-year-old man and his two | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
children are in a critical condition after they were struck by lightning | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
in Lisburn, County Antrim. Over 8,000 lightening | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
strikes were recorded Heavy rain took out systems | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
at Luton Airport causing delays, while flash floods caused problems | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
in Dunstable in Bedfordshire, and two people had to be rescued | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
from a car in south London. I was driving through and it I just | :11:50. | :12:02. | |
started getting submerged and the guy had to put a brick through the | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
window of the car to make sure that people could get out. They were | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
banging on the window and moving stuff around. Someone on the side | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
grabbed it, and threw the brick and he managed to get out. I was going | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
through, it was so shallow at the time, a couple of smaller cars went | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
through and then all of a sudden the tarmac just started exploding with | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
water and the car was filling. That's a summary of | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
the latest BBC News. Messages from you about the fact | :12:31. | :12:40. | |
that the website couldn't cope last night. Peter says, "Registration | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
should not be extended. We have had months to do. Another case of where | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
people are convinced that the world revolves around them." Another | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
viewer says, "It could be a stunt. You missed the deadline. Tough." | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Tony says, "I do not accept opposition calls for an extension. | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
In anything, there has to be a deadline. There has to be a cut off | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
point Y are the would be voters not already registered anyway if they | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
consider the EU decision so important that they wish to add | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
their choice, why did they leave it to the last minute to do so?" You | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
just do, and the deadline was midnight, but people couldn't log-on | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
after 10pm. So the deadline was brought forward two hours | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
inadvertently. John thinks the same. A lot of men think the same! We | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
should not extend the deadline. "People had more than sufficient | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
time to register. It was stressed time and time again on TV for people | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
to go and register. Obviously the system will crash as any website | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
will crash when the demand is excessive." No | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
Do get in touch with No us throughout the morning. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
Use the hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
sympathy there. We might know the make up of the England team. | :14:00. | :14:18. | |
We're gearing up for Euro 2016 now, it's all very real with the first | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
However it's not the time for injury scares. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
England's Chris Smalling is expected to train today, | :14:26. | :14:26. | |
despite limping out of the team bus with a strapped knee yesterday. | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
He is expected to be fit for their first match | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
But there's a bigger injury worry for Northern Ireland. | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Forward Kyle Lafferty limped out of training yesterday | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
after appearing to injure his groin overstretching for a ball. | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
He's key for them after seven goals in qualifying. | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
Manager Michael O'Neill says he's not concerned though | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
ahead of their match with Poland on Sunday. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Former Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly was part | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
of the France squad which won Euro 2000. | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
He believes the tournament has the ability to lift the country | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
France actually is facing a little bit of problems, socially, the | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
security level, at the level of economy. So we need football. We | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
need football to be there for us to enjoy, to have hope and this is | :15:18. | :15:18. | |
something very important. There is more from Desailly - | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
it's a really interesting interview regional variations apply | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
so check the listings. News in this morning that former | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Celtic manager Neil Lennon will be announced as the new man in charge | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
of Hibs later today. Lennon left | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
Bolton wanderers in March and replaces Alan Stubbs who left | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
Easter Road for Rotherham, having led Hibs to their first | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
Scottish Cup win in 114 years. England's Women edged closer to spot | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
at Euro 2017 with their second 7-0 win over Serbia in | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
the space of four days. Chelsea midfielder Gemma Davison | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
scored her first international goals, | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
a hat-trick no-less, It leaves England top of their group | :16:05. | :16:05. | |
with two matches to play. Scotland beat Belarus but Wales | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
lost to Norway. England's Rugby Union team | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
have a difficult test this summer - a three-match series | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
against World Cup The first meeting will be | :16:17. | :16:17. | |
in Brisbane on Saturday. England come off a Six Nations Grand | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Slam hoping for a first Series Win in Australia, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
but which would be bigger? You look at grand slams and you | :16:26. | :16:40. | |
average once every decade. In May they are coming here and it is a | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
massive thing, a test series, and for England it will be hard. | :16:49. | :17:13. | |
Greg Rutherford has frozen his sperm over fears he may be affected | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
by the Zika Virus at this summer's Olympic Games in Brazil. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Locked up for 60 hours, restrained with handcuffs, | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
leg straps and a bag over her head known as a spit hood, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
That was how Sussex police treated an 11-year-old girl, | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
a girl with a severe neurological disability and what are described | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
The girl, who's not been identified and is known as child H, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
was arrested three times and detained under the Mental Health Act | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
once over the period of a month in 2012. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Her disability had not been diagnosed at the time | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
of the police contact, but her mother had told officers | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
she believed her daughter had an autism spectrum disorder. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
Despite this, the Independent Police Complaints Commission found | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
the 11-year-old was twice held overnight in police cells | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
without a parent, guardian or social worker present to support her. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
The police watchdog decided 11 police officers should be | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
investigated for misconduct but two have now retired. | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
Child H's mother, who also can't be identified, | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
told BBC 5Live her daughter's treatment was horrific. | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
The use of spit hoods, it shouldn't be used on children. | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
And certainly not on disabled children who aren't in control | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
When I saw her with one on it was horrific. | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
I'll never get the image out of my mind. | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
There is just absolutely no excuse for spit hooding children. | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
Talk us through what went through your head when you saw her | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
I've never seen anything like it in my life. | :18:46. | :18:55. | |
It was for me, as a mother, like watching... | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
I couldn't see any child like that, you know? | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
It would be extremely disturbing to see any child like that. | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
But to see your own child shackled up with leg restraints | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
and handcuffed behind the back, behind her back with a spit | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
hood over her head, was a worst nightmare. | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
It was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen and I will never get | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
She was absolutely petrified, terrified beyond belief. | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
It sent her into a state of emotional trauma that lasted | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
When you went in and saw her like that, presumably you protested | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
to them to unshackle her, to take the hood off? | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
One of the times that I saw her with the hood on, | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
I just demanded they take it off instantly and unstrap her | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
The police were very bullish, and they said | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
they were not going to do that until she had calmed down. | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
I said, she's not going to calm down like this. | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
It was just exasperating, the whole situation, | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
it was making her so much worse than she ever needed to be, | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
they had absolutely no idea how to handle her whatsoever. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Our Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw is here. | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
What did they do and why? What the police were trying to do was to | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
bring this girl under some kind of control. It is acknowledged she had | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
a mental disorder that was very difficult to deal with and very | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
challenging behaviour. I think the Independent Police Complaints | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
Commission said in their report that she could potentially be at risk of | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
harming herself or other people. Everyone accepts this is not an easy | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
situation to deal with. It is not an 11-year-old girl walking along the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
street normally. The mother contacted the police on several | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
occasions when the child ran away from her, so the police were called | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
and they handcuffed, they used leg restraints, they used this spit | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
hood, a bag with a mesh over it, which is to stop the police being | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
spat at. On four Cajuns, three of which she was arrested for minor and | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
one where she was detained under the Mental Health Act, she was taken | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
into custody and held for a period of over 60 hours and held twice | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
overnight, but the key failing for Sussex police was they did not allow | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
her to have adult support in custody. You would have thought that | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
an 11-year-old girl with a lot of difficulties would have had a | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
parent, a guardian or a social worker present and that did not | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
happen in that case. The other failing is the police failed to | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
record the reasons why they used the force that they did. 11 officers | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
were recommended for disciplinary action, they had a case to answer | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
according to the IPCC. Nine of them have received management advice, the | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
lowest disciplinary action, and two officers have subsequently retired. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
The police say they have learned from this and they will continue to | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
learn on this. Is that it for now? To be fair to Sussex police they | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
have put out a very detailed statement and have taken this case | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
very seriously. This is not a case where the police have not | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
acknowledged they have not done anything wrong and I washing their | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
hands of it. They have recognised they have not dealt with this case | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
properly and they have acted to ensure this will not happen again. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
They have put in place training for officers. They say you cannot train | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
every single police officer on every kind of mental health disorder, but | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
there should be a basic understanding. You do not have to be | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
a police officer to know that an 11-year-old girl overnight in a | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
police cell needs an appropriate adult there. Yes, the appropriate | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
point has been taken and they have put in place training and refreshed | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
guidance on the use of spit hood. They are going to keep it in use, I | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
understand other forces do not need it. They say the application of any | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
type of restraint is considered only when the level of resistance causes | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
concern for the safety of the detained person and other members of | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
the public. That is their justification for using those. Thank | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
With us now is the family's solicitor, Gus Silverman, | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
For the police to use handcuffs, leg restraints and this food, can you | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
tell the audience how violent the girl was being? My client suffers | :23:43. | :23:52. | |
from a neurological condition manifesting in symptoms similar to | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
autism. It is not unusual for children with these types of | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
disability to behave in challenging ways and no one is disputing that my | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
client was behaving in a very challenging way. When my client's | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
mother called the police what she was expecting them to do was to come | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
to the scene, to assist her in keeping her daughter safe and to | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
help her take her daughter home where she could be kept safe whilst | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
she calmed down. My client's mother was well used to caring for her | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
daughter, she knew her temper tantrums would pass. But what | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
happened was that the police officers turned up, they used | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
handcuffs and leg restraints and a spit hood. They took my client to a | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
police station and detained had a cumulative total of over 60 hours | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
without access to an appropriate adult. That experience meant my | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
client was unable to calm down. She was in an alien environment and she | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
was being restrained and her mother was not there. This was not an | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
environment in which a child with this kind of disability was ever | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
going to calm down. You had an cycle of restraint, distress, leading to | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
further restraint and further distress. Special schools, unit up | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
and down the country, are dealing every day with children who present | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
challenging behaviour. They would never dream of using handcuffs and | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
leg restraints and a spit hood on those children. The question is why | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
should the police use those forms of restraint? It is really important to | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
note that Sussex police authorise the use of a spit hood, but other | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
police forces do not. Merseyside police and West Midlands please do | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
not. They do not authorise it for adults. So why is Sussex using it? | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
We do not know why they think it is appropriate because as the watchdog | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
said on a number of occasions they did not record the reasons for their | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
use of force. How alarmed are you buy that? Barry alarmed. The police | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
are under a legal duty to record the force that was used and why it was | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
used and why it was necessary. That is key for accountability. Further | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
on down the line if their decisions I challenge, it is in the interest | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
of the police and the public to know what force was used and why. There | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
was a really systemic organisational failure in Sussex police to record | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
the force that was used on my client and the IPCC has flagged that up as | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
an organisational failure and is very concerned about it because it | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
indicates a lack of awareness of how serious it is when a police officer | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
handcuffs and leg straps and 11-year-old child. There were over | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
the course of the arrests 11 officers involved with dealing with | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
this 11-year-old girl. 11 officers that the police watchdog say have a | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
case to answer when it comes to misconduct charges. Two have now | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
retired. What do you think of that? There is an issue with police | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
officers being allowed to retire when there is an ongoing | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
investigation. Members of the public would rightly expect that if they | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
make a complaint against an officer, that officers should not be able to | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
avoid sanction simply by retiring. Chief constables do have the power | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
to direct that officers should not be allowed to resign if there is an | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
ongoing investigation. That is a power that should be used much more | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
commonly and should have been used in this case. And from your own | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
investigations why do you think for two night the 11-year-old was held | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
in this cell without her mother, without the Guardian, without a | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
social worker? What it comes down to is a basic failure by Sussex police | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
to properly train its custody sergeants. Sorry to interrupts. You | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
do not have to be a custody sergeants trained in any thing to | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
know that an 11-year-old with a neurological disability should not | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
be left in a cell or night on her own. You are absolutely right. There | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
are two points. One is the moral, common-sense point. How would you | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
want your child to be treated? Would you want to be able to see your | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
child and convert the tar? Of course you would. Secondly there is a legal | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
obligation and it is crystal clear in the statutory code of practice | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
that has been issued by Parliament. It is clear when a child is held in | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
custody, the custody sergeant is responsible for calling an | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
appropriate adult to attend the police station as soon as is | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
practical. What happened here is the custody sergeants were saying we | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
will call an appropriate adult when we are ready to interview this | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
child. Again my client was incredibly distressed and suffers | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
from a neurological disability and there was no prospect of every being | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
fit to interview. As a result there was no prospect of the Sussex police | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
officers allowing her mother to see her, notwithstanding the fact that | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
the mother was attending the police station. On one occasion by accident | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
she was allowed into the police station to see her daughter, once | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
and by accident. On all other occasions she was told flatly and in | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
a very unsympathetic way that she was not allowed to see her daughter | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
and she was not needed. Thank you for talking to us. We will talk to | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
Sussex police later on in the programme. | :30:01. | :30:02. | |
In a statement Sussex police say, "We take our responsibility for any | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
use of force very seriously, particularly when it involves young | :30:08. | :30:09. | |
We welcome the IPCC's scrutiny and during its investigation | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
the force has adopted many schemes to support vulnerable people | :30:14. | :30:15. | |
and those with mental illness, learning disabilities | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
Aspects of our approach are being held as good practice | :30:18. | :30:23. | |
nationally and we will respond to any new learning identified | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
Roy tweets this, "Let's remember the police were trying to control a | :30:27. | :30:44. | |
spitting, kicking child." Ben says, "This is child abuse. Things like | :30:45. | :30:54. | |
this make people hate the police." Kirsty tweets this, "An 11-year-old | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
disabled girl held overnight by the police, no adult support, handcuffed | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
and a spit hood put over her head, this is horrific." Lleyton says, | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
"There is no excuse for this excessive use of force. A Specialist | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
childcare input should have been sought at once. The police are badly | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
trained in mental health issues, but are supposed to use common sense and | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
to hold her without a responsible adult is unacceptable and that spit | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
hood sounds horrific." BHS a back in the headlines as MPs | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
prepare to question the man who bought the retailer for just ?1 last | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
year. Dominic Chappell is being blamed by BHS' management for the | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
firm's demise, leaving 11,000 jobs at risk and former staff facing a | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
reduction, a big drop n their pensions. Sexism in professional | :31:48. | :31:56. | |
football. Chelsea football club's former team doctor settles for an | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
undisclosed sum before she was due to give evidence about her former | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
manager, Jose Mourinho. Here's Joanna in the BBC newsroom | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
with a summary of today's news. There are calls for voter | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
registration for the EU referendum to be extended after the official | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
website suffered serious technical problems in the run-up | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
to last night's deadline. Many would-be voters were unable | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
to log on after 10pm last night, immediately after the end | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
of the latest TV debate. The Government blamed it | :32:26. | :32:27. | |
on "unprecedented demand". The Lib Dem Leader says it would be | :32:28. | :32:29. | |
"practical and legal" Well, the danger is if the vote is | :32:30. | :32:42. | |
close in either direction it will leave a cloud of uncertainty over | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
the outcome. The last thing we want for the outcome of this referendum | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
to be unclear. We often said it will be a win or lose, it won't be a | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
draw. We might end up with a situation where this becomes a draw | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
because the margin of victory to be smaller because of the number of | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
people excluded because of a technical glitch. | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
The team who took over BHS before its collapse last week | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
will give evidence to MPs on the Work and Pensions | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
The 88-year-old company was bought by Dominic Chappell from | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
Administrators confirmed last Thursday that a buyer hadn't been | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
found for the retailer, meaning 163 stores would close | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
One executive told MPs he felt he was misled. I think I was duped. I | :33:21. | :33:35. | |
think the technical term is a myth maniac. The lay person's term is it | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
was a Premier League liar and a Sunday pub retailer at best. That's | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
great in hindsight, but at the time, because I particularly wanted to | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
meet Darren and I wanted to meet the management team, highly credible, | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
highly credible turn around plan, it certainly had legs. It needed a lot | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
of things going right, but with cash behind the business, there was no | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
reason why this business could not turn itself around. | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
Victoria will be looking at the issues in depth with an employee of | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
the company and a retail expert. David Cameron and Nigel Farage | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
were forced to defend some of their core policies on the EU | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
when they were subjected to tough questioning from a television | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
audience last night. A Conservative voter accused | :34:19. | :34:19. | |
the Prime Minister of failing to honour his promise to curb | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
immigration while the Ukip leader If we have an Australian-style | :34:23. | :34:34. | |
points system rather than an open door to 508 million people, then | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
actually, it will be better for black people coming into Britain who | :34:40. | :34:41. | |
currently find it very difficult because we have this open door. The | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
biggest risk we can take is to pull out of the EU, pull out of the | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
single market, damage our businesses, damage jobs and there | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
will be fewer opportunities for our children and grandchildren and I say | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
again, I hope that when people do go to vote on 23rd June, they think | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
about their children and grandchildren. They think about the | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
jobs and the opportunities that they want for them. The sort of country | :35:03. | :35:04. | |
we want to build together. US President Barack Obama has | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
congratulated Hillary Clinton for clinching the Democratic | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
presidential nomination after winning primary | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
elections in more States. Her rival, Bernie Sanders, | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
is still refusing to admit defeat. Mrs Clinton told supporters that | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
being the first woman nominated by a major party | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
was an historic moment and took aim at her Republican | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
rival Donald Trump. The Police Watchdog criticised the | :35:23. | :35:38. | |
Sussex force for using a spit hood on an 11-year-old with a mental | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
disability. The girl was detained without the presence of an | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
appropriate adult. The Independent Police Complaints Commission says 11 | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
officers have a case to answer over the mistreatment of the girl. Who | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
was held four times and for a total of over 60 hours. | :35:57. | :35:58. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News. | :35:59. | :36:00. | |
Here's the sports headlines now with Hugh. | :36:01. | :36:08. | |
No one wants to get injured prior to a tournament. | :36:09. | :36:21. | |
Kile Lafferty seemed to overstretch his groin on Sunday. | :36:22. | :36:23. | |
Manchester United defender Chris Smalling should be fit | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
for England training today and the match with Russia | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
on Saturday despite a knee injury in yesterday's session. | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
Former Celtic manager, Neil Lennon, is expected to be named | :36:34. | :36:41. | |
He'll replace Alan Stubbs who left for Rotherham having | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
led Hibs to their first Scottish Cup since 1902. | :36:46. | :36:47. | |
Olympic Long Jump Champion Greg Rutherford has had his sperm frozen | :36:48. | :36:49. | |
over fears he could be affected by the Zika virus at this | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
His partner Suzie Verrill says "they don't want to chance" | :36:53. | :36:56. | |
We will have more on the Northern Ireland camp and the 2016 build-up | :36:57. | :37:01. | |
after 10am. I will see you then. What went wrong at BHS? | :37:02. | :37:11. | |
What caused it to collapse? MPs will try to find out this | :37:12. | :37:13. | |
morning when they questioned the man who bought the department store | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
for just ?1 last year. The man is Dominic Chappell who used | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
to be a racing driver, he has been bankrupt three times | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
and had no retail experience. The tycoon Sir Philip Green sold him | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
BHS despite having earlier concerns. Both Philip Green and | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
Dominic Chappell have Sir Philip for paying | :37:30. | :37:31. | |
a ?400 million dividend to his family from the business | :37:32. | :37:37. | |
and over his management of BHS' pension scheme, | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
and Dominic Chappell for sucking management fees out of BHS | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
before its collapse. In total 163 shops will close, | :37:47. | :37:47. | |
up to 11,000 jobs will be lost and pensioners face losing 10% | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
of their retirement income. In a letter to staff yesterday, | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
the BHS operations team claim Dominic Chappell's retail | :37:58. | :38:04. | |
acquisition starved BHS of the funds they needed to turn | :38:05. | :38:06. | |
the business around. One potential financier, | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
Joseph Dryer from RiverRock, told MPs yesterday he walked | :38:15. | :38:16. | |
away from buying BHS because of the problems | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
with the pension fund We were told after we submitted the | :38:21. | :38:35. | |
proposal that the proposal had been rejected. It was surprising to us to | :38:36. | :38:42. | |
say the least, but most importantly, that we had been operating and | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
working on the basis of a misapprehension between Dominic | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
Chappell and Sir Philip. What conversations did you have with Mr | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
Chappell about that? We called him right away and said you don't have a | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
deal. You can imagine he was rather excited and emotional. But at that | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
point, you know, we had been working with him over three weeks and | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
normally when you work with someone over three weeks you get to know | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
them and you build the confidence level that this is something you | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
want to work with. That wasn't exactly the case and so, when we | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
realised that the fundamentals of the transaction upon which | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
everything rested were incorrect and given our growing concerns about the | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
project, we felt the right thing to do was to resign immediately. | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
BHS was founded in the 1920s, and in 2000 Sir Philip Green's | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
Arcadia group bought it for ?200 million But the company | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
started to struggle, and the Top Shop owner | :39:46. | :39:47. | |
Green has said BHS was in good shape when he sold it. | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
It has since been revealed to have had a ?571 million blackhole | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
in the amount of money it's expected to pay out in pensions. | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
It is a terrible outcome for the 11,000 people who must be worried | :40:09. | :40:16. | |
about their jobs. Those who are in the pension scheme or hope to go | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
into the pension scheme, there will be no owner of the pension scheme. | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
So their future looks pretty rough as well. And yet we know from our | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
committee hearings there are some people who have managed to walk away | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
from BHS with huge, huge sums of money, the contrast how well they | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
have done and the pensioners and the workforce must now feel is of | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
extreme contrast. Sir Phillp Green, who also owns | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
Top Shop, Top Man, Wallis, Evans and Dorothy Perkins, | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
is estimated to be worth around His showbiz life which includes | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
owning several superyachts means he's good friends with people | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
like Kate Moss and Simon Cowell. But some MPs are calling for him | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
to be stripped off his knighthood Sir Philip is not fit to lick the | :41:04. | :41:16. | |
boots of these people let alone be a knight of this realm which is | :41:17. | :41:27. | |
provoked me into taking that revoke. Taking dividends from a company that | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
cost them ?200 million can be described as little else, but asset | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
stripping. What matters now is the employees who are dependant on the | :41:35. | :41:38. | |
pension scheme, if it goes into the Pension Protection Fund will lose | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
10%. There are many on these benches who think the minimum that needs to | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
happen is for Philip Green to pay back enough to save them from that. | :41:48. | :41:54. | |
Whilst Sir Philip's former workers contemplate redundancy, he awaits | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
the delivery of a brand-new ?100 million yacht. | :41:59. | :42:10. | |
MPs are talking to current and former bosses of BHS. Richard Pryce, | :42:11. | :42:19. | |
Darren Topp the current Chief Executive of the company and Michael | :42:20. | :42:28. | |
Hitchcock. Let's listen. What was the process? We had a plan that was | :42:29. | :42:36. | |
basically predicated under the existing Arcadia business. So that | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
was the plan we were running with. When the sale of the business was | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
announced, we were asked to present what our turn around plan would be | :42:45. | :42:51. | |
to the retail commission and the rest of their team. It is hard to | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
come up with something new in a week. Mm, a lot of it was a | :42:55. | :43:04. | |
continuation of what we were doing. We thought we were making progress | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
in the business and with investment, you know, we believed that, you | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
know, that we were on the right trajectory. If you're presenting to | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
potential buyers or it is a document that's going to go to potential | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
buyers, you would have had to have had a cash flow forecast involved | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
with that? Yeah. What was that projected cash flow in terms of | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
annual cash requirements? Can you recall? All of the cash flow | :43:32. | :43:38. | |
projections were done as part of the negotiations with the Group. We | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
haven't involved in negotiations... It was a plan with no numbers | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
attached? It was a trading plan. OK. Where did the numbers come from? | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
Sorry, the... Where did the numbers come from? They were our numbers. | :43:51. | :43:58. | |
OK. Thank you. That's current and former executives of BHS talking to | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
the work and pensions Select Committee. | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
Let's talk to Jim McMahon MP who we just saw calling | :44:05. | :44:14. | |
for Sir Philip to be stripped of his knighthood. | :44:15. | :44:17. | |
MP for Oldham West and Royton, Dr Pamela Robinson a retail expert | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
at the University of Birmingham and Mike Williams who worked at BHS | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
How much of a reduction will you see? I could be one of the lucky | :44:24. | :44:31. | |
ones because the company was part of the protection fund and I reached | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
the normal retirement age of the company's pension scheme. I climbed | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
abroad the company's protection scheme lifeboat unfortunately to | :44:43. | :44:45. | |
find it has got a few holes. As a chap who has gone past retirement | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
age, I will get 100% of my current pension, however, I served 33 years | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
in BHS, and the scheme at the present moment states that if you | :44:55. | :45:01. | |
served before 1997, of which I did 30 years before 1997, none of that | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
pension is subject to any inflationary increase. Which will | :45:05. | :45:08. | |
mean a drop in overall terms of what percentage? If you take inflation to | :45:09. | :45:15. | |
be 2% on average over the next 15 years, theoretically, my pension | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
will go down in real terms by 30%. What do you think about that? Well, | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
I'm not particularly happy about it. If you look at the amount of money | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
that you have to put into your pension to subsidise the inflation, | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
I'm going to have to find in the region of ?45,000 of money from | :45:32. | :45:33. | |
somewhere. Who do you blame? I blame Sir Philip | :45:34. | :45:50. | |
Green, you do not take out huge sums of money when you know the business | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
has to have investment. The high street has been struggling right | :45:59. | :46:01. | |
across the country and for the people who work there it is | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
devastating. For more than that it will hit people's confidence and | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
people will look and wonder what the future is both for shopping centres | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
and the traditional British high street. It feels as though the odds | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
are stacked against retailers on the high street doing well. The | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
Government has been slow to address that and they continued to be slow | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
to address that, but this is more fundamental. This is about how we do | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
business and what type of society do we want? Do people play in a fair | :46:34. | :46:39. | |
way to the rules or do they act in their self-interest? The reason why | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
I called for Sir Philip Green to lose his knighthood is that in my | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
view if you have a knighthood, it has a great deal of status in our | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
society, you are leading the country and people look up to you. You have | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
got to put the interests of the country above your personal | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
interests. Sir Philip Green is not leading the country? He was given | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
the honour for his role in leading retail. But in business things go | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
wrong as well as right. This was about the state the DHS was in on | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
the transferred to the new buyer. I cannot understand how anybody who | :47:19. | :47:21. | |
was fair-minded can look at that transfer and say with a pension | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
deficit of ?571 million, having taken more than that out in dividend | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
payments and rental property receives, how anyone could say that | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
was good for the long-term sustainability of that company. He | :47:37. | :47:42. | |
has offered 80 million into that pension black hole. What would you | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
like to see him put into that? The pension deficit stands at ?571 | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
million. He has taken more than that out of the company. Quite a big | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
chunk is in Monaco to avoid paying UK tax. That is not illegal. No, but | :47:59. | :48:04. | |
that does not mean it is the moral standard we aspire to in this | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
country. If you are to be a night of the realm, you should put the | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
country's interest above your personal interests. There are a lot | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
of people who will be looking at their future and comparing that to | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
Sir Philip Green taking receipt of his ?100 million yacht. Pam | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
Robertson is a retail expert at the University of Birmingham. What has | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
gone wrong? It is a sad and sorry state, but British home stores has | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
been struggling for over a decade. It was struggling when Sir Philip | :48:37. | :48:42. | |
Green took it over. He used it as a vehicle to acquire the Arcadia group | :48:43. | :48:47. | |
and his attention was taken to the brands of Dorothy Perkins and he | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
created those shopping experiences in the BHS store. He took the other | :48:52. | :48:58. | |
brands into BHS to try and make something out of ladies' fashion. | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
But BHS has not been right. It was launched as the poor man's M and | :49:03. | :49:09. | |
M is struggling themselves in ladies fashion. They are struggling | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
with Zara at the top end and Primark at the bottom end. In a sense BHS | :49:14. | :49:22. | |
has been famous for homeware, schoolwork, school uniforms, | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
babywear, very good on lighting, but what else does it offer in the high | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
street? I do not think BHS Kirin collapse is the demise of the high | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
street. Look at John Lewis and House of Fraser. BHS did not have the | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
right product proposition and has suffered accordingly. Let's you a | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
bit more from the Select Committee hearing. Let's hear about the type | :49:47. | :49:57. | |
of man that Dominic Chappell was. Michael, what was your sense when | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
you arrived as to the cash position of the company and the ability to | :50:02. | :50:11. | |
finance its management? This was my first interaction with Dominic | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
Chappell and like I think many others throughout this process I | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
think I was duped. The technical term is a myth maniac. The | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
layperson's town is he was the Premier League liar and a Sunday pub | :50:28. | :50:34. | |
retailer at best. Well, he is not pulling his punches. That is a | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
description of Dominic Chappell who bought the company for a pound. What | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
do you think of that? A lot will come out through this enquiry and | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
there will be plenty of people who will be looking to complain. My | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
interest is that of Sir Philip Green, and we had BHS has struggled | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
to keep up with the high street and has struggled to keep up with you | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
shoppers, but little wonder when money was taken away from the | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
company when times were good. There was not investment required to make | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
sure it was attractive and that is because people take a very | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
short-term view, putting their self interest first and taking a lot of | :51:13. | :51:16. | |
money out of that company that was generated by the people who worked | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
in the stories and the shoppers who were loyal to the brand, and that | :51:20. | :51:26. | |
has been taken away. 11,000 people will be redundant, but other people | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
enjoyed their multi-billion pound 's lifestyle while other people are | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
left to pick up the pieces. Mike Williams, is a BHS pensioner, what | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
responsibility lies at the door of the man who bought BHS for ?1 who | :51:40. | :51:46. | |
has been described as a Premier League liar? I think he has | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
responsibility and he certainly thought he could run the business | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
and he should have tried much harder to raise cash legitimately if you | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
like and put a business plan together that convinced Sir Philip | :52:03. | :52:09. | |
Green that he could run it properly, but none of that happened. Pam, what | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
responsibility should Dominic Chappell take this? Somebody who | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
could not understand retail was given an opportunity to do something | :52:22. | :52:24. | |
with something that was tired and old. They have some jewels in their | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
crown if they could be sold separately. Nobody would want to | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
take it on as a whole consortium. There is a great site in Oxford | :52:36. | :52:41. | |
Street in London and they have some great sites in other cities. In | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
terms of Dominic Chappell and stability Green, they have not come | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
out of this smelling as roses. They do not show in any way they have | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
been responsible. But we have this problem with what is the high street | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
and the business model and morality and responsibility does not always | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
come into business. Let's hear another clip from the Select | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
Committee hearing. They are talking about secretly hiving off assets. He | :53:07. | :53:14. | |
is the usual for an owner of a company to have a secret plan to | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
hive off assets and then stick you for a bill telling you about it? It | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
is typical of the events that were going on during the Dominic Chappell | :53:28. | :53:29. | |
ownership. There was so much happening above us that we did not | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
know about. Darren was spending 90% of his time trying to govern what | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
was happening above him and not focusing on what was happening in | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
the business. That was the event of what was going on. It was completely | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
extraordinary to say the least. You came to your conclusion that Mr | :53:50. | :53:52. | |
Chappell was a fantasist very quickly. You said within two weeks. | :53:53. | :53:59. | |
I assume you have not ever work for Sir Philip Green. I did not know Sir | :54:00. | :54:07. | |
Philip Green. I ask that because it appears it is only people who are | :54:08. | :54:14. | |
paid by Sir Philip Green on who are consulting to Philip Green that Mr | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
Chappell is a fantasist. I am sat here with the benefit of hindsight, | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
maybe two weeks was a short period to form that conclusion, but based | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
on when I got inside the business and heard from people it became | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
evident that the motives of Mr Chappell were not what you would | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
have expected from shareholder. Extraordinary criticism of the man | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
who bought BHS, that was Michael Hitchcock, a former BHS Executive. | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
More from that Select Committee hearing throughout the morning. | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
Thank you to Jim McMahon, Doctor Pam Robertson, and Mike Williams who | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
worked that DHS for more than 30 years. | :55:01. | :55:02. | |
Coming up: Track and field athlete Tom Bosworth, | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
tells us he's achieved his lifelong dream by qualifying to compete | :55:07. | :55:08. | |
for Great Britain at the Rio Olympics this year. | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
The 26-year-old race walker missed out on representing Team GB by just | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
He came out on this programme last year. | :55:15. | :55:24. | |
Next, sexism in football and what happened at Chelsea. | :55:25. | :55:26. | |
In order to explain the story properly we are going to use | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
If you've got children in the room you might not want them to listen | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
Chelsea Football Club's former team doctor settled her dismissal case | :55:34. | :55:39. | |
for several million pounds yesterday just before she was due to give | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
evidence at an employment tribunal against her former | :55:44. | :55:45. | |
He'd been accused of sexual discrimination over the way | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
he treated Eva Carnerio during Chelsea's first match last season. | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
To Jose Mourinho's anger she and a team physio ran onto | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
the pitch to treat Eden Hazard leaving the team with just nine men | :56:00. | :56:03. | |
Central to the sexism allegation is Eva Carnerio's claim that | :56:04. | :56:11. | |
during the incident she heard Mourinhio say "son of a whore". | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
He insists that he said something very similar which means | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
In the end though they settled their case out of the tribunal. | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
She was given a full apology, praise for her professionalism | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
and a cheque for several million pounds. | :56:30. | :56:31. | |
But what sort of message does this send out to women in football | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
And are remarks like this - whoever's version you believe - | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
We can speak to the founder of the female coaching network who joined | :56:40. | :56:58. | |
us from Lancashire. And we can speak to the first chartered | :56:59. | :56:59. | |
physiotherapist in English football. First of all, what do you think of | :57:00. | :57:09. | |
this case and how it has ended? It is interesting it has ended, it has | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
taken quite a while. As a chartered physio in football this is par for | :57:16. | :57:22. | |
the chorus. That kind of language? Do you mean sexist? When you choose | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
to go to work in football... You have to accept sexism? It is a male | :57:29. | :57:33. | |
dominated profession like it is working in the city and you have to | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
learn special skills to know how to deal with and work with players and | :57:38. | :57:43. | |
managers. Jose Mourinho is a colourful character. I worked at | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
Barnet and was exposed to lots of colourful language and you develop | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
thick skin and learn how to deal with it. Should you have to? No, but | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
in this environment everyone is excited, the game is under pressure | :57:59. | :58:01. | |
and people say things they should not say. Do you accept that? I do | :58:02. | :58:09. | |
accept in sport there is a lot of emotion involved and a lot of ego | :58:10. | :58:14. | |
involved and particularly in a game like the Premier League. A lot of | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
language happens. However, it is unacceptable that somebody who is a | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
highly qualified doctor who has trained for many years walks out on | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
to a pitch in front of thousands of people with millions watching on the | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
TV and gets spoken to the way she did. I understand managers lose | :58:32. | :58:38. | |
their temper, however, managers are there to set standards for the | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
players and to speak to hide the way he did and not apologised after the | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
game is unacceptable. Not just that, she was demoted after that. Should | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
she develop special skills to deal with that? It is tricky because I am | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
not privy to what goes on behind doors. That is a fact. You are | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
right, that is not acceptable. But having worked in that environment | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
you have to understand that that environment is very special and | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
specific. You understand these things go on and it is not correct | :59:13. | :59:17. | |
women learn to develop and work well in this environment. Depending what | :59:18. | :59:25. | |
you read she has either received ?2 million or ?5 million, Eva Carneiro, | :59:26. | :59:28. | |
to end this case and keep it confidential. Some people are asking | :59:29. | :59:32. | |
why it is that much, what do you think? Again she has got her own | :59:33. | :59:38. | |
personal reasons for ending the tribunal when she did. However, this | :59:39. | :59:44. | |
will be a bit of a headache for Jose Mourinho as he starts his new role | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
in Manchester United, and Chelsea football club what this finished and | :59:49. | :59:51. | |
over and done with before the season begins again in August. A club like | :59:52. | :59:57. | |
Chelsea have the power to pay any amount of money to end any | :59:58. | :00:02. | |
situation. Like I say, they will not what this hanging over their heads | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
and they have the power to throw any amount of money at her to end it. | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
Thank you Berry match. -- thank you very much. Still to come: He was a | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
young man travelling the world, but in 1978 John Dewhirst ended up | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
completely by chance becoming one of millions of murder by Cambodia's | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
brutal Khmer Rouge regime. This week in Cambodia the man who ran the | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
prison is due to take the stand in a war crimes tribunal. I will be | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
talking to John's sister. Did you manage to dodge the | :00:41. | :00:54. | |
thunderstorms yesterday? I did! We had some good footage. Some of the | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
heaviest storms affected parts of Brighton towards the South Coast and | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
then these scenes came from southern parts of London. Particularly badly | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
hit were areas around the Croydon area and into Sutton, causing | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
problems for commuters for sure. Some transport disruption there. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Looking at the forecast for the next 24 hours or so, we are going to see | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
some further thunderstorms bubbling up as we go through the day today. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
So after a decent start to the day with sunshine, the clouds will again | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
develop this afternoon to bring some scattered, pretty heavy showers. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Now, thunderstorms won't be as widespread. They won't be as heavy | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
as those of yesterday, but because they will be slow moving, they could | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
cause some issues. We start the day with more cloud around than we had | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
yesterday. That cloud started off bringing rain and patches there | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
across south-east England and the London area and damp weather coming | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
into the far north of Scotland too. Aside from that, through the rest of | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
the morning, most of us will have a dry and bright morning with | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
increasing amounts of sunshine. It feels on the humid side. We will | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
start to see the showers develop, some of them will turn out to be | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
really heavy. One or two thunderstorms dotted around across | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
north-west England, but there will be heavy showers as well working in | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
across the Midlands and into central and Southern England and the South | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
East and the London area too. There could be localised surface water | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
flooding from the heaviest downpours. Temperatures, we are | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
looking at highs up to 26 Celsius, but cooler around the North Sea | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
coasts. It should stay dry for Northern Ireland and maybe the odd | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
shower towards Antrim and Down and showers affecting western areas of | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Scotland. During this evening and overnight, | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the showers will fade away that bit more quickly than they did last | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
night. Low cloud will come in from the North Sea, coming across central | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
and Eastern Scotland in towards England. Rather misty and murky | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
around the coasts. A fresher feel to things across eastern areas and warm | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
towards the west. Tomorrow's forecast, well, we are looking at a | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
fine start to the day. The cloud will break up. The mist lifting and | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
sunny spells coming through. A few showers. This time mostly affecting | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
parts of Northern England and Scotland and temperatures wise we | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
are looking at highs into the low 20s, peaking at 23 Celsius. That's | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
your latest forecast. Our top story today, | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
the former Chief Executive of BHS, Darren Topp, has accused the man | :03:19. | :03:30. | |
who bought the company before it folded, Dominic Chappell, | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
of having his "fingers in the till". And other executives say they were | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
misled too. The lay person's term is it was a Premier League liar and a | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
Sunday pub league retailer at best. Give me some facts! That's what you | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
have been telling us you want when it comes to trying to make up your | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
mind on how to vote in the EU referendum in two weeks' time. We | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
will try and bring you some of those facts on immigration, economy and | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the jobs. Plus track and field athlete Tom Boss worth who came out | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
on this programme last year, tells us he has achieved his life long | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
dream by qualifying for the Olympic Games this summer. I don't think it | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
has sunk in yet. It has been a life long dream that I don't think until | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
I'm there will it feel like it is happening, you know. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news. | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
In the last few minutes, the head of the team who took over | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
BHS before its collapse, Dominic Chappell, has been called | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
a "Premier League liar" during evidence to MPs on the Work | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
The 88-year-old company was bought by Mr Chappell from Sir Philip Green | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
Administrators confirmed last Thursday that a buyer hadn't been | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
found for the retailer, meaning 163 stores would close | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
One executive told MPs he felt he was misled. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
I think I was duped. I think the technical term is a myth maniac. The | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
lay person's term is, he was a Premier League liar and a Sunday pub | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
league retailer at best. Now, that's great in hindsight, but | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
at the time, because I particularly wanted to meet Darren and I wanted | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
to meet the management team, highly credible, highly credible turn | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
around plan that certainly had legs. It needed a lot of things going | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
right, but with cash behind the business, there was no reason why | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
this business could not turn itself around. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
There are calls from across the political spectrum for voter | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
registration for the EU referendum to be extended after the official | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
website crashed in the run-up to last night's deadline. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Many would-be voters were unable to log on after 10pm last night, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
immediately after the end of the latest TV debate. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
The Government blamed it on "unprecedented demand". | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
The Lib Dem Leader says it would be "practical and legal" | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
Well, the danger is that if the vote is close in either direction that | :06:00. | :06:13. | |
will leave a cloud of uncertainty and of illegitimacy over the | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
outcome. The last thing we want for the outcome of the referendum to be | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
unclear. We said it will be a win or lose, it won't be a draw. We might | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
end up in a situation where this effectively becomes a draw because | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
the margin of victory could be smaller than the number of people | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
excluded because of a technical glitch. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
US President Barack Obama has congratulated Hillary Clinton | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
for clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, | :06:37. | :06:37. | |
after winning primary elections in more States. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
Her rival, Bernie Sanders, is still refusing to admit defeat. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Mrs Clinton told supporters that being the first woman | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
nominated by a major party was an historic moment. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
The police watchdog has criticised the Sussex force | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
for using handcuffs, leg restraints and a so-called | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
spit-hood on an 11-year-old girl with a severe mental disability. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
The girl was also detained by police without the presence | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission says 11 officers | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
have a case to answer for misconduct over the treatment of the girl, | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
who was detained four times and held for a total of 60 hours. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
The girl's family's solicitor, Gus Silverman, said she was caused | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
distress, and that the use of such restraints is rare. | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
Special schools, health care units up and down the country are dealing | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
every day with children who present challenging behaviour or behaviour | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
which challenges. They would never dream of using handcuffs and leg | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
restraints and spit hoods on those children. So the question then | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
becomes why should the police use those forms of restraint? Now, I | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
think it is really important to know that Sussex Police, they authorised | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
the use of spit hoods, but other large police forces don't. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
One of the world's most wanted people smugglers, | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
who has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of migrants, has been | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Nicknamed "The General", 35-year-old Mered Medhanie from Eirtrea, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
is accused of being behind the Lampedusa tragedy in 2013 | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Let's go to Rome. Investigators were involved in the hunt for him. They | :08:14. | :08:43. | |
found him through communications da and through intercepts. It is | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
important because in all of this current migration crisis of the last | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
few years, this is the first time that a major smuggler has been | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
caught in Africa and sent to face trial in Italy and prosecutors | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
accuse him of, from their point of view, horrific behaviour, of | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
kidnapping other groups of migrants, putting them on barely sea worthy | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
vessels from North Africa towards Europe and let's bear in mind | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
hundreds and hundreds of people died on the journeys in recent years. It | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
has become the world's most dangerous migrant journey. Thank | :09:17. | :09:17. | |
you, James. I will be back with more at 10.30am. | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
Back to you Victoria. Thank you, Joanna. Lots of you getting in touch | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
about the 11-year-old girl restrained by Sussex Police. They | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
have been criticised by the Police Watchdog for using handcuffs and leg | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
cuffs and the spit hood on president girl. Helen says, "My sympathies lie | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
with the police. Why were they continually called out to deal with | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
this 11-year-old? Who would want to join the police?" Bobby says, "Stop | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
blaming the police. Why were the parents letting the child go along | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
so far without medication knowing things could turn into a sudden | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
behaviour change?" Maggie says, "I'm not defending Sussex Police, however | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
my son has been spat at in his line of work which has meant a series of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
injections to cope with possible infections." Peter says, "Here we go | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
again, the police officers retiring to avoid any action being taken | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
against them for the way they dealt with this young girl. It really is | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
time this stopped happening." The IPCC, the Police Watchdog, | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
recommended that 11 officers had a case to answer when it came to | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
misconduct charges. Two of those officers have retired. Get in touch | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
with us throughout the morning. Use the hashtag Victoria Live | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
and If you text, you will be charged Good morning. If you are like me, | :10:47. | :10:59. | |
you can't wait for the start of Euro 2016. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
The last thing you'd want is an injury. | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
That could be the case for Northern Ireland | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
Katie Gornall is watching their training session this morning. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Katie, what's the latest on kile Lafferty? Kyle Lafferty is here. He | :11:13. | :11:26. | |
is not taking part with the training. He is on an exercise bike. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
He seems to be in good spirits. He gave a thumb-up to everyone. That | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
will be a good sign for Northern Ireland's fans and for the squads | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
here. Losing Lafferty or Northern Ireland's captain, Steve Davis would | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
have been a worse case scenario for Michael O'Neill. They were reliant | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
on Lafferty, his seven goals were crucial to their qualification. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
There was a lot of concern yesterday when he fell here and went down, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
apparently with a groin injury when he stretched for the ball and limped | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
out of training, but Michael O'Neill after the training session was keen | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
to play down any fears, he says it wasn't anything major and he expects | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
him to be fit for Northern Ireland's opening game against Poland on | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Sunday in Nice. Should any small fears be realised, he will be | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
replaced by Conor Washington and it would mark a remarkable story, | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
wouldn't it? Conor Washington is a great story, Hugh. The headlines | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
today, Conor Washington ready to deliver. Just four years ago, he was | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
working as a postman and playing in the Conference for St Ives. He said | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
when he was asked about it, yesterday in a press conference, is | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
still pinching himself being here. He admitted he didn't get to watch a | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
lot of Euro 2004 because he early starts as a postman and he couldn't | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
watch the games. Now he is here with Northern Ireland. He was a late | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
call-up to the squad really. He only made his debut in March, but he | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
impressed enough scoring on his debut for Michael O'Neill to feel he | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
deserves a chance in France. He included him in the squad. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Washington cites Jamie Vardy as an inspiration to him and in terms of | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
hue he climbed through the League. Washington has come a long way in | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
the past four years. You could say the same of Northern Ireland, of | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
course, how far they've come in the past four years to be here against | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the odds in France ready to take part in their first major tournament | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
in 30 years. Katie, thank you very much. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
England's defender Chris Smalling is expected to train today, | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
despite limping out of the team bus with a strapped knee yesterday. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
He's likely to be fit for their first match | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
Long jumper Greg Rutherford has frozen his sperm over fears he may | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
be affected by the Zika virus at this summer's | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
The virus is known to cause birth defects and although Rutherford | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
already has a son with partner, Suzie Verrill, she wrote | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
in the Evening Standard that "she wouldn't want to be | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
in a situation which could have been prevented." | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
We'll be back with more sport later in the programme. | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
Downing Street says it is looking at whether the voter registration can | :14:04. | :14:17. | |
be extended. After the problems last night affected voter registration. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
For those of you who are registered and undecided, a lot of you are | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
saying it is impossible to make a decision because both sides are | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
making such wild claims. So it is impossible to work out the facts. It | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
is something so many of you have said to us over and over again and | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
it came up on Monday when we held our audience debate in Manchester on | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
the EU referendum. I'm just really, really frustrated | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
with the whole thing. We have got politicians on both sides behaving | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
like children in a playground. They are slinging things at each other we | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
are not getting any concrete information. I don't know h we're | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
supposed to make a decision and it is a really important decision and | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
it is not just our futures, it is our children's futures as well. What | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
I heard from this side, if Cameron is speaking and what I heard from | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
this side is what Boris Johnson is saying. So in a way, I'm not wiser | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
today. The politicians normally do convince you good, when they can't | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
confuse you, they scare you, that's what happened. No facts we know | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
today that make up my mind. Because the fraus strayings is borne out | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
what seems to be a lot of one sided arguments where all we get is | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
scaremongering tactics. Nobody is allowed to reply with the facts and | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
when facts are presented, they are trying to be dismissed as not | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
factual. When the evidence is there and you can research it on the | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
internet. We never seem to get any hard facts. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Do you know what I really want to hear is the problemality of | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
something happening, or something not happening. The politicians just | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
keep using the words, "Could and may." | :15:58. | :16:09. | |
People here have not heard anything that will convince them one way or | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
If you want to watch that programme again you can do so on the iPlayer. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
But for the next few minutes we're going to try and give | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
you some of those facts, as best we can, on the biggest | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
issues surrounding the referendum from a group of leading experts | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
who can all say that they are 100% impartial on the issue | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
of whether Britain should stay in or leave the European Union. | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
With us in the studio - Will Moy from Full Fact, | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
a group fact checking the referendum claims of both leave and remain | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
and Professor Anand Menon who is the director | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
of the Kings College group 'UK in a changing Europe. | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
First of all, let's just address the issue of impartiality | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
and whether or not our audience should believe you over politicians. | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
We have been fact checking since 2010 on all kinds of issues, not | :16:53. | :17:06. | |
just the EU referendum. We are fact checking the referendum because of | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
over 1000 crowd funders who made it possible to do this work. But we are | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
not asking you to take our word for this. We have a website and you can | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
look at that and judge things for yourselves. We are group of | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
academics whose interest is to allow who know what is being said. We are | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
not campaigning for one side or the other. Let's start with immigration. | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
The Leave Campaign say it is impossible to control immigration | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
from within the European Union. The remaining campaign say it is good | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
for the economy and those from the EU pay more in taxes than they take | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
out. Who is right? It is certainly the case that while we are in the EU | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
you are bound to freedom of movement where anybody can live and work and | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
study in any other EU country, so we cannot control the numbers of people | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
who come here. That is a fair point to make. Immigration for the rest of | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
the world, we have a say over how we control that. On the economic point | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
this is where you cannot actually say definitely this is exactly what | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
is going on. A lot of the issues here are aware there is uncertainty. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
A lot of different studies, but basically they come out as saying it | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
does not make that much difference to our public finances, immigration, | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
one way or another. It is probably a bit positive. Immigration from the | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
EU is better for as economically than from the rest of the world. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Immigration of people coming recently is probably a bit better | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
economically. What would you add? Most of the migration to this | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
country is non-EU, which we can control. In terms of the economics | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
it is worth distinguishing between the macro and the local. EU | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
migration is good for the economy as a whole, but equally you get areas | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
of the country where you get particular concentrations of | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
migration where there are problems with schools, hospitals and GPs like | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
that. There is a distinction between the lived experience of people. Will | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
there be less pressure on public services and more jobs for British | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
people if the UK leaves the European Union? That would depend on what our | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
policy on migration is. It is conceivable we could leave the | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
European Union and have the same number of migrants. Equally we could | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
leave the European Union and control our borders more fiercely. The Leave | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
Campaign say they would introduce a points system which they say would | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
help control migration. Again, a points system is great in principle, | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
it depends what scores you require. Australia gets more migration than | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
us. You could devise a points system that was tight or lose, but what we | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
do not know is what a future Government would do. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
We have control over who comes here from the rest of the world and we | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
have not reduced that dramatically, so we are talking about assuming we | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
would make a significant change to the immigration policy that we are | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
ready have. But he is right on that, it is about your job, it is not | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
about jobs generally. That is the real story. On jobs, unemployment is | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
over 10% in the EU, double the rate of the UK. The remaining campaign | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
say 3 million jobs in the UK are linked to trade with the EU. The | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Leave Campaign say they could create more jobs if we left because there | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
would be less regulation, less burdensome regulations in the | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
workplace. There are a variety of things. I think the figure is | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
slightly higher, more than 3 million, but they use that formula | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
linked to. It is extremely unlikely if we left that those jobs would go. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
Those jobs depend on trade with other European countries. There is | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
no suggestion from the Leave Campaign that if we leave the EU, we | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
will stop trading. There is an implication in the way that phrase | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
is used that maybe these jobs will be in danger if we left and I do not | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
think it is true. That is right, nobody has done those calculations | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
about leaving. People are saying some jobs are on the lane and most | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
economists believe we will be worse off if we leave the EU, there will | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
be a price to pay. It is when they start putting precise numbers on it | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
that you have to start raising your eyebrows. What about if the Leave | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
Campaign says if we left, there would be less regulation in our | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
workplace and businesses would be free to create jobs. You are | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
smiling. I am smiling because I feel for your viewers and we are meant to | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
be giving them the facts and this is an area we do not know what the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Government after a Brexit would do. There are no facts about the future. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
It would be possible should we decide to do so to scrap every piece | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
of legislation on our statute books. It would take decades. There is no | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
indication of future Government would want to do that. That is one | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
of the frustrations about this campaign, a lot of it is about | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
things that would happen in the future and promises being made by | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
people who are not leading our Government now and we do not know if | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
they will in the future. In the audience debate on Monday in the end | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
I was saying, you will have to make a judgment call. The cost of being a | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
member of the EU, last year Britain paid 17.8 billion to the EU. We got | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
back 4.9 billion in the rebate. Another 4.4 billion for farm | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
subsidies, for grants to pull regions of the UK. Is that correct? | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
Those are the right set of figures. You are more familiar about hearing | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
about the ?350 million a week that has been emblazoned on buses by the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Leeds side will stop what is going on here is that we would pay ?350 | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
million a week to the EU, if we did not have a rebate. We do not pay a | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
rebate to the EU and get it back, we do not get it back. The funds are | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
transferred from Britain to the EU. We sent ?250 million every week and | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
they spend some money back in the UK and that would be about ?85 million | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
a week that they spend in the UK. They are spending it, not the UK | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
Government. We might choose to spend it differently. Whilst this debate | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
about our contribution is interesting, we need to see it in a | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
broader light because what the contribution gets us is access to | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
the market. The gains we have from being in the market dwarf the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
contribution we pay. Do not think about the membership fee we pay, | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
think about what we get for that membership fee as well. Whilst it is | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
laudable for all those people to say we want facts, politics is not about | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
facts, it is about gut feelings as well and on a certain point you | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
might think why are we giving hundreds of millions of pounds away | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
and that might be what you feel. Fats are a guide, but emotion is | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
central to politics as well. Remains a the benefits outweigh the costs. | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
You have said that. We have talked about the ?350 million. Let me ask | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
you about security. Is Britain more on less at risk of a terrorist | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
attack inside or outside the EU? That is a horrible question to ask | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
you. How would you answer that is working for an impartial | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
organisation when we are trying to deliver only facts? The people who | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
know best whether we are at risk of terror attacks know things the rest | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
of us do not know. It has been interesting as a fact checker | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
hearing heads of MI5 and MI6 pop up and give their opinion on this. You | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
cannot second-guess that because they know things we cannot know and | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
they have re-sources we cannot check for ourselves. There is a lot of | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
cooperation within the European Union on law enforcement matters and | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
there are things like the European arrest warrant and intelligence | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
sharing. There is a question about if we leave, does all that | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
disappear? You can look at Norway which is not a member of the | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
European Union, which is negotiating something like the European arrest | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
warrant to suggest there would be ways of trying to get similar kinds | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
of cooperation if we were not in the EU. You would think that would be in | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
everybody's interest. But all of that is what might happen, what | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
might be negotiated and what expert do you trust? I want to ask about | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
travel because it came up in a debate on BBC One and it has come up | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
in your own organisations, whether or not if Britain left the EU that | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
it would be less easy than it is now to get up, book a cheap flights and | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
go to somewhere in Europe. What would you say? With apologies I | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
would say possibly, but we do not know. It depends on the deal we get. | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
If we do not remain part of the single market, it depends on what | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
the Government does. We could leave the single market altogether, so we | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
are not covered by the provisions of free-roaming in the EU. Our mobile | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
phone operators might say, we will look bad if we ignore it, so we will | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
keep it in place. You are trying to predict what an awful lot of people | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
are going to do under certain eventualities. That is not a great | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
answer for your viewers, but that is the truth. I like the truth. We | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
cannot say what the outcome will be, but we can say what process will be | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
kicked off. When the Government tells the EU we are going to leave, | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
there is a two year period in which we negotiate the details of the | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
exit. In that set of decisions is a big choice, which is does the UK | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
what to say part of the European Union single market or not. You can | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
leave the EU and stay part of the market like Norway. There is a | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
trade-off, which is Norway accepts laws from the EU and free movement | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
of people from the EU and it contributes money to EU countries, | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
but Norway gets the benefits of a single market and free travel and | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
market access. Or we can go all the way out and we get the control over | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
immigration and laws and we do not get some of those economic benefits | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
that people talk about and most economists would say it exists. That | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
is a big choice we would have to be made after we have made our choice | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
about whether we want to leave or not. This is the calmest | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
conversation I have heard about the EU since campaigning began. Thank | :28:46. | :28:46. | |
you very much. Let's go back to the DHS, the former | :28:47. | :29:07. | |
chief Executive of the company, Darren Topp, has accused the man who | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
bought it, Dominic Chappell, of having his fingers in the till. He | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
is giving evidence to a Select Committee about the collapse of the | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
retail chain with the loss of 11,000 jobs. Mr Chappell is due to give | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
evidence in half an hour's time. Rosanna says without doubt Sir | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
Philip Green should be stripped of his knighthood. He sold the company | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
to a totally inexperienced buyer and would not be aware what he was | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
taking on. Green just wanted to get rid of the company and he should | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
ensure all 11,000 employees have a full pension payoffs. Another viewer | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
says, Philip Green needs to be stripped of his knighthood and made | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
to pay back his staff. For too long past and present governments have | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
paid lip service to ordinary people whilst big business treat employees | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
like this. We can bring you more of the evidence. Darren Topp explained | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
it was true that Dominic Chappell try to take ?1.5 million from the | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
company. By initial reaction if I am honest was to call the police. That | :30:17. | :30:24. | |
is a substantial amount of money and this was when we were at the end of | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
the process. I said, Harry, because I know the other director is | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
Swedish, before we called the police, let me ring Dominick. I rang | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
him and he knew about it straightaway. I said to him that is | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
theft. If I take out all the expletive is, he basically said do | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
not kick off about this, Darren, I have had enough of you telling me | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
what to do over the last few months, it is my business, I can do what I | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
want. If you kick off about it I will come down there and kill you. | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
He threatens to kill me again and I know it sounds silly, but apparently | :31:08. | :31:14. | |
he says he was in the helicopter squad of the SAS, there was a little | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
bit of me that thought he would threaten me and I said I would call | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
the police. Still to come, he was a young man | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
travelling the world, but in 1978, British man | :31:32. | :31:43. | |
John Dewhirst, ended up, completely by chance, | :31:44. | :31:45. | |
becoming one of millions murdered by Cambodia's brutal | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
Khmer Rouge regime. This week, in Cambodia, | :31:48. | :31:49. | |
the man that ran the prison is due to take the stand | :31:50. | :31:51. | |
in a war crimes tribunal. I'll be talking to Hilary Holland, | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
John Dewhirst's sister. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
with a summary of today's news. The head of the team that took over | :32:02. | :32:12. | |
BHS has been called a Premier League liar during evidence to MPs on the | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
Work and Pensions Committee. The 88-year-old company was bought by Mr | :32:17. | :32:23. | |
Chappell from Sir Philip Green for a pound last year. One executive told | :32:24. | :32:35. | |
MPs he felt he was misled. I think I was duped. I think the technical | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
term is a myth maniac. The lay person's term is he was a Premier | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
League liar and a Sunday pub league retailer at best. Now, that's great | :32:46. | :32:51. | |
in hindsight, but at the time because I particularly wanted to | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
meet Darren and I wanted to meet the management team, highly credible, | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
highly credible turn around plan. It certainly had legs, it needed a lot | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
of things going right, but with cash behind the business, there was no | :33:03. | :33:05. | |
reason why this business could not turn itself around. | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
There are calls from across the political spectrum for voter | :33:11. | :33:12. | |
registration for the EU referendum to be extended after the official | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
website crashed in the run up to last night's deadline. | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
Many would-be voters were unable to log | :33:20. | :33:21. | |
immediately after the end of the latest TV debate. | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
The Government blamed it on "unprecedented demand". | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
US President Barack Obama has congratulated Hillary Clinton | :33:28. | :33:29. | |
for clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, | :33:30. | :33:30. | |
after winning primary elections in more States. | :33:31. | :33:32. | |
Her rival, Bernie Sanders, is still refusing to admit defeat. | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
Mrs Clinton told supporters that being the first woman | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
nominated by a major party was an historic moment. | :33:38. | :33:49. | |
One of the world's most wanted people smugglers, | :33:50. | :33:51. | |
who has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of migrants, has been | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
Nicknamed "The General", 35-year-old Mered Medhanie from Eirtrea, | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
is accused of being behind the Lampedusa tragedy in 2013 | :33:59. | :34:00. | |
in which at least 359 people died. | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
That's a summary of the latest news, join me for BBC | :34:06. | :34:07. | |
The sport, here is Hugh. Kyle Lafferty has eased concerns over his | :34:08. | :34:24. | |
fitness concerns. He was on an exercise bike this morning after | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
injuring a groin yesterday. Chris Smalling should be fit for England | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
training today and for the match with Russia on Saturday despite a | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
knee injury. Neil Lennon is expected to be named as the new boss of Hibs | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
today. He will replace Alan Stubbs who left for Rotherham. | :34:45. | :34:55. | |
Greg Rutherford has had his sperm frozen over fears he to be affected | :34:56. | :35:04. | |
by the ze ka virus. His partner says they don't want to have any future | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
problems. This morning track and field | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
athlete Tom Bosworth, who you may remember came out | :35:13. | :35:14. | |
on this programme last year, tells us he's achieved his lifelong | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
dream by qualifying to compete for Great Britain at | :35:18. | :35:19. | |
the Rio Olympics this year. The 26-year-old race walker missed | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
out on representing Team GB by just 19 seconds four years ago in 2012, | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
but this weekend secured the qualifying time needed | :35:28. | :35:29. | |
for Rio by finishing first We'll be following his progress | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
in Rio on this programme Before we hear from him again | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
this is what he told I'm here to speak publicly | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
for the first time about my sexuality and to the public I am | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
going to come out. To my family and friends | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
this is no surprise, but I felt now was the right time | :35:51. | :35:52. | |
to speak publicly about this. Now I am at a higher level | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
and I have had a lot of interest in social media, mostly to do | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
with sport, but I often do get I've been comfortable | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
in my sexuality and in a really happy relationship for the last four | :36:07. | :36:18. | |
and a half years, so this isn't But to speak out about this | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
being a sportsman it's I am sat with you here today, | :36:22. | :36:25. | |
so I guess it is still news, but in a few years' time I can see | :36:26. | :36:34. | |
this being just anybody else, like anybody can succeed in sport | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
and if more people can come out, Since that interview Tom Bosworth | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
tells us a number of people have confided in him | :36:44. | :36:58. | |
about their sexuality. And he's still looking forward | :36:59. | :36:59. | |
to the day he says when someone's But he started by telling me | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
about qualifying for the Olympics. I don't think it's | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
quite sunk in yet. It's been a lifelong dream that | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
I don't think pretty much until I'm there, | :37:09. | :37:10. | |
will it actually feel Tell our audience how | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
you were feeling before that race. I think I was more nervous before | :37:13. | :37:21. | |
that race than any other race. I felt confident that | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
I should win the race. I've been number one in Britain | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
for a good few years now. It's the whole formality | :37:30. | :37:37. | |
of going through 20k, That would have been silly for me | :37:38. | :37:39. | |
to think I've got this easily. It was just, I had to do | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
a job, and that I did. You missed out on London | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
four years ago. How much does it mean to hopefully | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
represent Team GB this summer? Ah yes, I don't have | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
words to explain it. Four years ago I missed out, as you | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
say, and just by a few seconds. I think I spent a week crying | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
in bed because literally, Now, an Olympic Games | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
is still an Olympic Games and I'm What happens in terms | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
of your training schedule over A lot more training. | :38:15. | :38:22. | |
We've come off the race. Yeah, big mileage now, before we go | :38:23. | :38:31. | |
to altitude where we'll have Yeah, that will take us right up | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
to the Olympics and we will fly When you are race walking for 20km, | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
what is it that's going You know every step | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
is always about technique Yeah, we don't listen to music | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
or anything like that, My coach is always | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
commenting on technique. Yeah, I've got training partners | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
which makes the time go There's always a background noise | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
in the run-up to any Olympics, but the background noise with Rio | :39:02. | :39:07. | |
is concerns over the Zika virus We've had Russia won't be there, | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
a total ban for them, retesting of doping samples | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
from the Beijing Games. First of all the Zika virus, | :39:18. | :39:19. | |
it's not going to affect you personally, but do | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
you worry about those things? The media has made it clear | :39:23. | :39:25. | |
that these things are there, and it's a major problem | :39:26. | :39:33. | |
for that part of the world. I also trust in the people | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
who are organising it I don't believe they would put | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
anybody's life at risk without going through the correct | :39:40. | :39:48. | |
procedure to start with. We've got to trust in these people, | :39:49. | :39:50. | |
they're not just organising And in terms of cheating | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
on the track during the Games, the International Association | :39:54. | :40:02. | |
of Athletics Federations is the official body supposed | :40:03. | :40:04. | |
to govern track and field events, do you have confidence in them | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
to crack down on doping? Again, they are currently doing | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
a very tough job of trying to out those people that have been cheating | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
for a very long time. You know, it's all coming out | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
in the media now, and we are seeing one article after another | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
about another cheat and so on. But actually, that's what we need | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
to happen for us to move on. When I stand on that start line | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
in Rio, I know most of those people on that start line, | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
and I think I trust them. I wouldn't want to | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
think any other way. I'm happy to go out there and be | :40:39. | :40:40. | |
the best I can be and know When we spoke to you in October last | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
year, you told our audience You are the second track and field | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
athlete to do so, I was expecting, even | :40:50. | :40:52. | |
a little bit of slight Not everybody sees the world | :40:53. | :41:03. | |
through my eyes and the same eyes as most people, | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
I'd like to think. The only negativity that came | :41:10. | :41:11. | |
across was people saying things like, this isn't a story, | :41:12. | :41:22. | |
why do we care? That didn't bother me, | :41:23. | :41:24. | |
that's exactly how I I wonder if you feel a certain | :41:25. | :41:26. | |
responsibility now as Yeah, I don't think I'd realised | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
quite the responsibility that I'm having to take that | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
on and I'm proud, actually. It's something that I realised quite | :41:40. | :41:48. | |
quickly, I do have a responsibility, whether I can support and help one | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
person or 100 people, That is to me personally, | :41:52. | :41:53. | |
not everybody might think like that, I did that last October | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
and now I have to deal I wonder, how far you think | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
we are away from other current contemporaries of | :42:06. | :42:21. | |
yours to coming out? That's a question I just can't | :42:22. | :42:22. | |
answer. I have literally no idea | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
because hopefully it won't be a thing that you have to come out | :42:28. | :42:29. | |
publicly, you can just live openly. Has anyone so far confided | :42:30. | :42:32. | |
in you since you revealed your news? Not within sport, but some | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
other people have. People are telling you private | :42:38. | :42:39. | |
information about their lives Yes, that's exactly | :42:40. | :42:52. | |
what made me realise, hold on, I've got | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
a responsibility here, As I say, it makes me proud to be | :43:00. | :43:00. | |
able to help just one person. So, how do you think | :43:01. | :43:09. | |
you are going to do in Rio? I'm not putting a number | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
on it publicly. I finished 24th in Beijing | :43:13. | :43:15. | |
at the World Championships last year, I wasn't happy | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
with that whatsoever. And so, minimum is better than 24th, | :43:21. | :43:27. | |
but after the season I've had, I've broken records and won international | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
races for the first time. I'm going in with confidence that | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
if the next two months can be a good block of training, | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
I can go in there in the best possible shape I can be, | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
and finish a lot higher. Times on championship days | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
are always difficult It's right down to what happens | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
on the day. Sometimes races can be won a lot | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
slower than most people's I would like to do 20km | :44:00. | :44:01. | |
in about 1hr 20 again. My PB puts me right up | :44:02. | :44:11. | |
there close to the medals, if I can get that sort | :44:12. | :44:14. | |
of level of performance. I'm just going to try and go | :44:15. | :44:16. | |
there and do my best. Tom, we wish you the very best | :44:17. | :44:19. | |
of luck, hope it goes Obviously we are going to follow | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
your progress and hopefully we'll talk to you when you're | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
out there as well. . | :44:27. | :44:28. | |
Tom Bosworth. The I The force said it carried out. | :44:29. | :44:51. | |
The girl can't be identified. Her mother described her treatment as | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
horrific. Here, her words are spoken for her. | :44:56. | :45:04. | |
I've never seen anything like it in my life. | :45:05. | :45:06. | |
It was for me, as a mother, like watching... | :45:07. | :45:08. | |
I couldn't see any child like that, you know? | :45:09. | :45:10. | |
It would be extremely disturbing to see any child like that. | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
But to see your own child shackled up with leg restraints | :45:14. | :45:16. | |
and handcuffed behind the back, behind her back with a spit | :45:17. | :45:18. | |
hood over her head, was a worst nightmare. | :45:19. | :45:20. | |
It was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen and I will never get | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
The family's solicitor told us what happened. My client's mother was | :45:26. | :45:38. | |
well used to caring for her daughter and she knew her temper tantrums | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
would pass. But police officer turned up and used handcuffs and leg | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
restraints and a food and they took her to a police station and she was | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
detained cumulatively for over 60 hours. That experience meant that my | :45:55. | :45:57. | |
client was not able to calm down. She was in an entirely alien | :45:58. | :46:04. | |
environment and her mother was not there and this was not an | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
environment in which a child with this kind of disability was ever | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
going to calm down. Thank you for getting in touch. This is from | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
somebody calling themselves Lord Elwyn and they say my daughter has | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
depression and sometimes self harms and the treatment meted out to her | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
by our local hospital and the police has been disgraceful. The staff at | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
the hospital have no idea how to treat her and their solution was to | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
have her manhandled by the police to remove her from the hospital. On | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
another occasion she was placed in a cell as a place of safety and in | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
neither case where the appropriate crisis team is called. This has to | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
get better. Cecilia says, what are the policemen to do if they are | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
called out to an aggressive individual? They are right to | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
protect themselves and the child in question. Where they have gone wrong | :46:59. | :47:04. | |
is not allowing the mother or a support worker to see her. My | :47:05. | :47:15. | |
daughters were on the train and were tackled by four police each, slammed | :47:16. | :47:20. | |
up against a wall and handcuffed behind their backs. They were held | :47:21. | :47:23. | |
for ten hours in separate cells without adult supervision. The | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
police used force when it was simply not called for. Thank you. | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
He was a young man travelling the world, but in 1978, | :47:34. | :47:36. | |
British man John Dewhirst, ended up, completely by chance, | :47:37. | :47:38. | |
becoming one of millions murdered by Cambodia's brutal | :47:39. | :47:40. | |
Pol Pot's army had set up prison camps across the country, | :47:41. | :47:46. | |
and after the boat John was sailing in strayed off course, | :47:47. | :47:48. | |
he was captured and taken to the most notorious one of all, | :47:49. | :47:51. | |
This week, in Cambodia, the man that ran the prison | :47:52. | :48:00. | |
is due to take the stand in a war crimes tribunal. | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Comrade Duch is already | :48:05. | :48:08. | |
serving a life sentence, but is expected to give nine days | :48:09. | :48:11. | |
of evidence in the trial of two other members of the Khmer Rouge. | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
He'll be giving more details about life in that horrific prison. | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
In a minute I'll be talking to Hilary Holland, | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
John Dewhirst's sister, but first let's look back | :48:22. | :48:24. | |
at the events of the 1970's in Cambodia. | :48:25. | :48:27. | |
And a warning that what we're about to play contains | :48:28. | :48:29. | |
strobing and flashing images from the start plus material | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
One of the jails where these people, known as "the rotten", | :48:33. | :49:59. | |
were rounded up and sent to, was called Tuol Sleng. | :50:00. | :50:15. | |
In 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed. | :50:16. | :50:40. | |
John Dewhirst's sister, Hilary Holland, has never spoken | :50:41. | :50:43. | |
publicly before but she joins us now in an exclusive interview. | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
Thank you very much for talking to us. John was 26, it was 1978, he had | :50:50. | :50:58. | |
met up with two other guys and they had hired a boat and they were meant | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
to be going to Thailand and it strayed into Cambodian waters. You | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
knew none of this at the time. When did you know what had happened to | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
the boat? Not until January 1980 and he was killed in 1978. The last time | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
I heard from him was a letter in about June, 1978, when he told me he | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
was helping to make a boat ready to sell to Thailand. He had been | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
travelling for quite a long time, so I did not worry too much initially | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
when I did not hear from him. He used to write to me about once a | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
month. Then the months went by and I started to write to people, people | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
who used to know him, to the British Embassy, everybody I could think of, | :51:48. | :51:53. | |
and that went on for over a year. Was it a call from the Foreign | :51:54. | :52:00. | |
Office? That is right, that would be in January, 1980. It was out of the | :52:01. | :52:06. | |
blue, I was not expecting it at all. It was a short conversation, it was | :52:07. | :52:13. | |
just a message really that a reporter from a magazine, the first | :52:14. | :52:27. | |
reporter to see the prison, he was shown a lot of documentary evidence | :52:28. | :52:32. | |
that showed that my brother had been there, including his confession, no | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
photographs of him. There was quite a good deal of evidence he had been | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
there, said that information had been passed on to the Foreign Office | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
who just informed me it was likely that he had been caught up in the | :52:46. | :52:53. | |
Pol Pot regime. The journalist in the end contacted you. What | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
information was passed to you at that point? He showed me some very | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
graphic photos, rather like the ones you have had on your show today. | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
When he got to the prison there were still bodies there. He did tell me | :53:10. | :53:16. | |
there was evidence to suggest my brother was there, but I was so | :53:17. | :53:25. | |
distressed at that time I actually did not want to hear everything he | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
could have told me at that time. I found out more as the years have | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
gone by and I have been to Cambodia and I have been to the prison and | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
seen the museum. I will ask you about your visit in a moment. The | :53:41. | :53:44. | |
confession your brother had apparently made, what was the nature | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
of that? A complete fabrication. It was about ten pages long. It started | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
with his description of how they were captured, which was presumably | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
factual insofar as there were three of them on the boat and one of them | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
was shot straightaway and was buried at sea and the other two were | :54:07. | :54:10. | |
captured and taken to prison. Then he went on at length about how he | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
was a CIA spy and his father was a CIA spy. He named a lock of his | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
friends and they were all spies as well. It seemed as if there had to | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
be a great deal of detail in the confession. I understand that the | :54:27. | :54:35. | |
torture continued in my brother's case for about three or four weeks | :54:36. | :54:44. | |
and it continued until the confession was adequate. The draft | :54:45. | :54:55. | |
confessions would be looked at and annotated and then more torture | :54:56. | :54:58. | |
would be ordered until they got the confession they wanted. It was a | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
complete fabrication, almost a joke. And this man, Kaing Guek Eav, he is | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
due to give evidence in a war crimes tribunal this week and he is in jail | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
for the rest of his life for the crimes perpetrated at the jail where | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
John was. I want to play this clip of him, it is in giving evidence in | :55:20. | :55:22. | |
2009. What do you think of this man? I | :55:23. | :56:01. | |
think he is quite disingenuous and he is able to manipulate his | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
audience very well. Whatever evidence he gives during the current | :56:06. | :56:13. | |
tribunal will not be really helpful. He may give more information, but he | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
has already provided quite a lot. The most interesting and important | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
fact about him appearing in the tribunal is for people to observe a | :56:24. | :56:30. | |
fairly ordinary human being who does not come over as a criminal, even a | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
mastermind, who could perpetrate such brutal acts of violence. I | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
think that is perhaps one of the most important things to come out of | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
the tribunal, for people to see this man. Why was it important for you to | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
go there this year? Why now? It has taken me all this time to pluck up | :56:54. | :57:01. | |
the courage to go. I am still so emotionally vulnerable about it and | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
I want to explain what I feel a lot of people in Cambodia feel in the | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
same way that I do. It is not just the loss of a loved one, death is | :57:13. | :57:17. | |
final and you can come to terms and deal with that, it is the method of | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
the death and the weeks and weeks of torture and agony and that just does | :57:22. | :57:28. | |
not ever go away. I wanted to go to Cambodia and speak to other people | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
who had lost their family in the same way and find out if people felt | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
the same as me because I am the only person in this country who has had | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
this experience and it is unusual to say the least. Did it help? It did, | :57:43. | :57:54. | |
it made me confront my own Demons and it made me remember how | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
important it is for the world to remember what happened. A lot of | :57:59. | :58:05. | |
people do not even know what happened in the first place. It is | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
just crucial that that understanding is still on. Thank you, I appreciate | :58:11. | :58:19. | |
your time. Thank you for your time as well today. Joanna is here | :58:20. | :58:21. | |
tomorrow, I am back on Monday. It's home to a million people | :58:22. | :58:31. | |
at any one time... | :58:32. | :58:35. |