18/12/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello.

It's Monday, it's nine o'clock.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

welcome to the programme.

This morning - we'll bring

you claims that sexual abuse

and harassment is "endemic"

in the music industry,

with "dangerous men"

abusing their power.

Young women are being sexually

assaulted, still, today.

There are

some very dangerous men in this

business. Right at the top? Yes.

Currently? Yes.

That full exclusive

report at about 0915 -

and if you work in the music

industry - really keen to hear

from you this morning.

Do get in touch with

your own experience.

Also on the programme -

doctors are warning that tens

of thousands of people may be

at increased risk of dying early

from heart attacks and strokes

by misusing anabolic steroids.

Everything that we do in life, I

think, carries a risk of heart

attack, cancer, whatever it is.

Whatever it is, I will get that

risk anyway.

We will hear from those

who use steroids and those who sell

them.

There are those who abuse

steroids and it damages their help.

That's their choice.

-- damages

their health.

The full Newsbeat report before ten.

And - Senior government ministers

are meeting in half an hour

or so to discuss in detail

for the first time what the UK's

future relationship

with the EU should be.

Hello...

Welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11.

It is Christmas week!

Throughout the programme this

morning we'll bring you the latest

breaking news and

developing stories.

A little

later we'll hear from Liam Allan -

the 22-year-old student whose rape

trial collapsed after detectives

failed to disclose vital

evidence to the defence.

He's told this programme he wants

an apology from police and the CPS.

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Our top story today...

Theresa May is due to meet

her Brexit cabinet -

about a dozen of her most senior

ministers - to discuss for the first

time what the UK's future

relationship with the EU should be.

Later, she is expected to tell MPs

the UK wants to sign trade deals

during what she calls

an implementation period.

And what everybody else calls a

transition period.

Norman Smith is at Westminster.

How crucial is the meeting this

morning?

It is one of those big

banana moments. It is a funny one,

in a way. We've had months of them

going on and on about Brexit but

still there hasn't been a formal sit

down with senior members of the

Cabinet decided what is the future

of Britain going to be outside of

the EU, and the future trading

relationship, what will that be with

the European Union? That will happen

today and it is the first time

they've done it, in spite of months

of debate. There is a clear

difference between those like Philip

Hammond and Amber Rudd, who think

that the priority is staying close

to the European Union and single

market so we have access still to

the single market for British

industry, so we take some EU rules,

we stay in some EU bodies and may

give them money to get access to key

parts of the British economy, like

the city. Against them, the likes of

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, more

optimistic about prospects for

Britain if we just move away from

Europe. We do not stay bound by all

of their roles because, they say,

that it you look a long way ahead,

big trading blocs like the EU, that

will not be the name of the game,

the name of the game will be small

countries, agile countries able to

strike their own trade deals, and

that is what Britain ought to be

like. There is a clear difference

about what we ought to do in terms

of our future relationship with

Europe.

How likely is it the EU will

support her plans?

Here is one of

the big difficulties. Not only has

Theresa May got to get a Cabinet

together on this but she's also got

to square the EU and, overnight, we

heard from the EU's chief negotiator

Michel Barnier, he said look, if you

think we are going to cut you a

special deal? No way! There are

certain options, you could be like

Norway, not in the EU, but still

part of the single market or, you

could be like Canada, which has a

free trade deal but do not think

that there will be any special

arrangement for Britain. As I say,

she's not only got to hold her

Cabinet together but push the EU

into giving us what is called a

bespoke deal.

Norman, thank you.

Now let's go over to the BBC

Newsroom for a summary

of the rest of the day's news.

Good morning.

Police in Beirut say they have

arrested a suspect as part

of the investigation into the murder

of a British embassy worker

whose body was found

by the side of a motorway.

Rebecca Dykes was working

in the capital city

of Beirut for the Department

for International Development.

It is thought she had been abducted

and strangled after leaving a party.

Martin Patience is in Beirut.

It does appear that there has been a

big breakthrough in this case,

Lebanese police are telling us that

they've arrested a suspect in the

early hours of this morning. It is

believed that man had been working

as a taxi driver. Rebecca had been

out on Friday night at a going away

party for a colleague. It was in a

popular bar area of the city, and it

was sometime after midnight that she

left that bar to make our way home.

It appears that perhaps she got into

a taxi and then, on Saturday, her

body was found dumped close to a

motorway on the outskirts of the

city.

Martin patients reporting there from

the Lebanese capital.

The increasing pressure

on teenage boys and men

in their twenties to look perfect

has led to more of them

taking anabolic steroids

to achieve what they see

as the ideal body type.

Today, the British Cardiovascular

Society is warning tens of thousands

of people who take the drugs

are putting themselves

at risk of dying early,

as Radio One Newsbeat's Dan

Whitworth reports.

As well as heart attacks

and strokes, people who take

anabolic steroids also risk health

problems like infertility

and mood swings.

But those risks aren't

putting users off.

Everything that we do in life

carries a risk of heart attack,

cancer, whatever it is.

So, whatever it is, I'm

going to get those risks anyway,

so I choose not to do certain

things, and I choose this

as my lifestyle instead.

So, as I don't go out

drinking and smoking,

I take steroids.

When it comes to the law,

anabolic steroids are legal to use

and legal to possess

right across the UK.

What is illegal, though,

is supplying them unless you're

a doctor, and if you're caught,

you could face a prison sentence

of up to 14 years.

Anabolic steroids cause

an imbalance of hormones,

which can damage many different

organs, but in particular the heart.

But that doesn't stop this man,

who spoke on condition of anonymity,

from dealing them.

There's a very broad spectrum

of people that use steroids.

You're ranging from young

guys at 18-year-olds,

19, 20, just starting out,

and they're training and looking

to bulk up for maybe a summer

holiday, or just to look good for...

For a summer holiday?

For a summer holiday, or they just

want to attract the girls.

So these are the guys that you have

to be more informative when you talk

to them, make them more aware

of the risks and the dangers.

The group which advises government

on drug misuse is in the middle

of a big review of anabolic

steroids, and due to report

its findings next year.

Dan Whitworth, BBC News, Bristol.

This programme has been told that

sexual abuse and harassment in the

music industry are "Endemic".

Four women have spoken

about the serious assaults and rape

they suffered at the hands

of powerful men in the industry.

One singer has spoken

about being groomed by her manager

at one of the biggest music

companies in the UK

when she was just 15 years old.

The family of a taxi driver

who was among six people killed

in a road accident in Birmingham

yesterday, have described him

as "happy" and "loving".

Imtiaz Mohammed and his

two passengers died,

alongside three men in another car.

Crash investigators

are trying to piece together

what caused the pile-up.

Myanmar's leaders could face

genocide charges, according

to the UN's human rights chief.

He's told the BBC that the organised

and planned nature of

the persecution of the Rohingya

ethnic group in Myanmar means

genocide could not be ruled out.

The plight of hundreds of thousands

of Rohingya people is said to be

the world's fastest growing refugee

crisis.

There's been major disruption

at the world's busiest airport

in Atlanta in the United States,

as a result of a power cut.

Some passengers were left

in darkened terminals at Atlanta's

Hartsfield-Jackson airport.

More than 1000 flights have

been cancelled and many

are being diverted elsewhere.

The airport typically handles more

than 250,000 passengers

and almost 2,500 flights every day.

A new plan for tackling plastic

waste has been outlined

by the Environment Secretary Michael

Gove.

He says he wants to reduce

the amount of plastics used

in the UK and to make sure

more is recycled.

Mr Gove says he's been moved

to act faster after seeing

David Attenborough's Blue Planet

series which highlighted the harm

to marine life from plastic litter.

The four time Olympic champion,

Sir Mo Farah, has won this year's

BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Motorcyclist Jonathan Rea

was second, and paralympic sprinter,

Jonnie Peacock, was third.

The pre-award favourite,

heavyweight world champ

Anthony Joshua, finished

in fourth place.

But the result wasn't

the only unexpected event.

When Sir Mo's shock victory

was announced, the link

to his location in London went down.

Eventually the line was established,

this is what he had to say.

As an athlete, what I've achieved

has been incredible over the years.

For all of the youngsters and to the

people out there, you can work hard

and you can achieve your dreams.

Anything is possible in life. If you

believe in it, work at it, and keep

grafting, anything is possible. What

an amazing night it is and I wish I

was there but unfortunately I cannot

be there. The kids haven't been as

well, but it is all exciting for us.

I just cannot believe that I have

won!

Congratulations to Sir Mo Farah.

Historic England has published

a list of the the most unusual

structures and sites given protected

listed status in 2017.

The National Heritage List

recognises places of

special architectural

or historic importance.

Historic England says

the places gaining the status

are increasingly quirky.

That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9.30.

Thank you. In a fume and it's time

we have a film that talks about the

grotesque level of sexual abuse and

harassment within the music

industry. We will hear claims that

one teenage singer-songwriter was

ruined by her manager and claims

that there are men at the top of the

music sector in serious positions of

power who, according to some women,

should be in jail. That's at 9:15am.

Do get in touch with us

throughout the morning -

use the hashtag Victoria live

and if you text, you will be charged

at the standard network rate.

Let's get some sport

with Holly Hamilton.

Sadly, it was only a matter of time

before Australia regain the Ashes?

Yes, I feel like I've brought bad

news this morning! They say that bad

things happen in threes, that was

the case for England this time

around, it was all over by one

innings and 41 runs, and a dominant

scoreline too. To think that England

had been 368-4, it feels like they

let an opportunity slip. They will

be kicking themselves this morning.

And we did have a little bit of hope

early this morning when a three-hour

delay caused by some leaking covers

and damp patches on the pitch

provided some respite for England.

But Australia's bowlers - led

superbly by Josh Hazlewood - quite

simply blew England's tail away.

Five wickets for Hazlewood, two for

Pat Cummins, two for Nathan Lyon,

one for Mitch Starc.

An innings built on a magnificent

239 by the captain, and 188 from

Mitch Marsh. A proper team

performance to go 3-0 up by

Australia. Let's hear from the

captains. It is bitterly

disappointing.

We have not been

blown away. We have not been

completely outplayed. We have put up

some really good performances, but

not good enough, as simple as that.

In all three games, we have matched

and outplayed Australia, and those

key moments within the game, it's a

credit to those guys. That aside,

they have really grasped those and

driven it home. We have to learn

from that and make sure that in

these last two games, that they do

that.

It has been an amazing couple

of weeks. I have really enjoyed

every moment of it. We have put in

so much hard work, the preparation

and everything that has come with

the series, it has been huge and to

know that everything has worked out,

we've been able to get the urn back.

All of those emotions, they came out

at once. I am so pleased and happy

for the group. For everyone, the

support staff and everyone who has

put in the work, and everything, to

get that success we've had over the

last couple of weeks.

You can see

the difference in their faces in

those interviews. Already, some big

changes been discussed looking ahead

but this will be a very hard pill

for England to swallow now. STUDIO:

It's interesting to hear that Giroud

didn't think that England were

outplayed by Australia are all the

time. If you had to pinpoint areas

where it went wrong for England,

what would you say?

To be honest,

throughout the series, England have

outplayed in most departments, there

has been a feeling that maybe there

was a gap in quality? More

aggression and more attack, and they

are quite a young side. While it

felt like it was the senior core of

the England side who quite simply

did not show up, like Moeen Ali, he

struggled with the bat. Stuart

Broad, he struggled with rhythm

throughout. And then in the absence

of the all-rounder Ben Stokes. Let's

hear from the England coach, Trevor

Bayliss.

It has changed the dynamics

of our team, I certainly think that

the Australian team have been too

strong for us. Whether he is here or

not, the simple fact is that he

wasn't. The guys here, in the team,

they took that on board very early.

They haven't been whingeing about

not being here, they are getting on

without him. It certainly has been a

change to the setup we've had over

the last couple of years.

This is England's eighth defeat in

eight tests in Australia and their

seventh successive away defeat. An

early Christmas present for

Australia. England will have to come

back strong in Melbourne and Sydney

to avoid yet another whitewash.

It

is looking that way, sadly,

annoyingly friends and fans. Thank

you. Good morning.

Sexual abuse and harassment

in the music industry are "endemic".

That's what this programme has been

told, while investigating the issue.

Over the past month we've spoken

to women who have been serious

sexually assaulted in the industry,

and who have been told to stay quiet

about the abuse they've suffered.

We've heard that there are dangerous

men at the top of the industry

who abuse their power -

and that often inappropriate

behavior goes unchallenged.

Our reporter Jean Mackenzie, who's

been looking at this, is here now.

What have you learned? I have been

speaking to women across the

industry over the past month. It

became quite clear quickly that

there is a dark side to this

industry. One woman said it has a

dark underbelly. I had heard about a

range of behaviour, from general

cultural misogyny that exists that

can make it difficult for women to

work in, to more sinister behaviour,

things like serious harassment,

assault, predatory behaviour. I have

spoken to women who have been

seriously sexually assaulted at

work. By people they work with. But

I have also learned that there is a

real feeling in this industry that

you have to be sexually available to

get ahead. Women being expected to

sleep with people or do certain

things to get opportunities. And if

they are not willing to do those

things, those opportunities can go

away. It is not just artists and

musicians. We are also talking about

people who work for a music

companies. It is not just women. It

is men as well who are vulnerable to

being exploited. There really is a

sense that everyone in this industry

has some sort of story to tell.

Why

does the alleged abuse happen?

This

is an industry in which there are

huge imbalances of power. You have

people at the top who will

absolutely -- wheeled absolutely

enormous power, who all people's

hopes and dreams in their hands, who

can make and break careers. At the

bottom we have people trying to

break into this industry, which is

fun, competitive and exciting.

People have said, where you -- when

you get that power dynamic you

create an environment where abuse

can happen. Not only that, you

create an environment where the

perpetrators can get away with it.

One of the things I have been so

struck by in doing this is the real

culture of silence that exists.

People who are absolutely terrified

to talk about this. And that is not

just terrified to share their own

experiences. People don't even want

to say publicly that this is an

industry with a problem. There is a

real feeling that if you speak out,

you lose your job. You may never

work in the industry again because

it is a small industry. It is

entirely based on your reputation,

who you know. One woman said to me,

if you lose your reputation in this

industry, you have lost everything.

I have spoken to women who will

never share their stories, who will

never mention to anybody what has

happened to them. But we did find

for women who had been prepared to

speak out. Some of them waved their

anonymity to tell their stories for

the first time. In the film we are

about to watch, there are some

sexually explicit references. There

are things you may find upsetting

and you may not want your children

to see.

It will last for about 30 minutes.

-- 13.

When I first started working

in the music industry,

I was 21 years old, and I had just

moved to London from

Leeds.

I was working in the A and R

department in a major music company.

It was very sociable, very fun,

there was a lot of alcohol.

I went to gigs every

night, it was like my

dream come true job.

Being signed at 16, I was just

fresh out of school,

so I didn't really have a lot

of experience in the music industry,

and it was sort of just

like a whirlwind.

I remember the day that

I got my GCSE results, was like the

same day as I was going off

to meetings and, like, meeting big

label people up in London.

So, I've always been

making music and writing

songs since very young,

and when I was about 13,

I started putting them online.

When I was 15, somebody e-mailed me,

from one of the really

big music companies in the UK.

He said that he wanted

to help me, he

wanted to work with me.

I got a job in a recording

studio making

the tea And it was

the most fantastic job

ever, I loved it.

I worked really, really hard.

I worked with amazing people

who were just, all men who

just looked after me and treated me

like a younger sister.

I had a great time there

for a couple of years.

But, I was, sort of,

a bit more ambitious than that.

I wanted to run EMI

Records worldwide one day.

And, lo and behold, I got offered

an incredible job abroad.

Did you have negative experiences?

Can you talk me through one of them?

When I was about 23 years

old, I went to a gig

like I did every night.

I went with a few friends from work.

We met the manager of a couple of

artists that we were trying to sign.

He started plying me with drinks,

and buying me shots.

We ended up drinking quite a lot

and then going back to mine

to continue the night.

He fell asleep on the sofa

and I went to bed.

I woke up in the middle

of the night, and he had

got into bed with me.

And his fingers were inside me.

He had lit all the

candles in my room.

He acted like it wasn't a big

deal, but he did stop.

But, I didn't know how long

he had been doing it

before I woke up.

He went back to sleep on the sofa

and in the morning he was gone.

Added you feel when you woke

up and knew what was

happening?

It must have been hugely traumatic.

It was one of the most horrible

experiences of my life.

I felt truly violated, so I went

to work, and a very quietly

told people.

I was encouraged to keep quiet

on the matter, because it

would hurt our chances

of signing his artist.

He actually got away with assault.

By the age of 16, Amy had started

working with the manager

of one of the UK's

largest music companies.

She quickly became

a successful artist.

We have changed her name

to protect her identity.

For the first few years

when we work together,

were actually really good.

My music was getting attention

from labels, for the first time.

We had chart success

with my first videos.

And we were quite a good team,

until everything went wrong.

What went wrong?

Well, he told me that he was

in love with me, and

that if I didn't agree

to be his girlfriend,

then he would would ruin my career.

I was 17 at this point.

He was quite a few

years older than me,

so I went along with it,

and

over the next two years,

he continued to blackmail me and

threaten me to be in a relationship.

For Chloe, success also

came at a young age.

By 16, she had been signed

to a major record label,

and soon after was nominated

for a Brit award.

So, there was a guy that

I was working with within the

industry.

We were working quite closely

together, and I was a teenager.

Slowly, as time went on,

he would sort of encourage me into

doing things that I had

never really done before.

Drugs, I had no

experience in whatsoever.

There were times when

he would sort of drop

me off at my hotel, and then

he would text me and say, why didn't

And I would be like,

God, am I meant to

invite this person in

that I'm working with?

And then I would sort of feel like,

almost pressured to

flirt back with him, all too sort

of not make it seem weird.

Because I didn't want

to disappoint this guy

who I thought held my

career in his hands.

He started sending me texts,

one night, completely out of

the blue.

Telling me that he was madly in love

with me, that if he wasn't

working with me, he would be

totally cracking onto me.

I was 18, I remember one night he

grabbed my bum and said something

along the lines of, I feel that we

would have a really

good time in the sack.

And, I was a teenager.

I was off my face.

I haven't come forward and spoken

about it, because I know

that people would have said,

you were off your face, you know.

You are a flirt.

Or whatever it is.

And it did make me

feel very comfortable

and sort of ashamed,

because I would feel like,

am I leading this guy on?

Am I letting this happen?

Am I meant to be letting it happen?

So, what's did your

relationship look like?

Being in the relationship was pretty

horrible because I had to

continuously act as

though the feelings

were mutual, because, if you saw any

signs that they weren't,

then he would get very angry.

He made a list of all

the things that I

was and wasn't allowed to do.

And, it had things

like showing him more

affection, talking to my friends

and family less, and making sure

that he was the person I talked

to be most in my life.

He convinced me that he was the only

reason I was having any success.

And that if I told anybody that

success would go away.

And no one would

want to work with me

without him in the picture.

In her 20s, Michelle

got her break, and

landed a job abroad,

working for a big music company.

But, when she arrived,

she was told her work

permit had not come through,

and she had to stay With an older

more senior colleague.

I'd only been there a few days

when small things happened.

He would walk into my room

with no clothes on.

And then, one night,

he came into the room and

said that he wanted

to sleep with me.

I mean, I was a young girl, and I

really didn't know how to handle

Them

this kind of thing, because I had

never come across this before.

He would masturbate in front of me.

He would masturbate on me.

And say, I know you really like it.

You must have been terrified.

Oh, I felt ashamed, actually.

I felt really ashamed.

I felt like a sex slave, actually.

That's the best way to describe it.

But, I found out, actually

who the immigration people

were that I needed to

speak to, and I rang

them up, and they said

that

they had my immigration papers

ready for several months.

And, I got myself an

apartment, and I continued

working at the company

for several months.

One day, I was with a girl

in the office, and we were told,

could we go and see him after work?

So, we went up to his office, and

then he turned around to us both,

took out his penis,

and said, "I want to

have a threesome with you.

Come on girls, let's do it."

We went to a lawyer,

and we were categorically

told that he had committed

a serious crime.

But, the lawyer said,

if you report this,

you will never work

in the industry again.

So, we went for a coffee,

we handed in our notice, and

never went back to the office again.

What happened to this man?

Where is he in the industry now?

He is still in it, and I do know

for a fact that he has

had other allegations against him.

Being a musician is all

that I ever wanted.

For my whole life.

And it was finally happening.

It should have been

the best time in my life,

but it was actually

the worst time of my life.

By now, Amy says her manager had

started to sexually assault her.

I didn't want to survive any more,

because it was just a horrible life.

I thought, I'm going to get

a nine to five job, and

I'll be banned from

the music industry.

But, I'd rather be banished

from doing what I love, than have to

spend any more time with this man.

Looking back, do you think

that he groomed to?

Yes, I do think he groomed me.

I was 15 when we met,

and he was looking online for a girl

to manage.

It does worry me that he is still

working, and that this

might happen to somebody else.

From afar, I check up

on him to make sure

that he is not managing

other young girls.

And, at the moment he isn't.

Jasmine put out a call asking women

to share their experiences of sexual

misconduct in the music industry.

I

expected a stories of sexual

harassment. He wouldn't stop looking

at my boots or I got on wanted

compliments from him all the time.

But what I have actually received a

stories of rape, insisting on

receiving bludgeons, seriously

assaulting women, chasing them down

the street, raping them in

apartments.

I thought, I'm going to

do this. It was a big thing for me

to do. And then I woke up in the

morning and my Facebook feed was

full of almost every other woman I

know in the music industry also

saying, mean to -- me, too.

How

widespread you think this sort of

abuses?

Probably more than we will

ever know because people like myself

are always going to be too scared to

come forward. And I think that's

what we need to change as an

industry and as a society.

Sexual

assault and abuse in the music

industry is endemic. I don't have a

single peer in the music industry

who has never been sexually harassed

or assaulted.

I know girls who have

been raped. And it's always a man in

power and a girl on the rise who

needs as much support as possible,

whose career hasn't started yet and

who maybe this is her first big

shot. I know that I'm very lucky to

have the experiences that I have

had, they haven't gone any further.

That sounds mad.

What do you mean?

To say you are lucky.

Yeah. It's

grossed out what I -- that I think

what happened to me is an easy ride.

It is sick that I think what's

happened to me is one of the good

stories. It should be nothing at

all.

Michelle has gone on to a

successful career in music and is

now working in the film industry.

Why have you decided to finally

speak about what has happened to

you?

I never wanted to happen to

anyone again. I thought I was a

hangover of the 1980s, 1990s. I

thought that sort of behaviour was

no longer in the business but it is

clear that that behaviour is still

going on. Young women are being

sexually assaulted still today.

There are some very dangerous men in

this business.

Right at the top?

Yes.

Currently?

Yes, I have no doubt

that there are people working in the

music industry today who should not

be working in the music industry. I

have no doubt that there are people

working in the music industry today

who should be in prison. I have

absolutely no doubt that they think

that they are safe. That they think

that they are untouchable. Maybe

some of the horrific things they did

were a long time ago. They have

probably forgotten about them but I

can assure you that their victims

have not.

A lot of people have come

to me and said, don't stick your

neck out on this. This could affect

your chances of getting work in

future. But if this is the hill I

die on, so be it. I am angry. Things

need to change.

UK Music, which represents

the industry told us "Any form

or abuse or harassment in the music

industry or any other workplace

or section of society should

never be tolerated."

More reaction to this

to come after ten.

If you work in the music

industry do get in touch

and share your stories

with us this morning.

You can do that anonymously, of

course.

Still to come.

As senior Government Ministers meet

to discuss what the UK's future

relationship with the EU should be -

we'll ask what reception Theresa May

will get with her cabinet

still split on the issue.

And with doctors warning

about the increased risk of people

dying early from heart attacks

and strokes by misusing

anabolic steroids,

we have a Newsbeat report

following one user.

Time for the latest

news with Annita.

The headlines on BBC News this

morning:

Theresa May is due to meet her

Brexit cabinet today to discuss

for the first time what the UK's

future relationship

with the EU should be.

The PM will later tell MPs the UK

wants to sign trade deals

during a transition period.

EU leaders have agreed talks

can move on, including

to discuss a transition deal

for a post-Brexit period.

Labour has raised concerns

that trade may not be

discussed for months.

Police in Beirut say they have

arrested a suspect as part

of the investigation into the murder

of a British embassy worker

whose body was found

by the side of a motorway.

Rebecca Dykes was working

in the capital city

of Beirut for the Department

for International Development.

It is thought she had been abducted

and strangled after leaving a party.

Tens of thousands of people may be

at increased risk of dying early

from heart attacks and strokes

by misusing anabolic steroids,

according to doctors.

The British Cardiovascular Society

gave the warning amid concern

steroids are now being taken

by hundreds of thousands of people.

Public health experts say men

in their teens and 20s

are behind the rise.

This programme has been told that

sexual abuse and harassment

in the music industry are "endemic".

Four women have spoken

about the serious assaults and rape

they suffered at the hands

of powerful men in the industry.

One singer has spoken

about being groomed by her manager

at one of the biggest music

companies in the UK

when she was just 15 years old.

The four time Olympic champion,

Sir Mo Farah, has won this year's

BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Motorcyclist Jonathan Rea

was second, and paralympic sprinter,

Jonnie Peacock, was third.

The pre-award favourite,

heavyweight world champ

Anthony Joshua finished

in fourth place.

But the result wasn't

the only unexpected event.

When Sir Mo's victory was announced,

the link to his location

in London went down.

Eventually the line

was established.

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

Here's some sport now

with Holly Hamilton.

good morning.

Coming up in sport -

Australia crush England in the third

Test at the Waca to wrap up

the Ashes Series 3-0.

England needed to bat throughout

the final day of the third Test

in Perth to force a draw -

and keep the series alive.

But they lost the game

by an innings and 41 runs.

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers

says their 69-game unbeaten domestic

run may never be surpassed

by another team after his side

were thrashed 4-0 at Hearts.

Manchester United manager

Jose Mourinho says his side

will "fight until the last match"

after they moved back to within 11

points of Premier League leaders

Manchester City by beating West Brom

2-1.

And European Champions Saracens look

like they'll now need

to try to reach the quarterfinals

as one of three best Pool runners-up

after losing 24-21 to group leaders

Clemont Auvergne in France.

More on all of those stories and

reaction to the Ashes result coming

up at ten o'clock. STUDIO: Holly,

thank you.

Theresa May is meeting

her Brexit cabinet -

about a dozen of her most senior

ministers - right now,

to discuss for the first time

what the UK's future relationship

with the EU should be.

What kind of reception will she get

from a cabinet which appears

to contain some

splits on the issue?

That is a slight understatement!

Let's talk to Anushka Asthana,

the joint political

editor of The Guardian.

Hugh Bennett is Deputy Editor

at BrexitCentral and a veteran

of the Vote Leave campaign.

Dr Simon Usherwood is a politics

lecturer and deputy director of UK

in a Changing Europe,

a group of academics who do

independent analysis of the UK's

relationship with the EU.

So, she has to get her cabinet to

agree to a united position, how

tricky is that going to be?

I do not

think she will find it hard to get

them to a united position on what

their opening negotiation position

should be on the final trading

outcome. Basically, most of the

Cabinet will swing behind the Canada

plus plus plus agreement he called

it, an agreement with other services

added in. They agreed that is where

they should be aiming. There are

varied opinions on how realistic

that is and where we will land at

the end but there is a sticking

point over the question of

transition. Theresa May and Philip

Hammond have basically put out the

argument that things will stay the

same. After March 2019, things will

ultimately stay the same, or we will

lose our seat. Michael Gove

definitely does not agree, he thinks

there are particular things that

will come out, like the fisheries

policy, during transition. But a

sticking point.

And you mean the

same rules and regulations that we,

as a member, followed now. And also

freedom of freedom of movement of

people?

They talk about having the

same level of market access that

we've got now. How will you achieve

that? By following EU rules. There

will be a change in the registration

system that they will not ultimately

be bringing in their new immigration

system until transition.

And you

probably read Boris Johnson's

interview yesterday, Hugh, he said

that we need to do something new and

ambitious that leaves zero tariffs

and frictionless trade but still

gives important freedom to decide

our own regulatory framework and

laws. Can we stay aligned with some

bits of the EU, and still strike

free trade deals with other

countries?

It depends on the terms

of the deal that we agree. The thing

the UK has to be careful of is not

getting locked into legally binding

treaties, which forces alignment on

issues. Of course, we will not

diverged dramatically overnight from

the EU regulations, there are some

areas where the government, as

Theresa May said in her Florence

Beach, there are some areas where a

higher degree of alignment is better

but other areas where it is more in

our interest to divert but the key

is not getting locked in because we

do get locked in with some of these

things, particularly things like

agriculture which is a big part of

EU law, but also a big part of trade

deals done around the world. If we

are bound to follow EU agriculture

laws to closely it can harm our

ability to do proper trade deals

with others around the world.

If

Britain diverged totally, Simon,

with they impose tariffs and other

barriers?

The question is, does it

diverged from the framework that

you've got? The EU would like to

keep us close in alignment, but any

divergences raises questions of what

sanctions or penalties the EU could

impose. You have real tension

between wanting to have flexibility

but also not wanting to impose

barriers with your existing

relations. The balance of that, I

think, is something that is not

clear how you make it work, I knew

the site. They both say that they

want a good and close relationship

but how you make that work in

practice, I think, really is not

clear.

What is the reaction to the

EU's chief negotiator on Brexit,

Michel Barnier, saying in an

interview that there will not be a

bespoke deal for Britain, and that

is not what Britain once?

The

reaction to that is, hang on, that

is their negotiating position, we

have ours, we do not assume that is

the outcome but a lot of experts

would say, who knew that we would be

talking about regulator Lou

alignment for a couple of years? But

many would see it is hard to break

away from a deal -- regulatory

alignment for a couple of years? Do

we want an economy like Norway or

one like Canada? When you get to

that point, there are divisions

across Parliament and also within

the Conservative Party.

What will

the next couple of years be like, in

till March 2019? It will feel like

ten years!

Judging from negotiation

so far it will feel like there is a

lot going on but the next key battle

is the transition. As for the EU

wants to talk about next. Obviously,

Theresa May has competing interests,

Brexiteers are slightly

uncomfortable about the idea that

transition is just going to be

staying in the customs union or the

single market.

How do you feel about

that? I don't think it is ideal but

it does look like we are going to go

down that route.

I think the most

important thing is to secure these

concessions that she is talking

about and we are expecting her to

talk about later today in the

Commons. In securing an ability for

Britain to sign trade deals in this

period. Michael Gove wants to come

out the common fisheries policy, we

may not be able to get a different

agreement on the overall

architecture of the transition

period. But on things that are not

essential, like frictionless trade

in the transitional period, that's

the approach. In trade deals with

other countries, I think it might be

symbolic rather than substantive,

these are complicated deals. A lot

of other countries will not want to

conclude a deal until we know what

the relationship with the EU is. We

will see a lot of debate in the

remainder of these negotiations

about what is actually meaningful

and what might be more about things

to take home and show that we have

won a victory in negotiations. There

is still a lot on the table, despite

what we've agreed last week.

OK,

thank you all. Thank you for coming

in. We appreciate it.

Coming up, we speak

to the 22-year-old student whose

rape trial collapsed

after detectives failed

to disclose vital evidence.

Liam Allan on this

programme after 10.30.

He is here with his mum.

Tens of thousands of people may be

putting themselves at increased risk

of dying early from heart attacks

and strokes because they're

mis-using anabolic steroids.

British heart doctors have issued

the stark warning amid concern

steroids are now being used

by a growing number of people,

particularly young men,

in pursuit of what they see

as the perfect body.

Steroids are legal to use and legal

to possess across the UK -

but illegal to supply

unless you're a doctor.

Radio 1 Newsbeat's Daniel

Whitworth reports.

The way people chase the dream

of their perfect body is changing.

The pressure men are now facing

is similar to what women have had

to deal with for decades.

Diets, workouts, days

spent in the gym.

For many, young men especially,

anabolic steroids are being

increasingly used to help

achieve that dream.

In this film, I'm going to find out

from one user why he takes them

and put him through a series

of tests to see what damage,

if any, they have done to his body.

I'll hear from the experts,

look at the law surrounding

steroid use in the UK,

and speak to a dealer

about why he does it.

Gareth Jenkins, who's 29 and lives

just outside of Cardiff,

is one of the estimated hundreds

of thousands of people who regularly

take anabolic steroids

to build muscle.

I've been using steroids

for about four, five years.

When you train naturally,

which I have done for number

of years before using

steroids, you tire quicker.

You ache more.

And obviously, when you use

the performance-enhancing drug

which is the steroid,

you don't come you don't have

those muscle soreness

anywhere near as much.

I feel more awake.

I feel better in myself.

I feel more manly.

I've got a higher sex drive.

There are some serious potential

risks you are running from a medical

perspective about using steroids,

things like increased

risk of heart attacks,

increased risk of strokes,

mood swings, infertility.

Do those things not worry you?

The way I look at it is, yes,

they do bother me, obviously,

but, like, everything...

So you're aware of the risks?

I'm fully aware.

And the consequences?

Fully aware, yeah.

I've done my research to see

obviously what harm or potential

harm it would have on me over

a prolonged period of time

if I was using them,

whether I was using them correctly

or incorrectly but the fact

of the matter is in terms

of the risks, is everything

that we do in life now carries

a risk of heart attack,

cancer, whatever it is.

So whatever it is, I'm going to get

those risks anyway so I choose not

to do certain things and I choose

this as my lifestyle instead.

So whereas I don't go out drinking

and smoking, I take steroids.

Steroids can cause health problems

because they create an imbalance

of hormones in the body which can

damage many organs but

especially the heart.

Garreth says he tries

to minimise any risk

by taking his steroids in cycles,

like 16 weeks on and

then eight weeks off.

There's two types of steroid.

There is one which comes

in a liquid form, which is

an intramuscular injection.

That is this type.

So you inject that?

I would inject this directly

into a muscle two times a week.

And then the other type

is in tablet form.

When I'm using this type

of steroid, I would use five

per day for seven days.

So basically, five

per day, every day.

So over the course of a period

of around six months

when you on steroids for that long,

roughly how much do

you think you spent?

At a rough estimate,

probably with the cycle itself

and the post-course treatment,

would be about £500, I suspect.

That's a lot of money.

It is.

It's probably a lot less in six

months than somebody who is spending

it on drink on a weekend.

Worth it, do you think?

For me personally, yeah.

When it comes to the law

on anabolic steroids,

it is legal to use them and legal

to possess them right across the UK.

What is illegal, though,

is supplying them,

unless you are a doctor,

and that means either selling them

or just passing them on for free.

If caught, you could face up

to 14 years in prison.

Because Gareth is only

using steroids, not supplying them,

he's not in any trouble

with the law.

It could be a different story

with his health, though.

So later this week, he's agreed

to go to London for a series

of tests that will find out

what damage, if any,

he's done to his heart.

Keep your throat still.

I basically starting working out

because I was bullied really

bad when I was younger,

for being small and basically just

a feral child of the school.

So I just ended up locking

myself away in the gym,

training and getting

bigger and stronger.

Getting inked.

It all sort of fell into one big

procedure, that I seem to be

doing in a lifestyle

way, pretty much.

Yeah, in the middle

there is not nice.

The rest of it is fine so far.

So going down to London to have

all those tests done,

which I'm excited about,

to be honest with you,

yet slightly nervous

because obviously, it could come

back that there is something

significantly wrong and if I don't

change my lifestyle, then...

Obviously, I could

have health issues.

My prediction is that I think

I would be pretty stupid

if I thought that my heart wouldn't

have changed, you know,

four or five years, with the use

of any performance enhancing drug

that is anabolic, it is going

to have that effect.

So I think if it hasn't,

then what I have been taking is fake

and I've done it naturally.

So...

LAUGHTER.

And obviously, if it is significant,

there will be no doubt in my mind

that I will obviously

change my lifestyle overnight.

Whether people use or abuse anabolic

steroids is a matter of opinion.

For some in the medical world,

if steroids are not prescribed

by a doctor, then it is simple.

Taking them is of use.

-- abuse.

Many people who researched dosages

and try to minimise the risks,

though, would say they don't abuse

them but instead use them.

One thing that is widely agreed on,

though, is that the issue is now

affecting more people

than ever before.

We don't know the exact number

of anabolic steroid users

there are but it certainly measures

in the hundreds of thousands.

We are seeing now a different

population of users.

While we still have people

who are using them for the purpose

of body-building, we are seeing

a new population of predominantly

young males but also quite

older males as well,

who are using them purely

for cosmetic purposes.

There's a number of pressures

on young men and most

of these pressures

were not around a generation ago.

These are things like social media.

Mainstream advertising, even.

If ever you see a man with his shirt

off, then chances are they will have

quite a well-defined physique.

Again, males may not be geared up

to dealing with this.

This is something that

women have had to deal

with for generations, but this

is quite a new thing for men.

For Gareth, he is about to undergo

a series of tests which will check

what damage, if any,

he's done to his heart.

The person in charge is cardiology

doctor, Anil Malhotra.

We are going to do

three tests today.

Yeah.

The first is to look at

the electoral activity of the heart.

The second is to look

at the heart muscle itself.

Yeah.

And the third is to actually

exercise your heart and we will see

how you have performed.

Right.

Is that all right?

Yeah, no problem.

NHS guidelines say that

by taking anabolic steroids,

Gareth is risking side-effects

like infertility, mood swings

and even heart attack and stroke.

This is the sound of

the blood flowing across

the valves of your heart.

We are just assessing how quickly

the blood flows through the valve

and we are able to see

whether there is any

narrowing of the valve

or any leakages as well.

I suspect that they will show

some form of thickness

or abnormality to the heart.

It is bound to have changed

in some way after four

or five years of taking

a performance enhancing drug.

The British cardiovascular Society

says tens of thousands of people

could be putting themselves

at increased risks of the most

serious side-effects

by taking anabolic steroids.

I am cycling towards a cheesecake.

And I'll get there!

Billionaire's cheesecake

on the horizon.

Let's get there.

After pushing himself to the limit,

Gareth will be able to find out

how his heart has performed

and what effect his

steroid users had.

With hundreds of thousands of people

now thought to be taking

steroids every year,

right across the UK,

clearly they are getting

them from somewhere.

But government figures show that

for the whole of 2015 and 2016,

right across England and Wales,

there were just 25 convictions

relating to the illegal supply

of steroids and just seven of those

ended with a prison sentence.

So for this man, who spoke

on condition of anonymity,

the law hasn't come close

to stopping him from dealing.

We know you supply steroids.

We know you're a steroid dealer.

Obviously, it is illegal.

You are breaking the law.

A lot of people say

you are putting people's

lives, their health,

certainly, at risk.

What do you say to that?

To start off with the health risks,

I think steroids are readily

available to anyone who wants

to access them at the moment.

I like to see myself

as more of somebody

who provides information.

You know, to ensure

people can do it safely.

Look, people are going to use them

regardless of whether they buy them

from me or whether they buy them

from an unknown source online.

But if they can talk

to me about it, then,

how to inject themselves safely,

or look at dosages or if I can help

them, even if not to take steroids,

if I don't think it is appropriate

for them, then I will.

That is the reason I try to, that is

the reason I'm involved in it.

Who are the types of people

getting them from you?

Who is coming to you

for these steroids?

There's a very broad spectrum

of people that use steroids.

It ranges from young guys,

18 years old, 19, 20,

who are just starting out

in their training and they are

looking to bulk up for maybe

a summer holiday or to look good.

For a summer holiday?

For a summer holiday or they just

want to attract the girls.

They want to go out on a night out

and attract the girls.

These are the guys

that are less aware.

These are the guys you have

to be more informative

when you talk to them about it,

make them more aware

of the risks and dangers.

If you go to an Instagram

page and there is a guy

on there who looks a certain way

and he has got 300,000 likes,

women commenting on him,

saying, "You look amazing,

you look this or that".

Because he's well built?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the guys

are going, "Oh, you look really

buff, your arms are huge",

all that sort of stuff.

They're the comments that

you will see and these young guys

feel pressured to try to strive

to achieve that.

Even ten years ago, before

social media was around,

you were only judged by your peers,

the people that you

knew and that he met.

What about the health

of the people who you are

supplying these drugs do?

They convey things like infertility,

mood swings, they can

face getting strokes,

decades earlier than the average

am a heart attacks.

It is illegal for a reason.

Yeah.

But I don't agree with it

being illegal because I will tell

you that doctors prescribed

testosterone to people.

So there's a reason...

You are not a doctor.

No, no, I'm saying that doctors

prescribe it so steroids

or testosterone in this example,

if it was killing people left,

right and centre, they would not be

prescribing it and I think

the media sensationalises it.

I'm going to tell you now,

there are people that abuse steroids

and they do damage their health

and that is their choice.

One man who is all too aware

of the risks of taking steroids

he has got on the black market

is Gareth and after using them

for nearly five years,

he is about to find out the effect

they have had on his heart.

Take a seat.

We can go over your results.

So I have got your ECG tracing

and I have seen your Echo report

and the reports from the exercise

test as well.

Yeah, yeah.

What it shows is that your

heart is working well.

Right.

And that's...

You have come through your

exercise test well as well.

Yeah.

But we do think that

you are at the upper limit of normal

in terms of the thickness

of the wall of your heart

and that is most likely due

to your weightlifting

and your steroid use.

Yeah.

You are still young and you have not

been using steroids for that long

but if one does continue to do so,

then you are putting yourself

at increased risk of heart attacks

and potentially strokes as well.

Yeah.

You know, steroid use has a variety

of bad effects on the heart.

I class myself as quite

a sensible person.

Taking my own health

into account that it

will just be sensible,

being the key word, do not push

the boundary to the point

where something is not reversible.

So to not keep using steroids?

To not keep using steroids, yeah.

All for the better.

Cheaper, too!

It looks like Gareth's steroid days

might be numbered but he is just one

of hundreds of thousands of users.

Dealers are unlikely to get caught.

The number of convictions

for supply is low.

Doctors want change.

Worried about potential long-term

health problems for users.

So is change on the way?

Well, we do know that the group that

advises the government on drug

misuse is in the middle of a big

review into steroids.

We don't know yet what

it is going to say.

Much more on that to come on radio 1

newsbeat and you can read about it

on the site bbc.co.uk/newsbeat.

Latest news and sport at ten.

Now Matt

Latest news and sport at ten.

Now Matt with the weather. Good

morning. A big travel week for many.

The weather may play a part. This

morning there was some mist and fog

around Glasgow, Manchester and

Birmingham. For most, the start of

the working week looks like this.

Frost on the ground, sunny skies

overhead. For most, the Sunnis guys

will last all day. Thicker cloud for

the far north of Scotland. Here is

where it will be a great day.

Elsewhere, barely a breath of wind.

That means the fog will be slowly

shifting. Sunny skies throughout.

Temperatures only slowly lifting.

Still a little on the chilly side

today in the north and east. In the

West, temperatures will climb.

Particularly across the Hebrides. 10

degrees in Stornoway. The wind,

cloud and occasional rain is the

price to pay. Sitting on the hills

of northern Ireland and Scotland,

some fog. A widespread -- widespread

frost in southern England. If you

are on the move tomorrow morning,

there could be some problems on the

roads. Also at the airports.

Particularly the Midlands, East

Anglia and the South of England.

Dense and widespread fog throughout

the rush hour. That will be slow to

shift. It could affect some major

airports. Check with your travel

company before you head out. That

fog will linger for a good part of

the day. There will be some good

sunny breaks. Sunshine breaking

through the cloud for north-east

Scotland. Part of Antrim, north-east

England, too. Otherwise, cloudier in

the West. Patchy rain or drizzle on

the hills. If you do get the

sunshine, 14, 15 degrees possible in

the Moray Firth. Three or 4 degrees

were the fog lingers. Into Tuesday

night, the rain spreads across

Scotland and Northern Ireland,

allowing clearer conditions and

brighter weather for the middle part

of the week. Freddie Gray in England

and Wales. Not a huge amount of

sunshine. Dense fog here and there.

Overall it will be a mild day.

Patchy rain and drizzle into

Northern England, North and West

Wales. This week and not a huge

amount of rain. If you are on the

move, keep across the forecast.

Light winds could lead to some dense

fog.

Hello, it's Monday,

it's ten o'clock.