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Tonight at Ten: The International Monetary Fund intervenes in the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
debate about Britain's future in the European Union. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
It warns that if Britain votes to leave there'll be | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
severe regional and global damage and the Chancellor agrees. | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
This is the clearest independent warning of the taste of things to | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
come if we leave the EU. I think we are better off if we stay in the EU, | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
that would make Britain stronger, safer and better off. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
But there's no reason to think the economy | :00:36. | :00:36. | |
would suffer, according to | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
those who want Britain to leave, as they dismiss the latest warning. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
This is just a matter of opinion. The IMF is often, like other | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
institutions, wrong in the forecasts and opinions its offered. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
The IMF also set out a bleak picture of the world economy and lowered its | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Also tonight: Prince Harry leads tributes in a | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
service at Westminster Abbey to remember the British victims of the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Two years after Nigerian school girls were | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
kidnapped by Islamist militants, hundreds are still missing, we have | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Their parents wanted them to have a better life than they had, | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
that's why they sent them to this school. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
But it was a choice that had devastating consequences. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
An ambitious project involving British scientists to send a | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
spacecraft to another solar system trillions of miles away. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
If we are to survive as a species we must ultimately | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
And, Manchester City claim their first | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
ever semifinal place in the Champions League. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: England cricketer James Taylor | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
is forced to suddenly retire because of an undetected | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
He says it's been the toughest week of his life. | :01:52. | :02:13. | |
The International Monetary Fund has intervened in the debate | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
about Britain's future in the European Union. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
It's warned that a vote for the UK to leave could cause severe | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
damage to the regional and global economy. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
In its latest report the IMF sets out a gloomy picture | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
of the world economy and lowers its growth forecast | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
for the UK, the eurozone, and around the world. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Campaigners who want the UK to leave the EU | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed has the story. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
It is certainly a gloomy cocktail - weakening global growth, | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
an economic outlook diminished, further financial turmoil | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
on the markets and, for the UK, an extra risk - | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
that the decision to leave the European union could do severe | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
It would create a lot of uncertainty. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
We already see the uncertainty about the referendum result | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
And a vote to leave would set off a process of two years, | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
a lengthy divorce, with a very uncertain settlement at the end. | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
Despite the IMF downgrading the UK's growth forecast, | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
the Government welcomed today's report. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
The worse the economic news, the better chance the Government | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
feels it has of persuading voters to stick with the European Union. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Today we have a stark warning from the IMF. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
For the first time they're saying that the threat of Britain leaving | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
the EU is having an impact on our economy and they've | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
They say if we were actually to leave the EU there would be | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
a short-term impact on stability and a long-term cost | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
This is the clearest independent warning of the taste of things | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
The Treasury certainly thinks this is a key moment. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
The IMF's warning comes in three major parts. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
It warns that sterling could lose its value. | :04:13. | :04:13. | |
Now, that's not so good for our holidays, but could | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
It warns that there could be a return of market volatility | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
which could mean that our pensions and savings investments | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
It also warns that trade could be disrupted and, | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
of course, the EU is our most important trading partner. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
But whatever the IMF warns, there are plenty of people | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
who disagree fundamentally with their analysis. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
The IMF is an important organisation but it's very closely connected | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
to the European Union, its managing director is a former | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
At the end of the day, this is just a matter of opinion. | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
The IMF is often, like other institutions, wrong in the forecasts | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Don't forget, just a couple of years ago George Osborne had a spat | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
with the IMF over its gloomy forecasts for the UK economy | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
which he demanded they revised and rethought. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
The UK's trade relationship with the rest of the world | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
and at the heart of a lot of this debate, the question | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
is would economic uncertainty give way to a brighter future? | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
Those who support an exit believe it would. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
There would be a fairly short period of uncertainty. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
There's bound to be because some things are changing. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
There are going to be some losers, there are also going | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Before long that gives way to a different world indeed | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
in which Britain can take advantage of actually being outside the EU | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
and this is what the IMF doesn't seem to have focussed on at all. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Next week sees the arrival in Britain of this man, | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
President Barack Obama, who is likely to deliver another | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
He should be well aware of the IMF's views, its chief economist used | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is in | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
A big debate about how much weight people should attach to this report, | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
how do you see it? I think it does matter because in a debate that's | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
full of noisy claims and counter claims the identity of who is making | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
the claims matters very much. This is not just some other nameless | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
person saying there might be jitters if we leave the EU, the IMF is a | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
major international organisation, delivering what is a pretty grim | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
warning about what might happen. For the residents of this street who | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
want this campaign to be all about the risks to jobs as they see it and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the risks to our livelihoods t plays perfectly into the | :06:47. | :06:46. | |
the risks to our livelihoods t plays want to make in the coming weeks. If | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
we think about want to make in the coming weeks. If | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
of an intervention like this one trying to look ahead a few weeks, | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
how would we read trying to look ahead a few weeks, | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
think we are going to hear it again and again. I think we will | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
think we are going to hear it again we have heard today from the | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
opponents of Number 10 in this campaign, they have tried to slug | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
this off as the campaign, they have tried to slug | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
stay in the EU. It's harder for them to shrug off that from the IMF, to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
chuck that accusation around than it is for them to hurl | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
chuck that accusation around than it their fellow politicians. Yes, of | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
course, we should remember the IMF has been wrong | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
course, we should remember the IMF wrong about a lot. As an | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
organisation they're pretty remote, they're a bunch of academics based | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
in the United States, not necessarily familiar | :07:40. | :07:40. | |
in the United States, not to individual voters, but the kind | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
of warning this is, the influence they have in these parts, mean this | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
warning from today I think we they have in these parts, mean this | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
hear again and again and again as this campaign proceeds and it's not | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
long now. Thank you very much. And there's much more about the EU | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
referendum and the facts behind in the resort of Sousse | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
and in the capital, Tunis. Survivors and relatives | :08:06. | :08:29. | |
of the victims attended the service this lunchtime, | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
along with Prince Harry and the Prime Minister, | :08:35. | :08:35. | |
as our special correspondent Their mothers, fathers, | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
brothers and sisters, husbands and wives had just been | :08:38. | :08:51. | |
on holiday, many on the beach Prince Harry, with the Prime | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Minister watching, laid a wreath at the memorial for innocent victims | :08:57. | :09:15. | |
and one by one the names of those who did not come home | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
echoed around the abbey. Connor was at the memorial | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
to represent his mother, It is important to come | :09:27. | :09:47. | |
and do my mum proud, go and walk down with a candle, | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
dress up look smart and be a representation of her really, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
because that is what she would have It was a lovely service, | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
but I kept thinking how can Who had such a big personality | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
and was such a strong character. Nearly a year on it is clear | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
you still miss your mum. Some nights I sit there | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
and think why is it my mum? I'm never going to talk | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
to my mum again. My mum's never going | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
to walk through the door It is hard when you're at home | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
sometimes and people are saying, oh, you see Brussels or Paris | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
and does it bring it all back? But it hasn't gone for me so it | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
doesn't bring anything back, Those who were injured and escaped | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
were also at the service. Two friends who ran | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
after the shooting started. We were so lucky to have come home | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
and for us to be able to be there and think of others that | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
didn't come home was... Was lovely for us to | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
be able to do that. The family who lost three | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
generations, the couple enjoying their wedding anniversary, | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
the mum celebrating her 50th birthday - families | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
destroyed by terror. Ministers might offer state loans | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
to tempt a private bid for Tata's steelworks in Port | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Talbot. It's the latest suggestion | :11:31. | :11:31. | |
as the government searches for a way of saving thousands of jobs | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
threatened by Tata's decision to sell its steel | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
business in the UK. The Business Secretary, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Sajid Javid, said he was looking at a range of options | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
when he spoke during an emergency Our Wales correspondent | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Hywel Griffith reports. After two full weeks | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
of watching and waiting, are some of the clouds over | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
Britain's steel industry At Port Talbot's Docks cafe | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
they know all about seeing There is optimism after | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
the Government said it could co-invest in the nearby works, | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
even take on some of the debt. Watching today's emergency debate, | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
steel worker Matthew Piercy What he saw was a | :12:16. | :12:16. | |
government under attack. There has been what can only be | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
described as an ideologically driven reluctance to get involved | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
as the crisis has deepened. It's been a mixture | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
of indifference and incompetence. I am fighting for Britain's steel | :12:32. | :12:32. | |
workers every hour of the day. I was fighting for them long before | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
this crisis hit the headlines and I will go on fighting | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
as long as it takes. For me, there is more of a glimmer | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
of hope now than there was before. If the suppliers lose confidence | :12:43. | :12:52. | |
in our ability to pay the bills, then we won't get those raw | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
materials and then the coke ovens will stop, and the furnaces | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
will stop, and that will be the end. Any big decisions will be made | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
in India, where it's reported Prince William today discussed | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
British steel-making With lobbying home and abroad, | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
workers here are told to stay hopeful, and yet people here have | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
to think the unthinkable. What if, at the end of all this, | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
no deal can be done? If production were to grind | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
to a halt, it wouldn't just be Tata This haulage company | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
carries their steel, Like we explained to the lads, | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
it's the uncertainty of everything at this moment | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
of time, isn't it? We can't really look them in the eye | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
and say there is going to be a takeover and everything will be | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
fine from next month on. There's no doubt having a huge | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
steelworks in South Wales has Some question whether the Government | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
should keep that going. At the moment the plant | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
is not making any money, even without thinking about pension | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
deficits and clean-up costs. If you factor those two elements | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
into any rescue plan, it's very hard to see | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
what kind of steel price, what kind of energy price, | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
what wages could be paid So much hangs on the next few | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
weeks of negotiations. Hywel Griffith, BBC News, | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Port Talbot. The European Commission has unveiled | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
plans to force large companies to reveal more | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
about their tax affairs. They would have to declare publicly | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
how much tax they paid in each EU country as well as any activities | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
carried out in specific tax havens. Firms like Google, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Apple and Amazon have been criticised for not paying | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
enough in tax. The rules on country-by-country | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
reporting would affect multinational firms with more | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
than 750 million euros in sales. It is estimated that EU | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
states lose at least 50-70 billion euros each year to | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
corporate tax avoidance. Our correspondent Alex Forsyth is at | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
the European Commission in Brussels. Alex, lots of talk about how complex | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
all this is, so how close The thinking behind this proposal is | :15:19. | :15:33. | |
that if big businesses have to open up their books to the public, they | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
would be less inclined to try to move profits around to avoid tax. It | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
needs the backing of European countries and the European | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
Parliament but if the law is approved, it would mean any large | :15:46. | :16:00. | |
firm operating would have to published details. Critics say the | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
proposal is not tough enough. Businesses say publishing too much | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
information could be commercially damaging, but EU leaders want to be | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
seen to be doing something in the wake of the leaked Panama Papers, | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
which exposed large-scale tax avoidance. They have been planning | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
this for months but there is no political momentum behind it and | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
whether it is UK politicians publishing tax returns or the | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
spotlight on big business in the EU, the hope is transparency over tax | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
affairs will go some way to restoring public trust. Thank you. | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
Two years ago this week, hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
were kidnapped by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram. | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Their abductors claimed it was punishment for | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
But despite global condemnation, an international campaign to free | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
them, and a major government military offensive, more than 200 | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
The girls came from Chibok in northeast Nigeria. | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
The BBC's Martin Patience has been given rare access to their former | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
school and has spoken to relatives who remain desperate for news. | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
Chibok, once a small market town barely anyone had heard of. | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
But then Boko Haram came, kidnapping hundreds of its daughters. | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
It's now haunted by the horrors of that night. | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
A place where families are left picking up the pieces. | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
These parents show us all their daughters left behind. | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
TRANSLATION: This is the dress she was supposed to wear | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
at her friend's wedding, but it never happened. | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
I'm going to keep the dress in case she comes back. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
TRANSLATION: My daughter was such a hard-working girl. | :17:57. | :18:11. | |
Just before she was taken, she begged me to buy | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
She was great with the customer. is a budding entrepreneur. | :18:17. | :18:42. | |
These were the last moments I had with her. | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
I pray that my daughter will come back alive, | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
but if not I hope that her soul will rest in peace. | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
I hope the horrors she witnessed during this kidnap are the last | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
But how can they make sense of what happened? | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
We travelled to the school, granted exclusive access | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
It was here late one night that the nightmare began. | :19:04. | :19:15. | |
Boko Haram stormed this compound, rounding up the girls | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
from their dormitories, which now lie in ruins. | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
Then they were loaded onto trucks and driven into the forest. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
The skeletons of desks where the girls once sat. | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
An overgrown basketball court, where they once played. | :19:41. | :19:59. | |
laughing, having fun, talking about the exam the next day, | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Their parents wanted them to have a better life than they had, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
but it was a choice that had devastating consequences. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Two years on, there's no news of the girls. | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
It's likely many were forced to marry fighters. | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
Slowly, life is returning to Chibok but there is an anger | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Because despite worldwide attention, not a single one of | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Martin Patience, BBC News, Chibok. | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
And on tomorrow's programme, we'll be hearing about the thousands | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
We've spoken to some who've survived their ordeal only | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
to be rejected by their communities when they return. | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
That will be our latest update on that story tomorrow. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
The music producer David Gest has been found dead | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
The cause of his death is not yet known. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Born in California, David Gest grew up alongside Michael Jackson | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
and his brothers, and went on to produce many of their tours | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
There's been an unexpectedly sharp rise in the rate of inflation. | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
The Office for National Statistics says the cost of living went up | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
The price of goods fell but the cost of services rose by 2.8%. | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
A 69-year-old man has been convicted at the Old Bailey | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
of murdering his long-term partner in a fit of jealousy | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Dempsey Nibbs beat Judith Nibbs, who was 60, with an iron bar. | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
The National Crime Agency says gangs are attempting to smuggle migrants | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
into the UK through less busy ports after security was increased | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
The findings were uncovered by a task-force set up | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
by David Cameron last year to tackle people-smuggling in the wake | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
In just over three weeks' time, voters in Scotland will be electing | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
The Labour Party, once the dominant force in Scottish politics, has | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
for the past decade been overshadowed by the SNP at Holyrood. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Its new leader, Kezia Dugdale, has set out to reverse | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
But she faces a major challenge, as our Scotland editor | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Sarah Smith discovered when she talked to voters. | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
No political candidates have come to disturb the practice sessions | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
here, in years gone by Labour could have assumed the support of most | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
people here, but now, even people who voted | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
Labour for generations say | :22:49. | :22:49. | |
I was very, very much in favour of the Labour Party | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
at one time, Labour was for the working man. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
I don't know what it is | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
nowadays, I mean, I feel it has got so mixed up. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
That is why Labour have come up with eye-catching policies | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
that are obviously to the left of the SNP. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
A bold pledge to increase income taxes in Scotland is designed | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
to try and win back traditional supporters. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Would you be happy for somebody who would ask | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
They should try and recoup some money from the people who can | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
But people vote with their hearts as well as their | :23:23. | :23:34. | |
Perceptions matter as much as policies. | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
Because the SNP were pushing forward Scotland, Scotland, | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Scotland, there was a lot of people got behind it. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Because they felt patriotic to Scotland. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Yet there is a desire to see a Labour resurgence, | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
I have faith in Labour and hope they will come | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
SNP are making a lot of promises they will not be able to keep. | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
In towns like Coatbridge in central Scotland, | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
plenty of voters do believe the SNP. | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
Where once this was the definition of a | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
The heavy industries, coal and steel, that | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
once dominated this part of | :24:24. | :24:24. | |
Scotland, has been consigned to the museum | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
Now, the fear from many in the Labour | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Party is that the days of Labour rule in Scotland could also be | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
The party have moved significantly to | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
the left, to try and win back some of their traditional supporters, but | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
the independence referendum still casts a long shadow. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Labour did not handle the whole constitutional question well. | :24:48. | :25:01. | |
It took a rather sour approach to saying no to | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
And that is what young voters remember. | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
In Scotland now, 16 and 17-year-olds can vote, which suits the SNP. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Younger voters are far more likely to support them. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
Do you think you know what Labour stand for? | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
No. Not at all. | :25:22. | :25:22. | |
They spend a lot of time talking about what the SNP are doing | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
and what their policies are and how it is bad, | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
but I don't understand what Labour's policies are. | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
Scottish Labour want people to understand they have changed. | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
But they won't win over young hearts or old heads if | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
voters aren't listening to their promises. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
The England and Nottinghamshire cricketer James Taylor has been | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
forced to retire at the age of 26 after being diagnosed | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
He said his world had been turned upside down | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Scans have revealed it's the same rare condition which caused | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
the former Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba to suffer a cardiac | :26:02. | :26:03. | |
The golfer Danny Willett has arrived back in the UK | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
The 28-year-old arrived at Manchester Airport this morning | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
wearing the winner's traditional green blazer. | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
The more you say it, obviously, and things like this happen, | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
obviously I think you start to realise just what we did last week. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
And everything that's going to go with it and kind of come round. | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
So, yeah, hopefully we will take it in our stride | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
We have had a lot of encouraging messages from a lot | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
of really nice people around the world, offering advice. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
Football, and Manchester City have reached the semi finals | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
of the Champions League for the first time | :26:55. | :26:55. | |
They beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Manchester tonight, giving them | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
One of the biggest nights in their history, and certainly | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
Could Manchester City go where they have never gone before? | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
At 2-2 after the first leg, hopes were high but Paris | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
Zlatan Ibrahimovic testing Joe Hart's fingertips. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Sergio Aguero upended, penalty, but one of | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
Could that prove costly? promptly did this. | :27:29. | :27:38. | |
After the break, they were soon living dangerously. | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
Hart once again denying Ibrahimovic, but with 15 | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
minutes left the pressure was quite gloriously lifted. | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
Kevin De Bruyne sending the Etihad into euphoria with a moment | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
The visitors now had to score twice, but Hart was inspired, and soon City | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
For the fans, their European adventure is into | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
What a night for Manchester City, through to the semifinals for the | :28:04. | :28:18. | |
very first time, and for their manager Manuel Pellegrini, who is | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
leaving at the end of the season, what a way to go if he could win | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
European football's biggest prize. Leading scientists including | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
Professor Stephen Hawking have given their support to an ambitious | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
project to send a spacecraft The ship would need to travel | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
trillions of miles much further than any before, and the plan | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
is to develop a craft about the size of a microchip that could travel | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
at exceptional speed. Our science correspondent | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
Pallab Ghosh reports. For thousands of years, | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
people have dreamed of one day The world's most famous | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
scientist, Stephen Hawking, thinks that that day | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
will come very soon. Astronomers believe there | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
is reasonable a chance of an earth-like planet | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
orbiting one of the stars There are no greater heights | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
to aspire to than the stars. Technological developments | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
in the last two decades and in the future make it | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
in principle possible So what are the sort of distances | :29:23. | :29:24. | |
we are talking about? Already, a probe has | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
been sent to Pluto. That is seven-and-a-half | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
billion miles away. And Voyager 1 has reached the edge | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
of the solar system, The plan is to send spacecraft | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
to a star in another solar system. That is a staggering | :29:40. | :29:51. | |
25 trillion miles from Earth. Using current technology, | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
it would take a spacecraft 30,000 years to get to our closest star, | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
but by making them Over the years the size | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
of spacecraft have shrunk. In the 1980s this micro satellite | :30:02. | :30:16. | |
was used for Earth observation, in the '90s, this nano-satellite | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
was launched for communications. The ultimate aim of the new research | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
programme is to make To cram all the cameras | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
and instruments you have in these, The idea is to launch these | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
mini-spacecraft into A giant laser on Earth would give | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
each one a powerful push, Life on Earth faces danger | :30:35. | :30:44. | |
from astronomical events like asteroids or super novas and there | :30:45. | :30:53. | |
are dangers from ourselves. If we are to survive that, | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
we must ultimately go to stars. Here in Surrey where they pioneered | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
the development of mini satellites 30 years ago, scientists believe | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
it will be possible. What we did back in the 1980s | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
was considered very whacky, and now small satellites now | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
are all the fashion. This is currently | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
a whacky sounding idea, Now it is not just whacky, | :31:20. | :31:20. | |
it is just difficult. There is still a lot of work needed | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
to develop the technology. But scientists believe that, | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
although it will be difficult, What was once a distant dream | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
could very soon become reality. | :31:36. | :31:45. |