17/01/2017

:00:00. > :00:15.I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

:00:16. > :00:19.Brexit means Brexit. Brexit means Brexit. Brexit means

:00:20. > :00:21.Brexit. And this morning we may get a little

:00:22. > :00:23.bit more information about whether Brexit does

:00:24. > :00:29.indeed mean Brexit. And find out exactly what that

:00:30. > :00:33.famous phrase means. A blueprint for Brexit or a plan

:00:34. > :00:38.with no policies? We will get some detail. We are leaving the single

:00:39. > :00:40.market, but there is an awful lot Theresa May ain't going to tell us.

:00:41. > :00:42.Plus George Michael's childhood friend tells this programme

:00:43. > :00:44.he believes a cocktail of drugs and anti-depressants

:00:45. > :00:55.were responsible for the singer's death on Christmas Day.

:00:56. > :01:03.Hard drugs had been back in his life, it was not heroin. Are you

:01:04. > :01:04.talking about cocaine? Cocaine, crack was one of his favourite

:01:05. > :01:05.drugs. We'll bring you the full exclusive

:01:06. > :01:08.interview with Andros Georgiou - who was so close to George Michael

:01:09. > :01:10.they described themselves And we'll meet one of Britain's most

:01:11. > :01:15.prolific organ donors who's already donated a kidney,

:01:16. > :01:17.16 eggs and 80 pints of blood to people she's never met -

:01:18. > :01:33.and plans to do much, much more. Welcome to the programme,

:01:34. > :01:36.we're live until 11am. Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:37. > :01:47.we're talking about this morning - We will bring you the latest news

:01:48. > :01:52.and stories throughout the day. What do you want to hear Theresa May say

:01:53. > :01:56.in her big Brexit speech which is due at around 1145, you will see

:01:57. > :02:01.that on BBC News. If you have donated an organ, tell

:02:02. > :02:04.us what motivated you. If you have received a stranger's organ, tell us

:02:05. > :02:05.about that as well. If you text, you will be charged

:02:06. > :02:08.at the standard network rate. The Prime Minister will this morning

:02:09. > :02:12.set out her vision for the terms of the UK's departure

:02:13. > :02:14.from the European Union. Theresa May has a list

:02:15. > :02:16.of 12 demands for Brexit, and it's being trailed as a clean

:02:17. > :02:19.break from the EU. She'll say she doesn't want

:02:20. > :02:22.a half-in half-out membership - but a global Britain,

:02:23. > :02:23.trading with everyone. We'll talk to Norman Smith

:02:24. > :02:25.in Downing Street shortly but first our political

:02:26. > :02:27.correspondent Carole After months of pressure to tell us

:02:28. > :02:34.more about her Brexit plan, Theresa May will strike

:02:35. > :02:36.an optimistic note, telling us she wants a truly global Britain,

:02:37. > :02:41.which gets out into the world. The Prime Minister may not be

:02:42. > :02:44.explicit but she will again signal that she's ready to take Britain out

:02:45. > :02:47.of the European Single Market, and perhaps the customs union, too,

:02:48. > :02:50.in order to gain control of immigration and freedom

:02:51. > :02:58.from European law. I think it's highly likely we'll be

:02:59. > :03:02.coming out of the formal structures of the customs union and the single

:03:03. > :03:05.market, just because that's the way we can really grasp the golden

:03:06. > :03:08.opportunities that Brexit presents, not just for controlling immigration

:03:09. > :03:10.but also free trade opportunities. ..But she'll say she wants a new and

:03:11. > :03:25.equal partnership, declaring... Donald Trump's offer of a quick,

:03:26. > :03:28.fair trade deal with the UK got the thumbs up from leading

:03:29. > :03:32.Brexiteers, but whilst the President-elect said the UK

:03:33. > :03:35.was so smart to vote for Brexit, those who disagree want

:03:36. > :03:37.Britain to fight to stay I think the Prime Minister must not

:03:38. > :03:44.wave the white flag and give up on our membership of the single

:03:45. > :03:47.market if she cares If she's going to fight for Britain

:03:48. > :03:50.and fight our corner, then she needs to fight to be

:03:51. > :03:53.in the single market She also needs to indicate

:03:54. > :03:59.that the final deal will be put Theresa May will set out 12

:04:00. > :04:04.priorities for a deal. But she faces two years of hard

:04:05. > :04:07.bargaining with 27 members determined to safeguard the future

:04:08. > :04:25.of the EU without Britain. Norman, how much detail will we

:04:26. > :04:29.guest promises made today? You know those colouring in books

:04:30. > :04:34.which are so popular now a day, today we get what I think is the

:04:35. > :04:38.Brexit colouring book, the big picture, the outlines, but do not

:04:39. > :04:43.expect Theresa May to pick up a felt tip and start colouring in any

:04:44. > :04:48.detail. We will get her vision, her ambition, but in terms of policy, I

:04:49. > :04:55.think lots of people will be pretty disappointed today.

:04:56. > :04:58.Let me take you through it. On trade she will tell as we are leaving the

:04:59. > :05:01.single market but she will not say whether we are also leaving the

:05:02. > :05:05.bigger customs union, the broader European Economic Area which ensures

:05:06. > :05:08.that goods do not have to phase customs checks and terrorists. They

:05:09. > :05:15.are still deciding whether we are in all out of the customs union. --

:05:16. > :05:20.have to phase customs checks and tariffs. How will Theresa May draw

:05:21. > :05:25.down the numbers? Do not expect answers today. Summon Government

:05:26. > :05:29.think we should have freedom of movement light, to say to work as

:05:30. > :05:35.you can come here if you have a job. Others want a much more restrictive

:05:36. > :05:39.system with quotas for particular sectors, setting limits. There is

:05:40. > :05:44.the issue of the so-called transitional deal, to give breathing

:05:45. > :05:48.space before we eventually leave the EU. Mrs May has said she is in

:05:49. > :05:53.favour of an implementation period but we do not know how long that

:05:54. > :05:57.will be, how much we might have to pay for it. I think by the end of

:05:58. > :06:02.the day a lot of people will be thinking about she has an awful lot

:06:03. > :06:04.more colouring in to do. Cheers for the moment, Norman.

:06:05. > :06:06.Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:06:07. > :06:10.Police in Turkey have arrested the main suspect

:06:11. > :06:12.in the New Year's Eve attack on a nightclub in Istanbul.

:06:13. > :06:14.Authorities in Turkey released this photo of Uzbek national

:06:15. > :06:16.Abdulkadir Masharipov shortly after he was detained.

:06:17. > :06:19.39 people were killed and 70 wounded at the Reina bar.

:06:20. > :06:25.Our correspondent in Istanbul, Mark Lowen, gave us this update.

:06:26. > :06:32.This was the culmination of the huge nationwide police manhunt that

:06:33. > :06:38.appears to finally have apprehended 34-year-old and respect national. He

:06:39. > :06:43.is believed to be the main suspect behind the stumble nightclub attack.

:06:44. > :06:47.-- a 34-year-old National of Uzbekistan. He managed to flee the

:06:48. > :06:50.scene, there were fears he could have left Turkey, managing to get

:06:51. > :06:54.areas controlled by so-called Islamic State which said was behind

:06:55. > :07:01.the attack, that is not the case. He was arrested in a Western Istanbul

:07:02. > :07:07.suburb, along with his four-year-old Sun and others. They were reportedly

:07:08. > :07:12.hiding in an apartment belonging to occur gives man here in Istanbul,

:07:13. > :07:16.there will be questions about his support network and whether he had

:07:17. > :07:21.support and accomplices going into the attack itself, in which he is

:07:22. > :07:25.thought to have killed 39 people, mostly Arab tourists, some of them

:07:26. > :07:30.Turkish nationals, people jumping into the freezing waters of the

:07:31. > :07:35.Bosporus to escape. Photograph show him very heavily bruised, being held

:07:36. > :07:39.by his neck wearing a grey T-shirt and bloodied. He has been

:07:40. > :07:43.transferred to police custody. The Turkish authorities will be hugely

:07:44. > :07:47.relieved by this capture but the greater challenge for Turkey going

:07:48. > :07:51.forward is how to secure this country and prevent the wave of

:07:52. > :07:58.terror attacks and golfing Turkey from continuing, how to step up

:07:59. > :07:59.intelligence as to supporting a country that feels very

:08:00. > :08:06.shaken at the moment. Childhood best friend of George Michael says he

:08:07. > :08:10.believes strokes were the cause of the singer's death. Andros Georgiou

:08:11. > :08:15.claims the friend he referred to as his cousin had taken a cocktail of

:08:16. > :08:18.drugs, including antidepressants. A postmortem examination following

:08:19. > :08:20.the death of George Michael on Christmas Day proved inconclusive.

:08:21. > :08:24.He had stopped all the hard drugs, you know, and he was trying to lead

:08:25. > :08:26.a normal life again and I just believe he was dragged back

:08:27. > :08:30.in to the dark side and the people who dragged him back in have,

:08:31. > :08:37.they need to answer for that, as far as I'm concerned.

:08:38. > :08:40.And you can hear Victoria's full interview with Andros Georgiou

:08:41. > :08:44.on the programme in the next few minutes.

:08:45. > :08:47.An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage

:08:48. > :08:49.girl who was found dead on a pathway in Rotherham.

:08:50. > :08:52.The girl, who has been named locally as 16-year-old Leonne Weeks,

:08:53. > :08:55.was found by a member of the public in the Dinnington area

:08:56. > :09:02.The search for the Malaysia Airlines flight which disappeared almost

:09:03. > :09:06.Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, bound for Beijing

:09:07. > :09:15.The search was being led by Australia.

:09:16. > :09:18.Despite debris being found off Africa are the cause of the crash

:09:19. > :09:20.remains a mystery. A report into the violence at last

:09:21. > :09:23.year's Notting Hill Carnival has revealed that four people almost

:09:24. > :09:25.died from serious stab wounds. The London Assembly Police

:09:26. > :09:28.and Crime Committee says the event is now at a tipping point

:09:29. > :09:31.and is calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,

:09:32. > :09:34.to get a grip on how it's managed. It says there are concerns

:09:35. > :09:36.about overcrowding at the event, which is attended by more

:09:37. > :09:39.than a million people. The Northern Ireland Secretary

:09:40. > :09:41.will make a statement in Parliament today about the collapse

:09:42. > :09:43.of the devolved The power-sharing coalition

:09:44. > :09:46.collapsed after failing to reach a deal following the resignation

:09:47. > :09:48.of deputy first minister This report from Chris Page contains

:09:49. > :09:59.some flash photography. For ten years, politicians

:10:00. > :10:01.and Stormont have shared power. But now the devolved government

:10:02. > :10:04.is no more and there's a big question mark over how long it

:10:05. > :10:08.will take to rebuild relations. Initially, the partnership between

:10:09. > :10:10.the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein appeared to be

:10:11. > :10:14.something of a political miracle. Old enemies compromising to run

:10:15. > :10:18.Northern Ireland together. But there were frequent

:10:19. > :10:21.disagreements. The final row came over a financial

:10:22. > :10:25.scandal about a green energy scheme. Yesterday, the unlikely alliance

:10:26. > :10:27.officially fell apart, leaving the Northern Ireland Secretary no

:10:28. > :10:30.option but to call an election It will take place

:10:31. > :10:37.on the second of March. While it is inevitable that

:10:38. > :10:39.debate during an election period will be intense,

:10:40. > :10:44.I would strongly encourage the political parties to conduct

:10:45. > :10:49.this election with a view to the future of Northern Ireland

:10:50. > :10:55.and re-establishing a partnership government at the earliest

:10:56. > :11:01.opportunity after that poll. He'll speak about the crisis

:11:02. > :11:04.in the House of Commons today. Theresa May has discussed

:11:05. > :11:06.the situation with the Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny,

:11:07. > :11:10.in a phone call. They said they wanted the Stormont

:11:11. > :11:12.institutions to be back up The power-sharing government

:11:13. > :11:17.here at Stormont has ended The election campaign is expected

:11:18. > :11:22.to be particularly divisive. Restoring devolution

:11:23. > :11:23.in Northern Ireland Two people have been seriously

:11:24. > :11:33.injured in a suspected gas explosion Two houses in Blackley

:11:34. > :11:37.were destroyed and another Fire and rescue crews say they have

:11:38. > :11:44.now secured the building. A kitten was recovered

:11:45. > :11:48.alive from the rubble. More than 40 learner

:11:49. > :11:50.drivers are caught each year using impersonators

:11:51. > :11:52.to take their tests. 209 people have been convicted

:11:53. > :11:55.in the past five years, according to data published

:11:56. > :11:56.by the Transport More than 100 others were convicted

:11:57. > :12:02.of taking the practical or theory Motoring experts warn that offenders

:12:03. > :12:10.are putting people's lives at risk. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:12:11. > :12:23.News - more at 9:30am. Thank you. We are asking what you

:12:24. > :12:28.are hoping for from Theresa May's speech on Brexit. James says, hoping

:12:29. > :12:34.for? We demand what we voted for, a total exit from the EU.

:12:35. > :12:37.We have voters in the studio from Burnley, Manchester, Orpington,

:12:38. > :12:46.Beaconsfield, what are you hoping for? What is Brexit mean to you? A

:12:47. > :12:52.decade of uncertainty. Prosperity. A challenge with huge opportunities. A

:12:53. > :12:58.new future. Difficulty for students. A brighter future. That is what some

:12:59. > :13:05.photos here think or believe Brexit should mean. Do get into urged to

:13:06. > :13:07.tell is what you are hoping for from Theresa May, what Brexit means to

:13:08. > :13:10.you -- do get into it. If you text, you will be charged

:13:11. > :13:14.at the standard network rate. It's been quite a day for the Brits

:13:15. > :13:20.at the Australian Open. Heather Watson, Johanna Konta and

:13:21. > :13:23.Kyle Edmund have gone through to the second round, adding that two Andy

:13:24. > :13:27.Murray and Dan Evans yesterday and that is five British people through

:13:28. > :13:30.to the second round of the Australian Open, that is for the

:13:31. > :13:33.first time since 1987. Heather Watson, the last three

:13:34. > :13:37.appearances in the Australian Open she has gone out in the first round.

:13:38. > :13:43.This time she has beaten the 18th seed and the home favourite son

:13:44. > :13:49.Stosur, and Sam Stosur is no easy opponent. She is a former US open

:13:50. > :13:54.champion. It really is a remarkable achievement for Watson. They were on

:13:55. > :13:57.call for over two I was in the Melbourne heat -- they were on

:13:58. > :14:03.court. Watson was broken early on but took the first set 6-3, she

:14:04. > :14:09.dropped the second set 3-6 and then stormed back 6-0 in the final set,

:14:10. > :14:16.son Stosur did not get a look in. A really good day for British tennis

:14:17. > :14:20.and more to come, Naomi Broady is on court in a couple of hours. What

:14:21. > :14:23.else do you have? And Olympic funding review going on,

:14:24. > :14:29.seven sports want to challenge UK sport and their funding decision to

:14:30. > :14:34.basically a rate their funding going into the next Olympic cycle for

:14:35. > :14:39.Tokyo 2020. Five of the seven were funded at the Rio Olympics and

:14:40. > :14:43.Paralympics. Badminton was one of those, I was at Rio and watch the

:14:44. > :14:51.badminton, followed it really closely and I saw the men's doubles

:14:52. > :14:54.pair win their first badminton medal for British badminton and 12 years,

:14:55. > :14:59.a bronze medal, they really thought that would be the catalyst to

:15:00. > :15:03.inspire future generations to take up the sport and basically pave the

:15:04. > :15:07.way for improved funding, it was a real shock for them to have funding

:15:08. > :15:12.completely removed. For UK sport, they want each of these boards to

:15:13. > :15:17.prove they can win medals in Tokyo 2020 -- each of those sports. There

:15:18. > :15:21.is badminton, archery, fencing, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby,

:15:22. > :15:27.table tennis is in the mix and today is the final day for those sports to

:15:28. > :15:31.get their reviews in. One former Premier League manager calls time?

:15:32. > :15:38.Louis van Gaal used a management resting a night, he is 65 years old,

:15:39. > :15:41.had a 26 year career -- used to manage Manchester United. He has not

:15:42. > :15:45.worked since winning the FA Cup at the end of last season with Man Utd,

:15:46. > :15:48.he was later sacked. Dutch media have reported that part

:15:49. > :15:53.of his decision was motivated because of the sudden death of his

:15:54. > :15:58.daughter's husband, he wants to go away from football and spend more

:15:59. > :16:01.time at home. He has had a remarkable career, not only managing

:16:02. > :16:05.Manchester United but the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

:16:06. > :16:08.Fittingly he made his announcement about his retirement after receiving

:16:09. > :16:10.the lifetime achievement award by the Dutch FA for his contribution to

:16:11. > :16:17.football. This morning, in an exclusive

:16:18. > :16:19.interview, George Michael's childhood best friend has told this

:16:20. > :16:22.programme he believes a cocktail of hard drugs and anti-depressants

:16:23. > :16:25.may have been responsible for the singer songwriter's

:16:26. > :16:30.death on Christmas Day. Andros Georgiou, who was so close

:16:31. > :16:32.to George Michael growing up they called each other cousins,

:16:33. > :16:42.says he believes the singer was "dragged back to the dark side

:16:43. > :16:45.of hard drugs use" and claims In a wide-ranging interview

:16:46. > :16:49.Mr Georgiou, who was in the process of reconciling his relationship

:16:50. > :16:51.with the star after a falling out also says George Michael was "one

:16:52. > :16:54.of the nicest people A post-mortem examination

:16:55. > :16:56.on the 53-year-old has proved inconclusive and the police aren't

:16:57. > :16:59.treating his death as suspicious. In his only broadcast interview

:17:00. > :17:02.Mr Georgiou shares new insight into George Michael's extraordinary

:17:03. > :17:04.generosity and says that his getting caught cottaging in a public toilet

:17:05. > :17:07.in LA was, in the end, # Wake me up before you go go,

:17:08. > :17:29.take me dancing tonight. From two years old when

:17:30. > :17:32.he grew up together. There's nine months between us

:17:33. > :17:44.in age, so pretty much we spent our childhood together and,

:17:45. > :17:47.you know, we kind of really bonded It was one of those things that hit

:17:48. > :17:57.both of us in such a big way, especially the likes of Queen

:17:58. > :18:02.and Elton John. When we were around nine-years-old

:18:03. > :18:10.we went to see Queen at Earls Court while our mums waited

:18:11. > :18:13.in the Wimpey bar next to The George I know was

:18:14. > :18:21.a very private person, and incredibly generous person,

:18:22. > :18:23.and one of the nicest people He would never say, very rarely

:18:24. > :18:28.say no to a photograph Elton John was always,

:18:29. > :18:49.even in, he was a big fan Once we went to dinner at Elton's

:18:50. > :19:06.house, he told as Princess Diana After dinner he said I really

:19:07. > :19:12.want to play you my new album, So he got one of the servants

:19:13. > :19:18.and said can you back the Bentley up and we were like,

:19:19. > :19:21.where are we going? He said I just don't

:19:22. > :19:26.have a good sound system. He has this magnificent

:19:27. > :19:30.multi-million dollar house, So the driver parked outside,

:19:31. > :19:41.Elton gets in the driver's seat, George is in the front seat and me

:19:42. > :19:44.and Princess Diana are sitting in the back and I couldn't help

:19:45. > :19:47.but pinch myself, because, wow. We listened to the album

:19:48. > :19:50.and we were in the car You have got some music,

:19:51. > :20:03.some songs, that George had What are you going to

:20:04. > :20:24.do with those songs? No artist would do that. Would you

:20:25. > :20:33.consider releasing those tracks? A hard question. Not on my mind at the

:20:34. > :20:37.moment. It's not, you know, I don't know if, I mean, it is one of those

:20:38. > :20:42.things probably in the future, you know, I'd have to get a producer in

:20:43. > :20:47.to finish the record off. But I have a little bit more respect than that,

:20:48. > :20:52.you know, we talked about finishing the album. I mean I've got all the

:20:53. > :20:59.master tapes. I've got everything, you know, like sitting in a vault in

:21:00. > :21:04.the West End somewhere. My accountant put them in there. So

:21:05. > :21:06.right now, no, but I don't know what the future will bring. I mean right

:21:07. > :21:21.now we are all raw and. And just the whole family

:21:22. > :21:23.is incredibly upset and everyday there are more and more

:21:24. > :21:25.stories that are completely untrue. I read one that he had done

:21:26. > :21:29.heroin for the last four or five months of his life,

:21:30. > :21:31.that is absolute rubbish. I know that was the one drug

:21:32. > :21:43.he would never touch. # To careless whispers

:21:44. > :21:57.of the good friend.# I'm going to come

:21:58. > :21:59.back to that later. I want to ask positive stuff

:22:00. > :22:01.about what George Michael did for LGBT rights by eventually

:22:02. > :22:04.talking about his sexuality frankly, the fact he enjoyed sex,

:22:05. > :22:06.the fact he wasn't ashamed of cottaging and criticising other

:22:07. > :22:08.gay celebrities for saying things like the preferred to have a cup

:22:09. > :22:13.of tea rather than have sex. He felt like a spokesman in the end

:22:14. > :22:32.because he was a sex Every girl had a picture

:22:33. > :22:41.of George Michael upon their wall. It was the Faith tour that really

:22:42. > :22:44.put him in a position He just felt like he was pulling

:22:45. > :22:52.the wool over people's eyes. Once he had been caught

:22:53. > :22:54.he just figured I might Did he ever say it was a good

:22:55. > :23:11.thing that I got caught? Yeah, he absolutely

:23:12. > :23:12.said it's a relief. You hadn't seen George

:23:13. > :23:15.yourself for 12 years. I think you fell out around the time

:23:16. > :23:22.of the public toilet incident in LA. Well, because I got a phone

:23:23. > :23:34.call at four o'clock from his PR and she told me

:23:35. > :23:37.that he had been arrested I basically got up,

:23:38. > :23:40.went to Heathrow, got When I got to the house the road

:23:41. > :23:45.was full of cameras, So I presumed we would have a nice

:23:46. > :23:53.quiet night in, but he was ready We went out that night

:23:54. > :24:11.and it was probably one The trouble was the next day the LA

:24:12. > :24:17.Times put in a story, because we used to take my son down

:24:18. > :24:21.to the park before he was arrested and a children's playground is right

:24:22. > :24:23.next to the rest rooms, So they kind of insinuated

:24:24. > :24:36.that there was something So he asked me to book

:24:37. > :24:56.a page in every Times and once he had written a letter

:24:57. > :25:01.I read it and it was just so wrong,

:25:02. > :25:04.I was like you just cannot do this. He went kind of crazy at me

:25:05. > :25:08.because I wouldn't do what I was told to do and he said

:25:09. > :25:14.well you might as well go. # Baby, I know you're

:25:15. > :25:17.asking me to stay.# Can I ask you about the incredible

:25:18. > :25:20.acts of generosity we have heard The woman who was on Deal Or No Deal

:25:21. > :25:30.and he got in touch with the programme and paid

:25:31. > :25:33.for her IVF, secretly bringing radio with the programme and paid

:25:34. > :25:35.for her IVF, secretly ringing radio stations and donating money,

:25:36. > :25:38.going round to homeless charities, That was the George that

:25:39. > :25:40.you knew, presumably. We would often go out

:25:41. > :25:47.on Christmas Eve with two Range Rovers full of food and travel

:25:48. > :25:53.around the West End and feed all the homeless and he would give them

:25:54. > :26:04.all ?50 or ?100 each for Christmas. Was he in disguise or did they know

:26:05. > :26:07.it was George Michael? Not in disguise, he just had

:26:08. > :26:10.a baseball hat like I've got on. You know, most people

:26:11. > :26:12.didn't recognise him. Tell us about the time

:26:13. > :26:16.you were at an Elton John aids foundation fundraiser on behalf

:26:17. > :26:19.of George and he effectively given carte blanche to bid

:26:20. > :26:31.would ever you wanted, We were supposed to go together

:26:32. > :26:46.and at the last minute he decided he would pull out

:26:47. > :26:57.for whatever reason. He said, you go and I will give you

:26:58. > :27:00.?25,000 and buy a couple of things. We went, we had dinner,

:27:01. > :27:03.but then did a private show It was like for people

:27:04. > :27:07.on the Orient Express, all these crazy things and so every

:27:08. > :27:10.time Elton said something I did. No one else bid, so I went

:27:11. > :27:13.through the 25 pretty quickly, so I said give me one minute,

:27:14. > :27:16.I went into the corridor, I rang up George and I said no

:27:17. > :27:21.one is bidding here. I said it is full of

:27:22. > :27:24.real famous people. I said no one is bidding and he said

:27:25. > :27:29.just buy everything. Can I ask you about the moment that

:27:30. > :27:39.you heard he had died? Well, first of all,

:27:40. > :27:45.I did not believe it. I still needed confirmation,

:27:46. > :27:47.so I was trying to call I couldn't get hold of anyone

:27:48. > :27:51.until late that night, 11 o'clock before I got

:27:52. > :27:53.hold of anybody. Then, it was all confirmed

:27:54. > :27:55.to me and everything. I believe he obviously had suicidal

:27:56. > :28:06.thoughts over the last few years because his mental health wasn't

:28:07. > :28:09.in the best place, but I don't believe this was suicide

:28:10. > :28:18.in a million years. Why would you arrange such a huge

:28:19. > :28:21.dinner with the whole family if you were going to kill yourself the

:28:22. > :28:23.night before? It just doesn't make any sense. There is a lot about this

:28:24. > :28:27.that doesn't make sense. A pathology report has

:28:28. > :28:28.proved inconclusive. In a way that, I mean, I can't

:28:29. > :28:49.really say what I know, because. Well, you know, what I do know

:28:50. > :29:04.is that hard drugs had been back in his life,

:29:05. > :29:06.but it wasn't heroin. Yes, cocaine and crack was one

:29:07. > :29:10.of his favourite drugs. So, when you say this

:29:11. > :29:15.was an accident, what do you mean? I just mean that he took

:29:16. > :29:21.too much of something, mixed with the anti-depressants

:29:22. > :29:23.and other drugs he I think his heart

:29:24. > :29:37.just stopped beating. If you take, if you are on Xanax,

:29:38. > :29:43.for instance, or something, They are anti-anxiety drugs

:29:44. > :29:49.and sleeping tablets, aren't they? He was planning the

:29:50. > :29:57.Freedom documentary. He was a recluse for

:29:58. > :30:08.nearly four years. The papers reported it as a year,

:30:09. > :30:19.he was actually in the Swiss clinic for three years before he came out

:30:20. > :30:22.and he had stopped He was trying to lead a normal

:30:23. > :30:27.life again and I just believe he was dragged back

:30:28. > :30:32.in to the dark side. You're adamant those reports

:30:33. > :30:34.of George Michael taking heroin in recent months

:30:35. > :30:40.absolutely not true. # Last Christmas I give

:30:41. > :31:07.you my heart, the very next What other questions you want

:31:08. > :31:13.answered? Who put him on hard drugs. He was not on them. He was getting

:31:14. > :31:27.better. That is why I got in contact, because I heard he was

:31:28. > :31:30.getting better. He was planning the Freedom documentary, you had written

:31:31. > :31:32.some new songs. And I know he had been out as well. He was a recluse

:31:33. > :31:36.who nearly four years. The papers reported it as a year,

:31:37. > :31:41.he was actually in the Swiss clinic for three years before he came out

:31:42. > :31:44.and he had stopped He was trying to lead a normal

:31:45. > :31:51.life again and I just believe he was dragged back

:31:52. > :32:10.in to the dark side. to the truth of what happened

:32:11. > :32:14.exactly, what was in his blood at the time, why did

:32:15. > :32:17.he have that again. The quicker this is all put to bed

:32:18. > :32:20.then the quicker we can put him to rest and move on,

:32:21. > :32:22.because until that happens I still cannot believe

:32:23. > :32:41.what I'm talking about here. I can't even imagine that he is

:32:42. > :32:48.lying on a slab in a fridge. It is shocking. Shocking experience.

:32:49. > :33:01.Christmas will never be the same. His records, Last Christmas, it will

:33:02. > :33:09.be played for ever. And the fans and the family, De Margaret Rowley.

:33:10. > :33:19.Talking to you, I still can't believe it. I can't comprehend it.

:33:20. > :33:23.It is like, no. It will pop up somewhere, you know? -- he will pop

:33:24. > :33:24.up somewhere, you know? I still cannot believe what I'm talking

:33:25. > :33:25.about here. Such a shame and may

:33:26. > :33:27.he rest in peace. Thank you very much

:33:28. > :33:32.for talking to us. And, of course, he did not

:33:33. > :33:37.receive nor ask for a fee You can read more about our

:33:38. > :33:40.exclusive interview with him on the BBC News site and watch

:33:41. > :33:44.the full interview again on our We'll bring you more

:33:45. > :33:46.reaction after 10am. Still to come: We'll meet one

:33:47. > :33:49.of Britain's most prolific organ donors who has already donated

:33:50. > :33:52.a kidney, 16 eggs and 80 pints 10,000 people killed and millions

:33:53. > :34:02.more starving in Yemen war rages between Houthi rebels

:34:03. > :34:04.and the Saudi-led coalition We'll talk to MP Andrew Mitchell

:34:05. > :34:11.who has just returned from Yemen Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:34:12. > :34:20.with a summary of today's news. The Prime Minister will this morning

:34:21. > :34:23.set out her clearest vision yet for the terms of the UK's departure

:34:24. > :34:27.from the European Union. Theresa May will say Britain

:34:28. > :34:30.shouldn't be half-in, That's being taken as an indication

:34:31. > :34:34.that she's prepared to leave the single market in order

:34:35. > :34:36.to control Britain's Police have arrested the main

:34:37. > :34:42.suspect in the New Year's Eve attack Authorities in Turkey released this

:34:43. > :34:46.photo of Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov shortly

:34:47. > :34:51.after he was detained. 39 people were killed and 70

:34:52. > :34:54.wounded at the Reina bar. So-called Islamic State said

:34:55. > :34:57.it was behind the attack and that it was revenge for Turkish

:34:58. > :35:03.military involvement in Syria. George Michael's childhood best

:35:04. > :35:05.friend has told this programme that he believes drugs

:35:06. > :35:07.were responsible for Andros Georgiou claims the friend

:35:08. > :35:13.he referred to as his cousin had taken a cocktail

:35:14. > :35:14.of drugs, including A post-mortem following George

:35:15. > :35:19.Michael's death on Christmas Day An 18-year-old man has been arrested

:35:20. > :35:27.on suspicion of murdering a teenage girl who was found dead

:35:28. > :35:31.on a pathway in Rotherham. The girl, who has been named locally

:35:32. > :35:33.as 16-year-old Leonne Weeks, was found by a member of the public

:35:34. > :35:36.in the Dinnington area Concentrix - the US firm accused

:35:37. > :35:42.of incorrectly withdrawing tax credits from hundreds of claimants -

:35:43. > :35:45.has been criticised The National Audit Office says

:35:46. > :35:51.the company had insufficient staff to handle the volume of calls

:35:52. > :35:54.from people trying to find out why In one week alone, 19,000

:35:55. > :36:02.calls went unanswered. Well, this programme has learned

:36:03. > :36:04.that there are still families struggling with debt

:36:05. > :36:07.after having their tax credits withdrawn -

:36:08. > :36:09.and we'll be hearing from some The latest inflation figures

:36:10. > :36:22.arrived. Let's get the details

:36:23. > :36:31.from Rachel Horne, our business What is inflation? The way we

:36:32. > :36:34.measure the prices of goods, if it is going up, if the price you pay at

:36:35. > :36:39.the petrol pump or your cinema ticket or hotel room is going up,

:36:40. > :36:44.that is inflation, the prices rising. What to the latest figures

:36:45. > :36:50.show? Figures are right for December, we expected to see

:36:51. > :36:55.inflation up about 1.4%, it is up around 1.6%. It is not much of eight

:36:56. > :37:00.prize, we have heard about sterling falling because of Brexit concerns,

:37:01. > :37:06.when the pound is weak, the price of stuff we buy into the UK, we import,

:37:07. > :37:12.rises. There is the price of oil, around 12 months ago it was down $27

:37:13. > :37:16.a barrel, it is a rentable lab. Inflation measures the price of

:37:17. > :37:24.things now compared to last year, it is going up. Thank you, Rachel.

:37:25. > :37:27.Now the sport with Jessica. Three British players have reached the

:37:28. > :37:31.second round of the Australian Open overnight, bringing the total to

:37:32. > :37:34.five. Johanna Konta beat Kirsten Flipkens in straight sets. The

:37:35. > :37:41.British number one will face the Thai wild card or teenager Naomi

:37:42. > :37:44.Osaka next. Heather Watson beta 18th seed and

:37:45. > :37:48.local favourite stand so is there in three sets. She will next face

:37:49. > :37:54.American Jennifer Brady league or one Belgian in her next match.

:37:55. > :37:59.Kyle Edmund beat Santiago Giraldo of Colombia in straight sets.

:38:00. > :38:02.He will face cab low -- Pablo Carreno Busta next.

:38:03. > :38:07.The RFU is investigating a complaint from cell that one of their own

:38:08. > :38:10.team, understood to be this play in blue, passed information to the

:38:11. > :38:14.Bristol camp ahead of a narrow defeat this month.

:38:15. > :38:18.Seven sports are attempting to challenge the UK sport decision not

:38:19. > :38:23.to fund their programmes for the UK Olympics and Paralympics in 2020.

:38:24. > :38:27.Badminton is among five sports which were funded the Rio 2016 and will

:38:28. > :38:33.challenge the decision. More on that at just after 10am.

:38:34. > :38:44.Now it's time to find out exactly what that means.

:38:45. > :38:47.Prime Minister Theresa May is making her "big" Brexit speech

:38:48. > :38:50.today and our political guru Norman Smith will be there.

:38:51. > :38:58.Her speeches at 1145 and you will hear it on BBC News.

:38:59. > :39:03.Norman? Today is the day when we are meant to find out what it is Theresa

:39:04. > :39:08.May is trying to achieve, what her game plan is, what her blueprint is

:39:09. > :39:13.for Brexit. We know she will say we will not do

:39:14. > :39:18.some sort of hokey Cokie, halfway Inn, hardware and, we will not be

:39:19. > :39:24.associate members of the EU, we will not have partial membership, we are

:39:25. > :39:29.wrote. Understandably, prominent Brexiteers are delighted. Listen to

:39:30. > :39:35.young Duncan is this morning. There is a real commonality of Pope --

:39:36. > :39:40.purpose. We want the relationship between us, the EU and individual

:39:41. > :39:44.nation states to be good. We are leaving the EU, not Europe, we will

:39:45. > :39:48.be involved in defence and security and all these other things that we

:39:49. > :39:52.will continue to be involved in. The key thing is that the jewel in the

:39:53. > :39:59.crown in all of this when we leave is to be able to set our trade deals

:40:00. > :40:07.around the world. What sort of detail are we going to

:40:08. > :40:12.get? It is a bit like a high-stakes game of political poker, as Theresa

:40:13. > :40:16.May enters the negotiating chamber. She has some cards in her hands but

:40:17. > :40:22.let's look at the cards she wants to play. Card number one is the trade

:40:23. > :40:26.card. She wants to say, we are leaving the single market. That is

:40:27. > :40:31.the economic area where businesses have to play by the same set of

:40:32. > :40:35.rules, there are no tariffs between different EU countries. She says we

:40:36. > :40:40.will leave because we want to strike run trade deals.

:40:41. > :40:44.The second card is the immigration card, she wants to say no more

:40:45. > :40:48.freedom of movement where EU citizens can come to the UK

:40:49. > :40:51.regardless of whether they have a job.

:40:52. > :40:57.She wants to end that. The last card we know she wants to play is

:40:58. > :41:01.justice, to stop the European Court of Justice being able to lay down

:41:02. > :41:05.the law to British judges. But Theresa May will also keep some

:41:06. > :41:11.cards pretty close to her chest, because she does not want to reveal

:41:12. > :41:16.her hand before the negotiations. She will not tell as much about

:41:17. > :41:19.playing the tax break card. We heard Philip Hammond say at the weekend

:41:20. > :41:25.that if the EU gets tough with those we could start to cut business taxes

:41:26. > :41:29.to make Britain more attractive for investments. She will not sure

:41:30. > :41:35.whether she will pay the tariff card, if the EU gets tough with us

:41:36. > :41:41.might we put tariffs on goods they want to export to us? She will not

:41:42. > :41:44.say whether she will play the card marked EU citizens, because she will

:41:45. > :41:52.not guarantee EU citizens the right to stay here until Brussels has

:41:53. > :41:55.guaranteed the right of British people elsewhere in the EU to

:41:56. > :42:01.continue living there. But Mrs May also has a number of aces up her

:42:02. > :42:06.sleeve. Ace number one, the security card. We are the biggest military

:42:07. > :42:12.power in Europe, we have an extensive intelligence network

:42:13. > :42:18.crucial in the fight against terrorism and IS, so that is quite

:42:19. > :42:22.an ace card. Money, another ace, we are a wealthy country with the City,

:42:23. > :42:30.can other EU countries and companies really manage if Brussels seeks to

:42:31. > :42:35.damage the City of London? Lastly we have the Donald, Donald Trump

:42:36. > :42:39.yesterday clearly said he is backing Brexit and backing Britain, in other

:42:40. > :42:45.words he is in our corner when it comes to negotiations. But a word of

:42:46. > :42:47.caution, remember the last Prime Minister who tried to strike a deal

:42:48. > :42:51.with Brussels? Have a look at this. Within the last hour I have

:42:52. > :42:53.negotiated a deal to give the United Kingdom special status

:42:54. > :42:56.inside the European Union. I believe this is enough for me

:42:57. > :42:59.to recommend that the United Kingdom remain in the European Union,

:43:00. > :43:05.having the best of both worlds. The British people have voted

:43:06. > :43:08.to leave the European Union, I will do everything I can

:43:09. > :43:14.as Prime Minister to steady the ship But I do not think it would be right

:43:15. > :43:21.for me to try to be the captain that steers our country

:43:22. > :43:34.to its next destination. It did not turn out too well for

:43:35. > :43:40.him, did it?! The stakes are enormously high for Theresa May.

:43:41. > :43:46.Although we may not get all the detail today, we are getting a sense

:43:47. > :43:52.of what Theresa May is trying to achieve. She wants Britain to be

:43:53. > :43:59.free of the constraints associated with the single market and the

:44:00. > :44:05.European justice, but we don't really know what sort of curves she

:44:06. > :44:10.will put on immigration and we don't really know whether there might be

:44:11. > :44:14.some sort of transitional deal to ease our way out of Europe, so there

:44:15. > :44:23.is still an awful lot we have to find out.

:44:24. > :44:27.In a moment we will talk to voters from Manchester, Burnley, Orpington,

:44:28. > :44:28.Beaconsfield. Thank you for your patience, we will be with you very

:44:29. > :44:31.soon. In the meantime... Let's talk now to Peter Lilley,

:44:32. > :44:33.the Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden -

:44:34. > :44:36.he voted to Leave - and to Jenny Chapman,

:44:37. > :44:43.Labour's Brexit spokesperson What do you want to hear from

:44:44. > :44:47.Theresa May, Peter Lilley? Logical conclusions of what she has already

:44:48. > :44:51.said, because we are taking back control of our borders we cannot be

:44:52. > :44:55.members of the European Economic Area. Once we are free of that we

:44:56. > :45:00.can negotiate trade deals and services, we will no longer had to

:45:01. > :45:06.pay ?250 million a week net into the European budget, and we will not be

:45:07. > :45:13.subject to European law. We will also be outside the common external

:45:14. > :45:18.tariff, so we will be able to cut tariffs on the sort of products we

:45:19. > :45:22.don't make like food and clothing which have very high tariffs at the

:45:23. > :45:25.moment, which by heavily on ordinary people's budgets. We can cut those

:45:26. > :45:29.turrets and enter free trade agreements with the rest of the

:45:30. > :45:32.world, which is the majority of our trade. How long would you expect

:45:33. > :45:42.those dreich -- agreements to take? Well, the average time it takes to

:45:43. > :45:46.negotiate Free Trade Agreement across the world are 28 months. If

:45:47. > :45:49.there are a lot of countries, it takes more, if there are only two

:45:50. > :45:52.countries, less. A trade deal between us and the United States

:45:53. > :45:58.could be done in less than that, 18 months. Say similarly with New

:45:59. > :46:04.Zealand and Australia, it would take longer with the really big prizes.

:46:05. > :46:08.The only trade deals that matter are those with huge markets like India

:46:09. > :46:12.and China. But Switzerland has negotiated such deals and I think we

:46:13. > :46:17.could too. Yes, I think that took three years, but anyway, fair

:46:18. > :46:22.enough, I take the point. Jenny, what do you want to hear from

:46:23. > :46:25.Theresa May? Almost anything is an improvement on what we've heard so

:46:26. > :46:28.far. Because let's not forget she doesn't want to make this speech

:46:29. > :46:34.today. She didn't want to do this. She has been forced to make this

:46:35. > :46:38.speech because Parliament obliged her to publish a plan. She needs to

:46:39. > :46:42.publish more detail. I understand there will abstatement in the House

:46:43. > :46:45.of Commons later today which hopefully will include some of the

:46:46. > :46:49.detail that we have been asking for. But she is going to say by all

:46:50. > :46:54.accounts, yes, we are leaving the single market, which you don't want?

:46:55. > :47:01.If we're not going to have that, what are we going to have? She can't

:47:02. > :47:08.stand up and give us the platitudes which has done previously, if we are

:47:09. > :47:14.not going to be in the single market and the customs, what are we going

:47:15. > :47:19.to have? She made promises to Nissan, without tariffs and won't be

:47:20. > :47:24.damaged, she made that promise. So if we're not going to be in the

:47:25. > :47:28.customs union... It was published that she made a commitment to them.

:47:29. > :47:32.Yes. Yes. We don't know what it entails. If we are not going to be

:47:33. > :47:37.in the customs union, which is a logical and reasonable think for her

:47:38. > :47:41.to say... The broader economic area. That's what we need out of today's

:47:42. > :47:46.speech. I'm not sure we're going to get that today. What are we going to

:47:47. > :47:50.have? It is narrowed down to two options, either the European Union

:47:51. > :47:55.will agree to continue trading with us on zero tariffs and no new

:47:56. > :48:01.barriers. Highly unlikely if we are not accepting freedom of movement?

:48:02. > :48:08.We are got deals with 50 countries. I agree it may not happen. Or we

:48:09. > :48:14.will trade on the same terms as the EU trades with America and Japan and

:48:15. > :48:19.Russia and China. So we will be no worse off than its best trading

:48:20. > :48:23.partners if there is no agreement, if there is an agreement we will be

:48:24. > :48:27.better off. Are you expecting any detail, either of you today, when it

:48:28. > :48:31.comes toum gration? Ie if we are pulling out of the single market

:48:32. > :48:34.then we don't have to accept freedom of workers from the EU, are you

:48:35. > :48:38.expecting details about how EU workers will be able to come to

:48:39. > :48:43.Britain, either guarantee of a job or will it be a visa system? I hope

:48:44. > :48:48.we will apply the same criteria to European countries as we apply to

:48:49. > :48:51.the rest of the world. So we have a colour-free immigration policy

:48:52. > :48:54.whereas at present we have a different regime for people from

:48:55. > :48:57.Europe as we do from people from the rest of the world and obviously

:48:58. > :49:02.people who are coming on business back and forth it should be as easy

:49:03. > :49:06.and as free as possible, but we want to put an end to mass immigration

:49:07. > :49:10.which created, added to the housing crisis in our country and undermined

:49:11. > :49:13.the incentive we have to train our own people up to the skills they

:49:14. > :49:17.need. I think Peter's fantasy speech is

:49:18. > :49:21.all very interesting and it is exactly what we were told during the

:49:22. > :49:26.referendum campaign and a lot of this is fantasy politics. So I think

:49:27. > :49:30.what we need to do is let's wait and see what she actually says because I

:49:31. > :49:33.would be very, very surprised and I think you might be disappointed

:49:34. > :49:37.later today if what she says is anything close to that which you've

:49:38. > :49:41.just outlined. I think what we're going to get, it will be broad

:49:42. > :49:46.brush, very high-level and we will have as many questions at the end of

:49:47. > :49:49.today as we have now. This has been an over hyped speech and we could be

:49:50. > :49:56.disappointed. Well, we will see, won't we? Thank you both very much.

:49:57. > :49:58.Jenny Chapman and Peter Lilley, Conservative MP who voted to leave

:49:59. > :50:03.the European Union. Our audience of Leave

:50:04. > :50:13.and Remain voters are with us. You were looking for a brighter

:50:14. > :50:19.future, prosperity. When politicians talk about it, does it make you any

:50:20. > :50:23.clearer about what you want for the future of this country? No. It

:50:24. > :50:29.muddles things up more. I don't think Jenny helps the situation when

:50:30. > :50:35.you degrade people's opinions by calling them fantasy. There is

:50:36. > :50:38.nothing fantasy about what he said. I disagree with the way you

:50:39. > :50:43.approached the situation and it is quite irresponsible. The idea of it

:50:44. > :50:45.being a fantasy resonates with me because at the moment we don't know

:50:46. > :50:50.anything. A lot of the things that Theresa May has said has been Brexit

:50:51. > :50:53.means Brexit but what does that actually mean? Today hopefully we

:50:54. > :50:56.will get clarity on that because again, there will be some immigrants

:50:57. > :51:00.for example who live here who are going to say, "Hey, what about me?

:51:01. > :51:05.What's going to happen to me and my family?" Thank you.

:51:06. > :51:16.More from you all at 10.15am. This programme has learnt

:51:17. > :51:18.that there are still families struggling with debt

:51:19. > :51:20.after having their tax credits wrongly stopped by Concentrix,

:51:21. > :51:36.a company employed by the Government A teenager admitted throwing a stone

:51:37. > :51:42.at a toxy in Birmingham leaving a woman with a fractured skull. The

:51:43. > :51:45.taxi's CCTV captured the incident. This video does contain graphic

:51:46. > :51:52.images. So, if there is anyone in the room that might be distressed by

:51:53. > :52:01.it, just to let you know. Well, that 17-year-old boy admitted... Are you

:52:02. > :52:09.OK folks? Are you OK folks? Hang on. Hang on. Hang on, folks. Hang on.

:52:10. > :52:26.Hang on, folks. Hang on, folks. Hang on. We'll phone 999, folks.

:52:27. > :52:33.The 17-year-old who threw the stone admitted he was drunk and targeting

:52:34. > :52:38.taxis. He appeared in court with two other youths, two were found guilty

:52:39. > :52:39.of wounding and all four were convicted of conspiring to damage

:52:40. > :52:46.taxis. Next this morning, meet

:52:47. > :52:48.one of Britain's most She's called Tracey Jolliffe,

:52:49. > :52:55.she's 50 and she's already donated a kidney, 16 eggs and 80 pints

:52:56. > :52:58.of blood to people she's never met. She intends to leave her brain

:52:59. > :53:02.to science and is now hoping to give away part of her liver to a person

:53:03. > :53:08.she may never meet. Tracey Jolliffee joins us now

:53:09. > :53:11.alongside George Compton who became a trustee for the organ donation

:53:12. > :53:14.charity Live Life, Give Life after she received a double lung

:53:15. > :53:27.transplant which saved her Tracey it has been a gradual thing,

:53:28. > :53:31.I know, it started when you signed up to donate blood and to the bone

:53:32. > :53:37.marrow register when you were 18. What evolved after that? Well, I

:53:38. > :53:40.donated blood on a regular basis. Bone marrow I have only been called

:53:41. > :53:44.once and wasn't a match at final hurdle. The organ donation, it has

:53:45. > :53:49.been something I have always been interested in. I think if you can do

:53:50. > :53:53.something, you should. In terms of donating your kidney, that's quite a

:53:54. > :53:58.big deal. Tell us the process. Well, I first read about it in the news in

:53:59. > :54:02.2010. Just a few years after it became legal to donate to a stranger

:54:03. > :54:06.and I thought about it for a while before I approached the local

:54:07. > :54:10.transplant co-ordinator and chatted to her at length before I started

:54:11. > :54:16.under going the tests. Right. OK. And the test involved what? Quite a

:54:17. > :54:21.lot of blood tests. You have to have an MRI, a CT scan, a lot of kidney

:54:22. > :54:25.function tests and you have to go and see a psychiatrist to make sure

:54:26. > :54:29.you're donating for the right reasons. And your reasons were what?

:54:30. > :54:34.I just thought it was a nice thing to do. As simple as that? Yes. I

:54:35. > :54:37.don't know anyone who has kidney failure so I can't say it is a

:54:38. > :54:42.personal story. I know there are people waiting for transplants. 300

:54:43. > :54:44.people a year die waiting for a kidney transplant and I could do

:54:45. > :54:49.something to save one of them. In terms of your surgery and recovery

:54:50. > :54:52.time, how long in total? Ways in hospital for five days and probably

:54:53. > :54:57.about six weeks before I was back to full health. But that's individual.

:54:58. > :55:03.How did your family react? They were fine. They are used to me doing what

:55:04. > :55:08.I want to do! Fair enough. The eggs as well, donating the eggs, that's a

:55:09. > :55:13.pretty invasive procedure? It is. It does involve having a lot of

:55:14. > :55:18.injections to stimulate the egg production and it is' general

:55:19. > :55:22.anaesthetic to recover the eggs and you recover quickly from that. In

:55:23. > :55:26.terms of the people that, that you are donate to go, you don't know any

:55:27. > :55:32.of them? No, it is all done anonymously, no idea. Complete

:55:33. > :55:37.strangers? Yeah. Do you have, do you want to, are you curious, would you

:55:38. > :55:42.like to find out? It is not your call, as it happens, a recipient

:55:43. > :55:46.could make an effort to get in touch with you, but as a donor you can't?

:55:47. > :55:50.I did think about it. It would be nice to put a face to what I've

:55:51. > :55:55.done. But and then I thought well, what if I meet them and I don't like

:55:56. > :55:59.them? Oh. I think it is probably safest not to. They would be so

:56:00. > :56:04.grateful to you, you're bound to fall in love with you. Possibly.

:56:05. > :56:09.George, you were diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a baby and went

:56:10. > :56:12.on the organ transplant list for a second time in 2014. What does it

:56:13. > :56:17.feel like from your point of view to have your life saved by a complete

:56:18. > :56:22.stranger? Ah, it is incredible. I never experienced my life this well.

:56:23. > :56:26.Growing up, I have always been in and out of hospital with chest

:56:27. > :56:30.infections and never been able to breathe properly. It is incredible.

:56:31. > :56:34.It really is the gift of life. I have been given a second chance and

:56:35. > :56:43.I'm making the most of it and doing all that I can. How in need of the

:56:44. > :56:49.lung transplant were you? I was days away from dying. I had my, it was my

:56:50. > :56:56.fourth call that everything went ahead. I was in hospital and unable

:56:57. > :57:01.to leave. I was on oxygen and I had an invase yave mask to help me

:57:02. > :57:07.breathe. I was bed-bound and I could barely eat for myself. Things had

:57:08. > :57:12.got as worse for myself at that time. Roger says, "I donated a

:57:13. > :57:17.kidney two years ago. I looked to see if I could help some other way

:57:18. > :57:20.and that's when I found about organ donations, different people at the

:57:21. > :57:23.hospitals kept asking me why? I didn't have an answer at first, it

:57:24. > :57:28.may have been for a variety of reasons. I think the simplest answer

:57:29. > :57:34.is that I enjoy helping others." You are now a trustee of Live Life Give

:57:35. > :57:38.Life, you want to encourage others to donate organs. Yes. Not

:57:39. > :57:43.necessarily while they are alive, but that's possible, as we know. I

:57:44. > :57:47.think what Tracey has done is incredible. We encourage people to

:57:48. > :57:51.sign up for organ donation. Talk to their families, which is the most

:57:52. > :57:56.important thing. Even when people sign up for organ donation, 48% of

:57:57. > :57:59.families refuse, that's why it is important this to get people to talk

:58:00. > :58:05.to every member of their family so they are aware of that des. Organ

:58:06. > :58:08.donation is so special. From my experience, it is life changing and

:58:09. > :58:14.to give someone that opportunity when you are not longer here or

:58:15. > :58:17.still alive like Tracey. We like to promote it and get the word out

:58:18. > :58:21.there and just see where we go. Thank you very much for coming on

:58:22. > :58:25.the programme. Thank you, George, thank you, Tracey.

:58:26. > :58:29.Later in the programme we'll be talking to a recovering alcoholic

:58:30. > :58:32.who donated her kidney to a stranger.

:58:33. > :58:44.Now the weather. Some of us seeing a cloudy start to the day and it will

:58:45. > :58:47.remain cloudy with drizzle, but here it will be milder. Where some of us

:58:48. > :58:52.have clearer skies this morning, so there is frost around. Also some

:58:53. > :58:56.patchy fog too and currently for example, in Reading the temperature

:58:57. > :59:02.is minus one, but in Lossiemouth, it is 11 Celsius! So a huge range in

:59:03. > :59:09.temperatures. Now, I can show you some of the Weather Watchers photos.

:59:10. > :59:13.This cat isn't stupid, he has got his umbrella out. In Gloucestershire

:59:14. > :59:18.there is rain and drizzle. In Wales, some drizzle. Pushing further

:59:19. > :59:20.towards the east, this is Sunningdale in Berkshire, a

:59:21. > :59:23.beautiful start to the day. Across many south-eastern areas, that's

:59:24. > :59:27.what you can expect. But there is still some patchy fog which could

:59:28. > :59:32.take much of the morning to clear. We've got this weather front draped

:59:33. > :59:37.across central areas. Behind the cold front, we're pulling in colder

:59:38. > :59:41.Continental air, hence the lower temperatures, behind the warm front,

:59:42. > :59:44.we've got milder air coming our way, hence the higher temperatures. But

:59:45. > :59:49.there is a lot of cloud around. Some hill fog. The weather front

:59:50. > :59:53.producing patchy rain and drizzle. To the south of that, under the

:59:54. > :59:56.clearer skies, some of us in the sunshine and where we've got the

:59:57. > :59:59.patchy fog, it will lift and more of us will see sunshine as we go

:00:00. > :00:04.through the day. We're expecting more sunshine than we had yesterday.

:00:05. > :00:09.And we could see it as far west as parts of Dorset, but across southern

:00:10. > :00:14.counties, all the way to Kent, Essex and East Anglia and the Midlands,

:00:15. > :00:18.only four Celsius in London. Across the Midlands, we are back under the

:00:19. > :00:22.blanket of cloud producing drizzle and hill fog. Clearing up across

:00:23. > :00:25.much of Scotland, but it will be fairly cloudy. Parts of the

:00:26. > :00:30.north-east could well see sunshine. Temperatures up to 11 Celsius or 12

:00:31. > :00:32.or 13 Celsius. A cloudy day across Northern Ireland. Again, high

:00:33. > :00:36.temperatures for this stage in mid-January. As we push into Wales,

:00:37. > :00:41.under the weather front once again, we've got more cloud. Still hill

:00:42. > :00:45.fog. The odd spot coming out of that cloud as it will do across the

:00:46. > :00:47.south-west. Now, through the evening and overnight, under the clear

:00:48. > :00:52.skies, the temperature will drop away quickly. We're looking at a

:00:53. > :00:57.frost. And some patchy fog. To give you an idea of the temperature

:00:58. > :01:04.values we're looking at in towns and cities, freezing or just below,

:01:05. > :01:07.rurally, somewhere in Hampshire we could see minus seven Celsius. Under

:01:08. > :01:10.the clear skies, no problems with frost, but there will be a lot of

:01:11. > :01:15.cloud around. Tomorrow morning, we will lose the patchy fog through the

:01:16. > :01:18.morning allowing sunshine across southern areas. Although elsewhere,

:01:19. > :01:22.across the UK, there will be quite a bit of cloud. It should break across

:01:23. > :01:26.the Midlands and here it should brighten up as well. But we have a

:01:27. > :01:30.weather front flirting with the far north of Scotland. That's

:01:31. > :01:34.introducing rain and showers across the west Highlands. Here too, the

:01:35. > :01:36.wind will strengthen, but the not temperatures, Northern Ireland and

:01:37. > :01:39.Western Scotland still in double figures. Further south, despite the

:01:40. > :01:45.sunshine, well, we're looking at about four or five Celsius.

:01:46. > :01:46.Hello, it's 10am, it's Tuesday January 17th.

:01:47. > :01:56.Prime Minister Theresa May this morning said that her Brexit plans.

:01:57. > :01:58.What do you want to hear from the Prime Minister

:01:59. > :02:00.when she delivers her big speech on Brexit?

:02:01. > :02:09.-- sets out her Brexit plan. For myself, what happens now? They

:02:10. > :02:13.mentioned the idea about the single market, if we will not have that and

:02:14. > :02:18.allow people to trade or travel freely, what will happen?

:02:19. > :02:22.Sovereignty, including migration, law, including how we make new laws

:02:23. > :02:27.without reference to the EU, thirdly trade. I think the Government needs

:02:28. > :02:32.to be bowled on trade. I want to make sure Theresa May does

:02:33. > :02:36.the swift, clean Brexit, leaving the single market, the European Court of

:02:37. > :02:38.Justice, the customs union. That is what I want to hear from Theresa

:02:39. > :02:41.May. We'll be getting reaction

:02:42. > :02:44.from a group of you - voters - a mix of people who voted

:02:45. > :02:46.Leave and Remain. Plus George Michael's childhood

:02:47. > :02:48.friend tells this programme he believes a mixture of drugs

:02:49. > :02:50.and anti-depressants could have been responsible for the singer's

:02:51. > :02:52.death on Christmas Day I think that he took

:02:53. > :02:58.too much of something, mixed with the antidepressants

:02:59. > :03:18.and other drugs he This programme has learned there are

:03:19. > :03:22.still families struggling with debt after having their tax credits

:03:23. > :03:29.wrongly stopped by concept tricks, the American firm employed by the

:03:30. > :03:32.Government to stop benefit Ford. -- by concentrates. I have had to go to

:03:33. > :03:36.a food bank, it is just hard. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:03:37. > :03:38.with a summary of today's news. Theresa May is expected to use

:03:39. > :03:42.a speech on her Brexit strategy this morning to give a clear signal that

:03:43. > :03:45.she's prepared to take Britain out of the single market, so the UK can

:03:46. > :03:48.control its own borders and laws. Mrs May will tell an audience

:03:49. > :03:52.in central London that she has no desire to be half-in,

:03:53. > :03:56.half-out of the European Union. The main suspect in the Istanbul

:03:57. > :03:58.nightclub attack has been arrested The 34-year-old Uzbek national

:03:59. > :04:03.was detained during a police raid The governor of Istanbul says he has

:04:04. > :04:13.confessed. 39 people were killed and 70 wounded

:04:14. > :04:17.at the Reina bar on New Year's Eve. An 18-year-old man has been arrested

:04:18. > :04:19.on suspicion of murdering Her body was found yesterday

:04:20. > :04:31.morning on a path in She has been named locally as

:04:32. > :04:36.16-year-old Leonne Weeks. Her body was found by a member of the public.

:04:37. > :04:39.George Michael's childhood best friend has told the programme that

:04:40. > :04:43.he believes drugs were the cause of the Singapore 's Mike death. Andros

:04:44. > :04:48.Georgiou claims the friend he referred to as his cousin had taken

:04:49. > :04:51.a cocktail of drugs including antidepressants. A postmortem

:04:52. > :04:54.examination following the death of George Michael on Christmas Day

:04:55. > :04:58.proved inconclusive. Police have arrested a man following

:04:59. > :05:03.an explosion at a house in Manchester. Two people were

:05:04. > :05:06.seriously injured following the blast in Leonne. Residents were told

:05:07. > :05:08.to leave their homes while fire crews secured the area.

:05:09. > :05:14.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30am.

:05:15. > :05:20.Diana tweeted about organ donation, I donated a kidney in December, I

:05:21. > :05:23.would love a little letter saying all is well, that would be so

:05:24. > :05:27.special. Linda, I just thought was a nice

:05:28. > :05:30.thing to do, what an understatement from you wonderful guest.

:05:31. > :05:35.Sarah says that Tracy and others like her are awesome. As somebody

:05:36. > :05:38.who has regular blood transfusions, 18 units since May, and kidney

:05:39. > :05:44.problems. Keep those coming in. Around 100

:05:45. > :05:49.people a year who are alive donate their organs. It is called

:05:50. > :05:53.altruistic organ donation. If you are one of those, let me know. And

:05:54. > :05:55.if you have received a stranger's organ, let me know as well.

:05:56. > :05:57.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:05:58. > :06:02.Three British players have reached the second round of

:06:03. > :06:06.That's a total of five players now, which is the first time since 1987.

:06:07. > :06:09.She beat the former Wimbledon semi-finalist

:06:10. > :06:15.The world number nine will now face Thai wildcard

:06:16. > :06:26.Luksika Kumkhum or Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka.

:06:27. > :06:32.I am very happy to have come through that, whether it was going to take

:06:33. > :06:37.two or three sets I was prepared to stay out as long as I needed to.

:06:38. > :06:43.Again, it was a tough first set and there was not much in it, I was just

:06:44. > :06:46.happy that I was able to put my foot on the pedal and little bit but also

:06:47. > :06:48.just manage really well the difficulties of the match.

:06:49. > :06:51.A brilliant win for Heather Watson against an opponent 60 places

:06:52. > :06:55.She beat home favourite and 18th seed Sam Stosur in three sets.

:06:56. > :06:57.Up next is American Jennifer Brady or Belgian Maryna Zanevska

:06:58. > :07:02.A bit later today, Naomi Broady plays number 22

:07:03. > :07:17.I knew it would not be any easy match. I have played Sam a couple of

:07:18. > :07:22.times before and she has beat me both times. She has a very different

:07:23. > :07:27.style of play to most girls, she hits the ball very heavy and has a

:07:28. > :07:31.great serve. So, yeah, I knew I would have to return well and try to

:07:32. > :07:37.be the first want to dictate, otherwise she would have been all

:07:38. > :07:38.over me. -- the first one to dictate.

:07:39. > :07:40.In the men's draw, Kyle Edmund beat Colombia's Santiago Hiraldo

:07:41. > :07:43.in straight sets, taking just under two hours to do it.

:07:44. > :07:45.He'll face 30th seed Pablo Carreno Busta next.

:07:46. > :07:48.The RFU are investigating a complaint from Sale

:07:49. > :07:51.that one of their own team passed information to the Bristol camp

:07:52. > :07:53.ahead of a narrow defeat earlier this month.

:07:54. > :07:55.It's understood to be Sale's former Bristol wing Tom Arscott -

:07:56. > :08:05.Bristol fought back from 15-0 down to win the game

:08:06. > :08:08.Seven sports are challenging the removal of their funding

:08:09. > :08:10.for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020,

:08:11. > :08:15.Badminton is among five sports which lost funding after Rio 2016

:08:16. > :08:20.looking to reverse UK Sport's decision.

:08:21. > :08:23.They are joined by goalball, not funded in 2016,

:08:24. > :08:28.and table tennis which only gets Paralympic funding.

:08:29. > :08:30.Former Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has announced his

:08:31. > :08:35.He hasn't worked since winning the FA Cup with United and leaving

:08:36. > :08:39.He made the announcement after receiving a lifetime

:08:40. > :08:41.achievement award from the Dutch government for his

:08:42. > :08:55.That is all the sport for now, I will have the headlines for you at

:08:56. > :09:00.about 10:30am. Use Justin, the former Foreign

:09:01. > :09:04.Secretary Jack Straw faces being sued over allegations over 2004

:09:05. > :09:08.kidnapped after the Supreme Court ruled that a tortured Libyan

:09:09. > :09:18.dissident's case must be heard in British courts. This dissident

:09:19. > :09:23.alleges that MI6, which Mr Straw was responsible for, help the US abduct

:09:24. > :09:26.him in a shirt to return him and his wife to Libya. The landmark ruling

:09:27. > :09:31.is a blow for this government, which fought to stop the case being heard.

:09:32. > :09:37.The lawyers for the Libyan said he is determined to sue unless he

:09:38. > :09:39.receives an apology and a token ?1 in damages. The Supreme Court said

:09:40. > :09:44.that the allegations will associate risk they had to be heard before a

:09:45. > :09:48.British court, because if not they would never be heard anywhere else

:09:49. > :09:51.in the world. The damages action is based on documents unearthed in

:09:52. > :09:55.Tripoli following the fall of Colonel Gaddafi. In 2004, MI6

:09:56. > :10:00.communicated with the regime over the fate of the dissident. According

:10:01. > :10:08.to documents uncovered in Tripoli, MI6 tipped off the Libyan regime and

:10:09. > :10:10.the couple were seized in Bangkok by US Secret Service is.

:10:11. > :10:12.I think we can talk to our home affairs correspondent Dominic

:10:13. > :10:21.Casciani outside of the Supreme Court. Can you hear me?

:10:22. > :10:25.Hello, Victoria. Can you hear me? We are still getting microphones on. I

:10:26. > :10:29.have read a little bit to the audience that former Foreign

:10:30. > :10:39.Secretary Jack Straw faces being sued, Phil is in? -- Phil is in.

:10:40. > :10:45.Have been long-running allegations of rendition, the UK's alleged role

:10:46. > :10:53.competently in rendition. The cases about this man and his wife, the man

:10:54. > :10:59.was a Libyan dissident who fled Libya after failing to overthrow

:11:00. > :11:04.Colonel Gaddafi many years ago. He was hiding in China. In 2004 he

:11:05. > :11:09.tried to leave to get to the UK to claim asylum. En route, according to

:11:10. > :11:17.his allegations, MI6 tipped off the Libyan authorities and the Americans

:11:18. > :11:23.then arranged for this couple to be kidnapped in Bangkok, supposedly en

:11:24. > :11:26.route to claiming asylum. They were flown to Libya, imprisoned, she was

:11:27. > :11:32.pregnant and only released days before she gave birth. Abdel Hakim

:11:33. > :11:38.Belhaj was tortured over six years, told he would be executed and was

:11:39. > :11:42.released shortly before the business of Colonel Gaddafi being overthrown.

:11:43. > :11:51.Documents weren't covered in Tripoli after the overthrow of Colonel

:11:52. > :11:57.Gaddafi which show, according to Mr Belhaj and his legal team, that MI6

:11:58. > :12:02.had tipped off the Libyan authorities. It is a critical

:12:03. > :12:06.message from a former counterterrorism official called Sir

:12:07. > :12:11.Mark Allen which states that British intelligence was behind the tip-off

:12:12. > :12:15.which led to the capture of Mr Belhaj and his subsequent rendition

:12:16. > :12:18.and detention in Libya. For years the Government has tried to stop

:12:19. > :12:21.this case from coming before the courts, it is argued that the case

:12:22. > :12:26.cannot be heard because of it amounts to an allegation of torture

:12:27. > :12:29.by one state elsewhere, nothing to do with Britain, but this is court

:12:30. > :12:35.said it is not having that, that these allegations were so serious

:12:36. > :12:39.against the British Government and the then Foreign Secretary Jack

:12:40. > :12:43.Straw that they must be heard before British courts. Lord Manns has just

:12:44. > :12:47.finished speaking and said that the Magna Carta itself, the ancient

:12:48. > :12:52.documents, is the critical piece of law in this case because provides a

:12:53. > :12:58.right for Mr Belhaj not to be held arbitrarily, to be tortured and so

:12:59. > :13:03.on, he said that this case needs to go back to court. Mr Belhaj says he

:13:04. > :13:07.is determined to sue, he does not want quiet compensation out of

:13:08. > :13:12.court, he says he just wants an admission from the UK that it was

:13:13. > :13:17.mixed up in complicity in his detention.

:13:18. > :13:21.Does he want that apology from this current Conservative Government,

:13:22. > :13:26.from Jack Straw of Labour, then the Foreign Secretary responsible for

:13:27. > :13:30.MI6, who did the tipping off? In essence he wants the apology from

:13:31. > :13:37.everyone. The way these things work is that Jack Straw was the minister

:13:38. > :13:40.at the time. When this goes to the High Court, and I apologise for some

:13:41. > :13:43.of the noise around here at the moment, when it goes to the High

:13:44. > :13:46.Court they will have to look at whatever the allegations are and

:13:47. > :13:50.whatever evidence there may or may not be about the director role of Mr

:13:51. > :13:55.Straw and the alleged direct role of a former MI6 official called Sir

:13:56. > :13:59.Mark Allen. As two individuals are there in essence, but then there is

:14:00. > :14:01.MI6 itself, the Foreign Office and the Attorney General effectively

:14:02. > :14:07.being sued as the Government. Effectively what has happened so far

:14:08. > :14:16.is that the Government is not lawyers have been acting on behalf

:14:17. > :14:20.of the likes of Mr Straw and Sir Mark Allen. -- the Government's

:14:21. > :14:24.lawyers. They have neither confirmed nor denied the scope of the

:14:25. > :14:28.allegations, this is a standard procedure they have always used in

:14:29. > :14:31.secret cases, but Mr Belhaj says he wants his day in court and to

:14:32. > :14:36.finally hear the truth of what has happened and he will fight on.

:14:37. > :14:40.OK. You are doing well battling above the heckler, but we are

:14:41. > :14:48.hearing everything you are saying. We have a statement from Preview,

:14:49. > :14:53.the lawyer for the Libyan dissidents, the lawyer for rendition

:14:54. > :14:56.victims, actually, saying that in 72 hours would be torture will take the

:14:57. > :15:01.reins of the Earth's most powerful security state. This security state

:15:02. > :15:05.is not just about history, the stakes could not be higher. We enter

:15:06. > :15:10.the Trump euro was not a soul held to account for Britain's past role

:15:11. > :15:15.in rendition. No official has condemned Trump's torture boasts.

:15:16. > :15:20.Intelligence agencies might be pressured to help America torture

:15:21. > :15:23.again. A final couple of lines, the Government brought years of delay by

:15:24. > :15:27.wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds on this appeal when a simple

:15:28. > :15:32.apology would have closed the case. Theresa May should apologise to this

:15:33. > :15:37.family, draw a line in the sand against torture and restore British

:15:38. > :15:44.honour. A really interesting statement from

:15:45. > :15:47.that person at Reprieve. These allegations of British complicity,

:15:48. > :15:52.allege British complicity go all the way back to the opening of

:15:53. > :15:54.Guantanamo Bay in early 2002 when there were allegations brought that

:15:55. > :16:00.British security officials on the ground in Afghanistan had

:16:01. > :16:06.facilitated the transfer of British suspects to Guantanamo Bay. That

:16:07. > :16:09.trench of cases were effectively wrapped up when the Government

:16:10. > :16:12.settled with the individuals who had been held in Guantanamo Bay and then

:16:13. > :16:18.released without charge to get on with their lives in the UK. Those

:16:19. > :16:22.many, many cases went on for years. They settled out of court the

:16:23. > :16:25.millions of pounds. That meant the evidence was never effectively add.

:16:26. > :16:29.The Government than promised effectively a public inquiry and a

:16:30. > :16:33.retired judge to get to the bottom of the rendition and ill-treatment

:16:34. > :16:39.claims. That was suspended when these claims from Mr Belhaj and his

:16:40. > :16:42.wife surfaced, these claims were so serious that there had to be a full

:16:43. > :16:46.police investigation. That investigation was passed to the CPS,

:16:47. > :16:51.the CPS said it could not charge because of insufficient evidence. To

:16:52. > :16:54.date we have not had any full clarity or airing of all these

:16:55. > :16:58.allegations, testing this evidence and seeing what the official papers

:16:59. > :17:02.hidden deep in the bowels of MI6 under the government agencies say

:17:03. > :17:07.about those event. Critically the testimony of individual officials or

:17:08. > :17:11.ministers cheering all those years. The case of Mr Belhaj, assuming it

:17:12. > :17:15.goes ahead and he does not get the apology and the ?1 compensation he

:17:16. > :17:18.demands, if it goes ahead that will be the first time any of this will

:17:19. > :17:22.be properly ad in the British courts. I think it will be absolute

:17:23. > :17:25.fireworks if it gets to that stage. The Government is in a very tricky

:17:26. > :17:29.position and I think we will have to wait to see how they respond. It is

:17:30. > :17:41.really, really quite devastating a ruling from the Supreme Court.

:17:42. > :17:49.What do you want to hear from the Prime Minister when she delivers her

:17:50. > :17:52.speech on Brexit. Let's talk to a mix of people who voted leave and

:17:53. > :17:56.remain the you heard from them briefly already. It is time to get

:17:57. > :18:02.into the nitty-gritty. So welcome again all of you.

:18:03. > :18:08.Introduce yourself. Tell us what you voted and tell us what you want to

:18:09. > :18:13.her from Theresa May? I'm Linda and I'm interest Orpington and I voted

:18:14. > :18:18.to leave. You were able to vote because you have lived here since

:18:19. > :18:23.1979? That's right. What do you want from Theresa May? To hear her say

:18:24. > :18:26.that she is going to invoke Article 50 and get on with the process of

:18:27. > :18:34.moving us away from the European Union. Happen Happy with a clean

:18:35. > :18:37.break? And look at opportunities in other countries to do direct deals

:18:38. > :18:43.with them. OK, what about yourself, sir, what do you want to hear? I

:18:44. > :18:47.want to hear her talk about sovereignty because people clearly

:18:48. > :18:52.voted, I voted Remain, with reluctance in a sense, but people

:18:53. > :18:56.want to know that Britain can celebrate its culture without being

:18:57. > :19:00.xenophobic and mean-spirited to refugees. I want to hear her talk

:19:01. > :19:04.about law because we need to be able to make laws in this country that...

:19:05. > :19:07.We are coming out of the single market and coming out of the

:19:08. > :19:11.jurisdiction of the European Courts of justice. It would take time I

:19:12. > :19:15.want to hear more about that and trade. The Government needs to have

:19:16. > :19:18.a bold attitude towards trade because we have a lot of talent in

:19:19. > :19:21.this country and we can build a better future if we give them the

:19:22. > :19:26.right leadership as opposed to political management. Your accent,

:19:27. > :19:29.it is not British? It is a mongrel actually, I'm Australian, but I

:19:30. > :19:33.lived in Denmark for ten years and in the UK for 12. So I understand

:19:34. > :19:39.both sides of the EU situation. Jake, you voted leave. I did, yes.

:19:40. > :19:46.You're from Burnley, what do you want to hear from Mrs May. The mood

:19:47. > :19:49.ewesic, are you happy with it? I'm happy, the fact she wants a clean

:19:50. > :20:00.break and we must leave the single market. Why? The single market has

:20:01. > :20:05.got the freedom of movement and the freedom of money. We reject freedom

:20:06. > :20:09.of movement and we cannot remain a member of the single market. This

:20:10. > :20:16.vote meant we reject freedom of movement? No, that was, I think, my

:20:17. > :20:20.main issue because we don't want to look back too much but the way that

:20:21. > :20:24.immigration was portrayed and how it was a rhetoric of hate,

:20:25. > :20:28.discrimination and using people's fears to kind of push this

:20:29. > :20:33.ammunition behind the Leave campaign. For me, personally

:20:34. > :20:38.speaking, I think freedom of movement who is thinking, you know,

:20:39. > :20:42.I want to be able to easily, because that's the issue here, easily move

:20:43. > :20:47.around and I know I will be able to go into another country and work or

:20:48. > :20:51.even one day I was to run my own business and I wanted to import orks

:20:52. > :20:57.port easily. All of that will be made difficult. You're studying in

:20:58. > :21:02.Cambridge at the moment. Yes. You're going to be able to go wherever you

:21:03. > :21:06.want once you get your English lit degree. Why do you say that? It is a

:21:07. > :21:09.top university. No one is going to close the doors on T I don't have an

:21:10. > :21:14.education. I have never been to university and yet I'm against the

:21:15. > :21:17.freedom of movement even though it will make my life harder because it

:21:18. > :21:23.is not about what I want. It's about the safety of other people. OK. It's

:21:24. > :21:28.about control. If we control our borders and we can choose who we

:21:29. > :21:31.want based on their skills, not on anything else, not on their

:21:32. > :21:38.backgrounds or their religion, their skills. So if we need nurses, or

:21:39. > :21:44.engineers, then why don't we let those people in to boost the

:21:45. > :21:47.country? That's why I reject the whole notion of us rejecting like

:21:48. > :21:55.the free movement of people because I think for me, this whole issue is

:21:56. > :21:59.centred around an antiestablishment vote rather than necessarily a vote

:22:00. > :22:03.for in and out. That was my rhetoric around it. There were a lot of

:22:04. > :22:09.people angry about a lot of things and this was a stage for them to

:22:10. > :22:16.say... But we are where we are, what do you want from Theresa May? I I

:22:17. > :22:19.want clarity, the uncertainty for me as a Remain voter, the thing I'm

:22:20. > :22:24.shocked about, she hasn't said much and we've talked about the fact she

:22:25. > :22:28.has to keep her cards close. There is an incredible amount of people

:22:29. > :22:33.who are uncertain. Even within the markets. You voted Leave, do you

:22:34. > :22:40.feel really uncertain now? Is that something that worries you? Theresa

:22:41. > :22:46.May made it clear that a clean, swift exit means leaving the customs

:22:47. > :22:52.union. She hasn't been clear about leaving the customs union yet? She

:22:53. > :22:56.said you can't have bits - half in and half out. Therefore, leave means

:22:57. > :23:01.leave and that needs to happen because now, I feel like she's

:23:02. > :23:06.delaying. Why is she delaying? Just get on with it. The whole world is

:23:07. > :23:09.listening. We have got to remember that we're going to be in a pretty

:23:10. > :23:13.tricky situation. We're going to have to negotiate with a lot of

:23:14. > :23:16.different people. Now, if we show our cards straightaway. If Theresa

:23:17. > :23:21.May was shouting out every single idea that she had before they had a

:23:22. > :23:24.chance to explore the ideas properly we might find ourselves at a loss,

:23:25. > :23:30.you know. This is a complex thing we're doing. This is a really big

:23:31. > :23:37.thing for our country. So why would we play all our cards? Well, the

:23:38. > :23:41.argument, there is that argument argument and the counter argument is

:23:42. > :23:46.because voters need to know what's going on. The fact that it is a

:23:47. > :23:51.complex process, I don't think we can be going, "Oh great, we're going

:23:52. > :23:56.to do this in two years and that's what is going to happen." You think

:23:57. > :24:01.it can't be done in two years? No. Does anyone else think it can't be

:24:02. > :24:07.done in two years? No. That would mean a transitional deal. Would you

:24:08. > :24:12.happy with that as a leaver? Yes, I would, but this can't be rushed. It

:24:13. > :24:18.has got to be done right. Linda, would you happy with a transitional

:24:19. > :24:22.deal? 23 if it has to take longer for certain pieces, yes, of course,

:24:23. > :24:26.but they need to get on with it and make decision and not be swayed by

:24:27. > :24:31.what the butcrats in Europe are going to tell us -- bureaucrats in

:24:32. > :24:35.Europe are going to tell us. We should be going down a dual track

:24:36. > :24:41.which is work on getting out of Europe and at the same time working

:24:42. > :24:44.on the other deals. There is a nervousness when it comes to the

:24:45. > :24:51.group in Parliament who say we need a second referendum. I think that's

:24:52. > :24:56.disingenuous, I don't think you can say on one hand say we rule by

:24:57. > :24:59.officials and then say, we don't like the result and we're going to

:25:00. > :25:04.have a second referendum. There is no way we're going to have a second

:25:05. > :25:09.referendum. There is an argument about once the deal is done, there

:25:10. > :25:13.is a referendum to put to the people to say whether we like it or not? If

:25:14. > :25:17.there is a referendum on the deal, I would be more open. If it was going

:25:18. > :25:22.back to this is the deal we could get, are you sure you want to leave?

:25:23. > :25:26.No. We have to move forward and we cannot keep going back and forwards.

:25:27. > :25:31.People voted to leave and we have to leave. Do you want a referendum once

:25:32. > :25:34.the deal is done and we don't know how long it will take, a lot of

:25:35. > :25:38.European countries have to agree to it, do you want a referendum for you

:25:39. > :25:44.to be able to say, yes, I like this or no, I don't like this? 100%. What

:25:45. > :25:49.if the vote was majority, no, we don't like this deal? Do we still

:25:50. > :25:54.leave or start again with the negotiations or go back to where we

:25:55. > :26:01.were on 22nd June last year, what? That's a complicated and complex

:26:02. > :26:06.thing to answer. For me, I feel as if democracy was left at the door

:26:07. > :26:09.when you know, especially what I would call lies basically were told

:26:10. > :26:12.in order to push the leave campaign. I know people are shaking their

:26:13. > :26:17.head, but that's where I stand with it. Just initially for the big

:26:18. > :26:25.things, you know, we heard about the 350 million, that's not going to

:26:26. > :26:30.happen. You want to talk about lies and things like that. The Bank of

:26:31. > :26:35.England put out a devastating projection. They have done a U-turn.

:26:36. > :26:39.The IMF have done a U-turn. This little House of Cards that the

:26:40. > :26:42.Remain campaign had on it is going to be terrible economically is

:26:43. > :26:49.falling down every single day. One day people will realise that they

:26:50. > :26:53.believed lies about this. Can I read comments from people watching you

:26:54. > :26:56.around the country? Aaron says, "Brexit means increased poverty,

:26:57. > :26:59.plus deeper and longer austerity." Stephen wants Theresa May to get

:27:00. > :27:07.what the people voted for, to leave the EU mess and all that comes with

:27:08. > :27:11.t it is called democracy. PJ, "Brexit means freeing up trade with

:27:12. > :27:17.all." Jaky on Facebook, "I hope she will deliver what she says she will,

:27:18. > :27:21.but I won't hold my heth." Colin says, "Go with what we voted for and

:27:22. > :27:25.pull out of the EU and the single market." We forget that Europe is

:27:26. > :27:33.part of this too and Europe is not moving in good directions when it

:27:34. > :27:36.comes to border control. I'm going to pause you there. Thank you for

:27:37. > :27:44.coming on the programme and thank you for being patient as well. I

:27:45. > :27:46.really appreciate it. A statement from Jack Straw, former Foreign

:27:47. > :27:51.Secretary Foreign Secretary. You heard about the fact that Jack Straw

:27:52. > :27:57.could be sued by a Libyan dissident because Jack Straw was in charge of

:27:58. > :28:03.MI6 back in 2004 when they tifd tipped off ed Americans of the

:28:04. > :28:06.Libyan's location and the Libyan ended up being kidnapped. Jack Straw

:28:07. > :28:10.says, "This judgement is about important points of law related to

:28:11. > :28:14.how far it is possible to bring into a court process in the UK actions of

:28:15. > :28:18.sovereign States abroad. However, at no stage so far have the merits of

:28:19. > :28:21.the applicant's case been tested before any court. That can only

:28:22. > :28:26.happen when the trial of action itself takes place. I repeat what I

:28:27. > :28:30.said in the House of Commons in December 2013, that as Foreign

:28:31. > :28:33.Secretary I acted at all times in a manner which was consistent with my

:28:34. > :28:37.legal duties and with national and international law. I was never in

:28:38. > :28:40.anyway complicit in the unlawful rendition or detention of anyone by

:28:41. > :29:01.other States." 26 democrats in the US Congress have

:29:02. > :29:04.said they'll boycott Donald Trump's It follows his attack

:29:05. > :29:07.on the prominent civil rights campaigner and Democrat congressman

:29:08. > :29:09.John Lewis who had said he wouldn't attend the ceremony

:29:10. > :29:11.because he didn't believe Donald Trump was a

:29:12. > :29:12.legitimate President. Congressman John Lewis

:29:13. > :29:14.is the last surviving speaker from the Lincoln Memorial March

:29:15. > :29:17.in 1963 where Martin Luther King Junior delivered his famous

:29:18. > :29:20.I Have a Dream speech in Washington. In a speech to mark

:29:21. > :29:23.Martin Luther King Day, John Lewis - who you can see in these pictures

:29:24. > :29:25.with Martin Luther King - called on Americans to always

:29:26. > :29:27.speak out against hate. We have come a distance,

:29:28. > :29:30.we made a lot of progress as a nation and a people,

:29:31. > :29:32.but we are not there yet. The scars and stains

:29:33. > :29:35.of racism are deeply embedded We must not be at peace

:29:36. > :29:38.with ourselves as a nation until we have the change that

:29:39. > :29:46.Doctor King dreamed of. It is the power of the way

:29:47. > :29:51.of peace, the way of love. As Dr Martin Luther King Jr said,

:29:52. > :29:57.hate is too heavy a burden to bear. I say to you as young men,

:29:58. > :30:01.the future leaders of this state, the future leaders of this nation,

:30:02. > :30:06.the future leaders of the world, And John Lewis had this message

:30:07. > :30:20.for a generation of voters under I say to you as role

:30:21. > :30:28.models, never give up. When you see something that is not

:30:29. > :30:36.right and not fair and not just, you have a moral obligation to do

:30:37. > :30:39.something, to say something, Yes, we have come a distance,

:30:40. > :30:54.we have made a lot of progress as a nation and as a people,

:30:55. > :30:58.but we are not there yet. We almost become participants

:30:59. > :31:02.in a democratic process. When you get old enough

:31:03. > :31:06.to register to vote, It is the most powerful non-violent

:31:07. > :31:23.instrument and tool that we have in a democratic society,

:31:24. > :31:29.and we must use it. Dream dreams and never,

:31:30. > :31:31.ever give up on your dreams. People all over this city,

:31:32. > :31:57.all over this state, all over this nation

:31:58. > :32:31.are pulling for you. More reaction to the fact that

:32:32. > :32:36.former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw faces being sued over allegations of

:32:37. > :32:40.the 2004 kidnapped by the Americans the Libyan dissident because of a

:32:41. > :32:42.ruling in the last half-hour at the UK's Supreme Court.

:32:43. > :32:44.You can see the judges sitting there.

:32:45. > :32:47.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:32:48. > :32:50.Theresa May is expected to use a speech on her Brexit strategy this

:32:51. > :32:53.morning to give a clear signal that she's prepared to take Britain out

:32:54. > :32:57.of the single market, so the UK can control its own borders and laws.

:32:58. > :33:00.Mrs May will tell an audience in central London that she has no

:33:01. > :33:03.desire to be half-in, half-out of the European Union.

:33:04. > :33:10.Remain campaigners say leaving the tariff free single market would

:33:11. > :33:13.damage the UK economy. A government attempt to block a

:33:14. > :33:17.damages claim by a Libyan dissident and his wife who allege the UK

:33:18. > :33:21.participated in there abduction to Tripoli more than a decade ago has

:33:22. > :33:25.failed at the Supreme Court. Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his Moroccan wife

:33:26. > :33:29.Fatima say they were fortunate under Colonel Gaddafi's regime and are

:33:30. > :33:33.claiming against the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. They have

:33:34. > :33:37.offered to settle for token damages and an apology. The Supreme Court

:33:38. > :33:39.judges said Magna Carta is on the couple's side.

:33:40. > :33:41.George Michael's childhood best friend has told this programme

:33:42. > :33:43.that he believes drugs were responsible for

:33:44. > :33:46.Andros Georgiou claims the friend he referred to as his cousin

:33:47. > :33:48.had taken a cocktail of drugs, including

:33:49. > :33:51.A post-mortem following George Michael's death on Christmas Day

:33:52. > :33:58.An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenage

:33:59. > :34:02.girl who was found dead on a pathway in Rotherham.

:34:03. > :34:05.The girl, who has been named locally as 16-year-old Leonne Weeks,

:34:06. > :34:09.was found by a member of the public in the Dinnington area of the town,

:34:10. > :34:21.Police have arrested a man following an explosion at a house in

:34:22. > :34:25.Manchester. Two people were seriously injured following the

:34:26. > :34:27.blast in Blackley. Residents nearby were told to leave their homes well

:34:28. > :34:29.fire crews secured the area. More than 40 learner

:34:30. > :34:31.drivers are caught each year using impersonators

:34:32. > :34:33.to take their tests. 209 people have been convicted

:34:34. > :34:35.in the past five years, according to data published

:34:36. > :34:37.by the Transport More than 100 others were convicted

:34:38. > :34:41.of taking the practical or theory Motoring experts warn that offenders

:34:42. > :34:48.are putting people's lives at risk. In the last few minutes

:34:49. > :34:50.Tate Galleries have announced Maria Balshaw is currently director

:34:51. > :34:53.of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, where she spearheaded

:34:54. > :34:55.its ?17 million transformation, She was awarded a CBE in 2015,

:34:56. > :35:03.and will become the Tate's ninth director when she takes up her role

:35:04. > :35:12.in June. That's a summary of the latest

:35:13. > :35:14.news, join me for BBC Three British players

:35:15. > :35:21.have reached the second round of the Australian

:35:22. > :35:22.open overnight, bringing Johanna Konta beat Kirsten

:35:23. > :35:26.Flipkens in straight sets. The British number one will now face

:35:27. > :35:30.Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka next. Heather Watson beat local

:35:31. > :35:32.favourite and 18th seed The British number two will face

:35:33. > :35:39.American Jennifer Brady or Belgian Maryna Zanevska

:35:40. > :35:44.in her next match. In the men's draw, Kyle Edmund

:35:45. > :35:46.beat Colombia's Santiago He'll face 30th seed

:35:47. > :35:52.Pablo Carreno Busta next. The RFU are investigating

:35:53. > :35:54.a complaint from Sale that one of their own team -

:35:55. > :35:57.understood to be Tom Arscott, seen here in the blue -

:35:58. > :36:00.passed information to the Bristol camp ahead of a narrow

:36:01. > :36:02.defeat this month. Seven sports are attempting

:36:03. > :36:04.to challenge UK Sport's decision not to fund their programmes

:36:05. > :36:06.for the Tokyo Olympics Badminton is among five sports

:36:07. > :36:12.which were funded for Rio 2016 challenging the decision

:36:13. > :36:21.made in December. That's all the sport for now,

:36:22. > :36:23.Victoria. Thank you.

:36:24. > :36:25.This programme has learnt that there are still families

:36:26. > :36:27.struggling with debt after having their tax credits

:36:28. > :36:30.wrongly stopped by Concentrix, a company employed by the Government

:36:31. > :36:34.The American firm has also been criticised in a report out today

:36:35. > :36:40.It says Concentrix did not have enough staff to handle all the calls

:36:41. > :36:42.from people finding out they were having their

:36:43. > :36:45.In one week alone in August the company missed 19,000 calls.

:36:46. > :36:48.We first broke the Concentrix story in September when we revealed

:36:49. > :36:53.hundreds of people had their tax credits wrongly stopped -

:36:54. > :36:55.one teenage mum told us hers had been cancelled because Concentrix

:36:56. > :37:01.believed she was married to a pensioner who she'd never met.

:37:02. > :37:04.He was accusing me of being married to a 74-year-old bloke who used

:37:05. > :37:10.to live here way before I did, saying that it is a normal

:37:11. > :37:15.thing for my kind of age and it is my sort of behaviour.

:37:16. > :37:23.They seriously thought you were married to a 74-year-old?

:37:24. > :37:26.They thought I was living with him and they also stated that

:37:27. > :37:30.They didn't say he was my partner, they didn't say any relationship,

:37:31. > :37:34.When I spoke to the council, they said that he was deceased

:37:35. > :37:39.and died on the 5th of July 2016 and then they said you still need to

:37:40. > :37:43.I said heaven doesn't have opening hours, so what do

:37:44. > :37:49.The day we broke the story we were inundated with messages

:37:50. > :37:53.from you about your own problems with Concentrix.

:37:54. > :37:57.I had a phone call with them and it took me three to five hours a day

:37:58. > :37:59.for a week to actually get hold of them.

:38:00. > :38:01.I lost my child tax credits and my working tax

:38:02. > :38:05.credits which is the bulk of what I get each month.

:38:06. > :38:09.How much are you done by as a result of what you say are their mistakes?

:38:10. > :38:17.I have had no money for two weeks now and I have had

:38:18. > :38:19.to go to a food bank, it is just hard.

:38:20. > :38:22.Because of this, my housing benefit could be stopped as well.

:38:23. > :38:24.Hours after our story was broadcast, HMRC announced they wouldn't be

:38:25. > :38:27.renewing its contract with Concentrix.

:38:28. > :38:29.Our reporter Peter Whittlesea investigated and the Work

:38:30. > :38:31.and Pensions Secretary Damian Green told us that HMRC had

:38:32. > :38:38.Anyone who is dealing with people who are claiming benefits needs

:38:39. > :38:50.to be sensitive to their needs as well as enforcing the rules.

:38:51. > :38:53.Sources close to this have told me that just before we did our report,

:38:54. > :38:56.our exclusive report, HMRC and Concentrix staff were close

:38:57. > :39:04.Yes, what's more, sources have told me that Concentrix was only

:39:05. > :39:09.told an hour before he HMRC told the press that their contract wasn't

:39:10. > :39:14.being renewed and that's why some staff in Belfast heard that

:39:15. > :39:19.potentially their jobs could be at risk because the contract was not

:39:20. > :39:24.being renewed through tweets from the BBC rather

:39:25. > :39:35.For some of our viewers - weeks of being without enough

:39:36. > :39:37.money to live on ended when we highlighted

:39:38. > :39:40.About half an hour or so ago we spoke to Nicola Crawford,

:39:41. > :39:45.She told us she was getting her tax credits reinstated

:39:46. > :39:48.after they were wrongly stopped by Concentrix.

:39:49. > :39:51.But she did not know whether or not they would be backdated.

:39:52. > :39:54.Since then, she has had some news, so she is back with us.

:39:55. > :40:03.They have been trying to ring this morning.

:40:04. > :40:07.They said all of the money will be backdated and it will be

:40:08. > :40:17.I think that is what you call a result.

:40:18. > :40:27.Right now if you are still in doubt because of the mistakes that HMRC

:40:28. > :40:29.Concentrix made. I've been speaking to Marie Crowley,

:40:30. > :40:32.who has ended up in debt after Concentrix wrongly

:40:33. > :40:33.stopped her child tax credits, and SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

:40:34. > :40:36.who has many constituents Marie, tell us first of all,

:40:37. > :40:40.when your tax credits were stopped, how much were you losing out

:40:41. > :40:43.on every week? That was to feed, clothe

:40:44. > :40:51.my children, get them to university and school,

:40:52. > :40:53.pay for after-school activities. At some point it was clear that

:40:54. > :41:03.you were not going to be As soon as it stopped, I knew it

:41:04. > :41:11.would be a tough month ahead. I had to take out a payday loan,

:41:12. > :41:16.that was the only way I assumed it was a slight error

:41:17. > :41:22.and it would be sorted out quickly and back paid,

:41:23. > :41:24.so I could pay it off. Little did I know what

:41:25. > :41:29.was waiting for me. The fight with Concentrix

:41:30. > :41:36.in September, it was so difficult, trying to get information,

:41:37. > :41:38.trying to get my child My friends and family

:41:39. > :41:54.were bringing me food parcels. Lending me money so I could

:41:55. > :41:57.drive my car to work. At one point I did not have enough

:41:58. > :42:00.petrol in the car to get me It was day-to-day stress,

:42:01. > :42:06.it was really tough. You won in the end,

:42:07. > :42:08.Concentrix made a mistake, so the judgment they had

:42:09. > :42:13.made was overturned. Your tax credits were

:42:14. > :42:16.going to be restored. When they restored it,

:42:17. > :42:22.instead of giving me a lump sum in back pay,

:42:23. > :42:26.they said they would spread it over the rest of the tax year,

:42:27. > :42:30.which meant my weekly tax credit went up, which impacted on other

:42:31. > :42:38.benefits, like housing benefit, because now I cannot claim housing

:42:39. > :42:41.benefit, because they have You have continued

:42:42. > :42:49.to decline in debt? Yes, it took me a long time

:42:50. > :42:52.after my divorce to get myself back on track,

:42:53. > :42:55.get myself back into the black, and I have been doing really

:42:56. > :42:58.well for five years, and within a month they have

:42:59. > :43:02.wiped me and sent me back to five years ago,

:43:03. > :43:04.where I am stressing about paying debts and having

:43:05. > :43:07.to call debt companies, because they are chasing me

:43:08. > :43:09.for missed direct debits. What would help you is HMRC

:43:10. > :43:18.saying, "We will give Yes, because that does

:43:19. > :43:24.not impact on the wider It would mean you can pay

:43:25. > :43:30.off some of your debts. What did you think about the way

:43:31. > :43:34.you have been treated? It is appalling, I made a complaint

:43:35. > :43:39.to HMRC after the fiasco. The response I got, really, was,

:43:40. > :43:42."You got the money back, They were not happy to look

:43:43. > :43:49.at the additional payments They said to give me a lump sum

:43:50. > :43:56.I had to provide details and copies of all of my bills for absolutely

:43:57. > :44:01.everything, my Sky TV, council tax, any debts I was paying out,

:44:02. > :44:07.I had to copy it and send it in. After having to do that under my

:44:08. > :44:11.expense with Concentrix I was not It was easier for me to just walk

:44:12. > :44:18.away and continue battling on to get Let me bring in Tasmina

:44:19. > :44:22.Ahmed-Sheikh, SNP MP, who has many constituents

:44:23. > :44:27.affected by Concentrix. They did the right thing,

:44:28. > :44:30.they restored her tax credits, but the way they are paying her back

:44:31. > :44:33.is, as we have heard, leaving her in a right old mess,

:44:34. > :44:38.and it is really stressful. Her story demonstrates

:44:39. > :44:40.the ramifications of institutional incompetence and neglect

:44:41. > :44:48.at the heart of the whole contract. HMRC, the Government,

:44:49. > :44:50.over-anticipated the amount of fraud They thought they would

:44:51. > :44:56.save ?1 billion of money, they adjusted the figures

:44:57. > :44:58.to 400 million, gave a contract to a company who were not able

:44:59. > :45:01.to deal with the number What does that mean

:45:02. > :45:08.for people on the ground? They have been unable to get

:45:09. > :45:10.back to the position This is a perfect example of how

:45:11. > :45:16.she found her feet, doing well, but if you are getting money back

:45:17. > :45:19.in piecemeal amounts and that is having other

:45:20. > :45:25.effects, that is not fair. These are victims of a contract that

:45:26. > :45:28.has not worked for them, they are entitled to seek

:45:29. > :45:32.compensation from the Government. Not only should lump-sum payments be

:45:33. > :45:35.paid back, but I have written to the Prime Minister and I have

:45:36. > :45:38.said there must be proper compensation paid to the victims

:45:39. > :45:41.of this scandal, and it needs Once again we asked HMRC and

:45:42. > :45:57.Concentrix to come on the programme. HMRC told us, "It's absolutely

:45:58. > :46:04.committed to paying tax credit claimants all the money

:46:05. > :46:06.they're entitled to. HMRC terminated the contract

:46:07. > :46:09.with Concentrix when it became clear it was not delivering the quality

:46:10. > :46:11.of service we expect A Concentrix spokesman told

:46:12. > :46:19.us its work for HMRC was, "A hugely complex contract

:46:20. > :46:21.and programme, and a number of issues emerged at

:46:22. > :46:25.the outset which resulted in the challenges

:46:26. > :46:26.experienced throughout". One day perhaps either Concentrix

:46:27. > :46:31.or HMRC will actually speak to us. Let's bring you more on that

:46:32. > :46:34.breaking news that former Labour Foreign Secretary,

:46:35. > :46:36.Jack Straw, faces being sued over allegations of abduction

:46:37. > :46:38.and torture brought by a former Abdul Hakim Belhaj alleges MI6,

:46:39. > :46:45.which Mr Straw was responsible for, helped the US kidnap him in Asia

:46:46. > :46:48.in 2004 to return him The Supreme Court backed

:46:49. > :46:56.a Court of Appeal ruling Jack Straw rejects claims that he

:46:57. > :47:07.had been aware of the rendition. We can speak now to Conservative MP,

:47:08. > :47:16.Andrew Mitchell, former Your reaction? It is right that the

:47:17. > :47:18.law should take its course and I understand why the courts have

:47:19. > :47:23.reached this decision, but I think it is equally important to make very

:47:24. > :47:27.clear that Jack Straw, though he is a different party to me, is a deeply

:47:28. > :47:32.honourable man who served his country incredibly well in a number

:47:33. > :47:37.of senior offices and I don't think we should question his integrity on

:47:38. > :47:43.this, but the law is the law and the court decision stands. He says he

:47:44. > :47:48.acted with integrity at all times, was never complicit in any rendition

:47:49. > :47:53.involving other States. It is feasible though, being responsible

:47:54. > :47:55.for MI6, MI6 could tip-off the Americans, who end up kidnapping

:47:56. > :48:00.somebody perhaps they shouldn't have done. Jack Straw may not have known

:48:01. > :48:05.about it? This is a murky story. It doesn't reflect terribly well, but I

:48:06. > :48:09.think it is important to remember in my opinion, that Jack Straw is a

:48:10. > :48:12.deeply honourable man and he would not knowingly have done anything

:48:13. > :48:16.wrong, but you are right, it is a murky and difficult story which does

:48:17. > :48:19.not reflect well on those who were involved.

:48:20. > :48:22.We're going to talk to Reprieve a Human Rights organisation who are

:48:23. > :48:27.outside the Supreme Court any moment now. We are sorting out the

:48:28. > :48:32.technicals. We want to talk to you about Yemen. You have just visited

:48:33. > :48:35.there. Today, the UN is warning that 10,000 people could have died there

:48:36. > :48:43.in the war, millions more are starving. Tell our audience what you

:48:44. > :48:46.saw with your own eyes? Well, I visited Yemen with the United

:48:47. > :48:51.Nations and with Oxfam and I was able to travel north to an area

:48:52. > :48:56.which has been most bombed in the war. What I saw was a deep

:48:57. > :49:01.humanitarian crisis on the ground. As you said, 10,000 people have been

:49:02. > :49:05.killed, but 86% of a population of 27 million are now in need of

:49:06. > :49:11.support. And the problem for Britain is this - we are on the one hand

:49:12. > :49:15.supporting humanitarian objectives, profoundly, I think, people would be

:49:16. > :49:19.very proud of what Britain is doing to help desperate people. We're

:49:20. > :49:23.trying hard to get food and medicines in through the port...

:49:24. > :49:28.We're showing our audience pictures of some of those desperate people

:49:29. > :49:33.right now? 90% of the food that comes into Yemen is imported and 80%

:49:34. > :49:37.comes through the port and Britain has been trying very hard to get

:49:38. > :49:41.food in, but we're part of a coalition, or supporting a coalition

:49:42. > :49:46.which is bombing that port and which has disabled the five cranes which

:49:47. > :49:50.are required to unload shipping. Who is in the coalition with Britain?

:49:51. > :49:56.The Saudi coalition, many of the Gulf States, America and Britain and

:49:57. > :50:00.there is a very strong feeling in Yemen, a country which Britain has

:50:01. > :50:04.contacts and links down the ages of horror at what Britain is doing,

:50:05. > :50:09.supporting this coalition. And I think we need to use our good

:50:10. > :50:12.offices and from the leadership who I met when I was there, they would

:50:13. > :50:17.still today be willing for Britain to use its good offices to try and

:50:18. > :50:21.ensure that there is a ceasefire to which they would strongly contribute

:50:22. > :50:25.and then that there are negotiations between Yemen and Saudi and then

:50:26. > :50:29.subsequently when the ceasefire is embedded negotiations between the

:50:30. > :50:31.different Yemeni parties... Are you saying Britain should pull out of

:50:32. > :50:35.that coalition then that's bombing the port where most of the food

:50:36. > :50:39.comes through or should be more critical or... What I'm saying is

:50:40. > :50:43.that, sawed crisis is a very important ally of this country, but

:50:44. > :50:47.I think we need to try and ensure that there is now a ceasefire and

:50:48. > :50:51.use our good offices and our deep connections in this part of the

:50:52. > :50:56.world to procure a ceasefire, negotiations between Yemen and Saudi

:50:57. > :50:59.and subsequently Yemeni, the Yemeni negotiations and Britain is in

:51:00. > :51:03.unique position because of our links and the respect with which we have

:51:04. > :51:09.been held in that part of the world to have a very strong impact. The

:51:10. > :51:14.coalition that we are supporting has virtually no support at all in

:51:15. > :51:17.Yemen. The president... So we're supporting it because we're friends

:51:18. > :51:21.with Saudi, is that the main reason? That's part of the reason and a

:51:22. > :51:24.major part of the reason, but the president who we are supporting

:51:25. > :51:27.cannot visit his own country. He is the only president in the world I

:51:28. > :51:31.have come across who has to make an official visit to his country, he

:51:32. > :51:38.lives either in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia or on a military boat

:51:39. > :51:43.lent to him off the coast of Aidan, we are, they are not going to win

:51:44. > :51:47.and the position on the ground is such that Britain now urgently in my

:51:48. > :51:53.view needs to ensure that there is a ceasefire and that we are part of

:51:54. > :51:59.the negotiations. The remarkable thing is that the Huthis will accept

:52:00. > :52:02.British and UN mediation for that today and we should take advantage

:52:03. > :52:05.of the deep links we have in that part of the world and do that. So

:52:06. > :52:10.the British Government is part of a coalition that is leading to the

:52:11. > :52:15.starvation of millions of people? These people are not starving. 27

:52:16. > :52:22.million people, they are being starved... By us, partly? Salt of

:52:23. > :52:30.the blockade by air, sea and land of this country and we are in danger of

:52:31. > :52:33.being complicit in the destruction of a sovereign state and of the

:52:34. > :52:36.starvation of a large number of people. The Foreign Secretary is

:52:37. > :52:41.really busy with Brexit at the moment. Is there, you know, is

:52:42. > :52:46.there, there is, there doesn't seem to be any room for anything else

:52:47. > :52:49.apart for Brexit with the British Government? Well, I spoke to the

:52:50. > :52:55.Foreign Secretary when I returned who was extremely interested in what

:52:56. > :53:01.I had discovered. I am seeing his most senior officials this week. So

:53:02. > :53:05.actually, the Foreign Secretary does have the band width and is engaged

:53:06. > :53:08.in trying to assist in this matter and I hope the full power of the

:53:09. > :53:13.British Government and the Foreign Office will be brought to bear on

:53:14. > :53:17.refocussing a policy that is not serving us or the yemanies well or

:53:18. > :53:21.indeed the Saudis. We have pictures of you in Yemen which you will be

:53:22. > :53:31.able to see. If you wouldn't mind talking over them so our audience

:53:32. > :53:39.can see what you saw effectively. Well, this is the destruction of the

:53:40. > :53:43.centre of the administrative centre. This is the local Government team

:53:44. > :53:47.there with the governor. This is a hospital from which sadly Medecins

:53:48. > :53:51.Sans Frontieres had to pull out. That was a nutritional ward there

:53:52. > :53:56.and the doctor said, "Do you realise that your taxpayers are funding the

:53:57. > :54:01.work that we are doing here with desperate parents and their

:54:02. > :54:05.malnourished children?" Is a camp which is being supported by Oxfam

:54:06. > :54:09.who were doing brilliant work there. 5,000 people who Oxfam had got clean

:54:10. > :54:14.water and sanitation for and also they had provided clean water and

:54:15. > :54:21.sanitation in the nearby city. So, British NGOs on the ground doing

:54:22. > :54:23.brilliant work, but one half of a policy that urgently needs

:54:24. > :54:27.correcting. Thank you very much for your time. Andrew Mitchell

:54:28. > :54:31.Conservative MP, and former international development secretary.

:54:32. > :54:34.This morning one of Britain's most prolific organ donors has told us

:54:35. > :54:37.that she donates because she thinks it's a "nice thing to do".

:54:38. > :54:40.Tracey Jolliffe is 50 and has donated a kidney,

:54:41. > :54:44.16 eggs and 80 pints of blood to people she's never met.

:54:45. > :54:47.She intends to leave her brain to science and is now hoping to give

:54:48. > :54:50.away part of her liver to a person she may never meet.

:54:51. > :54:53.She told us that she first considered donation after changes

:54:54. > :54:56.in the law made it possible to give organs to people you don't know.

:54:57. > :55:01.I thought about it for a while before I approached the local

:55:02. > :55:06.transplant co-ordinator and chatted to her at length before I started

:55:07. > :55:12.under going the tests. Right. OK. And the test involved what? Quite a

:55:13. > :55:17.lot of blood tests. You have to have an MRI, a CT scan, a lot of kidney

:55:18. > :55:20.function tests and you also to go and see a psychiatrist as well to

:55:21. > :55:24.make sure you're donating for the right reasons. And your reasons were

:55:25. > :55:29.what? I just thought it was a nice thing to do. Just as simple as that?

:55:30. > :55:32.Yeah. It don't know anyone who has kidney failure so I can't say it is

:55:33. > :55:37.a personal story. I know there are people waiting for transplants. 300

:55:38. > :55:44.people a year die waiting for a kidney transplant and I could do

:55:45. > :55:49.something to save one of them. Breaking news. It is to do with the

:55:50. > :55:57.investigation into the disappearance of the chef from York, Claudia

:55:58. > :55:59.Lawrence. The three year review of the investigation into the

:56:00. > :56:04.disappearance and suspected murder of Claudia Lawrence has moved to a

:56:05. > :56:09.reactive phase which will review any new and compelling information that

:56:10. > :56:13.comes to light. This is due to the proactive review and in some areas a

:56:14. > :56:19.reinvestigation being all, but complete. Unless one outstanding

:56:20. > :56:23.line of inquiry relating to DNA profiling estimated to take a

:56:24. > :56:26.further six weeks to finalise, provides a breakthrough, the review

:56:27. > :56:31.which cost ?1 million will start to scale down next month.

:56:32. > :56:37.Let's talk now to Clare Bolitho, a recovering alcoholic,

:56:38. > :56:40.20 years after her last drink she decided to mark the occasion

:56:41. > :56:43.She donated her kidney to a total stranger.

:56:44. > :56:46.Joining us from Lincolnshire is the woman whose life was saved

:56:47. > :56:49.by that very kidney, Marion Pattinson.

:56:50. > :57:00.Marion, tell us what the donation of Clare's kidney meant to you? The

:57:01. > :57:06.kidney made me feel so much better. You know, it's really, really great

:57:07. > :57:13.that there is such people out there that will donate their organs. My

:57:14. > :57:21.health has improved so much and you know, I can't say thank you enough

:57:22. > :57:28.for Clare, you know, she thought of donating her organ to somebody.

:57:29. > :57:32.Clare, I can see the huge smile on your face, your motivation? I really

:57:33. > :57:37.thought, why on earth not? I wanted to do something to mark my, the end

:57:38. > :57:40.of my drinking as you said and I just heard about it by chance and

:57:41. > :57:46.thought this is the perfect answer. I have had the good fortune to have

:57:47. > :57:51.good health. And why shouldn't I try and pass some of that on to someone

:57:52. > :57:56.who hasn't? Now you meet every year on the anniversary, is this correct?

:57:57. > :57:59.Yes, indeed. We met the first time quite a long time after I donated

:58:00. > :58:03.the kidney because it took a while for us to get into contact because

:58:04. > :58:08.you're not told who you're going to give the organ to, but I got a

:58:09. > :58:12.lovely card and letter from Marion and an unexpected phone call and we

:58:13. > :58:16.met and it was wonderful. Thank you so much both of you. I'm sorry, it

:58:17. > :58:17.was so brief, but we loved having you on the programme. Thank you very

:58:18. > :58:23.much Marion and thank you, Clare. That I will faithfully execute

:58:24. > :58:39.the Office...