15/02/2017

:00:08. > :00:15.Hello. It's Wednesday, 15th February.

:00:16. > :00:21.South Korea says it is certain that the half-brother

:00:22. > :00:23.of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has been killed in Malaysia.

:00:24. > :00:25.Kim Jong-nam died after an apparent poison attack

:00:26. > :00:28.in the airport in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday.

:00:29. > :00:30.No motive has been confirmed and the attackers have

:00:31. > :00:36.Malaysian police say he complained of being attacked by women who

:00:37. > :00:42.covered his face with a cloth full of burning liquid. He was then taken

:00:43. > :00:43.to the clinic at the airport and then brought to hospital, but he

:00:44. > :00:50.died en route. Nineteen million people in the UK

:00:51. > :00:52.aren't earning enough money to have an adequate quality of life,

:00:53. > :00:55.according to new research. Poverty campaigners

:00:56. > :00:56.the Joseph Rowntree Foundation say that a couple with children now need

:00:57. > :01:00.to earn a minimum of ?37,800 to get by properly and if you are a single

:01:01. > :01:03.parent you need ?35,707. We will be speaking to some

:01:04. > :01:07.of those feeling the pinch. Repeated blows to the head

:01:08. > :01:10.during a footballer's professional career may be linked to long-term

:01:11. > :01:13.brain damage, according to So is it time for a change

:01:14. > :01:17.in rules - especially Hello.

:01:18. > :01:32.Welcome to the programme. Also coming up, data exclusively

:01:33. > :01:39.given to this programme shows that there has been a massive jump

:01:40. > :01:42.in the number of abortion pills being bought online in mainland UK,

:01:43. > :01:47.even though using the pills without medical approval is illegal

:01:48. > :01:50.and which you may not know, could be punished

:01:51. > :01:52.with a life sentence. We will be finding out

:01:53. > :01:57.what is driving the increase, and, of course, we want

:01:58. > :01:59.to hear your experiences. Do get in touch on all the stories

:02:00. > :02:03.we're talking about this morning. Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE

:02:04. > :02:05.and if you text, you will be charged Our top story today,

:02:06. > :02:10.South Korea has confirmed that the man killed in an apparent

:02:11. > :02:14.attack at an airport in Malaysia on Monday was the estranged

:02:15. > :02:18.half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and they believe

:02:19. > :02:21.North Korean agents poisoned him. Police in Malaysia are

:02:22. > :02:23.studying CCTV footage Images from the footage have focused

:02:24. > :02:30.on two women seen alongside him, who were later spotted leaving

:02:31. > :02:32.the scene in a taxi. Was Kim Jong-nam poisoned

:02:33. > :02:42.by assassins as he prepared to board a flight in the Malaysian

:02:43. > :02:46.capital on Monday? Confusion and mystery surround

:02:47. > :02:49.the death of the half-brother Now South Korean officials say

:02:50. > :03:01.they believe he was murdered. TRANSLATION: The Government is

:03:02. > :03:04.certainly judging that the murdered person is Kim Jong-nam. Since this

:03:05. > :03:07.case is still being investigated we should wait for details until the

:03:08. > :03:12.Malaysian Government makes an announcement.

:03:13. > :03:14.Just before he died, Kim Jong-nam is reported to have

:03:15. > :03:18.told medical workers he was attacked with a chemical spray.

:03:19. > :03:22.Police are studying security camera footage from the airport.

:03:23. > :03:26.He had been long estranged from his half-brother

:03:27. > :03:30.the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, falling out of favour

:03:31. > :03:33.with the secretive regime and living in exile after he was caught

:03:34. > :03:37.sneaking into Japan on a fake passport.

:03:38. > :03:42.South Korea's acting president said if North Korea was responsible it

:03:43. > :03:46.would show the brutality and inhumane nature of the regime.

:03:47. > :03:49.TRANSLATION: The government is carefully watching

:03:50. > :03:52.North Korea's movements, acknowledging the fact this

:03:53. > :04:03.A postmortem is due to be carried in Kuala Lumpur later.

:04:04. > :04:14.A woman has been detained at Kuala Lumpur Airport.

:04:15. > :04:17.Our correspondent Karishma Vaswani has the latest on this story

:04:18. > :04:18.from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

:04:19. > :04:21.I'm standing outside the morgue where the body of the man we believe

:04:22. > :04:24.to be Kim Jong-nam was brought by Malaysian police overnight.

:04:25. > :04:26.Since then, we've seen several police cars and a police van

:04:27. > :04:28.carrying away what we believe to be that body.

:04:29. > :04:36.On Monday, a North Korean national was taking off for a flight to Macau

:04:37. > :04:38.from KL Airport when Malaysian police say he complained

:04:39. > :04:41.of being attacked by women who covered his face with a cloth

:04:42. > :04:49.He was then taken to the clinic at the airport and then brought

:04:50. > :05:00.Malaysian police initially said that the man who died

:05:01. > :05:02.on Monday was Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean

:05:03. > :05:06.There's a lot of confusion and speculation as to what's

:05:07. > :05:09.actually going on in this case, but Malaysian police have said that

:05:10. > :05:11.until a complete investigation and an autopsy of what happened

:05:12. > :05:19.is confirmed, they won't be saying much else.

:05:20. > :05:22.Reeta Chakrabarti is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:05:23. > :05:26.The US media are reporting that members of President Trump's

:05:27. > :05:29.campaign team had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence

:05:30. > :05:33.officials in the year before the US presidential election.

:05:34. > :05:37.It follows the resignation of the National Security Adviser,

:05:38. > :05:40.General Mike Flynn, over allegations surrounding a phone call he had

:05:41. > :05:43.with a senior Russian diplomat before President Trump took power.

:05:44. > :05:46.General Flynn quit after it was revealed he had misled

:05:47. > :05:48.the White House over the nature of the call.

:05:49. > :05:50.It's alleged he discussed the future of US sanctions on Russia.

:05:51. > :05:52.Senior Republicans have joined calls for

:05:53. > :06:02.The number of abortion pills being bought online

:06:03. > :06:04.in Britain is on the rise, according to data shown to

:06:05. > :06:09.Government figures show 375 doses, sent to addresses in England,

:06:10. > :06:10.Wales and Scotland, were seized in 2016,

:06:11. > :06:17.Taking the pills while pregnant without medical approval

:06:18. > :06:25.We'll have more on that story at 9.45am.

:06:26. > :06:29.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:06:30. > :06:32.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:06:33. > :06:34.Researchers studied the brains of six former players who had died

:06:35. > :06:37.from dementia and then discovered that some of them had a form

:06:38. > :06:40.of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

:06:41. > :06:45.Our health reporter Smitha Mundasad has more.

:06:46. > :06:51.Jeff Astle, former England footballer who died in 2002.

:06:52. > :06:53.He had degenerative brain disease, linked to repeatedly heading

:06:54. > :06:59.His family have been campaigning for more research to find out

:07:00. > :07:05.whether lots of this can lead to long-lasting brain damage.

:07:06. > :07:09.In this latest study, scientists looked at the brains

:07:10. > :07:14.of six lifelong footballers who had developed dementia.

:07:15. > :07:18.When we examined their brains at autopsy, we saw the sorts

:07:19. > :07:21.of changes that are seen in ex-boxers, so the changes that

:07:22. > :07:23.are particularly associated with repeated head injury,

:07:24. > :07:30.which are known as CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

:07:31. > :07:39.So we have shown that head injury has occurred earlier in life,

:07:40. > :07:42.So we have shown that head injury has occurred earlier in their life,

:07:43. > :07:44.which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia.

:07:45. > :07:48.It's a small study, that can't prove a link between football

:07:49. > :07:51.and dementia and the scientists are clear their work did not analyse

:07:52. > :07:54.For the average adult footballer, who plays recreationally,

:07:55. > :08:02.experts at Alzheimer's Research UK say the risks are likely to be

:08:03. > :08:05.low and outweighed by the benefits of exercise.

:08:06. > :08:08.But the Football Association says one question that needs to be

:08:09. > :08:16.answered is whether degenerative brain diseases are more

:08:17. > :08:19.common in ex-footballers and the FA says that's research

:08:20. > :08:25.Several people are still unaccounted for after the explosion in Oxford

:08:26. > :08:27.yesterday which destroyed a three-storey block of flats.

:08:28. > :08:30.Three people were hurt in the blast, in the south west of the city.

:08:31. > :08:32.Two people were treated for minor injuries and one

:08:33. > :08:38.The cause of the explosion is still unknown.

:08:39. > :08:41.A Ukip press officer has offered her resignation after saying

:08:42. > :08:43.she was responsible for misleading personal information

:08:44. > :08:45.about the Hillsborough disaster on the website of party leader Paul

:08:46. > :08:52.Mr Nuttall admitted yesterday, in an appearance

:08:53. > :08:54.on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, that claims that he's lost

:08:55. > :08:56.a close, personal friend in the tragedy were untrue.

:08:57. > :09:00.He said he hadn't written or seen the information on his website

:09:01. > :09:08.People who have grown up in care are far more likely to die in early

:09:09. > :09:10.adulthood than those who haven't, according to figures revealed

:09:11. > :09:15.Although care leavers make up just 1% of all 19 to 21-year-olds,

:09:16. > :09:19.they accounted for 7% of deaths amongst that age group last year.

:09:20. > :09:21.It's thought poor mental health and difficulties accessing

:09:22. > :09:25.The Government says it is investing ?10 million in support

:09:26. > :09:35.A lack of sex and relationships education in some of England's

:09:36. > :09:37.secondary schools is creating a "ticking sexual health time bomb",

:09:38. > :09:41.The Local Government Association says pupils are not being prepared

:09:42. > :09:43.for adulthood and is calling for sex education to be compulsory

:09:44. > :09:51.Currently, all schools in England under local authority control have

:09:52. > :09:54.to teach the subject as part of the national curriculum,

:09:55. > :09:57.but a loophole means academies and free schools

:09:58. > :09:59.which are controlled by central government

:10:00. > :10:03.are not obliged to cover the subject.

:10:04. > :10:05.Harrison Ford has been involved in a near-miss while flying his

:10:06. > :10:13.The 74-year-old actor mistakenly landed on a taxiway

:10:14. > :10:15.where an American Airlines plane was waiting to take-off with more

:10:16. > :10:19.Peter Bowes reports from Los Angeles.

:10:20. > :10:22.It happened as Harrison Ford was coming in to land

:10:23. > :10:24.at the John Wayne Airport in Orange County.

:10:25. > :10:28.The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the pilot

:10:29. > :10:31.of a single-engine plane had been cleared to land and that he

:10:32. > :10:36.But instead of landing on the designated runway,

:10:37. > :10:42.Just before landing, Ford is reported to have asked

:10:43. > :10:43.the air traffic controllers "Was that airliner meant

:10:44. > :10:48.The Boeing 737 had 110 passengers on board, and took off safely

:10:49. > :10:56.An FAA investigation into the incident is under way.

:10:57. > :11:02.It could result in a suspension of Ford's pilot's licence.

:11:03. > :11:05.The golden couple of British cycling have announced

:11:06. > :11:11.Laura and Jason Kenny are expecting their first child

:11:12. > :11:13.as Laura revealed in an Instagram post yesterday.

:11:14. > :11:16.The couple are said to be thrilled and delighted and have thanked

:11:17. > :11:18.the public for the kind messages and support they've

:11:19. > :11:24.A group of kayakers in the Firth of Forth got more than he bargained

:11:25. > :11:27.for yesterday when a passing seal decided to hitch a ride.

:11:28. > :11:29.The cheeky mammal had followed the paddling group for a mile before

:11:30. > :11:38.The kayakers said it was an "amazing experience".

:11:39. > :11:40.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:11:41. > :11:48.Still to come - how much do you earn?

:11:49. > :11:50.And do you think its enough to get by on?

:11:51. > :11:52.According to poverty campaigners the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

:11:53. > :11:59.at least a third of us are living with an inadequate income.

:12:00. > :12:02.We will be talking to some of those feeling the pinch and, of course,

:12:03. > :12:08.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:12:09. > :12:11.Use the hashtag VictoriaLIVE and If you text, you will be charged

:12:12. > :12:20.And Barcelona suffering a rare thrashing last night. It is not

:12:21. > :12:24.often that Barcelona get beaten. There is beaten and there is being

:12:25. > :12:28.absolutely thrashed and they lost 4-0 in the last 16 of the Champions

:12:29. > :12:30.League at Paris St Germain and they're out of the Champions League

:12:31. > :12:34.now, aren't they? This is a team that won the European Cup five

:12:35. > :12:38.times. It is not often you see them be demolished like this. Have a look

:12:39. > :12:44.at the goals. This is the first last night. This player got two on his

:12:45. > :12:53.29th birthday. The first one was a free-kick.

:12:54. > :13:00.Then a second and then a third into the top corner. It was a birthday

:13:01. > :13:09.bonanza for PSG. We talk about Lionel Messi, it was

:13:10. > :13:14.like someone tied Lionel Messi, mistakes all over the pitch. Yes,

:13:15. > :13:18.the significance of this is this a real turning point for Europe's

:13:19. > :13:22.elite as we say Barcelona winning it five times before? We see them in

:13:23. > :13:27.the semifinals and the quarterfinals and the final, but they've got a

:13:28. > :13:30.huge task on their hands. No team has overturned a four goal, first

:13:31. > :13:39.leg, deficit in the Champions League. So all to do and their

:13:40. > :13:42.manager saying a disastrous night and we were clearly inferior.

:13:43. > :13:46.Pressure Will on Arsenal tonight because they are back in Champions

:13:47. > :13:48.League action? Yes Arsenal in Champions League action and Arsene

:13:49. > :13:53.Wenger not happy to be reminded really that they've got a poor

:13:54. > :13:57.record in the knock-out stages. The last six seasons they have failed to

:13:58. > :14:09.get past the last 16. They will be sick of the sight of Bayern Munich.

:14:10. > :14:15.Bayern Munich are seven points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.

:14:16. > :14:19.Despite their poor record Arsene Wenger saying there is no reason

:14:20. > :14:26.they can't put it right. I feel we have the experience. We play against

:14:27. > :14:29.a Bayern side every year the every year the same target is to win the

:14:30. > :14:35.Champions League and when you look at their record they are always

:14:36. > :14:41.basically in the last four. So it's a massive challenge, but I think we

:14:42. > :14:49.are capable of dealing with it. All the build-up and commentary for

:14:50. > :14:53.you on 5 Live sport. A former Sunderland striker in the Premier

:14:54. > :14:57.League. He has been told he has unethical hair. I don't know what

:14:58. > :15:02.you make of that. I think it is a three. I'm not quite sure. He's one

:15:03. > :15:07.of 40 players to have been found guilty of having unethical hair by

:15:08. > :15:11.the united Arab Emirates Football Association. They told a goalkeeper

:15:12. > :15:15.four years ago to cut his hair before a game. We're trying it get

:15:16. > :15:21.clarification as to why it is unethical. He was told he has to

:15:22. > :15:25.sort his hair out! We look forward to finding out what

:15:26. > :15:30.you found out about that. Thank you, Will.

:15:31. > :15:35.19 million people aren't earning enough

:15:36. > :15:37.to have an adequate quality of life, a rise of four million

:15:38. > :15:41.According to the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,

:15:42. > :15:44.if you fall below the following levels you are not earning enough

:15:45. > :15:47.It's ?17,300 if you're single and renting

:15:48. > :15:50.If you're a couple with two children and living

:15:51. > :15:53.in social housing, you need a minimum of ?37,800 between you.

:15:54. > :15:56.Or staggeringly, if you're a single parent

:15:57. > :16:08.Let us talk now to a number of people who fall below those lines.

:16:09. > :16:10.Solomon Smith is a 31-year-old youth worker from London

:16:11. > :16:14.Alison Darby lives in London, where you need at least ?29,000

:16:15. > :16:26.She works two jobs and over 60 hours a week.

:16:27. > :16:33.Thank you for joining us. You are single with two children and I said

:16:34. > :16:38.you earned ?9,000 per year, that compares with the foundation saying

:16:39. > :16:47.that to be getting by, you should be earning 35,004 -- around ?35,500.

:16:48. > :16:53.Tell us what your lifestyle is why? It is hard. It is proper hand to

:16:54. > :16:57.mouth. Sometimes I pay my rent, my electric or my water, or sometimes,

:16:58. > :17:02.do I just get into the red? Now I'm used to seeing a lot of red letters.

:17:03. > :17:06.Tell us more about the specifics on how you get by. Obviously, they are

:17:07. > :17:10.fundamental things you are talking about not being able to afford. It

:17:11. > :17:18.is just like, you know, like today is payday and I know it is not going

:17:19. > :17:24.to be enough for my rent, the kids' school meals. It is just like,

:17:25. > :17:27.sometimes it is just heartbreaking. I also run a charity as well for the

:17:28. > :17:36.homeless. Sometimes I have two it where I work to make sure I can

:17:37. > :17:42.Super have enough food for the day. You know, it is just kind of living

:17:43. > :17:46.in 2017 and kind of experiencing what I'm experiencing is absolutely

:17:47. > :17:50.crazy. Allison, what is your situation? You are single with no

:17:51. > :17:56.children but you are working extremely hard and you are still not

:17:57. > :17:59.earning the level you need. I'm a postgraduate, I've got a degree, I

:18:00. > :18:03.went to university thinking it would help me get into a position where I

:18:04. > :18:07.could get a decent job. It was quite hard after I'd finished university

:18:08. > :18:11.because I went back quite late and I could not really find work anywhere

:18:12. > :18:14.and ended up waitressing for a while. Eventually got a reasonable

:18:15. > :18:18.job at the pay is not great. To subsidise that, I have to work on

:18:19. > :18:27.weekends at the local pub. Just to get enough money for travel and

:18:28. > :18:30.rent. What are the choices you have to make? To be honest, my rent is

:18:31. > :18:33.usually loads. My bills are included in my rent otherwise I could not

:18:34. > :18:38.guarantee the money would be there. I have to ask my parents for money.

:18:39. > :18:42.My mum is retired and my dad is working part-time. It is so hard,

:18:43. > :18:47.constantly having to worry about whether or not I can pay my rent, if

:18:48. > :18:51.I can get my travel money to work each week, and I don't even remember

:18:52. > :18:58.the last time I went away. I have no social life. My social life is the

:18:59. > :19:03.work at the pub. Has it always been like this for you? Has it got

:19:04. > :19:06.harder? It has just got harder. Like myself, I went to university,

:19:07. > :19:12.thinking that once I've finished, I would have a good job. It made it

:19:13. > :19:18.ten times worse. Then, you know, you have more bills, what is upon your

:19:19. > :19:21.head. The day I finished university, instead of celebrating, I got a

:19:22. > :19:26.letter saying I was in debt of ?40,000. I was thinking, how am I

:19:27. > :19:32.going to pay that? And you are building your debt because you are

:19:33. > :19:37.starting some month in the red. What about your debt levels? Now, seeing

:19:38. > :19:45.all the letters, easily up to ?70,000. Why do you think it has got

:19:46. > :19:52.worse, both of you? I think it is the lack of jobs. They say going to

:19:53. > :19:57.university would kind of encourage you to kind of get work but it is

:19:58. > :20:01.not like that. I think we have got to educate people that commie you

:20:02. > :20:05.know, there are thousands and thousands of people going to

:20:06. > :20:08.university, leaving university and not getting work. And ?50,000 debt

:20:09. > :20:15.which goes against you if you could try to get a mortgage. What policy

:20:16. > :20:20.decisions in the budget next month might make a difference? There

:20:21. > :20:24.should be more means testing and things. For me, I fall out of the

:20:25. > :20:31.category that would get any kind of tax credits or anything. I pay a lot

:20:32. > :20:35.of tax, because I work two jobs so 20% on one of them and whatever on

:20:36. > :20:40.the other. But I don't see any of it back. I pay for my prescriptions

:20:41. > :20:43.like everyone else, dentistry, like everyone else, travel, and it is a

:20:44. > :20:50.lot of money in London to travel to get to work. These kind of things.

:20:51. > :20:53.They just all add up. If there was a way to help someone who earns under

:20:54. > :20:59.?20,000 to lives in the city, that would be helpful to a lot of people.

:21:00. > :21:03.But we don't get that. Do you have any ideas on policy decisions? The

:21:04. > :21:08.best policy is to make the policy visible for everyone, because

:21:09. > :21:11.there's a lot of different funds that can help people. If you don't

:21:12. > :21:17.know about it, you will never know. That is one problem I have always

:21:18. > :21:23.had a problem with. I have had to do a lot of research to get a lot of

:21:24. > :21:27.help. And again, that is one of the main reasons why I set up my own

:21:28. > :21:33.charity, because there's a lot of support that people are entitled to

:21:34. > :21:36.and they just don't know. I think it is making those policies known to

:21:37. > :21:41.everyone and who is entitled to it can get it. I want to read some

:21:42. > :21:45.comments from people watching, Kelly has tweeted to say, "I'm definitely

:21:46. > :21:50.struggling financially, made redundant in 2013 and have been

:21:51. > :21:54.struggling ever since, debt is a major problem". Christopher says, "I

:21:55. > :21:58.just get ?60 per week from a cleaning job and ?20 on DLA and

:21:59. > :22:02.without my family I would not be alive". Matthew said on Facebook,

:22:03. > :22:07."Predatory globalism and capitalism is a race to the bottom of the

:22:08. > :22:12.labour cost pile". Can you see things changing? You are trying to

:22:13. > :22:18.earn what you can but are there any obvious options? Short of searching

:22:19. > :22:22.and trying to find a better job which I don't have time to do and I

:22:23. > :22:27.love my job, I don't want to leave it. I'm not even sure there's a

:22:28. > :22:33.decent salary job out there. What do you do? I will read. It's unusual,

:22:34. > :22:39.it is like a vocation for you? I like it and enjoyed it and the

:22:40. > :22:42.people I work with our great. What do you do? Everybody in the country

:22:43. > :22:44.who died, there will come through the office and we compile

:22:45. > :22:48.information, give it to charities and government and things like that,

:22:49. > :22:54.inform charities when they get money. It is satisfying work. It is

:22:55. > :22:58.great. You don't want to change but you don't earn enough? Know so I

:22:59. > :23:01.have to work on the weekends and realistically, you can't do that

:23:02. > :23:08.forever, working seven days a week. What about living in London? The

:23:09. > :23:12.living costs are more expensive, too. Can you afford to stay in

:23:13. > :23:15.London? Not really, I pay ?1000 and ensuite room every month, which

:23:16. > :23:20.includes my bills but that is a lot of money, just for a room in zone

:23:21. > :23:25.two so I still have to get the train to work every day. Short of moving

:23:26. > :23:29.further out, I was in Whitechapel and had to move to Stratford because

:23:30. > :23:32.I could not afford to live in Whitechapel any more. Realistically,

:23:33. > :23:39.I will have to move further out and pay more travel. How do you see your

:23:40. > :23:45.options? To be totally honest, I don't know, I just feel it is not

:23:46. > :23:49.going to get any better. I have to keep an struggling. Any means of me

:23:50. > :23:56.trying to get money, working extra hours, sometimes I work until 4am,

:23:57. > :24:02.just to get extra hours. And you have kids? I have two kids. It must

:24:03. > :24:09.be very hard? It is so hard. So they can't have what they need basically.

:24:10. > :24:14.Yes, it is half term now and a lot of the vision, when it is half term,

:24:15. > :24:18.it is like Butlins and things like that, it proper hurts me to know

:24:19. > :24:24.that it is half term and the kids have got to stay at home. How old

:24:25. > :24:28.are they now? Seven and two and this is their prime time when they are

:24:29. > :24:32.asking me to go here and there but I can't do it. I asked you what you

:24:33. > :24:36.both thought the government could do in policy terms to help you but

:24:37. > :24:42.obviously, you are working, you are doing everything that you can to

:24:43. > :24:48.help yourselves. What responsibility do you feel the state has two you? I

:24:49. > :24:53.would definitely say that if you can see that we are not just sitting at

:24:54. > :24:56.home, mum and dad sitting at home, we are going out there and doing

:24:57. > :25:01.something, I think we should get some kind of support to see that

:25:02. > :25:05.they are trying and it is hard. And then we can kind of try to make it a

:25:06. > :25:10.bit easier for them. But I think they need to do a bit more to kind

:25:11. > :25:18.of see that there is a lot of people in dire need and still working. And

:25:19. > :25:24.the pressures on you? Most definitely. Thank you for joining

:25:25. > :25:27.us. And telling us about your experiences, and thanks for your

:25:28. > :25:31.comments. Keep your thoughts coming in.

:25:32. > :25:38.Does a career of heading footballs lead to dementia in professional

:25:39. > :25:41.footballers? New evidence suggests there could be a link. We will speak

:25:42. > :25:44.to the daughter of the former England striker Jeff Astle who says

:25:45. > :25:50.her father 's death could have been down to his days on the pitch. Also,

:25:51. > :25:52.data given exclusively to this programme revealed that more women

:25:53. > :25:53.in the UK are buying abortion pills online.

:25:54. > :26:00.We'll be speaking to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service

:26:01. > :26:09.Also about why they say it could be dangerous.

:26:10. > :26:15.Away from the row about Donald Trump's national security adviser,

:26:16. > :26:19.the administration has had a peace deal to Israel and the Palestinians

:26:20. > :26:19.may not come in the form of a two state solution.

:26:20. > :26:22.A White House official said the peace process was a priority

:26:23. > :26:24.for President Trump - but he did not want

:26:25. > :26:28.Mr Trump will hold talks with the Israeli Prime Minister

:26:29. > :26:31.Barbara Plett-Usher takes a look at what's on the agenda.

:26:32. > :26:39.This is a moment for Israel and America to take stock of their

:26:40. > :26:42.relationship. Here are Netanyahu and Trump's four priorities. First, this

:26:43. > :26:46.is a chance to reset Israeli-American relations at the

:26:47. > :26:51.top. Obama did not get on so well with Netanyahu but now... I think

:26:52. > :26:54.he's good, I like him, he's strong. And Trump has promised to be the

:26:55. > :26:59.most pro-Israel president ever. I'm the best thing that could happen to

:27:00. > :27:03.Israel. Be bred for lots of mutual admiration. I plan to speak soon

:27:04. > :27:06.with President, but how to counter the threat of the uranium regime

:27:07. > :27:10.which calls for Israel's destruction. At the top of

:27:11. > :27:14.Netanyahu's gender is Iran. Both leaders are fierce critics of

:27:15. > :27:21.Obama's deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme. This is a bad deal. It

:27:22. > :27:24.was the worst deal I've ever seen negotiated. Netanyahu wants to scrap

:27:25. > :27:28.the agreement and Trump is more likely to enforce it vigorously and

:27:29. > :27:32.taken of harder line against Iran. And then there is the battle against

:27:33. > :27:36.so-called Islamic State. Trump has roused to crush the group in Syria.

:27:37. > :27:40.Netanyahu is all for that. But he does not want any of this to spill

:27:41. > :27:44.over Israel's shared border with Syria. And Israel may want American

:27:45. > :27:49.help to foster covert cooperation with some Arab countries on

:27:50. > :27:55.counterterrorism and also on a shared desire to counter Iran.

:27:56. > :27:58.Finally, the hot ticket question, Trump's policy for peace with the

:27:59. > :28:02.Palestinians. He wants to know Netanyahu's plan. He is still

:28:03. > :28:07.forming his own and it seems to stray from bedrock US positions.

:28:08. > :28:10.They are support for a Palestinian state and opposition to Jewish

:28:11. > :28:13.settlements built on Israeli-occupied land expected to

:28:14. > :28:17.form part of that state. Trump the candidate said Israel should keep

:28:18. > :28:21.building but Trump the president has been cautiously rowing back. We

:28:22. > :28:24.don't believe the existence of current settlement is an impediment

:28:25. > :28:27.to peace but I think the construction or expansion of

:28:28. > :28:31.existing settlements beyond the current borders is not going to be

:28:32. > :28:35.helpful moving forward. Netanyahu is also seeking a better read on

:28:36. > :28:39.Trump's future decisions. Campaign promises are one thing. Complicated

:28:40. > :28:43.realities are another, especially if the president is a businessman who

:28:44. > :28:48.harbours hopes of making the ultimate deal on Middle East peace.

:28:49. > :28:50.Here's Reeta Chakrabaty in the BBC Newsroom

:28:51. > :28:57.Malaysian authorities say they have detained a woman from Myanmar

:28:58. > :28:59.in connection with the death of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother

:29:00. > :29:10.Kim Jong-nam died after an apparent poison attack in the airport in

:29:11. > :29:13.Kuala Lumpur on Monday. South Korea says they believe he was killed by

:29:14. > :29:17.North Korean agents. North Korea have not commented on the death but

:29:18. > :29:20.officials from the country's Malaysia Dempsey have been visiting

:29:21. > :29:24.the hospital in Kuala Lumpur where Mr Kim's body has been taken.

:29:25. > :29:26.The number of abortion pills being bought online

:29:27. > :29:28.in Britain is on the rise, according to data shown to

:29:29. > :29:32.Government figures show 375 doses, sent to addresses in England,

:29:33. > :29:33.Wales and Scotland, were seized in 2016,

:29:34. > :29:39.Taking the pills while pregnant without medical approval

:29:40. > :29:49.We'll have more on that story shortly.

:29:50. > :29:55.Ukip has rejected an offer of resignation from one of its press

:29:56. > :29:56.officers whose was responsible for misleading personal information

:29:57. > :29:59.about the Hillsborough disaster contained an -- website of party

:30:00. > :30:01.leader Paul Nuttall. Mr Nuttall admitted

:30:02. > :30:02.yesterday, in an appearance on Liverpool's Radio City Talk,

:30:03. > :30:05.that claims that he's lost a close, personal friend

:30:06. > :30:07.in the tragedy were untrue. He said he hadn't written or seen

:30:08. > :30:10.the information on his website Hundreds of people in

:30:11. > :30:14.the New Zealand city of Christchurch have been evacuated as wildfires

:30:15. > :30:17.threatened houses in its suburbs. A state of emergency has been

:30:18. > :30:19.declared and the military called in to help battle the blaze

:30:20. > :30:22.in the city's southern It is thought the fire has destroyed

:30:23. > :30:26.at least seven houses and forced Several people are still unaccounted

:30:27. > :30:31.for after the explosion in Oxford yesterday which destroyed

:30:32. > :30:35.a three-storey block of flats. Three people were hurt in the blast,

:30:36. > :30:38.in the south west of the city. Two people were treated

:30:39. > :30:40.for minor injuries and one The cause of the

:30:41. > :31:03.explosion is unknown. Although care leavers make up 1% of

:31:04. > :31:06.all 19 and 21-year-olds they accounted for 7% of deaths amongst

:31:07. > :31:10.that age group last year. It is thought that poor mental health and

:31:11. > :31:15.difficulties accessing support could be to blame. The Government says it

:31:16. > :31:21.is investing ?10 million in support for those leaving care.

:31:22. > :31:26.A lack of sex and relationships education in some of England's

:31:27. > :31:29.secondary schools is creating a ticking timebomb according to local

:31:30. > :31:33.councils. The Local Government Association says that pupils are not

:31:34. > :31:39.being prepared for adulthood and it is calling for sex education to be

:31:40. > :31:42.compulsory in secondary schools. Currently all schools under local

:31:43. > :31:47.authority control have to teach the subject. But academies and free

:31:48. > :31:51.schools, which are controlled by central Government, are not obliged

:31:52. > :31:54.to cover the subject. Harrison Ford has been involved in a near miss

:31:55. > :32:02.whilst flying his plane in California. The 74-year-old actor

:32:03. > :32:05.mistakenly landed on a taxiway at John Wayne Airport.

:32:06. > :32:10.An investigation is underway. That's a summary of

:32:11. > :32:22.the latest BBC News. We are getting latest unemployment

:32:23. > :32:26.figures through. Unemployment fell by 7,000 according to the latest

:32:27. > :32:33.official figures and the claimant count fell by 42 ,400 to 745,000.

:32:34. > :32:37.The Office for National Statistics putting the figures out. We'll bring

:32:38. > :32:41.you more detail. More detail on earnings as well coming through.

:32:42. > :32:48.Average earnings increased by 2.6% in the year to December which was

:32:49. > :32:51.down by 0.2% on the previous month. We had the inflation figures

:32:52. > :33:01.yesterday and inflation was up last month compared with December, up to

:33:02. > :33:04.1.8% from 1.6%, but average earnings increases, still outstripping that,

:33:05. > :33:09.increased by 2.6% in the year to December, but it was down by 0.2% on

:33:10. > :33:11.the previous month. So we'll bring you more on those figures and

:33:12. > :33:15.reaction to it clear. Here's some sport

:33:16. > :33:24.now with Will Perry. Barcelona were thrashed 4-0 in the

:33:25. > :33:36.last 16 of the Champions League by Paris St Germain last night.

:33:37. > :33:41.Benfica beat Borussia Dortmund. Arsenal in Champions League action

:33:42. > :33:45.tonight. They play the first leg of their tie to Bayern Munich. Arsene

:33:46. > :33:51.Wenger's side have been knocked out at this stage in the last four

:33:52. > :33:57.years. And Floyd May weather joinior denies

:33:58. > :34:02.reports that he agreed a bout with Conor McGregor. Mayweather retired

:34:03. > :34:08.from boxing in September 2015. McGregor has never fought a

:34:09. > :34:10.professional boxing match and says he wants ?18 million to fight

:34:11. > :34:18.Mayweather. We will see you later. Now, for the first time,

:34:19. > :34:21.a scientific study has found a possible link between head

:34:22. > :34:23.injuries and dementia Researchers studied the brains

:34:24. > :34:26.of six former footballers who had died from dementia,

:34:27. > :34:31.and discovered that some of them had a form of the disease,

:34:32. > :34:33.chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is linked to repeated

:34:34. > :34:35.blows to the head. Before this study we have only had

:34:36. > :34:38.anecdotal reports that footballers might be more prone to develop

:34:39. > :34:53.dementia in later life. Let's show you pictures of the

:34:54. > :34:57.England World Cup winning squad in 1966. Some of the squad have

:34:58. > :35:00.Alzheimer's. Although we can't say they developed the condition from

:35:01. > :35:05.playing in the game, it is feared their illness could be linked to

:35:06. > :35:09.decades of heading traditional leather cased footballs.

:35:10. > :35:12.We can speak to Dawn Astle, the daughter of the former England

:35:13. > :35:13.and West Brom footballer, Jeff Astle.

:35:14. > :35:16.Jeff died at the age of 59 from a degenerative brain disease,

:35:17. > :35:18.which was linked to heading old leather footballs, and

:35:19. > :35:21.after reading the report, Dawn says there are hundreds if not

:35:22. > :35:22.thousands of other footballers out there suffering

:35:23. > :35:27.We also have Peter McCabe, chief executive of Headway,

:35:28. > :35:39.Dawn, you have been pushing for more research to be done into this. What

:35:40. > :35:47.is your reaction to this research? Well, sadly, I'm not surprised

:35:48. > :35:51.because when the coroner ruled back in 2002 that dad's job had killed

:35:52. > :35:57.him. He ruled industrial disease, it was then that the footballing

:35:58. > :36:00.authorities should have taken this really seriously because people were

:36:01. > :36:06.losing their lives, but when dad's brain was re-examined two years ago,

:36:07. > :36:11.it was actually found that he didn't have Alzheimer's, he had got CTE and

:36:12. > :36:16.he became the first British footballer to have been diagnosed,

:36:17. > :36:23.that was the reason for his death. And of course, we know that the

:36:24. > :36:26.disease has been found in NFL players and ice hockey players and

:36:27. > :36:30.rugby players and our question has always been, when it has been

:36:31. > :36:35.two-fold, one my dad was a footballer, how did he die of

:36:36. > :36:39.boxer's brain? The second one is have we got a problem with dementia

:36:40. > :36:43.in our former players? I really do think we have a serious problem. I

:36:44. > :36:48.mean obviously on that, there is no proper answer to that from this

:36:49. > :36:52.research because it is a small study and they are saying they need to

:36:53. > :36:55.carry out further research. If terms of your situation, when did you and

:36:56. > :37:05.your family first make a link between what happened to your dad

:37:06. > :37:08.and heading the ball? I think it was virtually straightaway as soon as

:37:09. > :37:11.dad was diagnosed. We couldn't understand how someone was so

:37:12. > :37:18.physically fit and all the brain cells were dying at the front of the

:37:19. > :37:21.brain. So it wasn't a surprise to us that the coroner's ruling of

:37:22. > :37:26.industrial disease, but I think what did shock us when the pathologist at

:37:27. > :37:30.the time stood in the court and described how badly damaged dad's

:37:31. > :37:33.brain was. He said that there was considerable trauma throughout the

:37:34. > :37:37.brain and it was the repeated heading of footballs that had caused

:37:38. > :37:45.it. And when dad's brain was re-examined two years ago and CT was

:37:46. > :37:49.found, the doctor Willie Stewart who performed or looked at dad's brain

:37:50. > :37:53.again, he actually said to us if he hadn't of known that he was looking

:37:54. > :37:59.at the brain of a man of 59, he would have thought he was looking at

:38:00. > :38:06.the brain of a man of at least 89 or in his 90s.

:38:07. > :38:09.We're talking about old-style footballs, leather footballs that

:38:10. > :38:13.would get rain sodden and would weigh up to 3lbs when sodden with

:38:14. > :38:17.water. Your dad, I think, described heading a football as being like

:38:18. > :38:22.heading a bag of bricks? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. He did used to say

:38:23. > :38:27.that, but it was part of the game and it was his job and that's what

:38:28. > :38:32.he did and he was brilliant at it and it's just, you know, just really

:38:33. > :38:39.sad and really tragic that when he died, you know, he was surrounded by

:38:40. > :38:43.England caps and his FA Cup winners medal and his League Cup medal and

:38:44. > :38:47.everything that he won in football, football had taken away because he

:38:48. > :38:54.died not even knowing that he had ever been a footballer.

:38:55. > :38:58.When industrial disease was mentioned by the coroner, did that

:38:59. > :39:02.then lead you down the path of thinking well, there should be

:39:03. > :39:07.compensation? Have you had any conversations about that? No, it

:39:08. > :39:13.wasn't. I mean it was a landmark ruling of its kind and I think in

:39:14. > :39:20.any other industry it would have had either quake repercussions for that

:39:21. > :39:25.industry in question. But it seems, football and its privileged status

:39:26. > :39:29.have been self governing and seem to wriggle out of it and that's wrong

:39:30. > :39:36.because all we wanted was answers. Answers as to why dad had died. What

:39:37. > :39:40.had killed him? And how many other players had been affected? We need

:39:41. > :39:44.to know. All the families of all these other former players need to

:39:45. > :39:50.know and more importantly, football needs to know. Peter, obviously

:39:51. > :39:54.still a lot of unanswered questions, but what is your view of this

:39:55. > :40:00.research and where it takes things? Well, I think Dawn has campaigned

:40:01. > :40:05.tirelessly to get answers to these questions and if it were my dad I

:40:06. > :40:08.would and wouldn't we all want answers to these questions and I

:40:09. > :40:16.think she deserves answers to these questions as do the other families

:40:17. > :40:22.and it's time the FA actually conducted a detailed and large scale

:40:23. > :40:26.study so that they can have answers. What would your concerns be? There

:40:27. > :40:33.will be people thinking my child plays football or I play football.

:40:34. > :40:37.What should people be thinking about heading footballs? I know in the

:40:38. > :40:41.United States there is a ban on kids under ten actually being able to

:40:42. > :40:46.head footballs. Would you like to see something similar here? Well, my

:40:47. > :40:50.two sons played football. And my grandson plays football and I played

:40:51. > :40:53.football and I remember heading the very heavy leather footballs and

:40:54. > :40:57.when they were wet, they were like heading a lump of concrete. So I

:40:58. > :41:01.think there are two issues. The first one is the families deserve

:41:02. > :41:06.answers to those questions. The second is, does this study, which

:41:07. > :41:10.analysed the brains of six former footballers in detail, give us

:41:11. > :41:15.sufficient evidence to make policy decisions about, you know, should

:41:16. > :41:19.youngsters be heading balls? I think the answer is there is not enough

:41:20. > :41:22.evidence with this study, but, you know, what it does clearly show is

:41:23. > :41:27.there is a need for further research. Now, football is such a

:41:28. > :41:33.wealthy game and you know, I have been looking back on old e-mails.

:41:34. > :41:38.Three years ago I put the football authorities this touch with so.

:41:39. > :41:41.Finest scientists in this field because they were asking about

:41:42. > :41:46.conducting research. So I went out of my way to find those people, put

:41:47. > :41:51.them in touch and absolutely nothing has happened and it's time that Dawn

:41:52. > :41:56.got her answers and parents would then be in a position to assess the

:41:57. > :42:00.risk and make sensible decisions going forward. I wouldn't want to

:42:01. > :42:05.discourage youngsters from playing football because there are so many

:42:06. > :42:09.health benefits, but we do need to get to the bottom of this. Dawn,

:42:10. > :42:13.what's your view, do you have a view on whether kids should be heading a

:42:14. > :42:16.ball? It's difficult because we need the evidence there to make informed

:42:17. > :42:21.choice, that's what it is about, it is about making informed choices and

:42:22. > :42:26.I think we all know, you know, the benefits of sports participation. We

:42:27. > :42:31.all know that. But brain damage must never be seen as a acceptable

:42:32. > :42:36.consequence of it. It must never be seen as that and that's why it is so

:42:37. > :42:40.vitally important that the research is conducted and if I can go back to

:42:41. > :42:46.the ball and yes, we know in dad's day it was incredibly heavy and it

:42:47. > :42:50.absorbed the water. But we know that there is no evidence to suggest that

:42:51. > :42:55.the modern day ball is any safer and that's purely because of the physics

:42:56. > :43:00.of actually heading the ball. The modern day ball was slow and heavy,

:43:01. > :43:04.but the modern day ball is lighter, but travels faster and the motion of

:43:05. > :43:07.the brain being rocked backwards and forwards inside the skull is still

:43:08. > :43:12.happening whether it be an old ball or a modern day ball. Thank you both

:43:13. > :43:14.very much. Let us know your thoughts on that as well. The usual ways of

:43:15. > :43:20.getting in touch. South Korea says it's certain

:43:21. > :43:21.that the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un

:43:22. > :43:24.has been killed in Malaysia. He was apparently poisoned in

:43:25. > :43:33.an attack at Kuala Lumpur airport. His brother Kim Jong-un has been in

:43:34. > :43:45.charge of North Korea since 2011. Let's take a look at what life

:43:46. > :47:01.in the secretive state is like. It is being claimed that Kim

:47:02. > :47:09.Jong-nam has been killed by North Korean agents. Why would they want

:47:10. > :47:17.to do that? It is largely because of what he may have said previously

:47:18. > :47:21.about his half brother. He has done interviews where he has been openly

:47:22. > :47:28.critical of him and many have believed that for North Korean spy

:47:29. > :47:32.agencies -- the North Korean spy agencies may have been trying to

:47:33. > :47:37.reach him for some time. Most North Koreans may not know this because it

:47:38. > :47:40.is a taboo subject inside their country, but Kim Jong-il, the father

:47:41. > :47:46.of the current leader, had married several times and had many children

:47:47. > :47:52.from different spouses. Ever since Kim Jong-il died, five years ago,

:47:53. > :47:57.his eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, has spent most of his time overseas,

:47:58. > :48:01.mostly in Asia. Many believe this was not by choice but from an

:48:02. > :48:06.enforced exile, based on rivalry with his younger half brother, Kim

:48:07. > :48:16.Jong-nam, the leader of North Korea. -- Kim Jong-il and -- Kim Jong-un,

:48:17. > :48:20.who has a record for brutality and is believed to have ordered the

:48:21. > :48:26.execution of his uncle in 2012. Are we ever likely to hear any proof for

:48:27. > :48:34.evidence if it is North Korean agents behind this? Already, there

:48:35. > :48:39.are fresh reports of a woman being detained as a suspect for the crime.

:48:40. > :48:46.The Malaysian authorities earlier had released a photo of a young

:48:47. > :48:51.Asian woman with heavy make up and casual clothes, believed to be one

:48:52. > :48:59.of the assailants. Now the local media is reporting that several

:49:00. > :49:05.others, possibly part of the same group, may be being pursued.

:49:06. > :49:07.Initially, the South Korean media sourced an unnamed government

:49:08. > :49:13.official that Kim Jong-nam was killed with a poisonous needle.

:49:14. > :49:17.Other reports in the Lazier mentioned a spray and the latest

:49:18. > :49:22.account seems to be that a woman had approached Mr Kim from behind and

:49:23. > :49:27.covered his face with a cloth laced with liquid. -- from Malaysia. There

:49:28. > :49:31.seems to have been some kind of physical contact with Mr Kimmince

:49:32. > :49:35.was waiting at the airport. But based on all of these reports, it

:49:36. > :49:42.seems highly likely an investigation is likely to take place, focusing on

:49:43. > :49:47.a deliberate attempt of murder through poisoning, and an autopsy

:49:48. > :49:49.may take place to reveal the exact cause of death. Some analysts

:49:50. > :49:53.believe this could have been a deliberate attempt at assassination

:49:54. > :49:59.by the leadership in Pyongyang. Thank you for joining us. Breaking

:50:00. > :50:04.News that we are getting from the courts, that Rolf Harris will face a

:50:05. > :50:07.retrial on three of the counts which a jury could not reach a verdict on

:50:08. > :50:12.in his trial. One charge which the jury could not reach a verdict on,

:50:13. > :50:15.he will not face retrial on, and he will also face another charge of

:50:16. > :50:21.indecent assault against one of the alleged victims. He will be facing a

:50:22. > :50:24.retrial on three counts after a jury could not reach a verdict in the

:50:25. > :50:32.trial which ended last week. Data exclusively given to this

:50:33. > :50:37.programme shows there's been a jump in the number of abortion pills

:50:38. > :50:42.being bought online in mainland UK, despite the ability to access legal

:50:43. > :50:45.services on the NHS. The British pregnancy advisory service says by

:50:46. > :50:48.taking the pill they have bought online, women face life in prison

:50:49. > :50:50.and they want the law changed. This is what we know.

:50:51. > :50:52.The number of women in England, Scotland and Wales buying abortion

:50:53. > :50:57.In 2013, five doses of the abortion pills were seized coming

:50:58. > :51:04.Under current law, taking the pills can be punishable

:51:05. > :51:06.by life imprisonment, no matter how far along

:51:07. > :51:12.Two women have been sentenced to time in prison.

:51:13. > :51:15.One terminated her pregnancy after 24 weeks and got

:51:16. > :51:20.The other was almost at the end of her pregnancy,

:51:21. > :51:25.But why would women take them when legal abortions

:51:26. > :51:29.are available in England, Scotland and Wales anyway?

:51:30. > :51:31.We've been hearing some anonymous testimonies.

:51:32. > :51:34.I'm in the UK, but it's impossible for me to get to a clinic due

:51:35. > :51:38.to having a disabled daughter that I just can't leave, and I have no

:51:39. > :51:43.Clinics have said I have to leave my daughter at home,

:51:44. > :51:46.but I have no one else at all to have her.

:51:47. > :51:49.I was hoping to have a termination in the comfort of my own home,

:51:50. > :51:50.without judgmental eyes and without worrying

:51:51. > :51:57.Being a foreign student, I can't afford this country's

:51:58. > :52:02.And the place in line for supported abortions is too

:52:03. > :52:07.I feel absolutely horrible and desperate.

:52:08. > :52:10.The British Pregnancy Advisory Service says it's time to bring

:52:11. > :52:13.women's reproductive healthcare into the 21st century, and remove

:52:14. > :52:26.Ann Furedi is the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory

:52:27. > :52:32.Service and wants women to be able to buy the pills legally.

:52:33. > :52:35.And Scanlon works for a pro-life charity and believes abortion pills

:52:36. > :52:37.should be illegal. Dr Rebecca Gomperts is from Women

:52:38. > :52:50.on Web, who sell abortion pills Thank you for joining us. Rebecca,

:52:51. > :52:54.first, tell us why you are selling the pills online. Who is buying

:52:55. > :53:01.them? I just want to correct this. We don't sell pills online. This is

:53:02. > :53:07.an online service which is providing help to women that need it. So you

:53:08. > :53:10.connect people who want the pills... We sent e-mails to women all over

:53:11. > :53:15.the world, sometimes advising them to try to find medicines locally,

:53:16. > :53:18.and women from the UK, for example, we always referred to the existing

:53:19. > :53:24.abortion services that are there. But what we have noticed from the

:53:25. > :53:29.e-mails that we get is that a lot of women in the UK really have trouble

:53:30. > :53:34.accessing existing services. That is because indeed it is much too

:53:35. > :53:38.regulated, much too restricted. This problem can only be solved when

:53:39. > :53:43.medical abortions, for example, are available through a perception in

:53:44. > :53:48.pharmacies. Tell us then, the sort of women from the UK who are getting

:53:49. > :53:51.pills via your website. You say it is too regulated but abortion is

:53:52. > :53:58.obviously available legally in the UK, as long as you go to the doctor.

:53:59. > :54:03.And it is free on the NHS. Yes, it is free on the NHS but it is not

:54:04. > :54:08.always easy for women to access the free services. For example, foreign

:54:09. > :54:11.students don't have NHS coverage. They have to pay for their own

:54:12. > :54:18.abortions and sometimes it is up to ?500. Some of the illegal women that

:54:19. > :54:22.live in the UK, a woman that has emigrated and works as a cleaning

:54:23. > :54:27.lady somewhere, they don't have ?500 to pay for an abortion and they are

:54:28. > :54:33.not covered by the NHS. By the way, this is not just a problem in the

:54:34. > :54:42.UK. But I want to focus specifically on the UK so I want to bring in Ann

:54:43. > :54:46.Furedi, and the number of people getting these pills from U:K.'s

:54:47. > :54:49.increasing, to what extent? We heard about the numbers of pills that have

:54:50. > :54:53.been stopped coming into the country but we don't really know how many

:54:54. > :54:56.women are buying them. But it is ridiculous that women in this

:54:57. > :55:02.country should feel the need to do that. That is really where the crime

:55:03. > :55:08.is. There are two big problems. One is that these abortion pills, which

:55:09. > :55:13.are extremely safe and which effectively cause a very early

:55:14. > :55:17.miscarriage, they are incredibly safe for women to use and yet... But

:55:18. > :55:21.you can get them from the doctor, Kyron Duke, for an early miscarriage

:55:22. > :55:25.under medical supervision but where it is illegal is buying it online

:55:26. > :55:29.and people are using them when it is not for early miscarriage. No, the

:55:30. > :55:34.point is abortion in this country is only available in hospitals and in

:55:35. > :55:41.specially licensed clinics like ours. With this, you have a kind of

:55:42. > :55:44.medication that it is perfectly appropriate for a woman to use in

:55:45. > :55:50.her own home and yet she is required to either go to a hospital with the

:55:51. > :55:54.facilities or a clinic like ours. In other countries around the world,

:55:55. > :55:57.women can get them from their family doctor, or indeed, in some

:55:58. > :56:01.countries, they can get them on prescription from a pharmacist. But

:56:02. > :56:09.in this country, the problem is abortion, even when it is this early

:56:10. > :56:11.in the pregnancy, and it is a straightforward -- as

:56:12. > :56:21.straightforward as taking tablets come is as regulated as much later

:56:22. > :56:26.termination. But this is illegal, and Ann Scanlon, what is your

:56:27. > :56:29.perspective, should it stay illegal? The problem is, the women you have

:56:30. > :56:36.given examples of is that these people do not meet the criteria of

:56:37. > :56:39.the abortion act. And as you say, abortion has been decriminalised.

:56:40. > :56:43.Neither of these women would have been given an abortion in this

:56:44. > :56:46.country. It is very hard for me to imagine why someone who has a

:56:47. > :56:50.full-term baby, and I'm astonished that I would support that, should be

:56:51. > :56:57.able to abort a full-term baby in the comfort of their living room.

:56:58. > :57:00.Not specifically necessarily on that but abortion pills, if they are

:57:01. > :57:04.bought online at all by someone when they are using up -- them at an

:57:05. > :57:08.early stage, is it right to criminalise someone for that? I

:57:09. > :57:12.wouldn't like to see women criminalise but I would criminalise

:57:13. > :57:15.the providers. I was surprised to discover there are more than twice

:57:16. > :57:20.as many complications from medical abortions as there are from surgical

:57:21. > :57:25.abortions. I find it quite astonishing. That is not true. Look

:57:26. > :57:31.at the statistics. The Department of Health statistics, I looked them up

:57:32. > :57:37.yesterday. Hang on, let the response happen. It is simply not true. The

:57:38. > :57:41.point about these drugs is that they are less risky than many of the

:57:42. > :57:48.drugs that we buy over-the-counter in pharmacies. They are less risky

:57:49. > :57:54.than aspirin, for example. That is the cause of many deaths. However,

:57:55. > :58:02.the issue is, is that abortion is often not straightforward and no one

:58:03. > :58:07.wants women driven to buying tablets online and certainly, nobody wants

:58:08. > :58:12.women to be stepping outside of the law. But in this case, the law is

:58:13. > :58:20.constructive in a way that is archaic. Your argument is nonsense.

:58:21. > :58:28.Maggie Lieu we don't want women to be sent to prison. Let Ann Scanlon

:58:29. > :58:32.comeback on this. This woman to Jordan abortion at 39 weeks and it's

:58:33. > :58:35.about that last year there were 209 complications of medical abortions

:58:36. > :58:39.before a woman even left the clinic. I find it astonishing that an

:58:40. > :58:42.organisation who knows the health risks and the complications would

:58:43. > :58:46.even attempt to put women's lives at risk in this manner. I think it is

:58:47. > :58:50.astonishing. We are out of time but thank you for joining us. Let us

:58:51. > :58:56.know your thoughts on that. We'd love to hear from you if you have

:58:57. > :58:57.bought abortion pills online or thought about it. The usual ways of

:58:58. > :58:59.getting in touch. Let's get the latest weather

:59:00. > :59:06.update - with Matt Taylor. A sense spring in the air as part as

:59:07. > :59:10.the weather is concerned, 40 degrees on the Isle of Skye yesterday and

:59:11. > :59:12.close to that for one or two today. Rainfall south-west England and

:59:13. > :59:16.through the day it will spread its way into the south-east, the

:59:17. > :59:18.Midlands and North West by the start of the afternoon, reaching the

:59:19. > :59:21.eastern coast of England and South West Scotland by the evening.

:59:22. > :59:26.Blustery showers in Northern Ireland but staying sunny, could hit 13 of

:59:27. > :59:30.the Moray Firth, and brighter in Wales and the south-west later with

:59:31. > :59:33.13 possible here as well. A slightly milder regime but cooler tonight

:59:34. > :59:36.than last night across England and Wales with clearer skies and some

:59:37. > :59:39.mist and fog to the south but a mild night to come for Scotland and

:59:40. > :59:43.Northern Ireland with quite a blustery wind and occasional

:59:44. > :59:47.showers. Going into Thursday, the southern half of the UK largely dry

:59:48. > :59:50.with sunshine, mist and fog gradually clearing, lots more

:59:51. > :59:53.sunshine for England and Wales tomorrow. Scotland and Northern

:59:54. > :59:58.Ireland, passing showers every now and again, some of them on the heavy

:59:59. > :00:01.side and quite a wind. Temperature wise, should be about eight this

:00:02. > :00:04.time of year but most of you above that and the trend will continue

:00:05. > :00:06.through the rest of the week and into the start of next week.

:00:07. > :00:10.Temperatures above where they should be for the time of year and by

:00:11. > :00:18.Monday, one or two could be getting 16 or 17. Goodbye.

:00:19. > :00:34.A woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of Kim

:00:35. > :00:39.Jong-nam. Kim Jong-nam was believed to be

:00:40. > :00:43.attacked while he waited for a flight at Kuala Lumpur Airport.

:00:44. > :00:45.Repeatedly heading footballs during a player's career could be

:00:46. > :00:49.New research adds call for changes to the rules,

:00:50. > :01:02.The coroner ruled back in 2002 that dad's job had killed him. He ruled

:01:03. > :01:06.industrial disease. It was then that the footballing authorities should

:01:07. > :01:07.have taken this really seriously because people were losing their

:01:08. > :01:17.lives. Author Philip Pullman has

:01:18. > :01:19.announced the publication of the long-awaited follow-up

:01:20. > :01:21.to his best-selling His Dark The new trilogy is called The Book

:01:22. > :01:25.of Dust and the first novel will come out in October,

:01:26. > :01:32.17 years after the last instalment. Here's Reeta in the BBC Newsroom

:01:33. > :01:36.with a summary of today's news. In the last hour, Malaysian police

:01:37. > :01:39.have told the BBC they've arrested two people in connection

:01:40. > :01:41.with the death of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean

:01:42. > :01:43.leader Kim Jong-un. One of those arrested is a woman

:01:44. > :01:46.holding a Vietnamese passport. The other is a taxi driver who has

:01:47. > :01:49.since been released. Kim Jong-nam died after an apparent

:01:50. > :01:51.poison attack at the airport South Korea says they believe he was

:01:52. > :01:55.killed by North Korean agents. North Korea has not commented

:01:56. > :01:59.on the death but officials from the country's embassy

:02:00. > :02:01.in Malaysia have been visiting the hospital in Kuala Lumpur

:02:02. > :02:22.where Mr Kim's body has been taken. The macian authorities released a

:02:23. > :02:26.photo of a young Asian woman with heavy make-up in casual clothes

:02:27. > :02:31.believed to be one of the assailant's. Now the local media is

:02:32. > :02:40.reporting that several others possibly part of the same group,

:02:41. > :02:44.maybe being pursued. Initially the South Korean media sourced an

:02:45. > :02:48.unnamed individual that Kim Jong-nam was killed with a poisonous needle.

:02:49. > :02:52.Then other reports in Malaysia mentioned a spray and the latest

:02:53. > :02:59.account seems to be that a woman had approached Mr Kim from behind and

:03:00. > :03:02.covered his face with a cloth laced with a liquid. There seems to be

:03:03. > :03:08.some kind of physical contact with Mr Kim as he was waiting at the

:03:09. > :03:13.airport. But based on all of these reports, it seems highly likely an

:03:14. > :03:17.investigation is likely to take place focussed on a deliberate

:03:18. > :03:23.attempt of murder through poisoning and an autopsy may take place to

:03:24. > :03:28.reveal the exact cause of death. Some analysts believe this could

:03:29. > :03:33.have been a deliberate attempt at ais as is as nation by the

:03:34. > :03:38.leadership. -- ash assassination.

:03:39. > :03:41.Figures out this morning show that unemployment fell in the last

:03:42. > :03:44.The number of people out of work dropped by 7,000

:03:45. > :03:46.to 1.6 million in the three months to December.

:03:47. > :03:48.Meanwhile, average earnings rose by 2.6%

:03:49. > :03:52.That's down 0.2% on the equivalent figure for the previous month.

:03:53. > :03:54.The US media are reporting that members of President Trump's

:03:55. > :03:56.campaign team had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence

:03:57. > :03:59.officials in the year before the US presidential election.

:04:00. > :04:01.It follows the resignation of the National Security Adviser,

:04:02. > :04:04.General Mike Flynn, over allegations surrounding a phone call he had

:04:05. > :04:09.with a senior Russian diplomat before President Trump took power.

:04:10. > :04:18.It follows the resignation of the National Security Adviser,

:04:19. > :04:21.General Mike Flynn, over allegations surrounding a phone call he had

:04:22. > :04:23.with a senior Russian diplomat before President Trump took power.

:04:24. > :04:26.General Flynn quit after it was revealed he had misled

:04:27. > :04:28.the White House over the nature of the call.

:04:29. > :04:30.It's alleged he discussed the future of US sanctions on Russia.

:04:31. > :04:32.Senior Republicans have joined calls for

:04:33. > :04:36.Ukip has rejected an offer of resignation from one of its press

:04:37. > :04:38.officers who was responsible for misleading personal information

:04:39. > :04:40.about the Hillsborough disaster contained on the website of party

:04:41. > :04:43.Mr Nuttall admitted yesterday, in an appearance

:04:44. > :04:45.on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, that claims that he's lost

:04:46. > :04:47.a close, personal friend in the tragedy were untrue.

:04:48. > :04:50.He said he hadn't written or seen the information on his website

:04:51. > :04:56.Rolf Harris is to face a retrial on three sex offence charges

:04:57. > :04:59.following the failure by a jury at Southwark Crown Court

:05:00. > :05:02.The 86-year-old former TV personality will also face

:05:03. > :05:07.Last week, he was found not guilty on three counts,

:05:08. > :05:21.with the jury unable to reach a verdict on four other charges.

:05:22. > :05:26.Researchers studied the brains of six former players who died from

:05:27. > :05:29.dementia and discovered that some of them had a form of the disease

:05:30. > :05:34.linked to repeated blows to the head.

:05:35. > :05:36.The number of abortion pills being bought online

:05:37. > :05:38.in Britain is on the rise, according to data shown to

:05:39. > :05:42.Government figures show 375 doses, sent to addresses in England,

:05:43. > :05:44.Wales and Scotland, were seized in 2016, compared

:05:45. > :05:47.Taking the pills while pregnant without medical approval

:05:48. > :05:56.Hundreds of people in the New Zealand city of Christchurch

:05:57. > :05:59.have been evacuated as wildfires threatened houses in its suburbs.

:06:00. > :06:03.A state of emergency has been declared and the military called

:06:04. > :06:05.in to help battle the blaze in the city's southern

:06:06. > :06:11.It is thought the fire has destroyed at least seven houses and forced

:06:12. > :06:18.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:06:19. > :06:31.Three-quarters of police forces in England and Wales say record

:06:32. > :06:33.levels of hate crimes were reported in the three months

:06:34. > :06:56.The European giants Barcelona are thrashed 4-0 in the last 16

:06:57. > :06:58.of the Champions League by Paris St-Germain to leave them

:06:59. > :07:01.in danger of failing to reach the quarter-finals for the first

:07:02. > :07:04.Angel di Maria scored twice for PSG on his 29th birthday,

:07:05. > :07:10.Then Julian Draxler smashed in a second before Di Maria curled

:07:11. > :07:15.Another PSG birthday boy Edinson Cavani and then sealed

:07:16. > :07:18.a famous win with a powerful fourth on the day he turned 30.

:07:19. > :07:20.In last night's other game, Benfica beat Borussia

:07:21. > :07:30.The goal scored by former Fulham striker Kostas Mitroglou.

:07:31. > :07:36.Arsenal play the first leg of their last 16 tie away to Bayern Munich.

:07:37. > :07:43.Arsene Wenger's side has been nobbled out of that stage in last of

:07:44. > :07:45.the six years. Despite their poor record, Arsene

:07:46. > :07:52.Wenger says there is to reason they can't put it right.

:07:53. > :07:56.I feel we have the experience. We play against Bayern every year with

:07:57. > :08:00.the same target. It is to win the Champions League and when you look

:08:01. > :08:06.at their record, they are always basically in the last four. So it's

:08:07. > :08:14.a massive challenge, but I think we are capable of dealing with it.

:08:15. > :08:16.Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan is among a group

:08:17. > :08:19.of more than 40 players deemed to have "unethical hair" under

:08:20. > :08:21.United Arab Emirates Football Association guidelines.

:08:22. > :08:23.The Ghanaian is on loan at Dubai-based Arabian Gulf League

:08:24. > :08:29.In 2012, Saudi Arabia goalkeeper Waleed Abdullah was told

:08:30. > :08:32.to cut his "un-Islamic" hair by the referee before playing

:08:33. > :08:40.The BBC has asked for clarification on its guidelines

:08:41. > :08:45.Floyd Mayweather Jr denies reports he's already agreed a bout

:08:46. > :08:47.with Conor McGregor, but has called on the UFC champion

:08:48. > :08:51.Mayweather retired from boxing for a second time in September 2015.

:08:52. > :08:54.McGregor has never fought a professional boxing match

:08:55. > :09:08.There was double British success at the awards last night. Rachel

:09:09. > :09:14.Atherton won Sports Person of the Year and Leicester City won the

:09:15. > :09:20.Spirit of Sport Award. Leicester's manager was on hand to accept the

:09:21. > :09:26.award. The American gymnast won the Sports Woman of the Year gong. Usain

:09:27. > :09:31.Bolt took up a record equalling fourth award in the men's category.

:09:32. > :09:36.That's all the sport for now. I'll have the headlines at 10.30am.

:09:37. > :09:39.Rolf Harris is to face a retrial on three sex offence charges.

:09:40. > :09:41.He will also face another charge of indecent assault.

:09:42. > :09:43.Our correspondent Dan Johnson is at Southwark Crown Court.

:09:44. > :09:53.What can you tell us, Dan? A retrial on 15th May. There were four charges

:09:54. > :09:57.that the jury here last week at the end of his trial couldn't reach a

:09:58. > :10:01.verdict on. This morning, the Crown Prosecution Service has said it

:10:02. > :10:05.wants to take three of those charges forward to a retrial, but one of

:10:06. > :10:09.them will be split into two separate accounts. So there are four charges

:10:10. > :10:13.that Mr Harris faces. That new charge was put to him this morning

:10:14. > :10:19.and he pleaded not guilty. He has not been here in court. He appeared

:10:20. > :10:22.via videolink from prison because he is already serving a sentence

:10:23. > :10:29.because of convictions that he was found guilty of back in 2014. He was

:10:30. > :10:32.expecting to be released from that original sentence in July. So it

:10:33. > :10:35.appears the retrial has been scheduled to take place before that

:10:36. > :10:38.possible release so he should know his fate before he was originally

:10:39. > :10:42.expecting to be released from prison. This morning his defence has

:10:43. > :10:46.also raised with the judge the possibility of a further appeal

:10:47. > :10:48.against those original convictions. That's something they've already

:10:49. > :10:56.tried once and haven't been allowed to proceed with. Again, fresh

:10:57. > :11:00.questions were raised with the judge and a suggestion his defence team

:11:01. > :11:03.may push for an appeal of those convictions, but he will be fighting

:11:04. > :11:11.the trial expected to start here in May. Thank you very much, Dan.

:11:12. > :11:14.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:11:15. > :11:16.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:11:17. > :11:18.Researchers studied the brains of six former players

:11:19. > :11:21.who had died from dementia, and discovered that some of them had

:11:22. > :11:24.a form of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

:11:25. > :11:27.We can speak to former footballers Ian St John,

:11:28. > :11:29.Kevin Davies, Gordon Smith and child's football

:11:30. > :11:40.Thank you all very much indeed for joining us. Ian, I wanted to come to

:11:41. > :11:45.you first. You played for Liverpool from 1961 to 1971 and a large number

:11:46. > :11:50.of your former team-mates have got dementia, haven't they? Just tell us

:11:51. > :11:58.what you have seen. Well, I mean, we're talking about that age group

:11:59. > :12:04.that played at that time. Of my team-mates, six of them, six in a

:12:05. > :12:08.group of at that time, there wasn't big squads of players. I would say

:12:09. > :12:14.in a group of maybe 16 players you've got six of them that has got

:12:15. > :12:17.Alzheimer's. So, it is quite, you know, a large percentage I think.

:12:18. > :12:22.Yes, I mean the research today does not give a sort of definitive answer

:12:23. > :12:29.as to whether football would be the cause of that. It is a limited

:12:30. > :12:34.study, but from your experience anecdotally, the knock to the head

:12:35. > :12:38.that you would have taken playing and heading the old-fashioned

:12:39. > :12:43.leather footballs, what are your thoughts? Well, for people of my

:12:44. > :12:49.vintage, I would say, you know, all of the facts that we have got stand

:12:50. > :12:54.up. I don't know why the FA and the PFA have covered this up for years.

:12:55. > :12:59.I mean I talked about it to the PFA a couple of years ago and their

:13:00. > :13:05.answer was, "Well, women get Alzheimer's so therefore, it's not

:13:06. > :13:09.an industrial injury." With a football." It is a load of nonsense.

:13:10. > :13:14.I do think the studies that are being done now will prove the point

:13:15. > :13:19.that the heading the ball, that heavy ball, in our era, I don't know

:13:20. > :13:23.about today's light ball, in our era heading that heavy ball day in and

:13:24. > :13:28.day out, it is not the matches, it is training as well, so you're

:13:29. > :13:34.banging the heavy balls and the lads now, at this stage of their lives

:13:35. > :13:40.are either dying or have dementia. I want to bring in Kevin, you are a

:13:41. > :13:44.former player. Are you surprised about what the research is

:13:45. > :13:48.indicating potentially on there being a link between heading the

:13:49. > :13:52.ball and dementia? Good morning. I wouldn't say I'm surprised. When you

:13:53. > :13:54.start to look at the numbers in terms of professional players, the

:13:55. > :14:00.amount of contact they have with the ball, if you look at my career for

:14:01. > :14:04.instance, over 800 career games and you take into training and all the

:14:05. > :14:08.training methods and things, the numbers start to stack up, it could

:14:09. > :14:11.be between 10,000 and 50,000 times that you're heading the ball and

:14:12. > :14:14.listening to Ian, they are different. The ball has changed a

:14:15. > :14:19.lot. The training methods have changed a lot now. You see some

:14:20. > :14:23.sessions where you were hurling balls to the deaders and pinging the

:14:24. > :14:27.ball at pace for them to head the balls. It was scary at the time.

:14:28. > :14:30.That has changed and the style of football has changed a lot. But

:14:31. > :14:34.there needs to be more research and more evidence with the new

:14:35. > :14:41.footballs, they are lighter compared to back in the 50s and 60s. When you

:14:42. > :14:46.say it was scary at the time. Did you ever feel any effects of it? No,

:14:47. > :14:53.not particularly. I'm well renowned for heading the ball and we used to

:14:54. > :15:01.get the stats back, it can be between 45 and 20 times. The one

:15:02. > :15:04.that concerns me most is from the goalkeepers, ball if hand and the

:15:05. > :15:09.centre-back is coming to head the ball. You're challenging for the

:15:10. > :15:14.ball and there is the concussions, we saw Gary Cahill and Ryan Mason

:15:15. > :15:17.clashing heads and they could have long-term effects further down the

:15:18. > :15:22.line, but playing con tableg sport, there will be a ricks. We know that

:15:23. > :15:28.as sports machine and they are the risks we're prepared to take, I

:15:29. > :15:32.think. Do you think it is the job though of the gof rning bodies to

:15:33. > :15:37.look properly and maybe think about changes if there is a link?

:15:38. > :15:44.Yes, this is based on 14 players and they examine six brains, and in four

:15:45. > :15:48.cases, they are looking for the CD which they only can when someone is

:15:49. > :15:52.deceased. There is definitely better science available now, MRI scans,

:15:53. > :15:57.but to do more research into this will take another 15-20 years, I

:15:58. > :16:00.believe, if they start now. I think the PFA have got an expert

:16:01. > :16:06.concussion panel in place and are speaking to the FA and it is trying

:16:07. > :16:11.to divide the right methods and find a way of getting the right research

:16:12. > :16:17.done and how they will monitor that over a person's career. It needs to

:16:18. > :16:20.be done, and if there is a problem, it needs to be something we look

:16:21. > :16:24.into in terms of protecting young children. As a father myself, I

:16:25. > :16:26.don't see a lot of heading with young children and I know they

:16:27. > :16:30.banned it in the United States for under 11th. Having watched

:16:31. > :16:34.grassroots football for a number of years, I don't see a lot of children

:16:35. > :16:39.heading balls so it is not a bit -- major concern for me now. Nathan,

:16:40. > :16:46.you coach children playing football. What is your view of kids heading

:16:47. > :16:50.the ball? Just to reiterate some of Ian and Kevin's points, really, you

:16:51. > :16:57.know, the latest footballs that are used have come a long way since

:16:58. > :17:05.Ian's days and the technology around the ball, where it is more synthetic

:17:06. > :17:08.leather than a solid casing. But as Kevin said, in grassroots football,

:17:09. > :17:13.you don't see a lot of kids heading the ball and really, it is how much

:17:14. > :17:17.is done at training, obviously, you have to limit the amount and think

:17:18. > :17:23.about it. And obviously, with the findings and the studies, you have

:17:24. > :17:25.to take it into account. When you say you don't see a lot of kids

:17:26. > :17:33.heading the ball, if it actively discouraged? Oh, it is just because

:17:34. > :17:39.of the physicality of the children. -- no, it is just. Especially at the

:17:40. > :17:44.other end, they aren't going to kick it 20 feet into the sky for it to

:17:45. > :17:49.come down and other kids to be encouraged to head the ball. It is

:17:50. > :17:55.more round the fact it is never really off the floor. Gordon Smith,

:17:56. > :18:01.a former Scotland international and former chief executive of the SFA.

:18:02. > :18:05.Have the football associations, the professional bodies, been active

:18:06. > :18:11.enough on this? Not as yet but they are looking at it now. Certainly,

:18:12. > :18:13.going back to the fact I'm Ambassador of the Scottish youth

:18:14. > :18:15.football Association and they are looking at it because they

:18:16. > :18:22.understand what has happened in America regarding the ban on

:18:23. > :18:27.children heading the ball from 11 downwards. I agree with what Kevin

:18:28. > :18:33.and Nathan have both said, I see football at the younger level and

:18:34. > :18:36.because now the game has changed because it is seven aside until the

:18:37. > :18:40.kids are 12, the ball is very rarely in the air so the kids don't head

:18:41. > :18:43.the ball as much now as they used to, no doubt about that. The second

:18:44. > :18:49.aspect of it is the fact that the balls are different from Ian's day,

:18:50. > :18:52.coming into the game at first, the balls have improved a lot, they were

:18:53. > :18:55.very heavily and a lot of the damage was done because of those kinds of

:18:56. > :19:04.balls and people doing a lot of heading practice, no doubt about it.

:19:05. > :19:08.A recent study was done which had a few kids, a few young players,

:19:09. > :19:12.heading the ball 20 times each and then they did a test on them and

:19:13. > :19:16.they found that their memory had deteriorated over a 24-hour period

:19:17. > :19:21.after heading 20 balls. It shows you that there is still damage being

:19:22. > :19:26.done from heading able and an effect from doing it. -- a ball. Certainly,

:19:27. > :19:32.we need to stop and make sure the kids don't do it while their brains

:19:33. > :19:39.are developing and then maybe at an older age, we need to consider the

:19:40. > :19:43.fact it is as little as possible in training. So when you say make sure

:19:44. > :19:48.the kids don't do it, as in something as specific as the ban in

:19:49. > :19:55.the US? Yes, I think it will come in here. I think it will come to this

:19:56. > :20:00.country too. I would say from 12 years and other accommodation have

:20:01. > :20:04.no heading the ball at all. The -- 12 years and under, they should have

:20:05. > :20:06.no heading the ball. These concerns have been around a long time but

:20:07. > :20:10.this is the best research of its kind that has been done. Have the

:20:11. > :20:18.professional footballing bodies been remiss in not taking this issue

:20:19. > :20:21.seriously previously, and commissioning research? They have

:20:22. > :20:24.been, there should have been something on it. You can imagine

:20:25. > :20:30.some time in the future, there might be a scenario where each player has

:20:31. > :20:33.do sign a disclaimer to say that they know they are taking a risk and

:20:34. > :20:37.regardless of what happens to them in the future regarding brainpower,

:20:38. > :20:40.maybe getting Alzheimer's, that they sign a disclaimer to say that if

:20:41. > :20:44.they are playing football, they are taking a risk and therefore they

:20:45. > :20:50.will not sue the clubs because that is the biggest threat, that is why

:20:51. > :20:53.they are looking at it, they have introduced it in that part of the

:20:54. > :20:57.world in terms of doing something but a lot of people in this country,

:20:58. > :21:01.there should have been some kind of compensation for the relatives

:21:02. > :21:06.affected. What is your view on that, Ian? The issue of compensation for

:21:07. > :21:12.people playing from your era? That is actually the big point about the

:21:13. > :21:16.whole thing. The FA and the PFA are just hiding behind, you know,

:21:17. > :21:19.whatever facts they have got. They don't want to be paying out for what

:21:20. > :21:26.would be classed as an industrial injury. You know, I went to the PFA

:21:27. > :21:31.a couple of years ago on the same topic, two years ago and said,"

:21:32. > :21:37.friends of mine from Liverpool, they all seem to be getting dementia".

:21:38. > :21:40.They went, "OK, leave it with us", and they came back and said, "It has

:21:41. > :21:48.nothing to do with football because women get dementia". Of course they

:21:49. > :21:51.do but football and the footballs we headed for years caused this and

:21:52. > :21:57.they are denying it. They are in denial about it. Sorry to interrupt

:21:58. > :22:05.but you headed the ball, presumably. I did. Have you had any concerns

:22:06. > :22:09.yourself? I don't know how it works, why lads who headed the ball like I

:22:10. > :22:15.did, and I get a bit forgetful but I don't have the big problem. This is

:22:16. > :22:20.another thing, when they are doing all of these surveys, why don't they

:22:21. > :22:24.do one about goalkeepers? How many goalkeepers have got dementia over

:22:25. > :22:28.the years? Professional ones. If they did a survey, it would be

:22:29. > :22:32.interesting if there were none, which means that the goalkeeper, the

:22:33. > :22:35.only guy on the field who is not really heading the ball, who is

:22:36. > :22:41.eight -- is OK. It is the outfield players who get it. Should there be

:22:42. > :22:44.a ban on children under 12 heading the ball? I'm worried about that

:22:45. > :22:49.because my grandchildren play football and they are in that age

:22:50. > :22:53.group. I would say, they are changing the way the game is played

:22:54. > :22:56.at that level, no kicking the ball over head height and so on so you

:22:57. > :23:01.don't have too high it, keep it on the carpet and pass around. That's

:23:02. > :23:05.fine. It is a form of football but heading the ball as a whiz been a

:23:06. > :23:07.big part of football. Thank you for joining us. Let us know your

:23:08. > :23:10.thoughts on this as usual. Unemployment

:23:11. > :23:12.has fallen yet again, while the average amount people earn

:23:13. > :23:15.has gone up. We'll be getting some analysis

:23:16. > :23:17.on what these latest figures say Three-quarters of police forces

:23:18. > :23:26.in England and Wales say record levels of hate crimes were reported

:23:27. > :23:29.in the three months More than 14,000 offences were

:23:30. > :23:36.recorded between July and September. The Equality and Human Rights

:23:37. > :23:39.Commission said the findings suggested a small number of people

:23:40. > :23:42.used the Brexit vote to legitimise Our home affairs correspondent

:23:43. > :23:58.Dominic Casciani is here Tell us more about the figures. Last

:23:59. > :24:00.October, we had the first official figures, the first official attempt

:24:01. > :24:04.to work out what had happened after Brexit because we had all of those

:24:05. > :24:08.stories in the days after the vote that there had been attacks or

:24:09. > :24:11.harassment of minorities, particularly Eastern Europeans, in

:24:12. > :24:15.some parts of the country. The figures in October revealed about

:24:16. > :24:19.5500 incidents in weeks immediately after the referendum, 40% higher

:24:20. > :24:26.than the same period 12 months previously. Now what we have had is

:24:27. > :24:31.a three-month total, four July, August and September across all

:24:32. > :24:35.police forces. It tells us there were 14,000 hate crimes across the

:24:36. > :24:39.forces in England and Wales. There is no comparable data for Northern

:24:40. > :24:46.Ireland and Scotland. That means hate crime over that period was up

:24:47. > :24:50.about 27%. 33 of the 44 forces, three quarters, saw their highest

:24:51. > :24:57.ever levels of hate crime recorded, effectively since records began in

:24:58. > :25:03.2012. Ten of the forces saw rises over 50% although four did the fall.

:25:04. > :25:06.It is a very complicated picture and in theory, it looks like 2016 is

:25:07. > :25:09.heading for a record year but I don't think we can say that yet

:25:10. > :25:13.because there are discrepancies about how individual forces deal

:25:14. > :25:18.with the data and what they classed as a hate crime. In the core data

:25:19. > :25:23.which is the key offences of things like assault and harassment and

:25:24. > :25:27.aggravated criminal damage like to mosques and synagogues, that kind of

:25:28. > :25:33.things, there was clearly arise. What about geographical areas where

:25:34. > :25:36.there were rises? Can you draw any conclusions? It is interesting, what

:25:37. > :25:42.is going on, in percentage terms, Dorset and Nottinghamshire saw the

:25:43. > :25:45.highest rises, 100% and 75% respectively in the number of

:25:46. > :25:49.recorded incidents of people coming to them and saying what had

:25:50. > :25:53.happened. You have to be cautious because the numbers within that are

:25:54. > :25:57.quite small. Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire Police each recorded

:25:58. > :26:01.about 1000 incidents which makes sense because they are big

:26:02. > :26:04.metropolitan areas, Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and so forth. The

:26:05. > :26:11.Metropolitan Police, 3500 incidents in London. What we think is that it

:26:12. > :26:15.is difficult to drill down to what is happening across the country.

:26:16. > :26:20.Like looking at Merseyside, a good example, they had quite a strong

:26:21. > :26:24.Brexit vote but the rise in hate crime did not necessarily correlate

:26:25. > :26:27.with that. There will be lots of thinking by academics and police

:26:28. > :26:31.chiefs about what is really going on. And a word of caution, one thing

:26:32. > :26:35.the police think is happening is that there is increased reporting

:26:36. > :26:38.going on because more people are confident in coming forward and

:26:39. > :26:41.telling them what is going on. It is similar to sexual offences in that

:26:42. > :26:45.sense which had lower reporting for years but when the police started

:26:46. > :26:48.going out and telling victims of rape to come forward and say what

:26:49. > :26:51.happened, more people came forward and some of this rise may be

:26:52. > :26:53.ultimately down to that. Thank you for joining us.

:26:54. > :26:57.As we learn more about what happened to the half-brother of North Korea's

:26:58. > :26:59.leader, we'll be speaking to a writer and regular visitor

:27:00. > :27:03.to the country to find out what life is like in the secretive state.

:27:04. > :27:06.Fans of the fiction writer Philip Pullman better take a seat.

:27:07. > :27:09.The author has announced the publication of the long-awaited

:27:10. > :27:11.follow-up to his best-selling series, His Dark Materials,

:27:12. > :27:23.Reeta Chakrabarti is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:27:24. > :27:28.Malaysian police say they have arrested a woman and are searching

:27:29. > :27:31.for several other suspects as they investigate the sudden

:27:32. > :27:33.death of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korean

:27:34. > :27:39.Earlier, police said they released a taxi driver who they also arrested

:27:40. > :27:43.Kim Jong-Nam died after an apparent poison attack

:27:44. > :27:48.South Korea says they believe he was killed by North Korean agents.

:27:49. > :27:51.North Korea has not commented on the death but officials

:27:52. > :27:53.from the country's embassy in Malaysia have been visiting

:27:54. > :27:57.the hospital in Kuala Lumpur where Mr Kim's body has been taken.

:27:58. > :28:00.Figures out this morning show that unemployment fell in the last

:28:01. > :28:05.The number of people out of work dropped by 7,000

:28:06. > :28:08.to 1.6 million in the three months to December.

:28:09. > :28:11.Meanwhile, average earnings rose by 2.6%

:28:12. > :28:26.That's down 0.2% on the equivalent figure for the previous month.

:28:27. > :28:30.The US media are reporting that members of President from's campaign

:28:31. > :28:33.team had repeated contact with senior Russian officials in the time

:28:34. > :28:37.before the general election. It follows the resignation

:28:38. > :28:39.of the National Security Adviser, General Mike Flynn, over allegations

:28:40. > :28:42.surrounding a phone call he had with a senior Russian diplomat

:28:43. > :28:44.before President Trump took power. General Flynn quit after it was

:28:45. > :28:46.revealed he had misled the White House over the nature

:28:47. > :28:49.of the call. It's alleged he discussed the future

:28:50. > :28:51.of US sanctions on Russia. Senior Republicans

:28:52. > :28:53.have joined calls for Rolf Harris is to face a retrial

:28:54. > :29:00.on three sex offence charges following the failure by a jury

:29:01. > :29:04.at Southwark Crown Court to reach a verdict

:29:05. > :29:06.on them last week. The 86-year-old former TV

:29:07. > :29:15.personality will also face one He has pleaded not guilty. The

:29:16. > :29:18.retrial will take place on the 15th of May.

:29:19. > :29:21.Ukip has rejected an offer of resignation from one of its press

:29:22. > :29:23.officers who says she was responsible for misleading

:29:24. > :29:24.personal information about the Hillsborough disaster

:29:25. > :29:26.contained on the website of party leader Paul Nuttall.

:29:27. > :29:29.Mr Nuttall admitted yesterday, in an appearance

:29:30. > :29:31.on Liverpool's Radio City Talk, that claims that he's lost

:29:32. > :29:34.a close, personal friend in the tragedy were untrue.

:29:35. > :29:36.He said he hadn't written or seen the information on his website

:29:37. > :29:49.For the first time, a scientific study has found a possible link

:29:50. > :29:51.between head injuries and brain damage in former footballers.

:29:52. > :29:53.Researchers studied the brains of six former players

:29:54. > :29:55.who died from dementia, and discovered that some of them had

:29:56. > :29:58.a form of the disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

:29:59. > :30:00.The daughter of the former England footballer Jeff Astle,

:30:01. > :30:12.who died at the age of 59 from a degenerative brain disease,

:30:13. > :30:14.told this programme the study might help answer

:30:15. > :30:23.It is tragic that when he died, he was surrounded by England caps and

:30:24. > :30:27.his FA Cup winners medal and everything he had won in football.

:30:28. > :30:30.Football had taken away because he died not even knowing that he had

:30:31. > :30:39.been a footballer. The question has always been twofold, one, my dad was

:30:40. > :30:43.a footballer, so how did he die of boxer's brain? And the second is

:30:44. > :30:48.have we got a problem with dementia in former players? I really think we

:30:49. > :30:51.have a serious problem. We are getting news that a three-year-old

:30:52. > :30:55.boy has died after being knocked down by a tractor on a farm in Fife.

:30:56. > :30:58.The accident happened yesterday in the village of Crossgates.

:30:59. > :31:08.Join me for BBC Newsroom live at 11am.

:31:09. > :31:12.The European giants Barcelona are thrashed 4-nil in the last 16

:31:13. > :31:14.of the Champions League by Paris St-Germain to leave them

:31:15. > :31:17.in danger of failing to reach the quarter-finals for the first

:31:18. > :31:20.In last night's other game, Benfica beat Borussia

:31:21. > :31:23.The goal scored by former Fulham striker Kostas Mitroglou.

:31:24. > :31:25.Arsenal are in Champions League action tonight.

:31:26. > :31:31.They play the first leg of their Last 16 tie

:31:32. > :31:33.They play the first leg of their last 16 tie

:31:34. > :31:37.Arsene Wenger's side have been knocked out at the stage in each

:31:38. > :31:40.of the last six years, it's the fourth time they've met Bayern

:31:41. > :31:43.Floyd Mayweather denies reports he's already agreed a bout

:31:44. > :31:46.with Conor McGregor, but has called on the UFC champion

:31:47. > :31:49.Mayweather retired from boxing for a second time in September 2015.

:31:50. > :31:52.McGregor has never fought a professional boxing match and has

:31:53. > :31:55.said he wants ?80 million to fight Mayweather.

:31:56. > :31:59.I will have more sport for you on the BBC News Channel throughout the

:32:00. > :32:03.day. A woman has been arrested

:32:04. > :32:06.in Malaysia in connection with the death of the North Korean

:32:07. > :32:16.leader's half-brother. Police say she was held at the

:32:17. > :32:20.airport in Kuala Lumpur. It has been revealed a until of

:32:21. > :32:27.suspects are wanted in connection with the death.

:32:28. > :32:31.His brother Kim Jong-un has been in charge of North Korea since 2011.

:32:32. > :32:40.What does this mean for the so-called Secretive State

:32:41. > :32:41.and what is life like inside North Korea?

:32:42. > :32:44.Paul French is the author of North Korea: State of Paranoia,

:32:45. > :32:46.and has been a regular visitor to the country since 2002.

:32:47. > :32:56.Tell us first of all more about him, the half-brother? Kim Jong-nam is

:32:57. > :33:00.the oldest son of the former leader. He is a half-brother of choUng and

:33:01. > :33:06.he was going to be the next leader, but in 2001 he took a trip to Tokyo

:33:07. > :33:10.to visit Disneyland on a fake passport. He got busted at

:33:11. > :33:15.immigration. This was a massive scandal and it ended his ascendancy

:33:16. > :33:25.and choUng became the favourite to take over and did and since then he

:33:26. > :33:29.has been in disgrace. What a random event to lead to a change in the

:33:30. > :33:35.succession. What does something like that tell us about what goes on in

:33:36. > :33:38.North Korea? It tells us how close the Kim family want to retain

:33:39. > :33:42.control and don't want trouble. What seems to have happened is not a

:33:43. > :33:49.surprise to people who watch Korea. There was a long tradition in North

:33:50. > :33:58.Korea of abductions, kidnappings and assassinations and bombings of

:33:59. > :34:03.people in the political hierarchy. Would Kim Jong-nam have been seen as

:34:04. > :34:08.a threat? Well, this is the odd thing. Kim Jong-nam has made one or

:34:09. > :34:11.two comments about how he thinks the country should liberalise a little

:34:12. > :34:15.bit. How he thinks that they should open up the economy a little bit,

:34:16. > :34:20.but he hasn't said anything. He doesn't have any following. There

:34:21. > :34:25.isn't a great troop of fans around him in the dissident community of

:34:26. > :34:29.North Korea. Why now is the kind of question that everyone asks? It is

:34:30. > :34:34.not surprising that they assassinate people that they perceive to be a

:34:35. > :34:47.threat to the regime, but what made Kim Jong-nam so dangerous to his

:34:48. > :34:52.brother? Have you any thoughts? Perhaps someone thought he was the

:34:53. > :34:57.person that could lead that. He has visited Beijing several times and

:34:58. > :35:03.Beijing is unhappy with North Korea at the moment. They don't seem to be

:35:04. > :35:07.able to control them. If they thought it was some kind of coup

:35:08. > :35:12.attempt sponsored by someone else, another state perhaps, then they

:35:13. > :35:18.would have stepped in to nip that in the bud quickly. Would that be

:35:19. > :35:23.paranoia? You said where the speculation lies in terms of any

:35:24. > :35:28.regime change operations. Is there a sense that there is a sort of

:35:29. > :35:34.momentum? There is a sense of paranoia. There is a sense of,

:35:35. > :35:37.constantly purging. Constantly showing that people can disappear

:35:38. > :35:42.quickly in order to keep everyone scared and keep in control. The

:35:43. > :35:46.thing about the North Koreans, if there was to be regime change, he

:35:47. > :35:50.hasn't got anywhere to go. No one is going to want him. They won't give

:35:51. > :35:55.him a villa in the south of France. It will end very badly. So, there

:35:56. > :36:00.has been a tendency to try at the slightest sign of any resistance to

:36:01. > :36:07.as I say, nip it inned bud quickly and fatally. People living in North

:36:08. > :36:15.Korea, will they have any clue? No, word may filter in as word does, but

:36:16. > :36:21.it won't be on the news. In terms of the, I mean it is obviously a very

:36:22. > :36:28.secretive country. He rules it with an iron fist. What is life like

:36:29. > :36:33.there? Well, life is still pretty grim and it hadn't changed much over

:36:34. > :36:36.the last decades, really since the 1990s when there was a terrible

:36:37. > :36:42.famine. There is little food security. People still go hungry.

:36:43. > :36:47.There are lick theatrical plaque-outs and there is not enough

:36:48. > :36:56.med suns and it is cold in the winter. The leader pledged that he

:36:57. > :37:02.will improve life and give North Korea a nuclear weapon to protect

:37:03. > :37:07.itself. Last weekend we saw another missile test. They are getting

:37:08. > :37:11.closer to having a deliverable nuclear weapon. Little steps, how

:37:12. > :37:16.close? We know they can do a nuclear explosion and fire a missile, they

:37:17. > :37:21.can't put the tip on the missile and fire that, it is only a matter of

:37:22. > :37:27.time. Thank you very much indeed Paul French.

:37:28. > :37:30.Chris Nunn, is a British photographer who's been capturing

:37:31. > :37:32.the conflict in eastern Ukraine between government forces

:37:33. > :37:34.and Russian backed separatists which began in 2014.

:37:35. > :37:37.Earlier this month he was nearly blinded in one eye

:37:38. > :37:39.when the apartment he was in, was hit by a shell.

:37:40. > :37:41.His friend, a Ukrainian woman, whose apartment it was,

:37:42. > :37:45.Chris has given his first interview to our correspondent

:37:46. > :37:59.The vision in Chris Nunn's left eye is gradually coming back.

:38:00. > :38:01.I can see waving your hand like this.

:38:02. > :38:05.Chris has covered the war in eastern Ukraine as a photographer to a half

:38:06. > :38:08.But when he and his colleague visited a friend's flat earlier this

:38:09. > :38:12.I remember, the whistle and the explosion and I remember

:38:13. > :38:15.everything going yellow, this bright light.

:38:16. > :38:18.I remember just checking to see if I had arms and legs and hands

:38:19. > :38:25.Just moments before, with the electricity

:38:26. > :38:28.out, Chris recorded the fighting from his friend Elaine's apartment.

:38:29. > :38:34.This selfie is one of the last pictures of her alive.

:38:35. > :38:36.It just makes you understand the fragility of life

:38:37. > :38:44.out there, that things can just happen, just like that.

:38:45. > :39:00.We met her family grieving the following day.

:39:01. > :39:04.I have a daughter also, and when we fill

:39:05. > :39:07.better with Chris, we will go and speak

:39:08. > :39:09.to them about how we can help her son.

:39:10. > :39:12.Elena had lived here in the city of Avdiivka.

:39:13. > :39:18.It is where fighting with Russian backed

:39:19. > :39:28.separatists recently flared up again.

:39:29. > :39:30.The explosion outside Elena's apartment blasted this tiny

:39:31. > :39:32.fragment of plastic into Chris Nunn's eyeball.

:39:33. > :39:35.His doctor showed us video of the five-hour operation

:39:36. > :39:38.he performed to remove it and rebuild Chris' eye.

:39:39. > :39:44.Getting him quickly to one of Ukraine's top hospitals

:39:45. > :39:47.was crucial for preventing him being blind in one eye.

:39:48. > :39:50.TRANSLATION: If we had lost time, there would have been a 99%

:39:51. > :39:55.chance of him losing his sight completely.

:39:56. > :39:58.That's why we had to do the work in the first hours.

:39:59. > :40:00.We managed to extract the plastic and

:40:01. > :40:05.By the morning, Chris was able to count my fingers.

:40:06. > :40:08.Chris says he wants to keep photographing the people whose lives

:40:09. > :40:11.are trapped in the war zone of eastern Ukraine.

:40:12. > :40:15.He's raising money for Elena's family and he is lucky.

:40:16. > :40:30.The doctors think his full sight will return one day.

:40:31. > :40:36.Lots of you getting in touch on poverty and the research on the

:40:37. > :40:42.number of people who are trying to get by on salaries, an income, way

:40:43. > :40:49.below the level that the foundation says is necessary for an adequate

:40:50. > :40:54.lifestyle. Jen says my daughter is a 2-1 graduate and works hard, but is

:40:55. > :41:00.struggling to manage other mortgage and bills and has to choose between

:41:01. > :41:04.heating and eating. She has to work the extra hours to survive. There is

:41:05. > :41:07.no Government help and no permanent full-time jobs paying her the wage

:41:08. > :41:11.she needs. We told graduates that education is the key to a bright

:41:12. > :41:15.future. Clearly, it isn't for the vast majority with degrees. A

:41:16. > :41:20.texter, "I get ?130 a week from which I have to pay rent, feed and

:41:21. > :41:25.clothe myself. The answer, reduce MPs salaries by half. That will

:41:26. > :41:30.bring in millions." Christie tweets, "I think the figures are inflated.

:41:31. > :41:39.I'm below this poverty line and living fine." Another tweets,

:41:40. > :41:42."In-work poverty, a phenomenon. Greed -- exploitation." Another

:41:43. > :41:46.viewer says, "If you can't afford to live in London, surely you have to

:41:47. > :41:52.move away." Another texter says, "I am a married man. I live on ?26,000

:41:53. > :41:56.and I have two cars and go abroad every year. I don't know where the

:41:57. > :42:01.reported figures come from." Thank you.

:42:02. > :42:04.The long wait by fans of His Dark Materials trilogy

:42:05. > :42:07.22 years after publication of the bestselling novels,

:42:08. > :42:09.the fantasy author Philip Pullman has revealed the story

:42:10. > :42:12.for The Book of Dust, which comes out in October.

:42:13. > :42:14.The original trilogy - Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife

:42:15. > :42:16.and The Amber Spyglass - is currently being

:42:17. > :42:20.The new series will return to the story of Lyra Belacqua,

:42:21. > :42:23.and will begin when the heroine is a baby, and move

:42:24. > :42:31.Philip Pullman has been talking to the BBC.

:42:32. > :42:40.The book of dust is something I have had in mind for a long time. The

:42:41. > :42:43.story of Lyra is finished, but there are other stories that can be told

:42:44. > :42:47.about the people in the book and the world of the book and one of them

:42:48. > :42:52.has been occupying my imagination for quite sometime. Sometimes when

:42:53. > :42:58.you write a story that comes before another story or after another

:42:59. > :43:04.story, people say is it a prequel or a sequel. It is neither. It is an

:43:05. > :43:11.equal. It is a different story. It begins roughly ten years before His

:43:12. > :43:17.Dark Materials and continues roughly ten years after His Dark Materials

:43:18. > :43:21.so we see Lyra as a baby. She is an important baby so all sorts of

:43:22. > :43:26.activity goes on around her and we see her in the second book as an

:43:27. > :43:31.adult. She is 20 years old. The ideal reader is someone who has read

:43:32. > :43:35.His Dark Materials or maybe read it as a child. That's not to say this

:43:36. > :43:41.book can only be read by people who have passed a test by reading His

:43:42. > :43:46.Dark Materials first. I felt one day I would write something that would

:43:47. > :43:49.be a success. Why did I feel that? Conceit, I expect.

:43:50. > :43:51.In our Brighton newsroom is the children's author

:43:52. > :43:55.In Huddersfield is Joanne Harris, who's an admirer of Pullman's work

:43:56. > :43:58.And in Oxford is Richard Ovenden, who's the head librarian

:43:59. > :44:01.at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

:44:02. > :44:10.Thank you very much for joining us. Joanne, I think you're a friend of

:44:11. > :44:15.Philip Pullman's as well. What is it that you love about the books? Well,

:44:16. > :44:18.I think they are wonderfully, beautifully written pieces of work

:44:19. > :44:22.and they cross over so well from children's fiction to adult fiction

:44:23. > :44:26.because they are peppered with so many literary reference that is

:44:27. > :44:30.children may or may not pick up. But there has never been any talking

:44:31. > :44:34.down to the audience with Philip Pullman's books. It has taken a long

:44:35. > :44:40.time for an equal. Why do you think it has taken so long? You are a

:44:41. > :44:43.friend of his? These things take time TA to be good they have to take

:44:44. > :44:47.the time that they take and it is very brave to announce that you're

:44:48. > :44:51.writing something and then to say well, you're not going to see it for

:44:52. > :44:56.years and years, but sometimes that's what you need because the

:44:57. > :45:03.readers deserve the best and they also will not give a book away if it

:45:04. > :45:08.is not finished. Have you discussed him writing this privately? No, but

:45:09. > :45:15.I've heard him talk about it and I've heard mention of The Book Of

:45:16. > :45:20.Dust and I was thinking I wonder when I get to read it? But you have

:45:21. > :45:24.to put that impatience aside. Do you think he felt pressure to follow up?

:45:25. > :45:28.I hope not. I think he's probably tougher than that. I would have felt

:45:29. > :45:34.an enormous amount of pressure, but no, I think he takes the time that

:45:35. > :45:35.he takes and that's right. Nick Tucker, are you excited about

:45:36. > :45:47.the new offering? Definitely because having read the

:45:48. > :45:53.trilogy twice and written a book about it, I'm still not absolutely

:45:54. > :45:58.sure what Dust is and he promises in the new book to finally nailed down

:45:59. > :46:07.this very fascinating but really quite ambiguous substance. So this

:46:08. > :46:10.will be a big publishing event. Already people on Twitter are

:46:11. > :46:16.terribly excited about it. Although he does not leave you dangling

:46:17. > :46:22.exactly at the end of book-macro, you want to know what is going to

:46:23. > :46:28.happen to Lyra and now we will know if she gets back together with a man

:46:29. > :46:31.she loves who happens to be living in another world. With something

:46:32. > :46:35.like this which is a phenomenon, people get very passionate about it.

:46:36. > :46:37.You are saying that you have read the books several times and there

:46:38. > :46:47.are things that you still don't understand. What is it about an

:46:48. > :46:55.author that becomes a phenomenon? It is when an author does not tie

:46:56. > :46:59.himself down to too much detail. , any particular idea of moment of

:47:00. > :47:05.history. If you can generalise with your writing, you can find that

:47:06. > :47:13.perhaps it has any relevance because it might refer to something that has

:47:14. > :47:18.not happened yet. Philip is a very ambitious writer. He is a wonderful

:47:19. > :47:23.storyteller but he is also full of ideas. Read one of his books and you

:47:24. > :47:27.are very entertained but you come out thinking about alternative

:47:28. > :47:34.parallel universes, about his fascination with quantum physics and

:47:35. > :47:37.string theory but all made very approachable by the genius of a

:47:38. > :47:41.storyteller who just makes you want to turn from the first page to the

:47:42. > :47:48.last. Richard, you are joining us from Oxford, from the Bodleian

:47:49. > :47:54.library. The work is interwoven throughout Oxford. Absolutely and

:47:55. > :48:00.one of the most exciting things about the promise of the new book is

:48:01. > :48:03.that for us in Oxford, it will be to see how the city and the university

:48:04. > :48:07.buildings, the great institutions like the Bodleian, the botanic

:48:08. > :48:13.Gardens and the museums are going to feature in the new story. One of the

:48:14. > :48:23.most incredible things about book-macro has been the way in which

:48:24. > :48:27.he has conjured -- about His Dark Materials is the way he's put

:48:28. > :48:32.together the magical world and the real world. We can walk around the

:48:33. > :48:37.city and think of passages from the books. The idea that we have got

:48:38. > :48:41.more to do a ranging from the Pitt Rivers Museum, or the physics

:48:42. > :48:49.Department, or suburban streets, the Bodleian, obviously, that is just an

:48:50. > :48:53.incredibly exciting thing, an exciting prospect in store.

:48:54. > :48:57.Particularly in these kind of very challenging times, to have this

:48:58. > :49:03.incredibly rich and stimulating imaginary world, this very

:49:04. > :49:10.compelling and moving story, to be able to go back into that world is

:49:11. > :49:15.just such an enticing prospect. Joanne Harris, how would you rank

:49:16. > :49:22.him as a writer? Where would you put him? He's a top class writer in any

:49:23. > :49:26.genre. Thank you for joining us. Fans will not have too much longer

:49:27. > :49:27.to wait when you think about how long it has been, many years but now

:49:28. > :49:29.it will be October. The latest unemployment figures show

:49:30. > :49:31.another drop in the number The figures include three months up

:49:32. > :49:36.to December show that unemployment Average earnings also increased

:49:37. > :49:42.by 2.6% in the year to December but that's down by 0.2%

:49:43. > :49:45.on the previous month. The employment rate,

:49:46. > :49:48.the proportion of people aged from 16-64 who were in work,

:49:49. > :49:51.was 74.6%, the highest since With me now is our economics

:49:52. > :50:06.correspondent Andy Verity. What do these figures say about the

:50:07. > :50:10.state of the economy? Good morning. We are seeing the same thing in a

:50:11. > :50:14.way that we have seen for a while, the unemployment rate is very low

:50:15. > :50:18.indeed, 4.8%, the lowest it has been since 2005. We are also seeing the

:50:19. > :50:23.same thing we have seen for years, the workforce is still growing. That

:50:24. > :50:31.rate is a proportion of an increasing workforce, 4.8% is low

:50:32. > :50:34.but still 1.6 million people. The workforce has been increasing

:50:35. > :50:38.largely because of immigration from EU access and states but what is

:50:39. > :50:42.interesting in the numbers is it suggests the increase in the

:50:43. > :50:44.workforce is slowing down. Whereas a few months ago, I would have been

:50:45. > :50:51.telling you that the workforce had grown by 500,000, now I can tell you

:50:52. > :50:55.it has grown by more like 300,000. The number of people coming from EU

:50:56. > :51:01.access and states, non-UK nationals coming from the rest of the EU was

:51:02. > :51:08.up by 190,000, still an increase but much less so than it was. We have

:51:09. > :51:11.not left the EU yet so why is this? No, we haven't but the office for

:51:12. > :51:15.National statistics does not give reasons for these numbers so you are

:51:16. > :51:20.left in the realms of speculation. You might suggest that perhaps the

:51:21. > :51:24.prospect of Brexit might put some EU access and state citizens of coming

:51:25. > :51:29.to the UK. Certainly we hear anecdotally from some companies that

:51:30. > :51:33.they have got a skills shortage, construction companies, retail

:51:34. > :51:36.trade, the hospitality industry, hotels, have all highlighted skills

:51:37. > :51:40.gaps and we know that those are the industries which rely on immigrant

:51:41. > :51:44.labour. But that is anecdotal evidence. We could use something

:51:45. > :51:48.more solid to try to establish whether migration from the rest of

:51:49. > :51:49.the EU has slowed down since the referendum. Thank you for joining

:51:50. > :51:51.us. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott

:51:52. > :51:53.says women could be put off entering politics because of abuse suffered

:51:54. > :51:55.by female MPs. She's spoken out about her own

:51:56. > :51:58.experiences after recently receiving It's after Brexit Secretary David

:51:59. > :52:06.Davis appeared to say he would not try to kiss the Labour politician

:52:07. > :52:08.because he's "not blind". We can speak now to SNP MP

:52:09. > :52:11.Anne McLaughlin and Labour MP Dawn Butler, who have both

:52:12. > :52:24.suffered abuse themselves. Thank you for joining us. Tell us

:52:25. > :52:27.what views you have suffered. Well, I have to say, first, I've never

:52:28. > :52:33.suffered the level of abuse that Diane Abbott has. But yeah, it has

:52:34. > :52:38.been pretty bad, pretty nasty stuff but I have a method of dealing with

:52:39. > :52:42.it. When a deluge of tweets start to come in, usually about the time you

:52:43. > :52:46.say something, you stick your head above the parapet and say something

:52:47. > :52:50.that a group of people won't like, I get someone else to take on my

:52:51. > :52:53.Twitter account and stop reading it. You have to be able to do that to

:52:54. > :52:57.protect yourself from it. I get all sorts of advice on how I can improve

:52:58. > :53:03.the way I look, what I should do with my hair and my face, which

:53:04. > :53:06.includes putting a bag over it. And all sorts of nasty, personal stuff

:53:07. > :53:11.which has nothing to do with the job I am trying to do as the MP for

:53:12. > :53:18.Glasgow North East. What about you, what have your experiences been? I

:53:19. > :53:26.agree, you do suffer sexism and with me also, racism. You get told about

:53:27. > :53:31.what to do, your weight, your cleavage, what to wear, what not to

:53:32. > :53:36.wear. People are just completely vile sometimes. And with social

:53:37. > :53:40.media, it makes it worse because people know that they can get

:53:41. > :53:45.directly into your inbox and get to see those things. Blocking and

:53:46. > :53:51.muting are great buttons on Twitter but it will put a lot of women. It

:53:52. > :53:55.is not the first thing you think about when you are standing for

:53:56. > :53:59.election. You think about what you can do in society, the change you

:54:00. > :54:03.can make and you don't really factor into that that you are going to have

:54:04. > :54:07.to consider all of this abuse as you go along. Diane Abbott says she is

:54:08. > :54:14.worried it is putting women of politics. As it made either of you

:54:15. > :54:21.contemplate your career choice? I change what I do sometimes. We

:54:22. > :54:26.consider our security a lot more. You know, when we are going to

:54:27. > :54:31.events, we consider the make-up of that event, etc. I am more concerned

:54:32. > :54:38.for myself and my own safety. I think my younger self would not have

:54:39. > :54:40.put me. I would have liked to prepare myself for what it would

:54:41. > :54:46.feel like to be discriminated in that way and not just being a woman

:54:47. > :54:49.but a black woman. As I say, you don't really think when you go into

:54:50. > :54:54.Parliament that you would have to deal with all of that. Inside

:54:55. > :54:57.Parliament and outside. Inside Parliament? Have you experienced

:54:58. > :55:06.this inside Parliament? Yeah, you do. I talked about it before, when,

:55:07. > :55:13.you know, I was mistaken for a cleaner, or told not to go into a

:55:14. > :55:19.certain section because you do I think I am? Who says that to you?

:55:20. > :55:24.Fellow MPs have said that to me. Sorry, fellow MPs thought you were

:55:25. > :55:31.the clean-up? Yes, yes, I went into the lift and they said the lift was

:55:32. > :55:35.not for cleaners. Day, sorry to keep interrupting but I mean, this is

:55:36. > :55:41.extraordinary. More than one MP thought you were a cleaner? Tell us

:55:42. > :55:48.what happened. I went into the lift early in the morning and I had my

:55:49. > :55:51.coat on. I went into the lift, and there are separate lifts, one for

:55:52. > :55:55.MPs and one for everyone else, because we have to get to committee

:55:56. > :56:00.rooms quickly and somebody said, "I'm really sorry but this lift

:56:01. > :56:04.really isn't for cleaners". You know, I was quite stunned and

:56:05. > :56:08.shocked by that and I turned around and said, "Well, even if I was a

:56:09. > :56:14.cleaner, you are rude and ignorant, but in fact, I'm not a cleaner, I'm

:56:15. > :56:19.an MP". They just turned their back. There have been other cases where I

:56:20. > :56:23.have been going to take my team to have lunch and I have been stopped

:56:24. > :56:29.by a fellow MP asking me where I think I'm going. I said, "We were

:56:30. > :56:36.going to have lunch". He said, "This is only for MPs, who are you?" And I

:56:37. > :56:39.said, "Who are you?" You can stand up and have an argument but you have

:56:40. > :56:43.to choose your battles and this is why the whole culture of Parliament

:56:44. > :56:48.has to change. It is so important in the environment we are in now, that

:56:49. > :56:53.the Prime Minister takes a step to saying that this is just

:56:54. > :56:56.unacceptable for anybody, for MPs, researchers, visitors, it is just an

:56:57. > :57:03.unacceptable way to behave in a workplace. You are nodding. Dawn is

:57:04. > :57:07.very well able to stand up to people like that but why should she have

:57:08. > :57:14.do? Why should she have to stand up to that kind of rudeness, sexism and

:57:15. > :57:18.racism? My concern is about women who might want to go into politics

:57:19. > :57:21.but are put off and I know some of them because I've tried to convince

:57:22. > :57:24.them to go into politics because they would be really good at

:57:25. > :57:27.representing people and fighting for their rights but they have seen some

:57:28. > :57:31.of the stuff that I have had and they just can't bring themselves to

:57:32. > :57:35.do it. They think they could not cope with it. There are two things

:57:36. > :57:39.that need to happen. It needs to stop but until it does, we need to

:57:40. > :57:45.be looking at equipping women and anyone who suffers abuse to deal

:57:46. > :57:48.with it. We need -- I found ways of dealing with it and I want women to

:57:49. > :57:52.know there are ways of dealing with it. We almost out of time but

:57:53. > :57:56.obviously, good to have ways of dealing with it but what about ways

:57:57. > :58:00.of stopping it? You said you had some ideas. Mine are mainly about

:58:01. > :58:05.how to deal with it. I don't have ways to stop it, to be honest,

:58:06. > :58:10.because, you know, social media means anyone can say anything they

:58:11. > :58:15.like. For me, I had to learn how I respond to it. Thank you for joining

:58:16. > :58:22.us. We are out of time. Thank you for your company this morning. BBC

:58:23. > :58:24.newsroom life is coming up next. I will see you at the same time

:58:25. > :58:33.tomorrow. -- News live. Rumour live. Donald Trump's first 100 days

:58:34. > :58:36.in the White House are defining how he'll deal

:58:37. > :58:40.with the rest of the world.