10/05/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello. It's Wednesday.

It's 9am. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

The President of the United States of America has fired the man who's

meant to be overseeing an investigation into him.

Claims it's part of a cover-up have been rejected by the Trump camp.

It's nothing to do with Russia. It's everything to do with whether the

current FBI director has the president's confidence.

Much more on the story throughout the programme.

Also this morning, prosecutors are expected to announce

this morning whether Conservative politicians or officials will face

criminal charges over alleged electoral expenses fraud.

We'll bring you that announcement as soon as it happens.

And a theme park where an 11-year-old girl died

after falling from a water ride is to remain closed today

It is with great sadness we have to report that a young girl passed away

at Birmingham Children's Hospital following an incident on one of our

rides this afternoon. Hello and welcome to the programme.

We're live until 11am. Throughout the morning,

the latest breaking news A little later, we'll bring

you the latest on the tainted blood scandal which saw thousands

of haemophiliac patients being infected with HIV by the NHS

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President Trump has fired the head of the FBI, James Comey, in a move

that has shocked US politics. He'd been leading an investigation

into alleged links between the Trump The White House says Mr Comey "has

been terminated and removed Absolutely explosive news out

of Washington tonight. This is a Fox News alert,

FBI director, James Comey, has been fired by the President

of the United States. Americans have learned

to expect almost anything from their President,

but this really was high drama. FBI Director, James Comey,

wasn't even in Washington - he was addressing FBI staff

in Los Angeles when he A short while later, a letter

arrived at FBI headquarters. "You're hereby terminated

and removed from office, While I greatly appreciate

you informing me on three separate occasions that I'm not under

investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department

of Justice that you are not able Except the Trump camp

was being investigated by the FBI James Comey was leading

the investigation and now he's gone. Are people going

to suspect cover up? If an independent special prosecutor

is appointed there still can be some faith that we can get

to the bottom of this. If not, everyone will

suspect cover up. Speaking on US TV, the President's

adviser dismissed that notion. It has everything to do

with whether the current FBI Director has the President's

confidence and can safely Well, the shockwaves from this

decision are not just being felt here at the FBI,

but across this city and beyond. For his supporters, this is evidence

that Donald Trump is a strong leader, but for many others this

just adds to the perception this that is country is now being run

by a man who is intolerant of those who disagree with him and who don't

entirely do his bidding. More reaction to the sacking in the

next few minutes. Joanna has the news.

Good morning. The Crown Prosecution Service

is expected to announce later this morning whether any Conservative

politicians or officials will be charged with breaking rules

on election campaign The CPS has been considering files

sent by the police from The party has insisted

administrative errors were to blame for any spending

which was incorrectly declared. If general election

candidates are prosecuted the Conservative Party will have

to decide whether to suspend them and replace them as nominees

by Thursday's deadline Labour and the Liberal Democrats

have pledged billions of pounds in extra school funding if they win

the general election, to ensure budgets in England keep

up with rising costs. Both parties also say no school

would lose out as a result of a new funding formula to divide

money across the country. But the Conservatives say school

funding has reached record levels in their government and questioned

Labour's plans to use Corporation Tax rises

to fund their plans. Drayton Manor theme park

in Staffordshire says it won't open to the public today after the death

of an 11-year-old girl The Year 6 pupil, Evha Jannath,

was on a trip with her school, the Jameah Girls Academy in

Leicester. Drayton Manor Theme Park is closed

today as a mark of respect Yesterday afternoon

she was on the Splash Canyon ride Park staff rescued her and

the emergency services were called. The girl was airlifted

to Birmingham Children's Hospital The park describes the ride,

which has been open since 1993, as "wild, unpredictable,

and thrilling" with Small boats carry up to six

passengers who must be The theme park has been run

by the same family since 1949. The grandson of the founder,

and current boss, was visibly upset as he read a short statement

following the girl's death. We are all truly shocked

and devastated and our thoughts... Are with her family and friends

at this tremendously difficult time. The girl, who was on a school trip,

attended the Jameah Girls Academy, in Leicester which describes itself

as an independent Islamic Staffordshire Police say

especially trained officers The Health and Safety Executive has

launched an investigation. Our correspondent Elizabeth Glinka

joins us now from Drayton Manor. What is the latest? Well, in the

last half an hour Staffordshire Police have confirmed that the

11-year-old that died after this tragic accident yesterday was Evha

Jannath. She was a pupil at the Jameah Academy in Leicester and the

school remains closed today. A statement on their website says this

is shocking and devastating for them. Specially trained staff are

supporting pupils and other members of staff as well and they're asking

for privacy at this very difficult time. Drayton manor remains closed

today as a mark of respect. The Health and Safety Executive has

already begun the investigations into what happened, what we know

about the Splash Canyon ride. It is a rapids river ride. It is not

believed that they are belted, but they are told to actually say

seated. We've heard from a woman this morning who said her son

actually had a similar accident back in 2013 where he fell in from Splash

Canyon he was OK, but she raised safety concerns at the time. Of

course, the Health and Safety Executive will be looking into that

as well. Thank you.

A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, from north London, was also charged

with two counts of making or having explosives.

Those two charges, under the Explosive Substances Act,

relate to alleged activity in Afghanistan in 2012.

Mr Omar Ali, who was arrested on Parliament Street

on 27th April, will appear at Westminster Magistrates'

A new study published in the British Medical Journal

points to a link between high doses of some painkillers

It builds on previous research that suggests anti-inflammatory

painkillers like ibuprofen, could be connected to

Scientists said the findings were not clear cut and other factors,

not just the pills, could be involved.

A man has told the BBC he's planning to take legal action

against the Government for the death of his father, who was treated with

It's thought to be the first case of its kind.

More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the scandal

in which haemophiliacs were infected with HIV and hepatitis C.

Jason Evans' father Jonathan was one of many people to have been given

the blood clotting treatment "Factor 8".

Patients should have been given the choice of whether they wanted

to take that gamble and play Russian roulette with their life and I can

almost guarantee that 99% of them would not have taken that gamble.

The Australian Senator, Larissa Waters, has become the first

politician to breastfeed in the nation's parliament.

Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter

The Lower House last year joined the Senate

in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either

It followed a backlash in 2015 when Kelly O'Dwyer,

a government minister, was asked to consider expressing

milk to avoid missing parliamentary duties.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30am.

Thank you. You're getting in touch, you're very welcome. You can e-mail

as well. Let's get some sport

now with Jessica. They've sacked two of the people

they brought in to oversee The two men in question have been at

the fore front of Fifa's independent Ethics Committee for a number of

years. They've held multiple investigations including of the

previous Fifa president seb Blatter who was banned from the game for six

years and even the current president. They say that the

decision not to reappoint them is politically motivated and

jeopardises the future of the game. Now they've spoken to the media this

morning. Here is what one had to say. The removal of the Ethics

Committee is not in Fifa's best interest. It's against good

governance. And it's a setback for the fight against corruption. The

Ethics Committee is weakened and incapacitated. Well, strong words

there. Victoria, we have seen year after year allegations against Fifa

of corruption and scandal and calls for reform and once again, their

integrity has been called into question.

And Fifa are involved in an investigation of their own -

what's troubling them about the Paul Pogba transfer?

When Pogba transferred last year, it made him the most expensive player.

?83 million was the fee, but details of that transfer have been leaked

and Fifa have written to Manchester United to seek clarification on the

deal as they put it and have started an inquiry. Manchester United say

that Fifa had the documents since the transfer was concluded in

augment now, Victoria, I don't know if you've read, but one of the most

staggering details to emerge from this is that Pogba's agent could

earn ?41 million from that deal. Now, I mean, I have to take a breath

every time I say it. That's almost half of the fee and now the book

containing those details is released tomorrow so I can imagine there is

probably a lot more revelations to come. Yes.

That maybe theiousiest. There have been accusations in many

sports that athletes' welfare was not high on their list

of priorities and now tae kwon do has been dragged

into the controversy. The medical staff working with GB

taekwondo raised concerns about how copes are treating athletes in

regards to concussion, weight management and training loads and

there has been claims that athletes were asked to train in saunas. The

complaints led to GB tie won dough commissioning an independent review,

but they selected their own panel and didn't interview any of the

people who made the complaints or the athletes. The review found

insufficient evidence to support the allegations. Now, this comes at a

time when UK Sport, who fund the various British governing bodies are

under pressure to look after their athletes after a number of

complaints from different governing bodies. They say they'll continue to

monitor GB's approach to their athletes and of course GB taekwondo

enjoying one of their most successful Olympics back in Rio. I'm

sure this story is not over and will rumble on.

The President of America has fired James Comey. He was scrutinising

alleged links between Mr Trump's presidential election campaign team

and Russia which is accused of trying to influence last year's

result. ABC filed this report from Washington.

James Comey boarded a plane in Los Angeles, deciding not

to attend an FBI event, after learning he had been fired

as the Head of the FBI - effective immediately.

President Trump writing, "It is essential that we find

new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust

The White House said the President was influenced in part

by the recommendation of his Attorney General,

Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia

investigation and that has many Democrats concerned about the future

of the ongoing FBI investigation into Russian influence

Comey was overseeing it and some are saying now that his firing

They faired Sally Yates, they fired Preet Bharara,

Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer said a special

investigator must now be appointed and if not...

Every American will rightly suspect that the decision to fire

Director Comey was part of a cover-up.

The controversial Comey had drawn ire from both Democrats

Just days before the Presidential election, Comey was responsible

for a bombshell announcement that he would be re-opening

the investigation into Clinton's e-mails.

He later testified on the ramifications of that decision.

It make mes mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some

And it is not just Democrats who are concerned about

And it is not just Democrats who are concerned about

Many Republicans are calling it "fishy".

In fact the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, a Republican,

said his dismissal further complicates an already

James Comey only found out he was fired when he was handed

It was the letter from President Trump.

In that letter, President Trump told Mr Comey he was unable

to effectively head the FBI and that it was vital to find

new leadership to restore public trust and confidence in its law

The president wrote: You are hereby terminated,

removed from office, effective immediately.

Donald Trump's press adviser, KellyAnn Conway defended the sacking

She was speaking to CNN host Anderson Cooper -

have a look at his rolling of his eyes.

So now your White House is saying that what he did was wrong, but

previously, as a candidate, Donald Trump was saying it is the right

thing? You are conflating two things that don't belong together. Thanks

for the trip down memory lane, I was on your show often last year saying

that we were going to win. So that is a fictional character, we are no

longer allowed to refer to, we can only refer to the Donald Trump that

exist today? I will ignore how unkind that is and I would say as

President of the United States Heaney 's confidence in his FBI

director and he doesn't have it. And here is an audio conversation with

Sean Spicer. The letter that you all the seed is the Deputy Attorney

General's letter. Memo, whatever you want to call it. And then the letter

from the Attorney General, concurring, he concurred with their

recommendation, and made the decision to move forward. There is

clearly at this point no evidence of a reason to do that. You have a

system that is working, you have a career prosecutor that last

confidence in the FBI director's ability to carry out his

responsibilities. An FBI director who is equally questioned by

numerous folks on the left, who all said that they had a problem. The

FBI director of ports through the deputy Attorney General -- reports,

so Rod Rosenstiel was confirmed on April 25 two weeks ago by a vote of

94-6 in a very bipartisan manner. He is a career prosecutor, he is the

longest serving, fact check me on this, but I believe he is the

longest serving US attorney, he served under Obama for the US

attorney for Maryland. Very familiar with the department of justice and

the FBI. He made a decision clearly based on the letter he submitted

that the FBI director had lost his confidence.

So was his sacking part of a cover-up?

Our security correspondent Gordon Corera is here and we can

who worked at the White House and the State Department

during George W. Bush's time as President.

She's head of the US and the Americas programme at Chatham House.

Gordon, many people are asking what was James Comey on to, what had he

found out? I think that is the problem the Donald Trump, that is

exactly the question, despite the idea that this was to do with

Hillary Clinton's e-mails, and his announcements during that. I think

very few people will buy that line from the White House. I think almost

everyone will think this was to do with the Russia enquiry, and that in

some way James Comey was not playing ball, always pushing too hard was

doing something. That will be the assumption in Washington, which

people are already working on. I think it just doesn't make sense for

this to have been about Hillary Clinton, because Donald Trump

praised his the surgeon to announce an enquiry into Hillary Clinton and

to the reopening of it just before the election. So that just doesn't

quite cover as in our unit, which means all the attention will be on

what James Comey and the FBI were doing. There are some reports that

for instant they have been making some progress, in terms of potential

indictments against some of the people who had been linked to the

Trump campaign. That is not really clear how much evidence there is and

what that might be or how close it gets the Donald Trump itself, that

if that is the case, I think that will raise a lot of pressure on the

White House if that does come out and get confirmed. What do we read

into the timing of this now? It is strange, because there wasn't an

obvious public reason to do it now, especially if the White House idea

is that it was about Hillary Clinton, which happened months ago.

There was this hearing by James Comey a couple of weeks ago in which

he appeared before Congress and made some comments about some of the

e-mails to do with Hillary Clinton, and it appears he might have

slightly spoken or exaggerated, and that could be picking up a bit of

tension in the American media, and I suppose like be used as an excuse by

the White House, to say that is why we lost trust in him over that. But

James Comey is someone who had come he didn't necessarily have

bipartisan support, because a lot of Democrats were angry with him for

his role in the Hillary Clinton investigation, but he was seen as

someone who was regular sleep independent. -- rigorously

independent, in the Bush administration who stood up to the

White House were some of their surveillance operations, so he was

seen as someone all sides could see as an independent serious figure.

With him gone, the questions are there about who will replace him and

what the relationship there will be with the White House. Let me bring

in Xenia, you worked at the White House and State Department during

George W Bush's time as president. What do you think is going on? I

think I agree with Gordon. Your attitude as to how you think this

has been handled depends on where you sit. The reality is that most

Democrats did not like James Comey, after he revealed what he did about

the Clinton e-mails back in the summer and then a few days after the

election he made a statement saying he was re-operating -- reopening the

dog investigation against -- reopening the investigation against

Clinton over her e-mail use. Then many Republican said they did not

like him, people working closely to Trump. So he is in this

uncomfortable position in one hand, that he is not trusted by Democrats,

and not trusted by Republicans, which of course, as Gordon suggests,

lays out that arguably he is quite independent. If you are not trusted

by both sides, that tells you you're probably doing something right. But

again, as Gordon says, this is really about, it appears to be

about, based on the timing, based on what is going on, based on what

Donald Trump has said historically about Comey, one can only assume

that what motivated him to act now was Comey's investigation into Link

's between Russia and the Trump administration and Russian

involvement in the election. What happens now, in terms of getting a

new director of the FBI, Gordon? There may be acting individuals in

the interim but it will be up to the White House to appoint someone, and

of course that will be a hugely significant appointment. And the

Senate could get in the way, blocking that? And the department of

justice. The Attorney General has only had two acute himself from the

Russian investigation. Whether he declared everything about his

contacts. They already have this mess about who is overseeing it, is

their independent enough oversight. For James Comey, one of the problems

a few go back to what he did, he made this announcement about the

Clinton e-mails on the eve of the election, which is the pretext for

Donald Trump now removing him. I think almost certainly when he made

that announcement, he probably thought Hillary Clinton was going to

win and he was protecting himself, if you like, against a Clinton

victory, and then he would say he did not cover up an investigation, I

was open and honest about it. He perhaps like everyone else didn't

really think Donald Trump could win, and it has placed all these

decisions in a different context where he suddenly vulnerable having

spoken out about the Clinton e-mails. He wasn't left without that

many allies and friends other than someone who wanted someone there who

had the appearance at least of being independent. Xenia Wickett, from

your own past experience, how bad is it when a president falls out

spectacularly like this with his head of the FBI? I think you have

asked the right question, which is the answer to that second question

is the one you just asked Gordon, what does he do now, who does he

appoint? If Donald Trump decides to put forward a name that is

nonpartisan, independent, that is seen as such, that can get

bipartisan support, then I think he will have sent a very strong and

positive message. If, however, he puts someone forward who is clearly

not bipartisan, who is seen very much as a lackey of the Republicans,

excuse the phraseology, then he will have a real problem. Right now what

is clear is that ten of the letter he sent to Comey and subsequent

comments has antagonised many in the FBI, so he has a real trust problem

that he needs to figure out how to respond to. Gordon, there is a bit

of a New York Times suggesting that when James Comey was handed this

letter, as he was addressing his staff, he thought it was a joke, a

prank. It is astonishing, he reportedly was on the FBI office in

Los Angeles and saw it as a newsflash on TV, that he was

dismissed, so clearly he had no expectation this was coming. I don't

think anyone did. Normally in Washington things leak at least an

hour or two before they happen, but in this case not at all. Xenia is

right as well about what will be the reaction within the FBI? It is quite

a proudly independent organisation, it sees itself as tough prosecutors

who go where the investigation leads them. How will they feel about their

head being removed in such circumstances, and what will the

mood become how will they react, will they start briefing and leaking

as well. We will play our audience this, it reminds people about the

relationship Donald Trump has had with the FBI, since being a

presidential candidate. You are more famous than me! LAUGHTER

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or

her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of

classified information, there is evidence they were extremely

careless in their handling of very sensitive classified information.

Based on what was being said, she was guilty, she was guilty! And it

turned out that we are not going to press charges. It is really amazing.

Today is the best evidence ever that we have seen that our system has

absolutely, totally reeked. It sure looks real careless to me. The

question of whether that amount to gross negligence, frankly there is

no way anyone from the department of justice is bringing a case against

John Doe or Hillary Clinton. The FBI is reopening their

investigation. I have to give the FBI credit, that was so bad what

happened originally, and it took guts for director Comey to make the

move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. What he

did, he brought back his reputation. You have become more famous than me!

LAUGHTER APPLAUSE

The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is

investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in

the 2016 presidential election, and that includes investigating the

nature of any links between individuals associated with the

Trump campaign and the Russian government, with respect to the

President's tweets about alleged wiretapping by the prior

administration, I have no information that supports those

tweets. He has become more famous than me!

LAUGHTER Quite an astonishing turnaround, in

terms of Donald Trump was like opinion of James Comey, isn't it,

Gordon? Thank you both. A quick word from Peter. All I hear is gossip on

this, unreal speculation, ridiculous guessing. Maybe you could stop your

Chinese whispers until you have actual evidence of anything first of

this gossip -based programme on from. I will leave that there.

Another tweet, this whole Comey firing is nothing more than Trump

running scared. He knows they are onto him. Still to come, people with

disabilities or their voices are often ignored when it comes to

general elections. This morning we have gathered together a group of

voters to tell us what will influence the way they vote next

month. And we have been inside the Iraqi city of Mosul, finding out

what life is like some of those who have returned to their homes since

government forces reclaimed parts of the city from Islamic State

fighters. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. President Trump has fired the head

of the FBI James Comey in a move He'd been leading an investigation

into alleged links between the Trump The White House says Mr Comey

"has been terminated Drayton manor says it won't open to

the public today after the death of an 11-year-old girl on one of its

rides. Evha Jannath was on a school trip from the Jameah Academy. The

school said it requested time to grief. Senior management at the

theme park said they were shocked and devastated by the incident.

The Crown Prosecution Service is expected to announce later this

morning whether any Conservative politicians or officials will be

charged with breaking rules on election campaign

The CPS has been considering files sent by the police from

The party has insisted administrative errors

were to blame for any spending which was incorrectly declared.

If general election candidates are prosecuted

the Conservative Party will have to decide whether to suspend them

and replace them as nominees by Thursday's deadline

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have pledged billions of pounds

in extra school funding if they win the general election,

to ensure budgets in England keep up with rising costs.

Both parties also say no school would lose out as a result

of a new funding formula to divide money across the country.

But the Conservatives say school funding has reached record levels

in their government and questioned Labour's plans to use

Corporation Tax rises to fund their plans.

A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, from north London, was also charged

with two counts of making or having explosives.

Those two charges, under the Explosive Substances Act,

relate to alleged activity in Afghanistan in 2012.

Mr Omar Ali, who was arrested on Parliament Street

on 27th April, will appear at Westminster Magistrates'

A new study published in the British Medical Journal

points to a link between high doses of some painkillers

It builds on previous research that suggests anti-inflammatory

painkillers like ibuprofen, could be connected to

Scientists said the findings were not clear cut and other factors,

not just the pills, could be involved.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am.

This is no longer the most retweeted tweet of all time. How many times

has that been tweeted? 3.4 million times.

That's been beaten by a tweet of a guy asking for free chicken!

That's been tweeted 3.5 million times for the man who wants free

chicken. Ellen had been fighting hard to keep her title.

We need your help. We're close to losing our title for the most

retweeted tweet of all time. This nugget kid needs your help, but we

need your help more. We earned this title and we're not going to lose it

now. Please retweet our selfie. Bradley is going to rub my

shoulders. How is that? Just do it. Harder. That's good. That's good.

That's better. Wendy's have given the guy free

chicken. The Six Nations champions England

have been drawn in a pool with France and Argentina,

for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Ireland and Scotland

are in a group with the hosts, Japan, with Wales landing

in Australia's pool. So all of the home nations

have avoided the current Fifa's code of ethics is a "dead

letter", according to the two investigators released

from their duties. to oversee the reform programme

and they helped bring down former Fifa are themselves investigating

the transfer of Paul Pogba He was the world's most expensive

player when he moved from Juventus last summer,

and Fifa want to know who made what And with the French Open less

than three weeks away, Andy Murray says he still needs

to play better but he's through to the third

round of the Madrid Open, after a straight-sets win over

Marius Copil of Romania. That's all the sport for now. I'll

have more at 10am. Thank you, Jess.

There are 13 million disabled people living in the UK, but when it comes

to elections their voices are often ignored or when they are heard it's

in the context of cracking down on the amount we spend on benefits.

So this morning we're going to speak to a group of people with different

disabilities about the kind of things they want to

If you're disabled, your cost of living is likely to be ?550 more

Only half of all disabled people are in work.

If 10% more people were able to work, it would contribute

Sam Jennings who has multiple sclerosis.

Arti Dasani who has muscular dystrophy.

Sharon Collins who has vascular disease and nerve damage.

Lesley Staines who cares for her son Lewis who has autism.

Indeed, Lewis is 18. You care for his older brother Mitchell who has

autism as well? And epilepsy as well. And he's 20. Welcome all of

you. Thank you for coming on the programme. Tell us about Lewis and

your role as his carer? Well, Lewis is 18. He doesn't speak. He repeats

the last word, but he does understand what that is. He doesn't

read or write and pretty much I'm his full-time carer. I'm divorced

and I care for himself and his brother in the home 24/7 apart from

the few hours that they go to school each day. Which is when you work?

Yeah. I mean I've worked in the City for years, but now I do the only job

I'm able to do which is work in a primary school part-time because

when I get the school holidays off because I've got no one to have them

in school holidays. This is a big issue for you every day of the week

is the new Personal Independence Payments, which is what is taking

over or replacing the disability living allowance. What's the issue?

Well, it is all categorised and I sent all the information, every bit

of information from doctors, from nurses, from speech and language

therapists and that information has been taken, they're insisting that

they don't need to see him personally and yet they are coming

to the decisions and deducting points and saying that he can read

and write and he can't and they're saying he can prepare a simple meal

and cook it, he can't. They are not Londoning to anything anyone is

saying. I've gone to appeal and it has been rejected and I've taken to

a tribunal. Do you know which political party you're going to vote

for this time? At the moment, I'm waiting to see what they're going to

offer on benefits because at the moment I don't feel any of them are

offering the right things and supporting us in the right way. The

adult services is so under funded. But you would consider voting for

the Conservative Party despite the fact they brought in the new

personal independent payment? I think Theresa May is the strongest

candidate. Kathy, do you think the Conservative Party is the party that

speaks for people with disabilities? Absolutely not the What do you think

of what Lesley said, because of Theresa May, because of her

Pennality, actually, Lesley, for all the difficulties with PIP, she might

still vote for her? I don't think just because the Conservative Party

have a new leader that they're going to change anything that they've

already done in the recent past as regards to benefits for disabled

people. Who is the party that speaks for people with disabilities? Well,

I think Labour would be the best out of all of them. I'm not saying that

they're perfect and everything would be wonderful, but I believe that,

you know, they have still socialist values which means you care for the

people who are the most vulnerable. You care for the people who have the

most need and that, you know, it's everybody's responsibility and that

means that if anybody has anything to contribute to society, even if

they are disabled, then they have the right to claim for anything that

they need as well and you know, it's all of the sort of destruction and

degrading of the Welfare State that we've had in the last few years has

been under the Tory Government. Sharon, you've had issues too, I

think, with PIP and you're voting Conservative this time, is that

right? Yes, I am. Tell us why? I don't trust Jeremy Corbyn with

anything to be quite frank and at least Theresa May is direct and with

a mandate maybe in the manifesto they can say that people will have

to go for these assessments less frequently. Do you think that's

likely? Probably not and I've got to go through this again very soon. OK.

Sam, you're self-employed. What are the issues you have when it comes to

politician and politics in the run-up to this election? I'm

undecided and I have a little business so I come out of disabled

angle, but a small business angle as well. I work full-time and I work

really hard, but my mobility is becoming more and more affected by

the condition. I have found recently that I can get tax credits by

working 30 hours a week which is helpful because I'm no longer able

to work 40 or 50 hours a week, but I'm not eligible for the disabled

tax credits when I have a relapse of MS when I can't walk or speak, that

could drop me to 16 hours work a week, but I'm not eligible for that

unless I'm awarded PIP, whilst I have been working and plodding along

and doing my own thing, I find I have to apply for that in order to

be eligible... For when you have a relapse? Which is likely to have

them and I will have to have treatment later in the year, but I

don't want to become dependant on the system and I just really find it

really bizarre that I have to go through all these hoops just to have

something in place in case I can't work because I've got no intention

of not working. Alex have you been aware of any parties, tacking,

specifically about issues that may affect you? No, not really,

especially from the Lib Dems. I don't know what they stand for for

the disabled people and what really affects me, what I really want to

see change is the lack of accessible transport especially in train

stations. Where I live in Ealing, my closest train station is Wembley

which is about 20, to 30 minutes away so that means I have to plan my

journeys like two days in advance and someone has to, I have to rely

on someone to take me to that train station which adds on to the journey

so I have to add another 30 minutes and then if I want to get off at the

train station I have to find out which train stations are accessible

so I have to plan that route. It really eliminates the spond tanity

of say I want to go out with friends. Living a fulfilled life.

Yeah. Living a fulfilled life and it affects my job because I work for a

charity called Pace where we deliver sports to young disabled people and

part of my job is to go to different day centres across Ealing and around

Southall and Northholt as well. So that really means I can't use the

train stations because it is not accessible. So again, I have to rely

on someone else to take me. And you always wanted to work? Yeah. But

found sometimes people were writing you off? Yeah. Is that a society

thing? I think so because they were quite surprised... They? The

Jobcentre. They were quite advised that I wanted to work because they

think because you're disabled that you can't work and I was written off

and stereotype is that because you're disabled you don't have to

work and you don't have to work, you get paid and stuff, so yeah. They

were surprised. You talked about Theresa May and so did you Sharon,

you talked about Jeremy Corbyn, Kathy. How much is this election

Arti about those two big personalities, Mr Corbyn, Mrs May?

Well, in my point, when trying to get things done, say for example,

when it comes to like the benefit changes when it did come to the

benefit changes from disability living allowance to PIP, personal

independence payments, it's like taking a big leap because it was

quite difficult. It's like... Have any of them, is there anything you

are hearing from those leaders that makes you think, actually, they

deserve my vote on this issue? I am in two mines, still. I think Theresa

May is trying to help as much as she can to help things asked to sable

people go through with the difficulties we have. But then on

the other hand it makes me think as well sometimes because of things

that happened in the past, is that going to get done? Is it actually

going to get done? Cathy, what about other issues, Brexit, the NHS,

education, are they important to you this time? They are. Personally my

priorities are not really about Brexit or education so much. I still

think about education because I do have a child who is at university at

the moment but I am still concerned with immediate needs of people, not

just myself but a lot of people who are a lot worse off than I am.

Because I am still quite independent and can take care of myself most of

the time. And even with other issues like my mental health history, I get

a lot of support from charities, and I still think that whoever comes in

into the next government, those charities will still be there, to a

certain extent. They can't achieve as much as they would like to but

the moment, but they are doing quite a good job, you know. But the

benefits issue, for people's own personal living, day-to-day with

their disabilities, I do think that really since the last Tory

government came in, the level of degradation, compared to what people

have now compared to what they used to have is really such a stark

difference that it has really changed people's lives for the worst

to such a degree. A lot of people have died. Purely because their

benefit was cut and they were still entitled to those benefits. For

example, one chap was quite publicised on social media who had

diabetes and could not pay his bills, his fridge went off, his

insulin went off, and he starved to death. We reported on that

programme. And there were a lot of similar stories. Thank you becoming

on the programme. Hundreds of thousands of civilians

have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul over the last six months

as government security forces continue their military

offensive to reclaim the city from the so-called

Islamic State group. Iraqi forces are now moving

through neighbourhoods to the south, west and north of the old city,

where just a few hundred IS fighters Our film-maker Joshua Baker has

been inside the city, meeting the people who have fled

the fighting, and finding out what life is like for those who have

managed to return to the recaptured Mosul, Iraq - over two years ago

this city was taken over by the group calling itself Islamic

State. A battle to regain control has taken

months and divided Mosul in two - the retaken east and

the IS-controlled west. Hundreds of thousands of civilians

have been displaced. Here, at Scorpion Junction,

outside West Mosul, those who managed to escape the fighting

are processed under the watchful eye of the Iraqi army -

who are looking for IS fighters. Men and women are separated as they

prove who they are to authorities. One man agrees to talk

about his escape. But he is still fearful

that IS could find him, After the junction, they're

transported to nearby camps, where aid agencies like Oxfam

are supporting the influx of people. Fighting's been going on for months

now and we are seeing thousands of people fleeing every day

and we don't know how But our concern is that a camp twice

the size of this was filled up And we believe there

is nearly 400,000 people They're traumatised

and exhausted and looking So we're trying to provide them

with that safe place in the camps. The Asif family of seven

fled Mosul a month ago. Eight-year-old Shiva was schooled

by the so-called Islamic State. What was your first

day of school like? What was the journey

like from Mosul? In the east of Mosul,

relative security has allowed the families to start

to return home. A fragile peace now exists,

but bombs still go off here and there is a fear

that IS members are living Ragda and her family

have just returned home. This my father and my

sister, smallest of me. This is the video,

when we come in to our house. The family managed to survive

for two years under Until one night the terror

group visited their home. Isis began asked us

about where is the girl. That night, the girls

narrowly escaped being Now they have returned,

it has quickly become clear that There are almost 400,000 people

trapped amongst the fighting. The battle is now entering its final

and most likely deadliest phase. That film by Joshua Baker. This news

just in. Police have declared a major incident in Falmouth, where a

crane has fallen over at the docks there. Properties are being

evacuated. Cornwall Fire and rescue and the police are on the scene, so

a major incident in Falmouth in Cornwall, where a crane has fallen

over at the docks. The latest news and sport on the way, before that

fear is the weather. It has been a chilly start to the

point of being frosty for some. A little bit of fog around captured by

one of our Weather Watchers but for many of you at last it has indeed

been that glorious start to the day. One of the best pictures I have seen

from our Weather Watchers for quite some time. High pressure still

hanging on, it is properly the last day I will say that, having been the

dominant feature of so many days. You will notice it is not quite

doing enough to keep the weather front away from the northern part of

Scotland, where it is anything that glorious. That is called, grey and

there is some rain to be had as well. Elsewhere, you get the sense

on the big picture there is a lot of fine weather around. That rain, if

it is with you, will be in for a good part of the day, the threat of

it at least, but as you come to the central belt, central and southern

parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, more glorious fine weather to be

had. What a contrast for the eastern side of Wales, the Midlands, eastern

England, no more that nagging easterly of the cold North Sea, that

great sheet of clouds that pegged the Mbodj is down. Many will get

into the mid-teens, some 20 degrees. An early dip in that averages, so a

touch of frost as was the case this morning, maybe not as widespread.

Later in the night those temperatures in the South will

recover and a great banner of cloud coming in in association with the

weather front, which will gradually trundle across the Channel and bring

with it the prospect of some rain. Yes, remember that? It won't effect

everybody by any means, and if you are absolutely desperate for rain

for your gardens of fields, that may not be the feature for you. A more

humid feel to the day, temperature pushing towards 20, possibly 21.

That fresher feel still there and a lot of dry weather across the

northern half of the British Isles. Through the evening and overnight,

it may be the second pulse of energy that really does bring the prospect

of meaningful rain to many more of you, as we get on into Friday. This

weather front a lot of more active. It could be that we see some

thunderstorms in association with some thunderstorms more widely

spread across the southern part of the day, as we get onto the day it

will push the threat of heavy rain further north across the British

Isles. In the Saturday some of it make it into the north of Scotland.

The weekend Brizzi and one, some spells of showers but not a

write-off by any means, there will be some sunny spells. A lot going

on, more at the BBC website. It's 10am.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire. Our top story today is -

just why did Donald Trump sack Was it because he has no

confidence in James Comey? Or because Mr Comey is carrying

out an investigation He has lost confidence in the FBI

director and he took the recommendation of the deputy

Attorney-General who whom the FBI director reports to.

Victims of the tainted blood scandal that saw thousands of patients given

contaminated blood transfusions could sue the Government over claims

He had blisters in his mouth that were bleeding and I couldn't share

an ice cream with my dad because they'd given him AIDS. I just found

it, looking back on it now at the time, I didn't think too much into

it, but looking back over it, I was disgusted.

We'll speak to some of the victims and their families.

And Evha Jannath has been named as the 11-year-old girl

who died yesterday on a ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park.

We'll talk to a mum who says her son also fell from the same ride.

Joanna is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

President Trump has fired the head of the FBI James Comey in a move

He'd been leading an investigation into alleged links between the Trump

The White House says Mr Comey "has been terminated

Drayton Manor theme park in Staffordshire says it will not

open to the public today after the death of an 11-year-old

The Year 6 pupil, Evha Jannath, was on a trip with her school,

the Jameah Girls Academy in Leicester.

In a statement the school said it was providing support

to its pupils and staff and requested time to grieve.

Senior management at the theme park said they were shocked

The Crown Prosecution Service is expected to announce later this

morning whether any Conservative politicians or officials will be

charged with breaking rules on election campaign

The CPS has been considering files sent by the police from

The party has insisted that administrative errors

were to blame for any spending which was incorrectly declared.

If general election candidates are prosecuted

the Conservative Party will have to decide whether to suspend them

and replace them as nominees by Thursday's deadline

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have pledged billions of pounds

in extra school funding if they win the General Election,

to ensure budgets in England keep up with rising costs.

Both parties also say no school would lose out as a result

of a new funding formula to divide money across the country.

But the Conservatives say school funding has reached record levels

in their government and questioned Labour's plans to use corporation

A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

A man has told the BBC he's planning to take legal action

against the Government for the death of his father, who was treated with

It's thought to be the first case of its kind.

More than 2,000 deaths have been linked to the scandal

in which haemophiliacs were infected with HIV and hepatitis C.

Jason Evans' father Jonathan was one of many people to have been given

the blood clotting treatment "Factor 8".

Patients should have been given the choice of whether they wanted it

take that gamble and play Russian roulette with their life and I can

almost guarantee that 99% of them would not have taken that gamble.

Cornwall and fire and rescue have evacuated Falmouth Docks after a

crane collapsed. Police say a 200 meter exclusion zone has been put in

place and nearby properties have been evacuated while they deal with

the incident. German Police have arrested several

suspects in an anti-terrorism operation in the eastern

city of Leipzig. Police confirmed that several

properties had been searched earlier Local reports suggested

the operation was targeting suspected members of Islamic State

and other groups involved That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.30am. The Six Nations champions England

have once again been given a very tricky draw for the 2019 Rugby World

Cup. They'll face France and Argentina,

as well as two more In 2015, England failed

to reach the knockout phase. At this morning's draw in Kyoto,

Ireland and Scotland ended up in the same group,

alongside the hosts Japan, with Wales going into Australia's

pool for the second successive World All the home nations avoided

the reigning champions New Zealand. One of the investigators who had

been appointed to oversee reforms at Fifa says there are "several

hundred cases" of Cornel Borbely has been

relieved of his duties, Both had been a part of the world

governing body's ethics committee, and were instrumental in former

president Sepp Blatter's six Borbely says the decision

to replace them is the end The removal of the Ethics Committee

is not in Fifa's best interest. It's against good governance and it's a

setback for the fight against corruption. The Ethics Committee is

weakened and incapacitated. Fifa are themselves investigating

the transfer of Paul Pogba He was the world's most expensive

player when he moved Fifa want to know who was involved

in the ?89.3 million deal and how much money they got

out of it. United say Fifa have

all the necessary documents Juventus are into their

second Champions League They'll take on Real

or Atletico Madrid in next Real are 3-0 up going

into tonight's second leg. Tae kwon do is the latest sport

to be dragged into the controversy GB Tae kwon do had their most

successful Olympics in Rio last year, winning gold,

silver and bronze medals, but medical staff had

apparently raised concerns including the mismanagement

of concussions and athletes being forced into drastic

weight-loss programmes, With the French Open just

over a fortnight away, Andy Murray says he's still not back

to his best after the elbow injury that kept him out

of action for a month. He's through to the third

round of the Madrid Open after beating Romania's Marius Copil

in straight sets. Murray was far from his best early

on, but his serve was never in danger of being broken -

that's been his main Stage four of the Giro

d'Italia was a good one for the British riders,

but not so much for the leader He completely misjudged

his speed at a corner and a few riders went

the wrong way with him! Geraint Thomas moved up

to second place, behind new leader Bob Yungles,

with Adam Yates third. Very unfortunate that, Victoria.

That's all the sport for now. Thank you very much, Jess. Some messages

from various people who were listening to a group of voters with

disabilities talking about the things that matter to them in this

election. Rob says, "How can people who are negatively affected by the

policies of the Conservative Government vote for Theresa May?"

Nicky says, "Am I living in some weird parallel universe? We have a

country where the NHS, welfare, widows, widowers benefit, social

care, schools, prisons, have seen sweeping funding cuts overall in the

name of austerity and yet we have some people with disabilities about

to vote for Theresa May." . We have seen seen people die due to missed

operations. I'm dumbfounded and I'm missing something. Please tell me

I'm having a nightmare and I will wake up soon." Those two messages

are representative of quite a few we've had from you. Keep your

comments coming in. Victims of the tainted blood scandal

could sue the government over claims Last month we revealed that

victims of the scandal - one of the worst in the history

of the NHS - were still fighting for answers 30 years after thousands

of patients were given blood transfusions that were contaminated

and were later diagnosed More than 2,000 have since died

and many more have had Now BBC Panorama tonight reveals

that one of the victim's children is taking legal action

against the Government, and if he's successful the case

could be used to help others Jason Evans' father, Jonathan,

had severe haemophilia and was given Patients should have been given the

choice of whether they wanted to take that gamble and play Russian

roulette with their life and I could almost guarantee that 99% of them

would not have taken that gamble. My mum was with him and they were

called into the doctor's office and the doctor told them both quite

bluntly that my dad had tested positive for HIV.

Tony Farrugia, was just 14-years-old when his father Barry died of Aids

Tony told our reporter Jim Reed about the last time

I do remember my dad asking me for some of my ice cream and I handed it

to him at which point one of the nurses intervened and said, "You

can't give him that." I was like why? He had blisters in his mouth

that were bleeding so obviously I couldn't share an ice cream with my

dad because they had given him AIDS. I just found it, looking back on it

now, at the time I didn't think too much into it, but looking back over

it, I was disgusted, you know, that I couldn't, I did have physical

contact, I could give him a hug. I said goodbye.

Barry's death in 1986 split the family apart. Tony went back into

care and his twin brother went to a separate care home in North London.

The family were only reunited 24 years later. 2nd August 2010 was the

first time all our family were in the same room. That group of

brothers, that's what they did. You know, they destroyed my dad with

these viruses and then they watched his family crumble.

Hepatitis C has given Michelle cirrhosis of the liver -

She's now being treated but the damage that's already been

We're also joined by Andy Evans who was infected with HIV at 5 years

old when receiving treatment for his haemophilia

on the NHS and Andy Burnham, the recently elected Mayor

He has called this a cover-up. Michelle, how do you react to this

development that the child of one of the victims is now taking legal

action against the Government? Good morning, Victoria. Good morning.

Yes, it needs to be done. It's bad that it has been a cover-up. It's

bad that so many people have been infected either by giving whole

bloods or the factor 8 serum. The devastating effects that it has had

on my life, the impact, the impact on my family, and I'm sure I can

speak for other community sufferers, it's devastating. It's horrific. And

you only found out that you had hepatitis C in 2015. You are the

most recently diagnosed of those who had blood transfusions several years

ago. Tell us what happened? Yes, I had two blood transfusions before

the blood was screened, one in 1987 and then one in February 1991. Some

adverts came on to the television regarding hepatitis C and blood

transfusions and in mid-90s I went to my GP at the time to enquire

about the tests etcetera and was basically sent away saying don't be

silly, you won't have that. So trusting my GP, being a young mum of

four, I trusted him. I went away and carried on with my life. It's a

slow, progressive diseases that hides its way in many shapes or

forms and I got to November 2015 and I knew there was just something

very, very wrong. It was by chance that I had my diabetic yearly tests

and my liver functions were showing very, very high so I cas called in

in by my Go and it was just through chatting to remember that I

remembered about the blood transfusions so he tested me there

and then and the next day I found out and it tore my world apart.

Absolutely tore my world apart and I started to plan my own funeral. I

thought I was going to die. I can't, I cannot even put into words how I

feel and how it has affected us and for other people, it's - I've

struggled to try and find out because like I say it has just only

been 18 months. My brain has been like a sponge trying to soak up all

the information about this. I would actually like to make a point to

Andy Burnham and ask him that he has got a responsibility, a duty of care

if you like, to hand his evidence over to the police. I really don't

think he should wait. OK, let's bring in Mr Burnham now. Thank you.

You have been campaigning on behalf of victims for sometime now. Do you

have some evidence that you can hand over to the police? Good morning,

Victoria. Yes, I believe I have evidence of crimes that have been

committed against the victims of contaminated blood. Now, if people

remember, going back, if you look at the parallel with Hillsborough, I

had evidence of amended police statements back at the beginning

when we began to open up Hillsborough. Now, in my view, if I

were to go straight to the police with that evidence, I'm not sure we

would get to the full truth as quickly as possiblement what I want

to do is give the Government the chance to set-up a

Hillsborough-style inquiry into what went wrong and the cover-up that

subsequently followed. Now, if they don't do that, the new Government

after the election, then I will go to the police. I made that very

clear. Unless they establish a Hillsborough-style inquiry after the

election, whoever that Government is, I will go to the police by the

time the House rises for the summer recess. I believe an individual

police investigation into individual cases won't necessarily get us

quickly to the full truth and that is what the victims deserve. Let me

ask you without you naming names or getting into trouble, legally what

do you believe you have evidence of? I believe this goes back to wilful

negligence by the state in the first incidents. There was warnings coming

out from America about the warning -- because of these blood products

that was ignored. There is documentary evidence to say they

were actively tested on patients, even though the risks were known.

That is the first piece of evidence. The next is evidence of tests being

done on people for hepatitis C, HIV, without the knowledge of those

individuals, evident results of those tests not being communicated

to those individuals, even when they were positive. In some ways, what I

find most shocking of all, delivered. Occasional people's

medical notes, to suggest that the liver disease was self-inflicted

through alcoholism and not a result of contaminated blood products. So

plenty of evidence, Victoria, on many levels of both wilful

negligence by the state and then, I would argue, a cover-up on an

industrial scale. Let me bring in Andy Evans. Mr Evans, how do you

react to what Mr Burnham has just said? When Andy Burnham, hi Andy,

stood up in Parliament and uttered those words, I saw it as a

breakthrough moment for our campaign. We have been waiting for

someone to say that sort of thing. And do you think it is right to say

give a new government a chance to establish a Hillsborough style

enquiry, if that doesn't happen then Mr Burnham takes what he has to the

police? I think so, Hillsborough and the subsequent cases that have

followed Hillsborough have proven to be successful in their aims. And so

I trust Andy Burnham when he says a Hillsborough style enquiry will be

the best way to Gomis, although obviously a proper -- to go on this,

although a proper statutory enquiry with the ability to compel witnesses

under oath and the documents would also be very welcome. You contract

it HIV, aged five. Yes. That was 1982. You were told about your HIV

diagnosis aged 12, that later developed into AIDS. Can you give

our audience a sense of what it is like to discover something like

that, and then live with it? In a sense, I can't really describe it,

because it is all I have ever known. From 12 years old, I knew I was

HIV-positive, and when you are a teenager, are invincible, so you

acclimatise yourself to that. But obviously later on in my life, when

I developed full-blown AIDS at 16, I was in and out of hospital, I was

expected to die on several occasions. My parents were given the

final infection notice on several occasions. Meaning you were about

the diet was top yes indeed, yeah. And then of course the devastating

effects it has got, as far as the stigma is concerned and the way it

affects your relationships. And then, of course, ever since then the

very toxic medications that we all have to take on a daily basis, not

just for the HIV, but for the incredibly toxic hepatitis C

treatment as well. They wreck your body. Even coming out of being

classed as having full-blown AIDS 20 years later that I have properly

recovered from any of that yet. Right. Andy Burnham. We have

reported on this last month, when we reported about how many people were

still affected, still finding out, still discovering new information.

At how big a scandal do you believe this is? I think it is a scandal on

a momentous scale, Victoria, honestly I do. I mean, thousands and

thousands of people affected, not just directly, but their families

too, suffering in silence over decades, forced to beg for scraps of

financial help from the government, but never being given the truth

about what happened, and why it happened. You know, really left in

the darkest of wildernesses over many, many years. And there has been

lots of well-meaning MPs who have tried to help, but nobody has really

moved it forward, because, as we saw with Hillsborough, unless you start

with the truth, tell people the truth about what happened, only when

you establish the truth can you then begin to get real justice. And I

think it is because the country doesn't know really what happened to

these victims, there has never been that groundswell of support that has

come in behind them and demanded adequate recompense and justice from

the government. It is why I hope this Panorama programme the night

might begin to break it down, as we have had with Hillsborough in those

years after the 20th anniversary of the memorial service, I think

something similar needs to happen here, Victoria. The country needs to

know this story and how scandalous it is, because I know the British

people. When they do know it, they will come in behind these victims

and they will demand truth and justice for them. Thank you very

much for coming on the programme. Andy Burnham, Michelle, and Andy

Evans again, thank you. You can watch panorama, contaminated blood,

the search for the truth, at 9pm on BBC One and after on BBC iPlayer.

Still to come, we will talk to a mum whose son fell from the same ride at

Drayton Manor theme park where an 11-year-old girl died today.

Prosecutors will announce later this morning whether any Conservative

officials or politicians will be charged with breaking rules on

campaigning spending at the last election in 2015. Let's talk to our

assistant political editor, Norman Smith. Tell us about the

allegations. This centres on claims that at the last election, a number

of Conservative candidates potentially, officials, may have

spent more money than they were allowed. In other words, giving

themselves an advantage in the contest. This centred on accusations

that the Tory sent down bus-loads of activist to marginal seats the

campaign, but then put the bill on the tab of the National party. In

other words, it didn't add to the sort of local parties bill, enabling

them in effect to get a whole load of more money and resources spent in

their local campaign and not have to declare it. We have already had an

investigation by the Electoral Commission, who slapped a whopping

great ?70,000 fine on the Conservative Party for doing this.

They are also highly critical of the Tory party for not cooperating with

the investigation, but crucially what the Electoral Commission did

not manage to establish was the issue of intent. Did the Tory party

deliberately know what they were doing? In other words, were they

deliberately trying to get round the rules almost to try and buy seats at

the last election? And what has the Conservative Party said? They have

said all along that this was a clock up rather than a conspiracy, that it

was a technical error, and administrative foul up. They put the

sums in the wrong ledger, it wasn't really an attempt to get round the

rules. But the way they responded to the Electoral Commission enquiry was

certainly raising eyebrows, because they seem to fight the enquiry all

the way, and a lot of people are saying if it was just a bungle, why

would you make such a big fuss about it? We are expecting this

announcement from the CPS at around 11am. We are well into the election

campaign, candidates are knocking on doors, hoping to be elected on the

8th of June, what will happen if one of those candidates being

investigated is charged? Here is the thing, the timing is very types and

candidates have to be declared by tomorrow. If some of these

candidates are prosecuted I think they would almost certainly have to

stand down for stop it seems to me they would be inconceivable to go

into an election with this cloud hanging over them. Team a would only

have 24 hours to find new candidates to parachute in -- Theresa may would

only have 24 hours. If you look at this election, the Theresa May has

sort of just powered forward, sort of crushing everyone in her wake

with very tightly controlled, scripted campaign. If from almost

nowhere the Crown Prosecution Service were to say right, we are

going to prosecute a whole load of your officials and your candidates,

that would be a complete curveball, that would completely sort of throw

things up into the air. For the first time, you sense Theresa May

might potentially be forced onto the back foot. Elsewhere, the Liberal

Democrats and Labour both making multi-billion pound funding pledges.

Where do they say they will get the money from? Labour are rolling out

what they call their national education service, and they want

this to sit alongside the National Health Service, the thinking being

that you do in education what you do in the health service, you provide a

free service from cradle to grave. That is a big, big deal, and comes

with a big bill. What they are suggesting, for example, is that

adults ought to be able to take up further education courses without

having to pay anything. That ought to be free for people who are adults

to retrain, to acquire new skills and stop they are also talking about

reintroducing student maintenance grants, reintroducing educational

maintenance allowances, making good some of the cuts to school funding.

What we don't get today is the pledge which we'll most will get to

axe university tuition fees, but it comes with a huge price tag. Without

University tuition fees Walker something like 37 billion. Adding on

University tuition fees, it is another 20 billion, so these are

massive, massive bills, part of which Labour say by hiking taxes on

business. They are going to raise corporation tax from 19% to 26%, and

increase almost of a third. A big hit for business. Lib Dems very

briefly want to raise 7 billion also to plough into schools. So a lot of

money being talked about being pumped into education.

And Norman every day until June eighth we're

highlighting the best cock-up, gaffe or highly amusing moment

We need a general election and when need one now. To every

So today, Norman, question up there are all sorts of ways of getting

round in an election. Politicians can travel in battlebus is, you can

get a train, that tends to be what Jeremy Corbyn does come you can get

a helicopter. But the Lib Dems in to have a particular fascination with

what are sometimes known as ACV the Raw. An air cushion vehicle,

otherwise known as a hovercraft. Have a look at Jeremy Thorpe, the

Liberal leader back in the 1960s. Here he is. Propped up by a

hovercraft. Now, go forward about 30 years, and take a look at Nick Clegg

at the last election, with a trusty old hovercraft again. They are very

fond of these ACVs. It makes them look like real action men, doesn't

it, dudes? The original thing was to be seen at the cutting edge of

technology. The trouble is hovercraft are quite retro.

Yesterday, lo and behold, Tim Farron all clogged up ready for action. The

thing is, if he is going to get into a hovercraft, you want him to kind

of seize control, power it very manfully in a particular direction.

But when you see him in his hovercraft, I mean, it is kind of

wobbling all over the place, isn't it? Yes, going left a lot. You know

what it reminds me of? A sort of dying bumblebee. That is what it

reminds me of, it doesn't give you the impression of forceful, dynamic

Liberal Democrat leadership. Thank you. And that was Norman Smith.

I have got an e-mail from Mickey, watching your programme this

morning, I listened with interest to the comments made concerning the

general election. We spoke to a group of voters with disabilities

about any particular issues that were pertinent to them. Mickey goes

on, I am severely disabled and I am voting for the Theresa May this

June. My reasons are many but the most important one is that both

Labour and the Lib Dems say they will put billions of pounds into the

NHS and schools, but they have no fiscal policy as to where all this

money is going to come from. Secondly, neither of the above

parties have guaranteed Brexit will be pursued. Mrs May has given the

nation a cast iron promise that Brexit will be done and we will get

the best deal. Following Brexit, she has said that the ills of the

British Isles would be addressed. That is why Mickey is voting for the

Conservatives. Still to come, in the last half-hour, Jeremy Corbyn Labour

leader will be out and about on the campaign trail, talking about the

party's pledge into putting more money into education, we will bring

you some of his speech live and we will be talking the year eight

pupils about their understanding of internet fraud. We have an expert

giving them tips on how to detect themselves. Half ten, time is the

latest news headlines. President Trump has fired the head

of the FBI James Comey in a move He'd been leading an investigation

into alleged links between the Trump The White House says Mr Comey

"has been terminated Drayton Manor theme park

in Staffordshire says it will not open to the public today

after the death of an 11-year-old The Year 6 pupil, Evha Jannath,

was on a trip with her school, the Jameah Girls Academy in

Leicester. In a statement the school said

it was providing support to its pupils and staff

and requested time to grieve. Senior management at the theme park

said they were shocked The Crown Prosecution Service

is expected to announce later this morning whether any Conservative

politicians or officials will be charged with breaking rules

on election campaign The CPS has been considering files

sent by the police from nearly The party has insisted that

administrative errors were to blame for any spending

which was incorrectly declared. If general election

candidates are prosecuted the Conservative Party will have

to decide whether to suspend them and replace them as nominees

by Thursday's deadline Labour and the Liberal Democrats

have pledged billions of pounds in extra school funding if they win

the general election, to ensure budgets in England keep

up with rising costs. Both parties also say no school

would lose out as a result of a new funding formula to divide

money across the country. But the Conservatives say school

funding has reached record levels in their government and questioned

Labour's plans to use corporation tax rises

to fund their plans. Nato Secretary-General Jens

Stoltenberg has discussed calls for more troops to be sent

to Afghanistan with the Prime Minister in Downing Street

Following his meeting with Theresa May Jens Stoltenberg

said Nato members would discuss the request in forthcoming

meeting later this month. We have received requests from our

military authorities to increase our military presence in Afghanistan

with a few thousand troops. We are now assessing that request. We will

make a decision on the scale and the scope on the mission within weeks,

but this is not about returning back to a combat operation in

Afghanistan. It will continue to be train, assist and advice operation.

A man arrested near Downing Street last month has been charged

Khalid Mohamed Omar Ali, from north London, was also charged

with two counts of making or having explosives.

Those two charges, under the Explosive Substances Act,

relate to alleged activity in Afghanistan in 2012.

Mr Omar Ali, who was arrested on Parliament Street

on 27th April, will appear at Westminster Magistrates'

Cornwall Fire and Rescue have declared a major incident

and evacuated Falmouth Docks after a crane collapsed.

Local police said a 200 metre exclusion zone has been in place

and nearby properties have been evacuated while they deal

Police say there are no reports of any injuries.

A plea from an American teenager asking a burger chain for a year's

supply of chicken nuggets has become the most re-tweeted message ever.

Carter Wilkerson tweeted Wendy's asking how many retweets

he would need to get a his free chicken nuggets, to which the fast

He then posted a screenshot of the tweets with the

call "help me please. A man needs his nuggs."

The message has now been shared over 3.5 million times.

The company has donated $100,000 to charity in his name.

Prior to his becoming the most retweeted tweet that was the most

retweeted tweet so they are in a battle to see who gets the most

retweets. That's a summary of the latest news,

join me for BBC Newsroom England have been handed a tough

draw for the second successive They're in a Pool with

France and Argentina Ireland and Scotland

are in the same group, alongside the hosts,

Japan, with Wales landing So all of the home nations

have avoided the current The decision to oust

the investigators of Fifa's Ethics Committee is a "setback in the fight

against corruption." That's the view of Cornel Borbely

who, along with Hans-Joachim Eckert, They were brought in to oversee

Fifa's reform programme and helped bring down former

President Sepp Blatter. Fifa are themselves investigating

the transfer of Paul Pogba He was the world's most expensive

player when he moved from Juventus last summer,

and Fifa want to know who made what And with the French Open less

than three weeks away, Andy Murray says he still needs

to play better, but he's through to the third

round of the Madrid Open, after a straight-sets win over

Marius Copil of Romania. That's all the sport for now,

Victoria. We're likely to hear from Jeremy

Corbyn. He is the leader of the Labour Party as you know in the

next, I don't know, ten minutes or so, he'll give a speech about his

education plans, where he to form the next Government. So we will

cross to that live, of course. What does Jeremy Corbyn say? He says

Government for the many, not the few. Theresa May says strong and

stable Government. Plenty of those mantras over the last few weeks and

you will hear them a lot more. Every Wednesday we will be analysing

hundreds of thousands of tweets to get a flavour of what people are

talking about, who they're trolling and whether they are swallowing the

official messages coming from any of the parties.

Let's talk to Josh Smith from Demos. You have analysed three-quarters of

a million tweets written so far since the general election was

called last month. This is not scientific, but explain how you're

analysing them and why you're looking at Twitter rather than other

social media? The really interesting thing about Twitter especially

during a general election is that it's a very public space for people

to kind of air their opinions and express their views on politics and

whatever else is happening. The other interesting thing about it, if

you're a user on Twitter you tend to exist in the echo chambers so you're

listening to the people you agree with and who you're following and

you really see the parties that you're talking to anyway. We wanted

to cut through that a bit and look at how people were discussing the

general election across parties. So what we've done, we've picked up

people tweeting about the general electionment we tried to work out

and we trained an algorism to do that to work out who supported which

party and then we've picked at random 400 supporters from five of

the biggest parties and looked at what they're talking about and

that's what we're going to be looking at. These are party

supporters? Yes. How do you get a sense of what they're saying? You

pick up three-quarters of a million tweets, you get a lot of noise and

chatter and one of the ways we have been trying to work out what the

conversations are to look at terms that are coming up together a lot

more than we'd expect them to. That allowed us to look at the

conversations that are going on, but also just to see how much people are

tweeting and I think we can show you... Before we go, I'm going to

keep everybody in suspense, don't look at this, we're going to cross

to Jeremy Corbyn right now. It's a great pleasure to be here

with some good friends and colleagues, Judith Blake the leader

of Leeds City Council did a fantastic job in standing up for

this city and she and I had many wet and happy memories of trying to deal

with the flooding crisis and today we pray for rain!

LAUGHTER Judith, thank you for everything you

do for the city and our people in it and to my colleagues Hilary Benn and

Richard Burgen brilliant MPs, thank you for coming along this morning.

And I'm delighted to be speaking alongside Angela reigner our next

Education Secretary. They're brilliant individuals, they've done

a fantastic job in what has turned out to be a very short Parliament,

but there is an advantage in that, it gets them round the Cabinet table

a bit quicker than it would otherwise have taken so I'm looking

forward to you doing those jobs in Government. You'll hear from Angela

shortly about our detailed plans for education, training and skills.

There are four weeks left of this gaeks campaign and I hope every one

of you in this room is registered to vote and every student is registered

to vote. Use your democratic right. A positive message which we're going

to take across the country is simply this - that we want to see a better

country. A Britain in which everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their

potential. A Britain which works literally for the many and not just

the few. Because, if you're stuck on a zero hours contract, you don't

know what you're going to earn from one week to the other, or if you

have talents that can't afford the tuition fees to develop them or

you're stuck in a job that you hate, then you are being held back. Labour

is on your side. We want you to succeed because those who aren't

held back are those who are hoarding huge levels of wealth or enormous

influence. Those who jealousy cling on to privilege and power, they

don't want any of that to change. They work together to make sure

things don't change. It's no coincidence that we learn from this

wooing's Sunday Times Rich List that a third of those on the list donate

to the Conservative Party. The Conservative Party looks after money

and money looks after the Conservative Party. It's a virtuous

circle. Try to disrupt this and you find yourself meeting a great deal

of hostility. Question how things are and you encounter abuse. Ask

those at the top to pay a little more towards society and you are

maligned. That's how the system is rigged and that's how it stays

rigged, but I say to this - it doesn't have to be this way. We're

asking you to join with us, to help us make the change we can all enjoy.

On the same day that the Sunday Times Rich List came out, my friend,

our Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, set out a

different form of change. He unveiled Labour's plan to upgrade

our economy. Because without an upgraded economy there can be no

fairer Britain. As John said, it means Government understanding that

education, childcare, housing, infrastructure, and industrial

strategy are the essential pillars of upgrading the economy. So this

week and next we're setting out our detailed plans for each pillar of

our plan to upgrade the economy. We all benefit from an upgraded economy

that preserves the long-term sur vile of our public services so much

under threat, we've said a Labour Government will build one million

homes and tackle the excesses of the private rental market. We want to

put an end to our workforce being priced out of living near to where

they work. Labour wants families to spend more time together. But it's

no good making progress in housing for our workforce if it's not

equipped to take the opportunities made possible by an upgraded

economy. So today, Angela will be putting forward our detailed plans

for education, skills and training. A higher skilled and confident

workforce is a must have for a fairer Britain negotiating in a post

Brexit world. Our businesses, both large and small, will prosper on the

back of education, skills and training finally being given serious

attention by a very serious Government. So it's only fair that

businesses should be asked to contribute to the plan by financing

the steps that we're setting out today and we will do this by

reversing the tax cuts made by the Conservatives and still keep UK

rates of corporation tax at the lowest of the group of seven most

industrialised countries. It's what we term our new settlement. When it

comes to small businesses, the backbone of our economy, a Labour

Government will restore small profits rates and make only a modest

increase. And to the owners and the leadership of larger businesses and

corporations, we will slowly raise your level of corporation tax to 26%

by the end of the next Parliament. It was 28% when the coalition

Government came into office in 2010. And again, this is actually below

the level of the last Labour Government. Inclusive, fair and

costed. That's our plan to upgrade our economy. The and that is what

you vote on June the 8th is all about. Angela will set out our

belief in education for all, from cradle to grave, because it is

Labour investment that will ensure people are not held back. Jeremy

Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, outlining their policy on education

and how they would paper them. Josh has been analysing the tweets of

various supporters of the five biggest parties. Describe this

craft. It is not scientific by the way, just make it clear. This is a

random election selection. What we have other tweets per hour. You can

see people tweeting away, this was the week before the election was

announced and then on the 18th of April, 11am, the Theresa May drops

this bombshell, she will have general election. Suddenly users are

sending 2000 tweets per hour, they are really excited about the general

election. So what was the one tweet that was massive, or give us a

couple of examples? Something we really saw coming out was a tweet

from Ed Miliband, actually. This was shared by more of our Labour

supporters than any of Jeremy Corbyn's tweets, and the joke here

is basically when you are eating things and someone takes a photo of

you and you look a bit silly. Theresa May had some problems eating

some chips last week. Not a terribly flattering image. Ed Miliband had a

similar problem in 2015 with a bacon sandwich. That picture we can't show

because it is will expand to, we have to pay for it. Basically

extending her a hand of help, saying we have been through this, we should

talk. What else? This wasn't the top tweet, it was actually from Nicola

Sturgeon, the head of the SNP, congratulating Emmanuel Macron on

his victory in the French presidential elections. Actually,

this was a key theme throughout the conversations of the people we were

picking up. What we are looking at here our terms about the French

presidential election we have picked up over the last week. There is lots

of congratulation to stop we really saw a division of along party lines

here for stop the party who treated about this by far the most was Ukip.

Lots of these hashtags, the terms you are seeing here, are driven by