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tv   Victoria Derbyshire  BBC News  July 21, 2019 3:30pm-4:00pm BST

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and now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire takes a look back at some of the highlights from her programme this week. we will show you some of our highlights from the last week. we start with the inspirational story of rose. when she was 12, she was hit by a drink—driver and she lost her ability to speak. but now, aged 21, and with the help of the young acting graduate, she has found her voice again. my voice was taken because of a hit—and—run.
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i got a brain injury when i was 12 following a hit—and—run accident. i can't walk and talk, i communicate using a computer which i control using a switch and moving my head. iam amazing. every voice projects the personality of its speaker. your voice can identify your gender. what difference will it make to your life to have your own voice? so that i have my own identity, to be as independent as possible,
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i think it will show people that i am an individual, and that i am friendly and fun. rose has been given the opportunity to change your voice. to change her voice. she can decide how she wants it to sound on the accents you will have to personalise it for her. can you remember what your voice was like, and can you describe it to me? it was feminine and sounded similar to a london accent. how do you feel about your current voice? i would like a voice that sounds like a 21—year—old. you were able to choose your voice. why did you go for a cockney accent? because it sounds like me before, and i would like to be on eastenders as i want to be an actress. rose has listened to a data base
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of actors‘ voices and has picked tash cowley, a graduate of top drama school rather. i'm so excited, i can't wait! they are about to meet for the first time. hello! i am tash, lovely to meet you! how are you doing, good? hello, how are you? very glad gou are going to do my voice. thank you. you're very welcome. now tash can start the task of recording her voice. fog was the strongest dog of the bunch. i am sorry about your amnesia, said the scarecrow. tacheis tache is recorded phrases that make up tache is recorded phrases that make up the different combinations of sounds for new voice. then the recordings will be sent to a company
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in america where rose's new vote will be created. it utilises all the sounds you make. you go through each of these phrases and record them and it will test for the correct speed and pronunciation and the sound levels. why did you want to donate your voice. everyone deserves a voice and to give that to somebody is amazing. rose did have the ability to speak and now doesn't. i thought about what it would be like to not have... to not be able to do that any more and it'sjust, to not be able to do that any more and it's just, it's just to not be able to do that any more and it'sjust, it'sjust a very moving thing to be asked to do.
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tache has recorded the voice. i'm claire and this is rose, we are hoping if you could explain what will happen once you receive all the recordings that are being made today and how you will piece together all those sounds to create rose's voice? what we are going to do is take the recordings that you have made and we'll take each of the 1,600 sentences and label them with a detailed linguistic description of the speech and label every vowel and consonant and even some regions of them, so they will labelled the beginning and the end of a vowel and then we will add information about where the vowel occurred. now the voice needs to be created. all rose can do is wait.
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we are back at the college. rose's voice has been developed and we are about to hear it for the first time. cathy is the lead technician and has programmed rose's voice what do you think? is that what you wanted? it has such a good cockney accent as well. amazing. will had to get you on eastenders next. rose's grandmother and aunts have travelled to be here as rose unveiled her new voice.
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are you ready to play your voice? hello, my name is rose. it sounds cheeky, just like you. china plate, mate. going to have some fun with them. you have your new voice which is now a cockney accent type voice and you also have one of the cockney rhyming slang there as well. you are good to go. are you happy? i think she is happy. as voice technology improves, hopefully more people can take part so in the future anyone who has lost their voice from a disability can also benefit. you have donated your voice to rose, you have never heard your voice coming out of this device. until now.
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how are you feeling? nervous, but excited. rose, what difference has this device made to your life? i have struggled to get people to understand me and what i wanted. i used to communicate, but it took a long time and made me very tired. you have got tears in your eyes, tash. sorry. please don't apologise, tell us why. i hope you are happy with it, are you pleased with it? as soon as i was contacted, i thought this project was the most amazing thing. i was thrilled to be picked by rose and asked to be involved. hearing it, it is exactly what i have picked.
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it suits you so well, i'm so pleased! i am really pleased. it is so interesting to see your emotions because it was so important. i know you have been using this voice communicatorfor a long time, but i want to ask you, rose, what would you say is the most challenging thing about losing your voice? sometimes, ifeel like i have not heard everything. it takes a long time, and makes me very tired. because it takes a long time, people try to guess what i'm try to say, and if they get it wrong it takes people to understand. that makes total sense. i wonder if you wanted to say something to tash about her donating her voice to you. thank you very much for giving me my voice. i love it, and i hope you love it too. thank you for picking me.
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a child who has been injured in a bomb attack needs different support to recover, both physically and psychologically, yet medics in war zones like syria continued to rely on training and techniques designed for adults, often struggling to save lives and limbs as a result. our reporter has travelled to turkey, where medics they are trialling new techniques developed in london to help young people affected by conflict. i am going to hospital this morning. this doctor is one of the few surgeons left working in syria, risking his life to treat people in the last rebel held area of the country opposed to president assad. it has been suffering deadly bombardment by russian and syrian forces. how is it, living in syria now? chaos.
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it's like hell. hospitals have been targeted in bombings. nowhere is safe. i have a little daughter, and when i see every child, i think about my daughter. it is so hard for me. i have seen people die in front of me and suffering. it is a big tragedy. it is a shame that we could not stop the war and stop the bombardment, so we need to learn more about surgery in children. bombs have more harmful effects on children,
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physically and psychologically, but war zone medics have to rely on training and techniques designed for adults, often struggling to save lives and limbs as a result. today, he is crossing the border from syria into turkey, forjust a few days, to try and change that. he has come to this specialist centre for people who have lost limbs in the conflict in syria. in this classroom, he and other surgeons are being trained on this new manual. it has been specifically designed to teach medics to treat blast injuries in children and was requested by syrian doctors. it has been created and written by save the children and scientists at imperial college london. this is doctor malik, the medical director of the centre.
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this is where we do all the training to use artificial limbs. there is space for recovery here, as well as construction of new limbs for those injured. so, the products will look like this. ready for someone to use? yes. said is seven. when he was just a year and a half he was in his car with his whole family, trying to flee aerial bombardment in aleppo. but one air strike landed so close to their car shrapnel pierced the whole vehicle. said, whose name we changed, lost his sister, his brother lost a leg. he was sitting on his mum's lap, shrapnel amputated both his legs. what is he having today? currently, he is doing an adjustment for a newly constructed socket for his leg.
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he needs to do an adjustment to the bone every one to one and a half year, because the bone will keep growing but there is no skin or muscles to grow with the bone, so it will be painful, so unfortunately he needs to have an operation every year to cut open the imputation, adjust the bone length and then sew it up again. this sort of problem is why treating a child with a blast injury is not the same as an adult. doctor mustapha is another surgeon who has crossed over from syria today for training. he is a specialist neurological surgeon, but like so many of his colleagues in syria has had to become an expert in treating often horrific trauma. i remember one day we received many patients in the emergency room. there was a woman, about 20 years.
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doctor mustapha discovered the woman was seven months pregnant, but her uterus had been pierced with shrapnel. i took her to the operation room, and then we opened her, the embryo was dead, but mum was very good after about ten days of the operation. but she has no embryo, no child, no uterus. she can't have the baby at all. but you were glad you could save her? we could save her, yes, but i didn't actually know if she wanted to be saved, 0k? because she was so devastated?
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why did you decide to stay and do this kind of work? because i am a doctor, and this is my country. doctor mustapha showed me a picture of this baby, but it is too upsetting to show. the doctors all have stories of horror like this, things you can neverforget. this new blast injury's manual has been written to try and help these doctors. nothing like it has ever been written and it is designed for war zones. one of the people who worked on it in imperial college london is doctor emily mayhew. we got a lot of doctors in a room and said if you are treating a blast injury to a child, what do you need? and the actually said,
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we need a little book that gives us the basics that allows us to adapt what we already know the children. it feels almost like it couldn't be enough, a little book to treat something so catastrophic. i am conscious that we need an encyclopaedia, we need a room's worth of paediatric specific information, but that does not exist anywhere, it doesn't exist in the uk, in some of the best resourced hospitals and universities in the us it exists, so this is a start. the crisis is not over. a lot of patients are scared, there are not enough staff to help them. i have to stay and help my people. the anti—semitism crisis
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in the labour party and its leadership continues. this week's 60 labour party members who sit in the house of lords took out a full—page newspaper ad to accuse jeremy corbyn are failing his leader to deal with the issue. tracy—ann is another prominent voice to quit labour over anti—semitism this week she explained why she believes the party has not been trained of the poison of anti—jewish racism. as an actor and writer, the fact i am here to talk about being jewish in the labour party and the activism i felt i had to take on, ifind incredible. i am normally on programmes to promote my work, but so little has been done about abuse that people like myself are faced online and in real life that i have ended up coming on to talk to you. what is it like when you put your head above the parapet? for a long time, i hadn't. twitter, which is my medium, when it was a fun place to be,
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very witty platform, and then i started to notice things changing around 2015 and i started to watch a lot of the abuse and misogynistic abuse againstjewish mps. and i kept thinking, why am i seeing rothschilds's, dues are all rich and are anti—jeremy corbin because they don't want to pay higher taxes. these things were going around and nobody from the labour party was challenging them. the final straw for me came was when a woman called eva spray painted warsaw ghetto, the wall so ghetto wall with the words, free gaza. my family and a lot of other people's families died in the warsaw ghetto and that war is the only surviving one. i put on social media, why is this woman being dignified on a legitimate platform.
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i thought it was wrong. the response i got online from labour members, labour councillors, people with their red rose twitter feed who said they were hardcore members of the labour party was unprecedented, abuse beyond imagining. i then sat in the car and cried, because i could not believe what people were saying and what they were sending to me under the guise of being labour supporters and jeremy corbyn supporters. so every day, it is like wanting people to silence you, people smearing you, calling you a prostitute, a slut, i have been told i have a castle, where i hide my tax evading money, i can't even begin to tell you that they had proof i am a grooming paedophile, and on and on. and it is notjust against me but against anybody who speaks out against anti—semitism. and a lot of it is misogynistic. when i approached the labour party
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with my own complaints... the general secretary? yes. people like rachel riley and other women who have been amazing on this, we did not get anything back. and watching the programme the other night, it suddenly became clear why we hadn't, because, in my opinion, underjeremy corbyn‘s leadership, the labour party and his core group of organisers don't want to deal with it. they say the labour party takes all complaints of anti—semitism extremely seriously. all complaints are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and the rate at which these cases are dealt with has increased more than fourfold sincejennie formby became general secretary. i have heard that read up many times over the last few years. i don't buy it, because it is never followed up by any action.
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a party that can get rid of alistair campbell within 15 hours because of his voting tactic, if they want to protect people, they will take those complaints and lose them in a black hole. more to the point, party that's meant to be an anti—racist party that runs on an anti—racism ticket and a safe for women, and anybody in the workspace, to have these brave whistle—blowers come out, a party that supports whistle—blowers like seeing julian assange sancho is a hero, they bullied, frightened young people. within hours of the programme going out, these young people, who were so brave, who said, this is a culture of fear and secrecy, were being called disgruntled blairites, most of them were not even born when tony blair was prime minister! it has been horrific. the one mp who reached out to me, was tom watson, the deputy leader of the labour party,
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who was trying to do something, more than anyone else, was equally turned into the traitorous tom watson, he has to resign. instead of labour turning around and admitting and that leadership office saying, we have a problem, we have not dealt with it properly, we are hiding complaints against people we would like to protect, they came out the next day, all guns fighting, saying, it is everybody else's problem for our own. the labour party says it is tackling anti—semitism and they have increased staff working on cases. jeremy corbyn says he has fought against racism all his life. finally, shaun ryder it's going back on tour with the happy mondays and this time he says he will do it drugs free.
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you have recently had a hip operation. are you going to be all right staying up for an hour and a half with the tour? i managed it. how do you feel about going on the road again? it is better than ever. we are a lot older, a bit wiser. the sex and drugs have gone, it'sjust rock and roll, and we have enjoy it more than ever, we are of that treadmill, that album, tour for two years. so the sex and drugs has gone. i know, the missu is gutted! i know, the missus is gutted! you said you used to get smashed before you went on stage partly because of stage fright? oh, yeah. do you not have stage fright anymore? i deal with it differently. i was 18 when we started the band. i am pushing 60. i am more comfortable with myself now, with my body. it is dealt with in a different way. what is the backstage routine like now compared to when you are 18? different. it is very quiet.
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when we finish now, i am straight back on to bed, watching the news. no parties, no clubs, no drinking? no. it is the whole of the original gang, is that right? pretty much. paul, my brother, is back. you did fall out for a few years. we're brothers, aren't we? any advice that noel and liam? if me and paul can make it work, they can. how did you manage it? just time, really. it just took a bit of time. we were on the road with my dad as well. when your dad starts becoming more like one of the boys instead of your dad, it was a bit skewiff. what has changed in the music industry?
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probably not as much waste now. there was a lot of waste, even on cars, waiting for you all day, a ta grand an hour. an hourfor a taxi? not a taxi, the drivers. with the cocaine scales in the boot. 0h, oh, my god! it was rock and roll! a lot of waste record companies paid for. that seems to have gone, everyone is on a budget. that's it for this week. you can see more of our films online and if you have a story, do let us know, send us an e—mail. see you next week. hello there, the weather is going to get very hot for some of us over the next few days, particularly in england and wales. notjust hot, but very sunny. scotland and northern ireland, well, warm at times, there
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will be some sunshine, but some very heavy down pours. towards the middle of week, as high pressure develops in northern europe, we get these south—easterly winds bringing us the hot weather. paris could reach 41 degrees. that would be a new record. we get temperatures into the mid 30s. here is the picture at the moment and you can see cloud on the satellite and that cloud extends well out into the atlantic with this front wiggling towards northern ireland and western scotland, where it will continue to be very wet over night tonight. in fact the rain mounting up, particularly in western scotla nd mounting up, particularly in western scotland where, 25 to 50 millimetres could fall. maybe up to 100 on the hills in dumfries and galloway a warm night, temperatures 15 to 17 celsius. on monday, the south—westerly winds will push the rain north across the highlands into
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the western isles. otherwise, where we start off with cloud, it will break up with spells of sunshine developing. and in the sunshine, some warm weather around. temperatures 25 in belfast. warm in eastern scotland. 2a for aberdeen. wales 26. in eastern england, hot, temperatures up to 29 and it is hotter on tuesday as the winds turn to the south—east a lot of dry and sunny weather across most areas of united kingdom. the temperatures will rise again into the mid 20s for northern ireland. up to 33 or 3a across eastern areas of england. after such a warm day, the temperatures will be slow to ease through tuesday night. ten o'clock at night, 27 in london, 26 in cardiff. it looks like it will go bang as well. through tuesday some big thunder storms moving in and will reach parts of scotland during
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wednesday. scotland and northern ireland could see further bands of rain later in the week. england and wales dry and sunny.
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