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 is 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 apologised 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 How to stop the Trump juggernaut,

or in his case private jet. 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 Hilary 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. Donald against Hillary.

Our North America editor Jon Sopel is in Palm Beach,

Hillary Clinton seems very confident of her path to the nomination, do

you think Donald Trump can be equally confident of his path? If

you simply concentrate on the maths you would say Donald Trump's path is

very difficult, we totted up the total number of votes is received in

other states that have voted so far. 10 million people have voted, only a

third of those have gone to Donald Trump. There is an anti-Donald Trump

majority, or you could or you could or you could. The way. Ted Cruz

isn't going to step down for Marco Rubio and vice versa. All the time

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

person standing there, Donald Trump, Donald Trump winds, which is the

nightmare scenario for the Republican establishment because

they are not buying this, Donald Trump the new more emollient

Republican, they believe he is polarising and divisive and come

election day Hillary Clinton woodwind cause it does look like

it's going to be Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump. You would have

imagined that scenario a year ago? -- who would have imagined?

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. One night, driven by boredom, he was alone with a 15-year-old

girl. He met the child here, a car park. A Flynn fanatic, she idolised

Johnson. Inside his range Rover, to prove she met her hero, she recorded

their meeting. -- a Sunderland fanatic. Innocent football talk.

What came next was the abuse of a child. The jury heard it was classic

grooming. Johnson knew she adored him. Outside court his victim asked

the police to tell her story. What happened in his car has turned my

life upside down, I've lost all my confidence and my schoolwork has

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, you owe me. 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. 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. At one point she

broke down and told her father she wanted to die. Some supporters feel

cheated. At first he'd done nothing wrong, then lied to his fans, likes

to everybody. Would you have supported him if you'd known what he

did? No, definitely not. Would you have wanted him on your pitch? No.

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

do it now? There were no apologies from Adam Johnson. Outside or inside

court. The millionaire footballer who thought he could do what he

wanted. This case has exposed a darker side of 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'd known Adam Johnson was going to

plead guilty to any of the charges they would have sacked him on the

spot. As for Adam Johnson, he left court today with a warning from the

judge. Go home, say goodbye to your daughter, when you return to be

sentenced you will 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

pounds available over 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 arrived in humanity

to live a life like 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 months just to clear

this one campus. So with people piling up in Greece,

the EU has today announced it's 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, who say it's 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 war,

persecution, and want to seek asylum and request protection. As the

politicians argue about a long-term solution to this crisis, they argue

here, too. It's the volatile atmosphere but this is right at the

front of the queue, so nobody moves away. More money may be coming to

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

pass through this portal to a better life.

Our Europe editor Katya Adler is in Brussels.

This new fund is all about speed. The EU already offers grease some

support over the migrant crisis at accessing the cash is a long

bureaucratic process and time is of the essence. Well over a million

refugees 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 do you want to do is mimic the way to

distribute aid in disaster zones around the world. Once a fund has

been approved by all EU countries most of the cash will be channelled

through the UN and other agencies on the ground. But bosses in Brussels

readily admit it's just a sticking plaster to solve the migrant crisis

they say needs to be tackled at its roots. First in the Middle East. In

the meantime the deal has to be made with Turkey. It's where most asylum

seekers and others are jumping on board those people smugglers Dennis

to make their way to Europe. There is an EU Turkey meeting on Monday.

It can't be up to Turkey, an outsider, to solve the EU's

problems. To work together effectively as a whole the 28

countries of the EU need to put aside their differences over the

migrant crisis. Those differences are gaping.

Any attempt to negotiate a new trading relationship with EU

countries if the United Kingdom left the union wouldn't be quick or

straightforward according to the government.

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,

option that is he claimed would all cost jobs

None of the options that are remotely likely to be

deliverable comes close to matching the deal that we already have

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 it

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 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.

And why do you think it's significant? In a way it's not what

they said, it's how they've chosen to say it. This is a direct internal

e-mail device under the employees. The decision on whether to stay in

the EU or not... Company managers have already

endorsed one campaign or the other, signed letters to newspapers, the

question is whether this direct form of communication, to employees,

referencing job security, is appropriate. The vote to leave

campaign said it definitely isn't, they call it scaremongering and

called it intimidation. This exchange you may remember from the

Scottish referendum came late in the process and controversially looks

like we've three and a half months to go this exchange has come very

early. Simon Jack. A brief look at some

of the day's other news stories. A man has been found guilty

of raping 5 women and attacking 2 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 new sanctions against North Korea. In

this bolster 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 First Minister of

Scotland has announced plans to reform council tax if the SNP holds

on to power in May's elections. People living in more expensive

homes would face higher charges and the nine-year council tax freeze

would come to an end. Party critics have accused the SNP of shying away

from reform. Scotland editor Sarah Smith tells us...

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 most successful television series, has died at the age of 79.

He was in his early 20s when he created the drama that went on to

become something of a national institution. Will

Gompertz looks back at his life and achievements. A typical day on

Coronation Street. Back off Mrs Sharples as fast as you can. Elsie

Tanner and Ena Sharples going at it hammer and tongs. The iconic

characters were the invention of the show creator Tony Warren. He made a

drama out of everyday life. It gave working-class northern women a

starring role. I write better for actresses than I write for actors, I

did then. I mean I'm gay and I had very bad experience of straight

people at school, so I didn't have too high an opinion of them. I wrote

about women because I found women easier to understand. Flaming

Muriel. Stan, shut up! The show was originally commissioned for a quick

six-week burst in 1960 but it was a hit and has become the

longest-running soap opera in the world. You know, dear, I feel just a

little giddy. It's inspiration were the goings-on of the terrace houses

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

physical realisation of Tony Warren's imagination, to my left is

the Cornershop. Over there the medical centre. Of course, behind

me, the legendary Rovers return where the characters meet in the

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

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

we've lost the father of our family. Tony Warren also wrote novels and

other TV series but it's for his pioneering work with Coronation

Street that he is likely to be remembered. Without Tony warrant you

wouldn't have had Coronation Street but you wouldn't have had

crossroads, Emmerdale and Eastenders. Because he broke the

mould. Tony wrote for real people, he knew that the public once they

started to see them would fall in love with them. Tony warrant never

left Coronation Street, you was always there offering advice, making

suggestions, keeping things real. It was his show. It always will be.

Tributes to Tony Warren, 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 a Russian cosmonaut spent 340 days in space, twice the length

of a normal state, and a record for an American. He's been reflecting on

his experiences. 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 days in space. A quick reminder that Newsnight is

coming up on BBC Two. We are live with the after-shocks of super

Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. Join me now on BBC Two,

and at 11pm in Scotland. Now it's time for the news where you are.

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