16/08/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

The Government is insisting that there will be no

re-introduction of border posts between Northern Ireland

and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit takes place.

But is their promise of no checks on what will be the new frontier

between the UK and EU realistic and to be trusted?

This programme revealed in April that hundreds of women were taking

legal action against the NHS ever pain and convocations experienced

after being fitted with vagina meshes. Now the scale of the problem

is further laid bare as figures revealed thousands of women have had

to have the implants removed. I want the procedure banned. I want the

material banned. It is a device of torture. Please just stop. James

Bond will return as will Daniel Craig. He ended months of

speculation after confirming he will be returning to the role of 007.

What does it mean for the most successful movie franchise?

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

Health inspectors have criticised an NHS Trust being investigated over a

number of baby deaths, saying it still has not improved enough. We'll

be speaking to a father whose daughter died while under the care

of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital. Do get in touch on all

the stories we're talking about this morning -

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

at the standard network rate. The Government says it wants

to maintain a "seamless" border between Northern Ireland

and the Irish Republic after the UK leaves the EU so that people

and goods can continue A paper setting out Britain's

negotiatating position - being published today -

rejects what it calls "the hard Let's get more from our

Ireland Correspondent, Chris Page. Chris, a very sensitive issue. Tell

us more about the option that the Government says it wants to see

happen. Well, Joanne, I suppose the Government proposals do follow the

form book. Ministers have said that they want the border between

Northern Ireland and the Republic, the only land border between the UK

and the EU, to remain essentially as invisible as possible. People in

Northern Ireland have become very used to being able to drive across

the border without customs controls are not having to show any papers.

That has made it easy for businesses to do trade on either side of the

border. It has been an important symbol of the peace process. How do

you keep the border essentially open? The UK is outside the European

customs union and the public of Ireland is inside. James broken shy

has been speaking on Radio 4 this morning. He insisted it is a

realistic prospect that the border will remain in its current state.

A lot of detail that you'll see in the paper today that I think

underlines the unique situation we have on the island of Ireland and

needing to work with our EU partners to find a solution that provides

What you want and obviously one appreciates this is a

negotiating position, you want to have their cake and eat

it, you want to have a relationship that is very much like membership,

continuing membership of the customs union,

a frictionless Irish border and the freedom to reach new trade deals

I don't accept, I don't accept that it is unrealistic.

Why would Brussels conceivably agree with that?

Why would the other 27 countries possibly agree to that?

I think because of the trade we have in both directions.

This is not just some sort of unilateral, one-way

When you look at, yes, the trade that the UK has four

example with Ireland, around 13.6 billion, but

equally the trade from Ireland to the UK of around 9.1 billion.

There is that flow of trade that we do see

in both directions which is why, actually, this matters for both of

We get a sense of the complexity of the issue was that the Government

has two ideas about how to maintain the open border. They talk about the

possibility of a new customers partnership with the EU where tariff

essentially remain the same. Secondly they talk about the

streamlined customs arrangement, where business electronic monitoring

of goods takes place no one is saying it will be simple. It is

possibly one of the trickiest brainteasers over Brexit talks.

Rebecca is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary

Donald Trump has faced criticism by blaming both sides involved in the

clashes in Virginia last weekend. The US president appeared to

distance himself from his own statement a day earlier in which he

condemned white supremacists. Our US correspondent, David Willis,

reports. He was scheduled to make a statement

about infrastructure, only veering wildly off message

and referring to his original assessment of the cause

of Saturday's violence. I think there is

blame on both sides. You look at both sides,

I think there is blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it,

and you don't have any doubt And, and if you reported it

accurately, you would see that. Condemned originally

for failing to apportion blame person dead and more than 30

injured, the President took to the White House on Monday

to denounce racism and the white supremacist groups that

organised the rally. A carefully worded

statement which briefly served to cool the embers

of outrage, only for the President You had a group on one

side that was bad and a group on the other side

that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that,

but I will say it. The remarks prompted

sweeping condemnation The Speaker of the House

took to Twitter to say: A notable source of support

came from David Duke, the former leader

of the Ku Klux Klan. With police forces around

the country bracing for similar protests

to the one in Charlottesville, there is concern the latest remarks

might serve to embolden certain A homeless man - hailed

as a hero for helping victims of the Manchester bomb -

has been charged in connection with the theft of a bank card

in the Arena that night. Chris Parker ran towards

the scene of the attack, He is due to appear

before magistrates in The number of care home places

in England for older people with substantial needs will need

to rise by nearly a third within ten years because of

increasing life expectancy. Academics at Newcastle

University say more than 71,000 extra places

will be needed by 2025. The Department of Health says

councils have been given a ?2 billion boost over the next

three years to put social Nurses are warning that students

are putting themselves at risk of meningitis,

if they don't take up the offer to be vaccinated

against the disease. People living in England

who are aged 17 and 18 The Royal College of Nursing says

only a third took up A hospital trust at the centre

of an inquiry into a number of avoidable deaths among newborn

babies, has been criticised for failing to learn

the lessons of past mistakes. A report by the NHS

standards watchdog, the Care Quality Commission,

found that safety still needs to improve in maternity

services at the Shrewsbury Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes reports. For years, Richard Stanton

and Rhiannon Davies have been campaigning to save maternity

services following the avoidable death of their first daughter, Kate,

just hours after birth. A review of their case

found the Trust had failed to investigate Kate's death

properly and now a new report finds eight years on, the Shrewsbury

and Telford Trust is failing It is still failing

on the basics to this day. From our point of view,

it makes you want to bang your head An inspection by the hospital

regulator found safety in maternity services needs improvement

and patients are still not receiving We have seen some

improvements in some areas but some ongoing areas such

as maternity, which is not what we would expect,

and we've made it very clear to the Trust that we need

to see these improvements made in a much more robust manner

and in a timely way. The Trust says serious incidents

are being reported and investigated and a new management team is working

hard to bring about improvements but a wider NHS investigation

into a cluster of deaths among newborn babies

at the trust is under way and those parents who lost

children are asking why questions are still being raised

about safety at the trust. Officials in Sierra Leone say at

least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide that swamped

hundreds of homes on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, on Monday.

Rescue workers have so far recovered nearly 400 bodies. The Red Cross has

warned it is now a race against time to find survivors. The United

Nations is drawing up plans to deal with any outbreak of diseases like

cholera and typhoid. A third woman has accused the film

director Roman Polanski of sexually abusing her

when she was a teenager. The woman - identified only as Robin

- claimed that he had assaulted her five years before

he fled the United States in 1978, while awaiting sentence for having

sex with a thirteen year old girl, Robin said she'd come forward

now because she opposed Samantha Geimer's recent calls

for the case to be closed. Commuters travelling in and out

of London Waterloo are facing a second day of disruption this

morning, following The incident happened as the train

collided with a barrier train that was in place to separate

the current engineering works South West trains are facing delays

of up to 15 minutes and some services have been cancelled.

HMS Queen Elizabeth is entering her home port of Portsmouth for the

first time that the 65,000 tonne ship has been undergoing sea trials

since setting self from the shipyard in Scotland in June. The ship is 280

metres long and her flight deck is begin up for free but all pictures

she is expected to be the Navy's large ship for the next 50 years.

The actor Daniel Craig has ended years of speculation and confirmed

he will return to play James Bond one more time.

Speaking on a US chat show last night, he also stressed

that his fifth appearance as the spy would be his last.

The film is due to be released in 2019.

Two years ago Craig said he would rather slash his wrists

That's a summary of the latest BBC news.

He has performed a delicate U-turn, hasn't he? Sam Bridger has tweeted

saying, delighted, love him. Tim Curtis, not really a fan of Daniel

Craig when it comes to Mr Bond. Would love to see someone else in

the role. Keep your thoughts on that. Daniel Craig staying on as

James Bond. Good night for Liverpool in the

Champions League. Absolutely. They took the big step into reaching the

group stages after beating Hoffenheim in the first leg play-off

last night. Simon Mignolet said a penalty early before Jurgen Klopp's

and took the lead with a belter of a free kick. What a way to announce

itself on the big stage its commissioner that was teenager Trent

Alexander Arnold, the 18-year-old with his first goal on his European

debut. The second came in the second half. James Miller book he had got

it before it was awarded as an own goal. The Germans made sure they

will have their say in the return leg at Anfield as their substitute

kept Hoffenheim in the tie with this goal three minutes from time. It was

because I told him he has to do it. He was the only one who can shoot

free kicks. He can shoot them better than I ever could. I have watched as

many and 23 games last year. When he played there he already took the

free kicks and the goal is a similar size, by the way. Jurgen Klopp full

of praise for his teenage star, Trent Alexander Arnold. Perhaps it

was always destined for greatness will do this tweet from Jamie

Carragher. He posted it before Liverpool match several years ago

when the young boy was just 11 years. The little boy who was about

to step out on to the Anfield turf is a young Trent Alexander Arnold.

How about that for a ringing endorsement on social media a

Liverpool legend! Maria Sharapova back in favour in the tennis world.

Yes, she is she will make her first appearance in a grand slam for 18

months after being given a wild card for the main draw of the US open.

Jenny returned to action in April after serving a 15 month doping ban.

She was denied a wild card at the French Open and then missed the

entire grass court season, including Wimbledon, with a thigh injury. The

US Open starts at the end of the month. And cricket, where -- records

have been broken in their women's cricket super league. A bit of

history made in Derby yesterday. Captain Suzie Bates stored the first

century in the super league. 190 not out as she led her opponents to

victory over Loughborough Lightning. She also claimed the brilliant catch

to remove Bethany Langston. Not a bad day's work. That is all the

sport for now. Thank you very much. The government insists there will be

no reintroduction of border posts between Northern Ireland and Ireland

after the Brexit negotiations. The paper as set out how the government

wants the border to be managed in the future, the latest in a series

of papers covering different aspects of our future relationship with the

EU but what will be paper mean to the people it will affect the most

on both sides of the border? Ian Patterson is a dairy farmer

in Armagh in Northern Ireland and is concerned what crossing

the border will mean Charlotte Norton is

from Northern Ireland Her family and friends

are still based in Coleraine. What do you fear would be the impact

on your business of hard border checks? As farms in Northern

Ireland, 80% of what we produce is exported so that anything that adds

to cost and hassle and expense to our exporting is a worry. We work on

a very fine margin so we would be very sensitive to extra costs being

put into the system and we would like to see that our products

flowing freely and easily on a daily basis to customers since the

exporting part of the business is so crucial. It brings into hundreds of

millions to the economy and we would not like to see any disruption on it

at all. When you talk about exports in that context, where are you

talking about exporting to, not just Ireland? No, two other EU countries

and non-EU countries. Most of our exports go into the UK to feed the

British cities but we depend on it all to keep the economy going. And

in terms of their being hard border checks between Northern Ireland and

Ireland, the government is saying it does not want to see that. If they

did come into place, would there be a direct impact as a result on your

business? Yes, we would not want to see milk queueing up at the border,

going into process in the Republic, and products we need on the farm

queueing up at the border, all that would add extra costs to our system.

We are quite cost sensitive because we survive here and are prospering

but on a fine margin so any of these things that add extra cost is an

immediate worry to us. When the government says what it has said

today about wanting to have a seamless border, is that the relief

for you? To a degree, yes. A seamless border sounds nice but what

we would really like is a tariff free border with high-tech

surveillance not being necessary. It would have to work and not be

policed, but ideally we would like to see a tariff free, free flowing

border that would not hold up our business or at expense to it. And on

that, the government is talking about the importance of trade for

both the UK and Ireland going both ways across the board and said it is

prioritising finding a solution that protects businesses ability to

access these important markets. Are you confident that the UK Government

could get a different model for Ireland than for the rest of the EU

countries? Yes, I would hope the government could bring in a special

deal for the North- South border. If tariffs and different costs come in

that would ever make smuggling economic, cross-border smuggling

inevitably would follow, and you would go back to both sides of the

border having to be policed and it raises the wrong sort of character

and activity and it is not where we want to go at all. If you live in

London but have family in Northern Ireland, what is your perspective on

the border? I do welcome the fact that it has come out that the

government is looking to have a seamless border. What I am worried

about is that it does seem to be quite vague. I'm not denying that

everybody wants there to be a solution that will keep everybody

happy and most of the stakeholders who have spoken on the issue have

said they want that seamless border. But I don't see any clear position

as to how that will happen, and it will be disastrous for trade as we

were talking about, but also for day-to-day life, people who live on

the border and cross every day, people who work in Derry and live in

Donegal, people living around Newry and County Down and work in Dublin,

their everyday life will become so much more difficult if there is not

a workable solution found. And the political sensitivities around it,

for communities, that is something you understand very well. Yes. My

dad's family is mostly in a nationalist community, my mum's

predominantly a Unionist community and a lot of people know that in

Northern Ireland identity is important but I'm not sure they

fully understand how important that is. For those in the nationalist

community, the idea of having any form of solid or even seamless but

existing border in what they believe is one Ireland would be disastrous

for them in terms of identity but the other way round, it has been

proposed to have it as a border around the island which for those in

the Unionist community, they will see that as harming or impacting on

their identity because it will separate them from the UK which is

where they identify. I hear your concerns around whether the deal the

government is talking about is deliverable, but it is saying what

you want to hear? To be honest, no. It does not sound like an awful lot

of thought has gone into it. People have been saying again and again

that we want it to be seamless and we want it to work. The policy of

the position data as far as I can see is repeating that statement. So

what would be achievable and workable? In terms of a definitive

solution, what would you like to hear being put forward? It is really

tricky but all of the stakeholders need to get around the table.

Everybody keeps saying this is unprecedented and has not happened

before and that is true but it is not true there is no similar

situation. For example, Poland has special traffic deals with their

external EU neighbours such as Ukraine. Although it is a different

situation and things will work out differently, there is a special

dispensation that has been allowed by the EU and I can't see anybody

talking about that, even if it might not apply perfectly, I don't see

anybody being creative and looking at these things and how they might

or might not work and how we could move forward. It seems to be putting

across opinions rather than solutions. Going back to Ian, I said

you were in Armagh, not Omar, so apologies for that. How have you

been feeling? You have been talking about the border. -- Omagh. How are

you feeling about the future of your business after Brexit? For the

business and quite hopeful. We have good products and good customers and

my only worry is that the future... I think for agriculture in Northern

Ireland the fear would be that the Brexit thing would come in and upset

it. Our products are good but they are made quite a fine margin so we

don't have room for extra costs, that would end up economically with

us may be losing different customers or needing to add to the cost of

food. And what do you think about the way the government has been

handling it? So far, so good, in the right direction, but I think they do

need to negotiate hard for a tariff free border between North and South.

A seamless solution for people and products between the two parts of

Northern Ireland is the safe solution. How much is this something

you talk to friends and neighbours and relatives about? I would say

after the weather, the second-biggest conversation point!

As to how it will effect if they let in cheap beef from other countries,

if they snarl up our exporting different tariffs north and south

would be a nightmare because of the smuggling thing and we don't want to

see that I wonder border, the border road thing coming alive again. We

want to see a peaceful, free-flowing border. And we want them to get it

right. What about you? Second after the weather in terms of what you're

talking about? Probably a lot more than the weather! Living in London,

a lot of people don't understand and often don't want to understand

Northern Ireland so I have been talking about this for years tried

to push it. Thank you very much indeed. We will be talking more

about it later in the programme. A crisis-hit NHS trust has been

told its maternity services have safety issues and its main maternity

unit "requires improvement" The BBC uncovered at least nine nine

avoidable deaths at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

since 2013 and earlier this year the Health Secretary asked

for them to be investigated. Today's report, which

the Care Quality Commission carried out last year before these

deaths were made public, found that safety in maternity

services "needed further improvement" and that,

"learning from safety incidents The trust says it's taken

"immediate actions to improve His daughter Kate died in 2009

after delays transferring her from Ludlow Community Hospital,

which is run by the Shrewsbury An inquest jury ruled

in 2012 that Kate's death Thank you for joining us. Give us

your reaction to this CQC report first ball. I'm not surprised. --

first of all. This trust has been in denial for ten years about where it

needs to be and the care it offers to its patients. This is a trust

that has rejected and chosen not to improve its services. For example,

in 2007, when the former health care watchdog, the health care

commission, looked at this trust, they flagged up issues back in 2007.

My daughter Kate died in 2009 which was an avoidable death and there

were many issues raised during the inquest which this trust should have

acted upon. It was two years after the concerns were raised, Kate died

in 2009, and here we are, seven, eight years later, ten years, a

decade of deaths at this trust and it seems very much to me, we are

being told that lessons will be learned but seemingly they are not.

This trust has regressed if anything, it is not improving, it

has gone backwards. What happens to Kate -- what happened to Kate?

Rhiannon, my wife, at a seemingly normal pregnancy but in the last two

weeks of the pregnancy she suffered multiple episodes of reduced fatal

movement. The holistic overall view was not taken that Rhiannon was no

longer a low risk mother and actually she was a high-risk mother.

This is another area, and it is mentioned in this report, that this

is still not taken place adequately. Rhiannon was not risk assessed

properly and she was not upgraded to deliver at a larger tertiary

hospital under a consultancy care and when she did deliver at a

midwife led unit at Ludlow, Kate was born in need of immediate care and

help. Had she been born in a larger tertiary hospital that care would

have been on hand immediately and she could have been saved. Because

there was a delay in calling an ambulance and she was later

transferred to a hospital in Birmingham by air ambulance, we were

not told where she was going because the midwife led unit, they had no

operational policy at that time and did not have an operational pussy

for the following seven years, it meant that the clinicians did not

know what to do -- and operational policy. There should be a clear care

pathway for the patient and there was not in this case and Kate

suffered a painful and needless, avoidable death, she died six hours

later in my arms. How let down do you feel?

I feel very let down. Ludlow is a small community that 30 miles from

the Telford and Shrewsbury Hospital. The largest site is the one in

Telford. This community marched end mass last automatic perceived

closure, or the plans to close down the unit and take care from the

community. That care is so important to mothers to be and the mothers who

want to give birth here in the hospital under the safest of care.

That is what it has to be. It has to be the safest of care. Rather than

invest in these services, this trust make choices is not to invest but to

remove care from the community and take it further away. That endangers

lives and here we see, from the evidence of this report today, that

still work needs to be done. This trust has gone backwards. They were

rated as good three years ago and are now in need of improvement.

Management and senior management, and the legacy the former head of

midwifery has left this trust with is wholly inadequate. If NHS England

is listening to this, of course they are going to investigate the 15th

individual baby deaths you raised earlier this year. If NHS is

listening now, this trust has proven time and time again over ten years

that it is incapable of improving itself. It now needs external help

to do that. External help should come from other hospitals that are

proficient in giving safe, and high quality, care. This trust lacks

leadership. It lacks a longer term vision for what its patients want

and what should be delivered as safe care. You have mentioned there have

been various points at which the care being offered in the hospital

is being looked down. You mention concerns first raised in 2007. An

NHS England led review last year referred to you, by saying about

your tenacity in seeking the truth, vital lessons would not have been

learned. The trust should work in partnership with Kate's is to

establish a fitting acknowledgement of the contribution they have made

to the safety and quality of maternity services at the trust.

Have they reached out to you? Are you working in partnership with the

trust question what they did start to reach out to us. In April of last

year, 16, 17 months ago, they had an extraordinary board meeting where we

were allowed to talk to the board and discuss the two NHS

investigations we just mentioned about the whole holistic care given

to Rhiannon and how we were treated after Kate's, which is possibly more

woeful. The ombudsman found the trust guilty of maladministration,

lying and deceit. Other families have suffered losses since Kate,

avoidable losses. Only last year we were approached by a family from

North Shropshire who lost their baby daughter, paper, unavoidably this

trust. They were being fobbed off and told they could not be a part of

this investigation into why pick the's was so bad. They could not be

a part of it at all. That is not right. Just to give you an example

of how this trust likes to say one thing and do another, only six weeks

ago, five weeks ago, they had a meeting at the trust in true spree

to look at an internal report they did in which they invited

stakeholders. Me and Rhiannon, my wife, and Kayleigh and Colin

Griffiths have written jointly to Jeremy Hunt and the Care Quality

Commission to raise issues about the care. We were barred from coming by

the West Murcia police that the trust had called to stop us from

entering that meeting. That trust is not open, honest and transparent.

The reason we were told we could not attend was weak would not understand

policy or what they were talking about. Please don't patronise us. I

am a stakeholder. We are all stakeholders in the NHS. More than

that, I am an expert into care was afforded to my. Without the tenacity

of Rhiannon and my fight to take this to the trust all the way over

the past eight years, we would not be where we are now, unveiling that

nearly 50 families, 50 families have come forward now with grave concerns

about why their babies died or were injured at this trust. 15 are being

investigated but more than 50 have approached us at the BBC and various

media outlets to raise their concerns. That is a lot more than

the quoted number of that Jeremy Hunt has said will now be looked up.

Going forward there will be further investigations. Thank you for

joining us and your time this morning. Thank you.

While we didn't receive a statement from the trust press office,

we did pick up some relevant bits of information

in the 16-page summary of their

Still to come: newly revealed figures from the NHS suggest one in

50 women given a vagina or mesh implant to help deal with bladder

incontinence and prolapse after childbirth will need surgery to have

them removed because of serious complications. We will speak to a

surgeon who has carried out hundreds of removals.

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

The Government says it wants to maintain a "seamless" border

between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic

A paper setting out Britain's negotiating position -

being published today - rejects what it calls "the hard

borders of the past" - and sets out plans to allow people

and goods to continue to move freely.

Ministers insist an open border is realistic.

This is not just some sort of unilateral, one-way issue I am

talking about. When you look at the trade the UK has, for example, with

Ireland, around 13.6 billion, equally the trade from Ireland to

the UK of around 9.1 billion, it is that sort of flow of trade we do see

in both directions. This matters for both of us. The Northern Ireland

Secretary, James broken shire. Donald Trump has faced renewed

criticism from within his own Republican party by again blaming

both sides involved in the clashes The US President appeared

to distance himself from his own statement a day earlier

in which he condemned white supremacists who had

marched in Charlottesville. In his latest news conference,

he also blamed left-wing supporters for charging

at the so-called "alt-right". You had a group on one side

that was bad and you had a group on the other side

that was also very violent. And nobody wants

to say that, but I'll You had a group on the other side

that came charging in without a permit and they

were very, very violent. A homeless man - hailed

as a hero for helping victims of the Manchester bomb -

has been charged in connection with the theft of a bank card

in the Arena that night. Chris Parker ran towards

the scene of the attack, He is due to appear

before magistrates in Officials in Sierra Leone say at

least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide that swamped

hundreds of homes on the outskirts Rescue workers have so far

recovered nearly 400 bodies. The Red Cross has warned

it is now a race against time The United Nations is

drawing up plans to deal with any outbreak of diseases

like cholera and typhoid. The number of care home places

in England for older people with substantial needs will need

to rise by nearly a third within ten years because of

increasing life expectancy. Academics at Newcastle

University say more than 71,000 extra places

will be needed by 2025. The Department of Health says

councils have been given a ?2 billion boost over the next

three years to put social The biggest warship ever built

for the Royal Navy - the aircraft carrier,

HMS Queen Elizabeth - is entering her home port

of Portsmouth for the first time. The 65,000-tonne ship has been

undergoing sea trials since setting sail from Rosyth

shipyard in Scotland in June. The ship is 280 metres long,

and her flight deck is big enough She's expected to be the Navy's

flagship for the next 50 years. The actor Daniel Craig has ended

years of speculation and confirmed he will return to play

James Bond one more time. Speaking on a US chat show last

night, he also stressed that his fifth appearance as the spy

would be his last. The film is due to be

released in 2019. Two years ago Craig said

he would rather slash his wrists Liverpool beat Hoffenheim 2-1

in their Champions League first leg play-off, as they bid to reach

the group stages for the first 18 year-old Trent Alexander-Arnold's

screamer of a free kick They were leading 2-0

courtesy of an own goal, but Hoffenheim pulled one back on 87

minutes to ensure a nervy second leg The Champions League

qualifiers continue tonight. Scottish Champions Celtic host

Kazakhstan champions Astana at Celtic Park tonight

in their first leg playoff. Maria Sharapova will make her first

appearance in a grand slam in over 18 months,

after being given a wildcard The former world number one returned

to action in April after serving a 15-month doping ban,

but missed the grasscourt And Joanna Konta is preparing

well at the warm-up She's through to the third

round of the Cincinatti Open after beating Kiki Bertens

of the Netherlands in straight sets. She'll play France's

Alize Cornet next. The latest employment

numbers are out. Our Business Correspondent,

Ben Thompson, is here What are they? There is a lot to get

through. Tried to explain as much as I can. The headline, the one the

politicians will talk a lot about now, the headline rate has fallen.

Van from 4.5% in the previous measure. The unemployment rate is

now at its lowest level since 1975 shall submit means unemployment, the

number of people out of work, fell by 50 7000. It is now 1.48 billion

people looking for work and not able to find it. Those are the headlines.

When you start looking down into the more interesting stuff further down

we get more detail. Wages, that is the bit everyone will look at. We

have talked about whether wages are keeping up with rising prices.

Yesterday we were told prices were rising at 2.6%. Today we learn that

wages are going up by 2.1%. The gap between rising prices and wages is

getting smaller. The hats we might not be feeling the squeeze as much

as we have in the past was interestingly, if you compare this

year with plaster, we are still half a percent worse off. It might not

sound a lot but traditionally wages should be rising as the economy

grows. In real terms we are half a percent worse off

than we were this time last year. Also some interesting data about

zero hours contracts. There are 20,000 fewer people on zero hours

contracts. That is a big change as well. A lot of publicity about the

people on those contracts that guarantee no set hours of work every

week. A lot of publicity about why people are on the man white

employers are using them. Perhaps we are seeing a shift away from them.

20,000 the headline figure. And deployment rate falling to 4.4%. It

is striking when you see that that is the lowest rate since 1975 dustup

in terms of productivity in the economy though, what is the picture?

We call this a productivity bustle. Does that mean we're all going to

work, putting our feet up and not doing much question that some may

say that is the case. There has been so little incentive for people to

work harder. Wages are not going up if your boss is saying to work hard

about I will not pay you any more for it, that is one of the big

issues. It is also a challenge for making us as a country more

productive, being able to deliver more for the same amount of money.

We have also seen improvements in how we do things, be it the

internet, be it technology. In this case we are still facing a problem

where productivity is still sluggish in the UK. Getting more of us into

work is one part of this challenge. When we're at work getting us to

produce more is another thing. I do not think we will see great economic

growth. Things are OK but given all the uncertainty for things like

Brexit right now, a lot of us are saying, will hold up until we know

what is happening. There is clearly a lot of debate still to be had.

HMS Queen Elizabeth, the UK's new ?3 billion aircraft

carrier, and its 700 staff have arrived in Portsmouth.

The 65,000-tonne ship has been undergoing sea trials since setting

sail from Rosyth dockyard in Fife, where it was built, in June.

Although at the moment it isn't able to deploy planes it is expected

to be the Navy's flagship for the next 50 years

and Duncan Kennedy is there for us this morning.

Good morning. I want to reassure you and all viewers first of all, that

is not the carrier. That is HMS victory, Lord Nelson's flagship,

dating from 1805 which fought in the battle of Trafalgar. I wanted to

show it to you as a matter of contrast. This is the old, three and

a half thousand tonnes. This is the new. HMS Queen Elizabeth 65,000

tonnes. Its length, the length of three football pitches. Its height,

the height of Nelson 's column. It is a massive ship on every available

level you can imagine. On board at the moment is the Prime Minister put

up she is getting a first tour. It is the first time she has come home

here to the home of the Royal Navy and it is from where she will be

based for the next five decades as she patrols the sea. Why will she be

patrolling the sea? To project British power that means Jets on

board, the EFT 35 flown by the likes of my guest here, the Wing

Commander. You're undergoing the training and putting us all

together. Where are the Jets? They are not on board yet. No they are

not. We're receiving a new aircraft about every eight weeks was the best

bit between two locations on the east coast of America we have a

squadron working with the Marine Corps to train pilots. We have

pilots about to start on a journey on to EFT 35. Over on the West

Coast, Edwards Air Force Base, currently has 17 Squadron, who are

conducting operational tests and evaluation. That is putting the Jets

are its paces to check it works correctly and prove that should

improve it on areas we need to improve it and sort the tactics

apple. When will it first appeared on the carrier behind this question

that we'll see the tests initially start at the end of next year. The

ship needs to prepare itself to check it is safe on the seas. That

is what we are seeing it going through right now. The same time the

aircraft are preparing themselves ready to merge with it. Those two

facets will come together and about September next year for the You have

heard the critics. We will get 30 to 40 on board now. Why do we need

that? The adversary is changing. Dogfights are long gone full of it

is all beyond visual range. An enemy you cannot see. If a pilot jet where

he cannot be seen and get closer and it is far safer and you can deliver

better potency. Turning a question around, when you get the dirty, 40

aircraft on-board the carrier, how much of a game changer will it be?

's eye-macro it is massive. We have an ability to float the Queen

Elizabeth wherever we want to. -- It is massive. It means I am invisible,

outside enemy radar. I can operate my aircraft and project, however I

want. In the week where we are marking the

independence of India and Pakistan all those years ago in 1947, people

are saying that this is too much power and we are trying to be a

first-class power and we are a middle world power so why have this

effort and expense, ?3 billion for the carrier alone, in 2017? I would

love to be able to draw a map of the world and show instability in Iraq

and Syria and Africa and the far east. They could not be more apt to

bring in a capability like this with the environment in North Korea at

the moment and it will never be more relevant. This is one of two Karius,

the HMS Prince of Wales is coming in two years' time -- carriers. The

disposition, means we will have... It'll be down to her defence wants

to allocate those assets. We have the ability to operate Lightning on

either carrier or from a forward operating base so flexible as he is

the key. And the jets you will be flying are short and vertical

take-off so why do you need a big runway! They are not that short, we

don't vertically take off! Airborne and with a full payload of weapons

and a significant amount of fuel you need about 500 feet hence what it is

that long but they have a vertical landing mode and we can get it back

on the debt. The jets have been criticised for the cost, ?100

million each, manoeuvre ability and software issues but how are they

shaping up? They are looking awesome. 17 Squadron are putting

them through their paces and the pilots are delighted with the

performance. It is ideally suited for the future of warfare. Thank you

very much. That is a look at what aircraft will be on board. The

carrier will not be fully operational for another couple of

years, this is just its homecoming to its home base for a lot of work

to be done. 10,000 people to build it, many more thousands to get it

fully operational but what the government said today was a way of

projecting British power around the world. Thank you.

He kept us in suspense for two years but Daniel Craig will be back

as Bond for the 5th time at the age of 49.

An increasing number of parents and carers try to avoid gender

stereotyping play but Ikeme difficult to overcome registers. --

prejudices. Look at this! Would you like a

dolly? There is a good girl. You are a good girl, Sophie. What does this

say? Sweet dreams. Look at this. I think she liked the

pink dolly the best. Isn't that interesting. That was

part of a documentary. And you can watch 'No More Boys and

Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?' tonight on BBC Two at 9pm

and afterwards on BBC iPlayer. And do let us know what you think -

get in touch in the usual ways. New figures from the NHS suggest

that one in every 15 women who are given a vaginal mesh implant

to help deal with bladder incontinence and pelvic organ

prolapse are having surgery to have them removed

because of serious complications. Earlier this year, this programme

revealed that hundreds of women are living with chronic pain

and complications after A recent report by NHS England has

called for better reporting of problems and increased knowledge

sharing, but has not recommended Dr Sohier Elneil is a consultant

uro-gynaecological surgeon at University College Hospital London,

and has carried out hundreds Lisa Hunter has been suffering

problems with a mesh And Jemima Gaye Williams has

been caused considerable Thank you for joining us. One in 15

women are having her to have these implants removed. Are you surprised

it is that many? I'm not surprised only in as much as in my practice it

seems to be the vast majority of work I'm doing increasingly. It is

the first time we have got some specific figures because most of the

mesh competitions and issues are often self-reported. So getting them

on to our system and getting them coded accordingly has not always

been easy. Dealing with this huge range of competitions that occur

means that I suspect we are at the tip of the iceberg. Lisa, you were

fitted with a vaginal mesh in 2016 and it was only watching this

programme you realised that was the reason for problems you were

experiencing. That's true. Actually January of this year. The

competitions started at the end of March. And really the eureka moment

was seeing all of these convocations being shown on your show in April

this year and it was a real eureka moment. Before that, what did you

think was going on? I just had mending and knitting pains but they

were quite severe. After seeing the show I thought that this was not

normal, it is not a normal mending paint and I had to take it back to

my GP to get a referral back to the gynaecologist -- mending pain. What

has your experience been since 2002 when you had it? Absolutely

horrendous, I have recently been advised to have a colostomy and this

is 15 years later and I'm still going through agony. I have a small

hole at the base of my spine and there is a foreign body there which

is trying to push out through the base of my spine. I don't want to

talk about me, I'm the founder of the Welsh mesh sieve by the group.

And I'm here on the half of all of them -- mesh survivor. And this is a

global problem and one in 50 is the tip of the iceberg. I have been damp

aiming since 2011 to raise awareness -- one in 15. I have been writing to

government and I have a message from all those in the UK. Scotland since

2014 have had a suspension on vaginal mesh operations. We are the

United Kingdom, what has happened, Wales, England, Northern Ireland? We

need a suspension of this stuff until further investigations. That

is all I had to say really because I'm really angry because there has

been no need for all of these women to go through the things I'm having

to go through. Every night I'm up until about 3am talking to women who

are desperate, absolutely desperate. I have been on the verge of suicide

myself back in 2005 because consultants said to me there was

nothing that could be done. There are women out there today who are

being told that. Last night, Crystal in America died, the seventh person

I have spoken to personally, and some of these people... Just to

interrupt, when you say they have died, as a result of complications?

Because of convocations with mesh, sepsis, inflammatory problems that

have caused heart problems -- because of complications. This is

not just the mesh, it is complications because of it. Sorry

to interrupt, we are obviously hearing a lot from Jemima on other

women as well and she is asking why these operations are not suspended.

I think for a long time it was thought that the problems were in a

very small proportion of women and often quoted was this 1-2% and

eventually it went up to 5% and then 10% and studies then were showing

complication rate running at 30-40% so there was a tendency to believe

they must be doing some good in a of women. But gradually the focus of

the medical professional community moved away from thinking, it is only

if the mesh has got into an organ that is a problem, to what are the

secondary effects and they are the worse I am seeing, the chronic pain

which is difficult to get on top of, the inflammatory process is

effecting all parts of the body. And I know of patients with heart

problems and so on. So what is the threshold for a decision to be taken

for it to be suspended? It has been suspended in Scotland. We have come

to that point now and the time has come for all mesh procedures to be

stopped and we have to go back and re-evaluate the data, go back to the

women who have been infected and understand the issues. We do not

understand them fully and we need to do a lot more, there is a lot more

science that needs to be done and also a lot more uptake and belief in

the women who have suffered these problems. I said it up carried out

hundreds of these removals, do you still put them in? No, we have

unusual situations where there are certain women for whom there is no

other possibility but the key is that you speak to women and given

the opposition -- the options and discuss them fully and that is quite

critical in this current situation. But given that I have done so many

removals and increasingly in the last 5-7 years, it is increasingly

difficult to even think about putting them in.

Complications that are reported by surgeons are not correct. Less than

a third of all mesh removals need to be logged and monitored correctly. A

full suspension in England. Thank you all very much. Do keep your

thought on this coming through to a full list is something we started

talking about the programme because of the viewer getting in touch with

is about this issue. Every time you talk about it we do get lots of

comments from it. Do keep them coming. The usual ways of getting in

touch with. Now for the weather. A bit of an east/ west split. A

cloudy start the sun. Others will have a fine start. Some will get

some rain. The rain is not moving quickly. The direction it is heading

is eastwards. For many of us, we will carry on with a lot of dry

weather around. Some beautiful weather watchers pictures. You can

see the waves whipping up. Also quite a breezy day. Gusty winds. In

North Berwick and Lothian beautiful. Lovely blue skies. There is a front

which is dragging the rain from the West, moving slowly eased if you

look at the proximity of the isobars, they are quite squashed

together. That indicates it will be a breezy day. This is the rainfall

we have had. It has not been moving particularly quickly but is making

progress now in Northern Ireland and fringing in across western parts of

Scotland. It will continue to do that as we go through the course of

the day. Later getting into West Wales and South West of England.

Some of the rain could be heavy. Ahead of it we are starting with

high-level cloud that will break. We will cease more sunshine. In the

sunshine it will feel pleasant. By the afternoon we still rain coming

across the south-west of England. Into the south-eastern quarter of

the country at a fair bit of sunshine. Much of the North of

England staying driver that you can see the progress. Behind it we will

see some showers in Northern Ireland. As rain continues to move

north eastwards across Scotland, not all of Scotland will be wet at this

stage. Lothian and Borders, the north-east game drive. Here we have

highs of 16. Further south in the sunshine, 23 will feel quite

pleasant. This evening and overnight, the band of rain in the

West will move eastwards. Behind that, there will be some cloud and

some murky conditions and a few showers still in the North West.

Under clearer skies it would be quite chilly, rather like the one

just gone. We start with the rain across is to the central and

southern parts of England heading south-west and the Channel Islands.

As we head through the course of tomorrow, you will find their rain

continuing to middleweight onto the near continent were clearing the

Channel Islands last. Behind it there will be variable amount of

cloud and a fair bit of sunshine. Also some showers will stop some of

the showers are likely to be heavy. Not all of us will catch one.

Tomorrow will be breezy as well. Not as breezy as Friday. If you look at

the isobars, they are squashed together. Low pressure dominating

the weather with its front. Across the north-east of Scotland we have

rain. Elsewhere we are looking sunshine and showers. Breezy in the

central parts of the country could if you are exposed to the breeze and

showers it will feel nippy. If you miss them altogether, 20 themselves

list will feel quite pleasant. -- 21 Celsius.

Hello it's Wednesday, it's 10 o'clock.

This is Joy Watson and her husband and carer Tony.

When Joy was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers,

she set up a charity to help people in a similar situation.

She became an Alzheimers ambassador and even

met David Cameron, but now her support benefits have

been stopped because a recent government assessment deemed her fit

An invisible Irish border. The Government says it does not won any

border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic. Critics

say there is no detail on how that could work.

40 years since the death of the King,

tens of thousands of fans including his family hold

an overnight vigil at his former home in Graceland.

superfans in the studio - complete with tattoos and costumes -

to discuss why he's still so worshipped.

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

The Government says it wants to maintain a "seamless" border

between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic

A paper setting out Britain's negotiating position -

being published today - rejects what it calls "the hard

borders of the past" - and sets out plans to allow people

and goods to continue to move freely.

Ministers insist an open border is realistic.

This is not just some sort of unilateral, one-way issue I am

When you look at the trade the UK has, for example, with

Ireland, around 13.6 billion, equally the trade from Ireland to

the UK of around 9.1 billion, it is that sort of flow of trade

Donald Trump has faced renewed criticism from within his own

Republican party by again blaming both sides involved in the clashes

The US President appeared to distance himself

from his own statement a day earlier in which he condemned white

supremacists who had marched in Charlottesville.

In his latest news conference, he also blamed left-wing

supporters for charging at the so-called "alt-right".

You had a group on one side that was bad and you had

a group on the other side that was also very violent.

And nobody wants to say that, but I'll

You had a group on the other side that came charging in

without a permit and they were very, very violent.

The latest unemployment figures are out. The jobless rate has reached a

42 year low. None of people out of work in the UK fell by 57,000 in the

three months to June, bringing the jobless rate down to 4.4%. That is

the lowest since 1975. Average weekly earnings were up by 2.1%

compared with a year ago. However, when compared to the rate of

inflation about earnings fell by .5%.

A hospital trust at the centre of an inquiry into a number

of avoidable deaths among newborn babies, has been criticised

for failing to learn the lessons of past mistakes.

A report by the NHS standards watchdog,

the Care Quality Commission, found that safety still needs

to improve in maternity services at the Shrewsbury

The trust said challenges needed to be resolved and it wanted to work

But a father whose daughter died at the unit told this programme

This is a trust which lacks leadership.

This is a trust which lacks a longer term vision for what

its patients want and what should be delivered as safe care.

That's a summary of the latest BBC news - more at 10.30am.

Coming up: we'll be getting the latest on the ground in Sierra

Leone. Many have lost their homes after huge landslides in the

capital, Freetown. We'll be sticking to a gay woman who has won her right

for a file in the UK only after a 30 year legal battle. Do get in touch.

Liverpool took a significant step towards reaching

the Champions League group stage, after beating Hoffeinheim

2-1 in their first leg play-off in Germany.

A result at Anfield next week and they'll be back in Europe's top

club competition for the first time in three years.

Is the Coutinho leaving Liverpool? Everyone wants to know. Jurgen Klopp

had to deal with more noise tonight in the Champions League qualifier.

Against Hoffenheim, it was tricky from the. A penalty for Simon

Mignolet to save an awful attempt. While Liverpool might have been

behind with a then went ahead. 18-year-old Trent Alexander Arnold

was not the obvious choice to step up when it mattered most. While he

was magnificent on European debut, the brunt of victory was not as

smooth and Liverpool should have had more goals before and after

half-time. They got a second thanks to be deflected cross of James

Milner, they left the door open for their opponents. Hoffenheim were

kept in the tie with a lovely late goal. Not the perfect night the

Liverpool but still plenty to smile about after a difficult week as the

Champions League group stages move ever closer.

midfielder Gil-fi Sigurdsson for a fee of around

The Iceland international will have a medical today

and would become Everton's record signing, beating the 30

million pounds they paid Sunderland for goalkeeper

The former one day captain Paul Collingwood has criticised the use

of the new pink ball for England's historic day-night cricket test

against the West Indies at Trent Bridge tomorrow.

Collingwood says the ball becomes as soft as plastic after a few overs.

One man hoping to get to grips with it is Chris Woakes,

available for selection again after being injured.

I have not experienced it yet, apart from a training last night was that

it could move around a bit after the twilight period. I suppose that is

the time to bowl. You might have to bat in those conditions as well stop

the more you can get used to using it in the practice sessions, the

better for us. It is a bit of an unknown how it will react.

Former world number one Maria Sharapova has been handed

a wildcard to compete at the US Open She returned from a 15-month

doping ban earlier this year, but was denied a wildcard

at the French Open, before missing Wimbledon through injury.

In 2013, Joy Watson was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.

In the wake of the devastating diagnosis she went on to set up

a charity in her local area that campaigned to make local businesses

But in May this year Joy had her benefits stopped

after being assessed for personal independence payments

which would have replaced the disability living allowance

She and her husband are now left struggling to pay

to tribunal, the final stage of appeal which is unlikely to

This isn't the first time we're reported on cases like this.

Last year our reporter Jim Reed spoke to 59 year old Wendy Mitchell

who was diagnosed with early onset dementia in 2014.

Her personal independence payments were cut from ?77 a week to nothing.

I don't remember the content of the interview, but I remember

feeling that I wasn't there very long and the person

didn't ask me many questions to help me remember what I was supposed

Did you feel they had an understanding of your

I felt that they totally lacked any knowledge of dementia whatsoever.

And then I got the shocking letter that told me that I was no longer

going to get any payment whatsoever and a list of all the things that

I was apparently better at than I was 18 months previously,

Who wouldn't when they've got dementia?

When you received that letter, what went through your head,

Oh, well, it just makes you feel so tomorrow lies.

I instantly knew that the system is simply broken, because how can

they tell me that I'm better than I was when I have deteriorated?

Joy and Tony join us now along with their local MP,

Labour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, who has taken up the couple's case.

Thank you for joining us. As we said, you have been living with

Alzheimer's for four years and your work was recognised by David

Cameron. Now you have been knocked back for benefits. How are you

feeling about all of these things? If I'm honest, quite devastated. I

was devastated when I got the diagnosis and this decision has

knocked me for six. I'm... I'm quite fearful and upset. How much money

have you lost as a result? Basically about ?400 a month. And that

includes your carer's allowance? Yes, it is the disability living

allowance, a small carer's allowance and help with our council tax. What

impact is it having? A huge impact for me. I have got a dementia dog

and having to stop her training because I can't afford it. And basic

things I was trying hardest to up for my funeral and that has had to

go by the board. Everything is just upside down. Tell us more about the

assessment that you had. Alzheimer's is a degenerative condition. And you

were obviously assessed as having the right to get the benefit but

under the reassessment you are found to not need it at all so tell us how

that is carried out. We asked for the assessment to be carried out in

our own home because it was too stressful for Joy to attend the

centre. This lady came into our house and from the way she was

talking and sitting and carrying out the conversation we felt she had no

practical knowledge of dementia, no actual living experience of working

with people with dementia. She was asking practical questions, like

what you do from day to day, how you do things, and saying basically that

Joy was OK doing various things although we fully explained that I

do all the coding now because it is too dangerous for Joy because she

forgets to turn the gas on or off and things of that nature -- it I do

all the cooking. That came back that she was fully able to cook. Joy is

fully able to or that there is somebody in the house who can do it?

As a carer, I do things for Joy that she would like to do herself but

cannot. The report from the assessor basically said that Joy is able to

prepare a meal. Could you do that? No way. On a good day I could maybe

make myself a drink. On a bad day I would be looking in the washing

machine for the milk and things like that. I have scalded myself and my

clumsiness, which was one of the first symptoms, that has

deteriorated to the extent where I just knock over things and drop

things. One of the reasons cited in the assessment is that you drive

sometimes locally. Very rarely. I am assessed on a yearly basis but I'm

desperate to keep my license for emergencies. I've got two

grandchildren and if there was an emergency or, as has happened in the

past, Tony was rushed to A, I feel more confident knowing I can drive.

But if I go to any talks or anything I always have my support worker with

me and she does all the driving if Tony is unavailable. My friends from

Age UK showed me around. Yes, I can drive, but I don't. David Cameron

praised you for the way you live with Alzheimer's and the work you

have done around people having it to try to make life better for them. Do

you feel your positive attitude may have expired? Yes, I do. -- may have

backfired. Sometimes I feel, what is the point? I use so much of my

energy fighting the dementia that I haven't got any extra energy to

fight the system. It does take a lot to get up and think about the

people, I feel responsible because of the work I do, I feel

responsible, I have a lot of people my age who are now in care homes

living with 80, 90-year-old and I feel a responsibility to help people

to continue to live well. And it is hard, and this has made it even

harder because my future is so uncertain now. I don't know where

the bills are going to be paid, I am relying on my son to give me

hand-outs. People have said, you can go along to the food banks. Who has

said that, anybody in authority? It was somebody from the CCG. I think

it was a flippant the mark. That is the clinical commissioning group. We

do some work with them with dementia awareness and I was in conversation

with them... Best intentions, they were trying to say there are things

you can do to help yourself and I go along with that. But it is still a

struggle to get up and go to my groups and put on the face, that I'm

an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society, I encourage us all to live

well and to have this... Let's bring in your MP, Rebecca Long-Bailey,

thank you for joining us. What is your reaction to Joy having her

benefits stopped? I was absolutely horrified when she came into the

office and told me what has happened. She is so well-known

across Salford, everybody speaks highly of her, even just a few weeks

ago I had customers in the hairdressers talking to me about the

work she has done. She has done a phenomenal work in the community to

help people with dementia despite the hardship she is facing and so to

hear she has been pushed over the edge by such an unjust decision was

absolutely staggering. I think the way the assessment was carried out

leaves a lot to be desired and the fact that when Joy appealed the

first time she was awarded points score four and when she appealed,

they gave the an award of zero. That was the state of affairs and now she

is being forced to go to a tribunal which is an extremely stressful

situation for anybody to go through, and the fact is it is likely this

case, and I hope it will be, overturned. As a constituency MP I

have to say this is not a rare case. There have been a number of cases

reported to Salford of a similar vein. I was speaking to an

organisation gold Salford unemployed resource Centre last week and they

told me that 99% of the cases they take to tribunal in relation to

assessment are overturned. There is clearly something wrong with the

system and it needs to be reviewed urgently which is what I have taken

on Joy's case and asked the DWP to look at it urgently and also asked

David Gauke to carry out an urgent review into the assessment procedure

itself. I want to read a statement from the Department for Work and

Pensions. This is part of a wider strategy and policy looking at

payments and whether in some cases they are being paid where they

should not be. The spokesperson said...

"Personal Independence Payments take a much

wider look at the way someone's health condition or disability

impacts them on a daily basis, taking into account all

the supporting evidence from someone's GP or medical specialist.

Regular reassessments mean we can ensure people with degenerative

conditions get the help they need as their condition changes.

Do you agree that it is right, in principle, for all the cases to be

looked at in the way they are? I don't think anybody can dispute the

need for assessment in many cases but it is how is fairly the

assessments are carried out and in the case of Joy it clearly wasn't

the case. We also need to look at the fact that Alzheimer's and

dementia are degenerative emissions so we will not see an improvement --

degenerative conditions. Joy will get steadily worse and she will have

to manage that going forward. I just want to read a comment on Facebook

from someone whose husband knows you. Suzie Preston says her husband

was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at 54, it leaves you financially

crippled, not able to work, still with mortgages and some people have

young children. My husband is frightened they will take his

personal independence payment away. It has an impact on the system the

Leigh symptoms of his condition. -- on the symptoms of his condition.

When you have got the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, how did it change your

life? Were you working previously? Yes, ironically I was a carer

looking after people with severe dementia as well as MS and other

conditions. I had to give up the job I loved and that hit me hard. But it

took five or six years to actually get a formal diagnosis. When I got

that I just took to the sofa because I know what the future holds. I have

looked after people with dementia and I don't know how many years I've

got. Some of my friends are in care homes and it hurt to look to the

future where my resources are limited and we would not be able to

do the things I enjoyed, with support. That changes my whole

mindset in a way because as much as I enjoy raising awareness and stuff,

I will not be able to afford to take my grandchildren out to lunch, to do

the things I want to do. And that could quite easily put me back on

the sofa thinking quite suicidal because I know a few years down the

line what I might face and I want to make the most of it now. And I do

resonate with those people, like what you read, I can relate that

completely. And that is why I do what I do because I want to help

other people not to have to go through this assessment as I have

had to. And if we can bring about change or other people with dementia

don't have to experience what I have, I will have done something

good. Joy and Tony, thank you, and Rebecca Long-Bailey, thank you. And

a quick tweet, saying this is disgraceful, I am crying for this

courageous lady and her husband and others affected. Thank you very

much. The 40th anniversary of the death

of the King of rock n roll has been marked with a candlelit

vigil in Graceland. We'll be speaking to Elvis

superfans here in the studio. It is 28 minutes past ten and we are

turning our attention to Sierra Leone. One local in Freetown has

talked about overwhelming devastation in the wake of the

deadly mudslide on Monday. Nearly 400 people have been killed

and up to 600 more are still missing according to the Red Cross who say

they are still struggling to recover The situation is so desperate that

a mass burial of victims has been planned to free up space

in the region's mortuaries. Let's speak now to some

people who are all helping Ishmeal Charles from

The Healey International Relief Foundation which helps vulnerable

individuals in Sierra Leone. Ramatu Jalloh from

Save the Children. You were close to where the mudslide

happened and saw people running away. What did you see and what have

people told you? We were on our way on a mission to another district and

we used the route where the mudslide took place. The morning there was

very heavy rain and basically what we observed on our trip was a woman

running towards the main road crying and gesticulating. She approached

another woman who was on a bike in front of us. They had a brief

conversation and the next thing we saw was this woman crying.

Immediately after that another man came running towards our vehicle

informing us, he simply said, thousands have been lost, this is

desperate. It was at this point we realised something had happened. We

contacted our office and informed them that something was wrong

because we could not actually see the site and it was not too long

after we found out that a landslide had taken place.

What is it like there now? People are still buried. Extraordinary,

people are being pulled out alive. This is all just very recent, just

happening on Monday. How are people reacting? What are conditions like?

We have been lucky. Since yesterday we have had no rain. That is pretty

unusual for this time of year. That will not necessarily hamper relief

efforts or the excavation efforts going on on site. Field workers were

on the site yesterday. One of them describe the horrific smell, which

is quite frightening really, and the fact that people are still feeling

quite desperate about the situation. I think really, there is some level

of hope among the communities living in the area, hoping some of their

neighbours and friends will be rescued. But also there is some

concern that, as the days go by, the level of hope will dwindle. What

have you been seeing of people actually being pulled out alive?

Especially at the centre where the mudslide actually took place.

Definitely there are no survivors underneath that slide. For obvious

reasons, the weight and the force the mud came down with was so heavy

to a point that, if people had survived it was only for a few

minutes. Then they were crushed Jude to the weight. There have been

testimonies, people speaking. One woman went to a neighbouring house

to stay with a friend. Eventually she slept in a friend's house. That

is how she was saved for that if her family who wanted to get back to see

her in the morning and there was no one in the house anymore. A family

man travelled to the province and came back to Freetown and there was

no house anymore and no family members. It is that kind of

desperate situation where there is really no one who survived who was

in any of those buildings at the time. What is your organisation

doing to help? Street Child has been on the ground pretty much from day

one. We realise the immediate need for a response. Some of the families

being displaced lost everything. No food and water available. We would

be providing basic food rations and water for the victims who have been

displaced. I went with the Street Child team just after we launched

our flood release appeal for the international money is flooding in.

Some of these centres, the stories are horrific, as you can imagine.

One lady who the team was working with was inconsolable. She had

injuries on her arms and her face. She was eating the food we were

handing out. My team later managed to calm her down and she explained

her story. Unfortunately she had lost all her children and her

husband. There are some really difficult stories. Street Charges

tried to do what it can. What are the immediate priorities for your

charity? At Save the Children, the priority is to support government

with the response. They have been working with the office of National

Security, linking with the Ministry of social welfare, which is in the

process of leading a registration process in what I will describe as

the red zone areas. The aim of that was to try to identify displaced

families and children, the deaths. The families who have lost

everything and those who had suffered household damage as a

result of the flooding that took place. We are also now looking at

doing assessments with regards to these schools and centres the where

the families and children are being placed at the moment. We are also

looking at possibly supporting the children, whose families have lost

everything with regards to preparing them to go back to school. These are

some of the issues we will be working around now. Thank you all

very much. Thank you. We will be speaking to a Nigerian

LGBT activist who was granted asylum.

Today marks the anniversary of 40 years since the death of Elvis,

with fans marking the occasion with a candlelit vigil in Graceland.

We'll be speaking to some of his superfans in the studio.

With the news, here's Rebecca in the BBC Newsroom.

The Government has said it does not want border posts

between Northern Ireland and the Republic following Brexit.

A document - to be published this lunchtime -

will say that ministers want a "seamless" border so people

But Brexit critics say there are no credible details on how an open

Donald Trump has faced renewed criticism from within his own

Republican party by again blaming both sides involved in the clashes

The US President appeared to distance himself from his own

statement a day earlier in which he condemned white

supremacists who had marched in Charlottesville.

In his latest news conference, he also blamed left-wing supporters

for charging at the so-called "alt-right".

The latest unemployment figures are out and the the jobless rate

The number of people out of work in the UK fell by 57,000

in the three months to June, bringing the jobless

rate down to 4.4% - its lowest since 1975.

Average weekly earnings were up by 2.1% compared with a year ago.

However, when compared to the rate of inflation,

A leading consultant has told this programme that

vaginal mesh implants, which are given to women to help

deal with bladder incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse,

Earlier this year, this programme revealed that hundreds of women

are living with chronic pain and complications after

A recent report by NHS England has called for better reporting

of problems and increased knowledge sharing, but has not recommended

I think the time has come for all mesh procedures to be

stopped and we need to go back and re-evaluate all the data,

go back to all the women who have been affected and really

And we need to do, there is a lot more science of it that needs to be

done and also a lot more uptake and belief in the women who have

The biggest warship ever built for the Royal Navy -

the aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth -

is entering her home port of Portsmouth for the first time.

The 65,000-tonne ship has been undergoing sea trials

since setting sail from Rosyth shipyard in Scotland in June.

The ship is 280 metres long, and her flight deck is big enough

She's expected to be the Navy's flagship for the next 50 years.

That is a summary of the latest news.

Now for the sport. Liverpool beat Hoffenheim 2-1 in the Champions

League first leg play-off as they bid to reach the group save stages.

Jurgen Klopp's side went ahead. Hoffenheim pulled one back on 87

minutes to ensure a nervy second leg at Anfield next week. The Champions

League qualifiers continued tonight. Celtic host Astana at Celtic Park in

the first leg play-off. Elsewhere, Joanna Konta is preparing welcome

the warm up event for the US Open. She is through to the third round of

the Cincinnati open. Joe Pavey says she wants to defend her European

10,000 metres title next year, a month before her 45th birthday. She

missed the athletics champions in fashion bitch and ships in London

through injury and says she has no plans to retire.

After a 13-year legal battle, the Home Office has now granted

refugee status to a Nigerian LGBT activist, who was accused

of faking her sexuality in order to stay in the UK.

Aderonke Apata says she knew she was gay from the age of 16

She fled for her life and arrived in the UK in 2004,

but did not claim asylum on the grounds of her

When she did file that claim, the Home Office

considered she was lying about being in a lesbian

relationship but now, after a public and high-profile legal fight,

the Home Office have granted her refugee status.

Aderonke is joining us for her first TV interview

Thank you very much for joining us. Take us back to your childhood in

Nigeria, when you knew you were gay and you say you were persecuted.

What happened? Thank you for having me. When I was growing up in

Nigeria, I have always known I was a lesbian, I was different. I did not

know the name for what I was and that made it difficult for me. I

could not tell anybody about what I was going through. As time went by I

realise I was attracted to these same-sex women and that led to so

many things which made me flee Nigeria for the UK. What happened in

terms of you being persecuted in Nigeria? So many things happen. I

was accused of witchcraft and it was just toxic. I've found it difficult

myself to express myself as a lesbian in an environment that was

quite homophobic. So toxic for people to live in. You decided to

leave your country because of your sexuality. I think initially you

headed for Canada but were barred from going there, so you stayed in

this country. You did not immediately claim asylum on grounds

of your sexuality, why was that? Yell AI was on my way to Canada

before I was stopped here in the UK. I could not discuss my sexuality

with anybody because it is something I have never, never spoken to

anybody about. I was also arrested in Nigeria. I did not know how to

tell the authorities. I could not talk about it. I did not know

sexuality was basis for asylum. I did not have a clue about it. That

is why it took that long for me to talk about my sexuality. I have been

living in the closet for many years of my life. It was difficult for me

to talk about. When you came here, what status where you living under?

Can you repeat that question? When I arrived, I did claim asylum based on

a little -- religion. Based on my religion back home, I was allowed to

stay in the country whilst my application was going on. That is

what was happening until it came to the point where I was refused

totally. I knew going back home was going to be a thing of life and

death. I went underground and that is how I lived until 2012 when I

claimed asylum, based on my sexuality. At that point, the Home

Office contested the argument you put forward on the grounds of your

sexuality. What argument to date give? It was always saying I was

lying and it was a publicity stunt, wanting to remain in the UK. I find

that there are difficult to agree with. When I was in Nigeria, I was

doing well, really well. I would not know why I would want to stay in the

UK by having to lie about my sexuality. I did not have the need

to do that. That is what I was trying to say to them. It was

because Nigeria was not safe for me to stay in, based on my sexuality

and the persecution I would face. How did you feel, not being believed

in that way? Yell AI was so sad, angry and bitter. I did not know how

to put the case across to them until I was able to get a legal team. Also

number five chambers. They looked into the case and said this case has

never been properly from day one. They were able to turn it around.

You had a lot of support from high profile witnesses. You they do now

have refugee status. How do you feel now that everything is settled and

out there in the open? I would like to take this opportunity to say

thank you to everyone who has supported me, including Lord

Elizabeth Barker, Peter Tatchell, my very good friend Jason, who is

always there for me, and so many other people. I cannot remember all

the names of people. It was a high-profile campaign. I'm grateful

to everybody who supported me. I am glad that I am here and I say. At

the same time I am angry. There are so many others like me who are

facing the same problem and not being believed still going through

the system. I think the system needs to change. Thank you joining us.

We do not routinely comment on individual cases.

The Home Office does not and would never ask for an applicant

to produce video proof of their sexuality.This Government

has a proud record of providing protection for asylum seekers

fleeing persecution because their sexual orientation

or gender identity and remains committed to improving the asylum

process for those claiming asylum on the basis of their sexual

We have worked closely with NGOs and the UN High Commissioner

for Refugees to develop dedicated guidance and training

A leading consultant has told this programme that

vaginal mesh implants, which are given to women to help

deal with bladder incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse,

A recent report by NHS England has called for better

reporting of problems and increased knowledge sharing,

but has not recommended discontinuing use of the mesh.

Consultant uro-gynaecological surgeon Dr Sohier Elneil

said a halt to using the implants was needed now, while further

I think the time has come for all mesh procedures to be

stopped and we need to go back and re-evaluate all the data,

go back to all the women who have been affected and really

And we need to do, there is a lot more science of it that needs to be

done and also a lot more uptake and belief in the women who have

I said you had carried out hundreds of removals, do you still put them

in? No, we have unusual situations where there are certain women for

whom there is no other possibility that the key is that you speak to

women and give them the options and discuss them fully. That is quite

critical in this current situation. But given that I have done so many

removals, increasingly so in the last five to seven years, it is

increasingly difficult to even think about putting them in.

After saying he would rather slash his wrists than play

Last night on the US chat chat The Late Show,

Daniel Craig told host Stephen Colbert that he would

return as the iconic 007 for the 27th James Bond film.

The first time, Casino Royale, everyone said

I would see another Daniel Craig James Bond movie in a minute.

Now, you've been reported to have accepted the role

In the New York Times, back in July, they said that you are going to be

People have been asking about it all day.

I've been doing interviews all day and people have been asking me

and I think I've been rather coy, but I kind of felt like, you know,

if I was going to speak the truth, I should speak the truth to you.

Daniel Craig, we could use some good news here.

Daniel Craig, will you return as James Bond?

Listen, so is this the last Bond, can you tell me if you're

I just want to go out on a high note and I can't wait.

He can't wait, he has changed! Anna Smith joins us. He said he would

rather cut his wrists than do it but are you happy he has changed his

mind? I think a lot of people are, I'm not that thrilled. I thought

perhaps quit when you're ahead, it was time for him in the franchise to

move on but he is a solid pair of hands and showed he is very adept at

the role. He was brilliant in Skyfall so let's hope he delivers

another winner. How does it compare to the other ones? He is very much

action man, this gritty action packed style, he was great at the

combat scenes. Perhaps not as funny, the likes of Roger Moore and Sean

Connery and Pierce Brosnan had more of that smooth guy element and did

the humour well so it will be interesting to see if we have a

funny a James Bond moving forward. Is there any reason he can't keep

going on if he wants? Who knows? Maybe we go through the same thing

every time but are these decisions within the gift of the actor who is

ultimately written the choice? It is a huge negotiation process which is

why it has taken so long for him to make the announcement himself. A lot

of money involved and politics and of course you think about the future

of the franchise, it depends on which director is involved and what

their plans and feelings are about what kind of James Bond they want.

It makes sense to refresh it every few years I think. It is a franchise

that has been going for a long time. How much has changed within the

James Bond movies to get date with modern day issues around equality

and everything else? We have seen over the years he has become a bit

less of a womaniser. He still has that smooth guy touch but they have

moved on from this terribly sexist James Bond of the 1970s. I was not

thrilled by his attitude to women in the recent films but it has moved on

and I don't think there are as many horrible racial stereotypes as we

used to seem so things have moved a bit with the times but it is still

the old school. It is, thank you very much.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of the bestselling solo

artist of all time - Elvis Presley.

The 'king' enjoyed worldwide sales of around one billion but at the age

of 42 he was found unresponsive on the floor of the bathroom

The coroner recorded an official verdict of cardiac arrhythmia,

widely thought to have been caused by an overdose of

For many the memory of the man lives on and they celebrate his life

listening to his music, buying memorabilia and even

performing as him and thousands of people are expected to flock

to his Memphis home to pay tribute and hold a vigil.