Hello this is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines tyson fury produces the best performance of his boxing life against Deontay Wilder to become the new wbc italys government imposes strict quarantine restrictions in two northern regions close to milan and venice which have been declared hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak. The government defends its response to the flooding across the country as the Prime Minister defies calls to visit affected areas. Senator Bernie Sanders wins the nevada caucuses, cementing his status as the Democratic Front runner for novembers us president ial election. And a series of events is unveiled to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ve day, which marked the end of the Second World War in europe. Now, its time for inside out east. Hello and welcome to inside out. We talk to the women left debilitated by surgical mesh implants. I know that ill never get my life back that i had before. Never. The open University Leading the way with space travel. We can support long term Space Exploration missions and perhaps use the moon as a sort of pit stop for missions on the way to mars. And a chef taking on a world record breaking challenge. And its a bit spicy. The stories that matter closer to home. Thats tonights inside out. Welcome to the programme. Now, in the next few weeks, an independent review will be published into the Health Problems suffered by some women whove had mesh implants after childbirth. At the moment, this routine surgery has been temporarily suspended. Well, julie ranger talks to some of the women whove had major Health Problems as a consequence of this surgery. Mesh has completely ruined my life, completely ruined my life. More than 100,000 women have had surgery to treat problems affecting their bladder. 0ften after childbirth. The surgery involves a plastic mesh, which looks a bit like a net fruit bag. And while the surgery can be successful, others arent so lucky and have been left with chronic pain. Lisa woodrow from norfolk used to be a sales and marketing executive, and at the peak of her career she had surgery, which at the time she thought was the best solution
to her condition after giving birth. But it turned out to be the worst decision shes ever made in her life. I had it implanted in 2012 after having two bad births with my children. Id started to suffer a slight incontinence and then when i went to get that investigated, found out id got prolapse. And the surgeon suggested that i have this operation to cure this. I mean, i was told at the time this was the gold standard. So once the mesh was in, what complications did you get and when did they start . They started immediately after id had it, got this niggling pain and i was struggling sitting properly. As a joke at that point. I couldnt walk without shaking. No, i couldnt. From there, we jump forward to may 2015 and i ended up coming out of hospital in a wheelchair. She is now taking 19 tablets every dayjust to stem the pain. Were you on any of these before you had the mesh . No, i wasnt. They are mainly painkilling drugs. But i do now obviously have an antidepressant. Lisa is not the only person whose life is now ruined. Natalie from norfolk has been suffering for 11 years after having the mesh implant. She ran successful hairdressing businesses and even won a National Award for being an entrepreneur. These are some scans i had done privately to see what was going on with my mesh. I think quite a few of us ladies have had these done and you can just see theres a piece here showing up on the scan, in the pelvic area. So you say a piece . Yeah. Is it no longer in one . No, it seems to be broken up. And then these again can attach to any organ or cut through any organ as well. But one of them that is still actually just about intact, but its actually twisting, which is whats causing the pain a lot in my groin. And that could snap at any time. This is what happened to natalie and thousands of women like her. Ive suffered really bad groin pains. 0bviously now at the moment, its affected my hip. Continuously still wetting myself. I now have to use a catheter which is painful. Her problems are so severe she wants it gone. She is one of hundreds who are opting for surgery. I just want it out. If i have to have a bag, so be it. You know, im 52. Its not what i want. But if it cures me and im free from as much pain as possible and knowing im not in any danger with this mesh inside me,
i just want it done. In 2018, as a response to mounting concerns about these implants, the government suspended all surgery. Separately to this, an independent review has been carried out and its remit is to make a real difference, leading to positive changes that will reduce the risk of tragic events in the future. But its not yet known if the government will act on its findings and even so, for some likely sir, they dont have much faith in the review. If im honest, im not optimistic. I feel with the review, its gone on far too long. Im not convinced 100 the government are behind us. If it is banned forever, then piper perceives may offer a solution to some women. In the meantime, lisa, whos had the mesh removed,
has noticed some improvements but shes still nowhere near to having her old life back. Im disabled basically. I use my stick for getting around the house generally. I have days where my pain levels, if i cant cope, i spend in bed. My partner couldnt cope, so i lost my relationship. I lost my house and i lost myjob. As for natalie, shes still waiting for her operation. Shes told inside out that her condition has worsened and she may have to use a wheelchair. Never. They took from me, and lots of us as well. I just want it all back. There are currently more than 800
women taking legal action against the nhs and the makers of vaginal mesh implants. And those carrying out the independent review say they own it to those affected not to rush things and to get the recommendations in their report right, and we should have that out by the end of march. If there is something you think we should be looking into, you can get in touch with me, im on twitter, or you can send me an e mail youre watching inside out for the east of england, here on bbc one. Coming up a huge amount of ingredients going into a very tasty world record breaking attempt. If we want to send humans further into space, weve got to find out ways of how theyre going to live off the land when they get there. Well, believe it or not, moon dust could be a vital source of drinking water, rocket fuel and bricks to build homes. One of the places leading the way in finding out how is the open university in Milton Keynes. Heres our science correspondent, richard westcott. All right, roger, reading you loud and clear. One of the first things Neil Armstrong did after stepping onto the moon was collect some soil from next to the lunar lander. As you get close to it, its almost like a powder. 50 years later, here it is at the open university in Milton Keynes. So thats quite a piece of history, isnt it . Dont drop it. We have to account for every milligram and record it, but then we have to send it back because nasa need to make sure that all of their samples are accounted for because they cant be sold. These are priceless samples. In fact, the ou has been testing apollo moon rock for decades. Incredible as it sounds in their latest experiment, phd student Hannah Sargent is turning lunar dust into water. To show us how, shes using nasas replica soil because the real stuff is so precious. In five years time, thanks to a collaboration between the European Space agency and the russians, her experiment could be happening at the south pole of the moon. Its one of the coldest places in our solar system. Theyll be heating moon rocks to five times the temperature of your oven so the oxygen inside reacts with hydrogen theyve brought along, making h20. Why do you want to make water out of moon rock . Water is one of the most Critical Resources we need for Space Exploration, not just for the life support needs of humans, but also to make rocket fuel, hydrogen and oxygen. It is propellant. So if we can produce that on the surface of the moon, we can support long term Space Exploration missions and produce the rocket propellant. We need to perhaps use the moon as a sort of pit stop for missions on the way to mars. If were honest, a lot of people would be surprised the open university is doing this kind of work with Lunar Missions and nasa and the European Space agency and so on. Yes, the open university actually has a really long heritage of working in Space Exploration. Ijust dont think its as well known. Elsewhere on the campus, an unusual sight. Scientists pushing a moon rover down the road. Slow over the speed bump. This is love me, a prototype of a lightweight, relatively low cost rover that could one day be driving around the lunar poles, although for now theyre having to improvise a bit. The ou isnt making the rover,
but dr Simon Sheridan and his team are building a key piece of equipment on board. Put simply, it sniffs gases to find water. And its called a mass spectrometer. Heres how it works. First, a drill goes 10 20cm into the ground. Its like an upside down coffee cup with some nasty teeth on the bottom. And then when its embedded, theres a central heat rod, which we turn up. And that sort of puts a thermal heat wave for about 4 500 degrees centigrade into the into the regulator. And any water thats in ice form without volatiles. And it will go up the spout into the mass spectrometer, which is this thing on the top here. For years, scientists lost interest in the moon, assuming it was a barren ball of rock. Then around a decade ago, something very exciting happened. Nasa shot a disused rocket stage at 5,500 miles an hour into a dark crater at the lunar south pole, a place the sun never shines. Amongst the debris spewed out was water ice, crystals stored in a deep freeze, possibly leftover from when the moon formed or dumped there by comets or asteroids. We know there is water on the moon, so all the evidence is pointing there could be quite a lot. We have returned samples. We have meteorites and they all show they contain water. And from orbital data, theres a lot of areas that are showing evidence of water as well. We just dont know how much there is there. So it could be a very, very thin layer of water ice or it could be a big, big depth of it. So an instrument like the mass spectrometer on the drill on the rover would actually quantify how much is actually there. Modern Space Science is so tricky and so pricey it relies on collaboration. Which is why ive made the trip from Milton Keynes to cologne in germany, where the European Space agency tests its astronauts and entertains big kids who are visiting. Sadly, i am not training to be an astronaut, but if i was, this is where i would do it. Its an exact replica of the european lab thats currently orbiting the earth on the International Space station. And this is where the astronauts go to bed. At night. Ina nearby lab, another 0u scientist, professor mahesh annand, is catching up with german colleagues because theyre working on the same problem how to build houses on the moon. So what you see here is the lunar simulant we are using for our experiments and we are putting that
inside of the solar oven. We come with the solar beam and we go over that layer by layer, line by line. Then we put another layer on top of it. And the end result of that is a brick similar to this one. Its quite a specialist conversation. Do we really think that the vesicles that are forming is because of the release of volatiles within the minerals that form it . Weve seen an experiment to turn lunar soil into water. This experiment turns the soil into bricks. Its like a giant version of something kids have done for years. They use enormous mirrors to focus the sun into a powerful beam. Sunlight is in plentiful supply across large parts of the moon because, unlike germany, there are no clouds to get in the way. Luckily, its not sunny today, otherwise wed be frying. But you can imagine the sun beaming onto those mirrors there, onto these mirrors here, and then up onto that mirror. Getting super hot super quickly. Exactly. And then these mirrors are doing a phenomenaljob of concentrating that solar power, solar energy to an extent that actually they confuse that simulated moon dust within a fraction of seconds to maybe a few minutes where temperatures can reach in excess of a thousand degrees centigrade. The sun beams only the width of a coin. Its fusing the moon dust together. They then use the material to 3d print bricks. So this is what its all about. This could be basically a moon break for a building on the moon. Exactly. This is it. The point is to demonstrate that actually you can use the concentrated solar energy to fuse simulated moon dust into something solid, which could then be used to kind of make a brick in a layer by layer pattern. Mahesh and his team are looking at using microwave power for the same job to work in areas of the moon that never see the sun. Depending upon the location, exact location on the moon, it may be that actually solar energy might be more useful than a microwave or vice versa. And this is the neat thing about doing internationally Collaborative Research that you make progress in no time. The key to future space travel is learning how to live off the land, turning seemingly barren dust into water, oxygen, rocket fuel and houses. So the moon becomes a Filling Station for trips to mars. You might have thought the open university was just people doing degrees from their bedroom. But when humans are finally living on other worlds, itll be 0u scientists that helped get them there. So from a challenge in space to a very different type of challenge in the kitchen its taken years to get this together. And now a chef whos based in stevenage is preparing a dish of Epic Proportions or should that be portions . East london on a cold winters morning. This is the London Muslim Center. And just for today, the venue of a very special challenge. In just a few hours time, this could be the place that boasts a new world record. For this world record breaking attempt, there is going to be a serious amount of ingredients. Five kilograms of coriander, six kilograms of garlic. And get this 190 kilograms of onions. There wont be a dry eye in the house. Because in here, a rather handy chef is going to attempt to make an onion bhaji of Epic Proportions. Inside the stage, rather, kitchen is set. Before the chef and his team arrive, theres an advance party from luton
getting the giant fryer with ample oil to boot ready. Russell khan is overseeing the installation. Russell, this rig here with the basket on which is where the barge is going to go ahead, is that something you used to take an engine out of a car . Well, similar. Yeah, yes, similar. Lift something heavy. Lets say you guys are doing what you say is safe. Is it safe . It is safe, yes. I mean, weve got everything in place. Weve got the fire extinguishers there. Blankets there, extraction here. So were good to go, really, yeah. While the gas burners are tested, the cooking team arrive and start unloading the huge amount of ingredients, and they werent kidding about the onions. These are just some of them here, 190 kilograms of onions. That is incredible. I would like to give you guys a hand. And the master chef trying to break the world record is 0llie khan. Ive been working in this project for the last four, five years, and although i did attempt in 2017, i failed and the reason was, like, i said it was just undercooked by about 15 minutes. But this time im going to make sure its thoroughly cooked. And also the Current Record is 102kg so i hope im planning to do between 150 200kg. Up to 200kg . One size onion bhaji, the Worlds Largest. And that will be one not just tending by. Cooking is 0lis life. He has his own restaurant in stevenage. And, well, ill do the bragging for him, has a whole host of awards for making some pretty good curry. Oh is the vice chair
of the bangladesh caterers association. He also hosts cookery events, teaching others his culinary secrets. Youve always done cooking. How did you get into cooking . Well, cooking, basically, my father, my uncle, theres a chain of restaurants. When i came to this country in 1989, my father told me that, like, learn how to cook enough. Then you will be like a good chef, rather than starting in the front of the house. So i started my career working in the kitchen and my father helped me. And then from there i started. I opened my first curry house at the age of 17 and a half, so thats my life. You know. There are a lot of onions to get through. 0li has his teeth chopping as fast as they can and keeping a close eye on proceedings is paulina, a Guinness World record official adjudicator. She will be overseeing the record breaking attempt to make sure 0li follows the rules. To break the Current Record, he needs to break 102. 2 kilograms. So that record is currently held in bradford. So that hasnt been broken since 2011. Once the onions are chopped and in their mixing buckets, 0li takes charge of adding the flavors. When hes happy with the consistency of the mixture, its finally time to build the bhaji. The massive fryer is now up to the right temperature, 200 degrees celsius. The winches crank down rapidly. The fat bubbles and spits as this beast of a feast is submerged. Fergal mullen is a food hygienist and on hand to check the bhaji is cooked properly. Have you ever done anything like this before . I can honestly say i have not. I have been in Environmental Health probably nearly 1a years and this is a very unique event. Ive never been involved in anything like this before. So youve got to make sure the middle is cooked. What do you use for that. So i have to a probe thermometer which is calibrated. So well stick the thermometer in the middle. Once the cooking process is finished. Just to make sure thats 75 degrees and above. Good to go. And then that would that would be a pass as far as youre concerned . Yes, absolutely. After an hour and a half in the fryer, it looks like its ready. 0k. The moment of truth, they said its
the right temperature. The giant onion bhaji is coming out the vat. It smells amazing as well. Turn off the gas, please everyone out. Only four people. Anticipation builds as it is weighed. Could it be a new world record . It gives me great pleasure to be here for the record attempt of the largest onion bhaji attempted by oh khan and surma, take away steve nage. Im happy to announce that this is a new Guinness World record. Cheering and applause. The total weight is 175. 7kg. Cheering and applause. Which means its a new Guinness World record title. Congratulations
cheering and applause. A categoric record breaking win. I mean, you must feel amazing. Yes, im thrilled, im over the moon. It would not be possible without the team. As you can see, my teams working with me and we are representing the united kingdom. This is the record for the whole world, a lot of restaurants are closing because of this staff, so theres a lot of the things. So i think that record will also help the industry to rebuild. It will be the talk of the town for the next couple of months. Talk of the town, the talk of the world the rules also state it all has to be eaten, so it was shared amongst everyone at the London Muslim Center and the homeless. Its not only the Worlds Largest bhaji, its pretty darn tasty as well. One of the best ive tasted, and ive tasted a lot. And if thats the size of the starter, imagine what the main course is like well, thats it for this week. Catch up with any the programme if you missed it on the iplayer. Ill see you next week. Take care. Bye bye. A bit of everything on the weather menu today. The Weather Forecast suggests a lot of unsettled weather. Nothing new, wind and rain, but also some show, nothing new, wind and rain, but also some snow, especially tonight and tomorrow across northern parts of the uk. You might want to listen to that message because there might be some wintry weather, heavy snow across parts of scotland. The satellite picture shows this ribbon of cloud stretching across the atlantic. It is heading in our direction and low pressure is forming along it so heavy rain and wind gathering. But we are in between weather systems today, which means for many the weather will be decent and some sunshine on the way. Still cloud across the south, little bit of rain but the vast majority of the country at lunchtime enjoying some bright and even sunny weather. Best of the sunshine the further north and east you are. However, in some Western Areas there will be showers. The cloud in the south will remain cloudy, particularly across the southern counties and the
south west. This evening, the wind will freshen in from the south west. That will bring milder air to the south, but in the north it will remain cold. With that we have low pressure moving in and that weather front is going to bump into the cold air across the north. It should snow through the night in some parts of Northern England and possibly Northern Ireland and certainly parts of scotland. It could coincide with the rush hour and there could be disruption. So for glasgow and edinburgh, we are anticipating a bit of snow and a good covering across the hills. The winds will be strong so no doubt with this High Pressure hanging around there will be strong winds combining with the snow leading to blizzards. But that is mostly across the mountains. The forecast for tomorrow afternoon shows brighter weather eventually across southern shows brighter weather eventually across southern areas shows brighter weather eventually across southern areas in the afternoon, but also wet weather in the south. It will be too mild in the south. It will be too mild in the south. It will be too mild in the south for any snow at the wintry weather will be confined to scotland through the course of monday afternoon and monday evening as
well. It does look as though we will get into the slightly colder air as we head into tuesday, so the temperatures will drop just a tad. Across the north there will be four or5 across the north there will be four or 5 degrees and single figures in the south and they will be showers, some will be wintry and there could be hail showers and possibly thundershowers. Later in the week it looks like things will calm down a bit and it is back into wind and rain again. So hence the word, u nsettled rain again. So hence the word, unsettled weather. This is bbc news, im ben brown. The headlines at 11. Tyson fury produces the best performance of his boxing life against Deontay Wilder to become the new wbc heavyweight world champion. When i came here, they said that i cant punch. Deontay wilder said himself that ive got two pillow fists. But, you know, not bad for an old, fat guy who cant punch. Italy imposes strict quarantine restrictions in two regions declared as hotspots, in the biggest coronavirus outbreak in europe. The government defends its response to the flooding across the country, as the Prime Minister defies calls to visit affected areas. Bernie sanders cements his status as the Democratic Frontrunner to take on donald trump in novembers us president ial election. And in half an hour, dateline london discusses britains