05/09/2016 Victoria Derbyshire

As is a resigning as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, when

he has brought Parliament into such disrepute, I think it is utterly

amazing. We'll also get reaction

from Labour MP Simon Danzuck - who's experienced his own tabloid

sex scandal and says he feels Plus as Cold Feet returns to TV

tonight and Poldark last night, why do TV bosses love

rebooting old shows? It's no use, Ross. We knew it a week

ago. So we give up? We move on. Throughout the programme we'll bring

you the latest breaking news, and across the BBC today we're

looking at the impact of Britain's We'll hear from a daughter

and her stepdad who ten weeks on -

still haven't stopped And if you're texting,

it will cost the standard Our top story,

it's back to work for MPs today and the immigration story is still

top of the political agenda. The Prime Minister has cast doubt

on whether a points-based immigration system

would work for the UK, suggesting that it's not a silver

bullet to satisfy the concerns Our political guru Norman Smith

is in Westminster. Welcome back, Normandy. What has

Theresa May been saying about this points system? If you had to think,

what was the standard policy demand of the Brexiteers, it was to

introduce a points based immigration system, rather like they have in

Australia, where you only get in depending on your work

qualifications, your educational qualifications, your age and health.

That was the key policy demand and Theresa May has in effect kibosh on

it. -- kiboshed it. And that is largely based on her experience as

Home Secretary. She will have looked at Australia, where net immigration,

by head of population, is higher than it is in the UK. It is not a

system that will lead to significant results there. Of course, this will

lead to alarm bells for Brexiteers but interestingly, Chuka Umunna, one

of the leading remain campaigners, he was supportive of Theresa May's

stands. Actually, in places like Australia,

they actually wish to increase the number of immigrants they have

coming to their country proportionally. Australia has three

times more immigrants than we did. According to their latest

statistics, if you look at the number of foreign-born citizens

living there, there are around 28%, more than double what we have here.

David Davis will be talking in the Commons today. Will that be giving

us more clues to what we can expect? If only. I think it will be a

frustrating afternoon in the Commons because the signs are that it will

be big picture stuff, bold ambition and aspirations, rather than any

detail or any clear definition about what Brexit really means. And the

reason for that is you sense that Theresa May and David Davis are

still feeling their way. We can see it on immigration, with Theresa

May's kibosh on of the points system, but also when she was asked

last night about whether we are going to carry on giving money to

the EU, she did not rule that out. -- Theresa May's kiboshing.

Similarly, she has given no clear timetable about when she will

trigger the Article 50, bringing about our withdrawal. I expect that

after the statement, there will still be many, many unanswered

questions about Brexit. And Theresa May spent the weekend at the G20

Summit, the first time she has met world leaders as Prime Minister. How

has the trip gone down? The funny thing about Theresa May, although

she has been an secretary for five or six years, she has never been a

figure on the international stage, so this was her first outing. For

many world leaders, there is a curiosity about what sort of

politician Shias but it seems to me she has had a tough baptism of fire.

President Obama warning about the possible adverse effects of Brexit,

and the Japanese issuing an extraordinary document saying that

if you press ahead with Brexit, then you do not guarantee free movement

of labour, and who knows, big Japanese companies like Honda and

Nissan might relocate some of their operations in Britain. There was

that stony faced meeting with President Putin, and ahead of her,

perhaps the toughest meeting of all, with the Chinese present, and there

will be huge speculation about whether she is going to pull the

plug on the Hinkley Point power station. -- with the Chinese

president. Joanna has the rest

of the days news. Farmers, lorry drivers and traders

in Calais are starting to blockade the main route into the town -

as they call for the migrant camp Around 9,000 people

are living there. The mayor of Calais is joining

the demonstrations. The protest is likely

to cause major disruption. Our Correspondent, Richard Galpin,

is with lorry drivers in Calais. just some of the lorries taking part

in this demonstration. They are going to be blockading the main

arterial route which runs through Calais. This is one of two main

groups. We are actually in Dunkirk. They are going to go towards the

centre of Calais on a go-slow, blocking the main role. Another

group comes from the South into Calais. After that, we understand

the human chain will block the main road leading to the port itself. So

there is of course going to be enormous disruption caused by the

protest and we think it will be one of the biggest so far by local

people in Calais and the region. And they have one clear demand, that the

camp known as the Jungle, where there are 9000 migrants and refugees

living, the protesters say that this must be closed down as soon as

possible. They want a date from the government for when this is actually

going to happen. The Labour MP Keith Vaz is facing

a possible investigation by Commons sleaze watchdogs over reports

he paid two male escorts Mr Vaz has indicated

he'll confirm tomorrow whether he will stand aside

as chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee

after the allegations were published The 59-year-old who's married

with two children has criticised the newspaper for

printing the story. The organisation that regulates

the medical profession is warning that patients will suffer if junior

doctors in England go ahead with a series of five

one-day strikes next week. The General Medical Council says

the scale of the action, planned at such short notice,

cannot be justified. The GMC says it will also

investigate any case in which a patient comes

to significant harm Giant pandas are officially no

longer an endangered species. After decades of work

by conservationists, they have now been reduced to the lower

category of "vulnerable". The increase in numbers is being put

down to successful breeding programmes and the measures taken

to protect bamboo forests. That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. In the next few minutes,

we'll hear from three women who've experienced horrific domestic abuse

and have now joined together to campaign for better

rights for victims. Their stories are distressing

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anonymously, of course. Hugh Ferris is at the BBC

Sport Centre, and international football has returned

with the World Cup qualifiers. Sam Allardyce in charge of England

for the first time, Same old, same old, if you are an

England supporter? What have we learned? We have learned that Sam

Allardyce is a lucky manager, sometimes better than being a good

one. England's first World Cup qualifier was looking a little too

familiar if memories of Euro 2016 are fresh in your mind. The team

lacked a cutting edge, until the 95th minute, almost the last kick of

the game. Adam Lallana scored his first international goal. Helping

his team to win 1-0 against Slovakia, who were down to ten men

by this point. Sam Allardyce becomes the ninth England manager in a row

to start with a win, just. Scotland are top of their group, above

England, after a 5-1 win in Malta. Robert Snodgrass clinched a hat

trick with this goal, helping Scotland pull away from their

opponents, who ended the match with only nine men. Northern Ireland's

opening qualifier finished goalless in their first game since the last

16 at the Euros. Michael O'Neill says he was happy with a point

against one of the top teams in the group. And there was a great tweet

before Adam Lallana scored which said, I'm sure ITV have just put an

England game on from the European Championships and gone down the pub.

Let's talk about tennis. Andy Murray is the Brit left. Kyle Edmund and

Johanna Konta are both out now but there is so much chat about British

tennis being strong right now. It is true. It is better than I can

remember in my lifetime. I cannot remember a better time for British

tennis. This US Open seen a record-breaking effort from the

British contingent but the challenge is always in the second week, and it

will be tougher. Kyle Edmund had the misfortune to come up against the

world number one, looking back to his best. Novak Djokavic and

received two walkovers in getting to the stage. He needed treatment on a

troublesome arm injury, but he still looked pretty fresh, outclassing

Kyle Edmund 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, to set up a quarterfinal for against

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. That match did not start until tenpin -- 10pm local

time because of an epic that preceded it. Rafa Nadal not out by

Lucas Pouille, who came back from one set down to win it. It is the

first time in 12 years that the two-time winner in New York, Rafa

Nadal, has failed to reach a Grand Slam last eight. Johanna Konta is

also out and it is a sign of how far she has come that the British number

one will be disappointed, being beaten in the fourth round in

straight sets by the unseeded Latvian. And let's talk about

cricket, a sign of the strength of England's one-day cricket side that

England's supporters were disappointed not to beat Pakistan

5-0? Dennis is improving immeasurably for England but the

one-day cricket team might be the best around at the moment. They only

won the series against Pakistan 4-1 after the tourists claimed the final

match in Cardiff by four wickets. Waseem, born down the road in

Swansea, hitting the winning runs. It was England's first white ball

defeat all summer. I was in Cardiff yesterday and the grey skies and

temperatures suggested it was not summer anyway. Maybe the unbeaten

record still stands. And a full weather forecast from Carol, just

before 10am. Beaten, tortured and verbally

bullied - one in four women in England and Wales will experience

domestic abuse in their lifetime. Three women who experienced it

first-hand have joined forces in the hope of bringing

about changes to the way Rachel Williams was shot by her

ex-husband following years of abuse. She is calling for judges to be

given more specific training Among the many injuries Mandy Thomas

suffered at the hands of her ex are burns inflicted

on her using a blow torch Along with her children, she was put

under witness protection. She wants molestation orders,

which are a set of rules given to prisoners on their

release from prison, And Becky O'Brien had her jaw broken

by her ex-partner hours after giving She wants more support

for children caught up Let's talk to Rachel Mandy and

Becky. I know you're comfortable in talking about those things because

it is, you think it is important for people to understand the kind of

depths to which your ex-s went to. important for people to understand

the kind of apps to which your exes when two. Mandy, the abuse you

suffered went on for a very long time, 18 years. But it's started in

quite subtle ways, didn't it? It is the control factor, saying what you

should wear, not having friends, keeping your way from your friends

and family. Basically, controlling your every movement. You are

thinking in the beginning that it is because they care about you, they

wanted for themselves, because they love you. But it wasn't long after I

moved in with him that he started, it started with a slap, and then a

punch. I did say, this isn't on. I tried to get a weight right from

them. But there was nothing in place for me to go to. You know, the

police weren't listening. I was raped, I went to the police station,

I did a full report and they just did nothing about it. And it makes

you think, you go to the system for help and they just keep turning your

way. Over the 18 years, I had moved quite a number of times. -- turning

you away. Having children en route as well wasn't easy. Going into

refuges, then he would find us, because he was a computer hacker, he

used to track us down. Everything I was doing to keep us away from him

wasn't working. And the escalation, if you like, the punching and

slapping, moved on to him using the walls around the house, knives, to

effectively torture you -- using tools. I used it scanned the room,

look around the house and think, what can he do with that? I used to

try and put everything away. He used to pick something up, and I had no

wide ear that he could do that with that. Towards the end, he was doing

drugs -- I had no idea. It was unpredictable. He would be talking

one minute, then the next minute he would just switch, the children used

to pick up on it as well. You would be walking around on a show 24 7/7

to stay alive, basically -- on eggshells. The worst incident, if

you like, was when he smashed a glass in your face and proceeded to

attack you for about, punch you in the face, for about eight hours,

before dragging you into a bedroom and locking the door. Yes, that was

the worst one. I kept going in and out of consciousness because he had

been punching me for so long. And then he stripped me naked, and after

the punching he went downstairs to sharpen knives, and he was saying

what he was going to do with the knives as he was chopping them. I'd

got the children locked into their bedrooms so they were out of the

way, -- as he was sharpening them. But he would come up, attacked me

with the knives, he dragged me into my daughter's bedroom, and my

youngest was four years old in the bunk bed. And he got the knives, he

threw me on the floor and he said he was going to kill the children. He

made his way across to the bunk bed. I didn't know what I'd done at this

point, my daughter said it in the statement, but I crawled along the

floor and pulled him down. And it put him in a spin. He literally ran

round in circles, ran outside, and that is when he got the blowtorch,

tested it, and burnt in wire so that it fits the Electric of, the smoke

alarm went off, the fire alarm was going off. And then he just came up

to meet with the blowtorch. I thought, there is nothing I can do.

I backed as far as I could into a wall. And he just carried on. And he

was saying, smile that burning flesh, as he was doing it. -- smell

the burning flesh. Daniel had witnessed that part, he came out of

the bedroom and he was sat in the corridor. I'm left with the haunting

image of him on his knees, helpless, watching his dad take a blowtorch to

me. But then he took them to school. He kept me locked in the bedroom,

carried on portering before another four days, and I was daft. --

carried portering me. How did you survive? I don't know. I was praying

one minute to die because of the pain. And then begging to stay alive

for the children. But he took the children to school on the fourth

day, and my daughter said that the teacher that she thinks that has

killed her mum, and then the police came and got me out. But then he

still pleaded not guilty for a whole year, through the Crown Court. At

the last minute, he changed his plea to guilty. The day before, that is

another thing I don't agree with. If you waste the time of the court and

put children through the help of being video linked interviewed, so

they have to relive every moment over and over. They have the give

him the right to change the plea, I don't agree with that at all. He was

convicted and jailed for 15 years, this was back in 2003. Yet in 2008

you got a call saying he was being released, which had a terrible

impact on your children? It did. Basically we were under witness

protection, the whole team come out to you to say how you are going to

have to live, you're going to have to move within a week. We had to

take the children out of school and college, go into another strange

town, start again. This is witness protection? It is. We moved into a

house, and about a week after, my ex was released, Daniel Whitworth in.

-- Daniel went missing. We had a whole team searching for him,

sniffer dogs, they tracked him down, his body was found in another town a

month later. Then a month after that I had to move again. Because they

couldn't make our house into a proper safe house, I live in a

prison so that my ex can be free, basically. We have trackers if we go

missing... It's just... Daniel said, it is like living in a box, and he

wanted to be free. He was screaming at the police, he doesn't

understand, knowing what he is going to do, he threatened to kill my

children one by one, tell me last and make me suffer the most. And he

told the children that. When the police are saying they are letting

him out, it doesn't make sense in their world that you should be doing

that. I don't know how you cope with Daniel taking his life. I've been

through a lot. But that was the biggest, the most deepest pain. It

still hurts saying get now. Because it's something that you couldn't

control yourself. I have to respect his wishes to be free. And I'm

learning over the years that it took that for him to be free. But it

makes me angry that the system let it happen, and it still happens

today. You know, I get e-mails every day. Because I wrote the book, You

Can't Run, to stress where the mistakes are made in the system. We

will come back to the system, because you have all got issues with

parts of the system. Thank you for being so open about some very, very

distressing details. Rachel, you were seven months pregnant when you

first remember your XP environment to you. What happened? That was the

most vivid memory I have of Darren being violent towards me. I remember

we had an argument, I went upstairs into the bedroom and he followed me

there. And he literally picked me off the floor by my throat, Darren

was capable of doing this because he was sixth at seven and 22 stone, he

was a body-builder. And he let me go and I turned blue, and that was his

way of telling me, he fell on the floor to his knees and cried and

asked for forgiveness. I figured him, and I kept forgiving him for

the next 18 years. Not only was he remorseful, he went to anger

management to deal with these things. Yes, he went through the

process. And in the end I just couldn't take no more. After 18

years, I mean, we've got children, and people say, why don't you leave?

You know, it is not as easy as get up and go. When you have got

children, sometimes you don't feel that refuges or an appropriate place

to take your children. You talk about a moment of clarity, you were

aged 49, you thought it has got to stop. Can you describe it? I was 39.

And sorry. On a Friday night he had taken about 15 sleeping tablets or

antidepressants, got taken to the hospital, I didn't go, at that

point, ... Did he regularly threatened to kill himself? It was

quite a regular thing. Most people who are watching, who are in that

situation, they will know that as a regular pattern of a perpetrator.

That is the persuader tactic. And he took this overdose. And to be

honest, I didn't go to the hospital, I wasn't concerned, I went home, the

following morning he came back, he was brought back, I don't know what

time it was, and again we had an argument, I went downstairs and I

can remember standing in the kitchen looking out my back door, because I

opened the back door, and the tears were streaming down my face. I

thought, do I really want to be here in ten years thinking I had done it

in ten years prior? At that point he was breathing down my neck,

swearing, saying I wouldn't leave, why would I go. I said this time I

am going to go. As I walked through the kitchen, he grabbed me and shook

me so ferociously, strangling me, that he works the boys up upstairs.

They both came running down, Jack at the time had a baseball bat in his

hand. And Josh was making a silent 999 call. With that I remember being

on the floor. I had a surge of energy and I jumped up. I worked on

the top of his head, and I think it sort of startled him a bit. -- I

whacked him on the top of his head. He sort of came to his senses, he

was crying, he said it wouldn't happen again. Then the kids went

back to bed, because in their world, it was sort of normal. That was the

routine. This is why I think education, we need to teach these

children. My kids thought it was normal to be living in a household

like that. So they both went back to bed. And I does sort of went out in

the conservatory. At that point Darren started dragging me up the

stairs. Darren, even though he was unpredictable he was also

predictable, and I knew what he was going to do next. I knew he was

going to slit his wrists. As he started pulling me up the stairs, I

managed to break free when we got to the bedroom. Next to his bed he had

hunting knives and stuff like that. I said, oh no you don't. With that,

Jack came into the bedroom, he asked me what was happening. I looked at

Darren and I said, go on, slit your wrists in front of your 16-year-old

son. As if to say, don't you dare. By the time I had got to the bottom

of the stairs, Jack said, he has done it, and he did. At that point,

I thought, if he can do that in front of our 16-year-old son, what

else is he capable of doing? That was it then. I got the ball rolling.

He was taken to hospital and went to his sister's to stay. That was the

9th of July. On the 12th of July I went straight to the solicitors,

something I had never done before. I got to an appointment, that is where

I started the ball rolling for divorce. Over the next six week

period than, everything just really escalated. He came to the hair

dressing salon where you worked in Newport and shot you. Yes. It was

the 19th of August. And I can remember taxing my sister, I don't

know where I got it wrong, I had a feeling that Darren was going to see

a psychiatrist that they -- texting my sister. I said, can you go and

check if his car is at this place. She went and had a look and said it

was not. It was about to 15 PM. A customer had come in, I had just

finished doing a blow-dried and handing a lady her change back. She

said to me, this lady said is everything all right. I said, well,

not really, I'm trying to get rid of Raul Mowatt. I doing there whether

my mother had written a letter to say, you have signed free to's death

certificate. The day before the lay magistrates lay down the

restrictions. The three mile radius, he couldn't come within a three-mile

radius of the marital home was lifted. Contact with the children

was lifted. I had no idea. He was free to do what he wanted. And that

landed apparently on the desk of one of the officers on the day of the

shooting. As I said, just trying to get rid of him. I remember it was a

sunny day. It suddenly went dark. As I looked at the door, this glass

door, in walks Darren, filling the whole of the door frame, pulling out

a sawn off shotgun out of his bag. As he came through to the shop, I

can remember this lady managing to squeeze past, and I don't know why,

I just ran towards him. My legs took me towards him, I don't know whether

because I knew I couldn't get any easy access out the back. I started

fighting with him. When you are facing death tummy you have got the

strength and you just don't know where it comes from. -- you have got

the strength. I remember him hitting me with the gun, I felt the floor. I

grabbed the reception desk and tried to pull it over my legs. At that

point there was an old lady on the floor, she was 92 at the time, and

she was shouting at him as well to get out. Then he kicked the

reception desk from me. I pulled my legs up under my chin, just

instinct, and he aimed at my chest, and he said, Rachel, I love you. He

pulled the trigger. At that point, my legs flopped to the floor. I

looked at my jeans and thought, he has actually shot me. I could smell

the gunpowder. And then the phone was on the floor, I remember tapping

the receiver really quickly, thinking, perhaps there is not a

line, trying to do the 999. The next I felt it lost to the side of me.

Obviously he had shot again. Thank the Lord he missed. The next I can

remember looking to the left and he put the gun down, it was to reload.

It was big and silver, I can see it now, ornate engraving on it. I

grabbed the gun, I had a watch on, and it must have been a hell of a

battle, because my watch face was frosted. It was swinging round with

this gun. Obviously he couldn't get it off me. He was running out of

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

Then he proceeded to pick me up, basically. I had back is, I had his

bookmark on his arm, for of his fingers in bed to my back as

bruises. My ear was a cauliflower is, slipped seven times. The next

thing, he had gone. And he immediately left, and he took his

own life. On us youngest photos are difficult

to cope with and six weeks later, took his own life in the same place.

Yes, he took his life as well. At the time I remember falling social

services and saying that he was next. He decided to stay with the

family. He wanted sympathy for his dad's death, which he could not get

from my family. And in that six weeks, that totally changed. His

texts got nastier and he was calling me names. We became estranged, me

and Jack, and Jack and his brother fell out. Jack did not understand

why Josh did not want to go to the funeral. And then we said, he tried

to kill my mother, you know? I remember falling social services

from the hospital and I said, you need to do something. This is a boy

I no longer recognise. Me and Jack were inseparable Tom how close we

were. I said I no longer recognise him. And they said, he is 16 so we

can live where he wants, basically. And that was it. Let me read two

messages from people listening to you speak around the country. Liz

says, my exit had his hands around my neck and pinned me up against the

wall. It never changes. This, from someone else:

Becky, your ex-husband was first violent to you just after you had

given birth. The twins were born prematurely. I was only 29 weeks

pregnant, so it was quite stressful anyway, as you can imagine. They

kept me in early labour for ten days. During which time, Stephen had

pretty much sat by my side and had behaved sometimes radically, but

only towards me and never in front of other members of staff. I put it

down to the stress. I just thought he had a strange way of dealing with

it. The twins were born and three days after they were born, I was

wheeled down to see them in special care, buy him. And then when we came

back to the room, he was being very quiet and sitting on his phone. I

was completely exhausted by this point. We didn't argue but he

started, I remember seeing things and making accusations that it was

my fault the twins had come early. I thought, I cannot do this right now

and I asked him to leave. And he said, I'm not going anywhere. I

said, please leave, if you don't leave I am going to ask someone to

ask you to leave. Andy said, I'm not going anywhere because I love you,

at which point I turned to try to get up and go to the toilet and all

I remember is him shouting no. He grabbed my arm and dragged me across

the bed, which nearly ripped open MIC section. -- ripped open my

C-section. He began to pummel me into the bed and I could feel myself

going out of consciousness. I remember thinking, if I do not get

up, he is going to kill me. And this was in the hospital room? I was in

the room next to the nurses station. So you are somewhere where you feel

like you should be safe and I found out afterwards that the nurses heard

screaming and thought someone was in labour but because I had already

given birth, they did not come to me, so they walked past my room.

Basically someone did eventually come in at which point is Stephen

stood back, and very calmly walked around the bed, picked up his

rucksack, want out of the room, waited for the left, he didn't run

anywhere, and I was trying to screen what had happened and I was

absolutely petrified he was going to go down and do something to the

babies, so that was my first thought. And it turns out he

actually left the hospital, phoned the police and said, you need to

arrest me because I have attacked my wife. And he pleaded guilty to GBH.

But as he had no previous convictions, he was not jailed and

he moved back home. Basically, I didn't think it was acceptable what

he had done, but I thought he had had a breakdown. I had never been in

an abusive relationship before, and he had never physically attacked me

before. He would punch objects and stomp around, and have moods and

leave and then come back, to the point where my mother used to call

him a boom around because he would pack a bag and go and two hours

later, he would be back again. So even after he attacked you, you were

not thinking, I am in an abusive relationship. You thought it was a

one-off? I did, and because my idea of what a abusive relationship was,

it was not bad. It was someone like what Mandy and Rachel said, you meet

this person and you do not go on a date and they hit you. If they did

that, you would not go on a second date. They use their charisma and

manipulate and appear to be everything you need and want, so you

fall in love with that person. That then, as you say, turns from caring,

so it may be, I will come and collect you from that club, or I

will do this for you, and eventually what was caring turns into

controlling. But I didn't recognise that at the time because I had

nothing to compare the two. I understand. Let me read some more

messages. David and Kerry saved you are incredibly brave women. Chris

says, horrible stories of domestic abuse. Much love to the women

sharing the stories of survival. Your courage knows no bounds. Max

says, your stories are powerful and so inspiring. It highlights the real

problems within the criminal justice system. What is your aim now?

Because you are all on a mission, it seems to me. We would like to put

everything on the rug, give it a real good shake, and everything that

does not work, get rid of it. I think most of all for us, all

services need to be put in the victims's be voice. There is nothing

better than experience from the horses mouth. People think they are

getting it right but they are not. We have heard statements about

people being let down by the police or services. And Mandy, you are

wanting to take the issue of molestation orders to Parliament.

And licenses. Briefly explain. It is an order to say that they need to

follow rules and if they break the rules, they go back inside. And what

is happening is they are breaking the rules and they are not enforced.

It is a continual cycle of that happening, and we all speak to

people all the time, we all have e-mails and we get letters everyday

and it is similar stories you are hearing, where we are being let down

by the system. There are things in place and it just does not happen in

reality. Similarly, there are laws in place at the moment. A

breakthrough came in last of timber to do with coercive control, but as

we experienced, most women, or men in abusive relationships, they may

not even know what course of control is, so raising awareness of all the

things that are not maybe the physical abuse, and making people

understand that they can do something about that, actually now

for the first time if somebody is coerced, that is an imprisonable

offence. For up to five years. The same with stalking. I did not

realise I was stopped. And repeatedly sent me texts and phone

calls all the time, and it was only when I worked with national

survivors of stocking that they said, do you realise you were

stopped? You only need two or more to be classed as harassment. The

police are not picking up on that. I had people messaging me saying, my

boyfriend is following me, he is calling me, what can I do? I said,

phoned the police and tell them to enforce the stalking act. I want to

ask about Women's Aid. He wants to see mandatory training for judges

calling with domestic abuse? Why? Some of these judges, the older

generation, they have been in the job a long time and things change. I

think everybody needs to be trained, specialist training for them to

understand domestic violence. I went to court for a molestation order in

regards to stalking and the judge said it was a consequence of the job

I did. What? I was told that this person had not attacked me

physically for six years. And I said, I have not seen him for four

years and yet he still feels the need to track where I am and what I

do. A complete lack of understanding. Not only of the law

but the reality. And the social media site, because it is a whole

new forum to abuse someone. The subject itself is not understood.

That is why we do what we do, to explain reality. And when we say to

people, to me this is an endemic, and if it was the bowler, the

government would be trying to find a cure. It costs the economy ?15.7

billion a year. When you tell people the figures, and I want to mention

about the refugees... That is the point that Women's Aid are making

today and we will talk to them in the next hour. They are launching a

campaign to try to make sure that women's refuges are exempt from the

new housing benefit cap which is coming in because they say that if

refuges are subject to the cap, as many as two thirds of women's

refuges may have to close. In Wales, 320 women were closed from -- turned

away from refuge spaces. If they implement this, 69% of the refuges

in Wales will close. And this is a staggering statistic, we only have

300 refuges in the whole of the UK, compared to 1500 animal shelters.

That doesn't make sense and I am an animal lover. Everyone always says,

why did you not get out? But if you have nowhere to go, where do you go?

And you have been in refuges? Thank you so much. Thank you for having

us. You are strong individually but as a trio, my goodness. I feel sorry

for politicians! Let me read some messages. Sally says, I have a busy

morning but I have been stopped in my tracks by your programme, three

women talking about domestic abuse. Impressive and brave. Sorrell says,

psychological and emotional abuse is as bad and disabling as physical

abuse. I have experienced that. That is what you were saying. Andrew

says, my God, it is for what these ladies have injuries from their

partners. And David says, it makes me ashamed to be a man. What brave

women. Thank you very much. We wish you all the best. If you have your

own experience of domestic abuse, get in touch. And we will read your

messages later on in the programme. You can get in touch anonymously as

well. It is worth saying that we spoke to Rachel, Mandy and Becky

this morning after Rachel told us about fear campaign, so if you have

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

Still to come, can the Labour MP Keith Vaz stay on? After allegations

that he hired male escorts. We asked three of his constituents will they

think and speak to a Conservative MP who has reported him to the sleaze

watchdog and is considering reporting the police. -- reporting

him to the police. Across the day on BBC News, we're

examining the impact, two months on, We'll hear from a young Remain

voter who's still furious with her step-dad, who was convinced

to vote Leave. Worth pointing out that the

government has introduced a new domestic abuse offence through the

serious crime act to capture course of behaviour in intimate or familiar

relationships, as well as new stalking or fences. And they have

pledged ?80 million to combat violence against women and girls. --

stalking or fences. If you want to get help, then you can. There are a

list of charities on the BBC action line. All the information at:

We've just had some more economic figures out -

recent indicators on manufacturing confidence, jobs and house prices

indicate that the predicted Brexit crunch hasn't happened,

Our economics guru Kamal Ahmed is here to tell us.

What are the latest figures? You will remember before the referendum

we were given lots of warnings that there could be recession, that house

prices would collapse and jobs would be lost. The biggest part of the UK

economy is the services sector, retail, shopping, tourism and

banking. It is a really important part of the UK economy. We have just

had the latest figures on how that part of the economy is performing

and, just like we have seen with lots of these economic figures since

the referendum, they are pretty good. The services sector and a big

contraction in July, in the run-up to the referendum. Businesses seemed

to say they were pausing, because they were unsure where the vote was

going to go, but after the referendum there seems to have been

a real bounce back in confidence. The services sector is growing

again, and business confidence seems to have returned. One interesting

thing in this new data is that there is evidence that inflation is coming

back in to the economy. Of course we have had this huge collapse, in the

value of sterling, which has meant that it costs more for us to import

food and fuel into this country, but it does seem to be that there is

inflationary pressure and that, in the end, is likely to feed through

to consumers in higher prices, which could mean that real wages start

being affected by the fact they have to spend more. So a little bit of

poorer news within these figures but again, in a broad sense, given this

notion that after the referendum things have not been too bad,

actually quietly confident and the predictions of recession, at this

stage, seem a little off the mark. Thank you very much.

The Labour MP Keith Vaz could be investigated by a Commons sleaze

watchdog and reported to the police over claims he paid two

The 59-year-old, who is married with two children, is in charge

of a group of MPs which investigate issues connected to crime.

They're currently carrying out a report on prostitution laws.

Mr Vaz has indicated tt he'll tell us all tomorrow if he'll stand aside

as the head of that committee, which he's chaired for nine years.

Nobody is questioning our integrity, it's your judgment were questioning.

This is not a television game show, this is a serious question

Can I say on behalf of this committee that we have found your

Gary Lineker thought the idea of Leicester winning

was so far-fetched that he said if they did when he would present

We do not believe that we've come to the end of the factual situation.

Are you confident that there is proper and appropriate leadership?

What is your message to young people who want to get involved in drugs?

Do you regret signing the contract saying that you had agreed

Do you not regret making that appointment?

Keith Vaz has also apologised publicly to his wife and children

for the "hurt and distress" he's caused them.

The Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, who's MP in neighbouring

North West Leicestershire, has told this programme he's writing

to the Parlaimentary Commissioner for Standards over the allegations,

I think misconduct in public office and also conspiracy to supply a can

stroll substance, they are both criminal offences. The fact that

Keith Vaz is prevaricating over even resigning as chairman of the Home

Affairs Select Committee, when he has brought parliament into such

disrepute, and himself, I think it is absolutely amazing. Should he

resign as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee? He certainly

should resign as chair of that committee, and quite honestly... I

have long been of the opinion that Keith Vaz is not a fit person to be

a member of Parliament. I would call on the people of Leicester, who no

one also a lot about him and his various activities to come forward

now to the police and let's see what he has really been doing -- who no

one awful lot. Everything is allocation at this stage. But you

are clearly saying that he should not carry on as chair, not even

temporarily standing aside, he should resign, and you are saying he

should resign as a Labour MP. I have serious concerns over Keith Vaz's

activities. Time. And I think there is a lot more to come out about

Keith Vaz, that is what I think. And hopefully it will. Isn't this a

classic tabloid sting. That is certainly what Keith Vaz himself

seems to be saying, it is entrapment, deeply troubling, he

says, that a national newspaper should have paid individuals to act

in this way? I think there is a legitimate public interest. People

do have a right to a private life. But when you are the chairman of the

Home Affairs Select Committee, it is a particular role where you are

making reports on the police, policing, and he has recently

produced an in-depth recommendation of what Parliament should do to deal

with prostitution. And then to actually be using prostitutes

himself, people can surely see the conflict-of-interest that arises

from that. I mean, none of us are perfect, we live in an imperfect

world, but there are limits to it, and Keith Vaz Haswell overstepped

that mark. There are other things going on as well. -- Haswell

overstepped. Things that have been going on for quite a long time.

Myself, I have dropped information to the police in Leicestershire

regarding Keith Vaz several times over the last 18 months. And his

position is completely unfilmable. He brings Parliament really into

disrepute by hanging on like this -- on tenements. He should do the

decent thing and resign. I don't think Keith Vaz and there is the

decent thing to do. Again, I repeat they are allegations at this stage.

Jeremy Corbyn, his boss, the legally do, said it is a private matter and

he hasn't broken the law. The Labour Party enough time all themselves,

they didn't need this. -- enough turmoil. The viewing public can

judge what they think Keith Vaz should do, and the relevance of

Jeremy Corbyn's remarks on that. I'll just say again, I believe that

these revelations in the Mayor, I believe that is that of the iceberg

to Keith Vaz's activities -- in the Daily Mirror. There is a lot more to

come out about him. Conservative MP Andrew Bridgend.

We can also speak to three people who either live

or work in Leicester, where Keith Vaz is the local MP.

They are Ricky Shah, Karan Modha, who runs a business

in Keith Vaz's constituency, and Dharmesh Lakhani,

who is a restaurant owner who has known Mr Vaz for more than 30 years.

And you also know each other as well. Ricky Shah, what should Keith

Vaz do now? I think based on the allegations I think, you know, he

should resign from the Home Affairs Select Committee because he is in a

national position. You know, you can't put yourself in those

situations. We are all allowed a private lives, but when you are a

public figure and you use the media to get more popular and promote

yourself, unfortunately the downfall of that is the opposite side, which

are your private affairs. Don't you want to hear his side of the story

first? We have heard his side of the story many times, it is not

obviously the first time. Like I said, you know, everyone is entitled

to a private life. And, yes, he deserves his side. But we are

talking about the educated man. You know, -- a well-educated man. He is

strategic, and he has a lot of support around him. He should be

able to make these decisions. He is not a naive person, he is a very

clever man. Karen, do you think we expect MPs to behave in a different

way than the rest of us? Good morning. Obviously MPs should be

taking themselves in a different mannerism, purely because they are

public figures. They are out there in the role of serving their

constituency. However, as Ricky highlighted, those people who are

entitled to a private life, so what he does in his private life is

completely different. Again, I think he is innocent until proven guilty.

As we said before, these are just allegations. Despite the fact these

are just allegations, Ricky Shah wants him to stand down as chairman

of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Do you think you should

do that or not? I think it would be sensible for him to stand down.

However, he himself is a well-educated

man, a solicitor by trade. So I think he knows what the best move

is. But personally, the most sensible thing would be to stand

down. Thank you for talking to us. You have been a friend of Keith Vaz

for many years. How did you react to the allegations? Obviously I am

shocked. Obviously, they are allegations. I look at all of the

work that he is done in the Siddique, championing the city. --

is the city. I was shocked. But people are calling for him to stand

down as an MP for Leicester East, and I totally disagree with that. If

you look at the good he has done here, the amount of holds and the

issues he helps with many of the key is that jurors, that is a different

question, really. He is very good at his job -- the constituents. You

will have heard the Conservative MP saying that he has brought

Parliament into disrepute? Ascari said, he is innocent until proven

guilty. -- as Karim said. This was a sting operation by a national paper.

We have seen and heard of many of these in the past, how reliable they

are, I mean, you have got to wait. Keith is in a very powerful position

in the Home Affairs select emitted. It has not been long since he

questioned a very, very powerful media entrepreneur. He is in a

powerful position on a committee, which at the moment is looking at

prostitution legislation in this country. Is there not a potential

conflict of interest there? Of course there is. At the end of the

day, it is innocent until proven guilty. If he can step aside from

that believe that one out, in local government, in the council, will

often have issues were councillors for certain areas have to step

aside, maybe this is one thing that Keith would have to step aside from.

Ricky Shah, is this story in the public interest? Yes, I think it is

in the public interest because of the fact that he is a public figure.

You know, I know the good work that Keith Vaz does in the area, the

local area, but when you are in a position of power on a national

scale, you need to reflect on how you behave, and what you get caught

up in two. He is a well-educated man, we have said that before. --

what you are caught in two. If you are in your own home, the public

issue is, how is that money coming from, where does it come from? Does

it come from his expenses? Yes, innocent until proven guilty, but it

is very important to understand that he is a public figure and you can't

keep coming back from these kind of issues. Thank you all very much for

your time. And in a "It is deeply troubling that

a national newspaper should have paid individuals who have acted

in this way. I have referred these

allegations to my solicitor who will consider them carefully

and advise me accordingly. your views are welcome, as always.

You can tax, WhatsApp, Facebook, the usual. -- you can text.

This Wednesday, in London, we're holding a big audience programme

You are very welcome to join us, to take part -

whether you're a junior doctor, you work in the NHS,

you've been treated in hospital or are going to be affected

If you'd like to be part of the programme

to share your views, do email [email protected]

Let's get the latest weather update with Carol.

Thank you, Victoria, good morning. We have mixed fortunes. For many of

us it has been a cloudy start, for others it has not. We have had some

sunshine. These are pictures of the Highlands, beautiful skies, nice and

blue. As we come further south we have seen a lot of cloud, as we have

in the West. This week, the temperature is certainly going to be

getting that bit higher. It is going to warm up. Not everybody's cup of

tea, but it is for a lot of people. Into the afternoon we have had such

a cloudy start the day, we are looking at improving the rain across

the back across western Scotland is starting to fade. The brightest guys

will be in the north-east. Through the afternoon you will find it will

brighten up with highs of 24 today. Through eastern parts of England the

dry weather with some sunny spells. There is a lot of cloud around,

there will be breaks here and there. Wales looking at 24 in the sunshine.

South Wales and south-west England are going to hang onto all the cloud

and also the murky conditions with some drizzle and hell and coastal

fog. Through the evening and overnight again it is going to be a

cloudy run, lots of rain drizzle, it is going to be a humid one, too.

Temperatures not falling between 14 and 18, not lower than that.

Exceptionally mild night for this time of September. Tomorrow we start

off on a cloudy note, seeing some breaks, sunny spells, breezy in the

far north of Scotland, temperatures again 22 in Aberdeen, 22 in Cardiff,

and 25, possibly 26 around the London area. As we head into the

middle of the week, well, dry air is being pumped up from the near

continent. That is having an impact on the temperatures in the south of

England in particular. Some are in the south, we could hit 28 Celsius.

That doesn't mean we are looking at wall-to-wall blue skies. We start

off on Wednesday on a fairly cloudy note. Rain skirting past western

Scotland, showers ahead of it, a breezy day as well. You can see the

level of cloud, cloud tending to break here and there are allowing

the temperatures to rise. The Southeast is. Likely to see 28,

despite the 26 you can see that -- the Southeast is likely to see 28.

Thursday is similar in that it is going to start off on a cloudy note.

We have an area of low pressure coming in from the West. That is

going to introduce rain and windy conditions, possibly gales with

exposure in the West. Still, temperature wise we are into the

mid-20s in terms of Celsius. Three amazing women who survived

the most atrocious domestic abuse are now working hard to help others

who find themselves in similarly He slapped me down onto the bed

and then continued to just stand over me and pummel my head

into the bed and I remember thinking I could feel myself going out

of consciousness and I remember thinking if I don't get up somehow

to the other end of the bed He kept me locked in the bedroom

and carried on torturing me I think there were points

where I did actually I have a faith so I was praying one

minute to die because of the pain and then begging to stay alive

for the children. My kids thought it was normal to be

living in a household like that. And we have had the most incredible

reaction to the interviews with those three women, Mandy, Rachel and

Becky. If you want to watch the interview again, you can find it on

our programme page: National domestic abuse charity

Women's Aid say that government plans to cap housing benefit

could destroy the finances of refuges which take in women

and their children who've been victims of violence at the hands

of their partners. We will investigate that claim in

the next hour. One Tory MP says he's

considering reporting Keith Vaz to police over claims he paid two

male escorts for sex. The fact that Keith Vaz

is prevaricating over even resigning as chairman

of the Home Affairs Select Committee when he has brought Parliament

into such disrepute We'll also get reaction

from Labour MP simon Danzuck - who's experienced his own tabloid

sex scandal and says he feels Plus as Cold Feet returns to TV

tonight and Poldark last night, why do TV bosses love

rebooting old shows? Breaking news to bring you from Tel

Aviv in Israel. It has been reported by the Associated Press that is

really media are reporting that a building has collapsed in Tel Aviv,

and people may be trapped inside. It has been reported by Associated

Press, they are reporting that Israeli media are reporting a

building collapse in Tel Aviv. You can see live pictures at the moment.

A building has collapsed in Tel Aviv and reports are that people may be

trapped inside. Reports in the last few minutes from Israel. Those are

the live pictures right now from Tel Aviv.

Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

The Prime Minister has questioned whether a points-based immigration

system, as suggested by many EU leave campaigners,

Theresa May said there was "no single silver bullet"

Her comments have prompted speculation that she might be

prepared to offer preferential treatment to EU citizens.

The Labour MP Chuka Ummuna says he supports Mrs May's stance.

Actually, in places like Australia, they actually wish to increase

the number of immigrants they have coming to their country.

Proportionally, Australia has three times more

According to their latest statistics, if you look

at the number of foreign-born citizens living there,

there are around 28%, more than double what we have here.

More than two months on from the referendum,

the government is about to reveal more about its plans

for negotiating the UK's future outside the European Union.

The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, is due to make a statement to MPs

and is expected to give some indication of what sort

of new relationship with Europe the government may try

And throughout the day there will be special reports across the BBC

looking at Brexit Britain two months after the vote.

And at half past four, the BBC News Channel and 5 Live

will host a live discussion programme from Nottingham -

which you can also watch via Facebook.

A Conservative MP has told this programme that Keith Vaz,

who's alleged to have paid male escorts, is bringing

parliament into disrepute and his position is untenable.

Andrew Bridgen says he's considering reporting Mr Vaz,

a Leicester MP for Labour, to the police.

Mr Vaz has indicated he'll confirm tomorrow whether he'll

step aside as chairman of the Commons Home Affairs

Committee, after the allegations were published in the Sunday Mirror.

The 59-year-old, who's married with two children, has apologised

for the 'hurt and distress' he's caused them.

Victoria will be speaking to Simon Jang joke, who has his own

experience of a tabloid scandal, after this report. -- Simon Danczuk.

Farmers, lorry drivers and traders in Calais are starting to blockade

They are protesting over the migrant camp known as the Jungle

Around 9,000 people are living there.

The mayor of Calais is joining the demonstrations.

The protest is likely to cause major disruption.

Giant pandas are officially no longer an endangered species.

After decades of work by conservationists,

they have now been reduced to the lower category

The increase in numbers is being put down to successful breeding

programmes and the measures taken to protect bamboo forests.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

So many of you getting in touch about our interview with Mandy,

Rachel and Becky about the domestic violence they expereinced.

Becky says, absolutely fantastic women. They are very, very strong

ladies. Kathleen Jones in Shropshire says: I was 61 when I walked away

from my marriage with nothing. A refuge took me on. I still struggle

with post-traumatic stress disorder and it took me five years to settle

down. At 68, I now live a peaceful life and I have built a new home for

myself. This from somebody who does not leave their name: I was a

domestic abuse outreach worker and these women on your programme today

are amazing, as are all women who have experienced domestic violence.

I have retired because of reductions to the funding to the service I was

providing meant it's changed to a third rate service overnight due to

lack of funding. This should not be happening but it is. The government

is saying this is important and they are putting in funding for it

except. But the reality is that it does not back this up. -- funding

for it, etc. I have seen politicians being planned by the perpetrators. I

saw social services being conned by manipulative perpetrators. I thought

a lot was wrong with the system during my eight years working in the

field. I admire the women on your programme for what they're doing.

The whole system does need a shake-up.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

Good morning. A new manager and a new era but there seems to be the

same old frustrations for England. Sam Allardyce became the ninth

England manager in a row to win his first match in charge but he had to

wait until the 95th minute to beat Slovakia 1-0 thanks to this goal

from Adam Lallana, his first for his country. It came at the end of a

sluggish performance in the World Cup qualifier. Lots of possession,

very few chances. Might ring too many bells from Euro 2016 and big

Sam is aware of the extra scrutiny he is under. Everyone is looking at

you, and they want you to show us the way forward, to be successful.

So it is that much bigger when the nation is watching you. Scotland are

top of a fledgling Group F above England after their 5-1 win at

Malta. Robert Snodgrass clinched a hat-trick with this goal, helping

Scotland pull away from their opponents who ended the match with

only nine men. While Northern Ireland's opening qualifier finished

goalless in the Czech Republic in what was their first game since the

last 16 epidurals. Michael O'Neill says he is happy with a point

against one of the tougher teams in their group. Kyle Edmund's run to

the fourth round of the US Open was ended dramatically by world number

one, Novak Djokavic. The Briton lost in straight sets against the

defending champion who had received two walkovers getting this far. And

despite needing brief attention on his troublesome arm, he looked back

to his best as he won 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 to set up a quarterfinal against

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. I'm just enjoying the experience. It is

beastly a tough match. I was happy to have got something going during

the match and I started to impose myself better. That was good. But

yes, I have a lot of work to do from it.

That match didn't start until 10pm local time

Rafael Nadal knocked out of the tournament

The 24th seed came back from a break down in the final set

to win it on the tie break with his fourth match point.

It's the first time in 12 years that the two time winner

in New York Nadal has failed to reach a Grand Slam last 8.

The British number one beaten in straight sets by the unseeded

Later Andy Murray plays his fourth round match against Grigor Dimitrov.

England fell just short of a series whitewash against Pakistan,

losing the final one day international by

Set 303 to win, the tourists posted their highest

score of the series to take the 5th game.

Imad Wasim, born down the road in Swansea,

It's England's first white ball defeat all summer.

With just the T20 match between the two to come on Wednesday.

And Stuart Lancaster is back in club rugby.

England's former head coach has joined Irish side Leinster

as a member of their senior coaching team.

It's his first job since leaving the RFU after England's poor

This information on who says the Jeremy Corbyn is going to call for

all party members to be allowed to elect Labour MPs to the Shadow

Cabinet. Allies of Mr Corbyn have also floated the idea of allowing

the party conference to have a say over membership of the Shadow

Cabinet. The move comes ahead of debates tonight at the Parliamentary

Labour Party over who should determine membership.

As we heard just moments ago, the Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen

has told us here on Derbyshire that he may report the Labour

politician Keith Vaz to the police over claims he paid two male

Andrew Bridgen, the MP for North East Leicestershire, told us that he

is also writing to the Parliamentary Commissioner for standards over

Keith Vaz's alleged behaviour. We can speak now to the Labour MP

Simon Danzcuk, whose personal life has been the subject

of tabloid newspapers. He's currently suspended

from the Labour Party after admitting sending lewd texts

to a 17-year-old girl, although points out

he hasn't broken any laws. Thank you for talking to us. How do

you react to the allegations involving Keith Vaz? Well, I have

some sympathy with Keith. He is clearly been subject to a tabloid

sting. I think there are issues about his moral standing, no doubt,

and in terms of whether there is any hypocrisy there. But in terms of the

galaxies, I do not believe he has committed any crimes as I understand

it. I think we should be sympathetic, especially to his wife

and children, who will be going through hell because of the media

attention they are getting. But also we should have simply for Keith. He

has obviously been struggling with his sexuality for quite some time

and for it to come out in this way is probably not helpful to him.

Having been in the middle of similar sorts of situations yourself, what

do you think Mr Vaz will be experiencing right now? Give us some

insight to our audience. You feel like a rabbit in the headlights, no

matter how much media experience you have had in the run-up. I am sure he

will be struggling with that. He will be having conversations with

his family and trying to reassure them. There will be pressed

intrusion and interest in what he is doing and where he is doing and he

will find that very difficult. But he is a strong character and I am

sure he will cope with it and come through it. As a society, do you

think we judge politicians more harshly than we do people in other

walks of life? I think the wider public, beyond social media, which

tends to have a negative focus on all editions, the wider public are

sympathetic. They have a keen interest in our private lives, and a

curiosity about that. That is why tabloid newspapers print the stories

they do. And I do not think we should condemn newspapers for doing

that, that is the nature of the press. But I also think the public,

as well as having that curiosity, there needs to be -- they are less

condemnatory of politicians. They are curious but they do not want to

condemn them necessarily. You are currently suspended from the

Labour Party for sending text messages to a 17-year-old. You were

recently in the newspapers for other areas of your private life as well.

How much do you take responsibility for these kind of things are merging

into the public domain? There is no doubt about it, I'm not blaming the

press. I does that that the tabloids do their work and focus on the

private lives of politicians and celebrities and all the rest of it,

that is the nature of the media and I do not condemn them for that at

all. I take full responsibility for what I do in my private life in

relation to some of the allegations that you have mentioned, I have

already apologised. I'm sure that Keith is regretful. Of what has

happened on the way that it has come out. It will be very difficult for

him at this time. Finally, it should Keith Vaz stand down? A Conservative

MP is demanding this. Andrew has got this completely wrong. There is no

reason for Keith to stand down as a member of Parliament. It is

inappropriate for him to call for this. Keith is a good

parliamentarian, he is very well regarded, that is why he gets so

much support. He is a very good member of Parliament for the

constituency that he represents. He should carry on being an MP. With

regard to chairing the Home Affairs Select Committee, I understand he

will discuss that with the members of the committee. It is an elected

position, you have to bear in mind, he is there by favour of

parliamentarians and he will consider his position. I understand

that there are issues around a relative of what has been going on

and issues of hypocrisy. Meanwhile, I think we should have sympathy for

the situation in which he and his family find themselves. Thank you.

Travellers to and from France are facing severe disruption because of

protesters. They feel they are suffering because of the so-called

Jungle migrant camps. Thousands of people in the French

town of Calais are taking part in a demonstration demanding

the closure of the migrant camp, Lorries and farm vehicles

blocking main roads, and local people and business owners

are forming a human chain Dubbed Operation Snail,

some truckers say they'll keep up their barricades

until they receive assurances that the northern section

of The Jungle will be torn down. The camp itself is violent

and lawless - 10,000 people One protesting farmers said that the

camp must go. They cannot get to England, so why are they allowed to

stay here? Richard Galpin is in Calais. I can't see the blockade.

Where is the human chain, Richard? Well, what you are seeing actually

in effect is the blockade. Behind me, this is the motorway, the

carriageway which actually leads into Calais from Dunkirk. It is

obviously a very, very important road. Normally it would be blocked

with traffic, tourists and obviously lorries going towards the port to

come to Britain. Now as you can see it is completely empty because of

the blockade. We have had the go slow off the big, big long convoy of

lorries and tractors going past here with their emergency lights

flashing. They are the ones who aren't forcing the blockade,

grinding their way very, very slowly towards Calais. Actually from the

other side, from the South, it is another motorcade of vehicles coming

towards Calais on this same motorway. From both directions, the

motorway is being close on the bound carriageway. You can imagine just

how much disruption that is causing. As I say, this would normally be a

very busy route indeed. At the same time, another protest is taking

place on foot, with this human chain trying to make their way towards the

port itself. We understand the police have stopped them from coming

on to this motorway. But they are trying to link up so that they can

create effectively a blockade at the port itself. In in a way, it is a

bizarre scenario that the people of Calais blockading their own town. We

will see what effect it has. Thank you, Richard.

The Prime Minister Theresa May has questioned the effectiveness

of a points-based immigration system after Britain leaves the EU.

Our political guru Norman Smith is following reaction at Westminster.

Remind us, Norman, what she is questioning? Well, she is basically

the torpedo in the big idea of the Brexit team, the control

immigration. There idea was to have an Australian points-based

immigration system. How does this work? I suppose bluntly the more

points you get the more chance you have of getting in, and you get

points for things like skills. So if you are a brain surgeon or if you

are a whiz kid high-tech entrepreneur, you get loads of

points and you have got a very good chance of getting in. If on the

other hand you are an estate agent, or even worse, a journalist, you get

almost no points and have pretty much zero chance of getting in. The

Brexit camp thought this was the way to reduce immigration into the UK.

But what has Mrs Medan? Pretty much chucked it in the bin, she is not

interested. Not surprisingly, alarm bells ring amongst some of the

Brexiting is. I mean, everyone will remember this was a massive issue

during the referendum campaign. I mean, Brexit, the flip side was

immigration. And it leaves unanswered, how is Mrs May going to

reduce the number of people coming into the UK? And you sense she is

beginning to struggle with this, in part because of her background as

Home Secretary. She knows how difficult it is to get migration

down. She failed to get migration down. She has said there is no

silver bullet to deal with it. The trouble is, the leading Brexiteers

made this point -based system absolutely central to their whole

case for leaving the EU. Just have a listen to a couple of them. What we

think should happen is an Australian style points-based system. So we get

the people we need for the NHS and indeed all our other businesses and

services. The only you can do that is the Vote Leave and take back

control. Put in place a proper points system where we get people

coming to this country who have trades and skills to bring, who

haven't got criminal records and who will bring their own health

insurance. In this country there is overwhelming support for that

policy. So the question is, why has Theresa May poured a big splosh of

cold water over there idea of this points-based system? I guess number

one is it is seen as bureaucratic. You have to jot up all the different

points people can get, not just in terms of their skills, but also in

terms of their house, in terms of their educational background,

whether they have any criminal records. There is also the view that

it ignores the views of bosses. It is by large shaped by Government.

Who decides who should come in, not employers, they are the ones who

have the final say, and the biggest problem of all is more migrants.

When you look at the Australian system, actually it hasn't led to a

reduction in the number of migrants coming into the UK, in Australia,

per head of population, net migration there is actually much,

much higher than in the UK. From the point of view of Mrs May, it doesn't

work. For that reason, she has sidelined their big idea. That

leaves two problems. One, what is her alternative? And two, how on

earth does she reassure those accident years that she is not going

soft on curbing immigration. -- those wrecks it heres. Thank you,

Norman. This Wednesday, in London, we're

holding a big audience programme You are very welcome

to join us, to take part - whether you're a junior doctor,

you work in the NHS, you've been treated in hospital

or are going to be affected by the 5-day strikes; if you'd

like to be part of the programme to share your views -

do email [email protected] This morning, the General Medical

Council are warning that the scale of the strike action cannot be

dusted five. -- cannot be justified. Professor Terence Stephenson

is Chair of the General You regulate and monitor junior

doctors. What are you saying to them? The GMC has no role in the

dispute between doctors and their employers, but we're existing

project the public and patience and we issued guidance all the time --

to protect the public. We feel this degree of escalation at this short

notice would take out maybe 50,000 skilled and talented doctors out of

the workforce, this is likely to result in harm to patients. What

sort of harm? So in the past strikes, as a consultant I covered

two of the previous strikes... Covered as in you stood in junior

doctors? Yes, and the whole sector worked hard to mitigate it and avoid

the risk of people dying, tragically unavoidably. But there is more harm

than just there. If you have a week a month with cancelled operations

where people aren't paying waiting for surgery, if you have cancelled

scans and slopes where people might be waiting for a diagnosis that

could be cancer, those people are being harmed. They may not die

during the five days, but the cumulative effect of the escalation

we think will harm patients. If you can link junior doctors striking the

harm to patients, what will you do to those junior doctors? Well, we

operate under the 1983 medical act, an act of

Parliament that directs what we do. That was never designed for mass

industrial action involving tens of thousands of doctors. It is designed

so that we can take action where one doctor does something wrong with one

patient. But having said that. If an individual doctor were to be

reported to us and harm had occurred through what they did to an

individual patient, we are obliged by that act of Parliament to look

into that. I cannot judge, but we would be obliged to take that

seriously. If the patient complained because their operation had been

delayed or cancelled, and that led to them continuing in pain, you

would take that up and investigate that particular junior doctor? We

can't second-guess every situation, but you can see there will be a

problem identifying which single doctor. Let me give you perhaps

obvious dramatic example. If a doctor was on strike and was asked

to come back and desist because somebody had got ill and the service

no could longer cope -- and assist. And that Doctor declined and that

was reported to us, we would be obliged to investigate that because

there would be a clearly to an individually registered doctor and

an individual event. Thank you very much for talking to us. Professor

Terence Stephenson from the GMC, head of the GMC.

The national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid say that Government

plans to cap housing benefit could destroy the finances

of refuges for victims of domestic abuse.

It could lead to the closure of almost two thirds of refuges for

victims of domestic abuse. We will speak to their boss in the next half

an hour. There are currently 73 MEPs that

who will lose their seats As part of the BBC's

Brexit Britain Day, we followed two MEPs to find out how life has

changed since the Brexit vote. latest news headlines with Joanne.

The Prime Minister has questioned whether a points-based immigration

system as suggested by many EU leave campaigners would see the UK.

Theresa May has said there was no single silver bullet for dealing

with migration. Downing Street has indicated that the Government would

rather retain control over the numbers than handed over to a strict

criteria -based system. But her comments have prompted regulation

that she might be prepared to offer preferential treatment to EU

citizens. More than two months on from the referendum, the Government

is about to reveal more about its plans for renegotiating the UK's

future outside the EU. The Brexiter secretary David Davis is due to make

a statement to MPs, and is expected to give some indication as to what

sort of new relationship with Europe the Government may try to establish.

A Conservative MP has told this programme at Keith Vaz, who is

alleged to have paid male escorts, is bringing parliament into

disrepute and his position is untenable. The Conservative MP says

he is considering reporting Mr Vaz, the less than people Labour, to the

police. Mr Vaz has indicated that will confirm tomorrow whether he

will step aside as chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee after

the allegations were published in the Sunday Mirror. The 59-year-old,

who is married with two children, has apologised for the hurt and

distress he has caused them. Figures published in the past half hour said

that Britain's services industry balanced back strongly after a sharp

contraction following the Brexit vote. The purchasing managers index

for the services sector has seen its biggest increase in 20 years. The

sector accounts for nearly 80% of the UK economy. The survey echoes

the upbeat tone of numbers released last week on the manufacturing and

construction sectors in August. A building collapsed in Israel's

commercial capital Tel Aviv has left at least six people winded and the

number of others missing. Incident occurred at the construction site in

north-eastern Tel Aviv. It is believed that a crane fell down

causing the building to collapse. Nine people have taken to hospital.

The Israeli military said it has dispatched search and rescue footage

to the scene. Footage shared an social media has shown a blast on

the construction site. Do join us for BBC newsroom live at 11am. The

using. Here is Hugh with the sport. Sam Allardyce's first match in

charge is one with the last kick of the game. England have Adam Lallana

to thank. His 95th minute goal, and his first for the country, giving a

1-0 lead against Slovakia in the World Cup qualifier. Still plenty of

questions about the performance. Less so than Scotland, they are top

of the group that they share with England after their 5-1 win in

Malta. Roberts Snodgrass scoring a hat-trick. Northern Ireland drew

their opening qualifier with the Czech Republic 0-0. Kyle Evans's run

has been ended by the world number one. Novak Djokovic looked back to

his best and won in straight sets in New York. His quarterfinal will be

against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Earlier on in the evening, Rafa Nadal was

knocked out. Johanna Konta is also out. The British number one was

beaten in straight sets by the unseeded Latvian who is having a

wonderful tournament at Flushing Meadows. Andy Murray by the way is

the only Brit left. He plays Dimitrov at midnight. More on that

little bit later on. And has admitted a 15-year-old

schoolgirl, Page Doherty, who disappeared from Clydebank in West

Dunbartonshire on March 19. Her body was found in bushes two days later.

A 32-year-old called John Latham has pleaded guilty to her murder during

an appearance at the High Court in Glasgow. Those people on the edge of

their seats wondering how the UK will negotiate its way out of the EU

will get an idea this afternoon when Davis Davis outlines his plans to

MPs. -- David Davis. One thing for sure, when it does happen, our MEPs

will lose their seats and jobs. There are currently 73 MEPs

representing constituencies in the UK and Northern Ireland and as part

of our Brexit Britain day, we followed two of them to find out how

life has changed since the referendum.

Since the mid 90s, I had been trying, in my little bit, to do

something about EU membership. And suddenly we have succeeded. The

British people agreed with me, by and large. I was thrilled. It took

me a couple of days to really recover from it. I was totally

stunned and shocked, thinking, really?! I kept thinking it was a

bad dream and we would wake up from it.

I didn't tell very many people I had joined Ukip. Most of them had never

heard of it anyway. It really wasn't until I stood in the 2001 general

election that it became a problem to some of my family. Take votes of the

Conservatives, that is what they always said, that was the war cry.

And although they would have agreed with me about the problems of the

European Union, Ukip should not stand in general elections because

the Conservatives would one day sorted out. I remember the night

when I first won, that feeling of elation and also really being able

to do something. It's a great disappointment to me

that the EU is bringing in this legislation that's

going to make trading in futures On the other hand, there were MEPs

from Britain who were on the Remain I mean, look what's

happened to them. They thought, in some cases,

they had jobs for life. The answer I was getting was Labour,

labour and out. In Norfolk, we are front line county for immigration.

Large numbers of people arrived here speaking different front line

witches and it made getting into schools difficult. There is a

general unease about where is it all going to stop.

England has always been seen as being a Eurosceptic area. We have a

strong Ukip presence in this part of the world. I decided to attend the

count at transferred. -- Chelmsford. When I learned that we had won, I

was elated. I have been worried about the EU for 20 years, and its

impact on our lives. I thought a little bit I was doing would never

get us very far and suddenly it had done. We were there. I thought we

would just edge through. But it was quite clear as the night was going

along, when you got all the results in, even looking at the results that

were being counted, it was extremely worrying. It was really pretty

emotional. Lots of my family and friends calling up, I got a lot of

text messages. They are just in a period of disbelief that this has

been the result. And I think many people, including myself, I was

completely and utterly stunned. The Don is breaking on an independent

United Kingdom. -- the dawn. I can make interventions on three. I do

not walk around this place scowling. I will not do that. As regards

missing it, I will not miss the fact that this committee is dictating how

we farm in the United Kingdom, I will not miss that. It is not true.

When I got back to Brussels, there were people from other countries in

Eurosceptic groups who could not wait to come up to me and shake my

hand and say, well done, you have done it and now maybe we will do it.

It is of great disappointment to me that the EU is bringing in this

legislation that will make trading in futures commodity is more

difficult. On the other hand, there were MEPs from Britain on the

remaining side who gave me very frosty looks. I do not blame them, I

do not blame them. Look at what has happened to them, in some cases they

thought they had jobs for life. The first day back was really pretty

horrible. Because it was almost like you were going through a

bereavement. People were coming up and giving the big hugs, and I had

colleagues who were crying and saying, I cannot believe it, that

you are going to be leaving. With universities, the major concern is

that some of them are being excluded from projects already. There is

anecdotal evidence... I think that since the vote, the British MEPs

have been marginalised. I know that there were efforts to take me off

one of the big reports that I am negotiating on.

Thank you, Chair. Colleagues, we will be voting on the budget for

2017. We have a number of committee chairs on key committees that matter

to us around safety, security, and on migration and single markets. And

I know that there were moves to try and say, OK, British MEPs cannot

have that, but we have been able to fight that off in the interim. Until

we leave, I want to be an active member of the Parliament.

I don't know about you but I think that if you were to go anywhere in

the Eastern region, and say to somebody in the street, who are your

MEPs, they would not now. Would you think that in the West Midlands?

Yes, I think that if you picked up somebody at random and you ask them

and you could do the same thing about the MP or the Prime Minister

that they might not know, I think we will miss our MEPs. I do not think

individuals will be missed but I think that not being around the

table to influence things, in years to come people will see the

difference. But what can we do that the MP could not? Well, we have a

network year. We are working with MEPs everyday from other countries,

so I am able to go up to that MEP from Italy or Spain or wherever and

say, I have a problem, can you direct me to the right organisation

two and they do. Actually, I am able to resolve these cases. I managed to

get a woman out of prison in Cyprus, and I went around all the Greek MEPs

personally, to their offices in Cyprus, and got no help at all. That

may be where you stand in terms of your political party. You have not

really created a lot of good will. Well, we got out of prison but I

think MP probably did the bulk of the work.

I see my future as finishing off the job, initially. There were four

phasers to it, getting the referendum, winning the referendum

and voting in Article 50. We have done two of those and that has taken

23 years. British people did vote to leave the European Union and they

must execute our wishes. My role is now to work towards getting the best

deal. And we are not going to get the best deal if we are rude and

aggressive to our partners. We are going to get the best deal if we

work with them and at least try to understand that, OK, we have not

helped their situation but we would still like to remain friends and

work with them. And BBC News will be reporting on Brexit Britain

throughout the day with reports on BBC and online. Thank you, thank you

to all of you who got in touch to either share your own experience of

domestic abuse today or to simply thank the three women, Rachel, Mandy

and Becky, who were on the programme earlier and survived of the most

horrendous domestic abuse, sometimes over years. They have now come

together, the three of them, to help others who find themselves in

similarly dangerous situations. A couple of messages here. Pamela

says: I have been watching your programme today and it has reduced

me to tears. I was abused mentally and physically in my first marriage.

I put up with it for 13 years and left my home with nothing. In those

days, women had no rights. I was told I would lose my children and I

could not get rehoused. Your programme has brought it back and I

realise that I still carry the scars but thank you for highlighting this

problem. This viewer does not want to use his or her name. My mother

walked away from a long marriage after 20 years of abuse. Domestic

abuse is real and painful for the children. Even though I am in my

40s, I had to support my mother through terrible experiences. There

is little support and that needs to change. She lost everything but she

is now free from an incredibly controlling husband. Another

anonymous one, four police cars came to get me and my children out of the

house when my partner snapped and was wielding a knife. We had no

money, not a penny. The train conductor let us get on the train

for free. We arrived at my sister's house and we ask for help. We got

nothing and it was weeks before they would give us a penny. The does not

seem to be much help any more and no safety net. They took it all away.

Let's play a short extract of what Mandy, brittle and Becky told us

earlier in the programme. -- Rachel and Becky.

He slapped me down on to the bed and then continued to just stand

over me and pummel my head into the bed and I could feel myself

going out of consciousness and I remember thinking if I don't

get up somehow to the other end of the bed, he's going to kill me.

He kept me locked in the bedroom and carried on torturing me

I think there were points where I did actually

I have a faith so I was praying one minute to die because of the pain

and then begging to stay alive for the children.

My kids thought it was normal to be living in a household like that.

You'll be able to watch and share that full interview

again via our programme page - bbc.co.uk/victoria.

There's a warning today that two-thirds of women's refuges

in England are facing closure due to a change in the way

The national domestic abuse charity Women's Aid say that Government

plans to cap housing benefit to sheltered housing at the same

levels paid to private landlords could destroy

the finances of the refuges, which take in women

and their children who've been victims of violence at the hands

The housing benefit cap is part of a ?12 billion package of cuts

We can talk now to Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women's Aid.

Sue Cox runs a Women's Refuge facing closure in Wiltshire.

And Dawn Morville has experienced domestic abuse and has

stayed in several refuges across the country.

They were literally a lifeline for me and my children. I wouldn't be

here today if it wasn't for a refuge, and I wouldn't have my

Jordan with me. The final act from my ex-husband almost took my life --

my children with me. And if I hadn't had a refuge to go to, I wouldn't be

here. It is down to the refuges that are there that help people like me,