10/05/2017

:00:07. > :00:07.Hello. It's Wednesday.

:00:08. > :00:09.It's 9am. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:00:10. > :00:19.The President of the United States of America has fired the man who's

:00:20. > :00:21.meant to be overseeing an investigation into him.

:00:22. > :00:24.Claims it's part of a cover-up have been rejected by the Trump camp.

:00:25. > :00:29.It's nothing to do with Russia. It's everything to do with whether the

:00:30. > :00:32.current FBI director has the president's confidence.

:00:33. > :00:35.Much more on the story throughout the programme.

:00:36. > :00:37.Also this morning, prosecutors are expected to announce

:00:38. > :00:40.this morning whether Conservative politicians or officials will face

:00:41. > :00:43.criminal charges over alleged electoral expenses fraud.

:00:44. > :00:45.We'll bring you that announcement as soon as it happens.

:00:46. > :00:47.And a theme park where an 11-year-old girl died

:00:48. > :00:50.after falling from a water ride is to remain closed today

:00:51. > :01:04.It is with great sadness we have to report that a young girl passed away

:01:05. > :01:06.at Birmingham Children's Hospital following an incident on one of our

:01:07. > :01:14.rides this afternoon. Hello and welcome to the programme.

:01:15. > :01:17.We're live until 11am. Throughout the morning,

:01:18. > :01:19.the latest breaking news A little later, we'll bring

:01:20. > :01:26.you the latest on the tainted blood scandal which saw thousands

:01:27. > :01:32.of haemophiliac patients being infected with HIV by the NHS

:01:33. > :01:36.in the 1970s and 1980s. As always, do get in touch

:01:37. > :01:38.on all the stories we're Use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:01:39. > :01:42.and if you text, you will be charged Our top story today -

:01:43. > :01:47.President Trump has fired the head of the FBI, James Comey, in a move

:01:48. > :01:50.that has shocked US politics. He'd been leading an investigation

:01:51. > :01:53.into alleged links between the Trump The White House says Mr Comey "has

:01:54. > :01:57.been terminated and removed Absolutely explosive news out

:01:58. > :02:09.of Washington tonight. This is a Fox News alert,

:02:10. > :02:11.FBI director, James Comey, has been fired by the President

:02:12. > :02:14.of the United States. Americans have learned

:02:15. > :02:17.to expect almost anything from their President,

:02:18. > :02:20.but this really was high drama. FBI Director, James Comey,

:02:21. > :02:23.wasn't even in Washington - he was addressing FBI staff

:02:24. > :02:26.in Los Angeles when he A short while later, a letter

:02:27. > :02:34.arrived at FBI headquarters. "You're hereby terminated

:02:35. > :02:35.and removed from office, While I greatly appreciate

:02:36. > :02:43.you informing me on three separate occasions that I'm not under

:02:44. > :02:50.investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department

:02:51. > :02:53.of Justice that you are not able Except the Trump camp

:02:54. > :03:05.was being investigated by the FBI James Comey was leading

:03:06. > :03:09.the investigation and now he's gone. Are people going

:03:10. > :03:10.to suspect cover up? If an independent special prosecutor

:03:11. > :03:16.is appointed there still can be some faith that we can get

:03:17. > :03:21.to the bottom of this. If not, everyone will

:03:22. > :03:23.suspect cover up. Speaking on US TV, the President's

:03:24. > :03:29.adviser dismissed that notion. It has everything to do

:03:30. > :03:35.with whether the current FBI Director has the President's

:03:36. > :03:37.confidence and can safely Well, the shockwaves from this

:03:38. > :03:43.decision are not just being felt here at the FBI,

:03:44. > :03:48.but across this city and beyond. For his supporters, this is evidence

:03:49. > :03:52.that Donald Trump is a strong leader, but for many others this

:03:53. > :03:56.just adds to the perception this that is country is now being run

:03:57. > :04:00.by a man who is intolerant of those who disagree with him and who don't

:04:01. > :04:09.entirely do his bidding. More reaction to the sacking in the

:04:10. > :04:10.next few minutes. Joanna has the news.

:04:11. > :04:13.Good morning. The Crown Prosecution Service

:04:14. > :04:15.is expected to announce later this morning whether any Conservative

:04:16. > :04:18.politicians or officials will be charged with breaking rules

:04:19. > :04:19.on election campaign The CPS has been considering files

:04:20. > :04:23.sent by the police from The party has insisted

:04:24. > :04:29.administrative errors were to blame for any spending

:04:30. > :04:32.which was incorrectly declared. If general election

:04:33. > :04:33.candidates are prosecuted the Conservative Party will have

:04:34. > :04:36.to decide whether to suspend them and replace them as nominees

:04:37. > :04:38.by Thursday's deadline Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:04:39. > :04:46.have pledged billions of pounds in extra school funding if they win

:04:47. > :04:49.the general election, to ensure budgets in England keep

:04:50. > :04:53.up with rising costs. Both parties also say no school

:04:54. > :04:55.would lose out as a result of a new funding formula to divide

:04:56. > :04:58.money across the country. But the Conservatives say school

:04:59. > :05:01.funding has reached record levels in their government and questioned

:05:02. > :05:02.Labour's plans to use Corporation Tax rises

:05:03. > :05:09.to fund their plans. Drayton Manor theme park

:05:10. > :05:12.in Staffordshire says it won't open to the public today after the death

:05:13. > :05:14.of an 11-year-old girl The Year 6 pupil, Evha Jannath,

:05:15. > :05:20.was on a trip with her school, the Jameah Girls Academy in

:05:21. > :05:21.Leicester. Drayton Manor Theme Park is closed

:05:22. > :05:28.today as a mark of respect Yesterday afternoon

:05:29. > :05:32.she was on the Splash Canyon ride Park staff rescued her and

:05:33. > :05:38.the emergency services were called. The girl was airlifted

:05:39. > :05:40.to Birmingham Children's Hospital The park describes the ride,

:05:41. > :05:52.which has been open since 1993, as "wild, unpredictable,

:05:53. > :05:54.and thrilling" with Small boats carry up to six

:05:55. > :05:57.passengers who must be The theme park has been run

:05:58. > :06:04.by the same family since 1949. The grandson of the founder,

:06:05. > :06:07.and current boss, was visibly upset as he read a short statement

:06:08. > :06:11.following the girl's death. We are all truly shocked

:06:12. > :06:13.and devastated and our thoughts... Are with her family and friends

:06:14. > :06:19.at this tremendously difficult time. The girl, who was on a school trip,

:06:20. > :06:27.attended the Jameah Girls Academy, in Leicester which describes itself

:06:28. > :06:29.as an independent Islamic Staffordshire Police say

:06:30. > :06:44.especially trained officers The Health and Safety Executive has

:06:45. > :06:55.launched an investigation. Our correspondent Elizabeth Glinka

:06:56. > :07:08.joins us now from Drayton Manor. What is the latest? Well, in the

:07:09. > :07:12.last half an hour Staffordshire Police have confirmed that the

:07:13. > :07:18.11-year-old that died after this tragic accident yesterday was Evha

:07:19. > :07:22.Jannath. She was a pupil at the Jameah Academy in Leicester and the

:07:23. > :07:27.school remains closed today. A statement on their website says this

:07:28. > :07:31.is shocking and devastating for them. Specially trained staff are

:07:32. > :07:35.supporting pupils and other members of staff as well and they're asking

:07:36. > :07:41.for privacy at this very difficult time. Drayton manor remains closed

:07:42. > :07:46.today as a mark of respect. The Health and Safety Executive has

:07:47. > :07:55.already begun the investigations into what happened, what we know

:07:56. > :08:00.about the Splash Canyon ride. It is a rapids river ride. It is not

:08:01. > :08:04.believed that they are belted, but they are told to actually say

:08:05. > :08:10.seated. We've heard from a woman this morning who said her son

:08:11. > :08:18.actually had a similar accident back in 2013 where he fell in from Splash

:08:19. > :08:21.Canyon he was OK, but she raised safety concerns at the time. Of

:08:22. > :08:22.course, the Health and Safety Executive will be looking into that

:08:23. > :08:26.as well. Thank you.

:08:27. > :08:29.A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

:08:30. > :08:32.Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, from north London, was also charged

:08:33. > :08:35.with two counts of making or having explosives.

:08:36. > :08:37.Those two charges, under the Explosive Substances Act,

:08:38. > :08:40.relate to alleged activity in Afghanistan in 2012.

:08:41. > :08:44.Mr Omar Ali, who was arrested on Parliament Street

:08:45. > :08:46.on 27th April, will appear at Westminster Magistrates'

:08:47. > :08:57.A new study published in the British Medical Journal

:08:58. > :08:59.points to a link between high doses of some painkillers

:09:00. > :09:02.It builds on previous research that suggests anti-inflammatory

:09:03. > :09:04.painkillers like ibuprofen, could be connected to

:09:05. > :09:08.Scientists said the findings were not clear cut and other factors,

:09:09. > :09:12.not just the pills, could be involved.

:09:13. > :09:16.A man has told the BBC he's planning to take legal action

:09:17. > :09:19.against the Government for the death of his father, who was treated with

:09:20. > :09:27.It's thought to be the first case of its kind.

:09:28. > :09:29.More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the scandal

:09:30. > :09:32.in which haemophiliacs were infected with HIV and hepatitis C.

:09:33. > :09:35.Jason Evans' father Jonathan was one of many people to have been given

:09:36. > :09:38.the blood clotting treatment "Factor 8".

:09:39. > :09:40.Patients should have been given the choice of whether they wanted

:09:41. > :09:44.to take that gamble and play Russian roulette with their life and I can

:09:45. > :09:53.almost guarantee that 99% of them would not have taken that gamble.

:09:54. > :09:55.The Australian Senator, Larissa Waters, has become the first

:09:56. > :09:57.politician to breastfeed in the nation's parliament.

:09:58. > :09:59.Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter

:10:00. > :10:06.The Lower House last year joined the Senate

:10:07. > :10:08.in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either

:10:09. > :10:11.It followed a backlash in 2015 when Kelly O'Dwyer,

:10:12. > :10:13.a government minister, was asked to consider expressing

:10:14. > :10:19.milk to avoid missing parliamentary duties.

:10:20. > :10:23.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30am.

:10:24. > :10:28.Thank you. You're getting in touch, you're very welcome. You can e-mail

:10:29. > :10:30.as well. Let's get some sport

:10:31. > :10:32.now with Jessica. They've sacked two of the people

:10:33. > :10:44.they brought in to oversee The two men in question have been at

:10:45. > :10:50.the fore front of Fifa's independent Ethics Committee for a number of

:10:51. > :10:54.years. They've held multiple investigations including of the

:10:55. > :10:58.previous Fifa president seb Blatter who was banned from the game for six

:10:59. > :11:05.years and even the current president. They say that the

:11:06. > :11:08.decision not to reappoint them is politically motivated and

:11:09. > :11:12.jeopardises the future of the game. Now they've spoken to the media this

:11:13. > :11:19.morning. Here is what one had to say. The removal of the Ethics

:11:20. > :11:26.Committee is not in Fifa's best interest. It's against good

:11:27. > :11:33.governance. And it's a setback for the fight against corruption. The

:11:34. > :11:39.Ethics Committee is weakened and incapacitated. Well, strong words

:11:40. > :11:42.there. Victoria, we have seen year after year allegations against Fifa

:11:43. > :11:46.of corruption and scandal and calls for reform and once again, their

:11:47. > :11:50.integrity has been called into question.

:11:51. > :11:52.And Fifa are involved in an investigation of their own -

:11:53. > :11:56.what's troubling them about the Paul Pogba transfer?

:11:57. > :12:05.When Pogba transferred last year, it made him the most expensive player.

:12:06. > :12:10.?83 million was the fee, but details of that transfer have been leaked

:12:11. > :12:14.and Fifa have written to Manchester United to seek clarification on the

:12:15. > :12:18.deal as they put it and have started an inquiry. Manchester United say

:12:19. > :12:22.that Fifa had the documents since the transfer was concluded in

:12:23. > :12:26.augment now, Victoria, I don't know if you've read, but one of the most

:12:27. > :12:32.staggering details to emerge from this is that Pogba's agent could

:12:33. > :12:36.earn ?41 million from that deal. Now, I mean, I have to take a breath

:12:37. > :12:40.every time I say it. That's almost half of the fee and now the book

:12:41. > :12:44.containing those details is released tomorrow so I can imagine there is

:12:45. > :12:47.probably a lot more revelations to come. Yes.

:12:48. > :12:50.That maybe theiousiest. There have been accusations in many

:12:51. > :12:53.sports that athletes' welfare was not high on their list

:12:54. > :12:56.of priorities and now tae kwon do has been dragged

:12:57. > :13:05.into the controversy. The medical staff working with GB

:13:06. > :13:08.taekwondo raised concerns about how copes are treating athletes in

:13:09. > :13:11.regards to concussion, weight management and training loads and

:13:12. > :13:16.there has been claims that athletes were asked to train in saunas. The

:13:17. > :13:20.complaints led to GB tie won dough commissioning an independent review,

:13:21. > :13:24.but they selected their own panel and didn't interview any of the

:13:25. > :13:28.people who made the complaints or the athletes. The review found

:13:29. > :13:32.insufficient evidence to support the allegations. Now, this comes at a

:13:33. > :13:36.time when UK Sport, who fund the various British governing bodies are

:13:37. > :13:38.under pressure to look after their athletes after a number of

:13:39. > :13:44.complaints from different governing bodies. They say they'll continue to

:13:45. > :13:50.monitor GB's approach to their athletes and of course GB taekwondo

:13:51. > :13:55.enjoying one of their most successful Olympics back in Rio. I'm

:13:56. > :14:04.sure this story is not over and will rumble on.

:14:05. > :14:12.The President of America has fired James Comey. He was scrutinising

:14:13. > :14:15.alleged links between Mr Trump's presidential election campaign team

:14:16. > :14:21.and Russia which is accused of trying to influence last year's

:14:22. > :14:26.result. ABC filed this report from Washington.

:14:27. > :14:31.James Comey boarded a plane in Los Angeles, deciding not

:14:32. > :14:33.to attend an FBI event, after learning he had been fired

:14:34. > :14:35.as the Head of the FBI - effective immediately.

:14:36. > :14:38.President Trump writing, "It is essential that we find

:14:39. > :14:40.new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust

:14:41. > :14:43.The White House said the President was influenced in part

:14:44. > :14:45.by the recommendation of his Attorney General,

:14:46. > :14:48.Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia

:14:49. > :14:51.investigation and that has many Democrats concerned about the future

:14:52. > :14:53.of the ongoing FBI investigation into Russian influence

:14:54. > :15:00.Comey was overseeing it and some are saying now that his firing

:15:01. > :15:06.They faired Sally Yates, they fired Preet Bharara,

:15:07. > :15:11.Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer said a special

:15:12. > :15:13.investigator must now be appointed and if not...

:15:14. > :15:18.Every American will rightly suspect that the decision to fire

:15:19. > :15:21.Director Comey was part of a cover-up.

:15:22. > :15:25.The controversial Comey had drawn ire from both Democrats

:15:26. > :15:29.Just days before the Presidential election, Comey was responsible

:15:30. > :15:31.for a bombshell announcement that he would be re-opening

:15:32. > :15:34.the investigation into Clinton's e-mails.

:15:35. > :15:39.He later testified on the ramifications of that decision.

:15:40. > :15:42.It make mes mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some

:15:43. > :15:53.And it is not just Democrats who are concerned about

:15:54. > :16:13.And it is not just Democrats who are concerned about

:16:14. > :16:15.Many Republicans are calling it "fishy".

:16:16. > :16:18.In fact the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, a Republican,

:16:19. > :16:19.said his dismissal further complicates an already

:16:20. > :16:29.James Comey only found out he was fired when he was handed

:16:30. > :16:44.It was the letter from President Trump.

:16:45. > :16:46.In that letter, President Trump told Mr Comey he was unable

:16:47. > :16:49.to effectively head the FBI and that it was vital to find

:16:50. > :16:52.new leadership to restore public trust and confidence in its law

:16:53. > :16:54.The president wrote: You are hereby terminated,

:16:55. > :16:56.removed from office, effective immediately.

:16:57. > :16:58.Donald Trump's press adviser, KellyAnn Conway defended the sacking

:16:59. > :17:01.She was speaking to CNN host Anderson Cooper -

:17:02. > :17:08.have a look at his rolling of his eyes.

:17:09. > :17:15.So now your White House is saying that what he did was wrong, but

:17:16. > :17:19.previously, as a candidate, Donald Trump was saying it is the right

:17:20. > :17:23.thing? You are conflating two things that don't belong together. Thanks

:17:24. > :17:32.for the trip down memory lane, I was on your show often last year saying

:17:33. > :17:35.that we were going to win. So that is a fictional character, we are no

:17:36. > :17:42.longer allowed to refer to, we can only refer to the Donald Trump that

:17:43. > :17:46.exist today? I will ignore how unkind that is and I would say as

:17:47. > :17:52.President of the United States Heaney 's confidence in his FBI

:17:53. > :17:59.director and he doesn't have it. And here is an audio conversation with

:18:00. > :18:04.Sean Spicer. The letter that you all the seed is the Deputy Attorney

:18:05. > :18:10.General's letter. Memo, whatever you want to call it. And then the letter

:18:11. > :18:14.from the Attorney General, concurring, he concurred with their

:18:15. > :18:20.recommendation, and made the decision to move forward. There is

:18:21. > :18:23.clearly at this point no evidence of a reason to do that. You have a

:18:24. > :18:27.system that is working, you have a career prosecutor that last

:18:28. > :18:30.confidence in the FBI director's ability to carry out his

:18:31. > :18:36.responsibilities. An FBI director who is equally questioned by

:18:37. > :18:43.numerous folks on the left, who all said that they had a problem. The

:18:44. > :18:48.FBI director of ports through the deputy Attorney General -- reports,

:18:49. > :18:55.so Rod Rosenstiel was confirmed on April 25 two weeks ago by a vote of

:18:56. > :19:00.94-6 in a very bipartisan manner. He is a career prosecutor, he is the

:19:01. > :19:03.longest serving, fact check me on this, but I believe he is the

:19:04. > :19:07.longest serving US attorney, he served under Obama for the US

:19:08. > :19:11.attorney for Maryland. Very familiar with the department of justice and

:19:12. > :19:15.the FBI. He made a decision clearly based on the letter he submitted

:19:16. > :19:17.that the FBI director had lost his confidence.

:19:18. > :19:19.So was his sacking part of a cover-up?

:19:20. > :19:21.Our security correspondent Gordon Corera is here and we can

:19:22. > :19:25.who worked at the White House and the State Department

:19:26. > :19:27.during George W. Bush's time as President.

:19:28. > :19:32.She's head of the US and the Americas programme at Chatham House.

:19:33. > :19:39.Gordon, many people are asking what was James Comey on to, what had he

:19:40. > :19:42.found out? I think that is the problem the Donald Trump, that is

:19:43. > :19:46.exactly the question, despite the idea that this was to do with

:19:47. > :19:50.Hillary Clinton's e-mails, and his announcements during that. I think

:19:51. > :19:54.very few people will buy that line from the White House. I think almost

:19:55. > :19:59.everyone will think this was to do with the Russia enquiry, and that in

:20:00. > :20:03.some way James Comey was not playing ball, always pushing too hard was

:20:04. > :20:07.doing something. That will be the assumption in Washington, which

:20:08. > :20:11.people are already working on. I think it just doesn't make sense for

:20:12. > :20:15.this to have been about Hillary Clinton, because Donald Trump

:20:16. > :20:18.praised his the surgeon to announce an enquiry into Hillary Clinton and

:20:19. > :20:22.to the reopening of it just before the election. So that just doesn't

:20:23. > :20:26.quite cover as in our unit, which means all the attention will be on

:20:27. > :20:30.what James Comey and the FBI were doing. There are some reports that

:20:31. > :20:35.for instant they have been making some progress, in terms of potential

:20:36. > :20:37.indictments against some of the people who had been linked to the

:20:38. > :20:41.Trump campaign. That is not really clear how much evidence there is and

:20:42. > :20:45.what that might be or how close it gets the Donald Trump itself, that

:20:46. > :20:49.if that is the case, I think that will raise a lot of pressure on the

:20:50. > :20:57.White House if that does come out and get confirmed. What do we read

:20:58. > :21:01.into the timing of this now? It is strange, because there wasn't an

:21:02. > :21:04.obvious public reason to do it now, especially if the White House idea

:21:05. > :21:08.is that it was about Hillary Clinton, which happened months ago.

:21:09. > :21:12.There was this hearing by James Comey a couple of weeks ago in which

:21:13. > :21:15.he appeared before Congress and made some comments about some of the

:21:16. > :21:19.e-mails to do with Hillary Clinton, and it appears he might have

:21:20. > :21:23.slightly spoken or exaggerated, and that could be picking up a bit of

:21:24. > :21:27.tension in the American media, and I suppose like be used as an excuse by

:21:28. > :21:31.the White House, to say that is why we lost trust in him over that. But

:21:32. > :21:35.James Comey is someone who had come he didn't necessarily have

:21:36. > :21:39.bipartisan support, because a lot of Democrats were angry with him for

:21:40. > :21:43.his role in the Hillary Clinton investigation, but he was seen as

:21:44. > :21:47.someone who was regular sleep independent. -- rigorously

:21:48. > :21:49.independent, in the Bush administration who stood up to the

:21:50. > :21:53.White House were some of their surveillance operations, so he was

:21:54. > :21:56.seen as someone all sides could see as an independent serious figure.

:21:57. > :22:00.With him gone, the questions are there about who will replace him and

:22:01. > :22:05.what the relationship there will be with the White House. Let me bring

:22:06. > :22:09.in Xenia, you worked at the White House and State Department during

:22:10. > :22:17.George W Bush's time as president. What do you think is going on? I

:22:18. > :22:21.think I agree with Gordon. Your attitude as to how you think this

:22:22. > :22:26.has been handled depends on where you sit. The reality is that most

:22:27. > :22:31.Democrats did not like James Comey, after he revealed what he did about

:22:32. > :22:35.the Clinton e-mails back in the summer and then a few days after the

:22:36. > :22:43.election he made a statement saying he was re-operating -- reopening the

:22:44. > :22:46.dog investigation against -- reopening the investigation against

:22:47. > :22:50.Clinton over her e-mail use. Then many Republican said they did not

:22:51. > :22:57.like him, people working closely to Trump. So he is in this

:22:58. > :23:02.uncomfortable position in one hand, that he is not trusted by Democrats,

:23:03. > :23:06.and not trusted by Republicans, which of course, as Gordon suggests,

:23:07. > :23:09.lays out that arguably he is quite independent. If you are not trusted

:23:10. > :23:15.by both sides, that tells you you're probably doing something right. But

:23:16. > :23:18.again, as Gordon says, this is really about, it appears to be

:23:19. > :23:24.about, based on the timing, based on what is going on, based on what

:23:25. > :23:29.Donald Trump has said historically about Comey, one can only assume

:23:30. > :23:35.that what motivated him to act now was Comey's investigation into Link

:23:36. > :23:38.'s between Russia and the Trump administration and Russian

:23:39. > :23:46.involvement in the election. What happens now, in terms of getting a

:23:47. > :23:51.new director of the FBI, Gordon? There may be acting individuals in

:23:52. > :23:55.the interim but it will be up to the White House to appoint someone, and

:23:56. > :23:59.of course that will be a hugely significant appointment. And the

:24:00. > :24:03.Senate could get in the way, blocking that? And the department of

:24:04. > :24:09.justice. The Attorney General has only had two acute himself from the

:24:10. > :24:12.Russian investigation. Whether he declared everything about his

:24:13. > :24:16.contacts. They already have this mess about who is overseeing it, is

:24:17. > :24:20.their independent enough oversight. For James Comey, one of the problems

:24:21. > :24:23.a few go back to what he did, he made this announcement about the

:24:24. > :24:27.Clinton e-mails on the eve of the election, which is the pretext for

:24:28. > :24:30.Donald Trump now removing him. I think almost certainly when he made

:24:31. > :24:34.that announcement, he probably thought Hillary Clinton was going to

:24:35. > :24:37.win and he was protecting himself, if you like, against a Clinton

:24:38. > :24:41.victory, and then he would say he did not cover up an investigation, I

:24:42. > :24:44.was open and honest about it. He perhaps like everyone else didn't

:24:45. > :24:48.really think Donald Trump could win, and it has placed all these

:24:49. > :24:50.decisions in a different context where he suddenly vulnerable having

:24:51. > :24:56.spoken out about the Clinton e-mails. He wasn't left without that

:24:57. > :24:59.many allies and friends other than someone who wanted someone there who

:25:00. > :25:06.had the appearance at least of being independent. Xenia Wickett, from

:25:07. > :25:09.your own past experience, how bad is it when a president falls out

:25:10. > :25:15.spectacularly like this with his head of the FBI? I think you have

:25:16. > :25:19.asked the right question, which is the answer to that second question

:25:20. > :25:23.is the one you just asked Gordon, what does he do now, who does he

:25:24. > :25:28.appoint? If Donald Trump decides to put forward a name that is

:25:29. > :25:32.nonpartisan, independent, that is seen as such, that can get

:25:33. > :25:37.bipartisan support, then I think he will have sent a very strong and

:25:38. > :25:43.positive message. If, however, he puts someone forward who is clearly

:25:44. > :25:47.not bipartisan, who is seen very much as a lackey of the Republicans,

:25:48. > :25:52.excuse the phraseology, then he will have a real problem. Right now what

:25:53. > :25:56.is clear is that ten of the letter he sent to Comey and subsequent

:25:57. > :26:01.comments has antagonised many in the FBI, so he has a real trust problem

:26:02. > :26:05.that he needs to figure out how to respond to. Gordon, there is a bit

:26:06. > :26:09.of a New York Times suggesting that when James Comey was handed this

:26:10. > :26:14.letter, as he was addressing his staff, he thought it was a joke, a

:26:15. > :26:21.prank. It is astonishing, he reportedly was on the FBI office in

:26:22. > :26:26.Los Angeles and saw it as a newsflash on TV, that he was

:26:27. > :26:29.dismissed, so clearly he had no expectation this was coming. I don't

:26:30. > :26:33.think anyone did. Normally in Washington things leak at least an

:26:34. > :26:40.hour or two before they happen, but in this case not at all. Xenia is

:26:41. > :26:45.right as well about what will be the reaction within the FBI? It is quite

:26:46. > :26:48.a proudly independent organisation, it sees itself as tough prosecutors

:26:49. > :26:55.who go where the investigation leads them. How will they feel about their

:26:56. > :26:58.head being removed in such circumstances, and what will the

:26:59. > :27:06.mood become how will they react, will they start briefing and leaking

:27:07. > :27:10.as well. We will play our audience this, it reminds people about the

:27:11. > :27:15.relationship Donald Trump has had with the FBI, since being a

:27:16. > :27:33.presidential candidate. You are more famous than me! LAUGHTER

:27:34. > :27:38.Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or

:27:39. > :27:42.her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of

:27:43. > :27:48.classified information, there is evidence they were extremely

:27:49. > :27:51.careless in their handling of very sensitive classified information.

:27:52. > :27:59.Based on what was being said, she was guilty, she was guilty! And it

:28:00. > :28:06.turned out that we are not going to press charges. It is really amazing.

:28:07. > :28:14.Today is the best evidence ever that we have seen that our system has

:28:15. > :28:19.absolutely, totally reeked. It sure looks real careless to me. The

:28:20. > :28:23.question of whether that amount to gross negligence, frankly there is

:28:24. > :28:26.no way anyone from the department of justice is bringing a case against

:28:27. > :28:44.John Doe or Hillary Clinton. The FBI is reopening their

:28:45. > :28:50.investigation. I have to give the FBI credit, that was so bad what

:28:51. > :28:54.happened originally, and it took guts for director Comey to make the

:28:55. > :28:57.move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. What he

:28:58. > :29:10.did, he brought back his reputation. You have become more famous than me!

:29:11. > :29:23.LAUGHTER APPLAUSE

:29:24. > :29:24.The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is

:29:25. > :29:32.investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in

:29:33. > :29:36.the 2016 presidential election, and that includes investigating the

:29:37. > :29:39.nature of any links between individuals associated with the

:29:40. > :29:46.Trump campaign and the Russian government, with respect to the

:29:47. > :29:48.President's tweets about alleged wiretapping by the prior

:29:49. > :29:50.administration, I have no information that supports those

:29:51. > :30:00.tweets. He has become more famous than me!

:30:01. > :30:10.LAUGHTER Quite an astonishing turnaround, in

:30:11. > :30:20.terms of Donald Trump was like opinion of James Comey, isn't it,

:30:21. > :30:25.Gordon? Thank you both. A quick word from Peter. All I hear is gossip on

:30:26. > :30:28.this, unreal speculation, ridiculous guessing. Maybe you could stop your

:30:29. > :30:31.Chinese whispers until you have actual evidence of anything first of

:30:32. > :30:36.this gossip -based programme on from. I will leave that there.

:30:37. > :30:40.Another tweet, this whole Comey firing is nothing more than Trump

:30:41. > :30:44.running scared. He knows they are onto him. Still to come, people with

:30:45. > :30:46.disabilities or their voices are often ignored when it comes to

:30:47. > :30:49.general elections. This morning we have gathered together a group of

:30:50. > :30:54.voters to tell us what will influence the way they vote next

:30:55. > :30:57.month. And we have been inside the Iraqi city of Mosul, finding out

:30:58. > :31:02.what life is like some of those who have returned to their homes since

:31:03. > :31:03.government forces reclaimed parts of the city from Islamic State

:31:04. > :31:07.fighters. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:31:08. > :31:10.with a summary of today's news. President Trump has fired the head

:31:11. > :31:14.of the FBI James Comey in a move He'd been leading an investigation

:31:15. > :31:19.into alleged links between the Trump The White House says Mr Comey

:31:20. > :31:36."has been terminated Drayton manor says it won't open to

:31:37. > :31:43.the public today after the death of an 11-year-old girl on one of its

:31:44. > :31:48.rides. Evha Jannath was on a school trip from the Jameah Academy. The

:31:49. > :31:53.school said it requested time to grief. Senior management at the

:31:54. > :32:01.theme park said they were shocked and devastated by the incident.

:32:02. > :32:03.The Crown Prosecution Service is expected to announce later this

:32:04. > :32:06.morning whether any Conservative politicians or officials will be

:32:07. > :32:08.charged with breaking rules on election campaign

:32:09. > :32:11.The CPS has been considering files sent by the police from

:32:12. > :32:13.The party has insisted administrative errors

:32:14. > :32:16.were to blame for any spending which was incorrectly declared.

:32:17. > :32:17.If general election candidates are prosecuted

:32:18. > :32:20.the Conservative Party will have to decide whether to suspend them

:32:21. > :32:22.and replace them as nominees by Thursday's deadline

:32:23. > :32:27.Labour and the Liberal Democrats have pledged billions of pounds

:32:28. > :32:29.in extra school funding if they win the general election,

:32:30. > :32:32.to ensure budgets in England keep up with rising costs.

:32:33. > :32:34.Both parties also say no school would lose out as a result

:32:35. > :32:37.of a new funding formula to divide money across the country.

:32:38. > :32:40.But the Conservatives say school funding has reached record levels

:32:41. > :32:42.in their government and questioned Labour's plans to use

:32:43. > :32:49.Corporation Tax rises to fund their plans.

:32:50. > :32:52.A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

:32:53. > :32:55.Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, from north London, was also charged

:32:56. > :32:58.with two counts of making or having explosives.

:32:59. > :33:00.Those two charges, under the Explosive Substances Act,

:33:01. > :33:05.relate to alleged activity in Afghanistan in 2012.

:33:06. > :33:07.Mr Omar Ali, who was arrested on Parliament Street

:33:08. > :33:09.on 27th April, will appear at Westminster Magistrates'

:33:10. > :33:18.A new study published in the British Medical Journal

:33:19. > :33:20.points to a link between high doses of some painkillers

:33:21. > :33:23.It builds on previous research that suggests anti-inflammatory

:33:24. > :33:25.painkillers like ibuprofen, could be connected to

:33:26. > :33:31.Scientists said the findings were not clear cut and other factors,

:33:32. > :33:37.not just the pills, could be involved.

:33:38. > :33:46.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am.

:33:47. > :33:54.This is no longer the most retweeted tweet of all time. How many times

:33:55. > :34:00.has that been tweeted? 3.4 million times.

:34:01. > :34:16.That's been beaten by a tweet of a guy asking for free chicken!

:34:17. > :34:21.That's been tweeted 3.5 million times for the man who wants free

:34:22. > :34:28.chicken. Ellen had been fighting hard to keep her title.

:34:29. > :34:33.We need your help. We're close to losing our title for the most

:34:34. > :34:46.retweeted tweet of all time. This nugget kid needs your help, but we

:34:47. > :34:53.need your help more. We earned this title and we're not going to lose it

:34:54. > :35:02.now. Please retweet our selfie. Bradley is going to rub my

:35:03. > :35:04.shoulders. How is that? Just do it. Harder. That's good. That's good.

:35:05. > :35:17.That's better. Wendy's have given the guy free

:35:18. > :35:23.chicken. The Six Nations champions England

:35:24. > :35:32.have been drawn in a pool with France and Argentina,

:35:33. > :35:35.for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Ireland and Scotland

:35:36. > :35:37.are in a group with the hosts, Japan, with Wales landing

:35:38. > :35:39.in Australia's pool. So all of the home nations

:35:40. > :35:41.have avoided the current Fifa's code of ethics is a "dead

:35:42. > :35:45.letter", according to the two investigators released

:35:46. > :35:46.from their duties. to oversee the reform programme

:35:47. > :35:51.and they helped bring down former Fifa are themselves investigating

:35:52. > :35:55.the transfer of Paul Pogba He was the world's most expensive

:35:56. > :36:00.player when he moved from Juventus last summer,

:36:01. > :36:05.and Fifa want to know who made what And with the French Open less

:36:06. > :36:09.than three weeks away, Andy Murray says he still needs

:36:10. > :36:12.to play better but he's through to the third

:36:13. > :36:14.round of the Madrid Open, after a straight-sets win over

:36:15. > :36:23.Marius Copil of Romania. That's all the sport for now. I'll

:36:24. > :36:26.have more at 10am. Thank you, Jess.

:36:27. > :36:29.There are 13 million disabled people living in the UK, but when it comes

:36:30. > :36:32.to elections their voices are often ignored or when they are heard it's

:36:33. > :36:36.in the context of cracking down on the amount we spend on benefits.

:36:37. > :36:39.So this morning we're going to speak to a group of people with different

:36:40. > :36:41.disabilities about the kind of things they want to

:36:42. > :36:48.If you're disabled, your cost of living is likely to be ?550 more

:36:49. > :36:53.Only half of all disabled people are in work.

:36:54. > :36:55.If 10% more people were able to work, it would contribute

:36:56. > :37:09.Sam Jennings who has multiple sclerosis.

:37:10. > :37:13.Arti Dasani who has muscular dystrophy.

:37:14. > :37:18.Sharon Collins who has vascular disease and nerve damage.

:37:19. > :37:24.Lesley Staines who cares for her son Lewis who has autism.

:37:25. > :37:30.Indeed, Lewis is 18. You care for his older brother Mitchell who has

:37:31. > :37:34.autism as well? And epilepsy as well. And he's 20. Welcome all of

:37:35. > :37:40.you. Thank you for coming on the programme. Tell us about Lewis and

:37:41. > :37:46.your role as his carer? Well, Lewis is 18. He doesn't speak. He repeats

:37:47. > :37:51.the last word, but he does understand what that is. He doesn't

:37:52. > :37:55.read or write and pretty much I'm his full-time carer. I'm divorced

:37:56. > :37:59.and I care for himself and his brother in the home 24/7 apart from

:38:00. > :38:03.the few hours that they go to school each day. Which is when you work?

:38:04. > :38:07.Yeah. I mean I've worked in the City for years, but now I do the only job

:38:08. > :38:10.I'm able to do which is work in a primary school part-time because

:38:11. > :38:16.when I get the school holidays off because I've got no one to have them

:38:17. > :38:21.in school holidays. This is a big issue for you every day of the week

:38:22. > :38:26.is the new Personal Independence Payments, which is what is taking

:38:27. > :38:32.over or replacing the disability living allowance. What's the issue?

:38:33. > :38:40.Well, it is all categorised and I sent all the information, every bit

:38:41. > :38:43.of information from doctors, from nurses, from speech and language

:38:44. > :38:46.therapists and that information has been taken, they're insisting that

:38:47. > :38:51.they don't need to see him personally and yet they are coming

:38:52. > :38:54.to the decisions and deducting points and saying that he can read

:38:55. > :38:59.and write and he can't and they're saying he can prepare a simple meal

:39:00. > :39:02.and cook it, he can't. They are not Londoning to anything anyone is

:39:03. > :39:05.saying. I've gone to appeal and it has been rejected and I've taken to

:39:06. > :39:09.a tribunal. Do you know which political party you're going to vote

:39:10. > :39:13.for this time? At the moment, I'm waiting to see what they're going to

:39:14. > :39:16.offer on benefits because at the moment I don't feel any of them are

:39:17. > :39:22.offering the right things and supporting us in the right way. The

:39:23. > :39:26.adult services is so under funded. But you would consider voting for

:39:27. > :39:30.the Conservative Party despite the fact they brought in the new

:39:31. > :39:34.personal independent payment? I think Theresa May is the strongest

:39:35. > :39:37.candidate. Kathy, do you think the Conservative Party is the party that

:39:38. > :39:41.speaks for people with disabilities? Absolutely not the What do you think

:39:42. > :39:46.of what Lesley said, because of Theresa May, because of her

:39:47. > :39:50.Pennality, actually, Lesley, for all the difficulties with PIP, she might

:39:51. > :39:54.still vote for her? I don't think just because the Conservative Party

:39:55. > :39:58.have a new leader that they're going to change anything that they've

:39:59. > :40:02.already done in the recent past as regards to benefits for disabled

:40:03. > :40:06.people. Who is the party that speaks for people with disabilities? Well,

:40:07. > :40:11.I think Labour would be the best out of all of them. I'm not saying that

:40:12. > :40:19.they're perfect and everything would be wonderful, but I believe that,

:40:20. > :40:22.you know, they have still socialist values which means you care for the

:40:23. > :40:28.people who are the most vulnerable. You care for the people who have the

:40:29. > :40:32.most need and that, you know, it's everybody's responsibility and that

:40:33. > :40:37.means that if anybody has anything to contribute to society, even if

:40:38. > :40:43.they are disabled, then they have the right to claim for anything that

:40:44. > :40:49.they need as well and you know, it's all of the sort of destruction and

:40:50. > :40:53.degrading of the Welfare State that we've had in the last few years has

:40:54. > :40:58.been under the Tory Government. Sharon, you've had issues too, I

:40:59. > :41:03.think, with PIP and you're voting Conservative this time, is that

:41:04. > :41:07.right? Yes, I am. Tell us why? I don't trust Jeremy Corbyn with

:41:08. > :41:11.anything to be quite frank and at least Theresa May is direct and with

:41:12. > :41:15.a mandate maybe in the manifesto they can say that people will have

:41:16. > :41:22.to go for these assessments less frequently. Do you think that's

:41:23. > :41:33.likely? Probably not and I've got to go through this again very soon. OK.

:41:34. > :41:36.Sam, you're self-employed. What are the issues you have when it comes to

:41:37. > :41:40.politician and politics in the run-up to this election? I'm

:41:41. > :41:44.undecided and I have a little business so I come out of disabled

:41:45. > :41:50.angle, but a small business angle as well. I work full-time and I work

:41:51. > :41:55.really hard, but my mobility is becoming more and more affected by

:41:56. > :41:59.the condition. I have found recently that I can get tax credits by

:42:00. > :42:04.working 30 hours a week which is helpful because I'm no longer able

:42:05. > :42:08.to work 40 or 50 hours a week, but I'm not eligible for the disabled

:42:09. > :42:13.tax credits when I have a relapse of MS when I can't walk or speak, that

:42:14. > :42:19.could drop me to 16 hours work a week, but I'm not eligible for that

:42:20. > :42:23.unless I'm awarded PIP, whilst I have been working and plodding along

:42:24. > :42:27.and doing my own thing, I find I have to apply for that in order to

:42:28. > :42:30.be eligible... For when you have a relapse? Which is likely to have

:42:31. > :42:34.them and I will have to have treatment later in the year, but I

:42:35. > :42:38.don't want to become dependant on the system and I just really find it

:42:39. > :42:44.really bizarre that I have to go through all these hoops just to have

:42:45. > :42:48.something in place in case I can't work because I've got no intention

:42:49. > :42:51.of not working. Alex have you been aware of any parties, tacking,

:42:52. > :42:55.specifically about issues that may affect you? No, not really,

:42:56. > :42:59.especially from the Lib Dems. I don't know what they stand for for

:43:00. > :43:03.the disabled people and what really affects me, what I really want to

:43:04. > :43:07.see change is the lack of accessible transport especially in train

:43:08. > :43:12.stations. Where I live in Ealing, my closest train station is Wembley

:43:13. > :43:16.which is about 20, to 30 minutes away so that means I have to plan my

:43:17. > :43:20.journeys like two days in advance and someone has to, I have to rely

:43:21. > :43:24.on someone to take me to that train station which adds on to the journey

:43:25. > :43:29.so I have to add another 30 minutes and then if I want to get off at the

:43:30. > :43:33.train station I have to find out which train stations are accessible

:43:34. > :43:36.so I have to plan that route. It really eliminates the spond tanity

:43:37. > :43:43.of say I want to go out with friends. Living a fulfilled life.

:43:44. > :43:48.Yeah. Living a fulfilled life and it affects my job because I work for a

:43:49. > :43:53.charity called Pace where we deliver sports to young disabled people and

:43:54. > :44:00.part of my job is to go to different day centres across Ealing and around

:44:01. > :44:04.Southall and Northholt as well. So that really means I can't use the

:44:05. > :44:10.train stations because it is not accessible. So again, I have to rely

:44:11. > :44:16.on someone else to take me. And you always wanted to work? Yeah. But

:44:17. > :44:21.found sometimes people were writing you off? Yeah. Is that a society

:44:22. > :44:26.thing? I think so because they were quite surprised... They? The

:44:27. > :44:31.Jobcentre. They were quite advised that I wanted to work because they

:44:32. > :44:37.think because you're disabled that you can't work and I was written off

:44:38. > :44:42.and stereotype is that because you're disabled you don't have to

:44:43. > :44:48.work and you don't have to work, you get paid and stuff, so yeah. They

:44:49. > :44:51.were surprised. You talked about Theresa May and so did you Sharon,

:44:52. > :44:57.you talked about Jeremy Corbyn, Kathy. How much is this election

:44:58. > :45:04.Arti about those two big personalities, Mr Corbyn, Mrs May?

:45:05. > :45:09.Well, in my point, when trying to get things done, say for example,

:45:10. > :45:15.when it comes to like the benefit changes when it did come to the

:45:16. > :45:20.benefit changes from disability living allowance to PIP, personal

:45:21. > :45:30.independence payments, it's like taking a big leap because it was

:45:31. > :45:34.quite difficult. It's like... Have any of them, is there anything you

:45:35. > :45:38.are hearing from those leaders that makes you think, actually, they

:45:39. > :45:49.deserve my vote on this issue? I am in two mines, still. I think Theresa

:45:50. > :45:52.May is trying to help as much as she can to help things asked to sable

:45:53. > :45:56.people go through with the difficulties we have. But then on

:45:57. > :45:59.the other hand it makes me think as well sometimes because of things

:46:00. > :46:06.that happened in the past, is that going to get done? Is it actually

:46:07. > :46:09.going to get done? Cathy, what about other issues, Brexit, the NHS,

:46:10. > :46:18.education, are they important to you this time? They are. Personally my

:46:19. > :46:24.priorities are not really about Brexit or education so much. I still

:46:25. > :46:34.think about education because I do have a child who is at university at

:46:35. > :46:39.the moment but I am still concerned with immediate needs of people, not

:46:40. > :46:43.just myself but a lot of people who are a lot worse off than I am.

:46:44. > :46:48.Because I am still quite independent and can take care of myself most of

:46:49. > :46:55.the time. And even with other issues like my mental health history, I get

:46:56. > :46:59.a lot of support from charities, and I still think that whoever comes in

:47:00. > :47:03.into the next government, those charities will still be there, to a

:47:04. > :47:09.certain extent. They can't achieve as much as they would like to but

:47:10. > :47:14.the moment, but they are doing quite a good job, you know. But the

:47:15. > :47:23.benefits issue, for people's own personal living, day-to-day with

:47:24. > :47:30.their disabilities, I do think that really since the last Tory

:47:31. > :47:33.government came in, the level of degradation, compared to what people

:47:34. > :47:37.have now compared to what they used to have is really such a stark

:47:38. > :47:42.difference that it has really changed people's lives for the worst

:47:43. > :47:48.to such a degree. A lot of people have died. Purely because their

:47:49. > :47:56.benefit was cut and they were still entitled to those benefits. For

:47:57. > :48:02.example, one chap was quite publicised on social media who had

:48:03. > :48:05.diabetes and could not pay his bills, his fridge went off, his

:48:06. > :48:14.insulin went off, and he starved to death. We reported on that

:48:15. > :48:15.programme. And there were a lot of similar stories. Thank you becoming

:48:16. > :48:22.on the programme. Hundreds of thousands of civilians

:48:23. > :48:24.have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul over the last six months

:48:25. > :48:28.as government security forces continue their military

:48:29. > :48:30.offensive to reclaim the city from the so-called

:48:31. > :48:31.Islamic State group. Iraqi forces are now moving

:48:32. > :48:35.through neighbourhoods to the south, west and north of the old city,

:48:36. > :48:38.where just a few hundred IS fighters Our film-maker Joshua Baker has

:48:39. > :48:44.been inside the city, meeting the people who have fled

:48:45. > :48:47.the fighting, and finding out what life is like for those who have

:48:48. > :48:50.managed to return to the recaptured Mosul, Iraq - over two years ago

:48:51. > :48:57.this city was taken over by the group calling itself Islamic

:48:58. > :49:04.State. A battle to regain control has taken

:49:05. > :49:07.months and divided Mosul in two - the retaken east and

:49:08. > :49:09.the IS-controlled west. Hundreds of thousands of civilians

:49:10. > :49:11.have been displaced. Here, at Scorpion Junction,

:49:12. > :49:13.outside West Mosul, those who managed to escape the fighting

:49:14. > :49:16.are processed under the watchful eye of the Iraqi army -

:49:17. > :49:42.who are looking for IS fighters. Men and women are separated as they

:49:43. > :49:45.prove who they are to authorities. One man agrees to talk

:49:46. > :49:47.about his escape. But he is still fearful

:49:48. > :49:50.that IS could find him, After the junction, they're

:49:51. > :51:27.transported to nearby camps, where aid agencies like Oxfam

:51:28. > :51:32.are supporting the influx of people. Fighting's been going on for months

:51:33. > :51:35.now and we are seeing thousands of people fleeing every day

:51:36. > :51:37.and we don't know how But our concern is that a camp twice

:51:38. > :51:42.the size of this was filled up And we believe there

:51:43. > :51:47.is nearly 400,000 people They're traumatised

:51:48. > :51:50.and exhausted and looking So we're trying to provide them

:51:51. > :52:00.with that safe place in the camps. The Asif family of seven

:52:01. > :52:04.fled Mosul a month ago. Eight-year-old Shiva was schooled

:52:05. > :52:10.by the so-called Islamic State. What was your first

:52:11. > :52:27.day of school like? What was the journey

:52:28. > :53:08.like from Mosul? In the east of Mosul,

:53:09. > :53:10.relative security has allowed the families to start

:53:11. > :53:16.to return home. A fragile peace now exists,

:53:17. > :53:27.but bombs still go off here and there is a fear

:53:28. > :53:29.that IS members are living Ragda and her family

:53:30. > :53:34.have just returned home. This my father and my

:53:35. > :53:47.sister, smallest of me. This is the video,

:53:48. > :53:59.when we come in to our house. The family managed to survive

:54:00. > :54:19.for two years under Until one night the terror

:54:20. > :54:25.group visited their home. Isis began asked us

:54:26. > :54:31.about where is the girl. That night, the girls

:54:32. > :55:19.narrowly escaped being Now they have returned,

:55:20. > :55:29.it has quickly become clear that There are almost 400,000 people

:55:30. > :56:52.trapped amongst the fighting. The battle is now entering its final

:56:53. > :57:10.and most likely deadliest phase. That film by Joshua Baker. This news

:57:11. > :57:15.just in. Police have declared a major incident in Falmouth, where a

:57:16. > :57:20.crane has fallen over at the docks there. Properties are being

:57:21. > :57:25.evacuated. Cornwall Fire and rescue and the police are on the scene, so

:57:26. > :57:28.a major incident in Falmouth in Cornwall, where a crane has fallen

:57:29. > :57:29.over at the docks. The latest news and sport on the way, before that

:57:30. > :57:38.fear is the weather. It has been a chilly start to the

:57:39. > :57:41.point of being frosty for some. A little bit of fog around captured by

:57:42. > :57:46.one of our Weather Watchers but for many of you at last it has indeed

:57:47. > :57:50.been that glorious start to the day. One of the best pictures I have seen

:57:51. > :57:53.from our Weather Watchers for quite some time. High pressure still

:57:54. > :57:57.hanging on, it is properly the last day I will say that, having been the

:57:58. > :57:59.dominant feature of so many days. You will notice it is not quite

:58:00. > :58:03.doing enough to keep the weather front away from the northern part of

:58:04. > :58:07.Scotland, where it is anything that glorious. That is called, grey and

:58:08. > :58:10.there is some rain to be had as well. Elsewhere, you get the sense

:58:11. > :58:14.on the big picture there is a lot of fine weather around. That rain, if

:58:15. > :58:18.it is with you, will be in for a good part of the day, the threat of

:58:19. > :58:21.it at least, but as you come to the central belt, central and southern

:58:22. > :58:25.parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, more glorious fine weather to be

:58:26. > :58:29.had. What a contrast for the eastern side of Wales, the Midlands, eastern

:58:30. > :58:32.England, no more that nagging easterly of the cold North Sea, that

:58:33. > :58:37.great sheet of clouds that pegged the Mbodj is down. Many will get

:58:38. > :58:41.into the mid-teens, some 20 degrees. An early dip in that averages, so a

:58:42. > :58:44.touch of frost as was the case this morning, maybe not as widespread.

:58:45. > :58:47.Later in the night those temperatures in the South will

:58:48. > :58:50.recover and a great banner of cloud coming in in association with the

:58:51. > :58:56.weather front, which will gradually trundle across the Channel and bring

:58:57. > :58:59.with it the prospect of some rain. Yes, remember that? It won't effect

:59:00. > :59:02.everybody by any means, and if you are absolutely desperate for rain

:59:03. > :59:10.for your gardens of fields, that may not be the feature for you. A more

:59:11. > :59:14.humid feel to the day, temperature pushing towards 20, possibly 21.

:59:15. > :59:18.That fresher feel still there and a lot of dry weather across the

:59:19. > :59:21.northern half of the British Isles. Through the evening and overnight,

:59:22. > :59:25.it may be the second pulse of energy that really does bring the prospect

:59:26. > :59:30.of meaningful rain to many more of you, as we get on into Friday. This

:59:31. > :59:36.weather front a lot of more active. It could be that we see some

:59:37. > :59:39.thunderstorms in association with some thunderstorms more widely

:59:40. > :59:42.spread across the southern part of the day, as we get onto the day it

:59:43. > :59:47.will push the threat of heavy rain further north across the British

:59:48. > :59:51.Isles. In the Saturday some of it make it into the north of Scotland.

:59:52. > :59:54.The weekend Brizzi and one, some spells of showers but not a

:59:55. > :59:56.write-off by any means, there will be some sunny spells. A lot going

:59:57. > :00:03.on, more at the BBC website. It's 10am.

:00:04. > :00:05.I'm Victoria Derbyshire. Our top story today is -

:00:06. > :00:07.just why did Donald Trump sack Was it because he has no

:00:08. > :00:11.confidence in James Comey? Or because Mr Comey is carrying

:00:12. > :00:21.out an investigation He has lost confidence in the FBI

:00:22. > :00:24.director and he took the recommendation of the deputy

:00:25. > :00:28.Attorney-General who whom the FBI director reports to.

:00:29. > :00:32.Victims of the tainted blood scandal that saw thousands of patients given

:00:33. > :00:35.contaminated blood transfusions could sue the Government over claims

:00:36. > :00:43.He had blisters in his mouth that were bleeding and I couldn't share

:00:44. > :00:47.an ice cream with my dad because they'd given him AIDS. I just found

:00:48. > :00:53.it, looking back on it now at the time, I didn't think too much into

:00:54. > :00:55.it, but looking back over it, I was disgusted.

:00:56. > :00:58.We'll speak to some of the victims and their families.

:00:59. > :01:00.And Evha Jannath has been named as the 11-year-old girl

:01:01. > :01:09.who died yesterday on a ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park.

:01:10. > :01:15.We'll talk to a mum who says her son also fell from the same ride.

:01:16. > :01:17.Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:01:18. > :01:22.President Trump has fired the head of the FBI James Comey in a move

:01:23. > :01:26.He'd been leading an investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:01:27. > :01:29.The White House says Mr Comey "has been terminated

:01:30. > :01:35.Drayton Manor theme park in Staffordshire says it will not

:01:36. > :01:38.open to the public today after the death of an 11-year-old

:01:39. > :01:43.The Year 6 pupil, Evha Jannath, was on a trip with her school,

:01:44. > :01:45.the Jameah Girls Academy in Leicester.

:01:46. > :01:47.In a statement the school said it was providing support

:01:48. > :01:51.to its pupils and staff and requested time to grieve.

:01:52. > :01:53.Senior management at the theme park said they were shocked

:01:54. > :01:59.The Crown Prosecution Service is expected to announce later this

:02:00. > :02:01.morning whether any Conservative politicians or officials will be

:02:02. > :02:03.charged with breaking rules on election campaign

:02:04. > :02:12.The CPS has been considering files sent by the police from

:02:13. > :02:16.The party has insisted that administrative errors

:02:17. > :02:19.were to blame for any spending which was incorrectly declared.

:02:20. > :02:22.If general election candidates are prosecuted

:02:23. > :02:25.the Conservative Party will have to decide whether to suspend them

:02:26. > :02:27.and replace them as nominees by Thursday's deadline

:02:28. > :02:36.Labour and the Liberal Democrats have pledged billions of pounds

:02:37. > :02:39.in extra school funding if they win the General Election,

:02:40. > :02:41.to ensure budgets in England keep up with rising costs.

:02:42. > :02:44.Both parties also say no school would lose out as a result

:02:45. > :02:46.of a new funding formula to divide money across the country.

:02:47. > :02:49.But the Conservatives say school funding has reached record levels

:02:50. > :02:51.in their government and questioned Labour's plans to use corporation

:02:52. > :02:59.A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

:03:00. > :03:02.A man has told the BBC he's planning to take legal action

:03:03. > :03:05.against the Government for the death of his father, who was treated with

:03:06. > :03:11.It's thought to be the first case of its kind.

:03:12. > :03:13.More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the scandal

:03:14. > :03:16.in which haemophiliacs were infected with HIV and hepatitis C.

:03:17. > :03:19.Jason Evans' father Jonathan was one of many people to have been given

:03:20. > :03:22.the blood clotting treatment "Factor 8".

:03:23. > :03:27.Patients should have been given the choice of whether they wanted it

:03:28. > :03:31.take that gamble and play Russian roulette with their life and I can

:03:32. > :03:37.almost guarantee that 99% of them would not have taken that gamble.

:03:38. > :03:45.Cornwall and fire and rescue have evacuated Falmouth Docks after a

:03:46. > :03:49.crane collapsed. Police say a 200 meter exclusion zone has been put in

:03:50. > :03:50.place and nearby properties have been evacuated while they deal with

:03:51. > :03:55.the incident. German Police have arrested several

:03:56. > :03:56.suspects in an anti-terrorism operation in the eastern

:03:57. > :03:58.city of Leipzig. Police confirmed that several

:03:59. > :04:00.properties had been searched earlier Local reports suggested

:04:01. > :04:03.the operation was targeting suspected members of Islamic State

:04:04. > :04:05.and other groups involved That's a summary of the latest BBC

:04:06. > :04:13.News - more at 10.30am. The Six Nations champions England

:04:14. > :04:28.have once again been given a very tricky draw for the 2019 Rugby World

:04:29. > :04:30.Cup. They'll face France and Argentina,

:04:31. > :04:32.as well as two more In 2015, England failed

:04:33. > :04:35.to reach the knockout phase. At this morning's draw in Kyoto,

:04:36. > :04:38.Ireland and Scotland ended up in the same group,

:04:39. > :04:40.alongside the hosts Japan, with Wales going into Australia's

:04:41. > :04:43.pool for the second successive World All the home nations avoided

:04:44. > :04:47.the reigning champions New Zealand. One of the investigators who had

:04:48. > :04:49.been appointed to oversee reforms at Fifa says there are "several

:04:50. > :04:51.hundred cases" of Cornel Borbely has been

:04:52. > :04:56.relieved of his duties, Both had been a part of the world

:04:57. > :05:03.governing body's ethics committee, and were instrumental in former

:05:04. > :05:05.president Sepp Blatter's six Borbely says the decision

:05:06. > :05:22.to replace them is the end The removal of the Ethics Committee

:05:23. > :05:27.is not in Fifa's best interest. It's against good governance and it's a

:05:28. > :05:33.setback for the fight against corruption. The Ethics Committee is

:05:34. > :05:39.weakened and incapacitated. Fifa are themselves investigating

:05:40. > :05:41.the transfer of Paul Pogba He was the world's most expensive

:05:42. > :05:46.player when he moved Fifa want to know who was involved

:05:47. > :05:55.in the ?89.3 million deal and how much money they got

:05:56. > :05:57.out of it. United say Fifa have

:05:58. > :05:59.all the necessary documents Juventus are into their

:06:00. > :06:02.second Champions League They'll take on Real

:06:03. > :06:13.or Atletico Madrid in next Real are 3-0 up going

:06:14. > :06:20.into tonight's second leg. Tae kwon do is the latest sport

:06:21. > :06:23.to be dragged into the controversy GB Tae kwon do had their most

:06:24. > :06:32.successful Olympics in Rio last year, winning gold,

:06:33. > :06:35.silver and bronze medals, but medical staff had

:06:36. > :06:37.apparently raised concerns including the mismanagement

:06:38. > :06:38.of concussions and athletes being forced into drastic

:06:39. > :06:40.weight-loss programmes, With the French Open just

:06:41. > :06:47.over a fortnight away, Andy Murray says he's still not back

:06:48. > :06:50.to his best after the elbow injury that kept him out

:06:51. > :06:52.of action for a month. He's through to the third

:06:53. > :06:55.round of the Madrid Open after beating Romania's Marius Copil

:06:56. > :07:00.in straight sets. Murray was far from his best early

:07:01. > :07:03.on, but his serve was never in danger of being broken -

:07:04. > :07:06.that's been his main Stage four of the Giro

:07:07. > :07:10.d'Italia was a good one for the British riders,

:07:11. > :07:16.but not so much for the leader He completely misjudged

:07:17. > :07:26.his speed at a corner and a few riders went

:07:27. > :07:29.the wrong way with him! Geraint Thomas moved up

:07:30. > :07:31.to second place, behind new leader Bob Yungles,

:07:32. > :07:39.with Adam Yates third. Very unfortunate that, Victoria.

:07:40. > :07:42.That's all the sport for now. Thank you very much, Jess. Some messages

:07:43. > :07:45.from various people who were listening to a group of voters with

:07:46. > :07:49.disabilities talking about the things that matter to them in this

:07:50. > :07:52.election. Rob says, "How can people who are negatively affected by the

:07:53. > :07:57.policies of the Conservative Government vote for Theresa May?"

:07:58. > :08:04.Nicky says, "Am I living in some weird parallel universe? We have a

:08:05. > :08:09.country where the NHS, welfare, widows, widowers benefit, social

:08:10. > :08:12.care, schools, prisons, have seen sweeping funding cuts overall in the

:08:13. > :08:19.name of austerity and yet we have some people with disabilities about

:08:20. > :08:24.to vote for Theresa May." . We have seen seen people die due to missed

:08:25. > :08:27.operations. I'm dumbfounded and I'm missing something. Please tell me

:08:28. > :08:31.I'm having a nightmare and I will wake up soon." Those two messages

:08:32. > :08:33.are representative of quite a few we've had from you. Keep your

:08:34. > :08:45.comments coming in. Victims of the tainted blood scandal

:08:46. > :08:48.could sue the government over claims Last month we revealed that

:08:49. > :08:52.victims of the scandal - one of the worst in the history

:08:53. > :08:55.of the NHS - were still fighting for answers 30 years after thousands

:08:56. > :08:58.of patients were given blood transfusions that were contaminated

:08:59. > :08:59.and were later diagnosed More than 2,000 have since died

:09:00. > :09:09.and many more have had Now BBC Panorama tonight reveals

:09:10. > :09:13.that one of the victim's children is taking legal action

:09:14. > :09:15.against the Government, and if he's successful the case

:09:16. > :09:18.could be used to help others Jason Evans' father, Jonathan,

:09:19. > :09:30.had severe haemophilia and was given Patients should have been given the

:09:31. > :09:34.choice of whether they wanted to take that gamble and play Russian

:09:35. > :09:38.roulette with their life and I could almost guarantee that 99% of them

:09:39. > :09:42.would not have taken that gamble. My mum was with him and they were

:09:43. > :09:48.called into the doctor's office and the doctor told them both quite

:09:49. > :09:56.bluntly that my dad had tested positive for HIV.

:09:57. > :09:59.Tony Farrugia, was just 14-years-old when his father Barry died of Aids

:10:00. > :10:03.Tony told our reporter Jim Reed about the last time

:10:04. > :10:13.I do remember my dad asking me for some of my ice cream and I handed it

:10:14. > :10:18.to him at which point one of the nurses intervened and said, "You

:10:19. > :10:24.can't give him that." I was like why? He had blisters in his mouth

:10:25. > :10:28.that were bleeding so obviously I couldn't share an ice cream with my

:10:29. > :10:32.dad because they had given him AIDS. I just found it, looking back on it

:10:33. > :10:38.now, at the time I didn't think too much into it, but looking back over

:10:39. > :10:43.it, I was disgusted, you know, that I couldn't, I did have physical

:10:44. > :10:51.contact, I could give him a hug. I said goodbye.

:10:52. > :10:56.Barry's death in 1986 split the family apart. Tony went back into

:10:57. > :11:00.care and his twin brother went to a separate care home in North London.

:11:01. > :11:05.The family were only reunited 24 years later. 2nd August 2010 was the

:11:06. > :11:09.first time all our family were in the same room. That group of

:11:10. > :11:12.brothers, that's what they did. You know, they destroyed my dad with

:11:13. > :11:26.these viruses and then they watched his family crumble.

:11:27. > :11:32.Hepatitis C has given Michelle cirrhosis of the liver -

:11:33. > :11:35.She's now being treated but the damage that's already been

:11:36. > :11:40.We're also joined by Andy Evans who was infected with HIV at 5 years

:11:41. > :11:41.old when receiving treatment for his haemophilia

:11:42. > :11:44.on the NHS and Andy Burnham, the recently elected Mayor

:11:45. > :11:50.He has called this a cover-up. Michelle, how do you react to this

:11:51. > :11:53.development that the child of one of the victims is now taking legal

:11:54. > :11:58.action against the Government? Good morning, Victoria. Good morning.

:11:59. > :12:04.Yes, it needs to be done. It's bad that it has been a cover-up. It's

:12:05. > :12:12.bad that so many people have been infected either by giving whole

:12:13. > :12:17.bloods or the factor 8 serum. The devastating effects that it has had

:12:18. > :12:25.on my life, the impact, the impact on my family, and I'm sure I can

:12:26. > :12:34.speak for other community sufferers, it's devastating. It's horrific. And

:12:35. > :12:39.you only found out that you had hepatitis C in 2015. You are the

:12:40. > :12:44.most recently diagnosed of those who had blood transfusions several years

:12:45. > :12:48.ago. Tell us what happened? Yes, I had two blood transfusions before

:12:49. > :12:56.the blood was screened, one in 1987 and then one in February 1991. Some

:12:57. > :13:01.adverts came on to the television regarding hepatitis C and blood

:13:02. > :13:07.transfusions and in mid-90s I went to my GP at the time to enquire

:13:08. > :13:10.about the tests etcetera and was basically sent away saying don't be

:13:11. > :13:16.silly, you won't have that. So trusting my GP, being a young mum of

:13:17. > :13:21.four, I trusted him. I went away and carried on with my life. It's a

:13:22. > :13:27.slow, progressive diseases that hides its way in many shapes or

:13:28. > :13:32.forms and I got to November 2015 and I knew there was just something

:13:33. > :13:36.very, very wrong. It was by chance that I had my diabetic yearly tests

:13:37. > :13:43.and my liver functions were showing very, very high so I cas called in

:13:44. > :13:45.in by my Go and it was just through chatting to remember that I

:13:46. > :13:49.remembered about the blood transfusions so he tested me there

:13:50. > :13:53.and then and the next day I found out and it tore my world apart.

:13:54. > :13:58.Absolutely tore my world apart and I started to plan my own funeral. I

:13:59. > :14:05.thought I was going to die. I can't, I cannot even put into words how I

:14:06. > :14:09.feel and how it has affected us and for other people, it's - I've

:14:10. > :14:13.struggled to try and find out because like I say it has just only

:14:14. > :14:19.been 18 months. My brain has been like a sponge trying to soak up all

:14:20. > :14:27.the information about this. I would actually like to make a point to

:14:28. > :14:31.Andy Burnham and ask him that he has got a responsibility, a duty of care

:14:32. > :14:34.if you like, to hand his evidence over to the police. I really don't

:14:35. > :14:38.think he should wait. OK, let's bring in Mr Burnham now. Thank you.

:14:39. > :14:41.You have been campaigning on behalf of victims for sometime now. Do you

:14:42. > :14:47.have some evidence that you can hand over to the police? Good morning,

:14:48. > :14:52.Victoria. Yes, I believe I have evidence of crimes that have been

:14:53. > :14:58.committed against the victims of contaminated blood. Now, if people

:14:59. > :15:01.remember, going back, if you look at the parallel with Hillsborough, I

:15:02. > :15:04.had evidence of amended police statements back at the beginning

:15:05. > :15:08.when we began to open up Hillsborough. Now, in my view, if I

:15:09. > :15:11.were to go straight to the police with that evidence, I'm not sure we

:15:12. > :15:15.would get to the full truth as quickly as possiblement what I want

:15:16. > :15:19.to do is give the Government the chance to set-up a

:15:20. > :15:24.Hillsborough-style inquiry into what went wrong and the cover-up that

:15:25. > :15:26.subsequently followed. Now, if they don't do that, the new Government

:15:27. > :15:30.after the election, then I will go to the police. I made that very

:15:31. > :15:33.clear. Unless they establish a Hillsborough-style inquiry after the

:15:34. > :15:37.election, whoever that Government is, I will go to the police by the

:15:38. > :15:41.time the House rises for the summer recess. I believe an individual

:15:42. > :15:44.police investigation into individual cases won't necessarily get us

:15:45. > :15:54.quickly to the full truth and that is what the victims deserve. Let me

:15:55. > :15:58.ask you without you naming names or getting into trouble, legally what

:15:59. > :16:03.do you believe you have evidence of? I believe this goes back to wilful

:16:04. > :16:07.negligence by the state in the first incidents. There was warnings coming

:16:08. > :16:12.out from America about the warning -- because of these blood products

:16:13. > :16:15.that was ignored. There is documentary evidence to say they

:16:16. > :16:19.were actively tested on patients, even though the risks were known.

:16:20. > :16:28.That is the first piece of evidence. The next is evidence of tests being

:16:29. > :16:32.done on people for hepatitis C, HIV, without the knowledge of those

:16:33. > :16:36.individuals, evident results of those tests not being communicated

:16:37. > :16:41.to those individuals, even when they were positive. In some ways, what I

:16:42. > :16:47.find most shocking of all, delivered. Occasional people's

:16:48. > :16:50.medical notes, to suggest that the liver disease was self-inflicted

:16:51. > :16:56.through alcoholism and not a result of contaminated blood products. So

:16:57. > :17:00.plenty of evidence, Victoria, on many levels of both wilful

:17:01. > :17:05.negligence by the state and then, I would argue, a cover-up on an

:17:06. > :17:12.industrial scale. Let me bring in Andy Evans. Mr Evans, how do you

:17:13. > :17:18.react to what Mr Burnham has just said? When Andy Burnham, hi Andy,

:17:19. > :17:21.stood up in Parliament and uttered those words, I saw it as a

:17:22. > :17:25.breakthrough moment for our campaign. We have been waiting for

:17:26. > :17:31.someone to say that sort of thing. And do you think it is right to say

:17:32. > :17:33.give a new government a chance to establish a Hillsborough style

:17:34. > :17:38.enquiry, if that doesn't happen then Mr Burnham takes what he has to the

:17:39. > :17:41.police? I think so, Hillsborough and the subsequent cases that have

:17:42. > :17:47.followed Hillsborough have proven to be successful in their aims. And so

:17:48. > :17:51.I trust Andy Burnham when he says a Hillsborough style enquiry will be

:17:52. > :17:56.the best way to Gomis, although obviously a proper -- to go on this,

:17:57. > :18:00.although a proper statutory enquiry with the ability to compel witnesses

:18:01. > :18:08.under oath and the documents would also be very welcome. You contract

:18:09. > :18:15.it HIV, aged five. Yes. That was 1982. You were told about your HIV

:18:16. > :18:22.diagnosis aged 12, that later developed into AIDS. Can you give

:18:23. > :18:27.our audience a sense of what it is like to discover something like

:18:28. > :18:32.that, and then live with it? In a sense, I can't really describe it,

:18:33. > :18:36.because it is all I have ever known. From 12 years old, I knew I was

:18:37. > :18:41.HIV-positive, and when you are a teenager, are invincible, so you

:18:42. > :18:47.acclimatise yourself to that. But obviously later on in my life, when

:18:48. > :18:51.I developed full-blown AIDS at 16, I was in and out of hospital, I was

:18:52. > :18:55.expected to die on several occasions. My parents were given the

:18:56. > :19:02.final infection notice on several occasions. Meaning you were about

:19:03. > :19:06.the diet was top yes indeed, yeah. And then of course the devastating

:19:07. > :19:11.effects it has got, as far as the stigma is concerned and the way it

:19:12. > :19:14.affects your relationships. And then, of course, ever since then the

:19:15. > :19:21.very toxic medications that we all have to take on a daily basis, not

:19:22. > :19:27.just for the HIV, but for the incredibly toxic hepatitis C

:19:28. > :19:33.treatment as well. They wreck your body. Even coming out of being

:19:34. > :19:36.classed as having full-blown AIDS 20 years later that I have properly

:19:37. > :19:43.recovered from any of that yet. Right. Andy Burnham. We have

:19:44. > :19:47.reported on this last month, when we reported about how many people were

:19:48. > :19:52.still affected, still finding out, still discovering new information.

:19:53. > :19:58.At how big a scandal do you believe this is? I think it is a scandal on

:19:59. > :20:02.a momentous scale, Victoria, honestly I do. I mean, thousands and

:20:03. > :20:07.thousands of people affected, not just directly, but their families

:20:08. > :20:10.too, suffering in silence over decades, forced to beg for scraps of

:20:11. > :20:13.financial help from the government, but never being given the truth

:20:14. > :20:18.about what happened, and why it happened. You know, really left in

:20:19. > :20:23.the darkest of wildernesses over many, many years. And there has been

:20:24. > :20:28.lots of well-meaning MPs who have tried to help, but nobody has really

:20:29. > :20:30.moved it forward, because, as we saw with Hillsborough, unless you start

:20:31. > :20:34.with the truth, tell people the truth about what happened, only when

:20:35. > :20:37.you establish the truth can you then begin to get real justice. And I

:20:38. > :20:42.think it is because the country doesn't know really what happened to

:20:43. > :20:46.these victims, there has never been that groundswell of support that has

:20:47. > :20:51.come in behind them and demanded adequate recompense and justice from

:20:52. > :20:55.the government. It is why I hope this Panorama programme the night

:20:56. > :21:01.might begin to break it down, as we have had with Hillsborough in those

:21:02. > :21:03.years after the 20th anniversary of the memorial service, I think

:21:04. > :21:08.something similar needs to happen here, Victoria. The country needs to

:21:09. > :21:11.know this story and how scandalous it is, because I know the British

:21:12. > :21:16.people. When they do know it, they will come in behind these victims

:21:17. > :21:19.and they will demand truth and justice for them. Thank you very

:21:20. > :21:26.much for coming on the programme. Andy Burnham, Michelle, and Andy

:21:27. > :21:31.Evans again, thank you. You can watch panorama, contaminated blood,

:21:32. > :21:36.the search for the truth, at 9pm on BBC One and after on BBC iPlayer.

:21:37. > :21:40.Still to come, we will talk to a mum whose son fell from the same ride at

:21:41. > :21:48.Drayton Manor theme park where an 11-year-old girl died today.

:21:49. > :21:52.Prosecutors will announce later this morning whether any Conservative

:21:53. > :21:55.officials or politicians will be charged with breaking rules on

:21:56. > :22:01.campaigning spending at the last election in 2015. Let's talk to our

:22:02. > :22:05.assistant political editor, Norman Smith. Tell us about the

:22:06. > :22:11.allegations. This centres on claims that at the last election, a number

:22:12. > :22:14.of Conservative candidates potentially, officials, may have

:22:15. > :22:17.spent more money than they were allowed. In other words, giving

:22:18. > :22:27.themselves an advantage in the contest. This centred on accusations

:22:28. > :22:32.that the Tory sent down bus-loads of activist to marginal seats the

:22:33. > :22:36.campaign, but then put the bill on the tab of the National party. In

:22:37. > :22:41.other words, it didn't add to the sort of local parties bill, enabling

:22:42. > :22:45.them in effect to get a whole load of more money and resources spent in

:22:46. > :22:49.their local campaign and not have to declare it. We have already had an

:22:50. > :22:53.investigation by the Electoral Commission, who slapped a whopping

:22:54. > :22:57.great ?70,000 fine on the Conservative Party for doing this.

:22:58. > :23:01.They are also highly critical of the Tory party for not cooperating with

:23:02. > :23:04.the investigation, but crucially what the Electoral Commission did

:23:05. > :23:10.not manage to establish was the issue of intent. Did the Tory party

:23:11. > :23:14.deliberately know what they were doing? In other words, were they

:23:15. > :23:18.deliberately trying to get round the rules almost to try and buy seats at

:23:19. > :23:25.the last election? And what has the Conservative Party said? They have

:23:26. > :23:30.said all along that this was a clock up rather than a conspiracy, that it

:23:31. > :23:34.was a technical error, and administrative foul up. They put the

:23:35. > :23:40.sums in the wrong ledger, it wasn't really an attempt to get round the

:23:41. > :23:45.rules. But the way they responded to the Electoral Commission enquiry was

:23:46. > :23:49.certainly raising eyebrows, because they seem to fight the enquiry all

:23:50. > :23:53.the way, and a lot of people are saying if it was just a bungle, why

:23:54. > :23:58.would you make such a big fuss about it? We are expecting this

:23:59. > :24:03.announcement from the CPS at around 11am. We are well into the election

:24:04. > :24:06.campaign, candidates are knocking on doors, hoping to be elected on the

:24:07. > :24:10.8th of June, what will happen if one of those candidates being

:24:11. > :24:15.investigated is charged? Here is the thing, the timing is very types and

:24:16. > :24:17.candidates have to be declared by tomorrow. If some of these

:24:18. > :24:21.candidates are prosecuted I think they would almost certainly have to

:24:22. > :24:24.stand down for stop it seems to me they would be inconceivable to go

:24:25. > :24:36.into an election with this cloud hanging over them. Team a would only

:24:37. > :24:40.have 24 hours to find new candidates to parachute in -- Theresa may would

:24:41. > :24:43.only have 24 hours. If you look at this election, the Theresa May has

:24:44. > :24:46.sort of just powered forward, sort of crushing everyone in her wake

:24:47. > :24:52.with very tightly controlled, scripted campaign. If from almost

:24:53. > :24:55.nowhere the Crown Prosecution Service were to say right, we are

:24:56. > :24:58.going to prosecute a whole load of your officials and your candidates,

:24:59. > :25:03.that would be a complete curveball, that would completely sort of throw

:25:04. > :25:07.things up into the air. For the first time, you sense Theresa May

:25:08. > :25:14.might potentially be forced onto the back foot. Elsewhere, the Liberal

:25:15. > :25:22.Democrats and Labour both making multi-billion pound funding pledges.

:25:23. > :25:27.Where do they say they will get the money from? Labour are rolling out

:25:28. > :25:31.what they call their national education service, and they want

:25:32. > :25:34.this to sit alongside the National Health Service, the thinking being

:25:35. > :25:38.that you do in education what you do in the health service, you provide a

:25:39. > :25:42.free service from cradle to grave. That is a big, big deal, and comes

:25:43. > :25:48.with a big bill. What they are suggesting, for example, is that

:25:49. > :25:51.adults ought to be able to take up further education courses without

:25:52. > :25:55.having to pay anything. That ought to be free for people who are adults

:25:56. > :26:00.to retrain, to acquire new skills and stop they are also talking about

:26:01. > :26:03.reintroducing student maintenance grants, reintroducing educational

:26:04. > :26:07.maintenance allowances, making good some of the cuts to school funding.

:26:08. > :26:12.What we don't get today is the pledge which we'll most will get to

:26:13. > :26:17.axe university tuition fees, but it comes with a huge price tag. Without

:26:18. > :26:21.University tuition fees Walker something like 37 billion. Adding on

:26:22. > :26:25.University tuition fees, it is another 20 billion, so these are

:26:26. > :26:32.massive, massive bills, part of which Labour say by hiking taxes on

:26:33. > :26:37.business. They are going to raise corporation tax from 19% to 26%, and

:26:38. > :26:42.increase almost of a third. A big hit for business. Lib Dems very

:26:43. > :26:45.briefly want to raise 7 billion also to plough into schools. So a lot of

:26:46. > :26:55.money being talked about being pumped into education.

:26:56. > :26:57.And Norman every day until June eighth we're

:26:58. > :27:00.highlighting the best cock-up, gaffe or highly amusing moment

:27:01. > :27:19.We need a general election and when need one now. To every

:27:20. > :27:28.So today, Norman, question up there are all sorts of ways of getting

:27:29. > :27:32.round in an election. Politicians can travel in battlebus is, you can

:27:33. > :27:36.get a train, that tends to be what Jeremy Corbyn does come you can get

:27:37. > :27:43.a helicopter. But the Lib Dems in to have a particular fascination with

:27:44. > :27:50.what are sometimes known as ACV the Raw. An air cushion vehicle,

:27:51. > :27:53.otherwise known as a hovercraft. Have a look at Jeremy Thorpe, the

:27:54. > :28:00.Liberal leader back in the 1960s. Here he is. Propped up by a

:28:01. > :28:05.hovercraft. Now, go forward about 30 years, and take a look at Nick Clegg

:28:06. > :28:13.at the last election, with a trusty old hovercraft again. They are very

:28:14. > :28:21.fond of these ACVs. It makes them look like real action men, doesn't

:28:22. > :28:26.it, dudes? The original thing was to be seen at the cutting edge of

:28:27. > :28:31.technology. The trouble is hovercraft are quite retro.

:28:32. > :28:37.Yesterday, lo and behold, Tim Farron all clogged up ready for action. The

:28:38. > :28:43.thing is, if he is going to get into a hovercraft, you want him to kind

:28:44. > :28:49.of seize control, power it very manfully in a particular direction.

:28:50. > :28:54.But when you see him in his hovercraft, I mean, it is kind of

:28:55. > :29:04.wobbling all over the place, isn't it? Yes, going left a lot. You know

:29:05. > :29:09.what it reminds me of? A sort of dying bumblebee. That is what it

:29:10. > :29:11.reminds me of, it doesn't give you the impression of forceful, dynamic

:29:12. > :29:22.Liberal Democrat leadership. Thank you. And that was Norman Smith.

:29:23. > :29:27.I have got an e-mail from Mickey, watching your programme this

:29:28. > :29:30.morning, I listened with interest to the comments made concerning the

:29:31. > :29:34.general election. We spoke to a group of voters with disabilities

:29:35. > :29:39.about any particular issues that were pertinent to them. Mickey goes

:29:40. > :29:42.on, I am severely disabled and I am voting for the Theresa May this

:29:43. > :29:45.June. My reasons are many but the most important one is that both

:29:46. > :29:48.Labour and the Lib Dems say they will put billions of pounds into the

:29:49. > :29:52.NHS and schools, but they have no fiscal policy as to where all this

:29:53. > :29:56.money is going to come from. Secondly, neither of the above

:29:57. > :30:00.parties have guaranteed Brexit will be pursued. Mrs May has given the

:30:01. > :30:03.nation a cast iron promise that Brexit will be done and we will get

:30:04. > :30:06.the best deal. Following Brexit, she has said that the ills of the

:30:07. > :30:12.British Isles would be addressed. That is why Mickey is voting for the

:30:13. > :30:15.Conservatives. Still to come, in the last half-hour, Jeremy Corbyn Labour

:30:16. > :30:18.leader will be out and about on the campaign trail, talking about the

:30:19. > :30:22.party's pledge into putting more money into education, we will bring

:30:23. > :30:25.you some of his speech live and we will be talking the year eight

:30:26. > :30:29.pupils about their understanding of internet fraud. We have an expert

:30:30. > :30:38.giving them tips on how to detect themselves. Half ten, time is the

:30:39. > :30:42.latest news headlines. President Trump has fired the head

:30:43. > :30:45.of the FBI James Comey in a move He'd been leading an investigation

:30:46. > :30:49.into alleged links between the Trump The White House says Mr Comey

:30:50. > :30:52."has been terminated Drayton Manor theme park

:30:53. > :31:02.in Staffordshire says it will not open to the public today

:31:03. > :31:05.after the death of an 11-year-old The Year 6 pupil, Evha Jannath,

:31:06. > :31:10.was on a trip with her school, the Jameah Girls Academy in

:31:11. > :31:12.Leicester. In a statement the school said

:31:13. > :31:14.it was providing support to its pupils and staff

:31:15. > :31:17.and requested time to grieve. Senior management at the theme park

:31:18. > :31:19.said they were shocked The Crown Prosecution Service

:31:20. > :31:27.is expected to announce later this morning whether any Conservative

:31:28. > :31:29.politicians or officials will be charged with breaking rules

:31:30. > :31:31.on election campaign The CPS has been considering files

:31:32. > :31:40.sent by the police from nearly The party has insisted that

:31:41. > :31:44.administrative errors were to blame for any spending

:31:45. > :31:48.which was incorrectly declared. If general election

:31:49. > :31:49.candidates are prosecuted the Conservative Party will have

:31:50. > :31:52.to decide whether to suspend them and replace them as nominees

:31:53. > :31:54.by Thursday's deadline Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:31:55. > :32:06.have pledged billions of pounds in extra school funding if they win

:32:07. > :32:09.the general election, to ensure budgets in England keep

:32:10. > :32:11.up with rising costs. Both parties also say no school

:32:12. > :32:14.would lose out as a result of a new funding formula to divide

:32:15. > :32:17.money across the country. But the Conservatives say school

:32:18. > :32:19.funding has reached record levels in their government and questioned

:32:20. > :32:21.Labour's plans to use corporation tax rises

:32:22. > :32:25.to fund their plans. Nato Secretary-General Jens

:32:26. > :32:28.Stoltenberg has discussed calls for more troops to be sent

:32:29. > :32:30.to Afghanistan with the Prime Minister in Downing Street

:32:31. > :32:36.Following his meeting with Theresa May Jens Stoltenberg

:32:37. > :32:39.said Nato members would discuss the request in forthcoming

:32:40. > :32:50.meeting later this month. We have received requests from our

:32:51. > :32:55.military authorities to increase our military presence in Afghanistan

:32:56. > :32:59.with a few thousand troops. We are now assessing that request. We will

:33:00. > :33:07.make a decision on the scale and the scope on the mission within weeks,

:33:08. > :33:12.but this is not about returning back to a combat operation in

:33:13. > :33:16.Afghanistan. It will continue to be train, assist and advice operation.

:33:17. > :33:19.A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

:33:20. > :33:23.Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, from north London, was also charged

:33:24. > :33:25.with two counts of making or having explosives.

:33:26. > :33:27.Those two charges, under the Explosive Substances Act,

:33:28. > :33:29.relate to alleged activity in Afghanistan in 2012.

:33:30. > :33:31.Mr Omar Ali, who was arrested on Parliament Street

:33:32. > :33:33.on 27th April, will appear at Westminster Magistrates'

:33:34. > :33:43.Cornwall Fire and Rescue have declared a major incident

:33:44. > :33:46.and evacuated Falmouth Docks after a crane collapsed.

:33:47. > :33:49.Local police said a 200 metre exclusion zone has been in place

:33:50. > :33:51.and nearby properties have been evacuated while they deal

:33:52. > :34:04.Police say there are no reports of any injuries.

:34:05. > :34:07.A plea from an American teenager asking a burger chain for a year's

:34:08. > :34:10.supply of chicken nuggets has become the most re-tweeted message ever.

:34:11. > :34:15.Carter Wilkerson tweeted Wendy's asking how many retweets

:34:16. > :34:18.he would need to get a his free chicken nuggets, to which the fast

:34:19. > :34:21.He then posted a screenshot of the tweets with the

:34:22. > :34:29.call "help me please. A man needs his nuggs."

:34:30. > :34:31.The message has now been shared over 3.5 million times.

:34:32. > :34:37.The company has donated $100,000 to charity in his name.

:34:38. > :34:43.Prior to his becoming the most retweeted tweet that was the most

:34:44. > :34:45.retweeted tweet so they are in a battle to see who gets the most

:34:46. > :34:47.retweets. That's a summary of the latest news,

:34:48. > :34:50.join me for BBC Newsroom England have been handed a tough

:34:51. > :35:01.draw for the second successive They're in a Pool with

:35:02. > :35:04.France and Argentina Ireland and Scotland

:35:05. > :35:07.are in the same group, alongside the hosts,

:35:08. > :35:09.Japan, with Wales landing So all of the home nations

:35:10. > :35:12.have avoided the current The decision to oust

:35:13. > :35:19.the investigators of Fifa's Ethics Committee is a "setback in the fight

:35:20. > :35:23.against corruption." That's the view of Cornel Borbely

:35:24. > :35:26.who, along with Hans-Joachim Eckert, They were brought in to oversee

:35:27. > :35:31.Fifa's reform programme and helped bring down former

:35:32. > :35:35.President Sepp Blatter. Fifa are themselves investigating

:35:36. > :35:37.the transfer of Paul Pogba He was the world's most expensive

:35:38. > :35:42.player when he moved from Juventus last summer,

:35:43. > :35:45.and Fifa want to know who made what And with the French Open less

:35:46. > :35:52.than three weeks away, Andy Murray says he still needs

:35:53. > :35:55.to play better, but he's through to the third

:35:56. > :35:57.round of the Madrid Open, after a straight-sets win over

:35:58. > :36:06.Marius Copil of Romania. That's all the sport for now,

:36:07. > :36:09.Victoria. We're likely to hear from Jeremy

:36:10. > :36:13.Corbyn. He is the leader of the Labour Party as you know in the

:36:14. > :36:16.next, I don't know, ten minutes or so, he'll give a speech about his

:36:17. > :36:23.education plans, where he to form the next Government. So we will

:36:24. > :36:26.cross to that live, of course. What does Jeremy Corbyn say? He says

:36:27. > :36:31.Government for the many, not the few. Theresa May says strong and

:36:32. > :36:33.stable Government. Plenty of those mantras over the last few weeks and

:36:34. > :36:41.you will hear them a lot more. Every Wednesday we will be analysing

:36:42. > :36:45.hundreds of thousands of tweets to get a flavour of what people are

:36:46. > :36:49.talking about, who they're trolling and whether they are swallowing the

:36:50. > :37:00.official messages coming from any of the parties.

:37:01. > :37:07.Let's talk to Josh Smith from Demos. You have analysed three-quarters of

:37:08. > :37:10.a million tweets written so far since the general election was

:37:11. > :37:13.called last month. This is not scientific, but explain how you're

:37:14. > :37:18.analysing them and why you're looking at Twitter rather than other

:37:19. > :37:20.social media? The really interesting thing about Twitter especially

:37:21. > :37:24.during a general election is that it's a very public space for people

:37:25. > :37:27.to kind of air their opinions and express their views on politics and

:37:28. > :37:31.whatever else is happening. The other interesting thing about it, if

:37:32. > :37:35.you're a user on Twitter you tend to exist in the echo chambers so you're

:37:36. > :37:38.listening to the people you agree with and who you're following and

:37:39. > :37:42.you really see the parties that you're talking to anyway. We wanted

:37:43. > :37:46.to cut through that a bit and look at how people were discussing the

:37:47. > :37:50.general election across parties. So what we've done, we've picked up

:37:51. > :37:54.people tweeting about the general electionment we tried to work out

:37:55. > :37:58.and we trained an algorism to do that to work out who supported which

:37:59. > :38:04.party and then we've picked at random 400 supporters from five of

:38:05. > :38:07.the biggest parties and looked at what they're talking about and

:38:08. > :38:11.that's what we're going to be looking at. These are party

:38:12. > :38:16.supporters? Yes. How do you get a sense of what they're saying? You

:38:17. > :38:19.pick up three-quarters of a million tweets, you get a lot of noise and

:38:20. > :38:23.chatter and one of the ways we have been trying to work out what the

:38:24. > :38:27.conversations are to look at terms that are coming up together a lot

:38:28. > :38:30.more than we'd expect them to. That allowed us to look at the

:38:31. > :38:34.conversations that are going on, but also just to see how much people are

:38:35. > :38:39.tweeting and I think we can show you... Before we go, I'm going to

:38:40. > :38:43.keep everybody in suspense, don't look at this, we're going to cross

:38:44. > :38:47.to Jeremy Corbyn right now. It's a great pleasure to be here

:38:48. > :38:51.with some good friends and colleagues, Judith Blake the leader

:38:52. > :38:55.of Leeds City Council did a fantastic job in standing up for

:38:56. > :38:59.this city and she and I had many wet and happy memories of trying to deal

:39:00. > :39:01.with the flooding crisis and today we pray for rain!

:39:02. > :39:06.LAUGHTER Judith, thank you for everything you

:39:07. > :39:12.do for the city and our people in it and to my colleagues Hilary Benn and

:39:13. > :39:21.Richard Burgen brilliant MPs, thank you for coming along this morning.

:39:22. > :39:25.And I'm delighted to be speaking alongside Angela reigner our next

:39:26. > :39:29.Education Secretary. They're brilliant individuals, they've done

:39:30. > :39:32.a fantastic job in what has turned out to be a very short Parliament,

:39:33. > :39:36.but there is an advantage in that, it gets them round the Cabinet table

:39:37. > :39:40.a bit quicker than it would otherwise have taken so I'm looking

:39:41. > :39:45.forward to you doing those jobs in Government. You'll hear from Angela

:39:46. > :39:50.shortly about our detailed plans for education, training and skills.

:39:51. > :39:56.There are four weeks left of this gaeks campaign and I hope every one

:39:57. > :40:01.of you in this room is registered to vote and every student is registered

:40:02. > :40:04.to vote. Use your democratic right. A positive message which we're going

:40:05. > :40:10.to take across the country is simply this - that we want to see a better

:40:11. > :40:15.country. A Britain in which everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their

:40:16. > :40:21.potential. A Britain which works literally for the many and not just

:40:22. > :40:24.the few. Because, if you're stuck on a zero hours contract, you don't

:40:25. > :40:29.know what you're going to earn from one week to the other, or if you

:40:30. > :40:33.have talents that can't afford the tuition fees to develop them or

:40:34. > :40:42.you're stuck in a job that you hate, then you are being held back. Labour

:40:43. > :40:46.is on your side. We want you to succeed because those who aren't

:40:47. > :40:51.held back are those who are hoarding huge levels of wealth or enormous

:40:52. > :40:55.influence. Those who jealousy cling on to privilege and power, they

:40:56. > :41:00.don't want any of that to change. They work together to make sure

:41:01. > :41:04.things don't change. It's no coincidence that we learn from this

:41:05. > :41:10.wooing's Sunday Times Rich List that a third of those on the list donate

:41:11. > :41:13.to the Conservative Party. The Conservative Party looks after money

:41:14. > :41:18.and money looks after the Conservative Party. It's a virtuous

:41:19. > :41:24.circle. Try to disrupt this and you find yourself meeting a great deal

:41:25. > :41:31.of hostility. Question how things are and you encounter abuse. Ask

:41:32. > :41:38.those at the top to pay a little more towards society and you are

:41:39. > :41:43.maligned. That's how the system is rigged and that's how it stays

:41:44. > :41:49.rigged, but I say to this - it doesn't have to be this way. We're

:41:50. > :41:55.asking you to join with us, to help us make the change we can all enjoy.

:41:56. > :42:00.On the same day that the Sunday Times Rich List came out, my friend,

:42:01. > :42:06.our Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, set out a

:42:07. > :42:11.different form of change. He unveiled Labour's plan to upgrade

:42:12. > :42:17.our economy. Because without an upgraded economy there can be no

:42:18. > :42:23.fairer Britain. As John said, it means Government understanding that

:42:24. > :42:28.education, childcare, housing, infrastructure, and industrial

:42:29. > :42:33.strategy are the essential pillars of upgrading the economy. So this

:42:34. > :42:39.week and next we're setting out our detailed plans for each pillar of

:42:40. > :42:44.our plan to upgrade the economy. We all benefit from an upgraded economy

:42:45. > :42:50.that preserves the long-term sur vile of our public services so much

:42:51. > :42:55.under threat, we've said a Labour Government will build one million

:42:56. > :43:00.homes and tackle the excesses of the private rental market. We want to

:43:01. > :43:05.put an end to our workforce being priced out of living near to where

:43:06. > :43:10.they work. Labour wants families to spend more time together. But it's

:43:11. > :43:15.no good making progress in housing for our workforce if it's not

:43:16. > :43:21.equipped to take the opportunities made possible by an upgraded

:43:22. > :43:27.economy. So today, Angela will be putting forward our detailed plans

:43:28. > :43:33.for education, skills and training. A higher skilled and confident

:43:34. > :43:38.workforce is a must have for a fairer Britain negotiating in a post

:43:39. > :43:43.Brexit world. Our businesses, both large and small, will prosper on the

:43:44. > :43:47.back of education, skills and training finally being given serious

:43:48. > :43:52.attention by a very serious Government. So it's only fair that

:43:53. > :43:56.businesses should be asked to contribute to the plan by financing

:43:57. > :44:02.the steps that we're setting out today and we will do this by

:44:03. > :44:06.reversing the tax cuts made by the Conservatives and still keep UK

:44:07. > :44:12.rates of corporation tax at the lowest of the group of seven most

:44:13. > :44:18.industrialised countries. It's what we term our new settlement. When it

:44:19. > :44:22.comes to small businesses, the backbone of our economy, a Labour

:44:23. > :44:27.Government will restore small profits rates and make only a modest

:44:28. > :44:31.increase. And to the owners and the leadership of larger businesses and

:44:32. > :44:38.corporations, we will slowly raise your level of corporation tax to 26%

:44:39. > :44:44.by the end of the next Parliament. It was 28% when the coalition

:44:45. > :44:48.Government came into office in 2010. And again, this is actually below

:44:49. > :44:54.the level of the last Labour Government. Inclusive, fair and

:44:55. > :45:06.costed. That's our plan to upgrade our economy. The and that is what

:45:07. > :45:10.you vote on June the 8th is all about. Angela will set out our

:45:11. > :45:15.belief in education for all, from cradle to grave, because it is

:45:16. > :45:28.Labour investment that will ensure people are not held back. Jeremy

:45:29. > :45:35.Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, outlining their policy on education

:45:36. > :45:38.and how they would paper them. Josh has been analysing the tweets of

:45:39. > :45:41.various supporters of the five biggest parties. Describe this

:45:42. > :45:47.craft. It is not scientific by the way, just make it clear. This is a

:45:48. > :45:51.random election selection. What we have other tweets per hour. You can

:45:52. > :45:55.see people tweeting away, this was the week before the election was

:45:56. > :45:58.announced and then on the 18th of April, 11am, the Theresa May drops

:45:59. > :46:03.this bombshell, she will have general election. Suddenly users are

:46:04. > :46:10.sending 2000 tweets per hour, they are really excited about the general

:46:11. > :46:14.election. So what was the one tweet that was massive, or give us a

:46:15. > :46:21.couple of examples? Something we really saw coming out was a tweet

:46:22. > :46:24.from Ed Miliband, actually. This was shared by more of our Labour

:46:25. > :46:27.supporters than any of Jeremy Corbyn's tweets, and the joke here

:46:28. > :46:32.is basically when you are eating things and someone takes a photo of

:46:33. > :46:36.you and you look a bit silly. Theresa May had some problems eating

:46:37. > :46:43.some chips last week. Not a terribly flattering image. Ed Miliband had a

:46:44. > :46:47.similar problem in 2015 with a bacon sandwich. That picture we can't show

:46:48. > :46:52.because it is will expand to, we have to pay for it. Basically

:46:53. > :46:59.extending her a hand of help, saying we have been through this, we should

:47:00. > :47:04.talk. What else? This wasn't the top tweet, it was actually from Nicola

:47:05. > :47:07.Sturgeon, the head of the SNP, congratulating Emmanuel Macron on

:47:08. > :47:11.his victory in the French presidential elections. Actually,

:47:12. > :47:14.this was a key theme throughout the conversations of the people we were

:47:15. > :47:19.picking up. What we are looking at here our terms about the French

:47:20. > :47:23.presidential election we have picked up over the last week. There is lots

:47:24. > :47:27.of congratulation to stop we really saw a division of along party lines

:47:28. > :47:32.here for stop the party who treated about this by far the most was Ukip.

:47:33. > :47:39.Lots of these hashtags, the terms you are seeing here, are driven by

:47:40. > :47:48.Ukip. So for example you have Macron gate. RIP France. There was this the

:47:49. > :47:56.spare that Le Pen had missed the chance. This was re-tweeted far more

:47:57. > :48:03.often by Ukip supporters than any other party and captured the mood of

:48:04. > :48:06.the party. Let's get a flavour of what the 400 Conservative supporters

:48:07. > :48:12.you are following are talking about. The larger word is in this cloud,

:48:13. > :48:17.the more it is being talked about, lots of it is the kind of thing you

:48:18. > :48:21.would expect, Corbyn, the Tories, talking about people, talking about

:48:22. > :48:24.the NHS a little bit. Some of the more interesting stuff is in the

:48:25. > :48:31.small words in this cloud. Something that is coming up here is Diane

:48:32. > :48:34.Abbott and her Twitter handle. This is in response, she is a member of

:48:35. > :48:41.the Shadow Cabinet for Labour. This is in response to an interview that

:48:42. > :48:44.she gave, in which she was perceived to have fluffed some lines. She got

:48:45. > :48:50.something is wrong on how much police would cost. We have seen

:48:51. > :48:59.tweets picking up on that. But those new bank holiday for the 22nd of

:49:00. > :49:03.May, this has been picked up. And the Labour Party, here are the

:49:04. > :49:06.themes, again some of it not very supposing but it is in the smaller

:49:07. > :49:12.words we are seeing some interesting stuff emerge. We can wobbly, which

:49:13. > :49:17.is a response to the Theresa May's strong and stable mantra, but also

:49:18. > :49:25.we were seeing this theme developing around Tory dirty money, and Tory

:49:26. > :49:31.election fraud. This is basically an allegation about the Tory funding

:49:32. > :49:36.being potentially improper. And we picked this up in this discussion,

:49:37. > :49:40.it was this constant question of why this wasn't being covered, why

:49:41. > :49:43.aren't the mainstream media talking about this? There was a feeling

:49:44. > :49:47.among the supporters we were listening to that it was going under

:49:48. > :49:55.the radar and it has been hushed. Thank you very much, Josh Smith. We

:49:56. > :49:57.will see you next week. These allegations about dirty money have

:49:58. > :50:01.been on Twitter for many months now and are not going away. Are the

:50:02. > :50:05.criticisms about why the mainstream media aren't reporting them valid,

:50:06. > :50:11.or are they fuelling conspiracy theories which are not let's talk to

:50:12. > :50:14.James Ball. He is from Buzzfeed, and he has been investigating the

:50:15. > :50:18.allegations which have led to the Tory dirty money hashtag. James,

:50:19. > :50:23.these are allegations about HSBC bank funding the Conservative Party.

:50:24. > :50:28.They surfaced a while back on a blog that supports Jeremy Corbyn. What

:50:29. > :50:33.are the allegations? Essentially, the idea is that HSBC lent money to

:50:34. > :50:39.a company owned by one of the Tory's biggest donors, and that loan was a

:50:40. > :50:41.way of secretly channelling money to the Conservative Party, because that

:50:42. > :50:47.company was at a time losing money, so they said this must be improper.

:50:48. > :50:51.And you started looking into it, what did you find? People were

:50:52. > :50:56.asking why the mainstream media was in reporting it, and MP wrote to the

:50:57. > :50:59.Electoral Commission and some quite prominent journalist started

:51:00. > :51:02.tweeting out this theory. So I looked in the accounts and the

:51:03. > :51:08.figures, and basically there is just nothing to it. Michael Spencer, the

:51:09. > :51:13.donor, is a very rich man in his own right. His company usually turns a

:51:14. > :51:17.profit, and he did get a loan from HSBC, but it was a very standard

:51:18. > :51:21.business loan, it was at commercial rates, and it was about ?200

:51:22. > :51:26.million. The donations to the party were less than a million. This was

:51:27. > :51:29.just usual money to fund the party. So we wrote that, but of course it

:51:30. > :51:33.hasn't stopped the theory. People are just now wondering the

:51:34. > :51:37.mainstream media has covered it, but not the way it was wanted. So it is

:51:38. > :51:41.not necessarily got something to do with the facts, it is just this

:51:42. > :51:47.sense of anger, because there is just really nothing to stand it up.

:51:48. > :51:50.OK, allegations are unfounded. Just to be clear, the Electoral

:51:51. > :51:55.Commission said owners or lenders have no legal responsible to two

:51:56. > :52:00.report transaction to commission, therefore HSBC and IP GL were not

:52:01. > :52:03.required to inform the Electoral Commission of these transactions. As

:52:04. > :52:08.we have not been presented with evidence that a breach of the

:52:09. > :52:18.pertinent legislation has occurred, we will not be taking further action

:52:19. > :52:21.in this matter. The theme park where an 11-year-old girl died after

:52:22. > :52:35.falling from a water ride is to remain closed as a mark of respect.

:52:36. > :52:40.Evha Jannath was on a trip with her school. We will speak now to begin

:52:41. > :52:45.Tracy about what happened to her son on the same ride at the park in

:52:46. > :52:53.2013. Hello there. Tell us what happened. My ten-year-old son,

:52:54. > :52:59.Patrick went on the ride with his ten-year-old cousin. His

:53:00. > :53:03.nine-year-old cousin. I was just waiting to see them on the ride, and

:53:04. > :53:08.as my son approached me on his boat, he sort of half turned, left his

:53:09. > :53:12.seat partially but held on to the Middle bar to wave to me. At the

:53:13. > :53:15.same time, the boat ricocheted against the edges and just tipped

:53:16. > :53:19.him straight out headfirst into the water in front of me. Fortunately,

:53:20. > :53:23.there was another member of the public stood beside me who saw my

:53:24. > :53:27.panic, realised it was my son, and jumped over this fence we were

:53:28. > :53:31.leaning on and jumped over another fence and grab my child out of the

:53:32. > :53:34.water as he was unable to actually clamber on the rocks, as they were

:53:35. > :53:38.so slippy, so he was panicking as well. Managed to drag him to safety

:53:39. > :53:48.and back to me over the barrier to safety. OK. Did you tell staff at

:53:49. > :53:54.the time? I did. I rushed over to the kiosk, and I explained to the

:53:55. > :53:58.Lady there that my child had just fallen off the ride into the water,

:53:59. > :54:02.and she looked quite shocked, and sort of calmly picked up the phone

:54:03. > :54:06.and rang up to the top of the ride, where the children board the boats,

:54:07. > :54:13.and then she told me that somebody would be with me in a few minutes

:54:14. > :54:18.with some dry clothes for my child, and then a park buggy arrived and

:54:19. > :54:24.wrapped my child in foil and took us to the medical centre to be checked

:54:25. > :54:27.out the swallowing water and things. Thank you very much, Vicki. Talking

:54:28. > :54:32.about what happened with her son Patrick. Creighton Manor Parc have

:54:33. > :54:34.asked her to get in touch with them. They're the digital native

:54:35. > :54:36.generation born with technology at their fingertips -

:54:37. > :54:39.but young people are twice as likely to be victims of online fraud

:54:40. > :54:41.as older generations.. Now CIFAS the national body that

:54:42. > :54:44.works to prevent fraud is calling for fraud prevention to be made part

:54:45. > :54:47.of the national curriculum and taught in all secondary schools

:54:48. > :54:49.to better protect young people. They say they're seeing a worrying

:54:50. > :54:52.increase in kids falling victim to identity theft

:54:53. > :54:56.on their social media platforms. So let's talk to some pupils

:54:57. > :54:58.about their use of technology Ezra Button is in Year 8,

:54:59. > :55:03.he's here with his classmate Tashi Feinstein also with us

:55:04. > :55:07.Lara Newell who is in Year 10 - they're all here with their teacher

:55:08. > :55:11.Toni Tasic and here to give them some tips is Russell Winnard,

:55:12. > :55:29.head of education programmes Let's talk about passwords. Which of

:55:30. > :55:34.you share your passwords? I do with my parents. I don't normally, but

:55:35. > :55:38.this weekend I am going on deal of e-commerce I don't want to lose my

:55:39. > :55:43.streaks. So what happens is you give your password to a friend, who will

:55:44. > :55:49.log into your Snapchat and keep your streaks going. Explain what streaks

:55:50. > :55:55.are, I know because my son does this every day. It is when you have one

:55:56. > :55:58.of your friends on Snapchat, and you send it to them for three

:55:59. > :56:02.consecutive days, and after that, a number comes up to their name, and

:56:03. > :56:07.then you keep sending photos to each other every day, and you have a

:56:08. > :56:13.streak of days. Just to build up the number, nothing more to it. Probably

:56:14. > :56:15.to keep you for using Snapchat! Of course it is! Well spotted! Russell,

:56:16. > :56:33.what is the passwords? The golden rule

:56:34. > :56:36.with passwords is we don't share them, we make them as difficult as

:56:37. > :56:38.possible but we don't share them, because sharing them means that

:56:39. > :56:41.other people can access. It might be your Snapchat, but let me just ask

:56:42. > :56:44.you a question, how many of you have the same password for your Snapchat

:56:45. > :56:47.as you do for other forms of social media accounts? I do. I don't. So

:56:48. > :56:50.some of you do. That means if they know your password for one thing,

:56:51. > :56:54.people could try it for other things as the but can I ask, if you share

:56:55. > :57:00.your password with your mate so they can carry on doing your streaks, how

:57:01. > :57:09.does a fraudster get hold of it? Your best mate has got it. No matter

:57:10. > :57:17.how secure it is, people can share it. People can screenshot, they can

:57:18. > :57:19.share those screenshots. Things get posted through social media that are

:57:20. > :57:22.shared with others, and you don't realise that you are passing on this

:57:23. > :57:27.data when in fact you are. We have hardly got any time. Russell, have a

:57:28. > :57:32.look at this e-mail. I need to show you this, Chris, is there anyway you

:57:33. > :57:39.could have a look at this e-mail? This is a fake one, though it looks

:57:40. > :57:43.like it really is from At all. It looks very good and it is one of the

:57:44. > :57:52.more sophisticated e-mails. Can anyone say that? We spoke just

:57:53. > :57:57.before we came on, and you are getting things like this, SMS, text

:57:58. > :58:03.message, probably more popular through social media, but even

:58:04. > :58:07.through e-mail. How would we know this is fake? A number of reasons,

:58:08. > :58:11.if you are not expecting it, then be cautious. Click onto the heading,

:58:12. > :58:15.where it has come from, and look at the e-mail address. You might find

:58:16. > :58:22.it is not apple .com but some strange username that is in there.

:58:23. > :58:27.What is the strange username? Clearly not Apple. If there is a

:58:28. > :58:30.link on there that is asking you to do something to pass your

:58:31. > :58:35.information back to them, that is usually fake. Hover over the link,

:58:36. > :58:39.because it will tell you what it is, and if it is not something that is

:58:40. > :58:44.specific to that company, check it out. Should this be part of the

:58:45. > :58:49.national curriculum? Absolutely a chip. Thank you all very much for

:58:50. > :58:53.stock news just breaking from the Crown Prosecution Service, no

:58:54. > :58:55.charges are to be brought against Conservative politicians or

:58:56. > :58:58.officials over election expenses allegations. No charges are to be

:58:59. > :58:59.brought.