donald trump has withdrawn his healthcare bill after it failed to win enough support from his own party. paul ryan described the decision as a setback. but the democrats said it was a victory for the reckon people, and a great day for america. british police have appealed to the public information about the man behind the attack at westminster. marine le pen said she would consider lifting sanctions on russia if she was elected. the national front leader met vladimir putin in moscow and he said he was not trying to influence events. and those are the headlines on bbc world news. and now on bbc news, we are taking to the stage for a special programme all about love, and relationships. from the perspective of performers with disabilities or mental health issues. the show is produced by the

bbc‘s disability strand, 0uch!, and he strong language. —— and it contains strong language. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host but tonight, sofie hagen. — your the host but tonight, sofie hagen. —— your host for tonight. the host but tonight, sofie hagen. -- your host for tonight. thank you. thank you very much. hello and welcome to bbc ouch! storytelling live. the stories we are going to be hearing tonight are about love and relationships, and i do have a very long massive relationship with my psychologist. am i right, bbc ouch! people? high five! psychologist. am i right, bbc ouch! people? highfive! i have psychologist. am i right, bbc ouch! people? high five! i have been seeing him for ten years now. ——

she. she is always tried to get me out of my mental health issues. and thatis out of my mental health issues. and that is quite a view. we have depression, we have anxiety, and binge eating disorder, which is the cool one. i do not you know about that. it is when you eat so that you can't feel anything. write mac because there is a lot of pain inside, because, you know, you can feel the bones, and to swallow them, and there is a lot of pain in my throat after a good piece of chicken... my psychologist is amazing. she is a very good psychologist. an incredible psychologist. an incredible psychologist. those who can't see me, iam psychologist. those who can't see me, i am fat. and that is not a bad thing. ilike me, i am fat. and that is not a bad thing. i like being fat. i love my body. i think everybody should love my body. i think everybody should love d. body. i think everybody should love my body. because... why wouldn't you? so that means that sometimes it will give me advice on how to lose weight. it will be like, you need to stop eating sugar. i am like a cannot. because then i will feel. i will feel. that is the reason i eat.

so that i don't feel feelings. eight have depression and anxiety. i do wa nt to have depression and anxiety. i do want to fill my feeling. my psychologist tried to fix as one. we we re psychologist tried to fix as one. we were trained to deal with some of the feelings that i can't show, like angen the feelings that i can't show, like anger. i don't know how to express angen anger. i don't know how to express anger. so when i do express anger, it kind of explodes, right? so she tried to fix that. she said to me, you know,, next time you feel angry, train express it. i said, oh no. i don't think that... i don't think there is enough food in the world for me to feel angry. i'm sorry, that will not happen. she said, next time you feel anger, said the words iam angry. time you feel anger, said the words i am angry. i said ok, this is a new. i went from that session, i was very pleased with what i was about to do. i was like, i am going to go out and try and feel my anger, and i to train express it. i was practising the sentence, i am angry. blee but it happened. i can set out

loud. and my best friend, it she is a very optimistic and happy person. she is away smiling. like, she believes in things they love... what an idiot, right? and she met me the station, and i hoped her. and she said my god, i am station, and i hoped her. and she said my god, iam happy to station, and i hoped her. and she said my god, i am happy to see you. isaidi said my god, i am happy to see you. i said i was happy to see her. she said you were to go to dinner? i shaw. she said what you feel like eating? i said i don't know. asked. she said she wanted greek food. and then i punched in the face. i punched in the face. i saw this happen in motion. i could just see my first... i was like i am expressing feelings, and my heart was like, don't do it. this is what we we re was like, don't do it. this is what we were afraid of! i saw my first just hit her stupid smiling face, and she never once stopped smiling. she was just and she never once stopped smiling. she wasjust like, and she never once stopped smiling. she was just like, ok, and she never once stopped smiling. she wasjust like, ok, we will get pasta. i felt so

she wasjust like, ok, we will get pasta. ifelt so bad. i did not know what to do. i hit my friend. i do wa nt to what to do. i hit my friend. i do want to be that kind of person. i felt bad and she was looking at me with her big blue eyes. i did not know what to say. and ideas that, i am angry. “— know what to say. and ideas that, i am angry. —— and ijust said that. and i stopped feeling feelings for the rest of my life. that is somewhat of a fairytale. i would love to introduce you to the first person in the stage. are you up for being very, very nice? of course you are. give it up for your first guest. everyone has taken all the good disabilities. so i got left with dyspraxia. it is a developmental co—ordination disorder. it is the less sexy cousin of dyslexia, which you will have heard about. it largely affects motor control and speech and memory and information processing. what generally happens as i fall over a lot and cock everything out. as

warning. watch this space. i love living alone, because people. so my favourite activity is sitting on the server favourite activity is sitting on the server on my pants, watching the telly. i am all about that. i can't keep pets or houseplants alive, so certainly can't keep love and affection life. it is far too much affection life. it is far too much affection to make responsibility. i thought about online dating. it plays on your insecurities. it is terrifying, because you're waiting there to meet the state, and you have written your profile, and you're thinking, well, maybe taking ten yea rs you're thinking, well, maybe taking ten years off my age was too much. i did use flattering photos, and pretend that i was not actually mental. site because of their worried about what they go dipping. so you're waiting to see him, and you are thinking his could be right. because people are better than that. and in mainstream media would have us and in mainstream media would have us believe everybody is shallow and observes that how you look, but i find in my experience that real people will be able to see behind the method you really are, and

realise you're a beautiful person. and like that. so is feeling buoyed up and like that. so is feeling buoyed up about it. i see him come out of the station. i clock on, and i thought, you minger. and with dyspraxia, i was very loud is wary and scary. especially that no people, i get a bit overpowering and overwhelming. people get nervous around it. this is what they said. obviously, it is nonsense, and i will fight anyone who says otherwise. but this isjust will fight anyone who says otherwise. but this is just a classic dyspraxia symptom. i didn't realise. as the ghost is this fascinating person with all these quirks and so interesting, but it was very quirks and so interesting, but it was very upsetting to find out that i'm entirely 2—dimensional. just ta ke i'm entirely 2—dimensional. just take condition. so the state already looks nervous. and that is before it all comes out. just the presentation alone is scaring the guy. i thought of thought we would go to the nearest pub. and i am stumbling

over, to be over, as they do. and we try to get into the bouncer says you cannot come in. and the guy says you are too drunk, you cannot come in. i get this a lot. not always i—iron drunk. so turn to the guy and as you know, arguably bouncer, it you a lwa ys know, arguably bouncer, it you always win. —— not always when i am drunk. soi always win. —— not always when i am drunk. so i am not being gracious in defeat. i am just wearing a stumping off, having ago and vindicating him under my breath. but i thought i was looking good because i was in my high heels. i put them on a specially. i can't walk in high heels. cannot. cannot stand in them. but this doesn't stop me. i am in denial. i imagine that makes it look like some girly delicate flower, all sanguine and sexy. not like the angry tractor that are usually look like. and evidently, we are going

along and i fall. like. and evidently, we are going along and ifall. and i don't fall in the wet i would fall in my head. —— the way. that is how i would like to fall. no, i come along and stuck it on the pavement. it is just as terrible mess of rigging. everybody is aware of it. my advice is don't start out. just a on the ground. i have done it; is. you stay down, they start to worry. they think, oh, hang on. —— just stay on the ground. stay on the ground. you have your pride. stay on. so my day pics above the ground, and i was quite amazed he did not let it —— stoppered in the first place. so i go in and the landlady city bleeding everywhere,

and comes with toilet paper to say the furniture. i am sitting there with blood and tissues, because that as to the ambulance of a sexy date. —— meals. so at this point, i am covered bed drinking and crying. —— ambience. and i am just asking why it is happening to me. this part of the day, your message out. smalltalk conversation, i can't do. i don't understand. i had written to use up my arm and tried to pass it off as a trouble to do. so i am chatting away. what do you do? where do you live? pause for response... i think, no. every bit as scintillating as you might imagine. so we decided to leave, of our own volition, which is excellent. not being asked to leave. so just excellent. not being asked to leave. sojust get back excellent. not being asked to leave. so just get back home in traffic at all about it, watch cartoons, sit on

the sofa in my pants, watching television. equilibrium is restored. inafew television. equilibrium is restored. in a few days later, the date texts me and wants to see me again. why? why would you put yourself through that? what sort of person would want to experience is that all again? what sort of self—esteem problems do have, large? absolutely ridiculous. ido have, large? absolutely ridiculous. i do know anyone who wants a go at me again. —— lad. whata i do know anyone who wants a go at me again. —— lad. what a loser. this might be the reason i been single for ten years. —— might be the reason i been single forten years. —— i might be the reason i been single for ten years. —— i do not know anyone who wants to go with me again. thank you. you have been fantastic. my god, that was her first time ever on stage. i have slept with worse comedians than that. that was amazing. we are about to have another storyteller on the stage. are you ready for that? yes!

give an amazing round of applause for mick scarlett! now, when i first discussed with the bbc ouch team what i would be talking about today, i asked to talk about how i met my wonderful wife, who is sitting quite there. —— ouch! . this arresting her across the gas law and how i immediately knew she was the one for me. no, they said. no, that is really boring. what we want is something edgy. sabena will push boundaries. and i thought, i know, i will talk about my willy, and sex. because that is edgy, isn't it? —— willy. i work up on the day my germanotta level, and my legs hurt. and i fell over every, to understand. and embolus was called andi understand. and embolus was called and i was rushed to hospital. it transpired that my spine has collapsed. yes, it is true, you can break your back in your sleep. i

just thought i would tell all you biped is that you make your day. eventually, at out—of—hospital, and as you eventually, at out—of—hospital, and as you can eventually, at out—of—hospital, and as you can tell, i had lost the ability to walk. —— bipeds. there was no more standing for me. there was no more standing for me. there was also no more standing to attention down there. i had lost what the doctors called erectile function. i knew that would happen. com plete function. i knew that would happen. complete silence. i thought, that is aired. game over. i thought that was it. i got really down and depressed. i thought, i would become the best male friend. and all my girlfriends would come around and do their hair and do their make—up, and i were dressed all up, and then i would send out on dates. normally, with blokes wearing leatherjackets, which is why i always wear one, they don't want pets, and if they are real bustards, they own a ford capri. and that was a giveaway sign that it would be bad. and then what

would happen is that she would come back at the end of the night and cry. she was a he had sex with me and dumped me, why could they be late you? i, of course, did not see this as what i would now recognises a come on. i saw the thought that they would never want to be in the because i cannot tell. so i thought, or you, it you'll be fine excite. my best e—mailfriends or you, it you'll be fine excite. my best e—mail friends said they had met this girl, adding she is great. what you country party admit her and all of the president of course. so of course i was the one where the most make—up and a room. we are all getting along all famously. as was the fashion, back then, we played again. drew butera. we played it at every party. i don't know why because it always ended with a row. normally because we'll always truthful or two daring, too truthful, but i thought this could be at. this could be my chance. i could tell my secret. up till then, i had kept it quiet. my brother did not know, might parents did not know, even my doctor didn't. i was

going to admit to mr floppy. what a sympathetic and caring? not at first. you know when people have bad thing, where it is not funny any more, they arejust thing, where it is not funny any more, they are just upset. but eventually, my friend wiped away her tea rs, eventually, my friend wiped away her tears, got her breath back, wiped her tears away, and likely across the head. she said we are girls, we don't have willies. we make love to girls and do it well. i easily had not worked that out. which kind of shows how innocent i was as a teenager. so at the time, lesbianism and feminism were very closely associated, and very radical, these girls were. and they truly believe what was wrong with the planet was men and their wrecked function and penetration. all can treasure and was bad. so suddenly, i was this new type of man, a man who... the next

revolutionary leap, according to the skills! they thought it was great! i really like these girls. cool. and they took me under their wing. and they took me under their wing. and they even made me and i'm very lesbian. and as to go on lesbian marches. there was me and a load of girls and just this bloke wearing lots of make—up and looking like boy george on wheels. down with men, men are bad! and they also taught me how to make love to a woman like a woman. i wonder how many people out there are matching it with pornographic thing. no, i'm still a quy- pornographic thing. no, i'm still a guy. they still wouldn't go near me, but they just taught me, told guy. they still wouldn't go near me, but theyjust taught me, told me, with words, not actions. sadly, but there you go. and when i was telling there you go. and when i was telling the bbc about this, they said aegerter tell you in? even tells of a circus that a dinner tell us? please tell us! well i won't. no. i'm afraid i will not let you know, because that would be betraying the sisterhood. —— are you going to tell

last? and let it as it was out. so girls, if you want to know it is like, you will have to make love dormant. that was amazing. i think everybody could learn from that story. everybody. everybody! ifanybody wa nts to everybody. everybody! ifanybody wants to buy me a pint i will be at the bar. ready for another storyteller? pick your hands together and give it up for the amazing sean lucas. —— put your hands. hello. so, i grew up with hearing loss. it means that essentially i cannot function in society without my hearing aids. the funny thing is that i didn't wear them until i was about 20 years old. so for the first 20 years of my life i didn't hear much. so how did i get by? i

essentially hung out with a lot of lovely people. i grew up in italy, so, i mean... you have heard some of those people over there. i come from a family, we are 11! people. everybody is really loud. you can't understand how loud they are. every timei understand how loud they are. every time i go back for christmas i have to ta ke time i go back for christmas i have to take my hearing aids off. it is just crazy. so, i had a girlfriend. her name is a lease. she is the tisch, from newcastle, but she does not have a geordie accent otherwise i would not understand what she is saying. she speaks very badly and moves her hands a lot. as an italian ifind this very moves her hands a lot. as an italian i find this very attractive. the only thing is, she can speak quite fast. when we moved in together, communication was a little bit

complicated. the colours she is not used to speaking to somebody who has hearing loss. —— because shears. so she speaks to me like have perfect hearing. even if i have my hearing aids, i cannot hear 100%. hearing. even if i have my hearing aids, i cannot hear100%. if hearing. even if i have my hearing aids, i cannot hear 100%. if i am in the kitchen, cooking, and you walk into the room and start talking to me right away when i am not seeing you. i cannot hear, very likely, that the year of what you just said. even worse, if you speak to me from a different room. so i had to tell elyce, when you speak to me, don't cover your mouth, don't mumble, and don't speak to me from another room. but elyce will forget. so i had to come up with a new strategy. so my strategy was, a sickly, i was going to train elyce as if she was a dog. —— basically. so every time i could not hear how i would interrupter and

tell her what she did wrong. elyce, you didn't speak while facing me. elyce, you are mumbling. and i'm annoying myself now, so imagine how annoying myself now, so imagine how annoying i was to her. so obviously i thought this was a great idea and i kept going. i took it one step further and introduced the marks on the wall. we had a chalkboard at home and i said, elyce, every time you make a mistake, we are going to make a mark on the wall. which didn't work out, because believe it or not, i realised one day that she wasn't a dog. what really work, we decided on a couple of ground rules. the first rule was that we would a lwa ys the first rule was that we would always speak in the same room, no exceptions. the second rule was the attention rule. elyce would always try to get my attention first and i would always give my attention to her, so i would stop doing something and tune in. this worked because we we re and tune in. this worked because we were both relaxed and we were open

to accepting criticism. it wasn't like i was trying to interrupter all the time. —— interrupted her. elyce came up with ways of getting my attention instead of calling my name all the time. what she did was start using filler words. so before starting to speak to me she would starting to speak to me she would start seeing, by the way, all, you know what? this was great, because it gave me the time to tune in. i miss much less now, but i still miss things, but a beautiful thing is that i don't get frustrated any more it is that i don't get frustrated any more itisi that i don't get frustrated any more it is i know that she cares. thank you. amazing. that's so good. we have one more storyteller this evening. are you up for that? you have been great, everybody has been great so far. the spec storyteller is

somebody i am very proud to know. you will love him. please start cheering and applauding for the amazing harriet dyer. iam wearing amazing harriet dyer. i am wearing an outfit that sums up metal health, you are welcome. that's my thing. i've got bipolar and it has caused some mayhem in my relationships. i've got a boyfriend at the moment and he is proper, it is absolutely lovely. before this understanding boyfriend, that guy i was seeing before had a problem with me doing stand—up comedy, beakers, i think, he thought it attacked his masculinity. he kept telling me that hisjob was more important masculinity. he kept telling me that his job was more important and masculinity. he kept telling me that hisjob was more important and all of that. one day we were in bed and he was telling me how good he would be at comedy. so he was pretending there was a front row of women, they we re there was a front row of women, they were women in the front row, and he

was seen, were women in the front row, and he was seen, if you do not laugh at my jokes, you are obviously lesbians. that is who i was dating. and then he has seen my medication, by my bed, and he asked what it was. i am an open book so i said what it was and he goes, does that mean you are going to kill me in the night? it didn't mean that, but if you carry on talking... the first time i thought i was in love i was at university and this guy, ijust couldn't leave that somebody like him would be interested in me. —— believe. he was so good—looking. there were signs that maybe it was not to be. this was a sign. once in the bad i woke up in the middle of the bad i woke up in the middle of the night with a very wet back. and i thought, why is my back wet. he said, sorry, babe. i dreamt you were arrayed urinal. he dreamt that i was

arrayed urinal. he dreamt that i was a urinal, and he three weed on my backin a urinal, and he three weed on my back in the middle of the night. that is not a keeper. at university there was this girl, i worshipped there was this girl, i worshipped the ground she walked on. i thought she was wonderful, really strong and independent and funny, i really liked. so she became my best friend. after a while, going out with this quy: after a while, going out with this guy, i after a while, going out with this guy, i said to my friend, something doesn't sit right with me. i don't trust him. she is my best friend, so i opened up about stuff and all of that. she said, no, this isjust your mental health telling you this, it is all in your head. so i thought, all right. when i spoke to him about it he said the same thing. soi him about it he said the same thing. so i said, ok, that is what has happened. they were together, right? they were getting together. and when i properly caught them, they were doing the whole, yes, this is because of your childhood, harriet, dissent about. it was not even what they had done, it was the fact they using that against me. i was livid.

i was livid. they started lying to me, and! i was livid. they started lying to me, and i punched them vote in the face, but, because! me, and i punched them vote in the face, but, because i am not a fighter, i have punched them both in the forehead, and i have broken both my hands. honestly. and then, because they were such horrible people, that was not enough, i have gone home and then she has rang the police. so the next morning i am in my residence, and i get woken up why the police and they arrest me. so i have then been carted to a prison cell, they just put have then been carted to a prison cell, theyjust put me on the cell with this guy, and he had one tooth, and he was just chatting nonsense to me. he told me he invented toothpaste, right? isaid, what are you on about? it made me laugh, after a ll you on about? it made me laugh, after all this nonsense. i have gone, mate, idon't after all this nonsense. i have gone, mate, i don't think you did invent toothpaste. and he's gone,

no, if you think about it. if somebody with lots of teeth invented toothpaste, it would be called teethpaste. and i thought, you can't really argue with that, really. and thatis, really argue with that, really. and that is, honest to god, that is on my record forever. i used to do teaching, and that is just so sad thatis teaching, and that is just so sad that is on my record. thank you ever so much. cheers. harriet dyer! give it upfor so much. cheers. harriet dyer! give it up for all the stories you have heard tonight. you have all been lovely. have a good night! hello. there will be some chilly nights this weekend. there will be frost for some of us

as the weekend begins, but by day, it's sun, sun, sun. what a glorious weekend if you're a fan of blue skies. high pressure right across the uk. the weather ingredients this weekend, because of high pressure, as you might imagine, it's going to be settled. there will be some warm spring sunshine around, but for some others there will be a noticeable breeze. we will need to shelter from that to enjoy the warm sunshine. some chilly nights with frost around. looking at the temperatures as the weekend begins, these are the urban readings, but away from the towns and cities in the countryside we will see those lower readings on the thermometer. in parts of northern england, northern ireland and scotland we'll see frost. many of us will have widespread frost on ground and grass. a few patches of fog in parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, the midlands and parts of wales. that shouldn't last too long into the morning. an exception to the settled weather will be in the northern isles. more cloud around on saturday, especially in the shetlands. outbreaks of rain at times, mostly on the light side. as day breaks you can see the extent of the sunshine to begin with,

but hints of either mist fog patches, or low cloud, to begin with, through parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, the midlands and into wales. it should not last too long. by mid—morning that should be gone. look at the strength of the wind in east anglia, south—east england and along the south coast. if anything that may be a notch up compared to what we had on friday. quite a windy picture for some of us. you will need to shelter from the easterly wind to get the best of the warmth from the sunshine. the blue sky continues for the majority of the afternoon. that warmth will be felt, especially where the wind is right down the western side of the uk, 15 or 16 celsius. saturday, a fine evening, but a chilly night. a touch of frost, especially in the north. remember, on saturday night

the clocks go forward an hour, the beginning of british summer time. nothing to do with the weather, though it sounds good. great for night workers, and great if you want your light longer into the evening. here are the sunset times on sunday. there will be some sunshine around again on sunday for the vast majority. maybe just a bit of cloud to some eastern parts of the uk later in the day. still that breeze to the south and still sheltering from that to make the most of the sunshine. for the vast majority, the weekend will have a blue sky note. welcome to bbc news. our top

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