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Hello it's Thursday. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
It' 9 o'clock, I'm Chloe Tilley,
welcome to the programme. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:15 | |
Police investigating
the Grenfell Tower tragedy | 0:00:15 | 0:00:21 | |
say 70 people and a still-born baby
make up the final death toll. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
Everyone has now been identified. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
We'll have the details. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:26 | |
Zimbabwe's elderly leader,
Robert Mugabe, | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
remains under house
arrest this morning. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
He's being held by the country's
military in what many see as a move | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
to stop him handing power
to his wife. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:37 | |
Jacob Zuma has sent a team from
South Africa to reach out to the | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
different leaders here, in the
military, as well as president | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
Robert Mugabe, to try to form some
sort of solution. That is what the | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
people are waiting for. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:56 | |
We'll have the latest and find out
what ordinary Zimbabweans | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
think of what's going on. | 0:00:58 | 0:00:59 | |
It's exactly a year since former
professional footballer | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
Andy Woodward spoke bravely
about the sexual abuse | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
he suffered as a young player. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
Today he's back to tell us if enough
is being done to keep children safe. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
And how a pioneering scheme
could help people who've had cancer | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
cope with the fear it might come
back. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:21 | |
Welcome to the programme,
we're live until 11 this morning. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
The Government says housing
associations will be allowed | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
to build more homes,
but will it be enough to bring down | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
prices and get more people
on the housing ladder? | 0:01:29 | 0:01:34 | |
Theresa May says building homes
quickly is her personal mission. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
If you're priced out of home
ownership, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:39 | |
let us know what measures
would help you most. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
Do get in touch on all the stories
we're talking about this morning, | 0:01:42 | 0:01:45 | |
use the hashtag Victoria LIVE. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
If you text, you will be charged
at the standard network rate. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
Our top story today. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:54 | |
Police believe they have now
found and identified | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
the bodies of everyone who died
in the Grenfell Tower fire. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
They put the final number of victims
at 70, including a stillborn baby. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
In the immediate
aftermath of the blaze, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
400 people were listed as missing. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:04 | |
Police say footage showed 223
people escaping the fire, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
while others were not at home
on the night of the fire | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
in June this year. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
They said the search
and identification operation | 0:02:11 | 0:02:12 | |
had been "meticulous." | 0:02:12 | 0:02:19 | |
We are hoping to speak with a police
officer from Scotland Yard in the | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
next few minutes. In the meantime,
we will head over to the newsroom | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
and get the latest. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
The future of Zimbabwe's long time
leader Robert Mugabe | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
remains unclear this morning, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:45 | |
after he was placed under house
arrest by the country's military. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:51 | |
Two envoys from South Africa have
arrived in the capital Harare | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
to try to hold talks
with the 93-year-old | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
and with the country's generals
who deny there's been a coup. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
It's been seen by many as a move
to prevent Mr Mugabe's wife Grace | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
from succeeding him in power. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
Our correspondent Pumza Fihlani is
folliwing events from Johannesburg. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
There seems to be in efforts to
persuade Robert Mugabe to step aside | 0:03:09 | 0:03:14 | |
although ZANU-PF says that he is
still in charge, so what is going | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
on? We expect it to be a long day of
talks in Zimbabwe, in its role as | 0:03:17 | 0:03:27 | |
chair of the region, Jacob Zuma has
sent an envoy to the country to try | 0:03:27 | 0:03:32 | |
to persuade Robert Mugabe and the
generals that have led the military | 0:03:32 | 0:03:36 | |
takeover to come to some sort of
agreement. What is not clear is what | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
those talks will actually put on
offer. There are rumours that, there | 0:03:40 | 0:03:47 | |
are conversations about a
power-sharing deal that will take | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
the country into next year, and into
the elections next year. Also on | 0:03:49 | 0:03:54 | |
offer they are talking about an
option for the president to step | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
down and the vice president, Emerson
and am, to take over, but at this | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
moment, none of that has taken
place, but we understand talks are | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
about to take place being led by the
African government. To the very | 0:04:08 | 0:04:12 | |
install stability. -- Emmerson
Mnangagwa. The nature of that will | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
purely depend upon what president
Robert Mugabe sees as a fair process | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
out of the crisis he finds himself
in at the moment. Thank you very | 0:04:18 | 0:04:24 | |
much for that update. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
Plans to encourage housing
associations to borrow money | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
to invest in new homes
will be announced later. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:35 | |
The government is to wipe
about £70 billion-worth | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
of debt from housing associations'
balance sheets, allowing them | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
to raise money more cheaply. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
It comes after Theresa May
pledged to kickstart | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
a new generation of council house
building last month. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
But Labour said there was no
coherent plan to address | 0:04:45 | 0:04:47 | |
the "housing crisis". | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
The Shadow Chancellor,
John McDonnell, will use a speech | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
in London this morning to set out
Labour's spending demands, | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
ahead of the Budget next week. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:55 | |
He'll call for an "emergency
budget" for public services | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
and urge the government to make | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
a "genuine and decisive
change of course". | 0:04:59 | 0:05:00 | |
The Conservatives say
Mr McDonnell's plans | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
would lead to more debt,
higher taxes, and fewer jobs. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:12 | |
Thousands of women with previously
untreatable breast cancer | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
are to have access to two new drugs. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
The two have been shown
to slow down advanced | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
cancer, and can delay
the need for chemotherapy. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
They've been approved
for NHS use in England, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
after it negotiated a price
agreement with the manufacturers. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:32 | |
The impacts of climate change
are already inevitable, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
even if the world immediately
and radically cuts its carbon | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
dioxide emissions,
a new study claims. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
An international research programme
called HELIX says sea | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
levels will rise by as much as 50
centimetres by the end | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
of the century. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
Its findings are being presented
at the UN climate talks in Germany, | 0:05:45 | 0:05:47 | |
where world leaders will discuss
the future of the Paris accord, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
the climate change treaty
that the United States says it wants | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
to withdraw from. | 0:05:53 | 0:06:03 | |
The number of guns, drugs and fake
goods being smuggled into the UK | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
could rise after Brexit,
unless a "significant" number | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
of extra border staff are recruited. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
That's according to a group of MPs. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
The Home Affairs Select Committee
says ministers must draw up | 0:06:12 | 0:06:20 | |
contingency plans to prevent long
delays at ports and airports | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
if customs controls change
when Britain leaves the EU. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
The government says it'll ensure
enough resources are available. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:31 | |
The World Anti-Doping Agency has
decided to maintain Russia's | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
suspension for being noncompliant.
It comes less than three months | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
before the Winter Olympics, where
Russia could still face a ban by the | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
IOC. Russia was suspended after a
report detailed a state-sponsored | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
doping scheme in 2014. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:45 | |
The social media companies Facebook
and Snapchat are to trial a new | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
service offering direct support to
victims of cyberbullying. It's after | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
a campaign led by the Duke of
Cambridge, who set up a taskforce | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
looking into the issue 18 months
ago. He'll launch a new code of | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
conduct for the internet later today
- urging young people to "stop, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
speak and support" each other
online. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:08 | |
A 500-year-old painting of Christ,
believed to have been created by | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
Leonardo da Vinci, has been sold in
New York for a record 400 million | 0:07:19 | 0:07:22 | |
dollars - that's over 300 milion
pounds. -- $400 million. -- £300 | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
million. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:34 | |
The price for Salvator Mundi,
or "Saviour of the World", | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
is the highest ever paid
for a work of art. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
Da Vinci died in 1519
and there are fewer than 20 | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
of his paintings in existence. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
Top story now, police investigating
the Grenfell Tower tragedy, they say | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
that 70 people and a stillborn baby
make up the final death toll, I say | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
everyone has now been identified.
Our correspondent Tom Burridge is at | 0:07:53 | 0:07:59 | |
New Scotland Yard. It has taken the
Met five months to reach this point | 0:07:59 | 0:08:06 | |
but a few statistics about the
tragedy of Grenfell Tower, the | 0:08:06 | 0:08:11 | |
police investigation involves tens
of millions of documents that have | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
been seized, more than 300 companies
have deemed to have been of | 0:08:13 | 0:08:23 | |
interest, unprecedented
investigation for the Metropolitan | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
Police. I'm pleased to say that
Stuart Cundy joins us. This grim | 0:08:26 | 0:08:35 | |
figure, five months to come up with
an official death toll, 71 people | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
including a stillborn baby, why so
long? I think, firstly, I have said | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
it before, on behalf of myself and
the rest of my colleagues, our | 0:08:44 | 0:08:51 | |
hearts continue to be with those
affected, I cannot imagine the agony | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
of those that have died have gone
through, from Day 1 it has been a | 0:08:55 | 0:08:58 | |
priority for us to search Grenfell
Tower, find all of those that died, | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
recover them with dignity, and
subsequently identify them. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:12 | |
Yesterday, the last two identities
of those recovered were confirmed to | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
the satisfaction of the coroner. I
now know with confidence that the | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
number of people who have died as a
result of the fire is 71, including | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
a stillborn baby. It has taken so
long because of the sheer challenge | 0:09:22 | 0:09:28 | |
that Grenfell Tower has placed on
all the emergency services but | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
particularly the specialist teams
that we used to recover all those | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
that have died. 71 people, and it is
not about a number, it is about the | 0:09:34 | 0:09:43 | |
people, it has always been at the
heart of what we do. The challenge | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
has been immense, we have had
specialist teams work through 15 and | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
a half tonnes of debris on each and
every floor of Grenfell Tower, by | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
hand, to find every single fragment
they can of all those that have | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
died, that has been extremely
distressing to the families and | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
indeed to those involved in the
operation. Your previous estimate | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
was roughly 80 people had perished
in the tower, why have you taken the | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
figure down and reached this
official death toll of 70, plus the | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
stillborn baby? We have thousands of
calls into the bureau, in June, | 0:10:15 | 0:10:21 | |
based on all the information and the
families and next of kin that had | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
come forward, we projected the
figure might be 80. There is two | 0:10:24 | 0:10:29 | |
main reasons the number has come
down, and I am confident the final | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
number is 71, one reason is we are
investigating a number of fraud | 0:10:33 | 0:10:39 | |
investigations where individuals
have alleged there is people who | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
died within Grenfell Tower. Earlier
this month, one-mile pleaded guilty, | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
he said his wife and child had died
within the fire. The thousands of | 0:10:46 | 0:10:51 | |
calls we receive reported people
missing, one person reported | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
missing, 46 separate occasions by
different people. We spent months, | 0:10:56 | 0:11:02 | |
months, our investigators, trying to
track down each and every one of | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
those people, some of those we have
tracked down around the world, we | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
are now satisfied they are alive and
well. We are at the final number, it | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
is 71 people. What do you say to
people who are still sceptical, | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
because there was a lot of
scepticism within the community in | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
the days, weeks and months following
the tragedy, what do you say to | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
someone today that is still
questioning this official figure? | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
The work we have done as our
investigation, not just the recovery | 0:11:30 | 0:11:35 | |
operation, but we are very
fortunate, we have CCTV images of | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
all those who came out, only one way
in and out of the tower, and footage | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
of everybody who came out of the
tower on the night. We have video | 0:11:42 | 0:11:48 | |
footage from police officers. We
have concluded that work. 223 people | 0:11:48 | 0:11:53 | |
came out of Grenfell Tower and
survived, which is tremendous that | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
so many did come out of such an
awful and horrific fire. With | 0:11:56 | 0:12:01 | |
confidence I can say that 223 people
were in the tower that night, not | 0:12:01 | 0:12:07 | |
all of them were residents, some
were visitors, some residents were | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
not in the tower on the night. With
confidence in terms of those we have | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
recovered we can say it is 71 that
have died, those 71 were the people | 0:12:14 | 0:12:19 | |
we were expecting to find. When I
went into Grenfell Tower, a few days | 0:12:19 | 0:12:24 | |
after the fire, after it had been
put out, having seen it with my own | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
eyes, I honestly thought that it was
likely we would not find everybody | 0:12:28 | 0:12:33 | |
who had died. I'm so pleased for the
families and the loved ones of all | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
those that died that we have been
able to find all those who died, | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
recover them, identify them, return
as much as we possibly can back to | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
families. Thank you very much for
joining us, difficult and sensitive | 0:12:47 | 0:12:52 | |
work for your team, good luck with
that. The police investigation is | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
very much ongoing, hugely complex
investigation, looking at lots of | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
potential different parties, and
that investigation will probably | 0:13:01 | 0:13:06 | |
continue for a long time still to
come. Thank you very much. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:17 | |
Do get in touch with us
throughout the morning, | 0:13:17 | 0:13:23 | |
use the hashtag Victoria LIVE,
and if you text, you will be charged | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
at the standard network rate. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:27 | |
We will talk about the BBC's annual
business price study. Some good | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
news, some bad news, the price of
football server, we take several | 0:13:31 | 0:13:36 | |
large surveys and speak to well over
200 clubs across Britain, some of | 0:13:36 | 0:13:40 | |
the outcomes may surprise you. Three
years in a row, ticket prices have | 0:13:40 | 0:13:46 | |
frozen or have fallen, across the
vast majority of clubs. But young | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
people have been central to some of
the more striking and less positive | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
outcomes this year, let's take a
look at some of them, we spoke with | 0:13:52 | 0:13:57 | |
1018 to | 0:13:57 | 0:13:58 | |
look at some of them, we spoke with
1018 to 24-year-olds living in | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
Britain and a huge 82% said the cost
of football was an obstacle to them | 0:14:00 | 0:14:05 | |
going to matches. -- we spoke with
1000 18 to 24-year-olds. Only 4% of | 0:14:05 | 0:14:13 | |
season tickets were bought by young
adults. More is being asked of clubs | 0:14:13 | 0:14:18 | |
to engage with young fans. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
If you look at the | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
If you look at the average age of a
season holder, it is still in the | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
mid-40s. Really, that is a
generation, my generation, that go | 0:14:46 | 0:14:53 | |
to matches regularly, still in the
habit now, but actually, the next | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
generation don't go regularly
because they don't have access, or | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
affordability issues. When they get
to our age, when we have moved on | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
and we are not going any more,
that's next wave of fans will not be | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
there. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:13 | |
You can find all you need to know
about the price of football study on | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
the website. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:17 | |
I wanted to talk about Russia's
chances of getting to the Winter | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
Olympics. Looking slim. That's
right, four Russian athletes and | 0:15:30 | 0:15:37 | |
there are chances of taking part in
the Winter Olympics, very slim, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
apparently the Russian federation
still not compliant with the anti | 0:15:42 | 0:15:49 | |
doping regulations. Why has this
happen? Essentially, an independent | 0:15:49 | 0:15:55 | |
compliance review committee took a
look into further the necessary | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
steps have been taken to lift the
ban on their athletes competing, you | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
will remember many of them missed
out in Rio de Janeiro, it is | 0:16:01 | 0:16:07 | |
understood Russia still refused to
admit to a state-sponsored doping | 0:16:07 | 0:16:11 | |
programme and that rather key, they
will not allow access to many of the | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
symbols they have in their Moscow
anti doping laboratory to be seen by | 0:16:14 | 0:16:19 | |
the World Anti-Doping Agency. That
will be key, we will see in time | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
whether they manage to get their
athletes back competing soon. Thank | 0:16:23 | 0:16:28 | |
you. We will catch up with you
throughout the morning. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
So the armed forces have seized
control and Zimbabwe's long-time | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
leader Robert Mugabe remains under
house arrest with his | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
future role uncertain. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:38 | |
But was it a coup which is when
power is seized from a government? | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
The military insists not
but the world remains unconvinced. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:51 | |
The country was left stunned | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
after the army took power on Tuesday
and confined the 93-year-old | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
veteran leader, once seen
as a liberation hero, | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
to his home. | 0:16:58 | 0:16:59 | |
Soldiers took control of the state
broadcaster and had this to say: | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
We wish to assure the nation that
his Excellency, the President of the | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
Republic of Zimbabwe and Commander
in Chief of the Zimbabwe defence | 0:17:07 | 0:17:14 | |
forces, comrades Robert Mugabe and
his family are safe and sound and | 0:17:14 | 0:17:20 | |
there are security is guaranteed. We
are only targeting criminals around | 0:17:20 | 0:17:26 | |
him. Who are committing crimes that
are causing social and economic | 0:17:26 | 0:17:33 | |
suffering in the country in order to
bring them to justice. The so-called | 0:17:33 | 0:17:46 | |
criminals are widely thought to
refer to | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
The so-called criminals
are widely thought to | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
Mr Mugabe's much younger
and controversial wife Grace - | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
she's made no secret of wanting
to take power. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
Nicknamed 'Gucci Grace'
by her critics over her love | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
for designer labels,
she is 41 years her | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
husband's junior. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:01 | |
She's now reportedly
fled to Namibia. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:03 | |
Her rival for the succession
was Mugabe's deputy | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
Emerson Mnan-gagwa who was sacked
by the Zimbabwe President last week | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
- a man popular and respected
by Zimbabwe veterans. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
So Zimbabweans now face an uncertain
future and are playing | 0:18:28 | 0:18:32 | |
a waiting game to see
what happens next. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
Mugabe is the only President
the country has known | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
for the past 37 years - | 0:18:39 | 0:18:49 | |
he's ruled Zimbabwe with an iron | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
grip since it gained independence
from the UK in 1980 - | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
to his fans, he's a nationalist hero
who liberated the nation from white | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
rule - to his many enemies,
he's a brutal dictator who ruled | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
by fear and ruined his country. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
We can chat about the ongoing
situation now with Zenzale | 0:19:01 | 0:19:09 | |
Ndebele, who lives in
a city called Bulawayo | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
in Zimbabwe; Richard Dowden,
who's been writing about Zimbabwe | 0:19:13 | 0:19:17 | |
for decades and is the director
of the Royal Africa Society; | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
Priscilla Misihairabwi,
an opposition MP who was in Harare | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
yesterday as the military
moved in and Jason Burke, | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
the Africa Editor at The Guardian. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
you are a couple of hours ahead of
us in is badly, it is mid-morning, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:33 | |
give us a sense of whether people
are going about their normal | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
day-to-day business. Basically
things are quiet, soldiers in the | 0:19:36 | 0:19:43 | |
streets, roadblocks manned by
soldiers. The highways that are | 0:19:43 | 0:19:51 | |
leading out to Bulawayo. The road
that leads to South Africa, there is | 0:19:51 | 0:19:56 | |
a road block and loss of sound that
is the city is generally quiet. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:07 | |
Those sites of soldiers in the
streets. You have a slightly | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
scratchy Skype line, we will try and
clean that up, Priscilla, in Harare | 0:20:11 | 0:20:16 | |
today. Perhaps it is a little
different from Bulawayo, we still | 0:20:16 | 0:20:25 | |
have soldiers at strategic points.
In Parliament, there are soldiers. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:32 | |
And the head office, the
headquarters and the number of | 0:20:32 | 0:20:39 | |
ministers like foreign affairs are
housed and of course, on the | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
highway, you still have soldiers
manning roadblocks. Jason, tell us, | 0:20:44 | 0:20:50 | |
I know you have spoken to lots of
people about how they are feeling in | 0:20:50 | 0:20:55 | |
Harare. Do you get a sense people
are pleased about what's happened or | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
is there a sense of nervousness? I
have been in and out of Zimbabwe | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
several times in the last month, the
fact that most people I speak to in | 0:21:04 | 0:21:09 | |
Harare are expressing a degree of
relief comes as no surprise. The | 0:21:09 | 0:21:15 | |
situation over the last years in
Zimbabwe has been really dire, | 0:21:15 | 0:21:20 | |
economic league, primarily but also
from a political perspective. People | 0:21:20 | 0:21:26 | |
are just very happy there is now the
possibility that things might | 0:21:26 | 0:21:34 | |
change. Outside Zimbabwe a lot of
people are talking about democratic | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
process, governments and
constitutions, inside Zimbabwe they | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
are talking about the economy. A lot
of people, unemployed who have been | 0:21:41 | 0:21:48 | |
unemployed for a long time, they are
looking for some kind of hope that | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
things will turn around. Quite who
brings it to them is secondary issue | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
at the moment. Richard, they are
very keen in Zimbabwe, the party of | 0:21:56 | 0:22:04 | |
Robert Mugabe and the military to
say this is not a coup but explain | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
to people via this is happening,
this isn't necessarily going against | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
Robert Mugabe, this is Grace Mugabe?
Robert Mugabe, now 93-94 loses it | 0:22:12 | 0:22:20 | |
every so often, you can see in
speeches he wanders off, falls | 0:22:20 | 0:22:26 | |
asleep, she has stepped in and tried
to take over, really, and that's | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
what worried the Army. I think where
we go from here, I'm not sure but | 0:22:30 | 0:22:39 | |
it's the fact he's not able to rule
the country any more and I think the | 0:22:39 | 0:22:46 | |
military just felt there's got to be
a change. But they didn't do it like | 0:22:46 | 0:22:51 | |
they do in most African countries,
where a general steps up and says I | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
am the new President. They are much
more concerned to make a | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
constitutional, inclusive, this is
quite a wise move and they aren't | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
not saying they haven't... They have
just let him go home. Grace Mugabe | 0:23:05 | 0:23:11 | |
who is behind all of this and has
been using his weakness to try and | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
impose her people and I think
succeed him and I think that's what | 0:23:16 | 0:23:23 | |
the Army does not like and I ink
most Zimbabweans do not like. Jason | 0:23:23 | 0:23:30 | |
from, but this is not to be seen as
a coup, surely it requires Robert | 0:23:30 | 0:23:38 | |
Mugabe to stand up and say I am
standing aside and there will be an | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
election or someone else within the
party is going to be put forward? | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
Absolutely and that is where we are
at the moment, I understand talks or | 0:23:45 | 0:23:50 | |
ongoing between the military and
Mugabe. The only card that Mugabe | 0:23:50 | 0:23:57 | |
has to play is that one, he is the
only person who can resign in a way | 0:23:57 | 0:24:05 | |
that looks constitutional, past the
bat and, if you like, to Emerson, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:12 | |
the Vice President he fired last
week. Saying he is now retiring from | 0:24:12 | 0:24:18 | |
public life and that he is doing
this for the benefit of the nation, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
or some simpler form of that. If he
does that it looks like an internal | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
party issue that has been carefully
mediated in a forceful way by the | 0:24:26 | 0:24:34 | |
military. All in-line with the use
of the ruling party and the heroes | 0:24:34 | 0:24:42 | |
of the independence movement. If he
doesn't and he has to be forced out | 0:24:42 | 0:24:47 | |
or somehow retired in a way that
does not look constitutional, then | 0:24:47 | 0:24:53 | |
the Army are going to carry out a
military takeover. Let's head back | 0:24:53 | 0:25:03 | |
to Zimbabwe. We have cleared up
those communication lines, | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
Priscilla, do you agree that's what
has to happen, Robert Mugabe has to | 0:25:06 | 0:25:11 | |
hand over power for this to be
accepted? Definitely. He needs to | 0:25:11 | 0:25:18 | |
hand over power. There is an issue
we need to deal with. In spite of | 0:25:18 | 0:25:28 | |
what the military is seen, it is, it
is a military coup but however, I | 0:25:28 | 0:25:34 | |
agree with the earlier comments,
when the military took over the one | 0:25:34 | 0:25:42 | |
thing that some of us were happy
about was that they spoke about the | 0:25:42 | 0:25:49 | |
need to adhere to the Constitution.
In fact, when the general came on | 0:25:49 | 0:25:54 | |
and made his statement he truly...
Loss of sound... To protect the | 0:25:54 | 0:26:05 | |
people of Zimbabwe and the
constitution. For what he is insane | 0:26:05 | 0:26:13 | |
to us now is how do we hold the
military to the things that they | 0:26:13 | 0:26:18 | |
have said? If they are going to be
inspecting the constitution we have | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
to make sure that we can go back to
the ruler of law and the lost a | 0:26:21 | 0:26:28 | |
manned by the military that is
imposing in the street, we | 0:26:28 | 0:26:34 | |
understand this is a dire situation,
things were done not in a normal | 0:26:34 | 0:26:39 | |
way, some of us would have been
democratically active, that does not | 0:26:39 | 0:26:43 | |
mean that we... Forgive me if
jumping in, your Skype line is | 0:26:43 | 0:26:52 | |
jumping so slightly. What would you
like to see happen now in the | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
country? I want to agree entirely
with Priscilla, my programme right | 0:26:56 | 0:27:02 | |
now is that people will say, it was
not a clue. Bruce was a coup! If it | 0:27:02 | 0:27:12 | |
looks like a duck and quacks like a
duck than it then it is a duck. You | 0:27:12 | 0:27:23 | |
keep talking about the former Vice
President coming back to take power, | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
for him to come back that means
something needs to be regulated, he | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
needs to be accepted back into the
party. If he comes to government | 0:27:32 | 0:27:38 | |
Robert Mugabe needs to rescind his
decision, otherwise the Army takes | 0:27:38 | 0:27:45 | |
over, puts in a puppet government
and pretends it's constitutional. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:50 | |
The roadblocks manned by the
soldiers, how long are they going to | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
be mistreated? We are rested, the
Minister that we hear, reaching a | 0:27:53 | 0:28:04 | |
point, the constitution of Zimbabwe,
we think for 48 hours they are | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
supposed to be taking him to Court.
I don't think anyone should be | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
overexcited and forget to look at
the human rights, this human rights | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
are observed... We are approaching
almost 48 hours now. Who is | 0:28:15 | 0:28:26 | |
currently in charge? We will watch
with interest. Thank you all for | 0:28:26 | 0:28:33 | |
speaking to us. I appreciate you
taking the time to talk to us today. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:40 | |
Still to come... | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
It's a year since Andy Woodward made
the decision to go public | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
about the abuse he suffered
as a child at the hands | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
of his football coach,
now he's back to talk to us | 0:28:47 | 0:28:50 | |
about how speaking out
has changed his life. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
What happens when you've been given
the all clear from cancer | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
but you can't shake feelings
of sadness and anxiety | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
and you don't understand why? | 0:28:57 | 0:28:58 | |
We'll talk about a new therapy
to help cancer survivors look | 0:28:58 | 0:29:01 | |
after their mental health. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:02 | |
Time for the latest
news - here's Annita. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:13 | |
The headlines and BBC News. Police
say they now think they have found | 0:29:13 | 0:29:19 | |
and identified the bodies of
everyone who died in the Grenfell | 0:29:19 | 0:29:22 | |
Tower tragedy. The number of victims
are at 71 including a stillborn | 0:29:22 | 0:29:26 | |
baby. In the immediate aftermath 400
people were listed as missing, | 0:29:26 | 0:29:30 | |
police say footage so 223 people
escaping the firefight lovers were | 0:29:30 | 0:29:35 | |
not at home on the night of the fire
in June this year. They said the | 0:29:35 | 0:29:39 | |
search and identification operation
had been meticulous. When I went | 0:29:39 | 0:29:43 | |
into Grenfell Tower Sundays after
the fire, that had been put out, | 0:29:43 | 0:29:48 | |
having seen it with my own eyes I
honestly thought that it was likely | 0:29:48 | 0:29:53 | |
we would not find everybody who had
eyed and I am so pleased for the | 0:29:53 | 0:29:57 | |
families, the loved ones of all
those who died that we have been | 0:29:57 | 0:30:02 | |
able to find all those who died,
recover them, identify them, return | 0:30:02 | 0:30:06 | |
as much as we possibly can back to
their families. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
The future of Zimbabwe's long time
leader Robert Mugabe | 0:30:09 | 0:30:11 | |
remains unclear this morning, | 0:30:11 | 0:30:12 | |
after he was placed under house
arrest by the country's military. | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
Two envoys from South Africa have
arrived in the capital Harare | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
to try to hold talks
with the 93-year-old | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
and with the country's generals
who deny there's been a coup. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:22 | |
It's been seen by many as a move
to prevent Mr Mugabe's wife Grace | 0:30:22 | 0:30:25 | |
from succeeding him in power. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
Plans to encourage housing
associations to borrow money | 0:30:35 | 0:30:37 | |
to invest in new homes
will be announced later. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
The government is to wipe
about £70 billion-worth | 0:30:39 | 0:30:41 | |
of debt from housing associations'
balance sheets, allowing them | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
to raise money more cheaply. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:44 | |
It comes after Theresa May
pledged to kickstart | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
a new generation of council house
building last month. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:49 | |
But Labour said there was no
coherent plan to address | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
the "housing crisis". | 0:30:51 | 0:31:01 | |
Missing explorer Benedict Allen has
been cited alive in Papua New | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
Guinea. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:32 | |
A 500-year-old painting of Christ,
believed to have been created | 0:31:32 | 0:31:35 | |
by Leonardo da Vinci,
has been sold in New York | 0:31:35 | 0:31:37 | |
for a record 400 million dollars -
that's over 300 milion pounds. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
-- $400 million. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:41 | |
-- £300 million. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:42 | |
The price for Salvator Mundi,
or "Saviour of the World", | 0:31:42 | 0:31:44 | |
is the highest ever paid
for a work of art. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
Da Vinci died in 1519
and there are fewer than 20 | 0:31:47 | 0:31:49 | |
of his paintings in existence. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:56 | |
Russia's hopes of competing at the
Winter Olympics in February have | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
been dealt a blow today after the
world anti-doping agency ruled the | 0:32:03 | 0:32:07 | |
country is still noncompliant with
the code, Russia had been suspended | 0:32:07 | 0:32:14 | |
since 2015 after a doping programme
was uncovered. Mark Stoneman will be | 0:32:14 | 0:32:20 | |
top of the batting order, scoring a
sentry on day two of England's final | 0:32:20 | 0:32:24 | |
warm up game, you might remember the
groovy and Sharman from yesterday, | 0:32:24 | 0:32:31 | |
they have claimed the final place at
the World Cup next year, they have | 0:32:31 | 0:32:34 | |
beaten New Zealand, 2-0. -- shaman. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:41 | |
It's a year to the day since the
former professional footballer Andy | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
Woodward appeared live on this
programme to talk about the sexual | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
abuse he suffered as a young player
in the 1990s. This was him speaking | 0:32:49 | 0:32:51 | |
to Victoria on November 16th last
year. | 0:32:51 | 0:33:01 | |
I think that any person that has
suffered abuse and rape etc, will | 0:33:01 | 0:33:10 | |
hopefully understand where I come
from when I say this, the impact it | 0:33:10 | 0:33:13 | |
has had on my life is catastrophic,
and you live with that all your | 0:33:13 | 0:33:19 | |
life, and I cannot put it into
words, what that has done to me, but | 0:33:19 | 0:33:24 | |
other people out there will
understand what it does to you. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:30 | |
Everyone always said to me, how do
you cope, how do you deal, we | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
survive, and that is it. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:44 | |
His appearance on this programme and
in the Guardian newspaper encouraged | 0:33:44 | 0:33:46 | |
others to come forward. Police
forces around the country have now | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
received calls or information. --
have now received calls or | 0:33:48 | 0:33:58 | |
information from 784 victims of
abuse connected to football. 285 | 0:33:58 | 0:33:59 | |
suspects have been identified and
331 clubs have been impacted from | 0:33:59 | 0:34:02 | |
Premier League to amateur level. The
age range for victims at the time of | 0:34:02 | 0:34:05 | |
the abuse runs from four years old
up to 20 years old. A number of | 0:34:05 | 0:34:08 | |
clubs have now opened their own
investigations into what happened | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
and whether they did enough to
protect young players. The Football | 0:34:10 | 0:34:12 | |
Association has also started its own
independent inquiry into the sexual | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
abuse scandal led by a senior
lawyer. That is expected to report | 0:34:14 | 0:34:16 | |
back around Easter next year. A
similar inquiry has been launched by | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
the Scottish FA. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:26 | |
We can speak with Andy now, thank
you for coming back. I can't imagine | 0:34:26 | 0:34:32 | |
how hard it is for you to look back
at that interview when you were | 0:34:32 | 0:34:35 | |
talking last year, it must seem like
more than one year ago. Quite | 0:34:35 | 0:34:39 | |
emotional, watching it back, because
it has been a really difficult year. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:46 | |
I'm thinking back now, with the
numbers you have read out, I am | 0:34:46 | 0:34:49 | |
really proud that I did speak out
and I was the first to talk about | 0:34:49 | 0:34:53 | |
this, but it has been a difficult 12
months to say the least. Ypres when | 0:34:53 | 0:35:03 | |
what it has been like, when you took
that incredibly difficult decision, | 0:35:03 | 0:35:06 | |
you could not have possibly known
the impact it was going to have on | 0:35:06 | 0:35:10 | |
your life. -- explain what it has
been like. I knew that there was a | 0:35:10 | 0:35:15 | |
number of expires out there, but I
did not foresee the difficulties I | 0:35:15 | 0:35:22 | |
have had. -- ex players out there.
Some people have felt let down by | 0:35:22 | 0:35:28 | |
certain individuals, it has affected
my relationship, my previous | 0:35:28 | 0:35:33 | |
relationships, in terms of the
devastating effect it has had on my | 0:35:33 | 0:35:37 | |
children, my family, but I have kept
the strength to continue, and there | 0:35:37 | 0:35:42 | |
has been difficult times, there
really has. But I have continued | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
with that, with that in a passion
that I have got to help children in | 0:35:46 | 0:35:52 | |
the future. You talk about that, you
have your own children, has it been | 0:35:52 | 0:35:57 | |
hard for them in particular? It has
been very difficult for them because | 0:35:57 | 0:36:01 | |
of everything that has happened, it
has affected my children, I won't | 0:36:01 | 0:36:08 | |
lie to you. Do you take strength
from the fact that those numbers, | 0:36:08 | 0:36:13 | |
foot At The Races 700 people have
come forward, 285 suspects, is that | 0:36:13 | 0:36:19 | |
what keeps you going? -- fact that
those numbers, more than 700 people | 0:36:19 | 0:36:25 | |
have come forward. I'm all about
positivity, I want a positive | 0:36:25 | 0:36:29 | |
outlook for the future, I have
several projects I have been doing | 0:36:29 | 0:36:34 | |
over the last 12 months, one of them
being that I have met a female | 0:36:34 | 0:36:38 | |
called Kelly Walsh, we have a
positivity Power movement, focused | 0:36:38 | 0:36:42 | |
around children. I'm doing things,
I'm trying to make a positive future | 0:36:42 | 0:36:49 | |
for the next generation going
through, and that is so important in | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
terms of what I have been trying to
say. 12 months ago, with Greg Clark | 0:36:52 | 0:36:58 | |
and the FA, I said what the vision
was. Have you had much support from | 0:36:58 | 0:37:04 | |
within football, because we are all
aware of what a Matt Schaub culture | 0:37:04 | 0:37:08 | |
it can be, and how lots of banter,
and manliness. -- Matt -- macho | 0:37:08 | 0:37:21 | |
culture. How has football cared for
you over the last year? I will be | 0:37:21 | 0:37:28 | |
honest with you, football has not
done enough, we are one year on, I | 0:37:28 | 0:37:36 | |
have had numerous meetings with
them, some of them have been | 0:37:36 | 0:37:39 | |
negative. But it is one year on and
a year has passed without any | 0:37:39 | 0:37:47 | |
significant changes. It is
disappointing to say that. But I | 0:37:47 | 0:37:56 | |
have had a meeting with the FA,
briefly, yesterday, and I discussed | 0:37:56 | 0:38:02 | |
some things with them and I hope
that in the future, we can strive to | 0:38:02 | 0:38:06 | |
make those significant changes. What
are the changes you want to see that | 0:38:06 | 0:38:11 | |
the FA has the power to bring about?
I have discussed it numerous times | 0:38:11 | 0:38:15 | |
with them, a holistically and, I met
them in June, it is all around | 0:38:15 | 0:38:22 | |
making that significant change and
it has to happen now. I just hope | 0:38:22 | 0:38:26 | |
that they will listen to me this
time. I have also met with and | 0:38:26 | 0:38:31 | |
spoken to the sports minister,
Tracey Crouch, she is fully behind | 0:38:31 | 0:38:35 | |
what I'm trying to achieve with
this. I want to read some of the | 0:38:35 | 0:38:40 | |
statement the FA sent to us when
they knew that we were speaking with | 0:38:40 | 0:38:43 | |
you this morning, they say, one year
on, we acknowledge the bravery who | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
have broken their silence, they say
they have redoubled their efforts to | 0:38:46 | 0:38:50 | |
ensure that every child and young
person as a safe fun experience | 0:38:50 | 0:38:54 | |
playing or participating and
survivors of football related abuse | 0:38:54 | 0:38:58 | |
remain able to access the
therapeutic support with sporting | 0:38:58 | 0:39:03 | |
chance, they talk about the
independent review, due to report at | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
Easter. Is that enough? It is not
enough, and I have discussed in a | 0:39:06 | 0:39:12 | |
private meeting what needs to
happen. Just a few weeks ago, and | 0:39:12 | 0:39:18 | |
this has spurred me on even more, I
am even more determined is out, more | 0:39:18 | 0:39:23 | |
passionate, just a few weeks ago in
Parliament, what was said by Mr | 0:39:23 | 0:39:27 | |
Clark upset me. Explain that, for
people who did not hear that | 0:39:27 | 0:39:32 | |
evidence. He spoke out in Parliament
and discussed about a private | 0:39:32 | 0:39:37 | |
meeting I had with him last year,
and made reference to a former | 0:39:37 | 0:39:42 | |
player crying like a baby... That
deeply upset me. So I needed to | 0:39:42 | 0:39:47 | |
explain that to him that it had
upset me, and I am more determined | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
now than I have ever been, more
positive now about a positive | 0:39:51 | 0:39:55 | |
future, that I will continue, with
the support from the sports | 0:39:55 | 0:39:59 | |
Minister, to make this significant
change now. It needs to happen now, | 0:39:59 | 0:40:04 | |
we cannot wait until the end of this
independent review. A year ago I | 0:40:04 | 0:40:07 | |
said about what the vision was
making positive changes. They need | 0:40:07 | 0:40:12 | |
to happen now. I'm so determined to
make that happen. You say you have | 0:40:12 | 0:40:17 | |
spoken with the sports Minister, it
was yesterday that you spoke to her | 0:40:17 | 0:40:22 | |
and she is very supportive, what is
it that she is going to do, how will | 0:40:22 | 0:40:26 | |
she get involved? It was a private
conversation but she has said that | 0:40:26 | 0:40:31 | |
she is going to speak and meet with
Greg Clark in the future, to discuss | 0:40:31 | 0:40:35 | |
the matters. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:39 | |
You think children are safe in the
game today than they were one year | 0:40:39 | 0:40:45 | |
ago? Personally, after doing all the
studies and research and the groups | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
of people that have supported me
over the last year, I do not believe | 0:40:49 | 0:40:54 | |
that it is a safer place than one
year ago. But I have the tools and | 0:40:54 | 0:40:58 | |
the knowledge and the understanding
and also the groups of people around | 0:40:58 | 0:41:03 | |
me that can make that change now,
and will make it, a much safer place | 0:41:03 | 0:41:09 | |
for children because that is what it
is all about. This cannot happen | 0:41:09 | 0:41:15 | |
again, what happened all them years
ago, to all these players, this | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
cannot happen again. What would you
say to parents watching this and | 0:41:18 | 0:41:24 | |
thinking, how do I know if my child
is safe now? Can you give them any | 0:41:24 | 0:41:31 | |
advice? It is difficult, on live
television, to explain, but that is | 0:41:31 | 0:41:35 | |
one of the key areas that I do want
to fill trade out to football clubs, | 0:41:35 | 0:41:40 | |
to give them an understanding of
what to look out for. I am equipped | 0:41:40 | 0:41:44 | |
to do that. Having a number of years
of abuse, a number of years of | 0:41:44 | 0:41:50 | |
mental health issues, and mental
health and well-being is another | 0:41:50 | 0:41:55 | |
fundamental thing in football, and
in all sports and all walks of life, | 0:41:55 | 0:41:58 | |
that needs to change. You have had
an incredibly tough year since you | 0:41:58 | 0:42:04 | |
were here, I know that you lost your
father a few months ago as well, | 0:42:04 | 0:42:09 | |
which was another thing for you to
deal with, difficult year. It has | 0:42:09 | 0:42:14 | |
been, and I said last year that my
father was proud of me, and I needed | 0:42:14 | 0:42:19 | |
him to be proud and let go of that
feeling, you know, they were so | 0:42:19 | 0:42:26 | |
devastated with what happened to me.
He passed away in August, that has | 0:42:26 | 0:42:30 | |
been difficult. He had motoneuron
disease, I don't think enough is | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
done for that disease, because it is
crippling, one of the worst things I | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
have ever seen, watching my father
disappear. I would love to support | 0:42:37 | 0:42:42 | |
any organisations that do all the
work they are doing for motoneuron | 0:42:42 | 0:42:47 | |
disease, because it really is
devastating. Also, I want to ask you | 0:42:47 | 0:42:53 | |
before you go, if you could turn
back the clock, one year ago, would | 0:42:53 | 0:43:00 | |
you do it all again, knowing what
you have been through in this last | 0:43:00 | 0:43:03 | |
year? After seeing the numbers, as
much as it has had a massive effect | 0:43:03 | 0:43:08 | |
on my relationship and my family,
and people letting me down... I am | 0:43:08 | 0:43:14 | |
so proud of myself for doing it it
has gone global, across the world, | 0:43:14 | 0:43:20 | |
people now, we have a voice, people
in America speaking out, in | 0:43:20 | 0:43:25 | |
Parliament, people have that courage
to speak out and that is what I am | 0:43:25 | 0:43:28 | |
proud of. I will continue to be
proud of it and I will do this, I | 0:43:28 | 0:43:33 | |
will, because it is my life. I was
put on this planet to make a change. | 0:43:33 | 0:43:39 | |
One year from now, what you want to
see change, what realistically do | 0:43:39 | 0:43:43 | |
you think can have been changed? A
positive future for children, that | 0:43:43 | 0:43:48 | |
is it, I am equipped with every tool
in the box to do that, and I hope | 0:43:48 | 0:43:52 | |
the FA and Greg Clark see that I am
that person to make this change and | 0:43:52 | 0:43:57 | |
do this for the future of the game,
because it is needed. I have | 0:43:57 | 0:44:01 | |
everything inside me plus the
fashion that I will make that change | 0:44:01 | 0:44:06 | |
for them. Thank you so much for
coming on, thank you for your | 0:44:06 | 0:44:10 | |
bravery. I'm sorry for getting
emotional. Do not ever apologise for | 0:44:10 | 0:44:14 | |
getting emotional. | 0:44:14 | 0:44:18 | |
When you've been given
the all clear from cancer, | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
how can you overcome the fear
that the disease might, | 0:44:20 | 0:44:22 | |
at some point, come back? | 0:44:22 | 0:44:23 | |
We'll hear more about how cancer
survivors can stay on top | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
of their mental health. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:31 | |
Getting the all-clear when you've
had cancer is always | 0:44:33 | 0:44:35 | |
going to be good news,
but despite this, some | 0:44:35 | 0:44:37 | |
patients report lingering
feelings of anxiety, | 0:44:37 | 0:44:38 | |
isolation, even post-traumatic
stress disorder after their | 0:44:38 | 0:44:40 | |
treatment has finished. | 0:44:40 | 0:44:41 | |
Now a new project led
by Queen Mary University | 0:44:41 | 0:44:43 | |
of London is investigating
whether talking-based | 0:44:43 | 0:44:45 | |
therapies could help them. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:52 | |
If pilots in London and Sheffield
are successful, the treatment | 0:44:52 | 0:44:54 | |
could be rolled out to other areas. | 0:44:54 | 0:44:59 | |
Here to talk to us about it now
is the lead researcher, | 0:44:59 | 0:45:05 | |
Professor Stephen Taylor,
alongside Patrick Williams, | 0:45:05 | 0:45:06 | |
Adrienne Morgan and Faye Morey
who have all struggled mentally | 0:45:06 | 0:45:08 | |
after cancer treatment. | 0:45:08 | 0:45:15 | |
Apologies, I do not know who each of
you are, so do apologise as you come | 0:45:15 | 0:45:19 | |
in. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:20 | |
Say, is it your birthday today? It
is. Someone did tell me. Happy | 0:45:30 | 0:45:36 | |
birthday. Tell me, when you become
cancer free, how do you then feel? | 0:45:36 | 0:45:46 | |
It's quite hard and quite lonely as
well. You have basically had all | 0:45:46 | 0:45:52 | |
these people and all this support
and this whirlwind of emotion, and | 0:45:52 | 0:45:58 | |
then you finish treatment and it's
really hard. Personally for me, I | 0:45:58 | 0:46:02 | |
felt I wanted to get back into
normal life. The cause of the cancer | 0:46:02 | 0:46:07 | |
and treatment and fatigue, I
couldn't really do that. It caused | 0:46:07 | 0:46:12 | |
quite bad anxiety and not I wanted
to get back into normal life but had | 0:46:12 | 0:46:16 | |
to do it slowly, I pushed myself and
it did and really go the way I | 0:46:16 | 0:46:21 | |
wanted to and I ended up getting
panic attacks and anxiety and it was | 0:46:21 | 0:46:25 | |
really hard. Patrick, for about you,
you had cancer six times. Yes. What | 0:46:25 | 0:46:32 | |
on earth does that do to your mental
health if nothing else? I can tell | 0:46:32 | 0:46:39 | |
you at one time I did not want to
live any more because every time | 0:46:39 | 0:46:45 | |
when someone would come and tell me,
by the way, we found something | 0:46:45 | 0:46:49 | |
again, it took that much more away
from me and I felt as if my whole | 0:46:49 | 0:46:53 | |
world was caving in all the time.
I've had panic attacks, terrible | 0:46:53 | 0:46:59 | |
dreams, waking up in a hot sweat and
crying for no reason, just in | 0:46:59 | 0:47:03 | |
public. I just thought I had to do
something and I must do something. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:10 | |
My support structure was Macmillan,
they helped me quite a bit but | 0:47:10 | 0:47:16 | |
unfortunately with all services like
a lot of these, it's limited to the | 0:47:16 | 0:47:20 | |
resources and there weren't any
other resources outside that to help | 0:47:20 | 0:47:23 | |
me through the rest so I had to do
this by myself. Adrienne, how did | 0:47:23 | 0:47:30 | |
you cope, some people watching this
who haven't been through cancer may | 0:47:30 | 0:47:33 | |
think, wouldn't you be elated when
you are taught you are cancer free, | 0:47:33 | 0:47:37 | |
explained, is it about the fear it
might come back? For me, it has come | 0:47:37 | 0:47:46 | |
back so I have got metastatic breast
cancer, I got that some years ago | 0:47:46 | 0:47:51 | |
and what happens to me and to me and
my husband, we were offered through | 0:47:51 | 0:47:57 | |
the palliative care service, a
therapist. And he came and helped us | 0:47:57 | 0:48:07 | |
unbelievably because we were getting
very angry with each other. And 40 | 0:48:07 | 0:48:13 | |
helped us see was that it was the
cancer that we were angry with and | 0:48:13 | 0:48:20 | |
so instead of me... Him getting
cross with me because I couldn't do | 0:48:20 | 0:48:28 | |
something and me saying, don't get
cross with me and then him feeling | 0:48:28 | 0:48:31 | |
guilty because he had got cross and
me feeling guilty because I'd made | 0:48:31 | 0:48:36 | |
him feel guilty... What the
therapist got us to do was say, I | 0:48:36 | 0:48:42 | |
would start getting cross with him
about where he is putting things in | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
the dishwasher! And he would put his
arms round and say you are tired, | 0:48:46 | 0:48:50 | |
why don't you go and sit down and I
will make you some tea. And perhaps | 0:48:50 | 0:48:56 | |
a gin, that sort of talking therapy
made such a big difference to the | 0:48:56 | 0:49:02 | |
way we have been able to cope and I
had been able to cope with this | 0:49:02 | 0:49:07 | |
incurable condition that I have got.
Because that must really play on | 0:49:07 | 0:49:13 | |
your mind all the time. You've had
it for seven years, you know it's | 0:49:13 | 0:49:19 | |
incurable. Yes, and it's like a
Damocles hanging over me. Through | 0:49:19 | 0:49:27 | |
the therapy, one way I was dealing
with that was pretending that was | 0:49:27 | 0:49:29 | |
not happening. And he gave me, the
therapist gave me permission to be | 0:49:29 | 0:49:35 | |
in denial and pretend it's not
happening. And he asked me once, for | 0:49:35 | 0:49:43 | |
what would you be doing now if you
didn't have this diagnosis? And I | 0:49:43 | 0:49:47 | |
thought that was a really good
question. So he said, just plan your | 0:49:47 | 0:49:53 | |
life. Pretend it's not happening.
And that was so empowering. I have | 0:49:53 | 0:49:59 | |
very bad times, I get angry or yes,
I get angry, whiny and it's not | 0:49:59 | 0:50:06 | |
fair. But that's the way it is. And
it's about, its acceptance and | 0:50:06 | 0:50:17 | |
coming to realise the new normal and
making the most of life within the | 0:50:17 | 0:50:23 | |
new normal and it's hard. But it
helps if you have some professional | 0:50:23 | 0:50:27 | |
input. Before I bring in Professor
Steph Taylor, Patrick, were you | 0:50:27 | 0:50:33 | |
offered any kind of therapy as we
hear Adrian describing? When I | 0:50:33 | 0:50:41 | |
mentioned and I said accidentally to
my clinician that I had ideas that I | 0:50:41 | 0:50:47 | |
wanted to end my life, straight away
I was sent to a clinical | 0:50:47 | 0:50:55 | |
psychologist and prescribed
antidepressants and I did not want | 0:50:55 | 0:50:57 | |
to have anything to do with that at
all and I thought big mistake, I am | 0:50:57 | 0:51:01 | |
never going to tell anyone this
again, I have suppressed this as | 0:51:01 | 0:51:05 | |
much as possible, especially not
telling, so everybody asks me | 0:51:05 | 0:51:09 | |
questions, how do you feel and I say
fine, I do not want to go out and | 0:51:09 | 0:51:13 | |
tell them anything because the last
thing I wanted was to have men | 0:51:13 | 0:51:18 | |
invite codes coming to take me away.
Did you ask for talking therapy? You | 0:51:18 | 0:51:23 | |
did not know? I did not know
anything about this, I knew this was | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
happening to me and I mentioned it
and that was the explosion that | 0:51:26 | 0:51:30 | |
happened after and I thought, not a
thing to mention, I am going to keep | 0:51:30 | 0:51:35 | |
this quiet. Professor Taylor, come
in on this, explain how it works. We | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
have heard about Adrienne's therapy,
but explain how this is different. | 0:51:39 | 0:51:45 | |
We have funding for a large trial to
explore in a systematic way the | 0:51:45 | 0:51:50 | |
routine offering of acceptance
commitment therapy which is a token | 0:51:50 | 0:51:55 | |
-based therapy, as people come to
the end of cancer treatment, what we | 0:51:55 | 0:51:58 | |
hope as we will identify people
struggling more than others with | 0:51:58 | 0:52:01 | |
emotional problems, some of the
people here I think would have the | 0:52:01 | 0:52:05 | |
ideal candidates for the study and
we will offer them a course of | 0:52:05 | 0:52:10 | |
except ins and commitment therapy
and the really appealing thing about | 0:52:10 | 0:52:13 | |
this talking therapy is that it is
personal based, based on the | 0:52:13 | 0:52:19 | |
person's own values so it's very
person centred. So it's furry | 0:52:19 | 0:52:25 | |
realistic about what can be
achieved. It's called acceptance and | 0:52:25 | 0:52:30 | |
commitment therapy, excepting for
cannot be changed up some people | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
that is the risk of curtains and
committing yourself to values based | 0:52:33 | 0:52:35 | |
goals and things but as well as that
we know that physical activity is | 0:52:35 | 0:52:40 | |
really important because tiredness
is a huge problem after cancer. For | 0:52:40 | 0:52:44 | |
those people who want to get back to
physical activity, team members from | 0:52:44 | 0:52:49 | |
Sheffield who are experts in cancer
and physical activity will develop | 0:52:49 | 0:52:53 | |
modules that will help support those
people and again, many people who | 0:52:53 | 0:52:57 | |
have had cancer don't get back to
work even though they want to and | 0:52:57 | 0:53:02 | |
for a third of those it's about
emotional reasons we hope to be able | 0:53:02 | 0:53:05 | |
to support those people and work
with our team about vocational | 0:53:05 | 0:53:11 | |
qualifications, helping people who
want to get back to work. As a young | 0:53:11 | 0:53:15 | |
person, what sort of support did you
get, did you get any kind of talking | 0:53:15 | 0:53:19 | |
therapy when you were having your
panic attacks and feeling | 0:53:19 | 0:53:21 | |
frustrated? I went to my local
hospital, I got treated on a teenage | 0:53:21 | 0:53:27 | |
Cancer trust port at Addenbrooke's
but my local hospital offered me | 0:53:27 | 0:53:34 | |
three Macmillan, like Iain McMillan
charity based funded counselling, a | 0:53:34 | 0:53:42 | |
set amount of sessions that I could
have and that helped me. And that | 0:53:42 | 0:53:48 | |
helped me figure out why I was
having panic attacks and being able | 0:53:48 | 0:53:50 | |
to control them. And I think it's a
really good thing and it really | 0:53:50 | 0:53:55 | |
helped me and by anxiety after
treatment. Thank you all for coming | 0:53:55 | 0:54:00 | |
on and being so honest and sharing
your experiences. I am so grateful. | 0:54:00 | 0:54:05 | |
Let me read you some comments that
have been coming in about the | 0:54:05 | 0:54:10 | |
conversation we had with Andy
Woodward in the last few minutes. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:14 | |
Sandy on Facebook says I have just
watched the interview, what a | 0:54:14 | 0:54:19 | |
wonderfully brave man and I wish him
all the best for the future. Well | 0:54:19 | 0:54:22 | |
done for speaking out. Julie says,
amazing, so brave, keep strong. | 0:54:22 | 0:54:26 | |
David says Andy Woodward did the
right things speaking about abuse in | 0:54:26 | 0:54:33 | |
sport, he's helped more than he's
ever likely to know. Lots of friends | 0:54:33 | 0:54:36 | |
say everything about them and them
alone, the guy is a stark, and | 0:54:36 | 0:54:42 | |
better nurturing friends will come
into a new and positive life for | 0:54:42 | 0:54:46 | |
him. So many here, Andy Woodward,
hard to hear this account, I admire | 0:54:46 | 0:54:52 | |
your bravery, there are times we
have to do the right thing despite | 0:54:52 | 0:54:55 | |
the losses and challenges and glad
that despite all that's happened | 0:54:55 | 0:54:58 | |
over the last year you too could
steps to keep children safe. Now how | 0:54:58 | 0:55:05 | |
much are we spending on the high
street? The league latest retail | 0:55:05 | 0:55:09 | |
sales figures have just come out and
Emmett Simpson is here. Let me come | 0:55:09 | 0:55:14 | |
across to speak to you, for the
latest figures telling us? -- Emma | 0:55:14 | 0:55:19 | |
Simpson. They haven't been as bad as
some people were expecting. We know | 0:55:19 | 0:55:25 | |
October has been a pretty
challenging month because we've had | 0:55:25 | 0:55:27 | |
a lot of other surveys out but
looking at these figures, the | 0:55:27 | 0:55:31 | |
official statistics, but at what is
happening year on year, we compared | 0:55:31 | 0:55:38 | |
October two last October, the amount
of stuff shoppers bought was up to | 0:55:38 | 0:55:42 | |
.8% on the year but the volumes were
down. We spent more and bought less | 0:55:42 | 0:55:54 | |
so the volume of goods was down
0.3%, that's the first time that | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
measure has fallen in about four
years, we are spending more and | 0:55:58 | 0:56:03 | |
buying less and that's because
prices have been rising. That's what | 0:56:03 | 0:56:07 | |
I was going to ask is it because we
are buying more expensive items or | 0:56:07 | 0:56:10 | |
coping with inflation? People are
being more cautious because they are | 0:56:10 | 0:56:15 | |
spending, wages have not in keeping
up with the cost of living and we've | 0:56:15 | 0:56:19 | |
been seeing that in the last few
months. What is interesting, the | 0:56:19 | 0:56:24 | |
other measure, what happened month
on month. According to the Office | 0:56:24 | 0:56:27 | |
for National Statistics, Labour,
there was a little bit of growth | 0:56:27 | 0:56:32 | |
compared with September and an
interesting point they were making, | 0:56:32 | 0:56:36 | |
they sought second-hand goods
stores, charity goods stores, option | 0:56:36 | 0:56:43 | |
houses, providing the largest
contribution to the tiny bit of | 0:56:43 | 0:56:47 | |
growth we solve month on month. But
I think it's fair to say looking | 0:56:47 | 0:56:52 | |
back on October eight was a pretty
challenging month. For retailers. | 0:56:52 | 0:56:57 | |
Especially in non-food, the weather
for instance has been really mind, | 0:56:57 | 0:57:02 | |
who wants to go out and buy boots
and woolly coats when it's this one? | 0:57:02 | 0:57:06 | |
I think the big question for
retailers is what does this tell us | 0:57:06 | 0:57:10 | |
about what lies ahead? We are
entering the crucial trading... | 0:57:10 | 0:57:15 | |
Christmas! | 0:57:15 | 0:57:16 | |
Christmas is coming, retailers are
nervous about what will happen. And | 0:57:20 | 0:57:22 | |
Black Friday coming up. Is that | 0:57:22 | 0:57:26 | |
Friday, the big one, that will give
us a clue as to how consumers will | 0:57:30 | 0:57:36 | |
spend this Christmas. Could they
have been holding back in October, | 0:57:36 | 0:57:39 | |
saving for Black Friday? Of course,
look at the high Street, there are | 0:57:39 | 0:57:44 | |
sales everywhere, discounts the law
already. So I think Black Friday | 0:57:44 | 0:57:51 | |
will be interesting to see what
shoppers are up to. Emma, thank you | 0:57:51 | 0:57:54 | |
for explaining that to us. | 0:57:54 | 0:58:01 | |
Lets get the latest weather update -
with Matt Taylor. | 0:58:01 | 0:58:02 | |
I think the weather we are likely to
see in the next few days will boost | 0:58:06 | 0:58:11 | |
the sales of warm coats. The rain
pushing through here, temperatures | 0:58:11 | 0:58:15 | |
dropping, this cold front
responsible, moving to northern | 0:58:15 | 0:58:19 | |
England. To the south, feeling
pleasant. To the north, colder air, | 0:58:19 | 0:58:25 | |
sunnier, gales and severe gales this
morning in Scotland for a time, by | 0:58:25 | 0:58:33 | |
the end of the afternoon, south-west
England, southern England, towards | 0:58:33 | 0:58:37 | |
parts of East Anglia, patchy rain
and drizzle, a little bit of | 0:58:37 | 0:58:41 | |
sunshine, 14 degrees the highest.
Single digit temperatures further | 0:58:41 | 0:58:45 | |
north, a mild night last night,
colder night tonight, showers wintry | 0:58:45 | 0:58:49 | |
over the Hells, he'll too low levels
across Scotland, clear skies | 0:58:49 | 0:58:55 | |
elsewhere, widespread frost away
from the towns and cities. Your | 0:58:55 | 0:58:59 | |
Friday morning commute here and
crispy, frosty, lots of sunshine | 0:58:59 | 0:59:04 | |
around to start the day, patchy
cloud, parts of western England, | 0:59:04 | 0:59:08 | |
Wales and Northern Ireland, the bulk
of the showers to the north and west | 0:59:08 | 0:59:13 | |
of Scotland, heavy with hail and
thunder possible, sleet and snow | 0:59:13 | 0:59:17 | |
higher ground, most of us a dry day
on Friday, single digit temperatures | 0:59:17 | 0:59:20 | |
through the afternoon, around 8-9d
at best. Cold air Friday night, into | 0:59:20 | 0:59:26 | |
the start of the weekend, battle
taking place this weekend between | 0:59:26 | 0:59:29 | |
cold air and mild are, the net
result on Saturday, cloud for | 0:59:29 | 0:59:36 | |
England and Wales, patchy rain and
result not of affecting everyone, | 0:59:36 | 0:59:40 | |
back to double digit temperatures,
single figures further north, one or | 0:59:40 | 0:59:45 | |
two showers, the battle continuing
into Sunday. Cold northerly wind in | 0:59:45 | 0:59:50 | |
the east of the country, whether
France dry to push on from the west | 0:59:50 | 0:59:53 | |
bringing cloud and patchy rain. I
quickly that moves in, uncertain at | 0:59:53 | 0:59:57 | |
the moment, looking at the moment
that you will stay dry central and | 0:59:57 | 1:00:01 | |
eastern areas but feeling chilly.
That's how it's looking in the UK, a | 1:00:01 | 1:00:06 | |
quick look at Europe, severe floods
in Greece and Italy. Those | 1:00:06 | 1:00:12 | |
conditions continuing for some over
the next few days, severe low | 1:00:12 | 1:00:15 | |
pressure through the central
Mediterranean, continuing to | 1:00:15 | 1:00:18 | |
circulate and could strengthen
further through southern Italy, down | 1:00:18 | 1:00:22 | |
through the Adriatic awards Greece,
we see severe thunderstorms and | 1:00:22 | 1:00:27 | |
further flooding. Only by the time
we hit the weekend will the storms | 1:00:27 | 1:00:30 | |
ease. | 1:00:30 | 1:00:35 | |
All the victims of the
Grenfell Tower tragedy have | 1:00:44 | 1:00:46 | |
now been identified. | 1:00:46 | 1:00:47 | |
The police have told us 70 people
died, including a still-born baby. | 1:00:47 | 1:00:54 | |
The challenge of it has been
immense, specialist teams have | 1:00:54 | 1:00:58 | |
worked through 15 and a half tonnes
of debris on each and every floor of | 1:00:58 | 1:01:01 | |
Grenfell Tower, by hand, to find
every single fragment they can of | 1:01:01 | 1:01:06 | |
all those that died, that has been
extremely distressing to the | 1:01:06 | 1:01:10 | |
families and to those involved in
the operation as well. | 1:01:10 | 1:01:22 | |
Stop. | 1:01:22 | 1:01:23 | |
Speak. | 1:01:23 | 1:01:25 | |
Support - that's today's
message being delivered | 1:01:25 | 1:01:26 | |
by the Duke of Cambridge,
as he launches a new campaign | 1:01:26 | 1:01:28 | |
Happens in the playground, when it
can be seen, but online, only one of | 1:01:29 | 1:01:33 | |
you seize it and it is so personal | 1:01:33 | 1:01:35 | |
full is top later we will be
speaking with one victim who tried | 1:01:35 | 1:01:43 | |
to take his own life when he was a
teenager for the And Canadian | 1:01:43 | 1:01:51 | |
rapper, Drake, stopped his gig in
Sydney in the middle of a set, after | 1:01:51 | 1:01:54 | |
he saw one of the people in the
audience being groped. | 1:01:54 | 1:02:06 | |
We'll speak to one fan who was there
Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom | 1:02:14 | 1:02:17 | |
with a summary of todays news. | 1:02:17 | 1:02:23 | |
Police believe they have now found
and identified the bodies | 1:02:23 | 1:02:25 | |
of everyone who died
in the Grenfell Tower fire. | 1:02:25 | 1:02:27 | |
They put the final number of victims
at 71 including a stillborn baby. | 1:02:27 | 1:02:31 | |
In the immediate aftermath
of the blaze, 400 people | 1:02:31 | 1:02:33 | |
were listed as missing. | 1:02:33 | 1:02:34 | |
Police say footage showed 223
people escaping the fire, | 1:02:34 | 1:02:36 | |
while others were not at home
on the night of the fire | 1:02:36 | 1:02:39 | |
in June this year. | 1:02:39 | 1:02:40 | |
They said the search
and identification operation | 1:02:40 | 1:02:42 | |
had been "meticulous." | 1:02:42 | 1:02:46 | |
When I went into Grenfell Tower a
few days after the fire which had | 1:02:46 | 1:02:49 | |
been put out, having seen it with my
own eyes, I honestly thought that it | 1:02:49 | 1:02:55 | |
was likely we would not find
everybody who had died. I'm so | 1:02:55 | 1:02:58 | |
pleased for the families and loved
ones of all those that died that we | 1:02:58 | 1:03:02 | |
have been able to find all those who
died, recover them, identify them, | 1:03:02 | 1:03:09 | |
return as much as we possibly can
back to their families. | 1:03:09 | 1:03:16 | |
The future of Zimbabwe's long time
leader Robert Mugabe remains | 1:03:16 | 1:03:18 | |
unclear this morning,
after he was placed under house | 1:03:18 | 1:03:21 | |
arrest by the country's military. | 1:03:21 | 1:03:22 | |
Two envoys from South Africa have
arrived in the capital, Harare, | 1:03:22 | 1:03:24 | |
to try to hold talks
with the 93-year-old | 1:03:24 | 1:03:26 | |
and with the country's generals
who deny there's been a coup. | 1:03:26 | 1:03:29 | |
It's been seen by many as a move
to prevent Mr Mugabe's wife Grace | 1:03:29 | 1:03:32 | |
from succeeding him in power. | 1:03:32 | 1:03:42 | |
Figures out this morning reveal that
retail sales fell by 0.3% in October | 1:03:49 | 1:03:52 | |
compared to the same month last
year. Despite the annual fall, the | 1:03:52 | 1:03:54 | |
Office of National Statistics says
that the underlying pattern is "one | 1:03:54 | 1:03:56 | |
of growth" when looking at the three
month figure which shows a rise of | 1:03:56 | 1:03:59 | |
0.9% in the quantity of goods people
bought. | 1:03:59 | 1:04:01 | |
Plans to encourage housing
associations to borrow money | 1:04:01 | 1:04:03 | |
to invest in new homes
will be announced later. | 1:04:03 | 1:04:05 | |
The government is to wipe
about £70 billion worth | 1:04:05 | 1:04:07 | |
of debt from housing associations'
balance sheets, allowing them | 1:04:07 | 1:04:09 | |
to raise money more cheaply. | 1:04:09 | 1:04:10 | |
It comes after Theresa May
pledged to kickstart | 1:04:10 | 1:04:12 | |
a new generation of council house
building last month. | 1:04:12 | 1:04:14 | |
But Labour said there was no
coherent plan to address | 1:04:14 | 1:04:17 | |
the "housing crisis". | 1:04:17 | 1:04:18 | |
Thousands of women with previously
untreatable breast cancer | 1:04:18 | 1:04:20 | |
are to have access to two new drugs. | 1:04:20 | 1:04:22 | |
The two have been shown to slow down
advanced cancer, and can delay | 1:04:22 | 1:04:25 | |
the need for chemotherapy. | 1:04:25 | 1:04:26 | |
They've been approved
for NHS use in England, | 1:04:26 | 1:04:28 | |
after it negotiated a price
agreement with the manufacturers. | 1:04:28 | 1:04:38 | |
The missing British explorer
Benedict Allen | 1:04:39 | 1:04:40 | |
has been seen "alive and well" | 1:04:40 | 1:04:42 | |
near an airstrip
in Papua New Guinea. | 1:04:42 | 1:04:43 | |
He had been travelling
on his own to try to find | 1:04:43 | 1:04:46 | |
the reclusive Yaifo tribe,
whom he first met 30 years ago. | 1:04:46 | 1:04:56 | |
So many of you getting intact with
us after that conversation with Andy | 1:05:02 | 1:05:07 | |
Woodward, you may remember the
emotional interview that Victoria | 1:05:07 | 1:05:10 | |
did with him and other former
footballers, coming back to tell us | 1:05:10 | 1:05:14 | |
about how things have changed. A
tweet, he should be very proud for | 1:05:14 | 1:05:21 | |
speaking out. Robert says: so much
respect for this guy, incredible | 1:05:21 | 1:05:25 | |
that even in this age of historical
and current abuse claims, we are | 1:05:25 | 1:05:28 | |
still having to jump through hoops
to make any progress. We are living | 1:05:28 | 1:05:33 | |
in the dark ages. Andy had me in
tears yet again this morning, 12 | 1:05:33 | 1:05:38 | |
months on and every time since in
between, what a wonderful | 1:05:38 | 1:05:42 | |
inspirational brave man, I hope the
BBC can pass on all of our love and | 1:05:42 | 1:05:49 | |
support. Stefanie: please tell Andy,
you are amazing. Stuart has got in | 1:05:49 | 1:05:55 | |
touch on Twitter, staggering, I am
not a follower of football, but for | 1:05:55 | 1:05:59 | |
Andy's incredible bravery in
bringing attention to this, I can | 1:05:59 | 1:06:03 | |
now say, I have a favourite
footballer. Keep those thoughts | 1:06:03 | 1:06:06 | |
coming. | 1:06:06 | 1:06:16 | |
The BBC's Price of Football survey
is out, and for the third year in a | 1:06:21 | 1:06:24 | |
row the average ticket price has
either fallen or stayed the same. | 1:06:24 | 1:06:26 | |
Our reporter Katherine Downes is at
the home of Premier League side | 1:06:26 | 1:06:29 | |
Stoke City. A lot for football fans
to mull over. All the figures out, | 1:06:29 | 1:06:34 | |
lots of numbers to crunch, I am here
at Stoke City, one of the majority | 1:06:34 | 1:06:38 | |
of Premier League clubs where prices
are pretty much stayed the same or | 1:06:38 | 1:06:41 | |
even fallen over the past three
years. Match day ticket will cost 25 | 1:06:41 | 1:06:46 | |
quid here, the most popular season
ticket costs £344, £200 less than | 1:06:46 | 1:06:52 | |
the Premier League average, and the
essential warm high at pretty Chile | 1:06:52 | 1:06:58 | |
Stoke City cost £3 20, although the
price of five across the Premier | 1:06:58 | 1:07:02 | |
League has gone up 5%, apparently
due to inflation according to the | 1:07:02 | 1:07:08 | |
club. -- chilly. 30 to £35, the
match day, pretty much the same as | 1:07:08 | 1:07:13 | |
last time year, is it enough to keep
people coming back? Perhaps not, for | 1:07:13 | 1:07:19 | |
the first time the BBC has survey
1018 to 24 -- 1000 18 to | 1:07:19 | 1:07:29 | |
24-year-olds and 56% of them have
said that they actually go to fewer | 1:07:29 | 1:07:33 | |
matches as a consequence of the
expense. To talk more about this, | 1:07:33 | 1:07:37 | |
Adrian Hirst, head of community here
at Stoke City. How concerned are you | 1:07:37 | 1:07:43 | |
that fewer 18 to 24-year-olds there
to be going to Premier League | 1:07:43 | 1:07:47 | |
matches. Always concerned when
someone provides evidence that there | 1:07:47 | 1:07:52 | |
is an age group and demographic that
are not attending, what we would | 1:07:52 | 1:07:55 | |
like to do is look at the numbers,
crunch them, see what the impact of | 1:07:55 | 1:07:59 | |
the report says on the club. Lots of
your fans queueing up to buy tickets | 1:07:59 | 1:08:04 | |
for the game with Tottenham at
Wembley, tickets just released, lots | 1:08:04 | 1:08:08 | |
of them older gentleman, very few
young people here, have you noticed | 1:08:08 | 1:08:13 | |
your demographic getting over? No,
as a football club we work hard to | 1:08:13 | 1:08:18 | |
make sure that football is
affordable for everybody, firstly, | 1:08:18 | 1:08:21 | |
because it needs to be, and we make
sure we work hard to make sure young | 1:08:21 | 1:08:25 | |
people and when I say young people,
we have a very clear focus on making | 1:08:25 | 1:08:29 | |
sure primary school children can
access Premier League football and | 1:08:29 | 1:08:32 | |
we are working very hard there, this
year we have given away 8000 free | 1:08:32 | 1:08:37 | |
shirts and we are giving away 16,000
free tickets to come and watch games | 1:08:37 | 1:08:40 | |
as well. So I think we are trying to
address that balance in making sure | 1:08:40 | 1:08:45 | |
we have young supporters attending
games. But we also need to look at | 1:08:45 | 1:08:49 | |
the evidence and runs the numbers
and see what evidence comes out. | 1:08:49 | 1:08:54 | |
White is there perhaps a case where,
yes, primary schoolchildren are | 1:08:54 | 1:08:57 | |
coming with parents but once people
start to go into the workplace, and | 1:08:57 | 1:09:01 | |
their own money, Premier League
football is not good value for money | 1:09:01 | 1:09:06 | |
for people who are on entry-level
wages. | 1:09:06 | 1:09:11 | |
Understand what you are saying but
looking at the office for the age | 1:09:12 | 1:09:15 | |
group you looked at, under 21, you
can attend a game for £13.60, I | 1:09:15 | 1:09:21 | |
don't think that is a bad offer. I
think that in the study it said | 1:09:21 | 1:09:29 | |
going to away games and the cost of
away games was something of concern, | 1:09:29 | 1:09:34 | |
but we have offered free of away
supporters travel for the past five | 1:09:34 | 1:09:36 | |
years. We send an official code,
travel to any Premier League away | 1:09:36 | 1:09:41 | |
game in the country, it costs
nothing. Thank you very much for | 1:09:41 | 1:09:46 | |
that insight about how you are doing
at Stoke City to encourage younger | 1:09:46 | 1:09:50 | |
fans. If you are encouraged in how
much it is costing you at your club, | 1:09:50 | 1:09:54 | |
go to the website, a calculator will
tell you how much the price of | 1:09:54 | 1:09:58 | |
football is for your team. Thank you
very much for joining us. | 1:09:58 | 1:10:12 | |
Police investigating the Grenfell
tower tragedy say the final number | 1:10:17 | 1:10:19 | |
of people now known to have
died in the blaze is 71, | 1:10:19 | 1:10:22 | |
including a still-born baby. | 1:10:22 | 1:10:23 | |
They've also established that 223
people escaped the fire. | 1:10:23 | 1:10:31 | |
Five months on from the fire, this
is a significant moment, because the | 1:10:31 | 1:10:36 | |
Metropolitan Police have said this
morning that they have recovered the | 1:10:36 | 1:10:39 | |
remains from everyone who they
believe died that dreadful night, in | 1:10:39 | 1:10:43 | |
other words, they will not be
finding the remains of anyone else. | 1:10:43 | 1:10:49 | |
They have said they have carried out
a mammoth and meticulous search, | 1:10:49 | 1:10:53 | |
working layer by layer through the
building, and get it search at | 1:10:53 | 1:10:58 | |
times, 16 tonnes of debris they have
had to work through. A short time | 1:10:58 | 1:11:02 | |
earlier at Scotland Yard, Commander
Stuart Cundy, police officer, | 1:11:02 | 1:11:06 | |
responsible for this recovery
operation, spoke to my colleague Tom | 1:11:06 | 1:11:11 | |
Burridge. The heart of myself and
the rest of my colleagues continues | 1:11:11 | 1:11:20 | |
to be with those affected, I cannot
imagine the agony that the family of | 1:11:20 | 1:11:25 | |
those who have died have gone
through. From Day 1 it has been a | 1:11:25 | 1:11:30 | |
priority to search Grenfell Tower,
find all those that died, recover | 1:11:30 | 1:11:33 | |
them with dignity, and subsequently
identify them, and yesterday, the | 1:11:33 | 1:11:38 | |
last two identities of those that
were recovered were confirmed to the | 1:11:38 | 1:11:42 | |
satisfaction of the coroner. I now
know, with confidence, the number of | 1:11:42 | 1:11:46 | |
people that have died as a result of
the fire is 71, sadly including a | 1:11:46 | 1:11:51 | |
stillborn baby. It has taken so long
because of the sheer challenge that | 1:11:51 | 1:11:58 | |
Grenfell Tower has placed on all the
emergency services but particularly | 1:11:58 | 1:12:01 | |
the specialist teams that we used to
recover all those that had died. 71 | 1:12:01 | 1:12:08 | |
people, and it is not about the
number, it is about the people, that | 1:12:08 | 1:12:12 | |
has aways been at the heart of what
we do. The challenge has been | 1:12:12 | 1:12:15 | |
immense, specialist teams working
through 15.5 tonnes of debris, on | 1:12:15 | 1:12:21 | |
each and every floor of Grenfell
Tower, by hand, to find every single | 1:12:21 | 1:12:25 | |
fragment that they can of all those
who have died full of that has been | 1:12:25 | 1:12:30 | |
extremely distressing to the
families and to those involved in | 1:12:30 | 1:12:32 | |
the operation. The Met have been
pushing the boundaries of what was | 1:12:32 | 1:12:39 | |
scientifically possible in order to
identify the people who died. -- of | 1:12:39 | 1:12:45 | |
all those who have died. It has been
extreme you distressing to the | 1:12:45 | 1:12:51 | |
families and to those involved in
the operation. The focus now shifts | 1:12:51 | 1:12:55 | |
onto the council in terms of what
happens to the building, some sort | 1:12:55 | 1:12:58 | |
of covering will continue to go up,
and there is a public enquiry, so | 1:12:58 | 1:13:02 | |
the criminal side of things,
certainly in terms of the recovery | 1:13:02 | 1:13:05 | |
of victims and their remains, that
seems to be coming to an end now. | 1:13:05 | 1:13:12 | |
There is another side to the
criminal investigation, who was | 1:13:12 | 1:13:14 | |
liable for this, why did the tragedy
take place, these questions will | 1:13:14 | 1:13:19 | |
continue in the coming weeks,
months, and probably years. | 1:13:19 | 1:13:24 | |
Two envoys from South Africa have
arrived in Zimbabwe's capital, | 1:13:26 | 1:13:29 | |
Harare, to try to hold talks
with President Mugabe. | 1:13:29 | 1:13:31 | |
He's been placed under house arrest
by the country's military, | 1:13:31 | 1:13:33 | |
whose generals deny there's
been a coup. | 1:13:33 | 1:13:35 | |
The army says this is an attempt
to deal with what they described | 1:13:35 | 1:13:38 | |
as "criminals" around
the ageing president. | 1:13:38 | 1:13:40 | |
That's widely seen as a reference
to Mr Mugabe's much younger | 1:13:40 | 1:13:42 | |
and controversial wife; she's made
no secret of wanting to take power. | 1:13:42 | 1:13:51 | |
Here's a quick look at who she is. | 1:13:51 | 1:13:56 | |
I see her as somebody who's
in the position she is purely | 1:14:55 | 1:14:58 | |
by virtue of the fact that she's
married to Robert Mugabe. | 1:14:58 | 1:15:02 | |
She's somebody who embarrasses them. | 1:15:02 | 1:15:03 | |
The very thought that she was in
a position where she might have | 1:15:03 | 1:15:06 | |
become Robert Mugabe's air apparent
at a special conference in December | 1:15:06 | 1:15:09 | |
meant that the military
were going to have to move | 1:15:09 | 1:15:11 | |
in their view to install
the man that they want | 1:15:11 | 1:15:14 | |
and that's Emmerson Mnangagwa. | 1:15:14 | 1:15:16 | |
Let's speak to our correspondent who
can bring us | 1:15:29 | 1:15:31 | |
I have got off the phone with the
Department for International affairs | 1:15:36 | 1:15:39 | |
closely monitoring what's going on.
-- our correspondent can bring us | 1:15:39 | 1:15:50 | |
up-to-date with what's happening. No
opposition party is involved at this | 1:15:50 | 1:15:56 | |
stage, it's essentially a leadership
battle between the former Vice | 1:15:56 | 1:16:01 | |
President and his supporters and
supporters of President Mugabe. At | 1:16:01 | 1:16:05 | |
the moment South Africans are trying
to broker a deal that will see | 1:16:05 | 1:16:08 | |
stability restored not just for
Zimbabwe but the indications within | 1:16:08 | 1:16:13 | |
the region in that South Africa is
home to millions of South Africans | 1:16:13 | 1:16:19 | |
who have sought economic
opportunities and it's important for | 1:16:19 | 1:16:21 | |
them to make sure peace remains in
that country. And that the school in | 1:16:21 | 1:16:27 | |
inverted, is does not deteriorate
further. We were having a | 1:16:27 | 1:16:31 | |
conversation in our goal about this
and that was the view amongst | 1:16:31 | 1:16:36 | |
Zimbabweans and people covering the
country that Robert Mugabe needs to | 1:16:36 | 1:16:39 | |
come out and say I am standing down
and handing over power for this to | 1:16:39 | 1:16:43 | |
be seen as a credible, simple
transition. Do we get any sense that | 1:16:43 | 1:16:48 | |
is likely to happen? That's a
difficult one to answer. We | 1:16:48 | 1:16:54 | |
understand what the South Africans
are going for as part of the | 1:16:54 | 1:16:57 | |
mediation process is a democratic
solution, that would involve | 1:16:57 | 1:17:01 | |
possibly persuading the President to
see reason but this is somebody who | 1:17:01 | 1:17:05 | |
has held onto power for 37 years,
it's unlikely he will go down | 1:17:05 | 1:17:10 | |
without much of a fight. Good to
speak to you. Let's speak to them | 1:17:10 | 1:17:19 | |
who lives in Harare and as a human
rights activist. In 2008 he | 1:17:19 | 1:17:23 | |
successfully sued the Mugabe regime
provider late in the role of law and | 1:17:23 | 1:17:28 | |
human rights in the country, we can
speak to a guest to is a resident of | 1:17:28 | 1:17:34 | |
Harare. And I will start by speaking
to you, tell us the situation in | 1:17:34 | 1:17:42 | |
Harare at the moment, I think it's
probably coming up to mid-a the | 1:17:42 | 1:17:46 | |
moment, isn't it? It's almost
mid-day and the situation looks | 1:17:46 | 1:17:51 | |
quite calm, I think it's much better
than it was yesterday. It seems to | 1:17:51 | 1:17:55 | |
have been you know, a bit of
increased business activity today | 1:17:55 | 1:18:01 | |
come per to what we saw yesterday.
But of course there is still the | 1:18:01 | 1:18:06 | |
prevalence of the military in the
streets and Erica Ding roads that | 1:18:06 | 1:18:12 | |
are heading towards particular
government buildings such as | 1:18:12 | 1:18:14 | |
Parliament and the office of the
President. What I should say in | 1:18:14 | 1:18:18 | |
other parts, like Uptown, it really
looks like business as usual. What | 1:18:18 | 1:18:28 | |
do you want to see happening? Are
you happy for a transition, maybe | 1:18:28 | 1:18:34 | |
over to the former Vice President or
would you support Grace Mugabe, | 1:18:34 | 1:18:39 | |
where you stand? As a pro-democracy
activist, this is a very tricky | 1:18:39 | 1:18:48 | |
situation, Catch-22. Number one, I
do not condone military intervention | 1:18:48 | 1:18:55 | |
as a solution. But given the fact
that we have had problems with you | 1:18:55 | 1:19:07 | |
know, instituting leadership renewal
I think the military intervention is | 1:19:07 | 1:19:12 | |
sort of like a necessary instrument
in terms of challenging Robert | 1:19:12 | 1:19:20 | |
Mugabe and has power. I am excited
that has happened but I am worried | 1:19:20 | 1:19:25 | |
about the transition and what it
will look like, given the fact that | 1:19:25 | 1:19:32 | |
Mr Mugabe, look at the military, one
thing is quite clear for me from the | 1:19:32 | 1:19:36 | |
statements issued, what they want to
achieve is stability within Zanu PF, | 1:19:36 | 1:19:45 | |
and they are ensuring they have
perpetuated the route within this | 1:19:45 | 1:19:49 | |
country. Some of us really feel we
are not comfortable with it and we | 1:19:49 | 1:19:53 | |
are not sure if it is going to bring
about massive democratic change that | 1:19:53 | 1:20:00 | |
we want to see in Zimbabwe, its
Catch-22. But it's a step towards | 1:20:00 | 1:20:06 | |
the necessary direction that needs
to be taken in this country. We only | 1:20:06 | 1:20:14 | |
have Ben on the phone, can you
explain to be above the conditions | 1:20:14 | 1:20:18 | |
of life inside Zimbabwe, the
struggle for jobs, food, | 1:20:18 | 1:20:21 | |
hyperinflation. Outline that and how
it affects your life. Well, I think | 1:20:21 | 1:20:28 | |
one of the biggest problems is we
have 90% unemployment, no one is | 1:20:28 | 1:20:34 | |
investing in the country because no
one has any confidence, we have a | 1:20:34 | 1:20:38 | |
government that steals everything it
can. We have got police, we have had | 1:20:38 | 1:20:43 | |
police roadblocks were ever you move
on the roads, those have been | 1:20:43 | 1:20:48 | |
replaced by army roadblocks and it
seems at this stage the Army for | 1:20:48 | 1:20:53 | |
better than police to try and extort
money at every roadblock. Army at | 1:20:53 | 1:21:02 | |
this stage, reasonably friendly. We
have had the odd incident, I came | 1:21:02 | 1:21:08 | |
across an army roadblock of 200 Army
guys all with guns. I managed to get | 1:21:08 | 1:21:14 | |
through it without incident but I
know a motorist had to kneel in the | 1:21:14 | 1:21:19 | |
river and obviously we are worried
about discipline and whether | 1:21:19 | 1:21:26 | |
discipline will get out of hand with
the Army. But just as far as | 1:21:26 | 1:21:31 | |
everyday life is concerned, life
does go on in very straight and | 1:21:31 | 1:21:37 | |
circumstances and cases. There are
continual people say we cannot take | 1:21:37 | 1:21:43 | |
this any longer. We are leaving and
just as more than a quarter of the | 1:21:43 | 1:21:49 | |
population have done in the past
within the last decade or so. So | 1:21:49 | 1:21:56 | |
there is the continual situation of
not having money, not being able to | 1:21:56 | 1:21:59 | |
get money from the banks, the rate
if you try and transfer money from | 1:21:59 | 1:22:07 | |
your bank account to someone else's
bank account is about 80% less than | 1:22:07 | 1:22:13 | |
the value of paying cash. Because
cash is now impossible to get in | 1:22:13 | 1:22:20 | |
fact at the bank the other day I
tried to get some cash, withdrawing | 1:22:20 | 1:22:27 | |
maybe $20 a day, there is absolutely
zero. You cannot draw even a single | 1:22:27 | 1:22:31 | |
cent. Everything you paint sums up
the dire situation in Zimbabwe and | 1:22:31 | 1:22:39 | |
why so many Zimbabweans are pleased
to see the start possibly of a | 1:22:39 | 1:22:46 | |
transition. Ben, thank you ever so
much for it speaking to us and Janus | 1:22:46 | 1:22:51 | |
as well. Still to come. Stop, speak,
support, that is the message being | 1:22:51 | 1:22:58 | |
delivered by the Duke of Cambridge
as he launches a campaign to tackle | 1:22:58 | 1:23:01 | |
the scourge of cyber bullying. | 1:23:01 | 1:23:10 | |
The Government is setting out plans
this morning to allow housing | 1:23:10 | 1:23:12 | |
associations to build more homes. | 1:23:12 | 1:23:14 | |
The minister in charge of housing
Sajid Javid is explaining how this | 1:23:14 | 1:23:18 | |
will work this morning. | 1:23:18 | 1:23:22 | |
Here is a little bit of what he has
had to say so far. But represents | 1:23:22 | 1:23:27 | |
the highest level of net additions
since the depths of the recession | 1:23:27 | 1:23:31 | |
and it's the first time in almost a
decade that the 200,000 milestone | 1:23:31 | 1:23:36 | |
has been reached. Yesterday the
housing minister signed papers that | 1:23:36 | 1:23:43 | |
will allow housing associations to
be reclassified as private sector | 1:23:43 | 1:23:48 | |
organisations. Free from the
shackles of public sector | 1:23:48 | 1:23:55 | |
bureaucracy associations will be
able to concentrate on their core, | 1:23:55 | 1:23:58 | |
crucial omission of building homes. | 1:23:58 | 1:24:00 | |
And later Theresa May
will say building more homes | 1:24:00 | 1:24:02 | |
is her personal priority. | 1:24:02 | 1:24:04 | |
Today's plans come ahead of next
week's budget where it's | 1:24:04 | 1:24:06 | |
widely expected stamp duty
will be cut. | 1:24:06 | 1:24:08 | |
So will these measures
enough to help people | 1:24:08 | 1:24:10 | |
onto the housing ladder? | 1:24:10 | 1:24:15 | |
Thank you all for coming in. | 1:24:15 | 1:24:21 | |
Lets talk now Austen Reid
from the UK's biggest housing | 1:24:21 | 1:24:23 | |
association Clarion,
Lynda Clarke the editor | 1:24:23 | 1:24:25 | |
of the 'First Time Buyers' magazine,
David Montague the Chief Executive | 1:24:25 | 1:24:28 | |
of L&Q another of the country's
biggest housing associations, | 1:24:28 | 1:24:30 | |
and from Manchester)
Laura Henderson a single | 1:24:30 | 1:24:32 | |
mother struggling to get
on the property ladder, | 1:24:32 | 1:24:37 | |
and also struggling to get
a foot in the door is Head Chef | 1:24:37 | 1:24:40 | |
Richard Francis | 1:24:40 | 1:24:41 | |
from Whitchurch. | 1:24:41 | 1:24:45 | |
Thanks for coming in, Richard, I
want to speak to you firstly, give | 1:24:45 | 1:24:48 | |
us a sense why you are not able to
make that transition from ending to | 1:24:48 | 1:24:52 | |
buying your home. What specifically
is holding you back? The initial | 1:24:52 | 1:24:55 | |
deposit really, the outlay that you
have got to have to be able to buy | 1:24:55 | 1:25:02 | |
your first property. Certainly when
you are renting, it's very difficult | 1:25:02 | 1:25:06 | |
to be able to save because you are
paying more than a mortgage while in | 1:25:06 | 1:25:09 | |
rent. That's what makes it hard. And
is this something you are also | 1:25:09 | 1:25:16 | |
hearing, Linda? Very much so, this
is the big Rob, young people or | 1:25:16 | 1:25:21 | |
anybody that wants to buy their
first home cannot get the money | 1:25:21 | 1:25:24 | |
together for the deposit. Of course
there are government schemes it's | 1:25:24 | 1:25:29 | |
only a 5% deposit but even that can
be tough. Obviously we can all said | 1:25:29 | 1:25:33 | |
don't go on by takeaway is, don't go
on holiday, save money this way and | 1:25:33 | 1:25:38 | |
that but life has to be lived as
well and it's very hard. I think the | 1:25:38 | 1:25:45 | |
bank of mum and dad is being used
more than ever but you know, that | 1:25:45 | 1:25:48 | |
isn't really the answer. And not
possible for lots of mums and dads, | 1:25:48 | 1:25:53 | |
they don't have the cash. Richard
shaking his head as we talk. | 1:25:53 | 1:25:58 | |
Exactly, a Lord of mums and dads,
they have more than one Austrian, | 1:25:58 | 1:26:02 | |
they have to do it for everybody and
it would be a killer. It's | 1:26:02 | 1:26:05 | |
difficult. David, how big a
difference will these changes make | 1:26:05 | 1:26:11 | |
with the housing associations
ability that the government is | 1:26:11 | 1:26:15 | |
suggesting to build new homes? Today
we have heard Sajid Javid will be | 1:26:15 | 1:26:23 | |
reclassified housing associations as
private sector, we've been borrowing | 1:26:23 | 1:26:28 | |
since 1998, £70 billion investing in
new homes and overnight we found we | 1:26:28 | 1:26:31 | |
were going to be classified as
public sector and that meant in | 1:26:31 | 1:26:34 | |
future it would not be our decision
whether we would borrow to invest in | 1:26:34 | 1:26:38 | |
homes, to be the decision of the
Chancellor and he would have to | 1:26:38 | 1:26:41 | |
think about the needs of the other
sectors including the NHS. The | 1:26:41 | 1:26:45 | |
announcement today means our future,
we can deliver future plans, we plan | 1:26:45 | 1:26:53 | |
in my organisation to build 100,000
homes over ten years. We can go | 1:26:53 | 1:26:57 | |
ahead and do that, we will invest
and raise money from the city. | 1:26:57 | 1:27:02 | |
Carrie and her plans to deliver
another 50,000 homes, they can go | 1:27:02 | 1:27:05 | |
ahead and raise the money they need.
The sector as a whole, intends to | 1:27:05 | 1:27:10 | |
treble the number of new homes we
provide and this means we can go | 1:27:10 | 1:27:13 | |
ahead and do that. These 100,000
homes, will they be rented, to | 1:27:13 | 1:27:18 | |
buy... In the case of Dell and Q,
half the homes we build will be for | 1:27:18 | 1:27:24 | |
home ownership or co-ownership and
the other will be home ownership. We | 1:27:24 | 1:27:35 | |
must ensure a path to affordable
ownership and Richard, I want to | 1:27:35 | 1:27:40 | |
encourage you to look in the Clarion
website and check out various | 1:27:40 | 1:27:43 | |
schemes available to how people in
your circumstances. I want to bring | 1:27:43 | 1:27:48 | |
you in, Austen. I know you are also
a developer, a home-builder as well | 1:27:48 | 1:27:54 | |
as a housing association, and one of
the criticisms has been developers | 1:27:54 | 1:27:57 | |
by land, hold onto it and don't
actually build quickly enough, you | 1:27:57 | 1:28:01 | |
think that figure criticism? I think
often land is delayed because it | 1:28:01 | 1:28:07 | |
needs schools, roads, important
infrastructure. I think most | 1:28:07 | 1:28:14 | |
developers want to get the land and
build houses as quickly as possible. | 1:28:14 | 1:28:18 | |
However there is only a limited rate
that housing for sale can be | 1:28:18 | 1:28:23 | |
absorbed into the market. One of the
advantages that housing associations | 1:28:23 | 1:28:26 | |
have is that we build low-cost
rented housing, but can be absorbed | 1:28:26 | 1:28:30 | |
much quicker, people can be housed
much quicker than they can through | 1:28:30 | 1:28:35 | |
the sale and as a result we can
build houses and use the land much | 1:28:35 | 1:28:43 | |
better. Is this going to make
renting and buying homes cheaper, | 1:28:43 | 1:28:47 | |
the fact you can build more homes?
It's going to, the government said | 1:28:47 | 1:28:53 | |
last year the housing market was
broken. Housing associations provide | 1:28:53 | 1:28:57 | |
that solution because it means we
can provide more housing for those | 1:28:57 | 1:29:01 | |
people who cannot meet their housing
need on the market. I was looking on | 1:29:01 | 1:29:04 | |
your website, too- three-bedroom
apartments in north-east London | 1:29:04 | 1:29:09 | |
going for nearly half £1 million,
not many people can afford that, it | 1:29:09 | 1:29:13 | |
needs to come down, Richard, you
need those prices to come down? | 1:29:13 | 1:29:18 | |
Doesn't matter for you are in the
country, I moved from a Cheshire | 1:29:18 | 1:29:23 | |
postcode to a Shropshire postcode,
it's four miles down the road, saved | 1:29:23 | 1:29:28 | |
me lots of money each month, for me
there is no affordable housing at | 1:29:28 | 1:29:33 | |
the moment, the word affordable is
thrown around quite likely in my | 1:29:33 | 1:29:39 | |
opinion. 5% deposit on a new-build
house, look at trying to buy a house | 1:29:39 | 1:29:45 | |
outright with a mortgage, you are
looking 15- £20,000 to even get on | 1:29:45 | 1:29:49 | |
the ladder. That's with 5% stamp
duty solicitor fees and that and for | 1:29:49 | 1:29:57 | |
me, affordable houses building a
two-bedroom house that can go on the | 1:29:57 | 1:30:01 | |
market at £100,000, you know, it may
be smaller, whatever, but at least | 1:30:01 | 1:30:06 | |
then there are is a way of being
able to get that. We see that line | 1:30:06 | 1:30:13 | |
has dropped out but he makes a valid
point, David, is that fair? People | 1:30:13 | 1:30:17 | |
aren't building right sort of houses
for people like Richard? | 1:30:17 | 1:30:22 | |
For people who are in Richard's
circumstances it is really difficult | 1:30:22 | 1:30:25 | |
at the moment, if you are in London,
the average price of a home is | 1:30:25 | 1:30:31 | |
£600,000, to buy that home, you need
a deposit of 150,000. Who has that! | 1:30:31 | 1:30:37 | |
It is crazy, the average London
salary, 35,000, 14,000 for some, and | 1:30:37 | 1:30:45 | |
homeownership is out of reach for
many people, an increasing number of | 1:30:45 | 1:30:48 | |
people. In my view, the answer isn't
to put all aids into the | 1:30:48 | 1:30:53 | |
homeownership basket, we need to
invest in more affordable housing. | 1:30:53 | 1:30:57 | |
Force developers to not build any
big expensive houses, and a few | 1:30:57 | 1:31:04 | |
affordable houses, make an entire
plot of land about affordable | 1:31:04 | 1:31:08 | |
housing, should that be forced? I
think it should be forced in some | 1:31:08 | 1:31:13 | |
ways, because otherwise, you are
never going to get to the first | 1:31:13 | 1:31:17 | |
step. You need to build communities,
you need to have a mixture, but it | 1:31:17 | 1:31:21 | |
does not mean you have multi-million
pound houses and then the poor boys | 1:31:21 | 1:31:27 | |
all around the site. What you need
to do is create communities where | 1:31:27 | 1:31:31 | |
you have people buying their home,
renting their home, affordable rent, | 1:31:31 | 1:31:35 | |
with the possibility that they can
buy in the future. A whole mix. That | 1:31:35 | 1:31:41 | |
creates a good community, which is
very important. What about shared | 1:31:41 | 1:31:46 | |
ownership, renting a bit and having
a mortgage on it, should that be | 1:31:46 | 1:31:50 | |
expanded? It is, and it is something
that Elke and Clarion are expanding | 1:31:50 | 1:31:54 | |
on. It is affording housing where
the actual house prices are higher, | 1:31:54 | 1:32:02 | |
a way that a lot of Londoners are
solving their housing problems. In | 1:32:02 | 1:32:12 | |
Merton, a £400,000 flat, you can buy
a quarter of that, he could afford | 1:32:12 | 1:32:17 | |
to buy that flat, in London, it
would charge and affordable rent. | 1:32:17 | 1:32:23 | |
But he does not want to live in
London. There is a big problem | 1:32:23 | 1:32:28 | |
around shared ownership, not the
fact... It is a fantastic thing, but | 1:32:28 | 1:32:32 | |
people do not | 1:32:32 | 1:32:36 | |
understand it, a lot of myths and
weird things about sharing with | 1:32:36 | 1:32:40 | |
people you do not know, that is
false, we need to educate people | 1:32:40 | 1:32:44 | |
about what shared ownership is, and
other government schemes, Help to | 1:32:44 | 1:32:48 | |
Buy, what it means, very difficult
for young people and for anybody to | 1:32:48 | 1:32:53 | |
get their head around it. Thank you
for coming to talk to us, hopefully | 1:32:53 | 1:32:57 | |
we have explained it a bit. | 1:32:57 | 1:33:02 | |
Still to come: The Duke of Cambridge
is launching an online code of | 1:33:02 | 1:33:06 | |
conduct, encouraging the likes of
Facebook and Snapchat to take a | 1:33:06 | 1:33:08 | |
stand against cyber-bullying. But
what do the victims think? We'll be | 1:33:08 | 1:33:10 | |
finding out. For a | 1:33:10 | 1:33:19 | |
We''ll be hearing from someone who
was there. | 1:33:21 | 1:33:27 | |
Time for the latest
news, here's Annita. | 1:33:36 | 1:33:41 | |
Police believe they have now found
and identified the bodies | 1:33:41 | 1:33:44 | |
of everyone who died
in the Grenfell Tower fire. | 1:33:44 | 1:33:46 | |
They put the final number of victims
at 71 including a stillborn baby. | 1:33:46 | 1:33:49 | |
In the immediate aftermath
of the blaze, 400 people | 1:33:49 | 1:33:51 | |
were listed as missing. | 1:33:51 | 1:33:52 | |
Police say footage showed 223
people escaping the fire, | 1:33:52 | 1:33:54 | |
while others were not at home
on the night of the fire | 1:33:54 | 1:33:57 | |
in June this year. | 1:33:57 | 1:33:58 | |
They said the search
and identification operation | 1:33:58 | 1:34:00 | |
had been "meticulous." | 1:34:00 | 1:34:10 | |
Mediation efforts are taking place
in Zimbabwe, between President | 1:34:15 | 1:34:17 | |
Mugabe and the generals who seized
power yesterday. It's thought the | 1:34:17 | 1:34:19 | |
discussions are aimed at achieving a
smooth transition, following the | 1:34:19 | 1:34:21 | |
departure of the 93-year-old Mr
Mugabe. The move by the generals is | 1:34:21 | 1:34:23 | |
seen by many as an attempt to
prevent Mr Mugabe's wife Grace from | 1:34:23 | 1:34:26 | |
succeeding him in power. | 1:34:26 | 1:34:29 | |
Figures out this morning reveal that
retail sales fell by 0.3% in October | 1:34:29 | 1:34:33 | |
compared to the same
month last year. | 1:34:33 | 1:34:34 | |
Despite the annual fall, the Office
of National Statistics says | 1:34:34 | 1:34:37 | |
that the underlying pattern is "one
of growth" | 1:34:37 | 1:34:46 | |
when looking at the
three-month figure | 1:34:46 | 1:34:54 | |
which shows a rise of 0.9% in
the quantity of goods people bought. | 1:34:54 | 1:34:57 | |
Plans to encourage housing
associations to borrow money | 1:34:57 | 1:34:59 | |
to invest in new homes
will be announced later. | 1:34:59 | 1:35:01 | |
The government is to wipe
about £70 billion worth | 1:35:01 | 1:35:03 | |
of debt from housing associations'
balance sheets, allowing them | 1:35:03 | 1:35:05 | |
to raise money more cheaply. | 1:35:05 | 1:35:07 | |
It follows a pledge last month by
the Prime Minister, Theresa May to | 1:35:07 | 1:35:10 | |
kick-start a new generation of
council house building. | 1:35:10 | 1:35:16 | |
A 500-year-old painting of Christ,
believed to have been created | 1:35:16 | 1:35:18 | |
by Leonardo da Vinci,
has been sold in New York | 1:35:18 | 1:35:27 | |
for a record $400 million,
that's over £300 milion. | 1:35:27 | 1:35:30 | |
The price for Salvator Mundi,
or "Saviour of the World", | 1:35:30 | 1:35:32 | |
is the highest ever paid
for a work of art. | 1:35:32 | 1:35:35 | |
Da Vinci died in 1519
and there are fewer than 20 | 1:35:35 | 1:35:37 | |
of his paintings in existence. | 1:35:37 | 1:35:44 | |
A lot of you getting in touch after
the conversation about housing. The | 1:35:44 | 1:35:49 | |
issue can only be addressed if buy
to let mortgages are abolished, if | 1:35:49 | 1:35:54 | |
greedy landlords buy properties at
the cheaper end of the market which | 1:35:54 | 1:35:57 | |
would have traditionally gone to
first-time buyers, thus removing the | 1:35:57 | 1:36:01 | |
option to buy from the first-time
buyer, and forcing them into rental. | 1:36:01 | 1:36:04 | |
Rachel: making housing associations
private sector and profit driven | 1:36:04 | 1:36:09 | |
will not help tenants, rent rises
and evictions, not more homes, very | 1:36:09 | 1:36:15 | |
bad news for social housing tenants.
This is insuring a generation of | 1:36:15 | 1:36:23 | |
homelessness, look no further than
town centres as proof. This all | 1:36:23 | 1:36:29 | |
sounds good but in reality they will
be leasehold and they will never | 1:36:29 | 1:36:32 | |
owned them to pass on to children.
Keep getting in touch with us about | 1:36:32 | 1:36:36 | |
that story and any others that we
talk about. | 1:36:36 | 1:36:43 | |
Here's some sport now with Hugh. | 1:36:43 | 1:36:47 | |
The BBC's Annual Price of Football
Study is out and it shows shows the | 1:36:49 | 1:36:52 | |
sport is facing a challenge to
retain it's young fans. Ore than | 1:36:52 | 1:36:57 | |
half of 18-24 year olds surveyed
said they felt professional football | 1:36:57 | 1:36:59 | |
was NOT being run with them in mind.
Russia's hopes of competing at the | 1:36:59 | 1:37:03 | |
Winter Olympics in February have
been dealt a blow today after the | 1:37:03 | 1:37:06 | |
World Anti-Doping Agency ruled the
country are still noncompliant with | 1:37:06 | 1:37:08 | |
its code. They've been suspended
since 2015 after a state sponsored | 1:37:08 | 1:37:10 | |
doping programme was uncovered. | 1:37:10 | 1:37:12 | |
Mark Stoneman looks like he's
cemented his place at the top | 1:37:12 | 1:37:14 | |
of England's batting order for next
week's first Ashes Test match. | 1:37:14 | 1:37:17 | |
He's scored a century on day two
of their final warm up game. | 1:37:17 | 1:37:27 | |
You might remember these Karelian
shamen, they may have worked for | 1:37:28 | 1:37:37 | |
Peru, have claimed the final place
at next year's World Cup, they beat | 1:37:37 | 1:37:40 | |
New Zealand 2-nil in their play off
qualifier. -- 2-0. | 1:37:40 | 1:37:42 | |
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has
demanded "an emergency Budget | 1:37:46 | 1:37:48 | |
for our public services",
which he described | 1:37:48 | 1:37:50 | |
as being in crisis. | 1:37:50 | 1:37:51 | |
He is promising to spend
about seventeen billion pounds | 1:37:51 | 1:37:52 | |
We are calling for an emergency
budget which addresses an emergency | 1:37:56 | 1:38:01 | |
in our public services, the chief
executive of the NHS has said that | 1:38:01 | 1:38:04 | |
there is a need for major investment
to avert crisis. Head teachers have | 1:38:04 | 1:38:09 | |
written to the Prime Minister, 5000
of them, saying, halt the cups in | 1:38:09 | 1:38:13 | |
high schools, and local government
have said, a budget gap, and they | 1:38:13 | 1:38:18 | |
have real worries about looking
after children in their care. -- | 1:38:18 | 1:38:20 | |
halt the cuts. And the advisor on,
the current advice on terrorism, | 1:38:20 | 1:38:25 | |
saying, tackling terrorism is being
undermined by the lack of police | 1:38:25 | 1:38:29 | |
officers on the ground. We are
saying that what we need next week | 1:38:29 | 1:38:33 | |
is investment in public services,
end 's terror to you and begin | 1:38:33 | 1:38:36 | |
investing again. -- end austerity
and begin investing again. | 1:38:36 | 1:38:47 | |
With me is our Economics
Correspondent Andy Verity. | 1:38:47 | 1:38:53 | |
We are outspending income by 100
billion a year, we need to close the | 1:39:00 | 1:39:04 | |
gap, that is austerity, cutting back
on public service is and reducing | 1:39:04 | 1:39:07 | |
welfare payments. This is a break
from that but also from the new | 1:39:07 | 1:39:13 | |
Labour economic policies which would
never have been so bold to say, we | 1:39:13 | 1:39:16 | |
will spend this much more, when you
Labour came to power, tablet is the | 1:39:16 | 1:39:23 | |
recommendation of prudence, they
said, we will do the Conservative | 1:39:23 | 1:39:25 | |
spending restrictions on public
services. That was quite hard for | 1:39:25 | 1:39:29 | |
public services. -- they established
a recommendation of prudence -- they | 1:39:29 | 1:39:35 | |
sought to establish a reputation for
prudence. This is a big break. John | 1:39:35 | 1:39:41 | |
McDonald says 76 billion, the Tories
giving that awaited corporations and | 1:39:41 | 1:39:45 | |
the rich, do we know how he has got
that figure? We do. Encouraging | 1:39:45 | 1:39:55 | |
companies to invest more, more
private investment means more | 1:39:55 | 1:39:59 | |
private growth, you will get more
taxes, but there is some dispute | 1:39:59 | 1:40:03 | |
over that, Labour is saying, no, if
you cut corporation tax, the | 1:40:03 | 1:40:08 | |
taxpayer is giving away money, that
means the money must come from the | 1:40:08 | 1:40:11 | |
rest of us. Instead of giving away
£16.5 billion a year in corporation | 1:40:11 | 1:40:17 | |
tax, if the government kept that
money and spend it on public | 1:40:17 | 1:40:21 | |
services, you would have 70 billion
plus to spend on the NHS and other | 1:40:21 | 1:40:25 | |
things. One of the big things at the
moment, tax avoidance, talking about | 1:40:25 | 1:40:32 | |
that? John McDonnell, in the speech,
he has been referring to the | 1:40:32 | 1:40:35 | |
Paradise papers, speaking about this
morning on the today programme, they | 1:40:35 | 1:40:38 | |
are a big legal document showing how
the wealthy and multinationals are | 1:40:38 | 1:40:44 | |
avoiding tax in ways that are not
open to the likes of you and me | 1:40:44 | 1:40:48 | |
because it is not worth our while,
taking our accounts to Bermuda, not | 1:40:48 | 1:40:51 | |
enough in them. John Madonna says,
perhaps raise six or £7 billion | 1:40:51 | 1:40:56 | |
extra for public services if there
were a crackdown on public services. | 1:40:56 | 1:41:02 | |
-- John McDonnell. | 1:41:02 | 1:41:07 | |
Breaking news, Rolf Harris has had
one of 12 indecent assault | 1:41:07 | 1:41:12 | |
convictions overturned by the Court
of Appeal, that is reaching us in | 1:41:12 | 1:41:15 | |
the last couple of moments. One of
12 indecent assault convictions | 1:41:15 | 1:41:21 | |
overturned by the Court of Appeal. | 1:41:21 | 1:41:27 | |
Stop, speak, support. | 1:41:39 | 1:41:42 | |
That's today's message
being delivered | 1:41:42 | 1:41:44 | |
by the Duke of Cambridge,
as he launches a new campaign | 1:41:44 | 1:41:46 | |
to tackle the scourge
of cyberbullying in the UK. | 1:41:46 | 1:41:48 | |
The action plan, being seen
as the first ever internet code | 1:41:48 | 1:41:51 | |
of conduct, aims to reach every 11
to 16 year old in the UK. | 1:41:51 | 1:41:54 | |
It's been backed by the likes
of Facebook and Snapchat, | 1:41:54 | 1:41:57 | |
as well as gaming companies,
who have committed to further action | 1:41:57 | 1:41:59 | |
to support and protect
young people online. | 1:41:59 | 1:42:01 | |
A video has been released
of Prince William as part | 1:42:01 | 1:42:03 | |
of the campaign, showing him
chatting to two people affected | 1:42:03 | 1:42:06 | |
by cyberbullying and the impact it's
had on their lives. | 1:42:06 | 1:42:08 | |
It is one thing when it happens in
the playground, and it is visible | 1:42:08 | 1:42:11 | |
there and parents and teachers and
other children can see it but | 1:42:11 | 1:42:13 | |
online, only one of you seize it and
it is so personal, go straight to | 1:42:13 | 1:42:16 | |
your room. Absolutely. Online now,
with social media, you cannot escape | 1:42:16 | 1:42:21 | |
it, you are constantly with the
bully. And, it is written down, | 1:42:21 | 1:42:25 | |
there to look back at time and time
again. And if you are in a negative | 1:42:25 | 1:42:30 | |
space, that is all that you can see,
and you look for the negatives, you | 1:42:30 | 1:42:34 | |
look for the cruel things. I was in
this group and if I was to save | 1:42:34 | 1:42:40 | |
something which agreed with a
comment, then that would be | 1:42:40 | 1:42:44 | |
twisted... People turned against me. | 1:42:44 | 1:42:46 | |
It kind of spiralled out of control
from there. I started to self harm. | 1:42:50 | 1:42:58 | |
I decided that I could not take this
any more, and I tried to end my | 1:42:58 | 1:43:02 | |
life. It was songwriting that helped
me realise that my life was worth | 1:43:02 | 1:43:09 | |
living. I started to write down how
I was feeling, writing a suicide | 1:43:09 | 1:43:15 | |
note that allowed me to... My gosh,
getting the same relief from this as | 1:43:15 | 1:43:20 | |
I am from self harming. So brave of
the both of you to speak so honestly | 1:43:20 | 1:43:26 | |
about it. I cannot thank you enough.
I only wish you had not gone through | 1:43:26 | 1:43:32 | |
what you have gone through. | 1:43:32 | 1:43:36 | |
You were so brave, if I had done
that to my mother... I just don't | 1:43:37 | 1:43:42 | |
know... | 1:43:42 | 1:43:44 | |
Lets speak to psychologist
Dr Linda Papadopoulos, | 1:43:44 | 1:43:46 | |
an ambassador at the organisation
Internet Matters, which is part | 1:43:46 | 1:43:48 | |
of the task force and helps
keep kids safe online, | 1:43:48 | 1:43:53 | |
Abbie Gilligan, | 1:43:53 | 1:43:58 | |
who's from the NSPCC's
child safety online team, | 1:43:58 | 1:44:00 | |
and 24-year-old Carney Bonner,
who was bullied online | 1:44:00 | 1:44:01 | |
when he was a teenager to the point
he tried to take is own life. | 1:44:01 | 1:44:05 | |
He now campaigns
against cyberbullying. | 1:44:05 | 1:44:11 | |
Thank you for speaking with us,
let's start with your story, how did | 1:44:11 | 1:44:15 | |
people target you online? I was
targeted over Facebook and Instant | 1:44:15 | 1:44:20 | |
Messenger, and at the time it was
receiving messages from a group of | 1:44:20 | 1:44:25 | |
people I believe were my friends. I
was getting messages that said I | 1:44:25 | 1:44:30 | |
should kill myself, that nobody
cared about me, because, going | 1:44:30 | 1:44:33 | |
through school, I was always someone
that was told to be honest. If you | 1:44:33 | 1:44:38 | |
are not happy about something, be
honest, speak your opinion. Because | 1:44:38 | 1:44:42 | |
of that, the circle of friends I
hung around with, if they did not | 1:44:42 | 1:44:45 | |
like someone, they would say to them
that they did not like someone or | 1:44:45 | 1:44:50 | |
they would make their life more
hard. I never wanted to put somebody | 1:44:50 | 1:44:54 | |
in that situation because I was not
raised like that. It then put me on | 1:44:54 | 1:44:59 | |
the outside of the circle and
actually, I was the person that was | 1:44:59 | 1:45:03 | |
causing them more grief. My friend
started to give me messages asking | 1:45:03 | 1:45:08 | |
why I was still there. OK, I can
deal with this, I'm a teenager, I | 1:45:08 | 1:45:18 | |
can take on the world. It was
something I thought I could handle, | 1:45:18 | 1:45:23 | |
it was when the messages turned into
everyday, I could see that I could | 1:45:23 | 1:45:27 | |
not handle it, and I felt I had to
do something to get myself out of | 1:45:27 | 1:45:31 | |
the situation. How common is that
kind of story, because when I was at | 1:45:31 | 1:45:37 | |
school, I was bullied quite badly
but when I went home, I closed the | 1:45:37 | 1:45:41 | |
front door and I could escape, now
it is on phones and online and | 1:45:41 | 1:45:46 | |
getting into their home, presumably
that is the real problem. That is | 1:45:46 | 1:45:52 | |
the key difference between off-line
and online bullying, it follows | 1:45:52 | 1:45:55 | |
children home, we have seen a
doubling in the last five years of | 1:45:55 | 1:45:59 | |
contacts to Charles Lyne,
demonstrates that this is a growing | 1:45:59 | 1:46:02 | |
problem and something we need to be
concerned about in responding to. | 1:46:02 | 1:46:08 | |
Are you seeing a huge spike in young
people not being able to cope with | 1:46:13 | 1:46:17 | |
it? I am trying to get a sense of
the level of young people not being | 1:46:17 | 1:46:22 | |
able to cope with a sense of
intrusion. I think the stories we've | 1:46:22 | 1:46:27 | |
heard is that it can be devastating
for young people and some of the | 1:46:27 | 1:46:30 | |
young people who contact us will
have mental health problems and will | 1:46:30 | 1:46:34 | |
be dealing with anxiety as a result
of cyber bullying. At the extreme | 1:46:34 | 1:46:38 | |
end we know young people receive
death threats and that can have a | 1:46:38 | 1:46:43 | |
massive impact and impacts their
ability to concentrate in school, | 1:46:43 | 1:46:48 | |
absolutely, there is the full range
of The Haven is, that are | 1:46:48 | 1:46:52 | |
perpetrated but the full range of
impacts that can have an young | 1:46:52 | 1:46:56 | |
people experiencing it. I want to
ask you, I know you schools and | 1:46:56 | 1:47:04 | |
speak to young people, what are they
telling you about how it's affecting | 1:47:04 | 1:47:08 | |
them and their coping strategies?
When I'm in schools me and my team | 1:47:08 | 1:47:13 | |
friendly address the a lot of them
say they tried to ignore it and | 1:47:13 | 1:47:17 | |
forget it is happening and one of
the things we find is quite | 1:47:17 | 1:47:23 | |
interesting, we have a lot more boys
that come up to us and want to talk | 1:47:23 | 1:47:26 | |
to us about cyber bullying issues
because they don't know how to | 1:47:26 | 1:47:31 | |
handle it, they are always told
because they are a boy they | 1:47:31 | 1:47:34 | |
shouldn't show emotion. We hear
there are girls who go through at a | 1:47:34 | 1:47:38 | |
lot more but at the moment I see
boys who don't know how to | 1:47:38 | 1:47:43 | |
communicate they are struggling
because there is this, if you are a | 1:47:43 | 1:47:45 | |
guy you can't show emotions, I don't
agree with it and I said to them you | 1:47:45 | 1:47:51 | |
need to shoot you can talk about it
and they get to the point they are | 1:47:51 | 1:47:54 | |
scared to talk about it because they
think their friends will take the | 1:47:54 | 1:47:57 | |
Mick out. Am I right in thinking
some of the people you work with our | 1:47:57 | 1:48:03 | |
former police and sought to explain
where they come from and why they | 1:48:03 | 1:48:06 | |
might do it? I have two people I
work with who work my bullies, they | 1:48:06 | 1:48:14 | |
were the two driving it and it's
something that is hard, then we | 1:48:14 | 1:48:20 | |
started campaigning, I was
completely against the idea because | 1:48:20 | 1:48:23 | |
I had to look at people who drove me
to want to kill myself and it's | 1:48:23 | 1:48:27 | |
something that actually over time I
have learned to accept because we | 1:48:27 | 1:48:33 | |
always say we are therefore at the
victim and to support the victim but | 1:48:33 | 1:48:36 | |
we cannot win this battle if we are
not fighting it from both France and | 1:48:36 | 1:48:40 | |
what we fight is beneficial, having
these two with us, you can see | 1:48:40 | 1:48:44 | |
people look at it and say, if he was
a bully and he is working to help | 1:48:44 | 1:48:49 | |
how does that happen and it's
actually something we sure, it's | 1:48:49 | 1:48:53 | |
important to show both sides of the
story to tackle the issue. As a | 1:48:53 | 1:49:00 | |
psychologist you must see the
immense damage that cyber bullying | 1:49:00 | 1:49:03 | |
can do to young people. Is it about
talking, is it about opening up like | 1:49:03 | 1:49:09 | |
we here? It's always about talking.
Whether you're a parent who checks | 1:49:09 | 1:49:15 | |
in with their kid to make sure they
are OK, whether you're a friend of | 1:49:15 | 1:49:20 | |
someone as in the cases we have
heard, but Jackson and says this | 1:49:20 | 1:49:25 | |
doesn't seem right, I will support
you, whether you are the person | 1:49:25 | 1:49:28 | |
being bullied that wants to reach
out, it's always about talking, | 1:49:28 | 1:49:31 | |
that's one of the biggest tools that
we have because the problem is, | 1:49:31 | 1:49:36 | |
these things remain unacknowledged.
Very important points raised, I may | 1:49:36 | 1:49:42 | |
not talk about it because I feel
embarrassed, I am a strong person, | 1:49:42 | 1:49:46 | |
this should not embarrass me because
I am a boy and I am strong. They | 1:49:46 | 1:49:52 | |
remain unacknowledged, because if I
told them I get too big, I might | 1:49:52 | 1:49:56 | |
tell my parents, they may take my
phone away, my phone is where I am | 1:49:56 | 1:50:01 | |
being bullied but it also is where I
get some pot. It's an instinctive | 1:50:01 | 1:50:07 | |
thing, we will. This technology, it
is integral to the lies of young | 1:50:07 | 1:50:12 | |
people, it is part and parcel of the
social world. -- to the lives of | 1:50:12 | 1:50:17 | |
young people. I know you are an
ambassador for Internet matters, you | 1:50:17 | 1:50:28 | |
are part of the task force although
you are not personally involved with | 1:50:28 | 1:50:32 | |
the work that the Duke of Cambridge
is doing but how critical is that at | 1:50:32 | 1:50:35 | |
the likes of Facebook and the fact
that snap chat or involved in that. | 1:50:35 | 1:50:41 | |
It's hugely important, these brands
in and of themselves are cooled to | 1:50:41 | 1:50:45 | |
young people, depending on your age
you will be an snap chat or | 1:50:45 | 1:50:49 | |
Facebook, and if they can set a
precedent, this is a code of conduct | 1:50:49 | 1:50:54 | |
and we don't accept that, you buy
into the brand, the coolness, I | 1:50:54 | 1:50:58 | |
values, whatever that means but one
of those values is you could each | 1:50:58 | 1:51:02 | |
other in a certain way and we have
got together to decide what baddies. | 1:51:02 | 1:51:05 | |
The idea this is the first time this
has ever been done, it's important | 1:51:05 | 1:51:09 | |
to speak about, it's an
acknowledgement not just from | 1:51:09 | 1:51:14 | |
children and parents but from
industry itself but says we have to | 1:51:14 | 1:51:18 | |
work together to make sure we
address this. Abby, do you think the | 1:51:18 | 1:51:23 | |
initiative from the Duke of
Cambridge getting the likes of | 1:51:23 | 1:51:26 | |
Facebook and snap chat on board is
going to make a difference to cyber | 1:51:26 | 1:51:29 | |
bullying? I think it's a great first
step and it's in purging to seize | 1:51:29 | 1:51:35 | |
social networking sites, children's
members from the Internet can come | 1:51:35 | 1:51:41 | |
together to come up with innovative
solutions together. As I say this is | 1:51:41 | 1:51:45 | |
a first step but we would like to
continue to seize social networking | 1:51:45 | 1:51:49 | |
sites doing more to protect children
and we think ultimately a statutory | 1:51:49 | 1:51:54 | |
code of conduct is required to make
sure they meet their requirements | 1:51:54 | 1:51:58 | |
and do more to keep children safe on
the platforms but this is an in | 1:51:58 | 1:52:01 | |
purging chat. Thanks so much all of
you. -- but this is encouraging in | 1:52:01 | 1:52:13 | |
doing that. | 1:52:13 | 1:52:23 | |
Now some of you may have seen this
already doing the rounds on social | 1:52:23 | 1:52:26 | |
media but the rapper Drake has drawn
praise from fans after stopping | 1:52:26 | 1:52:29 | |
a performance at a nightclub
in Australia to call out a man | 1:52:29 | 1:52:32 | |
who was apparently "groping" female
members of the crowd. | 1:52:32 | 1:52:32 | |
Our entertainment reporter
Chi Chi Izundu has more... | 1:53:08 | 1:53:16 | |
Pretty incredible footage, do we
know how it unfolded? We don't | 1:53:16 | 1:53:20 | |
actually, there is other footage
from other fans in the crowd and you | 1:53:20 | 1:53:24 | |
can see some security guard with
torches going into the crowd, | 1:53:24 | 1:53:27 | |
whether that person was ejected from
the club we don't know. But Drake as | 1:53:27 | 1:53:31 | |
she could hear it said he wasn't
playing with him, he wanted him to | 1:53:31 | 1:53:36 | |
stop putting his hands on girls. It
is incredible footage, for one of | 1:53:36 | 1:53:42 | |
the biggest rappers in the world, or
you could even arguably call him the | 1:53:42 | 1:53:47 | |
biggest rapper in the world if you
look at his history, calling out a | 1:53:47 | 1:53:52 | |
single fan, stopping a show to call
out a fan and you could see he was | 1:53:52 | 1:53:56 | |
quite annoyed. And then he continued
the concert after it seemed to have | 1:53:56 | 1:54:00 | |
stopped, whether the fan stopped or
was ejected we don't know. He's not | 1:54:00 | 1:54:06 | |
the first music artist to call at
this kind of behaviour at a gig. No, | 1:54:06 | 1:54:09 | |
Sam Carter from the British band the
architects stopped his gig to say | 1:54:09 | 1:54:15 | |
that he was unsure of whether he
should say this in public but he was | 1:54:15 | 1:54:20 | |
going to, he watched someone crowd
surfing and what he says was a man | 1:54:20 | 1:54:25 | |
groping a woman's Wadi. He then said
that this disgusting, if you don't | 1:54:25 | 1:54:32 | |
stop and you don't like what I've
said, then please leave, obviously | 1:54:32 | 1:54:35 | |
he used much worse language than
that. A number of artists are | 1:54:35 | 1:54:41 | |
calling out groping at gigs and
there are a number of female centric | 1:54:41 | 1:54:44 | |
help groups that have set up, have
been set up to help women who feel | 1:54:44 | 1:54:49 | |
when you are at the front of a gig
or add a mosh pit, pressed against | 1:54:49 | 1:54:54 | |
the barriers and you don't feel
someone is pressing against you in | 1:54:54 | 1:54:58 | |
the right way, there is a platform
to make a complaint. Thank you for | 1:54:58 | 1:55:02 | |
coming down. | 1:55:02 | 1:55:04 | |
Well lets talk to someone
who was at the afterparty | 1:55:04 | 1:55:06 | |
at the Marquee Club -
joining me via webcam | 1:55:06 | 1:55:08 | |
is Bela Vrondos in Sydney... | 1:55:08 | 1:55:16 | |
Header. You aware of what was going
on before Drake stop? I was in the | 1:55:16 | 1:55:23 | |
very front of the mosh pit and I was
within the whole groping situation, | 1:55:23 | 1:55:29 | |
everyone being pushed forward and it
was pretty crazy. Were you being | 1:55:29 | 1:55:35 | |
groped, were lots of people being
groped? I would say lots of people, | 1:55:35 | 1:55:40 | |
there were either ends of it and
most of the girls were at the very | 1:55:40 | 1:55:44 | |
front of the concert, we been
waiting for him to come out and by | 1:55:44 | 1:55:47 | |
the time he had come out the guys
had come from the sides into the | 1:55:47 | 1:55:52 | |
front area and tried to push their
way in, from every angle people were | 1:55:52 | 1:55:55 | |
getting groped and pushed and even
hurt. There were girls in their, | 1:55:55 | 1:56:00 | |
they were all of the front, I think
he saw one incident and it stop the | 1:56:00 | 1:56:06 | |
party, was unbelievable, he stopped
the music, he put him down twice, | 1:56:06 | 1:56:11 | |
told him to stop groping the girl,
all the girls went crazy, even the | 1:56:11 | 1:56:15 | |
boys, he was unbelievable. So good.
Were you surprised. This wasn't just | 1:56:15 | 1:56:21 | |
a case of in between, taking a drink
of water, this was mid-set. It was | 1:56:21 | 1:56:29 | |
mid-song, we were all singing,
everyone had their phones out, it | 1:56:29 | 1:56:33 | |
was a really good environment. Aside
from the concert pushing thing, it | 1:56:33 | 1:56:41 | |
was a big surprise, Drake and his
songs, that is not much of this | 1:56:41 | 1:56:46 | |
prize us girls, we know how much
chill of size and supports us, yes, | 1:56:46 | 1:56:53 | |
probably why all the guys went crazy
after that, so good, he really said | 1:56:53 | 1:56:58 | |
the five. Was it clear at the man
who was groping women was rejected | 1:56:58 | 1:57:04 | |
left started to behave like a
reasonable human being? No, I don't | 1:57:04 | 1:57:08 | |
think anybody was actually in, Ike
can't say that indirectly, there | 1:57:08 | 1:57:15 | |
were people everywhere, everything
had settled down, I did not see | 1:57:15 | 1:57:19 | |
anyone injected, security were
amazing, they had torches out, they | 1:57:19 | 1:57:24 | |
work looking out for us girls, they
looked out for me and my friends, | 1:57:24 | 1:57:28 | |
the utmost commendation for that.
Everything went back to normal, he | 1:57:28 | 1:57:33 | |
went back onto a song and it was
like nothing had happened, besides | 1:57:33 | 1:57:37 | |
him boosting the energy and showing
us much love. It was really good. | 1:57:37 | 1:57:42 | |
Thank you ever so much for speaking
to us. So many of you still getting | 1:57:42 | 1:57:48 | |
in touch with us about the
conversation we had with Andy | 1:57:48 | 1:57:52 | |
Woodward, a year ago since he sat on
the sofa with Victoria and talked | 1:57:52 | 1:57:56 | |
about being abused as a young
footballer. Derek says I want to | 1:57:56 | 1:58:00 | |
wish Andy every success on his very
lonely journey so far. There will be | 1:58:00 | 1:58:05 | |
light at the end of it. Sharon says
I am a social worker, I've worked | 1:58:05 | 1:58:10 | |
with children for many years who
have been abused, so important and | 1:58:10 | 1:58:13 | |
brave of him to come forward and
make a change for hundreds of | 1:58:13 | 1:58:17 | |
children. So many more messages.
Thank you for everyone who got in | 1:58:17 | 1:58:21 | |
touch. | 1:58:21 | 1:58:23 | |
BBC Newsroom live is coming up next. | 1:58:23 | 1:58:25 | |
Have a good day. | 1:58:25 | 1:58:27 |