hello it's tuesday, it's nine o'clock, i'm joanna gosling, welcome to the programme. three million common surgeries and cancer treatments could become life—threatening because antibiotics are becoming less effective. that's the warning from health officials today, who say people who take antibiotics when they don't need them could be putting themselves and their families at risk. we'll speak to a gp, a cancer patient and public health england about what can be done. also, the turkish president will address parliament in the next few minutes to outline new evidence he claims to have about the murder of jamal khashoggi in the saudi embassy in istanbul, we will bring you the details as we get them. hundreds of women in glasgow are taking to the streets this morning to protest about equal pay. some schools and nurseries have been forced to close. well, we'rejust fighting to be paid equally, same as everybody else. i mean, honestly, the wages are ridiculous. i'm working three jobs and i'm still struggling month—to—month,

borrowing off my own kids, which is shocking. we'll be live at the protest as it gets under way. and — the number of takeaways on uk high streets has risen by a third in eight years. what's fuelling our love for junk food? haven't got time to cook, mcdonald's. to cook, will have a takeaway tonight. haven't got time to cook breakfast, we'll get... we'll go and get a breakfast. it's... it's easy, it's convenient and it's cheap. this man — dibsy — has been banned from all his local takeaways in an attempt to save his life. we'll talk to him after ten o'clock. hello, welcome to the programme. we're live until 11 this morning. 40% of us still expect to be given antibiotics by our gp

when we have coughs, colds, the flu or chest infections. is that you? orare you or are you worried about the increase in antibiotic resistance? are you reliant on antibiotics for your quality of life? we're also talking about cervical smear tests later — as it's revealed that the number of women being tested has fallen to its lowest level in two decades. have you missed a smear test and then regretted it? if so do get in touch —that‘s coming up later. do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about — use the hashtag victoria live. 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: the number of infections and bugs that have become resistant to one or more key antibiotics has risen more than a third in just four years.

public health england says three million operations and cancer treatments would become life threatening if antibiotics become ineffective. it says that people could be putting themselves — and their families — at risk by taking the drugs when the don't need them. our correspondent lucinda adam joins me now. it's obviously a subject we have been talking about for a very long time, what is new about what has being said today? health officials are warning us that modern medicine could go back to the dark ages. public health england, the body that advises the government, says 3 million operations each year that we ta ke million operations each year that we take for granted, knee and hip replacements, caesarean sections and even cancer treatment could become life threatening because the resista nce life threatening because the resistance to the antibiotics that we use is going down and it's not the procedure that's the danger but the procedure that's the danger but the risk of infection afterwards. they say new figures today she that the bloodstream infections have gone

up the bloodstream infections have gone up 35% and no new antibiotics have been invented in the last 30 years so we been invented in the last 30 years so we must work with what we have. how far so we must work with what we have. howfarare we so we must work with what we have. how far are we from routine surgery is becoming life—threatening surgery because of the antibiotic issue?m a way it is already here, already some 5000 deaths occur in the uk each year because of the risk, some 700,000 worldwide. a government review three years ago said if we're not careful by 2050 there could be 10 million deaths per year because of this. the chief medical offer for england said it is costing the nhs and £80 million a year because people are spending more time in hospital recovering after procedure is. she is calling for this to be recorded on death certificates because she wanted to be a wake—up call as to how many deaths this is causing. many families don't often realise their loved one died because they could not be treated for an infection with antibiotics. we'll

talk more about that later, thank you very much, get in touch with your thoughts on that but right now let'sjoin your thoughts on that but right now let's join rebecca in your thoughts on that but right now let'sjoin rebecca in the newsroom. the president of turkey has promised to reveal new information this morning about the killing of the saudi journalist, jamal hashoggi. his speech coincides with the start of a major investment conference in saudi arabia, which is taking place just two days after the saudi leadership admitted mr hashoggi was murdered inside the country's istanbul consulate. as new pictures emerge showing the journalist's final movements, president erdogan will address his party and deliver what he has called ‘the naked truth‘ over the killing. donald trump says he's not satisfied with saudi arabia's version of events while german chancellor angela merkel called the death ‘monstrous'. in what's believed to be the biggest equal pay strike ever seen in the uk, more than 8,000 women who work for glasgow city council have begun 48 hours of industrial action today. the council says there's no

justification for the walk—out, but the unions say they have no option after years of talks. it could cost up to a billion pounds to settle the dispute. here's our scotland correspondent lorna gordon. she's holding down three jobs at two different schools but each month carol still struggles to pay her bills. now she's had enough. well, we'rejust fighting to be paid equally, same as everybody else. i mean, honestly, the wages are ridiculous. i'm working threejobs and i'm still struggling month—to—month, borrowing off my own kids, which is shocking. it's not on. as soon as i get paid i pay all of my bills that day, and sometimes i'm lucky if i've got £50 left to do me the next four weeks. carers, cleaners, caterers, nursery workers are among the thousands expected to strike. glasgow city council said it was close to an agreement with the unions and had been working hard to try and resolve the dispute, adding there was no justification for the disruption, which,

it says, will hit the city's most vulnerable the hardest. it's really unnecessary. i don't think it's fair on the claimants. fair on the women. they all lose pay over the next couple of days, those who are not going to work, who are going to go out on strike. and there is going to be an enormous disruption caused in glasgow. and to some of the most vulnerable people in the city. the council says it is committed to making an offer to those on strike in december, it's not yet clear how they will settle the bill which could run to hundreds of millions of pounds, but those looking for equal pay say the time has run out to recognise the true value of theirjobs and they must now pay. lorna gordon, bbc news, glasgow. the government's been accused of failing to address the problem of sexual harassment in public places. mps on the women and equalities committee says that while work is taking place to prevent sexual abuse and violence overseas, more needs to be done to tackle the issue at home.

lisa hampele reports. the report says women and girls are being harassed on buses and trains, in bars and clubs, at university, in parks and on the street. such behaviour, it says, is relentless and becomes normalised as girls grow up. the most shocking thing was the way in which young women particularly were being forced to change the way they live their lives on a daily basis. whether that is what they wear, if they were running, if they were wearing headphones, they would avoid eye contact with people on the street because they been brought up to believe that if they did not take those precautionary measures then they could be subject to sexual harassment and that it would be their fault. the committee concludes that while the government has pledged to eliminate sexual harassment by 2030 there is no evidence of action to achieve this. it says ministers must set out a plan. the mps want public campaigns to help tackle the issue and a law

criminalising the nonconsensual creation and distribution of intimate sexual images. the committee also says the government should treat the problem in a similar way to road safety or smoking and want train and bus operators to prohibit sexual harassment and the viewing of pornography. high streets across the uk have the highest concentration of fast food outlets in almost a decade, according to new figures. despite government efforts to cut obesity, analysis by the bbc shows that in most areas, the number of takeaway shops has risen by more than a third since 2010. david rhodes has more. it is the food that is fast, convenient and an everyday part of some people's lives. i really hated how i looked. it's not normal to be 30 stone. at the age ofjust 16, joe from rotherham was morbidly obese. you see more takeaways than you're actually seeing corner shops.

i think they should definitely limit the number of fast food places massively, because it's just taking over. it's part of everyday life now. analysis of official figures by the bbc has found that in 2010 there were just over 29,000 fast food businesses in the uk. this year, that number has reached over 39,000, an increase of over a third in the space of eight years. obesity is the biggest challenge facing the nhs. obesity has been linked with fast food, and we've had projections that suggest that by 2050, which is only one generation away, the direct and indirect costs of obesity will cost nearly £50 billion, and that's enough to bankrupt the nhs. the government and devolved administrations across the uk have all set out plans to reduce obesity levels, whilst in england ministers say local councils can control the number and location of takeaways.

but on current trends, the number of these food businesses is set to rise and the battle to control bulging waistlines looks likely to become harder. david rhodes, bbc news, rotherham. millions of women across england are failing to take—up cervical cancer screening tests within the recommended time frame. public health england says that more than three million of those eligible have not had a smear test for at least three years. more than 200,000 women are diagnosed with cervical abnormalities in britain every year. nearly 30 nobel prize winners have written to the prime minister and the president of the european commission, urging them to do a deal on brexit to protect science. a survey at one of britain's leading research centres has found that many scientists are considering leaving the uk. they warn that a no—deal brexit would create new barriers to collaboration, and inhibit scientific progress. the world's longest sea bridge has officially opened, connecting hong kong and macau to mainland china. the bridge is designed

to withstand earthquakes and the seasonal typhoons which tear through the region. it cost almost £18 billion to build and has taken a decade to construct. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. let's bring you some comments on some of the stories, takeaways, hearing about the growth in the number of takeaway outlets, elaine on text says i blame the rise on the drop of home economics in schools, all schools should have at least two mag years, time enough to teach them nutrition and that you can cook a good meal and a matter of minutes, lots of people distort to cook. and louise talking about smear tests seeing the nhs trust has reduced the number of services, they were done

by appointment in the walk—in centre, this has been closed and the service has been pushed back to gp‘s i've been trying to book an appointment forfour i've been trying to book an appointment for four weeks without success. appointment for four weeks without success. something needs to be done to make appointments easier to book. thank you for those, keep getting in touch. texts will be charged at your standard network rate. let's get some sport. olly foster is at the bbc sport centre. cristiano ronaldo plays against his old club manchester united tonight and he has again defended himself against an accusation of rape. good morning, yes. it's the champions league. ronaldo's new clubjuventus face manchester united at old trafford tonight. we know that ronaldo has strongly denied has strongly denied the allegation of rape that dates back to 2009 in las vegas. police there say they have re—opened a case with a women claiming that she was raped in a hotel room. the two were photographed together on the night of the alleged incident.

ronaldo called it fake news last month. he was given time off over the international break with portugal, but this is him arriving in manchester yesterday, where he won the first of his five champions league titles. he had six seasons with united and won everything beforejoining real madrid and now he is in his first season in italy. this is his second return to old trafford, he scored the winner in 2013 for real. jose mourinho was his manager then and now obviously the united boss. now clubs have to put up the manager and a player ahead of these champions league matches, and under the cirumstances, it might have been expected for anotherjuve player to fulfil the obligation but ronaldo faced the media and said that he has every confeidnece in hsi lawyers and that that the truth will come out. i'm very happy. my lawyers, they are confident, and of course i am too. so, the most important, i enjoy the football, i enjoy my life. the rest, i have people

who take care of my life and, of course, the true always coming in the first position. so, i'm good. i know that i'm example, i know, 100%. in the pitch and outside the pitch. so i'm always smile, i'm happy man, i'm blessed that i play in a fantastic club. i have a fantastic family, i have four kids, i'm healthy, i have everything. so, the rest doesn't interfere on me so i'm very, very glad. cristiano ronaldo fronting up yet again, denying those allegations, should be a fantastic match. kick—off at 8pm. manchester city are also playing tonight, they are away to shaktar donetsk. arsenal in action, on another good

role. arsenal had that shaky start to the season , they lost to chelsea and manchester city but they have won every match since, 10 in a row in all competitions and they haven't done that for 11 years — they came from behind to beat leicester at the emirates last night and a lot of pundits have been drooling over the performnace of mezut ozil, he scored the equaliser but was then the architect of the next next two, their third was a thing of beauty, ozil at the start of it, cutting through leicester and setting up pierre emerick aubameyang for his second...they are back up to fourth if i was to be uncharitable, the gunners haven't really faced anyone of note in that 10 match winning run, a lot of struggling teams, brentford in the cup, a couple of very minor european teams in the europa league, they've got liverpool in a couple of weeks time and that will be a proper test ofjust how well they are playing. thank you.

bacterial infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics — and that resistance could turn three million common operations each year into potentially life—threatening procedures. that's according a new report from public health england out today. the new data found the number of antibiotic resistant bloodstream infections increased continues to rise sharply in england, up by 35% between 2013 and 2017. part of the problem is that patients expect to be prescribed antibiotics by their gp — recent polling has found that almost 40% of patients expect to be prescribed an antibiotic if they go to their gp with a cough. we're nowjoined in the studio by dr susan hopkins — an expert on infectious diseases from public health england who wrote the report, sue lee — a chemotherapy patient whose health regularly depends on antibiotics, and dr philippa kaye — a local gp. welcome all of you and thank you for

coming in. susan, tell us about what you are seeing in terms of antibiotic resistance. we see its continuing to rise and we've had a rise of 35% in bloodstream infections. that is related to the fa ct infections. that is related to the fact that stream infections arising and infections in general continue to rise in the population. these are straightforward infections previously treated easily? exactly, the reason they get to bloodstream infection, the end result, you require admission to hospital, many patients may have sign of sepsis, you can't treat them in the community, the reason they get to hospital is because the underlying infection such as a urinary tract infection such as a urinary tract infection or chest infection cannot be treated by commonly given antibiotics. these are tablet antibiotics, they require admission to hospitalfor antibiotics, they require admission to hospital for intravenous treatment. during the tract infection could end up killing you?

it can indeed. and you actually seeing that? we rarely see that's still as we have antibiotics that will work in hospitals but they won't work in the community. what we are seeing is a rise in infections that start in the community but are not treatable any more in the community and require admission to hospital. can the club be turned back now? we cannot turn the clock back now? we cannot turn the clock back easily, we know once bacteria develop resistance to particular and a biotics it's difficult to get rid of that resistance because they multiply and butyrate all the time. what we have to do is prevent new resista nce what we have to do is prevent new resistance from merging and slow down the rising resistance and that's the most important thing way we can do that is reduce antibiotic use. we can do that is reduce antibiotic use. every time you take an antibiotic you risk the next infection being resistant to the antibiotic you've taken, what we are doing today is saying if you don't need an antibiotic don't take one. if you go to the doctor, teacher gps

advice. you could be someone who has never taken an antibiotic and they wouldn't necessarily work for you if you get an antibiotic resistant strain. we see that almost everyone ta kes strain. we see that almost everyone takes an antibiotic at some point in their life, one in three of us takes one each year, the more you taken antibiotic the more likely they won't work, we want to preserve them from when they won four, your immune system is not working, you are having surgery in hospital, the risk of infection is higher than normal. going back to a urinary tract infection, something very simple and basic shoot people not be taking antibiotics for them? we say when you have symptoms, can you washed your rent out by drinking water, in many cases they need antibiotics, you can't stop taking them for that. you can stop taking them for cops, s0 you can stop taking them for cops, so with roads and calls, when you ta ke so with roads and calls, when you take them for that it risks a rise

in resistance to urinary tract infections. she gps beat. prescribing antibiotics for cops, sore throats and calls. we cannot say stop. why not? there are situations and patients who need them, elderly, a young child, immunosuppressed patients who is immune system won't do the work. there are some situations the infection is a beer and they may need antibiotics but in the main, healthy people who come in with a short duration of symptoms and the majority of those people will get better by themselves. gps are frequently reducing antibiotics and we know they are doing really well and they've reduced antibiotics by more than 10% in the last five years along with the rising resistance they are really dry to tackle this but we need to do more. philip, if someone comes in but we need to do more. philip, if someone comes in and says i have a cold, cough, i'd like some antibiotics, how would you respond asa gp? antibiotics, how would you respond as a gp? they do that all day every

day and it's a battle we face. it can be worried that the gold as a gp when you are faced with having this debate and people get upset easily to have that all day every day every ten minutes. this is one of the newton—john describing pads and you will see gps giving many more of these. we first explain your cough or cold sore throat is most to be called by a virus and antibiotics treat bacteria not viruses, and potentially going to do is give you thrash, diarrhoea, feeling sick but people want to have something when they go to the doctor, he don't want to come out and see my gp did not thank and this is what we are going to give them. i understand, i see that, if the laboratory is process. for us? should you just be able to say i'm sorry, we are not prescribing and a biotics any more u nless prescribing and a biotics any more unless it is an extreme case. if easier to seek this is what you have got, this is what you can do to help yourself, this is when to come back,

it's easier than getting into a debate about antibiotic resistance, these are pretty helpful and patient should be expecting to see many more of these. sue, you are only too well aware of the impact of antibiotic resista nce aware of the impact of antibiotic resistance because you having chemotherapy, your immune system is reduced, tell us how important antibiotics are to you. reduced, tell us how important antibiotics are to youlj reduced, tell us how important antibiotics are to you. i was first diagnosed with lung cancer ten years ago and had surgery and chemotherapy but four years later i had to have quite extensive surgery to my chest wall and spine and i developed an infection which developed into sepsis. i was extremely pearly at the time. susan talked about sepsis and it's pretty grim. i had to have intravenous antibiotics, i was kept in hospital for longer than i should have but i was lucky enough to have intravenous and a biotics in the community. —— poorly. very difficult to set up at a life—saver for me and

carried on having oral antibiotics as well. then having chemotherapy following that because mike immune syste m following that because mike immune system was so weak, they had to give me antibiotics then prophylactically because there was such a risk of another infection. and potentially i would not have fought because i was so would not have fought because i was so weak from the initial one. so all the time you are fearful of simple infections. i'm on targeted chemotherapy now because it's gone into the nerve roots in my spine, i'm ona into the nerve roots in my spine, i'm on a drug which is hopefully keeping dad at day but again, that weakens my immune system sol keeping dad at day but again, that weakens my immune system so i am very careful with trying to avoid infection and keeping away. but if i do get anything then i am given antibiotics probably earlier than anybody else would. so it is a worry that because i've had so many, i could become resistant, more so can

ijust interrupt, could become resistant, more so can i just interrupt, it's could become resistant, more so can ijust interrupt, it's really important, lots of patients think they are becoming resistant and that's what you said i will become resistant and that's not the case, it's the bacteria that are becoming resistant not due. you can have one infection and at ba resistant infection and at ba resistant infection or you could have had 20 courses of antibiotics and get a resistant infection, it's an important distinction. sorry. lots and lots of people getting in touch on this as you would expect, one text says voip to doctors prescribe and a biotics in response to patient demand if they think that would contribute to these drugs being less effective. another says people rushed to the doctor every little thing, demand antibiotics as a right for cops and tummy upsets. twitter users says most coughs and colds clear up users says most coughs and colds clearup ina users says most coughs and colds clear up in a week or so, if and about still for viruses doctor

should not describe them. sandra says i get chest infections are not, and a biotics don't work unless they use old ones and then i put up with bad side effects. susan, the chief medical officer says she wants antibiotic resistance to effectively be recorded on death certificates of someone be recorded on death certificates of someone dies from something that would previously have been treated effectively by antibiotics. it would enable us to get a clearer picture on what is happening, do you think that should be done? we are going to look at it, it's harder than it looks, if a patient dies from cancer that's usually what goes on the death certificate. it's hard to know resistance, but we will look at it to see how we can manage. public health england, at the moment we try to assess who dies within 30 days seven infection, we take all deaths within 30 days and monitor that over time, it's a marker of how good

treatment is, there will be some people who die after an infection thatis people who die after an infection that is not related to it, it's difficult to decide what is because of the infection and what is because of the infection and what is because of the infection and what is because of the underlying condition. we will discuss with the department of health and social care how we can understand this better in the future. an anonymous text says i am 73, might doctor sends me text to encourage me to hit the anti flu jab, it's an antibiotic i refuse to have that. that's not correct, the flu vaccine be at the nasal flu spray flu vaccine be at the nasal flu spray that your children get or the vaccine adults are being offered is not an antibiotic, it is a vaccine, it stimulates your immune system to recognise the various strains of flu in the vaccine at the moment, if you are exposed to them you don't get flu. and it was not give you flu, that's the other misconception. and it can prevent you needing an antibiotic because you won't get the

cough, cold, flu symptoms and the convocations of flu is wealth which can be bacterial. actually we would promote all people especially the young and elderly and those with suppressed immune systems to get bad. i hope that correspondent has heard your answers. thank you all for coming in. turkish president erdogan has said he will reveal new information in the next few minutes about the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkey says it wants to prevent what it calls "attempts at a whitewash". saudi arabia first claimed that khashoggi left the consulate alive, then said he died in a fight, before admitting he was murdered, blaming "rogue agents". our turkey correspondent mark lowen joins us now from istanbul. everybody waiting for the words from the president, has he started speaking yet, actually? he hasn't

started speaking, i'm glancing at the television here, the leader of the television here, the leader of the far right party, his coalition partner, is speaking at the moment and said all signs point to the saudi leadership as being responsible for the death of jamal khashoggi. we are waiting for president erdogan to speak, he promises to reveal what he calls the naked truth, a lot of frustration in ankara of this changing narrative, shifting stories from the saudis over the last two weeks from flat the nile to claiming he died in a fist fight, to the saudi foreign minister saying he was murdered by an authorised saudi officials. president erdogan keeping the pressure on today, his speech aimed at to people, first the saudi crown prince, his regional rival who turkey believes was, ordered the killing but donald trump in the white house who turkey wants to persuade to relinquish his support the saudi crown prince over this assassination. turkey has been saying it has video and audio

evidence, is that going to be published? well, so far, it has not been given to anyone, we are told it was not even given to the american intelligence services, so i think what turkey, what turkey is feeling is that it has got this incriminating evidence but turkish officials are reluctant to publish it to show that they were basically hugging the saudi consulate here, they don't want to reveal how they did that or whether they use for example an informant inside the saudi consulate but instead they have been drip feeding snippets of that audio recording to show the incriminating evidence and i think what we have learned in the last couple of days, even more incriminating, cctv footage for example of one of the alleged members of the saudi hit squad donning the clothes of jamal khashoggi and a fake beard and glasses, walking around istanbul after the killing as a diversionary tactic. the beam reports the crown

prince's top aide was beamed in by skype into the saudi consul general‘s office and launched a verbal thai raid at jamal general‘s office and launched a verbal thai raid atjamal khashoggi and shouted bring me the head of the dog and there's been much more information about the members of the saudi hit squad but work highly placed and one of them for example, spoke to the crown prince's head of office for times that date. the picture is very much a merging of an operation that was premeditated and can be pinned on the top levels of the saudi leadership, will have to see whether president erdogan stands that up—to—date. see whether president erdogan stands that up-to-date. how much detail, how graphic statements do you expect from the president? that's a good question, there has been a lot of graphic material, photographs and the like of how mr khashoggi was dismembered, his fingers were cut off and he was beheaded, it's gruesome stuff but that's been in

the media, leaking from the intelligence service. up until now the president has not directly pointed the finger at the saudi leadership, in order, we think, to try to maintain and preserve the relationship while drip feeding this information to incriminate the crown prince. we'll have to see if that tactic changes today and echoes some of the looted detail. we'll have coverage as soon as he of the looted detail. we'll have coverage as soon as he starts to speak, thanks very much runout. time for the latest news — here's rebecca jones. the number of infections and bugs that have become resistant to one or more key antibiotics has risen more than a third injust four years. public health england says three million operations and cancer treatments would become life threatening if antibiotics become ineffective. it says that people could be putting themselves — and their families — at risk by taking the drugs when the don't need them the president of turkey has promised to reveal

new information this morning about the killing of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. his speech coincides with the start of a major investment conference in saudi arabia, which is taking place just two days after the saudi leadership admitted mr khashoggi was murdered inside the country's istanbul consulate. as more pictures emerge showing the journalist's final movements, president erdogan has said he will deliver what he's calling ‘the naked truth‘ over the killing. donald trump says he's not satisfied with saudi arabia's version of events while german chancellor angela merkel called the death ‘monstrous'. in what's believed to be the biggest equal pay strike ever seen in the uk, more than 8,000 women who work for glasgow city council have begun 48 hours of industrial action the council says there's no justification for the walk—out, but the unions say they have no option after years of talks. it could cost up to a billion pounds to settle the dispute. primary schools, nurseries, and home

care services will be affected. the number of takeaways in the uk has risen by more than a third in eight years — to almost 40,000. around one in every four adults in the uk is obese. the government says local authorities have a range of powers to create healthier environments and that it's also consulting on calorie labels on menus. millions of women across england are failing to take—up cervical cancer screening tests within the recommended time frame — according to new figures. public health england says that more than three million of those eligible have not had a smear test for at least three years. more than 200,000 women are diagnosed with cervical abnormalities in britain each year. and the duke and duchess of sussex have arrived in fiji for a three day visit. prince harry was presented

with the country's national drink — as the royal couple received a traditional welcome — mirroring the one attended by the queen and duke of edinburgh in 1953. the duke and duchess inspected a guard of honour, before being taken to meet the country's president. that's a summary of the latest bbc news. here's some sport now with olly foster. these are the headlines this morning, cristiano ronaldo faces old clu b morning, cristiano ronaldo faces old club manchester united in the champions league tonight, he says he's confident he will be cleared an allegation of rape, a woman in the united states claims she was right by the world player of the year in a las vegas hotel in 2009. something he has again denied. manchester city also play in the champions league this evening against shakhtar donetsk, they have three points from two matches so far in their group.

arsenal up to fourth in the premier league after coming from behind to beat leicester 3—1, they've now gone ten games in a row winning in all competitions, the first time they've done that in 11 years. and england's cricketers play their final one—day match against sri lanka weather permitting in colombo. england have already won the series. theresa may will brief the cabinet this morning on the progress of brexit negotiations, after telling mps yesterday that she could accept a short extension to the transition period after the uk leaves the eu. meanwhile 29 nobel prize winners have urged the uk and the eu to agree a brexit deal, in order to protect scientific research. in a letter to theresa may and the president of the european commission, jean—claude juncker — they warn that a no—deal brexit would create new barriers to collaboration across the eu. our political guru norman smith is outside number 10. well, they gathered early doors this

morning, cabinet beginning around about 830 and it looks like another fraught meeting for theresa may as she tries to calm tensions and her cabinet over a planned departure. the latest idea of extending the so—called transition period, nothing much will change and we carry on as is, but theresa may has now floated the idea it might have to go on a bit longer than 20 months. yesterday she suggested it would be over before the next election but that's in 2022, the summer of 2022 so there are fears that actually this standstill period could go on for quite a long time. theresa may today

will try to ease some of the disquiet in cabinet including it seems from the work and pensions secretary esther mcvey who at the weekend was saying she was devastated by the idea, this morning she was asked if she was still devastated. reporter: morning, secretary of state. morning. are you devastated by the pm's brexit plans? i'm devastated you're here again! do you think she's got the cabinet with her? that's not very polite, saying she is devastated to see a cameraman outside her apartment. anyway, the hope of theresa may is that cabinet ministers will for the time being agreed to go along with what is at the moment still an option but the striking thing is that if you listen to the views being expressed by mps yesterday, there is widespread opposition throughout parliament it seems, to me, to the idea of

extending transition even longer. we had mp's from all sides saying it would cost an extra £20 billion, what would be the incentive for the eu to allow us to leave this extended transition period? and a sense that many voters would feel almost betrayed if transition was allowed to go on even longer. that is our task now, theresa may has to keep her cabinet on board for this idea of this longer departure date before we are finally free of the eu. the uk is facing a social housing crisis — there aren't enough properties to go around, and the most vulnerable in society often left to live in some of the worst accommodation. nowhere is the problem greater than in london — building of council homes has been at a near standstill for decades — the population is rising by over1 percent a year, and yet only around 20,000 new homes have been built every year in the city in the past decade. in may, london's mayor sadiq khan

agreed a billion pound plan to build thousands homes for "social rent" — council houses in other words. today he's announcing that more than 11,000 council homes will be built in the next four years. good morning, thank you forjoining us. 11,000 council houses to be built overfour years, us. 11,000 council houses to be built over four years, that's good but it's a drop in the ocean isn't it in terms of what is needed?” agree. successive governments have failed london and have failed families who desperately need affordable housing. councils in the 70s with the help of the government used to build themselves around 20,000 council homes each year. in the 90s it was almost zero. and any four years before i became mayor of london, overfour years or more about 2000 council homes were built. the starting base is poor. but the

announcement today is me supporting 26 of our councils who will start building more than 11,000 homes over the next four years. over the next four years we will have five times as many council homes begun as the last four. but you're right, it has to be part of a package of solutions so to be part of a package of solutions so i'm calling on the government to give us more support and more funding to allow us to assemble land and build more homes that london are so and build more homes that london are so desperately need. in terms of fighting against what's going on with the right to buy, the number of houses being ta ken with the right to buy, the number of houses being taken out of the system versus the number being put in, are you fighting a losing battle? you right behind me and the viewers that sends the right to buy scheme began which an important scheme to allow people to own a home, we have sold

off in london alone more than 300,000 homes on the right to buy, and we have only built 60,000 during that period. so for every five homes sold only one has been built in its place and if you add into that the fa ct place and if you add into that the fact that homes that have been built in london have tended to be luxury developments, penthouse flats that sit empty, it's one of the reasons we have the housing crisis in london. bus drivers, nurses, clea ners london. bus drivers, nurses, cleaners simply cannot afford to live in this great city and we need them to live in the city to help our city run. and selling of those homes under right to buy costs the public purse. one stat over sooner have billion pounds of public money has been spent helping 60,000 tenants by the council home. we hear what you are saying about the aspirations of people to own homes but is it time to scrap that system? if it's the

case that the government will continue with the right to buy you have to replace them with like—for—like replacement is, that's really important. to meet the needs and aspirations of many people to be homeowners. we cannot do it at the expense of others in our society is so expense of others in our society is so my expense of others in our society is so my message expense of others in our society is so my message to the government is if you are going to proceed with right to buy it important that like—for—like replacement is, it's important councils get to keep the receipts and spend it to build new homes we so desperately need. sorry to interrupt... there just homes we so desperately need. sorry to interrupt... therejust are not like—for—like replacement is so in that context would you say the government should scrap least suspend buy to let? write to buy, sorry. continuing to build council homes like i am announcing today, 11,000 being announced today, we'll be able to meet both objectives of the filling people's aspirations to be homeowners but also making sure we have affordable council housing.

phrase affordable housing is now treated with contempt by many londoners because the homes which have been built in the past have not been affordable and have not been the council homes which have been sold off. in terms of the definitions of what constitutes affordable housing, when it comes to rent it is 80% of the market rate, is that really affordable? it's not. i have ditched in that definition because it was linked with a market value of properties that had been rented for advertised to rent rather than what people are earning so my definition as mayor of london of what is an affordable home is one of three things, either a council home or we have announced the 11,000 more being built in the next four years, ora being built in the next four years, or a home where you pay a london living rent which is a third of average earnings, it is linked with earnings in an area, or three, it's a home that is shared ownership, pa rt a home that is shared ownership, part five, part rent. council home,

shared ownership come apart by, part rent, it's important to recognise that what we need in london are affordable homes rather than penthouses which are left empty. one of the issues in london in particular, it's an issue in many cities of course, is homelessness because there is simply not enough accommodation in london 511,000 households are in temporary accommodation and the number of rough sleepers has doubled over a year, how do those issues get touched when you are talking about this today sticks you are talking about on affordable housing and council homes just not been built quickly enough? firstly i'd say it's possible to solve the issue of rough sleeping, it's not true to say we cannot solve that. in the eight years before i became mayor, roughly been doubled from 8000 ayes to 8000. we have

plateaued this, we have reduced it, iam in no plateaued this, we have reduced it, i am in no way saying we have solved that at the point i make is that with the right investment and support before someone becomes a rough sleeper, working with councils, charities and community groups, going out and talking to rough sleepers, it's possible to grapple with these issues. one thing we have to do is build more genuinely affordable homes, make sure a young man or woman doesn't end up on the streets in the first place. one of the reasons when you speak to rough sleepers why‘d they are on the streets is benefit changes and that includes universal credit also many young people sleeping rough have complex mental health issues, addiction issues, that's why it's important that we address this. there's no point waiting for someone to become a rock sleeper, it's difficult enough as it is to get them off the streets but stop them becoming a rough sleeper in the first place as part of the solution. knife crime in london,

15,000 knife crimes over the past year alone, you'd specifically linked the increase in crime to the reduction in police numbers, what do you want in terms of funding for the police and number of extra police on the streets? in meeting the chancellor philip hammond today in advance of his budget that's coming up advance of his budget that's coming up next week and one of the points i'll be making to the chancellor is that even the home office's of officials, the civil servants and experts accept now there is a link between the cut in police officers and resources on the increase in violent crime, i'm not excusing criminality, there are complex reasons why young people all across the country think it's ok to pick up a knife but everyone accepts except for politicians and the government that there is a link between reduction in police numbers on the increase in violent crimes or might message will be stop further cuts to police forces around the country,

interest in police and youth preventative services, make sure we are tough on crime, the enforcement side of ten, we have got to make sure we are tough on the causes of crime, invest in young people, youth services, wraparound schools, mental health services in that way we will grapple and solve the issue in the increase in violent crime. you won't be asking for more money for the police budget, more officers on the streets ? police budget, more officers on the streets? absolutely, that's exactly what i'll be doing, more money for police officers. sorry, yes, but stopping any further cuts to the police budgets and investing in youth services won't deliver extra police on the streets, will they?” beg your pardon, there are two things, to stop any further cuts in to make sure we get the investment in london and across the country. in london we have the first time since 2003 fewer than 30,000 police officers but when you compare the london population versus police

officers we have it's the lowest we've had more than 20 years, 20 yea rs we've had more than 20 years, 20 years ago we had for police officers for every 1000 of the population. how many more police officers, sorry to keep pushing it how many more police officers do you think are required on the streets of london? i'd like to see in london a population of police officer numbers being roughly speaking 32,000, it is currently below 30,000, because of the pension changes the government has announced we may lose another 1000 officers, the graph is going downwards, i'm using fodder using council taxpayers money and business rates from london to stop the drop being so extreme but unless the government invests in police we will carry on seeing government invests in police we will carry on seeing across government invests in police we will carry on seeing across the country police officer numbers going down notwithstanding many others increasing council to to make sure that it isn't a start. that's an extra 2000 officers you want to see

on the streets of london, it was not happen what is the effect? listen, i am going to carry on doing what we can come and not waiting for the government to step in. i've announced £115 million which has now been spent for youth services in london, we are already using the business rates and council tax to stop the decrease being a start as it has been but i'm afraid the predictions from the experts, not just for me, is that unless we get more investment in policing, investment and youth services we will carry on seeing the increase in violent crime with seen over the last four years. brexit, you were out with the marchers at the weekend in london, you want to be a second referendum. your party has said it's an option for the labour party amongst all the options that would be considered, depending on how you can scroll out. would you like labour to get squarely behind calling for a second referendum?”

would like labour to be the next government so obviously the first option, the best option is a general election and the fact can top and clearly i am in favour of a public vote. two yea rs clearly i am in favour of a public vote. two years ago no one was saying we would have a bad breaks a deal or no deal at all, two years ago we were told it would be possible to leave the eu and have access to the single market, we were told doing a deal with the eu would be the easy as trade deal in history. lo and behold and a half yea rs on history. lo and behold and a half years on the nhs is being advised to stock up on medicine, we are seeing the police preparing for the possibility of civil unrest, seeing the moderate being used as a car park when it comes to restrictions that could be in relation to vehicles going to france and vehicles going to france and vehicles from france coming here. i'm seeing every week dismisses thinking about what they are going to do if we get a no deal and that includesjobs to do if we get a no deal and that includes jobs leaving to do if we get a no deal and that includesjobs leaving london to do if we get a no deal and that includes jobs leaving london and going notjust to europe and around the world. in those circumstances, i

think the first time, the british public should have a say on the outcome of negotiations... quickly nicola sturgeon with the snp has been really specific about what she wa nts to been really specific about what she wants to see with the second referendum, she'd like there to be a double lock so every nation come all the four nations would have to support leave in order for the four nations would have to support leave in orderfor it the four nations would have to support leave in order for it to happen, you think that's a good idea and the other thing she said if there is a special deal for northern ireland should be one for scotland, should there also be one for london? look, london, the population in london is more than the populations of scotla nd london is more than the populations of scotland and wales combined, we contribute a huge amount to our country's economy, i'm a firm believer in the nation state but i'm not asking for a unilateral declaration of independence, i quite like london being the capital city of our country before the government has to realise is if the country is to prosper and do well london needs to prosper and do well london needs to prosper and do well as well and my real worry and this is from speaking to business leaders and

investors and innovators but also the nhs, social care and policing, if we have a bad breaks it real or no deal whatsoever, it's going to be catastrophic or the capital city and for the country. those circumstances, the government needs to realise it's in our country's interests that any deal government dollars with the eu, doors right by london and i think nicola sturgeon, carmenjones, the london and i think nicola sturgeon, carmen jones, the northern london and i think nicola sturgeon, carmenjones, the northern irish leadership but also those across the country are crying out for proper leadership from the prime minister. she should be negotiating in the national interest rather than the interest of the conservative party. sadiq khan, thank you. the "relentless nature" of sexual harassment has normalised it for girls growing up — and has contributed to a wider negative cultural effect on society. that's according to a parliamentary report released today which says the government is failing to adress street harassment of women and girls in the uk.

the mps say the responsibility is left to women to avoid risky situations — and while the government says it wants to eliminate sexual harassment by 2030, the mps say there's no evidence of any programme to achieve this. they're calling for several measures including a tough law to force pub landlords to take action on harassment in their venues and stronger measures to tackle the sending of unsolicited sexual images and viewing of pornography in public. earlier i spoke to maria miller, the chair of the women and equalities' committee in parliament which wrote that report. we were also joined by sian norris — a writer and feminist activist who told us about her experiences of street harassment. like many women my first experience of sexual harassment and street raced harassment happened when i was a teenager, about 1k years old. standing at a bus stop in my school uniform, men beeping their car horn and shouting things from car windows and shouting things from car windows andi and shouting things from car windows and i think it's really important that we recognise this happens when you are child, it happens when you

are in your school uniform. so from their when i was a little bit older i have men following me down the street talking about what they wa nted street talking about what they wanted to do to me sexually, one of the most significant incidence was men chanting sexualised insults at me, chanting as i walked past, being sexually assaulted on buses, i've been sexually harassed on trains, r us, clubs, most recentlyjust crossing the road on the way to the supermarket a group of men outside a pub started making sexual comments about my body. this is kind of the litany of harassment and comments that women live with from a very young age and it continues right into our adult food and it has a real impact on the way we behave in public space then we relate to public space then we relate to public space then we relate to public space and i'm pleased to see this report, today. maria, those are shams experiences but how widespread are they. it would suggest her

experiences is typical of many in the united kingdom the research would say one in three young women experience sexual harassment every month and the experience can be wide ranging as your correspondent has said. —— sian's. one law alone cannot stop this. what are the ideas, how do you stop? we've taken evidence from cities like canterbury who have done a great deal to tackle sexual harassment incidents, when a pub, club or taxi are licenses through the local authority they insist on sexual harassment training as part of that licensing process. other ideas that we are putting to government, very other ideas that we are putting to government, very constructively, is that franchise agreements with train companies should also include a requirement to tackle sexual harassment on board public transport

and particularly prohibited the viewing of pornography in what is after all an unrestricted space. what about the harassment of schoolgirls as they walked down the street by men. sian described the mothers of daughters would be familiar with this, teenagers will be familiar with this, how do you stop that? the first thing i would say is what has been striking is in the evidence we have taken is how unaware many men are of the scale of sexual harassment and the problems that women experience. one thing we are trying to do through the report is raise awareness so that more people can hopefully take action and call out this behaviour. at the sort of behaviour that sian has talked about, we heard similar stories of schoolchildren in their school uniforms being sexualised is something which is gross and offensive but shows how ingrained this culture is. and the report that

we did on sexual harassment within schools last year highlighted this problem and i hope that through many different actions but particularly by making sex and relationship education compulsory which this government has now done after 17 years of procrastination by governments of all colours, but we can help empower children to take action themselves to report that the behaviour and hopefully in those instances, the police can take some action. sian, 40 think about the suggestions do you have any others to add? i welcome all of the suggestions, i think getting bars and clubs and train companies, all of these places for women experience sexual harassment, have trained staff to deal with this, that's what gives women the confidence that if they say something must speak out about it, they will be listened to andi about it, they will be listened to and i think we can look at some of

the amazing work that's been done about sexual harassment on the cheap and how that has empowered women to come forward and understand they will be believed and respected. as a feminist writer and campaigner i've been talking about sex and relationship education for a long time andi relationship education for a long time and i am really insistent this needs to happen. the fact that girls are being harassed and assaulted within schools shows we have a real problem in how girls are experiencing education and the impact that has a new as a young person to sort of see yourself as a sex object, to be sexualised at such an early age, the fact that that has an early age, the fact that that has an impact on your access to quality throughout life. if we have proper sex education and relationship education that looks at consent, it can have a real impact and girls safety a nd can have a real impact and girls safety and boys as well, this is something around consent and respect that has a big impact on boys and we need to see the change happen. the spotlight has been on your place of

work, maria, a report on on bullying, harassment and sexism recently, recently published, are you confident aims are going to change, the house will get itself in order? the report was commissioned to look into the way the house of commons is run and i think the point that that was made about believing victims and women who call out the sort of behaviour is so important andl sort of behaviour is so important and i think there is rightly a spotlight on the house of commons which needs to demonstrate that they will listen to those almost 200 people who gave evidence to dame laura cox to say that bullying and harassment in the house of commons is on except the ball, it's blighting the lives, there is a meeting tomorrow and a plan of action will be settled and i will be looking very carefully that the plan of action actually means change and notjust more prevarication. that was our discussion a little

earlier on day—to—day sexual harassment, let us know of your experiences. the usual way of getting in touch. let's get the latest weather update — with simon king. quite a lot of cloud across the uk at the moment but there are some breaks, across much of southern england and towards the east of scotla nd england and towards the east of scotland we've got decent sunny spells, this is the scene at the moment in edinburgh, you can see one of the higher temperatures today across the east of scotland with some sunshine. protection from the mountains whereas in north—western parts of scotland are staying quite cloudy, i breaks of rain. towards the east of the pennines and through southern areas of england and wales, the cloud breaking up, giving sunny spells, temperatures about 14—17 but in aberdeen we could reach maybe 18 web warmer over the mountains. still

cloud and rain across the north west of scotland, this north—westerly feed, these northern and western a lwa ys feed, these northern and western always quite cloudy, the further south and east you are cloudy spells we re south and east you are cloudy spells were temptress could get them to the fairly low single figures. chilly start on wednesday morning, across scotla nd start on wednesday morning, across scotland and northern ireland quite cloudy, sunshine the east, for england and wales there will be sunshine breaking through the cloud from time to time, staying on the cloudy side. temperatures on wednesday 13—16, similar conditions on thursday, by friday and into the weekend it'll turn much colder, get out your hats, gloves and scarves and winter coats. more than that throughout the morning on the news channel. hello it's tuesday, it's just after 10 o'clock, i'm joanna gosling.

the turkish president erdogan is due to stand up shortly and address his party in parliament — he's promised to reveal what he says is the "naked truth" about the killing ofjournalist jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul. we'll bring you all the key moments throughout the hour and get reaction from security correspondent frank gardner. about three million women across england have not had a smear test for at least three—and—a—half years, so why are women being put off? embarrassment, some people might be scared of the result or the test itself, some people have had bad experience in the past or might have experienced sexual violence which prevents them from wanting to attend. we'll speak to a woman who almost didn't get tested, and when she did — found out she had cancer. and — the number of takeaway outlets on uk high streets has risen by a third in eight years. why can't we wean ourselves off junk food, and what are the health implications? haven't got time to cook,

mcdonald's. up and got time to cook, let's get a takeaway. haven't got time to cook breakfast, we will go and get breakfast. it's easy, convenient, it's cheap. this man — dibsy — has been banned from all his local takeaways in an attempt to save his life. she is 30 stone, he will be joining us or our conversation in the next half hour. here's rebecca jones with a summary of the days news. the number of infections and bugs that have become resistant to key antibiotics has risen more than a third in just four years. public health england says three million operations and cancer treatments would become life threatening if antibiotics become ineffective. it says that people could be putting themselves — and their families — at risk by taking the drugs when they don't need them.

the president of turkey has promised to reveal new information this morning about the killing of the saudi see what you do each journalist, jamal kashoggi. his speech coincides with the start of a major investment conference in saudi arabia, which is taking place just two days after the saudi leadership admitted mr hashoggi was murdered inside the country's istanbul consulate. as new pictures emerge showing the journalist's final movements, president erdogan will deliver what he's called ‘the naked truth‘ over the killing. donald trump says he's not satisfied with saudi arabia's version of events while german chancellor angela merkel has called the death ‘monstrous'. in what's believed to be the biggest equal pay strike ever seen in the uk, more than 8,000 women who work for glasgow city council will begin 48 hours of industrial action this morning. the council says there's no justification for the walkout, but the unions say they have no

option after years of talks. it could cost up to a billion pounds to settle the dispute. i'm very disappointed.” i'm very disappointed. ijust i'm very disappointed. i just think it's really unnecessary. i don't think it's fair on the claimants, i don't think it's fair on the women. they will lose pay over the next couple of days, those who are not going to work, you're going to go out on strike. and there's going to be enormous disruption caused in glasgow to some of the most vulnerable people in the city. the technology company, dyson, has announced that it will build its new electric car in singapore. the company, which is best known for its vacuum cleaners, has scheduled for the first car to roll off the production line in 2021. dyson said the decision was based on the availability of engineering talent and regional supply chains. the world's longest sea bridge has officially opened, connecting hong kong and macau to mainland china. the bridge is designed to withstand earthquakes and the seasonal typhoons which tear through the region. it cost almost £18 billion to build and has taken

a decade to construct. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 10.30. we are going to take you straight to president error one, he is addressing members of his ruling party, this has been much anticipated, he has said what he's going to be doing is revealing the naked truth about the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi, let's listen in. u nfortu nately

unfortunately there is no translation on that at the moment so we will see if we can get the translation, we have got reporters listening in and we will keep you updated on exactly what he says. officials in turkey have been saying they've got clear evidence to indicate what happened to the journalist jamal khashoggi and indicate what happened to the journalistjamal khashoggi and he has said he will reveal the naked truth so we will tell you what is said as it comes through. let's get some sport now. olly foster is at the bbc sport centre. cristiano ronaldo will face his former club manchester united in the champions league tonight with juventus. he faced the media at old trafford last night, where he again denied

an allegation of rape. police in las vegas say they have re—opened a case relating to an alleged incident in 2009. ronaldo called it fake news last month, this is him arriving in manchester yesterday, where he won the first of his five champions league titles. he had six seasons with united and won everything before joining real madrid and now he is in his first season in italy. ronaldo faced the media and says that he has every confidence in hsi lawyers and that that the truth will come out the most important thing is that i enjoy the football, i enjoyed my life. the rest i have people who ta ke life. the rest i have people who take care of my life and of course the true always coming in the first position so i'm good. i know i am example, i know 100%. position so i'm good. i know i am example, i know100%. in the position so i'm good. i know i am example, i know 100%. in the pitch and outside the pitch. so i always smile, i'm happy, man. i'm blessed that i play in a fantastic club, i have a fantastic family, i have four kids. i'm healthy, i have everything. so the rest does not interfere only.

manchester city are away in ukraine, facing shakhtar donetsk in kharkiv. they are top of the prmier league but have three points from two matches so far in europe this season. manager pep guardiola says city aren't good enough to win the champions league just yet, and he says they are still lacking that "something special" they need to take them to the next level. arsenal are back up to fourth in the premier league. they came from behind to beat leicester city 3—1 at the emirates. let's go straight back to victoria. it's joanna but let's go straight back to victoria. it'sjoanna but don't let's go straight back to victoria. it's joanna but don't worry about it. we are going straight to turkey.

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nation to their ken livingstone moldova. a short time ago i also visited hungary and as you know... the shrine was restored... and now it's a different place altogether. wherever we go in the balkans, in the region... we are received with the region... we are received with the same level of... friendship. we a lwa ys the same level of... friendship. we always say we are, our physical borders and our borders of the heart

are different. we work hard to bring the relationship that we have with our kinship around the globe to the level it deserves. god willing these collections will continue in a more frequent fashion and we will build a joint future. a betterfuture frequent fashion and we will build a joint future. a better future for us and for ourfriends. joint future. a better future for us and for our friends. we were in asmiron and for our friends. we were in asmir on saturday and on sunday we we re asmir on saturday and on sunday we were in istanbul and met people... that the turkish president addressing the parliament, he said he will reveal the naked truth about what happened to jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in

turkey. we will stay across what he is saying but we will pause for a moment on covering that and go back later. up to half of women under 50 in some areas of england have not had a cervical screening in the recommended time frame, according to new figures today. screening rates are at their lowest for two decades. around three million women across england have not had a smear test for at least three—and—a—half years. a total of 220,000 british women are diagnosed with cervical abnormalities each year — which can lead to cervical cancer. so what can be done to encourage women to be tested? joining me in the studio is gp dr philippa kaye, rebecca shoosmith from jo's cervical cancer trust, mandy parker, who was diganosed with cervical cancer, and professor anne mackie from public health england. thank you forjoining us.

mandy, tell us what happened. you get the letter, you are busy, you couldn't to the side, you are busy. i have three children and i work and i think sometimes it's the flexibility was trying to get an appointment in the given time, put it off for appointment in the given time, put it offforan appointment in the given time, put it off for an a few weeks, i got called back, there was abnormal cells which turned out to be cervical cancer. if i hadn't gone it was an aggressive grade so they said if i'd put it off much longer it could have been a very different outcome than being able to sit with eve ryo ne outcome than being able to sit with everyone today. it's very important to attend screening on time. rebecca, how important is that for these things to be caught early? we know at the cervical cancer trust that the impact on a woman's life is

so that the impact on a woman's life is so far—reaching. i think the effect cannot the understated. it affects women's fertility, many women lose fertility, the effect of treatment can have a lifelong significant impact. alongside the psychological impact. alongside the psychological impact of having a cancer diagnosis. the lubbock, mandy was told if she'd put it much more it could have been worse, she had an aggressive strain, how important is it that it is caught early? everything in medicine will start with prevention being better than cure, the hpv vaccine against sabbatical cancer is even being introduced to boys next year. well that eradicate the need ultimately... in australia we are talking about that they hope they will eradicate it, the combination of hpv vaccine, testing and smear tests. cervical cancer is

technically a preventable disease and that's why it's so important to go to your smear test on time. most smear go to your smear test on time. most smear tests pick up precancerous changes, not cervical cancer in itself and we can treat those to prevent you having cervical cancer in the future. can adults who are clear of cervical cancer take the hpv vaccine? not currently. paying for it, would it make a difference? most people are exposed at some point in their lives, some of them will clear it on their own, we are trying to get boys and girls before their first sexual contact.” trying to get boys and girls before their first sexual contact. i see. probably most people are squeamish about having that smear and i know you said mandy, you were always very good at having the smears and they area good at having the smears and they are a practical issues around not going for the smear test but one of the factors for many is that, people don't like it. you have brought the kit. people don't like it and they

are frightened of what going to happen andl are frightened of what going to happen and i think it's really helpful to know what's going to happen and the first thing is this isa happen and the first thing is this is a speculum, this is what we use, this doesn't not go into the regina. this goes into, for most people who can tolerate a sex toy, this can go into the vagina and you feel a stretching sensation, this brush will go into the cervix, many women will go into the cervix, many women will say they experience a little bit of period pain, that will go into the pot. 2—3 minutes it has the potential to be life—saving. we understand for women who have experienced sexual abuse are other issues this can be difficult and i would recommend you talk to your nurse orgp would recommend you talk to your nurse or gp first and for women who have gone through the menopause, things can be a little bit more try

and saw down below we have treatments we can give you before your smear treatments we can give you before your smear test to make it less uncomfortable. mandy, where are you in your treatment? i am in remission, working closely with the cervical cancer trust trying to promote all women, i have daughters myself, when they get to screening age, the hpv vaccine, how important it is, i've become a bit of a champion for all things cervical cancer related because i feel, as rebecca said, it has a huge emotional and psychological impact as well as a physical impact. it's huge that women go. and get tested on time. women like mandy can get the message out there in a really powerful way. absolutely. the message out there in a really powerfulway. absolutely. in the message out there in a really powerful way. absolutely. in the end though, there are practical that the gulbis getting appointments, what do you want to see being done to make it as easy as possible for women to have this done? i think stories like

this are very helpful, hearing about how important it is and from philip about how simple and quick it can be. we team working with community clinics for it they do contraception and sexual health to see if we can open up access there, talking about whether we can help gps provide more flexible appointments so if you work a long way from home you can go to a local gp all sorts of things. we are going to do an awareness campaign early next year so that again, the more conversation we have about this, the more normal, easy, expected it is that this is what you do, it's not bad at, it's absolutely fine, the more people will take up the test. rebecca, you are with joss cancer trust that you had a very personal experience.” cancer trust that you had a very personal experience. i was 33, cancer trust that you had a very personal experience. iwas 33, about to emigrate to australia with my husband, ijust to emigrate to australia with my husband, i just happen to emigrate to australia with my husband, ijust happen to think i best go for my smear test before i go to make sure everything is how it

should be. and was not expecting to then be diagnosed with cervical cancer. not really put a very big stop on my life at an age where i just wasn't thinking about that, i was thinking about emigrating, starting a family and just everything came to a grinding halt andl everything came to a grinding halt and i had some very invasive treatment which has had a lasting impact on my ability to go about my day—to—day life. obviously it's inspired me to get involved with the work ofjoseph inspired me to get involved with the work of joseph and inspired me to get involved with the work ofjoseph and i am passionate about supporting women and providing them with information to help them make good decisions about health choices but certainly for me, it had a very significant impact, as the doors to all the women we support. it's important to say many women are going to fear that they will have a

smear, they will have cancer, they will have horrible treatment, but the reality is it's quick, it's simple, it's done. i keeping up with that regularly and keeping a check. rosie on facebook says i went for mine injune, i'm still waiting for results. rachel says i am 32, went for my first smear test, 18 months ago, missed my first two and was working away from home, my working pattern made it hard for me to access pattern made it hard for me to a ccess my pattern made it hard for me to access my doctor surgery, miners told me the cells wouldn't be examined. i won't be going for future smear tests unless they examined the cells. what about those points. people who don't necessarily think they need them. the programme is changing, as philip says the cause of sabbatical cancer is hpv, a virus, young people are now been vaccinated against it. but we are changing the programme from looking directly at cells first to finding the virus and that the virus is not better you are not going to get

cervical cancer. at the virus is then someone looks at the cells but testis then someone looks at the cells but test is the same. from a practical viewpoint it's the same, the other person who hasn't heard, if you haven't heard within eight weeks and yourgp haven't heard within eight weeks and your gp practice, the results get sent there and it may be possible things have got lost in the post or if there is an issue, the practice can find out. thank you all very much. thank you. let'sjust can find out. thank you all very much. thank you. let's just checking with what's happening in turkey, president erdogan speaking about what has happened with jamal khashoggi. and his killing in the saudi consulate. he said the cameras inside the consulate were removed, it's something that we know because they said there was no cctv. 12 men entered the consulate before it jamal khashoggi was killed, that

brought you right up to date. he is going through the sequence of events and we will keep you updated of course with what he has said. also coming up... around 8000 council workers in glasgow are currently taking part in what is thought to be the uk's this strike on equal pay. we will be live in glasgow. new figures show the number of takeaways on high streets has risen by 34% since 2010. analysis by bbc yorkshire and the bbc‘s shared data unit shows in most areas the rate of fast food outlets was at its highest in eight years. research suggests people who are most exposed to takeaways are nearly twice as likely to be obese and leading doctors say the increase is "a concern". the government says local authorities have a range of powers to create healthier environments and that it is also consulting on calorie labels on menus. one in four people in the uk are said to be obese and the number of people being diagnosed with type—2 diabetes is on the rise. welljoining us now is —

darren mcclintock - who likes to be known as— dibsy. he has been banned from all his local takeaways in middlesbrough to help him lose weight. sat next to him is the person that has banned him. his personal trainer — mike hind. also with us is chris holmes — who is in charge of shift‘s healthy food programme. the charity has carried out several healthy fast food projects. and — laurettajohnnie — who runs full figured fitness which provides fitness and life coaching for men and women who are full figured, overweight or obese. welcome to all of you. you've been banned by your personal trainer from all fast food outlets near you, why? basically i have an addiction to food and take aways was my bad habit and a massive bad habit. i would

grab 23 take aways a weekend, that's not healthy for you. i've got this opportunity to change my life and lose weight, that was one of the first steps, banned me from take aways. what were you having? it would be varying things, burgers, heaters, chicken kebabs, whatever to my fancy that day. wasn't it an expensive habit? yes, that it was, 15- £20 a expensive habit? yes, that it was, 15— £20 a time, expensive habit? yes, that it was, 15- £20 a time, £60 expensive habit? yes, that it was, 15— £20 a time, £60 a week, quite a lot of money. stopping the take aways, is making a difference. yes, i feel a lot aways, is making a difference. yes, ifeel a lot healthier, less aways, is making a difference. yes, i feel a lot healthier, less groggy, trying to eat more healthy. mike, you identified takeaways as being a big factorfor darren. you identified takeaways as being a

big factor for darren. it is an addiction for him, comfort eating, it's at your fingertips, you can do it's at your fingertips, you can do it by phone, everything he gets from me is forfree, he has free it by phone, everything he gets from me is for free, he has free food, free training, i did not want him to jeopardise that by turning to a ta keaway jeopardise that by turning to a takeaway what didn't have to be there. chris, take aways are easy and convenient, we love them when we can't be bothered to cook. all of the above, the reality is hot, preprepared food is an extension of fire or food has been moving for 20 years plus, since the first ready meal in the 19705. the ranger prepare, semi—prepared food that is available broadly speaking, unle55 available broadly speaking, unless you are on the food poverty line, cooking is a lifestyle choice. and the reality is unfortunately the

ta ke the reality is unfortunately the take sector hasn't changed in those 25 years. and that's because it's made up of lots of little shops, 60,000 independent shops and if you think mcdonald's has 1200 outlets in the uk, this is 60000 and they don't have the capacity to change in the way the supermarkets have changed and evolved over that time period. people are going to take aways for all of the reasons you've just said and have adopted them as a really great solution to non—food problems. but the food isn't clearly nutritious, about an average 1000 calories a meal, that's two thirds more than the recommended for lunch ordinner. more than the recommended for lunch or dinner. the interesting question is how can we make, is the answer you take aways or is the answer how can we make a much greater karate of food available through the mechanics of... food available through the mechanics of. . . what food available through the mechanics of... what about labelling takeaway menus with the number of calories, they do it in some countries. indeed, a lot of that now is

beginning to appear and clearly there is a consultation out at the moment. the question is whether the evidence has an impact on people's choices remains a little uncertain. i will ask dibsy, if it had been clearly la id i will ask dibsy, if it had been clearly laid out every time you ordered a takeaway had many calories we re ordered a takeaway had many calories were in each thing you ordered we did makea were in each thing you ordered we did make a difference? it would have made you think more about what you would order and you would try and ordered the healthy option, most definitely. i think it's difficult to try and get that, for a takeaway to try and get that, for a takeaway to be able to justify why many calories, they would have to weigh out every single ingredient from the pizza, i don't think that's going to be done, it's a massive step, there is no way you can work out a calorie dense meal without knowing what's in it and you don't way the cheese outcome of pitted on with their hands. that's what needs to change, proper control. rb demonising take aways, are we abdicating our own

responsibility, saying that is what is causing the problem.” responsibility, saying that is what is causing the problem. i believe we need to look at obesity, i think, while the research is good, i think it also kind of puts the blame on just one type of, were not looking at the full causes of obesity as well. so it's notjust the take aways, it's the lack of activity, people are more interactive. there area people are more interactive. there are a lot of sugar laden health foods, i mean, it's half term, i haven't seen any children playing outside. i think as many different causes of obesity, this is one of them and also, obese people are not a homogenous group, were being seen as people who go to take aways. i live in parsons green, worcester the shops or restaurants and takeaways, there is an issue over quality of food, i wanted a bag of crisps, i wa nted food, i wanted a bag of crisps, i wanted to buy a bag of crisps, i had

to look around the shop, i found them at the bottom of the counter near the floor and they were part of a meal deal and it was 87p and four the more i could have bought six packets of crisps, there is lots of cheap food is out, for sale, easily accessible, i think there's lots of different reasons why people are obese. it can feel cheaper to buy a cheap ta keaway it can feel cheaper to buy a cheap takeaway and maybe it is, than cooking yourself sometimes. does that need to be like that? it feels cheaper. what is interesting, we work with the bottom third of income families in the uk and when you work with these families they will talk about how cheap takeaway is can be, seeing it as cheap as the supermarkets but then you say how much does a meal cost in a supermarket and people go i do not buy one meal in a supermarket, i buy components. what is interesting is it is cheap and therefore it's not so it is cheap and therefore it's not so much i am comparing it with how cheapit

so much i am comparing it with how cheap it is in the supermarket, it is it is cheap, it cannot be any cheaper to buy the components are raw ingredients of a supermarket and make it, so it's the cheapness of the food which gives the idea that is as cheap as a supermarket but it's clearly not, you can cook a meal from ingredients... but then you factor in the hassle? this is it, the families we work with are dealing with personal health issues, personal security issues, financial concerns, housing concerns, they are worried about if their kids end up in gangs. so to be honest all of those pressures can crowd out the headspace they have the plan ahead, to plan meals and cook. i think that's the real challenge we face, that's the real challenge we face, that takeaway is being adopted in order to make life easier when faced with these other pressures. what was it that got you to the point where you decided you have to do something about your weight? me personally it

was a hospital scare, i was taken to hospital with my heart and the doctor said if you keep going the way you are going you want to be here for much longer and i knew then i had to change my life. so what have you changed ? i had to change my life. so what have you changed? we know you have been banned from takeaway, what else? my whole life has changed, and in the gym twice a day. i'm under a strict eating plan and just keep going with it. following might's guidance and knowledge and up until now i've lost three stone one lbs in 17 days. what is your goal? my goal is around 20 stone, just be fitter, happier and healthier. might, do you work with many people like this? hundreds every year but i take one fra free every year and the last one we did was leanne who lost 15 stone, having higher body weight. they do

have those in calories a day now, he was eating 1100 thousand, it's a crazy number. the government need to educate people, that is the issue, we do not educate and that is what we do not educate and that is what we need to look at. can anybody get overweight to the same extent are some people more prone to it in your experience? we are human beings, we all have a certain need for calories, a basal metabolic rate we all have. lifestyle choices, it's notjust the food, all have. lifestyle choices, it's not just the food, it's a lack of exercise, the mental issues, there is much more thanjust takeaway but it's convenient, you walk down any high street and there are takeaway is one after another and there are no regulations stopping it. thank you all very much for coming in to talk to us, good luck with the programme. thank you! let's bring

you up—to—date with what's happening with the investigation into what has happened to jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate, we are hearing from the turkish parliament, the president has been speaking, saying there is strong evidence the killing was planned and the murderer will be investigated in every way. he has promised the naked truth in terms of what actually happened, he is continuing to speak and we will keep you updated. around 8000 council workers are taking part in what is thought to be the uk's biggest strike over equal pay. we will be live in glasgow. the founder of the english defence league — tommy robinson — was due back in court this morning over a contempt of court case.

the case had been referred back to the attorney general because it's so complex. robinson — whose real name is stephen yaxley—lennon — was freed from prison in august after three judges overturned a contempt of court finding made at leeds crown court. let's get more from the old bailey, what's happening, keith? good morning, many hundreds of supporters of tommy robinson who is in court under his real name, he's in court accused of breaching court restrictions, reporting constrictions on an earlier case at leeds crown court where he was jailed for ten months for contempt and three months suspended sentence also added to that. he was jailed in may and freed in august. this case this morning was a continuation of

that, what we have heard in the last few minutes from inside the court, it says he can no longer hear the tommy robinson case as it is so complex it needs to be referred to the attorney general for a further consideration before proceeding. he went on to say, the judge went on to say, a cross—examination of tommy robinson would be necessary for a proper examination of the allegations, all the evidence must be vigorously considered. this is something the supporters of tommy robinson wanted, there was a huge cheer from the supporters behind robinson wanted, there was a huge cheerfrom the supporters behind me when they heard the message coming through. thank you very much for updating us. last week, 20 men were found guilty of being part

of a grooming gang that raped and abused 15 girls as young as 11 in huddersfield. they were convicted in a series of trials. and it was this that led to tommy robinson's arrest for contempt of court — he reported on the case live on facebook during the second of the trials. as we just heard, he was jailed for contempt of court but his conviction was quashed because of a number of procedural errors and the case has been referred to the attorney general. the huddersfield convictions are the latest in a string of cases of grooming gangs in towns across england. these gangs are dominated by those from asian backgrounds. some say that such crimes, and the abusers' ethnicity are too often ignored or covered up, and that the protection of community cohesion is put before the protection of children. joining me in the studio is sarah champion, mp for rotherham, who left the labour front bench last year after a controversial article she wrote in the sun drew attention to the ethnicity of grooming gangs, and from salford, nafir afzal, former chief prosecutor for the north—west of england who famously reopened the infamous rochdale grooming case resulting in nine convictions in 2012. thank you both forjoining us. see

iraq, that article i referred to was headlined british pakistani men are raping and exploiting white girls and it's time we faced up to it. that article lead to you leaving the shadow cabinet. do you think the race gangs is relevant? let me be very clear, i have no interest in the race of the perpetrators. what i am interested in is catching child abusers and looking at the commonalities that would enable us to prevent their behaviour and get the prosecutions we need. one of the things which was frustrating me with the grooming gangs was predominantly they were pakistani men but we were not discussing it and were not doing the research into what it is, what is happening within that culture thatis is happening within that culture that is enabling these criminals to operate. we do it with the catholic church, we are looking into it in parliament, why are we not looking

into the culture behind this grooming? what is the evidence that it was not an element of what was being discussed around what was going on? if you look at two independent reports into rotherham, both of them said one of the problems was people within social services and the police being concerned about called a racist if they identified the ethnicity of those people. do you agree with that is, as being an issue? absolutely. we have to address the issue at its heart and that it's heart it is about how men take advantage of young girls and how they have been allowed to do so for generations. but that the same time we have to recognise when it comes to this model of sexual abuse, british pakistani men are disproportionately involved. i don't understand why it is we are not prepared to have that conversation. i called for research

in 2012, it's extraordinarily small amount of research, i had to rely upon four years of prosecuting these cases and three years of watching them being prosecuted to get a view to what's going on. that should not be the reality, we should be exploring the culture behind it and i get what sarah is saying. what drives these crime is misogyny and men thinking they can get away with it. what i have learned is these are not organised criminals you have in serious organised crime, they are loose networks of men who often work in the night—time economy, who know one another well, like the cat who brings in the mouse, the show off the fact they've got these young girls in their control. they are opportunistic to the extreme, they don't look for it but they will find it and my concern is that unless we get into what motivates these people and what causes these crimes we will struggle to prevent them. are those

things being looked at being done now? in other words, are the girls who would be vulnerable to that predatory behaviour and those gangs, are they safer now than they would have been in the past? silver lining in that there are no more prosecutions and there have ever been. but austerity has had an impact, children's services have takena big impact, children's services have taken a big hit. ng or's have and they work with young girls and they are not able to do so with the same degree of success and policing is down, i had to release hundreds of prosecutors. it will be a struggle to do so and maintain the other things we have to do. we have to understand what's going on. i've tried, myself, i understand what's going on. i've tried, myself, lam not an understand what's going on. i've tried, myself, i am not an academic, but i try to understand what is

going on. given what you mentioned about tommy robinson, i had the privilege to speak to hundreds of victims and not one of them has said that the far right explored what they went through and exposed what they went through and exposed what they went through and exposed what they went through. this is nothing to do with it, the exploit the situation. one has to realise these men have hardly had any sexual relationship education here or abroad, they learn about sex from pawn and older men. the married ones are often invariably in arranged marriages and may never have had a fulfilling relationship of their own with a woman other than that. we know that very few of them will have female friends. those are the kinds of dynamics you have to look at to try to understand who's at risk of being an offenderand try to understand who's at risk of being an offender and that will protect victims. sarah when i asked if vulnerable girls are safer now as a result of what has been going on in the courts and a knowledge of what's been happening, you kind of

laughed, do you just not think they are? this is my frustration, but in all of this we forget the victims. the cases we are seeing prosecuted are fantastic to get these men of the street but they are past cases and this is going on now. i know it's going on in my time but also perpetrators do not change their behaviour so we are seeing them exploiting girls between 11—16 and then when the girls get to 16 they will find a new cohort of 11—year—olds. the most recent case for huddersfield was 2011! think and that still means there will be girls out there who are too afraid or too insecure to come forward and report what has happened. how do you say you know it's going on right now, if you know it's going on right now, if you know it's going on right now, if you know presumably others do and why is it not been stopped? in my time brother i meet with all the different services. of them is the sexual health clinic and they say they are having at least two girls a month and telling them they are for

the first time in the grips of these grooming gangs, so that two per month. in the same place where it's been exposed, do you lessons have not been learned ? been exposed, do you lessons have not been learned? if you want to get my hackles up telly lessons have been learnt because that way of saying there's nothing to see, it's shut down and we can move on. of course people have recognised will be done wrong but as was said, we are still looking at a large—scale crime which needs a lot of resources to research. we also particularly need support for the women and girls to come forward because what we're asking them to do is after they have been to the most horrific abuse is coming toa been to the most horrific abuse is coming to a courtroom or go to a police officer and give very specific details again and again and again of what has happened to them and unless we can get the support services around them we will not see the prosecutions. rape crisis for example have a waiting list of 6000 women and at the moment and it's proven if you have an advocate to go

with you through the reporting stage and the prosecution stage you are 50% more likely to report and 50% more likely to get a conviction so we're doing such a disservice to the victims unless we put wraparound ca re victims unless we put wraparound care for them and then of course it's about education. all children need to be aware of relationships, building their resilience and understanding some people are there to exploit them. thank you both very much. let's return now to that much trailed speech by the turkish president racep tayyip erdogan — in which he's detailing what turkey knows about the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. in the past few moments he's been outlining the questions he feels still need answering about the murder. he says there is strong evidence that the murder was pre—meditated and is calling for an independent commission on the murder. translation: all information and evidence shows that jamal khashoggi was killed in a vile, savage murder.

the details of this incident this murder, is capable of hurting are human hearts. saudi arabia has taken an important step, what is expected from now on is to bring to light, bring forward those who are responsible for this. and also towards the fact that this was a planned operation rather than an accidental death, we have strong evidence to that effect. there are a

number of questions still troubling people's minds. these 15 people, why the day, they gather in istanbul on the day, they gather in istanbul on the day, they gather in istanbul on the day of the murder? we are still seeking an answer to that murder. these people, they arrived on whose orders did they arrived? we need a nswe rs orders did they arrived? we need a nswers to orders did they arrived? we need answers to that question. why was it that the consulate building was opened to investigation not immediately, but many days later was to mark we want answers to that question. why was it that so many contradictory statements were made about the alleged murder at the time, the alleged murder? we want a nswe rs time, the alleged murder? we want a nswers to time, the alleged murder? we want answers to that. and the body of jamal khashoggi is still missing, why is that? we want to know. i am

asking now, if a local operator or a local collaborator has ta ken asking now, if a local operator or a local collaborator has taken the body of jamal khashoggi as alleged by an authority of saudi arabia, i'm asking the question, who is the local collaborator, this is notjust a rumour, and official authority of saudi arabia is making this statement saying a local collaborator disposed of the body. we wa nt collaborator disposed of the body. we want to know who the local collaborator is but i want everyone to know that this matter is not going to go away until all these questions are answered. let's speak now to our security correspondent frank gardner... what he said, he's asked and he said

he would promise the naked truth, what is he asking, a lot of questions there. he said this is not an impromptu, rogue killing, he says he believes the crown prince of saudi arabia is sincere in trying to uncover this but he's left an awful lot of questions unanswered and interestingly he points to this advanced team of three saudi intelligence and security officials who arrived in advance about a week before this. to kind of prepared the ground as it were. and also it mentions the reconnaissance that they undertook in a forest outside istanbulfor they undertook in a forest outside istanbul for it's believed the body might possibly be. what he's not done is given us any information about this audio tape that details of which have been leaked to the turkish media, very fluid, some accou nts turkish media, very fluid, some accounts say he took seven minutes to die, they cut off his fingers,

forensic doctor played music while he was doing it, except, none of those details were forthcoming. but that doesn't mean to say it doesn't exist but he has chosen to hold back on that one. in not putting it out there though, doesn't it mean actually a kind of has to be discounted because they've been talking about it for a long time, the details, but if they are not prepared to publicly put out what they've got, can we be absolutely sure that it's... i think they've got, can we be absolutely sure that it's. .. i think they are being rather machiavellian, turkey and saudi arabia are regional rivals, not as big as saudi arabia and iran but they are rivals on opposite ends, turkey is essentially closely allied with political islam, the muslim brotherhood, saudi arabia see the muslim brotherhood as an existential threat. they are not on the same page, as it were, while leaking information that is damaging to saudi, turkish president has held back on some of the most damaging

details, so in a way, he's offering a lifeline. there are a number of commentators who say this is because turkey will want something in return from saudi arabia, whether it's a deal on how to carve up northern syria, what to do about the kurds, who to back in the syrian civil war, i don't know. it could be money, who knows? none of this is proven but he's playing quite a long, clever game because there are more details he could probably put out there which would really embarrassed and what we still don't know, categorically, is was the trailer this lead right up to the crown prince of saudi arabia? people who know saudi arabia say of course it is but there is no evidence yet, there is circumstantial evidence leading to people close to him, the phone call to people from the office, he didn't talk about that today, i think there are more details that he has that he is not telling us. slow motion play out, isn't it. yes. frank, thank you. we

will keep you updated if we get more. thousands of women are marching through the streets of glasgow today in what's thought to be the biggest equal pay strike ever to take place in the uk. more than 8000 women are expected to join the protest — some primary schools and nurseries have been forced to close. campaigners say workers in female—dominated roles —— such as catering or cleaning —— receive up to 3 pounds an hour less than those in male—dominated areas, such as refuse collection. we can speak to lorna gordon in glasgow now. laura is out on the streets with the protesters. lorna, over to you. it's gathering —— they are gathering ahead of this march, it's not ready to set yet, many angry down here, determined that their voices be heard. with me is violet, jessica and angela, three of those taking part, violet, tell me what you do initially. i'm an enhanced home

carer, i deal initially. i'm an enhanced home carer, ideal with initially. i'm an enhanced home carer, i deal with palliative care. how long have you been doing that now? 16 years. why have you decided to go out on strike? i'd had enough of the council dragging its heels of yea rs, of the council dragging its heels of years, some of my colleagues have passed away, we had enough, we are having our voice today and we are letting the council know we mean business. jessica, what's yourjob and the effect of coming out out on strike today? i'm a postal worker assistant, additional support for primary schools, the effect is children not coming to school, schools have shot today. we've heard pretty much all primary schools shut today, council nurseries, your additional support needs at a secondary school, that is shot as well. it is. people are suffering as a result, what would you say.” don't want to go on strike but this is what it's come to and we want

equal pay. until you is what it's come to and we want equal pay. untilyou do a similar job, you work with pupils in the pupil support system, the council says it except the points being made, it understands the anger and that negotiations are ongoing, is that negotiations are ongoing, is that a fair point? it's not really, they've had over 21 meetings, nothing has happened, the case hasn't moved on, it's time they sorted this out the cause and others wa nt sorted this out the cause and others want to be here today, we have the chance to end this before we lose more colleagues, we've already lost 200 in the past ten years and it's disgraceful. the snp administration says they've been in power for not long relative to the labour administration that preceded it and they say that they are negotiating from an honest position, that they accept the points being made, that they think there is a case to be a nswered they think there is a case to be answered and that they have grasped the nettle of study you think they have? i don't think they have, they

need to come back around the table, discuss what's happening and put an end to this today. the negotiations they were intending to reach a figure by the end of the year, do you think they were or is that being disingenuous? they mightjust anger the usual carrot and see the people who are very per ticket. we are going to wait and get the office —— the offer we deserve. it's about equal pay forjobs the offer we deserve. it's about equal pay for jobs of the offer we deserve. it's about equal pay forjobs of equal value, is that right? it's correct. how strongly do people feel? we are here today, that says it all, none of these people wanted to come out on strike, we love the people we look after, we have been left with no choice, shame on you for leaving us in this position. violet, what do you say, you are a care worker, the people you help, have they been affected ? people you help, have they been affected? one of my clients today has had to getting their friends, hired private carers today, iphone today, i cried last night, i was

upset at the fact we are having to do this today because we care about our clients, we are proud of our jobs and we are undervalued and that's the problem with the council, we understand we are undervalued. we doa we understand we are undervalued. we do a greatjob, every girl he doesn't agreejob, we do a greatjob, every girl he doesn't agree job, we are out here doing our work and doing it right, doing our work and doing it right, doing it with people. briefly what happens, you are hoping for a result the day, if there isn't, what then? there will be another strike, none of us want to strike, it's so sad, my people, the people i deal with, they need help, they cannot get up and walk, they are in bed and it is sad that the council have pushed us to this today. ladies, thank you very much. this march gets under way at midday. the council says it is committed to negotiations and settling this dispute. the ladies here, many hundreds already gathering, said what has happened so far isjust gathering, said what has happened so far is just not good enough. lorna,

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