28/02/2016 BBC Weekend News

Counting is under way for a second day in Ireland's general election,

one which has already spelt electoral disaster

The prospect of a new coalition government is in disarray

after the party of the Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny,

Let's go live now to our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler,

Ireland's obligated voting system means it is still not clear exactly

what the final numbers will be, but what is clear that this point is

that the big parties can hardly be regarded as winners. They have

suffered badly at the hands of a protest vote might. After a night

spent counting votes, Ireland has woken up to political change and the

New Year of uncertainty. The election posters that still lined

the streets now a reminder of shattered dreams and ruin careers.

What was the establishment has been shaken, and it is the parties in

government that have been damaged. Clear the option not offer Fine Gael

-Labour government have gone. We do not know the options yet. Given my

responsibility and my duty as Taoiseach and head of government, I

need to decide what to do. The Taoiseach and his team are having to

examine what went wrong in their campaign. The economy and companies

like this Dublin pharmaceutical firm are expanding, creating

opportunities for those who had to leave Ireland to find work in the

past. My family and friends left Ireland, between 2007-2012. Massive

number of people left. Some voters seem to have forgiven Fianna Fail,

which was the party in charge when this country needed a financial

bailout. The Irish Labour Party has been torn apart, the public blaming

the junior partner in the coalition for the resulting years of

austerity. I expected we would get hip but the fact that people would

go from this government which had to sort out the problems of the last

government, it is stunning. All three right of centre parties have

found it have winning trust. In many ways this is been a vote against the

establishment. On the rise, independent candidates and Antaeus

territory and left-wing parties, including Sinn Fein. One thing is

certain, this change will continue. If a progressive government is not

elected this time, it is only a matter of time. With such a divided

vote it will be very difficult to form a government. Government

ministers have already lost their seats and the coalition negotiations

will be difficult. They smack is used coalitions. It is almost 40

years since there was a government here. But with such a split vote,

with independence and so many small parties in the mix, how you get

people together, no one really knows at this stage.

Thank you. In America, Hillary Clinton has

secured a big win in the latest round of the race to secure

the Democratic nomination She took 73% of the vote

in South Carolina, giving her a landslide victory over

rival Bernie Sanders. Next is so-called "Super Tuesday"

where 11 states will be voting. From South Carolina,

Kim Ghattas reports. Cries of victory after a landslide

for Hillary Clinton in South After a difficult start in January,

the Clinton campaign is taking off. And tomorrow, this

campaign goes national. She was always assured a win here,

but the numbers are astonishing. More African-Americans turned

out for her than did Donella Wilson, the oldest woman

in the state, and her daughter came to vote for Hillary Clinton

and help make history. Bernie Sanders had tried hard

to gain the support of minority But the Palmetto State was just not

ready for Mr Sanders, so off he went to Texas to campaign

as South Carolina voted. This race is not over,

but on Saturday night, the party was here at

the Clinton campaign rally. This may have been an easy win

for Hillary Clinton, In 2008, she lost big

here to her then Democratic This time around, she goes

into the big contests in March Kim Ghattas, BBC News,

in Columbia, South Carolina. In Syria there have been reports

that war planes have attacked several areas in the northern

province of Aleppo, a day after a nationwide

ceasefire came into effect. Elsewhere, the truce appears

largely to be holding. Our correspondent, Mark Lowen,

is close to the Turkey-Syria border. Mark, what do we know

about these latest strikes? They hit a handful of villages

clustered Aleppo, near the Turkish border in northern Syria. We do not

know the provenance of these planes. Local activists say they believe

they are Russian but Moscow has not confirmed any aerial attacks today.

We do not know the real target. If it was the Al-Qaeda link Ms Roth

front, this would not constitute a ceasefire breach, because both

al-Nusra and Islamic State are beyond the terms of this ceasefire

deal. In terms of control, the front lines are shifting. Some Western

backed brigades are in those villages. It is possible that the

opposition was the real target under the cover off on era. -- al-Nusra.

Elsewhere, it has been relatively quiet. In places like Douma,

children have been able to come out to play. Numerous ceasefire breaches

have been alleged in the last few hours. As one person put it in

Damascus, for the first time in a long time, we have woken up to the

sound of birdsong rather than bombs. Fifa's new president,

Gianni Infantino, told the BBC today his organisation must ensure

"everything comes out" following the turmoil

surrounding his predecessor, Opening a ?100 million

World Football Museum in Zurich this morning, Mr Infantino insisted

Fifa could be fixed, You have to start, as of now,

to live the reforms, already, as of now,

and for the future. As for the past, we have to make

sure that we cooperate fully with the authorities to make sure

that everything comes out There's a warning today that

a million buy-to-let properties could be making a loss

by 2020 because, in part, From April, people who buy homes

to rent them for income will have And from next year,

generous tax allowances Our business correspondent,

Joe Lynam, reports. Jaye Cook has five buy-to-let

properties in Kent, but he won't be buying any more, thanks

to a new higher stamp He also won't be able to deduct

as much mortgage interest So what will he do

with his properties? I think the only reason why

we haven't immediately sold is because we are tied

in with fixed-rate mortgages with penalties for early repayment

so we don't have the ability to sell immediately, but certainly I think,

going forward, as those fixed rates finish, subject to the prices

available on the property market, Do you think there will be

lots of other buy-to-let investors Absolutely, I think it has become

a much less attractive investment and people can't afford

a loss every month. There are 2 million buy-to-let

landlords like Jaye. Between them, they own 5

million homes in Britain. Now a study says that more

than 1 million of them could be loss-making if rates rise

in the coming years. But for renters keen to get

on the housing ladder, the changes to

buy-to-let are welcome. We see the tax incentives

for buy-to-let landlords have pushed a lot of amateur

landlords into the market. Removing these incentives

will professionalise landlords and make way for

first-time home-buyers, which may have been pushed out

of the market because of these tax The Treasury says

that by restricting the mortgage tax relief,

it has addressed the unfair advantage enjoyed by

buy-to-let landlords. Buy-to-let properties accounted

for a substantial part of Britain's They are going to pay higher

stamp duty from April That is to the advantage

of a Chancellor who wants to balance the books,

but it could have a major impact Bye for now.

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