27/04/2017

:00:00. > :00:08.Hello, it's Thursday April 27th, it's 9 o'clock, I'm Chloe Tilley,

:00:09. > :00:20.Boris Johnson refuses to rule out military action against Syria.

:00:21. > :00:21.The Foreign Secretary says another chemical attack

:00:22. > :00:32.If the Americans choose to act again and ask us to help I think it would

:00:33. > :00:37.be very difficult to say No. Should a student-led campaign

:00:38. > :00:42.against Israel be banned As the Charity Commission

:00:43. > :00:48.investigates, we have an exclusive report and hear from Jewish students

:00:49. > :00:58.who say they feel threatened. My friends helped me to get out of

:00:59. > :01:01.the crowd, I felt claustrophobic, I had a panic attack, I couldn't

:01:02. > :01:09.breathe and I felt that my chest was tightening up.

:01:10. > :01:11.And should the Government be allowed to to delay publication

:01:12. > :01:13.of its anti-pollution strategy until after the election?

:01:14. > :01:15.It's being argued over in court today.

:01:16. > :01:27.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.

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:01:44. > :01:50.stories we are talking about this morning.

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:01:56. > :01:58.The Foreign Secretary has said that the government would be open

:01:59. > :02:00.to join strikes against Syria without Parliamentary approval.

:02:01. > :02:03.Speaking this morning Boris Johnson said it would be "very difficult

:02:04. > :02:06.for Britain to say no" if US asks us to join in future

:02:07. > :02:19.Let's speak to Norman Smith our political guru. Norman, tell us more

:02:20. > :02:24.about what Boris Johnson has been saying. Chloe, normally in general

:02:25. > :02:28.elections foreign policy doesn't get a lot in, it could be different this

:02:29. > :02:32.time after what Boris Johnson said this morning. He suggested that if

:02:33. > :02:36.America decided to launch another attack on Syria, remember 50 cruise

:02:37. > :02:42.missiles were fired just weeks ago. If Donald Trump decided to do that

:02:43. > :02:46.again and said that they would like Britain to take part in according to

:02:47. > :02:49.Boris Johnson it would be very hard for Britain to say no. In other

:02:50. > :02:54.words we would almost certainly say, yes, we're in. Importantly Mr

:02:55. > :02:58.Johnson suggested that we would give the go-ahead to taking part in you

:02:59. > :03:04.as action without Parliament having a say. In other words they would be

:03:05. > :03:09.no parliamentary vote to approve military strikes against Syria. That

:03:10. > :03:13.would cause a huge row, I imagine, because convention has now built up

:03:14. > :03:19.that when we are engaged in military action that has to be some sort of

:03:20. > :03:23.parliamentary approval. It also contrasts markedly with the stands

:03:24. > :03:27.by Jeremy Corbyn where he has been highly critical with what he regards

:03:28. > :03:32.as reckless military intervention in the middle east. It also jars to

:03:33. > :03:36.some extent with what No 10 said after the cruise missile attacks,

:03:37. > :03:40.saying they were seeking a political solution, not a military one. This

:03:41. > :03:46.is what Boris Johnson said on the Today programme on Radio 4 today.

:03:47. > :03:52.If the Americans were forced again by the actions of the Assad regime,

:03:53. > :03:56.don't forget it was Assad who unleashed murder upon his own

:03:57. > :04:01.citizens, weapons that were banned almost 100 years ago, if the

:04:02. > :04:08.Americans choose to act again and ask us to help I think it will be

:04:09. > :04:13.very difficult to say no. What will cause concern among opposition MPs

:04:14. > :04:16.and some Tories is the idea that Britain could take part in some sort

:04:17. > :04:22.of strike without parliamentary approval. So far, Norman, in this

:04:23. > :04:26.general election campaign Boris Johnson has been quiet but this has

:04:27. > :04:40.changed, a scathing personal attack on the Jeremy Corbyn. Very

:04:41. > :04:46.flamboyant, describing that Jeremy Corbyn, in his flamboyant style, as

:04:47. > :04:51.a mutton headed old mugwump, in a story for the Sun newspaper. He

:04:52. > :04:56.says, do not think that he is a benign Islington only in her before.

:04:57. > :05:01.Behind that abusive language is a political purpose. As he sees it, he

:05:02. > :05:05.wants to alert people to the risks of Mr Corbyn becoming Prime

:05:06. > :05:09.Minister. Because there is a danger with the huge poll lead that the

:05:10. > :05:14.Tories have, that people will think, there is no chance that he will

:05:15. > :05:18.become leader, Tory voters will think they don't need to bother

:05:19. > :05:23.voting and those who don't like Jeremy Corbyn will say that it is OK

:05:24. > :05:29.to vote Labour because he has no chance of becoming Prime Minister.

:05:30. > :05:32.This is quite inappropriate, it sounds like an arrogant public

:05:33. > :05:37.schoolboy sneering. And the risk is that when you use that language it

:05:38. > :05:42.backfires and plays to Jeremy Corbyn's strengths who is presenting

:05:43. > :05:47.himself as the man standing up to the ruling elite, the political

:05:48. > :05:51.establishment, standing at the little guys. In effect being the

:05:52. > :05:57.underdogs taking on the cosy clique at the top of society. Thank you,

:05:58. > :06:02.Norman. Your thoughts will be welcome on that this morning.

:06:03. > :06:04.Annita is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:06:05. > :06:12.Labour is promising to tackle the housing crisis

:06:13. > :06:15.by building a million homes - half of them council houses -

:06:16. > :06:17.if the party wins the general election.

:06:18. > :06:19.Labour claims the number of affordable homes being built

:06:20. > :06:23.But the Conservatives say they have a clear plan to build more

:06:24. > :06:26.affordable housing - with the number of new homes under

:06:27. > :06:27.construction up three quarters since 2010.

:06:28. > :06:29.Ministers from 27 European Union countries are meeting later

:06:30. > :06:33.for final discussions about the EU's negotiating stance on Brexit.

:06:34. > :06:35.They're set to approve the draft negotiating guidelines

:06:36. > :06:37.for the UK's divorce from the EU and discuss the next

:06:38. > :06:43.Speaking in the German parliament this morning Angela Merkel

:06:44. > :06:49.said the UK must fulfil all of its obligations to the EU.

:06:50. > :06:53.This programme has learned that the Charity Commission

:06:54. > :06:59.is investigating a number of student unions about their campaigns

:07:00. > :07:07.Seventeen student bodies have endorsed

:07:08. > :07:09.the pro-sanctions 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' movement -

:07:10. > :07:11.known as BDS - which calls for an international boycott

:07:12. > :07:13.of Israel over the way it treats Palestinians.

:07:14. > :07:16.Some Jewish students say growing support for BDS has fuelled a rise

:07:17. > :07:22.Tensions are rising over North Korea, as the US calls

:07:23. > :07:25.for more pressure to force the country to give up its nuclear

:07:26. > :07:37.Last night, President Trump briefed all one hundred

:07:38. > :07:40.members of the Senate - revealing a strategy of economic

:07:41. > :07:43.But Washington also said they were prepared to defend

:07:44. > :07:54.This is a military exercise just miles from the North Korean border.

:07:55. > :07:56.A message for Kim Jong-un, that the US is ready

:07:57. > :08:04.This is how the head of the US Pacific command put it

:08:05. > :08:05.to members of the House in Washington.

:08:06. > :08:10.We want to bring Kim Jong-un to his senses, not to his knees.

:08:11. > :08:13.Later, all 100 senators were bussed to a briefing at the White House

:08:14. > :08:20.A highly unusual move to show politicians from both sides

:08:21. > :08:26.of the aisle just how serious the situation has become.

:08:27. > :08:29.North Korea is the most dangerous spot on the planet right now,

:08:30. > :08:35.and Kim Jong-un is a dangerous and wildly unpredictable dictator.

:08:36. > :08:38.Donald Trump is hoping China will use its political and economic

:08:39. > :08:40.leverage over Pyongyang to persuade Kim Jong-un

:08:41. > :08:50.Other options include redesignating North Korea as a state sponsor

:08:51. > :08:52.of terrorism, which will allow the US to impose greater sanctions.

:08:53. > :08:54.Meanwhile, the US show of might continues.

:08:55. > :09:07.This is a missile defence system in South Korea.

:09:08. > :09:09.The current goal is a path to peace through negotiations,

:09:10. > :09:12.but the Trump administration said it is prepared to defend itself

:09:13. > :09:27.Some breaking news coming in from Paris, the counterterrorism section

:09:28. > :09:33.has opened an investigation after two police officers were wounded

:09:34. > :09:39.this morning by an armed gunman on a French overseas territory, La

:09:40. > :09:51.Reunion. This is all the information we have at the moment.

:09:52. > :09:54.There has been a large explosion near Damascus international airport.

:09:55. > :09:58.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the

:09:59. > :10:03.Arabic media reports say it may have been an Israeli air-strike targeting

:10:04. > :10:05.an arms supply hub operated by the militant group, Hezbollah,

:10:06. > :10:07.but these claims have not been independently confirmed.

:10:08. > :10:10.Lawyers are going to the High Court this morning to explain why

:10:11. > :10:12.the government is planning to delay publication of its

:10:13. > :10:16.Ministers claim they cannot abide by a court ruling to publish

:10:17. > :10:18.the consultation document because it would break so-called

:10:19. > :10:20.purdah rules in the run-up to the general election.

:10:21. > :10:22.But environmental campaigners say clean air is a public health issue

:10:23. > :10:30.A new study suggests that a cheap and widely available drug

:10:31. > :10:32.could prevent one in three deaths among women who haemorrhage

:10:33. > :10:50.Researchers at the London School of Hygiene

:10:51. > :10:52.and Tropical Medicine said evidence showed the dru, called T.X.A,

:10:53. > :10:55.had the potential to become a front-line treatment and change

:10:56. > :11:01.An Illinois couple married for 69 years have died

:11:02. > :11:04.91-year-old Isaac Vatkin was holding

:11:05. > :11:05.the hand of his wife, 89-year-old Teresa,

:11:06. > :11:07.as she succumbed to Alzheimer's disease on Saturday.

:11:08. > :11:12.Staff at the local Highland Park Hospital found Mr and Mrs Vatkin

:11:13. > :11:15.unresponsive and breathing shallowly on Saturday and chose

:11:16. > :11:20.Family members said they took comfort in knowing

:11:21. > :11:29.That's a summary of the latest BBC News, more at 9:30am.

:11:30. > :11:40.Chloe. Thank you. Now let's get some sport with Hugh. Maria Sharapova has

:11:41. > :11:52.upset quite a few people in the tennis world with a return to the

:11:53. > :11:56.sport and it's not going away. She is back, although all the talking

:11:57. > :12:01.seemed to have stopped when she got back on court although it really

:12:02. > :12:05.hasn't. She played against Roberta Vinci in Stuttgart and lost her

:12:06. > :12:10.first service game after that ban but eventually fought back to when a

:12:11. > :12:14.well contested match in straight sets in Stuttgart. She didn't get a

:12:15. > :12:17.bad reception from the crowd but from the other players it's a

:12:18. > :12:26.different story. The latest comic Eugenie Bouchard has mentioned the

:12:27. > :12:29.strongest criticism yet of the former five-time grand slam him,

:12:30. > :12:35.this is what Eugenie Bouchard said. I don't think it's right. She is a

:12:36. > :12:41.cheater. And so, to me, I don't think a cheetah in any sport should

:12:42. > :12:47.be allowed to play that sport again. It's so unfair to the others who do

:12:48. > :12:52.it the right way and are true. I think it sends the wrong message to

:12:53. > :12:59.young kids, cheat and you will be welcomed back with open arms, I

:13:00. > :13:02.don't think that is right. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in its

:13:03. > :13:07.original ruling said that Maria Sharapova should not be considered

:13:08. > :13:10.an intentional doper after it was revealed that she took meldonium

:13:11. > :13:15.after it had been put onto the wider banned list. Maria Sharapova has

:13:16. > :13:20.said in response to the criticism that she isn't angry or bitter. I

:13:21. > :13:24.let things go pretty quickly and I move on, she says. About returning

:13:25. > :13:29.to court eventually after all this time, this is what you had to say.

:13:30. > :13:34.It was a moment I had obviously been looking forward to for a very long

:13:35. > :13:40.time, training intensively for the past few month and visualising

:13:41. > :13:44.myself competing again. So in a way I was rusty but in so many other

:13:45. > :13:52.ways I felt I had and left. Interesting to see what reception

:13:53. > :13:55.she will get on and off court later when she plays Ekaterina Makarova.

:13:56. > :14:02.We clear what she will do, moving forward, play grand slams? That was

:14:03. > :14:05.originally the criticism because she was given wild cards to get back

:14:06. > :14:08.into the tournaments and her ranking isn't high enough to allow her to

:14:09. > :14:12.compete in these tournaments, players like Caroline Wozniacki and

:14:13. > :14:17.Agnieszka Radwanska have said that the fact that she's getting wild

:14:18. > :14:21.cards is something that shouldn't be happening. She will not play at

:14:22. > :14:26.tournaments like Wimbledon or the French Open unless she gets a wild

:14:27. > :14:31.card, either into the main draw or into qualifying. She is the 2004

:14:32. > :14:35.Wimbledon champion, of course. Would she get a wild card for Wimbledon?

:14:36. > :14:41.It's up to the tournament to decide if you will get on at the French

:14:42. > :14:44.Open. We will find out in May. She herself says she would play in the

:14:45. > :14:49.junior tournament just to get the chance to play in the grand slams.

:14:50. > :14:55.Thank you, Hugh. We'll catch up with you later.

:14:56. > :14:57.The Charity Commission is investigating concerns about 17

:14:58. > :15:00.students' unions that campaign for a boycott of Israel.

:15:01. > :15:02.Support for the BDS movement has been growing on British campuses.

:15:03. > :15:04.But critics accuse it of fuelling anti-Semitism and attacks

:15:05. > :15:14.John Ironmonger has this exclusive story.

:15:15. > :15:20.No-one was there for the aftermath of it.

:15:21. > :15:32.People breaking through windows, banging on the doors.

:15:33. > :15:40.I thought I was in the middle of a war between pro-Israeli students

:15:41. > :15:49.It's probably fair to say that students are among

:15:50. > :15:51.the most politically engaged people in society.

:15:52. > :15:53.They are known for having strong opinions, for standing together

:15:54. > :16:00.on things like climate change, tuition fees, and civil rights.

:16:01. > :16:02.But there's one subject that ignites students and bitterly divides

:16:03. > :16:19.The Jewish state of Israel is deeply controversial -

:16:20. > :16:25.accused of wide-ranging human rights abuses against the Palestinian

:16:26. > :16:26.people and provoking anger around the world.

:16:27. > :16:28.So when you have these sort of situations...

:16:29. > :16:31.We've heard from Jewish students here who claim they've become

:16:32. > :16:33.scapegoats for anti-Israel hostility, subjected

:16:34. > :16:37.to verbal harassment, even physical attacks.

:16:38. > :16:40.And we found that some student bodies are now being investigated

:16:41. > :16:43.for ignoring a legal duty to protect them.

:16:44. > :16:47.Devora Khafi goes to Queen Mary University in London.

:16:48. > :16:49.She says she's been targeted time and again for having

:16:50. > :16:57.Have you ever taken any of these attacks personally?

:16:58. > :17:03.You know, it's not about political opinions any more, it's more

:17:04. > :17:06.about if I ever express a viewpoint in class or on social

:17:07. > :17:08.media, I get comments, in public or in private,

:17:09. > :17:10.saying, you know, that's the Jewish girl, and pointing

:17:11. > :17:17.She says the abuse turned physical at UCL in October when she attended

:17:18. > :17:22.a speech given by a former officer in the Israeli Defence Force.

:17:23. > :17:25.This one girl used her back and pushed me against the doors

:17:26. > :17:33.and I was screaming for her to get off me.

:17:34. > :17:35.My friend helped me get out of the crowd.

:17:36. > :17:38.I felt very claustrophobic and outside I had a panic attack

:17:39. > :17:40.and I couldn't breathe, I felt like my chest

:17:41. > :17:48.The event was hijacked by pro-Palestinian students

:17:49. > :17:50.who claimed the speaker was complicit in

:17:51. > :18:02.It was eventually moved to a secret location.

:18:03. > :18:05.We were running towards the room and my friends got inside,

:18:06. > :18:08.I saw protesters running around campus trying to look for us

:18:09. > :18:13.and one of my friends had a Jewish skull cap on.

:18:14. > :18:17.I was about to tell him to take it off and I felt really disgusted

:18:18. > :18:20.at myself that that thought would even come into my head.

:18:21. > :18:22.So you felt you had to shield your identity?

:18:23. > :18:29.And my grandparents were refugees, they left Afghanistan

:18:30. > :18:32.because they were Jewish and here I am, as a proud Jewish

:18:33. > :18:43.student in the modern age at UCL and I still have to do this.

:18:44. > :18:45.Police were called to prevent further clashes and the event

:18:46. > :18:48.was able to proceed but footage we have obtained shows protesters

:18:49. > :18:59.shouting "Shame" at Jewish students as they left the venue.

:19:00. > :19:03.How has this sort of thing effected your everyday life at university?

:19:04. > :19:09.It's been two years of just constant fighting for our freedom of speech,

:19:10. > :19:37.It's been two years of just constant fighting for our freedom of speech,

:19:38. > :19:40.I've definitely missed a lot of deadlines for example,

:19:41. > :19:44.I've had counselling, I've had a few anxiety episode

:19:45. > :19:47.Not all Jewish students share the same views.

:19:48. > :19:49.Sai Englert is a member of the Palestine Society at SOAS.

:19:50. > :19:52.There's this kind of image that, you know, the Palestine Society

:19:53. > :19:55.is running wild, that it's very dangerous for Jewish students etc

:19:56. > :19:57.and that is something that I don't recognise at all.

:19:58. > :19:59.When there are cases of unfair harassment, cases of racism,

:20:00. > :20:02.I actually think the Palestine movement and its organisations

:20:03. > :20:04.and its kind of official representatives etc is actually very

:20:05. > :20:06.careful to acknowledge that, to condemn it,

:20:07. > :20:08.Anti-Semitism at British universities has doubled

:20:09. > :20:12.Incidents like Nazi graffiti, abuse and assaults increased from 21

:20:13. > :20:15.But we've heard claims the bodies which represent students

:20:16. > :20:21.Students unions in increasing numbers have been voting to adopt

:20:22. > :20:23.strict anti-Israel policies under the banner of a global

:20:24. > :20:32.movement called BDS - Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.

:20:33. > :20:34.SOAS students union in London has been leading the charge.

:20:35. > :20:44.Why are we allowing Israel in the 21st century to get

:20:45. > :20:50.It's about ending Israeli impunity and ending complicity of those

:20:51. > :20:53.institutes and bodies etc that we might be a part

:20:54. > :21:00.It's about ending our own complicity too.

:21:01. > :21:02.BDS pressures Israel to end the occupation of Arab lands

:21:03. > :21:05.by calling for the boycott of Israeli companies

:21:06. > :21:14.I think SOAS in a lot of ways is a beacon actually for a lot

:21:15. > :21:20.It is so important that we lead this movement.

:21:21. > :21:23.Since the referendum at SOAS, many more students unions have

:21:24. > :21:26.signed up to the movement but some people claim that BDS is threatening

:21:27. > :21:30.So students unions talk a lot about safe space, and I think

:21:31. > :21:32.a space which is specifically, explicitly boycotting Israel is not

:21:33. > :21:36.a safe space for Israeli students or for many other students who have

:21:37. > :21:39.various kinds of links to Israel, or for other students who simply

:21:40. > :21:41.are worried by the politics of the singling out

:21:42. > :21:51.of Israel as a specific, unique evil on the planet.

:21:52. > :21:54.So do you think these students unions in question may be in danger

:21:55. > :21:59.of alienating their members that are Jewish?

:22:00. > :22:01.I think it is profoundly alienating for most Jewish students.

:22:02. > :22:04.Most Jewish students have as part of their Jewish identity

:22:05. > :22:11.some kind of attachment or a relationship to Israel.

:22:12. > :22:14.In total we found 17 students unions who have endorsed BDS

:22:15. > :22:17.and they include some of the largest in the UK like Manchester and UCL.

:22:18. > :22:27.Since 2010, students unions have become registered charities and this

:22:28. > :22:30.means they now have a legal duty to act in the interests

:22:31. > :22:36.Political campaigns must not become their focus and they are not

:22:37. > :22:38.allowed to comment publicly on issues that don't affect

:22:39. > :22:43.the welfare of their members as students.

:22:44. > :22:45.We raised these findings and the Charity Commission has

:22:46. > :22:48.confirmed it is now examining concerns about the involvement

:22:49. > :22:57.of a number of students union charities in the BDS movement.

:22:58. > :23:00.It has said the concerns will be assessed consistently while taking

:23:01. > :23:02.into account the circumstances of each individual charity and that,

:23:03. > :23:10.where appropriate, they may need to take regulatory action.

:23:11. > :23:14.I went to an event at Queen Mary talking about BDS and so on with

:23:15. > :23:22.There was a lot of hate speech going on, basically against Israel.

:23:23. > :23:24.As soon as we started asking questions they started saying,

:23:25. > :23:27.you were sent by the embassy, and everybody started booing at us.

:23:28. > :23:30.Your state is a fantasy world for Jews.

:23:31. > :23:35.And next to us was a guy sitting and he started saying very

:23:36. > :23:38.intimidating stuff towards the girls that were with me, sexist stuff.

:23:39. > :23:41.And as we left the event, we thought we were being followed by this guy

:23:42. > :23:45.and we had to run to the station because we had heard about this guy

:23:46. > :23:54.I just thought, this is not how I'm supposed to be feeling because I've

:23:55. > :24:01.asked questions here at a debate at a university.

:24:02. > :24:04.What is fuelling this anti-Semitism, if you like, on campus?

:24:05. > :24:07.I think when institutions accept BDS and when a students union accepts

:24:08. > :24:09.BDS, when the National Union of Students accepts BDS,

:24:10. > :24:12.when you have your own professors signing petitions to boycott Israel,

:24:13. > :24:20.when you see the pro-Palestinian cause kind of twisted

:24:21. > :24:23.into an anti-Israel cause, and that is the problem with this,

:24:24. > :24:25.it's not pro-Palestinian, it's anti-Israel, when you see that

:24:26. > :24:35.happening, you understand this is what is fuelling anti-Semitism.

:24:36. > :24:39.The NUS, which is a confederation of 600 students unions,

:24:40. > :24:42.The NUS, which is a confederation of 600 students unions,

:24:43. > :24:44.held a survey this month of their Jewish members.

:24:45. > :24:46.The vast majority of respondents felt uncomfortable

:24:47. > :24:48.with their students union having a BDS policy but the NUS

:24:49. > :24:53.They refused to be interviewed for this programme and failed

:24:54. > :25:00.A request for comment from the BDS national committee was also declined

:25:01. > :25:02.and of the students unions we contacted that have

:25:03. > :25:04.passed boycott motions, only SOAS was prepared

:25:05. > :25:14.The idea that somehow supporting BDS, supporting boycott,

:25:15. > :25:16.academic boycott etc, is a kind of blank boycott

:25:17. > :25:18.on individuals I think is very dangerous.

:25:19. > :25:27.It's about saying we don't want institutional links, economic links,

:25:28. > :25:29.political links with institutions, governments, companies that are

:25:30. > :25:33.The BDS movement proposes referenda, it doesn't propose to shut down

:25:34. > :25:42.On the contrary, it proposes to open them and to involve

:25:43. > :25:47.Everybody, whatever their background and ideas, should be allowed to be

:25:48. > :25:49.involved in the union and take part in them.

:25:50. > :25:52.That shouldn't stop us from making decisions and from

:25:53. > :25:54.Decisions that alienate certain students?

:25:55. > :25:57.I mean national elections alienate everybody that votes

:25:58. > :26:01.But the government isn't a charity, though.

:26:02. > :26:04.Sure, and maybe there is a question about whether students unions

:26:05. > :26:09.I think when students unions encompass this one-sided view,

:26:10. > :26:12.it's kind of expressing to everyone as a fact that Israelis

:26:13. > :26:15.are in the wrong, they are the enemy of human rights in the world,

:26:16. > :26:22.If you look behind the BDS lens, it calls for these things

:26:23. > :26:24.that are not peaceful, they harm Jewish students

:26:25. > :26:26.and pro-Israel students and they don't support a peaceful

:26:27. > :26:52.And the government in court this morning to defend why they all delay

:26:53. > :26:56.publication of them are good clean air plans until after the election.

:26:57. > :27:00.We will hear from a leading doctor from the effects from pollution and

:27:01. > :27:03.the lawyers who have brought the proceedings.

:27:04. > :27:09.And how a cheap drug could save the lives of one in three mothers. We

:27:10. > :27:13.will hear from a mother here in the UK who nearly died. And a doctor

:27:14. > :27:16.treating people in Pakistan. In the BBC Newsroom

:27:17. > :27:24.with a summary of today's news. The Foreign Secretary has said the

:27:25. > :27:28.government would be open to join strikes against Syria without

:27:29. > :27:31.Parliamentary approval. Speaking this morning, Boris Johnson said it

:27:32. > :27:37.would be very difficult for Britain to say no if the US asks us to join

:27:38. > :27:41.in future military action in Syria. He was speaking to Radio 4's Today

:27:42. > :27:44.programme. If the Americans were forced again

:27:45. > :27:47.by the actions of the Assad regime, don't forget it was Assad

:27:48. > :27:50.who unleashed murder upon his own citizens, weapons that were banned

:27:51. > :27:53.almost 100 years ago, if the Americans choose to act

:27:54. > :27:55.again and ask us to help, as I say, I think it will be

:27:56. > :28:09.very difficult to say no. Labour is promising to tackle the

:28:10. > :28:15.housing crisis by building a million homes, half of them council houses,

:28:16. > :28:18.if they win the general election. They say that house-building is that

:28:19. > :28:23.a 24 year low. The Conservatives say they have a clear plan to build

:28:24. > :28:27.affordable housing with a number of new homes under construction since

:28:28. > :28:29.2010. After days of military manoeuvres,

:28:30. > :28:34.the Trump administration now seems to be reverted to the policy of past

:28:35. > :28:38.presidents, tighter sanctions, and diplomatic pressure to end North

:28:39. > :28:41.Korea's nuclear and missile programmes. South Korea and the USA

:28:42. > :28:47.have agreed to implement swift, punitive measures towards North

:28:48. > :28:52.Korea in the event of what they call military provocation.

:28:53. > :28:54.An Illinois couple married for sixty-nine years have died

:28:55. > :28:57.Ninety-one-year-old Isaac Vatkin was holding

:28:58. > :28:58.the hand of his wife, eighty-nine-year-old Teresa,

:28:59. > :29:00.as she succumbed to Alzheimer's disease on Saturday.

:29:01. > :29:08.Staff at the local Highland Park Hospital found Mr and Mrs Vatkin

:29:09. > :29:10.unresponsive and breathing shallowly on Saturday and chose

:29:11. > :29:19.Family members said they took comfort in knowing

:29:20. > :29:32.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.00.

:29:33. > :29:39.Let's get the sport with Hugh. Good morning again. Maria Sharapova has

:29:40. > :29:43.received the strongest criticism yet from another player. She won her

:29:44. > :29:47.first competitive match after returning from a 15 month doping

:29:48. > :29:53.ban, beating Roberta Vinci at the Stuttgart open where she had a wild

:29:54. > :29:55.card. Eugenie Bouchard, the former Wimbledon finalist, says she does

:29:56. > :30:01.not think a mutton headed should be allowed to play that sport again.

:30:02. > :30:08.Not a great performance but a great movement took Spurs back near to the

:30:09. > :30:13.top of the Premier League, 1-0 they won, while Middlesbrough's victory

:30:14. > :30:17.over Sunderland means the Black Cats could be relegated on Sunday. Only

:30:18. > :30:23.one goal at the Riverside, 12 points from safety, Sunderland with only

:30:24. > :30:28.five games to go. And danger we faces defending champion Mark Selby

:30:29. > :30:32.in the first semifinal of the World Snooker Championship this afternoon.

:30:33. > :30:35.It's a repeat of last's final, Ding Junhui made it through with a

:30:36. > :30:41.victory of a good friend Ronnie O'Sullivan. Much more sport later,

:30:42. > :30:45.Chloe. Thank you, Hugh, we will speak to you then.

:30:46. > :30:50.Campaigners estimate that the tiny particles in our air

:30:51. > :30:52.are contributing to 40-thousand early deaths every year.

:30:53. > :30:55.Nearly 40 million people in Britain live in areas with illegal levels

:30:56. > :30:57.of air pollution and a cross-party committee of MPs have

:30:58. > :30:59.called air pollution a "public health emergency".

:31:00. > :31:01.This morning, a bid by the government to delay

:31:02. > :31:03.publishing its plans to tackle illegal air pollution

:31:04. > :31:08.until after the general election is being heard by the High Court.

:31:09. > :31:10.There's been speculation the clear air plan could include

:31:11. > :31:17.So let's remind ourselves what this draft legislation is all about:

:31:18. > :31:21.In 2011, the government was taken to court over its failure

:31:22. > :31:23.to tackle dangerously high levels of nitrogen dioxide

:31:24. > :31:32.But in November of last year, it was told its latest

:31:33. > :31:37.proposals for tackling air pollution wouldn't work fast enough.

:31:38. > :31:46.But late on Friday, the government said it couldn't

:31:47. > :31:49.publish its new plan because it would breach election rules.

:31:50. > :31:56.his is how the environment secretary defended the delay to MPs.

:31:57. > :32:02.We now have entered a period of time will be strongly advised not to

:32:03. > :32:06.publish consultations. So what we're trying to do is a very short

:32:07. > :32:09.extension which we do not believe will make a difference to the

:32:10. > :32:10.implementation of our plans but at the same we are safeguarding our

:32:11. > :32:15.democracy. Our environment analyst

:32:16. > :32:24.Roger Harrabin is here. Explain exactly what is happening in

:32:25. > :32:29.court today, it's confusing. The question today is can the government

:32:30. > :32:36.delayed publishing their air pollution strategy because of these

:32:37. > :32:41.rules, they were invented so that governments couldn't capitalise on a

:32:42. > :32:46.giveaway before an election, for example, free jobless for everyone

:32:47. > :32:50.if you vote for us. This is what the purdah rules are for. They are a

:32:51. > :32:54.convention, not a law, the government is interpreting them to

:32:55. > :32:58.say that they can't publish the strategy because it is politically

:32:59. > :33:03.sensitive. Their opponents say, you are allowed to publish them, the

:33:04. > :33:08.rules allow it to be published on public health issues, so this idea

:33:09. > :33:14.about trying to disbar it through the purdah rules are irrelevant. And

:33:15. > :33:25.some say, mischievous. We heard that a clamp-down on diesel is one

:33:26. > :33:28.possible thing that could be in the plan. If the government is forced to

:33:29. > :33:30.reveal the plan today what are we expecting to be in it? They will

:33:31. > :33:33.have to do something about diesel. It's major cause of urban pollution.

:33:34. > :33:36.Previously the government has said it's too difficult and impractical

:33:37. > :33:40.to do anything about it and too expensive but the court haven't left

:33:41. > :33:44.them that option. The court says you have to obey the law. So if the

:33:45. > :33:49.court ruled today that they had to publish that is the plan we see.

:33:50. > :33:52.However the government has privately indicated that if they lose this

:33:53. > :33:57.case today and the purdah rules don't apply, get on and publish

:33:58. > :34:02.them, then the government will simply put in for an appeal. Which

:34:03. > :34:08.in turn will delay it until after the election. Pointless, isn't it?

:34:09. > :34:11.In the sense that nothing much is likely to happen today as long as

:34:12. > :34:14.the governor and appeals but from the point of view of the campaign as

:34:15. > :34:18.they are winning an important point, that governments are not allowed to

:34:19. > :34:31.use purdah rules to put something like this. You talk about the 40,000

:34:32. > :34:33.deaths, they point out the delay of three months, they say these fuzzy

:34:34. > :34:35.figures but could lead to contributing to another 10,000

:34:36. > :34:37.deaths so they think that they have made a point either way. Roger,

:34:38. > :34:41.thank you for coming in. Let's look at why this clean air

:34:42. > :34:44.plan has become such a battle, what the various parties want

:34:45. > :34:47.and what it means for you. Dr Jonathan Grigg is

:34:48. > :34:49.the leading UK pediatrician on the effects of air pollution

:34:50. > :34:51.and the founder of Simon Alcock is from

:34:52. > :34:56.ClientEarth, the environmental laywers who have brought legal

:34:57. > :34:59.proceedings against the government. Richard Burnett is the CEO

:35:00. > :35:03.of the Road Haulage Association, who are worried about a blanket

:35:04. > :35:15.ban on diesel. I want to start with you, Doctor

:35:16. > :35:24.Greg, if I may, is there a proven link between diesel, air pollution

:35:25. > :35:32.and our ill health? Step back a little, there is this association

:35:33. > :35:38.between pollution and deaths, we know far more about nitrogen dioxide

:35:39. > :35:47.and its effects on people, especially in children, and growth,

:35:48. > :35:53.asthma is associated with the after-effects, so that's related to

:35:54. > :35:58.nitrogen dioxide and particles, we know that diesel disproportionately

:35:59. > :36:06.contributes so I think diesel is a major toxic threat throughout the

:36:07. > :36:11.UK, to the publisher. Simon, you are one of the lawyers to have brought

:36:12. > :36:15.this legal action today. What do you want the government to say, a

:36:16. > :36:19.scrappage of all diesel cars? The government have been breaking the

:36:20. > :36:22.law on air pollution for seven years now and they've had five months to

:36:23. > :36:25.find a new plan and they are now trying to delay it at the last

:36:26. > :36:31.minute which we think is not acceptable. What we would like to

:36:32. > :36:38.see is a national network of cleaner air zones. That's quite a mouthful.

:36:39. > :36:43.That would mean taking the dirtiest parts below legal levels. We want to

:36:44. > :36:46.see a scheme of compensation, it is not people's fault that they are

:36:47. > :36:49.driving these vehicles, so we need a scrappage scheme. And to see the

:36:50. > :36:54.government stand up to the motor industry because they've helped us

:36:55. > :36:58.to get into this mess. We need compensation from the motor industry

:36:59. > :37:03.so that people are not penalised for switching to cleaner vehicles.

:37:04. > :37:09.Richard, is diesel a problem and does it needs to be reduced on the

:37:10. > :37:11.roads? I would agree with everything discussed. We are equally concerned

:37:12. > :37:15.with people's health and the environment and from the perspective

:37:16. > :37:22.of the transport industry we want greener cleaner vehicles. Euro six

:37:23. > :37:30.technology used on new tracks now is the cleanest, they emit the lowest

:37:31. > :37:36.level of Moxie assumes. Still diesel but they emit a lower level than

:37:37. > :37:48.diesel cars. So we've got 136,000 euros six technology tracks blush

:37:49. > :37:54.trucks on the road and we need to increase the number of euro six

:37:55. > :37:58.tracks on the road. What do you do with ones that don't have this

:37:59. > :38:04.cleaner diesel because presumably it's hugely expensive. This is the

:38:05. > :38:11.issue I want you to get into, it is hugely expensive, either with an old

:38:12. > :38:13.diesel car or a haulage company to clean up those vehicles. This is

:38:14. > :38:19.where we need a balanced approach. We need government to come up with a

:38:20. > :38:24.policy, an approach, to speed up the process but find a way of

:38:25. > :38:29.compensating both businesses and individuals that have to take these

:38:30. > :38:36.vehicles off the road. To replace one track costs ?80,000. A haulier

:38:37. > :38:41.makes a profit every year, some less than three present pounds a year and

:38:42. > :38:47.when we talk about some of the fines being imposed in London, with the

:38:48. > :38:54.ultra low emission zones, in, in 2019 that is going to but businesses

:38:55. > :38:57.out of business. Fines of ?50,000 a year for one haulier and a profit of

:38:58. > :39:05.?3000 means that we won't be able to survive. By the government 's own

:39:06. > :39:10.estimate, it's a cost of ?27 billion to the economy, tackling pollution,

:39:11. > :39:13.and remember the public health side that we've heard outlined, it is

:39:14. > :39:17.causing huge impact on health including that of the drivers

:39:18. > :39:22.driving these trucks. Why should they be sick because of going to

:39:23. > :39:25.work? We need to get that balance right, it's not rocket science, we

:39:26. > :39:36.need to speed the process and the government needs to get on with it,

:39:37. > :39:40.they've had a long time to this. I think the issue is what emissions

:39:41. > :39:47.from what vehicles are the population being exposed to. There

:39:48. > :39:59.is an issue with trucks. A lot of emissions come from old diesel cars,

:40:00. > :40:07.diesel taxis, we have an ageing toxic fleet... Sorry to interrupt,

:40:08. > :40:10.you say that there are viable alternatives that people driving

:40:11. > :40:15.older diesel vehicles are possibly the people who are not able to

:40:16. > :40:20.afford to get cleaner diesel or new cars. So how can we get those cars

:40:21. > :40:27.of the road, do you buy their car, give them a free pass, what do you

:40:28. > :40:34.do? We need government to tell us what to do, we are all in this

:40:35. > :40:40.together, drivers shouldn't be demonised, because we would all

:40:41. > :40:46.benefit from this. We are waiting expectantly for the ambitious plans

:40:47. > :40:49.from the government and it is puzzling why is being delayed, it is

:40:50. > :40:56.a government decision and I think the pain needs to be shared. It's

:40:57. > :41:00.pretty obvious what the government needs to do, there's a scrappage

:41:01. > :41:03.scheme, they do this in Los Angeles where the poorest people are given

:41:04. > :41:07.replacement vehicles for old cars, it's cheaper to run a diesel vehicle

:41:08. > :41:10.than a cleaner vehicle and that is madness, we need to change that and

:41:11. > :41:13.there has to be some compensation from the motor industry. They've

:41:14. > :41:18.allowed people to buy these cars that are emitting more than they

:41:19. > :41:25.said they were so there's got to be recall and compensation so that

:41:26. > :41:33.people aren't penalised. ?80,000 for one Laurie! The government can't

:41:34. > :41:39.just go around handing out new lorries, can it? I think there has

:41:40. > :41:43.to be a proper compensation scheme. We are not going to click our

:41:44. > :41:46.fingers and it will change overnight but the technology is there. It

:41:47. > :41:52.isn't like we haven't got euro six lorries and we can't find them. Lets

:41:53. > :41:58.not to delay it, it's been going on for seven years, it's just not

:41:59. > :42:02.acceptable. The government needs to step up to the plate quickly. This

:42:03. > :42:06.is taken too long. From our perspective we are concerned about

:42:07. > :42:11.the future. And also very concerned, if that message has not come about,

:42:12. > :42:17.concerned about how we want cleaner trucks on the road. So it's critical

:42:18. > :42:26.to get euro six technology more broadly across the roads of the UK.

:42:27. > :42:31.You were coming in, doctor? The best way to think about the cost is if we

:42:32. > :42:35.had tap water which had these facts such as causing cancer and affecting

:42:36. > :42:41.growth and reducing lung growth and bringing forward deaths, we would

:42:42. > :42:45.invest a lot of money in cleaning and up. We are now in the position

:42:46. > :42:50.where we need to think about air in the same way as water, and invest in

:42:51. > :42:56.a healthy environment, because we will breathe it, and we don't want

:42:57. > :43:00.it to have the adverse effects of pollution on our own bodies. Thank

:43:01. > :43:04.you all, gentlemen. We will keep an eye on what is happening at the High

:43:05. > :43:13.Court today and bring it to everyone watching.

:43:14. > :43:19.Some breaking crime figures, figures for England and Wales show the

:43:20. > :43:25.number of crimes recorded by police in 2016 was up by 9% on the previous

:43:26. > :43:29.year. Police recorded 4.8 million offences in all. The office for

:43:30. > :43:33.National statistics said the large volume increase is driving this

:43:34. > :43:36.trend, thought to reflect changes in recording processes rather than

:43:37. > :43:45.crime. So more crimes are being reported. It said there appeared to

:43:46. > :43:50.be smaller yet generally increases in homicide and knife crime. And

:43:51. > :43:54.smaller increases in some offences were recording practice is likely to

:43:55. > :44:00.have been a driving factor including burglary and robbery. And a survey

:44:01. > :44:04.of England and Wales showed no significant statistical change

:44:05. > :44:07.compared to 2015. Those figures just coming into us from our home affairs

:44:08. > :44:11.correspondent Danny Shaw. Coming up. Boris Johnson warns Syria that any

:44:12. > :44:13.further chemical attacks We get Labour's reaction

:44:14. > :44:23.to those comments. Severe bleeding after childbirth

:44:24. > :44:25.kills more than a hundred thousand Postpartum haemorrhage can be

:44:26. > :44:28.experienced by any woman but it's in the poorest countries where it

:44:29. > :44:31.most often ends up being fatal. Now the trial of an inexpensive

:44:32. > :44:34.and widely available drug in 21 countries has proved so successful

:44:35. > :44:37.experts think it could stop more The BBC's global

:44:38. > :44:39.health correspondent Having a baby can be extremely

:44:40. > :44:47.dangerous here in Pakistan. For every 100,000 births

:44:48. > :44:49.in the country in 2015, The leading cause of death -

:44:50. > :45:01.severe blood loss. Nasheen gave birth to a little

:45:02. > :45:04.girl two weeks ago. TRANSLATION: I was bleeding so much

:45:05. > :45:12.I felt like I was going to die. The doctor had to remove my

:45:13. > :45:17.uterus to save my life. But there could be another lifeline

:45:18. > :45:27.to mothers like Nasheen. This hospital was part of a major

:45:28. > :45:29.international study which found that the cheap and easily accessible

:45:30. > :45:31.drug, tranexamic acid, which helps with blood clotting,

:45:32. > :45:34.could prevent a third of deaths from what is called

:45:35. > :45:44.postpartum haemorrhage. Tranexamic acid is being used for,

:45:45. > :45:49.say, heavy menstrual bleeding. It is being used for surgeries

:45:50. > :45:53.where bleeding is a little more. It is being used for trauma patients

:45:54. > :45:57.but it is not really being used Any drug which can reduce it to 5%,

:45:58. > :46:02.10%, 20%, whatever, Let's speak now to Ursula Brunetti

:46:03. > :46:11.who suffered from postpartum haemorrhage when she gave birth

:46:12. > :46:13.to twins two years ago, Haleema Shakur, Associate Professor

:46:14. > :46:16.at the London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine

:46:17. > :46:17.which led the trial, and Professor Rizwana Chaudhry,

:46:18. > :46:20.head of obstetrics and gynaecology at a free government

:46:21. > :46:42.hospital in Pakistan, Ursula, it sounds like you had a

:46:43. > :46:50.horrendous experience. What happened? I had a very easy

:46:51. > :46:57.pregnancy. But my labour was traumatic. I lost four litres of

:46:58. > :47:02.blood. I had a transfusion. I was lucky not to lose my womb. It

:47:03. > :47:08.happened after I had an appeasing to me to deliver my son. The panic

:47:09. > :47:15.button was pressed because the sheets were drenched with blood. I

:47:16. > :47:24.ended up having to go to theatre. My daughter was delivered. I didn't

:47:25. > :47:29.stop bleeding, basically. At what point did you realise something is

:47:30. > :47:33.going very badly wrong? When the room filled with people and I was

:47:34. > :47:39.told I needed to go to theatre. That is when I started to realise it was

:47:40. > :47:43.very serious. When I could feel myself losing consciousness and

:47:44. > :47:47.effectively nearly dying I remember the room just vanishing and

:47:48. > :47:53.everything fading to black and feeling panicked I couldn't stay

:47:54. > :47:56.conscious. My twins at that point were being delivered. They were in

:47:57. > :48:03.the corner of the room with my husband. I felt very isolated and it

:48:04. > :48:08.was just a nightmare, really. Did you have any idea that this was an

:48:09. > :48:13.issue before you gave birth? No, I think for me that was part of the

:48:14. > :48:19.shock afterwards, but I hadn't really heard about postpartum

:48:20. > :48:22.haemorrhage. Women dying in childbirth, for me, is something

:48:23. > :48:29.that happened in the Victorian age, you don't hear about it in today's

:48:30. > :48:35.world. I was aware that in other countries there are more risks

:48:36. > :48:39.because the facilities and hospitals are not readily available. But it is

:48:40. > :48:45.something I hadn't come across. In all of the classes I went to it was

:48:46. > :48:50.never discussed. Let's get a perspective from Pakistan. How

:48:51. > :48:58.common is this kind of story in the hospital where you work? Since I

:48:59. > :49:03.work in an important government hospital where there are about

:49:04. > :49:13.20,000 deliveries per year, since it is a government hospital it is free.

:49:14. > :49:18.So we see this very often in Pakistan. There are lots of cases of

:49:19. > :49:21.postpartum haemorrhage where somebody has given birth outside of

:49:22. > :49:25.the hospital and then they are brought to the Hospital in a

:49:26. > :49:29.terrible state. Sometimes they have given birth in hospital and they are

:49:30. > :49:33.already suffering from malnutrition. Once they deliver they going to

:49:34. > :49:37.postpartum haemorrhage. This can become very difficult to control.

:49:38. > :49:42.The majority of the deaths which occur in Pakistan are as a result of

:49:43. > :49:49.postpartum haemorrhage. Sorry for interrupting. I was going to ask, if

:49:50. > :49:54.this is happening to a woman in your hospital what options are there

:49:55. > :49:59.right now to help them? Before and after the trial we are going to see

:50:00. > :50:03.the difference now with the tranexamic acid, but we started off,

:50:04. > :50:07.I mean, we were willing to take part in the trial because we wanted to

:50:08. > :50:13.help the patients in whatever way we can. There is a drug which is very

:50:14. > :50:16.easily available. And it is a cheap drug. So the majority of the people

:50:17. > :50:23.over here can afford it, or the hospitals can. Since the results

:50:24. > :50:28.show that there has been a reduction of one third in the deaths due to

:50:29. > :50:33.bleeding in the group which received the tranexamic acid, compared to the

:50:34. > :50:36.group which didn't, I think this should be a very important drug for

:50:37. > :50:44.all cases of maternity is wherever there is a suspicion INAUDIBLE

:50:45. > :50:52.You were involved in this trial. It sounds like a wonder drug. And a

:50:53. > :50:57.cheap drug, which is always welcome. Yes, fantastic news, because this

:50:58. > :51:00.has been over ten years of work. The idea that the trial did not come

:51:01. > :51:07.from us. It came from doctors in Nigeria. We were doing another trial

:51:08. > :51:12.in emergency departments. And they were saying, why are you only doing

:51:13. > :51:16.a trial in men? We see women dying every day in the emergency

:51:17. > :51:21.departments from postpartum haemorrhage. As Ursula said, it

:51:22. > :51:25.isn't something that is talked about here, so it was really something I

:51:26. > :51:30.knew nothing about. Initially I thought it was something totally

:51:31. > :51:34.unimportant. It is only after the doctors kept pushing us eventually

:51:35. > :51:39.we decided to look and see whether the tranexamic acid might be useful

:51:40. > :51:49.or not. We started the trial back in 2010. We engaged over 200 hospitals

:51:50. > :51:53.in 21 countries. Most importantly, women and their families, 20,000

:51:54. > :51:56.women, and their families, gave freely to this trial because without

:51:57. > :52:03.them there would be no new knowledge. This was at the point, as

:52:04. > :52:10.you described, Ursula, it is a really life threatening point. To be

:52:11. > :52:14.making dishes and -- to be making decisions at this moment is really

:52:15. > :52:17.important. The women and the families were making these decisions

:52:18. > :52:20.but they didn't know if it would help or not. They were deciding

:52:21. > :52:23.because they felt something needed to be done. And if it was to help

:52:24. > :52:32.anybody it would help women in the future. Does this help women in the

:52:33. > :52:37.UK? Would Ursula have had this used on her? At the time probably not. I

:52:38. > :52:41.don't know what drugs were administered during my haemorrhage.

:52:42. > :52:44.But I had lots of trips, injections, and everything else, but the

:52:45. > :52:47.hospital was well prepared with blood before I even got the pushing

:52:48. > :52:54.stage of my labour. They made sure they had my blood type available

:52:55. > :52:57.should there be a problem. Hospitals in London and in the UK are equipped

:52:58. > :53:01.to deal with all sorts of complications. I feel passionately

:53:02. > :53:05.that this drug is going to be able to help women all over the world.

:53:06. > :53:13.You were lucky to have blood available. As Rizwana said, in

:53:14. > :53:18.Pakistan, Nigeria, countries like that, the availability of blood is

:53:19. > :53:26.very difficult. The reason why these doctors really wanted more

:53:27. > :53:30.treatments available to them was because getting blood from the

:53:31. > :53:36.population can be difficult. Its availability, electricity to store

:53:37. > :53:41.it, etc. So having a heat stable drug, which is relatively cheap, and

:53:42. > :53:46.can be easily administered, that is all really important factors about

:53:47. > :53:50.the treatment. Professor Choudhury, after this trial you were saying it

:53:51. > :53:55.is great you can now use this drug. How much is the Pakistan government

:53:56. > :53:59.able to pay for it? Will it be available to all women in your

:54:00. > :54:08.hospital should they need it? What I think is that it should be on the

:54:09. > :54:13.essential drug list. If it reduces mortality by one third it should be

:54:14. > :54:19.one of the essential drugs. This is the first time ever that it is

:54:20. > :54:22.evidence -based that 20,000 women suffered from postpartum haemorrhage

:54:23. > :54:27.were taken into the trial and this drug was tested against a placebo.

:54:28. > :54:34.There is no doubting that that about one third of the bleeding women were

:54:35. > :54:38.relieved of death, at least. A hysterectomy had to be preceded,

:54:39. > :54:48.there were multiple reasons for that, but the deaths were definitely

:54:49. > :55:02.due to bleeding. -- a hysterectomy had to be proceded. The most

:55:03. > :55:08.important thing about the drug is that it is readily available. It was

:55:09. > :55:12.always being used already, but there should now be guidelines regarding

:55:13. > :55:17.its use in Pakistan. You went to Nigeria and you saw how first-hand

:55:18. > :55:25.it really can work. Yes. I was doing a little film in Nigeria. We saw in

:55:26. > :55:31.front of us a woman starting to bleed. The family kindly agreed for

:55:32. > :55:36.us to film. I am a nurse by background. I went to see what I

:55:37. > :55:39.could do to help. The only thing I could do in that situation was hold

:55:40. > :55:44.her hand. She said to me, please don't let me die. And I couldn't

:55:45. > :55:48.actually say to her she wasn't going to die because women in Nigeria die

:55:49. > :55:56.all the time from postpartum haemorrhage. They are aware that

:55:57. > :56:00.women died. To promise her that she wouldn't was something that really

:56:01. > :56:05.was very traumatic for me, because at the time I said I would do

:56:06. > :56:09.everything I can, but I was so fearful she was going to die. Next

:56:10. > :56:16.morning, when I went to see her, and she was alive, that was the best

:56:17. > :56:19.moment of my life. I've never seen a smile so huge on a human being in my

:56:20. > :56:26.life, the fact she was alive. She had twins. Throughout all of that

:56:27. > :56:37.all she kept saying also was, my babies alive? -- are my babies

:56:38. > :56:43.alive? This is what doctors and midwives around the world are

:56:44. > :56:47.dealing with all the time. Thank you all for speaking to us.

:56:48. > :57:04.This morning we are talking about design the

:57:05. > :57:13.cats, -- this morning we are talking about designer cat breeding. Do let

:57:14. > :58:15.us know what you think. it has been a chilly start of the

:58:16. > :58:18.day for most of us and a cloudy one for others. This is an image from

:58:19. > :58:29.Cumbria. There is quite a bit of cloud around

:58:30. > :58:32.today. More than we have seen of late. After that bright sunny start

:58:33. > :58:36.in the south it'll cloud over. Showers dotted around. In between

:58:37. > :58:41.all of that we will see some sunny breaks developing. Into the

:58:42. > :58:46.afternoon we will still have a fair bit of cloud around. And also some

:58:47. > :58:49.showers across East Anglia, the Midlands, heading down towards the

:58:50. > :58:55.south. We will see the sunny breaks develop. South-west England holding

:58:56. > :59:00.onto a lot of dry weather as we go through the day. After a sunny start

:59:01. > :59:05.dwellers, cloud will build, introducing showers. -- after a

:59:06. > :59:10.sunny start over Wales. Limited sunshine over Northern Ireland. For

:59:11. > :59:17.Scotland, the West has the thick of cloud and showers. Any sunshine in

:59:18. > :59:22.the East, could introduce temperatures as high as 14. Over the

:59:23. > :59:28.East of England, back into the showers, a fair bit of cloud, but we

:59:29. > :59:30.will still see some brightness. Overnight, the weather front

:59:31. > :59:37.producing the showers is here and it will continue to push cloud and the

:59:38. > :59:41.odd shower. But there are clear skies in its wake. That means the

:59:42. > :59:45.countryside will have lower temperatures and we will have some

:59:46. > :59:50.frost around. Tomorrow, we start with sunshine after the chilly

:59:51. > :59:54.start. Towards the West, cloudy start, but we will see the holes in

:59:55. > :59:59.the cloud developed. Some showers here and there. It will not feel as

:00:00. > :00:04.cold as today. A wind changing direction to wind more

:00:05. > :00:08.south-easterly one. To the weekend, fine and dry on Saturday, breezy

:00:09. > :00:13.day. But on Sunday, this low pressure is coming our way and it'll

:00:14. > :00:17.bring rain with it. You can tell that it is also going to be pretty

:00:18. > :00:24.windy. Saturday, we start on a cloudy note. Some brightness

:00:25. > :00:28.developing. If you showers. Highs up to 15. And Sunday, this area of low

:00:29. > :00:32.pressure bringing in the rain from the south-west. Progressing

:00:33. > :00:40.north-eastwards. Windy but drier with a few showers ahead of it.

:00:41. > :00:46.Hello, it's Thursday April 27th, I'm Chloe Tilley.

:00:47. > :00:53.Boris Johnson warns Syria that any further chemical attack could result

:00:54. > :00:55.in UK military action against the regime.

:00:56. > :00:57.If the Americans choose to act again and ask

:00:58. > :00:59.us to help I think it would

:01:00. > :01:02.Should a student-led campaign against Israel be banned

:01:03. > :01:10.Some students say it's increasing anti-Semitism.

:01:11. > :01:17.CHANTING I thought I was in the middle of a

:01:18. > :01:20.war between pro-Israeli students and pro-Palestinian students. We will

:01:21. > :01:29.hear from both sides of the debate. "I'm not a thug who's been harassing

:01:30. > :01:32.people -" the words of the 'Songs of Praise' presenter who tells us

:01:33. > :01:35.it's been three years of hell trying to clear her name,

:01:36. > :01:37.after her son-in-law's new girlfriend made

:01:38. > :01:41.up lies about her. I thought in this country would all

:01:42. > :01:52.innocent until proved guilty but in that instance I was clearly guilty

:01:53. > :01:54.until proved innocent innocent! Let's get the news now at ten

:01:55. > :01:57.o'clock. Thank you, good morning. The Foreign Secretary has said

:01:58. > :02:00.that the government would be open to join strikes against Syria

:02:01. > :02:02.without Parliamentary approval. Speaking this morning Boris Johnson

:02:03. > :02:05.said it would be "very difficult for Britain to say "no" if the US

:02:06. > :02:08.asks us to join in future He was speaking to Radio

:02:09. > :02:20.4's Today programme. If the Americans were forced once

:02:21. > :02:24.again by the actions of the Assad regime and don't forget it was Assad

:02:25. > :02:31.who unleashed murder upon his own citizens, weapons that were banned

:02:32. > :02:35.almost 100 years ago, if the Americans choose to act again and

:02:36. > :02:40.ask us to help I think it would be very difficult to save No.

:02:41. > :02:42.Figures just released show the number of crimes recorded

:02:43. > :02:45.by police in England and Wales in 2016 rose by 9%

:02:46. > :02:56.The Office for National Statistics said the increase reflected changes

:02:57. > :02:58.in recording processes and practices rather than crime.

:02:59. > :03:01.But it said there appeared to be "smaller but genuine increases"

:03:02. > :03:04.Labour is promising to tackle the housing crisis

:03:05. > :03:07.by building a million homes - half of them council houses -

:03:08. > :03:12.if the party wins the general election.

:03:13. > :03:14.Labour claims the number of affordable homes being built

:03:15. > :03:18.But the Conservatives say they have a clear plan to build more

:03:19. > :03:20.affordable housing - with the number of new homes under

:03:21. > :03:22.construction up three quarters since 2010.

:03:23. > :03:24.After days of military manoeuvres, the Trump administration now seems

:03:25. > :03:27.to be reverting to the policy of past presidents -

:03:28. > :03:28.tighter sanctions and diplomatic pressure -

:03:29. > :03:33.to end North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.

:03:34. > :03:36.South Korea has also agreed to implement swift punitive measures

:03:37. > :03:39.against North Korea in the event of what it caled a further

:03:40. > :03:42.The Trump administration has also said they were prepared to defend

:03:43. > :03:51.A new study suggests that a cheap and widely available drug

:03:52. > :03:53.could prevent one in three deaths among women who haemorrhage

:03:54. > :04:02.Researchers at the London School of Hygiene

:04:03. > :04:05.and Tropical Medicine said evidence showed the drug -- called T.X.A --

:04:06. > :04:07.had the potential to become a front-line treatment and change

:04:08. > :04:14.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30.

:04:15. > :04:22.Thanks, let's get the sport with Hugh. Former Wimbledon finalist

:04:23. > :04:26.Eugenie Bouchard has levelled the strongest criticism yet at Maria

:04:27. > :04:31.Sharapova, back from a 15 month doping ban calling her if G2 should

:04:32. > :04:34.not be allowed back into tennis. Maria Sharapova won her first match

:04:35. > :04:39.since suspension at the Stuttgart open, beating Roberta Vinci to reach

:04:40. > :04:43.the last 16. She was well received by the crowd but hasn't been

:04:44. > :04:47.welcomed back in the same way by all her fellow players and Eugenie

:04:48. > :04:52.Bouchard is the latest. I don't think that's right. She is a

:04:53. > :04:57.cheater, and I don't think a cheater in any sport should be allowed to

:04:58. > :05:03.play that sport again. It is so unfair to all the other players who

:05:04. > :05:08.do it the right way and are true. So yeah, I think from the WTA it sends

:05:09. > :05:11.the wrong message to young kids, cheat and you will be welcomed back

:05:12. > :05:17.with open arms. I don't think that is right. Eight straight Premier

:05:18. > :05:21.League wins for Spurs, they've reduced jerseys lead to four points

:05:22. > :05:27.at the top of the Premier League, Christian Eriksen scoring the only

:05:28. > :05:32.goal of the game, what a great goal, there is less than a month to go of

:05:33. > :05:36.the season and they still in touch with the leaders. Five games left

:05:37. > :05:41.and we need to keep close to Chelsea do have a chance. We can cross our

:05:42. > :05:45.fingers that they will lose points and try to end better than we did

:05:46. > :05:50.last season, give ourselves that extra boost to show what we are

:05:51. > :05:58.capable of. Spurs's next game is on Sunday against North London rivals

:05:59. > :06:02.Arsenal, they won 1-0 last night to boost their chances of finishing in

:06:03. > :06:05.the Premier League top four. Sunderland on the brink of

:06:06. > :06:11.relegation however after losing to Middlesbrough, Marten de Roon

:06:12. > :06:14.scoring the only goal of game. Middlesbrough in trouble themselves

:06:15. > :06:19.but Sunderland could be sent down as early as this weekend. The first

:06:20. > :06:23.World Snooker semifinals afternoon is a repeat of the final last year,

:06:24. > :06:28.Mark Selby against Ding Junhui. Ding Junhui made it two by beating heart

:06:29. > :06:32.champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, Ronnie insists he's in a good place even

:06:33. > :06:38.though he hasn't won ranking tournament all season. I love what I

:06:39. > :06:41.do. So why would I not do it because I'm not winning tournaments or get

:06:42. > :06:45.the hump because I'm not winning. When you love what you do, it's like

:06:46. > :06:49.all the stuff that comes with Snooker is a bonus. The real love is

:06:50. > :06:59.just getting your snooker cue out of your case. If you could play as good

:07:00. > :07:04.as me, mate, you would love it well! Is probably right. The headlines at

:07:05. > :07:09.1030. That's all for now. Let's go to Westminster for news about Boris

:07:10. > :07:12.Johnson and the comments he's been making about Syria. Norman Smith is

:07:13. > :07:25.there. What exactly has he been saying? With his first intervention

:07:26. > :07:29.in the election campaign he has caused waves, not only because of

:07:30. > :07:33.the flamboyant language with which he described Jeremy Corbyn but Babs

:07:34. > :07:38.because he suggested that if Donald Trump launches another missile

:07:39. > :07:42.strike against President Assad, Britain would probably join in as

:07:43. > :07:46.well if asked. And also leaving open the option that Britain might join

:07:47. > :07:49.in without necessarily getting the backing of MPs because there's now a

:07:50. > :07:54.well-established convention that when we get involved in military

:07:55. > :07:58.action it needs to be approved by MPs unless it is a pressing

:07:59. > :08:03.emergency. Of course it matters because Jeremy Corbyn has a very

:08:04. > :08:05.different approach on this issue. He was highly critical of the last

:08:06. > :08:20.Christmas strike. He has opposed intervention in the

:08:21. > :08:22.Middle East. It matters as well because some people will perhaps be

:08:23. > :08:25.wary about whether we are just going along to easily with Donald Trump

:08:26. > :08:27.and it matters as well because they will be Conservative MPs and easy at

:08:28. > :08:30.the prospect that we might somehow get involved in military action

:08:31. > :08:32.without the approval of the Houses of Parliament. This is what Boris

:08:33. > :08:35.Johnson said on the Today programme on Radio 4.

:08:36. > :08:38.If the Americans were forced again by the actions of the Assad regime,

:08:39. > :08:40.don't forget it was Assad who unleashed murder upon his own

:08:41. > :08:43.citizens, weapons that were banned almost 100 years ago, if the

:08:44. > :08:47.Americans choose to act again and ask us to help,

:08:48. > :08:54.as I say, I think it will be very difficult to say no.

:08:55. > :09:01.It wasn't just Mr Johnson's remarks about Syria, it was a very personal

:09:02. > :09:08.attack launched on Jeremy Corbyn this morning in the Sun newspaper

:09:09. > :09:14.were Mr Johnson described him as an old mutton-headed mugwump. And he

:09:15. > :09:19.urged people not to discount Mr Corbyn and feel him, I am quoting

:09:20. > :09:26.Boris Johnson, as a benign Islington herbivore. -- and think of him like

:09:27. > :09:32.that. Behind that flamboyant language Mr Johnson is trying to as

:09:33. > :09:37.it were raised the prospect of Mr Corbyn possibly becoming Prime

:09:38. > :09:41.Minister, he says it would be a real danger for Britain in terms of the

:09:42. > :09:46.economy and security. Inevitably, there are those who take the view

:09:47. > :09:53.that this was inappropriate language to use in a general election

:09:54. > :09:59.campaign. And it demeans politics. Already the Labour Party has said

:10:00. > :10:03.that it demeans the office of Foreign Secretary. So there is a

:10:04. > :10:07.danger that it will backfire and enable Mr Corbyn to portray himself

:10:08. > :10:12.as the man standing up against the old-style political establishment.

:10:13. > :10:16.I'm joined by the former Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown. Let's just

:10:17. > :10:22.think about that. The Syria issue. How do you react to Mr Johnson 's

:10:23. > :10:26.remarks this morning? Nine how do you react to such a foolish thing?

:10:27. > :10:30.The world has been brought to the edge of nuclear catastrophe by two

:10:31. > :10:38.mavericks, Kim Jong-il and Donald Trump. Muggy our blizzard Foreign

:10:39. > :10:45.Secretary seems to want to join the party! There's no mention of

:10:46. > :10:52.international law. The new law seems to be that whatever America does we

:10:53. > :10:56.follow. This is dangerous. And for a Foreign Secretary to do something

:10:57. > :11:00.with no connection to international law except that the Americans go

:11:01. > :11:05.ahead is not in the tradition of this country, I think. Mr Johnson

:11:06. > :11:09.left open the option of other parliament would be consulted. He

:11:10. > :11:14.said it would have to be tested. Is it possible that of Mr Trump said

:11:15. > :11:18.they had to strike again that we would get involved without

:11:19. > :11:21.Parliament? Sometimes a parliament has to act quickly and sometimes it

:11:22. > :11:26.means they have to go ahead without the backing of Parliament. It's not

:11:27. > :11:30.the backing of Parliament that is, to me, the main thing, it's the fact

:11:31. > :11:34.that you part company with international law and in many ways

:11:35. > :11:40.with rational action. Mr Johnson seems to make it up on the back of

:11:41. > :11:45.an envelope and blurt it out! As an unguided missile he seems to make

:11:46. > :11:51.the world's delicate situation far worse, and if anyone wants it to go

:11:52. > :12:00.it alone perhaps Mr Johnson will be sent. What if we say, President

:12:01. > :12:10.Assad is getting away with atrocities, we cannot just turn

:12:11. > :12:14.away. Action was taken, we went back to the 1920s, he was not to be

:12:15. > :12:18.allowed to part company from that, has a Commons voted against it 18

:12:19. > :12:24.months ago and it was right to act but this is totally different. This

:12:25. > :12:28.simply says if Mr Trump wants to do something in my view dangerous and

:12:29. > :12:31.probably unnecessary in the Syria, whatever the rest of the world says

:12:32. > :12:39.and what of international law says, we will assist them. That is not

:12:40. > :12:43.international diplomacy, that is making yourself the Playboy of the

:12:44. > :12:51.United States. Mr Johnson described Mr Corbyn as a mutton-headed mugwump

:12:52. > :12:57.and a benign Islington only herbivore. He cannot resist a phrase

:12:58. > :13:03.like this. Without wanting to sound too pompous, the national dialogue

:13:04. > :13:07.in terms of an election... What would the rest of the world think

:13:08. > :13:12.about a Foreign Secretary who uses language like that. Mr Johnson is a

:13:13. > :13:17.highly effective clown but the right place for a clown is in the circus,

:13:18. > :13:22.not in the government. Thank you, Paddy Ashdown. It will be

:13:23. > :13:26.interesting to hear if we have more outings from Mr Johnson, the word

:13:27. > :13:31.was that he would be sidelined in the campaign, his people replied

:13:32. > :13:34.that he would have a major role. You do wonder because the language that

:13:35. > :13:38.uses doesn't really fit in with Theresa May's style and perhaps they

:13:39. > :13:44.fear that he is getting the sort of headlines that they really don't

:13:45. > :13:48.want. Plenty of time, Norman! Am sure we will talk about it in the

:13:49. > :13:54.next few weeks. Coming up, how an administrative has led to hundreds

:13:55. > :13:57.of refugee children being prevented from coming to the UK. We will get

:13:58. > :14:00.more on this. The Charity Commission

:14:01. > :14:02.is investigating concerns about 17 students' unions that campaign

:14:03. > :14:04.for a boycott of Israel. Support for the BDS movement has

:14:05. > :14:06.been growing on British campuses. It stands for boycott divestment and

:14:07. > :14:13.sanctions movement. But critics accuse it of fuelling

:14:14. > :14:15.anti-Semitism and attacks John Ironmonger has

:14:16. > :14:51.this exclusive story No one protected us. People banging

:14:52. > :14:55.on the windows, breaking through doors. I thought I was in the middle

:14:56. > :15:00.of a war between pro-Israeli students and pro-Palestinian

:15:01. > :15:03.students. It is fair to say that students are among the most

:15:04. > :15:07.politically engaged people in society, known for having strong

:15:08. > :15:11.opinions, for standing together on things like climate change, tuition

:15:12. > :15:16.fees and civil rights but there is one subject that unites students and

:15:17. > :15:25.bitterly divides them and that is Israel.

:15:26. > :15:33.The Jewish state of Israel is deeply controversial, accused of wide

:15:34. > :15:40.ranging human rights abuses against the Palestinian people, and

:15:41. > :15:45.provoking anger around the world. So when you have these situations... We

:15:46. > :15:50.have heard from Jewish students who claim they have become scapegoats

:15:51. > :15:53.for anti-Israel hostility. Subjected to verbal harassment, even physical

:15:54. > :15:57.attacks. And we found that some student bodies are now being

:15:58. > :16:17.investigated for ignoring a legal duty to protect them.

:16:18. > :16:19.Devora Khafi goes to Queen Mary University in London.

:16:20. > :16:21.She says she's been targeted time and again for having

:16:22. > :16:24.Have you ever taken any of these attacks personally?

:16:25. > :16:28.You know, it's not about political opinions any more, it's more

:16:29. > :16:31.about if I ever express a viewpoint in class or on social

:16:32. > :16:33.media, I get comments, in public or in private,

:16:34. > :16:35.saying, you know, that's the Jewish girl, and pointing

:16:36. > :16:40.She says the abuse turned physical at UCL in October when she attended

:16:41. > :16:42.a speech given by a former officer in the Israeli Defence Force.

:16:43. > :16:45.This one girl used her back and pushed me against the doors

:16:46. > :16:48.and I was screaming for her to get off me.

:16:49. > :16:50.My friend helped me get out of the crowd.

:16:51. > :16:52.I felt very claustrophobic and outside I had a panic attack

:16:53. > :16:55.and I couldn't breathe, I felt like my chest

:16:56. > :17:03.The event was hijacked by pro-Palestinian students

:17:04. > :17:05.who claimed the speaker was complicit in

:17:06. > :17:14.It was eventually moved to a secret location.

:17:15. > :17:17.We were running towards the room and my friends got inside,

:17:18. > :17:19.I saw protesters running around campus trying to look for us

:17:20. > :17:22.and one of my friends had a Jewish skull cap on.

:17:23. > :17:26.I was about to tell him to take it off and I felt really disgusted

:17:27. > :17:33.at myself that that thought would even come into my head.

:17:34. > :17:35.So you felt you had to shield your identity?

:17:36. > :17:38.And my grandparents were refugees, they left Afghanistan

:17:39. > :17:41.because they were Jewish and here I am, as a proud Jewish

:17:42. > :17:50.student in the modern age at UCL and I still have to do this.

:17:51. > :17:52.Police were called to prevent further clashes and the event

:17:53. > :17:55.was able to proceed but footage we have obtained shows protesters

:17:56. > :18:14.shouting "Shame" at Jewish students as they left the venue.

:18:15. > :18:17.How has this sort of thing effected your everyday life at university?

:18:18. > :18:21.It's been two years of just constant fighting for our freedom of speech,

:18:22. > :18:24.I've definitely missed a lot of deadlines for example,

:18:25. > :18:30.I've had counselling, I've had a few anxiety episode

:18:31. > :18:39.Not all Jewish students share the same views.

:18:40. > :18:42.Sai Englert is a member of the Palestine Society at SOAS.

:18:43. > :18:45.There's this kind of image that, you know, the Palestine Society

:18:46. > :18:48.is running wild, that it's very dangerous for Jewish students etc

:18:49. > :18:50.and that is something that I don't recognise at all.

:18:51. > :18:52.When there are cases of unfair harassment, cases of racism,

:18:53. > :18:58.I actually think the Palestine movement and its organisations

:18:59. > :19:00.and its kind of official representatives etc is actually very

:19:01. > :19:02.careful to acknowledge that, to condemn it,

:19:03. > :19:13.Anti-Semitism at British universities has doubled

:19:14. > :19:21.Incidents like Nazi graffiti, abuse and assaults increased from 21

:19:22. > :19:24.But we've heard claims the bodies which represent students

:19:25. > :19:33.Students unions in increasing numbers have been voting to adopt

:19:34. > :19:35.strict anti-Israel policies under the banner of a global

:19:36. > :19:37.movement called BDS - Boycott, Divestment,

:19:38. > :19:56.SOAS students union in London has been leading the charge.

:19:57. > :20:00.Why are we allowing Israel in the 21st century to get

:20:01. > :20:04.It's about ending Israeli impunity and ending complicity of those

:20:05. > :20:06.institutes and bodies etc that we might be a part

:20:07. > :20:16.It's about ending our own complicity too.

:20:17. > :20:18.BDS pressures Israel to end the occupation of Arab lands

:20:19. > :20:20.by calling for the boycott of Israeli companies

:20:21. > :20:24.I think SOAS in a lot of ways is a beacon actually for a lot

:20:25. > :20:28.It is so important that we lead this movement.

:20:29. > :20:30.Since the referendum at SOAS, many more students unions have

:20:31. > :20:33.signed up to the movement but some people claim that BDS is threatening

:20:34. > :20:42.So students unions talk a lot about safe space, and I think

:20:43. > :20:45.a space which is specifically, explicitly boycotting Israel is not

:20:46. > :20:50.a safe space for Israeli students or for many other students who have

:20:51. > :20:55.various kinds of links to Israel, or for other students who simply

:20:56. > :20:58.are worried by the politics of the singling out

:20:59. > :21:02.of Israel as a specific, unique evil on the planet.

:21:03. > :21:05.So do you think these students unions in question may be in danger

:21:06. > :21:14.of alienating their members that are Jewish?

:21:15. > :21:17.I think it is profoundly alienating for most Jewish students.

:21:18. > :21:19.Most Jewish students have as part of their Jewish identity

:21:20. > :21:23.some kind of attachment or a relationship to Israel.

:21:24. > :21:26.In total we found 17 students unions who have endorsed BDS

:21:27. > :21:31.and they include some of the largest in the UK like Manchester and UCL.

:21:32. > :21:37.Since 2010, students unions have become registered charities and this

:21:38. > :21:42.means they now have a legal duty to act in the interests

:21:43. > :21:47.Political campaigns must not become their focus and they are not

:21:48. > :21:49.allowed to comment publicly on issues that don't affect

:21:50. > :21:55.the welfare of their members as students.

:21:56. > :21:57.We raised these findings and the Charity Commission has

:21:58. > :21:59.confirmed it is now examining concerns about the involvement

:22:00. > :22:05.of a number of students union charities in the BDS movement.

:22:06. > :22:08.It has said the concerns will be assessed consistently while taking

:22:09. > :22:10.into account the circumstances of each individual charity and that,

:22:11. > :22:19.where appropriate, they may need to take regulatory action.

:22:20. > :22:22.I went to an event at Queen Mary talking about BDS and so on with

:22:23. > :22:30.There was a lot of hate speech going on, basically against Israel.

:22:31. > :22:33.As soon as we started asking questions they started saying,

:22:34. > :22:35.you were sent by the embassy, and everybody started booing at us.

:22:36. > :22:38.Your state is a fantasy world for Jews.

:22:39. > :22:48.And next to us was a guy sitting and he started saying very

:22:49. > :22:53.intimidating stuff towards the girls that were with me, sexist stuff.

:22:54. > :22:57.And as we left the event, we thought we were being followed by this guy

:22:58. > :23:00.and we had to run to the station because we had heard about this guy

:23:01. > :23:04.I just thought, this is not how I'm supposed to be feeling because I've

:23:05. > :23:13.asked questions here at a debate at a university.

:23:14. > :23:15.What is fuelling this anti-Semitism, if you like, on campus?

:23:16. > :23:18.I think when institutions accept BDS and when a students union accepts

:23:19. > :23:20.BDS, when the National Union of Students accepts BDS,

:23:21. > :23:24.when you have your own professors signing petitions to boycott Israel,

:23:25. > :23:29.when you see the pro-Palestinian cause kind of twisted

:23:30. > :23:31.into an anti-Israel cause, and that is the problem with this,

:23:32. > :23:34.it's not pro-Palestinian, it's anti-Israel, when you see that

:23:35. > :23:49.happening, you understand this is what is fuelling anti-Semitism.

:23:50. > :23:52.The NUS, which is a confederation of 600 students unions,

:23:53. > :23:54.held a survey this month of their Jewish members.

:23:55. > :23:56.The vast majority of respondents felt uncomfortable

:23:57. > :23:59.with their students union having a BDS policy but the NUS

:24:00. > :24:03.They refused to be interviewed for this programme and failed

:24:04. > :24:07.A request for comment from the BDS national committee was also declined

:24:08. > :24:09.and of the students unions we contacted that have

:24:10. > :24:11.passed boycott motions, only SOAS was prepared

:24:12. > :24:22.The idea that somehow supporting BDS, supporting boycott,

:24:23. > :24:25.academic boycott etc, is a kind of blank boycott

:24:26. > :24:28.on individuals I think is very dangerous.

:24:29. > :24:31.It's about saying we don't want institutional links, economic links,

:24:32. > :24:33.political links with institutions, governments, companies that are

:24:34. > :24:42.The BDS movement proposes referenda, it doesn't propose to shut down

:24:43. > :24:49.On the contrary, it proposes to open them and to involve

:24:50. > :24:57.Everybody, whatever their background and ideas, should be allowed to be

:24:58. > :24:59.involved in the union and take part in them.

:25:00. > :25:01.That shouldn't stop us from making decisions and from

:25:02. > :25:05.Decisions that alienate certain students?

:25:06. > :25:08.I mean national elections alienate everybody that votes

:25:09. > :25:13.But the government isn't a charity, though.

:25:14. > :25:16.Sure, and maybe there is a question about whether students unions

:25:17. > :25:19.I think when students unions encompass this one-sided view,

:25:20. > :25:22.it's kind of expressing to everyone as a fact that Israelis

:25:23. > :25:25.are in the wrong, they are the enemy of human rights in the world,

:25:26. > :25:38.If you look behind the BDS lens, it calls for these things

:25:39. > :25:40.that are not peaceful, they harm Jewish students

:25:41. > :25:42.and pro-Israel students and they don't support a peaceful

:25:43. > :25:55.Let's talk now to Jonathan Rosenhead, he's

:25:56. > :25:57.an emeritus professor at London School of Economics

:25:58. > :26:03.and he's a member of the BDS movement.

:26:04. > :26:20.Josh Seitler is the President of the Union of Jewish Students.

:26:21. > :26:29.Ariol and 30 has been treated differently. -- Ariol says he has

:26:30. > :26:30.been treated differently because of his religion.

:26:31. > :26:32.And Michael Deas is a masters student

:26:33. > :26:34.at the University of Sussex and a BDS activist.

:26:35. > :26:42.Do you recognise the criticisms from the film? I recognise them, but I

:26:43. > :26:47.don't see them as a reality. I have spoken a dozens of different

:26:48. > :26:51.meetings and there has never been any violence. Any obstructions have

:26:52. > :26:57.been by those trying to interrupt proceedings locally. There has never

:26:58. > :27:01.been any violence. You have chosen a tip of the exception of the rule.

:27:02. > :27:05.There were other examples, a girl said she was jostled, another man

:27:06. > :27:10.said he has been followed. These are not isolated incidents. Do you think

:27:11. > :27:17.tactics are being used which are not appropriate? Nobody can give a

:27:18. > :27:20.blanket statement. But the general picture we have is of rational

:27:21. > :27:25.debate, raising issues which many Jewish students do find

:27:26. > :27:30.uncomfortable. That is the word one of your students used. There is no

:27:31. > :27:35.law against making people feel uncomfortable in politics. There is

:27:36. > :27:38.no law against feeling offended. This isn't anti-Semitic, it is

:27:39. > :27:46.talking about Israel and what they do. Josh, talk to us about the

:27:47. > :27:53.situation on campuses. What do you hear? Dude US students tell you they

:27:54. > :28:00.feel intimidated by the existence of BDS? -- do Jewish students tell you

:28:01. > :28:09.they feel intimidated. Not all Jewish students are anti-BDS. We

:28:10. > :28:16.know some who are involved in the movement against Israel, as well. We

:28:17. > :28:23.see Jewish students constantly standing up. We saw that student who

:28:24. > :28:27.felt intimidated by the tactics of the BDS movement. They don't feel

:28:28. > :28:34.that the conversation being stifled by one side of the debate demonising

:28:35. > :28:42.one side, and oppressors on the other side, being a solution. 68% of

:28:43. > :28:45.Jewish students at student unions who have active BDS policy feel

:28:46. > :28:56.uncomfortable with their Mac reunion. That says a lot. Michael,

:28:57. > :29:00.speak to Josh. -- with their union. I wanted to talk about the

:29:01. > :29:04.lawfulness of BDS. Organisations have been trying to shut down the

:29:05. > :29:08.debate and change the topic of the conversation for more than three

:29:09. > :29:14.years now by bombarding the Charity commission with complaints about

:29:15. > :29:19.student unions. There has not been any action. I don't think they will

:29:20. > :29:23.take action. They know student unions have a legal right to bring

:29:24. > :29:30.up issues students care passionately about. But they also have to protect

:29:31. > :29:35.all students. If some Jewish students on campuses are feeling

:29:36. > :29:40.threatened by the BDS movement don't student unions have a responsibility

:29:41. > :29:44.to protect them, as well? It is important to underline the fact

:29:45. > :29:48.there are lots of Jewish students involved in the movement. There is

:29:49. > :29:57.also a lot of misrepresentation going on. A lot of what is being

:29:58. > :30:01.reacted to is that. BDS is widely supported. Israel has been

:30:02. > :30:05.oppressing Palestinians... We're not here to have a conversation about

:30:06. > :30:10.that. This conversation is about what is happening in campuses up and

:30:11. > :30:13.down the country across the UK. When people are telling us on this

:30:14. > :30:20.programme that they feel threatened by the BDS movement and the tactics

:30:21. > :30:28.being used at times. Ariol, I could see you trying to talk. For me, the

:30:29. > :30:35.BDS movement, I largely agree with it in principle, especially with the

:30:36. > :30:40.settlement boycotts. I think most people could get on board. Even

:30:41. > :30:48.people who identify as Zionist could get on board. I think some of the

:30:49. > :30:52.tactics BDS use and the manner in which they treat, particularly on

:30:53. > :30:56.campuses, Jewish students, it somewhat alienates people who would

:30:57. > :31:03.ordinarily be quite keen to get on board with the principles and aims

:31:04. > :31:08.of the BDS movement. But because of the tactics feel uncomfortable with

:31:09. > :31:09.associated with it. Josh, your cat in the background is somewhat

:31:10. > :31:30.stealing the show, I must say. It has gone now but that was a

:31:31. > :31:34.beautiful moment! If we want to talk about the tactics, a useful thing

:31:35. > :31:39.would be to talk about the campaigns of the BDS movement, one has been

:31:40. > :31:44.against the British Security company G4S which until recently helped

:31:45. > :31:48.Israel's brand the prisons where political prisoners are... BDS are

:31:49. > :31:52.not here to defend themselves, we are not here to talk about what the

:31:53. > :31:59.Ariel movement is trying to achieve, it is what the students are saying.

:32:00. > :32:04.It is not necessarily for Jewish students to support the actions of

:32:05. > :32:10.Ariel. It is when Jewish students are being picked out because they

:32:11. > :32:13.are wearing a star or they are singled out as targets, we should

:32:14. > :32:17.not let this abuse happen and this is why people find the tactics of

:32:18. > :32:23.BDS difficult because they feel Jewish students are victimised for

:32:24. > :32:27.being Jewish and feel they have to stand up for Israel. Of course they

:32:28. > :32:31.don't always have to stand up for it but they are being forced to

:32:32. > :32:37.consistently defend themselves against attacks that are not

:32:38. > :32:41.acceptable. Jonathan? I think anyone who confuses the idea of someone

:32:42. > :32:49.being Jewish and the actions of Israel is making a big mistake.

:32:50. > :32:57.Israel is a state. Jews are a religion, and ethnicity and culture.

:32:58. > :33:01.What about this idea that some Jewish students are being threatened

:33:02. > :33:09.by the behaviour and the tactics. You are changing the language I'm

:33:10. > :33:14.not. The survey said that Jewish students felt uncomfortable, not

:33:15. > :33:20.threatened. Ariel and Josh have both said that they are threatened. I am

:33:21. > :33:25.reflecting their points of view. They it up. A moral panic has made

:33:26. > :33:29.Jewish students sensitive to issues so they feel that there is

:33:30. > :33:33.anti-Semitism whereas there is pungent criticism of the dreadful

:33:34. > :33:38.things Israel does in the Middle East and that is what you don't want

:33:39. > :33:42.Michael to talk about. Firstly, I never accused the BDS movement of

:33:43. > :33:48.being anti-Semitic. I don't think that is something we have said. I

:33:49. > :33:52.think some actions that have supported BDS have been anti-Semitic

:33:53. > :33:57.in the past. I think Jewish students are feeling uncomfortable and this

:33:58. > :34:01.needs to be addressed. Thank you all for speaking to us and thank you for

:34:02. > :34:04.the cat, very entertaining as well. Still to come.

:34:05. > :34:06.How the Songs of Praise presenter, Diane Louise Jordan,

:34:07. > :34:16.In the national newspapers, the first thing you read about me is

:34:17. > :34:21.that I am this bug that has been intimidating people!

:34:22. > :34:24.The Foreign Secretary has said that the government would be open

:34:25. > :34:26.to join strikes against Syria without Parliamentary approval.

:34:27. > :34:37.Boris Johnson said it would be "very difficult for Britain to say no"

:34:38. > :34:41.if the US asks us to join in future military action in Syria.

:34:42. > :34:42.He was speaking to Radio 4's Today programme.

:34:43. > :34:46.If the Americans were forced again by the actions of the Assad regime,

:34:47. > :34:48.don't forget it was Assad who unleashed murder upon his own

:34:49. > :34:51.citizens, weapons that were banned almost 100 years ago, if the

:34:52. > :34:55.Americans choose to act again and ask us to help,

:34:56. > :35:06.as I say, I think it will be very difficult to say no.

:35:07. > :35:08.Labour is promising to tackle the housing crisis

:35:09. > :35:10.by building a million homes - half of them council houses -

:35:11. > :35:12.if the party wins the general election.

:35:13. > :35:14.Labour claims the number of affordable homes being built

:35:15. > :35:18.But the Conservatives say they have a clear plan to build more

:35:19. > :35:21.affordable housing - with the number of new homes under

:35:22. > :35:29.construction up three quarters since 2010.

:35:30. > :35:36.United States now seems to be favouring the use of tighter

:35:37. > :35:40.sanctions and diplomatic pressure to end North Korea's nuclear missile

:35:41. > :35:43.programmes. South Korea and the United States have agreed to

:35:44. > :35:48.implement swift punitive measures against North Korea in the event of

:35:49. > :35:53.what the court further military provocation. The Trump

:35:54. > :35:55.administration has also said they would be ready to defend themselves

:35:56. > :35:58.and their allies. An Illinois couple married

:35:59. > :36:01.for 69 years have died 91-year-old

:36:02. > :36:03.Isaac Vatkin was holding the hand of his wife,

:36:04. > :36:05.89-year-old Teresa, as she succumbed to Alzheimer's

:36:06. > :36:07.disease on Saturday. Staff at the local Highland Park

:36:08. > :36:11.Hospital found Mr and Mrs Vatkin unresponsive and breathing shallowly

:36:12. > :36:13.on Saturday and chose Family members said

:36:14. > :36:30.they took comfort in knowing It's 1035. Amazon has just said they

:36:31. > :36:34.are creating 1200 jobs at a new warehouse in Warrington. More about

:36:35. > :36:40.that later. Let's go to the sport now with Hugh.

:36:41. > :36:48.I lost you! I will wait, I am nothing if not a gentleman! Good

:36:49. > :36:51.morning again. Maria Sharapova has received her strongest criticism yet

:36:52. > :36:55.from a fellow player. She won her first competitive match since

:36:56. > :37:00.returning from her 15 month doping ban beating Roberta Vinci of Italy

:37:01. > :37:03.at the Stuttgart Grand Prix. One sensed she was relieved and

:37:04. > :37:07.delighted after receiving a wild card into the tournament. Former

:37:08. > :37:10.Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard says she does not believe a cheater

:37:11. > :37:15.in any sport should be allowed to play that sport again. It wasn't a

:37:16. > :37:19.great performance that it was a great moment that took Spurs to

:37:20. > :37:22.within four points of Chelsea's lead in the Premier League, Christian

:37:23. > :37:28.Eriksen from a good distance, scoring to give Spurs the win, 1-0

:37:29. > :37:33.at Crystal Palace last night. Middlesbrough's win over Sunderland,

:37:34. > :37:37.also 1-0 means the Black Cats could be relegated as early as this

:37:38. > :37:42.weekend. Marten de Roon scored the only goal of the game. Sunderland 12

:37:43. > :37:47.points from safety with just five games to go. Ding Junhui plays Mark

:37:48. > :37:51.Selby in the first semifinal at the World Snooker Championship later. A

:37:52. > :37:55.repeat of last's final at the crucial ball, which Selby won. Ding

:37:56. > :38:01.Junhui made it through by beating friend and five-time champion Ronnie

:38:02. > :38:06.O'Sullivan. That's it for me, I'll be back later.

:38:07. > :38:12.Thanks, Hugh, lots of comments about the discussion we've just had, Lynn

:38:13. > :38:18.says, I've been watching a programme on anti-Semitic actions at top

:38:19. > :38:21.universities, as an educator it makes me sad that we are not

:38:22. > :38:26.teaching people to see black and white issues in more complex terms.

:38:27. > :38:31.One tweet says that sadly BDS to not see that their cause is not advanced

:38:32. > :38:35.by bullying tactics. Sarah says, what about Palestinian students, how

:38:36. > :38:40.will they feel if we fail to condemn the abuses on them? And Bill says,

:38:41. > :38:45.I'm hugely against the government of Israel Bosman policies and do not

:38:46. > :38:49.blame British Jews for those policies, if some people choose to

:38:50. > :38:51.attack all Jews because of this policy that is despicable. Keep your

:38:52. > :39:02.thoughts coming in. Three years ago Diane Louise Jordan,

:39:03. > :39:09.former Blue Peter presenter and presenter of Songs Of Praise was

:39:10. > :39:16.issued with -- was accused of harassment, and wants to stay away

:39:17. > :39:22.-- want to stay away from her supposed victims. The woman who

:39:23. > :39:29.harassed has now pleaded guilty to making false charges. I was issued

:39:30. > :39:33.with a complaint, three years ago, and then another one, from the same

:39:34. > :39:38.woman saying that I physically and verbally abused her which we now

:39:39. > :39:41.know is completely untrue. She admitted in court yesterday that

:39:42. > :39:46.everything that she said was alive. How did you find out what had

:39:47. > :39:51.happened? Did the police come to you? What was the chain of events?

:39:52. > :39:56.Literally I knew nothing about whatever plans she had against me

:39:57. > :40:02.until three years ago when there was a knock on my front door. Two

:40:03. > :40:06.policemen, now for me when I see two policeman at the door I think,

:40:07. > :40:10.somebody has been in an accident, or someone has been hurt, because you

:40:11. > :40:14.know that you haven't done anything illegal yourself but the Izzy and

:40:15. > :40:20.this notice to me. I had no idea what it was. -- they issued this

:40:21. > :40:28.notice. They said someone had reported that I had been abusive to

:40:29. > :40:33.them. It wasn't a criminal notice but it was a warning, notice, to say

:40:34. > :40:40.that it had been reported to the police and that if I did it again

:40:41. > :40:47.more serious action could be taken. What I found shocking at that moment

:40:48. > :40:52.was, I thought, in this country, we were all innocent until proved

:40:53. > :40:56.guilty but in that instance I was clearly guilty until proved

:40:57. > :41:02.innocent. I was told that I had no option but to sign this notice.

:41:03. > :41:07.Being law-abiding I signed it and that started a series of events.

:41:08. > :41:14.Talk to us about those events. What did it lead on to. You don't have a

:41:15. > :41:20.criminal record as such but it does go on some sort of record. And for

:41:21. > :41:26.me it meant that if you go for any sort of enhanced checking likes EIB

:41:27. > :41:31.or anything like that it will come up and so because I work with

:41:32. > :41:35.children's charities and those sort organisations I'm always being

:41:36. > :41:38.checked in that way. It was obviously going to have a

:41:39. > :41:44.detrimental effect on me. They say that these notices last for about

:41:45. > :41:49.one year. So as long as you keep your nose clean in that year,

:41:50. > :41:52.apparently they are supposed to go although I have found out that they

:41:53. > :41:58.stay on your record longer than that. With me, it was almost to the

:41:59. > :42:07.day that the first one, it was its sell by date, I was issued with

:42:08. > :42:14.another one. And at this stage, I told the police, I think I know what

:42:15. > :42:18.this is about, let me have some time to work out what I was doing on the

:42:19. > :42:23.data that I was supposed to have been intimidating this lady. Sadly,

:42:24. > :42:32.I don't know why, the police did not wait, the notice was issued, and the

:42:33. > :42:36.newspapers got hold of it, they got hold of it both times around, the

:42:37. > :42:40.first time I was in a national newspaper and the second time on the

:42:41. > :42:44.front page of a national newspaper. And some of the charities I was

:42:45. > :42:50.working with, I haven't heard from them since. It has been a tough

:42:51. > :42:56.three years. Really hard trying to clear my name. Having said that, I

:42:57. > :43:02.went back to the police and asked them to really investigate and they

:43:03. > :43:07.have been utterly brilliant. One officer in particular, Ruth Craig, I

:43:08. > :43:11.must praise her because she has been amazing in her diligence in clearing

:43:12. > :43:16.my name. You say that it has affected you work- wise.

:43:17. > :43:23.Emotionally, just as a human being? It must have been very difficult to

:43:24. > :43:28.cope. To tell you the truth, Chloe, I am still reeling from it now. I

:43:29. > :43:38.feel as if I've been on the most horrible three roller coasters. My

:43:39. > :43:45.integrity has been questioned. My sense of trust feels as if it has

:43:46. > :43:49.flown out of the window. I just don't know who is going to come out

:43:50. > :43:57.of the woodwork to perhaps say something about me that is not true.

:43:58. > :44:01.And also that thought, the fact that now, in the national newspapers and

:44:02. > :44:15.online, wherever you go, the first thing that you probably read about

:44:16. > :44:19.me is that I am this sort of thug who has been intimidating people.

:44:20. > :44:23.That is the furthest from what I am. And I did not know until yesterday

:44:24. > :44:27.if my name would be cleared and I would be vindicated. I walked around

:44:28. > :44:32.for a few years having to feel that this was how I would be viewed from

:44:33. > :44:39.now in and it is hard to live with an untruth. How hard is it for

:44:40. > :44:45.police to issue these notices? How much evidence do they need to see

:44:46. > :44:50.them? Presumably that is your worry. I was led to believe that you just

:44:51. > :44:53.need to be in the same place as the person making this allegation

:44:54. > :45:03.against you. I wasn't in the same place. It just seems to me that they

:45:04. > :45:06.really, really to issue. My understanding of these notices is,

:45:07. > :45:13.if somebody, for what ever reason, takes a dislike you are, they can

:45:14. > :45:19.walk into any police station, make an allegation, and before you know

:45:20. > :45:23.it, the innocent person can be slapped with one of these notices.

:45:24. > :45:29.My understanding also is that the police are aware that they are less

:45:30. > :45:37.than perfect. And two years ago I was led to believe that they were

:45:38. > :45:41.going to look in to changing them somewhat, and to date, I don't think

:45:42. > :45:46.anything has been done. So as we speak right now, there are people

:45:47. > :45:50.who are, I say less fortunate than me because they don't have a

:45:51. > :45:55.platform like this to speak about it, and they may not have their

:45:56. > :45:58.names cleared the way I did but there are people right now who are

:45:59. > :46:07.being issued with these notices and have no way of addressing that.

:46:08. > :46:12.The number of crimes recorded by police in England and Wales last

:46:13. > :46:20.year are up on the previous year. Danny is here to tell us more.

:46:21. > :46:25.These figures are for 2016 compared with the previous year. They cover

:46:26. > :46:30.England and Wales. They are offences recorded by police, which are up 9%.

:46:31. > :46:34.There were increases in virtually every category of crime. That is

:46:35. > :46:40.something we haven't seen before. Particularly notable are the fact

:46:41. > :46:44.there are increases in car crime. That's the first time since 2002

:46:45. > :46:49.when new recording processes were introduced that we seen an increase

:46:50. > :46:52.in car crime. Burglary, where there have been significant falls over the

:46:53. > :46:59.past 20 years, we are seeing an increase there, as well. Violent

:47:00. > :47:05.crime is up by 19%. We should add a word of caution. Some of these

:47:06. > :47:09.increases are due to more effective and efficient waste police are

:47:10. > :47:14.counting crimes, recording crimes, different categorisations of some

:47:15. > :47:18.crime. Some of it isn't genuine increases. By the Office of National

:47:19. > :47:23.Statistics, which has released the data, have said they're genuine

:47:24. > :47:28.increases in and killings will stop there were 601 last year compared

:47:29. > :47:31.with 576 the previous year. That is if you take away the Hillsborough

:47:32. > :47:37.deaths, which have been included, as well. There are genuine increases in

:47:38. > :47:42.knife crime and gun crime as well as some other offences. Concerning

:47:43. > :47:47.statistics. Confusingly we have other stats, as well, released. That

:47:48. > :47:50.is in the crime survey. This includes offences which are not

:47:51. > :47:57.reported to police. Figures there are broadly stable. That is

:47:58. > :48:00.confusing. It is but you can say that police are recording more

:48:01. > :48:04.offences and there are some genuine increases that may not yet be picked

:48:05. > :48:11.up by the crime survey. Also out, new figures on assault and self harm

:48:12. > :48:14.in prisons in England and Wales. Not surprising that we are seeing

:48:15. > :48:19.increases overall in society that we are seeing a rise of assaults in

:48:20. > :48:26.custody in England and Wales. They are up 27% to a record 26,000

:48:27. > :48:36.attacks on staff and prisoners. The assaults on staff were up 38%. That

:48:37. > :48:40.is a record high of 26,000 plus. Some really concerning figures in

:48:41. > :48:46.terms of prison violence. Deaths in custody. This is to the period to

:48:47. > :48:51.the end of March, self-inflicted were 113, near record levels in that

:48:52. > :48:56.particular category. Some people say that is linked to numbers of prison

:48:57. > :49:00.officers. We have seen over the past few years a significant fall in the

:49:01. > :49:05.number of prison staff. People say that is making jails less safe.

:49:06. > :49:17.Officers are unable to respond to the incidents as quickly. That is

:49:18. > :49:22.certainly a factor. Also, the former legal highs like Spice which are

:49:23. > :49:26.available in jails. Thank you very much. A mistake has led to 113

:49:27. > :49:32.refugee children being delayed coming into the UK. We will speak to

:49:33. > :49:36.a charity helps these children. Donald Trump's election was a

:49:37. > :49:40.celebration for some, a calamity for others, and now nearly 100 days into

:49:41. > :49:52.the Trump presidency it is still dividing one couple. I'm Gretchen, I

:49:53. > :49:59.voted for Hillary Clinton. I'm told, I voted for Donald Trump. We just

:50:00. > :50:03.got married. -- I'm Tom. There were a couple of days where we couldn't

:50:04. > :50:07.even talk to each other. It was difficult because we didn't know

:50:08. > :50:11.what to say to each other. They were engaged in a lot of heated political

:50:12. > :50:17.discussions when I first met them. Don't talk over me yet. I caught up

:50:18. > :50:23.with them again six weeks into their marriage. And 100 days into the

:50:24. > :50:27.Trump presidency. I never thought I would hear anybody say I would be

:50:28. > :50:30.living under a Trump presidency. Every day I wake up with a stomach

:50:31. > :50:37.ache and wonder what happened overnight. I tell her she should be

:50:38. > :50:41.happy because our honeymoon was paid for by an increase in the stock

:50:42. > :50:47.market because of tram. I think the travel ban was ill-conceived, it was

:50:48. > :50:52.a racist ban which would never pass constitutional law. It was a quick

:50:53. > :50:57.roll out. That was the problem. The roll-out was poor but the policy was

:50:58. > :51:01.fine. The president totally flopped on health care reform. It really was

:51:02. > :51:05.amazing that he didn't have a plan in place when he finally got the

:51:06. > :51:10.White House. He tried to roll it out too quickly. It's going on right

:51:11. > :51:15.now. There is always an albatross around every President's neck. It

:51:16. > :51:18.takes a long time. I supported the strike on Syria. I think a measured

:51:19. > :51:23.response to the atrocities that occurred in Syria was long overdue.

:51:24. > :51:30.It was a well done, well orchestrated strike which I was very

:51:31. > :51:33.proud of the president of. The president promised to come to

:51:34. > :51:39.Washington and drain the Swan. Instead of that he dredged it and he

:51:40. > :51:44.filled it with nepotism. Except for Steve Bannon, I think the staff has

:51:45. > :51:49.been terrific. The staff on national security is one of the best. You

:51:50. > :51:52.might wonder how they make their marriage work with these

:51:53. > :51:57.differences, but they do. We have had disagreements about this our

:51:58. > :52:01.entire relationship. We can have discussions and argue and disagree

:52:02. > :52:06.without disrespecting each other. It's not an election vote any more.

:52:07. > :52:09.Now we have a president. Until he is impeached, because I think that is

:52:10. > :52:15.coming very soon, but I still love you. I like that film.

:52:16. > :52:20.An administrative error has led to 130 refugee children being delayed

:52:21. > :52:24.from coming to the UK. The government says it miscalculated how

:52:25. > :52:29.many places were available. In February the Home Office said 350

:52:30. > :52:34.would be taken under the amendment. That is well below the 3000 figure

:52:35. > :52:37.campaigners had called for. The Labour peer, Lord dubs, who

:52:38. > :52:42.initiated the scheme, has called the ever shocking and disgusting. He

:52:43. > :52:46.came to Britain as a refugee from Nazis at the age of six. Last year

:52:47. > :52:52.this programme was given exclusive access as he and Rabbi Harry Jacobi

:52:53. > :53:00.visited the Calais camp known as the Jungle to meet refugee children. I

:53:01. > :53:06.am a refugee. I came to England at the age of six. He is complaining

:53:07. > :53:13.that it has been eight months now. He is very upset nobody has bothered

:53:14. > :53:21.or asked us how we are. We are children. That's why we are here to

:53:22. > :53:27.ask you. He is very sad. Have you any family in the Afghanistan? The

:53:28. > :53:35.Taliban killed his father. A bomb from the Taliban.

:53:36. > :53:40.It is so dangerous. Right here we've had a couple of children killed by

:53:41. > :53:47.moving traffic when attempting to get in the ovaries. We try to

:53:48. > :53:53.encourage people to claim asylum in France. -- in the lorries. Because

:53:54. > :53:57.it is too dangerous to attempt the crossing. None of these children are

:53:58. > :54:04.willing to make this choice. They are too young. They've been told by

:54:05. > :54:08.family at home to go to the UK. I'm far more determined than ever to

:54:09. > :54:15.push the British government to say that these are young, unaccompanied

:54:16. > :54:19.refugee children here. In 1938, 1939, Britain took 10,000

:54:20. > :54:22.unaccompanied refugees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. It

:54:23. > :54:27.wasn't our problem then. But we were the only country to do it. Even the

:54:28. > :54:32.American said no. In humanitarian terms we have a responsibility for

:54:33. > :54:37.other human beings who are vulnerable. We were hoping to speak

:54:38. > :54:41.to someone from a charity that helps children who are alone.

:54:42. > :54:48.Unfortunately they haven't arrived yet. We will talk to them if we can.

:54:49. > :54:51.Lots of people getting in touch about the conversation we had about

:54:52. > :54:57.the BDS, that is a group on university campuses across the UK.

:54:58. > :55:02.Some Jewish student saying they feel threatened by their tactics. Olivia

:55:03. > :55:06.says there is a difference between critical and political decisions

:55:07. > :55:09.being made by the Israel government and anti-Semitism. I can criticise

:55:10. > :55:12.Trump and not be anti-American. I'll be interested to read the

:55:13. > :55:15.investigation and what drew the complaints.

:55:16. > :55:18.Richard says a difference must be made between the criticisms of the

:55:19. > :55:22.actions of Israel and its political leaders and the Jewish and Israeli

:55:23. > :55:25.people. One of my best friends is Israeli but is completely against

:55:26. > :55:30.the actions of the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.

:55:31. > :55:34.However the idea of BDS is wrong. It's wrong to boycott Israel as the

:55:35. > :55:38.impact of this would hit the ordinary low paid workers of Israel.

:55:39. > :55:43.It is not a way to build unity. It is wrong to harass any Jewish

:55:44. > :55:46.student at any university but it is also necessary that those students

:55:47. > :55:49.should speak out against the crimes of the Israeli state against the

:55:50. > :55:53.poor and ordinary people of Palestine.

:55:54. > :56:01.Another tweet, we need to remember that the purpose of BDS is to help

:56:02. > :56:05.the occupation in a peaceful way. Homosexual couples can get married

:56:06. > :56:08.under Australian law but hundreds of weddings have taken place since 2014

:56:09. > :57:28.using British law with the help of the British High Commissioner.

:57:29. > :57:36.More comments coming in on that discussion we were having about BDS,

:57:37. > :57:42.the anti-Israel group, which is on campuses across the UK. Chris on

:57:43. > :57:45.Facebook says there is no doubt that universities are being used to

:57:46. > :57:49.promote and justify anti-Semitism encouraged by the current hard left.

:57:50. > :57:54.I find them as dangerous and insidious as the hard right. In

:57:55. > :57:59.fact, they are a court, a crossover that connects a hard left and right

:58:00. > :58:03.in their anti-Semitism and hate. James says thank you for using a

:58:04. > :58:05.programme to unravel the threat Jewish students face in British

:58:06. > :58:08.universities. You can carry on getting in touch

:58:09. > :58:19.with the contact details below. If you would like to see any of our

:58:20. > :58:25.films out the website and you can see some of those beautifully

:58:26. > :58:30.crafted films there. -- on the website and you can see some of

:58:31. > :58:33.those beautifully created films there.

:58:34. > :58:36.There'll be a couple of hours of just fantastic music, really,

:58:37. > :58:39.all the Ella classics, as well as some very special guests,

:58:40. > :58:43.we have Mica Paris, Imelda May, Dame Cleo Laine