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Tonight at Ten, the race for the American presidency now | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
heading for a showdown between Donald Trump | :00:09. | :00:09. | |
After the biggest electoral test so far, Trump strengthens his | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
position and claims he can now unite the Republican Party. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
People are going to find that a little bit hard to believe. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
An equally strong showing by Hillary Clinton, who's now | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
the clear favourite to take the Democratic nomination. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
The stakes in this election have never been higher. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
And the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
We'll have the latest on the race and the tensions | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
in the Republican Party at the prospect of a Trump nomination. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Mr Johnson, you've never apologise to this 15-year-old girl, will you | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
do it now? The former England footballer | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
Adam Johnson faces a jail sentence after being convicted of sexual | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
activity with a child. The latest from Greece | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
on the migration crisis as the EU plans to offer emergency | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
humanitarian aid. Plans in Scotland to reform council | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
tax with bigger bills for the most And the man who created one | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
of the great British television And coming up in Sportsday on BBC | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
News, we'll have the latest from the Premier League title race | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
with Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
all in action. The race for the American presidency | :01:38. | :02:02. | |
seems to be heading for Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
when the election Both candidates strengthened | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
their positions as favourites, in the major primary contest that | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
took place yesterday On the Republican side Donald Trump | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
took 7 of the 11 states being contested while Ted Cruz won | :02:16. | :02:27. | |
three and Marco Rubio took just one. On the Democratic side | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Hillary Clinton took seven states while her rival Bernie | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Sanders took four. But it's not just a matter | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
of counting states. The winning candidate must secure | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
the support of a number of delegates Clinton needs 2,383 delegates to win | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
the Democratic nomination, Trump needs 1,237 to win | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
the Republican nomination, So let's start with the Republicans | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
and, as our North America editor Jon Sopel explains, | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
a more conciliatory note The next President | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
of the United States. Campaigning in Ohio, | :03:06. | :03:18. | |
he had the air of a man who, whatever the elements might throw | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
at him, was going to prevail. So at his victory party later | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
last night in Florida, Donald Trump hinted, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
with his one-time rival but now supporter Chris Christie standing | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
awkwardly behind him, I know people are going to find that | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
a little hard to believe but believe I think we are going | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
to be more inclusive. I think we are going | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
to be more unified. I think we are going to be | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
able to unify the party. I hope to be able to get | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
along with everybody. On some key policies | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
like immigration he seemed to be dialling | :03:57. | :03:57. | |
back the rhetoric. But it was the Republican party | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
leadership that he was most notably reaching out to, and yes, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
his new favourite word again. I would love to see | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
and when we unify, there's nobody, This has been a toned down, | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
much more conciliatory Donald Trump at his news conference, | :04:15. | :04:27. | |
stressing that he is a unifier of the Republican | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Party, gone were the It's almost as though | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
he's looking beyond this process to when he is | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
the Republican nominee. This man is arithmetically | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
best placed. Senator Ted Cruz won | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
three states last night. To the other anti-Trump candidates | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
he had a simple message, So long as the field | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
remains divided Donald Trump's path to the nomination | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
remains more likely. After Super Tuesday it's | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Wash-up Wednesday, and there are no signs that any of the other main | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
contenders will pull out. Marco Rubio was an early | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
voter here in his home state of Florida | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
which holds its primary He didn't quite say get lost | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
to Ted Cruz but he came close. Last night was supposed | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
to be Ted Cruz's night, we beat him in half | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
the states on the ballot, we won Minnesota, | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
we picked up a lot of delegates and we feel great | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
about what the map looks There's still a long way to go, | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
only a third of states have voted. But so long as the opposition | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
to Trump is divided, then the property mogul | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
looks safe as houses. As we mentioned, Hillary | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
Clinton took seven states in her campaign to become | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
the Democratic presidential nominee. And she used her victory speech not | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
to attack her party rival Bernie Sanders, but to focus | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
on the man who's increasingly likely to become her Republican | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
opponent in November, Donald Trump, as our North America | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
correspondent Nick Bryant reports. Super Tuesday, where the length | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
of the queue at your victory rally And it wasn't long before | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
the supporters of Hillary Clinton celebrated thumping | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
wins in big states. That when the contest moved | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
to the American South, into states with large | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
minority populations, She is sounding already | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
like the presumptive nominee, and in a year of rage, | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
chose healing words. I believe what we need in America | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
today is more love and kindness. So her speech took a knock | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
at her Democratic rival, The rhetoric we are hearing | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
on the other side has Trying to divide America | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
between us and them is wrong, Hillary Clinton clearly believes | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
she's seen off the challenge from Bernie Sanders, | :07:07. | :07:22. | |
and that the candidate standing between her and her | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
dream of becoming America's first female | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
president is Donald Trump. From Bernie Sanders, | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
not quite a swansong, But to Hillary Clinton he's now more | :07:35. | :07:35. | |
of an irritant than a threat. Parts of his speech last night | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
sounded like he was composing This campaign is not just | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
about electing a president, it is about making | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
a political revolution. But Hillary Clinton still | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
has treacherous waters From visitors at this alligator park | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
close to her victory rally, reminders of the pool | :08:03. | :08:17. | |
of resentment against her that feels She's lied to the people | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
over and over and You've got a trust | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
problem with Hillary Well I can tell you I'm not | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
going to vote for her. So Super Tuesday has | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
potentially set up an electoral blockbuster | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
with the most outlandish of scripts. The real-life | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
anti-politician against the consummate insider, | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
the Donald against the Hillary. Our North America editor | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Jon Sopel is in Palm Beach, Libby Clinton seems very confident | :08:51. | :09:04. | |
of her nomination, but do you think Donald Trump can be equally | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
confident? If you simply concentrated on the maths you would | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
say Donald Trump's path is difficult. We totted up the total | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
number of votes received, 10 million have voted, only a third have gone | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
to Donald Trump. So there is an anti-Donald Trump majority. And all | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
you need to do is get the other candidates out of the way and have | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
one person fighting him and Donald Trump should be beaten. But the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
politics of that is so much more compensated because Ted Cruz isn't | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
going to step down from Marco Rubio and vice versa. So all the time you | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
have more than three or four candidates in the fight and one | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
person standing tall, Donald Trump, then Donald Trump wins, which is the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
nightmare scenario for the Republican establishment. Because | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
they are not buying this Donald Trump the new, more only into | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Republican. They believe he is divisive and polarising, and come | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
election day Hillary Clinton would win. It does look like, as Nick | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Bryant was saying, it is going to be Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump, | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
and who would have imagined that scenario a year ago? Thank you. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
The former England and Sunderland footballer | :10:15. | :10:15. | |
Adam Johnson has been found guilty of sexual activity | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
A jury at Bradford Crown Court found him not guilty | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Before the trial he'd admitted a third charge | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
of sexual activity with the 15 year-old girl, | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
The judge has warned he's facing a 'significant custodial sentence', | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
as our correspondent Ed Thomas reports. | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
He was a ?10 million England footballer. And in his own words, | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
Adam Johnson said he was a rich, arrogant man. Things came easy, he | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
said. And one night, driven by boredom, he was alone with a | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
15-year-old girl. He met the child here at a car park. Sunderland | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
fanatic, she idolised Johnson. Inside his range Rover, to prove | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
she'd met her hero, she recorded their meeting. | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
Innocent football talk. What came next was the abuse of a child. The | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
jury heard it was classic grooming. Adam Johnson knew she adored him. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Outside court his victim after police to tell her story. What | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
happened in his car has turned my life upside down. I lost all of my | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
confidence and my schoolwork suffered. I now feel used and let | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
down by him. It's been the hardest year of my life. I've had to face so | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
much abuse after he claimed his innocence and I was made out to be a | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
liar. Adam Johnson sent hundreds of messages to the schoolgirl. After | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
handing over a signed shirt, he texted:. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
He then told her to delete the messages. So what did his employers | :12:07. | :12:20. | |
know? The court heard he met the club in May last year and admitted | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
kissing the child, but still he was allowed to play. So week after week | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
the footballer walked out to represent Sunderland, and despite | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
the private confessions, in public, to fans, Johnson denied the abuse. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
The court was told every time Adam Johnson went on to this pitch, the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
15-year-old girl suffered excruciating pain. For a year she | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
was called a liar. And at one point she broke down and told her father | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
she wanted to die. Some supporters feel cheated. Because at first he'd | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
done nothing wrong and then he lies to his fans and everybody. Would you | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
have supported him if you'd have known what he did? No, definitely | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
not. Would you have wanted him on your pitch? No. Mr Johnson, you | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
never apologised to this 15-year-old girl, will you do it now? There were | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
no apologies from Adam Johnson outside court or insight. The | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
millionaire footballer who thought he could do what he wanted. This | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
case has exposed a darker side to the national game because there was | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
an intense focus in court on what Sunderland football club new or did | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
not know. We've had a detailed statement from the club tonight, in | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
it it says if they had known Adam Johnson was going to plead guilty to | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
any of the charges they would have sacked him on the spot. As far Adam | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Johnson he left court today with a warning from the judge. Go home, say | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
goodbye to your daughter, because when you return to be sentenced | :13:59. | :13:59. | |
you'll be going to jail. In a clear sign of growing concern | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
about the migration crisis, the European Commission has | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
announced unprecedented plans to spend emergency humanitarian aid | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
inside the European Union The package will make ?540 million | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
available over the next three years. The money can be spent | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
on tents and other shelter, food, medical aid and | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
other basic services. The number of migrants entering | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
Greece continues to rise, more than 110,000 arrived | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
during January and February. One of the main pressure points | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
is the border with Macedonia, from where our correspondent | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Danny Savage reports. In northern Greece, tented villages | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
have sprung up on military sites. Hastily built, this is the emergency | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
plan to house migrants. They feel these sites | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
are a dead-end. So as soon as they get | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
off the buses they This family from Syria | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
tell me why they A tent isn't much of a life, | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
you can't stay in a tent The camp give us everything | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
like food and shelter but we didn't come here and we didn't walk | :15:10. | :15:19. | |
through the sea to just We have the right in | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
humanity to live a life like | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
everybody does. But here a taxi driver | :15:27. | :15:27. | |
is never far-away. A mass of humanity | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
gathered in tiny tents, living in hope that one day soon | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
they might get out of here. The gate they will | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
have to pass through But at the present rate, | :15:47. | :15:47. | |
it would take about two So with people piling up in Greece, | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
the EU has today announced its going to spend a lot more money | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
on trying to tackle this issue. It's set to spend up | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
to 700 million euros on things like food, | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
tents and medical aid. Much of the money will go | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
directly to aid agencies, helpful, but it's not | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
a long-term solution. What is really to be | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
done is to have a common policy, European policy, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
how to manage these people who flee wars and persecution, | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
and want to seek asylum and to request | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
some protection. As the politicians argue | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
about the long-term solution to this It's a volatile atmosphere, | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
but this is right at the front More money may be coming | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
to see off a humanitarian crisis, but what these people really | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
want is to pass through this portal Our Europe editor, | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
Katya Adler, is in Brussels. What is new about this money, in the | :16:52. | :17:08. | |
form of it? Well, this new fund is Huw is about speed. The EU offers | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Greece some support over the migrant crisis. Accessing that cash is a | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
longed and bureaucratic process. Time is of the essence. Well over a | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
million refugees and others came to Europe last year. Now 25,000 | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
migrants are stranded in Greece with more people arriving every day. With | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
looming humanitarian crisis here at home, what the EU want to do is | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
mimick the way it distributes aid in disaster zones around the world. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Once the fund is approved by all EU countries, most of the cash will be | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
channel through the UN and other agencies on the ground. Bosses here | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
in Brussels readily admit this is just a sticking plaster to solve the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
migrant crisis they say it needs to be tackled a at its roots in the | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Middle East. In the meantime a deal has to be made with Turkey. That is | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
where most asylum seekers andened others are jumping upon the dinghies | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
to make their way to Europe. There is an EU-Turkey meeting in Brussels | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
on Monday. Turkey's ambassador to the EU told the BBC it can't be up | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
to Turkey, an outsider, to solve the EU's problems. To work together | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
effective as a whole the EU's 28 countries need to put aside their | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
differences over the migrant crisis, but those differences, Huw, are | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
gaping. OK, Katya, thanks very much once again for the update there in | :18:30. | :18:30. | |
Brussels. Katya Adler. Any attempt to negotiate | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
a new trading relationship with EU countries, if the United Kingdom | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
left the European Union, would not be quick or | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
straightforward, according It's published a new assessment | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
of the dangers it says the UK will face if it votes to leave | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
in the referendum in June. But the Leave campaign says | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
the document is "dodgy" Our deputy political editor, | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
James Landale, reports. It's 8.00am on Friday, | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
24th June, the headlines. The United Kingdom has voted | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
to leave the European Union. What if this is the news we wake up | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
to after the referendum in June what might it mean | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
for Britain's economy? Today, the Foreign Secretary set out | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
a series of possible answers, options that he claimed would all | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
cost jobs and push up prices. None of the options that | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
are remotely likely to be deliverable comes close to matching | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
the deal that we already have So why would we take a leap | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
in the dark? Why would we risk the affect | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
of years of uncertainty In its dossier, the Government set | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
out possible alternatives If Britain copied Norway, | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
it would get significant access to the EU's single market, | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
but no say over the rules. It would also have to pay | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
into the EU's budget and accept the free movement of EU | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
citizens across its borders. If Britain copied Canada, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
it would get a free trade agreement with the EU, avoiding red tape | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
and demands for cash, but there'd be less access to EU | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
markets and it could take years Or the UK could just fall back | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
on basic rules laid down with no obligations to the EU, | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
but potentially accepting tariffs Downing Street have published this | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
document to try to focus attention on what it sees as the uncertainty | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
involved in leaving the EU and to try to force its opponents | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
to talk about something But ministers campaigning to leave | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
the EU say this was just another dodgy dossier, scaremongering | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
that would fool nobody. Back in the 1990s, David Cameron | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
worked for Norman Lamont Today the former Chancellor, | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
said his one time prodigy had got wrong and Britain should | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
leave the EU. Why won't the Leave campaign spell | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
out precisely what Brexit will mean to the British economy | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
and its trading relations Obviously, you can't spell out every | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
single detail of which sectors will be affected in each way, | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
but Britain will get and needs, in the event of Brexit, | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
a special trade arrangement giving full tariff-free access | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
to the single market. That is easily negotiatable, | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
for this reason. The EU needs access to us every bit | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
as much as we need access to them. So both sides here at Westminster | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
are trying to predict what life might be like outside the EU, | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
but they're very different visions James Landale, BBC News, | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Westminster. BMW, the German motor manufacturer, | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
has sent an email to workers at its subsidiary Rolls Royce cars | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
in the UK spelling out the risks for them if the UK left | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
the European Union. Our business editor, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Simon Jack, is here. Why do you think it's significant? | :22:01. | :22:14. | |
It's how they have chosen to be say it and to whom. A direct internal | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
email to employees. It starts as follows: | :22:26. | :22:41. | |
It goes on to say, this is the punch line: Company managers have already | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
endorsed one campaign or the other or signed letters to newspapers. The | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
question is whether this direct form of communication to employees, | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
referencing job security, is appropriate. The vote Leave campaign | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
who I shared it with said it's not. They called it scaremongering. They | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
called it intimidation. This exchange, you may remember from the | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Scottish referendum came late in that process. Controversially, it | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
looks like we are three-and-a-half months to go this exchange has come | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
early to this one. Simon thank you very much. Simon Jack there for us. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
A man has been found guilty of raping five women and attacking | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
two others after meeting them on the internet dating site, | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Jason Lawrance, from Liphook in Hampshire, was described | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
He used two profiles on the website to meet seven women. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Offering the meningitis B vaccine to all children is "not cost | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
effective" and would be a waste of NHS money, | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
It's offered to children in their first year of life, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
but more than 800,000 people signed a petition for it to be given | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to impose | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
They are in response to its latest nuclear test in January. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
The measures were drawn up following an agreement | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
between the US and China, which is North Korea's main ally. | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, has announced plans | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
to reform council tax if the SNP holds on to power | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
People living in more expensive homes would face higher charges | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
and the nine-year council tax freeze would come to an end. | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
But the party's critics have accused the SNP of shying away from genuine | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
reform of local government finance as our Scotland editor, | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
I've never seen a cooker quite as crowded as this one. | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
A lesson in home economics today for the First Minister, | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, at a school near Edinburgh. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
As she announced a council tax revamp that will see some people's | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
The money raised, ?100 million, she says, will go to education. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
It's part of what is a balanced approach. | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
Asking people at the top to pay a bit more, helping reduce | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
the burden on those at the buttom, but also making sure | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
that we generate additional revenue and ensuring that additional revenue | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
At present, people in the most expensive homes in Scotland pay just | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
three times what's charged on the least valuable properties, | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
Under the SNP's plans, households in the top four council | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
tax bands will pay more from next April. | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
Increases of between ?105 a year, up to over ?500. | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
Councils will also be able to raise taxes across the board | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Parents at this playgroup, in one of the more affluent parts | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
of Edinburgh, will find their bills will rise because properties | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
in the Scottish capital are among some of the most expensive | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
From next year, around a quarter of Scottish households will find | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
they are paying more in council tax. | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
That's a lot of money to find and I think that will put a lot | :25:57. | :26:08. | |
I work part-time, so I suppose that's quite a big ask, | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
to find a wee bit of extra money there for that. | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
But it depends what we're going to get for our money. | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
It might be quite difficult to find the money for that but, | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
at the end of the day, everybody's kind of got | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
This is a clear signal from the SNP that, if they win the Scottish | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
elections in May, better off Scots are going to have to start paying | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
more and it's not just the council tax increase, | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
they're also likely to say that they'd put up the top rate of income | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Local authorities have clashed with the Scottish Government | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
because they've not been allowed to raise the council tax | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
They will now get more money next year, but they don't think the plans | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
I'm really surprised that there's so little being announced, | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
from the point of view of just adjusting the bands, | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
it looks very much to me tinkering around the edges. | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
The SNP had promised a more radical rethink of local taxes, | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
but those plans have now been shelved. | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
The tax landscape in Scotland is changing, gradually. | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
Tony Warren, the man who created Coronation Street, | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
one of the world's must successful television series, | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
He was in his early 20s when he created the drama, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
which went on to be become something of a national institution. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, looks back at his life | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
She'd never been short of a man in their house since | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
As fast as you can before I really get my rag out. | :27:38. | :27:53. | |
Elsie Tanner and Mrs Sharples going at it hammer and tongs. | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
Tony Warren made a drama out of every day life that gave women a | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
starring role. I write better for actresses than act ors. . I did | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
then. I'm gay. I had bad experience of straight people at school. So I | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
didn't have too high an opinion of them. So I wrote about women, | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
because I found women easier to understand. The show was | :28:17. | :28:25. | |
commissioned for a quick six week burst in 1960. It was a hit and is | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
the longest-running soap opera in the world. I feel just a little | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
giddy. It's inspiration was the going on in the terrace houses of | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Tony Warren's beloved Manchester. This is Coronation Street, the | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
physical realisation of Tony Warren's imagination. Of course | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
behind me is the legendary Rovers Return the characters meet up in the | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
evening for a drink and a chat. It was his life. He loved every aspect | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
of it. I think he did say that Coronation Street was his family. | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
Well, today we've lost the father of our family. Tony Warren also wrote | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
novels and other TV series. It's for his pioneering work with Coronation | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
Street that he's likely to be remembered. Without Tony Warren you | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
certainly wouldn't have had a Coronation Street a Kcossroads, | :29:24. | :29:31. | |
Emmerdale or EastEnders. He broke the mould. He wrote for real people | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
hechl knew that the public, once they started to see them, would fall | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
in love with them. Tony Warren never left Coronation Street hechl was | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
always there, offering advice, making suggestions, keeping things | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
real. It was his show. It always will be his show. | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
Tributes there to Tony Warren, the creator of Coronation Street, who | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
has died. The US astronaut, Scott Kelly, | :29:57. | :30:05. | |
has returned to Earth after spending almost a year on board | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
the International Space Station. He, along with Russian | :30:09. | :30:10. | |
Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, spent 340 days in space - | :30:11. | :30:11. | |
twice the length of a normal stay He's been reflecting | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
on his experience. Scott Kelly, back on Mother Earth, | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
after 340 days in space. I would like to relinquish command | :30:20. | :30:32. | |
of the International Space Station to my friend and colleague | :30:33. | :30:35. | |
here, Tim Kopra. You know it's somewhat | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
of a harsh environment. You know, you never | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
feel perfectly normal. You know, it's kind of like I've | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
been in the woods camping You know, the space station | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
here is a magical place. We've been following your Instagram | :30:50. | :31:11. | |
feed down here, it is spectacular. I could go another | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
year, if I had to. Scott Kelly, the US astronaut, | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
back on Earth after 340 Tonight on Newsnight, | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
we're live with the aftershocks of Super Tuesday from | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
Capitol Hill in Washington. Join me and guests live now | :31:42. | :31:43. | |
on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time | :31:44. | :31:51. | |
for the news where you are. | :31:52. | :31:55. |