hello it's monday, it's 9 o'clock, i'm tina daheley, welcome to the programme for most of us who have pets our animals are beloved members of the family. but animal welfare campaigners have told this programme that dog theft is a rising problem in the uk. all i can hear him saying is the house has been broken into, the dog has gone. i was just screaming. we have a special report on the stress caused when a dog is taken and one owner's campaign to get her‘s back. it's been nearly three years since the government launched its shared parental leave scheme to help dads take more than the statutory two weeks off when they have a new baby. but very few new fathers have taken up the offer, maybe just two percent of those eligible. we find out why. ageing — it's something all of us face and it's the single largest factor that drives human disease but what if you could treat ageing itself, rather than the conditions it causes? that's what a group of pioneering scientists have been trying to do.

rather than be with people you know, rather than dying at 83 demented, catheterised in your bed, muttering to themselves, they would die at 106 on the tennis court, while winning, or killed by a jealous lover at 113. welcome to the programme, we're live until 11 this morning. also later in the programme we will be talking about so—called fat letters — letters sent to parents in england and wales if their children are classed as overweight after being weighed at school. one 11—year—old girl has said that she lost the confidence to play sport after her mum received such a letter. we'd love to hear from you if you got one of these letters about your kids — are they a bad thing? aid workers used prostitutes in high

et. the charity has been accused of this in 2011 which led to four people being sacked and others resigning. the allegations of sexual misconduct by aid workers in haiti in 2011 have threatened notjust the charity's reputation but also the £32 million it gets each year from the government. penny mordaunt has threatened to withhold the cash u nless threatened to withhold the cash unless oxfam shows the leadership

she thinks it has lacked by the way it has handled the scandal so far. today penny mordaunt will meet seniorfigures from the today penny mordaunt will meet senior figures from the charity and ask them to hand over everything they know about past and current abuses. i'm affording them the opportunity to tell me in person what they did after these events. i'll be to see if they display the moral leadership they need to show 110w. moral leadership they need to show now. she wants to know what oxfam is doing to stop something like this ever happening again. she will also meet the charity commission to discuss what more can be done to regulate non—governmental organisations. oxfam has apologised and will take further action to improve the safeguarding and vetting for recruitment of staff. our

correspondent is here. what can we expect from the meeting that is supposed to take place today. a lot of tough questions from penny mordaunt. although we don't yet know what time this meeting is going to ta ke what time this meeting is going to take place. the money that oxfam gets from the government, they will be asked what safeguarding will be put in place, what went on in 2011, why did you not go public about your staff being involved in these practices. but there are questions not only today but for the likes of the charities commission. what did they know? they knew that oxfam were aware, but why did oxfam not file a report. they will be taking some tough questions too. they did say they were investigating

some allegations of sexual misconduct. why wasn't that looked into further? what was not clear was the extent and seriousness of those, which i have said. they categorically said that there is no allegations of news of beneficiaries. equally, they didn't disclose that there were allegations of possible crimes, including those involving minors. this is notjust about oxfam. there seems to be a sense of it being a problem with new allegations surfacing, what do we know about that? this is a problem the sector says it needs to deal with. for more than 20 years there have been warning that predatory secs offenders have been targeting disaster relief agencies of this nature to get access to vulnerable people and children. 0ther nature to get access to vulnerable people and children. other agencies said they have also had a problem.

for example save the children has been publicly saying the last 18 months how many cases it has been dealing with. the last month, 31 cases have been looked at by save the children. ten of which have ended up with the police. there have been sackings involved, too. a passport system is going to be put in place for aid workers of this nature. even if they switch from one agency to another, that passport goes with them with an instant reference as to whether they are suitable, reputable enough, to be dealing with this sensitive field. thanks very much. we will be discussing this later on in the programme. now, a discussing this later on in the programme. now, a summary discussing this later on in the programme. now, a summary of the rest of the day's news. three british tourists have died in a helicopter crash in the grand canyon in the us state of arizona. the

foreign office says it is providing help for the victims of the families in las vegas. the helicopter came down in rocky, remote terrain, bursting into flames. it appears the survivors were able to get out despite suffering serious injuries. but three britons on board died at the scene. 27—year—old, becky dobson, 30—year—old, stuart hill, and jason hill, who was 32. for the survivors, three young britons and the pilot, the ordeal was far from over. rescuers, including local military personnel, were flown in but had to walk to the crash site using night vision. it was more than eight hours before the injured were flown to hospital in las vegas. we weren't able to extract anyone until two this morning. high winds, brown—out dust conditions, rugged terrain, and as you know when you fly in treacherous conditions like this, you have to have special training and special people. it's not clear what caused the crash which involved a eurocopter ec130.

the tour company, papillon airways, says it is the world's largest aerial sightseeing outfits, flying 600,000 people a year. in 2001, six people died when another of the firm's grand canyon helicopters crashed. the foreign office says it is now providing support to the british families of this weekend's victims. james cook, bbc news, los vegas. the russian authorities say they are considering a number of possible causes for the crash of an airliner shortly after taking off from moscow yesterday. these include bad weather, human error and the airliner‘s technical condition; officials haven't mentioned terrorism. all 71 people on board the plane were killed. theresa may and the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, are to visit belfast today for talks with northern ireland's main parties. there are growing indications that the democratic unionist party and sinn fein may be close to a deal to restore devolved government — although a dup source has said agreement is unlikely today.

the last administration led by the two parties collapsed more than a year ago. south africa's governing party, the anc, says the fate of president zuma will be decided within 2a hours. there is mounting pressure for him to stand down, following allegations of corruption. speaking at a rally in cape town, the leader of the anc, cyril ramaphosa said the key aim of any transition of power was to unite south africans. london city airport has been closed until further notice after the discovery of an unexploded second world war bomb. the device was found in the river thames. passengers are being urged to check with their airlines before travelling this morning. a new campaign aimed at promoting the benefits of shared parental leave will be launched by the government today. the leave allows working couples to split up to 50 weeks between them to care for a child in the first year of their birth or adoption. but only 2% of families have taken part in the scheme since its launch three years ago. an nhs campaign is telling

parents to take children to a pharmacist if they only have a minor illness. the ads, featuring the voice of a young child, aim to relieve the pressure on gp‘s surgeries. here's our health correspondent, james gallagher: morning. how can i help? i'd like some advice for my daughter, please. when the kids are ill and you need medical advice, do you think of the pharmacy? this nhs campaign says tummy troubles, teething, and coughs are all best dealt with by a high street pharmacist. it's part of a drive to relieve pressure on doctors' time. figures released as part of the stay well pharmacy campaign estimates around 18 million gp appointments each year and more than 2 million a&e visits are for patients that could be treated with over—the—counter medication. it says the appointments cost the nhs more than £850 million each year. pharmacists are highly trained healthcare professionals. they train for five years in the use

of medicines and how to get the best out of using medicines, but also in how to treat minor illness, minor disease, and, really importantly, how to understand when perhaps it's more serious and people need to seek extra help. i feel so dreadful! the patients association said the campaign had some merits, but said anyone with a health concern should feel able to turn to their gp. the pharmacy is just around the corner. i can go and see a fully trained healthcare professional, no appointment needed! james gallagher, bbc news. the makers of the new film peter rabbit have apologised after facing a backlash over their depiction of a character's allergy. a scene in the film shows a character who suffers a blackberry allergy being pelted with them by a gang of bunnies. in a joint statement, sony pictures and the filmmakers said they "should not have made light" of the issue. kensington palace has announced more details

of the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle at windsor castle. the service will start at midday, meaning there's good news for football fans as it is unlikely to clash with the fa cup final. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. they are said to be closely involved in the arrangements for their wedding, which is now a little less than 1a weeks away. as already announced, it will take place in the historic setting of st georges chapel within windsor castle on saturday the 19th of may. the service will begin at midday with the dean of windsor officiating, and the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, leading the service itself. room within the chapel is limited, with space for around 800 guests. at one o'clock, the couple, married, as they will be by then, will set off in a carriage procession, and then a long walk back to the castle for a reception in saint georges hall. the carriage procession, they hope, will fulfil the pledge they made at the time of their engagement to make it possible for members of the public to feel part of the occasion. nicholas witchell, bbc news.

that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. 0n on that. thanks very much. coming up shortly, as an animal charity tells this programme that dog thefts are on the rise we have a special report on the stress caused when a dog is taken and one owner's campaign to get hers back. 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. and thought things could get worse. the men's downhill yesterday was

postponed. —— who thought things could get worse? the qualifiers of the women's slopestyle were cancelled yesterday. but the final did go ahead. it was delayed. you can see the conditions in pyeongchang. very high winds. but the event did go ahead. aimee fuller said the winds were brutal. how did she get on? she said she was lucky to be alive after her run. she came 17th in the end. she had a very heavy crash on her second run. these are pictures of her here. five of the 25 athletes managed not to fall. they have been critical of the organisers and the communication they had beforehand. she finished 17th. she said when she was feeling it she felt like there was feeling it she felt like there was a sail attached to her board. you can see the wind really taking her. that was her heavy crash on the

second run. she said the level is so much better than what they actually got to show. asi as i was powering into thejump i thought i have got this. then i felt disgust. it was like riding into a wind tunnel. absolutely brutal. —— then i felt this gust. this is not how i felt all of my preparation would be shown like. it is a shame for our sport. this was the winning run,jamie for our sport. this was the winning run, jamie anderson of the us, she was champion four years ago. she managed the conditions well. she got a gold medal. the winning run scored 83 points this time. in sochi the winning score was 95, so it goes to

show that the women could not show what they can do. the figure skaters had no issue with the weather and i hear canada have their second gold medal of the day. a dominant performance from canada, seven points clear at the top of the standings. they won silver in russia last time out, tessa virtue and scott maher helping them on the way to gold. the olympic athletes of russia one silver and the united states to roms. more sport for you later. we look forward to it. thank you. —— took bronze. for most dog owners — their pet is a beloved member of the family, and losing them would be simply devastating. but animal welfare campaigners have told this programme dog theft is a rising problem in the uk. figures shown to us reveal there were more than 200 recorded cases last year but it's thought

the real number is likely to be far higher. 0ur reporter greg dawson has been looking into the stress caused when a dog is stolen and one owner's campaign to get hers back. he's a very playful dog. he's very, very tiny, so he's very puppyish in his ways. he just loved life. every night before bed, maxine ferrari goes through the same sombre routine. i do tell him good night, sweet dreams. sort of look out the window, wherever you are. you can't not do that, can you? you just hope he's safe and well and being looked after really. this is scooby, a playful 11—month—old yorkshire terrier chihuahua cross, whose party trick is singing along to coolio's gangsta's paradise. # cos i've been flashing and laughing so long...

the last time max saw her dog was a tuesday morning in september before she went to work. my son rang the landline. all i can hear him saying was, "mum, the house has been broken into. scooby‘s gone." and i was just screaming and crying and my work colleagues didn't know what to do. i remember coming through here, going to the front door and just looking at the big hole in the door and ijust rememberjust collapsing and just crying and crying and crying because he's gone, completely gone. if a dog has been stolen somewhere in the uk it's likely its photo will make its way to the kitchen of debbie matthews. belle, she was walking with her owner outside the house and he turn round for a second and she's gone. so definitely stolen. for more than a decade she's

campaigned on the issue after her two dogs were stolen and later found. your whole world just disintegrates and you just don't know how to cope, how to find them, what to do. it'sjust destroying, you know, everybody in your family is affected by it. and i mean why? why would somebody want to steal your dog? despite years of work to raise awareness, debbie shares the concerns of other campaigners about the number of dogs being taken. dog lost is the uk's largest website trying to reunite pets with owners. in 2016, 61 dogs were reported stolen on the site. that rose to 217 in 2017, and this january alone a further 32 dogs were reported stolen. the group believes the number of thefts is far higher though as many victims don't report the crime and not all police forces will register a dog as stolen. campaigners claim one of the main problems is that the punishment doesn't fit the crime because there's no specific offence of dog theft in the uk.

the first thing is that a dog is classified as a chattel. so it's like if you've had your mobile phone stolen. so everybody can replace a mobile phone. you can't replace your dog, you know. they're a family member. you need to make the people who steal these dogs accountable for their actions. it's not like stealing a mobile, you know? this is serious. this really affects people so badly. every morning when you wake up, it's like it's happened again because that's the first thing on your mind is, where is he? what's he doing, is he being looked after? are they being kind to him? and not a day goes by when you don't think about that. what would you say to those people who are listening to how much this has consumed, you know, will say you should move on from this? yes, i mean, i can understand what they're thinking, but,

you know, i see it similar to how you would love your mother, or your daughter, or your son, or yourfather. so at the end of the day, how would you get over your mother being kidnapped or stolen? so if they can think like that, that's how we feel about our dogs, our cats, any of our animals. they are part of your family, they are part of your life and they are loved just as much. searching for a stolen dog is something that most police forces simply don't have the time or the resources for. instead a lot of the activity switches to the online world and just a quick search reveals dozens of owners making desperate appeals to be reunited with their pets, many of them offering hundreds of pounds as a reward. using social media is the easiest and most popular method to track down a stolen dog, but it's not the only one. for a price, you can

hire people like colin. reuniting an owner with their stolen dog is an immense experience. i've done it so many times now, yet on every single occasion it's the same. it just fills your heart with joy to see how happy people are to get their stolen dogs back. it really is an immensely satisfying experience. a former detective with surrey police, colin now runs his own pet detective agency and the bulk of his work is trying to track down stolen docs. to track down stolen dogs. one of the reasons that dog theft can be so profitable for the thieves is firstly, there are so many outlets. there are 30 or 40 websites where you can sell dogs and numerous facebook pages, which means there is a big market. so if a thief targets a breeder and steals say, six or seven puppies, they're not micro—chipped. if it's a specialist breed or if it's a breed that's in demand, there a few thousand pounds profit.

when a dog has gone missing and someone comes to you, where do you start? at the end of the day it comes to experience and good old—fashioned police work, and more importantly, getting right into the heart of the community and getting them to help us. colin usually turns down cases where a dog has been missing for more than a few weeks, but today he has travelled to woking to offer some advice to maxine. the bottom had beenjimmied open. right. and great big panel gone and he put two and two together and realised that we'd had a burglary and that scooby had been taken. firstly, the vast majority of burglaries where dogs are stolen, the dogs are recovered. not immediately. so, we recovered one last year, it took us four months from start to finish, but the dog wasn't in possession of the thieves, they'd passed it on. so they'd kept it for a while, got bored of the dog because, you know yourself, dogs require care and attention, so they gave the dog away.

so the chances are, whoever has your dog is looking after your dog really well, but they're not the thief because when someone burgles a home, most of the time they are looking for financial gain. they want to sell something to make money. when they are taking a dog, it's not until the get the dog home that they start to get an understanding of how complicated it is now to sell a dog on and how they are going to work out its value. something else that you can do is the police won't have told you, but there is a crime map of the whole of uk. you can go on to this map and you can look and see what other offences were committed in your neighbourhood around the time you had your burglary and then you can ask specific questions of the police. are these offences linked? like most dogs, scooby is micro—chipped, which in theory could make it easier to find him, but campaigners argue that not enough is being done to take advantage of that technology. well, we want them to scan everything that comes in for a first appointment, also the backlog of dogs they have because if they don't check the registration,

you don't know who owns this dog. yeah. so it's quite a simple process. you literally scanned the dog, the microchip number comes up. this is actually a stolen dog here. so it says reported lost. yes. right, i see. and it will give the database to call. these dogs end up with people that don't know that they've bought a stolen dog. they've bought a dog in good faith with fake papers probably. they go to the vet. if the vet doesn't scann the dog, then you're not going to get your dog back. it's, you know, you can't have micro—chipping without scanning. the royal college of veterinary surgeons doesn't agree. it says vets may scan for a microchip if they suspect that the dog has been lost or stolen, but they shouldn't be expected to routinely scan every dog coming into a practice. it's now five months since scooby was snatched from his home and in that time there have been no verified sightings of him, but max isn't giving up hope, or her memories.

we still keep the pen because, you know, i didn't want to put everything away because then that's admitting that he's never coming back. so the pen is still out, i've still got his insurance running. yeah, it's just really sad. you just want him back, you know? and we'll be talking more about this later in the programme. if this is something you've been affected by, please let us know what happened. #victorialive still to come. why are so few new fathers taking up the offer of shared parental leave? we'll talk to two dads who decided to take advantage of the scheme and an employer. and we're all getting older, but that comes with the risk of disease. we'll have a report on a group of pioneering scientists who are trying to threat ageing itself. the really cool part is that a bunch

of these things that you think are an inescapable aspect of ageing, they did not occur. time for the latest news — here's annita. the bbc news headlines this morning... senior officials about someone dry to convince the international development secretary they should keep their millions of pounds a year on funding. it follows revelations that aid workers used prostitutes in haiti. the charity has been accused of not disclosing the full findings of not disclosing the full findings of which led to four people being sacked and three others resigning but the charity denies claims of a cover—up. three british tourists have been killed in a helicopter crash in the grand canyon. they've been named by police as 27—year—old becky dobson, jason hill, 32 and

30—year—old stuart hill. three other britons and the pilot were injured. the foreign office says it's providing consular assistance to the families. theresa may and the irish prime minister will visit belfast today for talks with the northern marriage made parties. there are claims the dup and sinn fein may be close to a deal to restore devolved government of the way dup source says agreement is unlikely to date. the last administration led by the parties collapsed more than a year ago. south africa's governing party the anc says the fate of president zuma will be decided within 24—hour us. zuma will be decided within 24—hour us. there is mounting pressure for him to stand down following allegations of corruption. speaking ata allegations of corruption. speaking at a rally in cape town the leader of the anc, cyrano poser said the key aim of any transition of power was to unite south africans. tenzing tim pallas has announced more details of the wedding of rins harry and meghan markle at windsor castle

on the 19th of may. the service in st george's chapel starts at midday, and means it's unlikely to clash with the fa cup final. it's been confirmed the archbishop of canterbury were married couple and the dean of windsor will conduct the service, 800 guests will be there and the newlyweds will undertake a short carriage procession around windsor at 1pm. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. i still haven't had my invite! here's some sport now with sarah. amy fuller has been taking part in the women's slope style. greg laidlaw was the scottish euro beating france 32—26 in the six nations on sunday, kicking 22 points, they registered their first win of the competition. this year.

newcastle united have won their first premier league home game since 0ctober, manchester united on the receiving end, matt ritchie with the only goal. and rangers smashed six past are united as they made it into the quarterfinals of the scottish cup. striker murillo hitting two on his return. more later. health care systems are struggling to treat the ageing population, but could this be about to change? instead of treating the disease of ageing why not ageing itself? that's what a small group of pioneering scientists have been dry to do. bbc news spoke to three of them. scientists have been dry to do. bbc news spoke to three of themlj

watched my stepfather died of alzheimer's. there was nothing dignified or beautiful about that. he forgot who he was, he forgot who we were. my view of anyone who tells you that ageing is beautiful and something to embrace is either being dishonest with you or themselves. i see no beauty in it. somehow it doesn't make sense. we are beautiful —— beautifully adapted by natural selection, everything in our body works well, every system you look at, you understand its purpose. then you look at ageing and using, what is that for? what is the purpose? why would natural selection that the animaljust fall why would natural selection that the animal just fall apart? why would natural selection let the animal just fall apart?

ageing is something all of us, you know, rich and poor, in developed nations, in developing nations, it's something all of us face and it is the single largest factor that drives human disease and suffering. before about 20 years ago, it was really generally accepted that there was nothing you could do about ageing. i mean, maybe you could exercise, eat a little better, but that's it, and there has really been a revolution in science since that time because scientists have found that there are actually genes that control the rate of ageing and if you change these genes, you can really slow down the rate of ageing and extend life span a lot. there's a great community of scientists right now who are all looking at different aspects of ageing, including and mitochondria and protein shake many others, and i think that they are on to the right way, if you like, to approach ageing. ageing is all of these things, it's affecting all of the systems in our body. we at unity, while we believe there are multiple mechanisms of ageing,

we will choose to focus on a particular mechanism that we think is uniquely amenable to making drugs to impact it and this mechanism works like this. at conception you are a single cell. that's you. and over the arc of your life, you, the cell, will divide as many as 50 times and as you, the cell, approach 50 cell divisions, you'll encounter some form of cellular stress and you'll pull on the emergency brake and stop dividing forever. this emergency brake is super important. it's an anti—cancer system, so you don't want to mess with the emergency brake. however, these cells, when they pulled the emergency brake, do something very bad.

they begin making all of these molecules that they secrete, which drives features of ageing and no one knew what would happen if you simply eliminated these cells. when we did this, something astonishing happened. these mice had a profoundly extended period of something called health span. this is the period of time that these animals lived free of chronic diseases of ageing. they had increased heart function. they had increased bone deposition. they had reduced arthritis. they had reduced cataract formation. they even behaved like younger animals into advanced age. oh, and as a side—effect, yes, they did live longer, but we think that the boring part. the really cool part is that a bunch of these things that you think of as inescapable aspects of ageing, they didn't occur. so we're at the point right now where we are seriously

talking for the first time, and i've been doing this ageing research for a long time now, we're talking for the first time about clinical trials with drugs that could slow down the ageing process. that's incredibly exciting and that's something i didn't really expect to see in my lifetime. think about this. most biotech products treat a disease you've never heard of that someone you do not know suffers from. everyone you know suffers from ageing. everyone. 0ur drugs, when you use them and you eliminate certain cells, you don't take them every day. you might take them once a year and what this means is that you get to have a market size that includes all human beings, 0k? and you don't have to make lots of the drugs, and so as a consequence, these could be the cheapest drug ever made. now investors don't really like to hear that, but when you talk about the total cost of health care and who is ultimately

going to pay for health care, particularly in nation states that use single payer, like the uk, this is a powerful idea to reduce health care costs. normally you don't talk about new drugs taking costs out. these will be drugs that take costs out. to me and the most of us in the field the ultimate goal is to have a really healthy life and a youthful life where you don't become frail and unable to function. you stay physically, um, young for a long time and then, you know, you pass away. my prediction is that people might, their median life span might, like if you were an american white male rather than being 79, might be 103 and the many people you know rather than dying at age 83 demented, catheterised in the bed, muttering to themselves, they would die at 106 on the tennis court while winning, or be killed by a jealous lover at 113.

you can watch the full documentary forever young on the bbc iplayer at the weekend. it's been nearly three years since the government launched its shared parental leave scheme, designed to help new dads spend more than just the statutory two weeks of paternity leave with their newborns. it offers up to 50 weeks of leave, 37 of which is paid, that either parent can take at any time. but, while precise figures aren't known, it's thought as few as 2% of new dads have taken up the offer. so, the government is launching a campaign to try and get more men involved in childcare. let's speak now to william & penny devenish — william is currently on shared parental leave to look after his 6 month old son, hugo who is also here. david freed — david took shared parental leave and then decided

to move on to flexible working hours to continue looking after his 2 year old sonjames who is here too. and fintan 0'toole — director at the hr dept a company that hires staff for 6,000 small businesses david. that hires staff for 6,000 small businesses. david, why did you choose to do this? you were one of the early adopters. we both felt very strongly that we wanted to do this equally. to share it. it was a big responsibility to have a kid, so we felt it was the right decision for us felt it was the right decision for us personally and professionally to share that first year with our kid. i was pretty excited about the idea of spending all of that time getting

to know my son. as it got closer to the time i got more enthusiastic about it. it extended from three months to the full six months. positive experience overwhelmingly? really positive. it brings satisfaction and purpose, which is difficult to find. break it down. you shared parental leave. what was the split between you and your other half. we both did six months. we both took annual leave. how supportive was both of your employers? i cannot speak for my wife's employer, but they were supportive because they got her back after six months. my employer was very supportive to begin with. to begin with? they were very keen for

me to do that. to take that time—out. i think when i got back there were some mixed messages. some very positive. when i got back i also decided to work part—time, three days a week, which, because of my work, was an easy setup to arrange because i did twojobs. my work, was an easy setup to arrange because i did two jobs. what do you do? i work in the energy sector as an economist. i got some, first few months there were mixed m essa g es first few months there were mixed messages from people around me, but some were positive. there were some expectations as to why wasn't around so expectations as to why wasn't around so much, what has happened to my priorities, but my priorities hadn't changed. your priority is right here. when i am with him he is my com plete here. when i am with him he is my complete priority. when i am at work, work is my priority. when i get a phone call saying i need to pick him up that's different. but it

isn't any different from any other parent, predominantly mothers in the workplace, who are in the same sort of position. i think hugo wants to be involved in the conversation. you are currently on shared parental leave. how is it? it's been fantastic, it's been brilliant, i've been able to experience all of those first that you don't normally get to experience when you are in full—time work. it's been absolutely fantastic. nobody will be able to ta ke fantastic. nobody will be able to take that back, that time i have had with him. it seemed like a no—brainer, really, to take seven weeks no—brainer, really, to take seven we e ks off no—brainer, really, to take seven weeks off to look after him and... he looks very happy. he is a very happy little boy but it has been fantastic. is that partly down to your company being supportive and pushing this agenda, and encouraging fathers to take an active role in childcare? i'm really lucky. iwork at an international law firm which

is incredibly encouraging. they decided they needed to listen to their staff and offer family focused policies. and because of that they have enhanced parental leave the scheme, which means i get full pay up scheme, which means i get full pay up to three months, which obviously sweetened the deal of taking time off. because if! sweetened the deal of taking time off. because if i wasjust being paid statutory pay there is no way we could have paid for our mortgage and household bills. but they've been incredibly supportive. my boss basically said to me, you've got to ta ke basically said to me, you've got to take this, he has two teenage children, he said he will never get this opportunity again so you need to embrace it. i had a colleague who had already taken it a year previously, so people had their heads around it. but there was still banter about it in the office saying you are taking a seven week holiday. that misses the point. because if i was a female nobody would ever say that to somebody who was pregnant. they would probably be too criticised for coming back too

early. exactly. there are still some barriers that need to be broken in that regard. but it is about equality and offering fathers the opportunity to be with their children, just as much as my wife. i cannot speak for any, but i think our relationship has become stronger and our parenting style has changed whilst we have been both there. penny, how have you found it?|j wasn't very impressed at first. why not? it was a selfish, sort of, i don't want to give up any of my maternity leave thing, but once we started talking about it, the fact we started to do it at the same time, it's been the most wonderful experience. it took adjusting to in the first week because we had got into our little routines. but once we got over that, i have loved it, i even said this morning that i will miss him when he goes to work

because of that extra pair of hands is invaluable. how are you breaking down that time off? penny is paid for the last three months of her maternity leave. from a financial perspective it made sense for her to go back to work sooner. as i could ta ke go back to work sooner. as i could take up to three months off and it coincided with the three months she is on paid we decided i'd take seven weeks, actually, and penny would go back to work seven weeks earlier. we have ta ken it back to work seven weeks earlier. we have taken it off together, which has been brilliant. obviously you can do it the other way where the mother goes back to work and the father takes on full—time care. and we decided to do it shared. any will go back seven weeks earlier. looking forward to that? mixed. laughter these two are in a minority. we are hearing that possibly only 2% are taking up this offer. their right to share parental leave. why is that?”

guess there are a number of reasons. it is quite complex to work out what your rights are. it could be a straw poll this morning of my colleagues in the human sources department, suggesting 100,000 people we look after but probably only half a dozen applications have been processed since then, it's a small take—up but it's very much a personal choice, isn't it? i noticed both of you saying these are things that had to work for you and i think are a very important thing with employers, get the employer engaged in an as possible. you say it took up to five months to get the paperwork sorted out, it can be complex, the process for simplified i think that's another thing government could look at. it is conjugated, i'm not sure i

understand it fully, are conditions attached and also in 2018, the working world is very different, self—employed people cannot do this, can they? no, they are not eligible, i fished out our fact sheet 11 pages detailed information that needs to be gone through... but something. it isa be gone through... but something. it is a lot to get through. —— that is something. you pointed to this little earlier, it's no more complex than any other process we go through, we need to take help and advice, small businesses may never see this or once every now and then, they should turn to someone who can give them support and advice and ta ke give them support and advice and take them through what are fairly logical steps. what about small businesses who may feel it's disruptive to their business because they are small. and it can be. often we see a lot of small businesses who have to take on the burden because

it isa have to take on the burden because it is a burden, losing a member of staff and finding someone to replace them while they are away. i guess, on the face of it, if you learn to split into leaf that's a benefit to a small business because a parent will be away for longer, each one of them taking a small period of time but it would eat good to see some parity in legislation, perhaps some financial incentive to small businesses to encourage them to do it, at the moment they get some money back, they can do if they are on small business relief they are only getting some back and there is the additional cost, maybe there could be some kind of subsidy for small businesses to allow them to put this in place. how much of the day you think is down to being a cultural problem, a lack of awareness? i think there is definitely a lack of awareness, even of shared paternity leave and the pa rent of shared paternity leave and the parent being able to take some statutory time off. generally it's not well known but there are cultural differences, gut feeling as

well, talking about i wasn't sure whether i wanted to do it, that's one of the key things. and finally, a message for anyone watching at home, expecting as a couple and thinking about sharing parentally, for you say? go for it, we've been surprised, we've been surprised as to how many parents have commented he did not feel confident enough to do it and i think if we are going to change the mindset, and in 30 years' time it be normal, parents today that are expect and they need to go for it and say, i am never going to get this time began with my child, i need to make the most of it. david, you? similar. it is a strong cultural push to do the normal thing, the mother takes all the time, all close bonds with the baby and the father goes to work and i think this is a really big opportunity and i think if parents

are thinking about having kids, challenge themselves to say, actually, yes, this could be good, really good, great opportunity for both parents to share at that time. thank you all for coming in and thank you to hugo annjones as well. coming up... oxfa m oxfam is dry to convince ministers it should keep millions of pounds of government funders —— funding after it emerged the charity used prostitutes in haiti. this morning sony has had to apologise after a scene in the new film of peter rabbit. in one scene peter and his friends through blackberries added boyd who is

allergic to the food even shooting one into his mouth until he is forced to used and if the pain to treat his reaction. it's prompted a furious backlash and calls for it to be withdrawn from cinemas, allergy uk says it marks allergy sufferers and turville uk says it marks allergy sufferers and tu rville is uk says it marks allergy sufferers and turville is as a life—threatening condition, in a moment we will hear from a woman who has decided to boycott the film but first, here's a little clip. screaming! felix, blink, blink! we can now speak to sandra hinchcliffe who suffers from multiple food allergies and she has decided to boycott the film. shejoins us

and she has decided to boycott the film. she joins us from and she has decided to boycott the film. shejoins us from her home in california and in cambridge, the writer liz fraser, a mother of four, doesn't agree with the criticism and thinks we are all over reacting. sandra, let's come to you, good morning, are we overreacting? i'm sorry, could you repeat that? are we over reacting? i don't think so. i think the depiction in this film, the traditional cartoon characters clobbering each other, this is a very specific stated form of violence with a very specific disability community. and i think that's the thing most disturbing. especially the np pen, the way it's detect it. by the way, these are mine. iam detect it. by the way, these are mine. i am an anaphylactic. i am

over 50 yea rs mine. i am an anaphylactic. i am over 50 years old. cars epi pen. i have had allergies my entire life. and i think, i think the average is justified. —— epi pen. look at the logic here, this isn'tjust cartoon characters clobbering each other, this is a very specific, targeted storyline... but sandra... what about people who say that actually this is raising awareness of the issue? well, i would have issue with that because i haven't seen the movie, i want to be honest, i haven't. .. movie, i want to be honest, i haven't... you movie, i want to be honest, i haven't. .. you are outraged about something you haven't seen.” haven't. .. you are outraged about something you haven't seen. i have the storyline which i believe is the

correct information and that is after the character mcgregor is attacked and his epi pen, peter rabbit goes on to say that allergies, this isjust rabbit goes on to say that allergies, this is just for attention. and for sympathy and bad it's not real. and i think following that storyline with the character giving him an injection and peter rabbit following a narrative like this, i certainly feel it's furry unusual. again, i don't think it's abnormal to see cartoon characters clobbering each other...” abnormal to see cartoon characters clobbering each other... i do see for you are going, but i am just going to get you to pause for a moment while i bring liz in. liz,

hello. hello. hello sandra. crikey, nobody wants to be making fun or making light of allergies, especially not those that are so serious that can kill people but we are talking about a children's film, it's part and parcel of this over sanitised and, over worrying about we can stomach what we can show our children. the point about awareness raising, it's very valid, the point you made, there may be children who see this film who did not know about allergies or about and epi pen. we hear these stories over and over, we shouldn't show this to children, we shouldn't show this to children, we should not worry them about this, should not worry them about this, should be teasing people about this. what we are doing, you can't raise anyissue what we are doing, you can't raise any issue with children which might possibly upset somebody. you are also teaching them to have no compassion towards other children, many children will watch this and

feel very compassionate towards the character, see that as a useful character. but what about the bull who said this promotes food or leading and as one newspaper this morning described people's response to it as then being snowflakes, sony pictures have said they should not have made light of the issue and have made light of the issue and have apologised. of course they have the say that, the public face of sony is going to have to be very deeply apologetic. what they are saying in private i am not entirely sure, i happened seen the scene within the context of the whole thing, iam within the context of the whole thing, i am talking a little bit about the information i have been given for this programme but really, the more and more we teach children to ta ke the more and more we teach children to take offence immediately, it's all about i'm offended by this, hurt by that, childhood is difficult and life is difficult and there are difficult things in it and what doesn't help is to remove anything which could possibly upset or offend. and having not seen it i

don't know, it will be very surprising to me if a company as big as sony, whether it was any other film—maker would actually make a film—maker would actually make a film which was quite deliberately mocking and being nasty to a character who has some kind of the disability or allergy to something. we wa nt disability or allergy to something. we want to be angry about everything, upset and offended about everything, upset and offended about everything and actually i think we are doing our children a huge disservice in dry to block everything for them that could be possibly up set full. all right, sandra, what do you make of that?” have heard what she is saying and i've don't think, i think, this is a very specific attack, a very specific storyline about a very specific storyline about a very specific group of disabled people. and i don't think anyone is dry to

snowfla kes and i don't think anyone is dry to snowflakes this situation. i think what she needs to understand, allergies, this is an immune system disorder. this is not something that anyone can control. one out of every third team children in america is, statistically, has a food allergy. there is a minimum, two food allergic children in every classroom in america, i don't feel this film, the way it is depicted, especially peter rabbit's reaction... sandra, no one is saying that allergies aren't very serious and they can even kill but then the question is do we thenjust even kill but then the question is do we then just not ever detect those sorts of scenes in films? at all? i don't think there is a problem with depicting the seriousness and in fact i would

encourage a more positive depiction. what would that look like? what it would not look like if someone saying or a character in a film saying, this is just saying or a character in a film saying, this isjust made up like peter rabbit, said in the film, he's just dry to get attention, this is for sympathy. i don't really understand why anaphylaxis and eight epipen understand why anaphylaxis and eight epi pen have a place in a child's cartoon. we shouldn't be showing eight epi pen, sandra, take a moment. liz, i know you are itching to get in. should we not a sandra says show that at all, the epi pen? of course we should show it, there are children who will not have seen

it before, this will maybe prompt discussion within the classroom, how we deal with this. to shelter everything, to block them out for everything, to block them out for everything that could upset them, i will be going to see the film specifically because i want to see it so well done! lives, thank you, sandra, itake it so well done! lives, thank you, sandra, i take it you will not be watching the film? you know, i don't have any interest in seeing it. and thatis have any interest in seeing it. and that is where i am going to have to leave it. i won't give sony my money. if i was offered a ticket i might go see it. and a cast on my disability. sandra, thank you so much for speaking to us. and liz, thank you forjoining the conversation. ok, sony pictures said ina conversation. ok, sony pictures said in a statement it was wrong, i mentioned it earlierfor in a statement it was wrong, i mentioned it earlier for the film—makers to include this even in a cartoon slapstick way, they sincerely regret not being more

aware and sensitive to the issue and we truly apologise. that is what the statement says. let's get a weather update with simon. some of you waking up to a covering of snow down to lower levels. temperatures well below freezing this morning, so a risk of ice around, particularly in northern and western areas. today, plenty of sunshine, but wintry showers continuing to feed in. we have these showery clouds towards northern and western parts, and down towards the south—east clearer skies. there will be lovely blue skies across southern and eastern areas of the uk through today. these white blobs here, still snow showers coming into northern and western scotland. perhaps across the pennines, wales, some of that snow could come down to lower levels. many of us should be having a sunny day today. still quite cold,

maximum temperatures up to around six to eight celsius. through this evening and night, we keep a lot of this clear skies down towards the south—east. there will be a widespread frost and i. but there is cloud, rain, and increasing snow moving in across northern ireland and western areas. temperatures rising a little bit into tuesday morning. —— there will be a widespread frost and ice. this could affect your commute across parts of wales, snow coming down to fairly low levels in the morning. that increases into northern england, most of it over higher ground. at across scotland, particularly the central belt, glasgow, and edinburgh, there will be quite a good covering of snow into the afternoon, which could lead to problems. this whole band of rain, sleet, and even snow down to lower levels in southern and eastern areas into the afternoon on tuesday. further west, increasing amount of drier and brighter weather. a bit of sunshine breaking through. it will

feel cold once again. maximum temperatures between five and 7 degrees. that's it from me. goodbye. hello — it's 10 o'clock, i'm victoria derbyshire. oxfam are meeting government ministers today to try and secure the charity's future after allegations that its workers use prostitutes in haiti in 2011. the charity denies claims of a cover up. we'll speak to current and former charity workers about oxfam's future. animal welfare campaigners have told this programme more needs to be done to stop the rise in dogs thefts in the uk with 200 recorded cases alone last year with the number expected to be much higher. they are a family member. you need to make the people who steal these dogs accountable for their actions. it is like stealing a mobile phone, this is serious, this really affects people so badly. we'll hear from two people who have had their dogs stolen and if you've gone through a similar experience please get in touch. and an 11—year—old schoolgirl says she's lost her confidence for sport after receiving

a so—called ‘fat letter‘ from her school. i lost my confidence. i didn't really wa nt i lost my confidence. i didn't really want to play anything. like cricket. good morning. here's annita mcveigh in the bbc newsroom with a summary of todays news. good morning. senior officials at oxfam will today try to convince the international development secretary that they should keep their millions of pounds a year in government funding. it follows revelations that aid workers used prostitutes in haiti. the charity's been accused of concealing the full findings of an investigation in 2011, which led to four people being sacked and three others resigning. oxfam denies claims of a cover up. three british tourists have been killed in a helicopter crash over the grand canyon

in the united states. they've been named by police in arizona as 27 year old becky dobson, jason hill, who was 32, and 30 year old stuart hill. three other britons, and the pilot, were injured. the foreign office says its providing support to the families of the victims in las vegas. theresa may and the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, are to visit belfast today for talks with northern ireland's main parties. there are growing indications that the democratic unionist party and sinn fein may be close to a deal to restore devolved government — although a dup source has said agreement is unlikely today. the last administration led by the two parties collapsed more than a year ago. london city airport has been closed until further notice after the discovery of an unexploded second world war bomb. the device was found in the river thames. passengers are being urged to check with their airlines before travelling this morning. a new campaign aimed at promoting the benefits of shared parental leave is launched by the government today. only 2% of families have taken part in the scheme since its launch

three years ago. the leave allows working couples to split up to 50 weeks between them to care for a child in the first year of their birth or adoption. kensington palace has announced more details about the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle at windsor castle on the nineteenth of may. the service, in st george's chapel, will begin at midday, which means it is unlikely to clash with the fa cup final. it's been confirmed that the archbishop of canterbury will marry the couple, and that the dean of windsor will conduct the service. 800 guests will be there. the newlyweds will then embark on a short carriage procession around windsor at one o'clock. that is the latest, more later. still to come: we will be talking about fat letters, letter sent to pa rents about fat letters, letter sent to parents in england and wales if their children are classed as overweight. 111—year—old girl said

she lost the confidence to play sport after her mum received such a letter. —— a 11—year—old girl said. please get in touch if you have received one of these letters. you have been telling us what you think about the peter rabbit story. the writers must have had an intelligence block, this is not anything to make children laugh about, people suffering these horrendous allergies must be appalled, says one comment. some comments on parental leave, one tweet says men will not take pa rental leave tweet says men will not take parental leave until society stops seeing children as a burden on business instead of investment in the future. felicity has sent an e—mail, women have fought for decades to get protective paternity rights, it puts women under pressure to give up their writes, equality would allow pa rents to give up their writes, equality would allow parents to take enough time off without harming their

careers. certainly not making pa rents careers. certainly not making parents negotiate away to share their lead. another one says, cannot afford to take any time off, childcare costs are too much. and this final one, why don't men take shared leave? simple. in most households the man is the main provider of income. keep those coming in. let's get some sport now. we have seen some incredibly tough conditions out the winter olympics. vicious winds disrupted proceedings and aimee fuller said she was lucky to be in one piece after the slopestyle event. this is the latest: embracing the elements with the way of these athletes, but even they have their limits, the wind here blows in from siberia and brings the chill and the danger. we are already half an hour delayed. it has blown so much out here. are already half an hour delayed. it

has blown so much out harem are already half an hour delayed. it has blown so much out here. it puts the women's slopestyle final in doubt but after waiting one hour they rolled conditions had cleared. the wind had only subsided, not gone away. goodness me! this was slovakia's competitor, luckily she was ok and she wrote again, but these slopes were barely suited for style. we are absolutely on the limit of running this contest. for britain's aimee fuller this was an unexpected shot at the medals. with one run left she tried to take on the wind. she is gone huge. oh! it was honestly liked riding into a wind tunnel. absolutely brutal. it is not how i had planned or visualised four years of prep work to go into today. i do not think it was a true show of women's female slopestyle, which is a real shame for our sport. amid the costs and falls one rider played a smart game,

jamie anderson of usa took the right amount of risk. a gold medal and by concentration but a final clouded by controversy. things are more serene inside the ice rink. know weather problems here. the first three days have seen the team competition. sealing the gold medal were canada with synchronised brilliance. in these games you are often up against these games you are often up against the elements. the medals go to those who turn danger into style. greig laidlaw was the main man for scotla nd greig laidlaw was the main man for scotland as they beat france 32—26 at murrayfield in the six nations. he scored 22 of their points, including six penalties as they got their first including six penalties as they got theirfirst win of including six penalties as they got their first win of this year's competition. they will face defending champions england next at murrayfield in two weeks' time. ireland claimed their first win of this year's women's six nations,

beating italy 21—8. they failed to score a single point in their first game against france. ireland were dominant from the start, scoring three tries. newcastle haven't won a home game in the premier league since october, but they put that right yesterday and it was against manchester united. matt ritchie scored the only goal of the game to lift his side two points clear of the relegation zone and leave manchester united 16 points behind leaders manchester city. and after going one goal down, rangers hit six past ayr united to make it into the quarterfinals of the scottish cup. aberdeen are also through. there we go. eventually it goes in. chuckles that is your sport for now. thank you. the international development secretary is meeting oxfam today

to discuss allegations that the charity's workers used prostitutes in haiti in 2011. penny modaunt is also writing to all uk charities that receive uk aid to check what measures are in place to prevent sexual exploitation of vulnerable people. oxfam has announced it is improving measures to prevent sexual abuse cases. this is the story so far: this is a shudderingly awful tales. awful on every single level. he was a 68—year—old man using an

oxfam villa to invite young women to use for sacks in a country that had just been through a devastating what bit of that was normal or acceptable ? bit of that was normal or acceptable? —— to use for sex in country. that was completely u na cce pta ble country. that was completely unacceptable as i've said before and will say now. oxfa m oxfam was actually proactive in going to the british public, the department for international development and the charities commission to explain there had been serious misconduct and we had taken action. there are thousands and thousands of very brave people who work for oxfam who will be utterly distraught and horrified by these stories i think it is shocking. it doesn't

matter how good the safeguarding practices are in an organisation. if that organisation does not have the moral leadership to do the right thing. and where in particular they have evidence of criminal activity to pass that information to the releva nt to pass that information to the relevant authorities, including prosecuting authorities. that is an absolute absence of leadership. it is really shocking. it is shameful. and it is unacceptable. and the worst part of it is the fact when they said even though these crimes had been reported to the authorities of high treaty, no action was taken. —— haiti, no action was taken. —— haiti, no

action was taken. we should all be more vigilant as to what is going on in places like haiti, what is the political social economic situation. the best way to do that would be to give a greater voice to those receiving the aid. the people of haiti, people on the ground. receiving the aid. the people of haiti, people on the groundm receiving the aid. the people of haiti, people on the ground. it is appalling. i think it is something we should condemn. and the haitian government is about to summon the oxfa m government is about to summon the oxfam representatives in haiti to give and share those reports, and to explore those legal steps that must be taken against those people. we can talk to michelle russell let's talk to michelle russell director of investigations, monitoring and enforcement at the charities watchdog the charity commission — who said oxfam reported allegations

of staff misconduct in haiti in august 2011; tina tinde, who has worked for humanitarian organisations since the late 80s; kristiana wrixon from the association of chief executives of voluntary organisations and paul scully, a conservative mp from a committee that looks at how international aid from the uk is spent. thank you all forjoining us. do you accept, michelle, your organisation is responsibility in this? we were not told, we believe the full details and if we had been told the full details we would have helped with that and friendly. our responsibility and we in doing this is to raise the profile about the importance of safeguarding. and we've issued a report online about oxfa m we've issued a report online about oxfam and its current safeguarding practices. the question is are you failing in your duty as a regulator

of charities when yes, you did not have the full facts but you knew misconduct within oxfam related to inappropriate sexual behaviour, bullying, harassment and staff intimidation, surely knowing that much it was your duty to follow up? we get about 1000 incidents around safeguarding reported to us every year by charities, that's quite a lot, we prioritise those on the basis of what we are told, we were categorically told by oxfam there we re categorically told by oxfam there were no allegations of abuse of beneficiaries and that appears to be from the facts coming out over the past few days, not to be the case. we are as you would expect very angry and cross about this and we've asked oxfam to call to account what they knew and what they told us or did not tell us. when you say beneficiaries you mean the people from the aid agencies going out to help. just because that wasn't

mentioned you did not follow what the spike the fact we are talking about inappropriate sexual behaviour, a lean, staff intimidation. any form of misconduct, sexual misconduct and abuse of beneficiaries is not a cce pta ble abuse of beneficiaries is not acceptable in charities and our role is to make sure charities report that fully and frankly and where we need to come off at the charity is not handling of property, they were investigating in this particular case and as you know it led to the dismissal of staff but we have to have full and frank disclosure and transparency and accountability about this and that's exactly what we have done with oxfam over recent yea rs we have done with oxfam over recent years and they have to report to us about the progress, we have insisted, that they make. this scandal seems to be growing, trust is clearly amateur in these organisations, not just oxfam. is clearly amateur in these organisations, notjust oxfam. what can charities and other voluntary organisations do to win back trust? the allegations and reports about

what is happening is appalling and everyone in the charity said agrees that. sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, sexualassault, that. sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, sexual assault, endemic across our country and sectors and we happen working as a sector to increase transparency and we may well see more reports and what our responsibility is as a sector is to reassure those people who feel concerned... all sectors may have this but this is a sector you are dealing with the most vulnerable people in the world and you would expect the standards to be right up here. angie would be right to the standards to be right up there and if we aren't showing our standards are that high we need to do more to reassure the public they should be because we agree on that. paul, should oxfam have theirfunding cut? we need to investigate it, as you heard from the secretary of state should talk to the just about the

vetting procedures in the sector but the moral values as well. if there is as seems to be the case, a sense of cover—up, we need to see what extent that this and we can re—evaluate. no charity is too big ortoo re—evaluate. no charity is too big or too important not to be investigated. oxfam has denied there has been a cover—up but what is the government responsibility in this, you it has been going on under your watch. the charity talks about misconduct, they did not talk about sexual misconduct, that's why we need to take this further with an committee to look at the questions that were asked. you would think if someone that were asked. you would think if someone asked what is misconduct, you'd need to probe a little deeper,... you'd need to probe a little deeper, . .. the charities you'd need to probe a little deeper,... the charities commission was told there was inappropriate sexual behaviour. in that case we need to ask more questions, i was not around at that time, this is it sacked approach we need to get in

committee. the threat as to the beneficiaries, the longer term concern about this, the risk to people not wanting to donate to charities that do amazing work across the world and also to those people, it comes another argument about why not to spend money on international development which i think is the wrong... how will you manage that? obviously these organisations do a lot of very good work, the majority of them do, what will you do what would you recommend? remove to look of the vetting procedures, the safeguarding procedures, —— we need to look. we raised this at committee last month, at an international summit in turkey, there were concerns about un peacekeepers and other ngos, we need to look at this across all

charities. let's bring in tina. someone who has worked within the humanitarian sector since the 80s, is this widespread in your experience? yes, absolutely and i wish to thank the media for bringing attention to this. the oxfam case is nothing special, it's triggering a very dedicated response now. the first time i experienced and witnessed the abuse of people receiving aid was in cambodia, i was on the lecturer worker in 92, there we re on the lecturer worker in 92, there were complaints against civilians and soldiers but the head of the mission told in a staff meeting boys will be boys and they should be able to blow off some steam in the evenings. this was a message i received back in 92. i have worked on these issues and exploitation and abuse for many years. i am doing it

full time now and i would say we do to break and come out of our ivory towers as was mentioned in the video, we need to work with the people there to be protected.“ this the tip of the iceberg, without naming individuals or charities, are we likely to see and how many allegations spread to other groups? yes, it's very dangerous to report these kinds of crimes, both with the people who had been abused and those who want to protect them. but we need is a culture change, it becomes safe for women and men to reported, organisations will protect the good people and not attend or save the managers were involved. this is very difficult in the world as was manager at. it's rampant within our organisations. women are fighting on different fronts, fighting for the programmes for women and children at risk and fighting for their own

jobs. these organisations, many are old—fashioned, we work in societies that have been destroyed by war and conflict and they are not really pushing for gender equality. it's not just the pushing for gender equality. it's notjust the bulk of pushing for gender equality. it's not just the bulk of the pushing for gender equality. it's notjust the bulk of the aid agencies, it's basically a global problem. tina, thank you. what detection is there and should there be for whistle—blowers? detection is there and should there be for whistle— blowers?” detection is there and should there be for whistle-blowers? i think all organisations should have a fussell blowing policy in place but what we need to do, to use penny more don's phrase, we need leadership, anyone who works for organisation, knows if they use that whistle—blowing policy they use that whistle—blowing policy they will be looked after. —— penny mordaunt. the international development secretary, the discussion is around funding, should it be cut, in your opinion, given

what's happening, the lack of moral leadership? we have a responsibility to the people we support, those people who fund us and to the public, all of those people we need to maintained trust and confidence, the i think penny mordaunt has been there, she wants to give oxfam the chance to set out its case. i thought it was important to follow—up on this point, foreign aid is very important, it's important internationally and us as a country, i was insured she made that emphasis. this is taxpayer's money, people watching at home will be thinking my money, if you break it down is paying these people, who we've seen, to paper prostitutes in places like haiti, how can you justify that? you cannotjustify it. surely the money stops. what you have to look at, art the

safeguarding procedures in place and then you have to evaluate and talk about moral leadership, there is a difference between bonding future programmes and those happening at the moment. i programmes and those happening at the moment. lam programmes and those happening at the moment. i am going to the rocking the camps —— de rohingya camps later on. you have got to look at it in the round, that's not to belittle what is going on in terms of safeguarding and these people around the world. michelle, how you ensure this does not happen again? our role is to be very clear and we have warned charities they need to make sure they have the right policies and procedures in place to protect the people, does not matter who they are, and fisheries on staff, anyone who comes into contact charities needs to be protect it —— beneficiaries or staff. i met with

donors last week and i said if you have not reported it, reported, we need a call to transparency. very nature of them, different organisations competing, they are not incentivised to be upfront and honest about what is happening. but the incentive is the protection of the incentive is the protection of the people those charities work with, trust and confidence, ourjob is to regulate and make sure that charities with one voice, the sort of behaviour is not acceptable in the charity sector. there is a disincentive in the system, charities competing against each other for donations, obviously that means there is a sense of reputation and the fear that something tarnishes a reputation it may affect donations. thank you all forjoining us. we asked oxfam to be on the programme this morning, but they have not put anyone up. the charity has denied any cover—up of the allegations that its staff used prostitutes in haiti,

saying that its own investigation led to four people being sacked and three others resigning, including the country directorfor haiti. yesterday the chairwoman of oxfam's trustees, caroline thomson, issued a statement promising to take further action to improve vetting and recruitment procedures, and to make it easierfor staff to raise concerns. such behaviour is completely outside our values and should never be tolerated", she said. time for the latest news — here's annita. oxfa m oxfam will try to convince the international development secretary that it should keep its money. it follows revelations some members of staff used prostitutes in haiti, for members of staff were sacked. three british tourists have been killed in a helicopter

crash over the grand canyon in the united states. they've been named by police in arizona as 27 year old becky dobson, jason hill, who was 32, and 30 year old stuart hill. three other britons, and the pilot, were injured. the foreign office says its providing support to the families of the victims in las vegas. theresa may and the irish prime minister, leo varadkar, are visiting belfast for talks with northern ireland's main parties. there are growing indications that the democratic unionist party and sinn fein may be close to a deal to restore devolved government — although a dup source has said agreement is unlikely today. the last administration led by the two parties collapsed more than a year ago. the first footage of an iceberg, four times the size of london, has been released by the british antarctic survey. it's the start of what scientists call an "urgent mission" to document the marine ecosystem that was exposed when the iceberg broke away from the continent's ice sheet last year. those are the headlines on bbc news.

thank you. for many dog owners — their pet feels just as much a part of their family as their children or their parents. so imagine how it would feel when that dog is stolen. we will be talking about that after the sport. send in your messages. in the sport. send in your messages. in the meantime, some sport with sarah. conditions at the olympics absolutely brutal today, that's according to snowboarder amy fuller, many people questioning fayette went ahead. fuller had a nasty fall, finishing 17th. greig laidlaw or scotland's era, baby at france 3226, greg laidlaw kicked 22 points, they registered their first win of the competition this year. newcastle

united win their first premier league game since october, manchester united on the receiving end. matt ritchie with the only goal. rangers smashed six past are united as they made it into the quarterfinals of the scottish cup, the striker alfredo morrell is hitting two of them. that is all your sport. thank you. for many dog owners — their pet feels just as much a part of their family as their children or their parents. so imagine how it would feel when that dog is stolen. we will be talking about that after the sport. send in your messages. animal welfare campaigners have told this programme dog theft is a rising problem in the uk. figures shown to us reveal there were more than 200 recorded cases last year but it's thought the real number is likely to be far higher. our reporter greg dawson has been looking into the stress caused when a dog is stolen and one owner's campaign to get hers back. this is scooby.

his party trick is in two gangsta's paradise by coolio. last september he was stolen from his home. my son rang the landline. all i could hear him saying was mum the house has been broken into and scooby has gone. i remember looking at the big hole in the front door and i remember collapsing and crying. because he's gone. completely gone. job loss is the largest organisation seeking to reunite owners with their pets. it says last year there were 217 recorded dog thefts reported on their website. and a further 32 were

recorded this january. the group believes the number of thefts is far higher, though, as many victims do not report the crime and not all police forces will register a dog is stolen. campaigners claim one of the main problems is that the punishment doesn't fit the crime because there is no specific offence of dog theft in the uk. a dog is classified as they everybody can replace a mobile phone, you cannot replace your door, they are a family member. searching for a stolen dog is something most police forces do not have the time or resources to do. a lot of activity switches to the online world. injust a quick activity switches to the online world. in just a quick search shows dozens world. in just a quick search shows d oze ns of world. in just a quick search shows dozens of owners making requests to be reunited with their pets, many offering hundreds of pounds as a reward. some owners also spend money hiring people like colin, a former police detective turned pet

detective. one of the reasons dog theft can be so profitable for the thieves, firstly, there are so many outlets, there are 30, a0 websites where you can sell dogs. and numerous facebook pages. which means there is a big market. it is now five months since scooby was snatched from his home and there haven't been any sightings. but max isn't giving up hope or her memories. it is just isn't giving up hope or her memories. it isjust really sad... we just want him back, memories. it isjust really sad... wejust want him back, you know? lets talk now to richard latter whose dog morse was stolen in december last year, michel akintiyo whose dog snuggles was stolen in a targeted robbery of her home and dr daniel allen an animal geographer who started a petition for specific legislation for animal theft. richard, morse, who's with you today, got stolen in december — what happened ? he escaped out of the garden. we

didn't know what had happened to him at first. we just thought he had been lost, or gone for a walk. we put out a campaign on facebook that evening. the following morning we got a phone call from a lady who had seen got a phone call from a lady who had seen the campaign and said i saw what happened. she had been in the carand what happened. she had been in the car and saw what happened. she had been in the carand saw him what happened. she had been in the car and saw him on the road. somebody travelling in the opposite direction stopped and picked him up and said to her we know who the owners are, it's ok, we will take him back to them. they put him in their car him back to them. they put him in theircarand him back to them. they put him in their car and drove off. what happened? do their car and drove off. what happened ? do you their car and drove off. what happened? do you no question mark how did he end up on the side of the road? he escaped out of the garden. he's a border terrier and they dig. he's a border terrier and they dig. he got out under the fence and he escaped onto the road. how much of an impact did it have on you? the

idea that you might not see morse ain? idea that you might not see morse again? it was unbelievable. you didn't know what to do, what to think. we were going out of our minds. once we had realised he had actually been stolen, it was a bit of comfort because we could stop looking for him... let's bring in michelle and find out what happened. tell us what happened to your other job. i got home. the door was open. both dogs were missing. i freaked out. i went next door to ask my dog walker if she had him. she said no. we got back in the house, started searching, and i thought maybe my son had taken him out. i went into the back and that is when i found jumanji in the back totally naked,

no collar, no jumper, jumanji in the back totally naked, no collar, nojumper, no nothing. and ijust no collar, nojumper, no nothing. and i just freaked no collar, nojumper, no nothing. and ijust freaked out. i was shouting everywhere, asking everybody if they had seen my dog. and this is snuggles. i know it is difficult for you to talk about. that is six weeks... yeah, just gone. i called the police. they came over. they took reports, fingerprints. it's all over facebook. it's everywhere. they both have microchips. she is of no value to anybody but me. what would you say to the people who stole snuggles? bring her back. i don't care, if you want money, i don't care, if you want money, i don't care, bring her back. that's all. they could have stolen everything in

my house and i wouldn't have cared, but you took something that is of no value to you. but to me, she is my baby. and jumanji. .. value to you. but to me, she is my baby. and jumanji... he's traumatised. yes. he did not eat for four days he is scared. he won't go anywhere without me. is it as if he has taken on a whole new personality from the way he used to be. he has changed. he is timid. he didn't used to be like that. we go out at two o'clock in the morning searching, calling... michelle, let's bring in doctor daniel allen. he started a petition calling for bespoke laws for animal theft. can you tell us why. definitely. pet theft is an emotional crime for families and pets. it is also on the rise. it is so pets. it is also on the rise. it is so heartbreaking to listen to the victims. in terms of numbers, up to

60 dogs are stolen every week in england and wales. it is on the increase. after za% increase in theft over the last three years —— up theft over the last three years —— up to za% increase. it is an epidemic in the uk. everybody who has a pet is a victim. the reason for this new petition, which was put together by the stolen and missing pet alliance, was specifically to ensure that the law, which is the problem here, is changed. the theft act 1968 doesn't work. it doesn't ta ke act 1968 doesn't work. it doesn't take into account that animals are cindy and beings and their family members. it is seen as property. if they get taken it is the same as, let's say, my chocolate labrador, rupert, if he was stolen the sentence would be just the same as if it were a laptop. and that's

wrong. but does not work in this day and age. stay with us, daniel, we will come back to you. is it right that simon cowell ended up getting involved in your campaign? we were very lucky in that i have a friend who is involved with the press. and he managed to get it out onto the national press. simon cowell happened to read it and got in touch with my friend and said i read your story, i'm really upset for you, we will offer you a £10,000 reward. it wasn't for the return of morse, it wasn't for the return of morse, it was for information leading to the return. it was the ransom by any means. it was a reward for information. was that paid out? it has been. when we went to collect morse from the people who had him,

we spent about an hour and a half talking to them. i have spoken to the lady lots and lots since. yes. it is great that you have morse back. michelle koh my know it is difficult for you to come in and talk about it, but thank you for sharing your story. —— michelle, i know it is difficult. we hope you get snuggles back.” know it is difficult. we hope you get snuggles back. i hope somebody is watching. thank you for talking to us. three british aid workers travelled to the world's largest refugee camp and thumped their effo rts refugee camp and thumped their efforts to help the hundreds of thousands render muslims who fled persecution in their home country of my —— of myanmar. it's become the world's fastest growing refugee crisis since fighting broke out in northern myanmar — a predominantly budhist country — last august. the bbc‘s chris rogers has been

looking at self—shot footage by the aid workers and has pieced together this film documenting their three week mission. you may find some of the images distressing. all london aid workers are heading into the world's largest refugee camp. this is home to more than 800,000 rohingya muslim refugees. and thousands keep crossing the border, escaping persecution in buddhist dominated myanmar. these three aid workers have travelled the world helping refugees, but nothing can prepare them for what lies ahead. all of which they captured on camera. we are on our way to the refugee camp. it is a restricted site. it is controlled by the army.

i've had a few comments, asking if i am doing the right thing, leaving a toddler behind for a period of time. but ultimately he is surrounded by family, friends. this is why i work for charity. i work for charity because i want to help the people who need it. there isn't anywhere else we would rather be. because the needis else we would rather be. because the need is so great here. this is the gateway to the camp where aid workers register and refugees receive essentials. 6000 have come in over the last three days. what they receive here is a bag with a bucket and, i guess, some building essentials. the charity are heading deep into the camp where there is no aid to set up a medical centre. we are walking to set up our clinic. no one else has reached it yet, so it is going to be tough. i'm

speechless, in terms of how far this extends into this land. itjust goes on and on and on for ever. for the next three weeks this two our trek will be their daily commute to their medical centre. the next day word spreads help has arrived, but can a small team of aid workers from london deal with this many patients? they have to prioritise. women and children suffering from lack of food, disease, and injuries from their journey to the food, disease, and injuries from theirjourney to the camp. here is our clinic. he has a child who hasn't eaten for three days and has bad diarrhoea. some children have been born on the 800 mile trek from myanmar. hundreds of others have been born in the camp. this is a

newborn baby. was born have tied the other local chord just a piece of rope —— they with just a piece of rope —— they have tied the cord with just a piece of rope. they are in terrible condition, cracked and dry skin all overtheir condition, cracked and dry skin all over their body. we are literally just rubbing them with cream just a series —— just to soothe the pain. she came here a couple of hours ago and she is five months pregnant. today, like, it has been nonstop. shivering, coughing, throwing up, i don't know... i can't, seriously. every day the team manage to see

around 80 patients. but with hundreds of thousands needing help they move their clinic around the camp, trying to reach as many as they can. their mother did not make they can. their mother did not make the trip so she had to pass her baby onto her bigger baby to bring her here. the baby is ten and a half days old and has not been breast fed. there are so many babies, newborns, ia days old... don't have any food. staffing. —— they are starving. she was given vitamins. just for her, not the baby. we have just organised for her to go and get referred, she needs to go to a hospital, she needs to have an identification card and then straight after her we have been

talking to another lady who has taken 11 talking to another lady who has ta ken 11 days to talking to another lady who has taken 11 days to travel here after watching her husband get shot. it's really horrendous stories and they really horrendous stories and they really need our help. does she know why they had to leave? she came here because they are torturing them. what's the name? she is seven years old. does she remember what happened before she came here? translation: the buddhist people drove them away. she saw the houses are being torched. and killing happening. this is why she came here. the myanmar government strongly denies it is persecuting the rohingya, the united nations describes the treatment as ethnic genocide. i'm just fascinated

by how resilient these people are. with their cooking, their survival, they have got a hard battery connecting themselves to have a little bit of electricity. they have got firewood. some families have lived here for years. in a stateless world, stuck on the border between two countries that do not want them. going to continue to see the patients we saw yesterday and then we are going to head all the way down to the second part of the day. you tell her about we are very sorry she lost her baby. i think we expected to turn up and be working alongside a lot more organisations or volunteers. we have worked within the syrian refugee crisis and it was

full of organisations and volunteers and people they are on the ground and people they are on the ground andl and people they are on the ground and i think we expected this to be slightly similar and it isn't. her pulse is very low. we are just rushing to the hospital. we have got these newly arrived rohingya people with severe dehydration. there is an absolute lack of aid for these people. larger international aid organisations complain my armour has blocked aid convoys and staff reaching the camps. cars myanmar. it's time for the team to head home. but more refugees arrive in biblical numbers. all of these people tired, sick, hungry. and yet to reach their final destination, this camp, set up

home. it's not so much as a difficult thing to be, i think it would be a difficult thing to leave knowing we are leaving these people in sucha knowing we are leaving these people in such a dire situation. this is my la st in such a dire situation. this is my last exit for the camp, we heading home tomorrow. somehow they are incredible. cheering you know the way i see it, we appear to bea you know the way i see it, we appear to be a positive influence, positive, we have to come with energy and smiles, come with balloons, bubbles, as well as the medicine, show them that the book are. “ medicine, show them that the book are. -- that people care. a schoolgirl says she lost her confidence and passion for sport after receiving a so—called "fat letter". eleven—year—old daisy received a public health england letter saying she was overweight after being weighed at school. children are measured and weighed for their body mass index in reception and in year 6, under the government's national child measurement programme. daisy‘s mother gilljarvis says she was not aware her daughter would be weighed but did not

want to keep the results a secret from her. because i was fat i didn't fit in with all of the other people. let's talk now alison tedstone is chief nutritionist at public health england, shirley cramer is from the royal society for public health, jane de ville—almond, from the british obesity society, trains doctors and nurses on the management of obesity, and dr gavin sandercock is a sports scientist at the university of essex. surely, thank you forjoining us. i wa nt to surely, thank you forjoining us. i want to talk to you first, miserable, depressed, daisy has been skipping breakfast, doesn't want to play sport, what is your reaction? what i would say is that is a fairly extreme reaction to the letter. you can understand that if the child saw the information which actually

pa rents the information which actually parents have a chance, it goes to the parents not to the child, it's a shame because she was involved in physical activity which is a really early and thing for her to be involved with and we want her mental health and confidence to be good as possible. it's had a very negative effect obviously on this particular child. do you think the letters are a good idea? i think letting parents know is a good idea, a letter can be a very blunt instrument, it's what happens either before or after the letter, for you are able to provide support and help. parents aren't as aware as they could be of what healthy weight is and beans and with the obesity epidemic we really do need to do more. ok. local authorities are responsible. let me ask you allison, are you not doing enough after the letters are sent out as the parents need to be

supported once you have sent out the so—called fat letter. supported once you have sent out the so-called fat letter. so the system works, parents are written to and art told they can't their children out of being measured, they are written to and are advised to use theirjudgment written to and are advised to use their judgment about whether they have a conversation with their children or not because they know their child best. no emotive terms like a fat, or bees are used in the letter at all and the letter simply says to parents and finds them to getting other means of information and support. it can be upsetting essentially for a parent to receive a letter saying their child is fat or obese, you need to support them through that process would she have alerted them, it's notjust saying your child is obese, offer to you. the information is given in the letter to parents to signpost them to pieces of information, it's not sent by public health england, it

sent by public health england, it sent by public health england, it sent by local authorities, they choose to do it in different ways. some local authorities will choose to phone families a short while after the letter has been sent to offer support, some will offer follow—up response nurses, i think this was the case in this local authority. but we do have a problem in this country, we have a quarter of children sorry a third of children leaving primary school obese or overweight ulster if you are obese or overweight as a child you are very likely to become an obese adult and that means you will be facing serious health issues. we know obesity is a big drop in for this country, gavin, let's bring you in. you then say given the national robert that we have children, these letters are a good idea? i'm not a fan of the letters. —— the national problem. it was set out to be a

surveillance programme, set out to monitor the population health, not set up to give people individual feedback and the measure you are using is not particularly good at that. what should they do instead? surely this is telling parents flagging that their child is overweight, hobbies, they need to do something about it? surely that is a step in the right direction? well people will change when they are ready to change. parents is will help change their children's habits when they have the motivation to do so, just having a letter arrived, the letter from the primary care trust did not give any idea about what the parent should do, whether they should discuss it, theyjust said numbers. i want to bring in jane at this point. you've been threatened by parents, tell us what happened. this isn't a new thing,

backin happened. this isn't a new thing, back in 8021 was a school nurse and health visitor, parents don't like you telling them that their children or overweight or obese. the problem is what are we going to do? the very pa rents is what are we going to do? the very parents who don't want us to measure them either very parents at risk from having their children grow into obese adults and parents need to understand, we are trying to do the best for their children and you know, as soon is the child is sick of the first people who want to see a doctor or nurse immediately, this isa a doctor or nurse immediately, this is a preventative ground to stop their children becoming sick adults. can you give me some examples how people would respond to you, pa rents ? people would respond to you, parents? oh yes, they stop you going in the house, they come down the school, threatened to knock your lights out when you tell them their children has a weight problem. often they are parents who are big themselves, they don't want to hear it because they see it as something they do wrong. it's not something you have done wrong, people often

don't understand drinking fizzy drinks, sugary foods and treats, having processed food causes of obesity. very quickly, we are nearly out of time, tell us about your own experience. i am family, my father came from a family of 11, eight of my aunties and uncles had type two diabetes, all of them had a leg amputated before the age of 60, this isa amputated before the age of 60, this is a national crisis, if we don't do something with our children they will grow bus fat adults and we will end up having a greater crisis than me have. a letter is a good or a bad idea? absolutely brilliant, why wouldn't you as a parent want to know if your child is obese or overweight? gavin. most parents of obese children know, offer a 2% recognised the problem, it was interesting you see the people who t interesting you see the people who opt out by the people who needed most the programme is missing and

aspect. we have to leave it there. thank you so much all of you for speaking to us. you can see more on this on inside out south on bbc 1 tonight at 7.30pm. it's also available on the bbc iplayer thank you for your company today. bbc newsroom live is coming up next. have a good day. good morning. some snow and ice causing problems this morning. a glorious start to the day. some lovely sunshine in hampshire, blue skies continuing across central and east and areas. still some wintry

showers on a bible white blobs coming into northern england. in particular western and northern scotland, snow coming this afternoon. going to feel quite cold. some clear skies in central and eastern areas, to the west you can see this weather system moving in, rain, sleet and snow down to low levels, across northern ireland and parts of northern england. that could cause problems first thing tomorrow for commuting. across the central belt, snow settling to low levels, snow in north—west england, perhaps the midlands, the further south and east, mainly rain. brighter guys in the west later, another cold day. bye—bye. this is bbc news — and these are the top stories

developing at 11. oxfam is summoned to a meeting with a government minister over allegations some of its staff used prostitutes in haiti — future funding could be in doubt. becky dobson, a veterinary receptionist from worthing, has been named as one of the the britons killed in a helicopter crash over the grand canyon in the united states. jason hill, who was 32, and 30 year old stuart hill also died in the accident, while three other britons, and the pilot, were injured. south africa's governing party is meeting shortly to discuss the future of presidentjacob zuma. it's new leader says mr zuma must stand down or be forced out. also

theresa may and the irish prime minister, leo vardkar,