jeremy hunt has described the abuse of staff at great ormond street hospital, where baby charlie gards being treated, as "totally u na cce pta ble". blood donation rules for sex workers and gay men are being relaxed in england and scotland. a new bollywood film tackles the issue of sanitation in india — where around half a billion people don't have access to adequate facilities. and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9:35. this morning's reviewers are martin bentham, home affairs editor of the london evening standard, and the journalist and broadcaster, rachel shabi. good morning and welcome to bbc news. princes william and harry have given a candid insight into their relationship with their mother, princess diana, and they revealed that they last spoke to her in a brief phone call on the day she died. speaking in a documentary to mark the 20th anniversary of her death, the princes said they regret the rushed nature of that conversation, but fondly recall their mother's loving nature and her mischievous side. here's our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. to the watchi

as we say, we will be peeking to jeremy hunt. morning. as we say, we will be peeking tojeremy hunt.o offer credit to. could bow a pay day loan or an overdraft a nd could bow a pay day loan or an overdraft and there are new rules perhaps being brought in to protect borrowers. this is what sean is log at. you can often get high interest rates and costs that you don‘t realise will hit you? you may not have sat down with anybody and been told what you could be charged. it could get a few more charges today. it's could get a few more charges today. it‘s an issue we‘ve talked about a lot. the costs that can mount up quickly, whether you borrow money from a pay day loan company. or an unarranged overdraft. the watchdog for all these products, the financial conduct authority, has been looking into all of this and we‘ll hear what they‘re going to say later on. they‘re worried about how reliable credit checks are, particularly for those in financial difficulty. let‘s talk about this now with helal miah. we have seen changes in this market maybe for pay day lending, the interest rates were cap

jeremy hunt has described the abuse of staff at great ormond street hospital where baby charlie gardg treated as "totally u na cce pta ble". blood donation rules for sex workers and gay men are being relaxed in england and scotland. and donald trump's stalled plans to reform obamacare will be among the topics discussed on dateline london at 11.30 with jane hill. good morning and welcome to bbc news. princes william and harry have given a candid insight into their relationship with their mother princess diana, and have revealed that they last spoke to her in a brief phone call on the day she died. speaking in a documentary to mark the twentieth anniversary of her death, the princes said they regret the rushed nature of that conversation, but fondly recall their mother's loving nature and her mischievous side. here's our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. to the watching world, she was the princess whose image appeared constantly on front pages. it was a glamorous but necessarily limited impression of the real person. now, nearly 20 years after diana's death in the car accident in

, boris johnson, ministers, michael gove, jeremy hunt, borisjohnson, or suggesting 110w hunt, borisjohnson let public sector workers have a little more. if they manage to do that, it is more pay for everybody, how can they afford it? everything has a price, doesn't it? the options are you could increase taxes, and thatis are you could increase taxes, and that is one way potentially of increasing revenue, but there are problems with that. if tax rises are two great it can dampen economic growth and you end up taking in less tax than you started with. it is also politically quite unpopular. the government could borrow more and finance its spending that way, but that goes against a flagship conservative party policy which is to reduce the budget deficit, ridgers overspending. so that is a couple of ways, or it could just cut back on other government programmes. we are talking about a very significant amount of money here. the institute for physical studies is lose the figures that were, the political price, and again people don't like to see cuts. theo, thank you very much our top story; chin

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, has described the abuse to staff at great ormond street hospital,erminally ill baby charlie gard is being treated, as "totally u na cce pta ble". the hospital says its doctors and nurses had faced a "tide of abuse", and that it's had to call in the police. the high court is considering whether charlie's parents should be allowed to take him to the united states for experimental treatment. richard main reports. release charlie gard! it is a case that has touched people around the world. attracting a growing number of campaigners who disagree with medical experts over the treatment of a critically ill baby boy. ii—month—old charlie gard has a rare form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and irreversible brain damage. his parents, connie yates and chris gard, want to take him to the us for pioneering surgery. but great ormond street hospital says it is in charlie's best interests to turn off his life—support and allow him to die. last night the hospital said in a statement that their doctors and nurses have be

the other thing i would like to see jeremy hunt announcing when he talks about funding, jeremy hunt announcingcause we have seen attempts by the government to put extra funding into mental health services and nhs bodies siphon the money off and use it for other things. we have had this loss of mental health nurses so we‘ve got crisis problems and problems on wards, we‘ve got problems with community resources. the very community resources. the very community resources. the very community resources which can be so valuable. so we‘re not into early intervention and prevention because those resources have been cut back and the voluntary sector has been cut back worse than any other part of this sector at the moment. so, those things need to be addressed. i would really like to see the government ring—fence funding for mental health. thank you very much for speaking to us. still to come. the change that‘s going to make it harder to appeal against gcse and a—level results. we ask the chief regulator of exams why the change is being made. and what it will mean for students. prince charles will attend

jeremy hunt said it was time to halt the imbalance between mental and physical health services will stopo create 21,000 extra posts. it says an extra £1 billion already promised for mental health services in england would fund the scheme. part of report of one point 3 billion. but is that enough? critics including the royal college of nursing are questioning the figures. for example, the government says it wants to increase mental health nursing posts in crisis care services by 4,600. but the rcn says that overall there are around 5,000 fewer mental health nurses since the conservatives came to power in 2010. experts say this money is enough to create new places but it will have to be taken from other parts of the budget — there is no new money from the treasury. there are also questions over recruitment. so the nhs can create the posts, but can it fill them? the government's plan says it will make up the 21,000 by training new staff, upskilling existing staff, encouraging those that have left the nhs to return, and recruiting from overseas. critics say the task will be all the harder at

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, says it is time to end what he called the historic imbalance betweenbut the royal college of nursing has questioned if there is enough time to train so many staff. a man has been left with facial injuries after two people on a moped threw an unknown liquid at him in west london. police said the 47—year—old man was attacked in knightsbridge by two males on a moped. the force said the man had been taken to a central london hospital, but his condition was not yet known. a spokesperson said it was not yet known if the liquid thrown was a corrosive substance. they said no—one had yet been arrested, but officers remained at the scene and inquiries were ongoing. former bosses of the charity kids company may be disqualified after an investigation. court receiving is being wrought against the managers. in all, nine of the charity's former directors could be banned the rock to six years. kids company shutdown in 2015 despite receiving a grant of £3 million from the government. the family of a 12—year—old girl who died in the grenfell tower disaster have been pay

two ministers, jeremy hunt of health and greg clark whiting a joint letter saying that they want to keepover the drug industry, pharmaceuticals and health, which is very interesting because it is very important for nhs treatment, drugs coming on stream and having the regulatory structure allowing patients to get them as quickly as possible, but it is also important to the pharmaceutical industry. what is going to happen if every cabinet minister in their particular sector sta rts minister in their particular sector starts saying, 0k, brexit, fine but not my bit of business and industry? why are the ft saying this, why not write a letter to the cabinet minister, or david davies? this is not business as usual. wide are they pitching it at me instead of david davies? it is lobbying in public. on every single issue. it says the letter has been passed by downing street but it is very odd. it again makes it looks as if the prime minister's authority isn't strong at the cabinet level. the daily telegraph, charities facing fine for pestering. a lot of rows about this. 0n pestering. a lot of rows

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, also condemned the abuse, tweeting that the behaviour was totally hearing into charlie gard's future resumes tomorrow, with the judge saying he hopes a decision will be reached by tuesday. let's get more now on the news that some of the bbc‘s most high—profile female presenters have written to the corporation's director—general tony hall, calling on him to tackle the gender pay gap. bbc‘s sport's clare balding, the today programme's michelle hussain and jane garvey, the presenter of woman's hour, are amongst the 42 signatories. in a statement the bbc says we have made significant changes over the last yea rs significant changes over the last years but need to do more. earlier i spoke to gillian howard, an employment lawyer who specialises in discrimination. the letter is very powerful and should be acted upon immediately. it is an utter disgrace that the bbc, a major institution, has allowed this covert discrimination to carry on. now you have 45 really powerful voices asking for help, asking for assistance, asking for something to be done and it sh

jeremy hunt says the plan should address the "historic imbalance" between mental and physical healthvices. the deaths of two screen legends. the american actor and playwright sam shepard dies at the age of 73. and one of french cinema's biggest stars, jeanne moreau, has passed away at her home in paris at the age of 89. white house communications director anthony scaramucci who was appointed just ten days ago by president trump, has been fired, according to us media. the former financier took the job last friday, replacing spokesman sean spicer who left his post. the new york times is reporting that scaramucci was fired at the request of new chief of staffjohn kelly, who was sworn in today. let's try and get some clarity on this. we can speak to our american reporter in washington. i think these reports first appeared in the new york times. the new york times and politico, all reporting the same thing, that anthony ‘s cara mcshane was effectively forced out by president donald trump. this was also at the request ofjohn kerry, the new chief of staff who was sworn in this morning scara

jeremy hunt says the plan should address the "historic imbalance" between mental and physical health

jeremy hunt will meet the campaign is to discuss the best way forward, what do you hope for?is important that he is actually realised that this has been a campaign which has been led by those affected, and the fact he's going to meet with them and let them have a voice in determining how that campaign and how that inquiry is set out is significant. what andy burnham has been saying consistently now about the idea we have a hillsborough led style independent panel conducting the inquiry is where many of the victims hope it will go. the alternative is a judge leading quarry but i think over the coming days, weeks and months, there will be lots of debates about this. it is really important now. these people have waited decades for a nswe i’s people have waited decades for answers and we need to get an audience and a way of getting to the truth now and actually finding out what went wrong. and in inquiry that has subpoenaed power and could potentially lead to prosecutions? yes, exactly. there was a great deal of disappointment when lord penrose conducted his inquiry in scotland t

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, says it's time to end what he called the "historic imbalance" between the royal college of nursing has questioned whether enough new staff can be trained on time. here's our health editor, hugh pym. as a teenager, hope had a serious eating disorder. she thought she had got through it after treatment. but last year, a family bereavement triggered a relapse. she was offered therapy but was told there would be a 12—week wait, news she said was devastating. the way i was treated last year wasn't right. there were points when i did want to kind of end everything and when i never thought i would ever be well again. and it was at those points that i was so angry and annoyed at the system. when you cry out for help and you already feel guilty because you have got this voice in your head telling you that you shouldn't be eating, you shouldn't be asking for help, so when you do call out for help and you get turned away, you don't think that actually, no one does care about you, no one does understand what you are going through. to cut down waiting times and expan

she is without a soul she's a soulless ideologically bereft word that rhymes with jeremy hunt well i've kept that hundred dollars because max has a habit of ripping out money and i'm going to lobby. for a bit and now we're going to lobby for us to return to mexico city in the not too distant future i also want to say that we will be going from this episode the next two or three weeks we will have what is called summer solutions these are a very favorite with the audience everybody likes it we're going to look at some solutions to some of these issues that we've been bringing up of course. since the last year so i you know i'm thinking in spanish right now it's hard to speak english some. i keep on thinking to. know so from coyote. in mexico city i'd always be day off a to me. it's beautiful it's so much talk. a little beginning since nato member sixteen she and the calls my colleagues and big trouble and condo retorts started to europe a surrounded by my enemy and one of them at the certain moment was president and what about russia you know would better let me go to which point the rel

jeremy hunt has described the abuse of staff at great ormond street hospital where baby charlie gard

she is without a soul she's a soulless ideologically bereft word that rhymes with jeremy hunt well i've kept that hundred dollars because max has a habit of ripping out money and i'm going to lobby. for a bit now we're going to lobby for us to return to mexico city in the not too distant future i also want to say that we will be going from this episode the next two or three weeks we will have what is called summer solutions these are a very favorite with the audience everybody likes it we're going to look at some solutions to some of these issues that we've been you know bringing up of course. since the last year so i you know i'm thinking in spanish right now it's hard to speak english sometimes. i keep on thinking to keela to know so from. now on in mexico city it will always be a day off a to me. it's beautiful it's so much time. i think the u.s. russia relationship is very important has suffered and we need to make it better there's no question about it we need to cooperate on so many issues on nuclear weapons from syria on iran on energy on trade. although there have been and serio

she is without a soul she's a soulless ideologically bereft word that rhymes with jeremy hunt well i've kept that hundred dollars because max has a habit of ripping out money and i'm going to lobby. for a bit now we're going to lobby for us to return to mexico city in the not too distant future i also want to say that we will be going from this episode the next two or three weeks we will have what is called summer solutions these are a very favorite with the audience everybody likes it we're going to look at some solutions to some of these issues that we've been bringing up of course. since the last year so i you know i'm thinking. right now it's hard to speak english. i keep on thinking to keep to know so from. now on in mexico city it will always be a day off a to me. it's beautiful it's so much fun. bustling the dubrovnik in venice are all fixed travel destinations so it must be nice to live there or is it. going. to. go crowds of tourists disrupt the city's economic and social life remember to leave before the sun the celestial get out of the loop it was such a the traditional story

no sign of the jeremy hunt or the co-author the political pamphlet calling for the n.h.s. to be replaced by a us style insurance system there then just blame for the n.h.s. crisis on the need to bail out a bankrupt city of london well one e.u. country not only hit hard by the twenty zero eight crisis but which is now in the front line of the european refugee crisis is italy joining me now is the italian ambassador to the u.k. tara chairman of thanks so much about covering on the show the refugee crisis arguably disappeared a little from the british headlines it's not over for italy either though it's probably news fatigue but the situation is every day we were seen in getting worse . sheer tragedy and italy has been left alone to cope with this tragedy i'm afraid yes we have n.g.o.s helping what we need is more funds. because we have to address the problem at the origin so we need more development aid for countries of origin reach out south of countries maybe eighty percent and then we need more funds for transit countries such as libya out but also chad needs so don becau

jeremy hunt has described the abuse of staff at great ormond street hospital, where baby charlie gardules for sex workers and gay men are being relaxed in england and scotland. a new bollywood film tackles the issue of sanitation in india, where around half a billion people don't have access to adequate facilities. and at 10:30, former girls aloud singer

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, says it's time to end what he called the "historic imbalance" betweent the royal college of nursing has questioned if there's enough time to train so many staff. here's our health editor, hugh pym. as a teenager, hope had a serious eating disorder. she thought she'd got through it after treatment but, last year, a family bereavement triggered a relapse. she was offered therapy, but was told there would be a 12—week wait — news she said was devastating. the way i was treated last year wasn't right. there were points when i did want to kind of end everything, and when i never thought i'd ever be well again. and it was at those points that i was so angry and annoyed at the system, because when you cry out for help, you already feel guilty because you've got this voice in your head telling you that you shouldn't be eating, you shouldn't be asking for help, so when you do call out for help and you get turned away, you think that actually, no—one does care about you, no—one kind of understands what you're going through. to cut down waiting times and expand me

more now on the health secretary, jeremy hunt, announcing thousands of extra mental—health workers are 2021. with me is mark rowland, director of fundraising and communications at the mental health foundation. good morning. what your reaction to the announcement? understandably, we are delighted to hear that the government is prioritising mental health, something we've called for four long time. what's encouraging is the focus within what has been announced for both specialist and nonspecialist staff and focus on preventing. we want to treat more people but we know that you can't respond to a crisis in mental health with a service that is in crisis. more capacity is needed. we've got to prevent the flow of people experiencing such debilitating experiences of mental health problems that there have been. the emphasis is on more staff. some of the doubters have been wondering whether there is time to train these numbers to do the job. we've been saying for a long time that the time for action is really now. let's get going with this. it's an ambitious plan. rather than start by saying we

hugh pym has been working with our reality check team to look more closely at the announcement. jeremy huntervices in england. the aim is to recruit enough nurses, therapists and consultants to treat an extra 1 million patients by 2020—21. the government wants to create 21,000 extra posts. it says an extra £1 billion already promised for mental health services in england would fund the scheme, part of a pot of £1.3 billion committed in 2016 to transform provision. but is that enough? critics including the royal college of nursing are questioning the figures. for example, the government says it want to increase mental health nursing posts in crisis care services by 4,600. but the rcn says that overall under the current government there are around 5,000 fewer mental health nurses since the conservatives came to power in 2010. experts say this money is enough to create new places but it will have to be taken from other parts of the budget — there is no new money from the treasury. there are also questions over recruitment. so the nhs can create the posts, but can it fill them? the government's

this was started by jeremy hunt, saying that he wanted all organisations in england to report back urgentlyhrough. they identified 38 trusts is regarded as a priority, where they felt the paperwork on the cladding they had was not totally satisfactory, and that via checks we re satisfactory, and that via checks were needed. 0f satisfactory, and that via checks were needed. of those 38, we have heard that 19 had been given the all clear. the other 19 have started 24—hour fire clear. the other 19 have started 24—hourfire warden clear. the other 19 have started 24—hour fire warden patrols. clear. the other 19 have started 24—hourfire warden patrols. 0f those 19, three have failed tests on the cladding. those three are two in london's an kings college hospital and north middlesex — and also the sheffield nhs foundation trust. they are in the process of removing cladding, or have done so, and it is being emphasised that the cladding is installed in areas of the hospital that our offices, but not whether our patients staying overnight on wards. nhs improvement say that patient safety is of paramo

the health secretary, jeremy hunt, called ten days ago for an urgent appraisal by nhs organisations inbuildings following work being done on council tower blocks. this was handled by the regulator nhs improvement. . last week, they identified 38 organisations, trusts, which they felt needed further support to carry out checks. that meant they were going to have to submit samples for combustibility, fire tests and so on. they've now been carried out. of those 38, three we re been carried out. of those 38, three were found to have failed the tests. it turns out these three, king's couege it turns out these three, king's college hospital in london, sheffield children's and north middlesex, also in london, had cladding in these areas, they are removing them but they were not areas that housed in—patients, in other words, they didn't have wards. these were office buildings or buildings used for other functions in the hospital. we also know that five of the 38 on top of the three are still waiting, the outcome of the combustibility test results. it's a pretty small number but it has to be sa

the nhs in the 1970s and 80s. 2,400 people have died as a result of what the health secretary, jeremy huntppalling injustice'. many of those were haemophiliacs who contracted hepatitis c and aids—related illnesses. the health secretary will meet families of the victims before deciding on the style of the inquiry. jane frances kelly reports. for decades, the families of those affected by this scandal have fought forjustice. during affected by this scandal have fought for justice. during the affected by this scandal have fought forjustice. during the 1970s and 19805, forjustice. during the 1970s and 1980s, haemophiliacs and others were infected with hepatitis c and hiv from imported blood products. now, after pressure from mps and political parties, the government has announced an enquiry uk wide in its remit. lots of different people have recognised the tragedy basis. the huge number of people affected by this. that has built up some momentum to the point where this is absolutely the right thing to do and there is nothing else that can get there is nothing else that can get the answers abou

and we are told that the style of the enquiry will be decided after scratch back until after jeremy hunt families. what would they want to see, both the style and what the outcome they would want to be? they want a full public enquiry. they want the chair of that enquiry to have the power disappearing witnesses and for those witnesses to be examined and cross—examined on oath. and they wa nt to cross—examined on oath. and they want to be represented at that enquiry so their views are not ignored and in fact taken into account in the way the enquiry develops. clearly, the scope of the enquiry is grown to be down, to a certain extent, to the chair, in due course, and those appointing the chair. but the victims and their families do want an input into that process so that it doesn't become too wide, submit it takes too long, or too narrow, were issuesjust felt to be determined. the power to force people to attend is important? absolutely crucial. there has to be the power for people to be forced to attend and examined under oath. we had the archer inquiry, some years ago, that didn't have a

staff at the cia and the pentagon and one-time chief counsel for the house intel committee, jeremy bash. kasie hunt i wanted to ask you we've gone back and forth a little bit today. i want you to go through what you did with me all of the questions that remain unanswered for you after reading jared kushner 11 page statement and after hearing from him today at the white house. >> so i'll pretend i'm an investigator for the senate intelligence committee or the house committee tomorrow. here are the things he still has to answer. number one, regarding that june 2016 meeting, he says he was bored or it wasn't of interest to him. what if they had come with the goods, they had come with substantial russian government support, either dirt on hillary clinton, would he have stuck around? would he have played ball? i think he has to answer that question. >> can i stop you right there? isn't that a worse scenario than the meeting actually being about adoption and -- isn't that a worse fact for him to say i was only there for dirt on hillary from russia. when i found out it was about adoption i bailed. >> tota

jeremy hunt said that he had changed his mind since he voted against it because he attended a funeralwho will be hearing the case of noel conway's? i would say to them and maybe some of them have, i would say to them, if one of your loved ones was going to die a terrible death, would you want to be sitting there with them while this happened, or would you prefer to see them go and slip away peacefully. i'm going to bring lord falconer back in. you know the argument against this which is vulnerable people will be helped to die when they don't necessarily wa nt to to die when they don't necessarily want to die, that is why people oppose what you're campaigning for? i think the position is worse the way it is at the moment because there are no safeguards at all and what noel is proposing to the court is that there be safeguards, namely two doctors have got to say it's right and the judge has got to say it's right. michelle's account of her daughter's death is absolutely tragic. as she said, and it's not just michelle's daughter, it's other people as well who've had the die alone because

hunting." >> yes! >> joining us now, jeremy peters. good to talk to you.tol hill you have a contention that republicans are more concerned about looking not corrupt but incompetent. tell us about it. >> well, it all boils down to the question of are they able to govern. this was, after all what t vote them the house, the senate and the white house and ultimately voters did that of course. and one of the things you hear when you go into districts, i heard this a lot, especially when i was reporting on the 6th district race between handel and ossoff in georgia, come on, guys, we deliver all of this to you and you can't even pass a health care vote? it was a real demoralizing moment. while some of the energy -- or the air has come out of the balloon on health care and conservative groups like the koch networks have pulled up their anchors and is giving up, their energy is shifting toward tax reform. if you doesn't see a legislative victory for republicans on tax reform this year, this could be a really water shed moments where it will prove that under trump w

with us "new york times" reporter jeremy peter, alice jordan, contributeor to "time" magazine, ed ye claude jr., senior political analyst for msnbc mark halperin, kasie huntthe conversation national correspondent for "the washington post," philip bump and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense now and nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash, and joe, before we launch into news, set the scene for us. i think especially as it pertains for our first story which is jeff sessions. >> well, first of all, i hope we have 70 minutes for this block because we have 70 peoples and i want everyone to talk. beyond that a couple of thoughts. first of all this is a president, you could be forgiven for saying what the president said about jeff sessions not telling him ahead of time he was going to recuse himself and wonder if this president has memory problems or is just not bound by the truth or bound by the facts, because there's no way jeff sessions could have told him in december what was going to happen in february that would require him to recuse himself. these are the facts. these are the basic facts. you can look at any newspaper across