30/10/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Monday, it's 9am.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

welcome to the programme.

Our top story today -

Kevin Spacey apologises

after being accused

of making a sexual advance

toward a child actor.

And sexual harassment

claims at Westminster spiral,

with reports of 36 MPs

being accused of misconduct.

So these young people,

especially as some of them,

it might be their first job

in politics, they have been

desperate to get it and might have

applied amongst 400 people to get

the job, and they get the job,

and then they find this MP

has wandering hands and says

inappropriate things

and they feel slightly frightened

or threatened by them.

Where do you go to

make that complaint?

Who do you speak to?

At the moment it's not clear at all,

and, of course,

no-one really has teeth.

There is no body

that can slap the MP down

and say that behaviour in this place

is no longer acceptable.

In around half an hour's time,

we'll hear from TV presenter

Anne Robinson, who says women really

should know better than to share

a cab or go to a hotel room

with someone they don't trust.

Also on the programme -

an exclusive report looking at

the reality for some parents

of living with autistic children.

It was really upsetting.

It's horrible

because I love him so much.

And yeah, I don't want people

to be scared of him,

because he's, you know, his nature

is gentle and he doesn't...

he is not meaning

to be the way he is at all.

The National Autistic Society tell

us that parents are being let down

by lack of support - really keen to

hear your experiences this morning.

And the greatest of all time.

Lewis Hamilton has become

Britain's most successful

Formula One driver ever

and could still continue

to break records.

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Our top story today:

More stories of alleged abuse

and lewd conduct in Hollywood.

This morning, the spotlight

is on the actor Kevin Spacey.

He's accused of making a sexual

advance towards a child actor

more than 30 years ago.

The claim has been made

by the Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp,

who said Mr Spacey

had placed him on a bed

and climbed on top of him

when he was 14.

Kevin Spacey has responded

on Twitter, saying he does not

remember the incident but,

if it had happened, it would have

been "deeply inappropriate"

and drunken behaviour.

The House Of Cards actor also said

that he was now living as a gay man.

But some in Hollywood

have criticised Mr Spacey

for what they say is using

his sexuality as an excuse

for his actions, as our

correspondent James Cook reports.

Let's just set out first of all

what is alleged to have happened.

Anthony Rapp spoke to Buzzfeed News

and set out what he said happened

back in 1986 when he was a child

actor on Broadway.

He was 14 at the time,

and Kevin Spacey was also

acting on Broadway as well.

He said he was invited

back to a party

by Kevin Spacey at his house.

At the end of the night,

when everyone else had left,

he said that he found himself alone

in the house, he was in the bedroom,

Kevin Spacey came in and basically

climbed on top of him and

made a sexual advance towards him,

which he then rebuffed, essentially.

Now, Kevin Spacey says, as you say,

that he does not remember

this incident.

He says if, "I did

behave as he describes,

I owe him the sincerest apology."

"This would have been deeply

inappropriate, drunken behaviour."

He also goes on to say that he knows

there are "other stories

out there about me".

Also in the statement,

he comes out as gay,

he says he is living now

as a gay man.

That has prompted, in terms

of the reaction, some considerable

criticism from people in Hollywood.

Is the

Various writers and producers,

on social media, saying

why is he trying to conflate

these two things?

That just because he's gay or has

decided now to come out as gay,

what does that have to do with fact

that he might be alleged

as a predator of a young person -

essentially a paedophile

potentially?

He denies remembering anything

about this incident

and, of course, I am sure would deny

that he is a paedophile.

But these allegations

are very serious.

Later we will be speaking to the

journalist who first broke the story

about Kevin Spacey.

Allegations of sexual harassment

are also making the headlines

at Westminster.

The Leader of the House of Commons

has been asked to make an urgent

statement in the wake of a series

of allegations

of inappropriate behaviour by MPs.

Yesterday, Theresa May said

the reputation of Parliament

Let's get the latest on this

from Norman Smith,

who's in our Westminster newsroom.

What is Theresa May going to do

about this?

Theresa May has come up with her own

proposals, but they have already

been criticised for not going far

enough. She is suggesting there

should be an independent mediation

service who the victims of sexual

harassment at Westminster can

complain to, but a lot of MPs are

saying, well, you know, that really

doesn't quite cut it, because that

would only cover people working for

MPs, and bad the most vulnerable

people at Westminster tend to be in

turns, people on work experience who

are not directly employed. -- in --

interns. They do not necessarily

have contact at Westminster and

would not be covered by this idea.

There is also a question about the

powers this mediation service would

have, because a lot of MPs say it is

not enough for it to be dispute

resolution, it has to have

investigatory powers, be able to

launch and zoning choir is. That

would mean a very different sort of

staffing skill set, you would want

former detectives, it would take on

a quad judicial role. Basta be able

to launch its own inquiries. That in

the normal water like, if you are

found guilty of sexual misconduct at

work, you will be booted out. -- in

normal walks of life. But MPs are

not, in fact, employed by anyone,

how do you sack an MP? May be the

only sanction would be the shame of

going through a grievance procedure,

and many people think that would not

be enough.

There is talk of a

spreadsheet, a list of names of male

and female MPs accused of sexual

misconduct. Does it exist?

Well,

there is, on Twitter, if you look

hard enough, a conversation which

has been redacted which contains a

whole list of allegations from

predominantly, it seems, young

researchers, Parliamentary aides,

listing MPs to avoid in a taxi, MPs

not to go for dinner with, don't go

to parties with, all that sort of

thing. I mean, there are a huge

number of allegations out there.

Most of them, it has to be said at

the moment, and substantiated, and

that is one of the difficulties in

this whole area, these allegations

generally sent on two people without

witnesses, which makes it much

harder to investigate and prosecute.

Plenty more to come on that through

the programme Annita McVeigh or has

the rest of the days news.

The parents of autistic children

are not being properly supported

in dealing with violent behaviour,

according to a charity.

This programme has spoken

to families who say they're not

getting enough help from local

authorities while they

face violent outbursts

from their children,

including kicking and head-butting.

The National Autistic Society says

that a special educational needs

system needs to be put in place

to provide the support needed

to de-escalate violent behaviour.

An influential economic think-tank

says the Chancellor is caught

between a rock and a hard place

as he prepares his

forthcoming Budget.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

says Philip Hammond will have

to abandon his target

for getting rid of the deficit,

if he is to meet demands

from Cabinet colleagues

to increase spending.

The Treasury has responded by saying

it would continue to adopt what it

called a balanced approach.

A leading cancer charity

has appointed

what it calls a digital nurse

to combat so-called fake

news about the disease.

Macmillan Cancer Support says

the internet is full of unverified

statistics and bogus treatment

suggestions which mislead often

frightened patients.

It says it wants to provide

clear advice online

about diagnosis and treatment.

Scrapping interest on student loans

and extending the time limit

on paying it back could

help to avoid a future debt crisis,

according to a centre-right

think tank.

UK 2020 says such action

would drastically reduce

the number of loans

which have to be written off.

The Government says it's committed

to sustainable university funding

and will set out further steps

in due course.

The first charges into alleged

Russian interference in the US

presidential election are expected

to be announced later today.

President Trump has denounced the

inquiry as a witchhunt and again

denied any collusion with Russia.

Former director of the FBI Robert

Mueller has been looking into

possible links between the Trump

campaign and Moscow since the

president took office in January.

The Spanish government has today

began running Catalonia's

institutions at the region's deposed

leader called for peaceful

resistance to the imposition of

direct rule. He has been threatened

with imprisonment at the leading a

declaration of independence.

Attention is focused on the

headquarters of the Catalan

government this morning to see if he

turns up for work. Storms sweeping

through northern Europe have left at

least six people dead in Germany,

Poland and the Czech Republic. Four

victims in Poland and the Czech

Republic were killed by falling

trees. In Germany, Hamburg has been

flooded and thousands of homes are

without power.

Saudi Arabia says it will allow

women to attend sporting events

for the first time, but only

in three selected stadiums.

The Saudi government says

the stadiums are being prepared

to accommodate families

by early next year.

Last month, Saudi Arabia

overturned its longstanding law

against women driving

from June next year.

Police are hunting for a lynx

which has escaped

from an animal park in Wales.

The animal, a Eurasian lynx,

which is twice the size

of a domestic cat, escaped

from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom,

near Aberystwyth five days ago.

It can travel up

to 12 miles per day.

That's a summary of the latest

BBC News, more at 9:30.

Thank you very much, we are going to

bring you a film in the next few

minutes featuring families with

autistic children, and the

difficulties that mums and dads to

experiencing because some of the

children can be violent. Pamela says

on Facebook, I was told by

professionals that there was no

proof my son was hitting me, so I

photographed my bruises and sent

them to every professional involved

with my son - not a single answer

from any of them. As an adopted mum,

trying to bring up a child with

complex health needs, it is

disgusting how I am treated as an

inadequate mum and spoken to. We are

on a never-ending waiting list and

all services seem to be geared up to

adults domestic abuse and not to

child two-parent violence, so we

don't come under their remit. My son

is a Matt Slater two, he is people

are scared of him. -- my son has a

mental age of two. Mark says that

people need the proper support of

local authorities, publicity is

needed. To get into -- do get in

touch, your experiences are

absolutely pertinent to this. Only

one story in sport, Lewis Hamilton

claiming a fourth world title in

Mexico, John Watson is in Brackley,

not Mexico, he is at the Mercedes

headquarters.

Good morning, Victoria, yes, sadly,

not Mexico, Brackley, but the best

place if you can't get all the way

out to Mexico, and in Venice at

Mercedes HQ, well, look at this,

this is what success looks like, all

of the trophies that have been won

by Mercedes this season. -- and in

fairness. Four world titles, and it

started many years ago Paul Lewis

Hamilton, after his success in

karting, the relationship with his

dad, who masterminded his success in

karting, a freshfaced young

Hamilton, paving the way to join

McLaren, and then Mercedes, where he

has no-one his fourth world title.

He won is first in 2008. But it was

not straight forward last night,

Hamilton suffered a collision with

Sebastian Vettel on the opening lap,

which forced him to pick up a

puncture. He was way down the field,

but he only needed to finish 50

secure the title. In fairness, he

managed to finish in ninth, so

Sebastian Vettel needed to finish

second or higher, and he couldn't

did that last night. So Lewis

Hamilton is four time champion, four

world titles, he stands alone, as

far as British drivers go, and I am

joined by Geoff Willis, one of the

Jeep -- one of the chief engineers,

keeping a spot warm here.

Yes, the

constructors and drivers trophy,

again winning both championships,

that is what we planned to do two

years ago, we wanted to win both in

2016 and 2017, after the big rule

change, and we have finally done it,

it has been tough.

And you know what

it is like to stand on the podium,

you managed to be awarded one of

these yourself.

I was very

privileged to receive a constructors

trophy at Monza back in 2015, a

fantastic experience, for once in my

life on the podium, so what it is

like for lose all those times I

don't know, but it must be

fantastic.

Amazing for you and the

team, these are the days you live

for in this board.

Absolutely, it is

a tough business, it is a beautiful

for in this board.

Absolutely, it is

a tough business, it is a beautiful,

and now we want to go and do it

again. It gets harder every year,

but that is what we are here for.

What is it about Lewis Hamilton that

has paved the way for his success?

What is it about him and the work he

has done on the track?

Lewis is

clearly an exceptional driver, right

up in the pantheon of grapes. I

think is real skill is about the

sensitivity with the car. -- the

pantheon of greats.

Lewis has a magicical ability to

feel what the tyres are doing. He

saves the tyres and you can see that

in qualifying where he can prepare

the car perfectly for that one lap.

It's really, really impressive and

Lewis himself has been in a

fantastic position this year. He is

at the top of his game and he has

brought the team with him.

We wait

for the trophy cabinets to be filled

when Lewis Hamilton returns to the

factory. There is a certain record

that he is chasing down, Michael

Schumacher who has seven and with

the success and the cars that

Mercedes are producing, you wouldn't

bet against Lewis Hamilton matching

that down the line.

On the programme this morning,

strangled, head-butted, kicked,

the violence faced by some parents

attacked by their own autistic

children and teenagers.

The National Autistic Society tells

this programme that parents are not

being properly supported

by their local authorities,

leaving families and their

children in dire need.

And it's not just parents who are at

risk from violent autistic children,

so are their other siblings.

Our reporter Noel Philips has

this exclusive report.

There are families up and down

the country struggling to cope

with their violent autistic

children.

Cam, shall I go and get

your chocolate biscuits?

Stop that noise!

Are they in your room?

Stop that noise!

Autism is often a hidden disability,

which affects around 120,000

young people in England.

I'm scared of him, because you live

on a knife edge because you don't

know what's coming next,

and that level of sort

of heightened adrenaline...

Definitely experienced split

lips, bruising all over.

We go inside the homes of two

families struggling to cope

with their disabled children,

for a glimpse of what life is like

and the challenges they face.

Very rarely the day goes

by where either myself, my wife,

or one of our children isn't hurt

in some way by Elliot, our son.

OK, Cam!

And rarely do we see or hear

from parents about the realities

of life for them and their children,

but these families have invited us

into their homes in the hope

of raising awareness about a lack

of help and support.

Excuse me, Mum.

...that he is, he's obviously...

Excuse me, Mum!

Excuse me!

...very hard to deal with.

Campaigners say some local

authorities are failing to provide

services that meet the needs

of families and their children.

The system is not working

at the moment for all autistic

children, and that's an issue.

It's terrifying, really, sometimes,

because if it comes out of nowhere,

there's always that bit of you that

can't quite believe it's actually

happening, so it's just a case

of desperately trying to extricate

yourself from that situation that

you're in, which is easier said

than done, particularly if he's

got me by the neck,

which he often does.

Every day is a challenge

for Ian and Lucy.

Their eldest son, Elliott,

has severe autism and

learning difficulties.

Social interaction and communicating

is difficult, and they say

dealing with his condition,

which requires constant care,

is pushing them to breaking point.

He's the size of a very large,

very strong 12-year-old,

and that's the difference.

If it was a toddler having a huge

tantrum and flailing around and,

you know, scratching you and kicking

you, you can manage it better simply

because they're so much smaller.

Whereas, if you think

of when Elliott does it,

it's basically like a small man

suddenly attacking you.

Not everyone with autism

is violent, though.

A US study of nearly 1400 children

on the autistic spectrum found more

than half were aggressive or violent

towards their families.

Elliott is 12 and has

the strength of an adult,

but thinks like a two-year old.

His parents say a lack of specialist

help from their local council has

caused his behaviour to become

increasingly difficult to deal with.

We've been living with Elliott

being violent and aggressive most

of his life, you know.

Probably first started

encountering things like that

when he was about five or six or so,

we probably started.

And the difficulty has been,

as he's got older and as he's got

bigger and he's got stronger,

he's still only violent maybe 5%

of the time but the consequences

of that violence are getting

worse and worse.

And whilst he's only 12 years old,

he's the size of a 15-year-old.

It's the law of averages

that one day one of us

is going to get really badly hurt.

These scars are just a glimpse

of what Ian and Lucy have had

to endure when Elliott has

a violent episode.

Definitely experienced split

lips, bruising all over.

Ian's had a scratched

cornea from a punch.

He's knocked me down the stairs

before and I've just managed to hang

on to the banister rail so that I've

not gone the whole way down

the stairs, but there's a severe

injury waiting to happen,

we know that, and the problem

is that the help available to you is

reactive rather than proactive.

You have to get to absolute

crisis point when one

of you is hospitalised or you've had

to call the police out.

This is why Ian and

Lucy have spoken out.

They say they are living

in an almost permanent state

of worry, so much so they've had

to take measures to protect not

just Elliott but also

their other children.

So this is Elliott's room,

and you can see it's not like a room

that most 12-year-olds would have,

that we've made quite

a few adjustments -

the most obvious are the bars

that we have to have

across the windows.

You kind of get used to that,

you know, your child's bedroom looks

more like a cell of some kind,

and it's only when you stop

and step back and really

reflect on it and you go,

"What a symbol of just how

different our life is."

Most people do not have

to set their child's bedroom up

with locks on the doors and bars

across the window,

but there are times when,

in order to keep Elliott safe

and in order to keep

the rest of the family said,

that's what we have to set up.

Now, this family's

story is not a one-off.

We've been speaking to many

parents across the country

and they repeatedly tell us

that there is simply not

enough support available

for their children, some

of whom are also very violent.

19-year-old Cameron is one

of 700,000 people in the UK

on the autism spectrum.

He was diagnosed with the condition

at the age of three.

I'm going to go and do your telly.

I'm just talking to Noel.

HE SCREAMS.

Move, please!

Cam, stop.

It scares me.

It can be quite dangerous for

you being on your own with Cameron?

Well, yeah.

Go up!

If you weren't here,

obviously I would just go and do it,

and if the girls were here

I would do it, because...

Go up, go up, go up!

...to stop this,

because it's not nice for

the girls to see and it

will probably escalate into more.

Cam, stop.

Go up, please.

I will.

Go up now.

OK.

Don't speak to them.

Stop.

Don't speak to them.

OK.

Go on, Mum.

As you can see, he's

edging towards me.

Hannah and Doug have

devoted their lives

to caring for Cameron,

but, due to his condition,

his needs have become

increasingly challenging,

and his anxiety and stress

can sometimes lead to

full-scale tantrums.

It's really upsetting.

This is horrible.

Because I love him so much...

And, yeah, I don't want people

to be scared of him,

because he's, you know,

his nature is gentle,

he's not meaning to be

the way he is at all.

I feel sorry for him,

because he's frustrated,

and he can't tell me why or tell

other people why, so it's horrible.

It is, it's sad, really sad.

How much longer do you think

you can continue to cope

with Cameron's behaviour?

We'll do it for as long as we have

do, but it's going to become...

Well, it already is unmanageable

sometimes, but, I don't know,

because I don't know how he'll

become as he turns,

as he gets into his early 20s.

It could become worse,

but really we need to be, well,

we are thinking about him...

living elsewhere, because we can't

manage his behaviour,

because it is unpredictable and,

you know, physically,

I can't manage him by myself.

I mean, as you can see,

he's tall, facial hair.

He's like a man, but he's

like a baby, really.

OK, Cam.

Not doing that again!

He doesn't have the

understanding, he doesn't

understand why you guys are here,

and also it's out of his routine,

isn't it?

Excuse me!

Yes, Cam?

Who's that?

Noel.

Almost anything can trigger

an outburst from Cameron.

Surrey Council, who are responsible

for his care, have told us

they are working hard

with his family to provide

additional respite and they support.

I don't want him to go anywhere that

I'm not happy about,

so I don't know how

long that will take.

But if he carries on...

Excuse me, Mum!

...in the way that he is,

he's obviously...

Excuse me, excuse me!

Eye

...very hard to deal with,

it's going to be really difficult.

Excuse me!

Stop.

Excuse me!

Yes, Cam?

No.

It's important to get

the point across that...

I can't see you!

...this is not Cameron being unruly,

this is his condition,

this is what it does to him,

this is autism.

Oh, absolutely, yes, this is autism.

Sometimes it seems like there's no

light at the end of the tunnel

with regards to the support

and direction of where we're

going to go, because we don't,

it's hard for us when we don't know

how Cameron's going to be,

we don't know how the children

are going to be, we don't know...

Planning for the future,

planning for what's going to

happen has just been...

I mean, the last six years, seven

years, just no direction at all.

This woman, who we are calling Sam,

knows just how Hannah and Doug feel.

He hit me over the head

with a plastic object,

and I had to have my head glued,

and I thought at that point

it would be a turning

point, but it wasn't.

I thought I'd get help,

but it didn't really happen.

We've agreed not to identify her

in order to protect her teenage son,

who is now in the care

of social services.

First I got a bit of help,

but then it went monthly,

then it was, "Right,

OK, we'll wash our hands of you,

you can have 48 hours a year

respite from a charity."

And 48 hours a year doesn't

add up to much, does it?

Her son was taken into care

following a violent incident

in the family home in 2011.

Documents we've seen appear to back

up her claims that she had asked

for help on a number of occasions.

This letter from her GP

to Children's Services reads,

"Family struggling to cope

with child's behaviour."

He goes on to say,

"Mother desperate for help."

I have cried and cried for help.

I was absolutely exhausted.

But, more so, my family was failed,

you know, my children,

my other children didn't get

attention, or I tried

to give them attention,

but there's a limit to what you can

do, and my son was certainly failed.

Absolutely.

So why are parents like Sam

and other families not

getting the crucial support

and services they need?

I've come to the National Autistic

Society, which helps thousands

of people with autism

across the country.

If children are not

having their needs met,

then they are being failed,

and we have to try and work

to change that system.

We need a special educational

needs and disability

system that identifies all the needs

of autistic children that are out

there and then puts in place

the support and the services

to allow them to live

the life that they and their

families want to live.

In a recent report, the charity

found families of autistic people

in inpatient and residential care

being failed due to

a lack of trained staff.

We interviewed 13 families who had

experiences of having relatives

who were in inpatient care

across both children,

young people and adults,

and basically we've incorporated

what we found from them

and the lessons that could be

learned from that in this report.

And what it's really painted

is a really stark picture

of the fact that the system just

isn't working at the moment.

Cameron has recently started

at a specialist day centre,

but mum Hannah tells me she's

worried about the future.

I do feel guilty all the time -

I feel guilty to Cameron,

I feel guilty to my daughters.

Yeah, I do sometimes feel like I'm

not equipped for all of it.

But I don't really have

a choice, I have to do it.

But, yeah, guilt plays

a massive part of every day,

coping with, you know,

a child with disabilities, I think.

For Ian and Lucy,

they are determined not to give up.

I've returned to find out how

they are coping with Elliot.

We've definitely had moments when,

you know, we've gone to bed sobbing

and just despairing at,

you know, how is this our life?

But you can't wallow in it too long

because you've got exactly

the same life the next day,

and you've got to be up

and you've got to be...

And it's difficult, because there's

no blame you can attach to Elliott,

there's nothing fundamentally

different you can do,

so you're just carrying on

and hoping to try

and learn the lessons from whatever

precipitated that particular bout

of aggression to try and reduce it

or avoid it next time.

The Autism Act,

which was introduced in 2009,

is currently being reviewed

by politicians.

But laws on their own only form

a part of the solution.

As for Cameron and Elliott, their

parents are their real lifeline.

They may face abuse daily,

but they don't want their children

to be misunderstood.

All they're asking for

is more support.

Thank you for your messages, this

text says, I am grateful for your

report about autistic children, I

can confirm all these experiences,

my son is a gentle and sensitive

soul, which makes it even more

difficult when he has violent

outbursts. No support from

professionals, you look that as an

inadequate parent. This text, my

severely learning-disabled autistic

daughter is being failed by my local

authority. She cannot speak, she has

no self-care skills, and no

awareness of the wider world. We

have been fighting for support for

three years. In March, I tried to

take my whole life because I

couldn't cope with my daughter. I

was provided with two weeks'

additional support, and now we are

back in the same boat. I need to put

my daughter in care so she can have

her needs met. That is going to cost

the local authority £300,000 a year.

It would be far cheaper just to

provide the behavioural support

instead. And on Facebook, Stephen

says, I have two sons with autism,

kids with autism are like a light

switch, one minute so lovable, then

they can attack you. They don't mean

to hurt you, though, it is not their

fault. We are going to talk more

about this after ten o'clock.

NHS England told us it has set out

a clear programme for those

with learning difficulties

and autism to enable more people

to live in the community.

And the Local Government Association

told us, "Councils are working hard

to make sure children with autism

and other special needs get access

to the support they need."

"However, they have been put

in an impossible situation

due to increasing demand

and historic underfunding."

Still to come -

We will talk to the broadcaster and

journalist Ann Robinson, who says

women should know better than to go

to a hotel with somebody they don't

trust.

An exclusive report

into the university student

from Bristol on trial after police

found a copy of the terrorism manual

The Anarchist Cookbook

underneath his bed.

He has now been cleared, and we

followed him through the trial.

Time for the latest news,

here's Annita McVeigh.

The Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey

has been accused of making

a sexual advance towards a

child actor more than 30 years ago.

The Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp

said Mr Spacey had placed him

on a bed and climbed on

top of him when he was 14.

Kevin Spacey has responded

on Twitter, saying he does not

remember the incident but if it had

happened, it would have

been deeply inappropriate

and drunken behaviour.

The Leader of the House of Commons

is being asked to make

an urgent statement,

amid allegations of

widespread

inappropriate sexual

behaviour in Westminster.

Yesterday the Prime Minister

proposed a new system for dealing

with claims of harassment,

saying the reputation of Parliament

had to be protected.

Unverified lists

of MPs accused of misconduct

are reportedly circulating

in Westminster.

The parents of autistic children

are not being properly supported

in dealing with violent behaviour,

according to a charity.

This programme has spoken

to families who say they're not

getting enough help

from local authorities,

while they face violent outbursts

from their children,

including kicking and headbutting.

The National Autistic Society says

that a special educational needs

system needs to be put in place

to provide the support needed

to de-escalate violent behaviour.

An influential economic think-tank

says the Chancellor

is caught between a rock

and a hard place

as he prepares

his forthcoming Budget.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

says Philip Hammond

will have to abandon his target

for getting rid of the deficit

if he is to meet demands

from Cabinet colleagues

to increase spending.

The Treasury has responded by saying

it would continue to adopt what

it called a balanced approach.

That is a summary of the latest BBC

News. All the sports now with John

Watson, who is at Mercedes HQ in

Brackley. Yes, a warm comeback to

Mercedes HQ, this is last season's

car, a successful night for Lewis

Hamilton, becoming the most

successful British driver in Formula

One history, he now holds four world

titles after picking it up at the

Mexico Grand Prix. He could only

finish ninth following a collision

with Sebastian Vettel on the first

lap, but that was enough to see him

win the title with two racers

despair. -- two races to spare.

Claude Puell's first game in charge

of Leicester City saw

them beat Everton at home.

Jamie Vardy scored their

first in a 2-0 win.

Everton remain in

the relagation zone.

Elsewhere in the Prmier

League, Brighton against

Southampton was 1-1.

Caroline Wozniacki has won

the biggest tournament

of her career.

The Dane beat Venus Williams

to claim the WTA Finals

trophy in Singapore.

Welshman Elfyn Evans won

the season-ending Wales Rally GB,

the first British winner

of the event in 17 years.

He is a local lad with plenty of

local knowledge, which perhaps

helped him without success. He is

the first British winner since Burns

in 2000.

But Frenchman Sebastien Ogier

came third to claim his fifth

consecutive World Championship.

Lots of people winning world titles

at the moment, Victoria, not least

Lewis Hamilton, a lot of people

wondering whether he can emulate the

achievements of Michael Schumacher,

who has the record of seven world

titles. The cars that Mercedes are

producing and the talents that Lewis

Hamilton has, you would not bet

against him doing it in the years to

come.

Absolutely not! We will talk to some

of his fans before ten o'clock.

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has

made an apology after being accused

of making a sexual advance

toward a child actor.

Anthony Rapp, who was 14

at the time, says Spacey invited him

to a party and seemed drunk

when the alleged incident happened.

Adan Vary is the journalist at

Buzzfeed News who broke the story.

Anthony Rapp is alleging that when

he was 14 in 1986, he was prevented

by Kevin Spacey, who was performing

on Broadway, as was Anthony. He was

invited to a party at Kevin Spacey's

house late at night, he went, he was

very used to being in the company of

adults as a child actor, so he

didn't think there was anything out

of the ordinary. Even when he

arrived at the party and realised he

was the only non-adults there come

he didn't think it unusual, but he

got bored, he said, pretty quickly,

ended up in the bedroom watching

late-night TV. And then at some

point, he says that he realised that

everyone else had left, and he was

alone with Kevin Spacey. Kevin

Spacey appeared at the bedroom door

and what Anthony Rapp says there was

a clumsy motion, Spacey stepped into

the bedroom, picked him up like a

bride would pick up a groom, placed

him on the bed, basically landed on

top of him, at which point Anthony

says that he felt Spacey pressing

into his body, and then Anthony was

able to squirm away and says that he

stepped into the bathroom very

quickly to just sort of composing

self, and then once he was composed,

he stepped out, told Kevin Spacey he

was going to be leaving, and the

Spacey followed him to the front

door and ask them, are you sure you

want to leave? According to Anthony.

And then he said, yes, and he left.

And that is the last time that

Anthony Rapp ever spoke to Kevin

Spacey. He has never spoken with him

since, although he has seen him a

few times in his life, but they have

never spoken.

Just to confirm, at

the point of this alleged incident,

Anthony Rapp was 14, and Kevin

Spacey was 26.

According to public

records, Kevin Spacey was 26, yeah.

So why has Anthony Rapp decided to

speak out now?

He was really moved

by the sheer number of women who

were coming forward and sharing

allegations of sexual harassment and

assault by Harvey Weinstein. It has

really become a turning point

moment, both in the entertainment

industry and in society at large,

about how we talk about sexual

harassment and sexual misconduct,

and how we treat victims. And

Anthony felt very much, as he says,

awake to that moment and felt that

this was the right time for him to

come forward and tell his story.

Kevin Spacey has given a statement

in response to this allegation, and

I know you are going to read that

for us, Adam.

Yes, before I do, I

want to stress that BuzzFeed News

reached out to Kevin Spacey's

representatives multiple times and

send a detailed letter with all the

allegations in our storage and heard

nothing from his representation

until Kevin Spacey tweeted this

statement out. And the statement is:

I have a lot of respect and

admiration for Anthony Rapp as an

actor, I am beyond horrified to hear

his story. I honestly do not member

the encounter, it would have been

over 30 years ago. But divided

behaviour then as he describes, I

owe him the sincerest apology for

what would have been deeply

inappropriate drunken behaviour, and

I am sorry for the feelings he

describes having carried with him

all of these years. This story has

encouraged me to address the other

things about my life. I know that

there are stories at there about me

that some have been fuelled by,

sorry, and that some have been

fuelled by the fact that I have been

so protective of my privacy. As

those closest to me know, in my life

I have had romantic relationships

with both men and women, excuse me,

and I have loved and had romantic

encounters with men throughout my

life. And I choose now to live as a

gay man. I want to deal with this

honestly and openly, and that start

with examining my own behaviour.

And

how has that statement been greeted?

Not well. I think the idea that he

is using the allegation that he made

a sexual advance on a 14-year-old

boy as an opportunity to come out is

striking many as sort of missing the

point, and he in no way at knowledge

is Anthony's age at the time in a

statement, speaking to what he wants

our reach to be, which is that he is

now coming out as a gay man. I think

you can see a lot of headlines, in

fact, focusing on that part of the

story and missing entirely the

allegations against him.

That was

Adam Vary, the journalist that

BuzzFeed News who broke the Kevin

Spacey story.

Of course, sexual harassment

is a serious problem in all walks

of life, with over 50% of women

saying they've been affected by it.

This morning the spotlight has

turned on politics with claims

that lists of 36 MPs accused

of misconduct

are circulating in Westminster.

Theresa May is proposing

a new system for dealing

with claims of harassment,

saying the reputation of Parliament

had to be protected.

Over the weekend it was revealed

that a government minister,

Mark Garnier, sent a junior member

of staff to buy vibrators for him

and used sexually offensive terms

to describe her breasts.

And a former government minister,

Stephen Crabb, was accusing

of sending sexually explicit texts

to a 19-year-old

who applied for a job in his office.

All these revelations have come

to light since allegations

against Harvey Weinstein were

exposed just over three weeks ago.

So last week the New York Times

published this massive article

detailing allegations of about three

decades' worth of accusations

of sexual harassment from Harvey

Weinstein against female employees.

After about 30 minutes,

he asked to excuse himself

and go to the bathroom.

He returned in nothing

but a robe with the front open

and he was buck naked.

The actresses Angelina Jolie

and Gwyneth Paltrow have joined

the growing number of women

who have claimed they were

sexually harassed by him.

He said that he wanted a massage,

could I give him a massage?

I said no.

Together, the claims build up

a picture of one of the most

powerful men in the industry

exerting pressure on younger women

at the start of their careers,

often in hotel rooms or offices.

The suggestions, spoken or unspoken,

were that he could advance

their careers if they went along

with him, or he could do serious

damage to the dreams if they didn't.

I didn't know about these things,

but they don't surprise me

at all, and they are endemic

to the system anyway.

Lots of these women

were in their 20s when it happened,

vulnerable, afraid that if they say

anything or do anything that it

will ruin their career.

I was shocked and appalled,

because I've known him

through politics, as many

Democrats have.

Police investigations into sexual

assault and rape politicians

against Hollywood producer

Harvey Weinstein

continue this morning.

Over 30 women, including

Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow

and Rose McGowan have made a number

of allegations against her.

Members of the European Parliament

have been debating sexual

harassment in the wake

of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Some MEPs complained they themselves

have experienced harassment.

Some lawmakers sat behind placards

with the hashtag #MeToo.

Downing Street has said any

allegations of sexual harassment

and abuse at Westminster

are deeply concerning.

Allegations made will be

taken very seriously.

These stories, if they are true,

are obviously totally unacceptable.

Jeremy Corbyn has called for MPs

who are guilty of sexual harassment

or abuse to be held to account.

The Labour leader warned that

a warped and degrading culture

was thriving in Westminster.

Complaints of inappropriate

behaviour and sexual harassment

by MPs have now led to a government

minister being placed

under investigation.

There is recognition that a change

in culture is needed.

It was worse.

It's a little bit better now,

but there's a long way to go.

Cat Smith is a Labour MP

and at just 32, is a member

of the Shadow Cabinet.

Have you experienced sexual

harassment?

Not in Westminster, but

I have experienced sexual harassment

in politics. It was quite a long

time ago now, but when I was active

campaigning for the Labour Party in

an area, there was a senior person

from the Labour group on the

council, who had a bit of a

reputation and on one occasion when

I was at a party, and he was there

and I was leaving, he chose to leave

the party at the same time as me

under the guise of wanting to walk

me to the nearest station so I got

home safely. I insisted that I was

fine walking on my own and I didn't

feel the need to be accompanied and

he tried to hold my hand on that

walk and I resisted, but I let him,

but once we got to the station he

delved in for a kiss that was not

invited and I pushed him away and

basically ran away interest him.

Now, I did report that and along

with other young female colleagues

who were active campaigning for the

Labour Party at that time, we

actually did manage to go through

our party's procedures and as far as

I am aware he no longer behaves like

that.

He was dealt with.

He was

dealt with basically and I am glaed

that we spoke out and did and I'm

glad that we're having this debate

today about the fact that for many

women this is still a massive

problem that is not being dealt

with.

You know what Theresa May has

suggested, some kind of independent

mediation system. What do you think

of that idea?

I think it can't be

that on its own. I think every

political party has a responsibility

to deal with sexual harassment in

their own parties. There needs to be

a space for MPs staff and also for

MPs, interns and work experience as

well...

When you say a space, what

do you mean? If you work for an MP,

if you are a researcher or intern

and that MP happens to sexually

harass you, you can't go to them.

Certainly, it varies party by party

and that's part of my concern. There

is a lot of inconsistency here. In

my party there is a route that you

can go down in order to address

sexual harassment, but it is not the

same in every political party and

someone might work for a politician

who is not party alined and there

needs to be something in place for

people like that. My worry is also

for people who intern and do work

experience in MPs offices because

when you don't have the formal

employer, employee relationship

there needs to be something in place

for them and maybe there is a space

for the House of Commons to have

have a process in place which maybe

could be led by the Speaker, but it

cannot just be that, it needs to be

parties for situations like the one

I mentioned where I was a party

activist.

Have you seen this

apparent lis, this dossier, this

spread sheet of 36 MPs?

I haven't

seen it, but I have no reason to

doubt that it exists. I think that

what we have learnt over the past

few days is this behaviour is

happening in Westminster and I'm

glad that we are speaking about it

and it is out in the open because

that will be the first step in the

way of making people change their

behaviour.

Why do you think it is

happening?

It is happening because

of the power relationship. It's

always amazed me in Westminster how

many unattractive perhaps

middle-aged men seem to end up, you

know, with very young, very good

looking girlfriends. And I think so

much of it is about that power

relationship. Be it gender, but that

power relationship between an

employer and an employee and

politics is competitive. If somebody

wants to have a career in politics,

you know, they realise it is a

competitive industry and they don't

want to upset anyone along the way,

turning down unwanted sexual

advances might for some women they

might certificate receive that as

upset be people and damage their

career. I would say to women, don't

see it in that way, report it,

because theme their attitudes

towards women and politics is not

welcome in our Parliament.

Has Labour got its house in order.

There are reports that Jeremy Corbyn

refused to meet Labour MP Sarah

Champion when she raised the issue?

I believe that Sarah and Jeremy have

spoken and he did a speech at the

weekend setting out how seriously he

is taking this. He has a zer ATOL

rans approach. I have known Jeremy

for a number of years. I always knew

he took the allegations seriously

and he is appalled as the rest of us

about it.

How do you respond to the

accusation that the party was slow

when it came to dealing with person

in terms of his foam phobic

comments?

It the comments that were

made by him are indefensible.

The

criticism was that you were...

He

has been suspended from the Labour

Party.

Was it too slow?

It would be

very difficult for me to comment on

it.

You must have an opinion on

whether it was slow or not?

I think

that, obviously the allegations were

released very slowly and it was

drip, drip, drip approach, but I

think that certainly by Wednesday it

was right that the whip was removed

and he is not sitting as a Labour

MP.

What should happen to a minister

who asks his secretary to buy

vibrators for him and then calls her

a demeaning phrase?

Well, I think

certainly, the allegation that

you're talking about was made before

this person was a minister. So I

don't think the Ministerial Code is

an adequate way to go addressing

that particular allegation. Because

that relationship was in his

capacity as a member of Parliament u

not as a minister. I think that

every party needs to get their house

in order on this issue.

OK. Thank

you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you

for coming on the programme, Kat

Smith, Labour MP.

Coming up, we'll be hearing

from parents of autistic children

who've told us they face violence

at home regularly and don't

have the support they need.

Lewis Hamilton clinched

his fourth world title

at the Mexican Grand Prix

despite finishing only

ninth after a clash

with rival Sebastian Vettel.

His achievement makes him

unquestionably the most successful

British Formula One driver

in history, moving him

one championship clear

of Sir Jackie Stewart.

He's certainly come

a long way from this.

Winner of the Yamahas,

Lewis Hamilton.

Recognise me now?

I'm Lewis Hamilton.

My ambition is to get

Formula One, definitely.

I enjoy the speed.

I like to be with all the big

guys and I'd like to be

making lots of money.

It's just great feeling

when you wake up and you think

to yourself how did yesterday go?

And you say I'm world

champion and it's it

the coolest thing to be able

to say world champion.

COMMENTATOR: Lewis Hamilton

is the 2014 world champion.

Oh my god.

I can't believe it.

I can't really explain

how much this means.

It means even more

than the first one.

It feels like it's the first time

and I'm just, I feel so blessed.

COMMENTATOR: Lewis Hamilton wins

the US Grand Prix in Austin.

It's the greatest moment of my life.

I can't really find the right words

right this second to tell you how

amazing this feels and just that

I couldn't have done it without this

team who have empowered me

for the last three years and really

taken me on board and really helped

nurture me with the consider

and just faultless.

So I love you guys, thank you very

much for everything you do for me.

I feel like I conquered any demons,

that if I may have had any,

I don't think I did really,

but if I had any demons or anything

standing in my way I feel

I conquered it with great strength.

COMMENTATOR: Hamilton's

got problems.

Hamilton' got a puncture

on his right rear tyre.

Hamilton does it in 2017.

Hamilton is world champion in 2017.

I was always grateful after my first

and then the second came and then

the third came and then this sheer

will, how I still had

this will and willpower

to continue after a lot

of the success we've had.

I felt even a bigger burning desire

this year to win the championship

particularly as we're fighting

another team and I had

a difficult year last year.

So, I was adamant I was going

to better myself mentally,

physically and with my attitude

and how I work with everyone

so that I could put myself

in the position I'm in today.

We can speak now to David Brabham,

the son of the former racing world

champion Sir Jack Brabham,

and Lewis Hamilton

super-fan Donna James.

Welcome both. David, how do you

assess this achievement?

It's pretty

incredible really. To win one World

Championship is hard enough, but to

win four in the way that he has done

it as well. This year the

championship was going either way

Ferrari or Mercedes or Vettel or

Hamilton and over the break in

August, Lewis has gone up a gear. He

is driving jut standingingly.

What

sort of a driver is he?

He's very

natural.

What does that mean for us

lay people?

Just comes easy to him

in a way, but he's not lazy with it.

He works incredibly hard to keep

improving himself and I was watching

yesterday and Niki Lauda said from

last year to this year a big

improvement and over that break he

has improved again. He just keeps

wanting to improve and improve again

and with the right car, right team

around him, slightly untouchable at

the moment.

Donna, would you agree,

untouchable at the moment?

Oh

definitely, yes, without a doubt. He

has been amazing this season.

And

what is it that you love about Lewis

Hamilton?

Oh, I have loved Formula

One for so long now, but when Lewis

started, I followed him right from

the start. He is a really natural

driver. But he's also a racer and

that's what we want to see more in

Formula One. You know, good racing

really.

Do you think it's right that

appeals not only to what you might

call the petrol heads, but he loves

music and he has amazing personality

and he loves fashion. Does he bring

more people into Formula One?

Oh

yeah, definitely. He is treated more

like a rock star. We recently went

to Sepang to see the Formula One

there and it is just a different

feeling when he's around, you know,

he gets the crowds going. No other

Formula One driver, I don't think,

is treated the way he is. I mean he

is just treated like a rock star

really.

And David, what about what

Hamilton can do in the rest of his

career, can he beat Michael

Schumacher's record?

Well, I think

we're starting to see Lewis in his

prime. And probably just at the

beginning of it. He just seems to be

in a really good place at the

moment. He is happy about his life,

where he's A I think he is

comfortable with who he is, he

struggled with this the past which

may have got in the way. He has got

a fantastic team around him. You

would say have to say that Michael

Schumacher's achievements of seven

World Championships kind of looks

like it's possible.

Thank you very

much. Thank you for coming into the

studio. Thank you Donna. Thank you

for talk to us, I appreciate it.

Let's get the latest

weather update with Carol.

How are you?

Very well, thank you.

It's freezing. Winter is here.

It

has been a really cold start. The

lowest temperature was minus five

Celsius in the Highlandsment the

last film we saw a temperature of

minus 5.1 Celsius was on 9th May in

Shap and that was high. You are not

wrong as usual!

Shap and that was high. You are not

wrong as usual!

Isn't it gorgeous? A lovely Weather

Watcher picture showing we had clear

skies, but it was frosty. Another

gorgeous one. You can see the frost

on the flowers and the dew as well

and we have got another one if my

clicker will move on, from Perth in

Kinross, a frosty scene. We are

always talking about your central

heating...

It's on.

You might want

to switch it off because the

temperatures are up and down like a

yo-yo. What we have got is after

today, there is a cold start. This

is alluding to there with Victoria,

we will see more cloud building from

tomorrow and through the midweek

period. It will turn milder. There

is little rain in the forecast this

week. Welds some in the north and

the west, but many of us will stay

dry and it is next weekend it turns

colder and showery. Talking of

showers, we have got showers

flirting with the North Sea Coast

line. We have got two weather fronts

crossing us from the west, both

heading eastwards and in between a

lot of dry weather. This afternoon a

cold afternoon when you compare it

to yesterday across northern

England, temperatures staying in

single figures. Still a few showers

particularly in East Anglia through

the afternoon. But from the Midlands

heading towards Kent and the Isle of

Wight, we have got a lot of

sunshine. A lot of sun shy across

south-west England and the Isles of

Scilly and the Channel Islands for

that matter and as we head into

Wales, again, you are looking at a

brighter, sunnier afternoon too,

temperatures lower than they were

this time yesterday. For Northern

Ireland, the cloud will be starting

to build, courtesy of our weather

front coming in from the west. It

will introduce splashes of rain and

drizzle as it will do across western

parts of Scotland, but move away

from that, we are in brighter skies,

except for in the north-east where

we have got our first weather front

crossing. Now this evening it will

turning chilly quickly in the South

East. We could have a touch of frost

for a time, but as the cloud comes

in from the west, bringing this rain

with it, and murky conditions, the

temperatures will actually go up in

the South East. And we are looking

at heavy rain across the western

Highlands and we will have the heavy

rain tomorrow. So we will be

starting to see especially with

height the accumulations building.

Tomorrow, as the rain rattles from

the west to the east, we will see

showers coming in across Northern

Ireland and into Wales and

north-west England and around the

Isle of Man, we are looking at

showers and drizzle, but push down

towards the South East, better back

in brighter skies and sunshine. Look

at the difference in the

temperatures. Today, single figures

and tomorrow we are back into double

figures. Moving from Tuesday and

into Wednesday, we have got this

weather front and it is wiggling

northwards and southwards, not

covering huge distances as it does

so, but it means that it is bringing

in cloud and rain. Quite a breezy

day, but the wind coming from a mild

south-westerly direction. Again,

windward coast seeing more cloud at

times, push down towards the south

and the east and we are back into

the sunshine, highs of 15 Celsius,

still we are looking at 12s and 13s

in the north.

Hello, it's Monday, it's 10am.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

welcome to the programme.

Our top story today -

Kevin Spacey apologises

after being accused of

making a sexual advance

toward a child actor.

And sexual harassment

claims at Westminster spiral,

with reports of 36 MPs

being accused of misconduct.

These young people,

especially as some of them,

it might be their first job

in politics, they have been

desperate to get it and might have

applied amongst 400 people to get

the job, and they get the job,

and then they find this MP

has wandering hands and says

inappropriate things

and they feel slightly frightened

or threatened by them.

Where do you go to

make that complaint?

Who do you speak to?

At the moment it's not clear at all,

and, of course,

no-one really has teeth.

There is no body that

can slap the MP down.

We'll hear from TV presenter

Anne Robinson, who says women really

should know better than to share

a cab or go to a hotel room

with someone they don't trust.

Also on the programme -

an exclusive report looking

at the reality for some parents

of living with autistic children.

It was really upsetting.

It's horrible,

because I love him so much.

And yeah, I don't want people

to be scared of him,

because he's, you know, his nature

is gentle and he doesn't...

he is not meaning

to be the way he is at all.

Many of you getting in touch to say

that you feel totally isolated, you

find yourself in a similar scenario,

totally isolated and failed by your

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Thanks, Victoria, good morning.

The Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey

has been accused of making

a sexual advance towards a child

actor more than 30 years ago.

The Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp

said Mr Spacey had

placed him on a bed and climbed

on top of him when he was 14.

Kevin Spacey has responded

on Twitter,

saying he does not remember the

incident but if it had happened,

it would have been deeply

inappropriate and drunken behaviour.