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Are undergoing electric Shock Treatment in growing numbers. Now known as electroconvulsive therapy, or ect, the controversial treatment is being used on severely autistic children who self harm. The bbc has been given access to film a child being treated using ect. Our worlds chris rogers meets parents who say the treatment is helping their children and the critics who say it is barbaric. A warning that the following programme shows children self harming and undergoing electroconvulsive therapy....

Are undergoing electric Shock Treatment in growing numbers. Now known as electroconvulsive therapy, or ect, the controversial treatment is being used on severely autistic children who self harm. The bbc has been given access to film a child being treated using ect. Our worlds chris rogers meets parents who say the treatment is helping their children and the critics who say it is barbaric. A warning that the following programme shows children self harming and undergoing electroconvulsive therapy....

Welcome to this Special Edition of Talking Movies, where we look back at some of the highlights from this year s cannes film festival. The films that got festival goers talking. If i heard films that got festival goers talking. Ifi heard that films that got festival goers talking. If i heard that a film went to cannes, i was curious about it. Clever satire from sweden called the square, and russian relations in loveless. And some of the pressing issues of the day. Cinema is about life, and right...

Recording this video for us. What i dont understand is why the bbc keeps playing this footage when there is one of these terrorist atrocities. Of the people screaming as it is happening. What is the purpose of it . Our natural Human Reaction if we hear Something Like that, if we hear Somebody Else Suffering and terrified, people being murdered, is to put our hands over our ears. It is dehumanising, weird and intrusive to have to keep listening to this and having it forced upon us. Well, we put s...

Investigation, the bbc has discovered that kenyan women are being abducted and trafficked as sex slaves to al shabaab camps. Anne soy meets women whove managed to escape from the camps, and an al shabaab insider who reveals, for the first time, how Vulnerable Women are captured and imprisoned. This film contains some content viewers may find disturbing. Mombasa, can yous bustling second city. Kenya. It is a magnet for people looking for work. There is a dark side, here. In a backstreet, a room o...

1am in london and 2am in the german city of hamburg, where riot police have clashed with demonstrators as World Leaders gather for the g20 summit of leading economies. Although its not officially started, President Trump has already grabbed the spotlight. Speaking in poland just before the summit, hes said Western Civilization needs to defend itself. And ahead of his meeting with president putin, hes called on russia to stop destabilising other countries. Jon sopel reports from hamburg. The famo...

Thursday in parliament. Our look at the best of the day in the commons and lords. On this programme, the government says is unacceptable that standards in a third of Nursing Homes in england have fallen below safe levels. In some areas it is completely unacceptable that standards in some cities are below those likely expected by early users and their families. Claims that the news media are being too hostile to brexit. I cannot recall a single instance in recent times when i have seen good Econo...

Were on the bruce lee trail in hong kong. He wore this in game of death. Get ready to get behind this taxi. I get a lesson in how to take iconic Instagram Images from an expert. Oh, thats good. With new laptop bans on internationalflights, we look at the gadgets you can still take on board. Leejun fan, better known as bruce lee, may have been born in san francisco, but in the early 1970s, he put both kung fu and hong kong on the map. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting after starring in a succession ...

And the nominations for this Years Mercury prize are announced stormzy, ed sheeran and kate tempest are among the nominees. Good morning. Its thursday 27th july, im ben brown. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The government has asked independent experts to produce a report assessing the costs and benefits of eu migrants, as part of plans to develop a new Immigration System after brexit. The immigration minister, brandon lewis, said it was a simple matter of fact that Free Movement rules would no lo...

To put england on top in the third test at the oval. Plus, a moment of tv history. Casualty celebrates 30 years on air with a special episode filmed in just one take with just one camera. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. Its a fairly mixed picture through the weekend. There are spells of sunshine, but also plenty of blustery showers. Ill bring you the details in about 15 minutes. Look forward to it, sarah, thanks. Good morning, first our main story. Donald trumps Top White House aid has ...