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Tonight at Ten - President Obama ends his visit to UK - | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
urging Britain not to pull up the drawbridge. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
He tells me that in an increasingly interconnected world, | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Britain is better off staying in the European Union. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
It would be, I think, tempting, for a lot of people, | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
to believe that we can pull up the drawbridge and that we can carve | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
a moat around ourselves and not have to deal with problems | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
As the president travelled on to Germany - campaigners | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
in Britain dismissed his warning that it could take a decade | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
to negotiate an independent trade deal outside the EU. | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
If Australia, with a tiny obsession in relative terms, can conclude a | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
trade deal in ten months, we can do better than that. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
We'll have more reaction to the president's intervention - | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
and we'll have the latest from Germany. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The retailer BHS could file for administration | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
as soon as tomorrow - putting 11,000 jobs at risk. | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Dozens of councils say the plans to force all schools in England | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
to become academies could fail to raise standards. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
And - Eliud Kipchogi of Kenya wins the London Marathon with a course | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
record and his compatriot Jemima Sumgong did recover | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
President Obama's warning that it could take Britain up to a decade | :01:19. | :01:54. | |
to secure a trade deal with the USA outside the European Union has been | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
dismissed by those campaigning for Britain to leave. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Mr Obama had previously said the UK would be at the 'back of the queue' | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP, said British voters would not take | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
The president has travelled on to Germany today but before | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
he left, I asked him to explain how it would be possible for Britain | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
to have a special relationship with America and be at the back | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Actually the special relationship is not contingent on | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
There are emotional and cultural and commercial and strategic bonds | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
between our two countries that are unmatched by any two countries | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
As a practical matter, what we are doing with | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
respect to trade is negotiating with big | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
blocks of countries, because | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
negotiating trade deals are a heavy lift. | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
They are challenging, they are | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
It is the phrase isn't it, back of the queue, which has I | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
suppose offended some people and alarmed or scared some people. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
it was simply a response I think to the argument I've heard | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
from others who are proposing to leave the EU, | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
that somehow America would be able to do | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
things more quickly with the UK | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
than if they were in the European Union. | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
that wouldn't be the case in this narrow issue of trade. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
The UK would not be able to negotiate something | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
with the United States faster than the EU. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
We wouldn't abandon our efforts to negotiate trade deal with | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
our largest trading partner, the European market. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
But rather it could be five years from now, ten years | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
from now before we were able to get something done. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
So maybe not right at the back of the queue, towards | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the back of the queue, is that right? | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
that if you're interested in trade, we are on the cusp of getting a | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
trade deal done with the European Union. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
If I am a business person or a worker in Britain and I'm | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
looking at the fact that I already have access seamlessly with a | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
massive market, one of the wealthiest | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
accounts for 44% of my exports, the idea that I'm going to be in a | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
better position to export and trade by being outside of that market and | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
not being in the room setting the rules and standards | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
by which trade takes place I think is erroneous. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
You've been very clear, the special relationship, | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
you just said it, is much more than trade. | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
It is much more than that. Exactly. | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
We've been focusing on lots of things, including intelligence | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
from terrorist groups around the world. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Is it possible to say today if there were an exit from the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
EU, those elements of the special relationship wouldn't be affected? | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
in the sense that our services work closely together. | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
Our ability to do things together will not be changed. | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
What we do believe is that the United | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Kingdom will have less influence in Europe and as a consequence less | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
Since we rely heavily on the UK as a partner | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
globally, on a whole range of issues, we would like to have more | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
There will be some people watching, who put a much higher price on the | :05:44. | :05:56. | |
bond with the US than they do with the EU. And they will say that you | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
are being very clear. If that is the case, we should not be concerned | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
about coming out. That is how they will relate the argument. What would | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
you say to that? If the countries that are closest to you, that care | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
about you the most, the countries with who you incorporate most | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
freely, those that you have a special relationship with, that are | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
suggesting that you might want to stay in this relationship with | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Europe, it is worth paying attention to. There's a sharp focus on the | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
flash points around the world. Are you concerned in the European | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
context that British Parliament has shown little appetite for engaging | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
in Syria. What do you think about the options you have? Syria has been | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
a heartbreaking situation of enormous complexity. I don't think | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
that there are any simple solutions to Syria, and those that pretend | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
that there are probably have not been paying attention to the | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
details. It is my view that it would be a mistake for the United States | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
or Great Britain or eight common nation of Western states to send in | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
ground troops and overthrow the Assad regime. Part of the reason | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
that Europe has been dealing with such a big migration crisis is with | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
-- is the lack of assertive engagement, not least from the US. | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
What do you say to those people? You cannot have it both ways. You cannot | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
say that that we do not do anything in Syria. Our parliaments will not | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
ratify any actions in Syria. But we do want United States do something | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
about it. One of the challenges during the course of the presidency | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
is to encourage everyone to recognise that whether we like it or | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
not, we are in an interconnected world. This relates to Brexit, Nato, | :08:18. | :08:28. | |
the migration crisis. It relates to the bowler. It is a problem in the | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
United States, as people have problems with immigration from | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
places like Mexico. It would be tempting for a lot of people to | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
believe that we can pull up the drawbridge, and we can carve a moat | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
around ourselves, and not have to deal with problems around the world. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
President Obama speaking to me before he travelled on to Germany, | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
and we'll have more from there in a moment. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
But there's been plenty of reaction to his comments, | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
with many of those campiagning to leave the EU expressing | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
anger and resentment at his intervention in the debate. | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
Let's talk to our political correspondent Ben Wright | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
We've had the biggest possible intervention from the President. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
How can the Leave campaign go forward now? | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
It has clearly been a tough few days for the League campaign, and they | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
are pleased that Air Force One has gone. But they have welcomed what | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
some of what President Obama has said you. For instance, the security | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
relationship would remain strong whatever the outcome of about. They | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
also detect a softening on his tone on trade. He sounded more | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
conciliatory. They do not believe at all that it will take ten years to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
get the deed deal between UK and the US. They have done deal is far | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
quicker than that. They are confident that Britain would be able | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
to get one. For his part, Nigel Farage says that the US president | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
was scaremongering. It is coming out with the same | :09:58. | :10:11. | |
rubbish that Britain is not good enough. Little countries like | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Switzerland do it on their own, and if Australia, with a population in | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
relative terms, can convey all desperate conclude a deal in ten | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
months, we can. He also said that the issues of border control would | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
be crucial to voters in this referendum, and on that front, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Theresa May, who was Britain to remain in the EU, concluded that | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
free movement of people did make it hard for the UK to curb migration. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, lead figures in the Leave campaign will | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
launch new cut -- newspaper articles. We now know what the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
president of the US thinks about the referendum. His views have been made | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
emphatically clear, and the promised will be delighted. The Leave | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
campaign will try and hit back and move the campaign on. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
As we said, President Obama is now visiting Germany where he's been | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
holding talks with Chancellor Merkel about a controversial trade deal | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
they wanted to push ahead with the agreement, known as TTIP, | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
despite opposition in parts of Europe and the US | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
where there are claims the deal could drive down wages, | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
weaken environmental protection and workers' labour rights. | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is travelling with the President | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
and is in the German city of Wolfsburg tonight. | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
What chances this one between the EU and the US will come into being? | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
Let's talk about the deal that is at the front of the queue, rather than | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
the back, and that is the deal between Europe and the US. Barack | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Obama said tonight that there is every chance that the deal could be | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
concluded by the end of this year. That will have taken roughly four | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
years to complete. But he said that ratification will take a lot longer. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
And nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. These things | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
are highly complex. He held a news conference a short time | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
ago, and this time, it was purely about that controversial trade deal | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
that he outlined. There was no mention of Britain and its | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
relationship with the European Union. My sense of it is this. | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
Barack Obama, who was very pleased that he has intervened in the | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
debate, he knew it would cause controversy. But he will go back to | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
America feeling pleased that he had done that. That said, I don't expect | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
that we will hear much more from him on the subject. He has made his | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
intervention, he has said what he wanted to say, and he will have to | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
wait and see what the British people will have to say when they vote in | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
late June. Let's have a look at some of the | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
other news now. BBC News understands the retailer | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
BHS could file for administration Sports Direct has been in talks | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
to buy some of its 164 stores but a major obstacle has | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
been the huge deficit Our business correspondent | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
Joe Lynam has the story. BHS hasn't exactly been lighting up | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
Britain's high street of late. Sharper and more nimble retailers | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
have stolen a march. Despite getting a number | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
of major rent reductions from its landlords last month, | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
BHS has struggled to get other loans in place | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
with which to rejuvenate the brand. So, 13 months after it was sold | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
by the entrepreneur Sir Philip Green for ?1, BHS looks as if it | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
could file for administration Problems at BHS didn't come | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
as a surprise to these The problem with BHS is, | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
who does it appeal to? It doesn't necessarily appeal | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
to somebody of my age, We like the trousers in there, | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
that's all I can say! I do know if it's | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
moved with the times. That's a shame, because you always | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
get really good customer British Home Stores opened its first | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
shop in Brixton in 1928. In the 1980s it merged | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
with Mothercare and Habitat And in 2000 Sir Philip Green paid | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
?200 million for BHS. Within two years he had paid himself | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
a dividend of ?164 million. But he wasn't able to turn | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
the company around and sold it A year later the new owners haven't | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
been able to secure the money to reinvent BHS, and may be forced | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
to call in the administrators. And then there's the issue | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
of the pension deficit - that's the difference | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
between the money needed by BHS staff in retirement, | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
and what's already been set aside, which currently stands | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
at ?0.5 billion. They will probably paid | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
by the government backed pension protection fund, | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
but it does raise the issue of how the company was run, | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
and whether they can find I think it is more than likely | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
it won't be salvaged, and I think it will be the biggest | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
collapse since Woolworths. It's a business that perhaps hasn't | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
adapted to change in the retail sector as quick as it might have | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
done, and every category that British Home Stores works in, | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
has kind of been stolen You can buy furniture from other | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
places, you can buy your school uniforms now from the supermarkets, | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
and that's really had The retail business | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
in Britain is tough. It doesn't respect well-known brands | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
such as Woolworths or Comet. BHS may find new owners, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
but it might just as easily disappear entirely | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
from our high streets. Three people have been arrested | :15:39. | :15:48. | |
on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two men | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
were found in a garden who was 52, and Matthew | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Higgins, who was 49, died Two women and a man are being | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
held in police custody. A British man and two | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
of his children have been killed in a motorway crash | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
in eastern France. Their car hit a safety barrier | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
near Dijon this morning. The man's wife and another | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
child are in hospital. The Health Secretary, | :16:08. | :16:17. | |
Jeremy Hunt, has rejected a plan which was meant to avert the junior | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
doctors' strike in England The cross-party proposal - | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
backed by the Royal College of Surgeons - would see | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
new contracts tried at a limited number of hospitals, | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
rather than being imposed A group of local authorities | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
is warning that Government plans to compel all schools | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
in England to become academies The County Councils Network, | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
which represents 37 largely Conservative local authorities, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
says it could also prove poor Its chairman, Paul Carter, told | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
the BBC that ministers should look Our education editor, | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
Branwen Jeffreys, has more details. Ministers will be working even | :16:51. | :17:00. | |
harder in the next few weeks, trying to overcome opposition | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
to their academy plans. For the first time, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
county councils in England Most are Conservative-run but say | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
these Government plans I think that most county councils | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
across this country deliver exceedingly good support services | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
and value for money to their schools and I have grave concern that | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
what will replace local government's role will not be of the same | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
standard and quality. At this Devon primary, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
it's a different story. It's part of one of the largest | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
multi-academy trusts. In the space of just a few years | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
this school has gone from being in special measures, | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
to being rated as good, Of course, a lot of that is about | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
what happens in the classroom, The debate, now, is about | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
whether making all state schools academies is really the way | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
to drive up standards. The boss of this chain | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
of schools isn't sure, but then he's unusual, | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
paid much less than others He thinks academies are a chance | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
for teachers to try new ideas. Why don't we try this - | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
why don't we try that? So I'm excited about what I don't | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
know about the future, about the fact that we have | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
unlocked potential, rather than we are delivering | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
a preconceived model. But, now, 15,000 schools could be | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
forced to become academies, he is worried about so much | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
change, so quickly. The problem is, do we | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
have the capacity to be Firstly, it is not | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
a preconceived perfect model. The jury is out on what | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
works and what doesn't So, can the Education Secretary | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
persuade her critics it all adds up? This week she'll face | :18:53. | :19:08. | |
questions from MPs. Nicky Morgan says the end result | :19:09. | :19:09. | |
will be greater freedom for schools, a system that will step in faster | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
where there is failure. Forcing the pace of change | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
in schools has proved a tougher idea It has been very busy day of sport. | :19:21. | :19:42. | |
The London Marathon, and some football. | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
And Match of the Day 2, and Sportscene in Scotland, | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
follow the news so please avert your attention if you don't | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Leicester City took another stride towards their first | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
Premier League title by thrashing Swansea City 4-0. | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
Leonardo Ulloa scoring twice, ably filling the boots of | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
Leicester now have an eight-point lead with 3 games left. | :19:59. | :20:12. | |
Another little step, because we know that the battle is very hard. We | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
need five points more, and we need to be focused on the next match. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
In the day's other games, Sunderland are out the relegation | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
There were wins for Inverness and Hamilton | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
Crystal Palace have reached their first FA | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
They beat Watford 2-1 to set-up a repeat of the 1990 final | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Our Reporter David Ornstein was at Wembley. | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
Crystal Palace and Watford, days like these of rare. The journey to | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
Wembley may be short, but there race for silverware has been long. They | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
are flying in the cup, but Yannick Bolasie but Palace ahead. They won | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
that aerial battle, the same could that aerial battle, the same could | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
not be said of the next. Joel Ward almost gave them a route back. Troy | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
Deeney lead by example. With the sky seemingly the best route to goal, | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Palace used it again. This time, Connor Wickham was the player to | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
profit. So intent on defending their lead, Palace even began to tackle | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
each other. And helped by at Watford's poor finishing, they were | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
soon celebrating. Crystal Palace have never won the FA Cup. Thanks to | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
this man, they have a chance to make history when they face Manchester | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
United in the final next month. The London Marathon | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
was won by Eliud Kipchoge The defending champion's | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Kenyan team mate, Jemima Our Correspondent | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Joe Wilson reports. The London Marathon | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
is a great expression of mass achievement at a time of deep | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
doubt in athletics. Kenya's Government has finally met | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
anti-doping standards, hoping to be allowed to compete | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
at the Olympics. There was nothing to doubt | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
the integrity of their runners here. Eliud Kipchoge and Stanley Biwott | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
pushed each other until Kipchoge So smooth, he wondered if he should | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
have broken the world record. Jemima Sumgong, another Kenyan, | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
showed extraordinary resilience to get to her feet and win the race, | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
matching any feat of David Weir, in white sleeves, | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
was trying again to win a record Marcel Hug of Switzerland | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
broke the tape. If the Marathon demonstrates that | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
distance is no barrier, For all competitors, the whole point | :22:50. | :23:10. | |
of a marathon is to prove the distance is no barrier. This year, | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
this race took that to extremes. on the International Space Station, | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
strapped to a treadmill, Tim Peake was doing the 26 miles | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
to finish exactly where he started. And while Leicester's football team | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
are still on course for glory, there was heartbreak for the city's | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Rugby Union side who missed out on the final | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
of the European Champions Cup, narrowly beaten by Racing 92 | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
despite a late comeback. Thank you very much. A quick | :23:38. | :23:52. | |
reminder that there is more on all of today's stories on the BBC News | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Channel and online. That is all from us. Now it is time for the news | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
where you are. | :24:00. | :24:00. |