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No agreement so far among European leaders on tackling | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
In the past few days, thousands more have crossed the sea | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
from Turkey to Greece, leading to urgent talks | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
But Turkey's Prime Minister makes some controversial demands, | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
including speeding up his country's application to join the EU. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
There are many challenges in front of us. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The only way to respond to these challenges is solidarity. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
We'll have the latest from the summit in Brussels, | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
where leaders say they need more time. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
One of the biggest names in sport, the tennis star Maria Sharapova, | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
I have to take full responsibility of it. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
It is my body and it is what I put into my body. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
I can't blame anyone for it but myself. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
A teenager is found guilty of killing this 16-year-old boy, | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
who was stabbed at his school in Aberdeen. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
The British and French governments restate their commitment | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
to a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point, | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And a trip to Sweden, to see what a driverless car | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
They're going to ask 100 or nip Merry people to commute in an | :01:17. | :01:30. | |
autonomous car. And coming up in | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Sportsday on BBC News. The Olympic cycling champion, | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Victoria Pendleton gets the green light to race at the | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Cheltenham Festival, only a year after her | :01:38. | :01:38. | |
first riding lesson. The latest attempt to solve | :01:39. | :01:58. | |
Europe's biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
has run into difficulties. EU leaders at a summit | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
in Brussels said they needed more time | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
to consider controversial new proposals from the | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Turkish Prime Minister. He's offered to help reduce | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
the number of migrants sailing from his country | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
to Greece, but in return, he wants a doubling of aid money | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
and a faster process for Turkey The Turkish government has tonight | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
denied using the refugee crisis Our Europe editor Katya | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Adler has the latest. Today is about stopping this. And | :02:28. | :02:47. | |
this. And this. Or at least trying to, at yet another emergency | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
migration summit here in Brussels. The aim of the meeting, neatly | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
summed up by the Belgian Prime Minister. TRANSLATION: We must stop | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
irregular migration, pure and simple, if any one country holds the | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
key to alleviating this crisis, it is Turkey. Most refugees bring the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
people smugglers beanies trying to enter Europe through the Greek | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
islands. The Turkish Prime Minister arrived at the summit sounding | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
reasonable. The challenges will only be sold through our cooperation and | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Turkey is ready to work with the EU. But behind closed doors, he slapped | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
the EE with additional political and funding demands, making it harder to | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
reach agreement a night. -- the EU. The EU wants Turkey to crack down on | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
people smugglers, preventing Dinize Wilsch migrants leaving for Europe | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
in the first place. It wants Turkey to accept back wall migrants unable | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
to claim asylum in the EU. In return, Turkey demands double the | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
amount of aid originally promised by the EU to help with the migrant | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
crisis. It wants the EU to take in an unspecified number of Syrian | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
refugees directly from Turkey. It is insisting on its bid for EU | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
membership being accelerated and to the EU to make it easy of a Turkish | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
citizens to get visas. The EU is desperate for a Turkish deal. The | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
migrant crisis is ripping Europe apart. The German Chancellor's | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
political future hangs in the balance. But Turkey is not in a | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
hurry. It is the gatekeeper to Europe and as such, can keep upping | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
its demands. The shoe is very much on the other foot from the days when | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Turkey virtually begged a disdainful EU to join the club. Now the EU | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
needs Turkey so much, it seems able to abandon even some of its | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
cherished principles. Closing one eye at least the human rights abuses | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
and the crushing of press freedoms. This was the Turkish governor to's | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
response this weekend to protest against its takeover of Turkey's | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
largest newspaper. With the EU overwhelmed, Nato is now wading into | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
help, with a new mission aimed at stopping people smugglers. The | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
British Royal Navy is taking part. It is important we help the | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
continent of Europe to secure its external border. It is in our | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
interests. That is why we are sending British ships to do just | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
that. But that is far from enough to solve your's migrant crisis and EU | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
leaders know it. There's been discussion tonight about breathing | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
life into the unpopular plan for most countries to accept a quota of | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
migrants stuck in Greece as well as taking in Syrian refugees from | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
Turkey. The taking in Syrian refugees from | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
this. But all too often in EU circles, promises are made to be | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
broken. With farmers' fields and city squares like this filling | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
everyday with more migrants, trusting neither Turkey nor its EU | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
neighbours to help, Greece fears it is fast becoming the refugee camps | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
are the continent. Katya Adler, BBC News, Brussels. | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
As we heard, Turkey's Prime Minister has offered to limit | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
the flow of migrants passing through his country, | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
many of them sailing from the area around the port of Izmir, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
heading for the nearest Greek islands. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Almost 130,000 migrants have arrived in Greece | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
In the first few days of this month, just over 5,000 people arrived, | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
compared to 10,000 for all of March last year. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
Our international correspondent Ian Pannell has been speaking | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
to some of those making their way from Syria to Turkey, | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
There are some flashing images in his report. | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
It's not easy being told you are not welcome. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
But that is the reality for those trapped here inside Syria, | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
knowing their escape has just got harder and more dangerous. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
It is not much of a haven on the other side. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
Armed police have stepped up checks in Turkey. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
But still, refugees and migrants gather | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
in port cities to plan their route to Greece. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
The challenge is how to persuade many of them to stay in Turkey. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
You are still going to do the crossing to Europe? | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
This is where we met two friends, both | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Syrian, one planning to cross and the other staying behind. | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
Fatima is leaving because she struggles to make ends | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
And yet, you have decided you are going back | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
I was not comfortable with the idea and I'm scared of the sea anyway. | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
The only reason I thought about leaving was because I'm not | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
So friends, families and neighbours are driven | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
apart in the desperate search for sanctuary and a better life. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
But that promise carries a deadly risk. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
This is the route Fatima must take, across a small stretch of water | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
And there, in the middle of the Aegean, a reminder | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
More than 300 have drowned in these waters just | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Imagine the desperation that leads them here. | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
This is a crisis driven by war and want. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
For many, the fear of staying behind outweighs the fear of the journey | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Rescue ships pluck families from the sea almost every day now. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
But others, like these Afghans, could be sent back. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Many thought this crisis would ease this year. | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Because in Afghanistan, there is war. | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
The life of the people are in danger. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
We have just come up to a rubbish dump on the island of Lesbos | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
and you can see, they have been placing hundreds of thousands | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
It looks like a passport photo, possibly of one of the refugees | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
If we walk around here a little further, you get some sense | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
of the scale of what is taking place here. | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
There are sites like this dotted around the island of Lesbos, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
repeated on other islands and across Greece. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Really, the challenge for Europe and Turkey's leaders is how to stop | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
this mound growing, how to deter people | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
from risking their lives to come here in search of a better future. | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
Aid agencies offer the first glimpse of humanity many have known | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
Greece has taken much of the strain, helping to house and feed | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
the thousands of people landing here every week. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
Mohammed and his family arrived two days ago. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
They are from Deir ez-Zor, on the front line between Syrian | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Is there anything that would stop people coming across the borders? | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
It is very, very hard to cross the border because even | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Even though you know it is dangerous and | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
It is almost two years since the mass exodus began. | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
Thousands have died, many without the dignity | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
Politicians meet, borders close, but countless more | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
are ready to risk it all to come this way. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Let's go back to Brussels and our Europe editor, | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
The leaders say they want more time. Do we read into that but they are | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
giving serious consideration to the Turkish demands? -- that they are | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
giving. It means they are serious about trying to get a deal done with | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Turkey. It means the EE worries about its credibility and the | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
European Union and the future of Greece. But however desperate the EE | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
you is to get the migrant crisis solved, it can't abandon all its | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
principles. It wants to send all economic migrants back home and to | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
look after refugees closer to theirs. But the UN has warned this | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
could break international he-man Terry and law when some asylum cases | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
should actually be heard here. These are some other is with the Turkey | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
deal. And EU countries are still discussing the fraught issue of | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
taking in quotas of refugees and asylum seekers already in Europe. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
The UK is not part of that plan but a number of countries who are loudly | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
object to it. And then there's the issue of border closures along what | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
is known as the migrant route from Greece to Europe's Richard North. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Germany, for one, wants all of those restrictions lifted now but tempers | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
frayed and there are still supposed to be a long night of discussions | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
ahead. -- Richard North. One of the biggest names in sport, | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
the former tennis world No 1, Maria Sharapova has revealed tonight | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
that she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
earlier this year. The Russian star, a five-times | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
Grand Slam champion, tested positive for meldonium, | :12:21. | :12:21. | |
a substance she said she'd been taking for ten years | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
for health issues. Our sports editor, | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Dan Roan has the latest. She is one of the most famous and | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
richest sports stars in the world but tonight, Maria Sharapova faces | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
an uncertain future after an admission that has sent shock waves | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
through tennis. When the Russian called a press conference today, the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
talk was of retirement. Instead, an announcement that no one saw coming. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
A few days ago, I received a letter from the IDF that I had failed a | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
drugs test at the Australian open. -- ITF. I did fail the test and I | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
take full responsibility for it. Sharapova tested positive for | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
meldonium, medicine she's a jihad been prescribed for years on health | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
grounds but which has been found to increase athletic performance and | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
which has recently been added to the world anti-doping agency's list of | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
banned substances. I had legally taking the medicine for the past ten | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
years. But on the 1st of January, the rules had changed. Meldonium | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
became a prohibited substance. I did not know that. Sharapova lit up the | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
tennis world when in 2004, she became the third youngest woman to | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
win Wimbledon. Her power and conviction quickly turned her into | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
the Golden girl of the game. But her achievements on the court were more | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
than matched by her popularity off it. Sharapova became one of the most | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
marketable female faces in sport. Her image earned her countless | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
lucrative endorsements. As she grew older, a spate of injuries began to | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
take their toll but now it is suspension which will prevent her | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
from playing. I made a huge mistake. I have let my fans down. I have let | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
the sports down, that I have been playing since the age of four, that | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
I love so deeply. I know that with this, I face consequences. I don't | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
want to end my career this way. I really hope that I will be given | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
another chance. This could be the end of one of the most accessible | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
and lucrative careers that tennis is ever seen and not with Sharapova's | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
suspension beginning next week. Whatever the circumstances of her | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
shock admission, leaving hers on a growing list of sports with doping | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
questions to answer. Dan Roan, BBC News. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
The French energy giant, EDF has confirmed that its finance | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
Thomas Piquemal was understood to have been concerned | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
about the company's involvement in the ?18 billion nuclear power | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
project at Hinkley Point in Somerset. | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
The company's shares fell sharply on the news. | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
The French and British governments have said they remain committed | :15:17. | :15:17. | |
to the project - the most expensive of its kind in the world - | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
which is also reliant on Chinese funding. | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, has more details. | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Lined up at Hinkley Point, some of the largest earth-moving | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
They have been idle for months awaiting to EDF's decision | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Britain's first nuclear power plant in a generation will provide 7% | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
But it will be one of the most expensive man-made structures | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
in the world, which is why this man, Thomas Piquemal, has | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
As chief finance officer at the huge French firm, | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
he believed that pressing ahead with the project now would put | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Make no mistake, Hinkley Point will be a hugely expensive power plant. | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
Its projected cost is ?18 billion, but the final sum could | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
EDF's Chinese partner, China General Nuclear, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
will pay around a third of that, but EDF must find the rest. | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
So the British Government is guaranteeing the French energy | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
giant this, more than ?90 per megawatt hour. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Now that's the price to be paid for all the electricity that | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Hinkley Point will generate and it's more than double the price today. | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Its new plants, here at Flamanville in France, and in Finland, | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Its revenues have been hit by falling power prices and, | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
with mounting costs ahead, French unions, which sit on EDF's | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
board, believe Hinkley Point should be delayed. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
I think we have to wait before we go ahead with Hinkley Point | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
because we have four reactor constrictions and zero-hour working. | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
At a summit last week, David Cameron and the French President, | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Francois Hollande, called Hinkley Point a pillar | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
With one less senior executive to oppose it, | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
a final decision could come within weeks. | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
The facts are that the reactor is not a good reactor, | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
EDF are in a powerless financial state, so it looks as if we need | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
If Hinkley Point doesn't happen, the lights won't go out, we can | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
But that would blow a hole in our climate change targets. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
EDF says its decision will become clear in the near future. | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
A 16-year-old boy has been found guilty of killing a fellow pupil | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
in a fight at their school in Aberdeen last October. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
He was accused of murder, but the jury at the High Court | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
in Aberdeen convicted him of the lesser charge | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
The boy who died - Bailey Gwynne - who was also 16 - | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Our correspondent, Kevin Keane, reports. | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
It is one of Scotland's best-performing state schools, | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
producing high-achieving students from an Olympic medallist | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
But at lunchtime on October 28th last year, Cults Academy became | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
Bailey Gwynne was stabbed in the heart and died within minutes. | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
He was a quiet boy, the last person many would expect to be in a fight. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
It was a disagreement which started over a packet of biscuits. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Outside court, Aberdeen's education director said it had been | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
There are no words that can sum this up for us. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
The emotional impact of what happened last year, | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
and it's still hard to make sense of Bailey's death. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
The boy who has been convicted is a 16-year-old fellow pupil | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
who had a history of carrying knives and knuckle-dusters. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
He had been warned by the school about the dangers of such weapons, | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
Several years earlier, he had attacked another child | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
The victim ended up in hospital with concussion. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
There are calls for this to form part of a review, | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
announced today into last year's stabbing. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
I want to see a clean and full investigation of that incident, | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
so that we can be reassured that there is nothing we could have | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
done then that would have prevented what has happened now. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
There was an outpouring of grief after the stabbing as friends | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
gathered, struggling to comprehend what had happened. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
The incident itself was over in less than 30 seconds. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
A teacher saw Bailey and his attacker exchanging punches. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
He didn't seem badly hurt at first, but quickly lost consciousness | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
Bailey Gwynne's family have maintained a dignified silence | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
The 16-year-old pupil will return to court next month to be sentenced. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
The five-year conflict in Syria has claimed the lives of an estimated | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
250,000 people, and driven millions of people | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
It has also resulted in the persecution of religious | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
minorities - including the Yazidi sect - by so called Islamic State | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
Our correspondent, Caroline Hawley, has been speaking to one young | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
Yazidi woman - who was abducted and then trafficked by IS - | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Marooned on a mountain, members of Iraq's Yazidi minority who fled the | :20:50. | :21:03. | |
advance of IS. This is the story of one girl, 15 at the time, who wasn't | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
able to escape. We are not identifying her because she has | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
family members still held captive. TRANSLATION: They came with their | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
fighters and they beat us and put us against a wall. And they each chose | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
one of us. I was there with my sister and cousin. I was selected by | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
a 25-year-old Iraqi man. What was he like, this man? | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
TRANSLATION: He was like a monster. A monster with no humanity. He raped | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
me there and then again at his family's house where I was beaten. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
After a month and a half, he went to fight in Syria and was killed there. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
She then managed to escape, but IS was in full control of Mosul and she | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
was soon recaptured and given to the brother of an IS commander. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
TRANSLATION: I refused to go. He had already raped me. He told me he | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
bought me from the family of the dead fighter for $800 and I had no | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
choice. I was screaming and crying. A few months later, she realised she | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
was pregnant. TRANSLATION: I tried so many times | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
to get rid of the child inside me. By taking pills and care rig heavy | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
weights. I felt I had IS in my belly and the baby would turn out like | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
them, a criminal and a monster. Her son was born seven months ago in a | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Mosul hospital. TRANSLATION: The IS man said he | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
wanted to marry me because I had given him his only son. I refused. I | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
love the baby, but I wanted to get back to my family before he got used | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
to me and I got used to him. But I still think of him. He is still part | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
of me no matter what. This is where she lives now, a relative of the man | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
who bought her helped her escape when her son was three-months-old on | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
condition she left the baby behind. She now wants to go back to school | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
and one day she hopes to marry and have a family. First, though, she | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
wants her two sisters still held by IS back. Caroline Hawley, BBC News. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
Britain's most senior anti-terrorism officer has warned that the UK | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
is facing the threat of "enormous and spectacular attacks" | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Mark Rowley, said IS wanted to attack "Western lifestyles". | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
A US airstrike in Somalia has killed more than 150 fighters | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
The attack on a training camp involved fighter jets | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Pentagon officials say intelligence indicated that the militants had | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
The former director of the British Chambers of Commerce, | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
John Longworth has denied he was forced to resign after saying | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Downing Street has denied putting pressure on his employers | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
Mr Longworth insists he stood down because he wanted greater freedom | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
to speak out, as our business editor, Simon Jack, reports. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
It's rare for the British Chambers of Commerce annual meeting to keep | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
But last Thursday, its Director-General chose to break | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
ranks with the organisation's neutral stance on EU membership, | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
by telling the members what he really thought. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
We have the capacity and capability to create a bright, | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
if not brighter, economic future outside of the EU... | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Crucially, he had the element of surprise on his side | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
with even his most senior colleagues unaware of what was about to happen. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
We had no prior knowledge of what John was going to say. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
I think that everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion, | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
but when you are the leader of a non-partisan organisation, | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
then it is important to maintain that neutrality. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
At his home in Yorkshire, new pursuits may now beckon, | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
so why did he choose to lob in these surprise comments? | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
I think it was important that I was able to get the message out | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
and actually that may not have been the case had all of the things | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
My personal views I decided to add in later on. | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
It is fair to say that on the day of the speech, both in media outlets | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
before and afterwards, you stirred up a bit of a hornet's | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
nest, communication from Number Ten must have been hostile? | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
It is certainly true in the normal run of politics that, | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
over the years, I have had communications from Number Ten | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
and other Government departments, and some of those communications | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
have been pretty hostile and pretty robust. | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
But I am the sort of person who doesn't take any notice of those | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
things and has always told things, shall we say, | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
But that is not OK, according to BCC members like Phil Smith. | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
I think he's paid by us, his members, to represent us, | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
the Chambers of Commerce in the UK, and he clearly didn't. | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
We at BCC have taken a view about being neutral | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
He clearly had a personal view, which I admire him for, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
John Longworth is still keen to represent the view | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
of Euro-sceptic business, but it will have to be | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
from an organisation that appreciates his efforts. | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
The Bank of England is to increase protection for banks - | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
and other financial institutions - by offering extra funding | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
in the weeks before and after the EU Referendum in June. | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
The announcement comes on the eve of an appearance | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
by the Bank's Governor, Mark Carney, before a parliamentary committee. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
I'm joined by our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
What do we understand is going to happen? What is this about? It | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
depends how you look at this, whether anything you talk, when it | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
comes to the European Union and the possibility of Britain remaining in | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
or leaving is highly toxic and is difficult politically. The Bank's | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
central remit is financial stability. And they have said this | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
is sensible contingency planning in the event that Britain votes to | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
leave the European Union, many economists then argue that there | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
would be market volatility, that the banks could struggle to maintain | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
funding and the Bank of England has said, we will stand behind those | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
banks. Critics of the Bank say this is part of Project Fear, making | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
people fearful that if we leave there would be economic calamity. | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, appears before the | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
Treasury Select Committee tomorrow. He will be treading a fine line. He | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
will be asked about the economic consequences of whether if Britain | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
were to leave the European Union, I'm sure he will try and tread very | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
carefully there, and say on the one hand, on the other hand. He will be | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
asked about David Cameron's deal that he has put before the British | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
public on Europe and whether that does protect the City. On that, he | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
will be more robust saying that is part of the Bank's remit. He will | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
want to avoid criticism that he is becoming political but in such a | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
political debate that will prove very difficult. Kamal Ahmed, thank | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
you very much. The Swedish car maker Volvo | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
is about to start recruiting 100 people to commute to work next | :28:19. | :28:19. | |
year in driverless cars. The company says it intends asking | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
them to do other things while at the wheel, | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
such as reading a book, In the first of a series of reports | :28:26. | :28:26. | |
on the likely impact of this new technology, our transport | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
correspondent, Richard Westcott, has been given special | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
access to try it out. There is some flash photography | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
coming up. Home of Volvo, a place where drivers | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
need to beware of the elks. On a test track, the company | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
is showing me its unique experiment. And they will need members | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
of the public to help. They're going to ask 100 ordinary | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
people to commute in a car, And then they're going to tell those | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
people they are actually free to do So perhaps they'll | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
want to send an e-mail. From the track, to | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
the evening commute. By next year Gothenburg's 100 | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
volunteers will be driverless That is roads with no | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
cyclists or pedestrians, and bearing in mind | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
it is Sweden, no snow. The computer needs to | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
see the white lines. The man in charge of the technology | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
told me what would happen If something unexpected happens, | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
the car needs to be able We cannot count on a driver | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
to immediately take over. So the car will be able to detect it | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
and it will slow down in order It is not going to suddenly shove | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
control back to the driver? No, the driver may be | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
sitting relaxing, reading, we cannot count on him | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
or her to intervene immediately, Things look a bit | :29:54. | :29:56. | |
different in the UK. In Milton Keynes, public-transport | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
pods will eventually use the pavements to shuttle people | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
between the shops and the station. Would you happily share | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
a pavement with one of those, The choices, it has to decide, | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
it has to decide in an instant whether it has got to stop or it has | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
got to carry on going for the safety of who's in it or who | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
is on the outside. You don't worry about | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
it bumping into you? No, you can easily | :30:28. | :30:28. | |
move out of the way. They have just had their first | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
crash, where the computer Experts describe a future straight | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
out of a science-fiction novel. You're going to see this | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
technology in forklift trucks, And that, for me, is | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
extremely interesting. That this technology is not | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
just about transport, Back on the test track, | :30:56. | :30:57. | |
time to enjoy a drama on the telly. It could still take a decade or even | :30:58. | :31:06. | |
two, but eventually children will marvel at the idea that | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
people actually used Turkey, apparently now | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
the EU's best friend. We are trying to assess | :31:13. | :31:26. | |
whether today's talks really mark a turning point in | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
the migrant crisis. Join me now on BBC Two, | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
11pm in Scotland. Here on BBC One it's time | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
for the news where you are. | :31:39. | :31:42. |