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Officially begins Divorce Proceedings from the eu gets underway in parliament today. Tory mps and peers paving the way for theresa may to trigger article 50 as early as tomorrow morning. And aid agencies are warning that time is running out to save an estimated 20 Million People facing famine in four african countries. Well be live in those four affected countries and ask whether the world is doing enough to tackle a humanitarian crisis. Hello and welcome to the programme. Were live until iiam. We will bring you the latest Breaking News and developing stories. We are going to talk about a case in the Supreme Court which could have profound legal implications for policing because it will determine whether officers can be sued by victims if they dont investigate a case adequately. Plus, find out who was in this box and why. Get in touch. Use victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. The bill which gives theresa may the power to trigger the Brexit Process enters its final stages in the House Of Commons later. Ministers believe they have enough support to overturn they have enough support to overturn the two changes made to the bill by the two changes made to the bill by The House Of Lords. One guarantees The House Of Lords. One guarantees the rights of eu nationals living here. The other, ensures parliament will be given a meaningful vote on any exit deal. Norman smith is at westminster. This is almost it, what is likely to happen today, norman . The truth is, by the end of the day, theresa may will have got her bill paving the way to leave the eu through parliament unamended. I said that because talking to rebel tory mps, who will get a vote on those two changes proposed by The House Of Lords, guaranteeing the right of eu nationals, guaranteeing parliament vote. They are not in the mood to have a real fight. Vote. They are not in the mood to have a realfight. My vote. They are not in the mood to have a real fight. My sense vote. They are not in the mood to have a realfight. My sense is, tory rebels will back down, provided ministers make some reassurance, saying they understand. I think they will back off. When the measure goes back to The House Of Lords, although Liberal Democrat peers are talking about getting camp beds in, preparing to stay all night to fight this, hour by hour, the reality is, when you put together labour peers, crossbench peers, they too will back down which means about midnight or so, i suspect the reason may well have her article 50 bill. Albeit, this morning Jeremy Corbyn was saying, he still wants parliament to be kept in the loop during the negotiations. We dont haveJeremy Corbyn sorry about that. If it goes the way you have just described it today, what, when will theresa may trigger article 50, the process today, what, when will theresa may trigger article 50, the process for us trigger article 50, the process for us to begin the negotiations to leave the European Union . The truth is, if anyone says they know when theresa may is going to trigger article 50, i think they are telling a porky. The only person who really knows, really knows is theresa may herself. I am guessing, knows, really knows is theresa may herself. Iam guessing, but knows, really knows is theresa may herself. I am guessing, but i think she will be waiting to see how the debate goes today. The mood of parliament. She will also want to see the reaction in tomorrows papers. I feel see the reaction in tomorrows papers. Ifeel personally, she see the reaction in tomorrows papers. I feel personally, she will go sooner, papers. I feel personally, she will go sooner, rather than later, maybe even tomorrow, just to show she is on the front foot, pressing ahead, got momentum and is not hanging around until the end of the month. My around until the end of the month. My gut instinct is she will go sooner my gut instinct is she will go sooner rather than later and back could be tomorrow. Joanna is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. A british man has beenjailed for six years in indonesia, over the killing of a policeman on the island of bali. Our South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head is following the story in bangkok. What more can you tell us about this case, jonathan . It is a disturbing and baffling case in some ways. David taylor was a dj living in australia. He was visiting bali with his australian girlfriend, sarah, last august. They had just arrived. On the beach that night they had an altercation with a Police Officer, who they believe was involved in taking sarah,s bag. That altercation ended up in a fight in which david taylor struck the policeman several times, apparently with a bottle and other items and then left him, although took his credit cards and his phone. The policeman later died on the beach where he was left. The couple were apprehended a couple of days later. In the end they were not charged with murder, they were charged with assault, leading to death. That is what he has been convicted. We understand he is not going to contest the sentence i think he may view, given the outcome of his fight, there were apparently 42 injuries on the policeman, getting a six year sentence might be considered lenient. His girlfriend, sarah connor may appeal her sentence. She argued she only tried to intervene in the fight to stop it, but was convicted of being an a ccesso iy it, but was convicted of being an accessory and got four years in prison. It is a strange case. There doesnt seem to be any reason why in incident turned out as violently as this one did. The sentence today wont surprise anybody. Thank you, jonathan. Rail staff from three firms across england have started 24 hour strikes in a dispute over the role of guards. The rmts 30th strike day in its dispute with southern over plans for driver only operated trains, has spread to the north of england. Guards and drivers working for merseyrail and northern are taking action over similar proposals. Rail bosses argue its about modernising services and they denyjobs will be lost. Police are launching an unprecedented appeal at the Supreme Court against a ruling it failed the victims of one of the uks most dangerous rapists. Judges said Scotland Yard had breached the human rights of two women because officers didnt properly Investigatejohn Worboys who was jailed for life in 2009 after committing more than 100 rapes. The outcome of the case could have profound legal implications for policing. A trusted Black Cab Driver, but one of the countrys most dangerous rapists. John worboys attacked more than 100 women over six years, hunting them down late at night in london with an elaborate trick. Hed show off a bag of cash claiming it was a big gambling win and offer them drug laced champagne. Few of his victims could entirely remembered what happened next remember what happened next and police did not take their complaints seriously. One of his victims from 2007 had her account dismissed. Had the officers who looked at my case taken my allegations seriously, they wouldve found substantial pieces of evidence. They didnt do that, and as a result, so many more women went on to get harmed. The botched Investigation Led to a Landmark Ruling by the high court that Scotland Yard breached the human rights of the women, and that means police can be sued. The force is now challenging that unprecedented ruling. This case is really important because women need to be able to hold police to account when they fail as catastrophically as they failed in the worboys case. If the police had acted sooner, if theyd listened to the women, and if they had followed their own policies, its likely that fewer women would have been raped. As it was, he was left on the streets. The force admits it made mistakes but argues that important legal principles are at stake. If the justices rule against the met, it could have profound implications about how Police Chiefs prioritise Serious Violence and sexual crimes. Dominic casciani, bbc news. After 9. 30 this morning, victoria will be talking to a former met dectective inspector, who was with the met at the time worboys committed his early crimes, and a woman who was raped by two strangers two years ago, when she 18 years old. Aid agencies are warning that time is running out to save an estimated 20 Million People facing famine in four african countries. Theres growing concern about four countries in particular, nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia. Its been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in 60 years and experts say that without urgent help many will simply starve. After 10. 00, victoria will be talking to aid agencies in nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia. Nhs trials are currently assessing if dogs could also be used to detect cancer at an early stage. One study shows that specially trained dogs can pick up the presence of such cancer in Urine Samples in 93 of cases. Samples in 93 of cases. Coming up on victoria derbyshire, we have an exclusive film with the former Conservative Party Leader, Iain Duncan Smith, whos drawing attention to research happening in the uk, which aims to show how dogs can help Diagnose Cancer. The queen is launching the Commonwealth Games baton relay today at Buckingham Palace. The relay marks the start of the countdown to the games which will be held in april next year. Over 388 days the baton will visit all 71 commonwealth countries, before arriving at the Australian Gold coast for the opening of the 2018 games. We will be live at Buckingham Palace. Thats a summary of the latest palace. Bbc news, more at 9. 30. We will have a dog in the studio who saved his owns life thousands and thousands of times. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Time for the sport now with hugh and the Giant Killing is over in the fa cup. The semi finals will involve four of the best teams in the Premier League. If you are a supporter of those teams, it is marvellous, if you are not, you are like, really . Is that a surprise . The likes of sutton getting to the fifth round and lincoln getting to the quarterfinals, it is rare to have four of the top six sides contesting the semifinals. I think it has happened only twice in at least 20 years and with Manchester United and chelsea having the chance tojoin the three united and chelsea having the chance to join the three already true, that will be the case later. Lincoln did ever so well to get to the quarterfinals and also until nearly half time until theo walcott got the first of five goals for arsenal in that much. Eventually losing and their fairy that much. Eventually losing and theirfairy tale that much. Eventually losing and their fairy tale run that much. Eventually losing and Theirfairy Tale Run may be over, but their heads are high. Danny cowley a nd but their heads are high. Danny cowley and his brother who is the assistant, the lincoln management tea m assistant, the lincoln Management Team got to spend an hour or so with Arsene Wenger after the game. They will appreciate that time. Arsenal are now two to the third Semifinal Infour are now two to the third semifinal in four years. They will it the other times. Across north london, spurs went one better. No doubt hoping to do exactly that. They won 60. Hoping to do exactly that. They won 6 0. Millwall have beaten two of the Premier League sides on their way to the quarterfinals. But you are right, the Giant Killing is done for another year. Could millwall be in trouble with the fa because of the behaviour of some of their fans . They may be, the fa will be looking at some of the chanting that seemed to have a racist element. They were aimed at sonia men. The fa will ask for observations from both the clu bs. For observations from both the clubs. Neil harris said at the time he didnt hear anything and he doesnt condone it and any guilty fa ns doesnt condone it and any guilty fans will be dealt with harshly. Now, i know youre nowhere near the age of 50, hugh. How old are you . 35. But im assuming youll be hanging up your Football Boots well before you get there theres a japanese player still going strong. This man is 50 and still scoring competitively in professional matches. He has broken the record held by sir stanley matthews. He was the oldest player to score a goal in professional football at the age of 50 yea rs professional football at the age of 50 years and five days. But this japanese player made his debut in 19 76. He scored big e raqqa goal in his Second Division match. It is quite impressive. Not only that, he is psychic. He said the vibes were with him before he scored that goal, he had a feeling. Thank you very much. Much more from you later. Those of you who watch our programme regularly will know that every so often we ask an mp to make a film for us about an issue they care about. When we approached former Conservative Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith, who is the former work and Pensions Secretary and one of the highest Profile Campaigners to leave the eu the subject he was most passionate about surprised us. He chose to draw attention to some incredible research happening in the uk, which aims to show how dogs can help us to Diagnose Cancer in the very early stages. Initial studies show specially trained dogs can detect Prostate Cancer in urine in 93 of cases. Iain Duncan Smiths wife betsy was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2009 and became involved with the Charity Medical Detection dogs which is what sparked mr Duncan Smiths interest. Heres his exclusive film for this programme. My my name is Iain Duncan Smith. Im the Member Of Parliament for chingford and woodford green. I used to bea chingford and woodford green. I used to be a member of the cabinet, but im not here to talk about politics, im not here to talk about politics, im here to talk about something much, much more interesting. In this film, i want to tell you about something extraordinary. About Pioneering Research with the potential to change how we Diagnose Cancer and how People Living with serious illness can be helped to manage their conditions with the help of this lot and their remarkable sense of smell. Dogs like these are capable of detecting the tiniest of odour concentration. I mean up to one part per trillion, and maybe even more, but what does that mean . Imagine one teaspoon of sugar, dissolved not just in one Olympic Sized Swimming Pool just in one Olympic Sized Swimming Pool, but in two Olympic Sized Swimming Pools and the dogs can detect that. That means that once properly trained theyre able to detect odours associated with disease in human beings. In other words these dogs are capable of literally sniffing out disease. Experts agree that Early Detection is the most important factor in surviving cancer and the research has been conducted here offers an opportunity for us to drast drastically improve the Early Detection of the disease. In this test, a specially trained Cancer Detection dog is told to Circle A Carousel holding eight evenly spaced Urine Samples. One is from a patient with Prostate Cancer and the other seven are from healthy individuals. Indication four. Remarkably, the dog is able to detect the sample from the cancer patient. Well, that was amazing. I mean, i have never seen anything like that. How do you actually get the dogs to do all that, to train, to make sure they check the right samples . How does that come about . Well, all our work is based on positive reinforcement, the dog wants to come in and search the dog wants to come in and search the samples and gets paid. He understands the scent of Prostate Cancer means a reward. He gets a sound and food. Is there a certain number ora sound and food. Is there a certain number or a person percentage of times that if a dog isnt getting it right, you say, do you know what, i cant use that dog . What is that like . When we are looking at the development of the dog, were looking at reliability of 85 , 90 , we need to make sure the dog is operating at that level. We need to make sure the dog is operating at that levellj we need to make sure the dog is operating at that level. I heard these remarkable stories, stories. As Chief Executive of the Charity Medical Detection dogs, dr clare guest is a leading figure in driving this research forward. In fact, her interest in this area began after she was alerted by her own dog to a potentially life threatening condition. One of my dogs, daisy, she is a bladder Cancer Detection dog started behaving differently around me. She started giving me a worried look and started nudging at my chest, it led me to investigate andi my chest, it led me to investigate and i found my chest, it led me to investigate and ifound a my chest, it led me to investigate and i found a lump. My chest, it led me to investigate and ifound a lump. I went to the doctors and was referred and to cut a long story short, i was diagnosed with a very early stage Breast Cancer. I was fascinated by clares story, but i wanted to be sure that the research being under taken by clares team was meeting the highest scientific standards. How reliable do you think the science is . How robust are you . So this is really, really rigorous work. We dont know exactly what it is the dogs use to make the identification that cancer is there, but we know it is a volatile, we know it is a smell. In fa ct, volatile, we know it is a smell. In fact, studies published in france, italy and elsewhere have confirmed the extraordinary potential of dogs to assist with the diagnosis of disease in human beings and clares Tea M Disease in human beings and clares team is working on one of the largest studies to date. Were doing an incredibly robust clinical trial. Weve got 3,000 patients involved in this next trial detecting Prostate Cancer from this next trial detecting Prostate Cancerfrom urine. This next trial detecting Prostate Cancer from urine. Over the this next trial detecting Prostate Cancerfrom urine. Over the next few yea rs cancerfrom urine. Over the next few years well fund the results and the ability of the dogs to do this over ability of the dogs to do this over a large sample patient size. What do you say to the clinicians who say, thats very nice and all very well, but we cant have dogs running around in gps surgeries, you know, just sniffing everybody, thats ludicrous and the other thing they say is, this is a matter of life and death. You cant have dogs involved in life and death, it is too serious. How do you get through that barrier in a sense of praej tis, how do you get through that and show them this is pure science . Well, there is a number of ways. Firstly, there is a number of ways. Firstly, the dog doesnt have to be in the Hospital Sniffing around the patient. The samples come to the dog in the Training Facility and the dog give their answer and the result goes back to the clinician. The dog isa goes back to the clinician. The dog is a highly sophisticated biosensor. Evolution has given him this highly sensitive nose. Were talking about a science here, were not talking about fluffy dogs. The other thing is, that id say to you as well, you rely on dogs every day when you go into the House Of Commons. You rely on the dogs to ensure your safety. People board planes every day that have been screened by Detector Dogs to see if there is explosives on board. Thats a life and death decision. Why do we rely on them and not with health . How much support has the government been giving you and where do you think the future lies . To date we have no support from the government. And you think this could literally save lives . Absolutely. I know this can save lives. It saved my life and that inspired me to keep going. I am a scientist and i love the scientist. We are talking about a robust study and the ability of a biosensor to detect a disease. Like clare, my interest in this research is more than academic. Its personal. The doctor thought the lump had been there more about 18 months. My wife betsy has had Breast Cancer. In many respects i was lucky and my children, my youngest was 16, but when i was so ill i remember thinking how would i have managed if my children had, if it had been ten yea rs my children had, if it had been ten years earlier and my children were little . I was written off. I was very, very ill as you remember. I couldnt look after myself. I couldnt look after myself. I couldnt do anything for myself. The sooner you can couldnt do anything for myself. The sooner you can detect cancer the better. The sooner you can detect all diseases the better. But this re mcable ability has implications for more than just the detection of cancer. Dogs cab trained to alert patients with conditions such as type one diabetes to a minute shift in nair Blood Sugar Levels which might, in extreme cases, signal the onset of a coma. The dogs are able to detect when a patient might be in danger and fetch any vital medical supplies. He has got it now. Hes going round and round. Iwent supplies. He has got it now. Hes going round and round. I went to visit steve and molly. Steve was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2006. It is no exaggeration to say having molly at his side has been life changing for steve and his family. Halfs life like for both of you before molly arrived . Where were the big problems, how difficult was all of this . Well, when stephen was little, we would have him just running around and then falling over. We would be scooping him up and putting him on the sofa and trying to get things into him. I had gonein trying to get things into him. I had gone in the night and he had scezu res , we gone in the night and he had scezures, we were gone in the night and he had scezu res, we were testing gone in the night and he had scezures, we were testing all night, every night. So you were getting up through the night. Setting alarms. We did that until molly came along and suddenly when we realised we could trust her, thats when we stopped and now i only get up when she alerts. She comes and sits at football, doesnt she . She alerts from the sidelines of the Football Pitch. I used to have to call stephen off and keep testing him and sometimes he had gone so low he was tripping over the ball so hed have to have glucose and sit out for 20 minutes. Shoal know in an open Football Pitch and she will alert and you will know that she is alerting that your son, who is busy about to score a goal, has to come off the pitch to get himself sorted out . Yes. Is that right . Thats remarkable. She has got permission from the club referees to be let loose on the pitch with her coat on. Molly is capable of detecting at any stage out in the fields, in the garden, on the playing pitch, if youre upstairs and she is is downstairs, she will get agitated. Yes. Clare is a beneficiary of her dogs ability to detect shifts in Blood Glucose Levels that might indicate she is is in danger. In in the three and a half years we have been together he has aall righted and saved my life over 3500 times. He does it all for a dog biscuit and often leaves me emotional after all this time because i know without him,i this time because i know without him, i wouldnt be alive today. I actually work as a childrens diabetes nurse. My job actually work as a childrens diabetes nurse. Myjob is to help care, support, and educate children and families that have got type one diabetes. So having magic means i can carry on myjob. Without him i would be testing my blood glow can yous level every 20 or 30 minutes to try and pre empt what was going to happen. With magic i dont have to do that which means i can carry on doing myjob, but im being safe with patients and im not likely to colla pse with patients and im not likely to collapse when im in the middle of a consultation with them, which is not only embarrassing for me, but it is giving the wrong message to patients that you can still live life to the full even though youve got diabetes. So this magic telling me he wants me to do a Blood Glucose test. I will ask magic to fetch my kit. Fetch kit. Good boy. And then ill check my blood sugar to see what is going on. Good boy, magic. And the Blood Glucose is 5. 5 so his target is 4. 7. So hes telling me that in the next 20, 30 minutes he thinks my Blood Glucose level will be too low. Magic sleeps by my bed so be too low. Magic sleeps by my bed so he is always close by me, but he can detect a change in my Blood Glucose level even when im upstairs and hes downstairs, but he sleeps by my bed and he will wake up overnight and tell me to test. Before i got magic i would be up every hour, day and night, trying to check my Blood Glucose level and trying to pre empt when the episodes would happen. That meant i was exhausted, many a time i would be too afraid to go to sleep in case i had an episode and wouldnt wake up from them. Other times i would be too exhausted i didnt care if i was going to die. I wanted to close my eyes and get sleep. What magic allowed me to do is to go to bed and not be afraid that im never going to wa ke not be afraid that im never going to wake up. Im going to go to bed and my husband doesnt have to worry that when he wakes up, i wont be dead next to him. Simple things like that, it is very difficult to put into words, but thats what having magic means is i can have an ordinary life and do ordinary things and ive got an amazing companion thats going to follow me all the way through it. I have been so impressed with the progress made in in field that i wanted to find out why its potential hasnt been properly recognised and why it isnt receiving the funding it deserves. I went to see the Health Secretary for england, jeremy hunt. I started by asking why it was that the Health Service hasnt so far got behind this incredibly promising work . |j think this incredibly promising work . think probably ideas like this sometimes dont get looked at as quickly as they should because they get put in the quackery box when actually what were doing now, what youre doing is saying well, lets look at the science. Lets actually see whether these new ways of doing things are scientifically valid and sometimes when you do that, you get a surprise. From 2004, this work has been Peer Reviewed and been available and published and actually available and published and actually a lot of doctors involved in cancer treatment, have been absolutely certain there is something rather unique and special about what has been going on. It has been the devils own business to get medical professionals on a wider scale to say lets have a look at this. Do you think this says something about the resistance to investment and invowation at times that comes from the medical profession within the nhs . I wouldnt characterise the nhs as not being innovative, but sometimes nonetheless, when you have something thats so unorthodox as this, i mean, i can imagine that lots of doctors heart would miss a beat at the thought of using a dog to help detect cancer, but as doctors and scientists, they need to look at the evidence. So instead of it being dogs, i was able to say to you or to anyone from the medical profession, what we have here is a laboratory that detects cancer earlier and more accurately than any of the existing medical tests, what do you think would be the natural reaction to that without the word dogsin reaction to that without the word dogs in it . Well, of course, its the dogs bit that, i think, as i say, probably causes one or two peoples heart rates to miss a beat or two. But i will look at the results of this research when it comes through. One of ourjobs as mps is sometimes to question orthodoxes and look at different ways of doing things that possibly the establishment has swept under the establishment has swept under the carpet or not wanted to look at. So if this research is good then i wa nt to so if this research is good then i want to know about it and i will certainly look at it carefully. The work of our Pioneering Researchers in this field doesntjust have the potential to save lives, but also to save our nhs many millions of pounds if its properly funded. We need to recognise that we can still reimagine our centurys old relationship with dogs and find new ways to make use of their absolutely extraordinary abilities. You have been telling us what you think. This view tweets, with no hint of irony, victoria has Iain Duncan Smith reporting on dogs detecting cancer. This view says, my dog started to display unusual behaviour. Wouldnt stay in the same room as me and became anxious. When i saw room as me and became anxious. When isawa room as me and became anxious. When i saw a specialist i had a tumour on one of my kidneys which had been missed by my gp. After ten oclock Iain Duncan Smith will be here and we will be meeting one of the life saving dogs. Keep your comments coming in. Still to come, police are launching an unprecedented appeal at the Supreme Court against a ruling that it failed victims of one of the uks most dangerous rapists. We will bring you all the details. And the singer adele has found a novel way of getting to the stage in a box designed for transporting musical equipment. Heresjoanna in the bbc newsroom with a summary of todays news. Mps are due to debate changes to the brexit bill in the commons later. It comes after The House Of Lords voted in favour of amendments which would guarantee the rights of eu citizens living in the uk, and would give parliament a meaningful say on the final deal. If mps and peers do pass the bill today, theresa may could start the process of the uk leaving the European Union this week. Costis a british man has beenjailed for six years in indonesia, over the killing of a policeman on the island of bali. David taylor had admitted his role in the crime, saying he feared for his life during a fight with the Police Officer, who was attacked with a beer bottle and his own binoculars. His partner sarah connor has been sentenced to four years as an a ccesso ry sentenced to four years as an accessory to the crime. Rail staff from three firms across england have started 24 hour strikes in a dispute over the role of guards. The rmts 30th strike day in its dispute with southern over plans for driver only operated trains, has spread to the north of england. Guards and drivers working for merseyrail and northern are taking action over similar proposals. Rail bosses argue its about modernising services and they denyjobs will be lost. Police are launching an unprecedented appeal at the Supreme Court against a ruling it failed the victims of one of the uks most dangerous rapists. Judges said Scotland Yard had breached the human rights of two women because officers didnt properly Investigatejohn Worboys who was jailed for life in 2009 after committing more than 100 rapes. The outcome of the case could have profound legal implications for policing. Aid agencies are warning that time is running out to save an estimated 20 Million People facing famine in four african countries. Theres growing concern about four countries in particular, nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia. Its been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in 60 years and experts say that without urgent help many will simply starve. Thats a summary of the latest bbc news. More at 10am. Heres some sport now with the other hugh the fa cup fairy tales are over as spurs ensure the semifinalists will come from the Premier League. Celtic need only six more points to win the Scottish Premiership again but they were denied a 23rd consecutive league win by rangers a late clint hill equaliser gave them a 1 1 draw. Derby county have sacked Steve Mcclaren for a second time. Just five months after he rejoined the club. Derby are tenth in the championship theyve won only once in their last nine games. There are no british players left in the singles draw at the Indian Wells Tennis in california. Womens number one, johanna konta, was knocked out in the third round by Caroline Garcia of france, and dan evans and kyle edmund were also beaten. Much morejust after ten much more just after ten oclock. John worboys is one of britains most dangeorus rapists. Hes serving a Life Sentence for carrying out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults while he was a Black Cab Driver in london. Over a period of six years between 2002 and 2008, hed drug his victims, female passengers in his taxi, by pretending hed won on the lottery, persuading them to celebrate with a glass of doped champagne. The metropolitan police had several opportunities to apprehend and stop him, and didnt. On one occasion worboys was so confident of getting away with his crimes, that he actually drove his victim to a Police Station and dropped her off there, officers took neither his name nor his cab registration details. Heres how the story was reported at the time. In his familiar and licensed black cab, they should have been safe, Butjohn Warboys is convicted of drugging, sexually molesting or raping dozens, possibly even hundreds, of women in the back of his taxi. While those offences are being investigated by the police, and there are serious questions being asked about their inquiry and whether he could have been caught sooner, tonight he stands convicted of 19 counts dating back to october 2006. Sources say in the 13 years he drove this black cab, john warboys may have attacked more than 200 women. While he now faces a lengthy prison sentence, the ipcc wants to know why, having arrested him once, the police allowed him and his taxi back out to prowl the streets. Their failings led two women to sue the police for breaching their human rights, and judges agreed. Today the met police are trying to challenge that ruling in the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. Todays appeal could have profound implications for how Police Investigate serious Sexual Offences and means they could be sued for the most serious of crimes that amount to inhuman or degrading treatment if they fail to conduct an effective investigation. The case is so important to the law around Police Negligence that theresa may, when she was still home secretary, intervened to support Scotland Yard. Lets speak to her knee, only using her first lets speak to her knee, only using herfirst name. Lets speak to her knee, only using her first name. We lets speak to her knee, only using herfirst name. We are not lets speak to her knee, only using her first name. We are not showing her first name. We are not showing herface to her first name. We are not showing her face to protect her identity. She was raped by two strangers two years ago when she 18. She thinks police should be held accountable if they fail to investigate cases like this. Hamish brown, a former met dectective inspector, who was with the met at the time worboys committed his early crimes. Harriet wistrich , the solicitor for the two women who sued the met. Harriet, your clients are arguing, had the Police Investigated properly, john worboys would have been caught earlier and they would not have been raped, is that right . Those are the facts of the case. There were a number of opportunities, about ten women came forward at different times before he was eventually arrested and prosecuted. And had they conducted an effective investigation, there we re an effective investigation, there were a whole series of failings at every stage along the route, but the judge found at the high court. Then he wouldnt have gone on to rape so many women. The police have acknowledged their errors and apologised and they have put in place things to improve the way they deal with this. You dont believe that . The problem is, there were some good policies in place at the time. There was a policy about how to prosecute, how to investigate drug assisted rape. That policy was not followed by the officers on the ground. There isnt an answer to save the police constantly say, we have changed, we have put in place better procedures. This wouldnt happen again. But they said that at the time and it did happen. The problem is, the officers on the ground were not necessarily enforcing these policies and following them properly. In fact, at the trial, an inspector said in evidence, when asked if the policies we re evidence, when asked if the policies were there and they didnt follow it, he said, i dont know, and that came under criticism. You have to put those policies in place and you have to have officers on the ground who are trained and realise it is important to follow them. It didnt happen in this case. The met want to make it clear, by defending this action, they are not doubting the voracity of the claimants accounts. What they yell saying it is the boundaries of Police Responsibility and liability. If the Court Upholds the ruling, the police could be sued if they are deemed to have failed to conduct a proper investigation. Why would that be a good thing . They should be held to an account. Where they fell, they should be held to account. This is a mechanism for victims to hold the state body to account. We can hold all other state organisations, doctors, Social Services and we hold all sorts of people to account through common law as long as through the human rights frameworks. Why are the police accepted and if they continue to fail even where the framework and the policies are in place, and this isa the policies are in place, and this is a mechanism which enables another mechanism to say, you cannot carry on doing this and put in place, not just policies, but measures to make those policies work. Honey, thanks for talking to others, you were raped two years ago by strangers. In your case, the police were incredibly supportive and two men we re incredibly supportive and two men were convicted last year. But you we re were convicted last year. But you were nervous about reporting it initially . I dont know why, we cannot hear you. Maybe we will reconnect the line. In the meantime, lets bring in hamish brown, former met policeman and chris. Some of the s mistakes made, one believable. John worboys dotting of one of his victims at a Police Station and offers is not taking his name or cab registration details. Had they done that, they might have caught him earlier . Regrettably, everything is true and i go along with Everything Harriet said. But i think the police are concerned about the floodgates, at one stage i going to stop whether police have made a mistake. Lets Ta Ke Police Have made a mistake. Lets take the case of a burglary. It is not investigated properly for whatever reason and that burglar goes on to commit another hundred crimes. It affects people taking their personal things, or that people going to come forward and sue the police . Or, investigate the case properly . Yes, in times of cuts, the metropolitan police have just lost 700 detectives because of one reason or another. Maybe it is not unattractive job any more. Will this work and will the police go out of business . Why should the police be ina business . Why should the police be in a different position, why should there be an exception when nhs surgeons can be sued, teachers can be sued. I would agree in the most serious of cases, they should be. I am not against that. Where the caution is is opening the flood gates and where should the line be drawn. Harriet is wanting to come back in. Can i make a point. Can you hear me ok . Just to be clear, burglary would not come within this sort of case. It has to be a breach of article three, which is inhumane and degrading treatment. It is not every crime the Police Investigate, it affects the most serious crimes as hamish said. It isnt any failure, it has to be serious failures in the best a geisha in. To suggest it will open the floodgates and every time a Police Officer investigate something and they mess up, they will be sued, is not correct. It is designed only in relation to those very serious cases and you are talking about really serious crimes, you know, not short of having huge impacts on victims, that we are having this safeguard in. It is notjust one minor mistake, it has to be a serious failure. Thank you for clarifying that. We will try and talk to honey again, i hope we can hear you. Tell us about your apprehension before you reported to the police . was just really nervous that i wouldnt be ta ken was just really nervous that i wouldnt be taken seriously and that people would sort of, they would be suspicious and wouldnt believe me. And actually, the police treated you incredibly well and were incredibly supportive and did theirjob properly . They were just professional the whole way through, you know, it wasjust professional the whole way through, you know, it was just amazing. Professional the whole way through, you know, it wasjust amazing. So when people say, im not sure if the police are going to believe me. They didnt express an opinion in your case, they just investigated . They were 100 behind me. They never said youre right or youre wrong, but they investigated it as they should with any crime. What do you think of this legal case that could lead to the police being sued if they fail to investigate a serious crime properly . If there are serious failings and if the crime involved degrading treatment . failings and if the crime involved degrading treatment . I do think that the police being sued would be important because with this type of crime its so important that women are supported and anyone supported when they report abuse or Sexual Violence. If the police are failing to not take people seriously and also be professional in theirjob then yeah, they should be taken to court and they should be sued for it. Thank you very much. Rachel, chris, why are you supporting the two women who are taking the case . Weve intervened because it is really important that women have the ability to challenge the police, to hold them to account. Very few rapes get reported, about 15 we think of rapes get reported to the police and in part thats because women are concerned that they wont be believed or they wont be taken seriously and when that happens, we really need to be able to challenge the police who are not following their policies and not following their policies and not following their procedures properly. So it is important to us. Do you accept that since Thejohn Warboys Case Police Have Made Progress . There has been progress, but the progress is patchy and we still hear from women who still get disbelieved and whose cases are not taken certificate lussy and evidence not being followed up. Human rights see this crime as discrimination against women. It is extremely serious Sexual Violence as a crime. Its really important that the human rights that weve got work in practise so they are notjust on paper, it is not enough to have that human right, you have to be able to haveit human right, you have to be able to have it when the state does something wrong and gets it so catastrophically wrong that more women are raped you have to be able to hold them to account for that. Honey, are you still with us . No, ithink honey, are you still with us . No, i think she has gone. Im going to ask harriet about the comments from the femalejudge to ask harriet about the comments from the female judge last week that drunk women are putting themselves at greater risk of rape. Saying women were entitled to drink themselves into the ground, but their behaviour could put them in danger. Is she right . their behaviour could put them in danger. Is she right . I think the reason this has caused a lot of controversy is because, you know, its a sense of women being blamed again for getting raped and the concern is that men and in fact, it is interesting because warboys deliberately targeted women coming out of nightclubs late at night often who would have had a few drinks. The issue is about identifying those men who target women who are vulnerable and i think its not necessarily very helpful to focus in that way, but its true and i think we need to look at the ways in which vulnerability is targeted. It is drink. It maybe people who have Mental Illness or Learning Disability or who are very young. There are all different sorts of ways in which women are targeted and the challenge is really to try and challenge those men who are targeting the women rather than to blame women for their behaviour. final thought from hamish. Blame women for their behaviour. finalthought from hamish. Im sure thejudge meant finalthought from hamish. Im sure the judge meant very well and im sor the interpretation thats been put on it, but i hear what harriet says as well. Look, there is a lot of good work in the metropolitan police and Police Forces around the country on rape and serious Sexual Offences, country on rape and serious Sexual Offe Nces , Progress Country on rape and serious Sexual Offences, progress has been made from the 60s, 70s and 80s when it all went wrong of the mistakes will be made. The police will be punished, but there is a shortage of Police Officers. Its going to be difficult to go forward, but i hope the police will learn from this and we all move on. Thank you. Thank you. We will report back what happens in the Supreme Court. Thank you for your comments on the film that Iain Duncan Smith made which we showed earlier about Cancer Detecting Dogs. Specially trained dogs. This e mail from john, remarkable film that should be sent to all medical practises. Harry says, fantastic. To all medical practises. Harry says, fa ntastic. A to all medical practises. Harry says, fantastic. A new way of looking at things. Lj, a great story on what could be a breakthrough detected by mans best friend. This from duncan, ids trying to convince people he has a compassionate bone in his body. He hasnt folks. After 10am, we will talk this this lady and her dog. She has type one diabetes and her dog helps her out when her Blood Sugar Levels change. Thats caroline and simba, so well hear her experience after 10am. Also, well bring you the latest on brexit. As parliament considers the final stage of the law that will allow the uk to begin Divorce Proceedings from the European Union. The queen is launching the Commonwealth Games baton relay today at Buckingham Palace. Over 388 days the baton will visit all 71 commonwealth countries, before arriving at the Australian Gold coast for the opening of the 2018 games. Our correspondent Katherine Downs is at Buckingham Palace. Hello victoria. A lot of numbers to remember in this one. All kinds of stats. This is the longest Commonwealth Games baton in history. 388 days, 230,000 miles it will travel around the world before it ends up on the gold coast in australia for the Commonwealth Games which start in april. So just over a year to go which start in april. So just over a yearto go in which start in april. So just over a year to go in australia next year. I dont know if you can hear behind me, theyre testing the public announcement system. The crowds are beginning to gather in front of Buckingham Palace where the ceremony will start later on this morning. It is the beginning really of the countdown to the Commonwealth Games and what will happen is that the queen will come out on to that platform behind me here. She will put a message of hope and friendship into the Commonwealth Games baton that will invite athletes from around the commonwealth to come together in peaceful and friendly competition in australia next year and what shell do, she will hand the baton to the first baton runner who is anna mears, the most decorated female cyclist in history, five times Commonwealth Games gold medallist. She has to run 20 meters across the fore court of Buckingham Palace to the big gate in the centre and she will hand the baton then to her long time rival Victoria Pendleton. Anna mears pipped Victoria Pendleton. Now theyve retired the rivalry is water under the bridge Victoria Pendleton will run around the Queen Victoria memorial and send the baton off. The baton has arrived with the designers from design works. Here is the baton. This is it. I have never seen a baton that sums up australia. Talk us a baton that sums up australia. Talk us through the design. It was to represent the gold coast very well. There is lots of things of the shape itself is all about Boundless Energy of the people, place, and spirit of the coast. So thats what the loop is all about. Then on the side, we split it up into three different sectors, that represents, the past, the present and the future. The back of the baton is made from a wood, it isa of the baton is made from a wood, it is a tree thats indigenous to the gold coast. It is an important story from the Indigenous People of the gold coast. They would take seeds and plant them along the paths that they walked to provide suss ten nans for the future. The guest of honour is arriving behind us. I dont know if you can see that. Thats the queen and her outriders arriving for the olympic, sorry commonwealth baton ceremony, going around the Queen Victoria memorial and she will be heading into Buckingham Palace where she will be meeting elders from the gold cos and coast. That represents the past. We have a stringer on the side which is the stainless part. The stringer has engaved all the nations that will see the baton as it goes through its journey. They are in the order of the relay. The front here is reclaimed plastic. So we collected plastic from the ocean, beaches and waterways of the gold coast. It is quite clean. We had a lot of people helping us. Community groups and the gold coast city council. We reclaimed that and reconstituted it into the leading edge. Where does this message go . I thought she was putting it in the baton, but it looks hollow . There is this little part. A capsule will get dropped in. And then the message is inside the capsule. It is on some really Special Paper. The paper is made using a Special Paper that has really Strong Properties using the nano particles. How many batons are there . Is this just the only baton that will be going around the commonwealth or are there loads in case one gets lost or dropped in the sea . We have to have a backup. But there is one baton with the message and it will go around the commonwealth and of course, there is back up. Commonwealth and of course, there is backup. How important do you think it is that there is a baton like this that goes around the commonwealth and kind of unites people and invites the athletes to ta ke people and invites the athletes to take part in the games . When you have the pictures of past baton relays, the glasgow one and the kids in south africa or the caribbean, just the excitement that it brings. Were trying to include, ignite and inspire and were trying to include, ignite and inspire and i think thats what this really does. Well, thank you for bringing it along to show us this morning. It is a beautiful piece of artwork and the first time we have been up close to a Commonwealth Games baton. So thats it. Thats the baton that will be taking its centre stage really at the ceremony this morning before heading off on that enormous 388 dayjourney to the gold coast. The Commonwealth Games next year kicks off on 4th april and you will be able to watch that baton set up on its batonjourney on you will be able to watch that baton set up on its Baton Journey on the bbc news channel this morning. Thank you. Thank you for your e mails about dogs. Sean on facebook, fantastic and interesting film about biomarking. As the scientist says there is no funding from the uk government in this area. We will talk more about this after 10. We will talk to Cancer Research uk who are sceptical. The latest news and sport in a moment. Before that, the weather. Look at you what a bright, shining deliciousness you are on this monday morning were in the mood for spring. There is some cloud around. But we have seen some amazing is some cloud around. But we have seen some amazing sunrises this morning. We have got bbc weather watcher pictures to show you what it was like. If we look at whats happening around the country. First of all, we have got this beautiful one from saltburn and another one, another Beautiful Sunrise from suffolk. And then as we travel around the country, you can see in cardiff, a little bit more in the way of frost. It was a nippy start for you. But beautiful blue skies in hampshire. Again, lovely, lovely weather out there if you like it sunny. You can weather out there if you like it sunny. You can see on weather out there if you like it sunny. You can see on the Satellite Picture where we have the clear skies, this area here is actually a weather front. The weather front moved across Northern Ireland and scotla nd moved across Northern Ireland and scotland last night and it raised temperatures overnight, but it is Still Producing a fair bit of cloud and the odd spot of rain, nothing too much. As It Sink Southwards and bumps into the high pressure, it will be a fairly weak affair. So as we go through the morning, a lot of sunshine in the south. Some sunshine in scotland and Northern Ireland. Behind this weather front. The weather front continues to drift across the rest of Northern England and in through wales and the south west. Quite murky conditions around the coast with sea fog as well in the south west. But by then Northern Ireland will be busking in sunshine. Highs of 13 celsius in belfast. Across much of scotland too, a lot of sunshine, but Rain Starting to come in across the north west, breezy across the north of scotla nd north west, breezy across the north of scotland as well. As we move down towards the north of england, here under the influence of the weather front it will be fairly cloudy, but the very far north of Northern England improving and that cloud prevails towards the midlands and the wash, but for east anglia, essex and kent and the Isle Of Wight and dorset, we are looking at some blue skies into the afternoon. For South West England though, under that weather front, cloudier. South west england though, under that weatherfront, cloudier. Again, there is murkiness around the coast and for parts of wales, again cloudy this afternoon under that weather front. It gets down to the south east with all its cloud. Some brighter breaks behind, but then another weather front comes in across Northern Ireland and scotland with rain and strengthening winds. The rain turning more showery through the course of the night. Tomorrow we start off with showers across the north of scotland. Some of those will be wintry and accompanied by gusts of wind 60mph to 70mph. As we come south, murky around cardigan bay and pembrokeshire and around the Bristol Channel area. Inland if youre in the sunshine, temperatures 12 to 15 celsius. But somewhere tomorrow in the south eastern quarter of the uk we could hit 17 celsius or 18 celsius in the south east. The average at this time in march is 11 celsius. Hello, its monday, its10am, im victoria derbyshire. After the news well have more on our top story dogs that can help Diagnose Cancer. Former minister Iain Duncan Smith will be here to tell us what these amazing animals can do. Imagine one teaspoonful of sugar dissolved, notjust in one Olympic Sized Swimming Pool, but in two Olympic Sized Swimming Pools and the dogs can detect that. The dogs can also help people with diabetes tell when their blood sugar is low, and having one can be a life changing experience for patients. I had gone in in the night and he had seizures. So we were testing every hour and a half every two hours every night. So you were getting up through the night . We did that until molly came along. Well bring you the latest on brexit, later today the bill to allow Divorce Proceedings to begin is expected to be passed by parliament. At westminster, tory mps and peers are ready to back down paving the way for theresa may to trigger our departure from the eu. And if you were a Superstar Singer, how would you get to the stage at your concert . Adele has developed an interesting technique, well bring you more later. Joanna is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. The legislation paving the way for theresa may to start formal brexit negotiations faces its final test in parliament today. Ministers believe mps will reject the two changes made to the brexit bill in The House Of Lords , One Guaranteeing of lords, One Guaranteeing the rights of eu nationals living in britain and another calling for parliament to have a meaningful vote on the final deal. If mps and peers do pass the bill today, theresa may could start the process of the uk leaving the European Union this week. A british man has beenjailed for six years in indonesia, over the killing of a policeman on the island of bali. David taylor had admitted his role in the crime, saying he feared for his life during a fight with the Police Officer, who was attacked with a beer bottle and his own binoculars. His partner sara connor has been sentenced to four years as an assessory to the crime. Energy supplier sse says it will increase standard domestic Electricity Prices from the end of next month. It would result in an average 6. 9 rise for a typical dual fuel customer. The company said it would keep gas prices at their current level but Electricity Prices would rise by an average 14. 9 . Police are launching an appeal at the Supreme Court against a ruling that it failed the victims of one of the uks most dangerous rapists. Judges said Scotland Yard had breached the human rights of two women because officers didnt properly Investigatejohn Worboys who was jailed for life in 2009 after committing more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults. The outcome of the case could have profound legal implications for policing. Hamish brown is a former detective inspector, who was with the met at the time worboys committed his early crimes, speaking to this programme he says the police are now worried about opening the floodgates at a time when forces are facing cuts. At what stage will you stop when it isa at what stage will you stop when it is a mistake . What about burglary . What if the case wasnt investigated properly and the burglar goes on to commit another 100 crimes. Is it that kind of crime where victims will come forward and sue the police . Or investigate the case properly. Yes, at a time when the police have just had 700 job cuts, maybe it isnt an attractive job any more. Rail staff from three firms across england have started 24 hour strikes in a dispute over the role of guards. The rmts 30th strike day in its dispute with southern over plans for driver only operated trains, has spread to the north of england. Guards and drivers working for merseyrail and northern are taking action over similar proposals. Rail bosses argue its about modernising services and they denyjobs will be lost. Aid agencies are warning that time is running out to save an estimated 20 Million People facing famine in africa. Theres growing concern about four countries in particular nigeria, south sudan, yemen and somalia. Its been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in 60 years and experts say that without urgent help many will simply starve. Thats a summary of the latest bbc news, more at 10. 30. Samantha has message on facebook. I have a medical Detection Dog called charlie who detects and norton make condition which causes me to black out and hurt myself. Charlie has transformed my life, iam out and hurt myself. Charlie has transformed my life, i am safe and no longer scared to leave my home. Since having charlie, the charity have managed two more to people with the same condition who continued to alert. Charlie walk me down the aisle at my wedding. Without charlie i may have ended up in hospital on my wedding day. Thanks for letting us know about that, samantha. We will talk more about dogs able to wander owners in changes in their medical condition and dogs who can detect cancer as well. Do get in touch with us throughout the morning, use the Hashtag Victoria Live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Heres the sport now with hugh. Spurs ensured the fa cup semi finals will be an all Premier League affair after Beating League one millwall 6 0 in the last eight at white hart lane. South korean son hueng min scored a hat trick after top scorer harry kane was forced off with what looked like a nasty ankle injury. Theyjoined Manchester City and arsenal in the last four. We are we a re really we are really pleased, very happy. And now we need to prepare this week for the Premier League game against southampton. Please, very happy. It was fantastic. Meanwhile the Football Association is to investigate allegations millwall supporters directed what appeared to be racist chants at Son Heung Min during the match at white hart lane. Theyll wait for the referees match report. And also ask for the observations of both clubs and the police before deciding on any charges. Millwall are also under investigation for the behaviour of some of their fans in the previous round. So the last of the quarter finals, chelsea against Manchester United, is live on bbc one, coverage starts at 7. 30. Theres also commentary on Radio Five Live and coverage on the bbc sport website. In the Premier League, jurgen klopp says he saw his Liverpool Team win ugly for the first time. And was pretty relieved about it too. They came from behind to beat burnley 2 1, emre can with the winning goal. Liverpool are fourth in the table just a point now behind spurs, who were on fa cup duty. Managing derby county seems to be something of a tricky challenge, even if youve done it before. Steve mcclaren has been sacked for a second time, only five months after he returned to the club. Derby are tenth in the championship after winning only one of their last nine games. And they say there had been a significant, unexpected and persistent decline in results, team unity and morale. Celtic are now just two wins away from another Scottish Premiership title, but they were prevented from a 23rd Straight League victory by their old firm rivals. They were held to a 1 1 draw at celtic park after a late equaliser from clint hill. So celtic are just the 25 points clear of aberdeen at the top of the table. There are no british players left in the singles draw at the Indian Wells Tennis in california. Womens number one, johanna konta, said she wasnt brave enough, after losing in three sets to Caroline Garcia of france. A few years ago, andy murray predicted that garcia would make it to world number one. Shes currently ranked 25th, 14 places lower than konta. Also out both remaining men, kyle edmund lost in straight sets to novak djokovic. While british number two dan evans was beaten by kei nishikori, also in straight sets. And judd trump says hes hitting form at the right time, ahead of snookers World Championship next month. He came from 5 2 down to beat marco fu 10 8 in the final of the players championship in llandudno, thats trumps second ranking title of the season. That is it for now, much more coming up that is it for now, much more coming up in the headlines at 10 30 a. M. Good morning, welcome to the programme. This morning, weve been telling you about a pioneering trial which has the potential to save lives and save the nhs millions of pounds. But is there a reluctance amongst some in the medical community to adopt it because it involves dogs . Initial studies show specially trained dogs can detect Prostate Cancer in urine in 93 of cases. In an exclusive film for this programme, the former Conservative Party Leader Iain Duncan Smith tells us he wants to see it rolled out across the nhs. Englands Health Secretaryjeremy hunt has promised he will personally take a look at the results of an initial trial. We played you iain Duncan Smiths full film earlier in the programme. Heres a short extract. My name is Iain Duncan Smith. Im the Member Of Parliament for chingford and woodford green. Relax. I used to be a member of the cabinet but im not here to talk about politics. Im here to talk about something much, much more interesting. Dogs like these are capable of detecting the tiniest of odour concentrations. I mean up to one part per trillion, maybe even more. That means that once properly trained they are able to detect odours associated with disease in human beings. In other words, these dogs are capable of literally sniffing out disease. In this test, a specially trained Cancer Detection dog is told to Circle A Carousel holding eight evenly spaced Urine Samples. One is from a patient with Prostate Cancer and the other seven are from healthy individuals. Remarkably the dog is able to detect the sample from a cancer patient. Dr claire guest is a leading figure in driving this research forward. We dont know exactly what it is the dogs use to make the identification that the cancer is there but we know it is a volatile, we know it is a smell. We are doing an incredibly robust clinical trial. Weve got 3000 patients who are going to be involved in this trial detecting Prostate Cancerfrom urine. Dogs can also be trained to alert patients with conditions such as type one diabetes to a minute shift in their Blood Sugar Levels which might in extreme cases signal the onset of a coma. I went to visit steve and molly. Steve was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2006. Before molly arrived, where were the big problems . How difficult was all of this . When stephen was little we would have him running around and then just falling over. We would be scooping him up and putting him on the sofa and trying to get things into him. I had gone in in the night and hed had seizures so we were testing every hour and a half to two hours all night every single night. So you were getting up through the night regularly just to check . Setting alarms. And we did that until molly came along and suddenly we realised we could trust her. Thats when we stopped and i now only get up when she alerts. Claire is also a type one diabetic and she is also a beneficiary of her dogs ability to detect shifts in Blood Glucose Levels that might indicate she is in danger. In the three and a half years that we have been together, he has alerted and potentially saved my life over 3500 times and he does it all for a dog biscuit. What magic has allowed me to do is i can go to bed and not be afraid that im never going to wake up in the morning, that i can have an ordinary life, do ordinary things, and ive got an amazing companion thats going to follow me all the way through it. Ive been so impressed by the progress thats been made in this field that i wanted to find out why its potential hasnt been properly recognised. I went to see my old colleague, the Health Secretary for england, jeremy hunt. I think probably ideas like this sometimes dont get looked at as quickly as they should because they get put in the crackly box. But if this research is good then i want to know about it and i will certainly look at it carefully. We need to recognise that we can still reimagine our centuries old relationship with dogs and find new ways to make use of their absolutely extraordinary abilities. Whos a good boy . Come on, lets go. So should the nhs get behind Cancer Detecting Dogs . Iain duncan smith is here. He became interested in the issue after his wife, who had Breast Cancer, became a trustee of the Charity Medical Detection dogs. Claire guest who is a Research Scientist and co founder of that Charity Medical Detection dogs. Cancer expert professor karol sikora and dr emma smith from Cancer Research uk who are both sceptical. There are many other ways dogs can save peoples lives on a regular basis. Also with us Carolyn Gatenby who is here with her dog simba. He helps her to manage her Type1 Diabetes and has saved her life countless times. She will tell you all about that in a moment. Welcome to all of you. We have had a huge response. People are fascinated. Tell us how you became interested in the potential of these dogs to do this . It was because, as the film so, my wife had quite late detection of cancer. I still kick myself over the fact i hadnt spotted what was going on. She went through all of the stuff everybody has to do, the chemo, radiotherapy, mastectomy. All of these are very traumatic for somebody. Coming out at the end of it, a couple of years later, she has still been knocked back a bit and has less energy than she used to have. Somebody mentioned there was this organisation and she went to have a look at it and was bowled over by what they were doing. If they are detecting earlier than most of the medical tests seem to be, then why not try and find a way to get the medical side to use this and to engage. That is what she went to do and eventually got so involved, she has become part of the trust. It is remarkable, when you get to see it, we have had the Cancer Specialist from the Health Department go down, skype tickle. Bowled over after an hour and a half. Sceptical. The Health Secretary, had a poor brief from the Health Department. Walked out and he is going to ask why he didnt get a better be. So my question is co nsta ntly, better be. So my question is constantly, they are there, they are showing the signs exist, showing your works, even whatever else we wa nt to your works, even whatever else we want to do to take this forward, they are here, why cant we use this now and get some funding from the various health agencies. Is simba all right . Yes. He is agreeing with me. A viewer tweets, a remarkable piece. Dogs are a mans best friend. A viewer said, i spent three years in hospital. She has alerted over 5,000 times and kept me out of hospital. So clare, the question, are the dogs really detecting earlier than conventional tests . Detecting earlier than conventional tests . We have a long way to go in term of working out how early they are able to diagnose the cancer. Yes, the dog finds it easier the earlier the stage of the cancer. Thats because, we are using the dogs incredible sense of smell. What we see is that every disease and condition in cancer has its own biochemical changes which produce an odour change in our bodies. It is like sitting next to someone with nice afters have like sitting next to someone with nice aftershave on. Now, we have this big three year trial with 3,000 patients and were looking at it not only their reliability and accuracy, they are more reliable than the current Prostate Cancer which is the psa, the blood test which u nfortu nately psa, the blood test which unfortunately though it picks up cancer well, it has a high false positive rate. That leads to unnecessary interventions . Yes and unnecessary interventions . Yes and unnecessary anxiety. The dog detects with a high level of accuracy without that false positive read. Thats whats going to be exciting. Cancer volatiles travel from infected cells into the urine as the body tries to dispose of the chemicals. It is thought the dogs can pick up the odour of the volatiles. You say in prostate it is 93 accurate . Thats what the Training Trials have shown and there isa Training Trials have shown and there is a publication in italy that showed it was 98 reliable from a drop of urine. When a dog looks at a volatile pattern sorted with a disease, the less it is going on in the body, the more strongly that pattern stands out. Thats why in Early Detections the dogs are very good. The difference between someone who is healthy and someone with cancer odour is very, very big. By the time that person becomes very unwell, there is so much going on that the dog has to peer through the disease and the conditions to see the volatiles. Professor, there is not much you dont know about cancer, what do you think about it . It is fascinating. I love dogs and i have one myself, but we have to get away from the dog. The dog had evolutionary training to smell something we dont understand. We have got to find out what it is and develop a Laboratory Test. The trouble with using animals and when i heard about this, clare, i thought youd come to the clinic and the dog would round up the patients that have got cancer and shoe the others out of the clinic. We have got to work out what the dog is detecting and then make a Laboratory Test and that would be practical. We havent done that yet. Im saying, we, i have got nothing to do with it . Since 2004 there were in roads, the interest has been reignited in the detection of cancer through volatiles. The dogs sense of smell sin credibly reliable and thats going to be the challenge. Emma smith Cancer Research uk, whats your view . Im not sceptical about the Science Behind it. There is good rational for looking for the smelly molecules to get cancer diagnosed earlier. Like carol said, there is no way we could be using dogs as a routine diagnostic test. Why not . 350,000 people are diagnosed. Dogs need feeding and walking and they need feeding and walking and they need a rest and plus i would be interested to look at economics of how much it would cost to keep the dogs and to have working dogs as opposed to a test. You say you want to look for another way to do there, but as you start looking for that right now, what has been demonstrated categorically that it is possible for dogs to do this. Now, you say there are lots of different people diagnosed with cancerment even if the dogs save one life, this is quite important. You say its not practical. I challenge you to go to medical Detection Dogs and figure out how practical it is to set up different centres, call them laboratories if you like, to detect cancer instead of saying no, were not going to do that, why dont you say, lets embrace this. Lets help them and support them with finance and lets see where this goes first of all with the dags and then extrapolate to see whether or not in the future you can produce Something Else that replicates a dog, but at moment youve got dogs and theyre dog, but at moment youve got dogs and they re better than dog, but at moment youve got dogs and theyre better than the medical test. It is being embraced and thats why the research is on going and clare is doing her studies. We will take it to Biotech Companies and develop a mechanical test. think emma is correct. It is impracticable to have the dogs do it. And the Biotech Industry should grab this. They dont think that because science is molecular. The dog has it in his brain and his nose. Smelly molecules are not something that has been researched. I dont understand why the medical profession is so resistant to saying we can do these in parallel, you can learn from one while we learn to Diagnose Cancer at the same time and we can run a parallel process that says extragting from the wider sense of what were doing will learn more as the dogs do more with it rather than saying it is all very well, we will have a look at this, but we put our money and our thoughts in here. What we should do, in any other walk of life everybody in science and engineering, they would be doing parallel work. Use what youve got now, parallel that with testing. At the moment you just want to do the bit on the electronic nose. We dont use diagnostic tests until we have robust evidence that it works. You can get robust evidence on this. We will have the situation where some cases are missed and other people are getting a positive result when actually they dont need fi nurt tests. What about the ph a test. Every man will tell you, it is a horrible test. Thats why it is not a screening test. Why dont we think about that more and even checking on the psa test and run it past the dogs. There are issues with the psa test and i dont think anyone would recommend that as a single test to determine whether a man has Prostate Cans are or not. So a doctor will look at all the mans other symptoms and do a physical examination and combine that with information from the psa test. The psa test is not a diagnosis. Hundreds of people go to have that second test i is painful and can lead to disease because they cant focus on who has. Why not use the dogs . We never ever believed it was dogs . We never ever believed it was dog or the dog took over. What we believe is the dog can assist the cln i and the clinician and the point is if somebody has a raised psa, why not have a ukraine test as well and that could be something we could cover because the clinician has the psa against a urine test but the point thats been so frustrating for myself is that the amount of money thats been invested into this work, we have been going ten years now, we have had to raise money ourselves to do this work whereas other organisations would have spent millions by now to get the answers that weve got and thats the frustration. We have to commercialise it and get the Biotech Industry involved. It is not something that Cancer Charities can do. We have got to have Peer Review Publications and then we have to get away from the dog and that will produce the future. Iain is sort of right. Im seeing patients and the dog comes out positive, what do we know . It is too varied yable, different dogs, different diseases and we have got to get it standardised. This is not standardisable. I want to bring in carolyn. Megan tweets, a very interesting report on dogs helping to Diagnose Cancer by smell. Another viewer says, dogs are fantastic animals. Explain to our audience, you found out that simba was touble to detect changes in your medical condition, your type one diabetes . Thats right with no warning signals. I had got to the end of my medical profession where they could actually offer me no more really. The only thing they could offer me was a transplant, but the side effects was Breast Cancer and i had already been through that. So i knew that i would end up in a nursing home because at that stage i was needing help day and night. And so was needing help day and night. And soi was needing help day and night. And so i actually went on to the internet and found medical Detection Dogs. And clare came to assess simba to see if he was suitable and my goodness, within a week he was actually alerting me. What does that involve . Actually alerting me. What does that involve . What does that mean . Tell me who arent aware of what simba can do. Well, simba is able to tell me the change in my sugar levels in my blood. So he can alert me when my sugars are going high. My sugaring going low and when they are also dropping quickly which i suffer from. So i can be quite at a high rate, but within five or ten minutes i could be nearly in a coma. So simba actually gives me total quality of life. He would jump up at you or. He has got quite a few different ways. The main one, hes coming up to me and licking my face. You would get your kit out which you carry . Frlghts you would get your kit out which you carry . Frlg hts it you would get your kit out which you carry . Frlghts it is teamwork. So when he alerts me, he expects me to ta ke when he alerts me, he expects me to take my sugars. Right. He is not usually wrong. The im in the normal change and hes chilled out. We can see that. Thank goodness you have beenin see that. Thank goodness you have been in the normal range while you have been on the programme . Thats right. Im unpredictable, hes there 24 hours a day. Im getting quite emotional because i believe solely, ive given my life to him because he has given me such a good life. Ive had, since he has been trained, ive had, since he has been trained, ive had six and a half years of quality life. It isnt where im scared of going out anymore, im living it to the fullest and im enjoying it. Good. All i the fullest and im enjoying it. Good. All have the fullest and im enjoying it. Good. All i have to do is take simba wherever i go. He doesnt stop working when he has got his coat off. He is continually working. Hes not made to, but as soon as he sees the changes in, or smells the changes, he will react. the changes in, or smells the changes, he will react. I know hes chilled. I dont know if we can see him properly. Is it a bit mean if we ask him to stand up. Simba . Simba . Come on. Oh, simba, you are delicious clare was ta ken delicious clare was taken to hospital three times a week before she had simba. She was at risk of going into a care home. There is £13 million a year spent on hypoglycemic events which could be prevented. spent on hypoglycemic events which could be prevented. I was falling everywhere. I would walk to the shops and end up in a coma so whenever i went out of the house, i never knew if i was going to make it home, but more times than not, i would end up in an ambulance or at the a e. So my life was very, very ona the a e. So my life was very, very on a rocky, you know, place. Well, he has transformed it and saved your life countless times. He is checking her now to see if her sugars are right. This is him. So. So he has just licked your face, right. This is him. So. So he has just licked yourface, do right. This is him. So. So he has just licked your face, do you need to check something . He sensed a change in my odour. So if you dont mind, ami change in my odour. So if you dont mind, am i allowed to . Well look after her. Can you just explain what youre doing as youre doing it because this is really instructive for everybody . Simba has alerted me and so obviously he senses some change within me. In terms of your Blood Sugar Levels . Yes. So my responsibility now is to actually ta ke responsibility now is to actually take a test so i know if im dropping, im low. If im dropping quickly, or if im going high. So then i can sort myself out. Is it all right, you havejust done then i can sort myself out. Is it all right, you have just done that. Youve clicked your finger. Ive wiped me finger. Ive wiped everything off. Now im going to put blood on my blood strip. Ok. So then it will actually tell me whats going on in my body. Ok. And before icame in going on in my body. Ok. And before i came in here, i were eight. Im now 6. 9. Just show that to the camera. What simba is telling me is that i am ona what simba is telling me is that i am on a quick drop. What will you need to do . I will need to take luke said an something to boost my sugars back up. If not, i walk into my coma, i dont have any signals. Then it isa coma, i dont have any signals. Then it is a hospitaljob. He actually saves the National Health thousands and thousands of pounds because i wouldnt acknowledge i was going low and then you would have to take me to hospital. That is extraordinary to hospital. That is extraordinary to see that in action. Thank you, simba. Iain duncan smith, going back to the Cancer Detection, a number of viewers are criticising you in trying to come over as cosy and cuddly because of your background as work and Pensions Secretary. You detract from the message, how do you react to that . You will always get politicians on both sides of the fence. But this isnt about politics, you have just seen this, the ability of these dogs to detect cancer and sugar the ability of these dogs to detect cancer and sugar diabetic falls. It is not about me, i am not the founder of this, claire is. It is not about my involvement, it is about me going to look at it. My wife had Breast Cancer and like anybody else, once you see something, you think it can be done better, you want to go and change it and it is just better, you want to go and change it and it isjust about better, you want to go and change it and it is just about alerting better, you want to go and change it and it isjust about alerting people as to what is going on. Thank you all for coming on the programme. We have Breaking News to bring you. Former Crewe Alexandra football coach Barry Bennell has been remanded in custody charged with 12 child sex offences. Our correspondent Katie Gornall is at south Cheshire Magistrates Court in crewe. What happened . Victoria, Barry Bennell didnt appear in person, he appeared via video link on raman. We saw him on a tv screen in the corner of the court room, he was wearing a blue jumper and sat with his arms crossed. Spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth and understood the fresh 12 charges. These include for indecent Assault Charges relating to a boy under 14 alleged to have taken place between 1981 and 1982 and eight cou nts between 1981 and 1982 and eight counts of child sex abuse relating to two boys under the age of 16, alleged to have taken place between 1980 and 1987. Barry bennell is a former football coach with crewe alexander. He has now been remanded into custody, as you say, where he will appear again on the 22nd Of March, faced with a total of 20 child sex abuse allegations. It follows on from a recent Court Appearance where he pleaded not guilty to similar offences. He will appear at Chester Crown court on the 22nd Of March facing 20 child sex abuse allegations. Thank you very much. Still to come aid agencies are warning time is running out to save 20 Million People facing famine in african countries. We will speak to people in each of the affected nations who are working on the ground. And. Still to come, whats the best way for a Superstar Singer to avoid being distracted by adoring fans on the way to the stage . Adele hides in a giant box. More later. Joanna is in the bbc newsroom with a summary of the rest of the days news. Mps are due to debate changes to the brexit bill in the commons later. It comes after The House Of Lords voted in favour of amendments which would guarantee the rights of eu citizens living in the uk, and would give parliament a meaningful say on the final deal. If mps and peers do pass the bill today, theresa may could start the process of the uk leaving the European Union this week. A british man has beenjailed for six years in indonesia, over the killing of a policeman on the island of bali. David taylor had admitted his role in the crime, saying he feared for his life during a fight with the Police Officer, who was attacked with a beer bottle and his own binoculars. His partner sara connor has been sentenced to four years as an assessory to the crime. Rail staff from three firms across england have started 24 hour strikes in a dispute over the role of guards. The rmts 30th strike day in its dispute with southern over plans for driver only operated trains, has spread to the north of england. Guards and drivers working for merseyrail and northern are taking action over similar proposals. Rail bosses argue its about modernising services and they denyjobs will be lost. Thats a summary of the latest news, join me for bbc newsroom live at 11. 00am heres the sport now with hugh. Spurs ensured the fa cup semi finals will be an all Premier League affair after Beating League one millwall 6 0 in the last eight at white hart lane. South korean son hueng min scored a hat trick after top scorer harry kane was forced off with what looked like a nasty ankle injury. Theyjoined Manchester City and arsenal in the last four. Celtic are now just two wins away from another Scottish Premiership title, but they were prevented from a 23rd Straight League victory by their old firm rivals. They were held to a 1 1 draw at celtic park after a late equaliser from clint hill. So celtic are just the 25 points clear of aberdeen at the top of the table. Managing derby county seems to be something of a tricky challenge, even if youve done it before. Steve mcclaren has been sacked for a second time, only five months after he returned to the club. Derby are tenth in the championship after winning only one of their last nine games. Former birmingham boss, gary row it is the overwhelming favourite to replace him. There are no british players left in the singles draw at the Indian Wells Tennis in california. Womens number one, johanna konta, said she wasnt brave enough, after losing in three sets to Caroline Garcia of france. A few years ago, andy murray predicted that garcia would make it to world number one. Shes currently ranked 25th, 14 places lower than konta. Also out both remaining men, kyle edmund lost in straight sets to novak djokovic. While british number two dan evans was beaten by kei nishikori, also in straight sets. The government is urging mps to reject the changes to the brexit bill which were made by the lords when it returns to be debated in the commons today. Our political guru norman smith is here. How will it play out . Let me talk you through the choreography of what will be a big and confusing day at westminster. The brexit bill comes back to the commons round about 3 30pm today. What we will get is a sort of parliamentary pingpong 3 30pm today. What we will get is a sort of parliamentary ping pong when the bill shuttles back and forwards between the commons and lords. Because when it first came to the House Of Commons last month, it was approved without any amendments at all. It went through with huge majorities. It then went to The House Of Lords, but The House Of Lords inflicted two defeats on the government. Won over guaranteeing the rights of eu nationals and the one over guaranteeing parliament and meaningful vote. Now that bill goes back to the commons today. David davis, the brexit secretary will open the debate and we are expecting a vote around six oclock. But the likelihood is, mps will overturn those two defeats. Then, the bill goes back to The House Of Lords. Round about ten oclock, i think we will get the final vote in The House Of Lords. The thinking of most people is, The House Of Lords will back down, which means by the close of play today, theresa may will probably have her brexit bill. The only question then, we are waiting to see when will she trigger it, when will she a set of leaving the eu. She has got until the end of march, but she could go tomorrow. The only person who does know is theresa may and maybe her husband. And anybody who says they do know, i am not sure they are telling the truth. That speak to our guests. I am seeking parliament will have a meaningful and timely vote towards the end of the negotiation process. It is important is our parliament sees first, the final deal, if you like, before it goes to the European Union. Hasnt theresa may said you will get some kind of vote . She has, but we need some clarity. The other question to answer is what would happen if we dont get a deal at all . That would mean we would be heading towards leaving the European Union without any proper arrangements with 27 nation states and the European Union as a whole. Do you expect to get an answer to that today . I will be seeking an answer. David davis, an effective parliamentarian himself, will go some way, and i hope the whole way, towards reassuring us that the parliamentary sovereignty matters. What do you think of your colleague, who might potentially vote against the government the night . M who might potentially vote against the government the night . It is a pity if they do. You cannot stop them of course, but this is a referendum authorised by the sovereign act of parliament, it passed the House Of Commons and The House Of Lords by a massive majority. In the House Of Commons, by 544 and then we got in the business of the Supreme Court. The bottom line is, we accepted of course, the House Of Commons and The House Of Lords would need to have a bill to legislate, but simply form a question. This is the main point, to notify the withdrawal process. It wasnt to go into all begins an ounce, but it was to deal with the simple question. That is what happened, with a massive majority, 499 to around 120 or something. I see in neal and 499 to around 120 or something. I see in nealand nodding his 499 to around 120 or something. I see in neal and nodding his head, because he knows it is the case. On the third reading, which took into account the amendments which had already been discussed, which cover these questions as well, niall and others did vote. It is up to people to make up their own minds, but The House Of Lords has its own functions, they had an opportunity to look at it. But the time has come now, we dont want the prime ministers hands to betide. She would find herself in extreme difficult circumstances, if there was some arrangements as difficult circumstances, if there was some arrangements as a difficult circumstances, if there was some arrangements as a result of these amendments, the effect of which was to give leveraged to those who want to make it as difficult as possible for her in the negotiations. Why do you think it is right to attach conditions to this simple, short bill which is, simply about triggering the process . simple, short bill which is, simply about triggering the process . I am not thinking we should be attaching any conditions, because it is a short bill anyway. It is about process and not outcomes. If we were talking about outcomes, we would be talking about outcomes, we would be talking about outcomes, we would be talking about all sorts of priorities we might have. What we are talking about is process. It is about giving parliament the ability to comment on and decide upon aspects of the deal as it emerges. And i think it is also important to note, it would be i think, sensible, to have some sort of process to discuss the situation if we dont get a deal. Because we have two yea rs get a deal. Because we have two years and just two years. Now is the time to put down a marker that in about 18 months, or thereabouts, we should have an opportunity to discuss what the actual process is. What if there is no deal . The bottom line on that is, as david davis said yesterday, he has been discussing the whole question, if there is no deal, what the outcome would be in terms of a planned. We had the chairman of the Foreign Affairs select committee yesterday as well, who discuss this. They said if there is no deal, they would hope there is a plan. David davis and the government have made it clear, there isa government have made it clear, there is a plan. One of the problems in relation to negotiations before the referendum, David Cameron and his government, didnt have a plan. It is clear to us, theresa mays government does have a plan. You think so . Will they tell us what the plan is if there isnt a deal . You have to conceive, it is not appropriate to go out and tell people on the other side of the negotiating table, everything you will be doing. It is part of the negotiations. I think basically there will be a good discussion this afternoon. We want to come to the end of this process and get royal assent and get on with it. That is what people outside really want. Thank you both for coming on the programme. Aid agencies are warning that time is running out to save an estimated 20 Million People facing famine in four african countries. It has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in 60 years. This next film contains upsetting images right from the beginning. This baby was four months old when a bbc team met him in december. Hes one of millions in yemen who could be on the verge of starving to death. And its notjust yemen. The un says more than 20 Million People face the threat of starvation and famine in somalia, south sudan, nigeria and yemen. It could be the biggest humanitarian crisis since 1945. In yemen, a child dies every ten minutes from a preventable disease. The red cross says the ongoing conflict in the country is causing a disaster. The same is happening in south sudan. Three years of civil war there have pushed millions to the brink of famine. Conflict fuelled by the extremist militants boko haram in nigeria is also causing an unfolding disaster in the north east of that country. More than seven Million People in nigeria are severely food insecure which means they dont have regular access to anything proper to eat. And in somalia it has only been six years since the last time a famine was declared. Then it was estimated that more than a quarter of a Million People died of starvation. Again civil unrest is the main cause of the crisis in somalia but a lack of water and underdevelopment is being blamed as well, leaving more than 6 million in need of urgent help. Unicef has warned that 1. 4 million children could starve to death this year. It says it needs £3. 5 billion to prevent the disaster and time is running out. 20 Million People potentially starving to death in 2017. Why isnt more being done to help . We can speak to Kevin Watkins, the boss of the save the children and says the International Community is sitting on its hands. We can also speak to people in each of the four countries affected. Shabia mantoo is on the ground for the Un Refugee Council in yemen, a country where its thought a child dies every ten minutes. Challiss mcdonough is with the Uns World Food Programme and is in south sudan. Sadia allin is in somalia for actionaid. Charles works for christian aid. You say there has been warnings, but nothing happened. Why . We have got into the habit of waiting until we see the starving children on our screens before we act on the problem and the 20 million number is a very big number. If and the 20 million number is a very big number. If i can give you one example of a boy behind that number. So last thursday, i was in somalia. I met so last thursday, i was in somalia. Imeta so last thursday, i was in somalia. I met a young lad who had been admitted to one of our emergency feeding clinics. 18 months old. He weighed 12lbs. Thats the average weight of a ten week old baby in the uk. He had extreme diarrhoea. He was on the point of death. His life was saved. And speaking to his mother, a woman called eye sha, you realised the sheer anguish that the statistics dont capture. Ive got two little boys myself and putting yourself in the position of these boys who want to keep their children alive and i believe have a right to expect far more of the International Community than has been on offer so far. We need more resources. We need governments around the world to stop the obstruction of humanitarian aid in countries like yemen and we need to start treating this as the crisis that it really is. Weve got a shrinking window of opportunity over the next month to stop what is already a bad situation becoming a catastrophe. Ok, four weeks, three weeks, to change things . To try and potentially reverse some of this horrific situation . Well, we know from the un figure that is we need at least 4 billion in these countries by june. At least 4 billion in these countries byjune. Now that seems like a huge figure, but there is a lot that we can do. It takes us around 10 per child to identify kids who are malnourished, to get them to our treatment centres, to get them the basic antibiotics that they need, the nutrition that they need so weve launched an appeal to try and tackle the problem. Were aiming to reach 100,000 children over the next few weeks. If the International Community got behind this and the world bank, the uk you can is doing a good job, approximates putting money into the financial pipeline, but others need to step up to the plate. Challiss tell us about the people that you are seeing there who need food . The things that i have seen are, they are unimaginable. It would seem unimaginable ifi are unimaginable. It would seem unimaginable if i hadnt met people who had been through that. So in a village in southern unity. I met a woman who had runaway from her home when fighting had come there and had to runaway and for two months she walked until she reached a village where there was safety because it is surrounded by swamping. Somewhere in the course of the two months she gave birth. She was eight months pregnant when she left and she arrived with a six week old child. So she was carrying a newborn baby through the swamps, trying to get herfamily to through the swamps, trying to get her family to safety. And thats the kind of thing that i have seen like, it is des per operation, one of needing to provide for your family, and to keep them safe and these are things that i think anyone in the world can understand, but it is very hrd to imagine the lengths to which people have to go to meet their childrens most basic needs. If she hadnt been able to reach the village then it would have been desperation and possibly death for her newborn baby, but she could get to some place where help could reach herand the to some place where help could reach her and the important thing now is we can try to get that kind of assistance to people in as many parts of unity state as possible. In yemen, how bad is it there . Well, it is abysmal. We are talking about yemen which is one of the worlds worst crisis and people are facing misery. To describe to you, i met a few days ago a little boy who was actually just 14 years few days ago a little boy who was actuallyjust14 years old. For me, he encapsulated what is happening in yemen in terms of the desperation and the danger. He wasjust a little boy who fled from his home with his family. Inna boy who fled from his home with his family. Inn a country thats affected by conflict. The population have fled. A lot of people have fled to dimp places across yemenment so he was one of them and he fled with his family and now they are living on the street. They have nowhere to go. Nowhere safe. The town is affected by conflict. They fled to another area only to be faced by danger. This little boy has diabetes and now he is malnourished because there is not enough food. 14 Million People in the country dont have enough food and three Million People are national nourished. This boy is one of them. He is displaced and has diabetes and he sits on the street outside his tent. He cant get help from the hospital because 45 of yemens Health Facilities are incapacitated as a result of the conflict. It is abysmal. His parents we re conflict. It is abysmal. His parents were in tears. They dont know what to do and parents like his across the country are having to make really painful decisions about which child to save. Which child to feed with whatever meagre resources they have and for this family, they received emergency assistance, but they need continual assistance and it is not enough. So they were just receiving supplies from the local community, but the situation here, it is abysmal and this story isjust one of 90 million who are in need. Which child to save . Which child to feed . This which child to save . Which child to feed . This is which child to save . Which child to feed . This is extraordinary. Sadia in somalia. Famine was declared there six years agoment how is it happening again . Three consecutive years without rain and 500,000 people in extreme hunger and we are witnessing the sad realities. When you meet people, it is when you realise the death and devastation. I met this woman. She is a widow. She isa met this woman. She is a widow. She is a mother of five children. She lost all her animals. She did not have the energy and the ability to move to search for water. She has been travelling months and months and she didnt eat in days. When actionaid found and assisted her, we should remember in 2011 more than a quarter of million somali lost their lives, but today, we have the chance. We need the International Community to step up so we can scale up community to step up so we can scale up and speed up our response before it is too late. I would like towned in line those affected people have been the greatest contributors to the countrys economy and losing their animals. They lose their pride and dignity. These people have never asked anyone for support, but we have been depending on them for meat, milk and it is in Natural Disaster which is making them so in extreme hunger. Let me cross to nigeria. Describe the situation that you have seen first hand in the north east of the country, charles . Yes, this is charles. So, in nigeria, there were six states affected. Three of them badly. They were badly hit by the insurgency. We talk about two Million People in dire need of food and assistance. The majority of the people in nigeria who have been affected by a crisis, live in communities and that brings a different twist to what you see aco the world. The majority of people live with families who are already impoverished and stretched beyond their limits. Now, with the famine, we already have families who, an average sized family of seven to nine people who are barely able to eat one square meal a day and have another ten people to give an average size of 20 people per family then you know the situation is urgent and desperate. People are looking for a means to eat and to survive. Because of the conflict, typically if it is not well supported which is what the un and ngos are doing in nigeria, it is about survival for the fittest. So we find situations whereby wherever there are food racses there is a scramble because people are desperate for any form of food. Talking to a woman who has 20 people in her home. She is the head of this household, she has to feed them, and she is the oldest, she is the strongest, but she is not able to walk properly because she is weak. Having stayed days without food and without food, it is more of a local meal, more starch and less nutrients and proteins and all of that. It was difficult for her to move around and to compete with the more strong and able bodied people in the scramble for food. This is able bodied people in the scramble forfood. This is really difficult. Im going to leave it there charles. We get the message. Thank you all of you and thank you too to Kevin Watkins the boss of save the children. 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Ahead of it, a lot of dry weather and cloudy and murky conditions, but it will be mild. Tomorrow a windy day across the far north of scotland. Dry further south. Best of the brightness in eastern areas which could lift highs to 18 celsius. This is bbc news and these are the top stories developing at 11 00. Legislation that will clear the way for theresa may to begin formal brexit negotiations faces its final hurdle in parliament today. It comes as Nicola Sturgeon says shell make an important speech in the next hour for her plans ahead of article 50 being triggered. Also this hour, the queen is launching the Commonwealth Games baton relay today at Buckingham Palace. Iamat i am at Buckingham Palace were in the next hour and the queen will officially mark the countdown to the Commonwealth Games next year. The queens basson relay gets underway marking the start of a 380 a day journey to the other side of the world to the hostname nation australia and the gold coast