yes, peter clarke comes across as a desperate man.is focusing on the proposed rehabilitation of these young people, which he says it's impossible given the conditions they are living under. the ministry of justice says they will provide an extra 2500 staff across the prison estate, but peter clarke said it is not just about numbers, estate, but peter clarke said it is notjust about numbers, it's also about the conditions inmates are being held in, including the things we heard about with overflowing toilets and dickensian conditions in some institutions. the ministry has also said it has created a youth custody service, and they say that isa sign custody service, and they say that is a sign of the priority it is giving to this issue. but again, peter clark is saying that while initiatives are fine, it's all about the practicalities. he says he and his staff produce these reports. everybody reads them, nods and agrees at what he's suggesting, but he said nothing ever seems to change. and that is what is really irking him. as we were he

peter clarke is talking about a tragedy potentially happening.e other possibilities here. it could be some sort of executive action taken within the ministry ofjustice, to ensure there is some sort of volu nta ry ensure there is some sort of voluntary self—regulation, but we know from so many other areas of life, that can only get so far. 0ne of the key things i think to focus on, we've had threejustice secretary is in the space of a little over two years. david lidington is now appointed secretary of state forjustice. we need some stability and some safety in our prisons. i do believe that yes, we need to find time for that prison and call reform bill in some form, that at least enshrines institutes, those key things that peter clarke needs to be able to do his job to the best of his ability. we will leave it there, rory geoghegan, head of criminaljustice at the social justice think tank, thank you. the rate of inflation slowed unexpectedly last month, according to official figures. consumer price inflation — the rate at which the price of goods

peter clarke is saying in response, well, that's fine and these initiatives are fine, but really, what is important are the practicalities that flow from these initiatives. he and his colleagues produce these reports on adult prisons and young offender institutions. the people involved read them, acknowledge the criticisms and nod and they thinks change is going to come and then change is going to come and then change doesn't come. he is saying it's all very well having all these, sort of, suggestions for change, but if they're not acted upon, its all a bit futile. as we've already reported, he is saying that in the young offender institutions, if something isn't done, he fears there will be a tragedy. june, many thanks. it was a key election pledge for donald trump, the repeal and replacement of america's affordable care act, more commonly known as obamacare. but a fresh attempt to deliver on that promise has just failed, representing a major setback for the white house. voicing his disappointment, the president now says he's willing

in the latest report from the chief inspector of prisons, peter clarke warns that tragedy is "inevitable" and the decline in standards is "staggering".

now peter clarke is saying that's fine, but it's not just about staff. it's also about the situation in some of these jails. he says that basically the situation is just jails. he says that basically the situation isjust grim jails. he says that basically the situation is just grim and they are squalid. that includes the young offender institutions. now the ministry ofjustice is saying it's created a youth custody service. it

now peter clarke is saying that's fine, but it's not just about staff. about the situation in some of these jails. he says that basically the situation is just jails. he says that basically the situation isjust grim jails. he says that basically the situation is just grim and they are squalid. that includes the young offender institutions. now the ministry ofjustice is saying it's created a youth custody service. it says this is a sign of how committed it is to try to tackle this problem. peter clarke is saying in response, well, that's fine and these initiatives are fine, but really, what is important are the practicalities that flow from these initiatives. he and his colleagues produce these reports on adult prisons and young offender institutions. the people involved read them, acknowledge the criticisms and nod and they thinks change is going to come and then change is going to come and then change doesn't come. he is saying it's all very well having all these, sort of, suggestions for change, but if they're not acted upon, its all a bit futile. as w

earlier, peter clarke spoke to bbc news, explaining the findings.t we mean is that the levels of violence, the perceptions of the boys and girls being held in custody, obviously the perceptions of the staff, and the reality of the violence, that this is going on in these places, we take that all into account when we make ourjudgments. we got to the point, in february this year, where we were unable to say that any of the young offender institutions or secure training centres that we inspect, we couldn't consider any of them were safe to hold children and young people. so that is what prompted me to write ministers, in february this year. i clearly want to know why it was that the state, having an accepted responsibility for my safety by placing me in custody, then seemed to be failing to meet its duty to keep me safe, secure and in conditions in which i could hope to turn my life around and eventually re—enter the community with hope for the future. that's not what's happening at the moment. i think i made it very clear that in my view some sort of

peter clarke says he is often appalled by the conditions in which inmates are held.nment has acknowledged that prisons have faced a number of challenges, and says it's taken immediate action to, amongst other things, boost the number of prison officers. our home affairs correspondent june kelly has more. medway secure training centre in kent, where young offenders are held, totally rehabilitated. in two months ago and undercover investigation by bbc panorama shone a light on daily life in medway. teenage inmates were seen being mistreated and abused. a member of staff was sacked and the police launched a criminal investigation. medway, then run by gas is now the responsibility of the prisons and probation service, but it is still struggling and only last month inspectors denounced it as "inadequate". and it is not alone according to the damning report today by the prisons watchdog. the chief inspector of prisons says he was so alarmed at what was found that he alerted ministers earlier this year. violence, giving rise to repressive regimes, more discipline, longer be

more now on a report by the chief inspector of prisons, peter clarke, which has found a decline in safety is peter dawson, director of the prison reform trust. peter, good afternoon to you. good afternoon. he uses the word, "staggering" in terms of the decline. he says that things are going to become desperate and a tragedy is inevitable. even having talked about these reports for yea rs, talked about these reports for years, this seems to indicate something has gone horribly wrong? well, it is a shocking report across all prisons, not just well, it is a shocking report across all prisons, notjust those holding children, but distressing in relation to children and there has been a sharp decline. it's unquestionably true that the number of children in custody has fallen very sharply and that's a good thing. so the children who are in custody represent a more difficult group of people than the service may have been used to in the past, but what happens is that people lose confidence and then you get into a spiral. people need to get their confidence back and there are two things that could

in the latest report from the chief inspector of prisons, peter clarke warns that a tragedy is inevitabledards is staggering. he attacks the conditions of men's prisons, too, saying he was often appalled by how inmates had to live. in response, the government says it acknowledges the issues raised, and plans to boost the number of frontline staff to address some of the challenges. our home affairs correspondent june kelly has the details. medway secure training centre, in kent, a place where young offenders are held and hopefully rehabilitated. 18 months ago, an undercover investigation by bbc panorama shone a light on daily life in medway. teenage inmates were seen being mistreated and abused. a number of staff were sacked, and the police launched a criminal investigation. medway, then run by gas, is now the responsibility of the prison and probation service. but it is still struggling, and only last month, inspectors denounced it as inadequate. and it is not alone, according to today's damning report by the prison watchdog, which says: the chief inspector of prisons says he was so alarm

peter clarke said there'd been such a "staggering" decline in standards that he'd written to ministers12 months with "startling" increases in violence. earlier i spoke to our home affairs correspondent danny shaw. if you thought last year's report was bad, this is worse. conditions have declined, particularly in adult prisons for men but also, his real concern, youth custody centres, so young offenders institutions and secure training centres, they calljust under 800 people and he did not find in any of the inspections conducted that any of those centres was actually safe. he believes a tragedy is inevitable and the reasons are complex, it could have something to do with the fact you have some of the most difficult, dangerous and mentally unstable young people being held in those institutions but also, he talks about the vicious circle, you get someone who is violent, that then leads to more restrictive regimes, which leads to frustration, which then causes more violence and so it goes on. he said some of the centres just cannot break out of that vicious circle. danny shaw was talking

peter clark said he hadn't inspected a single establishment where it was safe to hold young people.sons is the crisis of the government's own making. the warning signs have been there. they have been warned by mps, they have been warned by staff in our prisons, and they've been warned by charities. now, they are being condemned by this damning report. the budget for prisons has been cut by more than a fifth over the last six years, cuts that have now been proved to be a false economy. prison staff have been cut by a quarter, and those who remain are being put at risk. i would argue that the unforeseen exacerbant in prisons has been spice, and drug use. it was not anticipated by any previous government, and this is undeniably causing difficulties, both in terms of the behaviour of the prisoners and indeed the corruption of the prisoners and some staff in regards to the trade of these substances. labour has accused the government of reneging promise to allow mps vote on increasing tuition fees in england. they are due to rise this autumn to a maximum of £9,250. but labour face accusat

the figures confirm the warnings we were hearing last week from peter clarke, the chief inspector ofre record numbers of assaults, 26,600, up 20% on a year. many of them were carried out on staff, over 7000, 20 staff being attacked every day. self harm was at record levels, over 40,000 self harm incidents. there are signs that level may be beginning to fall back. thank you. traditional medical advice says that we should finish a course of antibiotics for them to be effective — even if we feel better — but now a group of scientists has cast doubt on that recommendation. an article published in the british medicaljournal argues that taking antibiotics for longer than necessary can increase the risk of developing a resistance to the drugs. but england's chief medical officer says more research is needed before any change in policy. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes has the details. # antibiotics, we're wonderful pills...#. all sorts of ways ways are being used to spread the word that antibiotics need to be used sparingly. that message is becoming ever more urgent, as fears grow ov

peter clarke said there'd been such a decline in standards that he'd written to ministers earlier thisng his annual report, mr clarke said he hadn't inspected a single establishment where it was safe to hold young people. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw is here. very strong words here, danny. strong findings in this report. he was so concerned that he wrote to philip lee, the minister, in february, and said that something has to be done about this. he is extremely worried about levels of violence. he said there is a kind of vicious circle in these young offender institutions and secure training centres, whereby a young boy is violent, they then have restrictions placed on what they can do. perhaps they are locked in their room for longer and cannot do various activities. security measures are put into place. that leads to them being more frustrated, which in turn leads to more violence. he said some of these places just cannot break out of that issue circle. and so what are the government saying about that in response to his comments? well, the government has put into place a

these inspector prisons peter clarke well no actually warning a staggering rise in violence and vicious cycles reoffending no the church would have been aware of the chief inspector report but during the court hearing what he was saying was that there's eight thousand of us prison officers there's what's his health and smacks of health and safety issues is anyone to the prison officer angry that we haven't seen a reprise of the rioting the uprising in birmingham prison back in december well incidentally that the report's boom boom never been made public that's route to the keep that behind closed doors or no never our efforts it is ongoing now we're not seeing any big events of violence of all the raids violence has increased within our jails on a daily basis i mean there's on average night of eighteen prison officers being assaulted every single day every single day and so i would see the national international labor organization have l.c.a. all these organizations there's no international norms organizations and you get involved and say your human rights actual numbers are being abuse

in his annual report, the chief inspector of prisons peter clarke said the some places were so unsafe tragedy is inevitable mr clarke reported that he hadn't inspected a single establishment which was fit to hold a young person. the reality of the violence that is going on, we take that into account when we make ourjudgment and we got to the point in february this year ‘s where we were unable to say that any of the youth facilities, we couldn't consider any of them safe to hold children and young people and that is what will be written to ministers. i want to know why the state, having accepted my responsibility, then fails in its gt two keep me safe and secure, and help me turn my life around to enter the community with hope that the future. i've made it clear that some sort of tragedy would be inevitable u nless sort of tragedy would be inevitable unless there was some firm action taken to make this place safer. within four weeks of my letter, there was nearly such a tragedy at one of the training centres where a very young member of staff was attacked. i want to know the aspiration

. >> peter clarke hadn't called anyone but when he checked his phone he found more than a dozen missedes like this. >> i think you have the wrong number, peter. >> you guys need to quit calling my phone. i don't have a credit card. this is ridiculous. >> that's unpleasant. >> yeah. scammers mak appear as if robo call to others are coming from your phone, making the actual scammers nearly impossible to track. >> there's literally nothing you can do to prevent yourself from being a victim to this spoofing. >> why is it taking all these people, the government and the companies so long to fix this? >> it's exceptionally complicated. >> new fcc chairman says tackling those scams is a top priority. >> our number one area of consumer complaints was robo calls. >> reporter: in may alone 2.6 billion sales pitches. >> this is susan. >> you qualify for 575% savings. >> good morning. >> reporter: last year the fcc convened what it called a robo call strike force. in a report this spring, the group said it's working toward fixes like developing a standard authentication technology to verify exactly

we were hearing last week from the chief inspector peter clark, about prisons. some other figures. a raft of statistics released today by the ministry ofjustice, and this shows that conditions in prisons are in decline. these are a series of rankings given by the ministry of justice every year to every single person, and what it shows is that ten are —— their performance is giving serious concern. that is up from six last year. those prisons include bedford and birmingham, where there were some serious disturbances over the past 12 months. bristol, brixton, hindley, liverpool prison, pentonville, there we re liverpool prison, pentonville, there were two escapes and an alleged murder at pentonville, wandsworth and wormwood scrubs in london as well. and finally, this will concern is of the public, this is about the state and people who are released in errorfrom prisons. there were 15 states in the last 12 months. that is up two on the year before. the number of prisoners who are released in error, this is where they are meant to be in custody, but there is some ad

these figures really demonstrate what peter clarke, the chief inspector of prisons was telling a macstate in jails across england and wales. in terms of assaults, there were 26,600 in the 12 months to the end of march. that isa 12 months to the end of march. that is a record number. 3600 of them we re is a record number. 3600 of them were classed as serious assaults. in terms of assaults on staff, which is a category of that, there were 7100. that is up one third on the year before. and over 800 of those assaults were serious assaults on staff. really concerning figure. that number has tripled 2013. despite all the measures that the government is taking to try to increase safety in prisons, they are boosting the numbers of staff to make prison wings safer. we can see the violence is still there and is increasing. some other statistics released today on prisons. more which really show, again, that the performance of prisons is in decline. every year, the ministry of justice publishes annual rankings of every single jail. this year, we can see that ten of them are classed as giving ser

peter alexander on the ground for us there in warsaw. curt volcker is a former u.s. ambassador to nato, executive director for international leadership. general wesley clark, four-star army general. previously serving as nato's supreme ally commander. currently a senior fellow at ucla's center. gentlemen, thank you both for your time. general, let me start with you, sir. general clark, military strike at this point. is it off the table? >> i think it's off the table in korea. there is no good military option. don't have enough intelligence to be 100% confident you know everything you want to hit. and we will never have 100% confidence that you can hit it, even if you know where it is. so i don't think there is a good military option here for the united states to make this problem go away. it's not going to happen >> so if it's not a military option, general, then what is the solution? >> well, i think you have to relook what deterrents means in the outside elements that comprise the korean situation. what is it we're trying to deter, how do we best do that? and you have to put a lot of different factors on to the table. the economic factor, the military,

peter in my life i have had i'm going to depart a little bit. i want to make my surrogate brothers get into this doctor john henry clarke is one and of course - thes sutton and gordon parks. all of these individuals who i call my surrogate father is an opportunity to work with i mean he took one autobiography of a people, most gordon wrote the forward for that one. percy wrote the forward to the other book you mentioned in terms of the life and times of sugar ray robinson. and of course with ruby we did we shall overcome. in one take peter, that narration that accompanies the book, they did that in one take! it shows attend a professional that they can bring to a particular assignment. it was so funny because i would cover press conferences and all of these here the clambering, everything around -- the daily news and what have you. it was all over and people would say herb, give any questions? and they said what he is special attention? and is invested 10 amanda davis was. he was an insignificant reporter from the amsterdam news that singled out from all of these here other journalists out there but he had that kind of human touch about him and o

peter in my life, i have had like, i will depart a little bit. i'm going to make my surrogate fathers get into this picture. doctor john henry clarks is one, the late percy ellis sutton and gordon parks is one. all of these individuals who i call my surrogate fathers, i had an opportunity to work with. i mean, you talk about the autobiography of people. gordon wrote the forward for that. percy sutton wrote the forward to the other book you mentioned in terms of the life and times of sugar ray robinson. that is robinson, not leonard now. and of course, with ruby we did we shall overcome. and in one take peter, that narration that accompanies the book, the two that we have that they did that in one take, it shows the type of professional that they can bring to particular assignment. i think it is so funny because i would cover press conferences and everything and all of these here, the clambering, - "the new york times" and daily news and what have you. and it is all over and then it cooled out. and they would often say herb boyd comedy of questions? and i would say that is the kind of man davis was. this insignificant reporter sudd