tv Victoria Derbyshire BBC News August 31, 2018 9:00am-11:01am BST
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hello it's nine o'clock, i'm joanna gosling, welcome to the programme. the number of people aged 85 and over needing round the clock care is set to double by 2035 — according to a new study. experts say it's a looming crisis. women are the predominant carers, women are having to work longer. they're taking retirement later. and that just at that age they will have maybe an 85—year—old parent. do get in touch if you care for a relative or are worried about needing to in the future. after a landmark case in which the supreme court ruled that denying an umarried widow financial support for her children after her partner died, was illegal, we'll ask what it means for other bereaved parents who weren't married or in a civil partnership. it sounds like a hollywood movie, but it's real. astronauts on the international space station woke up, in the deepest darkest space, to be told there was a hole and the oxygen was leaking out. we'll find out what happened next. hello.
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welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. have you got a loan with wonga? maybe you're waiting for compensation from the payday loan company after the financial regulator ruled wonga's debt collection services were unfair. the company has now collapsed. so what does this mean for you? do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about — use the hashtag #victorialive. if you're emailing and are happy for us to contact you — and maybe want to take part in the programme — please include your phone number in your message. if you text, you'll be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today: there's a warning that the care system in england is at breaking point, as a new study predicts that more than a million over 65s will need round—the—clock care in the next 20 years. the authors of the report
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in the lancet warn that relying on informal carers, such as family members, is not a long—term solution. here's our social affairs correspondent, alison holt. we're living longer and more of us will need help in our old age. today's research spells out the pressures that brings. the number of people in their mid—80s with complex health problems who need 24—hour—a—day support will double within two decades. the researchers calculate by 2035 there'll be nearly half a million people aged 85 and over who need round the clock care. overall in the 65—plus age group, more than a million will require that high level of support. and the report warns health and care services will have to adapt because families will struggle. it is going to be more difficult forfamilies because women, and working women are the predominant carers. women are having to work longer. they're taking retirement later. and that just at that age
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they will have maybe an 85—year—old parent who they will have to care for, and sometimes two parents that they will have to care for. the government says it will set out its plans for the future funding of care services this autumn and that it aims to meet the challenge of a growing aging population head on. alison holt, bbc news. joining me now is our news correspondent laurel ives. speak after you have been looking at the difference between men and women? there were interesting differences. the study found as they get older, men were more likely to remain independent, where as women would suffer almost half their remaining years with low dependency needs. that is because they are more likely to suffer from long—term disabling conditions like arthritis, obesity related conditions. the research was keen to stress that it
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is important for older people, especially women, to follow physical health guidelines and make sure they maintain tone, muscle mass and physical activity. interesting, thank you very much. get in touch with your experiences. annita mcveigh is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. good morning, joanna. police have arrested a man in connection with the fatal stabbings of two women in solihull. raneem oudeh and her mother khaola saleem were attacked on bank holiday monday. a 21—year—old man was detained in the sparkhill area of birmingham, as tom burridge reports. this video posted on facebook appears to show the 21—year—old man arrested late last night on a residential street in the sparkhill area of birmingham. on monday police issued this photo of janbaz tarin. he was wanted in connection with a double murder in a quiet cul—de—sac in solihull.
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two women were stabbed to death here in the early hours of monday morning. one of the victims was janbaz tarin‘s ex—girlfriend, raneem oudeh. the other, her mother, 49—year—old khaola saleem. we know miss oudeh made a number of 999 calls on the evening she was killed. she was on the phone to police when she was stabbed. an ally ofjeremy corbyn has accused the veteran labour mp frank field of making "grotesque slurs", after he resigned from the parliamentary party because of leadership's stance on anti—semitism. meanwhile in article in his local paper, mr field urges the labour leadership to end what he calls its "racist toleration of anti—semitism". here's our political correspondent, tom barton. while things may have looked friendly, frank field and jeremy corbyn were never
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close political allies. and now they're even further. writing in his local paper, the liverpool echo, frank field said what he called labour's blatantly racist toleration of anti—semitism must cease. and he said the party must recognise the culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation that it has allowed to grow. that culture, he said, is present among labour activists in his own birkenhead constituency, who recently passed a vote of no confidence in him. supporters ofjeremy corbyn says he resigned before he was pushed. he has obviously lost the confidence of his members, and he is now getting his excuses in, it seems to me, and throwing around grotesque slurs which have no basis in reality. and that's a very regrettable end, i think, to frank's long career in the house of commons. while frank field has received support from labour's deputy leader, tom watson, jeremy corbyn issued a one line statement thanking him for his service to the labour party. but supporters of mr field said
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the labour leader should listen to what he's had to say. jeremy is damaged by frank field leaving. frank is a very dedicated and respected mp, and if he decides he doesn't want to remain as labour mp, that is a very sad comment on today's labour party. the thing that would be most damaging tojeremy corbyn would be if others were to follow frank field out of the party. but, for now, there is no sign of that happening. tom barton, bbc news, westminster. and joanna will be speaking to frank field just after the sport bulletin. administrators will take over the running of the wonga today, after the short—term lender lost its battle to stay afloat. despite a £10 million cash injection from shareholders last month, the firm said yesterday that it was no longer accepting new applications for loans. its demise follows a surge in compensation claims, amid a government clamp—down on payday lenders. the diy retailer homebase faces
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a showdown with landlords today, in a make or break day that could decide its fate. the chain has proposed a rescue plan that involves closing 42 stores, and cutting the rent on others. but some landlords plan to vote against the deal. the owners of homebase say that without an agreement, it's very likely that the firm — which has over 11,000 staff — will go into administration. a new treatment which could help thousands of people with severe asthma is to be offered more widely on the nhs. the procedure uses radio waves to melt muscle tissue in the lungs, which restricts breathing in asthma sufferers. at the moment, the treatment can only be offered to adults. the charity asthma uk describes the procedure as lifechanging. the uk's biggest coffee chain costa, is to be sold to coca cola in a 5.9 billion deal. costa is currently owned by the british pub and restaurant giant whitbread — which also owns premier inn and beefeater. the boss of coca cola says the deal gives it new access to the hot drinks market.
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there are around 2,400 costa coffee shops in the uk, more than double the number of starbucks. stars from the world of music have marked the life of aretha franklin in a tribute concert in detroit, ahead of her funeral later today. stars such as gladys knight, the four tops and dee dee bridgewater, performed to an audience of 5,000 on the city's waterfront last night. the queen of soul will be buried this afternoon. at 250 miles above the earth, and a speed of five miles a second, a two—millimetre sized hole can cause a world of problems. so an astronaut on the international space station has come up with a low—tech solution to a worrying loss of air pressure. the crew has been dealing with a leak, most likely caused by a collision with a fragment from a meteorite. german astronaut alexander gerst identified the two—millimetre problem by pressing his finger over the hole. nasa says that, for now, it's been covered with thermo—resistant tape. mission control says the crew of six is in no danger. clever thinking! that is the latest
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bbc news. more at nine and 30. —— 9.30. now, what is this about nick kyrgios being given a pep talk by the umpire? he has been fined in the past four insulting stan wawrinka's girlfriend, he has been accused of threatening to quit tennis, he has said he is bored of the game, and he is known for his rants against umpires. surprisingly an umpire got down from his chair to give him a hand. it wasn't going well. he was
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losing and getting cross, threatening to quit. the umpire got down from his chair, and they can do that, to talk to players about their physical fitness. at the that, to talk to players about their physicalfitness. at the microphones by the court picked up the umpire saying, i want to help you, this isn't you, i know that. so, his actions have divided opinion. some have said that umpires should look out for players' mental health, andy roddick said it was behaviour we should see more of an tennis, but on court was the wrong time and wrong place. much of the criticism has come from the fact that players are not allowed to receive on court coaching. you can see that his —— the umpire is encouraging him. it did seem to work, because he went on and won the match. this is what he and won the match. this is what he and his opponent had to say afterwards. he said he liked me. i don't know if that's encouragement. again, he was just telling me, this is not a good look. i wasn't feeling good.
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i know what i was doing out there wasn't good. you know, i wasn't really listening to him, but i knew that it wasn't a good look. but it didn't help me at all. i don't think he has to go down and take the position of a coach, like you can see on the wta tour. i don't know yet if it would have changed something. ijust know that he doesn't have to do that. nick kyrgios will play roger federer next. this is what he had to say, it is not the umpire's role to bolster the players on the court, he said the players on the court, he said the umpire was there for too long. a conversation can change your mindset, it can be a physio, doctor 01’ mindset, it can be a physio, doctor orumpire for mindset, it can be a physio, doctor or umpire for that matter. it is interesting, isn't it? why are england having to rely on the youngest player to get them runs? he is just 20 years old, and is primarily a bowler, but it was sam curran with the bat who saved england from a miserable first innings yesterday.
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they'll want him to take some early wickets when they start again in southampton this morning. just as india did yesterday. keatonjennings was out in the third over and that sparked another big batting collapse. they were 86 for six at one point before curran, in just his fourth test, led the lower order in their fight back. he scored 78 as england finished 246 all out. india resume this morning 19 without loss. a lot to do for england, proving themselves with the bat. and england's women play the welsh with a place at the world cup at stake... england women's manager phil neville has called it a grudge match. wales boss jayne ludlow has played it down. either way — the importance of the world cup qualifier between the two tonight is not lost on both camps. the winners of the match will automatically qualify for the tournament next year, with the reverse fixture finishing goalless. that game is live on bbc two from 7.30 tonight. scotland's chance of making it
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to the women's world cup in france next year, is out of their own hands, after they could only beat switzerland 2—1. they needed a two goal margin of victory, and despite going 2—0 up inside five minutes in glasgow, they conceded soon after and couldn't grab another. they now need a win in albania on tuesday and hope other results go their way. it is england versus wales tonight, thatis it is england versus wales tonight, that is the big one. that is all the sport for now. the mp frank field resigned from the parliamentary party yesterday over what he describes as a ‘culture of nastiness, bullying and intimidation‘ within its ranks. he also claims the leadership is becoming a force for anti—semitism in british politics. labour‘s deputy leader tom watson said it should serve as a ‘major wake up call‘ for the party. mr field has been an mp for almost a0 years and has campaigned on a range of issues — most notably on welfare and poverty. but he‘s never been afraid to challenge the party leadership — most recently over brexit — where he campaigned to leave the european union.
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frank field joins me now isaid i said you have been an mp fanelli 40 yea rs, i said you have been an mp fanelli 40 years, you have been a member of the labour party for 60 years. how are you feeling about this? obviously it is pretty sick making, resigning from the labour party yesterday. i went to give my letter to the chief whip. he was busy in his own constituency. i spoke to him on the phone, and spoke to him later face—to—face. it is a major upheaval. i do think i have never been part of that gesture politics brigade, it is about getting changes. it is becausejeremy will lead us into the next election. i am more than anxious that we actually get a clear view that we regain the
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position of being the key force in this country against racism, and that we operate our party in a way of tolerance to one another, so that people can see that is the nature and character of the government we would form, rather than one that bullies them. my constituents are bullied enough by then if it cuts, austerity, by bad employers. the idea is want a government that is being run like my local labour party is being run is intolerable. these are serious allegations that you are making, obviously, of bullying going on within your local constituency, other mps have said that they have the same feelings. also, your worries about anti—semitism. you say that you absolutely sure jeremy corbyn will lead the party into the next election. why are you so sure, if you feel that these things are happening on his watch? because i have resigned because i want to
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actually force change. i spoke to oui’ actually force change. i spoke to our chief whip yesterday, nick brown, and i was asked, is this part ofa brown, and i was asked, is this part of a wider plot? i can answer to him honestly, i have not spoken to any other mp about this. we read in the papers that their plots to set up new parties, this and that, to challengejeremy in that new parties, this and that, to challenge jeremy in that way. new parties, this and that, to challengejeremy in that way. jeremy has 40 two leadership contests. i don‘t see there is any reason why anybody should now challenge him internally —— jeremy has fought two leadership contests. but we need policy change. we need to stop lecturing the jewish policy change. we need to stop lecturing thejewish community, saying we are not anti—semitic. if they are saying they feel that, they are the consumers. we put ourselves in their position and say, well, what are we doing wrong, if that is how they feel? it came to a head
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with jonathan sacks‘ how they feel? it came to a head withjonathan sacks‘ comment last week. a bit over the top, when he compared jeremy, but we are clearly not listening to people, we lecturing and saying, we are not, why are you moaning? similarly, for 18 months i have been trying to get people disciplined in my local party, and i learned on television this morning that it has all been done, nothing found. i have never been told about that. it is i who have been writing to them, raising issues, but i then learn on television that inquiries have taken place and these are fit and proper people to be members of the labour party. if they are, it is not the labour party i want to be part of. the comments you mentioned by the former chief rabbi, jonathan sacks, comparingjeremy former chief rabbi, jonathan sacks, comparing jeremy corbyn to enoch powell for some of the comments he has made. the labour party said those comments were absurd and
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offensive. i do think it is way over the top. but it shook me to the core that somebody as intelligent and cultured as jonathan that somebody as intelligent and cultured asjonathan sacks should say that. surely it is telling us as a party that this is how the jewish community feels. we ought to stop saying, no, you shouldn‘t feel that, we got to tell you we‘re perfectly clea n we got to tell you we‘re perfectly clean on this issue, when they are saying we are not. that was a tipping point on the anti—semitism. the other issue, combined with it, it has been going on for a long time. what some are saying is that actually you jumped on that because you were looking for a reason to go before you were pushed, referring to theissues before you were pushed, referring to the issues within your local party, where a vote of confidence went against you. chris williamson said you have simply lost the confidence of your local party. what do you say
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to that? well, 35 people turned up and voted against me. there are 70,000 electors in birkenhead. i‘m notjumping 70,000 electors in birkenhead. i‘m not jumping anywhere. i 70,000 electors in birkenhead. i‘m notjumping anywhere. i am not part of that gesture politics brigade. this is done because i want to see changes. farfrom this is done because i want to see changes. far from jumping, i this is done because i want to see changes. farfromjumping, iam this is done because i want to see changes. farfrom jumping, i am the member of parliament for birkenhead, i would like to be able to rejoin at some stage, the labour party. i would be fighting the next election. i want to do that as a labour candidate. if not, i will be an independent labour candidate. the electorate will decide. i‘m not jumping anywhere. the people coming out with the silly old phrases, which they do all the time, we ought to be listening to what people are saying. as far as i understand it, you are not allowed to remain as an mpfor you are not allowed to remain as an mp for more than two weeks if you have resigned from the party, if you
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are not following the party whip. what are you go to do?” are not following the party whip. what are you go to do? i rose yesterday when i spoke to the chief whip, isaid yesterday when i spoke to the chief whip, i said i wished to remain a member of the party, i would hope that i would be able to seek the whip later in the parliament and stand as a labour candidate in the next election. he said that i would remaina labour next election. he said that i would remain a labour party member. so you aren‘t going to have to resign and have a by—election? aren‘t going to have to resign and have a by-election? people are saying otherwise. when i see the chief whip this afternoon, it may be clarified. i have been in the party for 60 years. he has not given you a timeframe based on the rules? he said he didn‘t, but maybe people will have clarified the position to him. i hope infavour of will have clarified the position to him. i hope in favour of being able to remaina him. i hope in favour of being able to remain a labour party member. i will learn later today. you have said you have done this because you wa nt said you have done this because you want there to be changed. if there is change, jeremy corbyn is the
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right person to continue leading the party. you nominated jeremy corbyn as leader. if there is no change, what then? the hard left, which jeremy represents, is a legitimate pa rt jeremy represents, is a legitimate part of the labour party, and it looked like he would not get onto the ballot and would therefore be excluded. he would be excluded from the debate. i didn‘t think he would win, he didn‘t think he would win. if the hard left thought he would win, he would not have been a candidate, they would have had another one. i was as surprised as he was about winning. the £3 membership of people being able to come into the party at the drop of a hat and having full voting rights surprised literally everybody, commentators and party members alike. ifailed in that i commentators and party members alike. i failed in that i wished to
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see a widening of debate in the labour party, a more tolerant debate, and what we have actually had as a closing down of debate and it is more difficult for people to make contributions and feel they can speak, even though they may differ from colleagues, as mainstream labour party members, representing the thoughts of their constituents. do you put all of that atjeremy corbyn‘s door? do you put all of that atjeremy corbyn's door? i don't at all. i do think that it is sad how the party, following his election, has been taken over following his election, has been ta ken over by following his election, has been taken over by the hard left. how is it not linked to him? obviously he is the person at the top of it. indeed, the challenge of me resigning is that he ought to do something about it. you are not the first person to be saying this. why do you think your resignation will make the difference? do you think your resignation will make the difference ?|j do you think your resignation will make the difference? i could quite a lot on the line by saying it. i hope that gives him a huge increase in
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agency, that he can‘t keep prattling on and saying thejews are wrong in how they view i comments. the jewish community says that is how they feel we are, that we harbour anti—semites, we must take that with the utmost seriousness about the intolerance, the campaign that jewish people feel against them by factions of the labour party. it is all part of the intolerance we also see at a local level, as i see in birkenhead. this is an issue that has been going on for some time, the labour party say, jeremy corbyn and his supporters say we have been listening, we have made changes. what, specifically, do you want to be done? on this, the any see, the government body of the labour party, will meet on september the 4th. —— the nec. they should adopt, without
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changes, the convention that governs all civilised political parties and organisations in the world. the international definition of anti—semitism? but international definition of anti—semitism ? but the international definition of anti—semitism? but the labour party has decided not to do that and has come up with an alternative. well, i think we should not come up with our own alternative, we should be with the universal declaration. i do think thatjeremy is right when he says that his worry about signing that full document would stop people criticising the government of israel, and the government of israel deserves to be criticised. there is provision within the wording? we should make it very clear, just because you criticise the government of israel, as i do, i think their policies towards the palestinians are appalling, and if i was designing a policy to obliterate israel, i would advocate what the israeli government is doing. i do that in a way to try and change the
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views of the israeli government, not to do it in views of the israeli government, not to do itina views of the israeli government, not to do it in a way where they would see it as somebody as an anti—semite attacking them. that is the real distinction. the legitimate comment is totally proper, but we should not allow that legitimate comment, that space, to be occupied by those people who clearly are anti—semites. you have been very clear on what it is you want. you want the party to adopt the official international definition. i also want the other side of it. that is linked to the intolerance we have got, where i have been writing to the national party about it, involving the chief whip in that, about how my local labour party, and i guess it is not the only one in the country, is run 110w the only one in the country, is run now by people who believe in political bullying and the rest. what of those things don‘t change? september the 4th is that meeting, where you would hope that policy would change. if these things don‘t
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change, as your resignation been a waste of time? do you change your stance? what will you do?|j waste of time? do you change your stance? what will you do? i will not say it is all right. would you change your stance on saying that jeremy corbyn is still the right person to lead the party?|j jeremy corbyn is still the right person to lead the party? i will continue to sit as an independent labour party member. i have made it plain in my letter to the labour party, to the chief whip, that i wish and hope that i would be able to regain the whip, and fight the next election in birkenhead as the labour candidate. if i couldn‘t, i would fight it as an independent labour party candidate. the idea that if i don‘t get the changes which i am campaigning for, which others are campaigning for, there is a real push, a head of steam in the labour party, and i hope this focuses attention... you say you are not part of a bigger picture, are you having any conversations at all? i spoke to mps last night about what
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had happened, when i delivered my letter. people have been speaking out individually about their worries about the anti—semitism within the labour party, and that we are not taking action to deal with that adequately, anywhere near on the scale that it is alleged to have occurred, and also the intolerance we are experiencing in our own local labour parties. it is these issues, it could be a tough job now, labour parties. it is these issues, it could be a toughjob now, and we have let people into the labour party under the £3 membership rule that was introduced, that gotjeremy his leadership. we have let them in. a few years ago they would not have darkened our doors, the idea that we are having these people, some of them that were actually campaigning against us in 2015. i have got a person that is secretary of the birkenhead labour party, that was a member of the green party, who was
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campaigning to defeat the labour candidates, who the police removed from the polling station because of the way they were threatening of labour voters, now nicely tucked in within the labour party, secretary of the labour party. you are in politics, people can change their views, isn‘t it discriminatory to say that because somebody had a view in the past they cannot play a role? of course, people can actually come and we should encourage people to change their views, obviously this is all about getting changes within the labour party. but i don‘t think anybody is happy with some of the people that have been able to get back into the labour party, some who have been expelled previously for being part of militant and extreme left grou ps being part of militant and extreme left groups that fought against the labour party, back in the labour party again. of course people can change their views. just quickly, do you wantjeremy change their views. just quickly, do you want jeremy corbyn change their views. just quickly, do you wantjeremy corbyn to put people out? when mps put in complaints and
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when party members put in complaints about the bullying that they have been subjected to, i want those complaints to be seriously investigated. not like the ones i have been putting in over the last 18 months to learn on breakfast tv this morning that it has all been done and dusted. i have never been told that. i have never seen what the procedure has been about interviewing. actually looking at the weight of evidence. we have not been called to give evidence. so on, the leader of the council was involved in this, and he was never asked to appear before the labour party panel or tribunal. to actually say why conduct is so unacceptable. i‘ve not been. other people who have made these complaints with the labour party, none of us have been interviewed. yet we are told now,
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through television, it has all been done. what are we going on about? thank you. we will be getting more reaction to the resignation of frank field later with stephen bridge from the new statesman and from an author and pro corbyn activist. still to come. what next for customers of wonga, after the controversial payday lender went into administration yesterday and how might yesterday‘s supreme court ruling, which could allow an unmarried mother to claim a widowed parent‘s allowance, affect otherfamilies in the uk? time for the latest news — here‘s annita mcveigh. the headlines now on bbc news this morning. the number of over—65s needing round—the—clock care will increase by more than a third in england over the next 20 years, according to a new study. the authors of the report in the lancet, warn that relying on informal carers, such as family members, is not a long—term solution. local government officials say it‘s a sign that the social care system has reached breaking point.
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the government says reforms will be set out in the autumn. an ally ofjeremy corbyn has accused the veteran labour mp frank field of making "grotesque slurs", after he resigned from the parliamentary party because of leadership‘s stance on anti—semitism. in a local newspaper article published in the liverpool echo this morning, mr field urges the labour leadership to end what he calls its racist tolerance, and expel local activists who intimidate other members. a new treatment which could help thousands of people with severe asthma is to be offered more widely on the nhs. the procedure uses radio waves to melt muscle tissue in the lungs, which restricts breathing in asthma sufferers. at the moment, the treatment can only be offered to adults. the charity asthma uk describes the procedure as life—changing. the uk‘s biggest coffee chain, costa, is to be sold to coca cola
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in a £3.9 billion deal. costa is currently owned by the british pub and restaurant giant whitbread — which also owns premier inn and beefeater. the boss of coca—cola says the deal gives it new access to the hot drinks market. there are around 2,400 costa coffee shops in the uk, more than double the number of starbucks. that‘s a summary of the latest bbc news. here‘s some sport now with katherine. 78 runs from sam curran rescued england on the first day of the fourth test against india. england 01’ fourth test against india. england or light for 246. india will resume on 19 without loss. second seed caroline wozniacki is out of the us open tennis, beaten in straight sets in the second round by lucia tsurenko. and nick kyrgios was
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spoken to by the umpire, encouraging the australian to try harder. kyrgios was one set down at the time and went on to win the match. and burnley went on could only manage a 1-1 burnley went on could only manage a 1—1 draw at turf moor against olympiakos. thank you, katherine, see you later. houston, we have a problem. imagine being an astronaut, and waking up on the international space station to be told there‘s a hole in it — and oxygen is leaking out. it sounds like a film, but it‘s actually happened. someone who‘s been at the other end of that radio is libby jackson. she spent seven years working in mission control at the european space agency — where she was responsible for the columbus module — the europe built part of the international space station. thank you very much forjoining us. it sounds like the astronaut here plugged the hole with his finger, and ground control were heard saying, alex has got his finger on
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the whole, and that doesn‘t sound like the best remedy. it sounds almost comedy, but how serious is it? any leak on the space station is something to be taken seriously, but this one was very small. you said that the crew were woken up to this news, and that really shows you how small it was. the international space station has emergency alarms that trigger if there is a breach detected, and they wake the crew up so detected, and they wake the crew up so that they can make themselves safe. this was so small that those didn‘t trigger. it was mission control who saw the leak in their telemetry, so yesterday the crew work through their procedures, found the leak, and it is part of their training to find it with their finger, because you can feel the air sucking out like a pinprick in a balloon or an inflatable lie low, something like that. so that is what alex was doing they were working through the procedures, they have fixed the whole now, mission control
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are looking to see if there is any further work to be done what the next steps are, but the crew com pletely next steps are, but the crew completely safe. so the iss next steps are, but the crew completely safe. so the 155 was hit by something in space. how big wooden object have to be to cause this sort of damage to the space station? something between one and ten centimetres, probably at the smaller end of that because it was such a small hole. the space station is designed to withstand hits from what we called micro—meteorite debris, tiny bits of rock and dust in spacejunk debris, tiny bits of rock and dust in space junk that are flying around. if something is bigger than ten centimetres, we can track that from the earth, so norad over in the states look at all the thousands of beesis states look at all the thousands of bees is moving around, and they moved the space station out of the way if there is going to be a collision, so this is one of the pieces in the middle that we can protect against and couldn‘t move out of the way of, and that is exactly why the crew and mission control are trained to deal with it.
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it doesn‘t sound that big to make damage, you would have thought something that small would bounce off the space station. everything is moving very, very fast. the iss travels 17,500 mph, and if you have something coming the other way at that speed, that is a head—on collision of many thousands of miles per hour, and there is a lot of connecting energy involved, so something very small can cause a whole. —— a hole. air was leaking out of such a small rate, it wasn‘t detected by the emergency systems. and it has now been fixed. libby jackson, thank you very much. it was one of the most high—profile payday lenders, but yesterday wonga announced its intention to go into administration. the company‘s collapse is partly down to a surge in compensation claims after the financial regulator said the way it collected debts was unfair. the firm faced a barrage of criticism over the high interest
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it charged on its loans and has been accused of targeting those who are vulnerable. but what does the firm‘s collapse mean for customers? we can speak now to sarah williams, founder of the debt camel, a debt information website and the mp stella creasy who has said consumers continue to be exploited by these forms of lending. we are alsojoined we are also joined on the line by stephen who doesn‘t want us to use his surname, he has had multiple payday loans. stella creasy, you have been campaigning against payday companies, so what is your reaction to the collapse of wonga? companies, so what is your reaction to the collapse of wonga ?|j companies, so what is your reaction to the collapse of wonga? i wish i could tell you the challenge was over, but sadly what we know is high cost credit companies are evolving to evade the legislation that is now in place to protect people. what wonga did what these companies were doing wasn‘t about the loan in itself, it was that the loan was to hook you in to keep borrowing from
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these companies so that the debt you got into by borrowing meant you had to keep going back to these companies, as those sorts of practices, those rates of interest and charges, are out there, they are just in different forms now. on a practical level i‘m worried about the existing customers what will happen to their debts and whether companies will buy that debt and chase those people, but also there are hundreds of thousands of people who are owed money by wonga because of this kind of practice, that years people said was part of being able to lend to people in those sorts of ways, that we are now in other industries, companies like amigo loa ns, industries, companies like amigo loans, or vanquis, who actually a credit card company, but also did loa ns. credit card company, but also did loans. we need to cap the fees for all of these types of companies so we don‘t see the same problem in a couple of years. and on the question of what happens if you have alone with wonga, people might think, brilliant. i think wonga has gone,
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but your loan is still there and you do still own the money —— over money. the advice has to be, if you can afford to pay the loan, you should pay it on time, or it will harm your credit rating, but if you can't afford to pay it or the only way you can make the payments to wonga for your current loan is by not paying for an essential bill or going to another payday lenders to borrow some going to another payday lenders to boi’i'ow some money, going to another payday lenders to borrow some money, don't borrow more money. don't get behind on an essential bill, but contact wonga, they will still be available on the phone, by e—mail, to talk about the debt management, and ask for an arrangement to pay that is affordable for you over a longer period. let's bring in stephen, because he has borrowed from wonga and joins us on the line. thank you for joining and joins us on the line. thank you forjoining us. how much did you borrow, and what happened? my first loa n borrow, and what happened? my first loan with wonga was about £300. i
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think the repayment was about £350 at the end of the month, but when it came to the end of the month, i had to pay it back in full. but i needed to pay it back in full. but i needed to take out another loan to make up for the loan i had just paid out, so i had to take out £400 to cover. i was hiding this from my partner as well, so at the end of every month i would have to pay back the loan is reload extra money. nearly all my wages were being paid out, sol started looking around for other payday loans, so of course there is fio payday loans, so of course there is no checking system for other loan companies checking with each other to see if you have loans, theyjust hand them all out. so how much have you ended up borrowing in total, and when you add in the costs of the borrowing, how much has it added up into in terms of how much you owe?|j got up to a about £800 each payday
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loan. and how many loans was that? i had eight. so that is £6,400, and you add in, we know about the high levels of interest, so how much did you end up owing on top?|j levels of interest, so how much did you end up owing on top? i can't remember now. it was six years ago. but you are sorted now, are you? yes, i had to use another company to get a loan to pay off all the others, and then i started falling behind with that one, because the interest was very high. so in the endl interest was very high. so in the end i had to swallow my pride and go to my bank. stephen explaining their very clearly how these things can just spiral and add up, and the initial figure just spiral and add up, and the initialfigure is just spiral and add up, and the initial figure is higher, just spiral and add up, and the initialfigure is higher, but the interest and other charges add on so much, obviously changes have been made, but i think that the upper charges that wonga was making before
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in terms of interest was over 5000%. it is now still about 1500%. the law we got changed was to cap, you could never be charged more than double what you originally took out, steven example is a case in point that people got into these debts and couldn‘t get out of them. the problem i think right now is that frank in this country you are better protected if you take out a payday loa n protected if you take out a payday loan and if you borrow on your credit card, because what these companies have done what the government is done at the moment is just focus on payday lending, and what stephen‘s example shows is it is that practice of lending to people in a way that gets them into debt. there are millions of people in this country right now who are what you call zombie debtors, who are paying off the interest but not the capital. companies like amigo, who prey on your friends, they go
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off to both of you for the loan. we 110w off to both of you for the loan. we now know capping works. the gloucester getting payday loans in this company since that legislation caving, but there has been a 50% drop in people getting into difficulties like stephen is talking about, and my fear is that what we are seeing now is that problem shifting to credit cards, to guarantor loans, the logbook loans, andi guarantor loans, the logbook loans, and i really want the government to learn a lesson and learn a capping works and capped everything, so there is no loophole for these companies to move into. you have used the phrase zombie debtors, that gives a graphic picture. we know that people are short of cash. even if you‘re in full—time work, if you‘re on the national living wage, asa you‘re on the national living wage, as a couple you are still 50 quid a week short for a basic income, that is what the child poverty action group research shows. people are not earning enough to be able to keep food on the table and a roof over their head, and borrowing is part of life. i would love to see wages go up life. i would love to see wages go up but we need to deal with the fact that when people on low incomes are
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being ripped off by these companies, and frankly i don‘t care whether it isa and frankly i don‘t care whether it is a payday loan are credit card are logbook loan are guarantor loan, if it isa logbook loan are guarantor loan, if it is a rip—off, it is a rip—off, and the government should intervene in capa and the government should intervene in cap a lot of them to protect people like stephen from this in the future. sarah, how much of this is there to go? i think stella is absolutely right. stephen was using one loan to pay off another, and that large loan would have been at a very high interest rate. and that wouldn't have had the cap on it that payday loans have, say stella is right, there is more protection now for people borrowing from payday lenders than there are from going to these companies that will give you a large loan for interest rates or credit card companies, logbook loans, guarantor loans, store cards, catalogues. the financial conduct authority is looking at what it needs to do about high cost credit
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overall, but it is not really looking to introduce caps, even though we know from the payday loans that these caps work. there are a lot of old rule people out there. what is the best advice that you would give? because when people are facing financial worries, they are not necessarily going to be thinking ina not necessarily going to be thinking in a clear—headed way and feeling like there are many options. the first devices to get yourself in a safe position so you can get through the next month without borrowing any more money. and that will probably mean talking to a debt management company such as step change. they can help you make arrangements with your creditors to pay back amounts which you can afford every month. at the moment, too many people are robbing peter to pay paul, to pay one loan, they go and take out another loan, or they put some more on the overdraft or credit card. and
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thatjust leads to on the overdraft or credit card. and that just leads to a spiral which gets worse and worse until you are borrowing from a lot of lenders and you just can't manage. the sooner you just can't manage. the sooner you stop and say, i need some help, there is help out there, ask the debt advice, and people will get help with that. just quickly before i let you all go, a thought from you on frank field, stella? i'm extremely worried about anti—semitism within the labour party, and i‘ve said that very clearly, along with a range of mps saying that we have to tackle these issues. i have disagreed with frank on lots of things, like i have disagreed with other colleagues, but we must always be able to have debates, so i am very sad to hear of the situation that frank has found himself in in his local party, and i also think is a party that has a proud track record of tackling racism, we need to be clear that anti—semitism has no place in our ranks, soi anti—semitism has no place in our ranks, so i do share the concern that if things are not moving, and i believe very strongly that we should adopt the example in full, we need
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to ta ke adopt the example in full, we need to take action. that is a matter for all of us, notjust the leadership, but it is also for the leadership. so you want as he does for the party to adopt the international description of what anti—semitism is? i have been a fierce critic of the is really government on many issues, and i know that nazi comparisons have no place within a modern progressive debate about these issues. that seems to me to be a simple issue. and the party's leadership have not adopted this definition? we are going to have a vote next week and the parliamentary labour party about making it part of our procedures, but i also say this. it is also about what happens at a local level, so we have to show local level, so we have to show local leadership in tackling these issues and calling them out, and i have disagreed with frank, passionately on the position he has taken on brexit, for example, and we have been in the studio on other
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occasions and had arguments about that. i joined the occasions and had arguments about that. ijoined the labour movement 25 years ago and i have never entirely agree with any labour leader in my lifetime, and i have fought for a labour government throughout those 25 years because i know my own mind and i know people wa nt know my own mind and i know people want a range of ideas and to win arguments through the ideas that you put forward and not through the abuse. and one of his other strong complaints is that he says he is concerned about bullying at a local party level, and if you are saying things that i disagreed with, the treatment is not pleasant. is that something that you have encountered? yes, and let me be very clear. i spent a lot of time campaigning on issues around payday lending and debt. i have to say that dealing with some of these issues takes up the time and energy and interest of people who otherwise could be focused on those issues that i know people... dealing with what? dealing with abuse, dealing with people behaving in ways that are not progressive, not the best of the labour movement. i have been in the
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party of 25 years, i have won arguments and lost arguments, and it has always been in a comradely way, and the amount of time this is taking up is time that could be going towards party issues. why is it happening? each of us has to take responsibility for our own conduct, but all of us need to focus on the idea that we are not part of a cult, we don‘t need thought police, we need good energy and ideas and clarity about the values and principles that bring us into a political movement. i know people across the party feel strongly about that, because that is why we are all within the labour movement, and the challenge for all of us is to live up challenge for all of us is to live up to what the best of labour can be. where does the buck stop? i believe that all of us have to take responsibility, all of us need to be pa rt responsibility, all of us need to be part of building a better culture, and what frank‘s experiences, i don‘t know the direct details of what has been happening, but i understand and respect that if he feels that strongly that he has done what he has done, then we should
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listen to that of learned from that. thank you very much, stella creasy, and also sara and steven defour your comments as well. coming up, ella died after a severe asthma attack. we will be speaking to her mum to try to find out what role pollution may have played in her death. it‘s less than 24 hours since the supreme court announced denying an unmarried mother the widowed parent‘s allowance was illegal. siobhan mclaughlin from county antrim lived with her partner for 23 years and they had four children together before he died in 2014. the landmark ruling could lead to people across the uk in a similar position applying for bereavement payments. the number of cohabiting couples in the uk is on the rise. in 2017 there were 3.3 million. around 1.2 million of them have children. well, let‘s now first hear from our reporter anna collinson,
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who has been investigating government support for bereaved families for more than a year for this programme. anna, can you first of all give us a bit more detail about what exactly happened yesterday? as you mentioned, siobhan mclauchlan was with her partner the 23 years, four children, and he died in 2014. she applied for the widowed parent‘s allowa nce she applied for the widowed parent‘s allowance and found that the because she wasn‘t married or in a civil partnership, she wasn‘t entitled to it. that benefit was up to £117 a week, and charities say that with that benefit, it could be the difference between the remaining pa rent difference between the remaining parent having to work a second job or being able to stay at home with their children who are grieving. so yesterday the supreme court ruled siobhan‘s human rights had been breached, and she wanted access to the benefit. she said the allowance exists because of the responsibilities of the deceased and
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survivor towards their children, those responsible are dues are the same whether or not they are married or in same whether or not they are married orina same whether or not they are married or in a civil partnership with one another. so does that mean that everybody who is unmarried but has kids and his bereaved will get the benefit? this is where it is interesting. right now we don‘t know. the department for work and pensions says it is considering the ruling, but the current rule stands, so only if you are married or in a civil partnership. there is pressure as you mentioned before, cohabiting couples are on the rise but there is no legal requirement. lawyers i have spoken to say that they believe this ruling will not help people in the system now, they think this will be more a catalyst for change in the future, and that is what they are hoping. and this benefit has changed recently? yes, we have covered that a lot. siobhan has been battling for this benefit and it has been heavily criticised by people who were married but have lost a partner, so it used to be the widowed parent‘s
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allowa nce, it used to be the widowed parent‘s allowance, and last april change to the bream support pavement, meaning that it went from a maximum of up to 20 years up to 18 months. we covered that cut at the time, and it received a lot of criticism, it was called cruel and callous, that it punished bereaved children, but the government said it made things fairer, and that it reflected modern day society, which is interesting, because campaigners argue the best way to reflect modern life would be to treat cohabiting couples and married couples the same. thank you very much, anna. ok, thanks anna — well joining us now to talk about this further is — ailsa mackenzie her partner died in 2016 when their son was seven. she was diagnosed with breast cancer less than a year later. chairman of way?widowed?&?young —
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georgia elms. and solicitor nigel shepherd is the past chair for the family justice organisation camera resolution and is head of family law. the judgment is head of family law. the judgment is long overdue. i hope things will change very quickly. the current situation is completely incompatible with the government‘s own family, and away the treats other families as well, we sometimes you are treated as cohabiting couples. and have you tried to get access to this benefit yourself? i wasn't aware of it before my partner died, and then when you go through the process of informing the authorities, i realised it existed, and then also realised it existed, and then also realise that we had no entitlement
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to it. and did you just accept it and leave it at that? i did raise it with the dwp when i was letting them know that robert had died, but they wouldn‘t accept the claim at that point. nigel, do many people come to you around what their options are and say this feels unfair? absolutely. resolution surveyed its and members, 98% of our members had had situations where they had to tell clients on separation rather than death that they didn't have the rights that they thought they had, and ailsa's point is right. she was unaware of the fact that this benefit, this bereavement benefit, is not payable, so her family suffered a double whammy of losing a pa re nt suffered a double whammy of losing a parent of losing out on benefits they thought they should have been entitled to. that is why the law needs to be changed. what happens
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now going forward? it seems it is not clear how much of a precedent this sets. legally at sets no precedent at all. the finding of incompatibility with the eca jar, the human rights convention, is advisory only. the government will look at it, but they are not obliged to act at all. but i think this case is another example of the pressure mounting on government to deal with this injustice for cohabiting couples and their children, and to change the law, because that reform is long overdue, and indeed in scotland on separation, they have had since 2006 a law which does protect people in ailsa's position on separation rather than bereavement, so it is time to change. georgia, how often are you coming across people who are affected ? coming across people who are affected? everyday. we have so many members, it is estimated that there are 2000 people every year who are
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bereaved. it is heartbreaking reading on our facebook page, people saying, why am i not entitled to this? i became chair eight and a half years ago, and this has been something that we have been fighting ever since then. and it isjust awful, as ailsa said, the child doesn't grieve any less because their parents were not married. the department for work and pensions has said is we have been hearing that the ruling doesn‘t change the current eligibility rules for receiving bereavement benefits which are paid only to people who are married or in a civil partnership. whether you believe it is anachronistic or not, that is the way it is, isn‘t it? and it is not going to change immediately as a result of this ruling. i know. change will be expensive.” result of this ruling. i know. change will be expensive. i think it isa change will be expensive. i think it is a case of it is right to do it. these people have been paying
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national insurance. that is what national insurance. that is what national insurance. that is what national insurance is for. they have been paying their national insurance, so they should be entitled to it. it says on the statement it is contributory, and they have been contributing, so why can't they have it? i was widowed 12 years ago, i was married, my husband died just before our third wedding anniversary. but i have recently moved in with someone, and i've had that benefit ta ken moved in with someone, and i've had that benefit taken off me because i've moved in. so the government recognises it then, so there is no consistency here, and this is where it isjust totally consistency here, and this is where it is just totally unfair, and when they said in april 2017 that the new benefit, because they were modernising it, the biggest modernisation would have been to have allowed people who were cohabiting, and i suppose we would like to know what is happening now. people are saying, can it be backdated. and we don't know what to
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say to people, because we need some clarification. but obviously the government are looking at it, and i was concerned it would be potentially find new newly bereaved people, we have so many people going back. and ailsa, you were shaking your head vigorously at some of that that you were listening to. what are you thinking? i don‘t think it is that expensive. we are not talking a massive amount of people. i have seen figures saying it is about 2000 families a year, and! saying it is about 2000 families a year, and i think it would equate to about £26 million, a drop in the ocean compared to the entire benefits bill and what these people have paid in. asjoe said, it is a contributory benefit. my partner had worked for 40 years, paying his national insurance all that time, and it didn‘t survive long enough to claim his pension. that has disappeared now. ithink claim his pension. that has disappeared now. i think we should have children‘s pensions in this case, it is the children that it
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affects. what difference would it make to you if you got this benefit? it would make a massive difference. you mentioned that we had a double blow when i was diagnosed with breast cancer. i am self—employed, soi breast cancer. i am self—employed, so i couldn‘t work while i was ill. if we have that benefit at that point, it would have taken away another layer of worry and anxiety for us. really sorry for what you have been through. thank you for joining us. asummary of a summary of the latest news in a few moments, now the weather. a pretty chilly started a day, but of many us were greeted by clear blue skies. look at the scene in the shetlands. beautiful flat, calm water. many of us having that sunshine this morning. a few showers towards the south—east of england, they are few and far between. for most of us it is a dry day with sunny spells, some fair weather cloud building in the sky. the cloud
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will thicken across northern ireland through cornwall, the isles of scilly, pembrokeshire. there could be some drizzle and rain later in the day, but temperatures getting up to about 18 or 21 degrees. tonight, the cloud and patchy rain will move further eastwards. it is all linked into some warmer air. it is not going to be anywhere near as cold as last night. but temperatures staying at ten of 14 degrees, perhaps a little bit chilly across eastern pa rt really little bit chilly across eastern part really began. here we will have some sunshine. over the weekend, the further east you are, the sunnier it will be. the further west, cloudy, rain at times. for all of us it will be pretty warm, temperatures into the 20s. it is ten o‘clock. our top story — after this programme exposed the terrible conditions in the moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos, the un refugee agency calls on greece to take action. children as young as ten have been attempting suicide there translation: food is scarce,
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conditions or appalling and violence is almost constant. we‘ll get reaction to the unhcr‘s statement from a charity working at the camp. this nine—year—old girl died after suffering an extreme asthma attack. now, five years after her death, her mum is delivering a petition to get her inquest reopened, to see what role pollution might have played in her death. she‘s here in the studio. and — do you know this song? if not, you soon will. it‘s the latest dance craze and a 23—year—old mum from hartlepool, county durham is the latest person to go viral with it.
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# baby shark, do—doo—do—doo—do—doo you will not get us out of your head by the end of the programme. you will not get us out of your head by the end of the programmem you will not get us out of your head by the end of the programme. itjust went crazy. i‘ve had messages from all over the world telling me that it has stopped their two—year—old having a tantrum, it has made seriously ill people smile. it has been phenomenal, really. i can‘t believe it. ashleigh waller‘s video has now been viewed more than four million times online. we‘ll talk to her in the next hour. we will also have more on the statement by the un refugee agency about the camp on the isle of lesbos later. here‘s annita mcveigh in the bbc newsroom the number of over 65s needing round—the—clock care will increase by more than a third in england over the next 20 years, according to a new study. the authors of the report in the lancet warn that relying on informal carers, such as family members,
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is not a long—term solution. local government officials say it‘s a sign that the social care system has reached breaking point. the government says reforms will be set out in the autumn. police investigating the murder of a mother and daughter in solihull earlier this week have arrested a 21 year old man. raneem oudeh and her mother khaloa saleem were stabbed to death in the street in the early hours of bank holiday monday. police had issued this photo of janbaz tarin, who was wanted in connection with the deaths, and had put up a reward for information. sorry, we don‘t actually have that image. an ally ofjeremy corbyn has accused the veteran labour mp frank field of making "grotesque slurs", after he resigned from the parliamentary party because of leadership‘s stance on anti—semitism. in a local newspaper article published in the liverpool echo this morning, mr field urges the labour leadership to end what he calls its racist tolerance, and expel local activists who intimidate other members. earlier he told our programme about his resignation. administrators will take over
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the running of the wonga today, after the short—term lender lost its battle to stay afloat. despite a £10 million cash injection from shareholders last month, the firm said yesterday that it was no longer accepting new applications for loans. its demise follows a surge in compensation claims, amid a government clampdown on payday lenders. now some breaking news. london‘s new east—west railway crossrail will miss its december opening date. a spokesman for the project said services will not begin until autumn next year. that‘s a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 10.30. let‘s get some sport now. good morning. he is just 20—years—old, and is primarily a bowler, but it was sam curran with the bat, which saved england from a miserable first innings yesterday.
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they‘ll want him, to take some early wickets, when they start again in southampton this morning. just as india did yesterday. keatonjennings was out in the third over and that sparked another big batting collapse. they were 86 for six at one point before curran, in just his fourth test, led the lower order in their fight back. he scored 78 as england finished 246 all out. india resume this morning 19 without loss. we worry about the end result. we managed to get 246, which is, from 86—6 looks a decent score now. so, it‘s a massive positive for us, going into tomorrow with almost a bit of momentum. so, fingers crossed we can bowl nicely. caroline wozniacki has been knocked out of the us open. the dane was the highest remaining seed but was beaten by lesia tsurenko overnight in new york 6—4, 6—2. after winning herfirst grand slam, in australia earlier this year, she‘s failed to get beyond the fourth round, of all three majors since. there were no such problems
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for maria sharapova. the number 22 seed, is through, to the third round, after beating sorana cirstea, 7—5, 6—2. novak djokovic is through to the third round after beating tennys sandgren in four sets. he will play richard gaquet next. that‘s all the sport for now. earlier this week this programme exposed the terrible, overcrowded, conditions in the moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos — we heard how children as young as ten were attempting suicide, because of the horrific conditions there. well now the united nations high commission for refugees is urging greece to address the problem of overcrowded reception centres, especially in moria where it says the situation is reaching boiling point. here‘s a reminder of catrin nye‘s report from earlier this week. the paradise greek holiday island of lesbos. also home to the refugee camp described as the worst on the planet.
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so we‘ve been given 45 minutes only to go around the camp. this is a section for the newest arrivals. there‘s 7,500 people in here. it has capacity for between 2,000—3,000. food is scarce, conditions are appalling and violence is almost constant. fewer refugees are arriving on this island than previous years. but they‘re not leaving. as part of the eu—turkey deal, they‘re being held on lesbos rather than moving to the mainland. while we‘re filming at the camp, two people are stabbed in the queue for food. police block us from
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getting near the scene. always the same pattern. it starts with a fight, now it was for the food line that people got stabbed. it‘s always something between different community. msf say conditions are leading to deep trauma, that they have children as young as ten attempting suicide. we are reporting this to the public system, to unhcr, to the minister of the world, look. we have children as young as ten years old who try to suicide and there is no child psychiatrist or psychologist on this island. and despite the fact that we push to move these children to athens as soon as possible, it's not happening. ali, along with many other kurdish people, fled moria after a huge fight there in may. largely between kurdish and arab men,
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iron bars were used to beat people. do you think there are dangerous people in moria? despite conditions, boats keep coming. almost everyone on this one from afghanistan. hello! they celebrate landing somewhere at least more safe. but are unaware of the new trauma that lies ahead. let‘s go now to our un correspondent imogen foulkes in switzerland — she‘s been looking at this briefing this morning. tell us more about the response?
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well, the unhcr has coached at statement in fairly diplomatic language. but it does say that conditions in this particular camp are reaching boiling point. it points out that they are overcrowded conditions, not just points out that they are overcrowded conditions, notjust on lesbos but elsewhere. these are not actually refugee camps. these are perception centres, always supposed to be temporary, with an arm of the infrastructure that women and children would need, no measures in place to prevent sexual violence and the kind of fighting you saw there in catherine‘s report. the point is, the people, when they arrive, they are supposed to be here for a few weeks, and then they are supposed to be moved and have their requests for asylu m be moved and have their requests for asylum assessed. if they are genuine refugees, as the un refugee agency
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says thousands of these people on the islands are, then they should be allowed to stay in safety on the mainland, not on islands that have no infrastructure to support them. or if theirclaim no infrastructure to support them. or if their claim is rejected, then they should be returned from whence they should be returned from whence they came. but not left in this squalor and limbo, which the un rather diplomatically says the greek government, despite eu funding, is having difficulty facing the challenge of dealing with this. that is kind of, as i said, diplomatic speakfor saying, is kind of, as i said, diplomatic speak for saying, really, is kind of, as i said, diplomatic speakfor saying, really, they is kind of, as i said, diplomatic speak for saying, really, they are not doing thejob. speak for saying, really, they are not doing the job. there are a lot of delays, these people should be off the island and onto the mainland and it is not happening. what happens, then? if the greek government is not doing what unhcr and others are saying they should be doing, what is to make them? well, publicity, which is somewhat shaming, which this is. questions about what greece has actually been
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doing with that money from the european union, which is supposed to support greece as a front line eu member state, which is taking far more refugees coming to their shores than somewhere like the united kingdom, way, way, way more. it does need support. what is it doing with the financial support received ? need support. what is it doing with the financial support received? why is there a go slow of not moving people off the islands? the unhcr said they are ready to support greece. greece has to invite them. the un refugee agency would go to the islands and advise about how to create better conditions, but the key thing is that these people need to be moved off these islands to proper refugee camps and asylum seeker centres, and not these reception centres, which have none of the facilities that they need. thank you very much. let‘s talk to the head of mission in greece, for
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medecins sans frontieres another charity which called this the worst refugee camp in the world. we have had a response from the which effectively says it greece does not move people out of these refugee camps, it is a fact they are overcrowded and in very difficult situations. what is your reaction to this statement? well, we very much welcome that statement. it is indeed a crisis in overcrowding. this is also a health and mental health crisis, a crisis in protection. as my colleague said earlier in your programme, our medical teams are expecting to trick people for trauma they have experienced in their country of origin. what has taken our teams are back, and these are teams that have worked in war zones, is that they are treating trauma, mental health consequences of trauma that has happened in greece. we had
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children as young as ten attempted suicide on the island because of the fear they face. women, men and children. louise, and terribly sorry, but we are really struggling to hear you, we have technical issues with the line and the connection isn‘t brilliant. we will try to connect with louise later. ella kissi—debrah died five years ago, at the age ofjust nine, after suffering an extreme asthma attack. her inquest found she died of acute respiratory failure. but in the years following her death, ella‘s mother was approached by an expert in respiritory medicine — who said he had evidence to show her death could be linked to the air pollution in london. the family lived near one of the busiest roads in the captial at the time. now ella‘s mum rosamund wants the attorney general to agree to a new inquest, so the role of pollution can be properly established. this afternoon she‘s delievering a petition to parliament — signed by 100,000 people, and backed by the mayor of london himself.
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well, we can speak to rosamund now. thank you for coming and joining us. your daughter died five years ago, when she was just nine of an asthma attack. immediately did you suspect pollution may have played a part? no, but the original inquest said she died from respiratory failure, and said the triggers were down to something in the air. that is how it was left, that phrase. when did you start to think pollution might have been the issue? we set up a foundation for her, and a member of the public contacted me and said, i think you need to have a look at the spike in the pollution on the day that she died, and up until that point i didn‘t know anything about it. had there been issues for her with her breathing around other spikes in air pollution? yes, we
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actually know that. they have compiled all of her hospital admissions. 27 of them were linked to when there was a spike in pollution. so, how did you feel when you realised that there was this correlation? devastated. when i met the professor last year, i was hoping he was going to say to me it was something unique, or she was extremely unlucky. if it wasn‘t her, it could have been somebody else. there was no specific rhyme or reason why it was her in particular. so, it could be another child, where we live. it was just unfortunate it was her. how did it change your feelings around what had happened, and your approach to dealing with them? we and your approach to dealing with them ? we have and your approach to dealing with them? we have a picture of your beautiful girl on your t—shirt, and you‘re dealing with the worst thing that could happen to a parent. if it was something that was unavoidable,
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thatis was something that was unavoidable, that is one thing. when you then here that potentially, if those issues of pollution had not been there, it might have been different? it was absolutely devastating. no matter how hard the doctors tried, and they did, they resuscitated her many times, i did so myself at home, it was always going to end this way. now that i know what i know, we were a lwa ys now that i know what i know, we were always going this way. it is very ha rd to always going this way. it is very hard to take on incredibly. had he been concerned about pollution? you live very close to the south circular, 80 feet away from a very busy road. not at that point. she was born incredibly healthy, and it all was born incredibly healthy, and it a ll started was born incredibly healthy, and it all started when she just got a cough. as you know, it is quite common in young children. absolutely not. that started in october 20 ten. by not. that started in october 20 ten. by december, she had had herfirst stint in intensive care. it wasn‘t just me. everybody was trying to
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find what is triggers were, but we couldn‘t narrow it down to what it was. now we know. you want the attorney general to order a new interest? —— inquest? attorney general to order a new interest? -- inquest? absolutely, some of the public are yet to be convinced by this. also, i think respiratory failure does not tell us the story. i think if it did contribute to the death, then she deserves it to be on her death certificate. she suffered dreadfully. she was in intensive ca re dreadfully. she was in intensive care three orfour times dreadfully. she was in intensive care three or four times and battled back time and time again. it‘s not going to bring her back, but it will help some of the children, because in london, every year, between eight to 12 children die from asthma. the government needs to clean up the toxic air. i hope by her being the first person for it to go on her death certificate, they will be forced to actually do something. i know now that 100,000, and there
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will be more people, feel exactly the same way as i do. they are breeding this air in every single day, and now we know the damage it is doing. —— breathing. day, and now we know the damage it is doing. -- breathing. you want it on the death certificate. what is your ultimate goal, changing the levels of air pollution? absolutely. iam not levels of air pollution? absolutely. i am not sitting here, what happened has happened, it is incredibly sad. it is something myself and her siblings have to live with. it is not going to bring her back, but i hope that she didn‘t die in vain. through me campaigning, i hope she gets another inquest and the medical evidence is examined in court. i hope from then that the government realise they are not taking it seriously enough. the levels of air pollution we are talking about levels that should not be there. so, why is the government not taking it
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seriously enough? i'm not able to a nswer seriously enough? i'm not able to answer that question. it is notjust london, it is major cities all over the uk. i‘m asking the public to back me on this. we all need to breathe clean air. it is our children‘s human rights to be able to brief clean air. there are legal limits, which, as i say, have been breached. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, is on your side. absolutely, he is an asthma sufferer and he‘s doing his best in his remit to clean up doing his best in his remit to clean up the air. but it needs to be about more than sadiq, the actual government need to get involved. we need clean air zones, they need to start phasing out diesel cars now. 2040 is not good enough. by then, almost 100 more children would have died. iam almost 100 more children would have died. i am sure everybody watching would not find that acceptable at
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all. what difference has it made having him on your side? it has added weight to our campaign. also, 100,000 people, with the signatures. one of the reasons the attorney general can grant an inquest is if he believes it is in the public interest. i believe 100,000 plus does show the attorney general it is in the public interest and people do wa nt to in the public interest and people do want to know what happened to my daughter, and we are incredibly, incredibly grateful for the support. you are going to deliver the petition today, do you have any indication of how quickly you would getan indication of how quickly you would get an answer? we initially contacted him on the 29th ofjune, it has been two months. i am hoping with parliament resuming next week he will come back as soon as possible. it is torture, waiting every single day. the sooner he comes back for our family, the better. what if he doesn't grant you a new inquest? i need to remain
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hopeful. i can‘t think negatively. the evidence i have submitted is very strong, and i have the public backing. i have to think positively. i have to wake up every morning and carry on, to live. thank you for coming on. thank you for having me. day to day life for people with conditions such like dwarfism has its physical challenges. but it can be treatment they receive from other members of the public that has a greater impact on those with restricted growth. eugene grant has been sharing his story with us. still to come... as a new study suggests the number of elderly people needing 24—hour care will double by 2035, we‘ll speak to a former carer and a woman who‘s concerned about what level of care she will need as her health deteriorates. and what next for the former labour and now independent mp frank field? we‘ll be discussing his future after he quit the labour whip over the leadership‘s handling of anti—semitism allegations time for the latest news — here‘s annita mcveigh the bbc news
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headlines this morning. the number of over 65s needing round—the—clock care will increase by more than a third in england over the next 20 years, according to a new study. the authors of the report in the lancet warn that relying on informal carers, such as family members, is not a long—term solution. local government officials say it‘s a sign that the social care system has reached breaking point. the government says reforms will be set out in the autumn. london‘s new east—west railway crossrail has been delayed by nearly a year. services through central london were due to start in december but will now not begin until autumn next year. a spokesman for the project put the delay down to the fact the new line requires extensive testing. when fully open, the elizabeth line, as it is officially known, will connect reading and heathrow in the west to shenfield and abbey wood in the east of the capital. there‘s no date yet for when the whole line will be operational, but organisers say it will be as soon after the central tunnels open as possible.
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police investigating the murder of a mother and daughter in solihull earlier this week have arrested a 21 year old man. raneem oudehand her mother khaloa saleem were stabbed to death in the street in the early hours of bank holiday monday. police had issued a photo of a suspect who was wanted in connection with the deaths, and had put up a reward for information. an ally ofjeremy corbyn has accused the veteran labour mp frank field of making "grotesque slurs", after he resigned from the parliamentary party because of leadership‘s stance on anti—semitism. in a local newspaper article published in the liverpool echo this morning, mr field urges the labour leadership to end what he calls its racist tolerance, and expel local activists who intimidate other members. earlier he told this programme about his resignation. that‘s a summary of the latest bbc news. here‘s some sport now with katherine 78 runs from sam curran rescued
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england on the first day of the fourth test against india. england were 246 all out. india will resume on 19 without loss in reply. second seed caroline woznacki is out of the us open. the australian open champion was beaten in straight sets in the second round by ukraine‘s lesia tsurenko. the us tennis association, is looking into nick kyrgios‘ victory over pierre—hughes herbert, after the umpire got down from his chair and encouraged the australian to try harder. he was a set down at the time. kyrgios went on to win the match. burnley will not be progressing to the europa league group stages. they needed to overturn a 3—1 deficit in from the first leg against greek side olympiacos — and could only manage a 1—1 draw at turf moor thank you, katherine, see later.
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labour veteran frank field is set to hold showdown talks today with the party‘s chief whip after resigning with a warning that jeremy corbyn‘s leadership has become a ‘force for antisemitism‘. the birkenhead mp, who lost a confidence vote in his constituency party last month over his pro—brexit stance, also blamed a ‘culture of intolerance, nastiness and intimidation‘ in local parties. earlier on this programme, mr field told me that he‘d put a lot on the line by making his decision, but he hoped it would lead to change in the party. ijust hope i just hope that that gives ijust hope that that gives him a huge increase in urgency that he can‘t keep rattling on saying that the jews are can‘t keep rattling on saying that thejews are wrong in how they view my comments. the jewish thejews are wrong in how they view my comments. thejewish community says that that is how we feel we are, the wahab anti—semites, that we should take that seriously. the
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campaign thatjewish should take that seriously. the campaign that jewish feel should take that seriously. the campaign thatjewish feel is all pa rt campaign thatjewish feel is all part of the intolerance which we also see at a local level, as i see in birkenhead. well to put that all in context, with me is stephen bush from the new statesman and michael segalov an author and labour activist, who supportsjeremy corbyn. how destabilizing is this for corbyn? is this damaging? i don't think it is hugely damaging. frank field has spoken of running, and frank‘s departure, i do think of him jumping before he has been pushed, is fairly quickly had debate with his constituency party, and i don‘t think that is hugely damaging to labour at all. he has said that if somebody says there is a problem and they are unhappy and you basically say, there isn‘t a problem, and you
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don‘t acknowledge the feelings, and it has been going on for some time, you need to start a look at that, and that is why he is doing this.” don‘t think he is saying that people are saying there isn‘t an issue, the best discussion about it is how to deal with it. i think he is using this as a cover and it does damage to that fight, too. if he says i‘m leaving because i‘m at odds with the leadership and anti—semitism is a bad thing, but he didn‘t, he glossed over the other issues. he has said he is not happy about the way that there is intolerance of the party, not just there is intolerance of the party, notjust in terms of anti—semitism, but in the way that local constituencies are dealing with mps, and he is not the first person to be saying both of these things. there are saying both of these things. there a re clearly saying both of these things. there are clearly discussions to be had about how local mps who are at odds with their constituencies deal with that, but there needs to be a relationship between the labour party membership locally and you as
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an mp, that is your responsibility. but to that extent of bullying, the word we hear again from mps who have commented difficulties with local activists. that our party disciplinary processes to make sure that if there are disciplinary issues, those are enforced. but this notion the bullying or intimidation or anti—semitism is not taken seriously is absurd. early next week the party is going to report back on plans to what they do with the definition of anti—semitism, and there is stuff happening, and frank knows all this is going on. his decision to go on the eve of parliament returning shows to me that this wasn‘t a rash decision but has been long thought through. what are your thoughts, stephen bush? there's a lot of truth in what michael is saying. yes, there are problems with anti—semitism in labour ranks, and many labour mps will privately and publicly talk about feel they are being bullied and having a difficult time on social media and in their local
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parties, and you can fairly say that the labour leadership has been slow to deal with anti—semitism, and has actively encouraged a mood of intolerance and local parties. but in this specific case, frank field has been at odds with his local party for some time. he fell out with them in a major way in march, and pending an apology from his local party, he hadn't been attending local meetings, and he had falle n attending local meetings, and he had fallen out with the whole of the party ina fallen out with the whole of the party in a big way by voting against the party whip on the customs union bill which prevented an early general election, so there is definitely an element of i'm not being fired, i quit, to his statement and his timing. however that feeds into it, and perhaps if there is a background, it might make someone feel more inclined to act in a certain way, but he is not the only person saying, as we have been saying, i interviewed stella creasy as well earlier about it, and she has these feelings strongly, she has had the same experiences, they are not alone. there are other mps who
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will also go on that same journey, but i think it is one of those things where it is possible for two things where it is possible for two things to be true at the same time, possible for them to feel these things sincerely and also to point out that this is someone who was not back vocal about the scandal over the anti—semitic mural jeremy back vocal about the scandal over the anti—semitic muraljeremy corbyn had defended the existence of who in many ways has found his voice on this issue at a convenient time for him as well, and that is true, it will remain at those who remain within the labour party will find it easier to deal with these exit than they would've had mp perhaps with a smaller profile at westminster who wasn't in difficulties with their local party and had walked out. i think that is probably likely to happen, and it will be a more difficult moment in the life of the labour party, but this less so. when you have the former chief rabbi jonathan sacks saying that those
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comments byjeremy corbyn that a group of zionist had no sense of ingush irony despite living in this country for a long time is unacceptable, and comparing those comments byjeremy corbyn to the sorts of things that enoch powell said, that is really not the sort of thing, the position a party leader should be in. and although there are lots of people who feel that the comparison is a bit overwrought, jonathan sacks is hugely respected within the community and internationally as a kind of theological presence, so that is a serious and shaming moment in the life of the labour party, but again, it comes back to two things, to things being true at the same time. says the only way to defuse this for the labour party to adopt officially the labour party to adopt officially the international language that recognises anti—semitism ? the international language that recognises anti—semitism?” the international language that recognises anti-semitism? i think thatis recognises anti-semitism? i think that is the start of it. there needs to bea that is the start of it. there needs to be a big set piece speech from jeremy corbyn in which he sets out his view of the world, his view of
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events, because for him it is partially at least about foreign policy so he can set out the way in which he will ease people's mind and allow the labour party to have some form of words that when these things come up, they can go, in our big speech in chesterfield or wherever he chooses to hold it, they do need some big intervention like that to cauterise the wound. michael segalov, do you think the labour party does have to adopt this internationally recognised form avoiding which has become an issue because the labour party did not go for that form avoiding deliberately, and came up with a different form? what i find fascinating is i‘m jewish and until this came into the news a few months ago, i had never read that definition. we source and uneducated conversations happening from people on all sides of the labour party who didn‘t really engage enough with what the context was, because there were concerns from jewish people that any definition of anti—semitism being changed by anyone, and certainly by
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the labour party today who have little trust with some bit parts of the jewish community. little trust with some bit parts of thejewish community. there are other concerns around freedom of speech, and when we look at the specific examples, we need to have a sensible, grown—up conversation about it that insures people of all sides are heard. the simple conclusion to this is some clarification that the home affairs select committee adding on to that. because it was rushed through, nobody feels any trust, so it is important in the interim that there is an acceptance of the definition, but some proper consultation with jewish groups and others to make sure there is a way forward. thank you both very much. coming up, we speak to the mum from hartlepool who‘s gone viral for painting herself blue and performing the "baby shark" song. if you don‘t know what it is, it will put a smile on your face, and you won‘t get the song out of your head for the rest of the day, at
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least. # daddy shark # daddy shark # daddy shark # daddy shellakh... i spoke to her, and she is very funny. do stay with us for that. a new study suggests the number of people over the age of 85, who need round—the—clock care in england, is likely to soar over the next two decades. researchers at newcastle university also estimate that more than a million people over 65 will require 24—hour help with eating, dressing, washing and going to the toilet by 2035. but with people working longer and therefore not available to care for elderly relatives, experts are warning of a looming "crisis". i‘m joined by the labour councillor richard watts from the local government association. joining us from leeds is dr eileen burns who is the president of the british geriatrics society. on the line from richmond is margaret dangoor who looked after her husband. he had dementia, at home.
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and in reading we have susan patey — who has sever arthritis and is concerned about the level of care she will need in the future. thank you forjoining us. richard watts , thank you forjoining us. richard watts, how concerned are you about what is being called a ticking time bomb? this is a looming crisis. we know the population is getting older, that clearly brings with it some very older, that clearly brings with it some very significant demands which this report shows for adult social ca re this report shows for adult social care going into the future. quite a lot of it has to be paid for by local councils when we are seeing cuts to councils and more services needed with less money. there is a funding gap the government needs to fill by 2025 in adult social care. the truth is we are already seeing significant problems, not on that council facing very significant financial problems, many other councils the same. and that is
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because of the massive costs of aduu because of the massive costs of adult social care meaning residents getting few of the social services they need such as libraries and bin collections. margaret, you looked after your husband and spent a fortune also on care. tell us about the burden it put on you. it is very significant. we are talking about often older people that are going to need to receive more care, but they often cared for by older people who are themselves very frail, and certainly it is very difficult to obtain the right sort of care. even if you are self funding, it is difficult, they're just on the numberof care difficult, they're just on the number of care staff within the community, and for those that are supported, they are just getting minimal care. it really is a big problem, and no doubt about it it is
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getting worse every year. we don't think about these things, or people don‘t think about these things, when they are young, no one thinks they are going to get older the difficulties that will be encountered at that stage. when did it first hit you where you are headed and what the difficulties would be? probably i knew about it for quite a long time, because in fa ct for quite a long time, because in fact my mother had alzheimer's, before my husband, so i had been involved with the care environment for a very long time, and i was a nurse by background. but i would say in my case i was more nurse by background. but i would say in my case i was more aware nurse by background. but i would say in my case i was more aware than quite a lot of people, but generally the population has no idea what really they are going to face as they get older, or the relatives of those older people are going to face. it is a real problem. carers uk, the charity that i'm very much
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involved with, they do an annual survey every year, and people that are trying to work and caring for family members is getting worse and worse, and particularly obviously because people are going to live longer with the state pension, people are not going to get it so early, it will be later in their lives. so it really is an increasing issue that we simply have to deal with. so, you have severe osteoarthritis, and i know that and makes you worried about the level of ca re makes you worried about the level of care you makes you worried about the level of ca re you are makes you worried about the level of care you are going to need. tell us more about your situation.” care you are going to need. tell us more about your situation. i have had several operations on my hands, and during that time, i needed everything done for me, so i was relying on my husband and my children, initially with even getting in the shower and getting
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dressed, and i‘m still unable to go and prepare food in the kitchen, there is very little i can do around there is very little i can do around the house. my husband works full—time in a very physicaljob, so he has to come home, and he does the shopping for me, the boys help me with the washing, and i‘m relying more and more of them to do things that i really should be able to do myself. eileen, you are president of the british geriatric society. an element of this research is that men and women have different experiences in terms of the level of care that they need. obviously everyone will have individual situations, the tell us more about that. we know that women tend to live longer than men, but sadly what this research shows us which confirms previous research, is that women unfortunately live more of those years with ill health,
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and in many cases in need of care. there is also a big socioeconomic divide, so if you are lucky enough to live in the most affluent 20% or in the most affluent 20% of the population, you live for longer, and few of your years i spent living in ill health, whereas if you are in the poorest quartile, you spend more of your years in and more of your years sadly, your total life span is also shorter. and as we have been hearing, anyone needs care or has a love one that needs care, it is an intense, time—consuming process and also incredibly expensive. as we hear today in this report about how things will be, those pressures will be increasing going forward. what is your advice on the best way that people can prepare themselves, and what needs to be changed at a policy level as well? there are things
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people could do for themselves, so we know that staying healthy, staying active, eating well, not letting yourself become too overweight, but maintaining a healthy weight, these kinds of things will reduce your risks of developing some of the diseases that may result in high care needs in later life. however, some people will develop care needs regardless of how exemplary life they might have led, so we need to really recognise that. i think on a policy level there is a huge amount more that the government could and should be doing, i think support is a real wake—up call to the government to say, we have been prevaricating really about how we address social care, many governments have done so to be fair bit in recent years we have had a promise of a green paper which has been deferred, which is now promised for the autumn, which is to address the issue of how as a
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country we are going to fund social care. many people may not be aware of the fact that individuals themselves if they have any significant amount of savings or if they own their own home will have to pay for that care themselves if they are unlucky enough to need care in their old age, so currently many people assume that it is like the health service, that it is cradle to grave and everything is paid for, but that is not the case, and we really do need a fairer way of paying for our social care, so we need the government to produce the green paper they promised us, and moved pretty swiftly after that to our white paper and moved pretty swiftly after that to ourwhite paperand a moved pretty swiftly after that to our white paper and a solution to how we fund care in the future, particularly thinking about the evidence from this study that says this is really a problem we can't continue to ignore. councillor richard watts, what would you like to see happen? you spoke about the financial pressures on councils and the difficult decisions have to be taken. i agree with the last
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speaker, we have got to stop kicking the count down the road on this, and we need to start a national conversation about how we are going to pay for our ageing population. local councils have got so fed up waiting for this we have published our own green paper to start this debate on how we get through and pay for all of us getting older and living longer. this is a major problem, it has been going on for yea rs, problem, it has been going on for years, but for years and years, governments have just kicked the can down the road and delayed and prevaricated, and we just need solutions now both fund local councils immediately put pressure on their budgets that are forcing cuts in services across the country, but also starts this conversation about how given the pressures facing us with an ageing population, we start fund that. you say councils have come up with a green paper. it is presumably a choice of raising taxes or cutting expenditure elsewhere? somehow this has got to be paid for, and if we as a country want adult social care to be paid for, we need to look at ways of either raising
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taxes or funding those services through different ways for insurance means and so on. all of that will be difficult, and we know that, and if people are living longer, we need to have these conversations. people need to have a better understanding of the kind of choices our country faces over the next ten years. is e—mail says, i faces over the next ten years. is e—mailsays, iam faces over the next ten years. is e—mail says, i am a 30—year—old single mum who works part—time, care why disabled mum and soon to care for my grandad with dementia. the support of financial help is appalling to carers, really struggling to support my family. jane says at 507! struggling to support my family. jane says at 5071 gave up my teaching job at the lovely private school in dorset to care for my now 96—year—old mum in her own home. i‘m not married and was fortunate enough to be able to quit with just six weeks to contemplate my decision. in the run—up to this life trading course of responsible at it i had been travelling 180 miles every weekend for four years for a 24—hour whistle tops care package having taught on saturday morning and leaving on sunday around 5p. as a
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carer i cannot put myself first, when i talk to make time for myself i wanted hittite physically and verbally, asking how this can happen. margaret, somebody they‘re feeling great pressure as a result. it must detract from you being able to enjoy your own time. how have you been able to cope? you don't have your own time, really. i was caring for 20 years, running up and down the motorway even when my mother was ina nursing the motorway even when my mother was in a nursing home, for 13 years, she died at 102. it cost an awful lot of money, over £400,000. and the strain of running up and down the motorway and keeping her happy and sorting out all her issues, followed by my husband over ten years of needing care, the stories peoplejust wouldn‘t believe, really, the pressures on the family carers. they
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save the country £132 billion per year, carers. that is nearly as much as the cost of the health service. we have got to handle this issue better, and sorted out. it is not going to get any better. people are living longer, we are working longer. thank you, thank you all very much. margaret, there will of course be many people watching who are carers themselves who will empathise with your experiences, thank you all. let‘s get more now on that breaking news we‘ve brought you in the last half hour that london‘s new east—west railway crossrail has been delayed by nearly a year. our correspondent theo leggett‘s here. it isa it is a complex project with ten new stations and 26 miles of new tunnels, and these things take time. we shouldn‘t be surprised when a major infrastructure project runs over schedule. the problem here seems to be that the tamils are built, but kicking them out with all
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the equipment needed for the trains to run and preparing the software needed, has taken longer than expected, which has compressed the amount of time that crossrail will have to test the system, and testing is needed to make sure it is safe. so when one part of the project slips, so does the next part, and thatis slips, so does the next part, and that is why the central section is going to have to be delayed by several months. thank you very much. you might like this. have you heard this song? if you hadn‘t before, i can tell you — you won‘t be able to get it out of your head after this! # baby shark... it‘s the baby shark dance — a new viral dance craze taking over the internet. it‘s called the baby shark song... and is now a global phenomenon with more than 1.6 billion youtube views. it was created by the korean—based pinkfong youtube channel for kids.
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you may also have seen videos of the baby shark challenge, similar to the kiki challenge, based on drake‘s song in my feelings, which involves dancing alongside a moving car. the shark song though has quickly grown into a viral dance challenge that people all over the world are taking part in. # baby shark # baby shark # mummy shark # mummy shark # daddy shark # daddy shark # granma shark # granma shark # granma shark... # granma shark...... # granma shark... # grandpa shark # grandpa shark # grandpa shark...
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# runaway # runaway # runaway... # runaway... it # runaway... it just # runaway... itjust puts # runaway... itjust puts a # runaway... itjust puts a smile # runaway... itjust puts a smile on # runaway... itjust puts a smile on... itjust puts your # runaway... itjust puts a smile on your face, doesn‘t # runaway... itjust puts a smile on yourface, doesn‘t it? maybe you hate it. i love it. well, 23—year—old, ashleigh waller — who you saw there covered in blue paint, whilst performing the song, is the latest person to go viral. the mum from hartlepool, county durham‘s video has now been viewed more than four million times. i asked her earlier why she decided to do it. i was actually at work, and i went next door and got the blue paint, put it all over me and just went and did the video. i didn‘t think at all it was going to do anything near what it did. itjust went crazy. i have had messages from all over the
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world telling me that it has stopped their two—year—olds having tantrums, it has made seriously ill people smile, it‘s been phenomenal, really. ijust smile, it‘s been phenomenal, really. i just can‘t believe smile, it‘s been phenomenal, really. ijust can‘t believe it. smile, it‘s been phenomenal, really. ijust can't believe it. it is definitely something to watch if you are having a bad day, it puts a smile on yourface! are having a bad day, it puts a smile on your face! people have told me that they were having a bad day and it cheered them up. how many views has it had? millions. i'm not sure exactly how many, but i know it had millions. says eddie went off and did it while you are in the middle of doing yourjob, which was delivering pizzas. what did they think about you going off and doing that? they didn't know, i came back andi that? they didn't know, i came back and i was blue, and they said, why are you blue? do you think a new career beckons? definitely! it feels like you should be a schoolteacher or something, i guess you did it to entertain your son, what does he think? he loves it, he
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keeps asking if he can watch it again. i dressed him up the other day, because i went in and handed out balloons to the children, and i painted his face, and he thought it was great. he said, i‘m a shark! what about the rest of your family, what do they think? they are the same. they have all asked me to make my own page and do more and keep it going. they think it is crazy. i‘ve beenin going. they think it is crazy. i‘ve been in all the papers, it has been like, my nan can‘t believe i‘m in the paper. it is mental, it really is. once you listen to that song, you can‘t get it out of your head, enda kenny get it out of yours?” you can‘t get it out of your head, enda kenny get it out of yours? i go to sleep and it‘s an loop in my brain. mad. so at the moment, there are loads of oceans, the baby monkey, the baby car, and people keep tag team ian evatt ears saying, do this one, do that one. they are playing it at nightclubs now. so
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will you do some more videos?” playing it at nightclubs now. so will you do some more videos? i have some crazy ideas going on, so definitely. i will be doing more videos, i‘ve got my own page. ashleigh waller there. isn‘t she a brilliant? i‘m sorry if you‘re going to have that song in your head for the rest of the day. just before we go, some comments on wonder, the payday loan company, going under. james says my son asked me to bea going under. james says my son asked me to be a guarantor for a going under. james says my son asked me to be a guarantorfor a loan going under. james says my son asked me to be a guarantor for a loan from a payday lender. iagreed, it was the £3000. the car was a dud, we had to borrow more to get it repaired, and when we contacted the company again, they allowed him to borrow at £10,000, and this was in his back before i got an e—mail basically confirming ijointly before i got an e—mail basically confirming i jointly owed before i got an e—mail basically confirming ijointly owed it. because researching thousand pounds, all stemming from a loan for 3000 initially. thank you for your company today. bbc newsroom live is coming up next. i will see you very soon. have a good day. hello there, good morning. it may
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have been a chilly start to the day, but we have had lots of sunshine so far across the uk. look at this example of that sunshine in durham through this morning. fairweather cloud developing, just the fluffy cumulus cloud you will see in the sky, a few showers down to the south—east of england and across east anglia, and the cloud will thicken up across northern ireland through pembrokeshire, through the isles of scilly and the west cornwall to bring some patchy light rain and drizzle later in the day, but for most of us, we keep those sunny spells, and it will feel quite warm. temperatures getting up to 21 degrees. through this evening and
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tonight, cloud in the west will move eastwards. still some patchy light rain and drizzle moving through, but it is associated with milder air, temperatures nowhere near as low as last night, up to 14 celsius with perhaps clearer skies in the far east of england, a little chilly to start with, but generally speaking over the weekend, eastern areas drier with sunny spells, and one for all of us. this is bbc news, i‘m annita mcveigh. these are the top stories developing at eleven. the number of people aged 85 and over needing round the clock care is set to double by 2035. experts warn of a looming ‘crisis‘. police investigating the murder of a mother and daughter
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in solihull arrest a 21—year—old man. the launch of london s new crossrail line is postponed to autumn next year, nine months late. veteran mp frank field — who resigned the labour whip over the party‘s stance on anti—semitism — says he will consider stepping down as an mp. clearly when i see the chief whip this afternoon that may be clarified. i hope i will not, i have beenin clarified. i hope i will not, i have been in the party 60 years. astronauts use duct tape to stop air leaking
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