this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at four. the health secretary, matt hancock, rejects calls from england's gps to remove home visits from their contracts, calling it a "complete non—starter". it isn't going to wash, it isn't going to happen. they say they want to negotiate to end home visits, but of course gps need to do home visits. jeremy corbyn defends his decision to remain neutral in any future brexit referendum if labour wins power. i think being an honest broker and listening to everyone is actually a sign of strength and a sign of maturity. the conservatives are due to pubish their official manifesto. we find out what voters in one of the south—west‘s most deprived constituencies are hoping for. calm in hong kong today, but the authorities threaten to suspend voting in tomorrow's local elections if violence errupts. some of the orphaned british

children caught up in the war in syria have been brought back to the uk. railway rebuild. the model display destroyed by vandals — now back on show thanks to help from sir rod stewart and thousands of other supporters. and coming up at a50. the best of the week's exclusive interviews and reports from the victoria derbyshire programme. good afternoon. gps have voted to reduce visits to patients‘ homes, saying they "no longer have the capacity" to offer them. at a conference on friday, doctors in england supported a proposal to take the requirement to provide home visits out of their nhs contract. the health secretary, matt hancock, said the idea

was a "complete non—starter". jenny kumah reports. family doctors say their workload is on the rise and this, coupled with falling gdp numbers, mean something has to give. one of the daily pressures that gp practices are under is the obligation to do home visits. what would be much better is if we had a dedicated home visiting team with people with the time to be able to do this throughout the day, rather than gps having to squeeze it in. under the proposals home visits would not be scrapped completely but delivered by a separate service. similar to the way out—of—hours care has been contracted out. sometimes a gp has to go and see someone and they might be too frail to travel. and that has always been part of the vocation of being a gp and it will continue. so these proposals won't go any further, but what we will do is train, fund and recruit more gps.

meanwhile, labour is promising more cash to help out. they are saying, as a point of desperation, they can no longer continue those home visits. this is a call to all of us, that the funding of the nhs has to be increased so that gps can undertake those home visits. doctors say they recognise that vulnerable, complex and end—of—life patients will need home visits. theyjust want to see a change of policy to ensure patients get a suitable service. jenny kumah, bbc news. earlier i spoke to dr richard vautrey, chair of the bma's england gp committee. he explained why gps in england voted in favour of this measure. imean as i mean as everybody knows gps are under huge pressure in surgeries trying to respond to the needs of growing numbers of patients who have more complex problems, and trying to squeeze in home visits in and among

everything else they have do is becoming increasingly difficult. what gps told us yesterday was that it would be much better if there was a dedicated home visiting service, that was funded to be able to respond to the needs of patients in their homes, so that practises could continue to focus on the needs of patients in their surgeries, while a tea m patients in their surgeries, while a team of people visited others who we re team of people visited others who were house bound and needed care in their homes at the same time. even if it wasn't in the contract, in certain circumstances individual gps would be willing to go out an do home visits, is that correct? yes, of course, and that was reflected in the discussion we had yesterday at the discussion we had yesterday at the conference. many doctor, many gps really value the opportunity to visit patients in their home. they think it's a prestigious levenling to be alongside patients not least when providing palliative care to dying patients. gps value that to

ca re dying patients. gps value that to care for patients from cradle to grave. what we don't want do is provide a poorer service by trying to squeeze in a home visit in among a busy surgery when it may be better for a dedicated home visiting team that might be a nurse, a paramedic, indeed a doctor that is specialist to do home visits, doing that on behalf of the surgery or community. we are seeing that in some areas and it can work well. the nhs national medical director for primary care said there is an extra 4.5 billion the government has committed to community services and gps that will help fund more staff to support gp practises and offer high quality ca re practises and offer high quality care for patient, much doing home visits so in a sense this isn't needed if it is already happening, it doesn't matter if it is in the contract or not. the services are changing and adapting and this would be in changing and adapting and this would beina changing and adapting and this would be in a sense, kind of, it would be would be a change but wouldn't amount to much on the ground, would

it? well, it is not happening quickly enough and consistently enoughin quickly enough and consistently enough in every part of country. we have seen pilots and small scale groups of practises working together with the support of their local health bodies, so there have been dedicated teams providing home visiting service, that has made a big different to the world load pressures that gps and others in the practice find themselves in. these systems practice find themselves in. these syste ms ca n practice find themselves in. these systems can work but we need the funding right across the country to enable that to that, but we need to ta ke enable that to that, but we need to take away the assumption there is the obligatory nature within our contract, that it is gps who will do this, when in some cases it may be better that others are able to do it with dedicated time. jeremy corbyn has defended his decision to remain neutral in any future brexit referendum if labour wins power. he told last night's bbc question time leaders' special he wouldn't campaign to remain in the eu or leave it under terms

labour hopes to renegotiate. mr corbyn said it would allow him to "credibly" carry out whichever result the public voted for. the prime minister questioned how mr corbyn could be "indifferent" on the issue. our political correspondent tom barton reports. he knows which side he's on in this fight between workers and the multinational corporation, but on the fight between leave and remain, jeremy corbyn says he's not picking sides. if he becomes prime minister and holds another referendum he will, he says, remain strictly neutral. being an honest broker and listening to everyone is actually a sign of strength and a sign of maturity. our country has to come together, we cannot go on forever being divided by how people voted in 2016. his decision to remain neutralfirst revealed in last night's question time leaders' special. i will adopt, if i am prime minister, a neutral stand so i can credibly carry out

the results to bring our community and country together. a bruising encounter for all involved, including the lib dems'jo swinson. you think revoking article 50 which involved millions of people is stupid and didn't know what we were voting for? that doesn't mean that you or anybody like you are stupid, it means we disagree. nicola sturgeon suggested the snp would pile the pressure on labour to offer another independence referendum. in terms of what i would seek to win from a minority labour government, obviously i would ask for and expect jeremy corbyn to respect the right of the scottish people to choose their own future. it is not for westminster to decide, it is for the people of scotland. while the prime minister faced questions on trust. how important is it for someone in your position of power to always tell the truth?

it is absolutely vital and i think the issue of trust in politics is central to this election. and, fundamental to the corrosion of trust in politics. the tory leader's performance today defended by one of his ministers. on one of the critical questions of our time at brexit, we have a clear plan agreed with the eu ready to go. and in sharp contrast to what we saw in the debate last night, jeremy corbyn saying he has decided to be indecisive on brexit. the lib dems' jo swinson also unimpressed by the labour leader's new stance. they want a leader, not a bystander. itjust beggars belief that somebody who is standing for the role of leading our country can say on the biggest issue we have faced for generations, they are not going to take a position. it is a total abdication of leadership. jeremy corbyn will have hope to have put this question behind him. his opponents want it to remain front and centre. tom barton, bbc news.

with me is our political correspondent, tom barton. let us talk about a bit more about jeremy corbyn. corbyn. there seemed to be something he has not been keen to be something he has not been keen to say on previous occasion, why now? he has been asked about this question over his stance on another referendum, which way he would campaign, overand referendum, which way he would campaign, over and over referendum, which way he would campaign, overand overagain referendum, which way he would campaign, over and over again in the last few week, and i think he felt people round him felt he needed to try to draw a line under that, and move on, and they saw this as a way of doing that. he also as you saw in the piece, sees this as a way of him being what he calls an honest broker, within this process of holding this second referendum, and also implementing the outcome having been neutral during the process, it hasn't perhaps not surprisingly gone down well with his political

opponent, we heard from somejust then. nigel farage has been speaking about it this afternoon. a total lack of leadership. this is the defining issue of our time, and the labour leader says he doesn't know which side he will back. the first lieutenant of it is, the reason he is saying that is because the labour party in parliament are remainers, you know, 95% of them are outright remainers, because corbyn knows in the country there are five million labour leave voters so he is trying to keep both these wings of the old labour vote together and it won't work. so we have heard from the tories, we have heard from the liberal democrat, we have heard from the brexit party, what about the snp? nicola sturgeon is also scathing. i think it is a continuation ofjeremy corbyn‘s woeful lack of leadership on brexit. i do think people have a right to expect from somebody aspiring to be prime minister they say where they stand on the issue of should the uk be in or out of the european union? and i think that

sort of statement of so—called neutrality will simply feed the suspicion may be people have that jeremy corbyn actually wants the uk to be out of the european union, but simply isn't willing to say that. it is hardly surprising that the other party leaders would take a pop at him, it is an obvious one to take at him, it is an obvious one to take a p0p at him, it is an obvious one to take a pop at him about. what we don't know is yet even what form a renegotiation would take, and what would be presented to people as an alternative to remaining, so you remain the terms we have as members of the european union or you leave on our terms not the ones a that borisjohnson negotiated. on our terms not the ones a that boris johnson negotiated. that is jeremy corbyn‘s big pitch, is he says the borisjohnson deal is no good, he says it is worse than the deal negotiated by theresa may. he thinks he could do a betterjob. what would it look like? as with all things brexit it is impossible to know for sure. he has said though that it would involve remaining at the very least within the customs

union, continuing to trade on as frictionless terms as possible. so there would be a difference of... notjust a kind of style difference. let us talk about the conservatives because they are reto publish their ma nifesto because they are reto publish their manifesto tomorrow, which is unusual, to say the least. yes, absolutely. manifesto launch on the sunday, nothing like that has been done before, within politics, traditionally they are done within the week, certainly not for the party which is most closely associated with the church of england here in the uk, something which anybody would have, you know, a few years ago would have been expected to have been done by then. now it's a seven day week 2a hours a day news cycle. can't get a day off. they haven't said why they are making a break with tradition. some have suggested it is to do with tv audience, you get bigger audiences

ona audience, you get bigger audiences on a tea time. they are made up of a different group of people, suggesting that the tories see a strategic advantage in trying to reach that audience with their message, some, you know, slightly more cynical suggestions that perhaps you know, trying to avoid scrutiny by sunday paper, putting out after last night's question time debate. there wasn't a manifesto to defend. as for what is in it. three words we can expect. it will say get brexit done, as for the rest of it we don't know. i think it will be a conservative manifesto in the literal sense, they will not be trying to do anything too radical or push the boat out too much, because they would burn —— they were burned badly in 2017. the dementia tax, the social care proposals which were changed and theresa may said nothing's changed and it didn't go down well. it went down badly and i

think the young thing they will try to achieve is a manifesto which makes very few waves or ripples in the pond at all. tom barton, thank you. in other election news... the conservatives have promised to double the funding for dementia research over the next decade. the extra £83 million a year has been described by the party as the "largest boost to dementia research ever". more than 850,000 people suffer from dementia in the uk. labour has pledged to put an extra tax on foreign companies and trusts buying property in the uk. if it wins the general election — the party impose an additional charge of 20% on the purchase. labour estimates it would raise £35 billion a year. well, the head of amazon uk, doug gurr spoke to me after that visit saying his company was already following good practice. we got a call late last nigh. we discovered jeremy was visiting. we are delighted to have people visit oui’ are delighted to have people visit our site. he didn't come inside did

he? i don't believe he came into the build, i think it was outside but he would have been very welcome to come inside as indeed anybody is. we run public tours of the sites. we are proud of the safe operating environment we offer of the great jobs we create, of the imwants we pgy- jobs we create, of the imwants we pay. we do pay depending on the area of the country, the 9.50 or 10.50 an hour and we create massive opportunities for people to learn and develop, as directly with us or through programmes like career choice, orapprenticeships through programmes like career choice, or apprenticeships where we made a commitment to create over 1,000 this year. the headlines on bbc news. the health secretary, matt hancock, rejects calls from england's gps to remove home visits from their contracts, calling it a "complete non—starter". from their contracts, jeremy corbyn defends his decision to remain neutral in any future brexit referendum if labour wins power. calm in hong kong today, but the authorities threaten to suspend voting in tomorrow's local elections if there is more violence on city's streets.

and in sportjose mourinho has won his first game in charge of totte n ha m. his first game in charge of tottenham. they beat west ham. mourinho said the most important thing was to win no matter how. it was a tough day for england's cricketers with their bowlers only taking two wickets on the first test against new zealand. a century from watling helped put new zealand in control as they closed on 394—6. and in rugby union's european champion cup saracens have a bonus point over ospreys. and semifinals of tennis davis cup tie between great britain and spain sta rts tie between great britain and spain starts in round 15 minutes. i will have more millions of people in hong kong are preparing to vote in local elections on sunday.

it's being seen as a gauge of public sentiment, after almost six months of pro—democracy protests and violent clashes between demonstrators and police. if there's more violence, the authorities have threatened to suspend voting. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonnell gave us this update. it is pretty quiet in hong kong this weekend apart from that truck, as people prepare to go to the ballot box rather than the barricades. candidates and their supporters are still out in the streets asking for people's support in crucial district council elections tomorrow which are being seen as a barometer of sentiment in the city which is now in its sixth month of political crisis. those candidates backing the protesters, those calling for broad democratic reforms are hoping to do well because people are upset with the way in which carrie lam's administration has handled this crisis. however those in the pro—establishment camp are saying if you are fed up with the chaos and constant protest, you should choose our tickets. the government says if any polling places are sufficiently disrupted, voting will be suspended there,

so for that reason people are trying their best do not give the authorities any excuse to call off the elections and it is more peaceful than it has been four months here. a group of orphaned british children, caught up in the war in syria, are said to be in good spirits after they were brought back to the uk. they're the first to be repatriated from an area in the north east of the country, which was formally controlled by the group that called itself islamic state. 0rla minogue is from the charity save the children. earlier, she spoke to my colleague geeta guru—murthy. there are as many as 60 british children remain main the camps in north east syria, all of need who come home, the conditions there are desperate so we are talking about 60 very young children. what has been the blockage to that happening so far? well there have been delays on the side of the british government, in terms of making the decision to repat raid rate, having said that we welcome the shift in policy on the

government's part over the last month to say they would take steps to repatriate orphaned children as a matter of urgency and they would look at other children on a case by case basis we have heard that a gi’oup case basis we have heard that a group of children have been repatriated, now is time to bring home the rest of the children. how difficult are, are the conditions there? the conditions in the camp are desperate. there severe overcrowding, 70,000 people in one of these camps alone. people are living in tents with little access to clean water or service, a lot of the children are sick, they have severe injuries from the bombing they have experienced, not to mention the psychological distress they have lived there and are going through now, given they are spending their formative years growing syria. we've already heard big pledges from all of the major parties, and tomorrow we're expecting the conservatives to unveil their official manifesto in the west midlands. but what policies would persuade people in one of the south—west‘s

most deprived constituencies to vote for boris johnson? jon kay has been finding out. avonmouth, an old port on the bristol channel, in a seat the conservatives hope to win back. on a corner, we find danny. battery flat, as well as his mood. 0rdinary working people like me just don't want to know. don't want to know the conservatives. danny's the kind of traditional labour voter that boris johnson needs to win over. the tories' manifesto promises on services and the nhs will be aimed at him. completely lost faith in them. but he will take some persuading. seen some new hospitals built, and it's lovely that we've got them but they haven't got enough beds. the a&es aren't big enough. they haven't got enough staff. my daughter's a staff nurse at hospital. she keeps getting tickets on her car because there is nowhere for the staff to park. it's just a never—ending round of hollow promises, as it seems to me.

facing west, towards america, borisjohnson says this could become a free port after brexit, creating jobs in one of the more deprived areas of south—west england. oh, look! little baby rolls. would you like them? ajob is something emma would welcome. we find her at the food bank. a single mum, she wants policies on schools and welfare, but the most important thing she wants sorted... oh, to be honest, right, brexit. oh, it's doing my head in. it's worse than a child screaming in your ear for about five years. she tells me she might vote green, but will consider the conservative manifesto because of borisjohnson. the conservatives have been in power for nearly a decade now and you're here today using a food bank. some people might be surprised to hear somebody in your position saying you quite like borisjohnson. you like what he stands for?

it's not even what he stands for. it's him. he will fight for what he believes in. we've got lots of food. as emma heads home with enough for herfamily, we hit the road. there are wealthy parts of bristol north west, and as well as needing labour voters, the conservatives also need to keep their traditional base. the friendly club. most of the members here are tory supporters. i'm quite happy, really. i'm very fortunate that i am happy where we are. i think there should be more funds provided for the elderly, especially those who are in need, living alone. loads of things that have been let to go down under this austerity. but for once, i'm winning! look at this lot! christine, the gin rummy queen. whatever the manifesto deals out on social care and tax breaks, she's voting blue forjust one reason.

couldn't care less about the tories and their policies. i'm voting to get out of europe. and then, there's hilda. i'm a conservative by heart. i have been for years. but now, i'm living like this. she's wary of tory manifesto pledges. where's the money coming from? it's just a load of fibs, as far as i can see. 0r bypassing the truth, shall we say. yeah. i'd like to punch him. punch him! well, he's been boxing, hasn't he? so maybe you could have a match. let's have some boxing lessons! jon kay, bbc news. these are all of the candidates standing in bristol north west. and you can find out which candidates are standing in your constituency on the bbc news website. now a story to gladen the heart

of model makers everywhere. decades of hard work was destroyed in a matter of minutes, after a group of teenagers broke into a school hall in market deeping in lincolnshire and smashed up the model railways. the display was valued at £30,000. members of the market deeping model railway club refused to admit defeat. now, thanks to their dedication, and the generosity of other model railway enthusiats — including rod stewart — it,"s all abord once again. nicola gilroy reports. a mindless attack that left more than the trains and layouts broken. my emotions took the better of me, i must admit. you can't replace the time you spent building these things. but six months on, the modellers from market deeping are back in business, displaying here at the largest model railway show in europe. this is the premierfmodel railway exhibition in the country, and to be invited is really important. and it's even more special

because the layout on display was one of those damaged in the attack. these buildings were totally wrecked, and rebuilt, part of the scenery damaged. some of the track down here has been relaid, and the wiring was pulled out from underneath. it has taken 1000 hours of hard work and dedication to repair this layout. it's nearly 20—odd years since i was last here with a layout, and to come back again to this with it is a wonderful thrill. i'm very proud of what the guys have done. it's tremendous. the club continues to be overwhelmed with support, with £100,000 raised in crowdfunding, 10,000 from rod stewart, and next week they'll be able to say thank you in person when they appear with the man himself on the one show. nicola gilroy, east midlands today, birmingham. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett hello, it has been a dull damp

saturday, the heavier rain is moving north wards through this evening and into the night it will be affecting north east england and eastern scotland, particularly heavy rain over the hill, you can see how that wetter weather is moving north, it is the rain in the south—east that will push towards the midlands and wales, tends to peter out. away from the north east where it will be breezy and wet it should turn dry. mist and fog in the lighter winds and mild frost—free, six or seven degrees, tomorrow in the morning we have some rain across eastern scotland, that should peter out. the rain continues in the northern isle, one 01’ rain continues in the northern isle, one or two light showers round the irish sea coasts, a drier day than today, a lot of cloud. the morning misty and murky. those temperatures very similar to what we are seeing today, but the mild and wet theme continues into monday with more rain, especially

hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines... the health secretary, matt hancock, rejects calls from england's gps to remove home visits from their contracts, calling it a "complete non—starter". it isn't going to wash, it isn't going to happen. they say they want to negotiate to end home visits, but of course gps need to do home visits. jeremy corbyn defends his decision to remain neutral in any future brexit referendum if labour wins power. i think being an honest broker and listening to everyone is actually a sign of strength and maturity. calm in hong kong today, but the authorities threaten to suspend voting in tomorrow's local elections if violence errupts. and now on bbc news, a look at some of the highlights from the victoria derbyshire programme over the last week.

hello, and welcome to the programme. 0ver hello, and welcome to the programme. over the next 30 minutes we will bring you some of the highlights of the programme from the last week. first, we hear from jennifer arcuri, the american businesswoman at the heart of a controversy over her links with borisjohnson. 0n heart of a controversy over her links with borisjohnson. on monday, she described her anger at the way she described her anger at the way she feels she is being treated. she claims the prime minister and his aides have blocked and ignored her since the controversy blew up. it is alleged she received favourable treatment when mrjohnson was the mayor of london because of their friendship. both allegations —— make allegations both of them deny. she said she felt snubbed by a man she considered a friend. tell our audience what it has been like for you being in the middle of this scandal? horrendous, to answer shortly. i mean, it is a nightmare i

cannot