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lawyers representing president donald trump, set out their defence of the us leader in his impeachment trial. the death toll from the coronavirus rises to 41 — with authorities in china struggling to contain the outbreak, as millions travel for the lunar new year. a charity offering mental health support to military veterans says it can't take on new cases because of a funding crisis. a royal marine recruit has died following a training exercise on a beach in cornwall earlier this week. at least 22 people have been killed, and more than 1000 injured, in a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey. and now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire takes a look at some of the highlights from her programme this week.

hello, and welcome to our programme. over the next half an hour we'll bring you some of the highlights from our award winning programme that we've broadcast over the last week. first, we learned that top social media influencers are being offered tens of thousands of pounds in cash, in return for sex. the men messaging them online are strangers. they often live abroad, and they typically approach women who are followed by more than 20,000 people on social networking sites. 0ne influencer told us that social media has become a catalogue for men to select their next conquest. here is ellie costello's exclusive film. instagram influencers sell us a lifestyle. they make money through advertising brands in exchange for payment. more followers means more paid work. but as the influencers circle becomes more saturated, it's become harder than ever to make money. opening the doors to exploitation.

i told him that i needed to find £5,000 to pay off debts, and then he said, have sex with me and i'll give you double that. we've been told these propositions are becoming more frequent. it's high end prostitution. this programme has been told that influencers are being groomed, with designer handbags, luxury holidays and thousands of pounds of cash, in exchange for sex. the men messaging them on social media are strangers and often living abroad. one of those people offered money for sex is rosie williams. she starred in series four of love island.

it was an offer to move across to dubai, and be paid to be somebody‘s companion out there. but you had no idea who that person was? no, never met this person at all. was there a monetary value on that one? i think it was around 100,000 a year, then with all my clothes and bags paid for on top and sort of my lifestyle paid for. would you ever been tempted, for that kind of money? it's a lot of money. it's a lot of money, and personally, for me, no, i would never be tempted. so i had one recently... i've spoken with seven influencers who, until now, have remained silent on being offered money for sex. they'd seen it as just part of the territory of having an online presence, but now they want the young girls looking up to them to know that regularly being propositions this regularly being propositioned this way has become their reality. i've been shown several examples of the messages they have received.

the approaches vary. sometimes directly from a man asking for sex, or suggesting intimacy, others come from an agency acting on behalf of the wealthy client. tyne—lexy clarson was only 19 when she was sent herfirst proposition. she then went on to star in series three of love island. i had someone message me, offering me £20,000 for purely dinner and drinks, and then when i hadn't responded to that, within the next three days, it had doubled to £a0,000. and then when i came off the show, obviously my profile had gone up, and the same person had offered me £100,000. and then i had someone e—mail me on behalf of a dubai businessman, offering me 50,000 for five nights in dubai. tyne‘s offer by e—mail came

with a non—disclosure agreement attached. the details of what would be required of her in dubai were to be kept secret, until she agreed to keep silent about what went on once she got there. it's high end prostitution and it is just scary, to think that some girls on instagram, because if they've messaged me, what's to stop them messaging other people? 0bviously they probably sent that to thousands of girls, pretty girls on instagram, and who knows? a few of them might have done it. a lot of them have probably done it because it's a lot of money to some people. it's life—changing money. some influencers do get luxury products and holidays for free, but others don't get those offers, and feel pressured to keep up appearance, leaving them vulnerable to this type of transaction. rosie, there are some people

that will watch this, and they won't feel any sympathy, poses are quite provocative, clothing is quite skimpy, they would say it's really no surprise you're getting these kinds of propositions from men who think they can treat you like that. just because i get my legs out in a short dress doesn't mean you can buy those legs, they're still mine. it's mine to show off and mine to give to somebody. do you think you were ever sufficiently warned or told how to deal with that? always been told about the trolling, warned about that. and just warned about the fact that your life will change dramatically because everyone wants to know about it, but i've never been sat down and told, oh, by the way you could have men wanting to buy you. i just don't think we would talk about it because we either don't need to engage in that sort of transactions so we don't speak about it, or we may have done it and we're ashamed to speak about it.

this programme has received an anonymous written account from somebody who claims to be a british reality star. she was too afraid to be filmed but she wants her story to be told. we've reconstructed her words with an actress, we're calling her isobel. i was first approached on instagram by a man who was about ten years older than me. it was after i'd been on a talent tv show. i know it sounds shallow, but when a really, really rich person is offering you all these designer items for free, it's really, it's hard to say no. so, i didn't actually meet him for 18 months. by that point we'd been speaking every single day. so i was actually, like, excited to meet him. he was really pleasant, when i was there. when we were at dinner we were drinking, and he sort

of outright asked me about my finances, i sort of started crying at this point, because i told him that i needed to find £5,000 to pay off debts that i had to my family, and to pay my rent, and then he said, "have sex with me and i'll give you double that." i agreed to it and we went back to his hotel room. i felt kind of a mixture of degraded, really annoyed at myself, violated. i don't feel like it's prostitution, because it is a targeted relationship that progresses over time, whereas i think prostitution is where you agree a fee with a stranger for a service. we shared this anonymous testimony with the feminist group 0bject. i really understand why young women do that. but the reality is that they

are selling themselves, and their bodies for money. ultimately, it is about exploitation and the reality is most probably that young women will end up doing things for that money that she doesn't want to associate herself with and that actually make her feel shamed. but what can be done to protect influencers from being propositioned online? rob cooper is a celebrity agent. i would say a high level influencer or a celebrity with a big following probably receives them every day. he says the problem is so extensive that social media platforms like instagram should crackdown on it by making people verify their accounts. if there was a way of somebody being held accountable to that profile, whether that's a driving license, passport number, national insurance number, then what it means is the people aren't going to be as out there, because if you report and block, it's so easy

to open a new profile. if it gets blocked you have appeal to get it back rather than be able to set up a new one, then i think that would sort a lot of the issues out. instagram refused to comment on the idea of a documents founded account, but they did tell us in a statement that sexual solicitation is not tolerated on their platform. and that those who break their guidelines would be banned. but for women who have taken up such arrangements, it's clear that the effects are long lasting. there was a small part of me that felt empowered, but overall i felt dirty. last year we exposed the shocking conditions some families were living in on a council owned block on a regeneration site in north london. they were living with cockroaches, security doors that didn't work so drug users and anyone else could come in at any time. and they were facing being stuck there until the block is knocked down in 2022. as you know, we keep

in touch with many people who feature on our programme, and this was no different. we went back to the estate to see what, if anything, had changed. residents living in the one remaining block of flats on a north london estate undergoing redevelopment say they are being left to rot, with pest infestations and security issues. these are people who are in one old block where all around them redevelopment and regeneration is taking place, so... ..families living there are coping with cockroaches, are coping with cockroaches, damp, mould and flooding while drug addicts injection addicts inject heroin on the stairs. barnet homes told the programme it was extremely sorry for the standard of some homes on marsh drive. when i was here last time, you were all facing being stuck here until 2022 when the block was going to be knocked down, now you are going to be move out

later this year, what changed then? since it went on to the news last time, we got a let ever the week time, we got a letter the week after saying everyone has to move out now, within ten months, now that we've been outed on bbc news, and people realise how bad we've left you, it's shamed us. now we're going to accept you as human beings and find you somewhere to live. depends what category you fit in, whether they're going to house you, not house you, give you back on to a regeneration estate, which is just as bad as the one we live in at the moment. i've waited 15 years to be told i'm going to be moved, but now getting that phone call to say — well, getting the letter to say you're moving in ten months, the anxiety, i've never suffered with it before, but now i understand how anxiety works, because i'm petrified of not knowing where i'm going to go. can my kids still go to college and school, can i still go to work?

i don't know. aside from the vermin and the mould and all those sort of harsh living conditions, we've now got to think about living in what's possibly a death trap. if there was a gas explosion, from the survey that took place it says that the building could collapse. barnet council have been instructing gas inspectors to come in and have a look at our gas, and she had a visit from one of them, and when they was looking at it, they realised that there was actually a gas leak. my neighbour had been reporting it for the last six years, apparently people have come round and checked it and said it has been fine, but she keeps smelling the smell of gas.

the gas was here and i've been told that i was in danger, the whole, the whole building would have been collapsed. why would the building have collapsed ? because the gas was showing it was really leaking a lot, and i wasjust smoking closer to it, which could have catched fire quickly, easily. which is really scary, actually. who's to blame then, for putting tenants in danger? you know, some people might say that she shouldn't have been smoking in the kitchen if there's a gas leak? i don't know. i think these safety measures should have been done a long time ago. we shouldn't even be living like this, we shouldn't be living in this way, and every time i've said to them i'm having nightmares, you know, i worry, because it's not my flat, i can try and protect my flat as much as i can, but other people, they might not even be there and they might be having a gas explosion and the same thing can happen to all of us.

we're not supposed to have gas. and if you've got somebody saying, oh, we've had a gas leak for six years, and... ..that, i can't even explain how, how scary that is. i can't even explain. and you thenjust be thankful your kids and everybody woke up the next day. has anything improved ? the communication, i would say. we're now inundated with letters from barnet homes. you know, we're still living here, we still have to live with the gas, we still have to live here with the pests, cockroaches, the rats,

the mice, the mould. being broken into. they've been there about, i would say about three weeks. these are bending because, the building is, because it's not structurally safe. if you bothered to come round and actually speak to residents or go to speak to people in bradcock, you would understand what they know. you cannot turn round and say to me... having been elected locally for 18 years, i certainly have been round marsh drive and graham park estate, more, more than you have. more than you have.

the building is technically structurally not safe. that's why everyone‘s got to move out of marsh drive. yes. i'm beyond living like this. beyond it. if you don't do it for yourself, do it for your neighbour, do it for your children, do it for whatever. finally, the writer and director armando iannucci, who's famous

for his comedy writing, from alan partridge to his political satire, came on our programme last week to talk about his the personal life of david copperfield, based, of course on the charles dickens classic. when i reread the book about eight or nine years ago, i was impressed by how modern and fresh, and original, it's a funny, funny book. i think, yeah, we do have this image of dickens as being a fusty, dark, victorian novelist who writes about mud and fog and street urchins and depression, and yes, there is that, and yes, there is that, and, you know, there are themes in the film that touch on that, but he's also very very funny. he was really about the age of 21, 22, he was the like the most famous writer in the world, and he was, he was famous for his funny comedy, really, and he was like the precursor to charlie chaplin in a way, in how international his fame was, and ijust remember reading the book and thinking a lot of the themes, you know, the whole book

is about status anxiety, david growing up, not quite knowing whether he fits in, whether who he really is and... do you think there are parallels with our lives now in 2020? absolutely. it's funny, younger audiences really seem to be connected with the film, because they say that's, it's all david worrying about the friends he's made. are they the right friends? what will they say when they find out that as a child i worked in a factory, and it's all that, do they know about me? has he fallen in love with the right person? what does she think of me? have i made the right decision? it's constant anxiety, and he only really resolves it in the end by deciding to write it down and become a writer. and you wanted dev patel as david copperfield. yes. i think after you saw him in lion. yes. and you have been deliberately colour blind in your casting, and i think you did have a conversation with dev patel about whether you should say in the script that he had an indian dad. it's not that... but decided against it. the only person i could think

of to play david was dev. he sort of inhabits the spirit of david so perfectly, because, i've seen in skins, playing this sort of gawky embarrassed teenager, which there's elements of that there. and then in lion being very strong and charismatic and focussed, and david goes from one to the other and dev — whoever plays david has to hold the film together because he's in every scene for two hours, and dev does it perfectly. if he had said no, i'm not sure i would have made the film really, because i could see him as david. 0nce that's done you then say ok, so what, does he have an indian father? and i thought, no, ijust want to choose people, like i've chosen dev, who for me just inhabits the spirit of the character, the best person to play that part and it happens in theatre, all the time, for some reason film, drama on television, is so literal, and ijust think i want something that explores more the joy and variety. now you have done that, do you think

that will become the norm in films? because i've read interviews with british actors, non—white british actors, who have said i'll never get a part in a costume drama in this country because all the roles are white, so i'm going to have to go america to get decent roles. yes, and i hope that changes people's minds about how they cast films. i'm not saying this is prescriptive and how every programme should be made, every film should be made but i just think there is such a lot of talent there, i mean dev himself said normally in a film like this he'd be carrying the tea tray, and standing at the back, and that just seems, for a man of his talent and ability, who should be front and centre of the screen, that is just tragic to think that is a possibility. how do you respond then, to other directors and writers, like for example julian fellowes, who says when something is set in a different historical period, you cannot make it untruthful. well, first of all, this is a work of fiction, as is downton abbey. i can make it any way i like, you know. ifjulian fellowes doesn't like the idea he doesn't have to come and watch the film, there are plenty of other adaptations. do you think charles dickens would be on twitter if he were alive now?

i mean, he was a big social influencers commentator. i mean, the idea of restricting him to whatever it is, 240 characters is kind of interesting, in that he was so expansive a writer. i think he would be on instagram. he'd been on instagram, yeah. he'd blog, he'd definitely blog. he'd definitely blog. he would be on question time regularly. he would be on question time. and you know, we forget he wrote his novels at serials. he serialised them, they were issued in monthly and weekly instalments. very often when he was writing he didn't know what was going to happen next. he would always end on a cliffhanger, and he's then work out the plot, he'd go on these long walks to work out the plot for next week's instalment, so he'd definitely be writing the equivalent of an eastenders, or... he'd probably write his own sunday evening serial. yes. it's a very british film, it's a very multicultural film. i wanted to ask you, is there anything about this film that is a riposte to brexit from your point of view? well, only in that, you know, i think it's,

there is a danger we see britain, because of you know, what's been happening recently, we see britain as an enclosed inward looking defensive and exclusive country and i've never seen that. i think britain is actually an outward going, generous, kind, creative and talented country, and i think we mustn't lose sight of that. so this film is tapping in on the kind of britain i see. have you accepted brexit now, you wanted a so—called people's vote? yes, absolutely, and i think it's important that, you know, those who supported remain, we lost, and actually it's now about making sure that britain is a fantastic place, rather than sitting at the sidelines hoping that this venture fails. i think we've actually got to be positive and, as i say, you know, the acting talent here, the creativity we have in this country that, the bbc, everything we have to kind of, we have to cheer as something that is so important to what this country is. obviously you have created many programmes at the bbc, you will know

that the director—general is standing down in the summer, some people see this as a moment of threat, potentially, for the license fee model, but do you think maybe that does have to change? well, i mean i argued in a mactaggart lecture about four years ago, that the bbc mustn't be shy about making money initially. about making money internationally. it is such a strong name, and that if it offered a subscription service internationally where you could say for $5 a month, buy into every past bbc programme, the way netflix operates and so on, i think that's good. i think what we mustn't do is try and price people out here from seeing bbc programme, i think we have to make it as free as we can, but not feel afraid to make money elsewhere from the quality. and also go in partnership with amazon, with netflix, with hbo who have the money. yes. obviously, you are famous for your political writing, politics today in this country, is it ripe for satire or is it beyond satire? well, i personally find it's

changing so much that if you want do some long form sort of permanent response to what's going on it would instantly be out—of—date within two weeks. really? the rules are changing all the time. and also, satire, for want of a better name relies on there being a set of conventions, and then when people depart from those conventions you can point out how they have departed. but if there are no longer conventions, if donald trump says i can go out and shoot someone in the face and still get elected. if a party can call itself fact check uk because it wants to, then there are no rules, there are no rules. i think the people who are more effective are the ones who act like journalists, likejohn 0liver who has like a whole research team, you know. because the politicians are becoming their own entertainers and borisjohnson delivers a joke with every speech, trump is a sales person, he is interested in ratings, so i think it's, i think the comedians who are operating like investigative journalists are actually, and are look

forensically at what is happening on a weekly basis are the ones who are having more impact than, say, me doing a kind of drama based on the situation. that's it for this week. we'll be back live, monday morning, 10am on bbc two, the bbc news channel and online. thanks for watching. hello, the first half of the weekend has brought more of the cloudy, gloomy weather we have become used to. the cloud did break up for a few place, to reveal a bit of sunshine, generally speaking we have been under this haze of grey, this layer of low cloud with the odd spot of drizzle. things are about to change because this stripe of bright white cloud on the earlier picture is a frontal system, which will bring some outbreaks of rain. you can see that weather front starting to move in evening and tonight, getting into western scotland and parts of northern ireland, aend of that large areas of cloud, the odd drizzly

shower, it is going to become increasingly breezy so not especially cold. most places between three and seven. so for tomorrow it is about this frontal system. it's a cold front, it is going to bring rain but as the name suggests behind it will be introduce some colder air, so here comes the band of rain, staggering eastwards as we go through tomorrow. ahead of that a bit of brightness and east anglia and the south—east will stay dry until mid afternoon. the skies become significantly brighter behind that. we see sunshine but shower u wintry over modest hills in scotland because it is going to be yes, windy but an increasingly cold day, those temperatures coming down through the day, across parts of western scotla nd day, across parts of western scotland and northern ireland. still just holding on the double digits to the sos and east. sunday night we are keeping our eye on that, a band of showers. they could give some

snow, of showers. they could give some show, even of showers. they could give some snow, even to relatively low level, not necessarily too widespread but in some places snow and ice could cause problems for the monday morning commute, so that is one worth bearing in mind, through the day on monday, it is the sunshine and showers day, the showers plentiful in the west, wintry up to the north, rain perhaps scooting through the english channel where it might be wind yes. windy generally on monday and the temperatures a bit lower, four degrees in aberdeen, maybe up to eight or nine in cardiff and in london, as we look further ahead we stick with that chilly sunshine and showers theme on tuesday, a drier day for wednesday, it turns milder but more unsettled for the end of the week.

this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 5: lawyers representing president donald trump, set out their defence of the us leader, in his impeachment trial. they're asking you to do something that no senate has ever done and they're asking you to do it with no evidence — and that's wrong, and i ask you to keep that in mind. the death toll from the coronavirus rises to a1, with authorities in china struggling to contain the outbreak, as millions travel for the lunar new year. there are now known cases of the virus in france and australia, and a state of emergency has been declared in hong kong. the search for survivors continues after a powerful earthquake hit turkey —

at least 22 people have been killed