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Fresh doubts over plans by the French energy firm EDF | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to build a nuclear power plant in Somerset. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
It says the ?18 billion project at Hinkley Point needs more money | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
from the French government before it can definitely go ahead. | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
Video emerges of a boat full of migrants apparently being beaten | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
The computer programme that's stunned the technology world, | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
defeating its human opponent at the complex game of Go. | :00:37. | :00:50. | |
And England are unbeaten in the Six Nations | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
after victory over Wales at Twickenham. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
The energy company EDF has said it cannot confirm its commitment | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
to build a new nuclear reactor in Somerset unless the French | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
The reactor at Hinckley Point is the first in a series of planned | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
new nuclear power stations intended to help guarantee | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Earlier this week, EDF's finance director resigned, | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
warning the contract would break the company. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Our business correspondent, Joe Lynam, reports. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
This is what the proposed Hinkley Point power station should | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
It's set to provide 7% of Britain's entire electricity demand, | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
and will ensure the lights stay on for decades. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
But the company building it, EDF, is having problems. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Similar reactors in France and Finland are severely delayed | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
and over budget, and the ?18 billion cost of building Hinkley is more | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Its trade unions are sceptical and the company's finance director | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
So now the EDF chief executive has written to staff, | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
in part to reassure them, but also to warn the French | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
government that he is prepared to walk away unless it stumps | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Jean-Bernard Levy said: "We are negotiating with the French | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
state to obtain commitments to secure our financial position. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
I will not engage EDF in this project before these | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
The political will to build Hinkley is immense. | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
David Cameron and President Hollande reaffirmed their commitment | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
to the deal a week ago, describing it as a pillar | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
But a key group of MPs thinks the deal may need to be re-examined. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
We will have a look, we will be led by the evidence. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
The Energy and Climate Change Committee prides itself on looking | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
at evidence and making a call on the evidence. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
As it looks at the moment, I've got to say, the evidence | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
UK taxpayers will be paying ?92.50 for each megawatt hour that | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
That's almost three times as much as the current wholesale | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
But it's less than the government is already paying for offshore wind | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
energy and only slightly more than what we would pay | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
The Department of Energy and Climate Change says | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
that it is committed to Hinkley as the only form of low-carbon | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
technology which can guarantee electricity generation for decades. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
However, there are growing questions whether this project will ever be | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
built, and if it doesn't happen, it would throw Britain's energy | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
Video has emerged appearing to show Turkish coastguards lashing | :03:28. | :03:41. | |
out with sticks at a boat full of migrants in the Aegean Sea. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
The video, which was given to the BBC, is believed to have been | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
filmed this morning in Turkish waters near the Greek | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
Turkey says its coastguards were trying to stop the boat | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Early this morning, off the coast of Turkey, | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
a migrant vessel is being hit with boat hooks. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Women scream, children cower on the floor of the boat. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
They are Turkish coastguards, trying, they claim, to disable | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
Humanitarian experts say these pictures are disturbing. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Previously, the Turkish coastguard has been filmed using water cannon | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
Nato ships are now in the waters between Greece and Turkey. | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
Sailors and aircrew will be tasked with sending boats packed full | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
of people heading for Europe towards Turkish coastguards for them | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
It is all part of the European policy, restated today by the French | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
president, of keeping migrants from crossing Europe's borders. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
TRANSLATION: If there is protection of external borders, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
we will avoid the re-establishment of internal borders, | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
national borders, which have actually been re-established | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
by certain countries unilaterally, and we will avoid people | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
risking their lives by crossing the Aegean Sea | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
But is this what Nato's servicemen and women will be sending | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
The Turkish coastguard says it was trying to stop the migrants | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
getting into Greek waters without harming the refugees. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Those on board this boat did make it to Greece today, | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
but others were intercepted by the Turkish authorities | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
Their attempts thwarted as efforts are stepped up to stop the flow | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
of people paying smugglers to get them onto European soil. | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
The Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, today declined to deny | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
that he was the source of a story in the Sun, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
claiming that the Queen backed Britain leaving the EU. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
He told reporters that he didn't know where the Sun got | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
Well, as I've said before, I do not know how the Sun got | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
all its information and I don't think it is worth my adding anything | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
to what has already been said about this story. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
I think it is critically important that people make their own mind up | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
on the facts about our position in the European Union. | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
With me now is our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
What do you read into Michael Gove's words there? | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
That when this story was published, the palace insisted that the Queen | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
is politically neutral, and it also made an official complaint to the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
press regulator. The sun is confident in its story, it says it | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
has multiple sources, but here are those sources? A source close to Mr | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Gove said he did not briefed this story, but it is important to note | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
that Michael Gove has not ruled out that he knows where some of the | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Sun's information comes from, as opposed to all of it, and he has not | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
ruled out that something he said may have inadvertently ended up in the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
newspapers. The Cabinet secretary says there will not be a formal | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
enquiry despite a request from a Labour MP. The one thing we can say | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
with certainty is that Labour MPs and journos will continue to ask | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Michael Gove for a unclean account of whether he had anything to do | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
with this story. Thank you. The Labour Party and disability | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
charities have criticised government plans to reduce some welfare | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
payments for disabled people. From next January, the formula | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
for calculating part of the Personal Independence | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Payment will be altered. The government estimates that | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
by 2020, 640,000 people will be affected by the changes, | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
which will save more than a billion The leader of the SNP has | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
said her party will embark on a new drive for | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Scottish independence. Speaking at their spring | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
conference in Glasgow, Nicola Sturgeon said a new campaign | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
would begin this summer. But she said a second referendum | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
wouldn't take place quickly. Our Scotland editor, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
Sarah Smith, watched the speech. There's some flash | :07:56. | :07:56. | |
photography in her report. Nicola Sturgeon remains remarkably | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
popular with her party and with Scottish voters, | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
but she cannot tell supporters the one thing they really | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
want to hear, she cannot promise another independence referendum, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
because she knows at the moment We will not achieve our dream | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
of independence just by wishing that the outcome of the referendum | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
had been different, or wishing that we could do it | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
all again next week. That is why I can tell | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
you today that this summer, the SNP will embark | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
on a new initiative to build She admits that will need | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
new arguments and different answers. There was a really significant | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
portion of her speech dedicated to that, some real red meat | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
for the party faithful, who were up on their feet | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
cheering about the fact that she is going to push again | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
for more support for independence You notice "more support | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
for independence", not The SNP are confident they will win | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
the Scottish elections in May, and if they do, they are promising | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
more spending on health and education, whilst also saying | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
they will not raise the basic rate Taxing the lowest paid more does | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
not tackle austerity, it simply passes the burden of Tory | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
austerity to the shoulders of those Supporters here are excited | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
by all the promises and pledges they have heard, but outside | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
the conference hall, people will keep asking, | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
"How is Nicola Sturgeon going to pay If re-elected, she will have | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
new powers to raise higher rate Twin boys, who were two years old, | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
have drowned after falling into a fish pond in the back | :09:40. | :09:51. | |
garden of a house in Fife. The emergency services were called | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
to the home this morning and the boys were taken to hospital, | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
but medical staff were unable Police officers are supporting | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
the family as an investigation takes place into how the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
accident happened. In rugby's Six Nations, | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
England are within touching distance of a first Grand Slam in 13 years | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
after they held on to beat Earlier, Ireland beat Italy, | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
scoring nine tries, but the day belonged to England, | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
as Katie Gornall reports. This Six Nations has set | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
England on a new path. It is here they have | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
sought a new identity, and a new way of harnessing | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
the passion that pours from an occasion like this one, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
but Wales know all about staying cool in the heat of a must-win | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
match at Twickenham. They beat England here | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
in the World Cup last autumn. Now for the hosts to | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
reassert themselves. Owen Farrell kickstarted | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
the scoreboard, one of a succession England dominated, Maro Itoje | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
was a powerful problem for Wales and when the ball went out wide, | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Anthony Watson opened up the gulf. Things looked bleak for Wales, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
but at least one man had Wales avoided serious | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
punishment for this, before England lost | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
Dan Cole to the sin bin. With space to exploit, | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
George North took advantage. It looked to be no more | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
than a consolation. Time enough, it turned out, | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
for Taulupe Faletau to force England's 18-point lead | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
had almost disappeared. This was hardly the finale | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Eddie Jones wanted, but this time his side weathered | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
the onslaught, passing the first big It was closer than England | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
would have wanted, but they deserve They have won the Triple Crown, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
they have put themselves within touching distance | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of the Six Nations title. If Scotland beat France tomorrow, | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
it will be England's Katie Gornall, BBC | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
News, at Twickenham. Everton are through to | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
the semifinals of the FA Cup after they beat Chelsea | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
at Goodison Park. Both sides ended the match with ten | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
men, with Chelsea striker Diego Costa sent off | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
for a head butt. The result means Chelsea will end | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
the season without any trophies. Patrick Gearey was | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
watching the action. A night that epitomises | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
and effectively ends a season. Chelsea left their last chance | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
of silverware at Goodison Park, Diego Costa embodies | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
their potential and problems. After an uneventful first half, | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
he almost made a goal from nothing. Everton thankful for | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
angles, fractions. And also for Romelu Lukaku, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
a striker sold to them by Chelsea, presumably because they did not | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
think he could do this. His 24th goal of the season | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
and probably his best. There would be one | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
more to choose from. England midfielder Ross Barkley | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
cued him up this time. Chelsea's season of struggle | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
now bubbled over. Costa had already been booked | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
when he leant into Gareth Barry. The head butt was bad | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
enough for the referee. Costa off, Chelsea's | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
chance had gone. Barry saw red himself a little | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
later, but they will not remember that when those at Goodison | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
retell this story. This was the night they beat | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
the fallen Premier League champions A computer programme has defeated | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
a human champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go for | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
the third consecutive time. South Korea's Lee Se-dol, | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
one of the world's best players, has yet to defeat | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
Google's AlphaGo machine. That's despite many people believing | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
that Go would be too complex Lee Se-dol, a supreme talent | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
in the ancient game of Go, but he is up against a brilliant | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
opponent, an artificial intelligence Lee Sedol is black | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
and AlphaGo is white. Already two games down | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
in the five-match series, the Korean knew he had | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
to win this morning. But the programme created | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
by Google's DeepMind is getting smarter every time it | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
plays this incredibly After four hours, | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
the human resigned. DeepMind's founder celebrated | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
the achievements of both I want to say about AlphaGo - | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
it can compute tens of thousands But what is really incredible | :14:18. | :14:29. | |
is that Lee Se-dol can compete with that just | :14:30. | :14:39. | |
with the power of his This is such an extraordinarily | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
complex game, with so many different possible moves, | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
that AlphaGo could not simply use computer brute force | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
to work them all out. Instead it studied professional | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
games and then played versions of itself millions upon millions | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
of times and learned Nearly two decades after IBM's | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess, | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
another leap forward Although the game of Go is very | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
complex and has an enormous number of board configurations, | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
if you think about it, ordinary, everyday life has vastly | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
more configurations and choices and possibilities even | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
than the Go board. A computer may have mastered this | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
2,000-year-old game, but that does not | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
mean humans will not You can see more on all of today's | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. Hello. The UK's top temperature | :15:25. | :15:53. | |
today was 15 Celsius. Tomorrow somewhere could get | :15:54. | :15:54. |