07/02/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

This morning, the village in Hungary which appears to be trying

to create a white utopia, and wants British

TRANSLATION: Real refugees live in a multicultural society, where Muslim

immigrants have become the majority. We'll bring you that

exclusive report shortly. Also on the programme,

measures to tackle the high cost of renting are being announced

by the Government today. It's being seen as an attempt

to accept that for some people owning their own home

will never happen. I've never owned my own home. I am a

regulated tenant, I can stay in my home for life and I pay a fair

event. I rent and I have resigned myself to the fact that I will have

the rent for the rest of my life. If you rent, have you given up hope

of ever buying your own property? What would you like to see

the Government announce today? After those humiliating emails

which showed he was cross about not getting a knighthood,

it's emerged that a hacker demanded money in return

for not publishing them. Here he is talking about his

charity work in the past. Every time that you see different

devastations around the world in different situations, you always

feel you can do more, or you want to do more.

Throughout the morning we'll bring you the latest breaking news

A little later we'll bring you the story of a flight attendant

who rescued a young girl from human traffickers after leaving

a secret note for her in the loo of the plane.

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The Government is setting out its strategy for fixing what it

says is a "broken housing market in England" and hitting its target

of building a million new homes by the year 2020.

Plans will include more help for first-time buyers,

and measures to make rental agreements more secure.

Britain's house-building programme has been

Today, the Government says it is time to change.

It wants councils to put pressure on developers to speed up,

but also says it wants to protect greenbelt land wherever possible.

Prices are too high, we are not building enough homes,

and this white paper is a radical blueprint to change

The Government says it wants more prebuilt houses to help

But for some, like Jennifer Tristram, the only choice is to rent

When I was looking, I remember there wasn't that much option out

there for what I wanted and what I could afford.

I think anybody who is in that same situation will probably be

feeling that struggle, probably even more so than I did

The Government says smaller builders should get help to boost the housing

stock, and it's encouraging older people to downsize, so long

Labour says the housing strategy is in a mess and today's white paper

With us now is our political guru Norman Smith.

What difference will be plants make? It depends whether the plans,

reality, because we have had so many different Government plans on

housing, and it has not cracked the basic goblin. To get more houses

built. One thing today, the Government are again saying, hands

off the green belt, so many developers will say, the difficulty

is we cannot access sufficient land to build the vast number of houses

that are meant. But one interesting aspect of the plans is we are seeing

a definite week away from the idea that everybody should own a home, to

maybe just settling for renting a home. That is a recognition that

house prices have gone crazy, they are not affordable for many people,

and they are not going to be able to own a home. That is different from

the Thatcher years, even the David Cameron years, where there was an

instinctive aspiration, that people wanted to own a home. Now the

Government are trying to encourage developers to build more flats to

rent to encourage longer tenancies and to shift the market more in

favour of renting, in the hope that might enable more people to get a

decent roof over their head. We know that renting is a huge

issue, finding an affordable, decent place is massive, so do get in

touch. We will talk about the plans just after 9:30am.

Joanna Gosling is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The Commons Speaker John Bercow has been strongly criticised

after telling MPs that President Trump should not be

allowed to address Parliament when he visits the UK.

Mr Bercow was cheered by opposition MPs when he told the Commons that

addressing Parliament was "not an automatic right",

but an "earned honour" for foreign leaders.

One Tory MP described his intervention as

It's an honour that's bestowed on Popes and Presidents.

A speech to both Houses of Parliament in the splendour

of Westminster Hall was part of the itinerary when these

But the same invite may not be coming Mr Trump's way.

In an astonishing intervention, the Commons Speaker said recent

decisions by the President made him uneasy about issuing an invitation.

I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism

and to sexism and our support for equality before the law

and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations

Rare applause from SNP and Labour MPs, who have been highly critical

That anger brought anti-Trump demonstrations

to the Prime Minister's door after she invited him on a state

For us to roll out the red carpet at Buckingham Palace or inviting him

to speak at a grand occasion of both Houses sends out all

That's why Mr Speaker Bercow has called it right today.

The Speaker of the Commons is a powerful figure who has a say

He is independent of party politics and is supposed

It's clear that some are unhappy with his outburst.

Generally, the Speaker who is meant to referee all of this should

That is to be regretted, but it is a symptom of

It's very disappointing, because if ever in recent years

there been a more pro-British President of the United States,

I invite you, Mr President, to address us.

And Tory MPs are pointing out that he has in the past welcomed

leaders to Parliament whose values Britain doesn't always share.

A village in Hungary has banned the wearing of Muslim dress

The mayor of Asotthalom claims to be leading what he calls "the war

against Muslim culture", and he hopes to attract

other Christian Europeans who object to multiculturalism

Some lawyers have said the laws contravene the Hungarian

constitution and the government there is due to rule on them

Amnesty International has accused the Syrian government

The human-rights group claims that as many as 13,000 people

Amnesty says the alleged executions were authorised at the highest

The government has previously denied killing or mistreating detainees

Doctors' leaders say it's "crazy" that the UK's standard ten-minute

slot for GP consultations is among the shortest in Europe.

They say plans to move more care out of hospitals will leave even

The Department of Health says it's up to practices to decide how long

The Great Homer Street doctors surgery in Everton in Liverpool

This is an area with high deprivation and patients

13 minutes is sometimes enough and sometimes it's not.

I would normally finish my surgery late anyway.

That's why we have recently increased to 13 minutes

On the whole, patients aren't too happy to wait.

They're OK, they know they get the time that they need.

But complex problems can't be done in 13 minutes.

Occasionally, consultations will last up to 40 minutes.

The average length of a GP consultation in the UK is ten

minutes, thought to be the shortest in the developed world.

92% of appointments here are less than 15 minutes.

With short appointment slots, time wasting is also an issue.

A poll for the BBC found that 70% of people in the UK believed

it was acceptable to charge patients who missed appointments.

The Governments of England, Scotland and Wales say the length

of consultations are down to GPs but have pledged extra funding

Northern Ireland have yet to respond but GPs say funding

A PR company representing David Beckham has confirmed

it was subject to a blackmail attempt by hackers threatening

The Daily Mirror says the private messages in which the former player

allegedly complains about not being awarded a knighthood

were published after the firm refused to hand over

A spokesman for David Beckham says that the e-mails were tampered

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Thank you for your comment about renting. Daniel says, get councils

to build more housing. Marianne says, first-time buyers are now well

into their 30s and 40s because the market has been overpriced. Paul

says, builders pay lip service to affordable housing. There is a

shift, experts say, in the Government's tone when it comes to

fixing the supposedly broken housing system. They will concentrate on the

rental sector. We have people here who have horrific stories of

renting, but also the fact that at least one of them is in a secure

tenancy with fair event, so it can be done.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

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There only seems to be one name in the hat to replace Alastair Cook,

Joe Root. Yes, nothing official, but that is who we expect. Alastair Cook

stepping down. Joe Root is 26. When you look at his ability, one of the

best players in the team. You would like to think you have a captain

that gets in the team, they have the respect of his team-mates, and there

are no other alternatives to consider. England have a break

before their next bit of action. They have the Test match here was

against South Africa, then they have the West Indies, before going to

Australia for the Ashes. A bit of time to get it in place, but

Alastair Cook stepping down, and Andries Strauss, the director of

cricket, says it is not a foregone conclusion.

There is a process to go through. Joe Root has been vice captain for a

while, he has had some leadership experience. He is a phenomenal

cricketer and a very influential person in the dressing room. There

is no reason why he would not be a strong candidate, but I do not want

to rule anyone in or out. Not a foregone conclusion, but that

is what we expect. You look at Alastair Cook, it was not a question

of his batting ability. He was in charge for a record 59 matches, the

highest run Stora in Test match cricket, 140 Test match appearances,

30 centuries. The question was about his aggression on the pitch and his

on field decisions and his ability to change a game. That is something

they hope Joe Root will add to. But when you look at the captains and

when they step down, they all look dishevelled, going back to Michael

Vaughan, Andrew Strauss, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, you are

quite drained, as Andrew Strauss said about Alastair Cook yesterday.

A lot of scrutiny. And, Will, having missed Rio 2016,

Russian athletes will now not be allowed to compete under their flag

at the World Athletics Championships But, Will, is there a chance that

some of those athletes This is an extended ban for Russia's

athletes, from missing the Olympics. If the athletes can prove that they

have gone through all of the portfolios and they are clean, they

will be able to compete as a neutral athlete at the World Athletics

Championships in London in August. So far 35 Russians have applied to

compete as neutrals. The IAAF have set up an independent task force.

Russia still are not ready to go through the protocol, it has been

recommended. Lord Coe says there are concerns about the doping

procedures. We are not going to change the

culture of something that has been prominent for 40 or 50 years. And

not just simply in Russia. We want to see some sign that there is a

cultural shift. We are not going to resubmit the newly constricted

Russian Federation and yet. The clear implication is they would

appear if they do as neutral athlete.

No Russian athletes competing under the flag of Russia in London.

Cheers, Will. Thank you very much for now.

I'll talk to you later. This morning, the village in Hungary

that wants only white Asotthalom is hoping to persuade

Christian Europeans, including Brits, to move there,

with the mayor telling us, "We primarily welcome people

who wouldn't like to live The mayor's banned Islamic dress

and gay kissing in public. This programme can reveal that

a secretive organisation linked to the former British National Party

leader Nick Griffin is helping to promote the village in the UK

to Christians who want to escape Islam and multi-culturalism

in the west. Our reporter Lesley Ashmall has been

to visit Asotthalom. TRANSLATION: Real refugees

are people in Western Europe who live in a multicultural society

where, for instance, Muslim Hungary is already seen by more

and more West Europeans as a place of refuge,

a place to get away from the hell that is about to break

loose in Western Europe. Asotthalom, a remote village

in the southern Hungarian plains. Abandoned smallholdings testimony

to an increasingly urbanised world. The village is two hours

from Budapest, but just minutes The mayor here wants to attract

new investors to bolster TRANSLATION: I think these empty

houses need inhabitants. We are very

happy when Hungarian families move into them, but we are also happy

if Western Europeans settle here. I think security may be the most

important attraction for them, as Asotthalom is one of the safest

places to live in Europe. Local estate agents are hoping

foreigners take heed. TRANSLATION: Nine

to ?10,000, in total. This village doesn't

want just anyone, TRANSLATION: We primarily welcome

people from western Europe, people who wouldn't like to live

in a multicultural society. We wouldn't like to attract Muslim

people in the village, even though we already have a few

Muslim residents in Asotthalom. But it's very important for the

village to maintain its traditions. If large numbers of Muslims arrived

here, they would not be able to integrate into the Christian

community in Asotthalom. We can see large Muslim communities

in western Europe that have not been able to integrate

and we don't want to have The bylaws you have

got in the village, Western Christians would feel

uncomfortable with them. Why do you feel those

bylaws are so important? Simply because we're

defending our own traditions. What if I was black,

or what if I was gay? Asotthalom has a by-law that

bans sexual propaganda. As for your other question,

think about this - Europe is small, it can't take in billions of people

from Africa and South Asia This would soon lead

to the disappearance of Europe. I'd like Europe to belong

to Europeans, Asia to belong to Asians and Africa to Africans,

simple as that. He's so serious he's introduced

local legislation banning public displays of affection by gay people,

the wearing of Islamic dress like the hijab, and he wants to ban

the building of mosques. And his views are being pushed

by a British organisation called You can clearly see

from the imagery, they are really harking back to the Crusades,

when the official Knights Templar, an offshoot of the Catholic Church,

fought Muslim armies This organisation has no official

links to the Catholic Church. But they claim they are a Christian

and non-racist group will stop however, their anti-Muslim

and anti-gay views are clear. The former leader of

the British National Party, Nick Griffin, is a member,

as is the former BNP treasurer, This website is

advertising smallholdings Hungary is already seen by more

and more West Europeans as a place of refuge,

a place to get away from the hell that's about to break

loose in Western Europe. At the moment, Hungary is seen

by the nationalists, by the patriots, by people who agree

with the fence, those people are looking at Hungary thinking,

"thank God for Hungary, thank God that there

is someone standing up." And when it all goes

terribly wrong in the West, Now those are the kind

of people Hungary needs. We're pretty confident

this is the building where Knights Templar International

are registered in Budapest. Certainly pictures on their blogs,

websites, correspond We got into the building,

but couldn't find anyone We asked them for an interview,

they haven't responded. TRANSLATION: We don't

have an official relationship, I've been contacted

by Jim Dawson and he came to Asotthalom a few times

as a private individual just I heard it from journalists,

the possibility to move to Asotthalom has been advertised

abroad, I haven't seen Still, I must say, we're

very happy to welcome The refugee crisis has

contributed to the anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping

Europe, like the rise of the French Front Nationale

and the Dutch It's just a few miles

from the village, and it is where, at the height

of the migrant crisis in 2015, as many as

10,000 people a day Opposition politicians think

the mayor capitalised on the anxiety about the influx of people

to introduce bylaws of questionable TRANSLATION: It's possible that

with this by-law, the mayor has looked ahead, even though the danger

of Muslims wanting to build a mosque does not exist at the moment, he's

already preparing for the future. It was really scary to see masses

of migrants walking through the I spend a lot of time at home

alone with my young kids. Many lawyers think that the mayor's

by-laws contravened the Hungarian Constitution and as part

of a general review of new local legislation, the government

will rule on them next week. One of them agreed to speak with us,

but at the last minute pulled out. They didn't want to attract

attention to themselves. They've spoken of their fears

to Hungarian media TRANSLATION: The Muslim family that

lives here are fully integrated Their young son plays football,

I taught him to swim. TRANSLATION: There are gay people

living in the village, they're How they live their lives

at home is none of our We are all humans, we live

together, that's it. Important issues like this

should be regulated by the national government,

not local legislation. TRANSLATION: There is

a problem with Muslims and If they take off their veil,

I'll accept them, it doesn't even matter if they're black,

they should become Hungarian citizens, even if they are

Muslims or whatever. The mayor of Asotthalom

wants his village to be the vanguard in what he calls the war

against Muslim culture. He has employed round-the-clock

border patrols which he thinks will appeal

to European settlers. We couldn't find anyone who has

come to the village as a result of Knights

Templar International. Jonathan came here from England over

four years ago and is worried. I had a Christian upbringing

myself, some of the ideas that he is saying, personally,

I would not class them And the idea that one

group of people is better than the other,

I disagree with that. I know there's a lot of fear

perpetrated about the migrants coming over, and causing

a lot of property damage and stealing things,

but personally, I've got little What you think about

Nick Griffin, former BNP leader in the UK, also pushing

homesteads in this village? Well, I have recently read

some of Nick Griffin's previous comments about him

moving to Eastern Europe. And setting up an enclave

or a refugee centre for people Having lived in areas

of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire where the BNP

were quite prevalent, I would quite strongly be against

that happening here. Most villages dismissed the idea

of British extremists coming But one man is not laughing,

he is deadly serious. So serious that he answered

our last question Are you trying to create a white

supremacist village? No, I don't use this

word, white, because we are white European

Christian population. If we were black, we would

want to stay black. And if you want to read

more about Asotthalom, you can find it on the BBC

News site. The Government admits

the housing market is broken Well we'll be joined by this group

of people who all rent, some are desperate to get

on the housing ladder and can't, a landlord and a Conservative MP

who's been campaigning against building houses

on green belt land. Neil says, "I have been stuck in the

rental sector for ten years. Unable to get a mortgage because housing in

my area would require me to have a wage four times higher than I

currently air. My rent is over three-quarters of my take-home pay."

A PR company representing David Beckham confirmed it was subject to

a blackmail attempt by hackers threatening to leak Beckham's

personal e-mails. How damaging has this story been for brand Beckham?

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

The Government is setting out its strategy for fixing what it

says is a "broken housing market in England" and hitting its target

of building a million new homes by the year 2020.

Plans will include more help for first-time buyers,

and measures to make rental agreements more secure.

The Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has been

strongly criticised for speaking out against President Trump

addressing MPs and Lords at the Houses of Parliament.

Mr Bercow, whose position as Speaker is supposed to be

politically neutral, has been accused of overstepping

One Tory MP described Mr Bercow's intervention

This programme has found that a village in Hungary has banned

the wearing of Muslim dress and the call to prayer.

The mayor of Asotthalom claims to be leading what he calls "the war

against Muslim culture", and he hopes to attract

other Christian Europeans who object to multiculturalism

Some lawyers have said the laws contravene the Hungarian

constitution, and the government there is due to rule on them

Amnesty International has accused the Syrian government

The human-rights group claims that as many as 13,000 people

Amnesty says the alleged executions were authorised at the highest

The government has previously denied killing or mistreating detainees

Doctors' leaders say it's "crazy" that the UK's standard ten-minute

slot for GP consultations is among the shortest in Europe.

They say plans to move more care out of hospitals will leave even

The Department of Health says it's up to practices to decide how

A PR company representing David Beckham has confirmed

it was subject to a blackmail attempt by hackers threatening

The Daily Mirror says the private messages in which the former player

allegedly complains about not being awarded a knighthood

were published after the firm refused to hand over

A spokesman for David Beckham says that the emails were tampered

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Thank you for your message on the piece on the village in Hungary.

This person says, this is something of interest to the white

working-class majority. This tweet says, let them go, at least we will

not have their poisonous attitudes here. One person says, shopping, the

idea that white Christians guarantee you a better life is ridiculous. One

person says, it is refreshing. Democracy seems to be dead in Europe

these days, we are told what to think and slated when our views do

not match those of the vociferous liberals. Why do them views not

attract the respect they deserve? And one more, Tracey says, so they

want to expel and reject the downtrodden and the suffering, it is

not sound very Christian to me. England are searching for a new Test

captain this morning, after Alastair Cook stepped down

as skipper after 59 Yorkshire coach Andrew Gale says

Root would "take more risks" if he replaces him

as England captain. Cook was in charge for

a record 59 matches. He is England's highest run

scorer in Test cricket, while his 140 Test appearances

and 30 centuries are Russian athletes won't

compete at this year's They've been serving a suspension

after state-sponsored doping was uncovered,

and athletics' world governing body the IAAF has voted

to continue that ban. But some Russian athletes could

compete as neutrals. Rafa Nadal will warm up

for Wimbledon by playing The 14-time grand-slam champion

joins Andy Murray at the event. The housing system is "broken",

even the Government says so. They're going to try

and do something about it. Plans include forcing councils

to produce an up-to-date plan for housing demand,

reducing the time allowed between planning permission

and the start of building from three to two years, a "lifetime

Isa" to help first-time But what is also expected

is a "change of tone" from previous Tory policy,

with a focus on people who are renting their homes

and perhaps an acceptance that some people will never be able

to afford to buy a house. Expected to include minimum tenancy

lengths to try to offer renters more security and a drive to build more

homes specifically for rent. With us this morning,

a group of people who all rent, some who're desperate to get

on the property market and can't. Also with them, Conservative MP

Andrew Mitchell, who's been campaigning against building houses

on greenbelt land, and David Smith from the Residential

Landlord Association, which represents landlords

in England and Wales. Let's have a giant conversation. If

the housing market is broken, you need more than another target for

building new homes and a minimum length of tenancy. There is a lot to

be welcomed in this white paper today. We have not seen it yet, but

it has been extensively leaked. What it is trying to do is enable

everyone to have a home. It is changing it in the way to describe,

it is not just about home ownership, it is about rental and about making

sure there are far more homes built in the future. As a constituency MP

are understand that, because I talk to sixth formers, those who cannot

get on the ladder, those who cannot rent, those who want a home and

cannot get it. This White Paper will enable all of those different

sections to have a better chance in the future than they have had in the

past. The point is you have to build these homes in the right places. Not

on green belt land, you say. In my constituency, Royal Sutton

Coldfield, we faced with a jump of 6000 on our green belt when there

are plenty of other alternatives. The Conservative councillors in

Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield have demonstrated how you can build the

same number of homes without doing so on the green belt. But across

England you cannot build 250,000 homes a year, the Government's new

target, unless you use green belt land as well. I don't agree. You

have to be more imaginative, you have to build communities, not just

housing, you have to focus on the contaminating old industrial land,

building on Brownfield land, more creative schemes in the cities. You

only build on the green belt is a last resort, and if it is a last

resort, it should be built on. The point I make on behalf of those who

I represent, who are opposed to this, and who are keen to build more

homes, is you do not have to do it on the green belt until all other

opportunities are exhausted. This White Paper was a clear opportunity

for Government to come up with a coherent strategy for building the

300,000 homes we need in this country every year to both me to

comment household formation and deal with a backlog. What they have

published is a rehashing and recycling of things that have been

announced already, they have failed to build on the green belt, and you

are in Lala land if you think you can build the homes we need if we do

not build on green belt. They have failed to reform stamp duty for

first-time buyers. All we have is weak aspirations on rent a security.

In the specific case of Sutton Coldfield, you are not correct. We

have shown where these homes could be built without desecrating our

green belt. We are enthusiastic about building more homes, but they

have to be in the right place. Not in your backyard! We have shown we

are willing to build in the town, to increase density. We want our

children and run children to live in the same sort of homes and

opportunities that our generation had, but it has to be in the right

place. You are demeaning the White Paper before you have even seen it.

I am critical of one respect but I accept that ministers are addressing

the problem, and you should not the minute interview have heard what the

Secretary of State has had to say. You say trying to find a decent

place to rent is like being on the X factor. I went to look for a room

recently, I was evicted on Christmas Eve,... Why? I was evicted by a

Conservative councillor, I will not name him, a former mayor of Barnet,

he had a building of 16 people come up with one shower, multiple

occupation, he was found not to have a licence, he bought the building

for ?1.3 million and was fined less than ?5,000. I do not know the

story, he is not here to defend himself, but you say you bought

evicted. How come you have moved seven times in ten years? We need a

mandatory register for landlords, we have too many landlords who can

decide that they just want to increase the rent. It is a problem

of NIMBY -ism that if we don't build more homes everywhere, especially in

central London, there is a supply and demand issue, and landlords can

charge what they want. It is unfortunate Andrew what the person

who describe somebody as a Brexit, we cannot have homes in Royal Sutton

Coldfield, but we can wed there are Labour voters. That is a political

attack. You are a politician. This White Paper is trying to address the

problem which deface, which is you do not have somewhere to live. The

Government wants to build more affordable homes for renting. That

was announced in the Autumn Statement. That is not new. But as

an ambition and as a target, you would welcome that? Absolutely, but

they announced that in the Autumn Statement, I wanted to see something

new. My question to Andrew is, if you build more homes, how does that

help me as somebody who is locked into renting? I have no other

option. Can I rent a new newly built home?

We have to wait until we see the White Paper, but the problem that

you have identified, consistently, ministers have said they want to

address this, they want to make sure that if you are in the rented

sector, there are more opportunities, more places to rent,

more houses are built for rent, and people are encouraged to rent and to

make property available for rent. The problem which you have

identified is exactly the issue that ministers are trying to address. The

Government's problem is partly the same thing that you have complained

about, the Government is wedded to institutional investment. That has

been talked about for 20 years, I am waiting. The majority of landlords

are relatively small. The problem with the green belt is institutional

investors want to build there, because they want to build big

developments. If the Government paid more attention to the landlords who

provide the majority of housing, wrecking sure there is enforcement

against the bad landlords, the ability to develop the small areas

that Andrew would like to see is much more likely to happen. Tell us

about your arrangement, it sounds like good practice. I am a regulated

tenant, I can stay there for life and I have a fair event. The dark

side is there is a lot of harassment. Long-term destruction of

iLife, because if you get rid of a regulated tenant, you make a lot of

money I being able to resell it. But the formula, having tenancy for life

and paying a fair rent, isn't it that works perfectly well in

Germany, and the companies make a solid profit, and this is something

we should consider injured using here. Good profit for the landlord,

security and peace of mind, safety in your home for the tenant. What is

your experience? I am lucky, because my landlord is brilliant, we have a

great communication, if we need anything he will come in and fix it.

But I lived in a house before where we had horror stories, I had a

landlady who said she was spying on us, she increased the rent by ?400.

We hear... Lots of my friends have horror stories. If you can make rent

where you take out the tremulous feeling, because that is the thing I

find, as somebody who has rented for seven years, I want to feel... I

have resigned myself to the fact that, unless my situation changes, I

will have the rent for the rest of my life. Who else feels that? How

old are you? I and 68, I will be in rented accommodation for the rest of

my life, because there are no options open to me. I cannot buy a

house, get a mortgage, nobody will give me a mortgage at my age. I have

got to rent. You feel the same? I am 55, I owned a property with my first

husband many years ago. Since divorce I have been in the private

rental sector. For the last 20 years. It is difficult and unstable.

Very expensive. I have three children, the oldest is now 31, Mike

youngest is 19, so now I have no dependents technically, that I have,

because my daughter needs somewhere to come home to in the university

holidays, my second husband died suddenly at the end of 2014, so we

are in a position now where we would have been homeless were it not for

loans and the kindness of family and friends. We would have been

homeless. My single income does not meet any of the affordability

criteria for a house in south-east London. Would you all welcome

minimum tenancies? Some security. On behalf of landlords, what sort of

minimum length would be acceptable? It is not about setting a minimum

length, different people have different needs. The White Paper is

proposing an incentive for minimum length for institutional landlords,

it is not proposing minimum length across-the-board. The difficulty

with minimum lengths, if you have one with, say, rent caps, as soon as

the link is up, the rent will shoot up. That is a danger. You can cap it

at the rate of inflation. With such a housing if you decades ago, we

would have been in social housing, but the Government are intent on

selling the social housing, which inflates the rental market. But

social housing rent is rising faster than social housing -- private

housing rent. This is one of the problems, it depends who's

statistics you want to grab. The NAO statistics show social housing rents

are rising faster than earnings. They are considerably lower. They

are supported by the Government and by institutions which have been

encouraged to sell those properties. You invited me on to talk about why

building on the green belt, I'm not here to defend this White Paper.

Which I haven't even seen. Your Government is working hand-in-hand

on Brexit with Donald Trump. I'm here to explain why building on the

green belt is not necessarily the right solution. But actually if you

asked me to make the point that a Government minister would make,

almost all the problems which are absolutely legitimate and important

problems to address are what the Government is seeking to address in

this White Paper. I'm not here to defend it because I have criticisms

of it, but the points made by the ladies and gentlemen here are

absolutely valid points which ministers are trying to address and

they're trying to deal with in this White Paper. You mentioned one thing

which is constructive. We have moved from Mrs Thatcher there is so

society. But what happens is building communities, you need

security of tenure and then you have the landlords moving in and smashing

private tenant after tenant with rent increases with harassment.

These are the bad landlords. There are some good ones as well and they

are smaubing entire communities and making people move out. Making

people homeless. How can we have what the Government points out

building communities when you have a landlord system that smashes those

very communities? Well, the gentleman over there who was...

David Smith. He pointed to something in the White Paper which shows that

ministers are trying to increase that level of security. Now, we may

not get it right, but let's give the Government and the minister the

benefit of the doubt today as he announces his White Paper and then

see if we can build on sort of progress which you suggested might

be in the White Paper. Tell us about your own personal

circumstances? I campaign with Priced Out. Can I ask you about your

own experience of renting. I had to move six times in the last two

years. Because you have been forced to? A couple of bad landlords, a

couple of personal things. I don't know how people with

responsibilities do it. It is unstable enough for me being in a

broken private rented sector where I can be evicted for any reason or no

reason at all with no months notice. If I had a family or something to

keep me in one place, it would be a nightmare. Steve says, "The housing

shortage is caused by letting too many people in this country." Andrew

Mitchell, does Steve have a point? No one knows what the immigration

totals will be in the future and they are a key factor in trying to

plan the number of houses in Birmingham, there is an allocation

of a figure for inward immigration which every time we ask about it

increases or deceases by a multiple of 6,000 houses threatened on my

constituency. So, with Brexit I think these levels are even more

uncertain and for those people who are making long-term plans, they

need to build that in to the plans that they are making.

Barbara says, "I am 64 years old and I want to move from my current two

bed home on the second floor with no lift to a single bed home, but I'm

priced out of the rental market. I've worked all my life and I feel

really frustrated. I started my married life in a rented room and I

lost my home after I got divorced." Deborah says, "Renting is a

nightmare after five years I have been given two months notice to

leave because the owner wants to sell. This is my home! " It's a

home. It's not just a house. Landlords are buying and selling

homes as though they were commodities just like they would buy

and sell shares or bags of coffee. A home is a very important part of

people's lives. It is your space. It's your safety net. You can't just

trade in homes... You can David, can't you, as a landlord? It is a

fair point. But the Government is pressing landlords to sell because

it has increased taxes on landlords and they can no longer claim

mortgage interest relief. I speak to many landlords who will be selling

their properties. There is one problem with that, people say that

will allow first-time buyers to buy those houses, I don't think that's

likely, but one person leaves to let one person in. A tenant will be

evicted so the first time buyer will buy the house. There is no sensible

thought in that policy. And my concern about some of this, I hope

the White Paper starts to deal with it this, we need a coherent housing

strategy, not a home ownership strategy, a proper coherent strategy

and we have been begging for one for nearly ten years and I hope this is

it. I can hear the frustration in your voice, David. I'm as frustrated

as everybody else. It is to did with houses being homes and when you have

a family, being forced to move maybe through an academic year or in the

middle of an academic year, struggling to stay in the same

location so your children can continue going to the same school,

even though they don't have security in terms of the home in which they

live, you want them to maintain friendship groups because we know

that children who are parts of families who are struggling do less

well in education. So it is a very important thing that parents and

therefore their children feel secure which they really don't at the

moment. I also moved 11 times in 15 years with three children. Wow. We

always managed to remain in the same area, but again, we needed help and

support that we wouldn't have had if we were forced to move elsewhere.

Can I thank you all for coming on the programme and talking about your

experience. Thank you, Andrew Mitchellment don't look cross at me!

Was I looking cross? Yes. You said about the importance of a key herant

White Paper. Would it be all right to ask you about Speaker Bercow's

comments? I wondered as you're here? He is entitled to make them. 'S very

good modern Speaker, but although what he said is contentious, that's

his view. Is he not supposed to be politically neutral? I don't think

it is a party political issue, so I don't think it is. He's not

commenting on a party political issue. He is giving his view about

when President Trump comes to this country and whether he should come

to Parliament or not and as Speaker, he is entitled to express his view.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Coming up, our exclusive report about a village in Hungary which has

banned the wearing of Muslim dress and the call to prayer

and public displays of affection by gay couples.

It only wants European Christians to move there.

Heather says, "The last time I looked, Christianity

was all about reaching out to those who need help.

This is blatant fear-fuelled racism."

Brian says, "Well done this mayor in Hungary.

Everyone in the West should follow his example,

better still don't let them into the West to start with."

As many as 13,000 people have been executed in secret

at a prison in Syria, according to Amnesty International.

Most of them were opposed to the leader of the country,

We can speak now to Karen Allen from Amnesty International.

Thank you for coming on the programme and how you know what you

know about this prison? It is a huge prison in sir yard and -- Syria and

we have under taken research, interviewing 84 people. Now many of

those have come out of this area. Others have been guards and worked

within the prison and what we have pieced together through all of those

interviews is a consistent story that once, sometimes twice a week on

a Monday and a Wednesday, 50 men are taken from one part of the prison to

another where they are hanged. And that has happened from the beginning

of 2011 through to the end of 2015. We don't have information beyond

2015 because the people that we interviewed and the dates which they

left the prison, but it is an absolutely horrific story and we

estimate 13,000 people will have lost their lives in that way.

13,000? A former judge who saw the hangings told you they kept them

hanging there for ten to 15 minutes. Some didn't die because they are

light for. For the young ones their weight wouldn't kill them. The

officer's assistants would pull them down and break their next. A former

military officer who was also detained at the prison, "If you put

your ears on the floor, you could hear the sound of a kind of

gurgling. This would last for around ten minutes. We were sleeping on top

of the sound of people choking to death. This was normal for me then."

One more there, is a former detainee describing alleged abuse, "The

beating was so intense it was as if you had a nail and you were trying

again and again to beat it into a rock. It was impossible, but they

just kept going. I was wishing they would cut off my legs instead of

beating them anymore." Why were these people tortured and

killed in this way, do you believe? I interviewed Hamid who gave those

shockings accounts of being able to hear the executions take place. The

people in the prison are overwhelmingly people who have been

on demonstrations, students, journalists, doctors, lawyers,

anybody who has shown any decent or whom the regime think may show

decent and that was Hamid's case. He was a military man. He was suspected

that he might show decent at some point and he was arrested and spent

sometime in that prison. So these are anybody who shows any means of

challenging the Assad Government. Are you saying that President Assad

would know this was going on in this jail? We are totally sure that at

the very high level of his Government at the level of the

Defence Minister, or the head of the Army, that this is known about. We

know the names of the people on the execution panels on some of the

execution panels, we have given that information to the appropriate UN

bodies. Right, but that doesn't mean that Assad knew? I think Assad must

know. I think at the highest levels of his Government and if he doesn't

know then that is dereliction as well. You know, he can't say, "I

just don't know what's going on at this level of abuse." As you've said

in some of those comments, it is the executions and that's something that

we at Amnesty have exposed, but it is also, there is a policy of

extermination going on here. The stories that I heard again and again

of relentless torture every day, day in and day out, of hardly any food

or any water, no access to medicines, just sheer awful way to

treat people and the numbers of people who die in and the way in

which bodies are disposed of, we heard that again and again. I'm

going to show our audience this picture. It is of a 21-year-old

former Syrian detainee. He lives in Stockholm. If you have a look at

this, the picture on the left is of Omar taken in January this year in

Sweden and obviously the picture on the right is of Omar in July 2015 in

Turkey, just a month after he got out of the prisoner Damascus.

Clearly, you can see how skelettal he is on the picture on the right.

What can you tell us about him? Well, I didn't meet him. I saw the

photographs of people from before and when they came out of prison and

the conditions and you know, in many cases, the mental conditions too.

The devastation that that experience, sometimes going on for

years, had had on people. It is a massive prison. It's 20,000. People

are packed into rooms. Absolutely packed. They're not allowed to

speak. They're not allowed to cry out whilst being tortured or the

torture intensifies. There is a real brutality that's quite spine

chilling and it is continuing now. I'm sure that those executions are

continuing as we speak. So what should happen to President Assad or

whoever? Well, what should happen is the UN and Russia in particular

should stop blocking progress at the UN. This ought to be, you know,

absolutely at the top of the conversations that are taking place

about the future of Syria. You know, it cannot be ignored, those

executions are taking place I am convinced now still and it is

something that there should be much more public outrage about, much more

pressure on Assad and certainly our document August's of the abuses that

are taking place is thorough. It is absolutely accurate and it will be

given to the authorities who I hope can bring Assad to account sooner

rather than later. Thank you very much for talking to us. Thank you.

Thank you. The latest news and sport is coming

up. Before that, the weather. Thanks, Victoria. Some of us have

been seeing snow. We've got pictures of the snow. Snow is falling in

Inverclyde. The weather is across Scotland and Eastern England. Move

away from that and we're into brighter skies and sunshine, but

also quite a lot of showers and some of those showers will be heavy and

thundery with hail, some sleet possible on the moors and they will

be slow moving so you could get a dullge as they fall. So into the

afternoon that's the sip air yo across south-west England and South

Wales. Here, they will be slow moving and here some of them will be

heavy, but in between, we will see brightness or indeed sunshine.

Across the central swathe of the UK, again there will be sunshine around.

A few showers, but across East Anglia across Eastern England we

hang on to dank conditions and a lot of cloud. Some showers in Northern

Ireland. Across Scotland in the Grampians and the Highlands and some

parts we are looking at snow and sleet across parts of Central

Lowlands and into the southern uplands. So it will feel cold fur'ks

posed to this. Overnight, we have a weather front in the west producing

a lot of cloud and rain, still strong winds particularly across the

Northern Isles, but for Western Scotland and Northern Ireland, it

will be cold. Widespread frost here and the risk of ice. For England and

Wales, with more cloud around, it looks like the frost issue will be

fairly patchy. Tomorrow we start off with weather front in the east.

Instead of continuing to journey east, it will try and come west

again, blocked by that area of high pressure. What's going to happen is

that is going to allow cold air to push across our shores in the

ensuing days into the weekend as represented here by the blue

colours. Tomorrow we have the weather front

across eastern areas, producing cloud. Someone to a flurry is

possible across parts of England, snow across the Pennines and the

Grampians. Toward the West, brighter skies. The temperatures are starting

to go down in eastern areas. You notice it more as we head into

Thursday, where we have a weather front pushing towards the West.

Cloud associated with it, more snow across the Pennines and the

Grampians. The brighter skies in the West.

An exclusive report by this programme takes a look

inside the Hungarian village that is trying to create a white

utopia, and wants British people to move there.

TRANSLATION: We primarily welcome people from Western Europe who do

not want to live in a multicultural society. We would not want to

attract Muslim people, even though we have a few Muslim residents.

We hear how it is being advertised in the UK as a place to escape

multiculturalism. Also on the programme, England's

housing market is "broken". That's according to ministers

who are launching new plans today Here's what one long-term

renter said about what We need a register for the

landlords, they decide they just want to up the rent. It is a problem

with a type of NIMBY years, if we don't build new homes everywhere,

there is a supply and abound issue. We'll also be talking

about whether the announcement will make a difference

to leaseholders, and an expert and leaseholder will be

sharing their thoughts on the plans. And Conservative MPs criticise

the Speaker John Bercow for saying in Parliament that Donald Trump

would not get his permission to speak to MPs in Westminster Hall

during a state visit. Here's the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. The Government is setting

out its strategy for fixing what it says is a "broken" housing market

in England, and hitting its target of building a million

new homes by the year 2020. Plans will include more help

for first-time buyers, and measures to make rental

agreements more secure. The Speaker of the House

of Commons John Bercow has been strongly criticised for speaking out

against President Trump addressing MPs and Lords

at the Houses of Parliament. Mr Bercow, whose position

as Speaker is supposed to be politically neutral,

has been accused of overstepping One Tory MP described

Mr Bercow's intervention This programme has found that

a village in Hungary has banned the wearing of Muslim dress

and the call to The mayor of Asotthalom claims to be leading

what he calls "the war against Muslim culture",

and he hopes to attract other Christian Europeans who object

to multiculturalism Some lawyers have said the laws

contravene the Hungarian constitution and the government

there is due to rule on them Doctors' leaders say it's "crazy"

that the UK's standard ten-minute slot for GP consultations is among

the shortest in Europe. They say plans to move more care out

of hospitals will leave even The Department of Health says it's

up to practices to decide how Mark Norman is at a surgery

in Whitstable in Kent. How does it work their? With stubble

is interesting, it has no District General Hospital, the nearest

accident and emergency is 20 miles away, and it has all of the problems

everyone does, a huge financial black hole, a growing population,

and accident and emergency apartments that are struggling to

cope, and bed occupancy way above the safe level of 96%. For GPs it is

about how you manage patients better locally and keep them out of the

hospitals. If I show you this board, it gives an idea of what they do.

This is just a GP practice. They have a my jet -- minor injuries

clinic, you see a list of the services. I have been here since

8am, they have been ridiculously busy, people coming in with and

without appointments. This is the minor injuries clinic. We have the

x-ray suite, the upside for GPs who operate here is that if they have a

patient with a chest infection, they are not sure if it is something more

serious, bring them here, have a look and see whether they need to

have a consultation at the hospital. It is a much better patient

experience and leads to better outcomes. Jeremy Hunt was here a few

weeks ago, Simon Stephens, the boss of the NHS, is coming in the next

few weeks. But this costs money and represents a huge investment. Will

the NHS be prepared to spend it? It looks impressive.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at 10:30am.

Thank you if you have got in touch about renting. This is from a

landlord in the Midlands, I am finding these attacks very hard to

take, I only rent had good quality properties, my houses are fully

refurbished. Rent is not set by landlords, it is the market that

sets the price. If a landlord increases the price too much, they

will not be able to let it. You would expect it to be a product of

the purchase price, but it is not the case. In some cases the return

on capital is as low as 1%, but in other areas it is 20%. Vanessa said,

I rented three houses over five years with my three young children,

the most stressful period of my life, you never knew how long it

would be before you next had to move, as only -- each property only

has a six-month rental agreement. It would cost me money every time I

moved, you do not complain because you are afraid of your tenancy not

being renewed. Two of the houses were rented out and then the owners

decided to sell. There are not enough good quality homes are

available to rent where I live. Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning. If you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate. Here's some sport

now with Will Perry. Joe Root would be a "very different

leader" who's willing to take a lot That's the view of Yorkshire

coach Andrew Gale. The ECB are considering a successor

to Cook, who stepped down yesterday. Gale's told the BBC that Root

is ready and the time is right In Joe Root you will have a

different leader. He is willing to try things, he is a lot more risky

than Alastair Cook. The games that he has captained in Yorkshire, he

was not worried about taking risks. He will be a different leader. But

when he steps up, he is ready. The time is right for him.

Andries Strauss has denied he is the only candidate.

Joe Root has been vice captain for a while, he has had some

He is a phenomenal cricketer and a very influential person

There is no reason why he would not be a strong candidate,

but I do not want to rule anyone in or out.

Russia will miss the World Championships after the athletics

governing body voted to extend their suspension for state-sponsored

doping. But some Russians may be up to compete under a neutral banner if

they can satisfy testing criteria with Wada. They were suspended in

2015, so athletes missed the Olympics last year.

We are not going to change the culture of something that has

been prominent for 40 or 50 years, and not just simply in Russia.

We want to see some sign that there is a cultural shift.

We are not going to resubmit the newly-constructed

The clear implication is they would appear, if they do,

Sir Ben Ainslie... Battle to win the America's Cup has begun with the

unveiling of his new boat. They are aiming to bring the trophy back to

Britain after 166 years. It was launched in the nude, it was called

Rita, the name carried by all of his previous boat. Qualifying for the

race begins in May. And, Rafa Nadal will warm up

for Wimbledon by playing The 14-time grand-slam champion

joins Andy Murray at the event. Nadal had to pull out of the grass

event last year due to a wrist injury but won the title back

in 2008, before going on to dethrone We will have the headlines at

10:30am. This programme can reveal that

a village in Hungary which has introduced a bylaw aimed at making

it difficult for Muslims and gay people to live

there is being advertised in the UK as a place to move to in order to

escape multiculturalism and Islam. The group advertising it

here is called Knights Templar International,

which has links to former British National Party

leader Nick Griffin. Our reporter Lesley Ashmall has been

to meet the mayor of Asotthalom. Asotthalom, a village on the

southern Hungarian plains, just minutes from the Serbian border,

where in 2015, 10,000 migrants a day The village population

is declining, and The Mayor here wants

to attract foreign investors, but not

just any foreigner. TRANSLATION: We promote

the welcome people from western Europe, people who wouldn't like to

live in a multicultural society. We wouldn't like to attract Muslim

people in the village. What if I was black,

or if I was gay? TRANSLATION: Asotthalom

has a bylaw that bans As for your other question,

think about this: Europe It can't take in billions of people

from Africa and South Asia, where there's

a population boom. This would soon lead

to the disappearance of Europe. I'd like Europe to

belong to Europeans and Asia to belong to Asians, and Africa

to Africans, simple as that. He's so serious, he's introduced

local legislation banning public displays of affection by gay people,

the wearing of Islamic dress like the hijab, and he wants to ban

the building of mosques. And his views are being

pushed by a British organisation called

Knights Templar International. The former British National Party

leader Nick Griffin is a member, and the group is

advertising smallholdings for sale Hungary is already seen,

by more and more West Europeans, as a place of refuge,

a place to get away from the help that is about to break

loose in western Europe. One of them agree to speak to us,

but at the last minute They didn't want to attract

attention to themselves. They've spoken of their fears

to media in the past, but other villagers reject

the laws are a huge concern. However, they are the talk

of the village pub. TRANSLATION: Important issues

like this should be regulated by the national government,

not local legislation. TRANSLATION: If they take

off their veil, I'll accept them. It doesn't even matter

if they are black. They should become Hungarian

citizens, even if they are Are you trying to

create a kind of white I don't use this word white,

but we are a white, European, Christian population,

and we want to stay this, like this, We asked Nick Griffin to talk to us

this morning, but he said no. Hungarian journalist

Gergely Miklos Nagy was the first There was a widow in which the Mayor

of Asotthalom recommend the... His village to the Western European

citizens who want to leave the collapsed Western Europe and wants

to settle down in a traditionally That was made by the Knights Templar

International. The majority of the residents of Asotthalom do not

support it. It is just my feeling. We can now talk to Emanuel Coman,

a professor at Trinity College Dublin who specialises

in the European far right, and Iman Atta from Tell Mama,

an organisation that supports Well, one, it is concerning to see

that this is happening. Two, that they're actually by-passing laws

locally and as the citizens mentioned they wanted something to

happen on a national level, but to come with a statement to have a

Christian White City and a Christian white Europe is quite concerning.

You have Christian blacks. You have so many communities that are

Christian as well as you had a Europe which is multi-cultural which

is actually strong and in its diversity and multi-culturalism, but

not allowing... They're not interested. They want to live with

people like them? That corrodes community cohesion. They think

multi-culturalism corrodes? The UK has some example of

multi-culturalism where it works. It is the best model to look at and

what is happening here with multi-culturalism. We are talking

about banning the gay community and banning this and banning that. Not

banning the gay community because they live there, banning public

display of affection? You're being homophobic and that's promoting

hatred. That's hatred towards the gay community. Let me bring in the

professor. Good morning to you. Tell us about the rise of the far-right

across Europe and what you think of this as part of its, I don't know,

strategy? It's really hard to tell. What is quite obvious is that

Hungary is perceived and the Hungarian Government primarily is

perceived as very friendly to the anti-refugee sentiment. Eastern

Europeans in general, the governments in Eastern Europe have

raised their voices against the EU decision to relocate refugees, but

the Prime Minister has been very, very vociferous in this respect. I

really couldn't tell whether this is a general phenomenon. It is really

odd that such a village in Hungary is trying to attract people under

the idea that what really connects all this right-wing extremists is

just hatred towards Muslims. They are quite a varied group and as

somebody who lived in the United Kingdom for fours years as a

Romanian, who lived in the United Kingdom for four years, I can tell

you that people like Nick Griffin are not very fond of my people

either and by my people I mean Eastern Europeans. So too to

actually live under the impression that this Christian white society

can have everything in common and no contradictions, it's quite naive.

Budapest attracts, has attracted, is attracting a number of far-right

politicians besides Nick Griffin, and James Dowson and the Swedish

far-right leader has moved there. Is that because of the mood music from

the Prime Minister? It is not necessarily that they believe they

can legally do certain things because the things that the mayor is

trying to implement cannot be legal under the Hungarian law. It is just

that they're probably hoping that nobody is going to pursue the

legality of their actions. Yes. There is a little bit of I had

possibling crassy on part of the leaders because they're not fond of

the very institution that allows them to live and settle in Hungary

which is the European Union. Nobody asks themselves what is going to

happen when Britain is going to leave the euro. How are these guys

going to be able to live in Budapest and form the white Christian

communities that they want to do in Hungary? Thank you very much

professor from Trinity College, Dublin. Thank you.

If you want to read more about Asotthalom, you can find it on the

BBC News website. The Government is

said to be shocked. Some conservative MPs

are very, very angry. We don't know what Donald Trump

thinks because he hasn't tweeted on the subject of addressing

parliament during his state visit to Britain but we do know

that the Speaker John Bercow has caused quite a fuss by saying very

openly and very assertively that the president would not

get his permission to speak to MPs We value our relationship with the

United States. If a state visit takes place that is way beyond and

above the pay grade of the Speaker. However, as far as this place is

concerned, I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to

sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent

judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of

Commons. APPLAUSE

Our political guru Norman Smith has more.

How much trouble is he in? MPs will raise with Mr Bercow when he is in

the chair in the Commons down there, his comments yesterday and many,

many, Tories are furious because they say it is not his job to make

such sort of overt political comments. More than that, he has

scuppered Mrs May's attempts to forge closer ties with President

Trump and they say look, it is the Speaker's job to reflect in an

impartial manner and in a non partisan manner the wishes of

Parliament. Not to go off on his own and start attacking Donald Trump for

race ym and sexism. So I think we will see quite a bit of criticism.

What's not clear to me though, is whether there is anything that can

actually be done about it because I mean, you know, hypothetically MPs

could put down a motion of no confidence in the Speaker. Now,

that's, you know, extremely unlikely. Its almost unprecedented,

but short of that, there is not much that can be done to unpick Mr

Bercow's decision which basically blocks Donald Trump from addressing

Parliament. One Tory MP was suggesting that Mr Bercow should

think about his position. In many ways he has been a great

Speaker for back benchesers like myself because he has given us the

opportunity to ask urgent questions and gave us enough time for

statements. He has been a great Speaker. I just think becoming the

story, using the great institution of the Speaker's, you know, office

to make such a political stand is unwise unfortunately. I don't feel

comfortable with it. Meanwhile, Downing Street are just

trying to stay out of this, but you know they will be grinding their

teeth in fury because after all that painstaking work, all that hand

holding with Donald Trump now, the Speaker has delivered what bluntly

amounts to a fairly public rebuke, even diplomatic snub to President

Trump and so ministers, you know, while understandably furious, in

public have been adopting a more cautious response. Listen to the

Cabinet Minister. Well, anyone who knows the Speaker

knows he will speak his mind. Whoever is the president of the

United States is someone that we want it get on with it and wet want

to work hard with and inviting them to the UK is a sensible thing to do.

REPORTER: Are you happy to see John Bercow in the chair in the Commons?

I'm happy with whoever is in the chair in the Commons.

I think what we saw from Speaker Bercow yesterday was all part and

parcel of what has become almost central to his whole Speakership. He

sees himself as a reforming Speaker. Someone who is dragging this place

out of the 19th century. He got rid a lot of Kos sums and tried to bring

in outsiders and I mean, just before he made his comments yesterday he

was talking about ending the practise of Commons clerks having to

wear wigs in Parliament and I think when he attacked Donald Trump for

racism and sexism, in part, he took the view that those sort of

attitudes were totally counter to the sort of image of Parliament

which he wants to convey. So in a way, it fitted into his whole sort

of reform agenda of trying to drag Parliament into the modern world.

Cheers, Norman. Alistair Carmicheal

is a Liberal Democrat MP who thinks Mr Bercow was entitled to say

what he did-and James Duddridge a Conservative MP thinks this

was not a row he should have jumped I am losing confidence in him. It

was inappropriate for him to take a highly political and partisan view.

It is for the House of Commons to make decisions on policy and he

endangers his own ability to from the chair approach jaout date on a

non partisan basis. I think this perhaps is one step too far for this

modernising Speaker. Mr Carmichael, you're smiling in disagreement?

Well, indeed. Look, I understand that yesterday was quite a moment.

We've not really seen anything like this in the past, but we live in

extraordinary times and I think you have to keep it in a little bit of

context here. The context is of course, that Theresa May, spooked by

seeing Nigel Farage pictured with Donald Trump in the early days

following his election win in November, went charging across,

seven days into his office as president and offered up a state

visit. Now, there is no precedent for that and yes, you know, you have

to see the context of... He is a democratic... He is a divisive

character. He is a democratically elected president. Why shouldn't he

address people like yourselves at Westminster? He is a democratically

elected, but he has been elected on a platform which does include

elements of racism and which does pander to racist elements. We have

seen the way in which he has been an apologist to President Putin in

recent days and I think it's quite right that the Speaker of the House

of Commons should be in a position to say Theresa May may speak for the

Government, but she doesn't speak for the whole country. Alistair,

that's not what he was saying. He was purporting his views. He wasn't

say Theresa May doesn't speak for Parliament. He was saying he was

speaking for Parliament. If he stood up and said that Parliament should

make a decision, you and I should have a vote on whether we should

invite Donald Trump. I would entirely agree with you. But that's

not what he did yesterday. You and I both know that fact in you go back

to Irskine May. One is impartiality and one is authority. He has vested

in him the authority of Parliament to speak on these matters. I think

that's what he did and I think he was quite right to stand up for

Parliament and to say to Government, that look, you're not just going to

take us for granted, there is a range of views here. What you did

was premature in offering a state visit. Donald Trump can visit the

United Kingdom without it being a state visit and without all the pomp

and pageantry that goes with that. That's something that's worth

bearing in mind. Indeed, he can have a state visit without coming to

Parliament or indeed, he can come to Parliament on the invitation of an

individual MP or a group of MPs. He doesn't need permission to come into

Parliament. He needs the permission to use Westminster Hallment Speaker

Bercow didn't consult the Lord Speaker. Maybe the undemocratically

elected members of the House of Lords will end up inviting him! All

these things are possible, but you know, I think it's good that we can

have this conversation because I think up until this point, our

standing in the world stage has really been diminished by the fact

that Theresa May chose to go chasing after Donald Trump and the world can

now see by good means or ill in fact there is more than one view here in

this. Obama said we would be at the back of the queue. We were at the

front of the queue to get into the White House. And Theresa May secured

big concessions on Nato, that reassured our European partners on

the border of Russia. She couldn't get Donald Trump to talk about them.

She had to talk about them. Remember, when you're talking about

deals... Concessions are concessions. Donald Trump said ta

the deals that he's interested in are ones that are good for America.

That put America first. Is that really the sort of deal that you

want for Britain? One that puts America first? Well, there is mutual

interest in a stable Europe, there is a mutual Europe and a prosperous

Europe. We can look beyond those narrow interests. Shall I tell you

what a couple of taxpayers say. Denise said, "Mr Bercow showed no

neutrality. Considering his position requires him to be neutral and

impartial, he let down his office and he should step down. He is a

disgrace." Liz said, "The Speaker has shown his true identity." David

says, "Claerng on Brexit and John Bercow on Trump. Two voices of

reason here. There is a wide range of views, and

that is good. We live in a society where there ought to be a plurality

of views, and one thing that concerns me is that seems to be the

sense that if you do not take the same view as somebody who has a

different opinion from you, you are somehow being a traitor or betraying

or working from some unworthy motive. We should be relaxed with

the fact that there is more than one view, and that is what the world

sees as they see our democracy functioning. This has left the

Speaker diminished, I suspect if there was an open election he would

not get elected, and if a candidate stood, I suspect Alistair Carmichael

would support me. Why can't the Speaker speak their

mind's Donald Trump does. That is what Brendan says. Somebody says,

John Bercow does not speak for the whole of the UK, and the world needs

to give Donald Trump a decent chance of being president. One person says,

the Speaker is speaking his mind, like Donald Trump, what is the

problem? The average house now costs eight

times the average salary. Loads of you getting in touch. Barry

says, I do not understand white people in their 20s and 30s should

own a house -- I do not understand why. It was not until my 40s that I

even thought about buying a property. Your views are welcome, we

will talk about it again. The UK Government is in court today

over arms sales to Saudi Arabia, weapons which it's claimed

are being used in air strikes With the news, here's Joanna

in the BBC Newsroom. The Government is setting

out its strategy for fixing what it says is a "broken" housing market

in England and hitting its target of building a million

new homes by the year 2020. Plans will include more help

for first-time buyers, and measures to make rental

agreements more secure. The judge in the Rolf Harris trial

says the jury can now give a majority verdict they cannot reach a

unanimous agreement. He faces six counts of indecent assault and one

of sexual assault. The jury has been considering its verdict since last

Wednesday. This programme has found that

a village in Hungary has banned the wearing of Muslim dress

and the call to prayer. The mayor of Asotthalom claims to be

leading what he calls "the war against Muslim culture",

and he hopes to attract other Christian Europeans

who object to multiculturalism Some lawyers have said the laws

contravene the Hungarian constitution and the government

there is due to rule on them Join me for BBC

Newsroom Live at 11am. England are searching for a new Test

match captain, with Alastair Cook stepping down after 59 matches in

charge. Joe Root is the standout favourite. His coach at Yorkshire

says he would take more risks than Alastair Cook if he gets the job.

Alastair Cook hopes to still play for England, he is their highest run

scorer in Test match cricket, and his appearances and centuries are

also national records. Russian athletes will not compete at

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as neutrals. Rafa Nadal will warm up for

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champion joins Andy Murray at the event.

More sport on BBC News through the day.

Next, David Beckham and his quest for a knighthood.

And how damaging is the story, now running into a fourth

The sister company of a PR firm that represents David Beckham has

confirmed it was subject to a blackmail attempt.

A hacker is believed to have demanded money in return for not

publishing stolen emails between Beckham and PR

A spokesperson for ex-England captain Beckham, 41,

said the emails were "hacked", "doctored" and "private".

Has the story changed the way you view David Beckham in any way?

Joining us now from Sussex is Mark Llewelyn Slade,

who runs a company called Awards Intelligence,

which claims to help people win awards and nominations.

How does it start, the quest to get a knighthood? You have to be In It

To Win It, but people cannot put themselves forward, so they rely on

their friends and family and business contacts to nominate them.

Do you fill in a form? Yes, it is a fairly long and detailed form to do

well. What sort of questions you ask's you can knock out a nomination

on a wet Sunday afternoon, but is it going to cut it at the Cabinet

Office? We estimate they get 20,000 nominations every year, and between

two and 2500 are successful, so a little over 10%. It is worth taking

the trouble to do it right and properly. Often apathy sets in and

friends and family never quite get round to doing it, which is a shame.

You need evidence of what charity work? What else? The million-dollar

question is, have the nominee gone above and beyond the call of duty?

People do not usually get honours for simply doing their job. They

must have excelled at something, whether that be community and

charity work, or whether they are an eminent doctor, business leader,

lawyer or celebrity. David Beckham has already got an honour, I think

it is an OBJ, but he wants a knighthood. How do you get that? The

level of honour is driven primarily other geographical spread of the

person's influence. Somebody operating at a local level, like a

Scout leader or a women's Institute person, would be at the lower end,

perhaps ADE M or maybe an MBA. But somebody known nationally or

internationally as a leader in their field would tend to be at the mid-to

high end. It is about geographical spread at the end of the day. Do you

think his brand has been damaged in his quest for a knighthood? I think

we have to say it has been or it is likely to be damaged. I am not sure

he can weather the storm here on this one. But only time can tell. It

must be difficult for the Cabinet Office to give him a knighthood

after everything that has been supposedly done and said over the

last few days. It should be interesting.

The Government is setting out its strategy for fixing what it

says is a "broken" housing market in England and hitting its target

of building a million new homes by the year 2020.

Plans will include more help for first-time buyers,

and measures to make rental agreements more secure.

It's a shift for the Conservative Government to focus on renting and,

perhaps, an acknowledgement that with the average house costing eight

times the average salary, some of us will never be able

Let's talk now to Anne Baxendale, the head of policy at Shelter,

James Saunders from Quintain, who have today announced they're

building the UK's biggest build-to-rent project,

and Lord Kerslake, chair of the Peabody Trust,

No, he is not joining us. Tell us about your project. 5000 homes owned

at the rental market. Will anybody be able to afford them? Absolutely,

we see a wide range of people living in our rental properties, we have

some already, doctors, nurses, local people. It is not just for the

young, it is for families, for older people. Why are you doing this? You

are in it to make money. You say it is affordable? We can build faster

and we can build more homes if we have the rental model. We have built

to sell in the past, now we are building specifically for the rental

market, which we think is an important market for London. It is

part of the solution. What is in it for you? We can manage not just the

houses but the wider estate, we are building an 86 acre estate, and we

can create a great living environment for the long term, the

best place to live in London. What is in it for you? Rent, but the key

is that we have a professional rental company. We are professional

landlords. Our tenants do not pay any fees on the way in, they do not

pay in victory fees, they do not pay agencies, and they get a package,

including broadband... I feel like I am missing something. Or is this as

good as you are claiming it to be? It is an important part of the

picture in terms of providing new supply, but we need to be clear on

the scale, we have 11 million renters. We are talking about Ilda

to rent in the tens of thousands. This is helpful, and we welcome any

landlord who is interested in providing good conditions, longer

tenancies, and giving a good home to tenants. But the scale is very

small, Winnie to be realistic. What we need is change for the 11 million

tenants living in private rented homes now. That change would include

what? We want longer tenancies. Five-year tenancies for people who

are renting now, and particularly in acknowledgement of the fact that we

have many more families renting with children and many more older people,

so the old stereotype of renting from two or three decades ago, of

young students in a bedsit on their way to getting a mortgage and just

passing through, that is no longer applicable, it is a typically

different market. That is right. We are setting out to be a professional

landlord. The London market has been dominated by by to let, people who

have chosen to be landlords for a short period of time, but we are a

professional landlord, it is what you see in America and continental

Europe, the people that put the tenant and customer service first.

At the moment we see demand is typically for a year to 18 months,

but we are very open to longer tenancies. We will move with the

market, and that is an important point, this is the beginning of a

change in the marketplace. People have been talking about this in

London for a long time, but it isn't just beginning now, and we are at

the forefront of it. We expect the market to change and mature, but we

set up do that. We do not know the details of the formal policy

document, it is being announced at lunchtime. But the wording we think

so far is that there will be an incentive to landlords to offer

minimum tenancies. What might that mean? We welcome the shift in tone,

it is important that the Government is talking about renters. It is

quite a big change. That needs to be acknowledged. Incentives are

unlikely to be enough. We need much bolder action to tenants. We have

families raising children in a home where they can be evicted for no

reason on two months' notice. Even if they are not evicted, they have

to live with that uncertainty. When they have children at school nearby,

the challenge of finding a new home that will accept children that is

near the school. This is a reality for many people, and what we need is

much bolder action that applies to all tenants, and not just very slow

reform. For people who are raising children now in a private rented

home, they cannot wait ten or 20 years for the change. But we would

hope to see from the Government is something that helps those people

right now and meet the scale of the ambition that they have set out over

the past few days. Charlotte says, I have rented for five years, I have

moved six times. The link in Cambridge, it is a struggle, the

house I live in cost the same as my monthly wages. My partner and I add

30 have always had to have a housemate, and cannot even think

about a family or our future yet. Landlords can charge what they like

and there are no limits or guidance for house size, etc. Thank you.

The Government says today's announcements will also include

"a range of measures to tackle all unfair and unreasonable

We don't yet know the detail, but there are hints they will act

to tackle spiralling ground rents and freeholds being traded

Leaseholds are one of the fastest-growing types of home

ownership in England and Wales, but in many cases leaseholders

are stung for thousands of pounds in unexpected costs,

as we highlighted in an exclusive report by our reporter

Thousands of homeowners are having the ground beneath them sold off and

they may not even know about it. What do we want? Homes for Britain,

now! New homes are going up across the country. Many are leasehold, not

freehold, and the difference is crucial. The new trend is for

developers to sell freehold to investment companies. Here is what

is happening. A developer builds a house. It sells that house to this

couple. But what it sold is the least to the house, that is time in

it. A couple of years later, the developer can then sell the

freehold, the ground that it is on, to an investment company. It is a

way of making money on the same house twice. This whole business is

worth hundreds of millions of pounds every year to the developers.

I had no idea that my home was used as an trk stream for an investor.

Katie was never told her freehold would be sold off. Where did they

get the figure from? I have no idea. It doesn't seem ethically right to

me at all. I'm not a cashpoint for somebody else and I never realised

that I could be used as such. What Bellway are doing isn't illegal.