06/09/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Wednesday, it's 9am, I'm Chloe Tilley.

The Government is looking at ways to reduce the number of low skilled EU

migrants after Brexit. According to a leaked Home Office leaked

document. We want companies to do more to

improve skills of those who leave our colleges. We are not closing the

door on all future immigration, but it has to be managed properly.

Bosses faced being told they could be taxed if they keep taking on

unskilled EU migrants and should put British workers first.

As thousands of nurses prepare to lobby Parliament over their pay,

some of them tell us why they can't afford to live on what they get.

I'm Michael. I'm a nurse. I'm ?400 a month worse off under the pay cap.

We report on a scheme in Glasgow to help refugees who previously worked

as doctors join the NHS. Lots of colleagues who are doctors living

here and they are working other jobs. Some of them are even taxi

drivers which has let down hope for a lot of people and when you hear

about this, it has given us a lot of hope.

Hello. Welcome to the programme.

We're also talking about endometriosis this morning,

an incurable condition affecting women which causes extreme pain

Under new NHS guidelines should improve the treatment people get,

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A leaked Home Office document has set out plans for how

the UK immigration system could work after Brexit.

The paper, which has been published by the Guardian newspaper,

considers how the Government could dramatically reduce the number

It also proposes time limits on how long EU nationals

The BBC understands the document - which was produced last month -

Our Political Guru Norman Smith is in Westminster this morning.

Norman, tell us more about what's in the leaked document? Well, there are

two sort of big thoughts in this document. One is the desire for a

concerted climb-down on unskilled EU migration into the UK and the second

is to put British workers first. To give them priority. Now, how would

this work out? Well the Government is suggesting you could say to

unskilled EU workers coming to Britain, you can only stay for two

years, you would have to get a certain salary level. You couldn't

come here and look for a job, you would have to have a job to come to

and the Government is also thinking about just imposing a blanket cap on

the number of unskilled workers from the EU who can come here. So they

would say well, you can have X thousands, but no more than that. As

for business, they will be under an obligation to try and recruit local

British workers first and they will have to pass a test to show that

they have gone out and tried to recruit British workers and if then

they still want to recruit people from the EU, they could face a

charge, a tax, and that money would go to train up British workers. So,

it's a very, very big change from what the current sort of freedom of

movement regime and while it's not definite Government policy, I think,

we do get a clear insight into the strategy the Government is hoping to

unveil once we finally get the immigration plans unveiled in the

autumn. How is it being received, Norman? Well, business, I think, is

already deeply alarmed and the reason for that is they say look,

there simply aren't the indigenous British workers out there to take up

all the unskilled jobs because unemployment is down at around 4.5%.

That's nearly full employment. So they say look, we have got to go out

to Europe to bring in those unskilled workers otherwise we can't

meet customer demand and we can't grow our businesses. The response

from ministers has been to say look, immigration was at the heart of the

referendum campaign. There is no getting away from it and this

morning the Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon was saying he would

make no apology for bearing down on immigration. Let's be clear, freedom

of movement has to end. It has to end because legally we're living the

European Union, that's what people voted for last year and freedom of

movement is part of membership. So that has to finish. We don't want to

shut the down on I will gration, but equally the public want to see

immigration continue to come down. It's falling at the moment. We've

always said we want to get it manageable, down from hundreds of

thousands a year, down to tens of thousands a year to reduce the

pressure on public services. So we will set out the proposals as to who

can come here from the rest of the European Union, how long they can

work here and what their varied will be and it will be set out by the

Home Secretary later this year. Chloe this is going to provoke a

huge row, debate, call it what you will over the road in Westminster

including in the Conservative Party. When you talk to different ministers

they say, "Well, I don't want any reduction in EU migrants in my

particular field." No one really wants to see fewer NHS workers from

the EU or fewer care workers. No one really wants to see fewer farm

workers coming to work in fruit farms. No one wants to see fewer

construction workers. The difficulty is working out who are the unskilled

EU workers that the Government now wants to keep out. Norman, thank you

very much. Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary Islands in the Caribbean

are making last-minute preparations for Hurricane Irma,

one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record

with officials warning of its "potentially

catastrophic" effects. It's already lashing the British

territory of Anguilla where residents say the powerful

waves and high winds have been Latest reports say the eye

of the hurricane is passing over Our correspondent

Sarah Corker reports. This is the eye of

the storm from space. Dramatic images from Nasa

capture the sheer scale The category five storm

is on a collision course Popular holiday destinations

like Antigua and Saint Martin are preparing for life-threatening

winds and torrential rains. Storm surges of up to 12-feet

are forecast and overnight some Irma's path may change but at

the moment it looks set to head towards the British Virgin Islands,

Puerto Rico, Cuba and by People are securing their homes and

stocking up on essentials. The dough minutical republic the

rains have already arrived. The tourist like, like its neighbour,

Haiti issued hurricane warnings. And in Florida, a state of emergency has

been declared. The torm is massive and the storm surge will go for

miles and miles. Right now Irma is travelling at 15mph and the track

has it forecasted to move just south of the Florida quays on a westerly

path with a slight north-west turn. It is important that all Floridans

keep an eye on this storm. Do not sit and wait to prepare, get

prepared now. The storm's track may change.

This monster hurricane comes on the heels of Harvey, which struck

This But Irma is a bigger storm and potentially more dangerous. In

Miami, they are preparing for the worst. This is not a storm to be

taken lightly. This is probably the worst one since we moved here in

2003. I have lived through Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Katrina and

Hurricane Wilma. A research plane filmed these pictures from inside

the hurricane to predict its route and now millions of people across

the Caribbean are preparing for this potentially catastrophic storm.

A 14-year-old boy has died after a double

Corey Junior Davis and another boy, who's 17, were found with gunshot

injuries in Forest Gate on Monday afternoon.

The second victim is said to have "life-changing injuries".

Police have launched a murder investigation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that North Korea's nuclear

and missile programme are a "flagrant violation"

Speaking after talks with his South Korean counterpart

in the Russia city of Vladivostok, Mr Putin also called for talks

to try to resolve the crisis, warning that no resolution would be

possible with just sanctions and pressure alone.

The de-facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, has claimed

that the crisis in Rakhine state is being distorted by

Myanmar is currently under intense diplomatic pressure to end

the violence its security forces are reportedly inflicting

Nearly 150,000 people have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh.

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He only made his debut for Wales at the weekend and already he's

turning into a real star in the side, isn't he?

E-Ben Woodburn could well become the next big star. He is thought of

highly by his club manager, Jurgen Klopp. His international manager

decided to bring him in for Wales at the age of 17. He had a real effect.

He scored a winner on his debut and in last night's qualifier, well he

made another impact off the bench. The Liverpool man, showed no fear so

far in a Welsh shirt. He has defied his age. Good wide play from him to

set up the opening goal. It was a Man of the Match performance from

Woodburn. So we could be looking at another Ryan Giggs or Gareth Bale,

Aaron Ramsey getting another goal to put a seal on the result, but it was

a very important win for Wales because that result coupled with

defeat for the Republic of Ireland in their game with Serbia means that

Wales have moved into second spot in Group D. That gives them a good

chance of a play-off spot with a couple of qualifying games left.

Wales and Ireland will face each other in a final qualifier in a

month's time. That could be a winner takes all decider.

Now, the England women's manager Mark Sampson has been responding

Yes. There has been a bit of a storm at the FA over this. The former

striker alleged an atmosphere of bullying and discrimination. She

said that had been created by Sam son and included allegations of

racially insensitive language and Sam son has been cleared by a FA and

independent investigation and yesterday he chose to speak about

the issue. He said his conscience was clear responding to the claim

that he joked that he didn't want her Nigerian family to bring ebola

to an England game. This is what he had to say. I have heard the

specifics of the allegation and at the time we released a statement to

be very clear that I didn't say that and I'm very disappointed the

allegation has come out and I understand it. All I can say is I

didn't say that with any of my communication, my intention clearly

is to support the players, give them confidence and give them every

chance to be successful on the field.

She has claimed she e-mailed Sam son and he hasn't responded. We will see

if the FA chooses to look at this further.

Football will lose one of its greatest commentators

at the end of this season - John Motson.

We will hear and see less of John Motson. He is deciding to hang up

the microphone after 50 years. He covered ten World Cups, ten euros,

29 FA Cup Finals and more than 200 England games. He is at the age of

72. He says he wants to stay within football and commentary. He won't be

retiring from everything, but we won't have him describing a goal or

two on a Saturday night and that will be a brand-new feeling for many

of the football fans up and down the country. Hugh, thank you. I'll catch

up with you later on. Hundreds of nurses are expected

to gather in Central London later to demand a pay rise

from the Government It comes as the Scottish government

announce the pay cap in Scotland will be lifted and after hints

from ministers that things could be Tell me how your life has been

affected by the pay cap? I worry a lot more about money than I used to.

Money is a lot tighter at the end of the month, there is less money left.

So that means maybe you don't have a holiday that year or you shop for a

cheaper brand in the supermarket. But it's also about how we feel

under valued. So it's about yes, about money, but it's also every

time the pay cap stays in place and every time we are told there is no

money, it is a slap in the face for hard-working nurses and health care

assistants, midwives, doctors, operating department practitioners,

radiographers, everybody that works in the NHS and it is not, some of

the lower paid staff that are really suffering. So health care assistants

who are on band two, admin staff who are band ones, band twos, band

threes which are the lower pay scales because they have had their

pay frozen in the same way. It isn't just nurses that are suffering, it

is staff across the NHS. Emma Louise, you are in Glasgow, so

you will benefit from the cap is being lifted in Scotland. But that

does not mean I will not keep fighting for it to be lifted across

the UK. As well as that, I am a student, but I have benefited from

the bursary appear, and I would love to see it being overturned down

south, because I can see the number of nurses decreasing rapidly without

that bursary in place. On top of that, Michael is right when he says

it is about being undervalued, because we are out there saving your

family's life, and it is about the same respect been coming back to us.

I know that you used to be a nurse yourself - is the pay capped their?

I worked under the bank, but I worked under the cap and a pay

freeze from 2010-15, so I have done five years and I know how tough it

is. Nurses don't go into the profession to become wealthy or to

earn huge wages. It is about the recognition of how hard nurses have

worked, and about the whole public sector and what it says to people

when we say, we can't afford to give you a pay rise. But it is your

Government that has enforced that. I am one of many colleagues trying to

influence the Government to lift the pay cut. I am sponsoring an event

with the RCN to raise awareness amongst MPs not just about the pay

rise but to showcase what nurses really do, because I think there is

a lack of understanding about how the role has changed and the crucial

work that nurses do, both in hospitals and the community, and

what a difference they make to the NHS. Sam, introduce yourself,

please. I am the Executive Director of a free-market think tank. After

the crisis, public sector wages rose as private sector wages collapsed,

so the gap between the public and private sectors became large. The

purpose of the pay freeze was to close that gap so that

private-sector ways these -- wages and public sector could go back to

the pre-crisis point. So you back the pay cap? Correct. It is probably

time to think about getting rid of it, and I think there probably isn't

a case for having a cap on all Government workers. It is a little

strange to say that nurses should be treated the same way as tax

collectors, for example. But we also need to remember that private-sector

wages have been very sluggish and are still not much higher than they

were ten years ago. When we talk about stuff like this, we need to

remember that the private sector, which pays for this, is also

suffering and has had a difficult time, but it may be time to review

this and look at alternatives. Lorraine, I want to bring you in at

this point, if I made. Do you think that nurses, firefighters, police

officers are special cases and should have the cap removed? Very

much so. I think front line emergency services are needed, and

the skills that they have taken years to get... They also have to

keep continual development to keep their accreditation, and I think

that they should be treated specially in terms of the private

sector. Sam said it is tough for people in the private sector, and

many people watching the programme will say, I haven't had a pay rise

for many years, and I know that has been the case for you as well. I

left the private sector. I work for a telecoms company for 31 years. For

the last few years, since 2008, we didn't have a pay award at all. We

have had bonuses cut, but no pay award, which has an effect on our

pension payments. Our pension will be a lot less when we retire. Yes, I

do see that our pay award is based on performance, not just

individually but on the company's performance, and in some instances,

yes, you can use that yardstick, but in front line emergency services,

like fire, police, etc, you need to be able to pay them a living wage,

especially in areas like London, where the cost of living is very

high. And also, we have got to keep and attract key personnel in the

industry. If not, you get a situation like the one I have in

Luton, where we have to recruit internationally. They do brilliant

work in terms of looking after our pregnant women in the local hospital

here, but we have to look externally to get the skills to bring in, which

is ludicrous. I want to bring saffron into the

conversation. I am an adviser at NHS providers, and we represent hospital

and ambulance trusts in England. How much will it cost to lift the pay

cap? The Institute of fiscal studies says it would cost ?1 billion per

year. It is a substantial amount of money. But I would say that we

called for an end to the pay cap last year, and we were amongst the

first to do so, because we know it is critical that we not only recruit

new staff into the NHS so we can maintain safe services but that we

also retain those staff that R.N. There. We know there is huge

pressure on the front line at the moment, and it is impacting on

morale, and pay is one of those elements that we can see boosting

morale. It is absolutely fundamental. Let's talk about the

realities: Theresa May has said there was no magic money tree, so

where does this ?1 billion a year come from? Across the public sector,

if we lifted the cap, it would cost ?9 billion. I think there is

sympathy from the public sector workers from the first few years --

for the first few years, but that is waning. We still have a deficit that

is costing ?46 billion a year, and if we just increase public sector

spending, the interest payments will go up, and that is money we could

spend on front line services. It is not just as simple as spending more

money. We either raise taxes, which will hit those people getting the

pay rise, or we make tough decisions. The money would have to

come from another department or another policy, and that is the

tough decision Government has to make. It is not easy. That is an

important point. The other one is, if we found that we had ?9 billion

to spend, would it necessarily be best spent on wages? Yes, in some

cases, no in others. It is not clear that the money should always go to

wages. The way the debate is focused, it seems as if it is the

only thing the Government should spend money on. I think it is

fundamental that we look at what the NHS's biggest asset is - its

workforce. We need to invest in that. We need to do that so that

services can transform. You can't transform services without the staff

to do it. It fundamentally has to be new money. The ?8 billion that the

Conservatives put in their manifesto for the NHS over the course of the

next parliament, that will go on tackling demand, on keeping services

going. We need to see new money for this pay cap, not money taken up

elsewhere. So it is taxes? It is for politicians to decide how they raise

that money. It is for the service to deliver the service. Politicians

decide how much they will spend on the NHS, which we know is held dear

in everyone's hearts. You have been listening patiently and I know you a

dental nurse, and your mum is a nurse as well. Just explain to

people watching how your life has been affected by the pay cap, and

respond to what other people had been saying. Basically, we had to go

to food banks. We would be scraping around for food. She couldn't afford

her NMC registration most years, and that is about ?120 a year that

nurses have to pay to remain qualified and to keep their jobs.

She couldn't afford that, so she had to go to a charitable organisation.

To her, that was quite embarrassing and hurt deeply, because she would

be working 50 hours a week and would have hardly anything to show. People

find it staggering. You say your mum had to go to a food bank even though

she was working full time as a nurse? That's right, full-time hours

and extra hours on top. She would have hardly anything to show for it.

She had to get help with bills as well. I try to get a job when I was

13 just so I could help her. It is a difficult situation which thousands

of families are in right now. So, what is the answer? We're talking

about the reality of lifting the pay cap being that this ?8 billion has

to be found. Higher taxes or taking money from elsewhere - what is the

best option? I think taking it from elsewhere. Everyone has taxes,

including everyone in the public sector, who would have to pay more.

They wouldn't benefit from that. I think they need to look elsewhere

for this money. Everyone should benefit and not have more taken away

from them. Marina has just rushed into the studio. Thanks so much for

dashing in to see us. You are a student nurse? Just about to

qualify, yes. I will start work in a few months. How do you feel right

now? Michael was speaking at the beginning of the programme, saying

how undervalued he feels at a nurse. How do you feel as you approach this

new era in your life? I agree, it is a sad time. I started nursing

because I have a passion for caring people, and it is a sad time to

almost be a baby nurse, embarking the career in a climate where it is

clear that the Government just doesn't care. We want to care for

people, and we can't even care for ourselves and our families. I'm

starting my career on pay that has been cut for the last few years and

will not be going up to match the cost of living any time soon under

the current plans. Yeah, it is a really difficult... Speak to Maria.

She is a Conservative MP and used to be a nurse. Maria, speak to Marina -

she says your Government doesn't care. The Government does care. They

are in a difficult situation. If they simply spend more public money,

we will all pay that and we will all lose that ?46 billion we're paying

on interest rates. If you don't pay the balance on your credit card, you

have to pay that interest when you could be spending it on your family.

The Government, it is just a big credit card, and if we simply

increase our spending, the money has to be paid back at some point. I get

it, because I still do bank shifts at my old hospital. The NHS staff

don't feel cared for. There are ways of doing this without simply lifting

the cap across the whole sector. If we focused on the lowest bands,

which are most nurses... What money are you talking about that people

would earn? It would be significantly less than ?9 billion.

Michael, do you know? Someone at the top of the increment would be on

about ?41,000. Band one, a member of the security staff, a catering

assistant, I think it is about 15,000, though I couldn't say for

sure. The gender -- agenda for change pay scales are online and you

can look at them. What you said about the magic money tree... I

raised that, to be fair. Somebody raised it. In the papers just this

week, there was a big headline of ?400,000 spent on ferrying

briefcases around London by ministers. There is money out there,

but it is about where it is being spent. There was another big

headline a few weeks ago - Jeremy Hunt was getting a new ?40,000

bathroom in his new offices at the Department of Health. I don't know

if that is true, but there seem to be sums of money available that

perhaps are not going where they should be. No one is a bigger critic

of Government West than I am, but those are very small sums compared

to what we're talking about. I think Maria's approaches the right one: On

lower paid workers. We need to remember that job security is

stronger in the public sector than in the private sector. Pensions are

still better in the public sector than in the private. Those things

come into it as well. I'm not completely convinced that if we had

?9 billion to spend, the best thing would be to raise public sector

workers' wages, rather than for example changing the welfare freeze.

People who rely on welfare have much more dependency on food banks and

people in that position have suffered as well. The point is, if

we have this kind of money to spend, it is not clear it should be going

on public sector wages. I think the point about security in the public

sector, with the current climate, is null and void, because people are

leaving. They may have job security, but if they haven't got enough

security to raise their families and care for themselves, then, yeah, it

is kind pointless. We are talking about Agenda for

Change. Those people on the bands up to ?40,000. I think it is really

important that we're clear what we're talking about. One of the

things that's critical in this debate is that we make sure that the

pay review body, which is the kind of the organisation that will look

at pay is given a free hand to decide what the best level of pay

increase is. That should be a fully independent body that looks at that.

So that we actually know what needs to be spent to make sure that we

have the staff we need in place to deliver a safe service. So the

starting salary for a new nurse is about ?22,000 which works out about

?13 an hour. To put that into context, McDon't amds workers have

gone on strike for a ?10 an hour pay increase. We really do need to look

at what we're paying highly skilled, highly trained people that are doing

an amazing job and are doing it harder and harder all the time.

Jeremy Hunt regularly says the NHS is doing more work than its ever

done before. We can testify to that. But generally if you work in a

business and your business is doing more and more work and doing better

and better, you reward your staff and you recognise that your staff

are working really hard. Lots of people getting in touch with us on

the hashtag Victoria live. David says, "Low wages in whatever sector

are wrong. The only beneficiaries are employers and the rest struggle

to make ends meet." This one, Maria, it is a tweet from Rachel, "When was

the last pay cap for MPs and how much could be saved if we capped

their pay for seven years?" A tweet from Stewart saying, "The pay cap on

nurses is about choice, they can find money for what the Government

wants, but not for nurses." It is about choices and I'm trying to

raise the issue of nurses' pay, it isn't about the pay cap, it is about

nurses pay across-the-board. Nurses are taking on more and more roles

and the nursing profession feels under valued so the pay freeze and

the pay cap is one issue, but we need to look across-the-board at the

pay structure for nursing in the long-term. Briefly, if you would. It

is worth saying that the NHS isn't kind of set in stone on this issue.

They are really developing changing working inowe vaitively and bringing

in new roles so they can work more productively, it isn't about

something that isn't changing with the times. The NHS workforce is

often at the cutting edge of different ways of working and

different ways of delivering service, it is worth remembering

that we're not just asking for the pay cap to be lifted so that we can

support what's there, it's about supporting change as well which is

needed. Thank you all so much. Sorry, we're out of time, but thank

you for all of you giving up your time to speak to us this morning.

We invited the government to join our debate but they said

In a statement the Department of Health said:

"As the Secretary of State has made clear,

Ministers are well aware of the pressures on frontline NHS

staff, including nurses, who do a fantastic job.

The support and welfare of NHS staff is a top priority,

and the government is committed to ensuring they can continue

We are helping the NHS to make sure it has the right staff,

in the right place, at the right time to provide safe care -

that's why there are over 31,100 more professionally qualified

clinical staff, including over 11,600 more doctors,

and almost 12,000 more nurses on our wards since May 2010."

Still to come: How a ground-breaking scheme in Glasgow is helping

refugees who previously worked as doctors, join the NHS.

We'll be speaking to the descendant of the last King of Myanmar,

exiled by the British in 1885, a new documentary on the country's

Royal family and how their descendents continue to live

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

A leaked Home Office document has set out plans for how

the UK immigration system could work after Brexit.

The paper, which has been published by the Guardian newspaper,

considers how the Government could dramatically reduce the number

It also proposes time limits on how long EU nationals

The BBC understands the document, which was produced last month,

Winds from Hurricane Irma have begun lashing islands in the Caribbean -

where people have been told to evacuate their homes.

Officials are warning of the "potentially catastrophic"

effects of the Category Five hurricane which has already

It's starting to hit the Leeward Islands and will move

on towards Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

It's projected to reach the US state of Florida on Saturday.

A 14-year-old boy has died after a double

Corey Junior Davis and another boy, who is 17,were found with gunshot

injuries in Forest Gate on Monday afternoon.

The second victim is said to have "life-changing injuries".

Police have launched a murder investigation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that North Korea's nuclear

and missile programme are a "flagrant violation"

Speaking after talks with his South Korean counterpart

in the Russia city of Vladivostok, Mr Putin also called for talks

to try to resolve the crisis, warning that no resolution would be

possible with just sanctions and pressure alone.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10am.

17-year-old Ben Woodburn came off the bench and put in a Man

of the Match performance to help Wales to a 2-0 win over Moldova.

He set-up the opening goal for Hal Robson Kanu.

Aaron Ramsey got the second in the closing moments.

That win coupled with defeat for the Republic of Ireland at home

to Serbia, means Wales go into the play off spot

in Group D with two qualifiers remaining -

the sides do meet in the final group game.

At the age of 37, Venus Williams is into another Grand Slam semi-final.

She beat Petra Kvitova in a thrilling final set tie-break

to reach the last four at the US Open.

She'll face fellow American Sloane Stephens next.

Chris Froome doubled his lead yesterday. He won the 16th stage

time trial to extend his lead to one minute and 58 seconds with five

stages to go. That's all the sport for now. We

will be back with more after 10am. Doctors who've travelled to Scotland

as refugees are being given the chance to start working

for the NHS. A new training programme gives

qualified doctors training, language support and mentoring,

with the aim of helping them to register with

the General Medical Council The scheme is being funded

by the Scottish Government I always say to people that

I imagine taking out someone's appendix in Peshwar is not that

different to taking out someone's People arriving in the UK

and seeking asylum have been dispersed to Glasgow

for the last 17 years. Proportionately, it's got the second

highest population of asylum seekers And recently a lot of the people

arriving are highly qualified. I wish that one day this country

will be proud of me. So, Glasgow, hello,

how are you doing? Monday,

he seems confused. We would like you to do

an assessment of him. First, you can see

his airway's open. A class of doctors relearning

bits of their trade This exercise is situational

judgment and as part of a programme funded by the Scottish Government

that gives refugee doctors the skills to get their UK medical

registration approved, At the moment, these doctors are not

allowed to practice. Is it frustrating, not being able

to do what you're qualified for? You want to do it,

but your hand is cut. How qualified where

you back at home? I'm a qualified medical doctor,

I passed all my exams, licensed. It's hard to start again from zero,

because I already did everything. How do you make sure they've got

the right qualification? NHS Education for Scotland does that

bit of the programme, and they check out the qualifications

they bring with them. It's a bit difficult sometimes,

because the institutions that people have studied are perhaps no longer

there, but the process of becoming a doctor,

retraining as a doctor, is so complex that there

is no way that anyone who is not a doctor would get

through the clinical exams. And then once you give them fluid,

it's a diuretic, so you kind of go on the injuries that they've

got, plus the physical, What things is Pat saying that

are different, that things are done differently here to how you may have

learned them before? In my country, the system

is British, the medical system, But the nice thing is that he speaks

simple English-language. I would imagine when you're

learning English, local When you're actually

speaking to patients, sometimes they're not quite as clear

as you and I. For example, yesterday someone

told me I have a headache, And people say I had a couple

of beers, and they don't mean two. I don't think there's any difference

in the actual clinical skills. I think where there has

been a huge difference is attitudes to patients,

and attitudes to how And we had one surgeon

who didn't really seem to be in engaging in the class,

and when I asked him, he looked slightly puzzled,

and he said well, I'm a surgeon, and I said, yes, and he said well,

when I get my patients, they're asleep, I never have

to talk to them. So it's getting them to understand

that the NHS is very different. This man used to be

a doctor in the Iraqi army. He came to Scotland to study,

but his life was threatened in Iraq, It's quite confusing sometimes

because we know medical terms. If you tell them something

that is informal, it might not sound right

or the patient may not I learned to say how

are the waterworks down there? Before refugees can even

take their medical exams, they have to speak really good

English. Now that means taking

an English test, called IELTS, Now that's a test that even some

American and Australian doctors You can tell from the kind of words

being discussed in here, and the ideas, that this is a really

high level of English. It would be double R

if I were using it, so I incurred... The programme also arranges

placements with GPs or hospitals, all pushing towards passing

their medical exams. Have you been out of the medical

profession for some time? Yes, the sometime, maybe

four or five years. We have clients from every

conceivable area of work, and many of them find it

so difficult to get back into the jobs that they've done,

that they end up taking jobs for which they are

way over qualified. And I think underemployment

in the refugee population If someone is a qualified

accountant, and they are working pushing trolleys in Tesco's,

now there is an argument that they are actually taking a job

from a poorly qualified person Lots of colleagues, or people

who are doctors living here, Some of them are even taxi drivers

which has let down hope for a lot of people,

and this has given us a lot of hope. Fatimah was a surgeon

in the Middle East. She treated anti-government

protesters, and in the end her care for them meant she too was a target

for the government If I would say yes, then

where is my promise in medical graduation that we would treat

people equally and we will try to do whatever

is possible to help people? There are 38 people

on the programme at the moment. Asylum seekers are allowed

on as well as those who have been It is funded by ?160,000

of Scottish Government money, and as part of the deal doctors

commit to working for NHS Scotland. I've been a doctor or a medical

student since I was 17. Being a doctor becomes a very

central part of your identity, you know, it's kind of who you are,

so I can understand how difficult it must be for a refugee doctors

where that part of their identity So you're part of this international

community of people. When I used to work

in the hospital in my country, and we would discuss with friends,

and come up with a certain difficult or rare disease,

and I cannot explain. As well as getting people back

to their careers as doctors being the right thing to do

from a humanitarian standpoint, it's also the right thing to do

financially because it would be a hugely wasted resource if people

had already gone through very expensive medical training were not

used as doctors. And medicine isn't a job

for any of these women and men, it's a vocation,

they want to practice medicine. Hopefully that I will pass

all exams, and first of all it is the language exam,

and to practice medicine again. And I wish that one day this country

will be proud of me. That report from Glasgow. If you

want to watch it or share it, you can go to our programme page.

Is the Government is planning a dramatic crackdown on EU migrant

labour after Brexit? We'll have the details.

Our next guest is the great-grandchild of Thibaw -

the last King of Myanmar - who was overthrown by the British

He's in the UK for the very first time since Myanmar -

also known as Burma - gained independence

from Britain, for the screening of a new documentary.

It's about the history of the country's Royal family

and how their descendents continue to live there in also

The film coincides with another crisis in Myanmar's troubled history

- the exodus of more than a hundred thousand of the country's

Rohingya Muslims who have fled the country after suffering violence

Rohingya Muslims who have fled the country after suffering violence

Life is a very complicated matter. It is a surprise to some of them

that we are still alive. We are born with a history. We have to accept. I

am the great-grandson of King Thibaw. We have a responsibility,

because that blood is running in our body. Princess Margaret, she likes

the free life, no? I like her. We lost our identity.

The incredible twists and turns their lives to, stranger than any

work of fiction. Let's talk now with the film's

director Alex Bescoby and its subject, great-grandson

of the former king, U Soe Win. Thank you both for coming in. Alex,

I want to ask you first of all why you wanted to make this film. Good

question. It is bizarre to be sat here with U Soe Win in London. Three

years ago we first met, and the story started to unfold of what

happened to his great-grandfather. And how his family vanished from

history. I had been studying Burmese history, and I had wanted to tell a

particular story, the story of Britain in Burma. Many people in

this country really have no idea about our shared history of what an

impact we had on this country. And I think a lot of what is happening in

modern Myanmar you can trace to its past, obviously. We started making

this film three years ago together, and we have ended up here in London,

showing him the city that I live in. Tell us why you wanted to take part.

I know when I was watching the film yesterday, you said in it, I was

surprised that you wanted to take part. What was the appeal for you?

From the very beginning, we were not much interested. Especially since we

lost our royalty. But in 2014, when we met this gentleman and also his

colleague, they wanted to show our lost families. And then we decided

to talk to them, because before, we didn't want to talk about this. I am

very surprised I am here in London. And you didn't want to talk about it

because it was a painful part of your family history? Our family lost

everything. When my great-grandfather was 85, only to

make daughters, very young, the first and second Princess, and the

third Princess was in her mother's boom, in a very late stage, and she

was born in madrasahs. -- in her mother's womb. They had objectives

we couldn't quite see. They only found us because we are lost.

Sometimes we don't know we are lost because we have been forgotten for

many years. You a forgotten, and people will find that fascinating to

watch this. Many people who watch this programme will not be familiar

with Myanmar's history. They may recognise the name Aung San Suu Kyi,

whom I know you have met. Before we talk about that, how were you

treated in your country? -- how are you treated in your country? Are you

given special status or are people unaware? We are just commoners. At

the same time, they have respect. The majority of us are Buddhists,

and the Kings, our ancestors, they were very staunch protectors of the

religion. In this city, everyone is busy, but in remote areas, they

still remember this attachment. When we first met, I was looking for him,

was sat next to her matter table, and figured it out afterwards. It

was that unknown, really. It has been wonderful to go through this

three-year journey with U Soe Win, because a lot of it we have been

finding out together. We visited India together to see the tomb of

his great-grandfather, still in exile, whether British said Tim. And

we have been sort of finding out more and more about the hidden

history of this story. I think it is important to get it out there,

because it is a story that's really important in Myanmar, but also the

British people to understand as well. As I say, you have met Aung

San Suu Kyi. Many people will be familiar, she was under house arrest

for many years in Myanmar. What is she like as a person and for you to

meet her? We have a personal attachment, I think. Why an I was

serving in the foreign service, she was under house arrest. She was

meeting a UN representative, and during the meetings, I was in charge

of protocol matters. I met her at the state guesthouse, welcomed them,

introduced the guests. I don't remember how many times we did that,

but on one occasion, while we were walking, she asked me, from where

IQ? I said, I'm from the Foreign Ministry, but I didn't stop there. I

said I am the nephew of a Prince that she knew personally. She

changed, she was smiling, and from then on, when we met,... We look

today at what is happening in your country, in Myanmar, a huge crisis

there right now. Second man has -- Aung San Suu Kyi has responded today

to the Muslims moving over the border to Bangladesh. We're very

sorry about that. At the same we would like to express that we are a

peace-loving country. We all believe that this matter should be

brought to an end as soon as possible. Do you hope for a quick

end to it? Do you think there will be? Yes. Aung San Suu Kyi has the

confidence of the international community, so we all believe. It is

heartbreaking to see. We have been working and living and travelling

around Myanmar for ten years, making this film for three years, and in

that time, I have seen thousands of incidences of kindness and

generosity, and I hope some of that comes across in this film. It's not

the Myanmar we want to know will stop and I think it is coincidental

that when we were making this film, we had the first credible election

in 50 years, and we film someone voting for the first time. We were

on the streets. And it is an unimaginable sense of hope for a

better future. And I think we both hope that Myanmar is still on the

right track, but there are a lot of challenges. Tell people where they

can see the film. That is why we're here. The Premier is on Saturday at

the British library. Sold out a month ago, which is great. But we're

hoping for a UK broadcast after the premiere, and we will take it on

tour next year because it is 70th anniversary of Myanmar's

independence from the UK. Thank you for coming in. I hope you enjoy your

trip to London. Get him to show you all the good sites.

Let's get the latest weather. Hurricane Irma has moved to here so

far. You can see the size and extent of the storm, with a well-defined

eye. It has been producing winds of 185 mph. Gusts over 200 mph. The

winds will be catastrophic from this hurricane. As well as heavy rainfall

and a significant storm surge too. It will move across parts of the

Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, before heading

towards Cuba and eventually Florida by the time we get to the weekend.

There could be a storm surge of up to 15 feet, potentially catastrophic

impact from Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean. Closer to home, a much

quieter picture on this side of the Atlantic. A bright and breezy day.

Seems like this one, taken near Peterborough. And that is how it

stays through the day - bright, breezy, and for most of us, a dry

day. A few showers packing into the north and west. Scattered showers

across north-west Scotland, one or two back for Ireland, some for

north-west England and Wales. Elsewhere, likely to stay dry and

bright. A bit of a breeze from the west, and it feels fresh and less

humid than in recent days. In the afternoon, some of those showers

affect northern and western Scotland. Some sunshine in between.

Eastern Scotland will feel quite pleasant, 17 Celsius in Aberdeen.

That could be a passing shower in parts of Northern Ireland, but

mostly drive through the afternoon. A few isolated showers for Cumbria

and Lancashire. Across England and Wales, a lot of dry weather. Some

clout, but it shouldn't spoil the sunshine too much. Most of us will

be dry into the evening hours. And with clear skies and light winds, it

will be quite chilly once again. Later in the night, more cloud

arriving from the West, bringing the north-west some rain. Tomorrow, not

quite as chilly as it was first thing this morning. Through the day,

things start to change because we see wet and windy weather arriving

from the north-west. From Scotland's -- for Scotland and Northern

Ireland, a wet and blustery day. Further south-east across the UK,

you are more likely to say stay dry. With the arrival of this area of low

pressure, it marks a change to something more unsettled to end the

week. As we move into Friday morning, the low pressure sits to

the north of the UK, and we will see the wind rotating around that low

pressure, bringing plenty of blustery showers and more persistent

rainfall to southern counties of England. It will be cooler, 14-18dC.

Low pressure stays into the weekend. Sunshine and showers on Saturday,

but things could turn increasingly wet and windy on Sunday.

Hello, it's Wednesday, it's 10am, I'm Chloe Tiley.

The Government is looking at ways to dramatically reduce the number of

low skilled EU migrants after Brexit according to a leaked Home Office

document. We want British companies to do more

to train up British workers to do more to improve skills of those

who leave our colleges. So there is always

a balance to be struck. We're not closing the door

on all future immigration, Company bosses being faced by being

told put British workers fired or you will be taxed if you keep on

hiring unskilled EU workers. But critics say such a plan would be

disastrous for business. We look at the new NHS guidelines

on how to treat endometriosis - an incurable condition affecting 10%

of women which causes extreme pain Do get in touch if it's something

you've suffered from. And we'll have the latest on one

of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -

Hurricane Irma is the size of Texas - and it's about to barrel

through the Caribbean. The advice has been if you're

in a flood prone area, get out. Like no two-ways about it

and obviously those big storm Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news. A leaked Home Office document has

set out plans for how the UK immigration system

could work after Brexit. The paper,

which has been published by the Guardian newspaper,

considers how the Government could dramatically reduce the number

of low-skilled EU migrants. It also proposes time limits

on how long EU nationals The BBC understands the document,

which was produced last month, Winds from Hurricane Irma have begun

lashing islands in the Caribbean - where people have been told

to evacuate their homes. Officials are warning

of the "potentially catastrophic" effects of the Category Five

hurricane which has already It's starting to hit

the Leeward Islands and will move on towards Puerto Rico

and the Dominican Republic. It's projected to reach the US state

of Florida on Saturday. A 14-year-old boy has

died after a double Corey Junior Davis and another boy,

who is 17,were found with gunshot Corey Junior Davis and another boy,

who is 17, were found with gunshot injuries in Forest Gate

on Monday afternoon. The second victim is said to have

"life-changing injuries". Police have launched

a murder investigation. Russian President Vladimir Putin has

said that North Korea's nuclear and missile programme

are a "flagrant violation" Speaking after talks

with his South Korean counterpart in the Russia city of Vladivostok,

Mr Putin also called for talks to try to resolve the crisis,

warning that no resolution would be possible with just sanctions

and pressure alone. The de facto leader of Myanmar,

Aung San Suu Kyi, has claimed that the crisis in Rakhine state

is being distorted by Myanmar is currently under intense

diplomatic pressure to end the violence its security forces

are reportedly inflicting Nearly 150,000 people have fled

into neighbouring Bangladesh. That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 10.30am. Thank you. Message are coming in. My

tablet is not updating. Wales are still on track to qualify

for next year's World Cup It was another great night

for 17-year-old Ben Woodburn, who set up Kal Robson-Kanu 10

minutes from time. Woodburn scored the winner

against Austria at the weekend, And in injury time, Aaron Ramsey

sealed the win that leaves them We have to make sure we got these

wins no matter. We always talk about performance. It has come down to the

crunch time and it's all about results now. Yeah, obviously two

wins out of two. We haven't done that in a long time. It is great

that we have the winning mentality back and hopefully it is a snowball

effect for next time. It means Wales leapfrog the Republic

of Ireland after they were beaten Former Manchester City player

Aleksander Kolarov scored The England women's

coach Mark Sampson has responded to allegations

from former striker Eni Aluko that he had created

an atmosphere of "bullying and discrimination" and used

racially insensitive language. Sampson was cleared by both an FA

and an independent investigation He denies Aluko's claim that he'd

joked he didn't want her Nigerian family to bring Ebola

to an England game. I've heard the specifics

of the allegation and at the time we released a statement

and to be very clear I'm very disappointed

the allegation's come out but I understand it and all I can

say is I didn't say that to Eni. With any of my communication, my

intention is to support the players, give them confidence and give them

chance to be successful At the age of 37, Venus Williams

is two wins away from another grand She beat Petra Kvitova

in a real thriller to reach It took over two and a half hours

and the deciding set Kvitova only returned to the tour

three months ago after the knife attack that damaged her playing hand

and Williams said it felt This match means a lot to me. I have

been playing at home and of course, it being a major and it means a lot

to her coming back and being able to compete in this major and to prove,

you know, obhave you beensly to herself that she could defeat

anything no matter what is thrown at her. It was amazing to see her shine

today. Chris Froome heads into

another day in the hills on the Tour of Spain

today and he's nearly two Froome won his fourth Tour de France

in July, but he's never He dominated yesterday's time trial

to almost double his lead And before I go, there's time to let

you know that the BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Award

is open for nominations. It's designed to recognise those

who devote their free time to help people in grass-roots

activity and sports and it's You can find everything you need

to know at: bbc.co.uk/unsunghero That's all the sport for now. I will

be back with more later on. Thanks, Hugh.

The Government is looking at ways to dramatically reduce the number

of low-skilled EU migrants after Brexit according to a leaked

The document, which is NOT official government policy,

suggests capping visas for unskilled labourers at two years.

Let's speak to our political guru, Norman Smith,

What's in the leaked document? Big thought number one is the Government

wants a concerted clamp-down on the number of unskilled EU migrants

coming into the UK and big thought number two is they want to

pressurise companies to have a British workers first policy. Now,

in detail, what that means is they are going to suggest that if

unskilled EU workers want to come to Britain, they will only be able to

stay for two years. They'll have to be earning a certain salary and they

can't just come here and look for work, they will have to have a job

already lined up and the Government is looking at the possibility of

just putting a cap, a limit on the number of unskilled EU migrants who

can come here. So there will be X number and once you reach that

number, back, the door is closed. In terms of business, business will be

under huge pressure to recruit British workers. They may have to

under go a sort of test to make sure that they have gone out and tried to

recruit British workers and if they then skill want to recruit unskilled

EU migrants they could be taxed with the money going to a sort of

training levy to help improve the skills of British workers. This is a

draft document. It's not signed, sealed and delivered. It's not all

been agreed, but when you listen to ministers, listen to the Defence

Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon this morning, they are hardly distancing

themselves from the contents of this document.

We want more British companies to invest in the British workforce.

To make sure we have a better skilled workforce for them to dau

on. The public want immigration to come

down to sustainable levels. We made that clear in every

manifesto. So there is a balance to be struck here.

The Home Secretary will set out proposals later this year.

When will this kick in? There will be a two year transition phase after

we leave the EU, after March 2019 when not much will change. If you

are an EU national and want to come to Britain during the transition

phase for more than six months, you'll have to get the approval of

the Home Office and you'll have to have a sort of ID card, a biometric

passport to show you're OK to be in this country. Norman, thank you for

clarifying that for us. Let's get some more

analysis on this story now. Joining me in the studio

is the Conservative MP for Dover, Marley Morris from

the IPPR think tank, Alp Mehmet is Vice-Chair

of the Migration Watch think-tank. We are also joined down

the line form Westminster by the co-leader of the Green Party,

Caroline Lucas. Thank you all for speaking to us

this morning. You broadly welcome this leaked document? I do, yes. I

hope that it remains substantially as it is that it doesn't go through

any sort of change so it is watered down. If you want to bring numbers

down frankly from the EU in the way that I think people voted for then

this strikes me as a sensible balanced and reasonable way of going

about it. Focussing on the higher skilled and indeed, making sure that

we don't bring people in simply because they're cheaper or they are

there and prepared to take up the jobs. So yeah, it is the right way

and will potentially lead up to 100,000 fewer people coming in over

the numbers that we've had in recent years. I can see Marly wincing.

There is no detail yet about what this future system for immigration

will be and that document doesn't explain that. What it really sets

out is what the transition measures will be and the concern there is

there is a contradiction between what the transition will be agreed

between the EU and the UK for the years after Brexit and what this

document says about EU migrants because what we are saying in the

transition there won't be freedom of moment and that may go down very

badly with EU leaders, you know, across the 27.

Well, freedom of movement is going to end. That goes without saying

because that's what will happen when we come out of the EU. And once

freedom of movement ends then you have got to have some sort of system

to control people coming in and this is a perfectly reasonable system. If

only because we have been doing it for many, many years for those

coming from outside the EU anyway. So it's nothing new. Perfectly

reasonable system, Caroline Lucas? Absolutely not. This suggested paper

is economically illiterate. It will harm our economy. I think it's

cruel. It's going to separate families and I think it's also

backward looking. I think it will deny future generations the right

that all of us had to study and to work and to live and live in 27

other member states. Do you want to come in, Charlie on this? It seems

to me the referendum was a clear instruction by the British people to

take back control of our borders and to end uncontrolled EU immigration

and that's what this Government is doing. Everyone accepts that we want

to have the brightest and the best from across the world. That's not

the issue. The public concern centres on low skilled migrants,

British businesses, not investing in their employees, but seeking to

bring in low skilled migrants as a way to avoid that kind of

investment. Some people say the EU referendum was about whether you

wanted to stay in the Union, not about immigration. There was no

question on that ballot paper that was about immigration. Your

constituentsy in Dover is a constituency that's been affected a

lot by migration and benefited a lot as well? It is important to realise

that the change that we have in recent years in 1997 when Labour

were first elected net migration was 48,000. In 2015, it reached 333,000.

People are deeply concerned. They want a rebalancing. They want

control of our borders and that is very clearly what the Home Office

are rightly looking at doing. People didn't vote in the referendum to

have nursing shortages. People didn't vote to have crops rotting in

the fields because that's what will happen if we don't have people

coming in from the EU to help the crop pickers. You know, so

essentially I think what we're seeing here is an ideological

approach, this idea that the referendum and Brexit has to be

migration first even if that means damaging our economy. Even if that

means our own businesses are saying they are going to suffer. The Office

for Budget Responsibility are saying this could lead to a ?6 billion hole

in the economy. Not only is it economically foolish, but it will

harm our businesses and harm our societies, families not being able

to come together. If you happen to have a child over 18, they are not

allowed to join us anymore. That's not the kind of country that most

people want to live in. This system is intended for the time

after we leave. In terms of the sort of arrangements we have two bring

people in perhaps the do seasonal agricultural work or other jobs,

what will stop will be that automatic right to come in by

exercising treaty rights and effectively staying here for as long

as you like. That will stop. There's nothing wrong with that. Won't this

cause a problem for businesses? Norman Smith mentioned earlier that

if you are in Boston in Lincolnshire or parts of Kent, where fruit

picking is a huge industry, and they can't get enough local workers to

fill positions, will businesses have to recruit locally and when they

can't recruit -- and when they can't, they have to recruit from the

EU? Know, frankly. That is not the way it's going to happen. We had a

seasonal agricultural workers scheme for many years and I don't see any

reason why we shouldn't have something like that again. Nurses

and all the other sort of people that we need at the moment, there is

no reason why they shouldn't continue to come in. And frankly, we

should now start thinking for three, four years hence and start preparing

now. You can't wait for three years until the whole transitional phase

ends and then think about how we will replace workers. The document

fails to recognise that there are some sectors of the economy that are

really relying on EU workers. Something like 11% in some sectors.

Food processing, for instance, hospitality, the proportions are

much higher. In food processing, we're talking about a third of

workers being EU migrants. That is not just a question of transition

but of having to manage how you have a proper workforce for that sector

and the long-term. No one is saying that we shouldn't have a system that

enables migrants to come to Britain to work where they are highly

skilled, where it is seasonal or they are required. Why is it wrong

to insist that the children of our land have a chance? It is important

to enable people from Britain to get on, do well, and we get business to

invest in skills and not simply seek to avoid having to invest by

bringing in low skilled people, as they have done for too long. Thank

you, all of you, for joining us, and Caroline Lucas as well. I'm sure the

discussion will continue over the next months and years.

Still to come: The final whistle for John Watson as he prepares to call

time on his 50 years at the BBC. It's a disease that affects 1 in 10

women of reproductive age. Yet on average it takes

seven and a half years The condition costs the UK roughly

?8.2 billion a year. Endometriosis is an incurable

condition, where tissue that behaves like the lining of the womb is found

in other parts of the body, Today, new guidelines have been

published for the NHS, which aim to reduce delays

in diagnosis and save women years But a leading charity says

the guidelines will only make a difference if they're backed up

with extra financial support. Let's speak to Amelia Davies -

she's 18 and started getting symptoms of endometriosis

at the age of just 12. Helen McLaughlin is here too -

she's 32 and was diagnosed And Lakshmi Livingstone -

who waited seven years for any treatment when her

symptoms became severe. Emma Cox runs the charity

Endometriosis UK - she's calling for the NHS to make

sure the new guidelines And Andrew Home is a professor

of gynaecology and is on the group of experts that helped draw up

the new guidelines from the National Institute of Health

and Care Excellence. Thank you, all, for coming in to

talk to us. I think many people at home will have heard of

endometriosis but they won't know how severe it can be for many

people. Amelia, tell me, first of all, you were just... Sorry! You

were 12 when you got symptoms first and you were diagnosed at 14. My

first period was at 12 and I was experiencing pelvic pain before that

age. It wasn't until I was 14 and got pain some excruciating that I

couldn't attend school any more that we pushed for the initial scans

which showed up an ovarian cyst, which led to my operation, which

allowed the diagnosis of endometrial asses. Unlike some people, I was

diagnosed quite quickly, but I was very lucky to have the cyst, because

it led to the diagnosis. It sped up the process? Yes, I consider myself

lucky, but unfortunately other people as fortunate. I was diagnosed

in 2011. My symptoms started when I was 16, because I had a period every

other week, but I was put on the pill. It was 2011 that I was

misdiagnosed, and it was only because I wrote letters and kept

diaries that I was able to get a diagnostic laparoscopy. What does it

do to you? The physical aspect is one thing, but the mental aspect is

exhausting. You are fighting every day to get through your painkillers.

I was on 25 painkillers a day just to try and manage the symptoms. So

you have that as well as going to consultants and making them believe

you. It comes down to having to think about what you well, because

you get bloating. Leggings, I couldn't wear jeans. I had to have

physio to work on my muscles. It comes down to every aspect of your

daily life. And I know that you, Amelia, alluded to the dreadful time

you have had. Lakshmi, explain some of your story, if you would. I

recently discovered I probably had symptoms from about the age of eight

or nine, which was mostly sleep problems. Hormonal changes can cause

problems with sleep, but my periods were incredibly painful. I started

when I was 11. I didn't know that that wasn't normal, so I lived most

of my life just thinking that those sort of pain levels were normal and

acceptable. It was only when I started getting extreme bowel pain

around 2009 that I finally thought, hang on, this is weird. It still

took another six months for me to go to the doctor with it. My GP was

fabulous. As soon as I mentioned my symptoms, he said, I am referring

you to an endometriosis specialist. From there, I didn't have a

diagnostic laparoscopy until to make years ago, at which point I was

given the full diagnosis of how widespread my disease is. I was

reading, you were told when you went to an endometrial is his clinic that

you should stop eating meat and you were sent away. It was wheat. I was

told to change my diet. I was given an MRI at that time. It wasn't until

2014 that I realised that you cannot diagnose endometriosis with doing a

laparoscopy, keyhole surgery. Going through your tummy, isn't it?

Exactly, so that finally happened in 2015, and that is when I discovered

it is not just in my uterus but has spread outside into my general

pelvic area. Emma, I want to bring you in. How common are the stories

we are heaving? Sadly, very common. There are some great examples -- we

are hearing. There are some great examples of GPs getting a diagnosis

early. It is caused by cells being in the wrong place, and in different

women, there will be different symptoms. Sadly, the isn't enough

awareness. It is about periods, and often people talk about it. A lot of

women get told when they are young just to get on with it and that it

is part of being a woman. Is a cultural, that no one wants to talk

about it? There is some evidence that it is genetic, so you get a

double whammy. You are told it hurts, love, just get on with it.

Your mother might say, we have bad periods in our family. That is what

is like. It is a hidden disease, there is no measure of it, and you

can't show anybody what your pain is. So, it is really hard for

people, and for whatever reason as a society we have not taken it

seriously enough. We have this e-mail from money. If you have a

similar story, do get in touch. I have stage for endometriosis and it

has had a huge impact in my life. I was rushed to hospital and had

emergency surgery. The doctors thought I had appendicitis. I was in

intensive care for ten days. Due to the damage caused, I have cysts,

fibroids, damaged fallopian tubes and I am definitely unable to have

children. I am frustrated, sad and angry that if this disease affected

men, there would be more awareness, research and money put behind the

treatment. Would you agree with that, Andrew? Sadly, this is the

problem. I think endometriosis is suffered because it only affects

women. There has been a bit of a gender bias in terms of investment,

research funding. I think these guidelines, and hopefully the

awareness raised by them, will encourage increased Government

funding, not only into research but into developing the infrastructure

we have already to try to better manage women with endometriosis. A

seven year diagnosis sounds insane, I'm sure, to many people watching.

Do you think the medical profession takes this disease seriously enough?

It would be unfair to say they didn't, but I think we could do

better. I think we could do better educating from medical school

onward, so that people are very much aware of it. As everyone here has

highlighted, the big problem is that we don't have a simple test to

diagnose it. There is not a blood test or you're in test. It has to be

diagnosed by keyhole surgery. Do you think it is taken seriously as a

condition? Personally, I believe that you can't point your finger and

say, it is your fault it takes so long to diagnose it. It is a case of

being educated. GPs and specialist, it is not essentially their fault

that there's not enough research into it, so they don't know enough

about it. Because of my age, and I started going to specialist

appointments from the age of 14, and although I probably know more about

this condition and my own body than anybody else, yet, I believe that

sometimes it is as if people just speak to my parents about it. It

needs to be taken a bit more seriously, because as a young woman,

and like everyone else who has this condition, you want to take charge

of your own body, to be able to actively step forward and say, look,

something is wrong with me. You need to change this. I can't live my

day-to-day life like this. Sometimes something simple like getting up and

having a shower, you can't even get up and do it. It's ridiculous.

Support groups have great information on their website. If

anyone is trying to get information to make yourself more knowledgeable

to go to your GP, you can then have discussions with them. I run the

London group. It is a great way to empower yourself through knowledge.

Do you think these guidelines will change anything? I hope so. From

what I understand, Emma 's probably best answer... From a patient

perspective, do you have more faith it will be taken? If you have

someone who is not listening, you can take them with you, do your bit

of caring and sharing, share your knowledge with this person. They

might read it at night time and they might share it with someone the next

day. It is all about education. I think there was an opportunity to

make a difference. We could make it easy for GPs by giving them simple

toolkits. The Royal College could be developing specialist training,

which it is. We don't teach menstrual health in schools, so

people don't know what to look out for. I would like to say that the

guidelines at the moment are only for England. There was huge

variation in service across England and across the UK, so we also need

to see the other nations in the UK taking up these guidelines as well.

In Northern Ireland, I know people who have been waiting over two years

to get a laparoscopy done. That's not because of any reason other than

that there are not enough slots allowed because the NHS hasn't yet

taken this seriously and allowed enough time to deal with the women

who need to be seen. Thank you, all, for coming in. I am grateful to you

for coming in. A warning from school

leaders that poor language and behaviour mean an increasing

number of children are not ready to take part in classroom activities

when they start school. As Hurricane Irma, one

of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic,

heads for the Caribbean we'll have an update

on preparations from Antigua. With the news, here's Annita

in the BBC Newsroom. A leaked Home Office document has

set out plans for how the UK immigration system

could work after Brexit. The paper, which has been published

by the Guardian newspaper, considers how the Government

could dramatically reduce the number It also proposes time limits

on how long EU nationals The BBC understands the document,

which was produced last month, Winds from Hurricane Irma have begun

lashing islands in the Caribbean - where people have been told

to evacuate their homes. Officials are warning

of the "potentially catastrophic" effects of the Category Five

hurricane which has already It's starting to hit

the Leeward Islands and will move on towards Puerto Rico

and the Dominican Republic. It's projected to reach the US state

of Florida on Saturday. A boy has died after a shooting in

East London. Corey Junior Davis and another boy,

who is 17, were found with gunshot injuries in Forest Gate

on Monday afternoon. The second victim is said to have

"life-changing injuries". Police have launched

a murder investigation. The de facto leader of Myanmar,

Aung San Suu Kyi, has claimed that the crisis in Rakhine state

is being distorted by Myanmar is currently under intense

diplomatic pressure to end the violence its security forces

are reportedly inflicting Nearly 150,000 people have fled

into neighbouring Bangladesh. That's a summary of the latest news,

join me for BBC Newsroom 17-year-old Ben Woodburn came off

the bench and put in a Man of the Match performance to help

Wales to a 2-0 win over Moldova. He set-up the opening goal

for Hal Robson Kanu. Aaron Ramsey got the second

in the closing moments. That win, coupled with defeat

for the Republic of Ireland at home to Serbia, means Wales go

into the play-off spot in Group D The sides meet in

the final group game. At the age of 37, Venus Williams is

into another Grand Slam semi-final. She beat Petra Kvitova

in a thrilling final set tiebreak to reach the last four at the

US Open. She will face fellow

American Sloane Stephens next. Chris Froome virtually

doubled his lead at the Vuelta He won the 16th stage time trial

to extend his lead over Vincenzo Neebali to one minute

and 58 seconds with That's all the sport for now. I will

be back with more on BBC News after 11am.

A 14-year-old boy who was gunned down in an east London

What happened? The details on this incident are scant, but the police

launched a murder investigation. He died in hospital around 10pm last

night. Apparently he, this was a double shooting. It happened on

Monday afternoon. He was injured as was a 17-year-old who has got what

police are describing as life changing injuries and he remains in

hospital in a stable condition. No arrests have been made yet, but

police are appealing for help. And what have the police said? What do

they know? I know there is a fear of retaliation? The borough commander

said there is a serious fear of retaliation and therefore, what they

have done is they have put a number of armed and plained clothed police

officers in the area and they have increased stop and search incidents

for weapons and anything else that's going on in the area and to reassure

residents as well. They are only too aware this incident comes after a

spate of violent firearm discharges that have been blighting their

communities and seriously injuring their young men. So far there has

been a number of gun incidents in and around the Newham area. There

was one even at the end of July that had been taking place in less than

24 hours where two men were injured. But the concern with this particular

incident is the violent nature under which it went and the age of the

victim because he was only 14. Thank you.

School leaders are warning that increasing numbers of children

are not ready to take part in classroom activities

Some are lacking basic communication skills.

A survey carried out by the association for school

leaders, NAHT, and the Family and Childcare Trust,

found 86% of headteachers were concerned that children

being ready for school is worse now than five years ago.

Joining us now, Andy Mellor, Headteacher of St Nicholas Church

of England Primary School, is concerned at the lack of services

available to support families and children in need of extra help

Lynn Knapp, Headteacher of Windmill Primary School thinks

children using phones and gadgets isn't helping with

Parent John Adams in concerned at the social skills

He is joined by his four-year-old daughter Izzy who will start

Hi Izzy. A lovely wave. Thank you very much. I want to ask first of

all,anedy, when we say children aren't ready for school. We're

talking about four-year-olds. Children who have just turned four.

So what is it that they are not ready for? When children enter

school we need to be making sure that we hit the ground running with

them. They have got seven years in primary school. And we need to make

the most of that time in primary school. Basic skills such as being

able to take your coat off, basic things like having a conversation

with another child. All the early literacy skills. I mean we do an

audit with our families just to make sure that we know what we are

getting in terms of the needs of these children. Basic literacy and

basic understanding of what a book is, how to follow through the plot

line if you like in a picture book. All those sorts of basic skills,

particularly speech and language skills. We are seeing, our members

are seeing, across the country, deceasing and us having to do more

work in reception to actually make good that and then, of course, the

work that we have got planned for foundation stage and beyond that

into the National Curriculum, there is that to do as well. So, it's

actually increasing the workload if you like for the staff in reception

when these children really should be accessing the curriculum that we've

got planned for them from day one. Lyn, are you finding similar things?

Children don't recognise a book and can't hold a conversation with

another child? Yes, we do see that with some children coming in. It is

a broad picture. We have children coming in very ready for school.

Other children coming in with very little language and I think it is

that deficit of language which can be a real inhibitor for them

starting to access education. You are saying this is down to, what

lazy parenting, shoving a tablet or phone in front of a four-year-old

and not having a conversation? Not necessarily lazy parenting. Parents

are under pressure with both parents working particularly in Oxford, on

the whole two parents are working. Yes, do I think children are given a

tablet, a phone and in the last five years, those things weren't

available. Children didn't have that easy access to smartphones, smart

technology and I think it has opened up a whole new way of if you like

keeping children occupied. It is a very isolating type activity then

they are not conversing with other children in the home and that

vocabulary and language just by being in conversation and talking to

each other isn't happening. John, I know you have got an older daughter.

Is she eight? Have you noticed that? That's the beginning of the iPad

generation. My eldest is eight and she started playing with an iPad

when she was two. Do you recognise what you are hearing from Lyn? Oh,

absolutely. It is very interesting that we are at the end of the school

summer. Izzy is saying hello. It is interesting that we are just at the

end of the school summer holidays now. I have noticed a marked

difference with my children. The battle for screen time used to be

keeping your children away from cartoons. Now, partly because of

the, the developments in technology, but also partly I think because, my

other daughter is getting older, what they are trying to do with

technology is different, it is not just car teens, it is apps, cartoons

and YouTube videos as well as TV. One of the common battles that we

have as parents is we do our best to tell our children not to watch TV,

you turn your back for a minute, they are playing with an iPad or

they have managed to get your phone or something. There is this constant

battle to keep your kids away from screens. I do notice if my children,

I really, really dislike children having excessive screen time so I

limit it as much as I can, but if it has been a rainy day and the kids

have a lot of screen time I notice a marked difference in their

behaviour. Worse behaviour? They are not burning off energy. They are not

really thinking so when the screens get switched off, I do notice they

are much more excitable. They are bouncing off the walls, basically,

we have experienced that on a rainy day. Do you think parents are being

lazy? We can all say no, you can't have a tablet in the car. We will

discuss as we are driving along or walking to the bus or whatever it

maybe. Is this laziness? That's not what our survey is telling us. Our

survey tells us that this coincides with a major change in the funding

of things like children's centres. We lost a lot of those services for

families in parts of the country, very similar to Blackpool, where you

know, they need that level of support and that got cut with the

first round of funding cuts to local authorities. Schools did their best

to make that good and similarly, we have a family support worker in

school. We didn't have a family support worker five years ago, but

that's to meet a need, the needs of our family and our families in

school. If we're now finding that, you know, the cuts to school budgets

are now affecting the ability of schools to be able to fund family

support workers. So we haven't just lost children's centres and all the

wrap around care that went on before they came to school and supported

families, we are now having that infrastructure that we have built in

schools taken away because of the funding cuts to schools and speech

and language is huge. You know, it comes through loud and clear in the

survey. We've had to cut ?20,000 worth of speech and language therapy

that we put in place to make good the cuts to the local authority.

Now, we can't afford to do that anymore. We haven't got the money in

the budget to do that. The only answer to address all of this is to

put that support back in in the early years and support early years

settings and schools with this. Andy, thank you. We have to ask Izzy

if she is excited about school. Izzy, are you looking forward to

starting school next week? Yes. What is it that you like best? Is it

reading? Is it numbers? What is it, darling? Numbers. Numbers. She has

just dived into a book while we have been on air though. Good girl. She

has been drilled well by her father. Izzy, thank you for sitting so

beautifully. Bye Izzy. Hurricane Irma has strengthened

to a Category Five storm - the highest possible level and has

in its path a string of Caribbean islands, Puerto Rico,

Haiti, Cuba and then Florida. The National Hurricane Centre

in Miami is recording sustained winds of nearly 300

kilometres, more than 186mph. A state of emergency has been

declared in Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin

Islands. I spoke with Gemma Handy,

a journalist and resident of Antigua and Angel

Adames-Corraliza, a tropical meteorologist with family

in Puerto Rico who told me about the impact hurricane Irma has

already been having. The winds are # 5 to 90mph. We can

expect them to pick up to 150mph and hopefully they should start to

lessen around 5am or 6am which is a couple of hours from now. We are

getting reports that several roofs have sadly been blown off including

an entire apartment building roof in one area of Antigua. Biggest cause

of concern right now is we seem to have lost contact with our sister

island. They are getting the full force of this right now. They are in

the eye. That should be coming to a close soon and then they are going

to get the 185mph winds happening again shortly. We will be grateful

when we get news back. What's been the advice to people who are in

Antigua? Are you sitting in your home, your office right now? No,

we're broadcasting live from the local radio station. We have stuck

two stations together. We have been broadcasting live for 12-and-a-half

hours and taking calls from the public trying to reassure people and

giving them constant weather updates from local metolgists and from our

expert in Florida as well. Are people told to go to shelters or

stay in their home, what's the advice been? If you are in a flood

prone area, get out. Like no two-ways about it. And obviously

those big storm surges are dramatic and I mean there has been strong

encouragement, but people generally know because people are used to

being in a hurricane area here, most people have gone to shelters. There

is 43 across the islands and 42 in Antigua and 200 people are in some

which for Antigua is unprecedented. I want to bring you in. You are a

tropical meteorologist. I know you are in Seattle, but you have got

family in Puerto Rico, who are concerned right now?

What have they told you about the preparations

When I talked to my family, friends and other

people today, people are

Hurricane Irma is pretty much unprecedented when it comes to

There has been a bit of a freak out this

morning, but that has been helpful in a sense because it has brought

people to realise that they really have to get ready for this

People have been putting storm shutters on their houses,

Pretty much all the wooden panels have been sold out

People have stocked up on supplies to the point that there

is a shortage of food in supermarkets.

People are heading to their homes, not going out on the

People in flood prone areas are advised to go to shelter.

I suspect that a lot of people will do

At this point, in the middle of the night, in Puerto Rico, I