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Labour claim they've "hung on" and there's triumph for the SNP | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
elections across the UK. on politicians in | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
The SNP have won a third term in Scotland though are just short | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The Conservatives celebrate unexpected success in Scotland , | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
Labour failed to make any headway in England, | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
though it held onto most of its seats. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
We were getting predictions that Labour would lose councils, we | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
didn't, we hung on and grew support in a lot of places. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
But in London, Labour's candidate looks certain | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
to beat his conservative rival to become the capital's | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
We'll be looking at the latest results across the UK , | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
and where they've left the political parties. | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
The Government climbs down from its controversial plans | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
to force all schools in England to become academies. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Escaping the wildfires burning out of control in Canada - | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
some flee in their cars, others have to be airlifted out. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
And voyage to the bottom of the sea - the new discoveries lighting up | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
the deepest and darkest place on earth. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
And in Sportsday on BBC News, Andy Murray beets Tomas Berdych in the | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
quarters of the Madrid Masters, to set up a semi-final with Rafael | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
Nadal. It's been the biggest test | :01:31. | :01:50. | |
of political opinion since the general election - | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
and the national and local polls have delivered | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
some surprising results. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
said his party had "hung on" - but its share of the vote collapsed | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
in its former heartland of Scotland - where the SNP won | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
a third term in government though A resurgent Scottish Conservative | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
party unexpectedly beat There's been better news | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
for Labour in London - where the party's candidate | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Sadiq Khan defeated his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith - | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
to become the capital's first muslim In the big test across England's | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
councils there was little change. And while Labour has | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
the most councillors, it wasn't enough to silence some | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
MP's criticism of their leader. In Wales Labour remain in government | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
- but the most notable change was for UKIP - | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
which gained its first seats Our Political Editor, | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Laura Kuenssberg reports on a day that's raised big questions | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
for all the parties. This report contains | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
flash photography. The more things change, | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
the more they stay the same. Nicola Sturgeon reigns | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
still in Scotland. Tory divisions don't seem | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
to trouble their vote too much and Labour clings on, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
maybe inching forwards. All across England last night | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
we were getting predictions that We didn't, we hung on and we grew | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
support in a lot of places. Because our party is standing up, | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
standing up for the steel industry, standing up against the cuts | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
in disability payments made by this government, | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
standing up against the grotesque But it is almost impossible for him | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
to win the country with this. Heartbreak as they were pushed | :03:36. | :03:50. | |
to third in what was home. You will not have seen a Tory grin | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
like this here for decades. I promise that I will serve | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
to the very best of my ability, And the SNP with a touch fewer seats | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
but very much in charge. We are the very first party | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
in the era of devolution to poll more than 1 million | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
votes in constituencies The result of the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
election was emphatic. The people of Scotland once again | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
placed their trust in the SNP We won a clear and | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
unequivocal mandate. For the | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
Westminster government's moments but despite the Tories' | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
splits and spats over Europe, Enough for the Prime Minister to be | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
able to keep his bounce. Six years into government, of course | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
we don't get everything right, of course we can make mistakes | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
and sometimes things go wrong but I think people look at the big | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
picture and they want us to go on delivering what we | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
promised in our manifesto. But Labour dug in to keep | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
all but one of its councils, In areas in the south and around | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
England where they had feared But the challenge, as many party | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
members and MPs know all too well, is that they have to show they can | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
take back territory, But in London, Labour's Sadiq Khan | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
is on his way to do just that, on track to snatch City Hall | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
from the Conservatives' A big win for Labour but a powerful | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
perch for a man who has avoided The Lib Dem leader rushed | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
to his party's pockets of success. Even these baby steps | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
are worth popping corks for. Last year we had a terrible result | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
and the result of that outcome was that we had to roll | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
up our sleeves and fight back and we have done that | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
with that traditional Why not if you are Ukip | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
with new seats in Wales They squeezed Labour and the Tories | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
almost everywhere but their success Where Labour held on to power | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
but suffered pain and surprise as the Welsh valleys fell | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
to the Plaid Cymru leader. A new dawn is about | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
to break in Wales. Here in the Rhondda a new dawn has | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
already broken over the Valleys. There are layer upon layer | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
upon layer of results but underneath all that at the core | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
there was most pressure on Jeremy Labour has avoided a disaster | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
and on one measure they are even ahead of the Conservatives but this | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
is not a good set of If they are to have a real shot | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
at returning to power, they need to be piling on hundreds | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
and hundreds of seats It is not just Jeremy Corbyn's | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
enemies who are warning the party Tonight one of his powerful | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
union backers put him We are at the stage where we should | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
be winning hundreds of seats but I don't think that's | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
just about Corbyn. People will not vote for a divided | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
Labour Party and those on the right or place them | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
where you like who are pushing against Corbyn, they are not doing | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
themselves a service and certainly not doing the party a service and, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
most importantly from the GMB union's perspective, | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
they are not doing working It is about time they rallied behind | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
Corbyn and let's give it We do nearly know that these boxes | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
contain a Labour victory in London, an important victory for the party, | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
but politics is not just about piling up votes | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
where you know you can win, but persuading others | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
where you don't yet dare. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
Westminster. As we've seen it was a good night | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
for the SNP in Scotland, with a third term as the largest | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
party. They won 63 of 129 seats | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
in the Hollyrood parliament just two short of an overall | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
majority. The Conservatives are celebrating | :08:36. | :08:36. | |
coming second with 31 a gain of 16 seats, far more | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
than many had expected. Labour, for so long | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
the dominant force in Scotland, were left in third place | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
after they lost 13 seats. Our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith, | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
is at Holyrood for us now. Sarah, what's your assessment | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
of the result? We learned something very important | :08:53. | :09:03. | |
about Scottish politics last night, Fiona. That nearly two years after | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
the referendum, it is still all about independence. The parties | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
argued about tax, health, education but still, mostly, yes, voters voted | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
for the SNP, returning them to government, and in very large | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
numbers, no voters voted for the Tories, who campaigned to say that | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
they were the true defenders of the union. It was the Tories that | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
delivered a real shock to the political system. | :09:32. | :09:32. | |
Good morning it is 6.00am it is Friday morning, | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
welcome to a special election edition of Good Morning | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
And Ruth Davidson Conservatives look to be the new | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
official opposition in the Scottish Parliament. | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
Scots awoke this morning to news many thought they would never hear - | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Labour, once so dominant, beaten into third place by the Tories. | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, barely mentioned in her | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
campaign, that she is a Conservative, promising simply to | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
stand up to the SNP and against a second | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
I know that there are thousands who voted for me last night, | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
who are not natural Conservative, and probably | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
surprised that they considered voting Conservative, but they did as | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
They wanted somebody to stand up to the SNP to say | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
you cannot ignore our voice, you cannot ignore the | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
decision we made as a country and try to drag us back to a second | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
A working class kick-boxing, openly gay woman, always game for a | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
She can talk to voters, other Conservatives, | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
Scotland Street now has a Tory MSP for the first time. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
One of their remarkable gains across Scotland. | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
A couple of days ago, Ruth Davidson, who won this constituency, told me | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
she didn't think she had a chance of taking it. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
But the voters in | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
Edinburgh Central, responded to a very effective campaign. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
I think Ruth Davidson went out in the last few months, campaigning, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
going for the fact that they could do a good opposition. | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Whoever set up that strategy hit the nail on the | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
What could they say, do you think, to recover in Scotland? | :11:06. | :11:19. | |
Oh, I don't know what happens with Labour. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
Traditionally, it used to be Labour everybody in Scotland. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Traditionally, it used to be Labour everywhere in Scotland. | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
It is just funny now that they just don't seem | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
What can the Scottish Labour leader say about being bludgeoned into | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
How do you explain Labour's losses last night? | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
What we saw in Scotland last night was the | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
referendum arguments of the past being re-run again. | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
So strong support from the SNP from those that | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
voted "yes" and the cities that voted "yes" and strong support for | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
the Tories in the area that they dominantly know. | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
I thought Scotland would be interested in moving on from the | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
arguments of the past, that has not happened overnight. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
If Scottish voters don't move on, Labour will struggle to find a | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
Whilst Nicola Sturgeon, SNP, increased the | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
vote, denied an overall majority but ready to roll and still dreaming | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Labour have claimed victory in the London Mayoral election | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
with Sadiq Khan looking certain to end eight years of Conservative | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
He will be the capital's first Muslim mayor. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Let's talk to our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar who's at City | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
The official result isn't yet in but Sadiq Khan is set | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
There has been a technical hold-up but no doubt, Sadiq Khan will be | :12:38. | :12:52. | |
declared the Labour new Lord Mayor. Celebrating a personal victory, | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
after a very personal and ugly campaign. Why? Well, Zac Goldsmith, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
backed up by David Cameron, has worked hard to accuse Sadiq Khan of | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
sharing platform with Islamic extremists and the like. Even though | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
there is no suggestion that Sadiq is an extremist himself. There has been | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
a backlash. Condemned by Zac Goldsmith own | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
sister, Jemima Khan and others. A significant win for Sadiq Khan and | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
for Labour. Now to leave a rather bitter aftertaste. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
What does the win, to be confirmed, what does it mean for Labour? After | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
the win is about to be confirmed in a couple of hours or so, well those | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
Labour members, the ordinary card-carrying members, loyal to | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
Jeremy Corbyn will stay that way. That means in Westminster among the | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
MPs, the idea of a challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
strong hardline dissidents is on hold. Two Labour MPs, senior one, I | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
know were ready and willing to go for it, to declare themselves | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
candidates in a leadership contest and a senior member of the shadow | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
candidate, and Jeremy Corbyn has won extra time. There is a party planned | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
for Sadiq Khan. Jeremy Corbyn has been invited. Maybe now with the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
victory, he is not so sensitive about who he is seen with. But the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
victory party is taking place in a secret location. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
Well in Wales, Labour is likely to continue governing | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
on its own even though it fell just short of an overall majority | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Labour are on 29, Plaid Cymru on 12, the Conservatives 11. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
And for the first time Ukip won seven seats. | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith is in Treorchy | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Hywel some comfort for Labour but Ukip are celebrating. | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Yes, Ukip have been called many things during the election campaign. | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
Outsiders, insurgent, new kids on the block but now elected officials | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
and all of the trappings that brings to give them a proper power base in | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
Wales ahead of the EU referendum. Adding to the opposition against the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
biggest party here, Labour, who have come through, after a difficult | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
night but face new challenges in the five years ahead. | :15:25. | :15:25. | |
For a fifth term in a row, Labour is the National | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
of the vote is down, rows in the party are | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
I do wish sometimes that the politicians in London | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
would remember there is an election in Wales and an election in Scotland | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
and I have made my views clear as to what I thought of it. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
I don't think it affected the result, if I am honest with you, | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
but certainly, on occasion, people were raising it with us, | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
The results did bring a change in the landscape. | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
In the Rhondda, a Labour heartland, Plaid Cymru | :16:00. | :16:00. | |
Ukip, the party promising to break the cosy consensus | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
of Welsh politics, now have Assembly members too. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
So why are voters changing their allegiance? | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
The first time ever I voted Plaid Cymru. | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
I've always been Labour, I just don't think they are doing | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
As for Ukip, it is on everybody's lips, isn't it. | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
One person out of a job is the Welsh Lib Dem leader, | :16:24. | :16:33. | |
Kirstie Williams, who resigned after she became the party's only | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
The shape of the opposition parties in Wales helps Labour. | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
We have the opposition to Labour, the non-Labour parties spread, | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
so whilst they make some challenges to Labour, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
they cannot capture those constituency seats. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Labour must now decide how to negotiate the next five years | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
In Northern Ireland the first results are beginning to come | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
in though the final outcome isn't expected until tomorrow. | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
Let's talk to our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler who's | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
at a count in Belfast - what sense can you get of the way | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
With over half the seat now filled at Stormont it is clear that today | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
marks a good day for the DUP. Its leader, Arlene Foster, arrived a | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
short while ago and she said she was elated by the scale of a victory for | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
them and she will now be returned to Stormont as First Minister. It has | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
also been pretty good for Sinn Fein although they have faced some | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
challenges, not least in their traditional heartland of West | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
Belfast where they lost a seat to the People Before Profit Alliance | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
which actually topped the poll. But looking at the new Stormont, it is | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
clear it will be dominated once again by the DUP and Sinn Fein at | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
the expense of the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP. Thank you. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Let's go back to our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
What message do you think the voters are sending the political | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
parties with these results, and where does it leave | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
When the rosettes have been packed away and the balloons from the | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
celebrations have shrivelled down, what are we left with? In a set of | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
elections where not much power actually changed hands, there are | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
still two dramatic lessons from Scotland in particular. For Labour, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
a very serious setback, worrying for the party around the UK not just | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
because they need Labour vote if they have a hope of winning a | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
general election but also because even though the campaign was not run | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
by Jeremy Corbyn, it adopted the kind of ideas that are more | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
comfortable to his kind of politics. The party tacked left and voters in | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Scotland roundly rejected it and that has got to be a concern for | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Labour across the UK. But also a lesson for the Conservatives, if | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
they are willing to listen. Their freshfaced, modern, daredevil | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
candidate Ruth Davidson pulled off something unachievable a few months | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
ago in Scotland whereas in contrast, an old-fashioned, nasty campaign in | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
London looks like it has actually lost city hall and that has been won | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
by Labour instead and that is a lesson cover the contrast between | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
the modern face of the Tory party and old-fashioned campaigning that | :19:31. | :19:32. | |
some people in the party are already pointing to. Generally, the | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Conservatives slipped rather than fell away, they don't have much they | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
think they need to panic about. But for the Labour Party, even though | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's team are pleased with the results, they feel the | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
immediate threats to his leadership has abated. The fundamental anxiety | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
in many parts of the party about him is still there and it is the same | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
anxiety that was there from the date in which he won the election. Can he | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
showed that he can reach out to voters in the middle, beyond the | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
party's base, the members and those who would always vote for the party? | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
He has not so far been able to answer that question and that is a | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
significant concern that will not disappear in the weeks and months to | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
come. A big health warning, these elections are intriguing and | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
important but they don't translate directly into the next general | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
election but nonetheless, they are important clues and signals about | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
what might lie ahead for all of the political parties. Thank you. | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
And there's lots more detail and analysis on our website, | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
and details of the elections for Police and Crime Commissioners. | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
The government has made a U-turn on its controversial plans to force | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
all schools in England to become academies. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
After strong opposition from teaching unions, | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
councils and Conservative MPs, the Education Secretary, | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Nicky Morgan, now says the proposal is only an "aspiration". | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
It's the latest in a series of government policy climbdowns. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
Our Education Editor, Branwen Jeffreys, has the story. | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
In the middle of the North Yorkshire moors, a village school | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
Now just nine pupils, it feared being forced | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
It was schools like this that galvanised a Tory revolt. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
Today, the Education Secretary gave way. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Where schools are good and outstanding, they can make | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
We are convinced that becoming academies does lift standards | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
but they can do the right thing for them. | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
So what does this academies climbdown mean? | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Good schools will not be forced to become academies, | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
But schools will become academies in areas where councils | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
And councils will have an equal say over the future of small, | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
rural schools, so they can't close without local agreement. | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
So I asked Nicky Morgan, how badly did they miscalculate? | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
There is a huge appetite amongst parliamentary colleagues | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
on the Conservative benches for schools to become academies... | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
But not to be forced to become academies? | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
We don't think it's necessary for there to be a blanket provision | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
for schools to convert to become academies. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
You put forward the plans you defended them. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Doesn't this undermine your own authority as Education Secretary? | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
All government has to be about listening to Members | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
of Parliament, as Secretary of State for Education, listening | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
to the profession, listening to those working in education. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
George Osborne put these plans at the centre of his Budget. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
We are going to complete the task of setting schools free from local | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
education bureaucracy and we are going to do it in this | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
A flagship policy and a massive climbdown on a busy day | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
This is a bad policy that nobody wanted and nobody needed. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
But there's no question, it is a major U-turn | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
and a humiliating one for the government. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
But I'm pleased that schools can now concentrate | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
The lesson for the government, don't take your own MPs for granted. | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
They are behind the drastic rewriting of these draft plans. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
It allows for proper discussion, proper debate, it allows some | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
of the problems to be found before you end up with legislation | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
So I really welcome the process we have gone through, | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
it helps to us get to the right place and the best | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
Scratch the surface and the end result may still be many | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
more academies but good schools will be coaxed, | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
In Canada, some of the 90,000 people forced by raging wildfires to | :23:48. | :24:04. | |
abandon an entire city in the province of Alberta are having to be | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
evacuated again as they find themselves once more endangered by | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
the flames burning out of control. Some have | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
the flames burning out of control. journey in convoys of cars, others | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
are having to be airlifted to safety. Our correspondent James Cook | :24:19. | :24:19. | |
reports from Alberta. It is mid afternoon | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
on a bright, sunny Tuesday. But darkness has descended | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
on Fort McMurray and 80,000 people Those are burning embers flying | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
through the air, and people further on are being chased | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
by the monster fire. The view from inside the ruined | :24:41. | :24:58. | |
city. Police say a handful of people may have stayed here and survived. | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
Three days on, the fires are still raging out of control. Police say | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
flames of the 200 feet high on both sides of the road have forced them | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
to the -- suspend the convoy and they are also worried about the risk | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
of an explosion at a nearby oil facility. With the amount of | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
material there you are looking at about 814: to blast radius so it is | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
a pretty substantial area. For some families, sheltering five hours to | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
the south of unsure if their homes have survived, the wait is grim. | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
Around 150 helicopters are still fighting this fire, the challenge | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
for the pilots and more than 1000 firefighters on the ground is clear | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
from the air. The extent of the fire is breathtaking. And the power of it | :25:51. | :26:02. | |
is truly awesome. Just look at it. This is what the firefighters are | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
having to deal with, this has just erupted in the last 20 minutes and | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
has taken hold quickly and the flames are being fanned by Gary | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Strong winds. As if that wasn't bad enough, temperatures tomorrow are | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
forecast to soar -- very strong winds. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
The BBC has learned that eight police forces - | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
including Greater Manchester Police - are investigating election | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
expenses for some Conservative MPs during last year's General Election. | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
The allegations centre on hotel costs for party | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
activists bussed in to help in marginal constituencies. | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
Filing incorrect election expenses is a criminal offence. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
North Korea, one of the world's most secretive and authoritarian states, | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
is holding a rare Workers Party Congress. | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
The event - the country's most powerful political gathering | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
involving more than 3000 delegates - hasn't been convened since 1980. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Our correspondent John Sudworth is one of a group of | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
foreign journalists - operating under heavy surveillance | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
and control in Pyongyang - invited in to witness the occasion. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
It's the kind of welcome you would expect for the leader of the world's | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
But Kim Jong-un is young and just four years into the job and he may | :27:14. | :27:25. | |
not yet be totally secure in his position. | :27:26. | :27:35. | |
TRANSLATION: In this year of the seventh Party Congress, | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
the military and the people have accomplished great success | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
in the first hydrogen bomb test and the launch | :27:41. | :27:41. | |
But, away from the conference, our government minders have been | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
keen to show off a different side of Pyongyang. | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
Commerce, once a rare sight in this rigid socialist system, | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
And here is something else they are keen to show off | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
and something you don't normally associate with North Korea, | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
a football training academy, the brainchild, we are told, of | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
Our guides hope it shows a modern, dynamic, outward | :28:17. | :28:26. | |
And yet it also highlights a massive problem. | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
The development of the academy, like the rest of the economy, | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
Some people would say that if North Korea stopped its nuclear | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
programme and its nuclear ambitions, the sanctions would be lifted. | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
A wolf is just looking at you, in front of you. | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
He wants to eat you, with nuclear weapons. | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
Do I have to put down the gun and wait with nothing in my hand | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
There may be hints of economic reform but in North Korea everything | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
The real purpose of this Workers Party Congress | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
is consolidating this man's hold on power. | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
John Sudworth, BBC News, Pyongyang. | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
It's the deepest place on Earth, around seven miles beneath | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
Now scientists from America's oceans research agency are getting a rare | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
glimpse of just what inhabits the depths of the Mariana Trench. | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
And the video taken by remote submersibles is being broadcast live | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
Our Science Editor, David Shukman, has been taking a look. | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
An alien world being explored right now by a robot submarine. | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
One of the strangest and most spectacular sights, | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
a luminous jellyfish, pulsing its way through | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
the Mariana Trench, the darkest, deepest waters anywhere | :29:53. | :29:53. | |
Scientists up on the surface are amazed. | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
A sea cucumber, luridly coloured, twisting in light it | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
An image that wasn't only filmed but was also relayed live. | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
The revelations can be watched by anyone with access | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
It's part of a new age of exploration with marine | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
researchers onboard the expedition ship sharing their discoveries | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
The deep sea, it really is a place of wonder and beauty. | :30:25. | :30:34. | |
And quite often, yes, we will have the chance to go | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
through and make sense of it as scientists later. | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
But the colours, the delicate life forms down there, | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
it's just astounding, the intricate wonders | :30:43. | :30:43. | |
But some of the discoveries are depressing. | :30:44. | :30:54. | |
There is litter even in the abyss, rubbish that has drifted down | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
through several miles to the ocean floor. | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
It's a new threat to the creatures here. | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
They have already had to adapt to the extremes of pressure. | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
This is what is known as a ghost shark. | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
It's always said that we know more about the moon | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
This expedition and others that will follow are changing that. | :31:14. | :31:22. | |
That's all from us,now on BBC1, its time for the news where you are. | :31:23. | :31:25. |