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David Cameron's resignation Honours List - Downing Street says | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Theresa May won't intervene, despite claims it | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
On leaving Number Ten, Mr Cameron has nominated political | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Friends say he's rewarding people who've given service. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
When you think about it, providing these honours, actually, | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
I do not believe in honours for politicians who are in office, | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
because I think to be in office, to be elected to Parliament, | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
to a council or anywhere else is an honour itself. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
We'll be looking at the names on the list and at the controversy | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Also tonight, Britain's biggest rogue trader tells the BBC he thinks | :00:44. | :00:57. | |
the City culture encourages traders to break the law. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
The man who tried to behead a passenger at a London tube station | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Why a row over deporting illegal workers won't go away | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: David Moyes says stability | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
is the main priority for Sunderland, after their recent battles with | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Downing Street has said Theresa May will not block David Cameron's | :01:25. | :01:53. | |
resignation Honours List, stating it would set | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
a very bad precedent if she interfered with his choices, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
A list, leaked to the Sunday Times, claimed Mr Cameron had chosen | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
to reward Remain campaigners, donors, and Number Ten staff - | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
including his wife Samantha's advisor and stylist. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Supporters of Mr Cameron have said he was simply recognising people | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
who'd served both him and the nation. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Our political correspondent, Vicki Young, reports. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
David Cameron's departure from Downing Street was more sudden | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Many who'd been by his side during those | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
six years at the top watched, as he made his final speech outside | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Number Ten, after the dramatic loss of the EU referendum. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
And I want to thank everyone who's given so much support | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
Mr Cameron is preparing to thank some of his closest allies through | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
his resignation Honours List and it's proving controversial. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
It's the Royal Family who actually hand out | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
the OBEs, MBEs and knighthoods, part a system designed to recognise | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
people who've made achievements in public life or committed themselves | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
But on this occasion, David Cameron's | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
According to the Sunday Times, the names on the Honours List | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
include two donors, Ian Taylor and Andrew Cook, who gave millions | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
to the Conservative Party and the Remain side of the EU campaign. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
A key member of that losing Remain team, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Will Straw, son of former Labour Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Samantha Cameron's executive assistant, Isabel Spearman, who some | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
claim helped organised her diary and styled her hair. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
And four Cabinet ministers, including Philip Hammond | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
and Michael Fallon, who all backed Remain. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Labour have accused Mr Cameron of cronyism. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
I'm sure he's got a lot of mates that need rewarding. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
I want to see an honours system that's fair, is open, is more | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
democratic and people can nominate to it. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
I do not believe in honours for politicians who are in office. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
A British yachtswoman, Tracy Edwards, who received an MBE | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
after skippering the first all-female crew around the world | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
said honours should be for ordinary people. | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
I think they're devalued, when they're handed out | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
like this and it's seen as cronyism, honours for my mates, which this has | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
It devalues it for people like me, because I find | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Someone said to me, "Do you want to give yours back?" | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
We're leaving Downing Street, for the last time. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Mr Cameron's not the last Prime Minister to draw up | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
In 1990, Margaret Thatcher gave gongs to a newspaper | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
John Major rewarded several Conservative MPs and staff. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Tony Blair didn't have such a list, when he left office, | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
but he'd previously been engulfed in a cash-for-honours scandal. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
The British people have spoken and the answer is we're out... | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Mr Cameron has been criticised by the former Ukip leader, Nigel | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Farage, who was on the winning side in the EU referendum. | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
He said the list contained too many rewards for failure. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
But others say staff deserve recognition. | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
These people will have worked, as I say, under | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
intense pressure in Number Ten, where everything is required | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
You don't leave, at the end of the day. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
It's an extraordinary environment and atmosphere. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
And over the years, over six years in Downing Street, | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
the Prime Minister will have built up a huge debt of gratitude. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
The new Prime Minister, Theresa May has ruled out | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
Downing Street said it would set a very bad precedent. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
And we can speak to Vicki at Westminster now. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
These claims will boost those who think the honours system needs | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
reform. Yes, that's right. The accusations thrown at the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Westminster establishment often is that you're all in it for | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
yourselves. This probably won't help very much. Political honours over | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the years have always cause aid stir, Prime Ministers accused of | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
rewarding very wealthy donors or putting their chums into the House | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
of Lords. There will be some people looking at this today saying yes | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
those people in Downing Street might have worked very long hours but they | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
earn high salaries and they're simply being rewarded for doing the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
job that they were supposed to. There are MPs too who are worried | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
about undermining the entire system and really devaluing the thousands | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
of rewards which are given out to people around the country, many of | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
whom work for charities, work very hard for not very much money, | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
similar fly make their communities a better -- simply to make their | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
communities a better place. The calls for reform will continue but | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
there isn't much sign anything's going to change. Vicky, thank you. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
He was the rogue trader jailed for Britain's | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
biggest ever banking fraud, losing his Swiss bank ?1.5 billion. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Kweku Adoboli has now left prison and has given his first interview. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Speaking to the BBC, he said he was sorry for his actions | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
but claimed that crimes like his could happen again, | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
as bankers are under pressure to make profits "no matter what". | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, has this exclusive report. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
He became the very public face of the worst excesses of banking, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
jailed and forever known as the biggest rogue trader | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
One of the difficult things about coming out of | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
prison is that there is a lot of work, to rebuild your life... | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Today, four years after his conviction, | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
He is dependent on friends, for support. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
I began by asking him what caused that first step on a | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
We started, you know, trying to spread | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Because, in 2009, we were being asked by our | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
As we got through 2010 and 2011, as we were generating more profits, | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
we started to be told to spread our wings even more. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
So, you know, we would get e-mails coming through | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
The court heard dramatic evidence of that hunt for revenue. | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
Fictitious accounts, secret slush funds, he was called | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
the master fraudster, out of control as bets on the market | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
went wrong and he tried to hide increasing losses. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Britain's biggest ever fraud, jail for the rogue city trader who lost | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Kweku Adoboli was sentenced to seven years in prison. | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
I have apologised and I will continue apologising. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
I am devastated, not for myself, but for my institution | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
These are not just devices, it's how I feel, I failed. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
I was called a liar and I accept that I lied, I accept that | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
I was dishonest in the way I was doing things. | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
Looking back now, do you think of yourself | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
I made a sequence of terrible choices. | :09:03. | :09:16. | |
But your intentions were always in the | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
I accept I was found guilty of a crime. | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
This is One Finsbury Avenue in Central London, the home | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
of UBS Equities Trading and where Kweku Adoboli used to work. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Since 2012 and his conviction, across the banking sector, has | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Yes, there are thousands more compliance officers, | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
yes, there are thousands more pages of regulation. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
But, at its simplest, banking is a mixture | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Has behaviour changed in banking, enough? | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
The young people I have spoken to, former colleagues I have spoken | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
to, are still struggling with the same issues. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
This is a book, sort of, a scrapbook I had in prison, actually... | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
Looking back, Kweku Adoboli older now, maybe | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
wiser, can never work in banking, again. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
It would be wonderful if we could turn the page | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
For Kweku Adoboli, a new legal battle. | :10:28. | :10:45. | |
He is fighting extradition back to where he was born, Ghana. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
He says he has something to offer the UK, giving advice on encouraging | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
traders away from criminal behaviour. | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
A mentally ill man, who tried to behead a musician in an attack | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
at a tube station in London, has been jailed for life. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Muhiddin Mire, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
targeted passers-by at random - saying the attacks were | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly, has been | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
It was the start of a Saturday night when Muhiddin Mire ran amok, | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
Here, he was following musician Lyle Zimmerman, | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
who was on his way to a gig, laden with instruments | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
In the ticket hall, he pounced on him. | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Lyle Zimmerman spoke to the BBC today, he isn't showing his face, | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
because he doesn't want what happened to him | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
I remember being punched and kicked on the ground and then I lost | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
I found myself being looked after, expertly, by a junior doctor. | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
As he lay unconscious, Mire had slashed his throat. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
He shouted that he was going to spill blood, | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
I feel that he's been suffering from mental health | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
I'm not at all interested in retribution. | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
Mire was finally brought under control by police, | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
This simple response went viral on social media and was | :12:29. | :12:39. | |
I don't feel traumatised by the event. | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
It seems to me the people who have had significantly tragic outcomes | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
from this incident are mostly Mr Mire and his family | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
and I feel nothing but pity for them. | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
Today, the judge said Mire had been motivated by Muslims being bombed | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
He had images relating to so-called Islamic State on his phone. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
He will serve a minimum of eight-and-a-half years. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
And will start his sentence in Broadmoor High Security Hospital. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
Health authorities in America have advised pregnant women not to go | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
to a neighbourhood in Miami, where 14 cases of the Zika virus | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
An emergency response team from Washington is being sent | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
to Florida to help combat Zika, which has been linked | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
A Russian military helicopter has been shot down in Syria, | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
The Defence Ministry says the crew were returning to their base | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
after delivering humanitarian aid to the city of Aleppo. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
It's not clear which group brought the helicopter down. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
The US has carried out air strikes in Libya, targeting | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
the so-called Islamic State group in the city of Sirte. | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
The Pentagon said the raids were carried out at the request | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
of the country's recently installed unity government. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
The founder of a flagship free school, which was visited | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
by David Cameron, is facing a jail sentence after being convicted, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
along with two staff members, of fraudulently obtaining ?150,000 | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
The court heard that Sajid Hussain Raza, the founder | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
and principal of the Kings Science Academy in Bradford, | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
used some of the money to pay mortgages on his rental properties. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Our education editor, Branwen Jeffreys, reports. | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Standing at the Prime Minister's shoulder, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
Sajid Raza was a pioneer for David Cameron's free schools - | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
state schools paid for out of taxpayers' money, | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
but groups of individuals could apply to set one up. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
That is what Raza did, but he already had debts, | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
a string of buy-to-let properties, mortgages he struggled to pay. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
he was claiming false expenses and an inflated salary. | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Far from being a model school, Raza treated the academy | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
like a family business, employing his relatives there | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
and operating with no proper governance. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
The defendants treated public money like their own, | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
and when challenged, fabricated documents to cover their tracks. | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Senior education officials met Sajid Raza | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
to discuss the free-school application. | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
He seemed to just pluck figures out of the air. | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
The court heard that, if he was challenged, | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
he threatened to call Michael Gove, who was then Education Secretary. | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
but despite that, the application was approved, | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
and within months the first money was transferred. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
In October 2012, the Education Funding Agency | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
received allegations from a whistle-blower. | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
By January 2013, an audit team was on site investigating. | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
And in January 2014, the principal, Sajid Raza, was arrested. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Raza and his sister, Shabana Hussain, denied fraud, | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
but today they were found guilty by a jury in Leeds. | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
Officials say the allegations were investigated swiftly | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
and argue checks on free schools are robust. | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
But that still leaves unanswered questions - | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
how was a dishonest man allowed to set up a school despite concerns? | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
It started with raids by immigration officers on a dozen branches | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
of the upmarket burger chain Byron, in which 35 members of staff, | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
who'd been working illegally, were rounded up. | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
It led tonight to hundreds of people protesting | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
angry at the company's role in the raids. | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
Last week the protesters used a different tactic - | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
releasing cockroaches in another branch. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Byron has said it was complying with the law. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Take your burgers! Give us our brothers! | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
The demonstration outside this Byron in central London, | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
one of its 65 burger restaurants, followed an eruption of anger | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
at the raids on foreign staff working illegally in the UK. | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
Living here, having a life here and being settled here, | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
and that suddenly being torn from underneath you, | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
A lot of them send most of their salaries back home | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
So imagine it's not only them themselves who are going to suffer | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
but the people who are dependent on their wages too. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
managers called staff meetings at 12 restaurants. | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
35 workers from Albania, Brazil, Egypt and Nepal were arrested. | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
One legal Byron worker described the meetings, | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
which staff thought were on cooking burgers properly. | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
Within half an hour, immigration were stood | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
blocking the exit so nobody could leave. | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
They came in, told everybody not to move, pulled everybody up | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
from the kitchen and then started calling out the names | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
They were allowed to go and get a couple of items from home | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
and then put on an aeroplane that night. | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
And they were illegal, and so what could they have expected? | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Yeah, they were illegal, and they knew that they were illegal, | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
is the fact that what Byron did was wrong. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
They put them into a chicken pen and let the wolves in. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Everybody was crying, including management, | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
Byron wouldn't comment on the allegation that the morning | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
meetings were staged so that immigration officers could catch | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
more people, and they wouldn't give an interview. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
However, it made a statement that it was the Home Office | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
and Byron wasn't aware that it had those illegal workers. | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
Byron said, we carry out rigorous "right to work" checks, | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
but sophisticated counterfeit documentation was used | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
We have cooperated fully and acted upon the Home Office's requests, | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
If they don't make the right checks, they are subject to a fine | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
of ?20,000, and if they decide not to make those checks and employ | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
people illegally, it is a criminal offence, it's an unlimited fine | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
The detail of the law Byron has to contend with | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
didn't placate a group of activists who released | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
cockroaches, locusts and crickets in two of the restaurants | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
on Friday night, forcing them to close. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
Yet despite the protest, the rules will soon be even tougher, | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
and businesses flouting immigration law could be closed down. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
It's been another tough day for the Republican | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
presidential candidate, Donald Trump, as leading party | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
members distanced themselves from his attacks | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
on the family of a Muslim army captain killed in Iraq. | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
His father told our North America editor, Jon Sopel, | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
that he won't ask for an apology, because his dignity is worth more. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Trouble for Donald Trump, the GOP nominee in an escalating | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
war of words with the Muslim family of a fallen US soldier... | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
This is one fight that people are telling Donald Trump he can't win, | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
but for the moment he's not listening, complaining again | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
on social media that he had been the subject of a vicious attack | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Their speech at the Democratic Convention about the death | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
of their son, an American Muslim posthumously awarded a Bronze Star | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
and a Purple Star for heroism, has electrified politics. | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
Today, when I met them, I asked them, | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
had they committed a vicious attack on Mr Trump? | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
He can insult, he can disrespect women, judges, | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
even the members of his own party, yet when an ordinary citizen | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
of this country, a patriotic American Muslim | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
of this country, says anything about him, | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
he says he has been viciously attacked. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
He has different sets of rights. No, we all have same equal rights. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
for not having spoken at the convention. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Everyone in the audience felt it, without saying a word, | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
So I was surprised that he doesn't feel the pain. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
What type of person doesn't feel the pain? | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
You are attacking Mr Trump over his behaviour, very openly. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
Isn't there a danger that you will get attacked openly as well? | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
In every person's life, there comes a time when you choose | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
to either say what is the call of the time or shy away. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
I felt my family supported my stand, they said, "You should do that," | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
The normal law of politics is that if you are in a hole, | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
you stop digging, but that's not Donald Trump's style. | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
Not only over the Khan family, but this weekend | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
he's got into a right old tangle over policy towards Ukraine, | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
he had a close relationship with Vladimir Putin, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
he's now clarified he's never actually met him. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
It's not been a great few days for the Republican candidate. | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
A 12-year-old boy and three other teenagers have appeared | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
in Manchester Crown Court charged with murder. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Bradley Moore, who was in his 40s, died in hospital, | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
after he was attacked near a McDonald's restaurant | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
The boys cannot be named for legal reasons. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
The Ukip leadership candidate Steven Woolfe | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
has admitted breaking electoral rules | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
by failing to declare a conviction for drink-driving. | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
The MEP, who's the favourite to succeed Nigel Farage | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
as party leader, said he forgot about the conviction | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
as a police and crime commissioner four years ago. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
He is currently awaiting Ukip's verdict | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
on whether he can run for the leadership, | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
having missed the nominations deadline by 17 minutes. | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
The daughter of the Labour peer Lord Janner | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
has spoken for the first time about the claims | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
of child sexual abuse made against her late father. | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Marion Janner told BBC Newsnight she feels it's an outrage | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
that her father is part of the independent inquiry | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Last year, Lord Janner was chased into a criminal court | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
to face allegations he was a child abuser. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
His daughter Marion was by his side in the car. | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
The paparazzi were banging really violently on the window, | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
I thought the windows of the car were going to be smashed, | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
The allegations date back to Lord Janner's decades as a Leicester MP. | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
More than 30 men and women claim he befriened them as children, | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
sometimes in care homes, and abused them. | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
But Marion Janner and her family have no doubts he is innocent. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
about how he couldn't have done it, we know. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
So it's not just blind loyalty because he was a wonderful dad. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Questioned in 1982, he denied a relationship | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
he had with a teenager from a children's home was sexual. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
His family say they will show that all his accusers are making it up. | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
Next year, the new National Child Abuse Inquiry will examine | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
the claims, not a court, but it will reach conclusions about facts, | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
and Lord Janner's children are furious | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
The other 12 strands are all institutions, | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
big institutions, the NHS, the Church, and there is one strand | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
on one individual who was never convicted, and at the time of this | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
round of accusations had severe dementia so couldn't defend himself, | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
She says there's no chance of justice. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
His accusers say they've been denied it. | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
All my clients are interested in justice, | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
and the right to be heard, and the truth coming out. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
But the Janner family have refused to take part in this inquiry. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
They hope instead to fight for their father's reputation | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
Germany has said that Europe will not be blackmailed by Turkey | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
into allowing its people visa-free travel to the EU, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
after Ankara suggested it could back out of the deal | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
to stem the flow of migrants into Europe. | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
are increasingly strained after the failed Turkish coup. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Yesterday, a German court banned President Erdogan from | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
addressing a rally of supporters in Cologne via video link. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Let's join our correspondent Jonathan Head in Istanbul tonight. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Jonathan. Well, that migrants deal, you know, | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
has always been problematic, and nobody knew quite how it was going | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
to Dirk Kuyt. There have always been complications over Turks getting | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
visa free travel, but what has changed since the coup last month is | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
the mood. Turkey feels it should have got more wholehearted support | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
from the EU and its ally the United States, and less criticism, and that | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
is what is causing mistrust here and resentment. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
The impact of the coup is still being felt in so many ways. | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Here in Cologne over the weekend, supporters of Turkey's president | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
were hoping to hear him speak via satellite link. | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
But, wary of clashes, a German court blocked it. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
The Turkish government has reacted with fury. | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
TRANSLATION: How come German officials, who always talk | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
prevented our president from joining a legal and peaceful rally? | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
And this was the Turkish capital, Ankara, today. | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
against alleged American interference in the coup. | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
here trying to smooth unsettled diplomatic waters. | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
The coup was crushed within 24 hours, and most of the perpetrators | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
have now been detained, but it could have had | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
a very different ending, so don't be fooled by appearances. | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
The confidence of this country in itself | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
has been profoundly shaken, and that is bound to strain already | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
prickly relations with Western countries who the government | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
here feels have not been as sympathetic as they should be. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
So what about the controversial deal, struck with the EU in March, | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
to keep hundreds of thousands of migrants in Turkey? | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
That deal offered substantial financial aid in return | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
for Turkey accepting asylum seekers sent back from the EU. | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
But Europe has to accept equal numbers | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
of genuine Syrian refugees from Turkey. | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
And Turkey wants visa-free travel to the EU for its citizens. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Without that, it says, it will pull out of the deal by October. | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
These are exceptional times in Turkey, says this academic, | :28:10. | :28:18. | |
and its international partners need to be more sympathetic. | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
One has to realise that this country has just left behind | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
a very serious coup attempt, in which for the first time, I mean, | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
the Turkish military was divided, and arms were used | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
against the Turkish parliament, against politicians. | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
So I think it could be important to understand the sensitivities. | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
Proud, nationalistic and sharing a troubled history with Europe, | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
diplomatic relations with Turkey have always been hard to manage. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
With just days to go until the opening of the Rio Games, | :28:51. | :29:00. | |
a member of the International Olympic Committee has told the BBC | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
there needs to be a complete overhaul of anti-doping systems | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
to avoid any repeat of the Russian doping scandal. | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
This afternoon, Russia's sports ministry said it hoped to know | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
by tomorrow how many of its athletes will be cleared to compete. | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
Our sports editor, Dan Roan, has the latest from Rio. | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
Four days and counting, final preparations continue here | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
as Rio gets ready for the start of the Games. | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
But as the fallout from the Russian doping scandal | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
one member of the International Olympic Committee | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
today told me that such a crisis must never happen again. | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
I think there has to be, yeah, a complete overhaul of the system. | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
I would love to see a completely independent body | :29:43. | :29:44. | |
that really takes care of anti-doping in the world right now. | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
I think there's too many conflicts of interest we have | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
between the different bodies in the world, | :29:50. | :29:51. | |
when everybody is intertwined in international sport, | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
but this is the number one pressing issue for the future | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
of the Olympic movement, I think. | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
Russia's women's archers are already world champions. | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
They have been cleared to compete by their international confederation | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
but must wait for final confirmation from an IOC panel | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
that has been set up to review each athlete's drug-testing record. | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
The Russian government says they expect to be told tomorrow | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
which of their team has been cleared. | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
We know that, but I don't care about this, | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
I think archery is a clean sport, and there is no difficulty, | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
because this year, four times they get doping tests. | :30:27. | :30:34. | |
One of the sports most affected by this is rowing, | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
due to take place here in this spectacular venue. | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
22 members of the Russian team have been banned | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
because they failed new eligibility criteria. | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
In effect, they were deemed to have not been tested enough | :30:49. | :30:50. | |
That's five crews reduced to just one. | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
Once again, Team GB hope to be the dominant nation in this sport, | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
but does Russia's depleted squad take away from the competition? | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
The most important thing is the credibility and ethics | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
of Olympic sport, by a long, long way, so I think that | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
unless that's being tackled, and that's what is really important, | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
if there are one or two boats that are not in rowing, | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
well, that is minor compared to the message | :31:19. | :31:20. | |
that the public need to be confident of. | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
But the Games face other challenges, too. | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
A 16-month study found that waste levels in the waters | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
remain dangerously high, and pollution isn't the only worry | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
at the sailing venue, where the main ramp for boats | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
to access the water has partly collapsed, | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
raising concerns about the quality of constructions. | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
the sooner the actual sport begins, the better. | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
Rebel Labour MPs have been trying to find out what happens if Jeremy | :31:48. | :32:04. | |
Corbyn remains leader and they unilaterally dump him and declare | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
independence. We'll let you know whether they think that is an | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
option. Join me now on BBC Two. | :32:12. | :32:14. |