10/04/2017

:00:11. > :00:14.It's Monday, it's nine o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:00:15. > :00:20.Our top today: Officers will line the street later as the funeral

:00:21. > :00:22.is held for PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered in the attack

:00:23. > :00:25.Friends and colleagues have been paying tribute.

:00:26. > :00:26.One of the kindest people you'll ever find.

:00:27. > :00:28.Very giving, very loyal, very true friend.

:00:29. > :00:41.I am at Westminster, where tens of thousands are expected to line the

:00:42. > :00:44.route of the funeral. Also on the programme -

:00:45. > :00:46.micro-dosing is illegal, and there's no medical evidence

:00:47. > :00:49.to say what kind of So why do some people think taking

:00:50. > :01:00.a tiny amount of psychedelic drugs A large amount of different pills

:01:01. > :01:04.each of which causes side-effects, and I find these substances give me

:01:05. > :01:08.the benefits without any of those drawbacks.

:01:09. > :01:11.And we'll talk to the woman in this viral photo who stood up

:01:12. > :01:23.to the English Defence League at a protest in Birmingham.

:01:24. > :01:27.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

:01:28. > :01:29.Throughout the programme we'll bring you the latest breaking news

:01:30. > :01:36.And we'll be talking to the wife of Kris Maharaj who has

:01:37. > :01:38.spent 30 years fighting to clear her husband's name

:01:39. > :01:40.after he was convicted of double murder in Florida.

:01:41. > :01:44.New evidence means he could be out of prison by Christmas.

:01:45. > :01:50.Use the hashtag #VictoriaLive, and if you text, you will be charged

:01:51. > :01:56.The funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered in the terror

:01:57. > :02:01.attack in Westminster last month, will be held this afternoon.

:02:02. > :02:04.The 48-year-old was stabbed to death by Khalid Masood as he stood guard

:02:05. > :02:10.Officers from across the country will line the route

:02:11. > :02:12.to Southwark Cathedral, where a full police

:02:13. > :02:23.Yesterday, the coffin of PC Keith Palmer was brought

:02:24. > :02:25.to the Palace of Westminster - the place where he worked,

:02:26. > :02:28.the place he had been protecting when he was killed last month.

:02:29. > :02:36.Overnight, an honour guard made up of members of the Parliamentary

:02:37. > :02:41.Yesterday, the coffin of PC Keith Palmer was brought

:02:42. > :02:43.and Diplomatic Protection Command has been watching over his

:02:44. > :02:45.coffin in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft

:02:46. > :02:49.PC Palmer's funeral is to be held at Southwark Cathedral this afternoon.

:02:50. > :02:51.Some of his colleagues who worked alongside him have

:02:52. > :02:53.been paying tribute, describing him as hard-working

:02:54. > :02:55.selfless, a dedicated officer who loved his job,

:02:56. > :02:58.One of the kindest people you'll ever find.

:02:59. > :03:00.Very giving, very loyal, a true friend.

:03:01. > :03:04.He was so down-to-earth and so normal.

:03:05. > :03:05.He came to work because he had a family to support.

:03:06. > :03:18.That was all he ever wanted to do, be there for his family.

:03:19. > :03:20.Officers from across the UK are expected to travel to London

:03:21. > :03:23.to line the route of the funeral cortege from Westminster

:03:24. > :03:26.Police forces will be holding two minutes' silence

:03:27. > :03:28.to remember their fallen colleague, while flags on force headquarters

:03:29. > :03:34.Our correspondent Keith Doyle is at Westminster.

:03:35. > :03:42.What is going to happen in the next few hours? From a bright and sunny

:03:43. > :03:47.Westminster, good morning, but it is a sombre day here, because this is

:03:48. > :03:50.where the funeral cortege of PC Keith Palmer will start as it makes

:03:51. > :03:56.it journey to Southwark Cathedral on the South bank of the River Thames.

:03:57. > :04:02.Shortly after one o'clock, his body will be taken from the chapel, the

:04:03. > :04:05.royal chapel in the Palace of Westminster where there has been a

:04:06. > :04:10.police honour guard all night, every hour the guard changed with

:04:11. > :04:15.colleagues standing guard over his coffin throughout the night. The

:04:16. > :04:19.hearse will take his coffin passed the very point where he was stabbed

:04:20. > :04:25.to death a little over two and a half weeks ago, and it will move out

:04:26. > :04:30.of Westminster, passed us right here on College Green and then over

:04:31. > :04:38.Lambeth Bridge and along the South bank of the River past Waterloo

:04:39. > :04:42.station and on towards London Bridge station where Southwark Cathedral

:04:43. > :04:45.is, so it is quite a big police operation here today. Are large

:04:46. > :04:52.crowds expect it? Indeed, they really are. 5000 or more police

:04:53. > :04:57.officers from every force in the country will be here today lining

:04:58. > :05:06.the route, taking part in the service. You can hear the siren

:05:07. > :05:12.Scott Hynd, there are lots of police around, barriers up, on the roads

:05:13. > :05:18.will be closed sometime soon. We expect many thousands of people,

:05:19. > :05:24.some of the estimates saying maybe 50,000 people could be lining the

:05:25. > :05:29.route. Really it goes to show the kind of respect people have for this

:05:30. > :05:33.police officer who was just doing his job, protecting Parliament, and

:05:34. > :05:38.became victim of this terrorist attack. That is why so many police

:05:39. > :05:43.officers are coming from all over the country to pay their respects as

:05:44. > :05:47.well, many of them fear it could have been any of them.

:05:48. > :05:50.Thank you very much. Reeta is in the BBC

:05:51. > :05:52.Newsroom with a summary Foreign Ministers from

:05:53. > :05:56.the G7 leading nations They'll discuss how to persuade

:05:57. > :06:00.Russia to end its military support for Syria's President Assad,

:06:01. > :06:02.following last week's Our diplomatic correspondent

:06:03. > :06:06.James Robbins reports. The next two days in the Tuscan

:06:07. > :06:08.walled city of Lucca will be dominated by a collective search

:06:09. > :06:11.for arguments to persuade Vladimir Putin that he must now end

:06:12. > :06:14.Russia's military support for Syria's President Assad

:06:15. > :06:16.and help to accelerate a negotiated The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:06:17. > :06:25.is expected to press the case for new sanctions against Russia

:06:26. > :06:31.if they don't give ground. President Trump's Secretary

:06:32. > :06:34.of State Rex Tillerson wants to go on from here to Moscow,

:06:35. > :06:36.able to confront the Russians with a strong set of demands,

:06:37. > :06:39.backed by America's key allies. Our priority is, first,

:06:40. > :06:42.the defeat of Isis. Remove them from access

:06:43. > :06:44.to their caliphate, because that's where the threat to the homeland

:06:45. > :06:46.and to so many homelands of our coalition partners

:06:47. > :06:50.is emanating from. Once we can eliminate the battle

:06:51. > :06:57.against Isis, conclude that, and it is going quite well,

:06:58. > :07:00.then we hope to turn our attention to achieving ceasefire

:07:01. > :07:02.agreements between the regime Russia and Iran, President Assad's

:07:03. > :07:05.key military backers, are threatening retaliation

:07:06. > :07:07.if there are any further It's far from clear that Moscow's

:07:08. > :07:14.attitude has shifted significantly since either the gas attack

:07:15. > :07:16.or America's retaliatory Years of effort trying to find

:07:17. > :07:27.a negotiated settlement have failed, and so the task here in Italy

:07:28. > :07:31.of trying to find a new way to break Egypt has declared a three-month

:07:32. > :07:38.state of emergency after attacks on two churches yesterday left

:07:39. > :07:40.at least 44 people dead. The measures allow the authorities

:07:41. > :07:43.to make arrests without warrants The army will be deployed to help

:07:44. > :07:46.police protect key sites. The so-called Islamic State group

:07:47. > :07:55.said it was behind both blasts. The BBC has uncovered evidence that

:07:56. > :07:58.appears to implicate the Bank of England in the so-called

:07:59. > :07:59.Libor scandal. A secret recording from 2008

:08:00. > :08:03.obtained by Panorama suggests it repeatedly pressured commercial

:08:04. > :08:05.banks to push down the rates at which they charged

:08:06. > :08:07.each other interest. Here's our economics

:08:08. > :08:12.correspondent Andy Verity. The Libor scandal first blew up

:08:13. > :08:15.in 2012, when Barclays boss Until recently, Libor used to set

:08:16. > :08:19.by a member of staff of the biggest banks,

:08:20. > :08:23.called a submitter, saying what interest rate they thought

:08:24. > :08:26.they'd have to pay to borrow money. An average was taken, called

:08:27. > :08:29.the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, The submitters were meant to base it

:08:30. > :08:37.only on their own genuine view of the market for borrowing

:08:38. > :08:39.and lending cash. Panorama has uncovered a phone call

:08:40. > :08:42.on October 29th, 2008, during the financial crisis,

:08:43. > :08:46.when a senior Barclays banker, Mark Dearlove, tells the man

:08:47. > :08:48.putting in Libor rates, Peter Johnson, to push

:08:49. > :08:52.down his Libor rates below the true cost of borrowing cash

:08:53. > :09:20.because of pressure from above. We played the recording

:09:21. > :09:23.to Chris Phelps MP, a member If what Dearlove is saying

:09:24. > :09:29.is true, that is shocking. This tape suggests that in fact

:09:30. > :09:32.the Bank of England knew about it and indeed were encouraging

:09:33. > :09:37.or even instructing it. So we need an immediate

:09:38. > :09:40.inquiry to find out exactly what is going on, given what we have

:09:41. > :09:43.just heard on this tape. The Bank of England told Panorama

:09:44. > :09:48.that Libor and other global benchmarks were not regulated

:09:49. > :09:50.in the UK or elsewhere Swedish police are continuing

:09:51. > :09:57.to question a man suspected of driving a hijacked lorry

:09:58. > :09:59.into a crowd of people in Stockholm on Friday,

:10:00. > :10:03.leaving four people dead. The 39-year-old, originally

:10:04. > :10:06.from Uzbekistan, was facing deportation from Sweden and had

:10:07. > :10:08.expressed support for Tens of thousands gathered

:10:09. > :10:14.in the city yesterday to pay tribute to the victims,

:10:15. > :10:15.who included British Police in Manchester have launched

:10:16. > :10:33.extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls

:10:34. > :10:36.about people passing out from taking Greater Manchester Police said

:10:37. > :10:40.they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug in 24 hours after it

:10:41. > :10:43.launched a two-day banning It's been reported that

:10:44. > :10:46.the substance left some users Australian scientists say two thirds

:10:47. > :10:49.of the Great Barrier Reef has now been devastated

:10:50. > :10:51.by severe coral bleaching. It's caused by rising water

:10:52. > :10:54.temperatures and researchers say surveys show an accelerated rate

:10:55. > :10:55.of damage along the Mass bleaching makes the coral

:10:56. > :10:59.fragile and can kill it. The reef is home to more

:11:00. > :11:02.than 130 species of shark That's a summary of

:11:03. > :11:21.the latest BBC News. Thank you very much. We're going to

:11:22. > :11:27.talk later to Safir Khan, who smiled at an EDL protest, and the

:11:28. > :11:32.photograph was captured and has gone viral on social media. A number of

:11:33. > :11:39.people praising her stance. We will talk to her later. Her dad has

:11:40. > :11:43.explained that he has always taught her and her sister not to back down

:11:44. > :11:46.from prejudice, so it will be interesting to talk to her later on.

:11:47. > :11:48.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:11:49. > :11:51.Use the hashtag #VictoriaLive, and if you text, you'll be charged

:11:52. > :11:57.It's all about the golf this morning.

:11:58. > :11:57.Sergio Garcia has finally won a major, and he's done it in style.

:11:58. > :12:02.He certainly did. He is the nearly man no more, at his 74th attempt, he

:12:03. > :12:13.has won his first major tournament with a victory at the Masters. It

:12:14. > :12:17.was neck and neck for much of the final round, if one nipped ahead,

:12:18. > :12:22.the other clawed them back, and so it went to sudden death. The winning

:12:23. > :12:28.putt for Garcia, this is what secured him the green jacket. And

:12:29. > :12:40.six to his knees, you can almost feel the long wait of expectation

:12:41. > :12:43.lift off his shoulders. His idol and late Spanish golfer, Seve

:12:44. > :12:50.Ballesteros, it would have been his 60th birthday, he has tried so hard

:12:51. > :12:54.but even he questioned his mental resilience, but at 37 years old he

:12:55. > :13:03.has come good. I felt the calmest I have ever felt on a major Sunday,

:13:04. > :13:07.and even after making a couple of bogeys, I was still very positive, I

:13:08. > :13:13.still believed that there were a lot of holes that I could get to, and I

:13:14. > :13:19.had some good shots coming in, and I'm so happy. You just want to know

:13:20. > :13:23.that he has won his first major if this will open the floodgates and he

:13:24. > :13:24.could win many more to come. The US open is in June, it will be

:13:25. > :13:30.interesting to see how gets an. Englishman Justin

:13:31. > :13:39.Rose just missing out, Yes, the first thing he did was to

:13:40. > :13:42.go over and hugged him. They have known each other a long time, they

:13:43. > :13:46.are good friends, and Justin Rose said, I would love to be wearing the

:13:47. > :13:51.green jacket, but if it wasn't me, then I'm glad it's him, here is what

:13:52. > :13:54.he had to say. We have been friends for a long time, we have been

:13:55. > :14:03.playing golf against one another since we were 14, so our careers

:14:04. > :14:06.will go on, and call for takeover, I will be disappointed for about a

:14:07. > :14:11.month on golf will take over and we'll carry on. There are many more

:14:12. > :14:20.goals this year, many objective to look forward to this was the

:14:21. > :14:26.highlight of the spring, and I was disappointed to come so close, but

:14:27. > :14:29.the year is only getting going. Reaction has been coming in, social

:14:30. > :14:37.media as always ablaze with congratulations and support, one of

:14:38. > :14:50.his sons said happy birthday, dad, he hoped he could win the Masters.

:14:51. > :14:58.It goes to show just how much of it popular guy Sergio Garcia is on the

:14:59. > :14:59.tour. Whiteman thank you, Jess. More throughout the

:15:00. > :15:02.morning. It's when you take a tiny amount

:15:03. > :15:05.of psychedelic drugs, LSD or magic mushrooms,

:15:06. > :15:07.usually, as part The drugs are illegal,

:15:08. > :15:10.and there's no medical evidence to tell us what the benefits

:15:11. > :15:14.or harms of it may be. But a small community of people

:15:15. > :15:17.in the UK are doing it anyway, Some say it aids creativity

:15:18. > :15:21.and concentration and helps But critics say it's dangerous,

:15:22. > :15:25.and users are putting Our reporter Catrin Nye has been

:15:26. > :15:38.meeting the people that do it. This is only, maybe, 20 mikes -

:15:39. > :15:49.20 milligrams of LSD. So this would be enough

:15:50. > :15:55.to give you a trip? Each morning, I take vitamins

:15:56. > :15:59.with a cup of tea and toast. So in the morning,

:16:00. > :16:02.it's vitamins, tea...? NEWSREEL: These are the faithful

:16:03. > :16:09.of LSD, or Acid-heads - the exposed tip of an iceberg

:16:10. > :16:12.of more sporadic users. Psychedelic drugs, LSD,

:16:13. > :16:15.magic mushrooms, are usually associated with long,

:16:16. > :16:19.mind-bending trips, Instant chemical wisdom

:16:20. > :16:30.obviously doesn't exist. The people I've been meeting,

:16:31. > :16:32.though, are taking the Class A drugs in tiny doses in an attempt

:16:33. > :16:35.to improve their lives. And, in some cases, deal with severe

:16:36. > :16:41.mental health problems. We are in the Great

:16:42. > :16:55.British countryside. And this is actually a place

:16:56. > :16:58.where you can quite easily get hold of psychedelic drugs,

:16:59. > :17:06.because magic mushrooms grow here. I'm off to see someone who's used

:17:07. > :17:23.those to micro-dose. I'm intrigued about

:17:24. > :17:31.your micro-dosing. When I was at university,

:17:32. > :17:46.I like most students, I think I discovered by accident one

:17:47. > :17:52.day when I was very bored that you could take a small amount of LSD

:17:53. > :18:00.and it was really useful And so I had learned

:18:01. > :18:03.that a really useful, nice thing to do with it would be

:18:04. > :18:07.to have it on a day off and have quite a normal day,

:18:08. > :18:10.but the quality of that day on all sorts of fronts

:18:11. > :18:12.would just be a lot better. So I would go for a walk

:18:13. > :18:15.and I would be struck All of those bits of sense data

:18:16. > :18:22.that we often lose to getting stuff done and being outcome focused

:18:23. > :18:24.would be really... There's something really relaxing

:18:25. > :18:31.and grounding about it. It wasn't until moving

:18:32. > :18:33.to the country that Anna Out of curiosity, I was running one

:18:34. > :18:44.day up in the hills and I didn't have to be back anywhere for quite

:18:45. > :18:46.a long time. So I picked a couple

:18:47. > :18:49.of mushrooms and I was curious I was really aware of enjoying

:18:50. > :19:09.moving and enjoying being outside. I went to a friend's house

:19:10. > :19:12.later that day and we had I really wanted to make

:19:13. > :19:20.the house look nice. Again, I had quite an ordinary day

:19:21. > :19:23.and I really enjoyed it. I felt quite happy and calm

:19:24. > :19:26.and grounded and I slept During the time that

:19:27. > :19:30.they were in season, if it was possible to pick a couple

:19:31. > :19:34.then I would. Because I knew that it was making me

:19:35. > :19:37.get more done and sleep better and just having a slightly better

:19:38. > :19:40.quality of life, I guess. The most noticeable thing for me

:19:41. > :19:44.was that I was a lot tidier. I'm a really messy person but I got

:19:45. > :19:47.very fussy about my physical space. So I would find myself

:19:48. > :19:52.suddenly possessed to tidy I would really get into

:19:53. > :19:57.doing the recycling. How do you justify the fact

:19:58. > :20:00.that it is completely illegal? When you're doing something that

:20:01. > :20:05.isn't causing any harm to anybody else or to yourself,

:20:06. > :20:10.there's nothing really that needs I query the relevance and the sanity

:20:11. > :20:18.of the legal frameworks He tells me he had a very abusive

:20:19. > :20:31.childhood and now suffers He micro-doses LSD with his

:20:32. > :20:36.tea in the morning. Erm, every two months, six weeks -

:20:37. > :20:45.a therapeutic dose. Not constantly - if you build up

:20:46. > :20:51.a tolerance to anything, Can you tell me what you're dealing

:20:52. > :21:03.with, and how it helps? Depression and anxiety as a result

:21:04. > :21:08.of this childhood trauma that led to borderline personality disorder

:21:09. > :21:13.and post-traumatic stress disorder. So all of these things together

:21:14. > :21:18.are currently dealt with by GPs with a large amount of different

:21:19. > :21:22.pills, each of which causes more side effects, I find

:21:23. > :21:24.in my personal experience, than the benefits

:21:25. > :21:27.these drugs provide. These substances, I've found,

:21:28. > :21:29.give me the benefits So then me using these

:21:30. > :21:38.substances mean I've been able to view my trauma so it's

:21:39. > :21:40.just an experience. It's a memory like any other.

:21:41. > :21:43.It doesn't hold me hostage any more. These substances can be reused again

:21:44. > :21:56.in the psychiatric toolkit The problem is in terms of credible

:21:57. > :22:00.medical research, there is currently no evidence to back up his

:22:01. > :22:05.experiences. James was recently involved in a pilot trial at

:22:06. > :22:09.Imperial College, London, looking at the use of magic mushrooms in

:22:10. > :22:15.clinical depression. It did not, however look at micro-dosing? At a

:22:16. > :22:20.medical level nothing about. There have been no trials looking at at

:22:21. > :22:26.all and the only way that we can sort out whether or not it works or

:22:27. > :22:30.it doesn't is by doing a blinded pa seen owe controlled randomised

:22:31. > :22:34.trial. What are the dangers of people taking it upon themselves to

:22:35. > :22:41.conduct their own little experiment on themselves with? We have no idea

:22:42. > :22:47.what the effect might be on driving for example, skilled tasks, it is

:22:48. > :22:51.the definition of a micro-dose is you don't notice the sub jective

:22:52. > :22:54.effect, but that doesn't mean it is not having any effect on you. We

:22:55. > :23:02.don't know what risks in the long-term might be. There was some

:23:03. > :23:08.concern before 1970 when the drugs were being used clinically, in

:23:09. > :23:10.people who are liable to develop schizophrenia and psychotic

:23:11. > :23:15.disorders, the drugs might uncover those issues in some people. Some

:23:16. > :23:18.studies showed that might be a risk. Other studies showed it wasn't.

:23:19. > :23:24.Again, it is another area where we don't know. Though we know nothing

:23:25. > :23:30.about, James' work is part of a recent cautious revival in

:23:31. > :23:36.scientific trials involving sick Cadelic drugs. Back this the 50s and

:23:37. > :23:39.60s thousands of patients were treated with sick Cadelics, but that

:23:40. > :23:45.all stopped when governments around the world started to ban

:23:46. > :23:51.recreational drugs. They were used prior to prohibition in the UK in

:23:52. > :23:55.1970 and they seemed to be quite effective for people with treatment

:23:56. > :23:59.resistant forms of depression and anxiety and alcoholism and that's

:24:00. > :24:04.precisely the patient group that I see in my clinic, who aren't getting

:24:05. > :24:08.better with the standard treatments. It's frustrating to see people who

:24:09. > :24:12.don't get better. You have to understand where I was

:24:13. > :24:16.before I took it. The day before I took it, I was thinking about

:24:17. > :24:25.killing myself a lot. Like a lot. Like I was standing in front of

:24:26. > :24:29.medicine cabinet counting pills. I was feeling horrible one day and I

:24:30. > :24:33.did the micro-dose and at first I felt nothing. I thought oh well,

:24:34. > :24:36.this is a failed endeavour. This woman is a successful author and

:24:37. > :24:42.former lawyer who lives in California. She suffers from a mood

:24:43. > :24:45.disorder that had been managed by prescription medication, but she

:24:46. > :24:54.fell into a depression and she was suicidal. She is not a fan of drugs,

:24:55. > :24:58.but says desperation made her try micro-dosing LSD. About 90 minutes

:24:59. > :25:05.later I looked up and I looked out the window and I had a at the time a

:25:06. > :25:14.dogwood tree in my yard. The dogwood in bloom. I thought oh, look. The

:25:15. > :25:18.dogwood is in bloom. It is so beautiful. It wasn't like the

:25:19. > :25:22.blossoms were shimmering, it was just that I hadn't been able to

:25:23. > :25:30.appreciate anything like that in so long. I had been all, but anhidonic.

:25:31. > :25:35.To appreciate beauty was earth shaking. It was a really remarkable

:25:36. > :25:40.treatment for me. It is one I'm sorry I can't do every day because

:25:41. > :25:47.it resolved my depression instandtainiously. Really? Yeah. I

:25:48. > :25:52.wasn't happy. But at least I was no longer contemplating killing myself.

:25:53. > :25:59.I was much less likely to fly off the handle. I got my work done more

:26:00. > :26:05.effectively. It worked the way my psychiatrist had always promised to

:26:06. > :26:10.me that my antidepressants would work. So this is enough more about

:26:11. > :26:14.six weeks? If you're micro-dosing. If you're taking a proper dose,

:26:15. > :26:23.that's one standard average dose. And what are you aiming for? About

:26:24. > :26:27.0.2. So you'd go to work now? I'd go to work. How do you think your

:26:28. > :26:33.colleagues would react? They would be horrified, probably.

:26:34. > :26:39.Obviously Class A drugs like these are illegal, possession could result

:26:40. > :26:43.in up to seven years in prison. Dylan micro-doses every few days

:26:44. > :26:47.with magic mushrooms. His friends know, but his colleagues don't. He

:26:48. > :26:50.works in a well respected profession and so we've changed his name and

:26:51. > :26:56.we're protecting his identity because his habit could lose him his

:26:57. > :26:59.job. Have you found yourself like in work, suddenly feeling like you're

:27:00. > :27:06.tripping because you took too much? Once. On acid. I was trying to

:27:07. > :27:11.micro-dose on acid. That was not pleasant. You realise and you're

:27:12. > :27:18.kicking yourself for not having thought this through. Tell me more

:27:19. > :27:22.about how this will change your day? I can you can float in and out of

:27:23. > :27:27.various situations with an ease and with a comfort level that's just

:27:28. > :27:34.exquisite. It gives you this very calm and relaxed sense of being

:27:35. > :27:38.sensored. Dylan thinks micro-dosing makes him better at his job, more

:27:39. > :27:42.able to concentrate, more creative. It is this belief that means it has

:27:43. > :27:46.become associated with Silicon Valley in the US and there is one

:27:47. > :27:53.man that if you talk to people who micro-dose always gets a mention.

:27:54. > :28:01.Jim has been researching psyche Cadelics since the 60s and offers a

:28:02. > :28:08.website telling people how to micro-dose. He says 900 people have.

:28:09. > :28:15.The most consistent result is people say, "My life seems to be working

:28:16. > :28:20.better. I am more effective." Their sleeping habits improve. Their

:28:21. > :28:26.eating habits improve. They feel better in social situations. These

:28:27. > :28:33.many hundreds of people around the world are either all deluding

:28:34. > :28:37.themselves which seems highly unlikely or the results are valid.

:28:38. > :28:41.Is there not a sense that people enjoy being a bit high? That these

:28:42. > :28:46.guys are having a little bit of the effect they get when they take drugs

:28:47. > :28:53.which some people like? Maybe. I think that's the same question for

:28:54. > :28:57.any stimulant. In our instructions we indicate if you're feeling a

:28:58. > :29:00.little bit high then you need to lower your dose. Do you worry that

:29:01. > :29:05.someone in a less privileged position in terms of legal

:29:06. > :29:11.protection is going to do this and get into real trouble? I'm a white

:29:12. > :29:15.woman living in California with economic resources in the

:29:16. > :29:20.background. If you are a young African-American guy in say Ferguson

:29:21. > :29:24.and you're experiencing the same kind of psychiatric symptoms that I

:29:25. > :29:28.was experiencing, it would be tremendously dangerous for you to do

:29:29. > :29:31.what I did. The other danger, of course, is just how unpredictable

:29:32. > :29:35.the drugs can be. Even while making this film a boy in America has died

:29:36. > :29:40.falling off a roof while on LSD. His family said he had a bad trip. These

:29:41. > :29:46.stories are rare, but they really scare people. This stuff is really

:29:47. > :29:51.powerful. In Durham alone, in the past three years, four years, three

:29:52. > :29:54.students have drowned in our river from alcohol intoxication. That's

:29:55. > :29:59.the same thing, but we don't talk about alcohol is really powerful. I

:30:00. > :30:03.guess history tells us if a drug gets a bad reputation it can damage

:30:04. > :30:06.the science so... Of course, that's and that's something we have to work

:30:07. > :30:09.with, I suppose, but I don't think that's a reason not to do the

:30:10. > :30:11.science. In fact, I think it is a reason to do the scientific

:30:12. > :30:35.research. Rob tweets, surely this is a

:30:36. > :30:41.terrible idea, people do build tolerance to drugs. And on Facebook,

:30:42. > :30:47.I wonder how many people who start taking Micro doses end up getting

:30:48. > :30:51.more and more addicted? What fools, this just leads to more and more

:30:52. > :30:56.problems. If people think it is making their life better, what has

:30:57. > :30:57.it got to do with anyone else? Later in the programme we speak to one

:30:58. > :31:01.expert about the dangers. We'll hear

:31:02. > :31:05.from the daughter of a 70-year-old man killed while he cycled

:31:06. > :31:07.through central London; she's calling for better police training

:31:08. > :31:10.into how to handle cycling deaths. And this image of a woman smiling

:31:11. > :31:13.at an English Defence League protestor in Birmingham

:31:14. > :31:15.has gone viral. We'll talk to her about

:31:16. > :31:24.why she intervened. Here's Reeta in the BBC Newsroom

:31:25. > :31:28.with a summary of today's news. Thousands of police officers

:31:29. > :31:30.from across the UK are expected at the funeral of PC

:31:31. > :31:33.Keith Palmer, who was killed The 48-year-old was stabbed to death

:31:34. > :31:38.by Khalid Masood as he stood guard A service will be held this

:31:39. > :31:44.afternoon at Southwark Cathedral. Keith didn't hesitate

:31:45. > :31:46.to act when confronted His bravery and his courage are

:31:47. > :31:54.something that all officers are very Also, there's a tremendous sense

:31:55. > :31:59.of sadness and of loss, and a feeling that it could have been

:32:00. > :32:02.anybody, and it was Keith. So, the funeral will

:32:03. > :32:05.also be an opportunity for the police family to come

:32:06. > :32:08.together, to grieve together, but also to show support,

:32:09. > :32:10.in particular to Keith's family, his friends,

:32:11. > :32:15.and his close colleagues. The UK is pushing for

:32:16. > :32:18.new sanctions on Russia if it maintains its staunch support for

:32:19. > :32:20.Syrian President Basher Al-Assad. The Foreign Secretary,

:32:21. > :32:22.Boris Johnson, is meeting with other G7 leaders in Italy

:32:23. > :32:25.to discuss the situation. He has faced criticism

:32:26. > :32:27.over his decision to pull out of talks with Moscow

:32:28. > :32:29.after the chemical attack in Syria last week that

:32:30. > :32:37.left more than 80 dead. Egypt has declared a three-month

:32:38. > :32:42.state of emergency after attacks on two churches yesterday left

:32:43. > :32:45.at least 44 people dead. The measures allow the authorities

:32:46. > :32:47.to make arrests without warrants The army will be deployed to help

:32:48. > :32:53.police protect key sites. The so-called Islamic State group

:32:54. > :32:57.said it was behind both blasts. The BBC has uncovered evidence that

:32:58. > :32:59.appears to implicate the Bank of England in the so-called

:33:00. > :33:08.Libor scandal. A secret recording from 2008

:33:09. > :33:11.obtained by Panorama suggests it repeatedly pressured commercial

:33:12. > :33:13.banks to push down the rates at which they charged

:33:14. > :33:16.each other interest. Police in Manchester have launched

:33:17. > :33:19.extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls

:33:20. > :33:22.about people passing out from taking Greater Manchester Police said

:33:23. > :33:25.they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug in 24 hours after it

:33:26. > :33:28.launched a two-day banning It's been reported that

:33:29. > :33:32.the substance left some users Australian scientists say two thirds

:33:33. > :33:39.of the Great Barrier Reef has now been devastated

:33:40. > :33:40.by severe coral bleaching. It's caused by rising water

:33:41. > :33:42.temperatures and researchers say surveys show an accelerated rate

:33:43. > :33:45.of damage along the Mass bleaching makes the coral

:33:46. > :33:53.fragile and can kill it. The reef is home to more

:33:54. > :33:55.than 130 species of shark That's a summary of

:33:56. > :34:24.the latest BBC News. Sergio Garcia has won the 2017 major

:34:25. > :34:26.after beating Justin Rose in an entertaining play-off. Manchester

:34:27. > :34:31.United keep Sunderland at the bottom of the Premier League table after a

:34:32. > :34:36.3-0 win at Stadium of Light. United moved up to fifth. Everton ended

:34:37. > :34:42.Leicester's winning run with a 4-2 victory, Romilly Lukaku scored twice

:34:43. > :34:51.and is the top scorer in the Premier League. And a last-minute try and

:34:52. > :35:00.the last kick of the game as wasps stay stop of the premiership.

:35:01. > :35:07.What needs to happen next to try and find an end to the conflict

:35:08. > :35:09.in Syria which has seen almost half a million people killed?

:35:10. > :35:11.That's something G7 foreign ministers will be discussing

:35:12. > :35:16.The G7 or group of seven, is made up of the world's seven

:35:17. > :35:18.richest industrial countries - Britain, America, Japan, Germany,

:35:19. > :35:22.This next film shows some of the key events of the last few days

:35:23. > :35:24.which will be discussed at that meeting.

:35:25. > :35:26.It contains some distressing images and flashing lights

:35:27. > :36:05.These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated.

:36:06. > :36:07.If proven this will be further evidence of barbarism

:36:08. > :36:30.any chemical weapons. that Syria did not do

:36:31. > :36:32.It does not have any chemical weapons because it has

:36:33. > :36:34.given all its stockpile to the international organisation

:36:35. > :37:04.It was time to say enough, but not only say it,

:37:05. > :37:12.Bashar al-Assad must never use chemical weapons again, ever.

:37:13. > :37:17.TRANSLATION: The attack by the United States

:37:18. > :37:19.is understandable given the extent of the war crime, the suffering

:37:20. > :38:11.of innocent people, and the blockade in the UN Security Council.

:38:12. > :38:13."From now on we will respond with force".

:38:14. > :38:17.That was the threat from Russia and Iran last night to America

:38:18. > :38:20.after accusing President Trump of crossing "red lines" by striking

:38:21. > :38:28.Let's speak now to Labour's spokesperson on foreign affairs,

:38:29. > :38:32.Sir Tony Brenton, a former British Ambassador to Moscow.

:38:33. > :38:41.who is Syrian and has family living there.

:38:42. > :38:49.Thank you to all of you for talking to us. What should happen next? I

:38:50. > :38:52.think that the only solution in the end is a political settlement, so

:38:53. > :38:57.everything that happens should be seen through the lens of, will this

:38:58. > :39:01.stop the war faster? And what worries me is in the last few days

:39:02. > :39:05.we have had more rhetoric, great headlines, but has it been helping

:39:06. > :39:10.with sorting out this problem and finding a political solution? I

:39:11. > :39:16.don't think it has. Peace talks have been going on for months and years,

:39:17. > :39:20.there has been no progress. The difficulty with Syria is that it

:39:21. > :39:26.isn't just a complicated civil war, it is a regional war, and there are

:39:27. > :39:31.major powers fighting as if there is a proxy war going on, so that is

:39:32. > :39:35.what makes it complex and multilayered, but it can only work

:39:36. > :39:39.if major players are round the table together, and what we have seen is

:39:40. > :39:42.this major falling out between America and Russia pulling the

:39:43. > :39:48.parties apart and further away from the table, and nobody believes that

:39:49. > :39:52.you can win this war, nobody can win the war, there has to be a political

:39:53. > :39:56.settlement, and there has to be a long-term solution, and so by

:39:57. > :40:01.increasing rhetoric and hitting headlines, Boris Johnson me feel

:40:02. > :40:04.good today, but he isn't actually helping with a long-term solution

:40:05. > :40:09.when it comes to what will happen to Syria. Would you have cancelled the

:40:10. > :40:13.trip to Moscow as Boris Johnson has? I think it is a difficult one

:40:14. > :40:19.because it is also important to be involved with the G7, but since the

:40:20. > :40:22.early trip had been cancelled, I think it was important to go,

:40:23. > :40:27.because I think you have to engage the Russians and talk to them. And

:40:28. > :40:31.to be quite honest, it looks yet again like auris is playing second

:40:32. > :40:38.fiddle to the Americans, and in so much of foreign policy, we wait for

:40:39. > :40:44.the Americans and then agree, and with an unpredictable president,

:40:45. > :40:48.that puts our foreign policy in a difficult position. So that makes

:40:49. > :40:54.Boris Johnson Donald Trump's Kudla? I don't think that is appropriate,

:40:55. > :40:57.but I would have gone to Russia and started the talks and started

:40:58. > :41:03.talking about how we are going to sort this out. Assad shouldn't have

:41:04. > :41:07.a long-term future in Syria, so how do we make sure that we move Syria

:41:08. > :41:12.on. Half the population is living abroad, half a million people have

:41:13. > :41:15.died, we are incredibly distressed by these photographs of children

:41:16. > :41:20.being killed in this way, but the only solution is political. How

:41:21. > :41:22.would you describe the Foreign Secretary's relationship with the

:41:23. > :41:29.American administration on this issue? I think we play second fiddle

:41:30. > :41:32.and we don't seem to have... We are a member of the top table at the

:41:33. > :41:37.United Nations, a country that ought to have cloud, and I think that at

:41:38. > :41:41.the moment, it is almost as if we are slightly cowed by it, waiting

:41:42. > :41:46.for America to decide what their policy is, and I feel profoundly

:41:47. > :41:50.uncomfortable about that. I think we should be more confident about

:41:51. > :41:54.ourselves and be prepared to say no to the president when he is wrong,

:41:55. > :42:00.and I think he was wrong to take unilateral action and bombing in the

:42:01. > :42:03.circumstances in Syria. So let Assad get away with the chemical gas

:42:04. > :42:06.attacks on his own people? None of us wanting to get away with it. The

:42:07. > :42:13.way to make sure that he doesn't is first of all to have proof which

:42:14. > :42:18.nobody can argue with, so send in UN inspectors to make sure it can be

:42:19. > :42:21.clear who was gas that was, and then get action across the whole of the

:42:22. > :42:26.international community, not for one party to decide I believe it is him,

:42:27. > :42:35.even though most of us believe that it was, and I, America, and going to

:42:36. > :42:40.send off 56 Tomahawks. We have to do this together as a world through the

:42:41. > :42:44.UN. Let me bring in Sir Tony Brenton, former British ambassador

:42:45. > :42:48.to Washington. When Russia and Iran say they will respond with force,

:42:49. > :42:59.what do you think that means? I don't think we should take it too

:43:00. > :43:02.seriously. Really?! The Russians have already taken once more and

:43:03. > :43:07.dangerous action in ending the arrangements with America in Syria,

:43:08. > :43:14.there is not a huge amount they can do, and what we are watching is

:43:15. > :43:17.noise to cover up the confusion. I broadly agree with what Emily

:43:18. > :43:22.Thornbury has just said, about needing to talk to the Russians

:43:23. > :43:27.about finding a way out of the Syrian mess, but I disagree with her

:43:28. > :43:32.in her feeling that the US air strike was a mistake, I think it has

:43:33. > :43:35.been a useful reality check for Assad obviously but also for the

:43:36. > :43:38.Russians, who have got used to dealing with a week US

:43:39. > :43:44.administration, that there are limits to what the US will tolerate,

:43:45. > :43:48.and that will affect calculations in the future, hopefully in a helpful

:43:49. > :43:58.direction. What is the best way to get President Putin to drop his

:43:59. > :44:02.support of Assad in Syria? The first step is to gauge with the Russians

:44:03. > :44:05.on the way forward. There are pressures on him to get out of

:44:06. > :44:12.Syria, he has a presidential election next year, a population

:44:13. > :44:20.disenchanted with Syria, he would like to find a way out but he won't

:44:21. > :44:23.accept a way which affects what he views as Russia's vital interests

:44:24. > :44:28.there, the crucial one being confidence that Assad will not be

:44:29. > :44:33.replaced by an Islamist regime, and that is a danger to us as well, and

:44:34. > :44:45.as we negotiate a way forward, part of it has to be to find a way to

:44:46. > :44:54.replace Assad but with a dependable northern Islamist alternative.

:44:55. > :44:57.You heard the former British ambassador saying, don't take it too

:44:58. > :45:01.seriously when they say they will respond with force, is he right? To

:45:02. > :45:15.be honest, I think the events in the last week were very unpredictable.

:45:16. > :45:20.So I don't know. To just sit and wait to what the response is going

:45:21. > :45:24.to be, already cancelling the non-conflictual agreement between

:45:25. > :45:29.Russia and America is dangerous, and it could be a cover for what may

:45:30. > :45:36.appear as an accident, a clash between American and Russian

:45:37. > :45:42.aeroplanes over the sky of Syria, it could be something that had been

:45:43. > :45:45.deliberately engineered. In terms of your own family members, what do

:45:46. > :45:50.they want from the international community? Whether it is my family

:45:51. > :45:55.or many other Syrians, what they want is the right conflict? Do they

:45:56. > :46:04.have the right to have their own conflict? The Syrians were making

:46:05. > :46:08.the headlines by going down to the street at the start, but now it is

:46:09. > :46:12.anything but Syrian. They shouldn't be called a Syrian conflict any

:46:13. > :46:20.more. You are discussing superpowers, G7, Nato, even the

:46:21. > :46:29.Geneva talks which involve some from Syria, or are being held on the

:46:30. > :46:33.basis of resolution which no Syria at all have been involved in

:46:34. > :46:37.drafting those resolutions. So there is a huge non-Syrian parliament in

:46:38. > :46:40.this conflict, and most Syrians want this to be out of serious they can

:46:41. > :46:47.sort out their own issues. Don't expect Syrians to reach any solution

:46:48. > :46:52.to be to change things on the ground when you have all these actors

:46:53. > :46:57.involved at the same time. You can't wait for Orbis International debate

:46:58. > :47:02.and restructuring of how the war is going on the Security Council, Nato

:47:03. > :47:08.and everything, we can't wait for this to be resolved over the heads

:47:09. > :47:24.of Syrians, so we just want it out of the scene as much as possible.

:47:25. > :47:31.The mortgage ar shells were falling next to her house. My parents in

:47:32. > :47:38.Homs were concerned about 2,000 people from Homs were deported by

:47:39. > :47:41.force from Homs and dumped in an opposition controlled area. There

:47:42. > :47:49.were different dynamics on the ground happening and all this

:47:50. > :47:52.international attention on the attacks itself, it played no role in

:47:53. > :47:57.changing these events at all. If anything, it was making it worse and

:47:58. > :48:02.more Syrians were being killed every day whether before or after dark.

:48:03. > :48:07.Understood. Emily, finally, your party is split on this issue. Some

:48:08. > :48:10.of your MPs accused your leader of preferring inaction to stopping a

:48:11. > :48:17.murderous tyrant. What would you say to them? Well, I think that we all

:48:18. > :48:21.want to stop a murderous tyrantment we all want peace in Syria. It's a

:48:22. > :48:24.question of how we go about doing that and sometimes people say that

:48:25. > :48:29.the Labour line on this is a weak one. But it's so isn't. It would

:48:30. > :48:32.have been very easy for us to join in the rhetoric and say, "Yes, this

:48:33. > :48:36.is outrageous. Let's get involved in the bombing." But we're not doing

:48:37. > :48:40.that because we're taking a step back and we're saying what is the

:48:41. > :48:44.long game? How do we make sure we get peace in Syria? It will take a

:48:45. > :48:48.while, but the lady has just said, the woman from Syria, saying, you

:48:49. > :48:53.know, it is as if it is not a Syrian conflict anymore, it is a great, big

:48:54. > :48:57.international conflict and we need to get the powers out and we need

:48:58. > :49:01.Syria to find peace. It is right and people need to say that. Do you

:49:02. > :49:04.think there, even if the international players got out, do

:49:05. > :49:08.you think there could be peace with President Assad still president? I

:49:09. > :49:12.think that in the end President Assad has to go, but I think that

:49:13. > :49:15.any calls for him to leave straightaway which the British

:49:16. > :49:19.Government has been doing, I think, is not likely to be realistic. I

:49:20. > :49:23.think, I hope that he has no long-term future in Syria. I think

:49:24. > :49:27.that he is a murderous tyrant. So yes, I want him to go, but when

:49:28. > :49:31.we've talked about regime change in the past, we have talked about it in

:49:32. > :49:34.the context of Iraq or Libya and looked what has happenedment when

:49:35. > :49:39.people say they want regime change the next question must be what do

:49:40. > :49:42.you want in its place and if you don't know wh what you want in its

:49:43. > :49:46.place, you have to think long-term and think we need to work this

:49:47. > :49:50.through and not just be doing knee-jerk politics here. What would

:49:51. > :49:54.President Assad have to do for you to support some kind of military

:49:55. > :49:59.intervention? No. That's not the way to put it. Sorry. What I would say

:50:00. > :50:03.is, I'm not against military intervention if it is part of a

:50:04. > :50:07.larger plan. If someone can say to me, if we intervene here, if we do

:50:08. > :50:10.this, if we kill this number of people then this will happen and

:50:11. > :50:13.then we will be able to move on here and this is the solution. But the

:50:14. > :50:17.difficulty is for politicians is that when terrible things like this

:50:18. > :50:21.happen, if you don't respond with, "Let's get involved in bombing" Then

:50:22. > :50:26.there is criticism that you're being weak, but you're not, you're saying,

:50:27. > :50:29.the pressure is to be seen to be doing something, but you must step

:50:30. > :50:34.back and think what is the long-term plan? You have to have a strategy

:50:35. > :50:38.and at the moment, I very much fear that the international community is

:50:39. > :50:42.falling out big time and we're not talking strategy anymore, we're

:50:43. > :50:45.talking, you know, let's see who can say the strongest thing? Let's be

:50:46. > :50:48.seen to be a strong man. Let's be seen to be Boris Johnson is standing

:50:49. > :50:53.up to the Russians. Really, how does this help us in the long-term?

:50:54. > :51:08.That's what we need to be doing. Thank you very much.

:51:09. > :51:09.Coming up, the 78-year-old British multimillionaire whose been

:51:10. > :51:12.in prison in the United States for more than 30 years

:51:13. > :51:18.He's always maintained his innocence, now new evidence has

:51:19. > :51:25.The daughter of a 70-year-old man killed whilst cycling

:51:26. > :51:27.through central London is calling for better police training into how

:51:28. > :51:32.It's after the woman accused of knocking down and killing

:51:33. > :51:34.Michael Mason was cleared of careless driving

:51:35. > :51:43.in what is the first ever crowdfunded private prosecution.

:51:44. > :51:51.Mr Mason who wasn't wearing a helmet died in hospital days after being

:51:52. > :51:55.hit by a car. Days after his death, his daughter made a film looking

:51:56. > :51:59.into whether police failed to investigate cycling deaths properly.

:52:00. > :52:00.A warning it shows her father seriously ill in a hospital bed

:52:01. > :52:11.before he died. Dad was cycling home this way up

:52:12. > :52:14.a central London road when he was He was in hospital in

:52:15. > :52:19.a coma for three weeks, At the inquest into my father's

:52:20. > :52:22.death, the driver said she She said it was like something

:52:23. > :52:26.falling from the sky. Afterwards, the coroner's verdict

:52:27. > :52:28.was that his death had been Society obviously depends

:52:29. > :52:36.on families joining together. Here's my dad, Mick Mason,

:52:37. > :52:38.in happier times at my wedding. He was a gentle, unassuming

:52:39. > :52:41.Geordie, who often had a My family and I had questions

:52:42. > :52:45.about how the police were investigating my dad's

:52:46. > :52:47.death from very early on. Potential witnesses

:52:48. > :52:49.were not chased as we would have liked and they did not

:52:50. > :52:52.appear to think about what we were One officer even asked

:52:53. > :52:57.us if we wondered whether my dad might be

:52:58. > :53:18.responsible for his own death. The private prosecution was brought

:53:19. > :53:20.by the cyclists defence fund. Anna Tatton-Brown gave us her

:53:21. > :53:22.reaction to the case. I'm not sure that it was the wrong

:53:23. > :53:28.verdict and what was presented in that half-way through the case

:53:29. > :53:34.the other side applied to have the case thrown out

:53:35. > :53:36.as I learn is sometimes customary in cases for lack

:53:37. > :53:38.of evidence saying that the prosecution hadn't

:53:39. > :53:40.presented enough evidence. The judge ruled that there

:53:41. > :53:43.was and that it should go to a jury. So, for us, that was kind

:53:44. > :53:47.of vindication in having brought the case and this case should always

:53:48. > :53:51.have gone in front of a court, He also allocated costs

:53:52. > :53:56.at the end so the cycling charity will get some, if not all,

:53:57. > :53:59.of their money back. Again, further vindication for us

:54:00. > :54:01.that this was always where this So, I kind of like to think of it

:54:02. > :54:08.as the driver was on trial during this case, but the Met's

:54:09. > :54:10.decision was also on trial. While she was found not guilty,

:54:11. > :54:19.the Met, to a certain extent, How difficult was it to listen

:54:20. > :54:23.to some of the evidence? I obviously know this

:54:24. > :54:27.case inside out. I thought that I knew what every

:54:28. > :54:31.witness was going to say and I thought that I was kind

:54:32. > :54:35.of immune to it and that it wouldn't shock me, but it really

:54:36. > :54:38.did and hearing people discuss your father's injuries

:54:39. > :54:43.in a kind of such a matter of fact, scientific way,

:54:44. > :54:46.I mean I know that's how it has got to be,

:54:47. > :54:49.but it's horrible and I was shocked Whilst you accept the verdict,

:54:50. > :54:55.do you want the police to review or look again at the way they deal

:54:56. > :54:59.with cases involving cyclists? I, in the three years

:55:00. > :55:10.since the accident happened and the case came to trial, I have

:55:11. > :55:13.come across quite a few families who have had issues with how

:55:14. > :55:16.the police have handled their cases. So it is not just me.

:55:17. > :55:20.I am by no means an isolated case. We finally got the case to court,

:55:21. > :55:26.but three years have gone by. People's memories aren't as fresh

:55:27. > :55:28.and there are inherent problems The expense that we have had to go

:55:29. > :55:35.to to fight, to get it into the justice system,

:55:36. > :55:37.but also for the driver. She had this hanging

:55:38. > :55:41.over her for three years. And I think that the police need

:55:42. > :55:46.better training with how they deal with evidence at the scene,

:55:47. > :55:50.how they hand... The mentality

:55:51. > :55:52.with which they approach a cycling There were scenarios

:55:53. > :55:59.where they kept saying to me, "Your dad was wearing dark clothing,

:56:00. > :56:04.he wasn't wearing a helmet." And I think that mentality washed

:56:05. > :56:07.over how they treated the case So I think specialist training

:56:08. > :56:12.to help them realise that that maybe the case -

:56:13. > :56:15.he was wearing dark clothing but there are other issues at play

:56:16. > :56:18.here - and I don't think it's I think there are issues about how

:56:19. > :56:24.the whole justice system Our case never got to the CPS

:56:25. > :56:28.so I don't know how the CPS would have handled it,

:56:29. > :56:32.but I've heard of issues with other people once the cases get to the CPS

:56:33. > :56:35.and then the justice system, I'm not questioning

:56:36. > :56:39.the verdict for a moment. But I think there are issues

:56:40. > :56:44.about a jury where almost everyone will drive and, for a moment,

:56:45. > :56:46.one of those people We don't always pay full

:56:47. > :56:50.attention when we drive. I don't always pay full attention

:56:51. > :56:54.100% of the time when I drive. So I don't know how you can separate

:56:55. > :56:59.that in your mind when you're making it a decision about the guilt

:57:00. > :57:01.of someone who does an activity The Met tell us the test

:57:02. > :57:08.for referral to the Crown Prosecution Service as laid down

:57:09. > :57:11.by the Director of Public Prosecutions was applied and found

:57:12. > :57:14.not to meet the required threshold and the evidence was tested

:57:15. > :57:17.in the Coroners' Court and not referred for further investigation

:57:18. > :57:19.or examination by any other agency, Her Majesty's Coroner concluded this

:57:20. > :57:25.was the result of an accident and the investigation

:57:26. > :57:30.supports this finding. From what you've said,

:57:31. > :57:33.it sounds like in a way you think the police

:57:34. > :57:35.perhaps blamed your father He was wearing dark clothing,

:57:36. > :57:38.he wasn't wearing a helmet? But the law of our land says that

:57:39. > :57:44.you have to have lights that are working and are

:57:45. > :57:46.on and reflectors. Regent Street is a street

:57:47. > :57:51.in Central London, He was visible and, so,

:57:52. > :58:01.I don't think it's for them to make a decision whether she should have

:58:02. > :58:03.seen him or not. And they say that it

:58:04. > :58:10.didn't meet the criteria, but a judge has ruled

:58:11. > :58:12.that this case... for this case to have been in court

:58:13. > :58:17.and the jury should make I think that their decision

:58:18. > :58:25.was wrong and I think that I'd like them to, in the light of this,

:58:26. > :58:30.go back and apologise really. Not just to me, but to

:58:31. > :58:33.Gail Purcell, the woman who was driving, and really think

:58:34. > :58:36.about how they handle these cases They've quoted the CPS

:58:37. > :58:41.guildelines there but... I'm not entirely

:58:42. > :58:47.sure of the wording. There is a recommendation in cases

:58:48. > :58:50.of fatalities that there is an

:58:51. > :58:52.automatic referral to the CPS. I don't think it's

:58:53. > :58:54.become a rule yet. When I made the film

:58:55. > :58:59.for you guys, I interviewed Keir

:59:00. > :59:01.Starmer, who was the He said he thought there

:59:02. > :59:04.was a strong argument now for eight direct

:59:05. > :59:06.referral in the case of every fatality

:59:07. > :59:07.that it goes direct to the CPS and

:59:08. > :59:09.the decision I repeat that call,

:59:10. > :59:21.especially in the We will have the latest news and

:59:22. > :59:26.sport shortly. Here is Carol. Gorgeous. People want to know will

:59:27. > :59:32.it the be the same for Easter weekend?

:59:33. > :59:41.It's not, I'm afraid. It won't be as warm, but it won't be a write-off.

:59:42. > :59:46.Look at these lovely pictures from our weather watchers. Some of us

:59:47. > :59:54.have started the day with blue skies as we entered the weekend with a top

:59:55. > :59:57.temperature of 25.5 Celsius in Cambridge yesterday afternoon,

:59:58. > :00:03.making it the warmest of the year so far. But this cooler air is pushing

:00:04. > :00:08.southwards, some of us will still have temperatures above average for

:00:09. > :00:13.this stage in April. A little Fairweather cloud will develop,

:00:14. > :00:19.produce showers especially across Northern Ireland, northern and

:00:20. > :00:24.western Scotland. If you catch a shower in the Midlands, it will be

:00:25. > :00:30.fleeting. Across the south-west, lower temperatures than yesterday,

:00:31. > :00:38.but still nice with the sunshine. Those sunny intervals continuing

:00:39. > :00:46.across East Anglia, Cambridge today instead of 25.5, more likely to be

:00:47. > :00:49.13. Showers continuing across northern and western Scotland, but

:00:50. > :00:56.most of Scotland will be dry with some sunshine coming through. Across

:00:57. > :01:00.Northern Ireland we can't rule out a shower, and as we move back to

:01:01. > :01:05.Wales, again, a lot of dry weather with some sunshine. Heading through

:01:06. > :01:09.the evening and overnight, our next system comes in across the Northwest

:01:10. > :01:13.introducing some rain across Scotland, head of it cloud building

:01:14. > :01:17.for Northern England and Northern Ireland, but for the rest of England

:01:18. > :01:21.and Wales, clearer skies allowing temperatures in the countryside to

:01:22. > :01:29.drop. This represents towns and cities, so there will be frost to

:01:30. > :01:32.start the day. We have the rain continuing across parts of northern

:01:33. > :01:37.and western Scotland tomorrow, a blustery day and the chilly

:01:38. > :01:41.direction the wind is coming from, the Northwest. But moving further

:01:42. > :01:48.south, again we are looking at sunshine. Temperatures tomorrow

:01:49. > :01:55.between 12 and 17 Celsius, in London at this stage in April the averages

:01:56. > :01:59.13. Then we see the weather front sinking southwards, and once again

:02:00. > :02:01.on Wednesday, a mixture of rights bells, sunshine and showers, with

:02:02. > :02:09.the rain slowly coming southwards through the day.

:02:10. > :02:16.It's Monday, it's ten o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:02:17. > :02:20.Our top today: Thousands of police officers will line the streets

:02:21. > :02:24.the Westminster terror victim PC Keith Palmer.

:02:25. > :02:24.We've been hearing from those who served with him.

:02:25. > :02:34.Very selfless. He would do whatever was required.

:02:35. > :02:39.One of the kindest people you'll ever find.

:02:40. > :02:44.And I'm in Southwark where the roads have already been closed off for the

:02:45. > :02:49.funeral at the cathedral here this afternoon. The service will be both

:02:50. > :02:53.a public memorial and a private family funeral.

:02:54. > :02:56.Also on the programme: The people who take a tiny dose of psychedelic

:02:57. > :02:59.So-called micro-dosing is illegal, and there's no medical evidence

:03:00. > :03:02.to say what kind of harm it could cause.

:03:03. > :03:12.I had learned that are really useful nice thing to do with it would be to

:03:13. > :03:16.have it on a day off and have quite a normal day, but the quality of

:03:17. > :03:24.that day on all sorts of France would just be a lot better.

:03:25. > :03:32.More from her shortly, and the possible dangers.

:03:33. > :03:35.And this image of a woman standing up to an English Defence League

:03:36. > :03:38.protestor in Birmingham has said she was "surprised" when it went

:03:39. > :03:46.We will speak to Saffiyah Khan before 11.

:03:47. > :03:49.Here's Reeta in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:03:50. > :03:51.Thousands of police officers from across the UK are expected

:03:52. > :03:54.at the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed in the

:03:55. > :03:56.Westminster terror attack. The 48-year-old was stabbed to death

:03:57. > :04:02.by Khalid Masood as he stood guard outside the Palace of Westminster.

:04:03. > :04:04.Officers from across the country will line the route

:04:05. > :04:06.to Southwark Cathedral, where a full police

:04:07. > :04:17.Danya -- Daniela Relph is there. The roads around Southwark Cathedral

:04:18. > :04:23.have been closed off in preparation for the funeral at two o'clock this

:04:24. > :04:28.afternoon. Police officers have been brought into various compounds.

:04:29. > :04:30.There will be around 5000 places for police officers from around the

:04:31. > :04:38.country to pay their respects to Keith Palmer. Train companies have

:04:39. > :04:42.offered free travel to police officers coming to the funeral

:04:43. > :04:48.today. It is a huge event for the police service. Keith Palmer died a

:04:49. > :04:52.very public death, and there is a sense that today will be in some

:04:53. > :04:56.ways a public memorial, but we also have to remember that this is also

:04:57. > :05:01.going to have to be an intimate, private family funeral for his wife,

:05:02. > :05:07.his daughter, his parents and brothers and sisters who will be

:05:08. > :05:12.here. The very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark, will be mindful

:05:13. > :05:16.of that when he leaves the service at two o'clock this afternoon.

:05:17. > :05:23.Daniella, many thanks, more on that this afternoon.

:05:24. > :05:25.Foreign Ministers from the G7 leading nations

:05:26. > :05:38.Boris Johnson is meeting with other leaders. Labour's spokesperson on

:05:39. > :05:43.foreign affairs told Victoria the international community needs to

:05:44. > :05:47.focus on the long-term solution. What we have seen is a major falling

:05:48. > :05:52.out between America and Russia which pulls the parties apart and further

:05:53. > :05:57.away from the table, and nobody believes you can win this war. There

:05:58. > :06:03.has to be a political settlement, and there has to be a long-term

:06:04. > :06:06.solution, and so by upping the rhetoric of hitting the headlines,

:06:07. > :06:10.Boris Johnson me feel good today, but he isn't actually helping, I

:06:11. > :06:11.don't think, with a long-term solution when it comes to what will

:06:12. > :06:16.happen to Syria. The BBC has uncovered evidence that

:06:17. > :06:18.appears to implicate the Bank of England in the so-called

:06:19. > :06:20.Libor scandal. A secret recording from 2008

:06:21. > :06:22.obtained by Panorama suggests it repeatedly pressured commercial

:06:23. > :06:25.banks to push down the rates at which they charged

:06:26. > :06:27.each other interest. Here's our economics

:06:28. > :06:34.correspondent Andy Verity. Police in Manchester have launched

:06:35. > :06:37.extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls

:06:38. > :06:40.about people passing out from taking Greater Manchester Police said

:06:41. > :06:43.they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug in 24 hours after it

:06:44. > :06:46.launched a two-day banning It's been reported that

:06:47. > :06:49.the substance left some users That's a summary of

:06:50. > :07:07.the latest BBC News. Let me read you some comments on

:07:08. > :07:12.micro-dosing. Gail, an officer at Durham Police, says it is

:07:13. > :07:17.interesting and worrying. Class a possession is unlawful. Alan Taylor

:07:18. > :07:20.says they are idiots and forgetting the stuff stays in your system for

:07:21. > :07:25.life, and Daniel says this is just drug addiction leading torsos of

:07:26. > :07:29.problems. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:07:30. > :07:32.Use the hashtag #VictoriaLive, and if you text, you'll be charged

:07:33. > :07:41.The big story this morning is from golf, where Sergio Garcia has

:07:42. > :07:48.finally won his first championship. He had to do it via a tense play-off

:07:49. > :07:51.with England's Justin Rose. Garcia is the third Spaniard to win at

:07:52. > :07:55.Augusta on what was a particularly poignant day. Watch out for some

:07:56. > :08:00.flash photography, not as Tim Hague reports.

:08:01. > :08:04.Some things are just written, and Sergio Garcia winning a first major

:08:05. > :08:12.on the day his inspiration, the late Seve Ballesteros, would have turned

:08:13. > :08:23.60, is one of them. To do it on his 60th birthday, and to join him and

:08:24. > :08:29.allow my two idols in golf, it is amazing. I felt the calmest I have

:08:30. > :08:33.ever felt on a major Sunday. I am so happy. The battle he had with Justin

:08:34. > :08:36.Rose was among the finest in Masters history. No one Arscott close to

:08:37. > :08:42.them, this was simply a two horse race for the title. But with both an

:08:43. > :08:48.eight under par going to the final nine holes, the Spaniard seemed to

:08:49. > :08:51.collapse, finding trees, rough and even a spot in there. He needed

:08:52. > :09:00.something special on the 15th, and he found it. , Tata and the trees of

:09:01. > :09:07.Augusta -- COMMENTATOR: And the trees of

:09:08. > :09:12.Augusta Shaikh with the noise. And with three holes to play, they

:09:13. > :09:22.were both nine under. Yet these Ryder Cup team-mates kept going,

:09:23. > :09:31.onto the final green equally impressive, neither deserved to

:09:32. > :09:35.lose, and neither would, meaning a sudden-death play-off. This putt for

:09:36. > :09:47.that major. At the 74th attempt, Sergio Garcia

:09:48. > :09:55.has mastered the majors, and he leaves with the green jacket. S

:09:56. > :10:00.Garcia pointing to the sky in honour of Seve, and he certainly had the

:10:01. > :10:16.support of their sons: And of course world number two Rory

:10:17. > :10:32.McIlroy added: So, Garcia is the nearly man no

:10:33. > :10:39.more, and prior to this year, he had finished in the top ten of a major

:10:40. > :10:43.22 times. It has taken him 74 attempts to finally win one, the

:10:44. > :10:48.most of any champion, beating Tom Kite who won the US open after 72,

:10:49. > :10:53.and in terms of prize money, he is ?1.6 million richer today, and maybe

:10:54. > :11:00.a consolation of a Justin Rose, he pockets ?960,000. We have been

:11:01. > :11:04.playing golf against one another since we were 14 years of age, so we

:11:05. > :11:09.are both going to get up tomorrow morning and our careers will go on.

:11:10. > :11:13.He will be happy for a month and then golf will take over, and I will

:11:14. > :11:17.be disappointed for months and then golf will take over and we will

:11:18. > :11:24.carry on. There are many more objectives this year that I will

:11:25. > :11:27.look forward to, the US Open, local championships. This was the

:11:28. > :11:31.highlight of the spring and a target for a long time, and I was

:11:32. > :11:34.disappointed to come so close, but the year is only getting going now.

:11:35. > :11:38.It is indeed, three more majors of the year still to come, the next one

:11:39. > :11:42.is the US open in June. Thank you, Jess. Welcome to the programme if

:11:43. > :11:47.you have just tuned in. Thousands of police officers

:11:48. > :11:49.are expected to line the streets of central London for the funeral

:11:50. > :11:52.procession of PC Keith Palmer who was murdered in the attack

:11:53. > :11:55.in Westminster last month. The 48-year-old father of one

:11:56. > :11:57.was stabbed by Khalid Masood His coffin will be taken

:11:58. > :12:02.from a chapel beneath the Houses of Parliament to Southwark cathedral

:12:03. > :12:05.for a full police service funeral. A two-minute silence will be held

:12:06. > :12:08.by forces across the country. PC Shaun Cartwright and PC

:12:09. > :12:10.Greg Rainey were friends and colleagues of PC Palmer and say

:12:11. > :12:17.he will be greatly missed. As a police officer,

:12:18. > :12:19.I never came across someone There was not a day that went

:12:20. > :12:28.by when Keith would be in work And, at the end of the day,

:12:29. > :12:37.Keith would still be sitting there, The reason Keith came

:12:38. > :12:42.to work was for his family but he was so proud to be

:12:43. > :12:47.a police officer. He came up to join me at the Palace

:12:48. > :12:50.of Westminster and he absolutely He loved the interaction

:12:51. > :12:56.with the public. He had a way of communicating

:12:57. > :12:59.with people from all walks of life, from the Lords and the baronesses

:13:00. > :13:03.that worked up there, He was popular amongst

:13:04. > :13:08.all of the staff up there. Since I've been working back

:13:09. > :13:18.at the Houses of Parliament since, the messages that people

:13:19. > :13:21.from all over the country have given in support of Keith and his family,

:13:22. > :13:24.has been an amazing tribute, I suppose, to Keith,

:13:25. > :13:32.and the way he was and he behaved. Keith could deal with any situation

:13:33. > :13:36.that was thrown at him. You always knew Keith

:13:37. > :13:39.would be there. He was that one who would always be

:13:40. > :13:44.professional, so dedicated. He never sort of took

:13:45. > :13:48.his foot off the gas. It was not just a job to Keith,

:13:49. > :13:52.being a police officer. He was so proud to

:13:53. > :13:59.look out for people. I think that showed

:14:00. > :14:08.as well in his time Very proud to, I suppose,

:14:09. > :14:12.wear the Crown. It was a job he loved

:14:13. > :14:19.doing as a policeman. Chief Constable Sara Thorton

:14:20. > :14:21.is the head of the National She says the scale of the police

:14:22. > :14:41.funeral is unprecedented. I don't think we will ever see a

:14:42. > :14:44.police funeral of this size. Officers are coming from all over

:14:45. > :14:48.the country to line the route. At two o'clock this afternoon, outside

:14:49. > :14:56.police stations across the country, officers will observe two-minutes'

:14:57. > :14:59.silence. We will want to observe the sacrifice he made. How does it

:15:00. > :15:04.affect officers when one of their own is killed in the line of duty?

:15:05. > :15:07.It affect them enormously. There is a tremendous amount of pride.

:15:08. > :15:09.Keith didn't hesitate to act when confronted

:15:10. > :15:13.His bravery and his courage are something that all officers are very

:15:14. > :15:19.But also there's a tremendous sense of sadness and of loss, and a

:15:20. > :15:22.feeling that it could have been anybody, and it was Keith.

:15:23. > :15:24.So, the funeral will also be an opportunity

:15:25. > :15:27.for the police family to come together, to grieve together, but

:15:28. > :15:30.also to show support, in particular to Keith's

:15:31. > :15:37.family, his friends, and his close colleagues.

:15:38. > :15:44.Lying in rest in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft is a rare honour

:15:45. > :15:49.that needs the Queen's consent. Does this act highlight the strength of

:15:50. > :15:56.feeling? It has had a tremendous impact on colleagues. Officers do a

:15:57. > :16:00.very difficult job every day, and sometimes they can feel it is a

:16:01. > :16:05.thankless task, and the fact that he has laid in rest in the Palace of

:16:06. > :16:09.Westminster is an acknowledgement on behalf of the whole country of the

:16:10. > :16:16.sacrifice that he made, but also the job that officers do day in, day out

:16:17. > :16:17.across the country. Can I ask you where the review of security at the

:16:18. > :16:28.Palace of Westminster is up to now? Starmer I don't know where the

:16:29. > :16:31.review is, but it is right that some people who know all the facts have a

:16:32. > :16:36.look at what happened and see if there are any lessons that can be

:16:37. > :16:40.learnt and things can be done differently. The threat from

:16:41. > :16:45.terrorism is severe which means a threat is likely so we have to

:16:46. > :16:48.remain vigilant. The killing of PC Palmer led some to argue that more

:16:49. > :16:51.police officers should be armed with guns. What's your position on that

:16:52. > :16:57.as head of the national police chiefs council? Well, the British

:16:58. > :17:03.policing model is based on most officers being unarmed and we're

:17:04. > :17:07.proud of that. Every chief constable is responsible for doing a review on

:17:08. > :17:10.the threat and risk in his or her area and making sure there is

:17:11. > :17:14.sufficient armed officers to deal with the threat. I think that we

:17:15. > :17:15.would want to consider very carefully any options which moved

:17:16. > :17:21.away from that. PC Palmer's name will be added

:17:22. > :17:23.to the several thousand other officers who have lost their lives

:17:24. > :17:26.in the line of duty in a special ceremony

:17:27. > :17:28.at the National Police Memorial Denis Rowan is from The Police Roll

:17:29. > :17:46.of Honour Trust will be there, but before he heads along

:17:47. > :17:55.to the service we can speak to him Tell us about adding PC Palmer's

:17:56. > :17:58.name to the Roll of Honour? The police national memorial holds the

:17:59. > :18:03.names of all police officers that have fallen and this morning we're

:18:04. > :18:11.adding PC Palmer's name to the Roll of Honour and in the future we will

:18:12. > :18:16.be placing a memorial as like Yvonne Fletcher and 45 other officers as a

:18:17. > :18:23.permanent reminder of the ultimate sacrifice that these officers have

:18:24. > :18:28.given the citizens of the UK. And you were an officer in Greater

:18:29. > :18:32.Manchester. You worked on the case of murdered PC Stephen Oak. This is

:18:33. > :18:35.another reminder that police officers go to work in the morning

:18:36. > :18:43.and sometimes may not come home? Yes. I wasn't a police officer. I

:18:44. > :18:46.worked with Michael Winner for 45 years, I worked with the

:18:47. > :18:53.Metropolitan Police, but it is true, we've dealt with all the families

:18:54. > :18:57.over the past 40 years and we come up against all the problems of the

:18:58. > :19:01.families and we look after the families and we become personal

:19:02. > :19:09.friends to them like Michael was. It's a very difficult situation for

:19:10. > :19:13.the trust, but we always put the family first when the trust is

:19:14. > :19:19.placed. They come first during the event and afterwards we look after

:19:20. > :19:22.them. We are honoured to this in Michael name. Thank you very much

:19:23. > :19:29.for talking to us morning. Thank you very much.

:19:30. > :19:32.The beautiful, peaceful great barrier reef, but now unprecedented

:19:33. > :19:43.We'll be asking a climate expert what we can do to stop it.

:19:44. > :19:48.Next this morning - the 30-year fight for justice.

:19:49. > :19:50.Kris Maharaj was a multi-millionaire and one

:19:51. > :19:51.of Britain's richest businessmen when he was sentenced

:19:52. > :19:54.for a double murder more than 30 years ago.

:19:55. > :20:00.He's been serving a life sentence in a United States jail since 1986,

:20:01. > :20:03.for the murders of two men in a Miami hotel room,

:20:04. > :20:04.although he has always maintained his innocence.

:20:05. > :20:07.The case is seen by many as a miscarriage of justice,

:20:08. > :20:10.and now, lawyers say they're more confident than ever that his

:20:11. > :20:12.conviction will be overturned and he'll walk out of prison

:20:13. > :20:17.They'll present new evidence to try and prove his innocence at an appeal

:20:18. > :20:21.78-year-old Kris Maharaj's wife, who has stood by him

:20:22. > :20:24.for over 30 years, is desperate to have her husband back

:20:25. > :20:35.Marita Maharaj joins us now from Florida on a phone line.

:20:36. > :20:37.As does Clive Stafford Smith, Kris Maharaj's lawyer

:20:38. > :20:49.who has found evidence to support his client's innocence.

:20:50. > :20:55.Tell our audience about this case and why you say it is a miscarriage

:20:56. > :21:00.of justice? Chris was convicted and sentenced to death back then in 1986

:21:01. > :21:06.and over the years I've represented him now for 24 years. I had no grey

:21:07. > :21:10.hair at the time I began! And we've gradually developed more and more

:21:11. > :21:13.evidence, first the six alibi witnesses that show he's somewhere

:21:14. > :21:20.else at the time of the crime, but then in the end, we managed to

:21:21. > :21:24.develop a whole number of people who were working for the Columbian drug

:21:25. > :21:27.cartels who say hey, that wasn't Kris Maharaj, that was one of ours.

:21:28. > :21:35.We were the ones who did that murder because the victims were involved in

:21:36. > :21:40.drugs and they owed a lot of money. Why would those involved in drug

:21:41. > :21:44.cartels in Columbia just admit that? Well, it wasn't easy. Let me tell

:21:45. > :21:48.you. I spent a lot of time going around the deep south sh the

:21:49. > :21:51.different prisons and then with help from other people went to Columbia

:21:52. > :21:56.and there are a lot of other people who say this is true, but are not

:21:57. > :22:00.willing to go on the record, but six people did go on the record and they

:22:01. > :22:05.include for example two informants who were working for the federal

:22:06. > :22:10.Government. One was a CIA informant who says that he learned from one of

:22:11. > :22:13.the cartel people at the time of the murders that they'd done the crime

:22:14. > :22:18.and he just couldn't believe that Kris Maharaj had been sent to Death

:22:19. > :22:21.Row for it when the central Government knew all along that he

:22:22. > :22:26.didn't do it. You've worked on this case for as you say, a number of

:22:27. > :22:30.decades now, but why have you always believed in his innocence? Well, I

:22:31. > :22:36.went down at the request of the British Government actually back in

:22:37. > :22:40.1993 to see Chris and I went with my scepticism fully intact and I met

:22:41. > :22:45.Chris. And he just is a straight up guy. I believed him when he told me

:22:46. > :22:49.that he had nothing to do with it. You know one of the most compelling

:22:50. > :22:54.things to me is when the jury came back and convicted him, he passed

:22:55. > :22:59.out. He fainted. He simply could not believe that these 12 jurors had

:23:00. > :23:02.found him guilty, but, of course that was only the very beginning and

:23:03. > :23:06.it was then when I started to investigate the case back then I

:23:07. > :23:10.discovered this mountain of information that the Government had

:23:11. > :23:14.covered up and there were the other bizarre things. Let's face it the

:23:15. > :23:18.trial judge was arrested on day three of the trial because he

:23:19. > :23:25.himself had been involved in a thing where he was taking money from

:23:26. > :23:29.people who purported to be drug cartel folk, but were Florida law

:23:30. > :23:32.enforcement and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs and the

:23:33. > :23:36.trial continued. Just remarkable stuff. This new evidence, haven't

:23:37. > :23:41.you present it had before November 2014 and you had it turned down

:23:42. > :23:45.effectively? We went to State Court, not with all of the evidence, but a

:23:46. > :23:50.certain amount of it and the State judge refused to grant a new trial.

:23:51. > :23:54.I should say in my entire career and I've represented hundreds of people

:23:55. > :23:59.on Death Row, I have never had an elected state judge order a trial

:24:00. > :24:11.through a prisoner on Death Row. That's not to impune them as human

:24:12. > :24:15.beings, but it they are elected. I hope that we're going to get more

:24:16. > :24:23.justice in that courtroom. How optimistic are you? Apart from your

:24:24. > :24:27.sin veer hope? Well, I hate to make promises particularly for his wife

:24:28. > :24:32.and Chris. I have said for so many years, we're going to win. This time

:24:33. > :24:34.the judges will do justice and I really thought notwithstanding my

:24:35. > :24:40.history that the State judge would grant a new trial. So I said to his

:24:41. > :24:45.wife I really hope that we will have you guys home in London by

:24:46. > :24:49.Christmas, but in September 1914, that's what they said about World

:24:50. > :24:56.War I, I don't want to be too optimistic. Optimistic about it. How

:24:57. > :25:04.optimistic are you that this will lead to your husband being freed?

:25:05. > :25:12.Well, I'm very optimistic for Chris. We really believe and hope that this

:25:13. > :25:22.will be the end of our nightmare. You, of course, we are also worried

:25:23. > :25:35.because we have so many times that we thought... That he was coming

:25:36. > :25:39.home, not through the fault of the lawyers, but what happened in court.

:25:40. > :25:44.I was going to ask you if you can tell us or tell our British audience

:25:45. > :25:50.what kind of toll the last 30 years have taken on you, your husband and

:25:51. > :25:56.your wider family? Well, it has been horrible. I cannot explain it

:25:57. > :26:00.because nobody, unless you go through it, I don't think you can

:26:01. > :26:04.understand it and you can believe that the things that we went

:26:05. > :26:08.through. And we are going through at the moment.

:26:09. > :26:24.It's very, very hard. Chris lost his - they took him away

:26:25. > :26:31.for three months. I didn't know if he was dead or alive. A really,

:26:32. > :26:39.really horrible situation and it is a horrible situation. I just try to

:26:40. > :26:52.survive like Chris. We do have hope. We do believe that God will not -

:26:53. > :27:03.will free him. If he is freed, will you both come back to the UK?

:27:04. > :27:05.Immediately. OK, thank you. Clive Stafford-Smith as Kris Maharaj's

:27:06. > :27:10.lawyer, what can you tell us about the man you believe is ultimately

:27:11. > :27:16.responsible for the double murder in the Miami hotel room? Well, this is

:27:17. > :27:24.all a shocking story. One of the witnesses we have to TV was a

:27:25. > :27:31.federal informant who was a pilot for him and in Kris Maharaj, in 1986

:27:32. > :27:34.he was at his farm and he was telling him you better behave

:27:35. > :27:37.yourself or I'll tell you what's going to happen to you and then he

:27:38. > :27:42.went on to say the same will happen to you as happened to those people

:27:43. > :27:51.who were killed in the hotel in Miami. There is a series of facts

:27:52. > :27:58.like that. Now, you know, the Guy who really did has a nicknamed

:27:59. > :28:02.called The Blade. He was later kidnapped by some other drug cartel

:28:03. > :28:12.opponents. They tortured him and then they fed him through a wood

:28:13. > :28:18.chipping machine. Pretty horrific things went on back then and Kris

:28:19. > :28:22.was collateral damage in the process. We will see what happens.

:28:23. > :28:27.Thank you very much, Clive Stafford-Smith who is Kris Maharaj

:28:28. > :28:31.Kris Maharaj's lawyer and you heard from Kris Maharaj's wife who said if

:28:32. > :28:37.he is finally released, they say, it is a miscarriage of justice, if he

:28:38. > :28:44.is finally released they will return to their home, Britain, immediately.

:28:45. > :28:47.We'll talk to the people who microdose illegal drugs,

:28:48. > :28:54.And this image of a woman smiling at an English Defence League

:28:55. > :28:58.protestor in Birmingham has gone viral.

:28:59. > :29:04.She revealed she wasn't scared in the slightest.

:29:05. > :29:10.We'll talk to Saffiyah Khan about why she intervened.

:29:11. > :29:13.Here's Reeta in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:29:14. > :29:15.Thousands of police officers from across the UK are expected

:29:16. > :29:17.at the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed

:29:18. > :29:23.The 48-year-old was stabbed to death by Khalid Masood as he stood guard

:29:24. > :29:29.Officers from across the country will line the route

:29:30. > :29:31.to Southwark Cathedral, where a full police

:29:32. > :29:44.He had a way of communicating with people from all walks of life, the

:29:45. > :29:48.cleaners, the MPs, the security officers, the people on the streets.

:29:49. > :29:56.Since I have been working back at the Houses of Parliament since, the

:29:57. > :30:00.messages from people all over the country have given in support of

:30:01. > :30:05.Keith and his family, it has been an amazing tribute to Keith and the way

:30:06. > :30:08.that he was and the way that he behaved.

:30:09. > :30:11.The UK is pushing for new sanctions on Russia if it

:30:12. > :30:13.maintains its staunch support for Syrian President

:30:14. > :30:17.The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, is meeting with other

:30:18. > :30:19.G7 leaders in Italy to discuss the situation - particularly

:30:20. > :30:21.after last week's chemical attack in Syria that left more

:30:22. > :30:30.The BBC has uncovered evidence that appears to implicate the Bank

:30:31. > :30:32.of England in the so-called Libor scandal.

:30:33. > :30:35.A secret recording from 2008 obtained by Panorama suggests it

:30:36. > :30:37.repeatedly pressured commercial banks to push down the rates

:30:38. > :30:39.at which they charged each other interest.

:30:40. > :30:50.Here's our economics correspondent Andy Verity.

:30:51. > :30:53.Police in Manchester have launched extra patrols in the city centre,

:30:54. > :30:56.after receiving a surge in calls about people passing out from taking

:30:57. > :31:00.Greater Manchester Police said they dealt with 31 calls relating

:31:01. > :31:02.to the drug in 24 hours after it launched a two-day banning

:31:03. > :31:05.It's been reported that the substance left some users

:31:06. > :31:11.Australian scientists say two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef

:31:12. > :31:13.has now been devastated by severe coral bleaching.

:31:14. > :31:15.It's caused by rising water temperatures, and researchers say

:31:16. > :31:18.surveys show an accelerated rate of damage along the

:31:19. > :31:23.Mass bleaching makes the coral fragile and can kill it.

:31:24. > :31:26.Victoria will be discussing this story before 11 this morning. Stay

:31:27. > :31:30.with us for that. Join me for BBC Newsroom

:31:31. > :31:59.live at 11 o'clock. Thank you, Reeta. This person says,

:32:00. > :32:00.with regards to micro-dosing, it is neither addicting nor dangerous, ban

:32:01. > :32:02.alcohol which is both. This person says, I know many people who

:32:03. > :32:03.micro-dose on a basis, and this is the best way to control depression

:32:04. > :32:18.and anti-social tendencies. Sergio Garcia has won his first

:32:19. > :32:22.major. Manchester United keep Sunderland pegged to the bottom of

:32:23. > :32:30.the table and move up to fifth. Everton ended Leicester's winning

:32:31. > :32:35.run with a 4-2 victory, Romelu Lukaku is now the Premier League's

:32:36. > :32:39.top scorer. At wasps left it late against Northampton to win - 30, a

:32:40. > :32:43.last-minute try and conversion with the last kick of the game as wasps

:32:44. > :32:46.stay top of the premiership. That is all your support for today. Thank

:32:47. > :32:50.you, Jess. It's illegal and there's no medical

:32:51. > :32:53.evidence to say what kind of harm it could cause you,

:32:54. > :32:56.so why are some people doing it? We're talking about micro-dosing -

:32:57. > :32:58.when you take a tiny amount of psychedelic drugs -

:32:59. > :33:01.LSD or magic mushrooms usually - Our reporter Catrin Nye has been

:33:02. > :33:05.meeting the people that do it. We played you her

:33:06. > :33:07.full report earlier. Psychedelic drugs,

:33:08. > :33:13.LSD, magic mushrooms, are usually associated

:33:14. > :33:15.with long, mind-bending trips. Some people though are now taking

:33:16. > :33:18.the Class A drugs in tiny doses. They argue it improves their day

:33:19. > :33:21.but also, in some cases, helps deal Anna, whose name I've

:33:22. > :33:34.changed, is a mum of two. She's tried micro-dosing with LSD

:33:35. > :33:37.and magic mushrooms in the past. I had learned that a really useful,

:33:38. > :33:42.nice thing to do with it would be to have it on a day off and have

:33:43. > :33:49.quite a normal day. But the quality of that day,

:33:50. > :33:51.on all sorts of fronts, So, I would go for a walk

:33:52. > :33:55.and I would be struck All those bits of sense data,

:33:56. > :34:01.that I think we often just lose, to getting stuff done

:34:02. > :34:03.and being outcome-focused, would be There's something relaxing

:34:04. > :34:11.and grounding about it. Simpa micro-doses regularly

:34:12. > :34:13.with LSD and says it helps Can you tell me what you're dealing

:34:14. > :34:22.with, and how it helps? Depression and anxiety as a result

:34:23. > :34:25.of this childhood trauma that led to borderline personality disorder

:34:26. > :34:30.and post-traumatic stress disorder. So, all of these things together,

:34:31. > :34:33.are currently dealt with by GPs with a large amount of different

:34:34. > :34:36.pills, each of which causes more side effects, I find

:34:37. > :34:44.in my personal experience, than the benefits

:34:45. > :34:49.these drugs provide. These substances, I've found,

:34:50. > :34:52.give me the benefits There has recently been a cautious

:34:53. > :34:57.revival in scientific trials James Rucker was recently

:34:58. > :35:01.involved in a pilot trial at Imperial College London

:35:02. > :35:03.looking at the use of magic It did not, however,

:35:04. > :35:07.look at micro-dosing. Micro-dosing, we know,

:35:08. > :35:09.at a medical level, There have been no trials looking

:35:10. > :35:15.at micro-dosing at all, so we do not know whether there

:35:16. > :35:19.are any benefits associated with it, or indeed if there are any

:35:20. > :35:21.harms associated with it. The only way that we can sort out

:35:22. > :35:25.whether or not it works or it doesn't is by doing a blinded

:35:26. > :35:31.placebo-controlled randomised trial. The definition of a micro-dose

:35:32. > :35:34.is you don't notice the subjective effect, but that doesn't mean

:35:35. > :35:37.it is not having any effect on you. As well as this, the drugs

:35:38. > :35:40.being used are Class A. Possession can result in up

:35:41. > :35:43.to seven years in prison. How do you justify this fact

:35:44. > :35:48.that it is completely illegal? When you're doing something

:35:49. > :35:52.that is not causing any harm to anybody else, there's nothing

:35:53. > :35:54.really that needs to We can talk now to two

:35:55. > :36:06.people who featured We're not using their full names

:36:07. > :36:10.for obvious reasons. Simpa, who micro-doses

:36:11. > :36:12.LSD and occassionally And "Anna", which isn't her real

:36:13. > :36:15.name, and has tried micro-dosing In our Salford studio

:36:16. > :36:19.we have Harry Sumnall, a Professor in Substance Use,

:36:20. > :36:31.at the Public Health Institute, Simpa, how did you start

:36:32. > :36:34.experimenting with small doses? I experimented with recreational drugs

:36:35. > :36:37.first of all, and then found that these were having almost a positive

:36:38. > :36:42.hangover from the effects, and from there got the inclination to start

:36:43. > :36:46.experimenting with small increments, and stuck to a quite routine I have

:36:47. > :36:53.got to know with LST. What do you mean, a good routine? I divide up a

:36:54. > :36:59.little tablet, cut it into a tour ten pieces, 15-20 milligrams each,

:37:00. > :37:04.and take one of them over a period of a week, one per day, and it

:37:05. > :37:08.revitalises my mood, it invigorates me and helps battle the traditional

:37:09. > :37:13.symptoms go with depression and anxiety. How long have you been

:37:14. > :37:17.doing this for? Two or three years, I would say. A number of people are

:37:18. > :37:21.saying, it starts off with a tiny amount, but it is going to increase,

:37:22. > :37:28.that is what happens with drugs. That is what happens with most rugs,

:37:29. > :37:30.I suppose, but with LST, it doesn't compound. You don't get the

:37:31. > :37:37.tolerance build-up from excessive use. You can't stack it high-dose,

:37:38. > :37:42.you couldn't take one tablet every day, by the third day you wouldn't

:37:43. > :37:48.get the traditional high. Have you tried other ways of getting that

:37:49. > :37:53.kind of mini highlight exercise? I meditate, I do yoga, I am also vegan

:37:54. > :37:56.so I control through diet, and these control similar parts of the brain

:37:57. > :38:00.that these drugs help, so in conjunction with micro-dosing, I

:38:01. > :38:05.find these other activities help. You have no idea long-term what this

:38:06. > :38:09.will do to you? I don't, but I have lived for two decades with

:38:10. > :38:13.depression and other conditions that have been frankly crippling, and

:38:14. > :38:17.through utilising the substances in cannabis and MDMA, I have been able

:38:18. > :38:24.to create a workable daily routine that allows me to maximise the

:38:25. > :38:27.positives of my life while still unfortunately being ill and waiting

:38:28. > :38:32.for psychiatric treatment. What about the fact that it is illegal?

:38:33. > :38:39.Legality isn't a measure of morality in terms of what is legal isn't

:38:40. > :38:43.always right. Slavery was legal. Apartheid was legal. I think in the

:38:44. > :38:47.next decade or two, drug prohibition won't exist the does though, we will

:38:48. > :38:53.understand that the substances are just tools. So you decide which laws

:38:54. > :38:56.you follow? I follow my own moral compost in that if I don't harm

:38:57. > :39:00.anybody else and I'm not harming myself as far as I know, there have

:39:01. > :39:05.been no studies and trials, but LST is being experimented with since it

:39:06. > :39:15.was first synthesised. Let me bring in Harris on the. What are the

:39:16. > :39:20.problems that you can see here? With all drugs, many of the harmful

:39:21. > :39:24.effects are potentially dose-related, so if micro-dosing you

:39:25. > :39:29.are talking about very small doses, but if you look at LST and

:39:30. > :39:36.psychedelics in general, there is a small risk it might unmask latent

:39:37. > :39:41.psychopathology, and with potential health issues to begin with, that

:39:42. > :39:44.can cause a problem, but in general, interesting studies from the United

:39:45. > :39:49.States looking at some of the big health household studies, that has

:39:50. > :39:52.generally shown that people who have a lifetime history of use of the

:39:53. > :39:57.substances don't tend to be reporting more symptoms or seeking

:39:58. > :40:03.more mental health support than people who have never used it. For

:40:04. > :40:07.me, some of the problems, perhaps some of the most pertinent problems

:40:08. > :40:16.are related to the illegal status of the drugs. There are class I drugs

:40:17. > :40:20.that potentially carry a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment and

:40:21. > :40:24.an unlimited fine, but a big issue particularly with LST is where the

:40:25. > :40:29.drug is coming from. Can you be sure of your source? Over the last few

:40:30. > :40:39.years we have had a few concerns over a class of drugs called on the

:40:40. > :40:42.street M-bombs, and they have been associated with a number of deaths,

:40:43. > :40:45.not just here but internationally in the United States and Australia as

:40:46. > :40:51.well, so I think perhaps one of the biggest concerns is buying and using

:40:52. > :40:59.a drug which you didn't intend, a drug which is potentially more

:41:00. > :41:02.harmful than LST itself. And an point, Simpa, you say it doesn't

:41:03. > :41:08.harm anybody else, but you know that when it comes to illegal drugs, all

:41:09. > :41:13.sorts of expectation goes on, plenty of people are harmed, people are

:41:14. > :41:15.exploited, traffic, abused, etc. But those are consequence of

:41:16. > :41:21.prohibition, not the drugs themselves. If these drugs were

:41:22. > :41:26.regulated like caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, the effect that they would

:41:27. > :41:30.have on society would be less, and people would be in these academic

:41:31. > :41:36.institutions open... That they are not legal, so people are abused and

:41:37. > :41:44.exploited, etc. As a consequence of prohibition. But people are being

:41:45. > :41:54.harmed. Yes, but not because of the drug itself. Anna, why did you start

:41:55. > :42:00.micro-dosing? I experienced the positive hangover from recreational

:42:01. > :42:03.drug use when I was much younger, and I alighted on it initially by

:42:04. > :42:13.accident as a student when I had more time to kill. And I realised

:42:14. > :42:17.that taking very small doses of LSD may be a lot happier at a time when

:42:18. > :42:22.I wasn't happy, and it seemed to have a calming and grounding effect

:42:23. > :42:29.on my mood and an ability to enjoy life and feel relaxed and be with

:42:30. > :42:36.people. And later on in life, living somewhere where magic mushrooms grow

:42:37. > :42:41.nearby, I was running a lot, and I noticed that they were there, and

:42:42. > :42:46.just out of curiosity, I tried eating one or two of them, and I

:42:47. > :42:52.found it had a similarly positive grounding levelling effect. And the

:42:53. > :43:00.illegality of it? That wasn't an issue for you, the fact that through

:43:01. > :43:04.the drugs trade, as I was making the point to Simpa, various people are

:43:05. > :43:12.exploited, abused, etc? I completely agree with Simpa about the fact that

:43:13. > :43:18.it is the illegality, the fact that the drugs trade is illegal, that

:43:19. > :43:24.forces those situations. Washrooms don't have to go through a dealer if

:43:25. > :43:29.they are growing on a hill nearby. And I would never keep anything

:43:30. > :43:35.illegal in my home, that is a risk I am not prepared to put up with. But

:43:36. > :43:42.when they were available, opportunistically, it was something

:43:43. > :43:49.that I would do, and it was a positive experience. OK. Harry, in

:43:50. > :43:55.terms of your message about micro-dosing, be clear, what is it?

:43:56. > :43:59.I think with micro-dosing, it is an untested practice. We saw in your

:44:00. > :44:04.film that there are investigations of higher doses of LSD taking place

:44:05. > :44:10.in Imperial college, but these investigations have taken place in a

:44:11. > :44:14.laboratory, with an on-site medical team, in a carefully controlled

:44:15. > :44:19.trial. Some of the stories we have been hearing are interested, and it

:44:20. > :44:24.is deserving of research, but whether it produces these profound

:44:25. > :44:29.changes that people are reporting in the general population, Isaac that

:44:30. > :44:33.requires further research. Thank you very much, thank you for your time,

:44:34. > :44:37.and thank you to Tipuric to and Anna as well.

:44:38. > :44:41.Is the Great Barrier Reef at a terminal stage?

:44:42. > :44:43.We will ask a climate expert what can be done to stop this

:44:44. > :44:48.Now, this photo of a woman smiling at an English Defence League

:44:49. > :44:51.protester in Birmingham has been shared thousands of times

:44:52. > :44:55.around the world since it was taken at the weekend.

:44:56. > :44:57.Saffiyah Khan says she intervened when she saw another woman

:44:58. > :45:05.The EDL claim she interrupted a minute's silence for

:45:06. > :45:13.We can now speak to Saffiyah Khan, who is featured in the photo,

:45:14. > :45:25.Instantaneously Tell us what you did and why? I ended up intervening

:45:26. > :45:29.because I saw a woman surrounded by quite a large group of EDL members

:45:30. > :45:32.and she looked quite intimidated and I don't think she was comfortable in

:45:33. > :45:39.that position and I wasn't comfortable with her being there

:45:40. > :45:43.either. What did you say? This that position, I couldn't really get to

:45:44. > :45:48.her physically so the most I could do was agree with her verbally in

:45:49. > :45:52.that I do believe they are racist as that's what she was saying as well

:45:53. > :45:58.and that's what I ended up doing and then I was identified as someone who

:45:59. > :46:05.opposed the EDL and it stemmed from there my involvement. So what were

:46:06. > :46:10.you saying verbally? I'm trying to imagine the scenario and the

:46:11. > :46:16.atmosphere? Personally I was saying racist scum off our streets.

:46:17. > :46:24.And do you know what was being said to her or what the attitude towards

:46:25. > :46:32.her was that led to you intervening? Yeah, well, it was, you're not

:46:33. > :46:36.British. Kind of, putting a lot of questions about Islam is a religion

:46:37. > :46:45.and the way it is carried out in various ways. She is not a

:46:46. > :46:50.spokesperson for a religion. The moment when you're close up to the

:46:51. > :46:55.EDL protestor, the photograph, shows you smiling. Did you have a

:46:56. > :47:00.conversation with that man? I mean there was very little conversation

:47:01. > :47:05.to be had. I think his aggression can be seen through the picture. I

:47:06. > :47:08.didn't say very much to him and I can't exactly remember what he was

:47:09. > :47:14.saying to me, but I think the puck ture afterwards kind of sums it up

:47:15. > :47:18.because his finger was in my face. It wasn't a pleasant interaction.

:47:19. > :47:24.How is it that you're smiling? Oh, how is it I'm smiling? Oh, I don't

:47:25. > :47:29.know. Sometimes it's more important to smile than to shout. I did a fair

:47:30. > :47:35.bit of shouting I'm under no delusion of that! It is a more

:47:36. > :47:40.powerful message a lot of the time. I read that your dad said he brought

:47:41. > :47:47.you and your sister up always to stand up to prejudice, is that

:47:48. > :47:50.right? 100%, yeah. Yeah. I mean, facing people like this, it's not

:47:51. > :47:57.something that I would want to do. I would love to live in a place where

:47:58. > :48:00.we didn't have vulnerable women put in these situations, but yeah,

:48:01. > :48:11.always stand up to it. I have no fear towards the EDL.

:48:12. > :48:17.Why do you have no fear? Physically, I'm not indim tated by them in the

:48:18. > :48:21.slightest. Its their own ideologies which are flawed and I can't feel

:48:22. > :48:28.intimidated by someone or a group of people who have opinions like that.

:48:29. > :48:33.There is, I don't feel intellectually intimidated. I don't

:48:34. > :48:37.feel fear for them. You know they say apparently you interrupted a

:48:38. > :48:42.minute's silence for terror attack victims.

:48:43. > :48:48.I'd like to make it very clear, people that know me, even at a very

:48:49. > :48:52.low level of understanding would tell you, would vouch for me in

:48:53. > :48:59.saying that a minute's silence held by anybody from either side, whether

:49:00. > :49:03.it be EDL or UDAF, but the video evidence shows it as well, there

:49:04. > :49:10.wasn't a minute's silence whilst I was there. It's a an attempt at

:49:11. > :49:17.smearing because the situation is in my favour. The Birmingham MP Jess

:49:18. > :49:21.Phillips, there are a number of tweets about you and the photograph

:49:22. > :49:26.and the one that's been picked up the most, who looks like they have

:49:27. > :49:31.power, the real Brummie or the EDL who migrated for the day to our city

:49:32. > :49:39.and failed to assimilate? As a message, the image, because of your

:49:40. > :49:42.smile, is powerful, isn't it? Yeah, I think, very unintentionally it

:49:43. > :49:46.became a very, very powerful picture and yeah it has been a strange

:49:47. > :49:49.experience for it to go viral as well.

:49:50. > :49:55.What do you think about the fact that it has gone viral, what does it

:49:56. > :50:03.say? Well, it kind of installs a hope about communities and the power

:50:04. > :50:08.of people who oppose EDL because often we see they are not people we

:50:09. > :50:13.can relate to. They look aggressive, they look like thugs, whereas when

:50:14. > :50:18.you see a girl who is quite young getting involved with things like

:50:19. > :50:23.this, more people are willing to help and support. It has had an

:50:24. > :50:28.amazing response. Thank you very much for talking to us. Saffiyah

:50:29. > :50:45.Khan, thank you very much. In 2016 the Government announced

:50:46. > :50:50.that gay and by sexual men convicted of now abolished sexual offences

:50:51. > :50:57.would receive pardons. George Montague was convicted in 1974 of

:50:58. > :51:00.gross indecency with a manment the conviction was repealed in May

:51:01. > :51:01.2004ment the 93-year-old who has fought for an apology has received

:51:02. > :51:33.one from the Home Office. Actually, understand that we offer

:51:34. > :51:40.this full apology, their treatment was entirely unfair. What happened

:51:41. > :51:45.to these men is a matter of the greatest regret and it should be so

:51:46. > :51:51.to all of us, it really made my day. I was over the moon and the wording

:51:52. > :51:53.is so wonderful and so explicit. Abject apology.

:51:54. > :52:04.From the Government. More on that on the World At One

:52:05. > :52:13.programme on Radio 4. Unprecedented coral bleaching

:52:14. > :52:14.in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds

:52:15. > :52:16.of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, The bleaching, or loss of algae,

:52:17. > :52:23.affects a 900 mile area of the reef. We can speak to Dr James Kerry

:52:24. > :52:43.from the National Coral Bleaching Hopefully we will talk to the owner

:52:44. > :52:47.of a marine and diving business. Good morning from us. Hi there.

:52:48. > :52:52.Explain to our British audience what coral bleaching is and how it

:52:53. > :52:56.happens. Coral bleaching occurs when a coral gets stressed and the coral

:52:57. > :53:05.have very small algae that live within them and they photo

:53:06. > :53:11.synthesise and give the coral food. The algae are colourful so the coral

:53:12. > :53:15.turns this white colour when the algae leave and that's what a

:53:16. > :53:19.bleached coral is. It is a coral without its algae that's begun to

:53:20. > :53:28.starve. Why is the algae getting excited or stressed? It's quite a

:53:29. > :53:34.complex relationship, but basically, when they get too hot, they become

:53:35. > :53:37.hyper reactive and produce toxins, but the coral host doesn't like it

:53:38. > :53:46.and it kicks them out. Why are they getting too hot? Well, we have found

:53:47. > :53:50.that the corals that are bleaching are bleaching in the areas where the

:53:51. > :53:56.seawater is abnormally hot and we believe that is a result of global

:53:57. > :54:00.warming and carbon emissions and that's the primary reason why we're

:54:01. > :54:04.seeing the coral bleaching events occurring more frequently and with

:54:05. > :54:10.more intensity. And why do you believe it is to do with man-made

:54:11. > :54:18.global warming? Well, the science is unequivocal. Carbon ems are causing

:54:19. > :54:21.a rapid increase in global temperatures that is unprecedented

:54:22. > :54:28.and you know there is plenty of information to demonstrate that.

:54:29. > :54:30.John Rumney, owner of Eye to Eye Marine Encounters,

:54:31. > :54:32.which runs diving and fishing tours on the Great Barrier Reef.

:54:33. > :54:38.Hello John. Can you hear me OK? Yes, very well. Welcome everyone. Thank

:54:39. > :54:46.you for talking to us. Tell us what difference you see under the water

:54:47. > :54:53.then? It's absolutely depressing. Last year, when you went out to the

:54:54. > :55:00.dive sites which were featured in the BBC and in the up and coming

:55:01. > :55:06.Blue Planet series, some of the best places on the Barrier Reef, you went

:55:07. > :55:11.back and there was 80% to 90% bleaching which does not mean that

:55:12. > :55:15.they're going to die, but they're certainly under stress and then

:55:16. > :55:21.after about two months of that, we then could really see what the

:55:22. > :55:29.mortality was and we had probably about 40% in this area of mortality

:55:30. > :55:35.of those reefs. So, just in a few months, you know, we basically lost

:55:36. > :55:40.40%, 50% of the healthy reef. So from a tourist prospective, which is

:55:41. > :55:45.your business obviously, what colours are tourists supposed to see

:55:46. > :55:55.and what are they seeing now? Well, there is all sorts of mauves and

:55:56. > :56:00.browns, but a brown coral is a very healthy coral. Depending on which

:56:01. > :56:06.kind of algae is living in the flesh of that coral, helps distinguish its

:56:07. > :56:13.colour. OK. So, first it when it gets stressed it will go this odd

:56:14. > :56:18.colour and then if it keeps stressing it will go white which is

:56:19. > :56:24.where it has expelled all of the algae. If that continues for a

:56:25. > :56:30.period of time, up to two to four weeks then often that coral would

:56:31. > :56:35.die. Let me bring Dr James Kerry back in.

:56:36. > :56:42.When are you going to know the full damage to the reef? When will that

:56:43. > :56:49.be? Yes, you know, this damage comes in phases. So, the corals that die

:56:50. > :56:53.from starvation from the loss of algae, that will become apparent

:56:54. > :56:57.within about six months, but you start to get other impacts like

:56:58. > :57:01.disease, the corals are stressed, they're weak so even the ones that

:57:02. > :57:05.recover from the bleaching maybe more susceptible to other impacts

:57:06. > :57:11.like disease that can actually, you know, cause a second kind of die

:57:12. > :57:14.off. So we're still monitoring the mortality that's occurred following

:57:15. > :57:19.the event last year and now we've got this second bleaching event and

:57:20. > :57:23.so, we need to continue to monitor the Great Barrier Reef over the next

:57:24. > :57:26.few years closely to see what the full I will pact of these two events

:57:27. > :57:32.is. Thank you both very much for coming on the programme.

:57:33. > :57:40.We will show you these pictures of PC Keith Palmer's name being added

:57:41. > :57:43.to the national police memorial in London. It is by Horse Guards

:57:44. > :57:46.Parade. Thousands of police officers from forces across the country will

:57:47. > :57:50.line the streets of Central London this afternoon for the funeral

:57:51. > :57:54.procession of the officer who, as you know, was murdered in last

:57:55. > :57:58.month's Westminster attack. PC Palmer was guarding the Houses of

:57:59. > :58:03.Parliament when he was stabbed on 22nd March. He will have a full

:58:04. > :58:07.police funeral this afternoon. Coverage on BBC News, of course, as

:58:08. > :58:32.you'd expect across the day. PHONE RINGS

:58:33. > :58:35.'Police emergency.' Every two minutes, someone in

:58:36. > :58:38.Britain is reported missing. You feel helpless, like,

:58:39. > :58:42.where do I go, where do I start? Follow missing person

:58:43. > :58:47.investigations as they unfold.