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A big rise in council tax bills across England, | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
as local authorities try to tackle the social care crisis. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Most households could be charged 5% more from April, | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
amid warnings it still won't be enough to fund the cost | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Despite the rise in council tax, local authorities also say deep cuts | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
Big overspend for the NHS in England, latest figures show it is | :00:26. | :00:37. | |
hundreds of millions of pounds over budget. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Footage emerges of the moment the North Korean leader's | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
half-brother is fatally attacked at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpa airport. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Trouble for the new leader of Ukip - two senior party officials | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
in Liverpool quit citing "crass insensitivity" over | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
in Liverpool quit, citing "crass insensitivity" over | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Reassuring words for the EU from the US Vice President, | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Mike Pence, who describes America's commitment as steadfast | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
And what a night ahead for Sutton United, as they host | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
a mighty FA Cup match tonight against Arsenal | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
And in sport later in the hour on BBC News, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
wheelchair rugby has had its appeal against a total funding cut | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
They received ?3 million for the last Paralympic cycle. | :01:13. | :01:35. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Nearly every local authority in England is planning to raise | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
council taxes in the coming year, most of them by 5%, | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
to help meet the rising cost of social care. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
But the Local Government Association, which represents | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
councils, has warned that deep cuts to other services will | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
still have to be made because of the huge cost of looking | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
after growing numbers of elderly and disabled people. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt. | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
After several falls, 80 year old Maureen Edwards | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
is being given support that will mean she regains | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
some independence and rebuilds her confidence. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
It means she and her husband can cope at home. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
According to today's survey, the sheer demand for this sort | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
of care is the reason why most local authorities in England plan | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
We've got the carers, they come in, get her up, wash her, dresser. | :02:34. | :02:46. | |
I'm grateful for all that they've done for me, I really am. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Without them, I don't know what I would have done. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
The Edwards live in Surrey and it's the Council's social workers | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
The authority had discussed increasing its council tax by 15% | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Now, like most local authorities, it's likely | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Staff here describe the demand as unrelenting. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
I've worked in adult social care for 20 years and I've never known | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
And there's no simple solution to it. | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
People are getting older, people are living longer and their needs | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Councils pay for most social care and the Local Government | :03:35. | :03:49. | |
Survey shows nearly all are struggling with the costs. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
There are 151 local authorities in England, 147 plan to raise | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
council tax specifically to help pay for social care. | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
But councils warn that won't plug the funding gap and that could mean | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
There has been a united voice of local government to say | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
that they need to have more funding into social care and that the crisis | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
The funding for local government needs to be resolved immediately. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
The government says extra funding is being put into social care | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
and that authorities will soon be able to keep all of the money | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
they raise from council tax and business rates. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Alison is with me now. This would be a huge rise in council tax bills for | :04:26. | :04:38. | |
councils across England. Why are they struggling so much? In the end | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
it's down to the sheer demand, we've got an ageing population, people are | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
living longer with more complex needs. So they do need support in | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
life. As I said in my report, much of that is provided by local | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
authorities. I think what's interesting about today's report | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
from the local authority association is that you've got 147 across the | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
political spectrum, you've got local authorities saying we can't make | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
ends meet therefore we will take this opportunity to raise council | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
tax by that extra amount so that we can try and meet that growing | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
demand. That is going to increase pressure on the government. This has | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
already raised up the political agenda in the last six months | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
because of the delays we've seen in hospitals. The government will say | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
that it is putting extra money into social care, that it is also giving | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
councils the ability to plan ahead, plan for the long-term. But there | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
will be that growing need for sort of Longo acrobatic space longer care | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
solution -- longer-term solution to this care problem. The language used | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
by the LGA is interesting, it talks about councils being pushed | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
perilously close to the financial edge by the pressures of social | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
care. This is one report today. We've got the Budget coming up but | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
it's very clear from this that the pressure by social care is not going | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
to go away. NHS trusts in England are overspending by hundreds of | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
millions of pounds more than expected, according to figures out | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
this lunchtime. Trusts reported a deficit of ?886 million in the last | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
quarter, more than one and a half times the government target. Doctor | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Cathy McLean from the regulator NHS Improvement at this explanation. It | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
is higher than our original anticipation but the number of | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
patients coming at a hospital, obviously we needed treat them as a | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
priority. Because of that, the hospitals are working really hard to | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
keep the costs down. And indeed, can bet it last year, there are 44 you | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
are hospitals posting a deficit this year compared with last year. Our | :06:50. | :07:03. | |
health editor Hugh Pym is here. Why is the NHS so much in debt? The | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
providers, the trusts, are basically spending more money than comes in. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
That's happened for the last few years and these deficits have got | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
larger and larger. The government and regulators have stepped in to | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
try to curb this overspending, they've introduced measures to reply | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
to reduce overspending and agency staff, that has succeeded up to a | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
point. What we can't -- what they can't control is patients time. As | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
we heard from Cathy McLean there, the growth in patient numbers has | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
been more than expected. They were forecasting a deficit of about ?580 | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
million for the full financial year in March and now they are saying it | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
could be as much as ?850 million because of actors beyond their | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
control. It has to be balanced out somehow. They make cuts elsewhere to | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
come in on budget. There has to be a question of whether the whole budget | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
can come in as predicted. There was a real scramble this time last year | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
to try to make the sums add up. I suspect on the back of these numbers | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
there will be a similar scramble going on with the Department of | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
Health. One reason is they say they have not been able to carry out as | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
much routine surgery -- as much surgery on patients. Routine surgery | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
has been postponed and that is bad for patients. Thank you. | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
Footage has emerged of the moment the North Korean leader's | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
half-brother was attacked at Kuala Lumpa airport in Malaysia. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
A woman appears to cover his head with a cloth for a few seconds | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Kim Jong-nam is then seen telling police what has happened. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
But North Korea has questioned the identification of the man | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
CCTV footage at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
A figure in a light suit with a bag slung over his shoulder | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
It's believed this man is Kim Jong-nam. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
But the man is grabbed from behind by a woman in a white top. | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
She appears to push a cloth into his face. | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
The footage then shows them separating. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
The man is seen talking to airport staff, apparently | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
He seems to be led to police where he again explains and gesticulates, | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
before he is accompanied to the airport's medical clinic. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Police believe Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korea's | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
leader, Kim Jong-un, was poisoned at the airport a week ago. | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
The mysterious circumstances, the investigation and speculation | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
that North Korea was behind the killing, has led to growing | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Malaysia has recalled its envoy to North Korea, while Pyongyang's | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said at a news conference the | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
It's been seven days since the incident, | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
but there is no clear evidence on the cause of the death | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
and at the moment we cannot trust the investigation by the Malaysian | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
police, even though its result would be obtained. | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
But Malaysia's Prime Minister has defended the investigation | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
We have no reason why we want to do something that would paint | :10:10. | :10:22. | |
We will be objective and we expect them to understand | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Malaysia authorities have said that autopsy results could be ready | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
by the middle of the week and that they will release Kim | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
His son is reported to be travelling to Kuala Lumpur. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Two senior Ukip officials have resigned in protest | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
at their leader's handling of the Hillsborough controversy. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Paul Nuttall has been embroiled in a row after his website | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
incorrectly claimed he'd lost close friends in the tragedy. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
In a statement, the chair of Ukip's Merseyside branch | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
condemned Mr Nuttall's "unprofessional approach | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
and crass insensitivity" and suggested there could be more | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster. | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
How much of a blow is this going to beat the new duke it leader? | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Certainly the timing could hardly be worse, just days before the crunch | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
by-election where Mr Nuttall is Ukip's candidate. It is a | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
by-election that you could see as make or break. Nigel Farage | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
described it as a must win. Those in Ukip have played this incident down, | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
suggesting they were under huge pressure because of a public | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
backlash in Liverpool following those claims on Mr Nuttall's | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
website, false claims, saying that he had known people who had died in | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
the Hillsborough tragedy. These do not seem two men going meekly more | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
in sorrow than anger, they have gone out all guns blazing, accusing Mr | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
Nuttall of being crass and insensitive, calling his approach in | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
tolerable and questioning whether he is fit to lead. Bear in mind that | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
these are two people who know Mr Nuttall, they are the chairman of | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
his local party, the Liverpool party and the Merseyside regional party, | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
which raises questions not just of how far this will dent Mr Nuttal's | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
chances in the by-election but it may actually dent his leadership, | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
given that Ukip scene, really since Nigel Farage stepped aside, to | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
struggle to find a leader who brings them stability and in whom they can | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
have confidence. Norman, thank you. As Norman said, in three days' time, | :12:41. | :12:49. | |
voters in Stoke-on-Trent Central will go to the polls | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
to choose their new MP. The by-election was called | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
after Labour's Tristram Hunt quit politics to take up a position | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
running London's Victoria The poll is being seen as a key | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
electoral test for the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
whose party faces a strong challenge Our political correspondent | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
Adam Fleming reports from Stoke. Voters in Stoke-on-Trent need a new | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
MP, after their previous Member of Parliament resigned, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
to run a museum. A decision the very senior Labour | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
figure I just met on the train up here described as very selfish, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
because it has pitched Labour into a battle | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
with Ukip to hold on here. It's the city where Wedgewood | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
founded his pottery empire. ARCHIVE: The thriller | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
coaxes shape and beauty Since the industry's heyday, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
many manufacturing jobs have gone and a once rock-solid Labour seat | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
looks more fragile. Ukip's leader and candidate also | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
feels he's in with a fighting chance because a big majority of people | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
here voted to leave the EU. Unfortunately I think many feel that | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
they've been left behind I think what they need | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
is a national voice, someone who can stand up | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
in the House of Commons And I believe I'm that man to put | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
Stoke-on-Trent on the political map. Since we spoke a few days ago, he's | :14:03. | :14:12. | |
found himself on the ropes with his party over claims he made about the | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
Hillsborough disaster and whether he lived here when he entered the | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
contest. Labour's man is trying to paint his | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
rival as an opportunist. I live just outside the city | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
in a pit village called Silverdale. It's where my family are and it's | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
where my daughter was born. And I consider myself | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
to be very local. Although he's faced trouble, too, | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
saying sorry for old tweets deemed to be sexist and insulting to people | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
who supported Brexit. On a visit to the constituency | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
today, the Prime Minister did what the other Westminster parties are | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
doing, trying to stop this becoming a two horse race. | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
One of our key priorities is to create more opportunities | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
The Green party's campaign is about securing employment | :15:01. | :15:01. | |
for people who want better jobs in the area and also | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
Health is a priority for the Lib Dems too, | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
not least because their candidate is sometimes absent | :15:12. | :15:12. | |
from the campaign trail because he's performing heart surgery. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
The NHS has been in crisis, particularly over the winter, | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
and we just feel that Labour are not providing | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
the opposition they need to be providing to this government now. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
But the focus is on whether Ukip can finally land a knockout | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Adam Fleming, BBC News, Stoke-on-Trent. | :15:29. | :15:41. | |
This is a complete list of the candidates taking part which is also | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
available on the BBC News website. The bill giving Theresa May | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
the authority to trigger Brexit talks goes before the House | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
of Lords this afternoon. The legislation passed the Commons | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
with no amendments - but the government doesn't | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
have a majority in the Lords. Let's cross to the Houses | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
of Parliament and our Political How smooth is the path expected to | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
be? People will turn up in the next couple of hours and we can brace | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
ourselves for a record-breaking session. 190 of them have said they | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
want to speak in this debate, more than in any other Lords debate, that | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
gives you a sense of the appetite that many of them have, especially | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
opposition peers in the Lords. To try and influence this process, but | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
I think that the body of discussion has little resemblance to the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
political authority that the Lords has when it comes to this bill. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Because Lords will not try and stop Brexit, they might try to change the | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
bill and there are areas where Labour and the Lib Dems peers will | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
try and do that, trying to get a legal guarantee from the government | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
in the way the House of Commons was not able to do, saying that | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
parliamentarians should have a vote on the final deal before Theresa May | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
signs it off in Brussels. And that the rights of EU citizens in the UK | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
should be guaranteed. We heard those argument is a new House of Commons, | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
they did not get to change the bill, but they got some concessions, | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
verbally, from the government, and we can expect something similar from | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
the Lords. If they do amend the bill it could go back to the Commons, who | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
could wipe out those amendments, and in the end, one minister has said | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
about this, it is their duty to do their patriotic duty and respect the | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
will of the people and Theresa May saying today that she wants peers to | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
observe what happens in the House of Commons and she will hope and she | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
remains confident that she can get that authority from parliament to | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
trigger Article 50 during the course of March. Thanks for joining us. | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
Local councils in England warn that they will still struggle | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
to fund care for the elderly - despite big increases | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
am at Sutton United as they prepare to face the Premier League giants | :17:58. | :18:13. | |
Arsenal in the fifth round of the FA Cup. | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
Coming up in sport at 130 on BBC News, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
the England all rounder Ben Stokes has become the most expensive | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
foreign player in the history of the Indian Premier League. | :18:21. | :18:33. | |
The US vice president Mike Pence has described America's | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
commitment to the European Union as steadfast and enduring, | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
after his first official meeting with the president | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
Meanwhile, President Trump is facing calls to further | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
clarify his comments over the weekend, in which he appeared | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
to suggest that there had been a terror attack in Sweden. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Presidential visits to Brussels rarely stirred much interest | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
in the past, but these are different times. | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
Donald Trump has lauded Brexit and belittled the EU, | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
The greetings, at times, seemed strained. | :19:05. | :19:14. | |
But the White House has billed this as a reassurance tour | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
and after his initial talks, that is exactly what | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Today is my privilege on behalf of President Trump to express | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
the strong commitment of the United States to continued | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
cooperation and partnership with the European Union. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
Whatever our differences, our two continents share the same | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
Alongside him a man who described Trump's America | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
After such a positive declaration, both Europeans and Americans must | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
But it's the president who calls the shots and he uses Europe | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
as a model for all that is wrong in the world. | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Even if he has to make up his own facts to fit the argument. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
You look at what's happening last night in Sweden - Sweden! | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
They took in large numbers and they are having problems | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
There was no such incident in Sweden. | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
The country has taken in large numbers of refugees and hasn't | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
suffered any terrorist attacks as a result. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
But the policy's not without its Swedish critics. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
The president said later he was referring to this Fox News | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
report, claiming that violence has risen in Sweden along | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
But Mr Trump's backers insist his points are valid. | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
People seize upon it and you see these articles, | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
and when I pulled it up on Google, it's like, well, Donald | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
There was the neo-Nazis going to the refugee camps | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
and there's been a lot of corruption and rape going on. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
That's not the message Mr Pence is pushing, | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
but President Trump's voice is louder and Europe is unsettled. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
On the streets outside his meetings, these protesters are sending | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
a message of their own, that the values of the Trump | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
administration are not welcome in Europe. | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
That's a debate which is getting even more personal in London | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
as members of Parliament consider an online petition signed by almost | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
2 million people suggesting that Donald Trump's state visit to the UK | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
would cause embarrassment to the Queen. | :21:21. | :21:21. | |
Our Europe Correspondent Gavin Lee is in Brussels. | :21:22. | :21:34. | |
Reassurance, says the White House, but will the be reassured? If you | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
listen to Mike Pence you would be thickly given that thinking that | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
everything was the same, -- you would be forgiven for thinking. But | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
the elephant in the room, the rhetoric of Donald Trump, who said | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
the EU is a vehicle for Germany, basically. He said three weeks ago | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
that Brexit was a great super thing. Donald Tusk at the head of European | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Council, he said he was surprised at the voices coming from the White | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
House, that actually you can forget that things are the same, but he was | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
reassured, he said, to listen to Mike Pence. Similar, perhaps come | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
when he goes elsewhere in Brussels, to the Nato headquarters, to meet | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
the Nato leaders where they will be a civil message to say that we are | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
onside and when it comes to the Ukraine we will urge them to stick | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
to the Minsk agreement when it comes to Russia, so the words are there, | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
but I think when you listen to those on the size, the former ambassador | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
the United States to the EU, he said he congratulated the vice president | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
but he said there has been such hostility from the American | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
president that he wanted to see actions as well as deeds. Thanks for | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
joining us. Iraqi forces are continuing | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
their advance into Mosul - Iraq's second biggest city - | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
after launching a major attack yesterday to remove Islamic State | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
fighters from their last major The progress of the operation has | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
been slowed because of huge improvised explosive devices | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
that the IS militants have Our Middle East Correspondent | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Nick Millard - | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
are the only television journalists They're now on the outskirts | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
of western Mosul - the only part of the city still held | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
by so called Islamic state. In record time, Iraq's | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
Federal Police have made it That's the south east | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
of the city you can see there. And the River Tigris | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
just in the foreground. It really was a very fast | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
assault to get here. And now, behind me, perhaps | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
if we move the camera over there, you might just be able to pick out | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
the helicopter, the gunship which is launching an attack | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
against the town of Abu Saif. That's a very important town, | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
because all that lies between the federal police and Mosul | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
is that town, and it's All morning we've watched these | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
helicopters attacking the town. The Iraqi police have | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
fired their own home-made rockets We can hear the helicopters | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
firing again, Just beyond that town, | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
two miles or so, is Mosul's airport. That airport is mostly of symbolic | :24:19. | :24:31. | |
value because the Islamic State long ago destroyed the runways | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
and terminal buildings. But taking that would be very | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
important because it And after that, they | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
would be in Mosul. Police and protesters have clashed | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, ahead of a ceasefire | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
between Russian-backed rebels and government forces that | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
comes into effect today. At least seven | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
protestors were detained after ultra-nationalists gathered | :25:00. | :25:00. | |
to support a blockade between the separatist east | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
and the rest of Ukraine. Archery, badminton, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
and wheelchair rugby - they're just some of the seven | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
sports that have been told they will receive no government | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
funding to prepare for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
Games in Tokyo. They have appealed that decision at | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
this lunchtime they learned of the decision. | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
Our sports news correspondent Richard Conway joins me. | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
It is bad news for those seven sports, badminton, table tennis, | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
weightlifting, archery, fencing and the Paralympic sports of gold ball | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
and wheelchair rugby, all failing to convince UK sport that they should | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
have money given to them in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics in | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
2020. UK sport is the funding body for the elite end of sport, they | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
have ?330 million of budget and they say they allocate that to sports | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
that have the most medal potential. The most controversial decision is | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Babington, they have lost under ?6 million in funding, despite winning | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
a bronze medal at the BM Olympics last summer -- badminton. They were | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
on target with another medal in Tokyo and they said they staggered | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
at the decision and they are considering their next steps, but | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
others like table tennis and archery, just under ?3 million, | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
fencing, just under formerly in pounds, that will not be returned to | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
them in the run-up to Tokyo. UK sport said they had got to focus in | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
a meritocratic way and focus it on where they can make sure success. | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
Thanks for joining us. The entertainment industry reached | :26:34. | :26:52. | |
the agreement with the tech giants after talks brokered by the | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
government will stop the initiative will run in parallel with insisting | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
-- existing anti-piracy measures. They're more than 100 | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
league places below them - but tonight Sutton United will take | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
on mighty Arsenal as they try to book their place in the quarter | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
finals of the FA Cup. The non-league side are playing | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
at home at their 5000 seat stadium with its artificial turf - | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
it's a world away from the 60,000 Whoever wins will face Lincoln City, | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
also a non-league side - who become the first non-leaguers | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
to reach the quarterfinals in more Our Sports Correspondent John Watson | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
is at Sutton's Gander Green Lane The FA Cup has faced criticism this | :27:26. | :27:40. | |
season, with some teams choosing to field weakened teams and they have | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
been accused of not showing the tournament the respect it deserves. | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
Hip non-league sides, Lincoln City and at Sutton United, they have | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
proved there is printed to be gained from a memorable cup run -- in two | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
non-league sides. Once in awhile there comes a cup run | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
to capture the imagination. To witness two in the same season | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
is something quite unique. The achievements of lowly | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
Lincoln City and Sutton United embody the magic of football's | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
oldest cup competition. On Saturday the National League | :28:06. | :28:07. | |
leaders upset the odds, beating Burnley, the first | :28:08. | :28:09. | |
non-league side to reach And now this patch of South London | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
is brought into focus. Gander Green Lane, the home | :28:12. | :28:22. | |
of Sutton United, where Leeds fell We know it will be an uphill | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
battle but no one thought that we could beat Wimbledon | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
and obviously no one thought I think if we can nick | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
a draw or get a win, it would be one of the biggest | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
upsets in cup history. Arsenal should be wary | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
of the unexpected. Sutton's victory over Coventry City, | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
then of the old First Division, back in 1989, remains one | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
of the great cup upsets. It might serve as motivation | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
but matching Arsenal and all their millions is a task not | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
lost on Sutton's manager. If we did beat them, | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
I don't know what I'd do. I think I'd be up there | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
for a long, long time. It's something I'd not even thought | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
about, if I'm being honest. I dreamt about it, but if it | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
happened, it would be one of those It would be where were | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
you when Sutton beat Arsenal? Sutton's total weekly | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
wage bill is ?10,000. Arsenal's World Cup winner | :29:19. | :29:20. | |
Mesut Ozil earns 14 times that. But what they lack in wealth, | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
they make up for with hunger, to rattle those accustomed | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
to the 5-star treatment. Sutton will offer their | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
opponents a warm reception. But what they can't offer | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
them is a warm shower. Their 5,000 capacity | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
ground is a world away from the comforts of Arsenal's | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
60,000 all-seater stadium. Dare Sutton dream of making | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
it there for a replay. The chances of Sutton United getting | :29:44. | :29:55. | |
result might seem unlikely. Arsenal prepared for tonight's match by | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
playing the five-time European champions Bayern Munich. Sutton | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
warmed up for the contest by playing Guiseley of the National League. As | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
Leicester and Lincoln City have proved, sometimes in football the | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
impossible is just possible. Thanks for joining us. | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
It is starting to feel quite pleasant, this time last week I said | :30:17. | :30:27. | |
how miserable and cold it was on the east coast with a cold east wind, | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
but look at it today. In Cambridgeshire, beautiful morning, | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
and if you have some sunshine, you also have spring warmth. 17 degrees | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
in parts of Norfolk as we speak. There is cloud elsewhere, filtering | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
along the West Coast and the cloud is thick enough for a spot of | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
drizzle, but still pretty mild. This is a classic picture across parts of | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
Argyll. Some mist and drizzle. The weather front producing the cloud | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
and showers is sinking slowly south and behind it brighter conditions | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
into Scotland, but still, not bad for this time of year. 8-11 degrees | :31:08. | :31:14. | |
and a scattering of showers. This is the weather front in the North West, | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
coming out of the Isle of Man into North Wales, producing some | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
outbreaks of rain and poor visibility and also hill fog and a | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
bit in the way of cloud. But if you get the cloud to break up you will | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
get warmth. 17 degrees, maybe 18 before we close the day. The weather | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
front will continue to move steadily south. As it does it introduces more | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
cloud and eventually it will bring rain, maybe not until after dark, | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
through Wales and the Midlands and southern England. Its Dales mild | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
overnight. Further north, a bit fresher -- it stays mild. 4-6 gem in | :31:51. | :31:59. | |
the end the towns and cities, but you will start with sunshine. | :32:00. | :32:05. | |
Further south it will meander its way to the M4 corridor by lunchtime | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
and it will start to weaken. We pick up more wind and rain and some of | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
the rain is quite heavy and persistent by the end of the day | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
into the far north-west. Still a mild afternoon. We should only have | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
7-9 as a maximum at this time of year. More of a significant area of | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
low pressure begins to push in through Tuesday into Wednesday, the | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
ice bars really squeezing together in this basically means we will see | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
gale force may be severe gale force gusts of wind in the far North East. | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
A windy day, fresher, with showers of snow on the high ground, but in | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
the south it stays cloudy without breaks of rain. The mild air will | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
not last, the rain eases away and the cold air is set to return by the | :32:49. | :32:53. | |
end of the working week. We are not done with winter just yet. | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
Council leaders warn of deep cuts to services, | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
despite plans by nearly every local authority in England | :33:04. | :33:05. | |
to increase council tax this year to try to tackle | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
So it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :33:12. | :33:14. |