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Hello, it's Monday, it's nine o'clock. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
I'm Joanna Gosling welcome to the programme. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
has found scammers are increasingly taking advantage of the goodwill of | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
people donating money in the aftermath of major tragedies. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
So how can you be sure are you that your cash | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
is going to the causes you hoped to help? | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
The town was a Brew seat bonus. Was that a one-off or more widespread? I | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
would say about 80% of us were doing it. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Online hate crimes will now be treated as seriously as offences | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service has updated its rules | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
following the growing number of cases occurring. | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
If the crime is committed because of somebody's hatred of that particular | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
characteristic, that is a hate crime. It is important to define it | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
as such. If we define it as a hate crime we can ask the court to | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
increase the sentence if they are convicted or plead guilty. | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
We will be talking to Love Island's Olivia about the abuse | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
The curtain has come down on Mo Farah's glittering track career with | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
a 3000 metres when in Birmingham. What next for the athletics legend | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
and what will his legacy be? We talked to his first running coach. | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
Hello, welcome to the programme. We're live until 11 this morning. | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Do you suffer from arthritis? It is a condition that affects 10 million | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
people of all ages, including children, according to the NHS. The | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
leading arthritis charity says it is being ignored as a major health | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
issue. Get in touch if you have got arthritis and you know what it feels | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
like. use the hashtag Victoria live | :01:59. | :01:58. | |
and If you text, you will be charged Hate crimes committed online should | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
be pursued as seriously as offences carried out face to face, | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
according to new guidelines for prosecutors | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
in England and Wales. The Crown Prosecution Service | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
says it will seek tougher penalties for abuse on social media, | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
which it says could lead to the type of extremist hate seen | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
in Charlottesville in the US. Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the fourth Viscount St Davids, jailed last month for racially | :02:19. | :02:28. | |
aggravated threats on Facebook against Gina Miller, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
the businesswoman behind She said she felt violated | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
by his shocking comments, just one of many online | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
attacks she suffered. Now, the Crown Prosecution Service | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
says these kinds of crimes must be dealt with as robustly | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
as offences on the street. It is promising a tougher response, | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
to build public confidence. There were more than 15,000 hate | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
crime prosecutions in 2015-2016, the highest number ever, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
and a third of those convicted But the number of cases referred | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
by police to persecutors fell by almost 10%, a drop the CPS says | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
it is investigating. With the explosion in the use of | :03:10. | :03:22. | |
social media in recent years, it is very important the prosecuting | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
authorities, the CPS, the police, are as up-to-date as possible in | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
making sure they are using the law to its fullest extent. There is no | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
hiding place for these perpetrators. The law is clear. And if you persist | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
in this sort of behaviour, you will be detected, caught and punished. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Some critics say police and prosecutors | :03:46. | :03:46. | |
moved too slowly to apprehend online abusers. | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
That means people are reluctant to come forward. | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
The CPS hopes new guidance will create the | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
best possible chance of achieving justice for all victims. | :03:53. | :04:06. | |
The CPS says the campaign is not just aimed at raising awareness but | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
also encouraging victims of online hate crimes to come forward. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
We know this is a crime that's underreported. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Sometimes people feel that they just have to sort of put up | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
with it, it's something that happens to them because they're disabled, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
because they are gay, because they're a particular religion. | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
So we're really encouraging people to | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
think about the behaviours that are shown to them and to think about | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
reporting things which will be a hate crime. | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
Let us know your thoughts on that as well. The usual ways of getting in | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
touch. Matthew Price is in the BBC | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
Newsroom with a summary The US navy says ten of its sailors | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
are missing and five have been injured after one of its warships | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
collided with an oil tanker off It's the second serious collision | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
involving an American President Trump has said his | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
thoughts and prayers More people will die from fires | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
started by faulty white goods, if ministers do not act | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
to implement safety guidelines. That's according to | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
the London Fire Brigade, They've sent a letter | :05:12. | :05:12. | |
to Theresa May in response to the Grenfell Tower fire, | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
which it's thought was started It warns some products | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
are still being sold Spanish police are investigating | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
a possible link between Thursday's attacks in Spain, and assaults | :05:25. | :05:33. | |
by so-called Islamic State Authorities believe the Iman, | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
Abdelbaki Es Satty, may have radicalised younger members | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
of the cell, which carried out the Las Ramblas | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
and Cambrils atrocities. They're also investigating | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
whether he was involved in the bombings at Brussels airport | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
and a metro station in the city, With us now is our Europe | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Correspondent, Gavin Lee. Gavin, what our police saying about | :05:53. | :06:12. | |
this possible link involving the imam and these other attacks in | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
Europe? They searched his empty property over the weekend. They | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
believe he is dead, that he accidentally killed himself in an | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
explosion where he was planning this attack. There was bomb-making | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
material. There was an explosion. Two people died. He was living in a | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
Pyrenees town, that is where the search took place. They believe some | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
of the parents of the suspects killed in the attack, say they were | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
radicalised by this man. There were links, it appears, with the Belgian | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
attacks, in Brussels. He was in prison were one of the suspects | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
behind the 2004 Madrid attack. We have had confirmation from the | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Spanish police that the driver here on Las Ramblas, the suspect who | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
carried out that van attack, is Eunice Abouyaaqoub. -- Younes | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
Abouyaaqoub. They said they were looking for this one suspect who are | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
still missing. There is CCTV image re--- imagery which shows him | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
leaving on foot away from here. We have clarity at least on who exactly | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
this man is who is still missing. A suggestion from some of the | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
authorities this morning that there is a Europe-wide hunt for that man? | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Just to be clear, the Spanish authorities aren't saying they | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
believed he left the country. They haven't got any evidence that he has | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
left the Catalan area. What they are saying is, they put out an alert on | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
Thursday night for assistance. After the Berlin attacks, the attacker was | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
found in Milan. After the Paris attacks, one of the men was hiding | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
out in Brussels. They are aware of that. Not suggesting he has | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
definitely left the country. Gavin Lee, thank you very much | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
indeed. We will be keeping you up-to-date with those developments | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
as they continue here on the news channel. | :08:41. | :08:41. | |
Military exercises by South Korean and American armed | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
forces are going ahead, despite protests from the North. | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
The drills are conducted every year, to prepare for an attack | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
The latest come amid heightened tensions following an exchange | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
of threats between Pyongyang and Washington. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
The United Nations says 14,000 people have fled | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
from the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, where government forces have | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
launched a major offensive against so-called Islamic State. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
About 2000 militants remain in the city which has been bombed | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
Motorists in Wales are being asked to pass footage | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
captured on dashcams to police, in an effort to clamp down | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
A pilot scheme in North Wales has seen action taken against more | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
than 100 drivers over the past year, after they were filmed | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Members of the public are encourage to upload clips of "dodgy driving" | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Big Ben will fall silent this lunchtime - | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
It's part of a major refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament, | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
which could see the bells muted for longest period in their history. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Since 1859, Big Ben has chimed through the reign of six | :09:53. | :10:04. | |
monarchs and two World Wars, with only a handful | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
However, Parliament says the bell now needs to be disconnected | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
for the safety of construction workers during major | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
But the plan to silence Big Ben has caused, well, rather a ding-dong. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
There has been a backlash from the public and politicians. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, says she has asked the Speaker | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
of the Commons to look into the matter urgently, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
to see whether Big Ben could continue to be heard. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
For now, Big Ben is due to be silenced until 2021, | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
except for special occasions, such as New Year's Eve | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
People are invited to gather in Parliament Square to hear | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the final bongs at noon, before the great bell | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
We will bring you those final bonds live at midday. | :10:49. | :11:07. | |
The United States will experience a coast to coast total solar eclipse | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
for the first time in almost a century later today. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
It is the first time in 99 years. The movement will turn day into | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
night for two and a half minutes across 14 US states. In the UK, a | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
partial solar eclipse will be visible just before sunset as the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
moon appears to take a small bite out of the sun. | :11:29. | :11:29. | |
Here's a very good example of why not to use a mobile | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Look what happened when a sinkhole opened up at this crossing | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
A scooter driver who was on his mobile didn't realise - | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Don't worry though, luckily he walked away unharmed. | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30. | :11:45. | :11:57. | |
Those pictures are incredible. Thank you. Still to come, we have a | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
special report on how scammers are increasingly taking advantage of the | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
goodwill of people looking to make donations in the aftermath of major | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
tragedies. How can you be sure your donated cash is going to the causes | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
you want to help? Get in touch with's. -- with's. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Britain bidding farewell to Sir Mo Farah. | :12:24. | :12:36. | |
The four-time Olympic gold medallist won his last ever track race on home | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
soil. He took the 3000 metres at the Birmingham Diamond League meeting. | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
It is that Sprint at the end, showing his power, dominance, and | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
just kissing the track to pay homage through his years on the track. The | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
father of four is now switching to road racing. He said all he dreams | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
about as a kid was running for Great Britain. We are going to be speaking | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
to the coach who started coaching at the age of 12. Totten, Wembley, | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
another bad result? They're using Wembley | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
as their home ground this season, is being knocked down | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
to make way for a new one. The problem sometimes | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
with using Wembley is that the away team can feel so fired up | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
like it's an FA Cup Final. On the pitch, it | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
finished 2-1 to Chelsea. All smiles for Chelsea, and a happy | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
manager in Antonio Conte, who Spurs have only won once | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
in 11 games at Wembley Talk of a curse is all a little too | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
early at this stage. But one to watch, definitely. Yes, | :13:46. | :14:00. | |
we will. It has been a great weekend for Britain's eventers. | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
and it's the first time they've won the title since 2009. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
Nicola Wilson also took individual bronze. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
Wilson could afford two penalties to secure the team gold | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
That confirmed Britain's win, and her own bronze individual medal. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Germany claimed team silver with Sweden finishing third. | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
Scammers are increasingly taking advantage of the goodwill of people | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
looking to make donations to help in the aftermath of major | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
tragedies, an investigation by the Victoria Derbyshire | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
The UK's fraud reporting centre, Action Fraud, has shown us examples | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
of fake fund-raising websites set up in the aftermath of the Grenfell | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Tower fire that they've managed to take down. | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
But we've also found examples of organisations which look | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
like charities but aren't raising money on the street. | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
So how sure are you that your donated cash is going | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
With more than 200,000 registered charities in the UK, | :14:57. | :15:13. | |
you're not going to struggle to find a good cause | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Last year, the British public donated around | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
And with the charity and voluntary sector worth around ?45 billion | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
to our economy each year, it's a big-money business. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
So how can we be sure that the money we give on the street | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
or online is actually going to the causes we want to support? | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
It's somebody else pretending to be us. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
So that can't do us any good, that's for sure. | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Do you not feel that you are taking advantage | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
of the public's generosity? Yes. | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
So these things do tend to happen with regularity, I'm afraid, | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
whenever there is some sort of high-profile event that really | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
As a guide dog owner, I've benefited from charity. | :16:01. | :16:16. | |
And to say thank you, I volunteer some spare time | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
But for quite a few years now, I've come across some fundraisers | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
on the street who just don't sit right. | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
So I've decided to film some of them. | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
We buy mobility scooters for disabled adults and children. | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
Oh, right, yeah? And we're asking people... | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
His name is Salim Sayed, or Super Si. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
He's raising money for something called the Happiness Foundation, | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
which claims to buy mobility scooters for local people. | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
What we do, we buy mobility scooters for adults | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
and children who are registered as disabled locally. | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
Everyone wants to support charity or whatever... | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Exactly, if it weren't for people like you, | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
The Happiness Foundation is not a registered charity or a company. | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
Fundraising like this is not illegal, but it does make it | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
very hard to check to see if they are doing what they say | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Online, a number of people have raised concerns | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
There was two complaints in 2014 on the Happiness | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
And then here starts the abusive ones. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
This has been a problem for a not-for-profit company also | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
It feels like a great injustice to me, that we are not | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
doing anything wrong, we are actually doing | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
We mostly don't charge for what we've done. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Kath Temple set up her Happiness Foundation eight years ago | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
in memory of her brother, to provide counselling | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
But four years ago, she started getting complaints about | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
We were presenting to football's governing bodies, | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
Why should I be embarrassed? I haven't done anything wrong. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
But I felt embarrassed because I knew that | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
if they did a search, perhaps that would come up. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
It's not my Happiness Foundation, it's somebody else | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
So that can't do us any good, that's for sure. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
We tried to talk to Salim Sayed, but he hasn't responded to our messages. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
We did manage to track down one of the men behind | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
the Happiness Foundation, Marcus Leavsley. | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
He told us they weren't pretending to be Kath Temple's | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Happiness Foundation, and they do provide mobility | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
scooters for disabled people, though he wouldn't show us | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Hello, is Marcus Leavsley around, please? | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Mr Leavsley, it's the Victoria Derbyshire Show. | :18:35. | :18:54. | |
Are you going to come and have a chat with us? | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
We asked Marcus Leavsley to be interviewed, and he declined. | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
We asked him to show us that he really is doing the good | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
He has told us, however, that the Happiness Foundation | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
no longer exists, and claims that he will still be honouring | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
We've seen evidence that shows the same people behind | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
the Happiness Foundation are selling the same competition tickets under | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
They're still not a registered charity or a company, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
and they still claim to be buying mobility scooters | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
We've seen no evidence that the actions of this | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Happiness Foundation, or the Theme for a Dream Project, are illegal. | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
But increasingly, campaigners are taking action themselves | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
when they come across fundraisers that worry them. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Have you looked at their files? No, I haven't. | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
Do you know any of the charity work that they actually do? | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
Colin Eastway was a paratrooper in the British Army, where he served | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
He has been confronting people who he thinks are posing | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
as military charities, and posting videos online. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Friends who have been injured in Afghanistan. | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
For example, lost limbs, maybe have PTSD or neurological injuries, | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
they will look towards the charities for help and assistance. | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
In terms of the way that you feel disrespects their service. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
It does make me very angry, to think that they are actually | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
stealing money from my friends, who are looking towards | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
People think they're putting money in the bucket and | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
When actually they're not, they're given to a scam company. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
And what do you think about these people? | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Obviously, it's the lowest of the low. | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
Stealing from a charity, stealing from a disabled charity, | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
stealing from any sort of charity is the lowest of the low. | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
What would you say to people if, you know, looking at the YouTube | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
videos, looking at some of the confrontations, | :21:00. | :21:00. | |
why would it be wrong to see that as vigilante action on your part? | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
I'm not a vigilante. I'm just a member of the public. | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
And as a member of the public, you have the right to ask | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
questions like, "What's your charity registration number?" | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
"How much of my ?1 goes to the charity?" | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
And you never feel that you go too far? | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
No, I never go too far, never go too far. | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Beyond the grey areas organisations like Marcus Leavsley's | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
Happiness Foundation operate in, there are criminals | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
who take advantage of the public's generosity. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
I've spoken to a man who admits he used to steal money | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
He worked for companies that raised money for Armed Forces charities | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
through bucket collections and competition ticket sales. | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
But a big chunk of the cash ended up in his and his colleagues' pockets. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
They basically raised all of the money | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
and then gave money to a certain charity. | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
So, out of every ?10 that was going in your bucket, | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
or through tickets sold, how much was the charity getting? | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
So ?2 out of every ?10? ?2 out of every ?10. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
I mean, how clear was it from the tickets | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
that were being sold as to how much of that money | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
The only thing about it was just hidden in the back of a folder. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Just a statement that said, "Look, we'll give 20% to this charity." | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
They also sold competition tickets for ?2.50. | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
Steve and his colleagues would convince people to give them | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
extra money by telling them they were helping injured soldiers. | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
Instead, it was going straight into the fundraisers' pockets. | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
Do you not feel that you were taking advantage | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
Yes, at times. I mean, it was. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
I mean, quite a few of us like to think we're doing a good deed, | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
but at the end of the day, it was a job for us. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
And in particular, sometimes we earned good money. | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
Solicitor Robert Craig is a specialist in charity law. | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
He said the public need to take a careful look | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
before donating to apparently good causes. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
My wife and I were out, and some boys approached us | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
to raise money for a gym which was teaching boxing to kids. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
And we thought that was a very good idea, | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
so we said, you know, tell us more about it. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
I asked a couple more questions, and they sort of disappeared. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
We took the name of the charity, or the organisation, | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
And the guy who ran it assured me they have no collections, | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
that they don't raise money from the public like that - they get grants. | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
And he has heard about this before, and obviously here are some | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
youngsters starting on an early life of crime, trying to raise money | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
Which is deplorable, but, you know, what can you do? | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
I'm sure a lot of people going past would have just | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
And should the police be doing more, do you think? | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
I don't think you can expect the police to do much more | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
than deal with very obvious cases where they find that, | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
for example, because they see people stealing money out of a tin, | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
or they catch people as part of a larger fraud. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
It's to do with, what's the public interest in pursuing it? | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
And how likely are they to get a conviction? | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
And also, whether finding a few people will actually | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
stamp out the problem, which I doubt it will. | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
I'm here in the City of London, because the police here gather | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
all of the reports of charity fraud from around the country | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
so that local forces can investigate it. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
I want to see if I can find out just how big the problem really is. | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
In terms of reports of the last year, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
we had 800 reports made to us by the public about charity fraud. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
We're conscious that what's reported to us is but a fraction | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
of what actually happens in terms of all kinds of fraud, | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
So that 800 is a fairly large number of reports | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
But we're conscious that the problem is most likely a lot larger | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Can you give me any recent examples of how people have exploited | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Yes, a very recent example, and a very tragic example, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
would be websites and Just Giving pages | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
being set up in support of the Grenfell Tower incident. | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
We within the NFIB set up a process where we could monitor new websites | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
that are being set up with a link to Grenfell Tower, | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
especially anything reported to be a charity collection website. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
One of them directly on the first day that we set up | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
the process, we did establish was a fraudulent website. | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
The person who set it up, as soon as money was being paid | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
into his bank account, he was then withdrawing money | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
We managed to get that website taken down on the same day | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
You tend to find it's happening more and more frequently | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
in connection with high profile, you know, tragedies. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
We also had similar incidents occurring with the Manchester | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
So these things do tend to happen with a regularity, I'm afraid. | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
Whenever there is some sort of high profile event that really touches | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
at the heart of the public who, in their generosity, | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
they want to do something, they want provide a way of giving | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
So how do we avoid being duped by a fake charity? | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
The regulator, the Charity Commission, has this advice... | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
Check that street fundraisers have a charity registration number. | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
That they are happy to give further information when asked. | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
And when donating online, avoid requests to give cash | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
The vast majority of fundraising is legitimate, but we found grey | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
areas where it is all but impossible to check where your money ends up. | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
And there are scammers that are prepared to go to ever more | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
sophisticated lengths to snatch money from those who most need it. | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
With authorities' resources stretched, it's increasingly down | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
to us to make sure that that cash is going where we want it to. | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
Led us know your thoughts on that. Peter on Facebook, I am very wary of | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
anyone on the street all with a stall at car-boot sales claiming to | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
be doing it for charity, how do we know it is genuine? Christopher | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
says, I have been involved in the charity sector for a few years, and | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
it needs to get a grip on this, because it gives honest charity is a | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
bad name and undermines the often crucial work the sector is doing. | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
The vast majority of those I have worked with and working with today | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
in the charity sector are honest and dedicated to the causes they are | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
helping. Keep your thoughts coming in. | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
And in the next hour, we'll hear from the charity | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
regulator and a woman whose charity to raise funds for her son's | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
Also coming up, Love Island's Olivia will be talking to us about the new | :28:00. | :28:20. | |
changes in hate crime law. And Mo Farah's incredible career on the | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
track finished last night with yet another win, and we expected nothing | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
less, of course. We speak to three people who have worked and trained | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
with him throughout his career. Putts join Matthew for a summary of | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
today's news. Hate crimes committed online should | :28:40. | :28:41. | |
be pursued as seriously as offences carried out face to face, | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
according to new guidelines for prosecutors | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
in England and Wales. The Crown Prosecution Service | :28:47. | :28:48. | |
says it will seek tougher penalties for abuse on social media, | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
which it says could lead to the type of extremist hate seen | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
in Charlottesville in the US. The US Navy says ten of its sailors | :28:56. | :29:09. | |
are missing and five have been injured after one of its warships | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
collided with an oil tanker It's the second serious collision | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
involving an American President Trump has said | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
his thoughts and prayers Spanish police are investigating | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
a possible link between Thursday's attacks in Spain and assaults | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
by so-called Islamic State Authorities believe the imam | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
Abdelbaki Es Satty may have radicalised younger members | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
of the cell, which carried out the Las Ramblas | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
and Cambrils atrocities. They're also investigating | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
whether he was involved in the bombings at Brussels airport | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
and a Metro station in the city, More people will die from fires | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
started by faulty white goods, if ministers do not act | :29:49. | :29:59. | |
to implement safety guidelines. That's according to | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
the London Fire Brigade, They've sent a letter | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
to Theresa May in response to the Grenfell Tower fire, | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
which it's thought was started It warns some products | :30:09. | :30:10. | |
are still being sold Big Ben is going to bring out for | :30:11. | :30:29. | |
the last time today, for the first time on a daily basis in four years. | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
The Houses of Parliament are undergoing a major refurbishment and | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
the bells will be muted for the longest period in their 157 year | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
history. Some MPs have criticised the plan. | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
We will be bringing those bells to you live, the last time they ring at | :30:48. | :30:55. | |
midday. That is the latest BBC News. Very controversial, isn't it? We | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
will of course listen to those bells at midday. | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
Now the sport. Mo Farah ended his British track career with victory in | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
the 3000 metres in Birmingham. He is now switching to road racing. He | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
said as a kid he dreams of running for Britain. Chelsea manager Antonio | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
Conte has warned Tottenham teams will be inspired by playing against | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
them at Wembley. Spurs lost 2-1 at Wembley yesterday in their first | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
league game at the National Stadium. And Great Britain won team gold at | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
the European eventing Championships in Poland, the first time they have | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
won the title since 2009. I'm back at ten. | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
From today, prosecutors will be expected to treat online hate crimes | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service has updated its rules | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
following the growing number of online abuse cases. | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
A hate crime is an offence motivated by prejudice | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
towards a person's disability, race, religion, sexual orientation | :31:53. | :31:54. | |
The CPS says it will prosecute complaints of online hate crime | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
"with the same robust approach used with offline offending, | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
while recognising that children may not appreciate the potential harm | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
and seriousness of their communications". | :32:06. | :32:06. | |
It's Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
said many hate crimes were under reported. | :32:11. | :32:22. | |
There are two things we have lost. One is internal guidance for | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
prosecutors, the different things they need to take into account in | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
relation to the specific strands of hate crime, and to make sure that we | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
are asking for a sentence left, where we are convicting individuals, | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
and also their public facing statements, and also social media | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
campaign we are launching today. That is important because we know | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
this is a crime that is underreported. | :32:48. | :32:47. | |
Sometimes people feel that they just have to sort of put up with it, | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
it's something that happens to them because they're disabled, | :32:52. | :32:53. | |
because they are gay, because they're a particular | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
So we're really encouraging people to think about the behaviours that | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
are shown to them and to think about reporting things | :33:01. | :33:02. | |
Last month, some MPs told us about the trolling and abusive | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
language they regularly received - some of which falls | :33:08. | :33:09. | |
into the category of a hate crime. Let's hear from them. | :33:10. | :33:18. | |
Caroline Ansell is as bad as Isis, and Hitler. | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
Get out of my country, you ugly racist... | :33:22. | :33:37. | |
I want to see your head swinging from Tower Bridge. | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
We voted Brexit and Article 50 is going to get triggered anyway. | :33:44. | :33:56. | |
Well, joining us now is Paul Twocock, who is from the LGBT | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
Olivia Attwood, who has been the victim of vicious abuse | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
since appearing on the programme Love Island. | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
This is her first TV interview talking about it. | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
And Sheila Atim, who has been racially abused | :34:15. | :34:16. | |
in public many times, but never online. | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Olivia, welcome. What sort of | :34:24. | :34:31. | |
abuse have you received? When I was on the show, unfortunately a lot of | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
the abuse was directed at my family. I was in a bubble. Since I came out | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
it has all been online. A lot of it I couldn't repeat on breakfast | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
television. Can you give us the censored version? Death threats, | :34:49. | :34:57. | |
people making personal comments. How many death threats? A significant | :34:58. | :35:04. | |
amount. What do they say? Things like, you should die. What do they | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
say about why they hate you so much? There are no specific reasons. I | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
think they have watched the show and they feel like they know you. They | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
want to express their thoughts. Because they are hiding behind a | :35:20. | :35:27. | |
keyboard, it is being able to get that message across that they | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
believe there are no consequences, which often there aren't. Do you | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
feel threatened? I made a conscious effort to not let it affect me. I | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
went into the series with the eyes open. When I came into this industry | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
I was warned this was something I would have to put up with. I think | :35:44. | :35:50. | |
it is so sad that you work in the public eye and you are warned you | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
will have to tolerate this kind of behaviour. That is quite an issue. | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
That we normalise it to that extent. What impact as it had on you? It has | :36:00. | :36:04. | |
been upsetting. It would be wrong to say it hasn't. But it is, for me, | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
I'm quite thick-skinned. Somebody who wasn't like me, the effect it | :36:11. | :36:16. | |
could have on them emotionally and mentally, is devastating. You say | :36:17. | :36:23. | |
that you were told to expect it. Is there anything that you have thought | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
you probably should report it? Would you report scoffed? There are | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
things. Is this normal? You can't pretend you haven't seen it. You | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
don't really know what you are meant to do when you see it and who you | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
should talk to, because it is so normalised. You see it so much. I | :36:47. | :36:50. | |
see some any people in the industry who do what I do get the same | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
messages and comments. It is one of those things you are programmed to | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
believe it is quite normal. Woody report something to the police? If I | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
felt a genuine threat to my life, to my safety, I would. You say you have | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
death threats, but you wouldn't report those? I personally try not | :37:13. | :37:20. | |
to take it literally. I hope it is just what you see on there. But for | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
someone else that might not be the case. Paul, where would you draw the | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
line? If you feel you have been intimidated, and certainly if you | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
are receiving threats online, they should be reported. What you are | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
saying is absolutely right. It depends on the individual. You | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
shouldn't have to just grin and bear this sort of intimidation. In online | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
spaces you can have a mob intimidating you. If you imagine | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
that on the street, you would report that. You should think about the | :37:57. | :38:03. | |
equivalence. If we don't crack down on online hate crime, it will get | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
worse and seep into other forms of hate crime. Is there a direct link | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
between someone doing something online and feeling emboldened to | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
speak out? Or is it someone sitting quietly at the keyboard feeling that | :38:18. | :38:24. | |
they will get away with it, and remains defiant? I haven't read any | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
research which shows that direct link. If you'd think, through common | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
sense, if we say it is permissible to have this sort of hatred online, | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
people will feel emboldened and feel like this is permissible in society. | :38:40. | :38:46. | |
Online spaces are so important in societies and communities that we | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
should be cracking down on this hate online, where it is more prevalent | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
than on the streets. We don't want to increase hate crime in the street | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
as well. Olivia, have you had a face-to-face abuse as well? No, I | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
haven't. That is the confusing thing about these situations. All the | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
reaction I have had in public has been positive. It doesn't match up. | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
There is something quite wrong there. There is a whole community of | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
people online that feel so passionately against me in this way. | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
But when I am out on a day-to-day basis, people are lovely, it is all | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
positive. It doesn't weigh up. Sheila has had abuse face-to-face | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
but not online. What has your experience been? Yeah, obviously I | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
am a black woman, so I have experienced racism ever since I was | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
a child in the street. You get people shouting at you from cars. It | :39:45. | :39:54. | |
can come at any point. I was confronted with my friend by people | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
in the street because they felt like that at that point in time. They saw | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
us as a target. I have had it on the train. You get it at work sometimes. | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
It is kind of a regular occurrence. Do you think it is right to treat | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
online abuse as harshly as off-line? Absolutely. Even though I haven't | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
been a victim of online abuse myself, I have friends who have been | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
victims of online abuse. I have witnessed the online abuse that a | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
lot of people who are in the public eye received. It can be just | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
psychologically taxing and damaging, just like other abuse. Even though I | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
have managed to get through life, you still take it with you. You can | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
actually be quite frightening to know that somebody who is not in any | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
close proximity to you, still has a way of reaching you and getting to | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
you. That is quite frightening. Paul, if someone is saying something | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
online that they wouldn't say to someone's face, do they perhaps not | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
really realise the impact of what they are doing, but also how serious | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
an issue it is due macro particularly with kids, actually, | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
because kids can potentially say anything online and not necessarily | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
realise that what they are doing would equate with a crime? I think | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
it is important, that's why we need to treat online hate crime as | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
seriously. There is terrible bullying in our schools. Over halve | :41:25. | :41:34. | |
of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans children are abused at school. There | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
is still an important lesson to be learned, whether somebody is a child | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
or an adult, that this is never acceptable, that it does create | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
psychological damage. People shouldn't feel like they can't be | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
who they are, that they can't live their lives because of somebody | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
else's violent hatred towards them. What is the way to deal with it if | :41:55. | :41:59. | |
kids are doing the sort of things you are talking about? Does become a | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
crime issue immediately? You can see in the CBS guidelines -- CPS | :42:06. | :42:16. | |
guidelines, all the work we do with schools is educating children to | :42:17. | :42:19. | |
think about the impact of what they are doing to their peers. Michael | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
Lyndall has tweeted to say that we are in the slippery slopes of | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
censorship. How will they balance this with the right of free speech? | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
What do you think of the right for people to have free speech? I think | :42:33. | :42:40. | |
it is not anything like that. I'm quite opinionated myself. There is a | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
line between being opinionated and abusive. You can say you don't like | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
someone and don't agree with what they do. But to be personal and | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
threatening, that's two different things. Having an opinion on someone | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
and watching a show and thinking, I'm not keen on that person, and | :42:59. | :43:01. | |
writing that you want bad things to happen to them and their family, | :43:02. | :43:04. | |
that is not an opinion. There is a massive difference. It's right for | :43:05. | :43:13. | |
people to be pulled up where did they do this. Is it right for | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
someone like you to say -- to go online and turn it back on them? I | :43:19. | :43:25. | |
choose not to engage in it. I think a lot as well with people online, | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
especially keyboard warriors were reality TV is concerned, they want | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
to engage you. They feel they know you because they have watched you | :43:34. | :43:36. | |
for an hour each day. What they would like is a reply. I'm not going | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
to use precious energy in a day to do that with someone who has chosen | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
to write into one of my social media accounts and give them the platform. | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
After today with the CBS saying that they want part of the thing going | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
forward is for people to feel emboldened to report online abuse, | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
if it is appropriate, does it make you feel differently about it? Yes, | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
I think it needs to come to a point, were speaking to other people who | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
have been in a situation like me, we are normalising it. Where are all | :44:09. | :44:14. | |
just acting like it is normal. That is their problem. When it happens, | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
you need somebody you could speak to and you don't feel you are | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
overreacting. That there is a number you can call and it can be dealt | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
with in an appropriate way. And you feel like that is your lifetime, as | :44:27. | :44:33. | |
such. I have had this message, what should I do? Somebody can advise | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
you. Do people stop when you ignore them? Yeah, on the whole. When I was | :44:38. | :44:43. | |
in the show, when I was in the villa, it was relentless towards my | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
family and friends. It was terrible for them because they took the | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
burden of it. I was ignorant of it. They didn't stop. We had to block | :44:52. | :44:59. | |
people and delete accounts. When I came out of the show I am a real | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
person. It did massively taper off. People can see, she is a normal | :45:05. | :45:07. | |
girl, she was on the show. It has got a lot less. But for them it was | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
terrible. An interesting point about Olivia | :45:12. | :45:17. | |
saying people have the distinction, where she is on television and not a | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
real person. You have experienced something completely different to | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
where people are just rude to you face-to-face. Do you ever reported? | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
No, I am sad to say I don't. Both online and offline, it is something | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
we believe we are supposed to learn to adapt to, something that we are | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
supposed to grow a thick skin around and except. And I think everyone on | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
this show is absolutely right, that actually we don't have to accept it. | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
There is the option for us to complain about it and to get some | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
justice behind it. And I think a big part of the reason why people | :46:00. | :46:02. | |
experience a difference in real life to online is because these people | :46:03. | :46:08. | |
are emboldened behind a screen, they feel protected, they feel anonymous. | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
Even though I have a face-to-face abuse, there were incidences where | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
people were shouting out of cars is the equivalent, driving away, | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
whereas I am walking on the street, so I am never going to know who that | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
person was, they are gone within a few seconds. So I think it is | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
absolutely important, absolutely. Sheila, Olivia, Paul, thank you for | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
joining us, led us know your thoughts on the conversation, the | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
usual ways of getting in touch. Coming up, arthritis. | :46:45. | :46:56. | |
Ten million people in the UK suffer from it, | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
including young people and children, but campaigners say it is being | :46:59. | :47:00. | |
ignored as a major health issue and costing the NHS billions. | :47:01. | :47:03. | |
Sir Mo Farah has won his last track race on home soil | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
in the 3,000m at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham. | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
It has been a successful final month for Sir Mo. | :47:11. | :47:34. | |
First day, I went in and everybody was just sort of speaking | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
a different language, I found that really | :47:42. | :47:43. | |
But I got my cousins going to the same school as me, | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
but everything that I would tell in Somalian, it was just like, | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
If it wasn't for my PE teacher, who spotted me in the school, | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
I don't think I would be in this position. | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
What motivates me is to try and do the country proud. | :47:58. | :48:06. | |
Now I just want to do the best and, you know, continue winning. | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
And this is the sight that everybody has come to see. | :48:12. | :48:14. | |
The final win for Mo Farah in Britain! | :48:15. | :48:31. | |
It's important you have the right people in your life. | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
And I think that's what it is, very important. | :48:36. | :48:37. | |
The people that have the best interest for you. | :48:38. | :48:44. | |
When I run for my country, I'm very proud. | :48:45. | :48:46. | |
This is where I grew up, this is where I've done everything. | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
And you don't achieve something overnight. | :48:50. | :49:02. | |
You've got to keep continuing and keep working hard. | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
And sometimes, you know, things don't go the way you want, | :49:07. | :49:08. | |
but you've got to come over it and keep going, moving forward. | :49:09. | :49:22. | |
Let's speak now to Alex McGee, who is Mo Farah's first ever coach. | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
He worked with him at the Windsor Slough Eton | :49:27. | :49:28. | |
and Hounslow Athletic Club from the age of 12 | :49:29. | :49:30. | |
We also have Goldie Sayers who, as well as being an elected member | :49:31. | :49:37. | |
of UK Athletics newly-formed athletes' commission, | :49:38. | :49:39. | |
she is the recently retired British javelin record holder | :49:40. | :49:41. | |
She has known Mo since they were on the junior athletics | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
And we can also from Limerick, we can talk to John Kiely, | :49:47. | :49:52. | |
who is a sports and exercise scientist and used to be head | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
He worked with Mo between 2005 and 2008 to get him ready for Beijing. | :49:56. | :50:04. | |
Thank you all very much for joining us. He has been an absolute tour de | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
force that people have fallen in love with, hasn't he? Tell us what | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
he was like when he was 12. Any typical 12-year-old child. He used | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
to come training, he didn't speak much English, so it was a lot of | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
hand things to get him to understand, initially, what he had | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
to do. But he was just like any young person I was coaching then. | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
Was there a spark, an obvious talent that you spotted? Not until the | :50:37. | :50:46. | |
first league match at Perivale, I was timekeeping, as I normally did, | :50:47. | :50:53. | |
and he did the 1500... Sorry, when was that? Not long after he came to | :50:54. | :51:02. | |
the club. He was still 12, and he ran 4.44, and I loved that Alan and | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
said, where as that come from? It wasn't until he got on the track | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
that he felt Rob Lee at home, comfortable. 4.4 for at Did he | :51:13. | :51:25. | |
realise how special and was? What did you say to him? Well done, just | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
keep working at it. He was only a young child, my thoughts were you do | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
not try and encourage them to bar, you want them to build up gradually, | :51:38. | :51:44. | |
then tell them. What were you thinking at the time? This is a | :51:45. | :51:53. | |
future British Olympian? No, future good athlete at that time, because | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
obviously he had not done training or anything like that, and it wasn't | :51:58. | :52:05. | |
until his first cross-country race, he got to the English schools, and | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
he may have won it had he not gone the wrong way because he had never | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
done cross-country, and he couldn't understand which way the marshals | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
were telling him to go. So we didn't always win? No, he didn't always | :52:21. | :52:26. | |
win. What did he do when he didn't win? Sulked! Did it renew his focus? | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
They just gradually built up, and as it got into the races, it became | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
evident after a few finals that he got into, through the age groups, | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
that he liked winning. He didn't like losing. That became evident, | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
but much later on. John, you worked with him in 2005, a lot later, to | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
get him ready for Beijing, how important is it, with someone | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
showing great talent, to actually properly channel that talent? It is | :53:04. | :53:11. | |
a complex part with lots of potential pitfalls, and it is a time | :53:12. | :53:17. | |
when lots of promising athletes fall off the radar, really, because of | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
mismanagement, overtraining, injury, any host of problems that might | :53:22. | :53:28. | |
cause them to pack it in. The time that I worked with Mo, he was | :53:29. | :53:31. | |
working with a very group from St Mary's in London, run by a former | :53:32. | :53:38. | |
steeplechase Olympic medallist, really good group, really well | :53:39. | :53:47. | |
managed. I think that Mo at the time wasn't... You know, he was one of a | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
host of good up and coming athletes, but he was not identified as a | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
future world beater. I think what he did have from the get go was he | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
brought some talents to the table that other people didn't have. So if | :54:02. | :54:09. | |
you think of endurance running, it is an event which historic Lee | :54:10. | :54:17. | |
people have tried to quantify with scientific measures. -- which | :54:18. | :54:24. | |
historically. There were lots of athlete at the time around the UK | :54:25. | :54:27. | |
who had better oxygen carrying capabilities than Mo, but what he | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
had in spades was he was an excellent move, excellent | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
coordination, if you showed him a move, he would execute it really | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
well. It is something that we do not normally look for, something that | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
endurance athletes do not normally train for, but he brought that to | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
the party and had it in spades. It properly goes back to a very active | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
youth, played a lot of football, but a very real talent for whatever | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
reason. OK, I want to bring in Goldie, you have known him since you | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
were on the junior athletics team together, how did you see him? He | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
was clearly talented, but all Mo, it is his work ethic that has set him | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
apart, and his will to win as well. To do what he has done, I think most | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
athletes are happy if they have won one world or Olympic title, but he | :55:20. | :55:25. | |
has won 14, so not only his ability but is longevity has been so | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
impressive for me. Impressive over the years, and still impressive with | :55:30. | :55:34. | |
him going out now - widely think he is going out now? The nature of the | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
event he does, the mileage he does, 120 miles a week for well over a | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
decade, I have known him for 20 years, and he was always a | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
long-distance athlete, so not only the physical capability, the mental | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
energy that goes into winning titles, and I think that starts to | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
wane as you get over the age of 34, which he is now. He spoke after | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
winning the medal at the World Athletics Championships about the | :56:03. | :56:08. | |
impact on him of the Salazar allegations, it was clear that it | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
has had an impact on him, what is your, knowing the man, what is your | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
understanding of that? It absolutely must have done, and we have to | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
remember this is an allegation against his coach, not against him, | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
and it is going to have an impact on his career, and what he doesn't want | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
it to do is have an in impact on his legacy and all the thousands of kids | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
he has inspired, and the other team members as well. We have to remember | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
what he has done, not only for himself and his family, but the | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
sport in the UK as well. How would you define his legacy? One-off, if | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
not our greatest athlete of all time, truly an inspiration to kids | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
and also distance runners in this country, because ten or 15 years | :56:55. | :56:57. | |
ago, if you said we have an Olympic champion in long-distance evidence, | :56:58. | :57:02. | |
against the Kenyans, Ethiopians, most people would have laughed, and | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
Mo has made it possible for the next generation. What do you think going | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
forward, John, is he going to be able to be at the top of the | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
marathon world, which is where he is going? I think he certainly has all | :57:17. | :57:23. | |
the tools to do that, but the physical tools and the psychological | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
tools in terms of the knows what it takes, he knows what it takes to, | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
you know, conduct those endless miles of routine training away from | :57:34. | :57:39. | |
the camera. He is well used to that, and as Goldie alluded to, it is | :57:40. | :57:45. | |
difficult to predict in terms of how much wear and tear there already is | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
in the system, and when it will actually start to have a negative | :57:50. | :57:53. | |
effect on performance, and that is something that nobody can predict. I | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
think, to date, one of the great things with Mo is he is both | :57:59. | :58:01. | |
physically and psychologically robust and resilient. Hopefully, | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
that resilience psychologically, emotionally, physically will | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
continue. If it does, then I can't see why he can't have an excellent | :58:11. | :58:13. | |
marathon career. I guess whether or not he goes an to the heights that | :58:14. | :58:19. | |
he did on the track remains to be seen. Alex, just looking at these | :58:20. | :58:26. | |
great pictures of Mo Farah, the absolute joy on his face when he | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
achieves that great success, everybody watching at home feels | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
pride. As someone who has played a part in shaping him into the great | :58:37. | :58:39. | |
athlete that he became, how do you feel when you watch them? Pride? | :58:40. | :58:45. | |
Just as when he was younger, you know, it did go over onto his | :58:46. | :58:52. | |
colleagues, you know, the other athletes he ran with. I mean, I | :58:53. | :58:57. | |
think there was one stage when he had to move on, and I wasn't sure, | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
he was going to go and train with someone else, people who I coached | :59:03. | :59:09. | |
at the same time as well, and there was that age gap. But he looked up | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
to them, and he really looked up to Sam a lot. So it was probably later | :59:15. | :59:20. | |
on, we used to go out to bushy park, the Kenyans would-be there, and I | :59:21. | :59:27. | |
would say, Manors, don't go so fast, you are not raising anybody, but he | :59:28. | :59:32. | |
was, he was racing the Kenyans. Lovely to talk to you all, thank you | :59:33. | :59:40. | |
very much, Alex, Goldie, John. Let us know what you think of that great | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
career. Simon King has the weather details. | :59:45. | :59:46. | |
where people are just rude to you face-to-face. Do you ever reported? | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
A brief warm spell heading our way in the next couple of days. This | :59:51. | :59:56. | |
morning we'll start of misty and murky. This is the scene in Kent. | :59:57. | :00:02. | |
Lots of cloud. Further east, there are some sunny spells. Not too bad | :00:03. | :00:09. | |
in Hartlepool. Sunshine here. In the north-east, you will keep that | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
sunshine into the late afternoon. Elsewhere, it is turning quite | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
cloudy. This warm front is moving north. Behind it, we have warmer, | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
tropical air from the south. It will feel quite humid in parts of the UK. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
That will bring outbreaks of rain in the north. They should be some | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
breaks in the cloud developing in the South. Where you get sunshine, | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
temperatures probably higher than these temperatures suggest. For the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
North Midlands, North West England, North Wales, the Isle of Man, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Northern Ireland, heavy rain expected. But in north-eastern | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Scotland, holding onto the sunny spells with temperatures 16 to 18. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
There is the great American eclipse this evening. In the UK we may | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
actually see a partial eclipse around about eight o'clock. Look to | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
the bottom left-hand corner of the sun, safely, and you will see the | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Moon passing about 10% of the surface. But for this evening it is | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
cloudy. It will stay cloudy into the early hours of Tuesday. Quite a | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
humid night. Temperatures 16 degrees. Further rain in the north. | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
The warm front has shown... More of us in this warm sector, this | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
tropical air mass. Warmer from any. Still cloudy skies, outbreaks of | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
rain, particularly in Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Thundery through Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures 22 to 24 degrees. 15 to | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
17 in Scotland. This warm air will be with us for the next few days but | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
then that will gradually move away as we get to midweek. From | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Wednesday, fresher conditions from the West. By Thursday, all of us out | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
of those fresher conditions. Temperatures dropping. It will stay | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
fairly unsettled. Outbreaks of rain. Showers on Thursday with sunny | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
spells. I will see you later on. | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
Hello, it's Monday, it's ten o'clock. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
I'm Joanna Gosling welcome to the programme. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Cracking down on online abuse. Now it will be treated the same as any | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
other hate crime. Love Island's Olivia says the relentless abuse | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
people put up which should not be tolerated. I am opinionated myself | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
but there is a line between being opinionated and being abusive. You | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
can say you don't agree with people. Put to be personal allowance | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
threatening, that's two different things. You can see the full | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
interview on our programme page online. We investigate the charity | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
scammers taking advantage of people's desire to help those in | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
need. Was that a one-off | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
or more widespread? I would say about 80% | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
of us were doing it. We will hear from the charity | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
regulator and a woman whose charity to raise funds for her son's | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
cerebral palsy was scammed. This is Vicky, hours before she was | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
diagnosed with stage for a long cancer. Doctors had repeatedly told | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
her her symptoms were as Ma. She will give her first TV interview in | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
about 45 minutes. Now let's join Matthew for a summary | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
of the news. Hate crimes committed online should | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
be pursued as seriously as offences carried out face to face, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
according to new guidelines for prosecutors | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
in England and Wales. The Crown Prosecution Service | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
says it will seek tougher penalties for abuse on social media, | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
which it says could lead to the type of extremist hate seen | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
in Charlottesville in the US. The move is part of a wider review | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
of such crimes by the CPS. We know this is a crime | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
that's underreported. Sometimes people feel that they just | :04:16. | :04:16. | |
have to sort of put up with it, it's something that happens | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
to them because they're disabled, because they are gay, because | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
they're a particular religion. So we're really | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
encouraging people to think about the behaviours that | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
are shown to them and to think about reporting things which | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
will be a hate crime. Reality TV star Olivia Attwood said | :04:32. | :04:46. | |
she has been a victim of online abuse, but she says celebrities are | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
almost expected to tolerate hateful comments as a result of being in the | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
public eye. When I was in the show a lot of the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
abuse was directed at my family because I was in the bubble of Love | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Island. Since I came out, it has all been online. A lot of it I couldn't | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
repeat on breakfast television. Can you give us a censored version? It | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
is pretty severe. Death threats. People making personal comments. | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
Death threats? How many? A significant amount. What do they | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
say? Things like, you should die. The US navy says ten of its sailors | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
are missing and five have been injured after one of its warships | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
collided with an oil tanker off It's the second serious collision | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
involving an American President Trump has said his | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
thoughts and prayers Spanish police are investigating | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
a possible link between Thursday's attacks in Spain, and assaults | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
by so-called Islamic State Authorities believe the Iman, | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Abdelbaki Es Satty, may have radicalised younger members | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
of the cell, which carried out the Las Ramblas | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
and Cambrils atrocities. They're also investigating | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
whether he was involved in the bombings at Brussels airport | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
and a metro station in the city, More people will die from fires | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
started by faulty white goods, if ministers do not act | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
to implement safety guidelines. That's according to | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
the London Fire Brigade, They've sent a letter | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
to Theresa May in response to the Grenfell Tower fire, | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
which it's thought was started It warns some products | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
are still being sold Big Ben will ring out today, | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
for what could be the last time in four years, as the Houses | :06:32. | :06:44. | |
of Parliament undergo The bells will be muted | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
for the longest period Some MPs have criticised the plan, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
saying the bell's chimes are an important part | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
of national life. You can listen to those final bongs | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
live at midday. Here's a very good example | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of why not to use a mobile Look what happened when a sinkhole | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
opened up at this crossing A scooter driver who was on his | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
mobile didn't realise - Don't worry though, luckily | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
he walked away unharmed. That is a summary of the latest BBC | :07:22. | :07:34. | |
News. More at half past ten. Those pictures are unbelievable. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Still to come, the hunt for the driver who killed 13 people in | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Barcelona last week has been extended across Europe. Spanish | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
officials say. We will have latest. We also have more on a warning from | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
London Fire Brigade, the mayor of London and safety groups that more | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
people will die from fires started by faulty white goods, if the | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
government doesn't implement guidelines made more than a year | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
ago. Get in touch throughout the morning. Now the sport. | :08:03. | :08:14. | |
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte is warning top number of other clubs | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
will relish the atmosphere at Wembley. Marcos Alonso scored twice | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
as the blues beat Spurs 2-1 in their first league game at the National | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Stadium. Spurs have won on the two of the 11 games they have played at | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Wembley since it reopened in 2007. Conte says the atmosphere is great | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
for visiting teams. But the Tottenham manager insists his | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
players can cope. It doesn't affect me. But I understand that we need to | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
talk. Today I think the Wembley effect is not the reason, because we | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
lose the game. I think the team played really well. It is not fair | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
to blame again Wembley, because Wembley is, for me, one of the best | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
places in the world, if not the best place to play football. | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
There was a minute's silence before Barcelona's match against Real Betis | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
last night, the first match since the terror attacks last week. | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Players wore shirts with Barcelona on the back. They won the match 2-0. | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
Mo Farah has won his last ever track race in Britain with victory in the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
men's 3000 metres at the Birmingham Diamond League meeting. He took the | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
gold in the 10,000 metres at the London World Championships, adding | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
to the titles he holds. His last track race will be next week in | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Zurich after that he is switching to road racing. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
What you forget as an athlete, it becomes something of a hobby, it | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
becomes a job. I love what I do. It is part of it. It can get real hard | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
when you have so much pressure. You can't go anywhere. Going to the road | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
will be a completely new game, a new mind. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
I'm excited. Great Britain have won the team gold medal at the European | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
eventing Championships in Poland. Nicola Wilson took individual | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
bronze, she could afford two penalties to afford the team gold | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
but managed a perfect run. Germany claimed team silver, with Sweden | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
finishing third. The USA have won the Solheim Cup after beating Europe | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
in Iowa. The Americans had taken a commanding five point lead into the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
final day's singles. It proved too much, despite a spirited European | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
performance. The United States have now won five out of the last seven | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
competitions. And finally, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been showing off | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
just how strong his knee is. Almost strong enough to return to football. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
He has posted a video of himself kicking a punching bag. He posted, | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
which need? He remains out of contract and without a club. He is | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
still wanted by Manchester United if he can return to full fitness. That | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
is all from me for now. More at 10:30am. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Some breaking news out of Marseille in France. We are just hearing from | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
the Reuters news agency that at least one person is dead and one | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
injured in Marseille after a car has crashed into two bus shelters. A | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
police source has said it is not clear if the incident was an | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
accident or deliberate. They are advising that the public avoid the | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
area. It has happened in the old Port district of Marseille. That is | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
all that we have at the moment. These early reports coming in from | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
the Reuters news agency of an accident in Marseille. One person | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
dead and one person injured after a crash in Marseille. It is not clear | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
if the incident was an accident or deliberate. We will stay across | :12:27. | :12:27. | |
those reports and keep you updated. An investigation by the Victoria | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
Derbyshire programme has found scammers are increasingly taking | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
advantage of the good will of people looking to make donations to help | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
in the aftermath of major tragedies. The UK's fraud reporting centre, | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
Action Fraud, has shown us examples of fake fund-raising websites set up | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire that they've | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
managed to take down. But we've also found | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
examples of organisations which look like charities | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
but aren't raising So how sure are you that your | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
donated cash is going With more than 200,000 registered | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
charities in the UK, you're not going to struggle to find | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
a good cause to donate your Last year, the British | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
public donated around So, how can we be sure | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
that the money that we give on the street or online is actually | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
going to the causes We're buying mobility scooters | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
for disabled adults and children. Superman here is Salim | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Sayed, or Super Si. He is raising money for something | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
called The Happiness Foundation, which claims it buys mobility | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
scooters for local people. That sounds great, but it | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
might not be the case. This Happiness Foundation is not | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
a registered company or charity. Fundraising like this is not | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
illegal, but it makes it very hard to check that they do | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
what they claim. Online, a number of people have | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
raised concerns about this There was two complaints | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
in 2014 on the Happiness And this has been a problem | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
for a not-for-profit company also We were presenting to | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
football's governing bodies, But I felt embarrassed | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
because I knew that if they did a search, perhaps that | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
would come up. We tried to talk to Salim Sayed, but | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
he hasn't responded to our messages. We did manage to track down | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
one of the men behind the Happiness Foundation, | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Marcus Leavsley. He told us they weren't | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
pretending to be Kath Temple's Happiness Foundation, | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
and they do provide mobility scooters for disabled people - | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
though he wouldn't show us any Hello, is Marcus Leavsley | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
around, please? I've spoken to a man who admits | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
he used to steal money He worked for companies that raised | :14:39. | :14:53. | |
money for Armed Forces charities through bucket collections | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
and competition ticket sales. But a big chunk of the cash ended up | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
in his and his colleagues' pockets. Was that a one-off, | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
or was this more widespread? I would say a good 80% | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
of us were doing it. Did you not feel that | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
you were taking advantage Solicitor Robert Craig | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
is a specialist in charity law. He says the public need to take | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
a careful look before donating I don't think you can expect | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
the police to do much more than deal It's to do with, what's the public | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
interest in pursuing it? And how likely are they | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
to get a conviction? There were more than 800 reports | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
to Action Fraud about suspected Some of them were trying to profit | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
from recent disasters. A very recent example, | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
and a very tragic example, would be websites and Just Giving | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
pages being set up in support We set up a process where we could | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
monitor any new websites that were being set up with a link | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
to Grenfell Tower. On the first day we set up | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
the process, one that we did establish was a fraudulent website, | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
we managed to get that website taken down on the same day | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
and the bank account blocked. So how do we avoid being | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
duped by fake charities? The regulator, the Charity | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
Commission, has this advice. Check that street fundraisers | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
have a charity registration number. That they are happy to give further | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
information when asked. And when donating online, | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
avoid requests to give cash via money transfer companies. | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
This is a common scam. The fast majority of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
fundraising is legitimate. But we found grey areas where | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
it's all but impossible And there are scammers that | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
are prepared to go to ever more sophisticated lengths to snatch | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
money from those who most need it. With authorities' resources | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
stretched, it increasingly falls to us to make sure that our cash | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
is going where we want it to. Let's speak now to Sarah Atkinson | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
from the regulator, the Charity Commission, | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
Daniel Fluskey, from the Institute of Fundraising, | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
which represents fundraisers, and Aline Garner, who set up | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
a charity to help raise funds This Sarah will feel sick and that | :17:09. | :17:23. | |
they are being targeted by scammers were never giving money. One of the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
brilliant things about this country is that people give generously when | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
something happens, and it is awful when people exploit that goodwill | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
for the wrong cause, but there are some simple checks that we encourage | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
people to make to make sure they are giving to a genuine charity. How | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
many scammers do you think might be out there? Action fraud have talked | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
about 800 reports, and we think that is significant underreporting. A lot | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
of people would not reported, but we encourage people, if you think you | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
have avoided being the victim or you are a victim of fraud, please report | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
it, it helps us track these people down. What is the oversight for | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
unregistered charities? Does it come down to just people reporting? If an | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
organisation is not a registered charity, but it is fundraising for | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
good causes, there is not necessarily anything wrong with | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
that, there can be good reasons why people would want to fundraiser | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
outside the regulated environment, but you do not have the protection | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
of registration, so people should still ask questions, be confident | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
that you know where the money is going, and if someone cannot answer | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
your questions or seems evasive, it is natural to feel uncomfortable and | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
think, in these cases, I don't want to give there. As we are hearing, it | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
is very easy for underage, and obviously it is a really important | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
thing. -- it is very easy for people to fund raise. But it is also easy | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
to exploit people's goodwill, so what is the best way to crack down | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
on that? As Sarah said, the public should be on the lookout, and if you | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
are thinking about donating to a charity, and most especially where | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
there are big issues happening, emergencies or tragedies, people | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
want to give, and we want to encourage that, but the more that | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
people can have a look to check that it is going to a genuine cause, look | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
for the charity number, to see if it is late, and if it is on the street, | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
ask questions, see their ID badge, all those things will help people be | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
more assurance that the money is going to a genuine cause. It means | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
we all have to be more cynical, which is not nice, is it? You do not | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
have to be cynical, you should always be able to ask questions, and | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
charities should be open, upfront about how they raise funds. Make | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
sure that you think it is going to a genuine cause, and then you can give | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
safely and with confidence. Do think it is impacting on people actually | :20:07. | :20:19. | |
giving? I do not think it is in relation to giving, the British | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
public give about ?10 million every year. That is not to say that any | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
instance of fraud is not important, of course it is, but this country is | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
generous and people do want to support good causes. Linda has got | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
in touch to say there are so many dishonest people around that I go to | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
my local charity shops with goods and cash, I know they are getting my | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
donations. Ray has e-mailed to say that people who carry out street | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
collections should display an authorisation from the charity | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
concerned. And on Twitter, I often get back through my door is asking | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
for donations to be left outside, many I do not recognise as | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
charities. I see what you are both saying as being alert, and we heard | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
that in our report, ask questions, ask what they are raising the money | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
for, how much is going to the charity. And also when they got a | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
registered charity number. But in the end, is it simpler and easier | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
for people not to give on the street? What do you think? It is a | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
combination of your head and your heart, some really good advice for | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
people giving to charities that they know, who are picking sensible | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
routes to give, a way to ensure you are supporting a cause you love but | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
also making sure you are not being exploited and your generosity is | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
having the impact you want. We heard in our report about a scam that | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
involved ?2 out of every ?10 going to a charity - is there a minimum | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
that is charities should receive? Not in law, the rules are that you | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
need to disclose how much you're giving, so if someone approaches you | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
on the street and cannot answer questions or is evasive about how | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
much they are getting as the fundraiser, that is a warning. They | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
should be able to tell you. If it is in the small print and somebody | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
doesn't ask, there is nothing wrong with it, then? It is perfectly legal | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
for a professional fundraising organisation to take some money for | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
its share. Not every charity works in that way, and if it is something | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
you feel strongly about, choose charities that do not work in that | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
way. There is no set minimum, but hearing 20% going to the agency, | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
rather than to the charity, that wouldn't be acceptable. What should | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
a rule of thumb the? I do not think we can said they limit, because | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
different campaigns work in different ways, but a general rule | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
would probably be around 70-80%, if not higher, would go straight | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
through to the charity. The important thing is that every | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
charity, when you are working with an agency, you agree upfront what | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
the cost is going to be, you make a decision in the best interests of | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
the charity, and I would really be concerned, charities were making | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
decisions that said that only 20% should come through to us. I think | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
that is where Sarah and her team would get involved and check the | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
charity was being run properly, if they were making that kind of | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
decision. Sarah, Daniel, thank you very much indeed for joining us. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Still to come, the London Fire Brigade, the city's mayor, | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
and safety groups have warned more people will die from fires started | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
by faulty white goods if ministers do not act to implement safety | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
We will talk to a woman who was made homeless after a fire in a tower | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
block last year. I just want to bring you the latest | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
on the breaking news out of Marseille, where we have been | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
hearing from police that a car has given into two bus stops, one person | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
killed, one person injured. The police are saying that they don't | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
know at this stage accident or intentional, but the suspected | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
driver has been arrested. So that incident still ongoing, it happened | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
in the old port area of Marseille, and police are saying to avoid the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
area. We will stay across those reports and keep you updated. | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
The manhunt for the driver of the Barcelona van attack which killed 13 | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
people and injured dozens more has been extended across Europe, | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
officials in Spain have revealed this morning. 22-year-old Younes | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
Abouyaaqoub has still not been found. It is feared he may have fled | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
the country and slipped across the border into France. He was among 12 | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
extremists that Spanish police said had been planning attacks for around | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
six months. Meanwhile, the Spanish newspaper El Pais has released | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
stills from CCTV showing what is believed to be Younes Abouyaaqoub | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
fleeing the scene on foot following the attack in Barcelona's Las | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Ramblas. Police say they are investigating the possibility that, | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
90 minutes later, he stabbed and killed a Spanish man and stole his | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
car. Yesterday it was revealed that a seven-year-old British Australian | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
boy, Julian Cadman, was among the victims who died in the attacks in | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
Barcelona and Campbells. Let's speak to Dr Shiraz Maher, | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
who is an expert on radicalisation from King's College London, | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
and Will Geddes, who is an expert | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
on counter terrorism. Thank you both for coming in. The | :25:40. | :25:54. | |
focus now is on a man who is an imam who was working in a town where the | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
attackers were based. Tell us more about him, what is known about him? | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Well, we are learning a lot more about him, he has travelled to | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
Belgium and been involved in network there, and he is known to have a | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
number of radical connections down in Spain, he spent time in prison as | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
well, and it is believed he had connections to the men who carried | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
out the 2004 Madrid bombings in the name of Al-Qaeda. So it seems he has | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
a pattern of associations with radical networks, and it is believed | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
he was involved in a bomb-making factory where an explosion went off | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
prematurely. Looking back over what he is a spec to have been involved | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
in, dating back to Madrid 2004, was he under surveillance? You would | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
have been on the radar at some point in time. The Madrid bombings in | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
2004, a lot of time has passed since then, so it is not clear if he was a | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
person of injustice to the Spanish, Belgian French authorities, but it | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
does demonstrate the scale of the problem that Europe as a whole is | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
facing now. -- a person of interest. Isis has an least an unprecedented | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
wave of terrorist attacks across the continent, overwhelming agencies in | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
this country and on the continent. So the challenge and the scale of | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
what is facing us right now is huge. Whenever something happens and we | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
sort of look at the potential signposts, people involved, should | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
they have been under better surveillance, what are your thoughts | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
now with this as more emerges about the characters involved? Well, the | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
interesting part is, in the wake of any kind of incident, is going to be | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
gathering up the various morsels of intelligence and information about | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
those that were connected, where they got their materials from, how | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
they considered of those. So for example, the explosion just before | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
the attack on Las Ramblas, they are looking at the component parts, | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
there are 120 but then canisters that had been amassed. There was | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
also some explosive, incredibly fragile, as they found out for | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
themselves, and explosive component that was used in Paris and Belgium | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
before. And they have also managed to apprehend the bomb maker, who | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
will be a very valuable source of intelligence in terms of the levels | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
of preparation, and also the wider network involved potentially. They | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
believe this attack was planned for six months with a cell of 12. As you | :28:34. | :28:41. | |
say, there was the explosion in what appeared to be a bomb factory. What | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
you think about the level of surveillance there was and whether | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
mistakes have been made? Again, because of the sheer number of | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
suspects that have to be monitored, the problem is that people will drop | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
off the priority list of the intelligence agencies because they | :28:59. | :29:00. | |
only have finite resource to monitor them. If we look at Abdelbaki Es | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
Satty, for example, although he had cross contamination, if you like, | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
with one of the Madrid bombers five years ago, when he was imprisoned | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
for smuggling crashes to Spain from Morocco, he was also connected to an | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
operation run by Spanish intelligence in Barcelona of those | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
that were propagating radicalisation materials. So he was very much on | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
the peripherals. We have seen time and again that it is not necessarily | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
the key priority targets but those on the outskirts who are moving up | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
the ranks. In terms of who is getting sucked in, those involved in | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
this attack are all young - what does that say about the way | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
radicalisation is happening, who is vulnerable and why? | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
We tend to find lots of young people drawn to these causes. They become | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
involved in terrorist activity are travelling to Syria or Iraq. One of | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
the interesting things to look at is how Isis has understood millennials. | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
It understands how to connect with them. These are people who are | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
thinking in 140 characters, not 140 pages. Al-Qaeda would release long | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
books trying to recruit people. What Isis does is it produces a very | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
binary, simplistic choice, which appeals to emotion, which naturally | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
resonate with young people looking for a panacea, looking for a quick | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
fix, looking utopia. Isis offer than that. Thank you very | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
much. Still to come, 10 million people in the UK suffer from | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
arthritis, including young people and children. But campaigners say it | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
is being ignored as a major health issue and costing the NHS billions. | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
And we talk to this woman, diagnosed with lung cancer last week. She has | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
shared this photograph of herself taken hours before her devastating | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
diagnosis, explaining when you have cancer you will not necessarily | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
looked ill on the outside. Let's join Matthew for the news. | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
Thank you. At least one person has been killed | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
and one person is injured in the French city of Marseille, | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
after a car crashed Police say the driver | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
has been arrested. But they are not saying whether the | :31:27. | :31:37. | |
incident is being treated as a terror attack or whether it is | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
merely an accident. Spanish police are investigating | :31:40. | :31:40. | |
a possible link between Thursday's attacks in Spain and assaults | :31:41. | :31:42. | |
by so-called Islamic State Authorities believe an iman, | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
Abdelbaki Es Satty, may have radicalised younger members | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
of the cell, which carried out the Las Ramblas | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
and Cambrils atrocities. They're also investigating | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
whether he was involved in the bombings at Brussels airport | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
and a metro station in the city, which killed 32 | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
people in March 2016. The suspect in last week's stabbing | :32:02. | :32:08. | |
attack in Finland that left two people dead and eight injured, | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
was identified in court documents on Monday as 18-year-old | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
Abderrahman Mechkah. Police have previously described | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
the suspect as an asylum seeker from Morocco, who deliberately | :32:22. | :32:23. | |
targeted women in a stabbing spree on a market square | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
in the southwestern town of Turku, in what is being investigated as | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
the country's first terror attack. Hate crimes committed online should | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
be treated as seriously as offences carried out face to face, | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
according to new guidelines for The Crown Prosecution Service says | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
it will seek tougher penalties for abuse on social media, | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
which it says could lead to the type of extremist hate seen | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
in Charlottesville in the US. The move is part of a wider review | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
of such crimes by the CPS. The US navy says ten of its sailors | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
are missing and five have been injured, after one of its warships | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
collided with an oil tanker off It's the second serious collision | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
involving an American President Trump has said his | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
thoughts and prayers Big Ben will ring out today | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
for the last time on a daily basis in four years, | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
as the Houses of Parliament undergo The bells will be muted | :33:25. | :33:26. | |
for the longest period Some MPs have criticised the plan, | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
saying the bell's chimes are an important part | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
of national life. We will have those final bongs at | :33:37. | :33:51. | |
midday. But for now, back to you. Thank you very much. | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
Now the sport. Antonio Conte believes other clubs will be | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
inspired to play Tottenham at Wembley this season. Spurs are using | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
the National Stadium as their home ground this season. They lost 2-1 to | :34:06. | :34:11. | |
Chelsea yesterday, adding to their Wembley woes. Mo Farah and his | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
British track career with victory in the 3000 metres in Birmingham. He is | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
now switching to road racing but says as a kid he dreamt of running | :34:20. | :34:23. | |
for Britain. Stuart Broad says he wants to play in the 2019 asses | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
against Australia. He moved ahead of Sir Ian Botham's 383 wickets in | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
England's first test thrashing of the West Indies at Edgbaston. | :34:36. | :34:37. | |
Thank you. The UK's leading arthritis charity | :34:38. | :34:38. | |
has told this programme the condition is a "major public | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
health issue", and if it continues to be ignored it could | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
cost the economy more The NHS says around 10 million | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
people have arthritis, and that it affects people | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
of all ages, including children. To raise awareness of the condition | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
- which can cause high levels of pain and fatigue - | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
Arthritis Research UK has released a report which examines the long | :35:00. | :35:01. | |
term impact it could have on the economy, the health service, | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
individuals with the illness Let's talk now to Kirran Gill, | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
who was diagnosed with arthritis Robert Aggar, who ran | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
marathons before Olivia Belle, who is head | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
of external affairs And Dr Benjamin Ellis, | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
who is a consultant rheumatologist Welcome all of you. Bolivia, you are | :35:21. | :35:36. | |
putting out some statistics today because you want to raise awareness. | :35:37. | :35:43. | |
Among the statistics, over 8% of the NHS budget is going to be spent on | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
arthritis this year, more than 10 million people are living with it. | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
Those stats may surprise people? I think they do surprise people and | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
that is why we are running this campaign. We want to show the true | :35:56. | :36:03. | |
impact arthritis has on individuals, and on the rest of society. And | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
unless something changes in terms of awareness and understanding, we will | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
continue to lose out on the talent and the contribution of many people. | :36:12. | :36:19. | |
You were diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis six years ago. What impact | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
has it got on your life? I can't underestimate the impact arthritis | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
has had on my life, in all honesty. I was a teacher working full-time. | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
Due to arthritis I have had to give up my career. I have ended up | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
housebound and bedbound for more than 50% of the time. It has had a | :36:42. | :36:46. | |
huge impact on my relationships. My financial status. And I feel like I | :36:47. | :36:53. | |
am a prisoner in my own body, really. So described that? It is a | :36:54. | :36:59. | |
bit like having a migraine in all of my joints. Along with that, is also | :37:00. | :37:07. | |
a huge sense of fatigue. It is like a petrol gauge. If I were to say | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
that I start the day on the red, the light is already on, and that has a | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
huge impact on relationships. My friendships, for example. And also | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
concentration, memory. Robert, describe what it is like for you | :37:25. | :37:29. | |
living with arthritis? You used to run marathons. What is the impact | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
been on you? About five years ago I was planning to retire. I'd worked | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
for 42 years. I had put my arrangements in place. I was given | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
approval to actually pack up. I was playing golf. I was doing a lot of | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
physical activity. At the very same time I got these peculiar pains in | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
my groin and my lower back. I had never experienced anything like it | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
before. I went into the National Health Service system. I went to see | :37:57. | :37:59. | |
different people. And eventually it was diagnosed that I had got, my hip | :38:00. | :38:05. | |
had totally worn out. There was no cartilage left. It was just bone on | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
bone. The only thing they could offer me was a total hip | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
replacement. At the same time the consultant said to me, by the way, | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
I've got some other bad news. The other one will not last longer | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
either. I had been through nine months of not getting proper sleep, | :38:22. | :38:25. | |
not being able to walk around the park. I couldn't drive my car. I | :38:26. | :38:30. | |
pack up work and I was pretty much stuck indoors. It was a dreadful | :38:31. | :38:36. | |
time for me. Eventually I got my hip replaced. I managed to get back out | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
on the golf course. Within 18 months, sure enough the other one | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
give up as well. I went back into the system, spent another 18 months | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
waiting. Painful for you, expensive for the NHS. Exactly. Massively | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
expensive for the NHS. My operation cost about ?25,000. You are putting | :38:57. | :39:04. | |
these figures out today because you want to raise awareness. We have two | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
people here who were two of many. What do you hope to achieve with the | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
campaign? What practical differences? We are hoping that with | :39:13. | :39:18. | |
arthritis being recognised as a public health priority, more | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
information is accessible to people so that you can look after your | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
muscular skeletal health, but also find out information about the | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
different arthritis conditions that you might have. We also want more | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
support to our health care professionals who are doing a | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
fantastic job helping people. But actually, there are a variety of | :39:43. | :39:45. | |
conditions under the term of arthritis. It is a load of | :39:46. | :39:52. | |
information for GPs who are -- we're trying to retain. More | :39:53. | :39:58. | |
conversations. Looking after muscular and skeletal health, Doctor | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
Benjamin Ellis is there. Can people prevented? Is early diagnosis a good | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
thing? You can't completely prevent your chances of getting arthritis | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
but there is a lot to do you -- to reduce it. That includes being a | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
healthy body weight, being physically active, it includes not | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
smoking. Smoking is a cause of some arthritis. What are the symptoms | :40:23. | :40:28. | |
people should look for? The first thing you might notice if you are | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
developing arthritis is the beginning of pain, stiffness, | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
difficulty moving. Those are the symptoms. Difficulty doing everyday | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
tasks using your hands, reaching for things that previously had been | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
easy. When you start to get those symptoms, is it too late? Is it | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
going to get worse rather think you can do? Absolutely not. Early | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
diagnosis is important. It is important to get a clear diagnosis. | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
The treatment will be different. It will depend what sort of arthritis | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
you have. If you have osteoarthritis like Robert, physical activity, | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
losing weight can be important. If you have rumoured -- rheumatoid | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
arthritis, you will need specialist treatment to control the immune | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
system attacking your joints. One viewer says he is a retired GP. He | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
feels a section of GPs do not have empathy because it is such a common | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
condition and they are opposed to the use of strong painkillers like | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
opiates. They need to be more researchers and more research to | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
alleviate the suffering. How were you both treated when you initially | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
presented with symptoms? Particularly you, Karen, because you | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
were particularly young. Was arthritis even on your radar as | :41:48. | :41:49. | |
something that may be causing you problems? It was on my radar simply | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
because a family member had it. However, generally speaking, no, I | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
didn't think at the age of 27 that would even be something I would be | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
considering. Generally it took a very long time to get through the | :42:04. | :42:08. | |
system to get to see somebody who would test me for rheumatoid | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
arthritis, because I think there is still a supposition that rheumatoid | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
arthritis is something that happens as you get older, not when you are | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
younger. Kids can get it? Absolutely. How young? You can be | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
born with it. There are 12,000 young people living with a juvenile form | :42:28. | :42:35. | |
of arthritis. Is that genetic? There are. Benjamin will no far better | :42:36. | :42:39. | |
than I, but there are some inherited traits to some forms of arthritis, | :42:40. | :42:47. | |
yes. 12,000, that's devastating if you are affected. But it is a | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
relatively small number. As we are saying, it is a condition that | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
affects millions of people. Why is it not more talked about? A number | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
of reasons. We have talked about how it is dismissed as a natural part of | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
getting older. What is old age? Why is it acceptable to live in pain | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
when you are older? That is one thing. Also, I don't know whether it | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
is the same for you, but many people have told us they don't want to be | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
defined by their condition, they don't want to be the person always | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
saying, I can't do this. You don't talk about it necessarily as much as | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
you might do with other conditions. So really lifting the lid. That is | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
the whole reason for this campaign, it is actually to say that by having | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
a conversation about it, by talking about it, we can start recognising | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
the problem and addressing it. Caroline White got arthritis the | :43:42. | :43:47. | |
same age as you. She has got in touch. She has had it for 30 years. | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
She has battled non-with support from her GP, medication and surgery, | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
but it has now begun to have a major impact on her life. She was a | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
teacher but has to plan her life carefully, how close she can get, | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
how much standing room there will be etc. People don't realise the impact | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
it has, especially if you keep a cheerful face and try to continue. | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
Robert, do you feel like people around you understand the impact? At | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
the time I didn't feel that people understood the full impact it was | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
having on my way of life. It was affecting every aspect of my life at | :44:23. | :44:28. | |
the time. And I was sort of doing whatever I could to ameliorate it. | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
But the problem is it is a vicious circle. As soon as you get the | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
condition, and it can come on very quickly, my other hip came on. I | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
went to a Pilates class. I was trying to get my muscle tone back. | :44:42. | :44:46. | |
The problem started. Within a week I was in a real pickle. The trouble is | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
then you become less active, you put on more weight, you become bored. | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
And it must affect your mental health? Absolutely. A terrible | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
impact. It affects your relationship, you are stuck indoors | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
all day. Especially in the winter, it is dreadful. You can't get out | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
and about, you can't drive the car. It is awful. | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
It is dreadful. Thank you all for coming in and helping to raise | :45:17. | :45:17. | |
awareness. Still to come, this is Vicky Veness | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
hours before she was diagnosed Doctors repeatedly told her that her | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
symptoms were asthma - she'll be with us for her first TV | :45:28. | :45:32. | |
interview. More people will die from fires | :45:33. | :45:34. | |
started by faulty white goods if ministers do not act to implement | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
recommendations, the London Fire Brigade, the city's mayor, | :45:39. | :45:41. | |
and safety groups have warned. In a letter to Theresa May, | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
they say some fridges and freezers are being sold | :45:46. | :45:47. | |
with a flammable plastic backing. People continue to use products that | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
are subject to recalls, it adds. The warning comes a year | :45:53. | :45:55. | |
after a tower block fire in west London started | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
by a faulty tumble dryer. Chantal Froelich lives | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
in Shepherds Court Tower, where the fire started | :46:03. | :46:04. | |
by the tumble dryer began. She was made omeless | :46:05. | :46:07. | |
for three months. Jill Patterson is a lawyer | :46:08. | :46:09. | |
at the legal firm Leigh Day and has been representing | :46:10. | :46:11. | |
Chantal and other familes Thank you both very much for coming | :46:12. | :46:27. | |
in, first of all, Jill, to the best of your knowledge, when was the | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
alarm raised about issues around 40 white goods? There has been a | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
problem with product recall systems in the UK for quite some time, so a | :46:36. | :46:45. | |
number years ago a man called Sam -- Santosh Benjamin died in a house | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
fire, and the inquest lasted three weeks, and at the end of that the | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
coroner provided a number of recommendations about how the system | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
needed to change to ensure that consumers safety was protected | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
better. After that, the Government asked the consumer champion to chair | :47:06. | :47:12. | |
a report. She produced some findings some 18 months ago now, and still | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
nothing has happened. Since that time, other people have died in | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
house fires associated with white goods. The Shepherds Court fire | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
happened, it is just a miracle that, you know, it was not at night and | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
that nobody died. You were made homeless by that fire, tell us what | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
happened. So I live on the floor where the fire escapes to and | :47:37. | :47:42. | |
couldn't get home for three and a half months. I'll so work in a block | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
next door to where I live, and I saw the fire unfold. -- I also work. | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
When we have this warning today from the mayor and London Fire Brigade is | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
to say that not enough is being done to protect people from these faulty | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
white goods, what do you think? I agree, I cannot believe these | :48:06. | :48:08. | |
machines have not been recalled, that nothing has been done to | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
prevent this kind of thing happening again. People dying in these fires, | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
we are really lucky that it wasn't one of us. What could be done? There | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
is also lots of different things that can be done. The London Fire | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
Brigade have set out a number of them. The main issue is to say that | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
the system is disjointed, so we need one sort of single place where all | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
product recall is can be recorded, that people can access it and find | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
out, you know, in a one-stop shop, whether their products are affected | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
or not. But there is also enforcement issues, greater powers | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
for trading standards, who are sort of the police force for product | :48:54. | :48:58. | |
recall in the UK. What happens if you have got a mission in and the | :48:59. | :49:02. | |
manufacturer gets in touch and says there is an issue with it? Are you | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
obliged not to continue using it? That is part of the problem, there | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
is a lot of confusion around the information given to consumers, so | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
with the Hotpoint tumble dryer, for example, it is subject to a safety | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
notice. The people that were using the tumble dryer that was involved | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
in the fire at Shepherds Court were following the manufacturer's | :49:29. | :49:33. | |
instructions, continuing to use it, but making sure that there was | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
someone in the flat at the time. And a really, I think, just the language | :49:38. | :49:46. | |
that is used about products is not strong enough. So if people were to | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
see the word fire or risk of death or that sort of thing, then they | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
might take things more seriously. Really personally, I think, that | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
people should have the option to have the product taken away. | :50:01. | :50:05. | |
Shepherds Court, the fire in your block, mercifully, did not spread | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
very far - you were made homeless by it and others were affected, but | :50:10. | :50:13. | |
when you subsequently saw what happened at Grenfell, how did you | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
feel? It was devastating, especially when I found out that it could | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
potentially be connected to Hotpoint, which was the cause of our | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
fire. We don't want to get into things we do not know about, but | :50:28. | :50:33. | |
faulty white goods, same sort of cause. The impact that it had | :50:34. | :50:37. | |
compared to our fire, the magnitude of it, it was awful, and it is | :50:38. | :50:46. | |
devastating. Why do you think it is, Jill, that changes were recommended | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
after the Shepherd's Bush fire have not been made? I think it will cost | :50:52. | :51:01. | |
a lot of money to do it, and a -- I just do not think it is being taken | :51:02. | :51:04. | |
seriously enough. But the question is, what more needs to happen for | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
somebody to take action? This action this morning from the Fire Brigade | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
is fantastic, and the number of people calling for this change, it | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
wouldn't be something difficult for the Government to do, so it is hard | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
to understand why it is such a big issue for action to take place. | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
Thank you both very much. Thank you. Many of us might have an idea | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
in our minds of what a typical But Vicky Veness is trying | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
to overturn those preconceptions, after being diagnosed with stage | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
four lung cancer last week, despite looking perfectly | :51:37. | :51:38. | |
fit and healthy. Vicky, who is a personal trainer, | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
started getting symptoms 18 months ago, but she was told by doctors | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
she was suffering Despite her symptoms getting worse, | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
she battled through, running a marathon | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
and training people every day. It was only when a lump | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
appeared on her neck the devastating diagnosis, | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
explaining that, "When you have cancer, | :51:59. | :52:07. | |
you won't necessarily And I'm pleased to say Vicky | :52:08. | :52:09. | |
is speaking to us now Thank you very much indeed for | :52:10. | :52:22. | |
joining us. Tell us more about why you decided to put out that | :52:23. | :52:26. | |
photograph. Well, when I was initially diagnosed, I was in | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
complete and utter shock, I just couldn't believe this was happening | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
to me. And I've always been healthy, I'm a personal trainer, I run | :52:36. | :52:42. | |
marathons, and this just seemed unbelievable. Basically, this led me | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
to my decision that I need to tell people that this illness is not just | :52:48. | :52:53. | |
for smokers, and basically I want to let everyone know the symptoms so | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
that they can spot them early and don't end up with a stage four | :52:57. | :53:02. | |
diagnosis, like myself. Do you think the fact that you look so healthy, | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
and you are a fitness instructor, running marathons, is that what put | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
doctors off be sent in terms of what might have been wrong with you? I | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
think so, because obviously I am not the stereotypical type of person you | :53:17. | :53:23. | |
expect to have lung cancer. I mean, myself included, I would not have | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
believed that this was possible. So you said about the symptoms that you | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
had over a period of months, 18 months - what was the first you | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
experienced? Well, when I was training for the land and marathon, | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
that was really the first time that I noticed that something was wrong. | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
-- the London Marathon. When I came back from a training run, my lungs | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
would feel really heavy, like I couldn't get enough air in. And it | :53:53. | :54:01. | |
was initially treated as asthma, that is a diagnosis that might have | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
made sense, did you feel that was correct? Well, at the time, because | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
I do a lot of exercise, I was diagnosed with exercise-induced | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
asthma, so I thought that that was definitely possible, and I also went | :54:16. | :54:22. | |
on to run a good marathon, so I just assumed that it must be correct. But | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
you kept going back to doctors, why was that? Because really the inhaler | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
is, I was given inhaler is, and I was given tablets, and I did think | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
that they were doing a great deal. Did you ever suspected might be lung | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
cancer? No, never, I could never have imagined. I still can't believe | :54:43. | :54:50. | |
it, really, no, I wouldn't have thought this at all. So when you | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
were told it was lung cancer, how did you react? It was, as I said | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
before, just complete and utter shock, I couldn't believe that it | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
was happening. Are you angry? No, I don't feel like that at all, so | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
since I have been diagnosed, I have been trying to take positive and put | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
all my efforts into raising awareness that this doesn't happen | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
to somebody else and also getting ready to fight this illness. And | :55:20. | :55:25. | |
tell us more about the symptoms, you want people to recognise the | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
symptoms. Yes, so for me, I don't necessarily have a really nasty | :55:31. | :55:37. | |
cough. It is just a tiny dry calf that you probably wouldn't even | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
notice unless you knew that I had lung cancer. -- dry cough. It is not | :55:41. | :55:49. | |
chest it, it is very subtle, and my actual diagnosis wasn't based on the | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
cough, so it is really important that if you have a cough that lasts | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
for a long time, you go to your doctor's. So when you say a cough | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
that lasts a long time, over what period of time did you have this | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
cough? Right from the beginning, right from the beginning, yeah, it | :56:09. | :56:13. | |
has never gone away. It will be easily make people think, you know, | :56:14. | :56:18. | |
with any sort of an ailing calf that they should perhaps be worried, what | :56:19. | :56:26. | |
would you say? Go to the doctor's, get them to check your lungs have a | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
peak flow, and if things don't get better after three weeks or four | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
weeks, go back and get another check, keep going back. The thing | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
is, you did keep going back. Yeah, I did. And you were given the all | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
clear in terms of lung cancer. That is correct. I am hoping this | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
awareness campaign will make lots of people realise that it is not always | :56:51. | :56:57. | |
a smoker, it is not always an older person, it can literally be anybody, | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
and I just hope people will look at this and my spots. What is happening | :57:02. | :57:08. | |
now is the diagnosis in terms of treatment? At the moment, I haven't | :57:09. | :57:15. | |
started any treatment. I am still waiting, I am going to start on | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
Wednesday. I haven't had a proper chat with my oncologists yet, that | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
will happen tomorrow, and then hopefully from there I can start to | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
get better. How is everybody reacting around you? It is | :57:30. | :57:35. | |
unbelievable, I am overwhelmed at the level of support that my post | :57:36. | :57:46. | |
online received, it has just been amazing race about what is happening | :57:47. | :57:54. | |
with them as well. I am feeling really positive, really good, and I | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
am still working at the moment, and I am still training and doing | :57:59. | :58:03. | |
everything as normal. We really wish you all the very best, thank you | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
very much indeed for joining us. Thank you. | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
Let me just bring you a quick update on what is happening in Marseille, | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
one person has been killed and one injured after a car trove into two | :58:15. | :58:18. | |
bus stops in different parts of the city. It is not clear at this stage | :58:19. | :58:24. | |
if it was an accident or deliberate, the latest coming up on BBC News | :58:25. | :58:28. | |
live. I will see you at the same time tomorrow. Bye-bye. | :58:29. | :58:31. |