10/04/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

It's Monday, it's nine o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

Our top today: Officers will line the street later as the funeral

is held for PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered in the attack

Friends and colleagues have been paying tribute.

One of the kindest people you'll ever find.

Very giving, very loyal, very true friend.

I am at Westminster, where tens of thousands are expected to line the

route of the funeral. Also on the programme -

micro-dosing is illegal, and there's no medical evidence

to say what kind of So why do some people think taking

a tiny amount of psychedelic drugs A large amount of different pills

each of which causes side-effects, and I find these substances give me

the benefits without any of those drawbacks.

And we'll talk to the woman in this viral photo who stood up

to the English Defence League at a protest in Birmingham.

Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11.

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

And we'll be talking to the wife of Kris Maharaj who has

spent 30 years fighting to clear her husband's name

after he was convicted of double murder in Florida.

New evidence means he could be out of prison by Christmas.

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The funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was murdered in the terror

attack in Westminster last month, will be held this afternoon.

The 48-year-old was stabbed to death by Khalid Masood as he stood guard

Officers from across the country will line the route

to Southwark Cathedral, where a full police

Yesterday, the coffin of PC Keith Palmer was brought

to the Palace of Westminster - the place where he worked,

the place he had been protecting when he was killed last month.

Overnight, an honour guard made up of members of the Parliamentary

Yesterday, the coffin of PC Keith Palmer was brought

and Diplomatic Protection Command has been watching over his

coffin in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft

PC Palmer's funeral is to be held at Southwark Cathedral this afternoon.

Some of his colleagues who worked alongside him have

been paying tribute, describing him as hard-working

selfless, a dedicated officer who loved his job,

One of the kindest people you'll ever find.

Very giving, very loyal, a true friend.

He was so down-to-earth and so normal.

He came to work because he had a family to support.

That was all he ever wanted to do, be there for his family.

Officers from across the UK are expected to travel to London

to line the route of the funeral cortege from Westminster

Police forces will be holding two minutes' silence

to remember their fallen colleague, while flags on force headquarters

Our correspondent Keith Doyle is at Westminster.

What is going to happen in the next few hours? From a bright and sunny

Westminster, good morning, but it is a sombre day here, because this is

where the funeral cortege of PC Keith Palmer will start as it makes

it journey to Southwark Cathedral on the South bank of the River Thames.

Shortly after one o'clock, his body will be taken from the chapel, the

royal chapel in the Palace of Westminster where there has been a

police honour guard all night, every hour the guard changed with

colleagues standing guard over his coffin throughout the night. The

hearse will take his coffin passed the very point where he was stabbed

to death a little over two and a half weeks ago, and it will move out

of Westminster, passed us right here on College Green and then over

Lambeth Bridge and along the South bank of the River past Waterloo

station and on towards London Bridge station where Southwark Cathedral

is, so it is quite a big police operation here today. Are large

crowds expect it? Indeed, they really are. 5000 or more police

officers from every force in the country will be here today lining

the route, taking part in the service. You can hear the siren

Scott Hynd, there are lots of police around, barriers up, on the roads

will be closed sometime soon. We expect many thousands of people,

some of the estimates saying maybe 50,000 people could be lining the

route. Really it goes to show the kind of respect people have for this

police officer who was just doing his job, protecting Parliament, and

became victim of this terrorist attack. That is why so many police

officers are coming from all over the country to pay their respects as

well, many of them fear it could have been any of them.

Thank you very much. Reeta is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Foreign Ministers from

the G7 leading nations They'll discuss how to persuade

Russia to end its military support for Syria's President Assad,

following last week's Our diplomatic correspondent

James Robbins reports. The next two days in the Tuscan

walled city of Lucca will be dominated by a collective search

for arguments to persuade Vladimir Putin that he must now end

Russia's military support for Syria's President Assad

and help to accelerate a negotiated The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

is expected to press the case for new sanctions against Russia

if they don't give ground. President Trump's Secretary

of State Rex Tillerson wants to go on from here to Moscow,

able to confront the Russians with a strong set of demands,

backed by America's key allies. Our priority is, first,

the defeat of Isis. Remove them from access

to their caliphate, because that's where the threat to the homeland

and to so many homelands of our coalition partners

is emanating from. Once we can eliminate the battle

against Isis, conclude that, and it is going quite well,

then we hope to turn our attention to achieving ceasefire

agreements between the regime Russia and Iran, President Assad's

key military backers, are threatening retaliation

if there are any further It's far from clear that Moscow's

attitude has shifted significantly since either the gas attack

or America's retaliatory Years of effort trying to find

a negotiated settlement have failed, and so the task here in Italy

of trying to find a new way to break Egypt has declared a three-month

state of emergency after attacks on two churches yesterday left

at least 44 people dead. The measures allow the authorities

to make arrests without warrants The army will be deployed to help

police protect key sites. The so-called Islamic State group

said it was behind both blasts. The BBC has uncovered evidence that

appears to implicate the Bank of England in the so-called

Libor scandal. A secret recording from 2008

obtained by Panorama suggests it repeatedly pressured commercial

banks to push down the rates at which they charged

each other interest. Here's our economics

correspondent Andy Verity. The Libor scandal first blew up

in 2012, when Barclays boss Until recently, Libor used to set

by a member of staff of the biggest banks,

called a submitter, saying what interest rate they thought

they'd have to pay to borrow money. An average was taken, called

the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, The submitters were meant to base it

only on their own genuine view of the market for borrowing

and lending cash. Panorama has uncovered a phone call

on October 29th, 2008, during the financial crisis,

when a senior Barclays banker, Mark Dearlove, tells the man

putting in Libor rates, Peter Johnson, to push

down his Libor rates below the true cost of borrowing cash

because of pressure from above. We played the recording

to Chris Phelps MP, a member If what Dearlove is saying

is true, that is shocking. This tape suggests that in fact

the Bank of England knew about it and indeed were encouraging

or even instructing it. So we need an immediate

inquiry to find out exactly what is going on, given what we have

just heard on this tape. The Bank of England told Panorama

that Libor and other global benchmarks were not regulated

in the UK or elsewhere Swedish police are continuing

to question a man suspected of driving a hijacked lorry

into a crowd of people in Stockholm on Friday,

leaving four people dead. The 39-year-old, originally

from Uzbekistan, was facing deportation from Sweden and had

expressed support for Tens of thousands gathered

in the city yesterday to pay tribute to the victims,

who included British Police in Manchester have launched

extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls

about people passing out from taking Greater Manchester Police said

they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug in 24 hours after it

launched a two-day banning It's been reported that

the substance left some users Australian scientists say two thirds

of the Great Barrier Reef has now been devastated

by severe coral bleaching. It's caused by rising water

temperatures and researchers say surveys show an accelerated rate

of damage along the Mass bleaching makes the coral

fragile and can kill it. The reef is home to more

than 130 species of shark That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Thank you very much. We're going to

talk later to Safir Khan, who smiled at an EDL protest, and the

photograph was captured and has gone viral on social media. A number of

people praising her stance. We will talk to her later. Her dad has

explained that he has always taught her and her sister not to back down

from prejudice, so it will be interesting to talk to her later on.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

Use the hashtag #VictoriaLive, and if you text, you'll be charged

It's all about the golf this morning.

Sergio Garcia has finally won a major, and he's done it in style.

He certainly did. He is the nearly man no more, at his 74th attempt, he

has won his first major tournament with a victory at the Masters. It

was neck and neck for much of the final round, if one nipped ahead,

the other clawed them back, and so it went to sudden death. The winning

putt for Garcia, this is what secured him the green jacket. And

six to his knees, you can almost feel the long wait of expectation

lift off his shoulders. His idol and late Spanish golfer, Seve

Ballesteros, it would have been his 60th birthday, he has tried so hard

but even he questioned his mental resilience, but at 37 years old he

has come good. I felt the calmest I have ever felt on a major Sunday,

and even after making a couple of bogeys, I was still very positive, I

still believed that there were a lot of holes that I could get to, and I

had some good shots coming in, and I'm so happy. You just want to know

that he has won his first major if this will open the floodgates and he

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

interesting to see how gets an. Englishman Justin

Rose just missing out, Yes, the first thing he did was to

go over and hugged him. They have known each other a long time, they

are good friends, and Justin Rose said, I would love to be wearing the

green jacket, but if it wasn't me, then I'm glad it's him, here is what

he had to say. We have been friends for a long time, we have been

playing golf against one another since we were 14, so our careers

will go on, and call for takeover, I will be disappointed for about a

month on golf will take over and we'll carry on. There are many more

goals this year, many objective to look forward to this was the

highlight of the spring, and I was disappointed to come so close, but

the year is only getting going. Reaction has been coming in, social

media as always ablaze with congratulations and support, one of

his sons said happy birthday, dad, he hoped he could win the Masters.

It goes to show just how much of it popular guy Sergio Garcia is on the

tour. Whiteman thank you, Jess. More throughout the

morning. It's when you take a tiny amount

of psychedelic drugs, LSD or magic mushrooms,

usually, as part The drugs are illegal,

and there's no medical evidence to tell us what the benefits

or harms of it may be. But a small community of people

in the UK are doing it anyway, Some say it aids creativity

and concentration and helps But critics say it's dangerous,

and users are putting Our reporter Catrin Nye has been

meeting the people that do it. This is only, maybe, 20 mikes -

20 milligrams of LSD. So this would be enough

to give you a trip? Each morning, I take vitamins

with a cup of tea and toast. So in the morning,

it's vitamins, tea...? NEWSREEL: These are the faithful

of LSD, or Acid-heads - the exposed tip of an iceberg

of more sporadic users. Psychedelic drugs, LSD,

magic mushrooms, are usually associated with long,

mind-bending trips, Instant chemical wisdom

obviously doesn't exist. The people I've been meeting,

though, are taking the Class A drugs in tiny doses in an attempt

to improve their lives. And, in some cases, deal with severe

mental health problems. We are in the Great

British countryside. And this is actually a place

where you can quite easily get hold of psychedelic drugs,

because magic mushrooms grow here. I'm off to see someone who's used

those to micro-dose. I'm intrigued about

your micro-dosing. When I was at university,

I like most students, I think I discovered by accident one

day when I was very bored that you could take a small amount of LSD

and it was really useful And so I had learned

that a really useful, nice thing to do with it would be

to have it on a day off and have quite a normal day,

but the quality of that day on all sorts of fronts

would just be a lot better. So I would go for a walk

and I would be struck All of those bits of sense data

that we often lose to getting stuff done and being outcome focused

would be really... There's something really relaxing

and grounding about it. It wasn't until moving

to the country that Anna Out of curiosity, I was running one

day up in the hills and I didn't have to be back anywhere for quite

a long time. So I picked a couple

of mushrooms and I was curious I was really aware of enjoying

moving and enjoying being outside. I went to a friend's house

later that day and we had I really wanted to make

the house look nice. Again, I had quite an ordinary day

and I really enjoyed it. I felt quite happy and calm

and grounded and I slept During the time that

they were in season, if it was possible to pick a couple

then I would. Because I knew that it was making me

get more done and sleep better and just having a slightly better

quality of life, I guess. The most noticeable thing for me

was that I was a lot tidier. I'm a really messy person but I got

very fussy about my physical space. So I would find myself

suddenly possessed to tidy I would really get into

doing the recycling. How do you justify the fact

that it is completely illegal? When you're doing something that

isn't causing any harm to anybody else or to yourself,

there's nothing really that needs I query the relevance and the sanity

of the legal frameworks He tells me he had a very abusive

childhood and now suffers He micro-doses LSD with his

tea in the morning. Erm, every two months, six weeks -

a therapeutic dose. Not constantly - if you build up

a tolerance to anything, Can you tell me what you're dealing

with, and how it helps? Depression and anxiety as a result

of this childhood trauma that led to borderline personality disorder

and post-traumatic stress disorder. So all of these things together

are currently dealt with by GPs with a large amount of different

pills, each of which causes more side effects, I find

in my personal experience, than the benefits

these drugs provide. These substances, I've found,

give me the benefits So then me using these

substances mean I've been able to view my trauma so it's

just an experience. It's a memory like any other.

It doesn't hold me hostage any more. These substances can be reused again

in the psychiatric toolkit The problem is in terms of credible

medical research, there is currently no evidence to back up his

experiences. James was recently involved in a pilot trial at

Imperial College, London, looking at the use of magic mushrooms in

clinical depression. It did not, however look at micro-dosing? At a

medical level nothing about. There have been no trials looking at at

all and the only way that we can sort out whether or not it works or

it doesn't is by doing a blinded pa seen owe controlled randomised

trial. What are the dangers of people taking it upon themselves to

conduct their own little experiment on themselves with? We have no idea

what the effect might be on driving for example, skilled tasks, it is

the definition of a micro-dose is you don't notice the sub jective

effect, but that doesn't mean it is not having any effect on you. We

don't know what risks in the long-term might be. There was some

concern before 1970 when the drugs were being used clinically, in

people who are liable to develop schizophrenia and psychotic

disorders, the drugs might uncover those issues in some people. Some

studies showed that might be a risk. Other studies showed it wasn't.

Again, it is another area where we don't know. Though we know nothing

about, James' work is part of a recent cautious revival in

scientific trials involving sick Cadelic drugs. Back this the 50s and

60s thousands of patients were treated with sick Cadelics, but that

all stopped when governments around the world started to ban

recreational drugs. They were used prior to prohibition in the UK in

1970 and they seemed to be quite effective for people with treatment

resistant forms of depression and anxiety and alcoholism and that's

precisely the patient group that I see in my clinic, who aren't getting

better with the standard treatments. It's frustrating to see people who

don't get better. You have to understand where I was

before I took it. The day before I took it, I was thinking about

killing myself a lot. Like a lot. Like I was standing in front of

medicine cabinet counting pills. I was feeling horrible one day and I

did the micro-dose and at first I felt nothing. I thought oh well,

this is a failed endeavour. This woman is a successful author and

former lawyer who lives in California. She suffers from a mood

disorder that had been managed by prescription medication, but she

fell into a depression and she was suicidal. She is not a fan of drugs,

but says desperation made her try micro-dosing LSD. About 90 minutes

later I looked up and I looked out the window and I had a at the time a

dogwood tree in my yard. The dogwood in bloom. I thought oh, look. The

dogwood is in bloom. It is so beautiful. It wasn't like the

blossoms were shimmering, it was just that I hadn't been able to

appreciate anything like that in so long. I had been all, but anhidonic.

To appreciate beauty was earth shaking. It was a really remarkable

treatment for me. It is one I'm sorry I can't do every day because

it resolved my depression instandtainiously. Really? Yeah. I

wasn't happy. But at least I was no longer contemplating killing myself.

I was much less likely to fly off the handle. I got my work done more

effectively. It worked the way my psychiatrist had always promised to

me that my antidepressants would work. So this is enough more about

six weeks? If you're micro-dosing. If you're taking a proper dose,

that's one standard average dose. And what are you aiming for? About

0.2. So you'd go to work now? I'd go to work. How do you think your

colleagues would react? They would be horrified, probably.

Obviously Class A drugs like these are illegal, possession could result

in up to seven years in prison. Dylan micro-doses every few days

with magic mushrooms. His friends know, but his colleagues don't. He

works in a well respected profession and so we've changed his name and

we're protecting his identity because his habit could lose him his

job. Have you found yourself like in work, suddenly feeling like you're

tripping because you took too much? Once. On acid. I was trying to

micro-dose on acid. That was not pleasant. You realise and you're

kicking yourself for not having thought this through. Tell me more

about how this will change your day? I can you can float in and out of

various situations with an ease and with a comfort level that's just

exquisite. It gives you this very calm and relaxed sense of being

sensored. Dylan thinks micro-dosing makes him better at his job, more

able to concentrate, more creative. It is this belief that means it has

become associated with Silicon Valley in the US and there is one

man that if you talk to people who micro-dose always gets a mention.

Jim has been researching psyche Cadelics since the 60s and offers a

website telling people how to micro-dose. He says 900 people have.

The most consistent result is people say, "My life seems to be working

better. I am more effective." Their sleeping habits improve. Their

eating habits improve. They feel better in social situations. These

many hundreds of people around the world are either all deluding

themselves which seems highly unlikely or the results are valid.

Is there not a sense that people enjoy being a bit high? That these

guys are having a little bit of the effect they get when they take drugs

which some people like? Maybe. I think that's the same question for

any stimulant. In our instructions we indicate if you're feeling a

little bit high then you need to lower your dose. Do you worry that

someone in a less privileged position in terms of legal

protection is going to do this and get into real trouble? I'm a white

woman living in California with economic resources in the

background. If you are a young African-American guy in say Ferguson

and you're experiencing the same kind of psychiatric symptoms that I

was experiencing, it would be tremendously dangerous for you to do

what I did. The other danger, of course, is just how unpredictable

the drugs can be. Even while making this film a boy in America has died

falling off a roof while on LSD. His family said he had a bad trip. These

stories are rare, but they really scare people. This stuff is really

powerful. In Durham alone, in the past three years, four years, three

students have drowned in our river from alcohol intoxication. That's

the same thing, but we don't talk about alcohol is really powerful. I

guess history tells us if a drug gets a bad reputation it can damage

the science so... Of course, that's and that's something we have to work

with, I suppose, but I don't think that's a reason not to do the

science. In fact, I think it is a reason to do the scientific

research. Rob tweets, surely this is a

terrible idea, people do build tolerance to drugs. And on Facebook,

I wonder how many people who start taking Micro doses end up getting

more and more addicted? What fools, this just leads to more and more

problems. If people think it is making their life better, what has

it got to do with anyone else? Later in the programme we speak to one

expert about the dangers. We'll hear

from the daughter of a 70-year-old man killed while he cycled

through central London; she's calling for better police training

into how to handle cycling deaths. And this image of a woman smiling

at an English Defence League protestor in Birmingham

has gone viral. We'll talk to her about

why she intervened. Here's Reeta in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Thousands of police officers

from across the UK are expected at the funeral of PC

Keith Palmer, who was killed The 48-year-old was stabbed to death

by Khalid Masood as he stood guard A service will be held this

afternoon at Southwark Cathedral. Keith didn't hesitate

to act when confronted His bravery and his courage are

something that all officers are very Also, there's a tremendous sense

of sadness and of loss, and a feeling that it could have been

anybody, and it was Keith. So, the funeral will

also be an opportunity for the police family to come

together, to grieve together, but also to show support,

in particular to Keith's family, his friends,

and his close colleagues. The UK is pushing for

new sanctions on Russia if it maintains its staunch support for

Syrian President Basher Al-Assad. The Foreign Secretary,

Boris Johnson, is meeting with other G7 leaders in Italy

to discuss the situation. He has faced criticism

over his decision to pull out of talks with Moscow

after the chemical attack in Syria last week that

left more than 80 dead. Egypt has declared a three-month

state of emergency after attacks on two churches yesterday left

at least 44 people dead. The measures allow the authorities

to make arrests without warrants The army will be deployed to help

police protect key sites. The so-called Islamic State group

said it was behind both blasts. The BBC has uncovered evidence that

appears to implicate the Bank of England in the so-called

Libor scandal. A secret recording from 2008

obtained by Panorama suggests it repeatedly pressured commercial

banks to push down the rates at which they charged

each other interest. Police in Manchester have launched

extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls

about people passing out from taking Greater Manchester Police said

they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug in 24 hours after it

launched a two-day banning It's been reported that

the substance left some users Australian scientists say two thirds

of the Great Barrier Reef has now been devastated

by severe coral bleaching. It's caused by rising water

temperatures and researchers say surveys show an accelerated rate

of damage along the Mass bleaching makes the coral

fragile and can kill it. The reef is home to more

than 130 species of shark That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Sergio Garcia has won the 2017 major

after beating Justin Rose in an entertaining play-off. Manchester

United keep Sunderland at the bottom of the Premier League table after a

3-0 win at Stadium of Light. United moved up to fifth. Everton ended

Leicester's winning run with a 4-2 victory, Romilly Lukaku scored twice

and is the top scorer in the Premier League. And a last-minute try and

the last kick of the game as wasps stay stop of the premiership.

What needs to happen next to try and find an end to the conflict

in Syria which has seen almost half a million people killed?

That's something G7 foreign ministers will be discussing

The G7 or group of seven, is made up of the world's seven

richest industrial countries - Britain, America, Japan, Germany,

This next film shows some of the key events of the last few days

which will be discussed at that meeting.

It contains some distressing images and flashing lights

These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated.

If proven this will be further evidence of barbarism

any chemical weapons. that Syria did not do

It does not have any chemical weapons because it has

given all its stockpile to the international organisation

It was time to say enough, but not only say it,

Bashar al-Assad must never use chemical weapons again, ever.

TRANSLATION: The attack by the United States

is understandable given the extent of the war crime, the suffering

of innocent people, and the blockade in the UN Security Council.

"From now on we will respond with force".

That was the threat from Russia and Iran last night to America

after accusing President Trump of crossing "red lines" by striking

Let's speak now to Labour's spokesperson on foreign affairs,

Sir Tony Brenton, a former British Ambassador to Moscow.

who is Syrian and has family living there.

Thank you to all of you for talking to us. What should happen next? I

think that the only solution in the end is a political settlement, so

everything that happens should be seen through the lens of, will this

stop the war faster? And what worries me is in the last few days

we have had more rhetoric, great headlines, but has it been helping

with sorting out this problem and finding a political solution? I

don't think it has. Peace talks have been going on for months and years,

there has been no progress. The difficulty with Syria is that it

isn't just a complicated civil war, it is a regional war, and there are

major powers fighting as if there is a proxy war going on, so that is

what makes it complex and multilayered, but it can only work

if major players are round the table together, and what we have seen is

this major falling out between America and Russia pulling the

parties apart and further away from the table, and nobody believes that

you can win this war, nobody can win the war, there has to be a political

settlement, and there has to be a long-term solution, and so by

increasing rhetoric and hitting headlines, Boris Johnson me feel

good today, but he isn't actually helping with a long-term solution

when it comes to what will happen to Syria. Would you have cancelled the

trip to Moscow as Boris Johnson has? I think it is a difficult one

because it is also important to be involved with the G7, but since the

early trip had been cancelled, I think it was important to go,

because I think you have to engage the Russians and talk to them. And

to be quite honest, it looks yet again like auris is playing second

fiddle to the Americans, and in so much of foreign policy, we wait for

the Americans and then agree, and with an unpredictable president,

that puts our foreign policy in a difficult position. So that makes

Boris Johnson Donald Trump's Kudla? I don't think that is appropriate,

but I would have gone to Russia and started the talks and started

talking about how we are going to sort this out. Assad shouldn't have

a long-term future in Syria, so how do we make sure that we move Syria

on. Half the population is living abroad, half a million people have

died, we are incredibly distressed by these photographs of children

being killed in this way, but the only solution is political. How

would you describe the Foreign Secretary's relationship with the

American administration on this issue? I think we play second fiddle

and we don't seem to have... We are a member of the top table at the

United Nations, a country that ought to have cloud, and I think that at

the moment, it is almost as if we are slightly cowed by it, waiting

for America to decide what their policy is, and I feel profoundly

uncomfortable about that. I think we should be more confident about

ourselves and be prepared to say no to the president when he is wrong,

and I think he was wrong to take unilateral action and bombing in the

circumstances in Syria. So let Assad get away with the chemical gas

attacks on his own people? None of us wanting to get away with it. The

way to make sure that he doesn't is first of all to have proof which

nobody can argue with, so send in UN inspectors to make sure it can be

clear who was gas that was, and then get action across the whole of the

international community, not for one party to decide I believe it is him,

even though most of us believe that it was, and I, America, and going to

send off 56 Tomahawks. We have to do this together as a world through the

UN. Let me bring in Sir Tony Brenton, former British ambassador

to Washington. When Russia and Iran say they will respond with force,

what do you think that means? I don't think we should take it too

seriously. Really?! The Russians have already taken once more and

dangerous action in ending the arrangements with America in Syria,

there is not a huge amount they can do, and what we are watching is

noise to cover up the confusion. I broadly agree with what Emily

Thornbury has just said, about needing to talk to the Russians

about finding a way out of the Syrian mess, but I disagree with her

in her feeling that the US air strike was a mistake, I think it has

been a useful reality check for Assad obviously but also for the

Russians, who have got used to dealing with a week US

administration, that there are limits to what the US will tolerate,

and that will affect calculations in the future, hopefully in a helpful

direction. What is the best way to get President Putin to drop his

support of Assad in Syria? The first step is to gauge with the Russians

on the way forward. There are pressures on him to get out of

Syria, he has a presidential election next year, a population

disenchanted with Syria, he would like to find a way out but he won't

accept a way which affects what he views as Russia's vital interests

there, the crucial one being confidence that Assad will not be

replaced by an Islamist regime, and that is a danger to us as well, and

as we negotiate a way forward, part of it has to be to find a way to

replace Assad but with a dependable northern Islamist alternative.

You heard the former British ambassador saying, don't take it too

seriously when they say they will respond with force, is he right? To

be honest, I think the events in the last week were very unpredictable.

So I don't know. To just sit and wait to what the response is going

to be, already cancelling the non-conflictual agreement between

Russia and America is dangerous, and it could be a cover for what may

appear as an accident, a clash between American and Russian

aeroplanes over the sky of Syria, it could be something that had been

deliberately engineered. In terms of your own family members, what do

they want from the international community? Whether it is my family

or many other Syrians, what they want is the right conflict? Do they

have the right to have their own conflict? The Syrians were making

the headlines by going down to the street at the start, but now it is

anything but Syrian. They shouldn't be called a Syrian conflict any

more. You are discussing superpowers, G7, Nato, even the

Geneva talks which involve some from Syria, or are being held on the

basis of resolution which no Syria at all have been involved in

drafting those resolutions. So there is a huge non-Syrian parliament in

this conflict, and most Syrians want this to be out of serious they can

sort out their own issues. Don't expect Syrians to reach any solution

to be to change things on the ground when you have all these actors

involved at the same time. You can't wait for Orbis International debate

and restructuring of how the war is going on the Security Council, Nato

and everything, we can't wait for this to be resolved over the heads

of Syrians, so we just want it out of the scene as much as possible.

The mortgage ar shells were falling next to her house. My parents in

Homs were concerned about 2,000 people from Homs were deported by

force from Homs and dumped in an opposition controlled area. There

were different dynamics on the ground happening and all this

international attention on the attacks itself, it played no role in

changing these events at all. If anything, it was making it worse and

more Syrians were being killed every day whether before or after dark.

Understood. Emily, finally, your party is split on this issue. Some

of your MPs accused your leader of preferring inaction to stopping a

murderous tyrant. What would you say to them? Well, I think that we all

want to stop a murderous tyrantment we all want peace in Syria. It's a

question of how we go about doing that and sometimes people say that

the Labour line on this is a weak one. But it's so isn't. It would

have been very easy for us to join in the rhetoric and say, "Yes, this

is outrageous. Let's get involved in the bombing." But we're not doing

that because we're taking a step back and we're saying what is the

long game? How do we make sure we get peace in Syria? It will take a

while, but the lady has just said, the woman from Syria, saying, you

know, it is as if it is not a Syrian conflict anymore, it is a great, big

international conflict and we need to get the powers out and we need

Syria to find peace. It is right and people need to say that. Do you

think there, even if the international players got out, do

you think there could be peace with President Assad still president? I

think that in the end President Assad has to go, but I think that

any calls for him to leave straightaway which the British

Government has been doing, I think, is not likely to be realistic. I

think, I hope that he has no long-term future in Syria. I think

that he is a murderous tyrant. So yes, I want him to go, but when

we've talked about regime change in the past, we have talked about it in

the context of Iraq or Libya and looked what has happenedment when

people say they want regime change the next question must be what do

you want in its place and if you don't know wh what you want in its

place, you have to think long-term and think we need to work this

through and not just be doing knee-jerk politics here. What would

President Assad have to do for you to support some kind of military

intervention? No. That's not the way to put it. Sorry. What I would say

is, I'm not against military intervention if it is part of a

larger plan. If someone can say to me, if we intervene here, if we do

this, if we kill this number of people then this will happen and

then we will be able to move on here and this is the solution. But the

difficulty is for politicians is that when terrible things like this

happen, if you don't respond with, "Let's get involved in bombing" Then

there is criticism that you're being weak, but you're not, you're saying,

the pressure is to be seen to be doing something, but you must step

back and think what is the long-term plan? You have to have a strategy

and at the moment, I very much fear that the international community is

falling out big time and we're not talking strategy anymore, we're

talking, you know, let's see who can say the strongest thing? Let's be

seen to be a strong man. Let's be seen to be Boris Johnson is standing

up to the Russians. Really, how does this help us in the long-term?

That's what we need to be doing. Thank you very much.

Coming up, the 78-year-old British multimillionaire whose been

in prison in the United States for more than 30 years

He's always maintained his innocence, now new evidence has

The daughter of a 70-year-old man killed whilst cycling

through central London is calling for better police training into how

It's after the woman accused of knocking down and killing

Michael Mason was cleared of careless driving

in what is the first ever crowdfunded private prosecution.

Mr Mason who wasn't wearing a helmet died in hospital days after being

hit by a car. Days after his death, his daughter made a film looking

into whether police failed to investigate cycling deaths properly.

A warning it shows her father seriously ill in a hospital bed

before he died. Dad was cycling home this way up

a central London road when he was He was in hospital in

a coma for three weeks, At the inquest into my father's

death, the driver said she She said it was like something

falling from the sky. Afterwards, the coroner's verdict

was that his death had been Society obviously depends

on families joining together. Here's my dad, Mick Mason,

in happier times at my wedding. He was a gentle, unassuming

Geordie, who often had a My family and I had questions

about how the police were investigating my dad's

death from very early on. Potential witnesses

were not chased as we would have liked and they did not

appear to think about what we were One officer even asked

us if we wondered whether my dad might be

responsible for his own death. The private prosecution was brought

by the cyclists defence fund. Anna Tatton-Brown gave us her

reaction to the case. I'm not sure that it was the wrong

verdict and what was presented in that half-way through the case

the other side applied to have the case thrown out

as I learn is sometimes customary in cases for lack

of evidence saying that the prosecution hadn't

presented enough evidence. The judge ruled that there

was and that it should go to a jury. So, for us, that was kind

of vindication in having brought the case and this case should always

have gone in front of a court, He also allocated costs

at the end so the cycling charity will get some, if not all,

of their money back. Again, further vindication for us

that this was always where this So, I kind of like to think of it

as the driver was on trial during this case, but the Met's

decision was also on trial. While she was found not guilty,

the Met, to a certain extent, How difficult was it to listen

to some of the evidence? I obviously know this

case inside out. I thought that I knew what every

witness was going to say and I thought that I was kind

of immune to it and that it wouldn't shock me, but it really

did and hearing people discuss your father's injuries

in a kind of such a matter of fact, scientific way,

I mean I know that's how it has got to be,

but it's horrible and I was shocked Whilst you accept the verdict,

do you want the police to review or look again at the way they deal

with cases involving cyclists? I, in the three years

since the accident happened and the case came to trial, I have

come across quite a few families who have had issues with how

the police have handled their cases. So it is not just me.

I am by no means an isolated case. We finally got the case to court,

but three years have gone by. People's memories aren't as fresh

and there are inherent problems The expense that we have had to go

to to fight, to get it into the justice system,

but also for the driver. She had this hanging

over her for three years. And I think that the police need

better training with how they deal with evidence at the scene,

how they hand... The mentality

with which they approach a cycling There were scenarios

where they kept saying to me, "Your dad was wearing dark clothing,

he wasn't wearing a helmet." And I think that mentality washed

over how they treated the case So I think specialist training

to help them realise that that maybe the case -

he was wearing dark clothing but there are other issues at play

here - and I don't think it's I think there are issues about how

the whole justice system Our case never got to the CPS

so I don't know how the CPS would have handled it,

but I've heard of issues with other people once the cases get to the CPS

and then the justice system, I'm not questioning

the verdict for a moment. But I think there are issues

about a jury where almost everyone will drive and, for a moment,

one of those people We don't always pay full

attention when we drive. I don't always pay full attention

100% of the time when I drive. So I don't know how you can separate

that in your mind when you're making it a decision about the guilt

of someone who does an activity The Met tell us the test

for referral to the Crown Prosecution Service as laid down

by the Director of Public Prosecutions was applied and found

not to meet the required threshold and the evidence was tested

in the Coroners' Court and not referred for further investigation

or examination by any other agency, Her Majesty's Coroner concluded this

was the result of an accident and the investigation

supports this finding. From what you've said,

it sounds like in a way you think the police

perhaps blamed your father He was wearing dark clothing,

he wasn't wearing a helmet? But the law of our land says that

you have to have lights that are working and are

on and reflectors. Regent Street is a street

in Central London, He was visible and, so,

I don't think it's for them to make a decision whether she should have

seen him or not. And they say that it

didn't meet the criteria, but a judge has ruled

that this case... for this case to have been in court

and the jury should make I think that their decision

was wrong and I think that I'd like them to, in the light of this,

go back and apologise really. Not just to me, but to

Gail Purcell, the woman who was driving, and really think

about how they handle these cases They've quoted the CPS

guildelines there but... I'm not entirely

sure of the wording. There is a recommendation in cases

of fatalities that there is an

automatic referral to the CPS. I don't think it's

become a rule yet. When I made the film

for you guys, I interviewed Keir

Starmer, who was the He said he thought there

was a strong argument now for eight direct

referral in the case of every fatality

that it goes direct to the CPS and

the decision I repeat that call,

especially in the We will have the latest news and

sport shortly. Here is Carol. Gorgeous. People want to know will

it the be the same for Easter weekend?

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

Look at these lovely pictures from our weather watchers. Some of us

have started the day with blue skies as we entered the weekend with a top

temperature of 25.5 Celsius in Cambridge yesterday afternoon,

making it the warmest of the year so far. But this cooler air is pushing

southwards, some of us will still have temperatures above average for

this stage in April. A little Fairweather cloud will develop,

produce showers especially across Northern Ireland, northern and

western Scotland. If you catch a shower in the Midlands, it will be

fleeting. Across the south-west, lower temperatures than yesterday,

but still nice with the sunshine. Those sunny intervals continuing

across East Anglia, Cambridge today instead of 25.5, more likely to be

13. Showers continuing across northern and western Scotland, but

most of Scotland will be dry with some sunshine coming through. Across

Northern Ireland we can't rule out a shower, and as we move back to

Wales, again, a lot of dry weather with some sunshine. Heading through

the evening and overnight, our next system comes in across the Northwest

introducing some rain across Scotland, head of it cloud building

for Northern England and Northern Ireland, but for the rest of England

and Wales, clearer skies allowing temperatures in the countryside to

drop. This represents towns and cities, so there will be frost to

start the day. We have the rain continuing across parts of northern

and western Scotland tomorrow, a blustery day and the chilly

direction the wind is coming from, the Northwest. But moving further

south, again we are looking at sunshine. Temperatures tomorrow

between 12 and 17 Celsius, in London at this stage in April the averages

13. Then we see the weather front sinking southwards, and once again

on Wednesday, a mixture of rights bells, sunshine and showers, with

the rain slowly coming southwards through the day.

It's Monday, it's ten o'clock, I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

Our top today: Thousands of police officers will line the streets

the Westminster terror victim PC Keith Palmer.

We've been hearing from those who served with him.

Very selfless. He would do whatever was required.

One of the kindest people you'll ever find.

And I'm in Southwark where the roads have already been closed off for the

funeral at the cathedral here this afternoon. The service will be both

a public memorial and a private family funeral.

Also on the programme: The people who take a tiny dose of psychedelic

So-called micro-dosing is illegal, and there's no medical evidence

to say what kind of harm it could cause.

I had learned that are really useful nice thing to do with it would be to

have it on a day off and have quite a normal day, but the quality of

that day on all sorts of France would just be a lot better.

More from her shortly, and the possible dangers.

And this image of a woman standing up to an English Defence League

protestor in Birmingham has said she was "surprised" when it went

We will speak to Saffiyah Khan before 11.

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

Thousands of police officers from across the UK are expected

at the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed in the

Westminster terror attack. The 48-year-old was stabbed to death

by Khalid Masood as he stood guard outside the Palace of Westminster.

Officers from across the country will line the route

to Southwark Cathedral, where a full police

Danya -- Daniela Relph is there. The roads around Southwark Cathedral

have been closed off in preparation for the funeral at two o'clock this

afternoon. Police officers have been brought into various compounds.

There will be around 5000 places for police officers from around the

country to pay their respects to Keith Palmer. Train companies have

offered free travel to police officers coming to the funeral

today. It is a huge event for the police service. Keith Palmer died a

very public death, and there is a sense that today will be in some

ways a public memorial, but we also have to remember that this is also

going to have to be an intimate, private family funeral for his wife,

his daughter, his parents and brothers and sisters who will be

here. The very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark, will be mindful

of that when he leaves the service at two o'clock this afternoon.

Daniella, many thanks, more on that this afternoon.

Foreign Ministers from the G7 leading nations

Boris Johnson is meeting with other leaders. Labour's spokesperson on

foreign affairs told Victoria the international community needs to

focus on the long-term solution. What we have seen is a major falling

out between America and Russia which pulls the parties apart and further

away from the table, and nobody believes you can win this war. There

has to be a political settlement, and there has to be a long-term

solution, and so by upping the rhetoric of hitting the headlines,

Boris Johnson me feel good today, but he isn't actually helping, I

don't think, with a long-term solution when it comes to what will

happen to Syria. The BBC has uncovered evidence that

appears to implicate the Bank of England in the so-called

Libor scandal. A secret recording from 2008

obtained by Panorama suggests it repeatedly pressured commercial

banks to push down the rates at which they charged

each other interest. Here's our economics

correspondent Andy Verity. Police in Manchester have launched

extra patrols in the city centre, after receiving a surge in calls

about people passing out from taking Greater Manchester Police said

they dealt with 31 calls relating to the drug in 24 hours after it

launched a two-day banning It's been reported that

the substance left some users That's a summary of

the latest BBC News. Let me read you some comments on

micro-dosing. Gail, an officer at Durham Police, says it is

interesting and worrying. Class a possession is unlawful. Alan Taylor

says they are idiots and forgetting the stuff stays in your system for

life, and Daniel says this is just drug addiction leading torsos of

problems. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

Use the hashtag #VictoriaLive, and if you text, you'll be charged

The big story this morning is from golf, where Sergio Garcia has

finally won his first championship. He had to do it via a tense play-off

with England's Justin Rose. Garcia is the third Spaniard to win at

Augusta on what was a particularly poignant day. Watch out for some

flash photography, not as Tim Hague reports.

Some things are just written, and Sergio Garcia winning a first major

on the day his inspiration, the late Seve Ballesteros, would have turned

60, is one of them. To do it on his 60th birthday, and to join him and

allow my two idols in golf, it is amazing. I felt the calmest I have

ever felt on a major Sunday. I am so happy. The battle he had with Justin

Rose was among the finest in Masters history. No one Arscott close to

them, this was simply a two horse race for the title. But with both an

eight under par going to the final nine holes, the Spaniard seemed to

collapse, finding trees, rough and even a spot in there. He needed

something special on the 15th, and he found it. , Tata and the trees of

Augusta -- COMMENTATOR: And the trees of

Augusta Shaikh with the noise. And with three holes to play, they

were both nine under. Yet these Ryder Cup team-mates kept going,

onto the final green equally impressive, neither deserved to

lose, and neither would, meaning a sudden-death play-off. This putt for

that major. At the 74th attempt, Sergio Garcia

has mastered the majors, and he leaves with the green jacket. S

Garcia pointing to the sky in honour of Seve, and he certainly had the

support of their sons: And of course world number two Rory

McIlroy added: So, Garcia is the nearly man no

more, and prior to this year, he had finished in the top ten of a major

22 times. It has taken him 74 attempts to finally win one, the

most of any champion, beating Tom Kite who won the US open after 72,

and in terms of prize money, he is ?1.6 million richer today, and maybe

a consolation of a Justin Rose, he pockets ?960,000. We have been

playing golf against one another since we were 14 years of age, so we

are both going to get up tomorrow morning and our careers will go on.

He will be happy for a month and then golf will take over, and I will

be disappointed for months and then golf will take over and we will

carry on. There are many more objectives this year that I will

look forward to, the US Open, local championships. This was the

highlight of the spring and a target for a long time, and I was

disappointed to come so close, but the year is only getting going now.

It is indeed, three more majors of the year still to come, the next one

is the US open in June. Thank you, Jess. Welcome to the programme if

you have just tuned in. Thousands of police officers

are expected to line the streets of central London for the funeral

procession of PC Keith Palmer who was murdered in the attack

in Westminster last month. The 48-year-old father of one

was stabbed by Khalid Masood His coffin will be taken

from a chapel beneath the Houses of Parliament to Southwark cathedral

for a full police service funeral. A two-minute silence will be held

by forces across the country. PC Shaun Cartwright and PC

Greg Rainey were friends and colleagues of PC Palmer and say

he will be greatly missed. As a police officer,

I never came across someone There was not a day that went

by when Keith would be in work And, at the end of the day,

Keith would still be sitting there, The reason Keith came

to work was for his family but he was so proud to be

a police officer. He came up to join me at the Palace

of Westminster and he absolutely He loved the interaction

with the public. He had a way of communicating

with people from all walks of life, from the Lords and the baronesses

that worked up there, He was popular amongst

all of the staff up there. Since I've been working back

at the Houses of Parliament since, the messages that people

from all over the country have given in support of Keith and his family,

has been an amazing tribute, I suppose, to Keith,

and the way he was and he behaved. Keith could deal with any situation

that was thrown at him. You always knew Keith

would be there. He was that one who would always be

professional, so dedicated. He never sort of took

his foot off the gas. It was not just a job to Keith,

being a police officer. He was so proud to

look out for people. I think that showed

as well in his time Very proud to, I suppose,

wear the Crown. It was a job he loved

doing as a policeman. Chief Constable Sara Thorton

is the head of the National She says the scale of the police

funeral is unprecedented. I don't think we will ever see a

police funeral of this size. Officers are coming from all over

the country to line the route. At two o'clock this afternoon, outside

police stations across the country, officers will observe two-minutes'

silence. We will want to observe the sacrifice he made. How does it

affect officers when one of their own is killed in the line of duty?

It affect them enormously. There is a tremendous amount of pride.

Keith didn't hesitate to act when confronted

His bravery and his courage are something that all officers are very

But also there's a tremendous sense of sadness and of loss, and a

feeling that it could have been anybody, and it was Keith.

So, the funeral will also be an opportunity

for the police family to come together, to grieve together, but

also to show support, in particular to Keith's

family, his friends, and his close colleagues.

Lying in rest in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft is a rare honour

that needs the Queen's consent. Does this act highlight the strength of

feeling? It has had a tremendous impact on colleagues. Officers do a

very difficult job every day, and sometimes they can feel it is a

thankless task, and the fact that he has laid in rest in the Palace of

Westminster is an acknowledgement on behalf of the whole country of the

sacrifice that he made, but also the job that officers do day in, day out

across the country. Can I ask you where the review of security at the

Palace of Westminster is up to now? Starmer I don't know where the

review is, but it is right that some people who know all the facts have a

look at what happened and see if there are any lessons that can be

learnt and things can be done differently. The threat from

terrorism is severe which means a threat is likely so we have to

remain vigilant. The killing of PC Palmer led some to argue that more

police officers should be armed with guns. What's your position on that

as head of the national police chiefs council? Well, the British

policing model is based on most officers being unarmed and we're

proud of that. Every chief constable is responsible for doing a review on

the threat and risk in his or her area and making sure there is

sufficient armed officers to deal with the threat. I think that we

would want to consider very carefully any options which moved

away from that. PC Palmer's name will be added

to the several thousand other officers who have lost their lives

in the line of duty in a special ceremony

at the National Police Memorial Denis Rowan is from The Police Roll

of Honour Trust will be there, but before he heads along

to the service we can speak to him Tell us about adding PC Palmer's

name to the Roll of Honour? The police national memorial holds the

names of all police officers that have fallen and this morning we're

adding PC Palmer's name to the Roll of Honour and in the future we will

be placing a memorial as like Yvonne Fletcher and 45 other officers as a

permanent reminder of the ultimate sacrifice that these officers have

given the citizens of the UK. And you were an officer in Greater

Manchester. You worked on the case of murdered PC Stephen Oak. This is

another reminder that police officers go to work in the morning

and sometimes may not come home? Yes. I wasn't a police officer. I

worked with Michael Winner for 45 years, I worked with the

Metropolitan Police, but it is true, we've dealt with all the families

over the past 40 years and we come up against all the problems of the

families and we look after the families and we become personal

friends to them like Michael was. It's a very difficult situation for

the trust, but we always put the family first when the trust is

placed. They come first during the event and afterwards we look after

them. We are honoured to this in Michael name. Thank you very much

for talking to us morning. Thank you very much.

The beautiful, peaceful great barrier reef, but now unprecedented

We'll be asking a climate expert what we can do to stop it.

Next this morning - the 30-year fight for justice.

Kris Maharaj was a multi-millionaire and one

of Britain's richest businessmen when he was sentenced

for a double murder more than 30 years ago.

He's been serving a life sentence in a United States jail since 1986,

for the murders of two men in a Miami hotel room,

although he has always maintained his innocence.

The case is seen by many as a miscarriage of justice,

and now, lawyers say they're more confident than ever that his

conviction will be overturned and he'll walk out of prison

They'll present new evidence to try and prove his innocence at an appeal

78-year-old Kris Maharaj's wife, who has stood by him

for over 30 years, is desperate to have her husband back

Marita Maharaj joins us now from Florida on a phone line.

As does Clive Stafford Smith, Kris Maharaj's lawyer

who has found evidence to support his client's innocence.

Tell our audience about this case and why you say it is a miscarriage

of justice? Chris was convicted and sentenced to death back then in 1986

and over the years I've represented him now for 24 years. I had no grey

hair at the time I began! And we've gradually developed more and more

evidence, first the six alibi witnesses that show he's somewhere

else at the time of the crime, but then in the end, we managed to

develop a whole number of people who were working for the Columbian drug

cartels who say hey, that wasn't Kris Maharaj, that was one of ours.

We were the ones who did that murder because the victims were involved in

drugs and they owed a lot of money. Why would those involved in drug

cartels in Columbia just admit that? Well, it wasn't easy. Let me tell

you. I spent a lot of time going around the deep south sh the

different prisons and then with help from other people went to Columbia

and there are a lot of other people who say this is true, but are not

willing to go on the record, but six people did go on the record and they

include for example two informants who were working for the federal

Government. One was a CIA informant who says that he learned from one of

the cartel people at the time of the murders that they'd done the crime

and he just couldn't believe that Kris Maharaj had been sent to Death

Row for it when the central Government knew all along that he

didn't do it. You've worked on this case for as you say, a number of

decades now, but why have you always believed in his innocence? Well, I

went down at the request of the British Government actually back in

1993 to see Chris and I went with my scepticism fully intact and I met

Chris. And he just is a straight up guy. I believed him when he told me

that he had nothing to do with it. You know one of the most compelling

things to me is when the jury came back and convicted him, he passed

out. He fainted. He simply could not believe that these 12 jurors had

found him guilty, but, of course that was only the very beginning and

it was then when I started to investigate the case back then I

discovered this mountain of information that the Government had

covered up and there were the other bizarre things. Let's face it the

trial judge was arrested on day three of the trial because he

himself had been involved in a thing where he was taking money from

people who purported to be drug cartel folk, but were Florida law

enforcement and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs and the

trial continued. Just remarkable stuff. This new evidence, haven't

you present it had before November 2014 and you had it turned down

effectively? We went to State Court, not with all of the evidence, but a

certain amount of it and the State judge refused to grant a new trial.

I should say in my entire career and I've represented hundreds of people

on Death Row, I have never had an elected state judge order a trial

through a prisoner on Death Row. That's not to impune them as human

beings, but it they are elected. I hope that we're going to get more

justice in that courtroom. How optimistic are you? Apart from your

sin veer hope? Well, I hate to make promises particularly for his wife

and Chris. I have said for so many years, we're going to win. This time

the judges will do justice and I really thought notwithstanding my

history that the State judge would grant a new trial. So I said to his

wife I really hope that we will have you guys home in London by

Christmas, but in September 1914, that's what they said about World

War I, I don't want to be too optimistic. Optimistic about it. How

optimistic are you that this will lead to your husband being freed?

Well, I'm very optimistic for Chris. We really believe and hope that this

will be the end of our nightmare. You, of course, we are also worried

because we have so many times that we thought... That he was coming

home, not through the fault of the lawyers, but what happened in court.

I was going to ask you if you can tell us or tell our British audience

what kind of toll the last 30 years have taken on you, your husband and

your wider family? Well, it has been horrible. I cannot explain it

because nobody, unless you go through it, I don't think you can

understand it and you can believe that the things that we went

through. And we are going through at the moment.

It's very, very hard. Chris lost his - they took him away

for three months. I didn't know if he was dead or alive. A really,

really horrible situation and it is a horrible situation. I just try to

survive like Chris. We do have hope. We do believe that God will not -

will free him. If he is freed, will you both come back to the UK?

Immediately. OK, thank you. Clive Stafford-Smith as Kris Maharaj's

lawyer, what can you tell us about the man you believe is ultimately

responsible for the double murder in the Miami hotel room? Well, this is

all a shocking story. One of the witnesses we have to TV was a

federal informant who was a pilot for him and in Kris Maharaj, in 1986

he was at his farm and he was telling him you better behave

yourself or I'll tell you what's going to happen to you and then he

went on to say the same will happen to you as happened to those people

who were killed in the hotel in Miami. There is a series of facts

like that. Now, you know, the Guy who really did has a nicknamed

called The Blade. He was later kidnapped by some other drug cartel

opponents. They tortured him and then they fed him through a wood

chipping machine. Pretty horrific things went on back then and Kris

was collateral damage in the process. We will see what happens.

Thank you very much, Clive Stafford-Smith who is Kris Maharaj

Kris Maharaj's lawyer and you heard from Kris Maharaj's wife who said if

he is finally released, they say, it is a miscarriage of justice, if he

is finally released they will return to their home, Britain, immediately.

We'll talk to the people who microdose illegal drugs,

And this image of a woman smiling at an English Defence League

protestor in Birmingham has gone viral.

She revealed she wasn't scared in the slightest.

We'll talk to Saffiyah Khan about why she intervened.

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

Thousands of police officers from across the UK are expected

at the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed

The 48-year-old was stabbed to death by Khalid Masood as he stood guard

Officers from across the country will line the route

to Southwark Cathedral, where a full police

He had a way of communicating with people from all walks of life, the

cleaners, the MPs, the security officers, the people on the streets.

Since I have been working back at the Houses of Parliament since, the

messages from people all over the country have given in support of

Keith and his family, it has been an amazing tribute to Keith and the way

that he was and the way that he behaved.

The UK is pushing for new sanctions on Russia if it

maintains its staunch support for Syrian President

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, is meeting with other

G7 leaders in Italy to discuss the situation - particularly

after last week's chemical attack in Syria that left more

The BBC has uncovered evidence that appears to implicate the Bank

of England in the so-called Libor scandal.

A secret recording from 2008 obtained by Panorama suggests it

repeatedly pressured commercial banks to push down the rates

at which they charged each other interest.

Here's our economics correspondent Andy Verity.

Police in Manchester have launched extra patrols in the city centre,

after receiving a surge in calls about people passing out from taking

Greater Manchester Police said they dealt with 31 calls relating

to the drug in 24 hours after it launched a two-day banning

It's been reported that the substance left some users

Australian scientists say two thirds of the Great Barrier Reef

has now been devastated by severe coral bleaching.

It's caused by rising water temperatures, and researchers say

surveys show an accelerated rate of damage along the

Mass bleaching makes the coral fragile and can kill it.

Victoria will be discussing this story before 11 this morning. Stay

with us for that. Join me for BBC Newsroom

live at 11 o'clock. Thank you, Reeta. This person says,

with regards to micro-dosing, it is neither addicting nor dangerous, ban

alcohol which is both. This person says, I know many people who

micro-dose on a basis, and this is the best way to control depression

and anti-social tendencies. Sergio Garcia has won his first

major. Manchester United keep Sunderland pegged to the bottom of

the table and move up to fifth. Everton ended Leicester's winning

run with a 4-2 victory, Romelu Lukaku is now the Premier League's

top scorer. At wasps left it late against Northampton to win - 30, a

last-minute try and conversion with the last kick of the game as wasps

stay top of the premiership. That is all your support for today. Thank

you, Jess. It's illegal and there's no medical

evidence to say what kind of harm it could cause you,

so why are some people doing it? We're talking about micro-dosing -

when you take a tiny amount of psychedelic drugs -

LSD or magic mushrooms usually - Our reporter Catrin Nye has been

meeting the people that do it. We played you her

full report earlier. Psychedelic drugs,

LSD, magic mushrooms, are usually associated

with long, mind-bending trips. Some people though are now taking

the Class A drugs in tiny doses. They argue it improves their day

but also, in some cases, helps deal Anna, whose name I've

changed, is a mum of two. She's tried micro-dosing with LSD

and magic mushrooms in the past. I had learned that a really useful,

nice thing to do with it would be to have it on a day off and have

quite a normal day. But the quality of that day,

on all sorts of fronts, So, I would go for a walk

and I would be struck All those bits of sense data,

that I think we often just lose, to getting stuff done

and being outcome-focused, would be There's something relaxing

and grounding about it. Simpa micro-doses regularly

with LSD and says it helps Can you tell me what you're dealing

with, and how it helps? Depression and anxiety as a result

of this childhood trauma that led to borderline personality disorder

and post-traumatic stress disorder. So, all of these things together,

are currently dealt with by GPs with a large amount of different

pills, each of which causes more side effects, I find

in my personal experience, than the benefits

these drugs provide. These substances, I've found,

give me the benefits There has recently been a cautious

revival in scientific trials James Rucker was recently

involved in a pilot trial at Imperial College London

looking at the use of magic It did not, however,

look at micro-dosing. Micro-dosing, we know,

at a medical level, There have been no trials looking

at micro-dosing at all, so we do not know whether there

are any benefits associated with it, or indeed if there are any

harms associated with it. The only way that we can sort out

whether or not it works or it doesn't is by doing a blinded

placebo-controlled randomised trial. The definition of a micro-dose

is you don't notice the subjective effect, but that doesn't mean

it is not having any effect on you. As well as this, the drugs

being used are Class A. Possession can result in up

to seven years in prison. How do you justify this fact

that it is completely illegal? When you're doing something

that is not causing any harm to anybody else, there's nothing

really that needs to We can talk now to two

people who featured We're not using their full names

for obvious reasons. Simpa, who micro-doses

LSD and occassionally And "Anna", which isn't her real

name, and has tried micro-dosing In our Salford studio

we have Harry Sumnall, a Professor in Substance Use,

at the Public Health Institute, Simpa, how did you start

experimenting with small doses? I experimented with recreational drugs

first of all, and then found that these were having almost a positive

hangover from the effects, and from there got the inclination to start

experimenting with small increments, and stuck to a quite routine I have

got to know with LST. What do you mean, a good routine? I divide up a

little tablet, cut it into a tour ten pieces, 15-20 milligrams each,

and take one of them over a period of a week, one per day, and it

revitalises my mood, it invigorates me and helps battle the traditional

symptoms go with depression and anxiety. How long have you been

doing this for? Two or three years, I would say. A number of people are

saying, it starts off with a tiny amount, but it is going to increase,

that is what happens with drugs. That is what happens with most rugs,

I suppose, but with LST, it doesn't compound. You don't get the

tolerance build-up from excessive use. You can't stack it high-dose,

you couldn't take one tablet every day, by the third day you wouldn't

get the traditional high. Have you tried other ways of getting that

kind of mini highlight exercise? I meditate, I do yoga, I am also vegan

so I control through diet, and these control similar parts of the brain

that these drugs help, so in conjunction with micro-dosing, I

find these other activities help. You have no idea long-term what this

will do to you? I don't, but I have lived for two decades with

depression and other conditions that have been frankly crippling, and

through utilising the substances in cannabis and MDMA, I have been able

to create a workable daily routine that allows me to maximise the

positives of my life while still unfortunately being ill and waiting

for psychiatric treatment. What about the fact that it is illegal?

Legality isn't a measure of morality in terms of what is legal isn't

always right. Slavery was legal. Apartheid was legal. I think in the

next decade or two, drug prohibition won't exist the does though, we will

understand that the substances are just tools. So you decide which laws

you follow? I follow my own moral compost in that if I don't harm

anybody else and I'm not harming myself as far as I know, there have

been no studies and trials, but LST is being experimented with since it

was first synthesised. Let me bring in Harris on the. What are the

problems that you can see here? With all drugs, many of the harmful

effects are potentially dose-related, so if micro-dosing you

are talking about very small doses, but if you look at LST and

psychedelics in general, there is a small risk it might unmask latent

psychopathology, and with potential health issues to begin with, that

can cause a problem, but in general, interesting studies from the United

States looking at some of the big health household studies, that has

generally shown that people who have a lifetime history of use of the

substances don't tend to be reporting more symptoms or seeking

more mental health support than people who have never used it. For

me, some of the problems, perhaps some of the most pertinent problems

are related to the illegal status of the drugs. There are class I drugs

that potentially carry a penalty of up to seven years imprisonment and

an unlimited fine, but a big issue particularly with LST is where the

drug is coming from. Can you be sure of your source? Over the last few

years we have had a few concerns over a class of drugs called on the

street M-bombs, and they have been associated with a number of deaths,

not just here but internationally in the United States and Australia as

well, so I think perhaps one of the biggest concerns is buying and using

a drug which you didn't intend, a drug which is potentially more

harmful than LST itself. And an point, Simpa, you say it doesn't

harm anybody else, but you know that when it comes to illegal drugs, all

sorts of expectation goes on, plenty of people are harmed, people are

exploited, traffic, abused, etc. But those are consequence of

prohibition, not the drugs themselves. If these drugs were

regulated like caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, the effect that they would

have on society would be less, and people would be in these academic

institutions open... That they are not legal, so people are abused and

exploited, etc. As a consequence of prohibition. But people are being

harmed. Yes, but not because of the drug itself. Anna, why did you start

micro-dosing? I experienced the positive hangover from recreational

drug use when I was much younger, and I alighted on it initially by

accident as a student when I had more time to kill. And I realised

that taking very small doses of LSD may be a lot happier at a time when

I wasn't happy, and it seemed to have a calming and grounding effect

on my mood and an ability to enjoy life and feel relaxed and be with

people. And later on in life, living somewhere where magic mushrooms grow

nearby, I was running a lot, and I noticed that they were there, and

just out of curiosity, I tried eating one or two of them, and I

found it had a similarly positive grounding levelling effect. And the

illegality of it? That wasn't an issue for you, the fact that through

the drugs trade, as I was making the point to Simpa, various people are

exploited, abused, etc? I completely agree with Simpa about the fact that

it is the illegality, the fact that the drugs trade is illegal, that

forces those situations. Washrooms don't have to go through a dealer if

they are growing on a hill nearby. And I would never keep anything

illegal in my home, that is a risk I am not prepared to put up with. But

when they were available, opportunistically, it was something

that I would do, and it was a positive experience. OK. Harry, in

terms of your message about micro-dosing, be clear, what is it?

I think with micro-dosing, it is an untested practice. We saw in your

film that there are investigations of higher doses of LSD taking place

in Imperial college, but these investigations have taken place in a

laboratory, with an on-site medical team, in a carefully controlled

trial. Some of the stories we have been hearing are interested, and it

is deserving of research, but whether it produces these profound

changes that people are reporting in the general population, Isaac that

requires further research. Thank you very much, thank you for your time,

and thank you to Tipuric to and Anna as well.

Is the Great Barrier Reef at a terminal stage?

We will ask a climate expert what can be done to stop this

Now, this photo of a woman smiling at an English Defence League

protester in Birmingham has been shared thousands of times

around the world since it was taken at the weekend.

Saffiyah Khan says she intervened when she saw another woman

The EDL claim she interrupted a minute's silence for

We can now speak to Saffiyah Khan, who is featured in the photo,

Instantaneously Tell us what you did and why? I ended up intervening

because I saw a woman surrounded by quite a large group of EDL members

and she looked quite intimidated and I don't think she was comfortable in

that position and I wasn't comfortable with her being there

either. What did you say? This that position, I couldn't really get to

her physically so the most I could do was agree with her verbally in

that I do believe they are racist as that's what she was saying as well

and that's what I ended up doing and then I was identified as someone who

opposed the EDL and it stemmed from there my involvement. So what were

you saying verbally? I'm trying to imagine the scenario and the

atmosphere? Personally I was saying racist scum off our streets.

And do you know what was being said to her or what the attitude towards

her was that led to you intervening? Yeah, well, it was, you're not

British. Kind of, putting a lot of questions about Islam is a religion

and the way it is carried out in various ways. She is not a

spokesperson for a religion. The moment when you're close up to the

EDL protestor, the photograph, shows you smiling. Did you have a

conversation with that man? I mean there was very little conversation

to be had. I think his aggression can be seen through the picture. I

didn't say very much to him and I can't exactly remember what he was

saying to me, but I think the puck ture afterwards kind of sums it up

because his finger was in my face. It wasn't a pleasant interaction.

How is it that you're smiling? Oh, how is it I'm smiling? Oh, I don't

know. Sometimes it's more important to smile than to shout. I did a fair

bit of shouting I'm under no delusion of that! It is a more

powerful message a lot of the time. I read that your dad said he brought

you and your sister up always to stand up to prejudice, is that

right? 100%, yeah. Yeah. I mean, facing people like this, it's not

something that I would want to do. I would love to live in a place where

we didn't have vulnerable women put in these situations, but yeah,

always stand up to it. I have no fear towards the EDL.

Why do you have no fear? Physically, I'm not indim tated by them in the

slightest. Its their own ideologies which are flawed and I can't feel

intimidated by someone or a group of people who have opinions like that.

There is, I don't feel intellectually intimidated. I don't

feel fear for them. You know they say apparently you interrupted a

minute's silence for terror attack victims.

I'd like to make it very clear, people that know me, even at a very

low level of understanding would tell you, would vouch for me in

saying that a minute's silence held by anybody from either side, whether

it be EDL or UDAF, but the video evidence shows it as well, there

wasn't a minute's silence whilst I was there. It's a an attempt at

smearing because the situation is in my favour. The Birmingham MP Jess

Phillips, there are a number of tweets about you and the photograph

and the one that's been picked up the most, who looks like they have

power, the real Brummie or the EDL who migrated for the day to our city

and failed to assimilate? As a message, the image, because of your

smile, is powerful, isn't it? Yeah, I think, very unintentionally it

became a very, very powerful picture and yeah it has been a strange

experience for it to go viral as well.

What do you think about the fact that it has gone viral, what does it

say? Well, it kind of installs a hope about communities and the power

of people who oppose EDL because often we see they are not people we

can relate to. They look aggressive, they look like thugs, whereas when

you see a girl who is quite young getting involved with things like

this, more people are willing to help and support. It has had an

amazing response. Thank you very much for talking to us. Saffiyah

Khan, thank you very much. In 2016 the Government announced

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