20/04/2017

:00:09. > :00:13.It's Thursday, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Joanna Gosling -

:00:14. > :00:17.Jeremy Corbyn comes out fighting on day one of the election campaign.

:00:18. > :00:20.He's says he has every chance of winning and a vote for him

:00:21. > :00:33.Are we going to be a country which works only to make the richest even

:00:34. > :00:37.richer? I know which side I'm on, you know which side you're on, this

:00:38. > :00:41.election is going to be fought on the streets of this country!

:00:42. > :00:44.The Labour leader will make his first speech

:00:45. > :00:46.of the campaign a little later - we'll bring that to you live.

:00:47. > :00:49.And we'll be talking to politicians from all the main parties

:00:50. > :00:56.on mental health this week, we'll speak a group of people

:00:57. > :01:00.preparing to run the London Marathon to raise awareness.

:01:01. > :01:06.It was quite a significant incident, with me wanting to end my life, I

:01:07. > :01:10.thought, I have got to tell him how low and serious things work, for me

:01:11. > :01:14.to get to that point where I thought I could kill myself, basically.

:01:15. > :01:16.And the chat app being blamed for encouraging bullying.

:01:17. > :01:25.We'll be asking if SimSimi should be banned.

:01:26. > :01:28.Hello and welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.

:01:29. > :01:33.Serena Williams has revealed she's 20 weeks pregnant with her first

:01:34. > :01:39.child by sharing this close-up of her growing bump on social media.

:01:40. > :01:42.The tennis star even managed to win the Australian Open in January

:01:43. > :01:44.when she was already about eight weeks pregnant.

:01:45. > :01:46.Pretty impressive - but perhaps you can outdo her?

:01:47. > :01:48.Tell us what you've achieved while pregnant.

:01:49. > :02:00.Does it annoy you if people think you can't do stuff because you're

:02:01. > :02:03.pregnant? Do get in touch on all the stories

:02:04. > :02:06.we're talking about this morning - And if you text, you will be charged

:02:07. > :02:10.at the standard network rate. Jeremy Corbyn will set

:02:11. > :02:13.out his pitch to voters this morning as he tries to become

:02:14. > :02:16.the next Prime Minister. In a speech the Labour leader

:02:17. > :02:19.will say that he'll stand up for the British people

:02:20. > :02:21.who "are the true wealth creators, held back by a system rigged

:02:22. > :02:24.for wealth extractors". Last night on the campaign trail,

:02:25. > :02:27.Theresa May said the public faced a choice between her "strong

:02:28. > :02:29.and stable leadership" Here's our political

:02:30. > :02:31.correspondent Alex Forsyth. The campaigning can start

:02:32. > :02:34.in earnest, now the election date has been set -

:02:35. > :02:37.and the party leaders Jeremy Corbyn's pitch

:02:38. > :02:48.is as the anti-establishment party. He'll promise not

:02:49. > :02:51.to play by the rules, and say Labour will stand up

:02:52. > :02:54.for British people in a system rigged to favour the rich -

:02:55. > :02:57.a message he hinted at it Are we going to be a country

:02:58. > :03:01.that works only to make This election is going to be fought

:03:02. > :03:11.on the streets of this country, up and down, in town halls,

:03:12. > :03:14.in streets, on beaches, Theresa May wants to exploit

:03:15. > :03:21.what she sees as Mr Corbyn's weakness, choosing the Labour-held

:03:22. > :03:28.seat of Bolton for her She said only the Conservatives can

:03:29. > :03:32.deliver the security It's a choice between strong

:03:33. > :03:35.and stable leadership under the Conservatives,

:03:36. > :03:37.or weak and unstable coalition Expect the campaign messages to come

:03:38. > :03:48.thick and fast from every party The race is on, the battle lines

:03:49. > :03:54.drawn - and they know just what's at stake -

:03:55. > :04:05.not just their futures, Our political guru Norman Smith

:04:06. > :04:29.is in Westminster. The thinking of Jeremy Corbyn's team

:04:30. > :04:33.is, that this message worked pretty well in his leadership contests, and

:04:34. > :04:36.they think that maybe out in the electorate, there is a broader move

:04:37. > :04:41.where people just feel fed up with business as usual. They resent the

:04:42. > :04:44.fact that nothing ever seems to change, that the wealthy carry on

:04:45. > :04:49.keeping all the money, and there is an appetite for upheaval, for doing

:04:50. > :04:54.things differently. In a way, you sense, he almost has to do this

:04:55. > :04:57.because the polls suggest Mr Corbyn is so far behind committee can't

:04:58. > :05:03.fight a conventional campaign, he's got to do things differently. The

:05:04. > :05:06.question is whether the rules of the game really have changed, as Mr

:05:07. > :05:12.Corbyn believes, and there is an appetite out there in the country

:05:13. > :05:19.for doing things very differently, four, in Mr Corbyn's words, ripping

:05:20. > :05:21.up the rules. We will have more from Norman later. And also some MPs as

:05:22. > :05:23.well. Annita McVeigh is in the BBC

:05:24. > :05:26.Newsroom with a summary Scientists have discovered

:05:27. > :05:30.drugs which may be able to stop Alzheimer's,

:05:31. > :05:33.Parkinson's and a wide range One of them is already safely given

:05:34. > :05:38.to people with depression. Clinical trials are planned,

:05:39. > :05:40.but the findings so far have been described as exciting,

:05:41. > :05:41.important and potentially There would be a daily

:05:42. > :05:56.dose, basically. We would probably use trazodone

:05:57. > :05:58.first, which is already We cannot cure these things,

:05:59. > :06:03.but if we can stop them in their tracks and change the way

:06:04. > :06:06.they progress, we can radically change the course of the natural

:06:07. > :06:09.history of diseases like Alzheimer's Police may now have to shoot

:06:10. > :06:25.at terrorists who use cars as weapons, a senior

:06:26. > :06:27.officer has said. The national lead for armed

:06:28. > :06:31.policing, Simon Chesterman, said the tactics of armed officers

:06:32. > :06:35.will have to change following a string of attacks

:06:36. > :06:38.involving vehicles. In the past, police have been told

:06:39. > :06:41.not to shoot drivers of moving The Culture Secretary,

:06:42. > :06:47.Karen Bradley, has strongly defended the Conservatives' commitment

:06:48. > :06:51.to aid spending. the Conservatives' commitment

:06:52. > :06:55.to foreign aid spending. Her comments come as Microsoft

:06:56. > :06:58.founder Bill Gates urged the UK to retain its pledge to spend 0.7%

:06:59. > :07:01.of GDP on international aid, saying it was proof

:07:02. > :07:05.of its goodwill and humanity. There's been mounting speculation

:07:06. > :07:11.the pledge could be dropped in the Tory manifesto,

:07:12. > :07:13.with the Prime Minister refusing to commit to it

:07:14. > :07:21.when pressed yesterday. But Karen Bradley said she was proud

:07:22. > :07:25.of the Government's record. I am not here to speculate on what may or may

:07:26. > :07:30.not be in the manifesto. But I voted for the Parliament which put the

:07:31. > :07:32.0.7% into legislation. I am very proud of the record of this

:07:33. > :07:36.government in delivering for those most in need across the world.

:07:37. > :07:38.Britain will be a leading force in that.

:07:39. > :07:41.Debenhams has revealed plans to review the future of ten

:07:42. > :07:45.It is to close 11 of its warehouses, including one of its major

:07:46. > :07:47.distributions centres, which employs more than 200 people.

:07:48. > :07:50.It's part of a turnaround strategy announced by the new chief

:07:51. > :07:54.executive of the chain, which reported a 6.4% fall

:07:55. > :08:00.A 17-year-old Formula 4 driver who was involved in a crash

:08:01. > :08:05.at Donington Park has had both his legs amputated.

:08:06. > :08:08.Billy Monger ran into the back of another car which appeared

:08:09. > :08:11.to have stopped on the track during the race on Sunday.

:08:12. > :08:13.The teenager had to be extracted from his vehicle

:08:14. > :08:19.A JustGiving page set up to raise money for his care has

:08:20. > :08:25.The American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has given a strong

:08:26. > :08:28.indication that America could walk away from the deal with Iran

:08:29. > :08:34.He accused Tehran of "alarming ongoing provocations" and said

:08:35. > :08:40.the deal ignored other serious threats posed by the country.

:08:41. > :08:42.US and South Korean troops are taking part in a military

:08:43. > :08:49.exercise involving aircraft carriers and fighter jets.

:08:50. > :08:51.The government in Washington said the 11-day exercises

:08:52. > :09:04.But tensions are especially high on the Korean peninsula.

:09:05. > :09:06.Of course, that first round in the election on

:09:07. > :09:23.Emmanuel Macron believes in globalisation and the European

:09:24. > :09:28.Union. His closest challenger is the far right leader Marine Le Pen,

:09:29. > :09:29.who's promising a referendum on France's membership of the EU and

:09:30. > :09:40.says she will stop all immigration. One of the most high-profile figures

:09:41. > :09:42.in American television news, Bill O'Reilly, has lost his job over

:09:43. > :09:45.allegations of sexual harassment. His employer, 21st Century Fox,

:09:46. > :09:47.which owns the cable channel Fox News, said he would not be

:09:48. > :09:50.returning from a break. Mr O'Reilly called the allegations

:09:51. > :09:52.against him unfounded. Cycling to work could halve

:09:53. > :09:54.the risk of developing heart disease and cancer,

:09:55. > :09:56.according to new research published today in the

:09:57. > :09:58.British Medical Journal. Scientists at the University

:09:59. > :10:03.of Glasgow, who analysed data from more than 250,000 people,

:10:04. > :10:05.said walking reduced the risk Our reporter Vishala

:10:06. > :10:12.Sri-Pathma has more. The commute to work,

:10:13. > :10:14.for some, is the only Well, for those of us that

:10:15. > :10:19.cycle to the office, Experts from the University of

:10:20. > :10:24.Glasgow say that it reduces the risk of developing cancer

:10:25. > :10:27.and heart disease. In fact, cycling to work

:10:28. > :10:31.is linked to a 45% lower risk of developing cancer,

:10:32. > :10:34.and a 46% lower threat That compares to driving,

:10:35. > :10:41.or even taking public transport. It also means you're less

:10:42. > :10:44.likely to die younger. Walking has its benefits,

:10:45. > :10:46.too, although it's not You have to walk a total of two

:10:47. > :10:54.hours a week at an average speed of 3mph for the health

:10:55. > :10:57.benefits to kick in. So, we need to make it easier

:10:58. > :11:02.for people to cycle. So, we need to increase cycle lanes,

:11:03. > :11:05.we need to have cycle - city hire schemes, subsidised bike

:11:06. > :11:07.schemes, have people have showers at work,

:11:08. > :11:09.so they don't feel sweaty There's a whole host

:11:10. > :11:12.of things to make it easier And if we can do that,

:11:13. > :11:20.we get more people on our bikes, and then we're going to improve

:11:21. > :11:23.public health, just like places like Charities have

:11:24. > :11:26.welcomed the findings. Cancer Research UK says it's

:11:27. > :11:35.evidence that you don't need to join a gym or run the marathon,

:11:36. > :11:39.and that anything that gets you hot and out of breath can help

:11:40. > :11:59.make a difference. You have been getting in touch about

:12:00. > :12:02.Jeremy Corbyn. This one says, we don't deserve Jeremy Corbyn, he's

:12:03. > :12:07.far too clean for politics, having spent decades standing up for

:12:08. > :12:11.ordinary people. This one says, that man's ego will give the Tories

:12:12. > :12:14.another five years in power. Let us know your thoughts as we begin this

:12:15. > :12:16.seven-week election campaign. What would you like to see in the

:12:17. > :12:28.different parties' manifestos? Do get in touch on all the stories

:12:29. > :12:31.we're talking about this morning - And if you text, you will be charged

:12:32. > :12:42.at the standard network rate. Let's catch up with the sport, with

:12:43. > :12:45.John. So, Serena Williams was eight weeks pregnant, it turns out, when

:12:46. > :12:52.she won the Australian Open? Absolutely. She put up this picture,

:12:53. > :12:57.with the caption, saying, 20 weeks. Everybody obviously thought that she

:12:58. > :13:01.was pregnant. It was not confirmed until last night from has bugs

:13:02. > :13:07.person, because she actually took that post down. It's going to be

:13:08. > :13:11.incredible for her, her first child. For tennis fans, a little bit of

:13:12. > :13:15.disappointment, because if you were hoping to see her play at Wimbledon

:13:16. > :13:23.later this year, she won't be, and it is now likely that she will miss

:13:24. > :13:28.the next three Grand Slams. So, has she said when she thinks she might

:13:29. > :13:32.be back on the circuit? Yeah, you wonder, don't you? Incredible that

:13:33. > :13:36.she was possibly eight weeks pregnant when she won the Australian

:13:37. > :13:39.Open earlier this year. Now, of course, she's going to miss the rest

:13:40. > :13:43.of the season. We wonder when she will be back. If it is seven months

:13:44. > :13:47.potentially after the birth of her first child, she could be back for

:13:48. > :13:53.the French Open next year, in 2018. We think that is possible. Victoria

:13:54. > :13:59.Azarenka gave birth to her first child, another top player, in

:14:00. > :14:09.December, and she is targeting an end of July return. So, the French

:14:10. > :14:16.Open would be a possibility for Serena. Under the ranking rules in

:14:17. > :14:20.tennis, as long as she plays in her first tournament within 12 months,

:14:21. > :14:24.she can retain her ranking? Yeah, it's interesting the way it works.

:14:25. > :14:27.She is actually set to return to the top of the rankings, despite having

:14:28. > :14:35.not played since the Australian Open. She has been struggling with

:14:36. > :14:40.an injury. She is going to return to the top of the rankings, and yes,

:14:41. > :14:49.they will freeze that for a certain amount of time. It will be

:14:50. > :14:53.interesting to see. But certainly, fantastic news for Serena Williams,

:14:54. > :15:01.and we will wait to see when she returns to the tour. What do you

:15:02. > :15:04.think? Have you achieved anything particularly notable when you've

:15:05. > :15:08.been pregnant, or does it annoy you when people think that you can't do

:15:09. > :15:24.stuff when you're pregnant? Please get in touch with us.

:15:25. > :15:26.Politicians are wasting no time trying to get your vote.

:15:27. > :15:29.The decision to hold an election will have taken many by surprise,

:15:30. > :15:32.and the relatively short time-scale means the pressure is on to finalise

:15:33. > :15:34.policies and deliver a clear message to voters.

:15:35. > :15:36.Later in the programme we'll hear live from Jeremy Corbyn.

:15:37. > :15:39.He was giving his first speech of the campaign at 10:30am.

:15:40. > :15:41.First here's a look at some of the differences between the two

:15:42. > :15:47.-- he will be giving his first speech of the campaign at 10:30am.

:15:48. > :15:50.It will come as no surprise that the big issues in the general

:15:51. > :15:56.Prime Minister Theresa May will see it as a chance

:15:57. > :15:59.while others will be delighted with the opportunity

:16:00. > :16:03.So, how could the main policy areas play out under Brexit?

:16:04. > :16:09.Expect a revival of the debate over immigration.

:16:10. > :16:11.The Conservatives believe, as part of Brexit, the current system,

:16:12. > :16:15.where EU citizens can move freely between countries, should

:16:16. > :16:16.be replaced so migration can be controlled.

:16:17. > :16:19.Labour also accept that the current system has to go.

:16:20. > :16:22.They say the new one must work for businesses and communities.

:16:23. > :16:24.Ukip has said it's committed to reducing net migration

:16:25. > :16:35.The biggest factor for the economy will be the deal any future prime

:16:36. > :16:43.Theresa May has made clear her view that the UK should withdraw

:16:44. > :16:46.from the single market and seek a new customs arrangement and free

:16:47. > :16:53.Others question whether this could be done in a two-year

:16:54. > :16:57.time frame and protect the interests of businesses.

:16:58. > :17:00.Labour say in any future deal the UK must retain the exact same

:17:01. > :17:02.benefits that membership of the single market

:17:03. > :17:06.Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to be able to decide its own future

:17:07. > :17:12.Her calls for a second referendum have so far fallen on deaf ears,

:17:13. > :17:16.with Theresa May ruling it out before Brexit is completed.

:17:17. > :17:19.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he would be absolutely fine

:17:20. > :17:31.with a second independence referendum in Scotland.

:17:32. > :17:35.An ageing population, staff shortages and claims of low

:17:36. > :17:37.morale amongst employees means the NHS will be a key

:17:38. > :17:41.Opponents have claimed the system is in crisis and have called

:17:42. > :17:44.Mrs May, however, has rejected such claims.

:17:45. > :17:46.Donald Trump's not afraid of hitting the headlines,

:17:47. > :17:49.and the UK's relationship with the US president could be

:17:50. > :17:54.Theresa May has previously invited President Trump

:17:55. > :17:56.here on a state visit, and was pictured

:17:57. > :18:03.Opposition leaders, however, criticised her for her perceived

:18:04. > :18:04.inability to challenge President Trump

:18:05. > :18:11.Theresa May's been keen to cut the welfare bill,

:18:12. > :18:15.with proposed changes to disability benefits being criticised.

:18:16. > :18:18.Other parties will say the most vulnerable in society should be

:18:19. > :18:27.Conservatives will point to a falling unemployment rate,

:18:28. > :18:29.while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has made it clear workers' rights

:18:30. > :18:34.Labour and the Lib Dems will lead the charge campaigning

:18:35. > :18:36.against an education system that they say is

:18:37. > :18:48.Theresa May has made clear her wish for more grammar schools.

:18:49. > :18:50.Clearly, politicians have got their work cut out to put

:18:51. > :19:00.on all these issues, especially in just seven weeks.

:19:01. > :19:08.Well, let's get more from our political guru Norman Smith.

:19:09. > :19:17.Guess what I dug out of my ball control this morning, how sad is

:19:18. > :19:22.that? -- my bottom draw this morning. The manifestos of the four

:19:23. > :19:25.parties at the last election, giving details of everything from rubbish

:19:26. > :19:29.collection to nuclear war. They have not been written yet but we have

:19:30. > :19:33.some idea of what is likely to be in them. Here is my hope Fico the tide

:19:34. > :19:38.of what is likely to be in and out of the two main parties manifesto.

:19:39. > :19:43.Labour first, Jeremy Corbyn, I expect we can expect things on

:19:44. > :19:48.pensions, paid, free school meals. Let me go through that in a bit more

:19:49. > :19:52.detail, pensioners, genomic organ has said he is going to keep the

:19:53. > :19:56.pension lot, which ensures that pensions go up by 2.5% or earnings

:19:57. > :20:05.or inflation, whichever is the greatest. On page, he has pledged to

:20:06. > :20:09.increase the living wage to ?10 an hour, also talking about pay grades

:20:10. > :20:12.of companies so that the boss can only get paid summary times the

:20:13. > :20:17.lowest paid person and free school meals for all family schoolchildren

:20:18. > :20:24.to be paid for by ending the VAT exemption on private school fees.

:20:25. > :20:28.But almost as important as what is in a manifesto is what is written

:20:29. > :20:32.out of manifestos. So let's just take a look at what Mr Corbyn might

:20:33. > :20:41.choose the right out from his manifesto. I think we need to look

:20:42. > :20:44.at immigration. Ed Miliband was imposing various curbs on it,

:20:45. > :20:51.ensuring that migrants are to be here for two years to make sure they

:20:52. > :20:57.can claim. Mr Corbyn saying it is not Labour's aim to end free

:20:58. > :21:03.movement, so that might the bin. What else might? Private health

:21:04. > :21:07.care. Ed Miliband was relaxed about that, he was happy for it to

:21:08. > :21:12.continue, Mr Corbyn much less so. He says he one cigarette of private

:21:13. > :21:15.health care from the National Health Service that might too go in the

:21:16. > :21:21.bin. Those are the sort of ins and outs of the Jeremy Corbyn manifesto.

:21:22. > :21:26.What about Theresa May. What might we expect her to put in her

:21:27. > :21:32.manifesto? Things I expect to see in it, grammar schools, so-called tea

:21:33. > :21:37.levels, and protecting the union. Grammar schools, Mrs May has made no

:21:38. > :21:50.secret she believes there ought to be selection reintroduced for a new

:21:51. > :22:00.generation of youngsters, some one, and the union, she will want a --

:22:01. > :22:04.T-Levels. And the union. However, there are certain key things that I

:22:05. > :22:08.think we can expect and we will be looking very closely to see if

:22:09. > :22:11.Theresa May drugs, particularly things that David Cameron was pretty

:22:12. > :22:23.keen on. What are the areas that could go? Those pension benefits,

:22:24. > :22:26.such as free television licences, guaranteeing the winter fuel

:22:27. > :22:29.allowance, allowing pensioners free travel and looking at triple lock in

:22:30. > :22:34.deciding letters to expensive, because it is thought to cost around

:22:35. > :22:38.?6 billion a year. What else might you? The budget surplus and the

:22:39. > :22:41.deficit. In the Chancellor has already pretty much waved goodbye to

:22:42. > :22:44.George Osborne's commitment of balancing the books by the end of

:22:45. > :22:49.this Parliament and has not given us a fresh trade for balancing those

:22:50. > :22:55.books. Lastly, of course, age. One of the most contentious areas, David

:22:56. > :22:59.Cameron, a very high-profile policy commitment to ensuring that Suroor

:23:00. > :23:02..7% of our total earnings close towards overseas aid. They lot of

:23:03. > :23:06.Conservatives are unhappy about that. Mrs May when pressed about

:23:07. > :23:10.that refused to confirm she would give that so the signs are certain

:23:11. > :23:16.key planks of the Cameron agenda could be dropped by Theresa May. The

:23:17. > :23:21.other interesting thing is that we expect these manifestos to be a lots

:23:22. > :23:27.of the previous ones. We now Mrs May thought David Cameron's manifesto

:23:28. > :23:35.was far too bulky. So she wants to slimming down. As for the other

:23:36. > :23:52.parties, they are in a rush. They're having to write their manifestos.

:23:53. > :23:56.Well, joining me now in the studio are two people who can tell us

:23:57. > :24:00.Sam Tarry used to be a spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn and is in regular

:24:01. > :24:03.And Mark Wallace is executive editor of the influential

:24:04. > :24:04.Tory grassroots website, Conservative Home.

:24:05. > :24:08.Thank you both for joining us. When the parties are considering the

:24:09. > :24:11.manifestos, they will be mindful of the Brexit backdrop and the question

:24:12. > :24:15.as to whether this will be an election fought on traditional

:24:16. > :24:18.battle grounds and party differences or whether remain and levers at the

:24:19. > :24:24.forefront of mines. What is your thoughts on how should tackle that

:24:25. > :24:28.one? I think clearly Brexit will be a huge part of the election.

:24:29. > :24:33.Labour's priority will be what this post Brexit Britain look like. If

:24:34. > :24:38.you compare what the Tories are proposing under before driving a

:24:39. > :24:42.hard Brexit agenda, we don't want to crash out and have World Trade

:24:43. > :24:45.Organisation deals that mean workers get paid less. Talking about triple

:24:46. > :24:50.lock on pensions just a second ago. These sorts of things I think I'm

:24:51. > :24:55.real danger in a hard Brexit. That was him to be careering towards. The

:24:56. > :24:59.fact that Theresa May could not get a seal from a single other European

:25:00. > :25:03.country over the past few weeks, in terms of that initial contact and

:25:04. > :25:09.engagement is pretty frightening. Just to get complete clarity on the

:25:10. > :25:11.hard Brexit community not being part of the single market and

:25:12. > :25:16.prioritising freedom of movement. And I think as well that they have

:25:17. > :25:22.threatened to go for a low tax economy. They will essentially be a

:25:23. > :25:25.Brexit that is not a people's Brexit, a Brexit that benefit

:25:26. > :25:29.everybody global corporation, and I think that people in Britain are a

:25:30. > :25:34.little bit fed up with that. It is about time ordinary people come

:25:35. > :25:37.first. Brexit is the factor without Theresa May does the government

:25:38. > :25:39.would not have come into being, so part of the challenge for prime

:25:40. > :25:43.ministers is that you have to fulfil the fact is in the power that you

:25:44. > :25:49.also have to make sure you have the opportunity to do similar things in

:25:50. > :25:52.between and remember David Cameron never wanted to be the austerity

:25:53. > :25:57.Prime Minister but the financial crisis was the backdrop to him

:25:58. > :26:01.becoming a minister. Theresa May was sitting out a very clear and swift

:26:02. > :26:04.message on exactly she will deliver Brexit but that will also mean with

:26:05. > :26:07.this election it will give her another three years, if she wins,

:26:08. > :26:15.after fulfilling Brexit to develop a wider agenda. She has said about not

:26:16. > :26:20.wanting her hands tied previously by what has happened in Parliament, in

:26:21. > :26:23.terms of having to spell out the Conservative government on Brexit.

:26:24. > :26:27.Those that exactly what will happen now with her having to draw up a

:26:28. > :26:34.manifesto and making clear what the red lines are. She has set out some

:26:35. > :26:39.red lines, since the Conservative Party Conference back in October,

:26:40. > :26:42.and Lancashire house, then when she declared the election, she said we

:26:43. > :26:46.should take back control of our money, our borders and our laws.

:26:47. > :26:50.Those were the three central planks of the vote Leave campaign last

:26:51. > :26:54.year. The interesting thing is that none of that guarantees what you

:26:55. > :26:57.call a low tax Brexit or whatever. What that guarantees is that the

:26:58. > :27:00.British people get from here on out every election how their country

:27:01. > :27:04.should be governed. If we stay in the single market, you don't have

:27:05. > :27:08.control of your immigration policy, you don't have full control of your

:27:09. > :27:13.laws because the European court of justice stays in charge. She is

:27:14. > :27:17.re-establishing our democracy. She is fulfilling Brexit, not harder

:27:18. > :27:20.soft, just the only when there is. Sam, I know you are in regular

:27:21. > :27:26.contact with Jeremy Corbyn, he says bring on this election, is he up the

:27:27. > :27:33.when you talk to him? He is actually pretty fired up. Jeremy is at his

:27:34. > :27:36.element when he's talking to people face-to-face on the doorsteps across

:27:37. > :27:42.written. He had a rough ride in the press. He is really up to this. He

:27:43. > :27:47.is saying, look, we have a crisis, so many elements, the NHS, it is

:27:48. > :27:51.like being back in the 90s, the fag end of the last Tory government, the

:27:52. > :27:57.four lying in hospital trolleys, we have a situation of crisis funding

:27:58. > :28:01.in our schools. I came in today on the tube didn't have to get on

:28:02. > :28:05.Southern Rail. Another absolute disaster overseen by the Tory

:28:06. > :28:09.government. Jeremy will say look, we can't just pretend that Brexit is

:28:10. > :28:14.the only thing this election is about. It is about how do we deal

:28:15. > :28:17.with Brexit but also the crisis in our country? If you have the

:28:18. > :28:21.policies that Goldman has put forward just over the last couple of

:28:22. > :28:25.weeks over the Easter weekend, very much focused on domestic policy. How

:28:26. > :28:29.do you help the 6 million people that are carers at home, how do you

:28:30. > :28:32.actually put more money back into the Exchequer by increasing the

:28:33. > :28:36.minimum wage question Jeremy Corbyn is right, isn't he? Those are the

:28:37. > :28:42.issues that matter to people on a daily basis, what is going on in the

:28:43. > :28:47.NHS, care, schools. Brexit, we have had the debate. It is undoubtedly

:28:48. > :28:49.true that of course all these issues matter, and whoever wins the general

:28:50. > :28:56.election will be in charge, not just for Brexit, but for the whole

:28:57. > :29:00.governments of the nation. We will hear a lot about it. Jeremy Corbyn

:29:01. > :29:05.certainly does have a tough time in the media that he is also giving the

:29:06. > :29:07.Labour Party a tough time on the doorstep, and the big question will

:29:08. > :29:17.be how important is Theresa May you'll feel. By what she called

:29:18. > :29:20.those burning injustices, and how radical can she be as a result of

:29:21. > :29:25.the fact they feel that Labour is not too serious a challenge?

:29:26. > :29:29.Marksaeng that Jeremy Corbyn is a problem for Labour on the doorstep,

:29:30. > :29:34.what are you say to that? Every election is about 650 seats, and a

:29:35. > :29:37.Rossoblu factors. Some people are saying it is a foregone conclusion

:29:38. > :29:40.but I don't think that at all and I think there are an awful lot of

:29:41. > :29:44.things that will take place over the next 50 days. Jeremy's policies are

:29:45. > :29:47.incredibly popular and when people actually go out and speak to people

:29:48. > :29:52.on the doorstep and say we are going to transform your lives, rather than

:29:53. > :29:57.just the broken promises of the Tories. Real practical policies. We

:29:58. > :30:01.need a situation where if we are going into Brexit, we need a serious

:30:02. > :30:05.plan for investment. Where is the investment programme for this

:30:06. > :30:07.government. Jeremy has a plan that says we will rebuild Britain in the

:30:08. > :30:12.interests of ordinary people after Brexit. I think that is something

:30:13. > :30:16.that has resonance with people. Thank you both very much. Keep your

:30:17. > :30:22.thoughts coming in, we have several weeks to go until the election.

:30:23. > :30:25.The BBC has been following ten runners with mental health issues

:30:26. > :30:30.who are taking part in the big race on Sunday for the Princes'

:30:31. > :30:32.charity Heads Together - we will speak to some

:30:33. > :30:34.of them about how it's changed their lives

:30:35. > :30:36.SimSimi is one of the fastest growing apps

:30:37. > :30:41.But is it being used as a tool for bullying?

:30:42. > :30:48.Find out more, a little later on the programme.

:30:49. > :30:57.Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:30:58. > :31:02.Jeremy Corbyn will use his first major speech of the election

:31:03. > :31:06.campaign to argue that he will stand up for the British people against

:31:07. > :31:09.what he calls a rigged the system. He will reject the idea that the

:31:10. > :31:13.outcome of the election is a foregone conclusion. You can watch

:31:14. > :31:16.that speech live on this channel at about half past ten this morning.

:31:17. > :31:19.The Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has strongly defended

:31:20. > :31:21.the Conservatives' commitment to foreign aid spending.

:31:22. > :31:24.Her comments come as the Microsoft founder Bill Gates urged the UK

:31:25. > :31:28.to retain its pledge to spend 0.7% of GDP on international aid,

:31:29. > :31:32.saying it was proof of its goodwill and humanity.

:31:33. > :31:35.There has been speculation the pledge could be dropped

:31:36. > :31:47.Scientists have discovered drugs which may be able

:31:48. > :31:49.to stop Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and a wide range

:31:50. > :31:52.One of them is already safely given to people with depression.

:31:53. > :31:55.Clinical trials are planned, but the findings so far have been

:31:56. > :31:56.described as exciting, important and potentially

:31:57. > :32:04.There would be a daily dose, basically.

:32:05. > :32:07.We would probably use trazodone first, which is already

:32:08. > :32:11.We cannot cure these things, but if we can stop them

:32:12. > :32:14.in their tracks and change the way they progress, we can radically

:32:15. > :32:17.change the course of the natural history of diseases like Alzheimer's

:32:18. > :32:30.Cycling to work could halve the risk of developing

:32:31. > :32:31.heart disease and cancer, according to new research

:32:32. > :32:33.published today in the British Medical Journal.

:32:34. > :32:42.Scientists at the University of Glasgow, who analysed data

:32:43. > :32:45.from more than 250,000 people, said walking reduced the risk

:32:46. > :32:53.Debenhams has revealed plans to review the future of ten

:32:54. > :32:57.It's to close 11 of its warehouses - including one of its major

:32:58. > :32:59.distributions centres, which employs more than 200 people.

:33:00. > :33:02.It's part of a turnaround strategy announced by the new chief

:33:03. > :33:04.executive of the chain, which reported a 6.4% fall

:33:05. > :33:12.That is a summary of the news. More at ten o'clock. Time for the sport,

:33:13. > :33:16.with John. Serena Williams has revealed that

:33:17. > :33:19.she's pregnant with her first child. This is how she told the world -

:33:20. > :33:22.posting a photograph on social media That means she was pregnant

:33:23. > :33:30.when she won the Australian Open in January, a record 23rd

:33:31. > :33:33.Grand Slam title. Andy Murray said he was still

:33:34. > :33:35.feeling a little rusty, his serve especially,

:33:36. > :33:38.after winning his first competitive match after a month out

:33:39. > :33:42.with an elbow injury. He beat Gilles Muller

:33:43. > :33:45.to reach the third round of Lions head coach Warren Gatland has

:33:46. > :33:49.defended his squad selection for this summer's tour

:33:50. > :33:53.to New Zealand. He picked 16 English players,

:33:54. > :33:56.12 Welsh, 11 Irish, but only He's picked Sam Warburton

:33:57. > :33:59.as captain, but Gatland insisted that nationality hadn't come

:34:00. > :34:03.into his thinking. Dylan Hartley was left

:34:04. > :34:09.out of the Lions squad, but he'll captain England

:34:10. > :34:13.in their tour of Argentina. The party also includes

:34:14. > :34:14.rugby league convert And Barcelona are out

:34:15. > :34:20.of the Champions League. Hoping to overturn a 3-0 first leg

:34:21. > :34:23.deficit, it finished goalless with Juventus in last

:34:24. > :34:34.night's second leg. Prince Harry said this week

:34:35. > :34:44.that his life spiralled into chaos after blocking out feelings

:34:45. > :34:45.about his mother's And Prince William admitted he still

:34:46. > :34:52.lives with the shock of losing her. Their openness is all part

:34:53. > :34:55.of their Heads Together campaign, which is encouraging people to have

:34:56. > :34:58.conversations about mental health and this year they're the official

:34:59. > :35:01.charity of the Virgin Money London Tonight, a BBC programme follows

:35:02. > :35:04.a group of 10 runners affected by mental health issues

:35:05. > :35:06.as they prepare for We'll be joined by some

:35:07. > :35:11.of them in a moment, but first, let's see

:35:12. > :35:20.a clip of Prince William I still feel, 20 years later, about

:35:21. > :35:27.my mother, I still have shock within me. People go, shock, it can't last

:35:28. > :35:30.that long, but it does. You never over it, it is such an unbelievably

:35:31. > :35:32.big moment in your life that it never leaves you, you just learn to

:35:33. > :35:34.deal with it. Georgina is one of the runners

:35:35. > :35:36.in the BBC documentary. Here's a short clip of her talking

:35:37. > :35:44.to another runner, Rhian. What do your parents think about you

:35:45. > :35:47.doing this? It took me awhile to tell them exactly what was going on.

:35:48. > :35:53.They knew I was off work but I guess they did not know the depth the

:35:54. > :35:56.reasons. After quite a significant incident, with me wanting to end my

:35:57. > :36:01.life by walking into the sea, I thought, I've got to tell them. I

:36:02. > :36:04.wanted to tell them how low and serious things were, for me to get

:36:05. > :36:05.to that point where I thought I could just easily kill myself,

:36:06. > :36:08.basically. We're joined now by four

:36:09. > :36:10.runners taking part in the Virgin Money London Marathon

:36:11. > :36:12.for Heads Together, Georgina Lloyd-Pugh,

:36:13. > :36:20.Leane Stevenson and Paul and Norman Thank you all of you for coming in.

:36:21. > :36:28.Are you two heading off straightaway? Yeah, ready to go.

:36:29. > :36:32.Yesterday it was in the press, obviously, with Her Royal Highness,

:36:33. > :36:35.it was a great experience. The Royals are so fantastic, this is

:36:36. > :36:39.trailblazing, what's happening. It was very moving to see Prince

:36:40. > :36:43.William talking to the mother who has been through a terrible time,

:36:44. > :36:46.her son died, her husband subsequently took his own life, and

:36:47. > :36:51.she asked him whether her kids would be OK. And it was such a personal

:36:52. > :36:57.response. Have you had these conversations with him as well the?

:36:58. > :37:00.Yeah, personally we met with the Duke last year just before Father's

:37:01. > :37:05.Day, about children in particular, and I spoke about the fact that I

:37:06. > :37:10.had a son who only lived for three weeks. The trauma of that nearly 40

:37:11. > :37:15.years on, it has taken me a good 30 years to get it out and realise how

:37:16. > :37:18.it affected me and he fully improvised with what I was saying. I

:37:19. > :37:22.know where he's coming from, without a doubt. What difference does it

:37:23. > :37:26.make when you have someone like that talking to you? Why was it that you

:37:27. > :37:32.didn't talk for such a very long time? I think probably the era that

:37:33. > :37:37.I grew up through, people didn't talk about things are there wasn't

:37:38. > :37:42.the support me if that is becoming more common today. I'm not saying it

:37:43. > :37:46.is easy to access all the time, but the profile that we now have, with

:37:47. > :37:50.the Royals coming on board, is going to lift this campaign dramatically.

:37:51. > :37:55.And services will be more available, there's so much more going on to get

:37:56. > :37:59.help. People will talk about it. It's a bit like years ago cancer,

:38:00. > :38:04.everybody just so, the big sea. Now people talk about it more openly, it

:38:05. > :38:11.is normalised in its. We saw you in the clip, talking about going to

:38:12. > :38:15.work and saying how bad things had got for you, it must have been

:38:16. > :38:19.tough? That is the first time I have seen that clip, and watching it

:38:20. > :38:23.back, it's quite hard to see where I was, the position I was in, trying

:38:24. > :38:28.to kill myself. But where I am at a now. I am a police officer, with the

:38:29. > :38:34.909 service, there is a lot of stigma and barriers generally around

:38:35. > :38:39.mental health. And for me, no, it's, really, important to say, yes, I am

:38:40. > :38:44.a police officer and I suffer from depression. That is what I want to

:38:45. > :38:51.do. People need to speak whatever they do, whoever they work for, to

:38:52. > :38:56.get help. And you had a conversation with William? I spoke with

:38:57. > :38:59.Catherine. She was absolutely lovely, very down-to-earth, very,

:39:00. > :39:07.very supportive. What the Royals have done around mental health,

:39:08. > :39:14.around Heads Together, is absolutely fantastic, and I echo what Paul and

:39:15. > :39:18.Norman Scates have said. I am the parent of a daughter who suffers

:39:19. > :39:22.with psychosis. As a parent, your child is diagnosed with a mental

:39:23. > :39:27.illness, and I had no idea. Mental illness...? Where do I go, how do I

:39:28. > :39:32.get help, what is a mental illness. I felt helpless and I still do to

:39:33. > :39:35.this day, knowing how to help her, how to look forward, how to

:39:36. > :39:41.encourage her when things are so desperate, when she is so desperate

:39:42. > :39:48.and so no. Doing the marathon is all about talking about mental illness,

:39:49. > :39:52.but it's also enabling people to know how to talk to people with a

:39:53. > :39:56.mental illness. My daughter... When you saw your daughter was

:39:57. > :40:05.struggling, how difficult was it to reach her, was she willing to talk?

:40:06. > :40:08.No. When we knew something was seriously wrong, she had actually

:40:09. > :40:13.stopped talking, so we couldn't talk to her. We had people coming in who

:40:14. > :40:17.were trained to talk to her, and it was only when she was admitted into

:40:18. > :40:22.hospital and we kind of got an understanding of what was going on,

:40:23. > :40:28.then we started trying to understand what she was experiencing, and still

:40:29. > :40:33.to this day, I'm still battling to try and get a complete grasp of

:40:34. > :40:38.living with what she lives with. The only way I can see all trying to

:40:39. > :40:41.make her life easier is to try and educate everybody, and myself around

:40:42. > :40:46.her, how to talk to her, how to make her life easier, because her life,

:40:47. > :40:50.and those with mental illness. It's hard, it's really hard. It is easier

:40:51. > :40:56.to tell someone you're physically sick? And when you say mental

:40:57. > :41:03.illness, people think, I'm going to say the wrong thing, I don't know

:41:04. > :41:06.what to say... Actually, all people need who are suffering with mental

:41:07. > :41:11.illness is someone just to listen. It's the reassurance. What happened

:41:12. > :41:19.to you? I experienced psychosis aged nine. I had great paranoia are

:41:20. > :41:24.people going to kill me so I needed to kill myself before they killed

:41:25. > :41:28.me. It was all, related, I was abused as a child by a so-called

:41:29. > :41:31.family friend, and it's just spiralled. That's why I'm so pleased

:41:32. > :41:36.with what's happening now, because if I see what's going on now, I

:41:37. > :41:41.would have known about the trauma. I was saying yesterday to Leane, we

:41:42. > :41:48.forget about the carers, the people that are around us. And they're a

:41:49. > :41:53.massive resource. I always use the analogy of an oxygen mask, they

:41:54. > :41:56.always say, put it on yourself first before you can help somebody else. I

:41:57. > :42:00.was talking to the Duchess about this, we need to support about

:42:01. > :42:05.psychological interventions, medication is part of it but it does

:42:06. > :42:09.not teach skills, and I want to give people those skills. You have

:42:10. > :42:16.already said that you sort of went back to losing a baby a long time

:42:17. > :42:21.ago, but then being pulled through those difficult times, how did you

:42:22. > :42:25.do it? It is a double whammy, going through that, and then what my son

:42:26. > :42:28.went through, and trying to lift him and bring him through and learning

:42:29. > :42:35.myself along the way, has been a massive learning curve, but it's

:42:36. > :42:41.educating people. I'm still learning myself at 67, trust me! It's clear,

:42:42. > :42:46.if you have been through a lot, and just talking about it, makes you

:42:47. > :42:53.feel emotional even now? Absolutely, you can't be the same, if you have

:42:54. > :42:56.any emotions, you can't not get emotional, because it's so

:42:57. > :43:00.important, when you have a child, and you're dealing with that, and

:43:01. > :43:04.then you get faced with a second child with issues, and you couldn't

:43:05. > :43:08.help the first child, you're now going through it again, with the

:43:09. > :43:15.second, what can you do, how can you get them to open up? I tried lots of

:43:16. > :43:20.different avenues with Paul to let him know, there is nothing you

:43:21. > :43:25.cannot talk about, I will not get irate, I will take it on the chin.

:43:26. > :43:30.And did you then find it easy? I unfortunately did attempt to take my

:43:31. > :43:35.own life, and I broke my back, which is why the marathon for me is

:43:36. > :43:42.massive. Which really difficult, everything about you, and you just

:43:43. > :43:47.don't believe it. For me, I now realise, I just didn't know how to

:43:48. > :43:51.stop the pain. When I talk to them, I say, is it that you want to die,

:43:52. > :43:56.or is it that you want to stop the pain? They say, I want to stop the

:43:57. > :44:00.pain. And how do you deal with that? You process it, you look at

:44:01. > :44:06.strategies, let's be curious to try things, and let's work together.

:44:07. > :44:12.They say, I can't think about that. I say, OK, I understand that. I

:44:13. > :44:16.truly understand, it is unlawful, horrible place to be, but recovery

:44:17. > :44:21.is possible. In some cases, it's inevitable. It's making sure we

:44:22. > :44:26.guide people with the support they need. You were at absolute rock

:44:27. > :44:31.bottom, weren't you? I was, absolutely. Before you got to that

:44:32. > :44:34.stage, because I know you had had a succession of things, your

:44:35. > :44:39.relationship breaking down, IVF had failed, so you had an onslaught. Up

:44:40. > :44:43.until that point, had you ever questioned your mental resilience?

:44:44. > :44:48.Never saw it, never saw it until... By use those three events as my

:44:49. > :44:52.significant triggers. It's only when I look back at my life, through

:44:53. > :44:57.therapy and counselling, I can see that I've been suffering for many

:44:58. > :45:02.years. I have a fear of failure, and for me, I had three massive failures

:45:03. > :45:07.in 12 months. It was the IVF, the relationship raked down and

:45:08. > :45:13.something I'd worked very, very hard for, I had been temporarily promoted

:45:14. > :45:16.to inspector, and I missed out on the process. But when I look back,

:45:17. > :45:23.I'm not surprised, because I was going through these things. For me,

:45:24. > :45:28.it is still a failure, but... Until I went to the GP with a physical

:45:29. > :45:35.ailment and broke down mentally, only then did I take time to digest

:45:36. > :45:39.and to think and to reflect on my life, to think, OK, I've been

:45:40. > :45:44.suffering maybe since GCSEs, through college, through university. I've

:45:45. > :45:50.always achieved and done very well and I don't want to sound big

:45:51. > :45:55.headed, but it's been described as, it's not a personality disorder, but

:45:56. > :46:00.it is my type of personality, and I can't adjust to certain situations.

:46:01. > :46:04.So if something wrong or something bad happens, I find it very

:46:05. > :46:08.difficult to turn it around. Briton which I mean is pretty normal. We

:46:09. > :46:15.get used to our lives being one-way, something changes.

:46:16. > :46:22.It sounds like a spoiled child analogy. No it doesn't, it sounds

:46:23. > :46:26.like you are normal! It took me to stand on a beach in the middle of

:46:27. > :46:29.South Wales to really understand what I was going to. I had to ring

:46:30. > :46:34.my own police force can something another thought I would ever do, for

:46:35. > :46:38.help. I didn't know the number, I had to Google the number of my own

:46:39. > :46:41.police force, and I knew then the following day I had to come out to

:46:42. > :46:45.my parents, as it were, and say this is what has happened, this is where

:46:46. > :46:49.I have been a litter is where I am going. Thankfully I am still here, I

:46:50. > :46:54.am sitting here, I have got a marathon to run, which I'm kind of

:46:55. > :46:56.forgetting about on Sunday, and I have support from family, friends,

:46:57. > :47:02.people through social media, people I work with, it is immense. Are you

:47:03. > :47:05.now completely opened up and be believe you have a problem to say,

:47:06. > :47:11.actually, I'm just struggling, nothing other than that. Yes, people

:47:12. > :47:14.kind of know me, and for a long time I stepped back, I isolated myself, I

:47:15. > :47:18.didn't want to go out, didn't want to speak to people, didn't want to

:47:19. > :47:23.go to coffee shops, just leave me alone. I didn't want answer the

:47:24. > :47:27.phone, didn't want to text, came off social media because I didn't want

:47:28. > :47:32.to see happy lives. Now I am on the road to recovery, and I am doing the

:47:33. > :47:41.mind of a marathon programme and doing Tabb meeting remarkable

:47:42. > :47:43.people. -- Mind Over Marathon. Would you like to be the case that

:47:44. > :47:46.everybody could be very straightforward about what they are

:47:47. > :47:51.going through, perhaps rather than blaming it on something else are not

:47:52. > :47:57.talking about it? Absolutely, and we have been campaigning for so long,

:47:58. > :48:01.having NHS practitioners working in schools. Like you have open

:48:02. > :48:05.surgeries, we can't expect a geography teacher to teach mental

:48:06. > :48:08.health, it is not their area of expertise will stop so having open

:48:09. > :48:13.surgeries where people can go and talk, and be guided. Than to have

:48:14. > :48:16.open surgeries for parents. When children go into services, sometimes

:48:17. > :48:20.they come back into school and the school are not guided as to how to

:48:21. > :48:24.bring their child back in and they have had time off and they have

:48:25. > :48:28.missed stuff. Like you talk about your physical health. Running saved

:48:29. > :48:32.my life, as it has for a lot of other people. I became Forest Gump,

:48:33. > :48:35.and while I was Forest Gump I didn't have to deal with the noise in my

:48:36. > :48:42.head and that is how I learn the skill of mindfulness. I could do the

:48:43. > :48:45.practical. And then I had to learn the breathing and stuff. Life is a

:48:46. > :48:50.box of chocolates. We don't know what we will get. Did you speak to

:48:51. > :48:54.the Royals? I did come I was lucky enough to speak with Prince Harry

:48:55. > :49:02.when I went and did the training day back in March, and then I spoke with

:49:03. > :49:07.cake yesterday, who was just lovely. What impact it using their

:49:08. > :49:12.involvement in this will have? If your daughter had heard them talking

:49:13. > :49:17.all the time ago DVD would have made a difference? It would have. They

:49:18. > :49:20.would have been OK to say mum, I don't know what is going on in my

:49:21. > :49:23.head, I have got a voice, I don't know what to do because it would

:49:24. > :49:27.have been OK to talk about it. She may not have taught me everything

:49:28. > :49:30.but I think she could have started the commerce session and I would

:49:31. > :49:34.have had a little bit of a heads up before it got so extreme. So the

:49:35. > :49:40.Royals, I don't think you can actually quantify what they are

:49:41. > :49:44.doing with heads together. They have such a high standing within the

:49:45. > :49:52.world that what they do and what they represent, it gives a kudos on

:49:53. > :49:56.the right way. It has been an absolute pleasure. These are not

:49:57. > :50:04.fashion accessories. This is for you. I will put it on later. Thank

:50:05. > :50:09.you, everybody. It really has been a pleasure to have you in, good luck

:50:10. > :50:13.with it all. If you want to watch the documentary, it is on the night,

:50:14. > :50:19.well worth watching, Mind Over Marathon, a 2-part series on BBC One

:50:20. > :50:20.at 9pm. Coming up, a general election is looming, if you hadn't

:50:21. > :50:25.realised. It is the first full day of

:50:26. > :50:32.campaigning for the party leaders and we will speak to a batch of some

:50:33. > :50:35.of the new intake of empties Tabb MPs elected just two years ago to

:50:36. > :50:40.get their take on events at Westminster for Sabella have pretty

:50:41. > :50:46.healthy majority so maybe not so much to fear as some MPs to. But we

:50:47. > :50:59.will be talking to them about what they want when they knock on doors.

:51:00. > :51:02.There have been calls for a chatbot app known as SimSimi to be removed

:51:03. > :51:04.from app stores and "banned" in the UK.

:51:05. > :51:07.Campaigners say the automated app can be "taught" to respond

:51:08. > :51:10.with offensive and explicit comments when certain words are typed in -

:51:11. > :51:12.and that children are using it to anonymously bully others online.

:51:13. > :51:14.The app was suspended in Ireland last month.

:51:15. > :51:17.An online petition in the UK has nearly 50,000 signatures.

:51:18. > :51:19.We can speak now to Liam Hackett, CEO of anti-bullying

:51:20. > :51:22.And Kayla Gill, who's 17 years old and has

:51:23. > :51:31.Thank you very much for coming in. You had better explain first of all,

:51:32. > :51:36.Liam, what Sim Simi is full stop it is not widely known or particularly

:51:37. > :51:41.widely used at the moment, is it? It started ten years ago and it is very

:51:42. > :51:45.big in Asia. That is an apt that you download to your phone, it looks

:51:46. > :51:49.like an instant messenger but instead of a human being responding,

:51:50. > :51:57.it is a robot. What happens on the app other users decide what is said,

:51:58. > :52:05.based on keywords. A lot of people are using the app to be really

:52:06. > :52:10.defamatory. It is saying whatever somebody else has told to say. It is

:52:11. > :52:20.a way of programming a blank canvas. When you say it is happening, how

:52:21. > :52:25.widespread? It is not a huge issue, I know Ireland have banned it, but

:52:26. > :52:30.people are downloading it at quite an alarming pace. What is quite

:52:31. > :52:33.unique about this is the sense that they don't really have any sort of

:52:34. > :52:37.moderation. Radu much anyone can download this app and put whatever

:52:38. > :52:41.they want to say about anyone else on there. This is completely

:52:42. > :52:47.anonymous, and those comments aren't moderated. I have been on the ten

:52:48. > :52:50.one quite a few times since I knew we would talking about it today, to

:52:51. > :52:54.put in some of the key phrase is being raised, such as I am being

:52:55. > :53:04.bullied, and there are claims that the ten one will report -- it will

:53:05. > :53:12.respond something pretty bad. Is it possible that the makers on top of

:53:13. > :53:15.this now. It is a random generation. We have searched "Suicide", for

:53:16. > :53:19.example, and some of the comments are supportive, saying you should

:53:20. > :53:23.get help, whereas others are encouraging that kind of behaviour,

:53:24. > :53:26.so it is a random generation based on what people have programmed. Some

:53:27. > :53:31.of it is positive, some of it is very graphic and sexual, not

:53:32. > :53:34.something 13-year-old kids should be reading. We wanted banned. Think all

:53:35. > :53:38.the terms and conditions on things like the App Store and who will

:53:39. > :53:44.play, it violates those terms and conditions. Id say it is over 17 is,

:53:45. > :53:51.though. But kids are using it, 13 plus. Kayla, you have experienced

:53:52. > :53:56.online bullying, not with Sim Simi, but tell us what happened to you.

:53:57. > :54:00.You are 17, aren't you? Yeah, I have been bullied since I was a little

:54:01. > :54:03.kid, but it was up until I was about 11, it was the kind of thing that

:54:04. > :54:08.once you had gotten home, you could get over it. The weekend has come,

:54:09. > :54:12.you know, it is the end of the day, I am done with it now. But around

:54:13. > :54:15.the time I started secondary school, the internet was becoming a lot more

:54:16. > :54:26.popular and a lot more accessible amongst people my age. So you can't

:54:27. > :54:32.get away from it. Things that started on the internet would spread

:54:33. > :54:37.into real life. So there was no escape for me anywhere. People who

:54:38. > :54:42.are not in that kind of team world of being immersed in social media --

:54:43. > :54:47.teen world might think why not ignore it? How consuming as sitcom

:54:48. > :54:54.how difficult is it to just the way? I get that a lot sometimes, but it

:54:55. > :54:58.is not that simple. It is the way of communicating. It is a massive way

:54:59. > :55:02.of communicating, it is being in the social circle with your friends,

:55:03. > :55:05.because the internet can do a lot of good things. Like, I have friends

:55:06. > :55:09.that live in other countries that I only made very rarely in person, and

:55:10. > :55:16.yet I talk to them that way through the internet. Without it, the prices

:55:17. > :55:24.for overseas calling, it is just not flexible. If I deleted all of my app

:55:25. > :55:28.today, I'm still left with the after-effect of things that once you

:55:29. > :55:31.have been harassed or upset on the internet, it is still a lingering

:55:32. > :55:35.effect. Just because you are off into dozens of other people talking

:55:36. > :55:40.about you being on the internet and bleeding into real life. That is not

:55:41. > :55:44.as capable. What impact has the sad? I am quite an anxious person now,

:55:45. > :55:47.which is a real shame, I am often worried when I go on the internet, I

:55:48. > :55:53.am much more cautious but not necessarily in a way. I get quite

:55:54. > :55:56.panicky, sometimes I have anxiety attacks, are my friends talking

:55:57. > :56:00.about me? I have not been online for a few hours, maybe they decide that

:56:01. > :56:02.they hate me. Maybe I have had people where I thought I have been

:56:03. > :56:06.really close to them and they have started saying awful things behind

:56:07. > :56:11.my back that started on the internet as a private chat, but has then

:56:12. > :56:17.spread into pages that have spread into hashtags, that have spread into

:56:18. > :56:21.real life. And it has just made me much more scared of being able to

:56:22. > :56:24.communicate with people when in reality the internet is a good place

:56:25. > :56:27.to communicate. That is just you need to be a bit more cautious about

:56:28. > :56:33.what you say, and how to deal with things. Have you found ways of

:56:34. > :56:39.managing it now? I have people I can talk to, which is helpful. I used to

:56:40. > :56:43.have a counsellor that they randomly got me a few months ago and they

:56:44. > :56:46.have not been able to contact us, which is a shame, because a lot of

:56:47. > :56:48.people need help with these things was that that is not just me

:56:49. > :56:51.experiencing it, I have had friends that have an awful things to

:56:52. > :56:56.themselves because of it, because of comments they have received. Because

:56:57. > :57:01.of online bullying? They have posted some very not very nice things about

:57:02. > :57:05.themselves, and plans to do to themselves, if that makes sense. And

:57:06. > :57:09.I have had people commenting, I have seen people commenting saying, do

:57:10. > :57:14.it, chicken, coward, you deserve it, and it is just awful. I think the

:57:15. > :57:18.issue with the internet is you will get people saying, it is just a

:57:19. > :57:21.joke, leave the internet alone, it is going to happen, when in reality

:57:22. > :57:24.you need control and you need to know how to deal with these things

:57:25. > :57:27.yourself and a other people because otherwise you will just climb up

:57:28. > :57:32.because you think it is the internet, have to ignore it, but it

:57:33. > :57:38.it away at you. What is the answer? Huge pressures on kids. As Kayla is

:57:39. > :57:41.saying, they will not step away because it is the way of

:57:42. > :57:46.communicating. How does this get addressed? It can be very

:57:47. > :57:49.overwhelming. At which the label we feel it is very important to try to

:57:50. > :57:54.understand the reasons why people are being so abusive and unkind. We

:57:55. > :57:59.have researched the show that kids who are going through stress or

:58:00. > :58:05.trauma at home are far more likely to: Billy another person. That is

:58:06. > :58:13.about understanding those root issues and looking at how we can

:58:14. > :58:17.overcome those issues. But we keep kids access to this world of

:58:18. > :58:21.information from a very early age that they are not taught skills that

:58:22. > :58:27.they need, they are not taught Digital citizenship at school and

:58:28. > :58:30.they should be. The internet is a big and fast place with an infinite

:58:31. > :58:33.amount of opportunity and threats and kids are not being taught how to

:58:34. > :58:45.navigate those properly. Latest news summary coming up in

:58:46. > :58:48.just a few moments. If you want to get in touch, hashtag Victoria Line

:58:49. > :58:53.Tube now let's catch up with the weather with Matt.

:58:54. > :59:04.A good variety of weather contrasts, sunshine captured in Suffolk. Quite

:59:05. > :59:14.a chilly start in Essex and a touch of frost. Plenty of cloud around.

:59:15. > :59:19.Parts of Devon, Cornwall, East Anglia the south-east. The sunshine

:59:20. > :59:23.will give way to something a bit cloudy. There will be Brexit McLeod.

:59:24. > :59:29.The post of those breaks, the islands, eastern parts of northern

:59:30. > :59:34.Ireland and to the east of Scotland. We could see highs of around 16 or

:59:35. > :59:43.even 17 this afternoon. The West of Scotland with stay cloudy. Not paid

:59:44. > :59:51.yesterday. The skies will brighten a touch across northern England. We

:59:52. > :59:56.have seen some drizzle across Wales. It fragments into one or two showers

:59:57. > :00:00.across southern England but they are few in number, mostly dry, staying a

:00:01. > :00:06.bit chilly in some spots across the South. Into tonight, the breeze

:00:07. > :00:13.continues to be a bit blurry without breaks of rain, and a few showers. A

:00:14. > :00:20.fair amount of cloud around, some mist patches. It will be a chilly

:00:21. > :00:26.start, Debbie Dan Cole, in the Hebrides and Auckland and Shetland.

:00:27. > :00:30.A better day across Scotland, particularly to the west of higher

:00:31. > :00:35.ground. Showers into Northern Ireland and northern England. South

:00:36. > :00:40.of that thickening cloud, temperatures on the rise compared

:00:41. > :00:47.with today. 17, 18, maybe 19 degrees. That cold air works its way

:00:48. > :00:50.southwards across the UK through Friday night into Saturday, the

:00:51. > :00:53.start of the weekend, high pressure in charge, and much rain around,

:00:54. > :01:02.only a few showers from the tail end. Sunny spells, the best of the

:01:03. > :01:05.sunshine in the West, and feeling a little bit more pleasant after a

:01:06. > :01:10.chilly start. Warmer in the Sunday because the winds are still coming

:01:11. > :01:13.into the Atlantic, especially in the south. A dry day for the London

:01:14. > :01:16.Marathon, temperatures in the mid teens but telling increasingly wet

:01:17. > :01:20.and windy across Scotland through the day. As the wet and windy

:01:21. > :01:24.weather pushes into northern Europe, cold air the next week, T-shirt and

:01:25. > :01:30.shorts weather it certainly won't be.

:01:31. > :01:37.Jeremy Corbyn says he's going to rip up the rules,

:01:38. > :01:46.overturn a rigged system and win this election for the people.

:01:47. > :01:51.Regan to be a country which works only to make the richest even

:01:52. > :01:55.richer? I know which side I'm on, you know which side you're on. This

:01:56. > :01:59.election is going to be fought on the streets of this country.

:02:00. > :02:00.The Labour leader makes his first speech of the campaign

:02:01. > :02:04.in about half an hour's time - we'll bring that to you live.

:02:05. > :02:06.And we'll be talking to politicians from all the main parties

:02:07. > :02:10.French voters also face an election this year.

:02:11. > :02:12.With the far right Front National party polling strongly, some people

:02:13. > :02:15.are considering what a win for party leader Marine Le Pen

:02:16. > :02:29.There's actually somebody who doesn't want people like me in this

:02:30. > :02:32.country, even though I am French and born in France.

:02:33. > :02:34.We'll be speaking to voters in France, ahead of a presidential

:02:35. > :02:39.Tennis star Serena Williams confirms she is pregnant

:02:40. > :02:49.She is promising it will not be the end of her career. More on that

:02:50. > :02:56.shortly. Here's Annita McVeigh

:02:57. > :03:00.in the BBC Newsroom The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:03:01. > :03:04.will use his first major speech of the election campaign to argue

:03:05. > :03:06.that he will stand up for the British people

:03:07. > :03:08.against what he calls Mr Corbyn will reject the idea

:03:09. > :03:14.that the outcome of the election Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has

:03:15. > :03:18.strongly defended the Conservatives' Her comments come as the Microsoft

:03:19. > :03:25.founder Bill Gates urged the UK to retain its pledge to spend 0.7%

:03:26. > :03:29.of GDP on international aid, saying it was proof

:03:30. > :03:33.of its goodwill and humanity. There has been speculation

:03:34. > :03:36.the pledge could be dropped in the Tory manifesto,

:03:37. > :03:47.but Ms Bradley said she was proud The manifesto will be published in

:03:48. > :03:51.due course and we can debate what is in the manifesto at that point. I am

:03:52. > :03:54.not here to spec you late on what might be in the manifesto. But I

:03:55. > :03:59.voted for the active parliament which put the 0.7% in the

:04:00. > :04:01.legislation. I'm very proud of the record of this government in

:04:02. > :04:04.delivering for those most in need across the world, and Britain will

:04:05. > :04:07.always be a leading force in that. And at 11.30 we'll be

:04:08. > :04:11.answering your Election 2017 questions with Professor

:04:12. > :04:14.of Politics John Curtice and BBC Newsbeat's political

:04:15. > :04:15.correspondent Eleanor Roper - you can get in touch

:04:16. > :04:26.using the #BBCAskThis. Scientists have discovered

:04:27. > :04:28.drugs which may be able to stop Alzheimer's,

:04:29. > :04:30.Parkinson's and a wide range One of them is already safely given

:04:31. > :04:35.to people with depression. Clinical trials are planned,

:04:36. > :04:38.but the findings so far have been described as exciting,

:04:39. > :04:40.important and potentially Cycling to work could halve the risk

:04:41. > :04:50.of developing heart disease and cancer according to new research

:04:51. > :04:52.published today in the Scientists at the University

:04:53. > :04:57.of Glasgow, who analysed data from more than 250,000 people,

:04:58. > :04:59.said walking reduced the risk Debenhams has revealed plans

:05:00. > :05:06.to review the future of ten including one of its major

:05:07. > :05:13.distributions centres, which employs It's part of a turnaround strategy

:05:14. > :05:19.announced by the new chief executive of the chain,

:05:20. > :05:21.which reported a 6.4% fall A 17-year-old Formula 4 driver

:05:22. > :05:29.who was involved in a crash at Donington Park has had

:05:30. > :05:33.both his legs amputated. A JustGiving page set up to raise

:05:34. > :05:37.money for Billy Monger's care has The teenager ran into the back

:05:38. > :05:45.of another car which appeared to have stopped on the track

:05:46. > :05:57.during the race on Sunday. More news at half past ten. We are

:05:58. > :06:03.expecting to hear from Jeremy Corbyn actually at half past ten his first

:06:04. > :06:10.speech of the election campaign. Let us know your thoughts on the

:06:11. > :06:17.election, seven weeks away. It was unexpected, of course, but here it

:06:18. > :06:28.is, two years after the election in 2015, we're faced with another one.

:06:29. > :06:31.Time to catch up with the sport. As we've been hearing on the programme,

:06:32. > :06:37.Serena Williams has revealed that she's pregnant with her child. She

:06:38. > :06:41.told the world via social media, with the caption, 20 weeks. With the

:06:42. > :06:44.baby due in the autumn, she will be missing the next three Grand Slams,

:06:45. > :06:49.but could potentially return for the French Open next year. That would be

:06:50. > :07:00.four months before her 37th birthday. No plans to retire,

:07:01. > :07:04.though. Andy Murray says he was not fixed acting to serve quite so badly

:07:05. > :07:07.as he did at the start of his match against Gilles Muller in the Monte

:07:08. > :07:11.Carlo Masters. He won what was his first competitive match after a

:07:12. > :07:21.month out with an elbow injury. He admitted he only started serving at

:07:22. > :07:23.full speed four or five days ago. Elsewhere, British number three Kyle

:07:24. > :07:31.Edmund pushed defending jumpy and Rafa Nadal to a deciding set on the

:07:32. > :07:43.clay, which is no mean feat, against the man who has got such an

:07:44. > :07:45.incredible record on the surface. The British and Irish Lions coach

:07:46. > :07:51.Warren Gatland has named his squad for the tour to New Zealand. The

:07:52. > :07:55.first match could see Gatland coming up against a familiar face, his son,

:07:56. > :08:00.who has been picked in the provincial barbarians squad for the

:08:01. > :08:02.opening game of the tour. Gatlin senior played for a victorious New

:08:03. > :08:10.Zealand side in the 1993 series against the Lions. The beauty is

:08:11. > :08:13.that both him and myself will have played against the Lions. The

:08:14. > :08:21.unfortunate thing is, only one of us will of won. So, look, if he's

:08:22. > :08:26.involved and he's playing, it is great for him. He won't get any

:08:27. > :08:30.special favours from me, I can promise you that. But it's going to

:08:31. > :08:34.be hard for him, because he's going to be playing against the Lions, and

:08:35. > :08:38.the next day, is going to be putting the Lions jersey on and supporting

:08:39. > :08:40.us. There was plenty to talk about regarding the selection for the

:08:41. > :08:46.squad. One of those missing out is Dylan Hartley, the England captain.

:08:47. > :08:50.He will nevertheless be captain England on their tour of Argentina.

:08:51. > :08:53.Eddie Jones has named 15 uncapped players in the party, including

:08:54. > :08:58.Denny Solomona, who declared himself available for England last month

:08:59. > :09:01.after completing his three year residency period. He controversially

:09:02. > :09:07.left rugby league side Castleford and switched codes to join Sale in

:09:08. > :09:11.December. Barcelona forward Neymar was reduced to tears after they were

:09:12. > :09:15.not out of the quarterfinals of the Champions League last night by

:09:16. > :09:20.Juventus. This was the best of the action. Messi had the best chance of

:09:21. > :09:27.the game. They were attempting to overturn a 3-0 first leg visit. But

:09:28. > :09:31.if you thought it was all about the money these days, have a look at the

:09:32. > :09:37.expression there from the Brazilian forward - devastated, as his side

:09:38. > :09:41.exited the competition. And that's the sport for now. I will have

:09:42. > :09:45.another update for you at about half past ten. There is a caveat which we

:09:46. > :09:49.are expecting to hear from Jeremy Corbyn at half ten as well. So we

:09:50. > :09:58.may or may not have the sport at that time. Of course, a snap

:09:59. > :10:02.election has been called. How does that feel if you were just elected

:10:03. > :10:06.for the first time two years ago? We are joined now by some of the MPs

:10:07. > :10:15.who were just elect did in 2015, expecting to be there until 2020

:10:16. > :10:27.because of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. We can speak now to

:10:28. > :10:30.Germansweek, MP for Checquerbent. Reichelt, MP for Melandri.

:10:31. > :10:33.Schoenfelder, MP for Kretzschmar. And also by the President for the

:10:34. > :10:38.Liberal Democrats. Thank you joining us. Are you relishing the thought of

:10:39. > :10:41.going to the country again, two years on? Well, I've already been

:10:42. > :10:48.out for reaching times in woodgrain and Muswell Hill, and all of over my

:10:49. > :10:52.constituency and I think people really do want to have a debate, not

:10:53. > :10:55.just about Brexit but also about public services, the National Health

:10:56. > :11:00.Service, the cuts to our schools, the first cuts in 30 years to our

:11:01. > :11:03.schools, cuts the councils, meaning that some of the basics we have

:11:04. > :11:08.already accepted from councils, like the roads and other things, we might

:11:09. > :11:11.actually be able to address some of those issues. What is top of the

:11:12. > :11:18.list when you're talking to people? There is a sense, that this is going

:11:19. > :11:23.to be about Brexit? Well, I think the NHS is coming up a lot,

:11:24. > :11:27.actually. Older people are very worried about that. And younger

:11:28. > :11:30.people who might be carers for older people as well. They're worried

:11:31. > :11:35.about how long-term care will be funded. And also for families, which

:11:36. > :11:39.we have a lot of, and worrying about schools and the first cuts to

:11:40. > :11:44.schools in 30 years - that's very, very worrying indeed. Oliver Dowden,

:11:45. > :11:49.what do you think is a big priority? Firstly, we don't want to have an

:11:50. > :11:52.election for an election's sake, there is an important reason for

:11:53. > :11:57.holding this election. What has become clear, if you look at the

:11:58. > :12:00.course of the bill for the Prime Minister to invoke Article 50, she

:12:01. > :12:04.needs a clearer mandate, she needs a direct mandate from the British

:12:05. > :12:09.people to achieve what she wants in the negotiations are. As far as

:12:10. > :12:11.you're concerned, Brexit is absolutely the main consideration

:12:12. > :12:16.that people should be thinking about? No, actually I think it is

:12:17. > :12:18.wider than that. I think it's about leadership, I think the Prime

:12:19. > :12:21.Minister has demonstrated the leadership this country needs, and

:12:22. > :12:26.she needs a mandate in Parliament to deliver on that. But for somebody to

:12:27. > :12:30.get a clear mandate, there needs to be absolute clarity on what the

:12:31. > :12:33.party would do, how the party sees the country after Brexit? And that's

:12:34. > :12:36.exactly what the Prime Minister has set out in her speech and in her

:12:37. > :12:42.white paper. In the election there's going to be contrast think between

:12:43. > :12:46.the Prime Minister Putin shown that leadership, and the danger we

:12:47. > :12:50.have... The danger we heard just yesterday is that you have the

:12:51. > :12:52.Liberal Democrats, Labour and the SNP, in a so-called progressive

:12:53. > :12:56.coalition, which will put the country at risk. Labour have said

:12:57. > :13:01.they wouldn't talk about being part of a coalition at this stage, they

:13:02. > :13:06.fell into that trap before. Let's bring in Ian Blackford, SNP MP for

:13:07. > :13:09.Ross, Skye and Lochaber full so how do you feel about going out and

:13:10. > :13:13.having to get people to vote again, just two years on? I am looking

:13:14. > :13:16.forward to it. We have got a very popular Scottish Government in

:13:17. > :13:20.Edinburgh. It is quite galling when you see the Prime Minister doing

:13:21. > :13:23.this from our own personal advantage, she knows the Labour

:13:24. > :13:26.Party are weak, it is about demonstrating her dominance over

:13:27. > :13:30.Labour in England, calling an election at a time when she has said

:13:31. > :13:33.to the people in Scotland, now is not the time for a Scottish

:13:34. > :13:36.referendum. And that's a referendum which has been supported by the

:13:37. > :13:40.Scottish Parliament, which voted for that. This is about making sure that

:13:41. > :13:44.we're actually not dragged out of Europe against our will, and knowing

:13:45. > :13:52.that there is a real threat to the Scottish economy. So, we want to

:13:53. > :13:55.make sure that we support what the Scottish Government has been doing,

:13:56. > :13:59.which is asking for a referendum on our future, which will take place

:14:00. > :14:01.after the Brexit negotiations. We'll be reinforcing that call over the

:14:02. > :14:06.course of this election campaign, and I certainly look forward to

:14:07. > :14:15.having that discussion with all the people of my constituency. Baroness

:14:16. > :14:17.Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats, are you hoping that

:14:18. > :14:20.either Liberal Democrats' Clearview about Brexit, that there might be a

:14:21. > :14:27.resurgence for the party, who suffered terribly just two years

:14:28. > :14:31.ago? 2015 was not a good year for us at all. We recognise that. We are

:14:32. > :14:35.very clear already from the reception we have had on the

:14:36. > :14:39.streets, 5000 people have joined the party since Theresa May made that

:14:40. > :14:42.announcement, which is an astonishing number, we are very,

:14:43. > :14:48.very clear that we will continue to be the only UK-wide party that is

:14:49. > :14:55.going to fight against a hard Brexit . Oliver spoke about certain things,

:14:56. > :15:00.we know that a good... The red line on immigration? We absolutely want

:15:01. > :15:04.to avoid a hard Brexit. We are very, very sure that there is well over

:15:05. > :15:08.50% of people who want us to have a key role in the single market, so

:15:09. > :15:11.we're going to be fighting for that. But we would also agree that the NHS

:15:12. > :15:18.remains a major issue. As to schools. That's why we will be the

:15:19. > :15:20.party, through Norman Lamb in the House of Commons, who will be

:15:21. > :15:23.fighting for an independent commission which the Government

:15:24. > :15:27.refused to set up, to look at the future funding of the NHS. We

:15:28. > :15:31.believe we have to have more funding in this area. We saw massive cuts to

:15:32. > :15:36.social care, which was the beginning of the NHS crisis. I want to get

:15:37. > :15:41.from you, what you want Jeremy Corbyn to say on Brexit. You

:15:42. > :15:46.campaigned to remain, your constituency, I right in saying, had

:15:47. > :15:52.the highest remained vote in the country? 81%, yes. I did not vote

:15:53. > :15:56.for the triggering of Article 50. But I think that by voting Labour,

:15:57. > :16:01.we get to have an opportunity to talk about fairness in society,

:16:02. > :16:06.firstly... Briton if you look at Labour voters, seven out of ten

:16:07. > :16:08.Labour voters in the referendum voted for Remained. Jeremy Corbyn

:16:09. > :16:24.tried to do more to... Labour was the only party then said

:16:25. > :16:30.we did not want the referendum. Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have come and

:16:31. > :16:33.gone. The referendum happened, but what he could do is offer another

:16:34. > :16:39.referendum. Would you like to do that? That has not been ruled out

:16:40. > :16:43.and I did myself vote for that possibility, but I think what

:16:44. > :16:46.matters is how could Labour reset the agenda? Because regardless of

:16:47. > :16:51.what happens with Brexit, what people care about is not the word

:16:52. > :16:53.Brexit, they can about workers' rights, environmental protections,

:16:54. > :17:01.they care about small business, the fact that taxes paid by companies

:17:02. > :17:05.that sell into the online sale, and there is 1.5 billion tax pounds

:17:06. > :17:10.missing. That is the sort of thing people care about. Do we all have an

:17:11. > :17:13.opportunity here to have an election campaign, a condensed one, seven

:17:14. > :17:20.weeks, because we have and have the run-up we would normally get, and

:17:21. > :17:24.have a really strongly fact -based debate. When you look at the

:17:25. > :17:27.referendum campaign, you think it is fair for voters to feel a bit

:17:28. > :17:32.scarred by some of what happened there? I wasn't happy with a lot of

:17:33. > :17:35.the way that the referendum was conducted. There were exaggerated

:17:36. > :17:39.claims on both sides, but I think we have moved beyond that and the real

:17:40. > :17:43.question for this election is, can we give the Prime Minister the

:17:44. > :17:46.mandate she needs in the national interest to get the best possible

:17:47. > :17:50.deal? Catherine was talking about having a second referendum. I think

:17:51. > :17:53.that would be absolutely disastrous, not only because we would be saying

:17:54. > :17:57.to the British people with heart like the result we want to go back,

:17:58. > :18:00.but secondly in those negotiations the incentive would be for the

:18:01. > :18:04.commission, for the other countries, to get the worst possible deal to

:18:05. > :18:09.try and make Brexit look awful for this country. I do not think that

:18:10. > :18:13.would be national interest. I just wanted to say it is very clear that

:18:14. > :18:17.Labour is still completely split on the position about Europe. Brexit is

:18:18. > :18:20.very important, there needs to be a strong opposition to what Theresa

:18:21. > :18:23.May is proposing and the Liberal Democrats are more than happy to

:18:24. > :18:28.step up to the plate to deliver that. We will have plenty more time

:18:29. > :18:33.to revisit this over the next seven weeks. For now, thank you and S --

:18:34. > :18:39.letters know your thoughts. What do you want to hear, what are the

:18:40. > :18:42.priorities as far as you are concerned? Is it still the issue of

:18:43. > :18:44.Brexit at the front of your mind? Hashtag Victoria Line Tube is the --

:18:45. > :18:56.Victoria live. Nicki Minaj, is facing criticism -

:18:57. > :19:00.after her recent music video includes pictures of her dancing

:19:01. > :19:02.on Westminster Bridge. It comes just weeks after five

:19:03. > :19:08.people were killed in a terrorist We are not the only ones having a

:19:09. > :19:10.general election. France is also preparing for a new president.

:19:11. > :19:14.Centrist candidate Emmanuel Mayuka is locked in a battle with the far

:19:15. > :19:15.right leader Marine Le Pen at the top of the polls for the first round

:19:16. > :19:19.of voting. In a moment we'll speak to some

:19:20. > :19:22.French voters, but first, Newsbeat has been talking to young

:19:23. > :19:25.people in Paris including members from the LGBT community

:19:26. > :19:27.where Marine Le Pen is, surprisingly to some,

:19:28. > :19:35.gaining support. I cannot be like, "Oh, I don't care,

:19:36. > :19:38.I'm not going to vote this time around," because there is actually

:19:39. > :19:41.somebody on the bill who doesn't Even though I am French and born

:19:42. > :19:46.in France, they still refer to me And on top of that,

:19:47. > :19:50.you add my sexuality, being a gay man, here in France

:19:51. > :19:53.and standing in the way of fascism and racism is really,

:19:54. > :19:57.really, really hard. The reason I feel LGBT people

:19:58. > :20:00.are leaning towards the right side is because it is mostly white

:20:01. > :20:03.and so therefore they do not really Hello, I'm Lionel, I'm 25,

:20:04. > :21:20.I'm from Martinique and I have something to say about the problems

:21:21. > :21:23.in society in this electoral period. If they want people to believe them,

:21:24. > :21:32.they have to fight the problem for the young people to find a job

:21:33. > :21:39.and they have to fight also the problem of the homeless,

:21:40. > :21:44.because every time I see a lot of homeless in the street,

:21:45. > :21:49.that breaks my heart, because we are all human,

:21:50. > :22:04.and that is inhuman. Some French voters talking to

:22:05. > :22:07.Newsbeat. Let's speak to Anne-Elisabeth

:22:08. > :22:09.Moutet, a French As a citizen, she says she's

:22:10. > :22:14.horrified, but as a journalist, Marina Anca is a French

:22:15. > :22:17.writer born in Romania. She's lived in France for 30

:22:18. > :22:19.years and is undecided on who to vote for, but is leaning

:22:20. > :22:27.towards right-wing candidates. Thomas Ricard is voting

:22:28. > :22:29.for Emmanuel Macron, And Lola Pattier, voting

:22:30. > :22:43.for far-left Jean-Luc Melenchon. Thank you very much for joining us.

:22:44. > :22:47.Anne-Elisabeth, are we seeing a similar dynamic to the one we are

:22:48. > :22:53.seeing elsewhere, a breakdown of traditional political allegiances?

:22:54. > :22:57.Yes. In a French way of doing it, but yes, by and large we have the

:22:58. > :23:04.same way of doing -- we have the same problem, that winners and

:23:05. > :23:07.losers in a game of globalisation, and a constant unwillingness from

:23:08. > :23:13.the elite, who say this will be good for you, it will end up well in the

:23:14. > :23:15.end, to listen to vast swathes of the population who are

:23:16. > :23:21.disenfranchised, lose jobs car cannot find jobs and their children.

:23:22. > :23:24.They are stuck in large areas of potential that they can't move

:23:25. > :23:27.because it is too expensive to move anywhere else, and to feel more and

:23:28. > :23:32.more battered. And they feel that nobody is talking to them. Marina, I

:23:33. > :23:39.think one in three French voters are undecided. You are one of them, why?

:23:40. > :23:48.Have you traditionally gone for one party or another and they know which

:23:49. > :23:55.way to turn now? Yes, I am undecided because I think that we all need to

:23:56. > :24:01.live in peace. I came to France 30 years ago to seek protection and

:24:02. > :24:06.freedom, including freedom of speech, and my issues are a little

:24:07. > :24:12.bit different from my fellow citizens, because I think very hard

:24:13. > :24:18.about what is going on in the world with Putin and Trump and the North

:24:19. > :24:26.Korea leader, and I am scared of World War III. And my issue is who

:24:27. > :24:36.will be the best man or woman, I don't know, to bring peace. We don't

:24:37. > :24:40.need another ego, we need a hero. I watched the night's show very

:24:41. > :24:47.carefully in order to decide which one would be my hero. Thomas, you

:24:48. > :24:51.are voting for Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate, the one who has

:24:52. > :24:57.suddenly come to the fore potentially as a front runner after

:24:58. > :25:01.Francois Fillon suffered difficulties during his campaign.

:25:02. > :25:10.What is it you like about him? Well, it is not really a question of

:25:11. > :25:14.liking, it is really a pragmatic choice. I am under no illusions that

:25:15. > :25:24.Emmanuel Macron will be fundamentally different from the

:25:25. > :25:41.president that has preceded him, if he is elected. It simply is that in

:25:42. > :25:49.the face of arriving far right, -- a rising far right, and the emergence

:25:50. > :25:57.of potentially a new political order, especially as we might end up

:25:58. > :26:03.with a Melenchon Marine Le Pen second round, Francois Fillon is

:26:04. > :26:16.seen as the more safe choice. It is a question of lesser evil. I have no

:26:17. > :26:26.particular enthusiasm for him, but there is just no other leading

:26:27. > :26:29.candidate that convinces me. You mentioned Jean-Luc Melenchon, the

:26:30. > :26:33.far left candidate, he says if he were to win he would want to see a

:26:34. > :26:38.referendum on France's membership of the EU, and Lola, you are voting for

:26:39. > :26:43.him. That because you're not have that referendum question not yes,

:26:44. > :26:57.and so for me it is the only candidate with the speech of peace.

:26:58. > :27:01.It is a movement to want to create jobs for the people in France. And

:27:02. > :27:10.committing to the environment is a big project, and we need a lot of

:27:11. > :27:18.people to do it. And so now in the Republic, we feel the president is

:27:19. > :27:24.too much stronger. If one day a person like Marine Le Pen becomes

:27:25. > :27:31.president, it can be very dangerous for the Republic. And so we need to

:27:32. > :27:40.create a new parliament and have a referendum to create a new

:27:41. > :27:49.government and who seeks a republic with a committee. So you have the

:27:50. > :27:53.presidential debate tonight and we will be watching events in France,

:27:54. > :27:59.as we are always going to the polls. Thank you very much indeed, thank

:28:00. > :28:00.you. Let me just remind you, we are expecting Jeremy Corbyn to start

:28:01. > :28:20.speaking shortly. He is physically the

:28:21. > :28:26.antiestablishment candidate. That is the platform he will be putting

:28:27. > :28:29.himself on. So we will have full coverage of his speech as soon as it

:28:30. > :28:33.starts. We will stay across those pictures so you won't miss a thing,

:28:34. > :28:39.but while we wait to go back to them, let's took a bit about the

:28:40. > :28:49.rapper, Nicky Maynard. She has been criticised after living -- and Head

:28:50. > :28:53.Together. There were reports she would cut scenes from her video of

:28:54. > :29:01.Westminster Bridge. It has been left in the final version. Why did she

:29:02. > :29:07.leave them in? Morning. My thing very few will forget Westminster

:29:08. > :29:10.attack on 22nd March. The day it happened, Nicki Minaj sent out a

:29:11. > :29:15.tweet, saying they could protect everyone in London, sending my

:29:16. > :29:21.condolences. She also said that the day before she had actually been

:29:22. > :29:25.filming on the bridge. Now, although there were reports that the footage

:29:26. > :29:29.would be left out of the final edit, these never came from Nicki Minaj or

:29:30. > :29:31.her people, but since the year was released last night, 5 million

:29:32. > :29:35.people have watched and some people are calling it insensitive, others

:29:36. > :29:43.tasteless -- since the video was released. We can see the images

:29:44. > :29:50.right now, with the gates. I mean how much of a cat lash as they pin

:29:51. > :29:56.-- of a backlash has now been? There are other London landmarks in there,

:29:57. > :29:59.Buckingham Palace, there have probably been hundreds of comments,

:30:00. > :30:05.but from her fans as well which is something she might hurt Nicki

:30:06. > :30:07.Minaj. They are no the Risley fanatical about her that some say

:30:08. > :30:17.she has overstepped the mark this time, given what happened. The Paw

:30:18. > :30:21.people lost their lives and -- the four people who lost their lives.

:30:22. > :30:29.Will be. Listening to her music because of this? I can't see that

:30:30. > :30:31.happening. 5 million views already. Nicki Minaj if not the biggest

:30:32. > :30:37.female rapper on the planet as well. Jeremy Corbyn sets

:30:38. > :30:40.out Labour's vision We'll be bringing you the speech

:30:41. > :30:55.live, any minute now. With the news, here's Annita

:30:56. > :30:58.in the BBC Newsroom. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:30:59. > :31:03.will use his first major speech of the election campaign shortly,

:31:04. > :31:06.to argue that he will stand up for the British people

:31:07. > :31:09.against what he calls Mr Corbyn will reject the idea

:31:10. > :31:14.that the outcome of the election Debenhams has revealed plans

:31:15. > :31:18.to review the future of ten It is to close 11 of its warehouses

:31:19. > :31:23.- including one of its major distributions centres,

:31:24. > :31:25.which employs more than 200 people. It's part of a turnaround strategy

:31:26. > :31:30.announced by the new chief executive of the chain,

:31:31. > :31:33.which reported a 6.4% fall Scientists have discovered

:31:34. > :31:38.drugs which may be able to stop Alzheimer's,

:31:39. > :31:41.Parkinson's and a wide range One of them is already safely given

:31:42. > :31:46.to people with depression. Clinical trials are planned,

:31:47. > :31:49.but the findings so far have been described as exciting,

:31:50. > :32:09.important and potentially That is the news summary. And we can

:32:10. > :32:13.go straight to our political guru, Norman Smith, because the Labour

:32:14. > :32:17.leader, Jimmy Corbyn, is due to make his first official speech the

:32:18. > :32:22.campaign. And he's going to be talking about tearing up the rule

:32:23. > :32:27.book, Norman? It is a big moment, Joanna, because Mr Corbyn wants to

:32:28. > :32:32.frame this election, and he wants to present himself really as Corbyn the

:32:33. > :32:37.rubble, the outsider, the anti-establishment politician,

:32:38. > :32:41.taking on, as he sees it, the media establishment, what he calls the

:32:42. > :32:45.cartel at the top of society. In a way it's sort of Corbyn uncut,

:32:46. > :32:51.Corbyn unleashed, Jeremy Corbyn being Jeremy Corbyn. It's not going

:32:52. > :32:54.to be the sort of buttoned up, conventional leader in an election

:32:55. > :33:00.campaign. He wants to fight a very different election. Thinking of his

:33:01. > :33:03.people is, this worked during the Labour leadership contests, in both

:33:04. > :33:07.of which he was taking on fairly conventional candidates and trounced

:33:08. > :33:11.both of them by taking this anti-establishment approach. The

:33:12. > :33:15.hope is that that will work in a general election. Obviously, it's a

:33:16. > :33:19.very different ball game, appealing to 200,000 like-minded Labour

:33:20. > :33:24.supporters, compared with appealing the millions in the general

:33:25. > :33:29.election. Very, very different. But his people say, they think there is

:33:30. > :33:31.something going on out there. They think people are fed up with

:33:32. > :33:37.politics as normal, disenchanted and resentful of the fact that nothing

:33:38. > :33:40.ever seems to change, that the wealthy just seem to keep more

:33:41. > :33:43.money, and there is this feeling that people want things to be done

:33:44. > :33:49.differently, not just the same old politics. And they point for example

:33:50. > :33:55.to Donald Trump, to the French elections, the Brexit,, as examples

:33:56. > :34:01.of a mood of unhappiness. What Mr Corbyn I think hope to do is to be

:34:02. > :34:08.able to surf the wave, as he sees it, of this consent -- of

:34:09. > :34:14.discontent, a feeling that things have got to change. If you look at

:34:15. > :34:21.the polls, he's in a really difficult position, so we can't just

:34:22. > :34:24.play it safe, he's got to try and shake up the election, and that's

:34:25. > :34:31.what he's trying to do. And they have all got to put out their

:34:32. > :34:36.manifestos, with clear commitments - when are we going to get that

:34:37. > :34:41.clarity? I don't think we'll get it for possibly a couple of weeks yet,

:34:42. > :34:45.actually. On the Labour side, they have got to be scribbling away

:34:46. > :34:49.rapidly, filling in all the gaps in their manifesto. They thought they

:34:50. > :34:53.would have a bit of time to put it together. I suspect at the end of

:34:54. > :34:57.the day, they may have to copy and paste a lot of Ed Miliband's old

:34:58. > :35:02.manifesto because there plea isn't time. But maybe for Mr Corbyn, this

:35:03. > :35:07.is going to be an election which he wants to fight less about specifics

:35:08. > :35:13.and more about, if I can put it this way, mood and tone. He's always been

:35:14. > :35:17.an outsider I suppose in Westminster terms, he's never really lead

:35:18. > :35:22.anything, never aspired to be a leader, a he finds himself in this

:35:23. > :35:26.position, and working now to try to play the role of a conventional

:35:27. > :35:29.leader, it would seem odd and false. So I think his people think that

:35:30. > :35:37.it's easier for him just to be authentic Jeremy Corbyn. The risk,

:35:38. > :35:41.of course, is that they've judged it wrongly, that actually, the world

:35:42. > :35:46.has not changed, and that politics is still won in the centre ground,

:35:47. > :35:52.you have to reassure your opponents and appeal to middle England, middle

:35:53. > :35:55.Britain. And if team Corbyn have called this wrong, then date could

:35:56. > :36:01.be in for a very, very difficult election indeed. The contrast,

:36:02. > :36:06.though, will be with the Theresa May side, who seem to be going for the

:36:07. > :36:10.exact opposite. Mrs May the other day was stressing the need for the

:36:11. > :36:15.military and security - those are the conventional messages which a

:36:16. > :36:20.would-be Prime Minister would invariably try and put over. Feel

:36:21. > :36:25.her team will have a much more contained, controlled campaign, Mrs

:36:26. > :36:29.May arriving at events, doing her speech, and trying to keep a tight

:36:30. > :36:34.grip on it, because they've got that huge lead in the poles. Jeremy

:36:35. > :36:36.Corbyn's team want this to be the opposite, they want it to be

:36:37. > :36:43.unpredictable, because that's their only chance. Otherwise, looking at

:36:44. > :36:48.the polls, they are heading to defeat. How important is it for the

:36:49. > :36:53.parties to try to understand what it is that the people want out of

:36:54. > :37:00.Brexit and to appeal to that and get a mandate? When you look at how

:37:01. > :37:07.votes broke down in the referendum, I think around seven in ten Labour

:37:08. > :37:13.voters actually voted Remain. Jeremy Corbyn was criticised but when you

:37:14. > :37:19.look at the figures, in spite of how the constituencies took down, it

:37:20. > :37:23.seems the majority of Labour voters were in favour of Remain? And what I

:37:24. > :37:30.think we need to look out for in Mr Corbyn's speech is Brexit - will he

:37:31. > :37:37.actually mention that word? At rallies and interviews he's done so

:37:38. > :37:40.far, he has kind of swerved around mentioning Brexit, because he knows

:37:41. > :37:46.the Labour, they're like a punch bag when it comes to Brexit. For their

:37:47. > :37:50.Remain supporters, they take the view that Mr Corbyn really hasn't

:37:51. > :37:55.done enough to put up a fight against Mrs May's version of Brexit.

:37:56. > :38:00.And four Brexit supporting Labour folk, they take the view that Mr

:38:01. > :38:06.Corbyn seems a bit lukewarm on Brexit - so, they're getting it from

:38:07. > :38:11.both sides on Brexit. For that reason, they risk losing some of

:38:12. > :38:15.their Remain supporters to the Liberal Democrats and some of their

:38:16. > :38:18.Brexit supporters to the Conservatives. And one interesting

:38:19. > :38:24.thing which Mr Corbyn might get arrest on today is the suggestion

:38:25. > :38:28.that maybe Labour are going to have to come up with some kind of offer

:38:29. > :38:31.on Brexit. They can't just stand there taking the blows on Brexit

:38:32. > :38:37.come they're going to have to come up with a clearer line. There is a

:38:38. > :38:41.report that perhaps some in the party might be pressing Mr Corbyn to

:38:42. > :38:44.say that when there is a deal, it should be put to a second

:38:45. > :38:48.referendum. That's not confirmed, it was just a report in the paper, but

:38:49. > :38:53.it gives you a sense of the bunnies on this issue for Labour. Vista

:38:54. > :38:58.Corbyn does not want to talk about Brexit - anything but Brexit. That's

:38:59. > :39:04.partly why we have got this launch, all about whipping up the rules, he

:39:05. > :39:08.wants to change the narrative and move onto other stories. Whereas

:39:09. > :39:16.Theresa May, exactly the opposite, she wants to position herself as the

:39:17. > :39:19.Brexit candidate. As so often in elections, it will probably hinge on

:39:20. > :39:25.who decides the terms of the election, who shapes the narrative

:39:26. > :39:31.and decides what it will be all about. Can Jeremy Corbyn change the

:39:32. > :39:40.narrative and move it away from Brexit, where Mrs May wants it to

:39:41. > :39:45.be? Thank you, Norman. We were expecting him around half past ten.

:39:46. > :39:46.He's still not talking, so we're going to go onto something else for

:39:47. > :39:53.now. Millions of people across the UK

:39:54. > :39:56.live with diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

:39:57. > :39:57.and multiple sclerosis But today, scientists are announcing

:39:58. > :40:04.a major breakthrough. They've discovered two

:40:05. > :40:05.drugs that could help The lead researcher,

:40:06. > :40:10.Giovanna Mallucci, says clinical There would be a daily

:40:11. > :40:17.dose, basically. We'd probably use trazodone

:40:18. > :40:19.first, which is already We're not going to cure these

:40:20. > :40:32.disorders, but if we can stop them in their tracks and change the way

:40:33. > :40:35.they progress, we can radically change the course of the natural

:40:36. > :40:44.history of diseases like Alzheimer's Because people will still be able to

:40:45. > :40:45.hold onto a meaningful quality of life and stay out of institutional

:40:46. > :40:49.care. Our correspondent James

:40:50. > :40:58.Gallagher joins me now. People will be saying, how

:40:59. > :41:00.significant could this be? First of all, there is no queue for any of

:41:01. > :41:06.these diseases, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's. Now we can talk about

:41:07. > :41:11.why this is incredibly exciting. Because what this team have been

:41:12. > :41:13.able to do is to stop neurodegenerative diseases from

:41:14. > :41:17.killing brain cells, basically for the first time. So, if you have

:41:18. > :41:22.Alzheimer's disease, brain cells slowly die off, that's what causes

:41:23. > :41:26.the memory loss and the other changes and that is why ultimately

:41:27. > :41:31.it becomes fatal. Similar processes happen in lots of other diseases.

:41:32. > :41:34.So, if it stops the brain cells dying, does it need to be

:41:35. > :41:37.preventative, it is not going to reverse anything? Is not some kind

:41:38. > :41:42.of thing where you're going to be able to regenerate the brain and

:41:43. > :41:46.create new brain cells, but it is more like a pause button. So, the

:41:47. > :41:49.day you walk into your doctors surgery and they go, we think you've

:41:50. > :41:54.got early stages of dementia, and you can then start on this course of

:41:55. > :41:59.therapy, and it works, which hasn't been tested yet, then it would stop

:42:00. > :42:02.it getting worse. If you think, this could prevent you needing to going

:42:03. > :42:06.to a care home, things like that. So it could be incredibly effective,

:42:07. > :42:10.even though it's not going to reverse these diseases. And it would

:42:11. > :42:14.give you an incentive to go and find out, because at the moment there is

:42:15. > :42:17.no incentive at all, if you fear you might be heading down that path, and

:42:18. > :42:21.there's nothing to make it any better, what is the incentive in

:42:22. > :42:24.actually finding out? That's right. A lot of people are scared of the

:42:25. > :42:28.diagnosis because they know there is nothing you can do about it. There

:42:29. > :42:31.is no drug which slows the cause of dementia. The other big problem,

:42:32. > :42:35.though, is that dementia starts probably at least a decade, maybe

:42:36. > :42:38.two, before the first symptoms appear. So you've already had

:42:39. > :42:43.several years of the disease before you start developing the Thames, the

:42:44. > :42:47.brain is so good at adapting that it masks some of the symptoms. --

:42:48. > :42:51.developing the symptoms. So is the potential that you could even start

:42:52. > :42:56.much sooner, before the symptoms even appear. But that is all in the

:42:57. > :43:02.future. I think Jeremy Corbyn is now just about ready to speak. We can go

:43:03. > :43:06.to our political guru Norman Smith, who is outside the building. Is he

:43:07. > :43:09.about to start speaking, do we think? I sincerely hope so. One

:43:10. > :43:14.thing I've learned from covering Jeremy Corbyn over many years, he's

:43:15. > :43:15.always late! Hopefully he will