02/03/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten, the race for the American presidency now

heading for a showdown between Donald Trump

After the biggest electoral test so far, Trump strengthens his

position and claims he can now unite the Republican Party.

People are going to find that a little bit hard to believe.

Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one

An equally strong showing by Hillary Clinton, who's now

the clear favourite to take the Democratic nomination.

The stakes in this election have never been higher.

And the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side has

We'll have the latest on the race and the tensions

in the Republican Party at the prospect of a Trump nomination.

Mr Johnson, you've never apologise to this 15-year-old girl, will you

do it now? The former England footballer

Adam Johnson faces a jail sentence after being convicted of sexual

activity with a child. The latest from Greece

on the migration crisis as the EU plans to offer emergency

humanitarian aid. Plans in Scotland to reform council

tax with bigger bills for the most And the man who created one

of the great British television And coming up in Sportsday on BBC

News, we'll have the latest from the Premier League title race

with Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal

all in action. The race for the American presidency

seems to be heading for Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton

when the election Both candidates strengthened

their positions as favourites, in the major primary contest that

took place yesterday On the Republican side Donald Trump

took 7 of the 11 states being contested while Ted Cruz won

three and Marco Rubio took just one. On the Democratic side

Hillary Clinton took seven states while her rival Bernie

Sanders took four. But it's not just a matter

of counting states. The winning candidate must secure

the support of a number of delegates Clinton needs 2,383 delegates to win

the Democratic nomination, Trump needs 1,237 to win

the Republican nomination, So let's start with the Republicans

and, as our North America editor Jon Sopel explains,

a more conciliatory note The next President

of the United States. Campaigning in Ohio,

he had the air of a man who, whatever the elements might throw

at him, was going to prevail. So at his victory party later

last night in Florida, Donald Trump hinted,

with his one-time rival but now supporter Chris Christie standing

awkwardly behind him, I know people are going to find that

a little hard to believe but believe I think we are going

to be more inclusive. I think we are going

to be more unified. I think we are going to be

able to unify the party. I hope to be able to get

along with everybody. On some key policies

like immigration he seemed to be dialling

back the rhetoric. But it was the Republican party

leadership that he was most notably reaching out to, and yes,

his new favourite word again. I would love to see

the Republican Party and everybody get together and unify,

and when we unify, there's nobody, This has been a toned down,

much more conciliatory Donald Trump at his news conference,

stressing that he is a unifier of the Republican

Party, gone were the It's almost as though

he's looking beyond this process to when he is

the Republican nominee. This man is arithmetically

best placed. Senator Ted Cruz won

three states last night. To the other anti-Trump candidates

he had a simple message, So long as the field

remains divided Donald Trump's path to the nomination

remains more likely. After Super Tuesday it's

Wash-up Wednesday, and there are no signs that any of the other main

contenders will pull out. Marco Rubio was an early

voter here in his home state of Florida

which holds its primary He didn't quite say get lost

to Ted Cruz but he came close. Last night was supposed

to be Ted Cruz's night, we beat him in half

the states on the ballot, we won Minnesota,

we picked up a lot of delegates and we feel great

about what the map looks There's still a long way to go,

only a third of states have voted. But so long as the opposition

to Trump is divided, then the property mogul

looks safe as houses. As we mentioned, Hillary

Clinton took seven states in her campaign to become

the Democratic presidential nominee. And she used her victory speech not

to attack her party rival Bernie Sanders, but to focus

on the man who's increasingly likely to become her Republican

opponent in November, Donald Trump, as our North America

correspondent Nick Bryant reports. Super Tuesday, where the length

of the queue at your victory rally And it wasn't long before

the supporters of Hillary Clinton celebrated thumping

wins in big states. That when the contest moved

to the American South, into states with large

minority populations, She is sounding already

like the presumptive nominee, and in a year of rage,

chose healing words. I believe what we need in America

today is more love and kindness. So her speech took a knock

at her Democratic rival, The rhetoric we are hearing

on the other side has Trying to divide America

between us and them is wrong, Hillary Clinton clearly believes

she's seen off the challenge from Bernie Sanders,

and that the candidate standing between her and her

dream of becoming America's first female

president is Donald Trump. From Bernie Sanders,

not quite a swansong, But to Hillary Clinton he's now more

of an irritant than a threat. Parts of his speech last night

sounded like he was composing This campaign is not just

about electing a president, it is about making

a political revolution. But Hillary Clinton still

has treacherous waters From visitors at this alligator park

close to her victory rally, reminders of the pool

of resentment against her that feels She's lied to the people

over and over and You've got a trust

problem with Hillary Well I can tell you I'm not

going to vote for her. So Super Tuesday has

potentially set up an electoral blockbuster

with the most outlandish of scripts. The real-life

anti-politician against the consummate insider,

the Donald against the Hillary. Our North America editor

Jon Sopel is in Palm Beach, Libby Clinton seems very confident

of her nomination, but do you think Donald Trump can be equally

confident? If you simply concentrated on the maths you would

say Donald Trump's path is difficult. We totted up the total

number of votes received, 10 million have voted, only a third have gone

to Donald Trump. So there is an anti-Donald Trump majority. And all

you need to do is get the other candidates out of the way and have

one person fighting him and Donald Trump should be beaten. But the

politics of that is so much more compensated because Ted Cruz isn't

going to step down from Marco Rubio and vice versa. So all the time you

have more than three or four candidates in the fight and one

person standing tall, Donald Trump, then Donald Trump wins, which is the

nightmare scenario for the Republican establishment. Because

they are not buying this Donald Trump the new, more only into

Republican. They believe he is divisive and polarising, and come

election day Hillary Clinton would win. It does look like, as Nick

Bryant was saying, it is going to be Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump,

and who would have imagined that scenario a year ago? Thank you.

The former England and Sunderland footballer

Adam Johnson has been found guilty of sexual activity

A jury at Bradford Crown Court found him not guilty

Before the trial he'd admitted a third charge

of sexual activity with the 15 year-old girl,

The judge has warned he's facing a 'significant custodial sentence',

as our correspondent Ed Thomas reports.

He was a ?10 million England footballer. And in his own words,

Adam Johnson said he was a rich, arrogant man. Things came easy, he

said. And one night, driven by boredom, he was alone with a

15-year-old girl. He met the child here at a car park. Sunderland

fanatic, she idolised Johnson. Inside his range Rover, to prove

she'd met her hero, she recorded their meeting.

Innocent football talk. What came next was the abuse of a child. The

jury heard it was classic grooming. Adam Johnson knew she adored him.

Outside court his victim after police to tell her story. What

happened in his car has turned my life upside down. I lost all of my

confidence and my schoolwork suffered. I now feel used and let

down by him. It's been the hardest year of my life. I've had to face so

much abuse after he claimed his innocence and I was made out to be a

liar. Adam Johnson sent hundreds of messages to the schoolgirl. After

handing over a signed shirt, he texted:.

He then told her to delete the messages. So what did his employers

know? The court heard he met the club in May last year and admitted

kissing the child, but still he was allowed to play. So week after week

the footballer walked out to represent Sunderland, and despite

the private confessions, in public, to fans, Johnson denied the abuse.

The court was told every time Adam Johnson went on to this pitch, the

15-year-old girl suffered excruciating pain. For a year she

was called a liar. And at one point she broke down and told her father

she wanted to die. Some supporters feel cheated. Because at first he'd

done nothing wrong and then he lies to his fans and everybody. Would you

have supported him if you'd have known what he did? No, definitely

not. Would you have wanted him on your pitch? No. Mr Johnson, you

never apologised to this 15-year-old girl, will you do it now? There were

no apologies from Adam Johnson outside court or insight. The

millionaire footballer who thought he could do what he wanted. This

case has exposed a darker side to the national game because there was

an intense focus in court on what Sunderland football club new or did

not know. We've had a detailed statement from the club tonight, in

it it says if they had known Adam Johnson was going to plead guilty to

any of the charges they would have sacked him on the spot. As far Adam

Johnson he left court today with a warning from the judge. Go home, say

goodbye to your daughter, because when you return to be sentenced

you'll be going to jail. In a clear sign of growing concern

about the migration crisis, the European Commission has

announced unprecedented plans to spend emergency humanitarian aid

inside the European Union The package will make ?540 million

available over the next three years. The money can be spent

on tents and other shelter, food, medical aid and

other basic services. The number of migrants entering

Greece continues to rise, more than 110,000 arrived

during January and February. One of the main pressure points

is the border with Macedonia, from where our correspondent

Danny Savage reports. In northern Greece, tented villages

have sprung up on military sites. Hastily built, this is the emergency

plan to house migrants. They feel these sites

are a dead-end. So as soon as they get

off the buses they This family from Syria

tell me why they A tent isn't much of a life,

you can't stay in a tent The camp give us everything

like food and shelter but we didn't come here and we didn't walk

through the sea to just We have the right in

humanity to live a life like

everybody does. But here a taxi driver

is never far-away. A mass of humanity

gathered in tiny tents, living in hope that one day soon

they might get out of here. The gate they will

have to pass through But at the present rate,

it would take about two So with people piling up in Greece,

the EU has today announced its going to spend a lot more money

on trying to tackle this issue. It's set to spend up

to 700 million euros on things like food,

tents and medical aid. Much of the money will go

directly to aid agencies, helpful, but it's not

a long-term solution. What is really to be

done is to have a common policy, European policy,

how to manage these people who flee wars and persecution,

and want to seek asylum and to request

some protection. As the politicians argue

about the long-term solution to this It's a volatile atmosphere,

but this is right at the front More money may be coming

to see off a humanitarian crisis, but what these people really

want is to pass through this portal Our Europe editor,

Katya Adler, is in Brussels. What is new about this money, in the

form of it? Well, this new fund is Huw is about speed. The EU offers

Greece some support over the migrant crisis. Accessing that cash is a

longed and bureaucratic process. Time is of the essence. Well over a

million refugees and others came to Europe last year. Now 25,000

migrants are stranded in Greece with more people arriving every day. With

looming humanitarian crisis here at home, what the EU want to do is

mimick the way it distributes aid in disaster zones around the world.

Once the fund is approved by all EU countries, most of the cash will be

channel through the UN and other agencies on the ground. Bosses here

in Brussels readily admit this is just a sticking plaster to solve the

migrant crisis they say it needs to be tackled a at its roots in the

Middle East. In the meantime a deal has to be made with Turkey. That is

where most asylum seekers andened others are jumping upon the dinghies

to make their way to Europe. There is an EU-Turkey meeting in Brussels

on Monday. Turkey's ambassador to the EU told the BBC it can't be up

to Turkey, an outsider, to solve the EU's problems. To work together

effective as a whole the EU's 28 countries need to put aside their

differences over the migrant crisis, but those differences, Huw, are

gaping. OK, Katya, thanks very much once again for the update there in

Brussels. Katya Adler. Any attempt to negotiate

a new trading relationship with EU countries, if the United Kingdom

left the European Union, would not be quick or

straightforward, according It's published a new assessment

of the dangers it says the UK will face if it votes to leave

in the referendum in June. But the Leave campaign says

the document is "dodgy" Our deputy political editor,

James Landale, reports. It's 8.00am on Friday,

24th June, the headlines. The United Kingdom has voted

to leave the European Union. What if this is the news we wake up

to after the referendum in June what might it mean

for Britain's economy? Today, the Foreign Secretary set out

a series of possible answers, options that he claimed would all

cost jobs and push up prices. None of the options that

are remotely likely to be deliverable comes close to matching

the deal that we already have So why would we take a leap

in the dark? Why would we risk the affect

of years of uncertainty In its dossier, the Government set

out possible alternatives If Britain copied Norway,

it would get significant access to the EU's single market,

but no say over the rules. It would also have to pay

into the EU's budget and accept the free movement of EU

citizens across its borders. If Britain copied Canada,

it would get a free trade agreement with the EU, avoiding red tape

and demands for cash, but there'd be less access to EU

markets and it could take years Or the UK could just fall back

on basic rules laid down with no obligations to the EU,

but potentially accepting tariffs Downing Street have published this

document to try to focus attention on what it sees as the uncertainty

involved in leaving the EU and to try to force its opponents

to talk about something But ministers campaigning to leave

the EU say this was just another dodgy dossier, scaremongering

that would fool nobody. Back in the 1990s, David Cameron

worked for Norman Lamont Today the former Chancellor,

said his one time prodigy had got wrong and Britain should

leave the EU. Why won't the Leave campaign spell

out precisely what Brexit will mean to the British economy

and its trading relations Obviously, you can't spell out every

single detail of which sectors will be affected in each way,

but Britain will get and needs, in the event of Brexit,

a special trade arrangement giving full tariff-free access

to the single market. That is easily negotiatable,

for this reason. The EU needs access to us every bit

as much as we need access to them. So both sides here at Westminster

are trying to predict what life might be like outside the EU,

but they're very different visions James Landale, BBC News,

Westminster. BMW, the German motor manufacturer,

has sent an email to workers at its subsidiary Rolls Royce cars

in the UK spelling out the risks for them if the UK left

the European Union. Our business editor,

Simon Jack, is here. Why do you think it's significant?

It's how they have chosen to be say it and to whom. A direct internal

email to employees. It starts as follows:

It goes on to say, this is the punch line: Company managers have already

endorsed one campaign or the other or signed letters to newspapers. The

question is whether this direct form of communication to employees,

referencing job security, is appropriate. The vote Leave campaign

who I shared it with said it's not. They called it scaremongering. They

called it intimidation. This exchange, you may remember from the

Scottish referendum came late in that process. Controversially, it

looks like we are three-and-a-half months to go this exchange has come

early to this one. Simon thank you very much. Simon Jack there for us.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

A man has been found guilty of raping five women and attacking

two others after meeting them on the internet dating site,

Jason Lawrance, from Liphook in Hampshire, was described

He used two profiles on the website to meet seven women.

Offering the meningitis B vaccine to all children is "not cost

effective" and would be a waste of NHS money,

It's offered to children in their first year of life,

but more than 800,000 people signed a petition for it to be given

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to impose

They are in response to its latest nuclear test in January.

The measures were drawn up following an agreement

between the US and China, which is North Korea's main ally.

Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, has announced plans

to reform council tax if the SNP holds on to power

People living in more expensive homes would face higher charges

and the nine-year council tax freeze would come to an end.

But the party's critics have accused the SNP of shying away from genuine

reform of local government finance as our Scotland editor,

I've never seen a cooker quite as crowded as this one.

A lesson in home economics today for the First Minister,

Nicola Sturgeon, at a school near Edinburgh.

As she announced a council tax revamp that will see some people's

The money raised, ?100 million, she says, will go to education.

It's part of what is a balanced approach.

Asking people at the top to pay a bit more, helping reduce

the burden on those at the buttom, but also making sure

that we generate additional revenue and ensuring that additional revenue

At present, people in the most expensive homes in Scotland pay just

three times what's charged on the least valuable properties,

Under the SNP's plans, households in the top four council

tax bands will pay more from next April.

Increases of between ?105 a year, up to over ?500.

Councils will also be able to raise taxes across the board

Parents at this playgroup, in one of the more affluent parts

of Edinburgh, will find their bills will rise because properties

in the Scottish capital are among some of the most expensive

From next year, around a quarter of Scottish households will find

they are paying more in council tax.

That's a lot of money to find and I think that will put a lot

I work part-time, so I suppose that's quite a big ask,

to find a wee bit of extra money there for that.

But it depends what we're going to get for our money.

It might be quite difficult to find the money for that but,

at the end of the day, everybody's kind of got

This is a clear signal from the SNP that, if they win the Scottish

elections in May, better off Scots are going to have to start paying

more and it's not just the council tax increase,

they're also likely to say that they'd put up the top rate of income

Local authorities have clashed with the Scottish Government

because they've not been allowed to raise the council tax

They will now get more money next year, but they don't think the plans

I'm really surprised that there's so little being announced,

from the point of view of just adjusting the bands,

it looks very much to me tinkering around the edges.

The SNP had promised a more radical rethink of local taxes,

but those plans have now been shelved.

The tax landscape in Scotland is changing, gradually.

Tony Warren, the man who created Coronation Street,

one of the world's must successful television series,

He was in his early 20s when he created the drama,

which went on to be become something of a national institution.

Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, looks back at his life

She'd never been short of a man in their house since

As fast as you can before I really get my rag out.

Elsie Tanner and Mrs Sharples going at it hammer and tongs.

Tony Warren made a drama out of every day life that gave women a

starring role. I write better for actresses than act ors. . I did

then. I'm gay. I had bad experience of straight people at school. So I

didn't have too high an opinion of them. So I wrote about women,

because I found women easier to understand. The show was

commissioned for a quick six week burst in 1960. It was a hit and is

the longest-running soap opera in the world. I feel just a little

giddy. It's inspiration was the going on in the terrace houses of

Tony Warren's beloved Manchester. This is Coronation Street, the

physical realisation of Tony Warren's imagination. Of course

behind me is the legendary Rovers Return the characters meet up in the

evening for a drink and a chat. It was his life. He loved every aspect

of it. I think he did say that Coronation Street was his family.

Well, today we've lost the father of our family. Tony Warren also wrote

novels and other TV series. It's for his pioneering work with Coronation

Street that he's likely to be remembered. Without Tony Warren you

certainly wouldn't have had a Coronation Street a Kcossroads,

Emmerdale or EastEnders. He broke the mould. He wrote for real people

hechl knew that the public, once they started to see them, would fall

in love with them. Tony Warren never left Coronation Street hechl was

always there, offering advice, making suggestions, keeping things

real. It was his show. It always will be his show.

Tributes there to Tony Warren, the creator of Coronation Street, who

has died. The US astronaut, Scott Kelly,

has returned to Earth after spending almost a year on board

the International Space Station. He, along with Russian

Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, spent 340 days in space -

twice the length of a normal stay He's been reflecting

on his experience. Scott Kelly, back on Mother Earth,

after 340 days in space. I would like to relinquish command

of the International Space Station to my friend and colleague

here, Tim Kopra. You know it's somewhat

of a harsh environment. You know, you never

feel perfectly normal. You know, it's kind of like I've

been in the woods camping You know, the space station

here is a magical place. We've been following your Instagram

feed down here, it is spectacular. I could go another

year, if I had to. Scott Kelly, the US astronaut,

back on Earth after 340 Tonight on Newsnight,

we're live with the aftershocks of Super Tuesday from

Capitol Hill in Washington. Join me and guests live now

on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One, it's time

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