hello. it's friday, it's 9 o'clock, i'm chloe tilley. welcome to the programme. labour suspends luton mp kelvin hopkins as part of the sexual harassment scandal engulfing westminster. it comes as former defence secretary, sir michael fallon faces further allegations just two days after losing hisjob. i think it is a very easy line to draw in parliament with mps and staff who work in parliament, is that if this behaviour went on in a school, would that person be disciplined, would they be fired? and the answer to lots of things that have been said is yes. but for some reason, we don't have the same rules. we'll be reflecting on the week's events with mps and former westminster staff and asking what need to change. also this morning. a former white supremacist from arizona whose black probation officer helped him turn his back on years of violent race crime, tells us why he had to change. i became more and more hateful as time grew up, so by the time i was a teenager

i was very, very active in the neo—nazi lifestyle. we'll have the full story after 10. new medicines and treatments for some serious conditions could be fast—tracked in england — we'll find out which patients are likely to benefit. welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. do get in touch if you're hoping to benefit from a drug treatment which is not yet available in england. we're also talking about taking revenge on your boss when you leave a job you hate. this after donald trump's twitter account was switched off by an employee on their last day. what have you done on your last day at work to get your own back on your boss? it's sparked lots of great memes

and gifs on social media. we'll show you some of them a bit later. do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning. use the hashtag #victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today. a labour mp has been suspended by the party after an activist accused him of sexual harassment. kelvin hopkins, who is 76 and has been mp for luton north for 20 years, has had the whip withdrawn while the party investigates the incident. 27—year—old ava etemadzadeh says she complained to officials at the time of the alleged incident two years ago, but mr hopkins was later promoted to the labour frontbench. meanwhile, more allegations have emerged about sir michael fallon, who resigned as defence secretary this week saying his behaviour "fell short" of standards. he is accused in newspaper reports of making inappropriate sexual comments to his cabinet colleague andrea leadsom. sir michael says he "categorically denies" the allegations. let's speak to our political correspondent iain watson in westminster. so, tell us first of all about these

allegations which have an hopkins is facing. i think it is a story not just about the allegations but how the allegations against him have been handled. it has been alleged by the young labour activist that after meeting at the university of essex backin meeting at the university of essex back in 2013, kelvin hopkins hugged her too tightly and intimately for her too tightly and intimately for her liking for that she met him subsequently in the house of commons and then received a suggestive text message. the crucial thing about this, a couple of years ago in 2015, she took her concerns to the then chief whip of the labour party, rosie winterton full it was discussed and was told if she wanted to make an official complaint, she would have to waive her anonymity but was not prepared to do so. we understand that kelvin hopkins was reprimanded for his behaviour. when jeremy corbyn was getting into difficulty filling his front bench

because so many mps voted for no confidence last year, he temporarily promoted kelvin hopkins to be culture secretary in the shadow cabinet. that upset notjust the activist others in the labour party he knew he had been reprimanded for his behaviour and have been asking today why he promoted. i have run him at home and on his mobile. so far he has not commented on this but he has been suspended from the parliamentary labour party and is being investigated. let's also talk about the new allegations which are being put against sir michael fallon, the former defence secretary. this is a rather tricky story. michael fallon has already resigned. the allegation effectively is he made rather lewd suggestions to the leader of the house of commons, andrea leadsom, some years ago. but he categorically denies

doing so. andrea leadsom will not comment on it. this is a bit of a multifaceted story. a real—life house of cards. it was alleged that andrea leadsom use those complaints to try to oust michael fallon from his role as defence secretary, clearing the way for gavin williamson for that she is not commenting on those allegations and suggestions in some of the newspapers. thank you for updating us on newspapers. thank you for updating us on that. let's go to the bbc newsroom for a summary of the rest of the day's news. good morning. plans to speed up the time it takes for new, life—changing medicines to reach patients have been announced by the government. the move follows pressure by the pharmaceutical industry and medical charities which say that patients are losing out. it could mean certain drugs will be available up to four years earlier than they are currently. our health editor hugh pym reports. medical research is producing exciting new drugs and treatments but there have been complaints

that it takes too long for them to be approved for use by the nhs. the government says it wants to streamline the process in england so that new drugs for diseases like cancer and devices to help manage conditions like diabetes can be made available to patients more rapidly. under what is called the accelerated access pathway, the approval process will be cut from as much as seven years, to three. in april next year, five new drugs and treatments will be selected for fast track treatment. this number could be increased annually in future. at the moment there at various stages that any product, whether it's a drug or a device, whatever it is, has to go through in terms of regulatory approval or cost effectiveness and so on, commercial negotiations with the nhs. the idea is to bring them all together to run in parallel which will make the process operate much more quickly so that those things that really do have life changing impacts on people can be brought forward sooner. 0ne charity said it hoped the scheme would go some way to ending bureaucratic delays and speeding up access to new drugs.

the association of the british pharmaceutical industry said the government's policy was very welcome and should benefit thousands of patients, but no extra nhs money is being committed at this stage to spend on medicines — that could hinge on what's decided on the budget. hugh pym, bbc news. there will be more on that story later in the programme when chloe speaks to patients and doctors about how the move affects them. the syrian army has retaken one of the the last major strongholds of so—called islamic state, according to state television. the city of deir al—zour, near the border with iraq, has been "completely liberated from terrorism" according to the report. the is group had held most of the city since 2014. the militant group is now confined to a few remaining pockets elsewhere in the province. eight former catalan government ministers have spent a night behind bars after a spanishjudge refused to grant them bail. they've been charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds

in connection with the attempt to make catalonia independent from spain. tens of thousands of catalans staged a protest against their detention. a warning for you — this report from our reporter tom burridge contains flashing images from the start. in the police vans are eight men and women who a week ago ran catalonia's government. now, taken to a prison in madrid. they face serious charges, including rebellion against the spanish state. ajudge denied them bail. as the news filtered through, their supporters gathered outside the regional parliament in barcelona. angry... ..and in shock. the government they elected, now behind bars. can you believe it, in a democratic country, that these things happen, again?

we don't understand. we are very, very sad, deeply sad, deeply sad, and terrified. madrid argues it has no influence over today's decision taken in the courts, but these activists and people across catalonia sympathetic to the pro—independence cause say that claim is absurd. many people across spain and here in catalonia are also outraged, but at catalonia's pro—independence politicians who have pushed things so far. roquelle tells us they have flouted spain's laws. she is worried and says she might move abroad. so a new chapter to this catalan crisis and everyday, under the surface here, divisions more entrenched. tom burridge, bbc news, in barcelona. bbc news has learned that the international development secretary, priti patel, held a series of meetings in israel to discuss government business without telling the foreign office.

the meetings took place over two days in august while ms patel was on holiday in israel. no civil servants were present but she was accompanied by a leading pro—israeli conservative lobbyist. downing street has said that ms patel did nothing wrong. bacteria in the depths of the digest of system could help chew ms shrink during cancer therapy. two studies by french and us teams linked specific species of gut bacteria to the successful treatment of cancer patients. the findings may be game changing. it's emerged that the ashes of the moors murderer ian brady have been buried at sea after his body was cremated last week. he died in may at the age of 79, at ashworth high security hospital in merseyside. court documents show that the cremation took place in southport without any ceremony. sean dilley has more. five decades on from crimes that shocked the country, ian brady's

body has been unceremoniously buried at sea. there was no music and flowers were not allowed. these were the conditions set by the high court, which stepped in over fears his remains would be scattered on saddleworth moor. it was here that brady and myra hindley buried the victims they tortured and killed. brady was sent to prison in 1966 for murdering 12—year—old john kilbride, 10—year—old lesley ann downey and 17—year—old edward evans. in 1985, he also admitted killing 16—year—old pauline reade and 12—year—old keith bennett, whose body has never been found. he died of natural causes in may of this year. in the early hours of wednesday 26th 0ctober, ian brady's remains were sealed in a weighted urn and sent to the bottom of the sea. the nhs is failing thousands of children because it is taking too

long to diagnose adhd. that is according to a new report. it attacks one child in every class on average in the uk that nearly a third of children wait two or more yea rs third of children wait two or more years to be diagnosed. the department of health said it updated guidance the doctors last year to make it easier to spot the condition. there was a shock for twitter users overnight when one of the social media platforms most prominent and controversial users had his cant deactivated. —— account. president trump's account was deactivated. the social media giant says it is taking steps to ensure it never happens again. that isa summary ensure it never happens again. that is a summary of the latest bbc news. do get in touch with us throughout the morning. use the hashtag #victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. now let's get some sport and talk

about patrice evra, a former manchester united player making the headlines today but not for footballing reasons. an extraordinary incident that happened before marseille europa league match. so if you remember in 1995, eric cantona comfy kicked a fan in one british football for the most outrageous moments. now another former manchester united player, patrice evra, seems to have done something very similar, only this time to his own fans. marseille supporters were unhappy. there it was. with patrice evra's recent performances, they had cheered him for around half an hour. hejumped the advertising hoardings and things escalated for could now be facing a ban. he was a substitute in that match but was sent off before

kick—off. we'll hear more from uefa on that. the manager said, patrice evra must learn to keep his cool. is david unsworth keeping his cool at everton 7 david unsworth keeping his cool at everton? hard for him not to panic. they were beaten 3—0 in lyon last night to go out of the ropiha league. three of those games have come under caretaker manager unsworth. —— the europa league. he 110w unsworth. —— the europa league. he now says the premier match with watford on sunday will be crucial for him and the club. arsenal are through to the last 32 thanks to a goalless draw against red star belgrade. you see on a friday morning we are talking aboutjose mourinho's, in. he will be speaking to the media. he did that early yesterday and has moved training to the afternoon because he is appearing ina the afternoon because he is appearing in a spanish court today to face tax fraud allegations relating to his time as manager of the spanish giants, rayal madrid. it

is alleged to owe almost formally in dollars in undeclared image rights revenue. he denies any wrongdoing. the allegations against him come after investigations into several leading footballers in spain, including lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo. joe root has been talking about how players should behave between games. england's ‘s tour match begins in the early hours of tomorrow morning in perth. it has been a tumultuous time for england. ben stokes was arrested in september outside bristol nightclub. questions have abounded regarding the conduct of the team. they know there have been issues between the two groups of players in the past. 0ne even involve joe root. of players in the past. 0ne even involvejoe root. this time he is warning against being too restrictive about the players can do. it's safe to say that what happened in the summer was not acceptable. we got to make sure we do not go too far the other way and

sit in our ruins and not experience being in australia. it's not about going out and getting drunk, it's about making sure we're in the best possible place to win ashes cricket and an ashes tour. hopefully flies will be the only thing bothering him in the coming weeks! as every day goes by, the swirl of allegations about sexual abuse and harassment in westminster looks set to dwarf the expenses scandal of ten years ago when parliament was told to clean up its act after abuses involving claims for duck houses, moats and second homes were revealed to a furious public. this morning labour is facing new claims of sexual harassment and has suspended the mp for luton north, kelvin hopkins, while it carries out an investigation. meanwhile the former defence secretary sir michael fallon has been forced to "categorically deny" reports that he made inappropriate sexual comments to commons leader andrea leadsom, when they served on a commons committee together.

sir michael quit his post at the mod on wednesday, saying his conduct had fallen short of the required standards. some conservative mps have also questioned theresa may's choice of the former chief whip gavin williamson as the new defence secretary, saying he lacked experience and had manoeuvred himself into thejob. mrs may is hold a meeting on monday with the leaders of the main political parties in westminster to draw up plans for tackling sexual abuse and harassment in parliament. ellie king is a conservative party member. resham kotecha worked in westminster for a conservative mp and peer. we were hoping to speak to a former labour party mp but she has just pulled out in the last few minutes but we will be talking to a labour representative after 10am. first of

all, let's talk about the allegations against kelvin hopkins. what's your reactions to it and the week that we've had?” what's your reactions to it and the week that we've had? i think that it's really important that parties come all parties take this issue seriously and i'm really pleased to see that parties are reacting quickly. we have to be careful to notjump to quickly. we have to be careful to not jump to quickly quickly. we have to be careful to notjump to quickly and have a knee jerk reaction on things that are speculation, like the spreadsheet we've seen, but in cases where there have been allegations which are serious, it's right that we withdraw the whip regardless of the party and make sure the people who are affected feel safe and know their concerns will be taken seriously. it's interesting you say react quickly, certainly the woman who's made these allegations claimed that she made the complaint two years ago, ian watson told us earlier that the bbc has been told that he was reprimanded. so why has it taken two yea rs reprimanded. so why has it taken two years and why was he then promoted to the labour front bench is? years and why was he then promoted to the labourfront bench is? are the political parties reacting quickly in your view? think they are

reacting now it's starting to come out, obviously no one monster kick up out, obviously no one monster kick upa fuss out, obviously no one monster kick up a fuss but we do need to kick up a fuss and we need to react quickly and look at it on a case—by—case basis and see what the allegations have been made and take the appropriate action. do you both, having worked in westminster, do you expect there will be more of these allegations coming out over the coming days and weeks? it's hard to think that there will not. if you've been affected by these sorts of things, i had an amazing three years where i didn't, but if you have been affected, sometimes there's strength in numbers, you feel like people are finally taking it seriously, light is being shed on it and do feel co mforta ble is being shed on it and do feel comfortable and is being shed on it and do feel co mforta ble a nd safe is being shed on it and do feel comfortable and safe to come out so iwe comfortable and safe to come out so i we will. so this is why we need an entire shift in the way things are treated and dealt with in parliament. we need an independent

service that people can go to so it should not be up to an individual party did deal with these sorts of allegations, say you have been slapped on the wrist and that enough because that might not be enough, depending on the circumstances. if we have an independent service, if mps have to sign up to a contractually binding contract about their behaviour and they have training of what's acceptable, you would see these situations dealt with quickly which they are not at the moment. do mps really need to be trained on what appropriate and inappropriate? i think they do, i'm a student and one of the things we talk about all the time is consent and we have actual consent workshops and we have actual consent workshops and campaigns running through. it doesn't sound ridiculous, i know what content is, you would say, —— it does sound ridiculous, some people say, i know what consent is but it's that the lines are blurred to... you can understand that in the

university where young people are pushing boundaries but we're talking about elected individuals who are grown—ups. about elected individuals who are grown-ups. there two different things here. the first is that some mps have been mps for 30 years, they're much older, though not of a generation where they realise this is unacceptable and i think it's valid to say that they need training on it but if you have spent 30 years ina bubble on it but if you have spent 30 years in a bubble and when you were elected it was okayed to smack your secretary on the bottom... was it? it should not have been but the mindset was it was, i think it's a borrowed and appalling but if you've grown up borrowed and appalling but if you've grown up with that and you've never been told off for doing it, we should cover all bases and make it very clear. a lot of mps, when they walk into the room, they are swamped by people wanting to talk to them, have photos with them, and i think it's very easy to lose touch with reality. more we can do to make it clear that this is not ok and this is where the lines are, the safer

employees will be. what were your experiences working... i know, ellie, less so for you, but you work in westminster for ellie, less so for you, but you work in westminsterfor a ellie, less so for you, but you work in westminster for a conservative mp and a baroness, you say you did not have any bad experiences yourself, but did colleagues or other women, did you see anything? give us a sense of what it's like to work in westminster. i was fortunate in my three years because a lot of the people i worked with were in organisations to get women into parliament so they were very progressive and impeccably behaved. but we would have groups of researchers who said, you are meeting so and so, don't sit on the same side of the table for them. that was just a problem for men and women. because they will grope you? you know, hand on me, those uncomfortable boundaries where you

think, can i slapped that hand away andi think, can i slapped that hand away and i would have that some people do not feel comfortable doing it. i never experienced it but we heard of a few, a handful, a small handful of mps who are tarnishing the mp reputation. most do not do that but there are a few where you did not wa nt to there are a few where you did not want to be alone with them in a room but you didn't want to be with them when they were drunk outside in a bar. let's talk about drinking in westminster because that's something that has been erased. do you get a sense that it's surrounded by drink and fuelled by drink? this is something that has been raised. i'm not part of the westminster bubble... you have been to conference. yes, and it is a part of it but in a way it can be good because it makes it more relaxed and informal. you're able to go and talk to mp5 who you were not able to talk to mp5 who you were not able to talk to before because you have seen them ina barand to before because you have seen them in a bar and you've seen them in an informal way. but there might be

pressure and you could feel like you didn't not want to be involved in that. it's okayed to be there because it creates an informal atmosphere but there are boundaries of, is this 0k? atmosphere but there are boundaries of, is this ok? you could feel pressured to do something you don't wa nt pressured to do something you don't want to. in addition to that, this is not just a want to. in addition to that, this is notjust a problem in politics, what i've seen on social media, spoken to friends in other industries, this is a problem in lots of industries. i think our parliamentarians should be leading by example. i think the problem with the drinking is that if you are the kind of mp who would not cross boundaries when sober, you won't do it when you're drunk. if you think it's acceptable to do so, you are more likely to do it when you are drunk. do you think there is an unhealthy drinking culture within westminster? i think some people have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and i think that's partly the very long hours, a highly pressurised environment and a lot of times you're going to spend your

evenings and weekends at fundraising dinners, speaking engagements and all of these things are surrounded by alcohol. i think it's easy if you lack self—control with alcohol to find that you can drink all leaving every evening but equally, most people have a healthy relationship with alcohol and don't find it a problem. it depends who you are. what would be your advice to other young women who want to work at westminster or even just within the workplace, how to deal with this kind of uncomfortable... the fact that some mps could be a bit handsy, what would your advice be? that some mps could be a bit handsy, what would your advice be ?|j that some mps could be a bit handsy, what would your advice be? i think there are two answers, it depends what you are, i would be a strong willed person and if someone did that i would be, back off, mate, i don't want this. but some people might not feel so comfortable so there does need to be something more

independent that you can go to and say, i want to report this and i wa nt say, i want to report this and i want it to be taken seriously. but i don't really know about what he would say to young women because it can be off— putting would say to young women because it can be off—putting to feel... would say to young women because it can be off-putting to feel... and intimidating to feel that this is someone in a position of power who could help you move on in yourjob, it's quite a responsibility to say, don't do that. will that mean that that could jeopardise what your career that could jeopardise what your career is, and is there a sense that ifi career is, and is there a sense that if i want to succeed in politics, i've got to put up with this? that's where the conversation needs to be had. the allegations are coming out and it will be taken seriously and people will step back and think about it and hopefully the cultural change. i would add to that, it's important to recognise that we would be comfortable smacking someone's hand away, but some might not. there area hand away, but some might not. there are a lot of men and women working in parliament, staff and mps who will back you up so if you have a

problem, speak to another mp that you feel comfortable with and i would also say, you don't need to question whether it's inappropriate or not, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, it needs to stop. for too long people have spend time worrying, is it that big a deal if someone keeps hugging me when they meet me or keep putting their hand on my leg to get my attention? what i would say to young people is, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, it absolutely is. this is why i think we need an independent service. sometimes it's intimidating to complain to whip or an empty because they could be friends with the mp who is making feel uncomfortable whereas if there was an interparty cross— party whereas if there was an interparty cross—party service, you can feel safe in the knowledge that it's not scary and impacting your potential career and it can be dealt with. lots of people getting in touch with us, joshua has said, sexual harassment in a workplace had never been 0k, not 30 years ago or now. arthur says, consent workshops, been 0k, not 30 years ago or now. arthursays, consent workshops, is this really what it has come to? mps

do not know what's wrong, workshop will not be able to teach them. and paula says, if an mp breaks the law, should be reported to the police irrespective of the offence. thank you for coming in. we will be speaking to an mp, labour mp after 10am on this issue. the syrian army has retaken the city of deir al—zour in the east of the country, the last major stronghold of so—called islamic state in syria. is has held most of the city which is close to the iraq border since 2014 but now state television are reporting that "the city is completely liberated from terrorism." let's talk to our correspondent martin patience, who is in beirut for us. bring us up to date on, complete control of deir al—zour? bring us up to date on, complete control of deir al-zour? that's what

state syrian tv is reported, although we have had some rogue reports that there are still pockets of resistance in the city. to all intents and purposes, deir al—zour is under the control of syrian forces. this is a significant moment. if we go back three years ago, the so—called islamic state controlled large part of syria and iraq in what was seen, and what has been seen in the last two years is then seeing a rollback in iraq, and are now in deir al—zour. it's close to oilfields, deir al—zour, so it's significant, and close to the iraqi border. the big question is now what will be what happens to so—called islamic state. then they no longer have a caliphate and they no longer controlled towns and cities but there are still estimated to be thousands of fighters believed to be in border areas in iraq and syria. let's not forget, the group still has an appeal and that inspired

attacks in europe and america. so the so—called islamic state, the self—styled caliphate could be over but the ideology is not. thank you. still to come. cutting the time patients have to wait for some of the newest medicines. we will hear from two people with serious medical conditions who hope they can be helped by this. and young footballers, being frozen out of football academies by huge fees being placed on their heads. we will hear from when young player and his dad. —— one young player. time for the latest news. our top story today... a labour mp has been suspended by the party after an activist accused him of sexual harassment. kelvin hopkins, mp for luton north, has had the whip withdrawn while the party investigates. 27—year—old ava etemadzadeh says she complained to officials two years ago but mr hopkins was later promoted to the labour frontbench.

meanwhile, more allegations have emerged about sir michael fallon, who resigned as defence secretary this week. he is accused in newspaper reports of making inappropriate sexual comments to his cabinet colleague andrea leadsom. sir michael says he "categorically denies" the allegations. plans to speed up the time it takes for new, life—changing medicines to reach patients have been announced by the government. the move follows pressure by the pharmaceutical industry and medical charities which say that patients are losing out. it could mean certain drugs will be available up to four years earlier than they are at the moment. eight former catalan government ministers have spent a night behind bars after a spanishjudge refused to grant them bail. they've been charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds in connection with the attempt to make catalonia independent from spain. eight former catalan government ministers have spent a night behind tens of thousands of catalan stage

protests. it was claimed they may destroy evidence if released. a european arrest warrant has been requested for the former leader of catalan. bbc news has learned that the international development secretary, priti patel, held a series of meetings in israel to discuss government business without telling the foreign office. the meetings took place over two days in august while ms patel was on holiday in israel. no civil servants were present but she was accompanied by a leading pro—israeli conservative lobbyist. downing street has said that ms patel did nothing wrong. it's emerged that the ashes of the moors murderer ian brady were buried at sea in the middle of the night after he was cremated last week. brady died in may at the age of 79, at ashworth high security hospital in merseyside. court documents show that the cremation took place in southport without any ceremony. his body had been kept in a hospital

mortuary since his death. brady and his accomplice myra hindley tortured and killed children in the 1960s. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. here's some sport now with hugh woozencroft. in sport this morning, patrice evra, the former manchester united defender, could be in trouble with u efa defender, could be in trouble with uefa after appearing to aim a kick out of supporter of his current team, marseille at last night that he was sent off before the match was not marseille has said it will conduct an internal investigation. everton have now lost five matches ina row everton have now lost five matches in a row for the first time in five yea rs. in a row for the first time in five years. arsenal made it through after a draw against red star belgrade was a draw against red star belgrade was ajose mourinho a draw against red star belgrade was a jose mourinho is appearing a draw against red star belgrade was ajose mourinho is appearing in a draw against red star belgrade was a jose mourinho is appearing in a spanish court this morning, facing tax fraud allegations relating to his time as manager of real madrid. it is claimed he owes £3.5 million

but denies any wrongdoing. ahead of their first tour match in australia tomorrow, england cricket captain joe root says it is important to get the balance right for the players as to what they can do off the field between games. there had been criticism about the player's on diet after alex hales and ben stokes had after alex hales and ben stokes had a night out in september. if you suffer from a serious illness or chronic health condition, then of course, you're going to want access to the very best drugs on the market. it's devastating to be told treatments might take years to be approved for nhs use. well now the government is to cut the time patients have to wait for certain new medicines in england. from april next year, the approvals process could be cut by up to four years for products with the greatest potential to change lives. it's expected that around five new treatments will be selected by a panel of experts for fast—tracking each year. let's speak to professor richard barker who advised on the accelerated access review. and dr richard torbett, the executive director of the association of the british pharmaceutical industry,

about the impact these new medicines will have on patients and the people this affects. andrew mccracken is expected to be blind by his late 30s but hopes the accelerated access scheme may help him. and lynsey beswick has cystic fibrosis. the drug she needs, 0rkambi, was licensed in the uk two years ago but is not available on the nhs. thank you all forjoining us. first of all, tell us about the drug you would like to get hold of and what difference it would make to you? my eyesight condition affects my central vision. i cannot see your face, for instance. i know you are there cannot see your face. mine is degenerative or overtime will get worse. there is a point of time where i would expect to be blind. the current treatments they are

trialling focus on stopping the degradation. the idea it would take seven degradation. the idea it would take seve n yea rs degradation. the idea it would take seven years for it to take from being 0k means i could have lost my eyesight in that time. the idea of this could be completely sped up is a lot of hope to me. probably lindsay as well. let's hear from her. tell us about the drug you would like to access, the difference in make to your life. the drug is a precision medicine rather than treating the symptoms, the current treatment for cystic fibrosis, it would treat the underlying cause. i have seen in the past year, to yea rs, have seen in the past year, to years, quite a decline in lung function. had i have had access to this drug when it was licensed, two yea rs this drug when it was licensed, two years ago, it could have prevented that decline. i am at a point where iam that decline. i am at a point where i am looking at the end of stage of

my condition and possibly a double lung transplant. having access to a drug like this could prevent me from deteriorating with my health. do you get angry that you know the drug is out there that could help you that you cannot get hold of it? it is incredibly frustrating. it is like a carrot that has been dangled. it feels as though the drug is there and is available. i had to sit and watch my health deteriorate knowing medicine is out there which could potentially have been able to stop the decline but i have no access to it. why is it these drugs are not available on the nhs? we have a complicated pass the parcel process. data is presented to the regulatory authorities and then it moves to the next stage. nice will make its

evaluations, sometimes in two all three stages. the nhs decides whether it will pay for it. this pass the parcel can take five, seven yea rs eve n pass the parcel can take five, seven yea rs even once pass the parcel can take five, seven years even once the data is available that the drug works this is about collapsing the process and having many of the discussion simultaneously. no reason why that should not take place. the new pathway, accelerated access path brings together the people who have to have that composition as early as possible. who decides which of these drugs, there will be five year that will be fast tracked, which some people say does not sound many, who will decide that? the partnership itself, which will be chaired by sir andrew witty, will have all of the people around the table, including patients and representatives and nice. i suspect what will happen is a small number will come forward who

satisfy a set of criteria and they will decide which five. i am sure everybody would hope if the experience with this is successful we might go to expand the number over time. this is ultimately going to make drugs cheaper, as i understand it. some money will be given to the pharmaceutical industry to speed up the process and in return, you sell them back to the nhs cheaper. we hope these measures will result in many benefits, including costs to the nhs. these stories are perfect examples of where, when a medicine is available, it is incredibly frustrating for everyone, including the pharmaceutical companies that patients cannot get access. many conditions are untreatable. when we really produce something it have to get to patients as soon as possible. it isa get to patients as soon as possible. it is a step in the right direction. costis it is a step in the right direction. cost is always an issue for the nhs. you mention that nice has to make

the decision about benefit over cost. presumably the pharmaceutical industry could be doing more about ensuring the cost comes down. that is right. cost is an important factor. it is important that pharmaceutical companies price responsibly. nice is there to check whether prices that are charged are reasonable value. this announcement from the government is about making sure that dialogue between the company and the nhs athens as quickly as possible. the price has to be right but a realistic amount of investment has to be made available in order to make this vision work. do you feel heartened by this? it is only five drugs or treatments that would be made available each year, how frustrating would it be if your drug when number six or number 10?|j frustrating would it be if your drug when number six or number 10? i am hoping if this is made available for a small number of drugs they will think, hopefully, this can be made available for more drugs. hopefully

it can be rolled out to other drugs and treatment. what about you? i think it is important that the government is looking at this and anything which can speed up access, people like me, to access these life changing drugs, is a positive step in the right direction. do you think, professor barker, the pharmaceutical industry should be doing more to make sure the cost comes down for drugs? would it help the process? the prices in the uk arm among the lowest in europe. what i think the problem is that the real discussions about prices are protracted discussions. part of the proposals here are to have the discussions, as richard was saying, much more rapidly, so we get to a good answer and do not take two or three years to do so. what could the pharmaceutical

industry be doing? people at home will be sitting and saying, we often read in the media that pharmaceutical companies keep the cost of drugs artificially high. they do research but there is no need for it to be so high. surely there are things you could be doing to help people. the pharmaceutical industry does not keep the costs artificially high. there is a very rigorous process for checking that prices are reasonable in the uk through nice. the vast majority of time medicines are available but it ta kes a time medicines are available but it takes a long time to make a decision on that. that is why the accelerated access review will speed things up and that is a good thing.|j access review will speed things up and that is a good thing. i wonder if you have any questions for our guests. you are at the heart of this, the people whose lives are affected on a day—to—day basis. this, the people whose lives are affected on a day-to-day basis. less affected on a day-to-day basis. less a question and more of a plea. if a small number of drugs are to be made available, let's make sure they are drugs that matter to people and you're going to speak to patients and patient groups to find out what really matters and what will have

the most impact. will that happen? do we know how they will go about the research process? i'm sure they will have to develop some objective criteria. that is the only way the process ca n criteria. that is the only way the process can work. people representing patients will be in that discussion. that is a big step forward , that discussion. that is a big step forward, i think. that discussion. that is a big step forward, ithink. typically that discussion. that is a big step forward, i think. typically we have left the patient out of it or late in the process. patient representatives will be part of the discussion. what benefits do they value? they may not be the benefits that companies or college is —— clinicians want to measure. does this look like an innovation that is not just this look like an innovation that is notjust drugs? do you feel you are listening to have someone with cystic fibrosis. you know you're drug is out there and has been available for two years but you cannot access it. do you feel like you are listened to? not

particularly, no. this drug has been found to be effective and found to reduce lung function declined by 4296, reduce lung function declined by 42%, reduce hospital admissions by 61%. so, the evidence is there. our whole community, we have had a campaign around this, to say this drug is really important. for somebody to start this drug at a very young age could give them a nearly normal life expectancy. currently, many with cystic fibrosis do not make it to the 315t birthday. this is huge and significant and we do not have access to it. i think the access review and the pathway are really important in trying to ensure if we have these drugs available, they are licensed and we as patients can have access to them. thank you for putting so eloquently and thank for joining us. tuesday's truck attack in new york

killed eight people. the islamic state group said it planned the attack where the suspects allegedly drove along a manhattan sidewalk path to cause maximum devastation. it's now emerged that he was an uber driver and this british tourist road with him a week before the attack. lots of you have been getting in touch with us about the conversation we had early on about harassment in westminster. john e—mailed said, why is there even a bar in parliament in a first—place? normal workplaces do not have bars and you are not allowed to drink, the bar should be close. claire has treated, p. saying it was acceptable ten years ago? —— will people stop saying it was a cce pta ble will people stop saying it was acceptable ten years ago, it wasn't? and this one says, i have been assaulted three times and it has just been swept under the carpet at

work. parents are claiming children are being frozen out of the football academy system because of huge fees placed over their heads by controversial youth development rules. a 5live investigation has found in some cases, youth players aren't able to sign for another team without the new club handing over tens of thousands of pounds in compensation. we can now speak to adrian goldberg from 5live investigates. explain to us first of all what a investigation found about the agreements. put in place of a child signed up to a club? you have got a talented young footballer who could sign up to an academy, the youth system, the problem comes when something goes wrong. if the club that you have signed up for does not wa nt to that you have signed up for does not want to release you or if they decide that they want to hold onto your registration, you are free to move to another club but the catch is that other club house to pay this

compensation, effectively a transfer fee for a child. so someone you are talking to in a moment,, they are going from one club to another, but derby county says that a lot of money is going to have to be paid. i spoke to another father of a nine—year—old child who had been training with his local football clu b training with his local football club academy, a well—known premier league club, his father decided that the lad was and get the freedom he wa nted the lad was and get the freedom he wanted to express himself and the coaching wasn't all it was cracked up coaching wasn't all it was cracked up to be, the club have agreed to let him leave but they still retain his registration so if he wants to sign upfor his registration so if he wants to sign up for another club and father his football career at the age of

the year —— further his football career at the age of nine, he had a £3000 price on his head and that is making parents angry. what are the compensation fees for and when were they brought in? the football league clu bs they brought in? the football league clubs agreed with the premier league in 2011 that there needed to be a change in the system. previously if you are signed to an academy youth scheme, another club could come in and sign new and effectively poach you and a fee would be decided by a tribunal. that left some clubs feeling rather disgruntled that they we re feeling rather disgruntled that they were not getting sufficient back for the time and money they had spent on coaches and facilities and the investment they put in to young players. agreements across professional football were brought into being in 2011 and from then on, depending on the quality of the academy and the age of the player, there would be a fixed compensation scheme so everybody would understand what was going on and that was in order to protect the investment of

the clubs in the young players. the question is whether that system of compensation is really fair on the young people, the children at the heart of this story. you mentioned the case of zack who we will be speaking to in the next few minutes, tell us what the response was from his club, derby county, and the football league. derby county said it would be inappropriate to comment about an under 18—year—old, and they say they take great pride in their pastoral care at a football club and they retain their rights to compensation and a deal which has been agreed across the game. the english football league says competition structure was agreed across football as a whole, they say 90% of young players who moved to not attract fee. they say they are protecting the rights of players and clu bs. we can now speak to

15—year—old zac brunt. he's registered to derby county academy which is asking for a £120,000 compensation fee to allow him to sign to another club. he'sjoined by his father glen brunt. first of all, you have clearly got a huge talent, what age where you when it was spotted? it was necessary. really? yeah, i used to watch my brother play football and that's where it started. and then in nursery, my teacher rang up my pa rents nursery, my teacher rang up my parents and said, he's better than people i've seen before so maybe you should look into it. how old were you when you got signed for a youth academy? i was nine, you when you got signed for a youth academy? iwas nine, iwas you when you got signed for a youth academy? i was nine, i was training with sheffield united from age five to nine, and then i signed at nine at aston villa. so you have been to several different clubs, you are at derby co, that is where you are now,

you are unhappy and you want to leave ? you are unhappy and you want to leave? i want to leave because i don't think the training is pushing me enough. 0r don't think the training is pushing me enough. or as much as it should be. we spend more and more time in the gym instead of out in the pitch. i felt like i wasn't getting anywhere. and also, we had a bit of anywhere. and also, we had a bit of a problem with foot cell... explained that for me? it's an indoor five explained that for me? it's an indoorfive a side explained that for me? it's an indoor five a side with the ball that doesn't bounce, it's very tactical and its four technical players, i play that at a national level and they did not want me to do that, they did not want me to pursue that, they did not want me to pursue that sport which we were disappointed by because we thought it improved my football game as well. i felt like we were not getting anywhere at derby. at what point, glenn, did you realise that there was this clause, £120,000, for

zack to go? i have to be fair, i knew what we were entering into from the get go. but that's only because i got information from other parents with older children in the system. presumably you had a contract? yes, yes. but he signed three contracts over his time and none of the club's point out the situation if you want to leave and they wants to retain you. so the compensation conversation never takes place. we we re conversation never takes place. we were informed by other people but i know the majority of parents are not aware of it. you know why it's so high? it's not normally so high, it's normally 40,000 for a player of his age. when it reaches zack's. .. my wife knows this better than me!

it equates to £40,000 per year that he's been at derby, there's a bit of a discrepancy over whether its 80 or 120 because he has been there for two years, so that's 80,000, a third year that we agreed to enter into that we have pulled out of. so we are not sure whether its 8120. there are not sure whether its 8120. there are other clubs interested in you right now? yes, there have been, but the sea is getting in the way because it's so big. —— the fee. clu bs because it's so big. —— the fee. clubs do not want to pay 120,000 for a 16—year—old so it's fair enough. how long does this last, how long with this price tag effectively be on your head? as we understand it, there's no real cut—off. on your head? as we understand it, there's no real cut-off. you can't be 24 and still have to pay it. they hold your registration, as soon as you signed up certain contracts that they do not tell you about, they

hold your registration until someone buys you out. can you understand, if a club has found you, a huge talent spotted at nursery, they invest coaching facilities and support you, they have to have some money because if manchester united come along and make you and you go along to be the next ronaldo, there's no incentive for smaller clubs to have and academy. i agree with that, that should be put in place and i agree to an extent but because i've only been at derby for two years, and what they've done for me, it identified it equates to £120,000. being 15, —— i don't think it equates to £120,000. for 15 years old, and two years, have i cost them £120,000? probably not. it is worth reiterating what derby county have said, they say it's inappropriate to

comment on the development of a player below the age of 18, as a category one academy, our entire operation is regularly assessed and we are classified in the highest echelons in country. rules for any player who has left the academy and will follow the regulations created and agreed by the entire football community. do you worry about the impact that talking will have on your career? yes, i think this could be the end of my career. if the club does not want to pay £120,000 for me, we have a real problem because i can't go anywhere else rather than semiprofessional and that is the highest i can go until a professional tea m highest i can go until a professional team buys me out of the schools. so if they don't, i'm stuck. thank you for talking to us. let's get the weather now. for many of us it was pretty cloudy this morning and we had some thick

fog patches across southern areas, thatis fog patches across southern areas, that is just one picture we had a bit earlier on. much of that is now listing and clearing to give some sunshine, although saying that for many of us it will stay mostly cloudy despite the fog and a bit of sunshine across southern areas. further north, cloudy skies and our bricks of rain moving into the far north—west of scotland, eventually the far north—west of northern ireland. let's pick things up at 3pm. the best of the sunshine will be across southern areas. the fog taking another few hours to clear away from there but we will get some good styles of sunshine. there could be some spots of rain in central areas. brighter skies in the north—east of england and the far north—east of england and the far north—east of england and the far north—east of scotland but western scotla nd north—east of scotland but western scotland has thick cloud and our bricks of rain. if you are heading toa bricks of rain. if you are heading to a fireworks display this evening, for many of us it will be dry, a

fairamount of for many of us it will be dry, a fair amount of cloud around, some main areas of rain in northern ireland and into scotland, the best of the drier weather is going to become more out —— extensive. it will be quite heavy into saturday morning in central and eastern areas. temperatures in double figures. clearer skies means it will turn holder. during saturday, that area of rain will push away to the east, it will take until late in the afternoon before it clears in the south—east and east anglia, but otherwise saturday is largely dry and bright sunshine and a few showers, turning chilly in the north—west, quite a chilly wind. if you are going to a fireworks display on saturday evening, largely dry for most of us have clear spells, some showers scattered across wales and western areas into scotland and

northern ireland. sunday should be the most dry day of the weekend, a few showers across western areas, a chilly wind for all of us, those temperatures about eight to 11 celsius. bonfire night itself is probably the driest and clearest night for any fireworks and you can go to the website or use our apt to get a more detailed forecast for where you are. hello. it's 10 o'clock. labour suspends luton mp kelvin hopkins as part of the sexual harassment scandal engulfing westminster. it comes as former defence secretary, sir michael fallon faces further allegations, which he denies — just two days after losing hisjob. former westminster staff say some mps are known for inappropriate conduct. there were a few where you know, you didn't want to be alone with them in a room or you didn't want to be with them when they were drunk in a bar somewhere. could bacteria help to reduce

tumours shrink during cancer therapy? also this morning — a former white supremacist from arizona whose black probation officer helped him turn his back on years of violent race crime, tells us why he had to change. i became more and more hateful as time went on. i was very active in the neo—nazi lifestyle as a teenager. the full story coming up shortly. good morning. now a summary of today's news. a labourmp has a labour mp has been suspended a labourmp has by the party. kelvin hopkins, who is 76 and has

been mp for luton north for 20 years, has had the whip withdrawn while the party investigates. 27—year—old ava etemadzadeh says she complained to officials at the time of the alleged incident two years ago. mr hopkins was later promoted to the labour frontbench. meanwhile, more allegations have emerged about sir michael fallon, who resigned as defence secretary this week saying his behaviour "fell short" of standards. he is accused in newspaper reports of making inappropriate sexual comments to his cabinet colleague andrea leadsom. sir michael says he "categorically denies" the allegations. speaking to the victoria derbyshire show a little earlier this morning, one former conservative staff member said researchers would warn each other away from certain mps with a reputation for harassment. i would hear on the grapevine, we would have groups of researchers saying we were meeting so—and—so, don't sit on the same side of the table as them. this was just as much a problem for men as it was for women. don't sit on the same side of the table because they would grow you? it is a hand on a knee. it is

those uncomfortable boundaries where you would slap someone's and away. i would have but some don't feel co mforta ble would have but some don't feel comfortable doing that. i never experienced it but we have heard of a very small number of mps who are tarnishing the reputation of others. plans to speed up the time it takes for new, life—changing medicines to reach patients have been announced by the government. the move follows pressure by the pharmaceutical industry and medical charities which say that patients are losing out. it could mean certain drugs will be available up to four years earlier than they are currently. the syrian army has retaken one of the the last major strongholds of so—called islamic state, according to state television. the city of deir al—zour, near the border with iraq, has been "completely liberated from terrorism" according to the report. the islamic state group had held most of the city since 2014. the militant group is now confined to a few remaining pockets elsewhere in the province. eight former catalan government ministers have spent a night behind bars after a spanishjudge refused to grant them bail.

they've been charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds in connection with the attempt to make catalonia independent from spain. tens of thousands of catalans staged a protest against their detention. thejudge said the the judge said the ministers thejudge said the ministers might flee the country or destroy evidence if they were released. spanish authorities have asked for european arrest warrant for the sacked cata la n arrest warrant for the sacked catalan leader. it's emerged that the ashes of the moors murderer ian brady have been buried at sea after his body was cremated last week. he died in may at the age of 79, at ashworth high security hospital in merseyside. court documents show that the cremation took place in southport without any ceremony. his body had been kept in a hospital mortuary since his death. brady and his accomplice myra hindley tortured and killed five children in the 19605. there was a shock for twitter users overnight when one of the social media platform's most prominent

and controversial users had his account de—activated. donald trump's account was shut down for 11 minutes — due to human error, according to twitter, who blamed it on an employee on his last day before leaving the company. the social media giant says it's taking steps to prevent it from happening again. the president, meanwhile, is back up and tweeting to his 41 million followers. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 10.30am. do get in touch with us throughout the morning, use the hashtag #victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. lots of you getting inter each on the story about harassment at westminster. now for some sport. good morning. headlines today have gone to the former manchester united player, patrice evra. it seemed he has a multitude of questions to a nswer after has a multitude of questions to answer after appearing to kick a supporter of his current team,

marseille, before their europa league match last night. our correspondentjoins us now. what went on? it is unclear at the moment exactly what prompted all of this. the troubles flared up in the warm up the troubles flared up in the warm up ahead of the game against portuguese side. marseille fans jumped the barrier. patrice evra went over to confront them. at first he was pulled away and team—mates intervene. later he goes back and appears to aim a kick at the head of one of the marseille fans. he is sent off and forced to watch the game from the fans. the first player in europa league history to be sent off before the game actually begins. we have had a statement from marseille giving their take on all of this. they have said an internal investigation will be carried out. they say a professional player must keep his cool when there are provocations and insults. the club can only condemn any disruptive

behaviour by pseudo— supporters who insult players and said of supporting the team. that is the sta nce supporting the team. that is the stance that marseille is taking. there is one famous example we will a lwa ys there is one famous example we will always remember of one player not keeping their cool in the premier league era. what could happen next to patrice evra ? league era. what could happen next to patrice evra? the incident you are alluding to there, what we both thought of when we saw the pictures earlier, is when eric cantona was sent off back in 1995 and then after he was sent off in a game against crystal palace he aimed a kung fu kick at the crystal palace supporter that would not have looked out of place in a mixed martial arts contest. place in a mixed martial arts co ntest. h e place in a mixed martial arts contest. he was convicted of assault for that incident and banned for nine months. they were the longest bans in professional sport. evra, who played for united and won the premier league several times and the champions league with united may

well face a similar sort of punishment. we do not know if we have not heard from uefa. we may well hear from them later today. thank you very much forjoining us. everton caretaker manager david u nsworth everton caretaker manager david unsworth is searching for answers of his own all of them on the field after they lost their fifth straight match in all competitions last night. a 3—0 defeat in lyon means they are out of the europa league. u nsworth they are out of the europa league. unsworth said, at a premier league meeting with watford on sunday it is huge for him and the club. elsewhere last night arsenal drew with red star belgrade. more questions to a nswer star belgrade. more questions to answer for the manchester united boss, jose mourinho. usually on a friday morning he would be holding his weekly press conference. instead he is appearing in a spanish court to face tax fraud allegations related to his time as manager of the spanish giants, real madrid. he is alleged to owe over £3.5 billion

in undeclared image rights revenue. he denied any wrongdoing. that is all the sport for now. i'll be back with more later on. let's get more on allegations of sexual harassment swirling around westminster. this morning labour is facing new claims by a party activist and has suspended the mp for luton north, kelvin hopkins, while it carries out an investigation. these are the latest pictures of jeremy corbyn this morning he declined to comment on the latest allegations. meanwhile the former defence secretary sir michael fallon has been forced to "categorically deny" reports that he made inappropriate sexual comments to commons leader andrea leadsom, when they served on a commons committee together. theresa may is to hold a meeting on monday with the leaders of the main political parties in westminster to draw up plans for tackling sexual abuse and harassment in parliament. the events of this week have shone a light on a drinking culture in british politics, which in extreme cases, has led to allegations of sexual harassment and even rape. so how bad is westminster‘s alcohol

problem, and how do we tackle it? dr paul williams is the newly elected mp for stockton south. he's been critical of westminster‘s drinking culture. heather brooke broke the mps' expenses scandal. she now teaches investigative journalism at city university london. thank you both for taking the time to talk to us. if i can start with you, doctor williams. your reaction to kelvin hopkins being suspended from the labour party. these are very serious allegations. i don't know any more about the detail of it but i think it is right. somebody is innocent until proven guilty but it is right to suspend him. it is right to do is right to suspend him. it is right todoa is right to suspend him. it is right to do a thorough investigation and ta ke to do a thorough investigation and take the allegations really seriously. if, as transpires, the claims that are being made by this

woman are true, she said she made this complaint two years ago and he was a backbencher but was then brought in to join the shadow cabinet. that was when jeremy brought in to join the shadow cabinet. that was whenjeremy corbyn had a flurry of resignations. if thatis had a flurry of resignations. if that is the case, is this the way it should be handled by the labour party? we don't know enough yet. let's make sure the investigation is done early. what the labour party has done is written to all members of parliament. i have received information to make sure we have toughened up on our procedures and made sure that mps are being... the message that honestly should have been very clear to mps in the past about the way that staff should have been treated is made even more clear. let's wait for the investigation to run its course before deciding what action should before deciding what action should be taken. heather, iwant before deciding what action should be taken. heather, i want to bring you in on this study broke the expenses scandal story. do you see similarities between what is happening in westminster now and the

allegations which are coming out against various mps and the expenses scandal? i do. it is about the and accountability of power. what i discovered with the expenses is that there was no financial accountability over how mps were spending public money with regards to their expenses. what this story is about is quite similar. it is about there not being enough accountability, about how mps up behaving towards staff members. when a staff member has a complaint there is not a robust mechanism, a place to go to for them to be taken seriously and seek to enforce some action that strong action against the mp5. action that strong action against the mps. doctor williams, it is interesting that you were elected pretty recently into parliament at the last election. your reflections would be interesting on the whole of the westminster culture. the drinking culture we will get onto but just the way

drinking culture we will get onto butjust the way mps behave and how some people seem to say, what i did would have been appropriate 20 or 30 yea rs would have been appropriate 20 or 30 years ago but today it is not. so many viewers are getting in touch and saying this was not appropriate 20 years ago. no, it was not. you have to remember that the vast majority of members of parliament of those responsible, behave in a very responsible way, are good and decent people. it appears from allegations there has been some really inappropriate behaviour. i agree. there has been some really inappropriate behaviour. iagree. it seems as if this is about abuse of power. it should be that people who work with mps, i don't like to use terminology work for mps, it's about teams of people working together. there should be a real breakdown in the power differential. at the moment it seems there are some people who have all the power and a few people who have been exploiting that. do you think that mps have felt untouchable for too long?|j felt untouchable for too long?” definitely felt that. the whole

institution has been untouchable. 0ne institution has been untouchable. one thing institution has been untouchable. 0ne thingl institution has been untouchable. one thing i wanted to call you up on what this was not just about alcohol. women drink alcohol. alcohol just release is alcohol. women drink alcohol. alcoholjust release is inherent prejudices or tendencies that are already in existence. what i would argue is this is sexism, institutional sexism you see in parliament. the majority of people who have power our men and the majority of people who are less powerful are women. and the men leveraged their power in these cases to put women under pressure. when they tried to raise it, as we have seenin they tried to raise it, as we have seen in so many of these cases, the women are not taken seriously. they are not believed, they are belittled in the media. this is the cultural problem that the harvey weinstein problem that the harvey weinstein problem has broken open. i would argue that women came forward about donald trump. think it was 11 women with allegations about donald trump and he is still our president. what

is the difference between movie celebrities and politicians? it seems it will be harder to tackle this kind of institutional sexism omega into the real heart of power, which is politics and parliament. doctor williams, i know you have talked about the abuse of power in relation to the allegations at westminster. is it partly linked to alcohol that is consumed within parliament? all i can say about that as a new member of parliament and a doctor coming into the environment, ifound it to be a rather strange work environment. alcohol is everywhere, as an mp you get invited all kinds of meetings and presentations, i went to a fantastic presentation couple of weeks ago about organ donation that lunchtime but whenever you go to go to one of these meetings, alcohol is served. it says something about the environment that all of the best locations within westminster, the terraces and the ru ns westminster, the terraces and the runs round the corner from the

chamber have been turned into bars and restaurants. incidentally, heavily subsidised. but if you want to go to the gym or a smoothie bar, you have to walk a long way. the gym is hidden ten minutes from the chamber ina is hidden ten minutes from the chamber in a poky room. it feels not just like a modern workplace, if i was working for google, i think the environment would be different. and human beings do adapt their behaviour in order to suit the environment. i think it should be changed. so what needs to change? we have an opportunity that the redesign of... first of all attitudes need to change but also the environment. in many ways i'm pleased that the scandal has broken and i'm pleased that the power differentials are being challenged but there's an opportunity as westminster is refurbished and redesigned over the next few years, there's an opportunity to change the environment and create a modern

workplace for the 21st century. you would not expect your postman to have a pint before he walks along the path to deliver your letters but somehow it seems to be all right that mps can have a point before voting on a crucial bill. it's not just about alcohol and i would hate for us to be sidetracked, there was a lot of male domestic violence in america that was fuelled by alcohol and that created the probation movement. but alcohol only exacerbated an underlying cultural problem which was attitudes towards women. i would problem which was attitudes towards women. iwould hate problem which was attitudes towards women. i would hate that we put all of our emphasis alcohol. sure it's not right to be drinking at lunch or professional, but the systemic underlying problem is we have two address our attitudes towards women and particularly women and power. thank you for talking to us. jeremy corbyn has been questioned by reporters short time ago about the kelvin hopkins allegations. good morning, mr corbyn. did you know

about kelvin hopkins? thank you for coming to my red, goodbye. did you know about mr hopkins? were you aware of the allegations against him, mrcorbyn, aware of the allegations against him, mr corbyn, before you promote it into the shadow cabinet? —— promoted him? thanks. were you aware of the allegations? goodbye. that was the labour leaderjeremy corbyn this morning as he left his house. after 20 years in a violent white supremacist group michael kent from colorado decided to stop being a neo—nazi. he credits his transformation to the extraordinary dedication and friendship of his black probation officer. he has had to move far away from his children out of fear of reprisals from gang members and now lives and works on a chicken farm where he is the only white worker. in their first uk interview, victoria spoke to michael and his probation officer tiffany whittier. she started by asking michaeljust how racist he used to be. it was pretty bad.

about 15, 20 years, i was getting into the action and getting into the same really, really bad... as time gone on, i became a recruiter and somebody that brought somebody in because of my hate and the knowledge and the reputation i had, it fuelled a lot of people that come into the movement and bring it. what were you recruiting people into? the neo—nazi movement, the white supremacy movement. the be more hatred, the anti—... black. anti—hispanic, anti—asian, anti—. .. homophobe, you know, just the somebody that stood against everything that wasn't white and something that wasn't pure. we are looking at images of you doing the nazi salute right now. why do you think you

hated all those people? well, you see, it started back when i was younger. i was trying to be accepted and growng up i was like one of the only white people, families growing up and we had to fight to survive growing up with my family. my sisters got along of course but me and my brother didn't. and when i was six years old i had an african—american guy break into the house, our house, and try to rape my mother. and my first encounter with racism, i was in sixth grade and i had a little black friend, i was trying to get a good feeling and trying to be accepted again, and his mother told me, "i don't want that blue—eyed devil in this house". so that's just filled my hate even more because wasn't accepted. didn't like me so, you know what, i'm going all out. and i started hating them more than anything just on what one person thought or a couple of people thought, how i was treated.

so ijudged everybody like that. and i became more and more hateful as time go up so by the time i was a teenager i was very, very active in the neo—nazi lifestyle. and what does that lifestyle embody? a lot of hate, a lot of resentment towards everybody. and hurting a lot of people that, as i look back on it now, don't deserve that. and tell us about the tattoos you've got. 0oh. it goes back again, i got the white pride, i have the... i had the two swastikas on my body. the white pride i have, that was one of my first... they say it's not racial but it is racial, the way i earned it. it's the white pride, every letter i have for the white

pride i had to go on a mission and i had to hurt somebody to gain each letter of that. and after that, as time went on, that's when i got my swastikas. tiffany is sitting alongside you, listening to your story which she knows very well. tell us how you first met tiffany. 0h, jeez. it's... it's complicated but it's... looking back on it now it's really, really funny. you know, i had, when i got out of prison i had probation officers that always came to my house on a buddy system. they never came by themselves. finally in 2008 i had my caseload transferred to tiffany and she came over to my house, it was night outside, dark outside, and i lived in a trailer. and i had a pit, a pink nosed pit at my house. she came over to my house by herself, shine the light on my house and i came outside and i was like, "can i help you?"

and she goes, "yes." she goes, "are you michael?" i was like, "yes." and she says, "i'm your new officer." and i said, "really?" tripping out! i asked, "are you here by yourself", and she says, "yeah, why?" and she grabbed her hand on herfirearm and she said, "why?" so i thought it was like a setup, maybe somebody in the department didn't like her! or they were out to get me, to see me fail. from that day on, little by little, she just started transforming my life. i never had somebody, someone, as an african—american, to have faith in me and believe me, let alone anybody in general to be there and be supportive of me, to help me out, help me better my life and believe in me as much as she did. tiffany, how much did you know about michael's racist views, his membership of neo—nazi groups,

before you were assigned his case? well, i reviewed his file and you really can't know somebody's racist views until... reading it on paper is one thing, seeing his criminal history, but then actually getting to know michael, i didn't prejudge him, i wanted to get to know him on face value. ijust didn't want to judge a book by its cover. so ijust began to talk to michael and found out where he was from, where his hate stemmed from. and just, you know, wanted to work with him, wanted to see him be successful on probation, complete his probation successfully. and slowly but surely he started to do that on his own. unbeknownst to me, i didn't realise the impact i was having on his life. but when you first showed up at his house, alone that time, you must have been aware, tiffany, that you represented pretty much everything that michael hated? i had some idea.

because i did see the tattoos in his file. but i didn't go there with knowing... i didn't go there with the intention of wanting tojudge him. ijust wanted to meet him as a person and have him meet me as a person. and that's where our relationship began. me being his probation officer and wanting to see him be successful. i didn't come there to be this dominant role model, to say, "this is what you're going to do." but i wanted to see him as an equal, per se, even though i was his probation officer. i wanted to see him be successful and that's what i want for all my clients, is to be successful. and in practical terms, what kind of steps did you suggest that michael take in order to change? ijust wanted him to believe in himself, have faith in himself, find some happiness within himself.

because i did see hate within his home, with the negative flags, the hate flags, meaning the swastikas, the german flags in this home, and i suggested that he take those down and put up smiley faces or something that was going to be a positive influence on him. like the one behind you? yes! something like that, like a happy face. and, to be honest with you, i said that to him halfjokingly. and he took it seriously and slowly those things started to come down. michael wanted me to meet his co—workers, so i would go by hisjob and meet his boss. i went to see where he worked, i slowly began to meet his family, and he invited me to meet his girlfriend at the time, which later became his wife.

and so, just over time, just getting to know him, the rapport that we had was just an honest... hey, i'm here to help you succeed. and he did that. yeah, we talk about... we kind of laugh because i've showed her pictures, after everything said, after we became closer, i've showed her pictures of my past. she says, "oh my god, michael, if i would have known that i would never have walked through your gate that day." really. "i would never... we would never have been like this. i never thought in a million years you were like that, not the way you treated me, not the way you acted towards me." i told herflat out, you know, i'm very thankful that day she walked through that gate because she made me an honest and truly a better person, a better man, a betterfather and a better husband at that time. you know, just all in all a better person.

more and more she became involved in my life, the hate started drifting away and the love started building in my heart and i started being accepting and loving and that something no one's been able to do, and no one's ever showed me as much as she has. and do you think she deserves a hug for that? you know what, when i picked her up today at the airport, oh my god, it was... it was totally amazing! she is a totally remarkable woman, i give her a hug every time i see her. and she is... she has been an inspiration to me, especially seeing everything she does and the work she continues to do. she's very... she's a very good woman, you know, and she gets that and much much more from me and a lot of other people now that we look at and we see. she's a very courageous woman.

and i'm so glad and i'm very thankful that she's in my life. would you mind if i asked to see a full on hug between you, please? absolutely! she's... like i said, she's got that and many, many, many, many more of them coming! what has happened to your tattoos, michael? oh, well, here... i can kind of show you the transformation a little bit. go on then. from the time when i first did it until now... move it down a little bit. yeah. right up here at the top, right here is where the swastika was. i can vaguely see the outline of it. but pretty much hidden by the face of a wolf. yes, it's a wolf and they

go all the way down. there's a tattoo parlour with redemption ink. redemption ink is an organisation that helps people like me and other people with gang tattoos, hate tattoos, remove that part of the ugliness in their lives and helps them transform it into something beautiful. they have been above and beyond helping me out and out here in colorado we have fallen heroes that i'm going... that are doing all my work. and they're helping me with the final step of my life and they're turning all this ugliness i have in my body into something beautiful. every piece, every stitch, a tattoo on my body they're transforming into something beautiful. and this is... i go there, i'm almost in tears every time because every time i go there they tell me something else they're doing to help me continue to better myself and to bea better person. and to be a better person.

and it's, everything has been so surreal with everything going on in my life, with tiffany, redemption ink, with fallen heroes, they believe in me more than anybody has ever believed in me in my life and i'm very thankful to have people like that in my life. still to come. could our natural bacteria help influence how successful cancer treatment is? new research has shown that bacteria in the gut could help tumours shrink during cancer therapy? and was his sentence too lenient? prosecutors are appealing the six yearjail term of oscar pistorious, who killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp on valentine's day 2013, claiming that it isn't long enough. time for the latest news. the headlines now on bbc news.

a labour mp has been suspended by the party after an activist accused him of sexual harassment. kelvin hopkins, mp for luton north, has had the whip withdrawn while the party investigates. 27—year—old ava etemadzadeh says she complained to officials two years ago but mr hopkins was later promoted to the labour frontbench. meanwhile, more allegations have emerged about sir michael fallon, who resigned as defence secretary this week. he is accused in newspaper reports of making inappropriate sexual comments to his cabinet colleague andrea leadsom. sir michael says he "categorically denies" the allegations. the syrian army has retaken one of the the last major strongholds of so—called islamic state, according to state television. the city of deir al—zour, near the border with iraq, has been "completely liberated from terrorism" according to the report. the islamic state group had held most of the city since 2014. the militant group is now confined to a few remaining pockets elsewhere in the province.

plans to speed up the time it takes for new, life—changing medicines to reach patients have been announced by the government. the move follows pressure by the pharmaceutical industry and medical charities which say that patients are losing out. it could mean certain drugs will be available up to four years earlier than they are at the moment. at the moment there are various stages that are conducted for a device or drug in terms of regulatory approval and cost effectiveness, commercial negotiations with the nhs. the idea is to bring them all together and run in parallel, which make the process operate much more quickly so that those things with life changing impacts on people can be brought forward soon. eight former catalan government ministers have spent a night behind bars after a spanishjudge refused to grant them bail. they've been charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds in connection with the attempt to make catalonia independent from spain. tens of thousands of catalans staged

a protest against their detention. thejudge said the ministers might flee the country or destroy evidence if they were released. spanish authorities have asked for a european arrest warrant for sacked catalan leader carles puigdemont. it's emerged that the ashes of the moors murderer ian brady were buried at sea in the middle of the night after he was cremated last week. brady died in may at the age of 79, at ashworth high security hospital in merseyside. court documents show that the cremation took place in southport without any ceremony. his body had been kept in a hospital mortuary since his death. brady and his accomplice myra hindley tortured and killed five children in the 1960s. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. lots of you still getting in touch about the conversations we have had this morning about harassment allegations at westminster. rachel

has tweeted, alcohol is not a problem. read a tremendous abusing their power is the problem. steve on facebook says, alcohol would not be tolerated in any other workplace. why should our members of parliament, who are supposed to be making life changing decisions were people in our country, be allowed to drink at work question writers destroys drink at work question writers d estroys — — drink at work question writers destroys —— it is disgraceful. here's some sport now with hugh woozencroft. patrice evra could be in trouble with uefa after appearing to aim a kick at a supporter of his current team, marseille, before their europa league game last night was he was sent off before kick—off. marseille says it will conduct an internal investigation. everton are out of the competition after a 3—0 defeat against lyon. they have lost five matches in a row for the first time in12 matches in a row for the first time in 12 years. arsenal made it through to the knockout stages with a draw against red/ belgrade. jose mourinho

has appeared in a spanish court after it was claimed he owes three and a half million pounds in undeclared image rights revenue. england cricket captainjoe root says it is important to get the balance right for the players as to what they can do off the field between games there has been criticism about the conduct of players after an incident involving alex hales and ben stokes at a nightclub in september. that is all the sport now. research has found that having high levels of good bacteria in the digestive system can have a positive effect on cancer therapy. two studies suggest patients are more likely to respond to treatment that shrinks tumours. james gallagher is here with us. we need to stop imagining the human body to live in isolated, sterile conditions. we are dealing with tens

of thousands of bacteria and viruses which lived in and on our bodies. it sounds gross but it is something which happens to every single organism on the planet. that interacts with our human body in lots of different ways. understanding this is starting to be implicated in a whole range of different diseases. this one looks at cancer. having all that life living in and new causes it to interact with the immune system. some immunotherapy is also interact with the immune system pulls up this study was looking at patients who did respond to immunotherapy and some who did not. they found stock differences between the to macro groups living inside their guts. they went, does this mean anything? they went, does this mean anything? they did further experiments and took some of the samples from patients and put them into animals. they spotted the web was affecting the cancer was growing. it was about changing the way the immune system works. we need to get more good

bacteria. yes but it is so much more commper catered a statement. if you think about it, in these studies, they showed that certain species of bacteria were particularly helpful in some patients. they showed that diversity, the richness of the different species were important in response to therapy. if you think of tropical rainforests, they are rich and diverse in the natural world. patients have completely different microbe biomes. you need to think how you can improve it. it is probably not the same answer for everyone. let's improve life in the ra i nfo rest everyone. let's improve life in the rainforest and put extra chimpanzees m, rainforest and put extra chimpanzees in, you would not do the same thing ina in, you would not do the same thing in a coral reef. things would go wrong very quickly. how can you improve this in a way that would benefit patients? let's talk now to dr emma smith from cancer research uk.

thank you for coming in. it is confusing. james has described it and simplified it for us. are you excited? and simplified it for us. are you excited ? immunothera py submitted huge difference to quite a lot of patience, even patients with a really bad prognosis before because their cancer had already spread. immune therapies can be really effective for these patients. we are talking about people with advanced forms of kidney cancer and skin cancer and lung cancer. immunotherapy is cancer and lung cancer. immunothera py is having cancer and lung cancer. immunotherapy is having shown to work. there has been a huge problem. they can have severe side effects and do not work for everyone. at the moment there is no good way of knowing who they will work for and who they will not work for. this kind of research will be really important to help doctors better use this treatment and not giving it to people who are unlikely to benefit. how do you discover what will work for me and work for you? there is no system at the moment to do that. we

just do not know. we have done clinical trials and know that, on average they help a certain number of people. on an individual level, doctors never know if you will be one of the people who do respond with ul or not at all. i was reading eliot on today this has managed to clear cases of even terminal cancer. —— earlier on today. clear cases of even terminal cancer. -- earlier on today. half of patients with advanced forms of the disease, in the past these patients would have had a really bad outlook because it is very difficult to treat once the cancer spreads. 0nly about half of people benefit from them. what is happening? why are the other half of people not responding and how can we change that? this kind of research could provide an extra agony for making more people do well on these therapies, altering the bacteria that live in your gut, potentially, one day could mean the

treatments are even more powerful. what does this mean for cancer patients right now? presumably it is not just around the patients right now? presumably it is notjust around the corner. the research is still quite early. it has been looking at mice. something more immediate is the idea of who does respond versus who does not respond. it is about looking at what goes on in the gut. this person would not benefit from the immunotherapy drugs. would not benefit from the immunothera py drugs. let's would not benefit from the immunotherapy drugs. let's try something different. we do not want a whole raft of patients being given drugs with side effects and they do not even work. is this an example of the money being pumped into research into cancer? it is a really good example. immunotherapy into cancer? it is a really good example. immunothera py has into cancer? it is a really good example. immunotherapy has been around for awhile. doctors are looking at ways of making them better and more effective. how do we combine with other treatments and figure out what kinds of cancer we can use them for? there is a lot of

research going on and they are really powerful and it made a big to patients. thank you. president trump's twitter account briefly vanished overnight but has since been restored. it was apparently deactivated by a disgruntled employee on their last day in the job. more details to follow shortly. 0scar pistorius was a sporting hero — until he shot dead his girlfriend reeva steenkamp on valentine's day 2013. the paralympian claimed he thought she was an intruder hiding in the bathroom of their home in pretoria — but was found guilty of culpable homicide. a year later his conviction was upgraded to murder. now prosecutors are appearing at south africa's supreme court of appeal to argue that the 30—year—old's six yearjail sentence was too lenient and should be longer. it is a one day hearing with a ruling at a later date and pistorius — who was once known as bladerunner — won't be in court.

we will hear from our two guests shortly but first let's hear from our correspondent pumza fihlani who's been following the case and is in johannesburg. first of all, just explain what the prosecution is arguing in court today. the court proceedings are under way at the moment in pretoria. the prosecution is arguing that six yea rs the prosecution is arguing that six years is too lenient sentence for murder here. the prescribed minimum sentence for murder in south africa is 15 years. they are arguing before a panel ofjudges that the trial courtjudge who initially sentenced 0scar pistorius was too lenient but gave no adequate reasons why she deviated so much from the sentence. they are worried in a country with such a high murder rate and a country where there is such a high rate of them aside, leaving the sentence unchanged will set a precedent. we understand that

today's seedings will take the day and thejudges today's seedings will take the day and the judges will then go away and come back with a decision on whether to grant the state permission to appeal the sentence. to grant the state permission to appealthe sentence. -- proceedings. thank you for updating us on that. 0scar pistorius has supporters in many countries, including british based heather malcherczyk, who has followed his case from the start and met his family. we can also talk to dr lesley ann foster, who is from the masimanyane women's rights international, which aims to end violence against women. first of all, doctor foster, do you think that 0scar pistorius sentence should be increased ? think that 0scar pistorius sentence should be increased? absolutely. through the levels of violence and them aside in this country, it is very important that we send out a clear message to the public that

taking the life of a woman is a serious offence. as activists working in this country, we see the current sentencing of six years is merely a slap on the wrist and this is grossly inadequate. it sends out the wrong message, particularly in the wrong message, particularly in the context of the high rates of femicide. i have everything delivered all legitimate efforts to deal with domestic violence and gender violence in south africa however this perception is wrong. what the state are trying to do is have him sentenced as though he was found guilty for the premeditated murder of reeva steenkamp. femicide. that is not the case, however. and this view is incorrect. he was not found guilty for her premeditated murder. he was found guilty of murder. he was, the supreme court although they

left undisturbed the factual finding of the high court, that he did not know that she was in the bathroom, that he genuinely believed there was an intruder in the house, the supreme court, unlike the judge who accepted that his disability was releva nt accepted that his disability was relevant to the level of fear that he experienced on that night and the response, the shooting in panic, the supreme court disregarded all the expert evidence around his disability and his fear and the accelerated fear response that led to the shooting. however, he was not found guilty of intentionally killing reeva, that is a misconception. so, is six years a correct sentence in your mind for the murder of a woman?” correct sentence in your mind for the murder of a woman? i feel that six years, a chilly you say six years but we're talking about just undereight years, he's years but we're talking about just under eight years, he's already

served 21 months in prison and under house arrest. is that correct sentence? i think it's too much because what we have here is an unprecedented dealing with his case differently to everyone else in south africa who has killed someone inadvertently believing that they we re inadvertently believing that they were an intruder. accept we already know, as we heard, that the recommended sentence for murder is 15 years and he was sentenced to six. i want to bring you back in, doctor foster, the usual at 0scar pistorius's case and his sentences —— do you feel that his case and his sentencing has had an impact on domestic violence within south africa? something many people think is in them in society. i think that we don't have evidence to show that this case in particular has had an impact but what we have seen since this case is the huge spike in the number of women who have been

killed. it's important that we do not individualise cases, we need to place this case within the broader system of how women are treated in this country. we cannot trivialise on life being taken. we say that we will look at this case where he was found guilty of murder, whether it is premeditated or not is irrelevant, reeva steenkamp lost her life and that is the bottom line and many other women are losing their lives. we cannot have a situation where some men is a certain aspects of their lives are given lesser sentences. in this case, she lost her life. a lot of the evidence if they revisited it now would come up with a different perspective because she was lying in bed with him, and he did not notice, that is not the argument, the argument is that women are losing their lives and those

lives matter. we cannot say it doesn't matter, and it's disconnected from the systemic problem of how women are viewed in our society. so this sentence is important. what is also really fantastic is the fact that the state itself understands that it did not follow the due diligence principles which is is to insure the prevention, and prosser keeshan of domestic violence in —— and prosecution of domestic violence in our country. they have a contextual understanding of what happened here and they are saying we have fei world reeva steenkamp, and if we failed reeva steenkamp we will fail women more generally.” failed reeva steenkamp we will fail women more generally. i want heather to pick up on some of those points. doctor foster is saying that 0scar pistorius is not a special case, there should not be special

circumstances, he needs to serve more than 60 is because this is about sending the message out across south africa —— more than six years because this is about sending a message about violence towards women. i agree it should not be a single special case but he has been singled out. from the early stage where there was a manipulated character assassination in order to underpin the state's unfounded premeditation charge, he was singled out for special treatment and not in his favour. he has not been treated the same as any other person in those circumstances. if you look backin those circumstances. if you look back in any other legal cases in south africa, no one else has got to live with the fact that they have taken the live with the fact that they have ta ken the life live with the fact that they have taken the life of a loved one inadvertently in the belief that they were protecting them from an intruder, in a country where home invasions are so often accompanied by an told brutality there is no one else who has had to deal with the

murder conviction. the fact is, this sentence doesn't reflect what would normally reflect sentence for a murder conviction because the judge was murder conviction because the judge was faced with having to sentence him again for something that she actually sentenced him for the year before. the factual finding that he did not intend to kill reeva was not undisturbed by the supreme court. she found ourselves in her unenviable position of sentencing him again for the same thing. essentially he has been made an example of and that's not fair? that's not true at all. if you look at the levels of violence in our country and the kinds of cases that go to court, i would not say he was treated unfairly. so what's to say is, we have some of the finest legal minds in this country, they would not in paris themselves and take a case back for review if ——

embarrassing themselves and take a case back for review if they were not convinced that this particular sentence and results that the due diligence results. forgive me for interrupting, we will certainly find out when this comes back from the supreme appeal court, thank you very much for both of you. let's go back now to the ever growing scandal engulfing westminster with harassment allegations and resignations dominating westminster this week. earlier i spoke with ellie king who is a conservative party member and resham kotecha who worked in westminster for a conservative mp and peer to get their views on the culture in politics. we have to be careful to notjump to quickly and have a knee jerk reaction on things that are speculation like the spreadsheet we've seen, but actually in cases where there have been allegations made which are serious, it's right that we withdraw the width regardless of the party and make sure the people who have been affected feel safe and know their

concerns are ta ken affected feel safe and know their concerns are taken seriously. it's interesting you say react quickly, certainly the woman who has made these allegations claimed that she made the complaint two years ago, we had earlier on the bbc has been told that he was reprimanded. why has it taken that he was reprimanded. why has it ta ke n two that he was reprimanded. why has it ta ken two years that he was reprimanded. why has it taken two years and why was he then promoted to the labour front bench is? other political parties reacting quickly in your view? i think they are reacting now it's starting to come out and no one wants to kick up a fuss. we do need to kick up a fuss and react quickly and look at it on and react quickly and look at it on a case—by—case basis and see what the allegations that have been made, have a look at them quickly and take the appropriate action. to you both, having worked in westminster and we will talk about these experiences in a moment, do you expect there will be more of these allegations coming out over the coming days and weeks? it's hard to think that they will not. this sort of thing is, if you have been affected, and i would like

to say i had an amazing three years andi to say i had an amazing three years and i was not affected, but if you are affected there is strength in numbers and you feel as though people are finally taken it seriously, light is being shed and you feel comfortable and safe to come out so i think we will. i think this is exactly why we need an entire shift in the way things are treated and dealt with in parliament because we need an independent service that people can go to sit it should not be up to an individual party to deal with these sorts of allegations and say you have been slapped on the wrist and that is enough because that might not be enough, especially depending on the circumstances. if we have an independent service, if mps have do sign up to a contractually binding contract about their behaviour and they have training on what is and isn't accessed of all, you will be able to see these sorts of situations dealt with quickly which they are not at the moment. two mps really need to be trained on what appropriate and not appropriate? -- do they need to be trained? i think they do, i'm a student and one of they do, i'm a student and one of

the things we talk about all the time is consent and we have consent workshops and campaigns. it does sound ridiculous, you think, i know what consent is. but because the lines are so blurred, and it's so unsure about what is perceived as accessed double and what is not... but you can understand that at university and young people experimenting and pushing the boundaries, the point of being a young person, but we're talking about elected individuals who are grown—ups. about elected individuals who are grown-ups. there are two different things here. the first is that some mps have been mps for 30 years, they are much older, not of a generation where they realise this is unacceptable and i do think that it's weird to say they need to trading on it but if you've spent 30 yea rs trading on it but if you've spent 30 years ina trading on it but if you've spent 30 years in a bubble and you first were elected it was ok to smack your secretary on the bottom... was it? it should not have been but the mindset was it was fine. i think it apartand mindset was it was fine. i think it apart and appalling but if that's what you've grown up with and you've

never been told off, we should cover all bases and make it very clear what k and what's not, and more than that, a lot of mps when they are going into a room, they are swamped with people wanting to talk to them and have photos and i think it's very easy to lose touch with reality and so the more we can do to make it clear that this is not ok and this is where the lines are, the safer if please will be. —— the safer employ these will be. us president donald trump's twitter account briefly vanished from the internet last night. it has since been restored and the social media giant say his page is unaffected. twitter says it's investigating how donald trump's account came to be deactivated for a total of 11 minutes. those searching for the page were informed "that page doesn't exist". twitter soon issued an explanation saying the president's account "was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a twitter employee." it later clarified that it was their last day in the job. many people took to the internet last night to voice their praise about what happened with some trump supporters keeping relatively quiet

about the 11 minute outage. a number of gifs and memes were posted including... this tweet with a baby walking and out of a door saying... this tweet by abc news showing a character from the tv show mad men to announce the news saying twitter employee uses last day of work to deactivate donald trump's account. this tweet highlighting what happned shows a sad looking stephen colbert with lots of hands slapping him on the face. a gif of barack 0bama doing a mic drop was posted on one account saying that this was something that hit trump where it hurt. and raising a glass. this tweet has a picture of leonardo dicaprio in the great gatsby raising a glass and says "i owe twitter a drink president trump is a very active to the user, he has 41 million viewers, he had not commented on the

incident, he usually says exactly what he thinks. let's have a look at his most famous previous cleats touring the presidential campaign. that's all we've got time for on this edition of the programme, we are up next to bbc news. the morning. we have had some pretty thick fog across the southern areas of england through this morning, that has cleared away and we have sunny spells developing across the south. for most of us it will be mostly cloudy day. thickest of the cloud north wales, northern england

and into northern ireland. a few brea ks and into northern ireland. a few breaks in scotland and when the fog clears away, we will see some sunny spells, temperatures about 12 to 15 degrees. further north, a little cooler. this evening if going to any firework displays, for many it will be dry but there will be rain speeding into wales, southern areas of england and scotland as we go through the night, and that becomes extensive in saturday morning. that will clear way to the east tomorrow, but i did clearer skies and sunshine coming through. —— behind it, there are coming through. —— behind it, there a re clearer coming through. —— behind it, there are clearer skies. the clear weather will come in on saturday afternoon. more details on the website. saturday night into sunday, get more details. this is bbc news and these are the top stories

developing at 11am. a labour mp is suspended over allegations he harassed a member of staff and was later promoted to the frontbench byjeremy corbyn. were you aware of the allegations against mr hopkins, sir? goodbye. more claims against former defence secretary michael fallon — his cabinet colleague andrea leadsom says he made inappropriate comments. he denies the allegations. the government wants five new life changing drugs to be chosen for the new scheme every year.