22/05/2017

:00:08. > :00:08.Hello. It's Monday.

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

:00:10. > :00:19.This programme has learnt that a police inquiry into deaths at a

:00:20. > :00:31.mental health trust could investigate up to 20 cases. Just

:00:32. > :00:36.said Matthew has been found hanging. It doesn't look good. I couldn't

:00:37. > :00:41.breathe. I fell to the floor and my partner took the rest of the call.

:00:42. > :00:46.Also this morning, the jury overseeing the Bill Cosby

:00:47. > :00:48.sexual assault trial will be sworn in today.

:00:49. > :00:50.One of his alleged victims tells us the American

:00:51. > :00:56.justice system is slanted towards protecting perpetrators.

:00:57. > :01:12.He stood so low to pimp the civil rights struggle to hide behind his

:01:13. > :01:16.criminality. Bill Cosby denies the charges

:01:17. > :01:20.against him. The Conservatives have been warned that their chaltion to

:01:21. > :01:24.the social care in England could fail because of variations in how

:01:25. > :01:26.some councils administer the payments. We'll bring you all the

:01:27. > :01:36.details. Hello and welcome to the programme.

:01:37. > :01:38.We're live until 11am. Throughout the morning we'll bring

:01:39. > :01:41.you the latest breaking news The Green Party launch

:01:42. > :01:44.their general election We'll bring that to you live

:01:45. > :01:49.and we'll look at how internal Facebook documents appear to show

:01:50. > :01:51.that in some cases its moderators tolerates violent threats,

:01:52. > :01:57.bullying and self-harm. Do get in touch on all the stories

:01:58. > :02:00.we're talking about this morning. Use the hashtag Victoria Live

:02:01. > :02:11.and if you text, you will be charged Labour is promising English students

:02:12. > :02:14.who start university courses in England this autumn won't have to

:02:15. > :02:20.pay tuition fees if the party wins the election. Labour has pledged to

:02:21. > :02:24.abolish fees from 2018, but says it wants to discourage those sitting

:02:25. > :02:28.their exams now from deferring for a year. The Conservatives say more

:02:29. > :02:33.students than ever from disadvantaged backgrounds are

:02:34. > :02:37.getting into university. Let's talk to Norman Smith who is at

:02:38. > :02:42.Westminster. Fill us in then Norman? This is one of Mr Corbyn's big

:02:43. > :02:48.stand-out policies. If you had to name the three big Corbyn policies,

:02:49. > :02:51.one would be ending austerity and two nationalising the railways and

:02:52. > :02:55.three is scrapping tuition fees. Labour is going further. They're not

:02:56. > :03:00.merely talking about passing legislation in 2018 to stop students

:03:01. > :03:04.afterwards having to pay, they're saying any youngsters going to

:03:05. > :03:09.university this autumn would also not have to pay. So their fees for

:03:10. > :03:14.the first year before the legislation comes in, would be

:03:15. > :03:18.written off. Anyone who is already a student would no longer have to pay

:03:19. > :03:21.any fees even though they have begun university and those who have left

:03:22. > :03:28.university and are having to pay back a student loan, the interest

:03:29. > :03:34.rate they would have to pay would be hacked back from 6% to just

:03:35. > :03:37.inflation. That's around 2.7%. So a significant reduction too in their

:03:38. > :03:42.costs. On top of that, they're talking about bringing back

:03:43. > :03:47.maintenance grants. That's a really sizeable chunky package for

:03:48. > :03:53.students, costing a not insignificant ?11 billion. So that's

:03:54. > :03:56.a lot of cash, but speaking this morning the Shadow Education

:03:57. > :04:00.Secretary said she thought it was just wrong that youngsters starting

:04:01. > :04:10.out in the world should begin with such massive debts if though chose

:04:11. > :04:13.to go to university. OK. Let me ask you about social care,

:04:14. > :04:16.since the Conservatives launched their manifesto, they have faced

:04:17. > :04:21.criticism from all sorts of sectors. What's the latest today? Well sh the

:04:22. > :04:26.Tory high command, those around May say they are not backing down and

:04:27. > :04:29.not going to re-think the policy, there will be a consultation, but

:04:30. > :04:33.that was to look at tweaking the fine details. That is, you know,

:04:34. > :04:38.trouble down the line, I have to say because there is a lot of disquiet,

:04:39. > :04:42.not just amongst the opposition parties obviously but in the

:04:43. > :04:47.charities, in the pensioners groups, in think-tanks, they have almost

:04:48. > :04:53.universally criticised the policies and in the Tory Party there are

:04:54. > :04:58.sounds of disquiet because the policy which Mrs May has come up

:04:59. > :05:01.with is quite good news for poorer families because it raises the

:05:02. > :05:08.means-test before you have to contribute to ?100,000. However, if

:05:09. > :05:12.you are someone who owns an average house around ?250,000 or more, it is

:05:13. > :05:16.not good news because you will almost certainly have to pay for

:05:17. > :05:19.your care because what they're saying is, you'll have to pay for

:05:20. > :05:26.everything until you're only left with ?100,000. If you have a house

:05:27. > :05:29.worth ?250,000 say which is the average you will have to pay the

:05:30. > :05:34.first ?150,000 of care before you get down to the ?100,000 limit. It

:05:35. > :05:41.is a real hit on middle-class and better off families so there is the

:05:42. > :05:44.real row brewing over this change. And the Green Party launch their

:05:45. > :05:49.manifesto this morning? They do indeed. Some spiky policies. A lot

:05:50. > :05:55.of it is about protecting the environment, probably, you know, no

:05:56. > :05:58.surprises there. , I think what might get the headlines are their

:05:59. > :06:02.other policies which are to the left of Jeremy Corbyn. They are talking

:06:03. > :06:05.about reversing all the privatisation in the NHS, they're

:06:06. > :06:08.talking about scrapping Trident completely. Of course, Labour is

:06:09. > :06:12.committed to carrying on with Trident and to use the money from

:06:13. > :06:16.Trident to invest in the NHS, but two of the policies which I think,

:06:17. > :06:20.you know, might interest people most is they're talking about a basic

:06:21. > :06:24.income for everyone. In other words everyone regardless of their wealth

:06:25. > :06:29.should get a basic state income set just a little above Jobseekers

:06:30. > :06:33.allowance at ?80. All other benefits with the exception of disability

:06:34. > :06:38.benefits would go, but everyone, everyone, would get this basic

:06:39. > :06:42.income of ?80 and they are talking about a shorter working week. Their

:06:43. > :06:48.argument being that you know people feel under a lot of pressure, a lot

:06:49. > :06:51.of stress. If people worked four days and I think that's what they

:06:52. > :06:55.are going to suggest, it would provide more scope for people

:06:56. > :06:59.looking for work. Those are radical policies. They are talking about

:07:00. > :07:08.phasing those in if they were to form a Government. They are not

:07:09. > :07:12.saying it should happen immediately. We will bring you the Green Party

:07:13. > :07:16.manifesto launch at 10.30am. Joanna Gosling is in the BBC

:07:17. > :07:19.Newsroom with a summary President Trump will arrive

:07:20. > :07:22.in Israel this morning, on the second leg of his

:07:23. > :07:24.first overseas tour. He's due to meet both Israeli

:07:25. > :07:27.and Palestinian leaders with peace The president has called

:07:28. > :07:30.an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement "the ultimate deal",

:07:31. > :07:32.but so far has been vague After what some called

:07:33. > :07:38.an Islamaphobic start on the campaign trail,

:07:39. > :07:40.Donald Trump has met Arab and Gulf leaders and spoken of working

:07:41. > :07:43.together with Muslim nations This is not a battle

:07:44. > :07:50.between different faiths, different This is a battle between barbaric

:07:51. > :07:58.criminals who seek to obliterate Drive them out of your holy land

:07:59. > :08:13.and drive them out of this earth. The President has been well

:08:14. > :08:15.received in Saudi Arabia. Not least because of his

:08:16. > :08:18.tough approach on Iran. Now the business mogul wants

:08:19. > :08:25.what he calls the ultimate deal. This morning, he's heading

:08:26. > :08:28.for Tel Aviv to begin his bid to find peace between Israel

:08:29. > :08:31.and the Palestinians. He'll meet Israel's Prime Minister

:08:32. > :08:33.today and the Palestinian President tomorrow, having met both

:08:34. > :08:36.already in Washington. There is some doubt

:08:37. > :08:39.about whether his unconventional, business-like approach can can

:08:40. > :08:43.achieve a peace deal where so many others have failed

:08:44. > :08:46.but there is optimism. Reports in the Israeli press,

:08:47. > :08:48.quoting White House sources, say President Trump will focus first

:08:49. > :08:50.on trying to build confidence between the two sides

:08:51. > :08:57.so direct talks can resume. A police inquiry into an NHS-run

:08:58. > :09:00.mental health unit in Essex is investigating up to twenty

:09:01. > :09:03.deaths, this programme has learnt. It follows a fresh probe

:09:04. > :09:06.into the death of Matthew Leahy, who was found hanged

:09:07. > :09:08.at the Linden Centre His mother Melanie told the BBC

:09:09. > :09:14.there was no care plan in place for him when he was admitted

:09:15. > :09:18.to the centre. Essex Police say they are

:09:19. > :09:20."conducting initial enquiries into a number of deaths"

:09:21. > :09:32.at the centre. You can see more on that story in a

:09:33. > :09:37.few minutes time. Two men arrested by Humberside

:09:38. > :09:40.Police over the disappearance of a woman who went missing after

:09:41. > :09:47.dropping her daughter off at school. They will appear before Hull

:09:48. > :09:53.Magistrates Court later today. The woman was last seen walking near her

:09:54. > :09:55.home in Hull four weeks ago. Police have searched several addresses in

:09:56. > :10:06.the city and have appealed for information about her disappearance.

:10:07. > :10:09.9,000 people who lost money on shares in Royal Bank of Scotland

:10:10. > :10:12.begin a High Court action today demanding compensation from the bank

:10:13. > :10:13.and four former directors including Fred Goodwin.

:10:14. > :10:17.The claimants say they were misled by the bank when it sought to raise

:10:18. > :10:19.?12 billion from shareholders in April 2008, a few months before

:10:20. > :10:23.it had to be rescued by taxpayers because it was running out of money.

:10:24. > :10:26.The bank has said it will defend itself vigorously in court.

:10:27. > :10:29.A cheaper pound has led to a surge in American

:10:30. > :10:33.The travel website Expedia says it's seen an 80% jump in summer bookings

:10:34. > :10:36.to the UK from across the Atlantic between January and March, compared

:10:37. > :10:39.American visitors are taking advantage of the 13% fall

:10:40. > :10:58.in the value of sterling compared with the dollar since the EU

:10:59. > :11:01.A diamond ring bought for ?10 at a car-boot sale 30 years ago

:11:02. > :11:03.is expected to fetch ?350,000 at auction.

:11:04. > :11:05.The owner believed the large white diamond was a piece of costume

:11:06. > :11:08.jewellery when she bought it in the 1980s.

:11:09. > :11:09.She wore the spectacular stone for decades without

:11:10. > :11:12.realising its true value - even doing the chores with it on!

:11:13. > :11:24.Drake won 13 billboard muse k awards beating the previous record of

:11:25. > :11:31.Adele. It was a disappointing night for British artists with the only

:11:32. > :11:35.awards coming from for Zain Malik and Coldplay.

:11:36. > :11:39.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30am.

:11:40. > :11:48.We will talk to a woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by Bill

:11:49. > :11:53.Cosby. The jury for Bill Crosby's trial is selected today.

:11:54. > :11:57.And let's start with the controversy surrounding John Terry's

:11:58. > :12:08.This was supposed to be a day of celebrations for Chelsea. It was

:12:09. > :12:13.John Terry's final appearance for the club so they thought there must

:12:14. > :12:16.be an emotional farewell which we had expected, but perhaps not in the

:12:17. > :12:20.way that it happened. What did occur, in the 26th minute in case

:12:21. > :12:26.you were wondering, his shirt number, John Terry came off. He was

:12:27. > :12:29.substituted at the 26th minute and there was a Guard of Honour which

:12:30. > :12:34.has been described by some people as quite odd. Now, this Guard of Honour

:12:35. > :12:39.occurred. It took him to the 28th minute before he finally came off

:12:40. > :12:44.and it has divided opinion with many people calling it contrived. Others

:12:45. > :12:50.saying it undermined the game. Here is what Final Score pundit Gareth

:12:51. > :12:54.Crooks had to say. This isn't Hollywood, this is a Premier League

:12:55. > :12:58.fixture. This has been set-up. I'm uncomfortable with it to be honest

:12:59. > :13:02.with you. I think it is very unusual to see that. I have never seen that

:13:03. > :13:09.before. OK, I know he is a unique player, but yeah, 26 minutes he goes

:13:10. > :13:15.off, he has number 26. It is the Guard of Honour in the middle of a

:13:16. > :13:20.game. I'm not happy with the way it was done. Some strong words, but I

:13:21. > :13:27.don't think he was aLondon in that reaction. I heard Robbie Savage

:13:28. > :13:32.saying, "What was that about?" Apparently it was John Terry's idea.

:13:33. > :13:35.Social media has been ablaze? Huge reaction on Twitter today. We have

:13:36. > :13:39.got some tweets that said the game is dead. Strong words from Sean

:13:40. > :13:48.Bishop. Sunderland should be ashamed. Testimonial antics in a

:13:49. > :13:52.League game. Shameful. David Mc Nally says every Chelsea player

:13:53. > :13:57.should have been booked for that pathetic behaviour and for bringing

:13:58. > :14:01.the game into disrepute. Some say he was right to do that and that he was

:14:02. > :14:06.the sort of player that deserves that type of response. Who knows,

:14:07. > :14:11.but in the meantime, it does mean, of course, that was John Terry's

:14:12. > :14:15.final game whether or not he likes how he went off, of course. Arsene

:14:16. > :14:18.Wenger won't talk about his future, but has been talking about the

:14:19. > :14:24.impact, the speculation around his future had on his team? That's

:14:25. > :14:28.right. Well, in the end Arsenal finished fifth despite beating

:14:29. > :14:30.Everton yesterday 3-1, but it means they have missed out on Champions

:14:31. > :14:37.League football for the first time in 20 years. Of course, the fans

:14:38. > :14:40.inside the stadium made their disappointment clear and fans have

:14:41. > :14:49.been divided over whether Arsene Wenger should stay on when his

:14:50. > :14:56.contract expires. There have been many protests against him since the

:14:57. > :15:00.season began in January. There was, of course celebration for Manchester

:15:01. > :15:04.City and Liverpool. There was a tentative wait for Liverpool fans

:15:05. > :15:09.who had to wait until before half-time before they took the lead

:15:10. > :15:13.against Middlesbrough before scoring 3-0 and securing fourth place in the

:15:14. > :15:15.League. Celebrations across-the-board yesterday and

:15:16. > :15:18.disappointment too for Arsenal, but we will have more sport in the next

:15:19. > :15:25.half an hour. Thank you very much.

:15:26. > :15:28.First this morning, this programme has been told that a police enquiry

:15:29. > :15:31.into deaths at a mental health trust could investigate up to 20 cases.

:15:32. > :15:34.The Linden Centre in Essex is facing questions into deaths that have

:15:35. > :15:41.It follows fresh investigations into the death of Matthew Leahy,

:15:42. > :15:52.who was found hanged at Linden Centre in 2012.

:15:53. > :15:54.His mother, Melanie Leahy, said her talks with Essex Police

:15:55. > :15:57.suggested the cases had taken place in the last 17 years.

:15:58. > :16:03.Our reporter Simon Cox has been investigating.

:16:04. > :16:06.It was the most unsafe place he could have been.

:16:07. > :16:08.I remember him texting me, "Mum, please let me come

:16:09. > :16:18.I wouldn't want to be in there, and if I was in there

:16:19. > :16:20.I'd want certain people to look after me.

:16:21. > :16:34.Why have they left it 17 years to look into these deaths?

:16:35. > :17:01.He was great at school, good in maths, good

:17:02. > :17:03.Matthew Leahy, a bright, sporty student.

:17:04. > :17:05.In his teens, he began smoking cannabis and having hallucinations.

:17:06. > :17:07.By 2012, his mental health had spiralled.

:17:08. > :17:10.There'd been a situation with his father, and the police were called

:17:11. > :17:14.I was told, "Don't come and see him for seven days,

:17:15. > :17:16.let him settle onto the ward," so I respected that.

:17:17. > :17:24.Matthew was a patient at the Linden Centre,

:17:25. > :17:30.run by the North Essex Partnership Trust.

:17:31. > :17:38.A week after being admitted, the centre phoned his mum.

:17:39. > :17:40.Actually this is the day the lies began.

:17:41. > :17:43.The phone rang, it was about 1:30, 1:15, and the doctor...

:17:44. > :18:05."Matthew's been found hanging, it doesn't look good."

:18:06. > :18:08.I couldn't breathe, I fell to the floor on my knees,

:18:09. > :18:10.and my partner took the rest of the call.

:18:11. > :18:13.And there he was on the trolley, and the next instruction was,

:18:14. > :18:19.And I asked, "Could I take a cutting of his hair?"

:18:20. > :18:27."No, you're not allowed to touch, he's a crime scene."

:18:28. > :18:29.Just 20 when he died, at his inquest the jury

:18:30. > :18:37.Each patient supposedly has a care plan, and it came to light that

:18:38. > :18:41.Matthew had no care plan, he had no key worker, no-one knew,

:18:42. > :18:44.for two days there wasn't even any observation sheets,

:18:45. > :19:01.The police report says, "Matthew was taken to a place of safety."

:19:02. > :19:04.It was the most unsafe place he could have been.

:19:05. > :19:06.I remember him texting me, "Mum, please let me come

:19:07. > :19:13.I just said, "No, stay there, these are the professionals,

:19:14. > :19:15.they know what they're doing, you need some help."

:19:16. > :19:18.The inquest jury said Matthew had been subjected to a series

:19:19. > :19:20.of multiple failings and missed opportunities over

:19:21. > :19:30.After the inquest, the coroner suggested that the Trust told

:19:31. > :19:33.a public inquiry into Matthew's death, but they said it would be too

:19:34. > :19:36.expensive and it would take money away from frontline services.

:19:37. > :19:38.But Matthew was not the first patient who'd hung himself

:19:39. > :19:57.In 2001, Nicola Dordoy was found hanging from a curtain pole.

:19:58. > :19:58.Three years later, Denise Gregory hung herself

:19:59. > :20:03.Then, in 2008, Ben Morris was found hanging from a wardrobe door.

:20:04. > :20:05.We've learned Essex Police have launched an investigation

:20:06. > :20:07.into deaths at the Linden Centre going back to the year 2000.

:20:08. > :20:10.Now, the police won't say exactly how many cases they're looking at,

:20:11. > :20:14.but one source has told us that it could be as many as 20

:20:15. > :20:17.This nurse had noticed these problems for many years.

:20:18. > :20:20.He spent a decade at the Trust and left last summer.

:20:21. > :20:23.He wants us to protect his identity as it could affect his employment.

:20:24. > :20:28.The risk of ligature points had been identified many years ago,

:20:29. > :20:31.and as a result one would have expected the Trust to have taken

:20:32. > :20:38.When senior staff and nurses asked whether those had been dealt with,

:20:39. > :20:41.senior management would give them reassurance.

:20:42. > :20:44.Did you try and raise concerns or ask managers about,

:20:45. > :20:47.are these things being fixed that would minimise people

:20:48. > :20:51.As a staff member, yes, on a regular basis.

:20:52. > :20:59.If you asked too many questions, you were deemed as a troublemaker.

:21:00. > :21:02.If ligature points as a risk had been resolved, there would have

:21:03. > :21:08.As a staff member, you can't do anything about that.

:21:09. > :21:17.They can say, "When is that door going to be fixed?"

:21:18. > :21:21.Do you think if there had those changes that they had been told

:21:22. > :21:23.to do, that then maybe some of those patients who died,

:21:24. > :21:29.The Essex Partnership Trust said the history of serious incidents

:21:30. > :21:32.at the Linden Centre is a matter of great concern that must be

:21:33. > :21:34.addressed, and that it places patient safety as a top priority.

:21:35. > :21:37.But, to improve safety, this nurse says they'll need

:21:38. > :21:45.to tackle a reliance on temporary or agency staff.

:21:46. > :21:48.You'd have one qualified member of staff that was a regular staff

:21:49. > :21:53.member, and you could have up to three or four agency staff,

:21:54. > :21:55.and that would have a profound difficulty because they wouldn't be

:21:56. > :21:58.aware of the environment and they need extra supervision.

:21:59. > :22:01.Do you think it is a safe place for patients?

:22:02. > :22:05.I wouldn't want to be in there, and if I was in there I'd want

:22:06. > :22:11.So that's pretty damning, this is you as someone who'd worked

:22:12. > :22:13.there for a long time, if you or a relative

:22:14. > :22:21.I'd be extremely scared to go in there.

:22:22. > :22:24.The Trust said it was improving systems to ensure investigations

:22:25. > :22:29.are carried out rigorously and thoroughly, and that

:22:30. > :22:39.learning shared across the entire organisation.

:22:40. > :22:41.They are also undertaking a full ligature audit,

:22:42. > :22:44.removing features that could be used by patients to take their own lives.

:22:45. > :22:46.But they've promised to tackle this before.

:22:47. > :22:48.In February 2015, the regulator, the Care Quality Commission,

:22:49. > :22:52.It found risks on the ward but it was not apparent that actions

:22:53. > :22:55.had been fully taken to address these.

:22:56. > :23:00.It also said that risk assessments seen lacked detail.

:23:01. > :23:03.Inspectors returned to the Trust in August 2015.

:23:04. > :23:04.They found "one patient attempted to strangle

:23:05. > :23:08.themselves with a ligature during our inspection,"

:23:09. > :23:10.and there was still an unacceptable number of ligature risks identified

:23:11. > :23:17.A year later when they came back, they found safety

:23:18. > :23:20.was still a concern and said, "The Trust must ensure

:23:21. > :23:29.action is taken to remove identified ligature risks."

:23:30. > :23:32.While the focus is on the Linden Centre, the problems at the Trust

:23:33. > :23:40.I think it's heartbreaking for her family.

:23:41. > :23:43.Melanie was a devoted mum to her two children and her family,

:23:44. > :23:45.who are still reeling from her death.

:23:46. > :23:49.Last year, Melanie Lowe was admitted to hospital under the care

:23:50. > :23:51.of the North Essex Trust after her mental health

:23:52. > :23:58.Melanie took an overdose from pills from her own wash bag

:23:59. > :24:00.and was admitted to hospital, where she remained

:24:01. > :24:04.However, when she was readmitted some days later back to the ward,

:24:05. > :24:05.her observation levels were downgraded from constant watch

:24:06. > :24:17.Unobserved, she took her own life, suffocating herself.

:24:18. > :24:20.At her inquest last November, once again the Essex coroner heard

:24:21. > :24:27.And we heard during the inquest that she'd tried to abscond twice

:24:28. > :24:30.while she'd been on constant watch, and the locum psychiatrist

:24:31. > :24:34.who reassessed her upon admission didn't have access to

:24:35. > :24:36.the observation notes during that time, so didn't know

:24:37. > :24:39.she'd tried to abscond, and she was unaware of the Trust's

:24:40. > :24:43.own policies and guidelines in relation to observation levels.

:24:44. > :24:48.Were you surprised at all by what you heard?

:24:49. > :24:51.It seems quite concerning that the Trust don't seem to be

:24:52. > :24:58.Instant reports are prepared just so that families can know that this

:24:59. > :25:01.is being looked into and treated seriously and hope that it can be

:25:02. > :25:07.That's what Melanie Leahy's trying to ensure, by supporting other

:25:08. > :25:14.families going through the same trauma she faced.

:25:15. > :25:17.She's on her way to an inquest of another patient found hanged

:25:18. > :25:22.This was a fight for answers from our own son's death,

:25:23. > :25:24.and I just can't ignore other families that are going

:25:25. > :25:32.through the same stuff and being treated the same way.

:25:33. > :25:36.It's just a club you belong to, and it's the most horrendous club

:25:37. > :25:47.At the coroner's court, she's meeting another member

:25:48. > :25:49.of the club, Lisa Morris, whose son Ben hung himself

:25:50. > :25:56.It's just like reliving a nightmare, because I've tried so hard

:25:57. > :26:11.And along then with Melanie after Matthew died,

:26:12. > :26:14.Melanie came and found me, and I think we've been down every

:26:15. > :26:21.avenue possible to try and stop this happening to anyone else,

:26:22. > :26:25.and when you hear that it does happen again, why?

:26:26. > :26:32.When so many recommendations have been made to the Linden Centre

:26:33. > :26:37.of how to put things right, and they're simply not doing them?

:26:38. > :26:44.These people could still be living now if the hospital had listened

:26:45. > :26:50.Well, now we know back to 2001 of a young lady

:26:51. > :26:53.And all these recommendations were made then.

:26:54. > :26:56.It's not just by the CQC and the health and safety,

:26:57. > :27:02.She recommends that that hospital do certain things

:27:03. > :27:08.And this goes round and round, and over and over, and over and over.

:27:09. > :27:12.I do believe Ben's death is one of the 20-odd

:27:13. > :27:18.that they are looking into, and that makes me angry as well.

:27:19. > :27:21.Ben's - since 2000, Ben's death, that's 17 years ago.

:27:22. > :27:25.Why have they left it 17 years to look into these deaths?

:27:26. > :27:40.Can the police inquiries into deaths at the Linden Centre restore trust

:27:41. > :27:42.for the grieving families, whose relatives died in the place

:27:43. > :28:00.Let me read you this e-mail from Aaron who was watching the film. I

:28:01. > :28:03.have been in the Linden Centre three times over the past two make ears

:28:04. > :28:10.are due to attempts to take my own life. The last time was May 28 last

:28:11. > :28:14.year. I put myself into a coma for five days on the last attempt. Since

:28:15. > :28:18.then, I have tried to put it behind me and I'm doing better. The reason

:28:19. > :28:21.for my e-mail is that when you feel like I did at that time, there was

:28:22. > :28:27.pretty much nothing anyone could do to stop me doing what I had done. I

:28:28. > :28:33.made blades, self harming from stones in the Linden Centre garden.

:28:34. > :28:37.I took ligatures from curtain cords and so on. My brain was hell-bent on

:28:38. > :28:40.succeeding. The doctor bluntly said there was nothing he could offer

:28:41. > :28:44.that would change it. It seemed I needed to get it out of my system to

:28:45. > :28:48.move forward. It sounds daft but back then I was not thinking

:28:49. > :28:53.straight, although I thought I was at the time. I felt normal and some

:28:54. > :28:56.days I wish I had succeeded to end the internal pain I am carrying

:28:57. > :29:00.around. I am dealing with it as best I can and I would not condemn the

:29:01. > :29:03.Linden Centre or their staff. They have the hardest job in the world

:29:04. > :29:05.and they never stopped trying to help me. If it was not for them I

:29:06. > :29:09.would not be here. After 10am, we'll talk

:29:10. > :29:11.to the daughter of a 76 who took her own life on day

:29:12. > :29:18.release from the centre. If you've been affected by any

:29:19. > :29:21.of the issues raised in that film - you can find support and advice

:29:22. > :29:24.at the bbc action line - And we have a statement from the

:29:25. > :29:43.Essex partnership NHS Trust. They told us: "The history

:29:44. > :29:45.of serious incidents of self-harm at the Linden Centre is a matter

:29:46. > :29:48.of great concern that the Trust has already recognised must be

:29:49. > :29:51.addressed...and that it had set aside significant funding

:29:52. > :29:53.so it was ready to take prompt actions following the results

:29:54. > :29:55.of an audit of risks of patients using ligatures

:29:56. > :30:00.to take their own lives." We will bring you the latest nose in

:30:01. > :30:02.a moment but still to come, once known as America's dad, Bill Cosby

:30:03. > :30:05.was considered a comedy legend. He returns to court today as selection

:30:06. > :30:08.begins for jurors who will decide whether or not he is guilty of

:30:09. > :30:11.sexual assault. And we will get reaction to those leaked internal

:30:12. > :30:15.documents used by Facebook which appear to show that it has

:30:16. > :30:16.instructed its own moderators not to remove controversial content which

:30:17. > :30:24.many would find offensive. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

:30:25. > :30:30.with a summary of today's news. Labour is promising English students

:30:31. > :30:34.who start university courses in England this autumn

:30:35. > :30:37.won't have to pay tuition fees Labour has already pledged

:30:38. > :30:40.to abolish fees from 2018, but says it wants to discourage

:30:41. > :30:43.those sitting their exams now The Conservatives say

:30:44. > :30:46.more students than ever from disadvantaged backgrounds

:30:47. > :30:50.are getting into university. Meanwhile, the Conservatives have

:30:51. > :30:54.been warned that their plans to fund social care in England could fail

:30:55. > :30:57.because of problems with how some councils administer the existing

:30:58. > :31:00.system of deferred payments. The insurer Royal London said

:31:01. > :31:06.responses from 140 authorities to a freedom of information request

:31:07. > :31:09.showed that, in some places, people appeared not to be aware

:31:10. > :31:23.they could postpone paying People have until midnight tonight

:31:24. > :31:28.to register to vote. More than two million registered to vote. In the

:31:29. > :31:30.2015 general election nearly 500,000 people left it until the final day

:31:31. > :31:34.to register. Donald Trump will arrive in Israel

:31:35. > :31:37.this morning, on the second leg The US President, seen here leaving

:31:38. > :31:45.Saudi Arabia this morning, will meet both Israeli

:31:46. > :31:47.and Palestinian leaders with peace Mr Trump has called

:31:48. > :31:50.an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement "the ultimate deal",

:31:51. > :31:52.but so far has been vague A police inquiry into an NHS-run

:31:53. > :31:58.mental health unit in Essex is investigating up to 20 deaths,

:31:59. > :32:01.this programme has learnt. It follows a fresh probe

:32:02. > :32:03.into the death of Matthew Leahy, who was found hanged

:32:04. > :32:05.at the Linden Centre His mother Melanie told the BBC

:32:06. > :32:11.there was no care plan in place for him when he was admitted

:32:12. > :32:13.to the centre. Essex Police say they are

:32:14. > :32:15."conducting initial enquiries into a number of deaths"

:32:16. > :32:33.at the centre. A viewer tweets, "Heartbreaking."

:32:34. > :32:37.Sophie tweets, "It's so important particularly to talk about the rise

:32:38. > :32:42.of agency staff. Sometimes we only had agency staff on a night shift

:32:43. > :32:47.who were very unhelpful. " If you're getting in touch, you're welcome.

:32:48. > :32:50.Use the hashtag Victoria Live or e-mail us:

:32:51. > :32:56.Arsene Wenger says his love for Arsenal cannot be questioned

:32:57. > :32:58.after they failed to finish in the top four for

:32:59. > :33:02.He refused to comment on his future after the match,

:33:03. > :33:04.although he did admit that the constant speculation

:33:05. > :33:10.John Terry has admitted his prolonged farewell in his final

:33:11. > :33:18.The captain received a guard of honour from team-mates

:33:19. > :33:20.as he walked off the pitch in the 26th minute,

:33:21. > :33:25.Celtic are the first side in over a century to go through an entire

:33:26. > :33:31.season in the Scottish top flight without defeat.

:33:32. > :33:34.They signed off with a 2-0 win over Hearts

:33:35. > :33:37.weekend, they could yet win the treble.

:33:38. > :33:40.And Billy Vunipola is out of the Lions tour to New Zealand.

:33:41. > :33:43.He's been managing with a shoulder injury but that now needs more

:33:44. > :33:46.treatment, so his place in the squad goes to Wasps back row James

:33:47. > :33:51.I will have more sport in the next hour.

:33:52. > :33:54.Bill Cosby will return to court today as selection begins

:33:55. > :33:56.for the jurors who will decide whether or not he is

:33:57. > :34:02.The 79-year-old entertainer, who became known as "America's Dad"

:34:03. > :34:05.throughout decades as a national treasure is expected to attend

:34:06. > :34:10.every day of jury selection hearings at a court in Pennsylvania.

:34:11. > :34:13.Bill Cosby is a US comedian and actor once seen

:34:14. > :34:17.as the all-American dad for his portrayal of

:34:18. > :34:20.Dr Cliff Huxtable in the hit sitcom The Cosby Show in the 80s

:34:21. > :34:25.He'll stand trial for a charge of three counts of indecent assault

:34:26. > :34:27.alleged by one woman, former colleague and basketball

:34:28. > :34:35.It's the only criminal case Mr Cosby faces related to sexual assault

:34:36. > :34:43.The point of this is that it was intoxicating to her

:34:44. > :34:52.That's the charges that we're bound over,

:34:53. > :34:55.and we look forward to handling this in court.

:34:56. > :34:57.Over those years, nearly 60 women have come forward accusing

:34:58. > :35:03.His behaviour was like that of a predator.

:35:04. > :35:05.I woke up in the back of my car, alone.

:35:06. > :35:12.My clothes were a mess, my bra was undone.

:35:13. > :35:16.35 of them told their stories to New York magazine.

:35:17. > :35:18.Cosby has always maintained the encounters were consensual.

:35:19. > :35:21.Ms Constand's case is the only one that has fallen

:35:22. > :35:25.within the time-limit known as the statute of limitations,

:35:26. > :35:28.a US law that shields people from prosecution after a certain

:35:29. > :35:34.time by imposing an expiry date for allegations of crimes.

:35:35. > :35:37.The jury selection begins today, as prosecutors say Bill Cosby

:35:38. > :35:39.drugged and molested Ms Constand at his home in Cheltenham,

:35:40. > :35:47.Judge Steven O'Neill has said he plans to screen about 125 jurors

:35:48. > :36:02.Lili Bernard alleges Bill Cosby drugged and raped her

:36:03. > :36:05.after she starred in the eighth and final series of the Cosby Show.

:36:06. > :36:12.She told me what her initial impressions of him where.

:36:13. > :36:20.Initially I felt that he was a brilliant mind who was instrumental

:36:21. > :36:31.in lifting the image of the black family.

:36:32. > :36:39.I believed he was a philanthropist. Later on I discovered that was a

:36:40. > :36:43.smoke screen to divert attention from his depravity and his

:36:44. > :36:56.criminality, but I was duped like the rest of the world. He was a

:36:57. > :37:03.whole Somme person, that he was Dr Huxstable. He denies all charges.

:37:04. > :37:07.Insisting that all his encounters were consensual and he and his

:37:08. > :37:14.family have suggested that some of the claims against him are down to

:37:15. > :37:22.racism? Would you like my comment on that? Yes, please. I have evidence

:37:23. > :37:29.to prove that my relationship with him was not romantic. That it was

:37:30. > :37:35.professional and paternal and purely platonic. That he was mentoring me

:37:36. > :37:41.from the prospective of a father figure, that he often told me that

:37:42. > :37:46.he loved me and cared for me as if I were one of his daughters. He often

:37:47. > :37:54.said to me, "You're one of my kids." With regard to the bogus and

:37:55. > :38:02.despicable claim that he has been rationally targeted. On 2nd May

:38:03. > :38:06.2015, it was the day after I first came public about the abuse I

:38:07. > :38:17.suffered at the hands of Bill Cosby and I attended a protest protest

:38:18. > :38:21.near Georgia where Bill Cosby gave his last performance and two weeks

:38:22. > :38:30.later Bill Cosby donates money to the Black Belt Fundation in Alabama

:38:31. > :38:35.and he stages this mock march over the bridge and the bridge is a

:38:36. > :38:40.signifier of a very important historic moment in the civil rights

:38:41. > :38:44.struggle. I sent e-mails and made lots of phone calls to the school

:38:45. > :38:52.which the Black Belt Foundation was involved in because the Black Belt

:38:53. > :38:56.Foundation is a great organisation that provides assistance to

:38:57. > :39:00.disadvantaged marginalised youth in Alabama and I beconed them to please

:39:01. > :39:05.not allow the children, particularly the teenage girls to get near Bill

:39:06. > :39:08.Cosby because he is a dangerous, sexual predator and that I am a

:39:09. > :39:15.victim of his raping, drging and threats. I sent letters to the Black

:39:16. > :39:21.Belt Foundation staff and board of directors, to the school and the

:39:22. > :39:25.principal and to the teachers and no one returned my e-mails and my phone

:39:26. > :39:30.calls and there is information online where you can see that

:39:31. > :39:38.entertainment tonight did a report on it. So, to me, when Bill Cosby

:39:39. > :39:42.staged that march with those children two weeks after I came

:39:43. > :39:49.public about the abuse that I endured at his hands and I mentioned

:39:50. > :39:55.Martin Luther King that was a slap in my face. It is a spit in the face

:39:56. > :40:04.of all the other great civil rights activists who marched over that

:40:05. > :40:06.bridge in 1965 and... Sorry to interrupt, Lili, he is saying the

:40:07. > :40:12.kind of accusations that you are making against him are simply

:40:13. > :40:18.because he is a black man? Right. So we have been also likened parallel

:40:19. > :40:29.by his attorneys and him to lynch mobs and when Bill Cosby calls us a

:40:30. > :40:37.mob, it's den owe grating the souls of the real lynch victims. All it

:40:38. > :40:42.does is reveal his depravity that he would stoop so low to pimp the souls

:40:43. > :40:47.of rape victims in order to hide from, you know, to hide behind his,

:40:48. > :40:53.you know, criminality. It's disgusting. He denies all charges.

:40:54. > :40:58.You told people around you what you say happened to you back then. And

:40:59. > :41:05.you didn't go to the police until many years later. Right. Can you

:41:06. > :41:10.explain why that was? Because he threatened serious consequences to

:41:11. > :41:15.my life. When I approached him and confronted him about being drugged

:41:16. > :41:20.and raped by him, when I told him that I would call the police and go

:41:21. > :41:24.to the hospital and find out what he put in my drink, my sparkling apple

:41:25. > :41:27.cider he told me that the minute that I went to the police that he

:41:28. > :41:32.would go to the police stags after me and file a police report against

:41:33. > :41:38.me for false accusation and then he would sue me for defamation and make

:41:39. > :41:43.sure that I would end up in prison for a long time and that he would

:41:44. > :41:47.ruin my career. He said he would tell all of Hollywood that I was

:41:48. > :41:54.nothing but a slut and I was trying to sleep my way to the top and I was

:41:55. > :41:58.a no good actress and he said I better watch my back, all it takes

:41:59. > :42:02.was one phone call, that's why I didn't call the police because I

:42:03. > :42:07.feared for my life and I became suicidal and, but it doesn't take a

:42:08. > :42:12.threat such as the ones that Bill Cosby inflicted upon me, the serious

:42:13. > :42:17.threats to my life which I interpreted as death threats for

:42:18. > :42:23.aville to not talk about their rape or to report a rape and you have to

:42:24. > :42:28.could be tend with the reality that this invasion, this unwholly

:42:29. > :42:32.invasion can cause you your life because you can contract diseases,

:42:33. > :42:36.sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS that could kill you, it can

:42:37. > :42:41.also determine whether or not you're going to become pregnant and you

:42:42. > :42:44.have to possibility of becoming pregnant with your perpetrator's

:42:45. > :42:48.child or the devil's child or you have to contend with the possibility

:42:49. > :42:54.of now having to face abortion or giving up this child for adoption.

:42:55. > :42:59.It's a life changing, highly traumatic crime that often goes

:43:00. > :43:05.unreported. It's not just victims of be loved celebrities that typically

:43:06. > :43:12.don't report, but victims of people, perpetrators hom they trust, their

:43:13. > :43:15.uncles, their teachers, their boy scout leaders, their coaches, it is

:43:16. > :43:21.a common phenomenal that rape victims do not report crimes. I

:43:22. > :43:27.understand that you know of at least four other women who you say won't

:43:28. > :43:32.come forward. I know personally four other women who were also abused by

:43:33. > :43:35.Bill Cosby and three of them I knew while they were being abused by him

:43:36. > :43:40.and they will not come forward and I understand why they don't because it

:43:41. > :43:45.comes with grave consequences, you wish for retaliation for Bill Cosby

:43:46. > :43:53.by the women. He has sued several of the women. We are constantly, I and

:43:54. > :43:59.the other survivors are constantly being blamed and shamed online. I

:44:00. > :44:05.received so many comments and messages and e-mails from adorning

:44:06. > :44:09.die hard Cosby fans who take every opportunity to attack me. So after I

:44:10. > :44:13.appear on your show for example I will receive a plethora of hate

:44:14. > :44:20.mail, but more importantly, is that I receive an abundance of supportive

:44:21. > :44:25.comments from people across the globe who are also survivors and who

:44:26. > :44:31.thank me for helping to empower them it speak out because through my

:44:32. > :44:37.example of speaking out against such a powerful perpetrator they felt

:44:38. > :44:41.empowered to file a police report against the priest who abused them

:44:42. > :44:46.when they were centre or against their uncle or against their teacher

:44:47. > :44:52.who impregnated them. It's worth it. You know, it's worth receiving all

:44:53. > :44:57.the hate and the vitriol from these die hard Cosby fans and rape

:44:58. > :45:02.apologists in order to positively, you know, impact so many survivors.

:45:03. > :45:06.Again, just to say that Bill Cosby denies the charges against him. I

:45:07. > :45:11.know you haven't been able to take your case to court because of a time

:45:12. > :45:15.limit. What's known as the statute of limitations, ie the time in which

:45:16. > :45:23.a case can be heard has run out. What do you think of that? Well, I

:45:24. > :45:30.have a prepond rans of hardcore evidence against Bill Cosby and I

:45:31. > :45:35.took this evidence with me along with contact information of several

:45:36. > :45:42.witnesses to the Atlantic City detectives on 30th April when I felt

:45:43. > :45:46.safe enough to report the crime because 46 other women had come

:45:47. > :45:51.public before me and therefore, I feared less that Bill Cosby would

:45:52. > :45:55.target me for retaliation. So empowered by these other 46 women

:45:56. > :45:57.and now there are 60 who have gone public I brought my evidence with

:45:58. > :46:02.me. I brought the contact information. I waited for the

:46:03. > :46:07.detectives and the prosecutors to contact my witnesses, they were not

:46:08. > :46:11.contacted and then I found out that the prosecutor in New Jersey

:46:12. > :46:15.couldn't even consider prosecuting Bill Cosby. Couldn't consider

:46:16. > :46:22.pressing charges against Bill Cosby despite the evidence that I brought,

:46:23. > :46:25.the compelling evidence that I brought, despite my witness

:46:26. > :46:27.testimonies because the witness occurred a few months outside of the

:46:28. > :46:38.statute limitations. But I took advantage evidence, along

:46:39. > :46:44.with video taped testimony, which included my agent, and the therapist

:46:45. > :46:48.whom I was assigned in 1992 when I came out of the hospital, having

:46:49. > :46:56.been admitted for suicide attempts. And I even put some production

:46:57. > :47:00.assistance from the Cosby show in video stats, and I took this

:47:01. > :47:06.evidence with me this video testimonies of my witnesses to the

:47:07. > :47:10.legislative offices in Sacramento, California, the Senate and Council

:47:11. > :47:16.officers and I showed them when we were lobbying and campaigning, to

:47:17. > :47:21.abolish the statute of limitations on rape prosecution in California,

:47:22. > :47:26.to show them the absolute travesty that a rape victim, no matter how

:47:27. > :47:31.much time has passed, can still have hard evidence like me, because I am

:47:32. > :47:36.an archivist, and yet be barred by this arbitrary timeline from

:47:37. > :47:40.achieving justice. What we pointed out as part of our argument is that

:47:41. > :47:46.abolishing the statute of limitations does not change the

:47:47. > :47:50.burden of proof. You still have to have, as a victim, you still have to

:47:51. > :47:59.have enough evidence to prove your case beyond any reasonable doubt. So

:48:00. > :48:04.all this speaking out that I and the other 60 Cosby survivors have done,

:48:05. > :48:13.even if it doesn't affect a positive result for us in the trial, even if

:48:14. > :48:22.Bill Cosby is found innocent, at the very least what we have done is that

:48:23. > :48:24.we have empowered other rape survivors, changing antiquated,

:48:25. > :48:28.patriarchal, misogynistic law. We will also eliminate the fact that

:48:29. > :48:32.the American justice system is slanted towards protecting the

:48:33. > :48:36.perpetrator. The jury selection begins today. We're going to leave

:48:37. > :48:37.that they are. That was Lily Brainard.

:48:38. > :48:39.Coming up, the Green Party has accused the Conservatives

:48:40. > :48:40.of "launching a war on young people".

:48:41. > :48:46.Conservative plans to change how social care is funded in England

:48:47. > :48:49.could be derailed by councils, a former minister has warned.

:48:50. > :48:52.The party wants to include the value of someone's home when deciding how

:48:53. > :48:55.much they must pay towards care at home - but allow them

:48:56. > :48:57.Our political guru Norman Smith is here.

:48:58. > :49:03.This hinges on whether councils allow people to defer their

:49:04. > :49:08.payments. Yes. Under the package of reforms unveiled by Theresa May, she

:49:09. > :49:12.is saying that people ought to be able to meet their care costs by in

:49:13. > :49:17.effect using their home to pay for it but there are home not having to

:49:18. > :49:21.be sort of salt until after they have died. That would mean the local

:49:22. > :49:25.authority is basically having the wherewithal to put that sort of

:49:26. > :49:28.process in place, and all the research that has been done by the

:49:29. > :49:32.former pensions minister suggests that many local authorities need to

:49:33. > :49:37.get up to speed to implement those reforms. And that really is on top

:49:38. > :49:43.of what we have seen is a huge row over the reforms unveiled by Mrs

:49:44. > :49:48.May, which many in her own party seemed to be deeply uncomfortable

:49:49. > :49:51.about. Certainly many in the charitable sector, pensions groups,

:49:52. > :49:55.they are deeply uneasy. And the reason is this. Everyone by and

:49:56. > :49:58.large has signed up to the idea of having a cap on the amount that

:49:59. > :50:04.people would have to pay for their care costs. Andrew Dilnot was told

:50:05. > :50:08.to think what to do about the social care problem and is and serve was

:50:09. > :50:13.putting a cap on the amount that people have to pay, because at the

:50:14. > :50:18.moment you could keep paying literally hundreds of thousands of

:50:19. > :50:22.pounds. There was a broad political consensus, let's go for a cap of

:50:23. > :50:28.about ?72,000 and after that the staple will step in. After that,

:50:29. > :50:32.Theresa May has torn that up saying that we will not go for a cap but we

:50:33. > :50:39.will go for a floor. What that means is that ?100,000 will be the new

:50:40. > :50:43.means test. In other words if you have less than ?100,000, you are

:50:44. > :50:47.fine, and the state will pay for you. However, if you have got more

:50:48. > :50:52.than ?100,000, everything above that will have to be spent on social care

:50:53. > :51:00.until you are only left with ?100,000. Why is there a row about

:51:01. > :51:03.this? Well, because for most homeowners, not massively wealthy

:51:04. > :51:07.homeowners, that means they will end up paying for their care. How so?

:51:08. > :51:13.Well, if you think that the average house price is about ?250,000, so

:51:14. > :51:18.not a massively extravagant house, that is the average value. ?250,000,

:51:19. > :51:24.you would have to spend ?150,000 of the value of your house until you

:51:25. > :51:30.were left with just ?100,000, at that means test level. So the big

:51:31. > :51:34.row is the way middle-class, better off families, homeowners, they would

:51:35. > :51:37.by and large been left picking up the tab themselves and poorer

:51:38. > :51:41.families, yes, they will receive some protection because the means

:51:42. > :51:47.test has been raised to ?100,000, but the other thing about it is that

:51:48. > :51:52.this tends to penalised people suffering from one particular

:51:53. > :51:55.illness, predominantly dementia, because if you suffer from cancer or

:51:56. > :51:59.other conditions like that, the NHS will pile in and look after you. If

:52:00. > :52:04.you suffer from mental health problems, and you have a house, you

:52:05. > :52:09.are pretty much on your own. It is hugely controversial. Talking to

:52:10. > :52:14.those around Mrs May this morning, they are adamant that they will not

:52:15. > :52:18.back off and the policy will stay. There will be consultation to look

:52:19. > :52:22.of minor tweaks but they are determined not to rethink the

:52:23. > :52:29.fundamentals of this policy. Thank you very much, Noren. -- Normanton.

:52:30. > :52:32.Well we did ask the Conservatives to take part in a discussion

:52:33. > :52:35.But they released a statement saying:

:52:36. > :52:37."Our plan strengthens the Social Care system with more

:52:38. > :52:40.and sustainable funding to cope with these long term pressures -

:52:41. > :52:42.and ensures nobody has to sell their home to pay

:52:43. > :52:50.Not to act or just to play politics with the issue is irresponsible.

:52:51. > :52:51.Instead, we have chosen to act in the national interest. Let's talk to

:52:52. > :52:56.Catherine West from Labour. And Norman Lamb is the Lib Dems'

:52:57. > :53:00.health spokesman and our political guru Norman Smith

:53:01. > :53:08.is in Westminster. The issue today hinges on whether

:53:09. > :53:11.councils will allow people to defer their payments. According to the

:53:12. > :53:15.freedom of information requests, some councils in England have not

:53:16. > :53:19.signed any agreements to allow people to do that and in some other

:53:20. > :53:23.areas, more than 100 have been signed. It is a real patchwork and

:53:24. > :53:28.that is part of the problem. Since 2010, local authorities have not

:53:29. > :53:32.really been equipped to design a system which works. So we have a

:53:33. > :53:40.postcode lottery. That is why we read like to see it much there in

:53:41. > :53:44.the taxpayer system, in the same way that NHS services are paid for, so

:53:45. > :53:47.that people with long-term conditions do not have to suffer

:53:48. > :53:50.disproportionately compared to people with other illnesses. Norman

:53:51. > :53:59.Lamont, why should people not paid for their own pay costs when they

:54:00. > :54:03.have assets like houses. -- Norman Lamb. Well, I think that what Andrew

:54:04. > :54:07.Dilnot said was that this was a market failure. In every aspect of

:54:08. > :54:11.our lives, we are able to protect ourselves against catastrophic loss

:54:12. > :54:16.but here, we're not. The great value of the cap on care clause, which I

:54:17. > :54:23.took through Parliament, and I did it with Jeremy Hunt, but they have

:54:24. > :54:27.now abandoned it. The value of the cap on care costs was that everyone

:54:28. > :54:31.was protected against catastrophic loss. That has now been abandoned by

:54:32. > :54:34.the Conservatives and all those people who are receiving care at

:54:35. > :54:41.home, very many of them who are currently receiving it for free or

:54:42. > :54:46.at a low-cost, they now face charges of ?15,000 a year, typically, if you

:54:47. > :54:50.have complex fees, it could be way higher than that. The great

:54:51. > :54:53.unfairness is that if you are a millionaire with cancer, you will

:54:54. > :54:58.get all of your health costs paid for through the NHS, but if you are

:54:59. > :55:05.someone with dementia, perhaps in a small semi, you lose everything you

:55:06. > :55:11.have got. You do not lose everything at all. Your assets, ?100,000 will

:55:12. > :55:14.be protected. You can pass that on to your beneficiaries. But here is a

:55:15. > :55:18.thing. Is it really protected? Because they have answered no

:55:19. > :55:22.questions and it is extraordinary that they have not come on to debate

:55:23. > :55:26.this this morning. They have said nothing about whether the hundred

:55:27. > :55:30.thousand pounds will have to be used to pay for ongoing accommodation

:55:31. > :55:35.costs. That was not included in the cap. So you could end up paying

:55:36. > :55:38.loads more money, you could pay interest charges on the loan that

:55:39. > :55:46.you have taken out to cover these costs. And so I have no belief at

:55:47. > :55:50.all but ?100,000 will actually be genuinely protected. OK, well that

:55:51. > :55:56.is what they say, they say assets of ?100,000 and under will be

:55:57. > :55:58.protected. Well, that is care costs but what about the accommodation

:55:59. > :56:06.costs and other costs? If anybody wants to challenge this can sign --

:56:07. > :56:11.anybody wants to challenge this can sign up to our website to end this

:56:12. > :56:15.outrageous tax. Catherine West, what the Conservatives say is that this

:56:16. > :56:20.is finally a sustainable solution. They have tackled a really, really

:56:21. > :56:23.difficult issue which successive governments have ducked, effectively

:56:24. > :56:26.and finally they have come up with a solution. It's true that the Tory

:56:27. > :56:30.spokesman yesterday on the BBC said yesterday that he thought ?100,000

:56:31. > :56:38.was about right. If you have four or five children, that is about right

:56:39. > :56:41.but is it really in the government's remit to be saying what people

:56:42. > :56:45.should inherit or not? That is not a Tory idea. It is odd for him to be

:56:46. > :56:49.laying down the law as to what people can and cannot inherit. I

:56:50. > :56:52.think this tax is very damaging and it takes away the sense that we all

:56:53. > :56:56.contribute as well because we do not know who will get dementia, who will

:56:57. > :56:59.have a long-term mental health problem. I think part of the problem

:57:00. > :57:06.is that when Norman Lamb was in government they cut about ?4 billion

:57:07. > :57:10.from the purse, from social care, so that is why we have this crisis now.

:57:11. > :57:14.Had we continued to fund that properly, we would not be in this

:57:15. > :57:18.mess. Do you accept that the Lib Dems are partially responsible for

:57:19. > :57:24.taking out ?4.6 billion from social care from 2010 onwards? In 2010 we

:57:25. > :57:27.were faced by a deficit of ?160 billion a year and if you carry on

:57:28. > :57:30.without addressing that, it is always the most vulnerable people in

:57:31. > :57:34.society who will suffer the most. But it was the Lib Dems who

:57:35. > :57:38.negotiated to introduce the cap on care costs, to protect people

:57:39. > :57:42.against catastrophic loss. That has now been abandoned. It is the Lib

:57:43. > :57:49.Dems who are now saying that ?6 billion extra for the NHS and care,

:57:50. > :57:53.through a penny on tax... You cannot have it both ways as a Liberal

:57:54. > :57:57.Democrat, be honest. I have been straightforward. We went through

:57:58. > :58:02.tight budget settlements in those first few years to get the budget

:58:03. > :58:06.deficit sorted out. But now it is absolutely clear that the NHS is on

:58:07. > :58:10.its knees. That is why we are seeing an extra penny on income tax for the

:58:11. > :58:16.NHS and the care system, but we are also seeing implement the cap on

:58:17. > :58:19.care costs. We did what we were advised to do by Andrew Dilnot and

:58:20. > :58:23.now the Conservatives have abandoned it. Theresa May is due to come to

:58:24. > :58:29.Norfolk soon. I challenge her to meet with me, to debate these issues

:58:30. > :58:33.and to answer key questions that affect very many older people who

:58:34. > :58:41.now face substantial costs. Thank you very much. Norman Lamb,

:58:42. > :58:44.Catherine West, thank you. I know that Andrew Neale is due to

:58:45. > :58:48.interview the Prime Minister this week and no doubt he will ask about

:58:49. > :58:51.that. We asked the Conservatives to take part in our conversation this

:58:52. > :58:56.morning but they said they were not able to. They released a statement

:58:57. > :58:57.saying they have chosen to act in the national interest.

:58:58. > :58:59.By the way we're going to be in Dunstable in Bedfordshire

:59:00. > :59:02.on Monday 29th May for a big election audience debate.

:59:03. > :59:11.If you've made up your mind already who you're going to vote for,

:59:12. > :59:13.you're still deciding or don't think you'll bother voting,

:59:14. > :59:16.and would like the chance to share your views and grill senior

:59:17. > :59:19.politicians on their policies - get in touch to apply for a place.

:59:20. > :59:22.More details on our facebook and twitter pages.

:59:23. > :59:24.Let's get the latest weather update - with Ben Rich.

:59:25. > :59:30.Good morning. Thank you very much. If you like warm weather, I think

:59:31. > :59:34.you will like this week. By the end of the week, some places could be

:59:35. > :59:38.close to 30 degrees. It certainly started off in a promising fashion

:59:39. > :59:42.with this weather watcher in north-east Scotland. Some beautiful

:59:43. > :59:46.Sunrisers across the country. It will be largely drives through the

:59:47. > :59:50.week ahead. As I have mentioned, it will be turning very warm. Pretty

:59:51. > :59:54.warm through the rest of the day. The best of the sunshine towards

:59:55. > :59:58.southern and south-eastern areas. More cloud across North England and

:59:59. > :00:04.Wales. Maybe the odd splash of rain across Northern Ireland will bring

:00:05. > :00:08.rain at times. 17 degrees in Glasgow but maybe 25 or 26 in London.

:00:09. > :00:13.Through this evening we will see heavy rain across the northern part

:00:14. > :00:20.of Scotland. Some gusty winds as well. Further south, largely dry.

:00:21. > :00:24.Thicker cloud pushing him. That means that tomorrow across parts of

:00:25. > :00:29.Wales it will be grey and murky for costs and hills. Away from here,

:00:30. > :00:32.largely dry story with some sunshine. Not as warm as today but

:00:33. > :00:35.by the end of the week, those temperatures will be up into the

:00:36. > :00:39.high 20s and maybe close to 30 degrees.

:00:40. > :00:42.Hello. It's Monday.

:00:43. > :00:44.It's 10am. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

:00:45. > :00:46.Our exclusive investigation has found that a police inquiry

:00:47. > :00:56.into deaths at a mental health trust could look into up to 20 suicides.

:00:57. > :01:04.The police report says Matthew was taken to a place of safety. He was

:01:05. > :01:09.it was the most unsafe place he could have been and I remember him

:01:10. > :01:14.texting me saying, "Mum, please let me come home. I'm in hell here."

:01:15. > :01:18.We'll be talking to a woman whose mum took her own life on day release

:01:19. > :01:22.Facebook guidelines for moderators have been leaked to The Guardian.

:01:23. > :01:24.They appear to show some tolerance of bullying, violent threats

:01:25. > :01:28.And rap star Drake scooped 13 prizes at last night's Billboards awards,

:01:29. > :01:38.Joanna Gosling is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

:01:39. > :01:50.The Conservatives have been warned that their plans to fund

:01:51. > :01:53.social care in England could fail, because of problems with how some

:01:54. > :01:55.councils administer the existing system of deferred payments.

:01:56. > :01:57.The insurer Royal London said responses from 140 authorities

:01:58. > :02:00.to a freedom of information request showed that - in some places -

:02:01. > :02:03.people appeared not to be aware they could postpone paying

:02:04. > :02:06.Labour is promising that English students who start university

:02:07. > :02:09.courses in England this autumn won't have to pay tuition fees -

:02:10. > :02:13.Labour has already pledged to abolish fees from 2018,

:02:14. > :02:15.but says it wants to discourage those sitting their exams now

:02:16. > :02:18.The Conservatives say more students than ever

:02:19. > :02:28.from disadvantaged backgrounds are getting into university.

:02:29. > :02:31.People have until just before midnight tonight to register to vote

:02:32. > :02:35.More than two million people have joined the register in the month

:02:36. > :02:37.since Theresa May revealed there would be a snap election.

:02:38. > :02:40.In the 2015 general election, nearly half a million people left it

:02:41. > :02:50.Donald Trump will arrive in Israel this morning, on the second leg

:02:51. > :03:06.The US President will meet both Israeli

:03:07. > :03:08.and Palestinian leaders - with peace talks dominating the agenda.

:03:09. > :03:10.Mr Trump has called an Israeli-Palestinian peace

:03:11. > :03:13.agreement "the ultimate deal", but so far has been vague

:03:14. > :03:16.A police inquiry into an NHS-run mental health unit in Essex

:03:17. > :03:19.is investigating up to twenty deaths, this programme has learnt.

:03:20. > :03:22.It follows a fresh probe into the death of Matthew Leahy,

:03:23. > :03:23.who was found hanged at the Linden Centre

:03:24. > :03:29.His mother Melanie told the BBC there was no care plan in place

:03:30. > :03:31.for him when he was admitted to the centre.

:03:32. > :03:33.Essex Police say they are "conducting initial enquiries

:03:34. > :03:35.into a number of deaths" at the centre.

:03:36. > :03:37.Two men arrested by Humberside Police over the disappearance

:03:38. > :03:40.of a woman who went missing after dropping her daughter off

:03:41. > :03:42.at school have been charged with conspiring to cause grievous

:03:43. > :03:46.Majid Mustafa and Robert Lipinski will appear before Hull Magistrates'

:03:47. > :03:50.Renata Antczak was last seen walking near her home in Hull

:03:51. > :03:55.Police have searched several addresses in the city and have

:03:56. > :04:00.appealed for information about her disappearance.

:04:01. > :04:04.A diamond ring bought for ?10 at a car-boot sale 30 years ago

:04:05. > :04:09.is expected to fetch ?350,000 at auction.

:04:10. > :04:13.The owner believed the large white diamond was a piece of costume

:04:14. > :04:15.jewellery when she bought it in the 1980s.

:04:16. > :04:17.She wore the spectacular stone for decades without

:04:18. > :04:22.realising its true value - even doing the chores with it on.

:04:23. > :04:26.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:04:27. > :04:35.Some more messages from you about being treated at various mental

:04:36. > :04:40.health trustsment Laura on Facebook says, "I was treated appallingly at

:04:41. > :04:43.a hospital unit in London and I was later diagnosed with PDST. It

:04:44. > :04:47.devastates me to hear of others coping with a lack of care and the

:04:48. > :04:54.suicides that families have had to endure."

:04:55. > :05:02."I feel frustrated that nothing is being done." Lynn says, "My husband

:05:03. > :05:10.was in the Linden and whilst there a woman walked out and took her own

:05:11. > :05:16.life. My son went to the Linden Centre. They sent him away so many

:05:17. > :05:19.times. They begged him to help him. I feel they have let him down."

:05:20. > :05:24.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

:05:25. > :05:27.use the hashtag Victoria Live and If you text, you will be charged

:05:28. > :05:37.Arsene Wenger says his love for Arsenal cannot be questioned

:05:38. > :05:39.after they failed to finish in the top four for

:05:40. > :05:43.They finished fifth despite beating Everton 3-1 yesterday.

:05:44. > :05:45.Wenger once again refused to comment on his future after the match,

:05:46. > :05:47.although he did admit that the constant speculation

:05:48. > :05:54.We had a spell during the season where it was very difficult. My

:05:55. > :05:59.personal situation had certainly an influence at some stage on the group

:06:00. > :06:04.as well and we played in a very hostile environment through the

:06:05. > :06:08.second part of the season and that didn't help and overall I believe

:06:09. > :06:11.that the players came back in a very strong togetherness.

:06:12. > :06:13.Liverpool held on to fourth place, thanks to a 3-0 win over

:06:14. > :06:15.Middlesbrough, so they'll go into Champions League qualifying

:06:16. > :06:30.We fought for each yard the whole season. I'm really happy about this.

:06:31. > :06:36.I thought that's a sign. We should have given all our supporters a

:06:37. > :06:40.round and what a wonderful day for us.

:06:41. > :06:42.A lot of discussion around this this morning.

:06:43. > :06:44.it was always going to be an emotional farewell

:06:45. > :06:46.for John Terry yesterday - his final game for Chelsea -

:06:47. > :06:48.but in reality it all became rather theatrical.

:06:49. > :06:52.The game was halted in the 26th minute -

:06:53. > :06:54.Terry's shirt number in case you were wondering -

:06:55. > :06:58.But as he left the pitch, he was given a guard of honour.

:06:59. > :07:00.Afterwards, he admitted, it was all his idea.

:07:01. > :07:05.Incredible for the players to do that. I've got the relationship with

:07:06. > :07:10.the manager to be able to kind of have them discussions anyway and to

:07:11. > :07:16.go out on 26th minute of my shirt number, to leave the way I'm

:07:17. > :07:19.leaving. If ever there was a case to be leaving, this is the way.

:07:20. > :07:22.Celtic are the first side in more than a century to go an entire

:07:23. > :07:25.season without losing a game in the Scottish top flight.

:07:26. > :07:28.They secured the title some seven weeks ago and they signed off

:07:29. > :07:30.with a 2-0 win over Hearts, before getting their hands

:07:31. > :07:34.Celtic are still in line to win the treble with the Scottish Cup

:07:35. > :07:38.Wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor has been named in the England squad for

:07:39. > :07:43.She rejoined the camp last month after taking a year-long break

:07:44. > :07:46.Heather Knight has been named as captain.

:07:47. > :07:51.England's first match is against India on 24th June.

:07:52. > :07:54.There's been a huge blow to the British and Irish Lions

:07:55. > :07:56.as they prepare to head out on their tour of New Zealand.

:07:57. > :08:01.Number eight Billy Vunipola will not be going.

:08:02. > :08:04.He has been managing a shoulder injury but it now

:08:05. > :08:07.Wasps and England back row James Haskell will

:08:08. > :08:15.I'll have more in the next half hour.

:08:16. > :08:24.This programme has been told that a police inquiry into deaths

:08:25. > :08:28.at a mental health trust could investigate up to 20 cases.

:08:29. > :08:34.It follows fresh investigations into the death of Matthew Leahy,

:08:35. > :08:36.who was found hanged at Linden Centre in 2012.

:08:37. > :08:39.His mother, Melanie Leahy, said her talks with Essex Police

:08:40. > :08:44.suggested the cases had taken place in the last 17 years.

:08:45. > :08:48.Our reporter Simon Cox has been investigating.

:08:49. > :08:51.We played you his full report earlier, here's a short extract.

:08:52. > :09:00.Matthew Leahy, a bright, sporty student.

:09:01. > :09:03.In his teens, he began smoking cannabis and having hallucinations.

:09:04. > :09:11.By 2012, his mental health had spiralled. Matthew was a patient

:09:12. > :09:13.at the Linden Centre, run by the North Essex

:09:14. > :09:28.A week after being admitted, the centre phoned his mum.

:09:29. > :09:32."Matthew's been found hanging, it doesn't look good."

:09:33. > :09:35.I couldn't breathe, I fell to the floor on my knees.

:09:36. > :09:38.Just 20 when he died, at his inquest the jury

:09:39. > :09:42.Each patient supposedly has a care plan, and it came to light that

:09:43. > :09:45.Matthew had no care plan, he had no key worker, no-one knew,

:09:46. > :09:47.for two days there wasn't even any observation sheets,

:09:48. > :09:58.The police report says, "Matthew was taken to a place of safety."

:09:59. > :10:06.It was the most unsafe place he could have been.

:10:07. > :10:09.I remember him texting me, "Mum, please let me come

:10:10. > :10:13.The inquest jury said Matthew had been subjected to a series

:10:14. > :10:14.of multiple failings and missed opportunities over

:10:15. > :10:18.After the inquest, the coroner suggested that the Trust told

:10:19. > :10:21.a public inquiry into Matthew's death, but they said it would be too

:10:22. > :10:26.expensive and it would take money away from frontline services.

:10:27. > :10:29.We've learned Essex Police have launched an investigation

:10:30. > :10:32.into deaths at the Linden Centre going back to the year 2000.

:10:33. > :10:36.Now, the police won't say exactly how many cases they're looking at,

:10:37. > :10:39.but one source has told us that it could be as many as 20

:10:40. > :10:47.The Trust said it was improving systems to ensure investigations

:10:48. > :10:50.are carried out rigorously and thoroughly, and that

:10:51. > :10:53.learning shared across the entire organisation.

:10:54. > :11:00.They are also undertaking a full ligature ordered,

:11:01. > :11:06.They are also undertaking a full ligature audit,

:11:07. > :11:09.removing items that could be used by patients to take their own lives.

:11:10. > :11:12.That's what Melanie Leahy's trying to ensure, by supporting other

:11:13. > :11:14.families going through the same trauma she faced.

:11:15. > :11:16.At the coroner's court, she's meeting another member

:11:17. > :11:19.of the club, Lisa Morris, whose son Ben hung himself

:11:20. > :11:28.I do believe Ben's death is one of the 20-odd

:11:29. > :11:35.that they are looking into, and that makes me angry as well.

:11:36. > :11:37.Since 2000, Ben's death, that's 17 years ago.

:11:38. > :11:48.at the Linden Centre restore trust for the grieving families,

:11:49. > :11:58.whose relatives died in the place they were supposed to be safe?

:11:59. > :12:03.Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust which was

:12:04. > :12:06.the North Essex Partnership NHS Trust at the time of the deaths told

:12:07. > :12:08.us, "The history of serious incidents of self-harm

:12:09. > :12:14.at the Linden Centre is a matter of great concern that the Trust has

:12:15. > :12:16.already recognised must be addressed and that it had set

:12:17. > :12:18.aside significant funding so it was ready to take prompt

:12:19. > :12:24.actions following the results of an audit of risks

:12:25. > :12:27.of patients using ligatures to take their own lives."

:12:28. > :12:33.Her mum Valerie took her own life in October 2015 while on day release

:12:34. > :12:35.from a different hospital run by what was then

:12:36. > :12:41.Deborah Coles is from the charity Inquest which contributed

:12:42. > :12:43.to a Care Quality Commission enquiry into hospital deaths

:12:44. > :12:47.And Sean Duggan is the Chief Executive Officer

:12:48. > :12:52.of the Mental Health Network which represents NHS Trusts.

:12:53. > :12:57.Tanya has joined us too. It is not her real name. She is a former nurse

:12:58. > :13:01.who worked at the Linden Centre. Tanya, thank you very much for

:13:02. > :13:06.getting in touch with us. Tell us your own experience. I just want to

:13:07. > :13:10.say firstly this doesn't relate to all psychiatric nurses across the

:13:11. > :13:16.area. We have a really, really hard job. My experience dates back to

:13:17. > :13:22.when the Linden Centre first opened and I worked there. I pointed out on

:13:23. > :13:27.various occasions that there are many flaws where people could

:13:28. > :13:34.self-harm. In fact, I now suffer from post traumatic distress after a

:13:35. > :13:38.violent incident after discovering someone who had died and I have not

:13:39. > :13:44.worked since and I have been ill myself. I had no support in the day

:13:45. > :13:53.we had a debriefing After the incident. A consultant said, "As

:13:54. > :13:55.long as we don't... INAUDIBLE

:13:56. > :13:59.Sorry, I didn't hear the last sentence. As long as we have no more

:14:00. > :14:07.than three deaths we have met our quota. As long as it had no more

:14:08. > :14:12.than three deaths a year? Yes. And I'm waiting to go to the doctor now.

:14:13. > :14:17.I have only come out of hospital myself recently again after trying

:14:18. > :14:21.to take my own life, but because I was in hospital, it reminded, the

:14:22. > :14:25.smells remachineded me of the Linden Centre that it wasn't doing me any

:14:26. > :14:28.favours in there. Tanya, thank you very much. Thank you for getting in

:14:29. > :14:35.touch. Not all nurse are bad though. No. No. No. Oh my gosh, absolutely.

:14:36. > :14:38.That goes without saying. Thank you very much, Tanya.

:14:39. > :14:40.Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust which was

:14:41. > :14:44.the North Essex Partnership NHS Trust at the time of the deaths told

:14:45. > :14:46.us, "The history of serious incidents of self-harm

:14:47. > :14:50.at the Linden Centre is a matter of great concern that the Trust has

:14:51. > :14:56.already recognised must be addressed."

:14:57. > :15:02.President Trump has landed in Israel and we may interrupt our

:15:03. > :15:09.conversation to show you live pictures.

:15:10. > :15:18.'S depression. It got worse in about 2013. -- tell us about your mother's

:15:19. > :15:25.depression. It had been ongoing and never diagnosed about exactly what

:15:26. > :15:29.it was. But it was a recurrent depressive disorder, definitely. And

:15:30. > :15:41.she did attempt suicide in 2013. She was a hospital until 2015, when she

:15:42. > :15:44.did commit suicide. On day release. And trust have investigated the

:15:45. > :15:49.circumstances. Have you had the outcome of that report yet? There

:15:50. > :15:53.was one serious incident report that was found to be inadequate, which

:15:54. > :16:01.cost us a lot of stress and went on for a long time. It was not really

:16:02. > :16:06.independent. That was investigated by Verita and was found to be not

:16:07. > :16:11.adequate for purpose. That impeded on the inquest because we had no

:16:12. > :16:14.incident reports to take to the inquest, so there were problems

:16:15. > :16:18.there. They were just going to leave it at that and say they had learnt

:16:19. > :16:21.lessons but we insisted they redo the inquest, the serious incident

:16:22. > :16:25.report, to make sure it was done properly, to make sure they could

:16:26. > :16:31.actually do it. We are still waiting and we have just actually been put

:16:32. > :16:34.back again on it, so we wrote a big complaint, which now hopefully we

:16:35. > :16:43.will meet someone higher up in the trusts to see why they cannot even

:16:44. > :16:46.do a serious incident report. And Deborah, how shocking is it that

:16:47. > :16:51.this number of people have been able to take their own life at a

:16:52. > :16:55.particular centre run by one mental health trust? I think the family

:16:56. > :17:00.summed it up. You expect to go into a mental health setting and be safe.

:17:01. > :17:03.For repeated deaths to happen under similar circumstances, to me that

:17:04. > :17:09.highlights the fundamental problems with the way in which these deaths

:17:10. > :17:14.are investigated. The fact that they are not independently investigated,

:17:15. > :17:16.that families are very often not involved, but importantly it shows a

:17:17. > :17:21.shocking lack of learning and accountability, and a failure of

:17:22. > :17:26.governance and leadership. And that, I think, also begs questions about

:17:27. > :17:30.the regulator, the Care Quality Commission. Bipin for various

:17:31. > :17:38.recommendations for this particular trust to improve. They did, but you

:17:39. > :17:42.have to monitor and ensure that those recommendations have been

:17:43. > :17:46.commented. I think that is the biggest frustration and distress for

:17:47. > :17:51.the families, to know that they have suffered a death and they hoped

:17:52. > :17:55.action would be taken to prevent similar deaths, only to find out

:17:56. > :17:59.that another person has died in almost identical circumstances.

:18:00. > :18:05.There are questions across the NHS, and for the CQC, as to how the

:18:06. > :18:14.situation at this hospital was able to happen. Sean Dodd, what is the

:18:15. > :18:19.situation with staffing at these mental health units? They have a lot

:18:20. > :18:22.of staff, and many hospitals have the required amount of nurses and

:18:23. > :18:30.hospital doctors. But in other parts, they're finding it difficult

:18:31. > :18:34.to recruit. Staffing is a difficult issue for many services. And some

:18:35. > :18:36.are understaffed. Some are using more agencies and we would like in

:18:37. > :18:41.the balance between that is important. If you have permanent

:18:42. > :18:45.staff, but now the patients, that is something we would strive for, but I

:18:46. > :18:48.would like to say little bit about the mental health context because I

:18:49. > :18:52.think it is important to set the scene on how we resolve things

:18:53. > :18:55.moving forward. It has been known for decades that mental health has

:18:56. > :19:03.been an underinvested part of the health in total. And that successive

:19:04. > :19:06.governments, three years ago there was an independent task force around

:19:07. > :19:12.mental health, that was supposed to look at issues like this, preventing

:19:13. > :19:17.suicide, better health care for children, and that came up with a

:19:18. > :19:21.five-year plan. We are to make years into that and there has been some

:19:22. > :19:26.difficulty in getting the money into NHS trusts. But it is now starting

:19:27. > :19:29.to come through. For the next government, it is absolutely

:19:30. > :19:32.essential that that is committed to. And the investment needs to go

:19:33. > :19:36.through because it is linked directly with workforce. There is a

:19:37. > :19:40.lack of money, of course, which makes it more difficult to get the

:19:41. > :19:44.workforce right. This is not going to be a reassurance to Sofia and I

:19:45. > :19:48.am sorry about that but that is the context of mental health. Let me

:19:49. > :19:52.read an e-mail from Cassie. She says I spent a brief amount of time in

:19:53. > :19:57.the Linden Centre four years ago and they saved my life. I cannot fault

:19:58. > :20:01.the environment. I feel sad for the families who have lost loved ones,

:20:02. > :20:05.and ogle the centre should be a safe place, it will not stop someone

:20:06. > :20:10.determined to end their life. They will do anything they can. -- and

:20:11. > :20:16.although the centre. Sandra says, my son was admitted to the Linden

:20:17. > :20:19.Centre on many occasions over the last ten years. My son was left

:20:20. > :20:23.unattended and the staff were disengaged. He was at high risk. The

:20:24. > :20:28.patients also had to sleep on the floor under were not enough beds.

:20:29. > :20:33.Aaron us as well. Good morning. You are at the Linden Centre three

:20:34. > :20:40.times. Tell us about the care that you received. I cannot praise them

:20:41. > :20:47.enough. It is an extremely difficult job for them to do. Because when you

:20:48. > :20:52.are hell-bent on trying to commit suicide, nothing will stop you. It

:20:53. > :21:00.is really, really horrible. It is not a nice place to be, and the

:21:01. > :21:04.staff themselves were lovely. But like I say, you cannot get into the

:21:05. > :21:10.brain of the person who is trying to do it to just give them instructions

:21:11. > :21:15.to stop. It took me out of normal life. And it does calm me down a

:21:16. > :21:19.lot, but you cannot live there forever. Sure, but do you feel that

:21:20. > :21:24.if it was not for the way you were cared for at the Linden Centre, you

:21:25. > :21:31.perhaps would not be here now? That's right. I would say that

:21:32. > :21:38.without their help I most probably would not be here. Thank you very

:21:39. > :21:41.much for getting in touch. I have one more message here from Alice.

:21:42. > :21:46.Depression and suicidal behaviour are a far bigger issue than society

:21:47. > :21:49.would like to admit. The blame falls on caregivers and failing

:21:50. > :21:52.institutions with a real conversation is being ignored.

:21:53. > :21:56.Treatments are ineffective and often the side effects outweigh the

:21:57. > :21:59.benefits. Psychological intervention is not accessible enough and is not

:22:00. > :22:04.offered and young enough ages. We need to take a long, hard look at

:22:05. > :22:07.how we treat this type of illness because the numbers keep rising and

:22:08. > :22:11.resources are becoming more scarce. Becky very much, all of you. I'm

:22:12. > :22:16.sorry, did you want to say something? I would like to say that

:22:17. > :22:21.there is this myth that people cannot be stopped from committing

:22:22. > :22:25.suicide. That is the problem. Years ago, there used to be a silence that

:22:26. > :22:31.were places of safety, and they would have long-term care. Nowadays,

:22:32. > :22:35.there is no long-term care. And also, people are left. My mother was

:22:36. > :22:41.a voluntary patient and although there have been things with law, and

:22:42. > :22:45.nobody is protecting the voluntary patient. They can come and go with

:22:46. > :22:48.impunity, which is what happened with my mother. Although some of the

:22:49. > :22:52.staff are brilliant and some lives are saved, there is definitely more

:22:53. > :22:56.that can be done. And in history, we look back and say, what was going

:22:57. > :23:02.on, why were so many people dying he did not have to die in this time.

:23:03. > :23:05.Thank you all of you for coming on the programme.

:23:06. > :23:08.The deadline to register to vote closes at midnight tonight -

:23:09. > :23:10.with fresh warnings that young people won't be properly represented

:23:11. > :23:15.when the UK goes to the polls - because not enough have either

:23:16. > :23:17.register or say they're even going to vote.

:23:18. > :23:25.Radio 1 Newsbeat's politics editor Jonathan Blake is here.

:23:26. > :23:31.Actually... In your opinion, how do you think Brexit will affect you and

:23:32. > :23:35.other young people in the next ten years? There is plenty of passion

:23:36. > :23:38.for politics here in Cardiff. In exchange for free coffee, these

:23:39. > :23:44.young voters are talking about the issues most important to them.

:23:45. > :23:46.Democracy cafe events have been held around the UK as a way of

:23:47. > :23:51.encouraging younger people to register to vote. I think the main

:23:52. > :23:54.reason young people do not vote is because they feel as though they do

:23:55. > :23:57.not know enough or they feel as though they have not had enough life

:23:58. > :24:02.experience to merit being able to vote. We are easy to leave out. We

:24:03. > :24:07.are easy to let down because we do not kick up a fuss. We should be let

:24:08. > :24:12.down if we are not on the register because let's be honest, why would

:24:13. > :24:17.they allow us to have those if we do not register? A lot of people in

:24:18. > :24:20.Brexit, they surround themselves with group of friends who were all

:24:21. > :24:27.remainders or were all going to leave. Everybody was surprised by

:24:28. > :24:31.the result. We are keeping in our own safe spaces, and we are not

:24:32. > :24:36.challenging each other. But for a lot of young people politics is

:24:37. > :24:40.still a no-go zone. This drum and bass group, currently working on a

:24:41. > :24:44.new album, are taking time out to encourage younger people to register

:24:45. > :24:47.to vote, hoping that music will help them get the message. When I was

:24:48. > :24:50.young I did not feel like we could do much. I did not feel like I had

:24:51. > :24:55.much control to change anything because so many people are voting,

:24:56. > :25:02.and I think it is important for me to educate myself, and work out what

:25:03. > :25:07.options I had. That took a while and I did not really thought until I was

:25:08. > :25:11.26. I never voted myself and this is the first time I will be voting. I

:25:12. > :25:15.think if we can show our fans, the people that follow us, that it is

:25:16. > :25:21.actually, you can make a difference. I was really inspired and I think it

:25:22. > :25:25.is important to at least look at what is out there. Politics is so

:25:26. > :25:29.important, it seems like such a horrible word, but what it means is

:25:30. > :25:34.our everyday lives, it is the way our lives are going to be governed,

:25:35. > :25:42.the way we're to live. So to vote, to use your vote, to register to

:25:43. > :25:46.vote is everyday life. Rage is key to rap. You have to understand that.

:25:47. > :25:52.You have that fire in your belly.. Brown often talks politics on stage

:25:53. > :25:58.and tries in his music to reflect real life. -- Doc Brown. He is

:25:59. > :26:01.trying to use his voice to encourage people to vote. It is something

:26:02. > :26:07.close to my heart and I feel like kids and people in their late teens

:26:08. > :26:11.and early 20s, these are the freshest voices in the country.

:26:12. > :26:18.These are people that might actually have some good ideas on where we go

:26:19. > :26:22.next. Regardless of what government it is, Labour, Conservative, Ukip,

:26:23. > :26:25.whoever runs the country, we are inevitably ruled by people in the

:26:26. > :26:30.latter stages of their life. No disrespect to people of that age,

:26:31. > :26:37.but they do things in a certain way. And it would be quite interesting to

:26:38. > :26:40.see what people under 25 want to say and want to do, and how they view

:26:41. > :26:49.our country, how they view our future, because they are the future.

:26:50. > :26:52.This site, its job is to give you an overview of what the options are in

:26:53. > :26:59.the election. Technology is playing a part in making some people -- up

:27:00. > :27:02.in some people make up their mind. This site is one of many helping

:27:03. > :27:06.voters to cut through the noise and find out how effective they are

:27:07. > :27:12.thought to be. In this instance a nurse and has entered their vote and

:27:13. > :27:17.they want to go for a hard Brexit. This is compiling a number of pieces

:27:18. > :27:21.of information, matching your view, looking at the chances of success

:27:22. > :27:25.and weighing up what could or could not happen, and giving you a total

:27:26. > :27:28.score. If you want to cast a vote on June eight, there is a good chance

:27:29. > :27:31.that you would achieve what it is you wanted to do. The parties

:27:32. > :27:34.epitope manifestos telling us what they will do in government and

:27:35. > :27:38.people can read those, but it seems like you have found a gap, which is

:27:39. > :27:44.cutting through all that information, those promises, and

:27:45. > :27:51.people need that and want it, it seems. This is commonly known as

:27:52. > :27:55.voter advice applications or VAAs, but they are not new. They have been

:27:56. > :27:59.around since the 1980s but we think they have come into the fourth front

:28:00. > :28:02.because we can do this faster, or previously we would have needed a

:28:03. > :28:07.massive team of researchers to do this. -- they have come into the

:28:08. > :28:11.forefront. This election is, as a shock and many are hoping that the

:28:12. > :28:18.number of voters taking part will also be a surprise. How many adults

:28:19. > :28:25.bother to vote? Not many. In the last election in 2015, we concede

:28:26. > :28:30.that among 18-24 year olds, 43% of people turned out to vote. If you

:28:31. > :28:35.compare that with pensioners, 78% over-65s. The overall turnout, 66%.

:28:36. > :28:38.Young people voting with below the average numbers. In terms of those

:28:39. > :28:42.registering, which will give us an indication of how many might vote

:28:43. > :28:48.this time around, since the election was called, 2 million people in

:28:49. > :28:52.total, roughly, have registered to vote and around 600,000 under 25 is.

:28:53. > :28:57.We would expect a larger proportion of those registered to be younger

:28:58. > :29:01.because they have turned 18, perhaps they have moved away to university

:29:02. > :29:04.or back home. But the Electoral Commission estimates that there are

:29:05. > :29:09.7 million people in total who are not registered so that deadline is

:29:10. > :29:12.coming tonight. There may well be a last-minute rush. 7 million people

:29:13. > :29:16.will not register by midnight. They might struggle. We might see

:29:17. > :29:19.problems with the website to that happens. But we have seen a spiked

:29:20. > :29:23.because they by Dave the government has been updating the figures online

:29:24. > :29:26.for the number of people registering. If we look at this

:29:27. > :29:31.snapshot from yesterday, we can see a big spike. 90,000 people under 25

:29:32. > :29:35.registering to vote yesterday alone. So as the midnight deadline

:29:36. > :29:39.approaches, we will probably see that rising higher. The first past

:29:40. > :29:43.the post system is one reason why people often say, there is no point

:29:44. > :29:47.because Marvel does not count. Explain what the first past the post

:29:48. > :29:55.system is and why it affects voter numbers. The system is what we have

:29:56. > :29:59.in this country, or by one party has to get past more than half the seats

:30:00. > :30:03.of Parliament to form a government. As soon as they have done that, they

:30:04. > :30:06.are in charge. What we hear from you people talking about politics is

:30:07. > :30:10.just that. I'm not going to vote because it will make no difference.

:30:11. > :30:13.If you live in an area which is a safe Conservative seat or a safe

:30:14. > :30:17.Labour seat, you might think that you like what the greens or Ukip as

:30:18. > :30:20.to say it one of the smaller parties, and your vote may not make

:30:21. > :30:24.a difference because it might make a dent in the majority but it will not

:30:25. > :30:29.be reflected nationally. Obviously arguments for the first past the

:30:30. > :30:33.post system say that it helps us with directorate hesitation in each

:30:34. > :30:37.constituency across the UK. That is one thing that comes up time and

:30:38. > :30:41.time again. If we look at the split from the last general election in

:30:42. > :30:46.2015, you can see why the parties argue differently on this because in

:30:47. > :30:51.terms of Conservative support, it is by far and away from older voters

:30:52. > :30:56.over 65. Almost half. And it has almost flipped between younger

:30:57. > :31:02.voters under 25, almost half to four Labour. And a good deal more support

:31:03. > :31:03.for the smaller parties. How younger people being encouraged to register

:31:04. > :31:10.to vote this time? There is less time it get younger

:31:11. > :31:16.people engage and get them to register to vote. We have seen

:31:17. > :31:21.several campaigns online, takeover of Twitter and Facebook and

:31:22. > :31:25.Instagram if you have tried to post a selfie you might have noticed a

:31:26. > :31:30.special filter coming in encouraging you to register to vote and ways

:31:31. > :31:32.online of trying to engage young people through the issues rather

:31:33. > :31:36.than the parties because that's the way than more than likely they will

:31:37. > :31:46.get encouraged to be involved in politics and to actually be

:31:47. > :31:53.motivated to vote. And you're taking part in the Newsbeat vote? Yes, we

:31:54. > :31:58.will be in Manchester on 6th June with an audience of 120 young

:31:59. > :32:01.people, representatives from the seven major parties and we will be

:32:02. > :32:05.live on the BBC One after the news that night.

:32:06. > :32:10.President Trump has arrived in Israel. He is due to meet Israeli

:32:11. > :32:13.and Palestinian leaders and visit a until of holy sites. Let's watch

:32:14. > :32:18.some of it with our correspondent who is there for BBC World.

:32:19. > :32:24.Israelis are going to mark Jerusalem Day. That's the day when they

:32:25. > :32:28.celebrate the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem as they

:32:29. > :32:32.see it when it was captured in the 1967 Middle East war. This year,

:32:33. > :32:36.because it is the 50th anniversary, Mr Trump will see from his hotel in

:32:37. > :32:39.Jerusalem that there are celebrations taking place with a

:32:40. > :32:43.nightly light show for example. So it will be hard for him to miss that

:32:44. > :32:46.and hard for him to miss the significance of that, but the

:32:47. > :32:50.indications are from officials at the moment on the American side that

:32:51. > :32:58.there will not be the embassy move at this time. We have been closely

:32:59. > :33:03.following, of course... We have got the live pictures. We are watching

:33:04. > :33:07.closely. I wonder if we can keep you with us for a moment what the

:33:08. > :33:12.reaction was in Israel to President Trump's visit to Saudi, particularly

:33:13. > :33:20.the comments he made, the criticism that he made of Iran yesterday?

:33:21. > :33:26.Well, of course, Israel sees Iran as being it's enemy. It is extremely

:33:27. > :33:30.worried about its nuclear programme although there was concern among

:33:31. > :33:34.Israeli politicians about the arms deals that President Trump was

:33:35. > :33:39.signing with Saudi Arabia, at the same time, there was some acceptance

:33:40. > :33:42.that this could be something that's important to Israel as well. I think

:33:43. > :33:47.that's something that President Trump will be trying to stress on

:33:48. > :33:54.this trip, but there are common security concerns between the Sunni

:33:55. > :34:00.Arab countries in the Gulf and also between Israel. He's trying to

:34:01. > :34:03.already achieve some kind of thawing in the diplomatic freeze that there

:34:04. > :34:08.has been between them. They have never recognised the Arab countries

:34:09. > :34:13.apart from Jordan and Egypt, the existence of Israel as a state. So,

:34:14. > :34:16.if he can achieve something in terms of finding common ground between

:34:17. > :34:21.them that will be very important. Already, there are some suggestions

:34:22. > :34:26.that security, intelligence is shared when it comes to Iran for

:34:27. > :34:32.example. That's something President Trump is really going to be building

:34:33. > :34:35.on as he continues the political meetings. I should mention too that

:34:36. > :34:39.the Palestinian president was among those leaders who were in Riyadh.

:34:40. > :34:43.That's been cited as another reason why his trip to Bethlehem and to the

:34:44. > :34:51.West Bank will just be a very short one. Of course, Mahmoud Abbas was at

:34:52. > :34:55.the White House earlier this mon. So lots has been going on behind the

:34:56. > :34:59.scenes in advance of this visit to ease things now and we should get a

:35:00. > :35:03.much clearer idea of the shape of US policy towards this part of the

:35:04. > :35:07.Middle East. Absolutely, we're just seeing the

:35:08. > :35:12.red carpet and we can see the Prime Minister and his wife Sarah and the

:35:13. > :35:19.president there too waiting for Mr Trump. But Mr Trump has a large team

:35:20. > :35:23.with him including his incredibly influential son-in-law. What kind of

:35:24. > :35:30.views does he have on the Middle East Peace Process and how could

:35:31. > :35:38.they influence his father-in-law? Well, his son-in-law is senior

:35:39. > :35:54.advisor. He is here with his wife Ivanka Trump. His family is said to

:35:55. > :36:03.have had close relations with the family. His family as well as the

:36:04. > :36:08.family of the new US ambassador to Israel appointed by Mr Trump, his

:36:09. > :36:12.former lawyer, well, they have close associations actually with solicitor

:36:13. > :36:17.of the settlements. In particular, one which is close to ra mullah in

:36:18. > :36:22.the West Bank. So that caused a lot of concern also about what this new

:36:23. > :36:27.administration's policy could be when it comes to settlements and

:36:28. > :36:31.early on, not long after Mr Trump took office we saw thousands of

:36:32. > :36:39.homes being announced in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by the

:36:40. > :36:45.Israelis. That continued until we had that visit of Netanyahu at the

:36:46. > :36:50.White House. That's when Mr Trump said he wanted Mr Netanyahu to hold

:36:51. > :37:01.back a little as he tried to revive peace efforts. It is interesting to

:37:02. > :37:05.see the involvement and one of Mr Trump's aides. He has been here in

:37:06. > :37:08.advance of the visit trying to set-up the political meetings that

:37:09. > :37:11.will take place and go through many of the details. He has been in the

:37:12. > :37:17.region. It was at the Arab summit when I was there a few weeks ago in

:37:18. > :37:20.Jordan at the Dead Sea, having private meetings with the different

:37:21. > :37:26.Arab leaders. So this all gives you a sense of how much this new

:37:27. > :37:30.administration is prioritising this long-standing Middle East conflict

:37:31. > :37:32.as something that it wants to address, even though, of course,

:37:33. > :37:38.there are many other problems in this region that the US has to

:37:39. > :37:40.address as well and of course, despite President Trump's

:37:41. > :37:52.considerable domestic difficulties too. It is a long-standing

:37:53. > :37:58.commitment by the US towards Israel support.

:37:59. > :38:08.Can you tell our viewers about that relationship, about just how much

:38:09. > :38:12.the US supports Israel militarily. There is huge support despite the

:38:13. > :38:16.strange relations between Mr Netanyahu and the previous

:38:17. > :38:22.president, Barack Obama, it was announced during his time in office,

:38:23. > :38:26.a deal that gives $38 billion to Israel over the course of a decade

:38:27. > :38:29.in terms of military aid. So that military...

:38:30. > :38:32.STUDIO: We're going to leave that. Clearly, we were waiting for

:38:33. > :38:36.President Trump to walk down the steps on to the red carpet, but

:38:37. > :38:43.we're leaving that because the Green Party are launching their manifesto

:38:44. > :38:51.this morning. Here is the co-leader. A future that we can all be proud

:38:52. > :38:56.of. Confident because we're creating a resilient and diverse and people

:38:57. > :39:03.powered economy that allows us to live larger lives and cope with the

:39:04. > :39:08.challenges ahead. Caring because we're redefining the Welfare State.

:39:09. > :39:15.Striving to end inequality and committed to redistricting both

:39:16. > :39:21.wealth and power. We have the fifth largest economy in the world. In

:39:22. > :39:26.such a country no renter should have to live in damp, cold or neglected

:39:27. > :39:32.accommodation. No parent should have to compete with other parents to

:39:33. > :39:37.find their child a decent school. No one should have to wait ten hours in

:39:38. > :39:43.an emergency ward before getting the care and attention they need. When I

:39:44. > :39:47.go to my children's school I walk in to the foyer and I'm presented with

:39:48. > :39:52.a huge board right in the middle of the school. Everyone sees it when

:39:53. > :39:58.they come in and on that board are three circles. In those circles is

:39:59. > :40:01.every picture of every child in the school with their name underneath

:40:02. > :40:05.and those children that have made three levels of progress are there

:40:06. > :40:09.in the centre, that's where two of my children are. Those children that

:40:10. > :40:15.have made no progress are pictured on the outside of those circles.

:40:16. > :40:19.Stigmatised for everyone to see. None of my children want that. None

:40:20. > :40:23.of the teachers in their heart of hearts want that. They want an

:40:24. > :40:30.education system that works for everyone. I go to a hospital, as I

:40:31. > :40:35.did last year, and I go with my son as a regular user, I don't want to

:40:36. > :40:38.have to have my hospital appointment cancelled three times, my operation

:40:39. > :40:44.cancelled three times for my son. It's not fair on him. It's not fair

:40:45. > :40:49.on the others. When I go to a basic hospital appointment I don't want to

:40:50. > :40:55.want to wait two hours only for that appointment to be cancelled. We can

:40:56. > :41:00.have a different future. One where we all have the security and the

:41:01. > :41:03.choices we deserve. For a basic income which allows us to fulfil our

:41:04. > :41:09.potential and yes, let's say it, our dreams. No one should tell you that

:41:10. > :41:13.your voice doesn't matter. But when it comes to the biggest decision

:41:14. > :41:19.this country has faced in generations, you will not get a say

:41:20. > :41:23.on whether having seen what life outside the EU will look like we

:41:24. > :41:30.should choose that future or choose to remain. The media, with respect,

:41:31. > :41:35.and the old parties, will tell you that there are only two options on

:41:36. > :41:43.the ballot paper at they election. It's not true. That is a disservice

:41:44. > :41:47.to our democracy. If you believe in a welcoming Britain, a country of

:41:48. > :41:53.compassion, a fair economy where those with the most contribute more,

:41:54. > :41:58.the protection of our countryside, a nation confident enough to build

:41:59. > :42:04.bridges, not walls, then you have a choice. If you believe things can

:42:05. > :42:09.change for the better and that the next generation must be defined by

:42:10. > :42:14.fairness, not foodbanks, then we will give you that choice. If you

:42:15. > :42:19.believe that our future will be defined not by the size of our

:42:20. > :42:23.nuclear arsenal, but by harnessing the enormous potential of the people

:42:24. > :42:30.who live right here in this country, then join us and stand up for what

:42:31. > :42:35.really matters. And on 8th June, choose a positive future and vote

:42:36. > :42:43.Green for a confident and caring Britain.

:42:44. > :42:49.Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan. I'm very, very

:42:50. > :42:58.proud to introduce Caroline Lucas. She's defending to be re-elected as

:42:59. > :43:02.MP for Brighton Pavilion for the second time and she just gets more

:43:03. > :43:04.and more popular as far as I can tell. Thank you very much, Sian.

:43:05. > :43:10.Thank you to everyone for being here. I'm delighted to be with

:43:11. > :43:24.Jonathan and launching this wonderful Green Guarantee and first

:43:25. > :43:31.of all I want to thank Yra. They have been getting behind bold,

:43:32. > :43:37.creative new ideas and shaping the future through brave leadership and

:43:38. > :43:42.by being here today we're choosing a future of opportunities for pioneers

:43:43. > :43:47.and inowe vai fors like them. -- innovators. We are here choosing a

:43:48. > :43:50.new type of economy that meets people's needs and makes sure we

:43:51. > :43:55.protect the environment. A confident and caring Britain that reaches for

:43:56. > :44:02.a bigger future that we can be proud of. The Green Guarantee is about

:44:03. > :44:09.hope and we need hope now like never before. I can't remember a time in

:44:10. > :44:15.my own lifetime where the future has felt more uncertain with Brexit,

:44:16. > :44:19.with accelerating climate change, with an NHS in crisis. We face

:44:20. > :44:26.challenges that we can't possibly pretend to fix in the next 100 days

:44:27. > :44:30.or the next 1,000. Threats to our economic future, threats to our

:44:31. > :44:35.security, threats to our planet. But ours is a message of hope because we

:44:36. > :44:41.believe that if we stand together for what matters, we can change the

:44:42. > :44:45.course of historiment we can meet these enormous challenges. So while

:44:46. > :44:49.other parties ignore the environment, the Greens will protect

:44:50. > :44:53.it. We will continue to set the agenda with bold policies to

:44:54. > :44:57.transform people's lives, with things like a pilot for a basic

:44:58. > :45:01.income scheme and a shorter working weekment we'll protect the NHS.

:45:02. > :45:05.We'll properly fund it, yes, but crucially, we'll also take the

:45:06. > :45:13.private sector out of it. We'll repeal the Health and Social Care

:45:14. > :45:16.Act and replace it with the NHS Eninstatement Act, that's a Bill I

:45:17. > :45:19.have had the pleasure of promoting to Parliament a couple of times.

:45:20. > :45:24.We'll proudly stand up for free movement and we'll give the British

:45:25. > :45:28.people an explicit option to remain part of the EU as part of a

:45:29. > :45:32.ratification referendum on the Brexit deal. Let

:45:33. > :45:39.say a few more words about Brexit, this huge challenge that is facing

:45:40. > :45:43.us. And in our view, this huge threat facing us in terms of the

:45:44. > :45:48.extreme Brexit which Theresa May is pressuring. Let me make this plane,

:45:49. > :45:53.she has no mandate for the type of Brexit Shias pursue in, out of the

:45:54. > :45:56.customs union, leaving key environmental protections behind,

:45:57. > :46:00.leaving the free movement. That was not on the ballot paper. Yes, there

:46:01. > :46:04.was a vote to leave but it is not clear what that leave looks like in

:46:05. > :46:08.practice, which is why we say it is right for the British public to have

:46:09. > :46:10.a vote to leave but it is not clear what that leave looks like in

:46:11. > :46:13.practice, which is why we say it is right for the British public to have

:46:14. > :46:16.the final say on the deal, not just MPs, as Theresa May would have it.

:46:17. > :46:19.It was the British people that started this process and we should

:46:20. > :46:22.be able to look at the small print of the final deal, and if we like

:46:23. > :46:25.it, fine. But if they do not, then they should have, we should have the

:46:26. > :46:29.right to remain inside the EU. And that is what the Green Party is

:46:30. > :46:32.offering. We are also saying to EU nationals who have made their lives

:46:33. > :46:37.here in good faith, that of course your future here should be

:46:38. > :46:41.guaranteed immediately and now, not using them cynically as bargaining

:46:42. > :46:46.chips, as Theresa May is doing. And we are the one party that is proud

:46:47. > :46:50.to stand up for the wonderful gift that is free movement. It is an

:46:51. > :46:54.extraordinary and precious gift to be able to work on travel and live

:46:55. > :46:59.and learn and love in 27 other member states. I want my kids to

:47:00. > :47:03.benefit from that and I want everyone's kids to benefit from

:47:04. > :47:06.that. I want to broaden that out so everyone can benefit. And I feel

:47:07. > :47:10.that in particular it is young people who have been betrayed by

:47:11. > :47:15.this Brexit vote because we know the majority of young people want to

:47:16. > :47:19.stay in side the EU. And in our guarantee today we are talking

:47:20. > :47:23.particularly to young people. We're making a pitch to them saying not

:47:24. > :47:27.just that we think they have been betrayed by the decision on this

:47:28. > :47:31.extreme Brexit, but also they are being burdened by debt. That is why

:47:32. > :47:35.we would scrap tuition fees and we are delighted Labour have caught up

:47:36. > :47:41.with us on that one. It is also why we want to see a genuinely

:47:42. > :47:45.affordable housing, including rent caps and longer tenancies. We are

:47:46. > :47:48.setting up our living rent commission to figure out what would

:47:49. > :47:51.be a reasonable rent, given the cost of living in different areas, rather

:47:52. > :47:55.than making it clear that young people will never be able to save up

:47:56. > :47:59.enough for any kind of deposit because they're possibly paying rent

:48:00. > :48:03.over the odds. But also one of the biggest ways we are letting down

:48:04. > :48:08.young people is on the environment. Last year was the hottest year on

:48:09. > :48:13.record. The 2016 state of nature report said that 60% of species in

:48:14. > :48:17.the UK are in long-term decline and 15% and risk of disappearing from

:48:18. > :48:22.our assurers altogether. We launched an environment manifesto

:48:23. > :48:25.specifically last month and in that we pledged a new environment

:48:26. > :48:29.protection act which would safeguard and enhance the environment upon

:48:30. > :48:36.which we depend for literally everything. It sets out our approach

:48:37. > :48:41.to keep threats like air pollution in check. It is a public health

:48:42. > :48:46.emergency links to the premature deaths of 40,000 in this country and

:48:47. > :48:51.yet it hardly even made it into the Tory manifesto. It sets out the kind

:48:52. > :48:54.of policies we have around investment in renewables, and energy

:48:55. > :48:57.efficiency, keeping fossil fuels in the ground. But crucially it sets

:48:58. > :49:02.out how we would protect that body of EU law that currently protects

:49:03. > :49:04.the environment and which we need to have safeguarded and enhanced in a

:49:05. > :49:10.post-Brexit world. We are talking about making sure that that

:49:11. > :49:14.legislation is not from the EU to the UK statute books but that it is

:49:15. > :49:18.properly enforceable. We need the legal architecture there to make

:49:19. > :49:21.sure that in the absence of a European Commission or the European

:49:22. > :49:28.court of justice, we can enforce that law. So Brexit, the

:49:29. > :49:35.environment, the NHS in crisis, we face huge challenges but I am proud

:49:36. > :49:38.that the Green Party is at least beginning to ask those questions and

:49:39. > :49:42.get some of the answers as well. We want to have a debate with you about

:49:43. > :49:45.the kind of answers to these questions that we face today. This

:49:46. > :49:51.election is about what kind of future we want for our children. It

:49:52. > :49:54.is about protecting our values of openness and compassion, of

:49:55. > :49:59.cooperation. It is about our promise that a competent and caring future

:50:00. > :50:04.is possible, if we work together, if we do politics differently, and if

:50:05. > :50:08.we dare to be more ambitious. So the guarantee says that we are ready and

:50:09. > :50:18.we hope you will join us by putting green on June the 8th. Applause.

:50:19. > :50:20.Caroline Lucas will be taking part in a car share later in this

:50:21. > :50:23.programme this week. Drake toppled Adele's record

:50:24. > :50:27.for the most prizes in a single night at the Billboard Music Awards

:50:28. > :50:37.with a total of 13 awards. There is a fantastic photograph of

:50:38. > :50:42.him with all of the awards and it looks like he has Photoshopped them,

:50:43. > :50:46.that is how ridiculous this is. A few years ago, Adele got 12 but now

:50:47. > :50:51.he walks away with 22 nominations, going into this, and he seemed very

:50:52. > :50:58.humbled, as well. We have a clip of him coming up. His head down, he

:50:59. > :51:05.cannot believe it. And then Nicky Minaya, there was a bit of beef

:51:06. > :51:12.between them in the past, -- template. He name checked from the

:51:13. > :51:18.stage. Not many winners apart from them. Beyonce won a few, the female

:51:19. > :51:25.categories, and 21 Pilots in the rock categories. And to be met, she

:51:26. > :51:31.had her 71st birthday on Saturday, and her court was, I was 71

:51:32. > :51:39.yesterday and I can do a five-minute plank, just saying. How brilliant is

:51:40. > :51:43.that! Do we have a clip of Drake? I have my whole family appear, look at

:51:44. > :51:47.my dad looking sharp. I have got the man that is responsible for me being

:51:48. > :51:53.here. I have a lot of my life up here, too. And I just want to say

:51:54. > :52:04.the mottled tight, Adele, because when the new thing drops, you will

:52:05. > :52:12.come back to take your record back. Not a good night for a British

:52:13. > :52:15.artists. Yes, you tend to see year-on-year that one artist

:52:16. > :52:20.dominates. But as far as the big prizes, all Americans, although Ed

:52:21. > :52:24.Sheeran performed. Internal documents used by Facebook, who

:52:25. > :52:29.trained staff to moderate internal content appears to show that the

:52:30. > :52:34.engine giant is in some places tolerant of violent threats, forms

:52:35. > :52:40.of bullying and live videos of self harm. The information matters

:52:41. > :52:43.because a quarter of the world's population uses Facebook, which

:52:44. > :52:48.seems astonishing. Let's speak to Rory Cellan-Jones. And doctor Rachel

:52:49. > :52:58.O'Connell, an internet safety expert. And a former child safety

:52:59. > :53:04.operator for social networking site, Bebo. Rory, dockers through what has

:53:05. > :53:08.been leaked on what we have learned from these documents. Well, what has

:53:09. > :53:13.been leaked is the internal training documents that are given to these

:53:14. > :53:21.moderators. They are often freelancers, outsourced to different

:53:22. > :53:27.companies, and they are given this course. What is clear is the line

:53:28. > :53:30.that they have to tread between free speech and content which is going to

:53:31. > :53:36.be incredibly offensive to a lot of people. One interesting thing, if

:53:37. > :53:43.you say that someone should Trump, that would be deleted. If it is

:53:44. > :53:46.aimed as a head of state, it is seen as illegal. If you say you want to

:53:47. > :53:54.kill your boyfriend, believed that up because you do not say that --

:53:55. > :54:00.because that does not appear credible. A lot of people will find

:54:01. > :54:03.this disturbing, but if you put videos of physical abuse to

:54:04. > :54:10.children, nonsexual physical abuse, even that may be allowed up as long

:54:11. > :54:15.as it is not seen as celebrating sadism. So a lot of difficult winds

:54:16. > :54:19.to tread, and what this says to me is that this is the biggest problem

:54:20. > :54:24.Facebook faces, and it is exactly the same kind of problem that a

:54:25. > :54:27.media company faces every day. At the BBC and other big media

:54:28. > :54:31.organisations, we have guidelines, detailed guidelines of what is and

:54:32. > :54:35.isn't allowed. They do, too, and they say they are not a media

:54:36. > :54:39.company. Everybody else will say, yes, you are. On that point, what do

:54:40. > :54:43.you think, because Mark Zuckerberg repeats the refrain that they are

:54:44. > :54:49.not a media company but they publish content and they have guidelines.

:54:50. > :54:52.Exactly, and some other things Rory has pointed out, if you are a parent

:54:53. > :54:56.and you have been reporting that there is a video of your child being

:54:57. > :55:01.abused by other kids, you would be really distressed to find out that

:55:02. > :55:04.that distressed is not really matter and is not taken into account. Also,

:55:05. > :55:10.there seems to be a spurious assumption rather than evidence

:55:11. > :55:13.based, an assumption that a video of a violent death somehow raises

:55:14. > :55:19.awareness of mental illness. That is highly problematic and what the BBC

:55:20. > :55:22.and organisations like the Guardian, for example do, they have a set of

:55:23. > :55:26.content standards which has been developed in partnership with mental

:55:27. > :55:31.health experts. They are transparent about them and the decision-making

:55:32. > :55:34.that underpins those. So Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's assumption

:55:35. > :55:38.that they are platform and they are not responsible for the content that

:55:39. > :55:42.is put up on their site, that is no longer tenable. If you look at the

:55:43. > :55:48.Leave campaign last year, they spend ?4.7 million on targeted ads

:55:49. > :55:54.directed at people because Facebook has up to 92 different data points

:55:55. > :55:57.about you as a person, your relationship, a psychographic

:55:58. > :56:02.profile of your political leanings and sexuality, and they use that to

:56:03. > :56:06.target people. So on the one hand you cannot be taking money on the

:56:07. > :56:10.basis that you can target information, and at the same time

:56:11. > :56:16.say that we cannot be held responsible because we are just a

:56:17. > :56:21.platform. How do you read these guidelines, what do you take from

:56:22. > :56:23.it? I think you see that it is impossible not to make arbitrary

:56:24. > :56:28.decisions around a lot of this content. I think actually these are

:56:29. > :56:32.really hard decisions to make and you are going to upset people one

:56:33. > :56:38.way or the other. Some of these things, like censorship, censoring

:56:39. > :56:44.something that somebody is saying about Donald Trump, that they want

:56:45. > :56:47.to shoot him, that seems to violate someone's free speech because they

:56:48. > :56:50.are almost certainly making a joke. But it isn't surprising that this

:56:51. > :57:01.stuff is arbitrary. We have known it for years. We have that censorship

:57:02. > :57:06.of Vietcong massacre is, we have had censorship of female breast-feeding,

:57:07. > :57:13.because it shows a nipple. All of this is kind of order. But what are

:57:14. > :57:17.they meant to do at the same time? Well, what do Facebook say in

:57:18. > :57:23.response? They do not say much in public. They say we do our best to

:57:24. > :57:26.tread this line and we have hired another 3000 moderators. Off the

:57:27. > :57:32.record, they are saying that actually what these documents show

:57:33. > :57:36.is how thoughtful a process this is, how much emphasis they have put on

:57:37. > :57:40.getting it right. And I think they would point to last year where they

:57:41. > :57:43.got in trouble for not publishing something disturbing, that famous

:57:44. > :57:47.photograph of that naked girl running down the road in Vietnam,

:57:48. > :57:53.having been hit by napalm. They were slammed for not pushing that, and

:57:54. > :57:57.they change their policy. Thank you, all of you. Before we go, just time

:57:58. > :58:00.to show you some footage of the moment young girl is grabbed by a

:58:01. > :58:06.sea lion in Canada. She was sitting on a dark at the Fishermans wharf in

:58:07. > :58:12.British Columbia before being pulled underwater by the Sea lion. As you

:58:13. > :58:14.can hear, onlookers screamed as the girl momentarily disappeared before

:58:15. > :58:25.she was rescued and pulled to safety. On the programme tomorrow,

:58:26. > :58:28.we will be live in Stranraer. We will hear the issues that matter

:58:29. > :58:31.most to voters there, head of the election next month. Thanks for

:58:32. > :58:34.watching. Have a good day. We're back at 9am.

:58:35. > :58:38...team them up with a Michelin starred chef,

:58:39. > :58:41.putting their reputation on the line.