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Hello. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:07 | |
It's Tuesday, it's 9 o'clock,
I'm Victoria Derbyshire, | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
welcome to the programme | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
Our top story today -
Police in California have rescued 13 | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
brothers and sisters from a house,
where some of them were | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
chained to their beds. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:24 | |
Here Alison hits, from 29 22-macro,
just captive. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:30 | |
Malnourished and filthy, it is
heartbreaking. -- here are some | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
kids, from the age of 29 to two. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
Their parents have been arrested
and charged with torture | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
and child endangerment. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
We'll bring you the full
story this morning. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:47 | |
How common are fake degrees? More
than 3000 bogus qualifications were | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
bought in Britain alone from one
company in Pakistan. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
Plus this horrific experience does
not define me, I am much more than | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
this.
The words of Olympic champion | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
gymnast Simone Biles, who has
revealed she was sexually abused by | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
the former USA team Doctor Larry
Nassar. We will get reaction from | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
the gymnasts. -- from some other
gymnasts. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:19 | |
Hello. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
Welcome to the programme,
we're live until 11am. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
Throughout the programme we'll bring
you the latest breaking news | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
and developing stories. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
In the next 15 minutes we're
going to hear your experiences | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
of the NHS during what some
are calling a winter crisis. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
We had so many of you get in touch
last week we wanted to air some | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
more of your stories. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
Of course feel free to feed
in your own expoeriences. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
Use the hashtag #VictoriaLive. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:40 | |
If you text, you will be charged
at the standard network rate. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:48 | |
Let us know your positive and
negative experiences. You can also | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
get in touch by e-mail, Facebook or
Whatsapp. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
Our top story today... | 0:01:59 | 0:02:00 | |
Police in California
have rescued 13 brothers | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
and sisters from a house,
where some of them | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
were chained to beds. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 0:02:06 | 0:02:07 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:08 | |
Their parents have been arrested
and charged with torture | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
and child endangerment. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:11 | |
Our North America correspondent
James Cook has this report. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:17 | |
They look like a big, happy family. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
The children a little pale,
perhaps, but smiling. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
Photographs on Facebook show
the Turpins visiting | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
Disneyland and in Las Vegas,
as their apparently proud parents | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
renewed wedding vows. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:32 | |
Now David and Louise Turpin
are under arrest, charged | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
with torture and child endangerment. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
Their children are in hospital. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
Our staff is used to taking care
of people who are quite ill, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
they are used to compassionate care,
and so we pull out all the stops, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:49 | |
so to speak, to make sure
that their privacy is dealt with, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
that they get the appropriate care
and that they are treated | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
with dignity and respect at a time
when they need it the most. | 0:02:56 | 0:03:02 | |
The horror on Muir Woods Road
was uncovered early on Sunday | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
morning when a 17-year-old girl
escaped with a mobile phone | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
and called the police. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
At the home, officers found 12
siblings and were shocked | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
to discover that seven were adults -
the oldest, 29. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
The captives were dirty
and malnourished, say police, | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
shackled to their beds with chains
and padlocks in dark | 0:03:22 | 0:03:25 | |
and foul-smelling surroundings. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
As reporters arrived at the quiet
suburb east of Los Angeles, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
neighbours said they were stunned. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
They were the type that
you didn't really get to know | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
anything about them. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
They were very to themselves,
in a sense, clan-ish, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:42 | |
so they only kept to themselves. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
And the only time you would see
them, you would never see anyone | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
visit, you would never see anyone
come outside, all you would really | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
see is that they would go out
and maybe make a grocery run | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
and that was about it. | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
There is no hint at all here of
the grim conditions inside his home. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
The questions about what
happened are mounting. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
Not least, how long were
the siblings held captive and why. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
James Cook, BBC News,
Perris, California. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:15 | |
John Fenoglio is
a news correspondent | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
with KTLA-5 in Los Angeles. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
He told me how the alarm was raised. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:27 | |
Well, this is truly an horrific
child abuse investigation. What we | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
know from police is that early
Sunday morning a young girl called | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
for help. She said she was being
held captive, along with her 12 | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
brothers and sisters, and that some
of them had been shackled to their | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
beds with padlocks.
Responding officers found what they | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
described as a young, emaciated
girl, they believed to be about ten | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
years of age, but in fact she was 17
years old. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
She led police back to their home,
and what officers described was a | 0:04:53 | 0:04:59 | |
hellish scenario.
Children chained to their beds, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
police could not give an adequate
description as to why they were | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
chained to their beds. They were
arrested. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
The parents both arrested. The
officers say what they discovered | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
with several people chained to their
beds in dark and foul smelling | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
conditions.
You say this girl appeared to be ten | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
but was in fact 17, she had called
for help. Had she escaped from a | 0:05:19 | 0:05:25 | |
house? According to a police
statement she said she was able to | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
escape from the house and take a
cell phone with her. That is how she | 0:05:28 | 0:05:34 | |
called police and led officers to
her home, that is when officers | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
discovered the chilling environment.
John Fenoglio. More on that story | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
through the morning. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
Reeta is in the BBC
Newsroom with a summary | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
of the rest of the day's news. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:51 | |
Ministers are trying to limit the
damage caused by the collapse of the | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
construction services company
Carillion which went into collapse | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
yesterday with debts of around £1.5
billion. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
The firm was involved in a large
number of public building projects, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
including HS2, and holds cleaning
and catering contracts for schools, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
hospitals and prisons.
Chris Mason reports. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
One after another, they came
from all corners of government. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
Are taxpayers going to suffer
as a result of this? | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
The march of ministers
into the Cabinet Office for a Cobra | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
contingency meeting spoke
to the central truth | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
of the collapse of Carillion,
the tentacles of this failed | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
business reaching to every part
of the public sector, | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
in every part of the UK. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:32 | |
And they now have to work out
what on earth to do next. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:38 | |
There is no evidence of chaos. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:39 | |
The government is working hard
across all Whitehall departments | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
to ensure the liquidation
of Carillion takes place | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
in an orderly manner that does not
disrupt public services. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:50 | |
When did the government
first realise... | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Labour accused ministers
of shocking negligence. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
A government representative managing
the relationship between Carillion | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
and the public sector was rotated
off the company last summer. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
There was no blindspot,
insist the Conservatives. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,
in a video to supporters on social | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
media, said this was a watershed
moment for the outsource-first dogma | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
that has fleeced the public. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:22 | |
The government insisted
what happened with Carillion showed | 0:07:25 | 0:07:26 | |
a private business shouldering real
risk, and that there | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
had been no bailout. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:30 | |
It is an insight into the vastly
contrasting instincts of the two | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
biggest parties about how
so many of our public | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
services are delivered. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:42 | |
The four-time Olympic champion
gymnast Simone Biles has said | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
she was sexually abused by the USA
team doctor, Larry Nassar. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:49 | |
In a tweet, Simone Biles described
herself as one of many survivors - | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
but said she had been reluctant
to speak out until now. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
Larry Nassar was jailed last month
for 60 years for possessing images | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
of child sexual abuse -
and is awaiting sentence | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
for assaulting other athletes. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:08 | |
An Australian teenager has been
found alive in the wreckage of his | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
car after his father made an
intuitive decision to search them in | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
a helicopter. 17-year-old Samuel
Lethbridge was trapped for many | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
others. After alerting the police,
his father had a helicopter when he | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
recalled a similar local car
accident from about five years ago. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:36 | |
A BBC investigation has found around
3000 bogus qualifications were | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
bought in Britain from the company
in Pakistan. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
The radio programme File On 4 has
said | 0:08:43 | 0:08:49 | |
said that the qualifications
included doctors and nurses and a | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
company which trains for helicopter
pilots also bought qualifications | 0:08:52 | 0:08:57 | |
for some employees. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
MPs say the manufacturer Whirlpool
hasn't done enough to deal | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
The Commons Business Committee said
the response to the problem, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
discovered in 2015, had been woeful. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
Our business correspondent,
Emma Simpson reports. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:11 | |
A flat in a tower block in west
London engulfed in flames. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
The smoke rising more
than ten stories. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
The blaze itself
damaging five floors. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
It started in this property,
and London Fire Brigade believe | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
the cause was a faulty tumble dryer
made by Whirlpool. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:29 | |
It has had a problem with defective
and potentially dangerous | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
tumble dryers since 2015,
when it discovered a defect | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
which could cause them to set fire. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:40 | |
Today, MPs described Whirlpool's
attempts to fix things | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
are slow and inadequate. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
Their evidence was woeful. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
Since 2004 they admit there have
been 740 fires in homes caused | 0:09:48 | 0:09:51 | |
by these tumble dryers,
and yet still today, in 2018, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
there are a million of these tumble
dryers in peoples homes. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
They need to take much
stronger action to get those | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
out of people's homes. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:10 | |
Her parliamentary committee has
looked into the safety | 0:10:10 | 0:10:12 | |
of electrical goods. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:13 | |
Among its recommendations,
it wants Whirlpool to deal with any | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
faulty machines within a fortnight
of being by customers. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
All manufacturers should make risk
assessments available as soon | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
as defects are identified. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:29 | |
Safer materials to replace
plastic-backed fridge | 0:10:29 | 0:10:31 | |
freezers, which appear | 0:10:31 | 0:10:32 | |
to be a significant risk. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:33 | |
And it wants the Government
to actively explore the creation | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
of a single national product safety
agency to improve a system | 0:10:35 | 0:10:38 | |
which the MPs claim is fragmented
and under resourced. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:45 | |
Whirlpool says it has helped
the vast majority of customers | 0:10:45 | 0:10:52 | |
who have come forward so far,
and promises it will now serve | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
customers' problems with faulty
machines within a week. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:57 | |
The Government says Britain's
product safety requirements | 0:10:57 | 0:10:58 | |
are among the highest in the world
and it has already taken steps | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
to improve the current regime. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:09 | |
The controversial claim that the UK
sends £350 million a week to the EU | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
has been described as a "gross
underestimate" by the Foreign | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Secretary, Boris Johnson. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
In an interview with the Guardian
newspaper, Mr Johnson said Britain's | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
contribution would rise to almost
£440 million by the end of | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
the post-Brexit transition period. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:28 | |
Vote Leave's claim about the UK's
contribution to the EU was hotly | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
disputed during the EU referendum. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:36 | |
The supermarket chain, Iceland,
has said it will eliminate plastic | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
from its own brand products
within five years. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
The retailer said plastic
would be replaced with paper | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
which could be recycled. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:50 | |
The move has been welcomed
by environmental campaigners | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
and comes amid growing concern over
plastic pollution in | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
the world's oceans. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
New footage has emerged of a car
which became embedded in the first | 0:11:59 | 0:12:03 | |
floor of an office block in
California. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
-- can video from a bus captures the
moment the car crosses its path | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
before flying through the air
towards the building -- dashcam | 0:12:09 | 0:12:16 | |
video. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:17 | |
That's a summary of the latest BBC
News - more at 9:30am. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
Unbelievable images. Thank you. A
couple of messages from you on the | 0:12:21 | 0:12:26 | |
NHS, a tweaked pics of my
introduction when I said some people | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
are calling it a winter crisis. She
says some, what planet are you on? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
In Bradford, people have been
transported and fire trucks to | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
hospital. Marissa says my father is
in hospital, the NHS have been | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
fantastic and helping him. Just a
problem the Aussie flu has put the | 0:12:42 | 0:12:48 | |
hospital in lockdown, we cannot even
visit. Kiss, Kiss. We will speak to | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
a British Australian patient in a
moment about his own experiences, | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
nothing to do with the Aussie flu,
but his experience of the NHS. We | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
have good and not so good
experiences. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:08 | |
Let's get some sport now with Hugh, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
who can bring us up to date
with the Australian Open - | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
and Jo Konta has been enjoying
the heat, hasn't she? | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
Not many people would enjoy the heat
she has. She beat American Madison | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
Brengle 6-3, 6-1, ten nudging 40
degrees in Melbourne but Konta | 0:13:19 | 0:13:25 | |
called it a nice, sunny day. She
grew up in Australia. She enjoys the | 0:13:25 | 0:13:30 | |
heat. She reached the Australian
open semifinals in 2016, the | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
quarterfinals last year, both times
losing to eventual champion. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
She is the ninth seed this year,
under her new coach, Michael Joyce, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
she very much enjoyed herself
against Madison Brengle. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:50 | |
Next up is another American,
Bernarda Pera, who just ranked 123 | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
in the world. Konta was able to
focus despite a blueberry tobacco on | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
a recent shopping trip!
I went to the supermarket to buy | 0:13:55 | 0:14:01 | |
Drew Brees, I only bought blue
breeze, two permits. I left Umaga | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
Benneteau blooper is there. That is
$5 I will not get back, but it is | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
more the betrayal of my own mind
that I felt so upset about the | 0:14:10 | 0:14:16 | |
blueberries, I was so upset.
The first soft fruit fiasco of the | 0:14:16 | 0:14:21 | |
year!
Heather Watson went down to Yulia | 0:14:21 | 0:14:26 | |
Putintseva from Kazakhstan but now
leads 5-4 on soma -- on serve in the | 0:14:26 | 0:14:31 | |
first set.
That is the latest from the women's | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
side of the game.
Johanna Konta has just tweeted that | 0:14:34 | 0:14:41 | |
she has managed to buy two permits
of blueberries and bring them back | 0:14:41 | 0:14:45 | |
with her.
Novak Djokovic chin action, what is | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
this about a stray?
You would think Johanna Konta has | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
the resource to get more
blueberries! Djokovic is seeded 14th | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
because he missed much of last year
with an elbow injury. He beat Donald | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
Young in straight sets in no time at
all this morning. There were reports | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
he held a meeting with players
before the tournament to propose | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
forming a new union to try to get
more price money and even suggested | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
boycotting the Australian Open next
year to get his way. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:14 | |
The prize money is in the
single-digit percentage rise of the | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
overall revenue of each Grand Slam,
although the | 0:15:17 | 0:15:25 | |
although the figures remain
impressive, between 28 and £36 | 0:15:27 | 0:15:29 | |
million overall to the players. In
Melbourne the singles winners both | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
get £2.3 million. But in the NBA, it
is 50% of the overall sport's | 0:15:31 | 0:15:36 | |
turnover, so the players currently
represented by the ATP, and Djokovic | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
is the president of the players
cancel, reported to want a little | 0:15:39 | 0:15:43 | |
bit more. He wants more of that
money to go to players outside of | 0:15:43 | 0:15:48 | |
the top 50. Djokovic has responded
to reports this morning following | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
his game against Donald Young, he
feels he has been unfairly | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
portrayed. He says there has been no
talk of boycotts and that the story | 0:15:55 | 0:16:01 | |
has been greatly exaggerated. But
with all the talk over the last five | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
to ten years about the prospect of
making sure there is equal price | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
money between men and women in
tennis, now there seems to be a | 0:16:08 | 0:16:13 | |
question being floated by Novak
Djokovic at the least that the | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
overall money should be distributed
more fairly to all players. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:21 | |
This morning - how do we get
to grips with the enormous pressure | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
the NHS is under this winter
and in years to come? | 0:16:24 | 0:16:28 | |
Over the past few weeks,
we've seen A&Es over-crowded, | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
a lack of beds and queues
of ambulances stacked up outside | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
unable to hand over their patients. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
On top of that as the NHS
approaches its 70th birthday - | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
it's having to deal with a growing
and ageing population adding more | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
pressure to its services. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
After 10am, we're going
to discuss different ways | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
the NHS could be funded
from charging for certain | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
services to raising taxes to make
entirely different political | 0:16:52 | 0:16:57 | |
decisions, but first
we want to hear about your | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
experiences of the NHS. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
So many of you got in touch last
week to tell us your stories - | 0:17:03 | 0:17:07 | |
we wanted to try and get a snapshot
of how hospitals | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
are coping right now. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:10 | |
Do get in touch wherever
you are this morning. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:18 | |
I'm going to introduce you to a
one-year-old who has been sitting | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
here so quietly for 15 minutes and
his mum Lucy is here too. Over | 0:17:24 | 0:17:31 | |
Christmas the baby had a chest
infection and had to wait nine hours | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
for a bed and Lucy a member of the
Labour Party. Dr John Robinson is | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
with us. His wife is being treated
for sepsis in hospital and is in a | 0:17:39 | 0:17:46 | |
critical state. Jordan Berry is
here. He sliced the top off his | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
finger and needed an operation. Ruth
just had a knee operation postponed. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:56 | |
Thank you very much for coming on
the programme. Right, can I give him | 0:17:56 | 0:18:02 | |
an I plad. Does that make no
difference? It might help. That | 0:18:02 | 0:18:08 | |
tells you about my parenting!
What's that? | 0:18:08 | 0:18:14 | |
Thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you. John, how is Mavis? She | 0:18:14 | 0:18:22 | |
is more stable than she was. She has
been through a traumatic time with | 0:18:22 | 0:18:28 | |
sepsis which turned into pneumonia
and she got a blood clot in her | 0:18:28 | 0:18:34 | |
right arm, but as we speak, the
infection is coming under some sort | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
of control, but it there has been
setbacks with that and the blood | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
clot drugs have been given so
hopefully that will disperse the | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
blood clot in the right arm. You
feel that her condition has been | 0:18:46 | 0:18:52 | |
exacerbated by the way her case has
been dealt with. Let's begin with | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
the arrival of the ambulance on 2nd
January. How long did it take? Well, | 0:18:55 | 0:18:59 | |
the doctor came to visit at 12
o'clock. She booked the ambulance | 0:18:59 | 0:19:04 | |
for two having seen some other
important patients she had to see. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
The ambulance never came until nine
o'clock so we waited seven hours and | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
that was despite ringing up on
several occasions to be told after | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
four hours, you know, it should be
there. You should be getting near | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
the top of the list. In fact, there
is no list. Other people come up, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
you just drop down. And when she was
taken to hospital, did she get a | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
bed? Well, she didn't. We were
assured by the GP that she would | 0:19:27 | 0:19:31 | |
have a bed waiting for her, that
just didn't materialise at all. When | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
did she get a bed? She got a bed at
four o'clock the next day, so that | 0:19:35 | 0:19:40 | |
was after 18 hours in A&E. Right.
Now, could you see that staff were | 0:19:40 | 0:19:44 | |
overstretched at that time? I think
so, yeah. They were absolutely | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
flooded with patients in the major
incident unit. And the normal A&E | 0:19:49 | 0:19:55 | |
was seething. There was hundreds of
people in there. Hill loining | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
don't's Hospital NHS Trust told us,
"All our staff are working flat-out | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
to minimise the time patients wait
to be seen. The unprecedented demand | 0:20:03 | 0:20:09 | |
we have experienced in recent weeks
left us operating at our full bed | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
capacity resulting in delays to
admissions and we deeply regret that | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
patients are having to wait." Do you
accept that? Well, I accept that it | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
is not down, you know, the hospital
is just overload. There have been so | 0:20:21 | 0:20:27 | |
many cuts, having spoken to various
people in general practice, there | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
have been cuts across the whole
service, the bed-blocking that's | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
taking place because the people
cannot come out of the wards, where | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
my wife has been admitted to,
because... It is really interesting | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
you say that because as you know,
NHS budgets in England have been | 0:20:41 | 0:20:47 | |
ring-fenced since 2010, but there
has been cuts to social care which | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
is elderly people in particular
going back into the community, £6 | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
billion worth of cuts in that area
and it is interesting that you say | 0:20:53 | 0:20:57 | |
they were telling you it is because
of that bed-blocking that it is | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
really exacerbating the problem?
Yes. Yes. We are in the situation | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
where I can see in the ward that my
wife is in, with 60 people, they are | 0:21:04 | 0:21:10 | |
aged people. They are clearly going
to have a hell of a job releasing | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
the beds. When my wife went to A&E
that day, there were 20 beds, people | 0:21:14 | 0:21:21 | |
waiting for 20 beds were required
and some people waited up to 22 | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
hours. Gosh. For a bed. OK. Let me
bring in Jordan. Hi. Hi. We can see | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
you hurt your finger. It was more
than that, you actually sliced the | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
top of it, because you dropped a 34
kilogramme dumbbell on it Ouch. It | 0:21:33 | 0:21:40 | |
hurt a lot. You went to hospital in
a cab because you waited over an | 0:21:40 | 0:21:47 | |
hour for an ambulance? Around about
an hour. It was a busy festive | 0:21:47 | 0:21:51 | |
period and you know I knew I could
make my way myself to the hospital. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
So... When you got there, how were
you treated? I was treated | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
fantastically, as soon as I got
there, I could see it was brimming | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
with people. Being the festive
period, but they could see that I | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
was in acute, severe pain and they
brought me into a ward straightaway, | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
got me the great care that I needed.
I had three staff there in with me, | 0:22:12 | 0:22:18 | |
caring for me, and I thought that
they were very amicable and very | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
understanding, very caring.
Ultimately a really positive | 0:22:22 | 0:22:27 | |
experience Oh yeah, world-class
experience. Very, very happy with | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
it. Do you think that when people
are critical or feel that the NHS | 0:22:30 | 0:22:37 | |
deserves some criticism or the
system or whatever bit of the NHS | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 | |
they want to criticise, they
shouldn't voice that? I think that | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
it is OK to voice their experiences.
However, I think that it's very good | 0:22:46 | 0:22:51 | |
to have, you know, a bird's eye view
on things. I think that it's a bit | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
too much kind of generalise and
state that the NHS is in a crisis | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
because if you look recently like,
you know, with the high waits for | 0:23:01 | 0:23:07 | |
ambulance and ambulances because
there has been the uncertainty | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
thrown up over Brexit, you know,
with EU employees leaving the | 0:23:11 | 0:23:17 | |
Ambulance Service. Until all of that
is resolved, will we get raet | 0:23:17 | 0:23:25 | |
concrete answers on the Ambulance
Service. So I think it is important | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
to wait until that's all resolved
and not only that, we've had the flu | 0:23:27 | 0:23:33 | |
crisis as well with the Australian
flu coming on as well and because it | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
is winter and there is going to be a
higher amount of people within the | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
hospital, we need to take that into
view as to why that would increase | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
the amount of people in hospitals at
this current time. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:51 | |
Lucy, Remis was admitted a week
before Christmas. How was he treated | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
and cared for? The treatment was
amazing. It was just the wait time | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
for him to get a bed that was really
difficult because we were receiving | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
treatment in the waiting room prior
to getting the bed, but I couldn't | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
fault the staff at all. You could
see the strain they were under. How | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
long did it take? We got admitted to
hospital, well we got referred by | 0:24:08 | 0:24:13 | |
the GP, we got to hospital at two
o'clock and we didn't get a bed | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
until about half past nine at night
and throughout that time he was | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
receiving treatment in the waiting
room in, in a public waiting room. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
Where there other patients being
treated in the waiting room at the | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
same time? Assessments, to see if
they were going to be admitted or to | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
go home. Yeah, lots of other
patients. Clearly, you saw staff | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
under pressure. Yeah. Did you ever
feel it affected the way they did | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
their job? No, I think they remained
professional throughout. There is no | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
doubt in my mind. How is he now?
He's so much better now. He's poorly | 0:24:44 | 0:24:50 | |
on and off since September, but with
new medication that he has had, well | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
you can see he is fine now. And your
hospital in Cornwall say they are | 0:24:54 | 0:25:02 | |
sorry for any delay and subsequent
admissions to a hospital ward, our | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
staff have been making heroic
efforts to meet the demand for our | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
services and to provide good, safe
care. Let me bring in Ruth who is in | 0:25:10 | 0:25:16 | |
Staffordshire, hello Ruth, you run a
printing business and you have | 0:25:16 | 0:25:23 | |
Rheumatoid Arthritis, you have had
it since you were a child and you | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
were due to have a knee operation
and what happened to the operation? | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
Well, it was cancelled just
yesterday morning actually. I had | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
assumed when I heard the news about
January operations being cancelled | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
that maybe, you know, I would be one
of them, but I didn't hear, you know | 0:25:34 | 0:25:38 | |
from the hospital until yesterday.
And the operation, I think, was due | 0:25:38 | 0:25:42 | |
Thursday, wasn't it? Yes. So news of
the cancellation, what impact does | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
that have on you and you trying to
go about your daily life, which | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
involves two children and running
your own business? Well, it is | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
difficult for me because partly I
have to come off some of my | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
medicines in order to be able to
have the operation because I have an | 0:25:58 | 0:26:03 | |
over active immune system, I have to
be on immune suppressing drugs and | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
some have to be stopped for weeks
before the operation. So I put | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
myself into quite a flair up of the
disease by coming off the meds. So | 0:26:09 | 0:26:16 | |
it's and also have lined up a lot of
help and support for me whilst I was | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
in hospital to look after my
children and pick them up from | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
school and look after my dog and all
that sort of thing. Yeah, it is | 0:26:24 | 0:26:29 | |
disruptive, but it is disappointing.
The hospital says they would like to | 0:26:29 | 0:26:37 | |
alpoll jaous, but say that all
operations will resume at the | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
beginning of February which... I
mean I just want to say, I don't | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
think it is the hospital's fault at
all. They made this clear they were | 0:26:45 | 0:26:50 | |
under orders and they were following
the orders that they had been given. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:54 | |
So, you know, the surgeon and the
nurses have been wonderful to me | 0:26:54 | 0:26:57 | |
there. I'm going to try and read
some messages. | 0:26:57 | 0:27:06 | |
You can have a look as well Remis.
There are various experiences. Now | 0:27:06 | 0:27:14 | |
it has frozen. I'm sorry. It is not
your fault. The computer says no. I | 0:27:14 | 0:27:20 | |
will read them later.
Thank you very much all of tu for | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
coming on the programme. Thank you,
Remis. Thank you very much. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:36 | |
Remis. Thank you very much. After
10am, we are going to talk about | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
different funding suggestions for
the NHS. We heard from a | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
Conservative MP that might include
re-branding and redirecting national | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
insurance so it becomes national
health insurance. It might be down | 0:27:46 | 0:27:51 | |
to different political decisions. It
might be about charging for certain | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
services. If you have views on that,
if you have proposals, suggestions, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:59 | |
let me know because we're going to
talk about other solutions after | 0:27:59 | 0:28:03 | |
10am when it comes to the funding
crisis. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
An alleged victim
of the football coach | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Barry Bennell has told a court
that he was repeatedly abused | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
on visits to Butlins in North Wales
and on trips to Spain. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
Our reporter Jon Donnison has
been following the trial | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
at Liverpool Crown Court. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:23 | |
Fill us in John from yesterday. This
is the trial of 64-year-old Barry | 0:28:23 | 0:28:27 | |
Bennell. He is known as Richard
Jones. We've got pictures of him, | 0:28:27 | 0:28:33 | |
drawings appearing in Liverpool
Crown Court by videolink because of | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
ill-health yesterday. The court
heard from an alleged victim who | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
said he was abused after being
spotted playing for alschool | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
football team. Mr Bennell denies
four counts of bug Riaz the offence | 0:28:44 | 0:28:49 | |
was then called against this man who
would have been a teenager at the | 0:28:49 | 0:28:53 | |
time of the alleged abuse.
Yesterday, the man gave evidence | 0:28:53 | 0:28:57 | |
anonymously from behind a screen. He
was asked about the final time he | 0:28:57 | 0:29:02 | |
was allegedly abused. He said he
felt the lowest I have ever felt in | 0:29:02 | 0:29:06 | |
my life. I was a biggish, strongish
14-year-old lad and I felt like I | 0:29:06 | 0:29:12 | |
had been raped.
And there were allegations Barry | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
Bennell then contact that had player
years later? Yes, this was in Twinl. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:21 | |
He says Mr Bennell sent him a
Facebook message or he believes he | 0:29:21 | 0:29:25 | |
did, although using an account under
a different name. He TVed that the | 0:29:25 | 0:29:31 | |
message said, "Good to see you have
a family and are enjoying life. I | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
got cancer a while back and it left
me in a mess. Pay back I hear you're | 0:29:35 | 0:29:40 | |
saying, well, I understand that if
you could find time, could you drop | 0:29:40 | 0:29:44 | |
me a line saying how your life is
going?" The complainant said he | 0:29:44 | 0:29:48 | |
didn't reply to that message of the
he was then asked under | 0:29:48 | 0:29:52 | |
cross-examination about £2,000 in
compensation, he was awarded after | 0:29:52 | 0:29:56 | |
Mr Bennell pleaded guilty to
offences in 1998. Asked if he felt | 0:29:56 | 0:30:03 | |
aggrieved about that amount, he said
I have felt aggrieved for years. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:09 | |
£2,000, it makes no difference. The
court heard the same man-made a | 0:30:09 | 0:30:14 | |
statement in 1994 in which he
accused Mr Bennell of attempted | 0:30:14 | 0:30:19 | |
buggery. He was asked why he did not
allege the more serious offence of | 0:30:19 | 0:30:25 | |
buggery, he said, "I wasn't strong
enough and I wasn't brave enough." | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
Mr Bennell is on trial for a total
of 48 charges against 11 boys and he | 0:30:28 | 0:30:33 | |
denies the charges and the trial
continues. Thank you very much, | 0:30:33 | 0:30:37 | |
John, we will bring you up-to-date
with the trial every morning at | 0:30:37 | 0:30:41 | |
around this time on this programme. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:44 | |
Still to come... | 0:30:44 | 0:30:45 | |
A BBC investigation has found
a multi million pound diploma mill | 0:30:45 | 0:30:48 | |
in Pakistan which is
churning out fake degrees. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:50 | |
UK nations are buying them
up in their thousands, | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
We speak to someone whose job | 0:30:52 | 0:30:54 | |
is to check if degrees
are genuine or not. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
-- UK nationals are buying them up
in their thousands. | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
Four times Olympic champion -
Simone Biles has revealed | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
that she was sexually abused
by Larry Nassar the gymnastics | 0:31:02 | 0:31:04 | |
doctor for Team USA. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:05 | |
We'll be talking to a former gymnast
later in the programme. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:13 | |
Time for the latest news. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
Here's Reeta. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:20 | |
Thirteen brothers and sisters
between the ages of two | 0:31:20 | 0:31:22 | |
and 29 have been discovered
in a malnourished and dirty state | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
at their home in California. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:26 | |
Their parents have been
charged with torture | 0:31:26 | 0:31:28 | |
and child endangerment. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
Some of the children had been
chained to their beds. | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
The four-time Olympic champion
gymnast Simone Biles | 0:31:39 | 0:31:40 | |
has said she was sexually abused
by the USA team | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
doctor, Larry Nassar. | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
In a tweet, Simone Biles
described herself | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
as one of many survivors -
but said she had been reluctant | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
to speak out until now. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:54 | |
Larry Nassar was jailed last month
for 60-years for possessing images | 0:31:54 | 0:31:56 | |
of child sexual abuse -
and is awaiting sentence | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
for assaulting other athletes. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:03 | |
The future of some major
construction projects and hundreds | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
of public service contracts hang
in the balance this | 0:32:05 | 0:32:08 | |
morning after the
collapse of Carillion. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:14 | |
Britain's second largest
construction firm - | 0:32:14 | 0:32:16 | |
which also holds cleaning | 0:32:16 | 0:32:17 | |
and catering contracts for schools,
hospitals and prisons - | 0:32:17 | 0:32:19 | |
went into liquidation yesterday
with debts of around | 0:32:19 | 0:32:21 | |
£1.5 billion. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:26 | |
MPs say the manufacturer Whirlpool
hasn't done enough to deal | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:31 | |
The Commons Business Committee said
the response to the problem, | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
discovered in 2015, had been woeful. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
It also said that it was
"unacceptable" that more | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
than one million potentially
dangerous dryers were still being | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
used in people's homes. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:42 | |
The company insists its repair
campaign has been successful. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:49 | |
That's a summary of
the latest BBC News. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:57 | |
News just in, the latest inflation
figures, the rate of Consumer Prices | 0:32:57 | 0:33:02 | |
Index inflation fell to 3% in
December, from 3.1% in November. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:08 | |
That just in from the Office of
National Statistics, inflation has | 0:33:08 | 0:33:12 | |
fallen slightly from 3% of... Sorry,
from 3.1% in November to 3% in | 0:33:12 | 0:33:17 | |
December.
I now have some of your comments | 0:33:17 | 0:33:23 | |
about the situation in the NHS. Lots
of you say there are times in many | 0:33:23 | 0:33:28 | |
people in A&E that only to be there.
Hallett says I have been to St | 0:33:28 | 0:33:33 | |
George's Hospital in tooting, that
A&E twice in the last three months. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:38 | |
I was triage, blood tested and
scanned within 2.25 hours. I got the | 0:33:38 | 0:33:42 | |
impression that half the patients
there did not need to be there. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
Katy Dunne to it as it is time the
many goods A&E because they can't | 0:33:45 | 0:33:50 | |
get GP appointments.
James says granddaughter broke her | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
arm over Christmas. She got fast and
first class treatment from the | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
hospital.
But whilst on the waiting area a man | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
and his partner were swearing at
staff because others were seen | 0:33:59 | 0:34:03 | |
before him.
He was boasting how he had beaten a | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
guide the night before and had cuts
to his knuckles as a result. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:09 | |
Most people would have sold their
hands and anti-septic and | 0:34:09 | 0:34:11 | |
anti-septic address this at home.
Some doctors have got in touch. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:17 | |
Aussie flu is causing havoc with
primary care services in hospital | 0:34:17 | 0:34:21 | |
attendances, says Doctor Singh. It
is not too later the flu jab, we're | 0:34:21 | 0:34:26 | |
running special flu vaccination
clinics, please remind people. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:30 | |
Dan says I am a doctor in the NHS,
please correct anyone who says it is | 0:34:30 | 0:34:34 | |
free. It is not. The paper it
through taxation, which is the most | 0:34:34 | 0:34:39 | |
efficient way of funding health
care. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:41 | |
The problem is not how we are
funding the NHS, but how much we | 0:34:41 | 0:34:45 | |
have cut, 14,000 beds in 2010.
We will talk about different ways of | 0:34:45 | 0:34:50 | |
funding the NHS in a sustainable
way, that is the issue. After 10am, | 0:34:50 | 0:34:55 | |
your proposals are very welcome. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:56 | |
Now the sport. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:57 | |
Johanna Konta is through to the
second round of the Australian Open. | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
She's the ninth seed in Melbourne
this year and beat Madison Brengle | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
in straight sets in temperatures
approaching 40 degrees. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:11 | |
She had no problems with that,
having grown up in Australia. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
A similar story for Novak Djokovic. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:17 | |
He had an easy win
over Donald Young. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:19 | |
Djokovic is only seeded 14th
in Melbourne after missing | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
the second half of last year
with an elbow injury. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
Manchester United have reduced
Manchester City's lead at the top | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
of the Premier League to 12 points
after beating Stoke last night. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:31 | |
They won 3-0 at Old Trafford
with new Stoke boss Paul Lambert | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
watching from the stands. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
Anthony Martial micro-2-macro others
scored. -- Anthony Martial and two | 0:35:37 | 0:35:44 | |
others scored. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:45 | |
United could have a major signing
in the next few days too. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:48 | |
Manchester City have ended
their interest in Alexis Sanchez. | 0:35:48 | 0:35:50 | |
So United and now we understand
Chelsea too are battling to sign | 0:35:50 | 0:35:53 | |
the Chilean from Arsenal. | 0:35:53 | 0:35:59 | |
Much more coming up just after 10am. | 0:35:59 | 0:36:01 | |
Thousands of UK nationals
have bought fake degrees | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
from a multi-million pound "diploma
mill" in Pakistan, a BBC | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
investigation has found. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:11 | |
Buyers include NHS consultants,
nurses and a large | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
defence contractor. | 0:36:13 | 0:36:14 | |
One British buyer spent almost
£500,000 on bogus documents. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:21 | |
The claims are being made
in BBC Radio 4's File | 0:36:21 | 0:36:24 | |
on four programme -
reporter Simon Cox can tell us more. | 0:36:24 | 0:36:30 | |
Tell us what you have discovered.
3000 fake degrees had been bought by | 0:36:30 | 0:36:37 | |
people in Britain. They came from a
company called Exact, based in | 0:36:37 | 0:36:42 | |
Pakistan. They are not just fluffing
up people see these, they are | 0:36:42 | 0:36:46 | |
doctors working in the NHS, nurses,
lawyers, psychologists. The | 0:36:46 | 0:36:50 | |
interesting thing is knowing did
they use them to get their job? They | 0:36:50 | 0:36:55 | |
are lots of their professional
profiles, if they use them to get | 0:36:55 | 0:36:59 | |
their job they could be breaking the
law and they could be prosecuted for | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
fraud.
You manage to buy one? I went | 0:37:02 | 0:37:07 | |
online, there are hundreds of these.
They look pretty legitimate when you | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
at them, they tend to claim they are
US universities. You go online, I | 0:37:10 | 0:37:19 | |
was going for a degree in business
management, which I know nothing | 0:37:19 | 0:37:23 | |
about and in ten minutes I could
have bought it for 2500. I could | 0:37:23 | 0:37:28 | |
have got a Masters or PhD if I
wanted. They even show you what the | 0:37:28 | 0:37:32 | |
degree would look like when they
send it to you. I have a load | 0:37:32 | 0:37:36 | |
printed out. This is Williamsburg
University, I don't know if you can | 0:37:36 | 0:37:40 | |
see. The Board of Trustees,
accordance with the recommendation | 0:37:40 | 0:37:45 | |
of the faculty coming confers upon,
insert your own name, the degree, | 0:37:45 | 0:37:50 | |
bachelor of laws, upper second
class. I'm a bit of rubbishy paper | 0:37:50 | 0:37:54 | |
with the rubbish printed it does not
look amazing, but you could make it | 0:37:54 | 0:37:58 | |
look amazing. -- on a bit of
rubbishy paper. They will send you | 0:37:58 | 0:38:03 | |
extra courses, they will show you
the courses you are meant to have | 0:38:03 | 0:38:07 | |
taken. They were very blatant about
it. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:13 | |
it. Some people got back in touch
and said you are not a university, | 0:38:14 | 0:38:17 | |
you do not exist, and they tried to
bluff it. They said they were in | 0:38:17 | 0:38:22 | |
America, one said Washington, the
other California. Even when you | 0:38:22 | 0:38:26 | |
confront them they try to maintain
this fiction that they are a real | 0:38:26 | 0:38:31 | |
university. One company, having sold
a fraudulent degree, tried to | 0:38:31 | 0:38:38 | |
blackmail the buyer of
aforementioned fake degree? This | 0:38:38 | 0:38:44 | |
company, Exact, sold over 200,000 of
these globally. They thought they | 0:38:44 | 0:38:48 | |
had a great database of people who
they thought they could blackmail. | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
They did this with lots of people.
We looked at one case of a guy | 0:38:52 | 0:38:57 | |
called Cecil Horner who works in
Saudi Arabia for 20 years, died in | 0:38:57 | 0:39:02 | |
2015, we spoke to his son Malcolm.
He was going to his De Plus my | 0:39:02 | 0:39:07 | |
papers, found his dad had bought
some fake degrees but also he had | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
been blackmailed -- he went through
his dad plus my papers. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:18 | |
It became clear it was just
acquiring qualifications, it was | 0:39:18 | 0:39:22 | |
then chasing him up, having done
that, to essentially blackmail him, | 0:39:22 | 0:39:31 | |
saying you have got degrees that are
not official, we will report you to | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
the Foreign Office, they will kick
you out of the country, you will | 0:39:35 | 0:39:38 | |
lose your job, you are not qualified
to your job. And that... And that | 0:39:38 | 0:39:45 | |
clearly gotten scared and very wound
up. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:50 | |
What is interesting about his case,
he is the person that you mention, | 0:39:50 | 0:39:54 | |
almost £500,000. One person per
payment, then he paid almost | 0:39:54 | 0:40:00 | |
£500,000 to this company or the four
years. -- a £1000 payment, then he | 0:40:00 | 0:40:06 | |
paid almost £500,000 to this
company. And that programme is on at | 0:40:06 | 0:40:10 | |
APM tonight. -- at 8pm. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:15 | |
We can speak now to Jayne Rowley,
who is from Higher Education | 0:40:15 | 0:40:17 | |
Degree Datacheck -
the UK organisation which checks | 0:40:17 | 0:40:19 | |
whether degrees are valid or not. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:21 | |
And to David d'Souza
from the Chartered Institute | 0:40:21 | 0:40:23 | |
of Personnel and Development,
which is the professional body | 0:40:23 | 0:40:25 | |
for people working in HR
for employers across the UK. | 0:40:25 | 0:40:27 | |
Thank you both for joining us.
Jayne, how do you react to what | 0:40:27 | 0:40:32 | |
Simon Cox has discovered? I am not
shocked at all. We have been aware | 0:40:32 | 0:40:36 | |
of the problem for quite some time.
I am saddened that people are being | 0:40:36 | 0:40:43 | |
blackmailed, there are innocent
victims, but it stems from the fact | 0:40:43 | 0:40:45 | |
that employees do not make proper
checks, so people can get away with | 0:40:45 | 0:40:50 | |
fake certificates, fake universities
thrive. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:53 | |
Let me bring in David, from the
chartered Institute of personnel and | 0:40:53 | 0:40:57 | |
development. Employers do not make
proper checks? Large-scale employers | 0:40:57 | 0:41:02 | |
like the NHS make proper checks.
Tend to I cannot vouch for every | 0:41:02 | 0:41:08 | |
employer but I think the NHS will
make scrupulous checks. There | 0:41:08 | 0:41:18 | |
make scrupulous checks. There is a
difference between employers | 0:41:18 | 0:41:19 | |
expressing a preference for a degree
and not checking, and professions | 0:41:19 | 0:41:21 | |
that really require professional
qualifications. They will be | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
thoroughly checked. In terms of your
organisation, Jayne, how do you help | 0:41:23 | 0:41:29 | |
employers spot potential fake
qualifications on job applications? | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
Sometimes it is very difficult. You
can look out for use of language, | 0:41:33 | 0:41:37 | |
spelling and grammar, but the only
certain way to Chequers to contact | 0:41:37 | 0:41:42 | |
the universities directly, they have
the qualifications in their | 0:41:42 | 0:41:45 | |
database. That can be done quickly
easily directly with the | 0:41:45 | 0:41:52 | |
universities, or through Head. Some
of the fake certificates look really | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
good and lots of employers are
fools. What is your advice? About -- | 0:41:55 | 0:42:04 | |
lots of employers are fooled. They
need to check qualifications, and | 0:42:04 | 0:42:09 | |
throughout the interview process
they need to check they are doing | 0:42:09 | 0:42:12 | |
things the relief. It should never
be a surprise that somebody does not | 0:42:12 | 0:42:16 | |
have a qualification. They could
really scrutinise whether people | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
actually needs a degree to do the
job. One of the things we are | 0:42:19 | 0:42:23 | |
proliferating in the UK is that
people put down we would like people | 0:42:23 | 0:42:25 | |
to have a degree as a preference,
which makes it harder for people to | 0:42:25 | 0:42:30 | |
move and encourages people to go to
fake universities. Does it? Why? | 0:42:30 | 0:42:35 | |
Just because an employer requires
something does not mean you have to | 0:42:35 | 0:42:40 | |
life. But if your job does not
require degree standard | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
qualifications and you put it
anyway, it is frustrating to | 0:42:44 | 0:42:47 | |
candidates to feel locked out of an
opportunity that they have the | 0:42:47 | 0:42:51 | |
experience to deliver, they might
have an apprenticeship in or a | 0:42:51 | 0:42:54 | |
suitable background.
So do you have some sympathy with | 0:42:54 | 0:42:58 | |
applicants who buy fake degrees
because a job description requires | 0:42:58 | 0:43:01 | |
that? I don't think I have sympathy,
you should never lie in those | 0:43:01 | 0:43:06 | |
circumstances, but it is a tough
economy and employers are not | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
thinking about how they can be more
inclusive. It invites people to take | 0:43:09 | 0:43:14 | |
short cuts. Is that a fair point,
Jayne, people are encouraged to take | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
short cuts because employers do not
think very hard about whether a job | 0:43:18 | 0:43:25 | |
requires a degree? It can be
difficult when people feel they have | 0:43:25 | 0:43:28 | |
the skills, but at the point which
you put something down on a CV or | 0:43:28 | 0:43:32 | |
job application which is not true,
an employer has to question himself | 0:43:32 | 0:43:36 | |
about that person's integrity. Do
you want somebody in your | 0:43:36 | 0:43:41 | |
organisation who has lied to get in?
Employers need to think about the | 0:43:41 | 0:43:45 | |
skill sets required and the
qualifications, but applicants | 0:43:45 | 0:43:49 | |
should not lie about.
Thank you, Jayne and David. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:58 | |
File on 4: Degrees
of Deception is on BBC | 0:43:59 | 0:44:01 | |
Radio 4 tonight at 8pm | 0:44:01 | 0:44:05 | |
Cunningham, the TUC is calling on
the Government to come up with a | 0:44:05 | 0:44:08 | |
task force the collapse of
Carillion. -- coming up, the TUC is. | 0:44:08 | 0:44:20 | |
Four-time Olympic champion
Simone Biles says she was sexually | 0:44:20 | 0:44:22 | |
abused by former Team USA gymnastics
sports doctor Larry Nassar. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:27 | |
Many of you will remember
Simone Biles from the Rio Olympics - | 0:44:27 | 0:44:32 | |
she wowed everyone with her amazing
performances and was dubbed | 0:44:32 | 0:44:35 | |
"untouchable" and the "greatest
gymnast anyone had ever seen". | 0:44:35 | 0:44:37 | |
Now in an emotional statement
she says that she too was one | 0:44:37 | 0:44:40 | |
of those abused by Nassar
but that she would not let him | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
steal her "love" and joy". | 0:44:43 | 0:44:44 | |
Nassar was jailed for 60 years
for possessing child sex | 0:44:44 | 0:44:46 | |
abuse images and has also
admitted assaulting gymnasts. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:52 | |
This is Simone Biles'
full statement: | 0:44:52 | 0:44:59 | |
Most of you know me as a happy,
giggly and energetic girl, but | 0:45:00 | 0:45:05 | |
lately I have felt a bit broken, and
the more I try to shut off the voice | 0:45:05 | 0:45:09 | |
in my head, the loaded screens. I am
not afraid to tell my story any | 0:45:09 | 0:45:14 | |
more.
I too and one of the many survivors | 0:45:14 | 0:45:18 | |
is that was sexually abuse by Larry
Nassar. Please believe me when I say | 0:45:18 | 0:45:23 | |
it was a lot harder to first speak
those words out loud than it is now | 0:45:23 | 0:45:27 | |
to put them on paper. There are many
reasons that I have been reluctant | 0:45:27 | 0:45:31 | |
to share my story, but I now know it
is not my fault. It is not normal to | 0:45:31 | 0:45:39 | |
receive any type of treatment from a
trusted team physician and refer to | 0:45:39 | 0:45:43 | |
it horrifyingly as the special
treatment. This behaviour is | 0:45:43 | 0:45:50 | |
completely unacceptable, disgusting
and abusive. Especially coming from | 0:45:50 | 0:45:54 | |
someone whom I was told to trust.
For too long I have asked myself, | 0:45:54 | 0:46:00 | |
was I too naive, wasn't my fault? I
now know the answer to those | 0:46:00 | 0:46:06 | |
questions. No. No, it was not my
fault. No, I will not and should not | 0:46:06 | 0:46:12 | |
carry the guilt belongs to Larry
Nassar, USA G and others. It is | 0:46:12 | 0:46:17 | |
impossible for me... It is
impossibly difficult to relive these | 0:46:17 | 0:46:25 | |
experience and it breaks my heart
more to think that as I worked | 0:46:25 | 0:46:28 | |
towards my G Mosse working towards
Tokyo 2020, I will have to return to | 0:46:28 | 0:46:33 | |
the same training of facility where
it abused. | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
After hearing the break stories of
my friends and other survivors, I | 0:46:36 | 0:46:40 | |
know that this horrific experience
does not define me. I am much more | 0:46:40 | 0:46:45 | |
than this. I am unique, smart,
talented, motivated and passionate. | 0:46:45 | 0:46:52 | |
I have promised myself that my story
will be much greater than this, and | 0:46:52 | 0:46:56 | |
I promise all of you that I will
never give up. I will compete with | 0:46:56 | 0:47:00 | |
all of my heart and soul every time
I step into the gym. I love this | 0:47:00 | 0:47:06 | |
board too much and I have never been
a quitter. I won't let one man and | 0:47:06 | 0:47:11 | |
the others that enabled him to steal
my love and joy. We need to know why | 0:47:11 | 0:47:18 | |
this was able to take place for so
long and to so many of us. We need | 0:47:18 | 0:47:23 | |
to make sure something like this
never happens again. As I continue | 0:47:23 | 0:47:28 | |
to work through the pain, I kindly
ask everyone to respect my privacy. | 0:47:28 | 0:47:34 | |
This is a process, and one that I
need more time to work through. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:38 | |
Kiss, hug, Simone Biles. | 0:47:38 | 0:47:41 | |
Larry Nassar was involved
with the US gymnastics programme | 0:47:42 | 0:47:46 | |
from the 1980s until July 2015,
when the sport's national | 0:47:46 | 0:47:48 | |
governing body sacked him. | 0:47:48 | 0:47:49 | |
As well as Simone Biles,
three other former US | 0:47:49 | 0:47:54 | |
Olympians have accused him
of sexual abuse under the guise | 0:47:54 | 0:47:57 | |
of medical treatment,
and more than 130 women have | 0:47:57 | 0:48:01 | |
filed civil lawsuits
against him alleging abuse. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:05 | |
One of those Olympic gymnasts
is Aly Raisman, who spoke | 0:48:05 | 0:48:07 | |
about the abuse to American TV. | 0:48:07 | 0:48:11 | |
Why are we looking at why didn't the
girls speak up? Why not look at what | 0:48:11 | 0:48:15 | |
about the culture? What did US
gymnastics do and Larry Nassar do to | 0:48:15 | 0:48:21 | |
manipulate these girls so much that
they are so afraid to speak up? | 0:48:21 | 0:48:24 | |
You're angry? I am angry. I'm really
upset because it has been, I dare a | 0:48:24 | 0:48:29 | |
lot, you know, when I see these
young girls that come up to me and | 0:48:29 | 0:48:33 | |
they ask for pictures or autographs
or whatever it is, every time I look | 0:48:33 | 0:48:38 | |
at them, every time I see them
smiling, I just think, I just want | 0:48:38 | 0:48:42 | |
to create change so that they never
ever have to go that. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:48 | |
We can speak now to Craig Heap -
a former Commonwealth Games Gold | 0:48:48 | 0:48:51 | |
medal winning gymnast,
who also went to Sydney Olympics | 0:48:51 | 0:48:53 | |
and has gone on to
coach and commentate. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:55 | |
He's also just about
to set up own gym. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:57 | |
And to Martha Kelner,
a journalist, who's investigated | 0:48:57 | 0:49:02 | |
a British gymnastics coach over
claims of child neglect and physical | 0:49:02 | 0:49:04 | |
and emotional abuse. | 0:49:04 | 0:49:07 | |
Thank you for talking to us. Craig
Heap, how do you react to what | 0:49:07 | 0:49:12 | |
Simone Biles has told the world?
Well, I've just listened to the | 0:49:12 | 0:49:16 | |
statement again and I just feel
physically sick to believe that, you | 0:49:16 | 0:49:20 | |
know, something like this system of
abuse has gone on for so long and no | 0:49:20 | 0:49:26 | |
action has been taken and it does,
it sends a shiver down your spine. I | 0:49:26 | 0:49:31 | |
certainly think in about the new
business I'm going into, hopefully | 0:49:31 | 0:49:35 | |
set up a new gymnastic academy, it
is a beautiful sport which has been | 0:49:35 | 0:49:40 | |
tarnished by the actions, not only
by Larry Nassar, but it seems like a | 0:49:40 | 0:49:45 | |
host of people that have covered it
up and it's a time now where action | 0:49:45 | 0:49:50 | |
needs to be taken. There is
questions that need to be answered | 0:49:50 | 0:49:55 | |
and people need to be punished for
what's gone on. Yes. Martha, Craig | 0:49:55 | 0:50:02 | |
says that it seems other people have
covered it up and from Simone Biles' | 0:50:02 | 0:50:06 | |
statement she said she was told to
trust this man. I mean, that is just | 0:50:06 | 0:50:10 | |
shocking, isn't it? I think that's
what makes this case so serious and | 0:50:10 | 0:50:17 | |
so horrifying really. It's the abuse
of that power. It's a man who these | 0:50:17 | 0:50:22 | |
young women put their trust in and
he, you know, he took advantage of | 0:50:22 | 0:50:27 | |
that in the worst possible way and I
think you can really hear the anger | 0:50:27 | 0:50:32 | |
both in Simone Biles written
statement, but also Ali Raisman, she | 0:50:32 | 0:50:39 | |
is seething. It is quite clear she
is very angry at the treatment that | 0:50:39 | 0:50:45 | |
she received from USA gymnastics and
there probably has to be a look at | 0:50:45 | 0:50:49 | |
the whistle-blowing and the
procedures within that organisation | 0:50:49 | 0:50:52 | |
because those young women felt like
they couldn't speak up. I wonder if | 0:50:52 | 0:50:58 | |
it is something unique to gymnastics
in this respect in that you can | 0:50:58 | 0:51:04 | |
reach an elite level at such a young
age in gymnastics, can't you? It is | 0:51:04 | 0:51:08 | |
an early specialised sport and
that's one of the problems is | 0:51:08 | 0:51:11 | |
because you have young people
involved in physical activity, and | 0:51:11 | 0:51:16 | |
unfortunately the world we live in,
this area is where these people will | 0:51:16 | 0:51:21 | |
target groups to get involved. I
think the biggest shock to me is | 0:51:21 | 0:51:25 | |
that this guy has been involved
since the 1980s. The gymnasts have | 0:51:25 | 0:51:31 | |
felt that they can't speak out.
There has been maybe some sort of | 0:51:31 | 0:51:36 | |
cover-up. And at what point do you
go that's acceptable, enough is | 0:51:36 | 0:51:43 | |
enough. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:49 | |
enough. They have had success and
maybe in the past, the gymnasts have | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
said to the coaches, "I'm not happy
about this sort of treatment." Maybe | 0:51:53 | 0:51:57 | |
the coaches have said, "Well, you
know, some of these things, you just | 0:51:57 | 0:52:01 | |
have to put up with because of the
coaches desire to be successful. I | 0:52:01 | 0:52:08 | |
think the whole system really needs
looking at and the coaches of these | 0:52:08 | 0:52:13 | |
gymnasts, you know, if the gymnasts
have said this tomb, "I'm being | 0:52:13 | 0:52:20 | |
abused." What have the coaches done
about it? I have had a fantastic | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
relationship with all my coaches and
I have been lucky enough to have | 0:52:24 | 0:52:27 | |
been in a system where I have not
seen any of this abuse, but I felt | 0:52:27 | 0:52:30 | |
that I had a strong enough
relationship with my coach he would | 0:52:30 | 0:52:34 | |
have definitely done something about
it. So there are lots of questions | 0:52:34 | 0:52:40 | |
not only for USA gymness Aks, but
for the coaches of these gymnasts if | 0:52:40 | 0:52:46 | |
they have raised their concerns.
Martha, in this country, as far as I | 0:52:46 | 0:52:50 | |
am aware, at the top level of
gymnasts there have been no claims | 0:52:50 | 0:52:54 | |
of sexual abuse, but from your
investigations there has been claims | 0:52:54 | 0:52:57 | |
of physical abuse and allegations of
emotional abuse. Remind our audience | 0:52:57 | 0:53:01 | |
about those? Yeah, I think it is key
to say that there is not been any | 0:53:01 | 0:53:06 | |
allegations of that seriousness, but
I think you can also under estimate | 0:53:06 | 0:53:10 | |
how much of a toll physical and
particularly emotional abuse takes | 0:53:10 | 0:53:14 | |
and there have been numerous
allegations in recent years about | 0:53:14 | 0:53:18 | |
emotional abuse and there was a
police investigation last year into | 0:53:18 | 0:53:23 | |
a coach who was abused of
emotionally abusing female athletes | 0:53:23 | 0:53:27 | |
within their care. So, we do have to
be vigilant of those cases and I | 0:53:27 | 0:53:33 | |
think Craig and yourself mentioned
there about how young an age you do | 0:53:33 | 0:53:40 | |
become an elite gymness and female
gymnasts can go to the Olympics aged | 0:53:40 | 0:53:45 | |
16 and for male gymnasts it is 18.
So I wonder whether maybe female | 0:53:45 | 0:53:49 | |
gymnasts are more vulnerable to
abuse if there is more of a chance | 0:53:49 | 0:53:52 | |
of them being exploited in that way.
OK. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:58 | |
I wonder Craig, I mean you heard in
Simone Biles statement that she is | 0:53:58 | 0:54:05 | |
going to have to go back to this
training facility to preparing for | 0:54:05 | 0:54:11 | |
Tokyo 2020, the very facility where
she says the sexual abuse happened. | 0:54:11 | 0:54:15 | |
I mean, I think that's ridiculous.
If USA gymnastics are talking about | 0:54:15 | 0:54:21 | |
change and moving forward, the first
thing they need to do is build a new | 0:54:21 | 0:54:28 | |
national centre away from this. Yes,
you know, it's not cheap to build a | 0:54:28 | 0:54:33 | |
gymnastics centre, but you're
talking about, you know, victims | 0:54:33 | 0:54:36 | |
that have gone through serious
abuse, returning to that scene. It | 0:54:36 | 0:54:41 | |
is just the most ludicrous thing
that I've ever heard of within | 0:54:41 | 0:54:45 | |
sport. It certainly won't happen
anywhere else so they really need to | 0:54:45 | 0:54:51 | |
look at that and say we are totally
supportive in my mind by returning | 0:54:51 | 0:54:56 | |
to the camp it's almost saying well,
we just want to forget about it. You | 0:54:56 | 0:55:00 | |
can't forget about this. Over 130
victims, you know, at the hands of | 0:55:00 | 0:55:09 | |
this nasty, horrible man within that
centre so, they really need to look | 0:55:09 | 0:55:13 | |
at changing the venue for certain.
Thank you very much, Craig Heap, | 0:55:13 | 0:55:18 | |
thank you for coming on the
programme and Martha, journalist | 0:55:18 | 0:55:23 | |
from the Guardian. British
gymnastics deny any claims about a | 0:55:23 | 0:55:28 | |
culture of fear. | 0:55:28 | 0:55:38 | |
The government has promised its top
priority will be maintaining | 0:55:38 | 0:55:41 | |
vital public services,
after Carillion was | 0:55:41 | 0:55:42 | |
put into liquidation. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:43 | |
Our reporter Andy Moore has more
details on this story now. | 0:55:43 | 0:55:46 | |
What's the latest today, Andy? The
question is about the tens of | 0:55:46 | 0:55:49 | |
thousands of companies that are
subject contractors for Carillion, | 0:55:49 | 0:55:54 | |
people working in hospitals, prisons
and schools, they will be paid about | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
the Government, what about the
private subcrat rs. They have been | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
saying that Carillion wasn't a good
payer in the past anyway, a lot have | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
outstanding debt and now it looks as
if many of them won't be paid for | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
the contracts that are up coming.
And there is evidence from the past | 0:56:07 | 0:56:11 | |
that when there is a big collapse
like this, many of the small | 0:56:11 | 0:56:15 | |
subcontractors won't survive. There
is evidence from the past, 17%, 18% | 0:56:15 | 0:56:19 | |
of them won't survive after five
years, we have heard from one | 0:56:19 | 0:56:23 | |
company saying it has an impact,
possible financial impact of £1.6 | 0:56:23 | 0:56:30 | |
million and it has warned its
shareholders about the adverse | 0:56:30 | 0:56:33 | |
financial impact. And questions
continue to be asked about president | 0:56:33 | 0:56:38 | |
government giving Carillion
contracts after a profits warning | 0:56:38 | 0:56:41 | |
and after the Chief Executive
departed last summer and about why | 0:56:41 | 0:56:46 | |
that former Chief Executive is being
paid a very large salary until | 0:56:46 | 0:56:49 | |
October this year? That's right. The
former Chief Executive was paid £1.6 | 0:56:49 | 0:56:54 | |
million. He is going to be paid
£600,000 as you say, until October | 0:56:54 | 0:56:58 | |
this year. So a lot of questions
being asked about that. The Liberal | 0:56:58 | 0:57:03 | |
Democrat leader, Sir Vince Cable,
said it was a reward for failure. | 0:57:03 | 0:57:08 | |
David Lidington from the Government
said the whole situation would be | 0:57:08 | 0:57:12 | |
looked at and there could be a
financial penalty if misconduct was | 0:57:12 | 0:57:16 | |
proved.
Thank you very much, Andy, thank | 0:57:16 | 0:57:19 | |
you.
We will bring you the latest news | 0:57:19 | 0:57:22 | |
and sport in the next couple of
minutes. Before that, here is the | 0:57:22 | 0:57:27 | |
weather and Carol, what is going on,
it's getting colder. | 0:57:27 | 0:57:31 | |
weather and Carol, what is going on,
it's getting colder. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:32 | |
If I show you some of our Weather
Watcher pictures you can see where | 0:57:32 | 0:57:37 | |
we have had the snow. A beautiful
picture from the Highlands and we've | 0:57:37 | 0:57:41 | |
got another one too, this is North
Yorkshire. Some lying snow here and | 0:57:41 | 0:57:45 | |
finally, well, we have got some more
snow too across County Antrim. So it | 0:57:45 | 0:57:50 | |
is northern England and Northern
Ireland and Scotland seeing the | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
lion's share of the snow fall. Even
down to sea level. Elsewhere, today, | 0:57:53 | 0:57:56 | |
we are looking at showers. Some of
those across Wales and central | 0:57:56 | 0:58:01 | |
England will be wintry through the
afternoon in the heavier showers, | 0:58:01 | 0:58:04 | |
but generally there will be rain
with hail and that will be the case | 0:58:04 | 0:58:08 | |
as we push further south. It is a
brisk wind. And also driving the | 0:58:08 | 0:58:14 | |
showers. So, with height across
Northern Ireland, Scotland and | 0:58:14 | 0:58:18 | |
northern England, well we are
looking at drifting and also | 0:58:18 | 0:58:21 | |
potentially blizzard conditions. But
at lower levels you can see the snow | 0:58:21 | 0:58:24 | |
showers. They will be blowing around
in the wind. For northern England | 0:58:24 | 0:58:31 | |
further snow showers to come your
way, but they are showers so not all | 0:58:31 | 0:58:35 | |
of us are seeing them. For Wales,
most of the showers will be rain or | 0:58:35 | 0:58:38 | |
hail at lower levels, but in some of
the heavier ones we could see snow | 0:58:38 | 0:58:43 | |
at lower levels too. Gusty winds
whipping up large waves across | 0:58:43 | 0:58:46 | |
south-west England. That will be the
case for the next few days and | 0:58:46 | 0:58:49 | |
again, we are looking at the wintry
flavour on the moors for example, | 0:58:49 | 0:58:53 | |
largely with height. But for much of
the Midlands, East Anglia and the | 0:58:53 | 0:58:56 | |
South East, it should stay dry. If
you see a shower, it is more likely | 0:58:56 | 0:59:00 | |
to be of rain. The temperatures
today will be two to seven Celsius. | 0:59:00 | 0:59:04 | |
Add on the strength of the wind,
it's going to feel sub-zero for many | 0:59:04 | 0:59:09 | |
parts of the UK. Through this
evening and overnight, we continue | 0:59:09 | 0:59:12 | |
with the snow showers. A good flurry
of them crossing from the west | 0:59:12 | 0:59:15 | |
towards the east being driven in on
the wind. There will be the risk of | 0:59:15 | 0:59:19 | |
ice on untreated surfaces and it's
going to be a cold night. These are | 0:59:19 | 0:59:22 | |
the temperatures you can expect in
towns and cities. So we start | 0:59:22 | 0:59:26 | |
tomorrow on this note. Still a lot
of snow showers. Some of them fading | 0:59:26 | 0:59:29 | |
as we go through the day. The wind
will ease for a time, but it won't | 0:59:29 | 0:59:34 | |
last and we will see a lot of dry
weather and more sunshine than we're | 0:59:34 | 0:59:37 | |
expecting today, but the next system
is waiting in the wings. Now this is | 0:59:37 | 0:59:41 | |
an area of low pressure that's
forming off the coast of the United | 0:59:41 | 0:59:44 | |
States. It will deepen as it moves
across the Atlantic and this is the | 0:59:44 | 0:59:48 | |
track we think it's going to take,
but this track could change | 0:59:48 | 0:59:51 | |
slightly. So as it comes in across
the k, it will bring heavy rain. | 0:59:51 | 0:59:54 | |
Some snow across Northern Ireland,
North Wales, northern England, | 0:59:54 | 0:59:58 | |
southern and eastern parts of
Scotland. That could be disruptive | 0:59:58 | 1:00:00 | |
snow. We expect it to be quite
heavy. If you look at the isobars, | 1:00:00 | 1:00:06 | |
they are squeeze the tightly, we are
looking at gales across North Wales, | 1:00:06 | 1:00:09 | |
parts of northern England, heading
down through parts of the Midlands | 1:00:09 | 1:00:12 | |
and Norfolk. That will rattle
through quickly during the course of | 1:00:12 | 1:00:16 | |
Thursday morning. Leaving behind it
still a windy day, just not as | 1:00:16 | 1:00:21 | |
windy, wherever you are, with
temperatures between three and | 1:00:21 | 1:00:23 | |
around nine Celsius. | 1:00:23 | 1:00:26 | |
#r | 1:00:31 | 1:00:31 | |
Hello it's Tuesday, it's 10 O'Clock,
I'm Victoria Derbyshire. | 1:00:31 | 1:00:34 | |
I'm Victoria Derbyshire. | 1:00:34 | 1:00:36 | |
Our top story this morning -
13 brothers and sisters have | 1:00:36 | 1:00:39 | |
been rescued from a house
in California, some of them had | 1:00:39 | 1:00:42 | |
been chained to their beds. | 1:00:42 | 1:00:43 | |
Their parents have been
charged with torture. | 1:00:43 | 1:00:51 | |
Here were some kids from 29 to two,
held captive and malnourished. | 1:00:51 | 1:00:54 | |
It's heartbreaking. | 1:00:54 | 1:00:56 | |
The siblings were rescued after one
girl managed to escape | 1:00:56 | 1:00:58 | |
and raise the alarm. | 1:00:58 | 1:00:59 | |
We'll bring you the full
story this morning. | 1:00:59 | 1:01:03 | |
A Marie Stopes clinic in London
could become the first | 1:01:03 | 1:01:06 | |
to be surrounded by a special
protection zone, to shield women | 1:01:06 | 1:01:08 | |
from anti-abortion protesters
holding vigils outside. | 1:01:08 | 1:01:16 | |
We can see the women being addressed
as "mum" on the way out and saying - | 1:01:16 | 1:01:22 | |
youed shouldn't have killed your
child, you shouldn't have murdered | 1:01:22 | 1:01:25 | |
your child. | 1:01:25 | 1:01:30 | |
We'll be speaking to a nurse
from the clinic about the impact | 1:01:30 | 1:01:33 | |
on patietns of those protests | 1:01:33 | 1:01:37 | |
And if you were in charge of the
NHS, what would you do to sort out | 1:01:37 | 1:01:43 | |
the printer pressures, to sort out
the lack of beds, and queues with | 1:01:43 | 1:01:51 | |
ambulances. Your views are welcome
in the next hour. | 1:01:51 | 1:01:55 | |
Good Morning. | 1:01:55 | 1:01:56 | |
Here's Reeta in the BBC Newsroom
with a summary of today's news. | 1:01:56 | 1:01:59 | |
Police in California have rescued 13
siblings from a house, | 1:01:59 | 1:02:01 | |
where some of them were shackled
to their beds. | 1:02:01 | 1:02:03 | |
The alarm was raised on Sunday,
when one girl escaped | 1:02:03 | 1:02:06 | |
and alerted the authorities. | 1:02:06 | 1:02:07 | |
Their parents have been arrested
and charged with torture | 1:02:07 | 1:02:09 | |
and child endangerment. | 1:02:09 | 1:02:11 | |
Our North America Correspondent
James Cook has this report. | 1:02:11 | 1:02:19 | |
They look like a big, happy family. | 1:02:19 | 1:02:21 | |
The children a little pale,
perhaps, but smiling. | 1:02:21 | 1:02:23 | |
Photographs on Facebook show
the Turpins visiting | 1:02:23 | 1:02:26 | |
Disneyland and in Las Vegas,
as their apparently proud parents | 1:02:26 | 1:02:29 | |
renewed wedding vows. | 1:02:29 | 1:02:31 | |
Now David and Louise Turpin
are under arrest, charged | 1:02:31 | 1:02:33 | |
with torture and child endangerment. | 1:02:33 | 1:02:38 | |
Their children in hospital. | 1:02:38 | 1:02:40 | |
Our staff is used to taking care
of people who are quite ill, | 1:02:40 | 1:02:43 | |
they are used to compassionate care,
and so we pull out all the stops, | 1:02:43 | 1:02:50 | |
so to speak, to make sure
that their privacy is dealt with, | 1:02:50 | 1:02:58 | |
that they get appropriate care
and that they are treated | 1:02:59 | 1:03:01 | |
with dignity and respect at a time
when they need it the most. | 1:03:01 | 1:03:04 | |
The horror on Muir Woods Road
was uncovered early on Sunday | 1:03:04 | 1:03:07 | |
morning when a 17-year-old girl
escaped with a mobile phone | 1:03:07 | 1:03:09 | |
and called the police. | 1:03:09 | 1:03:10 | |
At the home, officers found 12
siblings and were shocked | 1:03:10 | 1:03:13 | |
to discover that seven were adults -
the oldest, 29. | 1:03:13 | 1:03:16 | |
The captives were dirty
and malnourished, say police, | 1:03:16 | 1:03:19 | |
shackled to their beds with chains
and padlocks in dark | 1:03:19 | 1:03:21 | |
and foul-smelling surroundings. | 1:03:21 | 1:03:28 | |
As the reporters arrived in the
quite suburb in Los Angeles, | 1:03:28 | 1:03:35 | |
neighbours were stunned. | 1:03:35 | 1:03:42 | |
neighbours were stunned. They coat
to themselves. | 1:03:42 | 1:03:48 | |
They kept to themselves,
in a sense, clan-ish, | 1:03:48 | 1:03:50 | |
so they only kept to themselves. | 1:03:50 | 1:03:52 | |
And the only time you would see
them, you would never see anyone | 1:03:52 | 1:03:55 | |
visit, you would never see anyone
come outside, all you would really | 1:03:55 | 1:03:58 | |
see is that they would go out
and maybe make a grocery run | 1:03:58 | 1:04:01 | |
and that was about it. | 1:04:01 | 1:04:02 | |
There is no hint at all here of the
grim conditions inside this home. | 1:04:02 | 1:04:05 | |
The questions about what
happened are mounting. | 1:04:05 | 1:04:06 | |
Not least, how long were
the siblings held captive and why. | 1:04:06 | 1:04:09 | |
James Cook, BBC News,
Perris, California. | 1:04:09 | 1:04:14 | |
The future of some major
construction projects and hundreds | 1:04:14 | 1:04:16 | |
of public service contracts hang in
the balance this morning, after the | 1:04:16 | 1:04:20 | |
collapse of Carillion. Britain's
second largest construction firm, | 1:04:20 | 1:04:23 | |
which also holds cleaning and
catering contracts for schools, | 1:04:23 | 1:04:27 | |
hospitals and prisons, went into
liquidation yesterday, with debts of | 1:04:27 | 1:04:30 | |
around £1.5 billion. | 1:04:30 | 1:04:36 | |
The four time Olympic gymnastcy moan
Biles has said she has been abused. | 1:04:42 | 1:04:47 | |
She said she has been reluctant to
speak out until now. Larry Na Serbs | 1:04:47 | 1:04:51 | |
r was jailed last month for 60 years
for possessing images of child | 1:04:51 | 1:04:56 | |
sexual abuse and is awaiting
sentence for assaulting other | 1:04:56 | 1:04:59 | |
athletes. | 1:04:59 | 1:05:01 | |
Inflation eased slightly
from its six-year high in December. | 1:05:01 | 1:05:03 | |
The Consumer Prices Index
slipped to an annual rate | 1:05:03 | 1:05:05 | |
of 3% - down from 3.1%
in November. | 1:05:05 | 1:05:07 | |
Across the eurozone,
inflation stood at just 1.4%. | 1:05:07 | 1:05:14 | |
New footage has emerged of a car
that became embedded on the first | 1:05:14 | 1:05:20 | |
floor of an office block inical
foreignia. Video from a bus captures | 1:05:20 | 1:05:24 | |
the moment the car crosses its path
before flying through the air | 1:05:24 | 1:05:27 | |
towards the building. The driver and
passenger escaped with minor | 1:05:27 | 1:05:31 | |
injuries. | 1:05:31 | 1:05:33 | |
That's a summary of
the latest BBC News. | 1:05:33 | 1:05:35 | |
More at 10.30am. | 1:05:35 | 1:05:38 | |
We have a text from somebody who is
in hospital right now. They don't | 1:05:38 | 1:05:42 | |
leave their name, "The staff are
mazing and my experience is positive | 1:05:42 | 1:05:45 | |
but it is clear the nurses, doctors
ands fa its are being overworked. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:49 | |
It's not sustainable. I'm sick of
Conservative politicians taking any | 1:05:49 | 1:05:53 | |
credit for our fabulous NHS, when
they've presided over such | 1:05:53 | 1:05:57 | |
inadequate funding." And this text
"Part of the problem is river Friday | 1:05:57 | 1:06:02 | |
and Saturday night, without fail,
the A&E is full of the same idiots | 1:06:02 | 1:06:11 | |
taking up valuable resources repeat
or second thoird offenders should | 1:06:11 | 1:06:14 | |
incur a £50 charge. It won't fix the
problem but it would happen, not | 1:06:14 | 1:06:19 | |
least the savings, if two security
staff helping with this unwanted | 1:06:19 | 1:06:25 | |
disruption." And this on twitter.
"Two ladies at my loikal GP, with | 1:06:25 | 1:06:35 | |
snotty noses after free Calpol. Why?
You can see why GPs are swamped." | 1:06:35 | 1:06:40 | |
Get in touch your experiences, both
positive and injury which is from | 1:06:40 | 1:06:43 | |
the NHS this winter. | 1:06:43 | 1:06:49 | |
use #VictoriaLIVE. | 1:06:49 | 1:06:51 | |
If you text, you will be charged
at the standard network rate. | 1:06:51 | 1:06:53 | |
Here's some sport now with Hugh. | 1:06:53 | 1:06:55 | |
British number one Johanna Konta
is through to the second | 1:06:55 | 1:06:57 | |
round of the Australian Open. | 1:06:57 | 1:06:58 | |
Her win over Madison Brengle took
place in temperatures | 1:06:58 | 1:07:01 | |
of almost 40 degrees. | 1:07:01 | 1:07:02 | |
Although Konta said she really
enjoyed the heat in Melbourne | 1:07:02 | 1:07:04 | |
and tried to absorb the atmosphere
in the arena and she certainly | 1:07:04 | 1:07:07 | |
looked comfortable out there,
dropping only four games in a match | 1:07:07 | 1:07:11 | |
that lasted a little over an hour
and afterwards she seemed more | 1:07:11 | 1:07:14 | |
concerned with what she's called
"the blueberry debacle". | 1:07:14 | 1:07:19 | |
I went to the supermarket to buy
blueberries. I only bought | 1:07:19 | 1:07:23 | |
blueberries. Two pun ets. I left two
pun ets tlchl it is $5 I will not | 1:07:23 | 1:07:29 | |
get back but it is the betrayal of
my own mind I feel so upset about. I | 1:07:29 | 1:07:33 | |
was so sad. Breaking news, this
morning, it is OK, she has more | 1:07:33 | 1:07:40 | |
blueberries, since. | 1:07:40 | 1:07:41 | |
Britain's other player
in the women's draw, Heather Watson, | 1:07:41 | 1:07:43 | |
is a set down in her match
against Yulia Putintseva. | 1:07:43 | 1:07:45 | |
She fought back, going a break
up in the second set, | 1:07:45 | 1:07:49 | |
but she's just been broken herself. | 1:07:49 | 1:07:50 | |
She now leads 4-3
with Putintseva serving. | 1:07:50 | 1:07:52 | |
Defending champion Roger Federer had
a fairly straight-forward passage | 1:07:52 | 1:07:54 | |
into the second round. | 1:07:54 | 1:07:59 | |
He beat the former British player
Alljaz Bedene in straight sets. | 1:07:59 | 1:08:01 | |
The six-times champion
Novak Djokovic has been back | 1:08:01 | 1:08:03 | |
in action for the first
time since Wimbledon | 1:08:03 | 1:08:05 | |
and he came through with ease,
only dropping serve once, | 1:08:05 | 1:08:07 | |
in beating Donald Young. | 1:08:07 | 1:08:10 | |
Djokovic is seeded 14th,
after missing the second half | 1:08:10 | 1:08:13 | |
of 2017 with an elbow injury. | 1:08:13 | 1:08:17 | |
Manchester United's Paul Pogba says
they still have Manchester City | 1:08:17 | 1:08:21 | |
in their sights after reducing
the leaders' advantage at the top | 1:08:21 | 1:08:23 | |
of the Premier League to 12 points. | 1:08:23 | 1:08:26 | |
Pogba inspired United
to a 3-0 win against Stoke, | 1:08:26 | 1:08:32 | |
setting up two goals, including this
one for Anthony Martial. | 1:08:32 | 1:08:35 | |
New Stoke manager Paul Lambert
was watching from the stands. | 1:08:35 | 1:08:37 | |
His opposite number Jose Mourinho
insists United aren't | 1:08:37 | 1:08:39 | |
giving up on the title race yet. | 1:08:39 | 1:08:45 | |
We know that the distance is a very
important distance. I have been | 1:08:45 | 1:08:50 | |
there before and you can control
your Distiny when you play relaxed | 1:08:50 | 1:08:55 | |
and when you play relaxed the best
qualities are company coming. I | 1:08:55 | 1:09:00 | |
think they have their destiny in
their hands. We want to win matches | 1:09:00 | 1:09:04 | |
and finish the best we can. | 1:09:04 | 1:09:07 | |
Mourinho and Manchester United
are a lot closer to making | 1:09:07 | 1:09:09 | |
a major signing. | 1:09:09 | 1:09:10 | |
Manchester City have
pulled out of the race | 1:09:10 | 1:09:12 | |
for Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez. | 1:09:12 | 1:09:13 | |
It's understood the wages
being demanded by Sanchez would have | 1:09:13 | 1:09:16 | |
made him the top
earner at the Etihad, | 1:09:16 | 1:09:17 | |
something that Pep Guardiola
and the club's hierarchy | 1:09:17 | 1:09:19 | |
were not willing to do. | 1:09:19 | 1:09:21 | |
Manchester United and Chelsea
are rumoured to be | 1:09:21 | 1:09:22 | |
interested in the Chilean. | 1:09:22 | 1:09:25 | |
England cricketer Ben
Stokes says he's keen | 1:09:25 | 1:09:28 | |
to clear his name in court
after he was charged with affray. | 1:09:28 | 1:09:31 | |
It relates to an incident outside
a Bristol nightclub in September. | 1:09:31 | 1:09:35 | |
Stokes missed the Ashes Series
and the selectors will be meeting | 1:09:35 | 1:09:38 | |
over the next couple of days
to discuss his future. | 1:09:38 | 1:09:41 | |
He's been charged along
with two other men. | 1:09:41 | 1:09:46 | |
That's all the sport for now.
Headlines just after 10.30am. | 1:09:46 | 1:09:53 | |
13 siblings - ranging
in age from two to 29 - | 1:09:53 | 1:09:55 | |
have been rescued by police
in California from a house | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
where some of them had
been chained to beds. | 1:09:58 | 1:10:05 | |
They were found in a house in a
residential neighbourhood near LA - | 1:10:05 | 1:10:11 | |
after one of the children
escaped with a mobile phone | 1:10:11 | 1:10:14 | |
she'd found and managed
to call the police. | 1:10:14 | 1:10:16 | |
John Fenoglio is
a news correspondent | 1:10:16 | 1:10:17 | |
with KTLA-5 in Los Angeles. | 1:10:17 | 1:10:19 | |
He told me how the alarm was raised. | 1:10:19 | 1:10:21 | |
This is truly an horrific child
abuse investigation. | 1:10:21 | 1:10:22 | |
What we know from police is that
early Sunday morning a young | 1:10:22 | 1:10:25 | |
girl called for help. | 1:10:25 | 1:10:26 | |
She said she was being held captive,
along with her 12 brothers | 1:10:26 | 1:10:29 | |
and sisters, and that some of them
had been shackled to | 1:10:29 | 1:10:32 | |
their beds with padlocks. | 1:10:32 | 1:10:34 | |
Responding officers found
what they described as a young, | 1:10:34 | 1:10:38 | |
emaciated girl, they believed to be
about ten, but in fact | 1:10:38 | 1:10:41 | |
she was 17-years-old. | 1:10:41 | 1:10:44 | |
She led police back to their home,
and what officers described was a | 1:10:44 | 1:10:52 | |
a hellish scenario. | 1:10:59 | 1:11:01 | |
Children chained to their beds,
police could not give an adequate | 1:11:01 | 1:11:03 | |
ents both arrested. | 1:11:03 | 1:11:04 | |
The officers say
what they discovered | 1:11:04 | 1:11:06 | |
with several people chained
to their beds in dark and foul | 1:11:06 | 1:11:08 | |
smelling conditions. | 1:11:08 | 1:11:13 | |
You say this girl who appeared to be
ten but in fact was 17 had called to | 1:11:13 | 1:11:18 | |
help. | 1:11:18 | 1:11:21 | |
Had she escaped from a house? | 1:11:21 | 1:11:29 | |
According to a police statement
she said she was able to | 1:11:29 | 1:11:32 | |
escape from the house and take
a cell phone with her. | 1:11:32 | 1:11:35 | |
That's when the officers discovered
the chilling environment. Do we note | 1:11:35 | 1:11:37 | |
ages of the brothers and sisters?
The Youngest two, the oldest 29. | 1:11:37 | 1:11:41 | |
They have all been taken to a
hospital for a medical evaluation. | 1:11:41 | 1:11:47 | |
Right now we don't know their
condition and police are keeping a | 1:11:47 | 1:11:51 | |
tight lid on the situation at the
time. What are neighbours say? They | 1:11:51 | 1:11:57 | |
are saying it is a bizarre
situation, it is about 70 miles | 1:11:57 | 1:12:01 | |
north-east of Los Angeles. It is a
quiet community. Neighbours say they | 1:12:01 | 1:12:06 | |
never saw the children and when they
z they would act a bit cagey, some | 1:12:06 | 1:12:10 | |
would not respond at all. There is a
strange tale that one neighbour | 1:12:10 | 1:12:15 | |
describes, saying some of the
children are were outside in the | 1:12:15 | 1:12:18 | |
front yard at night planting grass
but again all the neighbours we have | 1:12:18 | 1:12:22 | |
spoken with, say the children, were,
for the most part, unresponsive and | 1:12:22 | 1:12:26 | |
that they didn't see them very
often. You say two adults are being | 1:12:26 | 1:12:30 | |
held on charges of torture child
endangerment. Are he this the | 1:12:30 | 1:12:38 | |
parents as far as we know? Yes, two
people have been arrested. | 1:12:38 | 1:12:46 | |
57-year-old David Alan Turpin and
his wife, being charged with child | 1:12:46 | 1:12:50 | |
engagement and torture, both being
held on $9 million bail. | 1:12:50 | 1:12:56 | |
After the couple were arrested
neighbours began to learn how some | 1:12:56 | 1:12:58 | |
of the children had been held
captive in dark and dirty rooms, | 1:12:58 | 1:13:01 | |
some had been so malnourished
the authorities initially thought | 1:13:01 | 1:13:03 | |
they were all underaged. | 1:13:03 | 1:13:11 | |
We heard on Facebook and on the news
this family holed their children | 1:13:12 | 1:13:17 | |
captive o in the house and chained
some of their kids to the beds. It's | 1:13:17 | 1:13:21 | |
been really shocking knowing they
have 12 kids locked in their house. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:24 | |
They were the type that you didn't
really get to know anything about | 1:13:24 | 1:13:27 | |
them. They were very to themselves,
in a sense clan-ish. So they only | 1:13:27 | 1:13:34 | |
kept to themselves. The only time
you would see them, you would never | 1:13:34 | 1:13:40 | |
see them on business, or anyone come
outside. All you would really see is | 1:13:40 | 1:13:44 | |
that they would go out, maybe make a
grocery run, that was about it. They | 1:13:44 | 1:13:49 | |
kept to themselves. They were, like
I said, the kids were inadvice I | 1:13:49 | 1:13:53 | |
will. The only time I saw the kids,
beside the Christmas incident, they | 1:13:53 | 1:13:58 | |
were just coming out of the car and
going into the house, that was T it | 1:13:58 | 1:14:01 | |
was never - I never saw the kids by
themselves. The parents were close | 1:14:01 | 1:14:05 | |
around. But I believe that they,
even though I thought they were kids | 1:14:05 | 1:14:11 | |
because they physically looked like
pre-steep, I don't believe they | 1:14:11 | 1:14:15 | |
were. I think these were the
20-year-olds. | 1:14:15 | 1:14:22 | |
20-year-olds. Still to come: If you
were in charge of the NHS, what | 1:14:22 | 1:14:26 | |
would you do to try to sort a
long-term sustainable funding | 1:14:26 | 1:14:29 | |
situation. To sort winter pressures,
overcrowded kids, queues at | 1:14:29 | 1:14:35 | |
ambulances and so on. Your funding
issues, welcome. | 1:14:35 | 1:14:40 | |
A council in London will today
consider the next step | 1:14:40 | 1:14:42 | |
in the launching of a special order
to stop anti-abortion protectors | 1:14:42 | 1:14:45 | |
holding daily vigils outside
of a Marie Stopes Clinic. | 1:14:45 | 1:14:47 | |
The demonstrators are accused
of "harassing" women attending | 1:14:47 | 1:14:55 | |
the abortion clinic in Ealing
and displaying "deliberately | 1:14:55 | 1:14:57 | |
disturbing images". | 1:14:57 | 1:14:58 | |
Councillors will decide
whether to begin a consultation | 1:14:58 | 1:15:01 | |
on whether or not to bring
in a public space protection order - | 1:15:01 | 1:15:08 | |
to prevent disruption at the clinic. | 1:15:08 | 1:15:13 | |
If it's granted, it would be
the first time it's been used | 1:15:13 | 1:15:16 | |
in a situation involving
an abortion clinic. | 1:15:16 | 1:15:18 | |
We're going to speak now
to John Hansen-Brevetti, | 1:15:18 | 1:15:20 | |
a nurse and manager
at the Ealing Marie Stopes clinic. | 1:15:20 | 1:15:22 | |
Councillor Binda Rai represents
the area where the clinic | 1:15:22 | 1:15:24 | |
is and brought this issue
to the attention of the council. | 1:15:24 | 1:15:27 | |
And Claire McCullough,
Founding Trustee of | 1:15:27 | 1:15:28 | |
The Good Counsel Network, | 1:15:28 | 1:15:36 | |
which hold daily vigils outside
the clinic, an organisation | 1:15:38 | 1:15:40 | |
affiliated to the US anti-abortion | 1:15:40 | 1:15:41 | |
movement. | 1:15:41 | 1:15:45 | |
John, tell us how the vigils have
changed over time? We have seen the | 1:15:45 | 1:15:50 | |
tactics used outside our doors get
worse. Staff who been at the clinic | 1:15:50 | 1:15:55 | |
for upwards of 20 years can describe
a time when it was just peaceful | 1:15:55 | 1:15:59 | |
prayer happening outside which
people still found intimidating, but | 1:15:59 | 1:16:02 | |
it is different to what we see today
which is people standing directly | 1:16:02 | 1:16:07 | |
outside our gates, engaging everyone
who comes past trying to persuade | 1:16:07 | 1:16:14 | |
them not to attend their treatment
and they do this by calling them, | 1:16:14 | 1:16:20 | |
"Mum" by saying they will be haunted
by the ghost of that I foetus, they | 1:16:20 | 1:16:29 | |
will say Rosarys at them and try and
close the gate. All that you have | 1:16:29 | 1:16:34 | |
described is lawful? It is and
that's the issue is that when we | 1:16:34 | 1:16:40 | |
call the police, they're quite
frustrated that also little they can | 1:16:40 | 1:16:44 | |
do under current laws to protect
women from going through that | 1:16:44 | 1:16:48 | |
horrific experience, through that
emotional blackmail and that's why | 1:16:48 | 1:16:52 | |
we're pleased with the leadership
that Ealing Council has shown in | 1:16:52 | 1:16:57 | |
bringing the proposal forward and
taking the next step. It is a | 1:16:57 | 1:17:00 | |
landmark thing and it has
implications for the whole country | 1:17:00 | 1:17:03 | |
and we're hoping that Parliament
will take their cue and show | 1:17:03 | 1:17:06 | |
leadership at a national level as
well. What is wrong with trying to | 1:17:06 | 1:17:09 | |
persuade a woman about to go into
your clinic to have an abortion | 1:17:09 | 1:17:14 | |
potentially not to have one or to
think further about it? Part of is | 1:17:14 | 1:17:18 | |
the information that they're given.
Women are given leaflets by the | 1:17:18 | 1:17:25 | |
pavement counsellors that have
completely false information on | 1:17:25 | 1:17:27 | |
them, that they'll develop cancer,
that they'll develop drug and | 1:17:27 | 1:17:31 | |
alcohol habits, that they will feel
inadequate as a mother in the | 1:17:31 | 1:17:35 | |
future, the information they are
receiving is wrong. The way in which | 1:17:35 | 1:17:38 | |
it is being given to them is
coercive and we see it as they come | 1:17:38 | 1:17:42 | |
through our doors, they're shaking
and they are in tears and they are | 1:17:42 | 1:17:46 | |
angry as are their partners or
families who come to support them. | 1:17:46 | 1:17:49 | |
What do they say to you when they
get inside? They tell us that they | 1:17:49 | 1:17:53 | |
have been called murderers and had
their paths blocked and they felt | 1:17:53 | 1:17:57 | |
judged and shamed and we see it
happening, not only on the way in, | 1:17:57 | 1:18:00 | |
but on the way out as well which is
how we know this isn't about | 1:18:00 | 1:18:03 | |
providing information or support,
this is about making people feel | 1:18:03 | 1:18:07 | |
ashamed, scared and intimidated
about accessing treatment that | 1:18:07 | 1:18:11 | |
they've, in most cases, really
thought long and hard about and come | 1:18:11 | 1:18:13 | |
to a firm decision already. You have
cameras outside? It focuses just on | 1:18:13 | 1:18:17 | |
our property. We are not allowed to
film beyond that because it's a | 1:18:17 | 1:18:21 | |
public area and we have some large
hedges that block our view of most | 1:18:21 | 1:18:25 | |
of this. A public space protection
order is a step closer, Ealing | 1:18:25 | 1:18:29 | |
Council are going to decide tonight
whether to launch a consultation on | 1:18:29 | 1:18:32 | |
bringing one in. What impact do you
think such an order would have on | 1:18:32 | 1:18:37 | |
the Ealing clinic if it were to
brought in? It would be an | 1:18:37 | 1:18:41 | |
incredible day for us to know that
our patients were coming to the | 1:18:41 | 1:18:47 | |
clinic free that that experience on
the way in and way out. It is | 1:18:47 | 1:18:50 | |
something that people can enjoy in
Ealing, but it is happening outside | 1:18:50 | 1:18:53 | |
clinics across the country, but it
is an important first step and we | 1:18:53 | 1:18:57 | |
would welcome it. You have been
going to the clinic and standing | 1:18:57 | 1:19:03 | |
outside for several years taking
part in vigils. The last time we | 1:19:03 | 1:19:06 | |
spoke to you on this programme you
denied all of the kind of claims | 1:19:06 | 1:19:10 | |
that you've heard this morning from
the nurse at the clinic today. Is he | 1:19:10 | 1:19:15 | |
lying? Unfortunately, yes. Can I
just say again... No, no... Yes, | 1:19:15 | 1:19:21 | |
he's lying. How do you respond to
that? I think unfortunately there | 1:19:21 | 1:19:28 | |
has been a lot of denial about the
impact this has on women. We've, we | 1:19:28 | 1:19:34 | |
hear it from our own patients. We
hear it from our neighbours who | 1:19:34 | 1:19:37 | |
phone us and say that they can see
people distressed outside the | 1:19:37 | 1:19:40 | |
clinic. We've had officers from the
council for the past several weeks | 1:19:40 | 1:19:45 | |
interviewing women and not only have
they heard it from the women, but | 1:19:45 | 1:19:48 | |
they have felt harassed and
intimidated on the way in. Clare, | 1:19:48 | 1:19:52 | |
you wouldn't know the impact on the
patients because once they're | 1:19:52 | 1:19:55 | |
inside, you don't see them, so you
have no idea what effect you're | 1:19:55 | 1:19:59 | |
having on these patients? I think
when you stand outside an abortion | 1:19:59 | 1:20:03 | |
centre for 20 years and many of the
women who stand there with us are | 1:20:03 | 1:20:06 | |
women who have had pay bortions,
many, many people who come to vigils | 1:20:06 | 1:20:10 | |
outside clinics... I am talking
about the women inside the clinics. | 1:20:10 | 1:20:16 | |
They have been past people like
ourselves and come to the vigils. So | 1:20:16 | 1:20:19 | |
think we have a good idea on what
women may feel. Do you accept that | 1:20:19 | 1:20:24 | |
however you're doing t for some
women and their partners, once they | 1:20:24 | 1:20:28 | |
get inside the Marie Stopes clinic,
they are upset, distressed and angry | 1:20:28 | 1:20:33 | |
at you, not at their own decision,
to have a termination? I think | 1:20:33 | 1:20:38 | |
abortion is something that upsets
women a lot I'm sure some women | 1:20:38 | 1:20:41 | |
would rather... I'm trying to
answer. No, you are answering a | 1:20:41 | 1:20:46 | |
different question. I accept that
some women who are extremely upset | 1:20:46 | 1:20:50 | |
at the horrible decision they are
feeling they have to take, don't | 1:20:50 | 1:20:52 | |
like our presence there, yes, I
accept that. So why do you carry on | 1:20:52 | 1:20:58 | |
then? Can I just correct, you said
we are affiliated to the group in | 1:20:58 | 1:21:08 | |
America, we are not. Why do you
carry on? Last Friday I spoke to | 1:21:08 | 1:21:12 | |
several of my counsellors who during
the week one of them at Ealing had | 1:21:12 | 1:21:16 | |
spoken to a woman who had been there
three times and didn't want to go | 1:21:16 | 1:21:19 | |
ahead with the abortion and felt she
had no alternatives, at this moment, | 1:21:19 | 1:21:23 | |
one of the passers-by saw this
crying lady and grabbed her arm and | 1:21:23 | 1:21:26 | |
rushed into the clinic with her
because she could see this woman was | 1:21:26 | 1:21:30 | |
upset and presumed we were upsetting
her. On that occasion, a woman had | 1:21:30 | 1:21:34 | |
approached us for help and support
that she was not getting inside the | 1:21:34 | 1:21:37 | |
abortion centre, that's why we're
still there. That's the explanation, | 1:21:37 | 1:21:42 | |
the justification for why the group
is still there, what do you say? | 1:21:42 | 1:21:46 | |
Well, over the past four months or
so now, our officers have been | 1:21:46 | 1:21:51 | |
investigating all these claims. They
have been collecting evidence and | 1:21:51 | 1:21:55 | |
what we've concluded is that the
behaviour outside the clinic is | 1:21:55 | 1:21:59 | |
unacceptable. There is harassment.
There is intimidation of these women | 1:21:59 | 1:22:04 | |
and I think basically we have a
responsibility to stop that sort of | 1:22:04 | 1:22:08 | |
behaviour. Why haven't you called
the police? The police have been | 1:22:08 | 1:22:14 | |
called on some occasion and we have
constant policing outside the | 1:22:14 | 1:22:17 | |
clinic. I know that every Saturday
that I have been there, the police | 1:22:17 | 1:22:21 | |
are there in force, but it's very
difficult for the police because | 1:22:21 | 1:22:26 | |
their current legislation is really
restricting because in terms of | 1:22:26 | 1:22:30 | |
harassment, you have got to prove
this is continuous harassment to one | 1:22:30 | 1:22:33 | |
individual and many of the women
that come and visit the clinic will | 1:22:33 | 1:22:37 | |
only come once or twice so it's
really difficult to make harassment | 1:22:37 | 1:22:41 | |
stand up legally. I'm going to
appeal to our audience, we have been | 1:22:41 | 1:22:44 | |
trying to talk to women who have
been going to the clinic, | 1:22:44 | 1:22:48 | |
understandably, it is a very
sensitive situation, but if there is | 1:22:48 | 1:22:51 | |
anybody watching right now, who has
used the clinic and who has walked | 1:22:51 | 1:22:57 | |
past the group holding the vigils,
do send me an e-mail now or a | 1:22:57 | 1:23:01 | |
message and you can do that
anonymously and tell us your own | 1:23:01 | 1:23:06 | |
experiences. What would be the
effect of this kind of protection | 1:23:06 | 1:23:11 | |
order if the council takes the
decision to hold a consultation on | 1:23:11 | 1:23:14 | |
it which is a step closer to the
order? Yes, the effect would be that | 1:23:14 | 1:23:18 | |
we would have a certain area that
would not allow any protesters to | 1:23:18 | 1:23:24 | |
protest outside that area. So women
would be able to access the clinic | 1:23:24 | 1:23:31 | |
without anybody obstrucking their
journey to the clinic. | 1:23:31 | 1:23:33 | |
Right. And of course, we mustn't
forget that would also make life a | 1:23:33 | 1:23:38 | |
lot easier for people living in that
street, for people using the | 1:23:38 | 1:23:45 | |
facilities in that area, the park,
the theatre down the road... What | 1:23:45 | 1:23:49 | |
impact is it having on residents, do
you say? Well, residents are having | 1:23:49 | 1:23:52 | |
to see this and hear this every
single day. Hear what? The prayers. | 1:23:52 | 1:23:57 | |
They're having to look at the
graphic images that are on | 1:23:57 | 1:24:01 | |
display... We have no graphic
images. Well, I was there on | 1:24:01 | 1:24:06 | |
Saturday, I saw graphic images. When
she says graphic pictures, you mean | 1:24:06 | 1:24:14 | |
pictures of the developing baby. I
think it is inappropriate for young | 1:24:14 | 1:24:18 | |
children to see those images. To see
pictures of a developing baby a | 1:24:18 | 1:24:21 | |
womb? Parents have to choose to
discuss, parents don't have a choice | 1:24:21 | 1:24:25 | |
on whether they're discussing those
issues with their children... What | 1:24:25 | 1:24:29 | |
issues, developing babies in the
womb? Lots of children see these all | 1:24:29 | 1:24:34 | |
the time. Parents don't have a
choice about discussion. What | 1:24:34 | 1:24:38 | |
discussion? A lot of parents told me
they have had to have discussion | 1:24:38 | 1:24:43 | |
with their children about abortion
and that's a topic they should be | 1:24:43 | 1:24:46 | |
able to choose as and when they
discuss it with their children. | 1:24:46 | 1:24:49 | |
There is nothing in those images.
There is a school nearby and people | 1:24:49 | 1:24:53 | |
will use a different route to get to
the school. They'll use a different | 1:24:53 | 1:24:56 | |
route to get to the park and I don't
think people should be restricted in | 1:24:56 | 1:24:59 | |
that way because a group of people
decide they want to protest, that's | 1:24:59 | 1:25:05 | |
the vigil holders and the pro-choice
group. I think that area needs to be | 1:25:05 | 1:25:10 | |
brought back to normality.
If this order is ultimately brought | 1:25:10 | 1:25:15 | |
in, that would be unprecedented. It
would. Particularly in terms of | 1:25:15 | 1:25:21 | |
protecting an abortion clinic, if
protecting is the right word, but it | 1:25:21 | 1:25:25 | |
would only be in place for three
years. It only lasts for three years | 1:25:25 | 1:25:28 | |
is my understanding. That's the
difficulty with is PSPO, but once we | 1:25:28 | 1:25:36 | |
have consulted and if residents
agree it would be the best fit for a | 1:25:36 | 1:25:39 | |
solution for Ealing. However, we do
need a national solution and I know | 1:25:39 | 1:25:44 | |
that myself and Julian Bell have
given evidence to the Home Affairs | 1:25:44 | 1:25:48 | |
Select Committee where we have very
clearly said a national solution, we | 1:25:48 | 1:25:53 | |
need national legislation otherwise
women across the country aren't | 1:25:53 | 1:25:55 | |
going to be protected and you're
going to end up with a postcode | 1:25:55 | 1:25:59 | |
Lottery as John stated earlier. We
are showing our audience images of | 1:25:59 | 1:26:03 | |
some of the vigils outside and some
of the images that are held up on | 1:26:03 | 1:26:07 | |
placards and I would love to read
some messages from our audience, but | 1:26:07 | 1:26:12 | |
my tablet has decided to freeze on
me so I apologise for that. John, | 1:26:12 | 1:26:15 | |
the work that you do at the clinic,
tell us about the significance of | 1:26:15 | 1:26:20 | |
it. It's different for every woman
who comes through. We have a lot of | 1:26:20 | 1:26:28 | |
patients who simply feel they cannot
continue with the pregnancy for | 1:26:28 | 1:26:32 | |
whatever reason. That it would be
detrimental to their lives and in | 1:26:32 | 1:26:36 | |
fact the only way that abortion is
legal in this country is if two | 1:26:36 | 1:26:40 | |
doctors certify that continuing the
pregnancy would in fact have a | 1:26:40 | 1:26:44 | |
detrimental effect to that woman's
mental or physical health. We have | 1:26:44 | 1:26:48 | |
other women who come to us because
it was a wanted pregnancy, but an | 1:26:48 | 1:26:55 | |
abnormality has been discovered and
they have to terminate. It is these | 1:26:55 | 1:26:58 | |
sorts of circumstances that nobody
knows about when a woman is | 1:26:58 | 1:27:01 | |
approaching our clinic and yet they
are all approached in the same way, | 1:27:01 | 1:27:05 | |
every single woman and they are
being told that they will be | 1:27:05 | 1:27:08 | |
punished for their decision... It's
not true. It is what they tell us | 1:27:08 | 1:27:11 | |
when they are in the door. It is not
true. If you look through the Marie | 1:27:11 | 1:27:16 | |
Stopes log, there is one or two
claims. These are the best | 1:27:16 | 1:27:21 | |
hand-picked ones refer to the
presence of sister supporters around | 1:27:21 | 1:27:24 | |
the gate in many instances, the
complaints of women standing away | 1:27:24 | 1:27:27 | |
from the clinic and phoning the
clinic because they are afraid of | 1:27:27 | 1:27:31 | |
the protest at the doctor, refer to
the times when sister supporter are | 1:27:31 | 1:27:39 | |
across the door which are Bin Laden
da and John. This is why we would be | 1:27:39 | 1:27:45 | |
happy for a public space protection
order that bans all protests. This | 1:27:45 | 1:27:48 | |
isn't about one group. There are
five different anti-abortion groups. | 1:27:48 | 1:27:53 | |
We don't care if it is Sister
Support outside, we want that area | 1:27:53 | 1:27:57 | |
free so that women can walk in
without having to walk past a crowd | 1:27:57 | 1:28:00 | |
and without having to walk past one
person. Victoria, we have had | 1:28:00 | 1:28:06 | |
discussions with both groups and we
have come, we have tried to get an | 1:28:06 | 1:28:09 | |
agreement, we have tried to get them
to agree not to do what they're | 1:28:09 | 1:28:13 | |
doing at the moment, but we have
come to a deadlock... You have | 1:28:13 | 1:28:20 | |
stated Clare, that you will continue
to do what you do and operate in the | 1:28:20 | 1:28:24 | |
way thaw do. We have had no
discussion with the council about | 1:28:24 | 1:28:28 | |
stopping any particular behaviours,
you have never put to us particular | 1:28:28 | 1:28:31 | |
behaviours and asked us to stop
those particular behaviours. | 1:28:31 | 1:28:34 | |
Behaviours have been discussed with
us, but we have never been told if | 1:28:34 | 1:28:38 | |
you stop doing this or stop doing
that the vigil will continue. You | 1:28:38 | 1:28:43 | |
never told the Select Committee that
you would change your behaviour. | 1:28:43 | 1:28:46 | |
Clare is in denial, we have
witnessed this behaviour. We have | 1:28:46 | 1:28:49 | |
been told it's going to continue no
matter what. So we have no choice, | 1:28:49 | 1:28:55 | |
but to look at the report that's
come to committee tonight and | 1:28:55 | 1:29:00 | |
consider consulting with residents,
all stakeholders including Clare's | 1:29:00 | 1:29:04 | |
group and every other group to see
if a PSPO is the right way forward. | 1:29:04 | 1:29:09 | |
When John se saying we are blocking
the gates and shutting the gates on | 1:29:09 | 1:29:13 | |
women, why are they not bringing
forward CCTV images of this. This is | 1:29:13 | 1:29:18 | |
where their CCTV camera is on, the
path on the gate, not a single image | 1:29:18 | 1:29:22 | |
of us doing this has emerged, why?
Because it doesn't happen. | 1:29:22 | 1:29:26 | |
I will read some messages and then I
want to ask you about the | 1:29:26 | 1:29:29 | |
significance of your work in your
view and then I'm going to talk to a | 1:29:29 | 1:29:33 | |
woman who has used the clinic.
Trevor tweets, "The anti-abortion | 1:29:33 | 1:29:39 | |
terrorists, who protest outside
abortion clinics should be banned | 1:29:39 | 1:29:42 | |
from protesting within 500 meters of
the gates of a clinic. They have no | 1:29:42 | 1:29:46 | |
right to push their religious and
moral views on others seeking lawful | 1:29:46 | 1:29:50 | |
treatment." A tweet from this
viewer, "What's wrong with asking a | 1:29:50 | 1:29:55 | |
woman who is having an abortion, not
to have an abortion? Well, it is not | 1:29:55 | 1:30:01 | |
your body for starters. " Another
viewer, "I think it is disgusting | 1:30:01 | 1:30:07 | |
these protesters put these women
through such guilt. They have no | 1:30:07 | 1:30:10 | |
idea what their personal situation
is. Perhaps they can't support the | 1:30:10 | 1:30:14 | |
child or a pregnancy would endanger
the woman. Take a look at the story | 1:30:14 | 1:30:21 | |
of the children being enshackled.
They have no right to judge. " | 1:30:21 | 1:30:28 | |
I was advised to I a bort my women
at 20 weeks because my water has | 1:30:28 | 1:30:38 | |
gone. She was born and is now three.
I'm going to talk to one woman, who | 1:30:38 | 1:30:49 | |
tally didn't use the Ealing clinic,
used a different abortion clinic. | 1:30:49 | 1:30:52 | |
Good morning, thank you very much
for talking to us, I will call you | 1:30:52 | 1:30:55 | |
Isobel. I know that's not your real
name but thank you for talking to | 1:30:55 | 1:31:00 | |
us, Isobel. Tell us of your
experience of entering an abortion | 1:31:00 | 1:31:04 | |
clinic? I had to go to the clinic
twice. I was turned away the first | 1:31:04 | 1:31:10 | |
time due to having to wait too long.
So, suffered the abuse kind of twice | 1:31:10 | 1:31:17 | |
and it was just torturous, really. I
mean we are lucky enough to have | 1:31:17 | 1:31:21 | |
this choice and be free to have this
choice in the UK. And you should | 1:31:21 | 1:31:26 | |
just be able to go and do what you
feel is right at the time. These | 1:31:26 | 1:31:33 | |
people standing outside, have no
idea of who you are, where you come | 1:31:33 | 1:31:37 | |
from, what your scenario is and how
you have got into the situation. | 1:31:37 | 1:31:39 | |
What abuse was it that you suffered,
Isobel if I might ask, bearing in | 1:31:39 | 1:31:45 | |
mind, it is a daytime audience. Of
course. Just being called a murder. | 1:31:45 | 1:31:53 | |
Quite graphic images being pushed
into your face and, you know | 1:31:53 | 1:31:57 | |
mentioned around. | 1:31:57 | 1:32:04 | |
mentioned around. And mentions
around God. In this country we have | 1:32:04 | 1:32:07 | |
a free right to decide what we
believe and don't believe in. What | 1:32:07 | 1:32:12 | |
impact did it have on you? It made a
very stressful time even more | 1:32:12 | 1:32:16 | |
stressful. I don't know whether
these people understand that it is | 1:32:16 | 1:32:19 | |
still difficult to make a decision
like that. So, you know the people | 1:32:19 | 1:32:24 | |
in the clinics are specialised and
trained to provide that support and, | 1:32:24 | 1:32:28 | |
you know, that's very much welcomed
but you don't kind of need harassing | 1:32:28 | 1:32:32 | |
when you are going about your
decision. Thank you very much | 1:32:32 | 1:32:36 | |
Isobel. Thank you for coming on the
programme. I appreciate T Lisa says | 1:32:36 | 1:32:40 | |
"If I wanted counselling I wouldn't
go and see someone on a street | 1:32:40 | 1:32:43 | |
corner." Linda tweets "People, if
they want an abortion should able to | 1:32:43 | 1:32:49 | |
do so peacefully without
intimidation." I really think people | 1:32:49 | 1:32:51 | |
going in without knowing the
details, they do not need | 1:32:51 | 1:32:56 | |
self-opinionaited people outside
giving crass info, concentrate on | 1:32:56 | 1:33:00 | |
your own lives." Joanna says "Even
if you are antiabortion you have no | 1:33:00 | 1:33:06 | |
right to stress already harassed and
vulnerable women." The decision | 1:33:06 | 1:33:10 | |
tonight, what are you expecting? We
will have to wait and see. There | 1:33:10 | 1:33:14 | |
will be a debate but I hope that
Cabinet will approve the | 1:33:14 | 1:33:19 | |
consultation and we go ahead with
the next stage because it is really | 1:33:19 | 1:33:22 | |
important for us to protect women
who are trying to access | 1:33:22 | 1:33:27 | |
legally-available health care
without intimidation and harass am. | 1:33:27 | 1:33:31 | |
And briefly, Claire, the
significance of your work? Well, we | 1:33:31 | 1:33:34 | |
have seen hundreds of women over the
years, we have seen over 1,000 women | 1:33:34 | 1:33:39 | |
in London chose life for their
children by being offered help or | 1:33:39 | 1:33:43 | |
having a supportive person outside
who felt they had no alternative. | 1:33:43 | 1:33:46 | |
Over half of those women come from
the Ealing centre and I think that | 1:33:46 | 1:33:50 | |
if this is put in place it is an
attempt by the clinic to people | 1:33:50 | 1:33:54 | |
their profits high and very little
care for women. Just look at NHS | 1:33:54 | 1:33:59 | |
Choices... Reviews of Ma ri, e
Stopes delinic online, I would ask | 1:33:59 | 1:34:07 | |
you to look at that, and what
choices they have. We have a nurse | 1:34:07 | 1:34:11 | |
and manager from there, would you
like to talk about that the lack of | 1:34:11 | 1:34:17 | |
care and profits sn.s it is untru.
All of the nurses that worked in the | 1:34:17 | 1:34:20 | |
clinic they joined this line of work
to support women. I think that's | 1:34:20 | 1:34:24 | |
easy to understand. We have heard
multiple accusations that our | 1:34:24 | 1:34:28 | |
numbers have gone down because ofP
good Counsel's presence outside the | 1:34:28 | 1:34:33 | |
clinic, actually they have gone to
other clinics, the total numbers | 1:34:33 | 1:34:37 | |
across the UK haven't changed. The
only impact this is having is | 1:34:37 | 1:34:42 | |
delaying treatment When someone
approaches the clinic, they see a | 1:34:42 | 1:34:46 | |
crowd, they don't want to pass, so
they rebook. It is not true, figures | 1:34:46 | 1:34:50 | |
are drochlingt It means they have to
receive treatment at a later | 1:34:50 | 1:34:54 | |
gestation and it is safer to be
treated earlier and you have more | 1:34:54 | 1:34:57 | |
options. They are being rob of their
choice and safety. These women are | 1:34:57 | 1:35:04 | |
being helped. We are seeing them and
their babies, they are not going | 1:35:04 | 1:35:06 | |
elsewhere. Thank you. We'll report
back on the programme tomorrow after | 1:35:06 | 1:35:10 | |
the decision tonight. Thank you very
much for coming on the programme. | 1:35:10 | 1:35:13 | |
Still to come: The NHS is in crisis
say many people. How do we solve the | 1:35:13 | 1:35:17 | |
problems to safe guard the service
for the future? We'll talk to | 1:35:17 | 1:35:21 | |
various people who have their own
solutions. | 1:35:21 | 1:35:25 | |
Ministers from 20 counties
are meeting in Canada | 1:35:25 | 1:35:27 | |
to talk about curbing
North Korea's nuclear programme. | 1:35:27 | 1:35:28 | |
Later in the programme we'll be
speaking an American | 1:35:28 | 1:35:31 | |
author who has written
about the North's | 1:35:31 | 1:35:32 | |
nuclear capabilities. | 1:35:32 | 1:35:37 | |
Time for the latest
news, here's Reeta. | 1:35:37 | 1:35:40 | |
Two parents have been arrested
in California after police | 1:35:40 | 1:35:42 | |
found they allegedly kept their 13
children captive at home, some | 1:35:42 | 1:35:45 | |
of whom were shackled to their beds. | 1:35:45 | 1:35:49 | |
The brothers and sisters -
who were aged between two and 29 - | 1:35:49 | 1:35:53 | |
were found by police after one girl
escaped and alerted the authorities. | 1:35:53 | 1:35:59 | |
Their parents have been charged
with torture and child endangerment. | 1:35:59 | 1:36:04 | |
Thousands of small businesses
working for Carillion | 1:36:04 | 1:36:10 | |
are waiting to find out
if they'll be paid, following | 1:36:10 | 1:36:13 | |
the collapse of the firm. | 1:36:13 | 1:36:14 | |
Britain's second largest
construction company - | 1:36:14 | 1:36:15 | |
which also holds cleaning
and catering contracts for schools, | 1:36:15 | 1:36:18 | |
hospitals and prisons -
went into liquidation yesterday | 1:36:18 | 1:36:26 | |
with debts of around £1.5 billion. | 1:36:28 | 1:36:29 | |
Within the past hour,
the Archbishop of Canterbury has | 1:36:29 | 1:36:31 | |
said the firm's collapse threatens
workers, families | 1:36:31 | 1:36:33 | |
and sub-contractors. | 1:36:33 | 1:36:34 | |
The four-time Olympic champion
gymnast, Simone Biles, | 1:36:34 | 1:36:36 | |
has said she was sexually abused
by the USA team | 1:36:36 | 1:36:38 | |
doctor, Larry Nassar. | 1:36:38 | 1:36:39 | |
In a tweet, Simone Biles described
herself as one of many survivors - | 1:36:39 | 1:36:42 | |
but said she had been reluctant
to speak out until now. | 1:36:42 | 1:36:47 | |
Larry Nassar was jailed last month
for 60-years for possessing images | 1:36:47 | 1:36:50 | |
of child sexual abuse -
and is awaiting sentence | 1:36:50 | 1:36:52 | |
for assaulting other athletes. | 1:36:52 | 1:36:54 | |
Police say they are not
treating the death of | 1:36:54 | 1:36:57 | |
the Cranberries' singer,
Dolores O'Riordan, as suspicious. | 1:36:57 | 1:36:59 | |
The 46-year-old was found dead
in a hotel in London's | 1:36:59 | 1:37:01 | |
Park Lane yesterday. | 1:37:01 | 1:37:05 | |
The Irish musician,
originally from Limerick, | 1:37:05 | 1:37:13 | |
led the band to international
success in the 90s with singles | 1:37:15 | 1:37:17 | |
including Linger and Zombie. | 1:37:17 | 1:37:19 | |
MPs say the manufacturer, Whirlpool,
hasn't done enough to deal | 1:37:19 | 1:37:21 | |
with defective tumble dryers
which have caused hundreds of fires. | 1:37:21 | 1:37:23 | |
The Commons Business Committee said
the response to the problem, | 1:37:23 | 1:37:26 | |
discovered in 2015, had been woeful. | 1:37:26 | 1:37:27 | |
It also said that it was
"unacceptable" that more | 1:37:27 | 1:37:29 | |
than one million potentially
dangerous dryers were still being | 1:37:29 | 1:37:31 | |
used in people's homes. | 1:37:31 | 1:37:34 | |
The company insists its repair
campaign has been successful. | 1:37:34 | 1:37:42 | |
The controversial claim that the UK
sends £350 million a week | 1:37:46 | 1:37:49 | |
to the EU has been described
as a "gross underestimate" by the | 1:37:49 | 1:37:52 | |
Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson. | 1:37:52 | 1:37:53 | |
In an interview with the Guardian
newspaper, Mr Johnson said Britain's | 1:37:53 | 1:37:56 | |
contribution would rise to almost
£440 million by the end of | 1:37:56 | 1:37:59 | |
the post-Brexit transition period. | 1:37:59 | 1:38:00 | |
Vote Leave's claim about the UK's
contribution to the EU was hotly | 1:38:00 | 1:38:03 | |
disputed during the EU referendum. | 1:38:03 | 1:38:04 | |
That's a summary of
the latest BBC News. | 1:38:04 | 1:38:11 | |
This anonymous texter regarding the
abortion clinic in Ealing "In my | 1:38:11 | 1:38:16 | |
experience in Ealing they have not
been physically abecausive or | 1:38:16 | 1:38:19 | |
obstructive but their presence is
inappropriate and makes the | 1:38:19 | 1:38:22 | |
situation is whole lot more
daunting." | 1:38:22 | 1:38:24 | |
Here's some sport now with Hugh. | 1:38:24 | 1:38:25 | |
Johanna Konta is through to the
second round of the Australian Open. | 1:38:25 | 1:38:28 | |
She's the ninth seed in Melbourne
this year and beat Madison Brengle | 1:38:28 | 1:38:31 | |
in straight sets in temperatures
approaching 40 degrees. | 1:38:31 | 1:38:36 | |
Defending champion Roger Federer had
a straight sets win over former | 1:38:36 | 1:38:39 | |
British player, Aljaz Bedene. | 1:38:39 | 1:38:44 | |
Who is now back
representing Slovenia. | 1:38:44 | 1:38:47 | |
Manchester United have reduced
Manchester City's lead at the top | 1:38:47 | 1:38:51 | |
of the Premier League to 12 points
after beating Stoke last night. | 1:38:51 | 1:38:55 | |
They won 3-0 at Old Trafford
with new Stoke boss Paul Lambert | 1:38:55 | 1:38:59 | |
watching from the stands. | 1:38:59 | 1:39:03 | |
And United could have a major
signing in the next few days too. | 1:39:03 | 1:39:06 | |
Manchester City have
ended their interest | 1:39:06 | 1:39:07 | |
in Alexis Sanchez. | 1:39:07 | 1:39:10 | |
So United and now we
understand Chelsea too | 1:39:10 | 1:39:13 | |
are battling to sign | 1:39:13 | 1:39:14 | |
the Chilean from Arsenal. | 1:39:14 | 1:39:21 | |
The British brand, Burberry,
has become the latest organisation | 1:39:21 | 1:39:23 | |
to say it won't work with members
of the fashion industry that | 1:39:23 | 1:39:26 | |
have been found to have
abused their position. | 1:39:26 | 1:39:29 | |
It comes as two star photographers -
Mario Testino, a favourite | 1:39:29 | 1:39:36 | |
of the British Royal Family,
and American Bruce Weber - | 1:39:36 | 1:39:38 | |
both strenuously deny accusations
made against them by a string | 1:39:38 | 1:39:41 | |
of models and assistants
in the New York Times. | 1:39:41 | 1:39:43 | |
Let's talk to our
reporter, Chichi Izundu. | 1:39:43 | 1:39:45 | |
What are Burberry saying? . They
have basically said they will now no | 1:39:45 | 1:39:52 | |
longer commission future projects
with marrow test teeniour and Bruce | 1:39:52 | 1:39:56 | |
Weber. It is not just them. Other
companies have also said they will | 1:39:56 | 1:40:00 | |
not be working with them in the
future. | 1:40:00 | 1:40:08 | |
future. As Saud Said Mario Testino
and Bruce Weber, strenuously deny | 1:40:08 | 1:40:13 | |
this. Next week is Paris men's
fashion week, so it'll be | 1:40:13 | 1:40:18 | |
interesting to see if there are any
further developments in the fashion | 1:40:18 | 1:40:23 | |
world, who will no longer work with
people who they say av abused their | 1:40:23 | 1:40:28 | |
position of power. What were the
accusations that they deny? Some | 1:40:28 | 1:40:32 | |
include encouraging male models to
get nude when it wasn't part of the | 1:40:32 | 1:40:35 | |
shoot. Being quite sexually
suggestive, in some cases. Yes, | 1:40:35 | 1:40:45 | |
Stuart whiteman, Burberry, Michael
Corrs, raffle Lauren, says they will | 1:40:45 | 1:40:49 | |
not work with anyone, including Con,
de Nast saying they will no longer | 1:40:49 | 1:40:53 | |
work with people they believe have
abused their position of power in | 1:40:53 | 1:40:56 | |
the world of fashion. As I said,
Bruce Weber deny the claims. Mario, | 1:40:56 | 1:41:06 | |
Testono's lawyers say his accuser
cannot be considered reliable | 1:41:06 | 1:41:10 | |
sources. | 1:41:10 | 1:41:12 | |
This morning we've been
asking how we get to grips | 1:41:12 | 1:41:15 | |
with the huge pressure the NHS
is under this winter. | 1:41:15 | 1:41:17 | |
Over the last few weeks you'll have
seen reports of over-crowded A&Es, | 1:41:17 | 1:41:20 | |
a lack of beds and queues
of ambulances stacked up outside | 1:41:20 | 1:41:22 | |
unable to hand over their patients. | 1:41:22 | 1:41:24 | |
On top of that as the NHS
approaches its 70th birthday, | 1:41:24 | 1:41:27 | |
it's having to deal with a growing
and ageing population adding more | 1:41:27 | 1:41:29 | |
pressure to its services. | 1:41:29 | 1:41:30 | |
Last week on this programme
Conservative MP Nick Boles argued | 1:41:30 | 1:41:33 | |
that money from national insurance
should go to the NHS. | 1:41:33 | 1:41:35 | |
I believe that if people knew that
when they looked at their pay slip | 1:41:35 | 1:41:39 | |
and that there was a line that said
national health insurance, if they | 1:41:39 | 1:41:44 | |
knew that that one legally could
only go to support national health | 1:41:44 | 1:41:47 | |
care and social care, that they
would be willing to pay a bit more. | 1:41:47 | 1:41:51 | |
And it's not going to have to be an
enormous amount more, but there are | 1:41:51 | 1:41:54 | |
going to have to be some increases. | 1:41:54 | 1:41:56 | |
So how should the NHS be funded? | 1:41:56 | 1:41:58 | |
Let's talk to the former Chair
of the Royal College | 1:41:58 | 1:42:00 | |
of General Practitioners,
Dr Clare Gerada, | 1:42:00 | 1:42:02 | |
she is also a member
of the Liberal Democrats. | 1:42:02 | 1:42:04 | |
Stephen Dorrell is chair
of the NHS Confederation | 1:42:04 | 1:42:06 | |
which represents providers
and commissioners. | 1:42:06 | 1:42:09 | |
He's also a former
Conservative Health Secretary. | 1:42:09 | 1:42:12 | |
And Alex Hitchcock who is from
the think-tank Reform | 1:42:12 | 1:42:15 | |
which looks at the NHS amongst other
issues and is not alligned | 1:42:15 | 1:42:18 | |
to any political party. | 1:42:18 | 1:42:20 | |
Welcome all of you. So, the funding
of NHS and social care. What is your | 1:42:20 | 1:42:25 | |
solution? Well, clearly we do need
more money. And | 1:42:25 | 1:42:37 | |
more money. And to have a
hypothicated, tax, ringfenced seems | 1:42:37 | 1:42:39 | |
a sensible way forward. Also, I
think we should be looking at 1% for | 1:42:39 | 1:42:44 | |
income tax, to look and urgently
address the funding crisis. Money | 1:42:44 | 1:42:47 | |
isn't the whole answer, of course,
you have very, very expensive health | 1:42:47 | 1:42:52 | |
systems, such as the American health
system which doesn't deliver what it | 1:42:52 | 1:42:54 | |
should. It is clearly not just
money. We need the investment in the | 1:42:54 | 1:42:58 | |
right places and we need investment
in out of hospital care, community | 1:42:58 | 1:43:01 | |
care, primary care, so we can keep
people as healthy as possible for as | 1:43:01 | 1:43:05 | |
long as possible before we put them
into very expensive beds. We | 1:43:05 | 1:43:08 | |
will,back to some of the other
issues you raised there. -- we will | 1:43:08 | 1:43:13 | |
come back. Stephen Dorrell, former
Secretary of State for Health now | 1:43:13 | 1:43:18 | |
NHS scone confederation Chairman.
Your solution? Well, first of all, | 1:43:18 | 1:43:21 | |
it is true that health and public
services generally need more money | 1:43:21 | 1:43:25 | |
in the long-term, in order to
deliver the improving public | 1:43:25 | 1:43:28 | |
services that we all want to see.
Health is part of that. Part of the | 1:43:28 | 1:43:32 | |
problem, I think, as Claire said, is
seeing health separate from social | 1:43:32 | 1:43:37 | |
care, from social housing, and the
full range of social houses. That's | 1:43:37 | 1:43:42 | |
why, within the Confederation what
we have done, is to set up in | 1:43:42 | 1:43:46 | |
partnership with the institute of
fiscal stud yans the health | 1:43:46 | 1:43:50 | |
foundation, instead of guessing how
much money public services need for | 1:43:50 | 1:43:53 | |
the future, a serious analysis of
demand trends, so we can look and | 1:43:53 | 1:43:57 | |
see what the rising elderly
population, what the implications of | 1:43:57 | 1:44:01 | |
that are and then we can plan for it
as a country. Just a quick side | 1:44:01 | 1:44:07 | |
issue but really important. Should
the NHS they, rather than local | 1:44:07 | 1:44:12 | |
councils be in charge of
commissioning social care? Snipe' | 1:44:12 | 1:44:14 | |
not in favour of imagining it is all
the responsibility of the health | 1:44:14 | 1:44:17 | |
service. I think health policy
actually ought to be about enabling | 1:44:17 | 1:44:21 | |
us to lead, not merely longer lives
but also healthier and more | 1:44:21 | 1:44:25 | |
enjoyable lives. It is about
housing, jobs, public spaces as well | 1:44:25 | 1:44:30 | |
as the treatment of disease in the
health service. OK. Alex hitch corks | 1:44:30 | 1:44:35 | |
your suggestion? So, I think -- Alex
Hitchcock. Stephen is right with the | 1:44:35 | 1:44:43 | |
about the support of services more
money is needed. The NHS is | 1:44:43 | 1:44:47 | |
well-funded.
Snr less than other European | 1:44:47 | 1:44:50 | |
countries. If you include social
cakes 9.9% of GDP is spent on health | 1:44:50 | 1:44:57 | |
and social care, above the EU
average. We need to look at how care | 1:44:57 | 1:45:01 | |
is delivered. Currently too much is
delivered in hospitals when it can | 1:45:01 | 1:45:04 | |
be delivered in GPs, more efficient
and more effective and as Claire | 1:45:04 | 1:45:07 | |
will be able to testify but also
look at social care as well, to | 1:45:07 | 1:45:10 | |
ensure we can get people out of
hospital who don't need to be there. | 1:45:10 | 1:45:15 | |
But if you cut £6 billion from
social care which the coalition and | 1:45:15 | 1:45:21 | |
Conservative skefsh Government has
in the last seven years, you can see | 1:45:21 | 1:45:24 | |
why hospitals are full Certainly so.
That points to the challenge of | 1:45:24 | 1:45:27 | |
spending the money in the correct
places. You have had those cuts. | 1:45:27 | 1:45:30 | |
North cutting in the first place by
quite so much. But at the same time, | 1:45:30 | 1:45:35 | |
the NHS's funding has been
ringfenced and hospital funding | 1:45:35 | 1:45:37 | |
going up. Of course, ringfenced. We
know that but if you are at the same | 1:45:37 | 1:45:42 | |
time cutting # billion from social
care, it is going to have a knock-on | 1:45:42 | 1:45:45 | |
effect, is it not? | 1:45:45 | 1:45:49 | |
We all know there is a rising
population of elderly people, we | 1:45:49 | 1:45:53 | |
should celebrate that. That's not a
problem, that's because we can look | 1:45:53 | 1:45:57 | |
forward to longer lives. Surely the
policy challenge is to make the | 1:45:57 | 1:46:01 | |
longer lives more enjoyable and to
keep people out of hospital and even | 1:46:01 | 1:46:06 | |
out of GP surgeries so we can enjoy
life. We need to access when we're | 1:46:06 | 1:46:11 | |
ill, but we should be looking for
opportunities to support people to | 1:46:11 | 1:46:17 | |
enjoy their lives and not rely on
treatment of avoidable illness. | 1:46:17 | 1:46:27 | |
treatment of avoidable illness. The
amount is below the average EU | 1:46:27 | 1:46:30 | |
allocation... The EU average
includes a lot of very poor | 1:46:30 | 1:46:33 | |
countries by our standards. Yes, it
also includes, there is a lot of | 1:46:33 | 1:46:37 | |
care that's paid for separately
outside that, it is a complicated | 1:46:37 | 1:46:41 | |
issue, but nevertheless I think we
need more money. I do think we need | 1:46:41 | 1:46:44 | |
to be looking at how we use the
money as we've heard, it is better | 1:46:44 | 1:46:49 | |
to fund care outside hospital,
nevertheless, we don't have enough | 1:46:49 | 1:46:52 | |
beds. I think we have over Christmas
98% bed occupancy is not on in a | 1:46:52 | 1:46:59 | |
modern health care system. We need
to be investing, as the others have | 1:46:59 | 1:47:03 | |
said, in keeping people safe in
their homes and I wonder how many | 1:47:03 | 1:47:06 | |
people, how many people of my
generation are looking at their | 1:47:06 | 1:47:10 | |
homes and saying, "Well, where is
the trip hazard? Have I got a bed | 1:47:10 | 1:47:15 | |
that's suitable as I grow older? Can
I put a wheelchair between my | 1:47:15 | 1:47:21 | |
doors?" Do think of you support
charging for services, either going | 1:47:21 | 1:47:26 | |
to see the GP or whatever it might
be? No, that's very difficult. That | 1:47:26 | 1:47:30 | |
points to more money being put into
the system whereas we would argue | 1:47:30 | 1:47:33 | |
that shouldn't be the case. It is
difficult to be able to value what | 1:47:33 | 1:47:37 | |
is GP appointment is worth before
you know, how much is a lump worth, | 1:47:37 | 1:47:41 | |
if I find it in the morning is it
worth going to the GP or not? No, I | 1:47:41 | 1:47:50 | |
am not in favour of producing
additional charges within the Health | 1:47:50 | 1:47:53 | |
Service, what I am in favour of
doing as recognising as our society | 1:47:53 | 1:47:57 | |
gets richer, as the economy grows
all the evidence is that we shall | 1:47:57 | 1:48:01 | |
devote, we shall want to devote, as
citizens, a rising share of that | 1:48:01 | 1:48:05 | |
income to the delivery of improving
public services to enable us to | 1:48:05 | 1:48:10 | |
enjoy our longer lives. Briefly...
You had a call of somebody who went | 1:48:10 | 1:48:15 | |
in for Calpol. The price of that
Calpol if somebody paid for it over | 1:48:15 | 1:48:21 | |
the counter, probably under £1. The
real cost now of that patient going | 1:48:21 | 1:48:26 | |
in and using a GP, might be £30 to
£40, we need a sensible discussion | 1:48:26 | 1:48:31 | |
for the public. This is our money,
our services and our choices, but I | 1:48:31 | 1:48:35 | |
do think we need to be looking at
where services should be free and | 1:48:35 | 1:48:39 | |
where we should be expected to pay
for ourselves. Pay extra. Yeah. We | 1:48:39 | 1:48:47 | |
know what you meant. | 1:48:47 | 1:48:52 | |
Foreign ministers from around 20
countries are meeting | 1:48:52 | 1:48:54 | |
in Canada to discuss how to curb
North Korea's nuclear programme. | 1:48:54 | 1:48:56 | |
China will not be there. | 1:48:56 | 1:48:57 | |
It says the meeting will not
help resolve tensions. | 1:48:57 | 1:49:00 | |
Last year saw fiery exchanges
between US president Donald Trump | 1:49:00 | 1:49:02 | |
and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un,
but 2018 has seen a thaw | 1:49:02 | 1:49:08 | |
in relations, resulting in
high-level talks between the North | 1:49:08 | 1:49:10 | |
and South last week. | 1:49:10 | 1:49:11 | |
But how much of that thaw
is due to Donald Trump's | 1:49:11 | 1:49:16 | |
heavy-handed diplomacy? | 1:49:16 | 1:49:21 | |
Let's talk to Greg
Scarlatoiu in Washington. | 1:49:21 | 1:49:24 | |
He's
the Executive Director | 1:49:24 | 1:49:25 | |
of the Committee for Human Rights
in North Korea. | 1:49:25 | 1:49:27 | |
Gordon Chang an American
author who's written | 1:49:27 | 1:49:29 | |
about the North's
nuclear capabilities. | 1:49:29 | 1:49:30 | |
Thank you very much for talking to
us. How significant is this big | 1:49:30 | 1:49:34 | |
meeting in Canada, Greg? This
meeting is supposed to be about a | 1:49:34 | 1:49:40 | |
ramping up pressure and sanctions
and clearly, this is the reason why | 1:49:40 | 1:49:45 | |
China is not present. Again, it's a
meeting meant to strengthen the | 1:49:45 | 1:49:52 | |
economic pressure exercised against
the North Korean regime in order to | 1:49:52 | 1:49:58 | |
achieve the strategic objective of
naving North Korea suspend and give | 1:49:58 | 1:50:03 | |
up its nuclear programme and its
missile programme. | 1:50:03 | 1:50:08 | |
Gordon, any decision made by foreign
ministers today isn't much use, | 1:50:08 | 1:50:11 | |
without the backing of China, is
that right? Well, you know, I think | 1:50:11 | 1:50:15 | |
that China should not be there and
the reason is this is supposed to be | 1:50:15 | 1:50:19 | |
a meeting of like minded nations and
these are nations want to increase | 1:50:19 | 1:50:24 | |
pressure on North Korea. China has
been busting sanctions continually | 1:50:24 | 1:50:29 | |
throughout 2017 and it is about a
bad actor so I don't think China | 1:50:29 | 1:50:34 | |
should be in the room and nor should
Russia. Yes, China and Russia are | 1:50:34 | 1:50:39 | |
consequential, but that doesn't mean
that they should be part of the | 1:50:39 | 1:50:42 | |
solution at this point. We can get
China to co-operate, but only if we | 1:50:42 | 1:50:47 | |
put immense pressure on Beijing and
so, that's what this talk about | 1:50:47 | 1:50:52 | |
today putting pressure on China, on
Russia and on North Korea. How do | 1:50:52 | 1:50:57 | |
you assess Greg, the nuclear threat
from North Korea this year? Clearly, | 1:50:57 | 1:51:05 | |
under the Kim Jong-un regime, North
Korea has dramatically accelerated | 1:51:05 | 1:51:12 | |
both its nuclear and its long-range
ballistic missile programme. Four | 1:51:12 | 1:51:17 | |
out of six nuclear tests by North
Korea have happened on Kim Jong-un's | 1:51:17 | 1:51:21 | |
watch. If one looks at statements,
public statements, by senior | 1:51:21 | 1:51:28 | |
officials, I think we are pretty
close to acknowledging that North | 1:51:28 | 1:51:33 | |
Korea has reached one of its
fundamental strategic objectives | 1:51:33 | 1:51:37 | |
which is being capable of having a
long-range ballistic missile capable | 1:51:37 | 1:51:43 | |
of delivering a nuclear warhead to
the Continental United States. | 1:51:43 | 1:51:46 | |
Gordon, do you think that now
sanctions are biting, North Korea | 1:51:46 | 1:51:52 | |
might be willing to put their
nuclear programme on the table when | 1:51:52 | 1:51:55 | |
it comes to negotiations in the
future? Sanctions, indeed are biting | 1:51:55 | 1:52:00 | |
and there is a lot of evidence of
that including koupg's New Year's | 1:52:00 | 1:52:04 | |
address. He talked about sanctions
being a threat to the regime. We | 1:52:04 | 1:52:09 | |
have seen for instance officials in
Pyongyang | 1:52:09 | 1:52:14 | |
have seen for instance officials in
have seen for instance officials in | 1:52:14 | 1:52:14 | |
Pyongyang are not getting their
rations through the distribution | 1:52:14 | 1:52:16 | |
system. The soldier who defected in
December had uncooked kernels of | 1:52:16 | 1:52:26 | |
corn. Those most favoured a
scroujing for food. North Korea is | 1:52:26 | 1:52:34 | |
not at the point to sit done Artalk
about denuclearisation. That means | 1:52:34 | 1:52:41 | |
that sanctions need to be ramped up.
At some point, I think, that the | 1:52:41 | 1:52:47 | |
regime, either Kim Jong-un or those
around him are going to realise this | 1:52:47 | 1:52:50 | |
they have no choice, but to give up,
but the pressure has got to be much | 1:52:50 | 1:52:54 | |
more than it is now.
Thank you both. Thank you very much. | 1:52:54 | 1:53:06 | |
In the last half an hour, we asked
you to get in touch with your | 1:53:06 | 1:53:10 | |
experiences of an abortion clinic in
Ealing in West London. The council | 1:53:10 | 1:53:13 | |
is meeting today to discuss whether
to introduce a special order to stop | 1:53:13 | 1:53:20 | |
any protesters holding vigils
thousands Marie Stopes Clinic. Clare | 1:53:20 | 1:53:28 | |
McCulloch told us their protests
were not over the top. So, we asked | 1:53:28 | 1:53:32 | |
you to get in touch and share your
experiences. Louisa used the clinic | 1:53:32 | 1:53:37 | |
in Ealing five years ago. Lisa is
not her real and also used the same | 1:53:37 | 1:53:42 | |
clinic. Hello both of you. Hello.
Hi. Hi. Louisa, tell us your | 1:53:42 | 1:53:49 | |
experience. Yes, I have been to the
clinic. It was my first-term nation | 1:53:49 | 1:53:57 | |
and as soon as I got there with my
partner, I had a woman coming to me | 1:53:57 | 1:54:05 | |
with very graphic images, with
leaflets and then called me a | 1:54:05 | 1:54:11 | |
murderer. I went inside the clinic
crying already. I had lots of | 1:54:11 | 1:54:16 | |
support inside the clinic and that
created a big impact when I went | 1:54:16 | 1:54:21 | |
home after I finished the ter minute
nation. Those people made my | 1:54:21 | 1:54:28 | |
experience worse than it already
was. All I kept thinking was, "Am I | 1:54:28 | 1:54:33 | |
a murderer?" I was doubting myself
and I don't think those people | 1:54:33 | 1:54:38 | |
should be in those places. Let me
bring in Lisa, Lisa isn't her real | 1:54:38 | 1:54:42 | |
name. You also used the same clinic
and you were accompanying your | 1:54:42 | 1:54:46 | |
daughter who had an abortion, Lisa,
I understand. Tell us what happened. | 1:54:46 | 1:54:52 | |
Well, my daughter fell pregnant or
became pregnant when she was 17 | 1:54:52 | 1:54:56 | |
after a two month relationship with
somebody. We had a very tearful | 1:54:56 | 1:55:03 | |
exchange where she said that she
really didn't feel that she wanted | 1:55:03 | 1:55:06 | |
to go ahead with the pregnancy. I
toll her that I would support her | 1:55:06 | 1:55:11 | |
either way. She made up her mind and
we went to Ealing. She was very | 1:55:11 | 1:55:16 | |
young. She came across these people
outside and I asked her again at | 1:55:16 | 1:55:24 | |
that time whether she was really
sure? We had the most fantastic care | 1:55:24 | 1:55:30 | |
within the clinic. They actually
asked her whether she was really | 1:55:30 | 1:55:36 | |
sure because obviously she is young
and advised her about things like | 1:55:36 | 1:55:43 | |
possible guilt and all of that, but
she went ahead and now she, you | 1:55:43 | 1:55:49 | |
know, has a daughter of he own. She
has a life. She has a PhD and I | 1:55:49 | 1:55:55 | |
don't believe any of that would have
happened if she had gone ahead with | 1:55:55 | 1:55:59 | |
the pregnancy. What impact did the
protesters outside have on you and | 1:55:59 | 1:56:04 | |
your daughter? It made me very angry
and her very sad. Why did it make | 1:56:04 | 1:56:11 | |
you angry? Because I felt that they
really should just back off. This is | 1:56:11 | 1:56:19 | |
a very hard decision. Nobody has an
abortion lightly in my view. It's a | 1:56:19 | 1:56:24 | |
very hard decision for anybody to
make. It's not easy. And so that | 1:56:24 | 1:56:31 | |
made me angry. It just made her feel
guilty, sad, you know, all the rest | 1:56:31 | 1:56:38 | |
of it. Louisa, let me ask you, the
council meets tonight to discuss the | 1:56:38 | 1:56:43 | |
next step in whether to bring in the
protection order, do you think they | 1:56:43 | 1:56:47 | |
should? Yes, I think they should go
ahead and those people shouldn't be | 1:56:47 | 1:56:55 | |
allowed to be at the clinic. Making
vulnerable people feel worse about | 1:56:55 | 1:57:02 | |
everything. Everybody's situation is
different. They don't know the | 1:57:02 | 1:57:05 | |
reasons why someone is there. They
shouldn't make people feel like | 1:57:05 | 1:57:09 | |
that. It's wrong. You may have heard
the representative from the Good | 1:57:09 | 1:57:14 | |
Counsel Network say they do what she
said, was they do offer some women | 1:57:14 | 1:57:18 | |
support who look like they need
support and in some cases, the woman | 1:57:18 | 1:57:22 | |
changes her mind about having an
abortion. Yes, it's true. Some women | 1:57:22 | 1:57:27 | |
do change their mind, but it has to
be the woman's decision. It's her | 1:57:27 | 1:57:31 | |
body. It's her decision. She is in
charge of her body. If she thinks it | 1:57:31 | 1:57:35 | |
is not the right time to have a
child, whatever circumstances she | 1:57:35 | 1:57:39 | |
has, no one should try to change her
mind. It is the woman's decision if | 1:57:39 | 1:57:44 | |
she wants to go ahead or not.
Lisa, finally, do you think any | 1:57:44 | 1:57:52 | |
protest outside abortion clinics
should be banned with the bringing | 1:57:52 | 1:57:56 | |
in of a protection order, briefly?
Briefly, applaud freedom of speech, | 1:57:56 | 1:58:03 | |
but I think that circumstances
regarding abortion are so varied | 1:58:03 | 1:58:07 | |
that they should basically not be
allowed. OK. Thank you both. I'm | 1:58:07 | 1:58:11 | |
really grateful that you came on the
programme. Thank you, Lisa. Thank | 1:58:11 | 1:58:14 | |
you, Louisa. Thank you very much. | 1:58:14 | 1:58:18 | |
On the programme tomorrow,
how do achieve a better | 1:58:18 | 1:58:20 | |
work life balance? | 1:58:20 | 1:58:23 | |
Thank you for watching today. We're
back tomorrow at 9am. Have a good | 1:58:23 | 1:58:27 | |
day. | 1:58:27 | 1:58:32 |