13/01/2017

:00:10. > :00:11.Hello - it's friday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

:00:12. > :00:22.Thousands of people in Essex and Suffolk told to move to safety

:00:23. > :00:24.as gale force winds combine with high tides along

:00:25. > :00:28.There are 11 severe flood warnings in the area -

:00:29. > :00:37.I am in Jaywick where is getting busier at this rest centre where

:00:38. > :00:39.more than 2500 residents are being evacuated from their homes. We will

:00:40. > :00:42.have the details live. Amber Cliff died of cervical

:00:43. > :00:44.cancer aged just 25. Her family say she'd

:00:45. > :00:46.repeatedly asked for tests And with claims this week

:00:47. > :00:53.that the NHS is struggling to cope with demand,

:00:54. > :00:56.we'll find out what politicians and people working in the health

:00:57. > :01:08.service think needs to be done. Welcome to the programme,

:01:09. > :01:12.we're live until 11:00 this morning. If you're affected by the bad

:01:13. > :01:14.weather and flood warnings this If you're a man who works part-time,

:01:15. > :01:20.then we'd love to hear Are you part-time through choice

:01:21. > :01:23.or because you can't Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:24. > :01:33.we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:01:34. > :01:36.and if you text, you will be charged Our top story today - the army's

:01:37. > :01:45.on standby to help evacuate communities along the East Coast

:01:46. > :01:47.where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued 11

:01:48. > :01:50.severe flood warnings, 29 schools in Scotland

:01:51. > :01:54.have been closed All along the east coast,

:01:55. > :01:58.floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are

:01:59. > :02:02.combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex,

:02:03. > :02:08.there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services

:02:09. > :02:13.have arrived in force. The residents are

:02:14. > :02:15.being urged to leave. We really strongly advise people

:02:16. > :02:27.to stay away from high tides, and not just those being evacuated,

:02:28. > :02:29.but more generally, if people can be sensible

:02:30. > :02:31.about not wave watching, about not driving through floodwater

:02:32. > :02:33.and really just focusing It's very important today,

:02:34. > :02:37.with this weather. Some have already heeded that

:02:38. > :02:41.warning, others are waiting to see. Everyone on the text messages

:02:42. > :02:45.saying, "Have they evacuated yet?" The neighbours next door,

:02:46. > :02:48.they get all panicked because she's not very well next door and things

:02:49. > :02:51.like that, so I think a lot of people are

:02:52. > :02:54.actually planning to stay. On the Lincolnshire coast

:02:55. > :02:56.at Skegness, the military have been About 100 soldiers are being based

:02:57. > :03:03.at the police station. Along the coast, those most

:03:04. > :03:06.vulnerable are doing what they can There will be a significant rise

:03:07. > :03:14.in the water but whether it will be enough to top the defences,

:03:15. > :03:16.that depends on Mother Nature, And Mother Nature is set to bring

:03:17. > :03:21.more wintry weather today, Nearly all the UK is covered

:03:22. > :03:26.by weather warnings Our correspondent Leigh Milner

:03:27. > :03:43.is in Jaywick in Essex. You are at one of the places people

:03:44. > :03:49.are being taken to when they have to leave their homes. What's happening?

:03:50. > :03:55.17 people slept here overnight. They were told to evacuate. In total 2500

:03:56. > :04:00.people in Jaywick and surrounding areas were told to leave their homes

:04:01. > :04:03.yesterday afternoon, that's half the population of Jaywick. It's busier

:04:04. > :04:08.this afternoon. They are sitting down, they haven't had any sleep.

:04:09. > :04:14.With an update, a representative from the Environment Agency. Lisa,

:04:15. > :04:17.as I understand, and I don't know if it's true, but as we've established

:04:18. > :04:22.no threat to life in Essex, but there is possibly around the east

:04:23. > :04:28.coast. Is that what we are hearing? You're dealing with two tides today.

:04:29. > :04:30.The initial tide is expected at midday and that's looking slightly

:04:31. > :04:35.better than forecast, which is great news. The important thing is that

:04:36. > :04:43.wind could pick up at any time, so we are telling people to be

:04:44. > :04:46.vigilant. We are would rather have people here where they say. But

:04:47. > :04:50.there is the possibility warnings could go up again later in the day.

:04:51. > :04:55.So there is still the possibility of flooding in Essex and East Coast

:04:56. > :04:58.later this evening? Definitely. We are tracking the weather, but it

:04:59. > :05:02.could reach high levels this evening. We encourage people to stay

:05:03. > :05:07.safe, be vigilant and keep listening to our warnings and those of the

:05:08. > :05:10.emergency services and take action when needed. This isn't a false

:05:11. > :05:14.alarm, it's the real thing. People need to get out of their homes. We

:05:15. > :05:23.are seeing red and yellow, severe warnings, does that means threat to

:05:24. > :05:26.life? Severe warnings been threat to life. A flood warning me is threat

:05:27. > :05:30.to property and actions need to be taken. The issue with the storm

:05:31. > :05:34.surge, it's about the high wind coinciding with what would be high

:05:35. > :05:39.tide anyway. When you get that, you get really high levels, but it can

:05:40. > :05:43.be changeable through the day. We forecast it as closely as we can and

:05:44. > :05:46.we watch it through. But it's important people stay alert because

:05:47. > :05:51.some of the high tides will happen late tonight. What plans are in

:05:52. > :05:55.place to minimise damage to property if flooding occurs? We have been

:05:56. > :06:04.working all week to make sure we have brought more than 8000

:06:05. > :06:08.kilometres of barrier, large amounts of pumps, the military and other

:06:09. > :06:13.partners are involved. We have a temporary barrier that will put up

:06:14. > :06:18.protection. Across areas people are seeing defences put in place to help

:06:19. > :06:25.them. Thank you for speaking to us, Lisa. Plenty of people here staying

:06:26. > :06:29.warm. It's not a false alarm, this is the real thing. If you feel you

:06:30. > :06:32.are at risk, make sure you check out the Environment Agency website.

:06:33. > :06:35.Our correspondent Phil Mackie is at a services on the M42 -

:06:36. > :06:47.What's it like where you are? It's very cold and windy. There has been

:06:48. > :06:53.some snow falling in the last hour. It has given a covering of snow here

:06:54. > :06:58.widely across the West Midlands. It's not really causing any major

:06:59. > :07:02.disruption. You can see over my shoulder, the motorway with traffic

:07:03. > :07:06.moving slower than normal, but freely. You can possibly make out

:07:07. > :07:14.the lights of the sign saying that there is salt spreading happening.

:07:15. > :07:19.There is a rapidly moving snowstorm moving south-east at the moment. We

:07:20. > :07:30.will probably catch the of it, so it. Snowing in the next half an

:07:31. > :07:35.hour. It's following the route of the M1 to M40. Later on the forecast

:07:36. > :07:40.is better. By Sunday any snow lying on the ground will wash away in the

:07:41. > :07:44.rain. No schools shutting and no major disruption. A covering of

:07:45. > :07:49.snow. Very unpleasant to be stud outside, but perhaps not as bad as

:07:50. > :07:53.some had feared. Thank you, Phil Mackie. We will have a full weather

:07:54. > :08:01.update just before 10am. In ETA is in the BBC newsroom. -- Anita.

:08:02. > :08:02.BBC News understands that Christopher Steele -

:08:03. > :08:05.the former British spy who wrote a dossier of lurid claims

:08:06. > :08:07.about Donald Trump - was once hired by the England

:08:08. > :08:11.It's believed he was brought in to investigate allegations

:08:12. > :08:14.of corruption made against world football's governing body,

:08:15. > :08:16.Fifa, and to gather intelligence on rival bids,

:08:17. > :08:26.Talks aimed at re-unifying the island of Cyprus have

:08:27. > :08:29.ended without agreement - but with a plan for officials

:08:30. > :08:32.The United Nations, which has hosted the talks in Geneva,

:08:33. > :08:35.says a working group will be set up to consider the security concerns

:08:36. > :08:37.of both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities.

:08:38. > :08:41.The UN Secretary General says he believes a deal on reunifying

:08:42. > :08:51.The car maker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating

:08:52. > :08:54.The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

:08:55. > :08:56.equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

:08:57. > :08:58.with software that regulates emissions results.

:08:59. > :09:01.The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

:09:02. > :09:05.The number of men in low-paid part-time work has increased

:09:06. > :09:09.New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that

:09:10. > :09:15.one in five low paid men between the ages of 25 and 55 now

:09:16. > :09:18.works part time compared to 1 in 20 two decades ago.

:09:19. > :09:26.Top-earning men in the professions normally work full-time.

:09:27. > :09:28.In fact, only 5% of them work part-time.

:09:29. > :09:30.But in comparison, amongst the lowest-paid men,

:09:31. > :09:32.often in areas like catering and hospitality, 20% now work

:09:33. > :09:34.part-time, and that number has increased fourfold

:09:35. > :09:38.That has meant that wage inequality for men has increased, as high-paid,

:09:39. > :09:41.full-time staff have done far better than low-paid, part-time workers.

:09:42. > :09:51.But for women, the opposite is the case.

:09:52. > :09:54.For women, earnings growth has been consistently higher than that

:09:55. > :09:58.for men over the last 20 years, and more of them are in work.

:09:59. > :09:59.For men, particularly the lowest-paid, they've actually

:10:00. > :10:02.seen falls in the numbers of hours of work, which has suppressed

:10:03. > :10:11.It is far from clear why low-paid men are

:10:12. > :10:16.It might be because they want to, although that seems unlikely.

:10:17. > :10:18.The fact that 60% of the low-paid and part-time jobs are either

:10:19. > :10:20.in retail, wholesale, restaurants or hospitality might

:10:21. > :10:25.suggest that men who previously worked in low-paid but secure

:10:26. > :10:30.and full-time jobs, in sectors like manufacturing,

:10:31. > :10:32.have lost that work, and instead have been forced

:10:33. > :10:36.into the traditionally poorly paid and less-secure services sector

:10:37. > :10:48.Just after 10:30, Joanna will be discussing this further with those

:10:49. > :10:56.with those who find themselves in part-time work.

:10:57. > :11:04.Hospitals have been warned they are failing to raise concerns about

:11:05. > :11:07.incompetent locum doctors. The General Medical Council says some

:11:08. > :11:08.hospitals take no action when they see incompetence in stand in

:11:09. > :11:11.doctors. The regulator says a reluctance

:11:12. > :11:13.to share information weaknesses in checks is allowing some poorly

:11:14. > :11:15.performing stand-in There were emotional

:11:16. > :11:20.scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:11:21. > :11:23.as outgoing US President surprised his vice-president

:11:24. > :11:35.with the country's For the final time as president, I'm

:11:36. > :11:37.pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honour, the

:11:38. > :11:39.presidential medal of Freedom. APPLAUSE

:11:40. > :11:41.As you heard there, Joe Biden received

:11:42. > :11:45.Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise.

:11:46. > :11:49.Barack Obama said he and his second in command had had 'quite a ride'.

:11:50. > :11:52.This also gives the internet one last chance to...

:11:53. > :12:13.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:12:14. > :12:16.use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged

:12:17. > :12:25.We'll be looking more closely at the trend of why more men are working in

:12:26. > :12:32.low paid part-time work. If you are in that situation, get in touch.

:12:33. > :12:34.Let's get some sport with Jessica Creighton.

:12:35. > :12:39.News overnight of the draw for the Australian Open...

:12:40. > :12:45.Seven Britons in the main draw this year and Johanna Konta is one of

:12:46. > :12:49.them. In the last few minutes she has won the Sydney International

:12:50. > :12:55.beating Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets. She will play Kirsten

:12:56. > :12:59.Flipkens in the first round of the Australian open. A tough match

:13:00. > :13:03.considering Flipkens got to the semifinal of Wimbledon last year. In

:13:04. > :13:10.the men's draw, Andy Murray plays against a Ukraine opponent, the

:13:11. > :13:14.world number 93. None of the four male British players face opponents

:13:15. > :13:17.in the world's top 50 in their opening-round matches. Andy Murray

:13:18. > :13:21.has made it to the final in Melbourne five times before but has

:13:22. > :13:25.never won the Australian open. The returning Roger Federer might have a

:13:26. > :13:34.say in Andy Murray winning his third title of 2017. Murray could face the

:13:35. > :13:37.20 17th grand -- could face the 17 time grand slam champion in the

:13:38. > :13:41.quarterfinals. Tributes coming in for Graham Taylor, the football

:13:42. > :13:46.world paying tribute to the former England manager this weekend after

:13:47. > :13:50.his passing yesterday aged 72. A minutes applause will be held ahead

:13:51. > :13:54.of games with some players wearing black armbands. Taylor spent time at

:13:55. > :13:57.Lincoln city, Aston Villa and wolves, but is probably best

:13:58. > :14:02.connected with Watford, where he managed for a total of 15 years over

:14:03. > :14:11.two spells. He led the club from the fourth division two runners-up in

:14:12. > :14:14.the First Division in five years. He also took them to the 1984 FA Cup

:14:15. > :14:18.final. Taylor also managed England for three years but retired from the

:14:19. > :14:22.job in 1993 after England failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. Will

:14:23. > :14:28.be here any more on the future of the England captain today? Alastair

:14:29. > :14:34.Cook, will be meeting with director of cricket Andrew Strauss today amid

:14:35. > :14:38.speculation on whether he will remain as captain.

:14:39. > :14:43.England had a tough time recently on their tour of India, 84-0 series

:14:44. > :14:47.defeat. Cook admitted having questions about his captaincy and

:14:48. > :14:51.leadership. He seemed to endorse top batsman and vice captain Joe Root.

:14:52. > :14:55.This meeting with Andrew Strauss isn't extraordinary. It's normal for

:14:56. > :15:00.the two to come together and review a series. Cook is into his fifth

:15:01. > :15:13.year at the helm, having captained England for a record 59 tests. It

:15:14. > :15:15.would take its toll on anyone, but there the tempting prospect of the

:15:16. > :15:18.Ashes at the end of the year. England don't play another test

:15:19. > :15:21.until July. Their one-day side is currently in the middle of a series

:15:22. > :15:25.in India so it's the Cook will be given time to ponder his decision.

:15:26. > :15:30.And sad news from the world of horse racing? Bryan Fletcher has died, he

:15:31. > :15:39.won the Grand National three times, twice on Red Rum. He wrote Red

:15:40. > :15:45.Alligator to victory in 1968, repeating the feat with Red Rum in

:15:46. > :15:48.1973 and 1974. Former champion jockey Peter Scudamore has led

:15:49. > :15:54.tributes to Fletcher, describing him as an unsung hero.

:15:55. > :15:56.Amber Cliff died of cervical cancer on Sunday.

:15:57. > :16:00.She worried there was something wrong with her four years ago

:16:01. > :16:03.because she had bleeding and abdominal pains,

:16:04. > :16:06.but her family say she was told she was too young to be tested.

:16:07. > :16:10.Smear tests are offered to women when they turn 25 in England.

:16:11. > :16:13.Her brother Josh said she finally paid for a private test

:16:14. > :16:17.which confirmed the news they were dreading.

:16:18. > :16:21.Let's talk now to Amber's brother Josh, and her sister Cameron.

:16:22. > :16:28.Monday into Tuesday looks likely to stay mild, but cloudy with early

:16:29. > :16:36.thank you both very much for coming in. She only died at so soon after

:16:37. > :16:40.the death. Why have you decided to come and talk so obviously our

:16:41. > :16:43.condolences to you. It cannot be easy coming out and talking so soon

:16:44. > :16:51.after the death. Why have you decided to come and it is so hard,

:16:52. > :16:54.we would not want anyone to go it is our way of dealing with it, as long

:16:55. > :16:57.as we can raise awareness and no one else has to go through it, because

:16:58. > :17:00.it is heartbreaking, it is so hard, we would not want anyone to go

:17:01. > :17:05.through take us back, Josh, because she was having symptoms for some

:17:06. > :17:10.time before the cervical cancer tell us when she was initially concerned

:17:11. > :17:12.and what seemed to be wrongAmber was a very private person anyway, but

:17:13. > :17:17.from late teens she was concerned about different. She knew her body,

:17:18. > :17:21.she knew something wasn't right and she kept going to the doctor, to the

:17:22. > :17:27.GP. She knew her body, she knew something wasn't right and she kept

:17:28. > :17:32.going to the doctor, to is a water infection, it is the bill, your

:17:33. > :17:37.hormones, your age, anything to get her out, sometimes it was just, this

:17:38. > :17:39.must be how it is, and nothing was changing saying, there is something

:17:40. > :17:42.not right, can we check this? She was constantly told, it is a water

:17:43. > :17:44.infection, it is the Bill, your hormones, your age, anything to get

:17:45. > :17:47.her out, sometimes it was just, this must be how it is, and nothing was

:17:48. > :17:50.as sisters, was she talking to you about it, Cameronhad been there for

:17:51. > :17:53.weeks on end we did not really speak, because she did not want to,

:17:54. > :17:55.so we just acted not really, even when she came back from hospital

:17:56. > :17:58.after she had been there for weeks on end we did not really speak,

:17:59. > :18:00.because she did not want to, so we just acted which is quite natural,

:18:01. > :18:05.everybody handles these situations point where she wanted a cervical

:18:06. > :18:10.smear to cervical cancer, what had made her feel that she should have

:18:11. > :18:13.that test? How old was she at that stage in her case, Josh, it got to

:18:14. > :18:15.the point where she wanted a cervical smear detestable cervical

:18:16. > :18:24.cancer, what had made her feel that she should have that test? How old

:18:25. > :18:27.was she at that stageI don't think we ever thought it would come back

:18:28. > :18:33.that she did have cervical cancer, because you are led to believe that,

:18:34. > :18:39.oh, no, it is 25 and over, it is so rare, so you do believe what you are

:18:40. > :18:42.told from the she was looking online and reading symptoms and wanted to

:18:43. > :18:45.rule it out, she was only 21. She was asking before 21, that is when

:18:46. > :18:48.she got it, at 21, but she wanted to rule it out for so long, I don't

:18:49. > :18:51.think we ever thought it would come back that she did have cervical

:18:52. > :18:54.cancer, because you are led to believe that, oh, no, it is 25 and

:18:55. > :18:57.over, it is so rare, so you do believe what you are told from the

:18:58. > :19:00.people you put your trust into with your when she talked to the GP and

:19:01. > :19:02.said she wanted a cervical smear, what was she toldwould get wrong

:19:03. > :19:05.readings from the cells she was told she was not 25 and it would do more

:19:06. > :19:08.harm than good because they would get wrong readings from the cells

:19:09. > :19:10.and even though she had symptoms that caused her to make a link when

:19:11. > :19:14.she looked it up onlineopportunity to say, we will rule it the GP said,

:19:15. > :19:16.no, it will be your hormones, the Bill, water infections, she was

:19:17. > :19:20.never even given the opportunity to say, we will rule it she was just

:19:21. > :19:25.told, paid for a Private smear test, hoping to rule it out, but in the

:19:26. > :19:32.end, she paid for a Private smear test, hoping to rule it out, her and

:19:33. > :19:34.all of you, she was so young got the devastating news that it was

:19:35. > :19:39.cervical cancer, it must have been devastating for her and all of you,

:19:40. > :19:45.she was so youngby the time we found out she had had it for two to four

:19:46. > :19:50.years, so it was, there were more implications and stuck, by the time

:19:51. > :19:55.we that had the most effect, that she could not have kids because they

:19:56. > :19:57.had found out so late she cannot have kids, and that was a massive

:19:58. > :20:06.issue, that have the most effect, that she could not have kids because

:20:07. > :20:08.they had found out so how frustrating was it to know that she

:20:09. > :20:11.had had the tumour between two and four years and had been flagging

:20:12. > :20:19.this up as an issuenot like she had not had the symptoms, she was trying

:20:20. > :20:27.do you believe she might still be alive... 100%. If she had been given

:20:28. > :20:31.that option, what we are trying to push for, even to just rule it out,

:20:32. > :20:35.they would have found that she had cervical cancer at a young age, in

:20:36. > :20:41.the early stages, and been able to treat it. To leave someone for that

:20:42. > :20:45.long... She died at 25, that is the age for a smear, she would never

:20:46. > :20:50.have made 25 if we had not gone Private. Cancer does not know age,

:20:51. > :20:54.it is not about numbers, it is not when you become 25 all of a sudden

:20:55. > :20:59.cancer can enter your body. This is the issue we are trying to raise

:21:00. > :21:04.now, people need an option. What do you want the option to be? I

:21:05. > :21:09.understand the amount of people who have been in this situation before

:21:10. > :21:13.and tried to lower the age to 18 for screening to make it mandatory, that

:21:14. > :21:17.is not what I'm aiming for, I want to make it an option for people with

:21:18. > :21:21.symptoms who are under 25 and concerned, you don't have to give it

:21:22. > :21:25.to everyone under that age but giving to those who are concerned.

:21:26. > :21:29.Some GPs have said they would have given her a smear test at that age

:21:30. > :21:34.but this is the problem, it is such a grey area and differs from GP2 GP,

:21:35. > :21:38.we need an across-the-board guideline to say if someone has

:21:39. > :21:43.symptoms, yes, you can refer them from a smear even if they are under

:21:44. > :21:48.25. So you think there is a postcode lottery depending on where it

:21:49. > :21:52.happens? Definitely. When you say if somebody wants a smear under 25 they

:21:53. > :21:58.should get it, would you say that should be based on actual symptoms

:21:59. > :22:01.or just if somebody has any concern? I do think it would go down to

:22:02. > :22:04.symptoms but I think people would have concerned if they have

:22:05. > :22:14.symptoms, I don't think a lot of people are just generally concerned

:22:15. > :22:17.they have it for no reason. I don't understand -- I do understand all of

:22:18. > :22:20.this, but we want to make it available for people who do have

:22:21. > :22:24.symptoms and are concerned, there needs to be a guideline and some

:22:25. > :22:27.kind of... Something to allow doctors to put people forward for

:22:28. > :22:31.smears because a lot of them feel they are not allowed to. The

:22:32. > :22:34.Department of Health says the best clinical evidence, and you have

:22:35. > :22:39.alluded to it, says routine screening of women under 25 does

:22:40. > :22:44.more harm than good, including false positive results. There is nothing

:22:45. > :22:48.more harmful than using your sister at 25 -- losing your sister. I

:22:49. > :22:52.challenge anyone to come and stand in front of me who has a daughter,

:22:53. > :22:55.anyone related to them at such a young age and said they would be

:22:56. > :22:59.happy for them to lose their life at the age of 25 and stand by the age

:23:00. > :23:06.of 25 for screening. Nothing comes close to it. What do you think about

:23:07. > :23:13.the cut-off age, Cameron? Exactly what Josh Huff said, it is worrying

:23:14. > :23:18.for me, I am not of the age so I will get it privately. You are 19?

:23:19. > :23:24.And you will get a Private test and? Yes, as soon as I have had my baby.

:23:25. > :23:28.You are pregnant, when are you due? March, and that was another hard

:23:29. > :23:35.thing, telling Amber, because Josh has just had two babies and with me

:23:36. > :23:40.being pregnant it was hard but Amber because she spoke about pregnancy

:23:41. > :23:43.and stuff... This is what I mean, they don't understand the impact it

:23:44. > :23:47.has on people's lives to tell them, no, you cannot have a smear for that

:23:48. > :23:50.long, then to find out she has cervical cancer, it is not just

:23:51. > :23:54.dealing with the cancer, but her older brother has two kids in two

:23:55. > :23:58.years, her younger sister is pregnant, all this time she is told,

:23:59. > :24:02.because we ignored you for so long you will never have kids. It is not

:24:03. > :24:05.just about battling cancer, it is everything that comes with it, the

:24:06. > :24:11.relationships it will affect and everything. Amber had to basically

:24:12. > :24:17.go through her life... If she was to survive, she would have to tell any

:24:18. > :24:20.potential partner, you are going to be with someone who can never have

:24:21. > :24:26.kids, just because they would not give her a smear when she was

:24:27. > :24:31.concerned. Did you know that it was terminal? Did she talk about that?

:24:32. > :24:36.This is still a grey area because Amber was very Private. There are

:24:37. > :24:39.still bits and pieces going backward and forward as to whether the

:24:40. > :24:43.doctors thought she had four to five years, whether they thought it was

:24:44. > :24:46.treatable. They gave her chemotherapy twice, once for the

:24:47. > :24:51.cervical cancer and once when it spread to her lungs as well. They

:24:52. > :24:56.hoped they got rid of everything but she never got the all clear in the

:24:57. > :25:01.four years she battled it. But Amber may have known in the last few

:25:02. > :25:05.months that it was never going to go away and she was never going to have

:25:06. > :25:11.a full life, but Amber would have kept that to herself. Tell us about

:25:12. > :25:20.Amber. Amber was just Amber, wasn't she?! Yeah, really. She spoke her

:25:21. > :25:24.mind. She was just really one-of-a-kind. Everyone on Facebook

:25:25. > :25:30.and everything that is coming forward now is just saying how

:25:31. > :25:33.lovely she was, she touched so many people's hearts, really. If you ask

:25:34. > :25:39.anyone to describe Amber, they will just say she is just Amber, she is

:25:40. > :25:43.just one-of-a-kind, she speaks her mind, tells you exactly what she

:25:44. > :25:47.thinks, but she is so determined as well. She will really push for

:25:48. > :25:53.something, and that is why we are doing this, because we feel like it

:25:54. > :25:57.is what she would want. She would be very proud of you both. Thank you.

:25:58. > :26:00.Ashburn Medical Centre in Sunderland told us they are unable to comment

:26:01. > :26:01.on individual cases, but are deeply saddened

:26:02. > :26:04.to hear of Amber's death and offer their sincere condolences

:26:05. > :26:07.The Department of Health told us that cervical screening is not

:26:08. > :26:09.offered to under-25s because cervical cancer

:26:10. > :26:16.They added, "The best clinical evidence shows that routine

:26:17. > :26:18.screening of women under 25 actually does more harm than good,

:26:19. > :26:24.We also vaccinate girls with the HPV vaccine which protects against 70%

:26:25. > :26:45.The Department for Transport says it is seeking information from American

:26:46. > :26:50.regulators about claims Fiat Chrysler has been violating

:26:51. > :26:54.pollution laws. Let's talk to Aaron Heslehurst. What has been going on?

:26:55. > :26:57.You have to remember this is all coming out just one day after

:26:58. > :27:03.Volkswagen finally settled in the United States just over $4 billion,

:27:04. > :27:08.so it is the environmental protection in the in the United

:27:09. > :27:13.States, it has accused Fiat Chrysler of using, a similar story, using

:27:14. > :27:16.eight different types of software in thousands of its vehicles, the

:27:17. > :27:24.majority sold in the United States, to basically cheat admissions.

:27:25. > :27:31.Sergio Mattioli, the big boss of Chrysler, has said, if you think

:27:32. > :27:38.this is like a Volkswagen story, this is what he's saying, he is

:27:39. > :27:42.saying it is about 104,000 vehicles in the United States, that is one of

:27:43. > :27:49.them, the Jeep Cherokee, you have also got the Dodge Ram, a pick-up

:27:50. > :27:53.truck, the majority in the United States, I know here in the UK they

:27:54. > :27:59.are asking Fiat Chrysler to take a look at possible cars that we have

:28:00. > :28:02.here in the UK, but it could cost the Environmental Protection Agency

:28:03. > :28:07.has said to Fiat that it could find them about 44,000 US dollars per

:28:08. > :28:11.vehicle, a total of $4.6 billion, and all the experts I have been

:28:12. > :28:15.speaking to this morning, the auto industry experts, have said, we have

:28:16. > :28:19.been waiting for something like this, when the Volkswagen scandal

:28:20. > :28:21.arose, they knew it would not just be one car-maker getting away with

:28:22. > :28:25.this. Thank you very much.

:28:26. > :28:27.You are welcome! See you soon.

:28:28. > :28:32.Left lying on two hospital chairs in A for 5 hours

:28:33. > :28:35.due to a lack of beds - that's what happened to one little

:28:36. > :28:38.We'll be looking into why it happened.

:28:39. > :28:42.More on the NHS, as it's released its weekly winter figures

:28:43. > :28:47.We'll be talking to an A doctor working on the frontline

:28:48. > :28:52.during one of the busiest winters on record.

:28:53. > :28:59.Gale force winds and high tides are threatening to cause flooding

:29:00. > :29:06.The Environment Agency has issued 11 severe flood warnings,

:29:07. > :29:08.in Essex and East Anglia, meaning danger to life.

:29:09. > :29:10.The army's on standby to help evacuate communities

:29:11. > :29:14.In Scotland, 29 schools have been closed

:29:15. > :29:19.BBC News understands that Christopher Steele,

:29:20. > :29:22.the former British spy who wrote a dossier of lurid claims

:29:23. > :29:24.about Donald Trump, was once hired by the England

:29:25. > :29:29.It's believed he was brought in to investigate allegations

:29:30. > :29:33.of corruption made against world football's governing body,

:29:34. > :29:35.Fifa, and to gather intelligence on rival bids,

:29:36. > :29:42.Talks aimed at re-unifying the island of Cyprus have ended

:29:43. > :29:44.without agreement, but officials plan to

:29:45. > :29:49.The United Nations, which oversaw the talks in Geneva,

:29:50. > :29:52.says a working group will be set up to consider the security concerns

:29:53. > :29:55.of both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities.

:29:56. > :29:57.The UN Secretary General says he believes a deal on reunifying

:29:58. > :30:20.Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating US pollution laws. The

:30:21. > :30:21.firm has denied doing anything illegal but its share price has

:30:22. > :30:25.fallen by more than 15%. The number of men in low-paid

:30:26. > :30:27.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:30:28. > :30:34.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men

:30:35. > :30:38.between the ages of 25 and 55 now works part-time compared with 1

:30:39. > :30:44.in 20 two decades ago. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:30:45. > :30:55.News - more at 10.00. Let's catch up with the sport.

:30:56. > :31:00.Johanna Konta has won the Sydney International in the last half an

:31:01. > :31:04.hour. The British number one beating Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-2, the

:31:05. > :31:08.ideal warm up for the Australian open which begins next week. Johanna

:31:09. > :31:11.Konta has been drawn against Kirsten Flipkens in the first round. In the

:31:12. > :31:17.men's draw world number one Andy Murray will play Marchenko of

:31:18. > :31:22.Ukraine. He could face Roger Federer in the final eight. There will be a

:31:23. > :31:25.minute's applause before all English football league matches this weekend

:31:26. > :31:29.in tribute to Graham Taylor. The former England manager died

:31:30. > :31:34.yesterday aged 72. Alastair Cook will meet director of cricket Andrew

:31:35. > :31:38.Strauss today to discuss his future as England captain. Cook has

:31:39. > :31:44.admitted having questions over his role during his side's 4-0 defeat to

:31:45. > :31:49.India. Brian Fletcher, three-time Grand National winner, has died at

:31:50. > :31:53.the age of 69. New Road Red Rum to victory in 1973 and 1974. Former

:31:54. > :31:59.champion jockey Peter Scudamore described him as an unsung hero of

:32:00. > :32:00.sport. Just after 10am I will be joined by former British number one

:32:01. > :32:19.tennis player Greg Rusedski. Korea 11 severe flood warnings in

:32:20. > :32:29.place for coastal areas of Norfolk and Suffolk. 5000 homes around Great

:32:30. > :32:34.Yarmouth are being evacuated. We can speak to a lady who was evacuated

:32:35. > :32:37.from a caravan last night. Good morning, Mary. What happened when

:32:38. > :32:43.you were told you had to leave your caravan? When I went shopping to

:32:44. > :32:47.Morrison's I heard on the radio that they would evacuate everyone at 7am

:32:48. > :32:52.this morning. I unpacked my shopping, had my dinner and went to

:32:53. > :32:56.bed. Then I heard a lot of noise, phoned a neighbour and he asked,

:32:57. > :32:59.where ARU. I said I was in my lodge. He said you've got to get out

:33:00. > :33:08.immediately. I left immediately and came here. They have done everything

:33:09. > :33:12.for us. More importantly, I'm safe. It must have given you a fright to

:33:13. > :33:18.be woken up and told you had to leave straightaway. It was, but, you

:33:19. > :33:23.know, I'm glad I did and that I'm here and safe. What were you told

:33:24. > :33:36.about the risks if you did not leave? They said there was a risk of

:33:37. > :33:41.flooding, and any kind of flooding, I just left immediately, I wouldn't

:33:42. > :33:48.hesitate. So are you now worried for your caravan? Not particularly. As

:33:49. > :33:54.long as I'm safe, I don't care about the caravan. I hope everything is

:33:55. > :33:57.all right. Thank you for talking to us, Mary. Thank you. We will have a

:33:58. > :34:02.full weather update just before 10am.

:34:03. > :34:03.More misery for Southern Rail commuters today.

:34:04. > :34:06.Once again they're stuck at home because the drivers are on strike

:34:07. > :34:10.There are more strikes planned later this month in this

:34:11. > :34:11.long-running dispute over staffing levels on trains.

:34:12. > :34:14.So what hope is there for an end to the chaos?

:34:15. > :34:17.And how is it affecting people who rely on the trains?

:34:18. > :34:20.We can speak now to Mick Whelan - General Secretary of Aslef,

:34:21. > :34:22.the train drivers union which has called the strike.

:34:23. > :34:25.And we can also speak to Summer Dean, a passenger and rail

:34:26. > :34:33.campaigner with the Association of British Commuters, and commuters

:34:34. > :34:42.We invited Chris Grayling and the Department for Transport

:34:43. > :34:46.They declined saying the minister did not have any time

:34:47. > :34:49.We also invited Southern and Govia Thameslink Railway,

:34:50. > :34:50.which owns Southern, onto the programme.

:34:51. > :35:07.We will come to some and Brad first. In a word, can you sum up what it's

:35:08. > :35:13.like commuting on Southern rail? Every day disruption, that's two

:35:14. > :35:19.words, but it's not just on strike days. I'm eager to get that point

:35:20. > :35:24.across. And Brad, sum it up in a word? Soul destroying, if that's

:35:25. > :35:29.just one word. As some are mentioned, it's everyday, and that

:35:30. > :35:34.compounds and it becomes daily. Fill in some more detail. How long have

:35:35. > :35:40.the problems been going on and describe exactly what the problems

:35:41. > :35:46.are for you. This is going back easily a year. It's been getting

:35:47. > :35:53.progressively worse and worse. The disruption is all the time. Four

:35:54. > :35:59.hour commute homes. Cancellations. Everything being blamed on overtime

:36:00. > :36:04.bans. When Govia took over the contract there were already staffing

:36:05. > :36:08.problems, short-staffed. Those have got worse. Before the overtime

:36:09. > :36:13.kicked in on the 6th of December, the situation was disastrous. We

:36:14. > :36:21.were seeing many cancellations. The situation isn't much worse now with

:36:22. > :36:25.the overtime ban, to be honest. Who do you identify as being effectively

:36:26. > :36:31.to blame? Is there one party in particular? Where would you pin the

:36:32. > :36:35.blame? Looking at the BBC debate earlier in the week and the fact

:36:36. > :36:38.Chris Grayling hasn't made time, yet again, to turn up to a key

:36:39. > :36:43.discussion on the matter, he needs to make time to talk this out. The

:36:44. > :36:45.ball falls firmly in their court. The government are pulling the

:36:46. > :36:51.strings here, and they have the power to step in and sort it out. We

:36:52. > :36:55.believe... If Chris Grayling isn't up to doing this, he should step

:36:56. > :37:01.aside and let someone else take over. Some are, what would you say?

:37:02. > :37:05.I absolutely echo what Brad said there. We know Chris Grayling was

:37:06. > :37:11.invited onto your show this morning. He's busy. Busy doing what? The

:37:12. > :37:15.prime economic region in the country is in meltdown. People can't get to

:37:16. > :37:19.work and they can't get home. And that's everyday, not just strike

:37:20. > :37:25.days. And Chris Grayling is too busy to make a public performance, appear

:37:26. > :37:28.in front of the media and the people addressed affected every day. I

:37:29. > :37:34.personally think that shows he's out of touch the people who experience

:37:35. > :37:37.this. It's an absolute lack of respect. We have essentially begged

:37:38. > :37:42.Chris Grayling and the Department for Transport to step in. People

:37:43. > :37:46.feel like there's no hope. The Association of British commuters are

:37:47. > :37:50.pursuing gay judiciary review which I will be able to talk about later

:37:51. > :37:54.in the month against the Department for Transport. -- are pursuing a

:37:55. > :37:58.judiciary review. Where is Chris Grayling and why does he feel the

:37:59. > :38:04.public so badly Busted you both put the blame at Chris Grayling's door?

:38:05. > :38:11.Do either of you blame the union for walking out? I think it's really,

:38:12. > :38:15.really important to realise that the disruption that's everyday is a far

:38:16. > :38:24.wider issue than the current industrial dispute. As Brad said a

:38:25. > :38:29.moment ago, we know there was an unsustainable level of reliance on

:38:30. > :38:32.rest days working. We knew that's two years ago. We can't just put the

:38:33. > :38:36.terrible service and destruction down to the industrial dispute. It's

:38:37. > :38:39.a much wider issue is something that falls at the door of Chris Grayling

:38:40. > :38:46.and he needs to step up and sort it out. Before I bring in Mick Whelan

:38:47. > :38:51.from Aslef, a quick thought from Brad? I think the strikes are a

:38:52. > :38:54.symptom and not a cause of the problem. That's key in this. The

:38:55. > :38:59.whole accessibility issue is not being looked at. We had a local

:39:00. > :39:03.resident stuck on a freezing cold platform for two hours earlier this

:39:04. > :39:06.week because she couldn't board the train and the driver risked

:39:07. > :39:10.discipline in helping her. The same thing happened the following day.

:39:11. > :39:15.Policies are not working. The whole role that needs to be frozen while

:39:16. > :39:18.we have a full public independent enquiry. We shouldn't be making

:39:19. > :39:22.shouts on whether it's right or wrong. The government should be

:39:23. > :39:27.stepping in and putting in place a full public enquiry. Bringing in

:39:28. > :39:30.Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef. Two commuters who have

:39:31. > :39:36.sympathy with the union, blaming Chris Grayling for not fixing the

:39:37. > :39:40.mess. A lot of commuters might not be quite so sympathetic, because

:39:41. > :39:44.it's affecting lives on a daily basis. Naturally. If I was paying

:39:45. > :39:49.the level of fares and expecting a service and I wasn't getting it, and

:39:50. > :39:51.I can't get to work, I can't get my children to school, I struggle to

:39:52. > :39:58.get to a medical appointment, I would quite rightly look at my

:39:59. > :40:03.personal circumstances and be angry. We spend a lot of time trying to

:40:04. > :40:06.grow the industry, making it safer, campaigning for better investment,

:40:07. > :40:11.better trains, green opportunities on freight and rail. Most of the

:40:12. > :40:14.time we find ourselves not its dice, the general public agree with us.

:40:15. > :40:19.The polls on what we are saying agree with us. We only do this as a

:40:20. > :40:23.last resort. Let's focus on the safety issue. The row is about

:40:24. > :40:29.driver only operated trains. The rail safety regulator says they are

:40:30. > :40:34.safe. The national body has been very careful on two occasions. And I

:40:35. > :40:38.have great faith in the Her Majesty'sInspector of railways. He

:40:39. > :40:42.said if you do all the right things, the equipment and training is right,

:40:43. > :40:45.it can be safe. He put that in the report done recently at short

:40:46. > :40:50.notice. He also said in the report that the training had been done,

:40:51. > :40:54.lighting in certain areas had been done and the equipment wasn't up to

:40:55. > :40:56.spec. He didn't threaten to take their franchise away. Where we have

:40:57. > :41:03.been saying in the last nine months we don't believe due diligence has

:41:04. > :41:08.been carried out, and the technology being used, cannot be relied upon...

:41:09. > :41:12.What's the way through it? If those elements are addressed, are you

:41:13. > :41:18.saying you would be happy for driver only operated trains? We have other

:41:19. > :41:24.issues with that. The whole industry has been looking at certain issues.

:41:25. > :41:29.We also feel in the 21st-century post-Brussels and Paris, and in an

:41:30. > :41:33.area where sexual assaults in the railway have gone up 200% in the

:41:34. > :41:36.last year, you can't have 12 car trains with 1000 people on the

:41:37. > :41:40.train, 30 deep on a platform and one person to look after them, whose

:41:41. > :41:44.role isn't actually to look after them. It happens on the London

:41:45. > :41:48.Underground? The London Underground has stations every two minutes and

:41:49. > :41:51.the stations are man. We have heard from the experience of disabled

:41:52. > :41:56.commuters and others, that the railway hasn't got that. There will

:41:57. > :42:00.be peak times when trains are round, and other times much less so. Would

:42:01. > :42:06.a way through the two effectively enable there to be a trial of driver

:42:07. > :42:11.only operated trains on the less busy times? I think people want to

:42:12. > :42:17.be confidence at any time of day. We are heavily reliant on tourism and

:42:18. > :42:21.other areas. 73% of the public in a recent poll said they wanted a

:42:22. > :42:25.safety critical person on every train. We are reflecting the views

:42:26. > :42:29.of the public, and primarily reflect the views of the 19,000 men and

:42:30. > :42:33.women who drive trains every day and say they don't feel safe and they

:42:34. > :42:38.can't be extended any further. It sounds like there is absolutely no

:42:39. > :42:43.room for compromise? There is room for compromise. That would be to

:42:44. > :42:46.have a safety integral person on every train and give us the

:42:47. > :42:52.confidence in technology that we can't rely on. If this wasn't --

:42:53. > :42:57.this wasn't a dispute about money, it was about terms and conditions.

:42:58. > :43:02.People could have said we are being greedy, but this is not as arguing.

:43:03. > :43:06.We will have more train drivers in the 21st century, not less, because

:43:07. > :43:09.there will be more trains. We argue on behalf of the travelling public

:43:10. > :43:14.and our drivers for safety. How long will the dispute go on? I've been

:43:15. > :43:17.living in hope for nine months now that somebody could sit round the

:43:18. > :43:21.table with me and do a deal and reach an agreement. We want to

:43:22. > :43:26.reiterate, as our two colleagues on the link have said, that we have

:43:27. > :43:30.only just come to the fray. This was failing before this. They couldn't

:43:31. > :43:36.deliver services. We now find out they rely on 25% of services on the

:43:37. > :43:39.goodwill of my numbers. That means they 300 driver shot. The people

:43:40. > :43:45.running the franchise were the people it before. They've had it for

:43:46. > :43:48.14 years. Part of the problem is the people who have been granted the

:43:49. > :43:52.franchise and their failure to resource it properly, regardless of

:43:53. > :43:55.what they say. Thank you all very much. Let us know your thoughts. The

:43:56. > :44:12.usual ways of getting in touch. Earlier this week reported record

:44:13. > :44:17.numbers of patients have been facing record waits for beds when admitted

:44:18. > :44:20.to hospital for emergency cases. Doctors and nurses have also said

:44:21. > :44:25.that conditions in the health service the worst they've

:44:26. > :44:28.experienced. The government has admitted the NHS is under pressure

:44:29. > :44:33.but is rejecting demands for extra funding to deal with what some are

:44:34. > :44:36.describing as a winter crisis. The BBC has been covering the pressures

:44:37. > :44:40.facing the health service all week but perhaps one of the most stark

:44:41. > :44:45.examples showing the kinds of life and death decisions NHS staff have

:44:46. > :44:48.to make everyday was in the BBC to documentary Hospital, filmed in

:44:49. > :44:58.Paddington. We can play some of that to you now.

:44:59. > :45:05.The surgeon begins the operation. We are going to remove the part of the

:45:06. > :45:08.bowel with the cancer in and the adjacent blood supply so that we can

:45:09. > :45:11.take any lymph glands that may or may not be affected by the cancer,

:45:12. > :45:20.then we will join them back together again.

:45:21. > :45:26.Ball hours later, the tumour is out and the operation is over. Why

:45:27. > :45:31.should I feel victorious that I am just allowed to do what I should

:45:32. > :45:35.have started doing at 8am? It is because the beds are so bad at the

:45:36. > :45:44.moment that it seems rare to be allowed to actually go ahead and do

:45:45. > :45:47.an operation. Very bizarre. The emergency patient from Norfolk is an

:45:48. > :45:52.hour away. The team doesn't know if she will survive the journey. The

:45:53. > :45:57.risk we run here is we are holding a bed for a patient who hasn't even

:45:58. > :46:06.made it into the organisation yet, and not going ahead with patients

:46:07. > :46:14.who are already here. Do you have to do this for people every day,

:46:15. > :46:19.struggling with socks?! The two people I'm kicking out from ICU, one

:46:20. > :46:23.of them I'm not really that comfortable with, I don't have a

:46:24. > :46:29.guaranteed bed for anybody at the moment, so I might get one or both

:46:30. > :46:37.of them out but... If you're patient leads, do you think you will have a

:46:38. > :46:42.space? If the patient doesn't survive from Norfolk, maybe, but we

:46:43. > :46:44.cannot predicate. The only think you can do is wait, but I don't think

:46:45. > :46:49.the odds are very good. We don't have enough slack

:46:50. > :46:52.in our capacity to be able to let Prof Hanna go ahead

:46:53. > :46:56.and do the esophagectomy. What's hard about this is that we're

:46:57. > :46:59.also talking about, "Well, we can go ahead and do it

:47:00. > :47:04.if the patient from Norwich doesn't survive the journey," and that's

:47:05. > :47:08.a very hard and callous-sounding thing to be talking about,

:47:09. > :47:17.but that's the practical reality. They have this patient coming

:47:18. > :47:20.in who might require If they die, then the bed

:47:21. > :47:25.is available for me. We've heard the blaming

:47:26. > :47:53.of the Government and claims that there's just not enough money -

:47:54. > :47:56.but what's the solution as the situation to save our

:47:57. > :48:02.healthcare system as it stands? Let's talk now to Richard

:48:03. > :48:04.Murray, who is director Meg Hillier is a Labour MP and chair

:48:05. > :48:08.of the Public Accounts Committee. Joining us from Leicester

:48:09. > :48:11.is Conservative MP for North West Also here with us is A doctor

:48:12. > :48:24.Claire Bronze who says the nhs Meg Hillier, that documentary is

:48:25. > :48:29.extraordinary, isn't it, and to see two top surgeons both in a position

:48:30. > :48:33.to actually operate, effectively having to haggle over a bed and who

:48:34. > :48:37.gets to operate, what is your reaction? It is shocking and

:48:38. > :48:41.highlights the impact this has on patients and on their care and life

:48:42. > :48:45.chances when it comes to the crunch. It is important that we recognise

:48:46. > :48:49.the current situation but also, as you say, need to look at a long-term

:48:50. > :48:53.solution for the health service. The danger is if we are having a crisis

:48:54. > :48:59.like this, we are not having a proper discussion about how the

:49:00. > :49:02.health service should be fit for purpose long term. Andrew, what is

:49:03. > :49:07.your reaction to that and how would you describe what is going on in the

:49:08. > :49:11.health service more broadly? Well, the health service is under acute

:49:12. > :49:18.pressure at the moment. We have got various reasons why lots of people

:49:19. > :49:23.are attending A But at the end of the day we need a seven-day NHS to

:49:24. > :49:27.spread out the peaks and troughs. We have an ageing population, more

:49:28. > :49:33.procedures, increasing longevity and a growing population, this is

:49:34. > :49:36.putting pressure on services. Let's bring in Richard Murray from the

:49:37. > :49:43.King 's fund, because there are so many things going on at the moment,

:49:44. > :49:47.it is quite difficult to unpick. You are the overview, looking at the

:49:48. > :49:50.statistics, effectively. We have the social care crisis causing people to

:49:51. > :49:55.remain in bed after they should be able to be released from hospital,

:49:56. > :50:00.and obviously seasonal issues as well and an ageing population. How

:50:01. > :50:04.do you unpick what the issue is, and is it temporarily or much more

:50:05. > :50:08.fundamental? To jump straight to the chase it is much more fundamental.

:50:09. > :50:09.As the years go by more people arrive at hospital, more people need

:50:10. > :50:27.to be admitted to hospital, if you do not have

:50:28. > :50:30.services in the community to slow that down, to keep them well for

:50:31. > :50:33.longer, then the hospital ends up being the canary in the coal mine,

:50:34. > :50:36.it is where people will show up in the system that has been made more

:50:37. > :50:38.severe by finding it difficult to discharge people quickly. It is not

:50:39. > :50:40.just social care but also accessing the health service outside the

:50:41. > :50:43.hospital, getting to see your GP at the right time to see you well, but

:50:44. > :50:46.I think the good thing is knowing some of the things we need to do to

:50:47. > :50:48.try to improve those services outside of hospital settings. The

:50:49. > :50:51.difficulty is doing it, the difficulty is doing it quickly, and

:50:52. > :50:54.it is probably too late for this winter, but for years ahead how we

:50:55. > :50:59.make sure the investment goes in the right price. Andrew, is Theresa May,

:51:00. > :51:04.the Government, in denial about what is going on? We saw Prime Minister's

:51:05. > :51:07.Questions earlier in the week, Theresa May asked in particular

:51:08. > :51:12.about a case of a little boy called Jack who is in one of the papers

:51:13. > :51:15.today, who had to wait for five hours in A because there was no

:51:16. > :51:20.bed for him, his parents made a makeshift bed out of chairs and she

:51:21. > :51:25.said in the House of Commons that it was one of a small number of

:51:26. > :51:29.instances affecting the NHS, and pointed to the wider funding. It led

:51:30. > :51:34.Jeremy Corbyn to say she just doesn't get it. I think Theresa May

:51:35. > :51:38.does get it and she is very committed to dealing with mental

:51:39. > :51:43.health so that keeps those people out of A, which is not the right

:51:44. > :51:47.place for them. It is not all about money. Evidence we are seeing is

:51:48. > :51:53.that half of all the delayed discharges from hospitals are down

:51:54. > :51:58.to just 24 local authorities, so we need to look at what is going wrong

:51:59. > :52:05.there and get their systems sorted so that they are all operating on

:52:06. > :52:09.best practice. Clare, you are an A doctor, are you seeing particularly

:52:10. > :52:14.unusual pressures at the moment? Yes, I would say we are. I have

:52:15. > :52:18.worked in the NHS in total for 17 years, eight of those as a doctor,

:52:19. > :52:22.and in my experience and the experience of lots of friends I have

:52:23. > :52:26.spoken to, although we always get winter pressures, we do always

:52:27. > :52:30.experienced times where we cannot keep up with the demand, we are all

:52:31. > :52:38.seeing at the moment at particular difficult time. Can you give us some

:52:39. > :52:42.examples? I have come straight from a night shift last night, most of

:52:43. > :52:46.the night was a five or six hour wait, I left the department with

:52:47. > :52:50.about 12 patients waiting for beds on boards and I would say last night

:52:51. > :52:54.was the best shift I have done for a few weeks. I have done shift

:52:55. > :52:58.recently where we have had nine hour wait at a time to see a doctor, we

:52:59. > :53:03.have had patients in the department on trolleys for over 30 hours at a

:53:04. > :53:08.time, and obviously if there are no beds in the hospital, and all of

:53:09. > :53:12.those beds in A are taken up with patients waiting to go to the ward,

:53:13. > :53:16.it gives is no space to see the patients coming into the A and we

:53:17. > :53:21.end up with queues of ambulances out the door. So, can patient safety be

:53:22. > :53:26.guaranteed in those situations? It is difficult, the staff are all

:53:27. > :53:32.doing everything they can, people are working as hard as they possibly

:53:33. > :53:35.can. Most of my colleagues are not taking breaks, not leaving on time,

:53:36. > :53:40.they are trying to find space wherever they possibly can to fit

:53:41. > :53:46.extra patients in, but I do think there comes a point where you have

:53:47. > :53:50.to worry about patient safety, and we have to think about, although we

:53:51. > :53:56.are managing at the moment, we have heard from stories in the media of

:53:57. > :53:59.deaths on trolleys in corridors, and for many of us we are worrying that

:54:00. > :54:04.is going to become the bigger picture and that is going to become

:54:05. > :54:09.a common occurrence. Meg Hillier, is it time to question whether the NHS

:54:10. > :54:12.can actually offer everything it is offering? We have heard this

:54:13. > :54:15.candidate from the leaders of the NHS this week in my committee that

:54:16. > :54:20.no, they cannot keep providing everything they can with the money

:54:21. > :54:23.they have got, and the plans to transform local health services are

:54:24. > :54:47.being implemented while also requiring a

:54:48. > :54:52.4% per year efficiency saving and they pretty much at knowledge that

:54:53. > :54:54.is just too tight, it is part of the reason we have the problems we have

:54:55. > :54:56.now. You cannot look at changing and transforming services to deal with,

:54:57. > :54:59.as Richard said, an ageing and growing population if you are just

:55:00. > :55:01.firefighting like fire and her colleagues are now. That is the

:55:02. > :55:04.challenge, the Government has to acknowledge there is a crisis right

:55:05. > :55:06.now and we have to resolve that in order to have a proper long-term

:55:07. > :55:09.solution for the NHS. It is not an easy issue to resolve, but in a

:55:10. > :55:12.broadbrush sense what would you define as the key to looking at

:55:13. > :55:14.this? If you just keep adding more money, it is a bottomless pit.

:55:15. > :55:16.Anywhere in any system there will be efficiency opportunities and

:55:17. > :55:19.different ways of doing things to meet the needs of patients to help

:55:20. > :55:21.us stay well. While we are sitting here during your show, we get ten

:55:22. > :55:26.minutes extra life, life expectancy is going up at that rate, but that

:55:27. > :55:32.will probably bring three health conditions to live with, so we have

:55:33. > :55:36.two prevent those things long-term. We need a longer term view to invest

:55:37. > :55:39.to save money but also better patient care and support for modern

:55:40. > :55:44.medicine, and if we don't have that long-term view, we will really fail.

:55:45. > :55:47.The problem is the Government does not recognise the problem now and we

:55:48. > :55:50.will never have proper cross-party consensus, chopping and changing, so

:55:51. > :55:54.we have to get to the point where we all agree how we are going to fund

:55:55. > :56:00.the NHS, what level and what services the NHS will provide. Do

:56:01. > :56:04.you think services need to be cut? No, there is definite need at the

:56:05. > :56:08.moment for investment. You would like the NHS to continue to do

:56:09. > :56:12.everything it is currently doing? Oh, that is a political decision

:56:13. > :56:16.that will have to be made, the Government has not yet indicated

:56:17. > :56:21.anything would be removed. You are a Labour MP, what is your perspective?

:56:22. > :56:25.The NHS is there to provide health care free at the point of delivery,

:56:26. > :56:29.and if we make the population, if the population gets better then we

:56:30. > :56:33.will have fewer of these conditions being dealt with, and that is one of

:56:34. > :56:37.the ways of trying to tackle the demand. Andrew Bridge and, should

:56:38. > :56:44.the NHS stop offering everything it is offering? No, but we need to,

:56:45. > :56:49.primary care is cheaper, I just wonder, Philip Dunn, the hospital

:56:50. > :56:53.minister last week, I asked if they have figures of people presenting at

:56:54. > :56:56.A you have no access to a GP or perhaps are not even registered, and

:56:57. > :57:01.they will go to A because they know they will get care because the

:57:02. > :57:05.lights are always on, and that is putting pressure on hard-working

:57:06. > :57:08.doctors and nurses who are already working very hard.

:57:09. > :57:10.Thank you all very much, it is a subject we will no doubt keep on

:57:11. > :57:22.returning to. Thank you all for your time.

:57:23. > :57:24.Let us your thoughts as well. Let's catch up with the latest weather

:57:25. > :57:27.update with Sarah Keith Lucas. Obviously there is some pretty awful

:57:28. > :57:35.weather out there, bring us up to date. Yes, we have four seasons in

:57:36. > :57:39.one day, we have snow, ice, sunshine, flooding in some eastern

:57:40. > :57:44.areas as well. Did the Thunder snow happen? We did

:57:45. > :57:48.get some thunder with the snow in the north-west yesterday, we have

:57:49. > :57:51.had some big cumulonimbus clouds, cold conditions and snow falling at

:57:52. > :57:55.the same time so we have had it all and we are not out of the woods yet.

:57:56. > :57:59.Why is it like this, so many different things at once?

:58:00. > :58:02.We have a plunge of cold air from the Arctic, that has brought down

:58:03. > :58:05.the temperatures and we are also seeing an area of low pressure

:58:06. > :58:11.pushing down the east coast as well. That will combine with high tide, so

:58:12. > :58:14.you might have noticed a big full moon at the moment coincided with

:58:15. > :58:20.particularly high tides, so down the east coast that is the main issue,

:58:21. > :58:23.strong winds can kind -- combined with high tides.

:58:24. > :58:28.How long will it last? We are not out of the woods yet, as

:58:29. > :58:33.we were saying. Let's talk at some of the scenes sent in by our Weather

:58:34. > :58:36.Watchers this morning, this was Croydon, a few centimetres of lying

:58:37. > :58:40.snow there to the south of London. Elsewhere across the country we have

:58:41. > :58:43.had some disruption on the roads, this is how things were looking in

:58:44. > :58:47.Staffordshire earlier in the morning, some icing is, some snow

:58:48. > :58:52.around on the roads as well, but some of us catching some very scenic

:58:53. > :59:02.conditions, this was Perthshire, some sunshine although things are

:59:03. > :59:04.cold with all of that smoke above. Through the day, this frontal system

:59:05. > :59:06.is pushing south, it is bringing sleet and snow across East Anglia

:59:07. > :59:09.and the south-east, to the north-west of the country snow

:59:10. > :59:13.showers as well. The isobars in the east, that is where we have the

:59:14. > :59:19.strong wind and severe of -- risk of severe flooding. Warnings from the

:59:20. > :59:22.Environment Agency in force at the moment. As we had through the day,

:59:23. > :59:30.strong northerly winds, particularly down the East Coast, and quite a lot

:59:31. > :59:33.of wintry sunshine on offer. We will have some more showers of sleet and

:59:34. > :59:36.snow across parts of Northern Ireland into northern and western

:59:37. > :59:41.Scotland, much of southern Scotland luck strike, that is where we have

:59:42. > :59:44.the strongest wind in the East, several eastern Scotland and the

:59:45. > :59:48.East Coast of England. Towards Wales, sleet and snow accumulating

:59:49. > :59:51.through the day, could get the odd snow shower across the moors of the

:59:52. > :59:55.south-west, but moving eastwards across England it is going to be the

:59:56. > :59:59.strength of the wind that causes problems, combined with the high

:00:00. > :00:05.tide. Around and again around midnight across parts of East Anglia

:00:06. > :00:09.in particular. As we move through this evening and overnight, the wind

:00:10. > :00:13.tends to ease, we are in for a cold night. By the early hours of the

:00:14. > :00:18.morning we could see temperatures subzero in the towns and cities but

:00:19. > :00:22.in the countryside as low as -7, even -10 where we have the snow

:00:23. > :00:26.cover in rural Scotland. Through tomorrow, still some snow showers to

:00:27. > :00:30.the east, things. To turn milder in the West, some sunshine and light

:00:31. > :00:32.winds, and temperatures generally warmer than today, up to around two

:00:33. > :00:46.to 6 degrees. People living in coastal areas in

:00:47. > :00:49.the east of England are being warned to stay vigilant because of gale

:00:50. > :00:54.force winds and high tides forecast for later today.

:00:55. > :00:56.There are 11 severe flood warnings in the area,

:00:57. > :00:59.Amber Cliff died of cervical cancer, aged just 25.

:01:00. > :01:01.Her family say she'd repeatedly asked for tests

:01:02. > :01:17.We will ask if screening should be offered to younger women. The number

:01:18. > :01:22.of men in part-time work as risen dramatically in the last 20 years

:01:23. > :01:27.according to a new study. We will look at the figures. Let's catch up

:01:28. > :01:31.with all the news with Anita. Labour's Tristram Hunt is to stand

:01:32. > :01:34.down as an MP to become the director The resignation of the former shadow

:01:35. > :01:39.education secretary will trigger a by-election in

:01:40. > :01:43.Stoke-on-Trent Central. Let's get more from Carole

:01:44. > :01:55.Walker at Westminster. This job sounds right up the street

:01:56. > :02:01.of Tristram Hunt, who is an historian. But what sort of problems

:02:02. > :02:06.does it cause for Jeremy Corbyn? You're right, I'm sure Tristram Hunt

:02:07. > :02:10.will find this a hugely satisfying and challenging position. It fits

:02:11. > :02:16.very much with his background as a historian. He has recently completed

:02:17. > :02:19.his latest book. But it's a huge challenge for Labour to see if they

:02:20. > :02:25.can hold onto this seat Stoke-on-Trent. It's not the first

:02:26. > :02:30.MP to resign from the Labour Party in recent weeks. We had Jamie Reid,

:02:31. > :02:34.which has triggered a by-election in Copeland, which will be an important

:02:35. > :02:40.test for the Jeremy Corbyn leadership. He now faces another

:02:41. > :02:45.test in Stoke, a place where at the last election, Ukip made significant

:02:46. > :02:51.gains to come neck and neck in second place with the Conservatives.

:02:52. > :02:56.In the last few minutes we've had a resignation letter from Tristram

:02:57. > :03:01.Hunt. It should be said that he's somebody who was Shadow Education

:03:02. > :03:07.Secretary, but resigned from that position when Jeremy Corbyn became

:03:08. > :03:11.leader. It's clear he has not been comfortable with many of the things

:03:12. > :03:15.Jeremy Corbyn stands for. It's interesting that in his letter he

:03:16. > :03:21.says that he has no desire to rock the boat. And anyone who interprets

:03:22. > :03:27.the decision to leave in that way would be just plain wrong. But he

:03:28. > :03:32.does talk about how his time in Parliament has been both rewarding

:03:33. > :03:37.and frustrating. He says he's proud of his work, but also frustrated

:03:38. > :03:39.that he hasn't been able to do more to alleviate the poverty and

:03:40. > :03:45.inequality and lack of social mobility. He says the frustration

:03:46. > :03:49.came with an inability to address these factors and implement our

:03:50. > :03:54.policy programme following our defeat in 2015, and more broadly,

:03:55. > :04:00.how the Labour Party should respond to be social, cultural and economic

:04:01. > :04:02.forces that have rocked mainstream social Democratic and Socialist

:04:03. > :04:07.parties right across the world. So, he says he wouldn't have left his

:04:08. > :04:13.job in Parliament for any other job. He's very keen indeed to continue to

:04:14. > :04:20.look at these wider questions in his role as director of the V But

:04:21. > :04:26.this is another serious blow to the Labour Party. Another sign that some

:04:27. > :04:30.of those mainstream, more centrist MPs are looking at life outside

:04:31. > :04:31.parliament because they are simply not comfortable in Jeremy Corbyn's

:04:32. > :04:41.Labour Party. Severe flood warnings in place on

:04:42. > :04:45.the east coast of England amid fears thousands of homes are at risk of a

:04:46. > :04:54.storm surge. The Environment Agency has issued 11 severe flood warnings

:04:55. > :04:55.indicating a danger to life. Near Clacton in Essex people have been

:04:56. > :04:59.advised to move to safety. A man who lost his sister

:05:00. > :05:02.to cervical cancer is calling for the age of testing women

:05:03. > :05:04.for the disease should be lowered. Amber Cliff was diagnosed

:05:05. > :05:07.with cervical cancer at 21. She died at the age of 25 -

:05:08. > :05:10.the age when smear tests Her brother Josh told this

:05:11. > :05:13.programme that the age She would never have made 25

:05:14. > :05:23.if we hadn't have went private. Cancer doesn't know age,

:05:24. > :05:27.it's not about numbers and age. It's not when you become 25

:05:28. > :05:30.all of a sudden cancer can This is the issue we're

:05:31. > :05:34.trying to raise now. A toddler with suspected meningitis

:05:35. > :05:38.lay on a makeshift bed of two chairs while he waited for several hours

:05:39. > :05:41.in A to be seen by a doctor, Rose Newman, from Eastbourne,

:05:42. > :05:46.told The Mirror her one year old son Jack,

:05:47. > :05:54.was forced to wait for five hours after he was rushed

:05:55. > :05:56.to Conquest Hospital in Hastings. The incident was raised

:05:57. > :05:58.at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday by leader

:05:59. > :06:00.of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn. Ms Newman says doctors

:06:01. > :06:02.told her it was not I asked one of the doctors

:06:03. > :06:06.if it was just an unusually busy night as to why we couldn't get seen

:06:07. > :06:10.for five hours and she said, "No, And I said, you know,

:06:11. > :06:14."Why is there no bed for him?" And she said "There just

:06:15. > :06:17.are no beds, that's how it So it doesn't really bode

:06:18. > :06:21.well for the future. Will have more details on this later

:06:22. > :06:24.in the hour. In a statement, East Sussex NHS

:06:25. > :06:27.Trust said that had it been clinically necessary for Jack to be

:06:28. > :06:30.admitted to a bed in the hospital The number of men in low-paid

:06:31. > :06:35.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:06:36. > :06:39.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men,

:06:40. > :06:42.between the ages of 25 and 55, now works part time compared with 1

:06:43. > :06:45.in 20 two decades ago. Just after 10:30, Joanna will be

:06:46. > :06:48.discussing this further with those who find themselves

:06:49. > :07:01.in part-time work. If you are one of those men in

:07:02. > :07:03.part-time work on low paid, and you have a strong view on it, letters

:07:04. > :07:07.know your thoughts. Do get in touch with us

:07:08. > :07:09.throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:07:10. > :07:18.and If you text, you will be charged Let's catch up with the sport.

:07:19. > :07:22.Australian open gets underway in just three days. There will be at

:07:23. > :07:25.least seven Britons in the main singles draw including world number

:07:26. > :07:30.one Andy Murray and world number ten Johanna Konta, who this morning

:07:31. > :07:34.storms to her second tour title, winning the Sydney International.

:07:35. > :07:37.Joining me from our London studio is former British number one Greg

:07:38. > :07:42.Rusedski. Watching Johanna Konta this morning, she was in such

:07:43. > :07:46.impressive form. Perfect preparation for the Australian open. Could this

:07:47. > :07:56.be the year she makes first grand slam final? There is a good

:07:57. > :07:59.opportunity for her to get to the final. She played great this season

:08:00. > :08:02.so far. She made the semis in China, and she went back in Sydney beating

:08:03. > :08:04.the number three seed. She has a new coach who has worked with Kim

:08:05. > :08:07.Clijsters and Victoria Azarenka, so has experience of becoming a grand

:08:08. > :08:12.slam champion. But C has to do it that way. She has Flipkens in the

:08:13. > :08:17.first round, she could meet Serena Williams in the quarters. We know

:08:18. > :08:23.the Australian open draw has been made. Andy Murray will come up

:08:24. > :08:26.against the Ukraine's Marchenko in the opening round. How much will the

:08:27. > :08:32.recent defeat to Djokovic have affected him? It helped to Novak to

:08:33. > :08:34.win that match because Murray had a psychological edge over him by

:08:35. > :08:38.winning the end of season finals in the final match of the year to

:08:39. > :08:43.finish world number one. If we look at the Australian open at the

:08:44. > :08:49.moment, it's a 50-50, between Andy and Novak. I think this is Andy

:08:50. > :08:53.Murray's time now, having been in five titles, but never won it, he

:08:54. > :09:00.will want to win it for the first time. Djokovic has the record shared

:09:01. > :09:05.by winning it six times. He will hope to break that. But Djokovic has

:09:06. > :09:09.a really brutal opener against Fernando Verdasco. He went five

:09:10. > :09:14.match points against him in Doha. Everything set up perfectly for a

:09:15. > :09:18.Murray- Djokovic final, most likely. The Brits have a strong showing in

:09:19. > :09:22.this competition. Seven in the main singles draw. What are your

:09:23. > :09:28.expectations for the rest of the team? It's interesting. Heather

:09:29. > :09:32.Watson Place Sam Stosur, the Australian former grand slam final

:09:33. > :09:35.winner in New York. Cup finals at the French Open. But Sam can get

:09:36. > :09:39.nervous down under there's an opportunity for Heather to get

:09:40. > :09:44.through. On the men's side, Dan Evans is in the semifinals right now

:09:45. > :09:53.in Sydney, having one of his best weeks. Young Kyle Edmund is also

:09:54. > :09:56.playing well, he made the fourth round of the US open. A lot of Brits

:09:57. > :09:59.to support and a lot of possibility to go deep in the draw, possibly get

:10:00. > :10:01.to the second week with Andy Murray and Johanna Konta. It's live and

:10:02. > :10:08.exclusive on Eurosport starting on Sunday at midnight. Lots for British

:10:09. > :10:18.tennis fans to enjoy. Greg Rusedski, former British number one. It's all

:10:19. > :10:25.so live on five live. Some breaking news, we are hearing that French

:10:26. > :10:29.investigators will investigate Renault over diesel emissions. The

:10:30. > :10:36.Paris prosecutor 's office is quoted on this on the associated foreign

:10:37. > :10:39.press news agency. It says the car-maker is under suspicion of

:10:40. > :10:47.cheating in emissions tests. That's all we have at the moment on that.

:10:48. > :10:49.No independent confirmation, but AFP reporting Renault will be

:10:50. > :10:56.investigated in France over diesel emissions. It follows on from Fiat

:10:57. > :11:00.Chrysler being accused in the United States of not telling authorities

:11:01. > :11:04.about software that regulates emissions in thousands of its diesel

:11:05. > :11:11.vehicles, and that followed on from what happened with Volkswagen.

:11:12. > :11:15.Another car company potentially in the frame, but no confirmation of

:11:16. > :11:19.the beyond a report just coming through from the AFP news agency

:11:20. > :11:26.about Renault being investigated over diesel emissions. People living

:11:27. > :11:29.in coastal areas in the East of England are being warned to stay

:11:30. > :11:38.vigilant because of gale force winds and high tide forecast for later

:11:39. > :11:41.today. Thousands of people living in Jaywick in Clacton in Essex and

:11:42. > :11:49.Great Yarmouth are being warned to move to safety. In Lincolnshire 100

:11:50. > :11:56.soldiers have been deployed to help police. Phil Mackie is on a service

:11:57. > :12:03.station on the M42 south of Birmingham weather has been

:12:04. > :12:06.disruption because of snow. You can see that we have moved from the

:12:07. > :12:09.motorway up to the top of the hills in Worcestershire to give you a

:12:10. > :12:10.sense of how much it has snowed overnight and this morning across

:12:11. > :12:39.the Midlands. INAUDIBLE It's freezing up here in this strong

:12:40. > :12:46.wind. You can see people struggling with the went. There is no real

:12:47. > :13:03.great disruption at the moment across the country.

:13:04. > :13:08.It shouldn't cause many major problems today and it could be quite

:13:09. > :13:13.good fun for the children. If the snow doesn't melt today, they could

:13:14. > :13:16.get out on the slopes tomorrow. A lot of disappointed kids in other

:13:17. > :13:25.areas where snow was predicted and it didn't happen. We can go to

:13:26. > :13:30.Skegness in Lincolnshire where 100 soldiers are on stand-by to help

:13:31. > :13:44.emergency services. Major Chris Carter joins me now. What are you on

:13:45. > :13:50.stand-by for? We deployed yesterday. We helped elderly residents and

:13:51. > :14:04.persons who were maybe vulnerable or at potential risk from the weather

:14:05. > :14:12.that's due to hit later today. We will be ready to evacuate personnel

:14:13. > :14:18.should the knees arise. I imagine people get a shock when somebody

:14:19. > :14:22.from the Army knocks on their door and tells them they have to leave

:14:23. > :14:33.home. We don't tell them they have to leave, we just talk through plans

:14:34. > :14:36.if they have to leave. How are things looking, are you anticipating

:14:37. > :14:43.have to get involved in a more hands-on way? We are hoping that

:14:44. > :14:46.will not be the case. The weather is quite bad outside. We are here

:14:47. > :14:52.purely to assist should we be required. We will support the local

:14:53. > :15:01.emergency services as required. We have some figures to bring you

:15:02. > :15:05.about the health service. Nearly half of hospitals in England is

:15:06. > :15:13.declared a major alert in the first weekend of the year as they

:15:14. > :15:19.encountered unprecedented pressures. 66 out of 142 hospital trusts raise

:15:20. > :15:21.the alarm as bed shortages led to large numbers of patients

:15:22. > :15:28.experiencing trolley waits and delays. Data leaked to the BBC

:15:29. > :15:34.earlier this week suggest just one trust hit its for our AMD target.

:15:35. > :15:35.But now official figures have released more about the scale of the

:15:36. > :15:52.problem. Coming up, left lying on two

:15:53. > :15:55.hospital chairs in A for five hours, that is what happened to one

:15:56. > :15:56.little boy. We will look at why it happened and how the NHS Trust has

:15:57. > :16:00.responded. We are talking about cervical

:16:01. > :16:02.cancer this morning, and the age at which young women

:16:03. > :16:04.should be screened. Smear tests are offered to women

:16:05. > :16:07.when they turn 25 in England. But, earlier in the programme,

:16:08. > :16:10.we heard from brother and sister Josh and Cameron Cliff,

:16:11. > :16:12.who are campaigning to make the tests available to anyone

:16:13. > :16:14.who requests it, no matter Their sister Ambe died on Sunday,

:16:15. > :16:21.aged 25, after a four-year Amber requested smears

:16:22. > :16:25.when she was 21 because of worrying bleeding and some abdominal pains -

:16:26. > :16:28.but was told she was too young. Health officials say smear tests

:16:29. > :16:31.on women under 25 are often unreliable and can do more

:16:32. > :16:33.harm than good. Speaking to this programme Cameron

:16:34. > :16:35.and Josh described the impact Amber's diagnosis had

:16:36. > :16:37.on their family. By the time we found

:16:38. > :16:39.out she'd had it for, So it was so advanced,

:16:40. > :16:43.so there was just, like, a lot more implications

:16:44. > :16:46.and stuff as well. By the time we found out

:16:47. > :16:48.she couldn't have kids, and that was obviously

:16:49. > :17:04.a massive issue. That's what hurt her most, the fact

:17:05. > :17:07.that she couldn't have kids, And how frustrating was that to know

:17:08. > :17:12.that she'd had the tumour potentially for between two and four

:17:13. > :17:15.years and she had been saying... Sort of flagging this up

:17:16. > :17:17.potentially as an issue? It made us so angry because it's not

:17:18. > :17:20.like she hadn't had the symptoms, and she was trying to find out

:17:21. > :17:24.what it was for all them years. Do you believe she might

:17:25. > :17:25.still be alive...? If Amber had been given that option

:17:26. > :17:35.what we are trying to push for, just to even rule it out,

:17:36. > :17:38.you know, they would have found that she had cervical cancer

:17:39. > :17:41.at a young age in the early stages To leave something for that long

:17:42. > :17:45.and, you know, she died at 25. She would never have made 25

:17:46. > :17:55.if we hadn't have went private. Cancer doesn't know age,

:17:56. > :17:58.it's not about numbers and age. It's not when you become 25

:17:59. > :18:01.all of a sudden cancer can This is the issue we're

:18:02. > :18:13.trying to raise now. That was Cameron and her brother

:18:14. > :18:18.Josh talking to me earlier about their sister Amber, who died of

:18:19. > :18:22.cervical cancer at just 25. They want people under 25 to be able to

:18:23. > :18:24.get cervical cancer test if they want them, because currently the age

:18:25. > :18:28.for cervical screening is 25. Let's talk now to Rob Music, the CEO

:18:29. > :18:31.of Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust, and Dr Kathryn Hillaby,

:18:32. > :18:40.a gynaecological oncologist. Thank you both for coming in. I

:18:41. > :18:45.should say Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust is the only UK charity which

:18:46. > :18:49.is dedicated to women affected by cervical cancer and cervical

:18:50. > :18:57.abnormalities. What is your view on testing for cervical cancer under

:18:58. > :19:00.25? Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust and charity such as Cancer Research UK

:19:01. > :19:04.have to be guided by the current evidence, which is set to screen

:19:05. > :19:10.women under 25 there are potentially risks of doing more harm than good.

:19:11. > :19:15.Cervical cancer is caused in over 99% of cases by a virus called human

:19:16. > :19:19.papillomavirus. It is a virus that is more prevalent in women under 25,

:19:20. > :19:24.and therefore what the experts say is that if we invite women for a

:19:25. > :19:31.smear test there is a risk you made then unnecessarily damage the

:19:32. > :19:35.cervix, which can result in preterm labour, risks to the mother and

:19:36. > :19:39.baby. What is important with this terribly sad case and others as well

:19:40. > :19:43.is about awareness of symptoms, and I think it is symptoms both in terms

:19:44. > :19:49.of encouraging and empowering women to speak to their GP if they have

:19:50. > :19:54.any symptoms that are not normal and are typical of cervical cancer, but

:19:55. > :19:57.already there is a Department of Health pathway for GPs, said they

:19:58. > :20:02.should be aware that if a woman present with symptoms that there is

:20:03. > :20:06.a protocol in place, so for example bleeding after sexual intercourse is

:20:07. > :20:10.one of the most common symptoms of cervical cancer, there is a protocol

:20:11. > :20:14.in place that they should then examined the woman and if they see

:20:15. > :20:17.something concerning, refer to gynaecology, said that is in place

:20:18. > :20:22.and we have to make sure those pathways are adhered to. What is

:20:23. > :20:26.particularly frustrating in this case for the family and for Amber at

:20:27. > :20:30.the time is the fact that she flagged it up because she looked up

:20:31. > :20:34.symptoms online and felt that she should be tested for cervical

:20:35. > :20:38.cancer, but it didn't happen. Absolutely, and again that highlight

:20:39. > :20:43.the importance of raising awareness to GPs to make sure that the pathway

:20:44. > :20:48.adhered to and there is awareness of it. Is there a awareness amongst GPs

:20:49. > :20:54.of the symptoms for cervical cancer? Perhaps not, and that is something

:20:55. > :21:00.my critique -- Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust need to do moving forward.

:21:01. > :21:07.Kathryn, you are a gynaecological oncologist, I cannot say yet! How

:21:08. > :21:12.common is cervical cancer in under 25s? Very red, of 3000 women

:21:13. > :21:17.diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, less than 50 will be under 25

:21:18. > :21:21.so it is very uncommon in girls under 25. Does that mean GPs are not

:21:22. > :21:25.necessarily attuned if somebody under 25 comes in presenting with

:21:26. > :21:33.symptoms? Possibly, but I would say if you do have any of the symptoms,

:21:34. > :21:38.as Rob has said, such as bleeding after sex or between periods, please

:21:39. > :21:42.go to your GP and asked to be examined. The smear test is not a

:21:43. > :21:47.test for cancer, it is a test to pick up precancerous cells. The best

:21:48. > :21:51.way of looking at cervical cancer in young girls is to look at the

:21:52. > :21:58.cervix. If the doctor is worried, they can use the pathway and be seen

:21:59. > :22:02.in two weeks in hospital. She would be examined and cancer could be

:22:03. > :22:06.ruled out. Because there is a screening programme, albeit for over

:22:07. > :22:11.25 is, it is one of those cancers that all women are very aware of

:22:12. > :22:15.because from the age of 25 you get invited for screening. A lot of

:22:16. > :22:21.people don't take it up, it is almost like there is a dichotomy

:22:22. > :22:25.where there is awareness that it is there and we should be concerned and

:22:26. > :22:29.there is potential to catch it early, but not awareness of the

:22:30. > :22:33.symptoms and the importance of the screening. Exactly, a lot of people

:22:34. > :22:37.are not turning up, particularly the under 30s age group, one in three

:22:38. > :22:43.ladies do not take up the smear test opportunity, which is such a shame.

:22:44. > :22:46.Why is that? I don't know, maybe it is difficult to get an appointment

:22:47. > :22:49.or they are scared and don't understand. It takes ten minutes, it

:22:50. > :22:54.is done by a nurse, in a very dignified manner. It is not painful,

:22:55. > :22:58.it is slightly uncomfortable but that ten minutes could save your

:22:59. > :23:02.life. The charity has commissioned a range of research around trying to

:23:03. > :23:06.understand why women are not attending. The barriers are

:23:07. > :23:10.multifactorial depending on age, on ethnicity. For younger women it is

:23:11. > :23:14.around embarrassment, worry about it being painful. Interestingly it is

:23:15. > :23:18.worrying about the results, because they think it is a test to find

:23:19. > :23:21.cancer rather than prevent it. For older women it is relevant, perhaps

:23:22. > :23:25.if they are 50 plus and have had a few smears in their lifetime they

:23:26. > :23:28.think it is not relevant. There is a big concern about the 50 plus age

:23:29. > :23:33.group are not going for screening and they worry that in ten, 15

:23:34. > :23:35.years' time there will be a big jump in incidents, so as we talked about

:23:36. > :23:50.there is a worry about the number of women being diagnosed. The

:23:51. > :23:52.vaccine was introduced in 2008, does that potentially transform things

:23:53. > :23:54.because it vaccinate against 70% of cancers? We have not seen that come

:23:55. > :23:58.through yet, those girls are starting to hit 25 now, we hope it

:23:59. > :24:03.will make a massive difference and reduce cervical cancer by 70%.

:24:04. > :24:08.Again, I would urge people to get their daughters vaccinated. Are many

:24:09. > :24:11.people not opting for rich? Some people are opting, about 80% of

:24:12. > :24:19.people opt for the vaccination, so still one in five are not opting,

:24:20. > :24:24.which is a shame. It is one of those cancers if caught early... It is

:24:25. > :24:28.treatable, very durable. And largely preventable free vaccine and

:24:29. > :24:31.screening. Our vision is it can be eradicated in the not too distant

:24:32. > :24:34.future but we have to find ways of encouraging women to attend smear

:24:35. > :24:41.test and take up the vaccine when that is available as well. Your

:24:42. > :24:45.mission statement is that you are -- your charity wants to see a future

:24:46. > :24:49.where cervical cancer is a thing of the past. Do you think that is

:24:50. > :24:55.possible, Kathryn? Absolutely, high uptake of the vaccination, people

:24:56. > :24:59.partaking in the screening programme, the vaccine present 70%

:25:00. > :25:04.of cancers, the screening programme will detect the majority as well. It

:25:05. > :25:08.is an achievable aim in the UK. We have got so many e-mails and tweets

:25:09. > :25:13.coming through on this, I just want to go through a few. Vic says, with

:25:14. > :25:16.her symptoms, Amber could have been given a simple test at the start and

:25:17. > :25:24.might be alive today. Shan says, I work in gynaecology and

:25:25. > :25:29.family planning, when we routinely tested girls from 18. When the age

:25:30. > :25:33.was raised to 25, I had my concerns because I had girls under 25 who had

:25:34. > :25:36.positive tests but I was told it was rare and not cost-effective. I was

:25:37. > :25:41.not convinced by this and feel it was a cost-cutting policy as it also

:25:42. > :25:43.coincided with a new way of obtaining smears that, although an

:25:44. > :25:49.improvement, was more than likely add costly thing to do. Just answer

:25:50. > :25:53.that, was there an element of cost? No, it is because it was doing more

:25:54. > :25:57.harm than good, it is more likely to find an abnormality that will likely

:25:58. > :26:02.go away by it self, and the risk of over treating girls which can cause

:26:03. > :26:05.premature delivery of their babies and so for the sabbatical screening

:26:06. > :26:10.programme, and there is good evidence in the UK and nationally,

:26:11. > :26:15.there is no evidence the screening girls under 25. The whole of the UK

:26:16. > :26:19.now screens people over 25. Can we have e-mailed, please stop confusing

:26:20. > :26:22.a screening test and a definitive test for cancer. GPs cannot refer

:26:23. > :26:28.patients under 25 for evidence -based reasons, you can see the NHS

:26:29. > :26:33.choices website, effectively outlining what you were saying.

:26:34. > :26:39.One tweet, I had treatment for precancerous cells at the age of 19,

:26:40. > :26:44.the age urgently needs reducing. Obviously that was caught early

:26:45. > :26:48.before the age for smear tests, but making the point as well that you

:26:49. > :26:55.are making that it is treatable if caught early? How easy is it to

:26:56. > :27:00.treat? Laser treatment for precancerous cells at 19? It is very

:27:01. > :27:06.easy to treat, it is pre-cancer. The purpose of the smear test is to

:27:07. > :27:09.detect precancerous lesions that may develop into cancer over a period of

:27:10. > :27:13.years and if you have an abnormality you will be invited to a clinic at a

:27:14. > :27:17.hospital, a doctor like myself will have a look at the neck of the womb

:27:18. > :27:20.and if they see an abnormality they may offer treatment, normally under

:27:21. > :27:24.local anaesthetic, using a heated wire to remove the abnormal cells.

:27:25. > :27:28.It takes ten minutes and over and done with, 95% of people that is all

:27:29. > :27:35.the treatment they will ever need. Thank you both very much.

:27:36. > :27:38.The mother of a toddler with suspected meningitis

:27:39. > :27:40.who lay on a makeshift bed while he waited in A

:27:41. > :27:43.has spoken of their ordeal after her case was raised

:27:44. > :27:45.by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, at Prime Minister's Questions.

:27:46. > :27:47.Rose Newman, from Eastbourne, says her one-year-old son Jack had

:27:48. > :27:49.to wait for five hours at the Conquest

:27:50. > :27:53.Ms Newman praised the doctors, but told the Mirror newspaper

:27:54. > :27:54.that they didn't have enough resources.

:27:55. > :27:58.Waited for hours in the waiting room and was eventually seen by a nurse,

:27:59. > :28:00.and was there for about five hours in total, but unfortunately

:28:01. > :28:04.there was no bed for him so we had to put two plastic chairs together

:28:05. > :28:07.with a blanket over the top so that he could have

:28:08. > :28:10.Unfortunately this seems like it's quite a typical situation.

:28:11. > :28:13.I asked one of the doctors if it was just an unusually busy

:28:14. > :28:16.night as to why we couldn't get seen for five hours and she said, "No,

:28:17. > :28:21.And I said, you know, "Why is there no bed for him?"

:28:22. > :28:24.And she said "There just are no beds, that's how it

:28:25. > :28:27.So it doesn't really bode well for the future.

:28:28. > :28:31.The hospital is disputing the time the newspaper says

:28:32. > :28:38.he arrived and has released the following statement:

:28:39. > :28:41."Jack was assessed by a clinical practitioner as soon as he arrived.

:28:42. > :28:44.Jack was monitored by the nursing team and given paracetamol

:28:45. > :28:49.Jack did wait over three hours to see a doctor, due to the volume

:28:50. > :28:53.The cubicle they were put into does not have a bed

:28:54. > :28:55.as it is for assessment and not treatment of patients.

:28:56. > :28:58.Had it been clinically necessary for Jack to be admitted to a bed

:28:59. > :29:00.in the hospital, this would have been done."

:29:01. > :29:05.Our political correspondent Tom Bateman has more on this.

:29:06. > :29:13.P induced obviously to highlight a broader point that have become an

:29:14. > :29:15.increasingly political issue. When it gets to winter in

:29:16. > :29:18.Westminster there can be something of a routine to these things,

:29:19. > :29:23.because just as the temperature plunges hear the sound of few really

:29:24. > :29:27.has been rising in the House of Commons just over the way over what

:29:28. > :29:31.Labour are seeing as yet another winter crisis in the NHS, what the

:29:32. > :29:33.Government is saying is that they think they have given more than

:29:34. > :29:40.enough money to the health service in England. We have seen continuing

:29:41. > :29:43.reports about the pressures that the NHS is under, and that led to Jeremy

:29:44. > :29:47.Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions this week repeating that claim by

:29:48. > :29:52.the British Red Cross that there was, in his view, humanitarian

:29:53. > :29:56.crisis in the NHS, something Theresa May said was overblown. Then Mr

:29:57. > :29:57.Corbyn on Wednesday raised this issue that you have been hearing

:29:58. > :30:00.about. Here is what he had to say. This week, the Prime

:30:01. > :30:02.Minister said she wanted More people sharing hospital

:30:03. > :30:08.corridors on trolleys. More people sharing waiting

:30:09. > :30:12.areas in A departments. More people sharing in anxiety

:30:13. > :30:16.created by this government. Our NHS, Mr Speaker, is in crisis

:30:17. > :30:22.but the Prime Minister is in denial. Can I suggest to her,

:30:23. > :30:27.on the economic question, cancel the corporate tax cuts,

:30:28. > :30:32.spend the money where it's needed, on people in desperate need

:30:33. > :30:39.in social care or in our hospitals. The right honourable

:30:40. > :30:42.gentleman talks about crisis. I suggest he listens

:30:43. > :30:46.to the honourable member for Don Valley, a former Labour

:30:47. > :30:48.health minister, who "With Labour, it's

:30:49. > :30:51.always about crisis. We've got to be a bit more

:30:52. > :30:58.grown up about this." And he talks to me about corporation

:30:59. > :31:01.tax and restoring the cuts The Labour Party has already spent

:31:02. > :31:09.that money eight times. The last thing the NHS needs is

:31:10. > :31:12.a cheque from Labour that bounces. The only way that we can

:31:13. > :31:15.ensure we've got funding for the National Health Service

:31:16. > :31:17.is a strong economy. Yesterday, the right honourable

:31:18. > :31:19.gentleman proved that he's not only incompetent

:31:20. > :31:21.but that he would destroy our economy and that

:31:22. > :31:38.would devastate our National Health One of the reasons this particular

:31:39. > :31:42.case matters, as you heard from the little boy's mother, they had to

:31:43. > :31:46.wait for five hours. That's an important issue. We had controversy

:31:47. > :31:50.this week over the government's four hour waiting target for A units.

:31:51. > :31:54.That all people going into A should be seen within four hours.

:31:55. > :31:58.Jeremy Hunt said earlier this week that should only be for people with

:31:59. > :32:03.urgent problems. If you just show up when you could go to your GP, he

:32:04. > :32:08.suggested that target might not have to apply. That led to Labour and

:32:09. > :32:15.other opposition parties saying the government looked like it would

:32:16. > :32:23.scrap that target, something the government denies. It always feels

:32:24. > :32:28.slightly reminiscent of Jennifer Zia, the famous case that ran into

:32:29. > :32:32.controversy and computation. How potentially fraught is it for

:32:33. > :32:36.politicians when they use a specific case to make a point? This is

:32:37. > :32:41.something we have seen Jeremy Corbyn make a real point. When he began as

:32:42. > :32:43.Labour leader, he started Prime Minister's Questions by saying he

:32:44. > :32:48.wanted e-mails and letters from people to talk about what's going on

:32:49. > :32:51.in their lives. He has made use of that, and at times has been mocked

:32:52. > :32:55.at Prime Minister's Questions for bringing up some of those case

:32:56. > :33:00.studies. There is a rich tradition, it's part of an MP's job as a

:33:01. > :33:07.constituency MP to raise concerns of constituents. But when these details

:33:08. > :33:12.are raised by opposition leaders it can entail risk. Here we see a

:33:13. > :33:16.difference of views with the boy 's mother saying that they waited for

:33:17. > :33:20.five hours but the hospital said it was three hours. I think they can be

:33:21. > :33:24.difficulties here for politicians. No doubt we will hear more of these

:33:25. > :33:28.case studies being raised by Mr Corbyn.

:33:29. > :33:31.The number of men in low-paid part-time work has increased

:33:32. > :33:33.dramatically over the past 20 years, in contrast to those

:33:34. > :33:37.We'll be talking to one part-time worker about his experiences.

:33:38. > :33:40.Some gamers have waited for years - now Nintendo's got a new video

:33:41. > :33:47.The Nintendo Switch is creating a buzz and we'll hear why

:33:48. > :33:59.We will also talk more broadly about why it matters for Nintendo.

:34:00. > :34:01.With the News, here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom.

:34:02. > :34:04.Labour's Tristram Hunt is to stand down as an MP to become the director

:34:05. > :34:10.The resignation of the former shadow education secretary will trigger

:34:11. > :34:12.a by-election in Stoke-on-Trent Central.

:34:13. > :34:14.When asked by the BBC whether he was quitting

:34:15. > :34:18.because of his frustration with Jeremy Corbyn's leadership

:34:19. > :34:21.of the Labour party, Mr Hunt said: "It's about the opportunity to have

:34:22. > :34:25.one of the greatest museum jobs in the world."

:34:26. > :34:29.Severe flood warnings are in place along the east coast of England,

:34:30. > :34:35.amid fears thousands of homes are at risk from a storm surge.

:34:36. > :34:38.The Environment Agency has issued 11 severe flood warnings,

:34:39. > :34:41.In Lincolnshire, 100 soldiers have been deployed to help the police.

:34:42. > :34:44.In the village of Jaywick, near Clacton in Essex,

:34:45. > :34:48.people have been advised to move to safety.

:34:49. > :34:54.Mary Cahra was evacuated from her home in Jaywick last night.

:34:55. > :35:00.I heard on the radio that they were going to evacuate everyone at 7am

:35:01. > :35:05.this morning. I unpacked my shopping, had my dinner and went to

:35:06. > :35:11.bed. Then I heard a lot of noise is so phoned a neighbour and he said,

:35:12. > :35:15.where are you? I said I was in my lodge and he said I had to get out

:35:16. > :35:19.immediately. I left immediately and came here. They have been wonderful

:35:20. > :35:21.since I came here. They have been doing everything for us and more

:35:22. > :35:23.importantly, I'm safe. NHS bosses have revealed that nearly

:35:24. > :35:26.half of the hospitals in England declared a major alert in the first

:35:27. > :35:29.week of this year as they The official figures from NHS

:35:30. > :35:32.England show that 66 out of 142 hospital trusts raised the alarm

:35:33. > :35:35.as mounting bed shortages led to large numbers of patients

:35:36. > :35:37.experiencing trolley waits The number of men in low-paid

:35:38. > :35:43.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:35:44. > :35:49.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men,

:35:50. > :35:52.between the ages of 25 and 55, now works part-time compared

:35:53. > :36:02.with one-in-20 two decades ago. There were emotional

:36:03. > :36:04.scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:36:05. > :36:09.as outgoing US President with the country's highest civilian

:36:10. > :36:11.honour. For the final time as president,

:36:12. > :36:14.I'm pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honour,

:36:15. > :36:16.the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As you heard there,

:36:17. > :36:23.Joe Biden received Mr Biden said the honour had been

:36:24. > :36:30.a complete surprise. Barack Obama said he and his second

:36:31. > :36:34.in command had had "quite a ride". This also gives the internet

:36:35. > :36:36.one last chance to... That's a summary of the latest news,

:36:37. > :36:57.join me for BBC Newsroom Let's catch up with the sport.

:36:58. > :37:01.Johanna Konta has won the Sydney International this morning. The

:37:02. > :37:05.British number-1 beat Agassi Radwanska 6-4, 6-2, the ideal warm

:37:06. > :37:11.up for the Australian open which starts on Monday. Johanna Konta has

:37:12. > :37:15.been drawn against Kirsten Flipkens in the first round. In the men's

:37:16. > :37:18.draw, world number one Andy Murray will face the Ukrainian Marchenko in

:37:19. > :37:25.his first-round match. He could face Roger Federer in the quarterfinals.

:37:26. > :37:29.There will be a minute's applause before all English football league

:37:30. > :37:32.matches this weekend in tribute to former England manager Graham Taylor

:37:33. > :37:37.who died yesterday at the age of 72. Alastair Cook will meet director of

:37:38. > :37:41.cricket Andrew Strauss over his future as in that captain. He has

:37:42. > :37:48.faced questions in his role after the 4-0 defeats to India. And Brian

:37:49. > :37:54.Fletcher has died at the age of 69. He rode Red Rum to victory in the

:37:55. > :37:57.Grand National in 1973 1974. Former champion jockey Peter Scudamore has

:37:58. > :38:04.described him as an unsung hero of sport. Christopher Steele, the

:38:05. > :38:09.former British spy behind a controversial dossier on Donald

:38:10. > :38:18.Trump was apparently once hired by the England's 2018 World Cup team.

:38:19. > :38:23.What was he hired for? This was the England 2018 attempt to win the bid,

:38:24. > :38:28.the votes to host the 28 World Cup. It was held in December, 2010,

:38:29. > :38:33.ending in humiliation for England, winning just two votes. I understand

:38:34. > :38:38.in the run-up to the vote in 2009, Christopher Steele was hired by the

:38:39. > :38:42.bid officials to provide intelligence on Fifa and

:38:43. > :38:47.specifically on Russia, England's big rival. Russia went on to win the

:38:48. > :38:49.bid and will host the World Cup in 2018. Christopher Steele was

:38:50. > :38:54.providing bid officials with that intelligence. We also understand

:38:55. > :39:00.through the Reuters news agency that in the summer of 2010, Christopher

:39:01. > :39:05.Steele met with the FBI in London. The Eurasian crime department of the

:39:06. > :39:10.FBI, and he provided information to them about his work involving world

:39:11. > :39:15.football, and that in turn, say Reuters, helped give credibility,

:39:16. > :39:19.credence, to Christopher Steele's reputation in US law enforcement and

:39:20. > :39:22.intelligence circles. Is it a surprise that this sort of digging

:39:23. > :39:27.would be happening in the world of sport? I think given the nature of

:39:28. > :39:32.the World Cup, and how prestigious it is as a prize, given how it goes

:39:33. > :39:43.beyond football. We are talking about soft power, the extension of

:39:44. > :39:45.soft power, international trade, commerce, it's a very prestigious

:39:46. > :39:49.thing for countries to win. We saw how much Russia in 2018 wanted it.

:39:50. > :39:52.Qatar winning in 2022. It's no surprise that England engaged in

:39:53. > :40:01.this. We have known in the past that this has gone on. Christopher Steele

:40:02. > :40:07.and his company were perhaps not the only company retained by England's

:40:08. > :40:14.two gather information on Russia and its rivals. It perhaps said some

:40:15. > :40:16.light on this rather murky process. Still under investigations by the

:40:17. > :40:18.Swiss authorities given the allegations of corruption

:40:19. > :40:21.surrounding the entire process. Nintendo has got a new video

:40:22. > :40:25.game console on the way. The Nintendo Switch is creating

:40:26. > :40:29.a buzz and we'll hear why The number of men in low-paid

:40:30. > :40:35.part-time work has increased "dramatically" over the past 20

:40:36. > :40:38.years, in contrast to those Around one in five 25 to 55-year-old

:40:39. > :40:44.men on low hourly wage rates now work part-time,

:40:45. > :40:48.compared with one in 20 for higher earners, says the Institute

:40:49. > :40:55.for Fiscal Studies. Andrew Hood is a Senior Research

:40:56. > :40:58.Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and one

:40:59. > :41:00.of this study's researchers. And Ryan Aldred works

:41:01. > :41:11.part time in retail. Thank you both for joining us.

:41:12. > :41:14.Andrew first, tell us more about the research you've done. We hear a lot

:41:15. > :41:20.about winning in low-paid part-time work. I know this is the first time

:41:21. > :41:24.the focus has been on men in this particular area. This was part of a

:41:25. > :41:27.broader research project to try to understand what's driven changes in

:41:28. > :41:32.inequality in the UK in the last 20 years. We found inequality in men's

:41:33. > :41:36.weekly pay had grown significantly. We were investigating why that was.

:41:37. > :41:41.When covered that if you look at those with low hourly pay, they are

:41:42. > :41:45.more likely to work part-time. Low hours and low wages now go hand in

:41:46. > :41:50.hand to a greater extent than 20 years ago. It has been changing over

:41:51. > :41:57.20 years gradually. What do you think is behind it? That's still an

:41:58. > :42:02.open question and we are still looking into it. There are two broad

:42:03. > :42:06.ants as we could give. It could be an aspect of people's choices. The

:42:07. > :42:09.labour market is more flexible so some people might choose to work

:42:10. > :42:13.part-time instead of full-time for a whole variety of reasons. The other

:42:14. > :42:17.thing is that he is reflect the fact that these low hourly paid men are

:42:18. > :42:25.increasingly struggling to find full-time work. Ryan is someone

:42:26. > :42:30.working part-time for low wages. Before we get onto whether you it or

:42:31. > :42:41.not, what your hours are, and what you are paid. I'm paid 7.25 per

:42:42. > :42:44.hour. But in terms of my hours, I've only guaranteed four hours per week.

:42:45. > :42:51.It can dip drastically from anywhere between four and 36 hours and

:42:52. > :42:54.anywhere in between. You were shaking your head vehemently when

:42:55. > :42:58.you said some people are choosing this. Are you choosing that?

:42:59. > :43:03.Absolutely not. It's certainly been thrust upon me. I left school in

:43:04. > :43:08.2007 and went straight into a full-time permanent contract. I lost

:43:09. > :43:12.my job through the financial crash, went to university and it was a big

:43:13. > :43:15.culture shock. It seemed full-time permanent contracts were no longer

:43:16. > :43:27.in style, at least for the employers, when I came out. I've had

:43:28. > :43:29.a stream of temporary jobs with insecure and unstable hours since.

:43:30. > :43:32.Andrew, do you think that's there? Full-time permanent contract is no

:43:33. > :43:35.longer in style? It seems possible that the types of contracts

:43:36. > :43:39.employers want to offer our changing. This is something that has

:43:40. > :43:45.been increasingly in the news and the public eye since the recession,

:43:46. > :43:48.talk about zero-hour contracts and more flexible working arrangements

:43:49. > :43:51.has come to the fore. Our research shows this trend is towards

:43:52. > :43:55.part-time work for low paid men isn't something that happened just

:43:56. > :44:01.since the recession. Who does it suits to have a flexible workforce,

:44:02. > :44:04.who benefits in the end? The employer or employee? When you look

:44:05. > :44:09.at the broadbrush situation there are always exceptions, but generally

:44:10. > :44:20.who benefits? That will depend on the particular case. We can say that

:44:21. > :44:22.by looking at the data, most of the lower paid part-time men worked in

:44:23. > :44:24.sectors such as retail, wholesale, hotels and restaurants. Many of

:44:25. > :44:29.those are the kind of sectors where you can imagine employers benefiting

:44:30. > :44:34.from having workers who can change their hours up and down in

:44:35. > :44:38.accordance with the demand the company faces. Is it just about

:44:39. > :44:42.flexibility, or is their financial incentive as well? There are aspects

:44:43. > :44:45.of the tax system that encourage firms to have more workers on low

:44:46. > :44:51.hours rather than fewer workers on greater hours. The way that an

:44:52. > :44:54.employee 's and insurance contributions work means there are

:44:55. > :45:01.some tax incentives. That is one of the possible things we will looked

:45:02. > :45:09.into in the future. -- the way that an employee's injured national

:45:10. > :45:13.insurance contributions work. Was this the sort of employment you

:45:14. > :45:18.wanted having got your degree? I've had a number of jobs, including in

:45:19. > :45:23.academia. I'm finding not just in retail, but also in academia, and I

:45:24. > :45:26.have a lot of friends in teaching position to find more casualisation

:45:27. > :45:32.taking place even in those working places. You would expect to be on

:45:33. > :45:33.much more secure tenure and bad terms and conditions when they walk

:45:34. > :45:42.into those jobs. How do you feel about the future, do

:45:43. > :45:46.you feel you will ever get the type of job you were talking about

:45:47. > :45:51.previously with a more secure, better paid contract, Times? I think

:45:52. > :45:55.it is certainly possible, but I think the problem is at the moment

:45:56. > :45:58.that there is far too little investment in education and

:45:59. > :46:02.industry, and rather a lot more emphasis on giving tax breaks to

:46:03. > :46:06.huge corporations when they are clearly not in the interests of

:46:07. > :46:15.working for ordinary working class people like myself, and so, you are

:46:16. > :46:18.finding that in order to take the benefits of the tax breaks by

:46:19. > :46:22.employing more people on fewer hours, it is becoming much more

:46:23. > :46:27.prevalent and everywhere I have been working in the last few months and

:46:28. > :46:30.years, I have found with the small exception of maybe some students and

:46:31. > :46:34.very new parents, you are finding that everyone is desperate for more

:46:35. > :46:38.hours and enough wages to make the rent on the bills, not one or the

:46:39. > :46:48.other. Andrew, you mentioned you are looking into the broader issues in

:46:49. > :46:54.terms of your future research. Is there a discussion within Government

:46:55. > :46:57.about the way that employment should look in this country? My

:46:58. > :47:02.understanding is the Government is conducting an inquiry into things

:47:03. > :47:05.around the economy and how tax and legal treatment of that kind of

:47:06. > :47:09.employment self-employment margin should work. More generally one

:47:10. > :47:14.thing we would say is that this highlights the fact that, just

:47:15. > :47:18.focusing on families where all people out of work might not be the

:47:19. > :47:23.best way to target those in need. For example, if we look at poverty,

:47:24. > :47:27.two thirds of children who are in poverty, someone in that household

:47:28. > :47:30.works, and it is these trends towards increasing part-time for low

:47:31. > :47:34.paid that explain that phenomenon, said that is important for the

:47:35. > :47:37.Government to think about as it seeks to raise living standards and

:47:38. > :47:45.address inequality if that is what it wants to do. Presumably the prop

:47:46. > :47:48.would be turned back, or do you think it could be? How would you

:47:49. > :47:51.anticipate future trends of employment models? It is hard to

:47:52. > :47:57.predict the future, what we have seen over the last 20 years if in

:47:58. > :48:02.some ways it went the other way for women. Trying to understand what

:48:03. > :48:06.happened here, low-paid women are less likely to work than they were

:48:07. > :48:10.20 years ago, so it is not like this trend is for all low-paid people, it

:48:11. > :48:19.is among men, although it is widespread among men. But relative

:48:20. > :48:23.positions, correcting historically women, the situation has improved

:48:24. > :48:26.for women while for men it is the other... That is right, it is a

:48:27. > :48:29.higher proportion of women who used to work part-time but has come down

:48:30. > :48:37.but it is higher than the equivalent for men. Ryan, in terms of your

:48:38. > :48:44.future, how optimistic do you feel? At the moment, not very. This is why

:48:45. > :48:48.myself, in what little spare time I have, I campaign for organisations

:48:49. > :48:51.like the Socialist party to push for an end to the row our contracts and

:48:52. > :48:55.the culture of minimal our contract that we have because it is causing

:48:56. > :48:59.the race to the bottom that we have where you are finding employers

:49:00. > :49:03.pitting worker against worker and in the end people are suffering because

:49:04. > :49:06.they are desperate for more hours and if there were more full-time

:49:07. > :49:12.jobs available roles would very quickly be filled. Let's bring in a

:49:13. > :49:17.couple of comments from people watching. Greg says, I am 63 years

:49:18. > :49:20.old and had a successful professional job, was given

:49:21. > :49:24.early-retirement. After a short time I needed more in life so I returned

:49:25. > :49:28.to work part-time driving lorries, I combine that with charity work to

:49:29. > :49:32.keep busy without being full-time. Scott says, thank God we are hearing

:49:33. > :49:34.about men on low wages for a change. Thank you both very much.

:49:35. > :49:37.In a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions told us...

:49:38. > :49:39."There are now nearly 2 million more full time jobs

:49:40. > :49:42.in the economy than in 2010 and we are at near-record employment

:49:43. > :49:44.levels with 31.8 million people in work.

:49:45. > :49:46.We have given more than one million workers a pay rise

:49:47. > :49:49.through the National Living Wage and average wages have grown by 2.6%

:49:50. > :49:59.Nintendo have released their new games console, Switch.

:50:00. > :50:02.It's the first new console from the company since the Wii U.

:50:03. > :50:04.Alongside the console launch, the company also launched the next

:50:05. > :50:07.instalment of the very popular Legend Of Zelda series -

:50:08. > :50:10.The new console offers gamers a portable screen

:50:11. > :50:21.The president of Nintendo spoke at the launch, outlining the key points

:50:22. > :50:26.of the new console. Thank you very much to all of you

:50:27. > :50:32.who have joined us here today. And thank you to everyone viewing the

:50:33. > :50:36.presentation live online. Many people around the world watched the

:50:37. > :50:46.Nintendo Switch video we released in October of last year and reacted

:50:47. > :50:50.quite positively to it. This video introduced the Nintendo Switch

:50:51. > :51:02.console, Nintendo Switch dock, Joy-con grip and two Joy-con

:51:03. > :51:06.controllers. To explain the fuss and what Joy-con is, because I don't

:51:07. > :51:10.know and I'm sure a lot of you don't, we are joined by Kate Gray, a

:51:11. > :51:17.gaming writer who has been watching the launch, and also gamer Anisa

:51:18. > :51:22.Sanusi. I will ask about Joy-con in the moment but Kate, first of all,

:51:23. > :51:25.put this in the context of a business story for Nintendo? How

:51:26. > :51:30.important is it that this is a success?

:51:31. > :51:36.Nintendo have been doing interesting things with their business, recently

:51:37. > :51:40.they have branched out into mobile gaming with Pokemon Go and super

:51:41. > :51:45.Mario Run, which is something no one thought they would do, and now with

:51:46. > :51:49.Switch they have a focus on it being a more portable tablet console

:51:50. > :51:54.hybrid which is really interesting. Time will tell if it works. Anis A,

:51:55. > :51:58.is it the sort of thing you have been desperately waiting for? Most

:51:59. > :52:05.definitely, yes, because when Nintendo announced the macro when --

:52:06. > :52:09.Wii U way back when there was a lot of hype and a lot of people were

:52:10. > :52:15.underwhelmed with the Wii U so the new console will hopefully satisfy a

:52:16. > :52:20.lot of things that the Wii U couldn't. Joy-con, tell us what that

:52:21. > :52:25.is? It is a detachable controller that you can take off or put on the

:52:26. > :52:29.Nintendo Switch console, and supposedly you can put it on an

:52:30. > :52:33.actual controller that you play with your TV, all you can put it on the

:52:34. > :52:39.screen console itself and hold it around, like the old Game Boys, or

:52:40. > :52:43.you can take it off and have two players using two different

:52:44. > :52:47.controllers for the same game, so there are lots of possibilities of

:52:48. > :52:51.Multiplay with people online and people like couch gaming and things

:52:52. > :52:57.like that, so it is really exciting for some family fun, really. How

:52:58. > :53:04.much time do you spend gaming? A bit too much, I think! How much is that?

:53:05. > :53:09.I probably touch a game every day, maybe between half an hour to two

:53:10. > :53:12.hours. Always different kinds of games on different platforms, so

:53:13. > :53:17.we're quite excited that Nintendo is coming out with a new platform for

:53:18. > :53:23.us to try on. Kate, what is the shape of the gaming market? Is it

:53:24. > :53:28.still a growing market? Yes, it is huge, I think people don't realise

:53:29. > :53:31.how big it is. It is a billion-dollar industry, in some

:53:32. > :53:37.places bigger than film, probably bigger than books at the moment, and

:53:38. > :53:43.I think the whole stereotype of a gamer is becoming wider because...

:53:44. > :53:51.People don't say when they watch a lot of films that they are a filmer

:53:52. > :53:55.or anything like that, so it is becoming more mainstream, which is

:53:56. > :54:00.great for us. Is there a stereotype of a gamer? Yes, there is, and

:54:01. > :54:05.obviously me and Anisa don't fit into the stereotype, it is fantastic

:54:06. > :54:09.we have people like us continuing to challenge what people think gamers

:54:10. > :54:14.are because there are lots of people like us out there. I saw with the

:54:15. > :54:22.new console it can detect a player's hand for a virtual game of rock,

:54:23. > :54:26.paper scissors? That sounds like it over complicated simple pleasure! Is

:54:27. > :54:32.that really going to be something that is widely used and vital to

:54:33. > :54:35.gamers? I was a bit confused about that, honestly, because it is a very

:54:36. > :54:40.simple game, like you say, and to make that a virtual thing does seem

:54:41. > :54:43.like it is over complicating things, but the fact they are creating the

:54:44. > :54:48.technology to be able to integrate that in two games doesn't mean much

:54:49. > :54:51.on its own, like why would people want to play rock, paper, scissors

:54:52. > :54:55.virtually all digitally, but the fact that technology is there means

:54:56. > :55:04.it will continue to advance and grow into much more interesting things,

:55:05. > :55:06.said that is what I am looking forward to. I see. Anisa, will you

:55:07. > :55:10.play virtual rock, paper, scissors? I would probably give it a go to see

:55:11. > :55:14.what it is like, but the interesting thing, they are just showing what

:55:15. > :55:18.the technology can do, and give developers ideas of how we can

:55:19. > :55:23.integrate that into new and upcoming games, so as a player I am excited

:55:24. > :55:28.to see what game designers will come up with with this new technology

:55:29. > :55:31.that was previously not really used elsewhere. Thank you both very much.

:55:32. > :55:36.Sky have pulled their comedy about Michael Jackson,

:55:37. > :55:38.after his daughter Paris said she was "incredibly offended"

:55:39. > :55:43.The episode was part of the channel's new Urban Myth series.

:55:44. > :56:02.Here is a tip. Miss Taylor. Get ready for the finale. Where is Dave?

:56:03. > :56:11.I'm Dave. Why did you start taking LSD? To feel like Carrie Grant. They

:56:12. > :56:18.have such keen senses. He was trying to kill his monkey.

:56:19. > :56:25.Let's bring in our entertainment correspondent, Ray finds is play

:56:26. > :56:30.Michael Jackson, what was the thinking behind it? His brother,

:56:31. > :56:35.Joseph Fiennes, the star of Shakespeare In Love, to a man

:56:36. > :56:39.wearing one glove, that was the movie was making in his career. It

:56:40. > :56:46.was a 23 minute comedy for sky arts, part of a series called Urban Myths

:56:47. > :56:51.which starts next week. The trailer you just saw was for the whole

:56:52. > :56:55.series and Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson's daughter, was asked what

:56:56. > :56:59.she made a bid for a Michael Jackson fan club and she put up tweet on

:57:00. > :57:02.Twitter saying she was a credibly in French -- incredibly offended,

:57:03. > :57:07.saying she founded the betrayal of her father to be very offensive, and

:57:08. > :57:10.also speaking about her godmother, Elizabeth Taylor, who also featured

:57:11. > :57:17.in the episode, saying it was ridiculously insulting. It is not

:57:18. > :57:21.just the race issue, it is the idea of anyone making fun of both her

:57:22. > :57:24.father and her godmother that she found an acceptable. Many people

:57:25. > :57:30.today will be saying, this is a clear case of censorship, the idea

:57:31. > :57:35.of a 23 minute comedy now no longer able to be broadcast. The Sky Arts

:57:36. > :57:38.statement says it was because, in light of concerns expressed by

:57:39. > :57:42.Michael Jackson's immediate family, they say they never intended to

:57:43. > :57:46.cause offence and Joseph Fiennes is fully supports the decision.

:57:47. > :57:51.I do understand the decision was taken fright at the top of Sky.

:57:52. > :57:56.The decision taken swiftly because this has only just come out, hasn't

:57:57. > :58:00.it? Yes, it was the big story yesterday, Paris Jackson so upset by

:58:01. > :58:05.what she had seen. Bear in mind she has not seen the whole 23 minute

:58:06. > :58:10.episode, she has only seen what viewers have just seen, those two

:58:11. > :58:17.six second clips. On that she complained, Sky reacted swiftly,

:58:18. > :58:19.pulling the episode, but the series will go ahead starting next

:58:20. > :58:20.Thursday. Thank you, Colin, and thank you for

:58:21. > :58:52.your company today. have been manipulated to become

:58:53. > :58:54.our greatest historical legends.