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A historic night for the Conservative Party, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
as it deals Labour a major blow in a supposedly ultra-safe seat. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The Tories celebrate a stunning victory in | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
the Copeland by-election - an area Labour represented | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Copeland is obviously very disappointing. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
I'd hoped we'd win the election there. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Labour holds Stoke-on-Trent Central, seeing off a challenge from | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
We'll be live in both constituenciesm getting reaction | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
from our Assistant Poltiical Editor, Norman Smith. | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
"Inexplicable, unforgiveable, and gut-wretchingly sad" - | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Gary Lineker's verdict on the sacking of Claudio Ranieri. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
I personally think they should be building statues | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Murdered by a weapon of mass destruction - | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
authorities in Malaysia say Kim Jong-nam was killed by a banned | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland reports a loss of ?7 billion for 2016, | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
far worse than the previous year's figure. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
And a group of conservation charities is launching a recruitment | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
drive for volunteers to help protect the native red squirrel. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News, former Manchester City boss | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Roberto Mancini is the favourite to succeed Claudio Ranieri | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at one. | :01:19. | :01:44. | |
It was, by any standards, a great result for the Conservatives - | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
causing a major electoral upset by winning the long-held Labour seat | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Their candidate beat Labour by more than 2,000 votes. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
It's the first time a governing party has gained a seat | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
In the night's other by-election, Labour held Stoke-on-Trent Central - | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
holding off the challenge of the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the party's win in Stoke was | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
"a decisive rejection of Ukip's politics of division" | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
But he says their "message was not enough to win through in Copeland". | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Our Political Correspondent, Carole Walker, reports. | :02:20. | :02:29. | |
Harrison, Trudy. The Conservative Party candidate. 13,748. | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
This really was an astonishing results. Victory for the Tories in a | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
seat which has been Labour territory and that was created. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
What has happened here tonight is a truly historic event. You would have | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
to go back more than a century to find an example of a governing party | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like this. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Height the Conservatives are jubilant. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Though new MP increased the party's share of the vote by more than 8%. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
The Tories have seized on the result has a resounding endorsement of | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Theresa May's leadership and policies, and an outright rejection | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
of labour and Jeremy Corbyn. For them to lose a seat to the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
governing party, this has never happened before. And that is a show | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
of the weight which the Labour Party is just out of contact with what | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
people of thinking. The defeated Labour candidate, | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Gillian Troughton, left without saying a word. The result has piled | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
on the anguish for Labour MPs who fear their heading for defeat at the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
general election. Jeremy Corbyn has rejected suggestions he should step | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
down I was elected to lead this party. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
I was elected to oppose the redistribution of wealth in the | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
wrong direction, which is what this party was doing. We will continue | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
our campaigning work on the NHS, social care and housing. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
And there was some comfort for Labour in Stoke Central, where | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
campaigners saw off the threat from Ukip to hold onto the seat. The | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
party's new MP said it was a victory for the whole labour movement. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
To those of you who came to Stoke-on-Trent to sow hatred and | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
division and to turn us away from our friends and neighbours, I have | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
one very simple message. You have failed. | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
Ukip leader Paul Nuttall's bit of a parliament failed, despite | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
overwhelming support for Brexit locally. After a campaign dogged by | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
controversy. It left him facing questions about the future of his | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
party and his leadership. This seat was number 72 on our hit | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
list. There are a lot more that will happen, there's a lot more to come | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
from us. I'm not going anywhere. Therefore, we move on. | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
The result has also cast doubt and Ukip's strategy of targeting | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
traditional Labour seats. This lunchtime the Prime Minister arrived | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
in Copeland to congratulate her party's newest MP and what she said | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
was astonishing victory. And what I think we've seen from | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
this victory is that this truly is a government that is working for | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
everyone and for every part of the country. And that... That's the | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
message that we bring here to Copeland, and that we will take | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
across the country. The Theresa May knows that future | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
success will depend not just on her domestic policies, but on her | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
handling of Britain's departure from. -- from the EU. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
In a moment we'll get the latest from our Assistant Poltical Editor | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
But first to Iain Watson, who's in Copeland. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
The stuff they're of Tory dreams and Labour nightmares. That just about | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
sums it up. Let me expand. Certainly Theresa May's message here in the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
past hour is that the Conservative Party is now the party for everyone, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
not just the privileged few. It will really wrangle with Labour MPs. This | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
seat, Copeland, back in 1983 at the height of Thatcherism, it stayed | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Labour. This time it's gone. The word historic will be a reduced. But | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
many Labour MPs see this as not just a disappointing result, but a | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
catastrophic results. The question is what do the party do about it? | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
I've been speaking to voters this morning and there seemed to be three | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
interlinked problems for Labour. The first distrust. Nuclear is a big | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
issue here. People want investment in new nuclear capacity. Jeremy | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Corbyn came and said he believed in that after all. He was attacked for | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
not being nuclear enough. Now he apparently believes in it. But not | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
enough people believed him. The second problem is Jeremy Corbyn | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
himself. Even left-wing Labour MPs here tell me that his leadership | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
came up on prompted on the doorstep, and not in a good way. The third | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
thing is that some of the people here don't necessarily see Jeremy | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Corbyn as an antiestablishment figure, that's how he'd like to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
portray himself. They see Labour as the establishment party, they've had | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
the MP for the past 80 years and they don't think they've done enough | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
for the local area. Those three problems together could be toxic for | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Labour at the next general election. But the overriding problem Labour | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
MPs have is they try to dislodge Jeremy Corbyn last year and they | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
failed. It looks like they have no workable plan B. Let's go to Norman | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Smith who is in Stoke, where Corbyn will be celebrating later on. One | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
wonders how much celebration there will actually be. Paul Nuttall is | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
not celebrating either, of course. I don't think there will be much | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
celebrating by Mr Corbyn or Mr Nuttall. Let's be honest, this was | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
not just a harrowing night for Labour in Copeland, it was a | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
difficult night for them in Stoke, too. Even though they won, they had | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
to struggle to hold on in what should have been an easy to the Park | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
by-election for them, because Stoke has been a Labour seat pretty much | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
since the year dot. -- should have been an easy cheesy stroll in the | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
park. We are seven years into a Conservative government. We have | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
what many people with a real problems in the health service. And | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
still Labour is having to fight very hard in one of its safest seats. As | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
for Ukip, the question that arises following their defeat in Stoke is | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
if they can't win here, then where can they win? Stoke was a prime | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
target for them. It is weak Brexit country. It's a traditional working | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
class seat. -- it is big Brexit country. Paul Nuttall himself took a | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
battering. The one person who seems to have emerged significantly | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
strengthened is Theresa May, who pretty much seems to be master, or | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
should I say mistress, and commander of all she surveys. And I have to | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
say, it does remind me of the early 1980s, when then, as now, we seem to | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
have a dominant female Prime Minister with a resurgent | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Conservative Party against a struggling opposition, led by a | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
leading many of whom supporters have little confidence in. Norman Smith | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
in Stoke and Iain Watson in Copeland, thank you. | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
And if you'd like more information on the by-election results, | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
there's more reaction and analysis on the BBC news website - | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Former Leicester and England footballer Gary Lineker | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
has described the club's sacking of Claudio Ranieri | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
nine months after he led them to the Premier League title | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
as "inexplicable, unforgivable and gut-wrenchingly sad." | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
The Italian was dismissed last night after a string of poor results, | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
that has left the side just one point and one place | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Our Sports Correspondent, Joe Wilson, reports. | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
And your manager, Claudio Ranieri! He was the smile, the face and the | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
manager of the most extraordinary sporting success is anyone in | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Leicester had ever seen - well, quite possibly anyone anywhere had | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
ever seen. And Leicester sacked him. The starkness of that reality has | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
shocked even those who spent their life in football. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Yellow ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Leicester City squad, | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
including their coach, Claudio Ranieri! Flashback to Sports | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Personality Of The Year. Gary Lineker, former player and lifelong | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Leicester fan. To Ranieri, eternally grateful. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
The way that everybody got behind Leicester last season was just | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
something that I had never witnessed really in football before. And I | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
think to toss that all the way over a premature decision and a disloyal | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
and in many ways a lack of gratitude, is quite gobsmacking. But | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
I just think you deserve a little bit more, and certainly more time. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
-- I just think he deserved. I think they should be building statues, not | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
backing him. Do you think the players are culpable? Do you think | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
some players will be thinking, crikey, did I cause this? If the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
players are involved, they should have a long, hard look at themselves | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
as well. There was always going to be and after the Lord Mayor's show | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
season. It was never going to match anything like last season. This was | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
the reality of where less than normally are. They're all sorts of | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
different reasons why this happened, but I just think it's a really sad | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
day for Leicester in many ways, that it's come to this. I think he | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
deserved and bought himself a bit more time than this, really. I'm not | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
ashamed to say that last night, when the news broke, I shed a tear. I | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
shed a tear for Claudio, for football, and my club. Leicester's | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Thai owners stressed that the club is in crisis, that they acted to | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
help the club survive. They urge Leicester fans to try to understand. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
I was shocked. I was not surprised, because when not playing too well, | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
but I was definitely disappointed because after last season he | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
deserved to stay with us, until the end of the season, even if we got | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
relegated. You can't run a business like this. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
One year he did the impossible, the next you're sacking him. Disgusting. | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Days when players could be from selling fruit and veg on. That was | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
the Lineker business before football. Days when winter pictures | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
were often marred. But if the sacking of Ranieri is just modern | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
football, what does that say about modern football? | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
Let's speak to David Ornstein, who's at Leicester City's ground. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
As we saw there, there was real anger out there about this. Simon, | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
there is a feeling of high emotion in the city, and among the support | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
base today. It ranges from the sympathy for Claudio Ranieri to the | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
downright anger at the decision to sack him. Some, however, it must be | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
said, do understand the decision made by the club. When Ranieri was | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
appointed in 2015, it was a decision that raised eyebrows. He proved | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
those critics wrong. He answered them - and how! He brought | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
celebrations to this city and this club, the like of which they had | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
never seen before in the club's 133 year history. This stadium, the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
stadium work Craig Shakespeare, the assistant manager, is now giving a | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
news conference as we speak. The stadium where we saw such scenes of | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
celebrations. Now it's come to this. This is where Claudio Ranieri came | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
last night to learn his fate. Now, however, that dream is over. All | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
focus will turn to Liverpool on Monday. They visit the King Power | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
stadium and Leicester must win that. They're one place and one point | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
above the relegation zone. They could become the first club since | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Manchester City in the 1930s to become relegated having won the top | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
flight the season before. A big task for Leicester, but they will have to | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
do it without Claudio Ranieri. David, thank you very much. | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
Police in Malaysia say the half-brother of North Korean | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
leader Kim Jong-un was murdered with a highly toxic | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Kim Jong-nam was attacked at Kuala Lumpur airport last week. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Our correspondent, Stephen Evans, sent this report from Seoul. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
The assassin pulled the cloth over Kim Jong-nam's face | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
He sought urgent medical help, but so deadly is a chemical agent | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
The Malaysian police chief was adamant it was VX. | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
It is the VX nerve agent, which is a chemical weapon. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
You don't know how it was brought in? | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
The police have three people in custody. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
The two women alleged to have actually attacked, | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
and a North Korean man said to have helped. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
One of the attackers may have contaminated herself. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Police want to talk to at least seven others, including | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
a North Korean diplomat and an employee of North | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
In 2013, Kim Jong-un inspected chemical weapons masks. | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
North Korea's long been suspected of making chemical weapons. | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
South Korean experts think the relation attack confirms that. | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
-- think the Malaysian attack confirms that. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
A tiny drop of the VX agent can kill anybody within a minute. | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
So I think it is this, it can absorb the skin, eye, | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
So it's more than 100 times toxic than the nerve gas commonly | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
And the problem with this VX is its toxic, | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
The airport in Kuala Lumpur is to be swept for traces of any other deadly | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
chemicals that the assassination team may have left. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
North Korea is, in effect, a dynasty. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
The all-powerful leadership goes from father to son. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
One threat to Kim Jong-un is now no more. | :16:49. | :17:05. | |
Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes | :17:06. | :17:06. | |
You have just been added to the airport where, according to | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
authorities, a weapon of mass destruction was used a few days ago. | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
How are they taking this? A little more relaxed than they perhaps | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
should be, Simon. I have been in the airport this afternoon, this | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
evening, it has taken a good hour or two to get back, when we left there | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
were no signs at all that the authorities were carrying out this | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
week for the decontamination effort they claimed they were going to. I | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
am afraid to say there is little credibility to their claim that they | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
are taking the threats of other people seriously and doing something | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
about it. In terms of what happens now, what | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
happens to the body, what does North Korea wants to happen to that? | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
I think this takes the whole crisis between Malaysia and North Korea to | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
a completely different level. We were talking about a potential | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
assassination until today, now we are talking about not just an | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
associate nation but potentially be used by a country of a banned | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
chemical weapon in another country's major International Airport. This | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
has really pushed relations between Malaysia and North Korea to the | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
verge of breaking point. The Malaysians Foreign Minister today | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
affectively threatened the North Korean ambassador but if he does not | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
stop what he called spewing lies, Malaysia may well expel him. Thank | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
you, Rupert. An historic night for | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
the Conservative Party as it deals Labour a major blow | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
in the supposedly ultra-safe America moves to calm fears | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
in Mexico that US troops could be sent in to deal | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
with illegal immigrants. Coming up in sport at half-past, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
centre Ben Te'o will make his first start for England | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
in Sunday's Six Nations match Reports from the Iraqi city of Mosul | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
say government troops have entered a neighbourhood in the western half | :18:59. | :19:15. | |
of the city. They captured the airport yesterday | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
as part of their battle to expel Islamic State forces from its final | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
stronghold in Iraq. Let's speak our correspondent | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Wyre Davies, who is with Iraqi Just how significant is this | :19:24. | :19:43. | |
progress? Sorry, we | :19:44. | :19:43. | |
obviously have a problem with a link to Wyre Davies. | :19:44. | :19:57. | |
Sorry about that, we will try to get him a little later. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
America's Homeland Security chief has moved to reassure Mexico | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
that the US army won't be deployed to deal with illegal immigrants. | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
John Kelly made the pledge during talks in Mexico | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
with the country's President and other senior officials. | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
Concerns were raised after President Trump spoke | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
about a military operation to deport criminals. | :20:14. | :20:14. | |
Our correspondent Dan Johnson reports. | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
There's already been a change on Mexico's border with the USA. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
A new flow of people heading back south. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
These Mexicans were sent home because America says | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
TRANSLATION: In Portland, Oregon, as I was coming out of the court | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
when I went to pay my ticket that I owed, they were | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
That's the new reality under what President Trump calls | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
You see what's happening at the border. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
All of a sudden, for the first time, weeding gang members out, | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
We're getting really bad dudes out of this country. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
And at a rate that nobody's ever seen before. | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
Also crossing the border, Rex Tillerson, the Secretary | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
of State from Texas, year to talk to his counterpart | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
and forced to listen to Mexican concerns. | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
TRANSLATION: It is a fact that is obvious that | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
Mexicans are worried, irritated, before what is perceived | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
as policies that might be harmful to our national interest | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
and to Mexicans in Mexico and abroad. | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
Inconsistency in tone is an early feature of the Trump administration. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
The Secretary of State took a much softer line than his boss. | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Two strong sovereign countries, from time to time, | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
We listen closely and carefully to each other as we respectfully | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
and patiently raise our respective concerns. | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
There were discussions with the Mexican president, too. | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
Promises of closer cooperation and reminders of the cultural | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
Figures do show the number of Mexicans leaving the US | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
in recent years actually outstripped new arrivals. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Protesters have called for bridges to be built instead of walls. | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
TRANSLATION: I think there couldn't have been a better symbolic protest | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
than burning Trump's wall, because there shouldn't be | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
He intends to deport more people he considers a threat and filters | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
We have re-established links with Wyre Davies in the Iraqi city of | :22:24. | :22:40. | |
Mosul and can update us on progress, they have entered parts of the West | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
of the city? This is a very critic... Critical | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
point in the battle for Mosul. We have heard that after taking the | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
airport yesterday, as of dawn this morning Iraqi forces have moved in | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
with heavily armoured units to try to push so-called Islamic State | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
fighters into the city itself. It is a very built-up area, 750,000 | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
citizens, very difficult to fight in. I am at a joint American and | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Iraqi military base and it is apparent that international forces | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
are very much part of this. There are American artillery units firing | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
position shells at Isis positions in and outside of Mosul. Their boots on | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
the ground, as the Americans call them, trying to help the Iraqi army | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
to take the western part of the city. This is very critical part of | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
a fight to try to remove so-called Isis from its last big stronghold in | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Iraq. Thank you very much, Wyre Davies. | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
The Royal Bank of Scotland made a loss of nearly | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
$7 billion last year, more the three times the loss | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
Well, our business editor Simon Jack is with me. | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
We have been talking about losses at RBS for a 031 time? If you have a | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
sense of deja vu, this is the ninth loss in a row RBS has made, ?7 | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
billion today on top of 51 billion over the last decade, ?58 billion of | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
losses in total. The UK taxpayer put in ?45 billion in 2009, we have gone | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
through all of that and then some. It was not meant to take this long, | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
we were meant to be back to health, so I spoke to boss Ross McEwan and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
asked why it is taking so long and whose fault it is. | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
I don't think it's a matter of fault. | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
I don't think people saw the magnitude of the conduct | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
and litigation issues that would come through. | :24:31. | :24:31. | |
Who thought that we'd be paying, as an industry, | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Who thought these charges would come through of this magnitude? | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
It is not over yet, I think it is very likely that RBS will make | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
another loss next year, they have too settled with US authorities over | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
the RBS role in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, so more to come. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Underneath the wreckage, there is a decent bank, ?1 billion of profit | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
every quarter, lending to UK businesses and homeowners, but we | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
have some way to go before we get there. Thousands of jobs could go | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
over the next year, pain ahead but also some light at the bank today, | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
they said for the first time they were confident they would make a | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
profit in 2018. Thank you very much, Simon Jack. | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
Police are questioning a man and woman over | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
the escape of a convicted murderer in Liverpool. | :25:21. | :25:21. | |
They're being held on suspicion of helping Shaun Walmsley, | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
who got away from guards during a hospital visit. | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
Let's get the latest from our correspondent Judith Moritz. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Still no sign of him? That's right. Shaun Walmsley escaped from here on | :25:31. | :25:42. | |
Tuesday afternoon, he came for a regular hospital appointment at this | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
hospital and as he was leaving and was escorted here by prison officers | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
from Liverpool prison a short distance away, as they were getting | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
into a car to leave the group were ambushed by two men, whose faces | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
were covered, brandishing a gun and a knife and who escaped with Shaun | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
Walmsley in a gold covered Volvo. -- gold covered Volvo. Merseyside | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Police arrested a 27-year-old man and a 26 year macro woman, both of | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
the same address in the Norris Green area of Liverpool. I understand they | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
are being held at separate police stations on Merseyside and being | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
questioned about the escape on suspicion of assisting an offender, | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
it is not thought they are part of the group that at the hospital on | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
the day. Police say they are still looking this Shaun Walmsley and the | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
two men who were part of that escape effort and choose day. They are | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
telling members of the public they should not approach Walmsley if they | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
see him, he is a dangerous criminal who was sentenced to life in prison | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
with the minimum term of 30 years back in 2015. Merseyside Police say | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
they are combing CCTV footage, they have released imagery of what | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
happened here that afternoon in the hope that witnesses may come | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
forward, because it was in broad daylight. I know plenty of people | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
may have seen what happened. I should add that Merseyside Police | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
say they are working not just with police forces around the UK on this | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
but also liaising with police forces abroad, notices of information have | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
gone out to Port authorities, airports, they say they are working | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
around the clock to try to get Shaun Walmsley back. | :27:24. | :27:24. | |
Thank you, Judith Moritz. Prince Charles is reported to back | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
new plans to sterilise grey squirrels in a bid | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
to protect native reds. The proposals would see | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
grey squirrels given an oral contraceptive - | :27:33. | :27:33. | |
hidden in chocolate spread - The Wildlife Trusts are having | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
their biggest-ever recruitment drive Conservation charities say | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
the population could disappear from England, | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland Red squirrels were once a common | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
sight across much of the UK. But the introduction of their grey | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
cousins 141 years ago spelled Carrying a disease which kills reds, | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
the bigger, greedier grey squirrel dominates our landscape more | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
than a century on, with more There are just 140,000 | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
reds in comparison. But in recent years, | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
efforts to protect reds have had some success and now for the first | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
time the wildlife trusts are combining to recruit | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
5,000 volunteers to help People will be asked to monitor | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
and record data and, if they're willing, they'll be given | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
training on how to cull They're hoping the Red | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
Squirrels United project will not only maintain, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
but maybe even increase numbers. We can train people to help | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
with monitoring, so using trail cameras and hair tubes, | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
we also need people to record their sightings and report | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
them to us and also help It's a really great opportunity | :28:53. | :28:54. | |
for people to get involved in a large-scale conservation | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
project but also at a local level This map shows how many red | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
squirrels were around The campaign hopes to focus | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
the efforts of volunteers on the nine areas where there | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
are already red squirrels, including the Glens of Antrim | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
in Northern Ireland, Anglesey in Wales, | :29:19. | :29:20. | |
and Merseyside in England. The Saving Scotland's Red | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
Squirrels volunteer project Most of us will never get this | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
close to a baby squirrel. Rachel's nursing this | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
one back to health. But with this campaign there's | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
a chance to make sure this native species survives and maybe even | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
flourishes once again in the UK. The price of first and second class | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
stamps will go up by 1p next month. From the end of March, | :29:45. | :29:56. | |
a first class stamp will cost 65p, with a second class stamp | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
increasing to 56p. The Royal Mail have said | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
the increase is needed to ensure the sustainability | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
of the post service. A woman who died after being hit by | :30:04. | :30:17. | |
debris and Wolverhampton city centre yesterday has been named as Tanni, | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
she was 29 and from Stafford. Winds of up to 94 mph were recorded | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
at its height in the UK, causing power cuts, flights to be | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
grounded and trains cancelled. Some welcome tranquillity at last | :30:29. | :30:37. | |
for some of us, a beautiful start to the day in Cumbria. In Cumbria the | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
sunshine will not last long, as we see in a moment. Doris has been | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
hurtling its way across northern parts of Europe, causing some | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
problems. For us, a window of sunshine for many places this | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
morning, there are further fronts lying in wait in the Atlantic and | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
there will be rain for many through the weekend. Enjoy the sunshine | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
while it lasts, across many parts of England and Wales it will be a fine | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
afternoon with broken cloud and sunshine. Lots of cloud across | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
eastern counties at the moment, I hope that will break up to some | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
extent. Feeling cool after the chilly start, sixes and sevens but | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
the winds are nothing like as strong as they have been. | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
Sunshine in Cumbria, brightness and eastern Scotland but all the west | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
rain in Northern Ireland and into western Scotland this afternoon. | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
That rain will continue eastwards overnight. A period of snow over the | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
Highlands before it turns back to rain. Rain will cascade its way down | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
across many areas. Reaching... Very little reaching southern counties, | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
it will be mostly further north. Temperatures will be on the rise | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
here. Under clear skies it will be quite a chilly night. | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
Tomorrow morning does not look that chilly. Lots of rain around the more | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
northern and western areas. It will improve across Scotland and Northern | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
Ireland, things will brighten up through the afternoon. Showers | :32:00. | :32:03. | |
across the far north-west, dribs and drabs further south, across England | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
and Wales at least. Technically and mild today but with the wind and the | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
rain it will not feel that pleasant, the wane -- the rain will be most | :32:11. | :32:19. | |
obvious across parts of Cumbria. Some respite before it comes back on | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
Sunday. Keeping our eye on rainfall through Cumbria this weekend, the | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
risk of some flooding. There are warnings in force, another | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
weather system comes into Sunday, especially to more northern and | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
western areas with increasing winds. Further south on Sunday, mostly dry | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
and bright, there will be some sunshine around commerce and | :32:40. | :32:41. | |
increasing cloud but are largely fine enter the weekend, temperatures | :32:42. | :32:46. | |
doing pretty well up and down the UK, into double figures in many | :32:47. | :32:52. | |
places. That will be tempered by wind and rain. | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
Mild and blustery this weekend but nothing like as windy as it has | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
been. Some rain around, particularly across the more northern and western | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
areas. All the latest on the warnings can be found on the BBC | :33:03. | :33:04. | |
weather website. A reminder of our main | :33:05. | :33:06. | |
story this lunchtime... A historic night for | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
the Conservative Party as it deals Labour a major blow | :33:09. | :33:10. | |
in the supposedly ultra-safe That's all from the BBC News at One | :33:11. | :33:12. | |
- so it's goodbye from me, Copeland is very disappointing, I | :33:13. | :33:22. | |
hope we would win, we did not. | :33:23. | :33:23. |