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he admits he wasn't telling the truth. Mr Mitchell says it is | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
worrying that a serving officer behaved in this way, a comment | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
echoed by fellow MPs. For a serving police officer to admit to | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
fabricating evidence to bring down a Cabinet minister is about as serious | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
as it gets. We'll be looking at how damaging | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
this has been at the end of difficult week for the police. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Also tonight, Fears of more bloodshed on the streets of the | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Central African Republic, as the President resigns. The rain may have | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
stopped but the flood waters are still rising. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
The French President threatens legal action after a magazine prints | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
details about an alleged affair. Where will you be when the world | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
comes to Scotland? Why Jessica Ennis-Hill won't be at | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
the Commonwealth Games. In Sportsday, British sailors say | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
they risk illness every time they compete in Rio's polluted waters | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
ahead of the 2016 Olympics. Good evening. | :01:10. | :01:34. | |
A police officer has admitted lying about witnessing the row in the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
so-called plebgate affair which led to the resignation of a Cabinet | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
minister. PC Keith Wallis originally said he had seen the argument | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
between police officers at the gates of Downing Street and the | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Conservative Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell in September last year. Mr | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Mitchell was accused of swearing and using the word "pleb". Today PC | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Wallis has pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office and | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
offered to resign. The head of the Metropolitan Police has apologised | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
to Mr Mitchell. Our Home Editor, Mark Easton, has the story. | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
It was an encounter that lasted less than a minute, but the alleged use | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
of the word pleb by a government minister to a police officer has | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds, the minister | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
his Cabinet post, at least one police officer his career and quite | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
possibly his liberty, too. PC Keith Wallis claimed in an e-mail that he | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
had witnessed the then Cabinet Minister Andrew Mitchell shouting | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
obscenities at police officers here at the gates to Downing Street. In | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
fact, he was nowhere near. Today, PC Wallis pleaded guilty to misconduct | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
in a public office. The judge granted him bail but warned that all | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
sentencing options remained open to the court. The maximum penalty is | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
life imprisonment. Andrew Mitchell has issued a statement saying he is | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
pleased justice has been done but that many questions remain | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
unanswered. For a serving police officer to admit to fabricating | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
evidence to bring down a Cabinet minister is about as serious as it | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
gets, and it really does beg the question, if it can happen to | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Cabinet ministers and politicians, then it can happen to anybody. The | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, has sent a | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
personal apology to Mr Mitchell. In a statement he said, to lie about | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
witnessing something and provide a false account falls way below the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
standards that I and PC Wallis's colleagues expect of police | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
officers. His actions have also negatively impacted upon public | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
trust and confidence in the integrity of police officers. | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
Despite recent scandals, public confidence levels in the police have | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
actually remained relatively consistent, but trust is a fragile | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
commodity. I think most of the police officers in this country are | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
quite upstanding. They uphold the law for the rest of the country, so | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
it is quite surprising that he told a lie. We're supposed to trust the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
police and that just makes me think to myself, I can't trust the police | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
because they're lying. 48 hours after the relief of being exonerated | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
by the Duggan inquest jury, Scotland Yard finds itself having to respond | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
to a scandal about the integrity and honesty of one of its officers, and | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
it is not over yet. Several other Met officers face possible | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
misconduct disciplinary cases following the plebgate affair. There | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
is a police complaints commission investigation and a possible libel | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
case. I think what we now need to do is learn the lessons of what has | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
happened. We need to make sure that police officers understand the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
nature of what has occurred. I have met many police officers over the | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
course of the year who are very embarrassed I what has happened. The | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
affair has pitched police against all editions with suggestions that | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
the episode actually has its roots in the fierce argument over reform | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
of police pay and conditions in England and Wales. This has been | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
another difficult and dark day for the Metropolitan Police. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
Mark is at New Scotland Yard. Mark, it's been a week where trust in the | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
police has been under intense scrutiny. Today's news is a blow to | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
their reputation. I do think this is a very difficult moment, actually, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
for Scotland Yard, because normally when you have these kind of scandals | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
you will have politicians lining up to support the boys and girls in | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
blue, to make the point that the vast majority of officers do a | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
difficult and dangerous job, often with great integrity and indeed a | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
very. That kind of support is there not on the ground this time, of | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
course, because actually the victim is one of their own. And there will | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
be more days like this one. This story has not wished. I think for | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Commissioner here at Scotland Yard, | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
he is going to need to show real sure-footedness over the next weeks | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
and months to ensure that what is currently a major embarrassment for | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Scotland Yard does not become a major crisis. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
There has been shooting on the streets of the capital of the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Central African Republic tonight after the President suddenly | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
resigned, leaving the country with a dangerous power vacuum. President | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Michel Djotodia seized power in a coup last year with the aid of a | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
mainly Muslim rebel movement called the Seleka. There has been bitter | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
sectarian violence since, with fighting against rival Christian | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
militia. Nearly a million people have fled their homes. And despite | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
the presence of African peacekeepers and French troops, over 1000 people | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
have died in the fighting since December. Paul Wood and cameraman | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Fred Scott report from the capital, Bangui. | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
There was joy in Christian areas even before the President's | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
resignation was confirmed. Go, just go, he screams, what happened to us | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
will happen to you. They are singing, today we kill Muslims. | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
French troops watched as more and more Christians came out. Muslims | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
stayed at home. This was the moment the Christians heard Michelle | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Djotodia had stepped down. We think he is mocking the former | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
President's wife. The bow and arrow belonged to a fighter with the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
anti-Balaka, the Christian militia. Their arms are crude, the rifles | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
home made. Magic amulets stop alerts from the enemy's machine guns. My | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
amulets made it easy to kill Muslim soldiers, he says. They helped force | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
a president to resign. Today's events are their victory, they | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
believe. There is quite a mood of triumphalism among the Christian | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
vigilantes, the anti-Balaka. The question now is whether the | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
President's resignation will spur them on to try to seek revenge. The | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Seleka slaughtered our people like animals, says the commander here. We | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
have to kill them to make them afraid of us. But, he goes on, there | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
has been enough killing. It should stop now. Some aren't listening. | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
This afternoon the mask was attacked. They demolished it, brick | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
by brick. -- a mosque was attacked. Some Christians can't forget what | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
happened to them. In Bangui's main hospital we found victims of the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Seleka militia. This man had gone to a local market and was kidnapped off | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
the street. His hands were tied, his brother tells me, and then they cut | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
his throat. Some 900,000 people, Christians and Muslims, have fled | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
such violence. These people are hiding in the grounds of a half | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
finished church. They just want to go back to the way things were. But | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
on the streets of Bangui, a toxic mix of hysteria and hatred. So much | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
blood has flowed here already. The wild men may determine what happens | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
next in the Central African Republic. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
The French President, Francois Hollande, is threatening legal | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
action against a magazine after it published details of an alleged | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
affair. Closer magazine printed seven pages of pictures of the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
President with a French actress. Mr Hollande has not denied the story | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
but called it a deplorable invasion of privacy. It comes at a difficult | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
time for the French President, with the economy struggling and his own | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
approval rating at just 22%. Tonight, Closer said it will remove | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
the story from its website. Our Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt, is in | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Paris for us tonight. Gavin, unusual for the French press to delve into | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
the private life of a President in this way. It is. In the past, many | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
French leaders had complicated personal lives, but the public | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
rarely got to hear the details at the time. At this morning France | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
awoke to a magazine publishing photos and details of comings and | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
goings which, the magazine says, reveals the reality of a | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
President's life after hours. This is a story about the French | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
president, scooter rides, and an actress. This was the president | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
today and his entourage, crossing the street near the palace. But a | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
French magazine alleges that President Hollande made similar | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
short journeys to this apartment, just 200 metres from his office, but | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
on the back of a scooter and disguised by a helmet. He was said | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
to be meeting Julie Gayet, a film actress and one of his dominant | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
supporters. Jury the election campaign, she had described him as | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
humble and a good listener. -- during. The magazine says, this was | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
the secret love of the President. Over the revelations about this | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
apartment, the President's office said Francois Hollande greatly | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
deplores the invasion of his privacy, to which he has a right | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
along with any other French citizen. What they did not do was to deny the | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
story. I think that politicians have the right to have a private life. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
The president is just a human being, as everyone, and he has the right to | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
have a private life, including a sexual life. The President's partner | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
is Valerie try Weiler, lives at the Palace. Today, the magazine | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
attempted to justify revealing new personal allegations. | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
TRANSLATION: Is the Private life of a President private or public. He | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
has talked a lot about private matters, describing his wife as the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
love of his life. He has the liberally opened up his family and | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
created interest in them. These revelations, a difficult time for | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
the president. He has the lowest approval rating of any modern French | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
president. There have been protests against high taxes, unemployment | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
remains stubbornly high and the economy hovers near recession. It is | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
probably not very good for President Hollande to be seen gallivanting and | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
trekking in the streets of Paris when the economic situation is so | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
dire. Next week he hosts the first conference of the New Year. Many, | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
recalling the high hopes of his inauguration, saw this as an | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
opportunity to relaunch a troubled presidency. Now, he is involved in a | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
scandal. The French might respect privacy, but on most newspaper | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
stands, Closer magazine was sold out. A few years ago a magazine | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
surely would never have carried out surveillance on a serving president, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
but there are those here who believe it is wrong for an elite to know | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
about the personal lives of a president, whilst the public are | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
kept in the dark. But whether any of this will actually damage President | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
Hollande, very hard to know, Fiona. Teachers in England would have to be | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
licensed every few years in order to work in state schools. Under a | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Labour government, the BBC has been told. Tristram Hunt, the Shadow | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Education Secretary, says that the licensing teachers would allow the | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
worst ones to be sacked and help others to receive more training and | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
professional development. Stop carrying out experiments with | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
schools and start focusing on the quality of teaching. That is what | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
the man who wants to be the next Labour Education Secretary says the | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
government should now be doing. Any questions? No. Tristram Hunt says | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
that teachers in future should be licensed, and their skills assessed | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
every few years to see if they are fit to see working in schools, a | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
sort of classroom MOT. This is about believing that teachers have this | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
enormous importance and, just like lawyers and doctors, they should | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
have the same professional standing, which means relicensing | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
themselves, continual professional development of being the best | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
possible they can be. Labour argued that what really matters in | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
classrooms is the quality of teachers. That is why they now say | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
that every teacher will have to become qualified. That there will be | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
relicensing of teachers every few years, which means that most | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
teachers will be helped with more training, but the ones that can't | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
improve will be sacked. Labour have been listening to a head who was | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
made a dame for her work in turning around this one is failing school in | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
north London. She says it is vital to regularly assess teacher | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
performance, to give more support to teachers who can improve and, yes, | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
to sack those who can't. At the end of the day, headteachers have to | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
look at the fact that we are here to provide a good education for the | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
children. The best way to do that is to help teachers develop well. But | :15:16. | :15:42. | |
there are occasions where perhaps the individual is not suited to | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
teaching, and in which case it is then best to move on. Some teaching | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
unions combined with the Tories to help kill off a very similar | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
proposal made by the last Labour government. The NUT said then that | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
five yearly classroom MOTs wherever pointless and unnecessary hurdle for | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
teachers. Listen to what they say now. The devil will be in the | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
detail. If this turned out to be a continuation of the Michael Gove | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
denigration of teachers it would be very negative. But if relicensing | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
were truly based on a new entitlement to high quality | :16:03. | :16:03. | |
professional development that was controlled by the teaching | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
profession, then we could talk about the detail of how to do it. It could | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
be very positive for education. The key union attitudes is likely to be | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
whether this makes it easier for heads to wave goodbye to failing | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
teachers. Labour insist that that is precisely what they intend to do. If | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
you are not a motivated teacher, passionate about your subject, | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
passionate about being in the classroom, then you shouldn't really | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
be in this profession. If you are not willing to engage in relicensing | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
to upgrade your skills, you really shouldn't be in the classroom. The | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Government insist it has already acted to remove poor teachers from | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
the classroom. In the past, Michael Gove has attacked this sort of idea | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
as adding to the bureaucracy facing schools. Labour's message with this | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
announcement as they are interested in teaching, not fiddling around | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
with school structures. What's more, they want parents to think they are | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
tough enough to get rid of bad teachers. Three care workers who | :17:03. | :17:11. | |
abused elderly residents at a nursing home in Lancaster have been | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
sentenced to between four and eight months in jail. A fourth member of | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
staff has been ordered to do community service. The four worked | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
at Hillcroft Nursing Home whether victims, who suffered from dementia, | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
were bullied and assaulted during a period lasting over a year. They | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
told fellow staff they were bored and doing it for their own | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
entertainment. Darren Smith, Katie Cairns, Gemma Pearson and Carol | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Moore showed complete disregard for the well-being of the people they | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
had been entrusted to care for. Further to that, their ill-treatment | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
was directed at some of the most vulnerable members of our | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
community. These people couldn't speak out or defend themselves. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Their behaviour was utterly contemptible. The bodies of a woman | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
in her 30s and two children aged five and seven months have been | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
discovered at a house in Brent in north-west London. Police say they | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths. Brent | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
Council have told the BBC the family were known to them. Even though | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
there is to be a brief respite from the recent rain, floodwaters are | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
expected to continue rising. The Environment Agency is warning | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
communities in southern England in particular of the risk of further | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
flooding from swollen rivers. The River Thames is carrying 400 tonnes | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
of water through Surrey every second, that's ten times more than | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
normal for this time of year. There are currently over 90 flood warnings | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
across England and Wales. Our correspondent has more. From this | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
light it's hard to see where the Thames ends and begins. A watery | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
blow for mile after mile, and it still rising. At Marlow in | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Buckinghamshire the river spilled over. Whilst at war grave in | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Berkshire the flooded house on the right belongs to magician Paul | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
Daniels. He tweeted he was OK. There's a bridge that takes us from | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
here to the house. We met Mark Lancia, who's flown in from Belgium, | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
to resupply his stranded mother. He inched forward into her submerged | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
garden, knowing the water is going up. Do you think you will still | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
stay? Yes, of course. We have a basement and I have to keep pumping | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
the water out of that. If I don't it will be inundated. So I had to stay. | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
Residence here say the next 48 hours will make the difference between | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
inundation and salvation. What everybody along the Thames is | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
telling us is, we want up to date information with all this water | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
continuing to rise. They are being advised to go to the Environment | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Agency website and tap in their location. If I put in Wraysbury, | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
where we are, tap it in and you can see here that a lot of the map is | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
deep blue, which means a very high risk of flooding. Sorry to keep you | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
waiting, it's a bit cold out here. The Prime Minister was in | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Oxfordshire today, meeting people whose homes were already | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
underwater. He defended his record on flood protection. We are | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
increasing on the 2.1 billion spent in the previous period, so spending | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
on flood defences is going up. The row about building new housing in | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
flood prone -- areas surfaced again today. Government and developers | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
simply can't agree whether drainage gardens like this one in Sheffield | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
are the answer. Capturing water on the surface of this housing | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
development, the pollution is removed because it goes through | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
vegetation, it provides biodiversity and landscape benefits for the | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
community, but it also controls the flow into the stream locally. | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Whether its gardens or cars, the risk of being submerged continues | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
this weekend. There's not much rain, just bucketloads of worry. | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
Plans for a referendum on Britain's's membership of the EU | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
have cleared their first hurdle in the Lords today. If the bill becomes | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
law there will be a vote in 2017. Our political correspondent watched | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
the debate from Westminster. Britain's relationship with the | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
European Union is at a critical phase, with heated debate over the | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
powers of the EU, the rights of its citizens and whether we should | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
remain a member at all. The Lords have been debating a bill which | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
would ensure a referendum on our membership of the EU by the end of | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
2017. We politicians have made a regular mess of it, over decades. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
That is why we need to get the people to decide. Labour have not | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
ruled out a referendum, but say this bill would cause uncertainty which | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
would damage our economy. The bill is not about changing or improving | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
the EU. It is indeed stage one in raising impossible demands of the | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
European Union in order to create a pretext for leaving it. The Lords | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
will demand changes to the bill, which will require further | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
consideration, and there's a real danger the bill will run out of time | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
to become law. David Cameron wants to reclaim a raft of powers from the | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
EU before we get to the referendum, which has been debated here today. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
To achieve this he needs the support of our European partners, but he has | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
angered some potential allies by suggesting curbs on the freedom of | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
movement of EU citizens and their rights to claim benefits here. That | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
has punted a senior member of the EU commission to accuse British | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
politicians of peddling myths about an invasion of foreigners. I am | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
mostly frustrated about the political leaders. Because what is | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
leadership if you are just trying with populist movements and populist | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Dick speech to gain votes? You are destroying the future of your | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
people, actually. Age UK IPP said he was grateful for such comments. For | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
reminding us that the European project is all about rampant | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
supranational is, with really a searing disregard for national | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
sovereignty. So whatever happens to the Referendum Bill, there will be | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
no letup in the wrangling over our relationship with Europe from now | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
until the election. The heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill won't compete in | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow because she's expecting her | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
first child. The Olympic gold winner said she was excited and overwhelmed | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
by the news, and that she still plans to bid for a second gold medal | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
in the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Our sports correspondent sent this | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
report from Glasgow. It contains flashing images. Jessica Ennis-Hill | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
is the Olympic champion. It is perfect day for Jessica Ennis! | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Overwhelming, unexpected and exciting. Jessica Ennis-Hill a well | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
have been describing her golden Olympic moment, but instead was | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
talking about her biggest challenge yet, pregnancy. The 27-year-old, who | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
married last year, said her plans the 27-year-old, who married last | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
year, said her plans for 2014 have been completely turned upside down, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
but she is 100% set on trying to retain her Olympic title in Rio | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
wants a baby is born. I think now, taking this period of time might | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
actually lengthen her career, with the World Championships in London, | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
the Commonwealth Games will be on the Gold Coast in 2018. There's | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
always a championship year. Even by the righteously high standards, that | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
will be tough, according to Denise Lewis, who also fell pregnant | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
shortly after winning heptathlon gold. It's challenging, let's put it | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
that way. Not only are you dealing with new evolution or relationships | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
that you have with your baby, but with the goals you've set for | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
yourself. Yes, I want to be back competing at the Olympics. Here at | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Hampden Park, preparations are well under way for the athletics this | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
summer. Games organisers have sent congratulations to Jessica | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
Ennis-Hill. Ticket sales have been excellent, as fans clamour to see | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
the big stars in action. But that big question now is, just which of | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
those box office names will they actually get to see? Sir Chris Hoy, | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
who has had a stadium named after him, has retired but he will remain | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
an ambassador. Mo Farah says he may not compete, as he is focusing on | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
this year's London Marathon instead. Usain Bolt may run the 200 metres | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
but as yet is undecided. I think there will be a lot of new names | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
coming forward. There's also a large number of current championship and | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Olympic medallist that will be there. There are 17 different | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
sports, something every day. Every time you turn on the television or | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
go to the stadium there will be a world champion, Olympic champion or | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Olympic medallist who will be there, competing with our athletes. So | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Glasgow has lost a star and Ennis Hill has missed out on her second | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
consecutive Commonwealth Games, the one gold medal missing from a | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
glittering CV. But another major title will be added this summer, | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
that of mother. That's all from us. Starting on BBC Two in a moment, you | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
can hear more of Newsnight's interview with the editor of a | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
magazine responsible for | :26:38. | :26:39. |