16/02/2017

:00:08. > :00:09.Hello it's Thursday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling,

:00:10. > :00:14.Police arrest a third person in connection with

:00:15. > :00:16.the apparent poisoning of Kim Jong-nam,

:00:17. > :00:20.half-brother of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

:00:21. > :00:23.At this stage it's too early to say whether a foreign

:00:24. > :00:31.South Korea says it's convinced it was North Korea but Malaysia

:00:32. > :00:41.A million pensioners are not receiving the support they are

:00:42. > :00:42.entitled to. We will look at what it means for those that need it.

:00:43. > :00:46.And why is so hard to talk about the menopause?

:00:47. > :00:55.The first time I had a hot sweat, it did take me by surprise. What is

:00:56. > :01:05.that? What am I sitting on! It is like sitting on a radiator.

:01:06. > :01:09.Hello. Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11am this morning.

:01:10. > :01:11.We're also talking about social care this morning, after the charity Age

:01:12. > :01:17.UK said hundreds of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people

:01:18. > :01:19.in England are not receiving the help they need,

:01:20. > :01:21.even though they are struggling with essential daily

:01:22. > :01:27.tasks such as washing, eating and using toilet.

:01:28. > :01:29.The charity says the system is close to collapse

:01:30. > :01:44.Let us know your experiences, use the hashtag, #VictoriaLIVE

:01:45. > :01:46.and if you text, you will be charged

:01:47. > :01:49.Malaysian police have arrested two more people in connection

:01:50. > :01:51.with the death of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korean

:01:52. > :01:55.He died after apparently being attacked at the airport

:01:56. > :01:57.in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur earlier this week.

:01:58. > :01:59.One of those arrested was a woman travelling

:02:00. > :02:04.How, in a crowded airport in broad daylight,

:02:05. > :02:11.Malaysian police are trying to piece together how Kim Jong-nam died

:02:12. > :02:13.as he waited to board a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport.

:02:14. > :02:19.These CCTV images appear to show one of the suspects.

:02:20. > :02:21.Police have now arrested two women, one carrying a Vietnamese passport,

:02:22. > :02:28.South Korea's spy agency believes suspected North Korean agents

:02:29. > :02:36.TRANSLATION: The cause of murder seems likely to be of poison.

:02:37. > :02:42.But it is to be checked precisely through autopsy.

:02:43. > :02:45.Inside North Korea, thousands gathered to mark the birthday

:02:46. > :02:49.of the country's late leader, while the isolated nation's

:02:50. > :02:56.current ruler, Kim Jong-un, has remained silent on the death

:02:57. > :03:00.Back in the Malaysian capital, North Korean officials including

:03:01. > :03:06.the ambassador were seen visiting the hospital on Wednesday.

:03:07. > :03:10.This is the Kim dynasty. Kim Jong-il had five children.

:03:11. > :03:15.Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son, fell out of favour and lived in exile.

:03:16. > :03:20.He was bypassed for leadership in favour of his youngest half-brother.

:03:21. > :03:25.Despite the suspicions and speculation, it is not yet clear

:03:26. > :03:32.A postmortem of the body has been completed but the results

:03:33. > :03:40.Our correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in Kuala Lumpur, and earlier

:03:41. > :03:42.she sent this update on the investigation.

:03:43. > :03:44.The investigation has been extremely fluid,

:03:45. > :03:50.with information changing pretty much by the hour.

:03:51. > :03:54.This morning, we received a statement from the Royal Malaysian

:03:55. > :03:56.Police, that said an Indonesian woman, a woman carrying

:03:57. > :04:00.an Indonesian passport, was arrested late last night.

:04:01. > :04:02.She was arrested alone and they didn't say

:04:03. > :04:08.What we understand is that she was identified from the closed-circuit

:04:09. > :04:11.camera footage taken from the scene of the crime.

:04:12. > :04:16.This is the second arrest in this investigation so far,

:04:17. > :04:21.but three days on from the death of the man believed to be Kim

:04:22. > :04:26.there is still very little information about why

:04:27. > :04:28.he was killed or whether it was Kim Jong-nam at all.

:04:29. > :04:32.In fact, I'm standing right in front of the Kuala Lumpur hospital

:04:33. > :04:37.where the body was brought for a postmortem investigation.

:04:38. > :04:40.Remember, Malaysian police have said that until that

:04:41. > :04:45.investigation is completed, they can't confirm the identity

:04:46. > :04:49.of the man who died at the airport on Monday, or what caused the death.

:04:50. > :04:51.Now we have been told that the postmortem has been

:04:52. > :04:53.completed but the results of that investigation have

:04:54. > :04:57.Let's go live now to Seoul in South Korea,

:04:58. > :05:10.Kevin, now three arrests, and more details emerging about potentially

:05:11. > :05:17.the story behind it, claims that in 2012, he had written to Kim Jong-un

:05:18. > :05:22.an, begging him to spare his life after a previous assassination

:05:23. > :05:34.attempt -- Kim Jong-un. The person detained was carrying an

:05:35. > :05:38.Indonesian passport. But it is quite likely an investigation may head

:05:39. > :05:41.towards the true identity. Earlier on, Malaysia nor authorities

:05:42. > :05:48.released a photo taken from a security camera thought to be one of

:05:49. > :05:55.the assailants. It is believed that it may have been a North Korean

:05:56. > :05:59.agent. A colour image of a young Asian woman in heavy make-up and

:06:00. > :06:03.casual clothes. Several other members thought to be part of the

:06:04. > :06:06.same group are being pursued a according to local media.

:06:07. > :06:12.A huge amount of interest around the world in this story, isn't there?

:06:13. > :06:17.That's correct. This incident has created a frenzy of media interest

:06:18. > :06:24.in the region, in China, South Korea and Japan. It is just the bit

:06:25. > :06:28.bizarreness in its entirety, Malaysia and women employed as

:06:29. > :06:33.assassins, and the way the murder was carried out with various

:06:34. > :06:37.conflicting theories of a poisonous needle, or a liquid laced cloth, all

:06:38. > :06:42.aspects of this incident has kept the public absolutely mesmerised,

:06:43. > :06:50.even to the detail of what was printed on the shirt that the female

:06:51. > :06:55.suspect was wearing, with the huge letters LOL, an acronym for laughing

:06:56. > :07:01.out loud plastered on the front of the assailant's outfit. Everyone is

:07:02. > :07:02.captivated by the story in its intrigue.

:07:03. > :07:07.Thanks very much, Kevin. Ben is in the BBC Newsroom

:07:08. > :07:10.with a summary of the rest More than three million people

:07:11. > :07:15.could avoid getting colds and flu every year by taking Vitamin D

:07:16. > :07:17.supplements according The study in the British Medical

:07:18. > :07:21.Journal calls for the vitamin But Public Health England says

:07:22. > :07:24.the evidence remains inconclusive. Our health correspondent

:07:25. > :07:28.Dominic Hughes reports. This is what Vitamin D

:07:29. > :07:31.deficiency can look like. Softened bones bowing under

:07:32. > :07:33.the weight of the body. Now Researchers say Vitamin D

:07:34. > :07:44.can have other benefits They argue that if everyone got

:07:45. > :07:53.enough Vitamin D there would be a 10% reduction in the risk of

:07:54. > :07:56.respiratory illnesses like coughs, Among those with the very lowest

:07:57. > :08:01.levels of Vitamin D, the benefit is even greater -

:08:02. > :08:04.a 50% reduction. And across the whole UK population,

:08:05. > :08:07.that would equate to more than 3 million people avoiding

:08:08. > :08:09.a cold or flu each year. At present, people are being

:08:10. > :08:12.asked to take supplements in order to meet their Vitamin D requirement

:08:13. > :08:16.over winter and spring, but it's expensive and a lot of

:08:17. > :08:19.people won't remember able to take or remember to take

:08:20. > :08:22.supplements daily. So a more effective strategy

:08:23. > :08:24.is to introduce food fortification Sunlight on the skin

:08:25. > :08:28.is the best source of Vitamin D but the increased use of sunscreen,

:08:29. > :08:31.and our weather, means exposure We are already advised to take

:08:32. > :08:38.vitamin D throughout the winter and spring months

:08:39. > :08:40.to boost our levels. It can also be found in some foods,

:08:41. > :08:44.like oily fish, eggs and cereals, and the US and Finland add Vitamin D

:08:45. > :08:52.as a supplement to food. But some scientists here are not

:08:53. > :08:54.convinced there's enough evidence that Vitamin D can prevent other

:08:55. > :08:57.illnesses to justify following suit. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:08:58. > :09:03.will meet his American counterpart Rex Tillerson later today,

:09:04. > :09:09.for the first time since Mr Tillerson was confirmed

:09:10. > :09:11.as President Trump's The two men will be attending

:09:12. > :09:15.a meeting of foreign ministers The US State Department has

:09:16. > :09:19.indicated that Mr Tillerson will try to provide a comforting

:09:20. > :09:21.message to countries made uneasy by the apparent changes in

:09:22. > :09:29.America's foreign policy positions. President Trump has suffered another

:09:30. > :09:32.set-back in his efforts to finalise His choice for Labor Secretary,

:09:33. > :09:41.Andrew Puzder, has withdrawn from the nomination process

:09:42. > :09:43.after several Republican senators Mr Puzder has admitted that he once

:09:44. > :09:49.employed a housekeeper who wasn't legally

:09:50. > :09:52.allowed to work in the US. Social care for elderly people

:09:53. > :09:55.is on the brink of collapse in some parts of England,

:09:56. > :10:01.according to the charity Age UK. It says more than 50,000 people

:10:02. > :10:04.are now not receiving any help, despite struggling with essential

:10:05. > :10:06.daily tasks such as washing, Our Health Correspondent

:10:07. > :10:09.Sophie Hutchinson reports. For ten years, Elaine Yates

:10:10. > :10:16.has cared for her husband. They managed to get

:10:17. > :10:18.some social care. But Elaine, who runs

:10:19. > :10:20.a support group for carers, When Michael first

:10:21. > :10:33.came into the system, it was a lot easier,

:10:34. > :10:37.because we had our own care manager who grew to know us and could help

:10:38. > :10:40.support us in what we needed. Today, people coming

:10:41. > :10:46.into the system, they don't get that kind of support, they don't

:10:47. > :10:48.get their own care manager. Today's report from Age UK

:10:49. > :10:51.says that since 2010, that has been a rise of 50%

:10:52. > :10:54.in the amount of elderly people The charity's particularly concerned

:10:55. > :11:03.with the more than 50,000 people who struggle with three or more

:11:04. > :11:07.of these activities, While social care is run

:11:08. > :11:17.in different ways across the UK, cuts have meant councils in England

:11:18. > :11:21.have had to reduce The Councils

:11:22. > :11:29.in England have had to reduce the amount they spend

:11:30. > :11:31.on social care. And Age UK says emergency funding

:11:32. > :11:34.is now needed to avert a complete We're seeing the beginnings

:11:35. > :11:37.of something that's That's because, if there

:11:38. > :11:41.is going to be any extra money for social care,

:11:42. > :11:42.it's not coming yet. Because every day we have an ageing

:11:43. > :11:47.population and more people over 85 The Government says it recognises

:11:48. > :11:50.the pressures on the system and is working on

:11:51. > :11:52.a sustainable solution. There's now a growing expectation

:11:53. > :11:55.a rescue package may be included Britain's most senior judge has

:11:56. > :12:02.criticised sections of the press for their coverage of the Article 50

:12:03. > :12:07.court ruling, which said Parliament had to be consulted before

:12:08. > :12:10.the formal process for leaving The President of

:12:11. > :12:14.the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, also accused politicians of not

:12:15. > :12:27.being quick enough to defend Some of the things that were said

:12:28. > :12:29.risked undermining the judiciary, and unfairly undermining the

:12:30. > :12:32.judiciary. And therefore, undermining the rule of law.

:12:33. > :12:36.A mother and teenage son have been arrested after she allegedly

:12:37. > :12:39.faked her death in Zanzibar in a bid to claim ?140,000

:12:40. > :12:44.Police said the 45-year-old woman's son and his guardian claimed she had

:12:45. > :12:47.died in a car crash in East Africa and allegedly provided

:12:48. > :12:54.But instead she was living in Canada.

:12:55. > :12:56.The insurance company was unable to verify the woman's death,

:12:57. > :13:01.refused to pay out on the policy and contacted police.

:13:02. > :13:07.The Church of England says its bishops will take time

:13:08. > :13:10.to reflect after the ruling general synod voted down an important

:13:11. > :13:14.The clergy chose to ignore recommendations which suggested that

:13:15. > :13:18.a union should only be between a man and a woman.

:13:19. > :13:24.The bishops are now expected to produce a new report on the issue.

:13:25. > :13:30.Hundreds of people demonstrated on the streets of Paris last night to

:13:31. > :13:32.show support for a black youth worker who claims he was sexually

:13:33. > :13:35.assaulted by police earlier this month.

:13:36. > :13:38.There's been growing tension in some of the city's suburbs since the 22

:13:39. > :13:40.year-old was arrested a fortnight ago.

:13:41. > :13:42.One police officer has been charged with rape,

:13:43. > :13:47.President Francois Hollande has called for calm and for justice.

:13:48. > :13:50.A state of emergency has been declared in Christchurch

:13:51. > :13:52.in New Zealand as a huge wildfire continues to burn,

:13:53. > :13:57.forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.

:13:58. > :14:00.The military has been deployed to help tackle the fire -

:14:01. > :14:06.investigations into what caused it are continuing.

:14:07. > :14:09.Now we've heard of birds, or even drones, being a danger to planes,

:14:10. > :14:14.but now pilots may also have to look out for deer.

:14:15. > :14:22.Pilots are taught to watch out for many dangers during take-off,

:14:23. > :14:27.But one flight in North Carolina had another experience.

:14:28. > :14:29.This plane was taking off from Charlotte in North Carolina

:14:30. > :14:32.when it struck a deer on the runway and was forced to make

:14:33. > :14:37.The surprise impact damaged one of the wings and caused

:14:38. > :14:39.a fuel leakage, which saw emergency services spraying foam

:14:40. > :14:44.No injuries were reported among those on board,

:14:45. > :14:47.we suspect the deer was probably not so lucky.

:14:48. > :14:57.Oh, dear. That is a summary of the latest BBC News, more from me later.

:14:58. > :15:01.I thought we might see the deer, but thankfully, we didn't. Let me bring

:15:02. > :15:07.you some comments on the menopause. We will talk about it later. Is it a

:15:08. > :15:12.taboo? Is it difficult to talk about it if you are going through it? What

:15:13. > :15:15.have your experiences been? Jane on Facebook says not getting the right

:15:16. > :15:19.help from your local hospital on these issues is not help either.

:15:20. > :15:22.Glad we can talk out about this because it is a nightmare to live

:15:23. > :15:26.with. Lindsay on Facebook, I cook the bed every night and had to get

:15:27. > :15:32.out to call it down or I never get back to sleep. Insomnia is also a

:15:33. > :15:36.blight. Let us know your experiences of the menopause and what have you

:15:37. > :15:41.found works to get through it? Kirsty Walker has made a documentary

:15:42. > :15:42.on the menopause. She will join us with other women talking about their

:15:43. > :15:55.experiences. Hugh, not a very good night for

:15:56. > :16:01.Arsenal, I guess that puts it mildly? Yes, that is putting it

:16:02. > :16:05.mildly. It is an embarrassment of epic proportions for Arsene Wenger

:16:06. > :16:09.and his team. Former players, pundit, fans seem to be reaching a

:16:10. > :16:13.universal view it has been a good journey but the wheels have come off

:16:14. > :16:17.and it is time for a change at Arsenal. They have been knocked out

:16:18. > :16:22.at the last 16 stage of the Champions League in the last six

:16:23. > :16:28.seasons. After a huge 5-1 defeat last night it looks set to be

:16:29. > :16:32.another early exit. Amazingly Sanchez's equaliser meant things

:16:33. > :16:37.were level at half-time, there was a brief glimmer of hope for the fans

:16:38. > :16:42.but they were torn apart and the capitulation compounds the pressure

:16:43. > :16:46.on the boss Arsene Wenger, he is under fire, a promising title

:16:47. > :16:51.challenge faltered early on, no Premier League title for 12 years

:16:52. > :16:56.and lack of character was put into stark contrast, against that of the

:16:57. > :17:01.Bayern team. Arsenal looking lost following an injury to their

:17:02. > :17:07.captain. The goalkeeper making a few great saves. That prevented things

:17:08. > :17:10.from being worse. It is the same old story for fans of the Gunners and

:17:11. > :17:18.with the manager's contract coming to an end in a few month's time the

:17:19. > :17:23.out calls will grow louder. After he spoke briefly to the media. The real

:17:24. > :17:31.problems we faced was after the third goal, I felt, because we lost

:17:32. > :17:37.our organisation, and we looked mentally very jaded, and very

:17:38. > :17:45.vulnerable from that moment on wards, and after, the last 25

:17:46. > :17:51.minutes, it was a nightmare for us. After judgment came in from all

:17:52. > :17:57.quarters. Martin Keown a former supporter of his former boss said it

:17:58. > :18:01.was embarrassing. He called it Arsene Wenger's lowest point and on

:18:02. > :18:05.Radio 5 Live they had this assessment. This is a chronicle of

:18:06. > :18:09.death foretold. There is no leadership. The club have an owner

:18:10. > :18:14.who is silent. He doesn't communicate with the fans, who is

:18:15. > :18:17.sleepwalking towards the abyss here, you have a manager in Arsene Wenger

:18:18. > :18:22.whose best days are behind him. Everyone can see that, even the

:18:23. > :18:28.faithful can really see that this is a manager who has been overtaken by

:18:29. > :18:38.the Contes and Klopp, you have a lack of leadership on the pitch

:18:39. > :18:43.which is highlighted when cosh any. They are a laughing stork, you have

:18:44. > :18:47.a manager who has lost his leadership skill, there is no Ince

:18:48. > :18:59.vincible streak in the team any more or the manager. That view was

:19:00. > :19:07.reflected in the newspapers, the Sun say Bay bye Arsene. They are called

:19:08. > :19:12.spineless in the Mail. The pressure grows on Wenger and that sums it up.

:19:13. > :19:15.Groundhog Day for the Arsenal fan, we will wait and see whether Arsene

:19:16. > :19:17.Wenger is given a new contract and more time at the club. We will see.

:19:18. > :19:19.We will. Thank you. The menopause is something that

:19:20. > :19:23.happens to all women - And what's the best way to deal

:19:24. > :19:28.with the side effects that A new documentary by Newsnight

:19:29. > :19:31.presenter Kirsty Wark which airs tonight takes an unflinching look

:19:32. > :19:33.at everything to do with the menopause -

:19:34. > :19:36.and asks whether women have been needlessly denied hormone

:19:37. > :19:53.replacement therapy for years. There is something about the word

:19:54. > :20:00.that has negative connotations of ages which in our youth obsessed

:20:01. > :20:03.culture can be debilitating. We are living longer, working longer and

:20:04. > :20:09.menopause is a feature of midlife, it is the start of a new chapter so

:20:10. > :20:14.why the taboo. It really is time for a change.

:20:15. > :20:20.So sadly, our ovaries are only designed to last a certain number of

:20:21. > :20:24.year, we produce egg cells up to the late 40, early 50s and by the age of

:20:25. > :20:29.51 on average women are stopping having periods and the reason they

:20:30. > :20:33.stop is because we run out of egg cells but the complicated thing is

:20:34. > :20:41.we live for many years beyond that. So, when our ovaries are not,ing,

:20:42. > :20:45.the key hormone we stop producing is oestrogen, rather than it being

:20:46. > :20:49.period stops it is about the consequences of lack of oestrogen.

:20:50. > :20:52.There are many aspects that women can be embarrassed to talk about. I

:20:53. > :20:57.thought it would be interesting to see if I could encourage them to

:20:58. > :21:05.open up on radio. Can I ask how good was it for you?

:21:06. > :21:11.Not great. No great. Medically induced hysterectomy. HRT for three

:21:12. > :21:16.years and then came the big boom scare, and suddenly, HRT was taboo

:21:17. > :21:19.and I came off it, and actually, my symptoms have not really gone away

:21:20. > :21:25.in the last ten years. What about you? I don't seem to have been

:21:26. > :21:32.affected, sorry, because I know that I annoy people. That is great. You

:21:33. > :21:37.are not. Virtually 100% will experience some symptoms. I do stick

:21:38. > :21:44.my leg out the bed at night. Hot flushes. That is a symptom, even if

:21:45. > :21:51.it is only one leg. It is only one leg. It would affect your euro

:21:52. > :21:58.genital symptoms. Dryness down below, loss of libido. Look, people

:21:59. > :22:02.don't want to talk about that stuff with their doctors even. What you

:22:03. > :22:09.want to hear from people. You get what you ant because we have lots of

:22:10. > :22:15.them. Let us speak to Nan. Good morning. How are you this morning?

:22:16. > :22:21.OK but I have had a horrible, horrible night with hot flushes.

:22:22. > :22:27.Does it affect you every fight? Every single night. What I would

:22:28. > :22:35.like to ask is, I am 78, am I too old to go back on to HRT? You may

:22:36. > :22:39.want to consider other options which can be helpful to control hot

:22:40. > :22:42.flushes which we sometimes use for ladies who are not so suitable for

:22:43. > :22:46.HRT. The most common treatment for

:22:47. > :22:51.menopausal symptoms is hormone replacement therapy. HRT. Which

:22:52. > :22:53.helps replace the oestrogen lost when our ovaries stop producing

:22:54. > :22:58.eggs. It can be taken via patches or as a

:22:59. > :23:04.gel or tablets. But it has been heart to work out if

:23:05. > :23:09.it is wise to take it. This is due to the confusion ignited by the

:23:10. > :23:15.publication of the women's health initiative study in America, back in

:23:16. > :23:24.2002. The study casts serious doubts on the safety of HRT. So 2002, HRT

:23:25. > :23:29.study. Cancelled over cancer and stroke fear, the Guardian HRT linked

:23:30. > :23:36.to breast cancer n the male it does more harm than good. New cancer fear

:23:37. > :23:43.for women taking HRT, then it is safe for millions of women. Again

:23:44. > :23:47.The Express two stories. New menopause guide say one million

:23:48. > :23:54.women can benefit from HRT. This is why it is all so confusing. I was

:23:55. > :23:59.using HRT tablets for three years after my hysterectomy but stopped

:24:00. > :24:04.suddenly, like so many women because of the scare. So in 2002 the results

:24:05. > :24:10.of the women's health initiative study came out and those suggested

:24:11. > :24:14.that being on HRT hugely increased your risk of breast cancer, that

:24:15. > :24:20.seemed like being on it for a short period. At that time people just

:24:21. > :24:24.stop taking it because of the risk. Lots without any discussion with a

:24:25. > :24:30.medical professional. They stopped it cold turkey. Then people stop

:24:31. > :24:35.coming to ask for it and GPs became less familiar with prescribing it

:24:36. > :24:38.and got caught up in the safety issues so were probably less likely

:24:39. > :24:42.to suggest it. It's a vicious circle. Yes. Subsequent research

:24:43. > :24:49.suggested that the analysis of the data was flawed. That the findings

:24:50. > :24:51.were overstated. But these more positive reappraisal received

:24:52. > :24:57.nothing like the same publicity as the original scare. More up-to-date

:24:58. > :25:01.researchers attempted to offer clarification of the risks involved.

:25:02. > :25:06.So let us look at this. Back when she was in her 30s Jennifer spawned

:25:07. > :25:13.sear was writing about the funny side of it. Did you go hospital? Yes

:25:14. > :25:19.and the gynaecologist. I hate them, a man who can look you in the vagina

:25:20. > :25:26.but never in the eye. I used that about four times. Times. Patsy has

:25:27. > :25:33.ohs borrow sips. She has the lowest bone denty on record.

:25:34. > :25:40.She is just gristle clinging on the bone powder. This is what happens

:25:41. > :25:48.when you have the menopause. No! No! No! Good. You look at that no. I

:25:49. > :25:52.know. Little did I know it was all going to happen. Yours was a

:25:53. > :26:00.particular kind of menopause, what happened? Was, I got breast cancer,

:26:01. > :26:08.and so I wasn't menopausal, I was still having periods, but second

:26:09. > :26:12.year of chemotherapy, all your periods stop, and so you plunged

:26:13. > :26:17.into it. Because you are so full of chemicals you have no idea. It is

:26:18. > :26:23.like the tiniest thing. Compared to everything else. So by the time you

:26:24. > :26:27.have got over the chemicals and you are on tamoxifen which gets rid of

:26:28. > :26:31.your oestrogen, you can't tell the difference, you know know what is

:26:32. > :26:36.coming out of chemo and what is menopause, and it wasn't until I

:26:37. > :26:39.think about a year after, that I started to feel like, this isn't,

:26:40. > :26:46.this doesn't feel right. This feels different. It changes your

:26:47. > :26:50.metabolism, you energy levels, your skin, your hair, everything. I mean

:26:51. > :26:58.it was quite astonishing. How did you deal with it? I don't know. I

:26:59. > :27:03.drank! No... I had a large glass of champagne. And got on with it. I

:27:04. > :27:07.think you get on with it. One of -- what are your #1i78 Toms now? Mine

:27:08. > :27:12.are night sweats and bad sleep patterns. I have had a good, I am

:27:13. > :27:17.very good at sleeping. Lucky you. I am very good at sleeping, but the

:27:18. > :27:24.first time I had a hot sweat, it did take my by surprise, I kept going,

:27:25. > :27:29.what's that. What am I sitting on? Am I sitting, it felt like sitting

:27:30. > :27:34.on a radiator. I was looking round going is everyone else? No, they are

:27:35. > :27:37.not, they are not hot like me. Do you feel different postmenopausele

:27:38. > :27:42.as to how you were before? Is that tied up in the breast cancer? No, I

:27:43. > :27:48.don't really think about the breast cancer. But I think, yes, I think,

:27:49. > :27:54.it happens and all of the things I used to make jokes about are so

:27:55. > :28:00.true. You know, just your place in the world and how you feel about

:28:01. > :28:06.yourself, your general feeling of sexiness and libido, and, and... It

:28:07. > :28:11.is an indefinable something that you don't have any more. But for me I

:28:12. > :28:17.feel, I feel completely able to do what I want to do.

:28:18. > :28:21.In in years past women have often been written off after a certain age

:28:22. > :28:26.when work and child rearing are at an end. But in the early 21st

:28:27. > :28:30.century, when the average life expectancy for women is now 81, how

:28:31. > :28:41.can we best approach this next stage?

:28:42. > :28:47.Later in the programme, we will be joined by Kirstie and group of other

:28:48. > :28:52.women to talk about their experiences and Sheila has tweeted

:28:53. > :28:57.to say I am 72. I have night sweats every two hours every night. Hence

:28:58. > :29:01.sleep disturbed every night. Doctors responses have been unhelpful. Laura

:29:02. > :29:05.says I had a pretty easy menopause, I read somewhere that sweet potato

:29:06. > :29:11.and so I helped so maybe that did help. I did have hot flushes,

:29:12. > :29:18.sometimes was a bit dippy, finding any good was a nightmare and most

:29:19. > :29:22.women were on denial. Knew people on HRT but whip they came have been

:29:23. > :29:25.unhelpful. Laura says I had a pretty easy menopause, I read somewhere

:29:26. > :29:28.that sweet potato and so I helped so maybe that did help. I did have hot

:29:29. > :29:30.flushes, sometimes was a bit dippy, finding any good was a nightmare and

:29:31. > :29:33.most women were on denial. Knew people on HRT but whip they came off

:29:34. > :29:35.had a menopause. "It makes life difficult. I have been suffering for

:29:36. > :29:37.four to five years. Not just hot flushes, brain delay, awful,

:29:38. > :29:40.continually fighting to find the right thing for me on a folic acid

:29:41. > :29:43.trial at present." Nightmare and most women were on denial. Knew

:29:44. > :29:45.people on HRT but whip they came off had a menopause. "It makes life

:29:46. > :29:47.difficult. I have been suffering for four to five years. Not just hot

:29:48. > :29:50.flushes, brain delay, awful, continually fighting to find the

:29:51. > :29:52.right thing for me on a folic acid trial at present." Michelle says "I

:29:53. > :29:55.have just finished a FIA year course of tamoxifen which forces your body

:29:56. > :29:58.through the menopause, I had cramp and was stuck on the stair, my hot

:29:59. > :30:01.sweats have had my in a panic I have to move quickly to open air. Even my

:30:02. > :30:04.specs steam up. I found I was unable to drink alcohol. Not a nice

:30:05. > :30:07.experience for FIA years of my life." Keep them coming in and we

:30:08. > :30:10.will talk about it later on on the programme. Also comes up claims that

:30:11. > :30:13.more than one million pensioners are not receiving the support they are

:30:14. > :30:18.entitled to. Britain's youngest ever lottery

:30:19. > :30:20.winner Jane Parks tells us why winning a million at 17 has

:30:21. > :30:30.ruined her life. It's 9:30.

:30:31. > :30:32.Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom Malaysian police have arrested

:30:33. > :30:39.two more people in connection with the death of Kim Jong-Nam,

:30:40. > :30:42.the half-brother of North Korean He died after apparently

:30:43. > :30:45.being attacked at the airport in the Malaysian capital

:30:46. > :30:47.Kuala Lumpur earlier this week. One of those arrested

:30:48. > :30:49.was a woman travelling More than three million people

:30:50. > :31:00.could avoid getting colds and flu every year by taking

:31:01. > :31:02.Vitamin D supplements The study in the British Medical

:31:03. > :31:06.Journal calls for the vitamin But Public Health England says

:31:07. > :31:09.the evidence remains inconclusive. Our health correspondent

:31:10. > :31:17.Dominic Hughes reports. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:31:18. > :31:24.will meet his American counterpart Rex Tillerson later today,

:31:25. > :31:26.for the first time since Mr Tillerson was confirmed

:31:27. > :31:28.as President Trump's The two men will be attending

:31:29. > :31:31.a meeting of foreign ministers The US State Department has

:31:32. > :31:38.indicated that Mr Tillerson will try to provide a comforting

:31:39. > :31:40.message to countries made uneasy by the apparent changes in America's

:31:41. > :31:46.foreign policy positions. Social care for elderly people

:31:47. > :31:49.is on the brink of collapse in some parts of England,

:31:50. > :31:55.according to the charity Age UK. It says more than 50,000 people

:31:56. > :31:59.are now not receiving any help, despite struggling with essential

:32:00. > :32:01.daily tasks such as washing, A mother and her teenage son have

:32:02. > :32:15.been arrested after she allegedly faked her death in Zanzibar

:32:16. > :32:18.in an attempt to claim Police said the 45-year-old woman's

:32:19. > :32:22.son and his guardian claimed she had died in a car crash in East Africa

:32:23. > :32:24.and allegedly provided But instead,

:32:25. > :32:27.she was living in Canada. The insurance company was unable

:32:28. > :32:31.to verify the woman's death, refused to pay out on the policy

:32:32. > :32:44.and contacted police. That's a summary of the latest news.

:32:45. > :32:48.More from me at 10am. Let's catch up with the sport.

:32:49. > :32:55.Arsenal's Champions League hopes lie in tatters at the last 16 stagette

:32:56. > :32:58.again. It follows a 5-1 first leg flashing at Bayern Munich.

:32:59. > :33:08.Afterwards, manager Arsene Wenger looking concerned, calling it a

:33:09. > :33:14.night men. Real Madrid beat Napoli in the other game. Craig Lawton will

:33:15. > :33:19.miss the rest of the six Nations Rugby union after an ankle injury he

:33:20. > :33:24.picked up against France at the weekend. And it was a great day for

:33:25. > :33:29.the 15-year-old Jackson page at the Welsh open snooker. He beat Ashley,

:33:30. > :33:33.meeting the GCSE student gets another couple more days off school.

:33:34. > :33:59.I will be back just after 10am. Britain's youngest ever lottery

:34:00. > :34:01.winner says she thought her million pound win would make her life

:34:02. > :34:03.ten times better. Instead, she says, it's

:34:04. > :34:05.made it ten times worse. Jane Parks was just 17 and living

:34:06. > :34:09.with her mum in a two-bedroom flat in Edinburgh when she scooped

:34:10. > :34:11.the Euromillions prize 4 years ago. She says she's felt overwhelmed

:34:12. > :34:14.by the win and thinks her life would have been so much

:34:15. > :34:16.better without it. After winning in 2013,

:34:17. > :34:18.a documentary was made which followed her first year

:34:19. > :34:20.as a millionaire. It could've been

:34:21. > :34:24.any of these people. But on 28th July, 2013,

:34:25. > :34:26.I was the lucky one. I was standing outside

:34:27. > :34:29.the shop, so I went back in. And then I just asked

:34:30. > :34:31.for a lucky dip. Me and none of my pals

:34:32. > :34:34.buy lottery tickets, so... OK, that's coming up, that one.

:34:35. > :34:44.Congratulations, ?1 million. Are you joking me?

:34:45. > :34:47.No, I can see it here on the screen. Then they wanted me

:34:48. > :34:54.to go to like New York Whereas we're like, let's put some

:34:55. > :35:03.money in the bank and invest it. No, I would have it

:35:04. > :35:05.spent before thinking. I'm so bad.

:35:06. > :35:07.They wouldn't care about the future. They would be like, "Right, let's

:35:08. > :35:25.just spend it while we're young". That's like giving

:35:26. > :35:36.somebody a gun, eh? She was sitting here,

:35:37. > :35:38.where I'm sitting now, crying. Money can't buy happiness,

:35:39. > :35:54.but it can buy a jet ski and have you ever seen

:35:55. > :36:02.someone being sad on a jet ski? Money can't bring you,

:36:03. > :36:04.like, love and that. Like, true friends,

:36:05. > :36:09.it can't buy you true friends. But it does bring

:36:10. > :36:24.a certain degree of happiness. I'm delighted to say that Jane is

:36:25. > :36:29.with us now. I know you were finding that uncomfortable, because that was

:36:30. > :36:34.a few years ago, and you were really young, 17, and handed ?1 million.

:36:35. > :36:38.You say that money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a jet

:36:39. > :36:43.ski and who has been unhappy on a jet ski? Did you feel differently

:36:44. > :36:49.about the whim at that stage? Watching it back, I feel completely

:36:50. > :36:55.different. At that stage, it was all about what you could suddenly have,

:36:56. > :36:59.what had opened up for you, I guess? You had this money, pretty much for

:37:00. > :37:04.whatever you wanted to get. Looking at that, I thought my

:37:05. > :37:07.worries were gone. I thought it was going to be amazing.

:37:08. > :37:14.What did you spend the money on? I have got property, and I have been

:37:15. > :37:19.out there with some of it, buy a nice things for myself and my

:37:20. > :37:23.family. But there comes a point when you need to invest it as well.

:37:24. > :37:27.You have taken sensible decisions, you still have something to show for

:37:28. > :37:32.it. Do you know how much you have spent on things that do go away, but

:37:33. > :37:36.leave you with memories, things like holidays?

:37:37. > :37:43.I wouldn't speak about figures or anything. It is a bit tacky, but I

:37:44. > :37:52.am comfortable just now. I uncomfortable. -- I am comfortable.

:37:53. > :37:56.I don't need a job or anything. But you are not happy, you feel the

:37:57. > :38:03.money hasn't made you happy, it has made you unhappy?

:38:04. > :38:08.I wouldn't say it has completely ruined my life, what I am trying to

:38:09. > :38:14.say is that, at times, I felt like I had ruined my life when I was 17.

:38:15. > :38:19.Now, I think everyone gets days where they feel worse than on other

:38:20. > :38:26.days. My worst days are normally money situations or money related.

:38:27. > :38:29.And sometimes, I get these feelings, and think I wish I had never even

:38:30. > :38:37.won it. For many, money related bad days are

:38:38. > :38:42.because they don't have enough of it, but for you it is because you

:38:43. > :38:46.have got to much, what is it? Looking back, it was a ridiculous

:38:47. > :38:55.amount to have at such a young age. I had no guidance, I was just, like,

:38:56. > :39:02.wow, I was everywhere. Obviously, as I have got older, it has been more

:39:03. > :39:09.structured. So I still have money problems, but not the same...

:39:10. > :39:15.explain what you mean about money problems.

:39:16. > :39:23.Maybe other folks have money problems, rather than mine in

:39:24. > :39:27.particular, but like, so maybe, so... if a friend or family member

:39:28. > :39:36.is having a money difficulty, I can find it really difficult. Every time

:39:37. > :39:40.someone in my family or my friends are having money difficulties, it is

:39:41. > :39:47.my position to say that I can sort you out, or is it... ? It is

:39:48. > :39:50.stressful. Do I say, "Sort yourself out"?

:39:51. > :39:52.Do you think people expect you to help them out?

:39:53. > :39:57.That is the expectation. The expectation to say, here, I will

:39:58. > :40:02.sort you out. You said that you didn't have much

:40:03. > :40:06.support after the win. Camelot said you had extensive support from them

:40:07. > :40:11.and a dedicated winner 's adviser visited you at home to pay out the

:40:12. > :40:16.price, arrange private banking, sort out publicity, and an independent

:40:17. > :40:21.financial legal team was set up to manage the money. When you are 17, I

:40:22. > :40:34.guess, do you actually listen to advice? Do you feel that you know

:40:35. > :40:37.who you are and what you want to do? I didn't understand what they were

:40:38. > :40:45.talking about. On numerous occasions, I said I didn't

:40:46. > :40:47.understand it, speaking in front of financial advisers about Bonds, I

:40:48. > :40:53.said I didn't understand it. It is not about the support at the start,

:40:54. > :40:59.because it is fine to say they will help at the start, but further on,

:41:00. > :41:03.I'm just glad I had my family to keep me straight and narrow,

:41:04. > :41:10.otherwise I could see how easily... do you actually think you shouldn't

:41:11. > :41:17.have won the money? On days, when I have a good day, I

:41:18. > :41:23.wouldn't change anything. But there are days when, in my head, I say, I

:41:24. > :41:26.wish I hadn't won it. What do you miss about your old

:41:27. > :41:30.life? I wish I didn't have the stress at

:41:31. > :41:33.such a young age and the pressure on me all the time.

:41:34. > :41:41.You could just give it all away? Everyone has said that to me.

:41:42. > :41:45.What people don't understand is that I do have property, I don't have all

:41:46. > :41:50.this cash lying in my account that I spend every day in life. I am on a

:41:51. > :41:55.budget as well, and I do put money away. One day, I want a family, and

:41:56. > :41:59.someone in my family might need that or be dependent, do you know what I

:42:00. > :42:03.mean? I need to secure a future as well to secure my family as well.

:42:04. > :42:07.You mentioned the pressures you feel from people around you that are

:42:08. > :42:11.struggling, and you feel there is an obligation to help, and you struggle

:42:12. > :42:14.with that, how have your relationships with friends and

:42:15. > :42:19.families been affected? To be fair, my friends and family

:42:20. > :42:24.have been really good. I've kept the same friends the whole time. My

:42:25. > :42:30.family have been so supportive. I wouldn't have had it any other way,

:42:31. > :42:33.with my family members, because it could have gone horribly wrong.

:42:34. > :42:37.There will be people watching, thinking, why would you even ever

:42:38. > :42:39.have a bad day when you have got lots of money, what would you say to

:42:40. > :42:46.that? When I had first won, I was thinking

:42:47. > :42:50.that as well. I would never be upset, always having money, I was

:42:51. > :42:55.thinking that nothing could bring me down, because I could go shopping.

:42:56. > :43:01.But until I was in the situation, I can't even express to someone how

:43:02. > :43:08.young my imagination was at 17, and how immature I was, looking back,

:43:09. > :43:11.and I can't express to someone how it feels unless someone has been in

:43:12. > :43:16.that situation. The people I have spoken to, they have been in that

:43:17. > :43:20.situation and they agree with me. People at home struggling with money

:43:21. > :43:25.right now might feel cross at the TV, saying they would love to have

:43:26. > :43:29.the problem of too much money. That's not actually my main point,

:43:30. > :43:34.because before I won the money, I was struggling to make ends meet,

:43:35. > :43:41.and I was in the same situation as them, working in an office job, to

:43:42. > :43:45.pay my mum. I was in the same environment. I am trying to say is

:43:46. > :43:52.now their is no help for young people coming into money -- there's

:43:53. > :43:56.no help. I just think 17 is too young.

:43:57. > :44:01.You are really eloquently making the point about the fact that you are

:44:02. > :44:05.very young, a huge amount of money given in an environment where

:44:06. > :44:10.everybody around you is in a different boat. It puts you into

:44:11. > :44:15.quite a different category. And you said about people not really

:44:16. > :44:18.understanding, how difficult is that in a situation where you feel the

:44:19. > :44:22.people around you don't understand what you are experiencing and

:44:23. > :44:26.feeling? It can be difficult. Sometimes, you

:44:27. > :44:31.don't understand it. I have got to say to people sometimes, give them

:44:32. > :44:41.examples, and tell them to look from my perspective, put yourself in my

:44:42. > :44:44.shoes and think about it. Sometimes I feel like some folks don't

:44:45. > :44:51.understand and they have got it easy. People can look at me and

:44:52. > :44:59.think staff. The stuff behind it all, it does cause stress.

:45:00. > :45:03.What would you have done if you hadn't had a lottery win?

:45:04. > :45:11.Everybody asks me that. I think I would have worked in an office type

:45:12. > :45:15.of job, or a retail work. My life would be completely different,

:45:16. > :45:20.anyway. I'm not sure. What do you think the rest of your life will be

:45:21. > :45:26.like? Do you want a job? I haven't got anything against getting a job.

:45:27. > :45:31.When I did get a job recently, not recently, but within my win, I got a

:45:32. > :45:35.job and I got a backlash from it because some folks were saying I

:45:36. > :45:37.didn't deserve a job. Folks can't get a job that need a job. Folks

:45:38. > :45:58.were saying that I was dedicated. You are back living in the flat with

:45:59. > :46:04.your mum? Yes. Why did to you that? I moved out, in a previous

:46:05. > :46:08.relationship. I feel like I am most settled with my mam. That is where

:46:09. > :46:12.my house is. Where your heart is. Thank you for coming in.

:46:13. > :46:19.Parents of children with cystic fibrosis fined for taking their kids

:46:20. > :46:24.being criticized by a charity and the parents who will have

:46:25. > :46:27.Many people who struggle with essential daily tasks such

:46:28. > :46:31.as getting out of bed and eating are not getting the care they need,

:46:32. > :46:34.The charity says a crisis in social care provision means more

:46:35. > :46:36.than a million elderly and vulnerable people

:46:37. > :46:38.in England are not receiving the help they need.

:46:39. > :46:41.It's a familiar story - and the effects are well documented:

:46:42. > :46:43.more pressure on hospital beds and family members,

:46:44. > :46:49.We keep hearing we're on the brink of a social care crisis,

:46:50. > :46:52.We can now speak to Susan Donnelly who only received the social care

:46:53. > :46:55.she was entitled to when she sent a legal letter to her local

:46:56. > :46:59.Chris Maughn's father had to apply twice to get care

:47:00. > :47:04.despite being so ill he was incapacitated.

:47:05. > :47:07.Lynne Nobel, who applied for social care in 2015 and despite social

:47:08. > :47:09.workers and an ombudsman ruling in her favour she should receive

:47:10. > :47:13.care, there still has been no action by her local authority.

:47:14. > :47:17.She's joined by her husband and carer Michael.

:47:18. > :47:19.Here to make sense of this all is the director

:47:20. > :47:24.of United For All Ages, Stephen Burke.

:47:25. > :47:29.Thank you all very much for joining us.

:47:30. > :47:32.Lynn, I want to start can you, you applied for social care more than a

:47:33. > :47:38.year ago and you still haven't got it. What was your situation, why do

:47:39. > :47:45.you need the care? Well I have a number of conditions, I have MS, I

:47:46. > :47:51.have left sided cerebral palsy s I had head injuries from a road Rafik

:47:52. > :47:56.accident when I was 22, and -- road traffic. I have a lot of physical

:47:57. > :48:06.problems and cognitive processing problems as well. So I applied in

:48:07. > :48:11.2015 and I am #12i8 waiting. What has the process being like? It has

:48:12. > :48:15.been horrendous, there there have been delay, more delay, I have

:48:16. > :48:24.instigated so many stage one complaints and taken it through and

:48:25. > :48:29.I am still waiting. It, you would need a lot of stamina basically and

:48:30. > :48:33.need to know your way round the system to be able to navigate it.

:48:34. > :48:36.And hopefully at the end of it get something, I am sure that many

:48:37. > :48:42.thousands of people are put off the whole process. As things stand you

:48:43. > :48:48.presumably still don't know if or when you might get help? No. I don't

:48:49. > :48:53.know. There is another complaint has gone into my Local Authority and I

:48:54. > :48:57.am waiting to hear from them. And Michael, in the meantime, it

:48:58. > :49:05.puts you under pressure because you are Lynn's career, what is it like?

:49:06. > :49:13.It's very difficult basically, you just have to just keep plugging on,

:49:14. > :49:20.you know, plodding on basically, carrying on, because the, you never

:49:21. > :49:25.know when basically you are going to get help frommure local authority,

:49:26. > :49:30.and you just have to juggle things and do your best basically. Chris,

:49:31. > :49:35.you had a big struggle trying to get funding for help for your

:49:36. > :49:41.80-year-old dad. Tell us more about him, what help he needed? Dad's

:49:42. > :49:52.suffers with Parkinson's disease, and we, he ended up in a rehab unit,

:49:53. > :49:57.and that is where we came across continuing health care assessments.

:49:58. > :50:01.And the assessment was done by the nursing team, and the occupational

:50:02. > :50:06.therapist, and they basically told us as a family, your dad's not going

:50:07. > :50:13.to qualify, he doesn't meet the criteria but we will have a family

:50:14. > :50:20.meeting, and please feel free to say any objections you have got, in our

:50:21. > :50:25.assessments, findings, which when we did, we were basically just told no,

:50:26. > :50:31.no, that is not correct, your dad can do stuff for himself, and we had

:50:32. > :50:38.to make the, the very hard decision to put my dad placed into 24 hours

:50:39. > :50:42.residential care, and EU on your own, if you don't receive funding,

:50:43. > :50:49.you have to go and find a care home yourself. And that is, that is

:50:50. > :50:54.stressful, you don't know, you have to knock on doors, and find these

:50:55. > :50:59.care home, which I did find a fantastic care home for my dad

:51:00. > :51:03.called The Lilacs Did you give up on the whole social care thing because

:51:04. > :51:10.you felt you weren't getting anywhere? Yes, dad count come back

:51:11. > :51:14.to our house, because we knew we wouldn't be able to cope. We were

:51:15. > :51:18.told we could only have four visits a day. Thanks Chris, I want to bring

:51:19. > :51:22.in Susan, because Susan, you got social care but only after you

:51:23. > :51:27.turned to a lawyer for help, tell us what happened with you. Basically

:51:28. > :51:35.what happened, under legislation you are supposed to be assessed every

:51:36. > :51:39.year, for four year, I kept complaining, I phoned up, still

:51:40. > :51:44.didn't get no joy. . Co-plain because you hadn't had the annual

:51:45. > :51:48.assessment. That right. What was the situation in the meantime? I was

:51:49. > :51:54.getting 18 hours care. You needed more. What did you need I had

:51:55. > :51:58.further health issues that came up and it was an ongoing battle and I

:51:59. > :52:02.was struggling. For four years you needed more than 18 hours and you

:52:03. > :52:08.weren't getting the assessment, what happened? I approached a solicitor,

:52:09. > :52:13.and it was taken out of my hands then, then they decided to come and

:52:14. > :52:18.down, and it was one of the senior managers that came to to the

:52:19. > :52:24.assessment and my care package went up from 18-and-a-half hours to 30.

:52:25. > :52:29.But what a lot of people don't understand, I have actually made

:52:30. > :52:35.some notes, just to... If you don't mind we won't have time to go

:52:36. > :52:39.through them but in a nutshell? When people talk about a care package

:52:40. > :52:44.they don't realise that there is a catch hole in it, because they give

:52:45. > :52:51.you a timescale, you might have ten minutes to get someone in the

:52:52. > :52:54.shower. You know, you have health and safety issues the pressure is is

:52:55. > :52:59.put on the irkaer to make sure that you are safe, that there is no

:53:00. > :53:05.issues, and it, it just doesn't work out like that a all, you know, how

:53:06. > :53:10.can you time if I... I hear what you are saying, let us bring in Steven

:53:11. > :53:15.Burke because he has the overall picture, how often is it happening

:53:16. > :53:19.that people need help and they just, either not been given assessments or

:53:20. > :53:23.the whole process is taking a frustratingly long time? We heard

:53:24. > :53:30.some very real examples of the care crisis? The country, and as Age UK

:53:31. > :53:34.say 1.2 old emillion older people are missing out. The whole system is

:53:35. > :53:39.confeudsing, very complex, people don't know where to turn to for

:53:40. > :53:43.help. The local authorities are meant to provide assessments for

:53:44. > :53:47.people's needs, they are also meant to assess the needs of family carers

:53:48. > :53:53.as well. But many people struggle to get those basic rights, the basic

:53:54. > :53:56.assessments and it is a real postcode lottery. It depends on

:53:57. > :54:01.where you live and your local authority. Underlying this it is

:54:02. > :54:05.about funding. We have a big shortfall in funding, big cuts in

:54:06. > :54:07.social care funding over the last six years, while demand is

:54:08. > :54:12.increasing. People are living longer. But it is, obviously there

:54:13. > :54:15.are two parts of the same issue, it is different in that even if there

:54:16. > :54:20.was all the money in the world, to be funding it. If people are

:54:21. > :54:24.struggling to navigate a complex system, they are still not getting

:54:25. > :54:29.help when they need it, whether the money is there or not. The system

:54:30. > :54:33.could be made easier, there are people to help you through it and

:54:34. > :54:38.you can approach some of the national charities like Age UK or

:54:39. > :54:44.Independence Age or your local Age UK can provide you with advice and

:54:45. > :54:48.information but we need to make it simpler, some of the carers

:54:49. > :54:54.charities help provide... I want to get to the bottom of why it is

:54:55. > :54:56.complex. It is necessarily complex because people, very careful

:54:57. > :55:03.assessments have to be made to work out who is eligible for what, and

:55:04. > :55:07.that takes some time, but where does the complexity come in that might be

:55:08. > :55:13.able to be stripped out, if that is case? We need to make it easier for

:55:14. > :55:16.people to approach their local authority, but the other part is

:55:17. > :55:20.local authorities are becoming more defensive and increasing the gate

:55:21. > :55:23.keeping because they don't have the resources to meet the needs of

:55:24. > :55:27.people approaching them. So older people need to challenge that, their

:55:28. > :55:30.families need to challenge that, they needed a cats to help them

:55:31. > :55:36.challenge it and in some cases legal challenges. So are you saying that

:55:37. > :55:39.some authorities deliberately are using the complicated system to get

:55:40. > :55:44.out of having to pay for social care? Yes, there is no question

:55:45. > :55:48.about that. Local authorities should be providing assessments for

:55:49. > :55:52.everyone who approaches them and providing advice and information to

:55:53. > :55:55.them. Lynn, you were nodding at that, I mean obviously we don't know

:55:56. > :55:58.what your situation is with your local authority but you are

:55:59. > :56:03.frustrated by what is happening for you. I want to read an e-mail from

:56:04. > :56:08.Charles who say I am 86 and a career to my disabled wife. We have no

:56:09. > :56:11.living relatives. We have one good neighbour, we had a social worker

:56:12. > :56:15.who was lovely. She looked after Frances when I was in hospital,

:56:16. > :56:20.visited me and took her own Christmas dinner to traps is when I

:56:21. > :56:23.was in over one Christmas, the fact, Lynn, to you as well Michael, the

:56:24. > :56:30.fact you have got each other, the fact that Michael is there, do you

:56:31. > :56:34.feel that that, I mean it not right to say it would be, it is sort of

:56:35. > :56:40.gives you a safety net, does that sort of, do you think that might be

:56:41. > :56:45.a factor in when things are taking time, you know, there is somebody

:56:46. > :56:50.there who is helping you at least? Well, Michael has his own health

:56:51. > :56:59.issues which haven't been taken into consideration. And basically, I came

:57:00. > :57:04.out of hospital on 13th September, after a nine hour operation, and the

:57:05. > :57:08.day before, Social Services apparently sent me a letter, saying

:57:09. > :57:14.that they had withdrawn my allocation to my social worker and

:57:15. > :57:21.all my services had been refused and once I had recuperated, after this

:57:22. > :57:25.operation, which was neatly followed by a bilateral pneumonia, I could

:57:26. > :57:29.apply again. And Michael was working 24 hours

:57:30. > :57:33.round-the-clock, I couldn't do anything for myself. I couldn't etch

:57:34. > :57:40.access the bed for three weeks, Michael had to sleep on a two seater

:57:41. > :57:43.settee and I on a three seater settee, purely because I couldn't

:57:44. > :57:46.get into the bed. I couldn't do anything, dress, anything. Do you

:57:47. > :57:57.feel like you can carry on like this? Well, no. No we can't, no. No.

:57:58. > :58:04.There is a limit. To what you can cope with. You were very tired.

:58:05. > :58:09.Michael was very tired. Working 24 hours, seven days a week is, is not

:58:10. > :58:14.good for anybody, especially not for somebody who is nearly 72 and has,

:58:15. > :58:23.as I say, his own health issues any way. Sure, what will you do? Well,

:58:24. > :58:30.we are still challenging the, the system. And we are not going to give

:58:31. > :58:35.up, because there are a million people in our position. That are

:58:36. > :58:39.entitled to care and support package, but are currently not

:58:40. > :58:42.getting it. Thank you all very much for joining

:58:43. > :58:46.Thank you all very much for joining us and telling us.

:58:47. > :58:48.The Department of Health told us that they recognise the pressures

:58:49. > :59:11.of an ageing population, adding:

:59:12. > :59:18.Well, according to a new study, for three million of us it might.

:59:19. > :59:30.Carol. I can't see you Carol. Are you there? You are not here? You are

:59:31. > :59:34.not missing much. Good morning. Good morning to you too. This morning

:59:35. > :59:38.what we have is a bit of cloud but the cloud already breaking up, some

:59:39. > :59:43.of us have started with some sunshine, some of us have yet to see

:59:44. > :59:46.it. We have some rain in Scotland, strong winds here, rain in Northern

:59:47. > :59:51.Ireland, as we head on through the course of the afternoon and as we

:59:52. > :59:57.head through the evening and overnight that rain will push into

:59:58. > :00:00.Wales, northern -- northern England. Behind it for Scotland and northern

:00:01. > :00:04.England a cold night. There will be frost round, patchy fog, and ahead

:00:05. > :00:08.of it, in southern England we will see some patchy fog but not as much

:00:09. > :00:14.as we thought this time yesterday. So that leads us into tomorrow. The

:00:15. > :00:17.fog will lift, then for northern and North East parts we will see

:00:18. > :00:21.sunshine, elsewhere we start off on a cloudy note but like today, the

:00:22. > :00:24.cloud will turn over, some of us will see sunshine s out to the west

:00:25. > :00:28.we are going to see a few more showers, and despite the fact you

:00:29. > :00:34.can see temperatures between eight and 11 with some of us we could set

:00:35. > :00:35.12 or 13, possibly more in that mild trend continuing into the weekend

:00:36. > :00:44.and the early part of next Police arrest a third person

:00:45. > :00:52.in connection with the apparent poisoning

:00:53. > :00:53.of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of

:00:54. > :01:01.North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. And the youngest ever winner

:01:02. > :01:04.of EuroMillions has told this There's days when I feel

:01:05. > :01:08.like, I wish I hadn't. But there are days when I

:01:09. > :01:11.have a good day, like, I But there's days where in my head,

:01:12. > :01:15.I say, I wish I hadn't won it. And you can see the full

:01:16. > :01:17.interview with Jane Parks And why is so hard to talk

:01:18. > :01:21.about the menopause? The first time I had a hot sweat,

:01:22. > :01:27.it did take me by surprise. I kept going, "What's that,

:01:28. > :01:29.what am I sitting on?" We'll also talk about HRT,

:01:30. > :01:35.and the contradictions around Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom

:01:36. > :01:51.with a summary of today's news. Police in Malysia have now arrested

:01:52. > :01:58.a total of three people in connection with the suspected

:01:59. > :02:04.poisoning of the North Korean They are reported to be a woman

:02:05. > :02:06.identified on CCTV footage and her boyfriend.

:02:07. > :02:14.Kim Jong Nam was taken ill waiting for a flight in Kuala Lumpur.

:02:15. > :02:16.The South Korean government claim North Korean agents were responsible

:02:17. > :02:21.as Kevin Kim explains. The person detained was carrying

:02:22. > :02:23.an Indonesian passport, but North Korean agents

:02:24. > :02:26.are known for travelling So it's quite likely

:02:27. > :02:34.an investigation may Earlier, Malaysian authorities

:02:35. > :02:41.released a photo taken from a security camera,

:02:42. > :02:43.who was thought to be The South Korean Spy Agency

:02:44. > :02:48.believe it may have been A colour image of

:02:49. > :02:58.a young Asian woman with heavy

:02:59. > :03:00.make-up and casual clothes, several other members believed to be

:03:01. > :03:03.part of the same group are being pursued according

:03:04. > :03:04.to local media. More than three million people

:03:05. > :03:07.could avoid getting colds and flu every year by taking

:03:08. > :03:09.Vitamin D supplements The study in the British Medical

:03:10. > :03:13.Journal calls for the vitamin But Public Health England says

:03:14. > :03:20.the evidence remains inconclusive. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:03:21. > :03:25.will meet his American counterpart Rex Tillerson later today

:03:26. > :03:28.for the first time since Mr Tillerson was confirmed

:03:29. > :03:32.as President Trump's The two men will be attending

:03:33. > :03:35.a meeting of foreign ministers The US State Department has

:03:36. > :03:40.indicated that Mr Tillerson will try to provide a comforting

:03:41. > :03:43.message to countries made uneasy by the apparent changes in

:03:44. > :03:53.America's foreign policy positions. President Trump, meanwhile,

:03:54. > :03:55.has suffered another set-back in his efforts to finalise

:03:56. > :03:57.the line-up of his cabinet. His choice for Labor Secretary,

:03:58. > :04:00.Andrew Puzder, has withdrawn from the nomination process

:04:01. > :04:01.after several Republican senators Mr Puzder has admitted that he once

:04:02. > :04:08.employed a housekeeper who wasn't Social care for elderly people

:04:09. > :04:16.is on the brink of collapse in some parts of England,

:04:17. > :04:21.according to the charity Age UK. It says more than 50,000 people

:04:22. > :04:24.are now not receiving any help, despite struggling with daily tasks

:04:25. > :04:26.such as washing, eating The Government says it recognises

:04:27. > :04:33.the pressures on the system and is working on a long term,

:04:34. > :04:37.sustainable solution. Britain's most senior judge has

:04:38. > :04:41.criticised sections of the press for their coverage of the Article 50

:04:42. > :04:45.court ruling, which said Parliament had to be consulted before

:04:46. > :04:56.the formal process for leaving The present of the Supreme Court

:04:57. > :04:58.Lord Neuberger also accused politicians of not being quick

:04:59. > :05:00.enough to defend the judicial process.

:05:01. > :05:03.A mother and teenage son have been arrested after she allegedly

:05:04. > :05:06.faked her death in Zanzibar in a bid to claim ?140,000

:05:07. > :05:15.Police said the 45-year-old woman's son and his guardian claimed she had

:05:16. > :05:17.died in a car crash in East Africa and allegedly provided

:05:18. > :05:33.But instead, she was actually living in Canada.

:05:34. > :05:36.The insurance company was unable to verify the woman's death,

:05:37. > :05:38.refused to pay out on the policy and contacted police.

:05:39. > :05:41.That's a summary of the latest BBC News. More at 10:30.

:05:42. > :05:45.We will talk about menopause in a few moments. Lynn on Facebook, seven

:05:46. > :05:49.years of mood swings and my family living with a monster one minute and

:05:50. > :05:52.a mother and wife the next. The doctor was useless, having tried

:05:53. > :05:56.HRT, and developed lumps in my breast, herbal remedies made it

:05:57. > :06:00.slightly better. No libido has affected my marriage, but we are

:06:01. > :06:05.working through it. Teen on Facebook, can cope with the hot

:06:06. > :06:12.flushes, it is the insomnia and forgetfulness. -- Tina.

:06:13. > :06:14.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:06:15. > :06:17.Use the hashtag, #VictoriaLive, and if you text, you will be charged

:06:18. > :06:38.There's been an update this morning on the future of Arsene Wenger.

:06:39. > :06:40.BBC Sport understands the club will wait until the end

:06:41. > :06:49.of the season before making a decision on his future.

:06:50. > :06:52.Last night they had a torrid result in the first knockout stage

:06:53. > :06:54.of the Champions League - they were thrashed 5-1

:06:55. > :07:07.Arjen Robben opened the scoring with this strike.

:07:08. > :07:09.Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez eventually put in the rebound from his own

:07:10. > :07:13.Bayern were simply too good for Arsenal

:07:14. > :07:16.in the the second half, two goals from Thiago mean Arsenal

:07:17. > :07:18.now face elimination at the last 16 stage for the seventh

:07:19. > :07:32.The problems we faced after the third goal. We lost our organisation

:07:33. > :07:40.and we looked mentally jaded and vulnerable from that moment onwards.

:07:41. > :07:45.The last 25 minutes a nightmare for us.

:07:46. > :07:47.Arsenal weren't helped by injury to their captain

:07:48. > :07:49.Laurent Koscielny, whilst saves from goalkeeper David Ospina stopped

:07:50. > :07:54.On BBC Radio 5live, journalist Henry Winter gave his view

:07:55. > :08:07.This is a crime of call -- chronicle of death foretold. The owner doesn't

:08:08. > :08:11.commute Kate with fans and is sleepwalking towards the abyss. We

:08:12. > :08:15.have got a manager in Arsene Wenger whose best days are behind him.

:08:16. > :08:22.Everyone can see that. Even the faithful at Arsenal can really see

:08:23. > :08:25.that this is a manager overtaken by Conte, copper and other managers.

:08:26. > :08:32.You have a lack of leadership on the pitch as well, Koscielny with

:08:33. > :08:38.Sanchez has been one of macro as well few leaders. -- too few

:08:39. > :08:42.leaders. Arsene Wenger has lost his leadership skills, and there is no

:08:43. > :08:43.invincible streak in Arsene Wenger any more, no invincible streak in

:08:44. > :08:50.the team any more. 11 time winners Real Madrid came

:08:51. > :08:53.from behind to beat Napoli Brazilian midfielder Casemiro scored

:08:54. > :09:01.the pick of the goals There has been a blow to Scotland

:09:02. > :09:06.hopes in the six Nations. Greg Laidlaw has been ruled out for the

:09:07. > :09:11.rest of the tournament. He suffered an ankle injury last weekend, and

:09:12. > :09:11.although he managed to walk off, the scrum-half sustained ligament

:09:12. > :09:14.damage. Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan

:09:15. > :09:16.is out of snooker's Welsh Open after losing 4-3 to Mark Davis

:09:17. > :09:19.in the second round. Meanwhile, a 15 year old schoolboy

:09:20. > :09:22.will have to take more time Jackson Page had to get

:09:23. > :09:30.permission to be off school to play John Astley,

:09:31. > :09:32.and now he's into the third Good news for him. Congratulations.

:09:33. > :09:44.That is all the sport for now. Two more suspects have this morning

:09:45. > :09:46.been arrested in connection with the killing of the North Korean

:09:47. > :09:49.leader's brother in Malaysia. Kim Jong-nan is thought to have been

:09:50. > :09:53.poisoned as he waited to board The detention of the Indonesian

:09:54. > :09:57.woman and Malaysian man follows the earlier arrest of another woman,

:09:58. > :09:59.apparently from Vietnam. In a moment we'll be talking

:10:00. > :10:02.to a political analyst in Korea, but first, this is

:10:03. > :11:00.what we know so far. We are now joined via webcam

:11:01. > :11:03.from Seoul by Seong-Hyon Lee, from the Sejong Institute -

:11:04. > :11:05.a leading South Korean think tank that researches national

:11:06. > :11:16.security and unification. North Korea is actually claiming

:11:17. > :11:19.he's not even dead, it's all part of a plot to discredit the regime in

:11:20. > :11:22.North Korea. What is your perspective on what has happened

:11:23. > :11:28.here? I think we still have to wait and

:11:29. > :11:34.see, but then, I think the background is interesting here. The

:11:35. > :11:42.job administration in the US is in the process of coming up with the

:11:43. > :12:02.kind of policy to take to North Korea. The North Korean and ship...

:12:03. > :12:08.there will be a fraction of strategies that do not negotiate

:12:09. > :12:12.with North Korea because North Korea is unstable. There are details

:12:13. > :12:17.missing from the narrative that we have heard about so far.

:12:18. > :12:24.On the matter of power struggles, it is being said

:12:25. > :12:31.It has been said there was a previous assassination attempt and

:12:32. > :12:36.he wrote to Kim Jong-un and begged him to spare him. He said he had no

:12:37. > :12:40.ambitions and was living in exile. So why would Kim Jong-un be

:12:41. > :12:47.convinced apparently that there was some sort of plot? My understanding

:12:48. > :12:53.is that there has to be a standing order, to kill his older brother,

:12:54. > :12:57.and the timing is interesting. There is a lot of speculation but my

:12:58. > :13:02.understanding is that timing is not an issue really because there has

:13:03. > :13:06.been a standing order to kill him or assassinate him. Also it has to do

:13:07. > :13:16.with the character of the dictator in North Korea who wants to make

:13:17. > :13:21.sure that even though Kim Jong-Nam doesn't have any power base in North

:13:22. > :13:34.Korea, he just wants to make sure that no stone is unturned. He wants

:13:35. > :13:40.to get rid of him, and wants to be without the presence of his elder

:13:41. > :13:43.brother who could pose, a threat coming is taken seriously by his

:13:44. > :13:48.paranoid younger brother, the dictator. It says North Korea is

:13:49. > :13:56.trying to resist their being a postmortem. Can they control and

:13:57. > :14:04.manage this? It depends on the power struggle between different

:14:05. > :14:10.stakeholders. They are trying to get more information about the party of

:14:11. > :14:14.Kim Jong-un so that they can have that intelligence on the ground and

:14:15. > :14:21.find out what will happen. But my understanding is that one Malaysian

:14:22. > :14:26.authority announced that, given the passport which belongs to North

:14:27. > :14:34.Korea, Kim Jong-Nam is a North Korean citizen. I think they will

:14:35. > :14:37.repatriate him. There are governments in Seoul, Tokyo and

:14:38. > :14:42.Beijing and they want to have as much information as possible about

:14:43. > :14:48.the dead person's identity and relative information as well. Thank

:14:49. > :14:52.you very much. Now the menopause happens to every woman so why is it

:14:53. > :14:58.something that we talk about so little? With women living on average

:14:59. > :15:05.30 years after it what's the best way to deal with this change to our

:15:06. > :15:09.bodies? A new documentary by Kirsty Wark who herself went through it

:15:10. > :15:13.after having a hysterectomy is on tonight. It takes an unflinching

:15:14. > :15:17.look at the menopause and asks if women who suffer side-effects have

:15:18. > :15:24.been needlessly denied hormone replacement therapy figures. The

:15:25. > :15:28.most common treatment for menopausal symptoms is hormone replacement

:15:29. > :15:32.therapy, HRT, it helps replace the oestrogen lost when ovaries stop

:15:33. > :15:37.producing eggs. It can be taken through patches, a gel, or tablets.

:15:38. > :15:43.But it has been hard to work out if it is wise to take HRT. This is due

:15:44. > :15:48.to the confusion ignited by the publication of the women's health

:15:49. > :16:00.initiative study in America back in 2002. The study casts serious doubt

:16:01. > :16:08.on the safety of HRT. One study cancelled, says the Guardian, HRT

:16:09. > :16:14.does more harm than good, in 2002, 2008, new cancer fear for women

:16:15. > :16:21.taking HRT, and then, HRT is safe for millions of women again. 1

:16:22. > :16:29.million women could benefit from HRT. This is why it is all so

:16:30. > :16:35.confusing. I was using HRT tablets for three years after my

:16:36. > :16:41.hysterectomy but I stopped suddenly like so many women because of this

:16:42. > :16:46.scare. So in 2002 the results of the women's health get study came out

:16:47. > :16:53.and it suggested that being on HRT hugely increased your chances of

:16:54. > :16:57.breast cancer, even if you had been taking it for a short periods are a

:16:58. > :17:01.lot of women stopped because of this risk. Lots with no discussion with a

:17:02. > :17:03.health professional, they stopped cold turkey. People stopped coming

:17:04. > :17:17.to ask for HRT and GPs became It's a vicious circle. Circle.

:17:18. > :17:21.Subsequent research suggested that the analysis of the data was flawed

:17:22. > :17:25.and that the findings were overstated but these more positive

:17:26. > :17:30.reappraisals received nothing like the same publicity as the original

:17:31. > :17:34.square. More up-to-date research has attempted to offer clarification of

:17:35. > :17:42.the risks involved. The insiders guide to the menopause

:17:43. > :17:44.is on at 9.00 tonight for viewers in Scotland and for everyone on the

:17:45. > :18:10.iPlayers. Julie Chandler who experienced

:18:11. > :18:16.severe menopause side effects, thank you all welcome. Kirstie, like so

:18:17. > :18:19.many normal things that we go through, we don't actually foe that

:18:20. > :18:24.much about it until something happens to you and then you think

:18:25. > :18:28.why didn't I know? People will be experiencing symptoms not knowing

:18:29. > :18:33.they are symptoms of menopause. That is is right. The idea that something

:18:34. > :18:38.called low mood affects a lot of women who go to their GPs and some

:18:39. > :18:43.don't prescribe antidepressants but some do. That is not the treatment

:18:44. > :18:47.that you should be having. And it is the very fact we don't discuss it

:18:48. > :18:54.and we all go through it, usually round the age of 50. Height of

:18:55. > :18:57.careers, and it is a taboo. I want everybody to say look we need to

:18:58. > :19:01.talk about it, deal with it and various treatments that women are

:19:02. > :19:05.entitled to. You say, people going through it at height of career now,

:19:06. > :19:10.no-one likes to expose something that look like a weakness and a

:19:11. > :19:14.vulnerability. Absolutely. There is that perception. You know what I am

:19:15. > :19:19.not sure it would be the same if all men went through it. What do you

:19:20. > :19:24.think Let us ask the man. What do you think? I have been through the

:19:25. > :19:30.menopause. And survived. We do have them but not quite the same. Let us

:19:31. > :19:34.talk about your experiences. Kirstie you had an instant menopause. I had

:19:35. > :19:38.to have a hysterectomy. My consultant said you are having one,

:19:39. > :19:43.do you want to keep your ovaries and ovarian cancer is very much a hidden

:19:44. > :19:47.killers I had my kids, and I wasn't going to be having any more. I

:19:48. > :19:52.thought, no I am going, it is all going, it went, so instantly I went

:19:53. > :19:57.into menopause so the next morning, straight after I started taking HRT.

:19:58. > :20:01.And it worked? It did. I felt great. And then, two things happened. There

:20:02. > :20:09.was the study, the big study in America but a friend of mine who was

:20:10. > :20:13.on HRT for ten years and had a precancerous breast lump and was

:20:14. > :20:21.told best to get off it. That makes you feel nervous and worried so I

:20:22. > :20:27.went cold turkey -- hurt I can. Diane you had the ovarian cancer

:20:28. > :20:32.scare, so you had the hysterectomy, instant menopause, what was it like

:20:33. > :20:38.for you? Pretty hideous, that is mainly because I hadn't been given

:20:39. > :20:42.the information I needed. Were you not given any warning about what

:20:43. > :20:46.would happen? I had my Health Service recollect meh and I left the

:20:47. > :20:50.hospital after two days but I wasn't given any information. I was told to

:20:51. > :20:56.see my GP in a few weeks' time, which I did but unfortunately my mum

:20:57. > :21:02.had had ovarian cancer, so I was aware there was a type of HRT, but

:21:03. > :21:08.it was not one that I was willing to take, because of the way it was

:21:09. > :21:12.made. It is animal derived. Thankfully it is quite restricted in

:21:13. > :21:16.its use now in the UK, but I didn't realise there was a second body

:21:17. > :21:22.identical type of HRT, and so for that reason, I chose to go and see a

:21:23. > :21:26.clinic and take some, try and take herbs and minerals which was never

:21:27. > :21:30.going to do it for somebody in my position who had had their ovaries

:21:31. > :21:34.removed but no, there was no information for me about that, so,

:21:35. > :21:41.eventually, when things got really hideous, and a lot of it for me was

:21:42. > :21:45.emotional and mental, I ended up essentially in a really deep, dark

:21:46. > :21:49.place, where I considered taking my own life, and at that point, my

:21:50. > :21:54.husband picked me up, took me to the doctors, which he had been trying to

:21:55. > :21:58.persuade me to do for ages but I was terrified because I thought they

:21:59. > :22:05.would put me on anti-depleasants. Went back to the doctor, she said

:22:06. > :22:10.you have a choice there is a second type of HRT, it is plant derived. It

:22:11. > :22:15.is body identical. Why did it take so long? It takes thatening long,

:22:16. > :22:19.there are, I run an organisation now call menopause support, which

:22:20. > :22:23.supports women and I speak to women every week, of every day, who are

:22:24. > :22:27.struggling to get the right information or they are turning up

:22:28. > :22:33.at the surgery and the GP doesn't know what to tell them. Julie, you

:22:34. > :22:39.also had early surgical menopause because of ovarian cancer, did it

:22:40. > :22:43.feel like a taboo to you, when you suddenly were plunged into

:22:44. > :22:47.menopause? Well, I had my ovaries out as a preventative because I was

:22:48. > :22:50.at high risk of cancer, it was a terrible shock for me in terms of

:22:51. > :22:55.the symptoms I had. I wasn't prepared for it. I didn't have

:22:56. > :23:00.information. I had to fight to get HRT. I was led to believe by my

:23:01. > :23:11.genetic councillor who supported me through the surgeries I would be put

:23:12. > :23:16.on HRT but my surgeon and GP said I had BRCA2 positive jeans. Like some

:23:17. > :23:20.of your other -- genes. The symptoms were unbelievable. There was no way

:23:21. > :23:23.I could function as a normal professional woman going about her

:23:24. > :23:26.life without some sort of help and having tried everything out there,

:23:27. > :23:32.like one of your guests in the studio, there was nothing else that

:23:33. > :23:35.was doing anything to help the symptoms, and I needed something

:23:36. > :23:39.serious that was going to help me and finally I managed to get on the

:23:40. > :23:45.HRT which put everything back to normal again. Is Janice, I mean, it

:23:46. > :23:50.sounds like talking obviously to these women, and many others out

:23:51. > :23:56.there, that HRT is a no brainer but it has been through controversies.

:23:57. > :24:00.It has, but I agree, I think it is a no-brainer for women, and I am a

:24:01. > :24:04.clinician, I see women coming who are doing the dance of the

:24:05. > :24:07.desperate. The quality of life is shocking, particularly professional

:24:08. > :24:12.women, they are no functioning at the level they were before and HRT

:24:13. > :24:16.can transform their life, as well as that, they are getting protection

:24:17. > :24:19.against cardiovascular disease and it is looking after their bones, I

:24:20. > :24:23.think it's a no brainer that women who are having symptoms the and are

:24:24. > :24:28.feeling lousy should be going on to hormone replacement therapy. What

:24:29. > :24:31.Kirstie said is right, that the scandal that it has happened against

:24:32. > :24:38.women because of the study that came out in 2002, we have this whole

:24:39. > :24:42.generation of GPs and doctors in training who will not prescribe HRT,

:24:43. > :24:45.they are terrified of it. Fortunately the pendulum is swinging

:24:46. > :24:50.back and women are getting more information, they are desperate and

:24:51. > :24:55.getting more educated. They have been deprived of hormone replacement

:24:56. > :25:00.therapy and I think is scandalous. The Nice guidelines that came out in

:25:01. > :25:05.town 15 say every woman should have individual liced care from their GP.

:25:06. > :25:10.Any woman needs to go to their GP and sit there and sit there until

:25:11. > :25:13.they get some positive advice. Because women don't go because they

:25:14. > :25:20.don't think there is anything for them. You are not so convinced by

:25:21. > :25:26.HRT? I am convinced by HRT as a cure for some of the symptoms, But you

:25:27. > :25:32.are concerned about the side effects. Women with serious symptoms

:25:33. > :25:40.need HRT. They should take it. But it does carry risk, if you look at

:25:41. > :25:43.the epidemiology properly you can't say it protects against

:25:44. > :25:51.cardiovascular disease, because it doesn't. That aside though, whether

:25:52. > :25:59.you think it protects against something else or not, that is not a

:26:00. > :26:03.harm. What? You sayer owe questioning whether it protect

:26:04. > :26:11.against cardios vascular disease. It increases the risks of stroke and

:26:12. > :26:17.the risk of MI. By how much That is the thing you have said that and

:26:18. > :26:21.there are millions of woman who will say maybe I shouldn't have is it. It

:26:22. > :26:28.is about quality of life. I agree with you. Completely about quality

:26:29. > :26:34.of life. But what it says it is protects against that disease, it

:26:35. > :26:39.doesn't. It pro#1r50ids if taken at the time of ovarian failure and you

:26:40. > :26:44.know that, the zudys the mean age was 63. I have ever in as a

:26:45. > :26:50.clinician started HRT in a woman at 63. You start at the time of

:26:51. > :26:55.menopause, if do you that you provide some protection against

:26:56. > :27:01.cardiovascular disease. We did a study, we took the submission who

:27:02. > :27:06.had done smallish trials, random miced to HRT or not and they were

:27:07. > :27:10.all menopausal, aged 50. They were taking HRT. If you pull the studies

:27:11. > :27:15.together of which there are 300 and we published this, there is a small

:27:16. > :27:20.increase in cardiovascular disease which is the same as the increase in

:27:21. > :27:24.cardiovascular disease the WHI study showed. It St the case that it does

:27:25. > :27:31.not protect against cardiovascular disease at the very best. The big

:27:32. > :27:36.initial controversy was about risk, breast cancer risk, and that has

:27:37. > :27:40.now, the guidance on that has been changed. Yes because there is a

:27:41. > :27:47.strong vested interest to believe HRT is safe. You don't believe it?

:27:48. > :27:52.It causes breast cancer. No, no, no. You cannot say, you can't put out a

:27:53. > :28:00.statement that says that HRT causes breast cancer. It does not cause

:28:01. > :28:05.breast cancer, you would know that better than I. You are talking about

:28:06. > :28:12.HRT causing breast cancer, I don't believe it is, o boos thety is a

:28:13. > :28:17.much bigger risk far for. It is not. I am an academic, I have done

:28:18. > :28:21.research trials, and I think if you are a clinician, dealing with women

:28:22. > :28:26.then you have to appreciate improving quality of life, improving

:28:27. > :28:35.longevity and not scaremongering women about the risk. I want to

:28:36. > :28:38.bring in some comments. We are getting so many,ing about that

:28:39. > :28:40.point. I am an academic, I have done research trials, and I think if you

:28:41. > :28:42.are a clinician, dealing with women then you have to appreciate

:28:43. > :28:44.improving quality of life, improving longevity and not scaremongering

:28:45. > :28:47.women about the risk. I want to bring in some comments. We are

:28:48. > :28:49.getting so many,ing about that point. Hayley says "I am 42. I

:28:50. > :28:51.suffered premenopausal symptoms and doctors should provide nutritional

:28:52. > :28:56.advice. I changed all my foods and have no symptoms, I had no support

:28:57. > :29:02.from doctors or help. How much training in nutrition do doctors

:29:03. > :29:08.get.". Jan said I had terrible flushes. I had other symptoms which

:29:09. > :29:13.have lessoned or gone. Carol said I went through the menopause at 52.

:29:14. > :29:19.Fortunately I didn't suffer too badly with hot flush, I am 64. I

:29:20. > :29:25.have had no libido, I have not been able to have intercows because it is

:29:26. > :29:30.painful. Karen says I was having 12-15 hot flushes in 24 hours. It

:29:31. > :29:35.woke me up through the night. I am taking natural pills, it has cut my

:29:36. > :29:40.hot flushes in half and I am sleeping through the night. Susan

:29:41. > :29:45.say I have been on HRT for 23 years. It is the only thing that works. I

:29:46. > :29:51.used to have hot flushes and sweats every half hour sometimes. People

:29:52. > :29:58.are saying, people will have different things that work. There is

:29:59. > :30:02.no silver bullet, nor are there identical symptoms. The one I didn't

:30:03. > :30:06.know about was joint pain. I interviewed a woman who was a great

:30:07. > :30:12.runner, and suddenly she had joint pain and she was only in her mid

:30:13. > :30:17.40s. She couldn't believe it. It was an early menopausal symptom. Why

:30:18. > :30:21.aren't we told this? It is as if you are at school, you are taught about

:30:22. > :30:25.puberty and someone says is half way through your life you will

:30:26. > :30:29.experience different things, no-one is told and we are 51% of the

:30:30. > :30:33.population. And now, I mean, that is the thing,

:30:34. > :30:37.you have done this documentary, to get people talking about it. Get

:30:38. > :30:42.people thinking about it. Why do you think it has taken so long? This is

:30:43. > :30:46.a male dominated world, I don't know. It is right. Education in

:30:47. > :30:49.schools, universities and whatever, we don't talk enough about the

:30:50. > :30:53.menopause. That is is a terrible thing.

:30:54. > :31:03.Do we self police a bit? The fear of revealing something about yourself?

:31:04. > :31:09.Absolutely. And also the fact is that some women have these huge mood

:31:10. > :31:15.swings. Senior colleagues of mine said a red mist offence and their

:31:16. > :31:20.family were mortified. It is so debilitating. We need to deal with

:31:21. > :31:23.these things as well. For those women and their families, and

:31:24. > :31:28.friends, it is very difficult. We need to talk about this stuff. And

:31:29. > :31:33.partners. I have spoken to men, they will say,

:31:34. > :31:43.I think my wife... I think my wife is going mad. She's not going mad.

:31:44. > :31:49.Menopausal symptoms are very often emotional. It is not flushes. That

:31:50. > :31:54.is the thing that particularly doctors find difficult to recognise.

:31:55. > :31:58.That is why so many women end up on antidepressants. For families, for

:31:59. > :32:03.couples, for relationships, libido changes, nobody wants to talk about

:32:04. > :32:08.a lack of sex drive, and that is a huge part of this puzzle. If we

:32:09. > :32:17.talked about it earlier, kids could help their mums. I didn't realise

:32:18. > :32:22.that my mother went through an early menopause at 46 when I was 16, what

:32:23. > :32:30.a combination that was, adolescent and menopause! LAUGHTER

:32:31. > :32:35.You are right. It is good to talk. It really is. We

:32:36. > :32:43.have got people talking at home, getting in touch on it.

:32:44. > :32:51.Thank you very much all of you. Keep your thoughts coming in. Loads of

:32:52. > :32:54.comments from you already, and we would love to hear more.

:32:55. > :32:58.Parents of children with cystic fibrosis fined for taking their kids

:32:59. > :33:01.We speak to one family and the charity offering

:33:02. > :33:06.And we'll be talking Emma Freud, the scriptwriter and director

:33:07. > :33:09.of Love Actually, as the cast return for a one off

:33:10. > :33:21.I cannot wait for that. We will find out what is happening with all our

:33:22. > :33:23.favourite characters. With the News, here's Ben

:33:24. > :33:26.in the BBC Newsroom. Police in Malaysia have arrested two

:33:27. > :33:29.more people in connection with the death of the half-brother

:33:30. > :33:33.of North Korean leader King Jong-Un. They're reported to be a woman

:33:34. > :33:35.identified from CCTV Another woman was

:33:36. > :33:43.arrested yesterday. Kim Jong-nam was taken ill

:33:44. > :33:45.and later died, after apparently being attacked on Monday

:33:46. > :33:48.while waiting for a flight in The South Korean government

:33:49. > :33:51.claims North Korean agents Chinese state TV has just broadcast

:33:52. > :33:57.footage of one suspect in the investigation

:33:58. > :33:59.being driven away from a police The woman in the yellow top getting

:34:00. > :34:10.into the car is believed to be one However, this has not

:34:11. > :34:13.yet been verified. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:34:14. > :34:17.will meet his American counterpart Rex Tillerson today,

:34:18. > :34:19.for the first time since Mr Tillerson was confirmed

:34:20. > :34:21.as President Trump's The two men will be attending

:34:22. > :34:25.a meeting of foreign ministers The US State Department has

:34:26. > :34:32.indicated that Mr Tillerson will try to provide a comforting

:34:33. > :34:35.message to countries made uneasy by the apparent changes in America's

:34:36. > :34:39.foreign policy positions. Social care for elderly people

:34:40. > :34:41.is on the brink of collapse in some parts of England,

:34:42. > :34:46.according to the charity Age UK. It says more than 50,000 people

:34:47. > :34:49.are now not receiving any help, despite struggling with daily tasks

:34:50. > :34:52.such as washing, eating The Government says it recognises

:34:53. > :35:00.the pressures on the system and is working on a long term,

:35:01. > :35:04.sustainable solution. Britain's most senior judge has

:35:05. > :35:08.criticised sections of the press for their coverage of the Article 50

:35:09. > :35:12.court ruling, which said Parliament had to be consulted before

:35:13. > :35:14.the formal process for leaving The President of the Supreme Court,

:35:15. > :35:21.Lord Neuberger, also accused politicians of not being

:35:22. > :35:23.quick enough to defend That's a summary of the latest news,

:35:24. > :35:42.join me for BBC Newsroom Arsenal will wait until the end of

:35:43. > :35:47.the season to make a decision on their manager Arsene Wenger. That

:35:48. > :35:50.follows a huge first leg thrashing at Bayern Munich, it finished 5-1 in

:35:51. > :36:01.the Champions League. Real Madrid beat Napoli 3-1 in their first leg,

:36:02. > :36:04.this is the pick of the goals. Greg Laidlaw will miss the rest of the

:36:05. > :36:08.six Nations with an ankle injury, picked up in the defeat by France at

:36:09. > :36:12.the weekend. Finally, Mercedes have announced another technical

:36:13. > :36:15.director, James Allison, formerly of curare and Renault, filling the role

:36:16. > :36:24.left by Paddy Lowe. More after 11am. The controversial practice

:36:25. > :36:26.of issuing fines to parents who take their children out

:36:27. > :36:29.of school to go on holiday during term time is being criticised

:36:30. > :36:32.by a charity who say that even the parents of children with serious

:36:33. > :36:35.illness like cystic fibrosis are being told they will have

:36:36. > :36:38.to pay the penalties. We can speak now to Hannah

:36:39. > :36:41.Lindley, who was able to enjoy one last holiday

:36:42. > :36:43.with her sister Iona before The holiday was taken during term

:36:44. > :36:50.time, but no fine was issued in that Laurie Howard who runs

:36:51. > :36:54.a charity that gives grants for sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis to

:36:55. > :36:57.go on holiday with their families, Nazleen Ebrahim,

:36:58. > :37:02.who did face a fine when she took her son Raihan on holiday,

:37:03. > :37:06.Raihan also has cystic fibrosis. From Nottingham, we can also speak

:37:07. > :37:16.to Lewis Wagner an assistant Thank you all for joining us. Tell

:37:17. > :37:19.us what happened, because you were fined for taking your son out of

:37:20. > :37:27.school during term time, why did you do it?

:37:28. > :37:31.He had cystic cypresses -- has. We have days when he is well enough to

:37:32. > :37:37.travel, and not. For the first couple of years of his life, he was

:37:38. > :37:43.not permitted to travel at all. So we took permission from the doctor,

:37:44. > :37:47.took him, and he was well enough to travel. Once we got the go-ahead

:37:48. > :37:56.from the doctors, we thought, that's fine. So we booked a flight four

:37:57. > :38:03.days prior to departing. We booked a flight for 10th of December 2015, so

:38:04. > :38:10.it was going to overlap the Christmas holidays anyway, flying

:38:11. > :38:13.out for 14 days. We spoke to the teacher, and they said it is

:38:14. > :38:18.understandable, if all is well and he has the go-ahead from his doctor.

:38:19. > :38:23.We went on holiday, had an amazing time. We came back, received a

:38:24. > :38:29.letter through the post from the council to say we had been fined. At

:38:30. > :38:34.that point, I was shocked and confused. So I went to the school,

:38:35. > :38:42.and they said we would have two approach the council. So we

:38:43. > :38:47.approached the council. -- have two approach. The council said it was

:38:48. > :38:52.the school's discretion to find us. It is, it is at the discretion of

:38:53. > :38:58.the school whether you are able to take your child out. What you are

:38:59. > :39:05.experiencing is what the families of other children have experience. But

:39:06. > :39:10.because your son has cystic fibrosis, is it financial or

:39:11. > :39:16.practical consideration? It is all aspects. The practical

:39:17. > :39:22.aspect and medical basis, the fact that he might not be well enough to

:39:23. > :39:26.travel, it is very difficult to be able to foresee what is going to

:39:27. > :39:33.happen, even in the following weeks. So I can't plan a holiday ahead,

:39:34. > :39:37.even months in advance, because you never know what is around the

:39:38. > :39:42.corner. Hannah, I mentioned that your sister

:39:43. > :39:47.very sadly died of cystic fibrosis, but before she died, your family

:39:48. > :39:52.managed to go on a holiday, and the school was compassionate about that.

:39:53. > :39:56.Yeah, the school were really supportive. They fully understood

:39:57. > :40:01.why it was so important that we went on holiday together as a family. I

:40:02. > :40:06.have got a little brother and a little sister, and for them, when we

:40:07. > :40:10.came out, that is when she became critically ill and died. That

:40:11. > :40:18.holiday is the last happy memory they have got with Iona. The cystic

:40:19. > :40:24.fibrosis holiday fund helped us with grants to go, and they wouldn't have

:40:25. > :40:27.those happy memories without that. Coming back and getting fired, and

:40:28. > :40:31.the stress of sorting that out, it would have been impossible to deal

:40:32. > :40:36.with that because Iona was so critically ill that she nearly died

:40:37. > :40:41.when we got home. In that situation, there needs to be leniency, because

:40:42. > :40:48.you can't help the circumstances. You can't make a change.

:40:49. > :40:55.The situation, as described, it is difficult to work out when you need

:40:56. > :40:59.to go, because of health considerations, is that why you went

:41:00. > :41:04.in terms time? Why did you go in terms time?

:41:05. > :41:10.At that point, that was when Iona was well. With cystic fibrosis, the

:41:11. > :41:13.issue you face, really, is it is a massive unknown. You can be

:41:14. > :41:18.completely fine one way, and within a couple of weeks, you can be dead.

:41:19. > :41:23.You have to seize the opportunity whilst you have got the opportunity,

:41:24. > :41:31.just do it. Everything else has to be put on hold.

:41:32. > :41:34.Let's bring in Lewis Wagner, you are assistant head at a secondary

:41:35. > :41:39.school, what do you think about term time holidays?

:41:40. > :41:43.From the standpoint of education, we are primarily there to ensure that

:41:44. > :41:48.education happens, and that can only happen with good attendance by

:41:49. > :41:52.students. The policy is clear from the government regulations, and

:41:53. > :41:55.state that you had to apply to a head teacher if you wish to be

:41:56. > :42:00.considered for exceptional circumstances to take a child out of

:42:01. > :42:06.school. The school will make sure the policy is followed... on cystic

:42:07. > :42:11.fibrosis specifically and other serious conditions, should that

:42:12. > :42:17.always automatically be a special condition? And permission given?

:42:18. > :42:22.A case-by-case basis, you apply to the headteacher for the exceptional

:42:23. > :42:25.circumstances. I imagine, with cystic fibrosis being the condition

:42:26. > :42:29.it is, it is something that would be taken into consideration. It is nice

:42:30. > :42:31.to hear from the people you have there that the school was

:42:32. > :42:34.supportive. In one case, it was, but in the

:42:35. > :42:39.other, there was a fine. What do you think about a fine?

:42:40. > :42:44.The fine was from the local authority, and I correct in saying?

:42:45. > :42:48.Yeah. The school is not necessary for the fine, it is for ensuring

:42:49. > :42:54.attendance and unauthorised absence. I can't speak on the half of that

:42:55. > :43:01.local authority, unfortunately. You are with the cystic fibrosis

:43:02. > :43:06.holiday fund, how much parents of kids with cystic fibrosis fined for

:43:07. > :43:08.taking them out of school in term time?

:43:09. > :43:12.It feels like a bit of a postcode lottery. Some councils issued tens

:43:13. > :43:17.of thousands of pounds of fines and councils that don't issue any fined

:43:18. > :43:20.at all. It isn't a problem we have experienced with everybody, but it

:43:21. > :43:25.is a problem that is coming up with more frequency. As we have started

:43:26. > :43:29.recently organising fully paid holidays, as opposed to the grants

:43:30. > :43:34.we have given in the past to families to help a four-day holiday,

:43:35. > :43:40.some of the fully paid holidays given are in term time. More and

:43:41. > :43:43.more families have said to us, being able to take a fully paid for

:43:44. > :43:50.holiday of a lifetime because they might be fined on their return.

:43:51. > :43:55.It is a slightly controversial position, putting out fully paid for

:43:56. > :44:00.holidays in term time, encouraging parents to break guidelines.

:44:01. > :44:05.We didn't think so. We thought with cystic fibrosis it would be pretty

:44:06. > :44:09.clear for children with a disease that is ultimately terminal and

:44:10. > :44:12.never goes away. Parents are spending hours and hours every day

:44:13. > :44:18.giving physiotherapy, and children are taking tens of different drugs

:44:19. > :44:22.every day to keep going. There is no break from that. It didn't seem

:44:23. > :44:25.controversial to us as a charity to be able to support term time

:44:26. > :44:32.holidays to families that wanted them. But it seems that it is, in

:44:33. > :44:37.just a few cases, an issue. Hannah? The amount of treatment you have got

:44:38. > :44:44.to do, for something like cystic fibrosis, before Iona died, she had

:44:45. > :44:50.that much medication, should we could not get it within a 24-hour

:44:51. > :44:57.period. You just want to get away from it all, some things where you

:44:58. > :45:01.can shut the door, possibly forget a little bit about it, and have a

:45:02. > :45:04.little bit of a break. What about the issue of damaging a

:45:05. > :45:11.child's education because the Department of Health points out

:45:12. > :45:15.there are 13 weeks of holiday across the academic year, evidence shows

:45:16. > :45:19.that every day of school mist can affect a child's chances of

:45:20. > :45:20.achieving good GCSEs and it has a lasting effect on their life

:45:21. > :45:30.choices. Can we foreso has the a future, it

:45:31. > :45:36.is very important education should be, it is everyone's parity but at

:45:37. > :45:41.the same time, the importance of family, and to be loved and to have

:45:42. > :45:47.the support off each other and to have memories with each other, sort

:45:48. > :45:50.of balance it out. Education is a priority, every parents' but the

:45:51. > :45:57.wellbeing and just the mental support that you can give to a

:45:58. > :46:01.child, that is fighting a constant battle on a daily basis where every

:46:02. > :46:08.morning, evening at night we are spending two to three hours on

:46:09. > :46:13.medication and nebulisers and physiotherapy equipment. It is very

:46:14. > :46:16.easy to sort of brush it as a stays tick and other children as a

:46:17. > :46:22.statistic with cystic fibrosis with the same brush and say, well, all

:46:23. > :46:27.children have to comply, but there is an umbrella policy and surely

:46:28. > :46:32.there should be some sort of compromise, as far as children that

:46:33. > :46:37.have these special circumstances. Lewis Wagner, when you are talking

:46:38. > :46:41.about life chances in terms of education, and you hear about the

:46:42. > :46:45.life chances of these kids, struggling with very difficult

:46:46. > :46:52.conditions, and their families endiring that with them, can you

:46:53. > :46:56.even equate those two? I think one of the things about being a teacher.

:46:57. > :46:59.We are caring, it is a caring profession and we understand the

:47:00. > :47:03.difficulties that are associated with conditions like cystic fibrosis

:47:04. > :47:07.and we are very aware of the lifestyle that they may have to live

:47:08. > :47:12.as a result of this, which is why as part of the regulation, one of the

:47:13. > :47:16.things that is there that head teachers can grant these term time

:47:17. > :47:20.absences, they can make sure they are authorised rather than

:47:21. > :47:22.unauthorised, in exceptional circumstances. Thank you all very

:47:23. > :47:26.Thank you all very much for coming in.

:47:27. > :47:29.Three million of us could stave off colds and flu each year if we took

:47:30. > :47:32.That's according to new research published

:47:33. > :47:35.It studied 11,000 people and Found that a daily dose

:47:36. > :47:37.of the sunshine vitamin can protect against acute

:47:38. > :47:40.But Public Health England said evidence on Vitamin D

:47:41. > :47:43.is inconsistent and that this study does not provide sufficient evidence

:47:44. > :47:45."to support recommending Vitamin D for reducing the risk of respiratory

:47:46. > :48:00.Let's talk now to nutritionist Jenny Rosborough.

:48:01. > :48:07.And also to Professor who is head of nutritional services at the

:48:08. > :48:13.University of Surrey. Thank you for joining us. Tell us a bit more,

:48:14. > :48:18.first of all, Jenny, about the benefits you think there may be on

:48:19. > :48:26.vitamin D? So this particular research is looking at the benefits

:48:27. > :48:30.of a supplementation of vitamin department on respiratory tract

:48:31. > :48:34.infections like cold or flu, but we know that the proven consistent

:48:35. > :48:38.evidence of vitamin D is much more round bone and muscle health. That

:48:39. > :48:42.what our current recommendations are based on. Should everyone take it?

:48:43. > :48:50.If there is a suggestion it helps, it won't cause you any harm? On in

:48:51. > :48:53.excess it will cause harm but not in the amounts found in

:48:54. > :48:57.supplementation. The recommendation is that even should take a

:48:58. > :49:00.supplement in the winter months and in autumn, because we get a lot of

:49:01. > :49:06.vitamin D from sunshine, obviously in the UK we don't get a lot that at

:49:07. > :49:09.this time of the year, and for those population groups at risk they

:49:10. > :49:13.should take them the whole year round, so people with darker skin or

:49:14. > :49:19.who aren't exposed to sunlight as much. Susan, what do you think about

:49:20. > :49:23.this research? Very much agree with your press conference speaker, it is

:49:24. > :49:34.a very nice piece of work, that has been done by a very reputable group,

:49:35. > :49:37.in London. It is a met a analysis, it is pulling together randomised

:49:38. > :49:43.controlled trial, one of the interesting things with the study is

:49:44. > :49:52.it shows the greatest effect in those who have a vitamin D status

:49:53. > :49:58.less than 25 perlitre, that is what was... Sorry, put that in lay

:49:59. > :50:05.person's language then. That is kind of like the cut off point for very

:50:06. > :50:10.low vitamin D status, so what the study showed was the effect, it was

:50:11. > :50:16.greatest in those with this very low level of vitamin D status and was

:50:17. > :50:23.most ebeneficial in those who were taking a vitamin D supplement on a

:50:24. > :50:28.daily or weekly basis, rather than a large bolus dose, a very large

:50:29. > :50:34.amount taken at one time. OK. In terms of the best way to get vitamin

:50:35. > :50:38.D, if you want it is it's a supplement, how else can you get it?

:50:39. > :50:44.Apart from the sunlight and even that is tricky, in the summer we are

:50:45. > :50:48.covering ourself in sun tan lotion, covering up because we are worried

:50:49. > :50:52.about skin cancer risk so supplementation is what is

:50:53. > :50:59.recommended. It is one of those vitamins we can't get easily from

:51:00. > :51:05.food. It is in oily fish and egg yolks, they might be food people

:51:06. > :51:11.don't consume. If you had an oily fish once a week. The recommendation

:51:12. > :51:16.is we have fish twice a week but that is for different benefit, so

:51:17. > :51:23.for the general public, yes, everyone really should have a

:51:24. > :51:28.supplement. It is fort anied if -- fortified in sup products. Would you

:51:29. > :51:33.still need a supplement? The general recommendation is still that we

:51:34. > :51:41.should have this supplement. OK. Why is it, Susan, that vitamin D has

:51:42. > :51:46.this effect? It seems? It is a very unusual nutrient in that our main

:51:47. > :51:51.source is not diet, it is UV B ex pore sure, so the best way of

:51:52. > :51:55.telling if you are in the right sunlight your shadow has to be

:51:56. > :51:59.shorter than your height. That is a useful tip to remember for people,

:52:00. > :52:03.so between really April and September, is when you would get

:52:04. > :52:11.your vitamin D. In terms of it, so we talk about it as a vitamin, it is

:52:12. > :52:18.not a vital aiming which is what the term vitamin means, it's a pro

:52:19. > :52:25.hormone so it is made in the body. What we know about vitamin D is that

:52:26. > :52:31.it has our cells in the body need vitamin D to work, so a number of

:52:32. > :52:36.immune function cells need vitamin D to operate effectively. That is what

:52:37. > :52:38.makes it so interesting as a nutrient to focus on. Thank you both

:52:39. > :52:47.very much. Thank you.

:52:48. > :52:53.Love actually has become one of Richard Curtis's most favourite

:52:54. > :52:57.films. How did the tangled love lives of the characters play out. We

:52:58. > :53:03.are about to find out possibly because members of the cast are

:53:04. > :53:07.going to be reuniting for a short sequel ten minutes to raise money

:53:08. > :53:11.for Comic Relief. In a moment we will speak to Emma Freud but let us

:53:12. > :53:16.remind ourself of the original film. Here is is a bit of the famous scene

:53:17. > :53:18.where the late Alan Rick man's character attempts to get a

:53:19. > :53:39.Christmas present gift wrapped. Man's character attempts to get a

:53:40. > :53:44.Christmas present gift wrapped. What's that? A cinnamon stick, Sir.

:53:45. > :53:50.You won't regret it Sir. Wanna bet? We're delighted to be able

:53:51. > :53:53.to speak to Emma Freud, script editor on Love Actually

:53:54. > :53:58.and Director of Red Nose Day. Are you on the set right now? I am.

:53:59. > :54:04.I have turned the camera round you can't see where we are. Do you mind

:54:05. > :54:12.turning it back round? No. Quite busy here already. Tell us who is

:54:13. > :54:16.there with you then? OK, Liam niecen, the most after tracktive man

:54:17. > :54:21.in the world and slightly weirdly, younger looking now, than he was

:54:22. > :54:29.when we first did the film 13 years ago. He is gorgeous, and Thomas

:54:30. > :54:35.Sangster who was a 12-year-old boy who played his step-son, he is now a

:54:36. > :54:38.great big boy, he is 26. And one other person I am not going to tell

:54:39. > :54:42.you who. Our first day's filming we are going to do the whole thing in

:54:43. > :54:47.five days, I think but this is day one, and it is going OK, we have

:54:48. > :54:51.done the first take of the first scene, back to the second take, I

:54:52. > :54:56.will grab Richard in a moment so you can say hello to him, but it is all

:54:57. > :55:00.very exciting. Please do grab him any time you like. We would love to

:55:01. > :55:11.talk to Richard as well. Can you tell us. Richard! Who else is going

:55:12. > :55:19.to be in it Who have you said? I said Liam and Tom. Kiera and Andrew

:55:20. > :55:27.is in it and Colin is in it and Hugh and Lucia, a lot of people. Emma

:55:28. > :55:33.Thompson? Oddly, we are not quite sure, oddly. It is being done in a

:55:34. > :55:42.great rush, I think not, but I am now thinking again, we will wait and

:55:43. > :55:48.see. Bill is in it. Will all of our burning questions be answered? No.

:55:49. > :55:55.OK, maybe not in ten minutes maybe you need to make a full sequel,

:55:56. > :56:00.would you do that? No. Why not? The only reason this is happening is for

:56:01. > :56:03.Red Nose Day, in Britain, and also for Red Nose Day in Americaings,

:56:04. > :56:13.which is something we do now as well. So this is Red Nose Day. And

:56:14. > :56:16.action! He has got a job to do. Did anyone say no, when you approached

:56:17. > :56:24.everyone, what was their reaction, were they excited to be doing it?

:56:25. > :56:29.Alan Rickman went very quiet. Other than that, no, nobody amazingly,

:56:30. > :56:33.nobody said no. Liam flew over yesterday, from America, and is

:56:34. > :56:38.going back tomorrow, so that is quite dedicated. No, it surprised

:56:39. > :56:43.us, there is a lot of affection for the film. I know some people think

:56:44. > :56:47.it's the worst thing put on celluloid but I think there is a

:56:48. > :56:51.very warm feeling and it and the cast have enjoyed that over the

:56:52. > :56:58.years I imagine, because they all said yes, which was great. Was it

:56:59. > :57:03.easy to write? No, it wasn't, I think I have never opinion more

:57:04. > :57:07.useful, the first draft he did was so bad, that I told him we

:57:08. > :57:13.absolutely shouldn't do it and to abort the plan and he rewrote it, so

:57:14. > :57:17.it has gone through a lot of pass, it is quite good now but very much

:57:18. > :57:22.in Red Nose Day, the only point of it existing is in order to try and

:57:23. > :57:26.draw attention to Red Nose Day and make money for our projects. That is

:57:27. > :57:31.the only push in life. We have tried to hook it into that, that felt like

:57:32. > :57:36.a crowbar at the beginning but it is sitting nicely now. That is good.

:57:37. > :57:41.Can you give us some examples of what he put in the first draft that

:57:42. > :57:46.was were so shocking? The same jokes again. He said they will be funny

:57:47. > :57:51.because they are older, and no, that isn't good enough, he did the jokes

:57:52. > :57:55.the first time, 30 years ago and they were find, you can't do it so,

:57:56. > :58:00.we had to move on, I had to develop it a bit. There has to be progress

:58:01. > :58:06.rather than revisiting the old gag, that wasn't going to work. Thank you

:58:07. > :58:11.so much. March 24th: Red Nose Day. Enjoy the filming. Thank you.

:58:12. > :58:31.I will see you same time tomorrow, have a lovely afternoon. Bye.

:58:32. > :58:34.Donald Trump's first 100 days in the White House

:58:35. > :58:38.are defining how he'll deal with the rest of the world.