01/09/2017

:00:08. > :00:15.I'm Matthew Price, welcome to the programme.

:00:16. > :00:27.Nine members of G4S staff are suspended over allegations of abuse

:00:28. > :00:28.and assault at an immigration centre. We will give you all the

:00:29. > :00:30.details. It was an image of the Syrian

:00:31. > :00:33.refugee crisis that shocked the world -

:00:34. > :00:34.a little boy dressed in shorts and a T-shirt,

:00:35. > :00:37.drowned and lying face-down Two years on, Alan Kurdi's aunt

:00:38. > :00:41.talks to us exclusively about whether his death

:00:42. > :00:56.has changed anything. Two years later after that's

:00:57. > :01:02.tragedy, I really urge citizens to go out there and tell the

:01:03. > :01:03.politicians, their leaders, to find a solution.

:01:04. > :01:07.Businesses are getting fed up with the slow progress

:01:08. > :01:10.That's the warning from the international trade secretary,

:01:11. > :01:15.They want to know that there'll continue to be an open and liberal

:01:16. > :01:18.trading environment in Europe, and there's a worry that if Britain

:01:19. > :01:21.doesn't get a trade deal it wants, you could end up with impediments

:01:22. > :01:27.to trade and investments in Europe that don't exist today.

:01:28. > :01:30.We'll have the details and we'd love to hear from you if your

:01:31. > :01:36.And a crackdown on powerful vacuum cleaners - why new rules from Europe

:01:37. > :01:49.mean your house may never be as clean again.

:01:50. > :01:57.We're also talking about childcare this morning.

:01:58. > :02:00.If you're one of the parents eligible to receive 30 hours'

:02:01. > :02:02.free childcare a week, have you applied to take part

:02:03. > :02:05.in the scheme and have you experienced any problems finding

:02:06. > :02:10.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

:02:11. > :02:26.The private sector security company G4S has suspended nine members

:02:27. > :02:28.of staff from an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport

:02:29. > :02:33.following an investigation by the BBC's Panorama.

:02:34. > :02:36.The programme says it has covert footage recorded at Brook House

:02:37. > :02:37.showing officers "mocking, abusing and assaulting"

:02:38. > :02:45.G4S has said there was "no place for the type of conduct described

:02:46. > :02:48.in the allegations" and that it would "continue to focus on the care

:02:49. > :03:02.Our Social Affairs Correspondent Alison Holt joins me.

:03:03. > :03:15.What more can you tell us? This is an investigation by the BBC Panorama

:03:16. > :03:20.programme, and an investigating officer was undercover there. These

:03:21. > :03:25.are people who have finished their prison sentence and are due to be

:03:26. > :03:32.deported from the country at this centre. The others are people who

:03:33. > :03:37.have overstayed their visas, asylum seekers, and people who haven't done

:03:38. > :03:41.anything criminal in terms of overstaying in terms of immigration

:03:42. > :03:46.offences, so it is quite a toxic mix, ideas described by the

:03:47. > :03:52.programme, within that centre. We know that the officers found

:03:53. > :04:06.widespread drug use, particularly the drug Spice, and high levels of

:04:07. > :04:12.self harm, and officers who were mocking and abusive in their

:04:13. > :04:17.behaviour, allegedly. So it is a toxic mix, the programme will be

:04:18. > :04:21.looking at those aspects in detail on Monday. And G4S obviously taking

:04:22. > :04:22.it very seriously indeed this morning. Thank you very much indeed

:04:23. > :04:26.for that, Alison. Annita is in the BBC

:04:27. > :04:38.Newsroom with a summary Good morning, everyone. The

:04:39. > :04:44.international trade Secretary has said that the UK must not be allowed

:04:45. > :04:47.to be blackmailed by the European Union over the cost of leaving. Liam

:04:48. > :04:49.Fox said businesses had become impatient with the slow progress of

:04:50. > :04:58.the Brexit negotiations. It's very clear that businesses not

:04:59. > :05:01.just in Europe but investors in places like here in Japan

:05:02. > :05:03.are getting impatient and want to see what that final

:05:04. > :05:05.shape of that arrangement's They want to know that there'll

:05:06. > :05:10.continue to be an open and liberal trading environment in Europe,

:05:11. > :05:12.and there's worry that, if there's not the sort

:05:13. > :05:14.of agreement that Britain wants, you could end up with impediments to

:05:15. > :05:36.trade and investment across Europe There is frustration on both sides.

:05:37. > :05:39.And there was some transference going on, a lot of frustration from

:05:40. > :05:44.British ministers at the moment after a very tetchy press conference

:05:45. > :05:48.in Brussels yesterday in which the chief EU negotiator said it was some

:05:49. > :05:51.way off opening these trade talks, wider trade talks at the British

:05:52. > :05:56.Government are keen to get started, keen to get under way to try to

:05:57. > :06:00.reassure businesses that they can still have confidence after Brexit.

:06:01. > :06:03.Those trade talks may well be delayed towards the end of the year,

:06:04. > :06:07.it certainly looks as though that is how things are going in Brussels at

:06:08. > :06:11.the moment, and one of the key sticking points, or not the only one

:06:12. > :06:15.that one of the key ones is this so-called divorce Bill, effectively

:06:16. > :06:20.the EU is saying show us your money, tell us how much you are prepared to

:06:21. > :06:23.pay to leave the European Union, and the British Government has been

:06:24. > :06:27.reluctant to do so. Liam Fox has been arguing that one of the ways to

:06:28. > :06:32.release attentions is to park some of these issues and get the trade

:06:33. > :06:35.talks started. But whether you can reduce tensions by using language

:06:36. > :06:40.like blackmail, that remains to be seen. He is effectively saying there

:06:41. > :06:44.should not be a price to pay to start these negotiations. I think at

:06:45. > :06:48.this stage it might actually fuel tensions rather than reduce them.

:06:49. > :06:51.Iain, thank you very much. The RAF is now the first branch

:06:52. > :06:54.of the British military to open From today, they can apply

:06:55. > :06:58.to join the RAF Regiment, a front line combat force whose main

:06:59. > :07:01.task is to patrol and The Defence Secretary,

:07:02. > :07:04.Sir Michael Fallon, has described the move -

:07:05. > :07:07.which is a year ahead of schedule - Our correspondent Mark Lobel

:07:08. > :07:12.has got the details. This is significant

:07:13. > :07:13.moment for the RAF. The first branch of the British

:07:14. > :07:16.military to open up all areas But now they can apply to join

:07:17. > :07:22.the RAF's currently all-male infantry combat unit, which patrols

:07:23. > :07:35.and protects airfields. They fought in Afghanistan

:07:36. > :07:40.and suffered casualties. The RAF Regiment is relatively

:07:41. > :07:42.small, just over 2,000 strong, and with women making up

:07:43. > :07:45.about 10% of the Air Force as a whole, there's unlikely to be

:07:46. > :07:58.a flood of applications. Last July, former PM

:07:59. > :08:00.David Cameron overturned hundreds of years of military

:08:01. > :08:03.tradition to allow women to take up In April, the Royal Armed Corps

:08:04. > :08:06.opened its doors to females. PM Theresa May was there to witness

:08:07. > :08:09.the graduation at Sandhurst Today, it's the RAF's ground

:08:10. > :08:16.fighting force opening its doors. And by the end of next year,

:08:17. > :08:19.women should be able to join the even more physically

:08:20. > :08:21.demanding Army infantry unit Not everyone welcomes these changes,

:08:22. > :08:30.but after studies concluded women are physically up for the fight,

:08:31. > :08:33.now potential recruits can President Trump is expected to ask

:08:34. > :08:53.Congress for ?4.5 billion of funds to help those

:08:54. > :08:55.affected by Storm Harvey. The total cost of repairing

:08:56. > :08:58.the damage and compensating residents whose homes have been

:08:59. > :09:00.affected, is estimated to be more Celebrities such as singer Beyonce,

:09:01. > :09:03.actors Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio,

:09:04. > :09:05.have promised to contribute President Trump says

:09:06. > :09:12.he will give $1 million He plans to return

:09:13. > :09:15.to Texas tomorrow. Sinn Fein has dismissed a call

:09:16. > :09:18.by the DUP to resume power-sharing. Arlene Foster made

:09:19. > :09:19.the suggestion during talks Sinn Fein said establishing

:09:20. > :09:22.an executive before they'd resolved their disputes would lead

:09:23. > :09:25.to a collapse and fail the people Sales of the noisiest and most

:09:26. > :09:31.powerful vacuum cleaners will be restricted under EU

:09:32. > :09:36.rules from today. Machines using more than 900 watts

:09:37. > :09:39.and emitting more than 80 decibels will be banned from sale

:09:40. > :09:42.when existing stocks run out. Our environment analyst

:09:43. > :09:46.Roger Harrabin explains. Some of these vacuum cleaners

:09:47. > :09:49.will be on the banned Cleaners like this Sebo

:09:50. > :10:00.automatic gobble 1100 watts. That's too high for new European

:10:01. > :10:02.standards, so this model Anti-EU campaigners say Europe

:10:03. > :10:08.should have no say in the sort But experts say households can

:10:09. > :10:15.save a small fortune on electricity bills if only the least efficient

:10:16. > :10:18.machines can be driven There's no dispute that EU standards

:10:19. > :10:25.are forcing down energy The manufacturers claim

:10:26. > :10:34.they are prepared for it. Consumers are really not prepared

:10:35. > :10:36.for the performance hits they will experience

:10:37. > :10:41.from the new machines. So will the UK keep European

:10:42. > :10:43.standards after Brexit? Hundreds of thousands of people

:10:44. > :10:54.in Birmingham could see piles of rubbish mounting in the streets

:10:55. > :10:56.again as bin-workers resume strike Last month industrial action

:10:57. > :11:00.was suspended to allow talks between the council and unions -

:11:01. > :11:02.but the strike is back on again after the council

:11:03. > :11:04.said it was issuing A Georgia police officer

:11:05. > :11:16.who was shown on a video telling a woman during a traffic stop not

:11:17. > :11:19.to worry because police "only kill black people" retired yesterday,

:11:20. > :11:21.after authorities sought The dashcam video shows

:11:22. > :11:27.the Cobb County police officer standing by a car pulled over

:11:28. > :11:30.alongside a road last year and instructing the woman

:11:31. > :11:32.in the front passenger seat to use the mobile phone in her

:11:33. > :12:14.lap to make a call. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:12:15. > :12:18.News - more at 9.30. Thank you, Annita. What a shocking

:12:19. > :12:34.piece of footage. So, let's get some sport. How did

:12:35. > :12:40.the transfer window end? Hello. There was plenty of money spent in

:12:41. > :12:43.the Premier League yesterday, more than spent on the final day of the

:12:44. > :12:53.transfer window, we just didn't see any of it going on the really big

:12:54. > :13:00.names. The figures really show this summer that the Premier League clubs

:13:01. > :13:03.beat their gross spent by 23%, fuelled by the television rights

:13:04. > :13:06.deal, it now means it is six summers in a row that English clubs have

:13:07. > :13:11.beaten their own record. They spent more money than any of the other

:13:12. > :13:18.major European leagues, and that trend is set to continue.

:13:19. > :13:26.So much more money, 23%. What other details, who is moving where? Lets

:13:27. > :13:30.get down to the nitty-gritty. We didn't see the biggest of the

:13:31. > :13:34.transfers go through, we spoke about Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez. 24 goals

:13:35. > :13:38.last season, he could have been the missing piece from Manchester city,

:13:39. > :13:42.but after a ?60 million bid and an agreement in principle were made,

:13:43. > :13:45.City were left disappointed because Arsenal wouldn't sell him without

:13:46. > :13:54.getting in a replacement. That was meant to be the France Wenger Lamah,

:13:55. > :13:58.that was also agreed, but he opted against moving to North London. That

:13:59. > :14:03.meant Sanchez was stuck at the Emirates. He could be offered for

:14:04. > :14:08.free next summer at the end of his deal. Also staying put is Ross

:14:09. > :14:12.Barkley, another deal that was agreed, this time between Everton

:14:13. > :14:15.and champions Chelsea, in fact Everton claim he had even gone as

:14:16. > :14:21.far as having a medical. But that was denied by a source close to the

:14:22. > :14:24.player. Not a great wind over Chelsea, up until yesterday they

:14:25. > :14:28.missed several big targets, but they did do a couple of deadline day

:14:29. > :14:33.deals, including England's Danny Drinkwater, who made a 35mm hands

:14:34. > :14:45.move from Leicester City, Premier League winners in 2015. I can't run

:14:46. > :14:49.off all the deals right now, they are all on the website. But one more

:14:50. > :14:54.could happen today, Philippe Coutinho could be leaving Liverpool,

:14:55. > :14:57.he has already been the subject of a ?140 million bid from Barcelona,

:14:58. > :15:01.that was rejected by Liverpool, but the Spanish transfer window not

:15:02. > :15:05.closing until tonight, that means he could be on his way. We were keep an

:15:06. > :15:08.eye on that one today, and maybe Riyad Mahrez will leave Leicester to

:15:09. > :15:11.go to Spain as well, there is still a little way to go before we stop

:15:12. > :15:15.talking about these transfers this summer. Thank you very much, and we

:15:16. > :15:18.are going to be talking a lot more about the football transfers, we

:15:19. > :15:25.will even have a football pitch here in the studio, so look out for that.

:15:26. > :15:28.The story of little Alan Kurdi who drowned after fleeing from Syria

:15:29. > :15:30.shocked people around the world and you might find the image -

:15:31. > :15:33.which we are about to show you distressing, especially

:15:34. > :15:36.Lying face-down in the sand, the picture of Alan drew

:15:37. > :15:43.the world's attention to the deadly migrant crossings.

:15:44. > :15:45.The three-year-old drowned off the shores

:15:46. > :15:48.near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, after a boat carrying refugees sank,

:15:49. > :15:50.while he was attempting with his family to reach the Greek

:15:51. > :15:54.This image shows a Turkish police officer carrying the tiny body

:15:55. > :15:57.Within a few hours that image had gone viral,

:15:58. > :15:59.becoming the top trending picture on social media.

:16:00. > :16:04.But it wasn't just Alan who lost his life that day.

:16:05. > :16:07.His brother Galip and mother Rehana also lost their lives and only his

:16:08. > :16:11.Politicians around the world promised action.

:16:12. > :16:13.In Britain, more than 100,000 people marched on the streets

:16:14. > :16:16.calling on the government to welcome refugees.

:16:17. > :16:21.It led to the former Prime Minister, David Cameron, promising that the UK

:16:22. > :16:25.would take in 4,000 Syrian refugees a year.

:16:26. > :16:31.But on the eve of the second anniversary, Tima Kurdi,

:16:32. > :16:33.Alan's aunty, says the situation is getting worse.

:16:34. > :16:36.We'll hear from her in a moment, but first here's an extract

:16:37. > :16:40.from her interview two years ago when she told us what happened.

:16:41. > :16:42.Once again, I should warn you that the details

:16:43. > :16:50.Just a small wave of water splashed him, and Alan was laughing

:16:51. > :16:54.so loud and he said, "Oh, my God, Daddy, this

:16:55. > :17:01.On the other side, Galib was crying and scared.

:17:02. > :17:10.All of a sudden, he said, we hit the big wave,

:17:11. > :17:16.so it flipped the boat upside down, and then Abdullah, he tried

:17:17. > :17:22.to hold the two boys, and then the wave kept pushing him

:17:23. > :17:26.down, so he tried to push them up, and he screamed at them

:17:27. > :17:29.to tell them, "Please, don't die, just breathe!"

:17:30. > :17:36.And the wave kept pushing them down, so Abdullah finally managed

:17:37. > :17:44.So he looked in his left arm, Galib was finished,

:17:45. > :17:55.He looked at Alan, Alan was, his eye was bleeding.

:17:56. > :17:59.He said, I don't know why he has blood in his eye,

:18:00. > :18:04.and he's finished, he's dead, so he closed his eye

:18:05. > :18:09.And he said, OK, I'm going to let him go to go save my wife.

:18:10. > :18:12.He look around, look around until finally he saw his wife

:18:13. > :18:16.floating in the water like a balloon.

:18:17. > :18:28.Tima is currently flying to Erbil to spend the anniversary

:18:29. > :18:30.with her brother, but spoke exclusively to us earlier today

:18:31. > :18:49.and told us how she is marking the anniversary his death.

:18:50. > :18:58.The refugee camp there and for my brother Abdullah, I can't explain,

:18:59. > :19:06.he never healed completely, but every time he goes to the refugee

:19:07. > :19:14.camp and talks to them it gives him hope and he obviouslies look at it

:19:15. > :19:23.as I am going to be a person who can be the force and give them what I

:19:24. > :19:36.can give them or what he couldn't do to his own children. From Canada I

:19:37. > :19:46.decided to open a foundation and it's fairly new, we don't have

:19:47. > :19:53.charity number yet, we need to wait. But people can donate and hopefully

:19:54. > :19:56.we are going to, to Alan, the boy on the beach will never be forgotten.

:19:57. > :20:00.That's an amazing thing to be doing after you have suffered to much

:20:01. > :20:07.heartache and grief. You mentioned your brother, who clearly isn't

:20:08. > :20:16.coping at all well. No, I can not explain it to you. Just imagine

:20:17. > :20:25.losing your whole family, not just one, and his wife, it's not easy.

:20:26. > :20:31.But I keep encouraging him, I keep reminding him that maybe God wants

:20:32. > :20:39.him to do something, by opening foundation to help innocent children

:20:40. > :20:59.who have nothing to do in this world expect to have a good life so I give

:21:00. > :21:11.him hope. Emotionally it's not easy for him. It's up and down. It's been

:21:12. > :21:21.two years. Emotionally... I am not the only one, there are thousands of

:21:22. > :21:26.families like my brother, they have the same thing, we see it every day,

:21:27. > :21:30.today it's happening and it's sad, it's sad to see the world, we are

:21:31. > :21:36.sitting and watching and not doing enough. It sounds like this is also

:21:37. > :21:43.affecting you and partly at least because you feel that the world has

:21:44. > :21:49.forgotten Alan's story. I call on the world's leaders, they are the

:21:50. > :21:55.only one who can bring the end to this conflict, everywhere in the

:21:56. > :22:04.world. They need to sit down and find a peaceful solution, political

:22:05. > :22:18.solution to end the war everywhere. Even if we look around right now we

:22:19. > :22:23.see refugees from war, we see people affected, we see hatred around

:22:24. > :22:31.Europe, we see terrorists killing innocent victims. This is

:22:32. > :22:37.unacceptable. And I fear and I have feelings that we didn't see the

:22:38. > :22:45.worst yet, if we can not do anything. If we are going to keep

:22:46. > :22:50.watching and pretend, you know, yes, it's - and go back to our life and

:22:51. > :22:58.not do enough, then we are going to see the worst, everyone of us will

:22:59. > :23:09.be affected. So I am counting only on the world's leaders, please, to

:23:10. > :23:13.sit around the table and find a solution everywhere, let's focus on

:23:14. > :23:20.the root cause those refugees flee their country and find the solution

:23:21. > :23:27.for it. We need to focus on that, why those refugees are fleeing their

:23:28. > :23:33.homes. No family will flee their home or leave their country other

:23:34. > :23:44.than their life, they're risking their life, families are dying every

:23:45. > :23:54.single day. Innocent children. It's unacceptable. We are watching the

:23:55. > :24:00.news, me, my brother, every time we see innocent children are dying it

:24:01. > :24:07.always brings back our tragedy and it hurts because children are

:24:08. > :24:12.innocent victims. When the photo was first published of Alan lying,

:24:13. > :24:17.drowned, on that beach, many world leaders said this must not be

:24:18. > :24:21.allowed to happen again. You have just made another appeal to world

:24:22. > :24:30.leaders. Do you think you will be listened to? Two years later after

:24:31. > :24:42.that tragedy I really urge every citizen to go out there and tell

:24:43. > :24:56.their politician, their leader, to find a solution, peaceful solution.

:24:57. > :25:05.Anything we see right now in the world, it's scary, so we don't want

:25:06. > :25:14.to continue watching and see the worst because we didn't see the

:25:15. > :25:23.worst yet. In 2015 when we had that tragedy as a family and as the world

:25:24. > :25:31.seeing that image we thought back then this is the most tragic news

:25:32. > :25:40.and was the biggest, but if you ask me two years later which one is the

:25:41. > :25:52.worst I will tell you today, today is the worst. So again the people

:25:53. > :26:02.all over the world I want them to stand up and add their voices, go to

:26:03. > :26:12.your politician, go to your leaders and urge them and ask them, find the

:26:13. > :26:26.solution, peaceful solution to end the conflict. Until the solution

:26:27. > :26:34.will happen, which is not going to happen overnight, the refugees we

:26:35. > :26:47.need to continue to support refugees, to have a shared plan and

:26:48. > :26:52.to support them. That's Alan Kurdi's aunt, Tima, speaking to us and you

:26:53. > :26:59.can feel how raw that grief still is. Horn story.

:27:00. > :27:00.As the US battles with the worst floods in years around 1,200 people

:27:01. > :27:02.are expected to have died in flooding in India and Bangladesh.

:27:03. > :27:05.We'll be speaking to people from the US and Asia about how

:27:06. > :27:19.We'll be speaking to a charity about the emotional and physical

:27:20. > :27:35.Now a news summary. Good morning.

:27:36. > :27:37.The private sector security company, G4S, has suspended nine members

:27:38. > :27:41.of staff from an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport

:27:42. > :27:44.following an investigation by the BBC's Panorama.

:27:45. > :27:47.The programme says it has covert footage recorded at Brook House

:27:48. > :27:49.showing officers "mocking, abusing and assaulting"

:27:50. > :27:57.G4S has said there was "no place for the type of conduct described

:27:58. > :28:00.in the allegations" and that it would "continue to focus on the care

:28:01. > :28:05.The International Trade Secretary has said the UK must not allow

:28:06. > :28:09.itself to be blackmailed by the European Union over

:28:10. > :28:13.Speaking in Japan - where he and Theresa May have been

:28:14. > :28:15.discussing future trading relations - Liam Fox said businesses have

:28:16. > :28:18.become impatient with the slow progress of the Brexit

:28:19. > :28:25.The RAF is now the first branch of the British military to open

:28:26. > :28:29.From today, they can apply to join the RAF Regiment,

:28:30. > :28:34.a front line combat force whose main task is to patrol and

:28:35. > :28:40.The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has

:28:41. > :28:43.described the move - which is a year ahead of schedule -

:28:44. > :28:45.President Trump is expected to ask Congress for ?4.5 billion

:28:46. > :28:49.of funds to help those affected by Storm Harvey.

:28:50. > :28:52.The total cost of repairing the damage and compensating

:28:53. > :28:54.residents whose homes have been affected, is estimated to be more

:28:55. > :29:03.Celebrities such as singer Beyonce, actors Sandra Bullock

:29:04. > :29:04.and Leonardo DiCaprio, have promised to contribute

:29:05. > :29:10.President Trump says he will give $1 million

:29:11. > :29:15.He plans to return to Texas tomorrow.

:29:16. > :29:18.The US government has chosen four companies to build concrete

:29:19. > :29:19.prototypes for President Trump's proposed wall along

:29:20. > :29:27.Work on the 30-foot high panels is expected to start in the next

:29:28. > :29:31.The prototypes must be impossible to climb or scale with a ladder.

:29:32. > :29:36.Contracts for non-concrete designs are due to be awarded soon.

:29:37. > :29:39.Hundreds of thousands of people in Birmingham could see piles

:29:40. > :29:41.of rubbish mounting in the streets again as bin-workers resume strike

:29:42. > :29:46.Last month industrial action was suspended to allow talks

:29:47. > :29:48.between the council and unions - but the strike is back

:29:49. > :29:51.on again after the council said it was issuing

:29:52. > :30:03.This is not about money. This is about ideology. They want to make

:30:04. > :30:07.cuts and damage trade unionism within the council and they've taken

:30:08. > :30:08.a decision to sabotage an honourable settlement that was reached to do

:30:09. > :30:19.so. Sales of the noisiest and most

:30:20. > :30:21.powerful vacuum cleaners will be restricted under EU

:30:22. > :30:23.rules from today. Machines using more than 900 watts

:30:24. > :30:26.and emitting more than 80 decibels will be banned from sale

:30:27. > :30:33.when existing stocks run out. That's a summary of the latest

:30:34. > :30:49.BBC News - more at ten. Commentator here has said, I thought

:30:50. > :30:56.my wife was mad when she bought and EU compatible vacuum cleaner, but I

:30:57. > :31:02.didn't need to be worried, it is perfectly acceptable. Let's head

:31:03. > :31:04.over and get the sport now. Good morning again.

:31:05. > :31:06.Well, it wasn't the end of the transfer window we'd

:31:07. > :31:08.all expected, but plenty of deals were still done.

:31:09. > :31:11.One move that didn't happen Arsenal refused to sell Alexis Sanchez

:31:12. > :31:13.to Manchester City after agreeing a ?60 million fee.

:31:14. > :31:16.They wanted a replacement in first, but Monaco's Thomas Lemar turned

:31:17. > :31:18.down the chance of a ?90 million move to the Emirates.

:31:19. > :31:21.One player who is on his way to London, though, is England

:31:22. > :31:25.He'll join Premier League champions Chelsea from Leicester City

:31:26. > :31:30.Away from football, the great Roger Federer needed five sets

:31:31. > :31:32.to beat Russia's Mikhail Youzhny as he moved into the third

:31:33. > :31:34.round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows.

:31:35. > :31:36.Another former champion, Rafa Nadal, is also through.

:31:37. > :31:39.And Britain's Chris Froome is still the man to beat

:31:40. > :31:41.in the Vuelta a Espana, but a crash and some

:31:42. > :31:43.technical difficulties means his lead was been trimmed

:31:44. > :31:56.I'll be back with more on those stories just after ten.

:31:57. > :32:01.More than 1,000 people have died in devastating

:32:02. > :32:03.floods affecting India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

:32:04. > :32:06.The disaster has been caused by one of the heaviest monsoons on record

:32:07. > :32:13.Across the globe, residents are still struggling to cope

:32:14. > :32:17.from Save the Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Francis Markus

:32:18. > :32:23.from the International Red Cross in Nepal.

:32:24. > :32:29.Obviously much of our media has been focused on events on the other side

:32:30. > :32:34.of the world, the flooding in Houston and elsewhere. But I wonder,

:32:35. > :32:41.perhaps starting with you, Mark, if you can paint a picture of what you

:32:42. > :32:48.have seen there. The level of devastation is horrible, it's

:32:49. > :32:52.massive. Millions of children have been affected, and as we know

:32:53. > :32:56.throughout the region, there are 40 million people overall in all of

:32:57. > :33:00.south Asia, so right now the rains have subsided and people are

:33:01. > :33:05.starting to clean up the debris and try to restore their livelihoods,

:33:06. > :33:11.but the situation is massive. 8 million people throughout Bangladesh

:33:12. > :33:19.are affected. Tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed, and

:33:20. > :33:21.people's lives have been disrupted. And described the situation,

:33:22. > :33:28.Francis, that you have seen in Nepal. Many people are camped out in

:33:29. > :33:35.tents and under tarpaulins in conditions which alternate between

:33:36. > :33:41.baking heat and torrential rain still. And those who have managed to

:33:42. > :33:45.go back to their homes have found that these simple mud and bamboo

:33:46. > :33:49.dwellings are completely waterlogged, and all their meagre

:33:50. > :33:52.possessions have been swept away. You have to remember that the worst

:33:53. > :33:59.affected in this disaster really have been the poorest of the poor,

:34:00. > :34:02.in many case people who are landless, and even if they had the

:34:03. > :34:07.resources to rebuild their houses, they would face a question mark over

:34:08. > :34:10.where they can rebuild, so the future really is very, very

:34:11. > :34:15.uncertain for people, and they need a lot of support to get back on

:34:16. > :34:18.their feet again. It is interesting you start to talk about resources,

:34:19. > :34:23.because of course we are seeing already in the United States, the US

:34:24. > :34:28.Congress is expected to step up with millions. The president has promised

:34:29. > :34:34.a million from his own personal account. But you are dealing with a

:34:35. > :34:39.very different situation in a place like Nepal, aren't you? Absolutely.

:34:40. > :34:45.Even before this disaster hit, people were telling us that the sum

:34:46. > :34:51.total of their possessions really only amounted to a store of grain

:34:52. > :34:57.and a few bits and pieces of clothing and some pots and pans, and

:34:58. > :35:01.so even this has been lost. As far as the people who have lost their

:35:02. > :35:07.homes altogether are concerned, shelter is one of the most urgent

:35:08. > :35:12.concerns, and so is health, because there is an obvious potential for

:35:13. > :35:15.the spread of diseases. And the other major, major problem in Nepal

:35:16. > :35:24.and in the other countries is the amount of farmland and the extent of

:35:25. > :35:27.the destruction of the rice crop. This means people also need support

:35:28. > :35:34.to somehow re-establish their livelihoods and feed their families

:35:35. > :35:40.into the future. Mark, the country you are in, much of it on a river

:35:41. > :35:44.delta, much low-lying and prone to flooding. Does that make an event

:35:45. > :35:51.like this any easier to deal with them the fact that people expect the

:35:52. > :35:55.monsoon season and they expect it to be bad? You can understand that

:35:56. > :35:59.people have been through this before, flooding occurs every year

:36:00. > :36:04.in Bangladesh, and so people do have a keen understanding of what to do

:36:05. > :36:08.in the case of floods. However, these floods were much bigger than

:36:09. > :36:14.normal, and that is what caught every body off-guard. And obviously

:36:15. > :36:18.children don't remember or haven't experienced floods like this ever,

:36:19. > :36:22.and so they are the ones who are most traumatised in a flood

:36:23. > :36:26.situation, and so that is why we are trying to focus on trying to help

:36:27. > :36:32.families restore their livelihoods, get them basic food, shelter, water,

:36:33. > :36:36.but then also try to get kids back into school, make sure they are

:36:37. > :36:40.protected, and then help the families rebuild their livelihoods.

:36:41. > :36:45.So it is a daunting task, because this problem will go on for many

:36:46. > :36:47.months if not years to come, but we should always remember that it is

:36:48. > :36:55.the children who are affected most in these disasters. Mark Pierce, of

:36:56. > :36:59.course the United States, part of it at least, centres on the issue of

:37:00. > :37:04.climate change, partly because of President Trump's thoughts on

:37:05. > :37:09.climate change. In a place like Bangladesh, do people start to say,

:37:10. > :37:13.things are getting worse, it is something to do with man-made

:37:14. > :37:16.climate change and therefore we need even more help from around the

:37:17. > :37:25.world? Does that come into the political discussion? I think it

:37:26. > :37:27.comes into everyone's discussion, not just the political discussion

:37:28. > :37:33.but even the farmer who lives on the delta and tries to tend to his farm

:37:34. > :37:39.and livestock. They are well aware of climate change. They can see it

:37:40. > :37:45.everyday. And they see their land either being flooded every year or

:37:46. > :37:51.facing drought. So people are making choices already as a result of

:37:52. > :37:53.climate change, and I think governments in Bangladesh and south

:37:54. > :38:02.Asia are well aware of what is happening and making plans as well

:38:03. > :38:05.as the international community. Francis, is that your experience in

:38:06. > :38:09.Nepal as well? To people at the sharp end relates directly to

:38:10. > :38:16.climate change? I think that people do wonder about these immense

:38:17. > :38:24.changes and fluctuations which they are seeing. For a start, all the

:38:25. > :38:30.farmers in Nepal are noticing that somehow or other, they yield is less

:38:31. > :38:34.and less from year to year, and then you have that situation where in

:38:35. > :38:41.part of the flood stricken area that I was in a few years ago, they said

:38:42. > :38:51.we had seven or eight years of drought, and suddenly they were hit

:38:52. > :38:59.by this incredibly severe monsoon onslaught of rain, and so inevitably

:39:00. > :39:07.people do wonder what is happening. They have answers, but they just

:39:08. > :39:12.have to respond as best they can, and we need to be with them and

:39:13. > :39:17.respond as best we can. Just because there is a drought situation, that

:39:18. > :39:21.doesn't mean that we can relax our vigilance and stop simulations where

:39:22. > :39:26.we enact what to do in a flood scene. So I think it is a complex

:39:27. > :39:30.picture, and people are trying to react as best they can. And

:39:31. > :39:33.marketeers, a final one from you, if you will. How would you characterise

:39:34. > :39:40.the immediate, the top three priorities right now? The top three

:39:41. > :39:44.priorities are very clear. Food, shelter, water, and then following

:39:45. > :39:49.that, we need to restore people's livelihoods, make sure kids get back

:39:50. > :39:53.into school, to give them some normalcy in their life. We need to

:39:54. > :39:58.make sure that children are protected. Mark Pearce from Save the

:39:59. > :39:59.Children and Francis Markus, International Red Cross, thank you

:40:00. > :40:10.both from Nepal. Coming up, caring for a child with

:40:11. > :40:11.cancer and the emotional and physical toll that this can have on

:40:12. > :40:14.parents. A deal to restore devolved

:40:15. > :40:16.Government in Northern Ireland has been rejected as the two main

:40:17. > :40:32.parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, Chris pages in Belfast. Does this

:40:33. > :40:37.move is a step closer to direct rule from Westminster? I think it looks

:40:38. > :40:40.at the moment that it does. Northern Ireland has been without a devolved

:40:41. > :40:43.government says the power-sharing executive collapsed in January, and

:40:44. > :40:47.people in Northern Ireland are seeing the effects of that. There is

:40:48. > :40:52.great uncertainty for people working in the public sector, threats of

:40:53. > :40:56.cuts to public services, and last night the DUP leader Arlene Foster

:40:57. > :41:01.made a speech in which she set out a proposal to break the deadlock. She

:41:02. > :41:04.said you restore the Stormont executive, put ministers back into

:41:05. > :41:07.the devolved Government immediately so that they can get spending money

:41:08. > :41:11.on for example health dedication, try to sort those problems out, but

:41:12. > :41:16.she says at the same time, you should have parallel talks to deal

:41:17. > :41:19.with what to be the outstanding sticking point that is preventing

:41:20. > :41:22.the restoration of the devolved government, and that is around

:41:23. > :41:26.language and culture. Sinn Fein, who would be the other half of the

:41:27. > :41:30.power-sharing administration, want a piece of legislation to promote and

:41:31. > :41:33.protect the Irish language, but the Democratic Unionist Party are

:41:34. > :41:38.pushing for a broader law which would also incorporate cultural

:41:39. > :41:44.elements which are more important to Unionists. So that was Mrs Foster's

:41:45. > :41:48.idea, and she said in spite of the fact that the DUP are now in a

:41:49. > :41:50.powerful position at Westminster propping up Theresa May's minority

:41:51. > :41:55.Conservative government, that didn't mean that the DUP didn't want the

:41:56. > :42:04.return of devolution. She said the party were very much of the opinion

:42:05. > :42:09.that this was in the interests of the future of Northern Ireland. But

:42:10. > :42:12.Sinn Fein's leader Michelle O'Neill has been speaking the last

:42:13. > :42:18.half-hour, and this is what she had to say. The DUP have failed to

:42:19. > :42:21.embrace power-sharing. They have failed to embrace the principle is

:42:22. > :42:29.at the heart of the Good Friday Agreement of equality, of mutual

:42:30. > :42:32.respect and of party of esteem. They have acted disrespectfully towards

:42:33. > :42:37.Irish identity and culture, and they have failed to deliver people their

:42:38. > :42:41.rights. Whether that be marriage rights, language rights, economic

:42:42. > :42:46.rights or cultural rights. So that has been the problem at the heart of

:42:47. > :42:50.the political crisis. The fundamental issue of rights. In

:42:51. > :42:57.regards to Arlene Foster's comments last night and the offer of a

:42:58. > :43:01.parallel process, this is not a new offer. This is an issue, the issue

:43:02. > :43:04.of a parallel process has been discussed, and disregarded

:43:05. > :43:08.throughout the course of all of the negotiations which we have had to

:43:09. > :43:13.date. So in essence it was making an offer which they knew would be

:43:14. > :43:17.rejected. The people out there want government. They want locally

:43:18. > :43:20.accountable institutions. They want the institutions to work. But they

:43:21. > :43:25.have to work in the way in which they are intended. They have to work

:43:26. > :43:29.on the principles of power-sharing. So in terms of the offer last night,

:43:30. > :43:36.it was an offer which they knew would be rejected, and it is

:43:37. > :43:39.certainly not a new offer. Michelle O'Neill making it clear that she

:43:40. > :43:43.didn't think that Arlene Foster's proposal last night made any

:43:44. > :43:46.differences regarding progress towards the restoration of

:43:47. > :43:50.devolution. So for the time being it looks like Northern Ireland will

:43:51. > :43:53.continue on this administrative autopilot, civil servants are

:43:54. > :44:02.running the country but they can't make any major policy decisions.

:44:03. > :44:05.They had been an expectation that talks would begin again next week

:44:06. > :44:13.having been on hold over the summer, but are you had heard for the

:44:14. > :44:14.politicians here this morning, the Northern Ireland Secretary James

:44:15. > :44:18.Brokenshire making it clear he doesn't want to return to direct

:44:19. > :44:21.rule from Westminster, but the longer this continues, Matthew, the

:44:22. > :44:24.more likely it is that the Government will have to look at some

:44:25. > :44:27.kind of alternative, and they will have to put in some ministers to run

:44:28. > :44:29.Northern Ireland or the absence of local ministers doing so.

:44:30. > :44:33.Chris, thank you very much indeed. It's one of the worst things that

:44:34. > :44:36.can happen to a parent, finding out your child has

:44:37. > :44:37.a serious illness. Now a leading cancer charity

:44:38. > :44:40.is warning about the damage it can do to a mother or father's mental

:44:41. > :44:43.health, both during and CLIC Sargent surveyed nearly 300

:44:44. > :44:47.parents and careers of young cancer patients and found many have

:44:48. > :44:48.suffered from depression, Some said they felt pressured not

:44:49. > :44:56.to speak out about their problems because they had to be strong

:44:57. > :44:59.for their child, while others said concern about their finances

:45:00. > :45:00.caused additional stress. Let's start by hearing one

:45:01. > :45:03.couple's story who have been Abi spiked two more temperatures

:45:04. > :45:15.during the day today. You're stressing because worrying

:45:16. > :45:19.about her or worrying about the little one,

:45:20. > :45:23.because she's away. Worrying about each other,

:45:24. > :45:27.because it's stressful in itself. Things go through your mind that

:45:28. > :45:31.you just can't help. Abi's poorly quite a lot,

:45:32. > :45:41.especially now she's in maintenance. I think the worst part

:45:42. > :45:45.was when we took her to the hospital and they came back and they said,

:45:46. > :45:48."Yes, she's got leukaemia." And you just want to crack up,

:45:49. > :45:59.but you kind of know you can't crack up, because you've got to stay

:46:00. > :46:02.strong for her and try and not show her the fear

:46:03. > :46:04.that you're feeling. You're feeling angry,

:46:05. > :46:06.you're feeling upset, confused. What do I do next, where do

:46:07. > :46:09.I go, who do I tell? It's chemo this day,

:46:10. > :46:15.injection that day, bloods this next day,

:46:16. > :46:22.and that is what your I wasn't Debbie any more,

:46:23. > :46:26.I was just Abi's mum, Figures from charities suggest four

:46:27. > :46:35.children are diagnosed with cancer in the UK every day,

:46:36. > :46:38.so let's now speak to some parents Jennie Dalton was diagnosed

:46:39. > :46:44.with post traumatic stress disorder after her daughter was diagnosed

:46:45. > :46:51.with a rare type of cancer. Debbie Moran, who you will have seen

:46:52. > :46:54.in the clip we just played you, she was hospitalised

:46:55. > :46:56.with a suspected mini stroke while dealing

:46:57. > :46:57.with her daughter's leukaemia. Also here is the chief

:46:58. > :46:59.executive for the cancer charity CLIC Sargent,

:47:00. > :47:11.Kate Lee. Good morning to all of you. Let's

:47:12. > :47:14.start with you, Jennie. Post traumatic stress disorder, it's

:47:15. > :47:20.something we think of soldiers when we hear about it. Tell us what

:47:21. > :47:25.happened to you. Isabelle has had an incredibly long journey, seven years

:47:26. > :47:33.of treatment with her tumour. It just got to the stage where I was

:47:34. > :47:37.struggling, really struggling. The nightmares, the constant worry of

:47:38. > :47:41.Isabelle's relapsed three times now, so it's that fear of are we going to

:47:42. > :47:47.beat it? Is my daughter going to get better? It's just there constantly.

:47:48. > :47:51.It doesn't go away. Then when you have that mixed up with your

:47:52. > :47:54.daughter's treatment, the emotional impact, financial impact it all

:47:55. > :47:58.comes together and I got to the stage where I put my hands up and

:47:59. > :48:02.said, you know what, I can't cope. I am really struggling. I need some

:48:03. > :48:08.help. I need support. I went to see my GP and he said, yeah, you are

:48:09. > :48:13.showing classic signs of post traumatic stress disorder. When he

:48:14. > :48:17.said that what did you think? I suppose I was relieved really

:48:18. > :48:21.because you get to the stage where you think am I losing my mind, am I

:48:22. > :48:26.going mad? You have so much constantly going on in your head and

:48:27. > :48:29.you are trying to juggle everything and get the best support and

:48:30. > :48:35.treatment for your child and you are worried about them and you don't

:48:36. > :48:40.think about yourself. It was slow. It was a slow process. It just hit

:48:41. > :48:45.me and I thought something's not right, I don't feel myself, I don't

:48:46. > :48:51.feel I can carry on and when the doctor said you have a diagnosis,

:48:52. > :48:56.you have post traumatic stress disorder, I thought, yeah, I am not

:48:57. > :49:03.surprised. What I have been through. It isn't surprising, and yet I guess

:49:04. > :49:05.the sad thing is that people in your situation perhaps, did anybody talk

:49:06. > :49:09.to you, they obviously talked to you a lot about your daughter's

:49:10. > :49:11.condition and that was very important, but did anybody say at

:49:12. > :49:16.the outset this might be hard for you? All the way through, friends,

:49:17. > :49:19.family, people say to you you need to look after yourself, you need to

:49:20. > :49:24.be strong. Did you believe them? I knew I needed to look after myself,

:49:25. > :49:29.but how? How do I look after myself? I just go on holiday for a week,

:49:30. > :49:34.shall I? My daughter's in the middle of treatment, will I go on holiday,

:49:35. > :49:39.check into a Spa and relax? I know I need to look after myself, you can't

:49:40. > :49:43.when you are at the hospital constantly for nearly seven years.

:49:44. > :49:47.What do you do? Did you feel guilty that you were struggling when your

:49:48. > :49:51.daughter was in such a terrible situation? If I go under, what

:49:52. > :49:59.happens? What happens to my daughter if I go under? I need to be strong.

:50:00. > :50:03.To be honest, when I put my hands up and said I am struggling I started

:50:04. > :50:12.to get support I felt better about myself. I felt stronger. I felt more

:50:13. > :50:17.able to support Isabella and I was dmrad I said I needed -- I was glad

:50:18. > :50:22.I said I needed support, it was like a weight was lifted. Let's talk to

:50:23. > :50:27.Debbie about her experience. Thank you for waiting patiently. Listening

:50:28. > :50:30.to what Jennie has to say, presumably you can understand all

:50:31. > :50:36.those emotions and more? Totally, yeah. I totally understand where

:50:37. > :50:39.Jennie's coming from, it's very much as they say, they tell you to look

:50:40. > :50:45.after yourself, it's where do I look after myself? It's very hard. How do

:50:46. > :50:49.you find that space? I don't really know how you do find that space.

:50:50. > :50:53.When your child's really ill and they're going in hospital it's very

:50:54. > :50:58.difficult to find that space. It's catching moments when you can

:50:59. > :51:01.really. If your child's well and you can have five minutes to yourself,

:51:02. > :51:09.that's when you have it, but it's very difficult to get that. Tell us

:51:10. > :51:17.about your daughter. Abigail is six and was diagnosed when she was

:51:18. > :51:21.three. She has leukaemia. She's doing well at the moment, initially

:51:22. > :51:25.it's very hard and you kind of just get into that mode and go through

:51:26. > :51:30.the treatment. Go through each stage. Chemo, without really

:51:31. > :51:34.thinking about it or trying not to think about it really. But she's a

:51:35. > :51:39.funny little girl. She smiles most of the time all the way through it,

:51:40. > :51:43.as do most of the children that are affected with cancer, surprisingly.

:51:44. > :51:49.Do you think she feels your anxiety? I try not to let her feel my aping

:51:50. > :51:54.site but I think at times yes -- my anxiety, but I think at times, yes,

:51:55. > :51:59.she does. You try to stay strong, obviously they need to know when you

:52:00. > :52:04.are worrying but she will turn around and say, mum, I am fine, let

:52:05. > :52:08.me do this, but it's hard to switch off at times. That's the hardest

:52:09. > :52:10.thing, isn't it, you want to protect your child from this and from what

:52:11. > :52:16.you are feeling because you are meant to be strong, you are meant to

:52:17. > :52:22.be helping them. Do you worry that your daughter picks up on the stress

:52:23. > :52:28.that you are under? Same as Debbie, I try my best to not let her see it.

:52:29. > :52:31.She doesn't need the added stress of worrying about her mum on top of

:52:32. > :52:37.everything else. It's so hard, especially at night. It's at night

:52:38. > :52:41.when she's asleep and she's settled, not in pain, she's fine, that's when

:52:42. > :52:45.it hits me and that's the hardest part. That's when I do most of my

:52:46. > :52:50.crying in the middle of the night. In that moment of relaxation and it

:52:51. > :52:55.catches up with you. Kate Lee, it's clearly a problem not spoken about

:52:56. > :53:01.enough, what support is out there for people? I think our concern is

:53:02. > :53:07.that the support is patchy around the country. We know that

:53:08. > :53:12.organisations like CLIC Sargent we have a network across the UK working

:53:13. > :53:15.directly with parents and our social workers will try wherever possible

:53:16. > :53:20.if a parent says they're struggling and need help to get them referred

:53:21. > :53:28.into an NHS counselling service but often that takes a long time. Are

:53:29. > :53:32.GPs picking up on this? I think if parents ask for help, I don't know

:53:33. > :53:36.how much, we are concerned whether it's proactively offered. I think

:53:37. > :53:38.GPs try. I think sometimes healthcare professionals think as

:53:39. > :53:43.soon as the child is out of treatment it's all OK and lots of

:53:44. > :53:47.parents tell us that the trauma starts after the treatment ends and

:53:48. > :53:54.the professionals disappear because they start thinking, one dad said to

:53:55. > :54:00.me every time he sees a Bruce on his ten-year-old boy he is convinced the

:54:01. > :54:03.leukaemia is coming back, but ten-year-old boys have bruises. It's

:54:04. > :54:07.living with that fear. Lots of people think it's over now, the

:54:08. > :54:11.treatment is finished, they're well. It's really trying to understand

:54:12. > :54:15.that it's a long-term impact. Often children are treated miles away from

:54:16. > :54:19.home. Our NHS isn't well set up to provide counselling services for

:54:20. > :54:22.parents aren't in their local GP practice, often parents don't see

:54:23. > :54:29.their GP for a long time because they're living in Bristol or

:54:30. > :54:34.Birmingham or miles from home. We talk about this constantly, about

:54:35. > :54:42.the need for greater understanding within the NHS of mental health

:54:43. > :54:48.issues. We are joining through this child cancer awareness month, we

:54:49. > :54:52.want to raise awareness of support, to support mental health charities

:54:53. > :54:58.in saying provision in the UK still isn't good enough, we must look at

:54:59. > :55:02.improving this and thinking about parents of children with cancer

:55:03. > :55:05.spending most of their lives in hospitals, what's the provision

:55:06. > :55:10.available in hospital rather than in the community? Also just remembering

:55:11. > :55:15.that most parents are wrenched out of the family network and friends

:55:16. > :55:19.network because they're sent to hospitals, you are often sent to

:55:20. > :55:24.hospital a long way from home. Debbie, it's brave of you to talk

:55:25. > :55:27.about this and that in itself is going to help plenty of parents

:55:28. > :55:31.unfortunately in the same situation as you, do you have specific advice

:55:32. > :55:36.that might help mothers and fathers? Don't be afraid to ask for help. You

:55:37. > :55:41.are allowed to crumble. You do your best to be able to be strong but if

:55:42. > :55:44.you crumble, speak to somebody. Don't think that you have to be

:55:45. > :55:49.brave all the time. You need help too. You are going through it as

:55:50. > :55:54.much as your child is going through it. And Jennie? There are

:55:55. > :55:59.professionals out there whose job it is to help you, I don't know what we

:56:00. > :56:06.would have done as a family without the support of our CLIC Sargent

:56:07. > :56:12.social worker, she was amazing. Ask for help, tell people. Tell people I

:56:13. > :56:15.am struggling, I need some help. It's the hardest thing as a parent

:56:16. > :56:20.that you will ever have to go through to see your child so poorly

:56:21. > :56:27.and you need to be strong for them. And a plea for dads to do that too.

:56:28. > :56:30.Often there is a lot of emphasis, a lot of support focussed on people

:56:31. > :56:33.who seem ongoing through it, we know there is a real problem for dads

:56:34. > :56:38.because they feel they have to be strong. You often forget that

:56:39. > :56:47.fathers actually may hide more than mothers do. Debbie, thank you very

:56:48. > :56:51.much. Jennie as well, and Kate Lee. Still to come: How clean will your

:56:52. > :56:56.house be after the EU bans the sale of powerful vacuum cleaners? We will

:56:57. > :56:58.talk to TV presenter Angie MacKenzie to find out. Let's get the latest

:56:59. > :57:09.weather. Today marks the start of autumn, it

:57:10. > :57:13.did feel like that this morning, on the cool side. A chill across many

:57:14. > :57:18.parts of the UK this morning but there was a good deal of sunshine

:57:19. > :57:23.around. Spectacular start for some parts of the UK. Sun coming up,

:57:24. > :57:27.mist, as well on the horizon. But it signalled what will be for many a

:57:28. > :57:30.dry and sunny start to the new season. There will be a few showers,

:57:31. > :57:34.we have seen them this morning particularly across the Channel

:57:35. > :57:40.Islands, they're fading. One or two isolated one north-west England,

:57:41. > :57:45.Scotland. Heavy ones to the east of Norfolk and Suffolk. Eastern

:57:46. > :57:50.Scotland likely to see showers today. Compared with yesterday most

:57:51. > :57:53.places dry. Better day for Wales, south-west England, more breeze but

:57:54. > :57:58.with strong early September sunshine it will feel pleasant. A better

:57:59. > :58:02.afternoon in the Channel Islands. Eastern England, from Essex,

:58:03. > :58:05.Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and south-east of Scotland

:58:06. > :58:08.is where showers are likely through the afternoon. Can't rule out the

:58:09. > :58:12.odd one elsewhere. But the vast majority will avoid them. Dry, sunny

:58:13. > :58:15.spells and pleasantly warm. Light winds across Scotland and Northern

:58:16. > :58:20.Ireland also helping with that warmth. The showers we see will go

:58:21. > :58:25.on into the evening across parts of eastern England, south-east Scotland

:58:26. > :58:29.and for some into the night. Some close to the coasts of East Anglia

:58:30. > :58:32.and Kent. Misty into tomorrow morning and that autumn chill will

:58:33. > :58:36.be evident again. Temperatures in rural parts of Scotland, northern

:58:37. > :58:40.England, could below enough for a touch of frost on the ground

:58:41. > :58:45.tomorrow morning. Saturday probably the best of the weekend if you need

:58:46. > :58:51.to get out and about. Sunday not bad to begin with but likely to see rain

:58:52. > :58:56.across parts of the UK later. Saturday, some mist around, a chill

:58:57. > :59:00.in the air. A few showers cropping up. England and Wales especially.

:59:01. > :59:06.But very light and isolated. Mainly on the hills. Most of the country

:59:07. > :59:12.dry with lengthy sunny spells and with light winds it will feel

:59:13. > :59:15.pleasantly warm. The fine weather will continue into the evening. It

:59:16. > :59:19.will turn chilly quickly. We have rain starting to get closer to the

:59:20. > :59:24.south-west. It won't be until overnight where we see that in parts

:59:25. > :59:29.of Ireland, Wales, south-west England, a windy and wet start to

:59:30. > :59:32.the day. Driest for longest in the north-east of Scotland. Eastern

:59:33. > :59:35.parts of England too. If you are stuck under that rain it will feel

:59:36. > :59:43.rather cool. If you want to check where that rain is and you are on

:59:44. > :59:48.the move you can update as you go. Bye for now.

:59:49. > :59:56.G4S is forced to suspend nine members of staff, following a BBC

:59:57. > :00:02.The amount spent on football transfers hits a new record.

:00:03. > :00:04.We'll speak to a football agent and sports broadcaster

:00:05. > :00:10.on whether the players are worth the high price tags.

:00:11. > :00:15.As new EU rules lead to a crackdown on the sale

:00:16. > :00:23.of certain vacuum cleaners, we'll be joined by Aggie Mackenzie

:00:24. > :00:28.We are going to look at whether it means your house will be a little

:00:29. > :00:31.dirtier. Consumers are probably not prepared for the performance hits

:00:32. > :00:36.they will experience with new machines. We will be joined by

:00:37. > :00:48.adding a Ken is from How Clean Is Your House to get her views.

:00:49. > :00:52.Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:00:53. > :00:57.The private sector security company, G4S, has suspended nine members

:00:58. > :01:00.of staff from an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport

:01:01. > :01:06.following an investigation by the BBC's Panorama.

:01:07. > :01:14.A panorama investigation to be broadcast on Monday allegedly shows

:01:15. > :01:16.some staff mocking, abusing and showing some violence towards

:01:17. > :01:18.detainees. G4S has said there was "no place

:01:19. > :01:21.for the type of conduct described in the allegations" and that it

:01:22. > :01:24.would "continue to focus on the care The International Trade Secretary

:01:25. > :01:29.has said the UK must not allow itself to be blackmailed

:01:30. > :01:31.by the European Union over Speaking in Japan -

:01:32. > :01:36.where he and Theresa May have been discussing future trading relations

:01:37. > :01:38.- Liam Fox said businesses have become impatient with the slow

:01:39. > :01:40.progress of the Brexit It's very clear that businesses not

:01:41. > :01:45.just in Europe but investors in places like here in Japan

:01:46. > :01:47.are getting impatient and want to see what that final

:01:48. > :01:49.shape of that arrangement's They want to know that there'll

:01:50. > :02:01.continue to be an open and liberal trading environment in Europe,

:02:02. > :02:03.and there's worry that, if there's not the sort

:02:04. > :02:05.of agreement that Britain wants, you could end up with impediments to

:02:06. > :02:08.trade and investment across Europe The RAF is now the first branch

:02:09. > :02:12.of the British military to open From today, they can apply

:02:13. > :02:16.to join the RAF Regiment, a front line combat force whose main

:02:17. > :02:19.task is to patrol and The Defence Secretary,

:02:20. > :02:25.Sir Michael Fallon, has described the move -

:02:26. > :02:28.which is a year ahead of schedule - President Trump is expected to ask

:02:29. > :02:38.Congress for ?4.5 billion of funds to help those

:02:39. > :02:40.affected by Storm Harvey. The total cost of repairing

:02:41. > :02:43.the damage and compensating residents whose homes have been

:02:44. > :02:45.affected, is estimated to be more Celebrities such as singer Beyonce,

:02:46. > :02:48.actors Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio,

:02:49. > :02:50.have promised to contribute President Trump says

:02:51. > :02:55.he will give $1 million He plans to return

:02:56. > :03:06.to Texas tomorrow. Sinn Fein has dismissed a call

:03:07. > :03:09.by the DUP to resume power-sharing. Arlene Foster made

:03:10. > :03:10.the suggestion during talks Sinn Fein said establishing

:03:11. > :03:13.an executive before they'd resolved their disputes would lead

:03:14. > :03:16.to a collapse and fail the people Hundreds of thousands of people

:03:17. > :03:20.in Birmingham could see piles of rubbish mounting in the streets

:03:21. > :03:25.again as bin-workers resume strike Last month industrial action

:03:26. > :03:28.was suspended to allow talks between the council and unions -

:03:29. > :03:31.but the strike is back on again after the council

:03:32. > :03:33.said it was issuing They want to make cuts

:03:34. > :03:45.and damage trade unionism within the council and they've taken

:03:46. > :03:48.a decision to sabotage an honourable settlement that was

:03:49. > :03:52.reached to do so. A Georgia police officer

:03:53. > :03:55.who was shown on a video telling a woman during a traffic stop not

:03:56. > :03:58.to worry because police "only kill black people" retired yesterday,

:03:59. > :04:00.after authorities sought The dashcam video shows

:04:01. > :04:07.the Cobb County police officer standing by a car pulled over

:04:08. > :04:11.alongside a road last year and instructing the woman

:04:12. > :04:13.in the front passenger seat to use the mobile phone in her

:04:14. > :04:55.lap to make a call. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:04:56. > :05:06.News - more at 10.30. Still can't get over that footage,

:05:07. > :05:10.just dreadful. We have had some e-mails in. Leighton has responded

:05:11. > :05:14.to the discussion we were having about the stress parents find

:05:15. > :05:20.themselves under when they have a child who is ill with cancer. And

:05:21. > :05:25.e-mails to say the best help is having access to support helper who

:05:26. > :05:30.can fit in regular and supportive contact. Surely someone said we have

:05:31. > :05:34.to acknowledge that the stress -- acknowledge the stress and be there

:05:35. > :05:41.when it gets too hard. And e-mails coming through on the story about

:05:42. > :05:45.the new EU regulations on vacuum cleaners. Ray has even to say, the

:05:46. > :05:50.EU is going to have no say in our affairs after 2019, so why conform

:05:51. > :05:55.to their wins now? Do get in touch with us throughout the morning. If

:05:56. > :06:01.you text, remember you will be charged at the standard network

:06:02. > :06:04.rate. Lets see what is happening in the sport.

:06:05. > :06:07.Football transfer news first, and the final day was as much

:06:08. > :06:09.about the players who didn't move as those who did.

:06:10. > :06:12.The window closed last and night and there are some

:06:13. > :06:17.Premier League clubs spent ?1.4 billion over the summer -

:06:18. > :06:21.One player who didn't make it was Alexis Sanchez.

:06:22. > :06:23.His club Arsenal had agreed a ?60 million deal

:06:24. > :06:29.with Manchester City - contigent on finding a replacement.

:06:30. > :06:32.But Arsenal were turned down by Monaco's Thomas Lemar

:06:33. > :06:38.after a ?90 million bid, and so refused to let Sanchez go.

:06:39. > :06:40.Midfielder Danny Drinkwater did move late last night -

:06:41. > :06:44.he's gone from Leicester to Chelsea for ?35 million.

:06:45. > :06:46.That was after Everton's Ross Barkley changed his mind

:06:47. > :06:53.Well, among all the excitement of deadline day, we shouldn't forget

:06:54. > :06:55.that it's international week, with all the home nations

:06:56. > :07:00.involved in World Cup qualifiers this weekend.

:07:01. > :07:02.Last night England arrived at their camp in Malta ahead

:07:03. > :07:08.England manager Gareth Southgate says he knows who will take over

:07:09. > :07:10.from Wayne Rooney as captain, but feels it should not be

:07:11. > :07:25.We have focused too much on Wayne in particular in the last few years,

:07:26. > :07:28.and we have got to start building a more resilient group of leaders, and

:07:29. > :07:34.allowing people to take responsibility. So for me it's not

:07:35. > :07:39.the most important decision. The more important thing is trying to

:07:40. > :07:41.build the group into a stronger group that they react in the right

:07:42. > :07:43.way collectively. In the same group, Scotland badly

:07:44. > :07:45.need to win in Lithuania, They kick off tonight as well,

:07:46. > :07:49.four points off the play-off place, But their manager has

:07:50. > :08:11.confidence in his players. There is a psychology to it, the

:08:12. > :08:14.information you pass on, so it isn't going to be a Churchill speech that

:08:15. > :08:19.makes them feel any better, that can work now and then, but in general

:08:20. > :08:21.you make sure that the players are prepared and feel comfortable. The

:08:22. > :08:23.amount of training they put into it. And Northern Ireland need

:08:24. > :08:25.to avoid any mishaps tonight against San Marino for them

:08:26. > :08:28.to remain on course They're currently second in group C

:08:29. > :08:34.behind 2014 winners Germany. The world number one and two-time

:08:35. > :08:36.champion Rafael Nadal is through to the third

:08:37. > :08:39.round of the US Open overnight. He came through against

:08:40. > :08:42.Japan's Taro Daniel in four sets. Joining him there will be

:08:43. > :08:45.Roger Federer, who was pushed all the way for the second time

:08:46. > :08:47.in three days, this time It's the first time in his career

:08:48. > :08:53.he's played five set matches in the first two rounds of a Grand

:08:54. > :08:57.Slam. He'll face Spain's

:08:58. > :09:09.Feliciano Lopez next. That is all your sport for now. We

:09:10. > :09:09.will be back with more little later on.

:09:10. > :09:13.Thank you very much. From today many parents in England

:09:14. > :09:16.are entitled to 30 hours of free care for children that are three

:09:17. > :09:18.or four- which is double It depends on the parents

:09:19. > :09:32.meeting certain criteria. in work and not earning

:09:33. > :09:35.over ?100,000 a year. But there are a number

:09:36. > :09:37.of concerns with the system- with some parents complaining

:09:38. > :09:39.that the application process has not worked,

:09:40. > :09:41.and nurseries saying they are facing Let's talk to Neil Leitch, chief

:09:42. > :09:45.executive of the Preschool Learning Alliance, which represents 14,000

:09:46. > :09:48.members, and Karen Brain, a mum of three whose youngest daughter

:09:49. > :10:00.is eligible for the free childcare. And Karen, I just wonder whether you

:10:01. > :10:06.have gone through the application process, how has that been for you?

:10:07. > :10:15.It has been an absolute nightmare. Last week I was doing the process,

:10:16. > :10:19.only to be told that even if I did apply, because obviously I had to do

:10:20. > :10:24.it two weeks before commencing work, I actually commenced my new job at

:10:25. > :10:28.the beginning of September, the 11th, so I couldn't apply until this

:10:29. > :10:34.week. I was then advised that even by applying, the five weeks backlog,

:10:35. > :10:39.and I wouldn't get a code in time for my daughter to be eligible to go

:10:40. > :10:46.to nursery. So you were facing what you felt was just too much

:10:47. > :10:50.bureaucracy on this? That's correct. Far too much red tape. Because

:10:51. > :10:54.obviously I had secured my job, I was trying to apply online, to be

:10:55. > :11:02.told I couldn't apply until two weeks beforehand. Which then I was

:11:03. > :11:05.told that there was a five-week backlog, and even if I did apply

:11:06. > :11:11.before the 31st of August, I wouldn't actually get my code, so my

:11:12. > :11:15.daughter wouldn't have childcare. That means I am working for nothing.

:11:16. > :11:22.Which is obviously detrimental. I thought that the Government was

:11:23. > :11:26.trying to get people from benefits into work, and not put obstacles in

:11:27. > :11:32.their way. And all I feel is that that is what I have had. It is not

:11:33. > :11:34.until I have taken it to the media that I have actually had any

:11:35. > :11:45.response. And what response have you had? The media has been backing me

:11:46. > :11:49.up 100%. I joined a social media group, explained my situation that I

:11:50. > :12:00.was in a position where I either take the job and work for nothing,

:12:01. > :12:06.or if I did work, it would have a detrimental financial restraint on

:12:07. > :12:10.me, or I don't actually work at all. And I thought that the government

:12:11. > :12:14.was trying to help people back into employment, and I didn't realise

:12:15. > :12:19.there was so much red tape and bureaucracy. But the parents'

:12:20. > :12:25.perspective. Let's get the perspective of the childcare

:12:26. > :12:30.providers themselves and Neil. What seems to be happening is the need,

:12:31. > :12:36.the legal requirement to provide these extra hours, is causing some

:12:37. > :12:40.childcare providers to say they might actually have to close down?

:12:41. > :12:44.Absolutely. The first thing to say is there is no such thing as free

:12:45. > :12:48.childcare. At the moment, as you alluded to, every three and

:12:49. > :12:52.four-year-old is entitled to 15 hours of free childcare for 38 weeks

:12:53. > :12:56.of the year, but can be spread across the year. But the way that

:12:57. > :13:00.works for providers is they are able to cross subsidise it by those

:13:01. > :13:05.parents who take additional hours. So if you take 25 hours, 30 the

:13:06. > :13:08.moment, 15 hours of those will be at a slightly higher rate so that it

:13:09. > :13:12.will effectively fund the inadequate funding that comes from the

:13:13. > :13:17.government. If you remove the ability to do that, then you just

:13:18. > :13:21.exacerbate the problem. So providers are struggling even further now to

:13:22. > :13:24.be able to deliver this offer. I don't understand. The Government

:13:25. > :13:33.tells us we are giving an additional ?1 billion a year by 2019/20. They

:13:34. > :13:38.are making sure that 15,000 children will benefit from places. So they

:13:39. > :13:41.are doing their part? Let me just say first of all. More money doesn't

:13:42. > :13:47.necessarily mean enough money. Why not? Let's look at that ?1 billion.

:13:48. > :13:52.Five months before this policy basically came out, when Labour were

:13:53. > :13:57.contemplating offering ten hours of free childcare, so not ten hours,

:13:58. > :14:01.but 15 hours, the then minister, a Conservative minister, is on record

:14:02. > :14:03.giving evidence to the House of Lords affordable childcare

:14:04. > :14:08.committee, and he said, do you know how much this would cost? At least

:14:09. > :14:14.?1.5 billion. Now in my reckoning, if you then extend it to 15 hours

:14:15. > :14:18.instead of ten, that comes to ?2.25 billion, so by Government's own

:14:19. > :14:23.admission, surely there are investing less than 50% of what is

:14:24. > :14:26.required. So there is a shortfall. I received a letter from the chief

:14:27. > :14:31.executive of the early childhood council in New Zealand. This country

:14:32. > :14:36.always quits New Zealanders being a great exemplar. He said to me, a few

:14:37. > :14:40.years ago, we introduced 20 hours of free childcare. A couple of years

:14:41. > :14:43.later, the Government dropped the word free, and they dropped the word

:14:44. > :14:48.free because they realised they couldn't fund it. We are already at

:14:49. > :14:52.that position. But you do have examples of success stories. In

:14:53. > :14:57.Northumberland, all the providers in Northumberland signing up to deliver

:14:58. > :15:02.the 30 hours, so it is working? It doesn't mean it's working. Providers

:15:03. > :15:05.will sign up to this because they are petrified, frankly, that if they

:15:06. > :15:09.don't offer the 30 hours, that particular parent will go to

:15:10. > :15:13.somebody else. They will restrict the number of places that they

:15:14. > :15:17.offer. They will also have to charge additional extras for things like

:15:18. > :15:20.lunches and trips, and they will increase the prices to those parents

:15:21. > :15:25.who do not qualify for the additional 15 hours. That doesn't

:15:26. > :15:31.mean it is working. Karen, let's just come back to you. What is your

:15:32. > :15:35.solution, then? Are you going to have to make a choice between

:15:36. > :15:39.working and continuing down this path, or just deciding not to work?

:15:40. > :15:46.That's a decision I was thinking about last week. I was beside myself

:15:47. > :15:54.with worry and stress thinking what am I going to do? Luckily, with the

:15:55. > :16:01.help of the press and the media which has changed this 360 dedprees,

:16:02. > :16:05.from not being able to apply, this week I have been able to do an

:16:06. > :16:10.application over the phone, which has changed since last week. I have

:16:11. > :16:19.also demonstrated my urgency and it seems to have been saying that on

:16:20. > :16:24.the 31st, as long as you apply, you will be legible for your free 30

:16:25. > :16:29.hours and they will backlog. I am lucky because I think without the

:16:30. > :16:35.help of the media I wouldn't have been able to get the free child care

:16:36. > :16:37.as quickly as I did. I think I fast-tracked, which a lot of people

:16:38. > :16:46.probably wouldn't have been able to I am now in a position which has

:16:47. > :16:55.been confirmed this morning, that my child now has her free child care or

:16:56. > :16:59.nursery place. Thank you very much for joining us and explaining that

:17:00. > :17:20.and also thanks to you, Neil. We know from our evaluation that

:17:21. > :17:24.providers are committed to offering 30 hours and the additional hours

:17:25. > :17:28.are having a really positive impact on families taking huge pressure off

:17:29. > :17:32.families finances, that's the Government's opinion of all of this.

:17:33. > :17:37.You heard one parent's opinion of this.

:17:38. > :17:41.Breaking news now. Kenya's Supreme Court, you will remember in Kenya

:17:42. > :17:46.they held a general election recently. The Supreme Court has

:17:47. > :17:53.overturned the results of last month's presidential elections and

:17:54. > :17:59.has called for a new election within 60 days. Anne is in Nairobi for us.

:18:00. > :18:08.What sort of irregularities and what does this mean in an already

:18:09. > :18:12.troubled political environment? Well, the irregularities, there are

:18:13. > :18:16.wild celebrations around me, supporters of the opposition

:18:17. > :18:22.coalition, have come to town to celebrate this very unexpected

:18:23. > :18:25.judgment of the court. The chief justice said that the Electoral

:18:26. > :18:29.Commission failed to conduct the elections in accordance with the

:18:30. > :18:34.constitution and electoral laws and said that the irregularities and

:18:35. > :18:40.illegalities could not have given a credible result. Therefore, contrary

:18:41. > :18:44.to what international observers had said, they had said that the

:18:45. > :18:49.election was free, fair and credible, he said the irregularities

:18:50. > :18:54.and the ommissions that were committed could not amount to a

:18:55. > :18:57.credible election. Therefore, said that the presidential elections

:18:58. > :19:05.specifically was invalid, null and void and people will be going back

:19:06. > :19:09.to the ballot in another 60 days to elect a new President. This means is

:19:10. > :19:14.that parliament has already been sworn in so MPs have already been

:19:15. > :19:18.sworn in and the ruling party has a huge majority in both Houses of

:19:19. > :19:22.parliament, Senate and the National Assembly, so, it will be interesting

:19:23. > :19:26.to see what impact the presidential election is going to have on the

:19:27. > :19:31.other smaller elections, whether they're going to be challenged in

:19:32. > :19:35.court and using this as a strong precedent. The leader of the

:19:36. > :19:38.opposition says that the past elections that he has participated

:19:39. > :19:42.in, four of them, has been stolen from him. This is a welcome reprieve

:19:43. > :19:48.for his supporters, they are celebrating. Of course in another 60

:19:49. > :19:51.days they will know indeed if he is the more popular presidential

:19:52. > :19:54.candidate. A remarkable development there in

:19:55. > :19:57.Kenya. We will be following that here on BBC News throughout the day

:19:58. > :20:04.I am sure. For now, from Nairobi, thank you very much.

:20:05. > :20:16.Still to come: How clean will your house be after the EU bans the sale

:20:17. > :20:20.of powerful vacuum cleaners? The story of little Alan Kurdi who

:20:21. > :20:23.dlouned after fleeing Syria shocked the world. You might find the image

:20:24. > :20:26.distressing especially if you are watching with children, lying face

:20:27. > :20:32.down in the sand, the picture of Alan drew the world's attention to

:20:33. > :20:35.the deadly migrant crossings. The image shows a Turkish police officer

:20:36. > :20:42.carrying the tiny body of the young boy away. Alan's brother and mother

:20:43. > :20:49.also lost their lives that day. Only his father Abdullah survived. On the

:20:50. > :20:52.Eve of this second anniversary Tima, Alan's aunt, has been speaking

:20:53. > :21:06.exclusively to us and has been telling us how she's marking the

:21:07. > :21:14.anniversary of their deaths. There is a refugee camp there, and for my

:21:15. > :21:20.brother Abdullah, I can't explain, he will never heal completely. But

:21:21. > :21:26.every time he goes to the refugee camp and talks to them it gives him

:21:27. > :21:34.hope and he always look at it as I am going to be the person who can be

:21:35. > :21:44.the force of those children and give them what I can give them or what he

:21:45. > :21:53.couldn't do for his own children. From Canada, I decided to open the

:21:54. > :22:04.Kurdi foundation and it's fairly new, we don't have a charity number

:22:05. > :22:10.yet. We need to wait. But people can donate. Hopefully we are going to

:22:11. > :22:14.make it. Alan, the boy on the beach, will never be forgotten. That's an

:22:15. > :22:18.amazing thing to be doing after you have suffered so much heartache and

:22:19. > :22:28.grief. You mentioned your brother who clearly isn't coping at all

:22:29. > :22:35.well. No, I cannot explain it. Just imagine losing your whole family,

:22:36. > :22:43.not just one, two kids and his wife. It's not easy. But I keep

:22:44. > :22:49.encouraging him. I keep reminding him that maybe God wants him to do

:22:50. > :22:56.something and by opening the Kurdi foundation to help those innocent

:22:57. > :23:15.children who have nothing to do in this world, expect to have a good

:23:16. > :23:21.life, so I give him hope. Emotionally it's not easy for him.

:23:22. > :23:31.It's up and down. It's been two years. Emotionally, the pain, and he

:23:32. > :23:38.is not the only one, there are thousands of families like my

:23:39. > :23:43.brother. They have the same thing. We see this every day. It's

:23:44. > :23:49.happening and it's sad, it's sad to see the world, we are just sitting

:23:50. > :23:52.and watching and not doing enough. Clearly still very affected, of

:23:53. > :24:03.course. You can see the full interview on our programme page.

:24:04. > :24:12.Last night the summer of madness came to an end. The total summer

:24:13. > :24:16.spending by Premier League clubs came to ?1. 4 billion. It beat the

:24:17. > :24:21.previous highest figure of ?1. 1 billion. The transfer window opened

:24:22. > :24:25.earlier in the summer and it's the only time that clubs can make

:24:26. > :24:31.permanent signings until the next opportunity in January. In that

:24:32. > :24:36.period there's been a load of wheeling and dealing, clubs gazumped

:24:37. > :24:37.and players and agents becoming even richer. Let's look at some

:24:38. > :24:57.eye-watering deals. Lukaku moved from Everton to

:24:58. > :25:20.Manchester United for ?75 million. Morata moved for ?60 million. When

:25:21. > :25:23.asked why he shaved his head he said it's so children with cancer can

:25:24. > :25:38.have the same haircut as him. Is it time to acknowledge TV and

:25:39. > :25:40.broadcasting rights and money powering into the game is good for

:25:41. > :25:44.football and supporters? Let's talk now to Rachel Anderson

:25:45. > :25:47.MBE, who's had a long career as a football agent and Alison Bender,

:25:48. > :25:49.who's a football presenter. She was touring the

:25:50. > :26:01.stadiums of London until Rachel, I saw you putting your hands

:26:02. > :26:05.in the air, at frustration or joy? Thrilled. It makes the world go

:26:06. > :26:12.around. It's so much money. It's not really. We spend billions on arms.

:26:13. > :26:14.Compared to that, it's nothing. And this is a massive entertainment

:26:15. > :26:17.industry. Without question. Tell me when we are talking about ?60

:26:18. > :26:22.million for the sale of a player where does that money go? Well, it

:26:23. > :26:27.will go from the selling club to the buying club. Plus there will be

:26:28. > :26:32.other clubs behind he has previously been with and they will get a divvy

:26:33. > :26:36.up, the FA gets some, the agent might get a pound or two. The

:26:37. > :26:41.selling club doesn't get the full 60. Not normally. There's normally,

:26:42. > :26:45.you have to take monies out of it. You have to take commissions out of

:26:46. > :26:49.it, you have to take taxes out of it, you have to take, for example,

:26:50. > :26:55.if the player had been with another club for two or three years before

:26:56. > :26:58.and a decent club, they would be having a bonus, a substantial bonus

:26:59. > :27:06.out of ?60 million. It's a ridiculous amount of money, though,

:27:07. > :27:11.it has to be said. For the last six summers, each summer it has

:27:12. > :27:17.surpassed itself, this broke the record nine days before the window

:27:18. > :27:19.closed. Neymar is too much? 200 million man, these inflated figures

:27:20. > :27:24.sound ridiculous but every year it happens. Obviously, the Premier

:27:25. > :27:28.League rights money has a lot to do with the big spending. Look, he can

:27:29. > :27:36.head a ball. There he goes, look, that's great! He is one of the best

:27:37. > :27:39.in world football. Roy Keane joked recently, if David Beckham was still

:27:40. > :27:43.playing he would be ?1 billion. It's ridiculous. But we do see these

:27:44. > :27:47.figures going up and up every season. It's a package. It's not

:27:48. > :27:51.just the football. People forget how much money is made out of the

:27:52. > :27:56.merchandising and it's not just the fact that he is an incredible

:27:57. > :28:00.footballer. He also will bring in a large sum of money from sponsors and

:28:01. > :28:08.merchandising all over the world. You were at the stadium last night,

:28:09. > :28:11.what were fans making of it? I was at Chelsea and Wembley and ended up

:28:12. > :28:16.at the Emirates, there was frustration there from fans. They

:28:17. > :28:19.started thinking we are going to get good money for Sanchez, this is

:28:20. > :28:24.going to come back into the club. We are going to get Lemar, we are

:28:25. > :28:28.excited. As the evening went on, they realised that the deal was

:28:29. > :28:33.falling through. They said it's the same old story. It's Groundhog Day,

:28:34. > :28:39.they were starting to get frustrated with the manager, as well. It's this

:28:40. > :28:43.whole almost domino effect. You get one, and the next, if you don't get

:28:44. > :28:48.the first, you don't get the next. It's like buying a house, you have a

:28:49. > :28:53.chain. Sometimes it can be five, six players long. That's why some of

:28:54. > :29:01.them end up coming right to the end day. We focus on the highest paid.

:29:02. > :29:06.Presumably lower down there are more average footballers still getting a

:29:07. > :29:09.lot of money. Who suddenly have had to uproot their families and move to

:29:10. > :29:13.another club because at the last minute they've been shifted

:29:14. > :29:18.somewhere else. Does that happen? It can happen. But there are financial

:29:19. > :29:24.benefits by moving as well. Sure. Nobody goes without being

:29:25. > :29:29.compensated in some way. What it's done, these Crazy Prices, it has

:29:30. > :29:35.helped the lower leagues, as well, because money does trickle down. To

:29:36. > :29:40.some extent. Not as much as it should, but it does trickle down. It

:29:41. > :29:43.keeps the whole industry going. And getting bigger and until people stop

:29:44. > :29:47.not wanting to be involved or watch football, it will continue. OK. Here

:29:48. > :29:53.is a question, there is all this money there and all this money

:29:54. > :29:59.through TV rights and etc, etc, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to

:30:00. > :30:06.reduce ticket prices a little bit so that more people could afford to go

:30:07. > :30:11.to see these incredibly well paid football stars?

:30:12. > :30:17.There has certainly been calls for that, and they have these schemes

:30:18. > :30:21.like 20th plenty, but it is supply and demand, so many people want to

:30:22. > :30:26.go, they could charge even more, and it is a shame, because it is pricing

:30:27. > :30:30.out real football fans who perhaps don't earn these ridiculous

:30:31. > :30:34.salaries. Neymar can earn an average yearly salary in seven minutes, so

:30:35. > :30:37.in the time we have been chatting here, basically. But it doesn't

:30:38. > :30:40.release apprise me any more to be honest, and the other thing about

:30:41. > :30:44.last night is the deals that didn't happen. So many were set to happen

:30:45. > :30:51.and could still happen today, because the European window closes

:30:52. > :30:54.today, so Diego Costa could still leave Chelsea and Philippe Coutinho

:30:55. > :30:57.could still leave Liverpool. It has always been the way, it is just we

:30:58. > :31:02.know about it now. Thank you both very much for coming in. Still to

:31:03. > :31:08.come: The sale of powerful vacuum cleaners is being banned. TV

:31:09. > :31:12.presenter Aggie Mackenzie is going to join us to tell us how clean your

:31:13. > :31:15.house will be. The royal air force becomes the first branch of the

:31:16. > :31:17.British military to open up every role to men and women.

:31:18. > :31:19.We'll be speaking to the regiment's commander to talk

:31:20. > :31:26.With the news here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom.

:31:27. > :31:37.Kenya's Supreme Court has nullified the result of the country's

:31:38. > :31:40.presidential election. Judges said there were irregularities that harm

:31:41. > :31:45.to the vote's integrity, and ruled that another election must be held

:31:46. > :31:47.within 60 days. The result, which saw the incumbent Kenyatta return to

:31:48. > :31:54.power was challenged by the main opposition alliance, which argued it

:31:55. > :31:58.was for Gelant. For the first time, in the history of African

:31:59. > :32:08.democratisation, a ruling has been made by a court nullifying irregular

:32:09. > :32:15.elections of a president. This is a precedent-setting ruling, very

:32:16. > :32:22.historical. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Supreme

:32:23. > :32:23.Court judges led by the Chief Justice for doing this for posterity

:32:24. > :32:30.for the people of Kenya. The private sector security company

:32:31. > :32:40.G4S has suspended nine members Due to allegations of abuse and

:32:41. > :32:45.misconduct at a detention centre near Gatwick.

:32:46. > :32:47.A Panorama investigation to be broadcast on Monday allegedly shows

:32:48. > :32:49.some staff mocking, abusing and showing some violence towards

:32:50. > :32:54.G4S has said there was "no place for the type of conduct described

:32:55. > :32:57.in the allegations" and that it would "continue to focus on the care

:32:58. > :33:04.The Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said the UK must not allow

:33:05. > :33:06.itself to be blackmailed by the European Union over

:33:07. > :33:13.become impatient with the slow progress of the Brexit

:33:14. > :33:23.But the EU insist that the discussions on this must be finished

:33:24. > :33:25.before trade talks can begin. The RAF is now the first branch

:33:26. > :33:28.of the British military to open From today, they can apply

:33:29. > :33:32.to join the RAF Regiment, a front line combat force whose main

:33:33. > :33:35.task is to patrol and The Defence Secretary,

:33:36. > :33:38.Sir Michael Fallon, has described the move -

:33:39. > :33:41.which is a year ahead of schedule - Hundreds of thousands of people

:33:42. > :33:48.in Birmingham could see piles of rubbish mounting in the streets

:33:49. > :33:50.again as bin-workers resume strike Last month industrial action

:33:51. > :33:54.was suspended to allow talks between the council and unions -

:33:55. > :33:56.but the strike is back on again after the council

:33:57. > :33:58.said it was issuing Join me for BBC Newsroom

:33:59. > :34:06.live at 11 o'clock. Thank you, Annita. The football

:34:07. > :34:12.pitch was gone, but the sport hasn't. Here's Hugh. Hello again.

:34:13. > :34:14.Plenty of action on the final day of the transfer window.

:34:15. > :34:18.One move that didn't happen Arsenal refused to sell Alexis Sanchez

:34:19. > :34:21.to Manchester City after agreeing a ?60 million fee.

:34:22. > :34:24.They wanted a replacement in first but Monaco's Thomas Lemar turned

:34:25. > :34:26.down the chance of a ?90 million move to the Emirates.

:34:27. > :34:29.One player who is on his way to London though, is England

:34:30. > :34:32.He'll join Premier League champions Chelsea from Leicester City

:34:33. > :34:36.Away from football, the great Roger Federer needed five sets

:34:37. > :34:39.to beat Russia's Mikhail Youzhny as he moved into the third

:34:40. > :34:41.round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows.

:34:42. > :34:43.Another former champion - Rafa Nadal - is also through.

:34:44. > :34:45.And Britain's Chris Froome is still the man to beat

:34:46. > :34:48.in the Vuelta a Espana, but a crash and some

:34:49. > :34:50.technical difficulties means his lead was been trimmed

:34:51. > :35:04.Just quickly, first practice ahead of this weekend's Italian Grand Prix

:35:05. > :35:09.has distended, good start the Lewis Hamilton, he is fastest so far. I

:35:10. > :35:14.will be back with more in Newsroom Live after 11.

:35:15. > :35:21.I can't believe we are about to do this!

:35:22. > :35:23.From today, vacuum cleaners using more than 900 watts

:35:24. > :35:26.and emitting more than 80 decibels will be banned when stocks run out

:35:27. > :35:30.Anti-EU campaigners and cleaning addicts argue that the less powerful

:35:31. > :35:33.models just don't clean as well - is that true?

:35:34. > :35:41.We are joined by our environment expert, Roger Howard in, who will

:35:42. > :35:51.tell us if we can get things just as clean with newer, less powerful

:35:52. > :36:00.models -- Roger Harrabin, and by Aggie Mackenzie from How Clean Is

:36:01. > :36:04.Your House? Roger, give us the background on this. The EU has to

:36:05. > :36:10.cut emissions of carbon dioxide and keep prices down for consumers, so

:36:11. > :36:13.part of that is forcing manufacturers to make appliances

:36:14. > :36:19.that do the same job as the old appliances, but with less energy. So

:36:20. > :36:22.when all these policy started to be introduced, energy bills have

:36:23. > :36:26.actually gone down, because of the extra energy efficiency, even though

:36:27. > :36:31.the actual cost of energy has gone up, the bills are less because we

:36:32. > :36:34.are using less of it. And it is not just vacuum cleaners, it has been

:36:35. > :36:40.happening with fridges, washing machines... Yes, all appliances

:36:41. > :36:44.except toasters, because there was around before the Brexit vote, and

:36:45. > :36:47.civil servants ministers must have had a word with somebody in

:36:48. > :36:51.Brussels, because the toasters legislation was held back because it

:36:52. > :36:54.was thought to be too controversial with those evil Europeans who were

:36:55. > :36:57.now even going to control our toasters.

:36:58. > :37:00.And I remember talking to somebody in a department store about this who

:37:01. > :37:05.manages the department store who pointed out that, we're talking

:37:06. > :37:12.about these labels, the energy efficiency labels, you get a letter,

:37:13. > :37:15.but now you get a plus, because it really has propelled the industry in

:37:16. > :37:20.a different direction to get more and more energy efficient. It

:37:21. > :37:25.absolutely has, we are talking about engineering here, forcing people to

:37:26. > :37:29.do better engineering, and the idea is that ultimately, consumers will

:37:30. > :37:35.benefit, we will have to lay fewer electricity cables, generate less

:37:36. > :37:42.electricity, have a few fewer carbon emissions. Look what they have done

:37:43. > :37:46.to our carpet! Who has done that? Not very clean at all. We need to

:37:47. > :37:55.get a vacuum cleaner. Roger, maybe. So, let's see, I am going to have a

:37:56. > :38:08.go here. What wattage is yours? I have no idea.

:38:09. > :38:18.Bit rubbish, isn't it? What is your verdict on that one? I give it two

:38:19. > :38:24.out of ten. This is an old one. What does 180 a what's mean? I have no

:38:25. > :38:30.idea. This uses a lot of electricity? The number of wattage

:38:31. > :38:34.in a vacuum cleaner, the higher the wattage is no indicator of how

:38:35. > :38:39.efficient it will be. It just gives an indication of how much

:38:40. > :38:43.electricity is being used. What is important is the airflow and the

:38:44. > :38:46.suction power, and for years, manufacturers have known this was

:38:47. > :38:50.coming, so they will have been working on technology and design in

:38:51. > :38:53.order to make vacuum cleaners more efficient for the future. Does yours

:38:54. > :39:05.work, Roger? Let's give it a go. That is nice and quiet. The other

:39:06. > :39:09.thing is the decibel Spain, I would say that is vast to superior. That

:39:10. > :39:14.is very interesting, because technically this should be less

:39:15. > :39:18.efficient because there is more space for the dust to travel than

:39:19. > :39:26.this one. Normally uprights are more efficient than cylinders. This is

:39:27. > :39:32.another old one, so that probably wouldn't be sold any more under the

:39:33. > :39:45.new legislation. The wattage is the key thing. 1200 watts. So this would

:39:46. > :39:52.be banned. And what is that the one down there? This is my hand-held at

:39:53. > :39:55.home. I do like a cordless vacuum cleaner, particularly one to use on

:39:56. > :39:58.the floor. The great thing about a cordless is you have only got a

:39:59. > :40:01.certain amount of battery time, see you need to do your job really

:40:02. > :40:06.quickly, and when the battery runs out, you can't do any more

:40:07. > :40:11.vacuuming, can you? Is this one of the new ones? It is about two years

:40:12. > :40:26.old, and it fits the new criteria. Let's see how it works.

:40:27. > :40:37.I think you are going to be there for ever! I use it for the sofa at

:40:38. > :40:44.home. It is tiny, but I would say that that was just as good as that.

:40:45. > :40:48.It has get a smaller area... Interestingly, it is alleged, and I

:40:49. > :40:49.don't know if this is true or not, but some rather unscrupulous

:40:50. > :40:56.manufacturers have been bringing appliances into the UK and making

:40:57. > :41:01.them very high wattage, because people think oh, 1500 watts, that is

:41:02. > :41:04.powerful, but it has as you said, it has no relationship at all with the

:41:05. > :41:09.amount of suction. How do you choose a good vacuum cleaner, then? First

:41:10. > :41:13.of all, are these changes to the rules, I think the conclusion is

:41:14. > :41:18.that they don't necessarily mean that we are going to have dirtier

:41:19. > :41:21.homes? Absolutely not, and in terms of a clean home, get everyone to

:41:22. > :41:27.take their shoes off before they come in. That is the number one

:41:28. > :41:33.rule. Go to the consumer magazines and look at the section that says

:41:34. > :41:37.airflow and pick-up efficiency. That is what you want at the end of the

:41:38. > :41:44.day, how well it picks up. Fantastic. I don't know what we are

:41:45. > :41:47.going to do about that mass! So far it is only been the woman on her

:41:48. > :41:54.hands and knees, I think you should do that to prove that a quality is

:41:55. > :41:57.alive and well in the BBC! After 11 o'clock, I will! I can't believe I

:41:58. > :41:59.have just used a hoover on air, my mother would be very, very proud

:42:00. > :42:02.indeed. Now, the Royal Air Force has become

:42:03. > :42:06.the first branch of the British military to open up every role

:42:07. > :42:08.to both men and women. From today it will accept

:42:09. > :42:10.applications from women to join the RAF Regiment -

:42:11. > :42:12.its ground-fighting force. The move follows a decision last

:42:13. > :42:15.year to lift the ban on females Let's talk to Air Commodore Frank

:42:16. > :42:23.Clifford, who is the head of the RAF Regiment

:42:24. > :42:26.and Group Captain Wendy Rothery Head of RAF Recruiting and Selection -

:42:27. > :42:40.a woman already working in the RAF. thank you both very much for coming

:42:41. > :42:43.in. How major step is this? The Defence Secretary said it is a

:42:44. > :42:48.defining moment for the royal air force as we approach our centenary

:42:49. > :42:51.next year. All roles are open to everyone regardless of gender,

:42:52. > :42:57.ethnicity and sexual orientation, so it is a big day. Franklin said, how

:42:58. > :43:00.long have you been in the military? I have been in the military and the

:43:01. > :43:05.RAF Regiment for 34 years. And if you think back to 34 years ago,

:43:06. > :43:09.could you imagine a step like this? 34 years ago, the day I joined, no,

:43:10. > :43:15.but a lot has changed in society and a lot has changed in the military.

:43:16. > :43:18.When I joined there were no female pilots, no females serving aboard

:43:19. > :43:22.ships in the Royal Navy. Society has changed, the world has changed, and

:43:23. > :43:27.likewise the air force representing the society that we serve is

:43:28. > :43:29.adapting unchanging to meet the service and the people. Has there

:43:30. > :43:35.been a fight to get to this stage within the military? My

:43:36. > :43:38.stereotypical view, it may be as this is unfair, but my stereotypical

:43:39. > :43:47.view is that the military is a relatively conservative with a small

:43:48. > :43:53.C part of society. I wouldn't say a struggle so much, but we need to

:43:54. > :43:57.make sure we operate safely and effectively, and there has been some

:43:58. > :44:03.research, a lot of research into the medical risks encountered by women,

:44:04. > :44:07.so we need to make sure that we can mitigate those as far as possible.

:44:08. > :44:12.Tell us specifically what sort of things you are talking about there?

:44:13. > :44:18.It is physiologically proven that women have a higher incidence of

:44:19. > :44:22.musculoskeletal injuries, so damaged ligaments, and joining the RAF

:44:23. > :44:25.Regiment is quite physically demanding, so we have had to ensure

:44:26. > :44:29.that we have looked at the medical research to make sure that we are

:44:30. > :44:34.going to mitigate that risk as far as possible. So that then has a

:44:35. > :44:39.knock-on impact to a small extent, but a knock-on impact to how the

:44:40. > :44:43.medical officials and others work, the sort of things that women are

:44:44. > :44:50.asked to do? Is it the way in which... ? The standard is the

:44:51. > :44:55.standard, so women will need to demonstrate the ability to operate

:44:56. > :45:00.at the same level as the men, so it is gender free. The whole aim of

:45:01. > :45:04.this is to make it absolutely inclusive, it is a gender free

:45:05. > :45:09.activity, the females and males undertake at the same level. Is

:45:10. > :45:13.there still some resistance? There will be still some resistance in

:45:14. > :45:21.society, you said that the military mirrors society. What do you say and

:45:22. > :45:25.perhaps do to those men who are on these bases who are going to be

:45:26. > :45:28.protected now by women as well as men, what do you say to them, those

:45:29. > :45:30.who are concerned about this and say, a woman is not going to be able

:45:31. > :45:41.to do the job? I would disgree. What can you do if

:45:42. > :45:44.people harbour those points? It's leadership for those voids and

:45:45. > :45:47.leading those individuals, making sure third who has changed, why it

:45:48. > :45:51.is changing and also the proof of the concept, make it work, make it

:45:52. > :45:55.work for the Royal Air Force and the defence. So, yes, we are the first

:45:56. > :45:59.to do this. I am proud that we are the first to be doing this within

:46:00. > :46:03.the Armed Forces. Let's make it work. Lean behind this and get it

:46:04. > :46:06.going properly. One of the reasons you are here today and one of the

:46:07. > :46:10.reasons you are talking about this is to publicise the fact you want

:46:11. > :46:13.more women to apply. We do. How do you go about doing that? This is

:46:14. > :46:16.obviously a step forward and may be women watching at the moment who say

:46:17. > :46:21.I didn't know I could and I will apply. Yet that is also something

:46:22. > :46:24.that society itself will have to get over the fact women are being

:46:25. > :46:32.specifically asked to apply for jobs like this. The RAF has more than 50

:46:33. > :46:37.career options available. Women form about 14% at the moment of our

:46:38. > :46:43.overall force, which may sound low given that women are about 50% of

:46:44. > :46:47.the population, so we are keen to increase that. And opening up RAF

:46:48. > :46:56.Regiment roles mean that women can now apply to do any of the roles

:46:57. > :46:59.that we offer. We are very excited about opening up to a broader pool

:47:00. > :47:03.of talent. Do you have targets you have set in terms of the numbers you

:47:04. > :47:08.wish to recruit, the sort of gender balance you wish to get to? Yes, we

:47:09. > :47:10.do in terms of our intake, our recruiting numbers, we are steadily

:47:11. > :47:14.increasing the number of women we are bringing into the service. We

:47:15. > :47:21.have set ourselves a target of 20% by 2020. It's a stretch target, the

:47:22. > :47:28.others services are looking at 15%. We are already more than 15% in

:47:29. > :47:31.intake. As a woman in the military, how would you characterise the

:47:32. > :47:36.change in attitudes towards women in the military over the years? I think

:47:37. > :47:41.it's been a very positive move. It's not an issue for the youngsters who

:47:42. > :47:48.are joining the air force, they fully embrace diversity in a way

:47:49. > :47:55.previous generations didn't. We now have women in very senior roles,

:47:56. > :47:59.board level, I think young women can see the career opportunities do

:48:00. > :48:06.exist and they can get to the top of the organisation. All right. Thank

:48:07. > :48:12.you both very much for coming in. We have had some comments coming in

:48:13. > :48:17.on the vacuum cleaners. Why don't we ignore the ban and pay the fine like

:48:18. > :48:21.other EU countries? That's one way of dealing with this. Frank says,

:48:22. > :48:27.it's interesting to see the new ruling, worse than that is the noise

:48:28. > :48:30.from garden blowers which carry on constantly where he lives.

:48:31. > :48:35.Presumably you would like the European Commission to tell us to

:48:36. > :48:44.cut down on the noise from garden blowers. Andrew says that the EU is

:48:45. > :48:50.banning powerful cleaners, really it's banning inefficient cleaners.

:48:51. > :48:56.Peter e-mailed to say I do not understand what the Little England

:48:57. > :49:01.Brexiteers have against saving money and helping the planet. And an

:49:02. > :49:02.e-mail, the EU is looking to the forward where energy is at a

:49:03. > :49:08.premium. There you go. You only have to think back just

:49:09. > :49:12.a few years ago and you'd be amazed how far we've come in the world

:49:13. > :49:15.of technology but what will the technological advances

:49:16. > :49:16.of the future be like, and just how will they

:49:17. > :49:19.impact on our lives? A new programme on BBC Three

:49:20. > :49:22.explores how robots are being developed to engage with us

:49:23. > :49:24.on an emotional level, whether it be in the therapy room,

:49:25. > :49:28.stop us from being lonely We'll be speaking to two people

:49:29. > :49:35.who appear in the programme in a moment, but first

:49:36. > :49:45.let's take a quick look. Rachel's anxiety has affected her

:49:46. > :49:49.life for almost three years. She's been avoiding everything from trains

:49:50. > :49:57.to lifts and unfortunately for me today's session is on the 7th floor.

:49:58. > :50:02.Hope you don't mind me sitting here. She won't be able to see you soon.

:50:03. > :50:06.The virtual reality experience feels real for people. It's totally

:50:07. > :50:09.immersive. If you take someone into a situation they've been avoiding

:50:10. > :50:14.even in their imagination for a long period of time they get that strong

:50:15. > :50:21.emotional reaction in that situation. I am quickly going to

:50:22. > :50:25.take you to a relaxing environment. Michael will be guiding Rachel with

:50:26. > :50:34.traditional therapy methods while she is immersed in the virtual

:50:35. > :50:38.environment. Once relaxed the game will take over, sending her into a

:50:39. > :50:41.replica setting of an underground tube.

:50:42. > :50:46.It's going to take you straight there. Don't be disorientated. How

:50:47. > :50:55.does it feel as you walk? We can speak now to James Young,

:50:56. > :50:58.who is the presenter of Can Robots Love Us,

:50:59. > :51:06.and Rochelle Blisson, Explain why you were using that

:51:07. > :51:11.virtual reality and how it helped? So, I have an anxiety condition and

:51:12. > :51:18.it's linked to a fear of being trapped. A lot of people confuse

:51:19. > :51:23.that with claustrophobia. A couple of years ago I was trapped on a tube

:51:24. > :51:30.for a brief time. I had a massive anxiety attack and since then I have

:51:31. > :51:33.pretty much been avoiding everything, public transport, lifts,

:51:34. > :51:38.even crowds and new buildings, all sorts of things that make me feel

:51:39. > :51:43.trapped. When I had the chance to appear on this documentary and try

:51:44. > :51:48.this new therapy, I have tried a lot of different therapies and different

:51:49. > :51:53.techniques to cope with my anxiety, so I thought why not, let's give it

:51:54. > :51:58.a try, it's something different. You put on the headset. Yeah. What were

:51:59. > :52:02.you looking at? So, it does feel like you are in a game at first and

:52:03. > :52:09.you are looking in this virtual environment, you have headphones on,

:52:10. > :52:14.as well, they have background noise, especially in the tube scenario. It

:52:15. > :52:17.had crowd noise and sound of trains coming and after a while you feel

:52:18. > :52:22.like you are actually on a tube platform and you are going to go on

:52:23. > :52:27.a tube train and you start to feel anxious and you get that feeling and

:52:28. > :52:34.it becomes more realistic you forget you have a headset on and headphones

:52:35. > :52:39.on. It helped? Massively. In the first session as you can see when

:52:40. > :52:43.you watch the documentary, I get in a lift the very same day, maybe an

:52:44. > :52:47.hour after I started. That you couldn't do before? No, I had been

:52:48. > :52:51.avoiding them for years, I don't think I had been on a tube for about

:52:52. > :52:57.three years. Yeah, within three sessions. Did you come here on the

:52:58. > :53:01.tube? I didn't today, I ghetto in the lift, though, and I have been

:53:02. > :53:05.getting on tubes since. Slowly but surely, it's not a miracle cure, I

:53:06. > :53:08.don't think there is one out there, it's been the most successful

:53:09. > :53:13.therapy I have ever tried. James, you are the presenter. Of course

:53:14. > :53:22.your arm is the obvious thing here. Is this a robotic arm? It kind of

:53:23. > :53:24.is. It's an exploration into personal identity and expressing

:53:25. > :53:30.myself through my missing limb basically. It's an alternative limb.

:53:31. > :53:36.And how has it helped you, or has it helped you, I presume it has? It's

:53:37. > :53:40.kind of, it's made me interested in exploring the relationship between

:53:41. > :53:43.humans and technology and it's led towards this programme in trying to

:53:44. > :53:46.discover whether technology can engage with us in more human ways

:53:47. > :53:52.and maybe more positively affect our lives than at the moment. Can it,

:53:53. > :53:58.because it obviously doesn't look particularly human, can technology

:53:59. > :54:03.help us in that way? I think, if you think about it, it's kind of

:54:04. > :54:08.technology is created by human beings, it's the one thing that

:54:09. > :54:12.differentiates us from other animals, we use tools and different

:54:13. > :54:15.parts of technology and we discover qualities about the world,

:54:16. > :54:20.properties about the world, so it's kind of, it is a very human thing to

:54:21. > :54:23.be doing and it's kind of, I see in the future us engaging more with

:54:24. > :54:26.technology when it comes to our bodies, especially when it comes to

:54:27. > :54:29.probably our recovery and health. I understand when you move your

:54:30. > :54:34.fingers it affects the muscles in your chest, can you tell us about

:54:35. > :54:37.that. Yeah, last year in November I had surgery that basically, instead

:54:38. > :54:42.of the nerves not going anywhere that used to go to my left arm,

:54:43. > :54:46.they've been chopped basically and moved to different points around my

:54:47. > :54:49.chest and they're currently rehabilitating, growing into target

:54:50. > :54:53.areas of the muscles. Now when I think about doing different things

:54:54. > :54:57.with my left hand it activates muscles around my chest. Those

:54:58. > :55:01.things can be picked up in the future and fed into a bionic arm

:55:02. > :55:07.which is not happening with this one. In the future you think they

:55:08. > :55:12.could use those muscles in a bionic arm and the brain would be able to

:55:13. > :55:15.communicate with them? Essentially, because the computer of the arm

:55:16. > :55:23.would pick up what I am intending to do. My intentions, it's completely

:55:24. > :55:28.natural, I am doing the same thing I would be, my brain's doing the same

:55:29. > :55:33.thing as if I was thinking about moving my right arm. Tell us about

:55:34. > :55:38.some of the other people you met in the programme. There's some really

:55:39. > :55:43.interesting stuff in there. We have a variety of different technological

:55:44. > :55:49.feats. Some of them not suitable for breakfast, if you want to check it

:55:50. > :55:54.out, it's on BBC Three. It has a mixed arrangement. There is one

:55:55. > :55:58.which is similar to Rochelle experience, it's a mental health AI,

:55:59. > :56:03.you can speak to instead of a human being, maybe as well as a human

:56:04. > :56:08.being, but it helps you talk - you talk to a computer, but it kind of

:56:09. > :56:12.with that opportunity people tend to open up more and give more

:56:13. > :56:16.information and that, AI can measure responses and give you help

:56:17. > :56:23.accordingly and it's really interesting. Rochelle, obviously,

:56:24. > :56:27.you rediscovered the old world through technology. Were you

:56:28. > :56:36.surprised about that? I was really surprised. I have not really tried

:56:37. > :56:39.virtual reality before and I am not a massive tecchie, I am probably not

:56:40. > :56:45.as interested as you are, it shocked me. In the documentary I burst into

:56:46. > :56:50.tears after the first session because it worked so well and then I

:56:51. > :56:55.got in the lift and within three sessions the therapist actually went

:56:56. > :57:01.right, let's go on a tube and having avoided them for three years, to get

:57:02. > :57:04.that kind of reaction so quickly is something I never experienced before

:57:05. > :57:09.and I was so shocked but really pleased. James, you mentioned this

:57:10. > :57:15.is a family show and it is, so let's not go too far on this, but in the

:57:16. > :57:20.introduction we said there could be romantic involvement between a human

:57:21. > :57:28.being and a robot. Do you really believe that? Well, it seems

:57:29. > :57:32.apparent that some people love technology in its current state and

:57:33. > :57:37.so we have the difficult scenario where people are trying to create

:57:38. > :57:43.things that are in human form and essentially they're taking that form

:57:44. > :57:48.and people automatically imbu them with qualities, even if you talk to

:57:49. > :57:52.something like Sira or Alexia, you build up a thought about their

:57:53. > :57:59.personality, or she's not listening to me, or whatever, it's kind of, I

:58:00. > :58:02.think people naturally imbu - with technology becoming more complex

:58:03. > :58:08.that relationship is going to become more complex. We are already on that

:58:09. > :58:13.road it would seem. Thank you both very much for coming in. We have had

:58:14. > :58:19.a comment on that military story. David, as always the RAF are ahead

:58:20. > :58:23.of the game, well done. BBC news room live is up next. Thank you for

:58:24. > :58:32.your company today. Have a good day. Goodbye.

:58:33. > :58:37.You need to talk to the guy at Silk 41.