tv Victoria Derbyshire BBC News October 27, 2019 3:30pm-4:01pm GMT
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the father of a little boy, too young to understand. he last heard from his son one week ago, on facebook. —— son. "i'm about to board a car to britain", he wrote, "i will contact the family when i arrived in britain. translation: i have no hope any more and i am very anxious. i have heard a lot about my son, and every time i think of him, i cried. —— i have thought a lot about my son. families are mourning, afraid of the worst, but they are providing hair and dna samples as police try to identify victims in essex. 25—year—old maurice robinson from northern ireland has been charged with counts including manslaughter and people trafficking, three others held by police have been on bail. click —— released on bail. officers say that they are investigating a wider conspiracy amid a convoy of three vehicles carrying 100 people. in the vietnamese village from where one lady set out on herjourney, hope is fading fast. it is not going well, she told a friend, but then, using slang to mean she was reaching her destination, she wrote,"
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it is almost spring". now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos widespread sunshine across the uk in the next few days look dry and sunny thanks to low pressure. quite breezy with showers across scotland and this teacher clears away as high pressure continues to building by the end of the day. barely breezy. a bit of cloud in the extreme south—west with these weather fronts encroaching in otherwise it is going to bea encroaching in otherwise it is going to be a clear and cold night with light winds. temperatures plummeting, widespread frost developing through central and southern areas in really cold in towns and cities. don't be surprised a few see scenes like this for monday morning. a nice, crisp sunny start. to the date stays dry with plenty of sunshine for most. and breeze and some clear north of scotla nd breeze and some clear north of scotland and we could see increasing
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breeze across the south—west of england. elsewhere dry and sunny but a colder day than sunday with highs of 9-11. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump announces that us special forces have killed the fugitive leader of the so—called islamic state group, abu bakr al—baghdadi. a brutal killer, one who has caused so a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death has violently been eliminated. the us says al baghdadi died after detonating a suicide vest, killing three children in the process. his brutal self—proclaimed "caliphate" lasted five years and attracted thousands ofjihadists from around the world. uk opposition politicians join forces to offer borisjohnson the chance of a 9th
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of december general election, before a brexit deal is approved. vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved ones are among the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. let me bring you a couple of bits of reaction to the news announced by the president of the united states from the white house just a couple of hours ago. about the death of abu bakr al— baghdadi. the french defence minister has congratulated the us. she said that abu bakr al— baghdadi's early retirement did not mean his organisation had retired. we continue, she said, the fight against islamic state with our partners and will adapt to new regional circumstances without the russian defence ministry sounded a note of caution. a spokesperson said
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a growing number of participants and countries are allegedly took part in this operation, each with absolutely contradictory details gives rise to valid questions and doubt about its validity and its success. not saying it did not happen but being sceptical about the circumstances. we will have more at the top of the hour. now, one of the other big stories for people in the uk. wales have lost to south africa in the rugby world cup semifinal meaning they will go on to play new zealand for third place in tokyo on friday. south africa secured a 19—16 victory and will now face england in the final next saturday. our sports news correspondent gave us an idea of the mood at the at the international stadium in yokohama. i think they felt that this really was the best chance they ever had of making it all the way through to rugby's showpiece. after all, they we re rugby's showpiece. after all, they were six nations grand slam winners. their legendary coach was leaving his position at the end of this tournament and the players were
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desperate to give him the sendoff that you deserve. remember, he has 164 nations titles and three of them are grand bears were depleted through injuries. they had already lost key players. they managed to patch up jonathan lost key players. they managed to patch upjonathan davies, their inspirational centre, for this game but in the first half they lost a winger and a prop and in the end, that really told, i think. it was a really scrappy game especially in the first half. windy conditions here at the stadium tonight. south africa went in at half—time. had been scored through the boot. in the final reckoning, in the second half once again, pollard, the young south african scored the crucial points with a penalty four minutes from time. that made it 19—16. the welsh fightback bravely. but in such a
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tight encounter at the ivy that whoever then scored, that would prove decisive. and polite scored that penalty. he was nervous all night, he scored four penalties and conversion, too. in wales ultimately, their resistance broke and they had no response and south africa go through and they will have a chance to win what would be a third world cup but i think england will be a start favourites after they performed here yesterday against new zealand, of course. time to look back at the week with the victoria derbyshire programme. hello, and welcome. over the next 30 minutes we will bring you the highlights from the programme in the last week. earlier this year in a television first, we broadcast live from a specialist eating disorders project in halifax. after the programme, a lot of you got in touch to tell us about the problems older people, men and women, have with getting treatment. now we've discovered if you are a pensioner
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with an eating disorder, you could face discrimination in parts of the country when it comes to getting treatment, despite nhs england telling us specialist clinics are open to all ages. our reporter and producer have been to meet three older women suffering from eating disorders. jillian hayes is 64 and is dangerously underweight. she's been living with anorexia on and off since her teens but it has got much worse as she has got older. what breaks my heart more than anything is i have a little grandson now. he isjust two. it was his birthday the other week. he wanted to give everybody a piece of cake and everything. and i can't. ijust can't do it. i basically now just live on supplements, drink supplements. that provides me with half my
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calorie intake to date. the other half is with food. so i don't eat really much during the day at all. the first signs of an eating disorder began when she was at drama school in london in the 1960s. we had a ballet teacher there who said, none of you will ever get on because you're all too fat. you've all got to lose weight! it is still ringing in my is now. jillian said herfour children have helps to keep her alive but even socialising with her family can be a struggle. i cannot enjoy social occasions, where there is food involved. and people say, is something wrong? they wouldn't imagine i had an eating disorder. at my age, who gets eating disorders? that's a teenage disease, isn't it? like many other older people respected with an eating disorder, jillian does not feel the right kind of treatment is available.
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i can honestly say that eating disorder has been worse in later years. i've been in and out of hospital since the age of 14. at least five or six times, i have been sectioned three times. jillian now gets weighed once a month by her gp. if her weight drops any lower, she will be taken straight back to hospital but she says that is not the answer. i don't think it would do an older person to go into an eating disorder unit where there are a lot of youngsters... why not? because i think, in a way, you feel you are in the wrong place. they've got their life ahead of them now. sylvia was almost 60 when she was diagnosed with anorexia. likejillian, she is worried about what kind of treatment will be available as she gets older. i'm coming up to 63. there are no services for me, beyond the age of 65.
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what happens to me if i decline and i become unwell? lots of nhs trusts do not offer any specialist eating disorder care to the over 65 is, so sylvia could be treated in a general geriatric ward instead. she thinks the problem started when she was pregnant in her 30s. you see your body getting bigger. i had a problem with increased weight as a teenager. i always battled with it, i always dieted to lose weight. i very much wanted to be pregnant and it had been difficult to put that weight on and to feel big again. sylvia says she managed to stay healthy while her son was young but when he left home, her anorexia really took hold. she became so unwell she had to leave herjob as a social worker. i was weak. i really didn't have any energy. i was in bed a lot.
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i really wasn't eating very much at all. and what would your typical food intake be? it is hard to pinpoint. it would vary. depending on what i would allow myself to eat. she was admitted to a specialist anorexia clinic for two months where she was fed through a nasal tube. when she tried to leave she was sectioned, and it was at that point she thought about taking her own life. it is hell. you almost get past thinking about the people you are leaving behind, because you do get into a state of, they will be better off without me. all i could see was my son witnessing me dying like a living corpse, covered in bedsores ina bed. i did not want him to witness that. sylvia feels she was treated
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differently at the clinic because of her age. and there i was discharged after quite a short period compared to the patients who had been in the service for many years. those over 50 particularly were being discharged. i think it was age—related. if i got really unwell again, i think i would probably die. that is the long and the short of it. anorexia only accounts for 10% of all eating disorders. it is actually relatively rare, especially among older people. if you are middle—aged you are far more likely to be a binge eat. i am in dorset to meet angela. she describes herself as a binge sheet. she is 57, but she has had issues with food since she was very young —— make a binge eater. i remember taking quite a lot of bags of crisps and everything, and making crackers and cheese, wrapping them in foil and hiding them in my bedroom.
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she says she thinks about food all the time. i would go out into the kitchen, and i think, i just want to eat today. i can go to the shop and it is like i plan to take things with me. if there are cream cakes or something like that, i think i want that one, and that one, and that one. and i will buy it. angela says she will typically binge on whatever she can find in the house. it can last all day. i had a chinese meal for two, and i had about six packets of crisps. i helped myself to cashew nuts, and then went to the sweetjar, and it is like i go all day until i have to go to bed. sometimes i am totally like, why am i doing this? i start to hate myself. why have i eaten so much? she has never been diagnosed as having an eating disorder, and her gp told her it was probably just the menopause. like sylvia and jillian, she thinks her age has also stopped her getting the treatment she needed.
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nobody has ever helped me or told me there is somewhere i can go to get help with this. if i realised why i was doing this, then perhaps it would make me stop doing it. if you have been affected by any of the issues discussed in that film, contact the bbc action line. there are a lot of organisations and websites they can suggest to you for help. until february this year, katie jarvis was a famous face on our television screens playing hayley slater on eastenders. this is your true colours, isn't it? you'd, don't ever lay your hands on her again, do you hear me? why, hayley? what are you going to do?
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last sunday, a tabloid ran a front—page story revealing that she was working as a security guard in a discount store in essex. what followed was an outpouring of support for katie, with fellow actors claiming she had beenjob shamed. we spoke to her exclusively. first of all, how did the front page make you feel? to be honest, in the morning, i woke up really embarrassed. and really made to feel quite ashamed, to be honest. 0ver my career, i have done my best to stay away from social gatherings, get—togethers and celebrity things to keep my private life as private as possible. to wake up with my kids and see myself on the front of the pages, just for simply having a job in between my acting, it really did hurt me, to be honest. it took a day also for me to let it die and realise i had nothing to be ashamed of. all actors go through it.
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over the years i have had so many different jobs between, and notjust doing security guards. when i was 17 i was doing doughnuts with my uncle at festivals and things like that. they would have the food carts. i have been a waitress, i have worked in a credit card company, i've done admin, i have done all types of things. that's the life of an actor, isn't it? it is, one of my sisters because me a dabbler because i do a little bit of everything! i like to be busy and learn new things, it doesn't matter what it is. to wake up on sunday and be made to feel like... like it was a bad thing and job shaming me in a sense? the people i work with are amazing. they get up everyday and work hard
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for their money and it doesn't matter whatjob you are doing, i don't think anyone should be made to feel how i did when you wake up. as long as you are working, that is all that matters. absolutely, the daily star said that they had a leader inside of the newspaper which kind of praise you, i'm trying to find the exact wording. praising you for that work. " there is absolutely no shame in working as a security guard, of course, but it would be a pity if katie wasted her obvious talent as a performer. we wish her all the best for a swift return to the acting world". you don't take that seriously? no, i feel how they portrayed the story was not very nice. if they wanted to find me, after i have been off the radar for a few months and say i've got this job, that is fine. the way it was portrayed was really quite nasty. they've not had much else they can say about me or much else to jump on me for.
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and to be made to feel degraded, you know what i mean? a lot goes into being a security guard. they put themselves at risk and i took thatjob on and joined my sister because she is a security guard there. the way it was portrayed? i need to stand up for them, you know what i mean? there is nothing wrong in anyjob. you have had a lot of support, you are not on social media so you did not realise for a while. kathy burke tweeted this... and tamson 0uthwaite tweeted this... gillian taylforth tweeted this... how did you feel after the support? i am overwhelmed, on sunday it hit me. i'm not on twitter so i have never seen this. the uk population is projected
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to increase by 3 million, according to new stats released this week. affordable housing will be needed to house this population. we've had access to a pioneering project in margate which aims to deal with this. three generations of the same family who previously lived in separate homes successfully applied for a new housing scheme. all of them moved into a big new house that was a rundown hotel by the sea. what would possibly go wrong? here is what happened... margate in kent, like most british seaside towns, has had its ups and downs. many of its spectacular buildings built in its victorian heyday have been either unloved or split up into numerous small flats. this flat was bought by kent county council in 2012 and for the last year it has been part of an experiment looking at the benefits of moving multiple generations of the same family in together.
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let's meet the family. we have hospital worker lizzie and her husband, and her two children. charlie works in a supermarket and 18—year—old dan is working to be a chef. there is six—year—old daughter poppy and big brother andrew, charlie and dan's uncle. brea kfast. richard and lizzie have the day. dan is still in bed. charlie is getting daughter p°ppy ready for school. i make breakfast a couple of times a week. when imi time. —— when i am at home. previously i have been cooking forjust me and liz, not a house of six people. it would have been
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just the two of us. before, they lived in three households scattered around margate. andrew lived alone. single mum charlie and poppy had their own place. juggling poppy‘s school times and her own work hours was a challenge for mum, charlie, before moving into the house. my hours change week to week. it makes it a little difficult with school runs but with some help, it is nice that she has been picked up by a family member. this morning, lizzie is taking her granddaughter to school. bag, please? you are going to be late! lizzie spotted the advert for taking part in the housing experiment because her landlord at the time was selling up. shall i go the back way? thanet council behind the project wanted to see if a multi—generational home would save money on things like social care and reduce the impact on the environment with everyone living separately.
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we had to go through an interview process with the university, the council and the letting agents. and the people in charge of the regeneration project. it was quite a long interview. doctor hannah swift from the university of kent was one of a team of academics studying the family for the last year. multi—generational living, whether successful or not, will be different for each individual family depending on their own care needs. the family living here have specific care needs and otherfamilies have different care needs. the building itself has to lend themselves to that. this house is over five floors. there are three kitchens and five shower all bathrooms. there are seven bedrooms. the average british home has around three bedrooms. charlie has her own kitchen and bathroom, and her own bedroom and living room.
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everyone in the household needs to do their bit to keep the place clean. for 18—year—old son dan, whether or not he stays here depends on whether there is enough work. it is nice, because we have quite a small family, it is nice to see each other all the time. it relies on my career, if i need to move somewhere. in the meantime, i will be staying here. living with the family. it is mid—afternoon, and lizzie's big brother andrew is back from work. andrew has learning difficulties. he has always lived an independent life. before moving here he struggled to look after himself. these are the starships from star trek. my favourite is the dalek. when she said, do you want to move in with us, i said yes, sure! when i was alone, and i was working quite a lot, i didn't get
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to see much of them. well, hardly at all. i was working nights or day shifts, whenever. andrew was really struggling a lot when he was on his own. he's always been a bit of a loner and quite happy in his own company. that is good but he alienated himself from the family and kept himself very secluded. he was really struggling. buying the building and converting it from a rundown hotel to a state—of—the—art family home cost more than £50,000. kent county council spent over 150,000, and thanet council spent more. the council think it is worth the expense. taxpayer money is a good use for this project. it shows authorities what they can do with their historic housing stock. it is so often blamed as being the cause of problems
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in those areas and it is not the fault of those areas. it is better than demolishing the building and saves the country money. the family is privately renting the house from kent county council, it costs about £1750 a month, plus bills. richard says that living together has helped them to save money. we are not all paying separate rent, or electricity bills, gas bills, and water bills, council tax and everything else. we are alljust paying one lump sum for the house. like all families, there are fallouts from time to time. despite this, richard would not swap living here for more personal space. as for domestic quarrels within the house? yes, they do happen. but we all have our own space. multi—generational living is not for everybody. not everybody gets on with their own family, of course. it isn't a solution that will suit
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everybody but i think it is a solution many people are looking for, and they would like to have in the future. the university of kent will be publishing its findings later this year. at the end of the day, most of the family gets together in the living room to eat. when they lived apart, these gatherings only happened on special occasions. now it is several times a week. the family has a further 12 month contract to live here but lizzie hopes they will be there for good. we have talked about the future quite often. we talked about it when we came into the property before we moved in. about that this would be hopefully that they've given us an almost guarantee that this would be a long—term thing. and it would be lovely, that this would be our forever home. that's it for this week's programme, you can contact us at anytime, day or night. message me on twitter. thank you for watching.
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pa rt part two of the week and certainly much better than part one. we sell widespread sunshine across the uk. and indeed the next few days look dry and sunny, thanks to high pressure. but it will be cold with frosty nights. it has been quite breezy with showers across scotland. this feature clearing away as high pressure continues to build in by the end of the day. it will stay fairly breezy. 0ne the end of the day. it will stay fairly breezy. one or two showers across the far north—east and a bit of cloud in the extreme north—west but these weather fronts encroaching in otherwise it will be cold night with light winds as those temperatures are plummeting foot of a widespread frost developing through central and northern areas and really cold in towns and cities. don't be surprised a few see scenes like this for monday morning. a nice, crisp, sunny start. through the day it stays dry. more of a
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this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at four. president trump announces that us special forces have killed the fugitive leader of the so—called islamic state group, abu bakr al—baghdadi. a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has been violently eliminated. the us says al baghdadi died after detonating a suicide vest, killing three children in the process. his brutal self—proclaimed "caliphate" lasted five years and attracted thousands ofjihadists from around the world. uk opposition politicians join forces to offer borisjohnson the chance of a 9th of december general election — before a brexit deal is approved. vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved
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