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Tonight at Ten: The FBI confirms for the first time | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
it is investigating possible links between Russia and the Trump | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
James Comey tells Congress that among the claims being investigated | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
is that Russia interfered in the US democratic process. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
And that includes investigating the nature of any links, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
between individuals associated with the Trump campaign, | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
And whether there was any coordination between the campaign | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
But the President is unmoved dismissing the claims as more fake | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
news, a message relayed by his spokesman. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
You can continue to look for something, but continuing | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
to look for something that doesn't exist doesn't matter. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
We'll have the latest from Washington, where the FBI's | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
evidence has rocked the political establishment. | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
Theresa May will start the process of negotiating Britain's exit | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
from the European Union in nine days' time. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Google has apologised for placing online adverts | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
A special report from northern Nigeria where thousands are at risk | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
from continuing violence in the fight against | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
And it's a very happy birthday for Dame Vera Lynn, | :01:18. | :01:33. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Jermaine Defoe, striker at | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
relegation-threatened Sunderland, says he must play in the Premier | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
League if he's going to reach the next World Cup with England. | :01:46. | :02:08. | |
For the first time, the director of the FBI has confirmed publicly | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
that he's investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
presidential campaign and the Russian government before | :02:16. | :02:16. | |
James Comey also told a Congressional hearing there was no | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
evidence to support Mr Trump's claims that his home | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
had been wiretapped by the Obama administration. | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Hours before the committee hearing began, the President dismissed | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
allegations of collusion as fake news. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Let's join our North America editor Jon Sopel at the White House. | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
Since Donald Trump moved in here, the Kremlin has cast a long shadow | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
over this White House, a whole pile of allegations and questions, most | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
notably, was there collusion between the Trump campaign when he was | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
running for president and the Russian government? But other | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
questions have also emerged, did Barack Obama wiretap the phones are | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Trump Tower and did he have British assistance? | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
The FBI as part of our counterintelligence mission is | :03:15. | :03:31. | |
investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
nature of any links between individuals associated with the | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts. On the detail | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
of the investigation into Russian collusion, James Komi wouldn't be | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
drawn but what about the president's claims that his predecessor Barack | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower? With respect to the president's | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
tweet about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
administration I have no information that supports most tweets and we | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
have looked carefully inside the FBI. So President Obama could not | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
unilaterally order wiretap of anyone? No president could. Were you | :04:21. | :04:32. | |
engaged in McCarthyism? I try very hard not to engage in any isms of | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
any kind. Then he turned to the director of the national Security | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
agency to us questions about British involvement. Did you ever request | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
your counterparts in GCHQ should wiretap President Trump on behalf of | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Barack Obama? No, that would be expressly against the construct of | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
the agreement that has been in place for decades. Does it do damage to | :05:02. | :05:13. | |
our relationship with one of our closest intelligence partners for | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
the president to make a baseless cream that the British participated | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
in a conspiracy against him? I think it clearly frustrates a key ally of | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
hours. I believe the restriction -- relationship is strong enough to | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
deal with this. Donald Trump tweeted: This story is fake news and | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
everyone knows it. And the real story that Congress and the FBI and | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
all others should be looking into is the leaking of classified | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
information. And at the White House briefing, were they getting ready to | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
host the white flag? Of course they weren't. Is the president prepared | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
to withdraw the accusation and apologise? No, we started hearing, | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
it is still ongoing. As for collusion with the Russians, what | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
collusion? There is nothing that leads them to believe that exists. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
The president today was with the Iraqi Prime Minister and he even got | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
in on the act, grabbing his arm at the end and saying, we had nothing | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
to do with the wiretapping. It's not recorded whether the president | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
laughed at his joke. We have a director of the FBI | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
publicly at odds with the president of the United States, what are the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
repercussions potentially of that? It is an extraordinary pinch | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
yourself moment we have witnessed today. The leader of the prime law | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
agency announcing there is to be an inquiry on going into whether there | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
was collusion between Donald Trump supporters during the election | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
campaign and the Moscow government. That is extraordinary in itself but | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
we have also had the kind of leader of the FBI saying you know those | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
allegations that Donald Trump made 16 days ago about Trump Tower being | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
phone tapped by Barack Obama? That is all nonsense too, publicly | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
putting himself at odds with the president, then you have the NSA | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
director reacting to the suggestion that somehow British agents might | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
have been involved, saying that is all stuff and nonsense, there is no | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
truth to that whatsoever. You haven't had a climb-down from the | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
White House, they continue to believe their claims need to be | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
investigated. Suppose the one source of comfort for Donald Trump in all | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
of this is that this is going to be months, possibly years before it | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
will be resolved, but that's also the nightmare, the cloud of Russia | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
still hangs this place. -- over this place. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
The process of negotiating Britain's departure from the European Union | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
Downing Street has announced that Theresa May will trigger Article 50 | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
of the Lisbon Treaty the formal exit process on the 29th of March. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
The European Commission has said everything is ready | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
Mrs May promised to negotiate hard for Britain's interests | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
but opponents say it's extraordinary to start the process without clarity | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
about the plans as our political correspondent Vicki Young reports. | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
She is stepping into Britain's most important | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
During a trip to Swansea, Theresa May said her aims were clear. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Those include getting a good free trade deal, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
they include putting issues like our continued working together | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
on issues like security at the core of what we are doing. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
We are going to be out there negotiating hard, | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
delivering on what the British people voted for. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
In Brussels, they've been waiting for Britain to make its move. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Now we know it will come on the 29th. | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
Yes, everything is ready on this side. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
The President of the European Council tweeted that he would | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
respond swiftly next week with negotiating guidelines for | :09:18. | :09:18. | |
The formal process of triggering Article 50 will happen on March | :09:19. | :09:28. | |
the 29th when the Prime Minister sends a letter to Donald Tusk. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Talks could then start in May or June and negotiators have up to | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
For ardent Brexit campaigners in Westminster tonight, | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
Others though say the Prime Minister has failed to provide any | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
Across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
That means the prospect of crashing out of the EU without a deal | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
is a very real prospect and that would be highly disruptive | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Whether we like it or not, big change is coming. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
And I think it's disappointing that the Prime Minister hasn't tried | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
to seek agreement and compromise with the Scottish Government | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
and other devolved administrations before she did this. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Theresa May's government faces a monumental task, | :10:20. | :10:20. | |
negotiating an exit deal that doesn't punish the UK. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
Sorting out a new trade deal with the EU that won't harm | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
And, alongside all of that, here in parliament, numerous laws | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
will be needed to set up new systems covering everything from immigration | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Ministers insisted today they are preparing for all eventualities, | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
deal. But they are optimistic about talks. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
I think it's manifestly in the interests not just of the UK | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
but of the continuing European Union that there should be a sensible | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
This Vogue magazine fashion shoot released today shows | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Next week she'll embark on a much tougher assignment. | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
Our Europe editor Katya Adler is in Brussels. | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
The Prime Minister today talked about negotiating hard, is it fair | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
to say there is every sign in the European Community as well that they | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
will negotiate hard? We did hear very tough words from Jean-Claude | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Juncker at the weekend when he said that when you see the Brexit deal | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
and no other country will want to leave, but I think we are in that | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
stage now where the Brexit negotiating boxes are in the ring | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
but they haven't come based to fist so they try to look menacing and | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
that goes for the UK Government with its robust statements as much as for | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the EU. The EU worries other countries could be tempted out of | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the door and yet there is a sense of relief in Brussels tonight, the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
looming threat of Brexit now takes concrete form with the process | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
starting on Wednesday. Better done and over with, they think here, so | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
the EU can move on. And while the commission will be the lead | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
negotiator for the EU, it is EU countries that call the shots. There | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
will be a summit in about five weeks to discuss guidelines and red lines | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
but don't expect much to happen before the autumn. It is preferred | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
here to get elections in France and Germany out of the way first. Thank | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
you. The Labour Party is in | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
the grip of a civil war, deputy leader Tom Watson, who's | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
declared that there's a secret plot by left-wing supporters | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn which could destroy Mr Watson was reacting to claims | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
that the grassroots Momentum group which helped make Mr Corbyn leader | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
is hoping to get financial support from Britain's | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
largest trade union Unite. Our deputy political editor | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
John Pienaar reports. He keeps saying he | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
loves being leader. Morning, Mr Corbyn - | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
is there a plot to take Life's tough for Labour on a good | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
day, and this was a bad one. As his team gathered together, | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
the party tore itself apart, and his deputy condemned | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
what he called a new and Of a secret plan by the hard left | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
to take control of the Labour Party, using the members' money from Unite | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
the union to organise It threatens our very existence | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
as an electoral force in the land - Momentum is the party leader's army | :13:37. | :13:51. | |
of loyal supporters. Its founder, Jon Lansman, | :13:52. | :13:52. | |
was recorded guiding members to change Labour's rules to help | :13:53. | :13:52. | |
another left-winger succeed Jeremy Corbyn, to pick left-wing | :13:53. | :13:53. | |
candidates and drop others. So, we may well face | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
an election this year, and that will disrupt some | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
of our plans, but we've still got And what we need to do next | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
is a number of things to change This is the leader's most | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
powerful ally, running Can Len McCluskey win and help | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
the left tighten its political grip? He has chosen to use his members' | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
money to take control of the Labour Party, | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
rather than develop policies and a manifesto that are attractive | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
to millions of voters. Not true, according | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
to the Unite leader tonight. This is extraordinary | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
behaviour by Tom Watson. I've not had any meetings at all | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
with John Lansman on anything, including this latest nonsense that | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
Tom has come out with. This high-level counterattack | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
from Mr Corbyn's right-hand In the week that the ballot papers | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
go out for the Unite election, I think this is about Tom's | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
interference in Well, obviously, he wants to install | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
a candidate of his choice, Labour's identity is at stake, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
in a bitter struggle The Shadow Cabinet had what was | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
called a "robust discussion" - And whether the election comes | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
in 2020, as Theresa May insists, or sooner, Labour has never looked | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
more torn or vulnerable. Jeremy Corbyn elected | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
as leader of the... Unite denies planning | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
to back his most militant allies, Tonight his deputy won | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
cheers and support from This fight will go on as long | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
as he's leader, and may just A brief look at some of the day's | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
other other news stories. The former Chancellor, | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
George Osborne, has defended his decision to accept the post | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
of editor of the London Evening Standard while continuing | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
as Conservative MP for Tatton. Mr Osborne, who's faced calls | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
to step down as an MP, says Parliament is enhanced | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
by having MPs with CCTV images have been published | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
of the moment a suspected Islamist extremist attacked | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
a soldier at a Paris Zeeyad Ben Belgacem grabbed | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
the female soldier, taking control of her automatic | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
rifle, but was shot dead minutes Pope Francis has asked for | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
forgiveness for what he described as the sins and failings | :16:31. | :16:45. | |
of the Roman Catholic Church In November the Kigali government | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
requested an apology from the Vatican over the role some | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
Catholic priests and religious The president of Google | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
in Europe has apologised after online adverts for companies | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
and organisations appeared alongside extremist | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
content on You Tube. Marks and Spencer has become | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
the latest firm to withdraw material Our media editor Amol | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
Rajan has the story. Millions of videos are uploaded | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
onto YouTube everyday. But they include extremist | :17:14. | :17:28. | |
material such as Jihadi propaganda and footage | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
from neo-Nazi campaigns. And yet these hate-filled videos | :17:32. | :17:32. | |
attract advertising, Here, a radical Islamist preaches | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
about a holiday advert. And here, fascists are twinned | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
with an advert for a BBC programme. An anti-Semitic video, | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
but the advert promotes Today, YouTube's owner, | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
Google, apologised. You have probably read stories | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
recently about some brands appearing against content that they didn't | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
want to, and in the spotlight So we'll start by saying | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
sorry, we apologise. When anything like that happens | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
we don't want it to happen, you don't want it to happen | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
and we take responsibility for it. A growing list of household names | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
from banks to media organisations have said they will stop | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
advertising with Google until Broadcaster Channel 4 is one | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
of those who paid Google But now it's angry at | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
what has been happening. We specifically asked our adverts | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
not to appear alongside offensive videos, and yet | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
that is exactly what's happened. It is incredibly damaging | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
for a brand like Channel 4 alongside neo-Nazi and homophobic | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
videos, especially if, as it turns out the way Google | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
operate their systems, we're funding the organisations that | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
made the videos in the first place. Advertisers like Channel 4 have | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
helped to make Google one of the most powerful companies | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
in the world. Now they are saying that with that | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
power comes responsibility. Google has always said it's | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
a technology company But some of its advertisers | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
are now disagreeing. One of the most influential men | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
in marketing says he recognises that brands, advertisers and tech | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
companies need to work together They have to make sure there | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
is a sort of a whitelist of sites where the advertising can go | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
and a blacklist of I think we will get to a solution, | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
there's too much at stake. Google says it is taking action, | :19:32. | :19:43. | |
but until they break the link between advertising and hate online, | :19:44. | :19:44. | |
internet giants face a level of scrutiny | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
that they aren't used to. The backlash against | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
big tech has begun. The UN says hundreds of thousands | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
of people are at risk from the continuing violence | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
in north-east Nigeria, as the army continues an offensive against | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
the Islamist group Boko Haram. Food shortages have forced many | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
to flee their homes and farms, putting significant strain | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
on refugee camps. Boko Haram gained notoriety in 2014 | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
with the kidnap of 292 girls But since then it has has been | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
driven out of several areas. The BBC's Clive Myrie has been | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
to the city of Bama, which has been largely | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
destroyed by the Islamists during years of fighting, | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
and he sent this report. Farmers fields in North East Nigeria | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
don't yield crops but pity. They're now just dusty brown patches | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
because farmers, for years, have been unable to till the land | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
due to conflict. And, on the ground, | :20:44. | :20:51. | |
in the town of Bama, bullet-riddled buildings, | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
homes ransacked and lives destroyed. This city used to have a population | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
of close to 300,000 people. Now you walk down the main | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
street here and there It's a ghost town, | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
a shell, emptied of life. Residents had to flee | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
the Islamist group, Boko Haram. Now the grounds of a derelict | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
hospital many call home. TRANSLATION: They just | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
started killing people They said we would be | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
safe, don't be afraid. But when they found us, | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
they caught my father Exiles in their own country, | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
the rituals of life continue. But so many people are paying | :21:42. | :21:51. | |
the price for the twisted ideology of the few - | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
that Nigeria's camps, for those displaced | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
by the fighting, are struggling. This one houses 11,000 people | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
and was so overcrowded with malnourished, new arrivals | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
a few months ago, there Nevertheless, hundreds are arriving | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
at camps like this everyday, as the Nigerian military continues | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
to push Boko Haram back, A mother who had to walk | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
with three her children, from 10pm one evening, | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
and it took until 9am to reach Bama. It's estimated there may be | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
between 500,000 to 800,000 people trapped out there with no access, | :22:35. | :22:46. | |
left, you know, to their fate. What's needed is more international | :22:47. | :22:59. | |
help and crucially farmers But Boko Haram is still out | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
there and farmers are scared. The chances of a decent | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
harvest this year are zero. Planting season begins | :23:07. | :23:07. | |
in less than two weeks. The town of Bama is being | :23:08. | :23:07. | |
rebuilt, after the wanton But this place holds | :23:08. | :23:07. | |
terrible memories for those "I have no mother, I have no | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
father," she tells me. Clive Myrie, BBC News, | :23:12. | :23:25. | |
in Bama, North East Nigeria. In France, the leading | :23:26. | :23:37. | |
candidates for the presidency have been taking part | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
in the first televised election It features five contenders, | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
who've been addressing issues including security, | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
the economy and France's Our Paris correspondent, | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
Lucy Williamson, has been following the exchanges and has | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
just sent this report. The colours were sober, the | :23:54. | :24:05. | |
entrances Loki will stop but make no mistake, this arena was designed for | :24:06. | :24:06. | |
a fight. The circular set designed to | :24:07. | :24:18. | |
encourage real debate between the heavyweights fighting for the top | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
job. It worked. Most of the fire was between the election's two leading | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
contenders. Marine Le Pen and her centrist rival, Emmanuel Macron. | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
They disagreed on almost everything. Immigration, free trade and the | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
place of immigrants in France. A few years ago there were no bikinis on | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
the beach and I know you are for them. It is a trap to turn the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
bikini into a big debate about secularism. That is the trap we are | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
falling into. It is to divide society and turn the 4 million | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
Muslims living in our country into enemies of the Republic. Francois | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
Fillon was for once is not the centre of attention. He may have | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
been hoping for a presidential kind of reserve. But, after all the | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
surprises in this election, it's not clear as to the kind -- that is the | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
kind of president France once anymore. | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Supporters of Marine Le Pen are seen as fiercely loyal and she is | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
expected to get through to the second round of the election. The | :25:33. | :26:09. | |
debates are largely about who will join her in the second round. | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
Whoever that is has a really good chance of making it to the Elysee | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Palace. At the moment polls suggest it would be Emmanuel Macron will | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
stop but many supporters are swing voters who say they have not finally | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
decided who to vote for. In an election this unpredictable, it is | :26:24. | :26:24. | |
not sure how much he can rely on their support. | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
In Northern Ireland, police are considering | :26:28. | :26:27. | |
reintroducing measures to check that off-licences are not | :26:28. | :26:28. | |
It follows reports of a surge in underage drinking, | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
involving children as young as ten in some cases. | :26:32. | :26:32. | |
Parents and community groups are calling for more to be done | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
to tackle what they call a 'culture of drinking' among young people. | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
We've disguised the identities of the underage drinkers | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
Some teenagers see the weekends as a time for drinking. | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
In this County Down park, there are young people clearly | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
And moments when some seem not in total control. | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
How much have you had to drink tonight? | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
And how much would you normally have to drink at the weekend? | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
And are you worried about being out and drunk in the street? | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
D'you want to know what I worry about? | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
But in the last six weeks, volunteers from a community group | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
here have had to call an ambulance for a teenager who was | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
And they're concerned about what they see | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
We have, "Come to Ireland and enjoy the drink and the craic." | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
Of course there's a fun and positive side of that, | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
but when it filters down through to our children, | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
And 20 or 40 years ago, it was 16-year-olds who'd be drinking. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
And that's a deep concern for parents. | :27:43. | :27:51. | |
The kids nowadays would buy a bottle of vodka, and drink the vodka raw. | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
This mother is trying to get her 14-year-old help | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
We're not identifying her to protect her daughter. | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
I went to pick her up and she was sitting in the rain, | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
on the grass, on the kerb at the side of an estate, | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
the side of the road and had no idea who I was. | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
She was unable to string a sentence together, | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
unable to stand herself, and for a kid of that age to be | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
in that kind of a state, anything could happen to her. | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
How much do you think your daughter was drinking | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
The last night, I know she did drink three litres of cider. | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
Belfast street pastors are volunteers who help people | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
who appear vulnerable on the streets. | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
And the police in Northern Ireland have asked them to extend | :28:50. | :28:51. | |
their hours, to watch out for children as well as adults. | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
Normally we're out late at night, but they'd like us to be | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
involved earlier evening, and again, get alongside the kids. | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
They are meeting in sometimes groups of 30, 40 or more. | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
Among the people that the police have found with alcohol have been | :29:10. | :29:11. | |
In one case, they seized 30 cans or bottles of cider | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
And some teenagers admit that, for them, alcohol is part | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
There's nothing about this place for us to do. | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
That's why we go and drink and do whatever we have to do. | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
Getting underaged drinkers off the streets is a challenge. | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
And offering alternatives to alcohol is only part of the answer. | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
Some of those who served in the Second World War have taken | :29:42. | :29:49. | |
part in events at the White Cliffs of Dover - to celebrate the 100th | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
birthday of Dame Vera Lynn - the singer affectionately known | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
Because of poor weather, a fly past of Spitfires | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
Dame Vera did enjoy a tea party with her family. | :30:02. | :30:10. | |
The face of defiance, blended with the voice of hope. | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
100 years of Dame Vera Lynn, rejected onto the last piece | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
of England troops saw as they went to battle. | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
Her heartbreaking lullabies became the soundtrack | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
# Don't know where, don't know when... | :30:30. | :30:42. | |
She soothed fears and stiffened resolve. | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
But Dame Vera can still recall an early brush | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
When she heard me sing, she says, "No, I can't train that voice. | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
So I said, "Well, thank you very much, madam," and left. | :31:00. | :31:13. | |
Today, in Dover, above the cliffs that inspired one of her greatest | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
songs, veterans and friends came to celebrate Dame Vera's | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
milestone birthday, and recall her life-affirming sound. | :31:20. | :31:27. | |
Her voice came through clear, and with it was the story as she sang. | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
You listen to Vera's voice when you're in a jungle clearing, | :31:34. | :31:42. | |
it takes that fright away by making you think of | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
other parts in life, and your hopes for the future. | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
The bracing winds of the Channel didn't deter a salute | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
above the cliffs Dame Vera sang into immortality. | :31:53. | :31:58. | |
A grand gesture for a grand dame, still on a journey | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
that she continues to share with a grateful nation. | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
Special birthday tributes to Dame Vera. Newsnight is coming up on BBC | :32:06. | :32:32. | |
Two. Here is evident. The former governor of the Bank of England | :32:33. | :32:37. | |
joins us to say he is not scared of Brexit that he is worried that | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
politicians are thinking of nothing is because he thinks there are | :32:41. | :32:47. | |
bigger problems to deal with. Join me to find out more now on BBC Two. | :32:48. | :32:49. |