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I'm Victoria Derbyshire, welcome to the programme.

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After all the way to come election day is finally here.

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Leaders are all voting this morning - we'll bring you those

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Internet scammers keep finding new ways to trick you out of your cash,

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but networks of volunteers are fighting back. I hear that I have

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won the lottery! Yes, you need to see the information we require from

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you for me to process your file. I am an agent for the promotion, the

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payment department agent assigned to your payment. We will hear from some

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cyber security experts on how to protect yourself. And the teenager

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who had the presence of mind to start recording with her mobile

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phone when a man attacked her. I switch the recording on my phone and

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the light as well, and I thought, if he sees I am recording, I said, I am

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recording you, I am recording you, he will run off, it would scare him

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off, and he wouldn't want to get caught. But he didn't care at all.

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We will hear from 19-year-old Lilyanne. It is an incredible story.

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Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning.

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Also - do you think music festivals should provide drug testing

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facilities to allow people taking illegal drugs to check

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If you take drugs, if you go to festivals -

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Seven weeks after a general election was called,

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polling stations across the UK have opened for millions of people

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Police forces say there is increased security in some areas

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following the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London.

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The first election results are expected at around midnight.

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Election day 2017, just two years after the last one,

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and three years earlier than we were expecting.

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68 different parties are vying for your votes this time around,

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with a total field of more than 3,300 candidates.

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We'll elect MPs from 650 constituencies across the UK,

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533 in England, 40 in Wales, 59 in Scotland, and 18 in Northern

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Around 47 million people are eligible to vote,

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and we'll be casting our ballots at 41,000 polling stations

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the length and breadth of the land, as well as by post.

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The party leader with the most MPs will be invited by the Queen to form

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a government, with MPs due back here next Tuesday.

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So, after seven weeks of campaigning, the time has come

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to choose who will end up on those green benches across the road.

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11 days from now, the Queen will arrive here in a scaled-down

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ceremony, wearing a hat, not a crown, driven in a car,

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not a royal coach, to present the new government's plan

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Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News, Westminster.

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And you can we watch all the results coming in throughout the night.

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Mishal Husain, David Dimbleby, Laura Kuenssberg and Emily Maitlis will

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have your coverage. At ten o'clock you will get the exit poll, which

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often gives you a good indication of the outcome of the election. That's

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at 9:55pm on BBC One. Jeremy Vine will no doubt be there with some

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crazy graphics. So do tuning tonight. Let's bring you the rest of

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the morning's news with Annita. Thank you, Victoria. Good morning.

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Claire The former FBI director sacked

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by Donald Trump will give evidence James Comey claims the US President

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tried to influence his investigation into links between members

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of the Trump team and Russia. Our North America Correspondent

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Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. There was a time when President

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Trump had nothing but praise for James Comey, but a firm

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grip in January turned The President sacked the FBI

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director, reportedly calling him He's a showboat,

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he's a grandstander. You know that, I know that,

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everybody knows that. Most people know the President's

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version of events. Now James Comey will go public

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before the Senate with his. On the eve of his appearance before

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the Senate, James Comey released He said the President isn't

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being investigated by the FBI Mr Comey says over a private dinner

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in January he was asked by the President for his unwavering

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support. "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty",

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he says the President told him. But how far did the

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President expect that Mr Comey says he was asked to drop

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the investigation into ties between the President's former

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national security adviser Michael There is no suggestion

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that the President asked for an end to the wider

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written inquiry but James It's not just Congress which is

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looking into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, there is also

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an ongoing FBI investigation. In the saga that is

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Washington politics, James Comey's testimony

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is a must-see moment but it's just one act

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what's becoming a long and drawn-out political drama.

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Three men have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences

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after armed officers carried out a series of raids

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Two men aged 34 and 37 were arrested at separate addresses in Newham

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and a 33-year-old man was arrested in Waltham Forest.

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Police say the arrests are not connected to

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Military officials in Myanmar say wreckage from an air force transport

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plane which disappeared over the Andaman Sea

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Ten bodies, including those of a child, were discovered

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about 35 kilometres south of the town of Launglon.

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The Chinese-made aircraft was carrying 122 passengers

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and crew, most of them soldiers and their families.

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Scientists at the University of Bath have developed biodegradable

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cellulose microbeads that could replace harmful tiny pieces

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Microbeads are tiny spheres of plastic which are added

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to products such as face wash, sunscreen and toothpaste to give

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Experts warn they end up in rivers and oceans,

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where they are ingested by birds, fish and other marine life.

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a Japanese fugitive who has been on the run for 45 years has been

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arrested. He allegedly said an officer on fire.

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Same-sex couples in the UK could be allowed to get married in Anglican

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Later the Scottish Episcopal church will vote on whether to change

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A positive vote would mean that same-sex couples from all over

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the UK can marry in Anglican churches in Scotland.

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Our correspondent Michael Buchanan reports.

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At the centre of what we celebrate here today is the love

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A gay marriage in an Anglican Church.

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But later today, this scene could become legal in Scotland.

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The Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church in Scotland,

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will vote this afternoon on whether to allow gay weddings.

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The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth is strongly in favour.

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So many people now know gay couples who want to be married

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in church and stand up in front of their friends and in front of God

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and declare their love for one another.

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The Churches in England and Wales don't allow saame

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But if the vote in Edinburgh is passed today, it would allow

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gay couples from the rest of the UK to be married

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It's a question of the authority of the Bible who runs the church.

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Our belief is the Bible is the supreme authority that

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Jesus Christ runs the Church using the Bible.

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When something like this happens, it is not so much

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it is about the authority of the Bible that matters.

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Attitudes to gay marriage are one of the defining

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Supporters say acceptance of the move is inevitable over time.

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Today's vote could bring that future a step closer.

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Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Edinburgh.

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A diamond ring bought for ?10 at a car-boot sale has been sold

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for more than ?650,000 at auction in London.

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The 26-carat cushion-shaped diamond sold for almost double its estimate.

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The owner bought the ring in the 1980s and was unaware

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of its real value, wearing it every day

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

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In a moment we will be talking about what is being done to keep

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you safe from internet scammers who try to trick unsuspecting

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Have you been a victim of that kind of fraud yourself?

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Do get in touch with us throughout the morning -

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

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Let's bring you some sport now. Our Chelsea really going to get rid of a

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star player? It seems so, and it is pretty surprising, it involves Diego

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Costa. If you are a fan of one of the other big clubs, you will be

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happy to hear this, but the Chelsea fans, not at all. It has been

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claimed he has been told he can leave the champions via a text

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message from the manager, Antonio Conte. He scored 26 goals last

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season, still only 26 years old, he was speaking after his country's

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game last night. He is stirred Chelsea player but is looking for a

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new club because it is clear that the new coach does not count on me

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and does not want me there. That is a real development. He is a cult

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hero at Chelsea, his team-mates seemed to like him and he is

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well-known for his histrionics, and having a smile on his face as well.

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It seems Chelsea are favourites to sign Romelu Lukaku from Everton as a

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replacement, and that could make cost a fantastic deal for one of the

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big clubs in Europe. And there is this big game coming up

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England and Scotland, but England need a new captain. Who will it be?

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A World Cup qualifier, and England without Wayne Rooney, he is lacking

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in form. His long-term international future looks bleak as well,

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questions being asked about who his replacement will be. At just 23, the

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Premier League's top scorer last season, Harry Kane, thinks he is

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ready to step up. I have grown up as a footballer, everyone grows up with

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dreams of being England captain one day, I am no different, but it is

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down to Gareth. We have a lot of leaders in this team, and that is

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what we need to get across, that whoever is captain is captain, but

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there are plenty of other leaders that can talk and help each other

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out on the pitch, and that is the main focus for us. Gareth Southgate

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was a bit more quiet on who the long-term replacement for Wayne

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Rooney might be, but Harry Kane is being compared Alan Shearer, and we

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all know what a great captain he was. And the Lions tour of New

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Zealand hasn't got off to the best of starts. Getting any closer to a

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test line-up? We should be, but once again, Warren Gatland has completely

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changed his starting line-up of they are now into the third match of the

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tour, we would expect to see what we would think would be the test

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line-up, but they do have a match this Saturday, Wales lock Alun Wyn

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is going to captain the side against the Canterbury Crusaders. Sean

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O'Brien, Conor Murray, George North, they will all make their first

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appearances of the tour. The Lions opponents have named eight All

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Blacks in their team. Saturday's match will be far more daunting, it

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is a big step up in quality because the Crusaders have a perfect 14 wins

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from 14 so far this season. Thank you very much. More from Hugh

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throughout the morning. Polling day, as you know, delighted to see one of

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the great register additions is continuing on this general election

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day, which is #dogsatpollingstations. We

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would very much like to end the programme today with pictures of

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your dog at the polling station. A picture of your dog, where you are

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at the UK, and obviously the name of your dog. We have this picture,

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unfortunately Richard hasn't given us the name of this dog, which I'm

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guessing is a Cockerpoo, but I might be wrong. Not the most glamorous

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polling station, but certainly the most glamorous dog, he says! Do send

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us your pictures and we would be delighted to end the programme with

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photographs of dogs from all around the UK. But first this morning.

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Most of us have received a scam e-mail in our inbox -

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someone wanting to transfer thousands of dollars into your

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account, or asking you to cash cheques and send them money.

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You might have ignored it, but thousands don't and fall victim

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to this kind of online fraud, losing a lot of money

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The criminals rarely get caught, because they are usually operating

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from outside the UK, which makes it harder

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But networks of volunteers are fighting back, trying to beat

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Our reporter Hannah Morrison has been to meet some of them..

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Every year, tens of thousands of people are conned by online

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scammers. But it is not only the authorities taking action. It is

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just a bad element on the planet and something we could do without.

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What we do is we waste their time and resources. And we make them

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believe that they are not as good a scammer as they think they are.

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There are always going to be there, but if we can take them down a peg,

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take a victim away from them any time we can.

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You have all received the e-mails. You have won a lottery you didn't

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know you have signed up for. A long lost relative has left you

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inheritance. But there is always a catch. You need to send money first.

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Behind those e-mails are scammers who cheat people out of money, and

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the Internet offers them a safe haven. The England and Wales crime

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survey estimates there are 100,000 cases of this fraud each year. The

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police admit it is harder to catch criminals working from overseas, but

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a global network of volunteers is trying to stop them. Some of them

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don't want to reveal their identities were obvious reasons, but

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we have three of them online now. Can you explain what you do? As far

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as baiting, I pretend to be a perfect victim for a scammer, the

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idea is to collect all of their information, whether it it be faked

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documents, phone numbers, photographs, anything they are

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trying to use to scam victims with. Getting the scammers victims up

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online so people can be warned about them or messing with a scammer to

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take up his time and keep them away from victims. As a victim Warner, I

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am sending out text messages or making actual phone calls to scam

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victims to warn them that they are being scammed by Joe scammer and

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that they need to protect themselves. Why do you do it? My

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mother got caught up in what they call the grandparent scam. She

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didn't lose any money and that was more just blind luck, but I know to

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this day that my mother would still fall for this scam because she was

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so convinced that this was reality. She had $5,000 cash, and it was a

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western union employee that actually stopped her. It affected me deeply.

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So what kind of technology are you using? Is there something special

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you need to do the dues to do scam baiting? A pretty simple setup, I

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can give you a location and I will show you how it's done. That sounds

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perfect. Wayne has agreed to meet us, not at his house but at a secret

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location. An empty hall in south Wales. He doesn't want the room run

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the risk of the scammers knowing where he lives. How are you? Nice to

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meet you. The website he runs puts up details they acquire from

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conversations with scammers. Photos, phone numbers, e-mails. Victims can

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use it to check whether they are being conned. Wayne says police and

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other authorities use the data too. We have dealt with the police, the

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FBI, Western Union. So we do work with police, with authorities, but

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it is almost always when they come to us, rather than us going to look

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to work with them. The police's National fraud and cyber crime

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agency couldn't tell us whether they work with baiters like Wayne or not,

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as they don't comment on individual groups. But their advice to victims

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is to call action fraud. This is a conversation between you and someone

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who I am assuming is not called Sarah. No. Do you make stuff up to

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make you see more vulnerable? More like somebody who a scammer would

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think they will get a success from? On this one, never married, just

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split up a while back with my ex. Wayne and his friends have

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successfully gathered pages of information on scammers, but it

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rarely leads to arrest because so many are based abroad. So they find

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other ways to get to them, by wasting their time and money, and

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this is where the baiters have a bit more fun. OK, so we have just been

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to see Wayne. We have now come to a different location in the UK to meet

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someone else from the group, who is chewed to do some scam baiting this

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evening. She has invited us along to see exactly how it stand. You are

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going to try and bait someone, nothing we also going to try and get

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when involved as well? We will see what we can do. We are not random

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find a random person on the end of a phone, this is somebody who has

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e-mailed and we know them. Gel and Wayne carry out a lot of baiting

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together. They always wait to be approached, but that happens a lot

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because their details are on so-called sucker lists, databases

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compiled by scammers who have fallen victim to scams like this before.

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Hello, Wayne, are you getting involved again? Pretending to be

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husband-and-wife, they are going to make a phone call to someone who has

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contacted Jill saying that she has won a lottery of $1.2 million in

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Africa. The idea is to waste his time by arguing about which one of

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them gets the money. Hello. Hello. I have my wife with me. We received

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your e-mail, and we would both love to hear more. Are you people the

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winners of the 2017 lottery? We are, yes. Is this for your wife or for

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you? It would be for both of us. If you need to talk to my wife I can

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get on the other line, I will do that. Can you take the other line?

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Hello. Hello, how are you? Hello, it is lovely to hear from you. I hear

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that I have won the lottery. Yes, yes! You need to send information to

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me to process your file. I am an agent for the promotion. The payment

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department agent assigned to your payment. The call goes on and on as

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Jill and Wayne want to keep on talking as long as possible. The

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more time he chats, the less it has to focus on other potential victims.

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The continues to ask for their personal details. Just send the

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information to me, then I will deal with you via the e-mail that you

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put, your mobile number. They continue to waste the time. My

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e-mail address, I get the my e-mail address, I get the money.

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You do not get the money, it is my e-mail address! He persists, so do

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they. He is not getting a penny of that money! Eventually Wayne and

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Jill end the call. OK then, goodbye. I am assuming that would have gone

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on normally, we had to cut it short, how long would it go on for? We

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would carry on as long as it wasted their time, as long as it confused

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the scammer. What is your motivation? We challenge them, and

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we make them believe that they are not as good a scammer as they think

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they are. So we get under their skin. What about your personal

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safety, is it worth it? You have kids. I do, however I take great

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care in protecting my online persona. I bait with e-mail

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addresses that are not traceable. I don't use any of my real-life

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information. If you want to catch them out, why not just report them

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to the police straightaway? It would be brilliant if we could get them

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arrested. Law enforcement in our country could advise, they do give a

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lot of advice on how to prevent it from happening, but they can't

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really affect proper arrests and control overseas. It is just not

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possible, there are just too many of them. The police's fraud bureau say

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that although criminals working abroad are harder to catch, a lot of

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resources in the UK are going into preventing scams and raising

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awareness of them. In the meantime, Jill, Wayne and many others will

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continue scam baiting, passing any information they find on the victims

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and the police. We will talk to two experts in just a moment but as it

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is polling day, Theresa May has just voted in her Maidenhead

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constituency. These are the pictures of her casting her vote in selling

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their Reading. -- casting her vote near Reading.

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Going in and coming out. It means Theresa May has voted. A little

:24:25.:24:33.

earlier, this was the Scotland First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, casting

:24:34.:24:38.

her vote in Glasgow. We will show a picture of her going in and then

:24:39.:24:39.

coming out. You can vote until 10pm tonight.

:24:40.:25:17.

General election coverage on BBC One starts at five to ten. We will get

:25:18.:25:22.

the exit poll at ten o'clock will be published across all the

:25:23.:25:25.

broadcasters at ten o'clock, it usually gives you a very good

:25:26.:25:28.

indication of the outcome of the election, but results released at

:25:29.:25:32.

coming in about midnight, although Sunderland like to do it at about

:25:33.:25:35.

11. Don't always manage it but they do their best. Back to those scam

:25:36.:25:40.

baiters, the people challenging the scammers around the world.

:25:41.:25:42.

Let's talk to Brian Lord, he has his own cyber security company.

:25:43.:25:45.

And Tony Neate, who's from advice service Get Safe Online.

:25:46.:25:47.

Good morning to you both. Brian Lord, there are a small minority of

:25:48.:25:55.

scam baiters and a huge number of scammers around the world. They will

:25:56.:26:00.

never really disrupt more than a handful, are they? No, they are not.

:26:01.:26:04.

They believe they are doing the right thing, as long as they stay on

:26:05.:26:08.

the right side of the law, it just plays a tiny little part in

:26:09.:26:13.

addressing what is a wider issue. And as long as they make the

:26:14.:26:18.

information available to those organisations who can promulgate

:26:19.:26:20.

that information as part of a wider awareness campaign, the better.

:26:21.:26:23.

Because the key thing about this, the way that you stop this kind of

:26:24.:26:31.

thing is awareness. It is confidence trekking in the 20% true, that is

:26:32.:26:34.

all. It is simply educating people how not to fall for it. Tony Neate,

:26:35.:26:39.

how do you think about what the baiters are doing? It is good sport.

:26:40.:26:45.

Something that has been around 20 years now. It used to be called for

:26:46.:26:50.

19 fraud, which was the penal code in West Africa but I would give a

:26:51.:26:53.

little bit of caution. You have to remember that these are disrupting

:26:54.:26:58.

criminals, serious and organised crime and there is a risk in

:26:59.:27:02.

relation to it. Anyone who thinks this is good sport, I will have a

:27:03.:27:06.

go, you have to remember to protect yourselves, there are IP addresses

:27:07.:27:09.

we have to make sure we don't display, and remember a lot of these

:27:10.:27:14.

people have been threatened with violence, even with murder. I would

:27:15.:27:19.

say yes, it is great if we can take one person off-line doing this, that

:27:20.:27:23.

is great, but we have to be careful. But do you accept that these

:27:24.:27:30.

networks of scambaiters arrived because they are surface treated

:27:31.:27:36.

that more is not being done to catch the con artists? As the security

:27:37.:27:40.

expert just said, there are literally hundreds of thousands of

:27:41.:27:42.

criminals doing this type of thing. It is very difficult to catch them.

:27:43.:27:48.

One of the reasons is they use a non-ISAs, these lists are available

:27:49.:27:52.

on the Darkwa -- the Onana my is themselves. -- available on the dark

:27:53.:28:07.

web. -- they anonymise themselves. I have been frustrated. I followed it

:28:08.:28:11.

along, certainly on telephone calls I have had. The best thing to do is

:28:12.:28:15.

to put the necessary precautions in so you don't get these e-mails in

:28:16.:28:18.

the first place. I will ask you about that in the moment. Brian

:28:19.:28:22.

Lord, some people watching will be thinking, how does anyone fall for

:28:23.:28:26.

this rubbish, it is so obvious when you get an e-mail saying you have $1

:28:27.:28:30.

million on a lottery but can you send 500 quid first before you get

:28:31.:28:33.

the million. But people do and they should not be ashamed or embarrassed

:28:34.:28:37.

to speed up about it -- speak up about it because it to awareness of

:28:38.:28:44.

others. That is a really good point. People react to things for a lot of

:28:45.:28:50.

reasons, quite a lot based on their personal circumstances, how they are

:28:51.:28:55.

feeling, a sense of four is confidence in the internet and

:28:56.:28:58.

e-mail for people who don't understand that kind of thing. But

:28:59.:29:04.

they become in barrister when it becomes a case but also once they

:29:05.:29:09.

have made one or two payments, they are already into it, and the only

:29:10.:29:14.

way out is to create this false confidence that it is actually real,

:29:15.:29:17.

and they end up paying more and more. So yes, I think more people

:29:18.:29:22.

fall foul of it than you would think and everyone should feel confident

:29:23.:29:27.

about speaking out and saying, actually, yes, I did fall victim of

:29:28.:29:32.

something similar, but the key thing is to still make the information

:29:33.:29:35.

available to action fraud. Because although there is a huge amount of

:29:36.:29:40.

frustration about how effective the UK police can operate

:29:41.:29:43.

internationally, they do operate internationally, cross-border, and

:29:44.:29:50.

the more information they have, actually, the more effective they

:29:51.:29:54.

can make their limited capability. Tony Neate cameo advice to our

:29:55.:29:58.

audience about how they can block getting these scam e-mails in the

:29:59.:30:04.

first place? First of all make sure you have good security on your

:30:05.:30:09.

computers and new mobile phones. Update the operating system, the

:30:10.:30:12.

applications, make sure you have strong spam software on your machine

:30:13.:30:18.

to stop that happening, go to the get safe online. All website to get

:30:19.:30:23.

more automation. When something comes through and you think it might

:30:24.:30:28.

be genuine, get someone else to have a look at it. What sounds too good

:30:29.:30:32.

to be true probably is but getting someone else to look at it without

:30:33.:30:35.

rose tinted glasses on and can save you a lot of money -- go to the

:30:36.:30:40.

getsafeonline.org website. Thanks both of you, Tony Neate from

:30:41.:30:45.

getsafeonline.org, and Brian Lord from a cyber security programme.

:30:46.:30:46.

Time for the latest headlines. Polling stations are open

:30:47.:30:53.

for millions of people to cast Police forces say there'll be

:30:54.:30:55.

increased security in some areas following the recent terror attacks

:30:56.:30:59.

in Manchester and London. Voting will go on until ten o'clock

:31:00.:31:02.

tonight, with the first results And in the last half hour

:31:03.:31:05.

party leaders have begun Seven weeks after calling

:31:06.:31:11.

the general election, a polling station in her Maidenhead

:31:12.:31:19.

constituency while the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon went

:31:20.:31:24.

to a ballot box in Glasgow. You can watch all the results coming

:31:25.:31:29.

in throughout the night - The Election 2017 special will be

:31:30.:31:31.

with David Dimbleby. That's on BBC One and the BBC News

:31:32.:31:35.

channel from 9.55pm tonight. The former FBI director sacked

:31:36.:31:41.

by Donald Trump will give evidence James Comey claims the US President

:31:42.:31:44.

tried to influence his investigation into links between members

:31:45.:31:48.

of the Trump team and Russia. The White House denies

:31:49.:31:55.

the allegations. Three men have been arrested

:31:56.:31:57.

on suspicion of terror offences after armed officers carried out

:31:58.:32:00.

a series of raids in Two men aged 34 and 37 were arrested

:32:01.:32:02.

at separate addresses in Newham and a 33-year-old man was arrested

:32:03.:32:11.

in Waltham forest. Police say the arrests

:32:12.:32:13.

are not connected to The Anglican Church in Scotland

:32:14.:32:28.

could become the first in the UK to offer same-sex marriage. The move is

:32:29.:32:35.

opposed by some traditional Anglicans. A diamond ring bought for

:32:36.:32:42.

?10 at a car-boot sale has been sold for more than ?650,000 at auction in

:32:43.:32:49.

London. The 26 carat cushion shaped diamond sold for almost double its

:32:50.:32:55.

estimate. The owner bought the ring in the 1980s and was unaware of its

:32:56.:33:00.

real value, wearing it everyday 30 years.

:33:01.:33:03.

And that is a summary of the latest news. Back to you, Victoria. Now

:33:04.:33:11.

here is the latest sport. Chelsea striker Diego Costa could be

:33:12.:33:15.

on his way out of Stamford Bridge this summer despite helping the club

:33:16.:33:18.

to last season's Premier League title, scoring 20 goals on the way.

:33:19.:33:25.

Costa claims he was told in a text message that he is no longer in the

:33:26.:33:27.

club's plans. The club is absolutely flying in

:33:28.:33:40.

super rugby, so after winning their first game and losing yesterday, it

:33:41.:33:45.

is a real challenge for the Lions. For the fourth year in a row, Andy

:33:46.:33:49.

Murray is through to the semifinals of the French Open. He had to fight

:33:50.:33:52.

for his place, coming from a set down against Kay Nishikori, and will

:33:53.:33:58.

face Stan Wawrinka next in a repeat of last year's semifinal which

:33:59.:34:04.

Murray won. And if you were worried about Sir Ben Ainslie's progress in

:34:05.:34:07.

the America's Cup, the hasn't been any. The day's racing was called off

:34:08.:34:13.

due to heavy winds in Bermuda. That is all the sport for now, we're back

:34:14.:34:17.

with more just after ten o'clock. 19-year-old Lillian Constantine

:34:18.:34:28.

was making her way home from an evening out,

:34:29.:34:30.

when a man - Ashraf Miah - As she was being attacked, Lillian

:34:31.:34:33.

managed to switch on her phone It led to his conviction

:34:34.:34:37.

and last month he was jailed Lilian has waived her right

:34:38.:34:46.

to anonymity to encourage victims of rape and serious sexual assault

:34:47.:34:50.

to come forward and also - where they can - to use

:34:51.:34:53.

modern technology to help In her first broadcast interview,

:34:54.:34:55.

Lillian and her mother Karen spoke to the Today programme's Justin Webb

:34:56.:34:59.

and described the moment As soon as the attacker put his hand

:35:00.:35:10.

on me, I knew something was up, because when I'm out and it's late,

:35:11.:35:15.

it is common for people to talk to you randomly, it is friendly chat,

:35:16.:35:19.

sometimes they can be drunk, but as soon as he put his hand on me, I

:35:20.:35:24.

knew that it was an invasion of my personal space, and that was when I

:35:25.:35:30.

knew something was wrong. And did you think at first but he was going

:35:31.:35:36.

to mug you? I did. I had no idea of what else was going to happen, but

:35:37.:35:39.

initially I did think it was going to be a mugging. What went through

:35:40.:35:44.

your mind when that happened? First of all I flipped the video recording

:35:45.:35:49.

on my phone, and I turned the light on as well, because it was pitch

:35:50.:35:54.

black where I was, and I thought, if he sees that I am recording, and I

:35:55.:35:59.

screamed at him, I said, I am recording you, I thought it would

:36:00.:36:02.

scare him off, and he wouldn't want to get caught, but he didn't care at

:36:03.:36:08.

all. But your phone was on by then? Yes, it was on and the light, I was

:36:09.:36:12.

trying my best to shine the light in his face, but he was using all of

:36:13.:36:17.

his limbs to trip me up and get me onto the floor and pushed me down.

:36:18.:36:20.

And he managed to do that because he was bigger than you? Yes. And how

:36:21.:36:25.

long did the attack last? About two minutes, but it felt like a

:36:26.:36:30.

lifetime. Can you remember what you were thinking as it was happening? I

:36:31.:36:35.

think I was actually so shocked at the fact that I was screaming at

:36:36.:36:39.

him, swearing at him, screaming for help, and I just thought, this must

:36:40.:36:46.

be an absolute maniac, for someone... It was completely

:36:47.:36:49.

barbaric. I am personally quite compassionate, and it is the

:36:50.:36:53.

complete binary opposite of something that I would do or anyone

:36:54.:36:59.

I know would do. How did it end? Did he just run off? I believe that some

:37:00.:37:04.

people nearby heard me screaming, woke up and their lights went on,

:37:05.:37:08.

and that scared him away. So he jumped off and left me there. I

:37:09.:37:14.

didn't look back, I was just on a mission to get home, which was about

:37:15.:37:18.

one minute and 40 seconds away. And when she got home, Karen, what state

:37:19.:37:24.

did you find her in? She was in a dreadful state, she stumbled in

:37:25.:37:27.

through the bedroom door, and as we woke up, we were in a deep sleep,

:37:28.:37:30.

but we put the lights on, we could see she was incredibly distressed,

:37:31.:37:37.

distraught. I could see immediately that something terrible had

:37:38.:37:42.

happened. Her make-up, the crying, she was in coherent, clothes were

:37:43.:37:47.

all over the place, and it was your worst nightmare coming true,

:37:48.:37:50.

actually. Can you remember what you said to her? My instinct was to take

:37:51.:37:56.

hold of her and to pull her close to me and set her down and try to get

:37:57.:38:01.

her to breathe regularly. And I asked her if she had been attacked

:38:02.:38:07.

and she said she had. I called for my husband to call the police

:38:08.:38:10.

immediately. Did you realise immediately that it had been an

:38:11.:38:16.

attempted rape? I felt, the state that she was in, that it could have

:38:17.:38:20.

only been something so awful as that. And I asked her, and she was

:38:21.:38:27.

incoherent, and soon she talked about the film that she had taken,

:38:28.:38:31.

and when we viewed the film, it was absolutely crystal clear what a

:38:32.:38:35.

vicious attack had taken place against her. And then, as a parent,

:38:36.:38:40.

you must be torn between just wanting to hold her and comfort her

:38:41.:38:45.

and actually also wanting to catch this person and to get hold of the

:38:46.:38:51.

police. Our instinct was just our arms around her and sit and let her

:38:52.:38:57.

sob and cry, and to try and get her to feel safe and secure in her own

:38:58.:39:01.

home again. There was no conflict about that, and I suppose at the

:39:02.:39:04.

same time, my husband was calling the police, so I was holding her and

:39:05.:39:10.

he was speaking to the police. And when the police came, that also is a

:39:11.:39:13.

pretty horrible process that you then have to go through? It wasn't

:39:14.:39:18.

pleasant. I had to bag up the clothes I was wearing, hand them

:39:19.:39:23.

over. It was very unnatural, the whole thing, and having to explain

:39:24.:39:26.

what had happened again and again and again to a multitude of

:39:27.:39:30.

different people at different times. But initially it was pretty

:39:31.:39:34.

horrible. And they put you on medication as well? They put me on

:39:35.:39:42.

HIV preventing medication, I was so sick from it and I had to have

:39:43.:39:46.

weekly blood tests to check if my liver was still functioning because

:39:47.:39:50.

of the potency of these tablets. And then because of your quick thinking

:39:51.:39:55.

in filming this attack, the police found the man. They found DNA on me

:39:56.:40:01.

but they couldn't find a match on the system, and they went through

:40:02.:40:04.

the film frame by frame, got a clear image of his face which allowed them

:40:05.:40:08.

to tracking down and catch him. So just to be clear, it may well be

:40:09.:40:12.

that without that film, he would still be walking around free? I

:40:13.:40:16.

believe so. And is that part of the reason at least why you have decided

:40:17.:40:21.

to waive your right to anonymity and say what you have been saying to us?

:40:22.:40:26.

A lot of young people get a bit of grief from being on their phones all

:40:27.:40:29.

the time, but when you think about it, we're walking around with small

:40:30.:40:33.

devices that could do so much good. Extraordinary. Lillian Constantine

:40:34.:40:38.

and her mother Karen talking to Justin Webb from Radio 4's Today

:40:39.:40:48.

programme. Encouraging other people who are victims of sexual assault to

:40:49.:40:50.

come forward. Still to come: There are calls

:40:51.:40:54.

for festivals to offer free testing of illegal drugs

:40:55.:40:57.

to check their contents and potency - we'll be getting reaction from one

:40:58.:40:59.

mother whose son was a heroin addict If you use illegal drugs or go to

:41:00.:41:06.

festivals, is this something you would welcome, or do you think it

:41:07.:41:09.

normalises illegal drug-taking? We're talking about that in the next

:41:10.:41:13.

15 minutes, so your own personal experiences are pertinent to that

:41:14.:41:16.

conversation. This week has seen a growing

:41:17.:41:20.

diplomatic crisis in the Middle East as Saudi Arabia,

:41:21.:41:22.

the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen announced

:41:23.:41:25.

they were to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and accused them

:41:26.:41:27.

of supporting terrorism. So why is a crisis so far from our

:41:28.:41:29.

borders important to the UK? In a moment, we are going to talk to

:41:30.:43:19.

an ambassador, the UAE's top diplomat to Russia, about white UAE

:43:20.:43:23.

amongst others is ostracising Qatar in the way it is. We are expecting

:43:24.:43:28.

the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, to vote in Islington

:43:29.:43:34.

North. Not yet, obviously, that is why there is a picture of the gate.

:43:35.:43:39.

So we will show you that as soon Mr Corbyn arrives. OK, let's talk to

:43:40.:43:51.

Ambassador Omar. Can you explain to our audience what exactly you are

:43:52.:43:59.

accusing Qatar of? Basically, we have had ongoing discussions for

:44:00.:44:04.

years about their promotion of extremist rhetoric through primarily

:44:05.:44:09.

there television station al-Jazeera. This has become common knowledge

:44:10.:44:14.

outside of the Arab world as well. Their support of the Muslim

:44:15.:44:18.

Brotherhood, which we regard as a terrorist organisation, and that we

:44:19.:44:23.

see as being the integrator for all kinds of violent extremists in the

:44:24.:44:28.

Arab world. And we have an issue with the fact that they want to be

:44:29.:44:32.

part of the golf team, the Gulf Arab team, yet they are undermining us

:44:33.:44:37.

from within by funding radical organisations within our countries.

:44:38.:44:41.

And you have evidence for that funding that you say is happening?

:44:42.:44:48.

Just a very recent example is Qatari hostages in Iraq, and the Qatari

:44:49.:44:56.

government paid Al-Qaeda $300 million and $700 million to various

:44:57.:45:00.

groups. This is very straightforward. What about other

:45:01.:45:07.

countries in your golf club, if you like, if I can put it like that, who

:45:08.:45:12.

are accused of funding extremism, for example Saudi Arabia? This is an

:45:13.:45:17.

important question, you are right, this is something that has been

:45:18.:45:21.

talked about, and there are rumours. There are two different ways in

:45:22.:45:24.

which extremism is funded as far as we can tell in the Arab world. You

:45:25.:45:29.

have private individuals who are independently wealthy, and they pass

:45:30.:45:34.

cash to extremists, and that is the government threw back of the region

:45:35.:45:37.

are working with each other to tackle, so we are working with

:45:38.:45:43.

Unisys... I'm so sorry, we're just going to pause for a moment to bring

:45:44.:45:47.

our audience pictures of Jeremy Corbyn arriving to vote in north

:45:48.:45:48.

London. Theresa May has already voted off

:45:49.:46:00.

the Conservatives. Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP has cast her vote

:46:01.:46:04.

already. Now it is the turn of the leader of the Labour Party. That

:46:05.:46:17.

will do a thing for the moment. Let's continue our commerce ocean

:46:18.:46:21.

with the ambassador, the UAE's top diplomat to Russia. We have been

:46:22.:46:25.

talking about accusations of Saudi Arabia's links the funding of

:46:26.:46:29.

extremism, and why for example you from the UAE haven't cut them off.

:46:30.:46:34.

There are two different kinds of funding that takes place, a funding

:46:35.:46:37.

that we know about and we are monitoring as well as possible,

:46:38.:46:43.

funding by private individuals, and this is people who are independently

:46:44.:46:46.

wealthy and have some kind of ideological agenda and they will be

:46:47.:46:50.

passing cash to extremists in the area perhaps further abroad. The

:46:51.:46:58.

rich Saudi businessmen for example? Someone with money. This is

:46:59.:47:01.

something that has happened in the past, we know about it, and

:47:02.:47:08.

prosecuted. There is legislation being implemented to prevent this

:47:09.:47:11.

part of the reason Trump came to the reason -- to the region was to

:47:12.:47:17.

monitor of these -- set up a centre to monitor all of these transactions

:47:18.:47:21.

to identify who is passing money to extremists. Rather than mess

:47:22.:47:31.

happening in an organic manner which can be brought back, this is a

:47:32.:47:35.

government that looks to find extremists in the region from North

:47:36.:47:38.

Africa all the way to Bangladesh. Actually identifies them and then

:47:39.:47:43.

begins to fund them, in order to achieve their own political foreign

:47:44.:47:47.

policy goals. This is something that has to be tackled. What is the

:47:48.:47:55.

motivation for the state of Qatar to be funding extremists? That is the

:47:56.:47:59.

question we have been putting to them for a very long time. It is a

:48:00.:48:06.

question we have put them for a long time. If we find that our, they will

:48:07.:48:14.

become the paymasters of the ideological war within the Middle

:48:15.:48:18.

East. We believe we have come to the end of the line with the Qataris

:48:19.:48:21.

because they are undermining the regional stability of countries in

:48:22.:48:26.

the Arab world. What they are doing is they are funding for example

:48:27.:48:32.

militias and they are tearing these company 's apart. We are saying we

:48:33.:48:42.

can't take this any longer. Qatar says this is absolutely not true. I

:48:43.:48:46.

want to ask you why the UAE yesterday warned its own citizens

:48:47.:48:49.

that if they showed any Seb with Qatar publicly they could face --

:48:50.:48:55.

showed any sympathy with Qatar publicly they could face up to 15

:48:56.:48:59.

years in jail. This is not law committed the expression of one

:49:00.:49:04.

individual, admittedly within the security services. He is focusing on

:49:05.:49:09.

specific groups of provocateurs within the emirate, who we know

:49:10.:49:13.

we'll be trying to provoke more tension between our countries. It is

:49:14.:49:17.

very interesting also. Not all of the Gulf states have taken this

:49:18.:49:22.

stand against Qatar. Reason that is the case, even though we agreed, we

:49:23.:49:29.

still need to leave a door open. We like dialogue, absolutely. The ruler

:49:30.:49:33.

of cool weight is engaged in dialogue in mediation, so to have

:49:34.:49:38.

provocateurs coming and now muddy the waters even further, there is

:49:39.:49:41.

going to be a problem. Just to give you an example, the Turkish decision

:49:42.:49:47.

to send troops to Qatar really doesn't help the situation

:49:48.:49:50.

whatsoever. Briefly, what would constitute showing sympathy, what

:49:51.:49:53.

summary have to do to be jailed for 15 years? It would require

:49:54.:50:00.

denouncing the Emirates and perhaps saying that the Qataris are God's

:50:01.:50:05.

gift to the world, and I doubt that anyone... You think it is right to

:50:06.:50:10.

go to 15 years jail the saying that? I doubt very much that would happen.

:50:11.:50:16.

You can't absolutely rule it out. I can say very clearly that we have a

:50:17.:50:22.

system in place that would satisfy very stringent standards. I don't

:50:23.:50:24.

think anyone will go to jail for that.

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Music festivals are being encouraged to provide drug safety tests

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so festival-goers can find out the content and strength

:50:36.:50:38.

of what illegal drugs they're about to take.

:50:39.:50:41.

The Royal Society for Public Health, an independent charity dedicated it

:50:42.:50:43.

says to the 'improvement of the public's health

:50:44.:50:45.

and wellbeing', claims this will help minimise the risks

:50:46.:50:47.

A pilot last year found one in five people ditching their drugs

:50:48.:50:58.

But critics say drugs shouldn't be part of the festival

:50:59.:51:02.

culture to begin with, and such tests could

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Lets talk to Shirley Cramer, chief executive of the Royal Society

:51:05.:51:13.

for Public Health, Fiona Measham, director of The Loop, providing

:51:14.:51:15.

the drug safety testing facilities, and Elizabeth Burton-Philips,

:51:16.:51:17.

who set up the charity DrugFAM in memory of her son

:51:18.:51:20.

Welcome all of you, hello. Shirley Cramer, good morning to you. Tell us

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why you are encouraging festivals to provide drug testing facilities? The

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primary reason is to have a harm reduction plan, because in 2010 we

:51:36.:51:43.

had ten young people die of drug illness or drug-related activity,

:51:44.:51:47.

and that was with ecstasy. And in 2015, we had 57. So we have seen

:51:48.:51:55.

this rapid growth in deaths related to ecstasy, which is the most

:51:56.:51:58.

prevalent drug at festivals and clubs. The people taking the drugs

:51:59.:52:05.

are 16 to 24-year-olds, mostly casual drug users. And your argument

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is if you knew exactly what was in it, you wouldn't take it? So the

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strength and content of the drug is not known. When they buy the drug.

:52:14.:52:18.

And what we are trying to do, in a pragmatic way, is awareness and

:52:19.:52:24.

education of these casual drug users to say, actually, they are not that

:52:25.:52:29.

safe. Because in the 1990s, MDMA, which is in ecstasy, would have been

:52:30.:52:39.

around 50 mg or 80 mg of MDMA. It is now about 125 mg on average, so

:52:40.:52:43.

there is more of that active substance. In some of it they have

:52:44.:52:47.

found really toxic substances as well. But in the pilot, if you

:52:48.:52:52.

people decided not to take the drugs but most did not ditch the drugs.

:52:53.:52:58.

But they did get a good intervention from someone who knows about

:52:59.:53:04.

substance misuse. And achieved what? So they are told for example by

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Kante calf the drug or a quarter of the drug, and they can take them a

:53:09.:53:12.

two or three hour intervals. So I think we need to do more to educate

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festivalgoers. This is the season for it. We need to explain there is

:53:18.:53:23.

a danger here. Elizabeth, do you think festivalgoers taking illegal

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drugs don't know there is a danger or they don't think about it? I

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think it is the mindset of that group of people who have begun to

:53:30.:53:37.

see this as the norm. And awareness is the greatest agent for change. I

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can understand the logical thinking and the process behind here, but

:53:46.:53:52.

also there is if you like almost a hidden message that it is acceptable

:53:53.:53:56.

to go and get bladdered, get off your face, in particular using

:53:57.:54:03.

ecstasy, MDMA. One of the things I feel quite strongly about,

:54:04.:54:05.

particularly working as a charity with the families whose lives are

:54:06.:54:10.

completely blown apart by these kind of experiences is that perhaps one

:54:11.:54:14.

of the things that could be considered at festivals is having

:54:15.:54:17.

the screens with those who have passed as a result of using drugs at

:54:18.:54:22.

this festivals, going back to the days of Leah Betts, showing images.

:54:23.:54:29.

Fiona Measham, director of the loop, you are providing the drug safety

:54:30.:54:35.

facilities. Elizabeth raises a pertinent point, it is normalising

:54:36.:54:41.

illegal drug-taking. In fact, drug use will happen anyway and this is a

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pragmatic harm reduction response in relation to that. One of the things

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we found, to go back to the point of one in five disposing of their

:54:51.:54:53.

drugs, is that also other people were coming to us after they had

:54:54.:54:57.

taken the drugs, and they had had a bad experience they wanted find out

:54:58.:55:03.

what had caused it. We found that was a valuable educational tool, if

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you like. The forensic tests could then be linked to a harm reduction.

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So then people could respond appropriately. But it was

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interesting people were engaging productively and wanted to know

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after they had consumed the drugs what was in the drugs. People were

:55:20.:55:22.

not necessarily coming to us before they were planning to take the

:55:23.:55:29.

drugs. Jack has tweeted to say I don't do drugs but I see the effects

:55:30.:55:32.

the state -- the stations have, they save lives. If you can't stop them,

:55:33.:55:37.

save them. Lena tweets that you could not possibly normalise drug

:55:38.:55:42.

taking in festivals any more than it normally is -- already is,

:55:43.:55:46.

Elizabeth, how do you respond to that? I think all the time we are

:55:47.:55:50.

trying to reach the mindset of society, and the mindset of the

:55:51.:55:54.

clubbers and the festivalgoers. To help them to understand the fallout

:55:55.:56:01.

that can happen. You cannot guarantee what you put into your

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body when it is an illegal drug is not going to have some kind of

:56:05.:56:07.

reaction on new anyway, even when it has been tested. And so I think

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raising levels of awareness is critical here, absolutely critical.

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This e-mail says I have been attending festivals since the 80s, I

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now work at several events. I have a teenage daughter who accompanies me,

:56:23.:56:26.

she doesn't use drugs. Testing of drugs at event has been commonplace

:56:27.:56:29.

in countries like Holland for many years was that with all the new

:56:30.:56:32.

designer drugs available it has become impossible to know how

:56:33.:56:35.

harmful they could be. Teenagers will experiment with drugs, always

:56:36.:56:41.

have, surely testing them can only make our children saved -- safer. In

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fact, that sentiment is what we heard from 1300 festivalgoers. We

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did a survey at the Royal Society for Public health and we asked

:56:52.:56:54.

festivalgoers do you think this would be really useful service for

:56:55.:56:58.

you, and 95% said yes, it would indeed. But that is kind of no

:56:59.:57:05.

surprise, is it? I am pleased to hear it, because people think it

:57:06.:57:08.

could be stigmatising, they might not have used it but that isn't the

:57:09.:57:12.

answer we are hearing. So I think it is a very positive thing, that they

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want to be part of it. Elizabeth, you are trying to raise awareness of

:57:21.:57:23.

the harm that can be done when you take illegal drugs and the ripple

:57:24.:57:27.

effect of how it destroys families, friends, networks. When you are 19,

:57:28.:57:34.

when you are 25, you think you are invincible, don't you? And you think

:57:35.:57:39.

this won't be me because I am young, I am invincible. That is right and

:57:40.:57:46.

sadly it is connecting the actions and the consequences, helping the

:57:47.:57:51.

young people to understand that decision to take drugs can change

:57:52.:57:54.

their lives, their families lives forever. Part of the work we do is

:57:55.:57:59.

to visit the bereaved families and when you listen to family members

:58:00.:58:04.

who have got a son or daughter in the mid-20s, 30s, and they have gone

:58:05.:58:09.

out and taken a tablet and they are dead, the devastation. What is

:58:10.:58:16.

inside those strokes, illegal, even paracetamol can kill. OK. Carol says

:58:17.:58:23.

if the drugs were legally available, the quality would be controlled.

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Simple. And think of the tax revenues. Conor tweets this commute

:58:27.:58:32.

shouldn't be taking illegal drugs anyway and testing makes drug-taking

:58:33.:58:35.

normal. Thank you very much, all of you for coming on the programme.

:58:36.:58:43.

Coming up to ten o'clock. We will bring you the latest news and sport

:58:44.:58:46.

in a moment before love that, the latest weather. Some rain in the

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forecast for many of that, it has already been falling overnight

:58:53.:58:55.

across parts of Wales, south-west England, happy in places and through

:58:56.:58:58.

the rest are they able slowly push its way northwards. Not everyone

:58:59.:59:03.

seeing the rain. Some parts of central and eastern England staying

:59:04.:59:05.

largely dry but the rain becoming quite persistent for a time across

:59:06.:59:08.

parts of Northern Ireland and arriving in the Scotland later in

:59:09.:59:12.

the day. A brisk south-westerly wind across the rest of the country,

:59:13.:59:16.

pushing a few sharp showers across this afternoon, 19 is the high end

:59:17.:59:19.

the sunshine, 15 or 16 underneath the rain. The rain eventually clears

:59:20.:59:25.

from Northern Ireland, still pushing northwards through Scotland, behind

:59:26.:59:28.

it if you showers, especially across western areas but a mild night the

:59:29.:59:35.

most. For tomorrow, a showery day. The rain eventually clearing from

:59:36.:59:39.

northern Scotland. Behind its showers, shop at times across

:59:40.:59:42.

western areas, as they push eastwards they will weaken and in

:59:43.:59:46.

many places they could be largely dry for central and eastern England.

:59:47.:59:50.

Here the best of the temperature is 21 or 22 Celsius. Hello, good

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morning, it is ten o'clock it is their stay, iambic Tory adoption.

:59:58.:00:07.

Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon have already cast

:00:08.:00:11.

their votes, and the other party leaders will be doing so shortly.

:00:12.:00:22.

That was an image of the sacked FBI director James Comey.

:00:23.:00:34.

on television that the President did ask him to drop an investigation

:00:35.:00:38.

into links between his former national security

:00:39.:00:40.

We'll get reaction from the US in just a moment.

:00:41.:00:43.

12 staff at two private care homes in North Devon have been found

:00:44.:00:46.

guilty of abusing adults with learning difficulties. One of them

:00:47.:00:51.

was Ben. His family tell us how he was treated. He told us he used to

:00:52.:00:58.

be dragged into the quiet room and he was told to mind the rats or

:00:59.:01:04.

spiders don't eat you. He would be naked, he said he was hungry, and it

:01:05.:01:09.

was just horrendous. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:01:10.:01:16.

with a summary of today's news. Polling stations are open

:01:17.:01:19.

for millions of people to cast Police forces say there'll be

:01:20.:01:25.

increased security in some areas following the recent terror attacks

:01:26.:01:29.

in Manchester and London. Voting will go on until ten o'clock

:01:30.:01:32.

tonight, with the first results And in the last hour, party leaders

:01:33.:01:44.

have begun casting their votes. Seven weeks after calling the

:01:45.:01:47.

general election, Theresa May visited a polling station in her

:01:48.:01:51.

Maidenhead constituency, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn went to

:01:52.:01:52.

a ballot box in North London. And a reminder that you can watch

:01:53.:01:56.

all the results coming The Election 2017 special will be

:01:57.:01:59.

with David Dimbleby. That's on BBC One and the BBC News

:02:00.:02:03.

channel from 9.55pm tonight. The former FBI director sacked

:02:04.:02:08.

by Donald Trump will give evidence James Comey claims the US President

:02:09.:02:10.

tried to influence his investigation into links between members

:02:11.:02:15.

of the Trump team and Russia. The White House denies

:02:16.:02:17.

the allegations. Three men have been arrested

:02:18.:02:25.

on suspicion of terror offences after armed officers carried out

:02:26.:02:27.

a series of raids in Two men aged 34 and 37 were arrested

:02:28.:02:30.

at separate addresses in Newham and a 33-year-old man was arrested

:02:31.:02:36.

in Waltham Forest. Police say the arrests

:02:37.:02:38.

are not connected to The Anglican Church in Scotland

:02:39.:02:49.

could be the first in the UK to allow same-sex marriage is. A vote

:02:50.:02:53.

by the Scottish Episcopal Church this afternoon will determine if

:02:54.:02:56.

their definition of marriage should be altered to afford gay couples the

:02:57.:03:00.

same rights to marry. The move is opposed by some traditional

:03:01.:03:01.

Anglicans. A diamond ring bought for ?10

:03:02.:03:05.

at a car-boot sale has been sold for more than ?650,000

:03:06.:03:08.

at auction in London. The 26-carat cushion-shaped diamond

:03:09.:03:13.

sold for almost double its estimate. The owner bought the ring

:03:14.:03:15.

in the 1980s and was unaware of its real value, wearing it every

:03:16.:03:19.

day for thirty years. And that's a summary of the latest

:03:20.:03:27.

BBC News. More from me at 10:30am. Thank you for your fabulous photos

:03:28.:03:42.

of dogs from polling stations. I'm not sure where Lauren is or what our

:03:43.:03:47.

dog is called, but what a beautiful hound, I love it, and this is from

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the. He is just five months old. He is an ancient multisensory breed of

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dog from Portugal. It can see, hear, smell and bark! It is divided into

:04:12.:04:19.

three sizes of categories, small, medium and large. A tweet from

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Michael, look at that Westie! That is Phoebe, not at all happy, says

:04:25.:04:32.

Michael, after being joined from -- banned from joining daddy in the

:04:33.:04:36.

polling station. Next, this is Lola off to a polling station in

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Warrington. This is in Shrewsbury Town, this is champ, his humans as

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Here is the latest sport from Huw. Chelsea striker Diego Costa claims

:05:02.:05:11.

his manager Antonio Conte told him in a text message that he is not

:05:12.:05:15.

part of his plans at the club. Diego Costa spoke to supporters last night

:05:16.:05:21.

after a game for Spain. He says he is still a Chelsea player but they

:05:22.:05:26.

don't want him. He helped them to the Premier League title last season

:05:27.:05:30.

scoring 28 goals. England will be without Wayne Rooney

:05:31.:05:35.

for the World Cup qualifier against Scotland this weekend, and the

:05:36.:05:38.

Premier League's top scorer last season, Harry Kane, thinks he is

:05:39.:05:42.

stepped up to take up the armband despite being just 23. Any player

:05:43.:05:48.

growing up as a footballer dreams of being England captain one day, and I

:05:49.:05:53.

am no different, but it is down to Gareth, he is the manager. We have a

:05:54.:05:57.

lot of leaders in this team, and that is important, whoever is

:05:58.:06:03.

captain is captain, but there are plenty of other leaders that contort

:06:04.:06:06.

and help each other out on the pitch. There is a rare event in

:06:07.:06:11.

English football today, a national side stands just 90 minutes from a

:06:12.:06:17.

World Cup final. England play Italy at the under 20 World Cup in South

:06:18.:06:21.

Korea, and despite missing some of their best talent, their former

:06:22.:06:24.

manager believes they have excelled. The fact that we can send an England

:06:25.:06:30.

team there that is without Tammy Abraham is, Izzy Brown, Pat Roberts,

:06:31.:06:37.

who were regulars in that team, and go and perform as well as what they

:06:38.:06:42.

have, and are in the top four and a chance of getting to a final and

:06:43.:06:45.

winning it, I think is a remarkable achievement. Alun Wyn-Jones has been

:06:46.:06:50.

named captain of the British and Irish Lions for Saturday's match

:06:51.:06:54.

against the Crusaders as Warren Gatland attempts to get their tour

:06:55.:06:58.

of New Zealand back on track. The Wales skipper will lead another

:06:59.:07:01.

completely new starting line-up following their defeat to Auckland

:07:02.:07:06.

blues yesterday. Jonathan Davies, Conor Murray, George North and Sean

:07:07.:07:09.

O'Brien will all make their first appearances of the tour.

:07:10.:07:13.

Andy Murray used his frustration to good effect to reach the semifinals

:07:14.:07:17.

of the French Open, where he will play Stan Wawrinka. He lost the

:07:18.:07:24.

first set against Kei Nishikori. He missed his ball toss, and the umpire

:07:25.:07:28.

said he was playing too slowly, giving the point to Nishikori. There

:07:29.:07:33.

was an exchange of views, but Murray went on to win the match in four

:07:34.:07:38.

sets. For a couple of points after that I was, I was fired up a cos I

:07:39.:07:46.

was frustrated at that moment. It felt to me like it was a strange

:07:47.:07:49.

decision. I have never seen someone get a warning after they have missed

:07:50.:07:54.

the ball toss. I have never seen that. After the defending champion

:07:55.:08:00.

Novak Djokovic was knocked out, the seven time grand slam winner John

:08:01.:08:04.

McEnroe suggested he had lost his desire. Djokovic was beaten in

:08:05.:08:08.

straight sets by Dominic Thiem. He lost the third set to love, the

:08:09.:08:12.

first time that has happened to Djokovic in a grand slam for 12

:08:13.:08:18.

years. And that is also now. We are back with more later on.

:08:19.:08:23.

A couple of e-mails on drug facilities at festivals. Brent and

:08:24.:08:26.

David Cross about this. They say, don't make it easier for people to

:08:27.:08:30.

take drugs. Everyone should know street drugs are laced with poisons.

:08:31.:08:34.

Besides, the poisonous drug itself. The phrase teenagers will experiment

:08:35.:08:39.

is Tosh, millions have more sense than to do this. And David says,

:08:40.:08:45.

this is an appalling move, to normalise drug-taking, why not have

:08:46.:08:48.

sniffer dogs to detect drugs. If you have no drugs, you get in. If you

:08:49.:08:55.

have drugs, you face prosecution and a criminal record to go with your

:08:56.:08:59.

university degree. Thank you for those, do keep them coming in. s

:09:00.:09:09.

of the FBI James Comey says he was told by President Trump

:09:10.:09:14.

in meetings shortly before he was sacked.

:09:15.:09:17.

He'll be testifying before Congress today and last night his opening

:09:18.:09:19.

In it he suggests the President asked him to drop an inquiry

:09:20.:09:23.

into Mike Flynn, the National Security Adviser who was fired

:09:24.:09:25.

for misrepresenting his meetings with the Russian Ambassador.

:09:26.:09:28.

Some people are saying this will be bad news for the White House.

:09:29.:09:31.

FBI director James Comey has been fired.

:09:32.:09:38.

Last month President Trump sacked the director of the FBI.

:09:39.:09:42.

James, he's become more famous than me.

:09:43.:09:48.

Later today that man James Comey will be asked questions on live TV

:09:49.:09:51.

Capitol Hill Congress back to work tonight after a break...

:09:52.:09:58.

Here are three questions he's bound to be asked

:09:59.:10:00.

President Trump sacked the FBI director last month.

:10:01.:10:11.

At the time he said he was angry at the way an investigation

:10:12.:10:14.

into his opponent in last year's election Hillary

:10:15.:10:16.

Because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply.

:10:17.:10:20.

Others think he was really fired because the FBI

:10:21.:10:26.

was looking into possible links between the current

:10:27.:10:28.

I was going to fire Comey, my decision...

:10:29.:10:32.

You had made the decision before they came...

:10:33.:10:34.

What the former director thinks will be key here,

:10:35.:10:42.

does he suspect there was a cover-up, a political

:10:43.:10:44.

This is the biggest question hanging over Washington these days.

:10:45.:10:52.

Some suspect Russia tried to influence last year's

:10:53.:10:54.

presidential election by hacking e-mails and even paying staff

:10:55.:10:57.

These are all just allegations, but is there anything more

:10:58.:11:06.

concrete linking Russia with Trump's top team?

:11:07.:11:08.

Director Comey was very unpopular with most people.

:11:09.:11:14.

This is the one single question that could cause most

:11:15.:11:18.

Did Donald Trump ask the then director of the FBI

:11:19.:11:23.

to go easy on this man, Michael Flynn, who was then his

:11:24.:11:26.

At the time, the FBI was looking into his links with Russia.

:11:27.:11:38.

The New York Times has reported that President Trump asked

:11:39.:11:41.

James Comey to let this go, something the White

:11:42.:11:43.

If it's true though and Comey can prove it, it could be seen

:11:44.:11:48.

as obstruction of justice, a criminal offence and that

:11:49.:11:50.

could be very damaging indeed for the President.

:11:51.:11:57.

Lets talk to Professor Inderjeet Parmar from City University,

:11:58.:12:01.

and in Washington Anneke Green who writes for Real Clear Politics,

:12:02.:12:05.

and was a speech writer for President George W Bush

:12:06.:12:07.

and Mara Rudman, former National Security Advisor

:12:08.:12:09.

welcome, all of you. What do you take from James Comey's opening

:12:10.:12:22.

statement? It suggests that the drama we have been witnessing for

:12:23.:12:25.

several months is going to continue. It doesn't appear that anything much

:12:26.:12:29.

has changed in the story he has been telling about his interactions with

:12:30.:12:33.

President Trump, and it looks as if that isn't going to be any in

:12:34.:12:41.

between -- independent evidence. So I suspect this hearing will not give

:12:42.:12:46.

us very much which is new. It will mean a continuation of this drama

:12:47.:12:51.

further forward. The key issue is that there has always been missing

:12:52.:12:57.

any kind of smoking gun about actual collusion of Russia with the Trump

:12:58.:13:01.

campaign, and actual evidence of anything of that type actually

:13:02.:13:05.

happening. So despite all the hearings and people who have given

:13:06.:13:08.

testimony including the statement that James Comey made yesterday, it

:13:09.:13:12.

doesn't appear that there is going to be any kind of fall stop today,

:13:13.:13:32.

it is going to be perhaps a comma. How accurate weather notes made at

:13:33.:13:36.

the time, by James Comey, we don't know that, do we? One thing that is

:13:37.:13:43.

interesting, is that as a member of the FBI, the notes and just actions

:13:44.:13:46.

of interviews has a greater red ability in court. Not that he

:13:47.:13:52.

thought he was going to be testifying in a court when he made

:13:53.:13:55.

these notes, but it does speak to a habit and an assumption that he had

:13:56.:14:00.

that he would at some point need to remember each one of these meetings,

:14:01.:14:04.

and these notes that he made, it was a little more than that. They have

:14:05.:14:08.

been described as memos, and they need to be released. Do you agree

:14:09.:14:13.

with that, they need to be released? I was nodding my head, not too much

:14:14.:14:18.

that they need to be released, but I think it is a very good point about

:14:19.:14:26.

the legal probity. These memos that James Comey made, and the fact that

:14:27.:14:30.

he felt it was important enough that he makes these memos and make them

:14:31.:14:35.

in a virtually real-time. He made this point in his written testimony

:14:36.:14:39.

which has been released a day before he was testifying that even from the

:14:40.:14:47.

very first meeting he had with then President-elect Trump, he was so

:14:48.:14:54.

seized by that meeting that he came out and immediately started drafting

:14:55.:14:58.

a memo in the van, the FBI van, after he left the meeting. That had

:14:59.:15:03.

not been his practice in his previous meetings, he had two with

:15:04.:15:11.

President Obama over his 40 years service, but he had nine meetings in

:15:12.:15:16.

four months with President Trump, and he made these real-time demo

:15:17.:15:18.

recordings of everything that happened in those meetings. And can

:15:19.:15:23.

you explain for those who want to learn more why if Donald Trump asked

:15:24.:15:28.

his FBI director James Comey to go easy on Mike Flynn, former national

:15:29.:15:33.

Security adviser at the time that the FBI was looking at my clinic is

:15:34.:15:36.

linked to the Russians, why that would be so terrible? It would be an

:15:37.:15:43.

attempt to obstruct an ongoing investigation. The role of the FBI

:15:44.:15:48.

is to investigate any kinds of misdemeanour or misconduct, so a

:15:49.:15:51.

president asking a director to drop an investigation or to budget on

:15:52.:15:55.

hold or anything like that could be seen as an obstruction of justice.

:15:56.:16:00.

It could be seen as an attempt to prevent an investigation into

:16:01.:16:03.

something where perhaps the investigation could lead to a

:16:04.:16:06.

smoking gun which could implicate the presidency, or the campaign or

:16:07.:16:11.

whatever, and thereby derail it. And possibly then lead to impeachment

:16:12.:16:22.

hearings. Anneka green, how damaging is this for the president? It could

:16:23.:16:30.

put into headlines the issue of Russian implication. There has not

:16:31.:16:35.

been a smoking gun, so it is a pesky story that people are pursuing that

:16:36.:16:39.

will possibly distract from what he is trying to accomplish for the

:16:40.:16:43.

nation. I would say, though, it is not unusual for presidents to have

:16:44.:16:49.

an easy relationship with the FBI. They are very fierce about their

:16:50.:16:52.

independence, which was set up under J Edgar Hoover, who was through many

:16:53.:16:57.

presidents the sort of person that they wanted to keep close, and keep

:16:58.:17:02.

within the tent, and by firing James Cronin me, that was something can't

:17:03.:17:06.

actually ignored, and by getting rid of him -- James Comey, stopped being

:17:07.:17:12.

able to claim executive privilege over what otherwise would have been

:17:13.:17:17.

an employee of his. Mara Rudman, Donald Trump has hinted that there

:17:18.:17:20.

might be taped recordings of the conversations he had with James

:17:21.:17:26.

Comey. As a former national security adviser for President Obama, with

:17:27.:17:31.

that happen? A president or a President's aid would record those

:17:32.:17:38.

private conversations? First, I was a deputy to President Obama, just a

:17:39.:17:43.

quick correction on that. On the question of tape recordings,

:17:44.:17:46.

obviously the famous ones are those of President Nixon, and the

:17:47.:17:49.

practices of what is recorded and not within the Oval Office have

:17:50.:17:57.

changed over time. So I can't say with specificity whether there are

:17:58.:18:07.

actually recordings, as President Trump hinted at in this case, but I

:18:08.:18:12.

can tell you that this is something the independent counsel will

:18:13.:18:18.

obviously be able to pursue and will undoubtedly pursue. It is something

:18:19.:18:22.

that Congress has certainly asked about in their separate

:18:23.:18:28.

investigations. But where it will absolutely be pursued to finality

:18:29.:18:32.

would be with the independent councillor. Thank you very much all

:18:33.:18:33.

of you. Yesterday we learned 13 people had

:18:34.:18:44.

been convicted because of organised and systematic abuse at two Devon

:18:45.:18:47.

care homes for adults with learning disabilities. One young man with

:18:48.:18:51.

learning difficulties who was abused when he was living at the

:18:52.:18:54.

Winterbourne View care home, which the BBC Panorama did and expose a on

:18:55.:18:59.

five years ago, was also caught up in this abuse when he moved to a

:19:00.:19:03.

home in Devon. We will speak to his mum and sister about how he was

:19:04.:19:06.

treated, and it really is quite shopping, that is just after half

:19:07.:19:08.

past ten. Before that, the Taliban - a hardline

:19:09.:19:16.

Islamic movement in They emerged in the early 1990s,

:19:17.:19:18.

promising to restore peace and security and enforce their own

:19:19.:19:21.

austere version of Sharia, In both countries, they introduced

:19:22.:19:24.

or supported Islamic punishments, such as public executions

:19:25.:19:29.

of convicted murderers and adulterers, and amputations

:19:30.:19:32.

of those found guilty of theft. Men were required to grow beards,

:19:33.:19:35.

and women had to wear The Taliban banned television,

:19:36.:19:38.

music and cinema, and disapproved of girls aged ten and over

:19:39.:19:44.

from going to school. They were also accused

:19:45.:19:47.

of protecting Osama Bin Laden, the man behind the Twin

:19:48.:19:52.

Tower attacks in 2001. The fight to drive the Taliban out

:19:53.:19:56.

of Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 cost the lives

:19:57.:19:58.

of hundreds of British, American Many of them died fighting

:19:59.:20:00.

in Helmand province Well, two years ago,

:20:01.:20:03.

shortly after the troops came home, the Taliban took back

:20:04.:20:11.

many of the areas that British Since then, little has

:20:12.:20:14.

been known of what life Aulia Atrafi from the BBC's

:20:15.:20:17.

Afghan Service got exclusive access to their "capital",

:20:18.:20:29.

effectively their capital - a place called Musa Qala -

:20:30.:20:31.

to see if they have changed - and what legacy the British

:20:32.:20:34.

presence there left. It's a road no journalist has

:20:35.:20:39.

taken for a long time. Ever since Taliban fighters overrun

:20:40.:20:43.

most of Helmand Province two years ago, life under their rule has

:20:44.:20:47.

been hidden from view. We didn't have to travel far,

:20:48.:20:51.

all we had to do was get off The thing about the Taliban

:20:52.:21:01.

is you can travel here for miles without seeing an armed person,

:21:02.:21:05.

it's more the idea of the Taliban The road takes us through the once

:21:06.:21:08.

bustling town of Sangin, more than 100 British soldiers died

:21:09.:21:20.

here, now it is just rubble guarded We push on, we are heading

:21:21.:21:23.

for their capital, Musa Qala. This river, the River Helmand

:21:24.:21:35.

is what separates Sangin district One of the most important centres

:21:36.:21:37.

for the Taliban, the heartland, The first international

:21:38.:21:52.

journalists in years to see Our ever-present Taliban minder

:21:53.:21:58.

drives just ahead of us. As we enter town, the weekly

:21:59.:22:08.

travelling bazaar is taking place. On the surface, it could be

:22:09.:22:12.

a bustling market anywhere in Afghanistan, but there are some

:22:13.:22:16.

tell-tale signs we are The men are all wearing

:22:17.:22:19.

traditional clothes, And there are some stalls

:22:20.:22:24.

you would only find here. These ammunition captured

:22:25.:22:41.

from the national army, 25 cents each, AK-47,

:22:42.:22:46.

25 cents each and supply and demand here in the bazaar,

:22:47.:22:48.

this Russian machine gun bullet, each used to cost 40 cents,

:22:49.:22:51.

now dropped to 15 cents because the shopkeeper says

:22:52.:22:56.

the Talibani have From the Afghan National

:22:57.:22:58.

Security forces. We leave the market

:22:59.:23:18.

and drive across town As we arrive, the students, all

:23:19.:23:20.

boys, are doing religious studies. Our minder tells us they also

:23:21.:23:29.

study maths and science. And have no problem with girls

:23:30.:23:37.

getting an education, It is here we first

:23:38.:23:39.

encounter the strange The school is run by

:23:40.:23:43.

the Taliban, but still funded The teachers say there are small

:23:44.:23:49.

changes in the way these subjects are taught in school,

:23:50.:23:59.

but from the time when these schools were burnt by the Taliban, to now,

:24:00.:24:05.

where Taliban encourage the running of these schools is a big step

:24:06.:24:08.

forward for these children here. In the playground, the main

:24:09.:24:29.

attraction seems to be our cameras. Most of the children have never

:24:30.:24:33.

seen anything like them, it is a reminder just how isolated

:24:34.:24:37.

these communities are. The boys that get an education

:24:38.:24:41.

say they appreciate it. For some pupils, the novelty of our

:24:42.:25:07.

visit is obviously wearing off. The drive across Musa Qala

:25:08.:25:17.

feels strangely normal. Our destination is the local

:25:18.:25:22.

hospital, like the school it is funded by the government

:25:23.:25:24.

but run by the Taliban. It is supposed to look after 120,000

:25:25.:25:30.

people but lacks basic facilities. There is no female doctor or child

:25:31.:25:38.

specialist, you can't even And now, the surgeon is leaving too,

:25:39.:25:40.

because he hasn't been paid He didn't want to appear on camera,

:25:41.:25:48.

but told us how bad things have got. Do you think the system

:25:49.:25:55.

where government hospitals are run in Taliban areas,

:25:56.:25:57.

do you think this Do you think the system

:25:58.:25:59.

where government hospitals are run in Taliban areas,

:26:00.:26:27.

do you think this The next day we meet

:26:28.:26:30.

the Taliban spokesman, this is the closest view anyone has

:26:31.:26:47.

had of how they run They remain a deeply controversial

:26:48.:26:50.

organisation in Afghanistan, But they claim their approach

:26:51.:26:54.

to governance has changed. That evening, we are taken

:26:55.:27:37.

to see what passes for Since the end of the Taliban's

:27:38.:27:39.

bloody campaign some security has returned to the district

:27:40.:27:52.

but freedoms are limited. Away from the minders, one teenager

:27:53.:27:55.

tells me he got 40 lashes Mobile phones are banned

:27:56.:27:58.

for ordinary people, as is filming This man is open about

:27:59.:28:05.

being an opium dealer. After four nights, it's finally time

:28:06.:28:22.

to leave Taliban occupied Helmand. The Taliban proved very effective,

:28:23.:28:33.

in terms of fighting, now they have captured huge

:28:34.:28:36.

territories in Helmand and now they have to govern them and that's

:28:37.:28:38.

the next challenge for them. How much they will join the modern

:28:39.:28:44.

world and how much they will reject. This region where so many British

:28:45.:28:52.

soldiers fought and died is now mostly under the control

:28:53.:28:55.

of their former enemies. But you can feel a legacy here,

:28:56.:29:00.

the idea that a government should provide public services,

:29:01.:29:10.

education, hospitals, is now expected by the people

:29:11.:29:12.

of Helmand and becoming accepted Absolutely fascinating, and also

:29:13.:29:14.

chilling. Let's speak now to Auliya Atrafi,

:29:15.:29:32.

who made that film. How did you get them to agree to

:29:33.:29:38.

filming in the first place? We worked on this for more than a year,

:29:39.:29:42.

twice we were close to going there and something would come up and we

:29:43.:29:45.

were unable to go, and third time lucky. Where you chaperoned the

:29:46.:29:51.

whole time? Did you feel that you were being manipulated by them?

:29:52.:29:56.

Absolutely, there were one vehicle, sometimes two vehicles. The

:29:57.:30:00.

immediate team was there and they had an English-speaking who is

:30:01.:30:05.

always saying what I was saying, and they were gently manipulative. They

:30:06.:30:09.

didn't want us to film anything to do with opium. Why? Because they see

:30:10.:30:20.

themselves now as a legitimate government, because they have these

:30:21.:30:24.

are vast areas under their control, so they want to be treated with

:30:25.:30:28.

respect, they are craving legitimacy, but they know that in

:30:29.:30:33.

international level, if your economy is based on opium, you won't get

:30:34.:30:38.

much legitimacy. They have become image and media conscious. Where you

:30:39.:30:43.

ever scared? I was, to be fair the Taliban were very gentle with us,

:30:44.:30:47.

but it was just the idea of roaming around with guys who don't mind

:30:48.:30:54.

dying, so you think, what if they suddenly decide to hurt you? What

:30:55.:30:58.

would be there to stop them? So when I came back to Lashkar Gah, I had

:30:59.:31:05.

nightmares. So many things strike me from that film. The lack of girls

:31:06.:31:10.

and women. The fact that people are not free. They can't have mobiles,

:31:11.:31:13.

play instruments or watch Olly Woodburn is. -- Bollywood films. But

:31:14.:31:24.

people do feel secure. That is right, there is an analysis that the

:31:25.:31:28.

Taliban success is not due to them being very good, it is due to the

:31:29.:31:32.

governance being poor, especially in rural areas, poor areas to say the

:31:33.:31:37.

least, and that gives the Taliban the edge. And also policies such as

:31:38.:31:46.

not stopping the poppy harvest, it makes people comfortable, it is in

:31:47.:31:49.

their interests that the Taliban are there rather than the government

:31:50.:31:51.

because the government could eradicate the poppy harvest. If you

:31:52.:31:56.

had to sum up the changes from what you have seen this time and say the

:31:57.:31:59.

last time you were there, what would you say? Striking. Only a few years

:32:00.:32:06.

ago, my teacher in Helmand province was killed because he ignored the

:32:07.:32:10.

warnings to stop his school, so schools were destroyed in my

:32:11.:32:14.

district. But now the Taliban are encouraging schools, and sometimes

:32:15.:32:19.

building extensions to hospitals with their own money. It is a

:32:20.:32:25.

striking difference. But I think they will face difficulties when it

:32:26.:32:30.

comes to whether people take these things for granted, and they want

:32:31.:32:33.

liberties, and these liberties, the Taliban will struggle to give,

:32:34.:32:37.

because that is where they will lose their legitimacy if they open their

:32:38.:32:41.

doors entirely to modernity, so it is this big to be or not to be

:32:42.:32:46.

dilemma for the Taliban, how much modernity should they open up to?

:32:47.:32:50.

Thank you very much. Still to come in the last half an

:32:51.:33:02.

hour: After 12 staff at two private care homes in Devon have been found

:33:03.:33:08.

guilty of abusing patients, we here for the family one of the victims.

:33:09.:33:12.

And the Anglican Church in Scotland holds a historic vote later on

:33:13.:33:16.

whether to allow gay couples to marry in church. We will speak to

:33:17.:33:17.

campaigners for and against. And obviously more dogs at polling

:33:18.:33:26.

stations. But first the headlines with Anita.

:33:27.:33:29.

Thank you, good morning. Polling stations are open for millions to

:33:30.:33:35.

cast their votes at the general election. Police forces say there

:33:36.:33:39.

will be increased security in some areas following recent terror

:33:40.:33:44.

attacks in some areas Manchester and London. The first results are

:33:45.:33:48.

expected around midnight. Party leaders have begun casting their

:33:49.:33:53.

votes. Seven weeks after calling a general election, Theresa May

:33:54.:33:58.

visited a polling station in her Maidenhead constituency, while the

:33:59.:34:00.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn went to a ballot box in North London. And a

:34:01.:34:05.

reminder that you can watch all the results coming in throughout the

:34:06.:34:09.

night, joined David Dimbleby and the team tonight on BBC One and the BBC

:34:10.:34:14.

News Channel 4 election 2017. That coverage starts at 9:55pm.

:34:15.:34:20.

The former FBI director sacked by Donald Trump will give evidence

:34:21.:34:22.

James Comey claims the US President tried to influence his investigation

:34:23.:34:26.

into alleged links between members of the Trump team and Russia.

:34:27.:34:29.

The White House denies the allegations.

:34:30.:34:40.

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences after

:34:41.:34:44.

armed officers carried out raids this morning. Police say the arrests

:34:45.:34:51.

are not connected to the London Bridge attack. A diamond ring bought

:34:52.:34:58.

the ?10 of the car-boot sale has been sold for more than ?650,000 at

:34:59.:35:00.

auction in London. The 26-carat cushion-shaped diamond

:35:01.:35:04.

sold for almost double its estimate. The owner bought the ring

:35:05.:35:06.

in the 1980s and was unaware of its real value,

:35:07.:35:09.

wearing it every day That's a summary of the latest news,

:35:10.:35:19.

join me for BBC newsroom live at 11 o'clock. After the sport we will

:35:20.:35:25.

show you footage obtained by The Times of the three London attackers'

:35:26.:35:33.

days before the attack, laughing and joking before they carried out the

:35:34.:35:37.

attack on Saturday night. Let's get the latest sport.

:35:38.:35:41.

Chelsea striker Diego Costa could be on his way out of Stamford Bridge

:35:42.:35:45.

despite helping the club to last season's Premier League title

:35:46.:35:50.

scoring 20 goals in the process. He claimed he was told via text message

:35:51.:35:53.

from his boss that he is no longer in the club's plans. There is an

:35:54.:35:58.

all-new Lions line-up for their third tour of New Zealand. Alun

:35:59.:36:04.

Wyn-Jones will be the captain in Christchurch on Saturday. The Lions

:36:05.:36:15.

are facing a big challenge. For the fourth year in a row Andy Murray is

:36:16.:36:18.

through to the semifinals of the French Open. He had to fight for his

:36:19.:36:22.

place, coming from a set down against Kei Nishikori. He faces Stan

:36:23.:36:26.

Wawrinka next in a repeat of last year's; which Murray won. And if you

:36:27.:36:35.

were wondering about Sir Ben Ainslie's progress in the America's

:36:36.:36:38.

Cup, there hasn't been any, today's racing was called off due to high

:36:39.:36:42.

winds in Bermuda. Better conditions hope for tomorrow. Thank you.

:36:43.:36:47.

The three men who carried out the London Bridge terror attack

:36:48.:36:49.

were filmed laughing and joking in the days before they killed eight

:36:50.:36:52.

The Times newspaper has obtained footage of Khuram Butt,

:36:53.:36:58.

Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zagba outside a gym in

:36:59.:37:00.

The three London Bridge attackers days before carrying out their

:37:01.:38:05.

murderous assault on completely innocent British people and people

:38:06.:38:06.

from around the world. A few moments ago the Liberal

:38:07.:38:16.

Democrat leader Tim Farron arrived at his constituency

:38:17.:38:18.

in Kendal in Cumbria. Mr Farron has actually already voted

:38:19.:38:20.

by post but has still gone along Polls are open until ten o'clock

:38:21.:38:23.

this evening with first results The Election 2017 special will be

:38:24.:38:27.

with David Dimbleby. That's on BBC One and the BBC News

:38:28.:38:32.

channel from 9.55pm tonight. You will get the exit poll at five

:38:33.:38:45.

to ten, published jointly by the broadcasters exactly at ten o'clock,

:38:46.:38:50.

so tune in at 52, and you can watch Mishal Husain, Jeremy Vine, David

:38:51.:38:54.

Dimbleby, Emily Maitlis, Laura Kuenssberg and our correspondents up

:38:55.:38:59.

and down the UK to bring you the latest results.

:39:00.:39:02.

Twelve staff at two private care homes in North Devon have now been

:39:03.:39:05.

convicted of the "organised and systemic" abuse of adults

:39:06.:39:08.

They often punished those they were supposed to be caring

:39:09.:39:12.

for by putting them in an empty room with no food, heating

:39:13.:39:14.

One of those affected was 25-year-old Ben.

:39:15.:39:21.

He had been moved to the home after being abused at Winterbourne View,

:39:22.:39:25.

the home exposed by BBC Panorama in 2011.

:39:26.:39:31.

Ben's sister Emma Garrod and his mum Claire spoke to me earlier.

:39:32.:39:32.

First of all, tell us a little bit about Ben. Ben is a very sensitive,

:39:33.:39:51.

fun loving, polite person. He is just a really, really nice person,

:39:52.:40:01.

and yes. I think he's a joy to be around, and with the right support

:40:02.:40:05.

and the right care, he gives back so much more than is ever put into him.

:40:06.:40:12.

And he had been at Winterbourne view care home, where he had been

:40:13.:40:18.

mistreated. Tell us about that. He had his jaw fractured at

:40:19.:40:22.

Winterbourne View, and he lost his front teeth. So we were quite

:40:23.:40:30.

disgusted with that. And to be in this position again is just

:40:31.:40:35.

unbelievable. What happened when he moved to the place in Devon? The

:40:36.:40:41.

place in Devon, they picked him up from Winterbourne, and they told us

:40:42.:40:45.

we wouldn't be able to see him for two weeks, and we didn't see him for

:40:46.:40:51.

five. They made every excuse under the sun to stop us from seeing him.

:40:52.:40:55.

We did see him on occasion and we had a lovely time, but he always

:40:56.:41:00.

looked really terrified when he had to go back. So when you were not

:41:01.:41:05.

able to see him for the first two weeks and then it turned out to be

:41:06.:41:08.

five, what did you think was going on? Straightaway, alarm bells were

:41:09.:41:13.

ringing, and it was clear that everything they promised wasn't

:41:14.:41:17.

going to happen. And when you say you eventually did get to see him

:41:18.:41:21.

and he looked terrified, tell us more. He was a lot quieter than he

:41:22.:41:29.

had been for a long time. He was really pleased to see us, but he

:41:30.:41:34.

didn't tell us anything at that stage. He just enjoyed his home

:41:35.:41:40.

visits. But when they came to pick him up, he was just terrified. And

:41:41.:41:45.

was that when you started to think, we need to get him out? Yes. When

:41:46.:41:52.

they stopped us seeing him for five weeks, I already knew that something

:41:53.:41:55.

was terribly wrong. How long did it take? It took us over a year, and

:41:56.:42:06.

then they gave him 28 days notice, but the investigation started so he

:42:07.:42:11.

didn't serve those 28 days, and he went to a farmers and emergency

:42:12.:42:15.

placement. Which you were happy with, I think, when to? We were,

:42:16.:42:20.

yes. And when did it become clear, when was he able to let you know how

:42:21.:42:27.

he had been treated? Ben didn't say anything for a long time, he was so

:42:28.:42:31.

traumatised, and he let us know through a song. He was listening to

:42:32.:42:37.

Emeli Sande, and it said something about staring through the glass, and

:42:38.:42:40.

it just poured out. It was a credible. What did he tell you? He

:42:41.:42:46.

told us that he used to be dragged into the quiet room. He used to be

:42:47.:42:53.

kicked and told mind the rats or spiders don't eat you. He used to be

:42:54.:43:02.

naked. He said he was hungry. It was horrendous. He said he slept on an

:43:03.:43:08.

air bed, but he said it was burst, and he said there was nothing to do.

:43:09.:43:13.

How did you respond when he finally revealed this to you? To be honest,

:43:14.:43:19.

I was sat typing everything he said, obviously ready to send it to the

:43:20.:43:24.

police, but I had to do almost something that I don't think it is

:43:25.:43:27.

possible for many people to do, because how I didn't start crying, I

:43:28.:43:30.

don't know, but I think he was testing me as well to make sure he

:43:31.:43:35.

could trust me. And how did you respond, Emma? What did you think

:43:36.:43:38.

when you heard what had happened to Ben? I think a big part of me was

:43:39.:43:46.

just totally disgusted by the fact that this could happen again, and

:43:47.:43:51.

that once more the duty of care had been failed so dramatically. But a

:43:52.:43:58.

big part of me just didn't want to believe it, and I think was just

:43:59.:44:04.

kind of scared for the future as well in terms of Ben lives and

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exists within the system, and he will have to do that for the rest of

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his life, and being utterly terrified for what comes next,

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because we needed him to be settled and happy, and he had been failed

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too many times. Is he still damaged now, then, by that experience?

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Incredibly. He has really bad flashbacks, and he will say, why did

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I do that? He is really remorseful, obviously to me he has PTSD off the

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scale. But it is really bad. I am not just his mother, I am his

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psychiatrist, it is terrible. I can get many calls, day or night, my

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phone is never off, I can't go for a holiday, but as his mother, it is my

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duty to be there for him. There have now been convictions, you saw the

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defendants in court, some will never be able to work with vulnerable

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people again. What was the court process like for you and then? Then

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was protected because he didn't know anything was going on. But what I

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heard in court was not him. They were just not describing him. None

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of it was him. He is just such a lovely person, and it was one-sided.

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It was gruelling. I sat there for 14 weeks every day through two trials,

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but Devon and Cornwall police, they did a sterling job, and I felt very

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cared for, and some of the learning disability charities came and sat

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with me, and when it got really tough, but it was very difficult not

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to stand up and scream, because that was not Ben Brown. wattage you think

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about the way your brother was portrayed when he wasn't on trial?

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It was unbelievable that was the way it went from the start of the trial.

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He wasn't on trial, like you said. He was the victim in this case, and

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one of a few victims, and he deserved his opportunity to have a

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voice and that courtroom. Unfortunately he was denied that

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boys and he was vilified, instead. Thank you both very much for talking

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to us, we really appreciate your time, player and Emma Gareth. Thank

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you very much. Thank you. Thank you. The Garrett family have been

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supported by the charity mencap. I don't understand how adults who are

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there to care for people who are really vulnerable, so many adults,

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can mistreat them in such a vile disgusting way. How does it happen?

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These were isolated care homes. The judge of the case made it clear that

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he thought a culture of abuse developed their lead from people at

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the top of the organisation. Families, as Claire said, were

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blocked from visiting often, so they were not able to see what went on in

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the care home. When you put those things together, with concerns not

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putting together, those concerns were not acted quickly enough. When

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you put those on, it could be not tackled and shut down. If you are

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relatives of somebody like Ben Garratt, who is being cared for 20

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47, most weeks, and they block you, as relatives from going to visit,

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what should you do? Ring the police? Altar if you think that the person

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in an establishment is in immediate danger, then yes. What if you are

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not sure but you just think, that is so weird, they won't let me visit my

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son? You should immediately safeguard. You should call the

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police. I would like to pay tribute to Ben, all the people with learning

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disabilities, their families, who have been involved with this trial,

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which is taken six years to come to court. To be able to tell their

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story about what happened I think is incredibly important now. That we

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work with the families to learn lessons from what happened during

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the court. Claire said she felt it was likely people with learning

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disabilities themselves were on trial, which is extraordinary. We

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think we have learned when it comes to sexual exploitation cases, when

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young girls felt they were on trial when they were the victims. We think

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we have learned there but not people with learning abilities, I'd --

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disabilities, I don't know. The juries were never told when people

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were being supported themselves now, which was in the community, people

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were being portrayed as being wilfully violent.

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Of course living with the shocking legacy of what their experience

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there. OK, and really sad to hear from Ben Garratt buzz like mother,

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Claire, the impact of what happened to him five years ago -- Ben

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Garrod's mother, Claire. The still living with it. There is support for

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the ball out there like Ben, who have enjoyed huge, and coping with

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that, and for their families -- huge trauma. They need to be supported

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through that time. Thank you very much.

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The Scottish Episcopal Church, the Anglican church in Scotland, is

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holding an historic vote today on whether to allow same-sex marriage

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in church. They vote in favour would make them the first part of the

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Anglican church in the UK to allow gay marriage, and would put them at

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odds with traditionalists. Let's talk to our correspondent.

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Our correspondent Michael Buchanan joins us now

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Talk our audience through this because reversal issue. Morning,

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yes. This vote is expected to be passed. It will take place at the

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Synod of the Scottish Episcopal church later on this afternoon in

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Edinburgh. For the church to change the rules to allow gay marriage,

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there will have to be a two thirds majority in all three houses of the

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sin not, the bishops, the clergy and lay members. There was an initial

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boat. They needed a simple majority but they did get a two thirds

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majority. There is still an expectation by both supporters and

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opponents of this measure that this boat will be passed today. The

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consequence of that is that gay ambush can couples in Scotland --

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gay Anglican couples in Scotland will also be put get married in

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churches but Sobel gay couples from England to -- so we'll gay couples

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from England. They are planning on announcing later today after this

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vote, they are planning on announcing that a missionary bishop

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will be appointed to take care of congregations across Europe, who

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feel that they can't support gay marriage, can't support the line

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that the Scottish Episcopal Church will probably take this afternoon,

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and will therefore have somebody else they can turn to for spiritual

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guidance. Guevara much, Michael Buchanan.

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Joining me now is Jayne Ozanne, a prominent campaigner on LGBT

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issues in the Anglican Church, and a member of its synod,

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and Susie Leafe, Director of Reform, a network

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of Conservative Evangelicals within the Church of England.

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Susie Leafe, it looks like this will be passed. What do you think? I

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think it will be a very sad day, in some way is, for the Scottish

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Episcopal Church. I think if they pass this motion, they know that

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they are doing that against the wishes of the wider Anglican

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community, and what they will do will cause problems, strain and

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distance in relationships worldwide. Why are you against it? Why am I

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against it? Well, Jesus was asked about marriage, and he chose to

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define marriage as between one man and one woman for life, he chose to

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submit himself to the Scriptures, and what is good enough for Jesus is

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good enough for me. OK, let me bring in Jane. I saw you raise your

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eyebrows a little as Susie was explaining her views when it came to

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Jesus and marriage. How do you answer what she says? Well, I think

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the important thing to remember here is that we read Scripture

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differently, and that is what the Scottish Episcopal Church is

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recognising today, which I think is extraordinarily courageous and

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important, that they know different people look at Scripture

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differently. I passionately believe in Scripture but Jesus was answering

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a question about divorce at that point, and he was emphasising it was

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one man and one woman. Interestingly, a lot of African

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bishops are married to many women and they don't seem to decide to

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listen to Jesus at that point. Could you name one? I can't actually. I

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know that the Lambeth conference is preparing and has had to prepare in

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the past for bishops to bring their second wives. I can't Susie at the

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moment, but I know it to be true and you know it to be true. I don't know

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any African bishops. Who are married to more than one woman. I don't know

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that is important but we all know that polygamy exists, and the

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important thing is that we believe love is to be celebrated, and Jesus

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actually talked an awful lot about love. And the important thing here

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is that we have a church who recognises the integrity of people

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who hold different points of view, and has created a conscience clause

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to enable that to happen. I think that is what has happened. Susie

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Leafe, show a bit of love to gay people who want to get married in a

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church. I would love to show love to all gay people. Not if they want to

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get married in a church. We seem to believe that the only loving thing

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to do the beetle is to affirm them in whatever decision they choose to

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make. Jesus didn't do that. He was one of the most loving people in the

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world ever to live. He was God incarnate, and he welcomed everyone.

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There is no doubt. Everyone is welcome in our churches in this

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country. But if we really love people, we want to show them what

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God says about the way in which we can be forgiven, we can be loved,

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and we can be transformed, to live according to the ways in which God

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wants us to live. Jayne, if Jesus was around, would he let gay couples

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get married in the Anglican church? Of course it would. How can you say

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that? Because that is exactly how he talks to me, how he embraces me, how

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he wants to celebrate the God-given love he has given me. I appreciate

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you don't believe that, Susy, and luckily you are straight so you

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don't have to believe that about anything else but I believe that

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Jesus passionately wants to embrace all. We did a survey last year that

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most of the LGBT community thinks the church rejects them. The

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important thing is that God loves and he celebrates love and he wants

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us to have the God-given desire confirmed in marriage in church.

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Susie Leafe, if this vote is passed and according to our correspondence

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Michael Buchanan, it will be, what will you do? I am in England but one

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of the great things your correspondent mentioned was this

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idea of a missionary bishop. We want to get on with both in England and

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Scotland with telling people about the great offer that Jesus gives the

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people, whether straight or gay, whether young or old, and I believe

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that a missionary bishop who upholds what the Bible teaches will mean

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that the kind of churches which are growing and thriving in this church

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will have a spiritual leadership. The kinds of churches that are

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declining, and the Scottish Episcopal Church is a tiny church

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and has been shrinking for some time, those churches, everyone is

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free to make a decision as they like. But I am really looking

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forward to the idea of having a missionary bishop who longs to see

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more and more people come to know the Lord Jesus Christ. And very

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briefly, Jayne, in seconds, if this goes through, how will you

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celebrate? We will be extremely happy and I think it is very

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disingenuous to talk about missionary bishops, every bishop is

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a missionary bishop, she has one already in Maidstone. The important

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thing is that gay people can be affirmed, accepted and celebrate the

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love that they have and it is a wonderful thing to celebrate. Thank

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you both. Before we leave you, Here are some more pics of your dogs

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at polling stations. she did not have a brush this

:57:30.:57:32.

morning. She's a wondrous

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five-month-old High-malt - a Westie and Maltese Cross

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three-and-a-half-leg rescue dog. This is Winston the Warrior

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at Lockerley polling station Glenn Birrell says our Border

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terriers George, 17 weeks, We were first to vote

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in Hebburn North. Sidney the cockerdor -

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half lab and half cocker - Kira helping out with voting -

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she's a 12-year-old German pointer. Thank you so much for humouring me.

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