07/09/2017

:00:07. > :00:22.Our top story today: Hurricane Irma, one of most powerful hurricanes in

:00:23. > :00:26.recorded history, is continuing its part the devastation over the

:00:27. > :00:31.Caribbean with several islands flattened. My whole caved in. There

:00:32. > :00:35.were seven of us. All we could do was pray and call for help. The

:00:36. > :00:39.firemen came to our rescue as soon as they could of course.

:00:40. > :00:44.We'll talk to those affected throughout the programme.

:00:45. > :00:46.Also this morning - we've taken the Belgian paralympian

:00:47. > :00:49.with a crippling degenerative disease who wants to end her

:00:50. > :00:53.life to meet an anti-euthanasia campaigner.

:00:54. > :01:03.If you can't decide who wipes your bottom and then someone says, you

:01:04. > :01:08.know you could die and it would be dignified, suddenly is that the

:01:09. > :01:14.choice? You can't choose to have the dignity of deciding who looks after

:01:15. > :01:18.you but you can decide to die? You know what pain is? When you are

:01:19. > :01:20.totally alone and crying because of the pain.

:01:21. > :01:25.Watch that full conversation in about 15 minutes.

:01:26. > :01:33.And listen to this. # One-day...

:01:34. > :01:35.And a new George Michael single has been released today 8

:01:36. > :01:52.We'll play you some of it and get reviews from some of his fans.

:01:53. > :01:59.Throughout the morning the latest breaking news

:02:00. > :02:00.and developing stories and, as always, really

:02:01. > :02:05.A little later in the programme we'll be talking about the school

:02:06. > :02:10.which has introduced a gender neutral uniform.

:02:11. > :02:12.It's been introduced over concern about skirt lengths

:02:13. > :02:15.at the school and to accommodate some transgender pupils.

:02:16. > :02:20.It means effectively that girls have got to wear trousers and they cannot

:02:21. > :02:31.wear skirts. This comes after the announcement from do John Lewis that

:02:32. > :02:34.they would sell gender neutral children's clothing. One mother says

:02:35. > :02:40.that her daughter is a girl and she wants to wear a skirt and that is

:02:41. > :02:43.her gender. Please get in touch. We want to hear what you think. The

:02:44. > :02:52.details are on the screen. Hurricane Irma has left a trail of

:02:53. > :02:56.destruction in the Caribbean virtually destroying two islands and

:02:57. > :03:01.killing at least seven people. Officials say the French and Dutch

:03:02. > :03:04.territory of Saint Martin has been reduced to rubble. People on the

:03:05. > :03:08.island of Barbuda are to be moved away as the authorities say it is no

:03:09. > :03:12.longer habitable. The storm has moved past Puerto Rico knocking out

:03:13. > :03:14.power for more than 1 million people and is now heading to Florida. Andy

:03:15. > :03:17.more reports. The island of Barbuda,

:03:18. > :03:19.home to 1600 people, was one of the first

:03:20. > :03:21.places to be hit by Irma, It is estimated 95%

:03:22. > :03:36.of homes have been damaged. The communications

:03:37. > :03:38.tower was destroyed, cutting the island off

:03:39. > :03:40.from the outside world. The Prime Minister said the island

:03:41. > :03:42.was barely habitable. What I saw was heart-wrenching,

:03:43. > :03:44.absolutely devastating. In fact, I believe on a per capita

:03:45. > :03:46.basis, the extent of the destruction in Barbuda

:03:47. > :03:57.is unprecedented. We had containers, 40 foot

:03:58. > :04:04.containers, flying left and right, The story you are getting from most

:04:05. > :04:07.of the residents here is the eye Persons were literally tying

:04:08. > :04:14.themselves to their roofs In the French territory

:04:15. > :04:21.of Saint Martin, six Authorities said the island had

:04:22. > :04:26.been reduced to rubble. This is Hurricane Irma

:04:27. > :04:30.seen from space. It's now heading north

:04:31. > :04:33.of Puerto Rico, and could hit It's one of three

:04:34. > :04:39.hurricanes in the Atlantic. There are particular

:04:40. > :04:41.fears for Hurricane Jose, following close behind Irma

:04:42. > :04:44.and on a similar path. Officials say with most people

:04:45. > :04:46.homeless, Barbuda cannot If Jose does head its way,

:04:47. > :05:01.the island may have to be evacuated. The Red Cross said the damage in

:05:02. > :05:05.Barbuda was like nothing they had ever seen before.

:05:06. > :05:11.The first report coming out of Barbuda, after we lost communication

:05:12. > :05:16.last night, the first report from the Prime Minister today when he

:05:17. > :05:19.took his first trip, indicated 90% of property was damaged or

:05:20. > :05:24.destroyed. We had the release of the first set of images this evening and

:05:25. > :05:29.the devastation is nothing like we have ever seen before. We are

:05:30. > :05:34.talking about the entire country or population of Barbuda being

:05:35. > :05:37.significantly destroyed. We have mobilised our resources and we will

:05:38. > :05:42.be going over to Barbuda tomorrow to get a better picture of what

:05:43. > :05:46.immediate, medium and long-term needs are. From that we will start

:05:47. > :05:52.the relief effort. We have already been meeting with the government. We

:05:53. > :05:55.actually just came out of a meeting with Cabinet where we identified

:05:56. > :05:59.what type of resources are available and how soon we can make relief

:06:00. > :06:05.efforts available, from tarpaulins to shelters, which is a major

:06:06. > :06:10.priority, as well as some health concerns. This is what the focus is

:06:11. > :06:16.on in the next 24 hours. The last major hurricane we would have had

:06:17. > :06:21.remotely close, not at the same level just remotely close, was in

:06:22. > :06:26.1995. We did have significant devastation to Antigua and we did

:06:27. > :06:29.rebuild, but what we are seeing in Barbuda, it is something we never

:06:30. > :06:34.fathom that would happen. We never thought that we would have images

:06:35. > :06:39.where you see the entire population of Barbuda pretty much desolated

:06:40. > :06:43.before your eyes. This is something that is very difficult for people to

:06:44. > :06:48.deal with, particularly the fact that we have one fatality, and such

:06:49. > :06:58.a young individual. Really a lot is being dealt with in the Barbuda

:06:59. > :06:59.community. A spokesman from the Red Cross. We will bring you more on

:07:00. > :07:01.that devastation later. Annita is in the BBC

:07:02. > :07:11.Newsroom with a summary MPs will debate the European Union

:07:12. > :07:14.withdrawal bill today. The regulation will transfer thousands

:07:15. > :07:19.of EU laws and regulations into British law. Labour says it will

:07:20. > :07:27.oppose the bill in a vote next week. Meanwhile the European Union wants

:07:28. > :07:32.Northern Ireland to have a different Brexit deal to the rest of the UK,

:07:33. > :07:36.the BBC understands. Proposals due to be published later today by

:07:37. > :07:40.Michel Barnier are expected to suggest special exceptions to allow

:07:41. > :07:43.people to work, go to school and receive medical treatment on either

:07:44. > :07:46.side of the border with the Republic of Ireland.

:07:47. > :07:48.A leading health organisation says Britain's obesity crisis

:07:49. > :07:50.is being fuelled by businesses pushing unhealthy food and larger

:07:51. > :07:58.The Royal Society for Public Health says that shoppers are at risk

:07:59. > :08:02.of eating 17,000 extra calories a year from unnecessary

:08:03. > :08:07.It wants businesses to stop encouraging people to eat more,

:08:08. > :08:09.and suggests the government could reward businesses with reduced

:08:10. > :08:18.Universities in England could face fines if they pay their leaders more

:08:19. > :08:23.than the Prime Minister unless they can convince the regulator that

:08:24. > :08:27.their bosses are with it. Dozens of vice chancellors currently earn more

:08:28. > :08:31.than doubled the Prime Minister's annual salary of ?150,000.

:08:32. > :08:35.Universities minister Jo Johnson says urgent measures are needed to

:08:36. > :08:40.ensure a good deal for both students and taxpayers.

:08:41. > :08:45.The second largest police force in England and Wales, West Midlands

:08:46. > :08:47.Police, has been accused of failing to record thousands of crimes every

:08:48. > :08:53.year including domestic abuse and rape. The Inspectorate of

:08:54. > :08:56.Constabulary said the force's performance was inadequate. The

:08:57. > :08:59.force said they took the issue seriously and said a number of cases

:09:00. > :09:06.had been recorded but classified incorrectly. One in five people who

:09:07. > :09:11.are gay, lesbian or bisexual have experienced a hate crime in the last

:09:12. > :09:15.year according to research by the charity Stonewall. They found 80% of

:09:16. > :09:17.victims chose not to report the crimes to police. Ian Miller has

:09:18. > :09:21.more. Leon and Steve want to be able to be

:09:22. > :09:24.themselves, but say they can't Three weeks ago I was in a nightclub

:09:25. > :09:28.and this guy must have heard my voice, heard that I'm camp

:09:29. > :09:31.and gay, so thought he would He turned around and started saying

:09:32. > :09:35.some quite homophobic slurs to me, I wasn't going to let him

:09:36. > :09:43.ruin my night at the time, which he definitely didn't like,

:09:44. > :09:45.because he then turned around And from that stamp,

:09:46. > :09:50.I found out two days later, Compared with how things were 20

:09:51. > :09:55.years ago when I first came out, With gay characters all around us,

:09:56. > :10:04.people growing up with that, the last thing I expected

:10:05. > :10:07.was for a young man to find it offensive and think it was OK

:10:08. > :10:09.to hit me. New research carried out

:10:10. > :10:11.by Stonewall suggests that hate The number of lesbian,

:10:12. > :10:17.gay and bisexual people who experienced hate crime

:10:18. > :10:19.in the past year increased 41% of transgender people said

:10:20. > :10:28.they had suffered an incident 81% of people surveyed didn't report

:10:29. > :10:33.the offence to police. The charity is warning

:10:34. > :10:35.against complacency and has called on the public to work

:10:36. > :10:37.with the authorities It really needs police

:10:38. > :10:42.forces to step up. It needs the government to look

:10:43. > :10:45.at how they deal with hate crime. What we are asking people to do

:10:46. > :10:49.is to sign the pledge on our website that they will stand up for LGBT

:10:50. > :10:53.equality in their communities, because actually it'll take

:10:54. > :10:55.individuals in every part of Britain The government has said

:10:56. > :11:02.it is already working with police and the justice system to help

:11:03. > :11:12.ensure victims have the Facebook says it has discovered

:11:13. > :11:16.evidence of a Russian operation to promote divisive social and

:11:17. > :11:20.political messages on the social network during the US presidential

:11:21. > :11:26.campaign. The company said ?77,000 was spent on about 3000 adverts over

:11:27. > :11:30.a two year period. The adverts did not back any specific political

:11:31. > :11:31.figures but posted on topics including immigration, race and

:11:32. > :11:35.equal rights. Prince George is

:11:36. > :11:40.starting school today. The four-year-old is

:11:41. > :11:42.attending Thomas's School Fees at the school are more

:11:43. > :11:51.than ?17,000 a year. Prince George was taken

:11:52. > :11:54.to school by his father. The Duchess of Cambridge,

:11:55. > :11:56.who is pregnant with the couple's third child,

:11:57. > :11:58.is said to be suffering That's a summary of

:11:59. > :12:11.the latest BBC News. Thank you. Get in touch in the usual

:12:12. > :12:14.ways. We are talking about hate crime later. If you have been the

:12:15. > :12:19.victim of a hate crime, please get in touch. Sports news in just a

:12:20. > :12:22.moment and we will play you a little bit more of that new George Michael

:12:23. > :12:25.track which has been released today eight months after his death. Have a

:12:26. > :12:41.listen. # Hey little baby, there ain't much

:12:42. > :13:03.point in hanging around, yeah It is a remix of a track Fantasy

:13:04. > :13:13.which was supposed to be an the Listen Without Prejudice album. It

:13:14. > :13:17.was recorded in 1990. George Michael's sisters have posted an

:13:18. > :13:20.update on his official website saying they will carry on his

:13:21. > :13:30.musical legacy exactly as he would have wanted. You are an aficionado

:13:31. > :13:35.of George Michael's music. Tell us what you think of that track. Now

:13:36. > :13:38.the sport. We start at the US Open. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have

:13:39. > :13:42.never played each other there before and it will not be happening again

:13:43. > :13:47.this time? No, absolutely not. It was what all

:13:48. > :13:50.tennis fans had been hoping for. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal would

:13:51. > :13:56.have rolled back the years when they met in the Australian Open final

:13:57. > :14:01.back in January, but there will be no repeat because the five-time

:14:02. > :14:05.Wimbledon champion has been knocked out of the Open after being beaten

:14:06. > :14:10.by Juan Martin del Potro. It is the first time the Swiss has lost in a

:14:11. > :14:14.Grand Slam all season. The Wimbledon champion was beaten in four sets to

:14:15. > :14:18.book his place, as del Potro moved into the last four and he will be

:14:19. > :14:24.meeting Rafael Nadal. Roger Federer admitted he was not really feeling

:14:25. > :14:28.his best this year. I knew it would be a tough one. I struggled

:14:29. > :14:31.throughout the tournament thinking too far ahead. In some ways I am

:14:32. > :14:35.actually happy I made the quarters. I am not that disappointed because

:14:36. > :14:39.it has been a good run already this year. You know, unfortunately I ran

:14:40. > :14:45.into a guy who was better on the day. It is del Potro who will take

:14:46. > :14:48.on Rafael Nadal for a place in the final. But failed adult is back in

:14:49. > :14:52.the world number one spot which he took off Andy Murray. He was

:14:53. > :14:58.ruthless against the 19-year-old Russian. He dropped just five games

:14:59. > :15:05.in the whole match. Sorry, go on. Are you going to say something or am

:15:06. > :15:12.I? Let's hear from Victoria! There is an all American line-up for the

:15:13. > :15:16.women's semifinals. Exactly that. You would have to go all the way

:15:17. > :15:28.back to 1981 for the last time that happened. This year Karolina

:15:29. > :15:31.Pliskova's time as number one has been that to an end. And Venus

:15:32. > :15:43.Williams will take on Sloane Stephens. Chris Evatt and Barbara

:15:44. > :15:45.Potter faced off and Austin took on Martina Navratilova.

:15:46. > :15:52.The story of the Sutton United reserve goalie eating a pie

:15:53. > :16:02.First it was look at this stroke and then it became a bit more serious.

:16:03. > :16:07.It's still going on, what's the latest? Yes. It escalated. Fans were

:16:08. > :16:12.watching and thought, hang on a minute, and it started as a joke.

:16:13. > :16:16.Wayne Shorter was Sutton United's reserve goalkeeper in this match in

:16:17. > :16:22.February. An FA Cup defeat to Arsenal. He ate pie during the day

:16:23. > :16:26.after a bookmaker odds of 8-1 that he would. He said it was just a bit

:16:27. > :16:33.of fun at the time but later resigned and has now been fined ?375

:16:34. > :16:36.and banned for two months by the FA for breaching their betting rules.

:16:37. > :16:39.It started as a joke, but didn't end that way at all. Thank you. We will

:16:40. > :16:43.have more throughout the morning. Marieke Vervoot is 38 and a top

:16:44. > :16:46.Paralympian who won several medals in London 2012 and Rio

:16:47. > :16:49.2016 for Belgium. She also wants to

:16:50. > :16:53.choose when she dies. She lives with a painful

:16:54. > :16:56.degenerative disease and has signed We've been following her

:16:57. > :17:01.story on this programme She's told us that as her condition

:17:02. > :17:08.continues to deterioate, she now has more bad days than good,

:17:09. > :17:11.and wants to end her life when But anti-euthanasia campaigners say

:17:12. > :17:15.it sends out a message that some We took disability

:17:16. > :17:22.campaigner Mik Scarlet - who also lives with chronic spinal

:17:23. > :17:25.pain - but is against Their conversation is frank

:17:26. > :17:28.and contains discussions about suicide which you

:17:29. > :17:36.may find upsetting. It's a really, really

:17:37. > :17:39.lovely experience. I had to quit with my top sports,

:17:40. > :17:50.and I was very scared I'm so happy that I

:17:51. > :18:03.found another sport. You see your wheelchair

:18:04. > :18:07.standing outside, and you Hello, I am Marieke Vervoort,

:18:08. > :18:29.I am an athlete from Belgium. I have four Olympic medals,

:18:30. > :18:41.including one gold in London 2012. But I have constantly battled

:18:42. > :18:46.against a progressive disease, I've been living with chronic

:18:47. > :19:16.pain for 37 years now. This will be the first time in quite

:19:17. > :19:21.a few years of campaigning around the subject of assisted dying,

:19:22. > :19:26.assisted suicide and euthanasia. That I've actually met someone

:19:27. > :19:28.who themselves is disabled and those experiencing it from the other side

:19:29. > :19:31.of the argument. I suppose my worries

:19:32. > :19:46.about euthanasia is that we don't live in a world, I think,

:19:47. > :19:49.that's kind of ready for it. Because I don't think

:19:50. > :19:52.the world understands And I don't think it's

:19:53. > :19:59.kind of in a position where we are all able to live

:20:00. > :20:04.as we want. So it worries me that more and more

:20:05. > :20:10.countries are getting the right to die with this kind of choice,

:20:11. > :20:14.I have the right to die as I want. I'm not saying that's a bad thing,

:20:15. > :20:19.I'm just saying I think it would be good if before we got that,

:20:20. > :20:22.we had the right to live as we want. I don't agree with

:20:23. > :20:33.what you're talking. You're talking about getting

:20:34. > :20:36.all things out of your life. I take all things, and I've

:20:37. > :20:42.got a big bucket list I will live, I'm going for the life,

:20:43. > :20:52.so long as the life I heard your story, obviously it's

:20:53. > :21:01.not exactly the same, You know, 14, 15, I was disabled

:21:02. > :21:07.from birth because I From the base of my hips

:21:08. > :21:15.to the base of my rib cage, So now what I've got is titanium

:21:16. > :21:29.rods that go from the top of my rib They are bolted

:21:30. > :21:34.together, so I'm solid. My nephew thinks it's

:21:35. > :21:43.fantastic that I'm like But can I ask you something,

:21:44. > :21:51.is your disease stable now? The condition I've got is not

:21:52. > :21:57.a continuous downward sort of slope. But I don't know what tomorrow

:21:58. > :22:01.will bring, if you know what I mean. I can't guarantee that today

:22:02. > :22:07.is the last day I'll be OK. Me, it's going every

:22:08. > :22:12.time worse and worse. My view, I see now,

:22:13. > :22:18.only 20% any more. One eye, one point,

:22:19. > :22:21.the other eye two points. They don't know, it's also something

:22:22. > :22:28.wrong with my brain. Also, the last years,

:22:29. > :22:33.a lot of epileptic attacks. For me, if I still have good days,

:22:34. > :22:43.then it's worth to enjoy But now it starts to have more bad

:22:44. > :22:57.days than good days, and it's getting really difficult,

:22:58. > :22:59.that's why I really, really glad Because I have my own

:23:00. > :23:13.life in my hands. When I say it's enough,

:23:14. > :23:18.I can't live in this condition, I have the right to say

:23:19. > :23:20.I want to quit now. That came off me, a lot of stress,

:23:21. > :23:33.a lot of things off me. I felt safe from that moment

:23:34. > :23:36.and I started to live again Yeah, I completely get

:23:37. > :23:42.what you're saying. Because I've also been in quite dark

:23:43. > :23:53.places quite a few times in my life. The first time it happened,

:23:54. > :23:55.I genuinely planned a suicide. I couldn't leave the house

:23:56. > :23:58.without assistance at the time. So I waited to rebuild my life

:23:59. > :24:01.enough, so that I could go But what if you kill yourself

:24:02. > :24:10.and it's not working? And you come out of it

:24:11. > :24:15.and you live like a vegetable? Without those papers,

:24:16. > :24:20.I would be thinking all the time, Euthanasia is not something that you

:24:21. > :24:34.get like going to the supermarket. You have to go to three different

:24:35. > :24:49.doctors and you have to prove that no treatment exists,

:24:50. > :24:52.and there are no medicines to make Because of those papers,

:24:53. > :25:03.I can enjoy every moment. It troubles me if we end up

:25:04. > :25:06.with a situation where people are very keen to fight

:25:07. > :25:09.for your right to have the right But people don't seem to very keen

:25:10. > :25:16.to for you to have the right I've got some new friends that

:25:17. > :25:22.I have the people that care for them taken away,

:25:23. > :25:25.that are being put into care homes, whether they want to or not, that

:25:26. > :25:28.are having all of the assistance that they have taken

:25:29. > :25:30.away from them because I don't think, when that happens,

:25:31. > :25:36.you can make an informed choice. If you can't decide who wipes your

:25:37. > :25:40.bum, and somebody says, hey, you know you could die,

:25:41. > :25:45.and it would be dignified, You can't choose to have the dignity

:25:46. > :25:53.of deciding who looks after you, You know what pain is,

:25:54. > :25:58.when you are totally alone? And you're crying because of

:25:59. > :26:06.pain, you're yelling that they hear it in

:26:07. > :26:09.the corner of the street. This is the point,

:26:10. > :26:18.that we are losing sight of the fact that, for example,

:26:19. > :26:22.if pain is a reason to die, then what does that mean

:26:23. > :26:31.for someone like me, in fact one time I had four years

:26:32. > :26:34.of solid pain that never stopped, just didn't stop at all,

:26:35. > :26:36.and during that time, yes, I won't deny it,

:26:37. > :26:39.there were times when I thought, But if I lived in a society

:26:40. > :26:43.with that law, then Because I have those

:26:44. > :26:52.papers and I can do it, everything is already ready

:26:53. > :26:55.for when the time is there. It gives me a good feeling that

:26:56. > :26:59.I can plan everything for and go I don't know when the time

:27:00. > :27:10.is, and I'm busy now with a new experiment,

:27:11. > :27:15.with the pain treatment, with a doctor that

:27:16. > :27:17.I've never met before. If it's not working,

:27:18. > :27:32.then I have to say stop. I'm again in the hospital

:27:33. > :27:38.because I felt really, really bad. I really hope you don't think in any

:27:39. > :27:53.way that I am judging We have the chance to talk

:27:54. > :28:02.and use things like this to explore our inner feelings,

:28:03. > :28:05.I think, and make I want to live and to end

:28:06. > :28:12.my life is beautiful. A month ago, I met a guy

:28:13. > :28:33.who's doing funerals. He came to my house

:28:34. > :28:38.and I arranged my funeral already. So it's really different

:28:39. > :28:45.than a normal funeral. I choose not a black box,

:28:46. > :28:51.but a red box with white flowers and also a box

:28:52. > :29:02.with all white butterflies. It's really weird, when I say it

:29:03. > :29:06.now, but for me I love it I really love the feeling

:29:07. > :29:19.that they put me in the sleep. I think that has given me the same

:29:20. > :29:23.feeling, that you will sleep I hear a lot that I

:29:24. > :29:34.inspire a lot of people. I hope that people get another

:29:35. > :29:40.vision about euthanasia and they won't see it like murder,

:29:41. > :29:50.but it can be also a good thing. I want them to toast

:29:51. > :29:56.on the good life that I had. I don't want people to cry,

:29:57. > :30:01.I want people happy. But that they are also happy that

:30:02. > :30:09.I'm not in pain any more, You can hear more from Marieke

:30:10. > :30:31.on 5Live Sport tonight at 8.30pm and it will be available to download

:30:32. > :30:35.as a podcast. If you're affected by any

:30:36. > :30:38.of the issues in this film please visit the BBC Action Line

:30:39. > :30:40.for details of where you can get help and support -

:30:41. > :30:54.bbc.co.uk/actionline. It is 9:30am. A couple of comments

:30:55. > :30:59.now from people watching that film. This email from Chris in Cheshire,

:31:00. > :31:04.every person should have the choice to live or die. It should not be

:31:05. > :31:08.ruled by others who disagree with what is OK for them. It has got to

:31:09. > :31:14.be down to the person themselves. And this email from Peter: The right

:31:15. > :31:19.to die assumes society and the state of your life. If they don't, then

:31:20. > :31:26.the premise of rights to die is outrageous, because they have no

:31:27. > :31:29.rights to give or take regarding a life. And on Twitter: An

:31:30. > :31:34.exceptionally candid and brave discussion taking place between two

:31:35. > :31:37.people on Victoria Derbyshire right now on coping with pain and the

:31:38. > :31:41.right to die. Thank you for those and please keep them coming in. Now

:31:42. > :31:45.the latest news headlines with Annita McVeigh.

:31:46. > :31:47.News is emerging of the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma

:31:48. > :31:50.on the Caribbean islands it's passed.

:31:51. > :31:54.At least nine people have been killed.

:31:55. > :31:57.Officials say the French and Dutch territory of Saint Martin has

:31:58. > :32:01.The small island of Barbuda is said to be barely habitable.

:32:02. > :32:05.The Red Cross said the impact of the storm was unparalleled.

:32:06. > :32:08.The UK takes another step towards Brexit today, as MPs debate

:32:09. > :32:13.The measures would transfer thousands of EU laws and regulations

:32:14. > :32:23.The Government has urged MPs from all parties to work with them

:32:24. > :32:25.to get the legislation through Parliament, but Labour says

:32:26. > :32:27.it will oppose the bill in a vote next week.

:32:28. > :32:30.The European Union wants Northern Ireland to have a different

:32:31. > :32:32.Brexit deal to the rest of the UK, the BBC understands.

:32:33. > :32:35.Proposals due to be published later today by the EU's chief negotiator,

:32:36. > :32:37.Michel Barnier, are expected to suggest special exceptions

:32:38. > :32:40.to allow people to work, go to school and receive medical

:32:41. > :32:42.treatment on either side of the border with

:32:43. > :32:52.Prince George is starting school today.

:32:53. > :32:53.The four-year-old is attending Thomas's School

:32:54. > :32:56.Fees at the school are more than ?17,000 a year.

:32:57. > :32:59.Prince George was taken to school by his father.

:33:00. > :33:01.The Duchess of Cambridge, who is pregnant with

:33:02. > :33:03.the couple's third child, is said to be suffering

:33:04. > :33:06.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:33:07. > :33:15.Roger Federer has been knocked out of the US Open

:33:16. > :33:17.by Juan Martin del Potro, which means it's the Argentine

:33:18. > :33:21.who will face Rafael Nadal in the semi-final.

:33:22. > :33:25.Fans at Flushing Meadows were hoping to watch Federer and Nadal face off

:33:26. > :33:28.for the first time in the competition.

:33:29. > :33:30.But the five-time champion, who suffered his first defeat

:33:31. > :33:32.in a Grand Slam this season, admitted he was simply

:33:33. > :33:36.In the women's draw, it's an all-American semi-final line

:33:37. > :33:39.Coco Vandeweghe ended Karolina Pliskova's reign

:33:40. > :33:43.as world number one, beating her in straight

:33:44. > :33:45.sets to set up a meeting with compatriot Madison Keys,

:33:46. > :33:51.while Venus Williams will take on Sloane Stephens.

:33:52. > :33:55.Chris Froome had his lead cut by 42 seconds in the Vuelta A Espana

:33:56. > :33:57.as Vincenzo Nibali capitalised on a gruelling final climb

:33:58. > :34:08.Froome, the four-time Tour de France winner, is aiming to win

:34:09. > :34:12.England's deciding Test match against West Indies gets under way

:34:13. > :34:17.to the side and another fast bowler, James Anderson, could become

:34:18. > :34:19.the first Englishman to take 500 Test wickets.

:34:20. > :34:26.That is all the sport. Back to you. Thank you. There is a new George

:34:27. > :34:29.Michael track out and it has been released eight months after his

:34:30. > :34:31.death. It got its first airing on Chris Evans's breakfast show this

:34:32. > :34:34.morning. We are about to play

:34:35. > :34:38.George Michael's brand-new single. Thank you, David Austin, George's

:34:39. > :34:44.manager, for sending us this. He has just typed this and sent it

:34:45. > :34:48.to us now so we know "Fantasy was originally meant to be

:34:49. > :34:51.on Listen Without Prejudice and was intended to be one

:34:52. > :34:54.of the singles from the album, but somehow it got lost

:34:55. > :34:57.in the ether, in what was going Though George did then release it

:34:58. > :35:01.later as a B-side in 1990. However, years later,

:35:02. > :35:06.just last year, when looking for a lead single for the reissue

:35:07. > :35:09.of George's Listen Without Prejudice MTV Unplugged album, and to

:35:10. > :35:11.accompany the new film, Freedom, that George had just finished

:35:12. > :35:14.working on before Christmas, Fantasy was George's

:35:15. > :35:18.first and obvious choice. So George phoned up Nile Rodgers,

:35:19. > :35:22.his good pal, in early 2016, because the two

:35:23. > :35:24.of them have always spoken the same musical language,

:35:25. > :35:25.as long as they have known each other,

:35:26. > :35:28.and Nile reworked the record." And that is what you are

:35:29. > :35:31.about to hear right now. # Little baby, I can give you

:35:32. > :35:43.all the loving that your heart # One day you say you love me

:35:44. > :35:52.that your heart desires # Hey, little baby, there ain't much

:35:53. > :36:08.point me hanging around, yeah # One day you say you will stay

:36:09. > :36:13.that your love is in my hands # But the next you're

:36:14. > :36:16.changing your plans # Ain't much point

:36:17. > :36:24.in hanging around, yeah # Because if you ain't

:36:25. > :36:42.got time for me Nile Rodgers has been posting on

:36:43. > :36:47.Twitter about his nerves before this was released. He said he had pins

:36:48. > :36:55.and needles and he would work until the report starts coming in.

:36:56. > :37:03.And in tribute to the original artist, he then tweeted:

:37:04. > :37:06.Let's find out what this new track means to his fans.

:37:07. > :37:11.Laura O'Mahoney is a fan of George Michael and danced

:37:12. > :37:20.to one of his tracks as her first wedding dance.

:37:21. > :37:25.George Michael music since he was a teenager.

:37:26. > :37:33.What do you think of it? I think it is brilliant. Y? I think it will be

:37:34. > :37:36.fun to dance to when I go out. I think it is a nice updated version

:37:37. > :37:42.of it. It sounds like the original but it is really good fun and upbeat

:37:43. > :37:47.and a great legacy as to what George Michael was all about. And what

:37:48. > :37:52.about you? I can't agree any more. I think it is fantastic. A fantastic

:37:53. > :38:00.track. Tell me about the first dance at your wedding. It was Careless

:38:01. > :38:03.Whisper, one of my favourite George Michael tracks, and I managed to

:38:04. > :38:07.persuade my husband not to be too embarrassed to dance to it and we

:38:08. > :38:12.had a great DJ singer who did it electro swing style and it was great

:38:13. > :38:17.fun. A bit of a laugh, not taking it too seriously. And also because I

:38:18. > :38:24.love George Michael, it was quite special. And apparently there was a

:38:25. > :38:32.George Michael B match your hen do as well. Yes, I thought I wasn't

:38:33. > :38:35.that much of a fan but clearly I am! At my hen do in London, I entered

:38:36. > :38:45.the room and all my friends were dressed up as George Michael with

:38:46. > :38:52.really dodgy blonde wigs, Wham plaything, and everyone was

:38:53. > :38:56.wondering who we were dressed up as. We are just showing pictures of your

:38:57. > :39:00.hen party which is quite bizarre! But good fun. It is better than just

:39:01. > :39:08.wearing tutus and carrying around obscene inflatables! I totally agree

:39:09. > :39:17.on that point! What was the first George Michael track you bought?

:39:18. > :39:21.Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Then I was caught. I just kept buying every

:39:22. > :39:31.time more music was released. What do you think the mix of this track

:39:32. > :39:38.says about his legacy? I think it is typical George. He has always

:39:39. > :39:44.recorded music and he has always tried to renew himself and his

:39:45. > :39:51.music. He has always tried to take some of his old tracks and remake

:39:52. > :40:00.them. Everything She Wants, which was released as a single and a

:40:01. > :40:07.Re/Max, and remixed again. Almost every single was re-done over the

:40:08. > :40:18.years so it is so typical of George Michael. What are the chances of

:40:19. > :40:22.this going to number one, Laura? I would like to say the chances are

:40:23. > :40:26.very high and people will buy the track and download it in memory of

:40:27. > :40:33.him. It is quite a treat to be able to get the track after he has left

:40:34. > :40:40.us. I hope people will take it seriously and enjoy it and buy it. I

:40:41. > :40:46.certainly will do. Chris Evans read this out this morning. Just in case

:40:47. > :40:50.you missed that, Laura, this is from the management. Fantasy was

:40:51. > :40:53.originally meant to be an Listen Without Prejudice, intended to be

:40:54. > :40:57.one of the singles from that album, but it got lost on either of what

:40:58. > :41:02.was going on at that time, although it was released as a B-side in 1990,

:41:03. > :41:11.although years later, just last year, when looking for relief single

:41:12. > :41:16.for the reissue of Without Prejudice MTV Unplugged, and to celebrate the

:41:17. > :41:21.film Freedom, Fantasy was his first and obvious choice. Then he rang up

:41:22. > :41:24.Nile Rodgers in early 2016 because the two have always spoken the same

:41:25. > :41:28.musical language as long as they have known each other. And Nile

:41:29. > :41:34.Rodgers reworked the record and that is what they are hearing today. I am

:41:35. > :41:39.just looking at Twitter. So many people love it. Number one it is,

:41:40. > :41:43.says somebody. Fantasy has sent shivers down my spine and I so miss

:41:44. > :41:48.George Michael. Quite a few people tweeting Nile Rodgers to say thank

:41:49. > :42:00.you. We will see what happens. Thank you both very much.

:42:01. > :42:04.Coming up: Universities in England could face fines if they pay their

:42:05. > :42:09.leaders more than the Prime Minister. We will bring you the

:42:10. > :42:16.story. Thank you for your comments about the school which has

:42:17. > :42:23.effectively introduced a gender neutral uniform. That means that

:42:24. > :42:28.girls cannot wear skirts. Jerome says why be dictatorial? Why not

:42:29. > :42:35.give children the choice of wearing skirts, Gilles, trousers? Taking

:42:36. > :42:41.away the choice is back. This email from John: Who decided that trousers

:42:42. > :42:44.are gender neutral? And this one: Gender neutral uniform? This world

:42:45. > :42:50.is going to end. That seems apocalyptic! You are either a boy or

:42:51. > :42:55.a girl and it is that simple. And from Mike: To for somebody to be

:42:56. > :42:59.gender neutral is surely as bad as forcing somebody into agenda. Why

:43:00. > :43:06.must a girl who wants to wear a skirt be made to wear trousers?

:43:07. > :43:10.It was the most effective and stand-out slogan

:43:11. > :43:13.from the Brexit campaign - "Let's take back control".

:43:14. > :43:15.Well, later we'll start to hear more about what taking back

:43:16. > :43:18.The European Union Withdrawal Bill represents the biggest

:43:19. > :43:21.constitutional change in the UK since the 1970s as thousands of EU

:43:22. > :43:23.laws and regulations are effectively downloaded into British law.

:43:24. > :43:28.MPs will start debating it, with Labour planning to oppose it

:43:29. > :43:31.because they say it gives too much power to the government rather

:43:32. > :43:41.Once informally known as the Great Repeal Bill,

:43:42. > :43:43.the now less grandly titled European Union Withdrawal Bill

:43:44. > :43:45.faces its first big test in Parliament today.

:43:46. > :43:52.But what is it and why does it matter?

:43:53. > :43:56.Well, the idea is to do the biggest cut and paste job in parliamentary

:43:57. > :43:59.history, by moving 40 years' worth of EU law straight into UK law.

:44:00. > :44:02.Then, when the UK formally leaves the EU in 2019,

:44:03. > :44:05.Britain will be able to change those laws as it sees fit.

:44:06. > :44:06.Sounds straightforward enough, doesn't it?

:44:07. > :44:12.Well, the bill also includes controversial powers

:44:13. > :44:16.nicknamed Henry VIII clauses, after the 16th century king

:44:17. > :44:18.who introduced a Statute of Proclamations that gave him power

:44:19. > :44:23.to make laws without Parliament's consent.

:44:24. > :44:26.Critics fear these powers would allow ministers

:44:27. > :44:30.to change legislation without the scrutiny of Parliament.

:44:31. > :44:33.As a result, the opposition Labour Party have vowed

:44:34. > :44:38.They say it grants too much power to ministers to, quote,

:44:39. > :44:40."Slash people's rights at work and reduce protections for consumers

:44:41. > :44:50.The government says it won't use the powers to make significant

:44:51. > :44:53.changes, and has warned that if the bill doesn't clear

:44:54. > :44:55.the Commons, it could create a legal vacuum when the UK leaves

:44:56. > :44:59.Since the last election, the government has a wafer thin

:45:00. > :45:03.majority, with only just enough MPs to get new laws passed.

:45:04. > :45:06.But if this bill, or one like it, isn't passed by the time the UK

:45:07. > :45:08.formally leaves the EU, Britain could find itself

:45:09. > :45:17.Let's talk to Mark Harper from the Conservatives,

:45:18. > :45:22.Stephen Gethins who's the SNP's Europe spokesperson,

:45:23. > :45:30.And in a moment Labour MP Peter Kyle, when he joins us. Good

:45:31. > :45:35.morning. Mark Harper, the former Attorney General Dominic grieve says

:45:36. > :45:40.no sovereign parliament should pass the EU withdrawal bill. Is he wrong?

:45:41. > :45:46.I'm very happy with the bill. I've looked at the bill. I think it does

:45:47. > :45:49.what's necessary. It takes all of the European legislation that's

:45:50. > :45:54.currently passed in secondary look legislation puts into British law so

:45:55. > :45:58.when we leave we get a smooth exit. It's worth saying, the legislation

:45:59. > :46:02.it's going to move was all passed into law through the same process as

:46:03. > :46:05.the secondary legislation and I didn't hear lots of people

:46:06. > :46:09.complaining about that at the time. I think it's a necessary process.

:46:10. > :46:12.The House of Lords committee looked at it and said in an ideal world you

:46:13. > :46:16.wouldn't do it like this, but they accepted because of the volume of

:46:17. > :46:19.legislation, this was necessary. They said the government should

:46:20. > :46:23.limit the powers ministers are going to have on the government has. The

:46:24. > :46:29.powers ministers have, they can't use it for example to create taxes

:46:30. > :46:35.or make retrospective legislation. It is for tweaking the legislation

:46:36. > :46:40.and of those powers. Tweaking sounds so benign. It is. What are you

:46:41. > :46:46.worried about? All reviewable by the courts. I'm astonished to hear Mark

:46:47. > :46:49.talking about nobody ever complaining. We've had years of

:46:50. > :46:57.Eurosceptics complaining about European wars do UK Government

:46:58. > :47:00.signed up to. -- European laws the UK Government signed up to. This

:47:01. > :47:04.paragraph that the House of Lords are concerned about, the Law Society

:47:05. > :47:10.of Scotland have illustrated concerns, takes power backstroke

:47:11. > :47:15.from Parliament. These Henry VIII clauses they are using, why not give

:47:16. > :47:21.control back to Parliament? Give Parliament a say. One thing that's

:47:22. > :47:29.missing... Sorry, sorry. What do you mean? Two solutions. On areas that

:47:30. > :47:32.are devolved competences, give the devolved administrations in Wales,

:47:33. > :47:36.Northern Ireland and Scotland say over those, don't restrict what they

:47:37. > :47:41.can legislate on and they can't legislate on, which this bill does.

:47:42. > :47:44.It restricts them. On the Parliamentary side, give Parliament

:47:45. > :47:47.proper scrutiny. They are restricting the days we can debate

:47:48. > :47:51.this. One thing that is astonishing, if the government had the courage of

:47:52. > :47:54.its convictions and was confident of what it was doing, it would be happy

:47:55. > :47:59.with Parliamentary scrutiny but it is not. Peter Kyle from the Labour

:48:00. > :48:03.Party, thank you for joining us. You will tell me your party is

:48:04. > :48:08.definitely not trying to block Brexit when it votes against the

:48:09. > :48:12.second reading of this bill, but that will be the perception among

:48:13. > :48:17.some people, some voters out there who voted for Brexit. I can say

:48:18. > :48:19.categorically, and I'm in a good place to say this, the party is

:48:20. > :48:24.absolutely not trying to block Brexit. I am someone who voted

:48:25. > :48:28.against Article 50 and broke the Labour whip. I think our country was

:48:29. > :48:34.fundamentally unprepared and our government was unprepared for the

:48:35. > :48:37.negotiation period. OK... I'm prepared for the legislative

:48:38. > :48:41.consequences of Brexit. Today's paragraph is proof positive that our

:48:42. > :48:44.government did not give the time or the consideration and is

:48:45. > :48:48.underprepared for the whole Brexit process that they are ramming

:48:49. > :48:54.through parliament with too little time. How are you going to convince

:48:55. > :48:58.people that this concern about Parliamentary sovereignty is not

:48:59. > :49:02.simply masquerading you trying to put hurdles in the way of the

:49:03. > :49:06.government completing Brexit? They are two separate things. Article 50

:49:07. > :49:11.and a vote for article 15 triggered the Brexit process. This is about

:49:12. > :49:14.how we do Brexit and getting Brexit right and getting a Brexit that is

:49:15. > :49:20.right for Britain. What is your solution? I wonder if it is possible

:49:21. > :49:24.to deliver a Brexit good for Britain when you see the leaks coming out of

:49:25. > :49:30.government and the shambles of the negotiation process unfolding around

:49:31. > :49:34.us. What specifically? What is it specifically Labour is suggesting?

:49:35. > :49:38.There is something like 12,000 regulations under EU law that we are

:49:39. > :49:43.going to download. You are not talking about scrutinising all those

:49:44. > :49:50.pieces... Why not? How long will it take? It should take as long as it

:49:51. > :49:52.takes. If Brexit is about Parliamentary sovereignty, we give

:49:53. > :49:55.sovereignty to Parliament. What you don't do is take Parliamentary

:49:56. > :50:01.sovereignty away. What would be wrong...? That was an enlightening

:50:02. > :50:05.answer. What it says is, if you went through every single one of those

:50:06. > :50:10.regulations, which by the way didn't have that level of scrutiny when

:50:11. > :50:13.they became law in the first place. That is what people voted for. The

:50:14. > :50:16.Labour Party were happy to do that. Then this process would never

:50:17. > :50:20.finish. The real agenda of the Labour Party is they want to kick

:50:21. > :50:25.and pushed down the road are sleeving, because many of them... We

:50:26. > :50:31.want to get it right. If we leave it in two years' time in March 2019 and

:50:32. > :50:35.have removed all this into British law, it will be a chaotic exit.

:50:36. > :50:39.Businesses, the public and people will suffer. Do you not accept Peter

:50:40. > :50:44.Kyle's point about doing it properly? It takes as long as it

:50:45. > :50:46.takes? We are taking these pieces of secondary legislation which

:50:47. > :50:49.currently rely on European legislation to be law and moving

:50:50. > :50:53.into British law. The powers that are going to ministers are to enable

:50:54. > :51:04.small changes, where you need to change the name of an institution

:51:05. > :51:06.for example. The government has been very clear that any significant

:51:07. > :51:08.changes will be done through primary legislation, through the full

:51:09. > :51:13.Parliamentary process. Do not believe it? Mark... I don't. These

:51:14. > :51:17.assurances, Mark trying to tell if it's not that bad. Dominic Grieve,

:51:18. > :51:20.former Attorney General, we sit on opposite benches, very different

:51:21. > :51:25.views but real concerns about this. This is something really important.

:51:26. > :51:28.This has a huge impact on everybody, on our environment, it opportunities

:51:29. > :51:31.for young people, on the economy, and jobs. The economy will take a

:51:32. > :51:35.massive hit from this process. It takes as long as it takes and

:51:36. > :51:49.Parliamentary scrutiny is important. I agree with

:51:50. > :51:52.Peter, his concerns about ramming this through Parliament. What's the

:51:53. > :51:54.point of having a parliament if it is not fair to scrutinise and ask

:51:55. > :51:57.the government questions? Especially on something that will affect each

:51:58. > :51:59.and everyone of us in such a devastating way is this. Peter Kyle,

:52:00. > :52:02.your labour colleague who voted to leave the EU said anyone who votes

:52:03. > :52:05.against the principle of this bill, which is what you are debating this

:52:06. > :52:07.afternoon and the next few days, is betraying the will of the British

:52:08. > :52:09.people. That is one of your colleagues. She is wrong, I'm sorry!

:52:10. > :52:13.She's wrong. She's in a tiny minority within Labour and within

:52:14. > :52:17.Parliament. On this particular point she is simply wrong. When Labour

:52:18. > :52:23.were in power, Mark and his party voted against Labour if we brought

:52:24. > :52:27.in a bill which had more than ten or 11 statutory instruments that were

:52:28. > :52:31.giving more powers to government. They repeatedly said it was a power

:52:32. > :52:37.grab. They are introducing a bill today that will have over 1000

:52:38. > :52:41.pieces of legislation, power which is round away from Parliament into

:52:42. > :52:44.government, out of the hands of civilians, out of the hands of

:52:45. > :52:50.democratic scrutiny. This bill is pernicious and wrong. I don't agree

:52:51. > :52:52.with that. It is a practical measure. The House of Lords

:52:53. > :52:56.Constitution committee said this is the only way it can be reasonably

:52:57. > :53:02.done. They said ministers' power should be restrained. There is clear

:53:03. > :53:05.legislation that talks about the limits ministers will have. I looked

:53:06. > :53:07.at the bill last night in preparation for this and am very

:53:08. > :53:11.clear there are lots of controls in there and I am content with them and

:53:12. > :53:16.will be supporting the bill on Monday. Are you not happy with the

:53:17. > :53:21.limits in there, Peter Kyle? Why don't you believe them? The limits?

:53:22. > :53:26.There are no limits in this bill. That are. This bill does not give

:53:27. > :53:36.1000 statutory instruments and 1000 different mechanisms for ministers

:53:37. > :53:39.and civil servants to take decisions that are going to affect our air

:53:40. > :53:41.quality, lousy quality, the food quality... Right across the raft of

:53:42. > :53:43.regulation for our country. It's also giving the power to overturn

:53:44. > :53:46.different pieces of legislation. This bill, for example, will give

:53:47. > :53:50.the power to ministers to leave the finally -- to finally leave the EU

:53:51. > :53:53.without coming back to Parliament for the final vote. They give power

:53:54. > :53:58.to government that could even overturn this particular piece of

:53:59. > :54:02.legislation. The power given to government by this bill is

:54:03. > :54:06.overwhelming. It is unprecedented. We need time to scrutinise and get

:54:07. > :54:10.Brexit right. I think Brexit is going wrong and we need to stop and

:54:11. > :54:13.think about it, but I'm fully behind Labour's position now, to get this

:54:14. > :54:17.bill right and get every step of the way right. Otherwise we would damage

:54:18. > :54:26.our country in the most pernicious and evangelistic way. OK. A quick

:54:27. > :54:30.final way. Theresa May said she will stay on to fight the next general

:54:31. > :54:33.election, are you happy? I want the Prime Minister to get this Brexit

:54:34. > :54:38.negotiations on. Are you happy with her planning to stay? She said

:54:39. > :54:42.before to MPs at Westminster she will stay as long as we were noted.

:54:43. > :54:45.She's doing a great job negotiating the Brexit deal. She said she will

:54:46. > :54:52.stay on to fight the next general election, would you support? I want

:54:53. > :54:58.her to get this Brexit negotiation done and then all the other

:54:59. > :55:00.challenges facing against product -- about around productivity and job

:55:01. > :55:03.creation for some she's doing a great job and I want I just don't

:55:04. > :55:06.get that done. Do you want her to stay on as she announced she will be

:55:07. > :55:10.doing to fight the next general election? I want her to stay and

:55:11. > :55:14.deliver the thing she said. What about fighting a general election?

:55:15. > :55:19.We have a five-year Parliament. I want her to get on and deliver for

:55:20. > :55:23.the British people. Are you happy... Very happy to defend and support her

:55:24. > :55:27.if she does that. What about the question I have asked you a number

:55:28. > :55:31.of times... Are you happy Theresa May has announced she is planning to

:55:32. > :55:35.stay on to fight the next general election? I'm very content to

:55:36. > :55:39.support the Prime Minister. Doing a great job... For the next general

:55:40. > :55:44.election? I'm very happy with the leader she has as leader of our

:55:45. > :55:49.party and Prime Minister. And the next general election, you to put

:55:50. > :55:52.that not? She said she will stay as long as the Parliamentary party...

:55:53. > :55:55.Since she has said that she has announced she will be staying on to

:55:56. > :55:58.fight the next general election. I'm very happy with what she's doing

:55:59. > :56:04.reading our country and happy to continue supporting her for as long

:56:05. > :56:07.as she wants to stay as Prime Minister. She wants to fight the

:56:08. > :56:12.next general election. I said as long as she wants to stay as Prime

:56:13. > :56:15.Minister. Thank you very much. Mark Harper from the Conservatives,

:56:16. > :56:16.Stephen Gethins from the SNP and Peter Kyle from the Labour Party,

:56:17. > :56:23.thank you for coming onto the programme. Some

:56:24. > :56:26.breaking news to bring you if I may. They're with me one moment. The

:56:27. > :56:32.Crown Prosecution Service says it has received a file from the police

:56:33. > :56:37.regarding allegations of historical child sexual abuse made by a man who

:56:38. > :56:40.was known as Nick, which led to operation Midland. The CPS

:56:41. > :56:43.spokesperson said on the 4th of September we received a file of

:56:44. > :56:49.evidence from Northumbria Police with allegations against one person

:56:50. > :56:52.as to perverting the course of justice and fraud. Prosecutors will

:56:53. > :56:58.consider the evidence with a view to making a charging decision in line

:56:59. > :57:01.with the code for Crown prosecutors. Thank you for your comments about

:57:02. > :57:04.right to die. This e-mail from Sandra who said, I've just been

:57:05. > :57:08.watching your very moving discussion. On the right to die. I

:57:09. > :57:13.fully support anyone who wishes to end their life through illness. I

:57:14. > :57:20.travelled with my husband Andrew to dig in attacks in December last

:57:21. > :57:23.year. He had MS for 24 years. He had no quality-of-life but he had the

:57:24. > :57:27.ability to make his final decision of taking control. -- I travelled

:57:28. > :57:33.with my husband Andrew to Dignitas. Ending his life when he wished.

:57:34. > :57:38.And Roger has e-mailed as well. Having spent a good deal of time in

:57:39. > :57:41.distress through spinal pain and frightening asthmatic attacks I can

:57:42. > :57:46.understand that some who suffered this on a permanent basis would want

:57:47. > :57:49.some peace. What worries me, says Roger, if we might reach a stage

:57:50. > :57:52.where people were so worried about the fact they were too much of a

:57:53. > :57:56.burden on others and ruining the lives of others that it would be

:57:57. > :58:01.best to put this right by ending their lives. Once we are living and

:58:02. > :58:04.breathing, life has got to be fought for. Thank you for those.

:58:05. > :58:07.Do keep your comments coming in. We will bring you the latest sport and

:58:08. > :58:12.news in a moment but first, the latest weather with

:58:13. > :58:16.Simon. Good morning. I thought I would

:58:17. > :58:21.start by showing you the latest with hurricane Irma. Still a massive

:58:22. > :58:27.category five hurricane and is currently just to the north of the

:58:28. > :58:30.Dominican Republic. You can see the eye, offshore but giving strong

:58:31. > :58:31.winds, heavy rain and a storm surge in the Dominican

:58:32. > :58:42.Republic and up towards Haiti. It will work its way towards the Turks

:58:43. > :58:46.and Caicos Islands later. That is one area we will keep a very close

:58:47. > :58:51.eye on. As it maintains its strength as a category five hurricane.

:58:52. > :58:54.Back to the UK. An area of low pressure sitting towards the

:58:55. > :58:57.north-west of the UK. That is bringing is not only some fairly

:58:58. > :59:01.strong winds across northern and western areas but some outbreaks of

:59:02. > :59:06.rain as well. That rain is going to gradually work further southwards as

:59:07. > :59:10.we go into this afternoon. Towards the south and east of England things

:59:11. > :59:15.going little drier. Quite cloudy but there will be in a few bright spots.

:59:16. > :59:19.Remaining quite wet across Scotland during this afternoon. With that

:59:20. > :59:23.breeze, feeling quite cool, temperatures only 14 or 15. Pretty

:59:24. > :59:27.wet for Northern Ireland and eventually some wet weather into

:59:28. > :59:31.north-west England, North Wales as well. Elsewhere, across England and

:59:32. > :59:35.Wales, while there could be a few showers it is mostly cloudy. Any

:59:36. > :59:39.brightness will be down towards the south and east. That is where

:59:40. > :59:41.temperatures will get to about 17-19.

:59:42. > :59:45.Through this evening and overnight, the wet weather will continue to

:59:46. > :59:49.spread further south and east. Still quite breezy conditions to take this

:59:50. > :59:54.into the early hours of Friday morning. Overnight temperatures down

:59:55. > :59:58.to about 11-13. During Friday, quite unsettled for many. A few heavy

:59:59. > :00:03.showers affecting the northern half of the UK. Further south, you can

:00:04. > :00:07.see this area of rain spreading into southern areas. Some of that could

:00:08. > :00:10.be on the heavy side. Pretty breezy for many. Temperatures around the

:00:11. > :00:15.mid to high teens, again feeling pretty cool.

:00:16. > :00:19.Into the weekend, staying cool and quite windy. Some rain around us.

:00:20. > :00:23.This is the picture on Saturday. Quite a few showers coming in.

:00:24. > :00:29.Blustery conditions throughout the day on Saturday. Temperatures around

:00:30. > :00:34.15-18. By the time we get to Sunday, this area of low pressure starts to

:00:35. > :00:39.move in. Tightening isobars, stronger winds on Sunday for all of

:00:40. > :00:43.us. With that, the weather front bringing outbreaks of rain mainly in

:00:44. > :00:46.the West but will spread further eastwards. Some brighter skies the

:00:47. > :00:47.further east you are but eventually turning cloudy and wet. That's it

:00:48. > :00:58.for me, see you later. Thank you. It is Thursday just after

:00:59. > :01:03.10am. I'm Victoria Derbyshire. Hurricane Irma has caused widespread

:01:04. > :01:10.disruption across the Caribbean, leaving at least nine people dead.

:01:11. > :01:15.Thousands were running from house to house and we had cars flying over

:01:16. > :01:20.our heads. We had containers, 40 foot containers flying left and

:01:21. > :01:24.right. We will talk to some of those affected. And one in five LGBT

:01:25. > :01:29.people have experienced hate crime or hate incidents in the last year.

:01:30. > :01:44.One in ten have been assaulted, but many of those are reluctant to

:01:45. > :01:48.report it to the police. He punched me in the face and broke my nose and

:01:49. > :01:51.I needed an operation under general anaesthetic a few weeks later. We

:01:52. > :01:55.will ask the police if they are failing the victims of hate crimes.

:01:56. > :01:58.And the incredible video of a shoplifter in Texas who managed

:01:59. > :02:02.to slip off her handcuffs, steal a police car and lead them

:02:03. > :02:12.We have video of that which we will show you in the next half an hour.

:02:13. > :02:15.It is quite extraordinary. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:02:16. > :02:18.with a summary of today's news. News is emerging of the devastating

:02:19. > :02:23.impact of Hurricane Irma At least nine people

:02:24. > :02:26.have been killed. Officials say the French and Dutch

:02:27. > :02:29.territory of Saint Martin has The small island of Barbuda is said

:02:30. > :02:32.to be barely habitable. The Red Cross said the impact

:02:33. > :02:38.of the storm was unparalleled. The UK takes another step

:02:39. > :02:40.towards Brexit today, as MPs debate The measures would transfer

:02:41. > :02:44.thousands of EU laws and regulations The government has urged MPs

:02:45. > :02:52.from all parties to work with them to get the legislation

:02:53. > :02:54.through Parliament, but Labour says it will oppose the bill

:02:55. > :02:59.in a vote next week. The European Union wants

:03:00. > :03:01.Northern Ireland to have a different Brexit deal to the rest of the UK,

:03:02. > :03:04.the BBC understands. Proposals due to be published later

:03:05. > :03:08.today by the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, are expected

:03:09. > :03:11.to suggest special exceptions to allow people to work,

:03:12. > :03:13.go to school and receive medical treatment on either

:03:14. > :03:15.side of the border with A leading health organisation says

:03:16. > :03:23.Britain's obesity crisis is being fuelled by businesses

:03:24. > :03:26.pushing unhealthy food and larger The Royal Society for Public Health

:03:27. > :03:31.says that shoppers are at risk of eating 17,000 extra calories

:03:32. > :03:33.a year from unnecessary It wants businesses to stop

:03:34. > :03:39.encouraging people to eat more, and suggests the government

:03:40. > :03:41.could reward businesses with reduced Universities in England could face

:03:42. > :03:49.fines if they pay their leaders more than the Prime Minister

:03:50. > :03:51.unless they can convince a regulator Dozens of vice-chancellors currently

:03:52. > :04:01.earn more than double the Prime Minister's

:04:02. > :04:09.annual salary of ?150,000. The universities minister Jo Johnson

:04:10. > :04:11.says urgent measures are needed to ensure a good deal for both students

:04:12. > :04:19.and taxpayers. One in five people who are gay,

:04:20. > :04:22.lesbian or bisexual have experienced a hate crime in the past year

:04:23. > :04:24.according to research It found more than 80 percent

:04:25. > :04:43.of victims chose not to report Stonewall has said it has launched

:04:44. > :04:48.its Come Out For Lgbt campaign to fight this.

:04:49. > :04:50.Prince George is starting school today.

:04:51. > :04:51.The four-year-old is attending Thomas's School

:04:52. > :04:55.Fees at the school are more than ?17,000 a year.

:04:56. > :04:57.Prince George was taken to school by his father.

:04:58. > :04:59.The Duchess of Cambridge, who is pregnant with

:05:00. > :05:01.the couple's third child, is said to be suffering

:05:02. > :05:05.The school's principal explained what kind of person he had George

:05:06. > :05:08.will be when he leaves primary school. I hope very much that he

:05:09. > :05:10.will be himself. The whole aim of these precious years of early

:05:11. > :05:13.education is to give children confidence in who they are. We will

:05:14. > :05:16.not try and mould him into any kind of particular person and we wouldn't

:05:17. > :05:22.do that with any of our pupils. We hope you will have the confidence to

:05:23. > :05:24.be himself with all his quirks and idiosyncrasies and characteristics.

:05:25. > :05:31.That is what we want for all of our children. That is a summary of the

:05:32. > :05:36.latest BBC News. More at 10:30am. Dan in Birmingham says Labour, the

:05:37. > :05:39.SNP and the liberals all trying to scupper Brexit. And when RMP is

:05:40. > :05:47.going to understand that we voted to leave because we don't want MPs

:05:48. > :05:52.deciding what happens? -- when our MPs going to understand? Let the

:05:53. > :05:57.cards fall wherever they fall. There was not this level of scrutiny on

:05:58. > :06:01.entry. And this one: When we see how many laws have got to be passed into

:06:02. > :06:06.UK law, it shows how much we have been ruled by the unelected

:06:07. > :06:09.omission. And this one: We can only assume that Conservative MP Mark

:06:10. > :06:16.Harper does not want Theresa May to run as per a minister in the next

:06:17. > :06:21.general election. Now she knows it. Please get in touch. If you are

:06:22. > :06:24.texting, you will be charged. Now the sport.

:06:25. > :06:27.It's barely believable but Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal

:06:28. > :06:29.have never played each other at the US Open and unfortunately

:06:30. > :06:32.for many ardent tennis fans, that's not going to change this year

:06:33. > :06:35.either because the Swiss has been knocked out in the quarter finals.

:06:36. > :06:38.Federer was beaten in four sets by Juan Martin del Potro,

:06:39. > :06:41.so it's the Argentine who will take on Nadal in the last four.

:06:42. > :06:43.It was the Wimbledon champion's first defeat of the season

:06:44. > :06:50.and he admittted he just wasn't playing at his best.

:06:51. > :06:57.I knew it was going to be a tough one. I had struggled too much

:06:58. > :07:01.throughout the tournament, you know, to think too far ahead. In some ways

:07:02. > :07:03.I'm actually happy I made the quarterfinals. I am not that

:07:04. > :07:08.disappointed because it has been a good run this year already.

:07:09. > :07:11.Unfortunately I ran into a guy who was better on the day.

:07:12. > :07:13.Nadal was ruthless against the Russian teenager Andrey Rublev

:07:14. > :07:15.as he booked his place in the semi-final.

:07:16. > :07:17.The Spaniard, who recently reclaimed the world number one spot,

:07:18. > :07:20.dropped just five games in the match.

:07:21. > :07:23.It's double misery for Karolina Pliskova,

:07:24. > :07:26.who will now lose her world number one ranking after she lost her

:07:27. > :07:31.It means the women's draw features an all-American semi-final line-up

:07:32. > :07:37.Vandeweghe will take on Madison Keys while Serena Williams plays

:07:38. > :07:44.Manu Tuilagi's hopes of appearing in England's autumn

:07:45. > :07:47.internationals were already slim but now they're over

:07:48. > :07:50.after he suffered a knee injury in Leicester's Premiership opener

:07:51. > :07:57.Tuilagi had already been told by coach Eddie Jones

:07:58. > :08:00.more chance to prove he had the right attitude to

:08:01. > :08:18.England's Test series decider against West Indies begins today.

:08:19. > :08:25.It will be the last commentary for Toby. He said it was too early to

:08:26. > :08:29.know what he would be feeling about his retirement. I am trying to wake

:08:30. > :08:34.up still. I have not been through a full inventory of how I am. I have

:08:35. > :08:39.been doing this for God knows how long. I will only know when I am

:08:40. > :08:43.commentating. Lovely to have a Test match with something riding on it.

:08:44. > :08:50.We are hoping for the West Indies revival to continue. I do. It would

:08:51. > :08:53.be lovely if they won. It would do cricket so much good. I am all for

:08:54. > :08:58.them winning. And we speaking to our correspondent Joe Wilson. That is

:08:59. > :09:04.all this book. Thank you. Welcome to the programme.

:09:05. > :09:09.Hurricane Irma has caused devastation in the Caribbean with

:09:10. > :09:16.some islands totally flattered. The Prime Minister of the small island

:09:17. > :09:19.of Barbuda says it has been left barely habitable. A toddler has been

:09:20. > :09:26.killed and 90% of buildings including schools and hospitals have

:09:27. > :09:34.been damaged. Barbuda sustained wind

:09:35. > :09:36.of up to 225 mph. As a result of that,

:09:37. > :09:38.the country's infrastructure, all of the homes are practically

:09:39. > :09:40.decimated, up to 90% In many instances, some of the homes

:09:41. > :09:45.are totally demolished. So it's a really terrible

:09:46. > :09:47.situation there. We are now trying to bring some

:09:48. > :09:50.urgent relief to the people of Barbuda, and then hopefully

:09:51. > :09:52.to start the rebuilding Prime Minister, for people

:09:53. > :09:55.that don't know Barbuda, could you just describe it

:09:56. > :09:57.a little more? I think there were 1600

:09:58. > :09:59.people living there. There wasn't really anywhere

:10:00. > :10:05.for people to go from those kind of winds and, I guess,

:10:06. > :10:07.a storm surge as well? It's an extremely flat island, only

:10:08. > :10:20.about as many as 1800 inhabitants. That's one of the issues

:10:21. > :10:22.why the devastation would have been so bad,

:10:23. > :10:24.because there are no hills and so on to serve

:10:25. > :10:26.as breakers for the wind. Clearly, the wind would have

:10:27. > :10:29.literally had a free space That is just the nature of Barbuda,

:10:30. > :10:41.a very flat island. Again, the highest point I believe

:10:42. > :10:44.is about 50 feet above sea level. Presently there is maybe

:10:45. > :10:51.three or four inches So it's a really challenging

:10:52. > :10:56.situation in Barbuda. Michael Joseph is the President

:10:57. > :11:02.of the Red Cross in Antigua and Barbuda, and explained

:11:03. > :11:09.the extent of the damage. The Prime Minister would have

:11:10. > :11:11.indicated that damage in Barbuda is like none

:11:12. > :11:13.we've ever seen before. Seeing pretty much 90% of

:11:14. > :11:24.the country demolished, in rubble. When we first lost communication

:11:25. > :11:28.with Barbuda, never did we anticipate that the next time

:11:29. > :11:31.we would be receiving any form of image or any form

:11:32. > :11:34.of communication from them would be Talking about everything

:11:35. > :11:41.being completely destroyed. Its electricity, its roads,

:11:42. > :11:45.its water, its food, its churches, There is literally nothing

:11:46. > :11:50.that currently exists I think the Prime Minister has

:11:51. > :12:01.spoken a bit earlier about the magnitude of what it

:12:02. > :12:05.would cost us in terms of rebuilding the country

:12:06. > :12:10.of Barbuda itself. From his indication,

:12:11. > :12:12.we're talking about 100 million So even if we're looking

:12:13. > :12:16.at getting Barbuda to 25%, we're talking about a significant

:12:17. > :12:18.amount of investment. If you're looking from the Red Cross

:12:19. > :12:21.perspective, just dealing with immediate needs that currently

:12:22. > :12:30.exist in Barbuda. Residents have been describing

:12:31. > :12:39.people tying themselves to their roots to try and save their lives as

:12:40. > :12:43.the hurricane struck. -- roofs. What we experienced is something you

:12:44. > :12:46.would see in a horror movie. People were literally running from house to

:12:47. > :12:49.house and we had cards flying over our heads and 40 feet container is

:12:50. > :13:48.flying left and right. At least nine people are known

:13:49. > :13:51.to have died across the region. More than a million

:13:52. > :13:53.people have been cut off from electricity in Puerto Rico

:13:54. > :13:55.and the storm is now Let's talk to Brieaunna Curry

:13:56. > :13:59.who is in Orlando in Florida And on the line is Erhan Sahin,

:14:00. > :14:09.a British tourist Cuba is due to be hit by the storm

:14:10. > :14:15.and Erhan is hoping to get out And Ummi Krishman Director

:14:16. > :14:18.of the Emergency Health Unit at Save the Children,

:14:19. > :14:29.who's deployed a specialist team to Doctor, tell us about the help you

:14:30. > :14:34.have been giving. We know that this is a monster storm with catastrophic

:14:35. > :14:39.impact. What we don't know is how long the nightmare will last. We are

:14:40. > :14:43.not taking any chances. Save the Children works in all these

:14:44. > :14:47.countries, especially Haiti and Dominican Republic, where we started

:14:48. > :14:52.preparing the minute the storm started brewing. That is why we have

:14:53. > :15:00.a specialist team from an emergency health unit. They will be responding

:15:01. > :15:04.very quickly, starting with children and their medical and health needs,

:15:05. > :15:08.and going onto psychosocial and mental health needs. We are talking

:15:09. > :15:15.about a region with a history of cyclones. I was in last year

:15:16. > :15:19.following Hurricane Matthew. There were two problems. One was the

:15:20. > :15:24.impact of one of the worst storms to hit Haiti in 50 years, Matthew. The

:15:25. > :15:28.second was the secondary impact of the hurricane, which was the cholera

:15:29. > :15:32.outbreak. And the third one was that children had been going through

:15:33. > :15:35.similar storms and they had been emotionally hit very badly. Our

:15:36. > :15:39.priority will be to protect children, take care of them, says

:15:40. > :15:43.their medical and health needs, emotional well-being, as well as

:15:44. > :15:49.responding to survival needs. It is a big, catastrophic hurricane.

:15:50. > :15:55.Julian, specialising in tropical prediction that the Met office. Can

:15:56. > :16:03.you talk through the movements of hurricane Omar. A hurricane,

:16:04. > :16:06.category five. Thankfully the eye of Hurricane Irma, where the strongest

:16:07. > :16:13.winds, are keeping offshore at moment. It kept offshore at Porto

:16:14. > :16:16.Rico. It is keeping off the shore of the Dominican Republic and Haiti,

:16:17. > :16:21.but there is a possibility it could come very close to the Turks and

:16:22. > :16:26.Caicos Islands and across the Bahamas and then into Cuba over the

:16:27. > :16:31.next two lap or three days. And what about Florida? Yes, Florida seems to

:16:32. > :16:34.be in its path as well. What we expected the continued westward

:16:35. > :16:40.movement would happen through to about Saturday. And once it gets

:16:41. > :16:43.close to Cuba, it is likely to take a sharp right turn, which means it

:16:44. > :16:48.could make landfall directly over the southern tip of Florida. There

:16:49. > :16:53.is a chance it could pass just east of Florida and run up the east coast

:16:54. > :16:58.of Florida and into Georgia and the Carolinas. Whatever happens, Florida

:16:59. > :17:02.will be impacted and other parts of the south-eastern USA as well. Can

:17:03. > :17:08.you explain why the winds continue at such a pace? Is it to do with the

:17:09. > :17:12.size of the landmass? Small territories, small pieces of land

:17:13. > :17:17.don't really slow down the storm? That is right. The sea temperatures

:17:18. > :17:21.in that region are slightly above average, a degree or 1.5 degrees

:17:22. > :17:29.above average, fuelling the really strong winds in this hurricane.

:17:30. > :17:33.Small islands like Barbuda which was passed over yesterday have no effect

:17:34. > :17:39.on the intensity at all. Larger islands, such as Porto Rico may do,

:17:40. > :17:42.but the eye is keeping offshore, so the amount of weakening over the

:17:43. > :17:45.next two days, we do expect some weakening but it might be relatively

:17:46. > :17:56.minimal. By the time the Hurricane gets to Florida, it still may be a

:17:57. > :18:01.category four hurricane. Brieaunna, how are you preparing in this case

:18:02. > :18:07.comes to your area? I mean kind of the same way everyone else is trying

:18:08. > :18:11.to. Making sure food and water, and I have shelter for my dog and that

:18:12. > :18:15.all my friends are safe. Just yesterday I try to go to the store

:18:16. > :18:20.to pick up some supplies like water, making trips to the gas station to

:18:21. > :18:24.get gasoline. Even though the storm is not set to hit as for a few days,

:18:25. > :18:28.everything is selling out, from coast to coast. My parents live on

:18:29. > :18:31.the Tampa side of Florida and everything there is sold out.

:18:32. > :18:35.Everything upwards north of Jacksonville is getting sold out and

:18:36. > :18:43.we are starting to get some evacuees from Miami down here in Orlando, who

:18:44. > :18:48.will be going further north. We are just hunkering down and trying to

:18:49. > :18:54.get supplies, if we can find them. Sorry to interrupt... There is no

:18:55. > :19:01.question for you but to stay put. You're not going to try and get out

:19:02. > :19:07.of the area? Well, I mean... We're in Orlando, about an hour and a half

:19:08. > :19:12.away from the coast, a little more inland. We are little further up in

:19:13. > :19:16.Florida, so right now we're kind of like sitting ducks. Our governor has

:19:17. > :19:23.talked a lot about the evacuation plans for Miami. They are starting

:19:24. > :19:26.to introduce them for the rest of Florida, but outside, north of

:19:27. > :19:32.Miami, we don't know what to anticipate. We don't know if we need

:19:33. > :19:39.to evacuate, we just need to know we need to prepare our houses, block --

:19:40. > :19:42.blockade our windows and put sandbags up. When the storm gets

:19:43. > :19:46.close to the southern tip of Florida, we will know what we need

:19:47. > :19:52.to do up here, as far as evacuation goes. Let's talk to our friend in

:19:53. > :19:58.Cuba, a British holiday-maker. Cuba is due to be hit as well. How long

:19:59. > :20:08.are you due to stay there for? Well, we're staying here until Thursday...

:20:09. > :20:16.INAUDIBLE A few days ago I was watching the

:20:17. > :20:23.news. INAUDIBLE They let it slip there was a

:20:24. > :20:30.hurricane hitting us. When I could speak... There only to members of

:20:31. > :20:33.staff left on the complex. They said when the storm gets worse, lock

:20:34. > :20:39.yourself in your room. We have tried calling the Thomas Cook rets but no

:20:40. > :20:42.one picks up the phone. I am picking up every other word you are saying

:20:43. > :20:48.but not all of it. I want to ask you, would you like to get out of

:20:49. > :20:55.Cuba and come home before you were due to next Thursday? We are willing

:20:56. > :21:01.to pay our way out. The British Embassy told us to contact Thomas

:21:02. > :21:05.Cook and Thomas Cook and one is picking up the phone, the line is

:21:06. > :21:09.just ringing dead. We were guaranteed when we booked this

:21:10. > :21:12.holiday that there would be emergency contact, 24 hours a day,

:21:13. > :21:18.but nobody is picking up the phone. We just want to get off this island.

:21:19. > :21:23.We have Canadian citizens who will be evacuated in three hours' time.

:21:24. > :21:31.They have a plain landing at the airport, evacuating them to Canada.

:21:32. > :21:39.We don't mind paying for it. There are 70-80 tourists stranded. We just

:21:40. > :21:45.want to get out. There are children and we don't know what to do. You

:21:46. > :21:49.sound really frustrated. It is, because we have no information.

:21:50. > :21:54.Nobody is giving us any information. You only have one security guard

:21:55. > :22:01.standing on the front doors and a cleaner. That is all we have got.

:22:02. > :22:05.OK. I hope you get through to someone. Thank you so much for

:22:06. > :22:12.talking to us. A British tourist on holiday in Cuba, who wants to leave,

:22:13. > :22:14.frankly, before the storm hits. Thank you to everybody for coming on

:22:15. > :22:23.the programme, thank you. Have a look at this incredible

:22:24. > :22:26.moment when a woman who has been arrested in Texas for shoplifting

:22:27. > :22:51.slips off her handcuffs and steals a police car.

:22:52. > :23:59.Wow was not how bold was that woman? Or stupid, one or the other.

:24:00. > :24:03.Goodness me! Right, we are going to talk about the possibility of you

:24:04. > :24:05.being a victim of crime in this country and whether your fear of

:24:06. > :24:17.crime actually matches up to the reality. The BBC has developed a new

:24:18. > :24:20.tool to find out. This is about you and me and everyone else in the

:24:21. > :24:24.country. It is not thinking about that film or police officers being

:24:25. > :24:27.victims of crime, it's about ordinary people. This is really

:24:28. > :24:32.simple, a tool on a website that you can go to this morning, I tweeted a

:24:33. > :24:35.link as well, that takes the National crime data from the crime

:24:36. > :24:40.survey of England and Wales, a big rolling survey which captures real

:24:41. > :24:45.experiences, and you put in your personal data. We don't capture that

:24:46. > :24:48.data. Once that data is in, it gives you effectively an estimation of

:24:49. > :24:54.your risk of being a victim of crime. The way it is able to do

:24:55. > :24:57.that, it looks at people like you, in areas like yours and what has

:24:58. > :25:02.happened to them over the last three or so years and put those two things

:25:03. > :25:06.together with data on deprivation. Once you've got that, it gives you

:25:07. > :25:10.an estimation of what's going on. OK. So we have created three

:25:11. > :25:15.fictional people just to show how this works. It is not scientific but

:25:16. > :25:22.it gives people an idea. This is Andy, a 22-year-old student. There

:25:23. > :25:25.he is. He happens to be living in private rented accommodation in a

:25:26. > :25:33.nice street in Maidenhead, which as you all know is where the Prime

:25:34. > :25:38.Minister's constituency is. It is in the top 20% of the wealthiest areas.

:25:39. > :25:43.What did the stats say about Andy? Andy is living in a nice area, nice

:25:44. > :25:48.neighbourhood, I would be secured and all those things. He is three

:25:49. > :25:54.and half times more likely than the average person in England to be a

:25:55. > :25:59.victim of robbery. OK, that's interesting, why? It's nice in

:26:00. > :26:04.Maidenhead, isn't it? It is. It all comes down to his age. He is young

:26:05. > :26:08.and the young are more likely to be victims of crime. If you think about

:26:09. > :26:14.it, I'm always badgering my son about locking up his bike. Lock up

:26:15. > :26:17.your bike, those kinds of things. Sometimes kids forget about these

:26:18. > :26:20.things and they have disposable goods, which are easy to steal.

:26:21. > :26:24.That's one of the reasons young people are more likely to be a

:26:25. > :26:29.victim of crime. And Emma, lives in Gateshead in Tyne Wear. 61, again

:26:30. > :26:35.not scientific, fictional people. She is 61, she works and owns her

:26:36. > :26:42.own home. What does... What is it called? Crime calculator. What does

:26:43. > :26:48.it say about her? It says the risk of someone like Emma being a victim

:26:49. > :26:55.of robbery is 0.3%. That is massively below Andy in Maidenhead.

:26:56. > :26:59.Hugely below the national average. Yet the interesting thing, of

:27:00. > :27:03.course, is most older people, people of her generation, would be more

:27:04. > :27:08.likely to think they are victim of crime but in actual fact Emma,

:27:09. > :27:11.living in a poorer area, in a poorer neighbourhood is less likely to be a

:27:12. > :27:15.victim of robbery. Interesting. Let's have a look at the final

:27:16. > :27:20.example, our fictional character is Claire. She is 45, she hasn't got a

:27:21. > :27:26.job at the moment and lives in Saltash in Cornwall in social

:27:27. > :27:28.housing. We fed her details into the crime calculator and what came out?

:27:29. > :27:38.This is where it gets interesting around social deprivation. Because

:27:39. > :27:44.she is poorer, in a poorer area, those are contributing factors to

:27:45. > :27:48.her being the victim of crime. She's more likely to be a victim of

:27:49. > :27:54.break-ins, robbery, potentially violent as well. So in essence, what

:27:55. > :27:57.we see in the data is gender and age do matter. If you are a younger man,

:27:58. > :28:01.you are more likely to be a victim of crime. If you are an older woman,

:28:02. > :28:05.or the older you get is a woman, the less likely you are to be a victim

:28:06. > :28:08.of crime. But in particular circumstances, Claire is a good

:28:09. > :28:12.example of this, your economic conditions can affect how likely you

:28:13. > :28:15.are to be a victim of crime. There are other factors we can't quite

:28:16. > :28:27.capture, this is a very simple tool. But what we wanted to people,

:28:28. > :28:29.myself, colleagues, we go on air talking about crime rate up and down

:28:30. > :28:32.across the nation. People have a perception of what that means, but

:28:33. > :28:35.in reality that is only part of the story. If you look at this tool will

:28:36. > :28:38.give you a better sense of what may happen to you, it may not happen,

:28:39. > :28:41.but it will give you greater sense. You need to take the two things into

:28:42. > :28:47.consideration. One thing I would recommend is put younger versions of

:28:48. > :28:50.yourself into the tall, change the data and the profiles and think

:28:51. > :28:51.about why you're crime profile may have changed over the years. Very

:28:52. > :28:53.interesting, thank you. Let's talk to Jane Wood -

:28:54. > :28:56.she's a Forensic Psychologist from the University of Kent -

:28:57. > :29:04.she's an expert in the way Good morning. Overall, we are told

:29:05. > :29:09.crime has been coming down for about 20 years, broadly speaking. What has

:29:10. > :29:14.happened with our perception of crime? The perception of crime and

:29:15. > :29:19.the fear of crime that people feel is kind of fed by a number of

:29:20. > :29:23.different factors. It is fed by the immediate neighbourhood, so if you

:29:24. > :29:28.for instants perceive your neighbourhood is neglected, poor

:29:29. > :29:31.street lighting, there is vandalism, youth gangs on the street, you're

:29:32. > :29:38.likely to perceive that you are more likely to become a victim of crime.

:29:39. > :29:42.It is also fed by our ability to defend ourselves. So this is one

:29:43. > :29:48.explanation as to why the elderly feel more vulnerable. If elderly

:29:49. > :29:52.people and females tend to feel they appear to be more vulnerable, that

:29:53. > :29:55.they are more vulnerable and less able to defend themselves if they

:29:56. > :30:00.were to be attacked, and so they perceive that their chances of being

:30:01. > :30:05.a victim of crime are higher and therefore they fear crime more. But

:30:06. > :30:10.it may not be the reality. No, no. Statistics do not bear that out, it

:30:11. > :30:13.is not the reality. The reality is most likely victims of crime are

:30:14. > :30:22.going to be young men under the age of 20. White and a final thought,

:30:23. > :30:25.there is a difference between the way men and women perceive crime or

:30:26. > :30:28.have a fear of crime. There is. The research shows men tend to fear

:30:29. > :30:34.being victims of assault or robbery and women tend to fear being victims

:30:35. > :30:39.of sexual assault. And of course, for women, when they think about

:30:40. > :30:41.things like sexual assault, this has potentially life changing

:30:42. > :30:45.consequences for them. So it becomes a bigger reality for them, a bigger

:30:46. > :30:51.worry. Thank you very much for coming on the programme. Staying

:30:52. > :30:56.with crime statistics, one in five people who are gay, lesbian or

:30:57. > :31:03.bisexual have experienced a hate crime in the last year.

:31:04. > :31:06.That's a 78 percent rise compared to four years ago.

:31:07. > :31:10.He stamped on my hand, which was on the side of the staircase.

:31:11. > :31:28.Before I knew it, there was blood everywhere.

:31:29. > :31:34.Three weeks ago I was in a nightclub with my friends.

:31:35. > :31:37.And whilst I was going up the stairs there was a group

:31:38. > :31:42.From, I suppose, hearing my voice, one of the guys

:31:43. > :31:46.At that time he turned around and started saying some quite

:31:47. > :31:49.derogatory homophobic comments which, at the time, I brushed off

:31:50. > :31:56.because I just felt too confident in myself.

:31:57. > :31:59.From that, I suppose he got a little bit riled that he wasn't

:32:00. > :32:01.as intimidating towards me as what he probably wanted

:32:02. > :32:06.So he stamped on my hand, which was on the handrail

:32:07. > :32:13.You could see a heel mark where he had stamped on my hand.

:32:14. > :32:23.Just before I met Leon, just over 12 months ago,

:32:24. > :32:27.I was having a drink in a gay bar in Birmingham, having a kiss

:32:28. > :32:32.But there were some straight people in the bar that didn't like that.

:32:33. > :32:35.Before we knew it, they jumped up and one of them was coming

:32:36. > :32:39.Punched me in the face and broke my nose.

:32:40. > :32:41.I ended up having to have an operation under general

:32:42. > :33:01.anaesthetic a couple of weeks later to try to put it right again.

:33:02. > :33:03.For people who are transgender, the hate crime figure

:33:04. > :33:07.80% of victims chose not to report the crime to the police

:33:08. > :33:10.and more than three in five gay men say they don't feel comfortable

:33:11. > :33:14.walking down the street while holding their partner's hand.

:33:15. > :33:16.Kiran Wood is a 17-year-old transgender student

:33:17. > :33:24.She and her wife Becky were attacked on a night out in Croydon last year.

:33:25. > :33:29.And David Tucker is from the National College of Policing.

:33:30. > :33:34.Welcome to you all. Thank you for coming on the programme. Alex, you

:33:35. > :33:39.are out with Becky when you were attacked. Tell the audience what

:33:40. > :33:43.happened. We went out. We don't usually go out. We were with our

:33:44. > :33:48.friends and we were approached by a gentleman who seemed quite friendly.

:33:49. > :33:57.I think it was fuelled by drink, really. Everything was fine until

:33:58. > :34:01.two men in particular are joined together and we got punched in the

:34:02. > :34:11.face multiple times. I got my head slammed into a lamp post. We only

:34:12. > :34:15.reported it because there were police right there. Why did those

:34:16. > :34:19.men do that to you? Just because we were gay. They said derogatory

:34:20. > :34:23.remarks as well. It was actually our friends who outwardly gay and

:34:24. > :34:31.kissing in public which drew their attention. I guess we got the brunt

:34:32. > :34:37.of it. I really horrific, violent attack. What impact as it had on you

:34:38. > :34:41.both? We don't go out much. We have moved out of the area. We have a son

:34:42. > :34:46.and we don't want to be in that area. I think London crime is much

:34:47. > :34:51.higher. Even though it is more accepted in London, I think. I am

:34:52. > :34:56.actually shocked that one in five people were attacked in the last

:34:57. > :35:00.year. And not many reported it. I am not that surprised because the

:35:01. > :35:04.police that we had did not really support us. We didn't have a proper

:35:05. > :35:10.case person who was on our case. When we went to court, it was all

:35:11. > :35:13.very... It wasn't actually dealt with properly because the police

:35:14. > :35:17.were not actually there. And this was on a High Street and there were

:35:18. > :35:22.no CCTV cameras whatsoever. One person was found guilty and one not

:35:23. > :35:29.guilty. Specifically, what is your complaint about the police? The

:35:30. > :35:32.guilty charge was when it was literally taken to the judge and he

:35:33. > :35:38.decided guilty. He wasn't there. He had fled the country and there is a

:35:39. > :35:41.warrant out for his arrest. The second guy got not guilty because he

:35:42. > :35:47.asked to go to Crown Prosecution Service have a jury. What is your

:35:48. > :35:49.complaint about the police specifically because I have a

:35:50. > :35:53.representative from the college of policing right here and he needs to

:35:54. > :35:58.hear it. On the second court date when it had gone to the jury and he

:35:59. > :36:00.had to stand up and say what happened, the police officer who

:36:01. > :36:04.spoke up to us in the first instance was also there on the day and she

:36:05. > :36:11.said I have not even looked at your case file in the eight months that

:36:12. > :36:16.have gone by. And you experience to hate incident because you are

:36:17. > :36:19.transgender. What happened? I was in Paddington and I went to go to the

:36:20. > :36:24.toilet and a toilet attendant in their challenged me when I went into

:36:25. > :36:28.the toilet. They said it was not the female toilets and I made it clear

:36:29. > :36:33.that my gender identity is mail so I was using the toilet that matched my

:36:34. > :36:38.gender identity. He continued to challenge me. Being confident in

:36:39. > :36:44.myself, I went into the toilet and just went to go to the toilet. When

:36:45. > :36:49.I came out, he was looking at me and smirking, and he followed me very

:36:50. > :36:55.closely behind as I left the toilet. He caused me to have a panic attack.

:36:56. > :37:00.Really? The impact was that great? Why do you think that was? Yes. I

:37:01. > :37:09.was wearing this T-shirt. It says some people are trans, get over it.

:37:10. > :37:14.I think because I am quite open about my identity and who I am and

:37:15. > :37:26.some people are just not OK with that, I guess. David Tucker,

:37:27. > :37:31.National College Of Policing representative, thank you for coming

:37:32. > :37:34.on. This experience and Alex's experience and the fact people don't

:37:35. > :37:40.report hate crimes partly because of a lack of faith in the police. How

:37:41. > :37:45.do you respond? I have been involved in policing around dealing with hate

:37:46. > :37:50.crime and a whole range of things since 1998, 1999, and I launched an

:37:51. > :37:56.inquiry report. What we have seen is a significant change in the attitude

:37:57. > :38:00.of police towards all forms of hate crime including LGBT hate crime. But

:38:01. > :38:06.not enough. I think that is a fair criticism. We have very strong

:38:07. > :38:09.training. The college sets the standards and the guidance that we

:38:10. > :38:14.have a good operational manual for the officers to use. And what we

:38:15. > :38:17.have seen over the years is an increasing amount of reporting and

:38:18. > :38:20.the Office for National Statistics say they don't think the amount of

:38:21. > :38:23.offending has gone up, that the attitude of the police has improved

:38:24. > :38:27.and the way in which the police are recording incidents has improved,

:38:28. > :38:29.and there is an increasing confidence among people to come

:38:30. > :38:38.forward and tell the police about these awful incident. Your eyebrows

:38:39. > :38:43.raising as he says that! I am part of a charity called Mermaids that

:38:44. > :38:48.helps trans-young people, and a lot of what they have talked about in

:38:49. > :38:52.terms of police recording hate incidents as hate incident is not

:38:53. > :38:56.happening and the police are not very good at recording hate

:38:57. > :39:00.incidents. Often they are coded as crimes are not specifically hate

:39:01. > :39:03.crimes. The policy is very clear around that. It comes from the

:39:04. > :39:08.Stephen Lawrence inquiry report. If anybody says that an incident is

:39:09. > :39:11.motivated by hate, then it will be recorded in that way. The reason

:39:12. > :39:17.that policy position was adopted was because there was a fear that police

:39:18. > :39:22.were trying to cut the statistics. We are very clear that we don't want

:39:23. > :39:24.that to happen. We want to know what the experiences of people around

:39:25. > :39:27.crime and what happens when hate incident happened because it is

:39:28. > :39:36.really important that we support people as best we possibly can. I

:39:37. > :39:39.know Alex's experience was not that. But we would absolutely encourage

:39:40. > :39:44.officers to support victims of crime through the criminal justice

:39:45. > :39:47.process. And then try to divert, signpost people into longer-term

:39:48. > :39:52.support when they need that. Did you go to the police? Because of my

:39:53. > :39:56.anxiety and the fact I had had a panic attack, I called my mum, who

:39:57. > :40:01.called British Transport Police, who were actually really good. Because

:40:02. > :40:04.of the situation, we ended up meeting them at my local is dating

:40:05. > :40:10.and talking to them then and reporting everything. -- my local

:40:11. > :40:13.station. There were very good at recording everything properly and I

:40:14. > :40:20.got a letter through with the help I could get if I needed extra help,

:40:21. > :40:25.which was good. It didn't go further because it didn't reach the criminal

:40:26. > :40:33.threshold. David Tucker, are you saying that it is vital that people

:40:34. > :40:39.report such incidents so that the police get a much better idea of

:40:40. > :40:43.what is going on and are actually able to investigate? Exactly the

:40:44. > :40:47.point. There is almost a vicious circle here. If the police are not

:40:48. > :40:51.told about things, we can't respond to it. So the problem is that we

:40:52. > :40:57.have about a lack of understanding and a lack of appreciation of the

:40:58. > :41:01.full crime picture, continues. We want to hear from people about the

:41:02. > :41:06.hate crime experiences so we can respond in the right way. Thank you

:41:07. > :41:11.very much, everybody. Thank you for coming on the programme and we wish

:41:12. > :41:14.you all the best. It is Prince George's first day at school today.

:41:15. > :41:21.I know you want to hear more about this there we are about to tell you

:41:22. > :41:24.more. He is four and he is attending Thomas's Battersea, ?18,000 a year,

:41:25. > :41:28.and it is in south-west London. His mother was not with him to drop him

:41:29. > :41:32.off because she has very bad morning sickness because she is pregnant

:41:33. > :41:35.with her third child. The head of the school, Ben Thomas, has been

:41:36. > :41:40.speaking this morning about his hopes for Prince George's future. I

:41:41. > :41:44.hope very much that he will be himself. The whole aim of these

:41:45. > :41:48.precious years of early education is to give children the confidence in

:41:49. > :41:52.who they are. We are not trying to mould him into any particular person

:41:53. > :41:55.and we wouldn't do that with any of our pupils. I hope you will have the

:41:56. > :42:00.confidence to be himself, with all his quirks and idiosyncrasies and

:42:01. > :42:05.characteristics, which is what I want for all of our children. In his

:42:06. > :42:09.first year, talk through a few things that he will experience here.

:42:10. > :42:13.What sort of things will he get up to? It is an incredibly exciting

:42:14. > :42:17.time. Up and down the country there are children starting school at this

:42:18. > :42:20.time. Just on the way here I saw children with their new school shoes

:42:21. > :42:25.having pictures taken on the doorstep. Children throughout the

:42:26. > :42:28.country are starting school and we will be trying to do the same for

:42:29. > :42:32.our pupils as well as those pupils as well. Our royal correspondent

:42:33. > :42:35.Sarah Campbell as they are now. No doubting that Prince George looks

:42:36. > :42:40.very cute and because he is the future King of England he needs

:42:41. > :42:46.cameras there when he first goes to school. A nightmare for him. It is a

:42:47. > :42:50.rite of passage for every young child but these pictures will be

:42:51. > :42:54.beamed around the world. The first day of school is a big one. Every

:42:55. > :42:58.parent will recognise that look, slightly nervous. He did a pretty

:42:59. > :43:03.good royal handshake. That is ahead of the school. It is Thomas's

:43:04. > :43:06.Battersea, half an hour from Kensington Palace, so further away

:43:07. > :43:10.than the school where William and Harry went, just round the corner

:43:11. > :43:17.from Kensington Palace. ?18,000 a year in school fees. A mixed school,

:43:18. > :43:21.girls and boys, 560 pupils. We found out today that he will be known to

:43:22. > :43:25.his classmates as George Cambridge. And Kate is not very well so she is

:43:26. > :43:29.not there. Fair enough. And that is an indication of how not very well

:43:30. > :43:33.she is because she would obviously have wanted to be there today. The

:43:34. > :43:37.third pregnancy was announced on Monday. Kensington Palace announced

:43:38. > :43:43.that she visibly too unwell to accompany George. We understand in

:43:44. > :43:44.the future that is regularly as possible William or Catherine will

:43:45. > :43:51.drop him off as school. Thank you. Just over a year ago,

:43:52. > :43:57.last June, 52% of the country voted to leave the EU

:43:58. > :44:01.and many of those who backed Brexit saying they wanted

:44:02. > :44:03.to take back control. That's going to mean thousands of EU

:44:04. > :44:05.laws and regulations But with MPs as divided

:44:06. > :44:09.as the country, it's probably not MPs start debating the EU

:44:10. > :44:15.Withdrawal Bill later today. Once informally known

:44:16. > :44:17.as the Great Repeal Bill, the now less grandly titled

:44:18. > :44:19.European Union Withdrawal Bill faces its first big test

:44:20. > :44:21.in Parliament today. But what is it and why

:44:22. > :44:23.does it matter? Well, the idea is to do the biggest

:44:24. > :44:27.cut and paste job in Parliamentary history, by moving 40 years' worth

:44:28. > :44:33.of EU law straight into UK law. Then when the UK formally

:44:34. > :44:36.leaves the EU in 2019, Britain will be able to change those

:44:37. > :44:38.laws as it sees fit. Sounds straightforward

:44:39. > :44:39.enough, doesn't it? Well, the bill also includes

:44:40. > :44:45.controversial powers nicknamed Henry VIII clauses,

:44:46. > :44:48.after the 16th century king who introduced a Statute

:44:49. > :44:51.of Proclamations that gave him power to make laws without

:44:52. > :44:55.Parliament's consent. Critics fear these powers

:44:56. > :44:58.would allow ministers to change legislation

:44:59. > :45:03.without the scrutiny of Parliament. As a result, the opposition

:45:04. > :45:05.Labour Party have vowed They say it grants too much power

:45:06. > :45:09.to ministers to, quote, "Slash people's rights at work

:45:10. > :45:11.and reduce protections for consumers The government says it won't use

:45:12. > :45:20.the powers to make significant changes, and has warned that

:45:21. > :45:22.if the bill doesn't clear the Commons, it could create a legal

:45:23. > :45:25.vacuum when the UK leaves Since the last election,

:45:26. > :45:31.the government has a wafer thin majority, with only just enough MPs

:45:32. > :45:34.to get new laws passed. But if this bill, or one like it,

:45:35. > :45:38.isn't passed by the time the UK formally leaves the EU,

:45:39. > :45:40.Britain could find itself Our political guru Norman Smith

:45:41. > :45:56.is in Westminster. What will happen today, tomorrow,

:45:57. > :46:02.Monday? We get the start of an almighty great row that is probably

:46:03. > :46:09.going to go on for, I'm afraid, months, with endless very technical

:46:10. > :46:13.difficult arguments, legal spats. It will be a Parliamentary War of

:46:14. > :46:20.attrition, which I'm afraid will dominate life here for an awfully

:46:21. > :46:25.long time to come. That said, it does matter, because this bill is

:46:26. > :46:33.really the sort of gangplank to Brexit. This is how we get out of

:46:34. > :46:36.the EU, because it repeals the 1972 European Communities Act, which took

:46:37. > :46:40.us in in the first place. If we don't pass this, we won't be going

:46:41. > :46:44.anywhere. It matters hugely and because of that it is an almighty

:46:45. > :46:52.great big beast of the bill and that gives critics of Mrs May's approach

:46:53. > :46:56.to Brexit all sorts of opportunities to table an amendment saying, we

:46:57. > :47:01.should stay in the single market, we should stay in the customs union,

:47:02. > :47:07.MPs must have a vote before a final deal is signed off. In other words

:47:08. > :47:09.it gives Mrs May's opponents, opponents to Brexit, huge

:47:10. > :47:15.opportunities to cause trouble and may be to change Mrs May's approach

:47:16. > :47:28.to Brexit, some say even to potentially derail Brexit. So it

:47:29. > :47:30.will be bruising, it's going to be acrimonious, there will be late

:47:31. > :47:32.nights sit ins but it matters big-time because it really good

:47:33. > :47:33.shape our approach to leaving the EU. Thank you.

:47:34. > :47:38.Reko Smith is a student who wants the UK to get on with leaving,

:47:39. > :47:40.Abby King, a European Studies student who thinks we were wrong

:47:41. > :47:43.to leave, and Linda Burbridge, who voted leave but thinks some

:47:44. > :47:44.politicians are trying to block brexit.

:47:45. > :47:47.In our Leeds studio is Mike Ward, who's considering leaving

:47:48. > :47:55.Seriously, Mike? Yes, it's certainly a possibility. My wife has lived and

:47:56. > :48:01.worked and paid tax here for 32 years. There is no guarantee she's

:48:02. > :48:10.going to be able to stay. Where is your wife from? Rishi is from

:48:11. > :48:15.Germany originally, Berlin. OK. -- she is from Germany, originally,

:48:16. > :48:18.Berlin. If she is not able to stay or other circumstances... It is a

:48:19. > :48:23.real possibility and we are considering it. What do you say to

:48:24. > :48:26.that? The government have been clear, they have said immigrants

:48:27. > :48:31.from the EU who are already here have the right to remain here. No,

:48:32. > :48:35.they haven't said that. They are discussing it at the moment but

:48:36. > :48:40.until they reach an agreement and sign it with the EU, there are no

:48:41. > :48:46.guarantees for anybody. They have said that. They haven't. My wife

:48:47. > :48:52.applied for permanent residency and spent many months in a very

:48:53. > :48:57.laborious procedure trying to get hold of this piece of paper.

:48:58. > :49:01.Solicitors, lots of money, complaints, letters to the MP and so

:49:02. > :49:04.on, got it in the end. Week heard a week later after she got this piece

:49:05. > :49:08.of paper that the government is going to abolish permanent

:49:09. > :49:11.residency, so everyone who has permanent residency is back to

:49:12. > :49:15.square one and will have to apply for settlement now. I suppose this

:49:16. > :49:19.relates to the bill we have just been hearing about. Broadly

:49:20. > :49:23.speaking, how do you think Brexit is going? There is a lot of uncertainty

:49:24. > :49:27.around this bill that I've been hearing, but to be honest I support

:49:28. > :49:31.this bill. If we don't support this bill, we are going nowhere with

:49:32. > :49:41.Brexit. In terms of what the ministers have been saying, saying

:49:42. > :49:43.there will be maybe possibly a transitional arrangement or a period

:49:44. > :49:46.after we leave the EU, Philip Hammond the Chancellor said that and

:49:47. > :49:49.supported by Liam Fox, I think that also needs to happen if there is

:49:50. > :49:54.loads of legislation that need to be passed into UK law, transition and

:49:55. > :49:58.with immigration systems. I feel like the government has taken a hard

:49:59. > :50:03.Brexit. I'm OK at the minute, but we will see how it goes with this vote.

:50:04. > :50:07.How do you think it's going? Personally I think it is a bit of a

:50:08. > :50:12.shambles at the moment. I'm a member of the Labour Party, so I am against

:50:13. > :50:16.the repeal bill. I don't really think that the government is doing a

:50:17. > :50:20.very good job of Brexit. There was a poll earlier this week on the daily

:50:21. > :50:23.politics show, going out on the street and seeing what people

:50:24. > :50:27.thought and it was very close, if not a win for the No Campaign, as

:50:28. > :50:31.in, the government isn't doing a good job on Brexit. I think it is

:50:32. > :50:36.such a complex process. I studied the youth for three years and there

:50:37. > :50:40.is no, the government doesn't seem to have an idea on what it wants to

:50:41. > :50:44.achieve with Brexit. If it wants a system like Norway or anything like

:50:45. > :50:49.that. I just think their aims are not clear. It wants to limit

:50:50. > :50:53.immigration, that is clear. Yes. And it wants to do bilateral trade deals

:50:54. > :50:58.when we leave, that is clear? Kiosks, but there's a lot more to

:50:59. > :51:04.the EU than that. With the repeal Bill, 12,000 wars they are trying to

:51:05. > :51:07.translate into domestic law. -- 12,000 wars. That could be

:51:08. > :51:13.relatively straightforward, if people vote for it, which they're

:51:14. > :51:19.likely to. Will tell. How do you think it's going? At the moment I

:51:20. > :51:24.think it is early days, because they are just going to start debating

:51:25. > :51:30.this latest bill. I agree with Reko, I think at the moment they are doing

:51:31. > :51:37.OK. It will take time, it is complex as Abby says. Do you think there is

:51:38. > :51:41.time to get it sorted by March 2019? Had to say, I have no idea because I

:51:42. > :51:44.don't know everything involved. I think if they get their skates on

:51:45. > :51:49.and get this vote through next week and start really working on it, I

:51:50. > :51:53.think it's the first good step, to vote for this bill, so they can

:51:54. > :51:56.start the hard work in parliament of looking at the amendments on

:51:57. > :52:01.different things they will need to do for each item. It's a good start.

:52:02. > :52:04.We will see why happens, thank you all for coming on.

:52:05. > :52:11.Lots of you getting in touch this morning about our conversation at

:52:12. > :52:13.the start of the programme between 38-year-old Belgian Paralympian

:52:14. > :52:18.Marieke Vervoot who has signed euthanasia papers and an

:52:19. > :52:24.anti-euthanasia campaigner. Here is a short extract. Hello, I am Marieke

:52:25. > :52:32.Vervoot, I'm an athlete from Belgium. I have four Olympic medals,

:52:33. > :52:44.including one gold medal in London 2012.

:52:45. > :52:51.I've been living with chronic pain for 37 years now. This will be the

:52:52. > :52:57.first time in quite a few years of campaigning around the subject of

:52:58. > :53:00.assisted dying, euthanasia, where I have met some on themselves who is

:53:01. > :53:08.disabled and experiencing it from the other side of the argument.

:53:09. > :53:15.I suppose my worries about euthanasia is that we don't live in

:53:16. > :53:19.a world, I think, that's kind of ready for it. I don't think the

:53:20. > :53:24.world understands what being disabled or ill means and I don't

:53:25. > :53:30.think it's kind of in a position where we are all able to live as B1.

:53:31. > :53:39.I think totally different about it. For me, now, it starts to have more

:53:40. > :53:45.that says that on good days and it's getting really difficult. That's why

:53:46. > :53:50.I'm really, really glad that I signed my euthanasia papers. When I

:53:51. > :53:56.say it's enough, I can't live in this condition, I have the right to

:53:57. > :53:59.say I want to quit now. I have so many friends that are having the

:54:00. > :54:04.people that care for them taken away, that are being put into care

:54:05. > :54:10.homes whether they want to or not. I don't think when that happens you

:54:11. > :54:15.can make an informed choice. When you know what pain is, when you are

:54:16. > :54:22.totally alone and you are crying because of pain, yelling so loud

:54:23. > :54:27.they hear it at the corner of the street. Is that right? Yeah. I have

:54:28. > :54:34.a fantastic ride. I had four years of solid pain that never stopped. If

:54:35. > :54:41.I lived in a society with that for, I would have stopped. I don't want

:54:42. > :54:48.to die like an animal. I want to end like Marieke

:54:49. > :54:56.I arranged my funeral already, so I don't want people to cry, that they

:54:57. > :55:05.are also happy that I am not in pain any more. That I can rest in peace.

:55:06. > :55:10.Let me read you an e-mail from Louise, not a real name. She says,

:55:11. > :55:21.people who have never had ongoing pain and... What you see is darkness

:55:22. > :55:25.again and again. Even if you get two our street it just breaks you, it's

:55:26. > :55:29.not living, it's just existing, it's no way to live. When you reach the

:55:30. > :55:34.void at the end of your dark abyss you feel nothing at all. You just

:55:35. > :55:37.don't want to be any more. I have been their four times, yet done

:55:38. > :55:40.nothing yet. Another viewer says, I have epilepsy

:55:41. > :55:45.and a few other medical conditions I think it is the last breed a person

:55:46. > :55:47.can have, to choose how to end your life on your terms and no one

:55:48. > :55:51.else's. Thank you. University bosses -

:55:52. > :55:53.officially called vice-chancellors - In many cases far, far more

:55:54. > :55:57.than the Prime Minister. Dozens of university heads

:55:58. > :55:59.earn ?300,000 or more - For that they're meant

:56:00. > :56:04.to provide leadership, secure the budget and carry

:56:05. > :56:06.out ceremonial duties. They're trying to curb

:56:07. > :56:14.their spiralling pay by asking universities to justify any salary

:56:15. > :56:18.over ?150,000 a year. Joining me now is our Reality Check

:56:19. > :56:26.correspondent Chris Morris, who's Give us some of the specifics of

:56:27. > :56:29.what these vice chancellors are on? They earn a lot of money, no

:56:30. > :56:35.question. They run big businesses and earn a lot of money, more than

:56:36. > :56:38.50 earns more than ?300,000 a year. The Word spiralling attracted our

:56:39. > :56:45.interest. Have they been spiralling? A survey has been done since 2009-10

:56:46. > :56:50.and over that an average Vice Chancellor salaries have gone up

:56:51. > :56:57.13%. In the same period, the average weekly UK wage has gone up by 13%.

:56:58. > :57:00.So it is hardly spiralling. There are examples, Vice Chancellor of the

:57:01. > :57:06.University of Bath, her salary went up 11% last year to ?451,000. But

:57:07. > :57:09.the overall average is not really spiralling. It does feel like the

:57:10. > :57:13.government are perhaps looking at them as quite a convenient target,

:57:14. > :57:16.at a time when they are under pressure on things like tuition

:57:17. > :57:20.fees. They are calling for restraint. What might they do if

:57:21. > :57:28.there is not restraint? There is a suggestion that the new authority

:57:29. > :57:30.which will regulate students and universities could even potentially

:57:31. > :57:35.impose fines on them. But the amount of money we were talking about here

:57:36. > :57:38.is relatively small. If you say cut every Vice Chancellor salary by

:57:39. > :57:44.100,000, you might save ?10 million... Tuition fees as a whole

:57:45. > :57:48.bring in ?11 billion. Students know that from this year they will have

:57:49. > :57:57.interest rates on those fees of 6.1%. That is what most people are

:57:58. > :58:01.howling about. People worry they are becoming unaffordable interest rates

:58:02. > :58:04.on tuition fees. There is a sense of attention being deflected onto Vice

:58:05. > :58:08.Chancellor salaries. They are high that they have always been high.

:58:09. > :58:11.Thank you very much, Chris. Chris Morris is our reality check

:58:12. > :58:12.correspondent. Chloe's presenting

:58:13. > :58:14.the programme tomorrow - and she'll talk to the former

:58:15. > :58:16.England cricketer who served six-and-a-half years

:58:17. > :58:18.for drug smuggling. Thanks for watching today. Have a

:58:19. > :58:32.good day. Immense congratulations to you.

:58:33. > :58:35.You are the final 12. But at the same time,

:58:36. > :58:37.you are now nothing. An elite group,

:58:38. > :58:40.including scientists,