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Tonight at Ten, Europe's migration crisis is growing again. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Thousands have crossed from North Africa to Italy in recent | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
days, determined to build a new life in Europe. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
It is better than the country that I come from. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Because in that country, there is no good life. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
They've come ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa, | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
where one doctor told us there was no sign of | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
TRANSLATION: They understand they may die. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
No walls or fences will stop them from coming. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
These people have a desperate need to reach a place | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
We'll be reporting from Lampedusa and we'll be asking if the EU | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Downing Street says there's no reason for the Culture Secretary | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
to step aside from decisions on press regulation | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
after revelations about his private life. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Two years after hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
were kidnapped by Islamist militants, we report | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
on thousands of other women and girls also missing. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
How this man's paralysis has been overcome | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
with computer technology - and the power of thought. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
And we meet the Lithuanian musician who's the first | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
woman to take charge of one of Britain's most | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
West Ham and Manchester United were fighting it out for an FA | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
But was Marcus Rashford's goal enough to put the away side through? | :01:36. | :02:00. | |
Europe's migration crisis is growing again, as the weather improves | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
and more people are prepared to cross the Mediterranean. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Some 4,000 people were rescued at sea and taken to Italian ports | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
The European Council president Donald Tusk said the growing number | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
of people intending to make the crossing was alarming. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Almost 19,000 migrants had reached Italy by sea by the end of March - | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
nearly double the number for the same period last year. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
They're making the crossing from North Africa and most | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
The EU has already tried to limit the flow of people using the other | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
main route to Europe from Turkey to Greece. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Our special correspondent Richard Bilton reports from | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
The wave of migrants, risking everything in the seas | :02:44. | :02:55. | |
This is one of 25 rescues in the last two days. | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
4000 people died in these waters last year. | :03:05. | :03:16. | |
But the calm weather has brought men, women and children back | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
And boats filled with the rescued keep arriving on the tiny Italian | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
This place is used to processing those who have gambled their lives | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
for a chance of a new start in Europe. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
They have been out at sea for two days, they've got no shoes on, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
This is the reality of the Mediterranean route. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
The risk was enormous, but this is the reward, | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
And that chance is attracting huge numbers, nearly double the total | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
Dr Pietro Bartolo is called out for every boat. | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
TRANSLATION: They understand they may die. | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
No walls, no fences will stop them from coming. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
These people have a desperate need to reach a place where they can | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
The migrants are almost all from sub Saharan Africa, and most are young | :04:33. | :04:45. | |
men, like Hassan from Somalia, who says he was | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
It's better than the country that I come from. | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
In that country there is no good life, there is a war. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Here, there is peace, there is a democracy. | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
I am seeing that Europeans are helping us directly. | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
But many are from more settled countries. | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
This man told us he was the Ivory Coast. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
There is no war there, so you are economic migrants. | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
My life was very dangerous, he says, so I decided to cross | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
Now, there is a EU operation targeting people smugglers. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
But there has been criticism that the flotilla of EU vessels | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
might help the smugglers by speeding up the rescue process. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Only 26 people have died so far this year, but some have concerns | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
that this dangerous route might be about to get busier. | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
We don't know, but we expect that probably the people that | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
were crossing the Balkan route, they may change the path | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
and try to access through Europe, through Lampedusa, through Italy. | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
There have been many debates, resolutions and operations | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
since hundreds of people died in the seas here last year. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
But for many on the island, right now, dealing with rescue | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
after rescue, it feels like very little has changed. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in Brussels. | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
Damian, we have already had the one big initiative by the EU to close | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
off or at least limit one major route, what else can we expect? | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Well, today we heard from the President of the European Council, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Donald Tusk, the man who last year chaired all of the meetings, after | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
meeting, of the European leaders, trying to find a solution to the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
migrant crisis. He told the European Parliament today that the experience | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
of last year was that Europe acted much too late Cummings said. He saw | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
the 1 million people coming through Greece, border closures, we saw | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
political strains between European countries. He said to avoid a repeat | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
of that now with Italy, Europe had to be prepared. What code Europe do? | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
There are the naval flotillas in the Mediterranean. They cannot operate | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
in Libyan waters or on Libyan soil. Stopping the boat is almost | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
impossible. They cannot do a deal like they have done with Turkey to | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
send people back, because Libya is just too dangerous. He said that | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Italy, Malta and the rest of Europe acted to be prepared for the | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
arrivals. The application is that it means more screening, more | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
deportations of people deemed economic migrants back to their | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
homes. If we look at the situation and what is happening in Greece, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
where the process is under way, it is instructive. He said today that | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
was not easy or smooth, and all would depend on the implementation | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
there. At the minute, they are still screening those that are claiming | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
refugee status. When they start deporting them, how will desperate | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
people react? That is the question there, and it will be instructive | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
for how the EU operates in Italy. Downing Street has rejected calls | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
for the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale to step back | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
from decisions linked to press regulation, after Mr Whittingdale | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
confirmed that he'd had Four newspapers knew | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
about the relationship, Labour says the public needs to be | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
reassured that Mr Whittingdale has not suffered undue influence when it | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
came to his decisions Our political editor | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Laura Kuenssberg has more details. He is in charge of | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
the rules of the press. Can you really successfully | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
regulate the press after And the Culture Secretary, John | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Whittingdale, knew all about it. Before he was in the Cabinet, | :08:47. | :08:59. | |
he met a woman on a dating site in 2013 and then had a six-month | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
relationship with her. He says he simply did | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
not know she was a sex Labour believes he should give | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
up some of his powers There's a perceived undue influence | :09:09. | :09:26. | |
possible upon him, in his role in the Cabinet, | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
as the person who looks He really ought to excuse himself | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
from making these decisions, I still think that is a sensible | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
thing for him and the Government to do | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
because if they don't, then the concern is that the press | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
has something over him. It is awkward for Number | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Ten that the Prime Minister did not know anything | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
about this until last week but embarrassing, rather | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
than career-ending, for a politician in the 21st century | :10:04. | :10:04. | |
to be caught in this Could the Culture Secretary be | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
neutral in his dealings with the press when he knew some | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
newspapers had details of his Yet the rules for Government | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
ministers say they must not just avoid conflicts of interest, | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
but they must steer well clear of And politicians and | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
the press have been battling in the aftermath | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
of the hacking scandal. The Leveson Inquiry heard | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
from its victims, Madeleine McCann's parents, Milly Dowler's | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
family. Those familiar faces were promised | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
sweeping changes but some campaigners accuse the government | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
of having gone soft. There are suspicions, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
firmly denied, that newspapers could have | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
used their knowledge of Mr Whittingdale's relationship | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
to persuade him to go slow. The second part of the | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Leveson Inquiry into press Criminal cases are | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
still going on, though. There still isn't an official press | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
regulator, although the papers have A new law on libel costs | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
is not yet being enforced. have not been carried out | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
to the letter, not all of them. However, they have gone a long way | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
to meeting They have set up a new regulator, | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
much more independent. But also, it has changed | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
the climate and culture of Number Ten says John | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
Whittingdale is a single man For now, the Prime | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Minister is content This has been pretty excruciating | :11:37. | :11:51. | |
for John Whittingdale himself, it has been tricky for the Government | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
and Labour has expressed its displeasure. But the opposition is | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
not going hell for leather, trying to shove John Whittingdale out of | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
his job, or anything like that. If you compare it with the political | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
problems the Government has had to deal with in recent weeks, right now | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
it feels like a mole hill, rather than a mountain. What do you make of | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
the claims from quite a few sources that his ability to make decisions | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
on such a sensitive area as press radiation has been compromise? He is | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
adamant that is not the case. If anything, it is a reminder of the | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
fraught relationship between press and politicians, they sometimes | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
uneasy co-dependency. It is a reminder that there is still some | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
unfinished business after the Leveson Enquiry. But whether or not | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the suggestions hang around depends largely on how long John | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Whittingdale himself hangs around. Don't forget, after the European | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
referendum at the end of June, there is expected, and it is very likely, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
there will be quite a big reshuffle. It is not certain that John | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Whittingdale will be in charge of this brief after that, and perhaps | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
after today it is more likely that somebody else might be in charge. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the kidnapping | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls by the Islamist | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Despite a worldwide campaign, and protests by the parents of | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
At least 300 students were abducted from a school in Damasak last year | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
and thousands of women have been enslaved by the group. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Boko Haram is blamed for the deaths of more than 5,000 people | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Our correspondent Alastair Leithead has travelled to the town of Yola, | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
to talk to one girl who managed to flee her captors. | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
There are some distressing images in this report. | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
You don't know her, she was not one of the Chibok | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
But she is one of the thousands of other girls taken by | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Now home, her story is the story of how they are tearing | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
She explained how she was kidnapped by Boko Haram and | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
taken to the notorious Sambisa forest. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
TRANSLATION: They gave us a choice, to be married or to be a slave. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
TRANSLATION: We lived together, I became pregnant from my husband | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
and gave birth to a boy called Usman. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
She was rescued before her son was born and kept in touch with her | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
husband by phone before the army took it from her. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
It was the last time she spoke to him. | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
Her family is half Muslim, half Christian. | :14:46. | :14:58. | |
They had a vote to decide whether she should have an | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
By a narrow majority, she was allowed to keep the baby. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
People labelled her a Boko Haram wife, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
He fell sick and nobody took care of him. | :15:09. | :15:23. | |
Four nights ago, Usman, who was nine months old, | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
Half the family celebrated what they called God's will. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
TRANSLATION: Some were happy that he died. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
They were happy the blood of Boko Haram had gone. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
She is sad, she is angry, she is confused. | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
She talks of going to school and becoming a doctor. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
She talks of going back to the forest. | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
She talks of becoming a suicide bomber. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
Not far from Zara's home are many other women with similar | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
and terrible stories of life under Boko Haram. | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
Stories of beatings, forced marriages, suffering and now stigma. | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
TRANSLATION: When you're living under them, they beat you. | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
If there is a child on your back, they even beat the child. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
It's another town where Boko Haram came and killed and at least 300 | :16:29. | :16:43. | |
children from the school. One of these men has lost his wife, | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
the other his seven-year-old boy "Chibok is all they are | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
talking about", he says. "Nobody has ever talked | :16:51. | :17:02. | |
about how our children, The crisis here in north-eastern | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Nigeria is about far more Thousands of people have been | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
kidnapped or forced to live under or the sexual abuse that | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
many of them suffer. It is when they come back | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
to their communities So many girls like Zara have been | :17:22. | :17:35. | |
abducted and so many others are still being held. There's torment | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
for those who wait and there is pain for those who survive. | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
Alastair Leithead, BBC News, Nigeria. | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories: | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
European migrants are coming to the UK because of higher wages | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
and a lack of a jobs in the Eurozone. | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
A new report from Oxford University shows that over past five years, | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
the number of EU nationals living in the UK has risen by almost | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
700,000, with a quarter of them coming from Spain, | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
The UK's biggest supermarket, Tesco has reported pre-tax profits | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
of ?162 million for the year to February, compared with losses | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
But the chief executive warned that the supermarket | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
was facing very, very challenging market conditions. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
A decision by a parish council to charge for a weekly fun run has | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
been criticised by ministers and by Olympic athletes. | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
More than 300 people take part in the ParkRun in Stoke Gifford | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
in South Gloucestershire every Saturday. | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
This weekend's rate has been cancelled because of the level of | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
interest on social media and fears for safety. -- race. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been on safari | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
in India, as their tour of South Asia continues. | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
The royal couple visited Kaziranga National Park, | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
They're hoping to draw attention to the plight of endangered animals. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe have been designated | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
as the official Leave and Remain campaigns in the EU referendum. | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
Vote Leave is supported by the Conservative Party's | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Our political correspondent Ben Wright is at Westminster. | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
On that Leave side, plenty of controversy today. There certainly | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
has been. This is a significant decision because it means the two | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
official campaigns will get to spend ?600,000 of taxpayers money making | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
their case. They will get a mailshot to all voters and they will have a | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
bigger platform, radio and TV advertising and they will both be | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
subject to its pending limit of ?7 million which kicks in on Friday. | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
But as you said, the electoral commission had to decide between two | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
groups that were vying for the official designation at the Leave | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
campaign and there's been a fractious tussle between them, an | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
argument over tactics and tone. The electoral commission decided that | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
Vote Leave, which as Boris Johnson, five Cabinet ministers and is | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
chaired by a Labour MP, best represented those people who want | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Britain to leave the EU but one of the groups in the defeated Go | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
movement is unhappy about this and considering a judicial review and | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
will decide by new tomorrow -- noon tomorrow whether to launch a legal | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
challenge. Ukip leader Nigel Farage come a bag of the Go movement, | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
sounded magnanimous, saying the whole leave campaign needs to come | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
together and get behind the campaign ahead of the referendum which is 71 | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
days away. Ben Wright at Westminster, there. | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
One of the main claims made by members of the Leave campaign, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
including Boris Johnson, is that Britain could negotiate | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
its own trade agreement with the EU if there was a vote to Leave. | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
The example frequently mentioned is the deal struck by the Canadians, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
so our chief correspondent Gavin Hewitt has been to Canada | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
The fast flowing Saint Lawrence Seaway, one of Canada's trading | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Some have cited Canada as a model for how the UK could continue to do | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
business with the EU if it left the European Union. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
At the port of Montreal, a container ship turns, destination | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Canada has just negotiated a trade deal with Europe. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
For the EU, this is the largest trade agreement with | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
Both Canada and the EU make big claims for it. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
In our case, we are looking at around roughly a 4% increase | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
The deal is expected to remove 98% of tariffs from everything, | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
But move to the capital, Ottawa, for a sense of how difficult | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
The deal has been seven years in the making and it has | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
For the Canadian government, it will eventually be worth | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
But it is not the same as full access to the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
It is a really high quality, gold-plated trade deal. | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
When I look at what Canada will have in terms of its ability to trade | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
with Europe, compared to being a member of the EU, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
the really big difference is regulatory harmonisation. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
What it means for Canadian businesses is they have to, | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
quite rightly, meet European regulatory standards | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
without having a say in how those standards are written. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
No one pretends that this trade deal will give Canada the same kind | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
of access to the European single market as an EU member state has. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Even so, this deal is hugely important to Canada. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
But after over seven years of negotiations, | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
and a document running to 1400 pages, there are still issues | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
about regulation that will have to be tackled in the future. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
Yes, more vehicles will be traded, and gradually trade | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
But significant issues remain over regulations and technical standards. | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
When you consider all market access, we are talking about not just | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
automobiles but all sectors of our respective economies, | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
and that is a long, complicated process. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Take farming, like this small farm in Paris, | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Yes, around 60,000 tonnes of beef will now be able to be exported | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
But much has yet to be agreed, including meat inspection rules. | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
When all is eventually signed, Canada won't have to contribute | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
to the EU budget or to freedom of movement and will be able to do | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Yes, Canada now has a big deal with Europe, with many barriers | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
lifted but in some key areas, including financial services, | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
A paralysed man has been able to perform complex | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
movements with his hand, such as playing a video game | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
or swiping a credit card, by using the power of thought. | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
His thoughts are interpreted by a computer, which sends impulses | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has the story. | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
Ian Burkhart is playing a guitar video game using | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
His paralysed fingers can move as a result of commands | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
from his brain fed into a computer, which then stimulates his muscles | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
Ian was paralysed below the elbows in a diving accident six years ago, | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
but is slowly relearning to use his fingers. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Now it's just something that's so fluid, kind | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
of like it was before I had my injury, where I just think | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
about what I want to do and then I can do it. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
The key to this technology is a tiny computer chip which surgeons | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
implanted on the area of the brain, the motor cortex, | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
When he thinks about moving his fingers and hand, those | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
messages can't travel down his injured spinal cord, | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
The computer interprets the signals and then send impulses | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
Ian's movements are still slow and deliberate, but his dexterity | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
He can demonstrate practical tasks, like swiping a bank card. | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
Engineers hope he will eventually be able to use a keyboard. | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
The biggest dream would be to get full function in my hand back. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
You know, because that allows you to be a lot more independent | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
and not have to rely on people for simple day-to-day tasks that | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
Several more patients are lined up to receive the device in Ohio. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
This really provides hope, we believe, for many patients | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
in the future, as this technology evolves and matures, | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
to help people who have disabilities from spinal-cord injury or traumatic | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
brain injury or stroke, to allow them to be more functional | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Four years ago, a paralysed woman controlled a robotic | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
A different approach is spinal repair. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
This paralysed patient in Poland had a cell transplant and | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
This latest research in the journal, Nature, | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
But the team in Ohio hope the technology will eventually be | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
wireless and allow patients greater independence. | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
The playwright Sir Arnold Wesker, who came to prominence in the late | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
1950s with his gritty, working class dramas, | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
He'd been suffering from Parkinson's disease. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
He was a leading figure in a generation of writers, | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
including John Osborne and Kingsley Amis, who became known | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
He produced dozens of works, including Chicken Soup with Barley | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
and Chips with Everything, as well as poems and short stories. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Speaking on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 2006, | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
he explained how he wanted to be viewed. | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
I've always worried about people who wear cloth caps to show | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Where they come from doesn't really matter. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
You are not a good writer because you come from | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
a working-class background, and you're not a good writer | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
You're a good writer because you are a good writer, | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
and it is the work that matters, not the labels. | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
The playwright Sir Arnold Wesker, who's died at the age of 83. | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
The first woman to be appointed musical director of one of Britain's | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
most prestigious orchestras, City of Birmingham Symphony | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
Orchestra, is the Lithuanian conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
who's 30, and widely recognised as one of the rising | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
She's also set to feature in this year's BBC Proms, the world's | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
Our arts editor Will Gompertz has been to meet her. | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
This is Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, considered by many to be one | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
of the most exciting young conductors in the world. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
She has made a name for herself working with the Los | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
But she is moving on, to take up the prestigious post | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
of Music Director at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
She is experiencing a warm welcome there. | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
It's always like that in Birmingham! | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
What do you think you can bring to this orchestra? | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
I might bring some new ideas, some new inspirations. | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
Do you think within the classical music world, which has historically | :29:07. | :29:22. | |
been very male dominated, particularly when it | :29:23. | :29:24. | |
comes to conductors, there is a shift? | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
Many people do have a question, can a woman conduct? | :29:28. | :29:47. | |
Is part of that conservative approach, is it more embedded | :29:48. | :29:59. | |
Or is it more embedded in the audiences? | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
It has very much to do with role models. | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
If a little girl plays with her Barbie, it is much harder | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
to imagine the things she does not see. | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
Will that be part of your agenda here, to try to shift | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
perceptions about female musicians and conductors? | :30:23. | :30:25. | |
I'm well aware that it is a very important point for our society. | :30:26. | :30:32. | |
And I suspect audiences who come to see Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla | :30:33. | :30:40. | |
Tonight, the former Deputy Prime Minister, | :30:41. | :30:53. | |
Nick Clegg, on drugs, live in our studio. | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
He won't be consuming them but telling us why he thinks | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
it is time for a new approach to controlling them. | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
Join me now on BBC Two, 11pm in Scotland. | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :31:08. | :31:09. |