Gps have voted to reduce visits to patients homes, saying they no longer have the capacity to offer them. Doctors supported the proposal at a meeting of english local medical committees on friday. But the health secretary, matt hancock, said the idea of taking home visits out of gps contracts was a complete non starter. Jenny kumah reports. Family doctors say their workload is on the rise, and this, coupled with falling gp numbers, mean something has to give. In his surgery in leeds, dr Richard Vautrey is well aware of the challenges facing surgeries like his. 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 thats always been part of the vocation of being a gp, and it will continue. So these proposals wont go any further, but what we will do is train, fund, and recruit more gps. Theyre saying, as a point of desperation, they can no longer continue those home visits. I think this is a siren call to all of us, a siren call 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. Now on bbc news, through the lens features five photographers who have offered glimpses into rarely seen lives, including people on the margins of society in pinochets chile, plus residents of an isolated city. Photography has the ability to shine a spotlight, even as an insight into people and places we would never otherwise have seen. Giving us an insight. In this programme im going to introduce you to five remarkable female photographers working today who have captured worlds that are rarely documented, exploring hidden lives around the globe. Coming up, a photographer who befriended saudi women, offering a glimpse behind the closed doors of their homes. And the jordanian american whose images revealed the lives of palestinians in gaza and the west bank through moments of dark humour. But first, lets meet elina shenshoiva. She looked at how residents of norilsk adapted to living in one of the worlds most isolated cities, 400 kilometres north of the arctic circle, where each winter the sun does not rise for two months. You have a feeling that they will appear, and norilsk is a city situated above the polar circle in russian siberia. It is one of the most northern cities in the world. With a population of 180,000 people. My with a population of 180,000 people. My mother, she lived above the polar circle during her youth and she told me lots of stories about it, and i was really interested to explore, to understand how it is to live with the polar or polar day. And how it is actually the life, in these latitudes. I chose norilsk because it has an interesting history. It is situated in a kind of installation that isolation, because it has no ground links with other cities of russia. It is a very extreme place. For me, the main idea was to talk about the adaptation of this environment, to this climate. Almost in every building we can find. And people go quite often there. Find a solarium. It is not a luxury, it is needed. When there are stronger snowstorms, columns of buses are organised twice a day and workers are brought to the mines or the pla nts are brought to the mines or the plants by these buses. Polar night, it comes very slowly. 0ne plants by these buses. Polar night, it comes very slowly. One moment you understand that there is no more daylight. For me, it is very important to see sun for a good mood. So funny, one moment, it started to be very hard and heavy, i felt psychologically not good. After two months i even started to have, like, this feeling, kind of a panic that the sun will never come back. Polar days are very beautiful times. People are so happy. They work, often until late, just enjoying this warm weather and beautiful golden light. It is hard, sometimes, to sleep. Because lots of people are not used to sleeping when there is daylight. It is quite contradictory, because the conditions of climate are quite extreme, but people are so friendly and so joyful, they have very wonderful sense of humour. I was surprised to meet several young people who told me that for them, norilsk, it is their zone of comfort, because they have everything, actually. They have long vacations. Good salaries. Regular salaries. But from the other side there are lots of people who are dreaming to go away from norilsk and to live in a more comfortable region. For me, photography is like a tool, like a key to go to some places, to meet certain people, and without being a photographer i could not actually be there. Elena chernyshova, whose images show what it is like to live in one of the cold est it is like to live in one of the coldest cities on earth. Sometimes culture, rather than geography, coldest cities on earth. Sometimes culture, ratherthan geography, can mean certain groups are harder to reach. During 2009 and 2010, 0livia arthur spent time in saudi arabia, photographing scenes at parties and ina photographing scenes at parties and in a beach town, away from the eyes of the religious police. They have this very strong conservative islamic influence, as well as what has come with, you know, obviously the oil money. 0riginally i went to saudi arabia to teach a workshop for young women. Women i met there invited me to do houses to meet theirfamilies. I invited me to do houses to meet their families. I said, invited me to do houses to meet theirfamilies. Isaid, can invited me to do houses to meet theirfamilies. I said, can i invited me to do houses to meet theirfamilies. Isaid, can i make a picture of you in your house, at your home . Something you are co mforta ble your home . Something you are comfortable with. For some of them that they would be totally covered, others were 0k to be photographed if ididnt others were 0k to be photographed if i didnt show their faces. I started making friends. I hung out with them and threw them at other girls. I stayed in a womens hostile one night, which is kind of a fascinating place, a whole apartment block for women who study or work in the city but his family are not there. So we hung out together, i should do my work, they saw the sort of thing i was doing. They said, thats great, we would like to be in your pictures, but you cannot photograph us unless we are wearing oui photograph us unless we are wearing our abayas. So i said, photograph us unless we are wearing ourabayas. So i said, ok. It photograph us unless we are wearing our abayas. So i said, ok. It must have been one oclock in the morning, they all put on their abayas and niqabs. They sat around and started making a paternity party. I havent asked them to do that but in a way, we were just playing. It was fun. I took these pictures and they started playing around, this one, there is this little girl who has got a black goldfish. She stands there with her goldfish. She stands there with her Goldfish Bowl and she says, look, my Goldfish Bowl and she says, look, my goldfish has an abaya two. They kind of laughter. They were not laughing at themselves, we were just having fun. And at the end they said to me, thanks for that, that was great. We really enjoyed it. That was a great honourfor me, that really enjoyed it. That was a great honour for me, that they would trust me and let me into their welds and i took that very seriously and i tried took that very seriously and i tried to understand that desire for privacy and what that meant. What they were 0k privacy and what that meant. What they were ok with me showing, what they were ok with me showing, what they want to with me showing. Sometimes i take pictures and later the girls asked me not to show their faces. I make in some photographed them under a bright light. Thats great, one of them says, but cant you show a bit more of her eyes so that people can see how beautiful she is . It was a curious place, like a beach town, a little bit out of gender, about half an hour away. Out ofjeddah. Gender, about half an hour away. Out of jeddah. Lots gender, about half an hour away. Out ofjeddah. Lots of people go there on the weekend. It is privately owned, which means the rules of Saudi Society somehow dont exist, and that for me was very confusing. You can wear what you like, women can drive cars, women can drive ride bikes. Some women can drive ride bikes. Some women can swim in a bikini. Some women swing a abaya, because they dont wa nt to swing a abaya, because they dont want to swim in a bikini. So this place captured a lot of the contradictions. I didnt really want to say life in this country is this way, or it is this way, it is one particular thing, because i realise it is way more complicated than that and that i didnt really have a proper insight, or a only had some glimpses. So what i tried to do was really give people my experience, just to help to explain to the viewer the stuff that was hidden, and also the kind of contradictory nature of it all. She comes up to us ina nature of it all. She comes up to us in a cafe. Do you want to come to a dj party. Im shocked. No, my friend tells me, it is one of those all girls parties. They have them in weddings, they are legal. At the party, the lights flickered on every five minutes to make sure nobody is misbehaving. In a way, laughing at myself for not understanding on not being able to make sense of what was going on around me sort of brings a lightness into what is, in part, quite a heavy story. That was what my experience was. It was not about women complaining about their lives. It was about, we are having fun, we are making the most of our lives in this space that we are given. It is intrusive, and these people are desperately private. But at the same time, they would be girls that you would say, sure, sure people our lives are not as bad as they think they are. Olivia arthur, his friendships with young saudi women granted her access to private spaces where cameras are usually shunned. Whose. Tanya beckett was born in jordan and raised between that and texas. Her images offer a nuanced look at those living in the occupied territories, finding a unique entry point into one of the most polarised places on the planet. Dont replicate exactly what is happening in the news. Find your way in that no one else can tell. And go deeper. Iam no one else can tell. And go deeper. I am working on a place that is one of the most hyper narrated places on earth. You look at the coverage there versus anywhere else, the coverage is vast. But i am buoyed by the board by the majority of it and it doesnt represent the place but i know. And so i try to find the internet. I try to find a unique entry point into any story, and i a lwa ys entry point into any story, and i always try to go under, over, side door, around the corner. Because i am not interested in reproducing what has already been done and said, because what is the point . It needs to be something that has more than one dimension. If i made a palestinian, i had children, suddenly i was not a journalist coming in and out. Palestine was home and i was the one sitting at checkpoints and experiencing this as reality, watching sometimes operatic scenes of ridiculousness and humour, to bypass or just scenes of ridiculousness and humour, to bypass orjust survive these situations. I started to look differently and think, what story do i want to tell . And that was occupied pleasures. There had been a wedding, unlisted, there was a woman who had come in in a Wedding Dress and had the Wedding Party because she had not been given permission to access gaza because of the blockade. And so i went and found her. She was not there. The husband was. He started telling me about his love story. He described finding her in the tunnel. I ran to her, i kissed her, it was like a bollywood movie. And then he paused and he said the most sobering, sombre thing. He said, you know, no matter what they do to us, we will always find a way to live, to love, july. We didnt make it in time, they were going to their favourite spot, there were some roman ruins, it is an area settlers often try to come to discourage them. And they say that they love to go specifically to that spot for that reason, and that they looked at yoga as in a resistance. The park or boys, they lived in one of the refugee camps and the things that they could do, it was beautiful. Flying, deftly using these walls ugly as a springboard of freedom. He lit a cigarette and turned. He knew the joke that was being played and he was playing at it. And its wonderful. In the middle east, its just as prevalent, and ethnic humour is just as prevalent, and ethnic humour is it just as prevalent, and ethnic humour is it allows you surprising places. Whether you are dealing with jews, armenians, lebanese, black humour is very endemic to the region asa humour is very endemic to the region as a survival coping mechanism. So i succeed if it leaves you just slightly doubting your assumptions. I was born injordan and raise raised in texas. That is where my critique of mainstream journalism came from. Going betweenjordan and taxes. I went from going from how do you survive this, what is your take on it . There is black humour is something more obvious, i wanted something more obvious, i wanted something more obvious, i wanted something more personal, and how it occupies their minds to circumvent this reality and also simultaneously refused to let suffering be the definition of their existence. Taniela, who found that dark humour allowed her into surprising places. In1973, allowed her into surprising places. In 1973, powers the rosaries was a teacher when general Augusto Pinochet overthrew the chilean government and established a dictatorship. Although targeted by the police, she defied the curfew to document marginalised communities persecuted by the regime. This brutal military way of activity, you work in metaphors, you work differently, and a way to avoid them, you know . At the end of the regime, with the coup, i had to stop my teaching at schools which was my work at the time. I had to work like a freelance photographer. In those days there werent many women photographers. You had to be very brave to do that. Things were complicated because of the curfew. In work, i had very young children, and a baby. The only way to do my things was to start investigating the street by myself. It was a way also to do sort of political resistance, but it was very scary because the police was always after hours. 0n because the police was always after hours. On that experience helped me a lot to move around and do sort out places to work, sort of, alibis, you know . And confronting the police that was heavy on us, you know, photographers in the street. Of course my house had been searched. Soa course my house had been searched. So a new what you had to hide and how, you know. It was a long essay, it took me four years to finish it. I was very interested in prostitution in general. I met a male prostitute, you know, tra nsvestites. Male prostitute, you know, transvestites. They were extremely keen on photography. They loved it. And that was fantastic, how they received me. In the first thing i did was meet the mother of two of them. I got very close to her, in fa ct i them. I got very close to her, in fact i dedicate the whole work to her, and i say this we made a book, you know after four years, her, and i say this we made a book, you know afterfour years, a book that of course was censored. The subject was like the underground, you know, my friend claudio, we went with them south claudia, to escape persecution. We stayed with them in the proper they were working out. Thats what we recorded, co nsta ntly, out. Thats what we recorded, constantly, you know . Their lives, their experience in the beginning of their experience in the beginning of the dictatorship and how badly they we re the dictatorship and how badly they were treated, the ones that survived, even. So, we ifelt very close to them and we were really good friends. You know, i been in touch with the of this project. Which in fact is a very charging situation, since of them died of aids. It was a very tragic experience for the whole community. You know, i have to show people or make people learn how to look. The margin is where power looks differently. Paz, for whom geography was a form of political resistance. Magnum photographer, dianas work is intensely personal. Her mother took her to the us without telling her father. Diana found him in armenia 20 years later capturing the reunion in picture. My mum woke me up and everything was parked. We had a tiny suitcase with us, my brother and i. And my mother said take all of your important things and we left. Everything was packed. I never said goodbye to my father. My moms solution to forget him was simple. She cut his image out of every photograph in our family she cut his image out of every photograph in ourfamily album. Those holes made it harderfor me to forget him. I often wondered what it would have been like to have a father. I still do. Would have been like to have a father. Istill do. My would have been like to have a father. I still do. My work is often about my own family, about the past, about my own family, about the past, about memory. In this project is one of the first projects that really inspired me to look inwards. To start exploring my own family history. My parents met in university in armenia. My mother had just turned 21. Its strange to look at images of them together. Look so happy. So in love. All i ever knew was her disappointment. I was born in russia at a time when the soviet union collapsed and my family, like a lot of russians, became desperate overnight. My mom wanted something more for my life. She always did. She didnt have a relationship, she didnt have a family beyond my brother and i. And we left. I never thought we wouldnt see my dad again, never thought we wouldnt see my friends again, we just left. And it took me two decades to go back. So this is a suitcase that my grandfather put together of things that he had collected over the last 20 years while we were missing. So theres a shirt from my brothers future wedding. Dozens of returned letters. A newspaper clipping. Its called missing point, and its as we we re called missing point, and its as we were taken to america by our mum and he doesnt know where, and if there is anyone who knows anything, to come forward to him. I wanted to find my father, and i was separated from him when i was seven. Almost 20 yea rs later from him when i was seven. Almost 20 years later i wanted as an adult to know who this man was. Ijust happens to be in armenia, my brother was with me and i rememberfinding his house. And we said, we were his kids and he said he didnt believe us. Kids and he said he didnt believe us. This was one of those days where i felt really lucky to be around my dad. We were on a boat and we were paddling together, he was teaching me. He feels close but then all of a sudden hes gone. Collaborative photography gives way to better storytelling. I learned this with my father. The collaboration started not so much that he is going to take pictures, hes going to write, its more like hes going to think with me. Not everything was one story or one truth. And you have two parents, its the basic, isnt it . When you are not given out outcome you are a lwa ys are not given out outcome you are always trying to make up for it. When i look at my dad, i think that he is the exact person i needed in my life or relationship has really become one of love. Diana markosian on finding herfather become one of love. Diana markosian on finding her father and become one of love. Diana markosian on finding herfather and really finding their relationship. And thats all from through the lens from london. To see the rest of the series, go to bbc. Com news through the lens. Hello. After a very wet day across parts of the uk on saturday, sunday promises to be a drier day, albeit with a lot of cloud and some misty, murky conditions. But, briefly, we have a weak ridge of High Pressure extending across the uk. Still some rain to talk about at first on sunday, particularly for eastern scotland, still on the heavy side. Slowly that heavy rain pushes its way across northern scotland, and eventually becomes confined to the Northern Isles through the day. Quite wet and windy here. But elsewhere, turning dry across scotland, largely dry across northern ireland, england and wales, but with a lot of cloud and some mist, some patchy fog through the morning. That will be slow to clear, Poor Visibility in places, so any brightness really at a premium on sunday. But away from the Northern Isles, its mainly dry, mild, 9 12 celsius the top temperature. And then our attention turns to the south west, our next area of rain pushing into South West England and south wales through the evening and overnight, not getting much further north and eastwards. Quite a wet start to the week across South West England and wales. Further north and east, mainly dry, mild, temperatures not much lower than five or six celsius. But generally, the theme in the week ahead is for more rain. This is the set up as we go into monday. An area of low pressure, frontal systems pushing their way north and eastwards. Looks like the heaviest of the rain on monday is probably going to be across england and wales. As it tracks its way north and eastwards through the day, it starts to become a little bit patchier. But there will be some outbreaks of rain into northern ireland. Could pop up for a little bit across Northern England for a time, into southern scotland. Northern scotland probably escaping, mainly dry. Some brightness and sunshine following on behind the rain across wales and South West England, but also a few showers. But it is another mild day, 9 13 celsius. Now, one area of low pressure pulls away into the north sea. Heres our next one arriving as we go into tuesday. This has the remnants of what was Tropical Storm sebastian, so its going to pep up the rain, strengthen the wind. The timings of this rain may well change as we go into tuesday, so keep an eye on the forecast if you can over the next 24 48 hours. But it looks like well see another spell of quite heavy rain at times, strong winds as well, particularly across wales and South West England. Some spells of sunshine following on behind the rain, but also some heavy showers. So, all in all, its a really unsettled and often quite windy day on tuesday. Still mild, 10 13 celsius. Bear in mind there are some warnings in place for the rain on both monday and tuesday. All the details are on the website. It looks like, as the week goes on, things do eventually turn drier, but also colder again. Bye bye. Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with rogerjohnson and sally nugent. 0ur headlines today a pledge not to increase taxes from the conservatives, as Boris Johnson prepares to launch his partys manifesto. Labour promises to compensate millions of women who lost out because of changes to pensions. Police officers are attacked and injured as they tackle a brawl at a cinema in birmingham involving around 100 people some armed with machetes. Hes back and making his presence felt asjose mourinho wins his first match as tottenhams new manager with victory over west ham in the london derby. Good morning. Its a dry day for most of us today, but theres a