:00:00. > :00:08.No agreement so far among European leaders on tackling
:00:09. > :00:12.In the past few days, thousands more have crossed the sea
:00:13. > :00:14.from Turkey to Greece, leading to urgent talks
:00:15. > :00:22.But Turkey's Prime Minister makes some controversial demands,
:00:23. > :00:28.including speeding up his country's application to join the EU.
:00:29. > :00:31.There are many challenges in front of us.
:00:32. > :00:34.The only way to respond to these challenges is solidarity.
:00:35. > :00:37.We'll have the latest from the summit in Brussels,
:00:38. > :00:39.where leaders say they need more time.
:00:40. > :00:45.One of the biggest names in sport, the tennis star Maria Sharapova,
:00:46. > :00:51.I have to take full responsibility of it.
:00:52. > :00:54.It is my body and it is what I put into my body.
:00:55. > :00:59.I can't blame anyone for it but myself.
:01:00. > :01:02.A teenager is found guilty of killing this 16-year-old boy,
:01:03. > :01:05.who was stabbed at his school in Aberdeen.
:01:06. > :01:08.The British and French governments restate their commitment
:01:09. > :01:12.to a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point,
:01:13. > :01:16.And a trip to Sweden, to see what a driverless car
:01:17. > :01:30.They're going to ask 100 or nip Merry people to commute in an
:01:31. > :01:33.autonomous car. And coming up in
:01:34. > :01:35.Sportsday on BBC News. The Olympic cycling champion,
:01:36. > :01:37.Victoria Pendleton gets the green light to race at the
:01:38. > :01:38.Cheltenham Festival, only a year after her
:01:39. > :01:58.first riding lesson. The latest attempt to solve
:01:59. > :02:02.Europe's biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War
:02:03. > :02:05.has run into difficulties. EU leaders at a summit
:02:06. > :02:07.in Brussels said they needed more time
:02:08. > :02:09.to consider controversial new proposals from the
:02:10. > :02:14.Turkish Prime Minister. He's offered to help reduce
:02:15. > :02:16.the number of migrants sailing from his country
:02:17. > :02:18.to Greece, but in return, he wants a doubling of aid money
:02:19. > :02:21.and a faster process for Turkey The Turkish government has tonight
:02:22. > :02:27.denied using the refugee crisis Our Europe editor Katya
:02:28. > :02:47.Adler has the latest. Today is about stopping this. And
:02:48. > :02:51.this. And this. Or at least trying to, at yet another emergency
:02:52. > :02:53.migration summit here in Brussels. The aim of the meeting, neatly
:02:54. > :03:02.summed up by the Belgian Prime Minister. TRANSLATION: We must stop
:03:03. > :03:05.irregular migration, pure and simple, if any one country holds the
:03:06. > :03:10.key to alleviating this crisis, it is Turkey. Most refugees bring the
:03:11. > :03:14.people smugglers beanies trying to enter Europe through the Greek
:03:15. > :03:20.islands. The Turkish Prime Minister arrived at the summit sounding
:03:21. > :03:24.reasonable. The challenges will only be sold through our cooperation and
:03:25. > :03:28.Turkey is ready to work with the EU. But behind closed doors, he slapped
:03:29. > :03:33.the EE with additional political and funding demands, making it harder to
:03:34. > :03:37.reach agreement a night. -- the EU. The EU wants Turkey to crack down on
:03:38. > :03:41.people smugglers, preventing Dinize Wilsch migrants leaving for Europe
:03:42. > :03:46.in the first place. It wants Turkey to accept back wall migrants unable
:03:47. > :03:49.to claim asylum in the EU. In return, Turkey demands double the
:03:50. > :03:54.amount of aid originally promised by the EU to help with the migrant
:03:55. > :03:58.crisis. It wants the EU to take in an unspecified number of Syrian
:03:59. > :04:01.refugees directly from Turkey. It is insisting on its bid for EU
:04:02. > :04:06.membership being accelerated and to the EU to make it easy of a Turkish
:04:07. > :04:10.citizens to get visas. The EU is desperate for a Turkish deal. The
:04:11. > :04:14.migrant crisis is ripping Europe apart. The German Chancellor's
:04:15. > :04:18.political future hangs in the balance. But Turkey is not in a
:04:19. > :04:21.hurry. It is the gatekeeper to Europe and as such, can keep upping
:04:22. > :04:26.its demands. The shoe is very much on the other foot from the days when
:04:27. > :04:31.Turkey virtually begged a disdainful EU to join the club. Now the EU
:04:32. > :04:36.needs Turkey so much, it seems able to abandon even some of its
:04:37. > :04:42.cherished principles. Closing one eye at least the human rights abuses
:04:43. > :04:46.and the crushing of press freedoms. This was the Turkish governor to's
:04:47. > :04:51.response this weekend to protest against its takeover of Turkey's
:04:52. > :04:56.largest newspaper. With the EU overwhelmed, Nato is now wading into
:04:57. > :05:01.help, with a new mission aimed at stopping people smugglers. The
:05:02. > :05:04.British Royal Navy is taking part. It is important we help the
:05:05. > :05:08.continent of Europe to secure its external border. It is in our
:05:09. > :05:12.interests. That is why we are sending British ships to do just
:05:13. > :05:16.that. But that is far from enough to solve your's migrant crisis and EU
:05:17. > :05:20.leaders know it. There's been discussion tonight about breathing
:05:21. > :05:24.life into the unpopular plan for most countries to accept a quota of
:05:25. > :05:25.migrants stuck in Greece as well as taking in Syrian refugees from
:05:26. > :05:32.Turkey. The taking in Syrian refugees from
:05:33. > :05:38.this. But all too often in EU circles, promises are made to be
:05:39. > :05:41.broken. With farmers' fields and city squares like this filling
:05:42. > :05:45.everyday with more migrants, trusting neither Turkey nor its EU
:05:46. > :05:49.neighbours to help, Greece fears it is fast becoming the refugee camps
:05:50. > :05:51.are the continent. Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels.
:05:52. > :05:53.As we heard, Turkey's Prime Minister has offered to limit
:05:54. > :05:55.the flow of migrants passing through his country,
:05:56. > :05:58.many of them sailing from the area around the port of Izmir,
:05:59. > :06:00.heading for the nearest Greek islands.
:06:01. > :06:01.Almost 130,000 migrants have arrived in Greece
:06:02. > :06:09.In the first few days of this month, just over 5,000 people arrived,
:06:10. > :06:11.compared to 10,000 for all of March last year.
:06:12. > :06:15.Our international correspondent Ian Pannell has been speaking
:06:16. > :06:18.to some of those making their way from Syria to Turkey,
:06:19. > :06:26.There are some flashing images in his report.
:06:27. > :06:28.It's not easy being told you are not welcome.
:06:29. > :06:31.But that is the reality for those trapped here inside Syria,
:06:32. > :06:36.knowing their escape has just got harder and more dangerous.
:06:37. > :06:38.It is not much of a haven on the other side.
:06:39. > :06:41.Armed police have stepped up checks in Turkey.
:06:42. > :06:43.But still, refugees and migrants gather
:06:44. > :06:47.in port cities to plan their route to Greece.
:06:48. > :06:51.The challenge is how to persuade many of them to stay in Turkey.
:06:52. > :06:54.You are still going to do the crossing to Europe?
:06:55. > :06:57.This is where we met two friends, both
:06:58. > :07:05.Syrian, one planning to cross and the other staying behind.
:07:06. > :07:07.Fatima is leaving because she struggles to make ends
:07:08. > :07:13.And yet, you have decided you are going back
:07:14. > :07:22.I was not comfortable with the idea and I'm scared of the sea anyway.
:07:23. > :07:27.The only reason I thought about leaving was because I'm not
:07:28. > :07:37.So friends, families and neighbours are driven
:07:38. > :07:41.apart in the desperate search for sanctuary and a better life.
:07:42. > :07:45.But that promise carries a deadly risk.
:07:46. > :07:49.This is the route Fatima must take, across a small stretch of water
:07:50. > :07:54.And there, in the middle of the Aegean, a reminder
:07:55. > :07:58.More than 300 have drowned in these waters just
:07:59. > :08:07.Imagine the desperation that leads them here.
:08:08. > :08:11.This is a crisis driven by war and want.
:08:12. > :08:15.For many, the fear of staying behind outweighs the fear of the journey
:08:16. > :08:22.Rescue ships pluck families from the sea almost every day now.
:08:23. > :08:28.But others, like these Afghans, could be sent back.
:08:29. > :08:33.Many thought this crisis would ease this year.
:08:34. > :08:41.Because in Afghanistan, there is war.
:08:42. > :08:46.The life of the people are in danger.
:08:47. > :08:53.We have just come up to a rubbish dump on the island of Lesbos
:08:54. > :08:55.and you can see, they have been placing hundreds of thousands
:08:56. > :09:05.It looks like a passport photo, possibly of one of the refugees
:09:06. > :09:11.If we walk around here a little further, you get some sense
:09:12. > :09:14.of the scale of what is taking place here.
:09:15. > :09:19.There are sites like this dotted around the island of Lesbos,
:09:20. > :09:22.repeated on other islands and across Greece.
:09:23. > :09:25.Really, the challenge for Europe and Turkey's leaders is how to stop
:09:26. > :09:29.this mound growing, how to deter people
:09:30. > :09:39.from risking their lives to come here in search of a better future.
:09:40. > :09:42.Aid agencies offer the first glimpse of humanity many have known
:09:43. > :09:49.Greece has taken much of the strain, helping to house and feed
:09:50. > :09:56.the thousands of people landing here every week.
:09:57. > :09:59.Mohammed and his family arrived two days ago.
:10:00. > :10:02.They are from Deir ez-Zor, on the front line between Syrian
:10:03. > :10:09.Is there anything that would stop people coming across the borders?
:10:10. > :10:14.It is very, very hard to cross the border because even
:10:15. > :10:24.Even though you know it is dangerous and
:10:25. > :10:32.It is almost two years since the mass exodus began.
:10:33. > :10:34.Thousands have died, many without the dignity
:10:35. > :10:42.Politicians meet, borders close, but countless more
:10:43. > :10:45.are ready to risk it all to come this way.
:10:46. > :10:51.Let's go back to Brussels and our Europe editor,
:10:52. > :11:01.The leaders say they want more time. Do we read into that but they are
:11:02. > :11:06.giving serious consideration to the Turkish demands? -- that they are
:11:07. > :11:12.giving. It means they are serious about trying to get a deal done with
:11:13. > :11:15.Turkey. It means the EE worries about its credibility and the
:11:16. > :11:19.European Union and the future of Greece. But however desperate the EE
:11:20. > :11:23.you is to get the migrant crisis solved, it can't abandon all its
:11:24. > :11:26.principles. It wants to send all economic migrants back home and to
:11:27. > :11:29.look after refugees closer to theirs. But the UN has warned this
:11:30. > :11:35.could break international he-man Terry and law when some asylum cases
:11:36. > :11:40.should actually be heard here. These are some other is with the Turkey
:11:41. > :11:43.deal. And EU countries are still discussing the fraught issue of
:11:44. > :11:47.taking in quotas of refugees and asylum seekers already in Europe.
:11:48. > :11:52.The UK is not part of that plan but a number of countries who are loudly
:11:53. > :11:56.object to it. And then there's the issue of border closures along what
:11:57. > :12:01.is known as the migrant route from Greece to Europe's Richard North.
:12:02. > :12:04.Germany, for one, wants all of those restrictions lifted now but tempers
:12:05. > :12:05.frayed and there are still supposed to be a long night of discussions
:12:06. > :12:12.ahead. -- Richard North. One of the biggest names in sport,
:12:13. > :12:15.the former tennis world No 1, Maria Sharapova has revealed tonight
:12:16. > :12:18.that she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open
:12:19. > :12:20.earlier this year. The Russian star, a five-times
:12:21. > :12:21.Grand Slam champion, tested positive for meldonium,
:12:22. > :12:24.a substance she said she'd been taking for ten years
:12:25. > :12:29.for health issues. Our sports editor,
:12:30. > :12:40.Dan Roan has the latest. She is one of the most famous and
:12:41. > :12:44.richest sports stars in the world but tonight, Maria Sharapova faces
:12:45. > :12:48.an uncertain future after an admission that has sent shock waves
:12:49. > :12:52.through tennis. When the Russian called a press conference today, the
:12:53. > :12:58.talk was of retirement. Instead, an announcement that no one saw coming.
:12:59. > :13:05.A few days ago, I received a letter from the IDF that I had failed a
:13:06. > :13:11.drugs test at the Australian open. -- ITF. I did fail the test and I
:13:12. > :13:14.take full responsibility for it. Sharapova tested positive for
:13:15. > :13:18.meldonium, medicine she's a jihad been prescribed for years on health
:13:19. > :13:22.grounds but which has been found to increase athletic performance and
:13:23. > :13:27.which has recently been added to the world anti-doping agency's list of
:13:28. > :13:32.banned substances. I had legally taking the medicine for the past ten
:13:33. > :13:41.years. But on the 1st of January, the rules had changed. Meldonium
:13:42. > :13:46.became a prohibited substance. I did not know that. Sharapova lit up the
:13:47. > :13:50.tennis world when in 2004, she became the third youngest woman to
:13:51. > :13:54.win Wimbledon. Her power and conviction quickly turned her into
:13:55. > :13:59.the Golden girl of the game. But her achievements on the court were more
:14:00. > :14:03.than matched by her popularity off it. Sharapova became one of the most
:14:04. > :14:08.marketable female faces in sport. Her image earned her countless
:14:09. > :14:11.lucrative endorsements. As she grew older, a spate of injuries began to
:14:12. > :14:17.take their toll but now it is suspension which will prevent her
:14:18. > :14:23.from playing. I made a huge mistake. I have let my fans down. I have let
:14:24. > :14:29.the sports down, that I have been playing since the age of four, that
:14:30. > :14:40.I love so deeply. I know that with this, I face consequences. I don't
:14:41. > :14:44.want to end my career this way. I really hope that I will be given
:14:45. > :14:48.another chance. This could be the end of one of the most accessible
:14:49. > :14:53.and lucrative careers that tennis is ever seen and not with Sharapova's
:14:54. > :14:57.suspension beginning next week. Whatever the circumstances of her
:14:58. > :15:01.shock admission, leaving hers on a growing list of sports with doping
:15:02. > :15:05.questions to answer. Dan Roan, BBC News.
:15:06. > :15:07.The French energy giant, EDF has confirmed that its finance
:15:08. > :15:10.Thomas Piquemal was understood to have been concerned
:15:11. > :15:12.about the company's involvement in the ?18 billion nuclear power
:15:13. > :15:14.project at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
:15:15. > :15:16.The company's shares fell sharply on the news.
:15:17. > :15:17.The French and British governments have said they remain committed
:15:18. > :15:20.to the project - the most expensive of its kind in the world -
:15:21. > :15:22.which is also reliant on Chinese funding.
:15:23. > :15:27.Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, has more details.
:15:28. > :15:30.Lined up at Hinkley Point, some of the largest earth-moving
:15:31. > :15:35.They have been idle for months awaiting to EDF's decision
:15:36. > :15:41.Britain's first nuclear power plant in a generation will provide 7%
:15:42. > :15:47.But it will be one of the most expensive man-made structures
:15:48. > :15:53.in the world, which is why this man, Thomas Piquemal, has
:15:54. > :15:59.As chief finance officer at the huge French firm,
:16:00. > :16:02.he believed that pressing ahead with the project now would put
:16:03. > :16:09.Make no mistake, Hinkley Point will be a hugely expensive power plant.
:16:10. > :16:14.Its projected cost is ?18 billion, but the final sum could
:16:15. > :16:19.EDF's Chinese partner, China General Nuclear,
:16:20. > :16:23.will pay around a third of that, but EDF must find the rest.
:16:24. > :16:26.So the British Government is guaranteeing the French energy
:16:27. > :16:31.giant this, more than ?90 per megawatt hour.
:16:32. > :16:36.Now that's the price to be paid for all the electricity that
:16:37. > :16:40.Hinkley Point will generate and it's more than double the price today.
:16:41. > :16:46.Its new plants, here at Flamanville in France, and in Finland,
:16:47. > :16:51.Its revenues have been hit by falling power prices and,
:16:52. > :16:55.with mounting costs ahead, French unions, which sit on EDF's
:16:56. > :16:59.board, believe Hinkley Point should be delayed.
:17:00. > :17:04.I think we have to wait before we go ahead with Hinkley Point
:17:05. > :17:11.because we have four reactor constrictions and zero-hour working.
:17:12. > :17:15.At a summit last week, David Cameron and the French President,
:17:16. > :17:18.Francois Hollande, called Hinkley Point a pillar
:17:19. > :17:23.With one less senior executive to oppose it,
:17:24. > :17:26.a final decision could come within weeks.
:17:27. > :17:33.The facts are that the reactor is not a good reactor,
:17:34. > :17:40.EDF are in a powerless financial state, so it looks as if we need
:17:41. > :17:47.If Hinkley Point doesn't happen, the lights won't go out, we can
:17:48. > :17:53.But that would blow a hole in our climate change targets.
:17:54. > :17:56.EDF says its decision will become clear in the near future.
:17:57. > :18:03.A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of killing a fellow pupil
:18:04. > :18:06.in a fight at their school in Aberdeen last October.
:18:07. > :18:08.He was accused of murder, but the jury at the High Court
:18:09. > :18:11.in Aberdeen convicted him of the lesser charge
:18:12. > :18:15.The boy who died - Bailey Gwynne - who was also 16 -
:18:16. > :18:22.Our correspondent, Kevin Keane, reports.
:18:23. > :18:25.It is one of Scotland's best-performing state schools,
:18:26. > :18:28.producing high-achieving students from an Olympic medallist
:18:29. > :18:35.But at lunchtime on October 28th last year, Cults Academy became
:18:36. > :18:42.Bailey Gwynne was stabbed in the heart and died within minutes.
:18:43. > :18:46.He was a quiet boy, the last person many would expect to be in a fight.
:18:47. > :18:51.It was a disagreement which started over a packet of biscuits.
:18:52. > :18:54.Outside court, Aberdeen's education director said it had been
:18:55. > :18:59.There are no words that can sum this up for us.
:19:00. > :19:02.The emotional impact of what happened last year,
:19:03. > :19:07.and it's still hard to make sense of Bailey's death.
:19:08. > :19:09.The boy who has been convicted is a 16-year-old fellow pupil
:19:10. > :19:13.who had a history of carrying knives and knuckle-dusters.
:19:14. > :19:16.He had been warned by the school about the dangers of such weapons,
:19:17. > :19:22.Several years earlier, he had attacked another child
:19:23. > :19:27.The victim ended up in hospital with concussion.
:19:28. > :19:29.There are calls for this to form part of a review,
:19:30. > :19:33.announced today into last year's stabbing.
:19:34. > :19:37.I want to see a clean and full investigation of that incident,
:19:38. > :19:41.so that we can be reassured that there is nothing we could have
:19:42. > :19:46.done then that would have prevented what has happened now.
:19:47. > :19:51.There was an outpouring of grief after the stabbing as friends
:19:52. > :19:55.gathered, struggling to comprehend what had happened.
:19:56. > :19:59.The incident itself was over in less than 30 seconds.
:20:00. > :20:03.A teacher saw Bailey and his attacker exchanging punches.
:20:04. > :20:09.He didn't seem badly hurt at first, but quickly lost consciousness
:20:10. > :20:17.Bailey Gwynne's family have maintained a dignified silence
:20:18. > :20:23.The 16-year-old pupil will return to court next month to be sentenced.
:20:24. > :20:30.The five-year conflict in Syria has claimed the lives of an estimated
:20:31. > :20:33.250,000 people, and driven millions of people
:20:34. > :20:37.It has also resulted in the persecution of religious
:20:38. > :20:39.minorities - including the Yazidi sect - by so called Islamic State
:20:40. > :20:46.Our correspondent, Caroline Hawley, has been speaking to one young
:20:47. > :20:49.Yazidi woman - who was abducted and then trafficked by IS -
:20:50. > :21:03.Marooned on a mountain, members of Iraq's Yazidi minority who fled the
:21:04. > :21:07.advance of IS. This is the story of one girl, 15 at the time, who wasn't
:21:08. > :21:09.able to escape. We are not identifying her because she has
:21:10. > :21:17.family members still held captive. TRANSLATION: They came with their
:21:18. > :21:21.fighters and they beat us and put us against a wall. And they each chose
:21:22. > :21:27.one of us. I was there with my sister and cousin. I was selected by
:21:28. > :21:32.a 25-year-old Iraqi man. What was he like, this man?
:21:33. > :21:38.TRANSLATION: He was like a monster. A monster with no humanity. He raped
:21:39. > :21:42.me there and then again at his family's house where I was beaten.
:21:43. > :21:47.After a month and a half, he went to fight in Syria and was killed there.
:21:48. > :21:54.She then managed to escape, but IS was in full control of Mosul and she
:21:55. > :21:58.was soon recaptured and given to the brother of an IS commander.
:21:59. > :22:03.TRANSLATION: I refused to go. He had already raped me. He told me he
:22:04. > :22:07.bought me from the family of the dead fighter for $800 and I had no
:22:08. > :22:11.choice. I was screaming and crying. A few months later, she realised she
:22:12. > :22:16.was pregnant. TRANSLATION: I tried so many times
:22:17. > :22:24.to get rid of the child inside me. By taking pills and care rig heavy
:22:25. > :22:28.weights. I felt I had IS in my belly and the baby would turn out like
:22:29. > :22:32.them, a criminal and a monster. Her son was born seven months ago in a
:22:33. > :22:35.Mosul hospital. TRANSLATION: The IS man said he
:22:36. > :22:43.wanted to marry me because I had given him his only son. I refused. I
:22:44. > :22:47.love the baby, but I wanted to get back to my family before he got used
:22:48. > :22:53.to me and I got used to him. But I still think of him. He is still part
:22:54. > :22:56.of me no matter what. This is where she lives now, a relative of the man
:22:57. > :23:01.who bought her helped her escape when her son was three-months-old on
:23:02. > :23:04.condition she left the baby behind. She now wants to go back to school
:23:05. > :23:09.and one day she hopes to marry and have a family. First, though, she
:23:10. > :23:16.wants her two sisters still held by IS back. Caroline Hawley, BBC News.
:23:17. > :23:19.Britain's most senior anti-terrorism officer has warned that the UK
:23:20. > :23:24.is facing the threat of "enormous and spectacular attacks"
:23:25. > :23:28.The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner,
:23:29. > :23:34.Mark Rowley, said IS wanted to attack "Western lifestyles".
:23:35. > :23:36.A US airstrike in Somalia has killed more than 150 fighters
:23:37. > :23:41.The attack on a training camp involved fighter jets
:23:42. > :23:47.Pentagon officials say intelligence indicated that the militants had
:23:48. > :23:54.The former director of the British Chambers of Commerce,
:23:55. > :23:57.John Longworth has denied he was forced to resign after saying
:23:58. > :24:04.Downing Street has denied putting pressure on his employers
:24:05. > :24:07.Mr Longworth insists he stood down because he wanted greater freedom
:24:08. > :24:12.to speak out, as our business editor, Simon Jack, reports.
:24:13. > :24:15.It's rare for the British Chambers of Commerce annual meeting to keep
:24:16. > :24:20.But last Thursday, its Director-General chose to break
:24:21. > :24:24.ranks with the organisation's neutral stance on EU membership,
:24:25. > :24:27.by telling the members what he really thought.
:24:28. > :24:30.We have the capacity and capability to create a bright,
:24:31. > :24:35.if not brighter, economic future outside of the EU...
:24:36. > :24:38.Crucially, he had the element of surprise on his side
:24:39. > :24:42.with even his most senior colleagues unaware of what was about to happen.
:24:43. > :24:44.We had no prior knowledge of what John was going to say.
:24:45. > :24:50.I think that everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion,
:24:51. > :24:53.but when you are the leader of a non-partisan organisation,
:24:54. > :24:59.then it is important to maintain that neutrality.
:25:00. > :25:01.At his home in Yorkshire, new pursuits may now beckon,
:25:02. > :25:06.so why did he choose to lob in these surprise comments?
:25:07. > :25:08.I think it was important that I was able to get the message out
:25:09. > :25:14.and actually that may not have been the case had all of the things
:25:15. > :25:22.My personal views I decided to add in later on.
:25:23. > :25:25.It is fair to say that on the day of the speech, both in media outlets
:25:26. > :25:27.before and afterwards, you stirred up a bit of a hornet's
:25:28. > :25:32.nest, communication from Number Ten must have been hostile?
:25:33. > :25:36.It is certainly true in the normal run of politics that,
:25:37. > :25:41.over the years, I have had communications from Number Ten
:25:42. > :25:43.and other Government departments, and some of those communications
:25:44. > :25:46.have been pretty hostile and pretty robust.
:25:47. > :25:49.But I am the sort of person who doesn't take any notice of those
:25:50. > :25:52.things and has always told things, shall we say,
:25:53. > :26:00.But that is not OK, according to BCC members like Phil Smith.
:26:01. > :26:05.I think he's paid by us, his members, to represent us,
:26:06. > :26:08.the Chambers of Commerce in the UK, and he clearly didn't.
:26:09. > :26:11.We at BCC have taken a view about being neutral
:26:12. > :26:15.He clearly had a personal view, which I admire him for,
:26:16. > :26:20.John Longworth is still keen to represent the view
:26:21. > :26:22.of Euro-sceptic business, but it will have to be
:26:23. > :26:27.from an organisation that appreciates his efforts.
:26:28. > :26:32.The Bank of England is to increase protection for banks -
:26:33. > :26:35.and other financial institutions - by offering extra funding
:26:36. > :26:38.in the weeks before and after the EU Referendum in June.
:26:39. > :26:41.The announcement comes on the eve of an appearance
:26:42. > :26:44.by the Bank's Governor, Mark Carney, before a parliamentary committee.
:26:45. > :26:49.I'm joined by our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.
:26:50. > :26:54.What do we understand is going to happen? What is this about? It
:26:55. > :26:58.depends how you look at this, whether anything you talk, when it
:26:59. > :27:02.comes to the European Union and the possibility of Britain remaining in
:27:03. > :27:07.or leaving is highly toxic and is difficult politically. The Bank's
:27:08. > :27:11.central remit is financial stability. And they have said this
:27:12. > :27:15.is sensible contingency planning in the event that Britain votes to
:27:16. > :27:20.leave the European Union, many economists then argue that there
:27:21. > :27:23.would be market volatility, that the banks could struggle to maintain
:27:24. > :27:28.funding and the Bank of England has said, we will stand behind those
:27:29. > :27:32.banks. Critics of the Bank say this is part of Project Fear, making
:27:33. > :27:36.people fearful that if we leave there would be economic calamity.
:27:37. > :27:39.Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, appears before the
:27:40. > :27:44.Treasury Select Committee tomorrow. He will be treading a fine line. He
:27:45. > :27:47.will be asked about the economic consequences of whether if Britain
:27:48. > :27:51.were to leave the European Union, I'm sure he will try and tread very
:27:52. > :27:55.carefully there, and say on the one hand, on the other hand. He will be
:27:56. > :27:59.asked about David Cameron's deal that he has put before the British
:28:00. > :28:04.public on Europe and whether that does protect the City. On that, he
:28:05. > :28:10.will be more robust saying that is part of the Bank's remit. He will
:28:11. > :28:13.want to avoid criticism that he is becoming political but in such a
:28:14. > :28:15.political debate that will prove very difficult. Kamal Ahmed, thank
:28:16. > :28:18.you very much. The Swedish car maker Volvo
:28:19. > :28:19.is about to start recruiting 100 people to commute to work next
:28:20. > :28:22.year in driverless cars. The company says it intends asking
:28:23. > :28:25.them to do other things while at the wheel,
:28:26. > :28:26.such as reading a book, In the first of a series of reports
:28:27. > :28:30.on the likely impact of this new technology, our transport
:28:31. > :28:32.correspondent, Richard Westcott, has been given special
:28:33. > :28:38.access to try it out. There is some flash photography
:28:39. > :28:41.coming up. Home of Volvo, a place where drivers
:28:42. > :28:47.need to beware of the elks. On a test track, the company
:28:48. > :28:52.is showing me its unique experiment. And they will need members
:28:53. > :28:56.of the public to help. They're going to ask 100 ordinary
:28:57. > :28:59.people to commute in a car, And then they're going to tell those
:29:00. > :29:06.people they are actually free to do So perhaps they'll
:29:07. > :29:11.want to send an e-mail. From the track, to
:29:12. > :29:14.the evening commute. By next year Gothenburg's 100
:29:15. > :29:17.volunteers will be driverless That is roads with no
:29:18. > :29:22.cyclists or pedestrians, and bearing in mind
:29:23. > :29:25.it is Sweden, no snow. The computer needs to
:29:26. > :29:29.see the white lines. The man in charge of the technology
:29:30. > :29:34.told me what would happen If something unexpected happens,
:29:35. > :29:39.the car needs to be able We cannot count on a driver
:29:40. > :29:42.to immediately take over. So the car will be able to detect it
:29:43. > :29:45.and it will slow down in order It is not going to suddenly shove
:29:46. > :29:50.control back to the driver? No, the driver may be
:29:51. > :29:53.sitting relaxing, reading, we cannot count on him
:29:54. > :29:56.or her to intervene immediately, Things look a bit
:29:57. > :30:01.different in the UK. In Milton Keynes, public-transport
:30:02. > :30:06.pods will eventually use the pavements to shuttle people
:30:07. > :30:11.between the shops and the station. Would you happily share
:30:12. > :30:14.a pavement with one of those, The choices, it has to decide,
:30:15. > :30:21.it has to decide in an instant whether it has got to stop or it has
:30:22. > :30:24.got to carry on going for the safety of who's in it or who
:30:25. > :30:27.is on the outside. You don't worry about
:30:28. > :30:28.it bumping into you? No, you can easily
:30:29. > :30:34.move out of the way. They have just had their first
:30:35. > :30:38.crash, where the computer Experts describe a future straight
:30:39. > :30:46.out of a science-fiction novel. You're going to see this
:30:47. > :30:48.technology in forklift trucks, And that, for me, is
:30:49. > :30:55.extremely interesting. That this technology is not
:30:56. > :30:57.just about transport, Back on the test track,
:30:58. > :31:06.time to enjoy a drama on the telly. It could still take a decade or even
:31:07. > :31:08.two, but eventually children will marvel at the idea that
:31:09. > :31:12.people actually used Turkey, apparently now
:31:13. > :31:26.the EU's best friend. We are trying to assess
:31:27. > :31:29.whether today's talks really mark a turning point in
:31:30. > :31:32.the migrant crisis. Join me now on BBC Two,
:31:33. > :31:38.11pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One it's time
:31:39. > :31:42.for the news where you are.