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All state schools in England will become academies. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The plans will be announced in tomorrow's Budget. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The Chancellor, George Osborne, will insist that the plans deliver | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
greater freedom to decide on the curriculum and admissions | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
There are certain freedoms around curriculum, around the way you use | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
an academy that you don't have with a local authority school. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
But the move will end the long-standing role of local | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
authorities in providing education and Labour says it's a distraction. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
This feels like it's a press ahead with an agenda that there is very | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
little evidence for, to hide from some of the really | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
We'll have more details of the academies plan and we'll be | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
looking at what else is likely in the Budget. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
A major security operation in Brussels - one suspect is dead. | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
The investigation is linked to last year's attacks in Paris. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
A welcome home for Russian fighter pilots, among the first to be | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
withdrawn from Syria by President Putin. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
A special report from central Africa on the urgent need for action | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
to save the elephant from poachers and traffickers. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
There are another four of these carcasses spread all around | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers who were long gone. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
And from dismay to despair, the champion player beaten | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
by a computer and what it says about the future | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News, | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
find out if Manchester City have reached the Champions League | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
quarterfinals despite an early injury to their captain, | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
There's to be a radical shift in the way state schools | :01:39. | :02:06. | |
The plans will be announced by the Chancellor | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Ministers want to force all schools in England to become academies, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
making them independent of local authority control. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Schools would have to convert by 2022. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
them greater freedom to decide their curriculum, | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has more details. | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
It is the school revolution that began under Labour. Failing schools | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
closed under the council, reopened as academies. As Education | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Secretary, Michael Gove gave cash to more schools to convert. Now a | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Conservative government wants to finish the journey, ending more than | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
100 years of English councils running local schools. My next | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
ambition is this, 500 new free schools, every school in academy, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
and yes, local authorities running schools a thing of the past. Academy | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
schools have more freedoms, freedom to choose what to teach, freedom to | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
decide what to pay staff. It is meant to encourage fresh ideas, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
offering parents greater choice and headteachers the chance to work | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
together in a chain of schools. The real win I suppose of being an | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
academy is working in a trust, because you have the collaborative | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
environment where you can hold each other to account and the learning is | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
richer I suppose in that kind of environment than perhaps was | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
traditionally the case in local authority schools. Already in | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
England, 2000 secondary schools are academies, more than half, but fewer | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
than 3000 primary schools have changed so most are still run by | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
councils. Now council schools will have up to six years to start | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
becoming academies. In the next couple of days, officials will be | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
working on finalising detailed plans. This will require a change in | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
the law. It goes much further than before, not just intervening in | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
schools that are failing or underperforming, this will radically | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
change how even the best schools in England are run. Labour says there | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
is little evidence these plans will mean a better school system. Some | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
academies have struggled and failed too. There are some areas - | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Lincolnshire, Swindon, my own area Manchester - where all the schools | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
are already academies but still require significant improvement. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
What is the Government strategy for these areas? And from the Chief | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
inspector, a warning just a few days ago. Some academies are paying top | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
executive salaries but delivering poor results for pupils. For the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Chancellor, this is about putting his stamp on public services, in | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
reshaping schools he is also taking England on a very different journey | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
from the rest of the UK. Those plans are expected in tomorrow's Budget. | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
It will be the eighth delivered by George Osborne. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
And in the four months since his last report on the state | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
of the UK's finances, economic growth has dipped and tax | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
Added to that is the political challenge posed by the referendum | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
on Britain's future in the European Union. | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
In a moment we'll be talking to our political editor | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, but first our economics editor Kamal Ahmed reports | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
on some of the likely measures to be announced tomorrow. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Home to the Chancellor, number 11 Downing Street, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
and where George Osborne has been spending the last few days | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Four months ago, the Autumn Statement was full of optimism. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
I report on an economy growing faster than its competitors, | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
and public finances set to reach a surplus of ?10 billion. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
The Chancellor will travel from here down the road to Parliament. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
He will have his red box with him and in there he will have | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
new forecasts, and they are likely to show that the UK economy has | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
taken something of a turn for the worse. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
The Bank of England has revised economic growth downward | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Our wages are rising less quickly, just 3% a year. | :06:27. | :06:38. | |
Both reduced tax revenues for the Government, which, | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
don't forget, is facing debts of ?1.5 trillion. | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
That means the Government has to borrow more to pay | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
So, what state are the Government's finances in? | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Well, so far this year, the Government has | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
Now, that's 13.7% down on last year, but still a long way | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
above the optimistic expectations of last autumn. | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
The Government's target is to borrow ?73.5 billion this financial year. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Will George Osborne hit that target in the Budget? | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
And what about that ?10 billion Budget surplus - | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
The surplus that was forecast in November was already not that | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
large when we are thinking about the four-year forecast. | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
Things have moved against him since November so he may not | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
have a lot of room for manoeuvre, particularly as there are number | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
of giveaways already promised in the Conservative manifesto. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
In his Budgets, George Osborne has always mixed pain | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
What will the Chancellor want to trumpet? | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
He could increase the point at which we pay tax on our income | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
That could make taxpayers a few hundred pounds a year better off. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
He could also raise the level at which the higher 40p | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
rate of tax kicks in, meaning fewer people pay it. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
He will announce support for major infrastructure projects - | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
a high-speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds, | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
His critics say this is all a bit of a diversion, but the real story | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
of this Budget will be public sector cuts and tax rises. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Fuel duty, the tax on petrol and diesel, is facing | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Unprotected departments such as the Home Office could be facing | :08:31. | :08:41. | |
There are likely to be higher taxes on business. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
Whatever George Osborne announces, he will have to sell it here, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
The Conservative majority is actually quite small and every | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
debate is dominated by the European referendum. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Fear of a Brexit could make this a rather more careful | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is at | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
the Chancellor's official residence, Number 11 Downing Street. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
We heard about some of the measure is there, but what for you is the | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
main challenge for George Osborne tomorrow? I think there are a trio. | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
We know he is likely to announce more cuts, he said as much three | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
weeks ago, and that's coming after six years of cuts that have hit | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
millions of families around the country so he wants to show that the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Government is not just about that, they have still got ideas for | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
reform. I think the Government 's announcement to force schools to | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
become academies in England with more cash and the option of | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
extending the school day with more time for extracurricular activities | :09:54. | :09:54. | |
is part of want to show they have not | :09:55. | :10:07. | |
run out of ideas and they are not all about balancing the books. The | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
second challenge he faces is polishing up his own political | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
reputation. After a series of defeats on tax credits being thrown | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
out, Sunday trading plans being defeated, something of his stock has | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
fallen away in recent months and he will be wanting to use a big day | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
like tomorrow to rebuild that. The third big challenge is how he knits | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
together with the Government 's number one priority right persuading | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
us to vote to stay in the European Union in the referendum at the end | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
of June, because budgets at the end of the day are not just numbers, | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
they are semaphore for the Government and certainly in this | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
case, the Chancellor's ambitions. Laura, thank you very much. Laura, | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
looking ahead to the Budget in Downing Street. | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
There's been a major security operation in Brussels this evening | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
linked to last year's terror attacks in Paris when 130 people were killed | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Belgian security forces are said to be hunting for at least two | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
people and one suspect has been killed. | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is at the scene. | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
Yes, that raid took place at three o'clock this afternoon here, it was | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
a joint raid by Belgian and French police and ever since those Paris | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
attacks, the two forces have been hunting down any leads. There are 11 | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
people in custody here already and any associates are being | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
investigated as well. Those investigations brought the police | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
here this afternoon to carry out this raid. One French policewoman | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
was injured, and one man armed with a Kalashnikov was shot dead, it has | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
been confirmed this evening that he was not one of the prime suspects | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
still being sought for the Paris attacks, that is Salah Abdeslam, who | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
is still on the run. From across the city, armed police converged on | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
southern Brussels. It was the middle of the afternoon, dozens of police | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
units moved in. They sealed off a web of streets, a few minutes drive | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
from the centre of the Belgian capital, looking down the entire | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
area. Belgian and French investigators have been following | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
Leeds since the Paris terror attacks, they try to search a flat | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
here. As soon as they reached the door, they had been met with | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
automatic gunfire. TRANSLATION: Two individuals are apparently holed up | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
in the building, a security cordon has been set up by police, special | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
forces teams arrived and are in position along with Federal police | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
so the investigation is ongoing. Police kept the area cordoned all | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
afternoon, parents left waiting on the street for hours. They were | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
locked up, there was shooting in the street, this man told me. Parents | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
had to wait to be told they could pick up their children. My daughter | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
told me she was sad, she was crying all afternoon, she says. We are | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
still very scared. Armed officers have taken up positions on rooftops. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Late in the afternoon they made their move, there was more gunfire | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
and then confirmation, they found one body. Belgium's Prime Minister | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
said this evening that four police officers have been wounded in the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
shooting. Brussels has lived with police raids, terror alerts and city | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
lockdowns since the Paris attacks and tonight the police operations | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
were ongoing, still searching the surrounding streets, unsure if more | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
gunmen were holed up there. The first Russian fighter jets to be | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
withdrawn from Syria have returned to their home bases | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
following yesterday's announcement by President Putin that most | :13:51. | :13:51. | |
of his forces were being moved. The decision was welcomed | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, who said the withdrawal | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
might be the best opportunity to end Our chief international | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
correspondent, Lyse Doucet, The pull-out starts at first light, | :14:01. | :14:19. | |
at Russia's air base in northern Syria. The bombers are leaving. It | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
is just hours after President Putin's sudden announcement, mission | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
accomplished. The homecoming, heroes' in Russia. A carefully | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
choreographed parade. The band plays an old Soviet military song, this is | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
all about Putin power. TRANSLATION: We're really | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
glad our troops are coming home. TRANSLATION: Thanks to our soldiers, | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
the so-called Islamic State is doing Russia sent its warplanes | :14:56. | :15:08. | |
and advance weaponry Ostensibly to target Islamic State, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
but it mainly bolstered In Damascus, Syrians | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
are still savouring a rare moment President Putin's announcement last | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
night took the world by surprise, but here the government | :15:21. | :15:57. | |
says it knew all along. The agreement was for Russian forces | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
to enter Syria for a certain period and now we're advancing step-by-step | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
in the peace process. But Damascus, emboldened by Russian | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
might, is taking a tough line, refusing to discuss | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
President Assad' future. I ask a prominent member | :16:11. | :16:11. | |
of parliament, is Russia Russia is not putting | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
pressure on us. They are talking to us | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
and are trying to find the best You in the West are wrong | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
if you think Russia is telling But there's no denying Russia's | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
pivotal role in Syria. Russia's military objectives | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
here are now clear, so the big question is - what is | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
President Putin's political Does it necessarily include | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
President Assad and, if not, who or what | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
is the alternative? But the fighting in Syria isn't over | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
despite the partial truce. So Russia isn't pulling | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
out completely. Its military presence | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
remains significant. Even that may not be enough to end | :16:46. | :16:46. | |
this most tangled of wars. You have been there for nearly a | :16:47. | :17:00. | |
fortnight. What is your sense of the prospects for a more robust | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
settlement? Well, Huw, I think millions of Syrians, after all they | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
have been through, don't dare to believe this could all be over soon. | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
This truce as impartial as it is, as imperfect as it is, has given | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Syrians a tantalising glimpse of what Syria could be like again. It's | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
this truce and those talks that are slowly getting jumped way in Geneva | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
that represent the best chance in years to try to move Syria a little | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
bit closer toward peace rather than a lot further back towards a more | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
destructive war. But you have to be clear on why it's happening. It's | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
not because Syrian warring parties have understood there is no military | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
solution or put aside their profound differences it's only because the | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
outside powers, 17 in all, are finally sitting around thele same | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
table. They don't trust each other. They have different enemies and | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
agendas on the battlefield, but it has to be recognised that Russia's | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
decision, last September, to much more involved militarily and | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
politically in Syria has galvanised a stagnant process. It broke the | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
deadlock. It's to the credit of the West, particularly the United | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
States, reluctantly accepting that Russia has the best cards at this | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
table and it should be allowed to play them. The difficulty, if not | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
the danger, is that Russia, and in particular President Putin, is | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
playing a much bigger game. Much bigger than Syria, having a lot to | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
do with Russia's position on the world stage and being taken | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
seriously when it comes to solving world crises. Even President Putin, | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
with Russia's might, may not succeed in Syria. For the first time in five | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
years at least he and other major players are trying. In Syria now a | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
little is a lot. All right, Lyse thank you very much again for your | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
analysis there. Lyse Doucet in Damascus. | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
Airlines, shipping companies and conservation charities are among | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
those who've promised to share more information to make life harder | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
for traffickers of animal products and wildlife. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
The declaration was signed by dozens of companies at Buckingham Palace, | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
One of the most urgent cases right now is the African elephant. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Every year, between 30,000 and 40,000 thousand African | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
elephants are killed for their ivory. | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
With fewer than half a million left, their numbers are being dramatically | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
cut by the endless appetite for ivory in Asia. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Poachers and rangers are now in armed conflict in a number | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
of African countries, with the Democractic Republic | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
Our Africa correspondent, Alastair Leithead, has sent this | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
It's tough terrain in Garamba National Park, | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
where less than 100 rangers are trying to protect the last | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
of the elephants across thousands of square miles of grassland. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
We joined one of their foot patrols to a place where | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
The grass is so high, the only way to see a carcass | :20:09. | :20:22. | |
is from the air and then to direct the rangers in. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
Well, this elephant was clearly killed by a poacher. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Its ivory tusks were hacked off, it's been dead about three weeks. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
There are another four of these carcasses spread all around | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers, | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
30,000-40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa every | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
year and with only around 400,000 left, it's not going to be long, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
And with so few boots on the ground, those responsible often get away | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
"We followed their footprints", one of the rangers told me, | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
There are perhaps 1,300 elephants left here, | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
Garamba was one of Africa's first national parks and a World Heritage | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
site, originally set up to protect the northern white rhino, | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
but that has already been wiped out by poachers. | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Now, they're fighting to save the elephants that are left, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
in a place surrounded by civil war and heavily armed militia. | :21:30. | :21:43. | |
That's why African Parks, the group managing Garamba, | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
But the weapons are old, few hit even a close target. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
This ranger explained how dangerous the work is, | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
his patrol was ambushed by 40 men, probably from Sudan, | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
Eight rangers have been killed in the last year. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Training rangers takes a lot of time and money and the men they're up | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
This really does feel like you're fighting a war against poachers? | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
I think Garamba is probably today at the forefront of conservation, | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
I just don't think that many other places which have so much contact | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
and so many threats to one park as we have here. | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
This local man was arrested after a tip-off and ivory recovered. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
By the time it reaches the market in Asia, it goes for at least ?750. | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
Then reports came in of another attack. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
And there are the carcasses, just down there by the river. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
Five of them, one of them a baby, and the sixth we've just spotted, | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
a little bit further up the river from there. | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
That the tusks have been taken. but you could see that their faces | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
They need hundreds more rangers to protect Garamba. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
On the front line of the poaching war, the elephants | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Alistair Leithead, BBC News, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
The Church of England is to introduce changes to the way | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
it deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy. | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
It follows a critical independent report, which has been seen | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
It reveals that senior clergymen kept no record of claims disclosed | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
A prison officer, Adrian Ismay, injured in a bomb attack | :23:40. | :23:49. | |
in Northern Ireland earlier this month has died. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
The 52-year-old was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the New IRA, | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
A report into a helicopter crash off Shetland, in which four people died, | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
says that flight instruments were not adequately monitored | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
in the moments leading up to the crash. | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch report says that the lack | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
of monitoring meant a reduction in air speed was not noticed | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Americans are voting tonight in five states in primary contests | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees. | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
The results could see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
making significant steps towards securing their party's | :24:38. | :24:38. | |
Mr Trump's recent campaign events have been disrupted by clashes | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
between supporters and opponents and he's faced criticism | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
for appearing to encourage the violence. | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
Let's join our North America editor, Jon Sopel, in Palm Beach Florida. | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
Huw, when Donald Trump arrives at his private members club behind me | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
later this evening, he's hoping that the Republican race will effectively | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
be over and that he will be the undisputed champion. This despite | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
the millions that have been spent back conservative groups attacking | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
him and vie lens at his rallies today President Obama has stepped in | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
calling the words being used vulgar and divisive. -- violence. | :25:22. | :25:34. | |
If there's one place in America where Donald Trump shouldn't | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
He's upset a lot of Hispanics with his rhetoric and he's up | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
against the local Cuban-American Senator, Marco Rubio. | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
But for all the controversy, if you join up the dots, | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
Trump is the most important man in the world now. | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Donald Trump is scary, but he's the only one who can beat | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
I think anything's better than Hillary Clinton. | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
I'm very proud of Rubio, but I identify with Trump. | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
The latest fire storm is the violence that has erupted | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
at Trump rallies, as his supporters skirmish with protesters. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Actions that should have no place in democratic politics. | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
The charge against Mr Trump is that, far from condemning, | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
his language has condoned, even incited, such behaviour | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
I'd like to punch him in the face, I tell you. | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
You know what they used to do to guys like that, | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
I don't know if I would have done well, but I would have been - | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
knock the crap out of him, would you? | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees, I promise. | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
Am I allowed to rip that whistle out of the mouth? | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
And that sort of language brought this rebuke | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
I know that I'm not the only one in this room who may be more | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
than a little dismayed about what's happening | :27:17. | :27:17. | |
We have heard vulgar and divisive rhetoric aimed at women | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
and minorities and Americans who don't look like us our pray | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Yes, Donald Trump's comments have caused a furore, | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
If anything, his poll lead is increasing and at this polling | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
station in Miami, he seems to be the only name in town. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
The others seem to have given up the fight. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
For all the discussion of punch-ups, if he wins here tonight, | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
and in Ohio, the talk will instead be about having delivered a knockout | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
Manchester City have qualified for the quarter-finals | :27:52. | :28:05. | |
of the Champions League for the first time in their history. | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
Despite getting close to scoring a few times, | :28:14. | :28:25. | |
they could only manage a 0-0 draw at home tonight against Dinamo Kiev, | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
but make it through to the last eight thanks to a 3-1 victory | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
A computer programme, designed by Google, has | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
comprehensively beaten a human champion of the ancient Chinese game | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
of Go, winning the match four games to one. | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
Lee Sedol, a Korean champion of the game, said he regretted | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
the result which has raised new questions about the power | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
of artificial intelligence over human beings. | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
Our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, examines what's | :28:47. | :28:47. | |
been learnt from the contest and considers the future | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
It's been an epic contest between man and machine, | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
pitting a supreme player of a complex game against an artificial | :28:54. | :28:55. | |
intelligence programme which teaches itself to play ever better. | :28:56. | :28:57. | |
And, at the end of the final game, Lee Sedol's face told the story. | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
Although he'd fought hard and even won once, | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
the machine, AlphaGo, had come out on top. | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
No triumphalism from the British founder of the company behind it. | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
As with all powerful technologies, they bring opportunities | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
and challenges and we have to make sure, as developers of these kind | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
of systems, all AI researchers around the world that they think | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
about the ethical responsibilities they have. | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
The technology behind programmes like AlphaGo is already finding | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
Better voice recognition software is one and Cambridge is one | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
of the world's leading centres in the development | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
At Microsoft's Cambridge research lab, you might think that this | :29:41. | :29:48. | |
was down time, in fact, it's serious artificial intelligence research. | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
Scientists here are using the game Minecraft to test how AI programmes | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
The idea is to teach the AI how to interact with people and objects. | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
The programme is all about augmenting the skills | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
Another example, a system using AI to examine scans of brain tumours | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
The researchers here insist that it's all | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
about collaboration, not competition. | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
I think we have a choice, we're in control of the technology, | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
I think we should avoid that dystopian future of - | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
I think we should make a conscious decision to create artificial | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
intelligence as a deep partnership between humans and machines | :30:34. | :30:35. | |
This is not about the rise of machines, it's about | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
One of Britain's leading scientists says the sheer pace of change means | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
There's a boundary between science and science fiction, | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
we don't know quite where that lies, but certainly some people | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
are raising concerns that a computer might, | :30:50. | :30:51. | |
as it were, go rogue and if we have the internet | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
of things, then a computer could interact with the real world | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
If that happened, that would obviously be potentially | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
It had been thought that a computer would take another 10 years to beat | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
AI's victory has brought its potential and its risks into focus. | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments. | :31:16. | :31:24. | |
On our running order tonight, Brexit and the Press. | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
Alastair Campbell says the papers are pulling the wool over our eyes | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
to persuade us to vote to leave the EU. | :31:31. | :31:32. | |
He'll debate that with Sun writer, Trevor Kavanagh. | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :31:41. | :31:44. |