20/03/2018 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello, it's Tuesday, it's 9 o'clock.

I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

welcome to the programme

Our top story today -

planting fake news, spying

on rivals, hiring beautiful women

for use in honeytraps,

some of the things the boss

of election campaign consultants

Cambridge Analytica

talked about when talking

to a possible client

who was, in fact,

an undercover reporter.

The boss now says that report

grossly misrepresented

those conversations.

Please see this as a coordinated

attack by the media that's been

going on for very, very many months

-- we see this as. In order to

damage the company that had some

involvement with the election of

Donald Trump.

The Information Commissioner says

she'll be investigating -

we'll hear from her before the end

of the programme.

Also on the programme -

in an exclusive interview,

actor Michael Sheen tells us how

he's taking on rent to own companies

which charge huge interest rates

for household products -

it's an issue we've

investigated before.

I said where's it from? BrightHouse.

I said, oh, my God. How many times

have I said don't judge them with a

barge pole?!

barge pole?!

We will hear from

Michael Sheen and former Labour

leader Ed Miliband in the next 15

minutes.

And hair plays a huge part

in our self image and self esteem -

so what impact does it have

on you if you start

losing it in yours 20s?

I thought I am too young for her

loss, I have just turned 25, I have

experienced this since college. I am

way too young to be losing my hair.

Hello.

Welcome to the programme,

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As we are each weekday.

Throughout the morning we'll bring

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as always - we're keen

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Also we'll bring you this story -

the world's last male northern white

rhino has died in Kenya,

bringing the sub-species to the very

brink of extinction.

The 45-year-old rhino,

who was called Sudan,

was in poor health and was put

down on Monday.

His daughter and grand-daughter

are the only females remaining now.

We'll look at what this means

and talk to those who knew Sudan.

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Our top story today...

The Information Commissioner

will today apply for a warrant

to search the offices of a British

company accused of misusing

the personal data of 50

million Facebook users.

A former employee of

Cambridge Analytica has accused it

of exploiting information

about Facebook users

in order to influence the US

presidential election.

Its executives have also been filmed

by Channel 4 News suggesting it

could use honey traps

and potentially bribery

to discredit politicians.

Both Cambridge Analytica

and Facebook deny any wrongdoing.

Mark Lobel reports.

A leading British data mining

firm is today battling

to save its reputation.

Yet, this is complex to do...

Executives from Cambridge Analytica

have been secretly filmed

by Channel 4 News apparently

suggesting it could use honey traps

and potential bribery

to discredit politicians.

But the company hit back,

criticising how the programme

was edited, claiming they do not

engage in honey traps or bribes.

Last night, the company's chief

executive spoke to the BBC.

I have a huge amount of regrets

about the fact that we maybe

undertook this meeting and spoke

with a certain amount of hyperbole

about some of the things that we do.

But the allegations don't end there.

Cambridge Analytica may be

responsible for a major breach

of ordinary people's data, too.

It has been accused of using

the personal data from 50 million

Facebook users to encourage voters

to back Donald Trump during the 2016

US presidential election.

A whistleblower from the company

claims a personality quiz

on Facebook was used

to amass the data.

That potential breach

of privacy has alarmed

the Information Commissioner

who today, citing Cambridge

Analytica's lack of co-operation,

is seeking a warrant

to search its databases and servers.

Facebook suspended Cambridge

Analytica from its services last

week and instructed a digital

forensic team to find out if it

still has the data in question,

but Cambridge Analytica claimed it

has deleted all the data it obtained

from a third party application

in 2014 after learning

the information did not adhere

to data protection rules.

Mark Lobel, BBC News.

Our correspondent

Keith Doyle is here now.

What else can you tell us?

Cambridge

Analytica wants to be in the

background, obviously, and it is

finding itself in the headlines,

something it definitely does not

once. Those allegations of last

night, the recording is broadcast by

Channel 4, in that Aleksander Nix

was asked about Digg Dummett Radebe

digging, he said we do a lot more

than that. -- was asked about deep

digging. We could offer clients a

deal that seems too good to be true,

maybe send some girls around. He

said he was grossly misrepresented

and they were following ludicrous

hypothetical scenarios so as not to

embarrass what they thought was a

potential client. Now we know the

information Commissioner Elizabeth

Denham wants to look at their

servers and computers. Liam Byrne,

the shadowed digital Business

Minister is questioning that,

questioning whether she has the

right legal powers to be able to

carry out a thorough search. He says

that in effect she has given them a

bit of a heads up and now they know

what lies in store, so he says it is

the wild West out there. It will be

interesting to hear what she says

later.

Thank you, Keith. We will

hear both from Labour's Liam Byrne

and the information Commissioner

later. Annita McVeigh has the rest

of the day's news.

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK must steel

deal with Vladimir Putin despite

evidence pointing to his country's

involvement in the Salisbury spy

attack. The Labour leader said he

would do business with Russia but

assertively and on the basis of UK

values. Shadow Chancellor John

McDonnell says he believes Putin was

responsible but Mr Corbyn said he

wanted an absolutely definitive

answer about the source of the nerve

agent.

Former French President Nicolas

Sarkozy is being held in police

custody in connection with an

investigation into campaign funding.

Police are investigating alleged

irregularities over the financing of

his 2007 presidential campaign. He

is being questioned over allegations

that he received funding from Bulega

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.

Consumers could see prices fall

by up to 1.2% if Britain

were to abolish all tariffs once it

has left the European Union.

The findings are in

a report by the financial

think tank, the Institute for Fiscal

Studies.

But the independent report also

warns that any gains would be small

and that costs linked to new EU

trade barriers could hit consumers.

A two-year-old girl has died

after being lifted from a car found

in a river in Wales.

Kiara Moore was recovered

from a silver Mini in

the River Teifi in Cardigan.

On Monday afternoon,

numerous Facebook posts claimed

the car had been stolen.

Officers say they are continuing

to investigate the circumstances

of the incident and appealed

for witnesses who may have seen

the vehicle enter the river.

The taxi-hailing service Uber

has suspended testing

of its driverless cars in the US

after a fatal accident.

A 49-year-old woman was hit

as she crossed a street in Arizona.

While self-driving cars have been

involved in several crashes,

it is thought to be the first time

a self-driving car has been involved

in a fatal collision.

Police are urging members of the

public to help them prevent terror

attacks in the UK as part of a new

drive to encourage people to report

suspicious behaviour or activity.

Detectives have revealed that one in

five reports made to

counterterrorism police last year

contained useful intelligence. Here

is our home affairs correspondent

Danny Shaw.

The police need the public's

help to tackle terrorism.

They want people to become

their ears and eyes,

to be on the lookout for unusual

activity or behaviour and report it.

The message is,

trust your instincts.

Just as officers trust

theirs when they spot

something that doesn't feel right.

I may see someone paying attention

to security operations, um,

a car going past the same location

numerous times, a person with no

direction or purpose,

but the list is not exhaustive.

It's very much what is

suspicious to that person.

As part of the police campaign,

there is a short film to show

people the kind of things

they should report.

We have long said every good

police officer should be

a counterterrorism officer.

I want every good citizen to be

a good counterterrorism citizen

and this is the way they can

do just that.

Counterterrorism police say

they received more than 6000 useful

tipoffs last year out of almost

31,000 calls and messages

and they want the information

to keep on coming.

Danny Shaw, BBC News.

Fathers wanting to take an equal

share in looking after young

children are being failed

by workplace policies,

the Government is being warned.

The Women and Equalities Committee

said that, despite good intentions,

policies aimed at helping fathers

are not delivering what they

promise - especially

for less well-off workers.

MPs called for improvements

to flexible working,

shared parental leave

and paternity pay.

The world's last surviving

male northern white

rhino has died in Kenya.

45-year-old Sudan was put to sleep

on Monday after suffering

from age-related complications.

His death leaves only two females -

his daughter and granddaughter -

alive in the world.

Scientists are hoping

to develop IVF techniques

to preserve the subspecies.

The TV presenter and McPartlin has

stepped down from his work

commitments to return to rehab after

being arrested on suspicion of

drink-driving. This weekend's

Saturday Night Takeaway has been

cancelled and it is not clear who

will present the final two episodes

of the series.

The impact of losing

your hair when you're

young can be devastating.

Radio 1 Newsbeat has been

speaking to people who've

lost their hair in their twenties.

They've been talking

about the effect it had had

on their lives and the measures

they're taking to deal with it.

You can see our special report

in about fifteen minutes' time.

That's a summary of the latest BBC

News - more at 9:30am.

We will talk to actor Michael Sheen

in a moment.

in a moment. He is launching a

campaign to promote alternative

credit companies who have much

cheaper credit than big payday loan

companies and the rent to own

companies, something we have

featured on this programme a number

of times. We will talk to him in a

moment, but first Jess has the

sport.

sport. There is debate about whether

Serena Williams has been given the

rough end of the draw in Miami?

Lots

of debate about this, especially in

the BBC Sports Centre in Salford.

She has returned after 13 months

off.

She used to be the world number

one but since returning

is currently ranked 491st.

And because of that low ranking,

she will play a tougher opponent

earlier on in a tournament,

rather than in the latter

stages, making it more

difficult for her to win.

The director of the Miami Open,

where Serena will play

in the first round this evening,

has described the whole thing

as "punishment" against Serena

for taking time out to have a baby.

James Blake suggests there should be

protection for women players that

go on maternity leave.

His quotes are quite strong.

The Women's Tennis Association

recently said that they are very

supportive of those players

returning from pregnancy and the

players... And the rules, I should

say, will be further reviewed. But

we have not had a response from

Serena yet, amazingly. She plays in

Miami this evening so we expect to

hear from her possibly a bit later.

All the dust and snow has settled on

the Six Nations, everyone happy and

the Ireland camp but questions being

asked of Eddie Jones?

The fallout

from England's rubber skin showing

in the Six Nations continues. Former

player Jeremy Guscott is having his

Siame believes England need to start

from scratch and have not made any

progress in the last year. They were

defending Six Nations champions,

they lost three of their five

matches, finishing fifth in the

table. There was so much fanfare

when Eddie Jones, the head coach,

took the mantle and they went on an

amazing run of winning games, but it

has all fallen apart and there are

major questions to be as of Jones

and the England players.

We don't normally feature football

from Chile, something we need to

rectify immediately. Show as this

outstanding acting acclamation

this

is the Chilean top-flight.

Definitely a contender for worst

dive of the year, possibly ever. You

only

dive of the year, possibly ever. You

only really get to see it in the

slow replay. The defender in white

falls down, the attacker thinks no,

I will not kick it, I will throw

myself to the floor. Look how his

neck cocks back, he rides around on

the floor a little bit and

amazingly, because of

the floor a little bit and

amazingly, because of acting, he won

a penalty.

No! You reap what you

sow, that will come back to haunt

him. Thank you very much, Jessica.

Welcome to the programme.

Tackling those who

unfairly target the most

vulnerable in society -

the British actor, Michael Sheen,

who's starred in films

such as Frost/Nixon,

The Queen and The Twilight Saga,

has founded a new initiative aimed

at providing fairer alternatives

to mainstream rent-to-own firms.

The End High Cost Credit

Alliance will invest

in not-for-profit companies

to compete and win against

high-cost credit providers

like Brighthouse and Perfect Home.

Rent-to-own firms are often

used by people who cannot afford

to buy a product outright,

or cannot get credit.

Consumers take out

an agreement to buy a product

and then pay weekly instalments

until they own it - similar

to a hire purchase agreement.

But customers can end up

paying much more than the actual

cost of the product due to high

rates of interest and extra

costs such as a mandatory warranty.

It's an issue we've

been looking at for some

time on this programme.

In July, 2016, former Labour leader

Ed Miliband reported on the subject

for us and highlighted one example

that a £358 washing machine ended up

costing more than £1,000.

With so much choice

on the high street, we're told

the customer is king.

As leader of the Labour Party and a

backbench MP, I have talked about

the needs for firms to do right by

their customers and play by the

rules. They have 300 stores across

the country, often in the poorest

areas, Brighthouse. I want to find

out what kind of service they are

really providing. I am concerned

Brighthouse are taking advantage of

people on benefits and low incomes.

In the course of our investigation,

I have been really shocked to find

Brighthouse are selling to people

with mental health problems and

learning disabilities.

Suffers with

mental health problems, severe.

Craig is 38, with autism and

cerebral palsy. His mum says her son

did not understand the contract. She

spoke to us on his behalf.

He will

pay but then he has nothing for

himself. For food and electric, gas,

things like that. He is quite a

handful.

Tell us a bit about what

experience you have had but

Brighthouse.

Craig apparently had

been in and bought this machine

where you play games. I kept seeing

it in the house and I did not really

tweak and then I said, where did

you... How much are you paying for

that? He said £50. It was 43 a

month. I said, where is it from? He

said Brighthouse. I said, my God,

how many times have I said do not

touch them with a barge pole?

Do you

think it would have been obvious to

the Brighthouse staff Craig has

learning difficulties?

Yes.

What was

the reaction of Brighthouse when you

complained in the shop and when you

wrote to them?

They said, we have

been through this, a new man at the

shop, we go through this to make

sure they know what they are

getting. I said, that is no good to

Craig.

Although she believes

Brighthouse should have realised her

son was from rubble, she says they

stop taking payments from his

account as soon as she told them

about his situation -- her son was

vulnerable. Brighthouse dispute the

claims it would have been obvious he

had learning difficulties. They had

no reason to believe he was not

aware of what he was doing. There

are those who make the case there

was a gap in the market and Perfect

Home, Brighthouse and others provide

an essential purpose.

The

fundamental question is whether we

think these people should be able to

opt into a contract where they pay

more overall or have the appliance,

it is an injustice to tell people

that because they are poor they

cannot have things that we consider

necessities.

Some of the companies

are making very big profits at the

expense of my constituents. How is

it fair?

They are taking on a lot of

risk. They are making marginal

profits because they are loaning to

people with average credit scores.

These went to an companies often

take on people with no credit score,

they do not know if they will get

the payment, they take on a lot of

risk. They get their profits because

they have to insure down the line

they will get some kind of return

but in the meantime people who would

not have the goods are getting them

to their homes next day delivery.

That report from Ed Miliband, 2016.

And he is here. Former Labour leader

of course.

In Glasgow is Michael Sheen who's

launching this move to end

the high cost of credit

and is giving his first interview

on the subject to us this morning.

We would like your experiences. A

world away from your day job, tell

our audience what it is you are

launching and what you wanted to

achieve.

I'm in Glasgow for a

responsible finance forum, I want to

launch the End High-Cost Credit

Alliance and it is to create a

fairer deal for the people who find

themselves unable to access

mainstream credit and a fairer deal

for the company is trying to help

those people out, to try to give

them the best deal possible. It is

double tracked.

And you have been

made aware of the effect of this

kind of high cost credit on friends

and family, I gather?

Over the last

seven, eight years, when you have a

little bit of celebrity, like I do,

you get asked to come and support

different projects and one of the

things that has kept coming up is

this issue around household debt and

high cost credit. I started to see

it with friends and family members

and the burden that is, the stress

it puts on your health, your

financial and mental and physical

health, as I started to get more

involved in this issue, I wanted to

see if I could be effective, I did

not want to just lend my name to

something, I wanted to help people

trying to help others to see if we

could make a change.

Let me read you

this text message from one of our

viewers, Jerome. Why do people buy

things they do not

need and cannot afford?

I have not

got a 50 inch TV, I could not afford

one. It is not the shop's fault

people are stupid. What we are

seeing is people are having to go to

high cost credit lenders to cover

basic household cross. There was a

report coming out saying that as of

last year 1.4 million people are now

using high cost credit just to cover

basic household costs, up from 1.1

million the year before, it is on

the rise. Since the 2008 crash, wage

earnings have not been able to keep

up with inflation, so the cost of

living is getting higher and wages

are not matching it, there is a

squeeze for people and people are

feeling it more and more.

Is there

anything wrong with this

kind of of customers know the risks

and charges?

Credit can be a really

good thing, the useful and necessary

tool, if done responsibly unfairly.

We try to plan on what is coming

down the line, but sometimes the

washing machine breaking down can

cause a crisis, we have to have

access to help when we need it, the

problem is that if there are people

who are looking out for that and

preying on people when they are in

difficulty, that seems unfair. There

are alternatives but people do not

know about them because they do not

have the marketing budget is the big

companies have so the point is to

make sure people are aware they have

other options but we have to support

those options so they can take on

these people.

We did contact

Brighthouse, one of the rent-to-own

companies, they said they did not

want to comment or appear on the

programme, but they suggest they are

offering something no one else is

and it is a service.

Yeah, we talk

about things like APR which is

essentially the cost of borrowing,

and the companies that are, I would

say, fairer, more responsible, the

APR still looks relatively high,

nowhere near as high as the more

irresponsible companies, as I would

say, but to bring the APR down, we

have to support them, we have to

give them a level playing field to

compete because there is a gap in

the market, as your film was saying,

people do need help, it is just they

are not as aware of the other

companies.

Are you providing in

practical terms an alternative

source of credit or are you simply

promoting cheaper alternative

providers of instant credit that

already exist?

We want to take a

look at the entire sector, creating

a fairer level playing field across

the whole place and that is what Ed

would support, I think, if you look

at individual sections, it is hard

to tackle, so you have to take a

more holistic look and that is why

the alliances working with

regulators and policymakers and

funders and think tanks and

grant-making organisations to try to

create a real shift in the financial

landscape, not just to try to stop

the worst practices but to support

the better ones.

You will be aware

of sometimes cynicism that sometimes

exists when high profile wealthy

people like yourself get involved in

issues like this, will you be

putting some of your own money into

this?

The alliance so far has been

funded by my own money, this is

something... I am not an expert but

I wanted to make sure people who are

experts and have experience and

resources come together and work

together because this requires a lot

of different things happening at the

same time. What I found I can bring

to the table as I can get people to

sit in the same room together, that

would not normally, even if it is

just to sign a copy of Twilight and

I have freedom and independence and

I'm not looking for votes, I'm not

getting paid, I can be more

problematic about it and this is a

cross-party politics, it is about a

fairer deal -- I can be more

pragmatic.

Ed Miliband, this is what

Brighthouse say, they serve

low-income families excluded from

mainstream credit, went to owners

are very different proposition to

other forms of we undertake

extensive affordability assessment

-- rent-to-own is a very different

proposition.

It is worth saying what

has happened since I did the film.

Since then, the FCO, the people in

charge, they have find Brighthouse

nearly £15 million and they have

made them pay back money to

customers because of the sharp

practices, they said they were not

responsible lenders. We have also

seen some changes to Brighthouse's

practices. One of the things I

highlighted was the way they bundled

together the so-called 5-star

service they offered on the price

and that has changed. The

fundamental problem, Michael talked

about this very well, you have got

the most vulnerable people who do

not have an alternative, they are

paying £1500 for a sofa, £1200 for a

television, paying over the odds,

and Brighthouse's business model is

based on that very high annual

percentage rate, APR, 70%, often,

and that is the problem. So I do not

share Brighthouse's you, I think

they are exploiting vulnerable

people.

But there are other mid-cost

alternative credit providers as

Michael explained, customers simply

need to choose them.

I do not think

there is enough of the alternatives

and that is why I think what Michael

is doing is very important because

he is trying to use his convening

power, bringing people together, to

try to get other financiers and

people who care about these issues

to support some of the credit

unions, the not-for-profit

alternatives. My constituency

experience which is where I based

the film is that this can be done at

a much... In a sustainable way at a

much lower cost. People who cannot

afford the money upfront, you can

find ways of lending them the money

so that they can buy the cooker, the

washing machine, the TV, and pay it

back and it does not need to cost

than double or three times the

amount.

A couple of messages, this

from... I don't know, but anyway, it

is on Twitter, they are doing what

our government should be doing,

campaigning to protect the most

vulnerable in our society from

extortionate high-cost credit. Jamie

says, great campaign by Michael

Sheen to end higher cost credit,

people get sucked into a spiral and

cannot get out while being preyed

upon by big business. I will

introduce Stacey, a mum of five, she

has borrowed quite a bit of money

over the years, can you hear me?

Yeah. Thank you for coming on the

programme. Tell us how much you

think you have ended up borrowing

from some of these companies.

Thousands, to be fair.

How many, do

you know?

Probably about four, five.

What has it been like trying to pay

the money back?

It is a bit of a

struggle but like people say, I

borrow it, but it has only been for

stuff we need, like washing

machines, fridge freezer, if they

break, we have not borrowed money

like the text message said to get a

big 50 inch TV.

For you, would you

describe it as a positive thing?

It

has, but if we had a bit more access

to credit, but I checked my credit

score regularly and my problem is at

the minute because I have that much

credit out, payments, I pay it all,

all up to date, but because my

credit, I have a lot of it, I cannot

go and, say, get a loan to

consolidate my credit because they

will not let me have it. Understood.

And what do you think from what you

have heard of Michael Sheen's

campaign?

I think it is brilliant. There is an

alternative to BrightHouse. The

thing I like about BrightHouse, I

got two of my children refurbished

laptops from them not long ago. We

could have got these outright

because they did not cost that much,

but one reason we did not because of

the insurance they give with that,

anything happens they -- you can

take it back and they will sort it.

Which was really good because one of

my twins decided to put a whole

bottle of lemonade over my

daughter's laptop.

How much was the

insurance?

To be fair, I don't

actually know. I have it written

down. It is only about two or £3 a

week, not a huge amount, but it is

handy to have.

Thank you very much for coming on

the programme, Stacey booth, mum of

five, who has had a positive

experience. Thank you to Ed Miliband

and Michael Sheen. Before you go, Ed

Miliband, you would expect me to ask

you about Jeremy Corbyn and Russia.

Mr Corbyn has given an interview to

our colleagues on Radio 4 today. I

will give you a quote from it if I

may. He tells The World At One that

the UK must still deal with Russia,

despite all fingers pointing to it

over

the Salisbury spy attack. Is he

right?

Of course we will have to

deal with them. I was not in the

House of Commons when he responded

to Theresa May but I read his piece

he wrote about this. He said the

evidence pointed to Russia, he

backed expelling the diplomats but

you need to be calm and

level-headed. It is very serious

what Russia did, very serious indeed

and has to be taken incredibly

seriously by the British Government,

of course we will have to deal with

them.

Did Jeremy Corbyn misjudge the

public mood?

I don't think so. He

was approaching it in his own way,

saying you need to be calm and

measured. I think you need calm and

measured leaderships.

A couple more

comments regarding payday loan at

rent to own, Caven said I bought a

corner suite from one when I moved

to a new house, paying £100 a month.

I lost my job after 12 months and

could not pay, the company took it

away and we lost all our money.

Peter says I'm sure Michael Sheen

has the best intentions but

involving himself in competing with

established businesses very

experienced in risk management is

doomed to cost the current backers.

Helen says Michael Sheen being

brilliant on exploitative credit

like BrightHouse with Ed Miliband

this morning. It says why is Ed

Miliband saying poor people don't

have an alternative, what about

credit unions?

That is right, but we

need people to know about the credit

unions. I spoke to my own credit

union this morning and they need

more help and support. My credit

union is restarting its business,

offering people an alternative to

BrightHouse. We hope it succeeds.

But the credit union sector in this

country does less well than in

others. We need more backing for

that from Government, the Financial

Conduct Authority, it is very

complex for credit unions to offer

this service. And I think the banks

could do a lot more to stand by and

support the work of credit unions.

Thank you very much.

Still to come...

Loosing your hair in your 20s

and the impact it can have.

A 23-year-old woman who wears a wig

has been investigating for us.

And on the brink of extinction -

only 2 white rhinos remain

after the world's last male species

died, we'll look at what that

means for the species.

Time for the latest

news - here's Annita.

The BBC News headlines

this morning...

A British company accused

of misusing personal data

belonging to 50 million Facebook

users is being investigated

by the information watchdog.

The UK's Information Commissioner

says she will seek a warrant to look

at databases and servers hosted

by Cambridge Analytica.

The firm is accused of using

facebook data without consent

to influence the outcome

of the last US election.

Both Cambridge Analytica

and Facebook deny any wrongdoing.

Meanwhile Cambridge Analytica

executives have been filmed by

Channel 4 News suggesting it could

use honey traps and potentially

bribery to discredit politicians.

The company denies any wrongdoing.

Jeremy Corbyn says the UK must still

deal with Vladimir Putin despite

evidence pointing to his country's

involvement in the Salisbury spy

attack.

The Labour leader said he would do

business with Russia but

assertively and on the

basis of UK values.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell

says he believes Putin was

responsible but Mr Corbyn said

he wanted an absolutely definitive

answer about the source

of the nerve agent.

The former French

president Nicolas Sarkozy

is being held in police custody

in connection with an investigation

into campaign funding.

Police are investigating

alleged irregularities over

the financing of his

2007 presidential campaign.

He is being questioned over

allegations that he received funding

from the late Libyan leader Colonel

Gaddafi.

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

We will go straight to Paris and

speak to Hugh Schofield. Tell us

more about the fact that the former

French president is being

questioned?

This investigation goes

back many, many years. We're talking

about the 2006/7 campaign which led

Sarkozy to victory, an investigation

opened by judges in 2013. French

justice grind exceedingly slow. It

has to be said that the fact that

Sarkozy has been brought in for

obligatory questioning and been held

for 48 hours by the investigating

police in this affair suggests that

the magistrates have been honoured

for so long and they feel they are

getting closer to the nub of the

affair. It could end up at the end

of the 24, 48-hour period where he

has been held, that he will be

placed under a judicial

investigation, meaning a probable

trial. It is very bad news the

Nicolas Sarkozy. This allegation has

swarmed around for years and many of

us, myself included, treated with a

huge amount of caution. Libyan money

funding a French presidential

election campaign, it sounded far

too unlikely to be true. It lends an

enormous amount of credence to the

very allegation which some people

have pushed, they say they have had

evidence for for some years, the

idea being that back then Sarkozy

said I have to have a big blitz of a

campaign, take French politics to a

new level, American-style levels of

razzmatazz. He cultivated through

various contacts Colonel Gaddafi and

got this money, 50 million euros.

Into context, if you remember back

then, quite shortly after being

elected, who did a state visit, a

very unusual state visit, parking

his tent on the lawn? Colonel

Gaddafi. There is a lot of murk,

part of the problem has been that

lots of the witnesses are by

definition almost totally

unreliable, which has allowed the

Sarkozy camp to say the allegations

have been put up by people trying to

create smoke screens, but if the

judges getting closer to the truth

and the truth is that money was

coming into the Sarkozy campaign, it

casts a very great shadow over the

whole Sarkozy legacy.

Thank you,

Hugh Schofield. Jessica has the

latest sport.

Should Serena Williams' world

ranking be protected?

The tournament director of

the Miami Open, James Blake, thinks

so and describes the current

seeding rules as punishment

for women that return to tennis

after having a baby.

The fallout from England's dismal

Six Nations campaign continues.

Former England player Jeremy Guscott

says the team haven't made any

progress in the past year.

Not since 2006 have they lost

three matches in a single

Six Nations campaign.

England are still waiting

on the fitness of all-rounder Ben

Stokes ahead of Thursday's first

Test against New Zealand.

The ECB say he's on track to play

his first Test in six months.

Craig Overton has told the BBC he'll

be ready to step in if needed.

South Africa's Kagiso Rabada

is available to play

in South Africa's final two

Tests against Australia.

The seamer had been banned for bad

behaviour in an ill-tempered series

but has had the punishment

reduced on appeal.

That is all your sport, I will be

back with a full bulletin at just

after 10am.

Next, losing your hair

when you're young

and the impact it can have on you,

especially if you're in your 20s.

Chedira Eggerue is 23 and wears

a wig to hide her bald patch.

She's been talking to other people

about their own hairloss

for Radio 1's Newsbeat.

It shows some graphic

images of hair transplants.

Hair is a big part of us.

It shows off our style, identity

and lets us change up our look.

It's the thing that can

make us feel beautiful.

But we won't all keep

our hair forever.

Some of us are going to lose it.

People have always gone bald,

and they've tried lots of strange

ways to hide it or stop

it falling out.

But some techniques work

better than others.

My name is Chedira, I'm 23 and most

people don't know this is a wig.

There a massive bald patch right

here, and that's pretty much

what I've been hiding

underneath this the whole time.

My hair loss gets to me.

And it's something that

obsesses other women

and loads of young men too.

I'm going to meet others

who are losing their hair,

and some who are going to extreme

lengths to get it back.

I'm going only as deep as we need to

go, which is where the roots start.

I'll find out about my own hair

loss, and discover whether you can

ever feel good about it.

Because it doesn't matter how

rich and famous you are,

you can't hide from hair loss.

When I wear this, it's

almost like a hat that's

measured to your head.

It's got an elastic band.

So I wear this and it doesn't

disturb my hairline at all.

My hairline remains

as it is underneath.

It's really easy to put on, but also

really easy to remove as well.

So I'm going to remove it.

It looks bad.

That's the word I'd use.

It looks bad.

My definition of bad is just patchy.

So patchy and annoying.

To a lot of people that doesn't look

too bad, they might say.

Yeah.

Even to me, on some days,

it doesn't look as bad.

But then other days it's like,

oh my goodness, this is so obvious.

So this hairstyle is pretty much

what took away my hairline.

You can see the extensions

are quite thick and heavy.

And then, as if that wasn't enough,

I went and tied it up

into an enormous bun.

And what happens is when you have

your hair in a heavy bun like that,

each time you move your head,

the bun sways.

So each time that's where it

happens, a bit of hair falls out.

I would never wear my hair upwards

or in an Afro without covering it.

No one sees this.

I wouldn't go out on the street -

no one on the street

sees it like this.

I always cover my bald

patch when I'm out,

by wearing a wig or a hat.

But it's not so easy for guys

to hide their hair loss.

Perry is 23, and first

started losing his hair

when he was a teenager.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Perry and this

is Perry Presents.

He has male pattern baldness,

by far the most common form

of hair loss in men.

So at times like this,

what do you do?

So I get my phone.

And obviously I will

look like a mirror.

OK, so you put your

phone and camera?

Yeah.

And then I'll check it a bit.

And obviously you can see now -

really bad, right?

Yeah.

And the wind makes it worse.

So I have my brush.

Basically just do the same

thing again, restyle it.

But to be honest with you,

in the wind, it's just life.

And until I get indoors,

that's just the way it is.

Tidies it up and we'll

take another selfie.

Love it!

There you go.

Speaking about it being just life,

how are you preparing yourself

for it becoming more

and more obvious?

I've kind of got to embrace it,

but at the same time it is quite

scary, because I'm like,

will people think differently of me?

Will it look really bad?

Do you feel like your hair,

to an extent, holds a core part

of your sort of personality

and who you are?

Yeah.

My hair is me, that's how I feel.

My personality, whatever I do

on YouTube, whatever

I do in everyday life,

it's always there and it's something

that I'm so self-conscious of.

If my hair is gone, I feel like I'm

becoming someone else,

or someone different.

I guess it's a good thing

if you are being different.

But at the same time it's a worry,

because what if someone

thinks differently of me?

What if someone isn't

attracted to me or likes me,

or I don't look good, as such?

You know what I mean?

I can tell Perry has thought

about his hair loss a lot,

and worries about what he will look

like in the future.

His dad lost his hair when he was

young and is now completely bald.

In most men it will never grow back.

But there are ways to sort it out.

I'm in Manchester to see

a 28-year-old guy who is having

a hair transplant today.

And I'll be meeting

the surgeon who is doing it.

I'm really excited to see how

this is going to happen.

I'm Chedira.

Nice to meet you.

Jordan started losing his

hair when he was 20.

And this doctor has

been carrying out hair

transplants since the 1990s.

Straighten your shoulders and turn

your neck all the way around.

You're not particularly bothered

about bringing your hairline down,

you want to have more density here.

It's going to give you

the look that you want.

The plan is to take hair

from the back of Jordan's head

and plant it in the thin

areas on top.

I'm not going to lie.

First impression, I feel

like your hair loss is actually not

even that bad at all.

How do you feel about it?

How does it look to you?

Like you say, it's not too bad.

But it's a weird one really.

Obviously it affects so many men.

Should it upset you?

It wasn't the worst feeling,

but also it knocks confidence

a little bit as well.

Someone might look at me and say,

you're having a hair transplant,

do you really need it?

In some cases you might say no.

It's how it makes you feel, I guess.

Jordan's transplant

will take all day.

The procedure is becoming

increasingly popular,

but it isn't normally available

on the NHS.

It can cost anywhere

between £1000 and £30,000.

The doctor will make small holes

in the top of Jordan's head.

He'll then take healthy hairs

from the back to plant

in the thin areas on top.

So I'm going only as deep as we need

to go, which is where the roots sit,

approximately about four millimetres

inside the skin.

Jordan just looks so chilled out.

Honestly, it's really painless.

They said before that it wouldn't be

as bad as the dentist.

It definitely isn't.

We'll turn Jordan over, face down,

and then we'll start removing

the grafts from the back

of his head.

And then once we have a certain

amount, we then can put

them back in, yeah?

During the procedure,

around 3000 hairs will be inserted

in the top of Jordan's head.

What's it going to feel

like when you finally get up

and have a look at your hair?

It's a long road to see

what is going to be,

but good, hopefully.

It'll take a long time

to see if Jordan's hair

transplant has been a success.

But for an idea of what the results

might look like, I'm meeting a woman

who has had it done already.

Page had a hair transplant

a few months ago.

She told her YouTube

followers all about it.

There is like no hair.

There's like really,

really small strands of hair.

Her hair loss was down

to traction alopecia.

It's when your hairstyle creates

tension on your scalp.

For example, tight

braids or corn rows.

It's what's caused my own hair loss.

My forehead probably

started like here.

No way - you've got a new forehead!

I've got a new forehead.

What?!

It looks so natural.

Yeah.

Where exactly was

the initial hair loss?

On this side here.

As you can see, there

are still some hairs.

I've kind of like brushed it down.

But all on this side.

It was literally this whole

section up to like my ear.

What does it feel like when you look

at it and see that is

clearly missing hair?

What did it make you feel?

Do you know what?

I felt very like self-conscious

but I never told anybody.

I never told anybody

my insecurities.

Not a single person knew about it?

No one actually knew, you know.

I felt like I was the only person

in the world going through this,

apart from the people on YouTube.

In the real world.

Yeah, in this real world, so that's

why I never spoke about it.

Otherwise I would have

spoke about it sooner.

And I wish I'd spoke

about it sooner.

I wish I'd spoke about it

when it was first happening.

I wish I was more open about it.

I thought, I'm too

young for hair loss.

I've just turned 25.

I've been experiencing

this since college.

I'm way too young

to be losing my hair.

I feel like I was robbed.

And now you've reclaimed it!

Yeah.

Your hair, your face -

it's beauty, especially to a female.

And to guys, yeah,

hair is a big thing.

I know a lot of females probably

only find guys attractive, not just

because of the hairline,

but their hairline is attractive.

When a man has got full

hair, it's attractive.

Cutting all my hair and getting

a hair transplant, I have

so much more confidence.

I feel very empowered now.

I feel like sharing my story

was probably the biggest

thing I've ever done,

and probably the biggest

thing I ever will do.

I've got to admit, hair transplants

feel quite extreme to me.

I've tried looking online

for a solution for my bald patch.

But it's all very confusing.

It looks like there are hundreds

of different techniques to try.

So it's time to speak to someone

who really knows about hair loss.

Nice to see you.

Ian is an expert who helps

people understand why

they are losing their hair.

95% of men, there is,

well, not major issues,

but there are issues

with genetic predisposition.

Genetic hair loss can be

from the male or the female side.

It doesn't have to come

through the male side

or the female side.

So it's non-sex linked.

They will come in and they will be

looking at hairlines

going, this has moved.

And yes, from 16 to your mid-20s,

your hairline does move.

It does change.

You get a mature hairline.

But then there is change over

and above what it should.

So if you're starting to become thin

there and everything else is normal,

that's usually genetic.

Ian says there are only two

medications that can

help with hair loss.

Finasteride and minoxidil.

The NHS says women shouldn't use

finasteride and neither drug

is available on the National Health

Service.

So when you start taking this

medication, it allows

the hair in some cases

to respond quite significantly.

It may grow hair density back.

I've heard though that

with medications like minoxidil,

once you start using it,

you've got to keep using it if you

want to keep seeing hair growth.

Is that true?

Or can you use it just

once and that it?

So you do have to keep taking this

medication day after day after day.

It's a treadmill medication.

So there's no such thing

as a one-shot thing that will just

get rid of hair loss.

Hair loss can also be caused

by stress, weight loss, cancer

treatment or an unhealthy diet.

In some cases, your immune system

can attack your hair follicles.

That's what is known

as alopecia areata.

I first noticed my hair loss

when I was about 19.

Do you want to see

what it looks like?

Sure.

This is a wig, and I hide

behind this all the time.

As you can see, I've got braids,

got lots of hair on my head,

but there's clearly a lot

missing here.

This is classed as a diffuse

thinning around here.

It does look as though the follicles

have what's called atrophied,

which means some follicles

have died off.

If you've cared for your hair

over a period of time

and it hasn't returned,

then the likelihood

is it's permanent.

Most people hate hearing that.

I didn't want to accept that my hair

is not going to grow back.

So I've tried all kinds

of weird things I came

across on the internet.

Apparently, if you bend all the way

down and massage your head

for like a minute in castor oil,

it will apparently make

your hair grow quicker.

It did not work.

There is Egyptian texts from 2000

BC that are remedies

and prayers for hair loss.

If there was something natural out

there, we would know about it.

Thank you, Ian.

I've learned so much.

No problem.

You know what, hearing that my hair

loss is at a permanent stage,

I'm not going to lie,

it's super disappointing.

Even though I did know somewhere

at the back of my mind that it's

not going to grow back.

But I really hoped I'd be told that

if I just used this one

thing, it would grow back.

But now that I know,

I guess I've got closure,

and what I'm going to do now is just

embrace it and accept it.

I've met some really

interesting people recently,

who all have different ways

of dealing with their hair loss.

You're in the studio with your full

natural hair out, looking amazing.

Let's talk about it.

A month ago, I would never

have even left the house

without covering my head,

but that's now changed.

Today I've decided I'm

going to come in without a wig

on and allow my head to breathe,

allow myself to feel worthy.

You look amazing.

Hair loss is a massive

deal to people.

And since filming this,

I've seen people who have hidden it,

I've seen people who have treated

it, I've seen people

who have embraced it.

Now for me this process

has definitely taught

me to just accept it.

Since then I've started

going out with my natural

hair a lot more often,

and learned to make

peace with my hair loss.

And now I just feel liberated.

And you can watch a full

version of Radio 1 Newsbeat's

documentary, Too Young To Go Bald,

on the BBC iPlayer.

Thank you for your messages. Graham

says, I lost my hair suddenly at 29,

it was alopecia with bald patches

appearing on my head, and soon I was

completely bald and eventually her

less. I'm 47 now and fine with it

but at the time it was very

distressing. Everything I read about

coping with alopecia was written by

women and started with the words, it

is OK for men. It did not feel OK to

me, I felt like I was falling apart.

Paul says the easiest answer is the

number one shave, he says he started

losing his hair at 13. This woman

says, I am in my 70s, just as

devastating to lose your hair at

that time of life, age matters not.

I am so embarrassed I cannot go out

without wearing a hat. We will talk

more about this issue in the next

hour. Send us your own experiences.

Breaking news on the latest

inflation figures. Our economics

editor is here.

Remind us what

inflation is. It is the increase in

prices, what people are spending to

buy things in shops and the bills

and today quite a significant

reduction in the rate of increase,

not that prices are falling,

inflation was up 3%, the Office for

National Statistics has announced it

has gone down to 2.7%. It means

prices are rising less quickly than

they were. The main reasons of food

prices are going up less quickly,

fuel prices going up less quickly

than a year ago, a locked link to

the value of the pound because we

import a lot of what we buy, a weak

pound after the Brexit referendum

and the costs went up, the pound has

been strengthening, meaning the

imports are less expensive and it is

feeding through now to people's real

lives. Good news that prices are not

going up as fast as they were.

And a

report out today again talking about

prices but post-Brexit from the

Institute for Fiscal Studies.

They

are saying that once Britain is out

of the customs union, the customs

union has import taxes around the

border, if we abandon old Paris, all

the import taxes, that could lead to

a small reduction in prices for

people, about 1.2%. -- if we abandon

tariffs. The IFS points out prices

have ready by 2% because of the fall

in the value of sterling and the

cost of doing business with the EU

will be more expensive once we are

out of the customs union, so

although abandoning import taxes

would be good for consumers in a

small way, that good will be

outweighed by the cost of inflation

we have seen since the referendum

and the cost of doing business with

the EU which is our biggest export

partner.

Thank you very much. The

latest news and sport in a moment,

before that, the weather.

latest news and sport in a moment,

before that, the weather. Not as

cold a start to the day as of late.

The forecast is less cold than it

has been and for many of us, sunny

spells, but also cloud in the

forecast, quite a bit at the moment

across parts of England and Wales,

eastern Scotland as well, courtesy

of the weak weather front drifting

steadily west through the day,

continuing to weaken, but it will

still be thick enough, the cloud, to

produce patchy light rain and

drizzle. You can see the extent of

the cloud cover, out in the

Atlantic, a weather front waiting to

come our way, that will be later

today, producing some rain by the

end of tonight. This morning, as the

front pushes to the west, it will

brighten up behind it, across East

Anglia, the south-east, Southern

counties, but also across Wales,

north-west England, Scotland and

Northern Ireland, you can expect

some sunshine. Temperatures around

eight up to ten, if we are lucky.

You can already see the cloud

thickening across the Outer

Hebrides. This evening and

overnight, the weather front proved

tee edges in over Northern Ireland,

Scotland and northern England -- the

weather front edges in. Train will

arrive by the end of the night. For

the rest of England and Wales, a

cold night and clearer skies. There

could be patchy freezing fog and

there will also be a widespread

frost. These temperatures represent

towns and cities. As we head into

Wednesday, look how the blues our

place to buy

place to buy yellow, and -- to blues

are replaced by yellow. Tomorrow,

sunshine over England and Wales. The

weather from producing cloud ahead

of the rain, the rain crossing

Northern Ireland and Scotland

through the day. 11 in Aberdeen, a

while since we have seen that. As we

move into Thursday, the weather

front continues to push into the

Southeast, eventually clearing, a

lot of dry weather, sunshine and

East hanging on for the longest,

because in the West and active

weather front is coming our way,

heavy rain across Northern Ireland,

Scotland, eventually parts of West

Wales and the south-west. The cloud

building ahead of it. Look at the

temperatures. Nine up to 12,

possibly even 13.

Hello, it's 10 o'clock,

I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

Welcome to the programme.

Honey traps, spies and fake news -

just some of the dirty tricks

Cambridge Analytica executives

boasted of using to swing elections

to an undercover reporter.

Deep digging is interesting, it can

be deeply effective to just go and

speak to the incumbents and to offer

them a deal that is too good to be

true and make sure that its video

recorded. These sorts of tactics are

very effective. Instantly having

video evidence of corruption,

putting it on the Internet.

The Information Commissioner

will be talking to us

about why she's investigating

in the next few minutes.

Should clubbers be given access

to drugs testing areas to prevent

ecstasy and cocaine-related deaths?

What that does is take the very

harmful, dangerous drugs out of the

market. At the moment, while drug

use is pretty constant, drug deaths

are up. Hospitalisations are up and

there is a huge cost to the NHS and

police.

We'll ask users whether they think

introducing safe testing spots

at popular nightspots will work.

And we want to hear

your thoughts too.

And we'll hear about the impact

of going bald when you're

young from Paigey Cakey,

a rapper from north London

who was 18 when she first started

to notice her hair was falling out.

I felt like I'm too young for her

loss, I have just turned 25, I have

experienced this since college, I am

way too young to be losing my hair.

Good morning.

Here's Annita McVeigh

in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news.

Good morning.

A British company accused

of misusing personal data belonging

to 50 million Facebook users

is being investigated

by the information watchdog.

The UK's Information Commissioner

says she will seek a warrant to look

at databases and servers hosted

by Cambridge Analytica.

The firm is accused of using

Facebook data without consent

to influence the outcome

of the last US election.

Both Cambridge Analytica

and Facebook deny any wrongdoing.

Cambridge Analytica executives have

also been filmed by Channel 4 News

suggesting it could use honey traps

and potentially bribery

to discredit politicians.

The company denies any wrongdoing.

The government's latest figures show

that UK inflation rate has fallen to

2.7% in February from 3% in January.

Inflation figures are calculated by

tracking the prices we pay for

hundreds of things we currently

spend money one, including

groceries. The target for CPI is 2%.

Consumers could see prices fall

by up to 1.2% if Britain

were to abolish all tariffs once it

has left the European Union.

The findings are in

a report by the financial

think tank the Institute

for Fiscal Studies.

But the independent report also

warns that any gains would be small

and that costs linked to new EU

trade barriers could hit consumers.

Jeremy Corbyn has said the UK must

still deal with Vladimir Putin -

despite evidence pointing

to his country's involvement

in the Salisbury spy attack.

The Labour leader said he would do

business with Russia,

but assertively and on the basis

of the UK's values.

Shadow Chancellor John

McDonnell says he believes

Mr Putin was responsible.

But Mr Corbyn said he wanted

an absolutely definitive answer

about the source of the nerve agent.

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

More at 10.30am.

One viewer on Twitter says about

hair loss, I lost huge amounts of

hair during my battle with anorexia.

It is such an alienating effect. I

was lucky enough for it to grow back

and one of the things that really

aided its regrowth was caffeinated

shampoo.

Christopher Arnie Mel says I lost a

lot of hair at a very young age. I

was 11. A condition which was a

variant of alopecia. It was very

distressing because I was just

coming into adolescence and was very

proud of my bright auburn hair. It

came back within four months.

Peter on e-mail, baldness, just live

with it, only shallow people worry

about it. I wonder if you are bald

or have a full head of hair.

Julie says I don't doubt the effect

it has personally but I think of

cancer patients who go through hair

loss and so much worse as treatment

for the cruel disease and I can't

help but think it is not so worse

when it happens gradually and

naturally, often part of your jeans.

-- genes.

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