09/12/2016

:00:18. > :00:20.I'm not a victim I'm a survivor - Michelle Thomson stood in the House

:00:21. > :00:22.of Commons reducing colleagues to tears as she told how

:00:23. > :00:25.as a 14 year she was raped as she walked home.

:00:26. > :00:29.In her first tv interview the MP will tell us why she decided to talk

:00:30. > :00:35.about it 37 years later, after years of silence.

:00:36. > :00:42.I did not tell my mother, my father, my friends. I did not tell the

:00:43. > :00:44.police. I bottled it all up inside me.

:00:45. > :00:46.The first report claimed that Russia has a state sponsored drugs

:00:47. > :00:48.programme in sport - the second report from

:00:49. > :00:50.the World Anti-Doping Agency is released this morning.

:00:51. > :00:52.Historical drug tests are being rechecked and more drugs

:00:53. > :01:03.In a special film for this programme we will hear the story

:01:04. > :01:06.of 14-year-old Connor Lynes who went from being a healthy teenager

:01:07. > :01:08.to needing constant care after a stroke which

:01:09. > :01:22.You can't tell him goodbye. You are sorry. I want to talk to him and say

:01:23. > :01:34.I have had a nice life. Goodbye basically.

:01:35. > :01:37.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.

:01:38. > :01:40.Lots coming up on the show for you to talk about.

:01:41. > :01:42.Post natal depression is something we associate with women

:01:43. > :01:45.but its claimed that one in ten dads suffer with it too.

:01:46. > :01:48.We are talking to a group of men who say their lives were really

:01:49. > :01:50.affected after the birth of their children.

:01:51. > :01:53.We are also tell you about the lastest bombshell from Taylor Swift

:01:54. > :01:58.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning -

:01:59. > :02:01.use the hashtag Victoria LIVE and If you text, you will be charged

:02:02. > :02:20.83 suspects have been identified with allegations of child abuse in

:02:21. > :02:26.football. 98 clubs are thought to have been affected. We will have

:02:27. > :02:29.more on this breaking story later in the programme. We will keep you

:02:30. > :02:31.up-to-date with that and reaction to it.

:02:32. > :02:33.The body representing some of England's top private schools

:02:34. > :02:36.says its members are prepared to offer up to 10,000 free places

:02:37. > :02:40.It's in response to a government consultation which said independent

:02:41. > :02:42.schools need to do more to justify their charitable

:02:43. > :02:45.Ministers have previously called on them to help ordinary families -

:02:46. > :02:47.particularly those described as "just about managing".

:02:48. > :02:53.Our Political Correspondent, Ross Hawkins reports.

:02:54. > :02:55.Private schools could and should do more to justify their status

:02:56. > :02:58.as charities, and the tax breaks that go with it.

:02:59. > :03:00.That view was made plain in a Government

:03:01. > :03:13.Now the Independent Schools Council has made ministers an offer.

:03:14. > :03:15.If the Government pays their schools what it would cost to educate

:03:16. > :03:18.children in the state sector, about ?5,500 a year,

:03:19. > :03:20.they will provide 10,000 places for pupils from low-income families

:03:21. > :03:24.The proposal would be similar in scale to the assisted

:03:25. > :03:25.places scheme scrapped by Tony Blair's Government

:03:26. > :03:32.The Independent Schools Council estimates that it would cost them

:03:33. > :03:34.?80 million, in addition to the ?350 million of bursaries

:03:35. > :04:01.They are also offering to help establish new state schools.

:04:02. > :04:03.But some say private schools should do much more for society,

:04:04. > :04:06.like the Chief Inspector of Schools in England, Sir Michael Wilshaw,

:04:07. > :04:08.if they are to deserve the charitable status that gives

:04:09. > :04:11.some of Britain's most prestigious institutions big tax breaks.

:04:12. > :04:14.Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:04:15. > :04:17.The Conservatives have comfortably held the Lincolnshire seat

:04:18. > :04:20.of Sleaford and North Hykeham in a byelection, with Ukip

:04:21. > :04:23.Doctor Caroline Johnson took 54 per cent of the vote.

:04:24. > :04:26.It was a bad result for Labour, slipping from second

:04:27. > :04:28.place at the 2015 general election to fourth, behind

:04:29. > :04:31.Boris Johnson begins a visit to the Middle East today, less

:04:32. > :04:34.than 24 hours after he was publicly rebuked by Downing Street

:04:35. > :04:36.for comments he made about Saudi Arabia.

:04:37. > :04:37.The Foreign Secretary accused the country

:04:38. > :04:39.of engaging in "proxy wars" - prompting Number ten

:04:40. > :04:41.to insist his views did not represent government policy.

:04:42. > :04:54.Mr Johnson will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

:04:55. > :04:56.The second and final report on state-sponsored doping in Russian

:04:57. > :05:09.An interim investigation, released in July, led to more

:05:10. > :05:11.than a hundred Russian athletes being banned from the Rio Olympics,

:05:12. > :05:13.and the country's entire team barred from the Paralympics.

:05:14. > :05:16.It was Russia on the grandest sports stage.

:05:17. > :05:18.The bombastic Winter Olympics in Sochi.

:05:19. > :05:20.According to Richard McLaren, the show were severely tainted.

:05:21. > :05:22.His initial report found that Russian cheats had been

:05:23. > :05:24.protected in a plot worthy of an espionage thriller.

:05:25. > :05:27.Secret Service agents at the dead of night inside the anti-doping lab

:05:28. > :05:30.were passed dirty samples through a small hole in the wall,

:05:31. > :05:33.which was swapped for clean ones, and that similar cover-ups in many

:05:34. > :05:34.different sports sanctioned by the state had been

:05:35. > :05:45.The Russian minister of sport directed, controlled and oversaw

:05:46. > :05:47.the manipulation of athletes' analytical results or sample

:05:48. > :05:49.swapping, with the active participation and assistance

:05:50. > :05:58.Today, further details of what he claimed was a corrupt

:05:59. > :06:01.The first part caused chaos inside the IOC ahead

:06:02. > :06:17.Controversially they decided not to issue a blanket ban on Russia,

:06:18. > :06:19.although the track and field team remains barred from

:06:20. > :06:22.Olympic leaders have indicated tougher action will be taken

:06:23. > :06:24.if further evidence confirms the Canadian professor's

:06:25. > :06:27.Russia insists they are doing all they can to reform,

:06:28. > :06:29.although critics claim the state is still in denial over

:06:30. > :06:38.The National Assembly in South Korea has voted to impeach

:06:39. > :06:39.President Park Geun-hye following allegations of corruption.

:06:40. > :06:42.The measure forces her to step aside as head of state

:06:43. > :06:44.while the Constitutional Court decides whether to

:06:45. > :06:47.She remains technically president but all power will go immediately

:06:48. > :06:56.Nearly 19,000 children were admitted to hospital after self-harming last

:06:57. > :07:00.year in England and Wales - a rise of 14 per cent over the past

:07:01. > :07:10.three years, according to the children's charity NSPCC.

:07:11. > :07:12.It said the NHS figures should be a "real wake-up call"

:07:13. > :07:14.to all those who cared about young people's wellbeing.

:07:15. > :07:17.Self-harming is one of the most common reasons for children

:07:18. > :07:18.to contact the charity's Childline service

:07:19. > :07:20.Trade associations in the food and drink industry are warning

:07:21. > :07:24.of higher prices unless the UK can secure its present access to workers

:07:25. > :07:39.raised their concerns about labour shortages in an open

:07:40. > :07:42.Nearly four million people are employed in producing,

:07:43. > :07:44.packaging, selling and serving food and drink in the UK,

:07:45. > :07:48.Ministers say they're determined to get the best deal for Britian

:07:49. > :07:52.The RAC Foundation says the amount of money councils in England

:07:53. > :07:54.generated from parking charges and fines rose

:07:55. > :07:57.The charity says that after deducting running costs,

:07:58. > :07:58.local authorities made 756 million pounds.

:07:59. > :08:02.This research looks at the income councils received from parking

:08:03. > :08:04.charges and penalty notices and then takes away their running costs

:08:05. > :08:08.According to the RAC Foundation, in the last financial year

:08:09. > :08:10.that figure rose by 9%, compared with the previous year,

:08:11. > :08:13.and was up by more than one third from four years ago.

:08:14. > :08:29.Falling running costs and increased income are thought

:08:30. > :08:32.The RAC Foundation described the surplus as eye-wateringly large

:08:33. > :08:35.and said it reflected the growing competition for parking spaces

:08:36. > :08:38.The Local Government Association insisted councils don't make

:08:39. > :08:40.a profit from parking, and that the money is used

:08:41. > :08:42.to run parking services, as well as being invested

:08:43. > :08:51.The Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas is celebrating his hundredth birthday.

:08:52. > :08:53.His career has spanned seven decades, and highlights have

:08:54. > :08:55.included three Oscar nominations, as well as an honorary

:08:56. > :09:01.Douglas is best known for his roles in "Spartacus" and "20,000

:09:02. > :09:08.President Obama has led tributes to the first

:09:09. > :09:10.American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, who has

:09:11. > :09:15.Mr Obama said the former astronaut and senator was an "icon" whose

:09:16. > :09:19.successful flight, in the Friendship Seven

:09:20. > :09:21.capsule in 1962, showed there was no limit

:09:22. > :09:29.Our Science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports.

:09:30. > :09:31.On February 20th, 1962, John Glenn began a journey

:09:32. > :09:37.that would make him one of America's greatest heroes.

:09:38. > :09:45.Back then, there was only room for one in the spacecraft.

:09:46. > :09:49.And mission control was in a cramped room.

:09:50. > :09:51.It was all so new, and astronauts were doing things

:09:52. > :09:55.MISSION CONTROL: Godspeed, John Glenn.

:09:56. > :10:04.Friendship 7 set off, taking the US Marine

:10:05. > :10:09.He was not the first man in space, or even the first American.

:10:10. > :10:14.But John Glenn's orbit was the moment the Americans finally

:10:15. > :10:19.caught up with the Soviets in the space race.

:10:20. > :10:29.His performance in fulfilment of this most dangerous assignment

:10:30. > :10:31.reflects the highest credit upon himself and the United States.

:10:32. > :10:43.And for that, President Kennedy and the nation were duly grateful.

:10:44. > :10:47.John Glenn was the embodiment of America's new-found supremacy.

:10:48. > :10:53.And it was only now it had found expression.

:10:54. > :10:57.In 1974, John Glenn was elected to the Senate, and ten years later,

:10:58. > :11:04.he tried to become the Democratic candidate for president, but failed.

:11:05. > :11:08.And lift-off of Discovery with a crew of six astronaut heroes

:11:09. > :11:13.In 1998, he was still blazing a trail.

:11:14. > :11:18.Aged 77, he became the oldest person to go into space.

:11:19. > :11:21.Yes, I am still a little round-faced here today,

:11:22. > :11:24.and that comes from the fluid body shift that occurs.

:11:25. > :11:26.That's something, as I understand, that goes away

:11:27. > :11:32.Just a handful of minutes remain until...

:11:33. > :11:37.He'll be remembered, though, for his courage

:11:38. > :11:41.and bravery in the early years of America's space programme.

:11:42. > :11:51.A man, they said, that had the right stuff.

:11:52. > :12:02.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30.

:12:03. > :12:10.Police force is reporting that 83 potential suspects have been

:12:11. > :12:15.identified in their investigation into allegations of historical child

:12:16. > :12:19.sexual abuse in football. The figures they are putting out

:12:20. > :12:27.indicate 98 football clubs have been impacted by allegations. Does not

:12:28. > :12:31.equate to 98 football club is under investigation, that the number of

:12:32. > :12:37.clubs referenced when information is submitted. That is all tiers of

:12:38. > :12:43.football through to Premier League clubs into amateur. The age range of

:12:44. > :12:52.potential victims is spending seven years, through to 20 years. 629

:12:53. > :12:57.referrals referred by the operation investigating the allegations.

:12:58. > :13:03.Coming directly from police forces and referrals from the NSPCC

:13:04. > :13:07.helpline. They will not break down the figure, into exactly what it

:13:08. > :13:15.means. Allegations made by potential victims or witnesses. Whether the

:13:16. > :13:23.information received is new or a duplication. They will have to break

:13:24. > :13:28.down those 629 referrals in terms of numbers. They went break the figure

:13:29. > :13:32.down any further, they want any figure released into the public

:13:33. > :13:36.domain to be completely accurate. The accurate figures they are

:13:37. > :13:40.putting out this morning, the latest figures are that 83 potential

:13:41. > :13:49.suspects have been identified, 98 football clubs have been impacted.

:13:50. > :13:54.The indicative number of victims provided as 350, they are saying

:13:55. > :13:58.that continues to apply until the process of analysing the information

:13:59. > :14:05.received by operation hydrant is released. The National police Chiefs

:14:06. > :14:12.Council putting out the latest figures they have. They want anyone

:14:13. > :14:28.who may have been a victim of child sexual abuse to get in touch.

:14:29. > :14:31.Regardless of how long going to happen, get in touch, they would

:14:32. > :14:36.treat all reports sensitively and seriously. Anyone with information

:14:37. > :14:41.is urged to come forward. We will keep you updated on that, and bring

:14:42. > :14:45.you more reaction to it, get in touch through the morning.

:14:46. > :14:48.use the hashtag #VictoriaLIVE and if you text, you will be charged

:14:49. > :15:03.England's batsmen managing to find form.

:15:04. > :15:05.It's been a difficult tour for England so far.

:15:06. > :15:07.Remember they were close to winning the first test,

:15:08. > :15:15.And then they lost the next two, so they MUST win this one

:15:16. > :15:18.And then they lost the next two, so they must win this one

:15:19. > :15:21.England's main problem has been scoring enough runs.

:15:22. > :15:23.They've really struggled against the Indian spin bowlers,

:15:24. > :15:26.but they've posted a competitive total in the first innings of this

:15:27. > :15:29.match They lost three wickets quite quickly at the start of today.

:15:30. > :15:31.But Jos Buttler and Jake Ball put together a vital partnership.

:15:32. > :15:34.Buttler made his return to the test side in the last match.

:15:35. > :15:37.Up until then he spent 14 months out of the team.

:15:38. > :15:40.He's seen as more of a one day specialist, but he scored 76.

:15:41. > :15:47.England did manage to get a breakthrough when india batted.

:15:48. > :15:49.Moeen Ali with the wicket But they've still got

:15:50. > :16:07.Yep, 2-0 against Zoria Luhansk - their first away win

:16:08. > :16:10.in Europe for three years - it means they're

:16:11. > :16:11.through to the knockout stages of the competition.

:16:12. > :16:14.They finished second in their group will go into monday's

:16:15. > :16:16.draw of 32 unseeded, but they're still one

:16:17. > :16:19.Interesting to see some of their big summer signings

:16:20. > :16:21.finally looking at ease in a Manchester United shirt.

:16:22. > :16:36.Henrik Mkhitaryan bought for ?26 million.

:16:37. > :16:40.But made a slow start to life at Old Trafford was often left out

:16:41. > :16:43.But he bagged his first goal was given man

:16:44. > :16:46.of the match last night, his performances have

:16:47. > :16:49.United fans will also be pleased with Zlatan Ibrahimovic who's

:16:50. > :16:51.on a great goal-scoring run at the moment.

:16:52. > :16:54.He got United's second, which was his seventh in 6 games.

:16:55. > :16:56.So lots of positives for United as they go

:16:57. > :17:01.into Sunday's Premier League clash with Tottenham on Sunday.

:17:02. > :17:06.Not such a good night for Southampton?

:17:07. > :17:19.Their 1-1 draw with Hapoel Beersheva meant

:17:20. > :17:21.they could only finish third in their group Southampton

:17:22. > :17:23.perhaps paid the price for their cautious approach,

:17:24. > :17:25.knowing they only needed a goal-less draw to progress.

:17:26. > :17:28.It all looked to be going according to plan, but with 12 minutes to go,

:17:29. > :17:35.37 years of public silence ended yesterday for Michelle Thomson

:17:36. > :17:37.when she stood in front of colleagues in the House

:17:38. > :17:40.of Commons and described the night when she was raped

:17:41. > :17:42.The independent MP for Edinburgh West talked

:17:43. > :17:45.about the horror and self-loathing she felt after her ordeal,

:17:46. > :17:47.and why she kept it secret for so many years.

:17:48. > :17:49.We will talk to Michelle in her first broadcast

:17:50. > :17:52.interview in a few minutes, but first let's have a listen

:17:53. > :17:56.Today, I am going to relay an event that happened to me many years ago,

:17:57. > :18:00.and I wanted to give a very personal perspective to help people in this

:18:01. > :18:02.place and outside understand one element of sexual

:18:03. > :18:12.As is common, it was by somebody who was known to me.

:18:13. > :18:15.He had offered to walk me home from a youth event,

:18:16. > :18:17.and in those days everybody walked everywhere, it was quite

:18:18. > :18:22.It was early evening, it wasn't dark, I was wearing,

:18:23. > :18:27.I'm imagining, I'm guessing jeans and a sweatshirt.

:18:28. > :18:30.I knew my way around where I lived, I was very comfortable,

:18:31. > :18:33.and we did go a slightly different way, but I didn't

:18:34. > :18:37.He told me he wanted to show me something in a wooded area,

:18:38. > :18:41.and at that point I must admit I was alarmed.

:18:42. > :18:46.I did have a warning bell, but I overrode that warning bell

:18:47. > :18:51.because I knew him and therefore there was a level of trust in place.

:18:52. > :18:55.And, to be honest, looking back at that point, I don't think

:18:56. > :19:00.It was not something that was talked about.

:19:01. > :19:03.My mother never talked to me about it, I didn't hear other girls

:19:04. > :19:09.It was mercifully quick, and I remember first

:19:10. > :19:13.of all feeling surprise, then fear, then horror

:19:14. > :19:17.as I realised I quite simply couldn't escape,

:19:18. > :19:20.because obviously, he was stronger than me.

:19:21. > :19:23.And there was no sense, even initially, of any

:19:24. > :19:25.sexual desire from him, which, I suppose, looking

:19:26. > :19:35.My senses were absolutely numbed, and thinking about it now,

:19:36. > :19:39.37 years later, I cannot remember hearing anything when I

:19:40. > :19:44.Now, as somebody who is an ex-professional

:19:45. > :19:47.musician who is very, very auditory, I find

:19:48. > :19:53.I now understand that your subconscious brain,

:19:54. > :19:58.not your conscious brain, makes a decision on your behalf

:19:59. > :20:00.as to how you should respond, whether you take flight,

:20:01. > :20:02.whether you fight, or whether you freeze.

:20:03. > :20:10.I was crying, I was cold and I was shivering,

:20:11. > :20:13.and I now realise of course that was the shock response.

:20:14. > :20:16.I didn't tell my mother, I didn't tell my father.

:20:17. > :20:21.I didn't tell my friends, and I didn't tell the police.

:20:22. > :20:28.I hoped, briefly and appallingly, that I might be pregnant so that

:20:29. > :20:33.that would force a situation to help me control it.

:20:34. > :20:35.And, of course, without support, the capacity and resources I had

:20:36. > :20:37.within me to process it were very limited.

:20:38. > :20:43.I was ashamed that I had allowed this to happen to me,

:20:44. > :20:45.and I had a whole range of internal conversations about,

:20:46. > :20:48.I should have known, why did I go that way,

:20:49. > :20:51.why did I walk home with him, why didn't I understand the danger?

:20:52. > :20:57.I deserved it because I was too this, too that.

:20:58. > :21:00.I felt that I was spoiled and impure, and I really felt

:21:01. > :21:11.I, of course, then detached from the child that up

:21:12. > :21:16.And although, in reality, at the age of 14, that was probably

:21:17. > :21:18.the start of my sexual awakening, at that time, remembering back, sex

:21:19. > :21:21.was something that men did to women, and perhaps this incident reinforced

:21:22. > :21:30.I now understand that even a brief period of hypersexuality

:21:31. > :21:32.is about trying to make sense of an incident and reframe

:21:33. > :21:39.My oldest friends, with whom I'm still friends, must have

:21:40. > :21:43.sensed a change in me, but because I never told them,

:21:44. > :21:46.they didn't know the cause, and I allowed myself to drift away

:21:47. > :21:53.And indeed, I found myself taking time off school and staying at home

:21:54. > :21:56.on my own, listening to music and reading and so on.

:21:57. > :21:58.I did have a boyfriend in later years of school,

:21:59. > :22:02.and he was very supportive when I told him about it,

:22:03. > :22:04.but I couldn't make sense in my response,

:22:05. > :22:06.and it is my response that gives weight to the event.

:22:07. > :22:14.I carried that guilt, anger, fear, sadness and bitterness for years,

:22:15. > :22:17.and when I got married 12 years later, I felt I had a duty

:22:18. > :22:22.I wanted him to understand why there was a swaddled kernel

:22:23. > :22:26.of extreme emotion at the very heart of me that I knew he could sense,

:22:27. > :22:30.but for many years, I simply could not say the words

:22:31. > :22:39.I could not say the words, and it was only in my mid-40s

:22:40. > :22:42.I took some steps to go and get help with it.

:22:43. > :22:45.So it had a huge effect on me and it fundamentally and fatally

:22:46. > :22:46.undermined my self-esteem, my confidence,

:22:47. > :22:53.Despite this, I am blessed in my life.

:22:54. > :22:56.I've been happily married for 25 years, but if this

:22:57. > :22:59.was the effect from one small - albeit significant -

:23:00. > :23:02.event in my life stage, how must it be for these women

:23:03. > :23:07.who are carrying this on a day-by-day basis?

:23:08. > :23:12.And I thought carefully, should I speak about this today?

:23:13. > :23:16.And that almost intake of breath -

:23:17. > :23:19."What? You are going to go and talk about this?!"

:23:20. > :23:21.- was exactly the reason that motivated me to do it,

:23:22. > :23:31.because there is still a taboo about sharing this kind

:23:32. > :23:33.of information, and certainly for people of my generation,

:23:34. > :23:37.it is truly shocking to be talking in public about this sort of thing.

:23:38. > :23:41.And, as somebody remarked earlier, rape doesn't just affect the woman,

:23:42. > :23:44.it affects the family as well, and before my mother

:23:45. > :23:46.died early of cancer I really wanted to tell her,

:23:47. > :23:53.I have a daughter, and if something happened to my daughter

:23:54. > :23:57.and she couldn't share it with me, I would be appalled,

:23:58. > :24:01.and so it was possibly cowardly, but it was an act of love that

:24:02. > :24:05.Michelle's story reduced many of her colleagues to tears,

:24:06. > :24:08.including the House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow.

:24:09. > :24:11.I thank the honourable lady for what she has said

:24:12. > :24:14.and the way in which she said it, which has...

:24:15. > :24:20.left an indelible impression upon us all.

:24:21. > :24:34.Michelle, you were talking about something so deeply personal in a

:24:35. > :24:40.public forum like that, which cannot have been easy. What made you decide

:24:41. > :24:44.to speak? I think it was a whole range of things. I mean obviously,

:24:45. > :24:50.the debate itself was cross-party, and I had already planned to speak

:24:51. > :24:56.in the debate anyway. But there is so much in the public domain at the

:24:57. > :24:59.moment. Of course, your earlier right about some poor children who

:25:00. > :25:07.have been abused in football clubs, it is very much in the public domain

:25:08. > :25:11.and I think it is a really important part of my role as a public figure

:25:12. > :25:17.to help shape and influence things in wider society. I knew that if I

:25:18. > :25:23.could summon the courage to speak about this, it would get a much

:25:24. > :25:28.wider resonance than one person being able to tell their friends or

:25:29. > :25:36.so on, and I thought, I have to do this. Part of the thing about being

:25:37. > :25:40.an MP and setting aside politics and whatnot, it is actually about giving

:25:41. > :25:44.voice to people who are not able to speak out in the same way. So there

:25:45. > :25:51.were a number of factors coming together. What has been -- did what

:25:52. > :25:54.has been emerging over the child abuse allegations in football, and

:25:55. > :25:59.hearing so movingly from men talking about their previous experiences,

:26:00. > :26:07.impact on your decision? How much of a factor was that? As I said, it was

:26:08. > :26:10.a range of things. You make an important point, because this kind

:26:11. > :26:19.of abhorrent behaviour affects men as well. Men are subjected to rape

:26:20. > :26:23.and sexual assault as well. It was more simply that the opportunity was

:26:24. > :26:29.there in terms of the debate. I was going to speak in it anyway, and I

:26:30. > :26:34.thought it would be useful to offer that personal perspective. You could

:26:35. > :26:40.see when I was speaking that it was very real for me. All I was doing

:26:41. > :26:47.was recounting what happened to me and how it made me feel, so it made

:26:48. > :26:51.me very natural. The Commons feels like a very changed place these

:26:52. > :26:55.days. We have heard from several MPs talking about very personal

:26:56. > :27:00.experiences that have impacted deeply on their lives. We have heard

:27:01. > :27:03.MPs talking about stillbirth. We have seen MPs in tears in the

:27:04. > :27:08.Commons chamber. Does it now feel like the sort of environment where

:27:09. > :27:11.it is right to bring up these personal experiences, because it is

:27:12. > :27:17.a way of communicating with so many people out there who will be feeling

:27:18. > :27:23.the same, having experienced common situations that don't get talked

:27:24. > :27:28.about? Yeah, the Commons chamber can be a variety of things. Obviously,

:27:29. > :27:32.everybody will see Prime Minister's Questions, when there was a lot of

:27:33. > :27:39.sparring back and forth. And there are really political debates, where

:27:40. > :27:43.people are taking sides. Sometimes, to be honest, you can hear behaviour

:27:44. > :27:50.that is not helpful. And a bit of rudeness and argy-bargy and so on.

:27:51. > :27:53.But there is also the important cross-party debates, where people

:27:54. > :27:57.genuinely leave their politics at the door. It's not about politics,

:27:58. > :28:03.it's about human beings and it's about providing a forum for people

:28:04. > :28:06.to speak and engage on topics like this that are so important and

:28:07. > :28:15.affect people's lives on the day by day basis. To my mind, they are some

:28:16. > :28:18.of the best debates to take part in, because if you can help change

:28:19. > :28:24.things for people, that is a wonderful privilege. How much do you

:28:25. > :28:27.think has changed in terms of people coming out to talk about what has

:28:28. > :28:31.happened to them? We have been hearing from people who were

:28:32. > :28:35.affected many years ago, you included. But looking back to the

:28:36. > :28:38.14-year-old girl that you were at the time when you were struggling to

:28:39. > :28:42.understand what had happened to you, you did not know what rate was and

:28:43. > :28:48.you felt you couldn't talk to anybody, in the end, if it is a

:28:49. > :28:54.child, those confused feelings will always be there, however much

:28:55. > :29:00.awareness there is amongst others about what is going on. That is an

:29:01. > :29:06.important question. How much have things really changed? The fact that

:29:07. > :29:13.I was able to talk about that, obviously I have taken the time to

:29:14. > :29:17.give the right information to my own daughter and we have a close

:29:18. > :29:23.relationship. But I think we as a society are light years away from

:29:24. > :29:28.where we should be about keeping young children, women and girls

:29:29. > :29:34.safe. The statistics are huge about what many women, who incidentally

:29:35. > :29:41.will not be able to speak out, are subjected to on a day by day basis.

:29:42. > :29:46.I think we have so much further to go. Yes, we have clearly made

:29:47. > :29:51.progress. But we are nowhere near it yet. And some of the language I was

:29:52. > :29:58.using, I almost deliberately wanted to shock. I have heard some men use

:29:59. > :30:04.the kind of language... Well, she must have been asking for it. I have

:30:05. > :30:10.heard men say that in the last couple of years, and that is

:30:11. > :30:18.outrageous. For me, it is about changing society so that it becomes

:30:19. > :30:21.so completely unacceptable. Yes, we will take steps over people who have

:30:22. > :30:24.been involved in the sexual abuse of children, but we have to stop it

:30:25. > :30:37.happening in the first place and I think we have some way to go.

:30:38. > :30:46.What about changing the law? You are in a position to campaign on that

:30:47. > :30:51.platform. Do you see aspects of the law that you would like to

:30:52. > :30:57.potentially campaign on? To be honest, the law is clear about what

:30:58. > :31:03.is right and wrong. The difficulty is getting to a successful

:31:04. > :31:09.prosecution. We know the reporting rates for rape are very low. We can

:31:10. > :31:17.only guess, if people do not tell us about it. We know conviction rates

:31:18. > :31:22.are also very low. In a matter of law, it is vital somebody's given

:31:23. > :31:29.the premise of innocence before being proven guilty. We still have

:31:30. > :31:37.some way to go before that. This is continuing the talked about. All the

:31:38. > :31:41.agencies understand, and I don't think it is a matter of law, how we

:31:42. > :31:48.can go forward and build knowledge so that less of this happens, and if

:31:49. > :31:56.it is dealt with incredibly sympathetically. Prosecution and

:31:57. > :32:03.conviction can occur. We saw John Burke a to tears when he heard you

:32:04. > :32:08.speak. MPs have been tweeting about what you said, describing yourself

:32:09. > :32:14.as a survivor not a victim. Johnny Mercer said carriage. Another MP

:32:15. > :32:28.saying deeply inspiring speech about her ordeal. How did people react

:32:29. > :32:33.around yesterday. The whole response has been completely humbling. I was

:32:34. > :32:40.not really giving attention to anyone else. I was wrapped up in the

:32:41. > :32:48.story I was trying to relay. Did not see the speaker until after I had

:32:49. > :32:53.finished. I would like to give my thanks to the support I have

:32:54. > :33:04.received. It is people in the way that community, I had a huge amounts

:33:05. > :33:08.of e-mails. I am humbled. One very important thing I would stress, I

:33:09. > :33:15.would seek to bring the issue and put it squarely on the table, offer

:33:16. > :33:23.a personal perspective, so people understood how it affects lives.

:33:24. > :33:27.Trying to feed into driving change. Thank you to everybody who got in

:33:28. > :33:32.touch. What we really want to happen, is that it gives more focus,

:33:33. > :33:39.we can try and help other women, who I know will be suffering in silence.

:33:40. > :33:44.That is important about this. It is good to hear that you have had help.

:33:45. > :33:49.You have reached the stage where you can talk about it in the way you are

:33:50. > :33:54.talking about. All these years after the event, how do you feel about the

:33:55. > :33:58.importance of justice? Obviously an individual matter for anybody

:33:59. > :34:02.talking about historic allegations so far down the track. We have seen

:34:03. > :34:07.what has happened with the historic allegations of child abuse in

:34:08. > :34:15.football, what is your view on justice? We have seen everybody

:34:16. > :34:20.taking their own perspective. I articulated yesterday there are

:34:21. > :34:25.elements of my personality I now understand a word directly shaped by

:34:26. > :34:29.that event. The fact that I now understand that, in a curious way

:34:30. > :34:32.the position I have ended up in has given me strength to at least

:34:33. > :34:37.understand it. What I was trying to put across what I was saying when I

:34:38. > :34:41.was young, I did not have the faintest idea why I was behaving the

:34:42. > :34:48.way I did. I am not doing this to try and go after somebody. Not what

:34:49. > :34:56.it is about. It is about saying I am not a victim I am a survivor. Had it

:34:57. > :35:02.been even ten years ago, I would have said I want to go after him. I

:35:03. > :35:08.use to either lead daydream, if I could do this evening, do that, I

:35:09. > :35:13.was so angry and bitter. I not now. That, I would stress is a very

:35:14. > :35:23.personal perspective I am taking. Everybody must take the ring view

:35:24. > :35:26.about how they want to move forward. People have been subjected to

:35:27. > :35:31.terrible things, I would encourage people to do what is right for them.

:35:32. > :35:36.I would like to read out some tweets and e-mails we have in getting while

:35:37. > :35:41.he had been talking this morning. Glenn has said what a remarkable

:35:42. > :35:43.person, such strength in dignity interactions. Well done for standing

:35:44. > :35:48.up and speaking about this. Catherine had said I am 55, hearing

:35:49. > :35:53.Michelle Thomson brought back painful memories. Colin tweeted, I

:35:54. > :35:58.bow to you for shining a light, it will help many people. Joanna said I

:35:59. > :36:07.have heard the MP talking about when she was raped I felt that shame when

:36:08. > :36:12.I was raped by my stepfather at 12 years old, he is dead. It still

:36:13. > :36:18.makes me cry hearing the story brings it all back. Louise has said

:36:19. > :36:21.so brave from Michelle Thomson, a shame so many MPs did not bother to

:36:22. > :36:34.turn up for such an important debate. I have already had so many,

:36:35. > :36:39.what I would say to people I did go and get help. It took me until my

:36:40. > :36:44.mid-40s. I was embarrassed, I was not even able to say the word rape

:36:45. > :36:49.without welling up and crying. Never mind actually describing it. It was

:36:50. > :36:54.remarkably at that point I thought, this is an issue. I am carrying

:36:55. > :37:00.something. By the time I got married I knew that. I did not realise to

:37:01. > :37:06.what extent, and what debt. I would encourage everyone, go and do that.

:37:07. > :37:15.In a strange kind of way I have pushed back, it has set me free. It

:37:16. > :37:20.has given the liberty to move in my life, that I am pleased, ultimately

:37:21. > :37:24.I did go and get help. I would encourage other people to do the

:37:25. > :37:28.same. Thank you very much for taking time to speak to us this morning.

:37:29. > :37:32.Thank you for your comments on our interview with Michelle Thompson.

:37:33. > :37:34.Still to come: The World Anti-Doping Agency releases a second report this

:37:35. > :37:36.morning into state-sponsored doping in Russian sport.

:37:37. > :37:39.We'll be talking to a journalist in Moscow who's been

:37:40. > :37:42.Having a stroke at 14 years old is incredibly rare -

:37:43. > :37:44.but Connor Lynes went from being a healthy

:37:45. > :37:46.teenager to needing constant care after a stroke

:37:47. > :38:00.We'll bring you a special film with his story.

:38:01. > :38:07.Police forces across the country have reported that eighty-three

:38:08. > :38:10.potential suspects have been identified, in connection

:38:11. > :38:14.with allegations of historical child sexual abuse in football.

:38:15. > :38:17.The National Police Chiefs' Council says there have been 639 referrals

:38:18. > :38:19.to the nationwide police inquiry - Operation Hydrant -

:38:20. > :38:21.from the NSPCC helpline - and from police forces.

:38:22. > :38:24.It also says that ninety-eight clubs are thought to have been affected,

:38:25. > :38:40.but that doesn't mean they are under investigation.

:38:41. > :38:47.To anyone who has experienced sexual abuse as a young footballer, the

:38:48. > :39:01.NSPCC has a helpline which offers advice and support.

:39:02. > :39:03.The Conservatives have comfortably held the Lincolnshire seat

:39:04. > :39:05.of Sleaford and North Hykeham in a byelection, with Ukip

:39:06. > :39:09.Doctor Caroline Johnson took 54 per cent of the vote.

:39:10. > :39:11.It was a bad result for Labour, slipping from second

:39:12. > :39:13.place at the 2015 general election to fourth, behind

:39:14. > :39:18.Boris Johnson begins a visit to the Middle East today, less

:39:19. > :39:20.than 24 hours after he was publicly rebuked by Downing Street

:39:21. > :39:22.for comments he made about Saudi Arabia.

:39:23. > :39:23.The Foreign Secretary accused the country

:39:24. > :39:26.of engaging in "proxy wars" - prompting Number ten

:39:27. > :39:28.to insist his views did not represent government policy.

:39:29. > :39:41.Mr Johnson will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

:39:42. > :39:43.David Cameron has said he has no regrets about

:39:44. > :39:47.He made his comments during a speech at a university

:39:48. > :39:49.in the American state of Indiana, where he said he remained upbeat

:39:50. > :39:54.I believe that choice will be carried through.

:39:55. > :39:57.I think it's right that it is carried through.

:39:58. > :40:01.And, yes, there will be difficulties along the way,

:40:02. > :40:03.because it's a big change, but ultimately it can

:40:04. > :40:07.Councils in England made more than 750 million pounds from parking

:40:08. > :40:10.charges and fines last year - a rise of more than 60 million.

:40:11. > :40:13.Research from the RAC Foundation found that the largest totals

:40:14. > :40:16.The Local Government Association has insisted that councils do not make

:40:17. > :40:37.England's cricketers managed to post a competitive total

:40:38. > :40:40.in the fourth test against india in Mumbai Jos Buttler scored 76

:40:41. > :40:49.India are going well in reply though.

:40:50. > :41:00.England must win the match if they're to stay in the series

:41:01. > :41:02.Manchester United won two-nil away, at Ukrainian side Zoria Luhansk

:41:03. > :41:06.to secure their place in the knock out stages of the Europa League.

:41:07. > :41:08.It's their first away win in Europe for three years,

:41:09. > :41:10.despite playing in frozen temperatures, on a pitch

:41:11. > :41:11.manager Jose Mourinho described as "difficult".

:41:12. > :41:13.But Southampton were knocked out of the competition,

:41:14. > :41:16.on goal difference, after a one all draw at home to Israeli side,

:41:17. > :41:20.And Laura Kenny, has been named the Sunday Times

:41:21. > :41:24.It comes in the same year that she became Britain's most

:41:25. > :41:28.The 24-year old led the team pursuit squad to victory in Rio,

:41:29. > :41:40.and also successfully defended her omnium title.

:41:41. > :41:43.Top private schools in England are to offer up to 10,000 free

:41:44. > :41:44.places to low income families every year.

:41:45. > :41:47.It's in response to a government consultation which said independent

:41:48. > :41:49.schools need to do more to justify their charitable status

:41:50. > :42:02.Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins is here.

:42:03. > :42:10.What are they offering? We have had this for years, the debate about

:42:11. > :42:14.some of the most prestigious and wealthy situations are charities,

:42:15. > :42:20.they get big tax breaks. For years under pressure. The government has

:42:21. > :42:22.said if they do not act, they were right into law exactly what they

:42:23. > :42:27.have to do to justify being charities. They have said if the

:42:28. > :42:33.state gives us the cost of educating a child in the state sector, we will

:42:34. > :42:37.provide 10,000 places in England, paying the rest of the money and

:42:38. > :42:42.making the education available. Sounds like a pretty good offer, if

:42:43. > :42:47.you are on the receiving end. There are people questioning this morning

:42:48. > :42:50.what effect that has if you skim out some of the most motivated children

:42:51. > :42:55.from the state sector putting them into private schools. Do we want to

:42:56. > :42:59.be giving potentially millions of pounds of taxpayers money to some of

:43:00. > :43:05.these private is situations to educate students in the state

:43:06. > :43:09.sector? Does not shut down the debate about whether they should

:43:10. > :43:15.have charitable status? No prospect of that debate being shut down. They

:43:16. > :43:19.say they do much more by the way of charitable bursaries, help for

:43:20. > :43:24.individual students than they benefit from the tax break status.

:43:25. > :43:29.They think they are making the sort of size of Arthur of a scheme got

:43:30. > :43:34.rid of by Tony Blair back in 1997, when he came in with new Labour.

:43:35. > :43:40.Something of that scale already existed. They said they want to

:43:41. > :43:45.recreate something on that scale. Aiming it at lower income families.

:43:46. > :43:49.They hope it will give Theresa May an opportunity to say we are putting

:43:50. > :43:54.the squeeze on elite institutions, helping some of those people just

:43:55. > :43:58.about managing, in her phrase, we are miles away from seeing a precise

:43:59. > :44:03.design, and the government signing up to do this. Miles away from when

:44:04. > :44:08.it would start. They say if they got the green light, could be up and

:44:09. > :44:11.running in a couple of years. Regarding the argument about

:44:12. > :44:20.concerns of skimming out the most motivated and able pupils from the

:44:21. > :44:27.state sector. Who is raising the issue, and what are the private

:44:28. > :44:36.school saying? Estelle Morris, who got rid of the scheme in the 1980s,

:44:37. > :44:39.she is saying this scheme will not be just aimed at the brightest

:44:40. > :44:46.students. You do just that the test to get in. When they do, there is a

:44:47. > :44:50.way to design it so you are not just going after the very brightest. Not

:44:51. > :44:55.taking kids at to go to private school, potentially taking kids to

:44:56. > :45:00.go to a new grammar school, become offensive left with those who

:45:01. > :45:03.remain. They say they can design it correctly. They're waiting for the

:45:04. > :45:08.government to come to them and give them a hint as to how this would

:45:09. > :45:12.work. Certainly standing pretty ready to do something. If the

:45:13. > :45:15.charitable status was taken away, it would be a real blow to some of the

:45:16. > :45:17.smaller and less famous institutions.

:45:18. > :45:20.Pop stars Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik are collaborating

:45:21. > :45:22.on a new song for the soundtrack to the upcoming film

:45:23. > :45:26.We'll be looking at the wild reception this news has

:45:27. > :45:35.A major report into the use of banned drugs in Russian sport

:45:36. > :45:40.It's the second report on the subject commissioned

:45:41. > :45:50.The first part claimed that Russia had a state-sponsored

:45:51. > :45:52.drugs programme in sport, and it resulted in hundreds of

:45:53. > :45:57.the nation's athletes being banned from the Rio Olympics this summer.

:45:58. > :45:59.Since then, historical drug tests have been checked again,

:46:00. > :46:01.including some from the 2012 Olympics, with several Russian

:46:02. > :46:03.athletes stripped of major medals after positive results.

:46:04. > :46:06.Here's a reminder of how the scandal unfolded.

:46:07. > :46:09.It's the worst doping scandal in history, but how did we get here?

:46:10. > :46:12.Talk of Russian doping has been around for years.

:46:13. > :46:15.Just days before the Beijing Olympics, seven athletes

:46:16. > :46:20.were suspended for providing fake urine samples.

:46:21. > :46:24.Four years later in London, Russia had a successful Games,

:46:25. > :46:26.a total of 71 medals in what was called

:46:27. > :46:37.In 2014, a German TV station broadcast claims that most Russian

:46:38. > :46:41.athletes were using banned substances, and that Russian

:46:42. > :46:44.officials could make positive tests disappear for cash.

:46:45. > :46:51.The World Anti-Doping Agency set up an independent commission

:46:52. > :46:54.to look into the claims, headed by this man, its former

:46:55. > :46:58.The same TV station and the Sunday Times then

:46:59. > :47:03.this time claiming that so-called blood doping is rife in athletics,

:47:04. > :47:05.with 80% of Russian medal winners under suspicion.

:47:06. > :47:07.It said the sport's governing body, the IAAF, had done next

:47:08. > :47:11.The then frontrunner to lead that organisation, Lord Coe,

:47:12. > :47:18.I don't think anybody should underestimate the anger that is felt

:47:19. > :47:20.in our sport in the portrayal in the last few days

:47:21. > :47:28.of a sport that has done, historically, absolutely nothing.

:47:29. > :47:31.We've led the way on this, and that in some way, we sit

:47:32. > :47:33.on our hands at best, and at worst are complicit

:47:34. > :47:37.in a cover-up, that just is not borne out by anything we have done

:47:38. > :47:40.A few months later, Wada's independent commission

:47:41. > :47:46.Russia was guilty of systemic state-sponsored doping.

:47:47. > :47:50.Then, more confirmation - the International Olympic Committee

:47:51. > :47:53.said it had retested frozen samples from the Beijing

:47:54. > :47:57.31 athletes from Beijing failed those retests -

:47:58. > :48:03.23 athletes from London also failed - eight of those

:48:04. > :48:08.Another round of retesting found another 45 positive

:48:09. > :48:13.Russian track and field athletes were banned

:48:14. > :48:16.from the Rio Olympics, and all athletes

:48:17. > :48:21.The independent report by Canadian Professor Richard McLaren

:48:22. > :48:24.being released today is expected to give details of doping at

:48:25. > :48:40.Let's talk now to Andrew Steele, a British Olympic athlete -

:48:41. > :48:42.Dimitry Babich from the Sputnik News Agency in Moscow -

:48:43. > :48:52.and in Sheffield, Dr Tom Bassindale a forensic toxicologist.

:48:53. > :48:57.Tom, we don't know what will be in this report today, but there has

:48:58. > :49:01.already been a lot of evidence stacked up against Russia. How do

:49:02. > :49:06.you see the allegations that we are hearing? The main thrust of

:49:07. > :49:13.today's's report will probably be on the athletes themselves. The first

:49:14. > :49:19.reports of there were 600 or so samples that had simply disappeared

:49:20. > :49:25.and not been analysed. And there were 60 or so samples where the

:49:26. > :49:28.results had been changed. So the thrust of this report will be naming

:49:29. > :49:32.those people and trying to get to the bottom of what they used and

:49:33. > :49:39.maybe seeing if they can go back and test historical samples from those

:49:40. > :49:44.athletes. Andrew, you have felt the effect of competing against athletes

:49:45. > :49:49.who have been cheating because when you were in the 2008 Olympic relay,

:49:50. > :49:52.you've finished fourth. You subsequently were told you should

:49:53. > :49:57.have had the third-place medal, because the Russians who won the

:49:58. > :50:01.bronze were cheating. Tell us about how you discovered this. Well, we

:50:02. > :50:05.finished fourth some eight years ago in Beijing. We had a Russian team,

:50:06. > :50:10.and one of the athletes has since been implicated in this retest. They

:50:11. > :50:16.retest of the samples eight years later and an adverse analytical

:50:17. > :50:20.findings showed up in that. So by default, the Russian team lose that

:50:21. > :50:25.third place and the British team, the fourth placed team, upgraded in

:50:26. > :50:33.theory to third place. So in some way, we have had a more successful

:50:34. > :50:38.result that we had at the time. But so long after the event. How do you

:50:39. > :50:43.feel about it? Well, either happy to be able to say, we were the rightful

:50:44. > :50:46.third-place finishers. But it is a shame to have missed out on the

:50:47. > :50:52.opportunity to stand on the podium. In my career, that was the closest I

:50:53. > :50:56.got. So it was a real shame to not experience that at the time. Do you

:50:57. > :51:01.think it had an impact on your career? As an athlete, when you can

:51:02. > :51:04.present the fact that you have secured an Olympic medal, do other

:51:05. > :51:09.things follow from that and if you don't get one, do you lose out? I do

:51:10. > :51:13.believe that sporting success is built on small changes in a

:51:14. > :51:18.trajectory when things go well or don't go well. As you can see, when

:51:19. > :51:22.somebody wins, winning begets winning. I do believe it would have

:51:23. > :51:25.been an important factor for me going forward, especially to the

:51:26. > :51:29.London 2012 games four years after Beijing, if I had been able to say I

:51:30. > :51:35.had come back from my first Olympic Games with a medal. That would have

:51:36. > :51:38.helped my performance. Dmitry from the Sputnik newsagency in Moscow,

:51:39. > :51:46.Russia has paid the price this summer for what went on at Rio. Is

:51:47. > :51:51.this an issue of national shame? I think it should be an issue of

:51:52. > :51:54.national shame for Britain, the United States and Canada. While I

:51:55. > :51:57.understand that I am speaking against everything you have said in

:51:58. > :52:04.the last ten minutes, you simply didn't mention a lot of facts. All

:52:05. > :52:06.the Russian track and field federation were banned from

:52:07. > :52:12.participating in the Rio Olympics. I think that is a shame, because the

:52:13. > :52:16.responsibility should be individual. You are trying to turn it around on

:52:17. > :52:20.other countries, but it is Russia that has been found to have that

:52:21. > :52:28.state-sponsored doping programme going on. It has meant that athletes

:52:29. > :52:32.like Andrea lost out. Let me finish. If you look at what happened, the

:52:33. > :52:40.whole Russian team of track and field were not allowed to go to Rio,

:52:41. > :52:45.despite having a majority of athletes who never failed that the

:52:46. > :52:48.ping tests. And there were some American and British athletes who

:52:49. > :52:54.had failed that test before, but who still went to Rio. You can obviously

:52:55. > :52:57.debate the scale of the punishment and whether the punishment fits the

:52:58. > :53:04.crime and clearly you don't think so, but in terms of what Russia was

:53:05. > :53:18.doing, how wrong was that? I am try to speak, and you interrupt me. The

:53:19. > :53:21.problem is the fact that British athletes spoke for disqualification

:53:22. > :53:26.of the full Russian team. That had never happened before. Politics were

:53:27. > :53:30.involved in sports before. There are all these terrible boycotts of the

:53:31. > :53:34.Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, or the games in Los Angeles in 1984.

:53:35. > :53:40.But at least we were always friends with each other. There were problems

:53:41. > :53:43.between Carter and Brezhnev, but no problems between athletes. The fact

:53:44. > :53:45.that now, British athletes, the whole team asked for the whole

:53:46. > :53:51.Russian team to be disqualified, that is a shame that is how it is

:53:52. > :54:02.understood in Russia. The allegations against Russia are not

:54:03. > :54:05.of individuals doping off their own bat in an unlinked way, the

:54:06. > :54:08.allegations against Russia are of a state-sponsored programme of doping.

:54:09. > :54:17.Isn't that different from what has been alleged elsewhere? When you

:54:18. > :54:21.check an athlete, if you find in his blood the remnants of doping, then

:54:22. > :54:24.he is guilty. It doesn't matter if it was the state or another

:54:25. > :54:33.individual who infected him with that doping. In this report, he said

:54:34. > :54:39.he thought the Russian state was involved. He spoke about certain

:54:40. > :54:44.scratches on urine tests. We have never even seen the photos of these

:54:45. > :54:59.scratches, let alone the scratches themselves. All his accusations are

:55:00. > :54:59.based on the testimony of one individual who

:55:00. > :55:04.fled to the United States and immediately started to make

:55:05. > :55:11.accusations, probably under duress from the American side. I want to

:55:12. > :55:15.get Andrew to respond to what you are saying. Dmitry is saying that

:55:16. > :55:20.the Russians feel they have been unfairly punished. What do you think

:55:21. > :55:23.about the fact that a whole team was banned for what happened? I agree it

:55:24. > :55:27.is a terrible shame. It should not be something that is celebrated, and

:55:28. > :55:31.I am not celebrating the fact that there was a team ahead of me that

:55:32. > :55:35.were then subsequently banned. There were athlete in that four by 400

:55:36. > :55:39.metre team that did not fail that test in, so they lose out, which is

:55:40. > :55:44.somewhat unfair. However, my opinion is that if the system itself is

:55:45. > :55:50.doing Russian athletes wrong, how else are we to elicit change unless

:55:51. > :55:53.there is a large-scale move made in order to create a consequence to

:55:54. > :55:59.this? I don't believe it should just be on Russia. The equivalent of this

:56:00. > :56:03.McLaren report should go for every federation there is. Why don't we

:56:04. > :56:06.investigate that? Or the importance should be put on this level of

:56:07. > :56:14.in-depth investigation into every governing body that puts a team

:56:15. > :56:18.forward for a major championship. Dr Tom Baxendale, the spotlight has

:56:19. > :56:22.been shone on what is going on. How much have things changed? Well, you

:56:23. > :56:31.heard there that Russia are denying that there was really a problem. No,

:56:32. > :56:36.you are misquoting me. The Russian officials said there was a problem

:56:37. > :56:39.and they set up an independent commission, headed by Olympic

:56:40. > :56:46.champion which is now checking or the actions of the anti-doping

:56:47. > :56:52.agency in Russia. So that is not true, we did not deny that there was

:56:53. > :56:56.a problem. But the whole team, the collective punishment, that was

:56:57. > :56:59.unfair. In that case, the investigation needs to be taken out

:57:00. > :57:03.of the hands of the Russians. It needs to go to an independent body.

:57:04. > :57:09.That is what this report might tell us today. The World Anti-Doping

:57:10. > :57:12.Agency needs to be independent. Currently, the World Anti-Doping

:57:13. > :57:14.Agency is funded by the Olympic Committee and the national sponsored

:57:15. > :57:20.federations and national governments. So clearly, they have

:57:21. > :57:24.slight conflict-of-interest in place there. A third of the wider members

:57:25. > :57:28.are members of the International Olympic Committee. So if you want to

:57:29. > :57:32.make it fully independent, the World Anti-Doping Agency needs funding and

:57:33. > :57:36.it needs to be left to do its own independent reports. I agree that a

:57:37. > :57:40.McLaren type report could be undertaken on many more countries if

:57:41. > :57:43.that were the case, but it needs a lot more finance and more

:57:44. > :57:52.independents together to do that. Thank you all very much, thank you

:57:53. > :57:56.for your views on this. You can watch live coverage of the report as

:57:57. > :58:00.it is released from 11.15 on the BBC News Channel.

:58:01. > :58:02.Still to come: Postnatal depression is often seen as a illness

:58:03. > :58:04.which affects new mums, but around one in 10

:58:05. > :58:07.With no support for men under the NHS guidelines,

:58:08. > :58:16.we'll be asking just after 10 if men are suffering in silence.

:58:17. > :58:24.Let's get the latest weather update.

:58:25. > :58:30.We have some slightly cooler weather on the way this weekend, but today

:58:31. > :58:34.is mild again. The winds are from the south or Southwest, blowing in a

:58:35. > :58:40.lot of cloud and perhaps some rain. We have had some cracking sunrise

:58:41. > :58:52.pictures this morning. Lovely, colourful skies.

:58:53. > :58:57.You can see the extent of the cloud we have got, most of it coming in on

:58:58. > :59:02.these weather fronts. It is producing some drizzle and outbreaks

:59:03. > :59:06.of rain. The main area of wetter weather stretches across parts of

:59:07. > :59:11.Wales and northern England, then heading across Northern Ireland and

:59:12. > :59:18.into Scotland. Diddy south of that, it is dull, drizzly and misty. Slow

:59:19. > :59:23.improvements across the Midlands and East Anglia. It should brighten up

:59:24. > :59:27.as the cloud lifts, boosting temperatures. Further north across

:59:28. > :59:30.England and into the north and west of Wales, we will have a zone of

:59:31. > :59:39.much more cloud that will bring rain at times. It will turn wetter in the

:59:40. > :59:46.afternoon for Northern Ireland. Northern Scotland may see a glimpse

:59:47. > :59:50.of sunshine. It becomes dry overnight across Scotland and

:59:51. > :59:55.Northern Ireland. Our main rain and trickles southwards. A lot of low

:59:56. > :00:06.cloud. A bit misty in the south-east, where winds are lighter.

:00:07. > :00:11.Here, we will catch a few blustery showers tomorrow. So does the north

:00:12. > :00:15.and west of Scotland. But for much of England and Wales, cloud will be

:00:16. > :00:27.thickening. Rain will debate developing through the day. A

:00:28. > :00:31.miserable, wet afternoon. As we head into the second half of the weekend,

:00:32. > :00:35.we are all going to get into some cooler and fresh air. That is behind

:00:36. > :00:39.that weather frontage eventually takes the rain away from England

:00:40. > :00:44.overnight. Over the top of that area of high pressure, we get a westerly

:00:45. > :00:51.breeze. These are the temperatures in the towns and cities, not

:00:52. > :00:55.desperately cold, but chillier than it has been. We follow that with a

:00:56. > :00:59.bright and breezy day on Sunday. Some rain across the north and west

:01:00. > :01:06.of Scotland. Temperatures will be a bit lower than today.

:01:07. > :01:11.Hello I'm Joanna Gosling, welcome to the programme if you've

:01:12. > :01:17.In the past hour police forces have announced that they've identified

:01:18. > :01:20.eighty three potential suspects and ninety eight clubs in connection

:01:21. > :01:23.with the ongoing child sexual abuse scandal in football.

:01:24. > :01:25.Over six hundred referrals from a NSPCC helpline have

:01:26. > :01:27.also been received - we'll be bringing you all

:01:28. > :01:31.Post natal depression is often seen as a illness

:01:32. > :01:33.which affects new mums - but around one in ten

:01:34. > :01:37.With no support for men under the NHS guidelines we'll be

:01:38. > :01:44.asking just after ten - are men suffering in silence?

:01:45. > :01:46.And - an early Christmas present for music fans.

:01:47. > :01:56.Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik have announced they've got together

:01:57. > :01:58."Fifty Shades Darker" - it's sent social media into a spin.

:01:59. > :02:11.Taylor gave fans a taste of the song on her Twitter and Instagram feeds.

:02:12. > :02:28.Police forces across the country are saying that eighty-three

:02:29. > :02:30.potential suspects have been identified, in connection

:02:31. > :02:46.with allegations of historical child sexual abuse in football.

:02:47. > :02:54.also says there have been 639 referrals

:02:55. > :02:56.to the nationwide police inquiry - Operation Hydrant -

:02:57. > :02:58.from the NSPCC helpline - and from police forces.

:02:59. > :03:00.It says that ninety-eight clubs, from premier to amateur,

:03:01. > :03:02.have been referenced but are not necessarily under investigation.

:03:03. > :03:08.we will speak to Richard Conway on this in a few minutes time.

:03:09. > :03:11.Some of the top public schools in England are to offer up to 10,000

:03:12. > :03:18.free places to low-income families each year.

:03:19. > :03:21.It's part of proposals being put to the government,

:03:22. > :03:23.which is currently holding a consultation on the

:03:24. > :03:26.Ministers have previously called on independent schools to do more

:03:27. > :03:29.to benefit ordinary families, in order to justify their tax breaks

:03:30. > :03:32.Police in Scotland will contact MP Michelle Thomson after she revealed

:03:33. > :03:37.The independent MP told the House of Commons she was attacked

:03:38. > :03:40.in a wooded area 37 years ago by someone she knew.

:03:41. > :03:41.This morning, she's told this programme why

:03:42. > :03:59.It is an important part of my role as a public figure to help shape and

:04:00. > :04:02.influence things in wider society. I knew if I could summon the courage

:04:03. > :04:08.to speak about this it would get a much wider resonance than one person

:04:09. > :04:15.being able to tell their friends and so one. I sort of thought I have to

:04:16. > :04:22.do this. Part of the thing about being an MP, setting aside politics,

:04:23. > :04:23.it is actually about giving voice to people who are not able to speak out

:04:24. > :04:26.in the same way. The Conservatives have comfortably

:04:27. > :04:28.held the Lincolnshire seat of Sleaford and North Hykeham

:04:29. > :04:30.in a byelection, with Ukip Doctor Caroline Johnson took 54

:04:31. > :04:33.per cent of the vote. It was a bad result for Labour,

:04:34. > :04:36.slipping from second place at the 2015 general

:04:37. > :04:53.election to fourth, behind Sir Malcolm Rifkind said the jury is

:04:54. > :04:59.out on whether Boris Johnson can stay in the job.

:05:00. > :05:01.He begins a visit to the Middle East today, less

:05:02. > :05:04.than 24 hours after he was publicly rebuked by Downing Street

:05:05. > :05:05.for comments he made about Saudi Arabia.

:05:06. > :05:10.Malcolm Rifkind said he should not have made a statement completely out

:05:11. > :05:20.of accordance with government lines. A major report into the use

:05:21. > :05:23.of banned drugs in Russian sport It's the second report

:05:24. > :05:26.on the subject commissioned The first part claimed that Russia

:05:27. > :05:30.had a state-sponsored drugs programme in sport,

:05:31. > :05:32.and it resulted in hundreds of the nation's athletes being banned

:05:33. > :05:39.from the Rio Olympics this summer. A lot of people getting in touch

:05:40. > :05:45.after the interview with Michelle Thompson he said in the Commons

:05:46. > :05:50.yesterday she had been raped. It moved some MPs to tears yesterday.

:05:51. > :05:56.Sandra has e-mailed to say is I never told anybody I was raped at 13

:05:57. > :06:00.for 30 years. I told my sister, she could not believe I had not told

:06:01. > :06:03.her. I did not what my family to know, because they would feel they

:06:04. > :06:09.could not protect me and would feel guilty. Cathy said I have seen

:06:10. > :06:13.Michelle Thomson's interview, I had a similar experience at the age of

:06:14. > :06:18.13. I have a personal story that is sad, but the speech was a comfort.

:06:19. > :06:24.We must educate young men not to do this. Obviously our thoughts go out

:06:25. > :06:26.to you if you have suffered experiences like that. Get in touch

:06:27. > :06:33.throughout the morning. The Fourth Test is evenly poised,

:06:34. > :06:44.as the the second day between England India draws

:06:45. > :06:53.to a close in Mumbai. England must win the match remember

:06:54. > :06:57.if they're to stay in he series. Earlier Jos Buttler helped his side

:06:58. > :07:00.post a competitve 400 all out. Buttler shared a vital partnership

:07:01. > :07:05.with tail-ender Jake Ball England Buttler shared a vital partnership

:07:06. > :07:10.with tail-ender Jake Ball. England managed to get

:07:11. > :07:12.a breakthrough when India batted - Moeen Ali with the wicket of opener

:07:13. > :07:15.Rahul since then though, the hosts have recovered

:07:16. > :07:17.and are looking set for a big total A few moments ago

:07:18. > :07:23.they were 104 for 1. Manchester United are into the knock

:07:24. > :07:26.out stage of the Europa League. They needed a draw in Ukraine,

:07:27. > :07:41.to be sure of progression, Henrikh Mkhitaryan got his first

:07:42. > :07:45.goal for United. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his second in the final

:07:46. > :07:52.minutes. If you look at the numbers, playing in the opponent's half, it

:07:53. > :07:56.was a team to win. Yes, I have to say they were good enough to give us

:07:57. > :07:59.a difficult match. The match was difficult.

:08:00. > :08:02.But Southampton are out, after a one all draw

:08:03. > :08:05.All the Saints needed was a goal-less draw,

:08:06. > :08:08.so Saints' late equaliser proved irrelevant as they finished third

:08:09. > :08:16.Anthony Joshua makes the second defence,

:08:17. > :08:18.of his IBF World Heavyweight title tomorrow, when he fights

:08:19. > :08:21.Joshua is undefeated in 17 professional bouts.

:08:22. > :08:23.Former champion Wladimir Klitschko, who the British figther is expected

:08:24. > :08:30.to fight in the spring, will be ringside.

:08:31. > :08:41.I have two beat Molina in good fashion, to go on and beat

:08:42. > :08:43.Klitschko. I will not make him look like a novice. Every is step up, he

:08:44. > :08:46.is adding to the progression. Laura Kenny has been named

:08:47. > :08:49.the Sunday Times Sports-woman of the Year It comes in the same

:08:50. > :08:52.year she became Britain's most The 24-year old, who recently

:08:53. > :08:55.married fellow cyclist Jason Kenny, led the team pursuit squad

:08:56. > :08:57.to victory in Rio and also successfully

:08:58. > :08:59.defended her omnium title. Paracyclist champion

:09:00. > :09:01.Dame Sarah Storey, came second, with Olympic taekwondo gold

:09:02. > :09:19.medallist Jade Jones third. Roughly one in five mothers have

:09:20. > :09:21.post-natal depression, but it's claimed up to one in ten

:09:22. > :09:24.dads suffer from it too. Today, there's an international

:09:25. > :09:26.event looking at myths, facts and realities surrounding

:09:27. > :09:28.post-natal mental health But only one speaker will be talking

:09:29. > :09:33.about the mental health of fathers. Despite studies suggesting many men

:09:34. > :09:35.live with post-natal depression, campaigners say there is no support

:09:36. > :09:38.for men under the NHS guidelines - So are these fathers

:09:39. > :09:51.suffering in silence? Lloyd Philpott, is an expert

:09:52. > :09:57.in post natal depression from University College Cork,

:09:58. > :10:00.Matt Padley, suffered from PND and Jessica Warne is a mother who did

:10:01. > :10:14.too - she founded a charity, Thank you for joining us. Mark, you

:10:15. > :10:19.suffered from postnatal depression, you campaign about it. Not something

:10:20. > :10:24.I have ever heard of, postnatal depression in men, tell us about

:10:25. > :10:30.your experiences, when you realise you had a problem? I had never

:10:31. > :10:35.suffered from a depression, 30 years of age, my wife had a dramatic

:10:36. > :10:39.birth. I had a panic attack, I thought my wife and the baby would

:10:40. > :10:43.die in the labour ward. From that, my wife had severe postnatal

:10:44. > :10:48.depression. I had to give up work to look after her. I love my work,

:10:49. > :10:54.there was no money coming in, we had a mortgage. The stigma, telling my

:10:55. > :10:59.best friends and family. All in the short space of time. I started to

:11:00. > :11:03.get suicidal thoughts. When you say you had to give up your job, was

:11:04. > :11:07.there because of the matter support you had to get your wife, or because

:11:08. > :11:16.you are struggling and could not cope? Mobley was talking about

:11:17. > :11:22.postnatal depression, let alone father's. I was worried about my

:11:23. > :11:27.wife, I could not tell her, I wanted her to get better, suffered for six

:11:28. > :11:31.years. I was not diagnosed, but I would have been to date. It got so

:11:32. > :11:41.bad, you said you considered taking your own life? I never made a plan.

:11:42. > :11:45.The second time, when I had a full on breakdown, my coping skill was

:11:46. > :11:51.drinking. The first year, my personality change, I was angry,

:11:52. > :11:57.busted my hand, totally out of character. Six years I suffered,

:11:58. > :12:02.really I was put on medication and counselling. You said you felt you

:12:03. > :12:10.had to support your wife, how vulnerable did that make you? Even

:12:11. > :12:17.now, thinking about it, 12 years ago, I think of that time, horrible

:12:18. > :12:25.experience for us. A lot of families break up. I mentioned, you have

:12:26. > :12:32.struggled with postnatal depression. You have three children. Tell us

:12:33. > :12:35.your experiences? My experience postnatal depression came after the

:12:36. > :12:42.birth of our second child. Our first son. I struggled after the birth of

:12:43. > :12:46.our daughter, the eldest child. Feeling I was not living up to my

:12:47. > :12:51.own expectations of being a dad. Falling short of what other people

:12:52. > :12:57.expected of me. Finding things everybody else found straightforward

:12:58. > :13:03.difficult. Getting your children to go to sleep. I know that is not an

:13:04. > :13:08.easy task, many people struggle. Having to be the provider. Having to

:13:09. > :13:12.be strong, because I have not been through the physical changes, coping

:13:13. > :13:19.with all of that. Rather like Mark I reached a point after the birth of

:13:20. > :13:25.our second child, it's all got too much for me to cope with. To the

:13:26. > :13:30.point, where something straightforward snapped. I came home

:13:31. > :13:39.from work curled up in a ball in bed, my wife came home, finding me

:13:40. > :13:42.there. From there, the story has been more positive, up until that

:13:43. > :13:49.point, did not feel like I could talk to anyone about it. Did you

:13:50. > :13:57.think postnatal depression? Not something associated. I had some

:13:58. > :14:01.contact with two GPs. I reached a point where I decided I needed to do

:14:02. > :14:11.something about it. A male GP dismissed the comments told me to

:14:12. > :14:19.man up. -- dismissed it, told me to man up. Told me to pull it together,

:14:20. > :14:22.essentially, that I chose to have children, that is my responsibility,

:14:23. > :14:31.get on with it. As you could imagine, not an honestly helpful. I

:14:32. > :14:36.went to see a second GP. Who took the time to have a chat with me,

:14:37. > :14:40.find out what is going on. Whilst she did not diagnosed me as having

:14:41. > :14:45.postnatal depression, she drew a very clear link between what I was

:14:46. > :14:48.feeling, how I was feeling about life, not just about being a dad,

:14:49. > :14:54.everything else, and the birth of our second child. You said you would

:14:55. > :15:00.look at other people, thinking they were coping. Everybody else's baby

:15:01. > :15:04.was sleeping through the night. Everyone will totally identify with

:15:05. > :15:08.that feeling. Everybody else's coping brilliantly, you are not. As

:15:09. > :15:14.men, how much harder is it to speak up? Women do not always, but within

:15:15. > :15:18.the health service, when you go for postnatal checks, questions are

:15:19. > :15:23.asked. Questions are not specifically asked of dads. I don't

:15:24. > :15:30.remember anybody asking me how I was feeling, how it was doing poster.

:15:31. > :15:35.Certainly I felt I did not have the right to even talk about it. Did not

:15:36. > :15:40.have the right to complain. As a dad, it is your job. We're in an

:15:41. > :15:43.interesting period, there is a desire for lots of dads to be far

:15:44. > :15:48.more involved children than they have been historically. We have not

:15:49. > :15:53.worked out as a society what we do about that, how we talk about it. If

:15:54. > :15:59.your mates had asked you how you were doing, all you had known each

:16:00. > :16:06.other, or having made to suffer the same feelings, but did not speak

:16:07. > :16:12.openly, would you have responded differently? If someone asked you

:16:13. > :16:15.how you are feeling? The time I opened up after the breakdown is to

:16:16. > :16:19.a gentleman you have the same experience. We were in the gym,

:16:20. > :16:24.side-by-side. That is how I started the organisation. I realised more

:16:25. > :16:31.fathers were going through the same experience as me. I did not know but

:16:32. > :16:38.depression was. 12 years ago the stigma was there. The education

:16:39. > :16:44.behind it, I could not tell my best friends at that time. Really hard.

:16:45. > :16:52.When you did start talking to them...? Best thing I have done.

:16:53. > :16:56.Seeking help in the first place. Matt, it is awful to hear that you

:16:57. > :17:01.were effectively told to man up when you first talk somebody about it.

:17:02. > :17:05.Did you subsequently start talking to friends, and how did they

:17:06. > :17:09.respond? I am fortunate to be surrounded by a good group of male

:17:10. > :17:15.friends, but even talking to them, I was hesitant to use the word

:17:16. > :17:23.postnatal. We were talking about this before. There is still a kind

:17:24. > :17:28.of, postnatal and men, it gets a reaction. I was talking about how I

:17:29. > :17:31.was feeling, but it was only a few years down the line that I started

:17:32. > :17:39.to talk about it being postnatal depression rather than just

:17:40. > :17:43.depression. I do mean just, but yes. Jessica, you set up a charity to

:17:44. > :17:47.help women with postnatal depression, and what we are hearing

:17:48. > :17:53.from Mark and Matt is something that women who have experienced it would

:17:54. > :17:58.complete jabber defy with. Is male postnatal depression something you

:17:59. > :18:02.have come across? Absolutely. We as a charity support the family as a

:18:03. > :18:06.whole, so we look at both the mum and dad and if there are any older

:18:07. > :18:10.siblings, if they need support as well. Dads are something we come

:18:11. > :18:16.across a lot. We have a number of dads using our services, receiving

:18:17. > :18:23.counselling throughout charity and also accessing peer support via our

:18:24. > :18:28.charity. And very recently, in the last few weeks, we have had our

:18:29. > :18:31.first referrals of dads from health professionals, which is a fantastic

:18:32. > :18:37.move. And hopefully, it will keep increasing. Lloyd Philpott, you are

:18:38. > :18:42.an academic who has done studies on postnatal depression. And to hear

:18:43. > :18:48.that health authorities are starting to refer men for treatment, tell us

:18:49. > :18:53.about the scale of male postnatal depression from what your research

:18:54. > :18:58.has found? We have found that over the last ten years, there has been

:18:59. > :19:08.an increase in academics looking at the mental health of fathers. There

:19:09. > :19:12.is a prevalence of approximately 10% of fathers who have been trusted

:19:13. > :19:16.postnatal depression. We are struggling to hear you a bit. We

:19:17. > :19:21.will try and come back to you if we can improve the line. I just want to

:19:22. > :19:25.read out a few e-mails. Angela says, my ex-husband had bad postnatal

:19:26. > :19:29.depression. He could not sleep at night and through embarrassment

:19:30. > :19:33.would not go back to work even when the foreman came to the house to

:19:34. > :19:37.talk to him. This resulted in us losing our house. I never found out

:19:38. > :19:41.the facts until years later. We had no support and it was a factor in

:19:42. > :19:46.our later divorced. Paul says, postnatal depression can affect men,

:19:47. > :19:49.but it is not recognised by most medical professionals. Rosie says

:19:50. > :19:53.one in five mums suffer postnatal depression. One in ten dads will

:19:54. > :20:00.suffer postnatal depression. There must be support for both. And James

:20:01. > :20:03.says Domino support for males suffering from postnatal depression.

:20:04. > :20:07.Mark and Matt, women tend to be good at talking to each other, although

:20:08. > :20:11.not in all cases do they reveal when there are struggling because of

:20:12. > :20:18.exactly what you were saying about always imagining others are coping

:20:19. > :20:22.better. Do men need to get better at talking to each other? We know about

:20:23. > :20:29.suicide rates among men. I would like to see more research into this.

:20:30. > :20:36.I think you feel the same, Matt, yeah? Do we need to get better at

:20:37. > :20:39.talking to each other? I think as a society, we have got better at

:20:40. > :20:44.talking about mental health, but there is still a barrier for lots of

:20:45. > :20:49.men in opening up and being seen to be vulnerable in a society that

:20:50. > :20:55.still doesn't really think that is acceptable. So I think there needs

:20:56. > :21:00.to be a societal change. It is not just about men changing, it is about

:21:01. > :21:05.how we respond as a society to mental health more broadly, but in

:21:06. > :21:09.particular for men and what they struggle with. Lloyd Philpott, what

:21:10. > :21:17.would you identify as the ways of getting to grips with this and

:21:18. > :21:19.providing help? We have to increase awareness among the general public

:21:20. > :21:27.and among mental health professionals. In a wider context,

:21:28. > :21:32.we started by introducing paternity leave, which has been shown to

:21:33. > :21:39.increase fathers' involvement and decrease depression in them. It

:21:40. > :21:44.starts with health care professionals, especially screening

:21:45. > :21:47.fathers who are at high risk. When a mother is diagnosed with postnatal

:21:48. > :21:57.depression, the father or partner has a higher risk. Following on from

:21:58. > :22:00.that, when we screen, we need a referral programme. We certainly

:22:01. > :22:06.need to increase awareness among health care professionals. What Matt

:22:07. > :22:13.said his GP said, that is what tends to happen in society. Men are taught

:22:14. > :22:21.to be self-reliant. So while society wants us to be more open, we need

:22:22. > :22:35.more gender equality by increasingly support to fathers and the mother

:22:36. > :22:38.and the baby. Lloyd Philpott, thank you. Thank you also, Mark Williams

:22:39. > :22:46.and Matt and Jessica. We've had this comment for NHS

:22:47. > :22:49.England - a statement reads: We know that men with mental health

:22:50. > :22:51.conditions face barriers to accessing care due to stigma

:22:52. > :23:12.surrounding mental illness. A serious illness like a stroke can

:23:13. > :23:15.devastate a person's life for ever. But what happens when you're fit

:23:16. > :23:17.and healthy one day, to then being told you'll have

:23:18. > :23:20.to face a life-saving operation and will need constant care,

:23:21. > :23:23.at the age of just 14? Strokes in children

:23:24. > :23:24.are incredibly rare - affecting around five out of every

:23:25. > :23:27.100,000 children a year in the UK. But Connor Lynes was determined

:23:28. > :23:30.to use his experience of a stroke The doctor came home,

:23:31. > :23:44.and said if you don't get him down to surgery right now,

:23:45. > :23:46.it could be fatal, You can't tell them goodbye,

:23:47. > :23:55.you can't tell them, I just want to talk to them and say,

:23:56. > :24:02.yeah, I've had a nice life, it's been a good run,

:24:03. > :24:06.and bye, basically. As a little boy, he was quiet,

:24:07. > :24:14.he was loving, and he was just Connor lost his dad, aged one,

:24:15. > :24:23.and after that there was a few issues with mum,

:24:24. > :24:26.hence why Connor came Without rugby in my life,

:24:27. > :24:34.I probably would have done something stupid,

:24:35. > :24:39.because I probably wouldn't have Rugby's, like, got rid

:24:40. > :24:45.of the aggression, it was like a protection in a kind

:24:46. > :24:47.of way, because you're getting off the streets,

:24:48. > :24:50.you're getting away from people you don't want to hang around with,

:24:51. > :24:53.and it's getting rid of that anger He was out five nights

:24:54. > :24:57.a week training. He was always out with his mates,

:24:58. > :25:02.kicking a ball about. He slept with a rugby ball,

:25:03. > :25:04.you know, everything It was a dream, because any normal

:25:05. > :25:08.kid of my age from Hull would want to be part of,

:25:09. > :25:17.like, the Rovers. It was just an ordinary Saturday

:25:18. > :25:20.morning, the boys got on the pitch, About ten minutes from the end,

:25:21. > :25:28.Connor called for the ball, ran the ball in, but he ran into two

:25:29. > :25:32.bigger lads, and There was nothing there

:25:33. > :25:37.to raise any warning signs Well, I woke up, and I heard Connor

:25:38. > :25:53.going across the landing and I shouted through to Connor,

:25:54. > :25:55.and I heard this, like, all I can describe it was

:25:56. > :25:58.like a wailing sound, and I knew then instantly

:25:59. > :26:00.there was something not So I got to the bathroom,

:26:01. > :26:05.and my daughter was behind me, and he was just slumped over,

:26:06. > :26:09.and one side of the body was just slumped, and there was like fluid

:26:10. > :26:12.coming out of his mouth. He couldn't talk, he

:26:13. > :26:14.couldn't raise his arms. I think in the back of my mind

:26:15. > :26:17.I thought, he's having a stroke, and then again I thought,

:26:18. > :26:26.he's too young. The doctor came home,

:26:27. > :26:28.and said it could be fatal, He started moving his arms and legs,

:26:29. > :26:52.he was able to write his name, What basically made me get out

:26:53. > :26:58.of bed is because I wanted to be and walk, and, yeah.

:26:59. > :27:18.for my kids, so just try When they told us that I couldn't

:27:19. > :27:21.play rugby again, it was just like, it felt like you were outside

:27:22. > :27:25.of the room, you were not hearing And it did hurt, but you just

:27:26. > :27:32.don't want to cry to A lot of people looked at Connor,

:27:33. > :27:36.and think, he's fine, he's doing very well,

:27:37. > :27:38.but in reality he's He's still got a blood clot

:27:39. > :27:42.on his brain, he's got a narrowing They can't stent it, and they can't

:27:43. > :27:46.remove the blood clot, So every day, Connor lives

:27:47. > :27:52.with the fear of having another COMMENTATOR: And this is a lovely,

:27:53. > :27:56.lovely touch by the Rovers, Connor Lynes, he has been signed

:27:57. > :28:00.by Hull Kingston Rovers, and he takes squad number 41

:28:01. > :28:02.for this, and the rest He's gone from wanting

:28:03. > :28:13.to play rugby to now just wanting to help others,

:28:14. > :28:17.and he said to me, he used to get a buzz out of scoring tries

:28:18. > :28:20.at rugby, but now he gets a buzz out I said to Sara one day,

:28:21. > :28:24.I want to help people who have helped me, and she went,

:28:25. > :28:27.OK, well, how do And I went charity work,

:28:28. > :28:30.because it's probably the main thing how to help people who have got

:28:31. > :28:33.learning difficulties When I'm with a kid like Jack,

:28:34. > :28:44.it's amazing, he smiling, and he's knowing who you are,

:28:45. > :28:48.it's like a boost to carry on, It's just gone from strength

:28:49. > :28:51.to strength, he just comes up with his own ideas,

:28:52. > :28:54.like designing his own rugby ball, and rugby shirt, and he did that,

:28:55. > :28:57.and he puts it out there on social media, and people have really

:28:58. > :29:14.bought into the idea. For someone to be so young and to be

:29:15. > :29:18.able to go out and explain and teach the younger children about brain

:29:19. > :29:20.injury, and what the effects This is a picture of you presenting

:29:21. > :29:30.us with the cheque for ?1,000, which we are so gratefully

:29:31. > :29:34.appreciative of. He is the most inspirational young

:29:35. > :29:51.man that I've ever met. Sometimes I say, why is it me,

:29:52. > :29:54.it's always me, because I've just had so much to cope with,

:29:55. > :29:58.more than obviously a lot of 14-year-olds have had to deal

:29:59. > :30:10.with in their entire life. It is hard times, but you just try

:30:11. > :30:14.and get out of bed and make something of what you've been given,

:30:15. > :30:16.like, because you just don't want to waste life,

:30:17. > :30:18.because you don't know One Connor Lynes, there's

:30:19. > :30:37.only one Connor Lynes! Southern Railway's owners lose their

:30:38. > :30:41.High Court case to stop a series of strikes by train drivers. We will

:30:42. > :30:45.look at the continuing impact on long-suffering travellers. Plus pop

:30:46. > :30:51.stars tell us was done Zayn Malik are collaborating on a new song for

:30:52. > :30:56.the soundtrack of the film British egg starker. It is generating a lot

:30:57. > :31:14.of excitement. -- from the film 50 shades darker. is the

:31:15. > :31:16.Police forces across the country are saying that eighty-three

:31:17. > :31:18.potential suspects have been identified, in connection

:31:19. > :31:20.with allegations of historical child sexual abuse in football.

:31:21. > :31:23.also says there have been 639 referrals

:31:24. > :31:25.to the nationwide police inquiry - Operation Hydrant -

:31:26. > :31:27.from the NSPCC helpline - and from police forces.

:31:28. > :31:30.It says that ninety-eight clubs, from premier to amateur,

:31:31. > :31:32.have been referenced but are not necessarily under investigation.

:31:33. > :31:43.we will speak to Richard Conway on this in a few minutes time.

:31:44. > :31:50.only have been getting glimpses of how big this may be. The figures to

:31:51. > :31:59.days seem to give us a clearer sense of the scale? They do, the numbers

:32:00. > :32:06.described by the NSPCC as shocking. They say they revealed the deeply

:32:07. > :32:11.disturbing extent of the abuse going on. The football hotline that was

:32:12. > :32:19.launched, with the support of the FA, the NSPCC said they have had a

:32:20. > :32:25.staggering amount of calls. People can come forward in confidence, they

:32:26. > :32:32.will be listened to and supported. Those figures outlining the scale of

:32:33. > :32:42.the problem facing football. 83 potential suspects. 98 football

:32:43. > :32:47.clubs impacted. To anyone who has experienced sexual abuse as a

:32:48. > :32:47.footballer, the NSPCC has a free helpline offering advice and

:32:48. > :32:56.support. Some of the top public schools

:32:57. > :32:59.in England are to offer up to 10,000 free places to low-income

:33:00. > :33:01.families each year. It's part of proposals

:33:02. > :33:03.being put to the government, which is currently holding

:33:04. > :33:05.a consultation on the Ministers have previously called

:33:06. > :33:09.on independent schools to do more to benefit ordinary families,

:33:10. > :33:11.in order to justify their tax breaks The Conservatives have comfortably

:33:12. > :33:26.held the Lincolnshire seat of Sleaford and North Hykeham

:33:27. > :33:28.in a byelection, with Ukip Doctor Caroline Johnson took 54

:33:29. > :33:32.per cent of the vote. It was a bad result for Labour,

:33:33. > :33:34.slipping from second place at the 2015 general

:33:35. > :33:49.election to fourth, behind The number of beds closed in English

:33:50. > :33:55.hospitals because of suspected Nora virus were higher than average. 655

:33:56. > :34:00.beds close each day between the 1st of December and the 4th of December,

:34:01. > :34:07.an increase in 16.5% of last winter. Higher than average for the last

:34:08. > :34:09.five years. 19,000 people were admitted to hospital after self

:34:10. > :34:17.harming in England and Wales last year. A rising 14% over the last

:34:18. > :34:21.three years according to the NSPCC. The NHS figures should be a real

:34:22. > :34:27.wake-up call to all those who cared about young people's well-being. It

:34:28. > :34:40.is one of the most common reasons for children to contact the service.

:34:41. > :34:43.The RAC Foundation says the amount of money councils in England

:34:44. > :34:45.generated from parking charges and fines rose

:34:46. > :34:48.The charity says that after deducting running costs,

:34:49. > :34:55.local authorities made 756 million pounds.

:34:56. > :35:08.England's cricketers managed to post a competitive total in the fourth

:35:09. > :35:10.test against india in Mumbai They made exactly 400 ,

:35:11. > :35:13.but India are looking set to make a big first innings

:35:14. > :35:30.England must win the match if they're to stay in the series.

:35:31. > :35:32.Manchester United won 2-0 away, at Ukrainian side Zoria Luhansk

:35:33. > :35:35.to secure their place in the knock out stages of the Europa League.

:35:36. > :35:38.It's their first away win in Europe for three years,

:35:39. > :35:40.despite playing in frozen temperatures, on a pitch

:35:41. > :35:41.manager Jose Mourinho described as "difficult".

:35:42. > :35:43.But Southampton were knocked out of the competition,

:35:44. > :35:46.on goal difference, after a 1-1 draw at home to Israeli side,

:35:47. > :35:49.And Masters champion Danny Willett shot a four-under-par 66 to move

:35:50. > :35:51.five strokes behind leader Rafa Cabrera-Bello

:35:52. > :35:55.Willett - who dropped out of the world's top ten last month -

:35:56. > :36:01.That is all the sport. More on the BBC News Channel through the day.

:36:02. > :36:03.When the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, makes his speech

:36:04. > :36:06.in Bahrain later to mark the beginning of a visit

:36:07. > :36:08.to the Middle East there will be great interest.

:36:09. > :36:11.And that is because of what he's said about Saudi Arabia,

:36:12. > :36:14.and the way he's been slapped down by the Prime Minister Theresa May.

:36:15. > :36:16.He's accused the country of engaging in "proxy wars",

:36:17. > :36:18.which didn't go down too well in Number 10.

:36:19. > :36:20.Let's get more now with our Political

:36:21. > :36:39.Not the greatest prelude to a trip for the Foreign Secretary. I think

:36:40. > :36:43.he will certainly be under pressure to employ some of those diplomatic

:36:44. > :36:49.skills which have not been at the forefront for the last few days.

:36:50. > :36:54.Boris Johnson, it emerged, had said he believed Saudi Arabia along with

:36:55. > :36:59.Iran had been puppeteering, employing proxy wars through the

:37:00. > :37:05.region. He said there was a lack of leadership, leading to a lot of

:37:06. > :37:11.problems in the region. Just after the Prime Minister had been out in

:37:12. > :37:14.the Gulf, unprecedented honour of attending a meeting of the Gulf

:37:15. > :37:19.cooperation Council. Meeting the King of Saudi Arabia. Announcing new

:37:20. > :37:24.security cooperation. Talking about how important Saudi Arabia was in

:37:25. > :37:32.terms of cooperation, and countering terrorism. Downing Street made it

:37:33. > :37:36.clear his comments were not the policy of the government.

:37:37. > :37:43.Interesting she also said this weekend he would be expected to

:37:44. > :37:47.express the views of the government. Downing Street's irritation very

:37:48. > :37:52.clear. It seems as if Boris Johnson is carrying on. He still has the

:37:53. > :37:55.confidence of the Prime Minister. Does not seem to be facing much

:37:56. > :38:01.pressure at all to stand down, despite the fact he may have ruffled

:38:02. > :38:05.a few feathers. He will have to smooth them down this weekend in the

:38:06. > :38:15.region. What is the relationship like between him and Theresa May?

:38:16. > :38:19.There is a tension there. Downing Street and Theresa May cracking

:38:20. > :38:25.jokes Boris Johnson's expense. Questioning at the party conference

:38:26. > :38:29.whether she will get through the week with him staying on message.

:38:30. > :38:34.Cracking a joke at his expense at an awards ceremony. Theresa May is

:38:35. > :38:40.somebody who likes to keep things very calm, very control. Boris

:38:41. > :38:46.Johnson is a flamboyant, outspoken character. It is clear they have not

:38:47. > :38:52.seen eye to why on all these things. There is a tension. Interesting to

:38:53. > :38:59.hear Sir Malcolm Rifkind saying he felt the jury was out as to whether

:39:00. > :39:03.Boris Johnson could continue in that role. If he was not able to stick to

:39:04. > :39:08.the script, perhaps you might be better rough in another high-profile

:39:09. > :39:12.position. I'm sure Boris Johnson would not agree with that. He

:39:13. > :39:16.clearly has a lot of support in the party. Interesting to hear quite a

:39:17. > :39:21.few members of the foreign affairs select committee saying they believe

:39:22. > :39:27.too much fuss has been made. Perhaps Downing Street was to

:39:28. > :39:31.-- was a bit too swiftly slapping down. Perhaps they seek there was

:39:32. > :39:39.some truth in what saying. The owners of Southern Railway have

:39:40. > :39:41.lost their High Court case to stop a series of strikes

:39:42. > :39:43.by train drivers. All Southern services will be hit

:39:44. > :39:46.for three days next week and six days in January,

:39:47. > :39:48.in a dispute about Also strike days next week, three

:39:49. > :40:11.straight days. So how's it going to go

:40:12. > :40:18.down with commuters, let's talk to Kim Walker

:40:19. > :40:21.in Brighton, she was platform and says she's not been

:40:22. > :40:25.able to travel for several weeks. And Andrew Elliott -

:40:26. > :40:27.he commutes daily from Crowborough and says constant delays

:40:28. > :40:36.and cancelled trains is having a big thank you both. Tell us what

:40:37. > :40:41.happened to you, Kim? I was on the front of the platform, somebody

:40:42. > :40:46.pushed from behind, very crowded. To stop myself falling onto the tracks,

:40:47. > :40:52.I had to stretch one of my legs out, pushing backwards, in doing so, I

:40:53. > :41:00.injured my hip and back. How crowded does it get? It gets very crowded.

:41:01. > :41:04.All you need is one of the two trains going up and down the

:41:05. > :41:08.Brighton line to be cancelled, you can have over 1000 people squeezing

:41:09. > :41:17.onto one train. It gets completely mad. How do you feel about it all?

:41:18. > :41:22.I'm feeling desperate and frustrated. All I want to be able to

:41:23. > :41:29.do is go to work, not be worried about how it is going be, how long

:41:30. > :41:34.it is going to take, am I going to sit down, am I going to have to

:41:35. > :41:39.squeeze in and stand? If I get a direct train it will take one hour,

:41:40. > :41:43.ten minutes. Unless I buy a first-class ticket I don't get a

:41:44. > :41:48.seat. There are stories of people losing jobs because of the problems

:41:49. > :41:57.this is causing. What impact has it had on your work commitments?

:41:58. > :42:02.Everything else going on. I have not been able to get into my office in

:42:03. > :42:09.London for one month because injury. Yesterday my Doctor signed me from

:42:10. > :42:14.for another month. I cannot go into my office until January. Very

:42:15. > :42:18.fortunate my employers are really understanding and generous. I can

:42:19. > :42:24.work from home. Most of my work. Some of it is not getting done. Do

:42:25. > :42:29.you know others whose work has been affected? Friends unable to get to

:42:30. > :42:36.work, employers not quite so understanding. I know somebody

:42:37. > :42:40.self-employed, losing contracts, and a huge amount of money, because she

:42:41. > :42:45.was constantly turning up late for meetings in the city. I know another

:42:46. > :42:50.lady who took early retirement, she could not cope with the stress.

:42:51. > :42:56.Three hour commutes all the time. Which is what it is taking us. Most

:42:57. > :43:06.days at the moment. Three hours, what should it be. It should take?

:43:07. > :43:12.It should take one hour, 45 minutes door-to-door. Almost doubling.

:43:13. > :43:21.Because of the unreliability, having to change trains. That sort of

:43:22. > :43:28.thing. Andrew. You Jimmy Daley from Crowborough. What is your

:43:29. > :43:33.experience? -- YouTube meet daily. Very similar. Or service for the

:43:34. > :43:39.last 18 months, two years. Now the strikes have come in, exasperating

:43:40. > :43:46.the issues. Going home particularly, a bit of a lottery. You cannot rely

:43:47. > :43:54.on the Twitter feed from Southern, it is inaccurate. The feed in the

:43:55. > :44:01.website not quite accurate. You have to pitch up in the station, hoping

:44:02. > :44:05.the train is running. I had one instance where the train was

:44:06. > :44:12.cancelled midway through the route. Lead driver to pick it up half.

:44:13. > :44:23.Effectively did not operate halfway down the line. That is not uncommon.

:44:24. > :44:28.Your commute is extended. You miss things like putting your kids to

:44:29. > :44:32.bed. Helping my partner, my wife, getting them bathed and fed. You

:44:33. > :44:38.miss the quality time. It does have an effect on family life. You

:44:39. > :44:51.question why you do it. The role I have with my family comedy

:44:52. > :45:00.experience the industry, I don't have... We are having to cancel

:45:01. > :45:04.meetings, we cannot rely on the train service getting us there on

:45:05. > :45:15.time. Getting us around the country. Frustrating. Doesn't seem to be an

:45:16. > :45:21.-- seem to be in end in sight. A lot of posturing. We just want something

:45:22. > :45:24.to happen. You said your job is where it is, you live where you left

:45:25. > :45:29.me cannot change those. Have you considered changing one of the

:45:30. > :45:39.elements, to try and get rid of the issue? It is not incumbent on me to

:45:40. > :45:45.do that. I pay for a service to Southern, they do not deliver. When

:45:46. > :45:51.you hear people saying why don't you move? Why and how I can sell my

:45:52. > :45:56.house. I moved there because of the train station. How my game and get

:45:57. > :46:01.someone else to buy the house? Not incumbent on me to do that. They

:46:02. > :46:07.should deliver the service we pay for.

:46:08. > :46:13.Southern rail say they have made many compromises with the RMT union

:46:14. > :46:17.and they say the dispute is not their fault. Talks have been going

:46:18. > :46:20.on and we have made a number of compromises. They came out in our

:46:21. > :46:24.8-point plan that we put the RMT. The RMT did not put the plant of

:46:25. > :46:28.their members, so we would like them to do that. We have been listening

:46:29. > :46:40.to people and try to find a compromise. But we will not come

:46:41. > :46:43.from eyes on our desire to improve the way we operate our service for

:46:44. > :46:46.our customers. A quick final thought from you, Andrew. They say they are

:46:47. > :46:48.doing what they can. When you look at the issues that this strike is

:46:49. > :46:54.over, the work-to-rule, do you have sympathy with the side that? I did,

:46:55. > :47:00.but sympathy has run out. That only addresses a small part of some of

:47:01. > :47:08.the underlying issues that Southern rail have, you know, the faulty

:47:09. > :47:11.trains, their information service is poor. There are a number of facts

:47:12. > :47:17.that go towards the issues they are suffering. The main ones are that

:47:18. > :47:24.their conductors and drivers are now disputing with them. But there are a

:47:25. > :47:28.number of issues. They talked a lot of words, but we don't see much

:47:29. > :47:33.coming from them in terms of action. This has been going on for a long

:47:34. > :47:42.time now. Thank you all for joining us. If you are affected by any of

:47:43. > :47:45.those issues, let us know your experiences. There are going to be

:47:46. > :47:50.three days of strikes next week, so it will be an ongoing issue next

:47:51. > :47:55.week and beyond. Six days of strikes are planned in January. Get in touch

:47:56. > :48:01.and if you are happy for us to talk to you, let us know about that.

:48:02. > :48:07.We heard earlier from an MP who spoke in the Commons yesterday about

:48:08. > :48:13.the fact that she was at raped at the age of 14. After that, 37 years

:48:14. > :48:16.of public silence ended yesterday for the independent MP for Edinburgh

:48:17. > :48:19.West, Michelle Thompson, when she stood in front of colleagues in the

:48:20. > :48:20.House of Commons and described the night when she was raped as a

:48:21. > :48:23.14-year-old girl. Speaking to me a little earlier,

:48:24. > :48:26.Michelle said it was still far too hard for victims of sexual violence

:48:27. > :48:33.to come forward. The fact that I was able to talk

:48:34. > :48:38.about that, obviously I've taken the time to give the right

:48:39. > :48:41.information to my own daughter to keep her safe

:48:42. > :48:46.and we have a close relationship. But I think we as a society

:48:47. > :48:53.are light years away from where we should be

:48:54. > :48:55.about keeping young children, The statistics are huge

:48:56. > :49:01.about what many women, who incidentally won't be able

:49:02. > :49:04.to speak out, are subjected I think we've got so

:49:05. > :49:12.much further to go. And some of the language

:49:13. > :49:21.I was using, I almost I have heard some men use

:49:22. > :49:26.the kind of language... "Well, she must have

:49:27. > :49:31.been asking for it". I have heard men say that

:49:32. > :49:34.in the last couple of years, For me, it's about changing

:49:35. > :49:43.society so that it becomes Yes, we will take steps over people

:49:44. > :49:52.who have been involved in sexual abuse of children,

:49:53. > :49:55.but we have to stop it happening in the first place, and I think

:49:56. > :50:02.we've got some way to go. When you talk about change,

:50:03. > :50:04.I presume you're talking about changing society, having more

:50:05. > :50:06.transparency, more openness. You're in a position

:50:07. > :50:15.to campaign on that platform. Do you see aspects of the law

:50:16. > :50:18.that you would like to To be honest, the law is clear

:50:19. > :50:25.about what is right and wrong. The difficulty is not with the law,

:50:26. > :50:28.the difficulty is getting We know the reporting rates

:50:29. > :50:35.for rape are very low. We can only guess, if people

:50:36. > :50:43.don't tell us about it. We know conviction rates

:50:44. > :50:50.are also very low. In a matter of law, it is vital

:50:51. > :50:57.that somebody's given the premise of innocence

:50:58. > :51:02.until being proven guilty. But we still have some

:51:03. > :51:05.way to go in that. All the agencies understand,

:51:06. > :51:12.but I don't think it is a matter of law, it's about how we can

:51:13. > :51:15.go forward and build of this happens, and if it

:51:16. > :51:19.does happen, it is dealt and a prosecution and

:51:20. > :51:25.conviction can occur. We saw John Bercow moved to tears

:51:26. > :51:30.when he heard you speak. MPs have been tweeting

:51:31. > :51:32.about what you said, describing yourself

:51:33. > :51:38.as a survivor, not a victim. Another MP saying deeply inspiring

:51:39. > :51:49.speech about her ordeal at 14. How did people react

:51:50. > :51:54.around you yesterday? The whole response has been

:51:55. > :51:58.completely humbling. When I was giving my speech,

:51:59. > :52:01.I was not really giving I was very much wrapped up

:52:02. > :52:11.in the story I was trying to relay. I did not see the Speaker

:52:12. > :52:25.until after I had finished. I would like to give my thanks

:52:26. > :52:34.for the support I have received. It is also people in

:52:35. > :52:36.the wider community, I had huge amounts of

:52:37. > :52:38.e-mails and messages. But one very important

:52:39. > :52:47.thing I would stress to bring the issue and put it

:52:48. > :52:51.squarely on the table, and offer a personal perspective,

:52:52. > :52:53.so people understood how so that that could try to feed

:52:54. > :52:57.into driving change. Thank you to everybody

:52:58. > :53:01.who got in touch. But what we really want to happen

:53:02. > :53:04.is that it gives more focus. We can try and help other

:53:05. > :53:07.women who I know will be That is the important

:53:08. > :53:18.thing about this. Of course, Michelle Thomson does

:53:19. > :53:23.have a right to anonymity, but she waved that right in talking to us.

:53:24. > :53:26.If you have been affected by any of the issues we have been talking

:53:27. > :53:31.about, you can find a list of helplines at the BBC action line.

:53:32. > :53:34.Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik have just dropped a big surprise to music

:53:35. > :53:37.fans by announcing they've got together on a new song

:53:38. > :53:43.for the soundtrack to the upcoming film Fifty Shades Darker.

:53:44. > :53:45.I Don't Wanna Live Forever unexpectedly appeared in the US

:53:46. > :53:47.iTunes Store just before midnight Friday US eastern time.

:53:48. > :53:50.And it's sent social media into a spin.

:53:51. > :53:52.Taylor herself gave fans a taste of the new collaboration

:53:53. > :54:13.# Just lost the love of my life. # Baby, baby, I feel crazy.

:54:14. > :54:18.# Up all night, all-night. # I gave you something, but you gave

:54:19. > :54:21.me nothing. # What is happening?

:54:22. > :54:27.# I don't want to live for ever #. Let's get the lowdown

:54:28. > :54:30.on this new collaboration. Alicia Adejobi is the senior

:54:31. > :54:31.entertainment reporter for International Business Times

:54:32. > :54:41.just us via webcam. Well, they know how to play their

:54:42. > :54:47.fans and get media attention, don't they? They definitely do. It came as

:54:48. > :54:51.a huge surprise to us here at the International business Times. As far

:54:52. > :54:54.as we know, Taylor and Zayn Malik have never worked together in music

:54:55. > :54:59.before and we have never seen them hang out together, so it came as a

:55:00. > :55:06.surprise and fans are loving it. As far as we know, the connection seems

:55:07. > :55:11.to be Suzy Habib, who is best friends with Taylor Swift and is

:55:12. > :55:21.currently Zayn Malik. So maybe not such an unexpected collaboration.

:55:22. > :55:25.Maybe not now, but previously, Zayn was obviously a member of One

:55:26. > :55:28.Direction and Taylor was rumoured to be dating Harry Styles, so it is a

:55:29. > :55:34.big surprise that she has aligned herself with another One Direction

:55:35. > :55:43.star. ITunes describe it as two of pop's brightest stars teaming up for

:55:44. > :55:49.a sure-fire hit. It is already a hit. It has reached number one on

:55:50. > :55:52.the iTunes chart and fans have given it prose. Taylor Swift sounds

:55:53. > :55:59.amazing and Zayn sounds good as well. When you have 82.5 million

:56:00. > :56:03.followers on Twitter, as Taylor Swift has, and you put something out

:56:04. > :56:07.that you are doing on your Twitter feed, you are inevitably going to go

:56:08. > :56:12.into the stratosphere with it pretty quickly. Definitely, and Taylor

:56:13. > :56:15.Swift is one of the biggest stars in the world, so anything she does

:56:16. > :56:19.pretty much turns to gold. And Zayn Malik is at the top of his game at

:56:20. > :56:26.the moment as well, so it is a match made in pop heaven. Is this going to

:56:27. > :56:31.be a new way... We are seeing all the time has liberties communicate

:56:32. > :56:34.with their fans directly via Twitter. Is this the way it is going

:56:35. > :56:38.to be when they have these huge followings, as it cuts through

:56:39. > :56:43.everything else? It definitely does. It is a way of giving back to their

:56:44. > :56:47.fans directly, and it cuts out the middleman. It is easier for them to

:56:48. > :56:51.do it themselves. Like you say, when you have a reach as big as Taylor

:56:52. > :56:54.Swift of 80 million plus followers, it makes sense to premiere your

:56:55. > :56:58.music through that channel. And even though she has that many followers,

:56:59. > :57:04.I guess when you are following her and you get a tweet from her, it

:57:05. > :57:08.feels like a personal connection. Definitely. Taylor has so many fans

:57:09. > :57:12.and she is known for having a close relationship with her fans. She

:57:13. > :57:15.often invites them to her house when she is promoting something. So there

:57:16. > :57:21.is definitely a good connection there. What do you think of the

:57:22. > :57:25.song? On the first listen, I was a bit unsure, but now it has grown on

:57:26. > :57:32.me. It is definitely going to be a grower for a lot of people and it is

:57:33. > :57:36.definitely going to be a hit. Who do you think has influenced who more in

:57:37. > :57:44.it? From the sounds of it, it sounds as though Zayn has tailored himself

:57:45. > :57:48.more to Taylor Swift. His voice sounds higher and I think it is

:57:49. > :57:52.something Taylor Swift would have released, not so much Zayn. So he

:57:53. > :58:01.has probably taken her lead on this. Thank you very much for joining us.

:58:02. > :58:06.A couple of quick comments on the Southern rail issues we were talking

:58:07. > :58:09.about earlier. Julia says, I am 62 and I have Parkinson's and I have no

:58:10. > :58:13.choice but to sit on the luggage rack whilst travelling to Brighton.

:58:14. > :58:18.And another tweet says, I am a mother and commute to London for

:58:19. > :58:23.work. I have to pay so much in extra charges for childcare and also

:58:24. > :58:26.losing quality time. They are going to have three days of strikes on

:58:27. > :58:27.Southern rail next week. We will have full coverage.

:58:28. > :58:34.I went on television in the January of 1975.

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