:00:00. > :00:07.All state schools in England will become academies.
:00:08. > :00:11.The plans will be announced in tomorrow's Budget.
:00:12. > :00:13.The Chancellor, George Osborne, will insist that the plans deliver
:00:14. > :00:16.greater freedom to decide on the curriculum and admissions
:00:17. > :00:20.There are certain freedoms around curriculum, around the way you use
:00:21. > :00:26.an academy that you don't have with a local authority school.
:00:27. > :00:28.But the move will end the long-standing role of local
:00:29. > :00:33.authorities in providing education and Labour says it's a distraction.
:00:34. > :00:36.This feels like it's a press ahead with an agenda that there is very
:00:37. > :00:39.little evidence for, to hide from some of the really
:00:40. > :00:46.We'll have more details of the academies plan and we'll be
:00:47. > :00:48.looking at what else is likely in the Budget.
:00:49. > :00:54.A major security operation in Brussels - one suspect is dead.
:00:55. > :00:58.The investigation is linked to last year's attacks in Paris.
:00:59. > :01:01.A welcome home for Russian fighter pilots, among the first to be
:01:02. > :01:05.withdrawn from Syria by President Putin.
:01:06. > :01:08.A special report from central Africa on the urgent need for action
:01:09. > :01:12.to save the elephant from poachers and traffickers.
:01:13. > :01:14.There are another four of these carcasses spread all around
:01:15. > :01:21.They arrived too late to catch the poachers who were long gone.
:01:22. > :01:23.And from dismay to despair, the champion player beaten
:01:24. > :01:26.by a computer and what it says about the future
:01:27. > :01:33.Coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News,
:01:34. > :01:36.find out if Manchester City have reached the Champions League
:01:37. > :01:38.quarterfinals despite an early injury to their captain,
:01:39. > :02:06.There's to be a radical shift in the way state schools
:02:07. > :02:09.The plans will be announced by the Chancellor
:02:10. > :02:13.Ministers want to force all schools in England to become academies,
:02:14. > :02:17.making them independent of local authority control.
:02:18. > :02:21.Schools would have to convert by 2022.
:02:22. > :02:25.them greater freedom to decide their curriculum,
:02:26. > :02:36.Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has more details.
:02:37. > :02:42.It is the school revolution that began under Labour. Failing schools
:02:43. > :02:50.closed under the council, reopened as academies. As Education
:02:51. > :02:54.Secretary, Michael Gove gave cash to more schools to convert. Now a
:02:55. > :02:58.Conservative government wants to finish the journey, ending more than
:02:59. > :03:04.100 years of English councils running local schools. My next
:03:05. > :03:09.ambition is this, 500 new free schools, every school in academy,
:03:10. > :03:15.and yes, local authorities running schools a thing of the past. Academy
:03:16. > :03:21.schools have more freedoms, freedom to choose what to teach, freedom to
:03:22. > :03:24.decide what to pay staff. It is meant to encourage fresh ideas,
:03:25. > :03:30.offering parents greater choice and headteachers the chance to work
:03:31. > :03:35.together in a chain of schools. The real win I suppose of being an
:03:36. > :03:37.academy is working in a trust, because you have the collaborative
:03:38. > :03:42.environment where you can hold each other to account and the learning is
:03:43. > :03:46.richer I suppose in that kind of environment than perhaps was
:03:47. > :03:51.traditionally the case in local authority schools. Already in
:03:52. > :03:56.England, 2000 secondary schools are academies, more than half, but fewer
:03:57. > :04:01.than 3000 primary schools have changed so most are still run by
:04:02. > :04:08.councils. Now council schools will have up to six years to start
:04:09. > :04:11.becoming academies. In the next couple of days, officials will be
:04:12. > :04:17.working on finalising detailed plans. This will require a change in
:04:18. > :04:22.the law. It goes much further than before, not just intervening in
:04:23. > :04:25.schools that are failing or underperforming, this will radically
:04:26. > :04:31.change how even the best schools in England are run. Labour says there
:04:32. > :04:36.is little evidence these plans will mean a better school system. Some
:04:37. > :04:42.academies have struggled and failed too. There are some areas -
:04:43. > :04:49.Lincolnshire, Swindon, my own area Manchester - where all the schools
:04:50. > :04:52.are already academies but still require significant improvement.
:04:53. > :04:58.What is the Government strategy for these areas? And from the Chief
:04:59. > :05:03.inspector, a warning just a few days ago. Some academies are paying top
:05:04. > :05:08.executive salaries but delivering poor results for pupils. For the
:05:09. > :05:13.Chancellor, this is about putting his stamp on public services, in
:05:14. > :05:22.reshaping schools he is also taking England on a very different journey
:05:23. > :05:29.from the rest of the UK. Those plans are expected in tomorrow's Budget.
:05:30. > :05:31.It will be the eighth delivered by George Osborne.
:05:32. > :05:34.And in the four months since his last report on the state
:05:35. > :05:37.of the UK's finances, economic growth has dipped and tax
:05:38. > :05:40.Added to that is the political challenge posed by the referendum
:05:41. > :05:42.on Britain's future in the European Union.
:05:43. > :05:44.In a moment we'll be talking to our political editor
:05:45. > :05:47.Laura Kuenssberg, but first our economics editor Kamal Ahmed reports
:05:48. > :05:49.on some of the likely measures to be announced tomorrow.
:05:50. > :05:51.Home to the Chancellor, number 11 Downing Street,
:05:52. > :05:54.and where George Osborne has been spending the last few days
:05:55. > :06:00.Four months ago, the Autumn Statement was full of optimism.
:06:01. > :06:03.I report on an economy growing faster than its competitors,
:06:04. > :06:07.and public finances set to reach a surplus of ?10 billion.
:06:08. > :06:11.The Chancellor will travel from here down the road to Parliament.
:06:12. > :06:15.He will have his red box with him and in there he will have
:06:16. > :06:18.new forecasts, and they are likely to show that the UK economy has
:06:19. > :06:23.taken something of a turn for the worse.
:06:24. > :06:26.The Bank of England has revised economic growth downward
:06:27. > :06:38.Our wages are rising less quickly, just 3% a year.
:06:39. > :06:40.Both reduced tax revenues for the Government, which,
:06:41. > :06:42.don't forget, is facing debts of ?1.5 trillion.
:06:43. > :06:45.That means the Government has to borrow more to pay
:06:46. > :06:52.So, what state are the Government's finances in?
:06:53. > :06:54.Well, so far this year, the Government has
:06:55. > :07:01.Now, that's 13.7% down on last year, but still a long way
:07:02. > :07:08.above the optimistic expectations of last autumn.
:07:09. > :07:15.The Government's target is to borrow ?73.5 billion this financial year.
:07:16. > :07:24.Will George Osborne hit that target in the Budget?
:07:25. > :07:26.And what about that ?10 billion Budget surplus -
:07:27. > :07:32.The surplus that was forecast in November was already not that
:07:33. > :07:34.large when we are thinking about the four-year forecast.
:07:35. > :07:37.Things have moved against him since November so he may not
:07:38. > :07:40.have a lot of room for manoeuvre, particularly as there are number
:07:41. > :07:46.of giveaways already promised in the Conservative manifesto.
:07:47. > :07:48.In his Budgets, George Osborne has always mixed pain
:07:49. > :07:51.What will the Chancellor want to trumpet?
:07:52. > :07:54.He could increase the point at which we pay tax on our income
:07:55. > :07:58.That could make taxpayers a few hundred pounds a year better off.
:07:59. > :08:01.He could also raise the level at which the higher 40p
:08:02. > :08:06.rate of tax kicks in, meaning fewer people pay it.
:08:07. > :08:12.He will announce support for major infrastructure projects -
:08:13. > :08:14.a high-speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds,
:08:15. > :08:21.His critics say this is all a bit of a diversion, but the real story
:08:22. > :08:25.of this Budget will be public sector cuts and tax rises.
:08:26. > :08:30.Fuel duty, the tax on petrol and diesel, is facing
:08:31. > :08:41.Unprotected departments such as the Home Office could be facing
:08:42. > :08:45.There are likely to be higher taxes on business.
:08:46. > :08:47.Whatever George Osborne announces, he will have to sell it here,
:08:48. > :08:51.The Conservative majority is actually quite small and every
:08:52. > :08:57.debate is dominated by the European referendum.
:08:58. > :09:00.Fear of a Brexit could make this a rather more careful
:09:01. > :09:09.Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is at
:09:10. > :09:13.the Chancellor's official residence, Number 11 Downing Street.
:09:14. > :09:21.We heard about some of the measure is there, but what for you is the
:09:22. > :09:28.main challenge for George Osborne tomorrow? I think there are a trio.
:09:29. > :09:32.We know he is likely to announce more cuts, he said as much three
:09:33. > :09:36.weeks ago, and that's coming after six years of cuts that have hit
:09:37. > :09:40.millions of families around the country so he wants to show that the
:09:41. > :09:45.Government is not just about that, they have still got ideas for
:09:46. > :09:48.reform. I think the Government 's announcement to force schools to
:09:49. > :09:53.become academies in England with more cash and the option of
:09:54. > :09:54.extending the school day with more time for extracurricular activities
:09:55. > :10:07.is part of want to show they have not
:10:08. > :10:09.run out of ideas and they are not all about balancing the books. The
:10:10. > :10:12.second challenge he faces is polishing up his own political
:10:13. > :10:14.reputation. After a series of defeats on tax credits being thrown
:10:15. > :10:18.out, Sunday trading plans being defeated, something of his stock has
:10:19. > :10:22.fallen away in recent months and he will be wanting to use a big day
:10:23. > :10:26.like tomorrow to rebuild that. The third big challenge is how he knits
:10:27. > :10:33.together with the Government 's number one priority right persuading
:10:34. > :10:36.us to vote to stay in the European Union in the referendum at the end
:10:37. > :10:41.of June, because budgets at the end of the day are not just numbers,
:10:42. > :10:46.they are semaphore for the Government and certainly in this
:10:47. > :10:52.case, the Chancellor's ambitions. Laura, thank you very much. Laura,
:10:53. > :10:54.looking ahead to the Budget in Downing Street.
:10:55. > :10:56.There's been a major security operation in Brussels this evening
:10:57. > :11:00.linked to last year's terror attacks in Paris when 130 people were killed
:11:01. > :11:03.Belgian security forces are said to be hunting for at least two
:11:04. > :11:05.people and one suspect has been killed.
:11:06. > :11:14.Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is at the scene.
:11:15. > :11:21.Yes, that raid took place at three o'clock this afternoon here, it was
:11:22. > :11:26.a joint raid by Belgian and French police and ever since those Paris
:11:27. > :11:31.attacks, the two forces have been hunting down any leads. There are 11
:11:32. > :11:35.people in custody here already and any associates are being
:11:36. > :11:39.investigated as well. Those investigations brought the police
:11:40. > :11:43.here this afternoon to carry out this raid. One French policewoman
:11:44. > :11:49.was injured, and one man armed with a Kalashnikov was shot dead, it has
:11:50. > :11:53.been confirmed this evening that he was not one of the prime suspects
:11:54. > :12:00.still being sought for the Paris attacks, that is Salah Abdeslam, who
:12:01. > :12:04.is still on the run. From across the city, armed police converged on
:12:05. > :12:08.southern Brussels. It was the middle of the afternoon, dozens of police
:12:09. > :12:12.units moved in. They sealed off a web of streets, a few minutes drive
:12:13. > :12:17.from the centre of the Belgian capital, looking down the entire
:12:18. > :12:20.area. Belgian and French investigators have been following
:12:21. > :12:24.Leeds since the Paris terror attacks, they try to search a flat
:12:25. > :12:31.here. As soon as they reached the door, they had been met with
:12:32. > :12:35.automatic gunfire. TRANSLATION: Two individuals are apparently holed up
:12:36. > :12:41.in the building, a security cordon has been set up by police, special
:12:42. > :12:45.forces teams arrived and are in position along with Federal police
:12:46. > :12:50.so the investigation is ongoing. Police kept the area cordoned all
:12:51. > :12:56.afternoon, parents left waiting on the street for hours. They were
:12:57. > :12:59.locked up, there was shooting in the street, this man told me. Parents
:13:00. > :13:06.had to wait to be told they could pick up their children. My daughter
:13:07. > :13:11.told me she was sad, she was crying all afternoon, she says. We are
:13:12. > :13:15.still very scared. Armed officers have taken up positions on rooftops.
:13:16. > :13:19.Late in the afternoon they made their move, there was more gunfire
:13:20. > :13:28.and then confirmation, they found one body. Belgium's Prime Minister
:13:29. > :13:33.said this evening that four police officers have been wounded in the
:13:34. > :13:37.shooting. Brussels has lived with police raids, terror alerts and city
:13:38. > :13:42.lockdowns since the Paris attacks and tonight the police operations
:13:43. > :13:43.were ongoing, still searching the surrounding streets, unsure if more
:13:44. > :13:47.gunmen were holed up there. The first Russian fighter jets to be
:13:48. > :13:50.withdrawn from Syria have returned to their home bases
:13:51. > :13:51.following yesterday's announcement by President Putin that most
:13:52. > :13:55.of his forces were being moved. The decision was welcomed
:13:56. > :13:57.by the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, who said the withdrawal
:13:58. > :14:00.might be the best opportunity to end Our chief international
:14:01. > :14:19.correspondent, Lyse Doucet, The pull-out starts at first light,
:14:20. > :14:25.at Russia's air base in northern Syria. The bombers are leaving. It
:14:26. > :14:32.is just hours after President Putin's sudden announcement, mission
:14:33. > :14:39.accomplished. The homecoming, heroes' in Russia. A carefully
:14:40. > :14:42.choreographed parade. The band plays an old Soviet military song, this is
:14:43. > :14:53.all about Putin power. TRANSLATION: We're really
:14:54. > :14:55.glad our troops are coming home. TRANSLATION: Thanks to our soldiers,
:14:56. > :15:08.the so-called Islamic State is doing Russia sent its warplanes
:15:09. > :15:13.and advance weaponry Ostensibly to target Islamic State,
:15:14. > :15:17.but it mainly bolstered In Damascus, Syrians
:15:18. > :15:20.are still savouring a rare moment President Putin's announcement last
:15:21. > :15:57.night took the world by surprise, but here the government
:15:58. > :15:59.says it knew all along. The agreement was for Russian forces
:16:00. > :16:05.to enter Syria for a certain period and now we're advancing step-by-step
:16:06. > :16:07.in the peace process. But Damascus, emboldened by Russian
:16:08. > :16:10.might, is taking a tough line, refusing to discuss
:16:11. > :16:11.President Assad' future. I ask a prominent member
:16:12. > :16:13.of parliament, is Russia Russia is not putting
:16:14. > :16:16.pressure on us. They are talking to us
:16:17. > :16:19.and are trying to find the best You in the West are wrong
:16:20. > :16:23.if you think Russia is telling But there's no denying Russia's
:16:24. > :16:27.pivotal role in Syria. Russia's military objectives
:16:28. > :16:29.here are now clear, so the big question is - what is
:16:30. > :16:31.President Putin's political Does it necessarily include
:16:32. > :16:34.President Assad and, if not, who or what
:16:35. > :16:40.is the alternative? But the fighting in Syria isn't over
:16:41. > :16:43.despite the partial truce. So Russia isn't pulling
:16:44. > :16:45.out completely. Its military presence
:16:46. > :16:46.remains significant. Even that may not be enough to end
:16:47. > :17:00.this most tangled of wars. You have been there for nearly a
:17:01. > :17:06.fortnight. What is your sense of the prospects for a more robust
:17:07. > :17:09.settlement? Well, Huw, I think millions of Syrians, after all they
:17:10. > :17:16.have been through, don't dare to believe this could all be over soon.
:17:17. > :17:20.This truce as impartial as it is, as imperfect as it is, has given
:17:21. > :17:25.Syrians a tantalising glimpse of what Syria could be like again. It's
:17:26. > :17:30.this truce and those talks that are slowly getting jumped way in Geneva
:17:31. > :17:35.that represent the best chance in years to try to move Syria a little
:17:36. > :17:39.bit closer toward peace rather than a lot further back towards a more
:17:40. > :17:45.destructive war. But you have to be clear on why it's happening. It's
:17:46. > :17:49.not because Syrian warring parties have understood there is no military
:17:50. > :17:52.solution or put aside their profound differences it's only because the
:17:53. > :17:56.outside powers, 17 in all, are finally sitting around thele same
:17:57. > :17:59.table. They don't trust each other. They have different enemies and
:18:00. > :18:06.agendas on the battlefield, but it has to be recognised that Russia's
:18:07. > :18:10.decision, last September, to much more involved militarily and
:18:11. > :18:15.politically in Syria has galvanised a stagnant process. It broke the
:18:16. > :18:19.deadlock. It's to the credit of the West, particularly the United
:18:20. > :18:23.States, reluctantly accepting that Russia has the best cards at this
:18:24. > :18:28.table and it should be allowed to play them. The difficulty, if not
:18:29. > :18:32.the danger, is that Russia, and in particular President Putin, is
:18:33. > :18:35.playing a much bigger game. Much bigger than Syria, having a lot to
:18:36. > :18:40.do with Russia's position on the world stage and being taken
:18:41. > :18:44.seriously when it comes to solving world crises. Even President Putin,
:18:45. > :18:50.with Russia's might, may not succeed in Syria. For the first time in five
:18:51. > :18:57.years at least he and other major players are trying. In Syria now a
:18:58. > :19:00.little is a lot. All right, Lyse thank you very much again for your
:19:01. > :19:09.analysis there. Lyse Doucet in Damascus.
:19:10. > :19:11.Airlines, shipping companies and conservation charities are among
:19:12. > :19:13.those who've promised to share more information to make life harder
:19:14. > :19:15.for traffickers of animal products and wildlife.
:19:16. > :19:17.The declaration was signed by dozens of companies at Buckingham Palace,
:19:18. > :19:22.One of the most urgent cases right now is the African elephant.
:19:23. > :19:24.Every year, between 30,000 and 40,000 thousand African
:19:25. > :19:29.elephants are killed for their ivory.
:19:30. > :19:31.With fewer than half a million left, their numbers are being dramatically
:19:32. > :19:36.cut by the endless appetite for ivory in Asia.
:19:37. > :19:39.Poachers and rangers are now in armed conflict in a number
:19:40. > :19:41.of African countries, with the Democractic Republic
:19:42. > :19:45.Our Africa correspondent, Alastair Leithead, has sent this
:19:46. > :19:55.It's tough terrain in Garamba National Park,
:19:56. > :20:00.where less than 100 rangers are trying to protect the last
:20:01. > :20:06.of the elephants across thousands of square miles of grassland.
:20:07. > :20:08.We joined one of their foot patrols to a place where
:20:09. > :20:22.The grass is so high, the only way to see a carcass
:20:23. > :20:24.is from the air and then to direct the rangers in.
:20:25. > :20:28.Well, this elephant was clearly killed by a poacher.
:20:29. > :20:32.Its ivory tusks were hacked off, it's been dead about three weeks.
:20:33. > :20:34.There are another four of these carcasses spread all around
:20:35. > :20:38.They arrived too late to catch the poachers,
:20:39. > :20:45.30,000-40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa every
:20:46. > :20:48.year and with only around 400,000 left, it's not going to be long,
:20:49. > :20:54.And with so few boots on the ground, those responsible often get away
:20:55. > :21:02."We followed their footprints", one of the rangers told me,
:21:03. > :21:09.There are perhaps 1,300 elephants left here,
:21:10. > :21:17.Garamba was one of Africa's first national parks and a World Heritage
:21:18. > :21:20.site, originally set up to protect the northern white rhino,
:21:21. > :21:25.but that has already been wiped out by poachers.
:21:26. > :21:29.Now, they're fighting to save the elephants that are left,
:21:30. > :21:43.in a place surrounded by civil war and heavily armed militia.
:21:44. > :21:45.That's why African Parks, the group managing Garamba,
:21:46. > :21:50.But the weapons are old, few hit even a close target.
:21:51. > :22:00.This ranger explained how dangerous the work is,
:22:01. > :22:02.his patrol was ambushed by 40 men, probably from Sudan,
:22:03. > :22:08.Eight rangers have been killed in the last year.
:22:09. > :22:13.Training rangers takes a lot of time and money and the men they're up
:22:14. > :22:18.This really does feel like you're fighting a war against poachers?
:22:19. > :22:25.I think Garamba is probably today at the forefront of conservation,
:22:26. > :22:33.I just don't think that many other places which have so much contact
:22:34. > :22:35.and so many threats to one park as we have here.
:22:36. > :22:40.This local man was arrested after a tip-off and ivory recovered.
:22:41. > :22:50.By the time it reaches the market in Asia, it goes for at least ?750.
:22:51. > :22:55.Then reports came in of another attack.
:22:56. > :22:58.And there are the carcasses, just down there by the river.
:22:59. > :23:02.Five of them, one of them a baby, and the sixth we've just spotted,
:23:03. > :23:04.a little bit further up the river from there.
:23:05. > :23:10.That the tusks have been taken. but you could see that their faces
:23:11. > :23:13.They need hundreds more rangers to protect Garamba.
:23:14. > :23:16.On the front line of the poaching war, the elephants
:23:17. > :23:25.Alistair Leithead, BBC News, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
:23:26. > :23:28.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:23:29. > :23:30.The Church of England is to introduce changes to the way
:23:31. > :23:33.it deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy.
:23:34. > :23:35.It follows a critical independent report, which has been seen
:23:36. > :23:39.It reveals that senior clergymen kept no record of claims disclosed
:23:40. > :23:49.A prison officer, Adrian Ismay, injured in a bomb attack
:23:50. > :23:52.in Northern Ireland earlier this month has died.
:23:53. > :23:55.The 52-year-old was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded
:23:56. > :24:02.A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the New IRA,
:24:03. > :24:08.A report into a helicopter crash off Shetland, in which four people died,
:24:09. > :24:10.says that flight instruments were not adequately monitored
:24:11. > :24:17.in the moments leading up to the crash.
:24:18. > :24:19.The Air Accidents Investigation Branch report says that the lack
:24:20. > :24:22.of monitoring meant a reduction in air speed was not noticed
:24:23. > :24:27.Americans are voting tonight in five states in primary contests
:24:28. > :24:31.for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.
:24:32. > :24:37.The results could see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
:24:38. > :24:38.making significant steps towards securing their party's
:24:39. > :24:42.Mr Trump's recent campaign events have been disrupted by clashes
:24:43. > :24:44.between supporters and opponents and he's faced criticism
:24:45. > :24:46.for appearing to encourage the violence.
:24:47. > :24:54.Let's join our North America editor, Jon Sopel, in Palm Beach Florida.
:24:55. > :25:01.Huw, when Donald Trump arrives at his private members club behind me
:25:02. > :25:05.later this evening, he's hoping that the Republican race will effectively
:25:06. > :25:10.be over and that he will be the undisputed champion. This despite
:25:11. > :25:17.the millions that have been spent back conservative groups attacking
:25:18. > :25:21.him and vie lens at his rallies today President Obama has stepped in
:25:22. > :25:34.calling the words being used vulgar and divisive. -- violence.
:25:35. > :25:36.If there's one place in America where Donald Trump shouldn't
:25:37. > :25:41.He's upset a lot of Hispanics with his rhetoric and he's up
:25:42. > :25:43.against the local Cuban-American Senator, Marco Rubio.
:25:44. > :25:45.But for all the controversy, if you join up the dots,
:25:46. > :25:49.Trump is the most important man in the world now.
:25:50. > :25:52.Donald Trump is scary, but he's the only one who can beat
:25:53. > :25:55.I think anything's better than Hillary Clinton.
:25:56. > :26:00.I'm very proud of Rubio, but I identify with Trump.
:26:01. > :26:06.The latest fire storm is the violence that has erupted
:26:07. > :26:10.at Trump rallies, as his supporters skirmish with protesters.
:26:11. > :26:19.Actions that should have no place in democratic politics.
:26:20. > :26:21.The charge against Mr Trump is that, far from condemning,
:26:22. > :26:26.his language has condoned, even incited, such behaviour
:26:27. > :26:31.I'd like to punch him in the face, I tell you.
:26:32. > :26:34.You know what they used to do to guys like that,
:26:35. > :26:38.They'd be carried out on a stretcher, folks.
:26:39. > :26:41.I don't know if I would have done well, but I would have been -
:26:42. > :26:47.So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato,
:26:48. > :26:49.knock the crap out of him, would you?
:26:50. > :26:56.I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees, I promise.
:26:57. > :26:59.Am I allowed to rip that whistle out of the mouth?
:27:00. > :27:05.And that sort of language brought this rebuke
:27:06. > :27:16.I know that I'm not the only one in this room who may be more
:27:17. > :27:17.than a little dismayed about what's happening
:27:18. > :27:25.We have heard vulgar and divisive rhetoric aimed at women
:27:26. > :27:28.and minorities and Americans who don't look like us our pray
:27:29. > :27:32.Yes, Donald Trump's comments have caused a furore,
:27:33. > :27:36.If anything, his poll lead is increasing and at this polling
:27:37. > :27:40.station in Miami, he seems to be the only name in town.
:27:41. > :27:44.The others seem to have given up the fight.
:27:45. > :27:47.For all the discussion of punch-ups, if he wins here tonight,
:27:48. > :27:51.and in Ohio, the talk will instead be about having delivered a knockout
:27:52. > :28:05.Manchester City have qualified for the quarter-finals
:28:06. > :28:13.of the Champions League for the first time in their history.
:28:14. > :28:25.Despite getting close to scoring a few times,
:28:26. > :28:28.they could only manage a 0-0 draw at home tonight against Dinamo Kiev,
:28:29. > :28:31.but make it through to the last eight thanks to a 3-1 victory
:28:32. > :28:35.A computer programme, designed by Google, has
:28:36. > :28:37.comprehensively beaten a human champion of the ancient Chinese game
:28:38. > :28:39.of Go, winning the match four games to one.
:28:40. > :28:42.Lee Sedol, a Korean champion of the game, said he regretted
:28:43. > :28:44.the result which has raised new questions about the power
:28:45. > :28:46.of artificial intelligence over human beings.
:28:47. > :28:47.Our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, examines what's
:28:48. > :28:49.been learnt from the contest and considers the future
:28:50. > :28:53.It's been an epic contest between man and machine,
:28:54. > :28:55.pitting a supreme player of a complex game against an artificial
:28:56. > :28:57.intelligence programme which teaches itself to play ever better.
:28:58. > :29:01.And, at the end of the final game, Lee Sedol's face told the story.
:29:02. > :29:03.Although he'd fought hard and even won once,
:29:04. > :29:09.the machine, AlphaGo, had come out on top.
:29:10. > :29:12.No triumphalism from the British founder of the company behind it.
:29:13. > :29:15.As with all powerful technologies, they bring opportunities
:29:16. > :29:22.and challenges and we have to make sure, as developers of these kind
:29:23. > :29:25.of systems, all AI researchers around the world that they think
:29:26. > :29:28.about the ethical responsibilities they have.
:29:29. > :29:31.The technology behind programmes like AlphaGo is already finding
:29:32. > :29:37.Better voice recognition software is one and Cambridge is one
:29:38. > :29:40.of the world's leading centres in the development
:29:41. > :29:48.At Microsoft's Cambridge research lab, you might think that this
:29:49. > :29:51.was down time, in fact, it's serious artificial intelligence research.
:29:52. > :29:55.Scientists here are using the game Minecraft to test how AI programmes
:29:56. > :30:03.The idea is to teach the AI how to interact with people and objects.
:30:04. > :30:06.The programme is all about augmenting the skills
:30:07. > :30:11.Another example, a system using AI to examine scans of brain tumours
:30:12. > :30:16.The researchers here insist that it's all
:30:17. > :30:19.about collaboration, not competition.
:30:20. > :30:22.I think we have a choice, we're in control of the technology,
:30:23. > :30:28.I think we should avoid that dystopian future of -
:30:29. > :30:33.I think we should make a conscious decision to create artificial
:30:34. > :30:35.intelligence as a deep partnership between humans and machines
:30:36. > :30:39.This is not about the rise of machines, it's about
:30:40. > :30:42.One of Britain's leading scientists says the sheer pace of change means
:30:43. > :30:46.There's a boundary between science and science fiction,
:30:47. > :30:49.we don't know quite where that lies, but certainly some people
:30:50. > :30:51.are raising concerns that a computer might,
:30:52. > :30:57.as it were, go rogue and if we have the internet
:30:58. > :31:00.of things, then a computer could interact with the real world
:31:01. > :31:05.If that happened, that would obviously be potentially
:31:06. > :31:10.It had been thought that a computer would take another 10 years to beat
:31:11. > :31:15.AI's victory has brought its potential and its risks into focus.
:31:16. > :31:24.Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.
:31:25. > :31:27.On our running order tonight, Brexit and the Press.
:31:28. > :31:30.Alastair Campbell says the papers are pulling the wool over our eyes
:31:31. > :31:32.to persuade us to vote to leave the EU.
:31:33. > :31:34.He'll debate that with Sun writer, Trevor Kavanagh.
:31:35. > :31:40.Join me now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.
:31:41. > :31:44.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.