:00:00. > :00:08.Tonight at Ten - a warning that the Zika virus is a threat
:00:09. > :00:11.of "alarming proportions" which could affect millions
:00:12. > :00:16.The virus - which has been linked to birth defects in Brazil -
:00:17. > :00:20.Now the World Health Organisation says there's a threat to South
:00:21. > :00:28.Thousands of soldiers are being deployed to hand out
:00:29. > :00:32.We report from Brazil on the scale of the challenge.
:00:33. > :00:35.It's almost inevitable that more babies will be born deformed
:00:36. > :00:38.and there's a lesson in this for all the other tropical cities
:00:39. > :00:41.around the world that are vulnerable to Zika virus
:00:42. > :00:46.We'll have the latest on the international response,
:00:47. > :00:49.and the warning by the World Health Organisation.
:00:50. > :00:53.Also tonight: On hold - the Chancellor delays the sale
:00:54. > :00:56.of the government's final stake in Lloyds bank,
:00:57. > :00:59.blaming uncertainty on global markets.
:01:00. > :01:02.Britain plans to take more child refugees from the conflicts in Syria
:01:03. > :01:11.and Iraq - but not if they've already travelled to Europe.
:01:12. > :01:14.Trump on the stump as the first primary election beckons -
:01:15. > :01:22.And a test of IQ by GCHQ - how Britain's best brains
:01:23. > :01:29.Tonight on BBC London: Our next Mayor has faced questions
:01:30. > :01:32.from Londoners about what matters to them -
:01:33. > :01:35.And a second air ambulance for London, serving us
:01:36. > :02:02.The threat posed by the Zika virus could be classed as a "global health
:02:03. > :02:04.emergency", according to the World Health Organisation.
:02:05. > :02:08.Officials have warned that the virus is spreading at "explosive" speed
:02:09. > :02:11.and could affect four million people in the Americas this year.
:02:12. > :02:14.The virus - which has been linked to birth defects in Brazil -
:02:15. > :02:17.is carried by mosquitoes .So far Zika has spread to more
:02:18. > :02:22.Officials are warning that in Brazil alone 1.5 million people
:02:23. > :02:28.Our science editor David Shukman is in the city of Recife
:02:29. > :02:31.in north-east Brazil, where it's thought more than 100,000
:02:32. > :02:38.people are affected, and he sent this report.
:02:39. > :02:41.The slums of Brazil are the front line in what has become
:02:42. > :02:48.We watch as soldiers try to search every single home here.
:02:49. > :02:52.Because one of the very few ways to combat the Zika virus is to hunt
:02:53. > :03:00.While we're with the patrol, the soldiers find exactly
:03:01. > :03:05.the conditions that allow mosquitoes to thrive.
:03:06. > :03:06.The challenge is that everywhere you look,
:03:07. > :03:12.And because in a favela like this, the supply is not reliable,
:03:13. > :03:17.But if there is just one little gap in a tank like this,
:03:18. > :03:19.the mosquitoes can get in and you have got
:03:20. > :03:26.Imagine multiplying that thousands of times.
:03:27. > :03:31.A larva, which left alone would emerge as a mosquito
:03:32. > :03:36.Health officials sterilise the water.
:03:37. > :03:45.Her brain smaller than it should be. proving hard to win.
:03:46. > :03:47.There is no definite proof that the Zika virus
:03:48. > :03:53.caused her microcephaly, but the evidence is growing.
:03:54. > :03:56.Her mother says she was caught by surprise, but she will do
:03:57. > :04:01.everything to help make her baby's life better.
:04:02. > :04:05.In this one city, Recife, officials say up to 100,000 people
:04:06. > :04:11.On a map, pins mark the cases of microcephaly, and week
:04:12. > :04:16.There is a major public health challenge, probably amongst the most
:04:17. > :04:23.difficult challenges we have to face in recent Brazil history.
:04:24. > :04:25.And it's already becoming a globalised issue.
:04:26. > :04:28.In a government lab, analysis of a sample
:04:29. > :04:33.But despite all the gleaming technology here, there are key
:04:34. > :04:40.questions about the virus that scientists simply can't answer.
:04:41. > :04:43.If a woman has Zika, is the risk of having
:04:44. > :04:55.a microcephalic baby or 90% or 10% or even 5%?
:04:56. > :04:59.We don't know if there is a viral treatment which given to an infected
:05:00. > :05:01.woman will prevent transmission to the baby.
:05:02. > :05:04.This is the first major city to be hit by the virus.
:05:05. > :05:07.Because it was taken completely by surprise,
:05:08. > :05:18.That means it's almost inevitable that more babies
:05:19. > :05:30.And of course for many babies, and others yet to be born,
:05:31. > :05:44.With me now is is our global health correspondent Tulip Mazumda.
:05:45. > :05:51.What do you make today of the much stronger water from the World Health
:05:52. > :05:55.Organisation? The threat level has gone from my old, to alarming. And
:05:56. > :05:59.that's why the word help organisation has convened this
:06:00. > :06:02.meeting on Monday, to decide whether to declare an international public
:06:03. > :06:06.health emergency. The last time we saw that was during the Ebola crisis
:06:07. > :06:10.and the point of that would be to say this is a global problem and it
:06:11. > :06:15.needs a global response. It is very important to remember that the Zika
:06:16. > :06:19.virus is not particularly dangerous for most people, but for pregnant
:06:20. > :06:23.women and for women trying to get pregnant at the moment, it is seen
:06:24. > :06:26.as a major concern. The advice from the UK, from Public Health England,
:06:27. > :06:32.is if you are a woman in that situation to avoid going to any of
:06:33. > :06:36.the Zika hit countries. There is a list of those on the Foreign Office
:06:37. > :06:39.website. If you must go, see your doctor before you travel, and take
:06:40. > :06:43.very stringent precautions when you are out there not to get bitten.
:06:44. > :06:48.Where lots of mosquito repellent, long sleeves, trousers and stay away
:06:49. > :06:49.from stagnant water, which as we saw there is where these mosquitoes
:06:50. > :06:54.breed. Julie Masamba, thank there is where these mosquitoes
:06:55. > :06:59.the update. -- julep with Sundar. And you can get more information
:07:00. > :07:01.about the Zika virus The government has delayed
:07:02. > :07:07.the sale of its final stake in Lloyds Banking Group,
:07:08. > :07:10.which was meant to raise ?2 billion for the Treasury
:07:11. > :07:12.in the coming months. The sale was a Conservative
:07:13. > :07:15.manifesto pledge, but the Chancellor George Osborne said now
:07:16. > :07:17.was "not the right time" because of uncertainty
:07:18. > :07:21.in the financial markets and lower Our economics editor
:07:22. > :07:29.Kamal Ahmed has the story. Joining a journey to a new era
:07:30. > :07:35.of shareholder democracy? The government thought you might do,
:07:36. > :07:38.and thousands were interested in buying into the biggest
:07:39. > :07:42.privatisation since the 1980s. Today, the Chancellor
:07:43. > :07:46.applied the brakes. Well, my principal concern
:07:47. > :07:49.is frankly the turbulence That's not the right time
:07:50. > :07:54.to have a big share sale to the British public,
:07:55. > :07:57.so we need those markets to calm down and then we can
:07:58. > :08:00.proceed with the sale. Since the New Year,
:08:01. > :08:03.markets have tumbled. Banks have struggled and the UK
:08:04. > :08:07.and the global economy has slowed. I have this morning announced our
:08:08. > :08:11.plans to sell the remaining stake Three months ago it all
:08:12. > :08:16.sounded a bit different. A policy sold by the Chancellor
:08:17. > :08:20.as a way of raising ?2 billion to help pay off the
:08:21. > :08:23.government's debts. Now selling off the government
:08:24. > :08:26.stakes in Lloyds and that other collapsed financial crisis bank RBS
:08:27. > :08:31.seems a long way off. When it comes to Britain's banks,
:08:32. > :08:34.this is what the government The state has a 9% stake in Lloyds
:08:35. > :08:41.bank, down from nearly 50%. It paid 74p a share
:08:42. > :08:45.to rescue the bank in 2008. Those shares are now
:08:46. > :08:49.only worth 64p a share, meaning the government would make
:08:50. > :08:54.quite a loss if it sold now. It also owns 73% of
:08:55. > :08:57.the Royal Bank of Scotland. Eight years ago it paid 502p
:08:58. > :09:02.a share for the bail out. Now those shares are worth
:09:03. > :09:07.just over 250p a share, It was the falling share price
:09:08. > :09:17.of Lloyds, headquartered here in the City of London,
:09:18. > :09:19.that really raised the red flags George Osborne is still keen
:09:20. > :09:23.on a share sale, but my banking sources tell me it could be next
:09:24. > :09:26.year before that share price is healthy enough to offer millions
:09:27. > :09:30.of shares to hundreds of thousands Potential buyers of the shares
:09:31. > :09:36.admitted they were disappointed. It's frustrating because
:09:37. > :09:38.the decision seemed to have been made and now it's
:09:39. > :09:41.been backtracked on. It seems to be something that's made
:09:42. > :09:45.a decision on a day, this morning, and then all
:09:46. > :09:49.of a sudden, they make the change. After the confident start to 2015,
:09:50. > :09:57.this year, economically at least, Eight years after the financial
:09:58. > :10:01.crisis there are still plenty The British economy slowed down last
:10:02. > :10:12.year, according to the Office for National Statistics, which said
:10:13. > :10:14.that Gross Domestic Product - the total value of all
:10:15. > :10:16.goods and services - grew by 2.2 per cent in 2015,
:10:17. > :10:22.down from 2.9 in the previous year. While service industries have been
:10:23. > :10:25.growing, manufacturing and oil and gas production have suffered
:10:26. > :10:29.because of weak global demand One of the areas most affected
:10:30. > :10:40.by the oil slump is Aberdeen - the hub of the North Sea oil
:10:41. > :10:43.industry - which learned today it's to get ?0.5 billion of investment,
:10:44. > :10:45.as our Scotland editor Everyone who works at
:10:46. > :10:51.Control Valve Solutions has had They know that at $30 a barrel,
:10:52. > :11:01.North Sea oil simply So firms like this, that rely
:11:02. > :11:07.on the offshore industry, We can't continue to make losses,
:11:08. > :11:15.so the hard truth is if things don't Neither will the staff that we have
:11:16. > :11:21.here, that I've built up The Prime Minister flew in today
:11:22. > :11:28.to announce what the government calls a "city deal",
:11:29. > :11:31.?250 million jointly funded with the Scottish Government,
:11:32. > :11:35.to pay for better transport links, improved Internet connections,
:11:36. > :11:38.and investment in skills With some extra money to help
:11:39. > :11:43.find new oil fields. This demonstrates that the broad
:11:44. > :11:46.shoulders of the United Kingdom can get behind the oil industry,
:11:47. > :11:50.including the oil industry here in Scotland, when it faces
:11:51. > :11:53.difficulties, and that's why effectively we are stronger
:11:54. > :11:56.if we stay together, to make sure we make the most
:11:57. > :12:00.of industries like this Opponents love to taunt the SNP
:12:01. > :12:07.about their predictions for high oil prices during the independence
:12:08. > :12:10.referendum and where Scotland The yes campaign didn't
:12:11. > :12:15.win the referendum. So maybe we should look
:12:16. > :12:20.at what the no campaign said Here's what David Cameron
:12:21. > :12:26.said, in February 2014. ?200 billion oil boom,
:12:27. > :12:30.if Scotland votes no. Maybe while he's in Aberdeen today,
:12:31. > :12:35.he can tell us what happened to it. The crisis in the oil industry
:12:36. > :12:39.is very uncomfortable for the SNP. There's a limit to what they can do
:12:40. > :12:43.to help, but they have to be seen So now that the Prime Minister has
:12:44. > :12:48.been to promise his support, Scottish ministers have managed
:12:49. > :12:53.to find an extra ?250 million, which means they can say they're
:12:54. > :12:56.doing far more than Westminster Aberdeen certainly benefits
:12:57. > :13:01.from politicians competing Some of the new cash will be used
:13:02. > :13:07.to extend the harbour. But there's nothing either
:13:08. > :13:09.government can do to raise Until that goes up -
:13:10. > :13:13.a lot - the measures announced today More child refugees from Syria
:13:14. > :13:23.are to be brought to the UK. The Government says it will identify
:13:24. > :13:27.'exceptional cases' among those in camps in the Middle East and have
:13:28. > :13:31.been separated from their families. But the Government -
:13:32. > :13:33.which has already agreed to accept 20,000 refugees over five
:13:34. > :13:36.years from the camps - has rejected calls to accept
:13:37. > :13:38.thousands of children who've Our home editor, Mark Easton,
:13:39. > :13:45.has the story. Some fleeing war and persecution
:13:46. > :13:51.with their families, but many millions
:13:52. > :13:55.end up on their own. At the Calais camp known
:13:56. > :13:57.as The Jungle, desperate young people are knocking on Britain's
:13:58. > :14:04.door pleading for sanctuary. This 15-year-old from Syria says
:14:05. > :14:07.he has a brother-in-law in the UK and just wants to be
:14:08. > :14:11.a schoolboy again. The Government is under intense
:14:12. > :14:14.pressure to do more to help the vast numbers of unaccompanied children
:14:15. > :14:17.who've fled from Syria Some charities say the UK should
:14:18. > :14:23.accept at least 3,000 more. But instead, ministers have come up
:14:24. > :14:26.with a plan which they say will discourage vulnerable children
:14:27. > :14:32.from arriving on Britain's doorstep. The Government's plan focuses first
:14:33. > :14:35.on the conflict regions themselves. Working with the United Nations,
:14:36. > :14:38.Britain will help assess the scale But only in exceptional
:14:39. > :14:43.circumstances will they bring any Ministers say it is much better that
:14:44. > :14:48.a vulnerable child remains We're playing our role and I have
:14:49. > :14:55.said, we are prepared to take more orphans from the region,
:14:56. > :14:58.but I think it is right our approach to take refugees from the region,
:14:59. > :15:02.not encouraging people to make the difficult and potentially-lethal
:15:03. > :15:06.journey to Europe. I think our approach
:15:07. > :15:09.is compassionate, it is generous, The refugee crisis continues
:15:10. > :15:16.to claim lives at the EU's border. Today, the UK pledged an extra ?10
:15:17. > :15:19.million to support vulnerable children who do make it to Europe,
:15:20. > :15:22.and extra resources for registering But beyond Britain's legal
:15:23. > :15:29.obligations, there is no commitment I think we need to see a more
:15:30. > :15:32.engaged Prime Minister here. They are really looking
:15:33. > :15:35.at the issues, and not saying only help people in the region,
:15:36. > :15:38.there is a crisis happening in Europe and there are children
:15:39. > :15:42.who desperately need our help. Thousands of unaccompanied children
:15:43. > :15:46.have arrived at the UK's border. Last week a court ruled that under
:15:47. > :15:49.Britain's asylum obligations, three unaccompanied children
:15:50. > :15:52.and a young adult in the Calais camp should be allowed to join close
:15:53. > :15:58.relatives in the UK. A full ruling will be issued
:15:59. > :16:00.tomorrow and charity workers are trying to find any child
:16:01. > :16:04.who might be affected. We see a glimmer of hope
:16:05. > :16:07.for the unaccompanied young people here that they might be able to be
:16:08. > :16:11.reunited with their The number of refugee children
:16:12. > :16:17.who might come to the UK under today's scheme is
:16:18. > :16:21.likely to be small. A few with relatives
:16:22. > :16:23.here will be allowed in, but ministers argue that to avoid
:16:24. > :16:27.exacerbating the migrant crisis, and to protect overstretched British
:16:28. > :16:36.services, equally desperate children Our Europe Editor, Katya Adler,
:16:37. > :16:54.is in Brussels for us tonight. Let's talk about the difficulties
:16:55. > :17:00.for European leaders having to find solutions to the problem with these
:17:01. > :17:06.child migrants? Some described it as a headache and others an area of
:17:07. > :17:09.concern. We have seen growing numbers of unaccompanied minors
:17:10. > :17:13.coming from Libya to Italy, from Turkey to Greece, most of them
:17:14. > :17:17.teenagers, but some as young as eight or ten. Why such large
:17:18. > :17:21.numbers? Well, mainly because their families believe that because of
:17:22. > :17:27.their age, they will be able to be granted asylum quickly. They are
:17:28. > :17:31.hoping to use the laws of individual EU countries, the family
:17:32. > :17:35.reunification laws, to bring over other relatives legally. This has
:17:36. > :17:39.led to countries across the EU trying to play catch-up with the
:17:40. > :17:46.legislation. Denmark this week tried to toughen its laws to stop the
:17:47. > :17:51.trend and put migrant families off. Sweden received more than 30,000
:17:52. > :17:53.child migrants and that put social and public services and the
:17:54. > :17:57.government under a huge amount of strain. There is a separate
:17:58. > :18:02.development tonight I wanted to talk to you about. This is on David
:18:03. > :18:06.Cameron's continued efforts to try to renegotiate Britain's terms of
:18:07. > :18:10.membership of the EU, what have you learnt about that? Well, just
:18:11. > :18:15.tonight in Brussels, we have heard from a senior source close to the
:18:16. > :18:19.negotiations that as we speak, versions are being sent backwards
:18:20. > :18:22.and forwards between UK negotiators and the European Commission that
:18:23. > :18:30.could find a breakthrough deal in the main sticking point in David
:18:31. > :18:35.Cameron's attempt to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU.
:18:36. > :18:38.That would be his ability to suspend EU migrant benefit for four years.
:18:39. > :18:43.One of the founding principles of the EU is every citizen's ability to
:18:44. > :18:48.live and work as an equal in any EU member state. So, the proposed
:18:49. > :18:57.compromise is being described as "an e members of the -- an emergency
:18:58. > :19:04.break". A problem here, though, is, in order to pull that brake, it will
:19:05. > :19:08.need the approval of other European countries. It is not signed and
:19:09. > :19:12.sealed, though, at all. Downing Street have said there is a weekend
:19:13. > :19:15.of hard negotiations ahead. First when David Cameron comes here
:19:16. > :19:20.tomorrow, and conversations continuing on Sunday in London.
:19:21. > :19:24.Altogether this renegotiation deal isn't firmed up at all yet and the
:19:25. > :19:27.possibility for European fireworks is still very real. Katya, thank
:19:28. > :19:31.you. Katya Adler in Brussels. The president of Iran,
:19:32. > :19:33.Hassan Rouhani, has been in Paris today signing a number of major
:19:34. > :19:36.trade deals just weeks after international sanctions
:19:37. > :19:39.against his country were lifted. Contracts worth billions of euros
:19:40. > :19:42.were agreed with Airbus, Peugeot and the energy
:19:43. > :19:45.company Total. The president's visit drew protests
:19:46. > :19:47.from human rights activists, who drew attention to Iran's regular
:19:48. > :19:51.use of the death penalty. Our diplomatic correspondent,
:19:52. > :20:02.Bridget Kendall, reports from Paris. President Rouhani's official welcome
:20:03. > :20:11.in Paris today. No longer an outcast, but an honoured guest.
:20:12. > :20:16.Bonjour, Mr President. The first visit to Europe by an Iranian head
:20:17. > :20:28.of state in 16 years and less than two weeks since sanctions were
:20:29. > :20:31.lifted. When he went on to the Elysee Palace, there was some
:20:32. > :20:35.awkwardness behind the handshakes, in the fact that Francois Hollande
:20:36. > :20:40.decided not to host a lunch for him because Tehran demanded that no wine
:20:41. > :20:45.was served. Overall, this was a day to play up the positives. There's
:20:46. > :20:49.huge interest in this visit by President Rouhani and with good
:20:50. > :20:53.reason. It is a big moment. The first concrete evidence that Iran is
:20:54. > :20:58.being allowed back in from the cold, no longer a pariah, but a partner.
:20:59. > :21:03.The question is, will it really usher in a new era. President
:21:04. > :21:11.Hollande thinks it will. Today, a new chapter in our relationship
:21:12. > :21:20.starts, he said. TRANSLATION: I'm glad to be here.
:21:21. > :21:32.It was time to turn a page and make up for years lost to sanctions.
:21:33. > :21:35.Ever since its Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran's relations with the West
:21:36. > :21:39.have been chilly, made worse by suspicions it was trying to develop
:21:40. > :21:48.nuclear weapons. But now there is a rush in Europe to try to revamp
:21:49. > :21:52.relations. So, today, the French and Iranian government signed 20
:21:53. > :21:56.separate deals for Airbus to sell Iran 118 planes and for Peugeot to
:21:57. > :22:01.reenter the lucrative Iranian car market.
:22:02. > :22:05.But protesters in central Paris warned that business opportunities
:22:06. > :22:10.shouldn't blind the West to Iran's high execution rate. Its support for
:22:11. > :22:15.President al-Assad in Syria and the influence of its hardline clerics.
:22:16. > :22:18.So, is backing President Rouhani too much of a risk? One former French
:22:19. > :22:30.ambassador who knows him well says no. If he is able to open a little
:22:31. > :22:36.bit the society, to be re-elected in 2017, so we have a span of six years
:22:37. > :22:40.in front of us. Any way, leaving Iran isolated could be the bigger
:22:41. > :22:44.risk. Bridget Kendall, BBC News, Paris.
:22:45. > :22:45.In France a man carrying two handguns has been arrested
:22:46. > :22:49.at Disneyland Paris, one of Europe's biggest tourist attractions.
:22:50. > :22:52.Police say the man was found with the weapons, ammunition
:22:53. > :22:56.and a copy of the Koran after trying to pass through security at one
:22:57. > :22:58.of the resort hotels. Our correspondent, Lucy Williamson,
:22:59. > :23:07.is at the park, which lies east of Paris.
:23:08. > :23:12.What are police saying about the nature of this incident? Are they
:23:13. > :23:17.saying it is less serious than initially appeared? Yes, this
:23:18. > :23:22.appears to have turned into a tale quite unlike the one many here had
:23:23. > :23:26.feared. Tonight, we understand police are not treating this as
:23:27. > :23:31.terrorism and both the hotel and the park itself remain open. The man in
:23:32. > :23:36.question has not been identified but we believe he is a 28-year-old man
:23:37. > :23:41.of European origin, who runs a bar in the south of Paris. Now, quite
:23:42. > :23:45.what he was doing here with his female companion checking in with
:23:46. > :23:49.two very small calibre pistols in his luggage remains to be seen.
:23:50. > :23:53.Tonight, as it stands now, neither of those two people appear to be
:23:54. > :23:58.dangerous. Lucy Williamson in Paris. Scotland Yard has dropped
:23:59. > :24:00.its investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse linked
:24:01. > :24:04.to the former charity Kids Company. Detectives say they found no
:24:05. > :24:07.evidence of criminality, no failings by the charity
:24:08. > :24:11.in its duty to safeguard children. The organisation -
:24:12. > :24:14.which always denied the claims - closed last August when questions
:24:15. > :24:20.were raised about its management. In Iowa the final televised debate
:24:21. > :24:24.between the candidates seeking the Republican presidential
:24:25. > :24:26.nomination will start But the front-runner,
:24:27. > :24:30.Donald Trump, won't be there. He's refusing to take part
:24:31. > :24:33.because of his continuing spat with one of the debate moderators
:24:34. > :24:37.from the Fox News network. Iowa will be the first state
:24:38. > :24:39.to pick its nominee, followed closely by South Carolina
:24:40. > :24:43.where Mr Trump was campaigning yesterday, as our North America
:24:44. > :24:47.editor, Jon Sopel, reports. As traders hawk their wares
:24:48. > :24:57.to supporters queuing in a South Carolina field
:24:58. > :25:00.to see Donald Trump, the outspoken, populist billionaire
:25:01. > :25:03.who a growing number in this country Semi-retired, I work
:25:04. > :25:13.in satellite communications. He is not a politician and I think
:25:14. > :25:22.that a lot of this election is about tapping into a lot of anger
:25:23. > :25:26.that there is in this country. I believe Donald Trump,
:25:27. > :25:29.because he has many contracts with his companies,
:25:30. > :25:32.that he is going to keep a lot Second, they love that he is
:25:33. > :25:37.a businessman who will bring that I think somebody who has run
:25:38. > :25:43.a multi-billion dollar empire that he's built from the ground up
:25:44. > :25:47.and has negotiated with companies in other countries is much better
:25:48. > :25:52.suited than a freshman Senator. This country is hurt financially
:25:53. > :25:57.and needs some good help and Donald Third, they just like a man who says
:25:58. > :26:02.it as it is. And if that means picking a fight
:26:03. > :26:18.with Fox TV, and not participating in tonight's debate,
:26:19. > :26:21.well, then so be it. As he points out, who needs
:26:22. > :26:24.to when you have won All of these different polls,
:26:25. > :26:29.they came out and Trump won the debate, every debate,
:26:30. > :26:35.right from the beginning. Donald Trump is securing
:26:36. > :26:37.support from all quarters. It is not about white collar,
:26:38. > :26:41.or blue collar, it is about people who are hot under the collar,
:26:42. > :26:44.that America is going in the wrong direction and that Washington
:26:45. > :26:49.has let them down. His ability to tap into these
:26:50. > :26:52.concerns has been nothing short of masterful, if not
:26:53. > :26:56.to everyone's taste. They are bringing drugs,
:26:57. > :27:02.they are bringing crime, they are rapists and some,
:27:03. > :27:06.I assume, are good people. Then came Muslims after the Paris
:27:07. > :27:07.attacks and the incident Donald J Trump is calling
:27:08. > :27:14.for a complete shutdown of Muslims Sikhs after one protested
:27:15. > :27:21.at a Trump rally. He wasn't wearing one of those
:27:22. > :27:25.hats, was he? He offended disability groups
:27:26. > :27:27.with this impression of a disabled You have to see this guy,
:27:28. > :27:33.I don't know what I said, Women with this comment on a female
:27:34. > :27:37.interviewer who had given him You can see there was blood coming
:27:38. > :27:42.out of her eyes, blood coming Top Republican pollster Frank Luntz,
:27:43. > :27:51.whose respect for the presidency is so great he's created his own
:27:52. > :27:55.mini Oval Office at his Los Angeles home, says he's never seen anything
:27:56. > :27:59.like the Trump phenomenon. He's made political
:28:00. > :28:03.incorrectness politically correct. He has taken the hostility
:28:04. > :28:07.towards the media and made it not Trump says things that
:28:08. > :28:17.would disqualify anybody else. But it's not a reality show,
:28:18. > :28:24.it's the future of America. Last night, many were left
:28:25. > :28:27.watching his rally on TV In all early-voting states
:28:28. > :28:32.Trump is out in front. When he launched his campaign
:28:33. > :28:36.he was dismissed as unelectable, but now in the fight
:28:37. > :28:59.for the Republican nomination, With just a few days
:29:00. > :29:01.to the deadline, more than 600,000 people have started the quiz,
:29:02. > :29:02.but no-one has managed Our security correspondent,
:29:03. > :29:16.Gordon Corera, has been GCHQ, busy cracking
:29:17. > :29:21.setting their own, creating a puzzle that 500,000 people have tried to
:29:22. > :29:25.solve but no-one so far has succeeded. It started with an
:29:26. > :29:30.innocent-looking Christmas card from the director of GCHQ. Open it up and
:29:31. > :29:36.you get a grid, the first puzzle. Complete the grid and it becomes
:29:37. > :29:41.what's called a QR code. Take your phone, scan the QR code and you are
:29:42. > :29:45.taken to a website with a series of multiple choice questions. Now, it
:29:46. > :29:49.taken to a website with a series of gets really difficult. What you end
:29:50. > :29:53.up with is a series of brain-aching puzzles, which involve everything
:29:54. > :29:55.from chess pieces, to some kind of mathematical equation, through to
:29:56. > :30:00.things which, frankly are hard even to describe. All of this has left
:30:01. > :30:05.people who enjoy code-breaking puzzled. Logic problems, there is no
:30:06. > :30:09.technology needed to be understood here. One person who has been having
:30:10. > :30:15.some success says that it takes a wide range of skills. You do need to
:30:16. > :30:21.do a lot of maths at certain stages, it's a good understanding of word
:30:22. > :30:27.association, looking for patterns and things, trying to unscramble
:30:28. > :30:35.what's there behind something. There is a pedigree for this. During World
:30:36. > :30:39.War Two, GCHQ's forerunner, Bletchley Park, used to recruit by
:30:40. > :30:43.setting crossword puzzles in newspapers and offering jobs to the
:30:44. > :30:48.winner. One person says the same kind of determination is needed
:30:49. > :30:52.today. Certainly, the problems that they were having breaking enemy
:30:53. > :30:57.codes would have seemed insurmountable at the time. And that
:30:58. > :31:01.resolve to get it done in the face of those odds has got to be
:31:02. > :31:05.something that is valuable. There are still three days for someone to
:31:06. > :31:11.get the right answer, with a prize for anyone who does or comes close,
:31:12. > :31:15.but not necessarily a guaranteed job at GCHQ.
:31:16. > :31:17.But Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC two in a few moments.
:31:18. > :31:20.Tonight, we reveal the woman making a legal challenge in the country
:31:21. > :31:24.worst affected by the Zika virus to overturn its anti-abortion law.
:31:25. > :31:27.In an exclusive TV interview, Gillian Barnes talks
:31:28. > :31:30.about cowardice, corruption and Putin.
:31:31. > :31:34.Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.
:31:35. > :31:38.Now here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.