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:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten - dozens of countries, including the UK,

:00:09. > :00:13.agree to work together on tax rules for multinational companies.

:00:14. > :00:16.Here in the UK - the controversial recent deal between Google and HMRC

:00:17. > :00:22.has led to calls for more fairness and transparency.

:00:23. > :00:25.Why is there one rule for big multinational companies and another

:00:26. > :00:27.for ordinary small businesses and self-employed workers?

:00:28. > :00:32.This company and other companies will pay more

:00:33. > :00:39.in future than they ever paid under Labour.

:00:40. > :00:42.We'll have more on the Google row - and on today's tax agreement

:00:43. > :00:52.As more migrants arrive in the Greek islands -

:00:53. > :00:54.Greece is accused of 'seriously neglecting' its obligations -

:00:55. > :00:58.The grandparents of a severely disabled teenager -

:00:59. > :01:02.have won the latest round of their legal challenge -

:01:03. > :01:08.Brazilian scientists are stepping up the search -

:01:09. > :01:11.for ways of containing the zika virus - which could be causing

:01:12. > :01:19.And, for the first time since 1977 - a British woman progresses

:01:20. > :01:24.to the semifinal - of a Grand Slam tennis tournament.

:01:25. > :01:31.Will the head of Scotland Yard be out of a job by August -

:01:32. > :01:33.because of a delay over reappointment by the Mayor?

:01:34. > :01:35.And a warning for runners about the long-term damage

:01:36. > :01:58.Dozens of countries - including Britain -

:01:59. > :02:00.have signed an agreement - to deal with tax evasion

:02:01. > :02:02.and avoidance - by some of the world's most

:02:03. > :02:07.The deal was agreed by the G20 nations in Paris -

:02:08. > :02:10.following concern about the way some big firms -

:02:11. > :02:13.move their profits - to countries with lower tax rates.

:02:14. > :02:15.During the day - David Cameron defended the recent deal

:02:16. > :02:17.between Google and HMRC - to pay ?130 million

:02:18. > :02:23.Labour has written to the National Audit Office -

:02:24. > :02:27.asking for the deal to be investigated -

:02:28. > :02:33.as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

:02:34. > :02:44.How much should be companies pay in tax? A well-known one many others

:02:45. > :02:47.use every day nearly has just paid ?130 million to catch up on its bill

:02:48. > :02:52.for the last ten years. That sounds a lot but when in just one year its

:02:53. > :02:57.sales were 4.6 billion command profits were more than 100 million

:02:58. > :03:05.over 18 months Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think that sounds quite right, or

:03:06. > :03:09.maybe even fair. Many people go into their HMRC offices or returning them

:03:10. > :03:14.online this week will say this: why is there one rule for big

:03:15. > :03:17.multinational companies, and another for ordinary small businesses and

:03:18. > :03:19.self-employed workers? The Prime Minister tried to tough it

:03:20. > :03:25.out. When I came to power, banks didn't

:03:26. > :03:28.pay tax on all of their profits are allowed under Labour and stopped

:03:29. > :03:31.under the Tories, investment companies could cut their tax bill

:03:32. > :03:35.by flipping the currency their accounts were in, allowed under

:03:36. > :03:41.Labour, stopped under the Tories. Companies fiddle accounting rules to

:03:42. > :03:47.make losses disappear into thin air, allowed under Labour and banned

:03:48. > :03:52.under the Tories. Politicians have been keen to praise Google's

:03:53. > :03:55.success, and when the firm announced after nine years of negotiations

:03:56. > :03:59.they were finally going to cough up, the Chancellor claimed it was a

:04:00. > :04:03.victory for the Government. He needs to come clean and tell is acceptable

:04:04. > :04:08.the details of the scheme is, how he arrived at it, why he has arrived at

:04:09. > :04:12.it and why it is 3% when other companies pay 20% or 30%. Most

:04:13. > :04:16.people find it's unacceptable and we need to know why. If you were the

:04:17. > :04:20.Chancellor what would you do that was different at this moment? We

:04:21. > :04:25.wouldn't have a delight this? You would tell HMRC not to do the deal?

:04:26. > :04:28.We would have openness and transparency. Should politicians

:04:29. > :04:34.publish their tax returns? Yes. Would you publish your tax return?

:04:35. > :04:38.Yes. Remember, there is no suggestion Google has broken the

:04:39. > :04:42.law. Big companies' tax bills are not just calculate it by where they

:04:43. > :04:45.do business but by the kind of business they do in each country.

:04:46. > :04:50.When you are looking at which country gets what tax you don't

:04:51. > :04:59.carve it up as to where the sales are under current rules. The closest

:05:00. > :05:02.simple principle to how you carve it up to negotiate it is where is the

:05:03. > :05:06.value added? Ministers have already changed the law to make it harder

:05:07. > :05:10.for firms to avoid tax. The government is careful to point out

:05:11. > :05:15.the deal with Google was brokered by the taxman at HMRC, not a deal that

:05:16. > :05:19.was done in back rooms by ministers themselves. But this is simply too

:05:20. > :05:24.tempting a political attack for Labour to leave alone. They'll use

:05:25. > :05:27.every chance to embarrass the government to try to make it hurt.

:05:28. > :05:31.There have been awkward conversations about other big

:05:32. > :05:34.brands. Dozens of companies have signed up today to tighten the rules

:05:35. > :05:38.but that won't shut down the debate here about who pays what and what is

:05:39. > :05:46.fair. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

:05:47. > :05:48.Today's agreement in Paris - was described in some quarters

:05:49. > :05:50.as the most fundamental change to

:05:51. > :05:54.for almost a century - and it's being seen as a vital step

:05:55. > :05:56.- to make big global companies - pay more tax.

:05:57. > :05:59.For its part - Google says it is operating entirely

:06:00. > :06:01.within the law - and has done nothing wrong.

:06:02. > :06:04.To take a closer look at how tax rules affect multinational companies

:06:05. > :06:05.- here's our economics editor Kamal Ahmed.

:06:06. > :06:07.International tax law is certainly complicated -

:06:08. > :06:12.Let's try and unpick how Google operates.

:06:13. > :06:16.Britain is the tech giant's second biggest market.

:06:17. > :06:22.It sells ?4.6 billion worth of its products here.

:06:23. > :06:27.Google is also an American company and, under tax law,

:06:28. > :06:33.that sales money is mainly taxed in the US -

:06:34. > :06:35.via, somewhat controversially, low or no tax countries like Ireland

:06:36. > :06:47.That structure is comparable to a British company selling

:06:48. > :06:50.products abroad - it would pay most of its tax here.

:06:51. > :06:55.So why does Google pay any tax in Britain?

:06:56. > :06:57.Because Google in America pays mooney to a subsidiary,

:06:58. > :07:00.Google UK, over ?1 billion between 2014 and 2015

:07:01. > :07:11.The profit from that payment - as Laura's piece mentioned -

:07:12. > :07:19.Just over ?46 million, actually a figure pretty comparable

:07:20. > :07:25.In Paris today, the global economic organisation,

:07:26. > :07:27.the OECD, signed a new deal on global tax.

:07:28. > :07:29.Nobody's willing to pay more taxes than they should.

:07:30. > :07:33.The question is: are they going to pay the taxes that they should pay?

:07:34. > :07:37.And all we are saying is - fair share - and all we are saying

:07:38. > :07:43.is - logic - you pay taxes where you generate the profits.

:07:44. > :07:47.There will be more transparency on who pays what where and other

:07:48. > :07:49.countries are keen to ensure that Google pays more tax

:07:50. > :07:56.TRANSLATION: It's a good thing that Google resolves its problems

:07:57. > :07:58.in the UK, but Google also has to sort out

:07:59. > :08:01.We do not want to reach a one-off agreement,

:08:02. > :08:08.We are looking at what activity a particular

:08:09. > :08:14.company has in France so we can request a fair amount of tax,

:08:15. > :08:18.not more, not less than other companies.

:08:19. > :08:25.as I said, last year Google paid ?46 million in tax.

:08:26. > :08:34.And that's from a company that tonight announced profits

:08:35. > :08:39.of over ?1 billion globally for the last three months.

:08:40. > :08:45.It is unlikely that this controversy has run its full course.

:08:46. > :08:52.The Greek government has defended the work of its border control

:08:53. > :08:53.agency - after being accused of 'seriously

:08:54. > :08:57.The criticism was made by the European Commission -

:08:58. > :09:00.and focused on Greece's control of the external frontier

:09:01. > :09:02.of the Schengen zone - the passport-free area

:09:03. > :09:06.Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Samos -

:09:07. > :09:08.one of the islands identified by European officials -

:09:09. > :09:17.The kids in this camp in Samos have made meticulous drawings

:09:18. > :09:23.of their mile-long sea trip to Greece.

:09:24. > :09:25.The European Commission wishes that Greece itself had been as thorough

:09:26. > :09:33.Over the last year more than 600,000 migrants and refugees have made it

:09:34. > :09:40.Some were fingerprinted, others, to Europe's

:09:41. > :09:46.Tonight the mayor of Samos told me that his

:09:47. > :09:49.island was doing all that it could to get the process right.

:09:50. > :09:55.We ask and demand from the European Union to

:09:56. > :09:57.understand that we are the front liners of Europe.

:09:58. > :09:59.And they say you're not doing enough?

:10:00. > :10:05.In some places the island has taken steps.

:10:06. > :10:07.It's built this hillside camp in order to screen

:10:08. > :10:17.The draft report concludes that Greece seriously

:10:18. > :10:18.neglected its obligations and there are serious deficiencies

:10:19. > :10:23.in the carrying out of external border

:10:24. > :10:25.controls that must be overcome and dealt with by

:10:26. > :10:29.Greek officials have managed to register the migrants at this

:10:30. > :10:37.on to the rest of the continent.

:10:38. > :10:45.blamed for a Europe-wide problem.

:10:46. > :10:51.And it's worried about what may happen next if the EU decides

:10:52. > :10:53.to seal borders further north, Greece fears these, its islands,

:10:54. > :10:57.Europe insists that it has no plans to isolate Greece.

:10:58. > :11:00.But it does want to find a lasting way of documenting

:11:01. > :11:03.and then limiting the numbers who wish to make Europe their home.

:11:04. > :11:22.Let's go live to Brussels and speak to our Europe editor Katya Adler.

:11:23. > :11:26.The Greeks today said they didn't like the sense of being isolated in

:11:27. > :11:32.some sense by this criticism. Is the aim to isolate Greece here?

:11:33. > :11:36.Greece feels this is unfair but for months it has failed to really

:11:37. > :11:41.register refugees. It is far easier to wave them northwards and make it

:11:42. > :11:46.another country's problem, but arguably the weakness in the

:11:47. > :11:49.Schengen agreement, the agreement allowing for passport-free travel

:11:50. > :11:53.among 26 European countries isn't one nation, Greece, it's that the

:11:54. > :11:57.architects of the agreement didn't make provisions for the fact that

:11:58. > :12:02.the southern flank of Schengen is guarded by Greece, Spain and Italy,

:12:03. > :12:07.four years collectively known as Europe's poorest soft underbelly. So

:12:08. > :12:18.why were these provisions not put in place? Why was there no back-up plan

:12:19. > :12:22.cousin -- back-up plan? Schengen is seen as one of the greatest

:12:23. > :12:27.achievements of the EU increasing trade and travel and increasing the

:12:28. > :12:36.meeting of minds and the EU is desperate not to let it die but in

:12:37. > :12:41.the last months we have seen countries like Austria, Sweden and

:12:42. > :12:45.Hungary saying they cannot accept the number of newcomers they did

:12:46. > :12:49.last year. Up until now there is a never used our kids all in Schengen

:12:50. > :12:54.allowing the border controls to remain in place for up to two years.

:12:55. > :12:58.If there is found to be a weak link, in this case Greece. That's what

:12:59. > :13:03.today's announcement by the commission is all about, trying to

:13:04. > :13:05.save Schengen in the face of the migrant crisis. Thank you for your

:13:06. > :13:10.analysis, Katya Adler in Brussels. The convicted murderer -

:13:11. > :13:12.Levi Bellfield has admitted - for the first time -

:13:13. > :13:15.that he abducted, raped and killed Milly was 13 years old when she was

:13:16. > :13:21.abducted on her way from school in Walton-on-Thames

:13:22. > :13:24.in Surrey in March 2002. Bellfield was jailed

:13:25. > :13:25.for life in 2011 after pleading not guilty

:13:26. > :13:30.to the teenager's murder. Surrey police say he made

:13:31. > :13:34.his admission of guilt when he was being interviewed

:13:35. > :13:37.by detectives about claims The Court of Appeal has ruled

:13:38. > :13:45.that the government's spare room subsidy - the so-called 'bedroom

:13:46. > :13:47.tax' - discriminates against the family of

:13:48. > :13:49.a severely-disabled teenager - and against a victim

:13:50. > :13:51.of domestic violence. They had both argued that changes

:13:52. > :13:53.to housing benefit - unlawfully discriminated

:13:54. > :13:55.against them. The Government has been given

:13:56. > :13:57.permission to challenge the ruling - as our home editor

:13:58. > :14:10.Mark Easton reports. The Government calls it the removal

:14:11. > :14:16.of the spare room subsidy, but to many it's the hated bedroom tax.

:14:17. > :14:19.Today's opponents welcomed a Court of Appeal ruling that the policy

:14:20. > :14:23.which cuts housing benefit to those deemed to be under occupying social

:14:24. > :14:31.housing discriminates against vulnerable people. The Rutherford

:14:32. > :14:36.family from Pembrokeshire had gone to court arguing they needed a spare

:14:37. > :14:40.room so carers for their severely disabled grandson could stay

:14:41. > :14:45.overnight. A victim of domestic violence who is secure panic room

:14:46. > :14:48.counted as a spare room also sought a judicial review. Although both

:14:49. > :14:52.households get discretionary housing payments from their local council,

:14:53. > :14:59.the Appeal Court judges said the policy was a breach of human rights.

:15:00. > :15:02.I am a bit lost for words, I could almost cry with happiness. And I

:15:03. > :15:07.hope that other people in our situation are going to benefit from

:15:08. > :15:13.this court's decision as well. Bedroom tax, introduced in 2013, has

:15:14. > :15:18.reduced the housing benefit bill by almost ?500,000 per year -- ?500

:15:19. > :15:23.million per year. Of those households affected 45% saw their

:15:24. > :15:28.household composition change and 20% change their earnings, or found work

:15:29. > :15:35.and 12% moved to a smaller house. Among those still affected 57% have

:15:36. > :15:40.reduced spending on food and heating and 37% borrowed money and 29% have

:15:41. > :15:42.applied for emergency funding. The Department for Work and Pensions

:15:43. > :15:47.have said they have significantly increased the amount of the

:15:48. > :15:51.emergency help, ?500 million more available for discretionary housing

:15:52. > :15:54.payments since 2011 and an extra ?870 million over the next five

:15:55. > :15:58.years. But ministers say there is also a moral argument for the

:15:59. > :16:03.policy, that a spare room is a luxury people in the private rented

:16:04. > :16:07.sector have to pay for. Our fundamental position is that it's

:16:08. > :16:11.unfair to subsidise spare rooms in the social sector if you don't

:16:12. > :16:18.subsidise them in the private sector where people are paying a housing

:16:19. > :16:21.benefit. Nevertheless, an independent evaluation of the policy

:16:22. > :16:25.finds confusion, frustration and little certainty for honourable

:16:26. > :16:30.groups, news that ministers are appealing today's judgment was

:16:31. > :16:35.greeted by the Rutherford family with this may. I've just heard this

:16:36. > :16:39.minute that the Government are going to appeal, which to me is just

:16:40. > :16:44.ridiculous, because people like us don't need to be constantly,

:16:45. > :16:50.constantly applying for stuff, begging for stuff. To those that

:16:51. > :16:56.call it the bedroom tax, including both Labour and the SNP, the policy

:16:57. > :16:59.should be abolished. At ministers argue the removal of the spare room

:17:00. > :17:01.subsidy is encouraging tens of thousands to become less reliant on

:17:02. > :17:06.the state. Mark Easton, BBC News. A brief look at some

:17:07. > :17:13.of the day's other news stories. Five former brokers have been

:17:14. > :17:16.cleared of conspiracy to defraud in connection with an investigation

:17:17. > :17:18.into whether the interbank lending rate, known as Libor,

:17:19. > :17:19.was manipulated. The men were accused

:17:20. > :17:21.of helping Tom Hayes, the first person to be

:17:22. > :17:28.convicted of rigging Libor. The French Justice Minister,

:17:29. > :17:30.Christiane Taubira, has resigned in protest at proposed changes

:17:31. > :17:33.to the constitution which could see people convicted of terrorism

:17:34. > :17:34.stripped of their citizenship. She said she disagreed with the idea

:17:35. > :17:38.which was one of the measures announced in response to the attacks

:17:39. > :17:45.in Paris in November. The world tennis authorities have

:17:46. > :17:47.launched an independent review into allegations of corruption

:17:48. > :17:49.following claims of match-fixing. An investigation by the BBC

:17:50. > :17:54.and Buzzfeed News found that several top players had been allowed

:17:55. > :17:56.to continue competing despite suspicions

:17:57. > :18:18.they'd fixed matches. The frontrunner for the Republican

:18:19. > :18:19.presidential nomination, Donald Trump, has been ridiculed

:18:20. > :18:22.by rivals for refusing to take part Mr Trump pulled out of the show,

:18:23. > :18:31.hosted by Fox News, because he objected to the choice

:18:32. > :18:34.of moderator after clashing Brazilian health officials have

:18:35. > :18:37.reported a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly, a rare condition

:18:38. > :18:40.in which an infant's head Experts say they strongly suspect

:18:41. > :18:44.that the Zika virus is to blame and they revealed today

:18:45. > :18:46.that there have been more than 4,000 suspected cases since

:18:47. > :18:48.the start of last year. Researchers are using new genetic

:18:49. > :18:51.technology to try to contain the spread of the virus by mosquitos

:18:52. > :18:54.as our South America correspondent, Releasing hundreds of thousands

:18:55. > :18:56.of fertile mosquitos into the suburbs of Brazil's

:18:57. > :19:02.biggest city in the middle but these are genetically

:19:03. > :19:09.modified Aedes aegypti. The very species responsible

:19:10. > :19:10.for transmitting Zika When they mate, they'll pass

:19:11. > :19:22.on a self-limiting gene. What does it mean

:19:23. > :19:24.for their offspring? Well, they're offspring will die

:19:25. > :19:26.before they become new flying adults, which is the life stage that

:19:27. > :19:29.matters for disease transmissions. So they're going to die

:19:30. > :19:32.while they're larvaeing. Here we just have freshly hatched

:19:33. > :19:35.eggs and we have some really tiny This British-owned lab says

:19:36. > :19:40.the technique has reduced by over 90% the number of

:19:41. > :19:45.mosquitos in some areas. Fed on a smelly mixture of fish

:19:46. > :19:48.food and sheep's blood, This technology was developed

:19:49. > :19:54.in the UK, indeed all of these mosquitos are descendants

:19:55. > :19:57.from the first eggs brought over Now, they produce about two million

:19:58. > :20:04.male mosquitos here every week and they're released

:20:05. > :20:07.into the general population to help in the fight against viruses

:20:08. > :20:12.like Zika and dengue. Zika's suspected of being

:20:13. > :20:14.responsible for a surge in microcephaly in Brazil,

:20:15. > :20:19.confirmed cases have almost doubled The government's announced help

:20:20. > :20:26.for poorer families, but the wider financial and social

:20:27. > :20:29.impact could be huge. At San Paulo's renowned

:20:30. > :20:36.Butantan Institute they're famous for research into anti-venmon

:20:37. > :20:39.and the production of biopharmaceuticals, now

:20:40. > :20:40.there's a new priority - finding a vaccine for Zika

:20:41. > :20:47.and they're starting from scratch. We still need to really describe

:20:48. > :20:50.and establish the link between the Zika virus

:20:51. > :20:52.and microcephaly, for example, but we do have the hypothesis that

:20:53. > :21:00.that relationship basically is true, but again, we need to demonstrate

:21:01. > :21:03.in order to even guide us to develop the best treatment or the best

:21:04. > :21:09.vaccine to prevent that problem. Trying to keep calm in the final

:21:10. > :21:23.weeks of pregnancy is not easy for expectant

:21:24. > :21:26.mothers in Brazil. At the beginning

:21:27. > :21:27.we were very worried. My husband, he kept putting

:21:28. > :21:30.on repellent on me all day. Developing a Zika vaccine could take

:21:31. > :21:35.10 years and with so much uncertainty about the illness,

:21:36. > :21:37.it's a time of real anxiety for many Ever since the modern

:21:38. > :21:42.computer was invented, the question of human

:21:43. > :21:44.versus artifical intelligence has Back in the 1990s, IBM's Deep Blue

:21:45. > :21:50.managed to beat the reigning chess The latest battle saw a computer

:21:51. > :21:59.beating a professional player at Go, that's the Chinese game that's even

:22:00. > :22:02.more complex than chess and played by more than 40 million people

:22:03. > :22:10.around the world as our technology correspondent, Rory

:22:11. > :22:12.Cellan-Jones, explains now. It's 2,500 years old and the rules

:22:13. > :22:16.are simple, but Go is a game of huge complexity and no computer has come

:22:17. > :22:19.close to beating a human champion Fan Hui is the European Go Champion,

:22:20. > :22:23.but five times in a row he played a computer programme

:22:24. > :22:25.called AlphaGo and lost. The programme was developed

:22:26. > :22:30.by a British artificial intelligence company, bought by

:22:31. > :22:32.Google two years ago. It's creator - himself a Go player -

:22:33. > :22:36.says the computer first studied the patterns that

:22:37. > :22:43.are repeated in games. After it's learnt that,

:22:44. > :22:45.it's got to a kind of reasonable standard through looking

:22:46. > :22:47.at professional games, it now plays itself,

:22:48. > :22:49.different versions of itself, millions and millions

:22:50. > :22:51.of times and each time gets As computers have advanced,

:22:52. > :22:57.they've taken on more In the 1950s, they beat

:22:58. > :23:03.Noughts and Crosses, a game with 362,880

:23:04. > :23:12.possible positions. In the 1990s, they cracked Chess,

:23:13. > :23:15.which has 9 million possible But Go offers complexity

:23:16. > :23:19.on a completely different scale. Here's the figure for how many

:23:20. > :23:24.different positions there can be in one game - 10

:23:25. > :23:27.to the power of 171. That's one and an awful

:23:28. > :23:28.lot of zeros. Amongst those trying to build

:23:29. > :23:33.advanced artificial intelligence, beating Go is being

:23:34. > :23:36.seen as a key moment. There have been teams from around

:23:37. > :23:38.the world in universities and companies all trying

:23:39. > :23:40.to solve this problem. This has been seen as a landmark

:23:41. > :23:43.for artificial intelligence research and it's very impressive that

:23:44. > :23:49.they've managed to get the people The man who's led this breakthrough

:23:50. > :23:57.believes artificial intelligence will now have applications

:23:58. > :24:02.far beyond games. It's going to yield some fabulous

:24:03. > :24:10.benefits for society. You know, ultimately,

:24:11. > :24:12.being applied to things and science to assist human experts

:24:13. > :24:15.make breakthroughs more quickly There's a lot of human brain power

:24:16. > :24:20.employed developing the strategy Now computers have learned to do

:24:21. > :24:26.this, they'll move on to even In the Libyan port of Benghazi

:24:27. > :24:36.a coalition, led by the Libyan army, is fighting on two fronts

:24:37. > :24:39.against the forces of so-called Benghazi, where the Libyan uprising

:24:40. > :24:51.started back in 2011, has for the past year-and-a-half

:24:52. > :24:53.suffered endless fighting which has left hundreds dead and many

:24:54. > :24:55.thousands homeless. One of the few journalists to enter

:24:56. > :25:00.Benghazi is Feras Kilani from the BBC's Arabic Service and he

:25:01. > :25:03.sent us this exclusive report. Struggling to hold their positions,

:25:04. > :25:08.these fighters are working with the army trying to stop

:25:09. > :25:16.the advance of Islamist militias. We are some of the few journalists

:25:17. > :25:24.to access these front-lines. It's impossible to reach this area

:25:25. > :25:26.without the protection This was the city that started

:25:27. > :25:31.the Libya revolution five years ago. Entire neighbourhoods have been

:25:32. > :25:38.destroyed and thousands have fled. The armed forces still control most

:25:39. > :25:42.of the city. But now they are losing

:25:43. > :25:51.ground to the Islamists. We just pulled up here

:25:52. > :25:54.on the side of the road, this is the only entrance

:25:55. > :25:56.to the city of Benghazi. If you come with me to this point,

:25:57. > :26:00.you can see how the front-line has moved forward in

:26:01. > :26:02.the last few months. Inside these damaged buildings

:26:03. > :26:05.are snipers which put all these roads and residential

:26:06. > :26:10.areas under threat. A growing number of commanders blame

:26:11. > :26:20.the losses on the army's leadership. TRANSLATION: What pushed

:26:21. > :26:25.us to this situation There's a big disagreement

:26:26. > :26:32.between the front-line commanders, the army leadership,

:26:33. > :26:37.and the politicians. Just a few hundred meters away

:26:38. > :26:41.from the front-line, It has been hit before,

:26:42. > :26:47.but children are desperate Here the gunfire is constant,

:26:48. > :27:00.the pupils no longer react. Their teacher tries to reassure me

:27:01. > :27:10."everything is fine", she tells me. But sfter missing almost

:27:11. > :27:14.two years of school, these children's

:27:15. > :27:17.futures are bleak. Emerging from the chaos in Benghazi,

:27:18. > :27:20.the so-called Islamic State is now We saw their black flag clearly

:27:21. > :27:30.visible from the only The group's influence is growing,

:27:31. > :27:35.as fighters from other Islamist Back on the front-line,

:27:36. > :27:46.the men rest after a long day. All of them here say they will keep

:27:47. > :27:49.fighting, but as disagreements within the armed forces grow,

:27:50. > :27:51.so does the strength That was an exclusive report for us

:27:52. > :28:21.from Feras Kilani. Football, and Manchester City have

:28:22. > :28:23.beaten Everton to reach the final Despite going behind early

:28:24. > :28:27.in the match and being in deficit from the first leg of the tie,

:28:28. > :28:30.they rallied to win 3-1 Sergio Aguero scored

:28:31. > :28:32.the decisive goal. They'll now face Liverpool

:28:33. > :28:35.in the final at the end of February. For the first time since 1983,

:28:36. > :28:38.a British woman has progressed to the semi-final of

:28:39. > :28:40.a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Johanna Konta, who was born

:28:41. > :28:43.in Australia, but moved to Britain as a teenager, continued

:28:44. > :28:45.her sparkling run at Andy Murray is also

:28:46. > :28:53.through in the men's competition, COMMENTATOR: Johanna Konta,

:28:54. > :28:57.from Great Britain, born in Australia and then moved

:28:58. > :29:00.to Great Britain and has had Johanna Konta joked she has more

:29:01. > :29:03.passports than Jason Bourne, she also holds

:29:04. > :29:09.Hungarian nationality. For tennis fans, it's the way

:29:10. > :29:12.the 24-year-old has upped her game UMPIRE: Game, set and

:29:13. > :29:17.match, Johanna Konta. When I was a little girl,

:29:18. > :29:20.I dreamt of winning Grand Slams and being Number One in the world

:29:21. > :29:24.and that dream stays the same, I think, as long as you're doing

:29:25. > :29:28.the career that you're on. In the last year-and-a-half,

:29:29. > :29:30.she's jumped 100 places Many believe it's new found inner

:29:31. > :29:36.strength rather than ability that's She used to really bottle it in some

:29:37. > :29:47.matches and that was why I was saying, you know,

:29:48. > :29:50.she's so impressive when she gets She's been working

:29:51. > :29:53.with a psychologist. You know, she's been

:29:54. > :29:56.trying to get this right. For Andy Murray, Grand Slam

:29:57. > :29:59.semi-final spots are He made it past David Ferrer

:30:00. > :30:04.to reach the final four and believes recent British success

:30:05. > :30:09.has bred success. Success like we had at the Davis Cup

:30:10. > :30:12.is obviously great and, you know, the other players

:30:13. > :30:15.see that and, you know, I mean, Jo has obviously worked

:30:16. > :30:29.extremely hard over the last 18-months or so to put herself

:30:30. > :30:31.in the position that she's Jo Durie was the last British woman

:30:32. > :30:35.to reach a Grand Slam semi, Eight years before Johanna

:30:36. > :30:46.Konta was even born. Two Brits through to the semi-finals

:30:47. > :30:52.of a Grand Slam. For the last time that happened you have to go even

:30:53. > :30:58.further back, 1977, Sue Barker and John Lloyd. Johanna Konta will be

:30:59. > :31:02.back on court in five hours' time. Her opponent, the German number six

:31:03. > :31:07.in the world. So no slouch. Who knows, Huw, by the time people wake

:31:08. > :31:12.up tomorrow morning we may have a British woman in the final of the

:31:13. > :31:18.Australian Open. Huw. Looking forward to finding out. John, thanks

:31:19. > :31:21.very much. John Donnison there for us in Melbourne.

:31:22. > :31:23.Newsnight's coming up on BBC Two, here's Evan.

:31:24. > :31:26.Tonight, we're leading on a story of something that didn't happen

:31:27. > :31:29.today and that something might affect the light and power

:31:30. > :31:34.To find out what it is join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.