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All state schools in England will become Academies. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The plans will be announced in tomorrow's Budget. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
The Chancellor George Osborne will insist that the plans deliver | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
greater freedom to decide on the curriculum and admissions. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
There are certain freedoms around curriculum, around the way you use | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
resource that you have as an academy that you don't have | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
But the move will end the long-standing role of local | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
authorities in providing education and Labour says it's a distraction. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
This feels like it's a press ahead with an agenda that there is very | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
little evidence for, to hide from some of the really | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
We'll have more details of the academies plan and we'll be | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
looking at what else is likely in the Budget. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
A major security operation in Brussels. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
The investigation is linked to last year's attacks in Paris. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
A welcome home for Russian fighter pilots, among the first to be | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
withdrawn from Syria by President Putin. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
A special report from central Africa on the urgent need for action | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
to save the elephant from poachers and traffickers. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
There are another four of these carcasses spread all around | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers who were long gone. | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
And from dismay to despair, the champion player beaten | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
by a computer and what it says about the future | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
And coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News, | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
find out if Manchester City reached the Champions League quarter-finals, | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
despite an early injury to their captain Vincent Kompany. | :01:39. | :02:02. | |
There's to be a radical shift in the way state schools | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
The plans will be announced by the Chancellor in tomorrow's | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Ministers want to force all schools in England to become academies | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
making them independent of local authority control. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Schools would have to convert by 2022. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Ministers say it would give them greater freedom | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
to decide their curriculum, admissions and staff pay. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
Our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has more details. | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
It is the school revolution that began under Labour. Failing schools | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
closed under the council and reopened as academies. As Education | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
Secretary, Michael Gove gave cash to more schools to convert. Now a | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Conservative government wants to finish the journey, ending more than | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
100 years of English councils running local schools. My next | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
ambition is this. 500 new free schools, everyone and Academy, and, | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
yes, local authorities running schools a thing of the past. Academy | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
schools have more freedoms, to choose what to teach, and decide | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
what to pay staff. It is meant to encourage fresh ideas, offering | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
parents greater choice, and had teachers the chance to work together | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
in a chain of skills. The real winner is working in a multi-Academy | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
trust because you have a collaborative environment where you | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
can hold each other to account and the learning is deeper and richer in | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
that kind of environment than perhaps was traditionally the case | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
in local authority schools. Already in England, 2000 secondary schools | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
are academies, more than half, but fewer than 3000 primary schools have | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
changed, so most are still run by councils. Now council schools will | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
have 4-mac-6 years to start becoming academies. Officials will be working | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
on finalising details of plans and this will require a change in the | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
law. It goes much further than before. Not just intervening in | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
schools which are failing or under performing, this will radically | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
change how even the best schools in England are run. Labour says there | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
is little evidence these plans will mean a better school system. Some | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
academies have struggled and failed to. There are some areas, | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
Lincolnshire, mostly, my own area of Manchester, where schools are | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
already academies but still require improvement. What is the government | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
strategy for these areas? And from the Chief inspector, a warning just | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
a few days ago. Some academies are paying top executive salaries but | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
delivering poor results for pupils. For the Chancellor this is about | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
putting his stamp on public services, reshaping skills and | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
taking England on a different journey from the rest of the UK. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Tomorrow's Budget will be the eighth delivered by George Osborne. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
And in the four months since his last report on the state | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
of the UK's finances, economic growth has dipped and tax | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Added to that is the political challenge posed by the referendum | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
on Britain's future in the European Union. | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
In a moment we'll be talking to our political editor | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
Laura Kuenssberg but first our economics editor Kamal Ahmed reports | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
on some of the likely measures to be announced tomorrow. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Home to the Chancellor, number 11 Downing Street, | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
and where George Osborne has been spending the last few days | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Four months ago the Autumn Statement was full of optimism. | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
I report on an economy growing faster than its competitors, | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
and public finances set to reach a surplus of ?10 billion. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
The Chancellor will travel from here down the road to Parliament. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
He will have his red box with him and in there he will have | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
new forecasts, and they are likely to show that the UK economy has | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
taken something of a turn for the worse. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
The Bank of England has revised economic growth downward | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Our wages are rising less quickly, just 3% a year. | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
Both reduced tax revenues for the Government, which, | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
don't forget, is facing debts of ?1.5 trillion. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
That means the Government has to borrow more to pay | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
So, what state are the Government's finances in? | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
Well, so far this year, the Government has | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Now, that's 13.7% down on last year, but still a long way | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
above the optimistic expectations of last autumn. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
The Government's target is to borrow ?73.5 billion this financial year. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Will George Osborne hit that target in the Budget? | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
And what about that ?10 billion budget surplus - | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
The surplus that was forecast in November was already not that | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
large when we are thinking about the four-year forecast. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Things have moved against him since November so he may not | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
have a lot of room for manoeuvre, particularly as there are number | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
of giveaways already promised in the Conservative manifesto. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
In his Budget, George Osborne has always mixed pain | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
What will the Chancellor want to trumpet? | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
He could increase the point at which we pay tax on our income | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
That could make taxpayers a few hundred pounds a year better off. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
He could also raise the level at which the higher 40p | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
rate of tax kicks in, meaning fewer people pay it. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
He will announce support for major infrastructure projects - | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
the high-speed rail link between Manchester and Leeds, | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
His critics say this is all a bit of a diversion, but the real story | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
of this Budget will be public sector cuts and tax rises. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Fuel duty, the tax on petrol and diesel, is facing | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
Unprotected departments at the Home Office could be facing | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
There are likely to be higher taxes on business. | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
Whatever George Osborne announces, he will have to sell it here, | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
The Conservative majority is actually quite small and every | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
debate is dominated by the European referendum. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Fear of a Brexit could make this a rather more careful | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is at | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
the Chancellor's official residence, Number 11 Downing Street. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
We heard about some measures there and we talked about schools earlier | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
but what is the main challenge for George Osborne tomorrow? There are | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
three. He is likely to announce more cuts. He told the BBC as much as | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
three weeks ago. That comes hard on the heels of six years of cuts which | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
have hit millions of families around the country. He wants to show that | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
the government is not just about that. They still have ideas for | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
reform. I think the government's announcement to force schools in | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
England to become academies with more cash and the option of | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
extending the school day with more time for extracurricular activities | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
as part of that. They want to show they have not run out of ideas and | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
they are not all about balancing the books. He also faces polishing up | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
his political reputation inside and outside of his party. After a series | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
of defeats, tax credits, Sunday trading plans, something of his | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
stock has fallen away in recent months and he will want to use a big | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
day like tomorrow to rebuild that. The third big challenge is how he | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
lets it all together, persuading all of us to vote to stay in the EU at a | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
referendum at the end of June. Budgets are not just a bunch of | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
numbers but a semaphore for the government and, in this case, the | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Chancellor's ambitions. There's been a major security | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
operation in Brussels this evening, linked to last year's | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
terror attacks in Paris, when 130 people were killed | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
by Islamist extremists. Belgian security forces are said | :10:53. | :10:53. | |
to be hunting for at least two people and one suspect | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
has been killed. Our Europe correspondent | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
Damian Grammaticas is at the scene. Yes, the raid took place this | :11:00. | :11:21. | |
afternoon, a joint raid by Belgian and French police. Ever since the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Paris attacks, both forces have hunted down any leads. There are 11 | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
people in custody already and any associates are being investigated as | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
well and those investigations brought police here this afternoon | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
to carry out this raid. One French policewoman was injured and one man | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
armed with a Kalashnikov was shot dead. It has been confirmed this | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
evening that he was not one of the prime suspects in the Paris attacks, | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
that is Salah Abdeslam, still on the run. | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
And police converged on Southern Brussels in the middle of the | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
afternoon. They sealed off streets a few minutes drive from the centre of | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
the capital, locking down the entire area. Belgian and French | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
investigators had been following Leeds since the Paris terror | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
attacks. They tried to search a flat here. When we reached the door, they | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
were met by automatic gunfire. TRANSLATION: Two individuals are | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
holed up in the building and a security cordon has been set up by | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
police. Following the set up, special forces teams arrived and the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
operation is ongoing. Police kept the area cordoned off all afternoon, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
parents waiting on the street for hours. Dismantled me there was | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
shooting in the Street and parents had to wait to pick up their | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
children. My daughter told me she was sad, she was crying all | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
afternoon, she says. We are still very scared. And officers took up | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
positions on rooftops. Late in the afternoon they made their move. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
There was more gunfire and then confirmation of one body. Belgian's | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
prime ministers said this evening that for officers had been | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
injured. Tonight, the police operations were ongoing, still | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
searching the surrounding streets, and sure if more gunmen were holed | :13:42. | :13:42. | |
up there. The first Russian fighter jets to be | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
withdrawn from Syria have returned to their home bases | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
following yesterday's announcement by President Putin that most | :13:52. | :13:52. | |
of his forces were being moved. The decision was welcomed by the US | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
Secretary of State John Kerry, who said the withdrawal might be | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
the best opportunity to end Our chief international | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
correspondent Lyse Doucet The pull out starts at first light | :14:02. | :14:19. | |
in Russia's airbase in northern Syria. The bombers are leading. Just | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
hours after President Putin's sudden announcement, mission accomplished. | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
The homecoming, a zero's welcome in Russia. A carefully choreographed | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
parade. The band plays an old Soviet military song. This is all about | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
Putin power. We are really glad our troops are coming home, she says. | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
Surprised but happy. Thanks to our soldiers, he adds, the so-called | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Islamic State is doing worse, the Syrian army, doing better. That is | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
victory. Russia sent its warplanes and advanced weaponry to Syria lasts | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
member, ostensibly to target Islamic State but it bolstered President | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
Assad's forces. President Putin's announcement took | :15:18. | :15:33. | |
the world by surprise. Here, the government says its new all along, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
that is what you hear on the streets. It was expected, this man | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
says, the agreement was for Russian forces to enter Syria for a certain | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
period and now we are advancing step by step in the peace process. But | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
Damascus, emboldened by Russian mite, is taking a tough line, | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
refusing to discuss President Assad's future. I ask it prominent | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
member of Parliament if Russia is exerting pressure. TRANSLATION: | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Russia is not putting pressure on us, they are talking to us, trying | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
to find the best solution for the Syrian government. You are in the | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
West are wrong if you think Russia is telling the government what to | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
do. There is no denying Russia's pivotal role in Syria. Russia's | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
military objectives here are clear so the question is what is President | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Putin's political plan for Syria? Does it include President Assad and | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
if not who or what is the alternative? But the fighting in | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Syria is not over despite the partial truce. So Russia is not | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
pulling out completely. It's military presence remains | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
significance. Even that may not be enough to end this most tangled love | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
for us. What are your senses of the | :16:53. | :17:04. | |
prospects for a more robust settlement? | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
I think millions of Syrians, after they have been through everything, | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
they do not dare that everything could all be over. This truce has | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
given Syrians are tantalising glimpse of what Syria could be like | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
again. It is this truce and those docs that are slowly getting | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
underway in Geneva that represent the best chance in years to try to | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
move Syria a little closer to peace rather than further back towards a | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
more destructive war. But you must be clear why it is happening. It is | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
not because Syria's warring parties understand there is no military | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
solution or they have put aside their profound differences, it is | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
because they're outside powers, 17 of them, are sitting around the same | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
table. They don't trust each other, they have different enemies and the | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
genders, but it must be recognised that Russia's decision last | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
September to become militarily and politically involved in Syria has | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
galvanised a stagnant process. It broke the deadlock. It is to the | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
credit of the West, particularly the US, reluctantly accepting that | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Russia has the best cards at the table and it should be allowed to | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
play them. The difficulty, if not the danger, is that Russia is | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
playing a bigger game, bigger than Syria, having a lot to do with | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Russia's position on the world stage and being taken seriously when it | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
comes to solving world crises. Even Vladimir Putin with Russia's might | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
may not succeed in Syria but for the first time in five years at least he | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
and other major players are trying and in Syria now a little is a lot. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Airlines, shipping companies and conservation charities are among | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
those who've promised to share more information to make life harder | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
for traffickers of animal products and wildlife. | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
The declaration was signed by dozens of companies at Buckingham Palace | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
One of the most urgent cases right now is the African elephant. | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
Every year between 30,000 and 40,000 African elephants are killed | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
With fewer than half a million left, their numbers are being dramatically | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
cut by the endless appetite for ivory in Asia. | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Poachers and rangers are now in armed conflict in a number | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
of African countries, with the Democractic Republic | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Our Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead has sent this | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
It's tough terrain in around Garamba National Park, | :19:41. | :19:53. | |
where less than 100 rangers are trying to protect the last | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
of the elephants across thousands of square miles of grassland. | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
We joined one of their foot patrols to a place where | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
The grass is so high, the only way to see a carcass | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
is from the air, and then to direct the rangers in. | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
This elephant was clearly killed by a poacher. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
There are another four of these carcasses spread around | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
They arrived too late to catch the poachers, | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
30,000 to 40,000 elephants are being killed in Africa every | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
year, and with only around 400,000 left, it will not be long at this | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
And with so few boots on the ground, those responsible often get away | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
We followed their footprints, one of the rangers told me, | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
There are perhaps 1,300 elephants left here. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
Garamba was of one of Africa's first national parks | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
and a World Heritage Site, originally set up to protect | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
the northern white rhino, but that has already been wiped | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Now, they are fighting to save the elephants that are left, | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
in a place surrounded by civil war and heavily armed militia. | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
And that's why African Parks, the group managing Garamba, | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
This ranger explained how dangerous the work is. | :21:43. | :21:56. | |
His patrol was ambushed by 40 men, probably from Sudan, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
Eight rangers have been killed in the last year. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Training rangers takes a lot of time and money, | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
and the men they are up against are hardened fighters. | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
It feels like you're fighting a war against poachers. | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
I think Garamba is probably today at the forefront of conservation | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
I don't think there are not many other places which have so many | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
This local man was arrested after a tip-off, and ivory recovered. | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
By the time it reaches the market in Asia, it goes for at least ?750. | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
Then reports came in of another attack. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
There are the carcasses, by the river. | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
And we spotted a sixth further up the river. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
It's hard to make out, but you can see that their faces | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
have been cut off and the tusks have been taken. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
They need hundreds more rangers to protect Garamba. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
On the front line of the poaching war, the elephants | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
The Church of England is to introduce changes to the way | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
it deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy. | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
It follows a critical independent report which has been seen | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
It reveals that senior clergymen kept no record of claims disclosed | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
A prison officer, Adrian Ismay, injured in a bomb attack | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
in Northern Ireland earlier this month, has died. | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
The 52 year-old was seriously hurt after a booby-trap device exploded | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
A dissident republican group, widely referred to as the New IRA, | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
A report into a helicopter crash off Shetland in which four people died | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
says flight instruments were not adequately monitored by pilots | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
in the moments leading up to the crash. | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch report says the lack | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
of monitoring meant a reduction in air speed was not noticed | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
Americans are voting tonight in five states in primary contests | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
The results could see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
make significant steps towards securing their party's | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
Mr Trump's recent campaign events have been disrupted by clashes | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
between supporters and opponents and he's faced criticism | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
for appearing to encourage the violence. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
Let's join our North America editor Jon Sopel in Palm Beach Florida. | :24:45. | :24:56. | |
When Donald Trump arrives at his Private members club behind me later | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
this evening he will be hoping the Republican race will effectively be | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
over and he will be the undisputed champion. This, despite the millions | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
spent by Conservative groups attacking him, and violence at his | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
rallies,... If there's one place in America | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
where Donald Trump shouldn't He's upset a lot of Hispanics | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
with his rhetoric, and he's up against the local Cuban-American | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
senator, Marco Rubio. But for all the controversy, | :25:35. | :25:35. | |
if you join up the dots, Trump is the most important | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
man in the world now. Trump is scary, but he's the only | :25:39. | :25:48. | |
one who can beat Hillary Clinton. I think anything is better | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
than Hillary Clinton. The latest firestorm is the violence | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
that has erupted at Trump rallies as his supporters skirmish | :25:55. | :26:06. | |
with protesters, scenes becoming increasingly tense, actions that | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
should have no place And the charge against Mr Trump | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
is that far from condemning, his language has condoned, | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
even incited such behaviour I'd like to punch him | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
in the face, I'll tell ya. You know what they used | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
to do to guys like that They'd be carried out | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
on a stretcher, folks. I would have been boom, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
boom, boom, beat the... So if you see somebody getting | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
of them, would you? I promise you, I will pay | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
for the legal fees. Am I allowed to rip that | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
whistle out of their mouth? And that sort of language | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
brought this rebuke I know I'm not the only one in this | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
room who may be more than a little dismayed about what's happening | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
on the campaign trail lately. We have heard vulgar and divisive | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
rhetoric aimed at women and minorities, at Americans | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
who don't look like us or pray Yes, Donald Trump's comments | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
have caused a furore, If anything, his poll lead | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
is increasing, and at this polling station in Miami, he seems to be | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
the only name in town. And for all the discussion | :27:33. | :27:42. | |
of punch-ups, if he wins here tonight and in Ohio, | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
the talk will instead be about having delivered a knockout | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
blow to his opponents. Football, and Manchester City have | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
for the first time in their history. Despite going close to scoring a few | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
times, they could only manage a 0-0 draw at home tonight | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
against Dinamo Kiev. But they make it through to the last | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
eight thanks to their 3-1 victory A computer programme designed | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
by Google has comprehensively beaten a human champion of the ancient | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
Chinese game of Go, winning Lee Se-dol, a Korean | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
champion of the game, said he regretted the result, | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
which has raised new questions about the power of artificial | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
intelligence over human beings. Our technology correspondent | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones examines what's been learned from the contest | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
and considers the future It's been an epic contest | :28:37. | :28:38. | |
between man and machine, pitting a supreme player of | :28:39. | :28:46. | |
a complex game against an artificial intelligence programme which teaches | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
itself to play ever better. And, at the end of the final game, | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Lee Sedol's face told the story. Although he'd fought | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
hard and even won once, the machine, AlphaGo, | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
had come out on top. No triumphalism from the British | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
founder of the company behind it. As with all powerful technologies, | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
they bring opportunities and challenges and we have to make | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
sure, as developers of these kind of systems, all AI researchers | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
around the world that they think about the ethical | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
responsibilities they have. The technology behind programmes | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
like AlphaGo is already finding Better voice recognition software | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
is one and Cambridge is one of the world's leading | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
centres in the development At Microsoft's Cambridge research | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
lab, you might think that this was down time, in fact, it's serious | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
artificial intelligence research. Scientists here are using the game | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
Minecraft to test how AI programmes The idea is to teach the AI how | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
to interact with people and objects. The programme is all | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
about augmenting the skills Another example, a system using AI | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
to examine scans of brain tumours The researchers here | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
insist that it's all about collaboration, | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
not competition. I think we have a choice, | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
we're in control of the technology, I think we should avoid that | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
dystopian future of - I think we should make a conscious | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
decision to create artificial intelligence as a deep partnership | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
between humans and machines This is not about the rise | :30:31. | :30:32. | |
of machines, it's about One of Britain's leading scientists | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
says the sheer pace of change means There's a boundary between science | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
and science fiction, we don't know quite where that lies, | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
but certainly some people are raising concerns | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
that a computer might, as it were, go rogue | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
and if we have the internet of things, then a computer | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
could interact with the real world If that happened, that | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
would obviously be potentially It had been thought that a computer | :30:58. | :31:04. | |
would take another 10 years to beat AI's victory has brought its | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
potential and its risks into focus. Newsnight's about to begin over | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
on BBC2 in a few moments. On our running order tonight, | :31:15. | :31:25. | |
Brexit and the Press. Alastair Campbell says the papers | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
are pulling the wool over our eyes, to persuade us to vote | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
to leave the EU. He'll debate that with Sun | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
writer, Trevor Kavanagh. | :31:35. | :31:37. |