:00:07. > :00:09.Growing concern for the plight of thousands
:00:10. > :00:12.of Syrian refugees trapped at the Turkish border.
:00:13. > :00:15.Tens of thousands are trying to cross into Turkey but the border
:00:16. > :00:19.remains closed as conditions get steadily worse.
:00:20. > :00:21.Most have fled their homes in the city of Aleppo,
:00:22. > :00:25.where Russian bombing raids have been carried out,
:00:26. > :00:29.If Aleppo falls, then the misery won't just be contained
:00:30. > :00:34.there in Syria and here in Turkey, it will be Europe's problem too.
:00:35. > :00:38.We'll be reporting from Turkey - where more talks were held today -
:00:39. > :00:42.on trying to contain the refugee crisis.
:00:43. > :00:44.Also tonight: The Prime Minister outlines the biggest reform
:00:45. > :00:51.of prisons in England and Wales since Victorian times.
:00:52. > :00:54.The latest on Storm Imogen - which has hit southern England
:00:55. > :00:59.and Wales - with thousands of homes without power.
:01:00. > :01:02.We return to an embattled village in Ukraine
:01:03. > :01:05.one year after the ceasefire deal, where the fighting
:01:06. > :01:16.And - how Beyonce stole the show - with a super-charged
:01:17. > :01:22.Later on BBC London: Criticism for the filmmakers who blew up
:01:23. > :01:28.And the Met considers using eagles to protect the capital
:01:29. > :01:56.There's growing concern for the plight of thousands
:01:57. > :01:58.of Syrian refugees trapped at a crossing on the Turkish border.
:01:59. > :02:01.Most of them have fled from the city of Aleppo where Syrian government
:02:02. > :02:05.forces have been making gains - helped by Russian air strikes.
:02:06. > :02:09.Turkey - which has already accepted more than two million refugees
:02:10. > :02:11.from Syria - is now providing food and shelter
:02:12. > :02:17.for tens of thousands of people on the Syrian side.
:02:18. > :02:19.Chancellor Merkel of Germany, who held talks in Turkey today,
:02:20. > :02:24.said she was 'not just appalled but horrified' by the suffering
:02:25. > :02:35.From this side of the border, Syria's Vaughan looks distant,
:02:36. > :02:41.contained. On the other side of the fence there is this. Today, hundreds
:02:42. > :02:47.more joined the thousands who have already fled Aleppo. Turkey, which
:02:48. > :02:56.has let in so many, is resisting letting in more, except the sick and
:02:57. > :03:01.wounded. This man and two of his children woke up in this Turkish
:03:02. > :03:05.hospital, days after their home in Aleppo was flattened by an air
:03:06. > :03:12.strike. He only realised this morning that the five-year-old was
:03:13. > :03:16.still alive. I could not believe no one was killed, he told me. We know
:03:17. > :03:20.the weapons used. We know the cluster bombs and the massive
:03:21. > :03:25.destruction they caused. It has been five years and I did not think we
:03:26. > :03:35.would be hit. What have these children done? Tomorrow, he will go
:03:36. > :03:38.for surgery. The battle for the Aleppo
:03:39. > :03:49.countryside is still underway, and the regime is winning. The air
:03:50. > :03:53.strikes are relentless. President Assad's forces gained more ground
:03:54. > :04:02.today. Russian firepower speeding their advance. Getting into Turkey,
:04:03. > :04:08.even if it is to this tin roofed hut surrounded by Phil is worth paying
:04:09. > :04:12.for. This man gave money to people smugglers. His family are sick and
:04:13. > :04:19.hungry but it is better than the constant threat of air strikes.
:04:20. > :04:25.TRANSLATION: The Russians have no mercy, they attack humans and
:04:26. > :04:30.animals with stones. Russian air strikes in Syria are red death.
:04:31. > :04:35.Massacres everywhere. Marketplaces and cafes have been targeted. The
:04:36. > :04:39.Syrians are being killed but no one cares. Here on the Turkish side of
:04:40. > :04:44.the border, the war feels very far away but it is not. The Syrian
:04:45. > :04:49.regime is on a winning streak with the help of Russian bombs. That has
:04:50. > :04:52.caused people to flee in their thousands but there is worse to
:04:53. > :04:56.come. If Aleppo falls, the misery will not just be contained here in
:04:57. > :05:02.Turkey and therein Syria, it will be your's problem as well. Tonight,
:05:03. > :05:06.Syrian families without shelter and children carrying schoolbags are
:05:07. > :05:11.trapped in the No Man's Land. Turkey says they will be allowed in when
:05:12. > :05:16.necessary. Until then, here they wait. There is no going back.
:05:17. > :05:19.The battle for Aleppo could prove be a turning point for the government
:05:20. > :05:24.Three years after Syria's eastern half fell to rebel forces,
:05:25. > :05:29.The battle for Aleppo could prove be a turning point for the government
:05:30. > :05:31.Syria's largest city is now the focal point of a war
:05:32. > :05:34.where Russian forces have helped the Syrian government to regain
:05:35. > :05:36.Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendal is here
:05:37. > :05:47.Thank you. It is hard to overstate how dramatic this turn of vents in
:05:48. > :05:51.northern Syria could turn out to be. A week ago, it looked like new
:05:52. > :05:56.Syrian peace talks were underway. Now we are back to military might,
:05:57. > :06:00.more refugees, more devastation and a possible
:06:01. > :06:09.shift in the balance of power. Camps on Syria's side of the border, now
:06:10. > :06:14.at full capacity say the United Nations, even though everyone
:06:15. > :06:19.expects the flood to increase. Worrying for Turkey you cannot cope
:06:20. > :06:25.with more refugees and for Europeans. In Ankara today, Turkey's
:06:26. > :06:29.Prime Minister and Germany's Chancellor voiced their alarm.
:06:30. > :06:33.TRANSLATION: Nearly 30,000 people have amassed near our border. We
:06:34. > :06:39.will meet the needs of our Syrian brothers as usual, we will take them
:06:40. > :06:43.in as necessary. We have been very clear on this matter. TRANSLATION:
:06:44. > :06:47.In the past days we have become not just alarmed but appalled by the
:06:48. > :06:51.human misery that has unfolded for tens of thousands of people, caused
:06:52. > :07:00.by bombardments originating mainly from the Russian side. And this is
:07:01. > :07:06.the onslaught which is prompting people to flee. A ferocious
:07:07. > :07:11.pounding, including an intense Russian aerial bombardment, all part
:07:12. > :07:16.of a major Syrian government assault on rebel strongholds in and around
:07:17. > :07:21.the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This map shows how President Assad's
:07:22. > :07:24.forces have steadily tightened their grip on Aleppo. The red area shows
:07:25. > :07:29.what they controlled back in September and this is what they
:07:30. > :07:34.control now, leaving the centre of Aleppo virtually surrounded. A key
:07:35. > :07:39.town in the north, Aleppo is an important prize, but as refugees and
:07:40. > :07:53.rebel fighters head north to the Turkish border, the bombardment is
:07:54. > :07:55.also making a terrible humanitarian crisis worse. All this leaves
:07:56. > :07:58.diplomacy in disarray. Modern delegates last week pulled out of
:07:59. > :08:00.talks saying they could not negotiate when President Assad and
:08:01. > :08:02.his backers were bombing them. President Putin insists the attacks
:08:03. > :08:06.are aimed at what he calls terrorists and says he still wants a
:08:07. > :08:10.peace deal but it does not look like that. Instead, the intensification
:08:11. > :08:15.of the war may mean the Russian leader has concluded he is likely to
:08:16. > :08:19.get what he wants by military means. Calculating that if the opposition
:08:20. > :08:22.is crushed then the outside world will have to accept President Assad
:08:23. > :08:28.and his forces as the only viable way, along with the Kurds, to
:08:29. > :08:38.counter so-called IS jihadists. So, what we are watching could be a
:08:39. > :08:40.shift to turn the tide of the Syrian war. The opposition squeezed between
:08:41. > :08:43.a pro-government advance from one side and pressure from so-called IS
:08:44. > :08:46.jihadists on the other. With little sign that outside powers from
:08:47. > :08:49.Europe, the United States or outside the Gulf can do very much to
:08:50. > :08:53.intervene. Thank you.
:08:54. > :08:57.For the first time in more than 20 years, a British prime minister has
:08:58. > :09:01.David Cameron described the failure of the current system in England
:09:02. > :09:10.and Wales as a "scandal" and he outlined his plan to create
:09:11. > :09:13.-- reduce reoffending and give governors more control of their
:09:14. > :09:18.budgets. David Cameron this morning walking
:09:19. > :09:21.into a prison system where violence is rising, murders are at record
:09:22. > :09:24.levels, and the number of prisoners reoffending after their jail time
:09:25. > :09:26.remains stubbornly high. A system that sometimes
:09:27. > :09:28.works, but often doesn't. We need a prison system that doesn't
:09:29. > :09:31.see prisoners simply as liabilities to be managed, but instead potential
:09:32. > :09:35.assets to be harnessed. But the failure of our system
:09:36. > :09:39.today is scandalous. 46% of all prisoners will reoffend
:09:40. > :09:44.within a year of release. And current levels of prison
:09:45. > :09:48.violence, drug-taking and self-harm Violence and drugs are simply part
:09:49. > :09:55.of life in Brixton Prison which we filmed in today,
:09:56. > :10:00.although it is better than some. While it's not unusual
:10:01. > :10:02.for a Prime Minister to make a speech about crime,
:10:03. > :10:05.it is unusual for one to commit himself so strongly to prison
:10:06. > :10:08.reform, which is perhaps why in the 21st Century so many inmates
:10:09. > :10:17.are still held in Victorian jails. At the prison's radio station,
:10:18. > :10:20.I met Ensley, back in for his second He said it wasn't prison that had
:10:21. > :10:27.failed to stop him committing further crimes, rather what had
:10:28. > :10:30.happened after he was released. I couldn't sort my housing out so,
:10:31. > :10:34.for me, that is what actually really led me to reoffending,
:10:35. > :10:36.I felt like I wasn't getting any David Cameron said today he wants
:10:37. > :10:45.a 21st Century prison system, These inmates in Onley Prison
:10:46. > :10:51.were learning bike maintenance. He wants prison governors to have
:10:52. > :10:54.more power to run their jails as they see best, and staff to get
:10:55. > :10:57.bonuses where reoffending But prison reformers say he's
:10:58. > :11:03.ducking the biggest question - should there be fewer people
:11:04. > :11:08.in prison in the first place? I think he has to look at the first
:11:09. > :11:11.principles and what the purpose What are the outcomes
:11:12. > :11:17.that we would expect? Right now, they are failing
:11:18. > :11:20.and that is seen in reoffending Among other things,
:11:21. > :11:26.the Prime Minister wants to look at a new kind of tag,
:11:27. > :11:29.to track some offenders They would keep their jobs outside
:11:30. > :11:34.jail and only go into prison All part of what David Cameron's
:11:35. > :11:38.promising will be, in his words, Daniel Sandford, BBC News,
:11:39. > :11:55.in Brixton Prison. Mark, I suppose people watching
:11:56. > :12:00.might suppose that claiming to have the biggest reforms since Victorian
:12:01. > :12:06.times is quite a claim? What I think I would say is the government have
:12:07. > :12:08.certainly given itself a challenge. Prison is expensive, too many
:12:09. > :12:15.prisoners reoffend and the government wants to solve both those
:12:16. > :12:17.issues at the same time, to cut costs and improve the performance of
:12:18. > :12:21.our prison systems simultaneously, as the Prime Minister put it today,
:12:22. > :12:26.my government is one that can do with -- more with less. Canny square
:12:27. > :12:31.the circle with prisons? Since coming to power, the Conservatives
:12:32. > :12:33.have talked a lot about increasing local control, increasing
:12:34. > :12:37.competition to push up standards without pushing up the cost of the
:12:38. > :12:41.prison system. We got more of that today in what is a very wide-ranging
:12:42. > :12:47.speech but some would argue that the Prime Minister has sidestepped the
:12:48. > :12:50.important issue, the very high numbers of people inside prisons. We
:12:51. > :12:56.have one of the highest incarceration rates in Western
:12:57. > :13:00.Europe, twice what the Germans do. Prison governors will say it is only
:13:01. > :13:03.when we deal with the chronic overcrowding in our prisons that
:13:04. > :13:10.they can deal with what the Prime Minister said is the scandalous
:13:11. > :13:12.failure of our prison system. Thank you.
:13:13. > :13:14.The father of Private Cheryl James, a teenage soldier found dead
:13:15. > :13:17.at Deepcut army barracks in Surrey in 1995, has called for a
:13:18. > :13:20.thorough analysis - of new forensic evidence saying it suggests
:13:21. > :13:22.that she might not have killed herself.
:13:23. > :13:24.Cheryl was found with a gunshot wound to her head.
:13:25. > :13:28.Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly reports.
:13:29. > :13:31.Cheryl James passed out from the Army in the summer of 1995.
:13:32. > :13:34.This footage was filmed by her family.
:13:35. > :13:39.Six months after she joined up, they were told she was dead.
:13:40. > :13:42.Cheryl, in the weeks before she was fatally injured at Deepcut
:13:43. > :13:45.with a single bullet wound to her head.
:13:46. > :13:49.It was a month after her 18th birthday.
:13:50. > :13:51.Today her father Des James described how she seemed to thrive
:13:52. > :13:55.in the military and was like a poster for the Army.
:13:56. > :13:59.He and his wife Doreen have always questioned whether their vivacious
:14:00. > :14:02.teenager would have taken her own life.
:14:03. > :14:07.She was one of four recruits to die at Deepcut.
:14:08. > :14:09.In a dramatic development, the family's barrister,
:14:10. > :14:12.Alison Foster QC - in the middle - said, "There was now pathological
:14:13. > :14:15.evidence which showed that the shot which killed Private James may not
:14:16. > :14:21.The barrister for Surrey Police, John Beggs QC - here in the front -
:14:22. > :14:24.described this claim as "extremely speculative".
:14:25. > :14:28.He was involved in highly-charged exchanges with Cheryl's father
:14:29. > :14:33.when he questioned Mr James's criticisms of the police inquiry,
:14:34. > :14:38.at a time when the Surrey force was also investigating the murder
:14:39. > :14:44.Des James said, "I have lived through this, I know what went on."
:14:45. > :14:47.The police barrister put it to Cheryl's father,
:14:48. > :14:49."Did it ever occur that you yourself might have been distracting
:14:50. > :14:54.Surrey Police from what they thought were more pressing matters?"
:14:55. > :14:58.The coroner stepped in and stopped this line of questioning.
:14:59. > :15:01.The name "Deepcut" has come to represent a dark episode
:15:02. > :15:04.in the modern history of the British Army.
:15:05. > :15:07.For years the families of the soldiers who died have been
:15:08. > :15:10.fighting to find out what happened at this base.
:15:11. > :15:13.Now with this first new inquest, Cheryl James's death will be
:15:14. > :15:17.examined in detail in a public forum.
:15:18. > :15:23.Des James said he was not aware of claims that Cheryl had spoken
:15:24. > :15:27.about shooting herself and wanting to leave the Army.
:15:28. > :15:34.A man in his 50s has been shot dead in Dublin in what police
:15:35. > :15:38.believe could be a reprisal for the attack at a boxing weigh-in
:15:39. > :15:42.The attack happened just before eight o'clock.
:15:43. > :15:51.Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is in Belfast.
:15:52. > :15:57.That police cordon remains in place outside that hotel. A man was shot
:15:58. > :16:02.dead in that attack. Detectives are also at the scene of another murder.
:16:03. > :16:05.Both killings are linked to guns, gangs and crime in Dublin and there
:16:06. > :16:08.will be pressure on the police, not just to find those responsible, but
:16:09. > :16:12.also to prevent further violence. What's seen as a gangland feud
:16:13. > :16:16.is fuelling fear in north Dublin. Tonight, a man has been shot dead
:16:17. > :16:19.in his home and it is understood the police believe this latest
:16:20. > :16:22.attack is in retaliation Their concern that there
:16:23. > :16:27.could be more violence Armed officers made themselves very
:16:28. > :16:32.visible, patrolling the streets But they couldn't
:16:33. > :16:37.prevent another killing. On Friday, gunmen armed with assault
:16:38. > :16:41.rifles disguised themselves as police officers to
:16:42. > :16:45.enter a Dublin hotel. A weigh-in was being held
:16:46. > :16:48.ahead of a boxing match, but those gathered were forced
:16:49. > :16:51.to run for their lives David Byrne, who had
:16:52. > :17:04.links to criminal gangs, Apparently, his shooting
:17:05. > :17:13.was itself revenge. And just days after the attack
:17:14. > :17:16.at this hotel, there are concerns that this feud between
:17:17. > :17:19.gangs is escalating. Detectives say they are
:17:20. > :17:23.investigating all claims, including suggestions
:17:24. > :17:25.that the dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA could
:17:26. > :17:28.have been involved. And they are studying pictures,
:17:29. > :17:30.including a photograph taken of gunmen fleeing, one
:17:31. > :17:34.of them dressed as a woman. But tonight their focus
:17:35. > :17:38.is on another murder scene, A brief look at some of the day's
:17:39. > :17:48.other news stories: 12 men, who sexually exploited
:17:49. > :17:50.a vulnerable teenager in West Yorkshire, have received
:17:51. > :17:55.jail sentences of up to 20 years. 11 of the men were convicted
:17:56. > :17:57.of raping the girl in Keighley The claim by Downing Street -
:17:58. > :18:05.that thousands of migrants in Calais could to travel to the UK
:18:06. > :18:08.if Britain left the EU - have been dismissed as blatant
:18:09. > :18:12.scaremongering by critics. It was claimed that a vote to leave
:18:13. > :18:15.the EU would allow French politicians to abandon
:18:16. > :18:17.the arrangement which lets UK border Gas has started coming onshore
:18:18. > :18:25.at a major new plant in Shetland. The Laggan-Tormore project
:18:26. > :18:28.is a ?3.5 billion pound development It's expected to provide 8%
:18:29. > :18:35.of all the UK's gas needs - enough to power around
:18:36. > :18:44.two million homes. Storm Imogen has brought high winds
:18:45. > :18:46.and heavy rain to parts of southern
:18:47. > :18:47.England and Wales. Roads have been closed,
:18:48. > :18:49.there are delays to flights, and rail and ferry services have
:18:50. > :18:53.been heavily disrupted. Winds in the most exposed areas hit
:18:54. > :18:57.nearly 100 miles per hour. With them came waves more than 60
:18:58. > :19:01.feet high - or 19 metres. More than 19,000 homes
:19:02. > :19:05.are without power in the Midlands, Coastal areas have faced
:19:06. > :19:11.the worst of the bad weather, as Duncan Kennedy has
:19:12. > :19:15.been finding out. From Devon to Dartford,
:19:16. > :19:21.southern Britain and Wales felt their most powerful
:19:22. > :19:25.storm of the winter. The seas drenching
:19:26. > :19:30.everything that came close. Just like in Aberystwyth,
:19:31. > :19:32.where mountainous waves churned This is Barton-on-Sea
:19:33. > :19:42.near Bournemouth. As you can see, the waves
:19:43. > :19:45.are actually trundling The winds are knocking us over,
:19:46. > :19:52.it is hard to stand up. In some places here,
:19:53. > :19:55.it registered wave heights of 14 metres, and it's been going
:19:56. > :20:02.on like this for several hours. 19,000 homes had their
:20:03. > :20:06.electricity cut off today. Many here mistakenly thinking
:20:07. > :20:09.that winter had passed. Never seen it like this before
:20:10. > :20:20.and the wind is so strong. The winds brought damage to many
:20:21. > :20:23.places, like this wall collapse in Worcestershire, which seriously
:20:24. > :20:27.injured a four-year-old boy It basically hit two children
:20:28. > :20:33.in the process of collapsing and they were very quickly removed
:20:34. > :20:36.from under the initial rubble and was treated on scene
:20:37. > :20:40.by Ambulance Service personnel. Tonight, train services
:20:41. > :20:43.are still disrupted, with everything from flooded tracks
:20:44. > :20:46.in Wales, to fallen trees Tomorrow's timetable is also
:20:47. > :20:53.likely to be affected. Roads have been blocked
:20:54. > :20:56.and bridges closed. And ferry services from P,
:20:57. > :20:59.Brittany Ferries and others The storm may have peaked,
:21:00. > :21:05.but the seas remain high Duncan Kennedy, BBC
:21:06. > :21:14.News, in Hampshire. Ceasefire monitors in eastern
:21:15. > :21:18.Ukraine say they've seen an increase in the level of violence in some
:21:19. > :21:21.areas over the past week. It's nearly a year since the Minsk
:21:22. > :21:24.agreement was signed - to try to bring peace
:21:25. > :21:27.between the Ukrainian government Our special correspondent
:21:28. > :21:34.Fergal Keane has been reporting on the conflict since it began
:21:35. > :21:38.almost 18 months ago. He's returned to the embattled area
:21:39. > :21:43.around Donetsk airport, including the frontline
:21:44. > :21:45.village of Pisky - abandoned by all but
:21:46. > :21:52.a handful of its residents. War is always a story
:21:53. > :21:56.of dispossession. Here on the front-line, Ukrainians
:21:57. > :22:02.hope to reconquer lost territory. And a handful of civilians
:22:03. > :22:05.haunt the dangerous lanes These are the winter lines at Pisky,
:22:06. > :22:11.one of the most fought-over villages And where we came last May,
:22:12. > :22:17.to meet a remarkable couple, Anatoliy, the beekeeper
:22:18. > :22:22.and his wife, Svetlana. They refuse to abandon their home
:22:23. > :22:25.and precious garden. We have come back to find out how
:22:26. > :22:34.they are coping. The second winter of the war has
:22:35. > :22:41.brought despondency. You seem much angrier and much
:22:42. > :22:44.sadder about the situation There are only 18 people left
:22:45. > :23:13.here out of a pre-war Conditions are much harder
:23:14. > :23:18.than when we last visited you. Their neighbour has moved from one
:23:19. > :23:44.abandoned house to another She cares for her 53-year-old
:23:45. > :23:51.mentally and physically disabled son Endurance isn't a habit,
:23:52. > :23:55.it is what left when there Since our first visit
:23:56. > :24:22.nearly two years ago, the demonstrations and civil
:24:23. > :24:27.disorder gave way to all-out war. More than 9,000 people
:24:28. > :24:30.have been killed, more The front-line is dividing
:24:31. > :24:39.communities and families. Every night in rebel-held Donetsk
:24:40. > :24:46.the sounds of battle echo. And it is here we met Tatiana,
:24:47. > :24:49.the daughter of Svetlana and Anatoliy,
:24:50. > :24:52.the beekeeper of Pisky. Her job as an engineer
:24:53. > :24:55.vanished with the war. Now she makes and sells
:24:56. > :24:58.dolls for a living. You must worry a lot
:24:59. > :25:18.about your parents in Pisky? This is what passes for peace
:25:19. > :25:21.in the beleaguered towns These are the survivors
:25:22. > :25:27.of the Soviet empire's collapse, who watched elites get rich
:25:28. > :25:32.and the powerful make war. A war whose grip reaches into
:25:33. > :25:36.the minds of the old and the young. Elyena, her son, Alexei, 25,
:25:37. > :25:43.and who has a muscle-wasting disease, and six-year-old Sonya
:25:44. > :25:47.survived the shelling of their home. Before that, Elyena tried
:25:48. > :25:49.to hide the reality of war What do you do when there's
:25:50. > :26:29.shooting and bombing? Everybody waits for the next move
:26:30. > :26:33.from Moscow or Kiev. Fergal Keane, BBC News, eastern
:26:34. > :26:44.Ukraine. In America the race
:26:45. > :26:46.to the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations reaches
:26:47. > :26:48.a crucial early test tomorrow There's still a great deal
:26:49. > :26:52.of uncertainty in the opinion polls following last week's
:26:53. > :26:55.first outing in Iowa. Let's join our North America editor,
:26:56. > :27:09.Jon Sopel, in Manchester, What will you be looking at? I think
:27:10. > :27:13.it is the key people emerging on the democratic and the Republican side.
:27:14. > :27:17.The Republican side, Donald Trump is still in front, but he was in that
:27:18. > :27:21.position in Iowa and ended up coming second. Beneath that, you have a
:27:22. > :27:26.whole pile of people who are trying to be the establishment candidate.
:27:27. > :27:33.One person said to me, "You have Donald Trump on top and a bowl of
:27:34. > :27:39.spaghetti underneath." On the Democratic side, it is more
:27:40. > :27:44.straightforward. Hillary Clinton versus Bernie Sanders. This should
:27:45. > :27:49.be Clinton strong territory, it is where Bill Clinton became the
:27:50. > :27:53.comeback kid in '92, where Hillary Clinton won in 2008. According to
:27:54. > :27:57.the polls, Bernie Sanders is way out in front and should win this state
:27:58. > :28:02.easily. All of which means this race is going to go on and on. You
:28:03. > :28:05.mentioned so many candidates on the Republican side, is it possible at
:28:06. > :28:12.this stage that that list will increase? Yes. This evening, a
:28:13. > :28:15.significant intervention from Mike Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New
:28:16. > :28:19.York City coming out and saying he is considering his options, perhaps
:28:20. > :28:31.running as an Independent saying I find the level of discourse and
:28:32. > :28:35.discussion an insult to voters. That complicates an already complex
:28:36. > :28:39.picture if he is going to throw his hat into the ring. Jon Sopel there.
:28:40. > :28:41.The US primaries aside - possibly the biggest political
:28:42. > :28:44.statement of the past week happened at the Super Bowl,
:28:45. > :28:47.the most-watched American television event of the year.
:28:48. > :28:49.The headlines were made not by the champions,
:28:50. > :28:51.the Denver Broncos, but by the singer Beyonce,
:28:52. > :28:53.whose politically-charged performance at half-time
:28:54. > :28:57.was a protest againt racism and police brutality,
:28:58. > :29:04.as our correspondent, James Cook, reports.
:29:05. > :29:08.With more than 100 million Americans watching, Beyonce chose to make
:29:09. > :29:30.There were defiant fists and berets reminiscent of the militant
:29:31. > :29:33.Black Panther movement, born in the racial turmoil
:29:34. > :29:40.After the performance, some of the dancers held a sign
:29:41. > :29:47.He was shot dead by San Francisco police in December, reportedly
:29:48. > :29:53.because he refused to put down a knife.
:29:54. > :30:00.Beyonce's new video hammers home the message.
:30:01. > :30:05.And having grabbed America's attention, the artist has now
:30:06. > :30:09.She is harnessing history to reshape her brand.
:30:10. > :30:12.It is incredibly significant for a woman of her stature,
:30:13. > :30:17.a woman who is an international superstar to have "Black Panthers"
:30:18. > :30:21.behind her and really speak to what is a problem
:30:22. > :30:25.in the African-American community, which is police brutality.
:30:26. > :30:27.But for others, like Rudy Giuliani, speaking on Fox News,
:30:28. > :30:35.Talking to middle America, when you have a Super Bowl,
:30:36. > :30:41.Let's have decent, wholesome entertainment and not use it
:30:42. > :30:45.as platform to attack the people who put their lives at risk.
:30:46. > :30:48.This intensely-political performance has certainly
:30:49. > :30:54.The Super Bowl was a reminder that this country has not
:30:55. > :31:00.At times, Beyonce seemed to be asking a question of her fellow
:31:01. > :31:06.James Cook, BBC News, San Francisco.
:31:07. > :31:09.Newsnight is about to get under way over on BBC Two.
:31:10. > :31:12.Tonight, we're in New Hampshire where momentum is gathering
:31:13. > :31:15.for Bernie Sanders ahead of tomorrow's vote -
:31:16. > :31:18.as I ask Hillary Clinton what she makes of it all.
:31:19. > :31:21.That's starting now over on BBC Two, 11pm in Scotland.
:31:22. > :31:26.Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.