31/07/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

I'm Chloe Tilley, standing in for Victoria.

Will Government plans to recruit thousands more mental health workers

in England over the next four years be enough to ensure patients

I think the mistake that Health Secretary

after Health Secretary after Health Secretary

and governments have made that if you want to solve a problem

you only have to put the money in, but actually you've

We'll discuss the plans with campaigners, medical

professionals and patients - and we want to hear your stories.

Also this morning, ceremonies to mark the one-hundredth

one of the bloodiest of the First World War.

At this time 100 years ago today the Battle of Passchendaele had just

begun. The offensive was under way, the first British and Commonwealth

troops had already fallen. Today Prince Charles and the Duke and

Duchess of Cambridge will be at Tyne Cot Cemetery, the biggest

Commonwealth cemetery in the world, most of the fallen foul at

Passchendaele. And pressure mounts on Channel 4

to scrap a programme about Princess Diana featuring

archive interviews in which she Welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11 this morning. Waiting for GCSE or A Level results

is nerve-wracking enough, without the added worry that some

of the grades might be wrong. The exams regulator Ofqual

is tightening up the rules for appeals this summer,

but are they also doing enough to check the results

are right in the first place? If you're a student,

a teacher or an exam marker then we'd love to hear

from you this morning. Do get in touch - use

the hashtag Victoria LIVE and if you text,

you will be charged workers are to be recruited

by the NHS in England. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,

said the aim is to treat an extra The Royal College of Nursing has

questioned how so many staff can be hired and trained,

in such a short space of time. Here's more from our Health

correspondent Dominic Hughes. Ministers in England have already

acknowledged the treatment offered to patients struggling with mental

health problems suffers in comparison to those

with physical ailments. An extra ?1 billion in funding

for mental health services Now we know that some of that cash

will be spent on recruiting thousands of extra nurses,

doctors, psychologists The plan includes recruiting 2,000

staff to work in child and adolescent mental health

services, nearly 3,000 extra therapists working with adults,

and an extra 4,800 staff, mostly nurses, working

in crisis care. Because mental health services

have been underfunded for such a long time,

this initiative, in and of itself, won't help us to achieve the parity

of esteem that so many of us want. But what it will do is set

the foundations to be able to look forward to a future where mental

health is treated on an equal But simply creating posts does not

always mean you can always find These jobs are among the most

challenging in the health service. Data published last week showed

that, even before this latest recruitment drive,

many thousands of nursing posts across the wider

NHS remain unfilled. The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

has been speaking about He told the BBC it was time

to end the "historic imbalance" between mental

and physical health services. We are confident we can get these

numbers, there are people trained in mental health nursing, trained as

psychiatrists who are not currently working in the NHS. We have a

programme to attract them back into the NHS. We want to say to them that

we probably have the biggest expansion in mental health in Europe

at the moment, we are proud of what we are doing but we want to do much

more. Will be talking more about this at 9:15am.

Julian Worricker is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

The United States says President Putin's decision to order

755 of its diplomatic staff to leave Russia is unjustified.

The move is in retaliation to new sanctions approved by the US

Congress for Russia's alleged involvement in last year's

presidential election and the annexation of Crimea.

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, appears to have stepped back

from a suggestion that the UK could cut taxes and regulation

in a bid to undercut EU countries after Brexit.

In an interview with the French newspaper, Le Monde,

he says the government has no plans to make big changes

to tax policy in order to attract global investment.

His remarks are in sharp contrast with what he said

The editor of The Sunday Times has apologised for an article suggesting

the BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz earned high

The article, by the columnist Kevin Myers,

was published in the newspaper's Irish edition and online and has

Speaking on BBC Radio London, Ms Feltz has expressed her

I would have thought that after all these years I

would have been immune to it, and that is not at all how I felt.

Also the layers of people at the newspaper who check

copy before it goes into the paper, the subeditor, the legal team,

thought that is blatantly anti-Semitic, vile and unsuitable,

One in five MPs continues to employ a member of their family using

taxpayers's money, despite the practice being banned for new

members of Parliament. Of the 589 returning MPs, 120 do have declared

the employment of a relative in the latest register of members financial

interests. None of the 61 new MPs elected on June eight are allowed to

do so. Campaigners say there needs to be a clear end date for all MPs.

The High Court will today decide whether Tony Blair,

former foreign secretary Jack Straw and former attorney general

Lord Goldsmith can be prosecuted over the 2003 Iraq War.

The attempt to bring them to court was launched

by a former Iraqi general, Abdul-waheed al-Rabbat,

who calls the invasion a "crime of aggression".

HIV testing should be offered to patients when they register

with a new GP in areas where there are high

rates of infection, according to new research.

More than 13,000 people are unaware that they have the condition -

Researchers from two London universities say screening

Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, reports.

A simple finger prick test - that is all that is needed now

GPs' surgeries in some parts of London are making

This study says those efforts should be much more widespread.

The researchers looked at surgeries where new patients are offered a HIV

This led to a much higher rate of diagnosing the virus.

The authors say the benefits mean more screening is affordable.

That means they carry the virus without actually knowing it.

So having an HIV test at your surgery will allow

you to have access to excellent treatment, but then

also prevent people - prevent you from passing

Routine testing has previously been recommended by Public Health England

But investment in testing has fallen in some areas because of financial

pressures on local authorities' public health budgets.

The charity Terrence Higgins Trust called on healthcare commissioners

Cristiano Ronaldo will appear in Madrid today accused of tax fraud.

He is the latest Spanish spokesman to fall foul of this. If found

guilty he could face a prison sentence.

Dozens of people were left suspended in mid-air after a cable

car came to a stop over the River Rhine in Germany.

Fire crews and rescue teams in Cologne used

a crane to reach the 75 trapped passengers, some of whom were

A number of children were lowered to the ground.

Prince Charles will attend the second day of commemorations

to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle

Half a million Allied and German soldiers were killed,

wounded or went missing in action during the three months of fighting

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a service with descendants

of those who fought there. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9.30. Thank you. We will be speaking later

about the growing pressure on Channel 4 to scrap a programme which

shows Princess Diana talking frankly about her personal life. Mick on

Facebook says, she will always be alive in people's hearts, she is not

here to defend herself from the rubbish people keep putting out to

score points, let her rest in peace. Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport

with Kat Downes. Kat, a great night for England's

women. So England women are

through to the final of the European Championships

in Hungary - No mean feat. They beat France for

the first time in 43 years and manager Mark Sampson may be relieved

because he said before the match that England could beat France even

if they did not play at their best. I don't think that is what happened

but it only took one goal from Jody Taylor and England won. They held on

for the rest of the match, some goalmouth skirmishes as the French

attacked in the final minutes but England held on. The result means

that England are now the highest ranked team in the tournament after

defending champions Germany were knocked out. Does that make them the

favourites? This is what the manager said after the match. We always

talked about the fact that you can't just turn up and click your fingers

and hope it comes together, these are the results of sheer hard work,

obsession with wanting to be the best supporting your mates through

it for the two years. All that work has now come to fruition. I'm just

so proud of them because to reach that level of performance

considering where we were four years ago is a huge achievement for them.

But I know that they want more. England have been beaten by France

at the last three major tournaments yet it is England who go through to

face the Netherlands, the host nation, in the semifinals. Not only

will they play a team in form, they'll be taking on the home crowd

as well. Let's not get carried away! Let's talk about Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton let his teammate over take him in the closing stages

of yesterday's Grand Prix, so some good sportsmanship

Is this about Hamilton being a gentleman or team orders? I think it

was the right thing to do. I think Lewis Hamilton showed sportsmanship,

following team orders, it has definitely sent the right message

and is the right way of going about things. Let me take you through the

race. Sebastian Vettel was in front extending his Championship lead over

Hamilton but was struggling with his steering. Valtteri Bottas, the team

mate of Lewis Hamilton, was closing in on the leading Ferraris, Hamilton

was closing in on him and Hamilton said if you let me overtake my team

mate I think I can close that gap at the top of the drivers Championship.

So Valtteri Bottas allows them to go past but it becomes clear that

Hamilton won't be able to chase down the Ferraris so he keeps his word

and says, I wasn't able to chase the Ferraris Stansell, Valtteri Bottas,

you can go past me and take those points in the coming third at the

Hungarian Grand Prix. So now people are asking was that good

sportsmanship from Hamilton, was he just following team orders or in the

cut-throat world of Formula 1, where Sebastian Vettel is now 14 points

clear at the top of the drivers's Championship should Hamilton have

gone for it and closed the gap because he might regretted by the

end of the season. He says, in my mind, I want to win the Championship

the right way. I don't know if that will come back to bite me in the

backside or not. I want to win it the right way and I think today was

the right way to do things. Whether you agree or not is up to you. Thank

you, Kat, we will find out at the end of the season if that was costly

for Lewis Hamilton. Now, tt's several years

since the Government health provision on an equal footing

with other health services, but many patients still struggle

to access the services they need. It's a problem we've covered

extensively on this programme. So will plans to recruit more

than 20,000 extra mental health The plans involve increasing

the number of trained nurses, therapists, psychiatrists and other

mental health professionals by 2021. Earlier, the Health Secretary Jeremy

Hunt explained the numbers to Naga Munchetty on BBC Breakfast

and said nurses have The 21,000 number

is for posts overall. That isn't just nurses,

that is psychiatrists, that is therapists who help people

with conditions like depression and anxiety, and nurses,

and people working in different But nurses are a very,

very important part of it, and we are confident that we can

get these numbers. There are people who are trained

in mental health nursing, people who are trained

as psychiatrists who are not currently working in the NHS,

and we have a programme to attract And what we want to say to them

is that we probably have the biggest expansion in mental health provision

in Europe going on at the moment. We're proud of what we're doing,

but we want to do a lot more. We still have too many people

in this country who... where a young

life is blighted because we're not getting them the mental health care

that they need quickly enough. There are too many older people

who are living in isolation and suffering and depression

and they think it is automatic and This is a very important issue,

I don't think anyone would deny that, and when it is such

an important issue, I wonder how you think you're going to recruit

nurses when there is a 1% pay cap, when it seems that all you're

going to be doing is, what, placing advertisements for a job

which many think is underpaid, low-paid, and your pay rise

is going to be less than inflation, so you're actually earning less

money each year doing a job It is a very tough job,

and I would say that nurses on the front line have

never worked harder. But we are expanding

the nursing workforce. We have nearly 6,000 more

nurses on the front line One of the reasons that we have been

able to expand the workforce to date is because with a limited budget

and very difficult economic situation, we have

shown pay discipline. But we have to balance that

against the need for recruitment, And that's why we have

this independent process with the pay review body,

and that's why we will listen carefully to what the pay

review body says before We can speak to Diane Hardiman

is a psychotherapist Mandy Stevens has worked in mental

health services for 30 years and recently found herself admitted

to a mental health unit. Paul Farmer from the mental

health charity, MIND. Stephanie Aitken from

the Royal College of Nursing. Thank you for coming to speak to us.

Diane, you train counsellors, what do you make of what Jeremy Hunt

announced today? It sounds fantastic. It would be interesting

to know exactly how many therapists and what he means by therapists

being brought in. We have a lot of trainees, a lot of qualified

counsellors who can't find paid work once they're trained. So, the idea

of increasing the number available sounds fantastic, but whether it

works or not and how we can actually get it happening, I don't know. But

it sounds great. What do you think Stephanie from the Royal College of

Nursing prospective, do you think it is realistic? So we'd welcome it

because anything that's addresses some of the issues that we have got

around parity of he is seem r teem is really important, but we have

concerns about the fact that in terms of recruit, retain and retrain

that how is that actually going to happen? So we think they're laudable

ambition, but there is very little detail in the plan about how that's

going to be achieved. So to deliver the number of staff, that Jeremy

Hunt is talking about, when would the people need to start their

training? How quickly would you need to get people? If you are looking

into recruiting into post for 2020, they need to be recruited interest

this September and with the changes in student funding at

pre-registration level then there are real challenges around that. We

know currently that it is less attractive and the numbers are down

for recruitment for September. Mandy, you have got a unique

prospective, a truly unique prospective to have worked so long

in mental health services and then yourself having to access the

services. So what are your thoughts as a professional and as patient? I

worked for 15 years as a qualified nurse and when you are with people,

what is so important is the communication and the relationship

that you build up with the people that you're looking after. 15 years

working as a director and a leader so you then have to manage the

services, that's when you need to make sure that we've got enough

staff, who are well trained, caring, compassionate and supportive. So,

that the workforce are the people who deliver our service. So having

then received services from mental health services myself, I benefited

from outstanding care in the mental health trust that I was looked

after. So, they care equality commission regulators, there is two

mental health trusts in the country that are outstanding and I live in

Hackney so I received care from East London foundation trust which is an

outstanding trust. So I was in hospital for three months and I

received that fantastic care in my hour of need so the staff were cam

passionate, kind, caring, consistent. There was always pempl

nant staff, people who knew me, and it helped building up the

relationship. But I know that 98% of people who use services within our

country don't receive that high level of care even at the moment.

So, I was very lucky to receive such a unique high level of care. It was

wonderful. Paul, I can see you nodding away. Mandy tells a great

story about how important staff are. I mean the mental health services we

don't have MRI scanners, we have people. People who provide the care

and support to people to really make a big difference in their greatest

hour of need. So I think the challenge is that the moment we have

a huge amount of inconsistency in terms of what people experience

locally on the grown and that's because of the very huge variety of

staff availability and staff capability as well. So and we have

never had a plan for mental health staff. This is the first time we are

seeing those elements come into play, but it is a big challenge to

get there over the next four to five years. The thing about the area of

mental health this. Is one of the hardest jobs in the NHS, isn't it?

Attracting staff is a problem and retaining them is a massive issue,

isn't it? It's a passion. My colleagues, all of us who work in

mental health services, it's about the relationship that you build up

with our communities and our people. So nearly all of my colleagues who

work in mental health services are all nurses, care. You know you

really want to do the best that you can, but it's very difficult when

you've got high waiting lists and you have got high demand and if

you're working with people who have got really challenging needs and

people who are very high risk to themselves or other people, you need

to be alert. You need to be very consistent and you need to be very,

you need to be looked after yourself as an individual. So, I was really

delighted that Paul and MIND have started doing work around the mental

health of people who work in mental health services which is fantastic

to see because you know, it has a lot of personal toll on people. What

do you think needs to change in order to attract those members of

staff that would be amazing and retain them? There is a lot of

stigma around mental health. There is something about I would support

any campaign that actually really makes clear what the value

contribution people who work with those with mental health in a range

of different roles, but particularly for us in nursing. Actually add in

terms of that. There is huge job satisfaction, but job satisfaction

isn't enough. People also need recognition and they need to be able

to actually feel that they are able to support themselves and their

families and loved ones in the role that they are and actually, we have

seen that the pay has actually, the value of your pay has gone down for

nurses over years and that's why we have launched our scrap the cut

campaign. People need to have recognition both financially and in

terms of the value that society offers. Picking up on the stigma

point. Although there is a lot of stigma around mental health,

probably this year, we have seen that eroding as we have seen the

work of Times Change And The Heads Together Campaign. Prince Harry

talking about his own experiences? Younger people changing mindset

about mental health as an issue. The big opportunity here it is to

attract that young group of people and for example, as we have heard

earlier, there are thousands of people who do sky dolling degrees

and we make it so difficult for them to come in and work in the NHS as

therapists or in other mental health roles. So, there is a big

opportunity here to kind of make the most of that huge awareness around

mental health so that we can bring the next generation of staff into

working in mental health. Diane, what are your thoughts on that? I

agree. From what I've heard from the previous three speakers I agree with

what they are saying, but what I would personally and this is my

experience in the past of working in the NHS, is to have a

multidisciplinary team involving psychiatrists and nursing staff,

counsellors and psychologists, everyone working together and

supporting one another and supporting the patient ultimately,

and that's fantastic. The idea talking about the nurses and their

pay, for counsellors, I train a lot of extremely talented and very

gifted compassionate people, the same qualities that are needed to

work as nurses, but to find work that's paid, because counselling

isn't always acknowledged as having the value, we are seen as the tea

and sympathy brigade as opposed to professionals in our own right. And

there is a lot of volunteer positions even for qualified

counsellors, but so little actually paid and recognised and again,

recognition across-the-board in mental health for everybody, you

know, all the away across to and create a unified multidisciplinary

working team can only be good for the people working in the team,

supporting each other and the patients. So do you think that this

is going to put mental health services on a par with physical

services for example? Well, we really welcome the plan and I think

it is going to go a long way to support and engage a forward

movement, but I think there is a long way to go. It's great in the

document that they are talking about. I think its 5,000 staff

coming into crisis services. So when people are desperate and really need

urgent care, there is somebody avail cable. But... It doesn't happen now,

does it? It does, but it's patchy across the country it is fair to

say. My experience was great, but it is not everywhere and where you have

long waiting lists and things, but the most important thing with all

health care is to support people to stay well and safe at home in the

community. So putting the resources into preventative mental health care

and community services to keep people safe and well which will then

prevent people getting more unwell and needing to come into hospital

for example. I'm hopeful that through counselling they were,

therapy, support services, community psychiatric nurses and liaising with

the voluntary sector, we can support people to stay well at home. It is

better for the people, better for the families and better for the

communities and it is better than coming into hospital and using

extensive resources and it is just traumatic. I would agree. When we

talk about mental health and physical health having parity of he

is seem, it is important to think about the current workforce and how

they are working. So we've always sort of divided the way that we see

people either they have a physical or mental health and that's not how

people are. People have a variety of complex needs. So we need to look at

our health force and they need to be invested in in order to be able to

care appropriately with the right skills in the right place at the

right time to enable good care fob given. That's where this plan is

great. It gets us to one particular place, but it's that wider story

about having a multidisciplinary workforce, thinking about how you

don't just train mental health nurses, but all nurses, all doctors,

in really understanding mental health. How you recognise the vital

role that peer support workers can play in terms of people bringing

their own lived experience into supporting each other. I think

that's the broader piece that we need to kind of move on to next to

really get to that point where we can genuinely say that physical

health and mental health are on a par. In that case, do you think the

Government truly understands what needs to be done in the NHS

regarding mental health to create that parity? Well, I think the plan

is pretty good. It's based on what is possible and achievable in the

current time frame and it was co produced by lots of people who

brought their own opinions together. I think what it does though is it

recognises that there is such, we are trying to unpackage you know

decades and decades, arguably ever, there has never been a time when

mental health has been prioritised, we are trying to do something

significant and we want to do it now, but we need to put in place the

investment, the workforce, we need to have good quality information. So

we're going to get to a certain point. It's not going to be enough

for most people yet, but at least it will be a step in the right

direction. Lots of people getting in touch with their experiences. We

have had an e-mail from a viewer who says, "I'm schizophrenic and I must

have fortnightly injections. My local clinishing only has one nurse

giving out ingeneral elections. ." Linda on Facebook says, "People

watch Cas alt and think it's great. Nursing is stressle. It is overrun

by paperwork, policies and procedures. Nursing is suffering

from decades of constant under funding and political interference.

Hospitals need the nurses, but don't need the vast am of back room

management that drains the money. They do not need to be put under

pressure to meet deadlines or targets or to work stupid hours

because when they are forced to that's when stupid mistakes are

made. ." Ali says, "I live in mid-Devon with bipolar. No support

only from my GP who saved my life." Ken says, "Why are mental health

nurses and specialists expected to pay for their training or any other

nurses in the mental health service? Will people joining the Police

Service or the Fire Service be expected to pay for their training?

It not, why should nurses have to pay for their training? If the

Government is putting money into the NHS is it new money or will other

parts of the NHS be cut to pay for that?" Ceremonies to mark 100 years

since the start of the Battle of Passchendaele are taking place.

Prince Charles and the Prime Minister and 4,000 descendants will

be in attendance. And research suggests new patients

who sign up to GPs surgeries in high We'll speak to one of

the researchers who says it Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. Thoughts of extra mental health

nurses are to be recruited by the NHS in England. The Health

Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said the aim is to treat an extra one million

people by 2021. The Royal College of Nursing questioned how so many staff

can be hired and trained in such a short space of time. It's not long

away, 20, 21, and those skilled nurses will need to be in training

now. What we will need is lots of people coming in to train as mental

health nurses this September when the programme is open, and that is

not what we are seeing. The USA says President Putin 's

decision to order its diplomatic staff to leave Russia is not

justified. They have been told to leave by September one. This is in

retaliation to new sanctions approved by the US Congress relating

to Russia's alleged involvement in the last presidential election and

its annexation of the Crimea. The Chancellor appears to have

stepped back from a succession that the UK could cut tax regulation in a

bid to undercut other countries. In an interview with a French newspaper

he says the UK has no plans to change tax policy to encourage this.

His remarks are in sharp contrast to what he told the German newspaper

earlier this year. Afghan police say there's been

a suicide explosion outside Several explosions were

heard and a gun battle Civilians are being

moved from the area. The so-called Islamic State group

has claimed responsibility. The High Court will today

decide whether Tony Blair, former foreign secretary Jack Straw

and former attorney general Lord Goldsmith can be prosecuted

over the 2003 Iraq War. The attempt to bring them

to court was launched by a former Iraqi general

Abdul-waheed al-Rabbat, who calls the invasion

a "crime of aggression". That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10am. Thank you, let's get the sport now

with Kat. England are through to the semifinals of the women's Euros,

they beat France the first time in 43 gears thanks to one goal from

Jody Taylor. They face the hosts, the Netherlands, in the semifinal.

Sebastian Vettel won the Hungarian Grand Prix to extend his lead over

Lewis Hamilton in the drivers Championship after Hamilton allowed

team mate Valtteri Bottas to overtake him, keeping a promise he

had made earlier in the race. England are closing in on a win over

South Africa in the third test, they need to take six more wickets today

to lead 2-1 in the Test series. In the world swimming Championships the

men's relay team got a silver, a third medal of the championships for

Adam Peaty who already had two gold medals. Back to you, Chloe. Thank

you, Kat. 100 years ago today one

of the most deadly battles Over the 3 months that followed,

half a million British, Allied and German soldiers

were killed or injured. It was fought in the trenches

near the small village Many of the soldiers were drowned

in thick mud that had been caused Events are now under way to

commemorate the 100th anniversary - last night the Duke and Duchess

of Cambridge laid wreathes and listened to the Last

Post be played out. This is a reminder of the battle

which claimed so many lives. Our correspondent Ben Brown

is Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium where many

of the soldiers are buried. Yes, at this time 100 years ago

today the Battle of Passchendaele was well under way. The offensive

had began at 358 and in the early hours of that morning. The first

British and Commonwealth troops had gone over the top and had fallen as

well. Today at Tyne Cot Cemetery, the biggest Commonwealth War

cemetery in the world, Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of

Cambridge will be here for a commemorative service, 100 years on.

I am joined by the eminent historian, Glyn and also Tim Barrett

whose grandfather Jack died 100 years ago today at the Battle of

Passchendaele. Give us picture of what the men would have gone through

a century ago. It is so beautiful today it is almost impossible to

imagine the carnage. The bombardment had been intense, 4.5 million shells

falling on German lines and at 3:50am the attack went on in gloomy

weather, not at all like today. Some of the soldiers were held back

instantly, others advanced quite far but before long the German counter

attack came in and many of the advances were last and on both sides

it was the beginning of 3.5 months before but that has come to

epitomise the horrors of the Western front. Half a million casualties,

killed, wounded or missing on both sides. Is important to reflect on

the fact that both sides were traumatic, will remember the battle

for the rain that fell on the afternoon of the 31st. It died and

the were quite successful. But created a crisis in German morale.

Tim, your grandfather died at the beginning of the battle, 100 years

ago today. Jack Barrett, 36, lieutenant. You have a picture of

him. Yes, I have. Tell us what you know about how he served and how he

died. He was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade is a signals officer

but ended up outside kitchen's Would, in charge of his men, tasked

with capturing the machine-gun post. The objective was achieved but he

was killed in the process along with another lieutenant. He was 36. He

was quite old to be a lieutenant and his men caught Father Barrett! How

important is it for you to come here one century on and remember? It is

very important that we all remember the futility of what went on. I know

it sounds trite but perhaps the younger generation now might get the

idea that war is a waste of time! You have a letter that your

grandfather wrote before the Battle of Passchendaele. He wrote it to his

wife. Can you read some of it out? I will try. Six months before he died.

My dearest old girl. By the time you get this, I'm sorry, I can't do

this! Glyn Prysor read about. My dearest old girl, by the time you

read this I fear the Germans will have said something over which has

my name and address on it which will wipe me out and I want to say

goodbye to you and leave it. I can never thank you enough for all you

have given me. It is an awful wrench to leave you and the children

because I had counted on doing with your help all I could do for them,

they have been suspended and good and jolly from the first and by God

's grace they will continue as they have begun. Now it must be left to

you. I cannot give you any help. Live your life, EV, as you think

best. An incredibly emotional letter. A man who seemed almost

certain that he was going to die here. Absolutely. Are so many people

did feel that but to actually have a letter where he expresses the

classic, there's a shell with my name on it, well, as you can see, it

is very emotional. Glyn, do you think most of the men

who went into the batter would not have come out alive? It is very hard

for us to imagine what they went through, men like Jack, one of the

inscriptions you will find in the cemeteries, families can choose a

personal inscription, it says, to live in hearts we leave behind is

not to die and the fact that we retain those memories is a very

special thing. Thank you very much, Glyn Prysor, Tim Barrett, an

emotional moment. Coverage of the ceremonies later today.

And we'll have special live coverage of the remembrance ceremony

at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium with the BBC's Ben Brown from just

The controversy surrounding a Channel 4 programme

due to be aired about Princess Diana.

We find out why the corporation is under pressure to pull it.

People who live in areas with high rates of HIV should be automatically

tested for the virus when they register with a new GP.

That's what a group of researchers are recommending after running

They had 80,000 people tested as part of the initial health check

when they joined surgeries in the borough - and it quadrupled

The research says not only would rolling this out

save lives, but it would also save taxpayers money.

We can speak to Alex Causton-Ronaldson,

who was diagnosed with HIV three years ago, when he was 24,

and Dr Werner Leber from Queen Mary University

Thank you both for coming in. Alex, tell us how you were diagnosed. I

started to get ill, lost a lot of weight rapidly. This I went to an A

E department and they were too busy and I was asked to leave. I

then went to a walk-in centre and they gave me penicillin because they

did not know what was happening. It wasn't until I went to my GP on

several occasions and we couldn't work out what was going on,

eventually I said that I had had a partner with HIV. So I got referred

to, I had to spend the whole day finding the clinic because it is

outside the city where I was living, I had my test and three days later I

found out I had HIV. Did you have suspicions? It was one of those

things where you think about it and obstruct yourself, you know it is

there, but I live in London and I'd heard about it a lot but it was

almost like this idea that it wouldn't happen to me. So I suppose,

even though I wish... I was presenting a lot of the symptoms of

HIV, I never thought it might be theirs. Because originally I had

tested negative in the January. That must have been inside the four week

window where they can't pick it up on the initial test. Is this why you

carried out the study of the stories like this where it takes a long time

and it can be difficult for people to get this diagnosis? That's

absolutely right. I think our work and other studies have shown that

testing, screening, a routine test, HIV screening can produce, help

identify people in the early stage of the infection. What is the test,

what does it entail? There are various ways of testing. The two

main ones, offered to practices are a finger prick testing, a point of

care test, as we call it, it is similar to having your blood sugar

taken for instance from a finger prick and it usually gives you an

answer within minutes. An indicator of whether someone may have HIV or

not. So that person would know within minutes. That would have

really helped you, presumably, Alex, because you had to wait a few days

which must have been difficult. It was quite terrifying. In London they

were doing the rapid testing that I was living in Norwich at the time,

and they weren't doing it there. So I tested on a Friday, then I moved

back to London on the Saturday, I came back and started a new job

there on the Monday and I got a phone call at quarter past five that

the test had come back positive. I suppose, had I been in the care of a

local professional at the time, it was quite a scary moment, walking

down the road in central London and suddenly being told... On your

mobile? Yes, unfortunately because I'd moved I couldn't go back to the

clinic. It was an odd sensation, the nurse did not say, you have HIV, he

said, your test is positive. I carried on walking for a couple of

minutes and then thought, oh my God, what? Then everything spins out of

control, everything goes out of the window, all logic. It's quite a

scary moment before you realise that you are going to be all right. I was

on effective treatment within a couple of weeks. And I have lived

long and healthy ever since, really. As well as Alex saying it would have

been easier if he was told by a health professional rather than

walking down a street in London? Our study is based on data which is

where HIV is very common like in most parts of London, but it shows

that it is cost effective. Cost effective is different from cost

saving. Cost effective just means that the balance, the balance of

doing a test, so the clinical benefits of doing a test will

outweigh the costs at some point. Now, we have shown that this will

happen after about 33 years. That may sound very far away, but in

fact, it's a public health measure which is accepted by the NHS. So,

but however, I think the key here is that the offer, offering a HIV test

is not or should not be based on financial considerations. It is

always a clinical decision. So, implementing a screening service for

instance in high prevalence areas is a clinical decision. Offering a test

to someone who is unwell as a result of their HIV infection is a clinical

condition. Now, what our study has shown if in addition to getting the

clinical benefits you also have financial... A cost benefit further

down the line. Thank you for coming in to speak to us.

Some comments coming in to us about Princess Diana saying that from

Chris on Facebook saying, "I think that Channel 4 should be allowed to

publish the documentary. Diana maybe an icon and member of the Royal

Family, but she is still a person. I'm sure many people would rather

see her for who she is rather than flawless icon." Tony says, "The

Diana tape should be broadcast. They were private recordings and could be

hurtful to people who don't have an effective ability to respond. If

they are allowed to be broadcast it shows that the callous nature of our

nasty broadcasters. Stop them from being broadcast."

Vladimir Putin has announced that 755 staff must leave US

diplomatic missions, in retaliation for new US

Our correspondent Sarah Rainsford joins us now

Sarah just explain. This is a big response by Russia to the US

Congress passing very tough sanctions against Russia in response

for Russia's alleged meddling in the US elections and what Russia has

done is announced that some 755 staff at US diplomatic missions

across Russia, so that's not just Americans, we believe this is

Russian local hired staff will have to seize their activities as Mr

Putin put it in an interview yesterday that he gave. So some of

those will be Americans who will be expelled from the country. We don't

know the exact numbers yet, but many of them are Russian staff who will

now lose their jobs and this is an expression of the anger and the

frustration that there is here in Russia with the way that relations

with America have gone under Donald Trump. I mean remember, of coffers,

that Russia was hoping for something of a reset in relations, hoping for

things to improve with the United States when Donald Trump came to

power, but what it has seen is actually relation plummet to the

lowest that they have been since the Cold War and this is the latest

element of that. The removal from their posts of some 755 staff at US

diplomatic missions here and people here don't think that's going to be

the end of it. It is expected that there could be further measures to

come. It is a fairly unpredictable situation now. Thank you, Sarah.

A controversial documentary about the late Diana,

Princess of Wales is to be shown on Channel 4 this weekend.

It will show recordings that haven't been played in the UK before,

in which she discusses her marriage, and relationship with a royal

Here's a clip from the trailer for the documentary.

Diana said, "Do you want a drink?" It was almost like being in a wine

bar in Kensington with a friend. She said, "Do you know about Camilla

Parker Bowles?" I couldn't deny that I didn't know about it. There was a

hesitation, she said, "Well, she features most days, most hours and

minutes of my life." I didn't really understand at that point exactly

what she meant, but of course, the days that followed, the weeks that

followed, the months that followed, I knew exactly what she meant by

that. She sort of carried out her own research and found previous

Prince of Wales' had their own mistresses.

That's on Channel 4 at 8pm on Sunday.

Let's talk about the controversy. Just explain why so many people are

unhappy? Because of the content of these tapes and just how private

they were meant to be some say. These were tapes recorded about

three or four years before Princess Diana died with her voice coach.

This was her learning to speak and learning to deliver her own thoughts

better ahead of some of the big interviews that she gave towards the

end of her life, not least the famous one with Martin Basher, the

Panorama interview. She is very candid, speaking about her sex life

with Prince Charles, speaking about her relations with a royal

protection officer. Deeply personal material which it seems was meant to

be within the confines of those coaching sessions. These were tapes

later, after her death, a legal battle was fought over. Earl

Spencer, her brother, said she should belong to Diana's, but they

were returned to the voice coach and sold on, they have been shown in

part before in America, but never in this country. Channel 4 now

broadcasting ex-certs of the never seen or heard before in this

country. They're defending their right to do that. This is their head

of factual. There were two, I would say, key factors in deciding to air

the tape. One is we can argue about when things come history. 20 years

have passed by. Diana was very conscious about being filmed. She is

sitting comfortably in front of the camera and was happy to be recorded

by Peterment when people see that, they will see a relaxed, informal

Diana, comfortable talking about her own story and they will see the

process that she is going through is the one of bringing to light her

story. It is not concealing her story, it is a process of about

channelling her natural and her voice and using her personal

experience to say inform that voice. I don't think people will find the

experience of watching the tapes anything, but illuminating. Any rid

action from her children? Not at this stage. But plenty from people

who considered themselves close to Diana. Some of the words and

expressions used are saying this is like blood money. It is very wrong

that these were made public. These were deeply personal tapes that

should never have seen the light of day. They are critical and calling

for Channel 4 not to put it out there. Matt Cole, thank you.

Let's talk to the former royal press officer. Also royal biographer,

Penny Junior. We heard you are not happy about the documentary? I'm not

happy and of course, Channel 4 are going to defend themselves because

they have got a lot of money invested in it and with the showing

of the documentary, it will be a high rated programme, high ratings

means high advertising, high advertising means a lot of revenue

and Channel 4 will laugh all the way to the bank. These tapes were

recorded in private. They were part of a training session and anybody

would tell you who is involved in media training that anything done

behind closed doors remains private. I'm surprised that they didn't have

the decency to hand the tapes to Diana. I have done media training

time and time again, I hand the tapes to the client because it is

their opportunity to watch back and listen back, to see whether they are

doing right or doing wrong and to learn from it. Penny, what do you

think? I agree with everything Dickie has said. It is obscene they

are showing these and immoral. Diana when she made them, the marriage had

come to an end. They had just broken up. She looks delightful and she is,

I think, a little flirtatious with her voice coach, but fundamentally,

she was extremely hurt and she was bitter and she was, she was in pain.

And she started, the bulimia had come flooding back, she was not in a

good place, there she was talking privately, never ever intending

these tapes to be heard by other living sole. I just think it is so

such exploitation and... We have heard from people getting in touch.

Penny, your line crackled up. People got in touch saying today, "We loved

Princess Diana. We love the fact that she wasn't completely flawless.

We loved all of the vulnerabilities that normal people have and we want

to see those and that's why we want to see this documentary?" She had

children and do her children, I don't care what age they are? Do

they really want to know how often their parents had sex? Is it

anybody's business? It is not our business. All we need to know about

our Royal Family is that they do their job and that they are worth

the money. We do not need to pry into their private lives. This may

have historical interest, but 20 years on, when her sons are youngish

and when her ex-husband is alive, when the Royal Family that welcomed

her into their family, and when her sisters and brother are still alive,

this is not the right time. Let it wait until all these people are long

gone and then let the historians perhaps pour over these tapes and

make what they will of them. But this is not the right thing to be

doing, for, serving up for public at this public information. Do you

think this she wanted it to be recorded and wanted people to know

the truth? Diana wasn't so much naive, she was incredibly vulnerable

and she was prepared to talk to anybody who was prepared to listen

to her. He has a knack about him to get somebody to relax and open up

and this is what she did, she opened up to him. She opened up on the

basis that what she was doing was private and wasn't for public

consumption. Yes, by all means, release the tapes in 50, 60, 70, 100

years' time when historians and researchers can pour over them, but

certainly not while you have got William and Harry alive, the Royal

Family, the Spencer family, it is just very hurtful and it seems to

me, as I said yesterday, it's grubby blood money. We know Earl Spencer is

unhappy about the prospect of this documentary on Sunday on Channel 4.

How do you think, William and Harry, you mentioned them there, would

respond to this? Well, William and Harry had it over the years,

allegations about what their mother did, what their mother said, how

their mother behaved and they have had to live with it and they toss it

to one side, yes, whatever is coming out on Channel 4 is hurtful and the

Spencer family will feel the same. It is unfortunate that a lot of

people will make, not a lot of people, but a few people will make a

lot of money and what a private recording and should remain private

and it's not going to enhance anything about Diana. Yes, we knew

she was vulnerable, we knew she was suffering, but that was the lady of

the day. She spoke to me many times about all sorts of things. I

certainly wouldn't go and blab them, why Settler is selling the tapes?

Only he can answer. Now let's get the latest weather update with

Carol. We are looking at sunshine and

showers. That's going to be the case today. Some showers could have hail

and thunder. Further south, showers will be less intense and fewer and

further between and the South East may escape them. Between them all,

there will be sunshine. Through this evening and overnight many of the

showers will fade. We will hang to a few in the west. Temperature wise 11

to 14 will be the overnight lows. Tomorrow morning, we start off with

a lot of dry weather. However, it won't be long before the showers in

the west develop further and again, some of those will be slow moving,

heavy and thundery with hail, but not all of us will catch one. Some

of us will miss them altogether having a dry day with bright or

sunny skies and in the sunshine, particularly in the South East, we

could hit 22 to 24 Celsius. It changes during Wednesday. After a

dry and a bright start, for many parts of the UK, we've got rain and

stronger winds sweeping in from the south-west.

Hello it's Monday, it's 10 o'clock, I'm Chloe Tilley, in for Victoria.

The Health Secretary has admitted plans to to recruit another 21,000

mental health nurses in the next four years is ambitious,

and now the Royal College of Nursing is concerned.

We do have concerns about the fact that, in terms of recruit, retain

and retrain, how is that actually going to happen? We think these

laudable ambitions but there is very little detail in the plan about how

actually that be achieved. Remembering those who made

the ultimate sacrifice. Tributes will be paid later to those

who lost their lives at the Battle of Passchendaele -

as ceremonies are held to mark the 100 year anniversary

of the start of the battle. At this time 100 years ago today the

Battle of Passchendaele had already begun. The offensive was under way,

the first British and Commonwealth soldiers had attacked, many are

fallen and are buried here at Tyne Cot Cemetery, the biggest

Commonwealth War Cemetery in the world. And from this summer it will

be harder for schools to challenge exam results so are calling upon all

schools to appeal against every GCSE and A-level results seems wrong.

Good morning, it's two minutes past ten.

Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

workers are to be recruited by the NHS in England.

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said the aim is to treat an extra

The Royal College of Nursing has questioned how so many staff can

be hired and trained in such a short space of time.

We are confident that we can get these numbers. There are people who

are trained in mental health nursing, people trained as

psychiatrists who are not currently working in the NHS. We have a

programme to attract them back into the NHS. What we want to say to them

is that we probably have the biggest expansion in mental health provision

in Europe going on at the moment, we are proud of what we are doing but

we want to do a lot more. The United States says

President Putin's decision to order 755 of its diplomatic staff to leave

Russia is unjustified. They have been told

to leave by 1st September. The move is in retaliation

to new sanctions approved by the US Congress for Russia's alleged

involvement in last year's presidential election

and the annexation of Crimea. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,

appears to have stepped back from a suggestion that the UK

could cut taxes and regulation in a bid to undercut EU

countries after Brexit. In an interview with the French

newspaper, Le Monde, he says the government has no plans

to make big changes to tax policy in order

to attract global investment. His remarks are in sharp

contrast with what he said Afghan police say there's been

a suicide explosion outside Several explosions were

heard and a gun battle Civilians are being

moved from the area. The so-called Islamic State group

has claimed responsibility. The editor of The Sunday Times has

apologised for an article suggesting the BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman

and Vanessa Feltz earned high The article, by the

columnist Kevin Myers, was published in the newspaper's

Irish edition and online and has Speaking on BBC Radio London,

Ms Feltz has expressed her I could not believe that such a

thing had been printed, it is gratuitous. Not cleverly done.

Blatant racism, that's all, just racism. When you write something it

is read by the subeditor, by the features editor, supposedly by the

legal team and by the editor. I could not understand how all those

layers of command had allowed something so blatantly racist to be

put in the paper. One in five MPs continues to employ

a member of their family using taxpayers' money

despite the practice being banned Of the 589 returning MPs,

122 have declared the employment of a relative in the latest Register

of Members' Financial Interests. None of the 61 new MPs

who secured their seats at the General Election on June 8th

are allowed to do so. Campaigners say there needs to be

a clear end date for all MPs. The High Court will today

decide whether Tony Blair, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw

and former attorney general Lord Goldsmith can be prosecuted

over the 2003 Iraq War. The attempt to bring them

to court was launched by a former Iraqi general

Abdul-waheed al-Rabbat, who calls the invasion

a "crime of aggression". Prince Charles will attend

the second day of commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary

of the start of the Battle soldiers were killed,

wounded or went missing in action during the three months of fighting

near the Belgian town of Ypres. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess

of Cambridge attended a service with 200 descendents of those

who fought there. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News, more at 10.30. Thank you. A lot of people are

getting in touch about the documentary going out at the weekend

about Princess Diana. Audrey says, Princess Diana is not owned by the

people. It is and dignified to put these tapes in the public arena. Her

sons should take ownership of those tapes for her privacy. They don't

own them, that is the problem. Another text, of course Diana

talking about her private life should be shown, that was presumably

the intention at the time that she participated in that film and

conversation. Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

and If you text, you will be charged The big news, England

are through to the semifinals they beat France the first time

in 43 years thanks to one goal from It was her fifth goal of the

tournament. Our correspondent Katie Gornall was that the game. There are

a view England players training today at their base in Utrecht but

most have understandably been given time to rest and recover after that

historic win over France last night. It may have taken 43 years but

family England have beaten their rivals. They did so with another

clinical performance in front of goal. Mark Sampson was full of

praise for striker Jody Taylor who's had a handful of chances but already

has scored five goals. She is on course not only

to win the last four on Thursday. The team will no England very well

and will be desperate to prove that they are better because England beat

them last time. The capacity of the stadium is 30,000, after beating

France England will fear no one and nothing at this tournament! Katie

Gornall reporting. Only an almighty South African defence can stop

England taking a series lead on the final day of the third test. Some

big hitting from England meant they set South Africa a world record

chase of 490 to win. England's bowlers took four wickets before

close of play, two by Ben Stokes, South Africa resumed 375 runs

behind, this morning. Lewis Hamilton sacrificed three vital points in the

Hungarian Grand Prix when he kept a promise to his team mate at

Mercedes, Hamilton was given permission to overtake Valtteri

Bottas because he thought he could catch the two leading Ferraris. When

he realised he couldn't, he allowed for Teddy Bottas to pass him again

to take third place. -- Valtteri Bottas. Sebastian Vettel added to

his championship lead. It wasn't easy, I didn't do a favour for Kimi

I didn't have the pace. I did come back a bit, a couple of laps when I

could breathe a bit although I did have to stay focused the whole race.

Great Britain have entered the world swimming Championships in Hungary

with seven medals. After the relay team four by 100 laps took silver,

Adam Peaty dragged them into contention with a stunning lack, and

they finished second to the USA. It's the third medal of the week

Adam Peaty. -- he's won a stunning laptop Mac. Now back to you, Chloe.

Thank you, Kat. It was one of the bloodiest battles

of the Second World War. Conditions were so appalling that many drowned

to death in mud. Before we go live to my colleague in Belgium this is a

short film about what happened. -- one of the bloodiest battles of the

First World War. Ben Brown is live at Tyne Cot

Cemetery in Belgium. 100 years ago today, the Battle of Passchendaele

was raging. It had begun in the early hours of the morning. The

first British and Commonwealth troops had gone over the top. The

first had fallen as well. Many of those who would die in the coming

three months of the Battle of Passchendaele are buried here at the

Tyne Cot Cemetery, the biggest Commonwealth war cemetery in the

world. Later today Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of

Cambridge will attend a special commemorative service. It was,

as you have seen, a battle where British and Allied troops face not

only German machine guns but also mud, many drowning in the sea of mud

that the battlefield became, and mustard gas as well. Let's speak to

the former England rugby captain Lewis Moody who has a special

interest in the battle of Passchendaele. Tel us how you got

interested. From my namesake, my great-grandfather's involvement

coming over with the British expeditionary forces. I was here

researching him and his regiment, the Royal Sussex when I got a text

from my mother saying, we have a relative who is commemorative at

Tyne Cot. I happened to be there at the time and could go and Tracy 's

footsteps. He died on November six, at the tail end of the battle,

having been through the Somme, almost making it through

Passchendaele. He is commemorated on the wall at men in gate. Your

mother's great uncle. When you come here what does it make you feel

about the man who made such sacrifices 100 years ago. It's

difficult to describe. When you come the doors, especially at Tyne Cot,

the brutality, the blood and sacrifice that happened is now

replaced with BT, serenity and calm. It's very moving. I broke down in

tears one I found the place. It's so important to remember that not only

our relatives but former rugby internationals who died there on

this day, Arthur Wilson, Edgar Mobbs and other international players.

It's important for me to be here and remember. Can you imagine what it

would have been like to fight? From all that you have researched about

the battle, give a picture of what it would be like because these

fields are now so beautiful, serene and green, it was a morass of mud,

the worst rains the 30 years. When you see the old pictures and now you

see the beautiful trees, it was a wasteland with mud everywhere, to

see what they went through, and Edgar Mobbs, and Northamptonshire

man, and England international, he was refused entry into the army so

he formed his own battalion with 240 men. They let him join and he died

this year 100 years ago, as a Lieutenant Colonel because his

battalion's advance was stored. He climbed out of the trench, his

Second Lieutenant tried to pull him back in but he took it on

single-handedly with a grenade and was sadly killed and his name is on

the Menin Gate. The difficulties they had, the bunkers are still

here, the German ones come across is placed on them as well, it shows you

how difficult it must have been. We talk about the hell and the

horror of Passchendaele, some joined up at the age of 15. They just

wanted to be out here. I don't think you can put it into words or

comprehend it now. You think of your kids joining up at 15 and being out

here and some of those commemorated are 15, but how wide it was as well.

From all corners of the earth people came and fought on this piece of

land and died on this piece of land and the vast scale of the sacrifice

when you walk through here is what really makes it important for me to

try and pass it on to my children and the medals that I have from the

various different sides of my family in the First World War and Earnest's

involvement at Passchendaele, hopefully 80 or 90 years from now

they are passing it on to their children as well. Lewis Moody there,

former England rugby captain whose mother's great-uncle died in the

Battle of Passchendaele. That's the latest from here.

The High Court will make a ruling today on whether a former

chief-of-staff of the Iraqi army can bring a private prosecution against

Our legal correspondent Clive Coleman is at

Tell us more about this case and who is bringing it and what it is about?

He tried to bring it at Westminster Magistrates' Court last year. He was

unsuccessful. The court ruled basically that Tony Blair, the

former Prime Minister, the former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw and

Lord Goldsmith had implied immunity from prosecution because of their

former Government roles, but the court also ruled that the crime that

the general, his name is Abdul Wahed Shannan Al Rabbat. He is a former

Chief-of-Staff of the Iraqi army. But the crime he was trying to have

them prosecuted for is the crime of aggression. In other words, waging

an aggressive war in breach of the United Nations charter, but the

court back last year ruled that the crime of aggression was not a crime

in our domestic English law. These proceedings at the High Court are in

an appeal against that decision. Now, what was argued on the

General's behalf was that the crime of aggression was wrapped and had

been in our domestic law and when the former Nazi leaders were

prosecuted after the Second World War, it was done on the basis that

the crime of aggression was part of our UK law. However, critically,

there was a ruling in 2006 that the fore runners of the spraol court,

that crime, the crime of aggression does not apply in UK law. It didn't

form part of UK law and Parliament would have to pass an acof

Parliament to make it part of UK law. So, today we will get a ruling.

If the general is successful, then the matter would go back to the

Supreme Court and they would have to consider whether that decision back

in 2006, which said that the crime of aggression doesn't apply in our

law was correct or not. Many commentators think it is a high bar

for the general to pass. It is unlikely that the court will rule in

his favour, but we'll find out whether they have done in a matter

of minutes from now. So, I will come back on and tell you what happened.

I want to ask you the implications of this. Give us a wider sense of

the significance of this kind of action? Well, I mean, if it is

established that a crime of aggression is a crime that can be

prosecuted under our law it means that our political leaders, if they

take the country into the war and they do so unlawfully, and in breach

of the United Nations charter, it means that they can be held

responsible and prosecuted in a British court for the crime of

aggression. So, it is a very, very significant ruling. At the moment

they have it this implied immunity from prosecution, but if the law

changes on that, that's a very, very major step and huge ramifications

for those critical and very important vital decisions for the

nation where if the law changed our political leaders could be held

responsible in the criminal courts. That would be a major change. Clive,

we will come back to you, as and when you have an update for us from

the High Court. It's several years since

the Government pledged to put mental health provision on an equal footing

with other health services, but many patients still struggle

to access the services they need. It's a problem we've covered

extensively on this programme. So will plans to recruit more

than 20,000 extra mental health The plans involve increasing

the number of trained nurses, therapists, psychiatrists and other

mental health professionals by 2021. Earlier, The Health Secretary Jeremy

Hunt explained the numbers to Naga Munchetty on BBC Breakfast

and said nurses have He said that nurses have never

worked harder. The 21,000 number

is for posts overall. That isn't just nurses,

that is psychiatrists, that is therapists who help people

with conditions like depression and anxiety, and nurses,

and people working in different But nurses are a very,

very important part of it, and we are confident that we can

get these numbers. There are people who are trained

in mental health nursing, people who are trained

as psychiatrists who are not currently working in the NHS,

and we have a programme to attract And what we want to say to them

is that we probably have the biggest expansion in mental health provision

in Europe going on at the moment. We're proud of what we're doing,

but we want to do a lot more. We still have too many people

in this country who, where a young life is blighted, because we're not

getting them the mental health care There are too many older people

who are living in isolation and suffering and depression

and they think it is automatic and This is a very important issue,

I don't think anyone would deny that, and when it is such

an important issue, I wonder how you think you're going to recruit

nurses when there is a 1% pay cap, when it seems that all you're

going to be doing is, what, placing advertisements for a job

which many think is underpaid, low-paid, and your pay rise

is going to be less than inflation, so you're actually earning less

money each year doing a job It is a very tough job,

and I would say that nurses on the front-line have

never worked harder. But we are expanding

the nursing workforce. We have nearly 6,000 more

nurses on the front line One of the reasons that we have been

able to expand the workforce to date is because with a limited budget

and very difficult economic situation, we have

shown pay discipline. Earlier we spoke to Mandy Stevens

and Paul Farmer from MIND and Stephanie from the Royal College of

Nursing. We would welcome it. Anything that addresses the issues

that we have got around parity of he is seem around mental health is

important. In terms of recruit, retain and retrain that how is that

actually going to happen? So we think they're laudable ambition, but

there is very little detail in the plan about how that's going to be

achieved. So to deliver the number of staff, that Jeremy Hunt is

talking about, when would these people need to start their training?

How quickly would you need to get people? If you're looking at

recruiting into post for 2020, they need to be recruited interest this

September. And with the changes in student funding at pre-registration

level then there are real challenges around that. We know currently that

it is less attractive and the numbers are down for recruitment for

September. I think the challenge is at the moment we have a huge amount

of inconsistency in terms of what people experience locally on the

ground and often that's because of the very huge variety of staff

availability and staff capability as well. So and we have never had a

plan for mental health staff before. So this is the first time that we

are seeing those kinds of elements coming into play. But it's a big

challenge to get there over the next four to five years. What do you

think needs to change and to retain them? There is a lot of stigma

around mental health. There is something about, I would support any

campaign that actually really makes clear what the value contribution

people who work with those with mental health in a range of

different roles, but particularly for us in nursing. Actually add in

terms of that. There is huge job satisfaction. But job satisfaction

isn't enough. People also need recognition and they need to be able

to actually feel that they are able to support themselves and their

families and loved ones in the role that they are and actually, we have

seen that the pay has actually, the value of your pay has gone down for

nurse over the years and that's why we have launched our Scrap The Cut

Campaign. People need recognition. I wonder do you think this is going to

put mental health services on a par with physical services for example?

Well, we really welcome the plan and I think it is going to go a long way

to support and engage a forward movement, but I think there is still

a long way to go. It's great in the document they are talking about, I

think it is 5,000 staff coming into crisis services. So when people are

desperate and really need urgent care, there is somebody immediately

available. It doesn't happen now, does it in into it does, but it's

patchy across the country. So again my experience was great, but it is

not everywhere. And where you have long waiting lists and things, but

the most important thing with all health care is to support people to

stay well and safe at home in the community. So putting all the

resources into preventative mental health care and community services

to keep people safe and well which will then prevent people getting

more unwell and needing to come into hospital for example. So, I'm

hopeful that through counselling therapy, support services, community

psychiatric nurses and in liaison with the voluntary sector we can

support people to stay well at home because then it's better for the

people, better for the families and better for our communities and it's

also a lot cheaper than coming into hospital and using expensive

resource and it's just very traumatic.

Let's speak to the Shadow Mental Health Minister Barbara Keeley.

Would you recognise what we heard from many people that this is a good

start? Well, of course, it is good to have an ambition to increase

dramatically the number of staff working in mental health services

and particularly in crisis services because the very recent report the

Care Quality Commission pointed out that staffing was the key issue

causing a problem with patient safety and we know that it's very

difficult to get access to things like eating disorder services, it's

very difficult for people with children and mental health for them

to get access to the treatment they need. Of course, it's welcome, but

let's be realistic, that's what we are saying this morning, let's be

realistic. It takes time to train a nurse and there is a big workforce

recruitment crisis at the moment because of the pay and morale and

conditions issue that you've just heard about. But as we heard from

the gentleman Paul Farmer from the charity MIND there has never been a

plan before and there is, he said, there has never been a plan so you

have to start somewhere and at least now it is being recognised and there

is an attempt to put mental health services on a par with physical

health services? I always feel that we are a long way from that. So

that's always a strange way to talk about it. I mean, clearly, you are

not in a situation when I talked about children and young people, 23%

of children and young people are referred by their GP for trelt get

turned away. That doesn't happen with physical health and it is part

of the problem that we've got in the lack of parity between the two, but

that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is we get

the staffing levels up. That we get the service levels up and we improve

access and for that really the funding has to be sorted out and

people have been questioning this morning whether this ?1 billion part

funding can go anywhere meeting the targets of thousands of staff? I

don't argue with the numbers in any way, shape or form, apart from the

fact that the 4600 extra mental health nurses would not even take us

back to where we were in 2010, but it takes 13 years to train a

psychiatrist. So let's be realistic about where we can be by 2020

#2021. We heard there are maeb people who are trained to decided to

leave the profession or haven't been able to get paid jobs. One lady said

she trained many counsellors and they couldn't get paid jobs. If

those people can be pooled together and you can bring in the people who

have been trained, they would be ready to go now? Yes, they would.

The other thing I would like to see Jeremy Hunt announcing when he talks

about funding, any extra funding for mental health he talks about

ring-fencing because we have seen attempts by the Government to put

extra funding into mental health services and NHS bodies siphon the

money off and use it for other things. We have had this loss of

mental health nurses so we've got crisis problems and problems on

wards, we've got problems with community resources. The very

community resources which can be so valuable. So we're not into early

intervention and prevention because those resources have been cut back

and the voluntary sector has been cut back worse than any other part

of this sector at the moment. So, those things need to be addressed. I

would really like to see the Government ring-fence funding for

mental health. Thank you very much for speaking to us.

The change that's going to make it harder to appeal against GCSE

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Here's Julian in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

Thousands of extra mental health workers are to be recruited

Jeremy Hunt, said the aim is to treat an extra one million

The Royal College of Nursing has questioned how so many staff can be

hired and trained in such a short space of time.

The United States says President Putin's decision to order

755 of its diplomatic staff to leave Russia is unjustified.

They have been told to leave by 1st September.

The move is in retaliation to new sanctions approved by the US

Congress for Russia's alleged involvement in last year's

presidential election and the annexation of Crimea.

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, appears to have stepped back

from a suggestion that the UK could cut taxes and regulation

in a bid to undercut EU countries after Brexit.

In an interview with the French newspaper, Le Monde,

he says the government has no plans to make big changes

to tax policy in order to attract global investment.

His remarks are in sharp contrast with what he said

Afghan police say there's been a suicide explosion outside

Several explosions were heard and a gun battle

Civilians are being moved from the area.

The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.

Breaking news, the High Court has blocked a bid to bring a private

prosecution against Tony Blair, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw

and former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith over the 2003 Iraq war.

The attempt to bring them to court was launched

by a former Iraqi general Abdul-waheed al-Rabbat,

who calls the invasion a "crime of aggression".

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England need six more wickets to take a lead in the Test series

against South Africa, South Africa are 375 runs behind.

England are through to the semifinals of the women's Euros,

they beat France the first time in 43 years thanks to one goal from

They face a host nation the Netherlands in the final.

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One of the highest paid footballers in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo, is

in court today accused of tax Ford. He is accused of defrauding the

authorities of the equivalent of ?30 million. Richard Conway is there.

What exactly is Ronaldo accused of doing, Richard? Cristiano Ronaldo,

I'm at the Court has just north of Madrid and he's inside giving

evidence to a judge in a pre-trial hearing. He is accused of

withholding information about his income, about keeping some of that

income offshore in a shell company outside Spain and not declaring a

large amount of money, several millions of pounds, relating to his

image rights. He has said, my conscience is clear. It's very busy

here. I'm going to get the camera to move around to show you the level of

interest. There are maybe 40 TV cameras here from all around the

world, 120 journalists in all. Ronaldo didn't arrive through the

front entrance as we thought, he's gone into a side door but within the

next hour or so he will appear on the courtroom steps behind me to

address the world's media and we are expecting a defiant mood. He is

clearly angry about this, at one stage he threatened to leave Real

Madrid and Spain and move overseas, such was his anger about these

charges. Perhaps we will cure more from him, protesting his innocence

when he will appear shortly to address the media and explain how he

feels about this case. Thank you, Richard. I am sure we will head back

when you have more news for us. Now, waiting for GCSE and A level

results is bad enough without the worry that the marks

might not be accurate. Every year thousands of grades

are challenged and many of them Because you have to pay to lodge

an appeal, it's generally private schools who are more likely

to challenge results. From this summer the exams regulator

Ofqual is tightening up the rules for appeals,

partly to stop more wealthy pupils getting their grades improved,

simply because their schools But is the regulator doing enough

to make sure the grades Let's talk now to Michelle Meadows,

Director for Strategy, Risk and Research from the chief

regulator of exams, Ofqual. Jack Lane had one of his A-Level

exam papers wrongly marked. If it hadn't been for the fact

he had an unconditional offer from his university,

it could have cost him his place. Mike Buchanan is headmaster

at Ashford School, which is And Kim Knappett, teacher

at a comprehensive in South London and a member

of the ATL Union, that's the Association

of Teachers and Lecturers. Thank you all for coming in. Jack,

what happened to you. I had an English paper re-marked three years

ago. Luckily I've been to university, I have done it all!

Started on a D, moved up to a B, a 21 points disparity. By wrote an

open letter saying I think it was appalling that that's disparity

could exist, -- wrote a letter. Had I not been able to afford the

re-marking I would have been this intensive dis- incentivised from

getting the Mark I deserved. You had to pay ?50? May be about ?40 at the

time. How long did it take for the second mark to come through. Just a

couple of weeks although too late for a university place if that had

not happened. I know some universities differ, when they take

their offers but it's more about accommodation, how do you apply for

everything surrounding the university when your place can be up

north, down south, when it differs so much for each individual student.

I think it affects you much more than just which university you will

go to. Kim, how common is this kind of story? It comes and goes in

waves. I am from a state school and we have to make a very difficult

choice about whether we ask for any re-marking. Many schools are in

deficit, with their budget, and of course we have all the changes to

the GCS E but with the new 1- man marking for English and maths so

students are not confident about what they should be getting that

1-9. We don't know if we should be asking for re-marks. Mike, do have

this a lot at your private school. Two put it in context almost 70,000

changes resulted in greater changes. 90 or 70,000 individuals or

potential individuals who haven't got the right grades. That can't be

acceptable and I see it in my school every year. And across the schools

that I represent as chair at a head teachers conference, youngsters are

missing out on university places, jobs, sixth form places, because we

don't have a system that does the job right. If any student at your

school is not happy would you automatically go for a re-mark? We

would not. We would look if it was a realistic disparity from our view

and the evidence we have about their ability and the mark. And that is

the case that was referred to in the Sunday Times article, where, you

know, students were getting great way out off-line with what would be

reasonable to expect of them and compared to their other subjects. It

took nine months to resolve. That can't be acceptable. Michelle,

respond. 70,000 exam grades changing last summer, surely that can't be

right. Errors such as the one that Jack experienced are clearly not

acceptable but we must put them in context. Each year, around 8 million

qualification grades are awarded. GCSEs and A-levels. We have

safeguards in place that if teachers believe there to be an error in the

marking, they can go for a review of that marking. And even then, if they

are not happy following the review of the marking, there's an appeals

process as well. At the end of all of those checks and balances, less

than 1% of all grades actually change through the process. But this

is such a critical time, if you are sitting GCSEs or A-levels this is

your whole future ahead of you. I'm fascinated. Who mocks the paper

committees and teachers? I don't think many people know. 34,000

examiners are involved and the vast majority of them are teachers. Do

they get paid by paper. Varane four examples and they have different

ways of Pagan. Sometimes it can be by entire paper and sometimes by

individual questions. You would worry about that because if you are

in front of a computer screen because I guess that is the way they

market rather than a physical paper? The vast majority of marking is done

in that way. If you know you are being paid per paper you are going

to make mistakes. You will think, if I get this one I make more money.

The systems have vastly improved partly because now there is an man

marking. As to just sign up to mark first they are trained in marking,

before they are allowed to mark them as to do a test if you like of some

scripts and marking to make sure they are applying the marks

correctly. Once they have done that they were be released on to live

marking. This quality assurance is happening all the time so questions

come up by senior examiners that have a definitive mark that we know

the right mark for and if markers don't mark accurately according to

that definitive mark and they are retrained. And yet nearly 20% of

those inquiries were changed, that's 70,000 changes a year, Michelle is

quite rightly talking about the robustness of the system, we are

talking about two different things, a system and individuals. And I am

interested in having reliable results for the individuals, and

where there are mistakes, making sure they are put right quickly and

without fuss and without cost. Because not all my parents but some

of them can afford to have those re-marks yet most cannot. If they

can afford private school fees they can probably afford ?40 for the

future of their children. That's an assumption. But it is true, not like

some parents who have to have free school meals, I have heard that some

teachers mark one way and others not another and there is an area of the

change, surely that cannot be right. Surely if you are marking a paper

that is 68, or 81, a set mark that everyone must get. The kind of marks

we have in this country especially for English literature, that often

essay responses and they will sometimes be differences of opinion

between different teachers looking at the quality of the work. Some of

these differences of opinion are quite legitimate and some of them

are errors. And it's incredibly important that the safeguard, if an

error has been made and the review is done that errors are corrected no