28/07/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Friday, it's 9am. Welcome to the programme.

More than 80 people died in the tragedy in June. Our reporter will

have the latest on the results in the next few minutes. How easy is it

to buy deadly diet pills online? The parents of a young woman who died

from taking them tell this programme they're shocked at how little is

known about them and how to tell the signs of people using them. More

setbacks for Donald Trump in his bid to scrap the healthcare laws set up

by President Obama as the Senate rejeths his latest plans. This

latest blow comes as the President's new communications chief is forced

to say sorry for his outburst on White House colleagues.

Lots coming up today, have you bought diet pills?

- many are illegal and deadly but can be bought online.

Get in touch with us as we are talking

about that also some new research that might seem a bit suprising

which is that people who drink three to four times a week are LESS likley

to develop type 2 diabetes than those who never drink -

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The BBC understands at least 60 buildings have failed a new fire

safety test. The test is seen as more they were owe than previous

ones as more materials were analysed together for the first time. So far,

just nine of the buildings which failed have been identified. They're

in Salford in Greater Manchester. The local council is asking for help

from central Government to meet the cost of replacements. Ministers will

publish the full test findings later this morning. Dan Johnson reports.

While those touched by Grenfell wait for a full picture of how this fire

spread, other residents in other towers are nervous,

These blocks in Salford, nine of them, are among the 60

across England we understand will be declared a risk after failing

The thought of you not being safe when you're sleeping in bed

of a night-time, thinking that that's not safe,

I don't care how much money it cost - it's not money,

it's people's lives at the end of the day.

I think we're sitting on a tinderbox when you look at all the flats.

Some of the cladding had already come down.

In the first round of tests, panels from every building failed.

After criticism that wasn't realistic, experts have now combined

cladding and the insulation fitted behind it to show which materials

are dangerous when they're put together, like they were on Grenfell

Yesterday, the police said there were reasonable grounds

to suspect corporate manslaughter may have been committed

by the council or the tenant management organisation.

More than six weeks since Grenfell burned, the investigation

is finding its focus while the reverberations reach right

Ben Brown has a summary of the rest of the day's news.

The emergency services are saying they have attended to 40 people at

the station, one person is seriously injured, 18 in total taken to

hospital, including the train driver and 20 other people have minor

injuries. This is in a central Barcelona train station, a major

hub. We are talking about Spain's regional trains, they travel

relatively short distances, not at high speed. Looking at the pictures,

what appears to have happened is that the train crashed into the

buffers of the station so no other train involved, possibly the train

didn't stop and this is nothing on the scale of other rail disasters we

have seen in Spain in recent years, most notably in 2013 when 80 people

were killed, thankfully no one killed in this incident but clearly

something has gone wrong when this train crashed at around about 7 am

local time. Thank you very much. Philip ham manned has said there is

broad agreement -- Hammond has said there is broad agreement in Cabinet

that there should and transition period of up to three years after

Brexit but it should be concluded before the next election in 2022.

The Chancellor said a failure to implement a transition deal would

sow chaos for business and that it was in the interests of the EU and

Britain to have the transition that allows the economies to adjust. My

view is well known, I believe it will be in Britain's interests and

in the EU's interests if, after we leave the European Union, the single

market and the customs union on 29th March, 2019, there is then a period,

call it transition, interim period, whatever you like, during which we

will allow our economies to adjust to the new situation, rather than

having a cliff-edge in March 2019 which would cause immense disruption

for businesses and for citizens. The Chancellor.

President Trump has suffered a defeat on one of his key campaign

pledges to reform US healthcare. A number of republicans including John

McCain voted against a bill which would have repealed the healthcare

law passed by President Obama. The bill was rejected in a late night

vote by 51 votes to 59. The republican party leader described it

as disappointing. The Labour Party say defence cuts

have left the UK reliant on other countries to protect British waters.

Figures obtained by the party show Nato allies sent nearly 40 planes to

the UK last year to help with maritime patrols. The Ministry of

Defence says most of the aircraft were for training and military

exercises. Four men have been arrested after

they tried to make an explosive device at Cardiff prison. It came to

light when a prison worker contacted a Welsh Assembly member, Bethan

Jenkins, with concerns about staffing. Aid workers in Greece have

told BBC news they're dealing with hundreds of extremely vulnerable

refugees being held on the island of Lesbos. Many have suffered torture

and sexual abuse at the hands of so-called Islamic State in Syria and

Iraq. The European Commission said those refugees should be moved to

Athens for specialist treatment. Two teenagers are in custody in

connection with one of the recent wild fires in the south of France.

The pair are expected of so deliberately set fire to scrub land

on Tuesday. The fires, which led to thousands of people, including

British holiday-makers evacuated, have largely now been put out.

Firefighters have warned people to be vigilant as other blazes could

still start. People who drink alcohol three to

four times a week are 30% less likely to develop type two diabetes

than those who never drink. More than 70,000 people took part in a

large Danish health study that measured drinking habits. The UK's

leading diabetes charity warns this is not a green light to drink

excessively. The study also found that not all

alcohol is equal. Wine appeared to be particularly beneficial, as the

chemical compounds, especially in red wine, seem to help manage blood

sugar. And there was a warning to women to stay clear of gin. A daily

tipple or other spirits increased their diabetes risk by 83%. Diabetes

UK, however, warns that the effect of alcohol on developing diabetes

differs from one person to the next. Where did the people who were

drinking an awful lot, when was this happening? Was there different times

of the year they were drinking more alcohol that had an impact. For

example, if you are in the festive season people drink more and eat

more. Those things really weren't discussed in much detail. While this

study is in early stages, it is hoped it might spur future research

to help some of the 12 million Britons currently at risk of

developing type two diabetes. Public health England have been in

touch to say: It is not helpful to talk about the

effect of alcohol consumption on diabetes alone.

Bags of rubbish are piling up in Birmingham as bin collectors

A row with the council over job losses and changes to working

Thousands of residents have been affected, despite council efforts

to add extra collections, and many people are

The strike is set to last until September.

A driver lost control of his new Ferrari, one hour after he bought

the vehicle. The police have released these pictures of the

wrecked car after it left the M1 during wet weather. Remarkably, the

driver escaped with minor injuries. That's a summary of the latest news.

Now the sport. England are through to the

quarter-finals of the Euro 2017, the women's championship. Scotland

missed out by that much, it was an extraordinary night in the

Netherlands. We will start with England. Ten changes to the team for

the match after winning the first two games. A mistake from the

Portugal keeper allowed Toni Duggan to score. It was in the downhill

from there. It wasn't a good first half performance. In the second half

two minutes into it, Paris suggested England were going to play much

better. England go on to play France in the quarter-finals. This is very

difficult because they have not beaten France since 1974 and also

they've lost in the last three major tournaments, as well. Can they carry

on winning ugly or any other way? Here is the coach. We go into this

knockout round feeling like whatever is going to come our way, we have

the answers to those questions and we can find solutions. Of course it

will be a difficult challenge, France ash great team. We have to

get ready for that but we are going to enjoy tonight first. We are

already excited with the quarter-final. How close were

Scotland? One goal away from joining England. They beat Spain 1-0. An

impressive result. But their opponents go through instead. There

was a chance to send them through to the last eight but they missed from

three yards. Head in hands, quite right. This brings to an end what

was Scotland's first ever major tournament and they were that close

to making it through to the last eight. You can understand why

they're feeling that disappointed. Yeah, frustrating stuff. Let's talk

about horse racing. This is bizarre. A crazy mix-up at Yarmouth race

course. Look at this, this is the Racing Post ready for you, this is

the story on the front page. Yarmouth shambles as the wrong horse

wins at 50-1. The first race was won by a horse called Mandarin Princess

as so we thought, it turns out it was her stable-mate who was there to

run the 4th race. He said he was rushed to get the

saddling process done. Didn't realise it was the wrong horse at

the time. They only realised afterwards when they scanned the

micro chip in every race horse's neck, realised it was the other

horse, who was a year older and has run ten races. He says it was an

honest mistake, the result officially must stand for betting

purposes. In case you are on that 50-1, you are still going to win. It

is likely that Charlie McBride will get a fine. Do the horses look

similar? They're the same colour. The difference between a

dwo-year-old and three-year-old filly I will defer to people who

know horses more than me. Also if you have a series of things to go

through before every race as a trainer he will have more than

probably the two horses on that day, as well. He will have a lot to get

through. You can understand why he might not have necessarily checked

it. Also let's talk about residents in a small Welsh village, if they

had gone to the local charity shop yesterday would have done quite

well. They would have had to be quick, though. Sam Warburton decided

instead of going to a private fancy dinner or auction to sell off

memorabilia from a sporting achievement, his Lions kit from New

Zealand which he captained, he took it to his local charity shop instead

and he tweeted his arrival at the charity shop. There he is with bags

and all. It's in Rhiwbina in Wales. It was available from yesterday at a

cancer care shop. You can imagine if it was available by 4pm, it might

have been gone by ten past. Thank you.

We understand 60 high-rise buildings have failed a new fire safety test.

The test is seen as more thorough as more materials were analysed

together for the first time. Jim has been covering this from the

first day of the peers with us now. If you look at a photograph of the

outside of Grunfeld Tower quit your notice two things will to the

cladding panels are aluminium, much thinner than you would imagine. We

have already had safety tests. They have come back as failing the safety

tests. There is also a secondary material on here. This is the

installation behind the cladding materials some in local government

and in the construction industry want a more comprehensive test. Who

are not just testing cladding panels can you are testing the whole

system. That is what we are hearing about today. This is a much more

thorough tests. We will show you a version. This is video footage to

give you an idea of what we are looking at. This is a mock-up of the

outside of the building. We will look at how it responds in the event

of a serious fire that there are different combinations of

installation and cladding. We have the first results back. That is on

the same combination that was on the outside of Grunfeld Tower. It has

failed. There are another 60 buildings across England with that

similar combination of installation and cladding on the outside of the

buildings. We are not being told where yet. We do understand the only

council owned properties are in Salford in Manchester. Nine blocks

there, we think. The others will be owned by private landlords and by

housing associations. We should get some idea about where they are later

this morning. This is coming from Sean. When you look around, the

cladding method seems to be prevalent on many buildings,

hospitals, schools, hotels, pretty much all modern constructions. I

noticed there were similar blocks. Are all the methods of construction

being tested or just on residential blocks? At the moment it is on all

blocks. Any organisation concerned can send in products for testing.

That is why you have started to see results from hospitals and student

accommodation. Just because there is cladding on the outside of the

building does not necessarily mean it is unsafe. It is that combination

of big specific type of cladding and is the Civic type of installation

construction industry and the Government concerned about. There

are concerns about this specific combination. 60 buildings across

England is not an unsubstantial number. Yesterday, there was more

news about the police investigation. This came back yesterday afternoon

for that there are reasonable grounds to suspect corporate

manslaughter offences. This is a relatively new law. This only came

in in 2008. That means it is a criminal offence to cause death by

negligence if you are an organisation or a company. They will

presumably be wanting to question executives from both the council and

the TMO, the tenants Management organisations are involved in

running the block at the time it can lead to large fines. It does not

mean because they are pursuing corporate manslaughter charges they

can look at individual manslaughter charges further down the line. Back

could presumably ends in prison time. The speculation is it will be

much further along in the process. I know we will speak to you later on

as the tests come out. The island of Lesbos is one

of the main entry points for migrants fleeing wars

in the middle east for Amongst the migrants that

arrive their daily are people with extreme vulnerabilities,

resulting from traumatic experiecnes in war torn countries

like Syria and Iraq. Such people should in theory be

entitled to be relocated to the mainland to get they support

they need, but aid workers have told the BBC that hundreds of extremely

vulnerable people are being kept on the island and are

therefore being deprived Our correspondent Gavin Lee joins us

from the island now. Tell us what the situation is like

and the conditions the migrants are living in?

On Lesbos there are 4000 migrants. Many have been waiting for a long

time. Most migrants are waiting for an asylum application for the

Syrians will be sent back to Turkey most likely. They are waiting for a

legal decision. This is something different. What aid agencies are

saying is, because of the fall of IS in parts of cracker in Mosul, a lot

of victims, people who have fled to tension, male victims of torture,

women sex slaves, they are here on the island. The

protocol as they should be taken straight off to get primary care,

psychiatric help, on the mainland. It is not happening. I have spent

the last few days speaking to those who need the most help and finding

out why they are still here. Rare footage from a place

journalists are banned. It shows tents have been

replaced by containers, a reflection of Europe's waiting

room being made a little more long-term for the 4,000

being held on the island. Most are destined to return

to Turkey, to apply for asylum from there, as part of the EU's

migration plan, but as they wait for a legal decision,

violence, rioting and fires The camps are full and migrants,

though small in number, The people arriving here

in Lesbos are different now, because of the ripple effects

of the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Since so-called Islamic State

started to lose ground, many who arrived in Greece have

escaped attention, men tortured by tortured by IS fighters,

women used as sex slaves. There is little support for them

and it is worsening the problem You need to improve the health care

that is given to these people. If they are vulnerable,

they need to be recognised as such, and they need to move to somewhere

where they can receive care. The reality is, there isn't this

care here on the island, and they need to move

to the mainland to receive it. Osama was once a Syrian policeman,

but was caught by rebel groups He says he was regularly beaten

and sexually abused his captors. I have so many marks of torture

on my body, he tells me. I have been in captivity

for three years. All this, he says, and I'm here now

in this humiliation for one year. Another man from Mosul,

who doesn't want to be identified, tells me he was held hostage

by IS for more than a year. "I have been harmed here, I lost my

money, passports, all stolen. Before this place, my wife spent six

months in captivity too. She collapsed in

the street yesterday. The Greek refugee policy is clear,

that extremely vulnerable migrants should be taken off the island

quickly for specialist Greek authorities claim they have

been overwhelmed by cases and say I would at this point like to remind

you that 30,000 people have come through this island since March

2016, so there can be individual that may not have been

processed as quickly. For the moment, those needing

the most help are still waiting. And with more migrants arriving

and the camp increasing, the vulnerable are left to cope

in volatile, I have covered this crisis in Greece

and Italy. The dynamic is different now. We have heard from some on the

island for that everyone is agreed they have to come. You have the aid

agencies and the EU saying those who need it most should be getting

psychiatric treatment in Athens. The Greek government is working on it.

It is about communication between them the aid agencies.

We can speak now to Louise Roland-Gosselin in Athens.

She's a representative of the charity Doctors

Without Borders, and has recently been on Lesbos, from Lesbos

itself we have volunteer Charlotte Bellis appearing alongside

Wissam - a Syrian refugee and Steve Valdez-Symonds

from Amnesty international is in the studio.

Tell me where you off from and how you arrived in Lesbos. I am from

Syria. Like everyone, I arrived here by vote for one year and five months

ago. I have nothing yet. -- by boat. Which city were you are and what

work conditions like? My city is named Hama. What were the conditions

like? So bad. You can imagine a lot. Of course. You have been on Lesbos

for nearly a year and a half. Where are you living on Lesbos? What are

conditions like for you? The situation here is so bad. Everyone

knows that. No one cared about anyone here. We don't have that.

People are watching here in the UK and they may not be aware of how bad

it is just explain to people. I don't know if I can explain enough.

The situation here is so bad. We don't have enough support. The food

is not good. Everything here is bad. Also, we need to wait for six

months. We cannot go out from this island or do anything. I get

nothing. They don't give us language or anything. Where is it that you

want to go? For me, I want to go to Canada after London but I cannot,

for sure. We can see and hear from the frustration in your voice, how

challenging and frustrating this is for you. Charlotte is a volunteer.

Are these stories you're hearing daily in and day out? One of the

things, I came here in June, what really surprised me, and I am a

journalist from London, I thought there would be isolated cases of

vulnerability, I might bump into the person who had been tortured but at

least 90% of the people I talk to have been tortured, held in prisons,

had family neighbours murdered. His other brother is also here and was

tortured for three years. He was tortured for a couple of weeks

trying to escape from Syria. I don't know how you decide. Everybody has

stories. Have you been offered any support within the camp for the

trauma that you and your brothers have suffered? Nothing in here.

Nothing in. We get support but it is not enough. Wasam's the suffers from

severe mental health issues. Hama is staying close to him here, trying to

support him. -- Wasam. He has attempted to take his life multiple

times in the past year. Essentially, if Wasam was not here, his brother

would be affected. Louise quit you have recently been in Lesbos. Is

there any support at all available for people like Wasam in these

camps? I was there again this week. In theory there is, on paper there

is. There are two health organisations in the camp. The

reality is the number of people on the island has increased and the

capacity has decreased. We have a clinic outside the camp. We are

trying to provide health support as well as treating victims of torture

and sexual violence. We have a waiting list of over 100 people. The

level of trauma is so important. 20% of our mental health patients are

victims of torture. Women who come for gynaecological services suffer

sexual abuse. We are doing the best we can to meet the demands. Do you

think the Greek authorities are doing enough to help people on

Lesbos question at them and to be transferred to the mainland.

It has to be recognised Europe as a whole isn't doing enough. Europe is

basely imposed upon Greece the obligation of essentially managing

the deal that European countries struck with Turkey, which is

designed to essentially try and send back people who have come to those

Greek Islands to Turkey on the ridiculous suggestion that Turkey is

safe for them. That has introduced, as it happens, a whole new

bureaucratic additional system that Greeks are trying to now manage

before people can even get into their asylum system to have their

asylum claims dealt with when, as happens in many, many cases, it's

determined that no Turkey is not safe for them. Unfortunately, a

system in Greece that was already not working long before we had these

events in 2015-16 and still carrying on, which is now under enormous

pressure and made under increased pressure by this ridiculous deal

which is not safe for people and is trapping people, as you see, in

hopeless conditions on these Islands. It was the EU who paid

Turkey to take these people back and process them effectively because

it's a political hot potato in Europe across Europe, the sheer

numbers of people that have been arriving and questions over whether

they are people who have genuine asylum claims or whether they are

economic migrants coming from maybe Africa and other places. What is it

you want to see the authorities, whether it's the Greek authorities

or wider across Europe do to help people? Let's not forget a country

like Uganda has received more than a million people fleeing a conflict in

South Sudan in the space of less than a year. Yes, it's struggling,

but its borders are still open and it is processing people and is

supporting people. Europe is a huge wealthy part of the world with

enormous resources. It is dealing with comparatively few people

compared to other places elsewhere. We know that many of the people who

fled to these Greek Islands are coming from places as just described

where their lives are plainly at risk. Thank you all for speaking to

us today. If you have any thoughts on this get in touch with us.

The parents of a 21-year-old woman who died after taking weight loss

pills have told this programme the substances should be banned.

Beth Shipsey died in February after taking highly toxic,

fat-burning pills that her parents believe she bought online.

They'll be with us just after the news.

A bad week for President Trump just got a lot worse as his plans to get

rid of parts of President Obama's health care reforms

are rejected by the Senate - the third time Trump's agenda has

And on top of that there's the vicious rivalry

We'll be live in the States in about 15 minutes.

At least 60 high rice buildings that used insulation and cladding similar

to Grenfell have failed a new fire safety test. The tests saw the

materials analysed together for the first time. The only buildings

identified so far are nine council blocks in Salford in Greater

Manchester where the local council is asking for help from central

Government to meet the cost ofs replacements. Ministers will publish

the full findings from these tests later this morning.

Pakistan's Prime Minister has resigned after the country's Supreme

Court unanimously ruled that he should be disqualified over

corruption allegations. The ruling follows accusations relating to the

Panama papers published two years ago in which his three children were

implicated. He and his family deny any wrongdoing.

40 people have been injured, one seriously, after a commuter

At least 18 people have been taken to hospital.

Philip Hammond has said there's broad agreement in Cabinet

that there should be a transition period of up to three years

after Brexit but it should be concluded before the next election

The Chancellor said a failure to implement a transition deal

would sow chaos for business and that it was in the interests

of the EU and Britain to have a transition that allows

Donald Trump has suffered a defeat on one of his key campaign pledges

A number of republicans, including former president

presidential nominee, John McCain, voted against a bill

which would have repealed the healthcare law passed by former

The bill was rejected in a dramatic, late-night vote by fifty-one

The Republican Party's leader in the Senate described

England are through to the quarter finals of the Women's European

Championship with three wins out of three.

The 100% record maintained thanks to a 2-1 win over Portugal.

But they've conceded for the first time in the tournament.

Scotland just missed out despite a 1-0 win over Spain.

Everton have a 1-0 lead after the first leg

of their Europa League qualifier against Slovakian side Ruzomberok.

Leighton Baines with the winner on what was Wayne Rooney's first

Alistair Cook will resume on 82 not out after helping

to keep South Africa at bay on a rain-shortened first day

And this is the first race of the card at

Everyone thought it was won by a horse called Mandarin Princess.

But it was a case of mistaken identity.

That's actually the two year old's stablemate Millie's Kiss.

And the trainer only realised afterwards.

How easy is it to buy deadly diet pills?

Tragically for one young woman too easy.

21-year-old Beth Shipsey had an eating disorder and believed

that the toxic drugs would lead to easy weight loss.

She passed away in February after taking DNP tablets -

which burn fat and can be highly toxic.

They are illegal but her parents believe she bought them online.

Five months after her daughter's death, her mother Carol says

she is shocked at the lack of awareness surrounding the dangers

of diet pills and how widely available they are -

especially as they have been the cause of several

Let's start by showing you a video Beth's 24-year-old brother Tom made

# Brother and sister, together we'll make it through.

# Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there.

# But I've been waiting to be there for you.

# And I'll be there just helping you out.

# I need a miracle, hurry up now, I need a miracle.

# I say your name but you're not around.

# I need you, I need you, I need you right now.

Watching that moving tribute to Beth Shipsey

with me was her mother, Carol Shipsey and Beth's

Also here is Tom Quinn, from the UK's leading eating

Is that hard to watch, or is it a comfort? A bit of both, I think

really. You know, obviously, it's nice to see her again in life but

also equally really sad. Tell me a little bit about your daughter. She

just, her world was animals really. Yeah, she rescued over 100 animals.

Wow, what sort of animals. Everything and anything. One time I

had 40 rabbits in the garden, yeah. Did you like that, Doug, happy with

that? Not at all, no. Kissed goodbye to the lawn. A Shetland pony in the

garden. She travelled the world really and on some of overseas trips

that venture ended up not in a holiday but a venture to rescue

local animals and she rescued four Greek dogs with our financial

support. We have one at home still. She had a huge heart, but clearly

she had issues. At what point did you realise weight was a problem for

her? Well, unfortunately for Bethany, she had a boyfriend that,

there was sexual abuse within the relationship and he got sent to

prison last year for raping Bethany and the abuse was over quite a long

period of time and Beth's mental health deteriorated during that

time. And that's when the eating disorders first manifested itself.

Did you know Doug she was using these diet pills? I had no idea at

all. I didn't even know what these diet pills were or even existed

until literally a couple of days before she died because we were at a

review meeting on the mental health ward where they said they found some

of of the pills and confiscated them. From her? From her on the

ward, yeah, on the mental health ward which we thought was the

entirety of the pills, we didn't realise actually she had stashed

more in her bedroom at home. And DNP is illegal and highly dangerous. It

is. I mean, going back, I think it's important for me to say that Beth

was in and hospital frequently, she came home for home leave often to

attend to the animals. A few weeks before I had found a pack of pills

in her bedroom and I did address it with her and say what are these

pills? She said, they're just herbal diet pills. I had no reason to

believe they were just herbal diet pills, because we have other

daughters and they had bought diet pills from a health shop which were

herbal, so, and she did say at that point she purchased him for somebody

she met on the internet and bought them on the internet and she had

taken them for a week and felt unwell taking them and she wasn't

going to bother any way and was going to throw them away, dispose of

them down the toilet as something like that, we had no reason to

believe that she hadn't done that until my husband said we went to the

meeting the day before she died on the mental health ward where they

disclosed she had found the pills in her possession the day before. What

happened on the day she died? Well, she came home for a home visit to

tend to the animals, of which, I mean, at that point we still had 60

animals at home. We have got a shed and an outdoor enclosure and in the

shed we have many little furies and Doug brought her home about 3pm that

afternoon, I was actually at work and set up the shed, the Hoover and

the steamer and everything like you do, made her a cup of tea and went

off to work and our son Thomas was in the house at the time but in a

different room and that sort of like normal practice, you would have a

drink, cup of tea, catch up on TV and then tend to animals before

going back to the ward. But on that particular day what was different

was our son was about to go to work and the doorbell rang and he was

confronted by two paramedics and Bethany had taken some pills,

spontaneously, and contacted somebody on Facebook who alerted the

emergency services because they were concerned what she had taken. And

then she obviously went into hospital. Within an hour of taking

the pills. And died soon after? She died, she was in the A department,

it was approximately three-and-a-half to four hours

before she had a cardiac arrest and obviously she died that night, yeah.

I want to bring Tom in to talk about diet pills. How widely available are

they and there is a huge range of them. There are a huge range, some

are illegal, some are not. They're all potentially very, very Danning

rows. Unfortunately, we hear very frequently from people contacting

our helpline that they are struggling with diet pills, I think

the fact that individuals are prepared to take pills that could be

extremely dangerous shows how serious eating disorders are, what

we say to people worried about themselves or a family member is get

help quickly, before the illness gets too serious. You didn't know

she was using these diet pills as you said, you also found out that

she was in chat rooms where people were encouraging her. That's right.

I mean, obviously social media, that's the main way of communicating

these days, particularly with younger people, and I knew that she

chatted to people online but it was only after her death that - we were

both horrified to learn of what extent those conversations went in

encouraging her to actually buy DNP and also not only that, to - she was

taking laxatives and I didn't know at the time but she was also taking

Sudofed a lot too, apparently to lose weight and just, you know,

reinforced Bethany's sort of negativity around her own body image

and was an implement really to nournl her to continue on that path

-- encourage her to continue on that path to self-destruct really. Do you

hear that a lot at the charity? We do. This is fundamentally a

serious mental illness. The owners can take over if it is left to

route. It is important that family members and friends are able to spot

some of the early signs that might appear before weight change for that

they might be changes of mood, perhaps becoming socially withdrawn.

Acting strangely around mealtimes, perhaps over exercising. It is

important we are all aware of some of the early signs we can make sure

people get the help they need. People watching probably be amazed

that legal -- illegal pills are so easy for someone to buy online.

People are prosecuted for this but we would support anything that can

be done to stop people being able to get hold of these pills and would

want to speak to anyone out there who is struggling with an eating

disorder and considering taking another harmful diet pill. Please

think again. The risks really are not worth it. What do you want to

see happening? Do you think there needs to be tighter regulation.

People are still managing to get hold of them, like best. I deal with

some chemicals. There are certain systems in place for registering

chemicals and some of the more toxic chemicals would tend to be licensed.

I do not see this as a material that could be classified, like legal mark

optics, etc, because then that would be legal to buy. If there were

licensing controls put on the substance itself, at least it would

restrict the ability for these unscrupulous people who put these

into Capitals and sell on the internet it would restrict their

ability to obtain this material. If it were licensed, you would have to

apply for a licence, to produce the material can sell it, handle it, for

someone to buy it and use it. I know you are a nurse, do you think the

medical profession as a whole knows enough about the diet pills and the

dangers of them? Not at all. As has already been discussed, they are

widely used. Our particular experience with our daughter is the

fact that people were not aware of the severity of the toxic effects of

that particular drug. That is shocking really. I do feel there

needs to be improved communication and that information is disseminated

around within the medical profession. So, if, unfortunately,

the person arrives in an emergency department with a more proactive in

their response. If any parents are watching this he might have concerns

about their son or daughter using diet pills, what would you say to

them? I think you need to take it seriously is very easy with young

people with the complexities of being a young person, to dismiss any

concerns about their weight and see it as a trivial issue. It is about

how you go about challenging a young person on it? It is difficult.

Bethany felt she was not listened to. As I say, the unhealthy

relationship with food, it was about two years. Like you say, excessive

exercise. She was a very slim girl. It is not about BMI, it is about the

unhealthy relationship with food. Many would say she looked OK,

whatever that implies they only see eating disorders in people who are

severely underweight or people who are equally overweight. It is not

about BMI, it is about that relationship with food. Getting

support with a recognised group of people who can really support you

and give advice on what you can do if you are concerned. Thank you for

coming in. Is Venezuela heading

for a civil war? After months of unrest,

the Government says it will ban protests that could disturb

or affect Sunday's controversial election

for a new constituent Assembly. This time last week

Sean Spicer resigned as White House's press secretary -

bringing an end to a chaotic six months as the public face

of Donald Trump's administration. However, over the last seven days

the controversy has continued. On Wednesday, President Trump

announced a ban on transgender people serving in the US military

but now military officials say that In the last few hours,

the US Senate has rejected plans to repeal President Obama's

healthcare reforms - delivering a major blow

to President Trump. His new communications director

Anthony Scaramucci has launched a strongly-worded attack

on the White House chief Well I put out a tweet they are all

making the assumption because journalists know who the leakers

are. If he wants to explain here is not a bleaker, let him do that.

But President Trump supporters argue he's more popular than ever.

Sean Spicer's replacement - Sarah Sanders - has even taken some

time out of a press conference to read a letter from

a nine-year-boy called Dylan, who wanted to defend the American

To remind us a little more often about some of the forgotten men,

women and children that we're here to serve and that

We are going to start the White House briefing

every once in awhile with a letter or an e-mail

that we may receive from some of those individuals.

To kick it off with that process, I would like to read you a letter

"My name is Dylan Harbin, but everyone calls me Pickle.

I am nine years old and you're my favourite president.

I like you so much that I had a birthday about you.

Then Dylan goes on to ask a few questions.

Dylan, President Trump is 71 years old.

The White House is 168 feet long, it is 70 feet tall on the south

side, it is 60' 4" on the north and it takes 300 gallons

of white paint to cover the exterior of the White House residence.

It has 132 rooms and approximately 55,000 square feet.

Dylan, I am not sure, but I know it's a lot!

"I don't know why people don't like you."

"You seem really nice, can we be friends?"

I am happy to say that I directly spoke to the President, Dylan,

he would be more than happy to be your friend.

"My picture is in here, so if you can, see me and say hello."

Dylan, I hope you're watching because the President personally

Dylan, thanks for writing to the President, and if you

are ever in Washington, DC, I hope you will stop by and let

We can speak now to Steve Gruber, a talk radio host and Trump

supporter in Michigan, and Alana Horowitz Satlin,

assignment editor at the Huffington Post.

Do you think it has been a good week for President Trump? A lot going on

as always. It has been a mixed week for the president. He has some

positive news. I think Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a fine

replacement. Sean Spicer was never well matched to that job. From day

one when he came out of government, a big turmoil with the press. He got

into an argument with the press. The podium was too tall. He looked like

a short, angry man. He never really recovered. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

has credibility. She is unflappable and has some humour. She is direct

and has the President's back for that she has been rock solid. A

mixed week for the president. He injects himself into the

conversation like he did with the transgendered tweets. Suddenly it

takes the forefront for a moment until the Senate Democrats failed to

pass the Obamacare legislation. For journalists like myself and the

youth, on the side of the pond, it is busy all the time with Donald

Trump and his team in the White House. A mixed week. You look at the

tweets from President Trump. During the presidential election, he was

flying the flag for LGBT rights. He said if you are a member of the LGBT

community, vote for me. Hillary Clinton will not look after you, I

will. Suddenly he is saying no big complete ban of any transgendered

people within the US military. Like I said, it was a surprisingly by the

president. The Defence Secretary was out of the loop at the moment, not

available to discuss. He had asked for six months to discuss it. As

these things go, as you well know, it will take a bit of time. We now

know what the president thinks on this one specific issue when it

comes to transgendered people serving in the military. Steve says

it has been a good week. Do you think it has been a good week? I

would agree with President Trump. I think Sarah Sanders is miles ahead

of Sean Spicer that she is articulate and charming. She is not

brash. Where Spicer failed, I think sky meet she is failing in a

different way? -- Scaramucci. Whether he is successful or not, he

tried to take the views of Donald Trump and said he was not softening

things he said. For better or worse, I agree they match the

administration and the job better. He is not coming off well with the

public. You read the article from the New Yorker and he is supposed to

be the communications director. Frankly he is embarrassing the

president by slagging off his chief of staff. Not just slagging off.

There was lots of swearing going on, wanting to fire him. It was

unbelievable. Here is the thing. People in Wisconsin just learned

that Fox Khan will build iPads and iPhones in the centre of Wisconsin.

They do not read the New Yorker. Even people in Michigan where he won

by 10,000 votes, or Pennsylvania. These are issues. People in

Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan do not care. They care about jobs.

They care about the 8000 new jobs. Donald Trump has eliminated many

regulations so far. People who are retired teachers and firefighters

who had investments on Wall Street are very happy right now. They are

also very happy that their houses are at the best prices they had been

in 15 years. The give me for interrupting. You believe that Cork

Donald Trump 's supporters, as long as the economy is good and jobs are

coming, the president can say what he likes and his staff can say what

they like because that is the elite having a chat and they are not

interested. With all the Russia talks, people turn off. It becomes

noise. They go to sleep and they move on. They think he is colourful

and interesting. Sarah is better than Sean and people do not care. I

can agree that people do not care about the power centric stuff. You

have to admit. It is not true people do not care about Russia. People are

concerned that also concerned about health care. People in Wisconsin are

even supporters of Donald Trump, they are very concerned. His attempt

to make about the care better and whatever, that fail. -- Obamacare or

whatever, that fail. Millions of people would have lost their health

insurance. Millions of people are going to lose their health care

because Scaramucci will collapse. John McCain said that it will fail.

-- because Obamacare will collapse. The Republicans have quite a long

time to sort out and have not managed to do it. The Republicans

have failed. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. They decided

to lie to the people a couple of days ago. Thank you for speaking to

us from Michigan. Thank you for coming in.

Low pressure in charge of things. Today big showers out there. Here is

Cumbria at the moment, heavy downpours, rainbows pictured there.

Variable amounts of cloud, there is some sunshine further south through

the Midlands, up towards Lincolnshire, for instance. For many

of us a fairly unsettled day with low pressure sitting out to the

north-west of the UK. Tightly spaced isobars too, an indication it will

be breezy today, that breeze coming in from the south-west and importing

some heavy showers. For much of Northern Ireland, Scotland and

northern England heavy showers this morning. Also more cloud and

outbreaks of rain working into the south-west of England and Wales this

afternoon. For Scotland and Northern Ireland sunny spells and scattered

showers, could be thunder. We are likely to see a dryer spell of

weather across northern England for a time. Heavy rain heading in across

parts of Wales, particularly heavy over the hills and around the

coasts. For the south-west of England it's looking damp and breezy

through the afternoon. Mostly dry further towards the south-east of

England and East Anglia but we are going to keep that cloud and through

this evening the rain in the west works further north and east across

Wales and much of England too. Brisk winds, as well. The worst of that

wet weather clears the south-east by the early hours of Saturday. Then

still showers in the far north-west but many of us start the day on

Saturday on a reasonably dry and bright note. We still have the

unsettled theme. There is that weather front to the south-east that

looks like it clears at least for a time and low pressure again to the

north-west then. Blustery showers across north western parts of

Scotland and Northern Ireland. England and Wales having a lot of

dry weather. But you will notice this area of rain likely to creep in

from the English channel affecting southern counties of England and

perhaps up to East Anglia during the afternoon. Temperatures around 18-22

or so. Sunday, another day of sunshine and showers. Some of the

showers initially in the north and west, could be heavy, potentially

thundery and the showers will drift further eastwards through the day.

The far south-east probably avoiding them on Sunday. To summarise the

weekend, rather cool and breezy and a mix of sunnier dryer spells of

weather and also plenty of showers around too. You can check the latest

forecast on our website. Sixty tower blocks fail

new fire safety test - including 9 buildings owned

by Salford council We'll be speaking to a fire safety expert

in just a moment. New research shows drink ago few

times a week reduces the risk of diabetes. Wine appears to be

particularly beneficial but critics say consuming alcohol does

contribute to other diseases. Is Venezuela heading

for civil war? Anti-government protesters erect

barriers and start fires in the capital ahead

of a controversial vote to rewrite Here is the news in the newsroom

with Ben. More materials were analysed

together for the first time some of the far, nine of the buildings which

failed have been identified. They're in Salford in Greater Manchester

where the local council is asking for help from central Government to

meet the cost of replacements. Ministers will publish the full test

findings later While those touched by Grenfell wait

for a full picture of how this fire spread, other residents

in other towers are nervous, These blocks in Salford,

nine of them, are among the 60 across England we understand will be

declared a risk after failing The thought of you not being safe

when you're sleeping in bed of a night-time, thinking

that that's not safe, I don't care how much money it

cost - it's not money, I think we're sitting on a tinderbox

when you look at all the flats. Some of the cladding

had already come down. In the first round of tests,

panels from every building failed. After criticism that wasn't

realistic, experts have now combined cladding and the installation fitted

behind it to show which materials are dangerous when they're put

together, like they were on Grenfell Yesterday, the police said

there were reasonable grounds to suspect corporate manslaughter

may have been committed by the council or the tenant

management organisation. More than six weeks since Grenfell

burned, the investigation is finding its focus

while the reverberations reach right after the country's Supreme Court

unanimously ruled that he should be disqualified over

corruption allegations. The ruling follows accusations

relating to the Panama Papers published two years ago,

in which Mr Sharif's three He and his family

deny any wrongdoing. The Chancellor said on the first day

after leaving the block in March 2019 that many things will look

similar and that it was in the interests of the EU and Britain to

have a transition that allows the economies to adjust.

Our job as we leave the European Union is to make sure that we can do

this in a way that is smooth without disruption to people's everyday

lives, without disrupting the supply chains of businesses that run across

our borders and to then go through a process of moving from the current

arrangements with the EU to our new future long-term arrangements with

the EU and to do that in a smoother way as possible.

40 people have been injured - one seriously - after a commuter

At least 18 people have been taken to hospital.

Four men have been arrested after they tried to make

an explosive device at Cardiff prison.

It came to light when a prison worker contacted a welsh

Assembly Member, Bethan Jenkins with concerns about staffing.

We were talking earlier to Carol and Doug Shipsey about their daughter.

Lots of you getting in touch about that this morning. A tweet from

India, a moving segment on eating disorders and Beth's life. I

definitely think diet pills should be be banned. They are dangerous,

not only physically, a tweet from Joe says of course diet pills should

be banned. Completely unnecessary. And most of us don't know there

isn't any proper advice out there so we don't know what to do. E-mail

from Clare, I took pills from the internet and became depressed I

wanted to die. They're horrible things. Keep your contributions

coming throughout the morning. If you do text remember you will be

charged at the standard network rate.

Let's speak to Huw now for all the sport. Good morning.

England's women will have to beat a team they haven't since 1974

to reach the semi finals of the European Championships.

They play France after making the last 8 in the Netherlands

The Lionesses maintained their 100% record and finished top

of their group thanks to a 2-1 win over Portugal.

Toni Duggan and Nikita Parris with the goals.

However, France have knocked them out of their last

England's win meant that Scotland - in the same group -

needed to beat Spain by two clear goals.

Caroline Weir got some help from the Spanish goalkeeper

to put her side ahead but Scotland just couldn't find that crucial

second goal and exit their first major tournament at the group stage.

In the Europa League qualifiers, Aberdeen hold a 2-1 lead over Cyprus

side, Apollon Limassol, after the first leg.

And Everton's Wayne Rooney received a hero's welcome in his first

competitive game back at the club last night.

He played the full 90 minutes at Goodison Park

It was a scrappy game, settled only by Leighton Baines'

The second leg takes place next Thursday.

Alistair Cook will resume on 82 not out after helping

to keep South Africa at bay on a rain-shortened first day

Despite the interruptions it was an eventful opening

Joe Root was one of the wickets to fall.

He was caught behind brilliantly by Quinton de Kock for 29.

While one of three England debutants, David Malan,

But former captain Cook was at his gutsy best.

First practice is under way at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Hamilton comes into the weekend just one

point behind Sebastian Vettel in the drivers' standings having won

The build-up to this weekend's race has been

dominated by drivers' comments concerning the new protective halo

Happy to implement any head protections for next year, if FAI

study and develop the halo and this is the most effective way to protect

the head of the drivers, it's more than welcome, in my opinion. I don't

like it. But of course at the end of the day you have to respect the

decision of the FAI, but I think since we introduced virtual safety

car that reduced the risk when you are speeding under the yellow flag

in the race and then also with the wheel, strong at the moment, I don't

think you will lose a wheel easily and when there are parts flying

around from the car it's not really going to protect you. So, I don't

really understand why we should need it.

Now why all the long at Great Yarmouth Races yesterday?

Well, the winner of the first, Mandarin Princess, turned out to be

a different horse after they did a routine microchip test

Everyone thought this was Mandarin Princess, in blue,

But it was actually her stable-mate, Millie's Kiss.

Both were trained by Charlie McBride,

The result stood for betting purposes.

The test is seen as more thorough as more materials were analysed

together for the first time. Our reporter Jim Reed has been covering

the Grenfell tire from the first day. He is with us now. Exactly do

the tests show us? We are still waiting for full details of these

test results from the Government this morning, expected it later this

morning. Let's talk you through what we are talking about here. If you

look at the outside of Grenfell tower you get an idea of two things

in particular to look out for, one are the cladding panels, you can see

them on the bottom right of the screen. We have already had tests on

those panels, they're metal, thin, about half a centimetre thick. We

know those have failed fire safety tests. Some people in local

Government, some in the construction industry say you have to go further

and do a more comprehensive test on everything on the outside of the

building and in particular one crucial things, which is this other

area in the top left, that's the insulation that's behind the

cladding. They say you have to test both these things together and the

first results we are seeing of those today in particular. We are going to

see more results throughout the day and more information. This is how we

understand it at the moment. If you look at the tests they're doing, we

have video pictures here. They're testing not just the chemical

make-up of the panels but how the whole system performs in a fire.

They set a fire underneath it and see how it responds to a serious

fire. The Government have ordered six of these tests for different

combinations of that cladding panel on the outside and the insulation on

the inside. The first of those tests has failed. That's the same

combination of cladding and insulation we believe they used on

Grenfell tower and importantly we think there are 60 other buildings

in England that have the same combination. Presumably they would

have failed, as well. The next question is where are the buildings?

That's hopefully what we are going to find out later. We don't know for

sure. Only one council is affected, that's nine blocks in Salford. The

other 51 of those 60 we don't know where they are. We think they're

going to be private landlords or properties owned by housing

associations as opposed to councils. Yesterday more news about the police

investigation. That's right. This is really important. Late yesterday

afternoon police now say there is reasonable grounds to suspect corps

manslaughter offences, they've written to the council and the TMO,

the tenant management organisation -- corporate manslaughter. They've

written to both of those saying they suspect there is grounds for

offences. Corporate manslaughter is a new offence. At least this form of

it. It was only introduced in 2008. It's a criminal offence for an

organisation to cause death by negligence. It's fairly difficult to

prove. This is not individuals involved, this is organisations

involved. We think senior executives from both the council and from the

TMO are likely to be interviewed under caution about this offence. It

could lead to large fines further down the road and it doesn't mean

they couldn't also pursue individual manslaughter charges against people

who may be responsible for this. We don't know that yet. We only know

about corporate manslaughter offences the police have been

talking about. Thank you. We can speak now to Arnold, a

chartered surveyor and member of the association for specialist fire

protection. First of all, are you surprised by what we learned so far?

I'm not surprised. These blooms have been predicted since the early 80s.

I was also talking about the fire risk and the risk of many people

dying due to this form of cladding. Since the early 80s? Yes. Why are we

in this position today? You will have to ask the advisers to

government, the people responsible for building regulations, which

leaves a complete and utter mess as far as my reading of the actual

rules. Nothing has been done that is wrong. We are not just talking here

about public buildings. We're not just talking about tower blocks in

schools and hospitals, this goes way beyond that. It applies to all sorts

of buildings. Not just this cladding for that there are many issues with

fire safety and fire protection in buildings. Give us an example.

Missing fire protection, a block in south-east London. Was looking at a

leak in the roof. It was a stud wall and there was no fire protection.

The power sockets were just plastic. I took one out and I could see next

door. When we stripped and the single skim wall, the cavity wall

with the external wall, I could see all the way down the whole length of

the building stop one sheet of plasterboard each side. The party

wall had two sheets of plasterboard. There was no fire protection on a

block of buildings. This is widespread. We have problems with

timber frame. That fire that occurred in the cavity was not

mentioned. They did a fire test. It passed the one-hour fire test but it

did not pass that there was fire in the cavity. That fire in the cavity

is not in the Government report. Why not? Is this about council is trying

to save money because they have less money or is it simply about the

regulations not being stringent enough? The regulations are not

stringent enough. Anybody will try to get value for money. It is

developments and private owners. If a product passes building control

requirements from the building regulations, you will use it. If you

go to the BBA certificates, both PE and FC and interestingly the one for

FES signed off by Sir Ken Knights who is on the panel. They fail the

test in what they are now doing. It has been passed as fit for use on

high-rise buildings can even by Sir Ken Knight. Thank you very much. In

to us. The weekend is on the way,

but could a drink of wine be just what the doctor

ordered?New research shows that drinking alcohol a few times a week

reduces the risk of diabetes. We'll speak to the lead scientist

involved in that research and to the UK's leading

diabetes charity. Venezuela will go to the polls this

Sunday in one of the most controversial elections

in the country's history. Some think the small South American

nation is on the verge of civil war with droves of its 30 million strong

population taking to the streets for four months in protest of widespread

food and medicine shortages. They charge their President Nicholas

Maduro with failing to manage the country's economy effectively,

Some say he's turning the country into a dictatorship

after imprisoning political opponents and killing

over 100 protestors. In a moment we'll talk to some

Venezuelan's living in the UK but first lets speak with BBC

Journalist Vladimir Hernandez who has spent time with protestors

in Venezuela's capital Caracas. Take us right back to basics. Where

have the problems come from what other problems? The economy, it has

the highest inflation in the world a lot of people are struggling to get

five to buy food and medicines. 80% of the population said in a poll

there were only eating twice a day. This is a country with one of the

highest oil reserves in the world. The Government, earlier this year,

tried to disband the national assembly or Congress, which is led

by the opposition. The opposition it was the last remaining area of

political dissent. That ticked off three months or more of protests

from today. This is a desperate situation. There was a video on the

BBC website of people chasing after bin lorries, family. Not just a few.

People taking out bags of waste and feeding it to their children. This

is such a desperate situation. Child malnourishment has gone up 30% in

the last year. As soon as the figures went out, the Minister for

health was sacked for revealing the figures from many people in many

places telly they have never seen something like this before. The bin

lorry pictures we have seen are only in the capital, in Caracas. Outside

the rest of the country the situation is much worse by far. They

think the Government has not fulfilled its responsibilities. The

more the time passes, the worse the economy will get and they will get

new leadership and the Government should listen. You have been

spending some time with the protesters. Let's have a look.

This group carries out this ritual before every

After almost 100 deaths and thousands of arrests, no wonder

Numerous Venezuelans have taken to the streets to ask

President Maduro to call for fresh elections, due to severe food

and medicine shortages but also against his plans

On the front line of every protest there is a group of young men

and women who call themselves the resistance, and they face

the worst of the security forces, the heavy-handed response.

This is what normally ends up happening, almost every day.

For more than three months, protests end up in violent

clashes where young men, young students, boys and girls,

can end up injured, and some of them even killed.

Many of the students in the resistance shy away

from the media to avoid exposure, but a group of them has agreed

In my day we were protesting against rising bus fares.

Today, it's a rather more desperate story.

We have concealed their identities and changed

The way I see it, the resistance is everybody who is against a regime.

Many people see it as a dictatorship, and if you look

at what they're doing, that's what it is, really.

At the moment, they are even trying to change our constitution,

which is what all our ancestors fought for.

I think the resistance is those people who come out to protest

and were willing to take the lead to confront the police

Many of the students I met told me they come from working class areas

which have been specially hit hard by the economic collapse.

But the Venezuelan government accuses them of staging a coup

Some have labelled us as terrorists, but I think that all of us youth

who make up the resistance are brave fighters.

We are defending our people from the government's brutal repression.

Venezuela state attorney Luisa Ortega Diaz has said

that the government's actions can be called state terrorism.

Thousands have been put in jail, some taken to military court,

and others have still been held even after a judge ordered their release.

I posed these issues to a Venezuelan high-ranking minister who gave

He passed the responsibility back to the Attorney General.

TRANSLATION: There've been more than 100 people

killed in street protests, but out of these almost 20

are National Guardsmen or policeman, killed

Why has the Attorney General not made any comment about this?

I wouldn't hesitate to say that Mrs Ortega Diaz is responsible

through dereliction of duty for the deaths that have occurred

As the death toll rises, the protests in Caracas are now

increasingly followed by vigils like this one to remember the dead.

For everyone in this city, the focus now is on Sunday.

That's the date for a vote to elect a new assembly tasked with rewriting

This is a country that has seen many of its younger people killed,

People like these are commemorating the lives lost in this wave

This is very much an open wound, and the consequences are far

from known, regardless of who's going to run this nation.

Vladimir Hernandez, BBC News, Caracas.

Let's talk now to two Venezuelans living in London -

Angela Fuguet, who runs a shop selling Venezuelan clothes -

Alejandro Lovero who works in media, and, in Caracas, we can speak

with local journalist Fabiola Ferrero.

Thank you all for speaking to us today. First of all, tell us what

conditions are like for your family back home in Venezuelan. I was kind

of mixed up. My dad is a comedian, well over there. He has been

experimenting and dealing with this situation as everyone. He gets more

attention from the Government, draws more attention. It is difficult for

him, trying to fight against it. Being part of the resistance as

well. He tries to deliver the message from the people to the

Government, against the Government, against what the Government is doing

to the people. Is the Government cracking down on him? Yes. Since

some time ago, a long way before this, shutting down. He is going to

do the shows or whatever. My mother is a normal citizen. She is dealing

with the rest of the situation that everyone else deals with. Have IQ?

It has been very difficult. I have not been able to speak with my

parents. -- how about you? The only way we can communicate is through

WhatsApp or the occasional Facebook message. They do not often have

electricity. Food is scarce. They find food at super inflated prices.

Explain to people. If they go into a shop, is it empty shelves? Yes.

Shelves are empty. If you find products, they have been ransacked

from the shelves and they allow people to come in and buy them.

There is a restriction on how many products you can buy and if you can

find them. People buy things are necessary. If they can find them,

they can stockpile them. It is a case of being able to afford it.

Affordability is highly reduced because you are earning $10 a month

and you are paying $20 for something. That is like one month

and $10 and a product that can cost you between $6 and $10, to give you

an idea. It does not matter where you come from. It does not matter

whether you are rich or poor. Everyone is suffering from this. It

is not... It does not just affect a certain part of the population. I

want to bring you in. Give us a sense of what it is like on the

streets. You are a few days away from the hugely controversial

elections. Is it calm or are there protesters on the streets? Thank

you. I'm very sorry to hear about the stories we have just heard from

my fellow countrymen. The streets are not calm at all. It is true the

protests are smaller at the moment. A lot of the reasons is because

people are afraid there have been over 100 deaths. The number keeps

increasing on a daily basis. Also there has been a change in the

protesting. People are blocking their own streets to try to avoid

people from walking the streets and blocking the whole city. This works

mainly in the east part of the city. Also at night. You can see very

violent confrontations between some protesters and the state security

forces in some other areas of the cities. What the feeling is is you

can see very high tension in the streets. Not only in the political

sphere but also the regular citizen is living in a merry hostile

situation right now. Explain why these elections on Sunday are so

controversial. It is basically like a declaration of a dictatorship. It

is not like they did not ask anyone, would you like us to do the election

or a referendum? They are just going to do it. They are heading straight

for them. The candidates are not people who have prepared with a

proper background for the sector. The Government is just doing it,

regardless of what the people think, or the whole country thinks. They

did a popular presentation of seven and a half million people voting and

signing against that and they just don't care. They think they own the

country. That is what, among many other reasons, which has people

protesting against the Government. It's not like we want something

else. This has to stop. Thank you for coming in today and speaking to

us. Could a glass of wine be the new way

to fight against type 2 diabetes? Calls for prison staffing levels

to be reviewed urgently after an explosive device was let

off at HMP Cardiff. We'll be live in Wales

in a few minutes' time. The BBC understands that at least 60

high-rise buildings, which used insulation and cladding

similar to Grenfell Tower, The test saw the materials analysed

together for the first time. The only buildings identified so far

are nine council blocks in Salford in Greater Manchester,

where the local council is asking for help from central government

to meet the cost of replacements. Ministers will publish the full test

findings later this morning. Pakistan's Prime Minister

Nawaz Sharif has resigned after the country's Supreme Court

unanimously ruled that he should be disqualified over

corruption allegations. The ruling follows accusations

relating to the Panama Papers published two years ago,

in which Mr Sharif's three He and his family

deny any wrongdoing. Phillip Hammond, has said there's

broad agreement in Cabinet that there should be a transition

period of up to three years after Brexit -

but it should be concluded before The Chancellor said a failure

to implement a transition deal would sow chaos for business

and that it was in the interests of the EU and Britain

to have a transition that allows Donald Trump has suffered a defeat

on one of his key campaign pledges A number of Republicans,

including former presidential nominee John McCain,

voted against a bill which would have repealed

the healthcare law passed by former The bill was rejected in a dramatic,

late-night vote by 51 votes to 49. The Republican Party's leader

in the Senate described The same number of Russians serving

in the United States. The Russian Government says it is seizing a

compound and warehouse used by US diplomats. The move comes after the

US Senate voted to place new sanctions on Russia.

That's a summary of the latest news. We had head over to the sports

centre. Daniel Ricciardo has finished

fastest in his Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton was third quickest.

Alistair Cook will resume on 82 not out after keeping South Africa at

bay. It was shortened by the rain. England are through to the

quarter-finals of the women's European Championship with three

wins out of three. France come next for them. Scotland

just missed out despite a 1-0 win over Spain. This is the first race

of the card at Yarmouth races yesterday. Everyone thought it was

won by Mandarin Princess. It was mistaken identity. That was the

stable-mate Millie's Kiss. The trainer only realised afterwards.

More in the next hour. People who drink alcohol three

to four times a week are 30% less likely to develop type 2

diabetes - than those That's according to researchers

in Denmark, where more than 70,000 people took part

in a health study that The UK's leading diabetes charity

warns this isn't a green light Let's talk to the author

of the research Professor Janne Tolstrup at the University

of Southern Denmark in Copenhagen. First of all, a huge study this,

70,000 people, and it found that red wine is particularly good for us. In

fighting off type two diabetes, I should say. Well, yes, we did

exploratory analysis on the type of alcohol. Actually our main resource,

where we have largest strength of our study is the results in drinking

frequency where we are comparing people who drink a certain amount of

alcohol a week and we are studying if there are differences between

those who - for instance if a man is on average drinking 14 units a week,

is there a difference in his risk of diabetes, whether he drinks it all

during one night or tends to spread it out on three or four days.

Drinking alcohol in smaller proportions more frequently is

associated with the lower risk as compared to drinking in only one

portion. Binge drink something bad, no drinking isn't so great but

drinking three or four times a week can stave off type two diabetes?

Well, yeah, now in this study we looked at specifically diabetes, so

I would definitely not go out saying to everybody they should drink three

or four times a week because alcohol is associated with so many different

diseases and what we studied here was only the risk of diabetes. So of

course these results should not be used to advise people to go

drinking. Dan, people watching this on Friday, might be having a smile

to themselves, fantastic, I am going to have a beer, particularly if you

are a man, I read. Glass of wine, that's good? It very much sounds

like it, doesn't it. The... It is suggesting that there potentially is

a need for more research in this area. We currently know that in

order to prevent type two diabetes in the vast majority of people there

is much more evidence and more sound evidence to suggest a healthy diet

and physical activity. So it's not as probably fun or as interesting as

going down to the pub to crack open a bottle of wine. There is a little

bit of hard work associated with healthy diets and exercise. We know

there is not really a quick win in preventing type two diabetes.

Professor, I was reading, beer lowers your diabetes risk if you are

a man but not a woman. Spirits made no difference. Yes. That is true. I

must say that for instance beer among women was a bit difficult in

our study because 70% taken was wine, we didn't have statistical

power to study how beer affected the risk among women and only found that

beer was associated with men. That may be because we didn't really have

the data on beer in women. Do you know what it is in wine that is

fighting the type two diabetes? No, we do not. Actually we interpret

these results as it is most likely that it's the alcohol itself that

has apparent beneficial effects. Actually when we started out our

study there have been a number of studies that shows that... What we

wanted to take that finding further to see if there was a difference and

how you drink, what I mentioned before, with drinking frequency, it

seems better to drink frequently than having smaller portions of

alcohol. Dan, do you worry when stories like this come out that it

sends out a wrong message? Absolutely. I think the problem is

that the headline is drinking more reduces your diabetes risk and

that's really, we can't change our current practice based on this one

study alone. But it is a huge study, 70,000. Absolutely. It is a huge

study, but there still needs to be a little more done into this area,

really for us to understand the real reasons behind it. Type two diabetes

is an traemly complex condition. Its prevention of it is just as complex

as its management. So, while we look at, let's take the alcohol,

potentially drinking too much alcohol will push your blood

pressure up and having high blood pressure is also a risk factor for

developing type two diabetes so it's very understandable for the general

public to be confused in this area. So, the problem is we are looking at

it in an isolated way and you need to look at it in the round.

Absolutely, there are many factors that contribute to your risk of

developing type two diabetes. We can't just take one of those.

Ethnicity, age, even gender is going to have a contributing factor.

Everything needs to be taken on a holistic approach really. If people

are watching this, what would be your message to them, you have done

this indepth research with a lot of people, a huge sample, would you say

that you agree with what Dan is saying that we need to be careful

about what message comes out from this? Sure. I absolutely agree. Also

what we can see is still looking in isolation on diabetes, but the risk

tends to go up again if you go above the level of moderate drinking, one

or two drinks a day on average. I think that when it comes to

recommendations about how should people act in terms of alcohol, we

have the national guidelines in most countries at least and you should

stick with them and they say something like it's OK to drink a

bit in moderation and to avoid binge drinking and that's absolutely not

changed from this study. Thank you for speaking to us.

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to make

an explosive device at Cardiff Prison.

The incident came to light when a prison worker contacted

a Welsh Assembly Member with concerns about the impact

We're joined now from Cardiff by our reporter Kate Morgan.

What do we know? Four men have been arrested after an explosive device

was made at the prison last month. In June, there was a plastic bottle

and it was filled with a clear liquid, and that erupted on the

floor. No one was injured and no one was hurt. This is what the Prison

Officers' Association says he knows about what happened. This was an

incident that actually happened on 16th June where a prisoner was

observed placing a plastic container under a stairwell. When he removed

himself from that area the container exploded, there was no damage to

property and no injuries to staff or prisoners. Apparently two prisoners

got moved out of the establishment the next day. The police were in

attendance and there is an internal and criminal investigation. It begs

the question how did this get into a prison? Well, quite. One staff

member was so concerned they got in touch with an Assembly member which

is why we know what happened. They told Bethan Jenkins, she says this

was made out of an everyday item, it happened to be flammable. Concern of

the worker is how did this happen with prison staff and prison

officers, they should be watching and know about this, there are

concerns that staff shortages lead to this happening. It wasn't a huge

explosion but the fact it could happen in the first place is what is

really the concern here. Thank you. More migrants trying to get

into the US illegally die in Brooks County than any other

place in Texas. Brooks County is not

on the border though, it is 65 miles north

of the frontier. A Border Patrol checkpoint has

created a 'second frontier' forcing illegal migrants to risk their lives

by going around it. 550 bodies have been found

in the hot desolate scrubland around the checkpoint in

the last seven years. The BBC's Juan Paullier joins

Don White, a volunteer Sheriff's Don is a volunteer and he's

looking for migrants. More often than not,

he only finds their remains. So you look for the paths

that they trail and then you backtrack those to see

if anybody has been left behind. This toothpaste was probably

left behind by migrants hiding in these branches,

and many of them die here. What is striking is that we are more

than 100 kilometres north of the actual border with Mexico,

and you can hear the cars We are on the outskirts of a town

where a border patrol It is a major corridor

used by people smugglers To circumvent the checkpoint,

migrants are forced to walk through the surrounding brush

for 40 kilometres. This is not the place where migrants

expect to die, but they do. I am not worried about encountering

the border crossers. I am worried about

the drug smugglers. They are carrying armed,

I want to make sure I can equal up. Don works with the Missing Migrant

Initiative, a multi-agency project, Their aim, to recover

those left behind. It is easy to get lost,

and many migrants die More than 550 in

the last seven years. He called it in and

it was collected. The sheriff asked if I could do

a follow-up search of the area Towards the rat mounds,

and these were big rats. Towards the rat mounds and a huge

cactus but we found several new bones, a cellphone,

photo ID, so, that was Half an hour into our patrol,

Don finds something. So that was dropped three

or four months ago. Why does Don, who lives three hours

away, often spend days here? Decades ago his niece

was kidnapped and killed, and it took two months

for her remains to be found. They have lost somebody

in your family, and you don't know where they were lost,

you don't know where they were at, you don't know if they are even

buried, you have nothing you can bury, nothing that

you can go and worship, nothing you can go visit, nothing

you can put flowers on. So I guess that's why I do

it, for the families It's hard to know how many people

cross through this sector, but the local sheriff

believes there are many What I would say is for

everybody we recover, we would probably have

five missing, OK. So that kind of tells you the number

of bodies which are still out The search can be difficult

since the land is privately owned, but some ranchers

are trying to help. The ranchers probably have

about $1 million of property damage as far as fencing and wells, water

wells, whatever the issue might be, We do have some ranchers out

there who have applied You utilise those ladders

to go over the fence. But they don't do that,

because they feel it's a trap. They feel it's a trap

so they don't use those, Eddie Canales is also trying

to prevent migrant deaths. For the past four years,

he has been putting out water There is is, the water

station right there. For him and his team,

it's a continuous job. They had to dispense over 450 litres

in the last two days. Many of the barrels were emptied

and taken away by people who don't agree with his

stance on immigration. Actually, most people see it

as an important effort to try and save people,

because nobody really I think in 2012 here,

when they saw a body every day, or more, I think it hardened people

but it also made them aware of the situation,

so they support the effort. They don't want to see deaths

continue in this county. 20 metres away from the tank,

he finds something. Well, it's a woman's

identification, from El Salvador. Well, it's somebody

that was coming through here. He plans to take it and find out

if someone is trying to find her. We'll see if there are any calls,

if the consulate in El Salvador has received a missing

person's report themselves. She may have died,

she may have survived. The truth is, no one knows

what happens to many of the people passing through this killing field

on American soil. So after all the thrills and spills

- not to mention all the lumps, Channel 4's sports reality TV

show The Jump will be The broadcaster said

the programme had been a "hugely successful brand",

but won't be returning Last year's show was dogged

by injuries, which resulted in seven Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle needed

neck surgery after fracturing two vertebrae, and gold medallist

Rebecca Adlington dislocated her shoulder when she lost control

and hurtled off a 100 metre icy With me now is the comedian

Mark Dolan, who took part And in Surrey, TV

presenter Laura Hamilton - she took part in the very first

series in 2014, just I take my hat off to you for that.

When you did the programme, what was it like you? I absolutely had the

best experience. As you said, I had just had a baby. Four weeks after

the birth of my son. The trainers are incredible, the best in the

business. I love skiing. I had skied since I was a kid, I was nine. It

was the most amazing experience with getting to learn the different

disciplines. Speed skating, Bobsleigh. I loved it. How about

you? Did you love it? I am out of plaster and have full movement back.