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Britain will now accept unaccompanied child refugees | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Thousands of children have made it to Europe without their parents - | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
it's not yet clear how many will be allowed into the UK. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
We are going to do more for children who are already | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
We've been to Calais to talk to some of the children surviving | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
on their own in the camp known as The Jungle. | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
We'll be asking what prompted the government's climbdown. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Triumphant Trump as his last rival quits the Republican race - | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
he's now the party's only candidate for the White House. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Jailed - the fraudsters who conned pensioners out of a million pounds. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
A massive wildfire in Canada - an entire city's evacuated as flames | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
Gareth Barrett is on-site and he has a lot to pick out and he doesn't | :00:53. | :01:04. | |
need them! And a crucial match | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
for Manchester City as they take on Real Madrid and battle | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
it out for a place in Coming up in Sportsday | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
on BBC News... Consequences | :01:13. | :01:12. | |
for Chelsea and Tottenham. They are both charged after this | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
brawl at their draw on Monday, which handed Leicester | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
the league title. Britain is to open its doors | :01:18. | :01:37. | |
to unaccompanied children who've fled the conflict in Syria and made | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
it to Europe. The decision is a major shift | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
in government policy. Until now, ministers had insisted | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
that such a move would simply encourage more refugees | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
to try to reach Europe. But David Cameorn has been under | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
pressure to change his mind and was facing a Commons defeat | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
on the issue next week. The government will now hold talks | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
with councils to see how many Our political editor, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, reports. If child refugees on their own make | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
it to Europe's shores, The government has always said it's | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
best if they never even make Help near their homes | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
in the Middle East and Africa But for months he has rejected calls | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
to take thousands of children We are already taking child migrants | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
in Europe with a direct family connection to the UK | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
and we will speed that up. I'm also talking to | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Save The Children to see what we can do more, | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
particularly with children who came here before the EU-Turkey | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
deal was signed. But that was a victory for those | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
who have been pushing Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
campaigners, with refugees here in Greece today who even last | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
week, with this blistering Stop with his attitude to lone child | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
refugees, putting this house We think we help them by taking them | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
from the refugee camps, taking them from Lebanon, | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
taking them from Jordan, taking them when they | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
come to this country. That what we're doing | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
and we have a proud record Ministers already promised to take | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
23,000 refugees from the region For the first time now the door | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
will open to unaccompanied child refugees already in Greece, | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Italy and France who don't have Final details of the plans | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
are still to be agreed In the long-term, no one | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
in the nooks and crannies of Westminster can say how many | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
children will come but in the short term, David Cameron has avoided | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
a vote on the issue next week. In recent weeks MPs in here have | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
been trying to persuade ministers Now today it is ministers | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
trying to convince MPs I'm told that in the last 36 hours | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
there have been five different versions of the plan but it | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
seems that it's enough to stop the government | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
being beaten next week. Like all these things, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
waiting to see the detail that follows after the local | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
elections on Thursday. But as it stands, yes, | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
we will be offering sanctuary to children refugees in Europe that | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
came before the new Turkey deal. The councils that will have to find | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
places for the children are under huge pressure to look after refugees | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
who have already made The resources are not there yet | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
to support those young people who have already made | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
the journey to the UK, including very large numbers we have | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
seen going into the care So we need to ensure | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
that there is money so councils are not faced with a choice | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
between closing libraries or funding care for vulnerable elderly people | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
and supporting refugee children. Our Parliament is not just hundreds | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
of miles from these scenes but a whole world away but power | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
play in Westminster just might make a difference | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
to some of what you see. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
News, Westminster. Many of those child refugees find | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
themselves on their own in the camp in Calais often | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
referred to as The Jungle. Aid workers say that some are abused | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
and exploited by traffickers. Our chief international | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
correspondent, Lyse Doucet, has been talking to | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
teenagers hoping to rebuild Hours after first light on a cold | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
bleak morning in Calais. Boys straggle back to | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
the shantytown to sleep. It has been another long night, | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
another night of trying to make it to Britain, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
illegally, and failing. So it is another day in the squalid | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
camp they call The Jungle. It is a hard life for grown-ups | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
fleeing conflict and hardship. Imagine what it's like for | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
children, on their own. But the Afghan boys at this centre | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
say they will not stop until they reach family | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
and a new future in Britain. TRANSLATION: Last night | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
I jumped into a lorry. By the time they let me go | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
it was midnight. I didn't know the way | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
and was very scared. This shack is home for | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
16-year-old Hassan. He fled Syria on his | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
own six months ago. Today his older neighbour is making | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
a window to let in sunlight, At night, when you are in your tent, | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
what do you dream about? I dream, Hassan says, | :07:07. | :07:19. | |
of getting to Britain to be Hassan is trying to get | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
in through existing EU rules. He is being helped | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
by a British charity. Are you worried it is going | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
to create an incentive for more families to send children | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
on these perilous journeys? We say that the British government | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
has a moral and legal obligation I see and work with children every | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
day who not only struggle under the pressures of living alone | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
in a foreign continent, but who are also at risk of very | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
real dangers with sexual exploitation on the one hand | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
and human traffickers on the other. As we were leaving Calais, | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Hassan gets news. He can go to Britain | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
and apply for asylum. The question now, | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
how many will follow? Lyse Doucet, BBC News, | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Calais. Our political editor, | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, is in Westminster. The government has been under a lot | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
of pressure for some time so why have they made this decision now? | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
You are right, that clash between morality and political practicality | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
has been running around this square mile since September at least with | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
real concerns about sending out a message that would encourage more | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
refugees and migrants to come to Britain, smashing up against the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
kind of personal stories we have just heard. As ever, what has | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
changed is the politics. Opposition from the Scott Wheeldon -- Scottish | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
National party, the Lib Dems and Labour and crucially some Tory | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
rebels was amassing so much that it looked almost certain that the | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
government would have been humiliated into making this | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
climb-down at the beginning of next week. Hey presto, at a sensitive | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
political time, the pie minister has had a change of heart. We are | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
probably talking in the hundreds or perhaps one or 2000 child refugees | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
on their own coming to the UK but, as with much of what we heard today, | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
there is little detail set in stone. There is no guarantee on final | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
numbers, no deadline has been set by when this has to happen. After the | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
kind of intense campaigning on this issue we have seen recently, those | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
are details that the government is going to have to get right to avoid | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
further opposition. Laura Kuenssberg, thank you. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Just a few months ago Donald Trump was seen as a no-hoper | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
in the contest to become the Republican Party's candidate | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
to run for President of the United States. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
Today - after his closest rival pulled out of the race - | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
nominee in more than 60 years to aim for the White House | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
nominee in more than 60 years to aim for the White House | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
without having had any previous experience of elected office. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Our North America correspondent, Nick Bryant, has more. | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency, | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
When that happens, the property billionaire will be the first | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
When Donald Trump launched his campaign for the presidency, | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
he was written off as a giant ego with a minuscule chance. | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
But victory in Indiana has delivered the knockout blow, | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
And he celebrated at Trump Tower, the New York skyscraper | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Never have been through anything like this, but it's a beautiful | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
thing to watch and a beautiful thing to behold. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Usually so boastful, usually so outspoken, | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
the Trump who appeared last night was more restrained, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
more presidential, but his core message stayed the same. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
You will be so proud of this country very, very soon. | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
His hostile takeover of the Republican Party is complete. | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
Ted Cruz, an evangelical Christian, discovered this contest wasn't | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
about faith, but fears about immigration and terrorism | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
With a heavy heart, we are suspending our campaign. | :11:16. | :11:32. | |
To understand Trump's extraordinary success, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
just visit rural Pennsylvania, a region once described as America's | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
industrial heartland, that's come to be | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
Closed steel mills now resemble archaeological sites, | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
remnants of a bygone world, landmarks to the country's | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Five million blue-collar jobs have disappeared since the turn | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
In its day, this was the Silicon Valley of the world. | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
Bill used to work at this mill and witnessed how automation | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
and foreign competition forced its closure. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
Everybody feels things are stacked against the working man. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
I came out of high school, you could get a job in the mill, | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
make some good money, you could get some good benefits, | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
you could raise your family and do pretty well. | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Jobs like that are hard to come by, if not impossible. | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Some mills remain operational, but for blue-collar workers, | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Of the 2.9 million good jobs since the recession, | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
No wonder people like Dave Morgan feel they have been left behind. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
I mean, with no jobs to go to, it's a sad state of affairs. | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
Once prosperous manufacturing towns have become places of decline | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
and decay, as if wrecked by the whirlwind of globalisation. | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Many young people have left, communities have been officially | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Visiting these communities, it is obvious why so many people | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
have lost faith in the American economic and political system | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
and also the American dream, that great animating idea | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
about opportunity and social mobility. | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
It helps explain much of the anger, much of the alienation in this | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
Donald Trump has given voice to the politics of decline. | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
But it will surely take more than sloganeering, | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
to carry him all the way to the White House. | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
Despite pulling off one of the most extraordinary feats in American | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
political history, the polls repeatedly suggest that Donald Trump | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
is the most unpopular presidential candidate of modern times and what | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
makes this election so intriguing is that the same polls show that the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
most unpopular Democratic presidential candidate of the last | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
30 years is Hillary Clinton. It is going to be a blockbuster of a | :14:13. | :14:13. | |
campaign. Eight men, who conned | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
dozens of pensioners out of more than ?1 million, | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
have been jailed for The gang posed as police officers | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
and persuaded their victims to withdraw their cash | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
and hand it over. Some of the money ended up | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
being used by British men, thought to be linked to so-called | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Islamic State. Our home affairs correspondent, | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
June Kelly, reports. The victims of this | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
fraud lived in areas More than ?1 million was stolen | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
from 140 pensioners. The gang would phone | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
an elderly person... And, pretending to be police | :14:45. | :14:45. | |
officers, tell them their bank They instructed their victims to go | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
to their banks and move Hello there, I'm the courier, | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
here to pick up. The pensioners then | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
entrusted their savings In some cases, delivering the cash | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
straight into their hands. One of the victims was | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Elizabeth Curtis, who is 73. She doesn't want her face shown | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
but she does want to talk about what the scammers | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
have done to her. She was robbed of her life | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
savings of ?130,000. When I first learned that | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
I was scammed, I thought, can I live with myself | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
for having lost so much money? And the thought of suicide did pass | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
through my mind. But then I realised | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
it wasn't the answer. Today at the Old Bailey eight men | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
have been sentenced for the fraud. One, Nathan Fagan-Gayle, | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
was a former contestant He had ?20,000 of Elizabeth Curtis's | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
money and went on a spending spree. Others, like the gang leader, | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
Makhzumi Abukar, have links to individuals who have | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
left the UK for Syria. More than half of Elizabeth Curtis's | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
money went into the accounts of two men, Ahmed Ali | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
and Abraham Ghebrezadik, Ghebrezadik's Muslim name recently | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
featured on a membership list The police investigation | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
was led by counterterrorism Some of that money has been used | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
to facilitate travel to some individuals who have gone | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
out to Syria. But the rest of that money has | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
disappeared and that is part of the challenge in not just tracing | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
the money but trying to get There is no evidence that | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
Elizabeth Curtis's savings were used by IS but she is anxious | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
that they might have been. I was very upset to think that my | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
money was being used for terrorism. That is something I have got | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
to live with. The terrorists training | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
and coming back to Europe, blowing people up and that | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
sort of thing, killing The banks have reimbursed | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
about a third of what Like the other victims, she is now | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
fighting to try to recover The European Commission has formally | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
recommended that most EU governments ease some visa requirements | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
for travellers from Turkey - a country with nearly | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
79 million people. The proposal, which relies on Ankara | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
implementing a series of reforms and improving human rights, | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
is part of a controversial deal which has cut the number | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
of migrants coming to Europe. EU leaders are still | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
to give their backing to the visa relaxation, | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
which could come into force The United States says an agreement | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
has been reached with Russia to extend the truce in Syria | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
to include the embattled The State Department said | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
the agreement went into effect at midnight local time, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
and already there has been a marked Our World Affairs Editor, | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
John Simpson, joins airbase near Latakia | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
in the north of Syria. Is this going to bring peace to | :18:09. | :18:23. | |
Aleppo? Well, there's a chance that it will bring peace for 48 hours. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
And maybe beyond that. Let's hope so. But really I think this is | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
mostly because the Americans and the Russians felt it was impossible to | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
carry on with things like those dreadful attacks on hospitals that | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
we saw in Aleppo. But that city is a kind of trapped nerve of American | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
and Russian relations. It is the place, in the whole world, where | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
they are most in conflict because the Russians support President | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
al-Assad in his attempt to recapture the whole city, and the Americans | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
support the rebels there. And so there's this very bitter | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
relationship between them. At the same time, you have to remember that | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
the American and Russian relationship is a global one and | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
they have to get on to a slightly better relationship. I think this is | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
the one place where it can happen. But, you know, we are not looking at | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
a solution to what's happening in Aleppo, we are just looking at | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
putting it in the freezer for, well, two days, three days, or whatever, | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
and in the longer term, nothing can be sorted out until either President | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
al-Assad wins, which is more likely, or the rebels win, which is, I have | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
to say, less likely. John Simpson, thank you. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
On the border between Gaza and Israel, there's been the worst | :20:04. | :20:04. | |
outbreak of violence since the summer war two years ago. | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
Israel has been using tanks and airstrikes. | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
Militants in Gaza have responded with mortar fire. | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
Since last October, there's been a wave of violent Palestinian | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
attacks on Israeli citizens - including stabbings and bombs. | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports from Jerusalem. | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
This is a training exercise, based on a real incident. | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
Israelis in the occupied West Bank were ambushed by Palestinians. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
These are Israeli self-defence experts. | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
They believe that a second's hesitation before fighting | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
After each attack, more and more Israelis ask them for lessons. | :20:49. | :21:00. | |
For Israelis, old nightmares seem to be returning, especially | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
when a bus was blown up in Jerusalem last month. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Since the attack, a 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl, Eden Dadon, | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
has been treated here for severe burns. | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
She waited with her elder daughter as doctors woke Eden | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
TRANSLATION: Not only did I have to save myself, | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
I had to do it at the speed of light, even though | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Do you think you can live peacefully with the Palestinians? | :21:36. | :21:48. | |
As far as I can see, living with them in peace | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
What's been happening shows that they don't want peace. | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
The bus bomber, Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, died | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
His family in Bethlehem have a long record of opposition, | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
But not angry enough to want to kill. | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
He think that they are our occupation, they took | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
They always do many things to make us angry. | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
We know every people want to take a freedom, | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
In 1967, Israel captured the old city of Jerusalem | :22:41. | :22:52. | |
and the other territories the Palestinians now want for a state. | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
For almost 50 years, the consequences of the 1967 war | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Palestinians say violence from their side is a reaction | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
The Israeli government says the real problem is that Palestinians | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Now, what's concerning for the future about the current violence | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
On both sides of the wall, there's cynicism at best, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Eventually, the two sides have a choice - | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
perpetual conflict, or they will have to sit down | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
Closest to perpetual conflict is Hebron, holy to Muslims | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
and Jews, home to more than 150,000 Palestinians. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
The Israeli Army protects around 800 Jewish settlers in the city centre. | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
Palestinians are banned from so-called sterile roads | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
Thousands of them have been forced to abandon homes and businesses. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Achiya Schatz served here in an Israeli undercover | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
Now he campaigns against the occupation. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
We need to understand that if we do want to have settlers living here, | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
it's going to be costing us lives of soldiers, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
it's going to be costing us money, it will cost us moral standards | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
because you need to have this kind of road clear. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
We took their life, their jobs, their ability to live in dignity. | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
There are no peace talks, no real hope, and that means | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
When that happens, the result is always more bloodshed. | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
Huge wildfires are sweeping across the Canadian | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
An entire city has been evacuated - forcing almost 90 thousand people | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Officials say whole neighbourhoods have been destroyed. | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Our North America Correspondent James Cook is in the province that | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
has seen the biggest evacuation in its history. | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
Tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in minutes. | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
Behind them, Fort McMurray, a ghostly sight, covered in smoke, | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
The fire jumped the river and we had basically two minutes to get home, | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
They didn't even let us take our things when we asked them, | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Reports from the city are sketchy, rumours are rife. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
But there has been significant damage. | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
In one neighbourhood, four out of every five homes | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
Even those hardened to tragedy are finding this tough. | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
It's been the worst day of my career. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
The community's going to be devastated. | :26:12. | :26:24. | |
This is going to go on, this is going to take us | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
As they ran, some residents filmed, documenting their escape | :26:27. | :26:40. | |
The blaze, burning since Sunday, had looked to be coming under control | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
The flames leapt roads, complicating the evacuation. | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
Fort McMurray, being evacuated, has been extremely difficult, not | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
just for the province and officials, but for the folks who live there. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
And with high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds, | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
the danger is far from over in this city of fire. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
James Cook, BBC News, Alberta Province, in Canada. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Tomorrow, millions of people across the UK will be | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
Not only in the Scottish Parliament, and the devolved assemblies in Wales | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
and Northern Ireland, but also in the local council | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
and mayoral elections in London and other cities. | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Here's Jeremy Vine with a look at the political landscape. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Let us look first at the lay of the land, those 124 English | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
councils where councillors are being elected on Thursday. | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
We might point out for example Exeter, Labour red, | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
they are in control, way outside their natural territory, | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
And also here, Castle Point in Essex, it's Ukip | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
versus the Conservatives, a fascinating battle. | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Plus this splodge of Liberal Democrat orange, | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
Let's go back to 2008 and have a look at the total number | :27:58. | :28:07. | |
And you see here the Conservatives, almost double the number | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
But Labour then start to recover and it is the Lib Dems | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
being punished, it seems, for the Coalition Government until, | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
by the end of our graph, almost to the present day, | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
here we have Labour, almost equal with the Conservatives | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
But the percentages tell a more complicated story. | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
Have a look at this terrible result for Gordon Brown's party, in third | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
But there was then a kind of recovery under Ed Miliband. | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
2012 was the last year these council seats were fought and | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
They will have to do as well as 38% just not to lose seats on Thursday. | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
Similarly, the Conservatives only have to improve on 31% | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
Come to the end of the graph, and we see the General Election year. | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
They're ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 13%. | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
It is not just about councillors on Thursday, | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
Let's have a look at the four Mayoral contests in England. | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
We have Salford, Liverpool, Bristol and the capital | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
This was the map in 2012 when Boris Johnson was elected Mayor | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
Sadiq Khan, for Labour, stands a great chance of winning. | :29:25. | :29:31. | |
If he wins in London, will that offset Labour | :29:32. | :29:33. | |
And there's more about all tomorrow's elections - | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
including Jeremy Vine's look at the Scottish Parliament | :29:40. | :29:41. | |
and devolved assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland - | :29:42. | :29:43. | |
The Duchess of Cambridge came face to face with herself | :29:44. | :29:52. | |
tonight when she visited an exhibition in London. | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
She was there to see two portraits of herself, | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
taken by the British photographer, Josh Olins. | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
The photos are part of an exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Vogue. | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
They're now on public view in the National Portrait Gallery, | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
where Kate has been a patron since 2012. | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
Football, and it's been a big night for Manchester City in the second | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid - | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
the team that's won more European Cups than any other. | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson is in Madrid. | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
Think of all that investment from Abu Dhabi, the manoeuvring through | :30:29. | :30:37. | |
financial fairplay, the effort, the recruitment, what's it all for for | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
Manchester City? Exactly for this, a noisy night in Madrid with so much | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
at stake. This opportunity, these opponents. The sad thing for | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
Manchester City is, they didn't really do themselves justice here | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
tonight. At the end of the day, at the end of the evening, all they | :30:54. | :30:55. | |
needed was a goal. There is only one place | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
where they measure their European It is part of the marketing | :31:00. | :31:00. | |
at Real Madrid. Come here and you are | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
taking on the best. But if it is a journey you are | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
after, think City, Manchester. Many fans here watched them play | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
in the third tier of I have been asleep | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
for 15 years, mate! After tonight, it will be | :31:18. | :31:29. | |
the ultimate dream. Inside the first ten minutes, | :31:30. | :31:38. | |
Manchester City in luminous kit, Vincent Kompany in agony and unable | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
to go on. Gareth Bale couldn't score | :31:42. | :31:48. | |
from there, could he? Still, on the away goals rule, | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
a score draw would send Bale came close again and now | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
Ronaldo - who do you think you are, The clock ticking to | :32:03. | :32:15. | |
88 minutes and still The end of this City dream and, | :32:16. | :32:23. | |
for the manager, two more games So it seems Mr Trump | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
is the Republican candidate. Can he unify his party | :32:31. | :32:43. | |
and can he win? Join me now on BBC Two, | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time | :32:48. | :32:49. | |
for the news where you are. | :32:50. | :32:55. |