23/11/2016

:00:08. > :00:19.On the programme today - more support for struggling

:00:20. > :00:21.families, funds to build affordable homes, a rise in the minimum

:00:22. > :00:24.wage for people over 25, and reforms to Universal Credit

:00:25. > :00:26.are all expected to be announced when the chancellor

:00:27. > :00:33.I'm outside the Treasury where Philip Hammond is seeking to

:00:34. > :00:37.fend-off Theresa May as she seeks to flash the cash for struggling

:00:38. > :00:39.families. He is warning of a possible Brexit black hole and

:00:40. > :00:42.ballooning borrowing. Also on the programme -

:00:43. > :00:44.in an exclusive interview on this programme the husband of teacher

:00:45. > :00:47.Ann Maguire who was murdered by a pupil in Leeds tells us

:00:48. > :00:51.he thinks not enough lessons have And other teachers lives

:00:52. > :00:54.could still be at risk. And following our exclusive

:00:55. > :00:58.interview with former footballer Andy Woodward who revealed he'd been

:00:59. > :01:01.abused for years and raped hundreds of times by a former youth coach,

:01:02. > :01:04.two other players have waived their right to anonymity

:01:05. > :01:19.to detail the abuse It started from touching and then

:01:20. > :01:25.developed more and more with the sexual abuse and the threats of

:01:26. > :01:27.violence towards your family really if you were to breathe a word to

:01:28. > :01:37.anybody. Lots of coverage today -

:01:38. > :01:49.as you'd expect on the Chancellor's But also we'll be

:01:50. > :01:56.looking at the alt-right and the influence they

:01:57. > :01:58.have on Donald Trump - he's now distanced himself

:01:59. > :02:00.from some elements. As always do get in touch

:02:01. > :02:03.on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

:02:04. > :02:05.use the hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged

:02:06. > :02:08.at the standard network rate. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

:02:09. > :02:11.is expected to announce plans to build more affordable homes,

:02:12. > :02:14.increase the National Living Wage and ban letting agent fees

:02:15. > :02:16.in England, when he makes his first The Chancellor will also unveil

:02:17. > :02:20.forecasts which are expected to show Mr Hammond has warned

:02:21. > :02:23.of "turbulence" and "an unprecedented level of uncertainty"

:02:24. > :02:26.as the UK leaves the EU. Our Political Correspondent

:02:27. > :02:31.Eleanor Garnier reports. It is his first Autumn

:02:32. > :02:33.Statement as Chancellor. Philip Hammond's moment to set out

:02:34. > :02:35.the Government's tax His challenge, to help cash-strapped

:02:36. > :02:38.households and at the same time tackle what he thinks

:02:39. > :02:41.is a troubled economic outlook. The Chancellor is going to have

:02:42. > :02:43.to respond to two things. One is a huge amount of uncertainty

:02:44. > :02:47.about the direction of the economy. He is going to have to make

:02:48. > :02:49.decisions not really knowing But one thing we can be sure

:02:50. > :02:55.of is that the forecast for the economy will have got quite

:02:56. > :02:58.a lot worse since the Budget and therefore, he is going to be

:02:59. > :03:01.borrowing more than George So what do we know will

:03:02. > :03:13.definitely come up? Well, the new rate for the National

:03:14. > :03:16.Living Wage will be ?7.50 That is an increase

:03:17. > :03:19.of full-time staff of the 25. There is new investment for housing

:03:20. > :03:22.in England and Wales, ?1.4 billion by 2020 to build

:03:23. > :03:24.an additional 40,000 And changes to Universal Credit

:03:25. > :03:32.will mean millions of people will be able to keep a little more

:03:33. > :03:34.of their benefits as They are all policies designed

:03:35. > :03:39.to meet the Prime Minister's promise to support families

:03:40. > :03:42.who are just about managing. The Chancellor has admitted the UK's

:03:43. > :03:46.debt is eye wateringly the large The Chancellor has admitted the UK's

:03:47. > :03:49.debt is eye wateringly large and with Brexit on the horizon

:03:50. > :03:52.he is planning for an economy he says needs to be watertight

:03:53. > :03:57.to cope with sharp challenges ahead. Our Political Guru Norman Smith

:03:58. > :04:09.is in Downing Street. Has there been a tussle between

:04:10. > :04:13.Number Ten and number 11? This is the story of a showdown between the

:04:14. > :04:17.guy in there and the woman in there because the guy in there, Philip

:04:18. > :04:22.Hammond, is looking at the books and is saying, "Oh boy, there is no

:04:23. > :04:27.money. ." The projections are that borrowing could be more than ?1

:04:28. > :04:32.money billion more by 2020 to reach a record level, the deficit drags on

:04:33. > :04:36.into the 2020s and growth will be downgraded so he is saying to

:04:37. > :04:41.Theresa May, hang on, hang on. There is no cash. She is saying "Wait a

:04:42. > :04:45.moment, I promised to help people who are struggling, those who are

:04:46. > :04:49.just getting by, you have got to do something, we have to deliver."

:04:50. > :04:55.That's why there will be help for easing some of the benefit pain, a

:04:56. > :05:00.rise to in the national Living Wage and extra support to help people get

:05:01. > :05:03.into housing, but you sense it's going to be cautious. It's going to

:05:04. > :05:08.be careful. It's going to be constrained. There will be little

:05:09. > :05:15.bits and pieces for those who are just managing, but it is pall going

:05:16. > :05:17.to be a little bit incy bitsy. There won't be massive amounts of money to

:05:18. > :05:19.throw around. Annita is in the BBC

:05:20. > :05:21.Newsroom with a summary Donald Trump has condemned

:05:22. > :05:28.the fringe "alt-right" group that celebrated his election win

:05:29. > :05:30.with Nazi salutes. Mr Trump said he does not

:05:31. > :05:34.want to "energize" the group, which includes neo-Nazis,

:05:35. > :05:37.white supremacists and anti-Semites. Alt-right supporters were filmed

:05:38. > :05:40.on Saturday in Washington DC cheering as a speaker

:05:41. > :05:45.shouted "Hail Trump." The chairman of a committee looking

:05:46. > :05:50.into the collapse of BHS has asked The chairman of Crewe

:05:51. > :05:51.Alexandra football club - has confirmed that it's looking

:05:52. > :05:54.into historic allegations of abuse - It follows the decision

:05:55. > :05:59.by the former Crewe Alexandra player, Andy Woodward,

:06:00. > :06:01.to speak on this programme out about the abuse he suffered

:06:02. > :06:04.at the hands of Barry Bennell, A second man has come

:06:05. > :06:07.forward to say he too had The Crewe chairman, John Bowler,

:06:08. > :06:11.told the BBC's Sports Editor, Dan Roan, that his thoughts

:06:12. > :06:16.were with the victims. We are understandably

:06:17. > :06:22.distressed by the Looking back is there

:06:23. > :06:27.anything you could have When we've done our enquiries

:06:28. > :06:34.and have looked into the detail of various

:06:35. > :06:40.accusations and we have considered them all, then I

:06:41. > :06:44.will be in a position to answer The chairman of a committee looking

:06:45. > :06:52.into the collapse of BHS has asked the pensions regulator

:06:53. > :06:53.whether assets can be seized from its former

:06:54. > :06:55.owner, Sir Philip Green. Labour MP Frank Field has asked

:06:56. > :06:58.whether the BHS pensions hole could be plugged by

:06:59. > :07:00.assets other than cash. Sir Philip's assets include

:07:01. > :07:04.a ?100 million super yacht. Pathology departments in NHS

:07:05. > :07:07.hospitals are struggling to cope with the rising number of cancer

:07:08. > :07:10.patients being sent for tests, Cancer Research UK says record

:07:11. > :07:13.levels of referrals aren't The Government says it's

:07:14. > :07:17.investing in services. Here's our health correspondent

:07:18. > :07:26.Dominic Hughes. Blood tests and biopsies analysed

:07:27. > :07:29.by pathologists are a vital tool in diagnosing cancer,

:07:30. > :07:31.and an early diagnosis is the key But now a major charity is warning

:07:32. > :07:35.that services are struggling to cope We think that the pathology services

:07:36. > :07:45.across the UK are at a tipping point, but wider cancer tests

:07:46. > :07:46.are really struggling, and we have seen that cancer waiting

:07:47. > :07:49.times are getting worse, so we really need action to be taken

:07:50. > :07:52.now to make sure that people get the right tests

:07:53. > :07:55.that they need on time. A growing and ageing population

:07:56. > :07:57.means of rising demand In 2014 there were more than 350,000

:07:58. > :08:04.new cases for cancer in the UK. Pathology labs have seen demand

:08:05. > :08:07.for tests increase by more than 4% on average and it is not just

:08:08. > :08:10.cancer that is affected. Up to 70% of health decisions

:08:11. > :08:12.in the NHS involves Pathology services at the moment

:08:13. > :08:21.are certainly at full stretch and there is very

:08:22. > :08:22.little capacity left. But I think the real problem is that

:08:23. > :08:26.with the number of people with cancer increasing as we go on,

:08:27. > :08:28.that the demand on pathology So it is vital that we act quickly

:08:29. > :08:34.to make sure that we have got pathologists in place to diagnose

:08:35. > :08:36.those cancers and make sure that patients get the early

:08:37. > :08:40.diagnosis that they need. Across the UK, the NHS is trying

:08:41. > :08:43.to improve the early detection Today's report warns that goal

:08:44. > :08:47.will be missed if pathologists find A police officer has been stabbed

:08:48. > :08:59.while on duty in East London. The man was in plain clothes

:09:00. > :09:02.when he was attacked He's in hospital with non-life

:09:03. > :09:05.threatening injuries. A man's been arrested on suspicion

:09:06. > :09:10.of attempted murder. A 72-year-old woman has been injured

:09:11. > :09:13.in a drive-by shooting in Liverpool. She was standing in the doorway

:09:14. > :09:16.of a house in the Netherley area when she was attacked

:09:17. > :09:19.by a gunman riding a motorbike. Merseyside Police say the woman

:09:20. > :09:21.is in a stable condition in hospital US President Barack Obama has

:09:22. > :09:32.awarded his last Presidential Medals of Freedom to a host of America's

:09:33. > :09:35.most famous faces. The medals are the highest civilian

:09:36. > :09:38.honour in the United States. Among the 21 recipients

:09:39. > :09:41.were Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Mr Obama made a special

:09:42. > :09:45.tribute to comedian Ellen DeGeneres for her influence

:09:46. > :09:51.on the gay rights movement. That's a summary of

:09:52. > :09:56.the latest BBC News. Let's get some sport

:09:57. > :10:00.from Leah Boleto. Mixed emotions for British sides

:10:01. > :10:12.in the Champions League last night. Yes, we know that Leicester City are

:10:13. > :10:17.through, but let's start with Spurs. They are out basically. Their dream

:10:18. > :10:24.is over. They needed a draw or a win against Monaco. It ended 1-1 in the

:10:25. > :10:28.first-half. It was in the second half where we got this flurry of

:10:29. > :10:31.goals where it got really exciting. Monaco really dominated the Spurs

:10:32. > :10:35.defence. There wasn't much pressure from them which a lot of fans were

:10:36. > :10:39.really upset. They were outclassed and the moment that Monaco were

:10:40. > :10:45.waiting for. This fantastic cross and then a header. You can't really

:10:46. > :10:51.stop that. It was fantastic. Spurs did try to get back level on this

:10:52. > :11:00.penalty with Harry Kane. But it lasted all of 39 seconds before they

:11:01. > :11:04.were back, Monaco were back on the score sheet and it finished 2-1.

:11:05. > :11:06.England rugby-union coach Eddie Jones has named his side

:11:07. > :11:08.to play Argentina at the weekend, and last week's man

:11:09. > :11:20.Yes, it is a shame. He was man of the match against Fiji and he scored

:11:21. > :11:24.two tries which is really unexpected for him to not play against

:11:25. > :11:28.Argentina. This is the second time that he has been dropped after a

:11:29. > :11:31.test appearance that. One that we will be keeping close eyes across.

:11:32. > :11:34.And, Scotland's women curlers are going well at the European

:11:35. > :11:47.Yes, they beat Germany 8-6 yesterday and they finished high enough in the

:11:48. > :11:51.group to qualify for next year's World Championships. Scotland are

:11:52. > :11:55.ution the yellow balls there. A great run for them and one we will

:11:56. > :11:57.be keeping a very, very close eye on. Cheers, thank you for now. Thank

:11:58. > :12:01.you. Two more footballers have

:12:02. > :12:04.waived their right to anonymity to reveal the abuse they suffered

:12:05. > :12:07.at the hands of a youth coach. The story has emerged

:12:08. > :12:09.following our exclusive interview with former Crewe Alexandra

:12:10. > :12:10.player Andy Woodward, who told us last week he'd been

:12:11. > :12:14.raped hundreds of times by his youth Andy spoke to us again yesterday

:12:15. > :12:18.and said he'd heard from six players who've since told him they too

:12:19. > :12:34.have experienced abuse. I have been inundated with from

:12:35. > :12:38.other players who told me, you know, so many stories that are

:12:39. > :12:44.heartbreaking and I have been so emotional over the last days, but I

:12:45. > :12:48.mean, they are so harrowing stories and they've reached out to me and

:12:49. > :12:53.thanked me so much for coming out originally, you know, it has given

:12:54. > :12:57.that faith. You have spoken to six, but as you say, other contact via

:12:58. > :13:02.Twitter. In total, how many people do you think have got in touch with

:13:03. > :13:08.you since your interview? I think there has been gosh, there is

:13:09. > :13:12.several people that have contacted me - I can't put a number on it

:13:13. > :13:16.really. They vary really in what they have said. Are they all

:13:17. > :13:22.footballers? Yes, they are ex-footballers, yes. Did they say to

:13:23. > :13:25.you that they found the courage to speak out because you had?

:13:26. > :13:29.Absolutely. That's what they have said. Because of what I have said

:13:30. > :13:34.has given them that courage and they belief and that strength to actually

:13:35. > :13:38.come out and say it. Cheshire Police now say they are investigating. Is

:13:39. > :13:42.this the tip of the iceberg, do you think? I've said it all along, it is

:13:43. > :13:46.the tip of the iceberg. However, some people, it is going to take a

:13:47. > :13:50.long time for them to come out or to speak, you know, there is no rush.

:13:51. > :13:54.The police have started their investigation and I don't want to

:13:55. > :14:00.put any pressure on anybody, you know, I came out with it a long view

:14:01. > :14:04.to other people to survive from this and I can't thank the public enough

:14:05. > :14:10.for what they've done, you know, it's brilliant. I can't thank them

:14:11. > :14:14.for their support they're giving me. Andy told us he was disappointed

:14:15. > :14:22.that Crewe hadn't spoken out about the abuse. Since then, the Crewe

:14:23. > :14:29.chairman since 1987 told Dan Roan that an inquiry is underway.

:14:30. > :14:44.Infuriated and very disappointed. , We are distressed. Looking back

:14:45. > :14:48.now, was there anything you could have done at the time to prevent

:14:49. > :14:53.this from happening? When we've done our inquiries and we've looked into

:14:54. > :14:56.the detail of the various accusations, and we've considered

:14:57. > :15:03.them all, then I'll be in a position to answer that kind of question. The

:15:04. > :15:05.message to Mr Woodward finally? I'm very sorry for the distress that he

:15:06. > :15:08.has been caused and wish him well. Steve Walters, who became

:15:09. > :15:09.Crewe's youngest-ever player at the age of 16,

:15:10. > :15:13.says he too was abused He told the Guardian,

:15:14. > :15:18."All these years I've had But I want closure, and I know this

:15:19. > :15:24.move will help me move on." The Daily Mirror devotes its first

:15:25. > :15:29.five pages to claims by the former Spurs and England star Paul Stewart

:15:30. > :15:33.that a different coach abused him every day for four years,

:15:34. > :15:39.until he was 15. He says his attacker got away

:15:40. > :15:41.with it by threatening to kill his relatives

:15:42. > :15:43.if he ever told anyone. He blames the abuse for drink

:15:44. > :15:46.and drug problems He asked if I wanted

:15:47. > :16:05.to drive the car. It started from touching and then

:16:06. > :16:10.developed more and more into sexual abuse and the threats of violence

:16:11. > :16:17.towards your family. If you were to breathe

:16:18. > :16:24.a word to anybody. He said he was going

:16:25. > :16:27.to kill your brothers? Of course all those years up

:16:28. > :16:43.were playing at the top level, Paul Gascoigne and these

:16:44. > :16:48.enormous household names, John Barnes, even as you were enjoying

:16:49. > :16:51.great success, you were dealing with it and having suicidal

:16:52. > :16:53.thoughts as a result? In football there are

:16:54. > :16:58.lots of highs and lows, which you deal with as part

:16:59. > :17:01.of the game, and I dealt with this It took me some years

:17:02. > :17:07.to speak to my family about I struggled and still struggle

:17:08. > :17:16.to this day with the I'm lucky that I have

:17:17. > :17:27.a strong family. Because I don't really know

:17:28. > :17:31.if I would have been The most difficult thing

:17:32. > :17:49.is the fact I was unable to deal with the emotions and I still

:17:50. > :17:51.struggle with that today. I don't feel it's

:17:52. > :18:00.fair on them but I'm They always say it's just Dad,

:18:01. > :18:06.but at least with this story they may be able to understand

:18:07. > :18:10.as well some of the repercussions of

:18:11. > :18:16.what happened and why I've been how I've been

:18:17. > :18:19.and how I am with them, I haven't spoken of this in-depth

:18:20. > :18:26.as much as I've spoken to Since Friday the emotions have been

:18:27. > :18:34.like a roller-coaster. I don't know, moving forward,

:18:35. > :18:43.whether it is going to be a help to me or not,

:18:44. > :18:46.but one thing for sure was that I knew I had to tell my story

:18:47. > :18:54.and the truth about what happened And hope it will either prevent

:18:55. > :19:05.anybody else trying to do this and also if it is just one person

:19:06. > :19:17.or six, seven or eight people come forward and it happened to them

:19:18. > :19:20.and it helps them, I believe it And it's worth pointing out that

:19:21. > :19:23.despite that message in the top left of the video,

:19:24. > :19:26.the Mirror did give us permission to use that interview,

:19:27. > :19:28.and Paul Stewart had waived his right to

:19:29. > :19:30.anonymity to speak to them. Later in the programme we'll hear

:19:31. > :19:33.from abuse charities about the impact players

:19:34. > :19:41.speaking out has had. Darren Lineker has tweeted, I wish

:19:42. > :19:44.Paul Stewart all the very best, extremely courageous in telling his

:19:45. > :19:47.appalling story. This morning, in an exclusive

:19:48. > :19:49.interview, the husband of a schoolteacher who was murdered

:19:50. > :19:52.by a pupil in her classroom in April 2014 says he thinks it's possible

:19:53. > :19:56.that lives could still be at risk in British schools until we know

:19:57. > :19:58.all the facts of the circumstances William Cornick was sentenced

:19:59. > :20:04.to spend a minimum 20 years in prison after pleading guilty

:20:05. > :20:07.to murdering his Spanish teacher Ann Maguire

:20:08. > :20:11.when he was 15 years old. It was revealed that he had

:20:12. > :20:14.expressed his hatred of his teacher and his desire to kill her and other

:20:15. > :20:18.teachers on social media and in person to other youngsters

:20:19. > :20:22.on several occasions in the five She was just always a teacher

:20:23. > :20:44.you could approach, even if you weren't with her,

:20:45. > :20:46.she always made herself To pay my respects to somebody

:20:47. > :20:54.who is truly amazing, she deserves every kind of respect

:20:55. > :20:59.anyone can give her. It wasn't like finding

:21:00. > :21:01.out a teacher had died, it was like finding out

:21:02. > :21:04.a relative had died. No amount of punishment can ever

:21:05. > :21:27.compensate for the loss of Ann's life, no amount of punishment can

:21:28. > :21:31.compensate the family for what we've lost in our beautiful, selfless,

:21:32. > :21:36.caring and compassionate sister, Speaking exclusively

:21:37. > :22:01.in his first in-depth interview, Ann Maguire's husband

:22:02. > :22:10.Don Maguire is here. Tell us a bit about your wife,

:22:11. > :22:22.and what she was like? She was the nicest person you could

:22:23. > :22:29.imagine, she was very special. She was very caring, cheerful person.

:22:30. > :22:45.She lightened the mood wherever she went. She was very much a people

:22:46. > :22:50.person. She spent her life sorting people's problems out and making

:22:51. > :22:58.them feel better. She had the power to change, to transform and, for

:22:59. > :23:05.some people, including myself, be life changing. What did you think of

:23:06. > :23:13.the review into her death, which concluded that nothing could have

:23:14. > :23:21.been done to prevent it? I think the fact that she was such a special

:23:22. > :23:33.person is part of the problem, in that it is so hard to understand.

:23:34. > :23:39.For this to happen to Ann at this school has always been of great

:23:40. > :23:45.puzzlement. The review was very disappointing. It is a massively

:23:46. > :23:59.missed opportunity to really learn lessons. The review did not talk to

:24:00. > :24:06.pupils who had spoken to William Cornick, and the reason why, it said

:24:07. > :24:09.it thought it was unnecessary, it would have been traumatic for the

:24:10. > :24:14.youngsters and would have been counter-productive. Do you

:24:15. > :24:20.understand that? Did you think they made the right decision? Terms like

:24:21. > :24:23.unnecessary and counter-productive, I think that statement is a little

:24:24. > :24:34.bit emotive and unfounded. We are speaking about a learning

:24:35. > :24:41.lessons review that has been based on the premise that no pupil was

:24:42. > :24:48.harmed physically or psychologically. I have to take it

:24:49. > :24:52.from that that trauma is not of a particular problem, and the idea

:24:53. > :24:58.that a group of people are all equally traumatised and maybe for

:24:59. > :25:06.some of them it would be beneficial to actually have the opportunity to

:25:07. > :25:11.discuss the details. Not just that pupils were aware of what he had

:25:12. > :25:18.posted on social media, but actually on the morning of him killing your

:25:19. > :25:30.wife he had shown those nights to other pupils. Yes.

:25:31. > :25:40.The review makes the point that William Cornick was not known to the

:25:41. > :25:47.police or two agencies or two people in authority. When they were doing

:25:48. > :25:54.the review into him. But really, this was a boy who had made threats

:25:55. > :26:03.continuously over months and maybe years, who carried a knife, who

:26:04. > :26:06.carried a weapon on a regular basis. The police and agencies and those in

:26:07. > :26:14.authority should have known about this boy.

:26:15. > :26:24.Back to the police, more importantly is that this school had a permanent

:26:25. > :26:33.police presence for five or six years. If William Cornick's friends

:26:34. > :26:40.or peers don't tell adults, he has got a knife, how can they know?

:26:41. > :26:54.A teacher's job is of knowing what is going on in their domain. They

:26:55. > :27:04.should know in the normal course of events. But he was doing it in a

:27:05. > :27:13.very continuously open way. It must have been part of the information

:27:14. > :27:18.out there. You are asking me, why didn't anybody here this? I don't

:27:19. > :27:24.know. Is that not the job of the review and the authorities to look

:27:25. > :27:28.into deeply and properly? You say it is a missed opportunity, the review.

:27:29. > :27:40.What do you want to see in the future? I have seen Leeds City

:27:41. > :27:44.Council, the leader and the Chief Executive, and expressed the view

:27:45. > :27:48.that in my opinion this was a hugely missed opportunity on a national

:27:49. > :27:56.level. This is the first case of his side, -- of its type, it is similar

:27:57. > :28:02.to some American cases. This was a disaffected youth with an agenda, it

:28:03. > :28:09.was premeditated and planned. We have a duty as a nation to find out

:28:10. > :28:13.as much as we possibly can, because it is only then that we know we have

:28:14. > :28:20.learned the lessons. I think it needs to be looked at from a

:28:21. > :28:23.national governmental point of view, and there should have been a full

:28:24. > :28:34.enquiry ordered into this incident in the first place. Until that

:28:35. > :28:41.happens, do you feel that teachers, perhaps pupils, their lives are at

:28:42. > :28:49.risk? Ann was not safe on that day in a school.

:28:50. > :28:59.So how one could say that schools are safe now, we have had the court

:29:00. > :29:08.proceedings, the judge's summing up, this learning lessons review, we

:29:09. > :29:15.have been to the coroner, and he has agreed to reopen it, but only on

:29:16. > :29:25.Monday a different coroner has reduced the scope and the areas of

:29:26. > :29:31.William Cornick of the inquest. -- the areas of inquiry. He has

:29:32. > :29:35.downgraded its likely. We are not going to look at the areas that hold

:29:36. > :29:42.most information and the possibility of most learning. The Department for

:29:43. > :29:46.Education say they can't make a decision about whether enquiries are

:29:47. > :29:51.necessary until the coroner has reached his or her seclusion. We met

:29:52. > :30:00.with Nicky Morgan last year. The former Education Secretary. It was

:30:01. > :30:08.the same point then. I did stress as best I could at the time that this

:30:09. > :30:11.was an inappropriate review. And there were certain worrying aspect

:30:12. > :30:17.about the organisation and the process being carried out. She

:30:18. > :30:21.ignored all of those. She was determined to wait for this. The

:30:22. > :30:31.fact that it is such a disappointing review and it is simply wasting

:30:32. > :30:36.another two years, and now, the coroner's inquest seems to have been

:30:37. > :30:43.downgraded slightly, we really do need somebody on this day to be

:30:44. > :30:50.brave and say, let's look at this properly. Let's not leave anything

:30:51. > :30:54.on checked -- on checked that we can learn from this. It should not have

:30:55. > :31:04.happened, and you have to try to guarantee it never happens again.

:31:05. > :31:09.After undercover policeman Mark Kennedy admitted he'd

:31:10. > :31:15.had sexual relationships with women while undercover -

:31:16. > :31:22.An inquiry was set-up to investigate the practise. There are claims it

:31:23. > :31:23.has been deliberately obstructed by the Metropolitan Police. We'll bring

:31:24. > :31:27.you the details. And two more players come forward

:31:28. > :31:30.following our exclusive interview with former footballer Andy Woodward

:31:31. > :31:32.about abuse he suffered Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:31:33. > :31:42.with a summary of today's news. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

:31:43. > :31:47.is expected to announce plans to build more affordable homes,

:31:48. > :31:50.increase the National Living Wage and ban letting agent fees

:31:51. > :31:52.in England, when he makes his first In his first major economic

:31:53. > :31:56.statement since the Brexit vote, Mr Hammond is expected to balance

:31:57. > :31:59.bleak news on growth and borrowing with announcements on housing

:32:00. > :32:01.investment and boosts Labour says the statement is likely

:32:02. > :32:10.to be "too little, too late" The chairman of Crewe Alexandra

:32:11. > :32:15.football club has confirmed that it's looking into historic

:32:16. > :32:17.allegations of abuse involving Former Crewe Alexandra player

:32:18. > :32:23.Andy Woodward told us last week in an exclusive interview that he'd

:32:24. > :32:26.been raped hundreds of times by his youth coach Barry Bennell,

:32:27. > :32:28.who was jailed in 1998. A second man has come forward to say

:32:29. > :32:39.he too had been abused by Bennell. The chairman of a committee looking

:32:40. > :32:42.into the collapse of BHS has asked the Pensions Regulator

:32:43. > :32:44.whether assets can be seized from its former

:32:45. > :32:46.owner, Sir Philip Green. Labour MP Frank Field has asked

:32:47. > :32:48.whether the BHS pensions hole could be plugged by assets

:32:49. > :32:51.other than cash. Sir Philip's assets include

:32:52. > :33:00.a ?100 million super yacht. Pathology departments in NHS

:33:01. > :33:03.hospitals are struggling to cope with rising requests for cancer

:33:04. > :33:05.tests, according a new report. Cancer Research UK says record

:33:06. > :33:07.levels of referrals aren't The Government says it's

:33:08. > :33:15.investing in services. A 72 year-old woman

:33:16. > :33:18.from Liverpool is being treated in hospital after being shot

:33:19. > :33:20.in the leg last night. She was attacked as she stood

:33:21. > :33:23.in the doorway of a house in the Netherley area by two men

:33:24. > :33:29.on a motorbike. Scotland's Transport Minister

:33:30. > :33:30.will make an emergency statement in Holyrood today,

:33:31. > :33:32.after mounting criticism Dutch firm, Abellio, took over

:33:33. > :33:38.the ScotRail franchise last year in a ten-year deal

:33:39. > :33:41.worth up to ?6 billion, but ministers say it needs

:33:42. > :33:43.to improve its punctuality and reliability or face

:33:44. > :33:51.losing the contract. That's a summary of

:33:52. > :33:53.the latest BBC News. Let's get some sport

:33:54. > :33:58.from Leah Boleto. Spurs wake up this morning

:33:59. > :34:10.knowing their run in They lost 2-1 to Monaco

:34:11. > :34:14.with all the goals coming in the first five minutes

:34:15. > :34:16.of the second half. Harry Kane's penalty wasn't enough

:34:17. > :34:18.but they can still secure thrid place and a spot

:34:19. > :34:21.in the Europa League with a draw Leicester City made history though

:34:22. > :34:25.last night making the knockout This opening goal from Okazaki

:34:26. > :34:30.setting them off for a win final Despite a man of the match

:34:31. > :34:39.performance and two tries against Fiji at the weekend,

:34:40. > :34:41.Semesa Rokoduguni has been left out of the England's squad to play

:34:42. > :34:45.Argentina on Saturday. And Scotland's women's curlers

:34:46. > :34:47.have qualified for next They won their six round robin

:34:48. > :34:51.matches yesterday at the European It was a bad day for the Scottish

:34:52. > :34:56.men though as they lost to both That's all from me for now.

:34:57. > :35:04.I'll be back just after 10am. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

:35:05. > :35:06.is expected to announce plans to build more affordable homes,

:35:07. > :35:10.increase the National Living Wage and ban letting agent fees

:35:11. > :35:13.in England when he makes his first Autumn Statement or mini

:35:14. > :35:14.Budget later today. Our political guru Norman Smith can

:35:15. > :35:25.tell us more. Thank you very much. What I think I

:35:26. > :35:30.can tell you, it is not going to be a thriller in Manila! It is not

:35:31. > :35:35.going to be a big bonanza giveaway. Why? Well, there ain't no cash, but

:35:36. > :35:39.Philip Hammond is a cautious sort of politician. He is referred to the at

:35:40. > :35:44.Westminster as box office Phil. A reference to the fact that he is not

:35:45. > :35:49.showbizy. So what we can expect from box office Phil? Well, I think we

:35:50. > :35:56.will get a benefits boost so he will ease the pain of cuts to universal

:35:57. > :36:00.credits. There be road relief. ?1 billion more cash to each the pinch

:36:01. > :36:07.points that make the daily commute a horror story and I think we might

:36:08. > :36:11.also get a bit of hi-tech help. ?2 billion more for go ahead companies

:36:12. > :36:16.in robotics and biotechnology, but it won't be a big rabbit out of the

:36:17. > :36:19.hat moment which is in contrast to most Autumn Statements and Budgets.

:36:20. > :36:29.Let's look at some of in recent years.

:36:30. > :36:34.We shall continue to widen the band. We will make our progress towards

:36:35. > :36:45.our objective, a 20 pence basic rate of tax for everyone.

:36:46. > :36:51.We're going to get borrowing to fall zero. Inflation below 2.5% and a 20%

:36:52. > :36:58.basic rate of income tax. This Budget puts us on a path to meet all

:36:59. > :37:06.those goals and I commend, Mr Chairman, this Budget to the House.

:37:07. > :37:12.The winter fuel payment, the universal payment, tax-free to all

:37:13. > :37:15.pensioner households will be this ?200, and the year after that and

:37:16. > :37:19.every single year of this Parliament. The new national Living

:37:20. > :37:25.Wage will be compulsory. Working people aged 25 and over will receive

:37:26. > :37:29.it. It will start next April at the rate of ?7.20. The Low Pay

:37:30. > :37:41.Commission will recommend future rises and achieve the Government's

:37:42. > :37:47.objective of reaching... Why is there going to be no pizzazz from

:37:48. > :37:53.Philip Hammond? Well, he is warning of perhaps ?100 billion more

:37:54. > :37:58.borrowing. His great fear, a big Brexit black hole. That might mean

:37:59. > :38:06.no end to austerity any time soon. Could drag on well into the 2020s.

:38:07. > :38:11.No tax giveaway. Nice cuts to income tax or VAT, that's off the agenda

:38:12. > :38:15.and no extra cash for the NHS at a time when we know many, many

:38:16. > :38:19.hospitals have been plunged into deficit. You think I'm being gloomy?

:38:20. > :38:22.Well, have a listen to Philip Hammond a few days ago.

:38:23. > :38:25.We have to maintain our credibility, we have an eye wateringly large

:38:26. > :38:30.debt, we still have a significant deficit in this country and we have

:38:31. > :38:36.to prepare the economy for the period that lies ahead, I

:38:37. > :38:39.want to make sure the economy is watertight, that we have enough

:38:40. > :38:42.headroom to deal with any unexpected challenges

:38:43. > :38:56.However, there will be some winners. The people who Theresa May has

:38:57. > :39:00.identified as just getting by. Those who are very often on Universal

:39:01. > :39:05.Credit because the signs are, Mr Hammond is going to ease some of the

:39:06. > :39:09.cuts that have been pencilled in by George Osborne which could mean

:39:10. > :39:15.there could be between ?250 and ?500 a year better off, but still that is

:39:16. > :39:21.fairly limited given the scale of cuts still to be imposed on those

:39:22. > :39:26.who receive universal credits. ?4 billion worth pencilled in by the

:39:27. > :39:30.last chancellor. Only around ?500 million being handed become bay this

:39:31. > :39:49.chancellor. Let's talk a bit more about those

:39:50. > :39:53.universal credit changes. Earlier we spoke to two Conservative

:39:54. > :39:58.MPs who've been vocal crisis of the Government over

:39:59. > :40:00.universal credit cuts - Iain Duncan Smith, a former work

:40:01. > :40:02.and pensions secretary who introduced the Universal Credit

:40:03. > :40:10.system and later resigned due to the Government's benefit cuts,

:40:11. > :40:20.and Conservative MP Heidi Allen. There is two elements. One is as you

:40:21. > :40:23.cross into work it has the work allowance which is like a tax

:40:24. > :40:27.allowance. Which means you retain a certain amount of your benefit,

:40:28. > :40:31.depending on whether you're disabled or whether you're a lone parent. At

:40:32. > :40:35.that point then it is tapered away as you go up the hours. So it keeps

:40:36. > :40:38.it simple. It allows you to adjust for individuals and the taper is the

:40:39. > :40:43.same for all of those benefits within it. Whereas the moment you

:40:44. > :40:50.can have withdrawal rates of 95 pence in the pound and 70 pence, at

:40:51. > :40:54.the moment it is 65 and the Government is talking about reducing

:40:55. > :40:58.it to 63 pence. Those two elements mean it makes it simpler, it is easy

:40:59. > :41:02.to understand and it is automatic in the sense that you don't have to

:41:03. > :41:04.keep reporting the changes in your salary, that's done automatically

:41:05. > :41:07.through the system and that should take some of the stress out of that

:41:08. > :41:10.process. We are expecting the new chancellor, Philip Hammond, to allow

:41:11. > :41:15.people who are on Universal Credit to be able to keep more of their

:41:16. > :41:20.benefits while in work. Effectively to reverse changes that Mr Osborne,

:41:21. > :41:27.the previous incumbent brought in, do you support that? I do. I have

:41:28. > :41:33.campaigned to put that money back into Universal Credit because the

:41:34. > :41:37.thing about Universal Credit is it actually saves the ex-chordor money.

:41:38. > :41:41.They end up being into the tax bracket earlier and they pay tax,

:41:42. > :41:45.but they are in a better position and so they are more stable in work

:41:46. > :41:48.and therefore, taking the money out is counter productive. So one of the

:41:49. > :41:52.reasons I resigned from the Government and I felt it was the

:41:53. > :41:55.wrong thing to do, so this is really a down payment. It is about a third

:41:56. > :42:01.of the money that was taken out, going back in. It is a start. It is

:42:02. > :42:04.not everything. I'll continue to campaign to complete that process of

:42:05. > :42:07.investing in Universal Credit because it has the dynamic and right

:42:08. > :42:12.effect on changing lives in the right way. Heidi, is this a watering

:42:13. > :42:15.down of the austerity drive from the Conservative Government? It is. I

:42:16. > :42:18.think it is a reflection of the life is at the minute. It has been

:42:19. > :42:22.bumpier and more difficult to get out of the economic crisis, perhaps

:42:23. > :42:25.than people realised. The way I've always looked at it because

:42:26. > :42:29.Universal Credit, it's the people that run the engine of this country,

:42:30. > :42:31.you know, it is the shopworkers, it is the teaching assistants and the

:42:32. > :42:35.people on modest incomes, you need to keep them in work. If they don't

:42:36. > :42:43.want to go into work, the whole economy stops turning. For me, it is

:42:44. > :42:46.a slight watering down. It is a welcome one as Iain says it is the

:42:47. > :42:51.beginning. But it doesn't reverse all the cuts. See how the economy

:42:52. > :42:54.plays out and whether we need to look at that again. There is a

:42:55. > :42:59.deficit, it is around ?63 billion. Why is it the right time to water

:43:00. > :43:01.down the austerity drive? Because if these people don't stay in work and

:43:02. > :43:05.don't increase their work, they don't start putting taxes into the

:43:06. > :43:09.system. It is a snowball effect. You have to have everybody working and

:43:10. > :43:16.contributing to an economy and if they stop working then the whole

:43:17. > :43:23.thing slows down. Let me introduce Katie. Kate has two jobs. She has

:43:24. > :43:26.been receiving ?200 to ?300 in universal credits until Monday. What

:43:27. > :43:30.happened on Monday? They looked at the earnings that I had rather than

:43:31. > :43:35.the hours that I had and said that I'm basically over the bracket to

:43:36. > :43:39.claim any sort of benefits anymore. So they say you're earning too much

:43:40. > :43:43.to get Universal Credit now? Yeah, that's right. Can you afford to live

:43:44. > :43:49.on the wages that you get from your two jobs? I can afford to live at

:43:50. > :43:52.the moment I can pay my rent and pay for food stuff. I can't save for

:43:53. > :44:00.anything. I don't have any money to save. Right. What happened in terms

:44:01. > :44:06.of the principle of keeping more of your Universal Credit? I think that,

:44:07. > :44:12.you know, I understand that I have two jobs. A lot of people still

:44:13. > :44:17.struggle to find employment. But on the basis of not letting me know

:44:18. > :44:24.that my credit would just be cut on the day that I expected some money

:44:25. > :44:29.coming, it was quite a shock. Does it incentivise you to do more hours?

:44:30. > :44:33.Yes, I will always try to do more hours. I will always take on extra

:44:34. > :44:40.shifts if they offer me, but it is hard to increase hours when you are

:44:41. > :44:45.on a certainly hourly wage per week. Victoria, you are on Universal

:44:46. > :44:50.Credit. Is it working for you? It feels very restricted. It feels my

:44:51. > :44:55.options to going back to work and college what's the word? They are

:44:56. > :45:00.very... Limited. Yeah, they are very leplted, sorry. Like Katie was just

:45:01. > :45:05.saying, she is working two jobs. She is just had her's cut on Monday

:45:06. > :45:12.because you know, she is earning so much and that's the same problem as

:45:13. > :45:17.I'm having. I'm going to go to apply for jobs, and I'm finding out that I

:45:18. > :45:20.can only earn up to ?160 a month so I have been limited to 16 hours, 20

:45:21. > :45:30.hours. That is an issue. Yes. It is

:45:31. > :45:34.difficult to know exactly what the circumstances are, but I think the

:45:35. > :45:37.issue around the point at which you break free of the benefits system is

:45:38. > :45:44.where we are, the benefit is tapering at until you are of it.

:45:45. > :45:47.There is another element which is beyond Universal Credit, the rise in

:45:48. > :45:51.the national living wage. The Government is committed to getting

:45:52. > :45:55.that up to ?9 and hour, which comes up from below ?6 an hour when we

:45:56. > :46:00.first came in, which will have a genetic effect, it will affect those

:46:01. > :46:05.moving off Universal Credit, their incomes will rise faster as a

:46:06. > :46:09.result. There is another positive. There is a reality, you are not

:46:10. > :46:13.meant to stay on benefits forever, there is a point where you break

:46:14. > :46:18.free, that is a positive thing, and I am pleased to see people want to

:46:19. > :46:21.work more hours. With regards the issues around incentivising due to

:46:22. > :46:26.go on, Universal Credit has a greater incentive, to hit people to

:46:27. > :46:30.work more hours, because it is easy to understand and automatic. If

:46:31. > :46:36.either of them are having an issue, they need to talk to the job centre

:46:37. > :46:40.adviser, who now stays with them all the way through those hours, to

:46:41. > :46:46.check that the calculations that are being made are correct, and they

:46:47. > :46:53.have everything they are due. You are shaking your head. It says it is

:46:54. > :47:00.to help and it is catered to as, but it is the opposite, it is robotic,

:47:01. > :47:03.it is not catered to the person. Each person has different needs,

:47:04. > :47:10.whether it is a single mother, but it is somebody who is a carer for a

:47:11. > :47:14.parent, somebody who works part-time, all the same rules for

:47:15. > :47:18.everybody, you are only allowed to add up to a certain amount. Where is

:47:19. > :47:26.the incentive to go back to work if, as soon as you and that amount, it

:47:27. > :47:32.is deducted? There is no earning anymore or getting a better career,

:47:33. > :47:36.because it is stopped at ?160. You are talking about the work allowance

:47:37. > :47:40.that allows you to own a certain amount of money before it starts

:47:41. > :47:44.getting taken away. You may not have had this experience, but under the

:47:45. > :47:47.existing system which Universal Credit replaces, you did not have

:47:48. > :47:52.the same level of allowance inside tax credits. He would have been

:47:53. > :47:57.locked to only 16 hours of work, because you would lose so much after

:47:58. > :48:05.that. The point is you will not lose at any faster rate. Each category of

:48:06. > :48:08.person, they have different amounts of money they can earn before that

:48:09. > :48:15.is taken away, reflecting their own condition. A person in work would be

:48:16. > :48:23.better off under this system than under tax credits. The Chancellor is

:48:24. > :48:27.also expected to raise again, or bring forward the raising of the

:48:28. > :48:34.threshold at which people will stop paying tax. That will help

:48:35. > :48:40.everybody. What he was arguing for, and he was right, was rather found

:48:41. > :48:44.those funds held in the tax allowance, we could pump it into

:48:45. > :48:48.Universal Credit, but we have both, the raising of the threshold will be

:48:49. > :48:52.for everybody. We have put in ?1 billion to help young ladies like

:48:53. > :48:57.those we have talked to this morning. We have to bite of the

:48:58. > :49:01.cherry, plus the national minimum wage going up. We are realistic

:49:02. > :49:06.about the economy. Well done to Katie, two jobs, fantastic, she

:49:07. > :49:11.knows she can pay her rent, but the Government is not there to pay your

:49:12. > :49:14.savings for you. Good luck to both of them. But it is working through

:49:15. > :49:20.the transition. Universal Credit will support them. Gifting them

:49:21. > :49:29.slowly off the benefit they get more hours, and 20 wage goes up they

:49:30. > :49:32.should feel the benefit. Coverage of the Autumn Statement

:49:33. > :49:37.from 11:30am on BBC News. Thank you for your e-mails about the

:49:38. > :49:41.safety of teachers in schools, after our interview with the husband of

:49:42. > :49:48.Ann Maguire, killed in her classroom by one of her pupils. Tim says, I

:49:49. > :49:51.was a teacher, working in design and technology, I was threatened by a

:49:52. > :49:56.year 11 student with a Stanley knife who wanted to attack me. When it was

:49:57. > :50:01.reported, nothing happened. When I left teaching, I was told it was my

:50:02. > :50:05.responsibility to report the incident to the police. Later, the

:50:06. > :50:10.police called me to say the boy was sorry and it was only a joke. I have

:50:11. > :50:14.not fought since. Until there is zero tolerance, the type of incident

:50:15. > :50:19.you are covering will always happen. Jeff says, it is only a matter of

:50:20. > :50:23.time before it happens again. My niece was a teacher where children

:50:24. > :50:27.carried knives and guns, she has since left because of our concerns.

:50:28. > :50:31.Christine says, my daughter used to work in a junior school in London,

:50:32. > :50:35.one day a parent walked into the classroom, picked up a chair, raised

:50:36. > :50:41.it above his head and when to bring it down on her head. Her legs gave

:50:42. > :50:47.way and she fell to the floor. Thank you for those. You can e-mail us.

:50:48. > :50:49.You can message is on Twitter, using the hashtag, or there is always

:50:50. > :50:51.Facebook. On this programme we've spent a lot

:50:52. > :50:54.of time reporting on the work Many of you have expressed

:50:55. > :50:57.surprise over the way some undercover cops had behaved

:50:58. > :50:59.when they were investigating organisations and protesters

:51:00. > :51:01.who might be threatening our In some cases police officers

:51:02. > :51:05.had slept with women, We spoke exclusively to former

:51:06. > :51:10.undercover cop Mark Kennedy, who'd spent seven years undercover

:51:11. > :51:13.infiltrating protest groups. During that time he had more

:51:14. > :51:16.than one sexual relationship The person I was in love with wasn't

:51:17. > :51:25.really involved with situations where I needed to pass

:51:26. > :51:28.intelligence about her. But if you needed to,

:51:29. > :51:34.would you have done it? Would your loyalty have been

:51:35. > :51:45.to the police or her? In those circumstances

:51:46. > :51:47.I wouldn't have done that. Yes, you could say that, but I think

:51:48. > :51:52.I was in a position where... She was a person that was very

:51:53. > :51:55.independent and still is, I'm sure, and she is a person who would make

:51:56. > :51:58.up her own mind and decisions about what she wanted to do,

:51:59. > :52:02.and I totally respected that. If she did something

:52:03. > :52:04.and she was arrested for it, that is very much her

:52:05. > :52:08.way of doing things, and if that is what she wanted

:52:09. > :52:11.to do, then she has to stand Some campaigners said that

:52:12. > :52:21.by having this relationship, by sleeping with this

:52:22. > :52:24.woman, they described it as state-sanctioned abuse,

:52:25. > :52:28.as this woman could not give her informed consent to sleeping

:52:29. > :52:31.with you because she didn't know Well, that is certainly something

:52:32. > :52:38.that is being addressed by eight women who claim to have

:52:39. > :52:40.had relationships with How do you feel about being accused

:52:41. > :52:47.of state-sectioned abuse? I know the relationship we had,

:52:48. > :52:54.it was one of the most I was lying about my name,

:52:55. > :53:02.who I was, yes, and it is very difficult to know that she has been

:53:03. > :53:07.hurt and she's terribly upset about that, and it's something

:53:08. > :53:12.which I'm still finding very difficult to deal with,

:53:13. > :53:18.and will for a long time to come. All I do know is that what we shared

:53:19. > :53:23.and how we shared our lives for four and a half, five years,

:53:24. > :53:28.was an amazing time in the sense that we both supported each other

:53:29. > :53:31.through some very difficult times It is just very sad that the way

:53:32. > :53:40.and how we fell in love happened As a result of the actions of

:53:41. > :53:48.undercover cops like Mark Kennedy, an inquiry was set up,

:53:49. > :53:51.and is due to report by 2018. But one of the women

:53:52. > :53:53.who was in a long relationship with a man who didn't

:53:54. > :53:56.tell her he was a police officer says the inquiry

:53:57. > :54:07.is being deliberately That woman is called Lisa, not her

:54:08. > :54:11.real name, she was in a relationship with Mark Kennedy, who you have just

:54:12. > :54:16.seen, for six years. Also joining us is a formal Chief Constable from

:54:17. > :54:20.Thames Valley Police. What has happened since two apology from the

:54:21. > :54:28.Met? It has been almost a year to the day since we had that apology

:54:29. > :54:33.made in public by the Met Police. Despite saying they are sorry, it

:54:34. > :54:39.has not resulted in any disclosure of information about what happened

:54:40. > :54:44.to us. Any victim of abuse will tell you that it is knowing what has

:54:45. > :54:48.happened, that is as important as being told that the people

:54:49. > :54:55.responsible are sorry. Until we get full answers about exactly what

:54:56. > :54:59.happened to us, will be targeted, how we were targeted, where we

:55:00. > :55:03.listened to, what information was gathered on us, until we get close

:55:04. > :55:06.to those answers, we will not be able to put this behind us. Has

:55:07. > :55:12.anybody been called to give evidence to this? No, nobody has given

:55:13. > :55:17.evidence yet, they have not started taking evidence. They have said they

:55:18. > :55:22.are almost ready, but even though it has been going on for 16 months, it

:55:23. > :55:28.has just bogged down in application after application, starting with the

:55:29. > :55:32.police applying to have the whole inquiry heard in secret, and every

:55:33. > :55:38.time there is an these times -- these things take time to be

:55:39. > :55:42.responded to. It is a painstakingly slow process. If that is why you say

:55:43. > :55:47.they are deliberately obstructing it, because they are applying for

:55:48. > :55:53.officers' identities to be kept secret? Yes, the attitude of the

:55:54. > :56:06.police ever since I first confronted my ex-partner Mark Kennedy back in

:56:07. > :56:09.2010, this political policing, these undercover scrutiny of protest

:56:10. > :56:13.movement came to light, ever since they have been deliberately

:56:14. > :56:17.obstructive. As part of our court case, which took five years to come

:56:18. > :56:22.to justice, they fought us on every single point, every single step of

:56:23. > :56:29.the way. That apology which came five years after we initiated the

:56:30. > :56:32.action was really hard one. It was almost like getting blood out of a

:56:33. > :56:38.stone. We are still no further to getting any answers. Everything that

:56:39. > :56:43.the police are doing mirrors how they have acted in other enquiries,

:56:44. > :56:48.for example Hillsborough, which took 20 years to get anywhere near the

:56:49. > :56:51.truth. It is obvious to all of us involved that the police, their

:56:52. > :57:01.prime concern is protecting themselves and their institutions.

:57:02. > :57:12.John Humphrys knighted bit this morning. But you have my name wrong.

:57:13. > :57:22.Is it right that the Met Police apply for their offices' identities

:57:23. > :57:28.to be obscured? I can understand why they are doing it, but the principle

:57:29. > :57:30.is often not confirming or denying, it is not admitting anything that is

:57:31. > :57:35.going on in undercover, because it poses threats. But I have

:57:36. > :57:39.considerable sympathy with Lisa's position. The police have got to

:57:40. > :57:46.come off the fence and make their mind up about some of the core

:57:47. > :57:51.issues, and be a lot more open about what has gone on in order to be able

:57:52. > :57:57.to move on and put undercover policing on a more accountable

:57:58. > :58:01.footing. They continue to say neither confirm or deny at every

:58:02. > :58:06.turn. We will never get any justice. They still say they will neither

:58:07. > :58:12.confirm nor deny the identity of the police officers for whose actions

:58:13. > :58:16.they have already apologised. The two police officers that were part

:58:17. > :58:18.of our case, the Met Police have apologised to the women who had

:58:19. > :58:26.relationships with them, that they are still refusing to disclose their

:58:27. > :58:31.names to the enquiry. On that point, if I may interrupt, in the past the

:58:32. > :58:35.Met Police's barristers have said, undercover police officers and their

:58:36. > :58:38.families are likely to face real harm if anything is disclosed that

:58:39. > :58:41.tends to identify them, and will suffer the unfairness of losing a

:58:42. > :58:48.lifelong expectation that their roles would not be made public. Is

:58:49. > :58:52.that not made enough -- fair in of? It is fair enough to protect the

:58:53. > :58:55.families who have been dragged into this, it was a policy that police

:58:56. > :58:59.officers had to be married before they went undercover, and that shows

:59:00. > :59:05.utter disregard for a whole other set of women and children. So you

:59:06. > :59:12.agree? I agree that some level of protection needs to happen for those

:59:13. > :59:16.families. But if you are still saying neither confirm nor deny for

:59:17. > :59:20.people whose identity has been in the public domain for years,

:59:21. > :59:26.absolutely everybody knows who those officers are, and no harm has come

:59:27. > :59:32.as yet to those officers, people have been... Since 2010 there has

:59:33. > :59:38.been revelation after revelation, and at the moment the inquiry are

:59:39. > :59:42.relying on the victims of the abuse to bring it to light. The thing has

:59:43. > :59:51.come for the police. How do we speed up this inquiry? It definitely needs

:59:52. > :59:57.to be speeded up. It is doing nobody any good for this to be dragging on.

:59:58. > :00:02.The Home Office has under resourced it, because the first obstacle that

:00:03. > :00:05.needs to be overcome is helping Sir Chris Pitchford to make the right

:00:06. > :00:10.judgment on the restriction orders. He will put restriction orders on so

:00:11. > :00:15.that the stuff that relates to serious as and the heavy end of

:00:16. > :00:20.undercover, have to be kept under wraps. He has got to find their way

:00:21. > :00:24.to bring case-by-case in, the type of cases that have caused serious

:00:25. > :00:30.public concern, in a way that does not disclose tech makes or pose a

:00:31. > :00:34.threat to the officers and their families, and also does not imperil

:00:35. > :00:37.current or future operations that are going on, which may be

:00:38. > :00:41.connected. That is the difficulty of the balance, that it needs to be

:00:42. > :00:44.resourced properly to get this done quickly so we can move to the next

:00:45. > :00:47.stage and reach the final stage, where he is supposed to set a

:00:48. > :00:54.framework for undercover for the future.

:00:55. > :01:02.Let me bring you this news. A plain clothed police officer has been

:01:03. > :01:06.stabbed in East London. It happened last night say Scotland Yard, a

:01:07. > :01:11.group of three boys and one girl in their late teens stabbed this

:01:12. > :01:14.officer. The officer is in a non-life threatening condition

:01:15. > :01:20.according to Scotland Yard. A group of three boys and one girl stabbed a

:01:21. > :01:24.plain clothed police officer last night according to Scotland Yard.

:01:25. > :01:30.The officer's condition is not life threatening.

:01:31. > :01:40.We have got the weather. Hello Carol.

:01:41. > :01:47.How are you? Very well, thank you. How are you? I'm all right, but it's

:01:48. > :01:51.freezing. Look at this view. One of our Weather Watchers sent us this.

:01:52. > :01:55.How stunning is that? Beautiful. I'm going too show you different kinds

:01:56. > :01:59.of weather. We had a lot of fog across parts of southern and

:02:00. > :02:04.south-eastern England. Here is another one as well. Look at the

:02:05. > :02:08.snow. We this is what fell yesterday on the hills! This is a good one of

:02:09. > :02:14.Durham where it was cold this morning. Oh, my goodness wait until

:02:15. > :02:18.you see the temperatures! Staffordshire, more cloud here. So I

:02:19. > :02:26.have been telling you about the temperatures. This is what it's like

:02:27. > :02:30.at the moment. It is still minus six Celsius in Braemar. Minus six

:02:31. > :02:34.Celsius is pretty cold. In London it is plus seven Celsius. So when we

:02:35. > :02:38.came in, it was lower than that too. Guess what? It is going to get

:02:39. > :02:42.colder tonight! Get your central heating on! What we

:02:43. > :02:46.have this morning is a real mixture of weather. We've got a weather

:02:47. > :02:50.front coming in from the South East. That's producing some rain as it

:02:51. > :02:53.comes across Kent and it will move in across East Anglia, heading down

:02:54. > :02:57.towards the Isle of Wight. High pressure firmly in charge in the

:02:58. > :03:00.north means clearer skies. We had them by night hence the low

:03:01. > :03:03.temperatures Victoria and I have been discussing, but it means a lot

:03:04. > :03:05.of isn't shine for Scotland and Northern Ireland and northern

:03:06. > :03:09.England and that sunshine just pushing further south through the

:03:10. > :03:13.course of the day. Elsewhere, we've got the thicker cloud. We've got

:03:14. > :03:18.splashes of rain and we're looking at still the odd spot of fog that

:03:19. > :03:22.might just hang around. So into the afternoon, lots of sunshine across

:03:23. > :03:25.Scotland. These are the maximum temperatures, two Celsius in Glasgow

:03:26. > :03:31.and Edinburgh. Belfast, lots of sunshine for you. A maximum of seven

:03:32. > :03:34.Celsius. For Northern England, not as cold, a maximum temperature of

:03:35. > :03:37.nine Celsius. Then we run into the cloud. There will be some rain

:03:38. > :03:40.coming out of the cloud, but it will be fairly light and patchy. As we

:03:41. > :03:43.drift across Wales and into south-west England, again, there

:03:44. > :03:46.will be areas of cloud, some bright spells and some sunshine, but the

:03:47. > :03:51.wind will be picking up all the time across the southern half of the UK.

:03:52. > :03:54.With gusts to gale force in the English Channel. Along the coasts

:03:55. > :03:59.adjacent to the English Channel as well. Further north, under the clear

:04:00. > :04:06.skies tonight, it will be cold in the Highlands. We could see below

:04:07. > :04:11.double figures. We won't have problems with frost or fog because

:04:12. > :04:15.there is more of a breeze to move it along, but where we've got the

:04:16. > :04:19.freezing fog, with hardly a breath of wind some of that will linger it

:04:20. > :04:22.cannily, the western side of the Central Lowlands. So another

:04:23. > :04:27.beautiful day, but a lot of sunshine tomorrow. That getting down into

:04:28. > :04:29.Wales. Again, you can see a lot of cloud across parts of England

:04:30. > :04:33.through the morning, but the wind will break that up and we will see

:04:34. > :04:37.sunny spells develop and those are our temperatures. Ten to 12 Celsius

:04:38. > :04:41.in the south. If you're stuck under the freezing fog, it may only get up

:04:42. > :04:44.to minus one Celsius or freezing so you'll know all about that! As we

:04:45. > :04:49.head into the weekend with high pressure in charge, beautiful day on

:04:50. > :04:52.Friday. A cold start. A frosty one and some freezing fog patches here

:04:53. > :04:59.and there. Saturday, again, largely dry. But a bit more cloud around.

:05:00. > :05:07.Thank you very much, good morning. Hello. It is 10.05am, more support

:05:08. > :05:11.for struggling families, funds to build affordable homes, a rise in

:05:12. > :05:15.the minimum wage for people over 25 and reforms to Universal Credit are

:05:16. > :05:19.expected to be announced when the Chancellor delivers his mini Budget

:05:20. > :05:25.today. We will bring you the details. Following our interview

:05:26. > :05:32.with former footballer Andy Woodward who revealed he had abused and raped

:05:33. > :05:38.hundreds of times by his coach, two other players have waived their

:05:39. > :05:46.anonymity. It started from touching and then developed more and more

:05:47. > :05:50.with the sexual abuse and the threats of violence towards your

:05:51. > :06:01.family really if you were to breathe a word to anybody.

:06:02. > :06:06.Plus, they are a group said to said contain neo-Nazi and antisemites.

:06:07. > :06:09.Who are America's so-called alt-right. Hail Trump. Hail victory.

:06:10. > :06:19.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Annita is in the BBC

:06:20. > :06:21.Newsroom with a summary The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

:06:22. > :06:26.makes his first Autumn Mr Hammond is expected to balance

:06:27. > :06:30.bleak news on growth by announcing plans to build more affordable

:06:31. > :06:34.homes, increase the National Living Wage and ban letting

:06:35. > :06:36.agent fees in England. Labour says the statement

:06:37. > :06:38.is likely to be "too little, Two more football players have

:06:39. > :06:48.detailed the abuse they experienced as boys at the hands of former

:06:49. > :06:52.Crewe Alexandra youth Two other players have waived their

:06:53. > :07:04.right to anonymity. One of them, Paul Stewart,

:07:05. > :07:14.spoke to the Daily Mirror In football there are lots of highs

:07:15. > :07:18.and lows which you dealt with. I dealt with this inwardly alongside

:07:19. > :07:26.that. It took me some years to talk to my family about it and my wife

:07:27. > :07:33.and yeah, I struggled and still struggle to this day with the

:07:34. > :07:37.issues. I'm lucky that I've got a strong family unit around me because

:07:38. > :07:38.you know, I don't really know whether I would have been around

:07:39. > :07:48.today. A group of teenagers stabbed a

:07:49. > :07:52.police officer who was off duty last night. Three boys and a girl

:07:53. > :07:54.attacked the police officer near a pub in Bow. He is in hospital with

:07:55. > :07:57.nonlife threatening injuries. US President Barack Obama has

:07:58. > :07:59.awarded his last Presidential Medals of Freedom to a host of America's

:08:00. > :08:02.most famous faces. The medals are the highest civilian

:08:03. > :08:06.honour in the United States. Among the 21 recipients

:08:07. > :08:08.were Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, Mr Obama made a special

:08:09. > :08:11.tribute to comedian Ellen DeGeneres for her influence

:08:12. > :08:17.on the gay rights movement. That's a summary of

:08:18. > :08:19.the latest BBC News. First lets start with

:08:20. > :08:32.the Champions League because Tottenham are out

:08:33. > :08:34.of the competition. They needed a win or a draw

:08:35. > :08:38.against Monaco but they lost 2-1. All the goals coming

:08:39. > :08:40.in the first five minutes of the second half and even

:08:41. > :08:46.a Harry Kane penalty wasn't enough. They've got one more group match

:08:47. > :08:49.where they could secure a third place finish and a spot

:08:50. > :08:58.in the Europa League. Leicester City though made history

:08:59. > :09:00.last night reaching the knockout Okazaki opening the scoring

:09:01. > :09:07.for the Foxes with a stunning top They finish top of their group

:09:08. > :09:16.with one more group match to play. Despite struggling in the boss

:09:17. > :09:35.Claudio Ranieri is delighted Arsenal play Paris St Germain, but

:09:36. > :09:37.they are already through to the knock-out stages.

:09:38. > :09:46.Despite a man-of-the-match performance and two tries

:09:47. > :09:48.against Fiji at the weekend, a player has been left

:09:49. > :09:51.out of the England's squad to play Argentina on Saturday.

:09:52. > :09:54.The Bath wing earnt only his second cap in the 58-15 win against Fiji,

:09:55. > :10:02.Scotland's women have put themselves in a great position

:10:03. > :10:06.at the European Curling Championship on home soil in Glasgow.

:10:07. > :10:09.They won all of their first six round robin matches

:10:10. > :10:10.including this 8-6 victory against Germany.

:10:11. > :10:13.It means they have all but qualified for the semi-finals

:10:14. > :10:16.and are guaranteed to finish high enough in the group to earn a place

:10:17. > :10:26.They are playing their seventh game right now and they are 7-5 up

:10:27. > :10:29.against the Czech Republic. Let me just show you one

:10:30. > :10:32.more thing before I go. We've all seen players

:10:33. > :10:34.missing an open goal but this this a striker for Serbian side FK

:10:35. > :10:37.Lokomotiv, playing in a Belgrade zone

:10:38. > :10:40.league match. Fortunately FK Lokomotiva

:10:41. > :10:52.went on to win 2-1. So all was not lost! That's all from

:10:53. > :10:57.me. I will be back with more after 10.30am. If Harry Redknapp was here,

:10:58. > :11:02.he would have said, "My gran would have been able to score that."

:11:03. > :11:04.This morning, in their first broadcast interview,

:11:05. > :11:07.the family of a British man who died fighting against the so-called

:11:08. > :11:10.Islamic State in Syria describe him as "courageous,

:11:11. > :11:15.22-year-old Dean Evans from Reading died in July

:11:16. > :11:17.in the Syrian city of Manbij, after joining the People's

:11:18. > :11:23.Defence Units or YPG, a military group whose aim

:11:24. > :11:25.was to protect Kurds in Syria from Isis.

:11:26. > :11:28.Dean had been desperate to serve in the military after being rejected

:11:29. > :11:32.by the British Army on health grounds.

:11:33. > :11:34.Dean's step-dad, Steve Howell, bought him up from the age of six.

:11:35. > :11:39.Steve and his wife Tracey Howell are with us now.

:11:40. > :11:46.The first time he went to Syria, you had no idea, did you? We didn't, no.

:11:47. > :11:50.He actually lied to us and all of his friends and his work colleagues.

:11:51. > :11:56.He told us that he wanted to travel Europe, something that he had always

:11:57. > :12:00.been interested in was Auschwitz and many things since he was a young

:12:01. > :12:06.lad. We took him to the airport and he flew off, 13th March, my

:12:07. > :12:11.birthday, I received a message saying, "Hi, Steve, it is Dean.

:12:12. > :12:22.Sorry to let you know, but I'm in Syria. I joined YPG." We didn't know

:12:23. > :12:27.who YPG, our concern was that he had gone to fight for Isis, not against

:12:28. > :12:33.them. We thought this could be iffy for both of us and friends and

:12:34. > :12:36.family. So we had to look into it and Special Branch were involved and

:12:37. > :12:40.they came and they took Dean's laptop and bits and pieces away and

:12:41. > :12:43.look to see if he had been radicalised, but he hadn't,

:12:44. > :12:47.everything that Dean did was off his own back like you previously said he

:12:48. > :12:53.wanted to be in the military, he was a top cadet, he loved his cadet

:12:54. > :12:58.work, but we lost his mum in 2011. I took him on his 18th birthday to go

:12:59. > :13:02.and join up with the British forces only for him to be told that he

:13:03. > :13:06.couldn't join because he had asthma which was the biggest down fall for

:13:07. > :13:10.him. When he got back then, from that, did you think that's that, it

:13:11. > :13:14.is out of his system now Well, Steve found it very difficult to talk to

:13:15. > :13:18.Dean when he came back. I caught him one day coming down the stairs and I

:13:19. > :13:23.had said, "Dean, do you need it talk about what you did out there?" I am

:13:24. > :13:28.the only person he was ever able to tell the full details to. And what

:13:29. > :13:32.he saw and what he did was horrendous. At times they were

:13:33. > :13:39.drinking stream water because they didn't have any clean water. Even

:13:40. > :13:44.fighting back on his post with dysentery. It was pretty horrendous

:13:45. > :13:47.for them. He felt very guilty towards me, the fact that he had

:13:48. > :13:51.lied when he went the first time. That was the hurdle that we had

:13:52. > :13:55.overcome. He told us we spoke openly with him, we were always open and we

:13:56. > :13:58.speak from our hearts. If there is something in your heart, you have to

:13:59. > :14:01.bring it out to be true to yourself. Dean always wanted to be a

:14:02. > :14:07.soldierment he always wanted to have a uniform. He told us that he didn't

:14:08. > :14:13.have any intentions to go back, no return to Syria. But when did that

:14:14. > :14:19.change? Well, every time the TV came on and it had something to do with

:14:20. > :14:24.Isis or something to do with Syria, it changed him. You could actually

:14:25. > :14:29.see him change completely. He decided in his own heart, we had a

:14:30. > :14:36.feeling that he wanted to go back, but he openly spoke to us and said,

:14:37. > :14:39."Look, I'm thinking of going back. I haven't made plans yet", but he was

:14:40. > :14:45.in contact with other guys and girls that he fought with over there. He

:14:46. > :14:50.literally said to us, "I am possibly going to return." We decided that we

:14:51. > :14:53.all needed to come together as a family, my stepdaughter and her

:14:54. > :14:57.boyfriend wanted to sit down with him and talk openly about

:14:58. > :15:01.everything. So that he went with all of our hearts so that he went with a

:15:02. > :15:06.clear mind with no regrets from home. He was a great lad. He was so

:15:07. > :15:12.calm, and he was so collected, he was a loving lad and the stories

:15:13. > :15:18.that we have had back since his passing, he died on the 21st July

:15:19. > :15:28.from a rocket propelled grenade with Isis and he died with his female

:15:29. > :15:33.team Khanneder from the YPA. I must admit we feel honoured to be part of

:15:34. > :15:38.their community. We feel that we've extended our family thousands fold

:15:39. > :15:43.more and Dean died a martyr. He always said to Tracey and I, I

:15:44. > :15:48.wasn't there one day when he said to the family, "I would rather live a

:15:49. > :15:53.short exciting life than a long dull boring life." That was his outlook.

:15:54. > :16:01.We told him outright we did not want him to go. But this is a

:16:02. > :16:05.22-year-old. You cannot stop them. It was not like it did not know what

:16:06. > :16:10.he was going to, because he had been there before. From when I had

:16:11. > :16:14.brought him up, when I got to know him, when I first came into his

:16:15. > :16:20.life, his ambition was his ambition. As parents, step parents, I don't

:16:21. > :16:24.believe in stepparents, we are all parents, we want the for our

:16:25. > :16:28.children. He had something that he wanted to follow. Sometimes you

:16:29. > :16:33.protect your kids from themselves, even if they are adults. But if you

:16:34. > :16:38.close a door on them, they will find another one. If he had gone away

:16:39. > :16:42.with the feeling that we wanted to stop him going, we would never have

:16:43. > :16:47.been able to forgive ourselves that he went with animosity between us

:16:48. > :16:54.and that is what we did not want. We had some laughs before he went. I

:16:55. > :16:59.had a feeling that it was probably going to be the last time we saw

:17:00. > :17:04.him, because of words he spoke to us. He said he wanted to leave a

:17:05. > :17:12.will and he wanted everything right, so we did not have to worry about

:17:13. > :17:18.things, he wanted it his way. The one thing he said was that he would

:17:19. > :17:21.either die out there or he would stay until the end of the war, and

:17:22. > :17:33.then decide what to do. The death came first. How would you describe

:17:34. > :17:38.him? He was very quiet. With us. I have a son who is similar, ages to

:17:39. > :17:42.come in from work, say hello, have dinner, we would chat like a normal

:17:43. > :17:47.family, that he would go to his room. We would sit in bed at night

:17:48. > :17:51.and you could hear him laughing and giggling on his PlayStation with his

:17:52. > :17:56.friends, so I would class him as a normal lad, he would go to work, he

:17:57. > :18:01.was never any trouble, he never got into any trouble. A hell of a

:18:02. > :18:06.worker, he was a dairy farmer. He loved the job on the farm, he never

:18:07. > :18:11.had to be called, he was always up, he went into work, he did extra

:18:12. > :18:15.work, he loved the farm and the job, but he had so much time on his hands

:18:16. > :18:19.driving the tractor, he was listening to the conflict going on

:18:20. > :18:26.in Syria. And motivated I the injustices. I came into his life

:18:27. > :18:30.five years ago. One of the first conversations I had was about his

:18:31. > :18:36.mum. I wanted him to know that I was not trying to come in and be another

:18:37. > :18:42.mum to him. At the time he was just 18. From having two children of my

:18:43. > :18:49.own, you only get one mum. He had lost his will stop they were very

:18:50. > :18:55.close. That was one thing that affected him in his life, losing his

:18:56. > :19:00.mum. She was his everything. It was very hard for him to take, occurs he

:19:01. > :19:06.was on the Rangers when his mum passed, and we had to pull him back

:19:07. > :19:10.of exercise for me to tell him. She died very suddenly at 41, he could

:19:11. > :19:17.not accept that. He realised that people were dying of a waste of

:19:18. > :19:22.life, being killed in accidents. He felt life should be lived how you

:19:23. > :19:27.wanted. He went over to Syria. He spoke openly before he went the

:19:28. > :19:30.second time about how lovely the Kurdish people were, how the Syrians

:19:31. > :19:36.have treated him like a human being from day one, we have learned from

:19:37. > :19:41.some people that they don't just accept anyone, you have to learn

:19:42. > :19:46.their trust, and he was phenomenal at gaining trust. He was what he

:19:47. > :19:53.was. We dreaded him being martyred. He has been martyred. There are

:19:54. > :19:56.thousands martyred. My belief is the blood of the martyrs will be the

:19:57. > :20:01.foundations for a new Syria to rebuild Syria, and bring it back up

:20:02. > :20:09.to what it should be, a free country for people to visit. We

:20:10. > :20:16.wholeheartedly keep Dean in here and talk about him daily, because he was

:20:17. > :20:18.extraordinary. Thank you for telling us about him, thank you for coming

:20:19. > :20:20.on the programme. The head of a committee of MPs

:20:21. > :20:24.examining the collapse of BHS has asked the Pensions Regulator

:20:25. > :20:26.whether assets can be seized from its former

:20:27. > :20:38.owner Sir Philip Green. Assets like that Jock, for example.

:20:39. > :20:47.We will get reaction. We will get your reaction, thank

:20:48. > :20:56.you. We have comments about the former footballers who have raised

:20:57. > :21:00.-- waived their right to anonymity to talk about being abused as young

:21:01. > :21:05.boys by coaches. Chuck says, the man of the match is Paul Stewart, for

:21:06. > :21:11.his courage. Alf says, a sad interview with Paul Stuart, brave

:21:12. > :21:19.and courageous, best which is -- wishes. One person says, I have a

:21:20. > :21:23.similar story of being a victim by a football coach. I would have been

:21:24. > :21:27.about 11, in the late 80s, for a Sunday league team in the Midlands.

:21:28. > :21:30.The police were involved, he was later convicted. He was also further

:21:31. > :21:36.convicted of being abusive towards other boys. Alan says, there are

:21:37. > :21:39.ugly secrets, young lives ruined, I applaud all the players for their

:21:40. > :21:42.coverage. The Chancellor will set out

:21:43. > :21:44.a mini-Budget today, his first since he took up the role

:21:45. > :21:47.after Theresa May One of the key pledges he's expected

:21:48. > :21:53.to announce is a ban on up-front At the moment, tenants can be

:21:54. > :21:57.charged fees for a range of administration,

:21:58. > :21:58.including reference, Now, those costs will be

:21:59. > :22:02.shifted to landlords, saving 4.3 million households

:22:03. > :22:07.hundreds of pounds. The move could spur competition

:22:08. > :22:10.as landlords, unlike tenants, can Lettings-agency fees have already

:22:11. > :22:17.been banned in Scotland. Labour have welcomed the move,

:22:18. > :22:20.but say it doesn't go far enough. Former Labour leader Ed Milband

:22:21. > :22:23.on Twitter calls for a "cap It's an issue we talked

:22:24. > :22:28.about on the programme last week. We commissioned a survey,

:22:29. > :22:30.which suggested three quarters of people supported Government

:22:31. > :22:33.regulation on issues such as letting-agent fees,

:22:34. > :22:36.contract lengths, deposits and inventory checks,

:22:37. > :22:39.and nearly three quarters said they would support rent control,

:22:40. > :22:43.with the Government setting maximum Our reporter Chi Chi Izundu met

:22:44. > :22:49.with people struggling Trevor is 68, he is living

:22:50. > :23:01.on a state pension and housing benefit, which comes

:23:02. > :23:05.to ?950 a month. His last move cost him

:23:06. > :23:14.?4,000 in upfront fees. It is a very small kitchen,

:23:15. > :23:17.it has not got a full So we have a small mini oven,

:23:18. > :23:26.deep-fat fryer, a hot But with those things,

:23:27. > :23:30.I can cook a full dinner Divorced in his 50s,

:23:31. > :23:37.Trevor's ex-wife got the house, Last year, his landlord decided

:23:38. > :23:42.to sell, and he had to leave I had a month to find

:23:43. > :23:47.somewhere else. The biggest problem of that was

:23:48. > :23:52.that it costs money to move. By the time you have put

:23:53. > :23:59.down your deposit and you have paid rent in advance,

:24:00. > :24:04.estate-agent fees, as a pensioner I don't have that kind of money

:24:05. > :24:08.in a sock under the bed. If something had gone wrong,

:24:09. > :24:14.I would be really in dire straits. I was devastated, because I had

:24:15. > :24:27.not seen it coming. All of a sudden, I thought,

:24:28. > :24:31."I have spent five years making a home in this place,

:24:32. > :24:35.and then all of a sudden I am being told to go, not

:24:36. > :24:39.wanted here anymore." I could be asked to leave this place

:24:40. > :24:46.and have to move all over again, with all of the financial

:24:47. > :24:49.implications that has. At my age, I don't want

:24:50. > :24:56.that kind of thing. We can talk now to the Shadow

:24:57. > :25:02.Housing Secretary John Healey. Do you welcome this move to ban

:25:03. > :25:13.the upfront fees imposed It is a good thing if that is what

:25:14. > :25:16.we get, we will back it, we have been campaigning for it for several

:25:17. > :25:21.years. The Chancellor may have a problem with some of his MPs, cos

:25:22. > :25:25.they have voted to block this several times. The Housing minister

:25:26. > :25:30.recently we did it was a bad idea. He is wrong, and the people are well

:25:31. > :25:35.ahead of the ministers. If we get the announcement, it is a good

:25:36. > :25:39.thing, but it is only a start to help private renters, who are often

:25:40. > :25:44.finding it really tough to survive. It may be a distant memory, but what

:25:45. > :25:50.the Labour Government do for private renters? One thing we did in the

:25:51. > :25:55.last year was to bring in a system that allowed councils to license

:25:56. > :25:58.private landlords, so they could crack down on the road landlords and

:25:59. > :26:04.improve standards across the board. Did it work? Yes, but the Government

:26:05. > :26:07.has made it more difficult and it is stopping councils doing this. It is

:26:08. > :26:13.what I wanted to the Government doing instead of stopping. They

:26:14. > :26:20.should also bring in, as we have argued, longer tenancies, and with a

:26:21. > :26:25.break to extreme rent rises during these periods. The letting agent

:26:26. > :26:30.fees are a start, but in the end we have to do a great deal more to

:26:31. > :26:34.build more affordable homes, for people to buy and rent. Why did you

:26:35. > :26:39.not do something about tenancies when in power, or about the cost of

:26:40. > :26:44.private renting? We did. We started to crack down on the worst of the

:26:45. > :26:47.landlords, we started to make sure there were consistent standards

:26:48. > :26:51.across the board, but even in the last six years the situation has got

:26:52. > :26:55.worse, we have 11 million people who are private renters, and the people

:26:56. > :27:00.that worry me most of the fact that we have one in four families with

:27:01. > :27:04.kids that are in private rented homes, and many of them may face the

:27:05. > :27:10.same thing as Trevor, a notice to quit within a month. It is the lack

:27:11. > :27:12.of security, and often rapidly rising costs but they cannot

:27:13. > :27:14.control, which require the Government to step in and do more

:27:15. > :27:19.than ban letting agent fees. If you rent, really keen

:27:20. > :27:22.to hear your views on plans to ban up-front letting-agent

:27:23. > :27:30.fees in England. I cannot imagine anybody would

:27:31. > :27:32.disagree. Also keen to hear from you if you

:27:33. > :27:36.run your own business in the UK. What do you want to hear

:27:37. > :27:38.from the Chancellor? Let's talk to four business owners

:27:39. > :27:41.to test the economic temperature Jo Smedley is the MD

:27:42. > :27:44.of murder-mystery-games entertainment company

:27:45. > :27:45.Red Herring in Grimsby. Anthony Impey runs tech

:27:46. > :27:47.company Optimity, employing Jude Jennison is the founder

:27:48. > :27:51.of the Leadership Whisperers, a management-training

:27:52. > :27:55.company in Warwickshire. Lynette Deutsch is the CEO

:27:56. > :27:57.of Executive Recruitment and coaching company Endaba

:27:58. > :28:13.here in London. You are here to help us test the

:28:14. > :28:23.economic temperature from your own point of view. How has business been

:28:24. > :28:28.since the referendum vote in June as Mac --? Initially we had a drop in

:28:29. > :28:36.sales post Brexit, but it has picked up again. We have spent a lot of

:28:37. > :28:39.time working with UKTI, the Department for International trade,

:28:40. > :28:45.trying to make is resilient, so we have seen more export. What about

:28:46. > :28:50.you? There is a general level of uncertainty that we have encountered

:28:51. > :28:57.amongst our clients. People are putting off making decisions. The

:28:58. > :29:01.impact possibly is not as significant as we had expected. But

:29:02. > :29:04.if your clients are putting off decisions, what impact does that

:29:05. > :29:10.have on your business? It slows down our growth, we were growing quickly

:29:11. > :29:17.prior to the vote, and we saw a bit of a tailing off, but not a

:29:18. > :29:23.collapse. Confidence is generally stable, but all of the business

:29:24. > :29:30.owners that I speak to our cautious about the future and everybody is

:29:31. > :29:34.taking steps to protect what might happen at some point in the future.

:29:35. > :29:40.You are both nodding, you both cautious? I don't know that we are

:29:41. > :29:44.ever cautious. One of the challenges of running a small business is you

:29:45. > :29:48.cannot be cautious, it is the hardest job you will ever do, and

:29:49. > :29:53.what it creates is both a challenge and an opportunity. We specialise in

:29:54. > :29:58.leading through uncertainty, so for us this is our bread-and-butter. But

:29:59. > :30:02.what we found is that clients have pulled back, and that has an impact.

:30:03. > :30:08.It means that we have to have much more creativity and innovation is a

:30:09. > :30:12.small business, and we can be much more agile and fast-growing and see

:30:13. > :30:21.it as an opportunity to find new markets. Very similar. Ours started

:30:22. > :30:26.just before the vote, a lot of our clients stopped doing anything. They

:30:27. > :30:32.used it as an excuse to put things on hold. When the vote occurred,

:30:33. > :30:39.they panicked. But since then, they realised the sky. Collapsed, and --

:30:40. > :30:43.they realised the sky has not collapsed. We are a service

:30:44. > :30:51.provider, very similar to Judy, and to Anthony. You find yourself being

:30:52. > :30:56.inputted by them. If you put things on hold, we are impacted, but it's

:30:57. > :31:02.all about the opportunity. Business as usual is the uncertainty -- is

:31:03. > :31:12.the answer. When you look ahead to next year, do you have any concerns?

:31:13. > :31:16.We are thinking of taking on a new staff member, but it is too early to

:31:17. > :31:19.decide whether we want to go ahead, because we don't know what will

:31:20. > :31:22.happen with the markets. We need to make sure we have enough money to

:31:23. > :31:27.pay them through the year, I don't want to take some of the on and have

:31:28. > :31:34.to let them go. You all agree. You are coming across similar issues? We

:31:35. > :31:38.need skilled people for our business to grow, so our biggest obstacle to

:31:39. > :31:46.growth is that we cannot recruit the skills that we need. My biggest

:31:47. > :31:50.concern concerning Brexit is that people of high skilled and mid

:31:51. > :31:56.skilled talent we have the moment disappears as European workers

:31:57. > :31:59.return to their countries and we are left with not enough high skilled

:32:00. > :32:05.people in the Labour force in order to support particularly small and

:32:06. > :32:11.medium-sized businesses. We are exposed.

:32:12. > :32:19.We are led to believe that if you have those kind of skills you are

:32:20. > :32:22.always going to be welcome. I think that's certainly the impression that

:32:23. > :32:28.we give. I think the fact of the matter is no one knows and for as

:32:29. > :32:31.long as nobody know there is uncertainty and really echoing what

:32:32. > :32:35.Joe is saying, it is difficult to plan for the future. So I think

:32:36. > :32:38.that's a big challenge. I think that's the challenge. We are living

:32:39. > :32:43.in a time of great uncertain rit and that uncertainty is going to be the

:32:44. > :32:47.new norm. So how we cope with the uncertainty is going to be the key

:32:48. > :32:54.to how successful we are going forward. Go on. I don't envy you, I

:32:55. > :32:57.really don't. It is flexibility, creativity and adaptability and

:32:58. > :33:03.rather than saying, "What could have been and what should have been." It

:33:04. > :33:08.is about looking forward. We've got to crack on. You also have to have

:33:09. > :33:14.courage. A lot of big businesses today they hunker down and I think

:33:15. > :33:20.one needs to be able to step into the unknown and do it courageously

:33:21. > :33:24.and we have to give it a go. If it works great, and if it doesn't...

:33:25. > :33:29.You learn from it and one has to look at the opportunities. We really

:33:30. > :33:35.do. We're growing internationally and that is helping a little bit,

:33:36. > :33:41.you know, we also want to take on new people, but the costs are

:33:42. > :33:45.growing and so, but it is all about being agile and innovative and

:33:46. > :33:51.constantly being relevant. If there is one thing, let me ask you

:33:52. > :33:55.quickly, one thing you would want to hear from the chancellor, Jo, what

:33:56. > :34:00.is it? An actual plan. We don't have any plans so you can't make any

:34:01. > :34:05.decisions. I don't think you will get a Brexit plan. Anthony

:34:06. > :34:09.Commitment to investing in skills. Confidence that we can lead through

:34:10. > :34:14.uncertainty. He will say that. But real confidence and mean it and

:34:15. > :34:22.embody it. Greater clarity. On? On everything. That would be amazing!

:34:23. > :34:25.Yes, it would. He will stand up after PMQs, so let's look out for

:34:26. > :34:26.the clarity. All the best with your businesses,

:34:27. > :35:04.of course, thank you. The Government says measures to help

:35:05. > :35:07.low-paid workers will be focus of the chancellor's

:35:08. > :35:13.Autumn Statement, this afternoon. pounds fifty an hour,

:35:14. > :35:17.and will reduce some of the proposed He's also expected to say that more

:35:18. > :35:21.affordable homes will be built, and up-front letting

:35:22. > :35:22.agents' fees banned. The shadow Chancellor,

:35:23. > :35:24.John McDonnell, said more investment The chairman of Crewe Alexandra

:35:25. > :35:28.Football Club has confirmed that it's looking into historic

:35:29. > :35:30.allegations of abuse involving Former Crewe Alexandra player

:35:31. > :35:33.Andy Woodward told us last week in an exclusive interview that he'd

:35:34. > :35:36.been raped hundreds of times by his youth coach Barry Bennell,

:35:37. > :35:40.who was jailed in 1998. A second man has come forward to say

:35:41. > :35:46.he too had been abused by Bennell. A 72-year-old woman

:35:47. > :35:48.from Liverpool is being treated in hospital after being shot

:35:49. > :35:57.in the leg last night. A group of teenagers stabbed an off

:35:58. > :36:00.duty police officer in is London last night. They attacked the

:36:01. > :36:04.plainclothes police officer near a pub yesterday evening. He is in

:36:05. > :36:13.hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. What else do you know? The

:36:14. > :36:20.policeman was on a preplanned operation, but he was plainclothes.

:36:21. > :36:27.The Dukes would not have known he was a policeman when they approached

:36:28. > :36:31.him. He was in an alleyway near the Bow Bells pub in East London. They

:36:32. > :36:37.approached him just before 9:30pm. He suffered three stab wounds. He

:36:38. > :36:41.was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The

:36:42. > :36:47.police don't know if it is linked to another incident in which a motorist

:36:48. > :36:50.was threatened with a knife outside the Devens Road rail station. They

:36:51. > :36:58.are appealing for witnesses. I mail is in custody, his age is unknown,

:36:59. > :37:00.he was arrested on attempted murder, but it is not able to be a terror

:37:01. > :37:08.related incident. Let's get some sport

:37:09. > :37:21.from Leah Boleto. Harry Kane's penalty was not enough,

:37:22. > :37:26.but they still can secure a third place position and a spot in the

:37:27. > :37:30.Europa League with a draw in their final group match.

:37:31. > :37:37.Leicester City made history last night making the knock-out stages

:37:38. > :37:45.for the first time ever with this opening goal. Despite a Man of the

:37:46. > :37:50.Match performance and two tries against Fiji, a key player has been

:37:51. > :37:55.left out of England's squad to play Argentina on Saturday. Scotland's

:37:56. > :38:01.women have continued their 100% record at European Churlg

:38:02. > :38:06.Championships in Glasgow. One more line for you, in the last

:38:07. > :38:09.half an hour, Fifa's disciplinary committee announced the opening of

:38:10. > :38:12.proceedings against the Irish Football Association and the

:38:13. > :38:16.Football Association of Wales. This is in relation to incidents

:38:17. > :38:19.involving the display of poppy symbols during recent internationals

:38:20. > :38:22.and of course, we will bring you more on that on the BBC News Channel

:38:23. > :38:28.throughout the day. From me, that's all for now.

:38:29. > :38:30.Donald Trump has repudiated the fringe "alt-right" group that

:38:31. > :38:34.celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes.

:38:35. > :38:43.Hail Trump. Hail our people. Hail victory. They hate political

:38:44. > :38:47.correctness and femmed nism and love Donald Trump. Their critics say they

:38:48. > :38:52.are nothing, but bigoted white nationals, who are the Alt-right?

:38:53. > :38:56.The Alt-right came to pram nans during Donald Trump's long election

:38:57. > :38:59.campaign, it is a desperate group of people with no official organisation

:39:00. > :39:03.or leader. They are nationalist and they are antiestablishment. Their

:39:04. > :39:06.followers are fond of internet pranks and using offensive messages

:39:07. > :39:12.to goad their enemies on both the right and the left. The movement has

:39:13. > :39:18.branches in other countries, include in the UK. Many of them are huge

:39:19. > :39:23.supporters of Donald Trump. During the election campaign Hillary

:39:24. > :39:28.Clinton criticised Mr Trump for his ties to who she called the rising

:39:29. > :39:34.ideology of the Alt-right. From the start Donald Trump has built his

:39:35. > :39:41.campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream.

:39:42. > :39:50.Many people within the movement admitted to attract some races, but

:39:51. > :39:55.deny that's the main theme of the movement's idea. This is how some

:39:56. > :40:01.Alt-right celebrated Donald Trump's election win. Hail Trump. Hail our

:40:02. > :40:08.people. Hail victory. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

:40:09. > :40:14.The man you saw speaking there was the group's leader, Richard spap

:40:15. > :40:18.Sensor. He wasn't elected on Obamacare. This is why he was

:40:19. > :40:23.elected is because he was the identity president. We know Muslims

:40:24. > :40:29.hate everyone... Alt-right have got the support of this man, he runs the

:40:30. > :40:35.Breitbart website which has been linked to the Alt-right movement.

:40:36. > :40:41.You can define it to include classical liberals, leftists,

:40:42. > :40:45.ordinary Conservatives and this new, young, very, very energised youthful

:40:46. > :40:50.contingent that have suddenly become interested in politics again. Donald

:40:51. > :40:57.Trump has appointed Stephen bannon the editor-in-chief of the Breitbart

:40:58. > :41:00.website as his chief strategist. Now Mr Trump has distanced himself from

:41:01. > :41:07.the group which celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes. In

:41:08. > :41:11.an interview with the New York Times he said, "I condemn." . Condemn

:41:12. > :41:16.them." We can talk now to Scott Lucas who

:41:17. > :41:26.is Professor of American Politics Who are the Alt-right? Let's call it

:41:27. > :41:31.what it is. Whether you call it white identity, while nationalism,

:41:32. > :41:36.this is a movement which we have seen in the new media age, but it

:41:37. > :41:46.does happen to older movements. Where I grew up we had white citizen

:41:47. > :41:51.leagues and this is not true of all people who support Donald Trump or

:41:52. > :41:56.the views of white supremacy, this is a group that's anti-Muslim and

:41:57. > :42:00.anti-Semitic and sometimes anti-Catholic and sometimes

:42:01. > :42:05.anti-women. As your reporter made clear, it is not separate from

:42:06. > :42:12.Trump's campaign. It is there through Steve Bannon who said

:42:13. > :42:17.Breitbart News is a platform. Now Mr Trump has distanced himself from

:42:18. > :42:21.them, is that enough? No, Trump was being naive or deceptive because

:42:22. > :42:25.Trump said, "I would never have hired Steve Bannon if I thought he

:42:26. > :42:28.was Alt-right." Steve Bannon has openly said he is part of the

:42:29. > :42:34.Alt-right and that he promotes it. He said so in August, a week before

:42:35. > :42:39.he joined Trump's campaign team. So, no, Trump is trying out a bit of PR

:42:40. > :42:43.yesterday, but he has not effectively distanced himself from

:42:44. > :42:50.the movement. Do you think that the number of white people in America,

:42:51. > :42:52.at any point, is going to become a minority and therefore the Alt-right

:42:53. > :42:58.movement is only going to continue to grow? Well, the first question is

:42:59. > :43:03.almost certainly is that because of the expansion of other groups,

:43:04. > :43:07.African Americans, Hispanic, and marbian-Americans, there will be a

:43:08. > :43:11.more diverse America where whites are not the majority. Does that mean

:43:12. > :43:14.the Alt-right become stronger? It is up to Americans. Americans can take

:43:15. > :43:18.a stand and say, "Look, we are not simply going to be a white identity

:43:19. > :43:22.nation. We believe in defending the rights of all people whatever their

:43:23. > :43:26.colour, whatever their religion. " It is going to have to be a

:43:27. > :43:30.grass-roots response to really confront some of the more extreme

:43:31. > :43:33.elements that you talked about your video about the money which is

:43:34. > :43:39.saying a country for whites and no one else. Thank you very much. Thank

:43:40. > :43:40.you. Scott Lucas, Professor of American politics at the University

:43:41. > :43:42.of Birmingham. Meanwhile President Obama has

:43:43. > :43:44.praised American comedian Ellen DeGeneres for her influence

:43:45. > :43:47.on the gay rights movement as she received the country's

:43:48. > :43:56.highest civilian honour. Ellen DeGeneres has a way of making

:43:57. > :44:00.you laugh about something rather than at someone! Except when I

:44:01. > :44:01.danced on her show, she laughed at me!

:44:02. > :44:11.LAUGHTER But that's OK. It is easy to forget

:44:12. > :44:18.now, when we've come so far, or now marriage is equal under the law,

:44:19. > :44:23.just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most

:44:24. > :44:28.public of stages almost 20 years ago, just how important it was. Not

:44:29. > :44:32.just to the LGBT community, but for all of us to see somebody so full of

:44:33. > :44:39.kindness and light, somebody we liked so much, somebody who could be

:44:40. > :44:42.our neighbo or our colleague or our sister, challenge our own

:44:43. > :44:45.assumptions and remind us that we have more in common than we realise,

:44:46. > :44:50.push our country in the direction of justice. What an incredible burden

:44:51. > :44:54.that was to bear, to risk your career like that. People don't do

:44:55. > :44:59.that very often. And then to have the hopes of

:45:00. > :45:08.millions on your shoulders. But it is like Ellen says, we all want a

:45:09. > :45:12.chip that can support the weight of guatmoli which really makes no sense

:45:13. > :45:15.to me! LAUGHTER

:45:16. > :45:16.But I thought would break the mood because I was getting kind of choked

:45:17. > :45:32.up! She did pay a price, we don't

:45:33. > :45:47.remember this. For a pretty long stretch of time. Even in Hollywood.

:45:48. > :45:51.And yet today, every day in every way, she counters what to often

:45:52. > :45:55.divides us with the countless things that bind us together and inspires

:45:56. > :45:59.us to be better. One joke, one dance at a time.

:46:00. > :46:06.Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Michael Jordan were among the 21

:46:07. > :46:12.recipient of the presidential medal of Freedom.

:46:13. > :46:16.News Justin, the jury trying the case of Stephen Porte, accused of

:46:17. > :46:21.killing four young men with fatal doses of the date rape drug -- GH B,

:46:22. > :46:28.is beginning to return some of its verdict. In the last minute he has

:46:29. > :46:37.been found guilty at the Old Bailey of the murders of three men. The

:46:38. > :46:47.alleged serial killer has been found guilty in the last couple of minutes

:46:48. > :46:51.of the murders of three young men. He was on trial, accused of the

:46:52. > :47:00.murders of four men with fatal doses of the date rape joke GHB. -- drug.

:47:01. > :47:08.There are verdict is still to come in, but a jury has found him guilty

:47:09. > :47:12.of the murder of three men. I am just hearing that the jury has also

:47:13. > :47:17.found him guilty of three rapes as well. They are considering other

:47:18. > :47:20.charges as we speak, we will bring them to you when we have them.

:47:21. > :47:22.Two more footballers have waived their right to anonymity

:47:23. > :47:25.to reveal the abuse they suffered at the hands of a youth coach.

:47:26. > :47:27.The story has emerged following our exclusive interview

:47:28. > :47:30.with former Crewe Alexandra player Andy Woodward, who told us last week

:47:31. > :47:33.he'd been raped hundreds of times by former youth coach Barry Bennell.

:47:34. > :47:38.Andy spoke to us again yesterday and said he'd spoken to six players

:47:39. > :47:46.who've since told him they too have experienced abuse.

:47:47. > :47:53.I have been inundated with not only be six people that I have spoken to

:47:54. > :48:03.directly, but also direct messages from other players who have told me

:48:04. > :48:06.that... So many stories, heartbreaking, I have been so

:48:07. > :48:12.emotional. They are harrowing, they have reached out to me and thanked

:48:13. > :48:16.me so much for coming out originally. It has given them that

:48:17. > :48:22.faith. You have spoken to six, but other contact via Twitter. In total,

:48:23. > :48:32.how many people have got in touch with you? Several people that have

:48:33. > :48:38.contacted me. I can't put a number on it. They vary in what they have

:48:39. > :48:46.said. They all footballers? Yes, former footballers. Did they say

:48:47. > :48:51.that they found the courage to speak out because you had? Absolutely,

:48:52. > :48:55.that is what they have said, because of what I said, it has given them

:48:56. > :48:59.courage and belief and strength to come out and say yet. Cheshire

:49:00. > :49:07.police say they are investigating. Is this the tip of the iceberg? I

:49:08. > :49:12.have said it all along, it is. But some people it will take a long time

:49:13. > :49:16.for them to come out or speak. There is no rush. The police have started

:49:17. > :49:21.their investigation, and I don't want to put pressure on anybody. I

:49:22. > :49:24.came out with a long view for other people to survive from this. I

:49:25. > :49:30.cannot thank the public enough for what they have done. It is

:49:31. > :49:31.brilliant, I can't thank them for the support they have given me

:49:32. > :49:38.enough. Andy Woodward also told us

:49:39. > :49:40.he was disappointed his old club Crewe hadn't spoken out

:49:41. > :49:43.about the abuse. Since then, John Bowler,

:49:44. > :49:46.the Crewe chairman since 1987, told our sports editor Dan Roan

:49:47. > :49:50.an inquiry is underway at Crewe into the crimes Barry Bennell

:49:51. > :50:05.committed while at the club. Infuriated. And very disappointed.

:50:06. > :50:10.Your message to the victims? We are understandably distressed for them

:50:11. > :50:15.and by the accusations that have been made. Looking back, was there

:50:16. > :50:20.anything you could have done to prevent this? When we have done our

:50:21. > :50:27.enquiries and looked into the detail of the various accusations and we

:50:28. > :50:30.have considered them all, then I will be in a position to answer that

:50:31. > :50:36.kind of question. Your message to Andy Woodward? I am very sorry for

:50:37. > :50:37.the distress he has been caused and wish him well.

:50:38. > :50:39.Steve Walters, who became Crewe's youngest-ever

:50:40. > :50:42.player at the age of 16, tells the Guardian he too

:50:43. > :50:47.He told the Guardian, "All these years I've had

:50:48. > :50:53.But I want closure, and I know this move will help me move on."

:50:54. > :50:57.The Daily Mirror devotes its first five pages to claims by the former

:50:58. > :51:01.Spurs and England star Paul Stewart that a different coach abused him

:51:02. > :51:05.every day for four years, until he was 15.

:51:06. > :51:07.He says his attacker got away with it by threatening

:51:08. > :51:10.to kill his relatives if he ever told anyone.

:51:11. > :51:12.He blames the abuse for drink and drug problems

:51:13. > :51:27.He asked if I wanted to drive the car.

:51:28. > :51:36.It started from touching and then developed more and more into sexual

:51:37. > :51:43.abuse and the threats of violence towards your family,

:51:44. > :51:46.if you were to breathe a word to anybody.

:51:47. > :51:49.He said he was going to kill your brothers?

:51:50. > :52:00.Of course, all those years you were playing at the top level,

:52:01. > :52:06.Paul Gascoigne and these enormous household names,

:52:07. > :52:12.Even as you were enjoying great success, you were dealing with it

:52:13. > :52:15.and having suicidal thoughts as a result?

:52:16. > :52:22.In football there are lots of highs and lows, which you deal

:52:23. > :52:26.with as part of the game, and I dealt with this

:52:27. > :52:38.It took me some years to speak to my family about it, my wife.

:52:39. > :52:45.I struggled and still struggle to this day with the issues.

:52:46. > :52:49.I'm lucky that I have a strong family.

:52:50. > :52:53.Because I don't really know if I would have been around today.

:52:54. > :53:02.The most difficult thing is the fact I was unable to deal

:53:03. > :53:10.with the emotions and I still struggle with that today.

:53:11. > :53:13.By the way, the Mirror did give us permission to use that interview,

:53:14. > :53:15.and Paul Stewart had waived his right to

:53:16. > :53:30.Gordon Taylor met Andy Woodward yesterday, do you think it is the

:53:31. > :53:37.tip of the iceberg? I would suggest it is going to be into double

:53:38. > :53:40.figures, from what I am hearing, since Andy has come out, we will see

:53:41. > :53:45.more and more players have the confidence to come out and the

:53:46. > :53:53.courage to come out. But it will take some time. With regard to Andy,

:53:54. > :53:59.he was in touch with our confidential helpline last year, he

:54:00. > :54:05.had quite a number of counselling sessions and advice from trained

:54:06. > :54:13.specialists. It has had the courage and confidence to come out as part

:54:14. > :54:16.of a healing process, and we are now meeting up with other such players

:54:17. > :54:23.and looking to counsel and advise them with regard to the current

:54:24. > :54:30.situation and the future. Could this man be the Jimmy Savile of the

:54:31. > :54:37.football world? As we have seen in other professions, you have seen it

:54:38. > :54:41.at the BBC, that it has been in a lot of areas, where there are adults

:54:42. > :54:48.in responsible positions over children, and they have exploited

:54:49. > :54:56.that position with abuse, and it is very harrowing, it is obviously

:54:57. > :55:02.disturbing to deal with, but we are looking to make sure that this is in

:55:03. > :55:06.the past, and we have got to be mindful that this does not happen in

:55:07. > :55:13.the present, and to heed what has happened. There are more

:55:14. > :55:17.safeguarding issues at play now but the FA and with the football league

:55:18. > :55:21.and the Premier League, but it is something that we need to be

:55:22. > :55:25.extremely vigilant on. And learn from the past. Gordon Taylor, the

:55:26. > :55:38.head of the PFA. Let's go live to the Old Bailey, the

:55:39. > :55:47.trial of Stephen Port. What have you heard? The jury have been out since

:55:48. > :55:51.Monday last week, and last night they came back and said they had

:55:52. > :55:55.agreed unanimously on some of the charges but not others, so the judge

:55:56. > :56:02.put them back and put all of the indictments to them, and they gave

:56:03. > :56:06.verdict on some of them. Stephen Port, a chef from East London, faced

:56:07. > :56:11.29 charges, including drugging, rape, sexual assault and four

:56:12. > :56:17.murders. The jury had found him guilty of three of those murders,

:56:18. > :56:22.all against young gay men in their early 20s, all in about a year's

:56:23. > :56:28.period. The jury also found him guilty of some of the drugging, rape

:56:29. > :56:31.and sexual assault charges. Seven drugging offences, free sexual

:56:32. > :56:36.assaults and three rapes. They could not agree on the other charges, the

:56:37. > :56:39.judge has sent them away to good to do their deliberations and has given

:56:40. > :56:50.them a direction he will accept a majority verdict. The verdicts we

:56:51. > :56:53.know about, three men, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack

:56:54. > :56:57.Taylor, all killed close to his flat. They all had strikingly

:56:58. > :57:02.similar details about their deaths, they had all been picked up on apps,

:57:03. > :57:11.taken up to Stephen Port's flat and given lethal overdoses of jihadi B.

:57:12. > :57:18.Gabriel Kovari was killed in August 2014, he is a Slovakian, and Daniel

:57:19. > :57:23.Whitworth was 21, just a month later, both were found 500 metres

:57:24. > :57:29.away from Stephen Port's flat in a churchyard, by the same dog walker.

:57:30. > :57:34.A day later, Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, was also killed, given an

:57:35. > :57:37.overdose. His family were in court, many of the family members were,

:57:38. > :57:44.there were tears of the verdicts were read out, Stephen Port stud

:57:45. > :57:48.impassively in the dock. The jury have gone away to knew their

:57:49. > :57:51.deliberations, they have been out since Monday, they have agreed

:57:52. > :57:53.unanimously verdicts on three murders a range of other charges,

:57:54. > :58:02.they continue their deliberations on the rest now.

:58:03. > :58:08.To reiterate, a jury has found Stephen Port guilty of the murders

:58:09. > :58:12.of three young gay men, Jack Taylor, Daniel Whitworth and Gabriel Kovari.

:58:13. > :58:20.More reaction tomorrow to the case. 24 watching. We are back tomorrow at

:58:21. > :58:26.9am.