09/01/2017 BBC News at One

The Prime Minister lays out her plans to combat

what she calls the hidden injustice of mental illness.

It's part of a broader strategy to create what she described

as a "shared society" to try to prevent extremists

Failure to take this opportunity to show the ability of mainstream

centre ground of politics to respond to public concern would further

entrench the buried divisions we seek to overcome. -- very divisions.

Also on the programme this lunchtime...

Chaos in London for millions of commuters as a 24-hour

Tube strike brings most of the Underground to a halt.

Seventeen people arrested in France after reality TV star Kim Kardashian

was robbed of millions of pounds of jewellery last year.

Donald Trump calls Meryl Streep one of Hollywood's most overrated

actresses after she criticises him in a speech at the

And heavy snow in southern Italy - dozens of people die as a cold snap

grips large parts of eastern and central Europe.

And coming up in the sport on BBC News...

England flanker Chris Robshaw will miss the Six Nations championship as

he undergoes shoulder surgery, ruling him out of action for 12

weeks. Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One. Theresa May has described mental

illness as a "hidden injustice" which had been "dangerously

disregarded", and said she is The Prime Minister has been

outlining a package of measures, including plans to give extra

training for teachers and employers, as part of broader proposals

to create what she described Mental health experts, though,

say more funding is needed Here's our health

correspondent, Elaine Dunkley. There are no words for what it does

to a family. Shock is not the word, it is just your whole reality is

blown to pieces. In 2014, Doctor Sangeeta Mahajan's son took his own

life. He was just 20 years old and had been diagnosed with bipolar

disorder. Ten weeks later he was dead. They don't discharge patients

with adequate information, the doors were closed for us. We were told to

either go to A or your GP and it is the only way we can come back, we

had no direct access back to the specialist services. That is wrong.

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has described mental health care as a

burning injustice and today a promise of a major overhaul. Left

unaddressed it destroys lives, separates people from each other and

deepens the divisions within our society. Changing this goes right to

the heart of our humanity, to the heart of the kind of country we are,

the attitudes we hold and the values we share. The plans include mental

health first aid training for secondary schools, employers and

organisations will also be given additional guidance in supporting

staff who need to take time off. And there will be greater emphasis on

community care. The Prime Minister says this is an historical

opportunity to right a wrong but for those on the front line of mental

health services, funding is a major concern. Mental health is still very

underfunded compared to other areas of medicine. It generates probably

20 to 25% of the total disease burden of all diseases and yet the

funding is ten to 12% in this country. So little people are

putting about it. Four years ago, Jake Mills tried to end his life and

he now runs a mental health charity to help others and he says in order

for there to be to change there needs to be greater awareness and

understanding. Education needs to happen. And without being facetious

about it, if there was a disease that existed that was killing more

men in this country under the age of 49 and it was preventable and

treatable, we would all be experts on it, we would know exactly what to

look out for, exactly what to do if we had symptoms. Jake says he is

living proof that with the right intervention there is hope but many

feel in order for mental health to get the same recognition as physical

health, additional funding is crucial. Elaine Dunkley, BBC News.

Let's speak to our social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan.

The Prime Minister has outlined a strategy but how much difference

That is going to be the key question and a lot of mental health

professionals will hope it makes a difference because the need for it

to do so as you heard in that report is urgent and intense. One of the

ironies in recent years there has been a campaign aimed at reducing

the stigma around mental health which Theresa May was talking about

this morning and that have been partially successful and has led to

people coming forward and talking about mental health services and

seeking support but when they have done that, support has often not

been there. There is a report out in November from the education policy

institution think tank that found one in four young people were being

turned away from therapy and two thirds of people aged between 16 and

34 who had actually attempted suicide had not received any

follow-up care at all. That was all taking place after the government

had promised to spend nearly ?2 billion on mental health services in

England. The reason the money is not getting through from the Treasury is

that NHS in England and local care commissioners are not ring fenced

it. It has meant that a lot of the money that was meant to go to mental

health has simply got into acute care and physical health care needs.

Up till now it has been possible for health care officials to ignore

central diktats from Westminster but the keeper will be whether Theresa

May's rhetoric cantered into the reality on the front line for mental

health patients. Our assistant political editor,

Norman Smith, is in Westminster. How much more did we learn about the

vision for government? I think what we got was Mrs May's attempt at a

big idea beyond Brexit, what she wants her government to be about

beyond pulling out of the European Union. She said it is wholesale

social reform. At the heart of it is this idea of trying to tackle what

she regards as everyday, forgotten injustices around issues like this

termination in the criminal justice system, life expectancy for poorer

families and also around mental health provision. The second aspect

is about recalibrating where government focuses its effort and

her view is that for too long successive governments have simply

focused on those who are most disadvantaged and most deprived and

it has ignored people who are just about managing but are still having

a pretty hard time. She has promised a raft of announcements over the

coming months, filling in some of the details. Today, beyond mental

health, we got no real specific commitments. The difficulty she

faces is that Brexit is such a massive undertaking for any

government that trying to do almost anything substantial beyond that is

going to be incredibly difficult. That, coupled with a lack of

resources, means trying to undertake the hugely ambitious sort of reforms

in the area of mental health and social care that Mrs May wants to

undertake is going to be extraordinarily difficult. The

danger that she ends up overpromising and under delivering.

Thank you. The value of the pound fell

by almost 1% this morning in early trading against the dollar

and the euro. The fall came after the Prime

Minister, in an interview yesterday, refused to rule out the possibility

of the UK leaving the single market Let's speak to our economics

editor, Kamal Ahmed. It goes to show how sensitive it all

is. Markets are obviously still concerned about what is the root of

exit full so yes, Britain is leading the EU but what kind of trading

relationship will we have with the rest of Europe, our most important

trading partner? It had a weak morning to date but it has been weak

really since the referendum, falling by 11% on the referendum night. Why

does it matter? Because we import a lot of our food and fuel into the UK

so if sterling is weak, that means that prices will go up which effects

on consumers. There are some upside to a weaker pound. Our experts

become more competitive and exports. And the stock market has had a

strong morning because although a lot of big companies are UK based,

bit actually earn in dollars and they have become more valuable and

that is important for peoples pension funds, a lot of which are

invested in the stock market so if it is strong that is good for

pensions. The overall judgment of the market at the moment is that,

because of uncertainty about the direction of travel of Brexit and

how hard it might be, they believe the UK economy will suffer because

of that uncertainty and therefore they are saying that the pound, or

they are signalling that the pound will be weaker because of it. Thank

you. The taxpayer is no longer

the largest sharehold in Lloyds banking group after the government

has reduced its stake. The government spent

?20 billion on a 43% stake in Lloyds at the height

of the financial crisis. The government now owns

less than 6% of shares. It has already said it wants

to return the bank to full private Millions of commuters

have had a chaotic start to the week after a strike

on the London Underground shut down One of the capital's

busiest train stations, Clapham Junction, had to be

evacuated because of overcrowding after large numbers of people tried

to find an alternative The strike, which is due to end

tonight, is over staff numbers Our correspondent Daniel Boettcher

is in central London. This strike started yesterday

evening but it was only this morning in the rush hour that the full

impact became clear. There has been some improvement, a few more

stations have opened, although the one behind me is locked and has been

a difficult start to do it for many Tube passengers.

This is what commuters on the London Underground faced this morning, a

third of all stations closed and a limited service on most of the lines

that were operating. Around 4 million people use the network, the

strike has left travellers frustrated with journeys taking far

longer than usual as passengers had to find other ways of getting to

work. I gave myself two hours and it looks like I'm going to be late. I

almost missed quite a few exams because of all this industrial

action going on. It's quite irritating. I did think it is unfair

because it puts all others in a situation where we are all late for

work. The way I see it, it is what it is. They have got their cause so,

yeah, you work around it. Because there are so few Tube trains

running, Kenny to traffic on the road has been even heavier than

usual and despite an extra 150 buses being laid on, the bus network has

been packed with long queues -- commuter traffic. The RMT and the

TSSA and is about jobs and staffing levels and the unions say cuts are

jeopardising safety. They need to put back in a task force response

almost two put this safe. Because we have sympathy for the public and we

regret this strike. We're been in weeks of talks between were up

against a brick wall. The London Mets Sadiq Khan said he condemned

the action and that talks to resolve the issues should be resumed. I know

this strike could have been avoided and it is unnecessary and I'm

imploring the trade unions to come back and talk to the management team

about resolving this so there are not further days of industrial

action. London Underground says there is no need for a strike. We

will continue our process of recruiting additional people and we

also want to work with the trade unions over the next couple of

months to identify where we may need to strengthen that. This dispute

could only be resolved by the trade unions working with us

collaboratively and talking around the table, not through strike

action. Some commuters face further disruption this week in an unrelated

strike on Southern rail services. Passengers are being told to travel

only if essential on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, when train

drivers belonging to a Aslef are expected to be on

strike over a long-running dispute over the role of guards and the

company said there will be no services on strike days with only a

limited number of bus links instead. The industrial advection -- the

industrial action today is not in both overground rail services but

there has been no interchange to be Tube network at Key stations and in

places the numbers of passengers trying to use rail services instead

has caused problems. Clapham Junction was temporarily evacuated

because of overcrowded. There were no trains stopping and passengers

had to wait outside the border station reopened.

The strike is due to end at 6pm this evening but London Underground is

that it has been focusing efforts on trying to provide the best service

possible under these circumstances today so there will be further

problems this evening even after the strike had ended and things will

only get back to normal tomorrow. Seventeen people have been arrested

in connection with the robbery of the reality TV star,

Kim Kardashian, A gang of masked men burst

into her apartment in Paris and held her at gunpoint before

making off with millions Let's speak to our correspondent

in Paris, Hugh Schofield. What more can you tell us? There was

a series of dawn raids this morning in the Paris area, in Normandy and

also in the South in Nice and Grasse. 17 people were picked up of

all ages and police says that are well known as card and members of

the criminal underworld. What led to this was a clue left at the scene at

this luxury hotel in October by the perpetrators. -- hardened members.

Five men burst in and held her at gunpoint and took away these jewels

but I also left behind DNA, one of them had handled the ligatures that

she was bound with an another dropped upend and on the road

outside. From these bits of DNA they were able to make a match with

somebody who was on their books already -- dropped a pendant. They

were put under surveillance and they have had this information for a long

time and were watching this man and his gang and they were able to make

preparations as the gang prepared to dispose of the jewels. It was at the

end of a long period of surveillance that they decided to sweep this

morning and arrest 17. One question still remaining to be answered is

whether this was an inside job because of course one of the key

factors was that on that very night, the bodyguard of Kardashian was

absent. Did the gang know that? Thank you.

The time is 1.15pm. Our top story this lunchtime.

The Prime Minister has been laying out her plans to combat

what she calls the hidden injustice of mental illness.

A British trucker is honoured for raising money for the family

of the Polish lorry driver killed in the Berlin

And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

Johanna Konta warms up for the start of the Australian Open,

where she was a semifinalist last year, with a comfortable win

The Hollywood musical La La Land looks like the film to beat

at this year's Oscars after it swept the board at the Golden Globes,

It was also a good night for the Brits.

But the evening was also filled with political drama as Meryl Streep

took to the stage and criticised the president-elect Donald Trump

This morning, Mr Trump hit back, calling her one of the most

Los Angeles, California - where stories are spun

A place of glitz and glamour, of gowns and gossip.

There were a record seven Golden Globes for the musical including

acting awards for its stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

And I think that hope and creativity are two of the most important things

in the world, and that's what this movie is about.

The television categories included wins for Atlanta,

The People Versus OJ Simpson, and for Claire Foy,

who played Britain's Queen Elizabeth in The Crown.

I really, really, really wouldn't be here if it wasn't for some

extraordinary women, I'm going to thank them.

She has been at the centre of the world for the past 63 years.

And I think the world could do with a few more women

at the centre of it, if you ask me.

There were three acting awards for BBC co-production The Night Manager.

Its star Tom Hiddlestone used his speech to highlight

It's a terrible situation happening for children.

The Night Manager is about arms dealing and there are far too many

Co-star Hugh Laurie's remarks were also political,

I suppose made more amazing by the fact I'll be able to say that

I won this at the last ever Golden Globes.

I don't mean to be gloomy, it's just that it has

the words Hollywood, foreign and press in the title.

Receiving a lifetime achievement award, Meryl Streep also lambasted

Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence.

When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners

and if we kick them all out you'll have nothing to watch but football

and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

Elsewhere, Britain's Aaron Taylor-Johnson

won for his supporting role in the dark crime

Thank you, HFPA, for acknowledging me in this role.

Thank you so much for this opportunity.

Creating this role and collaborating on this journey was an immense joy.

Well, Hollywood can be fun and frivolous but it also prides

Many stars here on the red carpet are predicting a surge in political

films this year following the most divisive of elections.

James Cook, BBC News, at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles.

This morning, Donald Trump responded to those comments

with a tweet in which he called Meryl Streep...

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has held the first meeting

between British Government ministers and Donald Trump's top aides.

He will meet leading Republicans in Washington later today.

Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins is with me.

This is all ahead of the Prime Minister's first trip

It could be as soon as next month. That's right, substance and

symbolism in this visit. Attempting to get the US and UK relationship

back on an even keel because the transatlantic ship was listing quite

badly after Nigel Farage was so quick to Trump Tower after the

election of the president elect Donald Trump. That sent an entirely

negative signal, particularly from a Downing Street point of view, about

where the axis of the US and UK relationship really lay. Boris

Johnson is in New York and Washington as a bit of a

trailblazer. In New York, he saw members of the incoming Trump

administration, and that was very important. Apparently they had very

frank discussions, including big differences between Washington and

London over Russia in particular. Today the Foreign Secretary will be

seeing Republican leaders on the hill in Congress, also very

important. It's worth underlining that he cannot, for protocol

reasons, see the likely next Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,

because he is facing congressional confirmation hearings and it

wouldn't be per before the Foreign Secretary to see him before he is

confirmed in office. -- wouldn't be proper. He is not seeing Donald

Trump, that is a murmured reserved for Theresa May.

More than a quarter of young people in Britain say they don't feel

in control of their lives as a result of political events

According to a national study, money worries are top of the list

of issues making them feel anxious about their future.

For 19-year-old Milly Rawley, getting help was crucial

to getting her life back on track after her mum died.

I faced a series of relationship breakdowns and different forms

of abuse until eventually when I was 16 I became

homeless for three months, and this was when mental

After receiving treatment in hospital, Milly is living

at the YMCA while doing her A-levels, and she's now

Compared to years ago, I know where I want to go,

what I want to do, and I know how to get there.

According to the Prince's Trust, which has supported Milly,

more than a quarter of young people don't feel in control

The charity says well-being for 16 to 25-year-olds is at its lowest

We need to invest in things like cadets, programs in schools

that are character-building and encourage teamwork.

I think we need to invest much more heavily in vocational training

Concerns over body image, recent political events including

the Brexit vote and the Syria situation, as well as money worries,

were all raised by the survey - issues these young people say

Because of recent political events and the economic outlook,

there is just a really high level of uncertainty.

You have to have a certain income to rent.

A lot of employers expect you to have lots of experience

just even to find an entry-level job.

While life can be difficult for all young people,

Milly says it's important to reach out when you know things are really

North Korea says it's ready at any time to test a long-range missile.

The country's leader, Kim Jong-Un, said in his New Year's address

that the missile was in the final stages of development.

Washington has made it clear that, if it launched an intercontinental

ballistic missile, America would shoot it down.

So is the threat real, or just posturing before

Here's our correspondent in Seoul, Steven Evans.

The big missiles paraded through Pyongyang.

Though some experts think they can't actually do

what North Korea claims they can, they are more for show.

In his New Year's message, Kim Jong-un said his country

was in the final stages of developing an intercontinental

ballistic missile - a long-range missile

A message echoed on the North Korea News.

The talking is getting tougher, and the tweeting.

Donald Trump tweeted about North Korea getting ICBMs.

But Washington's outgoing secretary of defence said that

if North Korea did test an ICBM, it might be shot down.

Their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defence programmes

We try to stay ahead of that and we are trying,

we are staying ahead of that with our missile defences to make

sure we've upgraded their number, their type, so that we are sure

We have deployed missile defences in South Korea, Japan, Guam.

In Pyongyang, it was sports day on Sunday.

Workers from different industries competed and chanted

that they wanted the two halves of Korea to reunite.

Kim Jong-un visited a silk and textile mill.

He'll have more on his mind, though, than the design of quilts.

His nuclear ambitions are moving up the Washington agenda

Stephen Evans, BBC News, South Korea.

When the attack against the Berlin Christmas market happened,

one of the first who was killed was the Polish driver whose lorry

A British lorry driver was so moved by what happened

that he launched an appeal to help the Polish man's family.

So far, it's raised nearly ?200,000, and today

he's being thanked by the Polish ambassador in London.

Kasia Madeira is at the Polish embassy.

David Duncan had never met Lukasz Urban, he had never had contact with

him, but when he heard about what happened to the Polish trucker in

Berlin, he felt so moved, so compassionate that he set up this

online crowdfunding campaign. Today is about thanking him on behalf of

the Polish community in the UK and also the Polish community in Poland.

When you first heard about what happened, what did you feel?

Obviously I was very moved by the story, like everyone else. It

touched me a bit more being a truck driver myself, thinking about his

poor family he left behind, his work colleagues, he worked for his

cousin, a family firm, and it touched me in that way. When did the

idea come to set up this online fund? I had seen things on the news,

programmes about funding and things like that, I looked into it and

found Go Fund Me and it seemed like a good idea. The results have been

fantastic, you have had a lot of support. Overwhelming, incredible

support from all over the world. Unbelievable. It is not just people

from the driving community, people from Poland, Britain and all over

the world. The Polish community in the UK started spreading it around

the world, Polish people around the world and that is how it grew. Most

of the money has come from Polish people. That tells you everything,

really. I know that the family of Lukasz Urban were really touched.

His cousin contacted you and invited you to his funeral. In Banie. That's

true, we met the family, lovely people, quiet and unassuming,

gracious people. Hospitality is second to none, can't thank them

enough and can't wait to see them again. Today is about thanking Dave,

from the Polish Embassy in London. Dozens of people have died in parts

of central and eastern Europe in the past few days

because of bitterly cold weather. In Poland, where ten people

died, temperatures fell And heavy snow has fallen

in parts of Turkey, Italy Let's speak to our correspondent

in Budapest, Nick Thorpe. Yes, it's pretty cold here as you

can see. I'm standing across from the Hungarian parliament in

Budapest, and the Danube, large ice flows floating down the Danube.

Relatively mild in Budapest this morning, only -8, temperatures

touched 28 Celsius yesterday on the northern border. In neighbouring

Romania, the Eastern carpe diem is, a record -67 was recorded on a

mountain peak. -- Carpathian Mountains. Disruption, many schools

in and Bulgaria closed. The most vulnerable people, the in the

cities, migrants and refugees, moving into Turkey and Greece...

Remarkable weather conditions. On the Black Sea coast, snow and ice,

difficult conditions in large parts of Eastern Europe today. Nick, thank

you. The weather now with Louise. Some of that weather heading this

way? Cold, but not that cold. Everything

but the kitchen sink thrown at us through the course of this week. We

started today mild and wet, but if you are taking a walk across

Lancashire, a bit muddy underfoot. It is brightening up as the rain

spills down into the south-east corner in the next few hours.

Following behind, a scattering of showers and windy. Showers in the

far north turning increasingly wintry as they fall across the high

ground. Jails are likely to pick up, the wind clearing from the

south-east through the middle of the afternoon. -- gales are likely to

pick up. And improving picture. Not so across London and East Anglia.

We'll have to wait for the end of the afternoon for the rain to clear.

A breezy afternoon for Northern Ireland and western Scotland.

Waiting in the wings, something more organised will arrive after dark. A

pretty dismal end to the day. In the far north. It will be windy with

gales blowing the rain through at a pace, a wet night air. Breezy on

west facing coast. To much of a breeze for forced to be an issue,

two or three degrees to greet us in eastern part. Showers out to the

west. Through the day, something more organised starts to drift in

across the country. A weak affair in terms of rain, a bit of a nuisance.

A bit of cloud around, still quite mild on Tuesday. 7-11 degrees. The

colder air starts to did in as the wind swings around on Wednesday.

England and Wales, a good deal of drier weather. Increasingly wintry

at lower levels. It stays mild to the south, 7-9 degrees. 4-5, further

north. As you saw in Europe, a miserable start to the year,

particularly across Central and Eastern Europe. Westerly winds

starting to drive back the cold air out of Germany, Poland and the Czech

Republic over the next few days. A glimmer of better news here. For us,

the wind direction swinging from westerly to northerly, and the cold

air coming from the Arctic, not Europe, but it is going to turn

bitterly cold over the next few days towards the end of the week. That

means any showers would turn increasingly wintry, even at lower

levels. If you are out and about at the end of the week, more details on

early weather warnings on our website.

The main story. The Prime Minister has outlined her plans to combat

what she called the hidden injustice of mental illness. That is all from

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