22/05/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello. It's Monday.

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

This programme has learnt that a police inquiry into deaths at a

mental health trust could investigate up to 20 cases. Just

said Matthew has been found hanging. It doesn't look good. I couldn't

breathe. I fell to the floor and my partner took the rest of the call.

Also this morning, the jury overseeing the Bill Cosby

sexual assault trial will be sworn in today.

One of his alleged victims tells us the American

justice system is slanted towards protecting perpetrators.

He stood so low to pimp the civil rights struggle to hide behind his

criminality. Bill Cosby denies the charges

against him. The Conservatives have been warned that their chaltion to

the social care in England could fail because of variations in how

some councils administer the payments. We'll bring you all the

details. Hello and welcome to the programme.

We're live until 11am. Throughout the morning we'll bring

you the latest breaking news The Green Party launch

their general election We'll bring that to you live

and we'll look at how internal Facebook documents appear to show

that in some cases its moderators tolerates violent threats,

bullying and self-harm. Do get in touch on all the stories

we're talking about this morning. Use the hashtag Victoria Live

and if you text, you will be charged Labour is promising English students

who start university courses in England this autumn won't have to

pay tuition fees if the party wins the election. Labour has pledged to

abolish fees from 2018, but says it wants to discourage those sitting

their exams now from deferring for a year. The Conservatives say more

students than ever from disadvantaged backgrounds are

getting into university. Let's talk to Norman Smith who is at

Westminster. Fill us in then Norman? This is one of Mr Corbyn's big

stand-out policies. If you had to name the three big Corbyn policies,

one would be ending austerity and two nationalising the railways and

three is scrapping tuition fees. Labour is going further. They're not

merely talking about passing legislation in 2018 to stop students

afterwards having to pay, they're saying any youngsters going to

university this autumn would also not have to pay. So their fees for

the first year before the legislation comes in, would be

written off. Anyone who is already a student would no longer have to pay

any fees even though they have begun university and those who have left

university and are having to pay back a student loan, the interest

rate they would have to pay would be hacked back from 6% to just

inflation. That's around 2.7%. So a significant reduction too in their

costs. On top of that, they're talking about bringing back

maintenance grants. That's a really sizeable chunky package for

students, costing a not insignificant ?11 billion. So that's

a lot of cash, but speaking this morning the Shadow Education

Secretary said she thought it was just wrong that youngsters starting

out in the world should begin with such massive debts if though chose

to go to university. OK. Let me ask you about social care,

since the Conservatives launched their manifesto, they have faced

criticism from all sorts of sectors. What's the latest today? Well sh the

Tory high command, those around May say they are not backing down and

not going to re-think the policy, there will be a consultation, but

that was to look at tweaking the fine details. That is, you know,

trouble down the line, I have to say because there is a lot of disquiet,

not just amongst the opposition parties obviously but in the

charities, in the pensioners groups, in think-tanks, they have almost

universally criticised the policies and in the Tory Party there are

sounds of disquiet because the policy which Mrs May has come up

with is quite good news for poorer families because it raises the

means-test before you have to contribute to ?100,000. However, if

you are someone who owns an average house around ?250,000 or more, it is

not good news because you will almost certainly have to pay for

your care because what they're saying is, you'll have to pay for

everything until you're only left with ?100,000. If you have a house

worth ?250,000 say which is the average you will have to pay the

first ?150,000 of care before you get down to the ?100,000 limit. It

is a real hit on middle-class and better off families so there is the

real row brewing over this change. And the Green Party launch their

manifesto this morning? They do indeed. Some spiky policies. A lot

of it is about protecting the environment, probably, you know, no

surprises there. , I think what might get the headlines are their

other policies which are to the left of Jeremy Corbyn. They are talking

about reversing all the privatisation in the NHS, they're

talking about scrapping Trident completely. Of course, Labour is

committed to carrying on with Trident and to use the money from

Trident to invest in the NHS, but two of the policies which I think,

you know, might interest people most is they're talking about a basic

income for everyone. In other words everyone regardless of their wealth

should get a basic state income set just a little above Jobseekers

allowance at ?80. All other benefits with the exception of disability

benefits would go, but everyone, everyone, would get this basic

income of ?80 and they are talking about a shorter working week. Their

argument being that you know people feel under a lot of pressure, a lot

of stress. If people worked four days and I think that's what they

are going to suggest, it would provide more scope for people

looking for work. Those are radical policies. They are talking about

phasing those in if they were to form a Government. They are not

saying it should happen immediately. We will bring you the Green Party

manifesto launch at 10.30am. Joanna Gosling is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary President Trump will arrive

in Israel this morning, on the second leg of his

first overseas tour. He's due to meet both Israeli

and Palestinian leaders with peace The president has called

an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement "the ultimate deal",

but so far has been vague After what some called

an Islamaphobic start on the campaign trail,

Donald Trump has met Arab and Gulf leaders and spoken of working

together with Muslim nations This is not a battle

between different faiths, different This is a battle between barbaric

criminals who seek to obliterate Drive them out of your holy land

and drive them out of this earth. The President has been well

received in Saudi Arabia. Not least because of his

tough approach on Iran. Now the business mogul wants

what he calls the ultimate deal. This morning, he's heading

for Tel Aviv to begin his bid to find peace between Israel

and the Palestinians. He'll meet Israel's Prime Minister

today and the Palestinian President tomorrow, having met both

already in Washington. There is some doubt

about whether his unconventional, business-like approach can can

achieve a peace deal where so many others have failed

but there is optimism. Reports in the Israeli press,

quoting White House sources, say President Trump will focus first

on trying to build confidence between the two sides

so direct talks can resume. A police inquiry into an NHS-run

mental health unit in Essex is investigating up to twenty

deaths, this programme has learnt. It follows a fresh probe

into the death of Matthew Leahy, who was found hanged

at the Linden Centre His mother Melanie told the BBC

there was no care plan in place for him when he was admitted

to the centre. Essex Police say they are

"conducting initial enquiries into a number of deaths"

at the centre. You can see more on that story in a

few minutes time. Two men arrested by Humberside

Police over the disappearance of a woman who went missing after

dropping her daughter off at school. They will appear before Hull

Magistrates Court later today. The woman was last seen walking near her

home in Hull four weeks ago. Police have searched several addresses in

the city and have appealed for information about her disappearance.

9,000 people who lost money on shares in Royal Bank of Scotland

begin a High Court action today demanding compensation from the bank

and four former directors including Fred Goodwin.

The claimants say they were misled by the bank when it sought to raise

?12 billion from shareholders in April 2008, a few months before

it had to be rescued by taxpayers because it was running out of money.

The bank has said it will defend itself vigorously in court.

A cheaper pound has led to a surge in American

The travel website Expedia says it's seen an 80% jump in summer bookings

to the UK from across the Atlantic between January and March, compared

American visitors are taking advantage of the 13% fall

in the value of sterling compared with the dollar since the EU

A diamond ring bought for ?10 at a car-boot sale 30 years ago

is expected to fetch ?350,000 at auction.

The owner believed the large white diamond was a piece of costume

jewellery when she bought it in the 1980s.

She wore the spectacular stone for decades without

realising its true value - even doing the chores with it on!

Drake won 13 billboard muse k awards beating the previous record of

Adele. It was a disappointing night for British artists with the only

awards coming from for Zain Malik and Coldplay.

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

We will talk to a woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by Bill

Cosby. The jury for Bill Crosby's trial is selected today.

And let's start with the controversy surrounding John Terry's

This was supposed to be a day of celebrations for Chelsea. It was

John Terry's final appearance for the club so they thought there must

be an emotional farewell which we had expected, but perhaps not in the

way that it happened. What did occur, in the 26th minute in case

you were wondering, his shirt number, John Terry came off. He was

substituted at the 26th minute and there was a Guard of Honour which

has been described by some people as quite odd. Now, this Guard of Honour

occurred. It took him to the 28th minute before he finally came off

and it has divided opinion with many people calling it contrived. Others

saying it undermined the game. Here is what Final Score pundit Gareth

Crooks had to say. This isn't Hollywood, this is a Premier League

fixture. This has been set-up. I'm uncomfortable with it to be honest

with you. I think it is very unusual to see that. I have never seen that

before. OK, I know he is a unique player, but yeah, 26 minutes he goes

off, he has number 26. It is the Guard of Honour in the middle of a

game. I'm not happy with the way it was done. Some strong words, but I

don't think he was aLondon in that reaction. I heard Robbie Savage

saying, "What was that about?" Apparently it was John Terry's idea.

Social media has been ablaze? Huge reaction on Twitter today. We have

got some tweets that said the game is dead. Strong words from Sean

Bishop. Sunderland should be ashamed. Testimonial antics in a

League game. Shameful. David Mc Nally says every Chelsea player

should have been booked for that pathetic behaviour and for bringing

the game into disrepute. Some say he was right to do that and that he was

the sort of player that deserves that type of response. Who knows,

but in the meantime, it does mean, of course, that was John Terry's

final game whether or not he likes how he went off, of course. Arsene

Wenger won't talk about his future, but has been talking about the

impact, the speculation around his future had on his team? That's

right. Well, in the end Arsenal finished fifth despite beating

Everton yesterday 3-1, but it means they have missed out on Champions

League football for the first time in 20 years. Of course, the fans

inside the stadium made their disappointment clear and fans have

been divided over whether Arsene Wenger should stay on when his

contract expires. There have been many protests against him since the

season began in January. There was, of course celebration for Manchester

City and Liverpool. There was a tentative wait for Liverpool fans

who had to wait until before half-time before they took the lead

against Middlesbrough before scoring 3-0 and securing fourth place in the

League. Celebrations across-the-board yesterday and

disappointment too for Arsenal, but we will have more sport in the next

half an hour. Thank you very much.

First this morning, this programme has been told that a police enquiry

into deaths at a mental health trust could investigate up to 20 cases.

The Linden Centre in Essex is facing questions into deaths that have

It follows fresh investigations into the death of Matthew Leahy,

who was found hanged at Linden Centre in 2012.

His mother, Melanie Leahy, said her talks with Essex Police

suggested the cases had taken place in the last 17 years.

Our reporter Simon Cox has been investigating.

It was the most unsafe place he could have been.

I remember him texting me, "Mum, please let me come

I wouldn't want to be in there, and if I was in there

I'd want certain people to look after me.

Why have they left it 17 years to look into these deaths?

He was great at school, good in maths, good

Matthew Leahy, a bright, sporty student.

In his teens, he began smoking cannabis and having hallucinations.

By 2012, his mental health had spiralled.

There'd been a situation with his father, and the police were called

I was told, "Don't come and see him for seven days,

let him settle onto the ward," so I respected that.

Matthew was a patient at the Linden Centre,

run by the North Essex Partnership Trust.

A week after being admitted, the centre phoned his mum.

Actually this is the day the lies began.

The phone rang, it was about 1:30, 1:15, and the doctor...

"Matthew's been found hanging, it doesn't look good."

I couldn't breathe, I fell to the floor on my knees,

and my partner took the rest of the call.

And there he was on the trolley, and the next instruction was,

And I asked, "Could I take a cutting of his hair?"

"No, you're not allowed to touch, he's a crime scene."

Just 20 when he died, at his inquest the jury

Each patient supposedly has a care plan, and it came to light that

Matthew had no care plan, he had no key worker, no-one knew,

for two days there wasn't even any observation sheets,

The police report says, "Matthew was taken to a place of safety."

It was the most unsafe place he could have been.

I remember him texting me, "Mum, please let me come

I just said, "No, stay there, these are the professionals,

they know what they're doing, you need some help."

The inquest jury said Matthew had been subjected to a series

of multiple failings and missed opportunities over

After the inquest, the coroner suggested that the Trust told

a public inquiry into Matthew's death, but they said it would be too

expensive and it would take money away from frontline services.

But Matthew was not the first patient who'd hung himself

In 2001, Nicola Dordoy was found hanging from a curtain pole.

Three years later, Denise Gregory hung herself

Then, in 2008, Ben Morris was found hanging from a wardrobe door.

We've learned Essex Police have launched an investigation

into deaths at the Linden Centre going back to the year 2000.

Now, the police won't say exactly how many cases they're looking at,

but one source has told us that it could be as many as 20

This nurse had noticed these problems for many years.

He spent a decade at the Trust and left last summer.

He wants us to protect his identity as it could affect his employment.

The risk of ligature points had been identified many years ago,

and as a result one would have expected the Trust to have taken

When senior staff and nurses asked whether those had been dealt with,

senior management would give them reassurance.

Did you try and raise concerns or ask managers about,

are these things being fixed that would minimise people

As a staff member, yes, on a regular basis.

If you asked too many questions, you were deemed as a troublemaker.

If ligature points as a risk had been resolved, there would have

As a staff member, you can't do anything about that.

They can say, "When is that door going to be fixed?"

Do you think if there had those changes that they had been told

to do, that then maybe some of those patients who died,

The Essex Partnership Trust said the history of serious incidents

at the Linden Centre is a matter of great concern that must be

addressed, and that it places patient safety as a top priority.

But, to improve safety, this nurse says they'll need

to tackle a reliance on temporary or agency staff.

You'd have one qualified member of staff that was a regular staff

member, and you could have up to three or four agency staff,

and that would have a profound difficulty because they wouldn't be

aware of the environment and they need extra supervision.

Do you think it is a safe place for patients?

I wouldn't want to be in there, and if I was in there I'd want

So that's pretty damning, this is you as someone who'd worked

there for a long time, if you or a relative

I'd be extremely scared to go in there.

The Trust said it was improving systems to ensure investigations

are carried out rigorously and thoroughly, and that

learning shared across the entire organisation.

They are also undertaking a full ligature audit,

removing features that could be used by patients to take their own lives.

But they've promised to tackle this before.

In February 2015, the regulator, the Care Quality Commission,

It found risks on the ward but it was not apparent that actions

had been fully taken to address these.

It also said that risk assessments seen lacked detail.

Inspectors returned to the Trust in August 2015.

They found "one patient attempted to strangle

themselves with a ligature during our inspection,"

and there was still an unacceptable number of ligature risks identified

A year later when they came back, they found safety

was still a concern and said, "The Trust must ensure

action is taken to remove identified ligature risks."

While the focus is on the Linden Centre, the problems at the Trust

I think it's heartbreaking for her family.

Melanie was a devoted mum to her two children and her family,

who are still reeling from her death.

Last year, Melanie Lowe was admitted to hospital under the care

of the North Essex Trust after her mental health

Melanie took an overdose from pills from her own wash bag

and was admitted to hospital, where she remained

However, when she was readmitted some days later back to the ward,

her observation levels were downgraded from constant watch

Unobserved, she took her own life, suffocating herself.

At her inquest last November, once again the Essex coroner heard

And we heard during the inquest that she'd tried to abscond twice

while she'd been on constant watch, and the locum psychiatrist

who reassessed her upon admission didn't have access to

the observation notes during that time, so didn't know

she'd tried to abscond, and she was unaware of the Trust's

own policies and guidelines in relation to observation levels.

Were you surprised at all by what you heard?

It seems quite concerning that the Trust don't seem to be

Instant reports are prepared just so that families can know that this

is being looked into and treated seriously and hope that it can be

That's what Melanie Leahy's trying to ensure, by supporting other

families going through the same trauma she faced.

She's on her way to an inquest of another patient found hanged

This was a fight for answers from our own son's death,

and I just can't ignore other families that are going

through the same stuff and being treated the same way.

It's just a club you belong to, and it's the most horrendous club

At the coroner's court, she's meeting another member

of the club, Lisa Morris, whose son Ben hung himself

It's just like reliving a nightmare, because I've tried so hard

And along then with Melanie after Matthew died,

Melanie came and found me, and I think we've been down every

avenue possible to try and stop this happening to anyone else,

and when you hear that it does happen again, why?

When so many recommendations have been made to the Linden Centre

of how to put things right, and they're simply not doing them?

These people could still be living now if the hospital had listened

Well, now we know back to 2001 of a young lady

And all these recommendations were made then.

It's not just by the CQC and the health and safety,

She recommends that that hospital do certain things

And this goes round and round, and over and over, and over and over.

I do believe Ben's death is one of the 20-odd

that they are looking into, and that makes me angry as well.

Ben's - since 2000, Ben's death, that's 17 years ago.

Why have they left it 17 years to look into these deaths?

Can the police inquiries into deaths at the Linden Centre restore trust

for the grieving families, whose relatives died in the place

Let me read you this e-mail from Aaron who was watching the film. I

have been in the Linden Centre three times over the past two make ears

are due to attempts to take my own life. The last time was May 28 last

year. I put myself into a coma for five days on the last attempt. Since

then, I have tried to put it behind me and I'm doing better. The reason

for my e-mail is that when you feel like I did at that time, there was

pretty much nothing anyone could do to stop me doing what I had done. I

made blades, self harming from stones in the Linden Centre garden.

I took ligatures from curtain cords and so on. My brain was hell-bent on

succeeding. The doctor bluntly said there was nothing he could offer

that would change it. It seemed I needed to get it out of my system to

move forward. It sounds daft but back then I was not thinking

straight, although I thought I was at the time. I felt normal and some

days I wish I had succeeded to end the internal pain I am carrying

around. I am dealing with it as best I can and I would not condemn the

Linden Centre or their staff. They have the hardest job in the world

and they never stopped trying to help me. If it was not for them I

would not be here. After 10am, we'll talk

to the daughter of a 76 who took her own life on day

release from the centre. If you've been affected by any

of the issues raised in that film - you can find support and advice

at the bbc action line - And we have a statement from the

Essex partnership NHS Trust. They told us: "The history

of serious incidents of self-harm at the Linden Centre is a matter

of great concern that the Trust has already recognised must be

addressed...and that it had set aside significant funding

so it was ready to take prompt actions following the results

of an audit of risks of patients using ligatures

to take their own lives." We will bring you the latest nose in

a moment but still to come, once known as America's dad, Bill Cosby

was considered a comedy legend. He returns to court today as selection

begins for jurors who will decide whether or not he is guilty of

sexual assault. And we will get reaction to those leaked internal

documents used by Facebook which appear to show that it has

instructed its own moderators not to remove controversial content which

many would find offensive. Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Labour is promising English students

who start university courses in England this autumn

won't have to pay tuition fees Labour has already pledged

to abolish fees from 2018, but says it wants to discourage

those sitting their exams now The Conservatives say

more students than ever from disadvantaged backgrounds

are getting into university. Meanwhile, the Conservatives have

been warned that their plans to fund social care in England could fail

because of problems with how some councils administer the existing

system of deferred payments. The insurer Royal London said

responses from 140 authorities to a freedom of information request

showed that, in some places, people appeared not to be aware

they could postpone paying People have until midnight tonight

to register to vote. More than two million registered to vote. In the

2015 general election nearly 500,000 people left it until the final day

to register. Donald Trump will arrive in Israel

this morning, on the second leg The US President, seen here leaving

Saudi Arabia this morning, will meet both Israeli

and Palestinian leaders with peace Mr Trump has called

an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement "the ultimate deal",

but so far has been vague A police inquiry into an NHS-run

mental health unit in Essex is investigating up to 20 deaths,

this programme has learnt. It follows a fresh probe

into the death of Matthew Leahy, who was found hanged

at the Linden Centre His mother Melanie told the BBC

there was no care plan in place for him when he was admitted

to the centre. Essex Police say they are

"conducting initial enquiries into a number of deaths"

at the centre. A viewer tweets, "Heartbreaking."

Sophie tweets, "It's so important particularly to talk about the rise

of agency staff. Sometimes we only had agency staff on a night shift

who were very unhelpful. " If you're getting in touch, you're welcome.

Use the hashtag Victoria Live or e-mail us:

Arsene Wenger says his love for Arsenal cannot be questioned

after they failed to finish in the top four for

He refused to comment on his future after the match,

although he did admit that the constant speculation

John Terry has admitted his prolonged farewell in his final

The captain received a guard of honour from team-mates

as he walked off the pitch in the 26th minute,

Celtic are the first side in over a century to go through an entire

season in the Scottish top flight without defeat.

They signed off with a 2-0 win over Hearts

weekend, they could yet win the treble.

And Billy Vunipola is out of the Lions tour to New Zealand.

He's been managing with a shoulder injury but that now needs more

treatment, so his place in the squad goes to Wasps back row James

I will have more sport in the next hour.

Bill Cosby will return to court today as selection begins

for the jurors who will decide whether or not he is

The 79-year-old entertainer, who became known as "America's Dad"

throughout decades as a national treasure is expected to attend

every day of jury selection hearings at a court in Pennsylvania.

Bill Cosby is a US comedian and actor once seen

as the all-American dad for his portrayal of

Dr Cliff Huxtable in the hit sitcom The Cosby Show in the 80s

He'll stand trial for a charge of three counts of indecent assault

alleged by one woman, former colleague and basketball

It's the only criminal case Mr Cosby faces related to sexual assault

The point of this is that it was intoxicating to her

That's the charges that we're bound over,

and we look forward to handling this in court.

Over those years, nearly 60 women have come forward accusing

His behaviour was like that of a predator.

I woke up in the back of my car, alone.

My clothes were a mess, my bra was undone.

35 of them told their stories to New York magazine.

Cosby has always maintained the encounters were consensual.

Ms Constand's case is the only one that has fallen

within the time-limit known as the statute of limitations,

a US law that shields people from prosecution after a certain

time by imposing an expiry date for allegations of crimes.

The jury selection begins today, as prosecutors say Bill Cosby

drugged and molested Ms Constand at his home in Cheltenham,

Judge Steven O'Neill has said he plans to screen about 125 jurors

Lili Bernard alleges Bill Cosby drugged and raped her

after she starred in the eighth and final series of the Cosby Show.

She told me what her initial impressions of him where.

Initially I felt that he was a brilliant mind who was instrumental

in lifting the image of the black family.

I believed he was a philanthropist. Later on I discovered that was a

smoke screen to divert attention from his depravity and his

criminality, but I was duped like the rest of the world. He was a

whole Somme person, that he was Dr Huxstable. He denies all charges.

Insisting that all his encounters were consensual and he and his

family have suggested that some of the claims against him are down to

racism? Would you like my comment on that? Yes, please. I have evidence

to prove that my relationship with him was not romantic. That it was

professional and paternal and purely platonic. That he was mentoring me

from the prospective of a father figure, that he often told me that

he loved me and cared for me as if I were one of his daughters. He often

said to me, "You're one of my kids." With regard to the bogus and

despicable claim that he has been rationally targeted. On 2nd May

2015, it was the day after I first came public about the abuse I

suffered at the hands of Bill Cosby and I attended a protest protest

near Georgia where Bill Cosby gave his last performance and two weeks

later Bill Cosby donates money to the Black Belt Fundation in Alabama

and he stages this mock march over the bridge and the bridge is a

signifier of a very important historic moment in the civil rights

struggle. I sent e-mails and made lots of phone calls to the school

which the Black Belt Foundation was involved in because the Black Belt

Foundation is a great organisation that provides assistance to

disadvantaged marginalised youth in Alabama and I beconed them to please

not allow the children, particularly the teenage girls to get near Bill

Cosby because he is a dangerous, sexual predator and that I am a

victim of his raping, drging and threats. I sent letters to the Black

Belt Foundation staff and board of directors, to the school and the

principal and to the teachers and no one returned my e-mails and my phone

calls and there is information online where you can see that

entertainment tonight did a report on it. So, to me, when Bill Cosby

staged that march with those children two weeks after I came

public about the abuse that I endured at his hands and I mentioned

Martin Luther King that was a slap in my face. It is a spit in the face

of all the other great civil rights activists who marched over that

bridge in 1965 and... Sorry to interrupt, Lili, he is saying the

kind of accusations that you are making against him are simply

because he is a black man? Right. So we have been also likened parallel

by his attorneys and him to lynch mobs and when Bill Cosby calls us a

mob, it's den owe grating the souls of the real lynch victims. All it

does is reveal his depravity that he would stoop so low to pimp the souls

of rape victims in order to hide from, you know, to hide behind his,

you know, criminality. It's disgusting. He denies all charges.

You told people around you what you say happened to you back then. And

you didn't go to the police until many years later. Right. Can you

explain why that was? Because he threatened serious consequences to

my life. When I approached him and confronted him about being drugged

and raped by him, when I told him that I would call the police and go

to the hospital and find out what he put in my drink, my sparkling apple

cider he told me that the minute that I went to the police that he

would go to the police stags after me and file a police report against

me for false accusation and then he would sue me for defamation and make

sure that I would end up in prison for a long time and that he would

ruin my career. He said he would tell all of Hollywood that I was

nothing but a slut and I was trying to sleep my way to the top and I was

a no good actress and he said I better watch my back, all it takes

was one phone call, that's why I didn't call the police because I

feared for my life and I became suicidal and, but it doesn't take a

threat such as the ones that Bill Cosby inflicted upon me, the serious

threats to my life which I interpreted as death threats for

aville to not talk about their rape or to report a rape and you have to

could be tend with the reality that this invasion, this unwholly

invasion can cause you your life because you can contract diseases,

sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS that could kill you, it can

also determine whether or not you're going to become pregnant and you

have to possibility of becoming pregnant with your perpetrator's

child or the devil's child or you have to contend with the possibility

of now having to face abortion or giving up this child for adoption.

It's a life changing, highly traumatic crime that often goes

unreported. It's not just victims of be loved celebrities that typically

don't report, but victims of people, perpetrators hom they trust, their

uncles, their teachers, their boy scout leaders, their coaches, it is

a common phenomenal that rape victims do not report crimes. I

understand that you know of at least four other women who you say won't

come forward. I know personally four other women who were also abused by

Bill Cosby and three of them I knew while they were being abused by him

and they will not come forward and I understand why they don't because it

comes with grave consequences, you wish for retaliation for Bill Cosby

by the women. He has sued several of the women. We are constantly, I and

the other survivors are constantly being blamed and shamed online. I

received so many comments and messages and e-mails from adorning

die hard Cosby fans who take every opportunity to attack me. So after I

appear on your show for example I will receive a plethora of hate

mail, but more importantly, is that I receive an abundance of supportive

comments from people across the globe who are also survivors and who

thank me for helping to empower them it speak out because through my

example of speaking out against such a powerful perpetrator they felt

empowered to file a police report against the priest who abused them

when they were centre or against their uncle or against their teacher

who impregnated them. It's worth it. You know, it's worth receiving all

the hate and the vitriol from these die hard Cosby fans and rape

apologists in order to positively, you know, impact so many survivors.

Again, just to say that Bill Cosby denies the charges against him. I

know you haven't been able to take your case to court because of a time

limit. What's known as the statute of limitations, ie the time in which

a case can be heard has run out. What do you think of that? Well, I

have a prepond rans of hardcore evidence against Bill Cosby and I

took this evidence with me along with contact information of several

witnesses to the Atlantic City detectives on 30th April when I felt

safe enough to report the crime because 46 other women had come

public before me and therefore, I feared less that Bill Cosby would

target me for retaliation. So empowered by these other 46 women

and now there are 60 who have gone public I brought my evidence with

me. I brought the contact information. I waited for the

detectives and the prosecutors to contact my witnesses, they were not

contacted and then I found out that the prosecutor in New Jersey

couldn't even consider prosecuting Bill Cosby. Couldn't consider

pressing charges against Bill Cosby despite the evidence that I brought,

the compelling evidence that I brought, despite my witness

testimonies because the witness occurred a few months outside of the

statute limitations. But I took advantage evidence, along

with video taped testimony, which included my agent, and the therapist

whom I was assigned in 1992 when I came out of the hospital, having

been admitted for suicide attempts. And I even put some production

assistance from the Cosby show in video stats, and I took this

evidence with me this video testimonies of my witnesses to the

legislative offices in Sacramento, California, the Senate and Council

officers and I showed them when we were lobbying and campaigning, to

abolish the statute of limitations on rape prosecution in California,

to show them the absolute travesty that a rape victim, no matter how

much time has passed, can still have hard evidence like me, because I am

an archivist, and yet be barred by this arbitrary timeline from

achieving justice. What we pointed out as part of our argument is that

abolishing the statute of limitations does not change the

burden of proof. You still have to have, as a victim, you still have to

have enough evidence to prove your case beyond any reasonable doubt. So

all this speaking out that I and the other 60 Cosby survivors have done,

even if it doesn't affect a positive result for us in the trial, even if

Bill Cosby is found innocent, at the very least what we have done is that

we have empowered other rape survivors, changing antiquated,

patriarchal, misogynistic law. We will also eliminate the fact that

the American justice system is slanted towards protecting the

perpetrator. The jury selection begins today. We're going to leave

that they are. That was Lily Brainard.

Coming up, the Green Party has accused the Conservatives

of "launching a war on young people".

Conservative plans to change how social care is funded in England

could be derailed by councils, a former minister has warned.

The party wants to include the value of someone's home when deciding how

much they must pay towards care at home - but allow them

Our political guru Norman Smith is here.

This hinges on whether councils allow people to defer their

payments. Yes. Under the package of reforms unveiled by Theresa May, she

is saying that people ought to be able to meet their care costs by in

effect using their home to pay for it but there are home not having to

be sort of salt until after they have died. That would mean the local

authority is basically having the wherewithal to put that sort of

process in place, and all the research that has been done by the

former pensions minister suggests that many local authorities need to

get up to speed to implement those reforms. And that really is on top

of what we have seen is a huge row over the reforms unveiled by Mrs

May, which many in her own party seemed to be deeply uncomfortable

about. Certainly many in the charitable sector, pensions groups,

they are deeply uneasy. And the reason is this. Everyone by and

large has signed up to the idea of having a cap on the amount that

people would have to pay for their care costs. Andrew Dilnot was told

to think what to do about the social care problem and is and serve was

putting a cap on the amount that people have to pay, because at the

moment you could keep paying literally hundreds of thousands of

pounds. There was a broad political consensus, let's go for a cap of

about ?72,000 and after that the staple will step in. After that,

Theresa May has torn that up saying that we will not go for a cap but we

will go for a floor. What that means is that ?100,000 will be the new

means test. In other words if you have less than ?100,000, you are

fine, and the state will pay for you. However, if you have got more

than ?100,000, everything above that will have to be spent on social care

until you are only left with ?100,000. Why is there a row about

this? Well, because for most homeowners, not massively wealthy

homeowners, that means they will end up paying for their care. How so?

Well, if you think that the average house price is about ?250,000, so

not a massively extravagant house, that is the average value. ?250,000,

you would have to spend ?150,000 of the value of your house until you

were left with just ?100,000, at that means test level. So the big

row is the way middle-class, better off families, homeowners, they would

by and large been left picking up the tab themselves and poorer

families, yes, they will receive some protection because the means

test has been raised to ?100,000, but the other thing about it is that

this tends to penalised people suffering from one particular

illness, predominantly dementia, because if you suffer from cancer or

other conditions like that, the NHS will pile in and look after you. If

you suffer from mental health problems, and you have a house, you

are pretty much on your own. It is hugely controversial. Talking to

those around Mrs May this morning, they are adamant that they will not

back off and the policy will stay. There will be consultation to look

of minor tweaks but they are determined not to rethink the

fundamentals of this policy. Thank you very much, Noren. -- Normanton.

Well we did ask the Conservatives to take part in a discussion

But they released a statement saying:

"Our plan strengthens the Social Care system with more

and sustainable funding to cope with these long term pressures -

and ensures nobody has to sell their home to pay

Not to act or just to play politics with the issue is irresponsible.

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

Catherine West from Labour. And Norman Lamb is the Lib Dems'

health spokesman and our political guru Norman Smith

is in Westminster. The issue today hinges on whether

councils will allow people to defer their payments. According to the

freedom of information requests, some councils in England have not

signed any agreements to allow people to do that and in some other

areas, more than 100 have been signed. It is a real patchwork and

that is part of the problem. Since 2010, local authorities have not

really been equipped to design a system which works. So we have a

postcode lottery. That is why we read like to see it much there in

the taxpayer system, in the same way that NHS services are paid for, so

that people with long-term conditions do not have to suffer

disproportionately compared to people with other illnesses. Norman

Lamont, why should people not paid for their own pay costs when they

have assets like houses. -- Norman Lamb. Well, I think that what Andrew

Dilnot said was that this was a market failure. In every aspect of

our lives, we are able to protect ourselves against catastrophic loss

but here, we're not. The great value of the cap on care clause, which I

took through Parliament, and I did it with Jeremy Hunt, but they have

now abandoned it. The value of the cap on care costs was that everyone

was protected against catastrophic loss. That has now been abandoned by

the Conservatives and all those people who are receiving care at

home, very many of them who are currently receiving it for free or

at a low-cost, they now face charges of ?15,000 a year, typically, if you

have complex fees, it could be way higher than that. The great

unfairness is that if you are a millionaire with cancer, you will

get all of your health costs paid for through the NHS, but if you are

someone with dementia, perhaps in a small semi, you lose everything you

have got. You do not lose everything at all. Your assets, ?100,000 will

be protected. You can pass that on to your beneficiaries. But here is a

thing. Is it really protected? Because they have answered no

questions and it is extraordinary that they have not come on to debate

this this morning. They have said nothing about whether the hundred

thousand pounds will have to be used to pay for ongoing accommodation

costs. That was not included in the cap. So you could end up paying

loads more money, you could pay interest charges on the loan that

you have taken out to cover these costs. And so I have no belief at

all but ?100,000 will actually be genuinely protected. OK, well that

is what they say, they say assets of ?100,000 and under will be

protected. Well, that is care costs but what about the accommodation

costs and other costs? If anybody wants to challenge this can sign --

anybody wants to challenge this can sign up to our website to end this

outrageous tax. Catherine West, what the Conservatives say is that this

is finally a sustainable solution. They have tackled a really, really

difficult issue which successive governments have ducked, effectively

and finally they have come up with a solution. It's true that the Tory

spokesman yesterday on the BBC said yesterday that he thought ?100,000

was about right. If you have four or five children, that is about right

but is it really in the government's remit to be saying what people

should inherit or not? That is not a Tory idea. It is odd for him to be

laying down the law as to what people can and cannot inherit. I

think this tax is very damaging and it takes away the sense that we all

contribute as well because we do not know who will get dementia, who will

have a long-term mental health problem. I think part of the problem

is that when Norman Lamb was in government they cut about ?4 billion

from the purse, from social care, so that is why we have this crisis now.

Had we continued to fund that properly, we would not be in this

mess. Do you accept that the Lib Dems are partially responsible for

taking out ?4.6 billion from social care from 2010 onwards? In 2010 we

were faced by a deficit of ?160 billion a year and if you carry on

without addressing that, it is always the most vulnerable people in

society who will suffer the most. But it was the Lib Dems who

negotiated to introduce the cap on care costs, to protect people

against catastrophic loss. That has now been abandoned. It is the Lib

Dems who are now saying that ?6 billion extra for the NHS and care,

through a penny on tax... You cannot have it both ways as a Liberal

Democrat, be honest. I have been straightforward. We went through

tight budget settlements in those first few years to get the budget

deficit sorted out. But now it is absolutely clear that the NHS is on

its knees. That is why we are seeing an extra penny on income tax for the

NHS and the care system, but we are also seeing implement the cap on

care costs. We did what we were advised to do by Andrew Dilnot and

now the Conservatives have abandoned it. Theresa May is due to come to

Norfolk soon. I challenge her to meet with me, to debate these issues

and to answer key questions that affect very many older people who

now face substantial costs. Thank you very much. Norman Lamb,

Catherine West, thank you. I know that Andrew Neale is due to

interview the Prime Minister this week and no doubt he will ask about

that. We asked the Conservatives to take part in our conversation this

morning but they said they were not able to. They released a statement

saying they have chosen to act in the national interest.

By the way we're going to be in Dunstable in Bedfordshire

on Monday 29th May for a big election audience debate.

If you've made up your mind already who you're going to vote for,

you're still deciding or don't think you'll bother voting,

and would like the chance to share your views and grill senior

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More details on our facebook and twitter pages.

Let's get the latest weather update - with Ben Rich.

Good morning. Thank you very much. If you like warm weather, I think

you will like this week. By the end of the week, some places could be

close to 30 degrees. It certainly started off in a promising fashion

with this weather watcher in north-east Scotland. Some beautiful

Sunrisers across the country. It will be largely drives through the

week ahead. As I have mentioned, it will be turning very warm. Pretty

warm through the rest of the day. The best of the sunshine towards

southern and south-eastern areas. More cloud across North England and

Wales. Maybe the odd splash of rain across Northern Ireland will bring

rain at times. 17 degrees in Glasgow but maybe 25 or 26 in London.

Through this evening we will see heavy rain across the northern part

of Scotland. Some gusty winds as well. Further south, largely dry.

Thicker cloud pushing him. That means that tomorrow across parts of

Wales it will be grey and murky for costs and hills. Away from here,

largely dry story with some sunshine. Not as warm as today but

by the end of the week, those temperatures will be up into the

high 20s and maybe close to 30 degrees.

Hello. It's Monday.

It's 10am. I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

Our exclusive investigation has found that a police inquiry

into deaths at a mental health trust could look into up to 20 suicides.

The police report says Matthew was taken to a place of safety. He was

it was the most unsafe place he could have been and I remember him

texting me saying, "Mum, please let me come home. I'm in hell here."

We'll be talking to a woman whose mum took her own life on day release

Facebook guidelines for moderators have been leaked to The Guardian.

They appear to show some tolerance of bullying, violent threats

And rap star Drake scooped 13 prizes at last night's Billboards awards,

Joanna Gosling is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The Conservatives have been warned that their plans to fund

social care in England could fail, because of problems with how some

councils administer the existing system of deferred payments.

The insurer Royal London said responses from 140 authorities

to a freedom of information request showed that - in some places -

people appeared not to be aware they could postpone paying

Labour is promising that English students who start university

courses in England this autumn won't have to pay tuition fees -

Labour has already pledged to abolish fees from 2018,

but says it wants to discourage those sitting their exams now

The Conservatives say more students than ever

from disadvantaged backgrounds are getting into university.

People have until just before midnight tonight to register to vote

More than two million people have joined the register in the month

since Theresa May revealed there would be a snap election.

In the 2015 general election, nearly half a million people left it

Donald Trump will arrive in Israel this morning, on the second leg

The US President will meet both Israeli

and Palestinian leaders - with peace talks dominating the agenda.

Mr Trump has called an Israeli-Palestinian peace

agreement "the ultimate deal", but so far has been vague

A police inquiry into an NHS-run mental health unit in Essex

is investigating up to twenty deaths, this programme has learnt.

It follows a fresh probe into the death of Matthew Leahy,

who was found hanged at the Linden Centre

His mother Melanie told the BBC there was no care plan in place

for him when he was admitted to the centre.

Essex Police say they are "conducting initial enquiries

into a number of deaths" at the centre.

Two men arrested by Humberside Police over the disappearance

of a woman who went missing after dropping her daughter off

at school have been charged with conspiring to cause grievous

Majid Mustafa and Robert Lipinski will appear before Hull Magistrates'

Renata Antczak was last seen walking near her home in Hull

Police have searched several addresses in the city and have

appealed for information about her disappearance.

A diamond ring bought for ?10 at a car-boot sale 30 years ago

is expected to fetch ?350,000 at auction.

The owner believed the large white diamond was a piece of costume

jewellery when she bought it in the 1980s.

She wore the spectacular stone for decades without

realising its true value - even doing the chores with it on.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

Some more messages from you about being treated at various mental

health trustsment Laura on Facebook says, "I was treated appallingly at

a hospital unit in London and I was later diagnosed with PDST. It

devastates me to hear of others coping with a lack of care and the

suicides that families have had to endure."

"I feel frustrated that nothing is being done." Lynn says, "My husband

was in the Linden and whilst there a woman walked out and took her own

life. My son went to the Linden Centre. They sent him away so many

times. They begged him to help him. I feel they have let him down."

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

use the hashtag Victoria Live and If you text, you will be charged

Arsene Wenger says his love for Arsenal cannot be questioned

after they failed to finish in the top four for

They finished fifth despite beating Everton 3-1 yesterday.

Wenger once again refused to comment on his future after the match,

although he did admit that the constant speculation

We had a spell during the season where it was very difficult. My

personal situation had certainly an influence at some stage on the group

as well and we played in a very hostile environment through the

second part of the season and that didn't help and overall I believe

that the players came back in a very strong togetherness.

Liverpool held on to fourth place, thanks to a 3-0 win over

Middlesbrough, so they'll go into Champions League qualifying

We fought for each yard the whole season. I'm really happy about this.

I thought that's a sign. We should have given all our supporters a

round and what a wonderful day for us.

A lot of discussion around this this morning.

it was always going to be an emotional farewell

for John Terry yesterday - his final game for Chelsea -

but in reality it all became rather theatrical.

The game was halted in the 26th minute -

Terry's shirt number in case you were wondering -

But as he left the pitch, he was given a guard of honour.

Afterwards, he admitted, it was all his idea.

Incredible for the players to do that. I've got the relationship with

the manager to be able to kind of have them discussions anyway and to

go out on 26th minute of my shirt number, to leave the way I'm

leaving. If ever there was a case to be leaving, this is the way.

Celtic are the first side in more than a century to go an entire

season without losing a game in the Scottish top flight.

They secured the title some seven weeks ago and they signed off

with a 2-0 win over Hearts, before getting their hands

Celtic are still in line to win the treble with the Scottish Cup

Wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor has been named in the England squad for

She rejoined the camp last month after taking a year-long break

Heather Knight has been named as captain.

England's first match is against India on 24th June.

There's been a huge blow to the British and Irish Lions

as they prepare to head out on their tour of New Zealand.

Number eight Billy Vunipola will not be going.

He has been managing a shoulder injury but it now

Wasps and England back row James Haskell will

I'll have more in the next half hour.

This programme has been told that a police inquiry into deaths

at a mental health trust could investigate up to 20 cases.

It follows fresh investigations into the death of Matthew Leahy,

who was found hanged at Linden Centre in 2012.

His mother, Melanie Leahy, said her talks with Essex Police

suggested the cases had taken place in the last 17 years.

Our reporter Simon Cox has been investigating.

We played you his full report earlier, here's a short extract.

Matthew Leahy, a bright, sporty student.

In his teens, he began smoking cannabis and having hallucinations.

By 2012, his mental health had spiralled. Matthew was a patient

at the Linden Centre, run by the North Essex

A week after being admitted, the centre phoned his mum.

"Matthew's been found hanging, it doesn't look good."

I couldn't breathe, I fell to the floor on my knees.

Just 20 when he died, at his inquest the jury

Each patient supposedly has a care plan, and it came to light that

Matthew had no care plan, he had no key worker, no-one knew,

for two days there wasn't even any observation sheets,

The police report says, "Matthew was taken to a place of safety."

It was the most unsafe place he could have been.

I remember him texting me, "Mum, please let me come

The inquest jury said Matthew had been subjected to a series

of multiple failings and missed opportunities over

After the inquest, the coroner suggested that the Trust told

a public inquiry into Matthew's death, but they said it would be too

expensive and it would take money away from frontline services.

We've learned Essex Police have launched an investigation

into deaths at the Linden Centre going back to the year 2000.

Now, the police won't say exactly how many cases they're looking at,

but one source has told us that it could be as many as 20

The Trust said it was improving systems to ensure investigations

are carried out rigorously and thoroughly, and that

learning shared across the entire organisation.

They are also undertaking a full ligature ordered,

They are also undertaking a full ligature audit,

removing items that could be used by patients to take their own lives.

That's what Melanie Leahy's trying to ensure, by supporting other

families going through the same trauma she faced.

At the coroner's court, she's meeting another member

of the club, Lisa Morris, whose son Ben hung himself

I do believe Ben's death is one of the 20-odd

that they are looking into, and that makes me angry as well.

Since 2000, Ben's death, that's 17 years ago.

at the Linden Centre restore trust for the grieving families,

whose relatives died in the place they were supposed to be safe?

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust which was

the North Essex Partnership NHS Trust at the time of the deaths told

us, "The history of serious incidents of self-harm

at the Linden Centre is a matter of great concern that the Trust has

already recognised must be addressed and that it had set

aside significant funding so it was ready to take prompt

actions following the results of an audit of risks

of patients using ligatures to take their own lives."

Her mum Valerie took her own life in October 2015 while on day release

from a different hospital run by what was then

Deborah Coles is from the charity Inquest which contributed

to a Care Quality Commission enquiry into hospital deaths

And Sean Duggan is the Chief Executive Officer

of the Mental Health Network which represents NHS Trusts.

Tanya has joined us too. It is not her real name. She is a former nurse

who worked at the Linden Centre. Tanya, thank you very much for

getting in touch with us. Tell us your own experience. I just want to

say firstly this doesn't relate to all psychiatric nurses across the

area. We have a really, really hard job. My experience dates back to

when the Linden Centre first opened and I worked there. I pointed out on

various occasions that there are many flaws where people could

self-harm. In fact, I now suffer from post traumatic distress after a

violent incident after discovering someone who had died and I have not

worked since and I have been ill myself. I had no support in the day

we had a debriefing After the incident. A consultant said, "As

long as we don't... INAUDIBLE

Sorry, I didn't hear the last sentence. As long as we have no more

than three deaths we have met our quota. As long as it had no more

than three deaths a year? Yes. And I'm waiting to go to the doctor now.

I have only come out of hospital myself recently again after trying

to take my own life, but because I was in hospital, it reminded, the

smells remachineded me of the Linden Centre that it wasn't doing me any

favours in there. Tanya, thank you very much. Thank you for getting in

touch. Not all nurse are bad though. No. No. No. Oh my gosh, absolutely.

That goes without saying. Thank you very much, Tanya.

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust which was

the North Essex Partnership NHS Trust at the time of the deaths told

us, "The history of serious incidents of self-harm

at the Linden Centre is a matter of great concern that the Trust has

already recognised must be addressed."

President Trump has landed in Israel and we may interrupt our

conversation to show you live pictures.

'S depression. It got worse in about 2013. -- tell us about your mother's

depression. It had been ongoing and never diagnosed about exactly what

it was. But it was a recurrent depressive disorder, definitely. And

she did attempt suicide in 2013. She was a hospital until 2015, when she

did commit suicide. On day release. And trust have investigated the

circumstances. Have you had the outcome of that report yet? There

was one serious incident report that was found to be inadequate, which

cost us a lot of stress and went on for a long time. It was not really

independent. That was investigated by Verita and was found to be not

adequate for purpose. That impeded on the inquest because we had no

incident reports to take to the inquest, so there were problems

there. They were just going to leave it at that and say they had learnt

lessons but we insisted they redo the inquest, the serious incident

report, to make sure it was done properly, to make sure they could

actually do it. We are still waiting and we have just actually been put

back again on it, so we wrote a big complaint, which now hopefully we

will meet someone higher up in the trusts to see why they cannot even

do a serious incident report. And Deborah, how shocking is it that

this number of people have been able to take their own life at a

particular centre run by one mental health trust? I think the family

summed it up. You expect to go into a mental health setting and be safe.

For repeated deaths to happen under similar circumstances, to me that

highlights the fundamental problems with the way in which these deaths

are investigated. The fact that they are not independently investigated,

that families are very often not involved, but importantly it shows a

shocking lack of learning and accountability, and a failure of

governance and leadership. And that, I think, also begs questions about

the regulator, the Care Quality Commission. Bipin for various

recommendations for this particular trust to improve. They did, but you

have to monitor and ensure that those recommendations have been

commented. I think that is the biggest frustration and distress for

the families, to know that they have suffered a death and they hoped

action would be taken to prevent similar deaths, only to find out

that another person has died in almost identical circumstances.

There are questions across the NHS, and for the CQC, as to how the

situation at this hospital was able to happen. Sean Dodd, what is the

situation with staffing at these mental health units? They have a lot

of staff, and many hospitals have the required amount of nurses and

hospital doctors. But in other parts, they're finding it difficult

to recruit. Staffing is a difficult issue for many services. And some

are understaffed. Some are using more agencies and we would like in

the balance between that is important. If you have permanent

staff, but now the patients, that is something we would strive for, but I

would like to say little bit about the mental health context because I

think it is important to set the scene on how we resolve things

moving forward. It has been known for decades that mental health has

been an underinvested part of the health in total. And that successive

governments, three years ago there was an independent task force around

mental health, that was supposed to look at issues like this, preventing

suicide, better health care for children, and that came up with a

five-year plan. We are to make years into that and there has been some

difficulty in getting the money into NHS trusts. But it is now starting

to come through. For the next government, it is absolutely

essential that that is committed to. And the investment needs to go

through because it is linked directly with workforce. There is a

lack of money, of course, which makes it more difficult to get the

workforce right. This is not going to be a reassurance to Sofia and I

am sorry about that but that is the context of mental health. Let me

read an e-mail from Cassie. She says I spent a brief amount of time in

the Linden Centre four years ago and they saved my life. I cannot fault

the environment. I feel sad for the families who have lost loved ones,

and ogle the centre should be a safe place, it will not stop someone

determined to end their life. They will do anything they can. -- and

although the centre. Sandra says, my son was admitted to the Linden

Centre on many occasions over the last ten years. My son was left

unattended and the staff were disengaged. He was at high risk. The

patients also had to sleep on the floor under were not enough beds.

Aaron us as well. Good morning. You are at the Linden Centre three

times. Tell us about the care that you received. I cannot praise them

enough. It is an extremely difficult job for them to do. Because when you

are hell-bent on trying to commit suicide, nothing will stop you. It

is really, really horrible. It is not a nice place to be, and the

staff themselves were lovely. But like I say, you cannot get into the

brain of the person who is trying to do it to just give them instructions

to stop. It took me out of normal life. And it does calm me down a

lot, but you cannot live there forever. Sure, but do you feel that

if it was not for the way you were cared for at the Linden Centre, you

perhaps would not be here now? That's right. I would say that

without their help I most probably would not be here. Thank you very

much for getting in touch. I have one more message here from Alice.

Depression and suicidal behaviour are a far bigger issue than society

would like to admit. The blame falls on caregivers and failing

institutions with a real conversation is being ignored.

Treatments are ineffective and often the side effects outweigh the

benefits. Psychological intervention is not accessible enough and is not

offered and young enough ages. We need to take a long, hard look at

how we treat this type of illness because the numbers keep rising and

resources are becoming more scarce. Becky very much, all of you. I'm

sorry, did you want to say something? I would like to say that

there is this myth that people cannot be stopped from committing

suicide. That is the problem. Years ago, there used to be a silence that

were places of safety, and they would have long-term care. Nowadays,

there is no long-term care. And also, people are left. My mother was

a voluntary patient and although there have been things with law, and

nobody is protecting the voluntary patient. They can come and go with

impunity, which is what happened with my mother. Although some of the

staff are brilliant and some lives are saved, there is definitely more

that can be done. And in history, we look back and say, what was going

on, why were so many people dying he did not have to die in this time.

Thank you all of you for coming on the programme.

The deadline to register to vote closes at midnight tonight -

with fresh warnings that young people won't be properly represented

when the UK goes to the polls - because not enough have either

register or say they're even going to vote.

Radio 1 Newsbeat's politics editor Jonathan Blake is here.

Actually... In your opinion, how do you think Brexit will affect you and

other young people in the next ten years? There is plenty of passion

for politics here in Cardiff. In exchange for free coffee, these

young voters are talking about the issues most important to them.

Democracy cafe events have been held around the UK as a way of

encouraging younger people to register to vote. I think the main

reason young people do not vote is because they feel as though they do

not know enough or they feel as though they have not had enough life

experience to merit being able to vote. We are easy to leave out. We

are easy to let down because we do not kick up a fuss. We should be let

down if we are not on the register because let's be honest, why would

they allow us to have those if we do not register? A lot of people in

Brexit, they surround themselves with group of friends who were all

remainders or were all going to leave. Everybody was surprised by

the result. We are keeping in our own safe spaces, and we are not

challenging each other. But for a lot of young people politics is

still a no-go zone. This drum and bass group, currently working on a

new album, are taking time out to encourage younger people to register

to vote, hoping that music will help them get the message. When I was

young I did not feel like we could do much. I did not feel like I had

much control to change anything because so many people are voting,

and I think it is important for me to educate myself, and work out what

options I had. That took a while and I did not really thought until I was

26. I never voted myself and this is the first time I will be voting. I

think if we can show our fans, the people that follow us, that it is

actually, you can make a difference. I was really inspired and I think it

is important to at least look at what is out there. Politics is so

important, it seems like such a horrible word, but what it means is

our everyday lives, it is the way our lives are going to be governed,

the way we're to live. So to vote, to use your vote, to register to

vote is everyday life. Rage is key to rap. You have to understand that.

You have that fire in your belly.. Brown often talks politics on stage

and tries in his music to reflect real life. -- Doc Brown. He is

trying to use his voice to encourage people to vote. It is something

close to my heart and I feel like kids and people in their late teens

and early 20s, these are the freshest voices in the country.

These are people that might actually have some good ideas on where we go

next. Regardless of what government it is, Labour, Conservative, Ukip,

whoever runs the country, we are inevitably ruled by people in the

latter stages of their life. No disrespect to people of that age,

but they do things in a certain way. And it would be quite interesting to

see what people under 25 want to say and want to do, and how they view

our country, how they view our future, because they are the future.

This site, its job is to give you an overview of what the options are in

the election. Technology is playing a part in making some people -- up

in some people make up their mind. This site is one of many helping

voters to cut through the noise and find out how effective they are

thought to be. In this instance a nurse and has entered their vote and

they want to go for a hard Brexit. This is compiling a number of pieces

of information, matching your view, looking at the chances of success

and weighing up what could or could not happen, and giving you a total

score. If you want to cast a vote on June eight, there is a good chance

that you would achieve what it is you wanted to do. The parties

epitope manifestos telling us what they will do in government and

people can read those, but it seems like you have found a gap, which is

cutting through all that information, those promises, and

people need that and want it, it seems. This is commonly known as

voter advice applications or VAAs, but they are not new. They have been

around since the 1980s but we think they have come into the fourth front

because we can do this faster, or previously we would have needed a

massive team of researchers to do this. -- they have come into the

forefront. This election is, as a shock and many are hoping that the

number of voters taking part will also be a surprise. How many adults

bother to vote? Not many. In the last election in 2015, we concede

that among 18-24 year olds, 43% of people turned out to vote. If you

compare that with pensioners, 78% over-65s. The overall turnout, 66%.

Young people voting with below the average numbers. In terms of those

registering, which will give us an indication of how many might vote

this time around, since the election was called, 2 million people in

total, roughly, have registered to vote and around 600,000 under 25 is.

We would expect a larger proportion of those registered to be younger

because they have turned 18, perhaps they have moved away to university

or back home. But the Electoral Commission estimates that there are

7 million people in total who are not registered so that deadline is

coming tonight. There may well be a last-minute rush. 7 million people

will not register by midnight. They might struggle. We might see

problems with the website to that happens. But we have seen a spiked

because they by Dave the government has been updating the figures online

for the number of people registering. If we look at this

snapshot from yesterday, we can see a big spike. 90,000 people under 25

registering to vote yesterday alone. So as the midnight deadline

approaches, we will probably see that rising higher. The first past

the post system is one reason why people often say, there is no point

because Marvel does not count. Explain what the first past the post

system is and why it affects voter numbers. The system is what we have

in this country, or by one party has to get past more than half the seats

of Parliament to form a government. As soon as they have done that, they

are in charge. What we hear from you people talking about politics is

just that. I'm not going to vote because it will make no difference.

If you live in an area which is a safe Conservative seat or a safe

Labour seat, you might think that you like what the greens or Ukip as

to say it one of the smaller parties, and your vote may not make

a difference because it might make a dent in the majority but it will not

be reflected nationally. Obviously arguments for the first past the

post system say that it helps us with directorate hesitation in each

constituency across the UK. That is one thing that comes up time and

time again. If we look at the split from the last general election in

2015, you can see why the parties argue differently on this because in

terms of Conservative support, it is by far and away from older voters

over 65. Almost half. And it has almost flipped between younger

voters under 25, almost half to four Labour. And a good deal more support

for the smaller parties. How younger people being encouraged to register

to vote this time? There is less time it get younger

people engage and get them to register to vote. We have seen

several campaigns online, takeover of Twitter and Facebook and

Instagram if you have tried to post a selfie you might have noticed a

special filter coming in encouraging you to register to vote and ways

online of trying to engage young people through the issues rather

than the parties because that's the way than more than likely they will

get encouraged to be involved in politics and to actually be

motivated to vote. And you're taking part in the Newsbeat vote? Yes, we

will be in Manchester on 6th June with an audience of 120 young

people, representatives from the seven major parties and we will be

live on the BBC One after the news that night.

President Trump has arrived in Israel. He is due to meet Israeli

and Palestinian leaders and visit a until of holy sites. Let's watch

some of it with our correspondent who is there for BBC World.

Israelis are going to mark Jerusalem Day. That's the day when they

celebrate the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem as they

see it when it was captured in the 1967 Middle East war. This year,

because it is the 50th anniversary, Mr Trump will see from his hotel in

Jerusalem that there are celebrations taking place with a

nightly light show for example. So it will be hard for him to miss that

and hard for him to miss the significance of that, but the

indications are from officials at the moment on the American side that

there will not be the embassy move at this time. We have been closely

following, of course... We have got the live pictures. We are watching

closely. I wonder if we can keep you with us for a moment what the

reaction was in Israel to President Trump's visit to Saudi, particularly

the comments he made, the criticism that he made of Iran yesterday?

Well, of course, Israel sees Iran as being it's enemy. It is extremely

worried about its nuclear programme although there was concern among

Israeli politicians about the arms deals that President Trump was

signing with Saudi Arabia, at the same time, there was some acceptance

that this could be something that's important to Israel as well. I think

that's something that President Trump will be trying to stress on

this trip, but there are common security concerns between the Sunni

Arab countries in the Gulf and also between Israel. He's trying to

already achieve some kind of thawing in the diplomatic freeze that there

has been between them. They have never recognised the Arab countries

apart from Jordan and Egypt, the existence of Israel as a state. So,

if he can achieve something in terms of finding common ground between

them that will be very important. Already, there are some suggestions

that security, intelligence is shared when it comes to Iran for

example. That's something President Trump is really going to be building

on as he continues the political meetings. I should mention too that

the Palestinian president was among those leaders who were in Riyadh.

That's been cited as another reason why his trip to Bethlehem and to the

West Bank will just be a very short one. Of course, Mahmoud Abbas was at

the White House earlier this mon. So lots has been going on behind the

scenes in advance of this visit to ease things now and we should get a

much clearer idea of the shape of US policy towards this part of the

Middle East. Absolutely, we're just seeing the

red carpet and we can see the Prime Minister and his wife Sarah and the

president there too waiting for Mr Trump. But Mr Trump has a large team

with him including his incredibly influential son-in-law. What kind of

views does he have on the Middle East Peace Process and how could

they influence his father-in-law? Well, his son-in-law is senior

advisor. He is here with his wife Ivanka Trump. His family is said to

have had close relations with the family. His family as well as the

family of the new US ambassador to Israel appointed by Mr Trump, his

former lawyer, well, they have close associations actually with solicitor

of the settlements. In particular, one which is close to ra mullah in

the West Bank. So that caused a lot of concern also about what this new

administration's policy could be when it comes to settlements and

early on, not long after Mr Trump took office we saw thousands of

homes being announced in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by the

Israelis. That continued until we had that visit of Netanyahu at the

White House. That's when Mr Trump said he wanted Mr Netanyahu to hold

back a little as he tried to revive peace efforts. It is interesting to

see the involvement and one of Mr Trump's aides. He has been here in

advance of the visit trying to set-up the political meetings that

will take place and go through many of the details. He has been in the

region. It was at the Arab summit when I was there a few weeks ago in

Jordan at the Dead Sea, having private meetings with the different

Arab leaders. So this all gives you a sense of how much this new

administration is prioritising this long-standing Middle East conflict

as something that it wants to address, even though, of course,

there are many other problems in this region that the US has to

address as well and of course, despite President Trump's

considerable domestic difficulties too. It is a long-standing

commitment by the US towards Israel support.

Can you tell our viewers about that relationship, about just how much

the US supports Israel militarily. There is huge support despite the

strange relations between Mr Netanyahu and the previous

president, Barack Obama, it was announced during his time in office,

a deal that gives $38 billion to Israel over the course of a decade

in terms of military aid. So that military...

STUDIO: We're going to leave that. Clearly, we were waiting for

President Trump to walk down the steps on to the red carpet, but

we're leaving that because the Green Party are launching their manifesto

this morning. Here is the co-leader. A future that we can all be proud

of. Confident because we're creating a resilient and diverse and people

powered economy that allows us to live larger lives and cope with the

challenges ahead. Caring because we're redefining the Welfare State.

Striving to end inequality and committed to redistricting both

wealth and power. We have the fifth largest economy in the world. In

such a country no renter should have to live in damp, cold or neglected

accommodation. No parent should have to compete with other parents to

find their child a decent school. No one should have to wait ten hours in

an emergency ward before getting the care and attention they need. When I

go to my children's school I walk in to the foyer and I'm presented with

a huge board right in the middle of the school. Everyone sees it when

they come in and on that board are three circles. In those circles is

every picture of every child in the school with their name underneath

and those children that have made three levels of progress are there

in the centre, that's where two of my children are. Those children that

have made no progress are pictured on the outside of those circles.

Stigmatised for everyone to see. None of my children want that. None

of the teachers in their heart of hearts want that. They want an

education system that works for everyone. I go to a hospital, as I

did last year, and I go with my son as a regular user, I don't want to

have to have my hospital appointment cancelled three times, my operation

cancelled three times for my son. It's not fair on him. It's not fair

on the others. When I go to a basic hospital appointment I don't want to

want to wait two hours only for that appointment to be cancelled. We can

have a different future. One where we all have the security and the

choices we deserve. For a basic income which allows us to fulfil our

potential and yes, let's say it, our dreams. No one should tell you that

your voice doesn't matter. But when it comes to the biggest decision

this country has faced in generations, you will not get a say

on whether having seen what life outside the EU will look like we

should choose that future or choose to remain. The media, with respect,

and the old parties, will tell you that there are only two options on

the ballot paper at they election. It's not true. That is a disservice

to our democracy. If you believe in a welcoming Britain, a country of

compassion, a fair economy where those with the most contribute more,

the protection of our countryside, a nation confident enough to build

bridges, not walls, then you have a choice. If you believe things can

change for the better and that the next generation must be defined by

fairness, not foodbanks, then we will give you that choice. If you

believe that our future will be defined not by the size of our

nuclear arsenal, but by harnessing the enormous potential of the people

who live right here in this country, then join us and stand up for what

really matters. And on 8th June, choose a positive future and vote

Green for a confident and caring Britain.

Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan. I'm very, very

proud to introduce Caroline Lucas. She's defending to be re-elected as

MP for Brighton Pavilion for the second time and she just gets more

and more popular as far as I can tell. Thank you very much, Sian.

Thank you to everyone for being here. I'm delighted to be with

Jonathan and launching this wonderful Green Guarantee and first

of all I want to thank Yra. They have been getting behind bold,

creative new ideas and shaping the future through brave leadership and

by being here today we're choosing a future of opportunities for pioneers

and inowe vai fors like them. -- innovators. We are here choosing a

new type of economy that meets people's needs and makes sure we

protect the environment. A confident and caring Britain that reaches for

a bigger future that we can be proud of. The Green Guarantee is about

hope and we need hope now like never before. I can't remember a time in

my own lifetime where the future has felt more uncertain with Brexit,

with accelerating climate change, with an NHS in crisis. We face

challenges that we can't possibly pretend to fix in the next 100 days

or the next 1,000. Threats to our economic future, threats to our

security, threats to our planet. But ours is a message of hope because we

believe that if we stand together for what matters, we can change the

course of historiment we can meet these enormous challenges. So while

other parties ignore the environment, the Greens will protect