05/09/2016

:01:04. > :01:09.As is a resigning as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, when

:01:10. > :01:10.he has brought Parliament into such disrepute, I think it is utterly

:01:11. > :01:13.amazing. We'll also get reaction

:01:14. > :01:15.from Labour MP Simon Danzuck - who's experienced his own tabloid

:01:16. > :01:18.sex scandal and says he feels Plus as Cold Feet returns to TV

:01:19. > :01:22.tonight and Poldark last night, why do TV bosses love

:01:23. > :01:30.rebooting old shows? It's no use, Ross. We knew it a week

:01:31. > :01:56.ago. So we give up? We move on. Throughout the programme we'll bring

:01:57. > :02:02.you the latest breaking news, and across the BBC today we're

:02:03. > :02:05.looking at the impact of Britain's We'll hear from a daughter

:02:06. > :02:10.and her stepdad who ten weeks on -

:02:11. > :02:12.still haven't stopped And if you're texting,

:02:13. > :02:21.it will cost the standard Our top story,

:02:22. > :02:26.it's back to work for MPs today and the immigration story is still

:02:27. > :02:29.top of the political agenda. The Prime Minister has cast doubt

:02:30. > :02:32.on whether a points-based immigration system

:02:33. > :02:35.would work for the UK, suggesting that it's not a silver

:02:36. > :02:38.bullet to satisfy the concerns Our political guru Norman Smith

:02:39. > :02:50.is in Westminster. Welcome back, Normandy. What has

:02:51. > :02:55.Theresa May been saying about this points system? If you had to think,

:02:56. > :02:59.what was the standard policy demand of the Brexiteers, it was to

:03:00. > :03:04.introduce a points based immigration system, rather like they have in

:03:05. > :03:06.Australia, where you only get in depending on your work

:03:07. > :03:10.qualifications, your educational qualifications, your age and health.

:03:11. > :03:23.That was the key policy demand and Theresa May has in effect kibosh on

:03:24. > :03:30.it. -- kiboshed it. And that is largely based on her experience as

:03:31. > :03:35.Home Secretary. She will have looked at Australia, where net immigration,

:03:36. > :03:39.by head of population, is higher than it is in the UK. It is not a

:03:40. > :03:44.system that will lead to significant results there. Of course, this will

:03:45. > :03:49.lead to alarm bells for Brexiteers but interestingly, Chuka Umunna, one

:03:50. > :03:50.of the leading remain campaigners, he was supportive of Theresa May's

:03:51. > :03:57.stands. Actually, in places like Australia,

:03:58. > :04:01.they actually wish to increase the number of immigrants they have

:04:02. > :04:05.coming to their country proportionally. Australia has three

:04:06. > :04:07.times more immigrants than we did. According to their latest

:04:08. > :04:12.statistics, if you look at the number of foreign-born citizens

:04:13. > :04:20.living there, there are around 28%, more than double what we have here.

:04:21. > :04:27.David Davis will be talking in the Commons today. Will that be giving

:04:28. > :04:30.us more clues to what we can expect? If only. I think it will be a

:04:31. > :04:34.frustrating afternoon in the Commons because the signs are that it will

:04:35. > :04:39.be big picture stuff, bold ambition and aspirations, rather than any

:04:40. > :04:43.detail or any clear definition about what Brexit really means. And the

:04:44. > :04:47.reason for that is you sense that Theresa May and David Davis are

:04:48. > :04:52.still feeling their way. We can see it on immigration, with Theresa

:04:53. > :04:57.May's kibosh on of the points system, but also when she was asked

:04:58. > :05:01.last night about whether we are going to carry on giving money to

:05:02. > :05:06.the EU, she did not rule that out. -- Theresa May's kiboshing.

:05:07. > :05:12.Similarly, she has given no clear timetable about when she will

:05:13. > :05:14.trigger the Article 50, bringing about our withdrawal. I expect that

:05:15. > :05:21.after the statement, there will still be many, many unanswered

:05:22. > :05:25.questions about Brexit. And Theresa May spent the weekend at the G20

:05:26. > :05:28.Summit, the first time she has met world leaders as Prime Minister. How

:05:29. > :05:32.has the trip gone down? The funny thing about Theresa May, although

:05:33. > :05:35.she has been an secretary for five or six years, she has never been a

:05:36. > :05:40.figure on the international stage, so this was her first outing. For

:05:41. > :05:43.many world leaders, there is a curiosity about what sort of

:05:44. > :05:47.politician Shias but it seems to me she has had a tough baptism of fire.

:05:48. > :05:54.President Obama warning about the possible adverse effects of Brexit,

:05:55. > :05:58.and the Japanese issuing an extraordinary document saying that

:05:59. > :06:02.if you press ahead with Brexit, then you do not guarantee free movement

:06:03. > :06:05.of labour, and who knows, big Japanese companies like Honda and

:06:06. > :06:08.Nissan might relocate some of their operations in Britain. There was

:06:09. > :06:14.that stony faced meeting with President Putin, and ahead of her,

:06:15. > :06:18.perhaps the toughest meeting of all, with the Chinese present, and there

:06:19. > :06:21.will be huge speculation about whether she is going to pull the

:06:22. > :06:24.plug on the Hinkley Point power station. -- with the Chinese

:06:25. > :06:35.president. Joanna has the rest

:06:36. > :06:39.of the days news. Farmers, lorry drivers and traders

:06:40. > :06:42.in Calais are starting to blockade the main route into the town -

:06:43. > :06:45.as they call for the migrant camp Around 9,000 people

:06:46. > :06:56.are living there. The mayor of Calais is joining

:06:57. > :06:58.the demonstrations. The protest is likely

:06:59. > :06:59.to cause major disruption. Our Correspondent, Richard Galpin,

:07:00. > :07:10.is with lorry drivers in Calais. just some of the lorries taking part

:07:11. > :07:14.in this demonstration. They are going to be blockading the main

:07:15. > :07:19.arterial route which runs through Calais. This is one of two main

:07:20. > :07:26.groups. We are actually in Dunkirk. They are going to go towards the

:07:27. > :07:29.centre of Calais on a go-slow, blocking the main role. Another

:07:30. > :07:35.group comes from the South into Calais. After that, we understand

:07:36. > :07:40.the human chain will block the main road leading to the port itself. So

:07:41. > :07:43.there is of course going to be enormous disruption caused by the

:07:44. > :07:47.protest and we think it will be one of the biggest so far by local

:07:48. > :07:52.people in Calais and the region. And they have one clear demand, that the

:07:53. > :07:57.camp known as the Jungle, where there are 9000 migrants and refugees

:07:58. > :08:02.living, the protesters say that this must be closed down as soon as

:08:03. > :08:03.possible. They want a date from the government for when this is actually

:08:04. > :08:09.going to happen. The Labour MP Keith Vaz is facing

:08:10. > :08:11.a possible investigation by Commons sleaze watchdogs over reports

:08:12. > :08:14.he paid two male escorts Mr Vaz has indicated

:08:15. > :08:22.he'll confirm tomorrow whether he will stand aside

:08:23. > :08:24.as chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee

:08:25. > :08:26.after the allegations were published The 59-year-old who's married

:08:27. > :08:30.with two children has criticised the newspaper for

:08:31. > :08:31.printing the story. The organisation that regulates

:08:32. > :08:33.the medical profession is warning that patients will suffer if junior

:08:34. > :08:36.doctors in England go ahead with a series of five

:08:37. > :08:41.one-day strikes next week. The General Medical Council says

:08:42. > :08:44.the scale of the action, planned at such short notice,

:08:45. > :08:46.cannot be justified. The GMC says it will also

:08:47. > :08:48.investigate any case in which a patient comes

:08:49. > :08:50.to significant harm Giant pandas are officially no

:08:51. > :08:54.longer an endangered species. After decades of work

:08:55. > :08:57.by conservationists, they have now been reduced to the lower

:08:58. > :09:01.category of "vulnerable". The increase in numbers is being put

:09:02. > :09:04.down to successful breeding programmes and the measures taken

:09:05. > :09:09.to protect bamboo forests. That's a summary of

:09:10. > :09:12.the latest BBC News. In the next few minutes,

:09:13. > :09:19.we'll hear from three women who've experienced horrific domestic abuse

:09:20. > :09:22.and have now joined together to campaign for better

:09:23. > :09:24.rights for victims. Their stories are distressing

:09:25. > :09:26.and you may not want Do get in touch with us

:09:27. > :09:38.throughout the morning. Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE

:09:39. > :09:41.and if you text, you will be charged And you can get in touch

:09:42. > :09:45.anonymously, of course. Hugh Ferris is at the BBC

:09:46. > :09:51.Sport Centre, and international football has returned

:09:52. > :09:53.with the World Cup qualifiers. Sam Allardyce in charge of England

:09:54. > :10:01.for the first time, Same old, same old, if you are an

:10:02. > :10:04.England supporter? What have we learned? We have learned that Sam

:10:05. > :10:08.Allardyce is a lucky manager, sometimes better than being a good

:10:09. > :10:11.one. England's first World Cup qualifier was looking a little too

:10:12. > :10:16.familiar if memories of Euro 2016 are fresh in your mind. The team

:10:17. > :10:23.lacked a cutting edge, until the 95th minute, almost the last kick of

:10:24. > :10:27.the game. Adam Lallana scored his first international goal. Helping

:10:28. > :10:32.his team to win 1-0 against Slovakia, who were down to ten men

:10:33. > :10:39.by this point. Sam Allardyce becomes the ninth England manager in a row

:10:40. > :10:45.to start with a win, just. Scotland are top of their group, above

:10:46. > :10:48.England, after a 5-1 win in Malta. Robert Snodgrass clinched a hat

:10:49. > :10:52.trick with this goal, helping Scotland pull away from their

:10:53. > :10:56.opponents, who ended the match with only nine men. Northern Ireland's

:10:57. > :10:59.opening qualifier finished goalless in their first game since the last

:11:00. > :11:03.16 at the Euros. Michael O'Neill says he was happy with a point

:11:04. > :11:10.against one of the top teams in the group. And there was a great tweet

:11:11. > :11:14.before Adam Lallana scored which said, I'm sure ITV have just put an

:11:15. > :11:18.England game on from the European Championships and gone down the pub.

:11:19. > :11:24.Let's talk about tennis. Andy Murray is the Brit left. Kyle Edmund and

:11:25. > :11:28.Johanna Konta are both out now but there is so much chat about British

:11:29. > :11:32.tennis being strong right now. It is true. It is better than I can

:11:33. > :11:36.remember in my lifetime. I cannot remember a better time for British

:11:37. > :11:39.tennis. This US Open seen a record-breaking effort from the

:11:40. > :11:43.British contingent but the challenge is always in the second week, and it

:11:44. > :11:48.will be tougher. Kyle Edmund had the misfortune to come up against the

:11:49. > :11:52.world number one, looking back to his best. Novak Djokavic and

:11:53. > :11:56.received two walkovers in getting to the stage. He needed treatment on a

:11:57. > :12:04.troublesome arm injury, but he still looked pretty fresh, outclassing

:12:05. > :12:08.Kyle Edmund 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, to set up a quarterfinal for against

:12:09. > :12:13.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. That match did not start until tenpin -- 10pm local

:12:14. > :12:23.time because of an epic that preceded it. Rafa Nadal not out by

:12:24. > :12:29.Lucas Pouille, who came back from one set down to win it. It is the

:12:30. > :12:34.first time in 12 years that the two-time winner in New York, Rafa

:12:35. > :12:37.Nadal, has failed to reach a Grand Slam last eight. Johanna Konta is

:12:38. > :12:41.also out and it is a sign of how far she has come that the British number

:12:42. > :12:45.one will be disappointed, being beaten in the fourth round in

:12:46. > :12:54.straight sets by the unseeded Latvian. And let's talk about

:12:55. > :12:57.cricket, a sign of the strength of England's one-day cricket side that

:12:58. > :13:01.England's supporters were disappointed not to beat Pakistan

:13:02. > :13:04.5-0? Dennis is improving immeasurably for England but the

:13:05. > :13:09.one-day cricket team might be the best around at the moment. They only

:13:10. > :13:14.won the series against Pakistan 4-1 after the tourists claimed the final

:13:15. > :13:19.match in Cardiff by four wickets. Waseem, born down the road in

:13:20. > :13:25.Swansea, hitting the winning runs. It was England's first white ball

:13:26. > :13:28.defeat all summer. I was in Cardiff yesterday and the grey skies and

:13:29. > :13:33.temperatures suggested it was not summer anyway. Maybe the unbeaten

:13:34. > :13:36.record still stands. And a full weather forecast from Carol, just

:13:37. > :13:41.before 10am. Beaten, tortured and verbally

:13:42. > :13:44.bullied - one in four women in England and Wales will experience

:13:45. > :13:46.domestic abuse in their lifetime. Three women who experienced it

:13:47. > :13:48.first-hand have joined forces in the hope of bringing

:13:49. > :13:51.about changes to the way Rachel Williams was shot by her

:13:52. > :14:00.ex-husband following years of abuse. She is calling for judges to be

:14:01. > :14:03.given more specific training Among the many injuries Mandy Thomas

:14:04. > :14:09.suffered at the hands of her ex are burns inflicted

:14:10. > :14:12.on her using a blow torch Along with her children, she was put

:14:13. > :14:21.under witness protection. She wants molestation orders,

:14:22. > :14:24.which are a set of rules given to prisoners on their

:14:25. > :14:26.release from prison, And Becky O'Brien had her jaw broken

:14:27. > :14:30.by her ex-partner hours after giving She wants more support

:14:31. > :15:05.for children caught up Let's talk to Rachel Mandy and

:15:06. > :15:08.Becky. I know you're comfortable in talking about those things because

:15:09. > :15:11.it is, you think it is important for people to understand the kind of

:15:12. > :15:14.depths to which your ex-s went to. important for people to understand

:15:15. > :15:19.the kind of apps to which your exes when two. Mandy, the abuse you

:15:20. > :15:25.suffered went on for a very long time, 18 years. But it's started in

:15:26. > :15:29.quite subtle ways, didn't it? It is the control factor, saying what you

:15:30. > :15:33.should wear, not having friends, keeping your way from your friends

:15:34. > :15:36.and family. Basically, controlling your every movement. You are

:15:37. > :15:40.thinking in the beginning that it is because they care about you, they

:15:41. > :15:44.wanted for themselves, because they love you. But it wasn't long after I

:15:45. > :15:51.moved in with him that he started, it started with a slap, and then a

:15:52. > :15:55.punch. I did say, this isn't on. I tried to get a weight right from

:15:56. > :15:59.them. But there was nothing in place for me to go to. You know, the

:16:00. > :16:04.police weren't listening. I was raped, I went to the police station,

:16:05. > :16:08.I did a full report and they just did nothing about it. And it makes

:16:09. > :16:13.you think, you go to the system for help and they just keep turning your

:16:14. > :16:23.way. Over the 18 years, I had moved quite a number of times. -- turning

:16:24. > :16:26.you away. Having children en route as well wasn't easy. Going into

:16:27. > :16:29.refuges, then he would find us, because he was a computer hacker, he

:16:30. > :16:34.used to track us down. Everything I was doing to keep us away from him

:16:35. > :16:38.wasn't working. And the escalation, if you like, the punching and

:16:39. > :16:47.slapping, moved on to him using the walls around the house, knives, to

:16:48. > :16:50.effectively torture you -- using tools. I used it scanned the room,

:16:51. > :16:55.look around the house and think, what can he do with that? I used to

:16:56. > :16:59.try and put everything away. He used to pick something up, and I had no

:17:00. > :17:05.wide ear that he could do that with that. Towards the end, he was doing

:17:06. > :17:09.drugs -- I had no idea. It was unpredictable. He would be talking

:17:10. > :17:13.one minute, then the next minute he would just switch, the children used

:17:14. > :17:19.to pick up on it as well. You would be walking around on a show 24 7/7

:17:20. > :17:26.to stay alive, basically -- on eggshells. The worst incident, if

:17:27. > :17:30.you like, was when he smashed a glass in your face and proceeded to

:17:31. > :17:34.attack you for about, punch you in the face, for about eight hours,

:17:35. > :17:40.before dragging you into a bedroom and locking the door. Yes, that was

:17:41. > :17:43.the worst one. I kept going in and out of consciousness because he had

:17:44. > :17:51.been punching me for so long. And then he stripped me naked, and after

:17:52. > :17:54.the punching he went downstairs to sharpen knives, and he was saying

:17:55. > :17:58.what he was going to do with the knives as he was chopping them. I'd

:17:59. > :18:02.got the children locked into their bedrooms so they were out of the

:18:03. > :18:06.way, -- as he was sharpening them. But he would come up, attacked me

:18:07. > :18:11.with the knives, he dragged me into my daughter's bedroom, and my

:18:12. > :18:15.youngest was four years old in the bunk bed. And he got the knives, he

:18:16. > :18:20.threw me on the floor and he said he was going to kill the children. He

:18:21. > :18:25.made his way across to the bunk bed. I didn't know what I'd done at this

:18:26. > :18:28.point, my daughter said it in the statement, but I crawled along the

:18:29. > :18:33.floor and pulled him down. And it put him in a spin. He literally ran

:18:34. > :18:42.round in circles, ran outside, and that is when he got the blowtorch,

:18:43. > :18:45.tested it, and burnt in wire so that it fits the Electric of, the smoke

:18:46. > :18:47.alarm went off, the fire alarm was going off. And then he just came up

:18:48. > :18:51.to meet with the blowtorch. I thought, there is nothing I can do.

:18:52. > :18:56.I backed as far as I could into a wall. And he just carried on. And he

:18:57. > :19:03.was saying, smile that burning flesh, as he was doing it. -- smell

:19:04. > :19:06.the burning flesh. Daniel had witnessed that part, he came out of

:19:07. > :19:11.the bedroom and he was sat in the corridor. I'm left with the haunting

:19:12. > :19:17.image of him on his knees, helpless, watching his dad take a blowtorch to

:19:18. > :19:21.me. But then he took them to school. He kept me locked in the bedroom,

:19:22. > :19:28.carried on portering before another four days, and I was daft. --

:19:29. > :19:32.carried portering me. How did you survive? I don't know. I was praying

:19:33. > :19:37.one minute to die because of the pain. And then begging to stay alive

:19:38. > :19:41.for the children. But he took the children to school on the fourth

:19:42. > :19:44.day, and my daughter said that the teacher that she thinks that has

:19:45. > :19:49.killed her mum, and then the police came and got me out. But then he

:19:50. > :19:53.still pleaded not guilty for a whole year, through the Crown Court. At

:19:54. > :19:58.the last minute, he changed his plea to guilty. The day before, that is

:19:59. > :20:03.another thing I don't agree with. If you waste the time of the court and

:20:04. > :20:06.put children through the help of being video linked interviewed, so

:20:07. > :20:10.they have to relive every moment over and over. They have the give

:20:11. > :20:17.him the right to change the plea, I don't agree with that at all. He was

:20:18. > :20:23.convicted and jailed for 15 years, this was back in 2003. Yet in 2008

:20:24. > :20:28.you got a call saying he was being released, which had a terrible

:20:29. > :20:33.impact on your children? It did. Basically we were under witness

:20:34. > :20:37.protection, the whole team come out to you to say how you are going to

:20:38. > :20:41.have to live, you're going to have to move within a week. We had to

:20:42. > :20:44.take the children out of school and college, go into another strange

:20:45. > :20:54.town, start again. This is witness protection? It is. We moved into a

:20:55. > :21:00.house, and about a week after, my ex was released, Daniel Whitworth in.

:21:01. > :21:04.-- Daniel went missing. We had a whole team searching for him,

:21:05. > :21:09.sniffer dogs, they tracked him down, his body was found in another town a

:21:10. > :21:14.month later. Then a month after that I had to move again. Because they

:21:15. > :21:19.couldn't make our house into a proper safe house, I live in a

:21:20. > :21:24.prison so that my ex can be free, basically. We have trackers if we go

:21:25. > :21:29.missing... It's just... Daniel said, it is like living in a box, and he

:21:30. > :21:33.wanted to be free. He was screaming at the police, he doesn't

:21:34. > :21:36.understand, knowing what he is going to do, he threatened to kill my

:21:37. > :21:41.children one by one, tell me last and make me suffer the most. And he

:21:42. > :21:44.told the children that. When the police are saying they are letting

:21:45. > :21:49.him out, it doesn't make sense in their world that you should be doing

:21:50. > :21:54.that. I don't know how you cope with Daniel taking his life. I've been

:21:55. > :21:58.through a lot. But that was the biggest, the most deepest pain. It

:21:59. > :22:04.still hurts saying get now. Because it's something that you couldn't

:22:05. > :22:09.control yourself. I have to respect his wishes to be free. And I'm

:22:10. > :22:14.learning over the years that it took that for him to be free. But it

:22:15. > :22:18.makes me angry that the system let it happen, and it still happens

:22:19. > :22:25.today. You know, I get e-mails every day. Because I wrote the book, You

:22:26. > :22:29.Can't Run, to stress where the mistakes are made in the system. We

:22:30. > :22:35.will come back to the system, because you have all got issues with

:22:36. > :22:39.parts of the system. Thank you for being so open about some very, very

:22:40. > :22:45.distressing details. Rachel, you were seven months pregnant when you

:22:46. > :22:50.first remember your XP environment to you. What happened? That was the

:22:51. > :22:55.most vivid memory I have of Darren being violent towards me. I remember

:22:56. > :22:58.we had an argument, I went upstairs into the bedroom and he followed me

:22:59. > :23:02.there. And he literally picked me off the floor by my throat, Darren

:23:03. > :23:07.was capable of doing this because he was sixth at seven and 22 stone, he

:23:08. > :23:12.was a body-builder. And he let me go and I turned blue, and that was his

:23:13. > :23:16.way of telling me, he fell on the floor to his knees and cried and

:23:17. > :23:21.asked for forgiveness. I figured him, and I kept forgiving him for

:23:22. > :23:24.the next 18 years. Not only was he remorseful, he went to anger

:23:25. > :23:30.management to deal with these things. Yes, he went through the

:23:31. > :23:34.process. And in the end I just couldn't take no more. After 18

:23:35. > :23:40.years, I mean, we've got children, and people say, why don't you leave?

:23:41. > :23:44.You know, it is not as easy as get up and go. When you have got

:23:45. > :23:50.children, sometimes you don't feel that refuges or an appropriate place

:23:51. > :23:54.to take your children. You talk about a moment of clarity, you were

:23:55. > :24:07.aged 49, you thought it has got to stop. Can you describe it? I was 39.

:24:08. > :24:11.And sorry. On a Friday night he had taken about 15 sleeping tablets or

:24:12. > :24:18.antidepressants, got taken to the hospital, I didn't go, at that

:24:19. > :24:21.point, ... Did he regularly threatened to kill himself? It was

:24:22. > :24:27.quite a regular thing. Most people who are watching, who are in that

:24:28. > :24:32.situation, they will know that as a regular pattern of a perpetrator.

:24:33. > :24:37.That is the persuader tactic. And he took this overdose. And to be

:24:38. > :24:42.honest, I didn't go to the hospital, I wasn't concerned, I went home, the

:24:43. > :24:47.following morning he came back, he was brought back, I don't know what

:24:48. > :24:51.time it was, and again we had an argument, I went downstairs and I

:24:52. > :24:54.can remember standing in the kitchen looking out my back door, because I

:24:55. > :25:00.opened the back door, and the tears were streaming down my face. I

:25:01. > :25:04.thought, do I really want to be here in ten years thinking I had done it

:25:05. > :25:07.in ten years prior? At that point he was breathing down my neck,

:25:08. > :25:13.swearing, saying I wouldn't leave, why would I go. I said this time I

:25:14. > :25:17.am going to go. As I walked through the kitchen, he grabbed me and shook

:25:18. > :25:21.me so ferociously, strangling me, that he works the boys up upstairs.

:25:22. > :25:27.They both came running down, Jack at the time had a baseball bat in his

:25:28. > :25:32.hand. And Josh was making a silent 999 call. With that I remember being

:25:33. > :25:36.on the floor. I had a surge of energy and I jumped up. I worked on

:25:37. > :25:40.the top of his head, and I think it sort of startled him a bit. -- I

:25:41. > :25:49.whacked him on the top of his head. He sort of came to his senses, he

:25:50. > :25:52.was crying, he said it wouldn't happen again. Then the kids went

:25:53. > :25:55.back to bed, because in their world, it was sort of normal. That was the

:25:56. > :25:57.routine. This is why I think education, we need to teach these

:25:58. > :26:01.children. My kids thought it was normal to be living in a household

:26:02. > :26:05.like that. So they both went back to bed. And I does sort of went out in

:26:06. > :26:10.the conservatory. At that point Darren started dragging me up the

:26:11. > :26:12.stairs. Darren, even though he was unpredictable he was also

:26:13. > :26:20.predictable, and I knew what he was going to do next. I knew he was

:26:21. > :26:24.going to slit his wrists. As he started pulling me up the stairs, I

:26:25. > :26:26.managed to break free when we got to the bedroom. Next to his bed he had

:26:27. > :26:30.hunting knives and stuff like that. I said, oh no you don't. With that,

:26:31. > :26:35.Jack came into the bedroom, he asked me what was happening. I looked at

:26:36. > :26:39.Darren and I said, go on, slit your wrists in front of your 16-year-old

:26:40. > :26:43.son. As if to say, don't you dare. By the time I had got to the bottom

:26:44. > :26:53.of the stairs, Jack said, he has done it, and he did. At that point,

:26:54. > :26:55.I thought, if he can do that in front of our 16-year-old son, what

:26:56. > :26:59.else is he capable of doing? That was it then. I got the ball rolling.

:27:00. > :27:02.He was taken to hospital and went to his sister's to stay. That was the

:27:03. > :27:06.9th of July. On the 12th of July I went straight to the solicitors,

:27:07. > :27:09.something I had never done before. I got to an appointment, that is where

:27:10. > :27:13.I started the ball rolling for divorce. Over the next six week

:27:14. > :27:19.period than, everything just really escalated. He came to the hair

:27:20. > :27:24.dressing salon where you worked in Newport and shot you. Yes. It was

:27:25. > :27:30.the 19th of August. And I can remember taxing my sister, I don't

:27:31. > :27:33.know where I got it wrong, I had a feeling that Darren was going to see

:27:34. > :27:37.a psychiatrist that they -- texting my sister. I said, can you go and

:27:38. > :27:45.check if his car is at this place. She went and had a look and said it

:27:46. > :27:48.was not. It was about to 15 PM. A customer had come in, I had just

:27:49. > :27:53.finished doing a blow-dried and handing a lady her change back. She

:27:54. > :27:57.said to me, this lady said is everything all right. I said, well,

:27:58. > :28:03.not really, I'm trying to get rid of Raul Mowatt. I doing there whether

:28:04. > :28:10.my mother had written a letter to say, you have signed free to's death

:28:11. > :28:12.certificate. The day before the lay magistrates lay down the

:28:13. > :28:16.restrictions. The three mile radius, he couldn't come within a three-mile

:28:17. > :28:22.radius of the marital home was lifted. Contact with the children

:28:23. > :28:26.was lifted. I had no idea. He was free to do what he wanted. And that

:28:27. > :28:31.landed apparently on the desk of one of the officers on the day of the

:28:32. > :28:36.shooting. As I said, just trying to get rid of him. I remember it was a

:28:37. > :28:41.sunny day. It suddenly went dark. As I looked at the door, this glass

:28:42. > :28:45.door, in walks Darren, filling the whole of the door frame, pulling out

:28:46. > :28:48.a sawn off shotgun out of his bag. As he came through to the shop, I

:28:49. > :28:55.can remember this lady managing to squeeze past, and I don't know why,

:28:56. > :28:59.I just ran towards him. My legs took me towards him, I don't know whether

:29:00. > :29:03.because I knew I couldn't get any easy access out the back. I started

:29:04. > :29:06.fighting with him. When you are facing death tummy you have got the

:29:07. > :29:10.strength and you just don't know where it comes from. -- you have got

:29:11. > :29:15.the strength. I remember him hitting me with the gun, I felt the floor. I

:29:16. > :29:23.grabbed the reception desk and tried to pull it over my legs. At that

:29:24. > :29:27.point there was an old lady on the floor, she was 92 at the time, and

:29:28. > :29:29.she was shouting at him as well to get out. Then he kicked the

:29:30. > :29:33.reception desk from me. I pulled my legs up under my chin, just

:29:34. > :29:38.instinct, and he aimed at my chest, and he said, Rachel, I love you. He

:29:39. > :29:42.pulled the trigger. At that point, my legs flopped to the floor. I

:29:43. > :29:46.looked at my jeans and thought, he has actually shot me. I could smell

:29:47. > :29:50.the gunpowder. And then the phone was on the floor, I remember tapping

:29:51. > :29:58.the receiver really quickly, thinking, perhaps there is not a

:29:59. > :30:01.line, trying to do the 999. The next I felt it lost to the side of me.

:30:02. > :30:04.Obviously he had shot again. Thank the Lord he missed. The next I can

:30:05. > :30:09.remember looking to the left and he put the gun down, it was to reload.

:30:10. > :30:14.It was big and silver, I can see it now, ornate engraving on it. I

:30:15. > :30:18.grabbed the gun, I had a watch on, and it must have been a hell of a

:30:19. > :30:23.battle, because my watch face was frosted. It was swinging round with

:30:24. > :30:26.this gun. Obviously he couldn't get it off me. He was running out of

:30:27. > :30:30.time as well, because there was no way he would have gone to prison.

:30:31. > :30:36.Then he proceeded to pick me up, basically. I had back is, I had his

:30:37. > :30:42.bookmark on his arm, for of his fingers in bed to my back as

:30:43. > :30:46.bruises. My ear was a cauliflower is, slipped seven times. The next

:30:47. > :30:47.thing, he had gone. And he immediately left, and he took his

:30:48. > :31:02.own life. On us youngest photos are difficult

:31:03. > :31:08.to cope with and six weeks later, took his own life in the same place.

:31:09. > :31:11.Yes, he took his life as well. At the time I remember falling social

:31:12. > :31:18.services and saying that he was next. He decided to stay with the

:31:19. > :31:24.family. He wanted sympathy for his dad's death, which he could not get

:31:25. > :31:31.from my family. And in that six weeks, that totally changed. His

:31:32. > :31:36.texts got nastier and he was calling me names. We became estranged, me

:31:37. > :31:40.and Jack, and Jack and his brother fell out. Jack did not understand

:31:41. > :31:47.why Josh did not want to go to the funeral. And then we said, he tried

:31:48. > :31:50.to kill my mother, you know? I remember falling social services

:31:51. > :31:55.from the hospital and I said, you need to do something. This is a boy

:31:56. > :32:02.I no longer recognise. Me and Jack were inseparable Tom how close we

:32:03. > :32:07.were. I said I no longer recognise him. And they said, he is 16 so we

:32:08. > :32:11.can live where he wants, basically. And that was it. Let me read two

:32:12. > :32:20.messages from people listening to you speak around the country. Liz

:32:21. > :32:26.says, my exit had his hands around my neck and pinned me up against the

:32:27. > :32:39.wall. It never changes. This, from someone else:

:32:40. > :32:46.Becky, your ex-husband was first violent to you just after you had

:32:47. > :32:50.given birth. The twins were born prematurely. I was only 29 weeks

:32:51. > :32:54.pregnant, so it was quite stressful anyway, as you can imagine. They

:32:55. > :33:00.kept me in early labour for ten days. During which time, Stephen had

:33:01. > :33:05.pretty much sat by my side and had behaved sometimes radically, but

:33:06. > :33:09.only towards me and never in front of other members of staff. I put it

:33:10. > :33:14.down to the stress. I just thought he had a strange way of dealing with

:33:15. > :33:19.it. The twins were born and three days after they were born, I was

:33:20. > :33:23.wheeled down to see them in special care, buy him. And then when we came

:33:24. > :33:28.back to the room, he was being very quiet and sitting on his phone. I

:33:29. > :33:35.was completely exhausted by this point. We didn't argue but he

:33:36. > :33:39.started, I remember seeing things and making accusations that it was

:33:40. > :33:43.my fault the twins had come early. I thought, I cannot do this right now

:33:44. > :33:47.and I asked him to leave. And he said, I'm not going anywhere. I

:33:48. > :33:51.said, please leave, if you don't leave I am going to ask someone to

:33:52. > :33:55.ask you to leave. Andy said, I'm not going anywhere because I love you,

:33:56. > :34:01.at which point I turned to try to get up and go to the toilet and all

:34:02. > :34:05.I remember is him shouting no. He grabbed my arm and dragged me across

:34:06. > :34:15.the bed, which nearly ripped open MIC section. -- ripped open my

:34:16. > :34:20.C-section. He began to pummel me into the bed and I could feel myself

:34:21. > :34:25.going out of consciousness. I remember thinking, if I do not get

:34:26. > :34:29.up, he is going to kill me. And this was in the hospital room? I was in

:34:30. > :34:36.the room next to the nurses station. So you are somewhere where you feel

:34:37. > :34:39.like you should be safe and I found out afterwards that the nurses heard

:34:40. > :34:42.screaming and thought someone was in labour but because I had already

:34:43. > :34:49.given birth, they did not come to me, so they walked past my room.

:34:50. > :34:55.Basically someone did eventually come in at which point is Stephen

:34:56. > :34:59.stood back, and very calmly walked around the bed, picked up his

:35:00. > :35:04.rucksack, want out of the room, waited for the left, he didn't run

:35:05. > :35:07.anywhere, and I was trying to screen what had happened and I was

:35:08. > :35:10.absolutely petrified he was going to go down and do something to the

:35:11. > :35:16.babies, so that was my first thought. And it turns out he

:35:17. > :35:19.actually left the hospital, phoned the police and said, you need to

:35:20. > :35:24.arrest me because I have attacked my wife. And he pleaded guilty to GBH.

:35:25. > :35:29.But as he had no previous convictions, he was not jailed and

:35:30. > :35:34.he moved back home. Basically, I didn't think it was acceptable what

:35:35. > :35:39.he had done, but I thought he had had a breakdown. I had never been in

:35:40. > :35:42.an abusive relationship before, and he had never physically attacked me

:35:43. > :35:47.before. He would punch objects and stomp around, and have moods and

:35:48. > :35:50.leave and then come back, to the point where my mother used to call

:35:51. > :35:56.him a boom around because he would pack a bag and go and two hours

:35:57. > :36:00.later, he would be back again. So even after he attacked you, you were

:36:01. > :36:06.not thinking, I am in an abusive relationship. You thought it was a

:36:07. > :36:10.one-off? I did, and because my idea of what a abusive relationship was,

:36:11. > :36:15.it was not bad. It was someone like what Mandy and Rachel said, you meet

:36:16. > :36:19.this person and you do not go on a date and they hit you. If they did

:36:20. > :36:22.that, you would not go on a second date. They use their charisma and

:36:23. > :36:29.manipulate and appear to be everything you need and want, so you

:36:30. > :36:35.fall in love with that person. That then, as you say, turns from caring,

:36:36. > :36:39.so it may be, I will come and collect you from that club, or I

:36:40. > :36:45.will do this for you, and eventually what was caring turns into

:36:46. > :36:48.controlling. But I didn't recognise that at the time because I had

:36:49. > :36:53.nothing to compare the two. I understand. Let me read some more

:36:54. > :36:59.messages. David and Kerry saved you are incredibly brave women. Chris

:37:00. > :37:03.says, horrible stories of domestic abuse. Much love to the women

:37:04. > :37:08.sharing the stories of survival. Your courage knows no bounds. Max

:37:09. > :37:11.says, your stories are powerful and so inspiring. It highlights the real

:37:12. > :37:18.problems within the criminal justice system. What is your aim now?

:37:19. > :37:27.Because you are all on a mission, it seems to me. We would like to put

:37:28. > :37:31.everything on the rug, give it a real good shake, and everything that

:37:32. > :37:39.does not work, get rid of it. I think most of all for us, all

:37:40. > :37:43.services need to be put in the victims's be voice. There is nothing

:37:44. > :37:49.better than experience from the horses mouth. People think they are

:37:50. > :37:51.getting it right but they are not. We have heard statements about

:37:52. > :37:56.people being let down by the police or services. And Mandy, you are

:37:57. > :38:02.wanting to take the issue of molestation orders to Parliament.

:38:03. > :38:06.And licenses. Briefly explain. It is an order to say that they need to

:38:07. > :38:10.follow rules and if they break the rules, they go back inside. And what

:38:11. > :38:14.is happening is they are breaking the rules and they are not enforced.

:38:15. > :38:20.It is a continual cycle of that happening, and we all speak to

:38:21. > :38:25.people all the time, we all have e-mails and we get letters everyday

:38:26. > :38:28.and it is similar stories you are hearing, where we are being let down

:38:29. > :38:33.by the system. There are things in place and it just does not happen in

:38:34. > :38:37.reality. Similarly, there are laws in place at the moment. A

:38:38. > :38:43.breakthrough came in last of timber to do with coercive control, but as

:38:44. > :38:47.we experienced, most women, or men in abusive relationships, they may

:38:48. > :38:51.not even know what course of control is, so raising awareness of all the

:38:52. > :38:53.things that are not maybe the physical abuse, and making people

:38:54. > :38:57.understand that they can do something about that, actually now

:38:58. > :39:05.for the first time if somebody is coerced, that is an imprisonable

:39:06. > :39:10.offence. For up to five years. The same with stalking. I did not

:39:11. > :39:16.realise I was stopped. And repeatedly sent me texts and phone

:39:17. > :39:19.calls all the time, and it was only when I worked with national

:39:20. > :39:25.survivors of stocking that they said, do you realise you were

:39:26. > :39:29.stopped? You only need two or more to be classed as harassment. The

:39:30. > :39:33.police are not picking up on that. I had people messaging me saying, my

:39:34. > :39:37.boyfriend is following me, he is calling me, what can I do? I said,

:39:38. > :39:45.phoned the police and tell them to enforce the stalking act. I want to

:39:46. > :39:53.ask about Women's Aid. He wants to see mandatory training for judges

:39:54. > :39:56.calling with domestic abuse? Why? Some of these judges, the older

:39:57. > :40:00.generation, they have been in the job a long time and things change. I

:40:01. > :40:07.think everybody needs to be trained, specialist training for them to

:40:08. > :40:11.understand domestic violence. I went to court for a molestation order in

:40:12. > :40:17.regards to stalking and the judge said it was a consequence of the job

:40:18. > :40:20.I did. What? I was told that this person had not attacked me

:40:21. > :40:24.physically for six years. And I said, I have not seen him for four

:40:25. > :40:30.years and yet he still feels the need to track where I am and what I

:40:31. > :40:35.do. A complete lack of understanding. Not only of the law

:40:36. > :40:40.but the reality. And the social media site, because it is a whole

:40:41. > :40:45.new forum to abuse someone. The subject itself is not understood.

:40:46. > :40:54.That is why we do what we do, to explain reality. And when we say to

:40:55. > :40:57.people, to me this is an endemic, and if it was the bowler, the

:40:58. > :41:02.government would be trying to find a cure. It costs the economy ?15.7

:41:03. > :41:08.billion a year. When you tell people the figures, and I want to mention

:41:09. > :41:11.about the refugees... That is the point that Women's Aid are making

:41:12. > :41:14.today and we will talk to them in the next hour. They are launching a

:41:15. > :41:18.campaign to try to make sure that women's refuges are exempt from the

:41:19. > :41:27.new housing benefit cap which is coming in because they say that if

:41:28. > :41:32.refuges are subject to the cap, as many as two thirds of women's

:41:33. > :41:39.refuges may have to close. In Wales, 320 women were closed from -- turned

:41:40. > :41:44.away from refuge spaces. If they implement this, 69% of the refuges

:41:45. > :41:50.in Wales will close. And this is a staggering statistic, we only have

:41:51. > :41:54.300 refuges in the whole of the UK, compared to 1500 animal shelters.

:41:55. > :41:59.That doesn't make sense and I am an animal lover. Everyone always says,

:42:00. > :42:03.why did you not get out? But if you have nowhere to go, where do you go?

:42:04. > :42:11.And you have been in refuges? Thank you so much. Thank you for having

:42:12. > :42:16.us. You are strong individually but as a trio, my goodness. I feel sorry

:42:17. > :42:21.for politicians! Let me read some messages. Sally says, I have a busy

:42:22. > :42:25.morning but I have been stopped in my tracks by your programme, three

:42:26. > :42:32.women talking about domestic abuse. Impressive and brave. Sorrell says,

:42:33. > :42:35.psychological and emotional abuse is as bad and disabling as physical

:42:36. > :42:40.abuse. I have experienced that. That is what you were saying. Andrew

:42:41. > :42:44.says, my God, it is for what these ladies have injuries from their

:42:45. > :42:49.partners. And David says, it makes me ashamed to be a man. What brave

:42:50. > :42:56.women. Thank you very much. We wish you all the best. If you have your

:42:57. > :43:03.own experience of domestic abuse, get in touch. And we will read your

:43:04. > :43:06.messages later on in the programme. You can get in touch anonymously as

:43:07. > :43:10.well. It is worth saying that we spoke to Rachel, Mandy and Becky

:43:11. > :43:14.this morning after Rachel told us about fear campaign, so if you have

:43:15. > :43:24.a story and you want to get in touch, please do so. E-mail us:

:43:25. > :43:29.Still to come, can the Labour MP Keith Vaz stay on? After allegations

:43:30. > :43:33.that he hired male escorts. We asked three of his constituents will they

:43:34. > :43:36.think and speak to a Conservative MP who has reported him to the sleaze

:43:37. > :43:41.watchdog and is considering reporting the police. -- reporting

:43:42. > :43:46.him to the police. Across the day on BBC News, we're

:43:47. > :43:49.examining the impact, two months on, We'll hear from a young Remain

:43:50. > :43:53.voter who's still furious with her step-dad, who was convinced

:43:54. > :44:06.to vote Leave. Worth pointing out that the

:44:07. > :44:09.government has introduced a new domestic abuse offence through the

:44:10. > :44:13.serious crime act to capture course of behaviour in intimate or familiar

:44:14. > :44:18.relationships, as well as new stalking or fences. And they have

:44:19. > :44:24.pledged ?80 million to combat violence against women and girls. --

:44:25. > :44:29.stalking or fences. If you want to get help, then you can. There are a

:44:30. > :44:38.list of charities on the BBC action line. All the information at:

:44:39. > :44:41.We've just had some more economic figures out -

:44:42. > :44:44.recent indicators on manufacturing confidence, jobs and house prices

:44:45. > :44:46.indicate that the predicted Brexit crunch hasn't happened,

:44:47. > :44:54.Our economics guru Kamal Ahmed is here to tell us.

:44:55. > :45:01.What are the latest figures? You will remember before the referendum

:45:02. > :45:06.we were given lots of warnings that there could be recession, that house

:45:07. > :45:10.prices would collapse and jobs would be lost. The biggest part of the UK

:45:11. > :45:14.economy is the services sector, retail, shopping, tourism and

:45:15. > :45:18.banking. It is a really important part of the UK economy. We have just

:45:19. > :45:22.had the latest figures on how that part of the economy is performing

:45:23. > :45:26.and, just like we have seen with lots of these economic figures since

:45:27. > :45:33.the referendum, they are pretty good. The services sector and a big

:45:34. > :45:37.contraction in July, in the run-up to the referendum. Businesses seemed

:45:38. > :45:40.to say they were pausing, because they were unsure where the vote was

:45:41. > :45:43.going to go, but after the referendum there seems to have been

:45:44. > :45:47.a real bounce back in confidence. The services sector is growing

:45:48. > :45:55.again, and business confidence seems to have returned. One interesting

:45:56. > :45:58.thing in this new data is that there is evidence that inflation is coming

:45:59. > :46:03.back in to the economy. Of course we have had this huge collapse, in the

:46:04. > :46:08.value of sterling, which has meant that it costs more for us to import

:46:09. > :46:12.food and fuel into this country, but it does seem to be that there is

:46:13. > :46:18.inflationary pressure and that, in the end, is likely to feed through

:46:19. > :46:21.to consumers in higher prices, which could mean that real wages start

:46:22. > :46:28.being affected by the fact they have to spend more. So a little bit of

:46:29. > :46:31.poorer news within these figures but again, in a broad sense, given this

:46:32. > :46:37.notion that after the referendum things have not been too bad,

:46:38. > :46:40.actually quietly confident and the predictions of recession, at this

:46:41. > :46:43.stage, seem a little off the mark. Thank you very much.

:46:44. > :46:46.The Labour MP Keith Vaz could be investigated by a Commons sleaze

:46:47. > :46:49.watchdog and reported to the police over claims he paid two

:46:50. > :46:52.The 59-year-old, who is married with two children, is in charge

:46:53. > :46:55.of a group of MPs which investigate issues connected to crime.

:46:56. > :46:59.They're currently carrying out a report on prostitution laws.

:47:00. > :47:03.Mr Vaz has indicated tt he'll tell us all tomorrow if he'll stand aside

:47:04. > :47:07.as the head of that committee, which he's chaired for nine years.

:47:08. > :47:15.Nobody is questioning our integrity, it's your judgment were questioning.

:47:16. > :47:18.This is not a television game show, this is a serious question

:47:19. > :47:23.Can I say on behalf of this committee that we have found your

:47:24. > :47:32.Gary Lineker thought the idea of Leicester winning

:47:33. > :47:35.was so far-fetched that he said if they did when he would present

:47:36. > :47:40.We do not believe that we've come to the end of the factual situation.

:47:41. > :47:44.Are you confident that there is proper and appropriate leadership?

:47:45. > :47:48.What is your message to young people who want to get involved in drugs?

:47:49. > :47:50.Do you regret signing the contract saying that you had agreed

:47:51. > :47:54.Do you not regret making that appointment?

:47:55. > :48:08.Keith Vaz has also apologised publicly to his wife and children

:48:09. > :48:11.for the "hurt and distress" he's caused them.

:48:12. > :48:13.The Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, who's MP in neighbouring

:48:14. > :48:15.North West Leicestershire, has told this programme he's writing

:48:16. > :48:24.to the Parlaimentary Commissioner for Standards over the allegations,

:48:25. > :48:36.I think misconduct in public office and also conspiracy to supply a can

:48:37. > :48:41.stroll substance, they are both criminal offences. The fact that

:48:42. > :48:45.Keith Vaz is prevaricating over even resigning as chairman of the Home

:48:46. > :48:49.Affairs Select Committee, when he has brought parliament into such

:48:50. > :48:55.disrepute, and himself, I think it is absolutely amazing. Should he

:48:56. > :48:59.resign as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee? He certainly

:49:00. > :49:03.should resign as chair of that committee, and quite honestly... I

:49:04. > :49:08.have long been of the opinion that Keith Vaz is not a fit person to be

:49:09. > :49:12.a member of Parliament. I would call on the people of Leicester, who no

:49:13. > :49:16.one also a lot about him and his various activities to come forward

:49:17. > :49:21.now to the police and let's see what he has really been doing -- who no

:49:22. > :49:24.one awful lot. Everything is allocation at this stage. But you

:49:25. > :49:28.are clearly saying that he should not carry on as chair, not even

:49:29. > :49:35.temporarily standing aside, he should resign, and you are saying he

:49:36. > :49:40.should resign as a Labour MP. I have serious concerns over Keith Vaz's

:49:41. > :49:44.activities. Time. And I think there is a lot more to come out about

:49:45. > :49:50.Keith Vaz, that is what I think. And hopefully it will. Isn't this a

:49:51. > :49:54.classic tabloid sting. That is certainly what Keith Vaz himself

:49:55. > :49:57.seems to be saying, it is entrapment, deeply troubling, he

:49:58. > :50:02.says, that a national newspaper should have paid individuals to act

:50:03. > :50:05.in this way? I think there is a legitimate public interest. People

:50:06. > :50:09.do have a right to a private life. But when you are the chairman of the

:50:10. > :50:13.Home Affairs Select Committee, it is a particular role where you are

:50:14. > :50:17.making reports on the police, policing, and he has recently

:50:18. > :50:23.produced an in-depth recommendation of what Parliament should do to deal

:50:24. > :50:28.with prostitution. And then to actually be using prostitutes

:50:29. > :50:35.himself, people can surely see the conflict-of-interest that arises

:50:36. > :50:39.from that. I mean, none of us are perfect, we live in an imperfect

:50:40. > :50:43.world, but there are limits to it, and Keith Vaz Haswell overstepped

:50:44. > :50:47.that mark. There are other things going on as well. -- Haswell

:50:48. > :50:51.overstepped. Things that have been going on for quite a long time.

:50:52. > :50:54.Myself, I have dropped information to the police in Leicestershire

:50:55. > :51:01.regarding Keith Vaz several times over the last 18 months. And his

:51:02. > :51:04.position is completely unfilmable. He brings Parliament really into

:51:05. > :51:11.disrepute by hanging on like this -- on tenements. He should do the

:51:12. > :51:15.decent thing and resign. I don't think Keith Vaz and there is the

:51:16. > :51:20.decent thing to do. Again, I repeat they are allegations at this stage.

:51:21. > :51:26.Jeremy Corbyn, his boss, the legally do, said it is a private matter and

:51:27. > :51:32.he hasn't broken the law. The Labour Party enough time all themselves,

:51:33. > :51:36.they didn't need this. -- enough turmoil. The viewing public can

:51:37. > :51:41.judge what they think Keith Vaz should do, and the relevance of

:51:42. > :51:48.Jeremy Corbyn's remarks on that. I'll just say again, I believe that

:51:49. > :51:54.these revelations in the Mayor, I believe that is that of the iceberg

:51:55. > :51:58.to Keith Vaz's activities -- in the Daily Mirror. There is a lot more to

:51:59. > :52:00.come out about him. Conservative MP Andrew Bridgend.

:52:01. > :52:02.We can also speak to three people who either live

:52:03. > :52:05.or work in Leicester, where Keith Vaz is the local MP.

:52:06. > :52:08.They are Ricky Shah, Karan Modha, who runs a business

:52:09. > :52:09.in Keith Vaz's constituency, and Dharmesh Lakhani,

:52:10. > :52:16.who is a restaurant owner who has known Mr Vaz for more than 30 years.

:52:17. > :52:23.And you also know each other as well. Ricky Shah, what should Keith

:52:24. > :52:26.Vaz do now? I think based on the allegations I think, you know, he

:52:27. > :52:30.should resign from the Home Affairs Select Committee because he is in a

:52:31. > :52:36.national position. You know, you can't put yourself in those

:52:37. > :52:39.situations. We are all allowed a private lives, but when you are a

:52:40. > :52:42.public figure and you use the media to get more popular and promote

:52:43. > :52:48.yourself, unfortunately the downfall of that is the opposite side, which

:52:49. > :52:53.are your private affairs. Don't you want to hear his side of the story

:52:54. > :52:57.first? We have heard his side of the story many times, it is not

:52:58. > :53:02.obviously the first time. Like I said, you know, everyone is entitled

:53:03. > :53:09.to a private life. And, yes, he deserves his side. But we are

:53:10. > :53:13.talking about the educated man. You know, -- a well-educated man. He is

:53:14. > :53:17.strategic, and he has a lot of support around him. He should be

:53:18. > :53:23.able to make these decisions. He is not a naive person, he is a very

:53:24. > :53:28.clever man. Karen, do you think we expect MPs to behave in a different

:53:29. > :53:32.way than the rest of us? Good morning. Obviously MPs should be

:53:33. > :53:37.taking themselves in a different mannerism, purely because they are

:53:38. > :53:41.public figures. They are out there in the role of serving their

:53:42. > :53:46.constituency. However, as Ricky highlighted, those people who are

:53:47. > :53:51.entitled to a private life, so what he does in his private life is

:53:52. > :53:56.completely different. Again, I think he is innocent until proven guilty.

:53:57. > :53:59.As we said before, these are just allegations. Despite the fact these

:54:00. > :54:02.are just allegations, Ricky Shah wants him to stand down as chairman

:54:03. > :54:07.of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Do you think you should

:54:08. > :54:11.do that or not? I think it would be sensible for him to stand down.

:54:12. > :54:23.However, he himself is a well-educated

:54:24. > :54:27.man, a solicitor by trade. So I think he knows what the best move

:54:28. > :54:29.is. But personally, the most sensible thing would be to stand

:54:30. > :54:33.down. Thank you for talking to us. You have been a friend of Keith Vaz

:54:34. > :54:34.for many years. How did you react to the allegations? Obviously I am

:54:35. > :54:37.shocked. Obviously, they are allegations. I look at all of the

:54:38. > :54:43.work that he is done in the Siddique, championing the city. --

:54:44. > :54:46.is the city. I was shocked. But people are calling for him to stand

:54:47. > :54:51.down as an MP for Leicester East, and I totally disagree with that. If

:54:52. > :54:58.you look at the good he has done here, the amount of holds and the

:54:59. > :55:02.issues he helps with many of the key is that jurors, that is a different

:55:03. > :55:07.question, really. He is very good at his job -- the constituents. You

:55:08. > :55:12.will have heard the Conservative MP saying that he has brought

:55:13. > :55:19.Parliament into disrepute? Ascari said, he is innocent until proven

:55:20. > :55:24.guilty. -- as Karim said. This was a sting operation by a national paper.

:55:25. > :55:29.We have seen and heard of many of these in the past, how reliable they

:55:30. > :55:33.are, I mean, you have got to wait. Keith is in a very powerful position

:55:34. > :55:36.in the Home Affairs select emitted. It has not been long since he

:55:37. > :55:43.questioned a very, very powerful media entrepreneur. He is in a

:55:44. > :55:47.powerful position on a committee, which at the moment is looking at

:55:48. > :55:50.prostitution legislation in this country. Is there not a potential

:55:51. > :55:54.conflict of interest there? Of course there is. At the end of the

:55:55. > :55:59.day, it is innocent until proven guilty. If he can step aside from

:56:00. > :56:05.that believe that one out, in local government, in the council, will

:56:06. > :56:09.often have issues were councillors for certain areas have to step

:56:10. > :56:13.aside, maybe this is one thing that Keith would have to step aside from.

:56:14. > :56:17.Ricky Shah, is this story in the public interest? Yes, I think it is

:56:18. > :56:24.in the public interest because of the fact that he is a public figure.

:56:25. > :56:28.You know, I know the good work that Keith Vaz does in the area, the

:56:29. > :56:31.local area, but when you are in a position of power on a national

:56:32. > :56:38.scale, you need to reflect on how you behave, and what you get caught

:56:39. > :56:43.up in two. He is a well-educated man, we have said that before. --

:56:44. > :56:49.what you are caught in two. If you are in your own home, the public

:56:50. > :56:54.issue is, how is that money coming from, where does it come from? Does

:56:55. > :56:57.it come from his expenses? Yes, innocent until proven guilty, but it

:56:58. > :57:01.is very important to understand that he is a public figure and you can't

:57:02. > :57:03.keep coming back from these kind of issues. Thank you all very much for

:57:04. > :57:07.your time. And in a "It is deeply troubling that

:57:08. > :57:11.a national newspaper should have paid individuals who have acted

:57:12. > :57:13.in this way. I have referred these

:57:14. > :57:15.allegations to my solicitor who will consider them carefully

:57:16. > :57:24.and advise me accordingly. your views are welcome, as always.

:57:25. > :57:30.You can tax, WhatsApp, Facebook, the usual. -- you can text.

:57:31. > :57:32.This Wednesday, in London, we're holding a big audience programme

:57:33. > :57:36.You are very welcome to join us, to take part -

:57:37. > :57:39.whether you're a junior doctor, you work in the NHS,

:57:40. > :57:41.you've been treated in hospital or are going to be affected

:57:42. > :57:44.If you'd like to be part of the programme

:57:45. > :57:46.to share your views, do email victoria@bbc.co.uk

:57:47. > :57:55.Let's get the latest weather update with Carol.

:57:56. > :58:02.Thank you, Victoria, good morning. We have mixed fortunes. For many of

:58:03. > :58:08.us it has been a cloudy start, for others it has not. We have had some

:58:09. > :58:11.sunshine. These are pictures of the Highlands, beautiful skies, nice and

:58:12. > :58:15.blue. As we come further south we have seen a lot of cloud, as we have

:58:16. > :58:19.in the West. This week, the temperature is certainly going to be

:58:20. > :58:28.getting that bit higher. It is going to warm up. Not everybody's cup of

:58:29. > :58:30.tea, but it is for a lot of people. Into the afternoon we have had such

:58:31. > :58:33.a cloudy start the day, we are looking at improving the rain across

:58:34. > :58:37.the back across western Scotland is starting to fade. The brightest guys

:58:38. > :58:41.will be in the north-east. Through the afternoon you will find it will

:58:42. > :58:45.brighten up with highs of 24 today. Through eastern parts of England the

:58:46. > :58:49.dry weather with some sunny spells. There is a lot of cloud around,

:58:50. > :58:53.there will be breaks here and there. Wales looking at 24 in the sunshine.

:58:54. > :58:57.South Wales and south-west England are going to hang onto all the cloud

:58:58. > :59:01.and also the murky conditions with some drizzle and hell and coastal

:59:02. > :59:14.fog. Through the evening and overnight again it is going to be a

:59:15. > :59:17.cloudy run, lots of rain drizzle, it is going to be a humid one, too.

:59:18. > :59:19.Temperatures not falling between 14 and 18, not lower than that.

:59:20. > :59:21.Exceptionally mild night for this time of September. Tomorrow we start

:59:22. > :59:25.off on a cloudy note, seeing some breaks, sunny spells, breezy in the

:59:26. > :59:31.far north of Scotland, temperatures again 22 in Aberdeen, 22 in Cardiff,

:59:32. > :59:37.and 25, possibly 26 around the London area. As we head into the

:59:38. > :59:40.middle of the week, well, dry air is being pumped up from the near

:59:41. > :59:44.continent. That is having an impact on the temperatures in the south of

:59:45. > :59:49.England in particular. Some are in the south, we could hit 28 Celsius.

:59:50. > :59:53.That doesn't mean we are looking at wall-to-wall blue skies. We start

:59:54. > :59:58.off on Wednesday on a fairly cloudy note. Rain skirting past western

:59:59. > :00:02.Scotland, showers ahead of it, a breezy day as well. You can see the

:00:03. > :00:05.level of cloud, cloud tending to break here and there are allowing

:00:06. > :00:12.the temperatures to rise. The Southeast is. Likely to see 28,

:00:13. > :00:16.despite the 26 you can see that -- the Southeast is likely to see 28.

:00:17. > :00:21.Thursday is similar in that it is going to start off on a cloudy note.

:00:22. > :00:25.We have an area of low pressure coming in from the West. That is

:00:26. > :00:28.going to introduce rain and windy conditions, possibly gales with

:00:29. > :00:30.exposure in the West. Still, temperature wise we are into the

:00:31. > :00:36.mid-20s in terms of Celsius. Three amazing women who survived

:00:37. > :00:47.the most atrocious domestic abuse are now working hard to help others

:00:48. > :00:50.who find themselves in similarly He slapped me down onto the bed

:00:51. > :00:59.and then continued to just stand over me and pummel my head

:01:00. > :01:03.into the bed and I remember thinking I could feel myself going out

:01:04. > :01:06.of consciousness and I remember thinking if I don't get up somehow

:01:07. > :01:09.to the other end of the bed He kept me locked in the bedroom

:01:10. > :01:14.and carried on torturing me I think there were points

:01:15. > :01:20.where I did actually I have a faith so I was praying one

:01:21. > :01:25.minute to die because of the pain and then begging to stay alive

:01:26. > :01:31.for the children. My kids thought it was normal to be

:01:32. > :01:44.living in a household like that. And we have had the most incredible

:01:45. > :01:48.reaction to the interviews with those three women, Mandy, Rachel and

:01:49. > :01:50.Becky. If you want to watch the interview again, you can find it on

:01:51. > :01:57.our programme page: National domestic abuse charity

:01:58. > :01:59.Women's Aid say that government plans to cap housing benefit

:02:00. > :02:01.could destroy the finances of refuges which take in women

:02:02. > :02:04.and their children who've been victims of violence at the hands

:02:05. > :02:06.of their partners. We will investigate that claim in

:02:07. > :02:08.the next hour. One Tory MP says he's

:02:09. > :02:10.considering reporting Keith Vaz to police over claims he paid two

:02:11. > :02:17.male escorts for sex. The fact that Keith Vaz

:02:18. > :02:19.is prevaricating over even resigning as chairman

:02:20. > :02:22.of the Home Affairs Select Committee when he has brought Parliament

:02:23. > :02:24.into such disrepute We'll also get reaction

:02:25. > :02:31.from Labour MP simon Danzuck - who's experienced his own tabloid

:02:32. > :02:34.sex scandal and says he feels Plus as Cold Feet returns to TV

:02:35. > :02:42.tonight and Poldark last night, why do TV bosses love

:02:43. > :03:02.rebooting old shows? Breaking news to bring you from Tel

:03:03. > :03:07.Aviv in Israel. It has been reported by the Associated Press that is

:03:08. > :03:12.really media are reporting that a building has collapsed in Tel Aviv,

:03:13. > :03:15.and people may be trapped inside. It has been reported by Associated

:03:16. > :03:21.Press, they are reporting that Israeli media are reporting a

:03:22. > :03:26.building collapse in Tel Aviv. You can see live pictures at the moment.

:03:27. > :03:32.A building has collapsed in Tel Aviv and reports are that people may be

:03:33. > :03:39.trapped inside. Reports in the last few minutes from Israel. Those are

:03:40. > :03:44.the live pictures right now from Tel Aviv.

:03:45. > :03:49.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:03:50. > :03:51.The Prime Minister has questioned whether a points-based immigration

:03:52. > :03:53.system, as suggested by many EU leave campaigners,

:03:54. > :04:05.Theresa May said there was "no single silver bullet"

:04:06. > :04:08.Her comments have prompted speculation that she might be

:04:09. > :04:14.prepared to offer preferential treatment to EU citizens.

:04:15. > :04:23.The Labour MP Chuka Ummuna says he supports Mrs May's stance.

:04:24. > :04:26.Actually, in places like Australia, they actually wish to increase

:04:27. > :04:29.the number of immigrants they have coming to their country.

:04:30. > :04:32.Proportionally, Australia has three times more

:04:33. > :04:36.According to their latest statistics, if you look

:04:37. > :04:41.at the number of foreign-born citizens living there,

:04:42. > :04:43.there are around 28%, more than double what we have here.

:04:44. > :04:45.More than two months on from the referendum,

:04:46. > :04:47.the government is about to reveal more about its plans

:04:48. > :04:50.for negotiating the UK's future outside the European Union.

:04:51. > :04:53.The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, is due to make a statement to MPs

:04:54. > :04:55.and is expected to give some indication of what sort

:04:56. > :04:57.of new relationship with Europe the government may try

:04:58. > :05:05.And throughout the day there will be special reports across the BBC

:05:06. > :05:07.looking at Brexit Britain two months after the vote.

:05:08. > :05:10.And at half past four, the BBC News Channel and 5 Live

:05:11. > :05:12.will host a live discussion programme from Nottingham -

:05:13. > :05:22.which you can also watch via Facebook.

:05:23. > :05:24.A Conservative MP has told this programme that Keith Vaz,

:05:25. > :05:26.who's alleged to have paid male escorts, is bringing

:05:27. > :05:30.parliament into disrepute and his position is untenable.

:05:31. > :05:34.Andrew Bridgen says he's considering reporting Mr Vaz,

:05:35. > :05:37.a Leicester MP for Labour, to the police.

:05:38. > :05:39.Mr Vaz has indicated he'll confirm tomorrow whether he'll

:05:40. > :05:41.step aside as chairman of the Commons Home Affairs

:05:42. > :05:47.Committee, after the allegations were published in the Sunday Mirror.

:05:48. > :05:49.The 59-year-old, who's married with two children, has apologised

:05:50. > :05:58.for the 'hurt and distress' he's caused them.

:05:59. > :06:06.Victoria will be speaking to Simon Jang joke, who has his own

:06:07. > :06:11.experience of a tabloid scandal, after this report. -- Simon Danczuk.

:06:12. > :06:14.Farmers, lorry drivers and traders in Calais are starting to blockade

:06:15. > :06:18.They are protesting over the migrant camp known as the Jungle

:06:19. > :06:21.Around 9,000 people are living there.

:06:22. > :06:23.The mayor of Calais is joining the demonstrations.

:06:24. > :06:25.The protest is likely to cause major disruption.

:06:26. > :06:27.Giant pandas are officially no longer an endangered species.

:06:28. > :06:28.After decades of work by conservationists,

:06:29. > :06:30.they have now been reduced to the lower category

:06:31. > :06:34.The increase in numbers is being put down to successful breeding

:06:35. > :06:36.programmes and the measures taken to protect bamboo forests.

:06:37. > :06:38.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:06:39. > :06:46.So many of you getting in touch about our interview with Mandy,

:06:47. > :06:56.Rachel and Becky about the domestic violence they expereinced.

:06:57. > :07:04.Becky says, absolutely fantastic women. They are very, very strong

:07:05. > :07:09.ladies. Kathleen Jones in Shropshire says: I was 61 when I walked away

:07:10. > :07:13.from my marriage with nothing. A refuge took me on. I still struggle

:07:14. > :07:18.with post-traumatic stress disorder and it took me five years to settle

:07:19. > :07:23.down. At 68, I now live a peaceful life and I have built a new home for

:07:24. > :07:26.myself. This from somebody who does not leave their name: I was a

:07:27. > :07:31.domestic abuse outreach worker and these women on your programme today

:07:32. > :07:34.are amazing, as are all women who have experienced domestic violence.

:07:35. > :07:39.I have retired because of reductions to the funding to the service I was

:07:40. > :07:44.providing meant it's changed to a third rate service overnight due to

:07:45. > :07:48.lack of funding. This should not be happening but it is. The government

:07:49. > :07:52.is saying this is important and they are putting in funding for it

:07:53. > :07:58.except. But the reality is that it does not back this up. -- funding

:07:59. > :08:05.for it, etc. I have seen politicians being planned by the perpetrators. I

:08:06. > :08:12.saw social services being conned by manipulative perpetrators. I thought

:08:13. > :08:17.a lot was wrong with the system during my eight years working in the

:08:18. > :08:21.field. I admire the women on your programme for what they're doing.

:08:22. > :08:22.The whole system does need a shake-up.

:08:23. > :08:24.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:08:25. > :08:28.If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:08:29. > :08:34.Good morning. A new manager and a new era but there seems to be the

:08:35. > :08:38.same old frustrations for England. Sam Allardyce became the ninth

:08:39. > :08:45.England manager in a row to win his first match in charge but he had to

:08:46. > :08:48.wait until the 95th minute to beat Slovakia 1-0 thanks to this goal

:08:49. > :08:54.from Adam Lallana, his first for his country. It came at the end of a

:08:55. > :08:58.sluggish performance in the World Cup qualifier. Lots of possession,

:08:59. > :09:02.very few chances. Might ring too many bells from Euro 2016 and big

:09:03. > :09:10.Sam is aware of the extra scrutiny he is under. Everyone is looking at

:09:11. > :09:14.you, and they want you to show us the way forward, to be successful.

:09:15. > :09:25.So it is that much bigger when the nation is watching you. Scotland are

:09:26. > :09:29.top of a fledgling Group F above England after their 5-1 win at

:09:30. > :09:32.Malta. Robert Snodgrass clinched a hat-trick with this goal, helping

:09:33. > :09:38.Scotland pull away from their opponents who ended the match with

:09:39. > :09:41.only nine men. While Northern Ireland's opening qualifier finished

:09:42. > :09:45.goalless in the Czech Republic in what was their first game since the

:09:46. > :09:49.last 16 epidurals. Michael O'Neill says he is happy with a point

:09:50. > :09:53.against one of the tougher teams in their group. Kyle Edmund's run to

:09:54. > :09:57.the fourth round of the US Open was ended dramatically by world number

:09:58. > :10:00.one, Novak Djokavic. The Briton lost in straight sets against the

:10:01. > :10:04.defending champion who had received two walkovers getting this far. And

:10:05. > :10:15.despite needing brief attention on his troublesome arm, he looked back

:10:16. > :10:17.to his best as he won 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 to set up a quarterfinal against

:10:18. > :10:25.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. I'm just enjoying the experience. It is

:10:26. > :10:28.beastly a tough match. I was happy to have got something going during

:10:29. > :10:35.the match and I started to impose myself better. That was good. But

:10:36. > :10:42.yes, I have a lot of work to do from it.

:10:43. > :10:44.That match didn't start until 10pm local time

:10:45. > :10:47.Rafael Nadal knocked out of the tournament

:10:48. > :10:51.The 24th seed came back from a break down in the final set

:10:52. > :10:54.to win it on the tie break with his fourth match point.

:10:55. > :10:57.It's the first time in 12 years that the two time winner

:10:58. > :11:01.in New York Nadal has failed to reach a Grand Slam last 8.

:11:02. > :11:04.The British number one beaten in straight sets by the unseeded

:11:05. > :11:19.Later Andy Murray plays his fourth round match against Grigor Dimitrov.

:11:20. > :11:22.England fell just short of a series whitewash against Pakistan,

:11:23. > :11:23.losing the final one day international by

:11:24. > :11:31.Set 303 to win, the tourists posted their highest

:11:32. > :11:36.score of the series to take the 5th game.

:11:37. > :11:38.Imad Wasim, born down the road in Swansea,

:11:39. > :11:41.It's England's first white ball defeat all summer.

:11:42. > :11:50.With just the T20 match between the two to come on Wednesday.

:11:51. > :11:52.And Stuart Lancaster is back in club rugby.

:11:53. > :11:54.England's former head coach has joined Irish side Leinster

:11:55. > :11:56.as a member of their senior coaching team.

:11:57. > :11:59.It's his first job since leaving the RFU after England's poor

:12:00. > :12:05.This information on who says the Jeremy Corbyn is going to call for

:12:06. > :12:10.all party members to be allowed to elect Labour MPs to the Shadow

:12:11. > :12:13.Cabinet. Allies of Mr Corbyn have also floated the idea of allowing

:12:14. > :12:17.the party conference to have a say over membership of the Shadow

:12:18. > :12:20.Cabinet. The move comes ahead of debates tonight at the Parliamentary

:12:21. > :12:25.Labour Party over who should determine membership.

:12:26. > :12:28.As we heard just moments ago, the Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen

:12:29. > :12:30.has told us here on Derbyshire that he may report the Labour

:12:31. > :12:33.politician Keith Vaz to the police over claims he paid two male

:12:34. > :12:42.Andrew Bridgen, the MP for North East Leicestershire, told us that he

:12:43. > :12:43.is also writing to the Parliamentary Commissioner for standards over

:12:44. > :12:45.Keith Vaz's alleged behaviour. We can speak now to the Labour MP

:12:46. > :12:48.Simon Danzcuk, whose personal life has been the subject

:12:49. > :12:50.of tabloid newspapers. He's currently suspended

:12:51. > :12:52.from the Labour Party after admitting sending lewd texts

:12:53. > :12:54.to a 17-year-old girl, although points out

:12:55. > :13:04.he hasn't broken any laws. Thank you for talking to us. How do

:13:05. > :13:10.you react to the allegations involving Keith Vaz? Well, I have

:13:11. > :13:14.some sympathy with Keith. He is clearly been subject to a tabloid

:13:15. > :13:18.sting. I think there are issues about his moral standing, no doubt,

:13:19. > :13:22.and in terms of whether there is any hypocrisy there. But in terms of the

:13:23. > :13:26.galaxies, I do not believe he has committed any crimes as I understand

:13:27. > :13:30.it. I think we should be sympathetic, especially to his wife

:13:31. > :13:33.and children, who will be going through hell because of the media

:13:34. > :13:37.attention they are getting. But also we should have simply for Keith. He

:13:38. > :13:40.has obviously been struggling with his sexuality for quite some time

:13:41. > :13:45.and for it to come out in this way is probably not helpful to him.

:13:46. > :13:49.Having been in the middle of similar sorts of situations yourself, what

:13:50. > :13:56.do you think Mr Vaz will be experiencing right now? Give us some

:13:57. > :14:01.insight to our audience. You feel like a rabbit in the headlights, no

:14:02. > :14:04.matter how much media experience you have had in the run-up. I am sure he

:14:05. > :14:07.will be struggling with that. He will be having conversations with

:14:08. > :14:11.his family and trying to reassure them. There will be pressed

:14:12. > :14:15.intrusion and interest in what he is doing and where he is doing and he

:14:16. > :14:18.will find that very difficult. But he is a strong character and I am

:14:19. > :14:23.sure he will cope with it and come through it. As a society, do you

:14:24. > :14:29.think we judge politicians more harshly than we do people in other

:14:30. > :14:34.walks of life? I think the wider public, beyond social media, which

:14:35. > :14:38.tends to have a negative focus on all editions, the wider public are

:14:39. > :14:45.sympathetic. They have a keen interest in our private lives, and a

:14:46. > :14:49.curiosity about that. That is why tabloid newspapers print the stories

:14:50. > :14:52.they do. And I do not think we should condemn newspapers for doing

:14:53. > :14:56.that, that is the nature of the press. But I also think the public,

:14:57. > :15:02.as well as having that curiosity, there needs to be -- they are less

:15:03. > :15:04.condemnatory of politicians. They are curious but they do not want to

:15:05. > :15:13.condemn them necessarily. You are currently suspended from the

:15:14. > :15:17.Labour Party for sending text messages to a 17-year-old. You were

:15:18. > :15:21.recently in the newspapers for other areas of your private life as well.

:15:22. > :15:25.How much do you take responsibility for these kind of things are merging

:15:26. > :15:30.into the public domain? There is no doubt about it, I'm not blaming the

:15:31. > :15:33.press. I does that that the tabloids do their work and focus on the

:15:34. > :15:36.private lives of politicians and celebrities and all the rest of it,

:15:37. > :15:40.that is the nature of the media and I do not condemn them for that at

:15:41. > :15:44.all. I take full responsibility for what I do in my private life in

:15:45. > :15:48.relation to some of the allegations that you have mentioned, I have

:15:49. > :15:52.already apologised. I'm sure that Keith is regretful. Of what has

:15:53. > :15:58.happened on the way that it has come out. It will be very difficult for

:15:59. > :16:07.him at this time. Finally, it should Keith Vaz stand down? A Conservative

:16:08. > :16:11.MP is demanding this. Andrew has got this completely wrong. There is no

:16:12. > :16:15.reason for Keith to stand down as a member of Parliament. It is

:16:16. > :16:19.inappropriate for him to call for this. Keith is a good

:16:20. > :16:23.parliamentarian, he is very well regarded, that is why he gets so

:16:24. > :16:25.much support. He is a very good member of Parliament for the

:16:26. > :16:31.constituency that he represents. He should carry on being an MP. With

:16:32. > :16:34.regard to chairing the Home Affairs Select Committee, I understand he

:16:35. > :16:38.will discuss that with the members of the committee. It is an elected

:16:39. > :16:41.position, you have to bear in mind, he is there by favour of

:16:42. > :16:47.parliamentarians and he will consider his position. I understand

:16:48. > :16:50.that there are issues around a relative of what has been going on

:16:51. > :16:54.and issues of hypocrisy. Meanwhile, I think we should have sympathy for

:16:55. > :17:03.the situation in which he and his family find themselves. Thank you.

:17:04. > :17:10.Travellers to and from France are facing severe disruption because of

:17:11. > :17:12.protesters. They feel they are suffering because of the so-called

:17:13. > :17:14.Jungle migrant camps. Thousands of people in the French

:17:15. > :17:17.town of Calais are taking part in a demonstration demanding

:17:18. > :17:19.the closure of the migrant camp, Lorries and farm vehicles

:17:20. > :17:22.blocking main roads, and local people and business owners

:17:23. > :17:25.are forming a human chain Dubbed Operation Snail,

:17:26. > :17:28.some truckers say they'll keep up their barricades

:17:29. > :17:30.until they receive assurances that the northern section

:17:31. > :17:32.of The Jungle will be torn down. The camp itself is violent

:17:33. > :17:48.and lawless - 10,000 people One protesting farmers said that the

:17:49. > :17:52.camp must go. They cannot get to England, so why are they allowed to

:17:53. > :17:57.stay here? Richard Galpin is in Calais. I can't see the blockade.

:17:58. > :18:01.Where is the human chain, Richard? Well, what you are seeing actually

:18:02. > :18:05.in effect is the blockade. Behind me, this is the motorway, the

:18:06. > :18:09.carriageway which actually leads into Calais from Dunkirk. It is

:18:10. > :18:15.obviously a very, very important road. Normally it would be blocked

:18:16. > :18:18.with traffic, tourists and obviously lorries going towards the port to

:18:19. > :18:23.come to Britain. Now as you can see it is completely empty because of

:18:24. > :18:28.the blockade. We have had the go slow off the big, big long convoy of

:18:29. > :18:35.lorries and tractors going past here with their emergency lights

:18:36. > :18:37.flashing. They are the ones who aren't forcing the blockade,

:18:38. > :18:41.grinding their way very, very slowly towards Calais. Actually from the

:18:42. > :18:45.other side, from the South, it is another motorcade of vehicles coming

:18:46. > :18:49.towards Calais on this same motorway. From both directions, the

:18:50. > :18:54.motorway is being close on the bound carriageway. You can imagine just

:18:55. > :18:59.how much disruption that is causing. As I say, this would normally be a

:19:00. > :19:04.very busy route indeed. At the same time, another protest is taking

:19:05. > :19:07.place on foot, with this human chain trying to make their way towards the

:19:08. > :19:12.port itself. We understand the police have stopped them from coming

:19:13. > :19:15.on to this motorway. But they are trying to link up so that they can

:19:16. > :19:22.create effectively a blockade at the port itself. In in a way, it is a

:19:23. > :19:26.bizarre scenario that the people of Calais blockading their own town. We

:19:27. > :19:32.will see what effect it has. Thank you, Richard.

:19:33. > :19:34.The Prime Minister Theresa May has questioned the effectiveness

:19:35. > :19:37.of a points-based immigration system after Britain leaves the EU.

:19:38. > :19:41.Our political guru Norman Smith is following reaction at Westminster.

:19:42. > :19:49.Remind us, Norman, what she is questioning? Well, she is basically

:19:50. > :19:55.the torpedo in the big idea of the Brexit team, the control

:19:56. > :20:00.immigration. There idea was to have an Australian points-based

:20:01. > :20:03.immigration system. How does this work? I suppose bluntly the more

:20:04. > :20:08.points you get the more chance you have of getting in, and you get

:20:09. > :20:13.points for things like skills. So if you are a brain surgeon or if you

:20:14. > :20:17.are a whiz kid high-tech entrepreneur, you get loads of

:20:18. > :20:21.points and you have got a very good chance of getting in. If on the

:20:22. > :20:25.other hand you are an estate agent, or even worse, a journalist, you get

:20:26. > :20:30.almost no points and have pretty much zero chance of getting in. The

:20:31. > :20:37.Brexit camp thought this was the way to reduce immigration into the UK.

:20:38. > :20:42.But what has Mrs Medan? Pretty much chucked it in the bin, she is not

:20:43. > :20:50.interested. Not surprisingly, alarm bells ring amongst some of the

:20:51. > :20:55.Brexiting is. I mean, everyone will remember this was a massive issue

:20:56. > :21:01.during the referendum campaign. I mean, Brexit, the flip side was

:21:02. > :21:06.immigration. And it leaves unanswered, how is Mrs May going to

:21:07. > :21:10.reduce the number of people coming into the UK? And you sense she is

:21:11. > :21:14.beginning to struggle with this, in part because of her background as

:21:15. > :21:18.Home Secretary. She knows how difficult it is to get migration

:21:19. > :21:23.down. She failed to get migration down. She has said there is no

:21:24. > :21:29.silver bullet to deal with it. The trouble is, the leading Brexiteers

:21:30. > :21:33.made this point -based system absolutely central to their whole

:21:34. > :21:38.case for leaving the EU. Just have a listen to a couple of them. What we

:21:39. > :21:44.think should happen is an Australian style points-based system. So we get

:21:45. > :21:47.the people we need for the NHS and indeed all our other businesses and

:21:48. > :21:52.services. The only you can do that is the Vote Leave and take back

:21:53. > :21:55.control. Put in place a proper points system where we get people

:21:56. > :21:59.coming to this country who have trades and skills to bring, who

:22:00. > :22:02.haven't got criminal records and who will bring their own health

:22:03. > :22:08.insurance. In this country there is overwhelming support for that

:22:09. > :22:13.policy. So the question is, why has Theresa May poured a big splosh of

:22:14. > :22:19.cold water over there idea of this points-based system? I guess number

:22:20. > :22:25.one is it is seen as bureaucratic. You have to jot up all the different

:22:26. > :22:30.points people can get, not just in terms of their skills, but also in

:22:31. > :22:33.terms of their house, in terms of their educational background,

:22:34. > :22:38.whether they have any criminal records. There is also the view that

:22:39. > :22:43.it ignores the views of bosses. It is by large shaped by Government.

:22:44. > :22:47.Who decides who should come in, not employers, they are the ones who

:22:48. > :22:52.have the final say, and the biggest problem of all is more migrants.

:22:53. > :22:56.When you look at the Australian system, actually it hasn't led to a

:22:57. > :23:01.reduction in the number of migrants coming into the UK, in Australia,

:23:02. > :23:05.per head of population, net migration there is actually much,

:23:06. > :23:10.much higher than in the UK. From the point of view of Mrs May, it doesn't

:23:11. > :23:15.work. For that reason, she has sidelined their big idea. That

:23:16. > :23:20.leaves two problems. One, what is her alternative? And two, how on

:23:21. > :23:25.earth does she reassure those accident years that she is not going

:23:26. > :23:28.soft on curbing immigration. -- those wrecks it heres. Thank you,

:23:29. > :23:30.Norman. This Wednesday, in London, we're

:23:31. > :23:33.holding a big audience programme You are very welcome

:23:34. > :23:37.to join us, to take part - whether you're a junior doctor,

:23:38. > :23:39.you work in the NHS, you've been treated in hospital

:23:40. > :23:42.or are going to be affected by the 5-day strikes; if you'd

:23:43. > :23:45.like to be part of the programme to share your views -

:23:46. > :24:01.do email victoria@bbc.co.uk This morning, the General Medical

:24:02. > :24:02.Council are warning that the scale of the strike action cannot be

:24:03. > :24:09.dusted five. -- cannot be justified. Professor Terence Stephenson

:24:10. > :24:16.is Chair of the General You regulate and monitor junior

:24:17. > :24:20.doctors. What are you saying to them? The GMC has no role in the

:24:21. > :24:23.dispute between doctors and their employers, but we're existing

:24:24. > :24:30.project the public and patience and we issued guidance all the time --

:24:31. > :24:37.to protect the public. We feel this degree of escalation at this short

:24:38. > :24:41.notice would take out maybe 50,000 skilled and talented doctors out of

:24:42. > :24:46.the workforce, this is likely to result in harm to patients. What

:24:47. > :24:51.sort of harm? So in the past strikes, as a consultant I covered

:24:52. > :24:56.two of the previous strikes... Covered as in you stood in junior

:24:57. > :25:00.doctors? Yes, and the whole sector worked hard to mitigate it and avoid

:25:01. > :25:07.the risk of people dying, tragically unavoidably. But there is more harm

:25:08. > :25:10.than just there. If you have a week a month with cancelled operations

:25:11. > :25:14.where people aren't paying waiting for surgery, if you have cancelled

:25:15. > :25:19.scans and slopes where people might be waiting for a diagnosis that

:25:20. > :25:23.could be cancer, those people are being harmed. They may not die

:25:24. > :25:28.during the five days, but the cumulative effect of the escalation

:25:29. > :25:32.we think will harm patients. If you can link junior doctors striking the

:25:33. > :25:34.harm to patients, what will you do to those junior doctors? Well, we

:25:35. > :25:48.operate under the 1983 medical act, an act of

:25:49. > :25:50.Parliament that directs what we do. That was never designed for mass

:25:51. > :25:53.industrial action involving tens of thousands of doctors. It is designed

:25:54. > :25:56.so that we can take action where one doctor does something wrong with one

:25:57. > :25:58.patient. But having said that. If an individual doctor were to be

:25:59. > :26:00.reported to us and harm had occurred through what they did to an

:26:01. > :26:04.individual patient, we are obliged by that act of Parliament to look

:26:05. > :26:08.into that. I cannot judge, but we would be obliged to take that

:26:09. > :26:11.seriously. If the patient complained because their operation had been

:26:12. > :26:15.delayed or cancelled, and that led to them continuing in pain, you

:26:16. > :26:19.would take that up and investigate that particular junior doctor? We

:26:20. > :26:23.can't second-guess every situation, but you can see there will be a

:26:24. > :26:30.problem identifying which single doctor. Let me give you perhaps

:26:31. > :26:34.obvious dramatic example. If a doctor was on strike and was asked

:26:35. > :26:39.to come back and desist because somebody had got ill and the service

:26:40. > :26:43.no could longer cope -- and assist. And that Doctor declined and that

:26:44. > :26:47.was reported to us, we would be obliged to investigate that because

:26:48. > :26:50.there would be a clearly to an individually registered doctor and

:26:51. > :26:56.an individual event. Thank you very much for talking to us. Professor

:26:57. > :26:58.Terence Stephenson from the GMC, head of the GMC.

:26:59. > :27:02.The national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid say that Government

:27:03. > :27:06.plans to cap housing benefit could destroy the finances

:27:07. > :27:10.of refuges for victims of domestic abuse.

:27:11. > :27:17.It could lead to the closure of almost two thirds of refuges for

:27:18. > :27:19.victims of domestic abuse. We will speak to their boss in the next half

:27:20. > :27:21.an hour. There are currently 73 MEPs that

:27:22. > :27:23.who will lose their seats As part of the BBC's

:27:24. > :27:27.Brexit Britain Day, we followed two MEPs to find out how life has

:27:28. > :27:42.changed since the Brexit vote. latest news headlines with Joanne.

:27:43. > :27:46.The Prime Minister has questioned whether a points-based immigration

:27:47. > :27:50.system as suggested by many EU leave campaigners would see the UK.

:27:51. > :27:53.Theresa May has said there was no single silver bullet for dealing

:27:54. > :27:58.with migration. Downing Street has indicated that the Government would

:27:59. > :28:02.rather retain control over the numbers than handed over to a strict

:28:03. > :28:05.criteria -based system. But her comments have prompted regulation

:28:06. > :28:09.that she might be prepared to offer preferential treatment to EU

:28:10. > :28:12.citizens. More than two months on from the referendum, the Government

:28:13. > :28:18.is about to reveal more about its plans for renegotiating the UK's

:28:19. > :28:21.future outside the EU. The Brexiter secretary David Davis is due to make

:28:22. > :28:25.a statement to MPs, and is expected to give some indication as to what

:28:26. > :28:30.sort of new relationship with Europe the Government may try to establish.

:28:31. > :28:34.A Conservative MP has told this programme at Keith Vaz, who is

:28:35. > :28:37.alleged to have paid male escorts, is bringing parliament into

:28:38. > :28:42.disrepute and his position is untenable. The Conservative MP says

:28:43. > :28:46.he is considering reporting Mr Vaz, the less than people Labour, to the

:28:47. > :28:50.police. Mr Vaz has indicated that will confirm tomorrow whether he

:28:51. > :28:53.will step aside as chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee after

:28:54. > :28:57.the allegations were published in the Sunday Mirror. The 59-year-old,

:28:58. > :29:01.who is married with two children, has apologised for the hurt and

:29:02. > :29:06.distress he has caused them. Figures published in the past half hour said

:29:07. > :29:10.that Britain's services industry balanced back strongly after a sharp

:29:11. > :29:14.contraction following the Brexit vote. The purchasing managers index

:29:15. > :29:18.for the services sector has seen its biggest increase in 20 years. The

:29:19. > :29:22.sector accounts for nearly 80% of the UK economy. The survey echoes

:29:23. > :29:27.the upbeat tone of numbers released last week on the manufacturing and

:29:28. > :29:32.construction sectors in August. A building collapsed in Israel's

:29:33. > :29:37.commercial capital Tel Aviv has left at least six people winded and the

:29:38. > :29:41.number of others missing. Incident occurred at the construction site in

:29:42. > :29:45.north-eastern Tel Aviv. It is believed that a crane fell down

:29:46. > :29:50.causing the building to collapse. Nine people have taken to hospital.

:29:51. > :29:54.The Israeli military said it has dispatched search and rescue footage

:29:55. > :29:59.to the scene. Footage shared an social media has shown a blast on

:30:00. > :30:05.the construction site. Do join us for BBC newsroom live at 11am. The

:30:06. > :30:10.using. Here is Hugh with the sport. Sam Allardyce's first match in

:30:11. > :30:14.charge is one with the last kick of the game. England have Adam Lallana

:30:15. > :30:20.to thank. His 95th minute goal, and his first for the country, giving a

:30:21. > :30:23.1-0 lead against Slovakia in the World Cup qualifier. Still plenty of

:30:24. > :30:26.questions about the performance. Less so than Scotland, they are top

:30:27. > :30:34.of the group that they share with England after their 5-1 win in

:30:35. > :30:39.Malta. Roberts Snodgrass scoring a hat-trick. Northern Ireland drew

:30:40. > :30:44.their opening qualifier with the Czech Republic 0-0. Kyle Evans's run

:30:45. > :30:48.has been ended by the world number one. Novak Djokovic looked back to

:30:49. > :30:52.his best and won in straight sets in New York. His quarterfinal will be

:30:53. > :30:55.against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Earlier on in the evening, Rafa Nadal was

:30:56. > :30:59.knocked out. Johanna Konta is also out. The British number one was

:31:00. > :31:03.beaten in straight sets by the unseeded Latvian who is having a

:31:04. > :31:07.wonderful tournament at Flushing Meadows. Andy Murray by the way is

:31:08. > :31:10.the only Brit left. He plays Dimitrov at midnight. More on that

:31:11. > :31:22.little bit later on. And has admitted a 15-year-old

:31:23. > :31:27.schoolgirl, Page Doherty, who disappeared from Clydebank in West

:31:28. > :31:33.Dunbartonshire on March 19. Her body was found in bushes two days later.

:31:34. > :31:37.A 32-year-old called John Latham has pleaded guilty to her murder during

:31:38. > :31:43.an appearance at the High Court in Glasgow. Those people on the edge of

:31:44. > :31:48.their seats wondering how the UK will negotiate its way out of the EU

:31:49. > :31:54.will get an idea this afternoon when Davis Davis outlines his plans to

:31:55. > :32:00.MPs. -- David Davis. One thing for sure, when it does happen, our MEPs

:32:01. > :32:03.will lose their seats and jobs. There are currently 73 MEPs

:32:04. > :32:06.representing constituencies in the UK and Northern Ireland and as part

:32:07. > :32:09.of our Brexit Britain day, we followed two of them to find out how

:32:10. > :32:21.life has changed since the referendum.

:32:22. > :32:29.Since the mid 90s, I had been trying, in my little bit, to do

:32:30. > :32:31.something about EU membership. And suddenly we have succeeded. The

:32:32. > :32:39.British people agreed with me, by and large. I was thrilled. It took

:32:40. > :32:46.me a couple of days to really recover from it. I was totally

:32:47. > :32:49.stunned and shocked, thinking, really?! I kept thinking it was a

:32:50. > :32:55.bad dream and we would wake up from it.

:32:56. > :33:02.I didn't tell very many people I had joined Ukip. Most of them had never

:33:03. > :33:06.heard of it anyway. It really wasn't until I stood in the 2001 general

:33:07. > :33:11.election that it became a problem to some of my family. Take votes of the

:33:12. > :33:16.Conservatives, that is what they always said, that was the war cry.

:33:17. > :33:21.And although they would have agreed with me about the problems of the

:33:22. > :33:23.European Union, Ukip should not stand in general elections because

:33:24. > :33:31.the Conservatives would one day sorted out. I remember the night

:33:32. > :33:33.when I first won, that feeling of elation and also really being able

:33:34. > :33:54.to do something. It's a great disappointment to me

:33:55. > :33:57.that the EU is bringing in this legislation that's

:33:58. > :33:59.going to make trading in futures On the other hand, there were MEPs

:34:00. > :34:04.from Britain who were on the Remain I mean, look what's

:34:05. > :34:09.happened to them. They thought, in some cases,

:34:10. > :34:38.they had jobs for life. The answer I was getting was Labour,

:34:39. > :34:44.labour and out. In Norfolk, we are front line county for immigration.

:34:45. > :34:46.Large numbers of people arrived here speaking different front line

:34:47. > :34:51.witches and it made getting into schools difficult. There is a

:34:52. > :34:55.general unease about where is it all going to stop.

:34:56. > :35:01.England has always been seen as being a Eurosceptic area. We have a

:35:02. > :35:09.strong Ukip presence in this part of the world. I decided to attend the

:35:10. > :35:13.count at transferred. -- Chelmsford. When I learned that we had won, I

:35:14. > :35:17.was elated. I have been worried about the EU for 20 years, and its

:35:18. > :35:21.impact on our lives. I thought a little bit I was doing would never

:35:22. > :35:27.get us very far and suddenly it had done. We were there. I thought we

:35:28. > :35:33.would just edge through. But it was quite clear as the night was going

:35:34. > :35:40.along, when you got all the results in, even looking at the results that

:35:41. > :35:47.were being counted, it was extremely worrying. It was really pretty

:35:48. > :35:56.emotional. Lots of my family and friends calling up, I got a lot of

:35:57. > :36:03.text messages. They are just in a period of disbelief that this has

:36:04. > :36:09.been the result. And I think many people, including myself, I was

:36:10. > :36:18.completely and utterly stunned. The Don is breaking on an independent

:36:19. > :36:22.United Kingdom. -- the dawn. I can make interventions on three. I do

:36:23. > :36:29.not walk around this place scowling. I will not do that. As regards

:36:30. > :36:33.missing it, I will not miss the fact that this committee is dictating how

:36:34. > :36:39.we farm in the United Kingdom, I will not miss that. It is not true.

:36:40. > :36:43.When I got back to Brussels, there were people from other countries in

:36:44. > :36:47.Eurosceptic groups who could not wait to come up to me and shake my

:36:48. > :36:51.hand and say, well done, you have done it and now maybe we will do it.

:36:52. > :36:55.It is of great disappointment to me that the EU is bringing in this

:36:56. > :36:59.legislation that will make trading in futures commodity is more

:37:00. > :37:02.difficult. On the other hand, there were MEPs from Britain on the

:37:03. > :37:07.remaining side who gave me very frosty looks. I do not blame them, I

:37:08. > :37:09.do not blame them. Look at what has happened to them, in some cases they

:37:10. > :37:26.thought they had jobs for life. The first day back was really pretty

:37:27. > :37:31.horrible. Because it was almost like you were going through a

:37:32. > :37:37.bereavement. People were coming up and giving the big hugs, and I had

:37:38. > :37:44.colleagues who were crying and saying, I cannot believe it, that

:37:45. > :37:50.you are going to be leaving. With universities, the major concern is

:37:51. > :37:56.that some of them are being excluded from projects already. There is

:37:57. > :38:01.anecdotal evidence... I think that since the vote, the British MEPs

:38:02. > :38:04.have been marginalised. I know that there were efforts to take me off

:38:05. > :38:20.one of the big reports that I am negotiating on.

:38:21. > :38:28.Thank you, Chair. Colleagues, we will be voting on the budget for

:38:29. > :38:32.2017. We have a number of committee chairs on key committees that matter

:38:33. > :38:38.to us around safety, security, and on migration and single markets. And

:38:39. > :38:46.I know that there were moves to try and say, OK, British MEPs cannot

:38:47. > :38:54.have that, but we have been able to fight that off in the interim. Until

:38:55. > :39:05.we leave, I want to be an active member of the Parliament.

:39:06. > :39:13.I don't know about you but I think that if you were to go anywhere in

:39:14. > :39:17.the Eastern region, and say to somebody in the street, who are your

:39:18. > :39:21.MEPs, they would not now. Would you think that in the West Midlands?

:39:22. > :39:25.Yes, I think that if you picked up somebody at random and you ask them

:39:26. > :39:30.and you could do the same thing about the MP or the Prime Minister

:39:31. > :39:37.that they might not know, I think we will miss our MEPs. I do not think

:39:38. > :39:42.individuals will be missed but I think that not being around the

:39:43. > :39:47.table to influence things, in years to come people will see the

:39:48. > :39:53.difference. But what can we do that the MP could not? Well, we have a

:39:54. > :40:00.network year. We are working with MEPs everyday from other countries,

:40:01. > :40:05.so I am able to go up to that MEP from Italy or Spain or wherever and

:40:06. > :40:11.say, I have a problem, can you direct me to the right organisation

:40:12. > :40:16.two and they do. Actually, I am able to resolve these cases. I managed to

:40:17. > :40:24.get a woman out of prison in Cyprus, and I went around all the Greek MEPs

:40:25. > :40:32.personally, to their offices in Cyprus, and got no help at all. That

:40:33. > :40:37.may be where you stand in terms of your political party. You have not

:40:38. > :40:40.really created a lot of good will. Well, we got out of prison but I

:40:41. > :40:49.think MP probably did the bulk of the work.

:40:50. > :40:56.I see my future as finishing off the job, initially. There were four

:40:57. > :41:00.phasers to it, getting the referendum, winning the referendum

:41:01. > :41:07.and voting in Article 50. We have done two of those and that has taken

:41:08. > :41:14.23 years. British people did vote to leave the European Union and they

:41:15. > :41:18.must execute our wishes. My role is now to work towards getting the best

:41:19. > :41:23.deal. And we are not going to get the best deal if we are rude and

:41:24. > :41:29.aggressive to our partners. We are going to get the best deal if we

:41:30. > :41:37.work with them and at least try to understand that, OK, we have not

:41:38. > :41:44.helped their situation but we would still like to remain friends and

:41:45. > :41:48.work with them. And BBC News will be reporting on Brexit Britain

:41:49. > :41:57.throughout the day with reports on BBC and online. Thank you, thank you

:41:58. > :42:01.to all of you who got in touch to either share your own experience of

:42:02. > :42:06.domestic abuse today or to simply thank the three women, Rachel, Mandy

:42:07. > :42:09.and Becky, who were on the programme earlier and survived of the most

:42:10. > :42:14.horrendous domestic abuse, sometimes over years. They have now come

:42:15. > :42:17.together, the three of them, to help others who find themselves in

:42:18. > :42:21.similarly dangerous situations. A couple of messages here. Pamela

:42:22. > :42:25.says: I have been watching your programme today and it has reduced

:42:26. > :42:29.me to tears. I was abused mentally and physically in my first marriage.

:42:30. > :42:34.I put up with it for 13 years and left my home with nothing. In those

:42:35. > :42:43.days, women had no rights. I was told I would lose my children and I

:42:44. > :42:46.could not get rehoused. Your programme has brought it back and I

:42:47. > :42:49.realise that I still carry the scars but thank you for highlighting this

:42:50. > :42:52.problem. This viewer does not want to use his or her name. My mother

:42:53. > :42:54.walked away from a long marriage after 20 years of abuse. Domestic

:42:55. > :42:58.abuse is real and painful for the children. Even though I am in my

:42:59. > :43:01.40s, I had to support my mother through terrible experiences. There

:43:02. > :43:08.is little support and that needs to change. She lost everything but she

:43:09. > :43:12.is now free from an incredibly controlling husband. Another

:43:13. > :43:17.anonymous one, four police cars came to get me and my children out of the

:43:18. > :43:21.house when my partner snapped and was wielding a knife. We had no

:43:22. > :43:26.money, not a penny. The train conductor let us get on the train

:43:27. > :43:29.for free. We arrived at my sister's house and we ask for help. We got

:43:30. > :43:34.nothing and it was weeks before they would give us a penny. The does not

:43:35. > :43:38.seem to be much help any more and no safety net. They took it all away.

:43:39. > :43:43.Let's play a short extract of what Mandy, brittle and Becky told us

:43:44. > :43:44.earlier in the programme. -- Rachel and Becky.

:43:45. > :43:48.He slapped me down on to the bed and then continued to just stand

:43:49. > :43:51.over me and pummel my head into the bed and I could feel myself

:43:52. > :43:54.going out of consciousness and I remember thinking if I don't

:43:55. > :43:57.get up somehow to the other end of the bed, he's going to kill me.

:43:58. > :44:00.He kept me locked in the bedroom and carried on torturing me

:44:01. > :44:06.I think there were points where I did actually

:44:07. > :44:11.I have a faith so I was praying one minute to die because of the pain

:44:12. > :44:14.and then begging to stay alive for the children.

:44:15. > :44:27.My kids thought it was normal to be living in a household like that.

:44:28. > :44:30.You'll be able to watch and share that full interview

:44:31. > :44:31.again via our programme page - bbc.co.uk/victoria.

:44:32. > :44:35.There's a warning today that two-thirds of women's refuges

:44:36. > :44:37.in England are facing closure due to a change in the way

:44:38. > :44:42.The national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid say that Government

:44:43. > :44:44.plans to cap housing benefit to sheltered housing at the same

:44:45. > :44:47.levels paid to private landlords could destroy

:44:48. > :44:50.the finances of the refuges, which take in women

:44:51. > :44:53.and their children who've been victims of violence at the hands

:44:54. > :44:56.The housing benefit cap is part of a ?12 billion package of cuts

:44:57. > :45:06.We can talk now to Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women's Aid.

:45:07. > :45:10.Sue Cox runs a Women's Refuge facing closure in Wiltshire.

:45:11. > :45:13.And Dawn Morville has experienced domestic abuse and has

:45:14. > :45:17.stayed in several refuges across the country.

:45:18. > :45:29.They were literally a lifeline for me and my children. I wouldn't be

:45:30. > :45:33.here today if it wasn't for a refuge, and I wouldn't have my

:45:34. > :45:41.Jordan with me. The final act from my ex-husband almost took my life --

:45:42. > :45:48.my children with me. And if I hadn't had a refuge to go to, I wouldn't be

:45:49. > :45:53.here. It is down to the refuges that are there that help people like me,

:45:54. > :46:00.you know, and if they are not there, I don't want to know. Suit, in terms

:46:01. > :46:05.of your own plays, tell us what it faces and why? We are a little

:46:06. > :46:09.refuge in a rural community. We are full all of the time, and this

:46:10. > :46:14.benefit cut will mean that we will have to close, if it happens. 40% of

:46:15. > :46:19.our funding will go, the money goes directly into our servers, it pays

:46:20. > :46:24.for our staff to be that 24/7, it pays for 11 families to be free of

:46:25. > :46:30.domestic abuse. If you close, where will those women and kids go? They

:46:31. > :46:33.will probably stay where they are, in abusive relationships, violent

:46:34. > :46:40.families, dangerous situations. Polly, explain why this is an issue

:46:41. > :46:44.in terms of this housing benefit cap and it affecting refuges,

:46:45. > :46:48.potentially? When we survey the refuges it accounts for more than

:46:49. > :46:53.half of the funding of a very large proportion of refuges. And

:46:54. > :46:57.basically, if it is capped, they will no longer be sustainable. We

:46:58. > :47:01.have already heard one of the other main sources of funding from refuges

:47:02. > :47:04.as local authorities, and we have already heard of local authorities

:47:05. > :47:08.saying the refuges, we are not going to fund you any more because when

:47:09. > :47:12.this benefit cap is implemented you will not be sustainable. They are

:47:13. > :47:17.saying, why would we throw good money after bad? It is a massive

:47:18. > :47:22.threat. To be specific about the figures, under the Housing cap the

:47:23. > :47:26.income of one refuge would reduce from ?300 to ?60 per room per week.

:47:27. > :47:30.You are saying that is just not enough financially, it is not

:47:31. > :47:33.financially viable? No, it just isn't sustainable, there is no

:47:34. > :47:37.amount of local fundraising, brilliant though it is, no coffee

:47:38. > :47:42.mornings are going to make up that sum of money, it is just impossible

:47:43. > :47:49.for refuges to survive. The key thing we want to say to the

:47:50. > :47:52.Government is, actually we know the Government know how important these

:47:53. > :47:54.refuges are, they have put in the money in response to our campaigning

:47:55. > :47:58.before. Surely they don't want to undo all these good works through

:47:59. > :48:02.the welfare reforms? It is tiny proportion of the welfare cuts that

:48:03. > :48:07.are accounted for by refuges. It is not a huge amount of money in terms

:48:08. > :48:11.of the whole welfare pot. We are really urging the Government to

:48:12. > :48:15.exempt refuges from the welfare reforms and to do it urgently.

:48:16. > :48:19.Obviously we talked to them about this. They told us they are

:48:20. > :48:23.reviewing this very issue to see if it is sustainable in the long term.

:48:24. > :48:27.I mean, they are looking at this right now. How hopeful Ayew that

:48:28. > :48:31.they will change their minds? They are looking at it and they have

:48:32. > :48:35.delayed for a year. However, our survey took that into account and

:48:36. > :48:39.was asking for what would happen to refuges if this cap is implemented

:48:40. > :48:46.from 2018. What we really need is a permanent exemption from this. And

:48:47. > :48:51.we want the Government to work with us on a long-term sustainable system

:48:52. > :48:55.of funding for refuges. Because, you know, as women's aid have been

:48:56. > :48:59.pointing out for several years now, refuges are lurching from funding

:49:00. > :49:05.crisis the funding crisis. This is the latest in a series of amazing

:49:06. > :49:08.setbacks. It is incredible that refuges have survived, actually. And

:49:09. > :49:12.it is down to the women who work in them and their commitment, we are

:49:13. > :49:18.above beyond the call of duty. -- way above beyond the call of duty.

:49:19. > :49:21.We want a long slump sustainable funding solution for refuges so they

:49:22. > :49:26.do not have a constant series of crisis. -- a long-term sustainable

:49:27. > :49:33.funding. What is it like living in a refuge of New -- with your kids? It

:49:34. > :49:37.can be difficult, because you have to live with other families, other

:49:38. > :49:40.women and their children. But the support you get is invaluable,

:49:41. > :49:44.support for your children and yourself. It is the only time that

:49:45. > :49:48.you can actually breathe and think and take stock of what it is that

:49:49. > :49:51.you need and what you need to do. And look at the future in a way that

:49:52. > :49:54.you have never been able to do before because it is so hopeless

:49:55. > :50:02.when you are in a relationship like that. You can't think and you only

:50:03. > :50:06.think in the way that the man that you are with once you'd think. That

:50:07. > :50:10.gives you the space to be able to think, I am a person in my own

:50:11. > :50:14.right, what do I want for my children and our future? That is the

:50:15. > :50:18.only that you can do that in an abusive relationship. The support is

:50:19. > :50:21.immense. Safety and the ability for you to consider the rest of your

:50:22. > :50:25.life. And the lives of your children, which are more important,

:50:26. > :50:31.you know, because I think if this happens, if one person, just one

:50:32. > :50:35.child or woman, loses their life, it is too many, and it's not worth

:50:36. > :50:41.that. You know, for money, at the end of the day. For something that

:50:42. > :50:46.is so crucial to women all over the country. Thank you very much a dawn.

:50:47. > :50:50.Thank you, Sue and Polly from women's aid. We asked the Government

:50:51. > :50:52.for an interview this morning but they declined. They sent us this

:50:53. > :51:18.statement in stead... Obviously we will report back in the

:51:19. > :51:20.autumn as to what they have had to say.

:51:21. > :51:21.If you've been affected by domestic violence,

:51:22. > :51:24.and want to get help, then you can find a list of

:51:25. > :51:27.All the information is at: bbc.co.uk/actionline

:51:28. > :51:29.including a 24-hour National Domestic Violence Helpline

:51:30. > :51:37.Why do TV execs love rebooting old shows?

:51:38. > :51:40.Last night saw the return of the BBC's Poldark.

:51:41. > :51:43.Images of actor Aidan Turner scything in a field topless became

:51:44. > :51:47.one of the most famous scenes on British television last year,

:51:48. > :51:49.with more than six million people following the story

:51:50. > :52:00.This series seems to be equally steamy so far. Last night's episode

:52:01. > :52:06.got more than 5 million viewers. Cold Feet returns to ITV tonight,

:52:07. > :52:39.13 years after the original which followed three couples

:52:40. > :52:41.experiencing the ups-and-downs The new series catches up with those

:52:42. > :52:46.instantly recognisable characters at a very different

:52:47. > :52:50.time in their lives. So why do TV execs like

:52:51. > :53:37.rebooting old programmes? Let's talk to the creator and writer

:53:38. > :53:40.of Cold Feet, Mike Boolen, We also have Adrian Lobb,

:53:41. > :53:44.TV writer for The Big Issue, and Emma Bullimore, TV

:53:45. > :53:49.critic for the TV Times. Welcome, all of you. Mike, why is it

:53:50. > :53:53.a good thing to bring cold feedback and catch up with these characters?

:53:54. > :53:56.I think the only reason for doing it is because there is an interesting

:53:57. > :54:00.stage of life again. When we saw them the first time around, they

:54:01. > :54:04.were on the cusp of change, settling down and starting families. Then I

:54:05. > :54:07.was asked to bring it back, and we said no, because all that they were

:54:08. > :54:16.doing was bringing up children, having done that myself I don't

:54:17. > :54:18.think it is a pedigree interesting time of life for yourself, it is all

:54:19. > :54:21.about the kids. But now the characters are getting beyond bad,

:54:22. > :54:25.the kids are more independent, going off and living there own lives. --

:54:26. > :54:29.going beyond bad. They have the next 25 years of life or so for

:54:30. > :54:36.themselves. Reboots are big at the moment, why? Execs are looking for a

:54:37. > :54:41.guaranteed audience, a dead hit. We love these characters, we have grown

:54:42. > :54:46.up watching these characters. Of a certain age, but what about younger

:54:47. > :54:49.viewers? They are so well drawn characters that you connect with

:54:50. > :54:54.them straightaway, you love them straightaway, you feel like you know

:54:55. > :54:57.them almost instantly. By the end of episode one, new audiences will feel

:54:58. > :55:03.like they have known these characters their whole life as well.

:55:04. > :55:06.Emma, let me ask you about Poldark. Presumably you would say that is

:55:07. > :55:12.popular with all ages, not just nostalgia from those who were little

:55:13. > :55:16.when it was back in the 70s? So many people were so excited about it, it

:55:17. > :55:20.is a different animal to cold feet, because that is the next series

:55:21. > :55:23.whereas Poldark is a different remake. Sometimes, what is better

:55:24. > :55:28.with drama is the comedy. People are more tolerant of that. We have seen

:55:29. > :55:32.with sitcoms recently, comedies, people feel connected to a certain

:55:33. > :55:36.actor with a certain role. With Poldark, the drama, sometimes that

:55:37. > :55:41.work that. As a writer, what are the risks of writing a new series with

:55:42. > :55:45.the characters however many years on? I think the main risk is that

:55:46. > :55:50.you don't try hard enough, you kind of count on the audience coming back

:55:51. > :55:53.and feel as though you have done your job. The fact of the matter is,

:55:54. > :55:58.you've got to treat it as though it is a new series, you still got a kid

:55:59. > :56:02.compelling, both dramatically and for us, comedically as well. -- make

:56:03. > :56:07.it compelling. We have got fined the stories to allow us to do what we

:56:08. > :56:12.did before, as well as we did it before. You say it might be an easy

:56:13. > :56:18.choice of a TV executives, but in a sense it is quite risky for them,

:56:19. > :56:23.because the bar is set quite high by people's memory of the first series.

:56:24. > :56:27.If we don't achieve that, we will be viewed to be a failure. That is

:56:28. > :56:31.really interesting. Is this cold feet going to be as successful as

:56:32. > :56:39.the original? Isaac at is going to be massive. Do you? -- I think it

:56:40. > :56:44.is. Within ten seconds of the first episode, I felt like I was back into

:56:45. > :56:48.that world with those people, like going to reunion with friends you

:56:49. > :56:54.haven't seen for a long time. Some reunions can be a disaster! Mike,

:56:55. > :56:57.that is great praise for you. At the moment, we are full of crime and

:56:58. > :57:01.period drama and reality shows, it is refreshing, to have a really good

:57:02. > :57:08.drama back on our screens is a delight. Let's talk about period

:57:09. > :57:13.drama. Poldark went up Victoria, that had excellent reviews. Poldark

:57:14. > :57:17.today have excellent reviews. -- Poldark went up against Victoria.

:57:18. > :57:23.Why do audiences love this type of show too much. He does look lovely,

:57:24. > :57:27.there is no doubt about that, but he also connects with these times

:57:28. > :57:30.coming he is grasping for his community, difficult times, he is

:57:31. > :57:33.rolling up his sleeves and getting back to work and trying to help

:57:34. > :57:37.everybody in his community, and I think that really connects with now

:57:38. > :57:41.as well. Yes, of course he looks lovely and it is a bodice ripper and

:57:42. > :57:45.their relationship is wonderful to behold. I think it is a bigger story

:57:46. > :57:50.than that. That is why it hit so hard last year. What about Victoria,

:57:51. > :57:55.Emma? What you think in comparison to Poldark? Although it is a ratings

:57:56. > :57:59.war, the same people are watching both. It has a very strict moral

:58:00. > :58:05.compass, there is a right and wrong, there is a hero and a baddie. People

:58:06. > :58:09.enjoy that, pure escapism. Both shows are beautifully shot, you look

:58:10. > :58:12.at Cornwall in Poldark yesterday, and with Victoria, it taps into part

:58:13. > :58:17.of our history and we always enjoy that. Mike, thank you very much, we

:58:18. > :58:20.wish you all the best. I will be watching!

:58:21. > :58:22.On the programme tomorrow, an interview with Sharon Shoesmith,

:58:23. > :58:24.the former Children's Services boss sacked after baby Peter Connelly

:58:25. > :58:30.Thank you very much for your company today. Have a

:58:31. > :58:34.BUZZER Top Class.

:58:35. > :58:37.BUZZER A new quiz show.