01/08/2016

:00:08. > :00:16.It is Monday. It is nine o'clock and I am Joanna Gosling standing in for

:00:17. > :00:19.Victoria. Pregnant women have been advised not

:00:20. > :00:23.to make non-essential trips to Florida amid concerns over

:00:24. > :00:25.an outbreak there of the Zika virus which can cause birth

:00:26. > :00:27.defects or miscarriages. So what are your options if you've

:00:28. > :00:30.already booked a holiday to Florida Pokemon Go is the mobile phone game

:00:31. > :00:37.which has taken the world by storm, and now it seems it is providing

:00:38. > :00:39.vital help for youngsters We will be talking to players

:00:40. > :00:43.and parents about how the game has And many of us carry donor cards

:00:44. > :00:47.so our organs can be used after we die, but would you ever

:00:48. > :00:51.consider donating your brain to be We will be finding out what happens

:00:52. > :00:58.in a brain bank and how they are increasing our

:00:59. > :00:59.understanding of Also today we will be talking

:01:00. > :01:20.to the bobsledder who has just become the third fastest British

:01:21. > :01:23.sprinter of all time but isn't Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:24. > :01:28.we're talking about this morning. If you text, you will be charged

:01:29. > :01:33.at the standard network rate. People diagnosed with cancer

:01:34. > :01:39.in the UK are almost twice as likely to survive for at least ten years

:01:40. > :01:42.than they were in the 1970s. Macmillan Cancer Support says

:01:43. > :01:44.an extraordinary number of people are still alive decades

:01:45. > :01:46.after being diagnosed. But it warns thousands of people

:01:47. > :01:49.struggle with the physical, emotional and financial effects

:01:50. > :01:50.for many years afterwards. The other form of treatment

:01:51. > :02:01.is known as chemotherapy... Back then there were fewer drugs

:02:02. > :02:04.and ways of spotting the disease. But the charity Macmillan Cancer

:02:05. > :02:11.Support says remarkably thousands of people diagnosed decades ago

:02:12. > :02:15.are still alive today. And with better treatment

:02:16. > :02:18.and quicker diagnosis, It estimates people are now twice

:02:19. > :02:28.as likely to live at least another ten years after being diagnosed

:02:29. > :02:30.with cancer as they were at More than 170,000 people in the UK

:02:31. > :02:35.diagnosed with cancer in the '70s But many are facing poor health

:02:36. > :02:43.or disability from their treatment. I get swollen fingers,

:02:44. > :02:47.swollen feet, ankles. I ended up with a bad credit record

:02:48. > :03:03.because I was not able to keep up payments on my credit

:03:04. > :03:07.cards when I was out of work. Cancer may no longer be life ending

:03:08. > :03:18.but it is life changing. With thousands living

:03:19. > :03:21.with the side effects of therapy, the psychological impact

:03:22. > :03:22.and financial worries To keep up, Macmillan says it has

:03:23. > :03:26.expanded to even include benefits It says NHS services need to grow

:03:27. > :03:30.too to make sure people surviving cancer live not just

:03:31. > :03:40.long but healthy lives. Julian is in the BBC

:03:41. > :03:51.Newsroom with a summary Good morning. Four teenage boys have

:03:52. > :03:56.been charged with murder after the death of a man in Ashton underlined.

:03:57. > :04:00.The victim, in his 40s, died in hospital after an assault close to

:04:01. > :04:04.McDonald's on Warrington Street on Wednesday night. The boys cannot be

:04:05. > :04:06.named for legal reasons and will appear at the Magistrates Court

:04:07. > :04:08.later today. Opposition MPs have called

:04:09. > :04:10.for a complete overhaul of the honours system

:04:11. > :04:12.after an apparent leak of David It's said to include two major

:04:13. > :04:31.Tory Party donors and more than 20 staff at Downing Street as well as

:04:32. > :04:33.Samantha Cameron's stylist, A rogue trader jailed in 2012

:04:34. > :04:42.for Britain's biggest banking fraud has said staff are under pressure

:04:43. > :04:45.to make profits no matter what. Kweku Adoboli, who lost

:04:46. > :04:47.?1.5 billion while working for the Swiss bank, UBS,

:04:48. > :04:50.also said the type of crimes that Where the conflict comes

:04:51. > :04:54.is where people fall So I think it could absolutely

:04:55. > :05:03.happen again especially as we go into what could possibly be

:05:04. > :05:06.the next phase of the great financial crisis over the next

:05:07. > :05:10.12, 18 to 24 months. Thousands of pots of yoghurt have

:05:11. > :05:13.been removed from supermarket shelves because of concerns they may

:05:14. > :05:15.contain pieces of rubber. The Yeo Valley Company,

:05:16. > :05:17.which supplies Asda, the Co-op, Sainsburys, Tesco

:05:18. > :05:22.and Waitrose, says the yoghurts, including some supermarket own

:05:23. > :05:27.brands, could pose a health risk. Customers have been asked to check

:05:28. > :05:29.any recently-bought products against a full list

:05:30. > :05:32.of affected brands on the Food The mother-in-law of the Formula One

:05:33. > :05:39.boss, Bernie Ecclestone, has been rescued by police in Brazil

:05:40. > :05:42.after being kidnapped in Sao Paulo. Aparecida Shunck was kidnapped

:05:43. > :05:46.from her home more than a week ago. Her abductors demanded

:05:47. > :05:48.a $36 million ransom. According to police,

:05:49. > :05:55.67-year-old Aparecida Shunck was freed after being traced

:05:56. > :05:59.to a farmhouse near the city of Sao Paulo after investigators

:06:00. > :06:01.monitored phone calls At least two men were

:06:02. > :06:07.arrested in the operation. Mrs Shunck's daughter,

:06:08. > :06:16.Fabiana Flosi, is married to the 85-year-old chief executive

:06:17. > :06:18.of Formula One motorsport, And the criminals who abducted her

:06:19. > :06:23.ten days ago are reported to have demanded a ransom of ?28 million

:06:24. > :06:25.for her release. The BBC understands that

:06:26. > :06:27.Mr Ecclestone had wanted to come to Brazil to help in

:06:28. > :06:30.the investigation and had even offered the services of a private

:06:31. > :06:32.security company to deal But Brazilian police told

:06:33. > :06:37.the billionaire racing boss that his presence in Brazil might be

:06:38. > :06:39.counter-productive and advised him Such a relatively peaceful ending

:06:40. > :06:45.to a kidnapping with no money being paid is a rare,

:06:46. > :06:49.successful outcome for what used Wealthy families often pay

:06:50. > :07:00.all or part of a ransom to free captives, fearing if they don't

:07:01. > :07:07.the situation could end in tragedy. The mother of an American Muslim

:07:08. > :07:10.soldier who was killed in Iraq has hit back at Donald Trump

:07:11. > :07:12.saying he doesn't know Ghazala Khan spoke out

:07:13. > :07:17.after the presidential candidate suggested she wasn't allowed

:07:18. > :07:20.to have anything to say, after she stood in silence next

:07:21. > :07:23.to her husband while he made a speech at the Democratic

:07:24. > :07:26.Party Convention. Mrs Khan said her husband had

:07:27. > :07:44.asked her if she wanted to speak I was very upset when I heard that I

:07:45. > :07:48.didn't say anything. I was in the brain. You fight or you don't say

:07:49. > :07:52.anything. I am not a fighter. I cannot fight.

:07:53. > :07:55.A hotel used by foreign contractors near the Afghan capital, Kabul,

:07:56. > :08:01.A truck bomb exploded near the entrance of the Northgate Hotel.

:08:02. > :08:03.Police confirmed that one officer was killed as well as

:08:04. > :08:07.The explosion could be heard several miles away and knocked out

:08:08. > :08:10.An Australian family living in the Scottish Highlands face

:08:11. > :08:12.deportation from tonight, despite a high profile campaign

:08:13. > :08:18.Kathryn Brain arrived with her husband and young son

:08:19. > :08:21.on a student visa five years ago, but a change in immigration rules

:08:22. > :08:32.Meet the Brain family: Kathryn, her husband, Gregg,

:08:33. > :08:35.and their seven-year-old son, Lachlan.

:08:36. > :08:38.In 2011, they moved here when she was granted a student visa

:08:39. > :08:40.and they were also accepted onto a Home Office scheme

:08:41. > :08:44.to encourage professionals to move to the sparsely populated Highlands.

:08:45. > :08:47.The Brains made their home in Dingwall, a town of around 5500

:08:48. > :08:54.Their son attended the local school and now speaks Gaelic

:08:55. > :08:57.But things started going wrong when the Home Office scrapped

:08:58. > :09:00.that settlement scheme - it meant Mrs Brain had to find

:09:01. > :09:02.a job, and not just any job, it had to satisfy

:09:03. > :09:07.Despite extensive media coverage, a high-profile campaign

:09:08. > :09:10.by their local MP, and a meeting with Scotland's First

:09:11. > :09:14.Minister Nicola Sturgeon, that work did not materialise.

:09:15. > :09:17.A local distillery did offer her a job but that fell

:09:18. > :09:19.through over confusion about whether it fulfilled

:09:20. > :09:29.The government has twice extended their deadline in an effort

:09:30. > :09:32.to help the family but now the Home Office says all visa

:09:33. > :09:33.applications are considered on their individual merits

:09:34. > :09:35.and applicants must meet the requirements of

:09:36. > :09:39.Now, unless Mrs Brain can find a job before midnight, they will be

:09:40. > :09:42.classed as illegal immigrants and expected to make plans to leave

:09:43. > :09:52.Joanna will be speaking to the Brain family just after 9.30.

:09:53. > :09:55.Dramatic footage has emerged from the United States of bystanders

:09:56. > :09:58.forming a human chain to rescue a woman whose car was swept away

:09:59. > :10:06.The incident happened during flash flooding in the state of Maryland.

:10:07. > :10:08.As well as sweeping away cars, the storm damaged homes

:10:09. > :10:20.Officials confirmed two people died during Saturday night's storms.

:10:21. > :10:25.That is a summary of the latest BBC News. More at 9:30am. Thank you.

:10:26. > :10:30.Those pictures are incredible. Still to come we will be

:10:31. > :10:35.hearing how Pokemon Go, is transforming the lives

:10:36. > :10:38.of autistic youngsters. We talk to people in the besieged

:10:39. > :10:42.Syrian city of Aleppo where a number of hospitals were reportedly hit

:10:43. > :10:49.in bombings over the weekend, Do get in touch with us

:10:50. > :10:55.throughout the morning. Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE

:10:56. > :11:05.and if you text, you will be charged Now the sport. It is just four days

:11:06. > :11:10.until the Olympics and I am joined by Sally Gunnell who won gold in the

:11:11. > :11:18.hurdles and Colin Jackson who won silver. Incredible to think that we

:11:19. > :11:23.are talking about the next Olympics when London seems like yesterday! .

:11:24. > :11:27.How excited are we? I think we are very excited. It will be very

:11:28. > :11:32.different compared to 2012. It does feel different. Once the games start

:11:33. > :11:37.and we have the opening ceremony in four days, and the Games kick in and

:11:38. > :11:40.we see the medallists and the stories behind everybody, that buzz

:11:41. > :11:51.and excitement of the Olympics will be here. And that is what we need.

:11:52. > :11:53.It seems we go into every Olympics with delays over stadiums, problems,

:11:54. > :11:56.and Brazil has been no different and of course we have got to talk about

:11:57. > :12:00.the doping crisis. It is affecting the Olympics of course. Yes, and it

:12:01. > :12:05.is frustrating for everyone involved, from the IOC to the fans

:12:06. > :12:09.themselves. It is really irritating that this story keeps rearing its

:12:10. > :12:13.ugly head. Now it is a real moment for us. It is a huge change in the

:12:14. > :12:18.way that we will think of sport and the way that we come down hard on

:12:19. > :12:23.drug abuse in sport. When nations are getting completely pulled out of

:12:24. > :12:32.it, certainly in athletics for example, there will be no athletes

:12:33. > :12:35.competing at the Olympic Games, because it has been very clear that

:12:36. > :12:38.there has been doping at a high level, and it is really important

:12:39. > :12:42.that we start to see these real movements in getting rid of dirty

:12:43. > :12:46.athletes. What have you made of the IOC's decision not to issue a

:12:47. > :12:50.blanket ban on Russian athletes? I was quite shocked. I wanted to see

:12:51. > :12:55.that. I thought we had a chance of cleaning up sport and it was a

:12:56. > :13:00.strong message so I was shocked. Now they are going back to having a

:13:01. > :13:05.panel. We are days away and there will be athletes out there already.

:13:06. > :13:15.Will they stay? Will they be pulled out? It is really confusing. That is

:13:16. > :13:21.why I am quite proud of what the iaaf have done, putting a blanket

:13:22. > :13:27.over the sport. They are saying let's move on. Let's move on and

:13:28. > :13:31.talk about Team GB. They have been set a target of 48 medals at the

:13:32. > :13:37.Olympics, which would be better than what they managed in Beijing. A

:13:38. > :13:42.realistic target? I think so, I really think so. I don't think they

:13:43. > :13:45.have oversold anything. I have looked at it. We were targeted in

:13:46. > :13:50.athletics between seven and nine medals, and I think we can get past

:13:51. > :13:55.that, which would be fantastic. That is a fair assessment of what Team GB

:13:56. > :14:00.can achieve. We know about Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford,

:14:01. > :14:03.the super Saturday of the last Olympics, but what about the

:14:04. > :14:07.athletes people do not know about? We have got to talk about Lauren

:14:08. > :14:14.Miller, who broke Kelly Holmes's 1500 metres record recently. She has

:14:15. > :14:19.a real chance of getting a medal. A great athlete and very talented. And

:14:20. > :14:24.the relay teams. The girls have a new British record in the 4x100

:14:25. > :14:29.metres, and the men as well, so a real chance, and we have Katarina

:14:30. > :14:37.Johnson-Thompson, who might give Jess a good challenge, and Stena

:14:38. > :14:40.Asha Smith and Adam Gemili. Youngsters who might get a real

:14:41. > :14:43.chance this year and then the World Championships and then the Olympics

:14:44. > :14:47.in four years. The World Championships are coming to London

:14:48. > :14:52.in 2017, which is partly why you are here today. If we have more problems

:14:53. > :14:56.and doping problems, overshadowing the Olympics, do you think Russia

:14:57. > :14:59.should compete at the World Championships? We will be

:15:00. > :15:04.scrutinising them very carefully and they will not be let back in just

:15:05. > :15:07.because. We are under pressure to deliver fairness across the board so

:15:08. > :15:11.the athletes can get on that line in the hope and desire that it is only

:15:12. > :15:17.down to my hard work and natural ability that I get across the line

:15:18. > :15:21.first. That will be paramount. For us, in London 2017, we are looking

:15:22. > :15:25.forward to our team, the British athletics team, really shining. It

:15:26. > :15:31.will be a mass missed opportunity for people who are sports fans to

:15:32. > :15:32.seat sport at its very best in London yet again. -- a massive

:15:33. > :15:50.opportunity. We hope they will of the Zika virus there -

:15:51. > :15:53.that's according to Public Health The US State of Florida confirmed

:15:54. > :16:00.the first cases that had been transmitted by local mosquitoes

:16:01. > :16:04.there on Friday. Previous cases

:16:05. > :16:06.were linked to women who'd caught Officials said the new cases all

:16:07. > :16:10.came from a small area near Miami. Zika causes only a mild illness

:16:11. > :16:13.in most people, but the virus has been linked to severe brain

:16:14. > :16:16.defects in new born babies. We can chat now to Victoria Bacon

:16:17. > :16:19.from the Association of British Travel Agents

:16:20. > :16:35.and Dr Edward Wright, a virologist Tell us Edward what you think about

:16:36. > :16:39.the guidance because they say the risk in Florida is moderate, but

:16:40. > :16:42.women, if they're pregnant are adviced to consider postponing. It

:16:43. > :16:47.is not definite that you shouldn't go? No. This is consistent with

:16:48. > :16:53.previous advice that Public Health England have put out so far in this

:16:54. > :16:59.outbreak. There is a growing body of evidence from scientific studies

:17:00. > :17:05.showing that the Libbing between the Zika virus and neurological issues

:17:06. > :17:13.in unborn babies or newborn babies is becoming more convincing. We have

:17:14. > :17:18.data showing that if you take cells in a laboratory and infect it with

:17:19. > :17:21.Zika it will cause damage to the cellsment there is case studies,

:17:22. > :17:30.individual pregnant women who become infected with Zika virus who have

:17:31. > :17:35.gone on to develop or the unborn babies developed microchefaly. We

:17:36. > :17:40.have studies where they looked at a group of pregnant women in Brazil

:17:41. > :17:45.and the current estimate is around 30% of pregnant women who become

:17:46. > :17:51.infected with Zika virus will develop or their unborn babies will

:17:52. > :17:56.develop some neurological issues. So what would your advice be to

:17:57. > :18:00.somebody who is pregnant and has got a trip planned to Florida? They will

:18:01. > :18:04.have to evaluate the sort of evidence and weigh up how they feel

:18:05. > :18:08.personally about the risk. What would you say? Absolutely. This is

:18:09. > :18:15.very much a personal decision. There is the advice out there as you said,

:18:16. > :18:18.all non essential trips to Florida should be considered taking a

:18:19. > :18:24.different or going to a different destination, but it is worth putting

:18:25. > :18:28.this into connection. Context, within Florida there were 1600 cases

:18:29. > :18:32.of Zika virus. This is the first time that we have seen a documented

:18:33. > :18:38.evidence that the virus is transmitted from person to person

:18:39. > :18:41.via the mosquito and it is only four cases limited a Square Mile within

:18:42. > :18:45.Miami. It is very much a personal decision that people who have trips

:18:46. > :18:49.planned have to weigh up the evidence that is provided by... It

:18:50. > :18:53.is a horrible position to be in, isn't it? Absolutely. People like

:18:54. > :18:57.definite advice when they are in this situation and they are feeling

:18:58. > :19:02.vulnerable. What would you say to someone in your family? Given my

:19:03. > :19:05.background and my work where I under stake experiments with dangerous

:19:06. > :19:12.viruses, I limit risk as much as possible. I would advice on any

:19:13. > :19:17.travel of people who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant to

:19:18. > :19:25.areas where the virus is currently circulating. If somebody did decide

:19:26. > :19:31.to cancel a trip, Victoria, what would happen? Would they get their

:19:32. > :19:34.money back? The guidance says to consider changing plans. Most travel

:19:35. > :19:39.providers are giving pregnant women the option to rebook to somewhere

:19:40. > :19:42.else. Some of them are giving the option to cancel. I think one of the

:19:43. > :19:46.important things with this is the Foreign Office advice refers to the

:19:47. > :19:52.advice which is the health experts and they have put it at a moderate

:19:53. > :19:57.risk rather than some areas which are high risk based on Falklands War

:19:58. > :20:00.da's track record and controlling and containing illnesses and as we

:20:01. > :20:06.have said, the cases that have happened have been in the southern

:20:07. > :20:11.most tip of Florida. The... It is around Miami. If you are heading

:20:12. > :20:17.elsewhere in Florida you can feel that you're safe or not? Well, the

:20:18. > :20:21.mosquitos that transmit the virus from person to person are present

:20:22. > :20:28.throughout Florida. However, there have been no other cases reported of

:20:29. > :20:32.transmission via mosquito... But if it is in Miami, that prime territory

:20:33. > :20:39.for where people go and there are lots of areas close by. You can't

:20:40. > :20:44.guarantee... Orlando is the most popular destination which is a

:20:45. > :20:50.couple hundred miles north of Miami. There is a slight distinction there,

:20:51. > :20:57.yeah. It is important to note that there is a lot of work. They had a

:20:58. > :21:01.bit of warning given the outbreak in Brazil started 18 months ago. So

:21:02. > :21:06.countries where the mosquito is found have had time to prepare and

:21:07. > :21:11.so they have been monitoring... Can what can they do to stop the spread

:21:12. > :21:18.of the mosquitos? You can cover up. You can make sure, limit the chance

:21:19. > :21:24.of being getting bitten using mosquito repellent and for the State

:21:25. > :21:32.for areas where they are trying to control mosquito spread you can use

:21:33. > :21:36.insect identity, there are other forms of genetic modified mosquitos

:21:37. > :21:41.which can limit or reduce the number of mosquitos in that area. But the

:21:42. > :21:47.actual programmes that are monitoring for Zika virus within

:21:48. > :21:52.Florida and within our States haven't detected any Zika within

:21:53. > :21:56.mosquitos they've trapped. There is again, this is another bit of

:21:57. > :22:01.evidence that people need to consider when they are thinking

:22:02. > :22:08.about whether their trip is non essential. You said Victoria, it is,

:22:09. > :22:12.you know, everyone knows, a big travel hotspot for tourists from

:22:13. > :22:16.here. Are you seeing many cancellations because of the Zika or

:22:17. > :22:24.people just not choosing to go to certain areas because of Zika? No,

:22:25. > :22:28.it is obviously very early days. This is for pregnant women. That's a

:22:29. > :22:31.narrow minority of people who are going on holiday, but it is

:22:32. > :22:33.important that people take that advice into consideration and

:22:34. > :22:37.certainly have a conversation with their health provider and talk to

:22:38. > :22:41.their GP about it and if they are concerned now that that advice is in

:22:42. > :22:46.place they should I would recommend they get a medical certificate and

:22:47. > :22:50.then talk to their travel provider will switching to an alternative

:22:51. > :22:56.destination. It has been a fast learning process, hasn't it about

:22:57. > :23:01.Zika. Tell us now what is known in terms of how it is transmitted, what

:23:02. > :23:05.the risks are? So we have known about this virus or it was first

:23:06. > :23:14.identified 70 years ago. That was in Africa. It hasn't really cropped up

:23:15. > :23:19.on any public health body radar because it hasn't, the number of

:23:20. > :23:25.cases, in a location hasn't really been seen and what we have now

:23:26. > :23:31.documented... Why suddenly now? Well, over 80% or around 80% of

:23:32. > :23:36.people will become infected, you won't know you have become infected,

:23:37. > :23:42.but it just appears that, when the virus was identified in Africa it

:23:43. > :23:45.moved across the Pacific islands and then was introduced into Brazil

:23:46. > :23:53.around the end of 2014, the start of 2015. And for some reason, which we

:23:54. > :23:59.are still sort of, there are studies still ongoing, it caused a spike in

:24:00. > :24:02.the number of cases of microchefaly in newborn babies and then further

:24:03. > :24:08.investigation showed that the number of Zika virus infections was also

:24:09. > :24:12.increasing dramatically and the reason for this, we're not sure at

:24:13. > :24:18.the moment. Hopefully answers will be forthcoming in the next few weeks

:24:19. > :24:21.and months, but there is evidence in this that we gathered in the last

:24:22. > :24:22.and months, but there is evidence in months that

:24:23. > :24:25.and months, but there is evidence in showing the laboratory evidence case

:24:26. > :24:31.studies, cohort studies where you look at groups of people, that the

:24:32. > :24:35.link between the Zika virus infection and neurological issues in

:24:36. > :24:42.unborn or newborn babies is there. But it is not just pregnant women

:24:43. > :24:48.that need to be cautious. We do know that the virus is transmitted via

:24:49. > :24:52.mosquito. However, there is again a growing number of cases reported of

:24:53. > :24:56.sexual transmission both in male to female, but recently last week of a

:24:57. > :25:03.female to male transmission. I think the current advice is to abide in

:25:04. > :25:09.safe sexual practise for six months just to make sure that any chance of

:25:10. > :25:14.transmission is really limited. OK, it is an evolving picture. Jay

:25:15. > :25:18.tweeted, "Just back from Miami. The authorities were reluctant to admit

:25:19. > :25:21.Zika presence. It was all over the news." Thank you for that.

:25:22. > :25:24.Paul Cosford, the Medical Director at Public Health England gave us

:25:25. > :25:27.a statement about their decision, saying, "This is not an unexpected

:25:28. > :25:28.development as we know the Aedes aegypti mosquito,

:25:29. > :25:31.which is known to carry Zika virus, is present in Florida.

:25:32. > :25:34.The risk in Florida is considered moderate based on the number

:25:35. > :25:36.and spread of cases and their demonstrated ability

:25:37. > :25:37.to implement effective control measures for similar

:25:38. > :25:40.diseases such as dengue, a virus transmitted by the same

:25:41. > :25:43.mosquito..Pregnant women are advised to consider postponing non-essential

:25:44. > :25:59.Advice to all travellers remains to avoid mosquito bites."

:26:00. > :26:02.Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of running an old boys

:26:03. > :26:04.network after it emerged that he is planning to reward

:26:05. > :26:07.Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of running an old boys

:26:08. > :26:09.many of his closest Downing Street staff and Tory Party donors

:26:10. > :26:11.with honours following his resignation.

:26:12. > :26:14.A list of the people he is intending to give honours to was leaked

:26:15. > :26:18.They include press advisers and prominent members of the failed

:26:19. > :26:30.Eleanor Garnier joins us. Tell us more about who is getting what?

:26:31. > :26:34.Well, this list has been leaked to the Sunday Times. We don't know

:26:35. > :26:39.these are the actual names that will get the rewards and honours. I guess

:26:40. > :26:43.a little bit of context too. Prime Ministers when they resign, when

:26:44. > :26:49.they leave Downing Street, do get this gift if you like. They are

:26:50. > :26:52.allowed to award honours who whom they choose. Tony Blair and Gordon

:26:53. > :26:57.Brown didn't have resignation honours list. John Major was the

:26:58. > :27:03.last Prime Minister to do so. I think they always caught criticism

:27:04. > :27:07.-- court criticism or controversy wherever there are honours being

:27:08. > :27:12.bestowed, we always hear cries of cronyism. There is more criticism

:27:13. > :27:16.this time around because remember when David Cameron was Tory leader,

:27:17. > :27:19.he hasn't yet become Prime Minister, he talked then of bringing in a new

:27:20. > :27:24.kind of politics. He said he was going to reverse what he saw as the

:27:25. > :27:28.erosion of public confidence in politics and it is those sentiments

:27:29. > :27:32.that are now being criticised for being hollow with this very long

:27:33. > :27:38.list, leaked list, of these potential names that ranges from

:27:39. > :27:43.Remain campaigners, party donors, Cabinet Ministers, but then a huge

:27:44. > :27:49.swathe of people from inside Downing Street from press advisors and aides

:27:50. > :27:53.to Samantha Cameron's aide who was a stylist some have said and that's

:27:54. > :27:57.prompted the criticism, we have heard from Labour, from the deputy

:27:58. > :28:02.leader of the Labour Party, Tom Watson, saying it is like an old

:28:03. > :28:08.boys club, even a Tory MP, said it stinks of cronyism. There has been

:28:09. > :28:12.plenty of criticism. Has there been any response from

:28:13. > :28:18.David Cameron or anybody else within the Tory Party? Well, unsurprisingly

:28:19. > :28:27.we haven't had a response from David Cameron. The Cabinet Office, which

:28:28. > :28:31.is involved in the sort of technical side of how these honours are

:28:32. > :28:34.vetted, it said it won't comment on leaked documents. What happens is

:28:35. > :28:38.the Prime Minister draws up the list. It then gets sent out to

:28:39. > :28:42.different honours committees which vet the name on the list. There is a

:28:43. > :28:46.committee for arts and media, one for the economy, for example, and

:28:47. > :28:50.once the committees have looked at the names, it gets sent back to the

:28:51. > :28:54.Prime Minister who then sends it on to the Queen. He makes his

:28:55. > :28:58.recommendations to the Queen who then formalises the list if you

:28:59. > :29:01.like. There has been suspicion that there has been a hold-up, we would

:29:02. > :29:05.have expected the honours list sooner than we have had it, but now

:29:06. > :29:07.the idea is that perhaps we will get it next month.

:29:08. > :29:12.Eleanor, thank you very much. Still to come: An Australian family

:29:13. > :29:15.living in the Scottish Highlands is facing deportation from tonight,

:29:16. > :29:17.despite a high profile campaign And how the mobile phone app

:29:18. > :29:25.Pokemon Go is providing vital help We will be talking to players

:29:26. > :29:29.and parents about how the game has Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom

:29:30. > :29:40.with a summary of today's news. People diagnosed with cancer are now

:29:41. > :29:43.twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years

:29:44. > :29:45.as they were at the A report from the charity

:29:46. > :29:49.Macmillan Cancer Support says better treatments

:29:50. > :29:51.and speedier diagnoses have led But it warns thousands of people

:29:52. > :29:57.struggle with the physical, emotional and financial effects

:29:58. > :30:07.for many years afterwards. Four teenage boys have been charged

:30:08. > :30:10.with murder after the death of a man The victim, in his 40s,

:30:11. > :30:14.died in hospital after the assault close to a McDonald's

:30:15. > :30:16.in Warrington Street The boys, who cannot be named

:30:17. > :30:23.for legal reasons, will appear at Oldham Magistrates'

:30:24. > :30:26.Court later today. Opposition MPs are calling

:30:27. > :30:29.for a complete overhaul of the honours system

:30:30. > :30:31.after a newspaper published what it said were leaked

:30:32. > :30:33.details of David Cameron's It includes two major

:30:34. > :30:37.Conservative Party donors, more than 20 staff at

:30:38. > :30:39.Downing Street, and an adviser described in newspaper reports

:30:40. > :30:43.as Samantha Cameron's stylist. Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson,

:30:44. > :30:45.said the list was an example Thousands of pots of yoghurt have

:30:46. > :30:52.been removed from supermarket shelves because of concerns they may

:30:53. > :30:54.contain pieces of rubber. The Yeo Valley Company,

:30:55. > :30:56.which supplies Asda, the Co-op, Sainsburys, Tesco

:30:57. > :30:59.and Waitrose, says the yoghurts, including some supermarket own

:31:00. > :31:03.brands, could pose a health risk. Customers have been asked to check

:31:04. > :31:05.any recently-bought products against a full list

:31:06. > :31:07.of affected brands on the Food A rogue trader jailed in 2012

:31:08. > :31:21.for Britain's biggest banking fraud has said trading staff

:31:22. > :31:23.are under pressure to make Kweku Adoboli, who lost

:31:24. > :31:29.?1.5 billion while working for the Swiss bank, UBS,

:31:30. > :31:44.also said the type of crimes that An investigation is under way after

:31:45. > :31:47.firefighters were called to rescue 19 people including children at a

:31:48. > :31:51.fairground ride at the Southbank Centre in London. It happened

:31:52. > :31:57.yesterday evening when the right got stuck 20 metres in the F. There were

:31:58. > :32:02.no reports of injuries and it remains closed.

:32:03. > :32:04.Here's some sport now with John Watson.

:32:05. > :32:09.For the first time in five years there have been first-time winners

:32:10. > :32:12.Jimmy Walker won the US PGA yesterday.

:32:13. > :32:14.His victory at Baltusrol follows Danny Willett's Masters win

:32:15. > :32:17.in April, American Dustin Johnson who took the US Open in June,

:32:18. > :32:23.and Henrik Stenson who won the Open two weeks ago.

:32:24. > :32:25.Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn held on to win the Women's

:32:26. > :32:30.She won by three shots on 16 under par.

:32:31. > :32:35.Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix to extend his lead to 19 points

:32:36. > :32:37.in the drivers' standings over team mate Nico Rosberg who could

:32:38. > :32:43.With four days to go until the start of the Olympic Games in Rio,

:32:44. > :32:45.there's more confusion over the involvement

:32:46. > :32:48.of Russian competitors, after the IOC announced a three man

:32:49. > :32:55.panel will have the final say on whether they can compete

:32:56. > :32:56.after initially telling the international federations

:32:57. > :33:04.And just a week after winning his third Tour De France title,

:33:05. > :33:06.Britain's Chris Froome was back in the saddle

:33:07. > :33:08.yesterday taking part in the Ride London

:33:09. > :33:11.No victory this time though, as the event was won

:33:12. > :33:20.Great shots. That is all the sport and I will have more for you later.

:33:21. > :33:23.Thank you. Some of you are sending is comments about former Prime

:33:24. > :33:29.Minister David Cameron's resignation honours list. This list always

:33:30. > :33:33.contain people close to the outgoing Prime Minister, but what, locates

:33:34. > :33:36.this is Brexit. Michael Gove would have been on the list if he and

:33:37. > :33:42.David Cameron had not fallen out. Perhaps the problem is having these

:33:43. > :33:48.lists. And David has emailed, saying the awards should go to heroes who

:33:49. > :33:51.say people and animals not David Cameron's right-hand men. Thank you

:33:52. > :33:56.for your comments on what we are talking about this morning.

:33:57. > :33:59.An Australian family living in the Highlands of Scotland have

:34:00. > :34:02.until midnight tonight to find a job which meets their visa requirements

:34:03. > :34:06.Kathryn and Gregg Brain moved to Scotland on Mrs Brain's student

:34:07. > :34:08.visa in 2011 but the terms of their stay were later changed.

:34:09. > :34:12.The couple have been searching for the kind of job that will allow

:34:13. > :34:14.them and their seven-year-old son Lachlan to remain here,

:34:15. > :34:18.We spoke to them exclusively on this programme last May

:34:19. > :34:21.and this is what they had to say about the way they had been treated

:34:22. > :34:25.If I can quote James Brokenshire's letter, one of the letters he wrote

:34:26. > :34:27.to us, he said that, "Applicants should

:34:28. > :34:30.never assume that the provisions in place at the time

:34:31. > :34:32.of their initial entry into the UK will continue to be viable

:34:33. > :34:36.He seems to be saying that the UK Government's stated position

:34:37. > :34:41.is to be untrustworthy in their dealing with immigrants.

:34:42. > :34:45.We were promised a tier two work visa when we applied for a visa

:34:46. > :34:48.in 2010, and when it was granted, which was the year before

:34:49. > :34:54.the change to the visa regime was even announced.

:34:55. > :34:57.At that point we had to have some ?15,000 or ?20,000 maintenance fund

:34:58. > :35:00.sitting in an account for 90 days, so that will give you some level

:35:01. > :35:07.Again, all we are asking for is for the UK Government...

:35:08. > :35:10.This is a country which prides itself as being the birthplace

:35:11. > :35:13.You would think that in dealing with the UK Government,

:35:14. > :35:16.you would have the right to assume that you would be dealt

:35:17. > :35:21.Mr Brokenshire's quote seems to suggest that that is an unwise

:35:22. > :35:25.Hopefully, we are mistaken, and he's a better man than that.

:35:26. > :35:27.He has the opportunity to demonstrate that we can

:35:28. > :35:34.trust the UK Government to deal with us honestly.

:35:35. > :35:39.That was the family in May. Let's talk to them now. Thank you for

:35:40. > :35:47.joining us. Your visa expires at midnight

:35:48. > :35:51.tonight. Is it just a case of watching the clock ticked down? We

:35:52. > :35:55.are very much hoping that an employer will come forward and

:35:56. > :36:01.picked up the ball where the previous one has dropped it. That

:36:02. > :36:04.would be a game changer for us. The new Immigration Minister has been

:36:05. > :36:08.very approachable and solution oriented and he said he would help

:36:09. > :36:12.us if we can get an employer, in terms of getting the paperwork

:36:13. > :36:17.sorted, so we hope that will happen today. That would be a game changer

:36:18. > :36:20.for us. What have you been doing to try to sort yourself out? You have

:36:21. > :36:29.had temporary reprieve is that the deadline has been put back to enable

:36:30. > :36:33.you to have some time to get a job so that you can stay. Yes, in fact

:36:34. > :36:43.we have been extraordinarily unlucky. We actually achieved the

:36:44. > :36:49.goal of having that job twice now. Kathryn had a job at a law firm in

:36:50. > :36:53.Dingwall, and due to a tragic change in the employer's health, she was

:36:54. > :37:00.physically unable to continue with the process, and then in May a

:37:01. > :37:03.distillery publicly promised Kathryn a historian position, which was the

:37:04. > :37:08.basis on which James Brokenshire Iyer, that then Immigration

:37:09. > :37:11.Minister, allowed as an extension to get the paperwork sorted, and then

:37:12. > :37:15.we only had recently that the distillery could not go ahead with

:37:16. > :37:20.giving Kathryn that position and then we only had two weeks to hit

:37:21. > :37:27.the target again. So how long have you not been working for? Since

:37:28. > :37:32.mid-March when the Home Office revoked our right to work. We both

:37:33. > :37:36.had to quit our jobs with no notice, and unfortunately that was with

:37:37. > :37:39.small employers of less than ten employees, so it impacted

:37:40. > :37:46.significantly on them as well as ours. How have you been getting by

:37:47. > :37:53.without working and with no income? Through the generosity of our

:37:54. > :37:56.community and our church family. It has purely been through charitable

:37:57. > :38:01.donations. We have been overwhelmed by the community support that we

:38:02. > :38:06.have had. We are currently living under the fourth roof in as many

:38:07. > :38:14.months, kindly donated by one of the church family. We are house-sitting

:38:15. > :38:18.for a friend. The charitable donations have been putting meals on

:38:19. > :38:23.the table each night. In fact we have had strangers posting checks to

:38:24. > :38:27.our MP's office, asking to forward them on, so if we can use this

:38:28. > :38:30.platform now to say thank you to everyone who has supported us

:38:31. > :38:37.because without it we would not be here now. Sorry, I was just going to

:38:38. > :38:43.say that not everybody is aware of the ins and outs of your case, and

:38:44. > :38:47.it is complicated. Just explain briefly, if you can, your right to

:38:48. > :38:53.work was revoked, but now the Home Office has given you time to get

:38:54. > :38:56.jobs so that you can stay. How does that work? What sort of jobs would

:38:57. > :39:04.you need in order to be able to stay? OK, well, I actually have a

:39:05. > :39:08.job offer with a local construction firm, Springfield, which they are

:39:09. > :39:11.keeping open at this point, but they have got to review that as their

:39:12. > :39:17.operational demands require. That would not qualify for a visa. It

:39:18. > :39:20.would have to be Kathryn getting a job at a degree level, which would

:39:21. > :39:24.almost certainly involve her Scottish history and archaeology

:39:25. > :39:26.qualifications, and that is what we are looking for now, but we would

:39:27. > :39:34.still not be allowed to work until the Home Office grants the visa. We

:39:35. > :39:36.both have highly valued skills, it is just that unfortunately the list

:39:37. > :39:44.of positions that the Home Office have have everything from belly

:39:45. > :39:52.dancer do historian curator, so it is an odd list of jobs that you have

:39:53. > :39:56.to fulfil to get this work visa. You are smiling but how are you feeling

:39:57. > :40:00.about this because the deadline expires tonight? Would that mean you

:40:01. > :40:06.have got to get on an aeroplane tomorrow? How does it work? Well,

:40:07. > :40:10.that is the essence of it. We have until tonight to put in an

:40:11. > :40:18.application otherwise the leave to remain that we have expires. At this

:40:19. > :40:20.point I am still hopeful that Robert Goodwill, the current Immigration

:40:21. > :40:30.Minister, will see sense and give us what was promised six years ago,

:40:31. > :40:36.eight level two work visa, and last night we heard that giving that visa

:40:37. > :40:41.was not available to the Immigration Minister as an option, but we heard

:40:42. > :40:44.late last night that the immigration department has reintroduced

:40:45. > :40:47.post-study work visas for some English universities, which given

:40:48. > :40:56.what we have been going through over the last weeks and months seems to

:40:57. > :41:01.be adding insult to injury. Sorry, Kathryn. You are asking for an

:41:02. > :41:08.exemption from the rules that are in place for everybody else, aren't

:41:09. > :41:11.you? What we are asking for is for what was promised to us when we

:41:12. > :41:17.committed to coming here and we sold our house, and just about everything

:41:18. > :41:21.we owned, and brought the rest of it over here by Fred. We were promised

:41:22. > :41:25.that if you study for three or four years, there would be this work visa

:41:26. > :41:29.and we had to plan years ahead to achieve that. For the UK Government

:41:30. > :41:33.to retroactively cancel that after we had committed to it, we think is

:41:34. > :41:37.a breach of natural justice. We have lived up to our end of the bargain

:41:38. > :41:40.and we are just asking UK Government to do the same. There have been

:41:41. > :41:52.hundreds of other students who have quietly accepted this gone home, and

:41:53. > :41:54.with respect that does not make it more right. Kathryn will happily

:41:55. > :41:57.tell you I am probably the most stubborn person she knows! We're not

:41:58. > :41:59.giving up and we just want what was promised to us. We are not asking

:42:00. > :42:02.for exemptions and special treatment. This treatment should be

:42:03. > :42:05.given to anybody by an honest and ethical trade. If a business had

:42:06. > :42:09.treated somebody like this, the government would come down on them

:42:10. > :42:14.and suggest we call the fraud squad, but because it is the government, we

:42:15. > :42:25.have no one to turn to. Are you angry? Disappointed, frustrated. We

:42:26. > :42:28.are angry. We don't see this as a party political or nationalistic

:42:29. > :42:34.issue. It is just an issue where bureaucracy has made a decision

:42:35. > :42:38.where any immigration policy should be to determine whether they can

:42:39. > :42:41.come in if they are a net asset to the national interest. I suggest

:42:42. > :42:45.that a professional couple who have contributed hundreds of thousands of

:42:46. > :42:51.pounds to the economy and paid ?40,000 in taxes and are willing to

:42:52. > :42:54.live in a comparatively sparsely populated and economically depressed

:42:55. > :43:02.area, would be of interest to the nation. A policy that decides to

:43:03. > :43:06.remove us despite being that asset may have been done in accordance

:43:07. > :43:10.with policy, but I would argue whether that has occurred. But it

:43:11. > :43:13.would be against the intent of that policy and all we are asking for is

:43:14. > :43:18.for what we were promised to be given to us. You have explored all

:43:19. > :43:26.the avenues up to this point to try to be allowed to stay. You have your

:43:27. > :43:30.little boy. You could go back to Australia. What would it mean if you

:43:31. > :43:37.did that? Have you got family there and can you go and start all over

:43:38. > :43:41.again? Well, it would be starting all over again. We would be starting

:43:42. > :43:44.from less than zero. I understand there are lots of countries in the

:43:45. > :43:48.world which would be much more difficult to return to that

:43:49. > :43:53.Australia. It is not that we don't love the place. But we will be

:43:54. > :43:58.returning homeless, jobless and significantly in debt. If the Home

:43:59. > :44:01.Office send us a letter the day we arrived in Australia saying all is

:44:02. > :44:05.forgiven and here is your freezer, we would be ten years working hard

:44:06. > :44:08.to pay off the debt that we now know, in terms of the tens of

:44:09. > :44:12.thousands of pounds we have invested in dealings with the Home Office,

:44:13. > :44:18.before we could even consider being able to return. And our son, who has

:44:19. > :44:23.had no formal education in English, he does read and write in English

:44:24. > :44:28.because we have taught him at home, he would be returning to Australia

:44:29. > :44:34.at the end of primary three, having just finished primary two here,

:44:35. > :44:37.having a two year deficit in his formal English education. James

:44:38. > :44:44.Brockenshire, the former minister said this would pose no difficulty

:44:45. > :44:48.for him, but I point out the disparity between that statement and

:44:49. > :44:52.the fact you would have the full weight of the law brought on you if

:44:53. > :44:58.you kept your son out of school for two weeks. We have an email here. My

:44:59. > :45:02.heart goes out to this family and it seems unfair to treat them as they

:45:03. > :45:06.retrospectively, but anyone who has tried to stay in Australia will know

:45:07. > :45:10.that their government will get you out at the drop of a hat so it is

:45:11. > :45:14.not confined to the UK. Things need to be fairer across the board. This

:45:15. > :45:18.country is part of the Commonwealth and they should be allowed to stay.

:45:19. > :45:20.Coming up, would you donate your brain to be used

:45:21. > :45:23.We will be finding out what happens in a brain bank,

:45:24. > :45:25.and how they are increasing our understanding of

:45:26. > :45:33.A mobile phone game that has caught the attention of the world

:45:34. > :45:35.also appears to have caused a breakthrough with

:45:36. > :45:39.Pokemon Go, released in the UK earlier this month,

:45:40. > :45:42.is played by users walking around the real world to catch virtual

:45:43. > :45:45.It appears the game's mix of real and virtual reality has helped

:45:46. > :45:48.to break down many of the social barriers autistic people feel

:45:49. > :45:52.In a moment we'll hear from one mum and her son.

:45:53. > :45:55.They came to London yesterday to prepare for our programme.

:45:56. > :45:57.Rachel's son Lewis was afraid of crowds but because of the game,

:45:58. > :45:59.he spent part of yesterday in Trafalgar Square.

:46:00. > :46:03.But first, this programme has been to meet Jan and her son Adam,

:46:04. > :46:05.who too has been affected by playing the game.

:46:06. > :46:18.He has been engrossed and obsessed with Minecraft now

:46:19. > :46:24.Literally living and breathing it.

:46:25. > :46:44.He has gone from hardly leaving the house other than to go

:46:45. > :46:49.to college into wanting to go out every night.

:46:50. > :46:58.When he first said he wanted to come out, I thought we will see how it

:46:59. > :47:01.goes and when three hours later we were still out, I was just

:47:02. > :47:15.He spent two years pretty much out of school because he was either

:47:16. > :47:18.going in and being sent home because he had a bad anxiety attack

:47:19. > :47:23.to the point he was doubled up on the floor in pain

:47:24. > :47:26.with his stomach and then he'd spend days wrapped in a sleeping bag.

:47:27. > :47:28.Just, every time you would try and take him out,

:47:29. > :47:41.Normally we wouldn't even have lasted two minutes,

:47:42. > :47:44.we would've had to leave straightaway because he would have

:47:45. > :47:49.starting ticking and feeling sick and his stomach would start hurting.

:47:50. > :47:51.Just being around people that were a bit noisy

:47:52. > :47:56.He wouldn't have coped and we would have had

:47:57. > :48:04.He waved and he nodded his head a few times

:48:05. > :48:18.What are you going to do?

:48:19. > :48:27.It is helping reinstate that mum and son bond because I've spent

:48:28. > :48:43.I've not seen him this relaxed and happy in a public

:48:44. > :48:57.He's relaxed, you know, he's smiling.

:48:58. > :49:02.He's not ticking and it's just so nice.

:49:03. > :49:14.It's like I've got a bit of my son back.

:49:15. > :49:24.He's made more progress than we've seen in the last four years.

:49:25. > :49:28.Obviously it's small steps of progress, but what he has made

:49:29. > :49:33.to us as a family has been immense and made a huge difference

:49:34. > :49:37.to Adam's quality of life, which currently, pre-Pokemon,

:49:38. > :49:41.it wasn't the greatest life he was living.

:49:42. > :49:43.Shut up in his bedroom, locking himself away

:49:44. > :49:56.If anyone told me six months ago that a simple game like this

:49:57. > :49:58.would get him out of the house I would have laughed

:49:59. > :50:01.at them and said no, not a chance.

:50:02. > :50:03.I never in a million years thought this would happen.

:50:04. > :50:10.Do you like being outside at the moment?

:50:11. > :50:25.Are we coming out tomorrow night as well?

:50:26. > :50:28.Let's now speak to Rachel and her son Lewis.

:50:29. > :50:31.It's his first visit to London and Rachel reckons he would

:50:32. > :50:33.never have come, had it not been for the game.

:50:34. > :50:36.Also with us is Sarah Lamber, she's the head of policy

:50:37. > :50:47.Thank you for coming in. I think you have been playing it right now in

:50:48. > :50:52.the studio. Are there any Pokemon in here? No. You have been out on the

:50:53. > :50:56.hunt around London. Have you found many in London? Yeah. Yeah. And this

:50:57. > :51:01.is the first time you have been to London? Yeah. Apart from when I was

:51:02. > :51:04.seven. OK. Did you want to come because it meant you could come and

:51:05. > :51:10.do some Pokemon hunting before, would you have wanted to come to a

:51:11. > :51:19.city? No. Why not? It is too crowded. Everybody is everywhere.

:51:20. > :51:22.You can't get away from anybody because you don't know your

:51:23. > :51:26.surroundings. So you're walking around looking for the Pokemon and

:51:27. > :51:31.you feel like that? That means that you don't have to be aware of what's

:51:32. > :51:38.going on around you? Yeah. How does that, does that make it feel better

:51:39. > :51:42.for you? Yeah. Rachel, coming to London, with Lewis, is that

:51:43. > :51:46.something you would have thought before he started playing Pokemon

:51:47. > :51:50.Go, you would have been able to do? Not at all. We walked miles

:51:51. > :51:53.yesterday. We came on the train. That's another big step and he was

:51:54. > :51:58.hoping to catch solicitor, but the train was going quite fast, it was a

:51:59. > :52:04.bit difficult catching them on the train. As soon as we got to London,

:52:05. > :52:08.when we came out of Euston Station there was loads and his face lit up.

:52:09. > :52:11.We went to the hotel in the cab and from there to Buckingham Palace and

:52:12. > :52:15.we went and saw all the way around London we walked through the day.

:52:16. > :52:18.What's the difference you have seen in Lewis salt of this? Massive, he

:52:19. > :52:23.wants to go out and walk. He wants to be outside. Before, he would be

:52:24. > :52:27.in the house wanting to be on his game station and playing and locking

:52:28. > :52:33.himself away in his room. Now he is asking to go for walks and our poor

:52:34. > :52:40.dogs are tired! Because they've never walked so far! We go every

:52:41. > :52:45.evening arwalk. We're doing three times a week into town. It is

:52:46. > :52:49.helping me lose weight and it is helping Lewis' fitness, but it is

:52:50. > :52:54.helping him with his self he is seem, it is not just autistic of

:52:55. > :52:58.children that play it, it is a wide variety of childrenment when he is

:52:59. > :53:04.out, he can see everyone is playing it and he feels part of that group.

:53:05. > :53:07.We saw that Jan was quite emotional about the change in her son. Do you

:53:08. > :53:12.feel like that? Definitely. Definitely. It is differ when you

:53:13. > :53:19.have got a child with autism, he finds it difficult to distinguish

:53:20. > :53:23.school and home. At home he won't from friends around. He will go the

:53:24. > :53:26.hole summer without seeing other children other than his brother

:53:27. > :53:29.throughout the summer. But with this, now this app has come, we are

:53:30. > :53:33.walking. We're going out every day and he is meeting other people and

:53:34. > :53:37.talking. Adults will talk to him and go, "What are you doing there?" I'm

:53:38. > :53:41.catching, I don't know the names of the Pokemon, this Pokemon and that

:53:42. > :53:47.Pokemon and he is showing them and he is interacting. Before if someone

:53:48. > :53:51.talked to him, he would hold on to my arm and cower away. Do you feel

:53:52. > :53:57.happier now that you've got Pokemon Go? Yeah. In what way? You are

:53:58. > :54:04.actually getting fresh air and you're not stuck in a stuffy room in

:54:05. > :54:12.bed all day. Can you emergency going back to being like that? No. Sarah,

:54:13. > :54:15.you work with lots of kids with autism and families, and have

:54:16. > :54:21.dealings with them. Are you finding lots of kids are finding the same

:54:22. > :54:24.thing? Yeah, since the game was released a couple of weeks, we have

:54:25. > :54:28.been hearing from lots and lots of families. They are able to go out

:54:29. > :54:31.and it is helping them with travel, lots of children with autism have

:54:32. > :54:34.anxieties with travelling, but if they have got the game with them,

:54:35. > :54:38.they have got something else to concentrate on and work with. It has

:54:39. > :54:43.been transformational for lots of families. Lewis saying, "He can't

:54:44. > :54:48.imagine going back to what was like before, being in the house." Do you

:54:49. > :54:53.think it was a lasting change, and impact on a child where it has got

:54:54. > :54:57.them out of the house? We don't know exactly what impact it will have in

:54:58. > :55:00.the long-term and playing the game and meaning that you're going out

:55:01. > :55:03.and about, doesn't necessarily mean that people will be able to transfer

:55:04. > :55:07.that to other situations, but it is having a positive impact at the

:55:08. > :55:11.moment and with other games as well, for example, Minecraft is another

:55:12. > :55:16.game which children with autism and other young people are playing and

:55:17. > :55:20.that helped with being used within schools, within our own schools at

:55:21. > :55:24.the National Autistic Society we have been using Minecraft within

:55:25. > :55:27.classrooms because if you use someone's special interest you can

:55:28. > :55:31.get them interested in other things. With Pokemon Go it is getting people

:55:32. > :55:34.outside? It is getting them out into the community and doing things that

:55:35. > :55:38.they wouldn't have done before. Really using these kinds of

:55:39. > :55:42.technology can really make a massive impact.

:55:43. > :55:55.Lewis, are you getting new friends because of this? Yeah.

:55:56. > :56:02.So you are really getting something out of it. Do you feel differently

:56:03. > :56:10.about yourself now? Do you feel better? Yeah. I feel a lot better.

:56:11. > :56:19.Mum, Rachel, you said it is for the whole family are getting exercise. A

:56:20. > :56:24.lot of time, it is a fad, for this is so much more than that? It has

:56:25. > :56:30.got him out. I'm hoping if it is a fad and it ends, it what got us out.

:56:31. > :56:33.That will be the routine and we can make that part of our routine. A lot

:56:34. > :56:37.with autism is building a routine. If he goes out walking three times a

:56:38. > :56:39.week, if that becomes part of his routine, it is something we can put

:56:40. > :56:43.on his planner and put that we're doing and it doesn't become a chore

:56:44. > :56:49.because that's what we do. It is the norm. As before the norm was staying

:56:50. > :56:53.in your bedroom, isolating yourself from the world, the norm now is

:56:54. > :56:57.going out and catching Pokemon and being social. And it is that social

:56:58. > :57:02.aspect that I want to build on with him. That's great. Lovely, thank you

:57:03. > :57:06.very much for coming. Where are you going to go Pokemon hunting now?

:57:07. > :57:09.We're going back to Euston and we will walk back from the train

:57:10. > :57:11.station to our house from there. Lovely to see you all. Thank you

:57:12. > :57:13.very much, thank you. Coming up, we talk to the bobsledder

:57:14. > :57:16.who has just become the third fastest British sprinter

:57:17. > :57:18.of all time, but isn't Let's get the latest weather

:57:19. > :57:33.update with Alex Deakin. We are going to see wLet moving

:57:34. > :57:37.across southern portions of the UK. Some places will see more rain today

:57:38. > :57:41.than they saw throughout the entirety of July because July was a

:57:42. > :57:45.remarkably dry month especially across the south. You can see here

:57:46. > :57:50.this map showing the colours where it is drier than others. Further

:57:51. > :57:55.north are the bluer colours where it was wetter than average.

:57:56. > :57:59.This map actually the opposite of what we saw during June when

:58:00. > :58:03.southern areas particularly across the South East were especially wet.

:58:04. > :58:06.Much wetter than average of the it was drier across the north-west of

:58:07. > :58:10.Scotland. Now, across the western half of Scotland, it is fine here

:58:11. > :58:14.today. Our Weather Watchers have been sending in pictures throughout

:58:15. > :58:22.the morning and it is a Bank Holiday in Scotland today.

:58:23. > :58:26.Another area seeing fine weather today is Yorkshire and it is

:58:27. > :58:30.Yorkshire Day today. Plenty of sunshine on offer across Yorkshire.

:58:31. > :58:33.A beautiful image sent in here of nearby Bradford with the blue skies

:58:34. > :58:37.early on. Further south, however, well the weather is definitely on

:58:38. > :58:42.the change. Cloud arriving from the Atlantic. This mass of cloud is an

:58:43. > :58:45.area of low pressure. It will spread that wet weather I talked about

:58:46. > :58:49.across the south, particularly Wales and south-west England. The weather

:58:50. > :58:52.fronts extending and extending towards the UK, gradually throughout

:58:53. > :58:56.the day today bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain. Bringing some

:58:57. > :58:59.more warm and humid air too. The rain already into parts of Pembroke

:59:00. > :59:03.share and Cornwall, continuing to drift through Wales and south-west

:59:04. > :59:07.England and we will see some of that rain arriving across the Midlands

:59:08. > :59:12.too. To end the day across the South East. Further north, plenty of sunny

:59:13. > :59:22.spells. Quite a bit of cloud across the far north, elsewhere, we will

:59:23. > :59:25.see sunny spells. The threat of a little bit of rain trickling to the

:59:26. > :59:29.far south of Northern Ireland. East Anglia dry for most of the day, but

:59:30. > :59:32.the rain will arrive during the eveningment for the afternoon it is

:59:33. > :59:35.soing yr in South Wales and south-west England. The breeze

:59:36. > :59:39.picking up. Temperatures really struggling.

:59:40. > :59:43.As we go overnight, the temperatures won'ting falling because the cloud

:59:44. > :59:46.and the rain will shift its way further eastwards of the it is a

:59:47. > :59:49.damp night across the south. A warm and humid night here. Much warmer

:59:50. > :59:52.than last night with temperatures staying in the mid to high teens.

:59:53. > :59:57.Drier further north with clearer skies. It will be cooler once more.

:59:58. > :00:02.Into tomorrow, it is a north/south split. Cloud and outbreaks of rain

:00:03. > :00:05.across the south. Dry initially further north, but patchy rain for

:00:06. > :00:10.Northern Ireland and Northern England, sunny spells in Scotland

:00:11. > :00:13.and in the south, where it brightens up, it will feel warm and humid with

:00:14. > :00:18.temperatures over 20 Celsius. Bye for now.

:00:19. > :00:20.Hello it's Monday, it's 10 o'clock I'm Joanna Gosling, in for Victoria,

:00:21. > :00:24.welcome to the programme if you've just joined

:00:25. > :00:29.A leading British surgeon, David Nott, tells us of his fears

:00:30. > :00:32.for the last remaining doctors in the besieged Syrian city

:00:33. > :00:34.of Aleppo after he lost contact with medics following the bombing

:00:35. > :00:36.of a series of hospitals over the weekend.

:00:37. > :00:39.Would you ever consider donating your brain to be used

:00:40. > :00:43.We will be finding what happens in a brain bank, and how

:00:44. > :00:45.they are increasing our understanding of conditions such

:00:46. > :00:49.And we talk to the bobsledder who has just become the third

:00:50. > :00:51.fastest British sprinter of all time - but isn't

:00:52. > :01:06.Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:01:07. > :01:12.People diagnosed with cancer in the UK are almost twice as likely

:01:13. > :01:15.to survive for at least ten years than they were in the 1970s.

:01:16. > :01:17.Macmillan Cancer Support says an extraordinary number of people

:01:18. > :01:20.are still alive decades after being diagnosed.

:01:21. > :01:23.But it warns thousands of people struggle with the physical,

:01:24. > :01:26.emotional and financial effects for many years afterwards.

:01:27. > :01:39.The other form of treatment is known as chemotherapy...

:01:40. > :01:41.Back then there were fewer drugs and ways of spotting the disease.

:01:42. > :01:47.But the charity Macmillan Cancer Support says remarkably thousands

:01:48. > :01:50.of people diagnosed decades ago are still alive today.

:01:51. > :01:53.And with better treatment and quicker diagnosis,

:01:54. > :02:00.It estimates people are now twice as likely to live at least another

:02:01. > :02:03.ten years after being diagnosed with cancer as they were at

:02:04. > :02:10.More than 170,000 people in the UK diagnosed with cancer in the '70s

:02:11. > :02:16.But many are facing poor health or disability from their treatment.

:02:17. > :02:21.I get swollen fingers, swollen feet, ankles.

:02:22. > :02:38.I ended up with a bad credit record because I was not able

:02:39. > :02:43.to keep up payments on my credit cards when I was out of work.

:02:44. > :02:46.Cancer may no longer be life ending but it is life changing,

:02:47. > :02:48.with thousands living with the side effects of therapy,

:02:49. > :02:50.the psychological impact and financial worries

:02:51. > :02:57.To keep up, Macmillan says it has expanded to even include benefits

:02:58. > :03:04.It says NHS services need to grow too to make sure people surviving

:03:05. > :03:12.cancer live not just long but healthy lives.

:03:13. > :03:15.A 12 year old boy and three other teenagers have been charged

:03:16. > :03:17.with murder after the death of a man in Ashton-under-Lyne.

:03:18. > :03:20.The victim, in his 40s, died in hospital after being assaulted

:03:21. > :03:23.close to a McDonald's in the town centre on Wednesday night.

:03:24. > :03:25.The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons,

:03:26. > :03:30.will appear at Oldham Magistrates Court later today.

:03:31. > :03:33.Opposition MPs are calling for a complete overhaul

:03:34. > :03:35.of the honours system after a newspaper published

:03:36. > :03:37.what it said were leaked details of David Cameron's

:03:38. > :03:40.It includes two major Conservative Party donors,

:03:41. > :03:43.more than 20 staff at Downing Street, and an adviser

:03:44. > :03:45.described in newspaper reports as Samantha Cameron's stylist.

:03:46. > :03:47.Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, said the list was an example

:03:48. > :04:03.A rogue trader jailed in 2012 for Britain's biggest banking fraud

:04:04. > :04:05.has said trading staff are under pressure to make

:04:06. > :04:08.Kweku Adoboli, who lost ?1.5 billion while working

:04:09. > :04:11.for the Swiss bank, UBS, also said the type of crimes that

:04:12. > :04:19.Thousands of pots of yoghurt have been removed from supermarket

:04:20. > :04:21.shelves because of concerns they may contain pieces of rubber.

:04:22. > :04:26.The Yeo Valley Company, which supplies Asda,

:04:27. > :04:28.the Co-op, Sainsburys, Tesco and Waitrose, says the yoghurts,

:04:29. > :04:32.including some supermarket own brands, could pose a health risk.

:04:33. > :04:34.Customers have been asked to check any recently-bought products

:04:35. > :04:36.against a full list of affected brands on the Food

:04:37. > :04:43.An Australian family living in the Scottish Highlands face

:04:44. > :04:45.deportation from tonight, despite a high profile campaign

:04:46. > :04:53.Kathryn Brain arrived with her husband and young son

:04:54. > :04:56.on a student visa five years ago, but a change in immigration rules

:04:57. > :05:00.The Home Office says all visa applicants must meet

:05:01. > :05:09.We were promised that if you study for three to four years,

:05:10. > :05:13.there will be this two-year post study work visa and we had to plan

:05:14. > :05:15.for years ahead to be able to achieve that.

:05:16. > :05:17.For the UK government to then retroactively cancel that

:05:18. > :05:19.after we committed to it is, we think, a breach

:05:20. > :05:24.We lived up to our end of the bargain, all we're

:05:25. > :05:28.asking is for the UK government to do the same.

:05:29. > :05:31.An investigation is under ay after firefighters were called

:05:32. > :05:32.to rescue 19 people, including children,

:05:33. > :05:35.from a fairground ride at the Southbank Centre in central

:05:36. > :05:38.It happened yesterday evening, when the Starflyer ride got stuck

:05:39. > :05:43.There were no reports of injuries and the ride remains closed.

:05:44. > :05:45.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:05:46. > :06:01.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:06:02. > :06:03.Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE and if you text, you will be charged

:06:04. > :06:11.Lots of people getting in touch with the Pokemon Go story, the fact it is

:06:12. > :06:16.helping children with autism getting out and about. This text says, my

:06:17. > :06:21.little brother has built confidence and now wants to go out. And this

:06:22. > :06:24.one, I love that Pokemon Go is helping people get out and be part

:06:25. > :06:29.of the community. Pokemon Go has done the same for our son as well.

:06:30. > :06:33.He only left the home to go to school and we have been to numerous

:06:34. > :06:38.places in the last few weeks, I think because there is a point to

:06:39. > :06:43.going out. Thank you for those. Now the sport. Thank you. More

:06:44. > :06:46.uncertainty over Russia's involvement at the Olympic Games

:06:47. > :06:50.after the IOC announced they will have the final say over the

:06:51. > :06:54.involvement of the country both macro athletes in Rio. Last week the

:06:55. > :06:58.International Olympic Committee said individual sports governing bodies

:06:59. > :07:01.must judge who is clean, after claims of state-sponsored doping,

:07:02. > :07:06.but now it says a newly convened panel will decide whether to accept

:07:07. > :07:11.or reject that final proposal. At a news conference in Rio, we asked the

:07:12. > :07:19.IOC President how damaging this uncertainty was for the Games. I

:07:20. > :07:22.don't think in the end this will be damaging, because people will

:07:23. > :07:31.realise that we have to take this decision now. Imagine the situation

:07:32. > :07:39.if we would not have taken a decision, what then the limbo would

:07:40. > :07:45.be. I trust the people that they realise the difficulties we are in.

:07:46. > :07:50.Earlier I spoke to the former Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion

:07:51. > :07:53.Sally Gunnell, who backed the IAAF's decision to issue a blanket ban on

:07:54. > :07:59.all Russian athletes competing in the track and field events. Now they

:08:00. > :08:03.are going back to having a panel. We are days away and there will be

:08:04. > :08:08.athletes out there already. Will they be staying, will they be pulled

:08:09. > :08:12.out? It is really confusing. I think that is why I am proud of what the

:08:13. > :08:19.IAAF have done, putting that blanket over athletics. It allows us to have

:08:20. > :08:22.a stance to say that we want clean sport. Let's all play on the same

:08:23. > :08:26.playing field and move on and I think that is really important.

:08:27. > :08:29.For the first time in five years there have been first-time winners

:08:30. > :08:35.Jimmy Walker won the US PGA yesterday.

:08:36. > :08:41.He finished on 14 under par, one shot ahead of Jason Day.

:08:42. > :08:43.His victory at Baltusrol follows Danny Willett's Masters win

:08:44. > :08:46.in April, American Dustin Johnson who took the US Open in June,

:08:47. > :08:48.and Henrik Stenson who won the Open two weeks ago.

:08:49. > :08:54.My emotions, you know, Jason pulling out in front of you doesn't give you

:08:55. > :09:00.a whole lot of time to soak it in. It was still gametime. With a

:09:01. > :09:05.birdie, I had a couple to play with and I could relax a bit but I didn't

:09:06. > :09:10.get to relax. I just stood on the fairway and we said let's go for it.

:09:11. > :09:13.I didn't say this, but I figure 19 times out of 20 you are going to

:09:14. > :09:22.make a five and I had a good French number and that is what we did.

:09:23. > :09:26.Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn held on to win the Women's is what we did.

:09:27. > :09:29.She won by three shots on 16 under par.

:09:30. > :09:35.Catriona Matthew from Scotland was the highest placed Briton.

:09:36. > :09:42.Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix to extend his lead to 19 points

:09:43. > :09:59.Nico Rosberg made a poor getaway, slipping to fourth place. Taking the

:10:00. > :10:05.win has enabled him to extend his lead to 19 points over his

:10:06. > :10:12.team-mate. We will have more sport later. Thank you.

:10:13. > :10:18.The UN estimates there are 300,000 people trapped with dwindling

:10:19. > :10:23.medical and food supplies in Aleppo. There is no way in or out. Russia

:10:24. > :10:27.said last week it had opened four humanitarian corridors to allow

:10:28. > :10:30.people to leave, but their safety has been called into doubt by many

:10:31. > :10:35.living in the city who do not trust that they will be kept safe even if

:10:36. > :10:41.they do leave. Dr David Nott is one of the UK's leading British surgeons

:10:42. > :10:44.and has worked in Syria. He said he fears the worst for the last

:10:45. > :10:48.remaining doctors in Aleppo after he lost contact with medics who he had

:10:49. > :10:52.been in contact with regularly following the bombing of a number of

:10:53. > :10:56.hospitals over the weekend. I spoke to him earlier.

:10:57. > :10:59.I'm in contact with people most days, really, but I haven't heard

:11:00. > :11:02.from my colleagues in Syria and Aleppo for about a week now.

:11:03. > :11:08.I can't get through to their phones, their phones are down,

:11:09. > :11:10.and so the only contacts I've had are through the union

:11:11. > :11:15.They have come back to me yesterday, and I spoke to the chairman,

:11:16. > :11:20.I tried to say I can't get through to anybody and he said,

:11:21. > :11:24.well, in fact nine hospitals were targeted last week alone,

:11:25. > :11:29.and that the hospital I was trying to contact was attacked yesterday.

:11:30. > :11:32.It's an underground hospital in the centre of Aleppo

:11:33. > :11:37.There is a possibility that there was a high

:11:38. > :11:40.explosive attack directed onto that yesterday,

:11:41. > :11:46.and he said to me that the information they've got is that

:11:47. > :11:48.70% of the hospital has been damaged, and also 70%

:11:49. > :11:51.of the people in there have been either killed or injured.

:11:52. > :11:58.That's the information I'm getting constantly, all the time.

:11:59. > :12:01.I'm usually in contact with four or five doctors every week,

:12:02. > :12:06.We discuss cases, we discuss their management of cases.

:12:07. > :12:09.And I've not been able to hear from any of them at all.

:12:10. > :12:11.As you said, you have worked in these places.

:12:12. > :12:16.Describe them for us, the sort of resources

:12:17. > :12:18.they have, what it's like and what the set-up is.

:12:19. > :12:20.I was in Aleppo for six weeks in 2013.

:12:21. > :12:23.It was when there was probably around 1.5 million

:12:24. > :12:26.There was a full-blown war going on at the time

:12:27. > :12:30.but we had resources, we had access to roads,

:12:31. > :12:40.we had access to lots of medical equipment and everything else.

:12:41. > :12:43.So there wasn't a huge amount of needs required at that time.

:12:44. > :12:45.There were lots of casualties, but we were able to cope

:12:46. > :12:54.There were lots of beds, lots of ITU beds and so on and so forth.

:12:55. > :12:56.But 2014 was completely different because the city was being barrell

:12:57. > :12:58.bombed and targeted by air strikes constantly.

:12:59. > :13:00.To the extent that when we were dealing with patients,

:13:01. > :13:02.we were dealing with terrible wounds, terrible fragmentation

:13:03. > :13:05.wounds, and people dying of dust inhalation and so on.

:13:06. > :13:11.Although the number of hospitals were still going at that time,

:13:12. > :13:13.it didn't appear to me that there was anything too bad,

:13:14. > :13:17.because we were still able to function.

:13:18. > :13:20.But a lot of the hospitals have been targeted with barrel bombs,

:13:21. > :13:21.so they made them underground hospitals.

:13:22. > :13:28.So we were working in two underground hospitals at the time.

:13:29. > :13:31.Those facilities at the time, we had intensive care unit

:13:32. > :13:33.beds to put our patients into who were severely injured,

:13:34. > :13:38.and we had people who were able to look after them as well.

:13:39. > :13:44.But the situation now is really intolerable and really unacceptable.

:13:45. > :13:47.Because yesterday I heard that there are only 13 intensive

:13:48. > :13:49.care unit beds for the whole of Aleppo, and that means

:13:50. > :13:51.if the hospital yesterday was targeted, it's

:13:52. > :14:01.The problem is as well if the road is closed out of Aleppo,

:14:02. > :14:04.the Castello Road, nobody can come in and come out.

:14:05. > :14:06.Usually we would transport patients off to Turkey,

:14:07. > :14:09.but we now can't transport them either.

:14:10. > :14:13.You said several times about hospitals being targeted.

:14:14. > :14:15.Do you believe they are being deliberately targeted and doctors

:14:16. > :14:23.I have tried to fly the flag that this is happening.

:14:24. > :14:27.In fact, we ran a march in London in Trafalgar Square,

:14:28. > :14:31.about 250 of us walked down to give a letter to the Prime Minister

:14:32. > :14:35.to say that hospitals were being directly targeted.

:14:36. > :14:37.It's something that is against international humanitarian law,

:14:38. > :14:46.But it's quite interesting that in 2012, the Assad regime

:14:47. > :14:49.actually passed a law to say that it was legitimate to target

:14:50. > :14:51.hospitals, to target doctors, to target civilians.

:14:52. > :14:53.In fact, to target anybody that wasn't involved positively

:14:54. > :15:01.So they made it legal to actually bomb hospitals.

:15:02. > :15:04.And I know for a fact these hospitals are being targeted.

:15:05. > :15:08.Because if you take out a doctor, if you take out a health care

:15:09. > :15:11.worker, you really take out the facilities to help

:15:12. > :15:18.Their lives are going to get more miserable, they will think

:15:19. > :15:33.It's psychological on top of medical warfare, basically.

:15:34. > :15:45.S In 2013 you called for humanitarian corridors? I asked for

:15:46. > :15:48.them to allow people in. The humanitarian corridors suggested by

:15:49. > :15:53.the Syrian regime is only to let people out and not to let aid in. It

:15:54. > :15:56.is not a humanitarian corridor. It is a corridor of pretence that I

:15:57. > :16:00.have been saying. Why do you think people aren't taking the opportunity

:16:01. > :16:04.to leave? Because those people have been there for five years and the

:16:05. > :16:08.300,000 people that have been there for five years, they're not going to

:16:09. > :16:12.want to suddenly decide OK, I trust the regime now. I'm going to go and

:16:13. > :16:15.live in a refugee camp because they have been watching the television

:16:16. > :16:18.and they know what's been going on. They know how devastating it is to

:16:19. > :16:21.cross the Mediterranean. They see what is happening. They don't want

:16:22. > :16:24.to leave their homes. Thet don't want to leave their families.

:16:25. > :16:29.They're happy to stick it out and they will not leave. Over the

:16:30. > :16:32.weekend, there are two dozen people that left by this humanitarian

:16:33. > :16:37.corridor. The rest of the people will stay and they will stay.

:16:38. > :16:43.If they stay, they are going to be starved. Nobody is going to be

:16:44. > :16:49.allowed to get any aid in or any provisions in or any medical aid at

:16:50. > :16:52.all. We are going to sit there watching our televisions and

:16:53. > :16:56.drinking our coffee, watching the NewsWatching these people suffering.

:16:57. > :17:01.The real problem is I have had so much links with Aleppo. I know the

:17:02. > :17:05.city very well. I know the people very well. They are lovely people.

:17:06. > :17:11.They are just civilians like you and me, but they have been terribly,

:17:12. > :17:15.terribly harmed. Harmed by lack of aid from the western side for

:17:16. > :17:21.example. They have been expecting people, in fact, the British people

:17:22. > :17:28.have done wonderfully, fantastic because they have, through Syria

:17:29. > :17:31.Relief and through the Syrian NGOs they have donated millions and

:17:32. > :17:35.millions of pounds to help Syrian refugees. The problem is people like

:17:36. > :17:40.myself and other doctors that have been there, training the doctors to

:17:41. > :17:45.try and help their people which we've done, and that's not been in

:17:46. > :17:49.vain, but the problem is that now if I understand from yesterday, that

:17:50. > :17:54.somebody, one of the chairmen told me that perhaps there was only three

:17:55. > :17:57.surgeons left in Aleppo and you know it seems a travesty of justice that

:17:58. > :18:01.we can just sit by and watch this happening.

:18:02. > :18:06.What should be done? Well, I think, you know, I have always called for

:18:07. > :18:09.things in 2013. I called for, you know, humanitarian corridors to be

:18:10. > :18:12.set-up and they said it is not going to happen, David. I can understand

:18:13. > :18:18.that you know boots on the ground perhaps is not the right thing to

:18:19. > :18:22.do, but there should be really high level negotiations now between our

:18:23. > :18:25.new Prime Minister, should say OK, we can't sit here and watch our

:18:26. > :18:29.televisions and watch this happening. There should be

:18:30. > :18:32.negotiations perhaps with the Foreign Minister from the British

:18:33. > :18:37.Foreign Minister, the American Foreign Minister, they should go to

:18:38. > :18:42.President Putin and they should try the highest President Obama

:18:43. > :18:47.Governmental tack to try and change what's happening. Just to show that,

:18:48. > :18:53.you know, we can't sit by and let this happen, not let this happen

:18:54. > :18:58.now. We said in 2000, in 1994 when Rwanda was happening, we will never

:18:59. > :19:01.let this happen again. When we saw Srebrenica, we said that should

:19:02. > :19:05.never happen again, tu it is happening and it is happening in

:19:06. > :19:10.front of outside eyes and I just feel, you know, myself and people

:19:11. > :19:14.like myself go on the radio and television and I cannot understand

:19:15. > :19:20.why there is no action from the Government. I cannot understand.

:19:21. > :19:24.You have been to all sorts of war zones, many war zones over the

:19:25. > :19:28.years, how does this situation compare if you can look at it in

:19:29. > :19:32.that way with what you have seen before and experienced before? Well,

:19:33. > :19:37.I think, you know, I have been to many war zones and I dip in and I

:19:38. > :19:41.dip out. In this war zone, I dipped in in 2012 and I got to know people

:19:42. > :19:47.very well and back in 2013 and back in 2014, it is a different situation

:19:48. > :19:50.completely because it is really a tragic situation. It is really

:19:51. > :19:56.terrible because I got to know so many people. I have got to know the

:19:57. > :20:01.doctors, the civilians. I treated so many people out there and it is just

:20:02. > :20:05.I go backwards and forwards. I'm constantly on the telephone

:20:06. > :20:09.listening to see what is happening. I'm con isn'tly getting reports back

:20:10. > :20:13.from the doctors about how do I manage this patient David, how do I

:20:14. > :20:16.manage that patient? Two or three times a week I'm giving them advice

:20:17. > :20:21.and so on. So I'm really with them on this one. I'm really in there

:20:22. > :20:25.with them and to see them suffering so badly and to see everybody

:20:26. > :20:30.suffering so badly is really, really heartbreaking. These are doctors who

:20:31. > :20:35.could have presumably chosen to leave, but they chose to stay and

:20:36. > :20:39.obviously many lost their lives? I said in a report in 2014 that these

:20:40. > :20:43.doctors will stay until they will die and I have a terrible suspicion,

:20:44. > :20:47.you know, because I can't get through to them, perhaps they are

:20:48. > :20:52.dying. You know, we've done our best for them. We've shown them how to

:20:53. > :20:57.operate, we have shown them how to treat their terrible cases. We

:20:58. > :21:01.really did well from Syria Relief which is the charity I work for, a

:21:02. > :21:06.British charity, has done remarkably to try and send so much aid to help

:21:07. > :21:13.everybody there. Remarkable and it just seems to be so, a real travesty

:21:14. > :21:21.that this has gone so badly, badly wrong.

:21:22. > :21:24.That was Dr David who spent large chunks of his life helping others in

:21:25. > :21:47.other war zones including Syria. Let's speak to another guest.

:21:48. > :21:53.Describe what the humanitarian corridors are like? Are they

:21:54. > :21:59.humanitarian corridors? Can we consider displacing people from

:22:00. > :22:05.their homes is a humanitarian thing? Of course, people could runaway from

:22:06. > :22:08.Aleppo before besieging it, but they decided to stay because this is

:22:09. > :22:14.their home. This is their land. They want to stay here. So how can they

:22:15. > :22:19.say that please? Either you are going to die here or you have to

:22:20. > :22:26.leave. This is not a humanitarian at all. Some people have to go out

:22:27. > :22:32.because some people are sick. They have to get medicine. Here most of

:22:33. > :22:37.the hospitals were targeted by the air strikes. So some people will

:22:38. > :22:43.leave soon, but of course, this is not their choice because they have

:22:44. > :22:48.to do this. Do you believe if people are leaving that it is safe to do

:22:49. > :22:53.so? Could you tell what the, you know, the journey would be like

:22:54. > :22:58.through that corridor? Of course, they said that they are safe

:22:59. > :23:04.corridors, they are not safe at all because these corridors they claim

:23:05. > :23:10.they are not safe. It is full of snipers and then these corridors

:23:11. > :23:13.will take people to the regime controlled area so what will happen

:23:14. > :23:17.to those people who are going to go there? Of course, people who are

:23:18. > :23:25.here four or five years, how can they go to these areas? They will

:23:26. > :23:30.not be treated well. We are sure, of course. Nevertheless for me for

:23:31. > :23:38.example and most people that I know, we will not choose to leave this

:23:39. > :23:43.land even if we die here. What is it like there? People are saying if you

:23:44. > :23:46.stay, you will effectively starve to death because there is just not

:23:47. > :23:55.enough food or anything else that's needed? Yes, that's true. If we

:23:56. > :24:00.don't leave, we will die of hunger and of lack of medicine. We know

:24:01. > :24:07.that, but this is our choice. We want our freedom. We will not go

:24:08. > :24:18.back to slavery of Assad again. So we will fight. We'll strive until we

:24:19. > :24:23.get our freedom, our rights to stay. Yesterday the revolt started, a

:24:24. > :24:30.battle to get a road out and in of Aleppo and we hope that we can get

:24:31. > :24:34.this road. What do you see on the streets in terms of rebel fighters,

:24:35. > :24:43.Isis fighters. Describe what it is like. Sorry, I couldn't understand

:24:44. > :24:49.you. You said Isis fighters? Yes. Here in Aleppo, we don't have Isis

:24:50. > :24:56.fighters. Isis fighters are somewhere else. Helpfully we don't

:24:57. > :25:02.have these fighters, the only fighters are the Free Army, those

:25:03. > :25:08.people who, you know, asked for their freedom at first. Those people

:25:09. > :25:12.who went in demonstrations. Those people are on the streets of Aleppo.

:25:13. > :25:17.So describe what it is like on the streets there. The daily existence

:25:18. > :25:21.for people living there. Of course, I think the situation is serious now

:25:22. > :25:29.because of lack of food and medicine. Two days ago my friend's

:25:30. > :25:35.uncle was targeted by a rocket from a plane. He was taken to hospital,

:25:36. > :25:42.but the hospital was full so he was taken to another one, but again, no

:25:43. > :25:47.one could help him. So after three hours his ankle died because no

:25:48. > :25:55.other hospitals, most of the hospitals are seriously damaged. So

:25:56. > :26:01.-- uncle. If we go into the market here, we will find nothing, of

:26:02. > :26:07.course. Four months ago, we couldn't see vegetables or fruits at all. All

:26:08. > :26:16.other supplies of food are almost empty. Nevertheless we hope that

:26:17. > :26:20.things will change soon. And we see pictures of rubble, obviously, huge

:26:21. > :26:26.amounts of destruction around. Do people go out and about? Sorry, can

:26:27. > :26:31.you repeat your question? We are looking at pictures from Aleppo and

:26:32. > :26:36.seeing, obviously a lot of buildings still standing, but lots destroyed

:26:37. > :26:40.as well. Describe what it looks like and whether people do actually go

:26:41. > :26:49.out and about and meet up with each other? . OK, of course. Here Aleppo,

:26:50. > :26:55.it is destroyed. People are moving from one place to another in the

:26:56. > :26:59.same area of, of course, for example my friend yesterday, his house was

:27:00. > :27:05.targeted and he was, it was destroyed. So he had to move to

:27:06. > :27:13.another house. People here are trying to help each other also with

:27:14. > :27:18.this destruction, but we can hang to live. Thank you very much. Thank you

:27:19. > :27:26.very much for joining us from Aleppo. Thank you.

:27:27. > :27:34.Coming up, we will be talking about the fact that Bernie he can he will

:27:35. > :27:41.stone's mother-in-law has been freed after being taken hostage in Brazil

:27:42. > :27:47.and a ransom of ?25 million was demanded for her release. She is now

:27:48. > :27:50.freed and whelk speaking to the man who has become Britain's third

:27:51. > :27:56.fastest man. He isn't actually a sprinter though, he is a bob

:27:57. > :27:59.sleigher. We will be talking to him about why it is not that he won't be

:28:00. > :28:06.representing us at Rio. Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom

:28:07. > :28:11.with a summary of today's news. People diagnosed with cancer are now

:28:12. > :28:14.twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years

:28:15. > :28:17.as they were at the A report from the charity

:28:18. > :28:21.Macmillan Cancer Support says better treatments

:28:22. > :28:23.and speedier diagnoses have led But it warns thousands of people

:28:24. > :28:27.struggle with the physical, emotional and financial effects

:28:28. > :28:32.for many years afterwards. A 12-year-old boy and three other

:28:33. > :28:35.teenagers have been charged with murder after the death

:28:36. > :28:38.of a man in Ashton-under-Lyne. The victim, in his 40s,

:28:39. > :28:40.died in hospital after the assault close to a McDonald's

:28:41. > :28:42.in Warrington Street The boys, who cannot be named

:28:43. > :28:49.for legal reasons will appear at Oldham Magistrates'

:28:50. > :28:53.Court later today. Opposition MPs are calling

:28:54. > :28:56.for a complete overhaul of the honours system

:28:57. > :28:58.after a newspaper published what it said were leaked

:28:59. > :29:00.details of David Cameron's It includes two major

:29:01. > :29:03.Conservative Party donors, more than 20 staff at

:29:04. > :29:05.Downing Street, and an adviser described in newspaper reports

:29:06. > :29:11.as Samantha Cameron's stylist. Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson,

:29:12. > :29:13.said the list was an example An Australian family living

:29:14. > :29:22.in the Scottish Highlands face deportation from tonight,

:29:23. > :29:24.despite a high profile campaign Kathryn Brain arrived

:29:25. > :29:28.with her husband and young son on a student visa five years ago,

:29:29. > :29:31.but a change in immigration rules The Home Office says all visa

:29:32. > :29:34.applicants must meet A rogue trader jailed in 2012

:29:35. > :29:47.for Britain's biggest banking fraud has said trading staff

:29:48. > :29:49.are under pressure to make Kweku Adoboli, who lost

:29:50. > :29:52.?1.5 billion while working for the Swiss bank, UBS,

:29:53. > :29:55.also said the type of crimes that An investigation is under way

:29:56. > :30:02.after firefighters were called to rescue 19 people,

:30:03. > :30:04.including children, from a fairground ride

:30:05. > :30:07.at the Southbank Centre in central It happened yesterday evening

:30:08. > :30:12.when the Starflyer ride got stuck There were no reports of injuries

:30:13. > :30:20.and the ride remains closed. Join me for BBC Newsroom

:30:21. > :30:30.Live at 11 o'clock. Thank you. Now the sport with John.

:30:31. > :30:36.Thank you. Good morning again. With four days to go until the start

:30:37. > :30:39.of the Olympic Games in Rio, there's more confusion over

:30:40. > :30:41.the involvement of Russian competitors, after the IOC

:30:42. > :30:43.announced a three man panel will have the final say

:30:44. > :30:47.on whether they can compete after initially telling

:30:48. > :30:49.the international federations For the first time in five years

:30:50. > :30:59.there have been first-time winners Jimmy Walker won

:31:00. > :31:01.the US PGA yesterday. His victory at Baltusrol follows

:31:02. > :31:03.Danny Willett's Masters win in April, American Dustin Johnson

:31:04. > :31:06.who took the US Open in June, and Henrik Stenson who won

:31:07. > :31:10.the Open two weeks ago and Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn held

:31:11. > :31:12.on to win the Women's She won by three shots

:31:13. > :31:18.on 16 under par. Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand

:31:19. > :31:22.Prix to extend his lead to 19 points in the drivers' standings over team

:31:23. > :31:33.mate Nico Rosberg who could A moment to savour for Lewis

:31:34. > :31:42.Hamilton. That is all the sport for now. Back to you. Thank you. Five

:31:43. > :31:47.supermarkets have been told to take thousands of pots of yoghurt off

:31:48. > :31:55.their shelves. The products are made by Yeo Valley but are mainly sold

:31:56. > :31:58.with own brand labels. Joining us now is the Professor of

:31:59. > :32:01.environmental health at the university of Salford. Thank you for

:32:02. > :32:07.joining us. How do you know if you have bought one of the affected

:32:08. > :32:11.products? The thing to do is to go on to the Food Standards Agency

:32:12. > :32:16.website because there is a good list of all the products affected. If you

:32:17. > :32:20.have got one, what should you do? Take it back to the supermarket and

:32:21. > :32:25.they will give you a refund. Supermarkets also have point of sale

:32:26. > :32:28.notices up telling people what to do if they have them. So

:32:29. > :32:33.straightforward but a palaver, and some people may have eaten them

:32:34. > :32:39.without knowing anything about it. What are the risks? Probably pretty

:32:40. > :32:43.low. It is more the potential for joking, particularly for younger

:32:44. > :32:47.children. It is very important that you don't eat one. It is quite

:32:48. > :32:52.likely that it will pass out of the body and not cause any harm. How

:32:53. > :32:57.does something like this happen? Do you know what it is? They think

:32:58. > :33:01.there is rubber in the yoghurt is so how could something like that get

:33:02. > :33:07.into a part of yoghurt? Occasionally you get contamination. The

:33:08. > :33:11.manufacturing process has incredible controls to make sure this sort of

:33:12. > :33:14.thing is avoided and usually that is very good. It appears in this

:33:15. > :33:18.situation that it might be contamination from the fruit element

:33:19. > :33:24.that was put into the yoghurt, which came from another supplier.

:33:25. > :33:27.Obviously they have been let down in that respect. Sometimes things do go

:33:28. > :33:33.wrong but with something like Robert it is more difficult to detect if it

:33:34. > :33:37.falls in. There are metal detectors when it is metal, and much easier to

:33:38. > :33:41.find out if there is metal in your food. Something like robber would go

:33:42. > :33:46.through metal detection and it might only have been a couple of small

:33:47. > :33:50.pieces that might have escaped from a broken piece of machinery.

:33:51. > :33:54.Obviously a company does not want to take any risks, so when a recall

:33:55. > :33:59.happens, how wide does it have to be and how wide is it in this case? In

:34:00. > :34:05.this case, it is many products, and also anything that might have been

:34:06. > :34:07.affected within a certain date period. The company has reacted very

:34:08. > :34:14.properly and quickly to the situation. They have made sure that

:34:15. > :34:19.they cover all the dates and products that might be affected. How

:34:20. > :34:23.much would this cost the company? It could cost them thousands and even

:34:24. > :34:28.millions, not just the recall yoghurt and destroyed yoghurt, but

:34:29. > :34:32.people might be put off. From a customer point of view, I would say

:34:33. > :34:35.this is reassurance really, that the system is working. Things have gone

:34:36. > :34:40.wrong but they have been cleared up very quickly. There has been good

:34:41. > :34:44.notification to the consumer to make sure that product recall. I am sure

:34:45. > :34:49.there are good systems in place to make sure it will not happen again.

:34:50. > :34:53.Thank you very much, Doctor Lisa Ackerley. The products affected are

:34:54. > :34:58.on the Food Standards Agency website if you are concerned.

:34:59. > :35:00.Thanks to the donation of human brains to science

:35:01. > :35:02.there is an increasing understanding of conditions like dementia pointing

:35:03. > :35:06.But the research requires a constant supply of brains

:35:07. > :35:10.The Medical Research Council allowed the BBC to film some

:35:11. > :35:12.of the work being done at the Bristol brain bank.

:35:13. > :35:14.And just a warning, you will see a brain

:35:15. > :35:28.so if you are squeamish you might want to make a cup of tea.

:35:29. > :35:31.A brain bank is a collection of tissue that has been donated

:35:32. > :35:37.We don't keep brains floating around in jars.

:35:38. > :35:43.There's no disfigurement to the person.

:35:44. > :35:50.We treat all of the tissue with a great level of respect.

:35:51. > :35:54.We specialise in dementia but there are lots of other brain banks.

:35:55. > :35:58.CJD brain bank, multiple sclerosis, sudden death brain bank.

:35:59. > :35:59.We all have different research interests and different

:36:00. > :36:09.We take the whole brain, we cut it down the middle.

:36:10. > :36:11.Half of that issue goes into formalin, which

:36:12. > :36:19.The other half, we dissect and freeze at minus 80 degrees.

:36:20. > :36:23.The reason we need those two kinds of tissue is because they both have

:36:24. > :36:25.very different uses in terms of the experiments and the science

:36:26. > :36:30.that we can perform to look at those diseases.

:36:31. > :36:33.The brain is such a complex organ, without having that tissue to study,

:36:34. > :36:37.We don't have adequate models of the brain yet.

:36:38. > :36:39.So in order to make progress and understand these

:36:40. > :36:41.diseases like dementia, we have to look at real

:36:42. > :36:48.Donated tissue can be used for years.

:36:49. > :36:51.So brain donations from up to 30 years ago can still be used

:36:52. > :36:57.We don't dispose of any of the tissue here.

:36:58. > :37:00.And one brain donation can be used in literally hundreds of research

:37:01. > :37:06.projects until the tissue is used up.

:37:07. > :37:11.The best way to sign up is to go to the Medical Research Council

:37:12. > :37:13.website, which lists all of the brain banks in the UK,

:37:14. > :37:17.so you can figure out which brain bank is closest to you.

:37:18. > :37:20.Or if you've been diagnosed with a particular disease,

:37:21. > :37:24.which brain bank would be most suitable to receive your donation.

:37:25. > :37:28.It's not good to specify things like brain donation in your will.

:37:29. > :37:31.Wills are often read a number of days, sometimes even weeks

:37:32. > :37:37.This means it can be too late for donation.

:37:38. > :37:43.The brain and the tissue in the brain starts to degrade quite

:37:44. > :37:49.quickly and may not be as useful for research.

:37:50. > :37:53.One of the most important things we do is to achieve a diagnosis,

:37:54. > :37:56.so for each donation, we examine it individually

:37:57. > :38:00.and we find out whether there was anything wrong with that person.

:38:01. > :38:03.Once we have that information, we feed it back to the

:38:04. > :38:06.I think getting a diagnosis is extremely important

:38:07. > :38:15.Particularly people whose relatives have suffered with dementia find

:38:16. > :38:19.a sense of closure in knowing the final diagnosis.

:38:20. > :38:22.The majority of people who donate, they very much want to make

:38:23. > :38:25.a difference, particularly if they have suffered

:38:26. > :38:29.from something themselves, or have seen a loved one.

:38:30. > :38:35.It gives a positive note to death, I suppose.

:38:36. > :38:38.Let's talk to Dr Tammaryn Lashley, a scientist researching dementia

:38:39. > :38:42.at the Queen's Square brain bank in London, and Margaret Allan

:38:43. > :38:44.who has recently decided to leave her brain to researchers

:38:45. > :38:56.Thank you for coming in. Margaret, why have you decided to donate your

:38:57. > :39:01.brain to research? I am part of a study that started in 1946 with a

:39:02. > :39:05.cohort of children. They have been studied over the past 70 years of

:39:06. > :39:10.their life at that study is still going on. Part of it looks that the

:39:11. > :39:13.mental and physical development of children, and also their social

:39:14. > :39:17.backgrounds and how that has affected how they have grown up. I

:39:18. > :39:21.have been followed all that time and I have seen the results of some of

:39:22. > :39:28.that research. It seems to me that when it came to bring donation, that

:39:29. > :39:32.was the way to go, because I know that if people get involved in this

:39:33. > :39:36.sort of thing, it can make a difference, as your last researchers

:39:37. > :39:42.said. Have you found it fulfilling, knowing that your life has helped

:39:43. > :39:46.other people? Very fulfilling and constructive as well. I have a

:39:47. > :39:50.background in education and as a result of some of the research done

:39:51. > :39:55.early on in my life, things like comprehensive schools were set up.

:39:56. > :40:03.What they have discovered has affected social policy in this

:40:04. > :40:07.country over the past 70 years. You obviously work in brain research.

:40:08. > :40:13.How important is it that people like Margaret do this? It is vital. They

:40:14. > :40:16.are leaving us their greatest gift, to study these diseases. I in

:40:17. > :40:21.particular study dementia and without that gift, we could not

:40:22. > :40:25.understand these diseases. We could look at the pathology, what has gone

:40:26. > :40:29.wrong in the brain, and studied them over years. But any research

:40:30. > :40:34.projects that we do, but the tissue can be distributed to other research

:40:35. > :40:39.groups around the world, to try and find cures for these diseases. It is

:40:40. > :40:44.not such an obvious area of organ donation that is talked about.

:40:45. > :40:48.Transplant is talked about and that is something that people give a lot

:40:49. > :40:53.of thought to. Perhaps this is not so much. I don't think it is talked

:40:54. > :40:57.about a lot and they need to talk about it more. It is one of the

:40:58. > :41:03.greatest gifts that people can leave to figure these diseases. People

:41:04. > :41:09.think about organ donation more because you are helping the living

:41:10. > :41:13.with organ donation. With brain donation, you are selflessly helping

:41:14. > :41:17.people of future generations. We were hearing in that report that

:41:18. > :41:22.there is a 72 hour limit on the brain needing to be donated after

:41:23. > :41:25.death, and it therefore means that people have got to be upfront with

:41:26. > :41:32.their families about their intentions. Have you spoken to your

:41:33. > :41:35.family about this? Yes, I got the information when I was at the

:41:36. > :41:40.medical Research Council event in London in November. I had time to

:41:41. > :41:44.think about it and I read the information. I decided this was

:41:45. > :41:49.something I was going to do, not a spur of the moment thing. I spoke to

:41:50. > :41:53.my husband about it and my daughters. I actually emailed them

:41:54. > :42:00.with an explanation of why I wanted to do it. I will not say they were

:42:01. > :42:03.happy, that is not the right word, but they were very supportive,

:42:04. > :42:08.because apart from anything else my father-in-law suffers from dementia,

:42:09. > :42:14.so my daughters have seen their grandfather's personality taken away

:42:15. > :42:18.by this dreadful illness. It was almost natural for me to want to do

:42:19. > :42:22.something like this in any case. Tell us more about what happens with

:42:23. > :42:27.somebody's brain when it has been donated and it ends up in the area

:42:28. > :42:31.where you are working? What do you do? As soon as we can get the brain

:42:32. > :42:37.after somebody has passed away, the better. As the video said, we have a

:42:38. > :42:41.cut-off limit of 72 hours. If the body is refrigerated as soon as

:42:42. > :42:49.possible, that preserves the brain tissue. Once it arrives with us at

:42:50. > :42:52.the brain bank, it is cut in half and half is fixed and half frozen.

:42:53. > :42:57.We use the fixed half to diagnose the brain first of all. So that is

:42:58. > :43:01.immediate examination of it? No, it is fixed for three weeks to begin

:43:02. > :43:06.with and then the neuropathologist will cut certain areas of the brain

:43:07. > :43:09.that has been affected by different diseases, and then we examined the

:43:10. > :43:16.sections under the microscope to give the brain a diagnosis, though

:43:17. > :43:21.which disease they have died from. What they are diagnosed with during

:43:22. > :43:27.life is not always the disease we see at postmortem. So why is it

:43:28. > :43:31.that... Is it easy to diagnose when you have the brain that you just

:43:32. > :43:36.can't do with living people? Yes, we see antibodies and chemicals to see

:43:37. > :43:41.the antibodies within the brain. Clinicians in life are usually great

:43:42. > :43:45.and get it right, but there are clinical symptoms of diseases that

:43:46. > :43:49.overlap, so sometimes you cannot determine which disease the brain

:43:50. > :43:54.has. That is why we need the brain at postmortem to make that confirmed

:43:55. > :43:59.diagnosis. Once that happens, they can enter different research

:44:00. > :44:02.programmes, programmes that we have in-house, and previously we

:44:03. > :44:05.distributed the tissue internationally to other

:44:06. > :44:10.collaborators working on different diseases. And the half that is

:44:11. > :44:14.frozen, what happens with that? It is sliced and frozen at minus 80

:44:15. > :44:19.degrees and that is used for different research projects that we

:44:20. > :44:25.need this tissue, not fixed tissue for. Extracting DNA, RNA, we do that

:44:26. > :44:28.from the frozen half, and that can be involved in genetic studies.

:44:29. > :44:32.Sometimes the staining techniques will not work on the fixed half of

:44:33. > :44:39.the brain and we need to use the frozen half, so having two different

:44:40. > :44:43.materials helps with the research. What specific breakthroughs have

:44:44. > :44:46.arisen thanks to this work? In the last 100 years, especially in the

:44:47. > :44:50.field of dementia, they have determined the spread of the

:44:51. > :44:53.pathology, so where the disease starts in the brain and why it

:44:54. > :45:03.spreads. My particular interest is frontal temporal dimensions, but

:45:04. > :45:08.they are quite rare, so we need a lot of information to determine more

:45:09. > :45:12.about the diseases, rather than just one or two brains, so we need to

:45:13. > :45:16.increase the collection. Margaret has freely decided that she wants to

:45:17. > :45:20.donate her brain to medical research. Obviously you want brains

:45:21. > :45:28.from people with dementia to be able to look specifically at that. What

:45:29. > :45:31.happens with consent on that? Are their loved ones left behind always

:45:32. > :45:37.asked to consider it if someone has died of dementia?

:45:38. > :45:47.It is better they consider it before. But we are always in need of

:45:48. > :45:56.normal controls to compare the diseased brains too to as well. Jane

:45:57. > :46:03.says, "My husband died in 2013. He multiple systems atrophy. The

:46:04. > :46:07.Coroner's Office was surprised at my request, but Addenbrooke's Hospital

:46:08. > :46:14.handled everything once I had given my position." Clare tweeted, "My

:46:15. > :46:17.grandmother had Alzheimer's." Margaret, you said you have been

:46:18. > :46:25.part of a research programme. Does it mean that you perhaps look at our

:46:26. > :46:29.bodies and what can be sort of given back as a result differently perhaps

:46:30. > :46:33.than a lot of us? I don't know that I necessarily look at it

:46:34. > :46:38.differently. I think it is just that there is a raised awareness perhaps

:46:39. > :46:43.of the sort of benefits to society that being part of this very long

:46:44. > :46:50.running study can actually bring. I think that's the main thing. I think

:46:51. > :46:54.too, there isn't enough education about brain bank donation. We all

:46:55. > :46:58.know about organ transplants don't we? We all carry the card or on the

:46:59. > :47:03.register, but this is a little known thing. I had no idea about it until

:47:04. > :47:07.I actually was at this event in November and spoke to one of the

:47:08. > :47:11.doctors there about it and that was really what influenced me, but I had

:47:12. > :47:15.to think about it, because it is quite a significant part of your

:47:16. > :47:22.person that you're giving away. But I still think it is worth doing and

:47:23. > :47:27.I would encourage other people just to explore it. Explore it. It can

:47:28. > :47:31.actually give those left behind some closure afterwards if they get the

:47:32. > :47:37.diagnosis that you say you can only get from looking directly at the

:47:38. > :47:42.brain after death? Some relatives want want the diagnosis, but to be

:47:43. > :47:45.part of future research that may one day cure these terrible diseases is

:47:46. > :47:46.phenomenal, but it is individual choice. Thank you both. Thank you

:47:47. > :47:51.very much for coming in. And if that has inspired you to find

:47:52. > :47:54.out how you can sign up to donate your brain,

:47:55. > :47:56.go to the Medical Research Council's website and look

:47:57. > :47:58.at the section on brain banks. The mother-in-law of the Formula One

:47:59. > :48:01.boss Bernie Ecclestone has been rescued from kidnappers

:48:02. > :48:03.in her native Brazil, who had demanded

:48:04. > :48:05.a ransom of ?28 million. Aparecida Schunk is said to have

:48:06. > :48:07.been freed unharmed by police in Sao Paolo without any

:48:08. > :48:09.money changing hands. Joining us now with more

:48:10. > :48:20.on this story is BBC What happened here, Amy? As you can

:48:21. > :48:25.imagine this must have been a terrifying ordeal. Now, Aparecida

:48:26. > :48:29.Schunk was kidnapped ten days ago and ever since then there has been a

:48:30. > :48:33.huge police operation in Brazil to try to locate her and of course,

:48:34. > :48:38.free her. Well, they managed to trace her to a farmhouse near the

:48:39. > :48:41.city of Sao Paulo after investigators monitored calls

:48:42. > :48:45.between the kidnappers and her family. Well, two people were

:48:46. > :48:52.arrested yesterday and she was freed. The perpetrators had demanded

:48:53. > :48:57.a ?28 million ransom which is believed to be the largest in

:48:58. > :48:59.Brazil's history and according to the Brazilian magazine, the

:49:00. > :49:05.perpetrators had wanted this money to be made in pounds sterling and

:49:06. > :49:10.divided into four bags of cash. But interestingly, with this, no money

:49:11. > :49:17.ever exchanged hands. So actually, it was an incredibly successful

:49:18. > :49:20.operation and she was unharmed, Sao Paulo's anti-kidnap squad said

:49:21. > :49:24.without any dra marks she was unharmed and two men were arrested

:49:25. > :49:31.at the hide-out and the operation continues. Thank you very much, Amy.

:49:32. > :49:34.We told you how Pokemon Go is proving a hit with autistic

:49:35. > :49:38.youngers. The game uses reality which mixes the real world and the

:49:39. > :49:41.computer world. We spoke to Rachel and her son Lewis who has autism.

:49:42. > :49:46.They came to London yesterday to prepare for our programme. They told

:49:47. > :49:50.us about their experience. I think you have been playing it

:49:51. > :49:56.right now in the studio. Are there any Pokemon in here? No. But you

:49:57. > :49:59.have been out on the hunt around London, haven't you, have you found

:50:00. > :50:04.many in London? Yeah. This is the first time you have been to London?

:50:05. > :50:09.Yeah. Apart from when I was seven. Did you want to come because it

:50:10. > :50:12.meant you could do some Pokemon hunting. Before would you have

:50:13. > :50:22.wanted to come to a city? No. Why not? It is too crowded. Everybody is

:50:23. > :50:26.everywhere. You can't get away from anybody because you don't know your

:50:27. > :50:30.surroundings. So you're walking around looking for the Pokemon and

:50:31. > :50:35.you feel like that. That means that you don't have to be aware of what's

:50:36. > :50:42.going on around you? Yeah. How does that, does that make it feel better

:50:43. > :50:47.for you? Yeah. Rachel, coming to London with Lewis, is that something

:50:48. > :50:51.that you would have thought before he started playing Pokemon Go you

:50:52. > :50:54.have been able to do? Not at all. It has been amazing. We walked miles

:50:55. > :50:59.yesterday. We came on the train. That's another big step and he was

:51:00. > :51:01.hoping to catch some, but the train was going quite fast, it was

:51:02. > :51:06.difficult catching them on the train. As soon as we got to London

:51:07. > :51:10.and when we came out of Euston Station there was loads and his face

:51:11. > :51:14.lit and that was it, we went to the hotel in the car and from there to

:51:15. > :51:17.Buckingham Palace and went and saw all the way around London, we walked

:51:18. > :51:20.through the day. What's the difference you have seen in Lewis as

:51:21. > :51:25.a result of this? Massive. He wants to go out and walk. He wants to be

:51:26. > :51:29.outside. Before, he would be in the house wanting to be on his game

:51:30. > :51:35.station playing and locking himself away in his room. Now, he is asking

:51:36. > :51:40.to go for walks and our poor dogs are absolutely tired! They have

:51:41. > :51:44.never walked so far! We go every evening for a walk. We are doing

:51:45. > :51:48.three times a week into town. It is helping me lose weight. It is

:51:49. > :51:54.helping Lewis' fitness, but also it is helping him with his self eteem

:51:55. > :51:59.and making him feel part of a community as well. It is not just

:52:00. > :52:04.autistic children that play it, it is a wide variety of children. Chen

:52:05. > :52:06.he is out, he can see everyone that's playing it and he feels part

:52:07. > :52:10.of that group. In just under a fortnight's time,

:52:11. > :52:13.the 100 metre men's Olympic champion The race will almost

:52:14. > :52:17.certainly be won in a time of less than ten seconds,

:52:18. > :52:19.but this is a feat that's rarely Until this weekend only six men had

:52:20. > :52:24.ever gone under ten seconds. But on Saturday a man who normally

:52:25. > :52:26.competes in bobsleigh became the third fastest British

:52:27. > :52:29.sprinter of all time. Here is Joel Fearon

:52:30. > :52:45.at the England Athletics Fearon the favourite in three.

:52:46. > :52:52.Storming start from the likes of Robinson and Fearon. Robinson is on

:52:53. > :53:02.his shoulder. Fearon is beginning to pull away. Keep your eye on the

:53:03. > :53:07.clock. Joel Fearon got 9.9.8. He is the fastest man in the UK this year

:53:08. > :53:16.and he is not going to the Olympics. 9.98 seconds. It is almost relief

:53:17. > :53:30.from Joel Fearon. And it is legal, Joel Fearon 9.98.

:53:31. > :53:35.Wow! ! It is gutting he is not going to Rio. Did you know you had that in

:53:36. > :53:40.you? Not even a little bit. It was a surprise to me as it was to everyone

:53:41. > :53:45.else. So, no, I didn't know that was in me, no. You achieved that without

:53:46. > :53:49.actually properly training as a British sprinter in the way that

:53:50. > :53:53.obviously others do when it is their focus, because you are a

:53:54. > :53:59.bobsleigher, aren't you? I am a bob sledder. We have had a really good

:54:00. > :54:03.season in 2016 and you know, but my coach he is a sprint coach and

:54:04. > :54:09.that's where his profession really is and you know he really brought me

:54:10. > :54:13.into some amazing shape and that magical thing happened to me. So

:54:14. > :54:17.everyone watching that has been going yes, but know as well because

:54:18. > :54:23.of the fact that you're not going to Rio. Is there any way you could get

:54:24. > :54:28.to Rio? There is no way I could get to Rio. There was a guideline set

:54:29. > :54:34.out for all the athletes and my achievement wasn't done in time. But

:54:35. > :54:38.for me, you know, all the athletes that are there, they 100% deserve to

:54:39. > :54:41.be there and I am all about supporting Team GB and I'm very

:54:42. > :54:46.blessed with what I've managed to achieve. It is such a lifetime goal

:54:47. > :54:50.and something that I could only before ever dream about. I'm just

:54:51. > :54:53.happy for myself and I'm, you know, right now, it is all about

:54:54. > :54:59.supporting Team GB and the Olympics. What will you do? Is it time to

:55:00. > :55:03.switch from bobsleigh? Not at all. Bobsleigh is a massive part of the

:55:04. > :55:07.puzzle for me. They have supported me and helped me to achieve such

:55:08. > :55:12.things with my life and such dreams. So it wouldn't be a case of

:55:13. > :55:18.switching, but again, you know, I can't write off athletics. Doing

:55:19. > :55:23.something like that does change my outlook on life and yeah, just happy

:55:24. > :55:27.at the moment. We haven't decided everything, but very happy. Has it

:55:28. > :55:32.sunk in? What's everyone around you saying? I'm just getting so much

:55:33. > :55:36.love and support, you know, so many people have, I'm not young. So many

:55:37. > :55:42.people have seen me sort of doing sports for a while and you know had

:55:43. > :55:47.my up and downs. I want to thank everyone for all their support and

:55:48. > :55:50.all the love they have shown me and all the up and coming athletes and

:55:51. > :55:54.if I can be here talking to you guys about my achievement, I really

:55:55. > :55:57.believe that you know there is so many young people you can do

:55:58. > :56:01.thinking, you really can. You haven't even been training full-time

:56:02. > :56:05.as a sprinter. It makes you wonder what you could achieve. Do you think

:56:06. > :56:10.you could be even faster? I wouldn't even dare to say that! I would love

:56:11. > :56:15.to go faster and I would love to be, you know in a more competitive

:56:16. > :56:25.environment and run with the real greats, but to have my name up there

:56:26. > :56:29.next to Linford Christie and others, I'm so proud and I'm really happy

:56:30. > :56:34.and my wife and kids at home are really happy for me of the Would you

:56:35. > :56:39.like to be going to Rio? Of course. I would love to go to Rio. It is a

:56:40. > :56:46.dream for me to go to a summer Olympics. But at the moment it

:56:47. > :56:50.wasn't part of my plan. I know a lot of guys they have been working for

:56:51. > :56:53.four years to be there and I'm happy for them and they're getting their

:56:54. > :56:57.dream and stuff so I'm happy for them. One Joel, thank Ifies you very

:56:58. > :57:00.much. Congratulations. Thank you for joining us. Thank you.

:57:01. > :57:04.Thank you. Lots of people getting in touch on

:57:05. > :57:08.the different subjects we have been talking to today. Lots inspired to

:57:09. > :57:12.get in touch after talking about brain donation a few moments ago. A

:57:13. > :57:17.viewer says, "Thank you for this segment. I had no idea that you

:57:18. > :57:22.could donate your brain for research. I had already decided to

:57:23. > :57:29.denate any organs that are usele for transplant, but will register to

:57:30. > :57:35.donate my brain too." Shane says, "Great discussion on the importance

:57:36. > :57:41.of brain donation." Will dodonating my brain mean fewer animals will be

:57:42. > :57:45.used in brain research?" David says, "I suffer from motor neurone disease

:57:46. > :57:49.disease. I would like to help, could I do it?" Another viewer says, "I

:57:50. > :57:56.would like to donate my brain upon death. ." James tweeted, "Our bodies

:57:57. > :58:01.are only shells. When we go, if it can be used for good, why not?"

:58:02. > :58:03.Thank you for those comments and everything else that you have been

:58:04. > :58:09.letting us know your thoughts on today. Do have a lovely afternoon.

:58:10. > :58:13.BBC Newsroom Live is coming up next. Thank you for your company today. I

:58:14. > :58:20.will see you at the same time tomorrow. Bye-bye.