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tv   Victoria Derbyshire  BBC News  January 9, 2017 9:00am-11:01am GMT

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hello, it's 9 o'clock. i'm victoria derbyshire, welcome to the programme. our top story — tackling the injustice and stigma of mental health. the prime minister promises to help schools and companies in england deal better with mental health issues. this is really theresa may saying it is a priority, we want to sort this out. it is not acceptable people wait too long and some people do not get the help they need at all. keen to hear what you think of the plan is particularly if someone close to you has a mental health issues. also on the programme — exclusive access inside a fix room in denmark. drug addicts can legally take heroin and crack cocaine under medical supervision. this feels like a second home. i don't know. yes, i mean, it is a safe place to take things in. glasgow plans to introduce one — and there are calls for more in the uk. would you back them? la la land and the night manager are
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the big winners at the golden globe awards. meryl streep lays into us president—elect donald trump. 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. cheering. hello. welcome to the programme, we're live until 11. throughout the programme we'll bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories and — as always — keen to hear from you. on mental health, on drug fix rooms — do get in touch on all the stories use the hashtag victoria live our top story today. theresa may is going to set out plans which she says will transform mental health services in england. in herfirst major speech on health since becoming prime minister, mrs may will announce a review of services for children and teenagers as well as extra
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support for schools and businesses. but labour says people are being let down by a lack of funding. our correspondent elaine dunkley reports. there are no words for what it does to a family. shock is not the word. it's just your whole reality is blown to pieces. in 2014, dr sangeeta mahajan‘s son saga took his own life. he was just 20 years old. he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. 10 weeks later he was dead. they don't discharge patients with adequate information. the doors were closed for us. we were told you either go to a&e or your gp and that's the only way you can come back to us. we had no direct access back to the special services. that is wrong! today, the prime minister, theresa may, is expected to announce plans to reduce the waiting times for patients needing mental health services. the details also include more help from employers
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when staff need time off work, and schools will also be expected to play a bigger role in identifying mentally vulnerable pupils. one of the key concerns is funding. mental health is still very underfunded compared to other areas of medicine. it generates probably 20%—25% of the total disease burden of all diseases and yet the funding is io%—12% in this country. he was just always making faces. sangeeta says talking about her son's life is so important but today she wants the government to take action that will lead to change in mental health services. our political guru norman smith. is this, hearing from theresa may on a subject other than brexit, she does not want her premiership just
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to be about brexit? it is very much that but also the closest we will get to her vision, what she wants the government to be about beyond brexit. she says she wants it to be about what she calls wholesale social reform, tackling what she regards hidden or forgotten injustices and one of those is around the stigma attached to people suffering from mental health illnesses. what we are getting today is the first in a series of announcements we will get on issues like racism in the criminaljustice system, like housing, a series of areas which she thinks politicians have high and large ignored. i have to say, the announcements we are getting on mental health, they are relatively tentative and timid, trying to provide more support in schools, trying to encourage
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business to ensure there is best practice in terms of people with mental health difficulties, may be looking at a review of discrimination laws, and only a tiny amount of extra money. when you talk to professionals, they say they like that and are pleased she is talking about it, but it does not get away from the problem which is resources, the fact of mental health provision has been underfunded frankly for yea rs, has been underfunded frankly for years, and when you look at the amount of nhs time taken up now with an full health provision, something like 24% of health needs in the nhs, but only getting 11% of funding so a mismatch between the scale of the challenge we face in terms of mental health, and the amount of extra cash being put in and today, that cash is —— issue is not addressed. being put in and today, that cash is -- issue is not addressed. we are keen to hear from you -- issue is not addressed. we are keen to hearfrom you on -- issue is not addressed. we are keen to hear from you on this. what do you think the government needs to
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do you think the government needs to do to tackle the stigma surrounding mental health? if you have experiences, or somebody close to you has experiences get in touch. now the rest of the news. borisjohnson has held talks with some of donald trump's key advisers during a visit to new york. the foreign secretary has become the first british minister to hold face—to—face meetings with members of the president elect‘s incoming administration. the exchanges were described by officials as ‘positive but frank‘. thousands of police officers in london are to be asked if they want to be routinely armed with a gun or electric taser. the metropolitan police federation, which represents 32,000 officers in the capital, says that with more officers being armed to counter the threat of terrorism, it was only fair to ask officers what they think. a police spokesman said more than 90 per cent of officers were currently unarmed and there were no plans to change this.
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police in paris say they have arrested more than a dozen people in connection with last 0ctober‘s robbery at gunpoint of the american reality tv star, kim kardashian. they say dna left by the robbers at the scene led to their arrests. at the time, french police said more than seven million pounds‘ worth of cash and jewellery were stolen. her spokeswoman said masked men entered the room at the luxury residence where kim kardashian was staying while attending paris fashion week. up up to upto4 up to 4 million commuters in london face disruption because of a strike across the underground network. crowds are gathering at bus stops as travellers try to complete their journeys to work in. members of the unions walked out last night in a i’ow unions walked out last night in a row about jobs and unions walked out last night in a row aboutjobs and ticket office closures. the strike is due to finish at 6pm today. police in tyne and wear have arrested a man suspected of taking hostages at a bookmakers in an armed siege. northumbria police were called to a branch of coral bookmakers injarrow on sunday evening
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following a report of a man with a loaded firearm. four people were thought to have been held in the incident, with three being released before police ended the standoff and a 39—year—old man was taken into custody. thousands of british drivers affected by the volkswagen diesel emissions scandal are taking legal action against the carmaker. volkswagen admitted using software that would cheat emissions tests, leading to a recall of millions of cars worldwide. a compensation scheme was approved in the united states last year, and lawyers want british customers to be offered a similar settlement. it‘s been a big night for the british television spy drama ‘the night manager‘ which stormed to success at the annual golden globe awards in hollywood. tom hiddleston, 0livia colman and hugh laurie all collected prizes for the bbc series. claire foy was named best actress in a tv drama as the queen in ‘the crown‘. the night belonged to the hollywood musical la la land, which won a record seven awards. 0ur los angeles correspondent, james cook reports. los angeles, california, where stories are spun and stars
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are born. a place of glitz and glamour, of gowns and gossip, the place they call... la la land. this is a film for dreamers, 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. in the television categories, it was a british invasion. claire foy was named best actress in a tv drama for playing the queen in the crown, while there were three acting awards in the bbc co—production the night manager, allowing hugh laurie to have a dig at donald trump. more amazing to be able say i won this at the last ever golden globes. i don‘t mean to be gloomy, it‘sjust that it has the word hollywood, foreign and press in the title, i just don‘t know what... receiving a lifetime achievement award, meryl streep also lambasted the president—elect and his plan to deport millions of immigrants. so, hollywood is crawling
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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. well, hollywood can be fun and frivolous, but it also prides itself on tackling serious subjects. and many stars here on the red carpet are predicting a surge in political films this year, following the most divisive of elections. that‘s a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. did you get in a long queue for bus oi’ did you get in a long queue for bus ordid did you get in a long queue for bus or did you walk in today?” did you get in a long queue for bus or did you walk in today? i walked in. i waited at the bus stop and they were not stopping so it took me an hourof they were not stopping so it took me an hour of brisk walking but i got here. the scenes, that is what i saw all the way to work. i know if you are in glasgow,
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manchester, newcastle, you are saying, it is just a tube strike, get over it, londoners. but we will talk to transport for london later about the reasons behind the strike and when they think things will get back to normal. officially it is supposed to finish 6pm but it could have a knock—on effect after that. if you had an heroic walk into work, let me know. use the hashtag victoria live if you get in touch. let‘s get some sport now with john watson. the spirit of the fa cup played out yesterday. plymouth argyle fans had something to celebrate after holding the premier league giants liverpool toa the premier league giants liverpool to a goalless draw at anfield which means they have a lucrative return trip, 9000 fans making the trip yesterday and helped by the decision of the liverpool manager who made ten changes to the side, fielding
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liverpool‘s youngest ever side in its history. the average age just 21. a 17—year—old forward was youngest player. 319—year—old is also in the starting team. lucas was the oldest player at 29. it ended 0-0. the oldest player at 29. it ended 0—0. with liverpool making these changes, along with a lot of other top teams, questions are being asked if the big clubs are showing respect the oldest club competition deserves. i think plymouth will not mind after the incredible result. no such problems for chelsea who were co mforta ble such problems for chelsea who were comfortable winners 4—1 against peterborough. the first start since octoberfor captainjohn peterborough. the first start since october for captain john terry, who was sent off. the 36—year—old sliding in and deemed to be the last defender so given a straight red card. you could see how frustrated
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he was. chelsea will appeal but with limited gametime after 19 seasons at sta mford limited gametime after 19 seasons at stamford bridge, he was given a year contract at the start of the season, you wonder if it could be the last at chelsea for him. the chairman of the football association gave an interesting interview to the times, saying he spoke to gay footballers about the possibility of them coming out. this was a wide—ranging interview talking about what chances there are of gay footballers coming out and greg clarke said he had met with 15 people to get their views on how the fa could support them if they wanted to come out. of those he spoke to, many said they were happy with their sexuality but were not ready to come out so you wonder if we will see any 93v out so you wonder if we will see any gay footballers coming out in the future. it comes after he had said
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he felt there were top professionals who were not ready to come out and he believed fans would be supportive about gay players in their own teams but not supported perhaps about gay players in the team so important to the conversations are being had that we will wait to see if any gay footballers will feel comfortable about coming out any time soon. this morning, exclusive access inside a so—called drugs fix room where addicts can legally take hard drugs like heroin and crack cocaine under medical supervision without the threat of prosecution. glasgow is currently planning to open the country‘s first drugs consumption room and officials behind it have looked to countries like denmark where these facilities already run our reporter divya talwar spent a day inside a fix—room in copenhagen‘s seedy red light district. it sees about 500 drug users through its doors each day and many have mental health
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and other physical problems. this film — which lasts just over 15 minutes — portrays the reality of illegal drug taking. it‘s graphic, frank and raw — and includes scenes with blood and addicts injecting — which some of you may find difficult to watch. we‘re showing it to you this morning to give an insight into the reality of fix rooms which many want to see introduced in the uk. it‘s about 150mg of cocaine, about almost a00mls of pure heroin. i think i'm going to stop one day. it's too expensive and it's too much poison in your body. of course the main thing is to save lives, and to prevent
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diseases from spreading. this is copenhagen‘s seedy red light district, a well—known area to buy drugs. it‘s home to one of the city‘s so—called "fix rooms", a place where addicts can legally take class a drugs safely, under supervision and without the fear of prosecution. there‘s calls to introduce them back in the uk, so i‘m spending the day here to see how they work. it‘s 8am and, inside, users have already turned up. my name is elliott, and i‘m 25, almost 26 years old.
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tell me what you‘re about to inject? it‘s good cocaine, a lot of heroin, and some diazepam benzo, just to make the heroin stronger. yeah, that‘s what i‘m about to take. looks poisonous, doesn‘t it? i‘m going to sit down. elliott is originally from sweden. he‘s homeless and will beg, borrow and steal to buy hard drugs. he injects so often that it‘s difficult to find a vein.
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on the other side, the same vein works, i was just trying to give this one a break. apparently no. but i will find one. there we go. the same thing every day, at least five times. you do the same thing five times a day? here? how are you feeling? (slowly) er, let‘s see. alert, euphoric, and relaxed. elliott is one of about 500 users
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who will come here today. there‘s two separate areas for people to take drugs. the injecting room, which can seat up to nine people at one time. right next to it, there‘s a separate room with eight seats for users who want to smoke hard drugs. anjelea lett is 49. she‘s come to the smoking room this afternoon to take crack cocaine. anjelea volunteers for a kitchen nearby, giving food
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to the homeless and drug addicts. that‘s the dayjob, though. at night she works as a prostitute. lighter repeatedly clicks. anjelea was in a car accident almost 20 years ago. the drugs and prostitution followed after that. after i was in this car accident, my left foot and left arm there‘s been no feeling for six years. what about now? i can feel now. have you got pain right now? yeah. whereabouts? in my here, and in my shoulder and in my knees. when did you start taking drugs? 2006.
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so about ten years now? yeah. now i smoke cocaine, but i don‘t smoke... i smoke a little bit of heroin. anjelea has three children. she tells me two of them don‘t want any contact with her because of her lifestyle. why do you smoke? because it takes my pain. it‘s the same as you drink, or whatever. losing some feeling, you know? but it‘s not like, you cannot run away when you smoke cocaine. and every time i smoke cocaine, i always talk about my babies. i don‘t know why. this facility, this drug consumption room, do you think it‘s important to have it here? yeah. why? if you sit outside and smoke, it‘s too much stress. so the money you make as a prostitute, do you use that on drugs? yeah. i think i‘m going to stop one day. it‘s too expensive, and it‘s too
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much poison in your body. what do you think, it‘s good or bad? could you live my life for, what, one week? i don‘t, i don‘t think so! they laugh. are you happy? no, it‘s a long time since i‘ve been happy. when was the last time you were happy? i don‘t remember. it‘s breaking my heart. this place opened three years ago, funded by the city with public money. many of the users who come here have mental health or physical problems. there‘s always a social worker on site if they need to speak with someone. there‘s also a nurse here to supervise the users and be
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on hand if things go wrong. today, ida‘s on the day shift. when the users come, the only thing they have to bring themselves is the drugs they are going to consume. everything else we give to them for free. this is just an example, but we give to them the needles, what they need to cook, we have condoms, we have whatever they need. of course the main thing is to save lives and to prevent diseases from spreading. i think we prevent a lot. and have there been overdoses? a lot, yeah. a lot of overdoses. but nobody died yet, so i‘m 100% sure that we are preventing people from dying from overdose, i‘m sure. over here there's a perfect place where there used to be a lot of people who meet to shoot up in the evening... elliott who we met this morning is back almost four hours later. before he shoots again, he wants
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to show us where he would often inject when the drugs room wasn‘t open. eliott‘s homeless, so he would inject in the streets and public places daily. we used to sit by this cage thing over here, used to sit along the sides over here, on these sides, so we could lean back on this after we'd taken our hit, you know? proper chill out, but without the backpack of course. do you still come here to shoot? well, not as much as i used to, now that we have the fixing rooms. when did you start taking cocaine and heroin? i think i was 15. when you were 15? how often do you take heroin? three times a day. three times a day? at least. have you ever had an overdose?
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a couple of them. i've had my heart stop a couple of times. your heart stopped? yeah. so i've been legally dead a couple of times. have you ever tried to get off the drugs? a lot of times. however, it's not as easy as you think, because, erm... are you all right? yeah. yeah? i'm just a little bit tired, sorry. elliott said he was starting to withdraw and needed to get his next fix. so he heads back to the drugs room. injecting rooms have been around for more than 30 years.
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denmark opened its first one in 2012 in copenhagen. this place is one of six now running in the country. they cost around £1 million a year to run. why do you think you need a facility like this here? the situation in this area before was that we had all the drug users sitting around in the streets, in stairwells, in people‘s backyards, shooting drugs in public. and after we opened the drug consumption room, 90% of the outdoor drug use are gone. do you think that the money you spend on this facility could be better spent trying to help people get off the drugs instead? i don‘t think it‘s a question of either treatment or either drug consumption room. it‘s a question of both. there will always be a group in any drug environment in a city, if it‘s glasgow, if it‘s copenhagen,
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if it‘s london, there will be a part of the group that is not motivated for treatment, and what are we going to do with that group? are we going to make them shoot up in the streets between cars in the rain, or should we invite them inside in a safe environment? if people want to get into treatment, and come and talk to us about they want to go into treatment, we can help them in the right direction. there‘s been a constant flow of people in and out of the rooms. some of them are new faces to the staff, but many are regulars and can come here multiple times a day. i‘ve only been here a short time and can already spot some familiarfaces. i‘m just coming back to go inside and smoke
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because i have too much pain now. what time is it? it's half past five. and elliott is also back for the third time. what i'm going to inject now is this iv solution with heroin in it, and in my pocket i've also got some ritalins, and they will help me stay awake. and now i need to get in before all the rooms get taken. i'll talk to you in a bit, yeah? you can feel it from your legs, to your head. it'sjust zoom, zoom. it's a good feeling. it already takes, what, 50% of my pain already.
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as it gets later, the drugs rooms get busier. both are now full, and there‘s users hanging out in the waiting area until they get their turn. elliott comes out about 45 minutes later. are you all right, elliott? er, yeah. i feel good, but, damn, my head is everywhere. when do you think you‘re going to come back here? here, in the room? later today. why do you come here? this is going to sound retarded, but i mean, come on, this feels like a second home. i don‘t know. yeah, that‘s... imean, like, it‘s a safe place to take things in. when i take something that is really strong, i turn to the nurse that is sitting by the computer
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and i tell them, "hey, listen up, i‘m going to take this strong dose," and then i tell them everything what‘s inside, so they know what to expect if anything goes south. do you want help to get off the drugs? yes. the fixing room will stay open through the night. it will only close for an hour tomorrow morning at 6am for cleaning. some people would say that having a facility like this is encouraging people to use drugs, it‘s giving them a safe place to come and do it? yeah, and we hear that a lot. it doesn‘t encourage people. it‘s a very hard life to be a drug addict in this environment. it‘s a very busy life, people are working to get drugs 2a hours a day, so it does not make people‘s lives more easy, but it gives people a place where they can be safe. it does seem there‘s
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a demand for this place, even among residents who live nearby. one told me her children don‘t have to see people injecting outside their home any more. but the fix room is clearly not a treatment facility to get addicts off drugs, and many people, like the users i‘ve met here today, will come in and out of the fix room and go back to their difficult and sometimes dangerous lifestyles. late in the evening, only a few metres from the fixing room, we find anjelea working on the streets, trying to find customers to pay for her next fix. i‘m going to work, make some money, and go and smoke some cocaine, and then go back to work again, make money and smoke cocaine! this is my lovely life.
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she laughs. how long do you think you‘ll keep doing this for, drugs during the day, prostitution at night? i have said i will stop work as a prostitute when i‘m 50, in one year. and the drugs? yeah, something like that. one, two years. what an insight. if you‘ve been affected by the issues raised in divya‘s report, you can find details of organisations offering information and support with addiction at bbc.co.uk/actionline. or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 08000155 947. later in the programme we‘ll be talking to the people behind the clinic in denmark and to those in glasgow who are planning to introduce one.
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really keen to hear your thoughts on this throughout the morning. jane on facebook says about time and drug use will not go away, what we have been doing for years has not helped all reduced to use in any way and it is still rising. in countries where they have done things like this drug deaths have dropped dramatically. dave says on facebook... michael says it is a good idea because it would reach out to people who would not normally engage with services. stewart says drugs are still illegal but we need to stop punishing addicts criminally.
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some of you on my twitter timeline are saying that you do not want to pay for this, you don‘t want taxpayers‘ money to fund something like this. we will talk to people behind this and the plans in glasgow later and we will talk to a former heroin addict about his views and the mother of twin boys, both of whom were addicted to drugs and one of whom died because of drugs. and the health secretary jeremy of whom died because of drugs. and the health secretaryjeremy hunt is giving a statement to mps later today. nhs staff tell us what it is like to work in a&e departments after charity described it as a humanitarian crisis. and as a police officer, would you routinely want to carry a taser or officer, would you routinely want to carry a taser 01’ a officer, would you routinely want to carry a taser or a gun? we will hear from some of them after 10am. here‘sjoanna in the bbc newsroom with a summary of today‘s news.
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theresa may is to announce a number of measures designed to deal with what she will describe as the "hidden injustice" of mental illness. in a speech, she‘ll promise to transform attitudes towards mental disorders, through extra training for schools and employers in england. figures suggest 75 per cent of mental health problems start before the age of 18. the day few minutes victoria will discuss attitudes towards mental—health problems in the workplace and we will speak to two women about their experience. up to 4 million commuters in london face disruption because of the strike across the underground network. at one point clapham junction had to across the underground network. at one point claphamjunction had to be evacuated because of overcrowding. crowds have gathered at bus stops as travellers tried to complete their journeys to work. members of the unions walked out last night in a i’ow unions walked out last night in a row about jobs and unions walked out last night in a row aboutjobs and ticket office closures. the strike is due to finish 6pm. thousands of police officers
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in london are to be asked if they want to be routinely armed with a gun or electric taser. the metropolitan police federation, which represents 32,000 officers in the capital, says that with more officers being armed to counter the threat of terrorism, it was only fair to ask officers what they think. a police spokesman said more than 90 per cent of officers were currently unarmed and there were no plans to change this. police in paris say they have arrested more than a dozen people in connection with last october‘s robbery at gunpoint of the american reality tv star, kim kardashian. they say dna left by the robbers at the scene led to their arrests. at the time, french police said more than seven million pounds‘ worth of cash and jewellery were stolen. her spokeswoman said masked men entered the room at the luxury residence where kim kardashian was staying while attending paris fashion week. roger in walsall surged in victoria, i have had two sons who suffered
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total mental breakdowns. we will talk about the mental health story. he said it was horrendously distressing them and those around them. he said his son killed himself age 30 and his second son broke down at the age of 15 and used to beg him in tears to help him. now aged 19 he is much improved. he said he implored everyone to ensure they ta ke implored everyone to ensure they take their medication and the best way to remove the stigma around mental health is to have a campaign that makes everyone understand it is an illness and we must all show compassion. we will talk more about mental health and the plans theresa may house in the next couple of minutes. your experiences are really welcome. you can tweet or send an e—mail. sport now. the spirit of the fa cup was felt at anfield is 9000
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plymouth fans went to liverpool to watch their team from the fourth tier of english football play liverpool. jurgen klopp‘s ten changes helped plymouth as he fielded the youngest side in club history. not that the fans who made the trip will mine. chelsea also made changes, nine in total as they beat peterborough 4—1. they had club captainjohn beat peterborough 4—1. they had club captain john terry sent beat peterborough 4—1. they had club captainjohn terry sent off. fulham fc and middlesbrough and tottenham won. as comebacks go, it will go down as one of the shortest. james haskell lasted 35 seconds after coming off the bench against leicester after seven months out. he was taken off with a head injury. the club are confident he should be fit to make the start of the six nations for england. johanna konta beat her opponent in straight sets at the sydney international. she reached the semifinals of the first grand slam of the year, the
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australian open, last year. dan evansis australian open, last year. dan evans is through in men‘s competition that kyle edmund is out. we will have more sport around 10am. theresa may will outline plans today to reduce suicide rates and improve support for people suffering with mental illness in england. in herfirst major speech on health since becoming prime minister, she‘ll encourage schools and employers to do more to help — declaring it an historic opportunity to right a wrong and says she wants to tackle the "huge stigma" around mental health. she‘s expected to announce that every secondary school will be given training to spot pupils who may be suffering from depression, anxiety or eating disorders. anti—discriminations laws being tightened to give greater protection to stop people with mental health issues losing theirjob. employers and organisations will be given additional training in supporting staff who need to take time off. expanding online services to allow symptom checks before getting a face—to—face appointment — and a review of the "health
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debt form", under which patients are charged up to £300 by a gp for documentation to prove they have mental health issues — an issue we highlighted on this programme a few months ago. if you experience mental health problems, let‘s hear your own experience, what should the prime minister to do tackle the stigma? and tell us about the support or lack of support you‘ve received at work. we can talk now to beth allan and lucy nichol who both had problems with previous employers not dealing with their mental health issues very well. beth has borderline personality disorder and lucy has anxiety disorder. alsojoining us is sue baker from the mental health charity time to change. welcome. one previous employer sacked you, why? i was working in a small shop. i had started a new course of medication. that the medication gives you brain fog and
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it takes time to adjust and at the time they were slip—ups in a shop and someone managed to steal something and at the time i was working alone, which is probably not the best idea for someone adjusting to medication but i did not tell my employer because i was worried about what they would say. when this happened he asked me if i was feeling ok and i said that i struggle with this, i have just started new medication and it will not happen again, but can you bear with me. a week later i was taken into a performance review out of the blue and was told i was not performing properly and fired. when you were fired, was there a conversation about your mental health issues and the fact you had started taking medication? he said i liked to make my excuses. what did you think? i did not know how to a nswer you think? i did not know how to answer that. i have never had anyone say anything like that to me in my life and i was taken aback and said it was not an excuse, i have
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explained to you as an employer and asa explained to you as an employer and as a friend the situation, and if you are not willing to support me, you are not willing to support me, you will not be able to take this further. lucy, in newcastle, tell us how anxiety has affected you at work. when you look back over my working career, which spans 20 years, back through to the 90s. i remember sneaking out of the office to have a panic attack in private because i was embarrassed about it. i think as time went on, there was a lack of understanding in certain working environments and it snowballs the situation so when people don't understand, the situation gets really difficult, it makes your illness worse and you end up makes your illness worse and you end up having more time off work because of it. it is worse for the employer and employee. what about your present employers, what have they
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done to improve your life at work?|j done to improve your life at work?” work for home group, a charity, and we have mental health services across the country. i think that really helps in that we have mental health expertise within the organisation. recently, to give an example, in the past i have been off sick for five, six weeks with anxiety disorder, whereas quite re ce ntly anxiety disorder, whereas quite recently i felt comfortable talking about it. the only place i have worked where the experience is a positive thing, they promote peer support. they have services and when i went to hr and said i was not feeling well, i was feeling anxious, within 24 hours, they hooked me up within 24 hours, they hooked me up with a counsellor and i had professional phone conversation will stop i was able to speak to my line manager and stop i was able to speak to my line managerandl stop i was able to speak to my line manager and i was back in work within three days. it makes a huge
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difference to know people are there to support you. one of the things theresa may will apparently talk about in the speech on mental health is the anti—discrimination laws being tightened so if you have a mental illness you will have greater protection at work. we have legislation in place to protect people when it comes to discrimination and mental health illness under disability legislation. that is clearly failing? it definitely needs tightening up and mind has called for that for a while. at the moment it covers mental—health problems. it did not when the legislation was drafted in 96. i remember we campaign to have it cover mental health. typically the stigma meant it was not covered. it was then in you did but at the moment it is a finite definition. you have to have a severe mental—health problem that affects you over a year but the
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nature of mental—health problems are episodic and a lot will not recovered if you need a few weeks off or experience it a few months. it will be helpful if it covers more people who have mental—health problems. one in six british workers will have a problem and it is a common experience. 18 months ago on the programme we spoke to dozens of people in an audience debate about mental health issues. two hours on television, never been done before. ruby wax said this about telling her barks. —— her boss. they‘re not allowed to discriminate, but the papers said 56% of the bosses still won‘t hire you so we‘re not in a position... we haven‘t become... do you mean that — don‘t tell your boss? i wouldn‘t. if i was working at the bbc would i mention that? no. why not? good luck with myjob. they‘re going to trust me to have a series and one day i‘m not going to show up.
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but it is illegal? yeah. i wouldn‘t have raised my head and said it. i thought it because i would still be out of a job. what‘s your, from your own experience, beth, would you say to people, be upfront with your boss? no. really? no, iwouldn't. i'd like to be able to, but that‘s the thing, recently i also had discrimination in another workplace and that was sort of with a physical disorder that i have as well, but the physical disorder was really affecting my anxiety and depression and when i went to see a healthcare professional about taking some time off, she asked whether i would like it taken under the physical illness 01’ it taken under the physical illness or the physical and mental. she recommended that we only put the physical because putting the mental would then cause more problems in work. sue, how do you react? i rememberwhen ruby work. sue, how do you react? i remember when ruby covered that. don't make a blanketjudgement on it. judge it for yourself. for some
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people they feel safe disclosing it and for many people, sadly too many people, still don't their employer is supportive of mental health issues. we are working with nearly 500 employers with time to change from the bank of england to ba rclays, from the bank of england to barclays, to m&s to tesco's, and they're taking more proactive action on mental health in the workplace. but 500 is by no means all employers in land of all shapes or sizes in all sectors. so some employers are doing really good work and it needs leadership and proper support in the workplace, not just leadership and proper support in the workplace, notjust relying on the health service, but having available services in the health system, but having support in the workplace. it isa having support in the workplace. it is a vital set to go get this right. and to make it safe for people to disclose because the longer you leave it, the longer your recovery, the greater the cost to business. to do something proactive is really helpful and what's changing the culture in organisations is beth when people like yourself or lucy are speaking out and leading their own internal campaigns to break down stigma. lucy, you have had good
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experience, bad experience with previous employers, what‘s your advice to people watching right now, do you tell the boss?” advice to people watching right now, do you tell the boss? i think you do have tojudge for do you tell the boss? i think you do have to judge for yourself. i do you tell the boss? i think you do have tojudge for yourself. i think as soon as i came to work for home groupl as soon as i came to work for home group i knew that it was an organisation... you can tell from the environment so i think that it depends. you need to really get a good understanding of how your organisation works and what the culture is and if you feel comfortable enough then i strongly suggest you do because it made the world of difference to me. that's good to hear. thank you very much. this e—mailfrom good to hear. thank you very much. this e—mail from rachel, good to hear. thank you very much. this e—mailfrom rachel, "my teenage daughter is being treated for an eating disorder 300 miles away from oui’ eating disorder 300 miles away from our home in nottingham. she has been treated in birmingham and cambridge. i feel strongly that while the pm actually speaking about the importance of mental health is very welcome, what is needed is proper investment to include intensive training for all professionals. u nfortu nately, we training for all professionals. unfortunately, we have no idea how long we will have to endure this
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separation and it makes the long journey every two weeks to visit her bad. iwant journey every two weeks to visit her bad. i want to know what the pm is doing to help us ordinary families who are suffering because of the crisis in child and adolescent mental health services today." if you experience mental health problems — really keen to hear from you — what should the prime minister to do tackle the stigma? and tell us your experiences of the support — or lack of support — you‘ve received at work? we‘ll try and speak to some of you before the end of the programme. the health secretary jeremy the health secretaryjeremy hunt is giving a statement to mps on the nhs. nhs staff will tell us what it is really like working in a&e departments right now after one charity described it as a humanitarian crisis. thousands of commuters have faced severe disruption this morning, because london underground workers are staging a 24 hour strike. clapham junction station has been evacuated due to overcrowding.
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it‘s part of a long running dispute between the unions and tube station staff over ticket office closures. our reporter leanne brown is at hammersmith. right, tell us what the situation is like there. well, just to put this into context 4.8 million people use the tube every day. that‘s a hell of a lot of people trying to use alternative modes of transport. they include, of course, the buses. here is hammersmith station. it is fairly quiet here at the moment, but i am told that at shepherd‘s bush there are large crowds of people there and some angry customers indeed. in fa ct, some angry customers indeed. in fact, we‘re hearing that some fights have broken out there. as you said, clapham junction has been evacuated due to overcrowding. extra services have been put in place to try and help. there are an extra 150 buses.
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there is also extra bikes available at the cycle hubs around central london. the river services have also been enhanced, but if you are travelling on the roads, i‘m afraid, there are miles and miles of queues heading into london if you are travelling by car or by taxi. i have to say, as i was travelling here today, there were a lot of extra people on the streets as well. people going back to old—fashioned walking or running to work! the mayor, sadiq khan, called the strike action pointless and he says it is causing unnecessary suffering to millions of passengers but the unions reiterated that the unacceptable proposals have been put forward and they‘re concerned about safety a nd forward and they‘re concerned about safety and staff. now the strike action will last until around 6pm
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tonight. however, we‘re expecting that services won‘t resume until around about tomorrow morning. after 10am, we will talk to management from transport for london. at least 15 people have been arrested in connection with the kim kardashian armed robbery in paris last year. you‘ll remember she was held at gunpoint and robbed ofjewellery worth several million dollars by five masked men. our entertainment reporter is here. fill us in. at least 16 people have been arrested in connection with this. police are saying that they found some jewellery that the masked men dropped when they robbed kim kardashian in october. she was in paris for paris fashion week. it is thought mast ked men dressed as police officers and burst into her private apartment building and held a gun to her head and robbed her of jewellery and then they locked her
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in the bathroom. now, when the police found this jewellery, they found traces of dna on it which they led to a person known to them and this is where all the arrests have come from normandy and the french riviera. in terms of the impact the robbery had on her. she came off social media, but now she is back on. reports o her and her husband‘s marriage? she hasjust come back on social media a few days ago and there was the first trailer for the new series of keeping up with the kardashians‘. she said she thought the robbers were going to shoot her in the back of the head. there were reports about marriage disturbances between her and rapper kanye west. it looks like all family gatherings are back to normal because there will be a new series where we will
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get to find out more about this report and what‘s happened with the paris robbery and kanye‘s health from march. thank you very much. la la land has become the most successful film in golden globes history, winning seven awards. british stars tom hiddleston, hugh laurie and olivia colman picked up awards for bbc drama the night manager, and claire foy for her role in the crown. maybe i‘m not good enough. it is like a maybe i‘m not good enough. it is likea pipe maybe i‘m not good enough. it is like a pipe dream. this is the dream. it is conflict and it is compromise and it is veriks very exciting. that was la la land as opposed to
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tom hiddleston. but it was the hollywood star meryl streep who drew most headlines when she sharply criticised the us president—elect donald trump as she received a lifetime achievement award at the ceremony. it isa it is a terrible situation happening for children. the night manager is about arms dealing and there is too many arms going into south sudan. that was tom hiddleston rather than meryl streep. sorry about that! there was criticism of donald trump. donald trump said he is not surprised he came under attack from liberal movie people and he
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described meryl streep as a hillary clinton lover. and ryan reynolds and andrew garfield snogged as fellow actor ryan gosling walked on stage to pick upa gong. and on the programme tomorrow, we‘ll be speaking to nicole kidman. herfilm lion received four golden globes nominations. now the weather. what we have this morning is some rain. the rain is going to continue to spread south—east wards as we head through the rest of the day. clearing and then behind it, you will find, we will see a return to brighter conditions and showers. the rain is courtesy of this weather front. behind it, look at this squeeze on the isobars indicating that it is going to be windy. gusting to gale force across the north—west later on. so we start in the south with a lot of cloud. it has been a damp start to the day. that will be
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erased by this rain coming southwards. so heavier rain and gusty winds around it. but behind it, look at the difference. some sunshine and brate spells and also some showers. above 500 meters in scotland, some of those will be wintry and the wind is strengthening and gusting to 60mph, 65mph with exposure across the north—westment for northern ireland, northern england and north wales, we are looking at a mixture of bright spells, sunshine and showers. the rain continuing to push into the south east, leaving a legacy of cloud behind it, but still fairly mild, looking at temperatures nine to 12 celsius. through the evening, that rain pushes away and overnight under clear skies across some central and eastern parts of the uk, we could see just a touch of frost. meanwhile, the second band of rain moves from the west towards the east. the strongest winds transfer to the north—east and slowly the wind will come down, but it will be fairly windy. so we start tomorrow with the frost in some central and eastern areas. this means we will
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see sunshine, but out towards the west, another weather front is coming our way, and that‘s introducing thicker cloud and rain and it is moving from the west towards the east and as that clears the west, it will brighten up behind it. temperatures tomorrow ranging from about six or seven celsius in the north to still mild in the south. nine to 11 celsius. now, moving from tuesday and into wednesday, again, quite a windy day. again, a lot of dry weather around with some sunshine, but there will be showers around and as the colder air starts to come in, increasingly, they will be wintry on the hills, but if you‘re stepping out across the northern half of the k, it will feel cold. temperatures between three and six celsius. further south, the temperature going down, but not quite as low as further north. just lower than we have seen in the last few days and including today. so as we head towards the latter pa rt today. so as we head towards the latter part of this week what is going to happen is we lose the mild yellows a nd going to happen is we lose the mild yellows and they are replaced by the
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colder blues across the land. this air source is the arctic and the wind direction is coming from the north or the north—west. so that does mean that some of us will see some snow. now, at this stage, we could see snow almost anywhere. thursday, friday and into saturday. but where we think at the moment is across northern scotland, parts of north—west england, north wales, and the moors and the south—west, but all of that could change. so do keep in touch with the weather forecast and we will keep you up—to—date with what is happening. the cold air remains with us as we go through the weekend, but into next week, well, it looks like we might see something a little bit milder, but that could change too. so the message is keep in touch with the weather forecast. hello. it‘s monday, it‘s 10am. i‘m victoria derbyshire. good morning. our top story — tackling the injustice and stigma of mental health. the prime minister promises to help schools and companies in england deal better
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with mental health issues. we have spoken to people about their experiences in the workplace.” we have spoken to people about their experiences in the workplace. i was taken aback and said it was not an excuse, i have explained to you as an employer and friend the situation and if you are not willing to support me in it, we will not be able to take this further. when i we nt able to take this further. when i went to hr and said i was not feeling well, i was feeling anxious, within 24 hours they hooked me up within 24 hours they hooked me up with a professional counsellor and i had a professional phone conversation. i felt able to speak to my line manager and was back in work within three days for that. really keen to hear your experiences, particularly how your bosses have treated you when you have revealed mental health issues. we would like to talk to you on air before 11am. also on the programme — exclusive access inside a ‘fix room‘ in denmark where dug addicts can legally take heroin and crack cocaine under medical supervision
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it is the same as you drink, whatever, losing some feeling, you know? glasgow plans to introduce one and there are calls for more in the uk. would you back then? and at the golden globes la la land and the night manager are the big winners — tom hiddlestone uses his win to send some political messages. it isa it is a terrible situation happening for children. the night manager is about arms dealing and there are too many arms going into south sudan. before that, the latest news. theresa may is to announce a number of measures designed to deal with what she will describe as the "hidden injustice" of mental illness. in a speech, she‘ll promise to transform attitudes towards mental disorders, through extra training for schools and employers in england. figures suggest 75 per cent of mental health problems start before the age of 18.
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up to four million commuters in london are facing significant difficult time this morning because of a strike across the entire underground network. at one point one of the capital‘s busiest stations, clapham junction, had to be evacuated because of overcrowding. huge crowds have gathered at bus stops as travellers try to complete their journeys to work. members of the rmt and tssa unions walked out last night in a row aboutjobs and ticket office closures. the 24—hour strike is due to finish at six o‘clock tonight. police are investigating after a woman‘s body was found in fife. the death of the 52—year—old is being treated as unexplained while investigations continue. thousands of police officers in london are to be asked if they want to be routinely armed with a gun or electric taser. the metropolitan police federation, which represents 32,000 officers in the capital, says that with more officers being armed to counter
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the threat of terrorism, it was only fair to ask them what they think. a police spokesman said more than 90 per cent of officers were currently unarmed and there were no plans to change this. police in paris say they have arrested more than a dozen people in connection with last october‘s robbery at gunpoint of the american reality tv star, kim kardashian. they say dna left by the robbers at the scene led to their arrests. at the time, french police said more than £7 million of cash and jewellery were stolen. her spokeswoman said masked men entered the room at the luxury residence where kim kardashian was staying while attending paris fashion week. the comedy "la la land" — a nostalgic tribute to hollywood musicals — has won a record seven prizes at the golden globe awards. british actors also enjoyed a golden night in the tv categories. tom hiddleston, olivia colman and hugh laurie won acting prizes for the night manager. claire foy, who plays the queen in netflix‘s royal epic the crown, was named best tv drama actress and the show won best tv drama.
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is the latest news, more at 10:30am. on twitter, esther said regarding the drug fixing rooms, saying they promote health and lower crime rates. she said at the moment we seem rates. she said at the moment we seem to be going backwards in the uk with attitudes towards drug users. she said drug users need protection and that is our responsibility as a member of the human race. do get in touch. the latest sport now. plymouth argyle from the fourth tier of english football earned themselves a lucrative replay with liverpool after their goalless draw in the third round of the fa cup. the magic of the fa cup was felt that anfield is 9000 plymouth fans made the ten hour round—trip. jurgen klopp made
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ten changes, fielding the youngest start—up in liverpool‘s history and it helps plymouth, who now prepare for the arrival of liverpool in the replay. it causes as an extra headache as it does to liverpool but it is great for the city we have a premier league team coming. we are still in the next round of the fa cup, as well. i knew before the game, with another line—up it could have been the same. it is not likely, but possible. it was an important experience with this line—up forthe important experience with this line—up for the boys. they deserve the game at plymouth and now we go there and try to do better. also making the changes were chelsea, who had no problems against league1 peterborough united with a co mforta ble peterborough united with a comfortable 4—1 win. chelsea registered 35 shots on goal. antonio
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co nte registered 35 shots on goal. antonio conte said he is considering appealing this incident. john terry‘s red card. sent off for a last man tackle and now facing a one match ban will stop tottenham beat aston villa after a dreadful first half. it came alive in the second. middlesbrough and fulham fc are in tonight‘s draw. as comebacks go this will go down as one of the shortest. after seven months out, wasps flankerjames after seven months out, wasps flanker james haskell lasted 35 seconds after coming off the bench against leicester, before he was taken off with what looked like a nasty head injury, but the club are confident he will recover and should be fit to make the six nations for england. three british players have beenin england. three british players have been in action in the run—up to the australian open. dan evans won his match but kyle edmund was knocked out. johanna konta won in straight
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sets. she reached the semifinals of the australian open last year and has had a pretty good start to the season as she looks to replicate that form in 2017. there is often talk about football giving to supporters but this is an example of fa ns supporters but this is an example of fans literally giving back to their club. the morecambe manager was recently fined £1000 after being sent from the touchline against cheltenham, but with the league 2 side struggling financially, supporters club together and have given him the cash to pay the fine. he was looking strong and solid but eventually he was moved to tears by the gesture. it is pretty nice, it goes to show in the lower leagues, the fans and manager felix together and they were helping him out. cheers. now when it comes to stopping deaths from drug overdoses, could ‘fix—rooms‘ or ‘consumption rooms‘ be the answer?
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they‘re places where users can legally inject hard drugs like cocaine and heroin under medical supervision, without the fear of prosecution. there have been repeated calls for them to be introduced here in the uk. glasgow is planning to open the country‘s first drugs consumption room and officials behind it have looked to countries like denmark — where these facilities already run — for inspiration. —— to see how they operate. our reporter divya talwar spent a day inside a fix—room in copenhagen‘s red light district. about 500 users come through its door each day. we played the full film at 0915 — here‘s a short extract — it shows scenes with blood and addicts injecting which you may find difficult to watch: this is copenhagen‘s seedy red light district, a well—known area to buy drugs. it‘s home to one of the city‘s so—called fix rooms,
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a place where addicts can legally take class a drugs safely, under supervision and without the fear of prosecution. there‘s calls to introduce them back in the uk, so i‘m spending the day here to see how they work. it‘s 8am and, inside, users have already turned up. my name is elliott, and i‘m 25, almost 26 years old. tell me what you‘re about to inject. it‘s good cocaine, a lot of heroin, and some diazepam benzo, just to make the heroin stronger. elliott is originally from sweden. he‘s homeless and will beg, borrow and steal to buy hard drugs. he injects so often that it‘s difficult to find a vein. i will find one.
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there we go. how are you feeling? (slowly) er, let‘s see. alert, euphoric, and relaxed. this place opened three years ago, funded by the city with public money. there‘s always a nurse here to supervise the users. when the users come, the only thing they have to bring themselves is the drugs they are going to consume. everything else we give to them for free. this is just an example, but we give to them the needles, what they need to cook. of course, the main thing is to save lives and to prevent diseases from spreading. i think we prevent a lot. elliott is one of about 500 users who will come here today. this feels like a second home. and it‘s a safe place
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to take things in. when i take something that is really strong, i turn to the nurse that is sitting by the computer and i tell them, "hey, listen up, i‘m going to take this strong dose," so they know what to expect if anything goes south. the fixing room will stay open through the night. some people would say that having a facility like this is encouraging people to use drugs? it doesn't encourage people. it's a very hard life to be a drug addict in this environment. it's a very busy life, people are working to get drugs 24 hours a day. it does not make people's lives more easy, but it gives people a place where they can be safe. but the fix room is clearly not a treatment facility to get addicts off drugs, and many people, like the users i‘ve met here today, will come in and out of the fix room and go back to their difficult
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and sometimes dangerous lifestyles. let‘s talk now to rasmus koberg christiansen. he runs and manages the drug consumption room we visited in copenhagen. david liddell is from the scottish drugs forum, which supports plans to introduce consumption rooms in glasgow. chip somers is a former heroin addict, who now runs a charity providing treatment for alcohol and substance misuse. he thinks the centres are a bad idea. elizabeth burton—phillips‘ son nick died because of his drug use aged 27. she‘s set up a charity call drug fam to help families in need and she thinks consumption rooms potentially encourage addiction. —— drug—taking. why is a facility like yours necessary? the facility is necessary because it gives drugs users who normally take drugs in the
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streets in public a safe place where they can take their drugs. if they gotan they can take their drugs. if they got an overdose, there are trained staff who can help them so they do not get severe injuries or die from an overdose. chip summers, would you have used a consumption room like this in order to stay safe?” have used a consumption room like this in order to stay safe? i don't think so, when i got my drugs i was keen to get somewhere private and i did use and inject in the street. i may have use them, i don't know. i would not have made a habit of it. when i got stoned i wanted to be quiet and listen to music away from everything else. why are you not in favour of these rooms? because of the cost. the cost of that must be in the region of up to £500,000 a year at a in the region of up to £500,000 a yearata time in the region of up to £500,000 a year at a time when people are struggling and waiting years to get detox and rehab. it is a vanity
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project at a time when we should concentrate on getting people who wa nt concentrate on getting people who want to get abstinent into rehab, detoxed and clean. please talk directly to chip. what would you say to him? directly to chip. what would you say to him ? relating directly to chip. what would you say to him? relating to the cost, drugs consumption rooms can benefit because when people get overdoses, maybe they do not die, but they can have severe head injuries, brain damage, things like that. in that case the drugs consumption room cost benefit. i do not say it is either a drug sumption room or other treatment. both things are important to get, to get a good programme for drug addicts —— come sumption. to get, to get a good programme for drug addicts -- come sumption. right now in glasgow, we have people waiting to go to rehab, all over the uk we have people waiting to go to
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rehab, and we do not have the money for a project like this. their families desperate to get their children into treatment, clean, and are not able to because there is no funding to people through treatment. elizabeth, two sons, one of whom died. what do you think of these rooms? it is encouraging further drug use. i think over the last 13 years since my son died, i've worked across uk prisons, uk rehabs, in schools, and what i hear is the biggest thing for family members is the desire for freedom from addiction and not continued addiction. and... the biggest thing forfamily addiction. and... the biggest thing for family members, but addiction. and... the biggest thing forfamily members, but not necessarily the addict? but the most important thing to understand is that addiction is a family illness. it is notjust about that addiction is a family illness. it is not just about the addict. addiction can make you incredibly
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selfish and self—centred. it is the fall—out on the family members that is really, really important. but if an addict doesn‘t want to be helped, an addict doesn‘t want to be helped, an addict doesn‘t want to be helped, an addict won‘t be helped? absolutely, but nevertheless, the family members still have the worry and the anxiety and the fear of death and that kind of thing. so that has to be looked at. let me bring in david from the scottish drugs forum. you are behind, you support the plan to introduce a consumption room, the so—called fixed rooms in glasgow. how do you respond to the various criticisms, david? well, i think has has been said in your piece, it is not a question of either or and we shouldn‘t view it in that way at all. of course, we need more resources a cross all. of course, we need more resources across the whole of the treatment and care sector, but particularly in relation to the glasgow proposals. we have in the region of 500 very vulnerable, mostly older drug users. that‘s
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people over the age of 35 who have very little prospects of recovery and we need to reach out to that group so we can and we need to reach out to that group so we can begin to engage with them and the proposals suggest is that we are moving current injecting that‘s going on in the streets within glasgow into a safe environment where people can be supported and helped. and through that process we start to engage... ata that process we start to engage... at a financial cost, mr lidl. if there isn‘t enough taxpayers money to fund the necessary treatment that‘s needed right now then you‘re asking taxpayers to fund this as well? i think there has been described a humanitarian aspect of reaching out to this most vulnerable population engaging more effectively with them. if you look at it in terms of cost, we have an outbreak
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of hiv infection in glasgow, that‘s #5 of hiv infection in glasgow, that‘s # 5 individuals. 75 individuals. we need to look at it in the overall picture and the problem with drug users, there is admissions to hospital with multiple health issues that they have. let's bring in chip, somebody with hiv spreading it around because the unsafe use of needles. that‘s going to cost the nhsa lot needles. that‘s going to cost the nhs a lot of money? it will cost the nhs a lot of money? it will cost the nhs money. i heard david before talking about these people who are over 35 and have been using for a long time, the poor loves can't get better. i was 38 when i got better andl better. i was 38 when i got better and i have had a long time in recovery. there is nothing about age or anything that stops people from getting better and i think we should just be encouraging people much more, what is the waiting list for rehab in glasgow at the moment? but surely... what is the waiting list
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at the moment for rehab in glasgow? what sort of rehab are you talking about? how many people in glasgow are waiting for detox?” about? how many people in glasgow are waiting for detox? i think the point is, you know, as has been said, we are looking for a wider range of services, that‘s the point. i think, you range of services, that‘s the point. ithink, you know, what range of services, that‘s the point. i think, you know, what we mead to do is keep people alive until the point they can actually effectively recover. as you say, considerable numbers of people actually recover ata numbers of people actually recover at a later age and the challenge we have in the scottish context is that many people sadly don‘t reach the age, you know, of yourself when you recovered at 38, they are actually dead before then and that is not a cce pta ble dead before then and that is not acceptable in our view. and some people are getting in touch to say, don‘t these fixed rooms actually encourage further drug taking? there is no sign from the fixed rooms that they encourage people to get clean? i think the point is we‘re moving currently injecting from the streets
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into these centres. there is no evidence of any of the centres across the world that actually they‘ve led to increased drug use because what we‘re talking about is long—term problematic drug users who are not able for various reasons, including issues that you discussed earlier in your programme, around mental health. a considerable proportion of these individuals have significant underlying mental health problems which make engagement with services difficult. it is about being humane and raching out to this population which we have been unable to engage with effectively. mr lidl, could i ask you, have you ever had a family memberor could i ask you, have you ever had a family member or friend could i ask you, have you ever had a family member orfriend in could i ask you, have you ever had a family member or friend in addiction personally? a family member or friend in addiction? not a family member, no. so you wouldn't understand possibly the impact of addiction on the family?” understand possibly the impact of addiction on the family? i don't think that would be fair to be honest. i‘ve worked in the field for 30 years. because i think... iam
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aware of all the issues and we‘ve campaigned for many years for a full range of services across the spectrum. a full range of services needs to embrace the family. the family are the ones who are directly impacted by someone's addiction. and therefore, it is very, very important that when you're looking at supporting places like fixed rooms, that you understand that even though they maybe safe places, for the addicts to go, there are family members out there who are worried day after day, suffering mental health issues themselves, suffering depression, anxiety themselves, because of fear of the continued drug use. and i have to support chip here because the most important thing that i hear day after day after day from addicts in recovery and from addicts seeking recovery, from people in prison, is i want freedom from drugs, not continued drug use.
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i think what you‘ll find particularly with this population in glasgow that we‘re talking about is they are isolated from everybody. that‘s services and their families and so, in my view, and the view of others who‘ve introduced the centres across europe and more widely is they are an important step in more effectively engaging with individuals. do you accept that point? that actually bringing these people into for a start, some kind of safe environment, so if they do overdose, there is someone on hand to help them? as a family member that might be some short—term consolation, but also that as david says, they‘re isolated at the moment so says, they‘re isolated at the moment so get them into a fixed room so you have got some conversation starter. that sort of thing is supposed to be happening now... but it is not. they‘re isolated. remember your time, taking heroin privately, on your own, you wanted to be away from people. you weren‘t necessarily engaged with the services on offer.
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there were few services on offer and the services that are on offer now, are worse than they were then. if i was about to spend £500,000 on a drug consumption room, the question i would be asking is that's fine, but how many people are waiting to go to rehab before we spend this money? do you know how many people are on the waiting list for abstinence treatment in glasgow right now? well, the waiting times for access to treatment across scotla nd for access to treatment across scotland is generally less than three weeks. that‘s the case and we have argued actually that should be certainly shorter than it is, but i go back to my fundamental point, we shouldn‘t be arguing about the value of one service against another, we need a whole spectrum of services so that people can make that transition from the most chaotic drug use and be more effectively engaged. i think it is an unhelpful thing to view it as one or the other. some messages from people watching you talk about
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this. amy, "so we let people into a fixed room. no questions asked on where they got the drugs from, if they were stolen? it is just encouraging drug use." pat says, "drug consumption rooms are a compassionate approach to supporting someone compassionate approach to supporting someone with an addiction." another viewer says, "fixed rooms will take away the stigma and the status associated in that it draws people in. it will reduce overdoses and disease." angela says, "it is a safe environment for drug users and has less negative connotations for wider society. they need help, not victimisation and judging." i‘m going to thank you all for your time. thank you for coming on the programme, thank you for your time this morning. if you‘ve been affected by the issues raised in divya‘s report, you can find details of organisations offering information and support with addiction at bbc.co.uk/actionline. or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 08000155 947. coming up, we will hearfrom three
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people working in the nhs. should police officers routinely be armed? thousands of met officers are being asked whether they would want to regularly carry a gun or taser. a survey by the metropolitan police federation will consult all its members on their views about equipping officers with weapons. scotland yard doesn‘t support officers being armed as a matter of course. but with a severe terror threat in this country does that need to change? ken marsh is chairman of the metropolitan police federation which has brought the survey. tony long is a former specialist firearms officer for 25 years at the met police and has written a book about his experiences. ken, why are you asking your members this? good morning. we're asking our
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members this because they haven‘t been asked it before. predominantly it is about taser more than firearms, but the question needs to be asked because should we flip the coin in circumstances change in london where we do see something major take place and there is a clamouring for this to happen, then we‘ve never asked our colleagues ever, would you be prepared to carry a taser or a firearm because a lot might say, "no way." i wouldn‘t do thejob. so might say, "no way." i wouldn‘t do the job. so that‘s why we‘re asking the job. so that‘s why we‘re asking the question. tony long, as a former firearms officer, you have shot five people. killed three individuals, i wonder if you can give our audience some kind of insight into the circumstances and the decision making when it comes to using a weapon? yes, the three situations that i was involved in were over a long period time. the first was in 1985, it was a domestic siege where
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i shot a man who was in the process of stabbing a little girl that he had been holding hostage. the decision there was incredibly easy. it was a choice between the life of a little girl and the life of a man who had already brutally murdered the child's mother in front of police. that wasn't a difficult decision to make. he actually survived. so i didn't have to sort of labour on howl survived. so i didn't have to sort of labour on how i would have thought about it had he died. the next situation was two years later. it was an armed robbery. and it was a pre—planned operation where we had intelligence and we were waiting for the robbery to happen. and when we we re the robbery to happen. and when we were confronted, the robbers turned to face me and again, it want a difficult decision. the last occasion, it was a very difficult decision because i didn't see a gun. the intelligence was that he had a gun. his manner ychs and his behaviour led me to believe that my colleagues lives were in danger and i opened fire. for me, that was the most difficult decision of my
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career. and were you... when an officer finds himself in that situation in that split second before firing, the decision to fire probably isn't difficult. it is living with it afterwards that's the difficulty. have you found it difficult to live afterwards with the decision you made in the latter case? no. because i was right. the man had a gun. as farasi i was right. the man had a gun. as faras i was i was right. the man had a gun. as far as i was concerned he posed a threat to my colleagues and so i was right, but i have not found myself ina right, but i have not found myself in a situation say for instance of two of my colleagues that were involved in the shooting ofjean charles de menezes. they genuinely thought they were confronting a suicide bomber. unfortunately they we re suicide bomber. unfortunately they were given the wrong suspect. it was a tragic error. now, i don't know how i would cope with living with that. they have got on with their lives and gone back to firearms duties, but unless you're there, it is very difficult to actually, you
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know, know how you'll feel. in terms of the circumstances you found yourself in, presumably you were investigated by either other forces or the independent police watchdog. what sort of an impact does that have on you? well, the first situation, i was barely investigated at all believe it or not because the suspect, i suspect we would now call it suicide by cop. he wanted the police to shoot him and forced us into a situation where we had to and he survived. he never made an official complaint therefore, i was never official complaint therefore, i was never investigated. that was early days. that was in the mid—80s. the second incident, iwas days. that was in the mid—80s. the second incident, i was investigated by an outside force. overseen by the police complaints authority. and the la st police complaints authority. and the last one, i was investigated a very new ipcc and i was treated fairly
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fairly, but i know for a fact, through speaking to colleagues who are currently under investigation, and who have been investigated, in re ce nt and who have been investigated, in recent years, there has been a sea change in the way the ipcc deal with police officers. what we used to call principal officers, those who have had to shoot and it is not good. they're treated very much as criminals. the ipcc might reject that description but i am hearing what you are saying. ken marshall, it would be fascinating to find out if officers would feel comfortable with this. what you think the public would want? as you say, that is what we are would want? as you say, that is what we a re interested would want? as you say, that is what we are interested in. let‘s do it in stages and the first process is to ask colleagues and then put it out toa ask colleagues and then put it out to a further field of the community, senior management, to engage with the question. the interesting thing
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for ours is to ask the question, we have not asked the question up to now, let‘s see what comes back. it could come back as a damp squib will stop our commissioner recently said 600 more firearms officers on the streets of london, a huge number, and everyone accepted it. he could say the same next week stop let‘s get the balance, see what they are saying, and then we will be able to use the information. we are talking about increasing the numbers of firearms officers up to 2600. when i became an instructor in 1983, we trained 4800. in the last couple of decades we have dramatically reduced the people carrying firearms, officers, and they are arguably better trained, certainly better equipped and everybody who carries a firearm is now pretty much a full—time firearms carrier not a pa rt full—time firearms carrier not a part timerlike in full—time firearms carrier not a
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part timer like in the 80s. ken said the question has not been asked. maybe by the metropolitan federation but it has been asked nationally on four occasions in my service as to whether police officers should be armed and in the past, the wording the federation have used, it has almost been guiding officers into saying they did not want to carry firearms. the issue in this country is that you ask what the public want. we are there to protect the public and i respect their opinion, but i find it insulting. they say we wa nt but i find it insulting. they say we want you to protect us, but we do not want you to be armed. elsewhere in the world and i'm not talking bad america, i'm talking about france and holland and sweden, it would be crazy to call for this system to the police and for them to have no better means of protecting themselves. we will report on the
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outcome. thanks. you have been getting in touch with your experiences of mental health services. theresa may will give a speech after it 11 this morning and that will be live on bbc news. we will hear from that will be live on bbc news. we will hearfrom some that will be live on bbc news. we will hear from some of you in the next half—hour. la la land danced off with seven golden globes last night, but the most dramatic moment of the night went to meryl streep. moron that around 20 minutes. the news headlines. theresa may is to announce a number of measures designed to deal with what she will describe as the "hidden injustice" of mental illness. in a speech, she‘ll promise to transform attitudes towards mental disorders, through extra training for schools and employers in england. figures suggest 75 per cent of mental health problems start before the age of 18. difficult time this morning because of a strike across the entire underground network. at one point one of the capital‘s busiest stations, clapham junction,
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had to be evacuated because of overcrowding. huge crowds have gathered at bus stops as travellers try to complete their journeys to work. members of the rmt and tssa unions walked out last night in a row aboutjobs and ticket office closures. the 24—hour strike is due to finish at six o‘clock tonight. and in a few minutes time victoria will be talking to the chief operating officer of london underground about the reasons behind the strike. police are investigating after a woman‘s body was found in woods in glenrothes in fife. officers were called to the woodland near aboyne way yesterday morning. the death of the 52—year—old is being treated as unexplained while investigations continue. join me again at 11. we will bring you the sport in a second. before that, four hostages being held
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inside a bookmakers injarrow by a man with a firearm had been freed. we can speak to fiona in newcastle. northumbria‘s chief constable said it was a dangerous and difficult operation and you can understand why when you see the footage, a man armed with what is believed to be a sawn off shotgun in a bookmakers in jarrow, in a busy precinct, and four held inside. police arrived at 540 5p last night and soon afterwards three were released but the last person was released at 840 pm last night. jarrow people said they could hear shots being fired and police telling us today it would have been from a police issue less lethal weapons so we understand a taser was used. they tell us know one was injured, including the four hostages. it would have been a terrifying ordeal. a man has been arrested and a firearms seized and
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that man is being questioned this morning. cheers. now the sport. the spirit of the fa cup was felt at anfield yesterday as 9,000 plymouth fans watched their side from the fourth tier of english football hold premier league giants liverpool to a goalless draw. it earns them a lucrative replay and they are into the draw for the fourth round, although managerjurgen klopp‘s ten changes, helped plymouth somewhat as he fielded the youngest side in the club‘s history. no problems for chelsea though who also made changes, nine in total, as they beat league one peterborough 4—1 — although they did have club captain john terry sent off. there were wins too for fulham , middlesbrough and tottenham. as comebacks go it will go down as one of the shortest. after seven months out wasps flanker james haskell lasted 35 seconds after coming off the bench against leicester yesterday, before he was taken off with a head injury. his club are confident he will make a quick recovery and should be fit to make the start of the six nations for england . johanna konta warmed up for the start of the australian open by beating arina rodionova
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in straight sets at the sydney international last night. you‘ll remember konta reached the semi—finals in the first grand slam of the year last year. dan evans is through in the men‘s competition but kyle edmund is out. that is all for now. the health secretaryjeremy hunt will make a statement to mps on her the service is coping with winter pressures. the red cross described conditions faced by patients in recent weeks as amounting to a humanitarian crisis. jeremy hunt denies the accuracy of that description but said the situation is severe. there is a very serious situation in a number of hospitals. they are finding it very, very challenging. it‘s the most difficult time of year. i think you should listen to what independent people are saying. people like chris hobson who represents all the hospitals, no friend of the government when it comes to nhs policy, who rejected that description
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because he said that actually the vast majority of hospitals are if anything coping slightly better than a year ago, but you do have some very severe problems in a few hospitals which, you know, no one wants to play down because they are very serious and we‘re doing everything we can to support those hospitals. labour are demanding action. here are some of the pressures the nhs is england —— in england are facing. this is a wake—up call, a wake—up call to properly fund our nhs and properly fund social care so that those who are in a desperate situation that need care outside of hospital are able to get that care. local authorities don‘t
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have the money to do it. well, the definition of a humanitarian crisis is something that affects large numbers of people, their health and well—being, for a prolonged period of time. the fact is, you just look at the numbers. more than half a million people who used to receive social care no longer do. it is a strong term. it's probably not a million miles away from the truth. i think we've been predicting that we would face a winter from hell. i think that time's arrived.
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on an international scale for the red cross, is it a humanitarian crisis? no, i think that‘s an overstatement at this stage. clearly demand is very high and it‘s higher than it‘s ever been but we have probably the most comprehensive plans in place that we ever had. but it is really very difficult at the moment. so here to give us an insight of what it‘s like working in the nhs right now. we can speak to paul robinson who is an emergency medicine doctor. zeshan qreshi, a paediatrician. hiam aldroubi a medical student in a geriatric ward. you recently finished assessing night shifts at a&e. tell the audience what it was like. i am an emergency medicine doctor. the red
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cross described what we‘re facing as a humanitarian crisis. i am afraid to say that might not go far enough in cases and this is a problem theresa may needs to address. jeremy hunt‘s statement will be welcome and i‘m sure he will have interesting things to say, but the prime minister needs to intervene on this. a&es are under crippling pressure nationwide. we have a target of four hours where we asked —— we are supposed to see patients. we are so busy, we are picking patients up over that time, regularly seeing patients who had been in the department for and a half hours, five, six hours, perhaps more. we are overwhelmed, we do not have enough beds and staffs and we are not properly funded. have they taken beds out because they do not have the money? that is part of it. we
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have had a huge amount of acute beds cut in the last ten years and a&e attendance in the last ten years is up attendance in the last ten years is up 25%, in a specialty that struggles to recruit staff. you say it is about beds rather than staff? it isa it is about beds rather than staff? it is a combination of the two, we need more and we need to ask ourselves questions about why the government can ignore the fact we are in provided full. you know that they would reject they are ignoring you and improperly... that they are not improperly providing. i'm sure they would but i would like to remind theresa may the british prime minister ‘s arm looked on harshly by ministers when they use phrases like crisis, what crisis? we are caught under the wheels of a chariot. do you acknowledge that the health secretary is saying there are severe problems, i am secretary is saying there are severe problems, iam not secretary is saying there are severe problems, i am not complacent, secretary is saying there are severe problems, iam not complacent, and they will address it?” problems, iam not complacent, and they will address it? i am overjoyed he has come back from his holiday
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and business trip injapan to address the problem he should have been here to see two in the first place. i do not think his acknowledgement means much to fund —— to front—line staff now. acknowledgement means much to fund -- to front-line staff now. give our audience within sight of your work and pressures you are facing and how it is different to two years ago. yesterday, i was not supposed to be in work, but my colleagues asked me to come in, to help, because the pressures we are seeing are so intense. recently, the chair of the gmc, a professor of paediatrics, he said that in 30 years he has been in paediatrics, the level of intensity and level of pressure seen in nhs hospitals is like nothing that has ever been seen before. what is different this year? it is complex. there are lots of factors. the fact
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remains this is something junior doctors, the colleges have been telling the government about across the year. what are the factors? we have a huge amount of illness, an ageing population, we have reducing staff morale and the winter particularly is something where illness hits, particularly with children, who have severe infections. one thing that has not been touched on so far, it is not only patients getting sick of that doctors also. we have a lot of staff off in the winter and the other day a colleague ended up working in the hospital for 19 hours because the team on nights were too sick to come in because they had been working so hard. this is really difficult and a situation that needs urgent change. let me bring in a doctor. you‘re a
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medical student. how do you find working in the nhs?” medical student. how do you find working in the nhs? i am a first year doctor. i am working in the nhs? i am a first year doctor. lam not working in the nhs? i am a first year doctor. i am not a working in the nhs? i am a first year doctor. lam not a medical student. it is complete crisis. it is actually a humanitarian crisis. i'm an international student. i came to study medicine in the uk. and it is the biggest regret of my life. it is the biggest regret of my life. it is because we are basically, we studied so hard for six years, but it is, we had a patient die in the hospital because we couldn't give her oxygen hospital because we couldn't give heroxygen in time. hospital because we couldn't give her oxygen in time. she wasn't seen in time and she passed away. she was just missed because of the amount of patients that we have in. there is people who work in admin who cannot get their rota fixed properly. we have one team that has nine doctors and one team that has two doctors, it is ina and one team that has two doctors, it is in a complete crisis. you hate your work, do you? well, it is not what i expected to be doing. and what i expected to be doing. and what i expected to be doing. and what i really wanted to be doing is
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saving lives and i'm not seeing this. there is three doctors who the hospital trust got from india to work. they resigned within three months. they said we would rather go back, not work, ratherthan months. they said we would rather go back, not work, rather than be in this mess. paul robinson, what would you suggest... they're stretching the doctors so much that they don't wa nt the doctors so much that they don't want to work anymore. my colleagues who has been working 87 hours a week and they get a call on sunday from the medical chief to ask them to come to work and i mean how is this even come to work and i mean how is this even allowed ? we come to work and i mean how is this even allowed? we have got patients waiting in corridors. you go into a&e, it is like walking into tesco's. there isjust so many patients lining up. there is no staff. no rota and most importantly, there is no respect at all. these little things that doctors have to fight about like having a car park. sorry,
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victoria, you work for the bbc, don't you? i do. do you have a room to take breaks in? i don't think so, no. when you want to have a break, you don't have an actual place where you don't have an actual place where you can go and have a break in? no, not that i am aware of. there is a green room down there. we have a mess room and we have to pay to use it. what sort of respect is this? paul robinson, what would you say to the doctor who said it is the biggest regret of her life coming to the uk to be a doctor? nothing frustrates hard—working, the uk to be a doctor? nothing frustrates ha rd—working, keen the uk to be a doctor? nothing frustrates hard—working, keen people more than not being able to do their job properly. what we need to see on this is two things. we need to see the 2012 health and social care act repealed because that took away any need forjeremy hunt fob responsible for the provision of healthcare and we need theresa may to engage with this issue directly. engage directly
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and what, go to your hospital, talk to you, see for herself... she needs to you, see for herself... she needs to see this. and then what? what we are seeing is a prelude to privatisation and that‘s the current government‘s agenda. privatisation and that‘s the current government's agenda. they would deny that completely. what evidence have you seen that completely. what evidence have you seen for that? theresa may used the language of it. used the language? she said she would be considering things that were avoided by previous governments. but there are no plans to charge people at the point of delivery? you know that. well, there better not be. you know that. we see people too desperate to have that kind of money. theresa may and jeremy hunt don‘t have to engage with healthcare in the way the rest of the country does. these are not people who have to queue for four—and—a—half hours. these aren‘t people who get sent across london because they have got a facial a bscess because they have got a facial abscess and there are no beds. sorry, privatisation, i really appreciate the nhs. i'm syrian. i
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came before the war to study medicine. i really love the nhs, but maybe privatisation will be a good thing for the public. if they get a private company to sort out the mess. we are in a mess. maybe it will be better for the public, better for the doctors, and it will better for the doctors, and it will bea better for the doctors, and it will be a better delivery of care. what we're seeing now is the public taking advantage of the actual situation. in what way? we're called in to see patients who come in because they have a scab on their hand and they want a sicknote. right, ok. so there is something we could do as general patients and taxpayers in terms of trying to relieve a bit of stress. what would you say needs to be done right now, the urgent need that you talked about, how would you like to see the prime minister address it?” about, how would you like to see the prime minister address it? i think there are a few things that are very clear. hospitals are asking for more money, chris hob son is asking for more money, the chief of nhs
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provider, simon stevens the head of the nhs wants more money. we are not only being given less than is expected, but also being lied to about figures. the government's own health select committee have said that the government have been misleading with the amount of money that they are giving us. also social ca re that they are giving us. also social care money is being reduced in the figure of millions, meaning that more and more pressure is being put on hospitals. i think what needs to happen is there needs to be a genuine and honest discussion where by people like us on the frontline, are listened to and we can talk about the problems. there are simple solutions that i think can really help. for example, increasing the amount of community care that can be offered, not only in terms of giving antibiotics, and seeing patients, but also the social care and welfare particularly for the elderly that helps keep them out of hospital and save in the winter. thank you very much. i really appreciate your time. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you. the mayor of london says that
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thousands of people were inconvenienced for no reason. the mayor of london says there were concerns about safety at some stations. steve griffiths is the chief operating officer london underground what‘s going on? what's going on? clearly, this is an unnecessary strike. first of all, i wa nt to unnecessary strike. first of all, i want to apologise for the disruption that our customers are experiencing today. we acknowledge the patience that they are showing. we‘ve always said that we will, within the first 12 months of our new operating model in our stations as a result of the ticket office closures, review our staffing levels with the trade unions. we have been doing that review and we have identified 200 new roles that we have started recruitment immediately to put into our stations staffing to improve the level of service that we can offer our can yous mirs on a daily basis. so the unions say they are on strike
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because you‘re closing ticket offices and you‘re making too many people redundant. those newjobs that you have talked about, they are to say they are to fill new jobs? no, they are newjobs. station ticket offices closed over 12 months ago and we have deployed our new staff into the frontline of operations. we have identified 200 new staff. how are you going to resolve this with the unions? this can only be resolved, not through strike action, that not only disrupts our customers and disrupts london and means that our people lose money. this can only be solved by working with us, around the table, and working through the issues that we have. are you prepared to compromise? we will do the right thing for under london underground. are you prepared to compromise? we have said we will recruit 200 staff and we will do a station by station review between
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now and march to identify should those 200 need to increase which we believe they will, but we need to do the work with the trade unions. ok. thank you very much. thank you for corming on the programme. steve griffiths chief operating officer for transport for london. la la land won seven awards at the golden globes last night. maybe i‘m not good enough. yes, you are. maybe i‘m not. it‘s like a pipe dream. this is the dream. it's conflict and it's compromise. it's very, very exciting. music: someone in the crowd. joining me now is sinead garvan, from bbc newsbeat.
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a massive night for la la land and also a great night for british actors too? yes, indeed, the night manager with tom hiddleston, olivia coleman and hugh laurie and claire foy for the crown. tom hiddleston used his speech to talk about some work he did with the un in south sudan. a little bit of a backlash to it. we will see a clip now. let's have a look. it is a terrible situation happening for children, the night manager is about arms dealing and there are far too many arms going into south sudan. i really, really wouldn't be here if it wasn't for some extraordinary women. i'm going to thank themment one of them is queen elizabeth ii!
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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. a lot of the fwirt comments have been talking about him. and in the problem with tom hiddlestone over the past year and things that have happened in his personal life, there is a sense of people not wanting to be appreciative of him. and a lovely speech from claire foy, giving a shout out to the queen, which was nice. the most talked about was meryl streep when she accepted the lifetime achievement award. always with this award people have time to
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plan a speech and i think there was a lwa ys plan a speech and i think there was always going to be something said about donald trump. she used it to talk about how she felt about him and what happened. she did not mention his name once, which a lot of people commented on. she describes one of the best acting moments, performances of the year, when he appears to mock a journalist who is disabled. that was last year. she talks about that. also, she has lost her voice and is croaky and it turns out she has been crying a lot over the weekend. hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, we will have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. cheering. disrespect invites disrespect. violence incites violence. when the
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powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. ryan gosling picked up an award for his role in la la land. keep your eye out on the background because two of the people on his table, ryan reynolds and andrew garfield start kissing. that‘s done the rounds on social media now. and that along with meryl streep, the two highlights i believe. what a great shot! thank you very much, sinead. thank you for your company today. that interview with nicole kidman on her new film. good morning. your impression of the day thus far is tied up to where you‘ve spent the day thus far. here we have got a weather front. you have seen it in scotland and northern ireland. it is affecting
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england and wales. it is on its way towards the south east and towards east anglia and kent. following on behind, brighter skies, but east anglia and kent. following on behind, brighterskies, buta real rash of showers rattling into scotla nd rash of showers rattling into scotland and northern ireland and the north—west of england and parts of wales and maybe the south—west. the temperatures are on the way down because there is cooler air behind that weather front which quits the far southeast after dark. we keep the wind. gusts of wind to 60mph, 65mph, it will be a coolish night, not a particularly frosty one. this is bbc news and these are the top stories developing at 11. theresa may is to outline plans to improve support for people in england with mental illness. she‘ll say it has been "shrouded in a completely unacceptable stigma". flay will set out her government‘s vision with a pledge of social reform to end what she calls burning injustices. —— theresa may will set
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out her government vision. gridlock at stations and misery for millions of commuters as tube staff strike in london, over ticket office closures. 16 people have been arrested by french police investigating the theft of jewellery worth millions of pounds from the reality tv star kim kardashian. also, success for british actors including the stars of the night manager at the golden globe
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