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Tonight at Ten - dozens of countries, including the UK, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
agree to work together on tax rules for multinational companies. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Here in the UK - the controversial recent deal between Google and HMRC | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
has led to calls for more fairness and transparency. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Why is there one rule for big multinational companies and another | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
for ordinary small businesses and self-employed workers? | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
This company and other companies will pay more | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
in future than they ever paid under Labour. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
We'll have more on the Google row - and on today's tax agreement | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
As more migrants arrive in the Greek islands - | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
Greece is accused of 'seriously neglecting' its obligations - | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
The grandparents of a severely disabled teenager - | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
have won the latest round of their legal challenge - | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Brazilian scientists are stepping up the search - | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
for ways of containing the zika virus - which could be causing | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
And, for the first time since 1977 - a British woman progresses | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
to the semifinal - of a Grand Slam tennis tournament. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Will the head of Scotland Yard be out of a job by August - | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
because of a delay over reappointment by the Mayor? | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
And a warning for runners about the long-term damage | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Dozens of countries - including Britain - | :01:36. | :01:58. | |
have signed an agreement - to deal with tax evasion | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
and avoidance - by some of the world's most | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
The deal was agreed by the G20 nations in Paris - | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
following concern about the way some big firms - | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
move their profits - to countries with lower tax rates. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
During the day - David Cameron defended the recent deal | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
between Google and HMRC - to pay ?130 million | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
Labour has written to the National Audit Office - | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
asking for the deal to be investigated - | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
How much should be companies pay in tax? A well-known one many others | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
use every day nearly has just paid ?130 million to catch up on its bill | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
for the last ten years. That sounds a lot but when in just one year its | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
sales were 4.6 billion command profits were more than 100 million | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
over 18 months Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think that sounds quite right, or | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
maybe even fair. Many people go into their HMRC offices or returning them | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
online this week will say this: why is there one rule for big | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
multinational companies, and another for ordinary small businesses and | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
self-employed workers? The Prime Minister tried to tough it | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
out. When I came to power, banks didn't | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
pay tax on all of their profits are allowed under Labour and stopped | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
under the Tories, investment companies could cut their tax bill | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
by flipping the currency their accounts were in, allowed under | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Labour, stopped under the Tories. Companies fiddle accounting rules to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
make losses disappear into thin air, allowed under Labour and banned | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
under the Tories. Politicians have been keen to praise Google's | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
success, and when the firm announced after nine years of negotiations | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
they were finally going to cough up, the Chancellor claimed it was a | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
victory for the Government. He needs to come clean and tell is acceptable | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the details of the scheme is, how he arrived at it, why he has arrived at | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
it and why it is 3% when other companies pay 20% or 30%. Most | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
people find it's unacceptable and we need to know why. If you were the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Chancellor what would you do that was different at this moment? We | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
wouldn't have a delight this? You would tell HMRC not to do the deal? | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
We would have openness and transparency. Should politicians | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
publish their tax returns? Yes. Would you publish your tax return? | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
Yes. Remember, there is no suggestion Google has broken the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
law. Big companies' tax bills are not just calculate it by where they | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
do business but by the kind of business they do in each country. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
When you are looking at which country gets what tax you don't | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
carve it up as to where the sales are under current rules. The closest | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
simple principle to how you carve it up to negotiate it is where is the | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
value added? Ministers have already changed the law to make it harder | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
for firms to avoid tax. The government is careful to point out | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the deal with Google was brokered by the taxman at HMRC, not a deal that | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
was done in back rooms by ministers themselves. But this is simply too | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
tempting a political attack for Labour to leave alone. They'll use | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
every chance to embarrass the government to try to make it hurt. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
There have been awkward conversations about other big | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
brands. Dozens of companies have signed up today to tighten the rules | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
but that won't shut down the debate here about who pays what and what is | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
fair. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Today's agreement in Paris - was described in some quarters | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
as the most fundamental change to | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
for almost a century - and it's being seen as a vital step | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
- to make big global companies - pay more tax. | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
For its part - Google says it is operating entirely | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
within the law - and has done nothing wrong. | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
To take a closer look at how tax rules affect multinational companies | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
- here's our economics editor Kamal Ahmed. | :06:05. | :06:05. | |
International tax law is certainly complicated - | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Let's try and unpick how Google operates. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Britain is the tech giant's second biggest market. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
It sells ?4.6 billion worth of its products here. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Google is also an American company and, under tax law, | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
that sales money is mainly taxed in the US - | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
via, somewhat controversially, low or no tax countries like Ireland | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
That structure is comparable to a British company selling | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
products abroad - it would pay most of its tax here. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
So why does Google pay any tax in Britain? | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Because Google in America pays mooney to a subsidiary, | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Google UK, over ?1 billion between 2014 and 2015 | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
The profit from that payment - as Laura's piece mentioned - | :07:01. | :07:11. | |
Just over ?46 million, actually a figure pretty comparable | :07:12. | :07:19. | |
In Paris today, the global economic organisation, | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
the OECD, signed a new deal on global tax. | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Nobody's willing to pay more taxes than they should. | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
The question is: are they going to pay the taxes that they should pay? | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
And all we are saying is - fair share - and all we are saying | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
is - logic - you pay taxes where you generate the profits. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
There will be more transparency on who pays what where and other | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
countries are keen to ensure that Google pays more tax | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
TRANSLATION: It's a good thing that Google resolves its problems | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
in the UK, but Google also has to sort out | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
We do not want to reach a one-off agreement, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
We are looking at what activity a particular | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
company has in France so we can request a fair amount of tax, | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
not more, not less than other companies. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
as I said, last year Google paid ?46 million in tax. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
And that's from a company that tonight announced profits | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
of over ?1 billion globally for the last three months. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
It is unlikely that this controversy has run its full course. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
The Greek government has defended the work of its border control | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
agency - after being accused of 'seriously | :08:53. | :08:53. | |
The criticism was made by the European Commission - | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
and focused on Greece's control of the external frontier | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
of the Schengen zone - the passport-free area | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
Our correspondent James Reynolds reports from Samos - | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
one of the islands identified by European officials - | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
The kids in this camp in Samos have made meticulous drawings | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
of their mile-long sea trip to Greece. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
The European Commission wishes that Greece itself had been as thorough | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Over the last year more than 600,000 migrants and refugees have made it | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
Some were fingerprinted, others, to Europe's | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
Tonight the mayor of Samos told me that his | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
island was doing all that it could to get the process right. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
We ask and demand from the European Union to | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
understand that we are the front liners of Europe. | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
And they say you're not doing enough? | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
In some places the island has taken steps. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
It's built this hillside camp in order to screen | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
The draft report concludes that Greece seriously | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
neglected its obligations and there are serious deficiencies | :10:18. | :10:18. | |
in the carrying out of external border | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
controls that must be overcome and dealt with by | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Greek officials have managed to register the migrants at this | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
on to the rest of the continent. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
blamed for a Europe-wide problem. | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
And it's worried about what may happen next if the EU decides | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
to seal borders further north, Greece fears these, its islands, | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
Europe insists that it has no plans to isolate Greece. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
But it does want to find a lasting way of documenting | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
and then limiting the numbers who wish to make Europe their home. | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Let's go live to Brussels and speak to our Europe editor Katya Adler. | :11:04. | :11:22. | |
The Greeks today said they didn't like the sense of being isolated in | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
some sense by this criticism. Is the aim to isolate Greece here? | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Greece feels this is unfair but for months it has failed to really | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
register refugees. It is far easier to wave them northwards and make it | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
another country's problem, but arguably the weakness in the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Schengen agreement, the agreement allowing for passport-free travel | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
among 26 European countries isn't one nation, Greece, it's that the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
architects of the agreement didn't make provisions for the fact that | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
the southern flank of Schengen is guarded by Greece, Spain and Italy, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
four years collectively known as Europe's poorest soft underbelly. So | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
why were these provisions not put in place? Why was there no back-up plan | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
cousin -- back-up plan? Schengen is seen as one of the greatest | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
achievements of the EU increasing trade and travel and increasing the | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
meeting of minds and the EU is desperate not to let it die but in | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
the last months we have seen countries like Austria, Sweden and | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Hungary saying they cannot accept the number of newcomers they did | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
last year. Up until now there is a never used our kids all in Schengen | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
allowing the border controls to remain in place for up to two years. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
If there is found to be a weak link, in this case Greece. That's what | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
today's announcement by the commission is all about, trying to | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
save Schengen in the face of the migrant crisis. Thank you for your | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
analysis, Katya Adler in Brussels. The convicted murderer - | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Levi Bellfield has admitted - for the first time - | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
that he abducted, raped and killed Milly was 13 years old when she was | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
abducted on her way from school in Walton-on-Thames | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
in Surrey in March 2002. Bellfield was jailed | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
for life in 2011 after pleading not guilty | :13:25. | :13:25. | |
to the teenager's murder. Surrey police say he made | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
his admission of guilt when he was being interviewed | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
by detectives about claims The Court of Appeal has ruled | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
that the government's spare room subsidy - the so-called 'bedroom | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
tax' - discriminates against the family of | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
a severely-disabled teenager - and against a victim | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
of domestic violence. They had both argued that changes | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
to housing benefit - unlawfully discriminated | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
against them. The Government has been given | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
permission to challenge the ruling - as our home editor | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
Mark Easton reports. The Government calls it the removal | :13:58. | :14:10. | |
of the spare room subsidy, but to many it's the hated bedroom tax. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Today's opponents welcomed a Court of Appeal ruling that the policy | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
which cuts housing benefit to those deemed to be under occupying social | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
housing discriminates against vulnerable people. The Rutherford | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
family from Pembrokeshire had gone to court arguing they needed a spare | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
room so carers for their severely disabled grandson could stay | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
overnight. A victim of domestic violence who is secure panic room | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
counted as a spare room also sought a judicial review. Although both | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
households get discretionary housing payments from their local council, | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
the Appeal Court judges said the policy was a breach of human rights. | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
I am a bit lost for words, I could almost cry with happiness. And I | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
hope that other people in our situation are going to benefit from | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
this court's decision as well. Bedroom tax, introduced in 2013, has | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
reduced the housing benefit bill by almost ?500,000 per year -- ?500 | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
million per year. Of those households affected 45% saw their | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
household composition change and 20% change their earnings, or found work | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
and 12% moved to a smaller house. Among those still affected 57% have | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
reduced spending on food and heating and 37% borrowed money and 29% have | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
applied for emergency funding. The Department for Work and Pensions | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
have said they have significantly increased the amount of the | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
emergency help, ?500 million more available for discretionary housing | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
payments since 2011 and an extra ?870 million over the next five | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
years. But ministers say there is also a moral argument for the | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
policy, that a spare room is a luxury people in the private rented | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
sector have to pay for. Our fundamental position is that it's | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
unfair to subsidise spare rooms in the social sector if you don't | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
subsidise them in the private sector where people are paying a housing | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
benefit. Nevertheless, an independent evaluation of the policy | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
finds confusion, frustration and little certainty for honourable | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
groups, news that ministers are appealing today's judgment was | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
greeted by the Rutherford family with this may. I've just heard this | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
minute that the Government are going to appeal, which to me is just | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
ridiculous, because people like us don't need to be constantly, | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
constantly applying for stuff, begging for stuff. To those that | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
call it the bedroom tax, including both Labour and the SNP, the policy | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
should be abolished. At ministers argue the removal of the spare room | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
subsidy is encouraging tens of thousands to become less reliant on | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
the state. Mark Easton, BBC News. A brief look at some | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
of the day's other news stories. Five former brokers have been | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
cleared of conspiracy to defraud in connection with an investigation | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
into whether the interbank lending rate, known as Libor, | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
was manipulated. The men were accused | :17:19. | :17:19. | |
of helping Tom Hayes, the first person to be | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
convicted of rigging Libor. The French Justice Minister, | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
Christiane Taubira, has resigned in protest at proposed changes | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
to the constitution which could see people convicted of terrorism | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
stripped of their citizenship. She said she disagreed with the idea | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
which was one of the measures announced in response to the attacks | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
in Paris in November. The world tennis authorities have | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
launched an independent review into allegations of corruption | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
following claims of match-fixing. An investigation by the BBC | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
and Buzzfeed News found that several top players had been allowed | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
to continue competing despite suspicions | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
they'd fixed matches. The frontrunner for the Republican | :17:57. | :18:18. | |
presidential nomination, Donald Trump, has been ridiculed | :18:19. | :18:19. | |
by rivals for refusing to take part Mr Trump pulled out of the show, | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
hosted by Fox News, because he objected to the choice | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
of moderator after clashing Brazilian health officials have | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
reported a sharp increase in cases of microcephaly, a rare condition | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
in which an infant's head Experts say they strongly suspect | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
that the Zika virus is to blame and they revealed today | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
that there have been more than 4,000 suspected cases since | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
the start of last year. Researchers are using new genetic | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
technology to try to contain the spread of the virus by mosquitos | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
as our South America correspondent, Releasing hundreds of thousands | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
of fertile mosquitos into the suburbs of Brazil's | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
biggest city in the middle but these are genetically | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
modified Aedes aegypti. The very species responsible | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
for transmitting Zika When they mate, they'll pass | :19:10. | :19:10. | |
on a self-limiting gene. What does it mean | :19:11. | :19:22. | |
for their offspring? Well, they're offspring will die | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
before they become new flying adults, which is the life stage that | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
matters for disease transmissions. So they're going to die | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
while they're larvaeing. Here we just have freshly hatched | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
eggs and we have some really tiny This British-owned lab says | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
the technique has reduced by over 90% the number of | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
mosquitos in some areas. Fed on a smelly mixture of fish | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
food and sheep's blood, This technology was developed | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
in the UK, indeed all of these mosquitos are descendants | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
from the first eggs brought over Now, they produce about two million | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
male mosquitos here every week and they're released | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
into the general population to help in the fight against viruses | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
like Zika and dengue. Zika's suspected of being | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
responsible for a surge in microcephaly in Brazil, | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
confirmed cases have almost doubled The government's announced help | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
for poorer families, but the wider financial and social | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
impact could be huge. At San Paulo's renowned | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Butantan Institute they're famous for research into anti-venmon | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
and the production of biopharmaceuticals, now | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
there's a new priority - finding a vaccine for Zika | :20:40. | :20:40. | |
and they're starting from scratch. We still need to really describe | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
and establish the link between the Zika virus | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
and microcephaly, for example, but we do have the hypothesis that | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
that relationship basically is true, but again, we need to demonstrate | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
in order to even guide us to develop the best treatment or the best | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
vaccine to prevent that problem. Trying to keep calm in the final | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
weeks of pregnancy is not easy for expectant | :21:10. | :21:23. | |
mothers in Brazil. At the beginning | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
we were very worried. My husband, he kept putting | :21:27. | :21:27. | |
on repellent on me all day. Developing a Zika vaccine could take | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
10 years and with so much uncertainty about the illness, | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
it's a time of real anxiety for many Ever since the modern | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
computer was invented, the question of human | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
versus artifical intelligence has Back in the 1990s, IBM's Deep Blue | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
managed to beat the reigning chess The latest battle saw a computer | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
beating a professional player at Go, that's the Chinese game that's even | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
more complex than chess and played by more than 40 million people | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
around the world as our technology correspondent, Rory | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
Cellan-Jones, explains now. It's 2,500 years old and the rules | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
are simple, but Go is a game of huge complexity and no computer has come | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
close to beating a human champion Fan Hui is the European Go Champion, | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
but five times in a row he played a computer programme | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
called AlphaGo and lost. The programme was developed | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
by a British artificial intelligence company, bought by | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Google two years ago. It's creator - himself a Go player - | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
says the computer first studied the patterns that | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
are repeated in games. After it's learnt that, | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
it's got to a kind of reasonable standard through looking | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
at professional games, it now plays itself, | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
different versions of itself, millions and millions | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
of times and each time gets As computers have advanced, | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
they've taken on more In the 1950s, they beat | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Noughts and Crosses, a game with 362,880 | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
possible positions. In the 1990s, they cracked Chess, | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
which has 9 million possible But Go offers complexity | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
on a completely different scale. Here's the figure for how many | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
different positions there can be in one game - 10 | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
to the power of 171. That's one and an awful | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
lot of zeros. Amongst those trying to build | :23:28. | :23:28. | |
advanced artificial intelligence, beating Go is being | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
seen as a key moment. There have been teams from around | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
the world in universities and companies all trying | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
to solve this problem. This has been seen as a landmark | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
for artificial intelligence research and it's very impressive that | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
they've managed to get the people The man who's led this breakthrough | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
believes artificial intelligence will now have applications | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
far beyond games. It's going to yield some fabulous | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
benefits for society. You know, ultimately, | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
being applied to things and science to assist human experts | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
make breakthroughs more quickly There's a lot of human brain power | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
employed developing the strategy Now computers have learned to do | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
this, they'll move on to even In the Libyan port of Benghazi | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
a coalition, led by the Libyan army, is fighting on two fronts | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
against the forces of so-called Benghazi, where the Libyan uprising | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
started back in 2011, has for the past year-and-a-half | :24:40. | :24:51. | |
suffered endless fighting which has left hundreds dead and many | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
thousands homeless. One of the few journalists to enter | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
Benghazi is Feras Kilani from the BBC's Arabic Service and he | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
sent us this exclusive report. Struggling to hold their positions, | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
these fighters are working with the army trying to stop | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the advance of Islamist militias. We are some of the few journalists | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
to access these front-lines. It's impossible to reach this area | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
without the protection This was the city that started | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
the Libya revolution five years ago. Entire neighbourhoods have been | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
destroyed and thousands have fled. The armed forces still control most | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
of the city. But now they are losing | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
ground to the Islamists. We just pulled up here | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
on the side of the road, this is the only entrance | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
to the city of Benghazi. If you come with me to this point, | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
you can see how the front-line has moved forward in | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
the last few months. Inside these damaged buildings | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
are snipers which put all these roads and residential | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
areas under threat. A growing number of commanders blame | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
the losses on the army's leadership. TRANSLATION: What pushed | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
us to this situation There's a big disagreement | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
between the front-line commanders, the army leadership, | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
and the politicians. Just a few hundred meters away | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
from the front-line, It has been hit before, | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
but children are desperate Here the gunfire is constant, | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
the pupils no longer react. Their teacher tries to reassure me | :26:48. | :27:00. | |
"everything is fine", she tells me. But sfter missing almost | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
two years of school, these children's | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
futures are bleak. Emerging from the chaos in Benghazi, | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
the so-called Islamic State is now We saw their black flag clearly | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
visible from the only The group's influence is growing, | :27:21. | :27:30. | |
as fighters from other Islamist Back on the front-line, | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
the men rest after a long day. All of them here say they will keep | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
fighting, but as disagreements within the armed forces grow, | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
so does the strength That was an exclusive report for us | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
from Feras Kilani. Football, and Manchester City have | :27:52. | :28:21. | |
beaten Everton to reach the final Despite going behind early | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
in the match and being in deficit from the first leg of the tie, | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
they rallied to win 3-1 Sergio Aguero scored | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
the decisive goal. They'll now face Liverpool | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
in the final at the end of February. For the first time since 1983, | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
a British woman has progressed to the semi-final of | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
a Grand Slam tennis tournament. Johanna Konta, who was born | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
in Australia, but moved to Britain as a teenager, continued | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
her sparkling run at Andy Murray is also | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
through in the men's competition, COMMENTATOR: Johanna Konta, | :28:46. | :28:53. | |
from Great Britain, born in Australia and then moved | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
to Great Britain and has had Johanna Konta joked she has more | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
passports than Jason Bourne, she also holds | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
Hungarian nationality. For tennis fans, it's the way | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
the 24-year-old has upped her game UMPIRE: Game, set and | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
match, Johanna Konta. When I was a little girl, | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
I dreamt of winning Grand Slams and being Number One in the world | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
and that dream stays the same, I think, as long as you're doing | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
the career that you're on. In the last year-and-a-half, | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
she's jumped 100 places Many believe it's new found inner | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
strength rather than ability that's She used to really bottle it in some | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
matches and that was why I was saying, you know, | :29:37. | :29:47. | |
she's so impressive when she gets She's been working | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
with a psychologist. You know, she's been | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
trying to get this right. For Andy Murray, Grand Slam | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
semi-final spots are He made it past David Ferrer | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
to reach the final four and believes recent British success | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
has bred success. Success like we had at the Davis Cup | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
is obviously great and, you know, the other players | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
see that and, you know, I mean, Jo has obviously worked | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
extremely hard over the last 18-months or so to put herself | :30:16. | :30:29. | |
in the position that she's Jo Durie was the last British woman | :30:30. | :30:31. | |
to reach a Grand Slam semi, Eight years before Johanna | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
Konta was even born. Two Brits through to the semi-finals | :30:36. | :30:46. | |
of a Grand Slam. For the last time that happened you have to go even | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
further back, 1977, Sue Barker and John Lloyd. Johanna Konta will be | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
back on court in five hours' time. Her opponent, the German number six | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
in the world. So no slouch. Who knows, Huw, by the time people wake | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
up tomorrow morning we may have a British woman in the final of the | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
Australian Open. Huw. Looking forward to finding out. John, thanks | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
very much. John Donnison there for us in Melbourne. | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
Newsnight's coming up on BBC Two, here's Evan. | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
Tonight, we're leading on a story of something that didn't happen | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
today and that something might affect the light and power | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
To find out what it is join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. | :31:30. | :31:34. |